The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-08-12


grams. But just as sure as we write
one, we find we are dealing with kaleid-
oscopes and moving pictures and we
are never quite sure of them.
We meet so many folks who have
spasmodic morals. They seem to live
In miasmic land and are subject to
ethical chills and fevers-
Morality viii never be reduced to a
chemical formula. 1t viii always re-
semble a stuffy apothecary shop. Some
people are lost in ethical details. They
have, you know, such profound convic-
lions in small things. Usually watch
such people In large transactions If you
want to be safe.
You may have a microscopic eye for
things, but If you have, Remember the
dangers. 1t is so hard on the soul life
The critic never enjoys life. If you
expect to really grow into big life, have
mental hospitality Critics are always
dull people, They never have new
thoughts. Only minds that are like
great daily newspapers having many
reporters from all the world, become
cosmopolitan. Critical minds are al
ways provincial. They never have the
tang and odor of the fresh and grow
I ing.
AS long as a man has his mind on the
future, he viii be young. He has the
advantages of a growing hope. He
who always dreams and thinks of the
past, sees the world as though hot
wind was always blowing over it. Al
ways brown and never at its best.
+ Honesty of purpose is the first quail
/ ity of an efficient mind. The break
/ downs of most plans take place because
of an evil mind. Mental shipwrecks
take place because of mental badness.
If you propose to succeed, you will find
you must have full mind to draw up
on. It must be stored with facts past
that you may be able to bring some
| thing to each new endeavor.
Your mind never does its best on the
/ first voyage. You must train it. Your
mind must be sharpened. Real mental
efficiency consists in being able to look
closely, widely, fairly and highly. You
must not only be able to see largely
/ but without blurs. You have no doubt
! learned that the fine work of the world
has been done by looking closely.
/ Sometime your prejudices crystalize
! into powerful motives and they guide
| your life. Now the father of Elizabeth
! Barr tt Browning is an Illuminating IL
! lustration of this type. You remember
! he never forgave her for marrying
Robert Browning. He was the victim
of his will. He would not read the let
i tiers his daughter sent him. He was
man with will that had gone to seed.
| Are you able TO find such a type IN
Hays?
The man of wills and not of viii is
very amusing, but because he is trying
really tragic
If you are not a man of will, and
know what you want in life after you
have reached fifty, and will take time
to make a survey of self, you will find
you are nothing but collection of old
masks. If you are not a master of
your will and a director of your desires,
you are nothing but victim of the
strong willed that you meet along the
way.
To some people life seems to be just
one stupid thing after another. Such
! people give nothing, ask nothing, and
! take nothing of life. Their eyes never
see anything They may have a place
in hfe's background, but they never
get to the front. 1t might be easy to
! personally mention number of names
in Hays but I will not. You locate
them.
If you ever read Sentimental Tom
my" you viii remember Tommy was
victim of his moods and his environ
! II
never became a person. He was a sort
of human chameleon. He always re-
flected his surroundings. You have
met such people. They always reflect
the last person they talked with. If
you viii think about it, you will meet
such folks In Hays. Do a little class
flying and see how many you viii find.
Now the trouble with such people is
they have too many wills.
You may enjoy patriotic heart thrills,
but never coin your enthusiasm into
real national feeling, thus making an
efficient American. You may read Van
| Dykes poem, America for Me- have
real joy thrills, throw up your dusty
hat, shout and sing My Country tbs
Of Thee" and then make as big fool
of self as Robert Easement. Some
people can die for their country so much
easier than they can live for it. I am
sure living for ones country-just the
slow process of living, coming the days
! into character is a harder and better
task than under flood of enthusiasm
marching to roar of gun, and one day
/ die for the flag. It is so much harder
you know, to honestly live for our eoun-
/ try than to emotionally die for it.
Smoky Hin Items.
The farmers of Smoky Hill are still
waiting for rain.
The Good Hope Music Club met at
/ Hioo-ins' Tuesday afternoon After