Evening star., 1927-03-10
BACKGROUND OF EVENTS
BY PAUL y. COLLINS.

President Coolidge Of Massachusetts,
Is going to adopt the advice of Horace
Greeley, go West, young man, and
grow up with the country! Perhaps
he has already been talking 1t over
with that Minnesota farm boy, Frank
kellogg, but, after all, no Yankee can
conceive the West until he has per-
sonally experienced 1t.
A certain publisher OF an agricul-
tural paper in Minneapolis was taken
by his Boston representative to call
upon a manufacturer OF orchard spray
ing machinery. The visit was social
form in recognizing an opening for
business, after the manufacturer had
told the special virtues Of his ma
chine.
Have you ever advertised your
;prayer in the Northwest?" was asked?
"Oh, no. our machine Is q very ex-
pensiye one, and II would not pay to
advertise it out West" replied the
head of the firm.
The answer nettled the Minneapolis
publisher and he remarked, but don't
YOU realize that the farmers and fruit
raisers of the Midwest use the finest
machinery nader"
"Oh. yes-I know all about the West.
Il
Rochester, last season, and sold two
or three machines, but IL would never
pay to advertise out in the West"
It transpired that he referred to
Rochester, N. Y, and the case was
hopeless.
A day or two later, the publisher
told that incident to the head Of an
advertising agency Of Chicago, who
smiled at his naivete, and retorted:
"Why, / can beat that case all to
pieces-and my story is true, too. /
have q friend in New York-a Wall
Street broker. / took Los Angeles
friend into his Office to introduce him.
The Wall Street man was very cordial
If a bit acknowledgement in greeting
the Californian he remarked: SO you
are from the West? You have a great
out West-a very interesting
/ made a tour out West last
year. IT'S a wonderful country. !
went out to Buffalo, and over to Cleve
land and down to Pittsburgh and all
around. 1t is indeed a wonderful
"The westerner was puzzled at what
he took to be guying by the Wall
Streeter, but. recovering his poise, he
replied: Yes, we Westerners think we
have great possibilities. But I am
really interested in all I find in the
East. This is not my first visit East
I came East last year-down to Den
YER and over to Salt Lake City and
even to Omaha. Say-it's a wonder
we didn't meet
Scene: On board a day coach travel
ing across the prairie of North Dakota.
Only q few passengers in the car, and
time hung heavy as hour after hour
passed AMI the horizon remained Just
the same distance away. Grain rolled
like ocean waves from horizon to
horizon. The sun was setting golden.
Among the tired passengers was a
dapper travelling man" who sat just
In front of a middle-aged lady. The
man had gazed long time out of the
and. with sigh, he turned
to the lady and asked:
Does anybody ever live on these
prairies?"
"Oh, yes. I've lived here 20 years.
Where do you liver"
"Oh, down in Ill ole New York."
He smiled benignly as he divulged |
that impressive information.
The lady continued to admire the |
sunset, and, almost as If soliloquizing,
she remarked, "My-it must be lone.
some to live so far away from every
thingg'
X X y
Horace Greeley, the apostle OF the |
West. was himself a bit shy Of real |
About 1867 he visited |
and made a speech in |
which he told how great was the West |
and how he would like to come West |
himself and live in Minnesota out |
for the fact that he was very fond |
Of apples, and. he regretted. You
can never raise apples in Minnesota,
Five years later he returned, and
greeted him at the Minneapolis rail-
.oad station. with an arch stretching