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...Lucas-Green bill was aimed at transferring the machinery of soldier balloting from State hands to a Federal War Ballot Commission. The longer the Senate held the Lucas-Green bill, the more it seemed to tick like a bomb. Several members struggled courageously to extract the fuse. Finally, at week's end, the whole infernal-looking thing was thrown out. In its place, the Senate passed what amounted to a pious resolution: let the individual states conduct elections, as always. Let them arrange for their own absentee soldiers to vote. (This arrangement, followed in the 1942 elections...
...World," more talk about the New Deal's home failures. In Denver, Mr. Willkie seemed to have reached the same conclusion. "We must face the fact," he acknowledged, "that the people of this country believe-with certain reservations-that the present Administration understands what makes the world tick." Then he lit into the Democrats domestically: too long in office, too powerful, too wasteful, too inept...
Conference over, Field lunches with his men in the News cafe. Afternoons he strides around learning what makes a newspaper tick. Several times he has tried, not too successfully, writing editorials himself. He usually goes home...
South Carolina's demagogic "Pitchfork Ben" Tillman, U.S. Senator and self-appointed farmers' friend, met him with bluster: "You're going against the laws of God. My grandfather's cattle had ticks and my father's cattle had ticks. . . ." Long and loud Pitchfork Ben argued for the inalienable right of his cattle to have ticks. John Mohler countered with logic. Said he: "Your grandfather also had rattlesnakes." After untold arsenic baths, the South was free of tick fever...
Garlic and Tuberculosis. Far more serious than tick fever was bovine tuber culosis. For years it had plagued farmers, killing their cattle. Worse yet, tuberculosis germs were transmitted to humans through cows' milk. The year he became bureau chief (1917) John Mohler swung out against bovine tuberculosis. There was only one cure for it : killing all cattle who had it. John Mohler traipsed across the land, pleading with farmers to allow tuberculin tests ; ruthlessly ordering the cattle shot when the tests were positive. In those days U.S. farmers resented Federal interference heartily; no dang Gov'ment...