The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-02-21
CAPITAL CITY NOTES
(By Chas. H. Trapp.)


(By Chas. H. Trapp.)
Topeka, February 18.-The funer-
al Morton Albaugh attested the spirit
which prevades Kansas. From every
nook and corner and from the middle
came men of high and low degree to
do honor to man who had become
known as the salt of the earth. The
remains were laid away with little
ceremony but much feeling. Divine
and laymen We'd with others in bow
ing the head to Providence but
mourning a serious loss.
An idea that will advance the pre-
vailing movement for good roads in
Kansas has been sprung. 1t is sup
posed to use the roadbed of the Leav-
enworth and Topeka Railway, run
mig for forty-ive miles from Meriden,
ten miles from Topeka, to Leaven-
worth, for a fort to fort highway and
eventually extending to st. Joseph
and branching off to Kansas City. The
route lies through hills and valleys
and with the proposed highway there
will be a level road Germany has
largely held her place in the war by
virtue of the roads in her domain,
and with this on stretch of new idea
completed it is confidently predicted
that an incentive will be Furnished
for more of the same sort, a road in
Western Kansas lying idle at this
time.
The secretary of state has awarded
the contract for the automobile Ii
cents tags to a firm that has never
had it before. For years it has gone
to a st. Louis concern. The first year
the contract called for an expenditure
of scarce five thousand dollars. This
! i II
be spent. The year for the new tags
starts the first of June but it is the
custom to forego collection to the
first day of July, when every auto
owner in the state is expected to dig
up five dollars and wear the new col
or on the rear end of his car.
W. E. Hahn, president of the New
York Docking Company and an old
luncheon of the Chamber of Com
merce and severely criticized the con-
duct of the war preparations. He
said that the gravest future danger
was the attitude of labor in the pro
duction of ships. He pointed to the
strikes emminent, many of which had
not been reported in the press. The
government had been taking big men
into service at a dollar a year but
that the policy was being reversed
| by General Goethals and men were
now being paid adequate salaries and
made to devote all their time and at
tention to the nations needs. He ex-
planned that the criticisms of the gov
eminent had made a healthy reforma-
ton in methods of procedure.
Marco Morrow, head of one of the
big publishing houses, made a ten
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show. He published for four days a
colored supplement and had it on the
ground ahead of the Kansas City pa
pers, as an illustration of the fact
that Kansas does things first and does
them well.
Mining and transportation men are
agreed that the fuel shortage is
thing of the past as far as this win
ter is concerned. People are being
urged to fill their bins in the late
summr and early fall, but are warned
that many kinds of soft coal are IN
fit for long storage because of the
! danger of spontaneous combustion.
Be sure that your dealer sells you
coal that will not catch fire in your
| oins.
The U. S. district attorneys office
| is very active in running down per-
sons who are rumored to be enemy
aliens. Of the many cases COMPARE
| lively, few prove to be vicious, the
majority being merely persons who
have poor judgment. Yet a number
| have been interned and large squad
| of secret service men are employed
/ in the investigations. The marshaPs
of5c invites all persons to notify it of
| seditious or disloyal utterances. Mr..
G. G. Jackson, assistant to the u. S.
marshal, who has direct charge of
these cases, states that the greatest
secret service is the public and from
that source come the best results. As
far as his office is concerned anyone
who owes allegiance to the United
States and states that he is neutral
is an enemy to his country. Mr..
Jackson has investigated more enemy
alien cases than any man in Kansas
and finds the conditions alarming. He
meets many men who have taken out
only their first papers and yet have
voted for many years. Asked why
they did it they say that some poll
t1clan advised them to. The most
dangerous enemies are the educated
men who hold position in colleges and
schools. One in particular is a col
lege professor who has held a chair
IN the University of California and
has written a book on good" Prus-
sian government. He stated that he
didn't want citizenship, as he pro-
posed to go to China, probably to pro
mote further the pro-German propa-
ganda. Men tell the marshal that
the only reason they took out papers
is to get work Mr. Jackson hopes
that after the war all these anti-gov-
eminent men will be deported
WHEN THE BABY CAME
For nigh on to forty years the old
Free Press has tried to record all the