The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-31


 people is that they are pioneers They are of pio- blood. Even though most of the world has been trodden by man, and the farthest frontiers have together by the intrepid inquiring spirit of the pioneer the blood of high adventure has not thinned cooled and where lack lands and seas continents of life
 you will discover that his family roots If not pioneer himself. he is pioneers des- cendant.
 The "forty-niners' are practically gone, those equally audacious who visioned cities on find men who came way round the search, of country, but of new life Pioneers..
 In a nearby neighborhood whose residents had long prided themselves being completely Ameri- the school teachers inaugurated letter-writ- ing advantages of life in United States. and when the little essays were published in +,, er SV niopeerstbeV had not been long over foreign where they born.
 Astonished, too, by testimony their the little foreignborn children could write children. could. because the little immigrants had a. background of contrast. They had the outlook of the pioneer.
 It is perfectly clear, when it, that man who has spirit enough to pull up his roots himself o land and a strange people from motive of bettering his condition. is a superior of man.
 He remained overseas He could settled down into the conditions which satis- fled his forbears and which still satisfy many of his natural for do this, unless they have urge within which drives them to seek the better thing.
 us, by of the great ports. He comes down the gangpank a bit bewil- dered His dress is not ours; his speech is not as ours; all his habits stamp him a stranger.
 To the ignorant he brings amusement To the exploiter of human labor he brings temptation But to the who sees and understands. he brings a prophetic vision.
 this with his bundle? He is a pio- Make for him.
 Now, wherever in this country, we find pioneers or the sons of pioneers Not the pioneers of Mayflower yet of Revolutionary days-pio- of five and ten
 It makes little difference if your forefathers did come over in the Mayflower-they were immigrants, strangers in strange land, pioneers-and we are their
 So spirit of initiative the blood high daring, the vital to rest nowhere until Opportunity is attained, are bred in the very fibers of bodies.
 Of no other people be same sense as Is said people the United They the pioneers of every people under Heaven" spirit, exerise in exploration of other exploits, different yet calling for the old daring of the pioneer should pioneer upon venture into freedom. Had they been more than colonrsts set down they left the history of the world would have different
 co1onists they were at first, but colonists of their will, and that made them pioneers.
 Therefore they imitators but creators. not long before the attempted limitations } of government and social conditions were bantshed In great ebullition of the creative spirit
 They revolution then. but it ation depends upon point of view which one of words Creation is always uncomfortable reprehensible process in the of the old. outworh but exceedingly profitable which 1t removes
 just natural that within this newly created form of opportunity new freedom of effort itself Invention enterprise commerce. wealth, power followed quickly. they always fol- low where men breathe free air the limits freedom everywhere. especially 1e.s xnaade4n was not oonple<e before at may saso