The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-12-30
SOME THINGS
and OTHER THINGS

love. S. of S. 2:4.
Love worketh no i'll to his neigh
Dor: therefore love is the fulfilling
of the law Rom. 1910.
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The old year-1916-ha become
history. Perhaps never in the story
of earth have the annals Of one year
been stained with so much human
blood; never have the pages had to
record so much suffering, pain, grief
and sorrow as in the past awful year.
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Read this quotation from the oath
chapter of Matthew ''For there shall
since the beginning of the world to
this time, no, nor ever shall be. And
except these days shall be shortened,
there should no flesh be saved. I'M
mediately after the tribulation of
those days shall the sun be darkened,
and the moon shall not give her light
and the stars shall fall from heaven.
and the powers of the heavens shall
be shaken, and then shall appear the
sign of the Son of man in heaven;
and then shall all the tribes of the
earth mourn, and they shall see the
Son of man coming in the clouds of
heaven with power and great glory"
1888
Since you have read the above
paragraphs has it come to you that
the year 1917 may hold for you still
more terribly sickening human an
guish? It will depend upon usAmer-
lean people to a great extent what
the year 1917 shall record the world
over. The European people have
been seeing red for thirty months
From the messages of the president
land he is in a position to know
the world is on fire, and the sparks
are falling on the western continent
From the appropriations Of $661
100000 for the year 1917, we judge
we are commencing to "see red" If
we enter the war, then the beginning
of the words of Jesus Christ just
quoted it would seem are at hand.
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A while ago I was listening to
talk-lecture on how to be good con-
Versationalist. It was interesting
and-set me thinking and while I did
not then nor do not now agree with
all that was said, yet it helped me to
formulate the following rules: first
tell the truth about what you are
talking; second use the best sense
you have; third take humor and sea-
son your talk with it, and fourth use
wit sparingly and you will for all or
binary purposes meet the general
social requirements in conversation.
AS soon as you make yourself
conventional in thought, word and
deed, you decome prosy and com
n1onpIace. AS soon as you become
conventional you are safe in the ruts
of the past. 1t is true you will not
shock anybody, will never be known
as Jerry Simpson nor a Carrie Ma
ton, but you can rest assured you
will always be ordinary.
1919
Just as soon as you think the other
side of the accepted and recognized.
and venture to call the rabble up and
from the dry set routine rule of
things your soul will be tried and
bruised, but keep at it and in time
rainbow of greater sweep and bright
er color and mightier arch will mani
fest itself. Only little souls grudge
you a compliment for your endeav-
ors, and only jealous people cheer
their grudges of you.
do not care what your occupation
is-it may be teaching school, and if
you are still trying to use the meth
DDS used when you were a boy; if
you are trying to preach and think
the only books you need to read are
Tarbell's Sunday School notes of
ten years ago; if you are a merchant
and are using the old practices; If
you are doctor and are still giving
the remedies of twenty years ago
well l can see why you are not de-
sired. You are without resource and
without recourse. If you are not
continually stepping into the new
quarters of the worlds best thought,
you have become a common respect
ability to society. The older people
think OF you as you were IN days
past, but the younger generation
think of you as a "has been" but are
not an care"
A while ago man said to me, 'sI
am a graduate of one of the best
eastern colleges and that young up-
start of a Normalite tried to tell me
something" "Well," I said, s'that
might be presumption on his part.''
Later I asked this outraged college
man howlong ago since he graduated.
Ihlrty-seven years ago." he replied.
Now this old college graduate was
trying to quote notions of science
taught thirty-seven years ago, while
the Normalite was telling this college
man AAO0C1A Inc OlQ COl16R6
man was fguratively speaking 'sout
at the elbows" IN his thinking and
did not know it, was the trouble.
If you are IN the dump, your bank
account is short, your hope almost
gone, life has a lemon flavor, and
the future looks as dark as the halls
OF Erebus and you are sure you are
a league football OF fate. you would
better strike balance, wind I'D your
faith IN self, breathe deep the air of
determination and then strike to
mash the organized fates that are
against you, or forever remain
weakling, a whining Welcher.,
was looking at you the other
day, and you have everything that
counts-eyes, ears, brains, taste and
hearing, then why do you stand
around saying, this country is too
crowded, there is no chance?" You
say there Is no chance. You Door.
over-heated nincompoop, there is
chance for anyone, but you have not |
spunk to take 1t. You have been
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