The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-17
SOME THINGS
and OTHER THINGS

the palm tree. Psalm 92:l2.
It matters not where you may go
you will find this statement true, the
person who ever did any real good
had to run against a grindstOne and
be ground TO an edge so he could
cut something before he was reck-
oned with. We find so many when
force dto the stone have not mettle
enough to take an edge.
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When you look around for failures
among average men, you find such
men to be lazy men. A lazy man is
a human weed in the way of the pro-
Queer.
Yo will find that much of the fl
nancial success of the past has come
by getting other men to work for
you. It may be that you are better,
sometimes not half so capable, but
you have so manipulated things IN
til "other fellows" must put part of
their earnings into your bank ac-
count But the rule of working the
other fellow will have to pass. 1t
has almost passed in the farming bust
ness.
The new people are now march
ing onward in the dawn" Of a new
world. Remember the old things are
rapidly passing away. A man who
refers to the good old days is fool.
The good days are here. We are in
the fght-we ask for no quarter
We will grant none.
There is no mercy for the weakling.
We had thought that the brutality of
Caesars battlefield had passed, but
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comparisons, l am pursuaded he
would think his battle-felds were
hospitals of mercy when compared of
ours today. Human nature has not
changed-only our weapons for Kill
ling.
Just as soon as you commence to
gloat over your yesterdays, you are
old, out of the counting and are lost.
Remember your brain demands new
ideas as well as your lungs demand
new air.
When I see self-cotnplacency writ
ten on the face of a person, I know
he has been frostbitten. Security
kills growth. The world wants new
ways of doing old things. Remember
in these rapid moving days the new
of today is old tomorrow.
Yesterday the thousands were the
only people that counted. A man
said while ago, "ever be one of the
thousands" but today the millions are
up with the thousands and are de-
handing to be counted. And you may
rest assured they will be counted.
The narrow man cannot survive.
Broader forheads, broader chests will
take his place.
Some men are always trying to
force other men to work for them, If
they fail they abuse them. Putting
thought in language that it may be
easy to remember, it would be stated,
if they cannot use you, they abuse
you.
Many people are continually say
ing derogatory words about the bank
ers of our county-there are poor
| cheap bankers like we have some poor
cheap teachers-but the great mass
| of them are active, sacrificing men
| patriotic, long suffering, helping,
sustaining thousands in the hours of
depression, where one man is abused.
| No man who listened to the messages
brought to US by the bankers of the
| fourth group could feel anything but
/
| business leaders. One speaker left
this thought, "our nation was made
rich that it might give liberty to the
WORLD" 1t is up to the bankers to
financially enforce the thought.
am pursuaded that failure is not
due to locality, nor much to sur
roundings, but largely to the habit
of thinking. The right kind of q
man will grow an apple orchard in q
desert. If you do not accept that
| County of this state, you will find
one of the finest orchards for its size
in the state. Failure is not a disease
of community; it is a desease OF
the brain. Anybody can get a good
| living out of a steady effort. What
more do you want or need, if you dc
not know enough to use more? The
most of US become fools if we get
more. Now that was the reason
Banker Bradley of Kansas City, said
latter the world war there will be a
better distribution of wealth." More
pepole will know how to use it and
the fools who now abuse it will have
been forced to part with it.
Inipossibililties are only the efforts
of cutters. If you will not PC
through unto the finish of an under.
taking, you have finished before you
started / know some of these chick.
en- hearted people are trying to make
themselves believe the war is about
over. 1t has only started for US. Sup
pose Germany did bring France and
England to their knees, is that any
reason we are begging for mercy
from the brutes of earth? The only
thing that would happen. would Be
the Germans would have to come tC
America to fight u.s. The war would
last until Germany would say enough
It IS a real fight we have on hands
Germany is now fighting a liberty
bred race. A race not bred for con.
quest, but one that believes in the
right of all humanity.
| / re-read the Knight of the Round
Table a while ago. When a boy
thought the days of King Arthur
were the days of all days, huh
those days were never half as inter.
esting and glorious as the DAYS we
are passing through. None of those
old imaginative writer's ever conceived
anything to be compared to- the rea
productions of Edison, Tesla. Wright
Remsen, Haekel of Curie Even the
magical cid Garnet of the ma0i hos