The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-01-26
SOME THINGS
and OTHER THINGS

WItu MIN. lin. Z TX.
God is our refuge and strength.
very present help in trouble. Ps-
46:1.
I love a patriot above a cosmopoli-
tan, because in him there is an hon
est look. To me a man who has no
decided taste for home and home
"doings" is off color, and in these
hours of exact thinking and living,
men with foreign tastes should be
carefully watched and marked. Now
is the time for every man to find his
voice and place.
It seems strange, but this world is,
always upsetting itself. You say now
we have reached civilized condition,
look wise, and assume all is right;
then a new combination takes place,
and things are in muddle. Men will
not long stand for set order of af-
fairs.
You were looking down and out yes
terday. You had a forlorn look, and
all was over, expression, no hope at
tidue; but today something happened,
you find your ability is needed 1t
is this everlasting change that gives
you your chance:
Twenty years after we had laughed
at the first suffering, suffering,
jerking one lung motor car
we find 1,0O0,0O0,OOO invested to
develop the motor and thousands of
men employed in manufactures to
meet the demand. If you think you
are old, worn out, now is your chance
to prove to your neighbors you were
created for some use TO society. You
might help to win the war by lending
your time to the Red Cross Society.
It has hundred jobs you can do.
It is pleasing to note that ex-day
laborers are now fixing the price of
steel, and are giving orders to the
supposed "bloods." 1t is truly graft
flying to see some of the perfumed
dudes of society of yesterday take
orders from their gardeners, their
superiors of today. The war will help
nightly to place this generation
The shins of Hope may have been
backed when you fell down, but shins
will heal in time. If you want your
share in the worlds demands you
must pay for it. If you are one of
the ''mamn2y boys" hiding behind
her apron to keep from going to the
war, it IS now time to stop such cow
ardly foolishness, or in the future
take your medicine, for you will have
to take the jeers and sneers of all
people who count. The boys return
ing from the war "honorably dis
charged" are to direct this nation and
scared cats, nanny boys, draft dodg-
ers will not be needed.
I know of men who are too little in
their conceptions of life to be fair !;
| too pompous in ideas of social rela-
| tons to be important and too bigoted
IN their self Importance to be intelli-
gent. Just study for an hour and
you will be able to classify a few
such folks.
Do you see that little shrimp of
a human going down the street? Well
| he is too conceited too walk so he
struts. His conceit is a challenge
to people at large. The only way he
can conclude he is superior is for
him to think we are inferior. He
| knows his school record was a joke
and his college record was always
| lowering around cps" and 'FF's" his
| business endeavors were always fail
ureS and when he narries it will not
| be two years before he will want a
divorce on the ground of alienation
| of affections"
Any man who attracts for asso-
ciates snides, snobs and sycophants
has mighty little in him to appeal
to. The rogues tickle his vanity while
they rob him. Such a man NAV pose
and pass for king among the nobodies
but thinking people put him down as
a pest. After while nature and So
ciety quits coddling him and jams
! him against the wall. 1t takes the
blow of a terrible defeat to reduce
his bump of conceit.
1 love what is American. I love
its government, its genuine demo
cracy, its opportunities for common
people, its inheritance unblemished by
primogeniture or entail, its uni
versatility of education, its history and
its futurity. I believe we have just
as great souls, as keen minds, as
many geniouses as Europe. I dis
ike people who place greater value
upon production simply because it
was made in Germany" made In
France" or "made in England" I
believe we are able to cope with the
nations of earth; that while other
nations may have age, we have all
the varility of youth, and that we
have the initiation to take the best of
the dreams of youth, and thus add a
meaning to 'made IN Amer
lea" that will give America q
standing. IN the worlds thought that
has never been conceded to any other
nation.
4 1t is strange how so many people
are better acquainted with distant
places than they are In their imme-
date country, county or town There
are plenty of people in Hays who
have lived here for ten year&, who
have never been to Clusters Island,
the Lone Grave, nor on Boot Hill:
there are a large number of people
IN our city who could not locate
Dead Mans Hollow, the Dry Well
nor Hangman's Bridge. All of these
places have more romance connected
with them than those made famous
by Washington Irving, Legends
of Sleepy Hollow" 1t see as to be
q mental weakness we have of de-
precating the near and over estimat-
ing the remote. According to such
logic, no good, thing came out of
Nazareth, imported products are the