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I recently came into the possession of a book called "Four Centuries in Kansas," 1944 published by The State of Kansas as an elementary school textbook. It has the following entries, but note that I have NO FURTHER information--
*Chapter "How Kansas developed the Pay-As-You-Go Plan" p. 312
"During the time of [capitol] building, the state was always in debt, but in 1915 the last bonds were paid. Arthur Capper, then governor, announced a pay-as-you-go plan. Since then all expenses have been paid without issuing bonds and all buildings have been paid for as constructed."
*Chapter "Kansans at Washington" p. 338
"Arthur Capper, who was governor for four years, was elected to the United States Senate for five terms. He has served as senator longer than any other Kansan. Capper has been a leader among the senators from the farm states."
*Chapter "Successful Men and Women" p. 345
"Arthur Capper, who has been mentioned as a governor and United States senator, was born at Garnett. At the age of fourteen he bagan work as a printer at one dollar a week for the Garnett 'Journal.' Four years later he became a printer for the Topeka 'Capital.' He worked as a printer for five years for the 'Capital' and then became a reporter.
"An opportunity came to buy a small paper, the North Topeka 'Mail,' and he had saved enough money to buy it. He became the reporter, editor, printer, advertising manager and circulation manager all in one. When he had saved still more money, he had enough to buy the Kansas 'Breeze.' In 1901 he bought the Topeka 'Capital,' a daily newspaper, where he had come seventeen years before to be a printer.
"The Capper Publishing Company has grown until today it owns two daily newspapers, two radio stations, a weekly paper with millions of readers, a household magazine which circulates in every state of the Union, and six farm papers--one each for the farmers of Kansas, Missouri, Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania and one for the entire Mississippi Valley. Capper's company is the largest publisher of far papers in the world."
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