The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-07-31
The folio wing was GRO Wded
out OF part Of last weeks
edition.
Let. Everybody Sign Il.

1t let's the Regents see what pecu-
liar lot of fellows there is at Hays City.
Governor Hoch, when Governor said,
that Hays had the most peculiar set of
people he ever heard of. They signed
petition and sent him asking for the
Pardon of Harry Kerfus, who attempt
ed to murder Art Williams. When
they discovered what chumps they
had been, signed a paper just because
some smoothe person had asked them
they flooded his Offices with remon-
strances that they MEANT PAROLE.
And Gov. Hoch couldn't help laugh
over it and paroled the man.
This week w. S, Picken, the Princi-
pal of the Western Kansas State Nor
NAL School, drawing big salary from
the state for his time, instead of being
at the school looking after the interests
of the scholars when many of them
were going to leave that day and the
next, as the term closes, spent Thurs
day afternoon gadding around our
streets asking the citizens to sign a
paper which meant that they were not
opposed to Councilman Matthew's mo-
ton to give the printing to the highest
bidder, which downed the taxpayers
that much more. They didn't condemn
one member signing the boyhood name
of another to a paper article to deceive
the people who read the article. They
didn't want the Regents to build dam
on the creek to benefit the students
and school as advertised. Thay didn' t
care if the biggest card of the school,
the Model District School, was put
down in cellar basement room, instead
of out in it's own building like district
school should be. Didn't care whether
the campus of the school was improved
so it could be continually told that
"Salina had the Normal skinned"
Of course the paper didn't say that
but it is what it meant, for these bene-
| fits to the school is what the Free Press
has advocated. It has condemned the
bad and it has hurt some of the fellows
that the shoe fitted. The Free Press
has advocated what was for the inter
ests of the school. "Swat the fly
when neeeed and condemn graft, even
if it hits friends. 1t urged a Model
school and it came. It urges these
needed things.
Cornell college prides itself on its
water sports. Princeton is spending
thousands to get water on it's campus.
The Free Press and our citizens gen.
orally want to see the athletic field OF
our school the grandest in Kansas anC
a permanent dam built to help make il
such. They want to see the Model
District School maintained SO as to
benefit the many teachers that come
here. They want to see the campus
the haDdsomest in the state, so no
school can beat it, even if it takes
some of the wheat rent money to do
these things. 1t is just what the rem
tai money is for, as the state provides
for the maintenance of the school by
handsome appropriations. Some want
to put off these improvements until
the next crop, the same as has been
done in the past, and use the $4,000 on
hand for other purposes.
And while the Free Press family
have sent their children to school to
help build it up, paid the tuition when
necessary, yet it was laughable to see
on that paper names of men who have
never sent their children.
1t may be unfortunate that Council
man Matthew should be connected
with the school, for his official action
may have been detrimental for the
school by his position, but that is no
reason why the Free Press should over
look the printing deal, (21s cents beats
cents.) While it was equally unfor-
tunate and hurt the school that an