In the annual output of wheat, corn, livestock, coal, oil and gas, Kansas must share her splendid results with other states.
Statisticians are fond of figuring the value of Kansas crops.
No one has estimated nor can estimate how much Walt Mason has contributed to the sum total of human happiness. And practically all that output has come from his home in Kansas, in his congenial surroundings at Emporia. It is said that Mr. Mason is unable to write in strange surroundings, and consequently never leaves Emporia. He is one of the few successful writers of modern times who have not been seduced from his old and familiar center of inspiration and there are many who will find special cause for admiration in this one fact. Walt Mason is indeed a democrat in literature.