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THE DAILY TAB HEEL
FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1945
. In Memoriam For
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
(The following is a message from Dr.
Frank Porter Graham, president of the Uni
versity, written upon the first anniversary
of the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt.)
We pause today in memory of the President of
the United States who died a year ago as a cas
ualty of the Second World War. We are highly
resolved in spiritual fellowship with peoples in
all lands that those millions who died as casual
ties of the First World War, including Woodrow
Wilson, and those millions who died as casualties
Of the Second World War, including Franklin D.
Roosevelt, shall now.at last not have died in vain.
He would have us make this commemoration of
his death a dedication of our lives to the organ
ization of peace in the world.
The bewildered and disillusioned world, pulled
lower down in despair by the American depres
sion, looked to see what manner of man was to
become President of the United States on March
4, 1933. Would he be bold or would he be fearful
and careful while much of the world was spiral
ing downward to chaos and ruin?
In America itself farms and homes were being
sold under the hammer, banks crashed in all the
states, counties and towns went bankrupt, mount
ing millions were unemployed, everywhere moth
ers and little children looked appealingly into the
faces of defeated men.
A great fear had seized the people. Out upon
a platform projected from the Capitol steps came
a tall, robust, confident man to stand in the center
of a shaking world. He smiled. He said the
only thing we needed to fear was fear itself. He
spoke the words of courage and hope. He acted
promptly and boldly with a faith which revived
the hopes of the people and which has sustained
the courage of people in many lands to this hour
in which his faith and courage rise again above
death itself. He has never let the people down;
we the people must not let him down.
We pledge our faith and support to the new
Commander-in-Chief as he reverently declares to
the world that America will carry on the policies
of her high destiny. Let it ring in the halls of
Congress, in the market place and factories, in
the areas of isolation, in the centers of privilege
and power, and above, all in the homes of the
people, that the people will not falter now in the
cause for which he died. Youth is on the march
to keep the war won and save the peace. Ameri
can youth is on the march to carry through the
purposes for which Roosevelt inspired American
faith and courage and organized American power
on the side of freedom and peace.
We go back a few years to see him again in the
midst of a great crisis, the crisis for democracy
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and peace in the world. Fascism was rising to
power across central Europe. America was not
ready for the President's call for an international
quarantine against the aggressor nations. The
surrender of the democracies to Hitler at Munich
failed to appease the Fascist powers and to bring
peace in our time. Poland was overrun, the Low
Countries fell, allegedly impregnable France fell,
and Britain lost her land armaments at Dunkirk.
Britain, standing alone, responded to Church
ill's heroic call to fight to the last. Would Amer
ica stand aside and let Britain take the over
whelming blow alone? Powerful forces and in
fluences, traditional geographic detachment,
newspaper chains, organized groups, and the
idealism of peace itself would hold America apart.
With democracy in the balance the world looked
to the President of the United States. He acted
promptly and boldly. American arms went to
beleaguered Britain. Fifty old American destroy
ers joined the British men of the sea and air who
kept heroic vigil around the little island home of
democracy in the modern world, where in the
seventeenth century started the march of the
peoples' revolution around the earth, lately re
nounced or crushed in almost half the world.
: Came lend-lease, selective service, and a stream
of American armor, food, and goods in mounting
power, first for Britain and then for Russia and
China, and then for all the United Nations. The
Japanese by a sudden attack at Pearl Harbor,
had crushed our Pacific fleet and became the
master of the far Pacific.
As we looked across the earth we saw the Axis
tyranny reach from the Alaskan islands to the
outposts of Australia; across the Mediterranean
and North Africa to the gates of Alexandria;
from the top of Norway to the Bay of Biscay;
and from the shores of France to the plains of
Russia across the Don in a mighty forward move
ment to the Volga.
As we looked down the centuries and back to
the world's darkest hour, we. saw centuries' old
and new charters and institutions of human lib
erty, trampled under the ruthless heel of dicta
torschurches, parliaments, corporations, labor
unions, agricultural and consumer cooperative
societies, the press, the radio, and the universi
ties. Still held the heroism of the British, Rus
sian, and Chinese people, counting -not the cost
even unto death of their best and bravest sons
that the freedom and democracy should not per
ish from the earth.
In mankind's most fateful hour we find the
faith, courage, and over-all strategy of Roosevelt
in building and mobilizing the world's most pow
erful Navy, the largest Merchant Marine, the
most modern equipped Army, the greatest Air
Force, and the most gigantic production of food
and munitions of war which were back of the
decisive forward movements across the Oder and
Elbe into Berlin and across the far Pacific to the
overthrow of Japan. We see his over-all far
sighted, inclusive, cooperative plan for war, not
only in Washington, but also at Casablanca,
Quebec, Cairo, and Teheran. We see his over-all
far-sighted, inclusive, cooperative plan for peace
in the early recognition of Russia in the old
world and the good neighbor policy in the new;
in the Atlantic Charter, the four freedoms, Bret-
ton Woods, Dumbarton Oaks, Yalta, and the or
ganization of the United Nations.
There was advice that he not go to Yalta. He
was giving, giving, giving more than the human
body, mind, and spirit could give and live. While
the youth of the world were dying in war and
might die in other wars there was no rest for
this soldier of peace. We recall that there was
once advice to the Prince of Peace that he should
not go to Jerusalem. That was then the way of
danger and death. But Jesus set his face stead
fast to go to Jerusalem. He took the Jerusalem
Road, the way of the cross and death.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, an unpretentious but
reverent soldier of the cross, set his face stead
fast to go to all the places where he could help
organize the peace of the world, so that America
would not again pass mankind by on the other
side but would rise to the responsibility of her
power and the opportunity of her greatness to
stop the counter-march of the Fascist Revolution
with the resumption of the march of the peoples'
revolution around the earth, to end this war and
organize the nations against the beginning of
any other war. He went to Yalta. Then to Warm
'Springs on an old battlefield where among the
Southern people he loved and who loved him he
had won back his life and health for the service
of America. There he gave up his life as a cas
ualty of the war and as a soldier of peace for a
world neighborhood of human brotherhood.
In his life and death, in the death of millions
of youth, and in the promise to millions yet un
born we are committed to organize a world of
freedom, justice and peace for all people.
fA Second Bill of Rights,
A New Basis for Security'
By Dick Koral
The history of Franklin D. Roosevelt's election to the presidency
in the midst of the darkest days of the great depression is well
known to even the elementary school student today. In the tradi
tion and spirit of his great Democratic predecessors, Thomas Jef
ferson, Andrew Jackson, and
Woodrow Wilson, he accepted
Democratic nomination for the
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presidency of the United States
with the now immortal words:
"I pledge you, I pledge myself ,
to a New Deal for the American
people."
The subsequent stream of
progressive legislation that is
sued from Congress under his
strong leadership were to surpass
anything that progressive gov
ernment in Washington had ever
done. Reform of currency sys
tem, control of the stock market,
the Wagner Act (called the
Magna Carta of . American
labor), the Wages and Hours
Law, and social "from the cradle
to the grave" with 'its old age,
unemployment, and maternal re
lief is testimony to the sincerity
of his pledge to a new deal for
the people. Many students re
member how much the National
Youth Administration, with its
aid to needy students, meant to
the high schools and colleges.
On January 11, 1944, Presi
dent Roosevelt enunciated the
now famous Economic Bill of
Rights. It stands today as a
guide to all forward looking
Americans fighting for the ex
tension and implementation of
the Roosevelt policies in the na
tional life i I
"In our day these economic
truths have become accepted as
self-evident. We have accepted,
so to speak, a second Bill of
Rights under which a new basis
of security and prosperity can
be established for all regard
less of station, race, or creed.
"The right to a useful and re
munerative job in the industries,
or shops or farms or mines of the
nation;
"The right to earn enough to
provide adequate food and cloth
ing and recreation;
"The right of every farmer to
raise and sell his products at a
return which will give him and
his family a decent living; y
"The right of every business
man large and small, to trade in
an atmosphere of freedom from
unfair competition and domina
tion by monopolies at home and
abroad;
"The right of every family to
a decent home; t
"The right to adequate medi
cal care and opportunity to ac
hieve and enjoy good health;
"The right to adequate protec
tion from the economic fears of
old age, sickness, accident and
unemployment; -
"The right to a good education."
(Reprinted from The Tar Heel EXTRA, April 12, 1945.)
Perhaps the greatest President ever to serve the United States
is dead. We can not see the top of a tree when we stand beside
it, but already we know President Roosevelt to have been a great
man who spent his life in an effort to build a better world.
The death came at a moment in world history when the des
tiny of mankind is being formed. The attitude that we," the
people of the United States, take in the next few days can deter
mine the fate of our children for generations to come.
Harry Truman, a man untried and much criticized, has risen
to what we believe to be the most powerful position on earth.
He will be our President, our leader in our battle to build the
kind of world which Roosevelt had planned. Whether or not
Truman is best fitted for our leader is immaterial. HE IS OUR
PRESIDENT! WE MUST FAITHFULLY WORK WITH HIM
UNTIL THE END OF THE WAR SO THAT FRANKLIN DE
LANO ROOSEVELT WILL NOT HAVE DIED IN VAIN!
R. H. M.
' The True Goal We Seek Is
Beyond the Field of Battle'
By Manny Margolis
He was a builder of human values. He loved the people. He
wanted a new deal for a tired humanity.
With these purposes in mind he quickly became one of the world's
greatest champions of the welfare of the common man. The loss
of President Roosevelt, whichf :
ing Fascism. Not only were the
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the world mourns today, will be
profoundly felt for years to
come.
He was brilliant in the waging
of war. He was magnificent in
the waging of peace.
He was an architect and he
built on firm foundations. These
foundations both domestic and
international had one compon
ent in common. They were made
up of two indestructible ele
ments, cooperation and mutual
trust.
During the period of President
Roosevelt's service to the Ameri
can people, the prestige of the
United States Government
reached unprecedented heights.
The democratic nations of the
world looked to America with
new hope when in 1937 the Presi
dent said:
"It seems ,. . that the epidemic
of world lawlessness is spread
ing. When an epidemic of physi
cal disease starts to spread, the
community approves and joins
in a quarantine of the patients
in order to protect the health
of the community against the
spread of the disease."
But unfortunately, the lead
ers of the Western Powers at the
time were far more interested
in stopping the so-called Com
munist Menace than in squelch-
President's efforts at "quaran
tining the patients" rejected,
but the patients were instead
permitted and encouraged to
move freely in the community
of nations and spread the virus
of Fascism.
As early as 1937, Mr. Roose
velt recognized facts which the
majority preferred to over
look; first; that the world was
at war and second; the Ameri
can involvement in it was un
avoidable. In Chicago, he warn
ed the nation that "innocent
people, innocent nations are be
ing cruelly sacrificed to a greed
for power and supremacy which
is devoid of all sense of justice
and human consideration. If
those things come to pass in
other parts of the world, let no
one imagine that America will
escape, that America may ex
pect mercy, that this Western
Hemisphere will not be attack
ed ..
He foresaw and warned the na
tion of the possibility of a "Pearl
Harbor", but . the Congress de
manded pacifism rather than Pacific-ism.
Indeed, he warned the
people "again, and again, and
again". (That Congress is to
day busily engaged in the fruit
less effort of projecting its own
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