The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-09-16

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station at Salina is just finished and be
fore long We may need union one too.
This week there were definite assur-
ances sent to Hays that the new north
ern railroad to Hays would hit the town
before the southern one did. With no
thing to show above the surface, these
two roads are competing to see which
will reach Hays first.
1.-The automobile is doing a silent
work for Hays that no one seems to
realize. The Russians who first settled
around Hays are gradually moving
westward They took to Hays as the
center. They come back here in big
super-sixes. The potentiality of this
one thing is immense.
1.-The little towns west of here for
several counties are full. In many
there is not a vacant room, much less a
house. The automobile connects them
with Hays. Live business men are
numerous here and they are all right,
bat we need men who see this vision
and who viii reach out. Hays does not
do it now Twice a year fifty automO-
biles filled with men should have trade
tour out into the west with all sorts of
stunts and literature Hays merchants
| may deny it vehemently, but there are
some Hays ladies who shop rather reg
ularly in Ellis
Without arguing the merits of the
family secret at all and taking no sides
whatever, I wish to call attention to
the "skyline" on the platform west of
( the depot. It's a rather good thing
J that most Of our trains go through at
night and. that all worth while people
from a distance come here then and
leave then. Some day a committee is
going to come here and see that. That
depot platform should be covered up.
The Skyline would be out of sight.
The committee that selected Winfield
as the best town in Kansas in which to
1--we, viewed that Skyline" A mem
Der of that committee told me that
that one thing-not the fact of its be-
ing here, but that it was not kept under
a roof-eaused Hays to receive a lower
score Let's build roof before it hap
pens again.
The roads that lead into Hays and
many of Ellis county roads are the
worst in this section of Kansas.
''The women and men of the towr
need q sense of the appreciation Of The
value of street improvements. Streets
are the suits of clothes with which we
4 cover civic nakedness. What should
be done about them, do not pretend tC
offer advice, but I know that it should
5 be something.
: E'On one of his trips to Hays recent
ly, Henry J. Allen, said that if he own
Z ed a newspaper in Hays, he woulC
: make his first campaign to tear dowr
: the disgraceful awnings built out il
{ front of stores. He said that he would
not let up until every one was down
} Now, Mr. Bird and Mr.. Clark, it's VI
2 to you. These wood and tin affairs ar,
relics OF pioneer days that are nov
kept only in museums.
1.-The Golden Belt Teachers Associa
ton is a great force in Western Kan
S sas and its meeting here means mucl
to Hays. 1t will grow and take il
: more counties each year, As an evi
+, dence of its bigness, the association
e will this month begin publication of al
i educational magazine To be publishes
from Hays. The policy of the maga
: zine VIII be controlled by the editoria
board of the association, but it viii b
5 published from Hays.
3. The football games brought here .,
e Coach 'Bunt" Speer are drawing card
that advertise Hays all over Western
r Kansas.
: TINS year the first state wide con
i test of oo@egiate standing to come t
{ Hays viii be presented.
D, The musical festival in Hays in tn
Spring viii bring from 1890 TO 500
: people here for two or three days
T Artists ike Alice Nielsen, Louise HON
y er, and Pasquale Amato, and the Me
f tropolitan Opera House Orchestra O
, New York City, and the New Yorl
e Philharmonic Orchestra will appear a
[ those times.
E The Sunday afternoon pipe orgal
: recitals in both the little auditorium
4 and in Sheridan Coliseum, viii attrac
D thousands when the roads are good an,
2 they viii be two-thirds of the time
/ These people who come here In automo
5 biles have money and they will appre
4 eiate a good town and might soon NOV,
f here to live.
: THAT brings me to the probable siz'
:, of the town-Henry ]. Alien places i
at 10, 900 in five years. We had bettel
: get in on the ground floor, Listen t.
this: thirty-nine bare lots eight blocks
2 from the business section sold the othel
4 day for a total OF s72OO. Is that I
straw showing the way the wind i
: blowing2
? Commission form OF government /
: the writing on the wall and the machin
i cry OF city government viii be changes
) in such way as to promote the vel
t faresOf the town.
''I have purposelyynot mentioned the
! Normal school the ExDerimenf-ss tafion