—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 4, 1964 4 From Where We Stand... Not Farewell There comes a time when all of us are called on to do something we'd rather not do We have often wondered what this column would be like when the time came, and now that the tune has come, w e are still wondering But for just this once, let’s drop the editorial "We" and let me tell you that the pest fi\e yeais have given me some of the most enjoyable experiences of my life Fi\ e years is a short time in the life of a man but that first issue back in 1959 seems like an eternity ago in ex- penence May I take this opportunity to thank you the reader, for your kindness, your encouragement and >our helpful cnticism Without you my job could not have been done And may I take this opportunity to thank the teachers of vocational agn cultuie. the county agent's staff, the offi cers and directors of all the farm or ganisations, and all the FFA and 4-H reporters who coopeiated so willingly in furnishing articles about their activities and meetings It has been a real privilege to ivoik with each of yon. and I know that wherever I go or whatever I do. Lan caster County will always be home And to the staff of Lancaster Farm ing may I say a special ‘‘thank you'' for putting up with my bad moods, over looking my mistakes and forgiving my shortcomings Now before this piece gets too sickemngly sentimental, it is time to say through these misty eyes: At least that’s how it looks from where I stand. Beefless Argentine Reports coming into this country from around the world would seem to indicate that much of the earth’s popu lation needs beef. Italy is in such short supply of beef that prices are nearly twice as high as here About the same can be said for France and England Now comes the re port that the biggest beefeaters of all are suffering through beef-less days. Argentina lays claim to the beef eating championship of the world aver aging about a pound a day per person, hut a recent law requires them to eat chicken lamb pork, fish or other meat on Mondays and Tuesdays until beef prices come down or production goes up For half a century, beef raised on the Pampas has been Argentina’s chief source of income Now the government is rationing it’s citizens in an effort to maintain supplies for export. With the oversupplies of domestic beef in this country, cattle raisers in the TJ S would like to have just a little bit ot the problem facing Argentina At least that’s how it looks from where we stand SUPERMARKETS VARY IX ITEMS STOCKED You won’t find the widest vanety of foods at supeimai kets in the uchest pait of a city says the U S Depart ment of Agncultuie In a ic cent survey Department mai keting specialists found the biggest stock of items m super man kets in lowei income neigh boihoods The reason is that budget-conscious homemakers need the widest selection of foods to make then budgets slietch Supeimaiket mana geis aie awaie of this and see that they get what they need »n 'O' il.. i , i . . Jack Owen Lancaster Farming Jack o wen, Editor Lancaster County’s Own Farm Robert G. Campbell, Weekly P O Box 1524 Lancaster, Penna Established November 4, P O. Box 26G - Lititz, Pa. 1955. Published every Satur- Oflhcos: 22 E Mam St, Lititz, Pa Phone - Lancaster 394-2047 or Lititz G 23-2191 ;.i . , . Just So Long! Should Know Better The battle against food faddism and nutrition quackery is a long way from being won judging by a picture in a re cent issue of a national magazine. The picture shows Austronauts Vir gil (Gusi Grissom and John Young fix ing breakfast ‘‘by blending Tiger’s Milk, a health food, with wheat germ, straw berries and eggs". You can be sure the food faddists will begin beating their drums to the effect that Grissom, Young, and the well known magazine have endorsed their so called health foods The nony is that the United States Air Force and the President’s Council on Physical Fitness have been using the Aerospace program as a dramatic example to encourage teenagers to be more aware of health and nutrition It is as it should be that these two organizations point to the program as an example because it does comply with very sound principles of health and diet principles which would be of benefit to the young people of the nation, whether or not they plan on becoming part of the space program While we realize that the picture referred to above was not set up as a lesson m proper nutrition, the seed of an idea was planted. While eggs and straw berries may well be part of the aero space program s recommended diet, Tiger’s Milk and \vheat germ hardly fit the pattern of sound dietary practices set up for the nation’s austronauts and other servicemen. To help offset the wrong impression that may have been created regarding the eating habits of space cadets, we would point out that servicemen con sume three times as much meat as the average American, and normal rations are high in other nutritious foods. It has been estimated that Ameri cans spend nearly a billion dollars an nually for dubious kinds of food supple ments, concentrates, pills and frills said to do all and cure all for everybody. There can be little doubt of the need for a continuing program of nutri tion education at all levels of the Ameri can population when such highly-re spected opinion leaders as the Austro nauts are placed in the position of giv- _ _ T ing the food faddists a ready made QW IS 1 116 JL IIH6 ~ , platform from which to hawk their wares The job can not be done cheaply or quickly, nor can it be done permanent ly, but it can be done It must be done, and it is up to us, the farmers, to do it. At least that's how it looks from where we stand. Beware Fake Cures Former Post master General Day says - “The peddling of fake medical cures is the most pro minent fraudulent activity conducted through the United States mails today. This huge ‘industry’ is so prevalent and so widespread that it taxes the man power ot the postal inspection service to the utmost in trying to bring the per petrators to justice." daj by Lancaster-Farming, Lit- itz, Pa Entered as 2nd class matter at Lititz, Pa. under Act of March 8, 1879. j U f ,< > , Advertising Dnector I i i J T “ba©as/M __ SPEAKS | I Sunrf*jr Schul L«si«n« [ ',///, Ups and Downs Lesson for July 5, 1964 Background Scripture: Genesis 46 it thioujrh 47*12; Esodus I. Devotional Beading; Psalm 37:1-11* Vf/HAT HAPPENS to you Isn’t * ’ usually so important as what you learn from what happens to you. That is why, sometimes, si simple backwoodsman has a wiser philosophy of life than some men with a much wider experience. Wisdom is not confined to pea* pie who can af ford to go any where and see anything. We shall follow this clue in the next three months while these les sons follow the Dr, Foreman history pf an an cient people, ancestors of the modern Jews, We shall not try to do as the historian does, lay this out like a textbook in history. If we did that, we should hardly begin our first chapter by the time we reach the end of the column. For we should first have to an swer the question: When did these things happen? Who was the Pharaoh of Egypt at that time? Nobody knows for certain. All we know is, it was a long time ago. You can look it up in diction aries of the Bible if you like. But what we shall be doing is only to offer hints on what we can learn from the story; and you can read the story for yourself in the Bible. Maybe the story suggests other meanings to you. If so, we shan’t quarrel about itl Life's ups and downs What is the most disturbing thing about life? As you go on growing older and older, one of the most distressing features of life is that it won’t stay put. Just when it seems to be fixed to suit you, something happens that turns your Me upside down and inside out. Blessings in disguise Those Hebrews, as they Ini Faim Pond owneis aie urged to ha some safety equipment handy dm mg t! swimming season Life-saving equipment sui as lafts, inflated inneitubes, lope plan wooden laddeis, and boaids should be at tl side of the pond in case of emeigem.' one of these items may save a life Sum® 6 aie lemmded not to swim alone, ami not go into the water when ovei -heated To Plan For Extra Pastme Many dany and livestock pioduceu concerned about the slow giowth oi t” i egulai pastmes Theie is little that cat MAI SMITH done to levive them without sufficient > JII fail oi migation The sowing of tempo'* ll pastuie ciops such as wintei iye or winter wheat dininsj; August oi Septembei will piovide late grazing this I*'“ 3 early glazing next spung These ciops will stietch the P 1 season and i educe the need foi as much hay or silage soighum hybrids to i e- cll to 30 inches hefoie Heid owners that are soon Utilize Wheat as a Feed turning out on sudan glass or Under present one of the hybrid soighums might be advisable fo 1 ® should limit the grazing area farmers to use some of each day in oidei to utilize a wheat as a livestock a™ " gieatei amount of the forage try feed. Nearly all If the herd is permitted to livestock can make use ot cover the entire aiea, it is ited amounts of S 101111 trC quite possible they will tiamp cracked wheat Digests as much as they consume Fol ble such as scouring °i lowing .glazing, the stubble mg may occur when to° should be clipped 3 to 4 inches amounts are used Jku ( high in ordei to get quicker, vary from 20 to more uniform new giowth De- gram mixture: other lay grazing the sudan grass and proteins should be a* ( until it has reached 16 to 18 make up the balance inches s tall;iland :permit).ithe t mixture::i,i up i To Control Grazing gun to ..all themselves, went in- Egypt as Iree men, welcomed cared lor by his Royal Hi g h n „7 the Phanoh, In a few year history’s years go) those haim Hebrews’ descendants had beca -d slaves, their lives made b.t lSr ‘“ brutal slave-drivers, and the edge of starvation. They tL \ in actual danger of extinction Egyptian would intermarry \ v ‘,k t-ieiu, and the Pharaoh mad. , determined effort to destroy J the boy babies. For how L, lg , tune the Hebrew people had been shut off, as they were, frontal the outside world, we do no know. But we do know th.s a blessing in disguise. Unable 2 live a free life, they develop,» slavery a sense of kinship jw was much stronger than it might have been if each clan had gone off to live by itself in Egjpt M elsewhere. No doubt also tH sense of their need of God was stronger, at least in some of them, than it might have been if the? had suffered no misfortunes. ?! disorganized tribesmen who hi come into Egypt so happily, Eo were less happy, but more dose! knit. Shade and shin* There’s another thing: life’s uj and downs aren’t just that. "Win you are climbing a mountain jo may be slipping a good deal toi Perhaps it would be better to speak of life’s shade and shine, Jfo shade is absolutely black; no brightness on this earth is as bright as brightness can possibly be—say on the sun; otherwise vt should all go blind, So the ex* periences we call "bad” may have good concealed in them, and the experiences in life we call good may not be wholly good u we look back on them. I£ the Hebrews hadn’t gone into Egypi they might have starved; but the; might not have become slave) either. When they became slaves; it’s a safe guess that not one d them thought it was a good thins, yet as has been just suggested some good came out of it. In fid if they hadn’t led such a wretchei existence as slaves, who know whether they would have beei willing to leave Egypt at all? G« sometimes makes things so m comfortable for us that v/e » willing to make changes we wool! be too lazy to make without tow prodded! (Baaed on outlines cdpyrtshtcd If tt Council of the Churches of Christ in it U. S. A. Released by Community Tm Service.) BY MAI SMITH To Prevent Drowning
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