The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-04
Covers Everything That Can Be
Said for the State.
"AND Then THERE'S THE HEM
That Was Opening of the eth
Typewriter Page.
Frank FARRELL Tells of State
Journal Mans Task.
BY ]. f. FARRELL.

| the AtchlSOn TOpeka " santa I . INstA-
| way company, is on his vacation
| Therefore, 1 take the liberty of turn
| ing in a story about a particularly
| good piece of work Mr.. Caylor did
while in the Santa Fe service.
One day l received a note from c.
L. Seagraves, industrial commissioner.
saying that it was necessary to have
| a new Kansas folder, and that he
would look to me for it. Being a
| charter member of the Buck Passers
union, I handed the note to Caysor
| and asked him to try his hand on
the job. He read the note, grunted,
and left the office. 1 heard no more
about the Kansas folder for two weeks
the day Caylor had set to return to
the State Journal
Here's your old folder he said.
and laid seventy pages of typewriter
| matter on my desk.
Caylor had everything. I read
| Jake Mothers reports, all the late
"herd books" Governor Capper's
worlds fair speeches and the Agricul
! tural college bulletins to find some
| thing about Kansas that Caylor had
| overlooked, but 1 couldn't
I thought Caylor never would cease
telling about wonderful production in
Kansas, and he submitted proof of
every assertion made.
"And then there's the hen," said
| Caylor, starting the 9th page 1.-THE
| unassuming Kansas hen piles up a
value the yearly output of the Klon-
dixie
Following came a string of f:rures
comparing eggs with nuggets.
So it was turnout the manuscript.
Caylor wrote figures like an old-time
Populist.
There is a greater opportunity in
the state of Kansas today than there
ever has been since white men began
the conquest of it's fertile pra.ries"
o.
Fortunate above most of the sister
hood OF states, Kansas, with deep soil
and rich loan, needing only the earn,
est cooperation of willing hands and
Intelligent understanding to create
wealth, holds out to homeseekers the
advantages for which they lon. have
been looking. While Kansas is = fin
ished community, so far as the term
applies to any part of the great south
west, there is within its borders q vast
acreage crying for the pillow. Devel-
opment of that area, already started,
doubtless will double, and possibly
triple the wealth of the state in the
near future.
THE man who is in earnest, =f1eth-
er his capital be limited or unlimited,
! will find in Kansas an opening, which.
| i1ghtfully used, will lead him to finan-
cial independence. There is a future
in Kansas for the man whose two
| hands are the only means of sn1,nort
and the man with a bank account will
find opportunities that are seldom
equalled."
Of the people of Kansas the FOLDER
says: kansas people are not divided
by class or social lines. They are ia
nous for their hospitality and have
about them that breezy, wholehearted
manner which has builded democracy
IN tne west The state has few mill
lionaires. and a lower per cent of pau
perlsm than majority of the states.
| wealth is as evenly distributed as it is
possible to have it. There is no idle
class Practically everyone, as shown
py the assessors reports has trade,
| BUSINESS or profession. Half the peo-
pie are engaged in agriculture. or its
| animated industries. Twenty Der cent
are professional men or women. Trade
| anu anu transportation claim 1 8 pee cent.
Mechanical industries rank next with
10 per cent. The remaining two ne,.
cent are engaged in mtning."
Governor capper contributes
chapter to the folder. He saws:
4 In our own way 1 think we b.va
zone more in Kansas to promote
soclaI progress, to bring larger on
portunltles to our citizens of every
class and condition, than any other
American commonwealth: and have
developed N intelligent citizenship
| tnru the ballot which comes nearer
10 putting government on the basis
intended by the trainers of the Dec
,aratlon OF Independence than is to
be found anywhere else in all the
land. or in all the world
In the comparatively short time
since, the plowshareS first turned the
rich and fertile sod of Kansas, the
vigorous young state has stepped for
| ward with all the impetuosity of
youth, and now, as compared with her
sister states ranks: First in wheat,
first in combined value of wheat and
corn, first in alfalfa, first in sorghums.
first in her per capita wealth. first in
the arts of the husbandman, first in
wholesome environments for home
building and first in the high order
| of her citizenship
! I'VE are told by the kings of fl
nance in Wall street that Kansas is
today the most prosperous state in
the Union This is true. We have
205 millions of surplus wealth piled
in our banks and savings institutions.
But better and nobler than all this
| material success is the high standard.
of citizenship, the fine spirit of justice
and fairness that animates the soul
of every true Kansan with a little
more fervor, am sometimes tempted
to think, than the citizen of any other
state"
Secretary Mohler also has a piece
in the folder. '.As the ages of states
and nations 60" says Mr.. Mohler.
NeahSelS - yOullS- CT Al A4OA COAA-
parative brief history she has achieved
notable things. In her little more than
half century of statehood, Kansas, has
developed from an unused prairie to
one of the nations foremost surplus
producers of foodstuffs. Today Kan
sas stands first in wheat, first in al
falfa, first in sorghums, and first in
the hearts of the husbandman. Kan
sas ranks high in corn. too, averaging
seventh among the states in this crop.
1t is because of a wide diversity of
adaptable crops that the returns from
agriculture in the Sunflower state may
be made sure and certain. With a Ger
tile soil and favorable climate, the
complement is complete for profit