The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-05-12

there is liable to be far more unam-
| ployment on the average unless bill
lions more be raised for public work
J by gifts and inheritance taxes. With
all that borrowing during that period
to make good roads, etc, and to kill
people, there was much unemplov-
ment so to keep everybody at work
| during the next twenty-four wears.
much more money might be needed
| by gifts and increased inheritance
! taxes than our public debts increased
during the past twenty-four years
ending with commencement of pres
ent hard times.
If it is desirable for every citizen
to read and write, why is it not even
more desirable for every citizen to be
a home owner or part home owner
and have money besides to use in
case of adversely, people would die
without food and shelter. They might
live and love without books. "At the
| mouth of cave were found the silent
witnesses of a prehistoric tragedy, a
| semicircle of bones of men. Back in
the cave were found other bones, all
| tn bones of women and children. The
party had been attacked by much
| stronger force and the men had all
| died in defense of the women and
| children. Not one had retreated to
where the women and children were"
M0% rF
With two hundred and ninety days
| work a year the average man ought
| to be able to save one hunred and
| fifty dollars year and have consider
able besides for luxury, in these days
of rapid machine-made luxury. It
should be our social policy and our
National policy to furnish abundance
of public work so the poor could save
| an average of one hundred and fifty
a year, so in two, or at most, three
generations descendants of the pres
ent poor would have over five thou
sand per family and the capitalists
and labor classes be merged in one
that the prophecy be fulfilled that
every man shall sit down under his
own vine and fig tree with no one to
modest him or make him afraid of
want or violence or loss of virtue, the
day of universal plenty, peace and
purity, when every knee shall bow
and ever tongue confess.
We should have so much public
work that all the brewers thrown out
| of work would have no cause to com
/ plain, that men be not tempted to be
! bootleggers to support their families
or steal or gamble or try Divorce
cases at from one hundred to twenty
| five thousand dollars per ruined home,
or run demoraizing picture shows.
People spend thousands to travel
in foreign countries, that they may
| see new scenes. Let them spend mil
lions to change the social life and the
| National life and the home life in
their own land. Let them be co-work-
ers with God in making glorious new
scenery in America.
l Judge with greatly increased en-
ployment there would be a tendency
with many to buy automobiles instead
! of homes, but this would increase
employment in automobile plants
where many have been used to work
ing. Let preachers and teachers gen
orally, teach by precept and example
that homes are over mil
lion times more important
than pleasure cars. With plenty
| of work, in thirty years most
of the families in America might have
homes and over half of them pleasure
cars too, if they economised on other
| luxuries.
There are thousands of thinkers in
the country who might add to what 1
have written. Let schools and
churches promote a one hundred per
cent Americanism, to hasten the day
| when a hundred per cent of American
families will own their homes and let
them also labor to hasten the day
when in all homes, love will reign su-
| preme. This may be promoted by
cuItiyating a taste for fine literature
much of it in song, that shows the
far greater beauty of golden wed
i 5inos than trips to Reno to obtain
/ divorces.
! loved my mother as well when