Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-03-15

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The case of the Abbotts is, / think,
typical Life in New York is too fast.
1t burns up men.
Now to the comparative side OF the
question. A smaller city, like Cleye-
land, for instance, is city OF diverse
populations 1t is also melting pot
of Modes and Persians, and the dwell
ers in Mesopotamia. Its forces are
active. 1t, too, has people who are
the most distinguished and the most
stupid, the most charming and the
most uninteresting, the most phi
lanthropical and the most selfish, the
highest socially and the lowest social
ly, the noblest morally and the IN
speakable morally.
But all these forces are not so con-
gested, so crushed in together as they
are in New York In the smaller
cities there is more orderliness. Peo-
pie have not forgotten their good
manners, or at least many of them
have not They still have time to be
considerate. The crush, both physical
and intellectual, is not quite so crush
ing.
More Human Than New York.
People in smaller cities are more
human than New York people. They
are less inclined to weigh all things
in the scale of the mint II New York
has more LIVING, smaller cities have
more LIFE. What you see energies
readily in a smaller city. In New
York one becomes so easily lost. In
a smaller city not so easily. Cleve-
land, for instance, is large enough to
give a field for ones forces. 1t is
small enough to preserve and pro-
mote individuality.
In New York this pressure has be-
come a very materialistic one. AT
least the materialistic side is the OBJ
vious one. OF course there are to be
found in New York great men and
greatest men In all fields of human in
terest. But they and their work are
not so obvious to the passerby as are
wealth, the desire for wealth and the
seeker after wealth.
New York is too large for many
people to know people of other types
intimately.
Seek Only External Things.
The young man feverishly seeking
a fortune does not know the inner
life of the man who has learned that
great wealth has little value except
as a stepping stone to opportunities
for a larger life. He sees only the
external grandeur and display of liy-
ing. He is so busy making his for
tune he has no time to learn to
spend 1t except In the obvious ways
of the lust OF the flesh, the lust OF
the eye and the pride of life.
In a smaller city where the pressure
of living is not so great, time for
thought, time for self-development, in
tercourse with men who have thoughts
on other subjects than money are
given. Such life can be found in
New York by the man who insists
upon finding it. 1t is Obscured by the
external rush and dazzle unless he
does insist and keeps on insisting with
a strength and fervor which his OBJ
vious surroundings are all conspiring
to stife.
Both New York and smaller cities
need. and in New York more, ! think,
the lesson of Walter Bagehot, If you
have mind, use it. 1t is the most
interesting thing The cities, like
America itself, used to be taught that
the things of the spirit are the real
things, that what one sees will soon
vanish, that the invisible is the eter-
nal. that the lust OF the flesh and
the lust of the eye and the pride Of
life are transient" and that the spirit
of man deserves, and is really strug-
Cling after, the real truth OF life