The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-09-29
NEWS 6 NOTES OF THE FORT HAYS NORMAL SCHOOL.


For almost four years every addi-
ton to the faculty baby class has
called forth the weary pun about in
creasing the infantry. Well, here
goes for about the 'steenth time.
Lyman Dwight Wooster, Jr., arrived,
etc.,-Saturday morning, September
22nd. The friends of Mr.. Wooster
can get the customary cigars by cal
ling at the King Bros. Drug Store. Mr..
Wooster is authority for the state
ment that the baby was named by
his wife and that up to the time we
the child and does not see the joke
his wife is having at the child's ex-
pense.
Herbert Hoover, the National Food
Dictator wired President Lewis from
| Washington, Wednesday in regard
to Lewis appointment on the eXecu-
tive committee of the newest food
conservation campaign.
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Grandview
! Midst the sandburs in the sand Pm
a hanging out these days. The sun
sets are as gorgeous as any you may
| find. And they eat the watermelons
with a likin' to the rind.
With a background gray with
sagebrush and the cattle roamin'
DER
There's a cast of tiny figures with
a schOolmam for a star. When youI
fitting in the bright lights in your
fussy ruffle fuss just smile a little
brighter for a comrade that once
was.-Julia Annette Keller, Garden
City, Kansas, Sept II, 1917.
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Realizing that the soldiers at the
front and at the camps in America
who have been students will more
than welcome news from their Alma
Mater and that to merely send the
school paper savorS somewhat OF
formality, al of the English compost
ton classes of the Fort Hays Kansas
Normal School will be asked by P
Caspar Harvey, to write the schoo
news in the form of a long persona
letter to all the boys who are now il
the service or who will be called into
it. The first letters were assigned to-
day in on College Rhetoric class OF
thirty-one students. In order thai
all available news which might inter
est a soldier about his school may bt
secured the classes in journalism vii
post lists of news suggestions. Eacl
soldier is to receive a direct persona
letter from students now in school
In many cases he will know that stu
dent. Instead of the traditional
themes these letters will be assigned
regularly throughout the school year
1t will mean extra work but it vii
S link the school and the trenche
closer together to the mutual interes
of both. The soldiers will be asket
to reply, but that lengthy letters ar
not necessary-just a word if moth
ing else.
Mr.. Harvey is anxious to obtain tn
names and addresses of all forme
Hays students who are with the col
ors and anyone who will fOrwar
them to him will have that nam
placed on the correspondence lists.
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In an editorial on Monday, unde
the caption, Letters from Home,
n The Salina Journal referred to tn
D | idea and program mentioned IN tn
| above note The editorial follows
, "When our boys reach the battle lin
r we should speed up our letters
y them.
. The folk back home for whom tn
: lads are doing the fighting should g
q least write warm, personal letter
i which viii do more to cheer them o
;. in the trenchs than anything els
" Some of the thrill and interest of tn
= war will pass when the men are line
= up in trenches and forced to wal
!, wait when the American blood
3 them is urging them to strike out an
q hit The days will be tedious, til
II routine almost Supplying and letter
= from home will be welcome.
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. If the war is not closed before tn