Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-03-21
SEVENTH YEAR.
UNDER NEW HEADS.

UNDER NEW HEADS.
The WORLD begins, with this issue, to
sail under newly-shaped heads. Il
To indicate, in measure, the large
region of country for which it will speak,
the name has been made "WEsTERN
KANSAS WORLD" The surname, as it
were, is not changed. We would not
change this for one thousand dollars It
is well for newspaper to stick to its prin-
cipal name, even when the name is not
particularly pretty or appropriate. Time
confirms uss:in the belief that the name
WORLD is not defective in either of these
particulars.
While we shall expect the heading and
the motto to show, even to him who picks
up the WORLD for the first time, that this
is, in its fundamental nature, stock-farm
journal, short explanation in this con-
nection may not be out of place. Not
only has the form of the head of the
WORLD been changed, but the paper now
carries two general heads, whose utility
will probably become apparent to the
observer as time moves apace. These
heads are intended to place the stock
interests ahead of all others in western
Kansas, and to show that farming, to the
extent of raising feed for stock, and no
further, is, at present, to be desired-in
fact, is indispensable. We have not, in
these heads, aimed to deceive strangers
into believing that this western Kansas is
a land of cities, forests or navigable
water courses. Our aim, rather, has been
to show that stock-growing and stock
feed growing form sure basis for our
industries; that these constitute, in full,
stock-farming, and that any working man
who viii grasp rightly this problem
can make money faster, with less outlay
of physical labor, and enjoy better health
while he is at it, than he could in the reg
ular farming country to the east of this.
The WORLD has been an advocate of
stock-farming for five years. 1t does not
deny that straight farming can be done
here with profit in the future when, for
instance, the buffalo grass and its almost
stone-hard sod are extinguished. In fact,
We expect that such a condition is in store
for western Kansas, but even then stock
farming will pay much richer returns
than straight farming Some gentleman
of wisdom-we forget now who he was
told us few weeks ago that, after resi-
dence of a great many years in Shawnee
county, Kansas, he cheerfully conceded
that, although farm cropping in general
is safe there, stock-farming is what all her
soil tillers ought to follow.
But, at all events, the WORLD is acting
for the present.
1t does not abjure its Republicanism
nor tithing of it.
Its news feature will be enlarged,
instead of curtailed.
Editorially, the WORLD will continue
to be calm or denunciatory in tone, as the
question under discussion may seem to
require. For sham men and sham prin-
ciples, its full stock of contempt will con-
tinue to be carried. IT,
With this issue, material enlargement
takes place in the WORLD; not because
business policy or duty to our people
requires it, but just to create place
where we can be sure to find room to sink
ell the money which we are able to save
from other sources of outlay. This con-
etant effort to produce something better
has been our experience as journalist.
In the main, it has been highly satisfactory
to us. The WORLD feels grateful to the
press of Kansas for showers of handsome
compliments and general kind treatment.
Here, as elsewhere, are few men who
would bury their home paper, because
they can not control it The trouble with
them is that, in anything Ikea determined
tussle, they are outwinded, and placed
before the better portion Of the commu-
nifty in much the plight OF the ostrich
which imagines it is hiding its vulnerable
parts by sticking its head into the sand
But we would not be misunderstood.
Few, If any, of these people are in these
parts now; and what there are of them
are really more apt to ask us for strong
favors than are our warm friends And
while the subject of friends is up. we
shall say for ours in this country that
they are thick and reliable. We may
have missed opportunities to cement
friendships; but there is one thing We
have not done: We have seldom tied to
any man for q close friend and found IN
him any thing else. Without arrogatlng
to ourself any praise, we account for tnls'
in part, by believing that We have been
recognized as attempting at least, to Be
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