The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-05-01
SOME THINGS
and OTHER THINGS


n and OTHER THINGS ID
There is no credit due any person for
knowing how to spell, but it is dis
grace to be ignorant of the rules of
spelling. No man should assume to be
entitled to social preferment for doing
right, but it is infamous to do wrong
knowingly.
I have but little respect and but little
hope for a man who goes through life
always blowing his own horn. Giving
a few blasts on the brassy horn of
youth is excusable, but to be your own
best E'rooter" is excruciatingly painful
to the public. Either do something
worthy of public notice or try for a
Carnegie medal, but stop blowing
your own horn" so loud, for the people
cannot hear what you say nor see what
you do when you come into evidence so
much by the way of your own footing.
loot less and accomplish more and the
world will find your stopping place, and
''make a path to your door for your
mouse-traps.
Money may be a good thing, and the
most of US believe it is a good thing,
and properly used it becomes one of the
great ''man-made" instruments for
happiness; but this power when wrong
ly used becomes a menace of society.
Most people have contended that this
power has fallen into the hands of the
few and is being very poorly used.
Most of these money princes are money
drunk and power blind. Only few
are willing to concede that this country
is in titanic death-struggle over mon
ey power. Henry Ford is the only man
of great wealth that is reading the
handwriting on the wall'' correctly.
Most of the railroad leaders" are ap-
preaching the utilities commissions like
the average ''hobo" approaches the
back door Of the kitchen for hand
out. A few years ago the people were
a minor consideration in railroad man
ipulations. The most of US cannot for
get Jay Gould, Cornelius Vanderbilt,
James Fisk and Chauncey M. Depew
who broke every ancient rule of equity
known in their ruthless dealings IN
railroads. Now these railroad men beg
for just one more bite before being
controlled. Stop the gluttons.
If you want to be conventional
hate the everlasting cry for convention
ality-cling to the ruts worn by the un-
thinking past and you will always re
eeive the wage of the ordinary.
! Most writer's are continually telling
you about the value of hard work as
| the guarantee for success; but you may
work like mule, fourteen hours day
three hundred and sixty-five days il
the year for fifty years, and unless yoI
mix brains with your work you vii
find at the end of that time that yol
have been trudging on tread-mill.
In the course of time all business be
comes overcrowded and there is littl
left for the new conner. Hays. does no
need more doctors, grocers or loafers
these places are well flied, but ther,
are two good openings for men of abil
| ity. Hays needs a specialist on 9Th
eye, ear, nose and throat" and frs
class tailor.
IF Won do not hovo ffrrY-iE'' Z,
take your chance in life you deserv,
failure. If Helen Keller, the deaf an
dumb girl, can "make good, >" you, witt
all your faculties, should be able t
master something and do it well. Dc
ing something well is success. But
little while ago man appeared on on
chautauqua platform and did nothin
but whistle. He did it well and gc
$500 year for it.
We have a man in our town who car
not read or write, but he can do on
thing well. He has established hin
self in this town. He is known fro1
Salina to Denver as a ''first elias
cook" ''His heart overhows" wit
music ''you know and any night yo
can hear him singing after he has fl
: ished his full days work; and while I
does not boast nor pretend to be
singer, yet many a passer-by wipes
tear from his eye as he listens to Ji
sing those old heart throbs-such a
Where is My Wondering Boy T
night?" ''In the Sweet By and Bye
and "Jesus Lover of My Soul" il
does his best at cooking or at singinl
Jim is a success. Are you?
Any one who ever did anything su
cessfully anywhere had to find got
griRdstone and run it and lean again
it until he was gronnd to an edge tn