The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-12-18

bad it is sure to get in his way in the
run of life time. People have long
memories when it comes to registering
human weaknesses, and one dominating
weakness will oft times out-balance a
thousand noble traits.
my, the visiting done at the Snort
Course said one, but l am of the
opinion one of the best things we get
at the ''Short Course is visiting.
These young people are making life
friendships.
The government is talking real saucy
to Austria, but pussy-footed for fifteen
months while talking to Germany. 1t
is just case of delayed craftsmanship.
No matter how stirring your life is,
it will be largely failure if you have
not awakened to the glory of the usual.
There are no duties that so enrich life
as the dull every day duties.
Presidents that will veto the litter
acy bill-and two of them have done it
are too small for their positions. Is
it not strange that a President who
could not take the advice of congress
in this matter, had to reverse his judge
ment and write the most scathlng para
graph in his last message to congress
on "Hyphenated Americana" 1t was
caused because he does not have the
sense of national craftsmanship.
While people have been saying mean
and uncalled for things about Roose-
welt for the past years, it now seems
that most men are turning to him for
real leadership. He has forced the
present administration, against its
teachings and prejudices, to take his
advice on preparedness. Men who
think are turning to him to lead the
nation into real prosperity. If he is
able as a private citizen to force
great opposing party to take his advice,
men are saying, he is the one only man
in our nation who is able to take care
of our nation in all of its interests,
when the worlds reconstruction takes
place. We believe Roosevelt is the
biggest man in the world today. There
are many things in him we do not admire
but we do admit that he seems to have
more largely developed than any man
now alive the sense of modern world
craftsmanship. And when the biggest
job in all the long roll of the worlds
distorted years is to take place in the
next four years. mean the worlds
reconstruction-we need the best equip
ped American patriot in the presidential
chair to direct and guard ours and the
world interests.
An education that makes you less
sympathetic, or less public-spirited is
of poor grade for society. If it makes
you unhappy IN doing what is known as
the drudgeries of life, namely washing
dishes, hOeing corn, feeding hogs, dig
ging bitches and all hard useful physi-
cal work, then your higher education is
disgrace. If this so called higher
mental training makes for you only
dollars and social preferment, then you
are sickly production of modern Gull
ture. An education that does not fit
you for burden-bearing is not worthy of
the name education. Education is to
train you that you can claim relation
ship with God.
For the most of US the tyranny of
circumstances has placed the pleasures
of travelling out of our reach. So the
most of the world has to be seen second
hand, but any person who will read
books of travel and has and will use his
inauguration will be able to see the
wonders of the world. 1t was said of
Gen. Lew Wallace, that he wrote ''Ben
Hur," the greatest American classic Of
the nineteenth century, without visiting
the Holy Land" and years afterward
he made visit to the ''Holy Land, -
but his descriptions were so perfect
that he never felt called to change a
sentence. 1t pays to read and train
the imagination.
James R. Start won the Gold Medal
offered by Prof. Matthew also the fifty
dollar nriza offorod bv Azol Cochran