Southern Oregon News Review, Thursday, February 3, 1949
Sunshine, Cleanliness
Washington
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Tax BUI Is Rabbit Stew
To Congressman Doughton Selection of Feeds
By BAVKHAGE
Nruj Analyst and Commentator.
jO L lY rilA t
Help Kill Disease
Vital in Stock Health
Ration Must Be Adequate
In M inerals, Vitamins
WASHINGTON, D. C.— Another rabbit stew has been served
up to Rep. Robert L. Doughton of North Carolina, and he's all ready
for it. Representative Doughton, I might suggest if you don't know
What you feed your livestock to
it, is not only the oldest member of the house of representatives day w ill determine the profit you
(85) but likewise the oldest hand at handling tax measures.
make tomorrow, for experts are
POP CORM
Gruxs crops muke Ideal sani
tary floors for the production und
feeding of livestock because in
order to maintain a good grass
crop there must be plenty of sun
shine, nature's own and unex
celled disease-germ killer.
Veternarians have been very
The Great Golf Mystery
successful in preventing swine
O ONE YET has been able to erysipelas with the use of culture
figure out why most of the star and serum—and in some cases,
golfers come form Texas. But with serum alone.
N
that's the way It is.
It you don't think so, look over
the list—Ben Hogan, Loyd Man-
grum, Jim m y Demaret, Ralph Gul-
dahl (who won the U. S. Open
twice in a row), Byron Nelson, one
of the all-timers, and several
others who can score well.
Imagine the pick of the country
facing Hogan, Nelson, Mangrum
and Demurct in a
golf scrap at either
match or medal
ploy.
It couldn't be that
Texas developed a
c e r t a i n type of
swing that w a s
something b e t t e r
than the rest of the
country.
Hogan's
GraoUand Rice swin« und Nelson's
swing are totally un
like — to look at. So is Hogan's
swing as compared with Demaret's
swing. Mangrum is closer to Hogan.
Nelson and Demaret are not full
swingers. Hogan is more than a
full swinger.
His club head dips
deep on the backswing and com
pletes almost a fu ll circle. His 137
pounds need this extra arc.
He had to step down from the chairmanship of the ways and means
agreed that keeping livestock
committee for the brief Republican interlude. Now he’s back at the old
healthy is a profitable Job—and to
stand, sharpening the butcher knife again.
do that, care must be observed in
choosing livestock feed.
But to get back to rabbit stew.
Feeding livestock on a ration de
Last season when President Tru for an active interest in his com
man vetoed the second Knutson munity which is deep in the Caro ficient in minerals, vitamins, pro
tax-cutting b ill and Iina hills. Laurel Spring. N. C., is teins and carbohydrates, os well as
and fired it back at still his home. He was born on his fats, often leads to nutritional dis
congress, a reporter parent’s farm near there. His eases. Lack of any of the common
asked Doughton how father, wounded in the war between or trace minerals In home ’ grown
he felt about it. He the states, died when he was a feeds may be and often is, respon
leaned back and grown boy. His mother was keenly sible for terrific livestock, feed, la
told » *to ry, for he's active to her last hours, interested bor and investment losses.
The problem of supplying m iner
' fond of answering In in the day's mail and the daily
als in their right proportions is only
I parables.
newspaper to the last.
a part of the compounding of a
A Tarheel house-
Inheriting some land from his
' wife,
it
seems, father, the boy started off for him product that w ill solve the livestock
served her husband self. gradually acquiring more until man’s problems. First, no m atter
rabbit stew every he became a livestock raiser and how good the ingredients that go
Into the making up of a feed, if
J night for a week farmer. Then he entered business,
livestock refuse to eat it the feed is
When the second finally becoming president of a
useless so far as benefiting the
f Saturday night came bank.
animal is concerned.
around a n d
the
B A l’K H tG E
He has described himself as a
In recent years much has been
same old dish with horse trader. There are many tales
discovered about livestock diseases
It, the husband bowed his head as that have grown up about his due to dietary influences. In this
usual, but instead of saying grace astuteness that, if embellished by connection, the U. S. department of
repetition, are not doubted by agriculture says: “ Whenever a
he was heard to mutter:
Demaret is due for some
those who have watched his steady vital function . . . is interrupted
“ Rabbit's
rough.
Rabbit’s
better luck this good year of
advancement in congress.
tough. Oh, Lord, I've bad rab
owing to continued failure of the
1949, and. If he gets it, Jim m y
He entered under a Republican diet to supply sufficient quantities
bit enough'*
can move right alongside of
regime—President
T
aft’s—accepted
of
essential
nutrients,
or
to
the
In
That, opined Mr. Doughton, was
Hogan and Mangrum.
committee
appointments, ability of the body to utilize these
the way he felt about the tax minor
but
rose
rapidly
to
the
position
he
nutrients,
the
so-called
nutritional
bills.
“ I like Hogan's swing,” Eddk
But he has to help meet the big holds today—chairman of the power diseases develop.”
ful
ways
and
means
committee.
Loos,
the well-known player and
gest peacetime budget ever sub
nstructor remarked the other day,
One of
the
horse-trader
mitted to a cohgress and he's ready
Grand Champ
’because it is full, free and yet
stories he tells is this: after
for it.
inder definite control. On the
disposing
of
some
animals
he
In the 38 years that he has rep
lownswing you can see that club
had meant to sell, he was made
resented the state of North Carolina
traveling for a target that seems
a very attractive offer for the
in the congress, the habits of the
to be a little to the right of the
horse he was riding—his own
dean of the octogenarian's club in
tine, the correct line, and he keeps
saddle horse. Done, he took
the lower house have changed very
>oth the left hand and right hand
the money,
turned over the
little since the last
time. I
fo rkin g to the finish. That means
bridle, put the saddle under his
explored
them in some detail
'ight-hand power and left-hand
arm and walked back home. 70
more than a score of years ago.
ontrol, keeping the face of the
miles, says tradition, under his
He has earned a tremendous re
tub where it should be without
own power.
spect from the men who work on
fittin g too soon.”
There doesn’t seem to have been
fiscal matters in the house of rep
any
deep-laid
plan
for
a
political
resentatives where the money bills
The one main thing you
have to originate. And because he career in the farm er boy’s mind
notice among al leading golfers
when
he
began
life
among
the
ox
has- a theory of his own about col
Is the use of the head. The
lecting and spending the people’s carts and hand looms of those early
head anchors the swing. The
days
in
the
South
following
the
war.
Grand champion of the 49th
toney, no b ill comes out of his
chin
Is usually back and. as I
Nor yet when he had acquired his International Live Stock exposi
Alex Morrison puts It: “ They
own acres and entered into the tion at Chicago was “ Old Gold,”
all hit past the chin. Once the
business life of the community. He a 1.200-pound Slack Angus junior,
head moves or wavers, the re
was chosen a member of the state shown with C. E. Voder (left) of
sult Is usually sour. The swing
board of agriculture and served on Muscatine, Iowa, the owner. In
no longer has an anchor”
the prison board.
the center Is Henry Marshall,
Then one day it was decided to president of the exposition, and
“ The correct use of the head '
run him for the state senate. He | at right is A. D. Weber of Kansas
was elected and served for a term. state college, the judge who keeping it fixed, is the most im I
portant thing in the golf swing,''
Congress was next, but there was picked the winner.
Jim m y Demaret tells you. "Once !
a sort of unwritten law in his dis
the chin pops up or the head moves ]
tric t that one term was all a man
with the swing, you are lost. Any
could expect, for Republicans and
lo v e Apple’ Popular
thing can happen—except a good
Democrats had always swapped
swing. It is in this way that you j
terms.
The scarcity of tomatoes in the lose both power and control. The
But Doughton changed all
past year’s otherwise abundant head must groove the swing from
that. Or at least his con
harvests recalls something of the a fixed and separate position.”
stituents did. When he had
• • •
history of this romantic fruit-
served his term in the 62nd con
vegetable.
gress, instead of retiring him,
The Stranahan Case
A sharp drop in production In
as had been the custom, the
Frank Stranahan, the Toledo
some
of
the
nation's
principal
to
voters sent him right back
amateur,
closed out the old year t
mato-growing areas means smaller
again, and they have been doing
"Ob, Lord, I ’ve bad rabbit enough.”
domestic stocks of tomato soup, with a remarkable set of figures.
it ever since.
Young Frank ran away from a
committee looking very different
There isn’t any question that juices, stews, ketchup and chili
than he wants it to look, though it Robert L. Doughton likes his job sauce this winter. Unseasonable strong field at a M iam i tournament '
late in December. He is all set for
may not always suit all the other in
Washington. But it ’s equally weather is given as the cause.
One hundred years ago the to the 1949 tour and he has the full
members. Doughton doesn’t go so true that when the session is over,
far as to say that fiscal legislation he likes to hie himself back to his mato was just beginning an uphill respect of every pro golfer in the
fight for respectability as a food field.
should be non-partisan, but he does Carolina
hills
and enjoy life
“ There is a chance he may be
say it ought to be as non-provincial there.
come the finest scorer we’ ve ever
and as pro-national as possible.
Around the capital he has the
known,” one leading pro told me.
His experience in collecting mon reputation as being as good a
“ He is young, strong, healthy,
ey that ought to be collected goes judge of men as he is of horses.
wealthy and golf is the game he
back a long way.
This year President Truman’s
loves. He gives his full attention to
One story involves a man he went request for six billion dollars more
It.
to see about a horse—two horses, to in taxes, including some social
“ Stranahan has fine swing with
be exact. This man had bought a security withholding levies, w ill
plenty of power. He w ill learn, as
team from Doughton (the congress get very careful scrutiny before it
he goes along, certain things In
man is still a farm er in his own becomes law. Meanwhile, Dough-
concentration and determination.
right, though he has to spend more ton’s committee has to take care
He is a fine golfer now. In my '
tim e away from home than he used of the b ill to extend reciprocal
opinion, he w ill be a better golfer
to '. Later on the man wrote that trade treaties. Also, studies w ill
later on.”
he didn't think the span was worth begin on the subject of extending
the $800 he had agreed to pay and social security benefits. There is
Stranahan Is still anxious to
wouldn’t pay it. The deal had been in addition the matter of certain
learn
all he can. He not only
revisions
in
the
basic
tax
code.
negotiated at a distance and the
wants to know how but why.
But Representative Doughton Is
principals had never met. So one
He Is w illing to work and prac
day Doughton dropped in at the used to rabbit stew.
tice for hours at a time. He
farm and said he wanted to look
w ill give every club in his bag
over a good team. The man showed
item. Indians of the Andes had cul
a thorough going over. It Is
several, but none seemed to suit
tivated it since about 1000 A. D.
for
this reason that he has no
Mr. Doughton.
The Aztecs of Mexico gave it the
distinct weakness.
“ All right,** said the man,
name that Cortez’ men al ered into
“ I ’ ll show you the best pair
“ tomato” —and they probably said
The Toledo star is something new
you ever saw in you life.’’
“ toh-mah-toe.” And the Spaniards in sport. Here is a young fellow
He brought out the horses re
took it back to Europe, but there it with all the money he can spend. I
cently acquired f r o m
M r.
was recognized as a member of But instead of spending it, he gives 1
Doughton, but still unpaid for.
the deadly night-shade family.
all his time to golf—either practice
And what might they be worth?
It was wrinkled and small and
or play. He follows the pro cir
Well considerably
over $800.
wa» known as the "love apple” in
cuit from beginning to end—from
Europe
and,
later,
in
North
Amer
M r. Doughton introduced him
Los Angeles through Arizona and
ica. And for centuries the supposed
self and didn't have much trou
Texas on through Louisiana Into
ly poisonous fru it was nothing more
ble in collecting.
Florida and then up through
than a garden ornament.
There is another reason why
Georgia and the Carolinas.
Doughton is a good man to have on
the collecting end of a bargain—
Paper Lining Doubles
This Is a tough circuit for
if you aren’t the debtor. He’ s a
making a living from It. But
The biggest peacetime budget Effect of Light Shades
farm er, true, but he is also a bank
8tranahan takes no vacations—
Lights around the house often
ever submitted to a congress
er, and he works at both when he
not while there's a tournament
($48,858,000,000) has its oppon seem dim at the time of year when
isn’t in Washington.
He doesn’t
In sight.
evenings
are
longer.
But
light
ents, too. Rep. Charles Halleck
keep banker’s hours, however. He
(R „ Ind.), form er GOP m ajor from lamps often can be increased
goes to his office at 6:30 a.m.,
His is today, beyond any doubt,
ity leader, and Rep. John Taber by arranging for simple and better
works throughout the day. and he's
the
finest medal scorer in the ama
(R., N. V.), former chairman reflection.
often back in the office after din
teur world.
He has won many
Light
colors
reflect
light,
dark
of the house appropriations com
ner. He lives right across the plaza
big
match-play
tournaments — in
mittee, look grim ly at the volu colors absorb it. A white paper lin
from the Capital.
cluding the British amateur—but he
ing
or
a
coat
of
white
paint—or
minous
budget,
promise
a
For the firs t 45 years or so of his
has yet to win the U. S. amateur
fierce fight to slash all spending even white shoe polish on the in
life, Mr. Doughton held no elective
where his game has never been at
side
of
a
lamp
shade
may
double
office, but he managed to find tim e ' proposals.
its best.
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