The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-05
SOME THINGS
and OTHER THINGS

N and OTHER THINGS
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Speaking generally of the preaching
of today, it is safe to say that it is
long way in advance of the honiletical
discourses of any previous era. 1t does
not have the ponderous eloquence of
other days, but it is more practical,
direct and concise There have been
in the last fifteen years as radical
changes in the pulpit as there have
been in the educational and newspaper
worlds.
All realize that the political spell
binder has passed. Announce through
our papers that ex-congressman Young
or our present congressman Connolly
will speak upon the political issues Of
the day, on next Saturday evening at
7:30 in the court house, and not half of
the seats will be taken; but announce
that Bishop Shepard or Bishop Lilly of
Kansas City, will speak and the court
room will not hold the people. You
know why-men are more truly inter
ested in soul-growth than anything IN
der the sun.
The key note to President Lewis ad
dress last Tuesday was ''to simplify,
classify, and glorify everything you
do 1t was good advice and should be
used by all. It meant to reduce life to
as simple an equation as possible, CLASH
fly all your knowledge for ready use,
and then glorify your entire endeavors
with pure manly life.
DIR. Butcher proved himself an orator
on Presidents Day. 1t is pleasing to
note that he is a Western Kansas boy,
born on the prairie, in a sod shanty of
Phillips county. He is a man of refined
tastes, great vision and good business
ability. He has proven the wisdom of
the Board of Education.
1t would be nice if we could see
relegated to the junk heaps lot of in
tellectual stereotyped untruth. Such
as, ST believe in home missions, but
not in foreign" 1.-The valedictorian is
never again heard FROM - a woman s
place is at home" he must sow his wild
oats, - ''the hand that rocks the cradle
rules the world ''the dead line is at
fifty" and all such should be taken
from life philosophy, because it is not
true, and any thinking person knows if
is not true.
The tribute the student body paid to
DIR. Lewis on Presidents Day was an
act of appreciation. Not many stud
entsI will on their own initiative pur-
chase beautiful bronze tablet for the
new Sheridan Hall, as a token of their
loyalty to the college and devotion to
their president, as the students did on
last Tuesday.
Try the rule of telling people pleas
ant things once in while and you will
like yourself little better, and am
sure the people will appreciate you
more.
MAY we use slang?' is question
often asked. know some detest it,
anu CLASS II among IilS 1OIDiOOSA things
but most OF US know certain slang ex-
pressions as pungent condiments OF
conversation that make the verbal part
of life enjoyable. Certainly the people
have a right today to invent new coin
age in words to express their thoughts
just as other generations before US have
done. That which today is the Ian.
guage of the street, if foreible, soon be-
comes recognized word or phrase. II
viii appear In our dictionaries bracketed
stcolloquial'' or even Glow" But to-
morrow it becomes eminently proper
Such phrases IS "up to you, . s'uI
against it, - ssthe limit may be used
as specimens of what we have in mind
These you know have leone to stay
In these days we hear much of the
s'look pleasant philosophy. But the
other day we saw hanging up in den
lists Office card bearing this inscrip-
ton, Keep on Smilingl" This seems
to be carrying the '.look pleasant
philosophy to the extreme. do moi
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