The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-04-08
SOHE THINGS
and OTHER THINGS
am sure the flower of joy grows
from the duh brown root of drudgery.

You know so m7ny folks say 81 am
sorry for YOU when they see folks IN
trouble, but 1 am afraid the hackneyed
expression is used Just for the want of
something else to say. If we are truly
sorry, we have heartaches for the sor-
rowing.
+ We hear the expression 81 congratu-
late you" used so glibly by many per
sons. 1t is stock expression. And
when you hear it does the thought ever
come to you, does the sky shine little
brighter becanse of the friends sue
cess or do you use it to be polite? If it
brings a thrill of satisfaction to you be-
cause of the success, then is the-con-
graduation from the heart.
Time connected with brains will tame
all the wild horse impossibilities of our
grandpapa- The only thing that can
make you bigger tnan your pas is to
rewind the handspring of Determine
ton.
In these days there is plenty of self
conceit, but we seem to be little short
on self-esteem. Self-coneeit is noisy,
self-esteem is quietly majestic; self
conceit never looks beyond self-inter-
est, self-esteem looks into. infinite; self
coneeit deals with the secondary, while
self-esteem deals with the primary;
self-conceit deals with mediate living,
while self-esteem deals with life; self
conceit puffs up. while self-esteem edi-
fies; one develops a swelling ego, the
other contemplates humanity at large
It is not an easy matter to erase the
wrong of today from the slate Of to-
morrow.
Only those who are not equipped for
job of real work stand around and
bray about impossibilIties. Meyer
aspire to do unless you are willing to
pay the market price for the tools with
which to do the task. If you are not
willing to meet the conditions of success
for the love of your mother stop talking
the lack of fair play.
If you have reached the conclusion
that the best Of everything has been
done, then remember society has no use
for you. If the real men had acted on
such rule the OK cart never would
have grown to a Buick Six, the stage
coach never developed TO the Denver
Limited, nor the tallow dip never
would have been superseded by the in
candescent bulb. There is no end TO
the do Better Road" Just run along
sonny with determination that speeds
you up so you can run little farther
along and at little faster gait than
your grandfather.
If you are not sharp enough, find q
grindstOne that will put an edge upon
you, then lean against it until you de-
velop an edge that viii cut something
know most of US despise dates but
it is well to remember that paper was
first made from linen in 1902; glass was
first used for windows in 1850; weaving
Of wooden cloth in England IN 1871; lead
pipes for carrying water were first
used in 1852; chimneys to houses be-
came a part of civilization in 1896; gun
powder was discovered in 1881 and guns
invented in 1886, and utilizing tallow
candles for Illuminating purposes com
menced in 1890 If you viii notice
none of these common things go back
but little over zoo years.
The two words thank you are
among the gems OF our language, but
we find many people are forgetting to
use them. They should be used for
kindness shown you. Only the rough,
poorly trained, careless, discourteous
and unr fined forget TO use them.
get many letters asking about young
men. I am asked to bear witness as 10
the fitness to undertake a particular
business, TO manage men, or direct q
school. But IN every instance they
want my judgment as to his character,
and then as to habits, debt paying, Z
dress and his religious preferments. |
Dependable men are wanted; men who /
can stand the test; men who know how 1
to do, but have real character TO back 4
what they know. There never was 1
time in our history as today, when So
ciety was praying, God give US men. -
The times are now demanding men,
who cannot be bought, who viii not
finch in a crisis Men who are honest
courageous, high-minded and true as
well tempered steel. Men of clean
hands and pure hearts, who believe in
home, country and God.
1t Is rather amusing TO watch some
people TRY to make the right impress
sion. The person who is always
studying to be popular lat any cost
is Just as wretched as the one who Is
always saying Il don't care what peo-
pie think of me" Those people who
are so preternaturaliy sweet, and so