?;—n»"!«l ,(■) /luT. .vnf)h'l -i^Taßi>irJisl 4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, July 6, 1956 Lancaster County's Own Farm Weekly Newspaper Established November 4, 1955 Published every Friday by OCTORARO NEWSPAPERS Quarryville, Pa. Phone 378 Lancaster Phone 4-3047 Alfred C. Alspach .. Ernest J. Neill C. Wallace Abel Robert G. Campbell . Kobert 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 Agriculture Lacks Research Had an interesting visit with a Lancaster Counter farm er the other day, and cams' away a bit disillusioned about the business —researchwise It’s this man’s contention' that agriculture needs re search equal to industry. “We get second rate graduates,” he explained. Millions are spent by industry on scientific research which results in scientific advance. Chemical manufactur ers, he contends, have found more promising markets in fields other than agriculture, and as a result more research dollars have been poured into lines other than agriculture. On another theme that is hot as an August day, this friend feels the Soil Bank means no production the surest way of running into trouble there is. Idle acres. A chance to lose use of land which in this County is valuable, productive. How can you bring young men back to the farm he asks? By greater attention to research. We agree with him in many ways. There are thousands who are devoted to agricultural research through a love for farming, and a sense of duty. Many of these are sadly underpaid. There are some first-rate graduate engineers who have gone into agricultural fields, not as many as in other lines. In other words, they are far from 100 per cent “second raters.” Agriculture-needs to take a cue from industry. Could anyone answer how many years agricultural scientific re search is lagging in comparison to other fields of indus try? The figures might be interesting—and shocking. No Guarantee of Big Profits Producing for an expanding population which is eating more per capita does not necessarily guarantee greater returns for the farmer. Herschel D. Newsom, master of the National Grange, makes that point in a current study of the livestock farmer’s experiences over the past five years. He points out that in 1951 farmers produced 136 pounds of red meat per person. For that production they received $11.3 billion dollars The next year they produced 144 pounds per person but their return dropped to $lO.l bil lion. By 1955 they were producing 161 2 pounds per per son and their return had slid to $B.l billion. “This is an increase of nearly 20 per cent in consump tion —a jump which actually cut the farmers’ gross return from the sale of meat animals by nearly 30 per cent,” pointed out the Grange master. “Actually, since it cost a lot more to grow and feed out the added animals in 1955, the farmers’ net profit in this latter year (1955) was cut by an ever wider margin.” The figures used by Mr. Newsom to show this phenome non are as follows; Year Farmers Cash Red Meat Receipts From Consumed Red Meat U. S Per Capita Animals Population (Pounds) (Millions) ‘ (April 1) 1951 135.8 $11,365 153,691,000 1952 144.0 10,153 156,420,000 1953 ' 153.6 8,806 159,017,000 1954 153.3 9,087 161,763,000 1955 161.2 8,110 164,595,000 This is a graphic reminder—if any were needed—of the fallacy that an expanding market and expanding produc tion insure higher profits for the producer. The relation ship of supply to demand still governs even in such a situ ation. Thus a producer can lose his shirt even in a boom ing demand market if that market happens to be over abundantly supplied when his product is offered . Mr. Newsom’s observation that food abundance, ‘while a wise and necessary national policy, often means less total income to the farmers unless very carefully man aged is timely for the future. The siren song of “growing population and expanding markets” is one to be heeded only with a great deal of caution. —(Corn Belt Farm Dailies) STAFF . Business Manager Advertising Director Circulation Director _ [ -KfrftO higoJ tWfii ffA f>'>i 50 Years Ago This Week on Lancaster Farms Edward Frantz, 17, a farm boy of near'' Muncy, Pa., was killed instantly by a bolt -of lightning while standing on the porch at his home during an ■electrical storm. His brother, Jacob, 19, who was also stand ing on the porch, was so badly burned that his flesh was blis tered from head to foot. Doc tors believed Jacob would live but .thought he would be per manently paralyzed. The rural, mail carrier, enroute to Muncy during the storm had been held up at the Frantz farm two hours by the heavy hail accom panying the storm and was present when the younger Frantz was stiuek by lightning. Publisher .. Editor Fifty years ago this week, P. H. Hertzog, a science teacher at the Millcrsville State Normal School* re signed to accept the position as assistant to Professor H. A. Sjirface, State Zoologist. * # * CHERRIES BY THE BUSHEL On the Lancaster farm of Jo seph Harvey, at Fulton House, southern end of the county, was a cherry tree from which 20 bushels of red cherries had been pidked m the 1906 season, "‘with enough cherries remain ing to 'satisfy the wants of sev eral people”. The tree was re ported being 49 years old. Fifty years ago this week, a large barn on the Lancas-- ter farm of Norris Ferguson near Andrews Bridge, was struck by lightning and burned to ashes. The season’s hay crop, part of the wheat -crop, three calves and some of the equipment were burned. A writer of half a century ago wrote: “Some men are known by the company they keep and some by the condition of their back yard ” • • * BREAD FLOATED TO RECOVER BODY Under the superstitious be lief that bread cast upon the water would cause the body of a drowned 'person to rise to the surface, enough loaves of bread were thrown into Cooper Creek, Camden, N J, to bring enough bodies to the surface to fill a small cemetery—if' the idea worked But it didn’t. Just who had started the dump ing of bread there was not known, but it spread with such rapidity among the residents of the foreign section of the city that the surface of the stream soon looked like the floating shelves of a bakery. Efforts had been made to lo cate the body of a boy named Pederosky, who drowned while, bathing in the creek. A reward of $lOO had been offered by the boy’s parents fop the re covery of the body, which ac counted for the lavish but fruitless use of bread, * * George W. Householder, who started the first news paper in Kansas City, the Kansas City Evening Bullet in, in 1868, died at his home at the age of 8L Household er was well known in Penn sylvania, having served in both branches of the State legislature before moving -to Kansas City. * * • SISTER SHOOTS BROTHER Gedrge MitcheH, of Seattle, who shot and killed Franz Ed mond Creffield, a “Holy Rol- 50 YEARS AGO (1906) By JACK REICHARD H * * )IIJ ler”’prophet, and then had been acquitted of the charge of mur der on ‘ the plea of instanity, was shot and killed by his sis ter, Esther, in the Seattle Un ion Station. Esther Mitchell had joined the “Holy Rollers” sect at Corvallis, Ore., and was one of Creffield’s most ardent followers. She was arrested and held on the charge of murder after killing her brother. - 4 n h 25 Years Ago * * * 25 YEARS AGO (1931) State Secretary of Highways. Samuel Lewis, announced that nearly , 13,000 miles of State highway construction was in progress m Pennsylvania. Lewis pointed out in his summary of road work that the 13,000 miles of construction represented the first improvement from the -mud stage to all-weather de pendable roads in rural Penn sylvania. He estimated that more than 15,000 workers were employed on the new roads as of July 1, 1931, and additional workmen were to be added to the forces during the latter half of that year Lewis also stated his department would spend Bicfcrround 'Sorlptnro: Matthtw 3il3* 17, Hebrow* _ Dtrotlonal Rtadicft John 14:1-11. , Son of God . Leiaon for July 8, 1958 ONE thing the Christian church has believed from the begin ning: Jesus is divine. 'Now the Bi ble never says that in those words A more vivid and personal way of expressing it is the Bible way There he is called Son of God Theologians have written volumes on top of volumes to -explain what it means to call Je- sus the Son of God, and some of these volumes are pretty hard to un- derstand It is im- portant to look into the Bible it self and see what is said therd. The letter to the Hebrews (one of those nine letters at the end of the New Testament), m the very first sen tence, gives Jesus the title of Son; but does not finish 'the sentence before beginning to explain a lit tle what is meant by this. God Speaks by a Son The first thing we are told here is that God, who has been speak ing to men for thousands of years in various ways, has at last spoken to us by a Son. Jesus Christ it God’s answer to man’s questions, be is the answer to man’s call for help, he is God calling to us. Men have long wished the sky were not so silent. They wish they could read the inscrutable mind of the most high God. Well, God has spoken, he has given <us bis last and best Word. And this Word Is not in the form of a textbook, not In the form of an answer-book for all the riddles of existence. God’s message to man Is not a creed, however good It may be. His mes sage is in a Person, a Life. We want to know what God thinks. We wish he 'would say something. Well, God has said... and what he says Is Jesus Christ. Through Him, lh» World Tha Una that divide* all thing* that exist into two different kinds of things, the first and most Im portant Una, Is 1101 ihe fine dtvid- ni "aaoiibHW" J Uil !5 $1,500.00 for new machinery for use m the construction of 20|- 000 miles of township roads taken over by the state in addi tion to the 13.000 miles of state highways. * < ]. Twenty five years ago this week, two new buildings were’ under construction at Penm syivania State College—a new 1 dairy "and creamery and a home economics quarters. WOMEN WORSE THAN MEN’ ■Miss Camilla Kelly, of Mem phis, Tenn, officially known as “Judge Camilla” said in a July, 1931, speech “that in woman misbehavior is just a little ■worse" than in men” * Judj*e Camilla believed that God held women to a higher degree of responsibility because they were the mothers of the human race. Men," she thought, have always been a little deceived by their superiority complex. One newspaper writer commenting on Judge Camilla’s opinion stated “Misbehavior in women is as shocking as the sight '■ of a rose in a sewer If it were a turnip or potato it would not be so bad. “Women are the roses, men the turnips, and women ought to remember that. But they don’t when they drink cock tails, dress indecently, cultivate the use of profanity, and drag jewels around that foolish hus bands give them.” Jng Spirit from matter. The real dividing-line is that which runs be tween Creator 'and Created, or to put it in another Way, the line .between God and everything els® that Is. When you take time to think about it, you can see that only God can be on>the creator side of creation. God alone, of all that exists, is because he is and not'because something or some body else made him be. Every man must say to himself, “If it were not for such and such a per son, or such and such an event, I would not be here.” But God could not truly say a thing like that Ha does not depend on something' or some one else for his very exist ence, as we do. It is by his good will that we are m the universe at all; it is by his will that the uni verse "is here for us to be in. Now, ,the letter to the Hebrews declares ■that Christ 4s God’s active agent ~ln creation In the simple words of ithe writer, we read that through r the Son, God created the world. (No wonder the early church soon saw that this puts Jesus on the God-side of that line dividing Cre ator from Created This is part of what we mean when we say that ■Jesus Christ is divine. Inflection and Stamp ) Another part of what we mean 'ls expressed in those two words [“reflection” and “stamp ” The old Greeks had a story about a crea iture called a Gorgon, with snake* ,for hair, so horrible that the very) sight of her turned the beholder to Istone. Only when a brave man' .'thought of going up to her, not looking directly at her but into a' mirror, was any one able to enter jher presence and live. In quite the .opposite way, God is not too hor jrible, but too holy, for men 'to gaze at. We too need a mirror Ito reflect the unbearable glory of jGod; Christ Is that reflection. He (is likewise the "“stamp” off God’s .nature. He Is -as it were God’s sig* l nature, his handwriting, his per sonal seaL (“Therefor*,.. Closer Attention” \ The divinity of Christ, of which these sentences In Hebrew are only a tew of the New Teslanbent testimonies, was neVer thought of. In those clear early days of the church, as a mere doctrine in a book. It meant and means some- Ithing intensely practical. If Jesu*( is -really divine, then, we J cannot lust take him or leave him. If he jis God’s Son be is no more op-, jtional than God is. Deciding for or Imgainst him is the most important ‘decision In life. What he tells and' (teaches is not “one man’s opin ion,” is not even the voice of genJ lus; it is the Voice of God. (Baud «n copyrighUd ay ta* DlTtilon of Christian Education, NaJ •Otooal -o«bb«(I at Um Charohw at In-On TT.e. A." eiliairt ey-OmManlty! Enas SorrUo.) < >» »
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers