The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-04-04
SOME THINGS -.
and OTHER THINGS
CAPITAL CITY NOTES
CIV Chas. II. TrappO

(6y (has. II. IraPD.)
Topeka, April IA thin sheet of
water in Jefferson county, falling in
to a vigorous rain in the counties far
Their west, mas heartened the farmers
and given faith to the people of the
seton, but the long dry spell has left
the earth with little moisture and
the more pessimistic are shaking their
heads. As ever. you are hearing on
the oncoming crop is failure now
This has always been so. 1t was
started years back by the wheat
spectators and it has become habit
Those of more sober thought know
that when the harvest comes we will
have our share.
The appointment of Chas H. Ses-
sions as the head of the utilities COM
mission marks a complete reversal of
the policies that have pervaded that
organization where Bristow was ac-
tive in his opposition to the corpora
lions. Sessions has been taking the
high middle ground. It may be safe
ly assume that from this time for
ward the commission will be a court
at which both sides will have a re-
spectful hearing. No more will the
spectacular gas case parade in the
Emelight and the Topeka headlines
will require less black type.
As the day arrives Kansas will have
gained an hour in the morning
lost one in the evenings far as
tai it has been accomplished without
a ripple. Even the church services
were not disturbed so far as the eye
could see. AS with the other war
masures there has been never a muir
muir from the people. Meatless day
has been generally and faithfully OBJ
served.
Probably the finest exhibition of
the spirit of the people is the way the
news of results of the German on
slaugnts were received. While there
was much apprehension as to the out
come the crowds before the bulletin
boards were confident of eventual vic
tory and expressed the thought that
whatever came the people were with
the government to the fighting end.
Nowhere as far as seen was there the
slightest thought of capitulation. At
Kansas City, Atchison and Leaven-
worth there is a grim determination
to throw every effort forth for final
victory over the Hun.
In four cities in this part of the
state the preliminaries for the sec
ond Liberty Loan are under way.
Having had much experience now in
the way to do things there is entire
confidence among those in charge
that the loan will be successfully put
out. J. r. Burrow, banker, who mas
large interests in several towns in
Kansas, has the loan in charge, and
says that he has no doubt of the ulti-
mate and Immediate success of loan.
10 re- hot no I
which the loan goes over has a dis
tinct bearing on the morale of the
| United States army and in a like de-
gree disheartens the enemy. He calls
attention to the way the kaiser used
the loans in Germany to show how
solidly the people were behind him.
Just so this third Liberty Loan will
be a sort of thermon eter by which
to judge how much the American
| people are blind the men who are
blind the war.
A new plan for selling war saw
| ings stamps bass been put on at Ok
lahoma City and is shortly to be tried
in Topeka. In a large hotel there
wheel with 100 numbers was turned.
For fifty cents a buyer received tic
ket with three numbers on it. Forty
tickets were sold. The man who held
the number indicated when the wheel
stopped received twenty dollars worth
of war savings stamps In this way
five thousand dollars worth are sold
every Saturday night and at a con-
vention las5 week $500 was sent to
Uncle Sans till.
The labor unrest is manifesting it
self here in all sorts of ways. Even
the little establishments were having
L. L
ready to fly off the handle and 90
somewhere else. A strike of dozen
at Topeka ice plant threatens to in
volve the whole union fabric, just as
the laudnry workers have pulled in
every other union organization in the
town, tieing up its transportation and
industries. Level headed leaders are
attempting to stem the tide
WEI FADE ACENCJEc