The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-11-24
STRAWS WHICH, SHOW THE WAY
THE WIND BLOWS
(By M, II. j.

oANAWo Wn4Shs SnOW THE WAY
THE WIND BLOWS
(By NJ. H. j.
We were once under the impression
that W. W. ran the government for
eight years; but in truth it seems to
have been our Tumultuous Tumulty.
w. W.-"Have you had any reaction
on the note (the Armistice note) since
I last talked with you?''
Tumulty have not"
w. W.-'Had We not better go on
with the performance"
Tnmulty W, you're green;
IN tell you when to press the button. !"
Our blessed America, as usual, gath
cred round the dinner table on Thanks
giving Day. Feeding is the desperate
alternative in the modern world. Eat
with US, says the sign board.
The robber nations are all drawn up
at the head of the race course, with
one foot advanced, to be the first to
get to China. The medal will go to the
chap that refuses to run.
Just now there is a widespread de-
mand for cash for notable enterprises
in Hays. Our Catholic friends make
modest request for one million for their
university; the Methodists ask for half
that amount; the Presbyterians will
take all they can get; and the Luther
ans have not forgotten the necessity
for Manse; and the Baptists will hold
to the straight and narrow way, asking
for neither scrip nor staff.
1t has been said that the population
of our globe can stand within the
boundaries of the state OF Texas. How
ever, that may be, yet a little while
and each and several of this mass of
humanity will have dissolved into a
handful of dust; and at intervals we
ask ourselves, Whittier have they all
gone? Will there be room for all at
the last roundup? There is such an
infinite number who have emerged
from the chrysalis and winged their
way into a boundless and, we hope,
joyful freedom. There is one of these
who has achieved a wonderful motor
! iety-Roger Sherman by name; a not
able figure in the colonial history of
New England. In the course of human
events he died and was buried, and
friend planted an apple seed at the
head of his grave, which sprOuted and
grew iuto a fine tree and bore fruit
beautifully; and the people helped
) themselves. AS the decades passed the
annual harvest was so wonderful, that
{ the community was deeply stirred to
find out the cause, and the grave was
examined and the secret disclosed. The
fbrous roots of the tree had cOiled
round and wound in and out of the
skull and bones, furnishing. great sub
stance for the roots to feed upon, and
straightway the neighbors charged one
another of having ate Roger Sherman.
The world asks the question, What
bearing will Germany and Russia have
upon international events in the long
run? Both have great man power, and
are fighting nations.
1t is conceded by all, that Japan
must have a show for her overflow OF
population and access to the raw ma
terials, which China has in great
abundance.
America has not undertaken to bring
about the millennium at a stroke. One
step at a time-the ten year naval hOli-
day and restriction of farmaments-that
is a long step toward peace.
Senator Knox has gone on a long
journey; a patriot, wise and good
man upon whom the nation leaned.
Yesterday he sat with his peers in the
councils of the nation. Today how
prone! And the high ones and the
powerful turned and looked down in
dismay He represented one of the
great states of the Union, one Of the
old Colonies, early known and still
abides the keystone of the arch. We
uncover at the bier of one Of COlum-
bias great sons.