The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-07-31
SOFIE THINGS
and OTHER THINGS


n and OTHER THINGS h
When you find a man wearing win
ming smile you can bank upon it that
he is a good loser and never piker.
He viii not stop paying his check be
cause he was short on judgment.
The meanest man in any town is the
one that is always asking for benefits,
but is not willing to render any
The greatest gifts to humanity, the
things that have enriched US most, have
come entirely independent of the old
law of $50 much per hour" The old
rule of thumb system" may furnish
US with nail drivers, clerks, book
keepers, butter makers, bread bakers,
all needful and most useful, but gifts
of soul and mental uplift have not come
that way.
We are now learning that there are
many disabilities not of law or muscle
but of brain and heart. Some people
are lacking in the proper sense of
things. Some are naturally religious
and in some the religious sense is very
weak. Some people would be glad If
all apple trees grew golden apples while
others would think it a grevious mis-
take. 1t is all found in the sense of
things.
The gospel of John stands solitary
and alone among the books of earth.
The first fourteen verses of this book
are the sublimest strain found in litera-
ture. If you do not believe the state
ment, read the verses and try to recall
any thing you have ever read of equal
length that compares to them.
If you have to buy mans friendship,
you will find that the man is not worth
the price paid. He may plead friend
ship for favors, but he will cash your
''good will'' if little more money is
offered.
If you have mastered any given thing,
and have secured excellency in that
thing, you may set the price and the
world will pay for it; but if you are a
''jack-o the world will
reckon that you are a cheap John at
anything.
/ Success does not mean accumulation
of wealth, for a man may be a success
full money getter, but miserable fail
ure as man. Napoleon was a mighty
success as a soldier but miserable sue
cess as a man. Queen Elizabeth was a
spectacular success as a sovereign but
a tragic failure as woman. Real sue
cess is becoming more like God and
less like the devil.
Law and public opinion are walls
built of thoughts that we find in the
intellectual and moral life of past gen
erations. These human walls we are
demonstrating each year are not perfect.
Every little while some of the old
grandfather clauses are junked. When
this is done we hear some good people
say is it not too bad to desecrate the
faith of our fathers. Suppose my
/ grandfather were alive today and he
would see men talking through a tube,
and he would say you are doing bad
unholy thing; you are using black art;
you are taking some of Gods secrets
and debasing them. IF you want to
/ fol 70 IL = L
ard cow sc with him. but Grand
father, ne is one hundred miles away. :"
well something will happen to you
for acting So" The same reasoning
would apply to the automobiles and a
thousand other changes that our for
bears did not understand. Do not be
afraid to put off the old ideas and to
accept the new.
Until we pass laws making all who
serve the public construct their con-
veyances on the basis of "safty-first'
we will continually have the Eastland
disasters In our land 1t now seems
that the real cause was greed of its
owners 1t appears that not more
than 1900 should have been allowed on
the vessel but 5000 were permitted to
start on their joy trip and in less than
seventeen minutes 1000 had found q
watery grave. Ali this for no other
reason than greed. But we have be-
come so used to the stories of death
that such disasters do not seem to affect
US but little. But want to accent the
above statement, that no one but
-greed-drunk scoundrels would navigate
such boat.
Human progress is indicated by dis
covering sources of power that have
lain concealed from human attention.
We are learning that suttle forces are
coiled one within another in Nature
strong box, and the man who can tap
one of these hidden forces and trans
form it into human benefit is bene-
factor.