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...chapter of Revelations, through which they ride, names only one-Death ("and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him''). The current issue of Saturday Review presents a new theory by an old student. His name: Herbert Hoover...
...President Hoover, 84, concurs with the generally accepted designations of the rider on the white horse as War ("a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer"). He also agrees with the majority that the rider on the black horse was Famine ("and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice . . . say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt...
Where Quaker Hoover takes issue with tradition is the designation of the rider on the red horse as Pestilence ("and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword"). Hoover points out that in more than 20 different kinds of disasters and punishments mentioned in Revelation, pestilence does not occur once. St. John, he thinks, "had some other idea in mind" for the red horseman −"the name which we know in modern times as Revolution...
...Hoover admits that revolutions may be good or bad, "but St. John's horseman had no good purpose ... We do not allow our imaginations to extend to the idea that St. John was prophesying Communism, even though one is tempted, partly because of the prophetic statement that power was given to the horseman 'to take peace from the world...
...make any substantial savings from being President," said Herbert Clark Hoover, noting with approval that Dwight Eisenhower had signed a bill creating an annual $25,000 pension for ex-Presidents. "My situation differs from other, and probably future, former Presidents," explained the 31st U.S. President. "America provided me with an education, including a profession [mining engineer], I practiced that profession in years when there was no income tax or only a small amount. I was able to save a competence.* I have considered that I have a great debt to my country for the opportunities it has given me. Therefore...