4 —Lancaster Farming. Saturday, November 5, 1960 FROM WHERE WE STAND - The Most Unpleasant Duty About this time every year, editors and reporters all across the farm areas of this country are faced with one of the most unpleasant tasks in the entire business of gathering, preparing and presenting news. The task is not only unpleasant, it is depressing. One of the things making it so ter ribly depressing is the knowledge that it is such a needless thing to have to do. And yet, needless as it is, dhe task must be repeated' all across the coun try many, many times every fall, It must be repeated because newspapers are in the business of recording the events of the day, and those events must be .recorded whether they are pleasant or horrible. We know of no newspaperman any where who gets any pleasure at all out of having the task of writing, “Man Injured By Comprokey.” or “Youth Killed In Hunting Accident.”, but ev ery fall, the task is thrust on someone. If accidents are depressing to re porters, who might never have met the victim, how much more 'emotion must they conjure up for those whose loved ones are unfortunate enough to be caught up in the web of accidental in ' jury or death. Reams of material 'on safety have been written; manufacturers build all sorts of safety devices into the gadgets we use in this gadget-happy age; safe ty councils -and committees launch drive after drive in the cause of acci dent prevention, but still the headlines Watch Me Settle This Argument The tumult and shouting comes a crescendo and quietly dies away. Once all differences of opinion were settled by fighting of one kind or an other Then someone thought of a de- y Will you be able to say, “I helped vice called voting, and that man should settle the argument too.”? ~ Davidson Too much has been writ ten about price supports and production controls and not nearly enough about the one form program that has done more than any other to help low-income farmers the Rural Development Program In the heat of debate of tarm differences between the two Presidential candidates it has been generally over looked that both party plat forms and both candidates wholeheartedly indorse Rur al Development Recentlv Secretary of Ag riculture Ezra Taft Benson, in his fifth annual report to President Eisenhower on the program had this to sav “Manv fine accomplish ments cf ti e Rural Develop ment Program have gone un sung and largely ignored compared with the attention Lancaster Farming Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly P U Pok 3 r 524 LanoTstcr, Pcnna Offices, North Duke St. Linf i‘Ur P nna. Plume - I innastrr PNpif"."! 4-3017 Tick On n Hclitnp Rohirt n Cimpbill, Advertising Ilnrotor A iiusmoss Manager Estn'lislird Noumbir 4 I‘l’ij Puh'i>-lud o\ory -Saturday by Lancaster Fanning LancasU r. Pa. Pnteiod u 2nd flas<- m’> e at Lancaster Pn under Act of Mar H ’srs addipnnal entry at Mount Joy, Pa Suiisi nplion Ratos S 2 per joar: throe uim S' ‘-ingle < ojiy I’l lee r> cents Mfiulura T'n Vcw ".paper Pnh’iMi era A'-sfui-inon National Editor ial Association THIS WEEK —ln WashingtoH With Clinton Davidson <. Rural Development ;i received by farm price sup ports and other programs for the primal y benefit of commercial farms ” Three-Point Plan In a specia l agricultural message to Congress in Jan uary, 1954, President Eisen hower recommended a three part program calling for private and governmental action to assist farmers and others in depressed rural ar eas. He said, and Congress agj reed, that action was need ed to (11 strengthen industry m low-income rural areas and widen the range of off farm 30b opportunities; (2) help families with the desire and ab'hty to stay in farm ing and farm successfully; ahd (3) to orovide more job traminv, education and heal th services Imtiative for the program originates with local, pri vate agencies such as cham bers of commerce, civic, ed ucational church and farm groups State and Federal agencies provide technical assistance, but no financial aid It is, basically, a self help progam Congress authorized the U S. Department of Agricul ture to assign 150 full-time county agents to work with the communities The Com merce and Labor Depart ments assist in attracting business firms to under de veloped areas The Depart ment of Health. Education, and Welfare helps in the building of hospitals and of health clinics, and m tram- and heartaches continue. • - > * All the safety rules -ever perined can not prevent one accident unless they are put to use—constant use. Al-' most missing an accident can be just as deadly as a deliberately planned suicide. All the safety campaigns in the world can not save one life if the per sons for ’which they are designed think accidents and their prevention are for someone else. All the safety devices ever invent ed can not prevent the operator of haz ardous machinery from making ‘"poor judgments. Our gadget-laden country is, a fer tile field for accidents of all kinds * to happen, but no gadget yet invented ever plotted or'planned to injure, its owner, and since the close of die dark ages, very few" inventors have put any thought to machines- designed to tor ture or maim citizens. Machines, and this includes guns, are capable of multiplying the strength of man by many million times, but they can not aid their owners in-'mak-, ing decisions requiring judgment. It is poor economy to trade a limb or a life for a few seconds of time, which might not be gained anyway. It is significant that the major com pany in America manufacturing “El ectronic Brains” (the giant computing machines) has for its motto just one word. THINK! At least that’s how it looks from where we stand. have s monument. Both sides have had their day in the sun. Both sides have made their play. Now watch me step in and set tle this argument. I’m a voter. ing for industrial jobs. In Thirty States The Rural Development Program was begun in 1955 in half a dozen “pilot” pro jects, mostly in Southern stales Since then it has grown to more than 2000 projects m some 210 coun tries in 30 states and Puerto Rico. Many hundreds of small businesses established in rur al areas in the past five years employ thousands of workers with jobs near their homes The Small Business Administration from July, 1959, to May, i 960, made more than $3O million in loans for small businesses serving the rural areas in the program. Secretary Benson, in his report to the President, pre dicted that during the next ten years “the nation will turn increasingly to rural areas and the towns serving them for the resources, man power, living and working space and recreational faci lities needed to support eco nomic growth and maintain a stable vigorous national life ” The Rural Development Program is additional evi dence in support of our con tention that rural America and its country weekly news papers are the bulwark of democracy and our strong est defense against “creep ing socialism ” , Rural Rhythms HALLOWEEN PARTY By Carol Dean Huber The barn is full of scary forms- Witches, goblins, cats, Jack - O - Lanterns here and there, Pirates, ghosts and bats. Some unusual smells are there- Cider, apples, pie. And up above, a yellow moon Is sinning in the sky * broke down and co n f.,. is no mention here 0 f fessor" who stood m tv , an God. The ainner directly. He made w 1 at first hand. CQ 'Much is said about , God. He is even thougJ kind ofgigantic f orgiym" 1 with pardons rolling out y papers from a printing.*' ht aU.'God-a lorgivenSt the Bible said to bo “ I There are conditions n j condition is, certainly i,ot | Lesson for November (I, 1980 P** 1 d*al- better, or ftVe bettor, before God wui Z TT.IS 'NOT necessary to be “fit" Tlut ’’ A Before being in touch with God f acf) „ lf 10n is t God is in touch with all he Ml&a h mean Lu. get has made. Hie trouble is, being in a , h „ a go touch-with God may not be a happy yo?^ experience at all. yourself, you don't S°. Consider the-case of the poet will do you no good What Who wrote the 32nd Psalm. He be- is forgiveness from a \agvj gam hlSjpoent-by - nothing short of God, ’ rejoicing m *' happiness -01 man who has his Bins forgij . The forgfv tohctrofGfod. indeed bring to 'tfie heart. , the-sense ofGod 1 presence had - always been.a de light. (We can assume that this poet is talking about his own ex perience, not some other person’s.) Facing My Sin Ood H«» H#*yy Hand He'writes: "Day and night thy (God's) hand was heavy upon me.” He suffered not only spiritual de pression, but he had been physi cally wom-down too. Doctors to day will tell you about "psychoso matic” ailments; that is, troubles which, begin in the mind but which affect muscles and nerves and bones. Every hospital has patients who would not need to be there if they could come to terms with themselves and their problems. Ministers and hospital chaplains and psychiatrists know that often the only cure for an illness is not miracle-pills or an operation, but (so to speak) an operation on the soul. This is a modem re-dlscovery of what the Psalmist knew long ago, that a guilty conscience can actually bring on a fever and make a man lose weight and strength. God is in touch with sinners; but his touch is not to them a tender one. Turning-point The turning-point in that poet’s experience came at the point where he “declared Jus sin,” —when he Now Is The Time of cigarette tobacco are marketing flu MAX SMITH crop through the organized auctions Mu interest is shown at these auctions and many farmers atten (Lancaster Countians aren’t the on y ones who like 10 i tend sales) The baskets of gold colored leaves reflect cat ful handling and a specialized, hand-labor farm prociui Sale value is based on market grade and buyer competit c FROM SOUTH CAROLINA—The agriculture here is ie similar to that in North Canxina with tobacco, poanii and cotton fields quite common. The area is wel cvbpt' to grassland crops, thus the reason for herds of beef cattl Many acres of idle land observed from the highwaj Lui| ber miUs and wood manufacturers are very common j FROM GEORGIA—The great peach state has only the era ty roadside stands as evidence of th : s great product Co t< fields are still producing and many growers are coioplc n the picking operations Larger producers have mechanic pickers while o )hers use local labor Dairy and bed ca‘t herds are still out on pasture FROM FLORIDA—The sunshine state brings back hot h mid summer weather to this tourist. The agricultuie quue diversified between geographic areas In the cih area of the central section we find orange and gn>pc-* 1 groves coveftng thousands of acres, at this season t h e P r ducers are starling to pick and pack the crop Until the i cent hurricane a bumper crop was predicted, but now t' l about a 60% crop is expected To see these gro - . cs n° horizon to horizon (20 to 30 miles) is very spcctacu 2 Southern Florida is so flat and low that drainage wi 1 ■ ways hamper progress Thousands of acres of swamp brushland did not impress this extension agent The '-u'u - ed herds of dairy catt’e, Brahmas, and other mivh cattle utilize this sparsely-inhabited country DaiO are few, but large, in Florida The usual range is fi° pl to 5,000 head per herd. Cows are loose-housed and !T a silage and pasture make up the bulk of the ration i milk producers are also distributors. On God's Way 1 After God -has forgi v . what? Do I sit-down hap, contemplate his grace? a P ®y time with halleiuj, h spend the rest of my Uf e ' song* about God's forgiv, n Not jw.lt is true, the exi of relief, release and rejoict overwhelms one who has r and confessed, has inspire another forgiven sinner, , only the author of Psaim write poetry describing hi experience. But moat of ut, poem-writing. Life for the { man is like a road, it stretc into the future, and it is not clear daylight on that hi Confusing shadows he aero man needs guidance That point of verses 8 and 9 ol 32. The forgiven man is n with God m a new way; tl is his guide. He had been fractious mule, pulling av.a God all the time, and feeh from the bit pulled tight M tells him to be a man, not any longer, a man, not a 1 man who can follow direct man who has his ear and mu to the wise counsel of God is something moie than ■ on the way of God, theie is less than loving God is not g be a forgiving God. And so I given man looks back and i that, God’s once heavy hand him not to destroy him but i him into God's tine way. {Batted on outlines ropjntf the Division of Chnstsan 1 d National Council of the Cbui Christ m the U; S A. Rfle Community Press Semce) BY MAX syiTH EDITORS NOTE; During the next U weeks Mr. Smith will be on tour l-irou the southern stales and in attendance the National Association of County Ag culture Agents in Miami, Fla. His colur will be in the form of a report on farm*; activities wherever his trip lakes him. FROM NORTH CAROLINA—The giov-( • 9
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