4—Lancaster Farming. Friday, April 12, 1957 Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly Newspaper Established November 4, 1955, Published every Friday by OCTOEAEO NEWSPAPEES Quarryville, Pa. Phone STerling 6-2132 Lancaster Phone EXpress 4-3047 Alfred C. Alspaeh .. Robert E. Best Eobert G. Campbell,... Eobert J. Wiggins Subscription Rates: $2.00 Per Year Three Years $5.00; 5« Per Copy Entered as Second-Class matter at the Post Office, Quarryville, Pa., under Act of March 3, 1879 Who’s to Blame? The AFL-CIO has explained away the rising tide of inflation by checking it all to higher prices and profits. Wages had nothing to do with it. Nor is labor alone in this little American hobby of pointing to the other fel low and saying “He’s to blame.” It’s easy for business to shift the whole responsibility to wage costs Certainly it is only human nature for the worker to want as much as he can get. It is understandable that the businessman should seek the best possible return. It s his capital or his stockholders’ that is on the chopping block But for the record, it’s corporate profits that are coining down. Personal income has been rising steadily since 1954. Wages have shown a constant increase. So have prices. Corporate profits, however, began to drop, toward the eiid of 1955. Consumer resistance mede it difficult to pass on all rising costs. But there was another factor. For several years we have not been stashing away enough cash to provide the investment funds necessary for industrial expansion. SO business had to plow more of its own take back into plants. This is hardly “profit” for capital alone. A growing indus trial plant means more prosperity for everyone. Neither industry nor labor is blameless. Even the hard-pressed consumer has failed to the extent that he has lost the old saving habit. Perhaps we too readily assume that some welfare program will take care of the rainy day. Certainly govern ment, which spent $1,900 of each family’s income last year has provided no inspiration to thrift. ’ The truth is that every segment of an economy in fatuated with prosperity must share the blame for the inflationary trend. So we doubt that there is any percent age in trying to pinpoint the responsibility through con gressional investigation or by broad public accusation. It doesn’t matter whether the chicken or the egg came first. The important thing is that all of us—government, labor, capital, the consumer public should our own personal responsibility for the restraints that are necessary to keep good times good Letter to the Editor Dear Sir This letter is in answer to your editorial in regard to the need for a financial responsibility law for automobile owners and operators in Pennsylvania. As an opening comment, I would like to point out that your insurance agent is woefuly mis informed regarding the require ments at the present time. Under the present financial responsibil ity law, if the operator of an auto mobile is involved in an accident involving personal injury to any one, or property damage to any one car in excess of $lOO, he is required to show proof of finan cial responsibility. Evidence of this responsibility is an automo bile insurance liabilty policy with limits of at'least $5,00 per person, $lO,OOO per accident bodily injury liability and $l,OO property dam age liability. The actual point raised in your editorial is the question of com pulsory automobile insurance. On Nov. 17, 1955, Gov. Leader appointed a committee of 11 men to study the problems created byp irresponsible motorists i; STAFF Advertising Director Circulation Director —Kansas City (Mo.) Stat using the highways of Pennsyh \ama. This committee submitted their report on Oct. 25, 1956 and recommended an Equal Responsi bility Law (Compulsory .Insur ance), a Statuatory Assigned Risk Plan, an Uncollectable Claims Law and an Impoundment Law. Under a compulsory insurance law, owners pf cars must estab lish their financial responsibility as a prerequisite to have a motet vehicle registered in the state. Ths may be done by (1) carry ing auto liability insurance limits of $lO,OOO/20,000 bodily injury liability and $5,000 property dam age liability, (2) or posting a bond with the Department of Rev enue for $25,000 or (3) depositing cash or marketable securities for $25,000. ' Of the 48 states and District of Columbia, only two have this com pulsory insurance at this time. New York has passed a law which became effective Feb. 1, 1957, so at this time there is no experi ence to see what benefits, or more olausibly, what detriments to the insuring public this law will pro- BY JACK REICHARD 50 YEARS AGO (1907) At a meeting held in Atlanta, Georgia, designed to bring about a better understanding of the na tion’s races, Bishop H. M. Turner, of the A.M.E. Church, made a bit ter attack on the courts and legis latures, declaring Negroes were being discriminated. He paid high respects to the nation, the Su preme Court, the President and Senator Tillman, ending with praise for Georgia’s Governor Northern but shoutedT “There has been enough innocent Negro blood spilled to drown Congress, the Supreme Court and the Presi dent” Publisher Editor Bed-ridden with her newly-born baby and unable to move, Mrs. George Bennett, residing in an isolated section of Nebraska City, Neb., lay in bed while her home was burning, watching the flantes creep nearer and pearer, threat ening to cremate both herself and baby. She was saved after the bed coverings had caught on fire by a, stranger who happened to pass the house, who upon seeing the blaze, forced his way through the flames 'and carried the woman and child to safety. Mrs. Bennett was alone with her baby. Her husband was em ployed on a-railroad. The fire had started from an overheated coal burning stove and she was awak ened by the glare of the flames in her room The man who had 1 rescued the mother and her child left without giving his name. In the lower end of Lancaster County Amanda Presberry was put in a tough spot when she. found herself imprisoned in an outbuilding, where she had gone to gather eggs, by her neighbor Rutter’s pet sheep “Dick”, who stood there with a wicked look in his eyes, refusing to allow her to come out Rutter finally came to, the rescue by leading the animal away from the building. duce. ' Experience in Massachusetts, which has had a compulsory in surance law since 1927 indicates that in spite of the law, some resi dents operate without insurance. One example is buying an insur ance policy on the installment plan and using a false address. When the,secopd installment falls due, the policy is cancelled for non-payment, but the state cannot locate the insured to secure sur render of his license plates. There are now in force alter nate solutions to the auto liability problem. We believe compulsory insurance is not desirable from the insurance buyers point of view without regard to our own selfish interests, since presum ably compulsory insurance would increase our volume of business and we would also have greatly increased premiums. The Governor’s Committee in their report included several safety recommendations which our association is wholeheartedly m favor of. 1. Minimum age qualification increased from 16 to 18. At 16 a probationary license could be is sued if the driver has successful ly completed-a course in an ap proved driver training school or high schol. Revocation of license after one accident until age 18. 2. Periodic re-examination of drivers. 3. Much stricter traffic law en forcement and heavier punish ment for violators. , ; In conclusion to this lengthy opus, let me say that no one has yet advanced the theory that com pulsory insurance will in any way solve the principal of the high way problems safety. Massa chusetts statistics indicate that the opposite is true. Arthur P. Mylin, Jr. Vice President, Lancaster Assn, of Insurance Agents Willow Street, Pa. 'hi I * Week :er Farming But Dick not liking his treat ment took the pleasure of his “butt” out on his owner by help ing Rutter down a hill. On the following _ day \ the animal was carted off to the butcher shop. » - X The reason given for high prices of horses a half century ago was that Parisians were eat ing them. According to figures given in a farm journal, it was estimated that the people of Paris ate 22,500,000 pounds of horse flesh during the year 1906. Farmer J. G. Henly, near In diantown, Pa.', had trouble with his pigs,' back in 1907. After their mother Hkd weaned them they found their way to the milk dis pensary of several cows and help ed themselves. The cows offered •no objection and the piggies grew fat Henly had noted a decrease in his milk supply, but could not ac count for it until he caught’'the pigs in their act. From that time on the pigs lunched with their feet in a trough in regular pig fashion. + i- * 25 Years Ago Fire destroyed a wagon shed, corn-bam and garage on the Lan caster farm of Ervin Herr and his father, Henry Herr, south of Uni- Background Scriptures Matthew 31:1* 11* 27:11-54, btrotioiuV ZteaOftsig: Hebrews, 2:9-18. The Shouters Lesson for April 14, 1951 IT WAS an exciting week in Jeru salem. There was shouting on Sunday; there was shouting on Friday; all about the same Visitor, one Jesus t>f Nazareth. Only the slwuting was different. On Sunday he rode in to the city preceded by a guard of honor, disorderly to be sure, but wildly enthusiastic They called him King (•‘Son of Dav id”); they said with loud voices that he came in the name of the Lord; the Hosan- has must have been heard for, miles.- Friday morning the Vis- _ itor was mostly Dr * Foreman out of sight The Roman police had' him, and they did not disgorge prisoners easily. The crowd milled about in the streets outside the governor’s castle, and they kept yelling “Crucify him!” Nothing can be more thrilling than to be hailed as King; nothing can be more dreadful than the sound of a mob hungry for torture. The Same Voices Now the strange/thing is that spine of the same people who were shouting “Hosanna!” on Sunday, were shouting “Crucify him!” on Friday. Didn’t they know their own minds’' Well, they didn’t Shooters seldom do. There are al ways *hout era about, they emerge from every crack when anything exciting goes on. They shout in crowds; solo shouters are rare. If you had taken many (maybe most) members of that Sunday crowd aside and asked each one in pn -vate: “Do yen really think this Jesus,is a King?” it is a fair guess that some of them would have re , plied, “We 11... I don’t know, of course. But he might be. Good idea to get on the band-wagon. I hear..." and so forth Further, if you had been able to get private interviews with the bloody-sound ing shouters oa Friday morning, corn. Gasoline, was being drawnU out of a drum for use,in a tractor and- it was believed a spark ignit ed the flames. Both men wet© severly 1 burned and required treatment by a physician. In addition to the buildings the contents including the tractor, four-ton scales, feed mill, wagon, quantities of corn, oats,* wheat and cottonseed meal were coft sumed in the blaze. . The barn and house, although badly blistered by the heat, were saved. No estimate of the loss was given. * V PARMWIFE MAKES COMPLAINT In a letter to the editor of a small town weekly, an eastern Pennsylvania farmwife stated: “The farmers of this country who sold their tobacco this year, (1932) or rather gave it away, to P. E. Lollard and Company, for 6 and 2, are no doubt interested in the big contest this company is having and offering $37,500 in prjzes to the best answer of the question, ‘What makes the Old Gold Cigarette so Popular?’ And , who is paying for all this? Why, » the producer and consumer, of course. • “This year the average tobacco crop weighed only 1,000 pounds to the acre. At 6 cents that meant $60.” * JP * Edward A. O’Neal, president of the American Farm Bureau Fed eration, stated in 1932: “There would be no cotton problem if ~ men and women patriotically turned to the nightgown for sleeping purposes”. and 'asked, “do you really think that this' Jesus is guilty—atid if he is, of what, exactly? Do you personally want to see him cruci fied by the Romans?” You might have got some answers like—“Wa* I saying ‘crucify’? Well, that’s a little strong. Of course I hate to see anybody m Roman hands. No, \ I don’t know the man personally, but I was t01d...” and so forth. I have heard—l was' told—They say . . . Your shouter has no mind, all he'-has is a voice. Wo‘ Should Know It is not such a dark mystery why the same people could yell Hoshhna 1 and Crucify! about the same person within a week. Re member what was lined up against Jesus —intrenched interests, self ishness, indifference, pride, hatred, greed, prejudice. For him there was only truth, and truth has short shrift when the shouters are going strong. We may ibe shouters our selves. How is it, that on Sunday we can sing the most devoted songs about Jesus, we can even offer priyers in His name, and then on Monday (not waiting till Friday) our actions, which Speak louder than our words always, “crucify the Son of God afresh"? we sing come from poems which better Christians wrote; we just sing along with others. We don’t think' much about what the words mean Then on Monday we fall in to the ways of the world We don’t connect what we are doing (which can be pretty devilish and still legal) with what we said on Sun- ■ day; and wo don’t (maybe) inten- ' tionally mean ' anything against Jesus. But we do and what “every body” does and says, and don’t stop to think (it’s too much trouble for a shouter to think) that what we are doing, or failing to do, says louder than words—“ Jesus? Who’s he? Nobody that makes any dif ference with me, nobody' I’d care to be like!” If They Had Known Him There were some who shouted on Sunday who were -silent on Fri day. The Eleven forsook Him and fled, we know; but we may be sure they did not yell “Crucify Him!” and perhaps the Mother Mary took no voice m the shouting any time. The star of her love shone steadily through the storm. Those who really know Jesus, not by hearsay, rumor or tradition, but know him as a living inner Friend, and Savior, do not change their minds about Him overnight. And sometimes those who love Him most deeply are not to be found among the Shouters, but among those 'Who serve (Based on ontllnei copyrighted by th» Division of Christian Education, Na tional Connell of the Churches of Christ in the U. S. A. Released by Community Press Service.)
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