The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-11-06
SUNFLOWER PETALS
PIucked by the Golden Belt Spectator.

PIucked by The Golden Belt Spectator.
The Spectator has no advice to offer
the Bethany football team which will
make it's appearance in Hays on Thanks
giving day.
HAYS is a good football town. At
present it is supporting two good teams.
Hays would also support lot Of other
good things if some one had the nerve
to start them. Hays is long on hind
sight and weak on foresight and has
been since 1889
The Spectator has often had occasion
to gracefully hand a bouquet over the
editorial footlights to Herbert Cave
ness. His paper last week had little
item entitled, Prices for Puffs. " Now,
Herb is anything but peerless prince
of puff purveyors and there is little
wonder at some of the items. If his
suggestions were adopted this paper
would do several things somewhat diff
ferently from the accepted custom of
the past. For instance:
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Price list, item No. 1.-For telling the
pc ople of Ellis county that man is a
successful citizen, when everyone
knows that he is lazy and his wife has
tofurnish all the backbone of the family,
S2.7O.
Price list, item No.2.-For referring
to deceased citizen of Hays as a man
incurred by the entire community,
when he is only missed by the poker
circle, $10.45.
Price list, item No.3.-For referring
to some gallivanting woman as an esti-
mable lady. whom it is a pleasure to
meet, when every man in town would
sooner see Satan coming, S1.99.
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Price list, item No.4.-For calling an
ordinary preacher an eminent divine
and pulpit orator, 60 cents.
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Price list, item No. 5.-For saying
that merchant who does not adver-
tise is one of the progressive citizens
of Hays, 10 cents.
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Price list, item No. 6.-For saying
thatFa certain social function was az
event long to be remembered and that
pleasant time was had, when everyone
knows what bore it was, 25 cents.
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From the above items, the Spectator
expects is collect only from No. 2
Some one may later move to Hays wht
would fill the bill as we'll as pay it
eff you want your secret kept tell i
to newspaper man. The Washington
reporters knew all about the president
courtship and not one of them eve
said a word, until the question wa
popped and the official announcement
was made. A newspaper mahcan keel
a secret better than blind, deaf, ant
dumb man, if he is trusted. "-Herbert
Caveness in the Chanute Tribune.
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There are some Hays people who vii
not tell a reporter thing yet will tall
over the back fence to anyone. In
recent C ase which took place not as ia
away as Alaska, if the reporter hal
cared to give urrency to all the will
tales in circulation, some people VIII
do not live in town as big as London
would have been the most surprise
people in the world to see in print tn
self-same tales they themselves wer
reciting as the gospel truth. The COLI
hnality of print is an awful thing. An
it would not be such an awful thing
more newspaper reporters were truste
from the first.
However, the Spectator does not wis
to say word in behalf of that beas
who is q careless newsgatherer.
the hurry of newspaper editing, mis-
takes will occur. Accuracy and agai
accuracy" is the motto of every re;
newspaper and of every reporter worth
of the name.
To the really clever girl the fellor
with an automobile does not necessarl
amount to more, but being wise in til
ways of the world, she takes the ev
dence before her and no one blame
her.
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With his usual happiness of phras'
ology, William Allen White hit off
squib the other day, that is expected
be read from coast to coast. The Spe
tator expects that you viii have read
several times by the time this gets
you, but here it Is:
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rs HE OUR GREATEST?"
The birthday of Thomas Edison raj
es the question: Is he our creates
American?
Well, light is more powerful in pr
serving community s morals than Law