Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1920-12-30
DECIDES TO WALK AGAIN

ssI would like to join that Optimist
club at the stock yards" said SOL A.
Magundy, today as he gathered up a
lot. of bundles and began to square
away to take the street car to the
Union station after getting his ac-
count sales slip and doing some
Christmas shoppig.
ssI read the Christmas week slogan
in the Telegram yesterday, and it
made hit with me. / can remember
when we did a lot of walking out on
the farm, and I farmed in Ohio and
Illinois before came to Kansas We
had riding p1ows in those days,
and no riding cultivators. / have hop
ped cIods many and many a day and
I sure feel that the fellow that coin
ed that ANY kind of walking beats
riding in hearse,' hits the nail
the head
eve pIodded along behind the plow,
the harrow, and from one hill of corn
to another in corn cutting time, and
we walked along certain road to
land owning and improvements on
that land. We walked mortgages to
death. OF course some of the fellows
got run over by mortgages, but some
fellows would get run over by hearse
as far as that is concerned
t<The trouble is,'' continued Sol,
chat we have been riding a high
horse, and now we have got to get
down and walk awhile which VIII make
some of US think that we are getting
along slowly, but it is state of COM
parIson that we are complaining of
Those who have not been riding on a
high horse have been exceeding the
speed limit in an automobile.
So L., ~oIx
ing make gasoline the only think that
people can not get enough of and
the only thing that people will buy
right now, pay spot cash for and not
complain about the price. We have
helped make the picture show eonpan-
les so rich that the film companies
have been successful in having their
stocks listed on the New York stock
exchange, and then we complain be-
cause gasoline and movies are getting
the ready money that ought to go
to purchasing beef steak and pork
chops. We serve the automobile first
and last because we imagine we have
to have it.
81 also read that article on the bur-
den of interest charges that a beef
steer must carry. Now this is all true,
but it is going to take lot less money
to operate on in handling cattle and
| hogs than it did when we were riding
on a high horse. I figure that it will
| take just about one half as much
| money to operate with, and this ap-
| plies to cattle and hogs and feed for
| them, in the cases where a man has
| to buy his feeds. Now if we can raise
corn and other feeds next season for
| just one-half of what it cost US this
| year, why, we will be all right. fig
| ure that our interest charges will be
| cut in half, in bulk, under the con-
| dltions that prevail, now that we have
decided to get down and walk awhile
/ The actual rates may not decline soon
although they may and probably will
decline eventually, but we will moi
| need nearly so much money from now
on, and we could not get it if we want
ed it.
81 like your idea of having the gov
ernment debt funded. I think that flu.
| ture generations would not be so keer
| to rush to war on any pretext if they
knew something of what a war woule
cost them IN money.
| 81 am optory1ist, for I am an ole
man and have had lots of troubles
! but more than one-ha1f of them never
happened. want to see things 1ef
alone for a while. We used to have {
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