The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-17
SOME THINGS
and OTHER THINGS1

but the heart and mind OF man
Many men are out seeking the ros-
es of fame, but they still find they
grow on the throny stems
1t is impossible to find all noble
marks of character in one man.
You will always find a little poi
son in the mind of every person.
noticed you avoided a real under
taking the other day. Why did you
do>it? 1t was worth your while. Has
that ancient fighting blood of your
ancestors lost its color?
The reason the present looks so
uncertain is because you have spent
so many years studying the anti
cedents of the past centuries
You cannot be checked off if you
have decided to win a place When
the superstitions that were so COM
mon before the reformation were
marked out the barriers of the present
were set aside.
If your pride and faith are gone,
you are gone. If you think and fight,
the world has a place for you,
I am afraid you are not giving
yourself full, fair, free show, or
you would not be wearing that de-
jected expression of failure.
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You must remember that you are
autocratic and automatic. Your full
upkeep rests upon you, so stop blub-
boring and shifting about the in
gratitude of your associates.
Nature never spends her time tin
kering with man. If there are re-
pairs and improvements to be made
man must do it.
There were lot of good houses
at Yocemento, but they became use
less. Society could not use them so
brought them to Hays, where they
could be used. 1t is more than like
ly the only way you will become use
full is to move.
Consider who you are. 1t may be
that is the reason you are not in de-
mand.
I was listening to you talk the
other evening. You were Dragging
what you would do under given
condition. Now your record indi-
Gates you have done a mighty poor
job managing for self, so l am in
clined to look for a manager ''who
knows how" l am sure your record
viii not reach up to leadership.
If you want to get into big bust
ness try being a good citizen for a
while.
Just because you are six feet of
bone and gristle is no reason you
are a man. Brains are so much more
profitable than bone.
If I remember correctly you were
one of those cringing snivellers talk
ing about our gnpreparedness and
Dragging about Germany's organlza-
ton. You were giving, by talking
that way, aid to our enemy. If you
are still talking that way you may
put it down that the government is
hunting you with red lantern.
In thinking of men today, this ques-
ton came, Who knows but there are
more remarkable men unknown, than
are known? This we do know, that
! in the great host of failures there
are large number of extraordinarily
endowed men. 1t sometimes seems
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| because of the extraordinary man OF
men that are back of him. Perhaps
some men suffer the penalty of su-
! periority and miss being great ii
their age.
There are plenty in the state, you
will find one or two in most every com
niunity, who do deeds that are SO.
cially debasing, but justify their &C
against it,, or by arguing it is Gle
gitimate business" There are plenty
of acts, that have not been made into
a statue, that are wrong, and only
! criminaloids will do. These wrong:
come under the common head o.
graft" These men try to justif5
themselves by making a distinction
between doing wrong and getting
the wrong done. They become con
sumers of custom-made crime. They
point the way, provide the money
and insist on results" but refuse
to know the foul methods used. They
do not cheat but promise "rake-offs.
Well you know them.
Sometime you will want to take
stock of other days. 1 know of NJ
better way for you to pry open tn,
closed doors of the past than to stud!
the cancelled checks that you have
written for the past five years. The.
make an odd summary of experience
you have chronicled. They are tn
abstracts of duties and pleasure
that have slipped down the cracks o
your memory They recall baker
butcher, grocer. Look them over an
you will recall you said things whel
you came to the common extortione
known as the plumber You vii
note also the many extravagances an
follies you paid for-you got moth
ing in return, society got nothing
you justified yourself by saying 20
! have a right to do as I please wit
mine own" Well just study you
checks for an hour and you viii real
lie you are not infallible. It i
just wonderful what magic histor,
you viii find IN those little slips o.
paper reading "pay to the order Of
We are living in an age, wher,
nothing but badness is news. AnC
even that has to be seasoned. Tn,
editor is not even permitted to say tn.
good things about people that h,
would ike to. In fact Tn,
editor has to walk the straigh
and