The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-14

Most strong men seem to feel out of /
place at picnic. They would rather
do anything else than to attend one.
Fat women and children seem to have
the best times at an observation-disclosures
chicken-down- by-the-spring -in-the-big /
woods picnic Well, let them have it, |
but please excuse me. l prefer to sit |
in the sun, get bitten by the mosquitoes, |
and fish for the horny headed, big |
nouthed bull-head.
Middle-aged people are in great dan
ger of growing soggy and slouchy. 1t
s a common thing to hear an express |
sion like this, 'tWhat is the use, have
had my fling of life. do not care how
my clothes appear, my language sounds,
or if my hair does look ratty." If this
self-satisfed class just slows up little
more it will socially stagnate. Just be-
cause it has plenty of money is no rea-
son for it to become shoddy. We must
have more social 'get-to-gether" days
and talk about subjects for general
betterment. We must have general
understanding as to what is the best to
do for social uplift.
A man whose only supreme motive is
money-making is not the most desirable
citizen. A citizen who never contri-
butes to church undertaking, nor to
causes of philanthropy is soon known
as an old tight wad." Such one is
not much better for society than the
nan who will not earn money.
Less than two years ago the Ameri-
can people were advised by Drs. Green,
Starr, and Angel that world war was
an impossibility; that we were now
passing into an era of peace; that the
inventions of smokeless powder, of
submarines, and of aeroplanes were
such agents of slaughter that men
would "keep the peace rather than
undertake to have them used. But
such thoughts were only ill-digested
optimism. We know now the world is
Slood mad.
Educational committees, ecclesiastic-
al bodies and companies of nobodies in
the past highly resolved for world
peace, then cheered their own resolu-
tons, but the bodies of high-brows in
| their conventions assembled with their
mighty resolves" and therefore"
have not been able to keep the world
from the long looked for war that had
been promised to the race when it for
| got God.
We have been passing through the
most incomprehensible period of hard
times in the history of our nation. 1t
has taken year of human slaughter,
taking out of competition 400, OO0, 900
of human beings, and made them con-
sumers of much of our productions to
make US feel a little relief from the un-
explainable seven years of hard times.
Now if great world slaughters have to
take place to relieve the congestion,
then in the future our killing day will
come. Such ideas are abhorent to the
best that is found in u.s. So we con-
clude that much of our governmental
machinery is wrongly organized and
the sooner we make laws for better dis
tribution the happier the many will be,
and ancient class domination will lose
it's highly exalted and honorable place
Of all creeping things on earth, the
most pestifferous of creation, the most
abominable and dreaded pest of the
summer to be found in elysian Kansas
is that insignificant, knot-raising
scratch producing, blood poisoning,
soul-irritating spider known as the
business, cause more commotion, and
make more people get clown and
scratch" jump up and yell than any
beast that roams the prairie. He is an
impudent, persistent, domineering,
blood-sucking villain. We like 1.-The
good old summer time" and feel that
life is worth while until this peace dis
turber makes his appearance and then
summer loses all its beauty. If some
man could in some way only destroy
j this tormenter, he would be benefac-
tor and we would build monument to
his memory higher than the one we
have erected to Washington.
In other days If a gentleman did not
like his rival in business, he would in
vite him to dinner and in very digni-
fed gentlemanly way would poison him.
But to day the gentleman poisoner uses
coal-tar colorings to attract the atten-
ton of his victims; he uses boracic acid
to preserve his meats; and he uses
formaline to keep his milk sweet. 1t is
slow process but it finally reaches the
victims. But this is done in the name
of good business, and so gradually that
the consumers do not protest. For
years we tried to get federal control so
as to be able to keep the gentlemen
who live in other states from killing Us,
and the congress saw fit in the year
1905 TO give rs the now famous pure
81 food Law. IT made the noor grocer re-