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Last fall Mitchell delivered a series of talks in which he openly criticized flexible farm price proposals. He also wrote an article for Capper's Farmer, a Kansas publication, in which he expressed his views in rather sharp terms...
...National Farm Bureau Federation, the largest farmers' organization in the country, happens to be four square in favor of flexible supports. Immediately following the Capper's article, the Hall Country Farm Bureau attacked Mitchell and appointed a committee of three to see the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska, at which Mitchell is chairman of the Department of Agricultural Economics with instructions to try to muzzle the wayward professor and to "take any further action they deem advisable...
...Governor Capper of Kansas not only pardoned him but apologized and paid him a suitable sum of money for every day he was incarcerated, and I sent him to his home in Guanajuato, where he bought a farm and lived happily ever after...
Died. Arthur Capper, 86, onetime governor of Kansas (1915-19), longtime Republican U.S. Senator (1919-49), publisher (Capper's Farmer, Household); of pneumonia; in Topeka, Kans. Starting as a typesetter, Capper became a reporter, began investing, wound up owning two newspapers and eight farm journals (combined circ. 4,700,000) and two radio stations. Politically, he stood for farmers' benefits, isolationism (until the U.N., which he supported), prohibition (he sponsored hatchet-swinging Carry Nation's sweep through Topeka on a bar-smashing tour). He retired from the Senate...
...Harold Cooley wasn't "particularly interested in the postage paid by such magazines as LIFE and FORTUNE and the Saturday Evening Post and all the other big magazines, but I am definitely interested in the welfare and continued publication of such magazines as the Progressive Farmer, the Capper's Farmer . . . whose major editorial program is the dissemination of information . . . regarding the work and the interests of the farmer . . . They cannot possibly pay the 20% increase per year for the next three years...