The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-05-19
lSOME THINGS ...
and OTHER THINGS


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Evening and morning, and at noon
will 1 pray, and he shall hear my
voice. Pisa. 55:17:
Remember now thy Creator in the
days of thy youth. Eccl. I'D.
The thing that makes it hard for
men of vision is the everlasting strug-,
gle against obstinate myopia-
1t is impossible for a coward to
convince society that he ever knew
Or did better thing for society.
Our brains have never been big
enough or powerful enough to incu-
bate the reality out of our vision. On
" the man who is able to unite his
spirit with his brains is able to be
real prophet.
Menwho climb over the obstacles of
effete civilization are always marching
in the dawn of a new epoch to give
you a chance-they refuse to ask
quarter-they are not willing to
grant any.
Sometimes l stand and study men
and from their actions / am sure their
fathers only had the right to use their
hands-but thanks to the Stars and
Stripes, every man under its fold
now has a right to use his brains. Stop
your sleeping and get to work.
Theodore Roosevelt has had to bat
I tie with more organized handlcaps
than any man in history, but because
of his marvellous genius he has been
able to go farther and climb higher
Of I7ic eli
breeding competitors.
If the worlds advancement had
| been regulated by the judgment of
the majority, the habits, manners and
customs of the period of Sir Arthur
would still obtain. Every new thought
would be celebrated with a human
| bonfire.
When you were a child you read of
wizards, elves, pixies, gnomes, and
dnjins and thought what wonderful
thing it would be to have such pow
ers, but these supposed powers of the
ancients are not to be compared to
the realities of the day. The guises of
/ our forefathers are the realities OF
our times.
The benefactors have had to pay a
heavy penalty to general ignorance
for working to have chance to push
this old world along.
If you will study little while you
will be convinced that we have clut-
tered the avenues of progress with
stupidity ignorance and incredulity.
We have discouraged every prospec-
tor going to the Foot Hills of Chance.
Sometimes nature is stingy when
she comes to giving you certain de-
sired elements of life. If that hap
pens to be your condition, there is
but one thing to do, providing you
need those elements to make you hap
py and a success; and that is, you
must work harder, coax more, and
you'll find she will give to you your
desire, for she loves a person, who is
not a gutter.
You must learn that nature keeps
all of her good things in a great
strong box and you cannot bride her,
but she places in your hands certain
tools with which to pry off the lid.
You can do it, too, providing you will
train long enough and hard enough,
and do not spend your. time bawIing
about your hard ! luck
''The fighting few" are always the
leaders. 1 know you stand around
saying, 81 don't believe in leaders, y
and after listening to you talk, for
ten minutes, we are sure you could
not lead a thirsty mule to water, and
do it in a systematic and orderly man
ner. More than likely you would
curse and jerk the mule; and shout,
''a mule hasn't any sense anyhow. "
You have judged yourself and the
sentence is not fit for the little job of
life.Ten cents per hour is big price
for your labor. The world says, "you
can no longer direct self, so must be
driven" The real trouble is you have
been cheating yourself in the past OF
opportunities. I hear you say, 81
don't care" Well if you don't care
there are those that won't care fol-
you.
If you feel that the crowd is toe
big for you in which to succeed-yoU
are rather small in courage if you dc
just slip out of town and go where
the contest is not so fierce. You viii
! only have to go 100 miles due wesi
to find that there is not family or
over $40 acres, and it will not take
you long to learn the land is just a:
productive as in Ellis County. There
are 100000 acres not 100 miles away
begging for men to cultivate them
They will be idle this year because
there are 500 men in Ellis, Russell
Ellsworth and Rocks Counties thai
absolutely refuse to work more thar
six months out of the twelve. Give
. yourself half the chance you are de
handing of the 500 leading men Of
these named counties and you viii
be known as leading men," 1t il
not the lack of chance but the unwil
1ingness to take a chance that make:
the difference between people.
Back to the FarmI'' Back to Pro
tectionp'
The American Economist gladly
joins in urging upon the people of thu
: United States a general and large in