The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-01-19
SOME THINGS
and OTHER THINGS

Thy God, whom thou servest con-
tinually, he will deliver thee. Dan.
GIG
In the world We shall have tribula-
tons be of good cheer. l have over
come the world. John 1888.
The wrong doing of people is ever
filling the NAV of chaos. So long as
| selfishness is the motif of ambitions,
measures fail. The reason Germany
will fail is because of her selfshness.
Only failure and ageless contempt of
al well thinking people would be pun
ishment enough for such a nation.
The German nation reminds you
of the old saber-toothed shark, and as
that fish lunged through the ooze of
the aeons of the past and died, so
must this british nation pass into OBJ
livion.
This is the worlds cleaning. This
is the age when personal selfishness
has to go. By the close of two years
any man who holds to his notions
of ancient greed will be hated, and de-
spised by his neighbors. If you are
1SAAA AAOANAAAAS " IllC 4AOI4OAA IIicI O(Il-
ers" Will "do and payd' your part and
you will not be found out, you are
badly fooled. You. refuse to do your
full measure and you are accursed.
Only the people who build honestly
and truly live; others pass to dust
We may be IordIy for the day but
Desting whispers forgotten
I hear some express the doubt of
America being able to win this war
Only weakling are doubters in great
undertakings. The great things of
life are never done by such men. This
world belongs to the sons of strength.
[ am convinced this war is to be won
by America, and no other nation but
America is able to win it. Success
is word found written in the hearts
of our sons. America has 100000
of the bravest, strongest sons that
ever fell into step under the folds
of any banner.
In your childhood you had many
questions to settle. You then, as
now, used rules to guide you. The
rule of childhood was "eeney, meenie,
mynie moe, catch a niger by the
toe, if he hollers let him go, eeney, |
meenie, mynie moe and this rule
seemed to help solve those perplex-
ing problems Of those days. We
laugh at it today, since we have
grown up" but after listening to
men discuss perplexing questions in
their mature years, and finding they |
make just as many mistakes in their |
conclusions in their mature wisdom !
as we did in childhood, it is a question |
II We have ever Outgrown the old |
''eeney, meenie mynie moe" rule. In |
other words life is made up of |
t'luck;" men do not like to admit the /
''lucky dog idea, but many do ad- /
nit it privately because of their sue
cess or failure
If you have not been adding to |
your thinking the new thoughts to |
your mental kit of tools, you will find /
you are a back number. You cannot /
hope to compete with the new order |
OF thought economics. Just as pow /
erriveter has taken the place of a hun
dred hammers so has modern thought |
taken the place of the ancient think
ers. We are now living in the age of |
high tension thinking, so speed up
or step to one side. Modern think
ers have no use for the class of peo-
pie who think all vital thoughts are
Of the by-gone days. The moment
have become foolish.
When the Kaiser brushed his mus
tache upward to give himself a fierce
to make himself look terri
Die to his beholders, he set q style
for the present generation of Germans
that has turned a nation into worse
than beasts of prey, bloodier than red
Indians, and more cruel than the
Grand Inquisiters. Some day the war
will stop. 1t is more than possible
that an ambassador from this land
of bloody hate, will want to locate
IN Washington; and that the United
States will send an ambassador to
Berlin: but who will want to go to
Germany, to Berlin the city of diplo-
matte liars, falsifiers, and moral deg
enerates? VIII we want to send
our children to attend the colleges
of Heidelberg, Stuttgart. Munich or
Dresden? If-you will think about it,
YOU Will not want your children to get
this German attitude. 1t will take
long time for the world to think kind
y of that nation that has had the
Golden rule trained out of it. Not un-
III the Kaiser brushes his mustache
downward will it be admitted into
good society.