The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-02
|S0ME THINGS
and OTHER THINGS


The most of US have observed that
the man who thinks he has trouble and
the man who really has trouble belong
to the same class.
know of men who. have done their
very best to make failure of life, in
fact you could not tell them how to
make more complete failure, then
they viii come to you with tears big as
small Irish potatoes rolling down their
cheeks saying: ST don't understand it;
it beats US; it is terrible - when they
have done nothing for the last ten years
but work for the answer they have and
now are dissatisfied with 1t. Play the
game honestly or expect to lose.
If these winners will stop fiddling,
laundering, and iinching and viii
grapple the question of the hour like
men they will succeed. Will-power,
| honest effort, determination and man
I hood will carry you anywhere. They
will carry you so high you can look over
the rim of the world.
There are a few offensive have to
to call them by that term as they have
the right to vote-who are always tell
/ ing you what they have, done, say back
in New York, the PHILIPPINES, old Mis-
souri,, and when the dust clears away
what they will do. They talk in the
past or future tense, but you never
hear them use the present tense indica-
| tive mode, 1--WE do We mean they
never do anything to make society bet
ter. Sometimes we think we hear them
say: First person, we do bootleg, .
and if the "signs of the times" indicate
anything they have learned to conju-
gate the verb bootleg" to perfection.
They abuse their wives and SANDER our
citizens. We have been watching
these 'rough-necks' and the number
eighteen set by the News-Republican is
none too small 1t seems, the longs and
the shorts, the fats and the leans are
now trying to give Christmas cheer by
polluting the town. If we had an in
creased intensified police force, it might
make Hays a more desirable place in
which to live. Some will say such
should not be published, but if this
town or any other town is to be clean
and place fit for the young folks" of
; the state to be trained, the town must
be cleared of low mindedness.
If some people would pass through a
/ Cirv-cIeaning establishment they would
find that it would add much to their
7 character. Then they would have some
5 of the wrinkles of wrong-thinking
4 pressed out of them; we might be able
r to live near them without having to
D hold our nose when in their society.
e During the year 1914, reader, are you
e one who did a golden deed, proved a
i friend in need, fought the fight fol-
o right, gave helping hand, and to-day
a will highly resolve to live a more useful
o life during the year 1915? If you do,
count me your friend, for am with
t you in your struggle to make the world
e better.
n Despise not the rags that some people
wear, for oft times we learn that
. clothes do notindicate the man. A few
t days ago a seedy, scraggly, well patch
:, ed individual came into this office
+ From all appearances he was af'Weary
Willy" and a true candidate for the
''poor-house. - But when. certain
money transaction was mentioned anC
z it demanded ready cash" our ''seedy
visitor" commenced to remove patches
hand out "green backs and rolls large
enough to choke an OK. 1t made the
writer feel weak and fainty like. ,
Again I say do not despise rags, fol
they may cover fortunes.
5 Any young man who has quid of to
I bacco In his mouth, hqnor in his stom-
n ach, oaths on his tongue, and lewC
L thoughts in his mind is terribly handi
: capped in life. There is not one chanc'
= in thousand for him to succeed
Remember that all great virtues beal
the imprint of self-denial.
H Any man who will really sit still anC
listen can hear the great ideas of the
world boom like cannon. All human
activity is thought in action. The nat
ion exterminating conflict now going
on in Europe has been expected by
/ thinkers for fifty years. Thoughts
whatever they may be, die hard. We
know it is advocated that war is de
structive, weakness and folly; buf
thoughts in action and conflicting have
always led to determination. Idea:
fight. Truth fights with untruth; tenn
perance with intemperance; love will
hate. Right in the long fight of years
will obtain.