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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 7, 1971)
This is starvation .... This is starvation ... a child getting weaker and weaker, a mind stunted from lack of protein. This is starvation . . . choosing which of three sons may live, eyes glazed and starving. This is starvation . . . parchment skin, dry and cracked, swollen ankles and bloated stomach. And this is starvation . . . heaps of bodies, mass graves. Paid Advertisement "This world is a beauti ful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time, or maybe only starving some of the time, which isn't half so bad if it isn't you." — Lawrence Ferlinghetti The world must awaken to the revolution of ideas and action that has to occur if these needs of hunger are to be met. The youth of this and all other nations must take an active hand in achieving needed change through personal and community involvement. The process of politics we believe will not alone resolve the problem. The time for feeling "deep concern" about the agony of hunger is past. Expressing passion for our fellow man by verbal commitment is now hypocritical. We may only be true to ourselves and the world by involving our purpose in action. And it is this that we believe to be the true expression of love, the joy of freeing man to seek his human potential in a world free from hunger. WHY YOU SHOULD WALK FOR DEVELOPMEHT. sjchalf the world is hungry or malnourished j|<an average dog in North America has a higher protein intake than an average child in India Sfc 10 million Americans are chronically malnourished sjc30 million Americans live at the "poverty line" sjcthe U.S. with less than one-fifteenth total population of the world, uses over one-half all the raw materials consumed each year the U.S. is last in percentage of wealth devoted to international development sjeeach American baby will consume in a 70-year life span, directly or indirectly: 26 million gallons of water, 121 thousand pounds of meat, and 28,000 pounds of milk and cream Your participation Saturday will directly aid the fallowing projects! INTERNATIONAL 1. the heifer project in GUATAMALA 2. NUTRITIONAL CENTER IN COSTA RICA. NATIONAL 3. FREEDOM CITY, MISSISSIPPI LOCAL 4. ADC MOTHERS' SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM 5. THE POOR PEOPLE'S COUN CIL-COOPERATIVES 6. EUGENE —SPRINGFIELD FAMILY SHELTER HOUSE 7. CHILD CARE, INC. "We have the ability, we have the means, and we have the capacity to eliminate hunger from the face of the earth. We need only the will." — John F. Kennedy THE Eugene-Springfield Walk Committee is in final planning stages for participation in International Walk Weekend—May 8th and »th. Walk for Development is autonomous, but works under the auspices of the American Freedom From Hunger Foundation. THE walk is designed to create awareness in the community of the massive hunger problem existing in all community levels; local, national, and in ternational. It is also a positive approach to hunger that everyone may participate in by devoting then energies and idealism to aiding others. TO become a walker, pick up a Walk Card, contact a sponsor (or sponsors) who will pledge you a certain amount of money per mile that you walk, and report your sponsors to the Walk Committee. Then, on May 8th walk the 34-mile course for as far as possible, getting your Card stamped at pre-measured check points. Following the Walk, you will have two weeks to contact your sponsors and collect their pledges. WALK cards are available at the Walk for Develop ment Headquarters, 608 Willamette St.; University of Oregon, Lane Community College, and local High School business offices; Scarborough Faire; and other businesses and community outlets. For more in formation. call the Walk for Development Headquarters—342-7276— and attend the Hunger Conference on May 7th at 8 PM in Harris Hall. Eugene - Springfield WALK FOR DEVELOPMENT WALK ROUTE FOR SATURDAY, MAY 8 7:45 AM. Lane County Fairgrounds
