4—Lancaster Farming* Friday, Aug. 3, 1956
Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly Newspaper
Established November 4, 1955
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Lancaster Phone 4-3047
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IT’S FAIR TIME AGAIN
Last week’s Lancaster Farming provided a list ot
state, county and community fairs that will be in full
swing before long There’s an impressive number of them,
and Lancaster County has its share. v
Although many fairs have operated on a shoe
string budget, interest is increasing, expenditures become
more great, and premium awards more attractive There’s
an interest in the fair, with its color, its sounds, its dazz
ling spectacles, its tinkling tunes
Fairs were once markets. Today this theme still
prevails As one livestock breeder told us, exhibiting stock
at a fair is advertising.
There’s a moment of pride when a youngster shows
his 4-H steer to a blue or a purple ribbon. Mom’s pleased
as all get-out too when her jar of pickles is judged tops.
Dad has his day too, shepherding the family about the
grounds, down the midway, through the exhibit halls and
tents, and he’s among the showmen too.
In days gone by, “Tent City” at the state fair pro
vided the family summer vacation. Invariably it rained.
Tents -toppled, rivers rushed through the tents. Early
morning awakening was not to the bugle, the crow ot a
rooster. it was the call of “Hey, Elmer,” or some ambiti
tous, early risers who chose thatjuoment for a bit of hog
calling
There’s challenge in showing It encourages de
velopment of better animals, better grains. It sets a type
whiqh others in class or species must fill The halls ot
horticulture bring the best from field and garden, the
halls of homework the finest needles can produce, line
arts the tops in beauty It creates competition, and never
is it more keen than in the showring, or when the judge
makes his rounds.
Teaching showmanship is something the office of
Lancaster County’s agriculture agent has encouraged.
Just within the past year, Lancaster County has been
honored and selected as the site of several regional and
national sales and shows in the livestock world.
Although it has numerous local fairs, the Garden
Spot tops in the agricultural field lacks a countywide
fair that is all encompassing. At one time there was such
a fair. Perhaps in the future, it is hoped, there may be a
return to a countywide celebration.
At this season, you can’t help humming
“The Sun is a-shining
To welcome the day,
Heigh, ho come to the fair!”
Just recently the World’s Greatest Show, Singling
Bros, folded its tents and returned to winter quarters in
stead of facing an unreasonable financial loss to a public
whose interests have been diverted to other fields of en
tertainment.
There was something about the circus that made
a kid a man and that made a man a kid. First the sight
of the colorful tram pulling into town, the unloading ot
the glistening wagons, the animals filing out, as though
from a steam-powered Noah’s Ark, caught everyone’s eye.
There were jokes about the circus, and many a
ticket was earned by youngsters who followed the admoni
tion of one adult, “If you want to do something big, my
son, go wash an elephant.”
SUPPORTS: SURPLUSES, CONTROLS
Farm price supports inevitably lead to
and federal controls, producing a static rather than a
dynamic agriculture, Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Tatt
Benson asserted recently. A temporary increase in prices
can be legislated, but controls transfer decisions from the
farmer to the government.
A free economy is something farmers haven’t
known since the days when Secretary Wallace first started
farm curbs in the Department of Agriculture. Whether
there will ever be a free farm economy again or not is a
moot question.
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50 Years Ago
This Week on Lancaster Farms
50 YEARS AGO (1906)
- By JACK REICHARD
50 YEARS AGO (1906)
Horse Incurably Insane
On Connecticut Farm
In a special dispatch to the
New Yprk Times from Water
bary, Conn, it was declared that
a horse on the faim of Ben Till
man was incurably insane. The
dispatch stated “It plays un
pardonable tricks, trying to
stand on its head in the garden,
squeals and neighs at night in
open defiance to all regulations,
and tries to destroy its stall
Veterinarians say the ease is a
rare one of equine aberration
The animal is quiet enough
in harness, and if the sun is not
shining, but it refuses to behave
itself in the sunshine.”
Ex-Senator and Family
Forced to Telp Save Crops
CHOPS
John I. Yeend, a former sen
ator from the State of Wash
ington, and his family, were
lorced to work in the harvest
fields on his Dry Creek ranch
due to labor scarcity, in 1906
Miss Emma Yeend, one of
Walla Walla’s “400 Set”, gave
a hand on the header box, while
Miss Alice Yeend operated the
derrick Mrs Yeend and two
other daughters cooked for the
big outfit The Yeends gave up
a vacation at the seashore 'to
save the crop
On the Lancaster farm of
E. g. Bsbenshad*, at Lea
man Place, a barn including
its of hay, straw,
two wagons and sleigh, was
destroyed by fire during mid
afternoon on -that August 5,
Sunday, in 1906. The build
ing was close to the railroad
tracks and was Relieved -to
have been set on fire from
sparks of an engine.
Out in Decutor, 111, light
ning struck the Walnut Grove
Church just as Sunday School
was being dismissed One person
was fatally burned, another had
a toe burned off, apd more than
a dozen were severely shocked
Harvest Services
At Willow Street
A song service and harvest
sermon was the feature - on the
program at a Bible meeting held
at the Willow Street Menno 1
nite Church that August 'morn
ing and afternoon in 1906
Among the speakers were Rev
erend Noah Mack, of Nety Hol
land, Reverand John Mosemann,
of Lancaster; Reverend C. M
Brackbill, of Gap; -Harry' B. Hen,
Lampeter; I B. Graybill, Lan
caster. and J. D Hershey, of
Lititz
One-half century ago, snow
was selling in Italy at one
cent per ■ pound. The enter
prise was a government mon
opoly, and the iPrince of Pa
lermo derived the greater
part of his income from the
business. The s«ow was gath
ered on the mountains in felt
covered baskets and was sold
in cities for refrigerating
purposes.
Fifty years ago, a German
chemist declaied that certain
substances, deadly in their ef
fects to humans, can be taken
by animals with impunity. It
was* planned, “horses can take
-large doses of antimony. dogs
of mercuiy, goats of tobacco,
mice of hemlock and rabbits of
belladona, all without injury- On
the Other hand, dogs and cats
are much more susceptible to
the influence of. chloroform
than man, and they are much
sooner killed by it."
25 YEARS A(?0 (1931)
Johnstown Pa. Hit
'Ey Flood Waters
Sunday, Aug 2, 1931, a large
part of the business section of
Johnstown was flooded when a
cloudburst stiuck the city.
Water, to the depth of three
and a half feet, covered more
than four blocks of the down
town area Automobiles, caught
by the downpour, were stalled
in the streets up to their ljubs
m water; street car service was,
paralyzed At least four persons
were injured in accidents during;
the storm, which was accom
panied by an electrical display^
An average yield of 40
bushels of oats to an acre
was reported by Lancaster
farmers in 1931.
Woman Trampled
By Bull
Mrs John Wevadan, Mech
anicsburg R 5, was attacked by
a bull at her farm She suffered
a fractured collarbone, lacera
tions of the leg, body bruises
and internal injuries
Saturday, August 1, 1931,
the annual convention of the
Old Fiddlers’ Association of
Lancaster and Chester Coun-
Background Scripture. Luke 2 40. 31*
52, I Peter 2 1-3, 4 1-11 2 Peter 1
Devotional-Reading- Phllippians 4-4-9.
lit Two Ways i
Lesson for August 5, 1956
THE United States now has
more drug addicts than all
other western nations combined—
sixty thousand In the past three
years the Federal Bureau of Nar
cotics has compiled a list of namej
and addresses of 30,000 known ad
diets, and the,list Is e ':hf
pate of a thou
pand every month.
IThese and other
3 acts were
brought to hgjit
iast January by a
Benate Judiciary
Subcommittee
after seven
months seeking
the facts. Illegal
dope traffic, they Dr. Foreman
found out, has trebled since World
JWar 11. Whereas at the war’s end
there was one addict to every 10,
000 persons, now there is one -to
every 3,000. Approximately 50% of
nil crime In our cities, and 25% of
all crime In the nation at large, is
traceable to drug addiction.
How Dots It Start? '
The narcotics evil, like the alco
hol evil, like most social sores, be
gins with the young people. If for
one generation you could bring up
children and young people with no
knowledge of .such thing* and no
temptation to indulge, you would
have dealt a heavy blow to those
who traffic In these things. No
body, no healthy J)oy .or girl cer
tainly, wants to be the sort of
wretch Frank Sinatra, played In
“The Man with the Golden Arm,"
or the kind of persona you may
find in the hospitals that try to do
something with narcotics victim*.
But young people the traffic must
have Thirteen per cent of all dope
addicts in the country aro under
21. (These figures from TIME
magazine for last Jan. 16.) Now,
ho..v does a boy or girl get started
on the dope habit? How do they
get started drinking? The other
1 Ight a boy in his second stolen
cr.r tor that night knocked In two
store fronts and woke up in the
hospital Hi* girl friend woke up
next morning In i*lh Both were
ties was held at Crystal Park,]
Parkeslmrg,
George W. Hensel, "Jr., of.|
Quarryvilie, head of theJS
group, was born a fiddler, jg
aud fiddled still, although he||
was past the age of 65. II
Throughout the park, ogji
rocks, in stumps, in all soits|j
of places, the fiddlers and!|
other entertainers thrilled! 1 *
thousands that day, with*
their strips of cat and horsey
hair, and boxes of wood stuckp
together with glue, from|,|
which ihey conjured tunes, J
stirring the emotions of younjg
and old. Si
In an interview with theQj
late Mr. Hensel, by the writer
,of this column on
Aug. 2, the day following the l
convention, the jovial, kind, Ji
genial sage nf Quarryvilie,
summed it up this way; '
“They shuffled their
they sang; and how they did; |
roar; the oldsters felt thcylS
were young once more. Tht»||
kids patted Juba and
their toes, a.nd the girls tui n---?|
ed. round and petted their
beaus, while everyone frompg
far and near had the merriest
time of all the year.” '||
On the Lancaster farm of
Gothleib Feiler, that Augu='g
week in 1931, sixteen neighbor
were at work thrashing Feilei <
ten acre field of oats Five wa f,
gons were used to haul the,
gram to the thresher Feiler to [j
a patient at the Lancaster Gen |
eral Hospital %
about sixteen, both had been'
drinking—beer, she said The ques-- ! ,3
tion Is, Why do they do it? What ; J
starts them off? ,
Letting Yourself Go
One answer given by young PM“a|
pie themselves is that they au,J|
after thrills, "a kick" Just
young is not thrill enough, th«j,
have to jazz it up with alcohol om||
nai'cotics. Let yourself go! thtjCT
say to themselves Go on.
faster; when all the thrill naturifSi
provides are stale, then go aft«,~H
the artificial jolts you can
from a bottle or a hypodermic svi»‘ si
mge. This is not all the fault ol,S|
young people Older people of
lead them astray Even teacherigi
may do it, for there is a philobO'pS
phy of education that says, in
feet, that a child must never big
made to do what he doesn’t wan *fjS
to do. ‘‘What I want" is
to be the key to happiness NoflipS
this is pr-eCiSely the opposite of
Christian way of living
trol, not letting yourself go, is
ways a mark of the Christian ji
in every New Testament descnp|y|
tion of it Life without inner coH|||
trol is not only a weak life, it u‘ M
headed for a crash.
Who’s to Blame?
Sometimes the blame tor y° un vS
people’s downfall Is not to be iMd
at the door of the traflfickeis i4'is
drugs. Parents themselves wMl'iJ
have never said “No" may be M
blame. Some years ago a school) i
lor girls received this letter frosya
a wealthy woman: “My daughte®
has always been spoiled .and givej®
as much money as she cou ';|:|
spenjd. "She Is sixteen years old
I’m afraid has the wrong view 01
Iffo ... I don’t think her comps' l '
ipns are just the right sort either :
... I shall try very ba?d to havjSg
her wardrobe proper although 11
will be-extremely difficult becau^^s
she has always had very ex P e(l '[j
sive and extremely fancy clothe*ra
.. . Please advise as to”what
jects she had better take up B f||
either Latin or domestic aciendtg
can ba taken I prefer D S becausL||
sha knows very little about cotwo
ing. I am very glad the girls ar*^
requested to keep their rooms
order • It is my wish that
daughter becomes what a res|J
American girl should be, a perf«'||
wife and mother, and under yo u '|||
care I hope she will come home t g|
us a different girl." Do you thi [ 'j||
sh* did? Do you think she coUl g|
have? If you had been in charfi'j^j
of that school, would you have
cepted this girl? If she flnaWgj
turned out to be an alcoholic or 19
narcotic drug addict, whose fa" 1 ®
would It have been? The Christ'* ■
Way is the harder road—till ■
get to the endl ■
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