The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-06-17

made by a few great souls. This state
ment is made because real history has
never been written. Some day history
will give society its place, and not build
the story of human progress around q
man. Men are only pawns in the old
plan.
''Help me" is the cry of the weak
ling. The trouble with you is twisted
mentality. You are lacking in courage.
If success is not surging in your bones,
helping you will only make you tramp.
Eat some real moral grit and grow
a spine.
Do something and do it well, man-if
it is only pulling weeds-we will find
you. If you are a weed puller you
must light for your place, and you
must fight fairly and fercely under the
rules of honest weed pulling and we
will honor you. If you viii not, then
society will break you.
The great European war is teaching
the world the benefits of government
ownership. The old rule of master and
servant Will be radically changed at the
close of the world struggle This seems
to be war that viii aid the world to
make many needed social adjustments.
In the past we asked, '..Who are
you?" Now we are asking, 'EWhat are
your" In other days we said, SHOW
US your family tree, or present your di-
piOma; now we say, How much can
you apply Of your diplomat" We are
expecting more OF you because you are
educated Do notsubstitute your "cre-
dentials'' for knowing, but produce
your educational goods" and then we
viii believe you No humDugging; no
assumed superiority, but just come out
with the information and we viii honor
you. Because you weigh 300 pounds,
have voice that has silver purr, .
and you can assume the judicial tenn
permanent attitude, viii not satisfy Us.
! lou must honestly make good.
( Newton, Bacon and Beethoven were
masters IN their lines Of endeavor, but
/ to think or state that what they did
would never have been done by anyone
/ else, is absolute foolishness. It is more
! than likely that the man who has reach
| ed the place Of MASTER has retarded
many greater souls IN the same fields of
effort.
The kindest thing you ever did for a
man was TO force him past handicap.
/ This is a hard thing to do. It Is so hard
to teach acknowledgements. 1t is so
much kinder in the long run Of years 70
kick you than It is to coddle you.
If Lincoln, Field and Edison had tax
1 en- the advice of the street loafing phil
| osophers of their day, they never would
/ have been heard from. All cheap men
| try to make you feel and believe you
are failure.
When I hear man say, che d4sires
success, l say ''shO.r me. - ! am will
/ ing to grant him his desire, but he
must stop Dragging and exaggersting
| his Importance, and let the world place
a valuation before a price will be set on
| his efforts.
Men of iron do not bear a price mark,
| but they fight Their wills are the
most relentless things found in humans.
| The heel OF the victor never makes
them whine. They are as relentless
/ and as pugnacious as the Kaiser 5 sol
+ dlerS. They are men Of iron without
rust upon their weapons
! The soldiers of Germany wage this
war for the ages yet unborn, and not
! for their wages. They are trying TO
/ cut out Empires for the coming gener-
/ ations. We are learning that it takes
/ the blood of death to correct the sins of
the past. 1t now seems awful but it Is
cheap providing humanity viii be able
to escape the curse of decadence that
has been threatening the race.
The world is in need of all her great
sons, but she can only fix your place
and price after ven have been Segre-
gated from the great unwashed.' - The
F'unfits' OF any community viii always
hang around the 'sold mar. Is" table. A
young man with health that is putting
out his hand fer help. is a community
disgrace. A father that IS always get
ting this young man ready for bed, Is