The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-09-14

attend the Presbytery in session
there.
Andrew Linenberger of Park, Kan
sas, returned Monday, to his home,
after visiting with friends and rela-
tives in Victoria and in this city.
Mayor Andrew ]. Dreiling of Vic
toria, was in the city, Monday after
noon, on official business.
Mrs. Neva Elsey left for her home
in Los Angeles, California, Tuesday
morning, after visiting two weeks
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. N. J.
Bell.
Why should we not gladly pay the
boys $1.OO per day for the time in
service? eve sent these boys of
ours into the deadliest war in history
to fight our battle for US. We paid
on an average of a few cents more
than dollar a day"
So much has been said about 39c,
twenty-five million dollars, twenty
five years and dollar a day for Kan
sas ex-service men. Where can I
find out anything about this? See
any Republican weekly paper pub
| lished in the state.
Fred Toepfer and family of Vic
toria, went through the city, Tuesday,
enroute for Oakley. Mr.. Toepfer
traded The Victoria Hotel property
for four hundred eighty acres of land
/ ten miles southwest of Oakley. For
the last ten years Mr.. Toepfer and
family have been operating the hotel
which has attracted tourists both
coming from and going to the noun
tains. This hotel has a reputation
for service that has made it second to
none along the Victory Highway.
Is it too much to pay the boys $1.OO
per day for service in the world war?
We picked out a number of our young
men just when they were starting out
in life for themselves. The job be-
fore them was the deadliest. We cut
down their pay to the very lowest, we
took away their liberty and subject
ed them to the most severe discipline.
We sent them into the jaws of death
to save our country and theirs.
The little town of Hutchinson, Kan
sas, may not know much, yet last
weeks Hutchinson NEWS contains
an ordinance showing their Board of
Commissioners ordered Eighth ave
nue., several blocks from Main to Pop
lar street, paved with Sheet Asphalt
on a five-inch concrete base twenty
six feet wide from curb to curb, the
same as has been asked for by Nor
NAL avenue and proposed on Oak
street in Hays.
Is it not too much to pay the $1.OO
per day for service in the World
War? just as soon as the boys went
to camp, the Government paid the
men in shipyards and munition fact
cries two, three and four times what
they had been paid before. On the
farms and everywhere high wages
were paid and those who got them
risked nothing but their ease, but the
boys ''who were drilled to death"
were given just $1.OO per day for
stopping bullets
The J. B. Byars Store, the new dry
goods store on East Second street,
east of J. B. Basgall's grocery store,
will open for business Wednesday,
September 10th. The manager, S. T.
Combs and his wife are busy now
opening and arranging a large line
of fresh new goods for the inspection
of the buying public. Their prices
will be right. This makes the fortieth
in a string of dry goods stores owned
and operated by Mr.. Byars. He
handles nothing but fine line of dry
goods.
If the voters decide that the boys
in the world war should be paid $1.OO
for very day in srevice, will the tax
payers not have to pay soc on every
100000 of property owned for
twenty-five years? Indeed they do.
What is 39c compared with what you
might have been forced to pay if the
Germans had won the war. Then
your prices would have been fixed in
Berlin and the indemnity would have
amounted to many dollars per thou
sand instead Of few cents.
A HEATHEN TEMPLE COME TO
GRIEF