The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-13

All OI Us nave now ESdu dpOu( C1S
trip the surgeons made into the anato-
my of Irwin S. Cobb. Cobb received +
real money for his account of the trip
and the doctors received real money
for making the trip. And as usual the
public got the experience.
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The Sunday School lesson was about
efficiency. The world is served some
thing about efficiency at every turn.
But has not the term and its meaning
about frazzeled out when the most in
efficient organization begins to have
| lessons about it.
| Shakespeare put into the mouth of
Beatrice in much Ado About Nothing
these words, There's not one wise
man among twenty that will praise
himself The man who is praising
himself is generally making much ado
about nothing.
Someone has said that cleverness is
the art of putting other peoples ideas
into our own words. Perhaps. But
the really clever girl can put her ideas
into the words of her sweetheart. Only
genius can reverse the process and he
has to resort to deception.
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One day last week the Spectator
read this statement, ''Half the men in
hell are there because of a woman in
their lives. The other half are there
because there was no woman it their
lives" The Spectator rises to point
of order to m axe this suggestion. The
statement is probably true enough, but
if the reader will change the article it
will read something like this: "All the
men in heaven are there because of the
woman in their lives. All the men in
heaven are there because there was
woman or no woman in their lives. -
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In every man three are many poten-
tial men, says a wise observer, and
the one who energies depends on the
man himself.
It is really an awful thing when you
have to work politics and don't know
how.
Of what use are these beautiful Sun
day afternoons if you do not possess an
does not and therefore this column is
written on Sunday afternoons while
the world rambles merrily on.
Not all degeneracy, downfall and
crime can be considered the direct re-
suit of the ''White Way" or the ode
mon Rum" If it should be limited
that an alarming per cent of criminal
bacteria was born, nurtured and finally
bore fruit on these much lauded, peace
full Kansas farms, say if such should
, be limited publicly by some one, the
press and citizenship Of the state
would shatter and throttle said chin,
ter" in storm of literary sharpnel
righteous Indignation. Yet here are g
few instances that have come under
our casual observance:
One farmer agreed to sell his corr
for 40 cents bushel before gathering
for he thought it was going to b.
cheap. At gathering time it was 81
cents and he told his II year old son t.
deliverit to another man, because NJ
money was paid on the contract ant
the original purchaser could not holc
him to it by law That was severa
years ago, but a few weeks ago tn
farmers son defaulted as cashier of
bank.
Another honest farmer is wortl
rs, 600. He wouldn't let his daughte
have $500 piano, nor his son a buggy
The son, who was not given a buggy
ran away. Last week he stole an au
! tomobile and is in Jail now. The girl
| who was not given piano, and nov
| she listens to one played behind win
dows with red blinds.
Still another farmer sent his son t
| town with choleraed hogs; learned hin
how to dope horses for a trade, an
how to work of rotten fruit and ba
eggs. That boy got such a dose o
poison from his fathers attitude to
ward life that he is now indeterminate
ly employed in the institution who's
chief officer is called warden.
That whatsoever you withhold sha
be withheld from you, is a law tina
neither land nor cattle nor platitudir
Gus assumption of honesty can he'll
you dodge.
Prate honesty and choleraed hogs
and then get together and discuss tn
ingradtitude and unaccountable way
wardness of the children. But re
member the atmosphere of the home
more subtly than the dews OF heaven
more intangibly than the broodin
twilight on the prairies, saturates an
colors the very fluids of the lives {
= those who grow up in 1.-THE Squar
- Deal.
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