4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, June 8, 1956 Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly Newspaper Established November 4, 1955 Quarryville, Pa. Phone 878 Lancaster Phone 4-3047 Alfred C. Alspach . Ernest J. Neill C, Wallace Abel • . Robert G. Campbell Robert J. Wiggins . Subscription Rates: $2.00 Per Year Three Years $5.00; 5c Per Copy Entered as Second-Class matter at the Post Office, Quarryville, Pa., under Act of March 3. 1879 Two items have been signed by Gov. Leader that will be of interest to farmers in this area. One provides $30,000 for eradication of rust-spreading barberry bushes. Another appropriates $35,000 for maintenance and opera tion of a regional poultry and diagnostic laboratory at Doylestown. The growing importance of the Commonwealth’s poultry industry is gaining more recognition, and needs more recognition. BACK THE POULTRY CENTER Ground -has been broken, excavation has started, the walls staked out for the new Lancaster Poultry Center. It’s a project that demands the support of all concerned, and that circle" is very wide. Throughout recent years, the poultry industry in Lancaster County has made a tremendous forward strides. Selection of a suitable site and choice of a modern design will serve the industry as a billboard to the traveling public. Volunteer labor will be used insofar as possible. Money can be judiciously used. A brochure of the Lancaster County Poultry Associa tion and the Lancaster Poultry Exchange explains the time for decision: “If all of us will -support the project in rela tion to our poultry business and the need for these facilities, we are assured completion of this project in a manner that will be an ever increasing satisfac tion and usefulness to our entire poultry industry.” It is the time for decision. Your share in the Lan caster Poultry Center is needed now. Give as best you can. CLOCKWORK CONFUSION An item in last week’s 25-Year-Ago columns in Lancaster Farming pointed out that Manheim rebelled in 1931 against Daylight Savings Time. Semi-daylight savings time, where clocks were moved ahead a half hour, was in use by some. Others used standard time, still others Day light Time. Today use of Daylight Savings Time is much more widespread. But it still entails difficulties to no end. On some plane trips you can arrive before you leave, theore tically. Cities along time zone borders have an especially bad time with time. One city, out on the edges of the Cen tral-Mountain time zone line is a railroad center. Trains arrive on Central Time, leave for the west on Mountain - Time Trains going east arrive on Mountain Time and leave on Central Time. Although the bulk of the city is in the Central Time zone, most of its railroad workers are on the western division. Their clocks are on Mountain Time. One radio announcer was much embarrassed when he found he had Mountain Time residents Two hours ahead of time, and innumerable calls in the country wind up in confusion where residents and their livestock remain on standard time. ' Chickens won’t go to roost earlier; Not many Lan caster County farmers head for the golf course in that ex tra afternoon hour of daylight Rudy Vallee’s old theme song, “My Time Is Your Time” no longer holds true. There’s confusion in the clockworks. FARM BILL EFFECTIVENESS There is now a farm bill with measures both good and bad, some query as to its timeliness add how it will apply to crops already planted, and, in some cases, ready for harvest The President called it “second choice,” the Secretary of Agriculture said “On Balance, the construc tive features of the bill outweigh its undesirable provi sions ” The bill’s signed It will be administered. Months may pass before its effectiveness is determined. One thing that can never be done is to tailor a bill that will apply equally to the 60-acre farmer and the 30,000-acre farmer. But as long as there are restrictions on production, we’ll have to deal with what is handed us. Published every Friday by OCTORARO NEWSPAPERS STAFF 1 STATE LEGISLATION Publisher .. Editor . Business Manager Advertising Director Circulation Director 50 Years Ago This Week on Lancaster Farms 50 YEARS AGO (1906) By JACK REICHARD Red Rose Presentation At Manheim Church » ' Fifty years ago this week the annual Feast of Hoses was held at the Zion Evangelical Luth eran Church at Manheim . The feature of the quaint services was the presentation of one red rose to Miss Ida Boyer, of Har risburg, a descendant 'of Baron William Henry Stigel, the founder of Manheim, in .pay ment of the rent for the ground on which the church stands: W. S -Bnnton, of "‘Lancaster, pre sented the rose that year, and the memorial address was made by tile Hon Thomas -L. Mont gomery, state librarian of Harris burg. Lancaster School Board Turns Down Co-education At a meeting of, the Lancaster School Board, a proposal for consolidating the Boys’ and Girls’ High Schools was defeated by a decisive vote The chief ob jection was the allegation that co-education was not good for the pupils from a moral point of view. During that same week, in 1906, Rufus H. Hippie, Rapho ownship, was elected a Lan caster teacher for the 51st time. For 44 years he had taught at the same school at Newtown. Many of his .pupils, in 1906, were grandchildren of his first pupils. Farmer Becomes Father Of Twins at 76 Jesse Huggins, aged 76, near Mornsville, Pa, became the father of twins, a boy and a girl His wife was 25 years old, and they had two other chdilren, having been married for seven years. A New York banker in his observations half a century ago said: “Before I went to college I was content to raise nice, square cattle and plant even rows of corn, but since I left the farm I have never been contented and seem al ways to desire something I can’t have”. Observers at a number of ex perimental stations in the coun try, in 1906, reported that from 60 to 80 lbs of gram went furth er when fed to hogs on pasture than 100 lbs of gram without pasture- Farmers were urged to turn their hogs into pasture,in stead of feeding them all sum mer from 'pail or basket. When a veterinary surgeon reached the stable of John C. Gibbel, wealthy citizen of Wyn cote, Pa., -he found a valuable driving horse had in some man ner fastened one of its rear hoofs in its mouth- with the steel shoe securely clamped be tween the teeth of -the animal. Several of the horse’s teeth had to be broken to release the hoof. ' 7 ! > * Fifty years ago this week a tornado swept through the stock raising region of Chou teau County, Mont., causing damage estimated at millions of dollars. 4 * W Freddie Turner, aged 4, son of Mr. and Mrs James Turner, Lawrenceville, Pa, was scalded to death when ha tripped over some wood and fell into a tub of hot water while his mother was doing the family wash. 25 YEARS AGO (1»31) Financial Experts View Gloomy 30’s During the depression of the 1930’s top (financial experts were telling Americans this country must never >smk low enough to adopt a national dole. England, with a dole amounting to $5OO million a year, was pointed 6ut as a horrible example. On the 1 other hand, without any dole, (America faced a deficit of a billion dollars for the year 1931, (the largest deficit any govern ment ever had in peacetime, up to that year. 30 Million Pounds Of Butter in Storage In 1931 it was estimated there were some 30 million lbs of quality dairy butter in storage Prices were the lowest in a period of 25 years. The Dairy man’s League Cooperative Asso ciation of New York pointed out; “the - surplus could be en tirely eliminated if each of the six million American families would use one extra pound of butter per week for a period of five weeks” When a farmer fn Texas was fined $5 for failing to stop, and asked why he was making his wife pull the plow, he replied, “Because I haven’t* got a horse” , Background Scripture: Acts 18 23 21.16, Ephesians 5 15>18 Devotional Reading: Proverbs 23.1-5, 29-32. Fighting Paganism Lesson for June 10, 1956 CHRISTIANITY has seldom*' if ever spread smoothly and eas ily like gravy over mashed pota toes. Its history is more like a river which'meets with immense rocks and boulders which tear the water into foam and spray. As the Colorado river has its way westward, so the Christian church has had to fight It is not true that all men are eager for the Gospel and that all we have to do is to_tell -people about the love of God and they Will all be grateful and Dr. Foreman glad to hear it. On the contrary, Christ has his enemies now as he did in Galilee, and has always had The name “paganism” is some times given to everything in con temporary life and thought which is actively hostile to Chust and his cause. Did the church conquer paganism? Alieady m the city of Ephesus, when St. Paul was /the mam preacher there, Christians ran into trouble. We sometimes think if we could get rid of our preachers and get the Apostles to take charge of our churches for a while, we would eliminate all our troubles; but St ‘Paul for one would not have agreed with us. We hear of oppo sition that became quite serious. Certain men “were haidened,” “did not believe,” and far from keeping their unbelief to' them selves, “spoke evif of the Way” (i e, Christian life) in the most public places (“before the multi tude”). This is a sample of what Christianity, the Christian church and individual Christians, have to contend with in all ages of the church: hardened men, who are not only' without faith but who will go out of their way to attack the Christians’ faith This is pagan ism; it has many forms but its spirit is always anti-Christian. Th/- church both has, and has not ov 532.976.35 Collected At Cohimbia-Wrighfeville During the month oi May, 1931, motorists paid more than $l,OOO a day to cross the Lan caster-York inter-county bridge across the Susquehanna Rivfcr between Columbia and Wrights* ville, according to a report re leased (that year by officials of the Bridge Commission. During ithe month of May a total of $32,- 97635 was collected, according to the report . A > An unfortunate husband was fined $5 for failing to stop on a signal of a (traffic cop in De troit He explained; “My wife told me to go on, so I went.” , ..Henry R. Hess, West. Wil- low R. 1, was advertising for ' Lancaster farmers and others to raise Clovcrhill rabbits. - Hess stated: “We guarantee to, buy all you raise. A clean, profitable busines. An oppor tunity for fanners and lot owners. Requires small space”. Twenty-five years ago this: week these Lancaster Coun tians attended the election of trustees at Pennsylvania State College: Samuel L. Sheaffer, Eden Twp.; John F. Shenk, Providence Twp-; Leslie L Bolton, Drumore Twp.; H. H. Angle, representing the Lam caster Tobacco- Growers’' As sociation and Mrs. Landis, of the Farm Women’s organiza tions. come paganism It has won many of these enemies of Christ to be* come his followers, and is still do ing so. It has taken the control of society out'of their hands, in vari< ous times and places, as happened at Ephesus for a time. But the fact is, paganism is far from dead. In one form* or''other its. attacks go on and on. Missionaries of paganism ‘ When an arrriy stays for any length of time in a foreign terri tory, it usually leaves behind il words or phrases which the natives pick up, and which may becoma a permanent part of the local lan guage. It was so with the English language. The Roman military oc cupation of England, which lasted into hundreds of years, left many souvenirs in the English language. One of the first words the Britons jlearned from the Romans was “wine” from the Latin vlnjim. (In cidentally, also, another word bor rowed but not now used in English was a word for “buy” that comes from a Latin word for tavern keeper.) So our very language bears testimony to the fact thal the pagan Romans were every where missionaries of paganism, and that part of the gospel of pa ganism is, Liquor is a Good Thing ... so let’s all have more of it! Paganism still sends out its mis* sionanes. On a slow boat to China not many years ago two men shared the same stateroom. One was being sent out by an Ameri can Christian, church to preach the gospel of Christ. The other was a man who was keeping his son in college by selling liquor in China —sent out by a large distillery firm. Every convert made' by the hquor-missionaiy was going to make it more difficult for the Christ-missionary: and also the other way around. Paganism’s progress Christians too easily sit back in their easy, pews and think, Pagan ism has been licked. St. Paul licked it, or Luther, or Wesley or somebody. We live in a Christian era, in a Christian land. Do we or don’t we? There are some figures that ought to make us think. The statistics of the Internal Revenue Service of the United States, as analyzed by the Methodist Board of Temperance, show that for ev ery church being erected m the U S , seven retail outlets for liquor are being licensed As of the latest count, there are 141,733 more sa loons, cocktail bars and- stores selling alcoholic beverages than there aie churches, synagogues and temples' combined The break down shows 441,789 “spirits sources” as against 300,506 “spir itual sources ” (Based on outlines copyrighted ny the Division of Christian Education. Na tional Council of the Churches of Christ In the U. S A Released by Community Pros* Service.) \
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