The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27
SOME THINGS
and OTHER THINGS

d OOflE f1lINUO
n and OTHER THINGS Il
The sponge that ceases to absorb,
shrivels-and the man who uses his
tongue more than his ears, soon
squeezes his brain.
This is an age of keen rivalry and
limitIess possibilities, and the man who
does not plan ahead can never hope to
stay in the front ranks.
The highways are blocked with social
displays, but the thoroughfare of life is
everywhere. Special classes no longer
dictate the speed or road you shall
travel.
You cannot remain where you are nor
hold what you have if some bigger
man wants your place, so you must
wake up, steam up or take the side
tracks.
Civilization has no pets, but it is out
to junk or kill its fools. Do not stand
on your A. Ms. or Phi. DIS. because
they were earned in other days, on in
formation about as dead as a dead Ian
guage. Do the work for new degree
every two years, or get out of the de-
gree class.
The Twentieth Century has no intel
lectual sentiment. 1t pays the best
wage for thinkers of any age, but it
closes its books every twelve months.
You may be 1T today, but one year
from today you may be superannuate.
You receive your full credit today, but
no quit claims are issued for the to-
morrow.
If you are climbing you must add
new rungs to your ladder. Climb, man
climb, see the new heights that are
dimly showing themselves in the rapid
ly approaching future.
The next weeks graduates throw
their hats into the ring, and challenge
all the old graduates. The old grad
yates must move up or get out. The
new graduates come with the latest
equipment and are ceaselessly demand
ing place. Old graduates, you must
play up, play up, or play out Well
trained men keep their heads under all
provocations. If you lose it you may
know you are on the toboggan slide.
/! Look out for a bump.
If there is a yellow streak in you, if
provocation and privation can intim-
idate, if sweating and grinding cause
your enthusiasm to run down-our
money and expectations have been
wasted upon you-for cutters and
winners and quailers are social burdens
from the cradle to the throne.
If you have zeal and purpose you will
never know failure.
A fast horse will never stay in a poor
mans barn.
Real men refuse to work for man
for less than they are worth. A real
man never has to seek the want"
column.
Do not measure your work by the
clock, but use a speedometer. Do not
think you are educated because you
have DR.. Eliot's five-foot book shelf in
your study.
Most men pay for results today. and
pay but little for explanations If the
past was not so full of excuses we
would be three centuries down the trail
of civilization.
1t costs just as much per hour to
worry as to work. Profit is made out
of work. Which are you doing?
If you try to bury mistake. sooner
or later its ghost will appear.
When people cease to ask for advice
1 am sure they are in need of it.
When a man reaches the age, where
he is just killing time sooner or later
he will find that time-is killing him.
HARRY N. STOCK WINS MEDAL,
Gold Medal for the Best Article Pub
iished in the Leader This Year
Awarded to Sophomore Mem
bersOf Staff.
Harry Nj. Stock won the P-Caspar
Harvey Gold Medal for Prose. H. E.