Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adams calls the frontier the U. S. safety-valve, admires the pioneers, but this side idolatry. Adams tells soberly of one Kentucky camp-meeting in 1801 attended by more than 25,000, preached at for a week by 17 preachers, graced at one moment by 3,000 prostrate swooners, 500 "jerkers" and "barkers."' "Two of the strongest influences in our life, religion and the frontier, made in our formative periods for a limited and intolerant spiritual life. . . . Because the frontiersmen had developed the right combination of qualities to conquer the wilderness, they began to believe quite naturally that they...
...lose sight of the real end for which an in crease in population may be desired. . . . The later odd aversion, in a nation wholly made up of immigrants of one generation or another, toward any of our citizens who expatriate themselves for a while, springs straight from this frontier prejudice. He who went abroad became hated both as a lost unit in a population which must be made ever larger, and also as a critic, albeit even a silent one, who might 'give the place a bad name' and hinder others from coming...
...were expended in conserving and developing the landed civilization they already had. Not Slavery but Sectionalism Adams considers was the real issue of the clash. When the South lost, its civilization was ruined; an American dream had gone forever-but not the American dream. With the passing of the frontier came "one of the really great turning points in our history." Hitherto, when the West had revolted against Eastern domination the West had always won. But "in 1896 [when Bryan ran for President against McKinley] for the first time, a revolt of the frontier failed. Something had gone...
...little baldheaded, featherweight Mahatma Gandhi. He had just two hours to cover 100 miles?over roads so perilous that night driving is usually prohibited?to Kalka. Arriving at Kalka in time's nick, he was cheered by a crowd of devotees as he boarded the frontier express for Bombay. En route, admirers gave him coins and homespun yarn. One woman auspiciously sprinkled his forehead with red powder. From Bombay he was to sail for London and the Round Table Conference...
...years ago Dr. Paul Bauer took Bavarian mountain climbers to scale 28,146-ft. Kanchenjunga on the India-Thibet frontier. Blizzards and avalanches thwarted the party. Last year another German group under Professor Günther 0. Dyhrenfurth tried, failed, turned to and surmounted neighboring Jonsong Peak, altitude 24,340 ft. This summer Dr. Bauer again essayed Kanchenjunga...