4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, Dec. 7, 1956 |ancaster par mi n g 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 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 PENNSYLVANIA PROMOTION Pennsylvania has launched an all-out campaign to promote Pennsylvania Farm Products. Every time one of those red, white and blue box cars goes through bearing the sign, “Maine Potatoes,” you see proof of what promo tion can do. When the Maine box car gets shuttled onto other lines, it winds up in territory once"entirely foreign to Maine potatoes. It’s effective. Governor George M. Leader has started a promotion program for Pennsylvania farm production, with four basic objectives: 1, Encourage cooperation among commodity groups on promotional activities and coordinate farm to dinner table promotions; 2, Assist commodity groups and others who do not have their own marketing staffs; 3, Set up methods of handling emergency or sur plus food promotions; 4, Counsel the Bureau (of Markets) on ways to improve overall marketing of food products in Penn sylvania. Maine potatoes, Florida citrus, Corn Belt Beef on and on the list goes. Advertising has proved its worth as a marketing medium. Pennsylvania is joining the parade, perhaps starting on a modest basis, but the objective is worthwhile, worthy of support. “ . Three out of four traffic deaths are rural.” Ponder a moment this statement by Ray Ashworth, acting director of the Traffic Institute of Northwestern University.'Two factors were cited, the one above, and. “The second is that the motor vehicle accounts for nearly half of all accidental deaths to farm residents. Death rates in most cities have been going down in recent years in spite of sharply rising traffic volume, “but rural traffic has been growing unchecked, until it now constitutes half the yearly vehicle mileage, accounts for three-quarters of the fatalities and occurs on nine-tenths of our total road network.” - . Public support is needed for the success of official programs necessary to reduce the rural accident toll, Mr. Ashworth added. . .... On the farm, the need for an automobile is without limit But the words above should behoove all to take care. One of the most dangerous spots may be the end of your, lane, a trouble spot at the end of your front yard. Take care, There’s a marked recent revival in records, from the days of the Old Edison Phonograph. Yesterday’s-anci ent Edison has been converted into a-cedar chest, its fine textured cabinet woods living again in another piece of beautiful furniture. But whatever happened to the old, clumsy, thick, heavy records that blared out ragtime, jazz, $r Henry Lauder, Galli Curd, Chalipin? Some of these oldesters have been re-recorded, to sing out again fully, completely on hi fi take your choice, 78 45 33 RPMs. Million have been spent by Americans to catch up with sound, a sura as staggering, as, astronomical as the speed of sound. First the phonograph, with its waxen cylinders, then its discs of wax; a curved, flared, fancy horn that reproduced truly sound and scratch. Radio mov ed in, television made its bow. More noise-free production was still sought up comes FM radio and UHF television. Today it’s hi-fi high fidelity that takes a series of speakers each of varying levels of pitch and tone, un fl the house wired for hi-fi is strung from, ceiling to steps with speakers. Conversation’s becoming a lost art Eut-lhifik how much we’re spending to improve ourdiatemagl- STAFF Publisher FATAL RECORDS TUMBLE Editor Business Manager Advertising Director Circulation Director I By JACK REICHARD 50 YEARS AGO (1906) Fanners interested in snakes back in 1906, pondered over the report released by State Zoolo gist H. A. Surface during Decem ber that year. Prof Surface cautioned there were “real snakes” in Pennsyl vania, but that mythology, sup erstition and ignorance had sur rounded them with an atmos phere of terrifying dread. “Myths, fallacies and folklore of serpents passed down through generations”, Prof Surface said, “were all found to be without foundation”. t “Snakes do not charm birds and people”, he declared, “nor do they sting with their tongues”. He reported there was no such creature as a hoop snake, which rolls like a hoop; neith er was there a horn snake, with a venomous horn at the end of its tail. The belief that when a snake is killed its tail does not die until the sun goes down or until it thunders, he stated was definite ly untrue. „ “Snakes hdve no medical qualities”, Prof. Surface report ed. “The popular notions that gall of snakes are an antidote for snake bite, that their oil is good for rheumatism, baldness and deafness, that a second bite of the snake in the same place will cure or counteract the first bite and that rattlers of snakes are charms, are all myths”, declared Prof. Surface, a half century ago. MORE FAMILY PARTIES ADVOCATED During that same December, in 1906, an expert on human re lations complained that the aver age American household was neglecting the family circle. He stated: “A custom that should he cultivated in every American home is that of observing birthdays and other family an niversaries with some memen to, like flowers, which mean more to our loved ones from time to time than> heaped upon . their caskets when life’s light is gone out and ■floral beauty and fragrance can bear no wel come message of love and ap preciation”. * # ♦ FIKVI HEAD PAYS DEALERS’ FINES r | -tan, i• - /Tspmr' , ,T sr With the advancement of the Christmas Season, m 1906, E. Bedford, president of the Com Products Refining Co., of New York, an alleged member of the glucose trust, came forth with an offer to pay the fines and Costs of 450 Pennsylvanians, totaling $500,000, who were arrested on charges of selling candies con taining glucose, was announced by State Dairy and Pood'Com missioner Dr. B. H. Warren, who explained that the use of glucose in candies .was held "to be illegal because the product contained sulphur -dioxide used for bleach ing purposes. In offering to pay the costs in the cases, Bedford declared his company had changed its pro cess .and -was producing pure glucose. t *■ * THIEF TAKES OVER TROLUEY I , j ~"w*v ■vm' Out in East liverpool, Ohio, police were looking lor » .stranger who took over a su burban trolley car, conducted it for five miles, pocketed the lares of all .passengers and then decamped. The regular, conductor had stopped the car that day along the way to get a drink at a pump, when the stranger gave the starting signal. The thief managed the 3db so well that the motorman, who was curtained in an ac count -of the rain, had suspect ed nothing. The . passenger* ex plained they missed the regular conductor, but thought -the new man -had -taken r* -> This Week in Lancaster Farming * 25 Years Ago Depression or no depression, Santa Claus was enjoying his usual celebration during tte Christmas Season of 1931. H. W. Rieger, secretary of Chicago’s State Street Council, reported that on one day more than 250,- 000 shoppers crowded the big stores. >■ * « ADMISSION FEE: TWO POTATOES At Lancaster’s Fulton Opera' House, 25‘years ago, more than 3,000 kiddies turned in about 40 bushels of potatoes which was turned over to the Salvation Army that week i The children were the guests of the management and were shown the featured picture, “The Man in Possession”, star ring .Robert Montgomery. The admission lee was a donation of two potatoes from each child, earmarked for the needy of Lancaster. 1 * * “KING SOLOMON” SENT TO JAIL William L Myers, known to his friends as “King Solomon”, because he boasted of being the “most married” man in the Unit- Background Scripture. Romans 8 Devotional Readingi Psalm 27:1-10 In All Things, God Lesson (or December 9. 1956 T THERE Is far too much In the famous eighth chapter of Ro mans to think about- in the small space of one column So one sen tence from It will be quite enough food fcTr thought: "We know that to everything God works for good with those who love Jilin." (Bom 8:28.) Readers familiar with-the old King James translation (made to 16111 wffl no tice that the new translation Is dif ferent. The old version read; “We know that all things wot k to* getherior good to them that love God." , . translation Is right? The letter Dr. Foreman loathe Romans was written hi Greek, of course.-We do not have the original letter, -but w« have 'discovered some Greek copies Of It in manuscripts much earlier than "any that were known back in 1611 The oldest,and best of these have exactly what the Revised Standard Version accurately translates: Not things but Gad is the subject of the Sentence—it is God who works lor good in-everything. It i* not things that work for good. “In Everything, Ood.. Christians who take the Bible seriously do not believe'ln a far away God. It is quite true, as the Psalm writer said, there is no get ting away -from God. The wildest dream of-the most fanciful space-' fiction writer might come true, but on the last lost planet God would j still be there. God Is In all space and In all time, too. However old the universe-may be, God Is older still But the God revealed in the Bible is not one who set the uni verse going as a mart winds a watch and then lets ft run. God Is to aH things, and all things are in ■Clod. This is not so hard to believe. What does call tor « rugged faith ,b the Bible belief that God Is to things we find painful and bad,' not In geod things aims. If are do not; I»eliava x tfal*, than- we are always 1 - n <■ * "Which ed States, 25 years ago, had fal len into the clutches of the law at Mt. Holly, N. J.,'over the theft of a new $25 suit. The larceny charge failed to depress “King Solofhon’’, who informed the po lice he had married 56 wives in a period of 41 years. Myers, sixty-five, also known as William L. Jones, produced a small black book in which ha had written names of his wives and the dates on which he claim ed he had married them. He said his home address was Oxford, Pa. * * - P. S. C. LIVESTOCK WINS PRIZES Showing 16 sheep and 30 swine at the International Livestock Exposition m Chicago, the Penn sylvania State College won 37 prizes’, including one grand championship, 25 years ago. At Quarryville, In accord ance to agreement, farmers in that area who sold tomatoes to the Quarryville- Canning Co. in 1931, received payment for their crops December 1. The crop was reported large that year, bringing' considerable money into circulation just be fore Christmas. Growers of beans that year had received payment for their crops Nov ember 1. * # *l* For moonshiners, the 1931 Christmas Season was not a mer ry one. During the month of No vember 95 stills and 54 automo biles were seized in alcohol raids in the state of Pennsylvania alone, According to a report is sued at the Third Prohibition District headquarters in Phil adelphia. evil in the world is too much lor God? What if eventually he is over whelmed by a universe he .cannot control 7 What if God’s intentions aie better than his abilities’ Have no fear, God’-s Word assures us.i God is not on vacation, he is at' work in everything, small and great, in pain and in delight “Qod Works for Good” The Bible writers a£ver say that' all things are gocy Some thing* are good Some pungs are bad, some things are just the opposite of what they ought to be Thl* raises a most difficult problem, the problem of evil No one knows the answer to it; but the Bible never takes the short-cuf of denying that evil exists What the Bible does say Ts that even in evil things God Is at work for good Joseph, son of Jacob, as a boy was sold mte Egypt as a slave by his -criminal brothers. That was not a good thing. “Years later, however, the man Joseph said to his brother*, “You meant it for evil, but God meant It lor good." If it had not been for that wicked act (and some others besides) the family of Jacob would have perished of starvation., History Is full of Illustrations of the ways in which God brings good out bl evil Tyranny and -cruelty are not good things; yet if George 111 bad been a more enlightened end Just king, the American col onists might never have thought of achieving freedom. The “Wodd Wars” were terrible things; but they did nd the world of some tyr annies Many events In our per sonal lives which were frustrating or tragic, have been seen to later years to have been part of God’s wise plan After all, what kind of God would our God be, if he could not bring good out of evil? “With Thosi Who Love Him” The new end bettor translation of this 'great sentence from St Paul brings out anot h • r point which Paul’s Greek suggests: God Is at work with those who love him. , Ho works for them, to be sure, but that Is not the mam point here, God*a work is never a substitute ter the work of those who leva, him-' Loving God is nd excuse ' for not serving him. Loving God Is not I mere sentiment, a sort of warm 1 glow, e happy feeling - about the "man upstairs ” Love of God, like love of neighbor, Is a serious thing. It calls for devotion, hard worfc even sacrifice To go back to tbs* story of Joseph. God brought good out of evil: but suppose Joseph,' him gelt had been lazy, selfish and careless? God's work calls lor many partners - not sidewalk su perintendents, not slaves, but p»r> ~tnn in the everlasting Leva (Bata* •• ••yrrUhlaf s» «m talu U. S. A. IOMMt fey OffcasaW
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers