4—Lancaster Fiutmng, Friday, March 29, 1957 Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly Newspaper Established November 4, 1955 Published every Friday by OCTORARO NEWSPAPERS Quarry vdlle, Pa. Phone STerling 6-2132 Lancaster Phone Express 4-3047 Alfred C. Alspach Robert E. Best Robert G. Campbell Robert J. Wiggins | Subscription Rates: $2.00 Per Year I, Three Years $5.00; 5 i Per Copy 1 Entered as Second-Class matter at the Post Office, ' Quarryville, Pa., under Act of March 3, 1879 Supply and Demand ■i Politicians and other big voices in agriculture do a lot of talingk about the “law of supply and demand.” Most ‘{of us agree that supply and demand is the basis 'of eco nomics, but many of us are inclined to get hazy on'just iwhat the magic formula is. So lets take a look atsupply and demand and some of the rules and requirements for its proper functioning. 1 Rule One People will buy more of an item when the price is low and less when it is high. As used here (and in Rule Two), the terms “high” and (“low” are relative. For example, -value of money changes 10 cents ar pound would have been a high price for hogs in 1940, but it is a low.price todays because the dollar is only worth about one-half as much now as then. In the case of some items for-example, beefsteak it takes a smaller reduction in price to get people-to buy more than in the case of some other items, such as potatoes. Rule Two Producers will supply more of an item when the price is high and less when it is low. Producers are in business to make money. So they want to produce those things which seem to offer them the bestjchance to make a profit. When the price of-an item is relatively high, people who are already producing it look for ways of increasing their production and other people move into the same business. When the prices are rela tively low, the reverse takes place. This happens in agri culture, too, but these shifts take time. ■» Rule Three The market price tends to settle at the point where the supply offered by producers will be in balance with the quantity demanded by buyers. This happens because neither the producers nor the buyers are operating without the other. In. agriculture the operation of this rule is some times hidden by such things as irregular marketings and uncontrollable variations in production. But, when we look "at average prices and allow for all of "the factors that affect a market, we will find that the rule does work. Rule Four The demand for an item can change. Demand can be changed by such things as a rise or fall in consumer incomes, improvement in the quality of the product, a new development in the foreign trade situa tion, discovery of a new use, the of a substi tute, or promotional activities which cause consumers to shift from one product to another. - Rule Five The quantity of a product producers will supply at a certain price can also change. Other things being equal, producers will supply more at a certain price when ways of cutting cost of pro duction are found, when new resources such as reclaimed land; are brought into production, or when it becomes less profitable to produce something else. Polio Vaccination Makes Sense Suppose someone took you aside and said: “You have an enemy who’may waylay you and cripple you for life. But I know how you can stop this enemy. You'll have to act fast. It won't cost much money, and it will take only 180 seconds of your time.” If you knew the facts were true, you’d take him up on it, wouldn’t you? . Well, the facts are true. The enemy, is .paralytic polio. If you’fe under 40 years old, you’re a possible victim. If polio strikes, you may face a life shattered by disease and disa bility. There is no cure for paralytic polio, but there is a way to prevent it. The preventive is the Salk vaccine: It is safe and it works. Three properly spaced shots—at 60 seconds a shot—gives you protection. Over 45 million Americans have been smart enough to get this protection. But 60 million in the susceptible age group have been foolhardy enough to neglect it. STAFF . Advertising Director .. Circulation Director BY JACK REICHARD 50 YEARS AGO (1907) Fifty years ago this week, the entire fruit crop of Southern Maryland had been reported kill ed by' a sneak cold snap, with thermometers registering 22 de grees. Peach trees were in full bloom, while apples, pears and other fruit trees were in such advance state that the total de struction was declared certain. Further south, in Norfolk County, Virginia, dn official read ing of 30 degrees was reported, damaging the growing crop of early potatoes, peas, beans and strawberries. Si Si " INCENDIARY FIRE DESTROYS MILL Publisher Editor In Norfolk, Va., that week, fire of mcenliary origin destroy ed the huge Dairy Rolling Mills, entailed a loss of $lOO,OOO. A woman-who conducted an eating place across the street from the mills informed the police she had seen two men pouring the contents of a bottle against the sides of (the mill building just be fore the fire started. One of them ran after her when he saw she had witnessed their action, she told police. No trace of the men could be found. In Lancaster County that same week a fire, believed to have started fronr an electric wire, broke out in the gymnasin ait Lititz’s Linden Hall Semin ary. Part of the roof was burned off and the interior damaged by fire and water before firemen brought ,the blaze under control. The building originally was a barn, which was fitted up as a gymnasium for the young ladies of the seminary. • • • mule drags boy TO DEATH Shull Skelly, nine, was dragged to death hy a runaway mule at New Franklin, Pa. The youth was riding the mule home from a blacksmith shop when the animal frightened at something and ran away. The boy’s feet were caught in a strap, and he was dragged over the rough dirt road. The first knowledge the parents had of the accident was when the mule returned home without their son. On the farm of Mr. and Mrs. 'C. A. Kitzmiller, near lsew Cum berland, a three-year-old daugh ter of Clarence Kitzmiller, Har risburg, received burns from a brush lire which caused her death. The child wias on a week’s visit with her grandparents and was playing about a brush fire, when she tripped and plunged head first upon the flaming pyre. She sprang up afid ran scream ing away, with her clothing a blaze. A farm hand tore the'cloth ing from her, but not before fatal bums were inflicted. Pete, a canary owned by Mrs. Effie Sishop of Qujmry, Mass., survived, by -burying his bill in his feathers when a fire filled the house with smoke. • At Lancaster that "week, Harry Hammond had the' misfortune of having his horse killed when struck by a trolley «ar. The ■animal was knocked down, break ing both front legs and otherwise injured, dying about one hour later. The wagon.’was damaged considerablely , and the driver was thrown out and suffered body bruises. 25 Years Ago Men are far more careless than’ women. That was the conclusion expressed by a prominent official of an insurance , company, ' 25 years ago. ' He admitted that women do foolish things about the home, like carrying around knives as if they were pieces of wood,-and cook over open flames wearing loose, hanging"clothing, andithenare surprised whenthey ♦ « .* • Week r Farming catch on fire. But after a lifetime of observation, the insurance ex pert declared women’s stupidi ties were pale beside the long list he could bring against men. In Chicago, in the gallery of a Baptist Church, a dog began to yelp when the choir started to sing and the music was halted until the animal was ejected. >i * * SHEEP AND WOOL GROWERS IN SESSION Twenty-five* years ago this week, many of the 28 cooperative sheep and wool growers associa tions were holding their annual meetings. In' 1931- these organizations marketed 600,000 lbs. of wool for 3,500 farmers, reported W. B. Connell, sheep and wool exten sion specialist of the Pennsyl vania State College. In 1932 it was decided to con tinue the wool pools and sponsor five sales at which about 200 purebred rams were to be sold Definite action also was taken by the associations to get all mem bers to use paper twine for tying Wools. Several associations stress ed a cooperative lamb marketing program where local markets were unsatisfactory. Joe Kirk, the bee king of Low er Lancaster County and pro ducer of blue ribbon honey at his Fulton Township property, 25 years ago, declared that the polecat’s taste ran to honey bees. According to Mr. Kirk, the pole cat approached the hive, scratch ed on the board, and when the bees epierged, gulped them down without batting an eye. It was pointed out that the polecat’s competitor is the toad. He takes a position in front of the en trance to the hive and when the bee appears, the toad reaches out with his long tongue and lands Back in 1932, Senator Borah [the prey. Beckrrrand Scripture: Matthew 24-25. , Devotional JReadinj; Matthew 24:32-44. Last judgment Lesson for March 31,1957 ALL' human judgments are im- A perfect, and some of them highly unjust; because no man knows all the circumstances of any act, not even his awn, We are notoriously poor judges of our own actions: but we are no juster to others. Judgments of ourselves are spoiled by prr about others are spoiled by prej- udice. We never do really see any action in all its dimensions. ,We can never judge the conse* quences of an act because- we know only a small fraction Dr - Foreman of them. We cannot well judge the motives _of an act, because we mislead ior read through rose colored glasses) our own motives, and the motives of others we car do no' more than guess at Final Jndgnunt Nevertheless, most of us are called onto pass judgment on others in- various ways. And when we are honest we do try to come as near to God’s viewpoint as we can. That is, wa try to take every thing into consideration. But try as, we„m»y, we must admit first and last that only God can be the final Judge, for only he has all the facts. There are many pic-1 turea of the “Last Judgment” in I the ‘Bible- and "they do not agree In detail*, since- they are pic tures -of 'What cannot really be. Imagined. But hack j af all the-pie-- tures, atom, compelling, chilling -as some of=threffl are, we discern some plain- truth*. One is that not only is -God -the final Judge of every man, but his judgment is -final because he -and only -he has all the facts, and he does not-render his Judgment till all the facts are in. True, God's judgment is go s -on all the time, and we can rr em in history. “I can read h eoua sentence by the dim % lamps” aa didn’t get to fir»t_b«se with hit proposal to reduce salaries of the cabinet and members of Con* gress. Neither did his plan to re duce the 20 cents a mile allowed Congressmen for traveling ex penses receive any support, al though he pointed out that he, was allowed 1,068 for a round trip between his Idaho home and Washington which really only cost him about $350. Different persons react dif ferently to good or ill fortune. Twenty-five years ago, when Alex McGarvock of Glenarm, Ireland, was informed that a brother had left him 17,200, he dropped over dead. But Mrs. Blanche Karsch of Memphis, Tenn., continued to drive hard bargains with vege table dealers after being told thalt her foster mother had will ed her $3,500,000. POLECATS EAT HONEY BEES the poet says. This Is true of men, and nations, that the divine jud(« ment Is interwoven with theip lives. God settles many of the af» fairs of this planet, on tills planet.* But in the ultimate future, and only then, will all the facts be in. No judgment before then, not? even God’s, is final. j Ths Great Separation j All sorts of efforts have been made to dull the force of Jesus’’ terrific picture of prophecy of the' Last Judgment in the parable ot the sheep and the goats. It has* been said that this is a judgment of nations, not individual persons;* but anyone who can read ©reek can* see that is not me case. The word "them” in Matt. 25:32 plainJ ly does not refer to Aations but to persons. (Furthermore, how do “nations” fit into the end of th* story’) It has been said too that! - this is not a separation of the' "saved” from the “unsaved/’ But the issues of the Trial, as Jesus pictures it, are eternal life and* eternal death. The fact is, this is Jesus’ picture of the Last Judgment of mankind, and there is no getting out of it. At least two. points stand out, etched asi it were by fire. One is that th* final judgment against a man it' not necessarily for what he has done but for what he didn’t do; did not even .think about doing. The other point Is that th« basis of judgment is a man’* human relations. True, deeper than that is a-man’s relationship to Christ; but in this .parable.) Christ identifies himself complete* ly with the troubled sufferers Ot the world What we do, or do not do, about human misery, we d* or fail to do for the Lord. Th* Jndgmsnt Siat of Chris! Another strange thing appear* in this overwhelming portrayal of Judgment, vast and final. The Judge, the King, is the Son ot Man, Jesus Christ himself. This "fits in with other passages in the New Testament where sometimes Christ, and sometimes God, ap* pears as the Judge of all. Thi» Is a tremendous claim cm Jesus' part, to have the right to git o® the throne of the -universe. No» where is the deity of Christ more strikingly affirmed than right here, Qn die other hand, he is still the San, of, Man. He is our Elder Brother, bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, “made like his brethren In every respect” as Heb. 2:17 says. God in bis final judgment, acts with and through bis Son who was and ever shall ba one with God and one with man. We cannot deceive him. He is one of us. tnMod-oa oatUaoa ooprrlrkto* &T Division of ChtlsUnn Education, New tlonsl Council of tho Ct«