Roosevelt University - Vanguard Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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(fyieda fan Uuwmi JAMES B. DIAL lomcs B. Dial, distinguished alumnus oi Roosevelt College, speaks out with lorcc and sincerity about an issue of great moment. Mr. Dial, an associate physicist at the Monsanto Chemical Laboratory. Oak Ridge. Tennessee, contributed his research during World War II toward development of the atomic bomb. His concern over its future compels him to preach the doctrine of peace, goodwill, and brotherhood among all mon. After receiving the B.S. degree in physics-chemistry from Central YMCA College in 1944. Mr. Dial won a B.S. in physics from the University of Tennes- see. He is now completing studies for the Ph. D. degree in physics at that institution. Credo once meant I believe to the people of a flourishing republic. The Roman Republic, with no shadow of danger visible from with- out, collapsed into tyranny after its citizens had abused and betrayed their high privilege of citizenship. Once again we believe, but that is but a beginning. In a world of man-made forces of frightful violence, the exercise of citizenship has extended meaning. It has the old meaning of the privilege of participating in political life, and the new meaning of chipping away all the time at the barriers which keep us from bending the new forces to the building of a better world for all. We can put the Genii from our lamp to work, or loose him unguided upon the world and upon ourselves. At Roosevelt College (and we adopted alumni at Central YMCA College) we have dis- agreed on how to build a free nation in a free world of people free to develop, each in his own way, their own synthesis of personality and action. Now we shall find ourselves among people who may not even admit such a nation in such a world is even to be desired, whatever the methods used to attain it. This is our task: not only to believe, but to fight! Not only the glamorous fight: the speaker's stand at the rally, the parade, the affirmation of faith where it is accepted al- ready, but also the slow, dragging, miserable fight — the endless steps and doorways and doorbells of getting out the vote, the ruthless grinding away of one's own prejudices and blind spots, the resistance to stereotype and label, the return to the ring again and again after defeat, the continuous search for facts upon which to build judgment. Ever ready for the swift advance, we must not lose the chance to gain each instant's dogged inch!