The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27
FARMER BOYS ARMS WEAK
VeIoped Because of the Intro
duction of Machinery

The coming of farm machinery has
created Eerplexing problems for the
departments of physical training in
Middle Western universities, accord
ing to DR.. James Naismith, head of
that department at the University of
Kansas. The average farmers son Of
today, DR.. Naismith says, is weak in
the chest, arms and shoulders, due to
the decrease in physical labor required
on the farm since the introduction of
machinery.
81 was raised on the farm and had
to manage a hand plow, which took
every ounce of my strength" DR.. Mai
smith said. when it came time for
binding, hay cutting and stacking the
arms and hands did much of the work.
But now the work has become
more for the feet than for the arms.
Machinery lifts the hay into the loft
and the farmers son does not have
to pitch it up himself any more. Bind
ing and cutting are done by machin-
cry. Flowing is done with motor
tractor"
This causes a lack of development
in the shoulders and chest Of farm
er's sons who are sent to the Univer-
sity Of Kansas, and it is the duty of
DR.. Naismith to put them through
gymnastics intended to build up the
undeveloped muscles of the boys. He
says that the proper kind of exer-
else will quickly overcome the unsym,
metrical development.
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Kansas Bacon for French-The Cud-
ahy Packing company of Wichita has
completed a consignment of twenty
eight hundred cases of Wichita cured
| bacon to the French government at
Bordeaux. Each case contained $50
pounds.
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Leased 10000 Acres for OiI-Twelve
| thousand acres of land in the north
half of Johnson county have been
leased by oil men. About three-fourths
of the amount is leased to J. H. Ehr-
hardt of Pittsburg, while the Clark
interests of Kansas City have leased
5000 acres. The district has shown
indications of being rich in oil and
drilling may be started in the summer
| To Honor Custer-Mrs. Elizabeth B.
| Custer, wife of Gen. G. A. Custer, is
helping the senior class of the Fort
Hays Normal school locate the spot
on Clusters Island" near there where
stood the famous camp of Custer in
1867. The seniC are erecting a r.
foot concrete shaft to mark the place.
Former Judge Dies in CeiI-Pres-
ton w. Bean, who was Judge of the
probate court in Atchison twenty-five
years ago, is dead in the Kansas peni-
Tertiary at Lansing. He was 81 years
old and was sent to the prison on
February Is from Greenwood county,
where he was convicted of obtaining
money under false pretenses.
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Banker Was Prepared-Two rob-
bers, who locked Urban Gibbs, cash
Ter, in the vault at the Peru State
bank recently, escaped with $4,000.
Gibbs was the only person in the in
stitution at the time He unlocked
the vault from the inside with screw
driver after the robbers had left.
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LEANS OF women MSSC-D0anS Oh
women in colleges held their first an
nual conference at the University of
Kansas the other day under the direc-
ton of Mrs. Eustace H. Brown, ad-
wiser of women at K. U.
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Gives Toes for West Point-With
two toes amputated that he might pass
an entrance in examination to West
Point, Harold De Forrest of Wetmore,
was discharged from a hospital at
Atchison recently. The operation was
performed two weeks ago, and De For
rest, who also attended Midland col
lege, has left for his home.
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Rush Cattle to kansas-The last fiji
teen days the Santa Fe road hauled to
pasture from the Texas Panhandle and
Il New Mexico, 100000 cattle. It required
2 A2S ears f1 fransncrf the cfooI-