Arizona republican., 1913-03-16

1 with the threads of Hoosier sincerity, ! friendship and brotherly love.
 The worthy toastmaster has as signed me the subject-HoW It Looks 1 to HasSayamper'-a subject so rich | in philosophy and psychology that the | time here is by no means adequate for more than the faintest sketch, and in giving you this sketch, I want to tell l you that l am proud in being able l to claim that I am a native Hoosier, but am equally proud of the fact that 1 l also am a Hassayamper.
 Had I Quenched my thirst with | the waters of that famous stream be- low the bridge, I wot not the pie | lures I might paint would strain your credulity and pail your flightest imagination. but having been warned 1 in time where to drink, and having always drank above the noted bridge, the beauties of my pictures may be 1 less, yet the truth of my philosophy will be the more enduring.
 Way back wonder in that grand and great old Hooser land they lay sure foundations for men and women, but the structures reared thereon are the grandest and greatest only when 1 mixed and built with the thoroughly 1 tested, fiercely burned and carefully 1 refined. man and woman cement pro- duced only and nowhere except in 1 the crucible of experience in Apache land.
 | Born and bred in Hoosierland; l reared. refined and developed in Apache land. overcomes all evil and makes the devil himself pause before 1 attempting to storm such citadel l of mental strength If the birth in 1 Hoosierland harbors hate development l in Apache land supplants it with love | If the natural trend of training in | Hoosierland shelters selfishneSs. deVel- | opment in Apache land transforms it 1 into unSelfishness. If the deniZen of Hoosierland is wrongly taught that money is all that is required to be | able to eat and drink and live life like man, development in Apache l land will teach that HOOsier that it is no test of q man, when he stands in 1 a street lined with restaurants. to give him money and tell him to eat 1 but it is q test of a man when he IS placed in the mighty void of the desert, with neither food nor water in 1 sight to give him money and tell him to live. Such a test has taught the true Hassayamper the utter mockery of money under real cOndi 1 tions. and has taught many a Hoosier what initiative. energy. quick action and nerve really are.
 1 The unsophisticated Hoosier might not understand the assertion that so- 1 called civilization deteriorates in stead of developing man, but the Has Sayamper understands the meaning of the phrase. The HoOSicr might re- sent the assertion that cement side 1 walks, graded streets, automobiles, palace cars, the vapid society notes 1 in the Sunday newspapers. fashion 1 shows and all such are demoralizers of the physical man and detract in | stead of add to the proWess of the l mental man, but the man reared in l Hoosierland and developed in Apache land. realizes and appreciates the ! truth of such assertions.
 So on ad infinitun. but passing on from the stern truth that the stars can be gained only by passing through great difficulties. stepping down from
 
 while the operator adjusts the lens of sentiment, in retrospect these comes
 to us the sweet odors from the or chards of apple and peach. the fields of timothy and clover, the hum of the | bees and the song of the lark high up in Heavens own blue. way back in the southern sunny land of dear old Hoosierland. and once again i through memory's enchanted isles we l wander back to the village friends and sit beneath the tree. listen to the school bell ringing. breaking in i upon our plans of glee, and well re- member the little girl of dimples and curls whose dinner pail and books 1 we secretly loved to carry.
 l How we see them all again, troop
 ing in to school, from tiny little
 Josie. aged five with her ringlets of
 gold. to big. strappng Dan, more than l tWenty-One, Those days maybe. of
 imperfect schools but when indvid =
 uality was not stultified, crushed and
 nullified by the machine cramming
 day of school with it's recitations l declamations, essays. oratiOns and
 many other eagerly anticipated efforts
 and pleaSureS-and after school back to work from early morn till late at
 eve-out in the meadows at early
 four, picking the luscious deWberry
 for mother to stew and sWeeten for
 those delectable breakfast biscuits at
 five a. m.-and those Saturdays and I e a ri iUt