4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, Oct. 5, 1956 r '~~ (IK 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 Publisher Ernest J. Neill * Editor c. Wallace Abel Business Manager Robert G. Campbell Advertising Director Robert J. Wiggins Circulation Director Subscription Rates: 52.00 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 FARM ISSUE NUMBER ONE - Looking for farm support, candidates are centering now on the farm problem ~ or would it best be called the farm issue as election day draws nearer. - , Both President Eisenhower and Secretary of Agri culture Ezra Taft Benson haye outlined the proposed Re publican agricultural plank, which may be summarized thusly: . , , A 1, use Soil Bank fully to bolster prices, conserve soil, balance production; ' - 2, use farm surpluses constructively at home and abroad; 3, maintain price supports on flexible basis to en courage production of crop's in short supply, 4, maintain farm credit, adjusted to needs; , 5, carry forward expanded soil, water conserva tion programs; 6, special programs to relieve periodic market congestion-of perishable farm products; 7, continue Rural Development program for farm families in the lower economic ladder rungs; .8, continue emergency help to farmers, ranchers beset by natural disasters; 9, keep expanding agricultural research to develop new crops, new uses, new markets; 10, strengthen current programs as rural electrifi cation and rural telephone service. —Two other quotations from the President are worthy of note; one, “You know, farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.” Another, “And yet, some poli ticians say that to counteract the poisons spread by the old farm programs farmers ought to swallow the same programs all over again. That line of thinking suggests to me Abe Lincoln’s old story about a fence and a pig. The fence was so crooked that every time the pig went through it he came out on the same side he went in. Lately it seems that-some people have gone the pig one better. On price supports they’ve come out on both sides of the fence ” Adlai E. Stevenson replies with a charge there has been loose administration of the soil bank, and that the President’s speech was “noteworthy for some of its ommis sions: “He proposed no new program for agriculture; he didn’t even mention his Secretary-of Agriculture. Does he think he can keep Ezra Taft Benson secret till November?” Mr. Stevenson “would remind the President that Mr, Ben son had opposed the whole idea until this election year. And is it possible that the President has not heard about the loose administration of the Soil Bank to pour money into the farm belt before election, or does the President deny that this is playing politics, and with huge sums Of the taxpayers’ money?” There are two sides to every question. The farm fence is topped with some sturdy barbed wire. Pity the (politician who winds up straddling the fence. LONGER. LOWER. MORE H. P. Longer lower more horsepower. Seems the auto industry scrapped intended 1957 designs and will present this year some more advanced styling in one of the most competitive races the industry ticis s^6n« There are teaser advertisements, maybe a wheel, maybe a chassis suspense builders that give only the slightest hint of what is to come, while the driver of a 1955 or 1956 model: wonders how much out of date or out of style he is going to be. Automobile advertising has, in recent years, steer ed away from price advertising. Theye are indications prices this season will be slightly higher. It’s a great season, when the dealers and distribu tors pique your curiosity with ( announcements that leave you ih suspense. Like the days of the 19205, today’s auto owner may well look at his garage and let it wonder him how soon he must extend its length to accomodate tomorrow’s or today’s models. STAFF 50 Years Ago This Week on Lancaster Farms 50 YEARS AGO (1906) By JACK REICHARD (Half a century ago, loneliness was listed as one of the chief objections of farm lifo> 'How ever, an agricultural writer of that day stated that this was no barrier to the enterprising, industrious man or woman. He pointed out that no time is left for such feeling after the day’s work is finished. Either the fanner and his family are too tirjed to be lonely or they are glad for a chance to enjoy each other’s company and read the papers. * * The first snow in the 1906 season fell at Altoona, Ea., on Wednesday, October 10. A heavy wet snow, driven by high winds, also fell in Cleve land, Ohio, that day; it was reported the most severe since October 5, 1892. * 1 i Free Chestnuts For All In Lancaster County, during the first week in October 1906, Fred Shoff opened his 300-acre Paragon chestnut grove in the Colemanville area, tree to school children of the county and city, who were accompanied by their teachers or parents. The second week in that month was thrown open to the general public Shoff reported the 1906 yield a recosd crop Below the Mason-Dixon Line, Maryland, William -T. Fryer reported he had packed cater 1200 cases of tomatoes at' his Colors cannery during the 1906 season and was still packing. T. ZT. Ewing had picked 22 tons of ripe toma toes from a patch of two acres, and J. M. Tosh had finished with 40 tons from his four acres. * *» Tobacco Growers Hold Session % The October, 1906, meeting of the Lancaster County Tobacco Growers’ Association was held in the Grand Army Hall at Lan caster The average price paid for Lancaster County grown tobacco that year was 16 and 6 sj h Elsewhere in Lancaster County, John H. Keener, Man or Township, admitted having fired the barns of Christian Dietrich and Edward Fenster macher, his neighbors. His statement was made in writing before a notary public, and charges of arson were pre ferred against him. * * 25 Years Ago Woman Falls Into Well At Colora, Md., Mrs. J. Frank Foster, was still alive to tell of her experience after falling into a well at her home. The well was at the rear of the kitchen and the joists of the covering had become rotten; she fell through into three feet of water. The well was > quite deep. She was alone at the time and had to remain in the water until her son learned, of the mishap. Neighbors were summoned and her son, Gordon, with flashlight and rope, descended and pulled her out. Mrs. Foster escaped with bruises, a sprained ankle and wet clothes. * * ♦ , The October, 1951. meeting of the Lancaster County Tobac co Growers’ Association was held in the Farm Bureau Room at the Woolworth Building, Lancaster, with L. C. Creamer presiding, j . During that' same week in October, thieves entered the chicken house on the Lancaster farm of John Caldwell, near Unicom, and about a dozen chickens were stolen. * >». * Burns Home, defies Firemen Charles Campbell, who lived alone on a small track farm at ColemanvlllQ, set fire to his house and for a time defied the attempts of firemen to come close enough to fight the blaze. Campbell appeared at the door with a shotgun and warned he would shoot if they came'near. When Campbell walked out of the burning building, he was placed under arrest by Constable W. G. Sweigart. - . * * In the lower end of the county, the seven year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Gil ley, Puseyville, suffered a badly scalded leg above the knee, when a large pan of boiling rice tipped over on the boy. Background Scripture: Genesis Itl— -2 3 Devotional Reading: Psalm 104:24-33. Creation * r~ Lesson for October 7, 1956 IT IS one of the tragedies of Chris tian history that the first book of the Bible, as'well as the last, has been fought over, bitterly, from generation to generation. In spite of all the quarrels, however (and there seems to be no hope of all Christians agree here), there are certain great truths in this magnificent prose-poem with which the Bible begins, which are agreed on by all Christians. Let us pick out three of Dr. Foreman these, “In the Beginning, God-—” The first truth is that this vast universe did not merely happen. It was intended. It is intended. God (so to speak) invented it. Why should anything be? is a thought that has occurred to countless peo ple. Why is there something in stead of nothing, anything at all instead of nothing? Is it just a happen-so? Did the universe make itself, as if were, like a dust-storm building up in the desert or an icicle dripping'itself longer day by day? Was there some blind Neces sity at the beginning of all things? Or maybe did the earth and all the universe exist forever without any beginning? Not at all That the universe is here at all is be cause of God who planned it and brought it into being. How long ago this started, or how- many changes have taken place since the first instant of time, makes no dif ference with the main point: name ly, that the universe does not ex plain itself, did not cause Itself, hut is what it is and as it is be cause God willed it. Furthermore, if God created it, including our selves, he had a reason. We can not conceive of God working blind ly or at random or for no reason. Order and Law The more men study the uni verse, whether the great and im measurable universe around us, in Penn State Fourth At Eastern States The dairy cattle judging team from Pennsylvania State Univer. sity placed fourth at the Easteip States Exposition Sept. 17. Ohm State, Cornell, Massachusetts, and Penn State were the lop four in a field of 13. The team finished second m Brown Swiss, third m Holsteins, fourth in Jerseys, fifth in Guein seys and 11th in Ayrshires, Team members were Earl £. Berger of Lehighton, Neil L. Bowen of Wellsboro, Gordon j. Miller of Clarks Summit, and alternate -Thomas W- Kelly o£ Eighty-Four. Bowen placed first in Guern seys and second in Jerseys. He received a silver pitcher 'from the American .-Guernsey Cattle Club and a true type model Jer sey cow from the Jersey Cattle Club. Miller finished third m Brown Swiss. The team is coach ed by William H. Cloninger, as sociate professor of' dairy pro duction. _ ADOPT 11 CHILDREN Chicago Mrs. Elizabeth J. Duhig, 32, who married Martin Duhig last February, became the mother of his 11 children by adoption recently. The children are of Duhig’s first marriage to Mrs. June Duhig, who died 14 months earlier. The present Mrs. Duhig’s first husband, Geoige Caley, died in 1953. They had no children'. which our sun Is no mors than { mediocre star nowhere near center of things, or the marvelous tiny universe discovered by thij miscroscope—the more men study, all this the more they discovet that it is a universe-'of law. If the sun rises at all tomorrow, mers know precisely when it will rise. They can know It years b*d forehand. Men Used to be surprised! by eclipses. Now we.can calculate the time of every eclipse that will take place, or that has taken place since before the time of man. Even that most unpredictable of things/ the wind, can be forecast better than once it could. Men once had to take hurricanes as they came. Now they can be warned of them' and their tracks are mostly known.' Man in discovering such things isl simply “thinking God’s thoughts after him.” As -one astronomer ie«j marked, the universe seems mot* like a great Thought than a great Machine. In these universal laws,] in their regularity and dependa* bihty, we can read the will of God.| This does not mean that we under*, stand everything—far from it Mys tery surrounds us still. But noj science at all would be possible if; we could not count on a woild that “makes sense” from the smallest, atom to the mightiest stai. God Created No Evil The story-poem of Creation in Genesis ends with the joyful not* —God saw all he had made, and i* was very good. If anything God has created seems bad, it is either because we do not know how to use it, or we have barged in whet* we do not belong, or because w* ourselves have made it bad St Thomas Aquinas once comparel this world to a tool-shop full 0 well-sharpened tools. It is not sat* to turn a child or lunatic loose «• there; but a master-workman ww not get hurt. So as men are le 4in ‘ ing about the universe they * r * finding out how to use the mate' rials that the Creator has set our disposal. But much that is eV in the world is of our own making Most dust storms, for example. »r made by man’s greed and stuP 1 ' ity to begin with, in digging up 50 that was never meant for culm tlon. The whole race of man r ‘°' stands in terror of death, though we have discovered how harness the power in the otoift power our fathers knew was tn but had no idea how to reach have put more effective thouS" into using it for destruction for-man’s help. But all man’s uses of God’s creation must " make us forget that when Goo looked it over, he saw that it w good. . _ (BateS on outline* o#pyrl,M*f W Division oT 'Chrl«tlan Edoo»U° o £j r ij Uonal Council of the Churcbe* J* Is Wo tJ. e.- B. by Con»“ j rrtt* •ortio#.) 1 • i--'
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