The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-04-07
WOULD UNLOOSE
KANSAS SPIRIT
Governor Capper Issues Proc
Iamation Urging State TO
Show It's Loyalty.
FRIDAY, APRIL 6, IS FLAG DAY
Executive Calls for Display of
country's Emblem and Exercises
in the Public Schools.

in the Public Schools.
Topeka.-In a proclamation which
urges Kansans to adopt program of
patriotism, Governor Capper has fixed
Friday, April s, as Loyalty Day" in
Kansas. The governor asks that
flags be displayed on every home and
business house in the state; that
patriotic exercises be held in the
schools; that public meetings be held
and messages of support and encour-
agement be sent to the President and
Congress.
The proclamation says in part:
Today, despite a patience too pro-
Ionged, the American nation is verg-
ing on war. The spirit of Kansas is
stirred as it has not been stirred for
a generation. Our peace loving people,
without hysteria, are quietly setting
their house in order that they may be
ready for whatever demands be made
upon them. But that the world may
know Kansas stands as ready now
as ever to do her full duty and more,
hereby designate Friday, April 6,
as Loyalty Day.
IuIIQ0T urge
today, all public offices and the people
generally, give expression to their
loyalty by a daily display of the flag
upon their homes, their motor cars,
their public buildings and places Of
business, and that school exercises be
opened daily by the singing of a
patriotic song. 1t is not to our credit
as patriots that the average Ameri-
can is ignorant of the words of all
the stanzas of America The Star
lEpangled Banner and Columbia Let
the words of these songs be made
part of the education of our children,
that they may all their lives respond,
not only in spirit, but by word and
voice, when called upon to sing them.S
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Remodel Kansas State Prison
J. Z. Codding, warden of the Kansas
penitentiary, was in Topeka recently
Cor a conference with the state archi-
tect on the rebuilding of the north cell
house at the prison. Arrangements
we're completed for rebuilding the in
serior of the dollhouse into one large
dormitory for two hundred men.
Would Let Veterans Serve.
A company of old soldiers, to do
guard duty and patrol work as mem
bers of the Kansas National Guard,
has been proposed to Governor Capper
r. NJ. Ellis Of Garnett and L. " B.
Taylor OF Frankfort sent letters to
The governor today urging that if
troops are called out by the President
some arrangement be made for an or
ganization of veterans of the Civil
War to participate in the war activi-
ties. They suggested that despite
their years they are still able to fight
6 good fight and would be useful and
able to perform much patrol and guard
duty.
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Women Ask Liquor Permit.
Someone has notion that the Kan
sas Bone Dry Law has provision in it
by which the governor or some other
official could give a special permit to
certain persons to obtain liquor for
personal USE Governor Capper has
received petition signed by twenty
five Russian women of Ellis County
asking that permit be issued to them
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Meet AdamSon Act IN Kansas.
The Kansas railroads have begun
making plans for a readjustment of
the terminals of their lines so that
the average run of the trainmen will
be limited to eight hours, with slight
probabilities of overtime.
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Two German flags used to decorate
elassrooms at the Leavenworth high
school were torn from the walls and
formed material for a small bonfire
kindled by members of the junior divi-
sion of the reserve officers corps, for
= snerly known as the high school
cadets.
Fewer Infants Are DYING.
The infant mortality is gradually
decreasing in Kansas. Kansas CITY
snd Wichita lead all other cities in
this decrease. The per cent of de-
crease in Kansas City, Kan, in 1916,
compared with the previous year, was
Is. In Wichita it is 1t per cent. To
tai births in Kansas for 1916 were
Il. 163. OF these ELISA were males
and 20,0O9 were females, and of this
number 1892 were white, 1900 ne
gro, and II Indians
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WeuId Have G. A. r. Men Recruit.
b. n. Ellis of Garnett, a Civil Wal
veteran, has suggested to Governo,
Capper that in event Of war and voIun
seers being called for. all G. A. R
posts in the state be used as recruit
ing stations.
Rate Case Continued.
The interstate commerce commits
sion. sitting in ST. Louis, has con
tinued Indefinitely the suit broughf
by the Missouri, Kansas & Texa,
Railroad Company, to set aside 2-cen
passenger fares.
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Negroes Recall ViuiIaneia.
The American ship vigiiancia. SUM
by German submarine, occupied :
warm spot in the hearts Of Kansa,
negroes. It was the ship which car
ried the Kansas negro troops to Cub,