The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-02-06

Gregg, AdeIbert Cowan, David Beeby,
Albert Nickles, John Taylor, Carl
Blender, Jee Addison, Walter Riedel,
Wilfred Kraus, Ward L. Harold, and
Lee Corder.
Colorado Nut Coal, $500 per ton
at Farmers Elevator, Hays, Kansas.
Black Amber Cane Seed for sale,
also some dwarf milo seed. H.
Gatewood, Hays, Kansas.
One Portable Electric Sewing Ma
chine for sale at COST. F. Jordan.
The Hays Music Club will meet
with Mrs. c. W Miller, Jr., Tuesday,
February 18th. Subject: "Music of
Childhood"
Be sure and see C. ". Miller if you
want farm loan.
Jack Middlekauf who has been in
training at Camp Totten, n. Y, is
now at Funston, and expects to soon
be discharged from the army.
Carl Holmquist attended the State
Bar Association at Topeka this week
DR.. and Mrs. Daniels left Hays Sat
urday evening for visit with friends
at Luray, and owing to the muddy
road it took all night to make the trip.
Doe said they had some time
C. W. Reeder made a business trip
to Victoria, Wednesday.
Mrs. J. H. Ward came home from
Victoria Wednesday, where she had
been visiting the Bruney family.
The sand wagons have cut Juniata
street so badly this week that it looks
like some one had run a gang plow
over it. 1t is in a horrible shape, and
should be gone over with drag.
A Missionary Frof India Here Sunday
Rev. Dring, a brother to Mrs NJ. J.
Bell, and who has been doing mission
cry work for the past twenty-five
years, conducted services both morn
ing and evening at the Baptist church
1t was said to be the most interest
ing account of that work ever heard
by many who were present.
Rev. Dring's whole heart is in his
work and he expects to return to that
field of labor. He praised civilization
for putting down the Autocrats of
Europe; and wonders why people al
low the people of those countries to
remain in "a state wherein they muir
der their young, behead their enemies
bury children in the graves of their
dead mothers, all to satisfy the wish
es of gods of wood and stone
Treatment of our Soldiers IN England
Some of our returning Ellis county
boys, who have been IN England, say
they were grossly mistreated by some
of the civilian population of England
One of our boys said where he was
in England, an American soldier
couldn't even buy anything. He. 81
tried my darndest even to buy a
match, and couldn't make it." We had
to give our money to Canadian sol
diers and have them buy our things
for US. He said further that the
English told them, 'They didn't want
them over there. And that the Ameri-
cans came after the war was about
over just to get the glory"
Another Ellis county boy said a
dirty rhyme about America was flash
ed on the screen at a picture show /;
that the American soldiers resented
it and threw eggs at the screen, and
that policemen intervened to prevent
a riot.
That is poor treatment to award
our boys 5000 miles from home. That
is poor appreciation in return for a
| country which has given such men as
Caspar Middlekauff, Charles Harvey,
and Eric Cummings, and thousands
of others whose blood has been spill
ed in France. Many others who will
bear scars even to their graves.
But we believe this treatment does
not come from the better Englishmen.
1t evidently comes from the ''Shop
Keepers" that they are reported to be
The intelligent and powerful and in
fuential Englishmen admit the value
America has been in winning the war.
They know what the Americans
did at st. Mihiel, Chateau Thierry,
and in the Argonne forest.
We challenge all the pages of his
tory to cite one example, of any
country waging war for a motive so
unselfsh, or for a cause more human
itarian.
We fought not for gold, and we re-
fuse all spoil. We disclaim all glory,
except that which shall naturally ac-
cFue TO the memories of our young
manhood for their heroic and noble
achievements over there. We claim
honor only for the part we played, in
| overthrowing every King and every
Emperor IN central Europe
And we believe that our boys who
actually fought our battles are en-
titled to the same treatment our Al
lied soldiers would receive in ou1
cities
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