The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-01-05
SOME THINGS
and OTHER THINGS

Without faith it is impossible to
please God Hebrews 11:6.
And he said unto them, Where is
your faith? Luke 1925.
All grafters are stupid, for they
would not be grafters unless they
were stupid. The reason is, a man
of ability does not have to be
crook, his ability is always in de-
mand, but a weak man feels he must
stOOp in order to compete with a
man of ability So become CRATER
No one reads history but that he is
forced to conclude that its long story
IS filled with ingratitude.
Mankind has never been able TIC
| unite its estimate on any man. Three
Bill would be a disgrace to hell, while
a few hundred millions think heaven
would be honored with his presence.
No accounting for the tastes of some
people.
If you will study the theory of
conservation in its working through
society, you will more than likely
conclude that it is a euphemism for
bigotry.
The old rule, ''think twice before
you speak, is often quoted, but 1 am
sure this should be added think
NICE" then it would read think
''twice" and "nice" before you
speak-in other words, 'sIet your
words be acceptable"
Some people measure men by their
coats. but when they do they make a
mistake, as the tailor took the meas
ure for the coats, ard it is more than
| likely the tailor used much padding
to give them their noble shape.
Friends, you know, give certain people
fine standing of the "stand-
ing is padding"
Have you learned that your capac-
| ity is limited? Some f1attering friend
may have said to you, ''you are an all
round man, you can do many things,
anything you may choose" If he
did he was making fun of you, be
cause you were manifesting smat-
tering of many things. There is but
one thing you can do your "dead level
best at" and unless you are doing
that one thing-if you have reached
the age of thirty and still are moon
ing it is more than likely you will con-
tinue to be a mild lunatic.
|, There is a sense in which you must
be autocratic and automatic-that is
you must manage yourself and oper-
ate, and in a large measure on your
own initiative.
About the latest and cheapest
braggart is the man who is and has
been for the last nine months talking
and acting as though the war would
close before he would have a chance
to get into this international mixup.
All we have to say to this cowardly
boaster is there are few unfinished
jobs for him to do, and more than
likely they will be open during the
year 1918.
As we are entering into the year
1913, and it is more than a guess that
this year is to be the most terribly
sanguinarily gloriously bloody of all
years ever strung on the girdle of
time, 1t behooves US to honestly think,
really fight to put something over,
definitely over, for the benefit of the
race. It is now our opportunity to
give ourselves a fair, full show. If
We do not we will he enslaved for a
hundred years.
Oft times you give strict orders as
to what should be done, the hour
comes to do the given task, the re-
| sponsible one neglects to do it, and
as result a damage is done You
confront the responsible party. and
he will say, ST did not think it was
necessary" Now it is this class of
folks who are always saying 81 did
not think" and therefore did not do,
4hof oh 2 Ii
ders, misery and grief. The I-don't-
think fellows are nothing but social
make shifts. And they stand around
looking owl-eyed wondering why they
are not in great demand It is the
"I-do-nOt-think" people who never fill
places IN life and who are always
complaining about not being appre-
ciated.
If you want to accomplish anything
use your gifts; do not stand around
looking as If you should have some
new faculty IN order to add to the
worlds accomplishments. All that
has ever been done, has been complet-
ed with exactly the same outfit you
now have. You are of the same
breed as all the masters dead or liv-
ing. 1t is for you to move uD, tighten
up, and take possession. IF you stand
around and say you know a hundred
men who are better and more eff
Gent than the one doing the job and
that even you yourself could do
better than the present incumbent
and fail to prove yourself for the
position, you are in the minds of US
lockers on nothing but a cheap brag-
lent contempt.