700 State Papers and Addresses

that spirit of unity inspiring every citizen of our land to participate in the
varied phases of production and defense that today's war makes necessary. And
yet, the very processes involved in bringing us to Victory, may, unless subject
to proper checks and balances, destroy the very thing we strive so hard to pro-
tect. For the permanent loss of those fundamentals of our National being,
which we are so willing to yield today under war's necessities, would make diffi-
cult, or even impossible, the readjustment and rehabilitation that assuredly will
face us when final Victory is achieved. The essential freedoms of the Bill of
Rights must be preserved as carefully under the stress of war, as they are
valued in times of peace.

Great as final victory may be, it will leave us face-to-face with a world
worn to exhaustion, a world torn by racial hates, a world financially and physi-
cally insolvent. Then, if ever, we shall need those inspirational incentives of
true Democracy that have served to pave the way for America's magnificent
progress throughout all the years.

We have but to look back upon the two decades that followed World Wax
No. 1 to understand the type and scope of problems that may be expected when
World War No. 2 comes to its bitter end. The experience of these two decades
will furnish bases upon which to predicate preparations for the coming post-
war period. We may be sure, though, that the problems following World War
No. 2 will be immeasurably greater than those of the early '30s because the
conflict now raging is so much vaster in scope.

The struggle now affecting all the continents and raging throughout the
seven seas is not an accidental thing, not the mere whim of the mad dictator
Hitler. Rather it is the natural result of the failure of the peoples of the world
to respect and enforce first principles. No student partaking of the Loyola or
Jesuit system of education is unfamiliar with those basic tenets.

From seeking God, mankind has turned to a search for goods and material
things. In the excitement of tremendous technical advances, of scientific dis-
covery and the piling up of creature comforts, the world during the last cen-
tury has ruthlessly discarded all that past generations have taught and loved
and believed. It has repudiated the Ten Commandments, ruled out the human
soul, denied its Creator and fallen down in worship before itself. The resultant
upheaval has been a war of material things, a war in which scientific discoveries
and new methods have gained mastery and have all but wiped out the accumu-
lated wealth and accomplishments of centuries.

Despite the manifold success of this mechanical and scientific progress,
there still is need, and vital need, more than ever before, for well-rounded leader-
ship, qualified by true education, if we are to make fullest use of the material
aids which science and the laboratory are constantly making available. That
is why we find our Commander-in-Chief, President Roosevelt, and the responsible
military and naval officials asserting that leadership is an essential in this con-
flict, and that education is the way to prepare for that leadership.

It is only natural that, with the whole world burning with excitement, the
young people of today should feel impelled to be responsive to what seems im-