Bisbee daily review., 1922-07-05
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abolition of, the twelve holr work day I did not choose to proclaim the pur- pose in advance, because l dislike the tendency to promise excessively and accomplish inaaeqHately. Imagine my surprise, yes, my amusement, to read in an important metropolitan news paper that was dining the steel bar ons to shake them down for the de- ficit in campaign funds in 1920.
 '-It would be good. to talk about Mar ion. just among ourselves. l know nothing more interesting to any man than his own community. If he isn't interested, he isn't a. good citizen.
 "A century sounds like a long while at first impression, but after all, it is only little while. There are com munities in the world ten or twenty centuries old not shalf so important in world activities today; perhaps they have contributed to human prog ress infinitely less in all their time l in a, shorter time than that, for the Marion we boast has been really only half a century in the making.
 'I mean no disparagement of the older and earlier citizenship. Theirs | Tn blazing the way for the present day civilization. It required strong men and noble women to turn wilderness into worthwhile habitations Malaria and ague sorely tired human bodies even though souls cheerfully resisted. General Pershing has spoken of the fearless colonists, and we ought to revere them for the surpassing be- quest of liberty and nationality, but the builders of the west, the men and women who marched with the west ward star of empire were no less brave, no less heroic, and were more prophetic. They sensed the greater possibilities of which the colOnists had not dreamed. q
 | ''I said century, seemed long ttime in which to Achieve, and it is, yet only little while. Then nation lacks four years of boasting a century and a half, but discovery came four cen turies ago, and q century and half of colonial development preceded the ! national beginning.
 Tt was my fortune to participate in the tercentenary celebration of the landing of the pilgrims at Plymouth year ago and there was the constant ! IHdl New EuSldHQ HdA pre- ceded us two centuries in the making of America.
 But there is rather more personal reason for the little while view. became citizen of Marion forty years ago, almost to day, and have been
 resident of the county just about | fifty years. And it all has the mean f ing of being but little while. Yet could almost qualify as a pioneer.
 Probably Marion was countryfied | as I felt, but I did not know. It was my viewpoint, my limited vision which kept me from knowing. You see, came from the farm village, and the county seat of 4,000 loomed big in my 1 vision, because l. had seen nothing greater. Surely, it looked ten times as large as it does today, though the Marion of today is ten times as large
 as it was then and twice ten times as
 important in its relations to the world
 This confession is menat to have publication. How important is the ! viewpoint to all the impressions ant problems of life. The. villager goes
 to the great city, is confused by the
 high tide of activities, and awed by the
 complacency of those accustomed tC
 them, and so reveals himself pro
 vincial and is so designated. Blu 4 those who proclaim hir are oft times
 no less provincial, b -ause they toe