The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-11-20

Heys CITY Free Prose
Will they next survey the air and
stake out racetracks?
Chronic fatigue no longer II regard
% a. the mark OF q good policeman
II takes Spain a long time to learn
that the rest of the world keeps on
moving.
Keep the milk supply pure and the
water supply abundant. Safeguard the
public health
Spain may surprise King Alfonso
some day by demanding a twentieth
century government
Street cars reeking with the pun
gent odor OF moth balls remind the
people that winter is near.
No wonder the earth is shaking Just
at present There are enough things
doing on 1t to make 1t a trifie nervous.
II Noah's ark was as full as the
Smithsonian institution soon will be. 1t
must have been loaded beyond Plim-
soils mark.
There is reason to believe that
nenceforth the great white plague will
occupy more modest quarters in the
census reports.
Once in awhile even now. a man or
woman will die for love, but it
doesn't happen nearly so often as was
formerly the case.
Meals on railroad trains average 70
cents. Who buys them at a lower
price than that to cut down your 81 .25
check to the average?
1t is only the conventional kind OF
1iV1ng that comes high. When a man
can get pair Of khaki trousers and
two khaki shirts for two dollars. what
more does he need?
A proposed society fox hunt in Ohio
has been stopped by the humane So
'cieties. The humane authorities must
have thought some of the hunters
were In danger of catching the fox.
The car will not visit Moscow, the
old capital OF the empire He ought
to sympathize with the demands of
his people for greater freedom, for he
seems to have very little of 1t him.
self.
Only a short time ago the wireless
telegraph and aerial navigation were
'classed as visionary; to-day they are
practical realities. Progress in the
twentieth century. moves with fleet
feet.
The military aeroplanes of the fu-
ture will drop bombs on warships.
Warships OF the future will be fitted
with guns to destroy aeroplanes. And
90 the take-and-give invention of war
fare goes on.
The Joy riders OF Gotham have
broken out afresh. Nor will their raw
ages be checked until the law and the
authorities devise punishment to fit
the crime. which ought not to be diff.
ficult in this day of resources.
England has turned out the biggest
sea-hghting machine yet, supposed TO
be impervious to torpedoes. Now the
inventors will get to work on a con.
quertng torpedo. That is the way. AS
soon as an immovable obstacle ia
found out then human ingenuity gets
quickly to work on another Irresistible
force. The comforting reflection with
peace lovers Is that no war could
last long with such instruments OF
wholesale destruction.
The bureau of statistics OF the de-
partment of commerce and labor an
nounces that continued Improvement
in the industrial situation of the coun.
try is indicated by the reports of lead.
ing internal commerce movements
during the past month. There is a big
increase in the transportation and use
of materials like soft coal, coke and
iron in the output of mills and distri.
button of products. With good grain.
crops it looks like a busy and prosper.
Gus winter.
The total dividend and interest pay
ments October l will reach $161.721..
900. which is $16,574. 900 more than
last year. showing the marked adj
vancement in prosperity and the gain
in industrial activity within the period
indicated. And the way in which mills
are starting up, crops are coming to
market and railroads are getting busy.
exhausting the stock of surplus cars
and calling for more, gives sufficient
indication of still better times in the
Immediate future.