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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-09-21
OUR NATIONAL ROADS IN 1927

OOK ma lONAL KOAOS IN 1871
It is reasonable to expect that with
in five years from date the main ma
tional highways radiating from Great
er Kansas City in all directions will
be hard surfaced entirely across the
country. At least this can almost be
assured in every state except Kansas,
Mississippi and Montana The latter
two states will not effect the general
system of connecting roads as one is
on the extreme southern and the
other is on the extreme northern
boundary. But Kansas is in the
center and the failure to provide its
part of these national routes will be
serious break in the system. But eX-
cept for Kansas it will be entirely
probable that motorists will be able
to cross the United States to and from
any part passing through Greater
Kansas City over a hard surfaced
road built and paid for by state and
Federal funds.
It is hoped that the legislature,
which meets in Topeka in January,
1928, will submit a plan to a vote of
the people which, if adopted, will
nike it possible for Kansas as state to
join with Uncle Sam and build a
state system that will be continuous
highways entirely across the state in
stead of being only short sections
where the people want good roads and
no improved sections where either
the county commissioners or a few
land owners are not yet favorable to
365-day roads.
Good roads are coming to every
state and to every community but the
people can hasten their arrival by
their efforts or they can delay it by
opposition. The boys and girls of
today want good roads. It is the
old men of today who are opposing
them. When the boys and girls are
grown up-ten or fifteen years from
nOw-they will vote and work for
good roads. The big job is to win the
support of the old men Of today. To
induce these men to want to see and
use good roads before they die is the
job of the road booster.-Ex.
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Topeka, Hutchinson, Pittsburg and
Hays meetings.
GIVING MEN WORK

Commenting on the great fortune,
estimated at more than $500, 100000,
owned by one of the few Americans
who have for more than fifty years
controlled the mineral oil industry of
the United States, writer finds just
ification for conditions that make
such abnormal fortunes possible in the
fact that the multi-millionaire had
"done" much to benefit the country
and to solve the problems of others
by giving them work" This phrase
embOdies a popular fallacy that IS re-
spOnsible for much of the prpevalent
confusion of thought on economic
quesitnos; the belief that work, or the
opportunity to labor and produce use
full things, is a favor bestowed by
some men on their less fortunate fel-
lows, for which the latter should be
duly grateful. In so far as this error
is used to defend the exactiOns Of
monopoly or special privilege, it IS
distinctly harmful, and its frequent
recurrence in the discussion of rem
edies for admitted defects in the
existent social order shows the neces-
sity for constant restatement of what
should be recognized as Fundamental
truths.
It is not true that the owners Of
great fortunes give employment to
''the poor people who have to work" :"
1t is the consumers of the goods pro-
duced who create the demand for pro-
ductive effort, and it is the consumer
who ultimately pays all wages. The
owner of capital provides an absolute
" essential factor of production and
is entitled to fair return on his in
vestment He does not "give work"
to any one.
1t is the many millions Of Amer
leans who buy kerosene and gasoline
who give employment to the large
number of workers engaged in pro
ducing, refining and distributing
those products. More than this, it
is these same consumers who make
possible the profitable employment of
vast amounts of capital in the oil in
dustry. Official Investigations are
being made into the peculiar situa-
ton that, with greatly increased
stocks of gasoline the price of this
necessity has been advanced. If there
is any justification for these high
prices, it certainly is not to be found
in the claim that the oil magnates
give men work.-Christian Science
Monitor.
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Corn and Coin

With a crop estimated at nearly
three billion bushels which will bring
in the neighborhood of sixty cents a
bushel on the average this year, the
corn growers of the country will
have something more than pin money
to spend. They will receive some
thing over $1,75O, 100000 for their
crop. The Democrats will hardly at
tempt to make an issue of that.
Something over a year ago the
price of corn was so low that there
was talk of using it for fuel in the
West. Before the passage of the
emergency tariff law we were import
ing considerable quantities of corn,
most ali of it from Argentina. This,
added to other conditions, was having
a most depressing effect on the corn
market.
The coming year is to be a feast
year for our cattle, hogs, sheep, chick
ems, horses and mules. Corn viii put
pep in the meat we eat: it viii sweet
en- the bacon and put a yellow coat of
fat on the chickens. It viii add to
the egg crop, enrich the milk, the but
ter and the cheese. It will strengthen
the beast OF burden and make more
mellifiuous the -contralto Of the mule.
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NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS

Sealed bids viii be received by the
Board of Commissioners of the City
of Hays, Kansas, for the grading,
curb and guttering and paving with
3 in. vertical fiber brick, Oak Street
from the north line of Sheridan Ave
nue. to the south line of Normal Ave
nue. according to plans and speciica-
tions of the City Engineer now on
file at the City Clerks Office, up to
500 p. M, Monday, September 25th,
1922, and then opened for the pur-
pose of letting Contract.
The Board of Commissioners re-
serves the right to reject any or all
bids.
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FILLING THE NEWSPAPERS

A newspaper is always in search of
the real live news of the community.
But because an editor is always eager
~ in search of such news and is will
ing to go to much trouble and expense
in obtaining it, people sometimes for
get that newspaper space is an ex-
pensive proposition and get the i'm
preston that the editor is glad of any
thing to fill up.
No editor has the slightest trouble
to fill up the paper. The real problem
IS to keep from filing the columns of
the paper with stuff the reauers will
not want to wade through to the ex-
clusion OF the news matter that they
pay to get. There isn't an issue that
an editor does not consign to the
waste baske or turn down enough
matter to fill the paper twice, without
room for line for news or advertis-
ing.
People often forget that a news
paper space is a valuable and costly
commodity, to be disposed of as care
fully as any merchant disposes of his
stock of goods. Every day people
bring in propaganda for every con-
ceivable proposition. During the
week just about every department of
government, county, state and ma
tional, comes to our rescue by donat-
ing column or two to fill up the
paper. The fact that an article has
merit has no bearing whether it
should be printed. If it isn't news,
the only question to be considered is
whether it will be sufficiently inter
esting to the majority of our readers
that they will like to read it, and
whether it is more interesting and of
more value than other matter that
will have to be omitted if the article
under consideration is given space
Exchange.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-09-21
AMERICAN LEGION BULLETIN

A special meeting of the Post will
be held Friday evening, September
22nd, 500 p. M, at the Legion rooms
above the Basgall restaurant. There
is some important business to come
before the meeting and all Legion
naires are urged to be present.
Those who want to go to the Ma
tional Convention of The American
Legion at New Orleans, October 16 to
20, are requested to report at once
to the Post Adjutant, C. S. Wilson,
and leave their names for reserva-
tions. There will be reduced rates
to the convention and you will have to
have an Identification card, therefore,
it is necessary for you to report. AS
many Legion men as can go, should
attend the National Convention. This
is a fine opportunity to see the south
and also have a good time.
Come to the meeting Friday.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-09-21

collation., do not. In all probability
they are held either by the govern
ment or by people with small means,
which in the end amounts to the same
thing. The "big felow'' would not
suffer by wiping them out.
But if they were cancelled, the
credit of various countries, especially
Of European countries, would be
materially strengthened. This is the
reason why the cancellation of the
obligations is urged.
With European countries again
given credit so that they might bor-
row, what is to prevent them from
borrowing that they may engage in
another war?
Citizens of the United States would
be the chief losers if the bonds of
the recent war We're cancelled. The
surest way to keep Europe from fight
ing again is to keep her so she can't
get credit for war maetriaI and even
that plan is not perfect assurance
Exchange.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-09-21
HARDEN AND uNTERMEYER

Macmillan Harden, the noted Ger
man editor, in an article published in
the New York World of September 8,
says that Europe has lost her econ
omic supremacy. That is true espe-
cially of Germany. Mr.. Harden points
out the fact that the average weekly
wage in New York is $24, while in
Germany the average is "about a
dollar" The lesson which he seeks
to impart is on a different line from
the one which impresses Us. It is an
absolute impossibility for America to
compepte with a country in which
wages are only one twenty-fourth
what they are here. There must be
some evening-up process, or our own
industries will suffer.
Right in this line is an admirable
statement by Mr.. Samuel NJ. Inter
myer, the well-known lawyer, which
appears in a London dispatch to the
New York Herald Of September 3,
which reads in part as follows:
Everyone wants to help, of course,
but the whole world is in trouble, in
Guiding our own country. If we were
to beat down the Tariff walls instead
of building them up higher in self
Protection, and were to supply these
countries with raw materials in re-
turn for their manufactured goods,
we could, of course, help them, but
that would mean that we would have
to finance them in order to destroy
ourselves by closing our factories and
throwing our wOrkmen into the
streets.
'SNever in history has there been a
time when enlightened selfshness so
strongly dictated the necessity of pro-
tecting our labor from annihilation,
which will follow competition with
the pauperized labor conditions of
sentral and southeast Europe"
Mr.. Untermyer is affiliated with the
Dmocratic party, but he is great
enough to recognize the truth and to
give it currency. No better argu-
ment in favor of an adequate Pro
tective Tariff at the present time
could possibly be expressed in so few
words. While so-called Republicans
are pleading for the postponement of
Tariff enactment, it remains for a
Dmocrat to point out the utter folly
of such postponement. Never before
was adequate Protection so much
, needed as now.-Ex.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-09-21
FIFTEEN THOUSAND TEACH
ERS WILL ATTEND K. S. T.
A. MEETINGS

Topeka, Kans., Sept 2O.-Accord-
ing to F. L. Pinet, Secretary of the
Kansas State Teachers Association,
more than fifteen thousand Kansas
teachers will journey to Topeka,
Hutchinson, Pittsburg and Hays, on
October 10, 20 and 21, to attend the
Fifty-ninth Annual Session of the
Association. with the meetings be-
ing held this year two weeks earlier
than in usual in order to avoid con-
fiict with the week in which the gen
eral election falls, we expect to have
ideal weather." Mr.. Pinet said today,
''and that fact that this is a legisla-
tive year combined with the strong
array of speakers of national reputa-
tion the Association has under con-
tract for these four meetings indi-
Gates a recOrd-breaking attendance
on the part of teachers and school
boards throughout the state"
The list of speakers for the Fifty
ninth Annual Session of the K. S. t.
n. LLl4S year 4LC40QCS LSdDDl GOLGDuGn
S. Wise of New York City, Honorable
Raymond Robins of Chicago, Presi-
dent Lotus D. Coffman of the Uni
versity of Minnesota, and nearly a
score of others recognized as nation
al leaders in the field of education
and public service.
On account of its large membership
the Association has been able to Sc
cure from the railway authorities a
round-trip rate of one and One-half
fare for all of its members.
Jess w. Miley of Girard, the Re
publican nominee for state superin-
tendent of public instruction, is pres
ident of the Kansas State Teachers
Association, and will preside at one
of the general sessions at each the
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-09-21

Human consumers of corn, from the
pone to the flake, viii be benefited
by the enormous crop about to be
reaped. Verify, Republicanism spells
prosperity and corn is corn.-Bing-
hamton IN. " Sun.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-09-21

Grainfield won the silver loving
cup for scoring highest number OF
points on all contests.
This was the first Booth Festival
for Hays District but will not be the
last. Good, clean, wholesome fun
and recreation as well as the christian
spirit of giving was manifested in
the observance of this Booth Festival.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-09-21
WHO HOLDS THE BoNDs7

There is something suspicious in
the agitation now on for the cancella-
ton of war bonds.
Who owns those bonds, anyhow?
You may be sure the international
bankers who are advocating their can
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-09-21
BOOTH FESTIVAL A SUCCESS

The Epworth Leagues Of Hays Dis
trict Of the Methodist Church put on
a very successful Booth Festival, Sat
urday, September 16, at the Fair
Grounds.
Leagues from Grainfeld, Grinnell,
Sharon Springs, Galatia, Kanopolis,
Hays and Cove were represented and
contested against each other in booth
displayment and athletic contests.
Nine o'clock in the morning found
all Leagues busy arranging booths
and displaying fruits, vegetables,
canned and fresh, iellies, preserves,
sheets, towels, pillow cases, anything
useful to hospital life, all of which
were given to Asbury Hospital at Sa-
lima, our Conference hospital. The
total display was valued at $125 in
cluding SO in cash. Grainield got
first prize on booths.
The tennis tournament in the
morning and reading contest and
races as fifty and 100 yard dashes,
broad and high jump, half-mile relay,
half-mile race, hang up clothes race,
ETC., in the afternoon proved to be in
teresting features of the days pro-
gram. Grinnell took most events in
athletics.
DR.. A. E. Peterson, leader of young
peoples work for the Wichita Area,
brought some fine worthwhile plans
and thoughts for Leaguers in the con-
ferences and addresses Of the day.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-09-21
Hit Both Ends with Same Shot

Senator Miles Poindexter of Wash
ington, says a hunter in his state was
entertaining the crowd around the
camp fire one night with tales of past
exploits. He declared he once shot a
buck in such a way that the bullet,
after hitting the right ear, passed
through the heel of the right hind
foot. This story brought forth loud
jeering and laughter.
Turning to a friend, he said:
"Biu, tell these scoffers if what say
is not as true as gospel
"Why, yes" drawled Bill, I saw it
myself. You see, gentlemen, when
John pulled the trigger of his rifle,
the buck was scratching his head with
his hoof."
Then he whispered to John:
"That was a mighty narrow escape
Another time don't lie so far apart. "
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-09-21
A sIugfest to Hays <. Of g.

The slugging team from Lucas,
Kansas, met the smuggling K. of C.
team on the College grounds at Hays,
last Sunday, and a SUGGEST, such as
would have delighted the hearts of
the fans of the eighties, resulted.
The visitors outslugged the K. of
C.'s to the tune of 2O-13, but the K.
of C.'s managed to bunch their hits
and made them count, thereby win
ming the game by a score of II to 9.
Oehler performed on the mound
for the team and Harris and Brooks
pitched for tn evisitors, Harris being
driven from the mound in the seventh
inning after the terrific drives by
Oehler, Carman and BeeIer. The
visitors staged a rally in their half of
the ninth inning which netted them
three scores, no thowever sufficient
to overcome the six run lead held by
the Knights.
Errors were numerous on both
sides, Lucas being charged with
seven and the Knights with five, at
times however, there was some real
ball playing, such an occasion was in
the sixth inning, when Lucas threat
ened to win the game by filing the
bases with no one down. Oehler
tightened and retired the side by
striking out two men and getting the
third on an infeld grounder to Reidel.
The Lucas boys are fine bunch
and we would be glad to give them a
return game. We have game
scheduled with them for one of the
Fair days.
The K. of C.'s play a doubIe-head-
er with Salina Leaguers, Friday, Sep
tember %, at 1 100 p. M, on College
grounds.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-09-21

The seventy-frst Annual Session OF
the Kansas Baptist State Convention
meets this year, October 9 and 10,
here in Hays. This will bring to our
city delegates from every Church in
Kansas, as we'll as a large number OF
National workers.
We will be privileged to hear DR..
P. H. J. Lerigo of New York, the field
secretary of the Baptist Foreign Mis-
sion Society, who has recently re-
turned from a visit to every Foreign
Mission Field, as we'll as the stricken
fields of Europe.
DIR. Chas. A. Brooks of New York,
the field secretary of the Baptist
Home Missionary Society. DR.. M. P.
Boynton of Chicago, who will be the
outstanding speaker of the Conven-
ton. DR.. ]. T. Crawford, State Sec
retary, Topeka, Kansas, our veteran
State Leader. DR.. L. S. Bowerman
who will preach the Convention Ser
mon, Tuesday evening, October 10TH
DIR. S. P. Price, President Of Ottawa
University, and host of others OF
State and National reputation.
This is the first time the Stae Con-
vention has come this far West, and
even yet many eastern folks think
this an impossibility. Hays can and
will entertain this Convention, / am
sure, in way worthy of the West.
Our part is to entertain on the
Harvard plan-Bed and Breakfast
We are hoping to have at least 1000
delegates.
Tuesday, the Woman's Baptist
Union will hold their annual meeting,
and this will bring a number of out
standing leaders and speakers. Al
ready we are sure Of Mrs. Goodman,
State Director; Miss Price fo Burmah,
and Miss Thayer of India.
The good people of Hays are asked
to open their homes and help to en-
tertain these delegates. When the
Committee call splease help all you
can. H. Macdonald Thompson,
Convention Pastor.
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Bring your Chickens to the Golden
Belt Fair this fall. The dates are
September 26, 27, % and %. A
$1,000 prize will be given for Sweep
stakes for the best pen of Chickens
at the Fair. Old chickens will not be
disqualified for molt. Young chick
ems will not be disqualified for weight.
Bring what you have.
Carl J. Stecklein and Fidelis Plan
nensteil drove to Salina and Hutchin-
son, last Saturday, returning Sunday
DR.. w. H. Jordan of Kansas City,
is here visiting his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. J. F.,Jordan.
Miller Brothers this week sold the
John Bengtson house on East Jun
iata street.
Now is the time to buy that new
Fall Hat on sale at Miss Deane's.
Beginning Saturday, September
%, special sale on all hats at Miss
Deane's.
An automobile containing two
travelling men from Topeka, turned
over between Gorham and Victoria,
one day this week. Both men were
injured quite severely. The auto
caught fire and was destroyed.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Wiesner,
Monday, a daughter.
Joe N. Dreiling was here from
Walker, Wednesday.
Mrs. Mary A. Blender was here
Wednesday, comforting with the
county superintendent.
The labor standard., 1922-02-15
CHICAGO PAINTERS TURN DOWN LANDS ARBITRATION AWARD
 
Citizens Committee Refuses to Deal With Unions Originally
 Declining the Award Except
 on Open Shop Basis

CHICAGO.-The Painters Union has refused to come under the Landis arbitration award, J. F. Rising, presi- dent of the Decorators and Painting Contractors Association, reported. This makes the record in the building trades twenty-five unions on the closed shop basis carrying on under the award; ten on the open shop basis, exclusive of the painters and the plasterers, working under contract made prior to the Landis wage scale.
 The Citizens Committee has just taken over four-story building for an employment office. At their head quarters it was said they have placed 5000 men at work in the open shop trades.
 The chief development in the situ- ation has been the refusal of the Citi- zens' committee, representing em- ployers and business men, to deal with unions originally declining the award except on an open shop basis. Ten of these unions voted about two weeks ago to accept the terms of the arbi- tration, but it was said by the com mittee's representative that the com mittee held they had broken their con- tract in striking, and that the only way such unions could be made to realize the sacredness of contracts was to penalize them
The labor standard., 1922-02-15
Measuring Raindrops.

Rafndrops are measured by permit ting them to fall into shallow tray containing dry four or plaster of paris. Each drop thus makes cast of itself, which is carefully measured. The largest raindrops are about a quarter of an. inch in dianeter.
The labor standard., 1922-02-15
Course of Hudson River.

. The Hudson river rises in the hills to the west of Lake Champlain and after southerly course of about 200 miles falls into the Atlantic pecan below the city of New York It is navigable as far as Troy, 166 miles above New York, and is connected by canals with Lakes Champlain and Erie.
The labor standard., 1922-02-15
TEXTILE WORKERS OUT

BOSTON-More than 5O,0O0 cotton mill workers are on strike throughout New England because of 20 per cent. wage reduction and return from the modern working week of AS hours to the old schedule of 54'
The labor standard., 1922-02-15

that cruel and destructive violence is not the best way to settle industrial conflicts. If the American democracy can carry that feeling into practice on it's own territory, it will add greatly to the services it has already ren- dered to humanity.
The labor standard., 1922-02-15
When the Blind ns.e.n

Persons who have been stricken blind after once having enjoyed the sense of sight invariably-esee" in their dreams, and it would seem that they see very wildly, for they say that they 'see" things in their dreams that their eyes have never beheId.
The labor standard., 1922-02-15
States That Grow suuar Reets.

Sugar beets are now grown in IT states, in ten of which the growers de- pend. in whole or part. upoa irTiga- ton.
The labor standard., 1922-02-15
Telephone as a Necessity.

The telephone becomes universal household necessity as soon as the boys and girls become old enough to make dates.-Rome (N. Y.) Sentinel.
The labor standard., 1922-02-15
Excellent Advice.

.A person who desires to be regarded as quick at repartee.r said Miss Cay- enne. should be careful to select friends who are slow to anger"
The labor standard., 1922-02-15
Ocean Insect.

The sea bug holobates is the only insect living on the surface of the ocean, and what it eats is unknown.
The labor standard., 1922-02-15
Wanted to Know.

Willie-Say, ma, do the jellyfish, get their jelly from the ocean cur Transcript
The labor standard., 1922-02-15
The, Difference

The young hate work, but it is the last pride, the last joy of the aged that they are able to do it.-Atchison Globe.
The labor standard., 1922-02-15
Uncle Eben Says Great Truth.

"Patience is a virtue," said Uncle Eben; "but it's foolish to vase yoh life tryin' to pet mean mule'