The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-16


always makes his t'get away" from
around with your hands in your pockets
whining, but let me suggest that there
is plenty of space between the earth
and the stars.
All things unusual have to be waited
for. Four hundred years ago Balboa
stood on the isthmus of Darien dream
ing of a canal, but the dream was not
wrought into reality until the year of
our Lord 1915. The reason the Phar-
oahs are in history is, they built the
Pyrimids larger and higher than the
other fellow. ''Short Cuts are always
roarbacks and if you practice them you
will fall by the wayside as a 'thas been"
or be classed as Knight have been. "
If you are really doing your best, we
do not care how poor that best may
I be, you cannot be finally downed. If
you are doing your "dead level best"
you will have your self-respect. Self
respect is an eternal life-preserver.
Though you may be wrecked twenty
times, you will be able to float to the
shore.
Do you hear the clock of the universe
saying ttick-tock, textbook, now,
now?" 1t says ''take the risk, or take
the count - 1t is impossible these days
to hide behind the clouds of the dark
ages. To-day the rule is ''Get up and
dust, or lie there and rust"
Need, want and hunger drove three
ignorant country boys from their poor
homes into the world for conquest, and
the earth has been twice blessed with
Lincoln, Field and Edison. These men
were fighters. They were duelists of
the first order. The Educators of the
day are trying to make US make good
and are only giving US ''first add and
are no longer perpetual crutches to US.
They are forcing the young past the
first handicap, leading them over hur-
dies to make them real jumpers. 1t is
kinder to kick the youth than to coddle
/ him.
In the Grecian Stadium there were
three pillars. On the one at the starting
was carved, "Show myself man." 1t
was good to make an honest start. On
the middle pillar this inscription, "Speed
you" It meant continually hurry along
the course, no tagging now, and at the
close were these words, "Stop here.
1t is big thing to live. Men, are you
really enjoying life? If not, try the
above rules.
1t is not just the good start" that
won the Olympian Marathon Long
legs did not do it. It was the fellow
with the 81 can" and 81 wlll'' that
drove him home with trophy to receive
the eternal appreciation of the sporting
brotherhood.
Accident, circumstance, and social
manipulation may for time place you
thigher-up" than you honestly deserve,
but merit alone will keep you there.
Never start in with the idea that you
can improve US just because you are a
beta Theta Pr" Tau Phi, or a
''Nu Sig Ma NJ" That is no reason
why you have the ''Push, Plug, and
Plod' in you for real leadership.
This world is looking for men of iron
without rust upon their implements of
| war. Such men are empire builders
They are most often found on the out
posts of human effort. They are con-
structors. They are the missionaries
of world development. They do not
discover rivers of Doubt, but actually
build for future generations.
There is no end to conquest until
Fate has written the last book of ali
centuries. The work of the world has
never been well done, and if you stand
around and say ''What is the use" you
are not even good Mutt or a jeff. -