The Hemphill County News (Canadian, Tex), Vol. 6, No. 18, Ed. 1, Friday, January 28, 1944 Page: 3
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A President is Born
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pendent on you for his life and
wellbeing And yet you are able to look
at him and say
Someday he may be President
Put it down as foolish sentiment Put
it down as parental pride But where else
in the world could you envision for your
child the possibility of his attaining one
day the highest office in the land
Maybe your child wont make it But
one child very much like him will One
child out of the three million babies born
this year or the next or the year after
Whether or not he attains this high
position Is not so important What mat-
ters is that here in America he is born
with that opportunity He is born in the
stubborn tradition of freemen men who
felt that in government the wisdom of
the many is preferable to the ambition of
the few He is born in a tradition of self
reliance where he may succeed or fail
win or lose rise or fall according to his
own efforts
Because of that you will train him to
think for himself to fight his own battles
to make his own way
You will teach him that responsibility
is inseparable from freedom And that if
he joins with other men in an enterprise
he should demand the same responsibility
and freedom for his business that marks
his birthright as an individual
Someday he may hear as you have
heard voices that say Surrender your
opportunity for the certainty that you
shall always have bread as if man lived
by bread alone As if the country were
better served by limiting all to mediocrity
instead of assuring to all under law an
equal chance to rise by their own efforts
conscious of their obligations to others
What that son of yours learns at jour
knee will decide whether or not he will
ever have to bend his knee before dicta-
tion and tjranny
And because of what you teach him he
too may one day look with that same fool-
ish pride on his own son to say Some-
day he may be President
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Miller, Othello Ontje. The Hemphill County News (Canadian, Tex), Vol. 6, No. 18, Ed. 1, Friday, January 28, 1944, newspaper, January 28, 1944; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth47330/m1/3/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.