The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-01-29
SOME THINGS
and OTHER THINGS

The dead sea is dead because it keeps
all it gets. The reason some people are
dead and don't know it is because they
never give out. Greed you know short
circuits many promising life
The rules of social progress can be
adjusted to all heads except the big
heads and the dead heads.
1t would Be fine thing if we had
enough strength to be sweet, and
enough sweetness to be strong, and too
much of either to be noticeaDly queer
If it were possible for US to eliminate
the ifs, - the ''ases,'' and the might
have beens' from the social equation
of life we would find some marked i'm
provements. But if you will observe,
you will find the most conspicuous fail
ures are the E'ifs.'
When will the world learn that all
that is worth while is held in common,
and what we love belongs to US?
From the way the papers are COM
mencing to talk, many of the old party
politicians, who pose as great civic con-
SENATORS, are to be swatted. Some of
these old Warehouses;" old ''has-
beens, and non-progessors using the
schemes of thirty years ago are finding
they will not work. The only way,
boys, to treat these old buffers is to
politically swat them.
All men are criticized, but those who
do the least are criticized the least.
Why? Because nobody agrees with
everybody about anything" because no
two minds look at the same thing in the
same way, because some cannot see
anything good in what the other fellow
does, because because, well, you IN
derstand-he does not belong to the
same club, same lodge, or to the same
church-well he just could not do, say,
or sing anything worth while-he just
couldn't; he is not of US, you know, you
know.
A receipt for failure-be drone. A
receipt for happiness-get busy, keep
busy, retire from activity only at death.
A receipt for good work-do the thing
you prefer doing and mix plenty of play
with it.
It is strange that even in the Prom
ised Land there are those who kick be-
cause the milk is too yellow, and the
honey is too sweet Some think be-
cause the butter is yellow it has been
adulterated, you know.
This was the advice given to young
man who said he could drink or let it
alone: Young man, you better drop
the drop before it gets the drop; and
you can't drop it too soon"
The statistics show that only one man
in ten thousand at the age of seventy
in the United States is in position to
support himself. The reason is he has
spent his time building fortunes for the
5000 millionaires. There are over l.
/ zoo, O00 wage earners over sixty-five
years of age depending upon public
charity in some form. Give men a
chance and we will be able to reduce
this number.
Before the great European war those
nations were complaining Of the high
cost of living. I wonder what they
will say about it after the war is over,
and they have to pay the interest on
$50, zoo, 900, 900, reduce the principal,
reconstruct the destroyed property and
1 still be forced to Iive?> There is a state
ment made by Paul, which reads, with
groanings which cannot be uttered"
that will fully express the feelings of
those who 1--we under that day of Euro
pean blight.
When we elect men to congress like
that publicly confessed CRATER from
Texas it is about time for the nation to
hold some political revival meetings to
create a national conscience. This
democratic congressman boosted pub