A —Lancaster 'Farming, Saturday, March 25, 1961 FROM WHERE WE STAND - Good Beds Won’t Cure Insomnia A friend of the family spent a night in our home recently. Small, modern houses being what they are, he was bunked on a fold-,away bed in the living room. When we inquired the next morning how he had slept on the not-too-soft sofa he said, “Oh, I slept just fine. Lis ten, I can sleep anywhere. I grew up sleeping on straw mattresses, ‘but I guess you never did that, did you?” Straw mattresses but we called them straw ticks were the arms of morpheus for the whole family. In fact .when one of us. would visit a friend overnight and be assigned a bed with a cotton mattress, we would have to battle a long time to get com fortable enough to go to sleep. Fresh, clean straw in the summer time with nothing to hinder the air circulation provided a cool bed, and the addition of the feather tick in the winter assured us of a snug night even though there was no heat in the house. ' Children in this day of high speed travel and a superabundance of hotels and motels do not' realize what it is to have to share a bed with visiting rela tives, or to have to give up the bed al together so the visiting old folks would have a place to sleep. “Company” in the days of our child hood, meant, more often than not, we would have “sleepers” at our house overnight. Of Spilled Milk There is no use crying over spilt milk. Perhaps there is no use crying ov er a broken egg either, but when that egg is shaped like a bowling pin, it de serves some mention at least. The editor recently received a let ter from Mrs. Paul H. Neidermyer of Bareville Rl, describing an odd shap ed egg her husband had found in the henhouse. Mr. Neidemyer, an avid amateur bowler, came in for quite a bit of good natured ribbing from his family and friends. He planned to preserve the egg to show to skeptics who doubted Odvldton Maurice H. Stans, former the demand for spending, President Eisenhower’s Di- the demand for economy is rector of the Bureau of the almost nonexistent. Budget, is an internationally “Spending comes easily, as known and respected expert the public demands more and on Federal government more from government In spending. the past 30 years we have What he had to say about paid our bills only 6 times it before a farm group a few and have borrowed to cover ■weeks before he resigned our expenses 24 times,” should be read by everyone Stans said. who is concerned about hoW~-Easy Come, Easy Go much Washington spends it for “The pressures on Wash ington to spend more and more ” he said, “are almost unbenevablc Compared with Lancaster Farming Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly P O Box 1524 Lancaster. Penna Offices 5’ North Duke St. Lam aster, Penna. Phone - Lancaster K\ press 4-3047 Jack O'un Editor Roh rI O Campbell, Advertising D r< ctor & Rusiness Manager Estfi Ilshid November 4 19'iv Put , every - Saturday by Lancai-ter Farming L.mcasti r. Pa Entered as 2nd class tnst’f \t Ijmc iMer, Pa under Act of Mar 8 additional entry at Mount Joy Pt Fti'meripllon Rates $2 per vest three v<ir» s~ Single copy Pr ce 5 cents Members Pa Newspaper Pnh'fsh ere Association National Editor, lal Awrotistion THIS WEEK —ln Washington With Clinton Davidson Fiscal Brinksmanship Government spending, Stans pointed out, has in creased by more than 3,000 percent in the past 30 years Spending amounted to $3 billion in 1930, $9 billion in 1940, $4O billion in 1950, and $BO billion in 1960, he said. “There is nothing to assure us that this increase will not continue,” Stans said. “High er ranges of future spending are already built into our JUST LIKE A BOY By: Carol Dean Huber He wished that he might never see another ripe tomato, Or ever have to stoop again to pick up a potato, Or cut another cauliflower or a cabbage head, But could spend each morning fast asleep in bed. He said he hated every cow and every little pig; He hoped every ear of corn would not be very big All this he said to Mother but to a neighbor lad He boasted of the work he did when he was HELPING Dad When there was company in the house, the lucky ones had the straw mattress, and the extra lucky ones had to share the bed with only one other person. Of course the boys, and presumably the girls in their room, would have a “ball” before all were settled for the night. And let it be said right now, it takes some settling when a bunch of boys in one room are trying to get to sleep with as many as three at' the head of the bed and two more at the foot. The confusion, of course, was compounded if there happened to--be a few more bedded down on a pile of feather ticks and quilts on the floor. Dear reader, you have never lived if you haven’t slept four or five in a bed with brothers, cousins and other assorted relatives. In the winter time, three brothers in a bed can be a cozy arrangement, and we were thankful for two more warm bodies on long ca’d nights, but take it from one who knows, there is little comfort in being one of these at the foot of the bed. But with all the lumps in the mat tress, the fighting for cover, the scratchy toenails in the middle of the back, we never spent one night with insomnia. There must be a lesson here some where if we can find it. At least that’s how it looks from where we stand. And Broken Eggs such a thing as a bowling pin egg. Seeing a human interest story, we. armed with camera 1 , drove out to the Neidermyer home to record the pecul iar hen fruit for posterity. You can guess the rest. The egg was just as fragile as eggs are wont to be, and the albumin ran out of the shell just as albumin is wont to do when the egg is dropped. The film in the camera went unop posed, and the apologies tendered by the photographer fell far short of ex pressing his disappointment at not get ting the picture and his compassion for the family which lost such a con versation piece. RURAL RHYTHMS present Federal programs.” The government has an “official’ ’debt of $285 billion but, Stans said it has lOU’s that amount to almost $5OO billion additional in promis es for future payments These include $6O billion in unfinanced pensions to mili tary and civil retirees, $3OO billion in veterans’ compen sation benefits, and $lOO bil lion in unfinished construc tion and undelivered pur chases. If we are to pay off those lOU’s as they come due, and continue present government services, the government must collect increasingly higher taxes, Stans warned Inflation Axead “We can,” he said, “soon destroy the nation’s vitality if we allow government to continue to purchase a policy of cancerous taxation which undermines individual initia tive, diverts earnings away from capital investment and savings, and thereby limits the capacity of the economy to grow and expand.” We have predicted many times in these columns and in talks to business and civic groups that growing inflation will be continued We have urn to Page 5) Bibla Material; John'lS, 19. Devotional Banding: Psalm 23 1-8, 19, How I*2 Died J>«won for March 26, 1961 IF YOU WILL take time to count the pages of the four Gospels, and then count the pages of the chapters telling Of the trial, death and resurrection of Jesus, you can see for yourself that the events of those last days and hours are given -space far beyond what is givento any other part of Jesus' life. It can even be said, as a paradox, that nothing stands out,in the life of Christ as it was first written, as does his death. Not only in the Gospels but in Dr - Foreman the thinking of the church, the death of Christ looms large. Look at the pictures or statues of Christ in Protestant or Roman Catholic homes; how often he appears as a dead man! “1 Thirst!” At first this seems strange. Do not all men the? All men do, to be sure, but not always in the way, nor ever with the purpose, which the church has always seen in the death of Jesus. If on Good Friday in many a church three full hours will be set apart for meditation on the memory and the meaning of the Cross, all we can do here is barely to suggest some of the thoughts which that tragic and glorious story suggest to a sym pathetic reader. One is that Jesus died by violence, died under torture, died in disgrace, for the penalty of crucifixion was inflicted only on slaves and savages. Jesus himself, looking forwa'rd to this event, had used the pain words “die,” “be killed.” He did not use any of the pretty word’s that have been thought of, like a blanket of flowers over a-corpse, to conceal the face of death. It was real death that afternoon, death in the midst of youth, death with much to say that could not be said, death with out friends. Like a red under- Now Is The Time . . . TO PRUNE GRAPE VINES The mo® ol March is the best time to prime P# vines; there will be less -‘bleedmg” * juice coming from the cut, and less d®* er of knocking off the tender buds asil® • begin to swell Attempt to leave 40 to rflj good buds on four or five good canes ‘ first 10 buds on last year’s growth ® usually produce the best TO BE CAREFUL ABOUT WEED SEi MAX SMITH The weed population on many & is increased through the use of uncertified seeds, homegrown seeds contain undesirable grass and ot weed seeds. Local growers who are seeding spring c are urged to plant clean, certified seeds in order to crop desired and not add o the weed problem. TO PUT MANURE ON ROW CROPS—Numerous Q recently indicate that some local alfalfa and clovci ? ers intend to apply barnyard manure to their alia clover fields yet this spring In the first place l plants should not need any extra nitrogen becru= e have the ability to fix nitrogen from the air manure applied at this time of the year might cause ; le in raking at hay-making time. Run-down pastuio normal row crops will utilize the manure crop mud’ TO PRUNE ROSE BUSHES—It's pruning time roses when the new buds appear (Exceptions aie c and rambler roses that should be pruned after H IC - v r . bloomed). Hybrid teas, flounbundas, grandiflo- 35 ' shrub roses should all be pruned in early spring pruned to cut away dead wood control the shape nflO " bush, and remove surplus growth for better rose development. scoring of the mental disw spiritual agonies, was the pj! agony ol being crucified ju slowly'for hours beneath th sun, the sufferer's whol e cried out for water. The on, of personal physical dlstrej, was wrung from Jesus (j 4 those six terrible hours, ho» was just that desperate “I n So we have to say of J he , died in torture But th ( word from the cross which records is not a word of of power: "It la finished'" does not mean “All is over' an admission of defeat it jj shout of the victorious j, after the battle* it is the or; up by the mountain chmbe| alter many perils sets his {« the topmost pinnacle nevti \ scaled, it is the outburst g engineer who after planning and years. of \ v ~ secs the span over the great complete at last. He had something very }lke this thei before (John 17:4), -so tjjjj must not think of the Ciossj one and only achievemet i oius. The cross was the g mg accomplishment Jesuf rnd death were all of on*, h.s death was. “in character his life. Every man leaves ft unfinished. in some respecti leave behind ua friends, ccj a new generation, plans t ' led, words unspoken, v.orj <■ me. Even Jesus luiew what( to wish to say things that) not be said. And even his p 3 -a has not had its full ( wiaiout other lives weUd r ether into his living pi nevertheless there was a H n-all quality about Jen had finished what no one else, nave done. Fes* Us Tiiis is true, because, y Chiistian church soon c'-rrii Jesus’ death was much more cvory-man’s death. Atom uniquely it was on behalf t .non. This m turn would not ":a so if Jesus had lived as i.fa; and it could not hne -o, even if our Lord hid n ■> .less lus life was moie tl r_.o man m history. For died : -.ahes two great affirmate faun about Jesus Christ thel f.-.-t, he is not only a parti -aa, but he is Man, he sub n himself all the human rat 1 i>.o Man. The other affirm Ko is the Divine Son of God (S>sed on outlines copuis " ' division of Chnstnn He ** onal Council of tko Cnpn* v 1 ist m the TJ. S. A l>clc3i Community Press Service) BY MAX SMITH
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