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Feeding The World's Hungryi^
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Wrong Way
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Noble-minded Americans are making Symbolic gestures to
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nic mass oi me wono nungry by dening themselves full days
meals and collecting money to feed the world's many hungry
people. Some are planning to eat just one meal a day as a
demonstration of concern over the food situation the world over,
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specially in the less developed nations in the world. Students,
laymen and many civic organizations are collecting money tc
send overseas.
Helping less fortunate people is not new to the American
people. Surplus grains have been shipped abroad in plane loads
-to alieviate hunger situation in many lands. -v
After the second World War, American originated Marshal
Plan resnratpH Wncta^ c ? *
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divestitation.
"""/^""Whenever war, flood or the elements disrupted a people,
^American aid always helped to restore normal life to the
afflicted nations.
But America cannot hope to be helping the world
indefinitely. The magnitude of the operations, with every
passing day, becomes greater than can be handled by an
outsider. That is why an appraisal of the world food situation
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Aids which come in a crisis situation often postpones the real.
crisis, and the donors, on the long run gets short changed since
the receiver often, forgets what have already been given when
new crises rear their heads. ?'
The answer to the food situation the world over, specially in
the less developed nations probably lies not in massive food
shipment but in machanizines that will produce food in those
poor nations.
Such long term results can be achieved by proper irrigation of
barren lands, as Israel has done, by animal hushandary, by
modern technique of farming, by reducing the number of people
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! governments of these poor nations giving agriculture the pride
of occupation which so called modernization seem to have
denied it in recent years in many developing nations, and above
all, by enlightened education which addresses itself to the
needs of the people.
The wrong way to feed the world hungry is to provide the
hungry all the food that he needs now and then, for the hungry
to start again from square one as soon as the food runs out.
The right way to feed the world hungry is to help him provide
his own food and in that way make him less dependent on
outside help.
Any other way tantamounts to putting him on welfare and
making him think and probably believe, that the world owes him
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To Be Equi
Perhaps the most insistent
of all the demands for
government subsidies comes
from the arts community.
From theatre groups to
symphony orchestras, the
well-documented financial
pinch causes performers and
administrators to look fnr
outside funds to keep culture
alive.
Few people would argue
against more public support
for cultural institutions, but
many would suggest that such
institutions, devoted as they
are to humane instincts, have
a special responsibility to
overcome racial discrimination
in their ranks.
Among the most blatant
offenders in this area are
America's symphony orchestras.
A recent study by the
National Urban League and
the Symphony of the New
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uriu, an imegratea orches^tra,
reveals a pattern of
persistent exclusion of black
musicians.
The poll of 54 orchestras,
including all of the major
ones, revealed only 67
minority musicians out of a
total of almost 4,700.
Nationwide, minorities probably
account for less than
one-half of one percent of all
musicians employed by the
country's 110 major and
Metropolitan orchestras.
This is a disgraceful record,
especially when one considers
that many of these minority
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performers were hired rela
tively recently.
And the question of
minority hiring also goes
beyond matters of equity ? it
is an economic issue as well.
The top 28 major symphony
orchestras spend over $75
million each year, much of it
for salaries. If only ten
percent or orchestral salaries
went to minorities ? a smaller
percentage than the proportion
of blacks in populations of
the cities served by those
orchestras -- it would mean
almost $5 million dollars in
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salaries 10 ine minority
community.
These major orchestras
totalled about $8 million in
government support and
played before nearly 11
million people Clearly they
qualify as public institutions,
that ought to be serving all of
the people, not only the
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Discriminatory patterns in
this field have been under
attack for years, but change
has been slow or nonexistent.
One major orchestra that
faced anti-discrimination suits
a few years ago still has only
one black member.
TTie recent rise to prominence
of a number of fine
black conductors helps illustrate
how, even in the face of
rigid discrimination, black
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musicians prepared themselves
for the most difficult
and demanding of positions.
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There are black associate
conductors of some major
orchestras and Henry Lewis is
music director of the New
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the classical music scene. In
the mid-Nineteenth Century
blacks were regularly seen as
performers and as soloists,
and after Jim Crow took over,
blacks were often prominent
in European musical circles.
The Symphony of the New
World is . an example of an
integrated symphony orchestra,
with almost half of its
members drawn from minorities
and performing under the
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conductor Everett Lee. Incidentally,
Lee, like some other *
black conductors, has led
concerts in Russia, while
American orchestras were
importing Europeans to conduct
them.
Discrimination in the concert
hall is no longer
conscious. Most orchestra
n>anagers sincerely believe
they are "color blind," but
they > have yet to understand
the importance of overcoming
the effects of blatant discrimi- $
nation of the past.
Orchestras, no less than
steel companies and banks,
have to inaugurate affirmative
action pfogr#IW^ that will
make their organizations more
representative of the communities
they serve.