The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-02-08
WHAT LIFE MEANS

to man than rbysica: necessities.
H.man nature needs hope. Hope
must be fed with the Imagination.
There must be food for thought,
exercise of the mental faculties,
play Of the finer feelings, something
t. arouse the ambition, to stir Il
sympathy, to awaken an apprecii-
ton of nature and to feel himself a
rRart of great plan, else man SINKS
10 the level of the brute world. I'm
alila'ion has been named the ,ell-
ing lin. between man and the lower
a mals; that creative power of h:
min !; that faculty born of memory
and belief, which possesses the abil-
lty to recombine experiences from
both into new conception. ltis
from this process, this vision. we
get our ideals--eur flags.
Itthe various standards of the
world today represente d only known
values, absolute certainties, if they
held nothing but what can be con-
pu ed anI proven whether the
standard be one of money or moral
if they promised no higher attain
ment for the future, then progress is
clogged. The highest conception
along each line creates the standard,
and confidence and hope rule even
in the business world, Ideals can
be safeguarded by experience. The
flag must ever be in advance of the
army, represents the thing to be
accom- plished) and faith mast ev'r
b. the standard bearer.
So lie man with the flag typihes
the upholding of an ideal. 1t is in
our ideals that we really live. Ghey
are the motive power controlling
OH actions, stimulating our sffor S,
and influencing our lives. And as
the quality of mans work is
gagged largely by the pattern he
follows, so the value OF our liv' S
must be propor,ionate with the
ideals we have formed.
This rule will apply to all classes
the moral world, the educaliona
and commercial. An1tto none does
this apply more pertnently than to
the agrioulturist.
AS farmers you are following
flag. You have some standard in
view when you plan for rotation
of crops to fit your land for speci-
fic purpose; when YOU breed for
quality or weight in your cattle; for
speed or draft in your horses. The
up-to- GATE man has definite aim
In all the various branches of his
work; and he must have, to be able
to successfully plan and exec ute his
isiness.
He may WELD noe, but with a
vision o. green fields and fruitful
harvest. He may live in a dugcut
our farthest tier Of counties, on
our most arid plains, but he has in
his mind the conception of irrigated
lands, of thriving ccnmunity, of
we'll ordered farm, broad acres of
RlCCn gram, a comfortable home,
town lots, and school house on the
hin with flag waving above it.
/ S that power of vision, that
imagination, which marks our hum
blest citizen ON the peasant class
offoreign lands, portrayed by Milet.
1t is the privilege of hope, recog-
nized as God--given, which brings
aliensto our shores, which enables
them to lift their eyes from the
ground and in time YIELDS them to-
gether, a mass of liberty loving,
flag following Americans.
The man with the flag is the man
with a purpose. He is the man of
clear vision, of broad mind, of far
sight. He idealizes his work and
makes it symbolic of the worlds
work In which he feels he bears a
necessary part.
We hsye in Kansas man with
hlg, a man not afraid to fly 1t in
the face of the world of agriculture;
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