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Show Public Forum j This column is for the use oi our readers as long as articles ar-ticles are not defamatory to private I individuals. This , newspaper doesn't take s.des with any of the views expressed. express-ed. Contributions are welcome. THE NINE HORSEMEN By G. W. States ,n these short sketches and coin menu on basic trends ' s '; 1 , ' out that which savors ot blmt u i tisanship. Times are too o.u. on I for blind political taken . Mosl ! spotlight slogans have nothing underneath un-derneath but tailor-made -hokus-i pokus Let's cut that out and look jat some facts of the times l No long ago in Liberty Maga-! Maga-! zine I read an article from the pen i of Herbert Hoover which 1 think is of more than passing notice. Democrat though I am I have sincere sin-cere admiration for this great Re publican. 1 admire the man whe stands bv his principles. What Mr. Hoover says in Liberty is trite and basic for these times. You have all heard of the four horsemen of' the apocalypse namely, "War, Death, Famine, and Pestilenuce." "Today," says Mr. Hoover, "There are five more terrible horsemen on the march." in addition to War, Death, Famine! and Pestilence, there is in Mr. Hoover's own words these five: "Imperialism, the destroyer or the independence of nations; Intolerance, In-tolerance, the destroyer of minorities; minori-ties; State-ism, the destroyer ol personal liberty; Atheism, the destroyer des-troyer of faith; and Hate, the destroyer des-troyer of mankind." These are so true they should be committed - to memory as fundamental funda-mental basic truths. These last five destroyers arc abroad in the world seeking to lay-waste lay-waste the edifice of Democracy. So compelling is this article bj Mr. Hoover that I will give hers his own words. "All the nine horsemen have new weapons of destruction. It now moves through the air over all borders and seas. It comes disguls ed in the home tongue. Hate has increased its voltage through cruelty of attack upon civilian men, women and children by food blockade block-ade and death by air. War is more destructive by our -chemistry -and our machines. Famine is more terrible ter-rible by the growth of great cities. Pestilence strikes left and right through the close net of our communications." com-munications." In more detail farther on Mr. Hoover continues "Out of all . these forces, if this war is long . continued, there is but one im-. im-. plmcable end. That end is the greatest famine in h story. There was a great famine at the end of , ; the World war. During the twen-ty-four months after the armistice . in 1918 we sent over eighty billion , pounds of concentrated foodstuff,. . from America to Europe. And ol , pestilence, an army of typhus came . down from Russia on a front a thousand miles long. At the height h a million cases raged, with . a death rate of a quarter miilion t of those stricken. Who will stop the famine after the present war?" When men of wide experience . like Mr. Hoover tell us that these . nine horsemen of destruction are . stampeding through the world, no . one questions that we have arrived arriv-ed at the fullness of .calamity, is j not this the darkest hour our . world has ever known? . I |