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Thursday, September 2, 1937 THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON. Scenes and Persons in the Current News National Topic« Interpreted by W illiam Bruckart ___ * j TiTiWT^ a GRASSES, LEGUMES USED AS ENSILAGE N ational Pre«« B uilding W ashington, P . C, Can Be Kept in Condition by Washington.—The Supreme court who stayed with the President Adding Molasses. of the United States has a new mem through thick and thin. He never ber, and to that was an exceedingly popular man By A. C. Klmrey. Extension Dairy Special Court Now extent, President among his colleagues. Add to this ist, North Carolina State College. WNU Service. Liberal Roosevelt has suc the capacity of using harsh lan With molasses as a preservative, ceeded in reorgan guage in the extreme and one finds izing the highest court in the land. that he was not the most popular any green crop that will make hay With the nomination by the Presi choice among the senators for the can be stored in a silo without any dent of Sen. Hugo L. Black, Ala job to which he has been elevated. appreciable loss of feed value. bama Democrat, and confirmation From various quarters, therefore, I Corn silage contains substances of that nomination by the senate, have heard observations to the ef that act as a preservative, but le we find a Supreme court that stands fect that Mr. Roosevelt appointed gumes and grasses do not have for liberal interpretations of the Senator Black with full knowledge enough sugar to ferment properly. Constitution by a vote of six to of the facts I have related. He By adding molasses to legumes could and did slap at some mem and grasses, the material can be three on most questions. While It is important, of course, bers of his own party for failing kept in good condition. to know that Senator Black, the to go along with him on the court The crop can be cut at any stage new justice, is nearly 100 per cent packing plan and some other New of maturity and in any kind of Deal legislation like the wages and weather. However, greater feeding New Dealer, it is much more im portant to the country as a whole to hours program. He showed certain value is obtained if the crop is cut think of Mr. Black hereafter as be groups and cliques in the senate as early in the season as possible without injuring the stand. Cereal ing fully aware of the reasons why and house that he is boss. Then, in selecting a man from the crops should be cut when the grain he was selected to the lifetime job deep South undoubtedly the Presi at $20,000 per year. It is likewise is in the milk stage. important to remember the reasons dent figured it would be influential Start cutting early in the morn why Mr. Black was selected when in pulling back to him some of the ing. If the crop is wet with dew or one examines the so-called balance support which he certainly has lost rain, so much the better. The crop among local politicians in the south should be put in the silo within a of power in the Supreme court ern states. Views of this test of po It seems to me that Mr. Black litical strategy differ greatly, but few hours after cutting. If the crop must remain in the will enter upon his duties next Oc whether he gains or whether he tober under one of the gravest loses on that score, there certainly field more than a few hours on a handicaps that ever was set upon is ground for belief that the reasons dry day, water should be added as it is blown into the silo. the shoulders of a Supreme court as I have given them. Around 40 to 45 pounds of molas justice. Because of this handicap, were There is also another reason for and because of the reasons lying the appointment of Mr. Black. Of ses should be added to each ton of back of his appointment, I greatly course, everyone realized that Mr. cereal and grass crops, while 75 to fear that Senator Black can never Roosevelt would name a man of 80 pounds should be added to a ton be a great member of a great New Deal leaning. Moreoever, ev of legume silage. The molasses can be added from tribunal. eryone recognized that it would be In the first instance, his record in strictly a personal appointment as an elevated barrel by allowing the the senate, covering a period of ten far as the President was concerned. proper amount to flow through a years, has demonstrated to most So the stage was set for appoint spigot onto the green material as everyone that he has a keen mind, ment of a man of more or less it is fed into the cutter. but the fact remains, and I think it radical tendencies—but no one ex cannot be disputed, the new justice pected the choice that was made. Egg Producers, Handlers lacks the poise which always has Now, the senate long has operated Can Stop Summer Losses been an attribute of outstanding almost as a high class group. Ev Producers and handlers of eggs judges. I hope he has the qualities ery senator considers his colleagues that will enable him to grow and with great deference and respect. are losing hundreds of dollars every become a good justice from the le This is senatorial courtesy. Does it week of warm weather from highly gal standpoint; I hope this for the not seem quite reasonable then, to perishable fertile eggs, according to sake of the country as a whole and consider that Mr. Roosevelt went O. C. Ufford, extension poultryman for the sake of the judicial struc into the senate to pick a new justice for Colorado State college, Fort Col ture of our government. But after with the full realization that the lins. Suggestions for preventing this observing him as an independent nomination would be debated in gen writer over the last ten years I tlemanly fashion; that senatorial loss are outlined as follows: Roosters should be marketed or think I would be unfair to those who courtesy would tone down the barbs read these lines if I did not charac and the darts and the personal at confined during the summer so that terize Mr. Black’s as a decidedly tacks that would probably obtain if infertile eggs may be produced. Provide one nest for each four mediocre appointment. the name of a private citizen were hens. Again, the fact that nearly all submitted? I cannot know the Pres Gather eggs more than once a day. Washington observers and a very mind, obviously, yet I have Cool eggs before packing them in great number of officials do not ex ident’s these conclusions stated so cases. pect much legal wisdom from the heard that they cannot be Eggs may be cooled and water new justice is traceable more to the many times disregarded. New Dealers evaporation from the eggs may be conditions under which Mr. Black wholly consider the appointment clever prevented by keeping them in the received the honor than to Mr. from the standpoint of senate de cellar or by keeping a damp sack Black himself. bate, and those opposed to the New over the case. • • • Market eggs as often as possible Let us examine the reasons that Deal called it a smart trick. So disagreement. during warm weather, preferably lie back of Mr. Roosevelt’s selec there is very little • • • about every three or four days. tion of Mr. Black. In this case, as Keep clean straw in nests. I called attention earlier to the ef In the case of many lesser appoint Handlers of eggs will find it more ments, the motives, the politics, the fect of the conditions under which Mr. Black enters profitable to keep eggs stored in a underlying objectives have not been stressed anywhere. In order to un May Solidify the court. I think cool place until they are sold. Court examination of derstand the situation, it is neces them is v i t a l . Mowing Weeds Aids Grass sary to review several years of his tory on one line and it is likewise They are important for the reasons Mowing weeds and removing necessary to examine various inci I have set down and they are im brush and other tall vegetation en portant from another standpoint. dents marking Mr. Black’s career courages the spread of more benefi It is pure conjecture, of course, cial grasses, clover, and lespedeza, in the senate. Out of this maze of detail, certain significant and more but I am going to mention the pos eliminates the competition for mois or less definite conclusions appear. sibility that Senator Black’s entry ture and plant food, and results in Along the one side of the examina into the court membership may pos a turf more resistant to soil erosion, tion we find Senator Black consist sibly create resentment among the the Soil Conservation Service has ently supporting President Roose other justices. Each of them will found. In the past 2 years mowing velt’s New Deal programs where- certainly know about all of the va has been extended over more than ever and whenever he found them. rious undercurrents, the gossip, and 100,000 previously unmowed acres We note as well Intolerance on his the more or less obvious facts in of grassland on Soil Conservation part for those persons and those volved in the appointment. Service erosion control areas. Fair I have been wondering then ly high mowing—from 4 to 6 inches arguments running counter to New Deal policies. Thirdly, we cannot whether the other members of the when weeds are about in full bloom overlook various senate investiga court, even liberal members like —is recommended. tions conducted by Senator Black Justices Stone, Brandeis, and Car- for we know that in most of these dozo, may not feel that Mr. Roose Marketing Milk he was carrying out orders from the velt has subjected them to undigni Three major adjustments in milk fied terms. I mean by that, is there White House. That is. Senator Black was engaged in expeditions of not a possibility of them feeling that transportation and production prac would save farmers thousands smear, of muckraking, and in need the President is seeking to gain de tices dollars annually, according to less exposure by way of senate in cisions along his own line of reason of agricultural economists of the Uni vestigations, in order that if there ing rather than on the basis of jus versity of Illinois. More dollars in were flashbacks someone other than tice and law? As I said, this is pure conjecture. the pockets of producers and better the President would be in the white Nevertheless, I think it will be service to consumers could be light of criticism. brought about by rearrangement of Casting aside many of the as agreed that it is a logical thought, hauling routes so as to reduce mile because the Supreme court justices, saults on Mr. Black’s personal rec age and increase load volume, by ord, and turning to the other phase after all, are just as human as you marketing more milk through coun of the situation that culminated in and anyone else. plants and by narrowing the sea Carrying this thought a little fur try his selection for the court, it must sonal variation in milk production. ther, what will be the effect upon be plain to anyone knowing all the facts that President Roosevelt had a the old conservative members of the Protein Feeds for Cattle definite purpose in selecting the court like Justices McReynolds and Alabaman. This phase also requires Butler and Sutherland? Will they re High protein feeds have given gard the Black appointment as a di faster gains, better finish, and lower a bit of review. rect thrust at them personally? If costs in cattle fattening than rations • * * When the President suddenly de they do, it seems to me the logical with less protein, according to ob manded that congress reorganize result would be to make them more servations made by the University the Supreme court conservative than they now are. of Illinois. Linseed meal, soybean I do not mean to imply dishon oil meal and cottonseed meal are Court Split and make provi- Party sion ior the ®P* esty or unfairness to any member the protein feeds generally used. It pointment of six of the court. I know some of them is profitable to give ohe pound of new justices of his own choosing, he personally and I respect every one one of these feeds to each seven to created an enormous split in the of them. I merely call attention to ten pounds of com, depending upon Democratic party. He alienated these things as among the possible the age of the cattle and the kind many sections of the South and at results in the appointment of a man of roughage. the same time provided many old- to the Supreme court who may have line southern Democrats with am been not the worst appointment pos Saving Poultry From Heat munition which they could use to sible but surely, all conditions con Good ventilation in the poultry justify their positions in oppos sidered, it was far from the best. ing Mr. Roosevelt on many other Politically, the Black appointment flock is the vest way to prevent heat phases of legislation. is likely to enter into the 1938 con prostration. The north side of the I do not mean to say that all of gressional elections. There seems no house should be opened to allow the southern Democrats turned way by which the matter can be free circulation of the air. Win against the President because that avoided as an issue. It is only dows or doors on the east or west is untrue. There were possibly a through those elections of senators side of the building should be opened half dozen senators from the South and representatives that the people to allow free air movement. If there and an equal proportion of repre can express themselves, and nearly Is a room ventilator it should be sentatives who are sticking by the everyone agrees now that the name opened because this too Increases President and will continue to sup of Justice Black will enter into nu air movements. Insulation of the port him. That fact, however, does merous state and district political roof, of course, helps materially to reduce the temperature in the room. not alleviate the condition. battles. • Waiters Newspaper Uni os. Senator Black was among those 1—Mrs. Bibb (Dixie) Graves, wife of Alabama’s governor, whose husband appointed her to the United States senate to fill the vacancy created by the appointment of Senator Hugo L. Black to the Supreme court. 2—Following adjournment of congress, Representatives Maury Maverick (left) of Texas, Knute H ill of ” a s “ ' ington and John M. Houston of Kansas buy their railroad tickets for home. 3—United States marines load ing their packed sea bags on a truck as they prepared to leave for duty in war-ridden China.________ __ Three Royal Ex’s All on One Spot Although royalty is ever clannish, whether they retain their crowns or not, it is unusual to photograph three royal “ex’s’’ in a group. They are at Lausanne, Switzerland. Left to right: ex-Queen Amerle of Portugal, ex- King Ferdinand of Bulgaria and ex-King Alfonso of Spain. The occasion was the marriage of Princess Marie-Dolores, niece of ex-King Alfonso, to Prince August Czartory-Ski, descendant of an old Polish family. RAINBOW QUEEN STATESMAN PASSES National honors were accorded the memory of Andrew W. Mellon, secretary of the treasury in the cab inets of Presidents Harding, Coo lidge and Hoover and one of the nation’s leading industrialists who died at Southampton, N. Y. “Eye-Dropper” Baby Faces Camera Miss Anna Bell Weir, who was se lected Rainbow Queen in the first annual Queen of Queens contest at Long Beach, Calif. Scores of beau Jacquelyn Clement, New Orleans “eye-dropper” baby who was born at tiful girls who were selected as queens of various events throughout six and a half months, weight a scant two pounds, is shown as she was ex California in the past year were en posed to the public eye recently for the first time. Dr. Roger Knapp, Bap tist hospital interne, is holding her for her first view of the cameraman. tered in the event. Giant Transatlantic Planes Near Completion Larger than the ships in which Columbus first crossed the Atlantic are the six giant flying boats now ap proaching completion on order of the Pan American Airways system for trans-Atlantic service. Cutaway diagram of one of the liners is shown above. The three-deck ships are designed to carry 50 passengers on 24- hour schedule« between America and Europe. They will have a top speed of 200 miles per hour.
