The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-07-03


social life exemplifed by many of the
would-be society leaders.
Only those who have suffered most
do the most for the rest of US. Why is
it you always have unlimited sympathy
for any boy you see hobbling along the
street with big piece of fat pork tied
to the sole of his foot? Because you
have had rusty nails in your foot. 1
know of nothing that viii make you
feel more like boy than to help lame
dog over fence, because you have had
this dogs experience.
There are two forces in life everlast-
ingly at war in every man: 81 can" is
always calling you to work, and 81 will
not'' is continually protesting against
work. Your success depends upon
which force dominates you.
A Kansas farmer went over his wheat
field early in the spring and said to him
self, 81 can't afford it, Early in May
he walked over the field and then said,
cit is Ford The first part of June
he passed through the fields and was
heard to say, ''My, it is an Overland, :"
and by the time it is in the stack he
will be clamoring for an eight cylinder
Packard. You may depend upon it that
the old Kansas boy is always looking
out for the best of everything.
One Of the winners was heard to say,
all is lost-the rust, the army worm,
the wind, the hail, and the rain have
ruined the crop. This fellow would not
buy Chautauqua ticket, and was won
dering if the county would be able to
feed its poor. While the fellow from
south of town was saying, thought
last year was the bumper year." but
wheat is now bigger, better, and we
will have more this year than last.
This fellow signed for six Chautauqua
tickets and said, 'boys, if you are
short call on me for 1 am for bigger
Hays" The first citizen lives on Ca
lamity hill and the other citizen is a
genuine Kansas optomist.
1t takes many years to work provin-
cial ideas out of US, and to work uni
versal conceptions into US.
There are people who pose as highly
educated who are largely governed by
their local preiudices. There are
teachers who take their spite out upon
children because they do not like the
parents. Such educated people are not
fit to hold positions of trust in Timbuc.
too nor are such teachers fit to instruct
children of Patagonia. The worst
heresy is ittleness, and the worst edu
cation is narrowness.
There is feeling abroad that Kan
sas people are different from othel
folk While it is nice to know we are
considered different from the gen.
eral dead monotony of humanity, W.
sometimes wonder wherein are W,
different" By most observers it i
conceded that Kansas furnishes tn
purest type Of real Americans. If thi
means because Kansas takes NOR
magazines, newspapers, reads NOR,
books, has more independent thinkers
send more Of her sons and daughters t.
the higher institutions of learning
gives more to help the needy, supper
our schools and churches better, hav
the finest automobile roads-all thi
per capita-then truly we are different
There is this that stranger 500
notices on coming INTO our midst, tia
we have place for the comparative de
gree in our life. We always have tn
best or the poorest, the biggest or tn
least IN everything. Our crops are tn
biggest on record or the smallest;
rains until we shout food or it is s
dry it seems impossible for it to rair
we have the best people or the worst
and this may to some extent make US
/ marked people. Be the above argue
ment as it may, Kansas produces pei
] pie ''who do" or ''who don't" IF pei
i pie of other states are looking for
land of ''dead levels,'' our advice is fo
them not to come to Kansas. But
] they are looking for land of oppol
tunity and viii take mans chance {
making good'' no place on the de-
old earth calls louder to them. "
have money, schools, churches, bank
! farms, roads and people that are diffe
ent waiting for them; but if they wal
to be the common, ordinary street-loa
ing, wife beating, whiskey drinking
cigarette smoking folk, they should n,
come to Kansas, because the stea1
roller of progress viii run over them
run them out before six months ha'
gone by. Yes, we are different al
: are mighty glad of it.