The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-04-27

test to the worldwide debauch.
For ages-since the days Of Noah
man lay dead drunk on the road
side; his long abused stomach revolt
ed at last and the disagreement
covered the front of the unconscious
man.
It would seem to do injustice to
the truth TO say that that was the
romantic age of strong drink; but it
was even so; the earth was full of
violence because of the cup which in
ebriates; it was the romantic age of
appetite drink and be merry
was the vogue; society was built that
way; all the professions led the way;
q drunk" lying in the fence corner
received slight comment; if you met
your neighbor overseas" on the side
walk, you gave him the right of way
as a matter Of course; the open door
of the dram-shop stunk like rotten
mackerel; the baser fellows of the
lewd sort ran the town, and held
their conspiracies in the ''speak easy
atmosphere of the saloon.
Booze was good form among high
and low; murder was. condoned in the
courts because he was drunk"
This hour fluid refreshments
threaten the destruction of the Brit
ish Empire; it looks now that the
race would go to the Judgment seat
of Christ drunk.
Whiskey has reached the last ditch;
capital and the bootlegger have com
bined to fight the supreme law and
the battle of Armageddon is on.
10000
Lady Nancy Astor, Virginian by
birth, first English woman NJ. P.
back to this country for a visit, says,
among other things, to the reporters:
''Nohing lets the sex down like run
ming around half naked" Doesn't
that put the finishing touch upon the
controversy?
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The fellow who pliers the milk
from the front porch should be gen
tlenlan-thief enough to return the
bottles of which he must have a good
supply.
The Weekday (VacatiOnaD Bible
Study School
The Ministers Alliance of Hays
held their Union meeting Sunday eve
ming last at the Methodist church.
The aims and-purposes of the pro-
jected school were fully set forth by
DIR Snyder of the Presbyterian
church.
He emphasized the fact that the
burden and stress of the modern edu-
cation of our children and youth is
in the direction of athletics, which,
in this country, has fiowered into
baseball and descended to a gamble;
the body has been trained to
finessee to the neglect of morals;
that the fully-rounded intellectually
trained youth is only half a man;
that a Douglas of Kansas City Ito
use our own illustration) "a univers-
ity man, who'orecentIy defaulted for
half million dollars is a specimen of
the modern graduate, trained phys
ically and intellectually but whose
moral sense is lacking; that if the
spiritual side of the man had been
cultivated as assiduously as his nat
ural gifts, he and his family had not
fallen from their high estate and the
offender now locked in prison and
awaiting trial with distinct pros
pect of having to spend the remain
der of his life serving time.
The root of the matter lies at the
home; parents avoid the bible; they
shirk religious training of their chill
dren; the conscience of the head of
the house feels deeply grieved if
he omits to attend the Lodge one
night, but he can find hundred ex-
cuses for not attending church, pre-
ferring to do a Sunday days work
around the garage or barn.
DR.. Snyder of the Lutheran church
gave the details of the history of this
movement. It originated in an OBJ
scure way in Wisconsin, twenty years
ago; it has taken root, as all move
ments do where there is actual need,
and in many towns and cities in our
country it has developed in a remark
able way, especially in the city of
Boston.
Prof. Vance of the department of
Commerce at the Normal, supported
the movement in an interesting and
able address, showing the utter fulfil
it of the effort TO develnn the finished