Address at Hiram College by Commissioner of Education Earl McGrath, Information: Life-Blood of Democracy
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OCR Page 1 of 19INFORMATION: LIFE-BLOOD OF DEMOCRACY*
Our Secretary of State recently spelled out the need for "total
diplomacy" in democracy's global struggle with the forces of totali-
tarianism. He warned us against over-simplifying the real nature of
the cold war, against viewing it solely in economic or military terms.
This conflict has many other facets: political, social, psychological,
moral, ideolegical. We are engaged in deadly competition for mon's
minds, their hearts, and their loyalties. Our beliefs and our insti-
tutions are being tested in an ordeal which has no counterpart in history.
Proponents of the police state are subjecting our ideals of freedom,
justice and brotherhood to a relentless, systematic attack. Ameriea
is challenged daily to prove itself capable of the leadership and
deserving of the confidence of free peoples everywhere. We are, as
Secretary Acheson says, "in a situation where we are playing for keeps.
It is impossible to exaggerate the responsibilities resting
upon the shoulders of American citisons in today' divided world. Never
before have we been called upon to face the prospect of living out our
lives in an atmosphere of tension, fear and turmoil. Never before have
we had to rear our children in the shadow of bomber wings. For the
citisen in a democracy, life today holds scant promise of serenity or
haleyon tomorrow.
Our people are hardly prepared to cope with continuing anxieties
born of the obb and flow of international crises. Sheltered throughout
*By Earl James MoGrath, U. 8. Commissioner of Education, Federal Security
Agency, Washington, D. C., at Centennial Celebration, Hirsm College, Hirem,
Ohio, April 29, 1950. Excerpt in Journalism Quarterly, Spring 1950, pp. 167.
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