4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, Dec. 14, 1956
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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
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:er Farming
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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
<are not the Christian way. For in
stance, there- la something called
love,, which consists really of fond
ness for things or people that are,
dovable. For-example, a young
woman stands at an altar and
promites to t»ke>«-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 <all time record for
hunters killed State Game Com
mission compilations showed 41
gunners were accidently killed
and did not include scores of
others who were still in hospi
tals suffering from wounds. In
addition to those killed by guns,
seven hunters had succumbed
to heart disease while gunning.
During that same season,
, hunters returning from the
South Mountain, reported a
great abundance of apples in
the Boonsboro area, where
orchard groundsL lay covered
with apples that had not been
picked or gathered for market
because of the low price.
Thousands ol'bushels of York
Grimes Golden.
Paradise, Delicious, Staymen.
Winesap and Hack Twig ap
ples were left to rot.
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FARM SOCIETY
NO. 12 MEETS
Lancaster County Farm Soci
ety No. 12 met iat the home of
Mrs. Lillie Girvin, Mt. Nebo, 25
years ago this week, with 81
members ancf guests in atten
dance Following the business
session Santa arrived with a
small gift for each, one present.
Music was furnished for the oc
casion by the Mt Nebo Moun
taineers
Blessing the Universe
Another way of love, sometimes
mistaken for the Chnstian way, is
no better than sheei sloppy senti
mentality Sometimes it consists in
a vague feeling that eveiything is
very nice in a very happy vvoild.
A minister once pieached on the
text, “Ye that love the Lord, hat*
evil.’’ After the seimon a lady told
him she didn’t like that-sermon at
•11 She had been brought up to
believe that love was always light
and hate always wrong Love is al
ways right, yes; but that does not
mean we can feel free to love what
is evil If we love the good, wa
shall not love what destroys good.
Sometimes this substitute for
Chnstian love takes the form of a
general feeling of good will toward
the world in gcneial A well-known
American wrote shoitly before his
death, “I bless the universe.” Now
it is certainly better to bless -th*
universe than to curse it But bless
ing the universe seems a curious
sort of thing to do. Are you really
blessing all of it, sir? Cholera and
polio, stars and atoms and ty
phoons and germs, criminal and
Judge, saints and sinners, miracles
and murderers 7 We have' to bs
careful that we don’t love th* uni
verse in such a way that Whatever
happens seems- exanly nghtl
The Way "
The,Christian way of lov* is not
totally different from these other
ways; but it is vitally different. It
is inspired by God in the first place
*nd it mirrors his love. It goes be
yond the lovable; it is more"than
an -exchange of love. It even go
out to one’s- -enemies. American
history, gives ua two striking illus
trations of the actual power o|
love, in two men on opposite sldel
of- the American civil war. Ths
two enemies, as they once" were,
are now honored more perhaps
than any other two in that tragid
conflict; Lincoln and Lee. Each
was a man who could! do nothing
else but stand by his convictions
and flgjit even when other men
were ready to -give up. Their lov*
was not the child of indiff*rene*,
selfishness or cowardice. But It was
Lincoln who coined th* phrase,
“charity toward all and makes
toward none." and he meant
every word- ol it. It was Le* who
later as president of a college re
fused to let any one In Wa presence
speak evil of his former enemies.
It is not the men who are the best
haters, but those who show wlut
rsn-frUan love is, who hav* great
est power over the hearts- of man
kind.
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