University of Detroit - Tower Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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VERY REVEREND ALBERT H,. POETKER, S: J, PRESIDE Nm [16]

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Her greatness of today trom a simple savage outpost on the rim ae the great northern merece 1s a tribute to the persistent industrial progress of this, the twentieth century.

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Wave] The Centenary of Michigan’s Statehood in the Union, which supplies the theme for this year’s Tower, is one of those celebrations which make us pause and reflect on the fortunes and durations of human interests. History here is full of salutary lessons. States and nations endure just so long as they succeed in conforming their customs, policies, and laws to the eternal principles of jus- tice. When they abandon the immutable standards of right and wrong and allow government to become conducted on principles of expediency and utilitarianism, they begin to crack and crumble and soon become object lessons of national folly and disaster. It is a cheering spectacle to see how far our State of Michigan has traveled since its frontier days. The striking progress in the space of one brief century is the result of those Christian virtues for which the early pioneers were noted. Laymen and missionaries alike, they were men of deep faith and rugged honesty, and unflinching courage. They dedicated their lives to the task of planting a civiliza- tion based on law and order and reverence for authority. If Michigan can continue to produce men of that breed and with similar sterling qualities of character, she need face the future with no misgivings. And that is the type of men the University of Detroit has aimed to give her. May our alumni ever be counted among her most loyal citizens! AM Satie