4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, Aug. 31, 1956 Lancaster "County’s Own farm Weekly Newspaper Established November 4, 1955 Published every Friday by OCTORARO NEWSPAPERS Quarryville, Pa. Phone 378 Lancaster Phone 4-8047 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 * Although Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson has been on the receiving end of many an unkind word about farm policies, he chose Southeastern Pennsylvania ,to speak up. He chose somewhat alien territory, and reac tion to his appearance was mixed. Applause was not over enthusiastic among the 5000 in Hershey Stadium, but when he drove home a point, the audience responded. Politically, the Hershey appearance was important. This was the Secretary’s first appearance since the Republican and Democratic party conventions, where the farm pro gram was a primary issue. But the Secretary is not a poli tician He said, v “Farm people . . . have problems serious ones. These problems have been brought on in large part by political maneuvering by unwise government policies. They will not be solved by more political maneuvering. They will be solved only by facing facts by sound thinking, and sound action.” Just as inheritance and the laws of Mendel apply so deeply to agriculture, Mr. Benson inherited in his office a system where farmers have been hamstrung by controls. When asked by Lancaster Farming if the United States farmer could ever hope to return to a free status, the Secretary said, “Most agricultural progress has been made in the 50 to 75 years farmers have been free to make their own decisions. We must move toward a greater free dom for farmers.” In a note inserted not included in his prepared speech the Secretary said, “It is our purpose to keep the agri cultural economy fluid, to keep this God-given (agricul tural) right of freedom of choice; we don’t want to freeze agriculture in uneconomic patterns. “I have stated my views on what must be done to work our way out of the difficulties of agriculture. These views have not changed because of a coming elec tion, because of political pressure,” he added. Later he told, “We will not resort to nostrums and panaceas lor political pressures.” - War-time controls wrapped the farmer so tightly they couldn’t be dropped at war’s end, and, as he told the Her shey audience, “we didn’t have the political courage to make the change when the war ended” Mr. Benson’s status is best summarized in a statement inserted at mid-point of his address: “Our objective is markets; a government warehouse is not a market. I will not support any program which is not to the best interests of the farmers regardless of political pressures.” “The record is now clear rigid price-fixing shrinks markets,” he stated, and, “We have proven you cannot control production all you do (under government decrees) is chase acres around.” His Soil-Bank is an emergency program, temporary, voluntary, one that is meeting little response in this sec tion, where, as even the Secretary admits, it cannot be ap plied properly, but farmers in this area should benefit from increased prices for their farm commodities. Mr. Benson is sincere. He speaks freely, openly, without assistance from aides at hand. He seeks a sound and ex panding farm prosperity* on “programs founded neither on the quicksand of war nor the entanglements of bureau cracy.” Choosing between a man and his programs is difficult Few can say the Secretary shies away from the issues and arguments at hand. Diethylstilbestrol hormone pellets are producing large type turkeys into good broilers at the University of Wis consin. One pellet is said to make large type turkeys even fatter than some small type turkeys which have not been treated. Large type birds reach broiler weight about 20 dafs earlier Approved by the Pure Food and Drug Administration for use in poultry, “stilbestrol” as it is better known, may open a new field in the poultry industry. STAFF Mr. Benson Speaks Up Hormones for Turkeys Publisher .. Editor . Business Manager Advertising Director Circulation Director SO Years Ago This Week on Lancaster Farms 50 YEARS AGO (1906) • By JACK REICHARD ROOSTER ATACKS BABY Grace Welde, twenty-two months daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Welde, Wilming ton, Delaware, was attacked by a vicious rooster while at play near the house, when the fowl swooped down’ upon her and stuck a spur deep into her head The screams of the child brought aid and the rooster was driven away. For a time it was feared the little girl had been fatally injured. 5j- s> On the Lancaster farm of Lory Logan, near Collins, a dog killed thirty-four chickens. Logan im mediately went for his shotgun and killed the animal. He stated the owner could come and get his dead dog if he wanted it. Thieves entered the smoke house and icehouse-on the farm of T. C. Gregg, near Chestnut Level, carrying off ah the meat Several fine hams and a lot of fresh meat on ice in the icehouse were stolen. Detectives were in vestigating. *j« ELECTRICITY USED IN GROWING POTATOES Potato growers in general, were in experiments made in Massachusetts where electricity was being tried as an aid to the growth of plant lite, fifty years ago Electric currents were passed through the soil by means of wires attached to bat teries buried m the field. The experiment was declared a suc cess, and the potatoes were, found to be larger and of super ior quality. ■s * A poultry expert declared that “inbreeding is just as disastrous in the case of poultry as in the human species ” < FY TRAP. 1906 MODEL A Pennsylvania farmwife told how she got rid of flies by fill ing a glass jar about half full of strong soap and water solu tion and covering it with a soft crust of bread that was moist ened with a little- milk. She stated. “Make a small hole in the cen ter of the bread and press tight ly over the top of the ]ar after the addition of a little sugar to attract the flies. Place this outside of the door where the flies gather and the results will be surprising ” An lowa woman had made her village famous by advertising a certain day each summer as Chick Day, when she exhibited thousands of clucks newly hatched in incubators of her own invention Thousands of people assembled each year to witness her annual hatch. V * ♦ , From the Lancaster orchard of George Graham, Sr., Paradise Township, nearly 1,000 baskets of peaches were sold in the 1906 season. * * * 25 Years Ago Lancaster Farm women Soci ety No. 11, entertained the mem bers’ families at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. William Buch er, Mechanic Grove, 25 years ago this week. According to E.‘ B. Fitts, in qharge of dairy extension work at Pennsylvania State College, Pennsylvania ranked fifth among the states in the number of dairy improvement associations, in 1931. Of the 1,112 associa tions reported by the Bureau of Dairy Industry, 88 were in Penn sylvania. Wisconsin led with 131, lowa, secofad with 100, and Min nesota, third with 96, Harry Benninger, 22, of near Pa., an alleged potato thief, .was killed and his com panion, Benjamin Charwock, 35, of Allentown, was peppered with bird-shot, when the pair invaded the farm of Thomas Graver, Moore Township. The shooting was, it was charged, by Graver’s son and two hired men, who were on guard against ' potato thieves, who. for several nights in a' row, quantities of tubers. “i * * CHfINA BUYS U.S. WHEAT Twenty five years ago this week, President Herbert Hoover announced the completion of ne gotiations for selling 15,000,000 bushels of wheat to China. The grain was to be used to feed the hungry in the flooded regions along the Yangtze River. Carl Williams, Farm Board mejnber, said a minimum of 50 per cent of the wheat would go as flour. The Chinese Government, he said, agreed to pay equal install ments on the wheat in 1934, 1935 and 1936. The price was subject to market quotations •at the time of shipment with inter est at four per, cent. Background Scriptures Luke 6:27-31; 10 30-37. James 2 .Devotional Reading: I Corinthians 13. Royal Layir V *" Lesson for September 2, 1956 1 V <(T OVE your neighbor” is called Is the “Royal Law” once in the Bible It becomes and is the royal law only when all of it is meant: .Love your neighbor as yourself. loves his neighbor a tmy bit. At least you don’t want to see his house burn down, and if you heard that his children had been eaten by an alligator, you would have (it is hoped) some tinge of regret. But loving your neighbor as your self — ah, that is something quite a lot harder to do. Dr ' Foreman But the Royal Law demands that we love our neighbor, any neigh bor, all, neighbors. This is a Royal Law, as James called it, because it is the law by which the King of the x Universe operates To 'be sure, we cannot say that God has “neigh bors” just as we have; but when God was here on earth, focused <ypu might say) in one person, this Son of God, truly royal if ever a man was, lived by the Royal Law. No Exceptions! James writes that keeping the law means keeping all of it. To fail In one point means failing, period. We can apply this to the Hoyal Law. If we are (a* Jesus.called us) sons and daughters of the Most High, then we are under a kind of regal obligation to live as befits our high privileges. The more truly we live as children of God, the less we can afford to make exceptions, on our own, to the royal law of love. But most of us do make ex ceptions. Jesus knew what they are; so did James. Jesus mentions people who love those who love them in return We all know the type—maybe we are the type !f— the person who treats his fnepds like princes and other people like dirt; the farm'- ”ho are very warm heart'-' ’oted to one another mister has a very farmers hear GOVERNOR PINCHOT In a speech before the Mis soun Farmers’ Association at Sedaha, Mo, Pennsylvania’s Governor Pinchot, told the as sembly “For generations the farmer has been the orphan child of American politics I am taking him into the family. ■ “For generations, the govern ment of the United States be lieved that the only thing it needed to do for the farmer was to help him grow more crops What he got for his crops when grown, and what kind ot a life he and his family led on the farm with these things the Government held it had no concern.” -* < Jl On the Lancaster farm of Hai nson Sollenberger, near White Horse, a large barn was struck by lightning, and burned with all the season’s crops except 'to bacco. Sollenberger, who was standing near the building when the lightning struck, was stunned. He recovered a few moments later, and he hurriedly released the livestock quartered in the barn. One calf and a newly pur chased hunting dog were forgot ten in the confusion and per ished in the flames. Firemen of'the Salisbury Fire Company were called but the fire had too great a headway so they turned their attention to saving the farm house and other buildings. , hard time enlisting In any project for community betterment; the col. lege student who is a very loyal fraternity brother but who hardly knows, and doesn’t care to know, the student without money to spend. Jesus! parable of the good 'Samaritan showed up twn men who made exceptions to the Royal Law. The priest must have loved hi* neighbor priests; but the beaten stranger was no priest, so this priest didn’t bother with him. The Levite must have had friends; ha belonged to a class of professional philanthropists. But Samaritans were not on the Levite’s list of Worthy Causes. So he wasn’t both ered. As for the Samaritan, theie was every reason to <cross off that battered stranger by the roadside. By every Samaritan standard, he “belong.” But the Samaritan kept the Royal Law without mak ing exceptions. For Whom Do We Pray Oneway the reader can test how well he himself keeps this Royal Law, is to reflect on his own pray ers. We get around to more people in prayer than in actual visits. It is true that on a given day we probably don’t pray definitely for every sort and condition of men; but the question which really probes us is not, “Do you pray for every one,” but. “Are there any kinds of people for whom you would not pi ay?” If you are a democrat, do you ever pray for a republican? If you are a white person, do you ever pray for negroes? If you are Protestant, do you pray for Roman Catholics? For the Pope? If you are an American,,do you pray for Russians? For Chinese? If you are a business man, do ypu pray for your competitors? As a law abid ing citizen, do you ever pray for the men and .women in the state penitentiary? You see how it i J > The Royal Law la the hardest law there is. - With Whom Do You Pray James draws a sarcastic Uttls picture of some church ushers h« had very likely seen,—polishing the apple of the well-dressed visi tor to their church, and shoving the poor man arc*nd so that b« would he almost sure never to come back. How Is It in your church? You may have hanging on the wall somewhere a copy of the Royal Law; but does the church it self keep It? Are there people, Ne groes perhaps, who if they risked showing themselves at your church, md wanted to worship with you> ould be shoved into a corner or rhaps refused admission enthe* ’ Does your church set the ex ple for its members, the exam* of love without exceptions? id on outlines copyrighted by tb* lon of Christian GdneaUon, «*. I Connell of the Chnrobes of Cbt* 1 U. S. A. 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