The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-11
SOME THINGS
and OTHER THINGS

Fight the good fight of faith, lay
hold on eternal life. I Tim. 6:12.
This is the victory that overcometh
the world, even our faith. John a
You will never make the present
certain by studying the uncertainties
of the past. You must rest assured,
you must take the risk of life or take
the count of life.
1 was passing a place of work the
other day and the contractor was
wanting helpers, ordinary helpers
There were at least twenty-five men
standing around, some of them need
ing job, but none of them wanted
to be classed as ordinary" The
reason so many are so ordinary, is
because they are not able to do any
thing else but very ordinary jobs. I
am persuaded that men are to blame
for their failures. Weakness can on
ly stay where it is continually being
recognized.
When you find a man who is not
willing to acknowledge capacity in
his competitors, you are safe in US
my IIAlS u1S ~ dI6dSuI0 SuCn a man
by tThose who are lacking in abil-
ity are always unwilling to recognize
it in Others"
If you are so weak and thin skin
ned, that you can be stopped by the
irony and ridicule of others, you
would better hang up your harp of
ambition on the traditional willow
limb and take your place among the
might have beens."
I hear men saying "what will the
children do if we go?" Men do YOU
know the greatest inheritance you
can leave your children will be that
father fought on European battle
fields that world liberty, and oppor-
tunity might come to all men every
where. Men who enter this great
war game are the universal Spartans.
They fear and hate nothing but cow
ardice. They hear no siren voices, and
plead for no soft chances, but demand
and will have nothing but universal
liberty and opportunity to present
to the coming generations as their
bit to civilization
Those men who return from the
CORY battle fields-Vimy Ridge,
Somme, Marine, and other still to be
made historic-my! my! what a fra
ternlty they will make; what a new
Grand Army of the Republic they will
organize; how the gray haired, wrin-
kle-faced soldiers of the remaining
old Grand Army of the Republic will
welcome into their rapidly depicting
order the new Grand Army of the
Republic. That fraternity can only
be entered by an honorable dis
charge" from duties done on the al
tar of the nation. There will be no
brain, Drawn and duties done count
Ali honor to men who are not slack
ers!
We are now passing into the world
war. Thousands of our boys will die
while trying to cut their way through
Germany's militarism-to cut their
way through wire, trench and cannon
They will yield their lives rather than
yield to irresolution. Few of their
names will be heralded to the world,
few of their graves will be marked
with anything more than the standard
regulation marker, but the glory of
their courage will never die, and all
of the coming tomorrows will receive
inspirations by what they did there.
The following are the letters of the
| alphabet of success: Invention, sci
ence, arts, letters, commerce, and
common sense. If you know these,
any two or three Of them, you can
spell your own word to name your
success. You must make your own
combination. They are behind you,
but If you slack in using them you
are a Stacker. If you stand still, stand
on your dignity rights, you do not
stand ghost of chance.
am quite sure there is a certain
coterie of men in all walks of life
who try to bar all applicants for posi-
ton IN. their certain lines of voca-
ton, but the world is on the hunt foI
faster shrewder men-for men who
can do more, conserve more energy
reduce the cost of output, and NO
little clique, clan or selfish organiza-
ton can long withstand such men
The only way to keep them out is to
stay their masters. In any field OF
endeavor there are still new heights
yet unattained-just be able to ado
a new rung or two above your com
petitor and up you go.
Some men have not learned thai
as long as they satisfy we will keeL
them, but as soon as we find their SUI
periOr they will be relived of place
You may not have thought of it, but
If you will listen you will hear some
men who have been let out, saying
They lost out because of favoritism
political pull, stand in" and all the
other phrases found in the shirker':
vocabulary will be used to JUSTLY
their situation; when the real reason
was they failed to satisfy. Remem
Der that is the reason the gov
eminent is relieving men of import
ant positions, "failed to satisfy" Tn,
surface reason may be health, bust
ness, or dozen other stated excuses
but the real reason not wanted