The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-08
SOME THINGS =.
and OTHER THINGS

While there may be some teachings
in 1.-The Calling of Dan Matthews,
'sThat Printer of Udel's" and Inside
of the Cup" not just what we like or
would accent, yet the spirit of the
teachings found in these books is to be
commended to the thinking public.
These books protest against the loud
profession of antiquated creeds and
urge loving service as taught and ex-
emplifed by the Master. When we
once catch the thought, that love is
measured by sacrifice and service, we
will have taken a long step toward
bringing the Kingdom of God on earth.
Somebody divided the human race in
to three classes: Honest men: Who
mean to do right; and do it. Knaves:
Who mean to do wrong; and do it.
Fools: Who mean to do whichever of
the two is the pleasanter. Is this a
reasonable outline of the race? To
which divition do you belong?
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searches everywhere for victims. 1t
sacrifices high and low, rich and poor,
the living and the dead. 1t has been
known to cross oceans, climb noun
tains, traverse deserts in order to
fasten its honor blackened fangs into
innocence and worth.
ga living wage" is the cry of the la
boring masses. They do not want
"sweet charity" but an opportunity to
work. GA living wage" means more
than keeping body and soul together.
It means to have chance to live de-
Gently, comfortably and nobly. The
old club was ''the laborer should be
worthy of his hire" but there has been
an extension put to this club and it
reads 'the hire must be worthy of the
laborer." This is equity. It makes
life partnership. 1t places response
bility on both parties. It says to the
employer stop exploiting your employ
ees, and it says, employees deal honest
ly with your employers.
A generation ago the general mind
was under the tyranny of the over
rated effects of heredity. We are es-
Gaping from the DOGGY through wiser
scientific teaching in spite of belated
lectures on eugenics. The ghost of that
old theory still torments some minds;
but the man who is underpaid, under
cd r1o-,-lxr oIa4loI ArI11- l0,,11l -
woman who is sweated and overdriven,
or the child who is wronged in body and
mind on the theory of eugenics has a
right to a protest. The doctrine of
eugenics leads to hopelessness and pes
simism, and says you cannot in any
way modify the future training and
educating have no modifying influence
leads almost to despair for eugenic law
says every advance made is on the
mating habits of mankind.
Benjamen Wheeler, president of the
University of California, made the fol
lowing statement: Vocational train
ing is an effort of the aristocracy to
hold the sons of the laboring men in a
life of toll. 1t is a trick of Europeans
to side-track boys
It is the writer's opinion that every
child has an inherent right to college
training and plus college training ar
educational training and when we sub
stitute an educational training" for e
college training we have made grave
mistake, or if we neglect an "avoca
tional training" we are not prepared tt
do our best for society.
The "zeit geist" or the esprit of the
age' lays hold of all of US. In Europe
the people are in gigantic struggle
t'even unto the death" because The
ancient spirit of civilization refuses t.
yield to the modern spirit of democracy
Men the world over are refusing to b,
governed by political dogmas of tn,