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COUNCIL OF 100
HOLLYWOOD, FLORIDA
MAY 29, 196h
Mr. Greene, members of the Council and your guests, I am
pleased to be asked again to address this group, and to be able to
express my appreciation for your efforts on behalf of the State of
Florida. As the extent and quality of your contribution becomes
more apparent, the need for your continuing leadership becomes
evident as well.
You may find yourselves in the position or the rancher who had
a Chinese cock. He decided to raise his pay and brOke the good news,
but instead of gratitude and pleasure he could see only surprise
and suspicion in the cook's eyes. "Why you raise my pay?" asked the
cook. "Because" said the rancher, "you've been such a good cook all
these years." "Ah, 80," said the cook, "you been cheating me long
time."
I believe the peOple of Florida have concluded that your
leadership is something they have a right to expect, and if you
withhold it from them they will feel cheated.
And I would agree with them. Florida has never needed your
leadership more. We press forward on so many fronts -- econOmic,
social, political, educational -- into new lands as uncharted as the
space we strive to pierce. In the perspective of history we move
not simply into a new period of growth, but into a new civilization.
Not new in the sense that rockets will be a common mode of
individual transportation, or plankton from the sea a major source
of food, or hospitals automated -- though these may come to pass;
not new in the sense that the major characteristic of the new
civilization will be some exotic thing it produces, or uses, or
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so rapid, and no recent, that we have not yet adjusted to them~and
at our present rate of adjuszment will be changed again before we have
accommodated to them.
Dr. Carothera and Dr. Stickler, making a study for the
Southern Regional Education Board, point out that in Florida and
California the number or college studentn will more than double between
now and 1970. This, as yOu are aware, we are preparing For. But
they also predict that in Florida this increase will be duplicated
by 1975. We had a century to prepare for the present college
population, we will have 10 yearn to prepare For the second 100%, and
five years for the third. The rate of change increases.
The same experience and prospect can be cited for moat public
facilities. During the last three calendar years the State of Florida
has built as many miles of ulane highway as have been built in all
the previous history of the state, but the need for additional highways,
and for urban facilities in areas that until now were rural, increases.
Ten years ago this state had One institution for the mentally
retarded. That institution has been expanded to capacity, three new
ones have been provided, a TOurth 13 being planned, community and
private facilities are being expanded~yet the waiting list of qualified
applicants 15 longer than it was before this expansion program began.
Ten years ago thia State had five junior collegee. It has
built 23 more, 3 a faster rate than any other state in the nation,
but the need for Further additions and expansions in not yet met.
A rise in living standards, advances in medical science
and public health administration, with control of infectious diseases,
have caused spectacular rise: in longevity. One hundred years ago
onefourth of the newborn died before reaching 5; today they reach
:5 before one-fourth die. One-fourth can expect to live to be 63. But
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our economic practices and social laws have not adapted to this change,
and as of today no satisfactory provision has been made for the
beneficial use of this bonus of years, either by the individual or
society. The concuest of all communicable disease: ie a forseeable
' prospect, and that cambined wlth the development or new weapon: for
I overcoming the degenerat.ve diseases will cause, is causing, change
of staggering potential, at an accelerating rate.
'3 The multiplication of population, particularly in Florida.
hae aesumed such pronortione no to defy comprehension. The rights of
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I individuals, which neemei pronerlw abcolutc in a day when the
' population of Florida had a density of one per scuere mile, or ten per
' square milc, must be viewed in the light of the combined rights of
others when the population bec0mee, as it ha 100 per square mile.
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The right to dig a well, to hunt game, to allow cows to roam at will,
. to build a house, or to dump refuse into the river, could be
unrestricted when their exercise had no discernablc effect on othere.
Today these rights, and all others, can only be exercised with regard
For the combined rights of the rest of the pOpulation. ?hjs state
had a leisurely 130 ye :5 in which to accommodate to the growth of the
first 106 people her aquare mile. We have leoe than 20 years to
prepare for the next 100 people per square mile. The rate of change
is six times as great, and will undoubtedly increaze.
Progress bcncta progress. Growth in education does not
H satiefy-it increases the demand for education. Expanding knowledge
i increases demands For :unaunrtion, increases chills in production,
a bv-product or whichie increeeed knowledge, and increased capacity
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to consume.
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