The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-07-15

capita Breakfasts and suppers usually less
than the dinners, the average for the three meals
per day being 81 cents.
Having help pay feed important
items in figuring up the of serving food in
most colleges. has played important part in this
economical showing. The selfhelp plan only
cuts down expenses, but gives the young
such practical course in domestic science-part
of the laboratory work to prepare each week
four new dishes in sufficient quantities to feed all
the people in the dining hall-that they will be
benefited by 1t all their lives. They not only
study domestic science, but do all of the work in
their own rooms, the laundry work, ETC., and at
the end of four years they will come able, and
it is expected willing. to do anything and
any problem that is likely to confront woman in
the home
The president led the way a window from
which visible fine rolling stretch of farm
land part of which ready for the planter. This
is the college farm, consisting of 50 acres. Next
fall the students will be fed from the product of
that farm. Some of it, of course. will be fed to
the cows but they will produce milk for the COL
lege commons; some of it will be fed to the pigs,
but they will be growing into meat all the time;
and some of it will go directly to the kitchen In
this way the young men supplement the work of
the young women. They produce what is cooked,
and are learning to be practical we'll as theO-
retcaI farmers.
All of the farm buildings are put up by the
students under the direction of the farm superfn-
tendent. They recently completed poultry
which is model of its kind huge barn and
silo to be started. AS Doctor Hudson
marked, those boys are likely to be much better
farmers than their fathers.
Another unique feature at Blackburn is that
students know as little of the cost of high living
they do of the high cost of living. The college
puts ban smoking, drinking and the other
evils commonly found in the youth world a boy
must keep himself clean, if he belongs TO the
Blackburn college community.
Two particularly interesting students for
eigners. bright-eyed little Jap and curly-haired
Persian. The Japanese student America
get education, believing that all needs to
do is just here and after that everything
is free But he disappointed in his dreams.
He had planned to spend three years here and
then go home found little school the fun
damentaI principles of Christianity. a friend in
Japan had said that he would furnish the money
the young finished his education
So he tried large state university. They were
very sorry but they had so many American boys
customs. They didn't how they could do any
thing for him. Then he went a large endowed
university, and the story the same Finally
he heard of Blackburn and went there. The preS-
dent asked him what he could do and he said he
believed he could cook So he put the
kitchen and he works there three hours a day, as
sisting the young women
The other boy all the way from Persia.
with the exalted notion of opportunity in
America. He had received a little training in a
hospital, but he wanted to be real doctor and go
home his people as a medical missionary. He
spent IA months looking for a college that he
could afford. A Persian doctor in Chicago directed
him to Blackburn and he went right along and has
made a fine record He is the head of the sweep
ing force.
The students at Blackburn all work-three
hours a day. All pay the and work the
same. 1t is a communism. They don't pay so
much per hour as colleges do. but each stu