—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 13, 1960 4 FROM WHERE WE STAND Knowledge ’Put “Knowledge \h Power. 1 ' One ol the sayings we learned in school during the days of yestoiycar maintained that one had strength in direct relationship with the facts one could store away in his memory. It is no less true in these days that one can not hope to cope with the piob- Icrns of a complex society without a sufficient stoie of facts In fact, as our civilization becomes more complex and competition for positions becomes more fierce knowledge gains in impor tance However, we do not believe that knowledge in itself is power. Only as one uses the knowledge he possesses does he become strong We are thinking particularly now of those farmers who know how much of what kind of feed their livestock need and why those animals need it, but because it just happens to be dif ferent from wliat they have handy, they by-pass all their knowledge and do the quickest thing. We are thinking too of the farmers who will readily-admit that the last crop in a certain field was just not what it should have been and they wish they knew why. They know soil tests are available at very reasonable costs, and they know they should have a soil sample analyzed. But because they do not take the trouble to do what they know should be done, they struggle along with poor, or at best average, yields from the field year af ter year This kind of knowledge is not power Health education in the schools oi America is better today than it has ever been before. Children learn in the lower grades some of the basic re quirements of a good diet, and by the time the child reaches high school he could probably plan a balanced menu for a family for a week This is, we think, excellent training, but when a high school student says, as one said to us recently, “I have had a hot dog and a coke for lunch every day for the last four months’’, the knowledge he has is not power. We know, and most of the school children in America know, a hearty, substantial breakfast is one of the most important contributions one can made toward good health, but too often many of us let the youngsters neglect this important item. The National Youthpower Congress is a step m the right direction, there should be many more similar “con gresses” all over the country ft?' Davidson It is apparent that this ses ership m Congress and the sion of Congress, after a President agree on the prob month of argument, will no" i em) an( j G n the necessity for pass farm legislation which action, but they are as far would be acceptable to Pres- apart as ever on legislation ident Eisenhower and Secre- The problem is caused by tary of Agriculture Ezra too much production Benson President Eisenhower and Both the Democratic lead- Secretary Benson contend that the problem can be * , solved by removing produc- j look f rom my window and Lancaster Farm inn ! lon restrictions and permit- see the s c-din-dsiei rarming ting farmers to make their , , , , ~ Lancaster County-. Own Farm production decisions On the 11S dee P and whlte a "d Cold p o Box 1524 basis of free market prices It covers the fields and hides Lancaster. Penna Democratic farm leaders the § round > r >i i\oith Duke st in Congress insist that this It’ s worth much more than Danc t&ur, Penna would result in more produc- S°l d Rhone . Lancaster . , - , Express 4-3047 tion and increased surpluses, jack Owen, Editor as well as lower prices and I see a blanket so soft and Robert o camphrii Advertising reduced income for farmers clean Dnfetor a Pusiness ii»ina?er jt would, they contend, That warms the winter land FiibMlod She tvf^v Vem saTjirdav 9 ° h-» “ banl <rupt American agncul- ft melts and moisture seeps Lancaster Farming. Lancaster, pi ture ” down deep; TO LEARN MORE ABOUT NITROGEN— On many ci<)P' HnUred as 2nd class matter at A Question of Supports This is Nature’s plan the amount of available nitrogen regulates the growth X-anca t ter, Pa under Act of Mar IDlfTorenCGS are mainly OV - Ihr» nlanf ‘fiiwnw ii-,,-. • _ ® , i. is? 1 * additional entry at Mount „„ +uJ „ ? * ine plant ltlssues ’ lhis is especially true with corn and t ]l "Subscription Rate , 2 per vca r , lf any resJonlibSrty the So ™ hen .. rm sluckor shovel cr ° ps Growers are Ul 'gcd to apply nitrogen for cot rcVr™ * 5 “ copy Pr,c * government Tas to protect J ng P3thS ’ f “ amoUntS 3CCordln g to utility aad pU» Mombirs Pa Newspaper Pub,eh- farm prices and income 111 never swear at the snow, population Grasses respond quickly to nitrogen appW* ers Association National Editor. Democrats who favor high But I’ll think of it as a tlons > and extra applications can be used to increase carO Assoc lat.on. supports point out that the blanket of white mg capacity per acre. A special circular on Nitrogen government sets minimum That helps my food to grow, available THIS WEEK —ln Washington With Clinton Davidson More Than Enough To Use’ east that wc stand At I where LET'S EAT RIGHT Under the sponsorship of agricultur al and food industry organizations a National Youth-power Congress is to be held in Chicago Feb 11-13 Purpose ot tne congress is to stimulate better eat ing habits by the nation’s youth. It will be attended by high school stu dents from all over the country High lights of the program will include Health and Nutrition for Youth in the Space Age, Food Comes First for Youthpower. and the Story of Food. One of the surprising anomalies oi these days of high wages, high employ ment, high living standards, excess agricultural production, unparalled output of every conceivable luxury and necessity, is that many people do not cat properly. This is especially true ot teen-agers. A University ot California study showed that “50 per cent of teen-age girls receive inadequate amounts oi protein and iron ” A study by the Uni versity of New Hampshire indicates that “While teen-age boys are not so badly off as girls, diets of 20 per cent of boys are low in calcium; 10 per cent are low in iron and vitamin A; 20 per cent in thiamine; and 40 per cent in vitamin C.” These are starting revelations in the best fed nation in the world As a re sult, major segments of the food indus try are taking a new look at farm sur pluses. Homer R Davidson, president of the American Meat Institute, noting the many attempts of Congress to han dle farm surpluses by legislation be lieves it is now clear that the “so-call ed farm problem can no longer be solv ed on the farm. While individual ef ficiency is the farmer’s personal man agement problem, his business is so in tegrated and so influenced by . . out side factors that progress in agricul ture becomes ... an integrated respon sibility ” In other words, there must be close cooperation between all elements ot the food industry from the producer to the consumer, to encourage better eating habits on the part of the public, and to encourage farmers to produce only that which can be sold, and for the most part, sold only as food. This concerted effort of the food in dustry in a new approach to the farm problem and improvement in Ameri can eating habits deserves hearty sup port wages Tor labor and gives manufacturers tariff protec tion on puces Republican loaders con tend that price supports which encourage excessive farm production and result in huge surpluses are both cost ly and, in the long run, dam aging to farmers because they prevent “necessary ad justments in production ” There is doubt as to whe- ther price supports have been the only, or even a maj'or, cause of the tremendous in- Rural Rhythms THOUGHTS ON A WINTER Is Power how it looks (Turn to page 5) By C. D. H. DAY A from I ible Mater! il Acts 18 22 20 12. >e\otioujl Kciduis Ps Um 35 li)-28. Lesson f or February 14, ISGO ''lpilE CHRISTIAN cnurch is a fighting chuich Long, long ago, when eveiybody spoke Latin, some body nicknamed the chinch on earth "Ecclesia Mihtans,” the church at Wa_i Only tne chinch in _. _ heaven is called the Chinch Tu- B! 2 Busiiiass umphant If the chinch wins vie- Li a commercial civilization tones on eaith, it ouis, when evils of any sou cannot suppose organized—that is, when they the war is over. *** lesent investments of monoi , It only brcalcs t-wf wide scale, when their stoc, 3 out in a new w-V- ~ % sold in the maiket like other ■ Place. v ' *3 such evils become more dead’, What does the t | J*J ever, for then otherwise go ck church fight 9 Sin, 1 \ 1 intelligent people will suppoi. of course, foi one v ~ evils on the ground that to i thing But sin is ' &-J feie with them intei feies w, not the only foim E& light of private jnoperty, thc of etfil. There is Dr. Foreman of mvestois, the piofit motive also suffeung, and the chinch the liquor business as an oui wages war against that, as eveiy mg example. It is enoi.ai church hospital testifies Theie is profitable to its operators u ignoiance too, and so the numboi 13 made available to Aim of church schools and colleges troops abioad, in some aicr glows year by year. (Ugliness is cost; this reduces the “staie: another form of evil, but the church P ric e by as much as three-fnj has been very slow to recognize ln other words, % of what a this, and indeed many chinches P a y s at a local stoie for a“a have actually added to the sum of of whiskey is somebody’s pm ugliness in the world But that is 8:00(1 many somebodies another story ) Wheii Evil is Oyganiiojl A great part of the evil in the world is spontaneous Nobody seems to push it, it just starts by itself. It is occasional not legular, unpredictable not certain, individ ual not organized But another gi eat pait of the world’s evil is tegular, certain and far from spontaneous It is oigan ized. It knows the church is its enemy and it takes steps, often all too effective, to muzzle the church or by any means to beat down its opposition. In the story of Saint Paul at Ephesus, theie is a typical case of organized evil The silversmiths there did a big business making little shrines of the local goddess and selling these. When Clmstian ity came to Ephesus in the peisons Now Is The Time ... TO MACHINE STRIP COWS—Close tention to the milking machine when Hi udder is nearly milked out is very impel tant On many cows the teat cups \ I crawl up on the udder as the udde; i milked out and m some cases the oper.'ii in the end of the teat may be blocked as thus create too much suction on the udrk tissues To prevent this the milk after’ ant should be handy and bear down the teat cups to draw out the lemainm milk quickly Also, the gentle massage, of the lower part of the udder will haslJ the milking process Dairymen should make every efto.it prevent the injury and irritation of the teat and udder I*' sues TO TAG THE EWE FLOCK—Successful shepherds wii cut some of the wool from around the udder of the pi f nant ewe prior to lambing; this will prevent the new-boj lamb from sucking these dirty locks of wool instead of J ' ] teat and perhaps from swallowing the wool which i later cause the blocking of the digestive system Also, c 1 some of the dirty wool away from under the tail of L ewes in order to have more sanitary and a cleaner v « clip next spring Both of these practices are known tagging the ewe flock and will pay dividends TO KEEP iHAT FERTILIZER DRY—A very good piacd is to order and take delivery of spring fertilizer need' 2 soon as possible, however, it is quite important that i' fertilizer be kept dry, it should not be piled directly <■ ground or concrete floors because it may draw moisUn* and by all means keep it away from any chance of rain snow 3 m mk mma •Intcrnattontl Unilorm Sunday School Lr “ons ©es* ¥hl[l BY MAX SMITH of Paul and others, these smiths weio not hoaid from some time But as more and persons weie converted, fcwo> fewer believed in the local gv or bought her little shime, more So then the silveismith together, worked up a mass i mg, raised so much tiouble n that for a bad few minutes it 10/ as if Paul might not get out o! mob’s clutches alive. As with that incident, so always: The motive for orgj, evil, determined, planned op tion to the chinch and whu' doing—the motive is noaily r>- money. Whenever it become' ( that if the chinch’s com about a bettor woild actually t tiue, the income of a laigo n of people will bo cut down :> off, then you see evil getting m! ized fast 1 Human Values or Property Vd When effoits have been uni Congress for example, to w liquor advertising in magaz otherwise, these attempts K geneially failed The “loblr ' - fails to point out that to cu,ip.l light of any business to au'r is to mtei feie with the sj t free enterprise, and to atta-’ piofit motive It never oct i them that the veiy same ai ■ a would pei nut the advert , diugs like heiom and cr-' People make money fiom t’i of such things, why not enr.„, them 7 The Christian ought to be, not “Does tins; money 7 ” but “What does U„■ do to the people’s lives ain happiness of the community r} (lilted on outlines copvr.e . the Dmsion of Chnstian I.' 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