The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-11-07
SOME THINGS
and OTHER THINGS


A big homegrown, wheat-fed girl Of
Kansas, may not be able to tango as
gracefully as her city-bred, city-cul-
tured, hot-house-grown, park-trained
sister, but she is sure there with the
jingling bells when it comes to doing the
kitchen scrub, the dust-rag dip, the
frying-pan waltz, the pancake flop,
the broom-stick wave, the cooking
canter, and the butter pat. Most men
of these days are looking for wives who
can do these home stunts successfully.
Men are getting tired of society pre-
tenders.
This paper stands for human progress
but if the thistle-wiggle, the tommy
rot tango, the jack-rabbit hug, the
black squeeze, the half center kick, the
oozy-woozy buzzard flop, and the sickly
puppy huddle, are to be our standards
of social progress, then we cry, turn
back o time in thy flight, and let the
modern "giddies' take lessons from
their dear old grandmothers.
The man who does not make new
friendships as he passes through this
life; the man who thinks he can get
along without true friends; the man
who at the age of twenty-five thinks
he is sufficient unto himself, will find
that after he has passed the sixtieth
mile-post that he is the most lonesome
and unhappy man in town. People
keep your friendships in constant re-
pair if you want your last decade on
earth to be happy. 1t will touch your
heart if you will observe many of the
old men who walk our streets. They
are sad and lonesome. They are made
to feel that they are in the way, and
that the world would be greatly bene-
fitted if a funeral would take place.
''Not wanted, is the way they feel as
they are passed on our streets. OBJ
serve that strange, drawn, hurt express
sion. They have grown extremely sen
sative. If you do not want to expert
ence this sensation, keep your friend
ship in good repair.
The old putty-heads who stood around
a few years ago protesting against
women voting, because it interfered
with their getting '4drunker n billed
owl, and raisen all manner O trouble, "
saw their fool bluff1ng called on last
Tuesday and witnessed more intelligent
voting than has ever before taken place
in the old Jayhawker state. The
Wonens' vote has made the old wheel
horses of the old parties dizzier than
when the Australian ballot was intro
duced. They find that the beer bottle
and the cigar box do not control the
election. Many old political FOUNDERS
went down by the vote cast by the in
telligent women of the state. The old
regime is gone and the dawn Of bet
ter day is here.
HAYS can boast of a man who is more
that seventy-fve years old and who
still speaks of his better half as
''wefey," of a man who profoundly
proclaims himself as a prohibitionist,
but wants stiff whisky when he takes
a cold; of wife who insists on buying
neckties for her husband; of a college
graduate who says E'have saw ''have
did," chad went, - clay over" and
higher altitude" of a man who has
passed 95 years and remembers well the
happenings of IS years ago; and of a
woman who can run an automobile
through barb-wire fences, bowl over
telephone poles and do many other
dangerous feats with a Detroit Ford.
The old ways of political thinking and
doing have exhausted themselves. Our
present systems of human relations are
not able to endure-the strain that Is
coming upon them. Many Of the so
called sacred constitutions of the people
will be consumed in the fervent heat of
social trials in the next 80 years. Not
since Augustus Caesar achieved the
Roman unity of splendid misery has
the world felt the dread and sorrow of
a universal social change that needs
must take place. The break of civil
cation has now taken place in Europe
and the worlds map will not be unrolled
for ten years. The worlds passion of
to day is construction and it can now be
seen that it will have to come through
destruction. A pure social democracy
is the political fulflment of Christianity
We American people are not demo-
cratic people. We do not in fact select
our representatives we elect; we do not
make our laws; we do not govern our
selves. Our political parties are largely
controlled by close private corporations
that exist as parasites upon our body
polite. We call it gang rule, boss rule
and we will have change as soon as
enough people think.
Wishing to commemorate in some
way her deceased mothers birthday an
niversary, on Friday evening, Mrs. Hale
entertained at a six o'clock dinner,
twelve of her elderly women friends
All but one in attendance were wild