The San Francisco call., 1909-07-28
West Is the Place to
Find True ArnerlCanism
Life of Nation Is Always Refreshed From
Its Frontier, Says President Wheeler

BERK ELEY, July 27.-"The west is
clsred Doctor Wheeler. the honored
guest of the banquet of the Berkeley
chamber OF commerce, tonight in the
Masonic temple seek it today west of
Missouri continued the speaker, when
New York and Wall street and balls
and bonds and bonnets have tagged you
out and punctured your faith. Come
out into the breezy west where every
body knows ii is great country and
everything win turn out right; come
out here and renew your faith and refill
your lungs"
His address was Of particular inter
est In view of the tact that the ami
versary OF his tenth year as head of
the university, which has made great
strides under his management, was
celebrated last week
ULTIMATE FORUM OF WORLD
In part he said:
The men of the east look toward the
Atlantic and old Europe; the central
west was settled BIZ men who backed
in keeping their faces still set toward
Europe. IT was only when they crossed
the Missouri that men really set their
faces westward. and only when they
reached the coast that they recognized
their land as facing straight out upon
the ultimate forum of the worlds do
ings. Old history was made in terms
of the Mediterranean and Europe, ana
under its sway the gaze was inward;
but IL left half of the world, China,
Japan and India, out of account. The
new history deals with a whole world
in two great halves, its gaze is out
ward toward the open ocean. That
ocean is three ffths of it the Pacific;
in il the two halves are to meet, and
work out more in commerce than in
destiny nf the whole ReTkP-
is set where it can see, and there
fore it can teach.
NATION REFRESHED
The second thing that Berkeley
"a aught me concerns the spirit and the
temper of my own people. 1t has
always been on the frontier, where
men are put to their trumps and there
is elbow room enough for character to
assert itself. that the real temper OF a
people has made itself known, and the
life of nation is always refreshed
from its frontier. Out west has always
been the place to find Americanism,
whether II was western MASSACHUSETTS
or Jackson's Tennessee, Clay's Kentucky
or Lincoln's Illinois. Seek it today
west of the Missouri. There You will
find IL clearcut and in high relief, ready
for study.
When New York and Wall street
and balls and bonds and bonnets have
IA agged you out and punctured your
faith come out into the breezy west.
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country" and everything will turn out
all right; come out here and renew
your faith and refill your lungs.
There is something in the greatness
and stretch of il all The man was
pained when the prospective bride de-
INJURED at the smallness of the fat he
had chosen for their home. But l
fear you don't love me-" he said. 'Oh,
yes, but not on such small scale
The rest Of the world calls us great
braggers. We know they think so.
We do undoubtedly use the phrase,
biggest in the world" rather fire.
ouently. Kipling was told on his first
visit TO Chicago that the Palmer house
was the finest hotel in the finest city
of God Almighty's earth: and the
German professor, Lamprecht. reports
that after being treated to all forms
of the superlative while on his visit
here. he was finally offered to drink
'-the purest water in the world" l pre-
sumo we do overdo it a little. but then
we really have such frequent occasion
10 use the superlative in the interest
of the truth that we might be for
given.
The real American believes this is
the best country the sun ever Shone