The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-07-01
SOME THINGS
and OTHER THINGS

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If you are a ''fraid cat, - you will find
your convictions will prove curse.
changes. Most men are afraid it
won't work" and turn knockers. -
Most advanced cups are filled with
hemlock before they are filled with
glory.
The roses of success still grow on
thorny stems.
You will always find vine of poison
ivy in all bouquets.
If you have a notion that has grown
into a conviction and you find it is a
real call, stand pat and fight it out. If
you have a notion and it has mat1red
INTO a judgment, and it is proving right
as you go along, hold to it and it will
lead your judges.
Any man must be more sensible than
he is sensitive if he expects to conquer
in his life of fifty rounds.
If your vanity has sharper ears than
your ambition, go hang yourself, or
never seek to climb. You are fool
1 like men who never wear doubt
badges over their eyes.
l appreciate men who are willing to
starve, but never vince under chill and
/ h11,-fc of don bfiY7or friop1c
Men who hitch their thoughts to laws
of nature, cause empires to crumble
and fall. They sweep old notions from
their foundations like tidal waves clear
the shores of debris.
! have but little use for the man who
/ is trying to please everybody. Re
member the higher you climb, the more
| jealous stones will come your way.
Dreamers are the worlds greatest
! sufferers. Their paths have been sobs of
blood dropping from their aching hearts.
Fanfare Or pageantry has never
wrought their dreams into bands of
steel; but they have been supported by
trusting men in their undertakings.
! Dreamers may have their hair streaked
with silver, but their hopes are never
gray. They are always seeking after
| the Golden Fleece-the Truth of Earth.
Men who think drive tunnels through
| mountains, ditch continents and chain
islands to the Motherland. These
thinkers make the sails do their com
mands, their wings beat the air above
them; these thinkers make eagles with
! steel hearts carry men as they find the
highways of earth; these thinkers make
/ great under sea sharks to do their bid
ding and become the dread of then
! enemies.
One day one of these dream-thinkerz
caught the voice of man, wrote it on &
disc of glue, threw it around the world
into howell and jungle, until the great
est stringed instruments and the richest
! finest trained human voices have been
commereialized and made so all ear
hear and enjoy, while IN other days the
rich only heard all because a dreamer
dreamt.
+ For ten thousand years the world was
hungry Only the rich, the dukes,
lords and kings ate white bread. One
day about Seventy-hve years ago, Z
/ young Virginia blacksmith caught tbs
/ hungry cali of the centuries and answer
I ed it by giving to the world the binder
and the seemingly impossible become the
ordinary, for the millions OF earth ats
Il bread because Cyrus Mccormick had ar
original thought. About eight year.
ago young Kansan farmer while driv
ing along one of the great states blocl
streaks known as road Tipping the
heads of the gay sunfoWers, had 81
original notion. The thought nested II
his brain; it drove him about the coun
try; it caused his more Flooding neigh
bors to call him fool-inventor and hi
plying friends to say, poor boy" Blu
this man proved 20 3 trusting band 0