The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-05-19
CROPS COME FIRST
Patriotic Kansans Urged to In.
sure Them Before EnIisting
for Army Service.
ISSUES APPEAL TO FARMERS
State Council of Defense Fears Short
age of Farm Labor-Urges Com
muRity Committees.


ference at Topeka the state council
Of defense issued the following appeal
to the people of Kansas:
cit is the sense of the Kansas state
council of defense that in view of the
great shortage of all kinds of farm
labor in the United States, increasing
daily with the call for men to go into
the army and navy, and in view of the
fact that the feeding not only of our
own army and the people. but of the
armies and peoples of the allied ma
tiOns is the first necessity to win the
war, we urgently recommend that each
community rely largely on the labor
available in the community itself; that
each county organize a strong COM
mittee on labor; that a survey of all
| available labor be listed and CLASH
| fled; that all but the most urgent pub
| lie work as well as private improve
ment be discontinued during the har-
vest season; that manufacturing
plants and places of business in gen
eral release as much of their labor
as may be available for farm work;
that the said committee in each coun-
| ty keep in communication with the
| state department of labor in Topeka,
! so that excess of labor in one locality
may be readily transferred to another
and that the services of the great
army of boys and girls of the state
be enlisted in the production Of maxi
mum food supply.
''To this end we recommend that
/ the governor be authorized to prepare
and present a suitable badge for all
young men and women certified to
him by the county committee of labor
as having rendered creditable service
Resolved, that the highest patri-
otto duty of the young farmers of Kan
sas is to stay on the farms until the
present crops are secured; that we
also urge upon them that volunteering
is no more honorable or patriotic than
the selective draft
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At K. U. Thirty-Nine Years.-Carrie
NJ. Watson, remembered by thousands
Of University of Kansas students as
Aunt Carrie, has celebrated her thir-
ty-ninth anniversary as the university
Librarian.
Hospital for Catholics
of the Wichita diocese will erect a
$150,000 hospital in Hutchinson, it was
announced recently.
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Woman Dies SuddenIy.-Mrs. Henry
Snyder. 81 years old, who had lived
in Atchison county since 1868, was
found dead In bed the other morning
at her home in Effingham by her
daughter, Mrs. Charles Azlein.
Kansas Land Bank Appraisers
Dan F. Callahan, president of the
Wichita Land Bank. has been author
lied to make the following appoint
ments of appraisers: c. c. Evans, /
Good1and; J. B. Funk, Russell; Rich |
ard ROhrer, Junction City; D. a. Ram /
sey, Usage City; I. W. Yenser, Scott /
City, all of Kansas, and Hugh Clary, /
Las Cruces, n. M; r. W. Hefflin, San 1
ia Fe, N. NJ; Nate Hern of Cheney, /
Kan, was appointed chief Of apprais-
ers and Robert Campbell of Anadarko, 4
Ok, promoted to official appraiser. /
The men will receive So a day and
expenses.
Ex-PopuIist Leader Dead.-George
W. Crumley, who was a Populist rep
resentative in the Kansas legislature
from Elk county in 1891 and 1893, is
dead at his home in Emporia. He
was born in Missouri in 1913.
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Boy Held for Murder-John Patter-
son, IL years old, is charged with first
degree murder at Girard. He struck
Ada Hamline, a 15-year-old Arma girl.
with stick of wood and she died
from the effects of the blow.
Votes for High sehooI.-Augusta
voted $4,000 bonds for a new high
school the other day.
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Training in lola SchooI.-MiIitarv
training will be introduced in the lola
high school for the remainder of the
term Guy M. Lamar of the school
faculty, formerly a member of the
navy, will have charge Of the drills.
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To Offer Hospital Unit-The Kan
sas Hospital Association, in conven-
ton has resolved to offer the govern
ment an entire organization, nurses
and medical staff
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marrying Parson" Dead-Emerson
Hull, Sc years old, a resident of Chero- !
kee county since 1881, is dead at Co
lumbus. He was teacher, farmer. j
pastor and served as county high
school trustee and county clerk. He ]
was known as the marrying parson." {
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To Mark Golden Belt Road Off
Gals Of the Golden Belt Highway Asso- !
citation were in session at Junction l
City recently to consider plans for i'm Z
proving the road It was decided to ]
paint all poles and markers on the {
route across the state. :
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shriner Money to Red cross.-The
indian Temple, Shriners' organization I
at Wichita, has called off its excursion 7
70 Minneapolis next June and viii give s
The money to the Red Cross. Two c
hundred and fifty members. with their