The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-12-26
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and OTHER THINGS

SOLE THINGS
lk and OTHER THINGS
The man with the crooked character
has terrible handicap in the race.
Marked cards and loaded dice will
ALWAYS expose the man who uses them
They say he wants an advantage over
his competitors. He is too weak to be
a man, therefore stoops to become a
lrogue.
Every little while, we hear some put
ty-head denounce the philosophy of
honesty. He always refers you ito
some certain individual whose accumu-
lations, in his eyes, indicate success;
but he never calls your attention to the
/ ivid brands of disrepute the supposed
success wears. Prison walls do not
hold all of the scoundrels. Iron graf
ings are much easier for some people to
endure than the gratings of conscience.
1t is passing strange to the most of
US, why the people of the United States
1
railroads, while the other corporations
must make their earnings according to
the business rules of society. 1t is
strange to US that the three cent pas
senger rate-has become so divinely sa-
cred that it is Interchangeable. 1t is true
people ride more, population has doub-
led, tonnage has increased five times but
i 7od
that the roads will go into the receiv-
er's hands. Perhaps it would be good
thing for the coming generations for
these poor, begging, simpering, whin-
ing roads to place themselves in the
hands of receivers, and then let the
government bid them in. 1t is true
that it would work a present hardship,
but some sacrificing for the future
| must be done by this generation or this
| mighty organized railroad trust will be-
come menace.
Fate seems to be freakish. She gives
out potions and then postpones results.
She puts the cheat to sleep, making
him feel absolutely secure, but in the
end drags him to the light for expose
ure. Lord Bacon, Benedict Arnold,
examples. There is but one right way,
walk We therein" for real success
never cuts rates. Success never clam
ors for rate increase.
When you hear man boasting that
he is a graduate from the college of ex-
perience, put him down as a fraud.
This college never gives diplomas, nor
confers degrees. This college loves her
students but never suggests fraterni-
ties to be formed nor permits an alumni
associations to be organized. This col
| lege is profoundly democratic and de-
spises eXclusiveness.
| Not one man in nine hundred has an
original idea. We are largely sponges.
The man who uses his mouth more than
brain dry of thought. Such a man
soon rattles. There are plenty of people
in every community who have become
rattlers.
The safety raisor, bachelor buttons,
scarf pin holders, paper drinking cups,
safety pins. are in the reach of the av-
erage intellect, but this old world had
been jogging along until 1890 before
any one thought of the above mention
ed articles hard enough to invent them.
We are all too much like lawyers and
judges-we are continually looking for
precedent. 1t is such painful thing |
to think 1t is usually hard enough to |
think the thoughts of the thinker, ''let |
alone thinking original thoughts.
Ever since old Adam has been /
made, - growing corn has been the bust
ness of most people. But do you know
it has taken US until the last five years |
| to learn that shallow blowing would pro-
duce the most corn. Think of the I'M /
told labor that has been wasted because
we did not have experimental stations |
thousand years ago.
The man who thinks that he is finish
ed is badly mistaken He is only rusty
and will soon find he has been cast aside |
for more polished tool. Society is
always searching for brighter men who
can create at the minimum cost. There
is no standing still. The rule is 'skeep
moving or die. -
There are to be wonderful changes
made in the next few years. Men are
dreaming as never before. Some of the
things that are almost completed we
cali your attention to: Men will see
around the world; American audiences
viii view the pag eants of kingly Eu-
rope; Olympian games of Greese will
be photographed while in action and
thrown upon screens in America; tele-
phoning win be done by wireless and we
win be able to hear the boom of cannon
around the world. The best music viii
be appreciated by audiences thousand