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Capital Ghost Stori '
apital Ghost Stories, Writers
BY PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHlNGTON,—Republician Senator Forest C.
Donnell of Webster Groves, Missouri, touched off a
hot one the other day, when he objected to Secre
tdry of Labor Schwellenbach’s presentation of a
statement prepared for him by someone else, in sup
port of ithe National Health Insurance Bill.
It's a fine idea for Senator Donnell to be from
Missouri, and to have to be shown where everything
comes from. - But on this “ghost-writing” business,
as it's called—well, Senator Donnell hasn’t been a
round Washington very long. Maybe it hasn't ve
gistered on him that a lot of the speeches his dis
tinguished colleagues make with such temper, tears
and tremolo are not written solely by the grea-a-a-t
statesmen who deliver them. It wouldn’t do, either,
for Senator Donnell to inquire too closely in
to the real authorship of many magazine articles
which appear under the by-lines of leaders in pub
lie life.
For ghost-writers haunt every public office in
Washington, and politicians couldn’t do business
without them. It may be dishonest for these big
figures to employ a little collaboration for the com
position of their deathless prose and oratory, but
it saves a lot of time, and that's what counts. It
takes three days or more to get up a good speech
that ‘says anything. And often when a public of
ficial delivers a speesh that isn’t too hot, you may
be justified in the suspicion that he didn’t listen to
the advice of his “ghost,” or else that he wrote it
himseif—in & hurry. |
SCHWELLENBACH HAD TO HAVE HELP
For instance, in the past month Secretary Sch
wellenbach had to make three important appear
ances hefore congressional committees, deliver three
speeches, and make four statements before labor
groups. Schwellenbach is fortunate, in that his past
legislative and judicial experience has made him a
good extemporaneous speaker. But if he had to do
all his own research. for these 10 jobs alone, he
wouldn’t have done anything else all month.
Across the street from Schwellenbach’s Palace of
Labor is Henry Wallace’s Castle of Commerce. In
the month of April, Wallace made three statements
before congressional committees and delivered eight
speeches, four prepared and four ad lib. Wallace is
a gifted enough speaker and writer in his own right,
but he sometimes uses a “ghost” for the first draft,
after telling said “ghost” what he wants to say.
_ Wallace takes this home and works it over, then
dictates a new draft in his own language. That is
sometimes Kicked around some more by advisers
who tell him that if he says thus and so he’ll get in
trouble. After which Wallace goes ahead and says
it, and gets in trouble.
Up the Mall is Secretary of Agriculture Clinton
Anderson. He made four speeches in April, two
radio talks, two appearances before Congress, and
issued three important statements on food policy.
He, likewise, could not have carried this load with
out the help of a whole staff of economists and ex
perts.
If there is anything dishonest about this system, it
is that anyone should expect any public official to
make all these public utterances and then do an ad
ministrative and policy-making job in addition.
Ghosts have become absolute necessities, even for
writing many officeholders’ letters.
Congressmen learned this long ago. They can't
handle their mail from home and look after the in
terests of their constituents and still find time to
write speeches on involved issues. Plenty of them
ask the executive departments for help in preparing
speeches, and they get it. Futhermore, many con
gressional committees borrow “ghosts” from the
executive departments to do their research and
write their reports.
- Plenty of hot-shots around Washington have had
their reputations made by gifted ghost-writers. And
it’s amazing how many a stuffedshirt will, in time,
come 1o believe that he was the original author of
famous epigrams put into his mouth by his ghost.
When a celebrity loses a good ghost, he often
ceases to be a celebrity. Ghosts modestly realize this.
They pride themselves on being able to imitate “the
boss’s style.” .
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- More than 35 percent of ail the coal consumed in
the world is supplied by the Great Appalachian and
_Oihel‘ interior fields in the United States.
Old Thoughts, New
Weapons
It is bad enough to have the terrible but indefinite
assurance that the neat war, if «nd when, will be
ought with rocket weapons traveling at unheard
of speed. But it is something else to learn that our
Army today could build a giant rocket with an a
tomic warhead capable of being fired with reason
able accuracy at any target on the face of the earth.
Potentially, then, the age of'rocket warfare is
lhere. And there is little reason to think that major
powers are far behind us in these developments, if
iindeed they are lagging at all.
| Prue, we have a temporary monopoly of atomic
weapons, but the rocket is free game. Britain al
ready is at work on a large national center for areo
nautical research. The last time Americans were
permitted to see Russia’s research installations, in
1938, planning was “on a much larger scale” than
ours, according to a spokesman of the National Ad
visory Committee for Aeronautics. It is unlikely
‘that Russia has been standiug still.
~ Thus the international armament race continues,
if only in the laboratory stage today. Meanwhile the
nations talk of peace, even though they delay ap~
pointing members to the international body for con
trolling the use of atomic energy. Meanwhile the
American government searches the country’s caves
where factories and workers may be safely hidden
in case of war.
The actually and threatened imminence of this
new type of war seems to have had little effect on
the minds of men whose duty it is to prevent the oc
currence of such a war. The Big Four foreign minis
ters still wrangle over bases, territories and trustee
ships, which, while not made meaningless by new
\weapons, are at least greatly reduced in importance.
1 Britain may feel that the British lives sacrificed“
to drive the enemy out of Africa give her a just
claim to Italian territory there. Russia may feel the
same way about eastern Germany, and the United
States may have the same feeling about the former
Jap-held islands in the Pacific. l
But do these territories now have enough militaryl
importance to justify the iension which their dis
position has created? Another war might well be{
fought from the heart of opposing homelands with
projectiles that circle the globe at perhaps 10 times{
the speed of sound. ‘
The soldiers who died to liberate these disputed
lands would be better honored by an agreement to
turn them over to United Nations trusteeship. The'
United States has proposed this in the case of Italy’sl
African colonies, but old ways of thinking have thus
far prevailed. Now realism as well as justice wouldl
seem to make it worth while to press more earnest
ly for such a solution, in Africa and elsewhere.
It might develop, of course, that Britain and Rus- |
sia want outlying bases primarily for political‘
rather than military reasons. American efforts to
put them under UN authority might be rebuffed,
just as Mr. Byrnes’s proposal for a disarmed Ger-i
many has been rebuffed, ana for the same apparent
cause. :
In that case, this country would at least be on
record as having led the way toward a reasonable
solution, and as conforming with the obvious intent
of the United Nations Charter. Such a position
‘might, in the end, turn out to be more than a con
solation prize. :
SEN. ROBERT LaFOLLETTE, having led his
Progressive Party back into the Republican fold,
was snubbed at the first opportunity by the Wis
consin Republican convention, which endorsed an
other candidate for Mr. LaFollette’'s Senate seat.
This lack of a fatted calf for the prodigal is one
meat shortage that the GOP can’t blame on the
OPA.
A REPORTER of the Army newspaper Stars and
Stripes polled Gls in Toyko to discover if they had
seen any qualities in the Jap girls which American
women might copy. The replies, we gather, were
varied and somewhat guarded. But we imagine the
soldiers would generally agree to seeing American
girls copy the Nipponese girls’ gift of being present
and accessible when a guy is lonesome and 8000
miles irom home,
Chrysanthemums ave asad for soup in China. It
is onc of the delicacies o’ Chinese cooking.
The name Hollan, so often used instcad of
Netherlands, actually ap) ics to only two of the 11
provinces of the country. :
Three gallons of beer were consumed daily by
Prince Otto Eduard Leopoid von Bismarck, Ger
man diplomat, for many years.
The United States ranks 25th among nations of
the world in maternity case mortality.
Approximately 20 per cent of all school children
under the age of 20 have defective eyesight.
Tides along the coast of Siberia cast up bits of
ivory from the tusks of mammoths entombed in ice
floes 10,000 years ago.
Seaweed of the famous Sargasso sea grows in the
Gulf of Mexico and is swept into the Atlantic by
the Gulf Stream.
Of all the food with just claim for nutritional
fame, few have crammed into them the variety of
vital nutrients that peanuts do. Combine peanuts
with meat and vegetable dishes. Use them in cookies
cakes and frostings.
Are you a one-way bean cooker? There are so
many species of beans and so many ways of prepar
ing them. Completely new dishes can be made by
the addition of cheese, corn, celery, tomatoes, mush
rooms, salmon, meat, or other foods that your ima
gination might prompt you to use. There need be
no monotony in the menus featuring beans.
One-tenth of all the coal mined in the United
States is carried by ships on the Great Lakes.
One-third of the world’s grain supply travgls the
Great Lakes in Huge ships.
Looking for a new vegetable notion? Combine one
cup mashed canned or fresh peas with two cups
mashed potatoes. Season well. Heap in mounds and
brown lightly for ten minutes in a moderate oven.
Record for the lowest normal amount of rainful
of any state of the Union is held by Arizona, with
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Georgia's Plant Growing. Industry Is
Now Bringing in Several Millions
TIFTON, GA. May 11—Geor
gia plant growing industry, which
began in Tift and one or two
other nearby Georgia counties
thirty years ago, today represents
a business of several million dol
lors annually.
P. D- Fulwood, Tifon, began
growing tomato plants around
1909 on a few acres and today has
over a thousand acres in toma
toes, pimientoes, onions, brocco
li, lettuce, beets and peppers. In
addition, other farmers have de
velocped plants growing enterpris—
es until this season it is expected
that more than 1,800 carloads wily
be shipped from Tift and sur
rounding counties.
C. B. Culpepper, for 19 years
farm agent in Tift County, pointed
out today that an average acre
produces 100,000 to 110,000 plants.
The season in which plants are
pulled and sent to northern and
eastern markets begins around
April 10 and countinues through
May. On many farms peak ship
ments for the 1946 season will
be reached this week. Plantings
are staggered to take advantage of
a shortage of labor and to produce
plants at specific times for dif
ferent sections of the couatry.
~lr calling attention to the tre
merdous growth of the plant
‘growing industry in a short time,
Culpepper said that Harry Horn
‘buckle, one of the. county’s lead
iing growers was a high school
student and 4-H club boy just a
’fnw vears ago. Hornbuckle grew
10 acres of tomato plants in 1929.
Today he has 1,100 acres in plants
|and is shipping around five mil
lion plants daily from Tifton.
| Lamar Powell, a 1940 graduate
of the University of Georgia
College of Agricdltifre, shipped
over two million plants the first
day of the 1946 season. Powell’s
father, who died several years
ago was one of the pioneers in
the plant business in this section.
George and Elias Webb, broth
ers, began with 80 acres of
lants several years ago and now
have approximately 600 acres in
this enterprise. Their average
daily shipment is arcund three
million plants.
A number of smaller farmers
contract each year to grow plants
for a large canning orgnization
and these plants are processed in
one of the warehouses in Tifton.
Plant shipments are made by
rail, highway and air. All plants
going reasonably long distances
|are wrapped in peat moss or the
native moss found growing in low
swamp lands in this section to
previde plants with moisture ‘dur
ing shipment.
l “Although farm labor is still
extremely scarce in this county,
most farmers are getting the job
oi pulling the pants done with
local help, accofding to Culpep-
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Stomach Ulcers |
A recent medical discovery now!
being used by doctors and hos
pitals everywhere has proven un
usually successful in the treat
ment of stomach ulcers caused’
trom excess acid. It is.a ha'rm-'
less preparation yet so’ effective
that in many cases the pains of
stomach ulcers disappear almost
immediately after it is used. Also
recommended for gas pains, indi
‘gestion and heartburn due to hy
peracidity. Sufferers may now try
this at home by obtaining a bot
tle of Lurin from their druggist
rurin contains ‘this new discov
erv in its purest form. Easy tc
take. Just mix two teaspoonfuls
in a half glass of milk. Costs but
little, Try a bottle, it must sat
isfy or money refunded. Lurin so
sale by Crow’s Drug Store and
drug stores everywhere, ,
per. “A good plant puller can
harvest 75,000 to 100,,000 plants
per day when stands are good,”
he said.
Most farmers are paying 20
cents per thousand for pulling
plonts at prespnt. They pay pul
ers on the spot for each thousand
pants pulled. .
Around 150 Bahamians are at
work (in the area assisting in
warehouses and the plant fields.
Several Methods
Several methods are used to
control insects and disease in
plant fields. Both airplane and
trector dusting have been usea
ipther extensively this season to
‘ortrol insects and diseases.
“In addition to losses from di
sease and insects, farmers find
that winds often break off tender
ste'ns. To overcome this, oats are
planted on terraces -to serve as
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All plant seed brought into the
county for planting are certified,
according to Culpepper. IFarmers
use “new ground Jor plant fields
where this is possible, and many
of the workers who are pulling
plants now will spend slack crop
seasons during the remainder of
the year clearing land for plant
ings in 1947. Every third year,
land it is sowed in summer cover
duction to “give it a rest” and
help keep down diseases. After
the plants are pulled from the
land it is sowed in summer cover
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