Agricultural Exporters, Surplus Sellers Meeting Increased Resistance Abroad ECONOMIC lecession is foicmg faun glut cutters to run still faster to stay m the same place, accoichng to a conyiightecl stoiy in the Wall Stieet Journal this week The article goes on to say that a slide in farm exports is causing most of the halt in surplus stockpile cuts Foreign buyers aid turning up their noses at American of fers that include sale at low prices, for foreign currencies rather than dollars, barters and easy credit. The reason, observers say, is that othei nations regard the United States as the eco nomic bellwether for the free world To conseive cash and protect their own pro ducer, many foreign lands will tighten import curbs that affect farm as well as manufactured goods Here are some predictions of exports for the coming year Cotton shipments may shrink to 4 7 million bales from 5 5 million in the year ending next June and an extra ordinary 7 6 million bales in the past year The rice outgo, it’s expected may slip to 16 million hundred-pound bags in the 3 ear ahead from 19 million in the 1957-58 vear and 26 million last year Such declines, Federal salesman fear, may outweigh pos sible smaller increases next year in exports of wheat and feed grains In the 3 ear ended last June, the U S shipped abroad the output from 60 million acies. or one-fifth of the nations total faim production Shipments in 1956-57 took mare than half our wheat cotton and rice cr|ps. a third of our soybean output and a Quarter of our tobacco I All faun exports added up to 36 mil lioh tons of cargo last year, enough to fill 80p,000 boxcars or 3,600 cargo ships | Much of the export volume, moreover, comes directly fiom the surplus pile Last 3 ear, $2 2 billion worth of surpluses were shipped abroad. Over the past four years, exports have taken 70 per cent of the $lO 5 billion worth of surpluses moved out of Till government’s inventory. IS v''n' ~ BY JACK REICHARD 75 Years Ago in a small loom in the uppei Mon of the National. Museum, ionncilv Foul's Theatre, Wash melon D C were two wooden tiavs, similai to those then in use in housewives in kneading dough I in the museum the trajs were mod to hold the highh polished bodes ot the assassin Guiteau It was explained that in pre pmng the bones ol the dead niuidorci that moie than usual c me had been taken to pieser\<‘ them The pioccss bv which the bones ueic being tieated was claimed to insuie then pcipetua 11on 1 01 an indefinite period and it v' as said that when ai titillated the skeleton would be the best m the museum 4 trusted official earned the kev to the loom m which the bones were kept, and no one was pet milted in the apait mein IN V VKVOISr. F\., 188.3 A utvvspapei wutci In the of Jonna had this to sa> ol Paiadise Pa Ins native village in 11881 It is not Iho Paiadise we load til jjn the llolv Wnt whole the slietls arc paved with gold and v host slicants flow with milk and lioiev ami when we all hope to i<ati! and rest liom out lahois Put it is that o'hcj Paiadise on 1 Ik south hank of the beautiful Peejuta and on tht Lantast'rand I nilafh Iphia pike about 9 mile 1 liom flu f(ii mei place -- when the ‘Meets an pa\<d vvilh stones ~nd the stiiam flows with walei \ luch 11 scs fiont a laige spnng in tht Welsh Mountain and where evert bode minds (hen own bust ness and everv other persons and if Kiev cannot do it fot them lehrs the} will have plenfv to This Week^ in Lancaster Farming help them We have everything here with which to supply the needs of mankind Two coach works, one hotel, two beer sa loons coal and lumber yard, gen ual warehouse, lively stable, gen e t al store, saddlcrj, two tinsmiths ano wagonmaker shop, six segar lactones one chug stoic seveial icecream saloons two gust and meehant mills two shoemaker shops one tanneiv, one tobacco packing establishment, and three hakiers We also have a cornet 1 and of 31 members Our popula lion is about eight hundicd, and ve have a light cveiy day in the week” At Philadelphia in 1883, all Uccs in histone Washington Squaie vue poisoned b.v being ‘in too close proximity to the gas pipes”. C eneial Clocks campaign against the Apache Indians had been partially a success aeeoid ■na to a teporl from the West 75 nans ago this week 50 Years Ago I'enned in nanow hal!vva>s and lammed against doots that onl., opened inward the lives of some 170 school children were wiped cut hj fue smoke and beneath the giindmg heels of panic-sine ken classmates m a suhuiban I'la/e at Collinvvood 10 miles liom Cleveland Ohio One teachei was killed and another sti iouM> mimed who v «e not expected to lecovei All the viclmis vvtie between flit ages ol sis and fifteen The se fiool contained ovei 300 pupils and ol this number only 80 weie known to have ledl the building untnii I 'I he se (tool was a two-storv Whether surpluses stay in government storage or are sold at cut raes abroad the taxpayer still takes a beating About a mil lion dollars a day are spent in storing the surplus products However in getting rid of $591 million worth of goods in the second half of 1957, the government lost about $4OO million Farm exports were already tailing be fore business began to slump The drop began more than a year ago Then m'any nations which had hurriedly stocked up on farm pioducts at the time of the Suez crisis began to trim their purchasing Some drained their gold and dollar reserves so low that they had to start pinching pennies The huge purchase of U S cotton in the past year outran the needs of foreign mills, so overseas stocks of our cotton were built up to 2 5 million bales, the highest since 1947. There are some bright spots A couple of years ago, farm officials decided to de velop a demand in Germany for U S ready to-cook poultiy At first they let the Ger mans use marks to obtain $l2 million worth of poultry German house-wives lined up to buy the birds Now Germany pays for U S poultry in dollars Other bright spots are in Japan where an extensive education program is making the people a little more fond of bread, us ing U S wheat, of course, rather than rice In Brasil theie is also a wheat program un derway showing that cereals superiority over the native corn. In Thailand people are using more meaning hei'e at tnst sight But than 300,000 pounds of U.S milk solids a the simple woids seem to point y ea j. to something beyond expcncnce, Such programs cost money, but mar- almost {lightening to , y ° j ~ ■" ■ that gieat majouty of us who aie ket developeis can draw on the millions in m j S t lcs and no t inclined that foreign currency paid us for our farm sur- way pluses- Even, so, some lawmakers such as - in j_ oud L atl g„ a g e Senate agnculture committee chairman El- j s some simple meaning lender, the Louisiana Democrat, object be- foi us plain people'* is the expies- CaUSe Uncle Sam doesn’t get “full Value” sion “One in Chnst” auj thing but When he disposes of surpluses abroad for an emotional slogan* The gieat local money. Church Universal the Ecumenical J Church, that gieatest of all Piotes tant chmch movements today, cx piessing itself in the Woild Council and the confeiences at Madias and Amsterdam and Lund and Evans ton and Obeiim, has used often that plnase, “One in Christ ” The Obeiim Confeience, made up of 279 lepresentatives from 39 Ameri can Christian bodies, last Septem ber sent a Message to the Chinches, wheiein they spoke of unity; and the veiy fiist thing the message says about it is that it is a “unity in Christ who died for us.’’ What exactly does this mean —“Unity In Christ’’’ It ceitainly Lancaster Farming Alfred C Alspach, Publisher Robert E Best Editoi Robert G Campbell, Advertising Director, Robert J Wiggins, Cnculation Dncctor Lancaster County's Own Faun Weekly Established Novemboi 4. 1155 Published every Friday by OCXORARO NEWSPAPERS. Qnai lyville, Pa Phone STeilmg or Lancaster, Express 4-3047 l.ntcred as Second-Class matter at the Post Office, Qnarryville, Pa , Act of March 3, 1879 Subscription Kates S 3 per vear, tluec teals $5 Single copy Price 5 cents structure with attic, constructed ol buck There was one fire escape in the rear of the building Two stairways one leading to a door in the front, and the other to a door in the rear, led from the upper rooms to the ground flooi Both these dooi opened m w.'id The fire stalled from an over heated furnace in the basement A dispatch out of Cleveland, Ohio, 50 years ago this week, told of a one-handed locksmith who’s shop was on Piospect Avenue, near the Colonial Arcade The a-ed man had only one arm The other was oh at the shouldei By the use of a vise which he opeiat cm with his knee he was able to hold the rough pattern of Keys ol difficult design while he work ed on them wit'h his file, turning out work far supenoi to many locksmiths with two hands A Gciman, aftci having spent a icvv week;, in New York, receiv ed letters fiom hoi|e asking him to send back something typically American as a souvenir of the land of the free Being a con scientious man he studied condi tions about the city before decid ing upon any one commodity repiescnlalive of Amencan cul tmc and habits Finally he made up his mind He sent si\ pack a; es of chewing gum The I’ennschania Game Com mission launched a co operative campaign with county agents and stale gianges in an effort to mini 25 Years Ago 4 Lancaster Farming, Friday, Feb. 28, 1958 Bible Material: Luke 9 49-50, John 17 20-20, Ephesians 4 1-16 Devotional Reading. PluhppiansZ 1-11. One In Christ Lesson for March 2, 1958 WE HEAR the preacher saying things we feel sure he ought to aay, but some of the time all we can do is credit him with good intentions What he is actually say ing, or what ho means by what he says, may seem dim to us The woids aie deal enough, but what do they mean’ A high example <*|Hi of this is the ex- W*' a| pression “One in Chust ” We have heaid it in ser- J 3 mons, maybe \^e ment, is' it not? Dr - Foreman The words ghmmei vaguely in our minds “Tney in us I m them . . that they may become pei fectly one” ‘We aio to giow up in every way into him who is the head, even Chust” No doubt a mystical soul would gathei the Now Is The Time . . . By MAX SMITH County Agricultmal Agent TO CULL DAIRY HERD One ol the important practices in efficient dairy pioduction is the cull ing of the poor producers when milk prices are the lowest and beef prices the highest Records leveal that in the spnng just puor to the glazing season we find the mist lavorble time for beef puces for dairy animals It is suggested that local produccis keep this in mind te mcieasc net ic tin ns '■V ifi 4 » TO ENROLL IN OWNER SAMPLER HERD TESTING One of the veiy practical herd test ing programs is available to every herd owner in the country This practice icquircs that the held owner draw a milk sample Horn each cow once a Max Smith month and get it to one of the regular D H I A Testeis, a rcpo-it is then given of t'hc pounds of milk and pounds of butterfat pioduced monthly by each cow Dany men may enroll through any Testei 01 at the County Extension Oflicc TO STORE FERTILIZER PROPERLY One economy practice is to 01 dci and receive feitihrer early, piopcr storage is essential if best results aie expected Give fertilizer loom to breathe by allow ing air space between each stack of bags alwa.vs stores in a dry place and not on conciete or giound floors, be sure it is away from all livestock TO USE LIVESTOCK BROODERS To the swine and sheep pro ducers the use of pig and lamb broodeis have paid big dividends, annuals born early in the spung during cold weather need extia pro tection and will gel them started faster The small investment re quired will save many pigs and lambs and mciease the animal in come Constiuction plans are available mi/e the loss of game caused bv sinMl game spung brush flies It was pointed out that the needless binning of Mistaking a moonlit concrete biush bv farmers and landowners highway ncai Petersburg, Ind , throughout the stale each spring lui a stream of water, a flock of to clear fields and fence rows wild ducks swooped down and vas responsible foi a noticeable hit the road so hard that 18 of the depletion in the ranks of much buds were killed. (ioes not mean that we Christians are made one by loud language about Christ All churches smg hymns sounding much alike Watch any laige gatheiing of Chnstians ,fiom all denominations singing “All hail the power of Jesus’ name ” Most of them can sing it without the book But singing all together, even in peifect tune, is not being “one in Christ" Even using and memorizing the same cieed is not unity in Chnst. One in Loyalty There are two simple, plain meanings of “one in Chnst” The fust is oneness in loyalty. This again is not a mattei of words. Most of the manned couples in America have “plighted their tioth” in much the same words.' Veiy impiessive woids, too: “For richer, for pooler, for better for •woise . till death do us part” But anybody can plainly see that while all wives and husbands have promised to love and to cherish each other, they don’t all do It. Trained loyalty is a far deeper thing than saying fine eloquent woids Gills make this mistake time and time again; they give their heart to the young man with' the smoothest line You would think any girl would have better sense, but not all of them do. Loyalty in a public official means moie than taking the oath of of« flee, it is living up to it Loyalty in a soldier is moie than signing up for the reciuitmg officer, it is standing and not running away when the fighting is hot Lbyalty to Chnst is more than signing up for him, it is standing by him and fighting even when the danger runs high Wheiever people aie loyal to him, there is unity in him. One in Likeness Some one wrote a book called “The Galilean Accent ” The *dea of that book, it was said, was that all Chustians can be-told by their “Galilean accent," they sound like Jesus Of course the writer meant! something deeper than that Christ tians who grow in the knowledge of Jesus come to think like him. They come to be like him. There Is a family resemblance among Christians everywhere Just as people who belong to the same fraternity tend to resemble one another; just as employees of the same corporation sometimes come to form a type of their own, so) even more, and far more, do those who belong to the brotherhood of Christ and do his work come to reJ semble one another because they are in truth his brothers But it is not automaticl Only with the loyalty will there be much likeness., (Based on outlines copyrighted by th« Division of Christian Education Na tional Connell of th# Churches of Christ In the USA. Released by Community Press. Service.)
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