The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-02-13

HOarQ6Q gOt0 cannot OlSpoI the gloom
of death, nor take the musty smell from
the tomb.
Men who are always wanting some
thing for nothing force men to pay
something for nothing.
Ennui is an element of nature when
added to man in full strength will make
a hell on earth within the soul. The
most disgraceful and tiresome persons
in society are lazy people who are ever
lastingly talking about how hard they
work.
If the most of US would sit alone with
our conscience for few hours each
month talking about deeds as we have
as we have done them, it is dead GER
tainty we would be surprised and cha
grined. The vision of the past makes
an awful ghost for the most of US.
No government has the moral right
to grant company, corporation, or
select body of men with the rights and
privileges to coin money out of the
needs of the people. The rule of action
should be people supported in comforts
before any specific body or set of men
enjoy the luxuries of life.
Most of the sobs we hear are founded
on selfshness. Men are continually
trying to cash their meanness. They
will look at you watery-eyed, put up
story of half truth, thinking you cannot
read the selfish motives back of it, and
then hold out hand for your sympathy,
your cash, and your social Endorsement
Such characters are nothing but dis
guised devils. The horns and hoofs are
usually indicated.
We make beautiful spots here and
there, but we have not learned to
beautify our life. We have thought
many noble things, but most of the
time we have thought badly. It is not
very often we are honest enough to
blame ourselves. We would rather call
in the innocent third party and then
unload our woes upon him and charge
all of our wrongs to him if he does not
furnish panacea. We make him the
goat"
No one but a fool sits around and
bewails his loss. If he would work half
as hard to retrieve his Gloss as he
does to mourn and bewail it, he would
in six months be on the highway to
honorable recovery. If this ''fool'' had
a new idea we would not call him
mad, but for him to sit around like
hawk in dog-days croaking his blind
miseries, not making any honest en-
deavor to remedy his imagined mis-
fortune, - is social Ounce.
The wage Garner is the most bene-
fetal man in society. He is made to
bear the burdens of civilization. He
works longer hours, receive less wage,
is made to feel the change of the mar
ket quicker, gets into the breadline
sooner, fights the nations battles hard
er, pays more taxes, more is hoped of
him, expected of him, and we give to
him less support and appreciation than
any other citizen. It is about time we
reared a monument to this the most
worthy member of our social life.
There are many lessons we can learn
from a postage stamp. It says "hold
your own" stick to yoursjob, y for I
am stuck on my task. It says''I make
many journeys. keep at it and do it
all because have the 'stick-to-it-ive-
ness faculty largely developed. AS I
listen to the advice of the stamp, am
persuaded that the most of our advance
is made by the exemplifed law of the
postage stamp. When you feel like
"chucking' the work you are doing,
study that stamp on that letter, and
you will find that the gates OF life that
seem so tightly shut viii after awhile
swing open by the law of the stamp.
It was Pope who wrote "a little
learning is a dangerous thing. Drink
deep or taste not the Pierian spring
Shallow daughts intoxicate the mind,
but drinking deep sobers US again. -
From the present day indication of ed
vocational matters many have drunk
deeply, but have not drunk deep enough
to sober up" This is indicated bv
the way they talk, and by the way they
continually play to the galleries. 1t is
to be hoped they will get off of this
intellectual spree and get down to
real business, ''for mans weakest
moment is when his vanity is most
pleased, said wise man.
In climbing the Alps. men bind them
selves with a common rope for mutual
protection. If one slips, all support the
fallen brother. He is aided until he
can get upon his feet; but in climbing
the rugged, treacherous, glacier-cov-
cred, moraine-broken mountains of life,
we too often refuse to help. We give