The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-25
SOME THINGS
and OTHER THINGS

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How it tickles me to see the new
Americanism measure off thing do
ing in ten-year lengths and crowding
days of energy into ten hour spaces.
The little narrow man cannot survive.
Broader chests and broader foreheads
are replacing him.
Just as the new inventions have re-
placed the old, just so the new type of
mantle virile, full-nerved, terrific,
high-tensioned man of today is pound
ing down the unfit. There is no mercy
for the weakling, for human warts.
The moment you become foolish and
gloat over the yesterdays you are lost.
You are coop for you have stopped to
lick your fingers.
l am always Disguised with man
who wishes for the opportunities of his
father. Do you know that the plow-
shear has cut less than one-eighth of
Americas sod. There will be some
thing new for the next 10, 900 years,
and you are nothing but loafer, apull-
back if you do not hunt job and go to
work at it.
The making of Gobelin tapestries is
a parable of life. It is said a worker
weaves his life into a single tapestry;
and when it is barely done, ere the
thread has left his hand, he dies. His
tapestry is what he has to show for his
life. Our tapestry is character. 1t is
meant to hang in the Kings galleries
for an eternity. Do you carefully con-
slider how you weave?
A persons life should be seeded to
goodness. Friendship, love, and peace
should be well sown. All through your
life seeds of laughter should be scat
tered. l meet men and listen to them,
and If their conversation indicates the
seeds they have used at life's seeding
time am sure they used devil-darning
needles for the first crop and beer
plants for the second.
These are big days. The average
mechanic has Injuries that Midas, with
all his ancient wealth could not com
mand. We have right to boast for
no part of yesterday was as glorious as
this hour for the masses. 1t seems to
me the hundred years behind US are
damned and crammed with such
achievements that out-balance all pre-
vious progress since the signing of the
Magma Charta.
We in this day have just really begun
to think-"Our parents of 1000 or 1000
years ago spent the most of their time
getting enough food to keep life. We
are just commencing to think. We
cannot stretch our imagination as far
as our own children will stretch their
hands in doing practical things for ali
the people. Until now the nabobs of
the past have been saying sit is vulgar
to do the things everybody is doing.
We must be different if we are to be
respected.
Information in these days soon be-
comes obsolete. Improvements dis
mantles more machinery than wear and
tear. A creed is set up today and to-
morrow it must take back seat. We
make a hero today and change his laurel
wreath to FOOLS cap next week. Any
man who feels self-complacency is a
frost ito moving society. / am sure
dissatisfaction is rust. This new
century was born without m emory.
The new thoughts of today have can
celed the lie of vested rights of yester-
day.
1t has always been mystery to me
why the voice-the talking voice, l
mean-does not receive better training
than it does. It does need couture.
It should be better understood that
everyone carries around in his throat a
wonderful little combination of pipe
and reed organ which was good when
It came from the hand OF the Maker. I