Sometime back newscaster Paul Harvey reported that the average person blinks his eyes 13 times every minute. That's an interesting bit of trivia. But what really interested me was what I also read this week about the problem of world hunger.

I read that 13 people starve to death every minute in this world. That means, of course, that every time you and I blink our eyes, another person has died from starvation.

Now I am usually unaware of blinking my eyes. It's just an automatic reflex. I don't have to be concerned over it, or even think about it it just happens 13 times every minute big deal. That's the same attitude many of us have about the world's starving masses big deal. I mean, it's sad I wish it were different. But what can we do about it? That's just the way things are! That's re…