The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-29

True economy is to make your income
greater than your out-go. Money is
good FOR nothing unless you have learn
ed the value Of it by experience. For
tunes are not accumulated By travelling
on the roads that lead to poverty. IL
you will study your necessities" and
then your ''luxurIes" you will find that
your Injuries will cost you twice as
much as your necessities. Do not be
miser bat pay your honest bills OF ne
cessity-I mean your subscription to
the Free Press, your grocer, taxes. dog
tax, doctor bill, coal bill, ct al, as the
lawyers would say-before mortgaging
''the home" for Ford, when you can't
afford TO do it.
No one but fool feels like he should
be recognized as q person OF import
ance, because of the style of his clothes.
know Of some people who could not
put two good English sentences togeth-
er in q conversation, who think they
are quite distinguished and get who
would consider themselves disgraced il
they appeared in society in decent
locking hat or an Questionable gown.
They can tell you all about the newest
novels, the latest raR-time music, use
''the stunningest slang" but act as
though they we're mortified to have to
associate with people who by choice or
By circumstances, wear last years
styles.
| Do not get the name Of being shreWd,
Of looking out for number one, of max
ing sharp deals, for it does not pay in
the run of years. You get something
in the coming years that will be a
handicap to you and will be hard to
overcome. It will cost yo1 community
honor and respect you would like SO
much to have and to enjoy after you
are fifty years old. It is dangerous
thing to claim your pound OF fash when
it comes to you through your neighbor' s
weakness. The other man may pay il
and say nothing but You cannot take il
and be happy after you are fifty. 1t
would not be hard to name ten men in
Ellis county who played the ''shreWd
game" early in life, now find it was
the poorest bargain they ever made.
We give praise to the general who
directs the winning forces in the dead
ly conflicts of the world, but the real
victories are won By the unknown pri-
Yates who offer their lives as sacrifice
that the ambitions of the war lords
may be satisfied. It does seem that
the world could reach such a state that
a universal protest against war by all
the peoples of all chimes and ali races.
could be made 50 it would be impossible
for war to take place. God knows the
value of the obscure and the unknown
and will keep their record, though they
are forced to fight the battles of ambi-
tious men, and 60 sleep in unknown
grsvea They are the real heroes-the
common people.
i The old world with one-half OF its
| population, ia in q death struggle over
what form of civiIiz alton Europe should
take, and many Of the American people
would like to see Germany get her ears
boxed, but If it comes TO the SIav civil
lzation to direct the future of Europe.
it would be thousand times better for
the world to have William II OF Gar
many to be the Emperor Of ali Europe
than to have the Little Father" the
Gar of all Russia. introduce sad en-
f0Pca fba haPhaFOua madiavaI RuEaiap
rules Of civilization upon western Eu-
rope. Let as thank God for the chance
of being a decent American citiz en-.
Think of Charles the I, and thank God
you are q man under the "Stars and
Stripes" Think OF tha life that Cath
crime of Russia lived, then thank God
you are an American woman living in