4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, April 13, 1956
Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly Newspaper
Established November 4, 1955
Published every Friday by
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Quarryville, Pa. Phone 378
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One of the more critical points in the farm price
picture at this time is the hog market. But there’s good
news ahead, it would appear. Slaughtering just recently
slumped to a six month low.
Here’s what the Corn Belt Farm Dailies say of the
situation in an article entitled “April $l7 Hogs?”
It is the easiest thing in the world to find
members of the trade who believe top hogs will reach
$l7 this month. It is not hard to find those who look
for *slB or more sometime in April or May.
How do they figure? Here is what they say:
If hogs can get over $l5 in March (and they did) with
more than six million processed under federal inspec
tion, a rise of a couple of dollars is possible with
less than six million monthly in April and May.
They look for a decrease in volume. In the past
20 years April slaughter has been under March in 17
years. The three that showed an. increase were, 1942,
when marketing was upset by our entry in World War
II a few hionths earlier, and 1946 and 1947 when
normal marketing was upset by OPA, which ended
late in 1946. All of the last eight years had smaller
volume in April than in March, and all of the last five
years showed smaller May totals than in April, these
optimists point out.
MEXICO TAMES TRAFFIC
To the Latin American, traffic is a lark. In Havana,
we were advised, the driver who blows his horn first af the
intersection has the legal right-of-way. In Mexico City, the
pedestrian-auto traffic picture is as colorful as the swirl
and flash of a toreador’s cape, and just as dangerous.
Now Mexico City is cracking down on its erring
drivers. Hundreds of drivers are to be jailed in the cam
paign to make driving and walking safe. Two thousand
traffic lights will replace part of the police force in the
taming process.
Some of the color’s going to be'missing, some of the
thrill’s going to be gone it appears on the surface. But
our bet is that the traffic wil roll merrily along, lights will
mean little or nothing, and a ride through the Mexico capi
tal will remain a hair-raising experience.
PRIDE AND PATRIOTS
Lancaster County and Missouri have one common
ground in graves of notables somewhat displaced from
their original field of endeavor.
At Lititz, fierce pride guards the grave of General
John A. Sutter against efforts by Californians to have the
body of their gold rush hero returned. Down in the Lead
Belt of Missouri one finds ,a small mining town in the
rough hills 'that form the northern tip of the Ozarks, a
mining town, Potosi, named for San Luis Potosi in Mexico,
another famed mining town
But Potosi, Mo. has a Presbyterian cemetery where
in lies the body of one Moses Austin, Missouri’s first in
dustrialist, and first promoter of American colonization in
Texas. Moses secured authority from Spain to settle 300
families along the Brazos River. The name Austin means
much to Texas, for Stephen Fuller Austin was another
colonizer there, and the family name is that of the state
capitol city.
Having an Austin from Texas where pride runs
high lie in a Missouri cemetery is unthinkable to the
Texans. Like efforts of the Californians in Gen. Sutter’s
case, efforts of the Texans have been held in check by the
Missourians in the Austin situation.
Tangling Lancaster County and chamber-of-coni
merce-minded-Californians, those'from the Show-Me State
and the Lone Star State, proves there’s a fierce pride in
patriots.
Lancaster Phone 4-3047)
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50 Years Ago
This Week on Lancaster Farms
50 YEARS *AGO (1906)
By JACK REICHARD
Bailey of Barnum
Bailey Dies, Age 59
Fifty years ago this week farrti
folks and city dwellers were rea
ding the obituary of James A.
Bailey, of CBarnum & Bailey Cir
cus. who had died at his home
m Mount Vernon, Y. Y, at the
age of 59. Born at Detroit, one
of four brothers iwho were left
orhans as children, James had
to go to work. He hired out to
a farmer for $3.25 per month,
who beat the boy every time he
paid him off. One day a small
one-ring circus, owned by Robin
son & Lake, came to a town near
the farm on which -Bailey work
ed. The young man tvent to see
it. Robinson took a liking to the
boy <and hired him, starting him
on his circus career at the age
of 22, which finally led to*the
great Barnum & Bailey enter
prise. James Bailey, loved for
his kindness by all circus people,
left. a widow, but no children
His fortune was estimated at
$8 million dollars.
Farmer Attacked
By Sea Gull
Feathers flew and blood was
drawn one April day in 1906,
when Oscar Brown, near Potts
town, Pa, was suddenly attacked
by a large bird while at work
about the barn, which scratched
and pecked his head before he
could overpower it With the as
sistance of two hired men,
Brown managed to catch the
bird, which turned out to be a
sea gull, measuring four feet
from tip to tip of wings. The
gull was placed in a closed pen
on the farm for public inspec
tion.
Two Crowned, As
Champion Steer Ropers
Out in Oklahoma, that same
week, in 1906, 'Ellison Carroll, of
Mangum, and Jim Warren, of
Silverdale, came out “finalist in
the steer roping contest for
world championship title Car
roll won the world title and a
$6OO purse prize for roping a
steer in 40 seconds Warren
roped his steer in 46 h seconds.
But it was Indian Runner
ducks for farm women. Mrs.
A. Pratt, writing in Amer
ican Agriculturist, in 1906,
advised farm women to
raise Indian Runner ducks.
She said the birds required
no swiining pond, nor warm
houses like Chickens; re
quired no more feed than
chickens and laid larger
and more eggs than other
birds; that the eggs were
of a finer texture than hen’s
eggs, making them espec
ially desirable for culinary
purposes.
Sulphur in Stream
Killed Trout
Fishermen at Hazelton, Pa,
were greatly chagrined that
April day, in 1906, when farmers
residing along St. John’s Creek,
reported maliciously inclined
parties had turned sulphur into
the stream and killed alb the
fish The creek had just been
stocked with a large supply of
trout from a State hatchery.
The Martin Bowman fa
mily, Camargo, Lancaster
County, were making the
best of unfortunate mishaps
at their farm. Bowman was
nursing a broken arm, in a
sling, his wife was handi
capped with a sprained
wrist, and the son had just
lost a finger in the fodder
cutter.
DAIRY WELLS CLEARED
• Wells of dairies that supply
jrulk into Lancaster were given
a clear bill of health in tests
seeking contamination, conduct
ed by the City Board of Health
in quarterly cheeks.
25 Years Ago
Farm Bureau
Files Road Complaint
The American Farm Federa
tion sent out a barrage of com
plaints directed at road super
visors, 25 years ago this week,
declaring that an overwhelming
majority of the country’s farm
ers were cut off from their
markets several months of each
year by impassable roads. The
report stated: “These farmers
are isolated from civilization
almost as definitely as if they
were an the interior of Africa”.
Hams and Sausages
Make News
In reporting a meat delivery
truck crash near Ashland, Wis.,
25 years ago, no one was hurt
but the contents made front
page news. The vehicle had
crashed with such force that
hams and sausages were hurled
into nearby trees, where they
hung from the branches like
ornaments on a Christmas tree.
At McPherson Kan., a
rural mail carrier reported
he found a dozen eggs in a
mail box with a request
they, be used to pay postage
of six letters which were ‘
them.
Background Scripture: Acts 3—5.
Devotional Beading: Acts 4:1-12.
Christian Courage
Lesson for April 15, 1958
THERE is an old potion that Fear'
is the mother of Rehgion. No
one who knows the facts can think
of fear as the mother of the Chris
tian religion. For the earliest
Christians were among the btav
est of men. Their critics, their
opponents, even their persecutors,
wondered at their courage. It was
not as if they slo
age through th<
years, each gener
ation a little brav
er than before.
From the ver
beginning, the fo]
lowers and friend:
of Christ had tin
two kinds of cour-
age, moral am
moral,
physical:
to stand up against Dr. Foreman
contempt, ridicule and slander;
and physical, to stand out against
pain and death, all with faith un
shaken.
Minority Group
Many persons are physically
brave but have little or no moral
courage. Some psychologists think
that moral courage is more diffi
cult and rarer than the other*
kind. Be that as it may, we know
the earliest Christians had plenty
of it. (This was after the commg
of the Spirit, of course) One of
the hard things to stand up against
is just bemg m a minority all the
time. Some people, to be sure,
can’t bear to be in a minority
any of the time if they can help
it. They will not ride in any ve
hicle but a bandwagon. They count
noses before they make up their
minds. They think that ethics can
be settled by arithmetic,—that is
to say, that whatever most people
think is right, must be right. The
early Christians knew better. They
were always in the minority.
Around them crowded the masses
of people in the great Roman Em
pire all of whom worshipped other
gods. Back m Jerusalem the
Christians were a larger propor
tion of the population than any
where else; but even there they
were in a despised minority. But
“Hyperkinetics”
And Hyperkinesia
According to the Eugenics
Research Asso, in 1931, a scien
tific name had been given those
restless folks who always want
to do things and go places. The
association said such people are
“hyperkinetics”, suffering from
an abnormal activity of mind
and body, otherwise known as
“hyperkinesia”.
Lancaster County Pomona
Grange met in all day sesion
Saturday, April 11, 1931, at
Akron Hall as guests of the
Ephrata Grange. Officers in
charge were Leslie Bolton,
master; Samuel Givler, overseer;
Mrs. Mary Yelk, secretary; J. W.
Brmton, treasurer. The v evening
session was devoted to confer
ring the fifth, or Pomona degree
to a class of four candidates by
a degree team from Warwick
Grange.
A violent electrical storm,
accompanied by heavy rain
a.nd strong wind, caused
considerable damage in
southern Lancaster County.
Many trees, poles, fences
and small buildings were
blown down. Plowed fields
r.nd dirt' roads were report
ed badly washed. ~
John W. Eshleman. Sr.
Dies At Lampeter Home
John W. Esheleman, Sr., pro
minent feed man, died at his
Lampeter home at the age of
86. For many,years he was en
gaged in the feed business,
which is now carried on by his
sons at Lancaster.
these pioneer Christians knew that
l“one with God is a majority.’*
They were far less interested in
being with the biggest crowd,
than in standing -for Truth.
Slander , ,
Another thing that Is hard t®
[stand up against, is being misrep
resented, maligned, slandered.
Jesus said, “Blessed are you when
men ; . • utter all kinds of evil
against you falsely on my account."
This saying must have come to
the minds of the first Christians
many a tune. For they were ac
cused'of being crazy, of lying, of
being (as we would say) subver
sive, of being disturbers of the
peace, lawless men in general.
Even when a man knows his own
-innocence, it hurts him to be
thought guilty. Even today, in
most communities the real Chris
tians—those who take their faith;
seriously and honestly try to live,
by it,—are in a minority. People
who simply try to live by the;
New Testament will be called
“starry-eyed,” impractical, if they
are not called worse names.
Chiistians who take their religion
seriously enough to see that our
world needs to be changed m
many ways if God’s will is to be
done on earth, will be called
“radicals” and despised if not
feared. What is said (for example) |
by many other young people,
about teen-ageis who take serious
ly Christ’s ideal of chastity? What
is said by business men about a
businessman who tries to be Chris
tian in all his relationships? What
is said by politicians about a
statesman —congressman, senator
or even President —who is bold
enough to try to be Christian in
national or international policy?
Some fine Christian Americans
have been called traitors simply
because they weie Christian.
Pressures
Persecution is a special kind ofj
pressure, which is to be the topic i
of next week’s study. But short ofi
positive persecution, there are,
various pressures which, if not
boldly resisted, push Christians]
oft God’s highway. The very first'
Christians felt the pressure of 1
public opinion, of the law, nol
doubt of* the loss of friendship with,
those who had formerly been close’
to them. They would not have
felt these pressures" if they had
done one simple thing: keep their
faith to themselves. A Christian
who never lets any one know hej
is a Christian is never called on
for courage; A Christian who
ceases to be one under pressure will
have no trouble, maybe, In this
world ... but In the next? Then ha
will discover the shame of knowing,
that Christ is ashamed of him. 1
(Band on ontllno oopyrljfMod by Hwj
DWMon of ChrUtlmju Eaaoatljra,
tlonal Connell of Urn
in tho U. B. A. Mum! l*r Community!
fnn Itrrteo.)