The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-05-12
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harden not your heart. Heb. 8 Z.
Come unto me, all ye that labor
and are heavy laden, and | will give
YOU rest. Matthew II :28.
There are plenty of ideas floating
around, but they never amount to
anything, because the people who
have them have never had gumption
enough to test them out.
The world will not pay much of a
price for crude ideas If you think
they are worth anything, refine them
and test them. Men never pay full
price for untried possibilities.
A college is to work the yellow out
OF you, to season you, to squeeze the
water out of your youthful egotlsm.
You may carry around a bundle
of blue prints and make few believe
you are a contractor, but standing
walls are the things that satisfy real
men.
Just so long as there are those who
do, we are not going to NOPE and
dream about you.
was looking at you the other day,
and l said, what a man you would be
if you would dare more, and speed
up, and keep up with those who are
bringing things to pass.
When I have to plan for you-do
your thinking-you may rest assured
l will only pay you a small wage
Wages are paid for labor planned, but
To:1 those TUhO
think.
1 am not willing to build a little
house to force your development, you
must measure up Or remain ordinary.
S%@%
You are only limited by the bound
aries you set. If you have spent the
last twenty years in idleness and care
lessness you may rest assured you
are mighty ordinary, although your
cronies may say your are genius I'M
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When people cease to ask questions
l am forced to ask more. When you
refuse to ask advice it is reasonably
sure you need it.
If your job does not stir you to do
your best, you must be set to doing
easier work. Some people will not
move unless they are showed along.
You may be big and handsome, and
while looking at you may say, 'My!
he should be a success"-but the only
measure these days is achievement
The finished work is the only thing
| that counts.
When a man climbs over you, you
call him lucky dog, or get sore and
call him vile names-but my friend
the real reason he got over you was
because he was stronger than you.
Good luck is a lazy mans whine and
a weakling's estimate of a fighters
efforts.
When my enemies cease to abuse
me will start to worry. The yell OF
competitor simply says 81 hit where
aim"
I would rather you would work
than to worry, it costs just as much
per hour.
If there is rotten in you, if priva-
ton can intimidate you, if cowardice
/ has mastered your will, if sweating
and whetting can cool your ambitious
ardor, then you are a goner, and yoU
would better get a job that demands
but little responsibility, for you are
never to be leader:
If you are gutter and a quaile1
you are misfit and you will never
be able to start from a stone pile
and reach throne.
1 see men "doing things" in the
same way their fathers did. But
have always felt there are better
ways of "doing things" than our ia
theirs have done. Take brick-layine
since the days of Pharaoh the masoT
built the walls the same way, unit
about fifteen years ago, when some
man thought, and today brick layer
will place more bricks in wall thar
two of Pharaoh's men.
| You never can tell where you arr
to find benefactors. There was Z
time when people thought benefactor!
and leaders must come from the lega
profession, but humanity has founc
leaders and benefactors changing a
the forge, measuring at the counter
blowing in the fields as well as upor
the bench or operating table.
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| Only folks who are daring enough
| and SteadfaSt make success. Suci
folks succeed at anything and any
where.
i You are here on earth, to stay
awhile perhaps, now are you perfect
ly satisfied to accept things as they
are! II you are, you are nothing
more than ordinary The safety raz
or, the steel fishing rod, the demount
able tire rim, bachelor buttons, paper
clip and sanitary drinking cups art
new inventions and the men who in
vented them were not satisfied will
the comforts of earth, so made i'm
pr0Tements.
Think man, Think Only those whC
think, keep this old gray earth from
going stale The most useless man II
this community is the man who re
fuses to think, to work or to serve
will neither fish. cut bait nor shove