The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-04-14
Is ME THINGS
and OTHER THINGS

Dor drink and makest him drunken
also Hab 2:15.
Be not among winebibers; for the
drunkard shall come to poverty. Prov.
% 20, p.
Remember the old keys will not be
able to unlock the new doors after
the war.
AS soon as you feel secure you
have become stale, and you are most
insecure. Self-complacency is death
Any man who is Juggling around an
absolute creed on anything is dead.
Next" is the "creed" of the progress
sive.
A man comes to me and says "have
we no fundamentals" and l say,
Eyes, for today, but l am not abso-
lutely sure about the fundamentals
of tomorrow. 1t is the changing of
the fundamentals that is making this
war.
Today is the threshold for the won
derful tomorrow. It now seems that
the prophetic Promised Land is just
ahead.
This is the day of the best man. A
mighty wedding out is now taking
place. No cast or breed to control US,
only deeds 20 measure u.s. No predes-
tined positions to claim US; each must
take his place he has fitted himself
for. Thank God poverty is no longer
a shackle. In the coming new order of
things only fitness for place will take
precedence.
know we are magicians, more po-
tent than the wizards and sorceres /;
and the legends of tradition are less
than common place; but see what we
as a world have to pass through in or
der to get social adjustment that will
be in keeping with the teachings of
the Master! What a price eve the
people, must pay for ancient teach
ings. But if democracy comes out
triumphant, the price may not be too
big. l can see startling heritage ly-
ing in wait for US on the glorious to-
morrow.
It is we'll known we can scan the
terraced layers of the gorge and
translate from the hills the story Of
the aeons; but who IS prophet enough
TO read the annals q hundred years
hence?
It is no trouble to read the sched-
ule of the comet and the ages of the
stars; we can plumber the bottom of
seas with submarines, and Glide.
through the air like eagles; but unless
this mighty war gives greater oppor-
Junlty to the masses and nightly re-
duces the powers of the classes all
the suferings, inventions and distinc-
fiction Of property will have been IN
vain.
Uncle Sam, shrewd, tolerant, hum
orous, kindly, generous, lover of fair
play IS not a person existing only in
the minds of the cartoonists. He is
a real live being, the embodiment in
concrete form, of all the common
characteristics and impulses and
ideals of the American people. All
know the bluff, hearty John Bull is
the Representatives of the national spirit
of England. We know these national
/ spirits of these lands under guises of
these half humorous personifcations
which defy analysis in the terms of
logic do exist. All true Americans
love their Uncle Samuel If you
have read history you are driven to
the conclusion that the United States
has the most Christ-like spirit of ali
nations, SO be true to your flag.
We are living harder, moving fast
er, climbing higher, building more
gloriously these days than in any per
lod of ournational history. Let our cry
be STEADY, United States, Steady"
As we read history we find thatnever
IN the long roll of the ages, were
there SO many nations hurrying to
carry their customs, traditions, an
Gent rules of life, and established
laws to the worlds burning. Russia
has thrown her crown, Germany is
making promises to burn, France has
cast much into fire, England has dis
carded much and now the United
States has agreed to contribute; Gu
ba, Brazil and Chill are working over
| time to assist in the huge bonfire. We
all know Mexico has been burning for
years. When the reconstruction
comes there will be truly a new earth.
Most students agree that the Cru
sades broke down the TYRANNY of the
church and state, enlarged the boun-
dar1es of human thought, marked the
beginning of the present period with
all OF It's political, intellectual and
religious freedom. The French Reyo-
luton re-created the French nation !:
the Franco-Prussian War hammered
the German people into unity and
created the present German national
consciousness. No doubt the world
would be much poorer without the
stories of Thermopylae, Marathon,
Lepants and Lego. The world is
convinced that Leonidas, William
Wallace, Gustavus Adolphus, Crom-
well, Washington and Grant made the
world better and are among the great
est sons of the earth. They fought
for human liberty.
DR.. Snyder found in his mai. last
Tuesday, the following notice.
Doctor:
You see by the notice in vour
Kansas City Star Your country needs
your services.
Be man. Show your coIors.
Send IN your enlistment paper and
don't shirk at home. You have no
children at home that need Your at
tention
Your country needs its doctors in
It's enlistment camps. Go. Co.
Had the sender of the above been
as prompt to tender his services to