The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-07
SOME THINGS
and OTHER THINGSH


Pray without ceasing. In every
thing give thanks. 1 Thessalonians 81
II, Is.
Be We therefore sober, and watch
unto prayer. 1 Pet AT
1t took centuries for people living
on the prairies to learn the benefit
of willows planted for wind breaks.
The reason new tools are invented
is because good mechanics, become
with poor ones. The man
who invented the Canafford tractor
will be a benefactOr to the race. 1t
puts the TRACTORS at a price that the
poor can own one.
It is fewer than twenty-five years
ago that surgeons took the trouble to
wash their hands before performing
q critical operation. Most of the
laity today believe sanitation use
less bother" but greatest benefits
have come to US from little common
sense thinking.
eve have never done it that way
is a protest against any Innovation.
1t says we do all our work according
to ancient and accepted precedent
But we still have men who fight such
notions. If we were guided by the
thought of other generations we
would still be hairy, half-ape, ignor-
ant of fire, subsisting on herbs, roots,
raw meat and be living in trees
Think, think! the thinker is the on
ly remedy for the German. If the
United States cannot beat the Ger
man thinking think faster, act
quicker, work harder and do all
things on bigger scale, 1--WE the peo-
pie" will become the Kaiser's vassels.
know most people are cynical
But why not? Men have always ov-
er-reached. You will find the scars
found on the memory of the world
have been made by the slackers, who
posed as workers, and by weaklings,
who were not able to deliver the
goods" Most assuredly we are cyni-
cal. Civilization is nothing but a mat
ter of elimination. The process of
elimination became too slow for the
race so the world war is the result.
The German, Austrian and Turkish
civilization will have to go.
It is men like those who stood at
Thermopylae, that surged on at Bala-
klava, that pushed on Salamis, that
manned the cannon with Perry, that
fought in the bloody angle at Gettys-
burg, that stood at the Marine and
that stormed Whey Ridge that will
direct civilization. Such men are a
heritage for all tomerrows.
The reason you do not have any
thing is because you have not learned
the rule save. You may know the
rules and make and spend, but you
will always be hard up unless the rule
save has been well learned. If you
will save, you will have plenty to give,
enough to provide for your family
and take care of you in old age.
A well known man always attracts
more attention than the obscure man.
1t was amusing to hear two old set
tiers roast a prominent citizen the
other day because he had honestly
succeeded. You can usually tell the
failures by the comments they make
of the successful.
Power is always hated by those
who cannot possess it. If you have
power to do, and do the billiards viii
stand around and say grafters If
Wiz JO0 PAOhCA " llc1NS
been CRATER, you will find you are
living in hell; but if you have acted
with conscience free" Of blame these
sour-brains of the street will come to
you to "eat salt out of your hands, y
This is the day of the great tryout
for the United States. The fires IN
der the melting pot are getting hot,
and the man who thought he come to
America ''to get rich' and not to
learn the lesson of democracy will
find he must adjust his thinking or be
classed as a near-traitor Either
stand for the flag and all its interests
or expect to be placed in its ''sus-
pected class" Plead poverty, family
first, when your taxable property
shows different if you want to, but
remember you are making a record
you cannot live down, and you are
entailing upon your children a rec
ord that the next fifty years cannot
adjust. Hear the nations call, ans
wer it in perfect allegiance Or take
the consequences.
As to Bristow
J. l.. Bristow has been a terror to
evil doors and grafters ever since he
h.