4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, Nov. 16, 1956 Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly Newspaper Established November 4, 1955 Published every Friday by OCTORARO NEWSPAPERS Quarryville, Pa. Phone 378 Lancaster Phone Express 4-3047 Alfred C. Alspach Publisher Ernest J. Neill Editor C. Wallace Abel Business Manager Robert G. Campbell Advertising Director 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, Quarryvilie, Pa., under Act of March 3, 1879 HOT POTATOES, POLITICAL HAY : Voters last week proved where they stand by return ing President Eisenhower with an overwhelming majority. Today the superlatives are missing, but what lies ahead? i First, it seems evident that President Eisenhower will maintain his cabinet, and throughout he has given full support to his Secretary of Agriculture, Ezra Taft Benson. Secretary Benson, normally a quiet going man, stepped into the campaign trail with the vigor of a veteran and faced" the issues as they arose. He has been criticized for his programs. Many are wondering what happened to the so-called farm revolt that was fuming in the middle west. Some farmers asserted they do not approve of GOP farm policies, but they give President Eisenhower credit for maintaining peace. Secretary Benson in his speeches throughout the nation made it clear he inherited a farm program fostered in wartime, and the plan with subsidies and guarantees had grown to such dimensions it could not be dropped. To put it more on the farm level, ; it seems a case of holding a bull by the tail it’s dangerous to let go. What lies ahead? President Eisenhower has a Demo cratic Congress. He wants to continue his campaign of get ting the government out of the farming business. On the other hand, it is expected the Democratic forces, and they are in the majority, will continue efforting for increased government aid to agriculture, facing possible veto by the President. Will the farmer go through this year’s experience again? One farm bill met presidential veto. The second, the Soil Bank, wgs passed, but passed so late it could have little effect on crops already planted. No one wanted to return to the days of the 30s when crops were plowed under. Enforcement of the Soil Bank was impossible. Little by little restrictions were eased, until compliance and non compliance were almost synonymous, without penalties for those who strayed aside. It’s likely that more Presidential vetoes will de velop. The farm issue has been both a hot potato and politi cal hay. Many an ingredient will be added to find a measure whose taste is pleasing to all in the farm business. Hot potatoes, political hay and add another simile, the political football. It will be interesting to see if a determined farm plan may be devised, one that will re turn farming to the farmer. The road between Washington and the farm is rough, bumpy and dangerous. DOWN THE TANBARK TRAIL The season’s started again. It's time for the tanbark trail, with the big shows that come as a postlude to the community fairs. This week, the Eastern National at Ti monium; coming up, the International, the acme of show business; not far away, Pennsylvania's Farm Show. For youth, these are great days. Just look at last week’s Southeast District Show in Lancaster. Earlier win ners were there. But we encountered one comment that is food for thought; an old-timer in the livestock show busi ness commented that some earlier, winners in smaller shows were still riding on glories of earlier winnings, for*- getting that_continued care and grooming is necessary, to bring the proper bloom that will catch the judge’s eye. One win does not insure many. Declining slightly in condi tion, earlier winners took a back seat in some cases to com parative newcomers. But it was fun to watch the youth met earlier in the season at Lancaster County community fairs strike their heavyiest competition. They did themselves proud. Higher and higher they move. The interest in beef cattle here is most encouraging. Like poultrymen on a recent beef cattle tour, several dairymen from tile Garden Spot were seen on the sidelines getting tips on what the beef busi ness is like, preparatory to launching their youngsters on a steer project Lancaster County, as an excellent job, on, the Southeast District 4*H Baby Bttftaxd Lamb CftA tShon*. STAFF Circulation Director By JACK REICHARD 50 YEARS AGO (1906) WILD PARSNIPS POISON 38 At Hillsboro, Pa., two men were dead and 36 others serious ly ill from eating wild parsnips. The men lived at a boarding house and the parsnips were served \at the evening meal. Physicians were summoned but before their arrival two of the boarders were dead and several others were expected to die. At Treskow, Pa., that week in November, 1906. John Lausauer was killed instantly at his home while towing a barrel of sauer kraut from the kitchen to the cellar. Lausauer was being as sisted by his wife in moving the barrel. While descending the flight of steps, the barrel up set, knocking him down and crushing him to death. HORSE TIES UP TROLLEY SERVICE A horse owned by the Lan caster Electric Light Company, hitched to a buggy, became frightened near Millersville and took off down the .tracks of the York Furnace trolley line, final ly reaching the bridge over the Conestoga Creek, the ani mal went through between the ties, lemaimng in that position until discovered by a trolley motorman. The horse’s feet and legs had gone through the ties on the trestle. Boards, rails and ropes were procured and it was two and a half hours before the animal was* liberated Exception a few cuts and bruises, the horse was none the worse from its ex perience The buggy was slightly damaged The career of a destructive rabid dog whose ravages left a trail of death and disaster through upper Cecil County, Md., and the lower townships of Chester County, Pa., was terminated by a well directed shot on the Mearns farm, near Calvert, after it had been pur sued by a party of armed men for nearly two weeks. The dog, declared the most ferocious on record, killed nearly 200 chic kens and ducks, bit two wom en, three men, more than 25 dogs and a number -of pigs, before it was finally killed. 25 Years Ago Rabbit raisers, thousands of them in the suburbs of Los Angeles, Calif., and hundreds of thousands in other sections of the country, ■■ proposed to make canned “chicken a la king” of rabbit meat to increase incomes from rabbit fur. The U. S. Food Administration issued a cold warning, “It is impossible to make canned chicken a la king from rabbit meat” But the pro moters of the proposal pointed out that any good French cook could make chicken a la king out «£ rabbit meat with the greatest of ease and make it -better than an average cook could out of chicken. * ♦ ♦ FARM WOMEN SS SESSION n Lancaster Farm Women Soci ety, No. 11, met with Mrs. Mabel Shenfc, Mechanic Grove, 25 years ago this Week. - The meeting was in charge of the president, Mrs. Mabel Bucher, with devotion* by Mrs, Martin Harnish. The pro gram included a contest tiding ' -It * o m * * * * ' NATIONAL GRANGE IN SESSION Twenty-five years ago. the Na tional Grange Convention in ses sion at Madison, Wis„ aproved a report asking the United States Government to use its influence in preventing „war in Manchuna. The request was contained m a report submitted by the foreign relations committee, headed by E. B. (Dorsett, master of the Pennsylvania State Grange. The committee’s report also favored reduction of armaments. Inclu sion of a farmer on the United States delegation to the dis armament conference was re commended. s. # NO WORK* NO DINNER In an effort to stop beggmg on the streets, the Harrisburg Welfare Federation established a work test and restaurant on Susquehanna River. All able Island Park in the middle of the bodied men who sought meals were asked to chop, saw or load wood, brought from Wildwood Park for distribution among needy families, for one hour be fore they were given tickets en titling them to meals. The aim Background Soriptvrot Matthew 4:23 5 20 Devotional Bonding: Psalms 15:1*15; 24 3-6. Christian Persons j lesson for November 18, 1956 WHICH Is more important, 1 what} a person is or what ha I does? According to Jesus, what a s person is, is the mam thing. These v two camiot be separated. On the r one hand a person does what he' f does because he is the kind of per- c son he is; on the KBEnin 1 1 other hand a per- £ son cannot be the tjK WB I kind of character "wS I Jesus describes, 1 without doing. } c The ideal char- s acter, as Jesus j to be grown in a t hot-house nor in 8 a cellar like Dr. Foreman 1 mushrooms. An ideal person devel- I ops only in a world of persons. But i let us see. Every one of what we, i call the eight “Beatitude*” or i “Blessed's” need! very carefin < study. All one thin column can do 1 is to call attention in a very gen- 1 eral way to three facts aboui i Christian persons as Jesus pictures i them here. Perhaps no actual i Christian every fully matches the 1 picture, the ideal; but the more a ( Christian resembles this descrip tion, the more these three fact* 1 will be true about him. i A Christian Is Happy ; Again and again in reading the, ' Bible We, come to something that 1 shows What nonsense St is to think •, of the Christian life, the God-pleas* I tag life, as a sort -of prison exist- 1 ence. God’s requirements are not j like chains, weights, handcuffs,, barbed wire, electric - fences; They 1 are, what makes life truly free and 1 strong. When Jeaus describes the! ; ideal—God’s idea I—character, in i these Beatitudes, he begins evefyj ' sentence With the word which, though often translated “blessed”) was the regular ordinary word for “happy.” Some people get the} whole business of what it means to be a Christian, sadly twisted. They j think: What a Christian ha* to do, and be la not pleasant; but he grits his'toefii acd-goes-through with hlk, 1 9« XSStO&SiA. ■was directed to ferret out pro fessional loafers from worthy cases. WELLS AND SPRINGS GO DRY Back in November, 1931, many springs and wells in Lancaster County had gone dry. In Millersville, which is located on high ground, 51 wells were reported without water, the lower end of the county also suffered a shortage of water. HUNTS RABBITS ON TRACTOR Morris Mohler, proprietor of the Grandview Farms, utilized his tractor to hunt rabbits, years ago. He shot the limit without leaving the seat of "the ponderous machine. Another story was told of a farmer, re siding within a distance of two miles from Christiana who thought nothing of running his tractor to the store when he ran out of chewing tobacco. He admitted it provoked his wife, but he explained: “It is her provilege to chew the rag and mine to chew tobacco.” KILLED ACCIDENTALLY KENTLAND, Md. Arthur R. Tripplett, 15, died almost in stantly in a wooded tract when one of the boy’s two hunting companions put his gun on the ground. The trigger apparently was tripped and the load struck the boy in the chest. The three boys were squirrel hunting when the tragedy occurred. Ills fife of martyrdom. NoTat ah. According to Jesus, the ideal char-i acter is the one that finds real Joy in becoming more and more like our Father in heaven. Your real athlete is the man who enjoys sports, not the man who goes out, for athletics only so as to earn al “letter.” Your real artist is the person Who loves to paint or write,) not the man who writes or paints j only because he has to, to makej money. Your real cook is the man or woman who enjoys cooking, not the one who feels like a martyr over a kitchen range. So your real Christian is the one who is happy being one. j Christian Life Flows Outward A second fact about the Christian life Is that it is not self-centered but flows outward. It is not like a swamp into which streams flow without ever finding an outlet; it is more like a mountain lake, fed by fresh springs and kept fresh be cause its water flow on in a spark ling river. A person cannot be trulj? good if he lives to himself and for himself. Consider how many of the Beatitudes could be true of a her mit living on an island apart from other people. Very few, if any. A selfish Chiistian is a contradiction in terms. “Love thy neighbor af thyself" is a commandment older than. Christianity; but Christ him-' self -approved it. “What do 1 get?" is not the Christian’s first question, but “How may I help?” This does not mean that a good Christian is a kind of meddlesome Mattie, run-{ ning around sticking his finger into other people’s affairs. It does mean that in the countless human con tacts which he has everyday, as well as in his whole life-plan, ha 1 will not think of the world of men as merely an orange which is hi* to squeeze. Out of £|m? Now a man from Mar* might think that Christians would be the, most popular people in the world: Everybody would love them and want them around. As s matter oi fact, we have to remember that -Jesus himself was-- bitterly hated) gncl'finally crucified, to the Beatit themselves them « ifw P r#J diction that “all manner of evil'*) things Will he said Of GhrtsVi foM lowers, ths simple. Ugly reason tot this Is that this is a world stiU mostly out of lino with God, which In other words means out Of hns with Love. The true Christian will always seem somewhat out of Un4 with this world. If all men speak well of you, there must he some* thing .wrong with you. FrtH Sntl**.) *• , l ' r -j , I j i r.iJ-'V *V| J-r ,
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