Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-09-20
Miss Florence Minis Compares
lss ss Newest Western State
K' With Oldest Eastern
Es.; State.
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sE.I came not long ago, from about
thesnewest Western State to the old
FssSS Eastern State, and the vast diff
Fgsrence between them, is not in i'm
|Agination and literature alone, but
nSthe surest reality.
81 The one resembles wood, new
Ffei1ed and rough hewn, and the other
ss@like the most highly polished ma
Eogany, wanting nothing to perfect
g, except perhaps the worth added
- few more years.
The ancestors of these people
|sgioneered in frail boats across the
|sEstlantic, as the Westerners blazed
ss trail in "Prairie Schooners" over
me plains. The people of New Eng
land are the descendants of pioneers,
|While many of the inhabitants Of the
West are the pioneers themselves.
si4Ind that is where the vast differ
once comes in. Blazing trails has
gone out of style in "these parts" I"
sNaw. England has progressed to the
decollete gown and the cut away
coat civilization, while the West is
still rolling up its sleeves and dig
.ging.
i have actually sat in an audience
Of Western people and pointed out
10 friend in the next seat, a man
;and woman whom knew were pion-
GERS, who were associated with the
iclod and with the dugouts that were
the first Western homes.
5gsHere, 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
try to improve them would be, 9sto
paint the lily, to gid refined gold or
pour perfume on the violet" Both
Iespessare all right. am not compar-
sss;sssffhe, two to the disparagenaent Of
}e4szs % ii isShe.
process of evolution. The East SIM
ply began earlier and the present
generation is not to be credited with
the early start.
What l 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 man thinketh in his heart,
so is he."
The West (and when I use that
term l mean the middle West, par
ticularly Oklahoma,) has not yet
learned that business is the means
through which we earn a 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 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 introspective 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
thn11ph he f,,,,oh1ed in his norket for