The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-04
I SOME THINGS
q and OTHER THINGSI

liza and OTHER THINGShI
Pray fer than 75n.cn despitsfuIly
use you. Luke 6:28.
Men ought always to pray, and not
to faint. Luke 1871.
Not what you get out OF an under
taking, but what you put into it is
the measure of success.
We are learning through the efforts
of the mighty armies of Europe that
attacking is the secret; dare and
others give away; dare and the i'm
possible becomes possible. Haig wins
IN Flanders because he dares.
Perhaps the most useful writer and
speaker is the one who is able to say
things society says should be con-
cealed.
The man who has theory and prac-
/ tice well blended in his life makes a
success.
Just because you are good look
| ing, well dressed, and have the
veneer of society do not think you
are fitted for high place. Life does
not owe you anything. Nature says,
pay for It before you get it.
I presume the direst curse that can
come toa young man. is to be reci-
pient of charity; to be social leaner;
to be a dependent The best help
that one ever received is the help that
comes from ones own efforts. Let one
abuse this, even if, a rich dad is in
the high line, and he becomes crav-
en-.
You become the plaything of
chance as soon as you lose self-con-
| fdence. You are without it, a pup
pet of environment, the slave of To-
cal circumstances.
The last generation-those more
than 81 year old-spent its time
making material conquest. That
generation gave the world the autos
liroplanes, and modern science and
now it is up to the boys thirty-one
years old or younger to use them for
a worlds democratic victory, to for
ever chain the blood thirst of con-
quest, and see to it that all men,
everywhere have q chance to make
good at real living.
well read" 1t means he is bookish
It is usually an excuse for the fellow
who is not able to think much and
spends his time repeating other peo-
pies thoughts. Any man in this age
is well read, but only bookish men are
accused of it. There are countless
volumes written to tell you how to
paint pictures, but you know there
are mighty few artists.
I saw man roll up his sleeve the
other day, and say to a friend stand
ing by, FEfeeI that muscle; amt that
dandy well the cheapest thing
on the market is muscle-worth SIS
to $500 per day, while brains are the
most expensive. Brains with charac-
ter come high; brains without char
acter are as cheap as muscle without
brains.
The same courage that sent our
ancestors on those mighty crusades
is sending our boys to fight for hu-
tie fields of France. This is the
/ time that it takes brains Drawn and
/ gristle to clean the channels of civil
cation that have been clogged by the
Huns of conquest. When the war is
over we will find the world will have
/ been cleaned of racial egoism, state
/ bigotry, social superstitions. The
man who stands back, refuse sto do
| his best is nothing but a weakling
! fearful of his hide-nothing but hu-
nan runt, and does not belong to
| the twentieth century manhood. The
shades of our forbears are proud of
/ the boys who dare and do. What a
wonderfully awful day in which we
/ n 70 fob 4Io
of the generations yet unborn; a day
I to subdue the last slave drivers of the
earth.
The world refuses to pay but lit
/ tie for junk. If you have a worn out
auto tire to sell it is worth tire cents
a pound, if you have to buy a tire it
is three dollars a pound. If you are
junk or crude ore the world places
but little value upon you. 1t has not
been long since l read a sentence
something like this: che was one of
the best known teachers in the state"
but it is well known that he was not
classed as one of the best or even as
one of the comparatively good in
structors.
I know a man who does not know
the difference between the Pons Asino-
rum and Ponds Extract, but he does
know business and a few essays on
business from him would grace and
increase the value of DR.. Elliot's five
foot shelf. Listen to this: 81 do not
care how long you took, I want to
know how far you went, I pay for
results not explanations. When
my enemies cease to abuse
me I will commence to worry. When
you hear your competitor yell you
may knowyou have rung the bell" He
could write thousand pages of say
ings like these quoted. 1t is refresh
ing to hear him talk.
We pay you wages for doing the
work planned for you, but will glad
ly pay you dividends if you can think
better than the plans that have been
handed you
1 was listening to a man about
thirty years of age boast of his noble
ancestry. On looking at him for a
while, and making a few inquiries
! about him, said, chow the mighty
have degenerated IF his ancestry
were really somebody-we1 he was
social intellectual and social Joke