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...grass is Zoysia matrella (Manila grass), an oriental variety with which U.S. horticulturists began to experiment five years ago. Park Superintendent Leo Goss of Louisville has covered four acres of Seneca Park with Zoysia, spread its fame among U.S. greenskeepers. Propagated from runners* instead of seed, Zoysia spreads quickly, crowds out even crab grass. It has already been planted in a number of Southern airfields and country clubs...
...Subsidies discourage initiative because they remove the powerful incentive that any businessman (or farmer) has to keep going somehow. )- Subsidies breed more' subsidies. Said Albert S. Goss, getting his potent National Grange on the anti-subsidy record: "Having once established subsidies how are we ever going to get rid of them?" Others extended this point: as subsidies are applied to more & more products, consumers will save money by paying fixed prices, but this saving will be canceled by the higher taxes they must then...
...this time the Farm Bureau's Edward Asbury O'Neal III, the National Grange's Albert S. Goss and the representatives of smaller farm pressure groups were smugly confident they could put through a broad-beam farm program of their own. In the new Congress they counted on a bigger, friendlier farm bloc. They knew the country, desperately in need of more food, was hardly disposed to much argument about ways of getting it. And their onetime friend and present opponent, the Agriculture Department, was scared and two-minded about policies...
...Forces Line Up. To Washington came scores of men from the Big Four farm lobbies at the order of their leaders: Ed O'Neal of the American Farm Bureau Federation, Albert Goss of the National Grange, H. E. Babcock of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, Charles Holman of the National Cooperative Milk Producers Federation. "This is war," desperately wired Babcock to his local chapters, and he did not mean World...
WILLIS C. GOSS...