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KANSAS THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1922. SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 PE YEAS InllE ID) IC? TO UJ ii ii D. O. McCRAY Candidate for Secretary of State Write an Interesting Letter to the Editor of the Free Press Forty-five years ago this month the writer and D. O.

McCray of Topeka, decided to come to Kansas. The de-; cision was reached after a heart-to-! heart talk in the editorial room of the Lucas Couny Republican, at Chariton, Iowa, a newspaper we pub- lished. A few months later the printing plant was moved here, and after a year at Hartford, it was ship-! ped to McPherson, where we established the Freeman. Later Mr. Mc-' Cray sold his interest in the Free-J man and we separated, but we have always kept track of each other and: have exchanged many letters.

D. O. McCray is now Assistant Secretary! of State, and it seems certain that he! will be accorded the Republican nom-j ination for Secretary of State in the August primaries without opposition. More than 150 Kansas newspapers have either published Mr. McCray's announcement or editorially endors-j ed him for iSecretary of State.

He has received hundreds of letters from active Republicans in the state pledging him their unqualified support. These and the newspaper en-' dorsements come from every one of the 105 counties of Kansas. This spontaneous offer of support is due to the fact that Mr. McCray has been closely identified with the daily and weekly newspapers of the state for more than forty years, and that in all that time he has helped hundreds of Kansans in their political ambi-1 tions. Now they feel that they should help him to realize his only, ambition Secretary of State and thus reward him for his many friend-j ships, and for his useful life for more than forty years as a newspaper man' who always stood up foi; Kansas and her people.

A personl letter this writer has just received front D. O. McCray is characteristic of the man. His devo- -n and loyalty to hi-s state, his tribute to its pioneer citizens, and the great achievements wrought during his forty-four years' residence, always stand out in his letters and the printed page. This leter, I think, will be read with interest by every citizen of Kansas, and we are going to print it: Topeka, Kansas, March 5, 1922 Dear Friend Clark: I have just read with interest your news story about the visit of N.

H. general attorney of the Union Pacific Railroad company, to Hays, and of the great changes he noted in the wonderful growth and development of that city. I presume I Hays has made rapid strides in its 1 commercial life since last I visited you some six years ago. Even then I was surprised at the substantial and permanent buildings and busi- ness institutions of the city, and when you and I went out to the nor- mal school and I was shown through I its massive buildings and great audi- torium, I could not but think of the wonderful advancement of Kansas in every relation of life since we came to this state for a home in 1877. In the auditorium of that great school 1 1 witnessed a grand opera entertain ment that would do credit to New York City.

The young women and the young men who gave that entertainment that rare feast of song and story came from the farm homes and the little towns of western Kansas. I congratulate you. old friend, that fate pointed you to Hays, and that your home is among a people who have done so much, with their neighbors of western Kansas, to make this the best state of the Union. What a story of romance could be woven around the lives of the pio neers of western Kansas who were struggling and enduring, sacrificing' and hoping for better days, when you and I came to the state forty-five years ago. We knew that no state in the Union, or no country in the world, could boast of a braver, more 1 intelligent, liberty-loving and law-re- pecting population than the men and women who constituted the pioneer settlers of western Kansas.

It could not be otherwise, for more than 100,000 soldiers who had fought for. free Kansas in the Civil war, preceded These pioneers, these soldiers, their wives and children, are deserving of our gratitude and affection, for they wiped a desert from 1 mc iiitxi ui inc lujuiiiCTii aim inaue i z. i 1 it a garaen 01 ox me young women and the young men we heard and applauded in grand opera in the auditorium of your great Normal school, are the children and grandchildren of pioneer parents whose early homes were the dug-outs and sod houses of western Kansas. Since we came to Kansas, thousands of these pioneers these soldier-citizens; heroes of peace and war have passed to their reward, but in their children and grandchildren they left the heritage of a rug-tred stock of women and men of cour-pe, energy and resourceful vigor the present high-class citizenship of this state. Made up of such blood and bone, and heart and brain, as constitute thft population of Kansas, of what achievements is this splendid sate not capable? The crowning glory of Kansas, in educational advancement since we came in 1877, has been her schools, embracing those of every gTade from the rude one-room building on the frontier, to the stately 'buildings at Hays, Emporia, Lawrence, Pittsburg and Manhattan.

I am glad that Kansas considers its bright children its jewels worthy of the best advantages education can give. And this applies particularly to the Normal schools, which elevate the standard and qualifications of public educators. It is a great privilege to rule and shape human minds, and to mould and fashion children and youth for the highest duties of life. It comes to me that there can be no higher or nobler ambition than to be a really great teacher. And Kansas has thousands of these who have fitted themselves in her Normal schools.

I think we may rightfully be called pioneers. This is forcibly brought to my mind when I think of the history Kansas has made in forty-five years. We recall how this state led the nation and the world in banishing the saloon and the wjnskey drug store. It was a long fiht, but it was a righteous one, and we have lived to see hundreds of thousands of children grow up to young womanhood and young manhood in Kansas, who never saw a saloon. The list of great achievements by the people of Kansas since we became citizens is too long to enumerate in this letter.

They all are fresh in your memory. No one can bound the limits of the progress this state will make in the coming forty-five years, because Kansas will continue to grow materially, educationally and morally. We are yet at the uawning ol the morning. We are 1 just beginning to realize what a great and patriotic people can accomplish, whom "love of country moveth, example teacheth, company comforteth, emulation quickeneth, and glory exalteth." Your friend, D. O.

McCray. VICTORY HIGHWAY Topeka, Kansas, March 7. The first of the emblems for attachment to the motor cars of members of The Victory Highway Association, have reached the office of the organization i in Topeka. The emblems are to be received at the rate of five dozen a day from the manufacturers in Chicago, and will be mailed to the members of the association as rapidly as the clerical force in the headquarters office of The Victory Highway Association here, can get them out. The emblems are in the shape of a bronze wreath, enclosing the figure of a soldier standing at attention, are four inches in diameter, and are 'with a large superimposed.

They intended to be fastened to the radiator of a motor car. A special set of emblems have been ordered for the officers and directors of the association. In the special officers emblem the is enameled blue, and there is attached to the bottom a shield, bearing the title of the officer to whose car the emblem is attached. One million eastern brook trout and 200,000 California rainbows will be turned loose in the streams of Routt County, Colorado, in June next, to make travel pleasant for tourists over the Victory Highway who are fishermen as well as tourists. Such is the statement of Geo.

W. Stansfield, president of The Victory Highway Association, one of To-peka's most enthusiastic anglers. More than 3,000,000 baby trout hatched at the Steamboat Springs, Colorado, hatchery are to be fried during- 1922 and the people of Colorado in that section tributary to the Vicory Highway, are establishing this fact under a slogan which says, "The best trout fishing in the world is to be had along the line of the Victory Highway in Colorado." NOTICE FOR BIDS The Golden Belt Fair Association are asking for bids to paint all the buildings of the Association, exclusive of the roofs. They agree to furnish oil, lead and turpentine. Bids to be opened March 18th at 5 o'clock.

H. W. Chittenden, Sec'y. Sebastian Binder died from kidney trouble, at Munjor, Sunday, March 5, 1922, and was buried Monday. He was 75 years old and had been a resident of Munjor for twenty-five years.

He was seriously ill for only three days. His brother, Wolf Binder, who lives at Lovelan'd, Colorado, arrived here Monday morning, to attend his brother's funeral. Wolf will leave for his home Saturday, THE KANSAS STATE BANKERS' ASSOCIATION What promises to be the most important convention in the banking history of Kansas has called by the Kansas State Bankers' Association for April 12th and 13th, at Hutchinson, Kansas. Many matters of vital importance to state banks will be discussed, and many problems confronting the state banks at the present time will be brought up for solution. Every state bank seems to be arranging to have representatives present, and it is predicted that the largest and most representative delegation of Kansas State Bankers ever convened will grind out some decisions that will be of great influence in formulating the financial policy of Kansas for the coming year.

Details of the program are being arranged and authoritative speakers on Branch banking, the War Finance Corporation, and other subjects of momentous interest have been obtained. The final program will be announced later. Arrangements for the? of the delegates have been completed and reservations are now being made at the Bisonte, Chalmers and other hotels. The bankers of Hutchinson, the Chamber of Commerce, and the local merchants together with the ladies' clubs are cooperating in providing very enjoyable entertainment for the bankers, their wives and other guests. A smoker, tea party and reception, theatre party, sight seeing trip through the largest salt plants in he world, and several other events are being planned.

The traditional hospitality of the city warrants the rumor that more business and real pleasure will be crowded into these two days visit to Hutchinson than the bankers of Kansas have ever known in a like period. Mr. and Mrs. H. D.

Shaffer who returned last week, from a pleasant trip in California, report seeing lots of the old Haysites. Ned Beach is not improving in health, but his wife looks well. Leroy Judd is the same old Haysite, but Mrs. Judd has not recovered from the operation she endured at the hospital. Mrs.

Reem-snyder likes California, but longs to get back to her many old friends in Hays, but the daughter prefers that climate. Peter Johnson and family are enthused over Califoornia and its climate, and have a nice home and: a new car to enjoy the paved roads, I and are enjoying the ease of real retired Kansas farmers, while young Peter enjoys his stroll on the beach seeing "The Bathing Beauties," but still heart-whole. The Lesters, the Yosts, even Mrs. Clara iStout, are en joying California. It surely is aj great country to spend money.

Director E. R. Moses of Great Bend, who was here at the meeting of the Kansas State Utility Board on the matter of the permission to the Golden Belt Railroad, and told. the Board the people wanted this road built had been trying for thirty years to get a railroad built to the Northwest, that their people were willing to do anything and every-1 thing possible to get one, and would for this one and hoped the Board would grant the permission asked; and also advised the people of Hays and county to get tehind it and push it through as the best thing now in sight, still hopes to see such a road built. He hasn't given up the fight and sends this circular out the 1st of March to the friends along the route.

It talks right at he people sensibly: DON'T GIVE UP "YOUR success is before you. It doesn't come in a day, a year or in two years. The set-backs and draw-'bcaks you have are only to make you study our weak points, and correct them. Study carefully the work you are in, for if you give up you may not havp another chance. iOPPORTUNITY doesn't mean that you are going to leap into sue-; cess or into a fortune; it simply means vou have A CHANCE TO WIN OUT if you stick to it.

The man who keeps changing loses out and dies poor. The Farmers in general have the best opportunity of their lives because they have learned of the past that WILL make them successful in future. 'HANG ON, CLING ON AND PUSH ON, TILL YOU GET THERE. WE WANT TO SEE YOU Having a sick child in the hospital, Clark Burnham of the Smoky Hill country has rented the Sites house on East Fourth street and will move in there with his family, making his headquarters there while selling meat from his butcher wagon, from his farm. OLD TIMES THERE ARE NE'ER FORGOTTEN By M.

H. J. Have you ever seen a Man-Milliner? One of the rare old sort? Way back when folks were just common like an old shoe; way back with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, old timers, that we all used to swear by; when- the family bunch rode to church in the farmer's wagon; when the Four Hundred wore panties with edging (sh now, man!) round the bottom with which they made a demonstration when they climbed out of the wagon bed and descended upon earth. My! I feel like covering my face with both hands and drawing my head down inside my coat collar as the recollection flits across my mental disk. Confound those old times anyhow; they are alius sticking their noses up out o' water wien you've no use for 'em.

But I can talk to you, 'cause you're an old timer and don't care. Well, as I was "asayen" or about to say, I looked up across an open space in the Mill iner's Shop and there in full view, in the gallery, surrounded by industrious girls steeped in millinery, sat the Man-Milliner, stitching flowers on a woman's hat; his head swinging right and left like a pendulum in defiance of my petrified amazement, ass as I was; anyhow, I had a companion with me who had left a commission at the shop in the details of which I was not concerned. We bundled into the buggy for home in an almost unconscious condition, the cataclysmic effect upon me not having yet worked off. A mile or two out on our way as we communed on the incidents of the day, a glance at milady's head gear gave me an explosive guffaw I roared the simpleton's unadulterated roar. She had left the trimmings of her hat to my wonderment in the shop, and for some inscrutable reason women only can divine, was returning home in her lamentably mutilated old hat.

Now, she was a very nice person, the pink and choice of her entourage, which only added fuel to my abominable concatenations; she came out ahead of me of course; with her heavenly smile, her miraculous serenely, and the deft manner in which she cornered my stupidity. There is' a momentous moral attached to this yarn: Don't accompany a wise one to a milliner's opening. ooooo I was in the mountains west of Boulder and Denver before the Civil War. Boulder was in its pulsing infancy with two log cabins, one of which was occupied by a squaw man and his dusky Sioux mate; and Denver was a collection of cheap hoard dance halls and gambling dens. A confused mass of the rag-tag and bob-tail, disreputable adventurers filled the streets.

Kit Carson and the scouts and trappers of his class were in their prime. The lure of gold had brought a horde of the unsophisticated gie't-rich-quick into Colorado the decade following the discovery of placer mines on the Sacramento river in 1849 the Colorado hegira followed in 1859. These credulous folk had no conception of the fact that fortunes must be invested in stamp mills, crucibles, and chemical formulas for reducing and refining the precious metal from obdurate quartz; that the reward must come by the sraight and narrow way of incredible toil and few there be that find it; that where one Tabor or Cripple Creek magnate issued out of the struggle with his pockets full of gold hundreds perished from hunger and privation. There are no placer mines in Colorado and never were. I can see them now, the long trains of disappointed sitting at the front of their prairie schooners singing an old camp-meeting hymn in a whining falsetto the picture of disappointed ambition on their way back to the "states." Some of the determined prospectors a few of them, drifted down into South America, and others in recent years found their way to the Klondike.

To revert to that man Tabor; he deserted the wife of his youth who had stuck by and suppored him in his years of poverty, when she took in washing to keep the wolf from the door, and when riches came he married a gilded adventuress for which Providence stood by and saw him die a bankrupt, Our corral for wagons and animals was at Boulder where the mountain stream of that name debouches upon the plain. It was a delightful site, at the foot of the valley range for the city which now adorns the spot. As the trail ran in those days the distance is nine miles to Gold Hill, the summit of the valley range! where our companions had a mining' claim which, after much hard work, yielded nothing. Color can be found almost anywhere in those hills but not in paying quantity. In this instance, the printer went back to his case and the farmer to his plow.

From that elevation we had a glorious view of the Holy Cross, formed by the snow Cin the depressions of the Snowy Range where eternal winter reigns. On the coign of vantage where we stood, a touch of winter was interjected hy a light fall of snow on the Fourth of July. My pal and myself, neither of us interested in mining claims, loitered through some delightful summer days at our camp in Boulder. Large game was abundant, evidences of which were strewn about our camp: a ram's head of a mountain sheep Svith its immense curved corrugated I horns I estimated would weigh any where from twenty-five to fifty pounds. The legend that such an animal to outstrip its pursuers, will leap from a high eminence to a shelf below, landing on its head, protected by its horns, is nonsense.

A moun tain lion left one. of its fore arms with its formidable claws for our inspection. South of the creek, close at hand, rises a group of rocky, point 2d escarpments, a feature which adds to the interest of mountain scenery. On a sunny Sunday morniig, my pal and I stood on the banks of the swift-iflowing Boulder, and looking south through a young forest growth we were surprised at the distant approach of a Vision; it might have fallen like Lucifer from heaven. In that wild, desolate region we could not imagine that a woman was nearer than five hundred miles of us; suddenly she emerged from the thick, young forest and stood upon the bank of the creek directly across I from where we stood; the stream at that point is of considerable width, and crossed by a long, narrow, uneven ootlog.

The Vision, like Maginty, was dressed in her best Sunday clothes, a neat gingham tfrock, if you please, and for looks she was not to be despised. The Vision, seeing us stand ing on the opposite bank, hesitated for a minute, when Jim with the gallantry of a true Knight, skipped along the footlog, offered his services, took her by the hand, daintily, backed along the knotty, narrow log, leading his divine charge. It was an unforseen, extraordinary noteworthy display (for me) but Jim was stout as a mule and backed over the knots with surprising agility; when his heel hacked against an unusual knot and Hercules swayed, I held any breath, prudently forbearing lest a word of caution- should make matters worse for the current was swift, and not inviting as to depth. They reached the center of the stream in triumph when Jim's cautious heel struck an unusual knot and down he went a-straddle of the log like the letter but holding onto the Vision with a desperate grip and she to him verily. The Vision, sure-footed as the gazelle, smiled serenely and stood stedfast; but the difficulty was at hand like the angeL which disputed the advance of Baalim and his ass.

Jim, with an uncertain foothold must get onto his feet somehow; but he had unsuspected help in the Vision; with her aid he rose nearly upright; but swayed at a frightful angle and I cried, Jim! for the love of Me-lindy! don't go overboard and drag the Vision with you!" Hercules made a mighty effort and the Vision pulled and lifted with all her might and Jim and the party of the second part were saved! Now, my pal was baffled and much abashed on reaching the shore; but he was a hero all the same, and the Vision was no slouch either! C. Edmund Neil will give a recital on "The Henrietta' at the Normal Auditorium, Monday night, 'March 13. Mr. Neil comes from the University of Virginia and is one of the best interpreters on the platform. "The Henrietta" deals with spme of the problems of Yall Street, OFFICIAL DIRECTORY 1922 NATIONAL President.

Warren G. Hardin? Vice President. Calvin Coolidgs Sec. of State. Charles E.

Hushes Sec. of Treasury. Andrew W. Mellon Sec. of War.

John W. Weeks Attorney General. Harry M. Daugherty Postmaster General, Hubert Work Sec. of Navy.

Edwin Denby Sec Interior. Albert B. Fall Sec. of Agriculture. Henry C.

Wallace Sec. of Commerce. Herbert C. Hoover Sec. of Labor.

James J. Davis U. S. SUPREME COURT Chief Justice. William H.

Taft Associate Justices Joseph McKenna Oliver Wendell Holmes William R. Day Willis Van Devaater Mahlon Pitney James C. McReynolds Louis D. Brandeis John H. Clark KANSAS U.

S. Senators: Charles Curtis, Arthur Capper Representatives 1st Daniel R. Anthony 2nd Edward C. Little 3rd Philip P. Caxnpbsll 4th Homer Hoch 5th James G.

Strong 6th Hays B. White 7th J. W. Tincher 8th Richard E. Bird STATE Supreme Court Chief Justice.

William A. Johnston Justices R. A. Burch Henry F. Mason Silas W.

Porter Judson S. West John Marshall John S. Dawson STATE OFFICES Governor, Henry J. Allen Lieutenant Governor. Chas.

S. Huffman Secretary of State. L. J. Pettijohn State Auditor.

Norton A. Turner State Treasurer. E. T. Thompson Attorney General.

Richard J. Hopkins Supt. of Public Instruction. Lorraine E. Wooster Supt.

of Insurance. Frank L. Travis State Printer. Bert Walker DISTRICT Judge 23rd Judicial District. I.

T. Purcell State Senator 39th Frank Mrl or Representative 89th John O'Loughlin ELLIS COUNTY Clerk. M. A. Bastrnll Treasurer.

G. J. Klupr Probate Judpe. John B. Gross Register of Deeds.

Peter J. Rome Co. Superintendent. Louis Christiansen Sheriff, Frank Loreditsch Clerk of Dist. Court, R.

A. Leiker Co. Attorney. J. M.

Wiesner Co. Engineer, Clarence Loreditsch On Monday night at the Strand Theatre, seventy-five of the young people of the Methodist church presented the pageant, "In Darkest Africa," to a well filled house. Rev. Glenn A. Baldwin, the pastor, who has spent some time in Africa, had prepared the pageant and directed its performance.

There were four episodes acted out. The first one was an ordinary village scene where the women at churning, grinding wheat and carrying water. The men and boys loafed and played games. A scene from King Solomon's Court was then portrayed. Large quantities of gold were brought from Africa to enrich the King.

The curtain was lowered and when raised again some Arabs attack the villagers and a number are taken prisoners and sold' into slavery at the port. An auction scene was presented. Instead 'of 'bids being in dollars they are in "goats," "cows" and "barrels of rum." Livingston, Stanley and Moffat appear on the stage. The nations are interested. But missionaries of Islam are also on hand and gain many converts.

Africa then appeals to the church and the church then responded, sending them missionaries, nurses and teachers. Monday, Train No. 169 on the U. P. struck C.

L. Kobler just as he was attempting to cross the track on Chestnut street in his Buick automobile. The cowcatcher hit the right hind wheel and dragged the auto about fifty feet when the train stopped. The wheel struck was ruined and some of the frame work was injured. Mr.

Kohiler sustained a light injury to his head. He said he did not hear the whistle nor the automatic crossing bell. Mr. Kobler is a resident of Penokee, tout lives here this winter to enable his children to attend school. The crossing on Chestnut street where the accident (took place is on the principal street of the city and about ten years ago one man was killed at that particular spot, by a train.

Monday, Mr. Kobler might have 'been killed had he not when he saw or felt he could not get out of the way, turned west. At eight o'clock Saturday, Miss Marie Williams was married to Joe Metlin of Brown ell. Rev. Glenn A.

Baldwin of the M. E. church officiated. The ceremony took place at the home of Henry 1 Runyon. Palmer Deines of Brownell, was best man, accompanied by Miss Lucile Runyon.

After the ceremony a wedding luncheon was served. The happy couple will make their home near Brownell on a farm. The other out-of-town guests were Mr. and 'Mrs. Carl Carver of Brownell.

Mrs. F. B. Miller of Ellis, spent A few hours in the city, $atur4ay,.