The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-02
BACK UP THE SOLDIER BOYS
Henry Allen Gives Some Sound Ad-
vice to Students at the Kansas
State university.

Military training, which is now COM
pulsory for all men students at the
University of Kansas, was approved
emphatically by Henry J. Allen of
Wichita in an address to students of
the University recently.
IF the war ends in 1919, as I think
it will, and as those over there think
it will said Mr. Allen, there is lit
tie likelihood of college men now under
draft age having to go to the trenches.
But if the war continues longer the
colleges here will be emptied as they
have been in Europe.
You don't have to go to France,
wear uniform, or even leave your
homes to help win the war. Do every
thing in your power to aid our boys
who are giving their lives for you and
civilization. Do what the government
asks Of you in food conservation, in
aid to the Red Cross and in buying
Liberty Bonds and Thrift Stamps
Although 1 am proud of the anti
cigarette law of this state, I am proud
of the fact that as a Red Cross agent
distributed cigarettes and tobacco
to the men in the trenches. You peo-
pie who are fighting against giving
cigarettes to soldiers in the trenches
do not understand conditions or you
would realize that the least we can do
for these men would be to give them
a cigarette when we can. The army
is school for war and is no place to
quarrel with a man about his social
habits.
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Wood for Red crcss.-Wetmore
isn't worrying about the shortage in
the coal supply. Jacob oyer, one of
its citizens, has given four acres of
timber which is being cut up for fuel
and sold in the interest of the Red
Cross. Citizens of Wetmore are doing
the cutting and farmers are hauling
the wood without cost
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Free Coal for Poor.-B. P. Wag-
gener will distribute. free car Of coal
to the worthy poor of Atchison. The
coal will be dispensed in twenty-five
pound lots by the city officials.
x x 4
Kansas Pioneer Dies.-John w. Bat
dorf of Wellsville, a resident of Frank
lin County since 1866, died recently.
Mr.. Batdorf was 81 years old and was
a veteran of the Civil War.
x x
So Boys Can Farm.-The Atchison
County high school board of trustees
voted recently to close May 1 instead
of June 1 to release boys in the high
school for work on farms.
x X x
MarysViIIe Pioneer Dead.-Richard
Mendel, a resident of Marshall County
forty-one years, is dead at MarysviIIe.
He was rs years old. His wife, five
sons and four daughters survive him.
x
Wichita Boy to West Point.-James
Floyd Mcpherson, son of James H.
Mcpherson, auditor of SedgwicF
County, has received notice from Sen
ator Thompson of his appointment to
West Point in June.
K x x
Section Boss Killed Mexican.-Mou-
TO Coudenes, Mexican laborer for
the Union Pacific at Ogden, was shot
and killed as the result of a misun-
derstanding with his section boss, E.
c. Overlook, over his pay. The Mexi-
can attacked Overlook with a knife.
Boiling Water Fatai.-The 4-year-
old daughter OF n. n. Carter of the
Big Walnut Oil Company on the Crabb
lease south Of Augusta fell into a tub
Of boiling water that the father had
heated to thaw pipes with and was
dead when taken out
x X
Kills Father by Accident-J. N.
Baugher, farmer of Cherokee coun.
ty, was shot and instantly killed by
his son, Wyman Baugher, 16 years
old, while out hunting. The boy shot
at a rabbit just as his father stepped
in front Of him.
x X X
Hutchinson Commissioner Dies.-
Dr. George W. Winans, former state
superintendent of schools, for years
city superintendent of the Hutchinson
schools. and for the last seven years
finance commissioner OF Hutchinson
Is dead after long illness.