The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-12
Let's Not All Go Crazy
CNew York World-Telegraml

(NsW York Word-T Telegram)
 Unless something happens pretty soon to put man. kind back the road to sanity and morality, former President Herbert Hoover told Canadian audience, the world faces early smashup.
 To see just how right MT. Hoover and is, has but to look around at what's going on in the world He himself enumerated of the evidences of the intoerant ideologies which have joined the four horsemen to hold the world taut with fear v
 In Germany, he pointed out the most hideous exhibition" of persecution since the Middle Ages is in full swing. In Russia, political opponents by the thousand are being executed while in her efforts to force state industralization millions of her own people were left to die of starvation despite the fact that she had the gold with which to buy them food "A military autocracy control of Japan is making a war of aggression upon China horrible that of Genghis Khan" while "a bitter class in Spain ruthlessly executes civilians on both sides"
 Here are but few samples of the terror and in- tolerance now sweeping the earth. Nevertheless the former President added hopefully perhaps the world may have gained something from it, after all namely desire to keep out of The old war fever, he said mo longer sweeps the common people"
 And there again We believe he spoke the truth. France just now, a in point. Not so long ago it was the fashion to speak of the French as warke and aggressive That, of course not quite true, even then but today they particularly attached to peace So much so in fact, that when Premier Dalader recently returned from Munich he was given hero,s welcome by the masses And so was Britains
 
 That is to say they welcomed by almost everybody except the French Communists and fellow travellers of the extreme Left These take their cue from Moscow and Moscow does not want peace-at least not between Germany Italy and Japan, on the one side and Britain France and America on the other War between these six major powers would clear the field for Communism It probably would destroy the three dictatorships-which, of course, Moscow wishes ali elsebut in the process capi- taistic, bourgeois democracies as she would call us, would be likely to collapse we'll
 Whereupon the earth would drop like ripe fruit into the waiting lap of Communism and without Rus sa having had to strike a single open blow.
 Many excellent people in this country are being misled into lending their support to groups whose real purposes are net always what they seem and not always what their liberal and democratic sounding names imply Some of these groups tend to lead us into entanglemens abroad hence in the direction of war rather than peace and toward some form of totalitarianism instead of democracy
 A world conflict is not going to benefit the oppressed peoples of Europe and Asia Far from It. Their hope is in the survival of democracy. And democracy would be Armageddons first victim. So let do everything can to keep the democracles out of war. Let try to preserve them as haven for and defender of the victims of despots elsewhere
 Let us try, MT. Hoover suggested to keep at least little sanity in this mad world For it tainly not going help the doWntrodden anywhere if all of us go crazy at the time.