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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (June 6, 1940)
"2 i .. f f % SECOND SECTION The Coquille f Valley Sentinel SECOND 4» SECTION FAlMt NINS COQUILLE, COOI COUNTY, OKKOON, THUUDAT, JUNK •, 1*4«. i—UL kill many of her animals. Many of As this war goes on, the blockade history. we musk not be led into blind hates - 4 these smaller nations are already on of food supplies, the attacks on civil There is no such tiling as isolation against whole peoples. The great rations And in invaded countries ians from the air will take more toll for the United States. The Monroe masses of the German people and the there is already famine. It sweeps from women and children. As action Doctrine itself is denial of that. And Russian people did not wish for the over Poland. between armies becomes more violent there can be no such thing as eco wars now going on. The vast major Out of all these forces, if this war tthe long lists of dead stream back nomic or intellectual or moral or ity of both these nations are gentle Herbert Hoover in a recent pub-lf----------------------------------------------" is long continued, there is but one from the front into the homes. From spiritual isolation. , decent people who prayed for peace named “Nine Horseman” goods. But on top of this peacetime implacable end. That end is the these wrongs and sufferings imper There can be no isolation from even as did you and I. march in the world. Lib- shortage of supplies, war at once di greatest famine in history. And from ishable hates will sink into every world effort to allay misery, to save t And Pure is a doubly difficult posi- tine asked him to amplify minishes the food production of every lowered vitality by famine comes household human life, to bring peace, disarma tion. In our emotions we have a dif ion of that subject, and in combatant nation. The imports of Pestilence. There was a great famine And do not let us think that we ment, reconstruction, and renewed ferent scene from Europe fighting below he has done so. It fodder are cut off or slackened, and at the end of the World War. The race against race. We have the heri had not in some lesser degree built hope from this catastrophe. tied by permission of Lib- the herds must be diminished. The dramatic events at peace-making ob There can be military isolation. tage of every European race. Our up hates in the United States during zine. Copyright, 1840, by drafting of man power instantly di scured it. And as the people, after the last war, although our losses had When I speak of joining in these wars, war hates are not alone against the Macfadden Publications, Inc.: minishes the production of milk and the armistice, were mostly fed by been much less bitter. We cannot I mean joining in the military side— enemy. They cruelly divide our own of butter and of meat. The people American action, there was no major forget the hideous attitudes toward sending our eons into it. people, not alone for the war but long eat into their animals and, when tragedy to attract headlines. loyal Americans of German descent. If we join in these wars we will after. war ends, their brood stock is de During the twenty-four months But if we remain out of war we Well do I remember that some days start with the already great exhaus pleted. Beyond this, planting of after the armistice in 1818 we sent after the armistice I announced that tion of ten years of our depression. might, if we have the will to do so, ground crops must be skipped. The something over eighty billion pounds the food blockade against Germany Then we will further exhaust our al use our unimpaired resources, our harvesting is Imperfect. And, above of concentrated foodstuffs from should be removed at once. That was ready weakened economic strength. courage, our moral strength to do all, the nitrate fertilizers must be America to Europe. That was more imperative for reasons of humanity And that exhaustion will be in a far mankind infinite service. diverted to explosives. food than we have exported to and for the self-interest of the Allies, greater degree than in the few jnonths men. By that service we could allay the The new cavalry are: It Is true that each nation at mod Europe in the whole of the last ten that Bolshevism could be stopped in we participated in the last war. destruction of war and the ravages years combined. And this food went Imperialism, the destroyer of the ern war rations its population in hope starving Germany, and that peace And when the war is over we shall of Famine and Pestilence. That serv independence of nations; of reducing its food consumption. not only to our allies but to our for could be made. Despite these obvious need devote our remaining resources ice of compassion could go far to save Intolerance, the destroyer of mi Scarcity always raises prices and the mer enemies. And of pestilence, an reasons, the reaction in every part of to support our wounded, our mained, civlization and restore hopes to men. norities; food goes to those who have the most army of typhus came down from Rus the Allied world and the United our orphaned, and our destitute. We Free of Hate we could exert an insis State-ism, the destroyer of per money. Rationing does secure more sia on a front a thousand miles long. States was one of indignant opposi- shall need every resource to rebuild tent voice of reason in the making of sonal liberty; equality in distribution and control At its height a million cases raged, ! tion and denunciation of any mercy. our farmers and workers from our peace. Atheism, the destroyer of faith; of prices. It thrusts the hunger upon with a death rate of a quarter of those ! It took us months to secure so simple our own misery and impoverishment. | And if we are again called upon for Hate, the destroyer of the unity of the civil population. Soldiers, muni stricken. Americans fought that bat an act. ' And our sympathies will be justly service, we have a right to demand tion workers, and government offi tle and won. mankind. that Reason and Hope sit at the In the end from this furnace fire limited to suffering at home. Without all this service, famine, These are the Horsemen of the ad cials are always well fed. The hun If we join in this war, the last peace table. Reason and hope for the of hate^StaJmnjen no longer are free vance, preparing the way for War ger in the people falls hardest upon pestilence, and their end in Com- agents. Thé bitterness makes sane great remaining reservoir of eco world call for the restoration of those and Death. After War and Death the women and children. But ra munnism would have engulfed Eur peace almost impossible. Those of us nomic strength will have been ex nations who have lost their freedom. sweep Famine and Pestilence. tioning has ilttle effect oh the total ope. There would have been no who observe the making of the Treaty hausted. And hope of world recup And their camp follower is Revolu consumption. War experience has peace of any sort. of Versailles knew that the leaders eration will have been delayed while Calling carda, SO ior 51.00. After the Thirty Years’ War a tion. proved that armies consume about there were consciously or yncon- Revolution marches unimpeded over Imperialism has already trampled twice as much food as the same men peace was made, and then it is ciously dominated by the fires of hate the earth. down the independence of Ethiopia, do when they are at peace. That is said that one half of the population still burning. They had to get their If we jMn-4» this war, we our Czecho-Slovakia, Poland. Albania, partly due to the greater physical proceeded to die from famine and acts approved at home. The suf selves will develop all the hates that pestilence. and Denmark. We have witnessed need. It is partly due to the inevi ferings of their people had been too are inevitable from war. We shall A. F. ft A. M. There was no America then. attacks upon China, Finland, and table waste and destruction of food have lost the voice of reason in the great for rational action. Stated Communication The conclusion of this observation Norway, unable to defend themselves. in camp, or by invasion, and at sea. Tuesday, June 11, 8 p. m. And one of the consequences of making of the peace. And now the invasion of Belgium and Beyond all this, the food production is “Who will stop the famine after And, though we stay out, in our Work in E. A. those hates was a treaty which ?" , Holland. And there seems more to of the countries free of actual war is (the present war?' indignation at wrong and aggression sowed the dragon ’ s teeth of the pres — Hate also demoralized, for the normal The — Sixth Hereemsn " come. And now let us examine the de ent war. We have seen Intolerance destroy markets are interfered with by block * '“1 ■* In the present war the forces mak Jews, Christians, and racial minori ades and difficulties of credit to war stroyer Hate.' He will have some purchasers. Prices are erratic and thing to do with the American peo ing for hate are even more violent. ties. We have seen State-ism, expressed the farmer is uncertain. Some coun ple. In his modem visage he is If this war continues long enough, by the despotisms of Communism, tries are wholly isolated. Thus pro probably the greatest of all destroy these hates will sit again at the peace table. Unless there be some allaying Fascism, Nazism, and Socialism, de duction diminishes among neutrals, ers. Racial hates developed to an in force, some entry of reason and com troy liberty in Russia, in Germany, especially at the begininng of war. By the necessity of directing food tensity and over more people in the passion, there will be a Carathaginian in Italy, and in a half dozen other countries. We have seen its infiltra supplies through the whole of the World War than ever before. From peace. - / tion through the world — including last war I watched these forces un the miseries which followed it came .. The conclusion of this observation development. is “What powerful nation will still fold with their millions of tragedies. another unparalled the United States. I Atheism has greatly shattered re The food situation in the present That was class hate. Both of th« retain good will and reason?” ligious worship in Russia and Ger war Is already more desperate than at have played a great part in this cater » Hate, this Sixth Horseman, eon- I — many and weakened beliefs in a score the same stage in the World War. clysn of today. tinues to ride after so-called peace is [ Hate becomes completely in Then, except for Belgium, there was of others. Hate has grown fiercely since be- , no rationing of civil populations un flamed in modem war. Nowdays made. Famine and Pestilence, to- , fore the First World War began, and ( til the second or third year. In the fighting quickly flashes from wars gether with the aftermaths of war’s its ravages are not alone between present war every combatant country between soldiers in wars against destruction—Malnutrition, unemploy races but between classes and reli was on bread and meat cards within civilians. It wa> not so long ago that ment, and poverty—furnish the fuel ninety days. In 1014 Russia was full wars were fought entirely between to class hate. It is hungry people gious faiths. And all the Nine Horsemen have of food; for years it has been in a soldiers. They had elements of who revolt in violence. Civilians new weapons of destruction. Im state of semifamine. Moreover, to chivalry and sportsmanship. When . with filled stomachs do not face ma- ■ ■■■ Helpless, distraught, perialism has become more dreadful day every neutral country in Europe, such was were over, hates did not chine guns. by threat of destruction from the air. out of fear, has already mobilized al remain long in courageous men who frustrated peoples accept the leader- j ship of Hate, Who mobilize them into Propaganda, the weapon of Intoler most its full man power. The Balkan fought against courageous men. But where war is made against Revolution. The end Is dictatorship ance, of State-ism, of Atheism, of States, Holland, Belgium, Scandi rapidity of communication. It now navia, and Italy will therefore also helpless civilians, an Implacable hate <nd y,« advance Horsemen start on moves through the air over all bor diminish in food production. The comes. Do we need be reminded of the march again. ni South Taylor Phone ML ders and seas. It comes disguised in harvest of the Balkan States this the seventy years of hate that sur- An *—■1— g«to the home tongue. Hate has increased ■year will be reduced. Denmark, now vived In our country from Sherman’s Now America has a role to per its voltage through cruelty of attack unable to import fodder, must needs March to the See? form. It can be a great role in our upon cilvilian men, women, and chil 9BKe9e9BES9VinBBe39MBB99HBBSSSERK9BS9BESaS9BSS5ESesaSEBSSB9i|! dren by food blockade and death by the air. War is more destructive by our chemistry and our machines. Famine is more terrible by the growth of great cities. Pestilence strikes right and left through the close net of our communications. Only the Western Hemisphere is free of the full violence of these Horsemen. But they affect us. Our emotions are aroused. The attacks upon helpless small nations raise the indignation of all decent men and women. Our economic life is dislo cated. The shadow of war hangs over all our decisions. And from our emotions there are Americans who sincerely believe that we ourselves should go to war. They feel wo should be willing to sacrifice our youth and our future to restore liberty against aggression, to assure the recognition of law and human TWO GREAT REASONS WHY WE MUST KEEP OUT OF THE WAR R Chadwick Lodge No. 18 Special-Father’s Day 1—8x10 Portrait 85c CURTIS STUDIO CSS. Gravel Your Road BENHAM TRANSFER PONTIAC BUILDS CABS! rights. Reason calls to us not to send our sons into this war. Reason dictates that if we join the military operations of this war, it means the abdication of the remaining seat of liberty in the world. Reason insists the Western Hemisphere should give sanctuary for peace to her flight from all the rest of ■» C * too world. Reason 1« final to ite de mands to*t WO prepare ourselves *o toot WO may defend the Western Hemlsahore. To those who feel that we are not doing O«r pari if we Stay out, I may suggest that we look ahead to the end Pi this war — enamine a possibly greater service to mankind- This war win end some time, either In victory or exhaustion. And in that relation we may well explore the grim work Of the Horsemen Famine, Pestilence, •783 and Hate Pamfoe and Peetiteuee Westen) Europe for a hundred years, even in peacetimes, has not produced sufficient food supplies for its own population. It has bought Its food by the export of manufactured I CKHT 355 Front St Coquille, Ore«' -W »