4—Lancaster Farming. Friday, April 12, 1957
Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly Newspaper
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.)