Show I I Dont Quote Me Me- Me i B By United Press i i These words are arc the ones most frequently be heard ud by Washington Washing Washing- f ton correspondents Items which never appear in the regular dis dis- dispatches i patches and little mUe Intimate pictures of ot public characters will e 1 appear In this column from time to time WASHINGTON W Oct 13 13 Rigid Rigid quarantine was clamped down upon an entire group roup of government offices offices of of- flees for nine hours or more last Saturday Saturday Sat Sat- but no one had smallpox and and there here was no warning placard on the door It was the headquarters of the government government government gov gov- crop reporting board where a nervous group of men was compiling compiling ing ng estimates of agricultural output Should advance information on the estimate leak out it might male make fortunes fortunes fortunes for for- tunes for tor the recipients hence the quarantine Danger of ot contagion Isso is isso isso so great that even the windows are arc opaque and the shades drawn and fastened down SECRETARY KEPT IN 1 Burly uniformed guards stand at atthe atthe the door and in the corridors If It you go in you cant can't get out again Once a secretary of agriculture strolled in and was kept under guard until the report had been made public Telephones are disconnected buzzers buzzers buz buz- dont don't buzz and when Chairman Callander allander goes to the office of the secretary of agriculture for for the final sectional nal reports he is accompanied by a guard The documents are sealed in la a special special ecIal e- e cial mail mall box Promptly at 3 p p. p m. m Saturday the report was made public Telephones lined the w walls of the room one for each newspaper correspondent Face down beside each phone was a copy of or the report Behind a white line equidistant from the telephones stood the correspondents like track stars awaiting the gun LEAK ONCE REPORTED It was three seconds before 3 p p. m. m The official starter boom boomed cd One two three two three gol And the report was public property Callander's Callander s racking nerve-racking work has made him hairless He is the third Iman man in that position to suffer from this nervous ous ailment I Once 27 years cars ago there was a leak A clerk was accused of raising a shade if the report indicated a rise in wheat production and lowering it if it a decrease decrease decrease de de- de- de crease was predicted Now the shades are arc sealed down |