The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-12-29
SOME THINGS
and OTHER THINGS

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Thou shalt love thy neighbors as
myself. Mark 1921.
Perfect love casteth out fear; be-
cause fear hath torment. John Alb.
When you have Hput thing over"
that is fundamentally right, you are
to be congratulated; but just ''to put
a thing over, because you can, re-
gardless of the rightness or the
wrongness of the undertaking, and es-
peciaIly if it happens to be wrong in
principle-well you Will find that it
will spike" your future endeavors.
Idealism may be "bourgeouise, :"
but you may rest assured it is not
brutal. If 'Fpaganism,' means what
the literary outputs emphasize we
prefer to remain ''Philistines." We
mean man is more than a cleaver
animal. To US, man is a creature of
dreams and visions as well as econo-.
mic vigor and animal passions.
Silent knockers are more insidious
in their Infamous game TO social
craftsmanship than any person who
openly opposes any given movement.
A silent knOcker is always a danger
Gus knocker. He will privately give
a knock, yes a vicious knock but If
you venture to quote him, he will
swear you are bald faced liar, If he
finds his knock did not meet with
popular applause. He is man
whose private opinions are one thing
and his public opinions are another.
Of all the knockers that ever knock,
the silent knocker is the most danger
Gus.
As soon as you hear people COM
mence to advocate the advisability of
endowing the family, you recognize
that the endower feels his family is
too weak to enter into the game of
life; the family has lost its red blood,
and it is more than a guess that the
family should ''go west" since it is
unable to contribute to the worlds
need. It is well known that as soon,
as you endow, you kill. Relieve
person, family, church or institu-
ton from constant struggle, and you
have signed ''the death warrant" We
must force responsibility upon them
who inherit wealth, Or we must make
laws that will take it away from them
say a rapidly progressive ''inheri-
lance tax" so the public will partici-
pate in all large fortunes at the death
of their creators.
It was truly gratifying to the Com
munity Red Cross executive commit
tee the way the hurry-up program
went off at the Sheridan Coliseum on
last Tuesday evening. 1t was the
first real effort that ever was made
hxT coll ~f Hox-c - 70
folks to do as one community, one big
social thing. At least 1900 people
were there. The program started off
ION time" and there was not one min
ute, of lost time until the program
was finished. 1t closed by singing
America and all that great throng
repeating the Lords Prayer. 1t was
a real success. All went home believ-
ing more in the neighbors., and their
nation. 1t is to be hoped that the
future will have many more such ga
therings. Mr.. Penney the head of
the Red Cross drive reported that FL
lis County had more than $500 mem
| bers enroIled-that means every
| fourth person is a member.
If you have thoughts that are not
local, thoughts that are for people
and not to benfit a local organization
or elias or coterie of self-admiring
sef-perpetuating propogandits, you
will find yourself to be mighty lone
some. Lonesomeness is the price of
power, and the higher you climb the
less you can expect of companionship.
The heavier the responsibility, the
harder you will find it will be to dele
gate tasks, and the harder you will
find 1t to be to escape mistakes If
l will CtT1du tho h0z- -
posed world men who have been
thrown into the waste basket since
this world war commenced, you will
understand the philosophy just stat
ed. Remember what has happened to
Asquith, COrdorna, Joffre and Crosier
Karansky, Romanhof and Bethmann-
Hollweg.
This sentence, ''The things we have
seen declare we unto you" should be
the slogan of men who love Gods
great out of doors. For centuries
| men did not see nature, and but few
see anything but stern commerciaIism
IN all out doors" today. You speak
| of the beauty of nature to most men,
and they think you mean, that field
of wheat is beautiful because it will
yield thirty bushels per acre, or that
field is beautiful because you will
husk eighty bushel of corn per acre.
1t is not that mean, but an orchard
is more beautiful in bloom than when
it is hanging full of mature fruit
a field is beautiful because it is car
peted with grass, not because it will
furnish feed for one hundred head of
Herefords. I mean beauty not con-
nected with utility.
This is the close of the year 1917.
No year has ever seen so many chang
es. No year has ever left the world
| SO upset. No nation is sure of its
standing in the families of nations
All nations are living with faulty
strung nerves. 1t is no uncommon
thing TO learn of nation crashing
because of nerve exhaustion. Rus
STA is nerveless, bioodless, helpless.
A vampire is feeding of of her She
is as colorless of character and vir-
| ility as a nation composed of a hook
wormed people. She is as simple as
a child, and not leader to be found
In her population of 16O,0OO,OO0.
She is the most helpless, inane, stu
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