4—Lancaster Fanning, Friday, Jan. 24, 1958 Lancaster Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly Newspaper Established November 4, 1955 Published every Friday by OCTORARO NEWSPAPERS Quarryville, Pa. Phone STerlmg 6 2132 Lancaster Phone EXpress 4-3047 STAFF Alfred C. Alspach Robert E. Best Robert G. Campbell Robert J. Wiggins . Subscription Rates: $2 00 Per Year Three Years $5 00; 50 Per Copy Entered as Second-Class matter at the Post Office, Quarryville, Pa., under Act of March 3, 1879 Gel Ready for 1959 Farm Show pARM SHOW 1958, faded into'the past Friday as Auc -1 tioneer Abe Diff enback sold the last buddy steer in the big aiena ' Lancaster County entries, especially in the 4-H baby beef classes were not generally so successful this year as they have been in the past But thre is no real need to cry For Lancaster Coun tians brought home a real lion’s share of the prizes and awai ds, even though there were more red and white ribbons lather than the usual blue and purple varieties The young man from Dauphin County is to be con giatulated on his victoiy in the 4-H competition His Polled IN mE YEAR ° F 1883 Hereford steer was beautifully fitted and fed He had it very Seventy-five years ago a wntei W ell tl allied on | b e subiect of predicting the But moie impoitant, his victory gives Dauphin and vea dier had this to say other counties m the state more incentive to bring their There is no better initiation baby beef animals to the Farm Show The competition will the su P eriollt y of our know stiffen even more efl - e t 0 that of formei tlmes than A „j +i , , , Hie introduction of a measure of a ’ Competition is the reason we have ceitainty and of science into our a raim Show There is nothing duller for exhibitor or ob- piedictions of the weather Theie servei than to ha\e a class completely dominated by One have always been ‘weather-wise’ bleeders people The wizaids and witches To our wav of thinking the best possible show is 01 ancient times . wJl o used to sell when the ]udge has three or four animals from different sa l es anc i breezes to supeistitious faims in different parts of the state before him when choos- for^S mg a gland champion The air, at a time like that, tends to ana sometimes their skdl oecome electiic with excitement, and the hush that can. cd for them the honor of being come over a crowd of five or six thousand is just as over- burned at the slake, or of being whelming as the cheer that follow’s when he gives the win- banged on an inconveniently high ner the swat with his hand that means he is the best in the fidI,OWS Yet the poor cieatures show had done no mote than turn their knowledge to account which was ~ ac .uired by long observation and rj _ i\ T . , r» • tt o study of the signs oi the sky H*»v iiOT - 10 - l\cllSC "The weather-wisdom of today JIBRE IS A storv that has been raak.n? the rounds that „°b I, « e thouht you might enjoy We got it from the Here- tamed tiom manj stations, and loid Quaiteilv who in turn credit the Salmon, Idaho, Re- conveyed to one central station by coidei-Heiaid who in turn credited the Atichison, Kan, t( Tegiaph, enabling the receivei Dailv Globe ’ 1,01 only to know what is the It s all based on a lettei supposed to have been wnt- "? at ) h , c L 1 all °,', ei th ! c ? untl> ’ bul ten by a Louisiana faimei to the Secretary of Agnculture *Xfl™**S?*o weather Ihe lettei follows ot control lt , but we can anange Deal Ml Societal \ am business so as to sufler the ‘‘Alv friend Bordeaux over m Terrebonne Parish le- least inconvenience or loss if we ceived a SI 000 check from the government this vear for or,h know what the weathei is to not i aising hogs So I am going into the not-i aismg-hog- bo ‘ business this year “What I want to know is in voui opinion, what is the best kind of hogs not to iaise 9 I would prefer not to taiso razoi backs but if that is not a good breed not to laise I will just as gladlv not laise anv Berkshires or Durocs ‘The haidest woik in the business is going to be keeping an mventoiy of how manv liogs I havn't raised ‘ -"dw fnend Boideaux is verv joyful about the futuie of this business He has been i aising hogs loi 20 vcais and the best he eve, made was S4OO until this yeai when he got SI 000 foi not iaising hogs ‘III can get S] 000 lot not raising 50 hogs then I will get C 2 000 lot not laismg 100 hogs I plan to operate on a small scale at fust holding down to about 4 000 hogs which moans I will have $BO 000 \ow anothoi thing These hogs I will not raise will not ot 100 000 bushels of coin I understand that you also pj\ fanneis foi not raising corn So* will you pav me anv thing loi not i aising 100 000 bushels of coin not to feed the hogs I am not laising’ I want to get stalled as soon as possible as this seems to be a good time ol \eai lot not laising hogs Voui vei\ tiuh Octa\e Bioussaid \V( tiasimih aski (I oui 00\mio](| "landpa win he didn't ..(•t m.iiiiLd ac;ain Hi«, icph u is piompl and philosaphic.il “Well SPORTSMEN PROTEST II" tell \<iu hi sold thcic .uni hut one kind of a woman whod P 0. C. MOVE have an old cod«ei like mo and I"! ho dainod if I’m cjoina to settle down and Ino with a fool —la\o Andotson KNOWS ms TOM \IOKS farming . Publisher . Editor Advertising Director Circulation Director BY JACK REICHARD 75 Years Ago A writer on the subiecl of Na tural Dislikes declar«?d that most of the strong likes and dislikes which are displayed by men and women are the result of habit and association, but thought that some were natural, being appartnetly box n with them It was pointed out that children have been known to manifest an antipathy towards their fathei, even when babies In some cases, the writer said, this may be only a part of the natural dislike which some infants have for persons in black clothing The writer told of cases where he found men possessed by an un controlled aversion for the op posite sex A certain Duke of Mus covy fell ill immediately every time he came in sight of a woman Another case involved a hermit who vvas seized with a cold per st iration if one of the fair sex met his gaze A case on lecoid was a young lady to whom all the colors weie souices of distress except green, jcllow and white A passing fun ei a! threw her into a prespiration and a “soldier in scarlet unifoim deprived her of consciousness” 50 Years Ago The following incident was told b\ a Pennschania tcachci of a oncioom school In mv school theie is a boy about six ceais old to whom watci appai enth had not been applied loi da\s His hands and lace weie bcgnmecl and his clothing had c\identic not been changed Joi some weeks One al tel noon aitei dismissing the classes I kept the child aftei school and asked him to please tell his mother to give him a thoiough bath and put some clean ciotlv s on him I told him to tell his mothei that he smells 100 bad to attend school ’ The followin'* morning the bos Cdine to school and his condition l.cd not been changed Going up to the teachei he handed hei a note wntlen b\ the molhci which slated To the Teachei Willie amt nc. rose We didn t send him to school to be smelt \ve sent him to be»lcarned Back in 1908 the wiath of spoilsmen in general was brought This Week' Lancaster Farming fiom the waters of California and to a boiling point when the Board Oicgon, indicating “the efficiency of Game Commissioneis recom- American liberty loving bnsi mended to the Pennsylvania legis- nessmen latme that a law be passed male- in? it illegal to hunt small game 25 Years A^O with dogs A spokesman for the ° commissioners said the chief ob- An Alabama public utility paid led of the proposal was to ’pro- its taxes several weeks before tcct game, which provided that they were due, in order to aid the anj dogs found in the woods in schools of the state which were m anj month of the year would be desperate need ot funds Corn shot by game wardens Sports- mentmg on the action, the Selma men declared they would organize Times Journal said and resist vigorously the efloits ot the commissioneis Fifty years ago a carping Bn- mg its taxes two and three months ton by the name of Whibley made before they are due, to relieve the quite a fuss over the quality of piessure on the state and the Ibe American brand of liberty and schools in their present financial patriotism * plight The power company has “Liberty”, said he, “is a thing pieviously advanced $700,000 and which no one m America can is .now paying $950,000 constitut tscape The old inhabitant smiles uv payment in full” with satisfaction as he muimurs The payment of $1,650,000 sev thc familiar word At eveiy turn cial months ahead of time involv u is clubbed into the unsuspect- cd a considerable loss in interest mg visitor on th»pait of the company, but “If an aspirant to the citizen- its officials had an interest in the ship of the lepublic declined to velfarc of the state and its be Iree he would doubtless be schools, a fine example of good thiown into a dungeon, fetter and citizenship on the part of Amen manacled, until he consented to cas business managed electric in aei.ept the precious boon dustiy “America’s view of patriotism is distinguished by the same in- In Buhnham, 111, that week, genious exaggeiation as her Mew James Carter was arrested for ol libeity She has as little doubt selling a woman who could not of her grandeur as of her fiee- read English a pair of spectacles dom She is, m brief, God’s own v'hich he claimed would enable count!y and m hei esteem Colum- hei to do r \wwtm A ly£ui£>yajlJll fi ■lntern* ioi*! Uni'o rn Su , 'd*y School Lesson Bible Material Acts 6 1-7, 20 16 38, Romans 12 3-8 I Timolh> 3, 5 17 22 Devotional Reading: I Peter 5 1-11 Organized Church Lesson for January 26, 1958 ’ 'T'\OESN’T it kill religion to or- ganize it’ Not at all It doesn’t "kill" water to construct a citv ’ water system All the pipes do is simply to make water available whei e it will do the most good If it vveie not foi the pipes and pumps ■ and all that the citv would die of thu st Docs mar nage kill Ime 9 £ Do schools kill education 9 They I*" 4 M can, of couise, \ but good schools .'Jpfc"*"' 'IS! help education J|i good mamages ate a blessing to "*“* ***-* love And a well ° r - Foreman oigammed chinch is a help to faith, not a hindiance The church commun ions uniting in the study of these "international lessons” ate not or gani7ed in the same wav But the fact that oui oiganizations differ does not keep us fiom uniting in the stud} of the same Woid of God It would be intei esting to study the mans wavs in which chinches aie oigamzed but light heie we aie sticking to onr thinj , the oigam/ation of the Cli'i'-hai. chinch in its caihest days Meeds Come First Thioe things can be said of or ganization in the eailv chinch Fust is that it giew out of noecN and nol the othen way aiound Ir Amcnca wo die so used to even >, thing being oigam/ocl down to the last sub-section that we aie in clined to think a chinch isn t a chinch unless it has some definite oi cani/afion Bin in the book of Acts wo hcai about tho chinch some time bcfoie we hem of tin ofliccis The fust deacons th.it committee of seven men who wrre elected bv the people and ap pointed bv tho apostles to deal with the tnckv pmblcm of caung foi the need’ m the chut ch, —those deacons weio elected because they weie needed. The chuich did not elect them because some oigamza tion-chnit called for such officeis The chin i h elected them for a bus was no mere earthly exj he was the authentic discoverer of the promised land” Elsewhere across the sea, a half century ago, men and women could sit in a restaurant overlook ing the Thames embankment and dine on fresh salmon brought ‘ We want to pay tribute to the generosity and public spirit of the Albama Power Co in pay- paiticular job: it did not elect them fust and then hunt for some thing for them to do Character Came First The word "deacon” means "on« who selves,” a man. 4 M ■ The eldeis and the bishops or over j seeii, of whom we read later, j weie also seiviceable men Paul ' never left a chuich without offi ceis He was a piactical saint But Paul, when wilting about chui ch officers, as he did to Tim othy and Titus, lays down soma remai kablc piovisions In describ ing vanous officeis. Paul oddly enough (we might think) says not a woid about what these officers were to do It’s all about what they u'eie to be, as men, as Christians. Paul knew that no oiganization is bettei than the people who operate' it Getting the light people is the impoitant matter Peisonal quali fications come ahead of technical qualifications This does not mean that the fiamewoik of organization is of no impoitance Other things being equal it is better to have soim fiamewoik 01 system which disc''in ages one-man mle, or the development of cliques But the officeis’ chaiactci is the central matte i Paul did not want Timothy to ask, about a piospective officer, what kind of executive did he make’ but tathei How well has he managed his mamage, his home’ It is a moie vital question. The Church Came First No apostle known to us ever set up a skeleton oiganization, a cadie 'as they say in the aimy, and left it to collect a chuich aiound it. Paul’s guat (iguie of speech is the body and the mombeis A body does not come into existence by agi cement of some loose airhs, legs and insides to get together. The body develops these vai ious paifs as it glow's The body is moic impoitant than any of its mcmbeis So with the chuich, as it was going m the New Testament oia The chinch pioduced the offi ceis, not the olticeis the chuich The church docs not exist, foi ex ample to give pieachews jobs Piencheis exist to seive and build the chuich tuilhei, if the chuich is always fust and evety one le.ilt/es this then no man or wo man can think ‘I am indispens able If I die oi move away I can not be icplaced” Eveij one in the chuich has something to do, something he or she can do per haps better than any one else, whether an officer 01 not Eveiy onc should tij lo make himself indispensable, yes, but he must icmembei that the one and only indispensable poison in any church Is—Chi ist (Rased on nulllnrs eopirtchtpd by lh« imision of Christian education Na. tlgni! Couni II of the Churches of Christ In thr USA Released by Community tress Sect Ice.l
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