Swing (Jan-Dec 1945)

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32 S. u/mt April. 1945 time with their families — or more time for citizenship, for worship of God, for simply thinking. Let me ask you this. Aside from taking five minutes to make your New Year's resolutions, have you sat down, between now and the first of the year, to think over how you're Uving — why — and where you're going? Have you read anything worth reading? Had a conversation that was Hke wine in your mind and a warmth to your heart? Or has it all been busi' ness, rush'rush'rush, and stomach ulcers? That is, all surface living. Those people who are always mak' ing surveys say now that America is experiencing a return to religion. It may well be so. In war-time, if at no other time, we are forced to take moral stock. In the presence of life and death, of profound alterations in history, we are shaken. We are forced back to essentials. "These are the times that try men's souls," wrote Thomas Paine in the days of the American Revolution. Yes, and in these days too, we are being tested, weighed in the balance. For all their personal sorrow, for all the wartime profits and the new practical inventions, these are days of a moral renaissance for America. Great days, heroic days in American history. I think — certainly I hope — our smart alec debunking of the cal' low twenties is about debunked out of us by now. It used to be the fashion to be ashamed of honest and deep feeling. Read the casualty lists in this morning's paper and see how flippant and smart alec you feel. The glittering twenties were days of moral fail ure. All we wanted after the last war was to play. We are beginning to see our failure now. Certainly we are paying for it now, in full. America today is in a new mood. We are re-discovering the spirit. It's not a temporary war-time hysteria — it is a quiet, deep-lying rebirth, which will long leave its mark on us. Americans have been lost for a long time, in a cluttered fog of material things. We have been shallow. It has taken the horror of war to open our eyes sharply to basic values once more. These are days of a certain clarity and grandeur. We must Uve up to the demands of our time. We must fulfill the promise that hovers in the air. Out of ourselves, out of the deep well of inner resources, with respect for all our fellow-Americans, with not merely shrewd but wise perspective, we too must bring something of grandeur. For an America that is rich in more than material things, each one of us must understand how rightly to live. "THE WORD" ON RADIO Radio's 25th Anniversary was observed in Kansas City v/hen J. Harold Ryan, president of the National Association of Broadcasters, addressed the Chambeof Commerce ... to tell the story of the broadcasting industry's service to the nation. WHB originated his speech to the Kansas State Network.