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Show THIS BUSINESS & : 3 111 S SUSAN THAYER fo. j L , I t SIXTY MILLION WAR HORSES the air in war can Soar l' peaceful skies, and f S where war horses are I1 the valley now will be rf the time comes to W It:' J horses to air Unt V planes. The aircraft ind (1 made unbelievable advaW; great age of aviation V J when the world settles I4' peace. ""v My favorite horse in all litera- ture is the war horse in the Book of Job. Do any of you remember him, I wonder? "He paweth in the valley and rejoiceth -in his strength; he goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword. He saith among the trumpets Ha, : ha; and he smelleth the battle afar f off, the thunder of the captains and the shouting." Well, I got out my Bible the other oth-er day and reread that wonderful description. Because I had seen an item in the paper that fired my imagination. It was merely to the effect that the production of liquid-cooled engines one dicision of General Motors has sent to the war now totals bu miuion nuiae-power. nuiae-power. Sixty million war horses harnessed har-nessed to Lightnings and Airaco-bras, Airaco-bras, Mustangs, Invaders- and Warhawks, not to mention the planes of Britain and Russia and China! Sixty million splendid steeds, mocking at fear and going forth to meet the armed men! Isn't that pretty thrilling, really? -Well probably you'll think those horses carried me too far on a flight of fancy. I know very well that the poetry is lost in the grim implications of hordes of Europe. But norses that take to planes blackening the skies ovef |