The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-30
lSOME THINGS
and OTHER THINGS


meridian. They say it is frontier
western village, but let this quill push
er suggest to the benighted tribes east
that Hays City is on the map with
mighty scream. Wednesday, Maud
Powell, the greatest women violinist on
this grain of sand and tears was
with US while little old Salina has been
trying for years to secure her servicesH
but did not succeed, but imperial Hays
City secured her; and now comes the
word, excursions from the east and
west, for the March oratoros The
Creation and the Chimes of Normandy, u
will be run to accommodate the music.
lovers. Here are three cheers and al
tiger for President Lewis and Prof. II.
E. Malloy who have placed us on the
map. For years the Free Press dream
ed of the time when we would take our
place and the college would have more
than 500 students enrolled, but we have
seen that day and all persons not asleep
are talking for the 1000. We can take
care of them. We will have them in
less than three years.
We hear so much about America be-
ing the melting-pot for the race, but if
We are not more careful we will make
it nothing more than a casserole filled
with a concoction composed of Jewish
greed, Polish traditions, Italian garlic,
Syrian rugs, Turkish fanaticism, heat
ed by the flames of race prejudice and
all of this ringed around by Yankees ina
dervish dance, and everybody financially
mad. Every tenth man is foreign born.
The only way to keep American ideals
is by the way of the public schools.
A wealthy farmer was in our town
few days ago. He made speech some
thing like this: 81 would give 800 acres
of land worth $50, 900 if 1 could read
and write. - While he had great ac-
emulation of property, he felt himself
poor. He was begger in an educa-
tional sense. Yet we have young peo-
pie standing around refusing to take
advantage of present opportunities
Ge%OA 01J ORCAAL III S(AAOO1 ID WI III S1OsOO
to any person in the future. Any young
man who has completed a twelve
year" course has at his command if he
will use it, an asset equal to S21, 800.
Remember, school tests and tool chests
are valuable.
The cry of the people is Improve
conditions of present life" Not that a
few may have, but all may be benefited.
We elect men to do certain things for
US. They try, but they die. They
think for the individual rather than
for individuals. They work largely for
snaps" They think locally rather
than universally. They must think in
terms of all and not in terms of one be-
fore they will succeed.
Two years ago we cried ourselves
hoarse for tariff reduction. We got it, |
and not one thing has been made cheap
er. We are learning that 1t is not all |
in the rule of Supply and demand. "
A little of the trouble is there. The |
most of our trouble is in the unsatiated |
greed. The spirit of being rich rather
than being useful so dominates US that
money forgives a multitude of sins.
We are going to have to change this
rule of action" or we will keep on
grinding the under dog.
Farmers take notice! In 1776 during
the Revolutionary war wheat sold for
81. 48 per bushel. 100 years ago during
the Nepoleonic wars, it sold for $500.
In the Crimean war, sixty-seven years
ago, it sold for $1.85. In the war of
the rebellion, fifty years ago, it sold
for $2.85. In the Russo-Japanese con-
fict it sold for S1.60. None of these
wars were to be compared to the ter
rible conflict now waging in Europe
According to the signs of the times
wheat will be selling in Hays at So 90
before next harvest.
In an old doctor book published in
1549 by DR.. Noah Biggs this wonderful
secret is told: ''Gold, which alchemists
do call Sol, is metal of such import
ance that it is superior to all others in
vertue, weight, and prise and of bright
ness and fairness, and is that, with the
which may be made a medicine that in
manner giveth life unto the dead" 1t
is rather strange that this old doctor
learned this wonderful secret so many
years ago, and while we may laugh at
the remedy, it can come as near calling
some OF the old misers from their
graves today as anything known to the
medical profession. The jingling of
the double eagles" win call more at
tention in the average audience than
the most profound discourse ever utter
ed. Gold viii cause a general social
resurrection. It will cause the preach
er to take long breath, the banker to
take notice, the merchant to get busy,
the farmer to shout, the editor to
laugh, the day laborer to labor, the
judges to look wise, and the doctor to
speed up his automobile It is the