| Show A PLEA FOR in PEACE all all rz ial 4 0 a X indelibly impressed upon my deepest emotions is the profound conviction that the very first of all problems pressing upon tho the human raco race is the problem ot of prevention of future war the greatest safety of the world from these crises we are no now passing I 1 ih to present war var v ar I 1 see this not only in its ita terms of crushing economic burdens not only in its fearful disorganization and dislocation of economic life for years to come not only in its ita crushing burden of taxation for generations innocent of responsibility I 1 see it far more intensely as a supreme human problem 1 I see in wars the loss of the glorious young manhood of the world who but for wars slaughter would lead tho bright columns of human hope and human idealism and human progress to levels far abo above ve the pact I 1 see wars in terms of women widowed or unwed with fond hopes blasted of homes and of children I 1 see wars most lamentable casualties in homes wrecked and in homes that never even had their chance of being I 1 see wars vars in terms of children born into lives fore doomed to ignorance and the toll that dwarfs both mind and spirit I 1 see ice wars fatal poison subtly invading the moral ideals of the people bringing grossness and cynicism where should grow the fine no flower cr of idealism the world has been enough of a postwar post war peace that 1 is s not peace but rather smolders of racial hatred excerpt from president hoovers address at salt lake city |
