Let us make the world a home.
Let us turn swords into plowshares.
Let us change the battlefields into marketplaces.
Let us create peace forces instead of armed forces.
Let us do business together.
Let us make war so unprofitable that only a fool would fight.
Let us build the pathways to peace with plans, with deals, with money, with business.
Let us make peace stretch into infinity, a practical, pragmatic peace that works.
Let us make destruction senseless and stupid beyond reason.
Let us use reason.
Let us be civilized.
Let us help each other when help is needed.
Let us transcend hemispheres and languages and changing cultures.
Let us choose our form of government and let us let others do the same.
Let us make money for the preservation of our earth, our seas, our precious air.
Let us understand the quest to produce peace as a state of mind, not a current event.
Let us join with our leaders to open doors and open hearts.
Let us make the world a home.

by Elizabeth MacDonald Manning, editor, Charles City Press, 1970