The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-11-06
Observations
Responsibility Not
Aging Staff Chief
of U. S. Army
BY Heten Esssry

lie that in addition to admiration
you. have the warm friendly conn.
dence OF the American people.
/ said in an enthusiastic moment
the other night TO Gen. George
Marshall, chief of staff OF the Unit
ed States Army.
1t does make me happy, said
the general very solemnly, but If
makes me humble. too, and very
aware OF my great responsibility
l. cannot let them down
General Marshall is looking eN
tremely we'll Like a man who
knows where he is going and II Is
the place he wants to go He
seems 90 years. younger than he
did at the beginning OF the war
when ultimate victory was less
certain than now.
Ever so often | think. Well We
got over THAT hump the general
said. Then ] come upon so many
more humps | think | am in the
Himalaya Mountains
Mrs. Marshall. who says she has
turned farmer and is raising tur-
keys. was likewise a pleasure and
a satisfaction to look upon. She
wore a white and gold dress, very
smart, and carried a white fox
cape.
"A magazine doing profile Of
the general asked me how much |
thought you had TO do with your
hus bands success" J volunteered.
We'll. Is that sou laughed the
general. Il hope you told them
the truth. He looked proudly at
Mrs. Marshall.
Il did tell them the truth, |
said. and thought privately that !
had never seen a husband and wife
OF high public place more COM
pletely sympatica.
7 ADMIRE EX-PRESIDENT
HOOVER enormously but do wish
he would take lesson or TWO in
radio speaking. There was good
material in Hoover's Kansas City
talk but as ! listened in ! kept
thinking how dramatically Presi-
dent Roosevelt would have present
ed the Hoover idea of This Is a
Peoples War-lt Must Be Peo-
pies Peace
The President knows how TO talk
slowly and with knowing pauses
over the radio. Other gentlemen
and ladies who wish TO sell them
selves to the public OF the air
should learn not TO race through
speeches that in the beginning are
better read than heard. Another
hint from me-time is shorter now
than II ever was and II is definitely
later than you think-why not
make friends and influence people
by limiting all speeches to Is min
utes?
However vigorous he may be in
ideas and personality, any man
who wants TO be the next presi-
dent Of the United States must
have a radio personality. He must
also be photogenic.
JOE BALL Of Minnesota - they
say in the Senate that he looks
like Lincoln-is young man who
is going a long, long way. | hope
I'm not wrong in my judgment.
but he has the look and the sound
OF sincerity. He believes in some
thing, What an asset to anybody!
incidentally. in that recent de-
bate in the Senate II was refresh
ing to see Ball a Republican from
Minnesota. arguing for Woodrow
Wilson's League OF Nations against
Democratic Senator Tom Connally
OF Texas.
Senator Ball is only 81 years
old He Is a newspaper man who
had done general assignment po-
litics rewrite and free-lsncing He
is aiming with the Ball-Burton-Pep-
per amendment TO put strong mean
ing into the cautious Connally for.
eign relations declaration.
MARIE MANNING GASCH (Bea-
trice Fairfax in person.. who will
publish her memories this winter
once wore $4,000 sable coat
when she went 10 interview the
William Jennings Bryans Mrs.
Bryan, Mortified at the sign Of
female journalistic opulence. was
beginning lecture on "tempta-
ton when the young reporter said,
But Mrs Bryan, I borrowed the
sables from rich relation In order
TO make you think ! was import
ant"
NOBODY IN TODAYS PUBLIC
LIFE makes a more fortnight
speech than Rear Admiral Emory
Scott Land. chairman OF the mari
fine commission and director Of
war shipping Jerry" Land. as he
is called by several hundred thou
sand people. sweeps the deck clean
Of inhibitions when he talks and
10 whomsover he talks.
At the end you know about
ships and sealing wax and kings"
and know in understandable words