South High School - Tiger Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Courtesy Minneapolis Star Journal The Four Freedoms IN HIS annual message to Congress, January 6, 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said: In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. . . . The first is freedom of speech and expression — everywhere in the world. . . . The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way — everywhere in the world. . . . The third is freedom from want, which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peace time life for its inhabitants — everywhere in the world. . . . The fourth freedom is freedom from fear — which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor — anywhere in the world. That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb. . . . Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them. Our strength is in our unity of purpose. ... To that high concept there can be no end save victory. CO

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'Dedicated TO THE PEOPLE’S MARCH • • OF THE UNITED NATIONS AND TO SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL’S CONTRIBUTION TO THE WAR EFFORT

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Courtesy Minneapolis Star Journal The People’s March EaKING before the Free World Association, May 8, 1942, on The Price of Free World Victory, O Henry A. Wallace, Vice-President of the United States, said: This is a fight between a slave world and a free world. ... As we begin the final stages of this fight to the death between the free world and the slave world, it is worth while to refresh our minds about the march of freedom for the common man. The idea of freedom — the freedom that we in the United States know and love so well — is derived from the Bible with its extraordinary emphasis on the dignity of the individual. Democracy is the only true political expression of Christianity. . . . The prophets of the Old Testament were the first to preach social justice. . . . The march of freedom of the past hundred and fifty years has been a long-drawn-out people’s revolution. . . . But the significant thing is that the people groped their way to the light. The people are on the march toward even fuller freedom than the most fortunate peoples of the earth have hitherto enjoyed. . . . Some have spoken of the 'American Century'. I say that the century on which we are entering — the century which will come of this war — can be and must be the century of the common man. ... No nation will have the God-given right to exploit other nations. . . . The people's revolution is on the march and the Devil and all his angels cannot prevail against it. They cannot prevail, for on the side of the people is the Lord.