4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, April 19, 1957 Lancaster County's Own Farm Weekly Newspaper Established November 4, 1955 Published every Friday by OCTORARO NEWSPAPERS Quarryville, Pa. phone STerling 6-2132 Lancaster Phone Express 4-3047 Alfred C Alspach Robert E. Best Robert G. Campbell Robert J. Wiggins . Subscription Rates; $2.00 Per Year Three Years $5.00; 54 Per Copy Entered as Second-Class matter at the Post Office, Quarryville, Pa., under Act of March 3, 1879 Standard Egg Law Needed Forty-seven states have “egg laws,” yet no two of them are exactly alike. ; x „ , Their aims are the same to market eggs etiec tively to the greatest advantage of the producers, to facili tate interstate commerce in eggs and egg products, and to prevent misrepresentation in advertising and labeling eggs. But the rules they apply to achieve these aims are not the same These vary from state to state much to the con cern of state marketing officials, egg handlers, and distribu tors as well as state college and ILS. Department of Agri culture personnel. „ Differing Interpretations of quality as well as vary ing grade, weight, and class requirements limit the efficiency of the marketing process. Varying advertising and labeling rules also are a nuisance. , ~ ~ , Officials in the marketing field held three regional meetings last year in ah effort to find ways of bringing about greater uniformity in state, egg' laws. Representa tives of four Midwestern states met in Omaha. Nme states were represented in a meeting in Hot Springs, Ark., and three in Alexandria, Minn. - . - Uniform standards and grades, proper labeling of the consumer graded pack, the free movement of eggs across state borders, and adequate financing of law en forcement were discussed. Unless sufficient funds are made available, egg marketing laws cafmot be effectively administered. And it is this problem that has in the past put a large stumbling block in the way of bringing about uniform egg laws. _ Actually, state egg laws are nothing new. They came into existence in 1925, when USD A issued its first standard and grade requirements. Thereafter, these regu lations set the pattern for state laws. Since 1925 the U.S. standards and grades have been revised several times. New state egg legislation has been enacted or the existing law revised to incorporate the new features. The trend has been toward greater uniformity both between the U.S. standards and grades and those of the individual states. . , , Despite this trend, some very important differences still exist among the state laws. Take, for example, the word “fresh. Thirty-nine states refer to “fresh eggs” in their egg laws three of them even have separate laws pertaining to fresh eggs. Yet the quality specifications for so-called fresh eggs are not the same in all these states. Usually, though, fresh eggs are described as being eggs of a quality equal to, or better than, Grade A eggs. One state, however, allows labelmg which implies freshness for Grade B eggs. , The use of the term fresh would have more meaning if each of the states had the same specifications for grade A. Advertising and promotion programs which are financed and carried on by the egg industry on a state, regional, and national basis would be muh more effective if- the standards and grades used were the same m all areas. And so it goGS —■ all down the line. Some states _naye precise labeling requirements; others merely prohibit mis-labeling and giving misleading information. Some have specific provisions defining the right of authorized persons to make inspections; others fail to define what may or may not be inspected. The enforcement of these laws varies and so, too. the system of penalties. Obviously, such variability confuses persons who produce, handle, sell or buy eggs. Through the use of similar regulations, producers are more likely to re ceive prices consistent with the quality of eggs marketed. The middleman and retailers would find bargaining sim plified. And consumers would know from the uniform grade-marks exactly what they were buying. - STAFF —Paul Mehl in Agricultural Marketing Publisher Editor Advertising Director Circulation Director i T- f Q«i Ji i > vlvU *■- v I -i | i -"'I I ■KSi r f.mct:*% “ » ,”‘ r “ :' ~ ’ % t % i * - s „ > II THERE ARE COMPENSATIONS vfor being editor of a newspaper. One of them is that when that first baby comes, the news of it isn’t two lines buried in a list. No indeed. She can get her picture in the paper. This is Kathleen Leigh Best, a week old today. Need it be added, the editor’s first daughter. (LF Photo) BY JACK REICHARD 50 YEARS AGO (1907) An’organization was set up by members of the Scranton Central Labor Union and representatives of the granges in Lackawanna, Susquehanna and Wyoming coun ties, m a move to oust all middle men. The first step taken was to establish a milk depot, where the farmers were to do their own mer chandismg, and the Central Labor Union to encourage patronage of the depot All bottled milk from the station was to bear the union label. S J. McDonald was named president of the new combine LANCASTER WINS OVER BERKS During the winter of 1906-07 debating societies of Lancaster and Berks counties held a senes of contests under the sponsorship of the Inter-County Debating League. The Mohnton team of Berks and the Adamstown group of Lancaster had each won top places in their respective coun ties, and were selected to battle for the inter-county champion ship. Ephrata was chosen the place for the contest, ' “Resolved, That man is the architect of his own fate”, was the subject debated, with Adams-* town holding up the affirmative and Mohnton’s contestants argu ing the negative. The judges, including Prof. Charles Wagner, of West Chester State Normal School; Dr. W. F. Teel, President of Schuylkill' Seminary and Prof, H. Justin Roddy, of Millersville State Nor mal School, decided unanimously that the honor belonged to Lan caster County and a silver cup was presented to the group by Prof. Wagner. *. j V BAPTISTS RIOT IN OHIO At Portsmouth, Ohio, a faction opposing the pastor, the Bev. Freeman Chase, made an attempt to dispose him and hold services with another preacher, causing a -not in the Fee Will Baptist Church. The followers of the two factions came to blows, with some of the women fainting and others fled screaming into the street. Police refused to interfere. Order was finally restored by the with drawal of the new minister and the elders. 25 Years Ago A large barn and adjoining gar age on the Lancaster homestead of Isaac Herr, along the highway leading between Lampeter and Witmer Bridge, were destroyed by fire. ' Firemen from Lampeter, Wil low Street and Lancaster fought V * This Week* Lancaster Farming the blaze with water from a near by stream and saved the residence and other farm buildings. Walter Eckman, operator of the farm, and his family were attend ing a sale in the neighborhood when an alarm was given. They arrived home in time to help save Bftflkrronnd Scripture: Matthew 27:SS —28*20 I)*Totl«na| Reading; I Corinthians 13:12-23. God’s D-Day i Lesson for April 21,1957 ONE OP the most famous' of Easter hymns begins: “The strife Is o’er, the battle done, The Victory- of life is won ~ Among the many true meanings of Christ* s death and resurrection is this: Christ has conquered sin and death. All that death and sin could do to him, was donr "“t he a victor o’er the dark domain,” as another familiar hymn goes. The last word of Je sus to his dici- ples, as Matthew reports it, begins —“All authority has been given me..." Easter 'is not a season Dri Foreman for puzzles; and yet all this do.es raise a question in the minds ol both Christians and unbelievers II It is true that Christ has won for us the victory over sm and death, if it is true that it is He who has the true authority over man and history, how is it that the world racks along in such a slow, painful, frustrated sort of way’ Looking at a slum, or a battlefield, or a cemetery, or a jail, looking at life as it is lived on this planet, "'would we guess that God had won a tremendous victory over the powers of evil? D-Day Is Not V-Day „ A theologian of our time, Oscar Cullman has given an answer to this in the simplest terms. We live, he says, in the interval, so to speak, between D-Day and V-Day. All who can remember back to June 6, 1944, remember the tre mendous victory of that hard fought D-Day. But the war went on for nearly a year after that. Was D-Day, then, a failure? By no means. With D-Day the war was virtually won. The enemy had little chance, after that; but it took a lot of fighting, and some of it, like the Battle_ of the Bulge, costly and disheartening. So we *>■ *T a ‘ ’'i i :»$ ~ * the cattle, but two *sl burned to death. Two automobiles in the garage and farm machinery stored in the barn were destroy* ed. Twenty-five years ago this week daylight saving time was a sub* ject of general discussion. Farm ers denounced it; city workers, especially sport fans, hailed thq advent. Daylight saving was omJ of the, importations that has coma to this country from England on, the free list. Over there they call ed it Summer Time. SPORTING LIFE UN EFFECTED BY DEPRESSION Although the country was still eroggy from the worst economic depression in its history, thv sporting life of the nation had not been effected. April 23, 1932, marked the opening day of tha spring races at Havre De Grace, Maryland The attendance exceed ed twenty thousand, the largest crowd in- the history of the fam ous track up to that yey. The gate receipts amounted to more than $30,000. The admission fee was only th««j beginning of the financial spree. The betting also exceeded all pre vious records. Money flowed through the betting windows like water over the Conowmgo dam, farther upstream from Havre De Grace n- « * Clyde Rintz, lower Lancaster County, residing near Andrews; Bridge, was in the Lancaster Gear eral Hospital suffering from a, fractured knee, sustained while working on a sulky plow in a, field near his home are living, in the time betweeaj Christ's ascension and his cormng| again in glory, as it were betweeaj D-Day and V-Day. ' What Sod Hat Dona What has been accomplished bjO God's D-Day? One thing is, that] God’s power has been shown, and for all. Over 'and over In the< New Testament, especially In thad letters of Paul, the power with.l which God raised Christ from the 1 dead is called the same power that works in Christians. The victory) over sin and death which we see in Christ, can be the hope and to an Increasing degree the exper ience' of our own lives. There real- ; ly Is a difference between living In the world ‘before Christ and af ter. All that Christ was and did and said, climaxed by the resurrec tion, are ever before our minds if we only think. Before Christ, no one on earth really know what, God could do. Since Christ, men of faith do know. The other achieve ment of D-Day’s victory is, for us,i sharing in God’s certainty of vic tory which finally shall be com-, - plete. One of the easiest and subt lest temptations into which we can fall Is to wonder whether God may not at last be overwhelmed by a universe which he created but can not now control. Realizing what D-Day means, we need never have such fears. What We Must Do Calvary and Easter have prac tical messages for the Christian..- They are not mere Admiration-"-' days, when we can sing happily about what God has done. They are challenge-days calling us to thought, attitude, action, as befits children of the mighty God. As for 1 death, we can see_clear through it. Christ has shown us the glory on the other side. As for sin, Christ ' bore our sins with. Him “to the tree’* as Peter said. The power 1 that wrought in Him is available for us in our struggles against evil. J But there is something more than this. John Baillie speaks of our era, between the time of Jesus and the end of time, as “the years of grace,” that the great task of Christians is just the very thing which Matthew leaves with his readers as the climax of his story of Christ. “All authority has been given me ... therefore—(sit down and be at ease? wait quietly the end? spend your time singinyk my praises? no, none of these.)— therefore GO, and Make Discip- Ips,” The going, winning Christian is the one in whom the victory ot Easter moves on toward final tri umph. (Baud an outline* oopyrlyhtad by tha Division of Christian Education, Na tional Connsll of ths Cbnrohes of Christ In tha U. 8. A. Rslsased by Csssssnaltr ftUS bSTTIOS.)
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