Evening star., 1961-08-13

should not deter us from ap-
preaching our problems on
sound basis. -
In addition, we must devise
faster and more effective ways to
help the less developed nations
develop their resources and meet
their other economic needs.
AS a nation we are in the best
position to take a Seven-league-
boot stride forward in this area.
Out of our own success we can
devise the quickest and best
methods of helping to create a
world society that is well fed and
well housed. Only by doing so
can we live in a world based on
freedom and complete human
fulfillment instead of coercion
and Grass materialiSm. Let us
hope we make the most of this
opportunity; it could be our last.
In our own lifetimes, we've
watched the already costly Fed
eral Government become to an
octopus-like creature, increasingly
difficult to control. But if buSi-
nessmen, unions and farmers
continue to join the parade to
Washington for special favors,
how can we expect to curb the
further intrusion of government
into economic affairs?
Likewise, if States and local
communities continue to look to
the Federal Government for pri-
mary help on tasks which the
States and communities should
undertake themselves, how can
we expect to keep Federal Gov
ernment power distributed and
dispersed?
The steady drift toward big
government will not be arrested
unless we do three things:
0 Resolve the above conflicts and
rigidity in our national economic
policy.
Q Re-establish the responsibility
and independence of State and
local governments.
O Strengthen the spirit Of SELF
reliance and generate a renewed
appreciation of voluntary CO.
operation as the primary mech
anism for expressing this self
reliance.
The most powerful force on
earth is the spontaneous CO.
operation of a free people. To
mobilize it requires the type OF
leadership that encourages the
voluntary action of the people,
individually and jointly, above
the extension and expansion OF
governmental responsibility and
power. We need such leadership
locally, nationally and information
ally, We need it in peace as in
war.
Duty Owed to Less Fortunate
Locally, we need further to de-
velop voluntary CO operative
mechanisms that will enable met
ropolitan communities to eradi-
cate slums, arrest the encroach-
ment of blight, reduce the cost
of good health and provide better
programs and opportunities for
their youth.
BY fleeing to the suburbs, none
of us is morally relieved OF the
responsibility of assisting in the
Improvement OF the central city
where we earn our keep. Those
who have not had the same op-
portunity to escape crowded ano-
decayed areas must not be aban-
doned by the fortunate ones who,
whatever their reasons, have
broken away from the urban
scene.
Recently DR.. Arnold Toynbee,
the renowned British historian
observed that free societies are
stronger in wartime than totah-
tartan societies. He attributed this
to the fact that free men can COM
bine their efforts in face of a COM
mon danger better than those who
are enslaved. He noted, however,
that because of the central direc+
ton of human effort, totalitarian
societies are more effective IN
peacetime, because in free societies
human effort in peacetime lacks
comparable and essential unity
and organized purpose. Here is
another major challenge.
Let me state some basic convic-
tions: Despite it's protection OF
choice and diversity, I believe a
free society through effective use
of voluntary cooperation can be
more flexible, efficient and effec-
lively unified in peace as well as
in war. Its basic unity can be
more effective where the need
clearly exists. It can develop the
cooperative means by which 1t
can and must identify and cope
with new problems as they are
arising.
Crises or emergencies resulting
Importantly from procraSClnaClon
and self interest conflict can be
largely avoided if we retain and
use the freedom of action by
which we are sufficiently flexible
in meeting fundamental problems.
We must have the flexibility to
deal with them in their early
stages before they reach such over
whelming proportions that extra
ordinary application of central
governmental power is demanded
Finally, the elimination of do
mestic racial discrimination is i'm.
perative if we are to be true to
our own principles and lead the
world through example and per-
suasion to liberty and brotherhood
Our greatest weaknesses are
personal indifference, ignorance
and apathy.
Conversely, our greatest need Is
an aroused and informed citizenry
dedicated to the acceptance of in
dividual responsibility; energeti-