The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-01-08
some THINGS
and OTHER THINGS

III and OTHER THINGS u
Much of our past wisdom is full of
musty oders of family remedies and old
wives advice.
Most of the ''thou shafts of teach
ers, professors, preachers and judges
are believed by thinkers to be nothing
but "class prejudIces." The world is
concluding that they need revision.
These 'thou shafts seem TO be made !
up of the hypecracies OF ruling classes
of the past.
Small people build their philosophy on
negation. It is well known that mental
neurosis has in the past produced the
supposed saint
Lingering around in the brain cells of
many is still to be found the notion-an
ancient aristocratic notion-that real
work is dishonoring; and that it vulgar
ICES the body and soul. l suppose this
accounts for so many common dead
beats and loafers.
hear men say, ''Get knowledge for
/ its own sake" 'EBe good for good S
sake,'' .'Be pure for purity's sake"
Such teaching is nothing but a snare
of substitution. We do and be for COM
pensation.
/ AS we grow in knowledge how we are
forced to apologize to the God of truth.
Perhaps that is the reason so many
stop growing because they hate to apol
ogize.
Il If you will study humanity you win
find that people are always punished for
their virtues. You pay big prices for
them in suffering The fewer virtues
you have, the less suffering you viii
have; but you only count in the world
for the virtues you have.
The people who have no ideals are al
ways frivolous, rattle-pated, shameless
and generally foolish.
But few people are truthful enough
to define truthfulness
It does not effect me because you
have deceived me, double-erossed me,
but because 1 can no longer believe in
you, you become junk to me when you
appear in my thinking.
The reason most people do not like
| IL Ell
not match him.
Many have found out that the most
stupid thing in the world is to do wrong
knowingly.
am sure the old teaching, know
myself is not good philosophy, for a
thing understood ceases to be generally
interesting. Have you noticed that as
soon as things cease to interest and
charm you, you cast them aside or hate
them like children do their discarded
toys.
We have noticed that as soon as clev-
er people become embarrassed, we
commence to mistrust them.
Any man who forces you to change
your opinion of him, must always pay g
/ heavy exchange.
When you stop showing the world
what you can do, you win find your tai
ents are disintegrating, that you are
about to take a back seat; that the
great human sports have lost then
: charm-going, perhaps you are rapidly
going to the junk pile.
, When we hear men talk as though
severity, violence, slavery, danger
stoicism and predatory conditions ele-
vate humanity, we always feel thai
such men have by some twist in then
make up an arrested development.
We are on ''big hunt" The human
t call and it's limitless range are opening
to the lovers of psychology as new
: worlds. But only hunters of the largest
7 psychological sense venture into thi:
} game preserve Most of US are only
= poaehers. Great hunters use the latest
: and most improved methods. We FIND
? many only using sings and bows pos
ing as mighty Nimrods.
People do not get far in the world OF
thought who practice the assassination
of their reason.
4 Solitude, fasting, and abstinence
have been the basis for much of the