4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, Dec. 14, 1956 I ancaster yFarrnlng Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly Newspaper Established November 4, 1955 Published every Friday by OCTORARO NEWSPAPERS Quarryville, Pa. Phone 378 Lancaster Phone Express 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, Quarryvilie, Pa., under Act of March 3,1879 PUERTO RICO FOMENT© Last week’s Lancaster Farming touched upon some of the issues the West Indies Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands are facing and meeting Although they are lands quite remote from Lancas ter County, there are a few issues of interest to the Garden Spot, for this area has provided considerable quantities of seasonal labor. On the other hand, one native couldn’t figure where there would be a supply of labor to be tapped in the Virgin Islands, yet he at the same time complained of un employment there, the need for industries. Here are some items that show the cause and effect: The Virgin Islands, once great producers of sugar, have lost-their standing. Much of the produc tion has moved to Cuba. This year. Cuba has received from the USDA an increased quota and proration, to " 3,089,760 short tons, raw value, an increase of 54,000" tons, while the Virgin Islands small though they be i— have a revised quota of but 12,000, representing no Much of this has been due to production of sugar beets in the United States Little wonder hundreds of old stone mills stand today in the Virgin Islands, devoid of their sweeping wheels, empty shells of a sugar regime that once existed* The Virgin Islands best represent one of the best or worst examples of the rise and decline of agriculture. In Puerto Rico, there is change they call it fo mento. In the six year period of 1958-1963, new investment in that island is expected to provide 42,000 additional jobs. The Development Company will provide about ssB' million of the capital investment needed, and private sources will probably be tapped for the additional $3OO million neces sary. To June, 1956 the Development Company has drawn upon the U. S. Government General Fund $49.8 million, principally for construction of industrial plants. Streets are being torn up right and left in San Juan Parks and parkways are being constructed. Slums are being leveled. New housing, both private homes and apartment buildings, are going up in a $74 million program in the next two years that will provide 8,420 new homes. In the past four months, $l7 million has been spent for private building, seven million of that going into new one-family homes which may sell from $5OOO to $9OOO. Building ma terials purchased in the fiscal year 1955-56 totaled $34 millions. Building costs in the tropics are lower. No pro visions are necessary for heating. Masonry blocks prove economical construction, prove more weatherproof than frame. . , . Income tax exemptions are offered industries and builders from the United States. , In the Virgin Islands, one merchant in St. Croix complained sources of orivate loans are difficult. To quote him loosely. “To obtain $3 000 loan you must In December> 1906> Dan Jaflu . put up ten times that much collateral, then take a colored, filed an unusual chance you won’t get the loan. Our banks here are peonage charge in the federa i depending entirely on the fact they are federal de- court against James Patrick, positories for social security and other governmental prominent farmer of Ranfcm funds. I tried to gel a $3,000 loan, but it was suggested county. Miss. The affidavit -al- I put up almost $40,000 in security.” _ ieged January was held in m- New hotels are going up. New housing is- appear- voluntary: servitude together with mg. In San Juan the statesider would be most amazed to see I his wife and six children by L. the many men on the streets in the afternoon wearing D. Carter for about two years; coats,- white shirts and ties; youngsters sparkling clean, that Carter then sold him to Pa wearing neat clothing beautifully embroidered in the sew- trick for about two years; that ins so famed in the island. Slums still exist. The lower class Carter then sold him to Patrick still exists. Many workers live in rural villages until the for the sum of $lO9O, Carter al work season is over, then move to the city slums, with the one *<»*** - and HaTiem : How * ariSta?&?£ ever, this is by far not the majority. tody unt il the debt was cancelled. I Fomento fomenting, and the i building industry is j antJal y c jurg«d that he was fimenting in an area where once ships calling for sugar wWpp€d a trace un cine arrived with building materials as . ballast. Operation. hfc was bloody head to Hfot-Strap, some call it, and its effects are > far-reaching, . r smnething the average United States man should see toy. * believe. It’s a subject perhaps remote to, Lancaster County,!. BsckiaXancMtev County. at but worth /• -»■ STAFF . Business Manager Advertising Director Circulation Director By .TACK REICHARI) 50 YEARS AGO (1906) Fifty years ago this week, Odd Man Winter made front page news with a- knock-out blow of freezing wind and blinding snow across towns and farms in south western Missouri, southeastern Kansas, parts of Oklahoma and Indian Territory In certain sec tions of Oklahoma, where a fuel famine prevailed, great suffering resulted from the storm, At Man gum, the mayor of the city ap pealed to the Rock Island Rail road for a trainload of coal to redieve suffering there Railroad officials took immediate action; and the coal-laden tram was given the nght-of-way over all other traffic Between Grand Folks and Minot, North Dakota, on the Great Northern Railroad, 11 freight trains were snow bound due to the blizzard and a shortage of coal Publisher .. Editor BANKER SHORT ONE MILLION DOLLARS Depositors in the Farmers and Drovers National Bank at Waynesburg, Pa, received a stunning blow in their Christmas planning, in 1906, when J B F. Rinehart, the cashier, was charg ed with forgery and making false .statements to the comptroller of the currency in connection with the closing of the bank Bank Examiner John B Cunningham found a number of false entries on the books of the bank and placed the shortage at one mil lion dollars, but assured the de positors they would' receive everything due them Rinehart consented to assign all his prop erty, valued at one milfion dol lars, to the board‘of directors, who selected three disinterested business men to convert the property into cash Just when butchering time came around in Rlair County, Pa. that winter, an epidemic of cholera broke out among the hogs in the area. Dozens of the fattened porkers were killed and, their carcasses cremated.. TRAGEDY AT LANCASTER TRAIN KILLS YOUTH. The 1906 Christmas Season at Lancaster was marred fay tragedy, when William H. Gardner, 13, was instantly idled while- a P R R. railroad engine was shift ing cattle cars on the siding at the Lancaster Stock Yards. The youth had attempted to get on the cars,* when he missed his footing and was caught between the platform and moving train, throwing him tn the track, where several cars passed over his body. FARMER HELD ON ♦ PEONAGE CHARGE + * » >► * Week :er Farming * * *■ know.u butchers, purchased a steer from William Boyce, of Chestnut Level, which tipped the scales at 2,020 pounds, marking the largest beef ani mal the brothers had ever slaughtered. 25 Years Ago Duung the final sessions of the Pennsylvania Grange Con vention at Dubois in Dec 1931, things were enlivened by a heat ed verbal exchange between State Secretary of Agriculture John A. MJcSparian and E B. Dorsett, master of the State Grange. Mr. McSparran was a past master of the organization The tiff grew out of criticism directed at Governor Pinchot for his lack of support to a school bill proposed by the grange, de signed to give stronger State financial aid to' rural schools. Dorsett attacked the State ad ministration in his annual ad dress. McSparran supported the Governor’s policies and defend ed his action in the handling of the grange school measure Background Scripture. I Corinthians 12 27 —13 IS . Devotional Reading J 1 John 4 7-21 Way of Love Lesson for December 16, 1956 THERE are many ways of living in this world There Is the way of ruthless pride, with the motto: “The world is my orange and,l in tend to squeeze it ” There is the way of the fool, who never thinks beyond today and Is always sur prised to discover that what he sowed came up and what he didn't plant did not come There Js the way of the 1 a'z y man who can't be bothered, and who always takes the easiest ■ way no matter what Thar* Is even'the way of hate, tha way of bitterness and suspicion, going always downhill Dr. Foreman among dead trees without leaf or fruit. Everybody knows that these are none of them Christian ways. Even those whoi are 4 not Christians know that the- way of Christ is the way of love. Other Ways a! Leva But what is the Christian way of love? There are more ways than ione to use the word “love ’’ There are ways- of love, so called, which «-m»n “for-bettev' .for worse, for-richer for poorer. In sickness and in health " But- she does-not really hear the vow she makes. And if the man turns out to be poorer or worse than she thought* she -topics up a divorce lawyer. The, way of Christian love -docs not demand Jovsbleness first; on the .contrary, -Christian love can make an unlovely and unloving -person lovable, ,Som» K love is- all | for one’s own benefit; “1 love you” . can mean no- more than “I want you for my exclusive use." Chris | tlan love "doea- not Insist on- Its own way.” It does not ask; "What I can you do 'fer‘aaaT"'-but ,“What- 41 HUNTERS KILLED IN 1931 DEES SEASON Pennsylvania’s 1931 deer sea son closed Tuesday, Dec 15, with an 1