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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-12-15
ELLIS COUNTY TAXES

An examination of the County
Clerk and Treasurer's books for the
1921 taxes that we are paying nOE,
show that the State Board of Assess
Ors put on the ia xlist as assessable
the same as other property in Ellis
county, its townships, cities, school
districts:
Telegraph Company-W. U. $21,471.
The United (Bell) in Kans $1,50O,00O
In Ellis county $67,796
The other local telephones in the
county are assessed at Bison, $13S.00;
Coden, $298.OO; Ellis, $14,2O5;
Pfeifer, $874.OO; Gorham, $4,000;
Natoma, $344.OO; to Russell, $5O8.OO,
a grand total of telephone assessable
property on the tax books, of $95,OS9.
The American Express Company
paws tax in Ellis county on valuation
of $4,000 that they own in local per
sonal property.
And it all helps pay the expenses
of our county, city, townships ana
schools.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-12-15
MAIL YOUR XMAS PACKAGES
EARLY

The Post Office Department under
Mr.. Hays, is putting on an extensive
campaign to induce patrons of the
postal service to mail their Christmas
packages early.
It is easy for US to put off this task
like many another. But aside from
the accommodation afforded the Post
Office Department by giving them
ample time to handle the Christmas
gifts, the patrons will be more likely
to receive their presents on time, if
they are mailed week or two before
Christmas. And better yet, if they
are mailed in time to miss the usual
congestion right at Christmas time,
they will be handled with more care,
which means there will be less of loss
and breakage. Mail them early.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-12-15
HAYS BANoUETs ITS FOOTBALL
HEROES

The business men of Hays and the
faculty men of the Fort Hays Kansas
Normal School served a banquet to
the ever-victorious Normal School
Football Team on Friday night.
Invitations were issued to high
school coaches and to the football en-
thusiasts in all parts of Western Kan
sas. Over two hundred platters were
laid The guests of honor at the ban
quet were, of course, all the men who
belong to the 1921 squad. Coach
''Rook'' Woodward and .'Bill'' Weld
lein were also among the guests of
honor because of the fine work that
they have done with the team this
year. The letters and gold footballs
will not be awarded to the team until
the close of the semester.
The Fort Hays Kansas Nominal
School and the business men of Hays
are very proud of the record which
the Normal ''Tigers" have made this
year and the banquet was their way
of expressing their admiration for the
work of the team and the coaches.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-12-15
OUGHT TO BE "FIRED"

We quote from the New York Com
mercial for November 10:
A customs expert, prominently
identified with the Treasury service,
stated yesterday to a representative
Of The Commercial Export and I'm
port News Service Department that
from a survey which he had personal
ly conducted in Washington, Congress
would be compelled to abandon the
proposal regarding the American val
uation of imports as provided for in
the Fopdney Tariff Bill. This expert,
who requested that his name be with
held from publication as all govern
ment employees are cautioned against
giving out information of this char
acter, asserted that the data now be
ing collected by the special agents in
New York and elsewhere would prove
conclusively that the adoption of the
American valuation plan, particularly
at this time, would be foolhardy and
impossible of administration.
Of course it is not hard to guess
who the expert" is, but, it matters
not who he is, he should be summarily
dismissed from the service. The art
icle from which we have quoted is
propaganda, pure and simple. Any
subordinate officer of the Treasury
Department who gives out matter OF
that kind which is intended to in
fluence public opinion on a subject
under consideration by COgress IS
guilty Of a betrayal Of trust and is un-
worthy to hold the position he now
occupies. We recommend that the
Secretary of the Treasury cause an
investigation to be made for the pur-
pose of determining what officer has
been guilty of the imprOpriety IN
question, and that wnen ne snail be
found guilty he shall be separated
from the service.-American Econ
omist.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-12-15
NEWS ABOUT THE VICTORY
HIGHWAY

Zone of the big problems of The
Victory Highway Association has
been finally settled" according to in
formation received by President Geo.
w. Stansfeld, at general headquarters
in Topeka, in a report made to him by
manager. Ben Blow, from Reno, New
ada.
The matter in question concerned
the routing of the Victory Highway
westward from Salt Lake City, the
adopted state highway system of
Nevada providing for a roundabout
entry into Nevada by way of Ogden
and around the north end of Salt Lake
as opposed to the recommended
WendoTer Cutoff, which, passing to
the south of Salt Lake, cut off eighty
miles in distance and gave the Victory
Highway the most direct cross state
route.
Controversy over the two routes
was kept alive by the various commit
tees along the line, each of which in
sisted upon a state highway designa-
ton, and until the county commits
sioners of Elks County finally put
themselves on record as favoring the
route adopted by the Victory nigh
way, the State Highway Commission
of Nevada refused to act.
According to Stansfeld, Director
w. H. Goodin of LovelOck, Nevada,
and Manager Blow, appeared before
the Elks County Commissioners on
November 28th. were able to get a
resolution presented and acted favor
ably upon, and as a result of their
visit the Victory Highway from Salt
Lake. Utah, to Wells, Nevada, has
been adopted as one of the primary
state highways of Nevada and Will
secure Federal Aid in 1922.
The stretch in question cuts on
eighty miles from the former route
supplies a direct route from Salt Lake
to San Francisco and takes the trav-
eler across a dry salt lake upon an
embankment laid upon bed Of solid
salt from five to thirty feet thick.
with the Wendover Cutoff final
ly adopted as a primary state high
way" said Stansfield recently, the
one big problem of the Victory High
way is settled and work Will begin
upon it as soon as weather conditions
permit. / am naturally gratifed to
find our selection of route meeting
with State and Federal approval and
am more than ever convinced that IN
1928 it will be possible to travel com
fortably across those Nevada deserts
which for years have supplied the
main barrier between the East and
the West.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-12-15

the budget bill. On April 80 the
senate adopted a resolution declaring
the war with Germany and Austria at
an end; on June Is the house adopted
a resolution of similar purport, and
the measure was finally passed on
July l and signed the next day by
President Harding. Repeated efforts
to pass a soldiers bonus bill came to
naught, but soldiers relief bureau
was created on August 2 and Col. c..
R. Forbes was made its director. The
house passed both a tax revision bill
and a tariff bill, but the senate did not
get around to the latter. The tax
measure was enacted into law on
November 21.
Among other important measures
passed were a bill to exempt Amer
lean coastwise shipping from payment
of Panama canal tolls; a bill for gov
ernment regulation of the packing in
dustry; the 48,5OO,OOO shipping
board deficiency bill; the billiOn-dol-
lar farm exports credit bill; and var
ious measures relating to enforce
ment of the prohibition amendment,
including one forbidding the manu-
facture and sale of beer as medicine.
The extra session came to an end
on November %, and on December
congress met for the regular session.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-12-15

How many of US know that there
was a Memorial Day in France this
year when the graves of our Amer
iean dead, in that beautiful land, were
tenderly and lovingly strewn with
flowers? We have received from The
Fraternite Franco-Americain a pam
phlet which tells the story of this
MepaoriaI Day. Not only in those
cemeteries where they sleep by the
hundreds and where a city's interest
might incite to it, but in every tiny
hamlet where even one American SOL
dier sleeps the last sleep, was the day
observed.
The author says: What can never
be known is that in the most remote
corners of France-and in the most OBJ
scure little village, the inhabitants,
with one unanimous impulse, came in
a mass to bow their heads before the
scattered graves, perhaps over one
lonely tomb of some fallen hero which
the village had cherished in its simple
cemetery. But the most beautiful
and touching manifestations are those
which still remain unknown: The
French mothers and widows making
their solitary visit to the graves Of
Americas brave men, without any
other witness but themselves, and
their hearts speaking to them alone IN
the silence of the dead" The picture
is a photograph of one of the scenes
of Memorial Day.
What ties bind France and Amer
lea together. Those silent graves, one
might well believe, would give up
their dead to stay the hand or voice
that in years to come might threaten
enmity or strife between that fair
land and ours.-Exchange.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-12-15
Apropos to the Conference now s

Apropos to the Conference now in
session at Washington:
Many nations shall come, and say
Come, and let US go up to the noun
tain of the Lord, and to the house of
the God of Jacob; and He will teach
US of His ways, and we will walk in
His paths.
And He shall judge among many
people, and rebuke strong nations
afar off; and they shall beat their
swords into PlOughshares, and their
spears into Pruninghooks; nation
shall not lift sword against natiOns
neither shall they learn war any
more.
But they shall sit every man under
his vine and under his fig tree, and
none shall make them afraid; for the
mouth of the Lord of hosts hath
spoken it. Micah lV:24-
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-12-15
NATIONAL, LEGISLATION

Not a great deal of legislation was
nassed by the Republican congress
during the last two months Of Presl-
dent wilson's administration. The
President vetoed the bill to revive the
War Finance corporation on January
,. and congress promptly repassed 1t.
On January -, S7,10O,OOO was ap-
propriated for enforcement OF pro-
bibition. The house decided, on Jan
uarv 10. that its membership should
not h. increased. After much debate
congress set the limit of the regular
army at 175,OOO men. Mr.. Wilson
vetoed the measure, but it was passed
over his veto. On February 26 the
President signed the WinslOw bill
making available to the railroads
$50. 100000 from the government
guarantee fund.
President Harding called congress
in extra session on April IL and near
lv all the rest of the year it was busy
with the task of redeeming the
pledges of the Republican party. with
what success must be left to indlvld-
ual Judgment. Among the first bills
passed were emergency tariff and I'M
migration acts; new army bill cut
ting the army down to 10000; and
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-12-15
THE PLAYS THE THING

Last Thursday night the Business
Girls of Hays presented a musical
revue, "Cheer Up" to a large aud
ience, at the Strand theatre. The
solos of Clair Wilson, Miss Elma
Creighton, Rich Kissing and Miss
Faulkner were we'll given and re-
ceived. The dancing of Lawrence
and Miss Ila Mort-was good; as
was also the very fine dancing of Miss
Virginia Schwaller. About seventy
five Normal, High School and Grade
school students took part. All IN all
the performance was interesting. Mr..
Dawson who directed here, went TO
Russell. this week, to put on Cheer
In" for the Athletic Girls Club at
that place.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-12-15

The official report made December
1st shows that during November there
were shipped from the port of Gal
weston 3,I75, 900 bushels of wheat; ;
the month of October showing 2,276,-
378 bushels shipped, again making
that the largest export port in the
United States. And every bushel of
that wheat brought the producer from
two to five cents more a bushel than
if shipped from an Atlantic ocean
port. That is why H. A. Wickstrom'
the Chief Grain Inspector for hat
port, wants the Golden Belt wheat
shipned directly there instead Of way
around by Kansas City
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-12-15

A gentleman now living in Hays,
a former resident of Osborne, inform
ed the writer that the county commits
sioners of Osborne, county recently
purchased a bill of lumber from a
lumber company in Bonneville, Ore
con. The cost Of the lumber f. o. o.
at Bonneville was $219,85. and the
FREIGHT from Bonneville to Osborne
was s7s4.19, and yet the railroads are
bowling that they are losing money
ON account of the low freight. Hays
navs $500 per ton for Colorado coal
hat sells at the mines for three or
four dollars per ton Coal Sells de,
livered at your door in Denver, ana ana
o+ber western cities for about 94-oO
nor ton. The difference in what Hays 5
navs and what Denver pays IS Slo'oU
Which the railroads get Hays IN eu-
d;tion pays fifty cents per ton 70 the
doalers to deliver the coal. Is II any
wonder that people will burn co"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-12-15
RARICK NOT IN RACE

c. E. Rarick, of the Fort Hays Nor
NAL, was the speaker of the evening
on the Community School program
given at the Hig hSchool Thursday
evening. Prof. Rarick has been urged
to get into the race for State Superin-
tendent, but in an interview with him
while here, he told us he had a work
more important and pleasant to him
than that of the state Office, and
would not accept the honor. Of the
$1,000, OOD worth of Consolidated
School projects put over in Western
Kansas in the past year, Prof. Rarick
has been instrumental in causing the
greater part of them to be brought to
a successful elimination. A n1aniWho
Is in love with his work like this man,
need look for no greater honor than
the fulfllment of the achievement OF
that>fne work for which his genius
especially fits him.-Oakley Graphic.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-12-15

The first boy or girl under fifteen
years of age to solve the following
problem will receive a 48-pOund sack
of choice SemolinO Flour as COM
pliment as well as a Christmas pres
ent: How many acres are there in a
piece Of land requiring as many rails
to fence it as there are acres, allow
ing ten rails to the panel and two
panels to the rod. Bring answer to
Free Press Office.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-12-15

One of the most important ele-
ments in the business Of agriculture,
or commercial farming, is the neces-
sity of having a market for farm pro-
duce. This market is best when it is
closest at hand. Now, if the market
is to be flooded with foreign products,
as It would be under Free-Trade, then
the home market for homegrown
crops will no longer exist. Therefore
it is the duty of Congress to enact a
law protecting the goods of American
production from unfair competition
by those of foreign origin, and to do
so quickly.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-12-15
METHODIST CHURCH A BIG
BUu DING

As work on the excavation for the
new Methodist Community Church
proceeds the bigness of the proposed
structure is seen. The outside lines
of the building measure 786 feet and
5000 cubic yards of earth will have to
ba removed to make the foundation
and lower floor possible. One portion
of the excavation will go thirteen and
a half feet below sidewalk level. The
total floor space of the building is
over thirty-eight thousand square
feet. It will be the largest church
structure between Topeka and Den
yer.
In it will be housed not only the
usual church activities, but the Com
ounitv features including recreation
and culture and the full activities
which the Methodist Church is devel-
oping at the seat of all State Schools
+o care for Methodist Students.
The visit Of Prof. Chester W. Quln-
bv this past Sunday, was the first OF
similar events to be carried on for the
development of religious life. Prof
ouinby gave three lectures on "The
Bible and Its Use" which was fully
appreciated by the audiences.
The Rev. A. E. Peterson of the
Area Staff will be the next visitor
coming in the later winter.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-12-15
Orchestra
500, 900 GYMNASIUM

burg Will be Let Next Month
Pittsburg, Kas., Dec. IA con-
tract for the construction of the new
100000 gymnasium at the State
Manual Training Normal will be let
next month.
The appropriation for the gymnas-
ium was made by the last legislature.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-12-15
Part. for Any Automobile Cheap

Dollars saved. New and unused
pinions, magnetos, gears, axles'
radiators, springs-anything- Don
send a cent, shipped immediately
subject to examination. Also four
new Coleman lanterns, best condition.
only SO. Send no money. Try out a
week before you pay cent
ASHER SERVICE co.
219 New York St., Wichita, Kansas
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-12-15
BE THE BEST OF WHATEVER YOU ARE

BE THE BEST OF WHATEVER YOU ARE
If you can't be pine on the top of the hill
Be a scrub in the valIey-but be
The best little scrub at the side of the rill-
! Be a bush if you can't be tree.
If you can't be a bush be bit of the grass
Some highway to happier make
If you can't be muskie then just be a bass,
But the liveliest bass in the lakel
We can't all be captains, we've got to be
crew,
There's something for all of US here;
There's bigwOrk to do and there's lesser to
do,
And the task we must do is the near.
IF you cant be a highway then Just be a
trail
If you can't be the sun. be a star:
It isn't by size that you win or you fail
Be the best of whatever you are
p. H. c. in Bryan's Commoner-
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-12-15
INDIVIDUAL OPINION
By NJ. H. J.

NSSuAS "Eller Sucn as your
humble servant, desires first of all the
respect of his neighbors; as to his
views on all subjects whatsoever, in
cluding our international relations,
the reader must place his own estim-
ate upon their value.
10000
He that subscribes and runs away
VIII live to subscribe another day.
10000
Unless you are multimilhonaire,
you had better avoid this neck of
woods for there are canvassers in all
the byways and hedges.
10000
And don't forget that schoolhouse
on the south side.
What has become of the hard win
ter We were going to have?
OOoOU
The size of the excavation the
MethOdists have made-they. must
have barrel of money! Hays will
win out with such leaders.
Hays pays SIS ton for coal; in
Kansas City the price is $3.50, just
half-isn't that a healthy gouge on
the part of the railroad?
10000
Chas. H. Morse, the ice-king and
all-round confidence man, tried to run
away; but Uncle Sam caught him at
the French port and had him brought
back on the same vessel he went over
on. He is the turkey-buzzard that
ate soap to reduce flesh as decoy to
get a pardon from President Taft,
from the government prison at At
lanta.
H. G. Wells has gone wool-gather-
ing down in Africa. He wants the
wild pigmies of that country brought
into the association of nations and
given rights comparable to the big
Four; in other words, he is stuck on
the notion that Uncle Sam can bring
the Millennium by a mere turn of the
wrist.
10000
The Ladies Aid Society Of the
Presbyterian church won a great sue
cess at their supper at the K. of c.
hall, last Thursday evening. The net
income took a good slice off their five
thousand dollar subscription to the
building fund-and so the work goes
merrily on!
Now, we are mussed up with pagan
Japan. We have got to get her con-
sent to a ten-year lustrum of peace.
She has her fangs buried deep in the
throat of China and she does not in
tend to let go, no matter what her
promises may be. The crafty little
brown man will smile and smile and
be a villain still! He baked at COM
ing to the Washington conference at
first; before there was declaration
of war he 1lred on and captured Rus
sian man-of-war in Japanese harbor,
and during the world war, when he
thought the Allies were too busy to
prevent encroachments upon China,
with brazen effrontery and insOlence
he made his twenty-one demands up
on China. He might as we'll have
made the same demands upon the
United States or ! upon any other
power. He viii thwart and circum-
vent any agreement made IN Wash
ington and that is my opinion Of him!
If he wants a scrap with Uncle Sam,
we will accommodate him to his
hearts content, and when he gets
what is coming to him, he will quit
California and Honolulu, bag and
baggage, and furnish his own trans
1nortafion.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-12-15

chips, corn or anything that viii make
a heat, rather than pay such an ex-
orbitant price for coal.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-12-15

Coach. Carman issued twenty-five
suits to the basket ball boys last Mon
day night. The Class Games were
played last Wednesday. The Fresh
men played the Sophomores and were
defeated 18 to 3. The Juniors were
defeated by the Seniors II to 3. The
finals were played between the Soph-
omores and Seniors. The Sopho-
mores were defeated by a score OF II
to 7. The Seniors have challenged
the entire school.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-12-15

Mr.. ShiveIy and Miss Stone of the
Normal faculty, assisted in the Barton
County Teachers Association at
Great Bend, the latter part Of last
week.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-12-15

The Ladies Of the Lutheran Church
win hold a continuation of their
Bazaar at the Havemann Furniture
Store. Saturday, December 17th-
Come get your Christmas gifts.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-12-15
CHRISTMAS MUSIC AT METHO
DIST CHURCH

The special musical program by
the choir and orchestra of the Meth
odist Church will be a Christmas pro-
gram.
Prelude 1.-THE Heavens Are Tell
ing' -....-.----.-....----...--.-.-.- Haydn
Orchestra
Anthem-"O Little Town of Beth
lehem" -------------------------- Ashford
Choir
Violin Solo-''LargO'' --,--,. Handel
Miss lone Kraus
Anthem-fThe New Born King"
Ladies Quartet
Offertory-"O Lamb of God" -BiZet
Orchestra
There's Song in the Air
w 44SOIl
Choir
Song Holy Night
Chorus and Orchestra
Postlude- "Marche Romaine" ~
------.-.------------- Gounod
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-12-15

A new piano has been purchased
for the Junior High School and grade
building. This is much needed
niece of equipment and viii aid
materially In the splendid music
work Of the grades.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-12-15

Lumber prices may take another
tumble as a New Years present to
the users. The official announcement
IS published that lumber freight rates
from all Pacific coast terminals VIII
be reduced December oath. The
rates now must Be lower than from
the northeast, as a car of shingles
from Portland, Oregon, were received
here in Hays, the past week
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-12-15

At the annual election of Hays
Chapter No. 68, R. A. NJ, held last
Monday evening, the following were
elected officers for the ensuing year ::
John M. Miller, High Priest
Geo. S. Grass, Jr., King
F. S. Carman, Scribe
C. w. Reeder, Jr., Capt. of the Host
r. r. Lee, r. A. C.
C. W. Miller, Jr., Treasurer
C. W. Reeder was elected Secretary
for the 25th time, but for some good
reasons, he declined to serve longer.
H. F. Addison was elected Secre-
tary.
The date of Installation has not
been settled.