The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-01-01
some THINGS -.
and OTHER THINGS

III and OTHER THINGS b
Much of our young virile thought is
hidden by hoary senile conceptions.
In final analysis, only truth stands.
Faith is thing that may stand for
thousand years, then crumple up and
pass away because it has been exposed.
No man will ever be able to tell the
influence that quotation marks have
exerted upon the world.
It is now dawning upon the world
that natural philosophy is not world
explanation but world-exposition and
a world-arrangement
Man really invents nothing, creates
nothing. He only makes application of
existing things. Edison is called
wizard. The most wonderful thing
about him is, he knows himself. Edison
is only an exemplif1er of the good old
English word, intelligence. The word
comes from two Latin elements, inter,
between and legere, to choose among
or between. So an intelligent person
is one who chooses the thing that is
most effective in bringing about the
end sought.
Did you ever see one of our young
bloods shaking his fist under the nose
of Temptation? 1t is this very act that.
causes him to go wrong. 1t is the act
that causes him to break his mothers
heart and become disgrace to society.
l know some old veterans of business
who are everlasting knocking the idea
of a college education. To them it is
nonstrous waste of time for a boy to
spend four years grubbing in Latin,
Greek, Geometry add Biology, and at
the end of the required time to have
nothing to show for it but Phi. D and
a $500 job in some High School.
Education is not primarily to help you
make money, but to help you appreciate
life.
The seven wonders of the ancient
world were: Pyramids of Egypt,
Pharos' Lighthouse of Alexandria,
Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Temple
Of Diana at Ephesus, Statue of Jupiter
by Phidias, the Mausoleum built by Ar
tenisia and the Colossus of Rhodes:
but the seven wonders of the modern
world are: Wireless Telegraphy, Tele-
phone, Aeroplane, Radium, Antiseptics
and Antitoxius, Spectrum Analysis
and X-Rays. The first for show, the
latter for use.
In the Plebeian age we are now clos
ing, much rough thought work had to
be done, so we find many of the old
philosophical standards are passing
away. Mnch of their teaching has been
reduced to complete ad absurdum. It
is almost pitiful to listen to the walls
go up from those who hate to meet the
change. When you hear people say
the .'World is growing worse, . ''give
me the good old days. or you hear
them say, I'VE are Disguised with the
modern new tangled ways" you can
put it down that they are students OF
the Plebeian philosophy.
To most of US it is blessing that we
do not have.to be beautiful in order tt
be good looking. A person who is
ssgood looking" is one who Clocks gooC
to u.s." not one who is s.good locker. >
know of number of "swen lockers
who do not ''look good to me-" and
know the reason why. The human facs
is like Christmas window, it always
indicates what is behind it. A selfish
cold-hearted, hypocritical, grouchy,
piggish human generally carries the
signs in his face, even though he has 9
pure Grecian nose, Cupid's bow of :
mouth and a Byronic brow and aristo
cratic ears. It Is not easy for anyone
with a coarse black soul, to keep it from
glowering through his countenance
Most people carry the title page o.
character in their faces. Any one car
be good looking by being good.
Some people cannot enjoy Christ
mas gift, unless the price is attached
to it. They appreciate the gift only il
terms Of dollars. They measure every
thing by the dollar standard. But
there are many good things in thii
world that are above price In fact il
would be impossible for anyone to tell
YOU the value Of sunset, Of the morn
inc chorus of birds OF visit with g
charming friend. A person gets low
down the scale of humanity when be
has to see the dollar mark indicating
stsssk Il exser e have iey khzlll.