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Show WHAT A TOWN 1 THIS MUST BE HAYS, Kan., July 15. (UP) No cops, no preachers, no ruin; with till this no "cussing" a place where a peace officer is as scarce as a vegetarian' chicken thief! ' "There ain't no Santa Onus," hut there is such a place in America. The modern Utopia minus the green fields is located in New Mexico, Mex-ico, according to Alex Meier, grad-luate grad-luate orf Kansas Stnte Teachers eol-' eol-' lege of ays, who has just returned from a teaching assignment in New Mexico. Meier tells a story of a town without with-out a marshal, sheriff or peace officer of-ficer of any kind, until recently without a regular resident minister and yet so upright and God-fearing that one may live there for months j and never hear a "cuss word." j The town with nary a vice is j Nark- Visa, N. M., fjitiiated in the east central portion of the state. "I didn't hear a 'cuss word' in that place for the fust three monUis lived there," said Meier. "I might have remained here indefinitely without hearing profanity, if it hadn't been for a railroad worker who happened along. He was like a foul air from a cellar in that community where the moral atmosphere. atmos-phere. . "There isn't a sheriff to he found. These people wouldn't know what to do with a peace officer if they had one. Not only is Naro Visa free from rough talk, violations of the law are unknown there.". The Hays man added that at oae little village near Nara Visa it hadn't rained for four years, hut-that hut-that he never heard the inhabitants utter one word of complaint. Meier was principal of Nara Visa's high school. |