In Kansas

"When the first flush of candidacy is over, a fellow stops in his tracks and just wonders what it is all about. . . . Somehow it seems I'm just a short, fat, baldheaded man who has learned much in the last year and will learn a lot more in the next few weeks." Not all the campaign speeches of Editor William Allen White, self-nominated anti- Klan candidate for Governor of Kansas, have been as genial and mock-modest as this since he banged down his desktop last month, started taking $25 out of the till of the Emporia Gazette each week, and set off banging over the "skiddy, rocky, hilly, bumpy roads of his state--in a dilapidated automobile" seeking votes. The one string of his political fiddle has been ridicule of the Ku Klux Klan--a string which he has played with incessant vigor and variety. Reports last week indicated that Mr. White was unsettling the calculations of Republican Candidate Ben Paulen and the plans of Governor Jonathan M. Davis, Democratic candidate, whose chief cries are: "Honesty! Friendship to farmers!"