Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1919-09-04

One of the best public institutions
IN Trego county is the courthouse
park 1t affords comfort and pleas
sure to hundreds of people, perhaps
our own people have sought its cool
mg shade and scores of summer tour
ists have been unable to resist its inS
viting freshness and have stopped to
eat their MONDAY lunch, forgetting
for the moment the heat and dust of
the sun-swept trail that stretches It's |
weary length from Passamaquoddy to |
Pasadena. Even as this is written a |
family group may be seem from my /
window. They have stopped for din
1er and have taken advantage OF |
sabIe and bench which are there for
| heir use without money or price. Like
i great many others, they seem to be
| strangers but there is doubt that
| those children, at least, will remem-
| Der the time and place and talk about
it for long years to come. And so, in
| such manner our little park will be-
come famous from coast to coats, and
| as an advertisement of the county it
| is not the least inferior to field of
| golden grain. No doubt many of the
people who rest in the shade of the
| park trees go away with feeling Of
gratitude but some of them have
poor way of showing their apprecia-
| ton. Careless and unappreciative,
| they leave the ground covered with
unsightly litter-remnants of lunch
packages, or loose papers which blow
around, back and forth, until the San
itor picks them up and puts them into
| the proper receptacIeS, conveniently
| ready. And, alas, it is not most often
| the travelling stranger who leaves a
| trail of trash behind. Familiarity
| breeds contempt. Those who know the
park best show the least respect fol
| it-some of them even less than the
transient harvest hand. And what
lot of these wayfarers and sojourn
ers can say good word for our ittl'
park, if they will, and most Iikel.
they will sometime, somewhere.
The last legislature took whacl
at the school age proposition, nakin
| the school age nomina1ly over six an
under twenty-one but with a provis
which makes it practically five an
one-haf to twenty-one. However, i
districts which maintain free kinder
gartens the school age is four t
twenty-one.
History repeats itself, with siIer
variations. twenty-five to thirty year
was to maui the middleman. Now tn
proper thing is to punch the packe
and probe the profteer-
No one make pinch pin OF
of an inch and a half stick. Neithe
can the butcher cut 1o-cent po1
steaks out of a % dollar hog.
And what sort of a hog would ye
expect farmer to make out Of tv
dollar corn?
The railway brotherhoods say tn.
need higher wages, and argue tn
higher wages will mean higher freig
rates, and higher rates will me:
higher cost of living, and that mea
highes wages again, thus going roHl
and round in circle. Well, suppo
they strike for lower wages, viii
will bring lower rates, and thus I
duce the high cost of living. 1t is
poor. rule that won't work both wa.
Just happened to thing of the fol
going plan to reduce the other f
lows expenses. Tt is not copyright
and anybody is welcome to the use
it.
It's a frequent question: ssWhy
you keep that bandage on your he
so long ?v Answers: Two reaso
First, because genuine carbun
doesn't heal rapidly and mine pro
ises to hold on for month yet, D.
haps just to make it full quar-
year. Second, that bandage is a We
prolific text and brings out a gr,
deal of ancient history for my ed
cation and entertainment And al
way, I'm just as tried of wearing I'll
badge of woe anybody can be
seeing it.
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