Thursday, September 2, 1937
THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON.
Scenes and Persons in the Current News
National Topic« Interpreted
by W illiam Bruckart
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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.
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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
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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
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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.