The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-04-21
IndispensabiIity

4'N1lA NAfh4Ag NA4t assassin tlou
Of William Mckinley. The nation
was shocked. grieyed. saddened.
We. at school, were told what IL
meant 10 the country TO lose a
President by sudden death. We
had classroom memorial services
and | can remember il as today,
going TO a religious service to
hear his faYeFite hymns. Nearer
My God TO Thee, and Lead Kind
ly Light, then new TO me but so
imbedded in my memory from that
solemn occasion that they have
ever been my fayorites.
My memory recalls nothing but
the solemn, the respectful, the lof-
~. We buried our President and
we loved our country. a soldier in
uniform blew TAPS and not an
eye was dry.
could not help thinking during
the past week end that radio news
casters accustomed to staccato
football reporting, comedians EN-
ployed in slapstiCk laughter, lady
novelists who write OF love in its
teens, lack the solemnity OF an old
fashioned preacher; their simula-
ton OF the depth Of emotions often
sounds a mockery Radio treat
ment Of the death OF a President
was too organized, too pushing.
when people want 10 cry, they
seek at most sad music. not the
basso voice of an immature actor
turned mourner
The radio needs editing; it re-
quires intelligent direction The
radio seems TO run hog wild when
ever anything occurs that gives
free rein 10 the fanc!es OF IT'S
varied management They APP
parently suppose that excess is
mark Of efficiency; that wild Ii
cense represents respect and SOL
emnity. / still prefer a church.
And this much their noisiness
proved beyond doubt: America is
so great that no Am rican is indis-
pensable | say the radio proved
that. for on Friday and Saturday,
for a full sc hours, this instrument
OF expression gave the impression
that il was the United States that
had died And that is obviously
not SO. The United States goes
on Our troops go on. Our fac
tories 20 on. Our farms 90 on.
Our stores and shops and Offices
go on. Everything goes on. Those
who want to weep dry their eyes
and march on to the work of the
day. Babies are be . even on the
day Of mourning and one Of them.
some 40 or so years hence, may
even become President OF the
United States. Upon this contin-
ent. men and women of European
ancestry have for more than three
centuries built a great nation
the greatest now upon this earth.
This country was not created by
one man nor built by one man nor
preserved by one man. Millions
OF strong, independent. daring men
and women, risking for creation.
building what no other people
dared to build. a free land for indie
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himself ant afraid, crossing noun
tain and desert. cutting the sod
and making ? home Of II. creating
a village out Of nothing but putting
/ in il first Of all. a school and a
church, learning 10 live together.
( free yet without licentiousness-
that America goes on, in war as in
peace. fearless and true to its
/ ideals.
And so II shall be tomorrow as Ct
was yesterday. Nothing has hap
pened in this generation that has
not stirred the imaginations ard
fears OF men in other generations.
/ The swiftest progress Of this Unit
/ ed States. measured by any yard
stick, was made in the period be
tween the Civil War and the World
War |. Yet after Lincoln died.
there were voices to cry, The end
has come And after Woodrow
Wilson. men cried. The end has
come. And so men cry today.