4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 3, 1965 From Where We Stand... Apofhy, A Poth To Nowhere The dictionary says that one who is apathetic is “lacking normal feeling or interest; indifferent; phlegmatic; listless.” In fact, it is really a form of “not being”. Is life really so valueless that we can be content to live it inside a shell like a clam, and let a small, militant minority make all our decisions for us yes, even to the laws by which we live? There have been extreme examples of 'mass apathy, or inertia, evident in our society in recent times. Our subways have provided the most recent arenas for apathetic spectators. And we recall that in one of our large cities not so long ago a woman was literally slashed to ribbons on the street while her apathetic “neighbors” closed their windows and drew their blinds to shut out her screams for help. Is this the world we inherited? Is this the legacy we want to leave our children? Of course not, but once begun, how do we reverse this trend? The treatment must start right here, right now, in our own families and in our own communities There is a one-two punch that can beat apathy every time: INTEREST and ACTION. When was the last time that -you became interested enough in a com munity matter to either fight it or push it? When was the last time you were aroused sufficiently by a proposed bill in your state legislature, or in Con gress, to write, wire, or see your repre sentative and let him know how you felt 9 When was the last time that you felt sufficiently INVOLVED either pro or'con by an editorial in your local paper, by a news item on radio or television, by some local, national, or worldwide incident to take AC TION? For some, the answer may be as recent as today, but for most it exceeds the limitations of memory Everyday of our lives we are lett ing important decisions be made for us, by others We groan about more and more taxes; we say “yes” to our 'children’s unreasonable requests be cause they tell us “all the kids are doing 'it”, and we’re so afraid that our kids might be regarded as “different from the 'crowd”; we bemoan the fact that our club’s, cooperatives, or other organiza tions are run by small “cliques” who re gard us as pawns. And we do nothing! We shrug our shoulders and weakly say, “Well, I guess it’s always been that way ” What do you suppose might hap .pen if, instead of shrugging our should ers, we started to flex our brains 9 Sugar Now Seen As Major Cause Of Heart Attacks In the Mai eh issue of Food and Nutntion News, Dr John Yudkin, chan man of the de ipartment of nutntion at the ’University of London, reported •new evidence in the study of •coronaiy heart disease that im implicates sugar as a causative 'factoi Dr Yudkin takes exception •lo the theoiy that fat in the f thet, especially so-called satu rated fats contributes to heait disease “In the USA,” Yud states, “it has been shown *that fat consumption has in- Temperatures for the five fcreased by only 12 percent in day period, Saturday through •ihe past 70 years with a signi- Wednesday, are expected to 'ficant increase in the ratio of average below normal. Nor ipolyunsatuiated to saturated Ol le Period is #ats. Accoiding to the com- degrees low lt 'monly accepted view, this W *M e . faring the first •should have resulted in a fall with temperatures mod -in coionaiy heart disease in- crating during the latter part •stead of the very considerable thebperiod •rise that has occurred Duung Prccipitat.on will occur as ~ „ „ , , rain toward the end of the •xhe same penod, however, . , ... ... , * period with accumulations of sugaP'Cbhsumption has increaS- v ~i C ss one half inch eiF ed by 120 percent ” pected. This could be a very dangerous thing. If it were to spread, the collective're sults cOuld literally pick this old globe of ours up by the poles and shake it till its core rattled! We can not rid the world of apathy by accepting apathy as a way of life. As with many of our social problems, apathy begins at home and in our immediate communities. It not only is born in our daily lives, it must periodi cally be reborn there. And there is where we can strike the deathblow. One-two; INTEREST; ACTION. Why not stop being a bystander, Now, today' Stop window-shopping. Lift up your head, square your shoulders, walk into the store of life and tell the world what YOU think! What DO You Think? ★ ★ ★ ★ Our Lows Are "Going to the Dogs" Under law, every citizen has the inherent right to protect himself and his property from harm or destruction. That is, under the “old law”. The trend of the “new law” suggests a progres sive erosion of individual rights. For example, House Bill 731, which was recently before the Pennsylvania General Assembly and returned to com mittee for burial, would have made it unlawful for a farmer to shoot a dog that was attacking and killipg his live stock or poultry If the animal was unlicensed, the farmer could at the risk of life and limb “detain it in a humane way” If the critter carried a license, the farmer could not even detain it' That bill would have m effect given dog owners the right to license their ani mals to kill or destroy the property of others It seems that a person should be as legally and morally responsible for his dog’s actions as he is for the actions of his children The fact that many par ents neglect this responsibility where their children are concerned is evident from the increasing role of the juvenile delinquent in our society Surely we should not be asked to tolerate a tide of delinquent dogs as well. Any dog running loose and destroying another’s property is either a stray or an uncared for “pet”, and either way should be re moved. Too many of our animal laws are being influenced by “people” who not only value animal life above human well-being, but can’t or won’t stop shedding their “crocodile tears” long enough to try to understand the pro blems of farmers and other handlers of livestock He also pointed out that men with lecont heait attack hist ones had been eating twice as much sugai as men showing no evidence of heait tiouble In atheioscleiosis, a condi tion that often piecedes heart attacks, in which arteries be come nan owed or clogged by the foimation of fat-like par ticles in the aitery walls, he icports that subjects more regulaily have impaired glu cose (sugai) tolerance than high blood cholesterol. “There are many exceptions to the hypothesis that popula tions and groups inevitably Weather Forecast What Do YOU Think’ show a lelationship between dietary fats and coronary heait disease” Yadkin said He obseived \'vt tea and coffee weie the inam earners of the high sugai intake of men with noted coi onary or arterial disease This was due partly to the amount in each cup, and to the laigei numbers of cups consumed. (Continued on Page 10) Lancaster Farming Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly P. O. Box 266 - Lititz, Pa. Offices: 22 E. Main St. Lititz, Pa. Phone - Lancaster 394-3047 or Lititz 626-21'* 1 Don Timmons, Editor Robert G. Campbell, Adver- tismg Director Established November 4. 1915. Published every Satur dw by Lancaster-Farming, Llt- Second Class Postage paw at Lititz, Pa. and at additional ,« r 'V Vi <, -I. fUT \wmmj X A SPEM IntttruUviu) Uniform Sun4«y ScheelLMieni Trial By Prejudice Lesson for April 4, 1965 llarkffround Scripture: Matthew 26.1 through 27 26. Hcvotioiul Heading: Matthew 26 36-46. «\7ERDICT first, trial after » wards!” It is only in a wonderland where everything makes nonsense and very little makes sense, that one would hear such a cry in a courtroom. But even little Alice in her dream knew there was some thing upside down about that sort of proce dure. And yet the trial of Jesus, the trial that ended in his be- Dr. Foreman ing sentenced without a single crime or even fault proved against him, —that trial was one where the court had made up its mind before hand. We cannot and should not blame living Jews for what their ancestors did, any more than we blame modern Italians for the sins of the Roman Empire. But the fact is that the Sanhedrin, highest court of the Jewish peo ple at that time, had determined that Jesus must die, before he was even arrested —much less tried. If ever a prisoner was tried by prejudice, Jesus was that man. The way It went The way it went was this. Put ting all the gospels together and filling out the story in Matthew, ‘ we find that the Sanhedrin were* determined to destroy Jesus,! with violence if possible, but j anyhow destroy him. They tried j to make him out an ignoramus, a superstitious man, a rebel against I Eome; they tried td make him 1 jound like a fool in public; but it didn’t work. So they got him arrested and charge with blas phemy. Jesus claimed no more than the truth, that he was in Now Is The Time ... To Become Efficient This is a “must” in today’s fanning pic ture; this might mean a certain degree of specialization in one or more farm enter prises It surely means doing a good job of any undertaking and getting things done on time; good management is part of efficiency. We feel that it is much better to become efficient in a normal sized operation rather than to expand too rapidly into a big, ineffi cient program. To Plow Down Com Fertilizer Many acres of corn ground will be plow ed in the coming months We refer to the merits of plowing down most of the corn „ IB fertilizer in order to get the most from it It is especially important to plow down the nitrogen 'becßttse it moves upward in the soil and into the root irone. A starter fertilizer at planting time is needed which supplies iB plant food especially phosphorus To BewalrO of Cattle Parasites The build-up of internal parasites in many local and southern cattle needs more attention. At a recent meet ing of cattle feeders it was stressed that stomach' worms can reduce gains and elimin ate any profits from the feed ing operation. Samples of 'the manure taken to your local veterinarian will discover the problem and he can recom mend a treatment. Don’t feed the worms..,. , }v , < - To Inspect New - -Wt Some new seeding of al- deed tHe Son Of the Koit'&Kb God. This *#emedl)lWphd*)y to the chief priests, who made up Most of the Sanhedrin; and Idas* phemy was In Jewish law a capital crime. -But -Rome’s law 'held in 'Judea;* and in’Roman law arrested and charged with bias* phemy. So the problem was to get Jesus condemned to death in a Roman court, the only court able to impose capital punish* ment, for a crime no Roman court would recognize. We know how it went. All the trial proved was that the leaders of the Jews did not like Jesus, in fact hated him. So Pilate, to save his own career, sentenced Jesus to be crucified, without any real charge or conviction. What is prejudice? The word ‘(prejudice” ooirtes from two Latin words meshing to judge beforehand. That 4s, having an opinion without'-con* sidering the facts that -should support the opinion—or refuse it as the case may be. Don’t we all? It’s easy to latigh st other people’s prejudices} much-harder to get rid of our own—or even to see our own. This is particularly true when, many 'of the, people we see and'know and talk with every day have the same prej udices we also have. We are prejudiced whenever we say, or think, “All Negroes" (Or all white men, or all woflien, <ss all Frenchmen) are like thatl” we show prejudice when we judge a man by the color of his skin, before we know a single fact about him; or When we accuse a man of being a money-grabber only because of the shape of his nose; or of being a dangerous man or an inferior type all be cause he has some name like Mc- Donald or U Thant or Kaminsky and we think or say, “All Scotch men (or Orientals, or Poles or what not) are alike.” “We are guilty of prejudice whenever we condemn any person unheard and unknown Prejudice drove in the nails that killed Jesus: prej udice kills people today. (Based on outlines cODyrlrhted Inf (he Division ot Christian Education National Council ot the Churches ot Christ in the V S A Released by Community Press Sorvicc.' Co To Church Sunday Haifa may not be good to produce a profitable yield; the slow growth 6i laet llall along with an op** trtMer without much snow covtr has been hard on the** small {plants; many -Mve.bWflwA out of the ground. CSose tepee tion may result in Dm cul tivating of -the area' and lbs making' oF a*>nejr r seed* ing; sugglSF wethed rather tha of seeds .p&*tapo£ toe ground, fiarly v spring seeding! with* out any nurse crop amid gave Jib^ys 0 ibis season. OhetndCal 'VpAfyte fee weed control -will tee needed. l
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