4—-Lancaster Farming, Friday, April 5, 1957 l^^ st ® r^Far lri i»ng Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly Newspaper Established November 4, 1955 Published every Friday by OCTORARO NEWSPAPERS Quarryville, 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 Three Years $5.00; 50 Per Copy Entered as Second-Class matter at the Post Office, Quarryville, Pa., under Act of March 3, 1879 Wpmen Are Part of Business The ladies of the family are receiving a little extra attention from two farm organizations here in the County. It seems that Poultry Assn, and the County unit of the Pennsylvania Farmers Assn, both think that their work could be assisted by organization of an auxiliary. From a purly selfish standpoint, we’re for it. in our experience of covering meetings, we’ve found that when the ladies are present, there is a much greater likelihood of some “goodies” being passed around after the business is done. We have a fatal attraction for Lancaster County cooking. In a more serious vein, we still believe that the organization gf auxiliaries would be an asset to the asso ciations. Farms in this area are family farms, and as such, the entire family is affected by the numerous changes in marketing, legislation, and prices. The wife, who does most of the buying for the family, is probably the first affected in a price squeeze. So you can bet that she is interested in what is going on in the farming industry. We believe that the organizations will be surprised at what the women can and will do in assisting their men in their various efforts. Responsibility Law Needed ■ In the process of renewing our automobile insurance last week, we asked the agfint what the financial responsi bility requirements were in Pennsylvania. We were quite taken aback when his answer \pas. "None.” Then u couple "of days later, word comes from Har ■risburg that the Governor is proposing a bill requiring financial responsibility of all Pennsylvania drivers. This will mean, of course, that most drivers in the state will have to carry a given amount of auto liability insurance. Most of us would rather invest $2O to $3O a year in insurance than try to carry the load alone. We believe that the Governor has proposed a good and needed piece of legislation. We also believe that the greatest fault to be found with it is that it is long overdue. Not that we are selling insurance, or that we own any insurance stock. It is just that we don’t particularly relish the idea of people being allowed to operate a ma chine that has the potential of doing great harm to both ourselves and our property without being capable of being held responsible. An automobile today is probably the greatest single investment of many families It is only fair that they be given the same protection from irresponsible persons that other property owners have. Falls Cost Needless Expense A slip of the foot can cost a farm family more than a slip in the price of agricultural commodities, according to the National Safety Council. The Council points out that falls axe the leading source of all injuries to residents of rural America, and that they account for 25 per cent of all injuries to farm people. Injuries from all mishaps, including falls, are expensive A study in lowa shows that the medical costs associated with 3,060 injuries amounted to $216,401, an average of $lO5 per case. Furthermore, lost time averaged 10 days per injury. Piled on top of the medical cost is the expense of hired labor which is sometimes necessary if the accident occurs at a critical work period on the farm. Falls kill about 2,000 farm residents annually—and no one can estimate the cost of a life. Good housekeeping both indoors and outdoors can sub stantially reduce tripping hazards, according to the Council. STAFF Advertising Director Circulation Director BY JACK REICHAKD 50 YEARS AGO (190?) A perplexed farmer was Samuel Brackbill residing in The Buck area of lower Lancaster County, when a pair of his mules fell into a deep well on his farm, 50 years ago this week. Brackbill was engaged in haul ing stones on a sled to fill an old abandoned well, when one of the mules stepped on a plank placed across the opening and broke through. In unhitching the animal it moved, and both mules plunged to the bottom, a distance of about 35 feet. \ Publisher Editor Ropes and pulleys were hur riedly secured and with assistance of neighbors both mules were raised to the surface. One of the animals was so severly injured it had to be killed. The other was pulled out none the-worse from its experience. =1 * h MAD DOG ATTACKS FARMERS When George Jones of Wrights dale, southern Lancaster County, left home that morning he head ed towards the Howett farm, where he intended to build a fence. He was walking down How ett’s lane when a dog foaming at the mouth suddenly dashed up at his side, sinking its teeth deep into Jones’ wrist, resulting in an ugly torn flesh wound. Harvey Howdtt,' who the dig picked for its next victim, managed to beat off the animal with a tin bucket he was carrying at- the time of attack. The raging animal then went to the Owen Wright farm, where it circled around the house sev eral times without finding any? thing to bite, making its way to Harvey Jackson’s, near Kmsey ville, where it bit two dogs. The rampage was finally ended at Bradley and Clements Mill, near Wakefield, where the dog was shot. *• i! * EXPLOSION IN MISSOURI P. 0. Fifty years ago this week, a mail package, apparently contain ing dynamite, exploded while it was being stamped in the St. Louis post office, bringing police of that city rushing to the scene to investigate. After the room was cleared of smoke, resulting from the blast, it was found that John G. Bayer, the clerk who was stamping the parcel, had a finger and thumb blown away. All trace of the contents and all the ad dress excepting the words “In dependence Mo.” hac! disappear ed in the explosion. In Lancaster County, that week, F. L. Heiser, Rothsville store keeper, found things missing from his storeroom one morning. An investigation revealed that thieves had entered the building during the night and carried off clothing, watches, pocket knives and other mei chandise valued at over $lOO. To satisfy" their hunger the burglars- helped themselves to generous quantities of cheese and sardines. Elsewhere in Lancaster County mules made accident news. Clarence Grosh, a young farm er in the Landis Valley area, was confined to his home suffering from a fractured leg and head in juries. He was driving a two-mule team on the Neffsville Pike that day, when the animals frightened at something and ran away, throwing the driver from the wagon to the roadway. The wheels of the wagon passed over one of Grosh’s legs, breaking it. On the Gregg farm, near Fair field, Gregg’s son, John, was helping his father clip a mule, when the animal suddenly turn- ed and let go a sneak kick, knock ing the youth down and render ing him unconscious. The boy was treated by a physician and was found suffering with a sever ly bruised arm. . * >i ~ •_ JAPANESE NAMED TOP V. S. POTATO GROWER George Shima, a Japanese, re siding in California, was named the largest grower of potatoes in the United States a half century ago. Shima specialized in raising the Burbank potato, and his prof its in 1906 was estimated at a half million dollars. 251 fears Ago The National Child Labor Com mittee made front page news, 25 years ago this week, when it re ported that 700,000 children, be tween the ages of 10 and 15 were at work in American industries, and another 300,000 between 16 and 17 years of age were employ ed in “unsuitable occupations”. The irony of the conditions of af fairs in this country, in 1932, was the fact that from- six to eight million men were unable to find work, while a million children were working full time, all of whom should have been attend ing school. Background Scriptures Matthew 88:1, —27 10 v. Devoftoxmf Beading* fsalah 53:1-8. He Took the Gup Lesson (or April 7 1 1937 THE dark shadows of Gethsem- j ane have never fully lifted. If even the closest friends of Jesus did not watch with him through that_ hour, we cannot at this great distance hope to penetrate where no light is. Some have found it hard to believe that Jesus actual ly knew distress. This is to deny* Jesus' oyr n words, “My soul (s very sor rowful, even to death,” Mark’s report that he was “greatly dis tressed and trou bl e d ’ and Luke’s story of the sweat like drops of blood. It Dr. Foreman could hardly have been fear of death that disturbed him. Lesser men have met it without a tremor, and he himself had faced it more j than once without fear. It something deeper that broke up the fountains of his soul that night. Cup of Suffering There are gleams in the dark ness. Jesus refers to his experi ence as a “cup.” He had been speaking of a cup not two hours before, in the upper room, the cup of his blood. Was it this cup he prayed might pass from him? We make a mistake when we think of this In meaely physical terms. In many a hospital there are patients who have already suffered longer and more severe ly than Jesus could have, physical ly speaking, all of Good Friday. It was his seul that was troubled, not his nerves, in Gethsemane. The cup of suffering which he dreaded was more than scourg ing and nails. He was being re jected* . . . rejected. Not ‘a fnendj would stand by him. All his work would come to an end. He had fought for time, but time was | | running out. He had come to hiSj .own, and hi* own people had not received him. He was God’s last [word to men, and men had no re-j inonse but thorns and 'crosfc * * s Week stcr Farming _—-—i > -t LANCASTER CITY NEEDY GETS TONS OF FOOD That same week, in 1932, trucks loaded with foodstuffs were trail ing into Lancaster from rural dis tricts outside the city, to help those out of work and in dire need. A total of nearly 65 tons of food was the result of an ur gent appeal from relief official in charge. ♦ H s PREHISTORIC MEN LIKED FAT WOMEN J. Townsend Russell of the Smithsonian institution, speaking at the international anthropologi cal congress'held in Pans in 1932, declared prehistoric men prefer red their women fat. WI He stated that primitive sculp ture and scratchings found on cave walls indicated that men of the Neolithic and Paleolithic periods held as their ideal of feminine beauty women who were almost as fat as they were tall. U; S. SENATOR LIKED ’EM YOUNG Senator Capper' was great!) amazed when told by a press re porter that one of Washington’s most dashing debutantes was go ing to marry one of his oldest constituents. Meeting the young lady Igter in the day at a luncheon club he ventured to take her to task. “Why, that tottering old mil lionaire already has one foot in the grave”, he expostulated. “Yes”, retorted the debutante, “but he can’t move the other one on account of rhematism, so I’m going to help him”. C»9|AJ3S SS3JJ riinmuotoo itq pjsnoioa V S (1 =« “I isjaqo jo saqaantia ai|j jo gounoo i«uo|t ‘uo|}wonpa uhusijijo jo uojS|Aia •qj Xq psjq3|,»Xdoa ssujpno no pasna) ' 'paasMsun aq pi;s n®U s ;saq3rq anr* •aq K.'qmi saoisap ;s.ig jno jaAajeqM. uaq; ‘auop aq urn *mo ;Bq; si qstA\ SutjajsßuuaAO aq; jj ;ng -pua aq; ai uoi;BJ;sruj ' o; auioo pßqs sm ‘auop aq pjM umo mo ;eq; sj ajq mo Jo qsiMjaJ -SBui aq; ji ’UJEai o; sn joj Strop -auios s; aaaq; itJajsiCui aq; di naAa ;aiC pay ’spies jaq;o ps uiojj ;jBdB pios 3uoj;s ;Bqi pus ‘s;q3tu jaqjo ps uiojj jjo ;q3iu ;eq; ;as qaiq/a aa«uiasq;ap) uj Suuagns _ ,snsaf jo sjuauiaja aja m araqj, ' •piM. 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