4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, May 11, 1956 Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly Newspaper Established November 4, 1955 Published every Friday by OCTORARO NEWSPAPERS Quarryvule, Pa. Phone 378 Lancaster Phone 4-3047) Alfred C. Alspach .. Ernest J. Neill C. Wallace Abel • .. Robert G. Campbell . Robert J. Wiggins .. Subscription Rates: $2.00 Per Year Three Years $5.00; 5c Per Copy Entered as Second-Class matter at the Post Office, Quarryville, Pa., under Act of March 3. 1879 WHAT NEXT ON FARM BILL? Approved by the House of Representatives, the most recent revision of the Soil Bank plan is now up to President Eisenhower Authority to make advance payments to farmers complying was cut from the bill, against President Eisen hower’s request. However, payments will be made to farm ers who comply this year. Soil bank coverage has been extended to livestock producers, and the cost will be around $1.25 billions. How this will work on the local level, Lancaster County in particular, remains to be seen. One of the hottest political potatoes of the season has finally come to rest. SCHOOL ADVANCE TERRIFIC Million of dollars are being spent in Lancaster County and fringe counties that often serve Lancaster County children to modernize school facilities. Construction is in a whirl, as final-touches are being made to have new buildings ready for September opening. This fall many Lancaster County youngsters and high school students will be enrolling in facilities whose equip ment is without par, far ahead of the buildings and class rooms of less than a decade ago. Instead of moving up, architecture of school build ings today favors the low, sprawling structure, eliminating stairs Such is excellent, although we’ve visited some of such size that a map like those the Pentagon provides would not be out of place Many school facilities in this county are still inade quate to meet a growing load one believed impossible but a short time, ago. Vocational agriculture and home econo mics are receiving greater emphasis, with more adequate facilities. The expense is tremendous, but there can be no bet ter investment than in the future of youth. Poets could wax poetic, musicians could wax musi cal with spring in Lancaster County. The Ozark Mountains have their Autumns and the Rocky Mountains once had their springs to be sung about. But the blossoming hillsides of Lancaster County can match them all with room to spare It happened all of a sudden It looked as though some painter had splashed white recklessly across the hill sides. Only the evergreens failed to- show. They just be came greener, unable to equal the bloom of peach, dog wood, cherry. It’s interesting to see the bloom from a longe-range viewpoint, but more interesting it is to go down among the river hills to see the smaller, more insignificent blooms of the tiny spring flowers that prove as beautiful or more beautiful than the flowering trees. Mountain pink ed so suddenly. Of all the seasons, spring’s perhaps the best, and Spring in Lancaster County has no par. One Flying Farmer complained recently that in fly ing over Chicago and other industrial cities of the Midwest, wings of his plane were coated and blackened with smoke and moisture. Now a followup comes from California, where a man was found guilty of violating smog regulations when he created smoke by broiling eight steaks on a barbe cue grill. One town w£ know, with strict anti-smoke regula tions, forbids trash burning in the back yard, while barbe cue grills tantalize passersby with hickory charcoal smoke odors teamed with the delightful smell of frying foods When things go a bit tough, there’s always a state ment that crops up and saves the day: ' ' “I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet,” STAFF BLOSSOM TIME nothing like it, and all appear- SMOG PHILOSOPHY Publisher Editor Business Manager Advertising Director Circulation Director 50 Years Ago This Week on Lancaster Farms 50 YEARS AGO (1906) By JACK REICHARD Thursday, May 7, 1906, was the coldest May day on record for 25 years Snow and frost were reported at various places along the Atlantic coast. In Delaware frost was general Snow continued to fall at Cum berland, Md, that Thursday, marking the fourth day of con* tinuous snowfall in that region. The Allegheny mounfains were covered with snow. At Scranton there was hail,, cold ram and light snow reported. The thermo meter registered, a low of 38 degrees in Lancaster County that day. Tobacco growers were in terested in the report of Nathan Shelly, Manheim Township, Who had patent ed a device to be attached to tobacco planters, which de posited a quantity of bran with each plant as planted. Shelly claimed the cutworms fed on the bran instead of eating the plant. The bran, it was said, killed the worms. Henry Heist Landis, near Lit itz, had a steer that weighed 2,500 lbs He had purchased the animal 18 months before when it weighed 1,100 lbs. The steer was sold to Butcher Rutt, of Lancaster, and had to be hauled to the slaughter house because it was too heavy to be driven. Runaway Mules Make News Runaway mules j were nothing new'to Lancaster farmers half a century ago. But the runaway pair owned L»y J. M. Hostetter, of Martinsville, gave him and his brothers, Ira and Earl, a rough time. Hostetter and his brothers had been planting corn that day and were on their way home, with the mules hitched to a fertilizer drill, driven by Earl behind a wagon upon which the other two bi others were seated Suddenly, the mules shied at something and started to run away. Hostetter, seeing what happened, jumped off the wagon, seized one mule by the bridle, and tried to pull the team into a nearby fence, when he was forced to let go, permitting the team to wheel around, throwing Earl off the drill, with the mules taking off down the road home ward bound When the runaway team reached the barn one wheel oi the drill ran up the gate post of a pale fence, tear ing the spokes out of the other wheel The mules drug the drill on one wheel down the lane across two fields before they finally stopped. In reporting the story it was stated, “the drill was just new, as Mr. Hostetter just began farming this spring” Henry Kraemer, a farmer of Upper Bern, Berks Coun ty, had a hen that refused to lay eggs in its nest in the chicken coop, but flew oat the roof of the summer house, descended through the chimney and laid an egg each morning on the hearth. * + f Hawk Attacks Cow And Children When Mrs. Thomas Good, of near Danville, Pa, went to the meadow with ' her two children found 1 one of the animals m a for the cows that evening, she terrific scrap with a large hawk. The bird was lighted on the cow’s back, tearing pieces of flesh from the animal’s side. Mrs. Good managed to drive the hawk off the cow with a club, when the bird attacked the chil dren. A connecting swing of thin club knocked the hawk into un consciousness, and Mrs. Good dragged the bird to the house and confined it to a cage. The children were unharmed. At Patterson, Pa. a $1,400 stallion, owned by William Petrie, horse raiser and racing fan. was gored to death by a bull, which jump ed over a fence and rushed the valuable steed in a field. sr * r The old Conestoga wagon used as the model for Hovenden’s painting “Westward Ho” in the capitol rotunda at Washington, D C, was presented to the Bucks County Historical Society by the artist’s widow, 50 years ago this week 25 Years Ago Gerard Swope, president of the General Electric Co, told members of the International Chamber of Commerce, it is the business of each industry to regularize employment and avoid seasonable, or cyclical, periods of idleness. He said: “It is the sixty thousand million dol lars earned and spent each year by American workers and farm ers in normal times, that make prosperity The few that live on Background Scriptnr«: Acts I 32 11:18. Drrotlonal Banding; Acts 10 34-43. For All Men Lesson for May 13, 1956 , STRANGE as it seems, one of the hardest things for Christians to get through their heads and into their hearts, is that the Gospel is for all men. Some people have ac tually believed that God has two lists, and everybody’s name is on one or the other; one list is of the people whom God intends to save. and the other is the list of those whom He has no intention of sav- ing. This notion is out of line with the New Testa- ment, especially such a clear state- ment as I Timo- »r. Foreman thy 2 4: “God our Savior, who de sires all men to be saved ” Others, as we all,know, somewhere back in their minds are very slow to believe that the Gospel is lor all men. “Th« Believers Were Amazed 1 ' Prejudice is not new in the woild, not new in the church The very first Christians had their udices and some of never re covered fiom them. tVe are told that the Roman army officer Cor nelius, and his whole household ■ —presumably servants as well as family were converted, the be lievers who came from Jerusalem with Simon Peter were amazed, “because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on Gentiles.” These Jerusalem be lievers were all Jews, and Corne lius and his household weie all Romans—or some other race, per haps Egyptian or Greek —and Jews had long supposed that being the “chosen people” meant that God would have dealings with them, and with them alone, of all the races in the world The “Gospel” was for God’s people; and the Ro mans weren’t God’s people—as those first believers saw it So when it was obvious that some Romans had accepted God, and God accepted them. Prejudice, Modern Style unearned income cannot ibsorli (the- nation’s automobile, radio washing machine, or vacuum cleaner output”. ■i >i Isabella’s Investment In America Poor C J Starkey, Hollywood atj torney, accustomed to bigj figures, said Queen Isabella got, a poor return when she invested $6,000 worth of jewelry in Co lumbus’ trip to Ameuca. If she had invested $6,000 at five pet cent, compounded twice a year, it would have amounted to four trillion five hundred billion dot lars, and that, according to Star, key, was “eleven and one-hal( times the value of the Uniter} States and all its possessions”, in lg3l * * * A damage bill, introduced in the legislature by Repre sentative Norman Wood, of southern Lancaster County, causing the State Highway Department to pay one-half the damages in changing the width or relocation of state highways, was passed by the Senate Monday May 11, 1931. Mrs. Isabella Hamilton, White Plains, N. Y. was suing the New York Central R. R. Co. for $35,- 000 damages on grounds that a fall prevented her from danc< mg, skating or bobsledding. Upon the complaint of his wife that he took 25 cents from the baby’s bank, Roy Markee, of Evansville, Ind., was arrested and lodged in jail Is the Gospel for all men? N®. some would teem to be saying. Only for white people. If it is fo» 'anybody else, let it be somewhere else but where white people wor ship The gospel can’t be preached to any ears but white ears in the white' man’s church; A preacher In a large all-white congregation re ports having received gfafefuTteb ephone calls from members of an-j other race—men and women who don’t get very much out of the ser mons in the only churches where they are admitted; so they have stopped going to church and have to “make do” with the radio. Is the Gospel for all men? No, a great many American church members seem to be saying when the offering plates are passed. These members may spend gen erously for their own-congregation. They will put out big money to build an educational" plant, or an entire new chmch. They will buy the preacher a new car. But money for missions? Not a cent from some of these people. God Loves Alt'Sorts It was not only the first believers who were “amazed” that Romans could become Christians. Believers today are shocked from time to time in the same way. The fliers in the great war who were shot down jover jungles, expecting death, only to find in those ram forests people singing Christian hymns; the pusoner in a Japanese concentration camp who found that one oi his guards knew Jesus; the traveler in Russia who finds that theie are real Russian Chris tians even today; these have been amazed too. But such surprises occur not only across the seas; they can happen across the tracks. Many persons show that they don’t expect the Gospel to do any good except to some one kind of people. For example, everybody knew Bil ly Graham could reach the masses of Englishmen, the ordinary kind that will flock to a sports arena to see any kind of sensation. But when Billy Graham proposed to visit Cambridge University, many people advised him not to go. You’ll never get anywhere with university students, he was told. It’s the old story, the Gospel is for some people, not for all. Some times it’s the other way around. People well-polished with educa tion and filled with culture to the eyeglasses, don’t want certain “other kinds” of people in their church; it might “lower the tonel’’ No—God loves all sorts; and if we profess to be his people, we had better learn to love other sorts than our own. (Baled on ontllnea copyright!! by th* DiTialon of Christian Edncatton, N«; tlonal Connell of the Chnrahcs of Christ; tntho V.S. A. Beliastd by Coniaannltf - Proas Barrios.)
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers