4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, Oct. 5, 1956
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Tobacco Growers
Hold Session
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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.
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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.
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, 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.
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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—
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Devotional Reading: Psalm 104:24-33.
Creation
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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. . _
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