Show washington snapshots by james preston there here wa ft as 3 a quickening of pulses lit in the department of agriculture the lie other lay day when press wires brought news to washington that farmer otto gray of SUlt saltwater water oklahoma had developed a breed of itald midget got c cows ow s hero tit at last was na an answer to ull till their prayers if farmer gray could breed bovines one half the sive sire of normal jerseys surely the idea could be extended to other farria products they joyfully reasoned why not midget cotten plants to eliminate the annoying surplus of cotton half sized hogs ears eais of born corn potatoes and grains of wheat they asked askea themselves hero indeed seemed the answer to the ever normal granary loin without th the c red led tape of refer en endzins dunis marketing quotas export subsides and farm regimentation 6 but to lo I 1 the cloud with tho the silver lill lining IlIg suddenly drenched their I 1 hopes with rain farmer graya midget cow only eata cats half tiny and actually produces produced mor horpi pilak than her full sized camp compel I 1 igors e so go now it seems that farmer fanner gray Is to be accused of nothing short of treason against the AAA W for just when the governments agriculture experts were wrestling with the problem of making twos two thirds ovil crop grow where a evl fulk crop had grown before this lancor ri gible non cooperator points the way to still greater production with less effort ask tali farmer gray we are told by the theorists that utopia Is not in that direction 1 HERB AND THERE with out a smile the war department liaa has lifted its ban against love birds ou on army transport ships this ban wits was placed to stop the spread of parrot fever the seems 1 to be running out of public buildings and highways and bridges to build it has set act rel relievers relie lefers fers to count ing salmon climbing ladders on the bonneville dam press club definition of the european peace treaty you take a piece and ill take a piece it if there is any burning of that the midnight oil around CIO headquarters and the 1 national fial labor relations board in coming weeks chances are arc those within will be brushing up lip on oil popular proverbs to wit ft it experience is the best teacher and mighty oaks from little acorns grow the cause ot of tho the whole hing la Is till an election just held among waiters and other employees of the national press club on tho the question of whether the should represent them its as solo sole bargaining agent it was a routine labor beara boara election with about 50 employees involved but it has planted tin an acorn front from which a mighty legislative oak may grow the press club Is an organization exclusively for newspapermen newspaperman and selected associate members the associate membership includes a large percentage of congressmen mid and although the congressmen congressman passed the national labor relations act and the newspapermen write almost dally daily stories about it itt I 1 t the recent election was their first personal experience with the law and its operations and that experience per peri lence ence proved a bitter teacher briefly the experience revealed that although CIO organizers were permitted to io electioneer ou on the sidelines and even coerce the wives of employees members of the club tho the employers were forbidden for biden by the labor act and the labor board to daei ianswer questions about about the election whew when asked by the workers that w would 0 ld have been coercion I 1 so the newspapermen newspaper filen in wash logton to whom the labor board looks for help in forming public I 1 opinion lit in support of the board i have a new ilow lind and intimate to lo the problem that has beset employers for more than three years the capitals liberals are beginning to think that Is was an ill advised election which incidentally resulted in it a rejection of the CIO in favor of individual bargaining |