The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-08-18
ISOME THINGS
and OTHER THINGS

verbs To-
Whatsoever We do in word or deed
do all in the name of Jesus.I Col 3 1T
There are usually two things in
each day to do, one of them must be
done, the other you desire to do-let
desire take the SECOND place
Before the world will place high
price upon you, you will have to dem
onstrate that you are of red blood
and iron, and not made of water and
straw.
It is very hard to learn where your
business commences and ends, so we
find that the first rule of duty is to
"mind your own business
meet droves of men who work on
the rule, eff we were sure" in these
undertakings we would act. My OBJ
servation is, they have nothing, have
failed to accomplish anything and as
a rule form the dependent class.
Most people can bear more advers-
ity than they can judically and hon
estly use prosperity.
know poverty is a terrible thing,
but have noticed these terrible north
winds have whipped our leading men
into vikings of commerce. You who
have read the story of Rockefeller,
Carnegie, Wanamaker, Jay Gould,
and Vanderbilt know how these men
came from poverty bitten ancestry to
commercial Opulance.
Polite reference made and grace
fully expressed of another person
will never be forgotten
Refined sense, even if not good
sense, has a novelty and rarity that
will largely compensate the user.
When you have a bad job to do
| well, remember do not stop to play
with the spoon, but take your medi-
cine; for the putting off hard bad
task for little while, it is ten to one
the task will become impossible.
Just being obstinate and mulish
| does not in any sense say you are a
man of good sense and of logged per-
| severance.
The most of US have such contin-
ually everlastingly tired feeling, that
when we meet man who is so pune
tual, with his work that he says,
''next" ahead of our time, we want
to make a hero of him. One of the
most interesting men that has come to
Hays in many day is the brick layer,
who places the paving bricks. He
keeps eight helpers busy and is in po-
sition one-third of the time to say
next" It teaches US there is a man
who has found and conquered self
His muscles and brain are in tune.
True ambition aspiring to climb
over barriers that have been con-
structed bya youngera ignorant civil
cation will give way to unselfish talent
''This far and no farther" can never
be written over undertakings that
| benefit the race. But remember that
groveling souls never look up, and
never overcome the seemingly impos-
sible.
The people who are contemplating
planting wheat this fall, but are
spending their time specializing or
hot winds, poor rain fall, droves OF
grasshoppers, and chinch bugs viii
not sow much wheat. But if in the
course of the next year a great croI
is harvested these very men vii
stand around for the next ten year.
and tell you how they missed it il
1917 and IL. But if you viii stud!
the past of such men they have al
ways missed it." The men who havt
made a real killing have dared to d.
when other sat on the fence and whin
ed. 1t is much better for any man t.
undertake and fail than never t.
make a throw into the future
The language you learn between
birth and the age of fifteen-I meal
the words and their meanings will
largely shape your life and give yol
your place in society. The Language
you use marks you man or a scah
You may be able to accummulat
money and property and force your
self upon society, but mentally
among cultured men, you will b
thought of as a scab, if you use tn
vocabulary of the scab order.
Wide thinking horizons tend to en-
large the mind while limited horizon
narrow the mind. 1t is the hatred O
narrow minds for liberal ideas tina
letters the advancement of society
For more than twenty years, the lead
ing educators have advocated chang
in the teaching of mathmatics in tn
first year of high school, but the oil
thinkers have protested agains-
change. l am glad that Prof. ShiveI
ana the SchOOl Board OF Hays haV
had grit, grace and gumption enoug
to break with the past and make tn
change. Since we are supposed to b
the intellectual hub of Western KaI
sas, let the Hays High School set tn
pace.
Any man who overtakes his ides
: is to be pitied. Such people you kno7
Z have blOomed and gone to seed. Greer
ness may indicate youth, but we mu.
admit that it is a season of growth
Ripe people are decaying people
Conservative folks are Statistic
folks. They have gone to bed int
lectually and have written ''finis' a.
ter all their work-yes, they are sa
isfed folks-that is it. They are graz
ed, labeled and shelved. How thinI
ing people should despise finishe
people. They look and take their plaC
in the world of change like well bake
cookies. When you commence to que
ton the present order of things, su,
costing certain changes if mac
would advance the peace, comic
and happiness of society, they con
mence to protest by saying, est is il
oportune, crops are short, none