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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-04-16
KANSAS PLANS FOR
REFORM EDUCATION
PRACTICAL TRAINING INSTEAD OF
COLLEGE PREPARATION.
New "Insurgent" Found-He FaVors
Mapping Out Life Work for
Pupils According to
Aptitude.

Topeka movement is on foot
among the leading educators of Kan
sas to discard the old conventional
course of study in the public schools
and install a modern course. The dead
languages. higher mathematics and
some of the scientific studies are to
be dropped, except by pupils who ex,
pect to use those things in their life
work. The new plan is to give each
pupil the education that will do him
the most good in his chosen trade or
profession.
In order to effect this change it also
will be necessary for the universities
and colleges OF the state to change
their courses of study. AS it is now
high school courses are devised to
meet college requirements; the new
plan contemplates that college courses
shall be devised to meet high school
requirements.
The new movement has reached
that stage where it has become a po-
litical issue. In several Kansas towns
recently, where elections were held
the insurgents" against the present
system won decisive victories In To
peka the insurgents" captured every
office of the school board but one.
This insures the installation of the
new system here next fall.
Educators of note say the high
schools should get down to practical
work and give pupils an education that
will fit them for their life work. Less
than 4 per cent of high school pupils
In Kansas ever go to college. The old
scheme is to use the high schools to
fit the per cent for college work and
ignore the sc per cent for life work.
This Is to be revised.
The proposed plan further contem-
plates that the school authorities and
the parents shall map out the life
work of the pupils. If pupil shows
aptitude for a certain profession or
trade he will be given course OF
study along that line. A business
course will be established to equip pu
pills who expect to engage in business
Manual training schools will enlarge
their courses so as to include all the
important trades. The same will be
true of domestic science courses for
the girls.
kansas is waking up to the situa
tion," said State Superintendent OF
Schools E. T. Fairchild, land the in.
states in reforming her school system
TO conform to modern and practical
lines"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-04-16
Kansas Roads as Models.

Washington, D. C.-The department
of agriculture has just issued a 30
page pamphlet telling of the practical
results in good road making that have
been brought about in western Kansas
under the direction of experts from
the department. The pamphlet is en-
titled "Sand-clay and Earth ROADS III
the Middle West" and is written by
w. L. Spoon, of the office Of public
roads, who personally supervised the
road making in western Kansas. The
department regards the work accom-
pliShed in western Kansas as of ex-
ceptional value and full descriptions
of the roads built at Dodge City, Buck
lin, Ford and Garden City are given,
with cuts showing the roads. Origin
ally under taken as an experiment as
the result of suggestion from Repre-
sentative Madison, the work has been
so successful the government is anx-
ious to interest other communities in
the matter. The western Kansas ex-
periments have proven that the most
impossible sand hill roads can be
easily converted into thoroughfares as
smooth and solid as paved street in
city. The newly issued bulletin tells
how this may be accomplished and 1t
is expected that the demand for the
publication will be heavy, especially
from Kansas. Mr.. Madison has had
1000 copies of the publication print
ed for distribution by himself and will
be pleased to send a copy to any per-
son interested. Road overseers will
find the publication especially helpful.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-04-16
KAN3.
GOOD LANGUAGE.
HAYS CITY.

very valuable habit for a family to
acquire is that of using pure and pre-
else language. AS a matter of art,
such an acquisition is desirable. There
are beauty and grace in the very form
OF language correctly and concisely
spoken. There is a charm in the speak
er who is careful OF his manner of
speech But far more important than
the beauty of correct speech is the in
tellectual vigor which it Stimulates and
promotes. The use of good language
encourages the habit of clear thinking.
Speaking well and thinking well natu-
rally go together. The intellectual
process largely controls the manner OF
expression. This does not commend
the use Of stilted and pompous lam
guage, for that can be, and sometimes
is used, to conceal the lack of thought.
Our object is to discourage mussy, in
coherent, scrappy and slangy speech.
because 1t tends to ruin the mind and
morals, too. People who use such lam
guage have confused ideas and lack an
appreciation of what is true and beau
tiful. There is nothing more serv-
1ceable in making good clean men and
women out of the children. than a
household habit Of clear and concise
expression. 1t promotes not only think
ing, but thoughtfulness. and thought
fulness is one of the greatst virtues
OF home. But make exact and prop
er speech one OF the institutions of
the home and 1t will remove from the
heart many anxieties for the future
of the child
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-04-16
Ninety High Schools.

Hutchinson.-"Ninety high schools
IN Kansas are now getting state aid
under the normal training law" said
W. d. Ross, state inspector of normal
training in high schools, who was here
attending the teachers convention.
1.-THE purpose of the law is to en-
courage young people who expect to
become teachers to continue through
the high school. The state allows each
high school with such normal course
$500 a year. To show the need of such
q move, there are now about 1000
teachers in our rural schools and only
one-seventh of them have high school
training"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-04-16
The School Law Opinions in Book.

Topeka.-State Superintendent E. T.
Fairchild has prepared for use in a
school journal, a list of opinions of
interest to school boards, county SUI
perintendents and school teachers
over the entire state. The opinions
are based on the school laws of the
state. Among other opinions is one
holding that the public money may be
used in school districts for the pur-
chase of individual drinking cups for
the use of the school children Mr..
Fairchfld also holds that a ladder is
no suitable" fire escape for a school
building under the wording of the law.
He holds that where ladders are in use
some other arrangements will have to
be made. A district having no school
house may vote to have no school and
to pay for the sending OF the school
children to other schools in other dis
trictS.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-04-16
Threshers' Breach Widens.

Wichita.-The breach which has
been maintained between the warning
factions of threshermen of the south
west was widened by the action of the
members of the Threshermen's Asso-
citation OF the Southwest, in session at
Wichita, unanimously voting to hold
the next convention at Hutchinson. If
the difficulty had been patched up the
convention would have been held here
the same time the other faction holds
its convention in Wichita. Over 1000
of the threshermen and their families
attended a barbecue at Wonderland
park. Officers elected for the ensu.
ing year: E. C. Caldwell, Halstead,
president; Timothy Payne, Oskaloosa,
secretary; J. r. Mcmillan, Americas,
vice president.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-04-16
WILL BE BIG CORN CROP.
Acreage Will Be the Largest in the
History of the State.

History OF the STATE
Topeka.-Reports from field men tc
the state board of agriculture show
the wheat crop in bad condition, espe-
cially in the great bread belt; indicate
that the corn acreage will be the larg-
est in the history of the state; and
brag about the fine condition of the
oats crop.
Alfalfa has come through in good
shape, except in a few places. Much
ground is being sown to tame gross.
Where the wheat is almost gone the
ground is being put into corn The
season is from two to three weeks
ahead Of time and the farmers are al
ready in the midst of corn planting.
Fruit is in fairly good condition ex-
cept peaches.
All Of the experts say that rain is
needed not only for the growing
wheat, oats, alfalfa and tame hay
crops, but to start the pastures and to
put corn ground in growing condition.
In Southern Kansas stock is already
being turned out to pasture.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-04-16
Car Had % Head HOGS

Wichita.-C. P. Summers of King
man now probably enjoys the distinc-
ton of having shipped more pounds
Of hog in a single car than any other
shipper in America. He consigned SO
hogs to the Union Live Stock Commits
sion company, shipped in Santa Fee
car, that weighed 29,970 pounds, for
which the Cudahy Packing company
paid him $3,174.76. 1t was the heav-
lest car load of hogs ever received at
the Wichita stock yards and probably
the heaviest ever received at any stock
yards in America. 1t was a single
deck car and every hog walked to the
scales all right.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-04-16

The proposition to cnange the date
OF presidential Inauguration from
March to day late in April. in order
to avoid the risk of Indictment weather
has ben sidetracked for the present
There is opposition in congress on
various grounds. but one OF the most
curious is that the movement is In the
Interest OF the Washingtonians, who
want a chance for showing off, under
favorable conditions. There really is
little glory for the Washington people
In the inauguration exercises, and as
they bear the expense of the spectacu.
lar part of the performance there
would not be any serious damage done
II once in every four years they did
give themselves the privilege of get
ting into the spotlight. But the really
serious objection to Inauguration day
In early March is the risk involved to
the lives and health of the partici-
pants.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-04-16
ReturnInu to Prose.

Flushed with triumph and 80 de-
grees in the shade, parched and scant
of breath, they stood upon the tower
ing mountain peak, and surveyed the
gorgeous panorama that spread itself
beneath them like a two-inch to the
mile ordnance map of the whole
world.
"There!" she exclaimed, angrily.
1--WE have climbed all this distance to
admire the beauties of nature, and
we've left the glass at home!"
TRANQUILITY smiling, he shifted the
lunch basket to the other arm.
Never mind, DEAR" he replied.
There's nobody about. 1t won't hurt
us just this once to drink out of the
bottle. "-AnSwers.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-04-16
Pastor stuckey Is Out on Bond

Topeka.-The bond of Wallace
Stuckey, the pastor convicted in the
district court of Franklin county of
abducting Lorena Sutherland, has
been approved by the supreme court.
Under this bond Stuckey will have his
freedom until the supreme court takes
up his case. After his conviction in
the lower court Stuckey appealed to
the supreme court and filed bond
The bond was not approved for the
reason that the securities had not
been endorsed by the Franklin county
officials.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-04-16

The immigration into the United
States in 1909 did not reach record fig
ures, the arrivals at New York, the
chief port of entry, being 771,3SO,
against 1,040.169 in 1907, which marked
the food tide. But the ingress of
aliens indicated that prosperity had
returned, for the ebb and flow of immi-
grafton correspond very closely to the
Industrial situation in this country.
There were some unusual features in
the 1909 immigration, including the ar
rival OF 1888 persons from Brazil to
locate here. Ordinarily the drift is sup
posed to be in the other direction.
Brazil being largely undeveloped and
Offering notable inducements to set
tiers.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-04-16
Fraternity Men Ahead.

Lawrence.-According to statistics
compiled in the office of George O.
Foster, registrar of the University of
Kansas, members of frate@nities have
made better scholarship showing
this year than non-fraternity men. I o
compile the statistics the work OF all
the non-fraternity men and that of the
fraternity men was averaged. The
two results were compared and it was
found that the average work of the
fraternity men was 2.8 per cent bet
ter than that of the men not in Greek
societies. Last year conditions were
reversed.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-04-16
Hold Crews Liable for Wreck.

A case without parallel in the Kan
las courts and, so far as can be learn
I'd, in any court in the country, will
De pushed by Attorney General Fred
). Jackson, with view of testing the
responsibility of trainmen for caus-
ng wrecks. S. ]. Edsal and Fred
Poyner, engineer and head brakeman
IF a Missouri, Kansas and Pacific
freight train, which crashed into a
Missouri, Kansas and Texas passenger
rain at Moody Junction, October ID,
asst year, killing Grace Nelson and in
uring several other passengers, will be
prosecuted on a charge of manslaugh-
Ter. 1t is alleged the passenger train
had the right Of way and the freight
was trying to make up time. Prosecu-
ion for criminal negligence is common.
but no records can be found of a
prosecution on charge of man
slaughter with penitentiary sentence.
The action is being brought by the
county attorney of Coffey county, but
Attorney General Jackson is planning
10 assist in putting the case through
he supreme court.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-04-16
Fish for Every Family.

Wichita.-Prof. L. L. Dyche, state
fish and game warden, declared that if
the farmers of Kansas will follow his
advice he will establish enough ponds
to give every family in the state one
good meal of fish once each week,
which would be at least $4,000, 900
worth of fish each year He wants
the farmers to build fish ponds and
will issue a bulletin in a short time
on how to build the ponds and on how
to select fish for stocking them and
how to feed the fish. He is now visit.
ing ponds which are being built and
says that most of them are not proper.
ly constructed.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-04-16
Corporation Law Given Death Blow.

State officials say that the final
blow given the Kansas corporation
law by the United States supreme
court recently renders 1t practically
imperative so far as foreign corpora
tons are concerned The original law
provided for a certain license fee for
foreign corporations, based on capital
stock, and provided that such corpor-
atoms could notNhave the protection of
the local state courts unless they paid
The fee. The United States supreme
court recently knocked out the license
lee clause on the grounds that the
state could not tax the entire capital Of
foreign corporation unless it was
used in it's Kansas business. In other
words, If a foreign company only en-
ployed one-tenth Of its capital in it's
Kansas business, this state could not
levy a tax on the other nine-tenths
employed in other states.
In the case mentioned, the United
States supreme court held that for
Iign corporation could not be deprived
Of the protection Of the state courts,
even though it had not paid the fee nor
filed a certificate with the secretary
Of state. These two points practically
annuI the law in regard to foreign cor
poratoions. The legislature next win
ter will enact a new corporation law,
probably along the lines of the New
York law, which has been upheld by
the courts.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-04-16
Bic Alfalfa MiII Is burned.

Wichita.-FTre almost completely
destroyed the big Otto Weiss alfalfa
mills in the north part of this city.
The fire was first discovered on the
roof of the main building and was we'll
under way before the fire department
could arrive. The store rooms and of.
fees of the south end of the buiIding
were saved, but all the machinery
and several hundred tons of baled al
falfa in storage are a complete loss.
The damage is estimated at $45, 900,
covere by a $4,000 insurance
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-04-16
HAD NERVE.
Reason for Envy.

The stingy man had come home and
had objected when his wife attempted
to kiss him.
1--WE just had a tooth pulled" he
explained.
well, envy the Dentist" his wife
replied.
You envy the dentist? What do you
mean?"
ooh, nothing much" the wife sighed.
"Only he's the first person I've ever
heard of who succeeded in getting
anything out of you."-Woman's Ma
tional Daily.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-04-16
Girls Earn College Expenses.

Lawrence.-An investigation recent
" concluded by the Woman's Student
Government association revealed that
there are lat University of Kansas
girls earning part or all Of their col
lege expenses while in Lawrence.
Fifty-six earn all of their expenses.
Many of these girls have been FORTUNE
ate enough to find agreeable work as
stenographers, tutors and clerks about
the university. Others do homework
in families.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-04-16
Abolish Thanksgiving Game.

Lawrence-Fifteen hundred stu
dents of the University of Kansas
voted unanimously in favor of abolish
ing the Thanksgiving football game in
Kansas City, which has been the big
feature of university athletics in this
section for fifteen years. The stu
dents voted to hold the game on the
Saturday before Thanksgiving and
than 1t be played alternately in Law
renee and Columbia, Mo.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-04-16
Too KIN the Wheat weevir.

Manhattan.-Prof. Geo. A. Dean Of
the Kansas Agricultural college has
begun the study of the wheat weevil
with a view OF its eradication This
pest is present in wheat from the
shock to the flour sack. 1t is esti-
mated that $1,000 900 is annually sub
tracted from the value of Kansas
wheat before and after milling be-
cause of it's presence.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-04-16
Anti-roxin Distributed Free.

Stations for the free distribution of
diphtheria anti-toxin for the poor of
Kansas have been established in every
city and town in the state of over 500
inhabitants by the state board of
health Requisition blanks have been
distributed to every physician in the
state whose name and address appear
on the directory of the American Med.
zeal association. Lack of funds has
prevented a more complete distribu
ton at present.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-04-16
irrigation Scheme for Ford County.

The State Charter Board has grant
I'd charter to a new irrigation COM
Iany in western Kansas. The COM
)any is known as the Irrigation and
land Improvement company of Dodge
City. 1t is capitalized at $4,000 and
proposes to irrigate a section of the
Arkansas valley in the vicinity of
Dodge City. 1t is authorized to con-
truct dams, canals, dig bitches and
% do everything else necessary to an
irrigation project. The incorporators
If the company are all Dodge City
nen with the exception of John Har-
per, who lives at Cimarron. The in
perpetrators are: A. B. Reeves, o. M.
Reevs, P. I. Tribelock. H. o. McCarter,
9. T. Dancy and John Madden.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-04-16
Sumner County Pupils Wins.

Wellington.-The oratorical contest
OF the county high schools of Southern
Kansas, held here, was won by Win
dell Ready of the Sumner county high
school. Second place went to Elmer
H. Harding of the Montgomery county
high school. The other contestants
were Miss Irene Graham, Labette
county; Frank DreciA, Cherokee coun-
ty, and Miss Bessie Buck, Crawford
county.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-04-16
Date for Bar Meeting SCI.

Topeka.-The executive committee
of the State Bar association, in session
here, fixed January 1913 as the date
for the annual meeting of the associa-
ton. Judge Charles Smart of Ottawa,
president of the association, will Sc
cure the outside speaker for the occa-
sion.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-04-16
1877 Soldiers Are Transferred.

Leavenworth.-Orde were received
at Fort Leavenworth directing the
transfer of 1877 men from the Thir-
teenth infantry to California posts. A
special train took the soldiers to their
future station. The transfer was made
to cut down the Thirteenth infantry
to the strength allowed by the war de-
partment.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-04-16

A Cleveland schoolma'am when
she was attacked by a highwayman
threw him into a snow bank and then
jumped on him This is a splendid ar
gument for the cleaning of sidewalks
If the sidewalk had not been cleaned
where the schoolma'am was attacked
there might have been no snow bank
into which the highwayman could have
been thrown.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-04-16

The Cincinnati telephone exchange
has a new arrangement by which a
subscriber who begins to find fault
with Central is at once switched to
sweet-voiced operator, called In the
office Technology Trouble" who asks
him gently: What's the matterr' It's
great thing for the Cincinnati folks
to have somebody to tell their trou-
bles to.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-04-16
Ingalls, Leaves Oil Company.

Sheffield ingalls, has re-
signed as traffic manager of the I'm
Gle Sam Oil company to become pres
ident of the Commerce Investment
company Of Atchison. a new financial
institution capitalized at 100000.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-04-16
Estate Increases $3.50, 900.

Atchison.-The largest personal
property return in the state last year
and the year before under the new tax
law, was made by the Storch estate
in Atchison. 1t was returned at $780,
900 last year, but this year the returns
show $4,000, which probably means
that it will hold its lead.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-04-16
A Small Loaf.

A half-famished fellow in the south
ern states tells of a baker (whose
loaves had been growing small by
by degrees and beautifully less") who,
when going his rounds to serve his
customers, stopped at the door of one
and knocked, when the lady within ex-
claimed: who's there?" and was
answered: 1.-The baker, What do
you want?" ITO leave your bread"
"Well, you needn't make such fuss
about it; put it through the keyhole."
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-04-16
Ottawa Masons to Have Temple.

Ottawa.-At a meeting of the Ma
sonic lodge it was voted to purchase
the Zellner three-story building at Sec
and and Main streets and convert 1t
into a Masonic temple.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-04-16
critics and Manaoers clash,

Between the whole press of COpen-
hagen and all the theatrical managers
a curious contest has started because
the managers want to compel the
critics to write only favorable notices.
The contest began when the board of
theatrical managers forbade the ad.
mission of one critic representing a
special theatrical paper
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-04-16
Supreme Court Tough on Preachers.

Supreme Court Tough on Preachers.
The supreme court had a fall-out
with a lot of preachers who conduct
the Garfield Biblical Institute in Bour-
bon county in a decision just handed
down. The case affected the title 10
some property in Bourbon county.
The prechers put up the claim that in
the suit filed to secure possession of
some land they claimed to own they
were never served with the proper pa
pers. They denied that they had been
srved in any way The supreme court
put the preachers in the Ananias club
in its decision, holding that they had
not only been served with the papers
but that they were drawn up in the
proper form.