Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-09-20
Miss Florence Minis Compares
ssss ss Newest Western State
With Oldest Eastern
::,;S. - State.
IDear Advertisers:

J%SSd1 NC4p3oSLs
Al came not long ago, from about
ssehe newest Western State to the old
Fsst5 Eastern State, and the vast di1t-
EIsrence between them, is not in inn
Paaganation and literature alone, but
Sc the surest reality.
h; The one resembles wood, new
|fsiled and rough hewn, and the other
ssslike the most highly polished ma
aogany, wanting nothing to perfect
gss, except perhaps the worth added
- a few more years.
The ancestors of these people
sioneered in frail boats across the
stlantic, as the Westerners blazed
sss trail in "Prairie Schooners" over
Eshe plains. The people of New Eng
Hand are the descendants of pioneers,
while many of the inhabitants of the
West are the pioneers themselves.
;4nd that is where the vast differ
Esnce comes in. Blazing trails has
gone out of style in "these parts. I"
New. England has progressed to the
Edecollete gown and the cut away
coat civilization, while the West is
still rolling up it's sleeves and dig
+ging.
& / have actually sat in an audience
Of Western people and pointed out
TO a friend in the next seat, man
and woman whom / knew were pion-
ssers, who were associated with the
tclod and with the dugouts that were
the first Western homes.
Here, I have looked around me and
seen people that seemed made of
culture. You feel that the recipe for
their kind is polish, plus refinement,
plus courtesy, and so on, mixed in
proper proportions, that somehow to
tarysto improve them would be, s'to
ipaintSthe lily, to gid refined gold or
81 9perfume on the violet" Both
Ieypes are all right. am not compar-
s;S..sstthe, two to the disparag cement Of
a AZ ii the
process Of evolution. The East SIM
ply began earlier and the present
generation is not to be credited with
the early start.
What I really am leading up to
is the difference in the state of mind
of each which after all, is the most
important thing about any people.
For Gas a man thinketh in his heart,
so is he."
The West (and when I use that
term / mean the middle West, par
ticularly Oklahoma,) has not yet
learned that business is the means
through which we earn livelihood,
that it is not life itself, that material
progress is not self development,
but only back ground for it, that
Democracy isn't calling every man
your friend and inviting him to your
home whether you are congenial with
him or not. Democracy is something
bigger than that, something more
far-reaching.
Someone has said that Education
in a Democracy must average
teach the high to come down, the
humble to rise and all of US to walk
together" That is what Democracy
itself should do.
The fastener has pioneered, and
known the bad and good of pioneer
ing, has built firms and handed
them down from father to son, has
made plans and seen them succeed,
and made others and seen them fail,
has tasted the bitter and the sweet
of life for generations, and the
knowledge of the keen edge of joy
and failure, have settled down to
their respective places in his mind.
Then he has an interpretive glance
and found that consideration for the
other man is pretty nearly as impor-
tant as consideration for oneself.
My friends, that is what's so good
about the South and the East, the
courtesy which characterizes both.
The Westerner has all sorts of
good thoughts in his heart, but he is
an amateur as yet, and doesn't know
the technique of self expression. The
Westerner does the obviously polite
thing, and does it awkwardly, as
though he fumbled in his pocket for