Evening star., 1920-01-11
EXPERTS IN CONGRESS
ARE NATIONS WORKERS
Many Are In Ranks of Producers and
Manufacturers and Help In the
Upbuilding of Country.

OF NOuntry.
ner never owned even one goat He
does own ranches and farms and pro-
duces honey, cotton. corn. cattle.
maize. frederita. kaflr corn, black
top sugar cane, etc.
Oh Producers.
Representative Lucian w. Parrish
Of Texas has been a farmer all his
life. raising corn, cotton and cattle.
Now his speciality is producing oil
Two years ago he organised q COM
pany which now has eighty-three
wells. most of them producing.
There are other oil men in the
House-for example. Representative
Campbell of Pennsylvania. who has
been in the oil and gas business
since 1903.
Apples and peaches constitute the
speciality of Representative George M.
Bowers Of West Virginia. and he re-
Gently distributed samples of his
$4,000 apple crop among his COL
leagues. The orchards with which Z
he is connected. IL the trees were
planted rod apart. would make a
continuous line for z7s miles. He has
10000 trees planted that will not come
into bearing for two or three years.
For fifteen years Representative
Hugh s. Hersman Of California has
devoted himself to mining and agri
cultural pursuits. Prunes make up his
prize crop. He has just been distribut-
ing some fve-pound boxes Of fancy
packed samples OF his crop among his
friends in Congress. They were grown
on his own property in Santa Clara
valley and packed by the Farmers
Cooperative Marketing Association.
which he organized four years ago
after four months work. There are
now 5000 growers in this organixa-
ton. which has taken the prune out
OF the speculative market.
Representative Frank Clark and
Representative "Joe" Sears Of Florida
recently treated their associates In
Congress to oranges and grapefruit
grown in their own groves.
Representative Herbert J. Drane of
Florida records in the congressional
biography that for twenty years he
has been a grower OF citrus fruits. In
addition to that he has large holdings
in the phosphate Industry Of South
Florida, which supplies 80 per cent of
the worlds needs.
Sugar Fssn Lsuisiaaa.
One hundred members OF the House
received as Christmas presents Ave-
pound sacks of plsntation-refned
Louisiana angas. With the aompliments
Of Representative Whitmen p. Martin.
With his brothers he owns and opef-.
ates big sugar cane plantation.
E0ssAef, ,kepdb1ican Leader James r..
Mann II producer. He takes Joy in
his garden, ana when he has harvested
his crops cans the fruits and vegeta-
bles himself. Last fall he gave his feI-
low members cans and glass jars fiiIed
with the fruits Of his pastime toll.
The House has q list of farmers too
long to enumerate. Representative
Hays B. White of Kansas as q piopesr
farmer experienced many hardships.
He lived on his first homestead for
thirty-three years and still owns and
personally operates his farm. Repre-
sentative William B. Mckinley.
formerly republican campaign man
ager. is a farmer. Representative
Benham Of Indiana, besides having
fourteen years experience as a super
intendent Of schools. has been a prac-
tical farmer at Benham since 1907.
Representative Parker of New York
has been a farmer for fifteen years.
and there are dozens Of others.
While these producers have been
making two blades grow where but
one. or none. grew before. there are
scores Of their colleagues who have
been taking the raw materials pro-
duced and multiplying the wealth OF
the country through processes Of manu-
facture. Only few Illustrations can be
given.
Representative Louis B. Goodall of
Maine is the originator of Palm Beach
cloth. He has extensive mills. which
constitute practically the whole city Of
Sanford and which are now being en-
larged.
Senator Bert M. Fernald of Maine has
been in the canning business for
thirty-three years. He owns eight
canning factories in central Maine.
They can corn, the product OF more
than sixty towns. and the output Is
about $4,000 cases, two dozen cans
to the case, annually.
Representative Schuyler Merritt OF
Connecticut is an officer of the Yale
Lock Company, with factories In
stamford. The company employs 5000
to 5000 hands.
Has Five Factories.
Representative Aaron s. Kreider OF
Pennsylvania was the second man to
be elected president of the NATIONAL
Boot and Shoe Manufacturers Asso-
citation. He is now honorary presi-
dent. He has fve factories and an
equal number of distributing sta
tions-in New York. Chicago, St.
Louis, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
The factories are in Annville. Pal
myra, Elizabethtown and Lebanon.
1.-THE largest factory in the world.
devoted exclusively to ice and roller
skates" is at Worcester, Mass. and
owned by Representative Samuel e.
winslow. He has been devoting his
attention to this line Of manufacture
for thirty-fve years. This factory
employs about 700 hands and has q
Of 2.ooo pairs of skates =
day.