The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1921-07-28

OHe mas no ACTUAL quarrel WIN
kipling because he has declared ii
impossible for east and west to meet
on common ground. each being highly
individualisiic Even the average
man who runs as he reads, who
knows naught but the quotation is
alive to the fact that the writer made
reference to the unlikely merging of
the occidental and oriental. However,
had Kipling been referring to the
two coastal regions of the United
States of America. one would be
forced to take issue with him Here
east Is west. and middlewest is west
and north and south are west. Mi
grations west of the adventurous for
the past seven decades have proven
that Identities, customs and traditions
swallowed up. For the new west by
reason of her own excessive indiyidu-
atty demands all
Having argued conclusively that the
themselves of easternisms. 1t is di-
verting to present the usual exception
to the rule. There is one. now sit
ting on the Republican side of the
Senate chamber. whom one must call
an eastern westerner, a composite
picture of east and west. He might
be college president or an Episco-
pal clergyman in appearance, and in
speech, but you also recognize in
Senator Tasker Lowndes Oddie, of
Nevada, a hard-fisted, cool-headed
fighting man of the plains.
- On Cattle Ranch
Brooklyn. n. Y, besides serving as
meat for the column writer's of New
York papers. Is the birthplace of Sen
ator Oddie. This event happened in
1870. In time to place him on the
present list of the six youngest United
States senator's The senator's life
in business and politics having been
more than usually sprinkled with
handicaps which he made il a bust
ness to overcome this Brooklyn birth
handicap early in life, is now due
New Yorl. column conductors. His
change of residence was a transfer to
East Orange, n. j.. where his early
education from private and public
tutors was secured. Three years on
a Nebraska cattle ranch during his
life as young man formed the
Rooseveltian training which put him
In trim for his future contests with
nature In the wilds. and with human
nature in the arena of civilization.
Senator 0ddie prepared himself for
fighting obstacles as thoroughly as a
prize-fighter trains for a bout in the
ring. The years he spent on horse
back following the wild sweet winds
of the prairie gave him taste for
the west on farther-the land that
beckoned him in his dreams 10 come
and conquer. But he realized. TOO
the need of training for business
life, and that ira ming school was the
east. However. the boy OF nineteen
might have dreamed of starlit nights
under mysterious desert skies, of the
rough joys of western mining camps
he stifled his desire for them anc
went into grillng office position in
New York, learning real estate and
finance. and studying law at night.
After taxing his strength to the ut
most, young eddie was graduated
from the New York University law
school, receiving the degree of L. l.
D. in 1895, and admission to the bar
the same year. lie was subsequently
selected by the firm of Arson Phelps
Stokes. with holdings in railroads,
mines and agriculture in Nevada. as
a fit representative to serve their in
terests in that far-off state. This
was Oddies first big business as
signment and he went into the work
with such characteristic thorough
ness that he worked himself out of
a job This astounding statement
may be accounted for in the continu-
alton of the narrative of that particu-
lar period of Oddie's career. The
Stokes concerns business affairs
proved to be In terrible snarl. In
trigue among the company officials
and dishonesty in the transaction of
business was discovered by the young
representative from the east and he
followed the case until the guilty
ones were indicted. and the Stokes
firm removed its business from that
state.
One Fight After Another
That untangling of the Stokes af-
fairs was the first fight that Oddie
staged in that state. His life contin-
ued In that commonwealth until his