The May Record. (May, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 8, 1916 Page: 2 of 8
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THIS is a sketch of
mNewtoH D. Baker,
President Wilson's new
Secretary of War, for-
merly Mayor of /
V Cleveland /
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HE GUIDES fin NATIONS
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BWTON D. BAKER,” I had bean told
by a man well acquainted with him,
”!■ the kind of thoroughly good citl-
*en we all approve of highly—and
fail to imitate! He has lofty Ideals.
He has high principles. He Is utterly
sincere. He is simple and unaffected
both In thought and life. He has a
clear, well-disciplined mind. He has
an extraordinary command of concise
and effective speech. Without being
« ,n tbe ,ea,t he is a good
Cl!f«Ii.nT.111 .?nd b,“ fuI1 of charm- Out in
Clevetand he lived in a modest frame house with
his wife and three children, smoked flake tobacco
m » 25-cent pipe, drove his own Ford, and for
amusement read Greek and Latin books on the
vhU* JUn“ an art,cle by Rowland
Thomas in the New York World.
***"■*■ toJnotlce'''my informant added,
1 to be llftMi in? BeC°nd, ot Tom J°hnson’s disciples
LlVwwti l Prominence by President Wilson.
Brand Whitlock Is the other. It is hardly exagaer-
T Brand Whitiock, In Belgium, has
great “an- W,u Bakep be as
ISJSh^r !H tbe Wftp d«P«tment? Frankly,
whether he 11m i “* per8?nal,y- 1 am wondering
hu t Measure up to the Job. What he
dOBe wel1’ But-ha has never
been tested out in really big affairs. Has he the
volv^m/* r»Jhem YoU know a -38-caliber re-
tat mti”?* ** a perfect weapon—as a revolver—
talc^lt lf P^ed into service as a
,lU Newton D* Baker big enough to
iS*?CtarLof «r » time like this? That’s
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week. I S ?*. n*W ,ecretary ot war last
J b,“ tw*®a* once in his modest bed-
L?* ynlTera,ty c,uh. where he is living
“• “ a ba«helor ‘ because the children
Kjf ? C1#v®,»nd *nd we don't want to
>eoond tlma he was
JLJJ 1 t^*War department, the office to
cliStaJ whf^t Vw througb that dread ante-
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lf?IL^th-.OCfa,,ons 1 *ot *he ■»»• Impression
«the physical man. Nature, in molding his body,
jUd a neat Job. He is a markedly small man, but
ta proportion all the way through. His littleness
mrries no suggestion of the dwarfish. His head
“ large, but not enough so to make him look top-
neavy. His hands and feet are of moderate size,
well formed and muscular. He has a chest big
•Bough to breathe in. a waist which carries no
•dipose luggage. His skin is swarthy, his hair
£lack a°d ef*wi*bt A pair of hazel eyes full of
but comprehensive rather than keen; the
wide mouth of an orator or actor, mobile yet Arm
brow °J a acholar; a face in general In
which the perpendicular lines of strength are ac*
CONVENIENT BROODER POOP FOR CHICKS |
Homemade Brooder Coop Is Inexpensive and Handy.
Fbr either free range or for Inten-
sive poultry culture the brooder coop
shown herewith will be found very
convenient. It consists of a frame of
any suitable size, preferably three by
six feet and two or two and one-half
feet high. At each side Is wire netting
between the framework for about two-
thirds of the length of the coop, if
desired, glass may be used for part of
the remaining space, as indicated.
Preferably, one end should be tight
so as to afford certain protection in
case of wet or storm. Tightness may
be secured by using matched lumber
or glass. The coop has no bottom,
but rests directly upon the ground.
The left hand end is opened, but may
4e closed by a door which may either
slide or swing on hinges.
•The coop has a double lid; one
made of matched lumber and secured
by crosspiecep as shown. In order to
hold it up a hinged prop may
be placed In the middle. This prop is
long enough to drop down on the out-
side and lie parallel with the wall
without actually touching the ground.
The second or inner top may be mad»
to slide in a groove, it consists of a
framework covered rft one end with
wire cloth and at the other with bur-
lap or cheese cloth. The advantages
of having a double top are that in
warm weather the fowls can be kept
comfortable by abundant ventilation
and in cold, wet or otherwise unpleas-
ant weather they niay be completely-
protected by the solid top. A coop of
this kind can be used to advantage in
rearing chicks at range, but it is not
satisfactory for full grown fowls.
RECIPE FOR INSECT POWDER I MAKING MONEY VflTH CHICKS
Mixture of Cresol, Gasoline and Plas-
ter of Paris Will Be Found En-
tirely Satisfactory.
Important Branch of Poultry Business
Has Been Made Possible by Use
of Incubators.
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centuated, a manner at once dignified and friendly,
• bearing which I should call attentive rather than
alert—these are the characteristics of the outward
man.
His mentality is not so easily characterized. I
•nail hare to try to bring it out for you In a series
of rather detached glimpses, as he himself re-
vealed It to me In the course of our conversation.
Our talk ranged over many topics. We had, for
Instance, been speaking of the extraordinary
•mount of reading of standard English authors
as had done before he was twenty years old, and
I asked him whether the familiarity of his mother
tongue thus acquired had not been an important
element in his various successes. He said: “I
think that Is true. Ability to express myself of-
factively in speech has been of great value to me.”
This led to a brief sketch of his personal his-
tory. Mr. Baker was born in 1871 in Martlnsburg,
Va., a community of 8,000 persons, wherein his
father was the leading physician. He was the
second of four sons. At the age of twenty. In
1891, he received his degree of Bachelor of Arts
ifrom Johns Hopkins university, having completed
the four years coarse in three years. Followed a
T**r of graduate work in Roman law, comparative
Jurisprudence and economics, and then his law
course, which he took at Washington and Lee uni-
versity. completing the two years’ work in one
year. "That compression." he told me. "was done
!for fhmily reasons. Money was not plentiful in
k country doctor's family, and there were other
ISOM to educate.” After his graduation in 1893
.Mr. Baker bang out his shingle in Martlnsburg to
'Indicate that he was "willing to practice law,” as
puts it, and remained la that receptive condl-
ftlen until 1898, the last year of the Cleveland ad-
ministration. when Postmaster General Wilson
••Bed him to Washington to be his private sec-
tutary. *T divided my two cum between the other
members of the local bar.” be told me. "and went”
la 1889 Mr. Baker was Invited to come to Clevw
*a»d. O.. as a partner with FOraa 4 McTigue. one
the city’s leading Arms of trial lawyers. He
ssuat there, met Tom Johnson and was magae-
dtssd; by that association was drawn into local
ffioMtlcn and had fourteen years of active cem-
pelgntag there, serving four terms as city solicitor
under Mayor Johnson and two terms as
after his chief was deposed. He declined to
for a third term, sad had Just resumed his
practice at the beginning of this year when be
tniltl to WssSsiagton
turning to oar topic. I asked him to
qnalttlm besides his ability as a
----for what bo had
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run
law
what
he
"Looking at myself Impersonally, 1 am inclined
to think I have a very patient mind. I mean by
that a mind which moves slowly, which plods for-
ward instead of dashing or leaping. There is noth-
ing brilliant about it. A brilliant mind, it, strikes
me, is like a thoroughbred horse,' good for a race
but afterward needing to be stabled for a day or
two. My mind is like a plow horse. It cannot
spurt, but it can go on turning furrow after fur-
roJ- That lets me get through a lot of work.
By a patient mind,” he went on, “I also mean
a mind which does not leap to attitudes and deci-
sions, but feels Its way. And a mind which does
not get ifs back up easily. Opposition does not
make my mind bristle. A difference of opinion is
not a personal thing with me.
“And I think,” he said, his dark eyes twinkling
and his wide lips quirking with fun, "It has been a
very decided advantage to me to be so little and
to look so young. 1 really mean that,” he hastened
to add and cited two Instances in illustration. One
was his argument before the Supreme court of the
United States in the Cleveland traction cases, an
argument which attracted the flattering favorable
comment of the learned Justices. The other was a
speech which was one of the outstanding features
of the Baltimore convention which nominated
President Wilson.
"Neither of those,” he commented, "could by
any stretching of words be called a great speech.
The natural falrmindedness of men was what
pulled me through in both cases. I looked so
handicapped that my hearers said Instinctively,
’Give the boy a chance!”*
Such cool, almost academic self-analysis led
me to ask him how life struck him, so to speak—
what ambitions it stirred in him. "I’d like to prac-
tice law, ’ he said. “That is my one ambition.
There is no office or position that I care for. But
I’d like to practice and practice and practice law.”
Further talk along that line developed the rather
Interesting fact that the new secretary of war is
one of those men who seem to have been moved
forward by the urgings and propulsion of their
friends Instead of fighting forward of their own
accord In response to an inner impulse. Post-
master General Wilson all but dragged him from
his brieflessness in Martlnsburg to get his first
taste of cabinet ways and duties and responsibili-
ties. Martin Foran dragged him to Cleveland to
become a trial lawyer. Tom Johnson dragged him
into politics. And Woodrow Wilson has Just
dragged him to the war department
The circumstances of the Foran case are un-
usual enough to partake of the romantic. In 1897.
when the young and still younger looking attorney
was returning from his first visit to Europe, he
was table mate of the late W. T. Stead and a mild-
mannered. retiring English barrister. One day
Baker came on deck to find the barrister in a peck
of trouble. A stalwart, lawyerish, six-foot Irish-
man. full of Gaelic fire, had waylaid him and was
charging him, in bis own person, with all the
wrongs England had ever perpetrated on the dis-
tressful country. "I happened to be rather fa-
miliar with the Irish land laws.” so Mr. Baker
tells It. “and contrived to substitute myself for
tho barrister In the argument The upshot of It
was that my opponent and I became good friends
“d aP*nt the rest of the voyr-e playing chess
together. We parted In New York. I went back
to Martlnsburg. and no word passed between as
[or two years. Then the man—Martin Forma—
wro,e me the Arm's business had so Increased that
another partner was required and that he wanted
me. I had long felt I should be in a larger com-
munity than Martlnsburg. and I liked Cleveland
but I knew they wanted a trial lawyer, which I
was not. So 1 went oa full of excuses, prepared
to thank him and be dismissed In friendliness
Before 1 couM get my first excuse out Mr. Forma
had ushered me Into an office and saM. ‘Here’s
yours, and before I caught my breath he had •
some clients la for me to taih with I stayed
Cleveland and learned to be a trial lawyer -
His enlistment as an active fighter In the John-
son camp was equally casual. 'Tom ' was sick
*** might, mad the young lawyer was presetJ into
service te All his place at s rally. * Tom s slefc.”
•a*d the mao ehe introduced him. "This Is New
*«• D. Baker, ebo’s going in apenh in lh
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He’s a lawyer. That’s all I know about him. Go
ahead, boy, and tell them what you know." Baker
told them, and so began the activities which led
to four terms as solicitor and legal leader of the
antitraction combine forces and two terms as
mayor.
I asked Mr. Baker how the mayor of Cleveland’s
Job compared with that of the secretary of war.
"I love personal relationships. One of the
pleasantest things about being mayor of a city the
size of Cleveland is the great number of people
with whom it puts one into touch. At the war
department I find a large part of my duties is
taken up with seeing pepple. I am very glad that,
Is so. I like to see people constantly. Of course,"
he explained, “I don’t mean that flocks of casual
visitors drop In to see me here. But the business
of the department brings many people to me
dally."
I had meant to ask him how the two positions
compared in size and difficulty. He was non-
committal on that point, and I suggested that at
least he did not seem appalled by the size of his
new task, even though the Mexican situation had
given him a baptism of fire for a greeting. Hu
said:
I am not appalled. No man can hope to escape
mistakes. Mistakes are Inevitable. I know I shall
make some. But the only things one need bu
really afraid of are insincerities and indirectness.
Also, it is well to remember that unfamiliar tasks
have a way of looking mountainous. Familiarity
reduces their proportions. At present I am work-
ing here from half past eight in the morning till
midnight to become familiar with mine. That
slow mind of mine,” he said smilingly, “compels
me to put in those long hours.”
“What is your idea of the functions of the secre-
tary of war?” *
“The duties,” he said, “are largely legal. Almost
all the secretaries have been lawyers. (He cited
the names of many, from Stanton down to h4s
predecessor. Garrison.) Strictly military affairs
are not my province. Experts must care for those
things. Legal questions—touching the conflict-
ing rights of state and federal governments, the
navigability of streams, the proceedings of courts
martial—such things comprise the problems I have
to settle I am an executive. Congress has made
laws governing my department. It is my duty to
see that they are carried out conscientiously.”
About "preparedness” he felt obliged to decline
to say a word, and I reminded him of an interview
in which he was recently quoted as saying that he
was “for peace at almost any price.”
”So I am," he answered stoutly, “because peace
seems to me the reasonable thing. 1 do not say
that war is always avoidable. It seems to come
sometimes as earthquakes come—a natural cata-
clysm. The French revolution, I think, was such a
war. But war is always regrettable Peace is
what spells progress. We have to advance step
by step. 1 do not think we can hope to force ad-
vancement by violence. And I believe that some-
times we-shall have a court of nations, and no
more wars. Was it Lowell said: ’The telegraph
gave the world a nervous system?* As our world
gets better co-ordinated by intercommunication,
we shall have fewer of tho misunderstandings
which cause wars.”
Constantly, as we talked, alike In his domicile
and in his office, the new secretary’s unpretentious
pipe was in bis month. Constantly bis knees
crooked sad his feet curled up to comfortable posi-
tions on radiator top and desk top. Tkough there
was always dignity about him. we might have been
two undergraduates chatting together. His atti-
tude was not suggestive of lounging or of a free tec
carelessness It was. 1 thought, the bodily ease
which is apt to reflect outwardly the mental states
**f se I (unconsciousness and serene self-confidence.
A good homemade insect powder
can be made by thoroughly mixing
one-fourth pint of cresol and three-
rourths of a pint of gasoline. Add to
this mixture gradually with stirring
just enough plaster of paris to take up
the liquid. For the above amounts
It will take about two and a half
pounds of plaster of paris. Spread out
thin on paper until dry, screen care-
fully and it is ready for use. If
Strong crude carbolic acid Is available
it can be used instead of cresol. This
Applying Insect Powdsr.
The general use of incubators has
made it possible and profitable for
many to engage ^Jn the day-old chick
trade, which has become an important
branch of the poultry business. This
work may be done in the home in ad-
dition to the ordinary routine of du-
ties, and is one way a nice income
may be earned.
With proper precautions, hatching
eggs may be safely sent Journeys of a
week or ten days’ duration, but not so
with baby chicks. At the close of an
Incubator hatch some of the chicks
are one or two days old, and should
not be sent more than a two days*
Journey. If properly packed, it is no
cruelty to ship such a distance, for
just before hatching the chick absorbs
the yolk, which furnishes enough sus-
tenance for three or four days, and ad-
ditional food given during these first
days of the chick s life is only injury.
On account of the limited distance
chicks may be shipped, there is scarce-
ly a neighborhood or town where one
or more persons may not profitably
engage in the hatching of chicks.
Mqny people lack the time and equip-
ment for the work, and prefer to fur-
nlsh the eggs to be hatched for a
stated sum or buy the chicks out-
right.
The purchaser must expect to pay
a fair price for chicks from reliable
strains of either bred-to-lay stock or
from fancy exhibition breeders. Good
sturdy chicks may be had for $15 per
100 and upward early in the season.
Late-hatched chicks sell lower for
they are not worth so much for winter
layers, but may be used for a founda-
tion flock if necessary. Conscien-
tious breeders take pleasure in send-
ing out chicks of real value, thus add-
ing to the sum total of the poultry
industry.
powder can be boxed, put in a dry i .. —
place and kept for a long period of | CAUTIOUS IN FEEDING BONE
time.
To apply the powder, dust the birds
thoroughly around the vent and in the
fluff under the wings. This applica-
tion should be followed by a second
in four to six days to kill the lice or
mites from the unhatched eggs or
“nits” present at the first treatment.
RETURN ALL INFERTILE EGGS
Disappointing to Customer Who Wants
to Get as Many Chicks as Possi-
ble—No Fault of Buysr.
Infertile eggs are very disappointing
to a customer who wants to get as
many chicks as possible out of the
number he buys. Some owners adver-
tise that they will replace all infertile
eggs, while others guarantee a ma-
jority hatch.
If the eggs test out infertile after
seven days' incubation, the purchaser
should return them to seller, as evi-
dence that they were not fertile, and
receive fresh eggs In exchange. It Is
no fault of the buyer if the eggs are
infertile.
PREVENT DISEASE IN FLOCK
Cause ef Roup Can Always Be Traced
to Fifth cf Some Kind Keep
Houses and Varda Clean.
nit
ia
Aa city solicitor of Cleveland, la the traction mat- '
ter*, he fought the mobilized legal big guns of j
Ohio to n standstill As mayor be forced the peo- i
pi* to retain him netii he bad done what bo sn
evt to do
To be oeetwtary of war Just now. to bo lilted at i
aae step from local tato national prominence at a
critical moment lika the rrwseat. la a far ssore '
The fundamental canoe of roup can
be always traced to filth of some kind,
which may he no (halt of the owner,
slaco the birds may eat putrid food
at neighbor s premises, or when ex-
hibited at some poultry show. j
But usually the trouble lies in the
home poultry quarters, and especial
care ehouM be exercised to keep the
yard free from putnd ford and the
boose and all vessels need for feeding
and drinking purposes aa clean aa pos-
sible at all times.
test
nnd
capacities
Grit la ____
ftrat forget that sharp grit tor the
heas is accessary at all times a'so
May Have Appearance of Being Fresh
When Inner Portions Are in State
cf Decomposition.
In feeding bone one should be espe-
dally careful. Bone may have all the
appearances of being fresh when the
inner portions and marrow are in an
advanced state of decomposition.
The commercial article of beef scrap
is never above suspicion. When made
from fresh meat, cooked and stored
properly, beef scrap will keep pure
and sweet indefinitely. When spoiled
meat is used, the cooking merely ar-
rests decomposition, and such scrap,
when fed to poultry, may cause trou-
ble. Before feeding beef scrap or
beef meal always test each bag. This
Is done by taking a small quantity,
eay half a pint, adding water and boil-
ing. If, In boiling, it gives off a whole-
some odor, the scrap is a wholesome
poultry food. Commercial beef scrap
that smells like fertilizer Is fertilizer,
and should never be used for poultry
food.
Beef scrap thst varies In color and
is full of hard lumps should never be
fed without testing.
give fowls varied^ ration
Ne Economy In Feeding Just One Kind
of Grain—Provide Ample Supply
•f Furs Water.
There is no economy in feeding
fowla only one kind of grain for that
compels them to eat more than they
should to get a sufficient quantity of
food elements
A large pert of the egg la water.
which necessitates providing the lay-
ers with an ample supply of pure wa-
ter. AH of the (Owls should bsvo
plenty cf pure drinking water
Start Fwreheeg nock
Fbtbmwe p'eperattan* srd a.-—*
*te net needed to sf - -t *
purebred fork Many a pcr-Wi
■«k bad a begtonh* ia one settn.,
f egr« cf two nr three ferda. The
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