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Show Voice of the People THE MIDDLE OP THE ROAD Editor Washington Co. News: Our learned thebans and professors pro-fessors of social and economic ethics, as well as politicians aspiring aspir-ing to soft jobs, have expended considerable brain energy anent the "left and the right" course, the "middle of the road" theory or the half way between the two extremes, as concerns the Roosevelt Roose-velt Administration's policies; all of which sounds to me like a lot of silly brain cackle or the fantasy of a deranged imagination. To me there is no such thing as the Middle of the road course. Old mother nature has never created cre-ated such an animal. Nature itself it-self travels in cycleis of extremes. The sun of mid-summer and the zero of winter extremes meet and pass the half-way line in a moment, mo-ment, and go their way rejoicing. A terrific storm sweeps across the country, leaving death and destruction de-struction in its wake, then subsides, sub-sides, and the calm that follows seems more serene and invigorating; invigorat-ing; the sun shines brighter, fellowship fel-lowship of man is renewed ten fold and all the world is bright and happy.. That is the other extreme. ex-treme. Such i also true in the course of human events. As I said before, be-fore, we travel in cycles, and what has been repeated will be repeated again. One extreme runs its cours, reaches the climax of its endurence, then gives way for something quite the opposite to take its place. God gave man his free agency that he might choose between good and evil, the two great 'forces that rule the universe; the great war in Heaven is a striking example exam-ple of the philosophy of the idea I am attempting to explain. a thing is either right or it is wrong, there is no question about that' Christ said, "if you are not for me you are against me." It is man's nature to hanker after excusses; he hungers and thirsts after and craves extremes and to deny hi,,, this privilege' would he to rob him of his God-given God-given prerogatives. Lot us .reflect .re-flect hack to the world war, the most destructive conflict in the annals of htetory, followed by the greatest era of prosperity eVor known, and parallelling this we witnesses are witnessing the greatest great-est wave of criminality of modem ages. The depression is passing, uml that new age, of which we hear and road and talk so much, ,a already in evidence and Is st as certain as the dawning of a "?W day; The crime wave will do a natural death, when It nm Its full course, but will J." eradicated by the lro wU U'e lQW' no '"alter hw big the police force may be. Nations and peoples suffer the fateful ills of life to the exact degree de-gree that they forget their God, and to the degree that they draw nearer unto him, they enjoy peace, happiness, fellowship and love. This is a natural law we can not escape; wherein, too, we see and comprehend the workings of the two extremes. Respectfully submitted by Sylvester Earl. |