4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, May 3, 1957
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Congratulations to Swine Assn.
The Lancaster County Swine Producers Assn, became
a reality at the organizational meeting Tuesday night.
We offer our congratulations to the new directors and
officers and wish them the greatest success with the new
organization.
But having officers and a constitution do not make an
organization. It takes interested members.
So we encourage each Lancaster County farmer that is
in the swine business, at all to become a member of this
new organization. It’s not just another breed club or a so
cial group. It is and can well be a working organization to
increase knowledge and opportunities for swine producers
in the county.
In an interim report to Congress by the Commission
on Increased Industrial Use of Agricultural Products, to
bacco comes in for quite a going over.
In the report, the commission says:
Tobacco is a complex product. There- are 26 main
types in the five classes or kinds produced in the United
States. They differ in flavor, aroma, and other charactistics.
Their use by industry in various tobacco products has
been based largely on practical experience.
The American public spends over $5 billion a
year tor tobacco products. Over $2 billion of this is col
lected as excise taxes about double the cash receipts to
farmers for the entire crop.
The tobacco industry is faced with a number of
pressing problems, the most important of which are a
mounting surplus (at present over one billion pounds), a
declining export market, the appearance of new varieties
of undesirable quality, medical reports of health hazards
in cigarette smoking, changing smoking habits, and inade
quate methods of evaluating quality.
The industry has become acutely conscious of the
need for more basic knowledge of the chemical composi
tion and physical properties of tobacco, which contains a
vast' array of chemical compounds most of which have not
been identified.
Quality is an ill-defined term based on subjective
judgment. There is great need for basic research to iden
tify the chemical constituents of tobacco, determine the
changes they undergo in processing, establish the rela
tionships of chemical and physical factors to quality, and
provide objective guides for better quality evaluation.
■ The first step to-improve processing should be a
systematic study of the chemical composition and physical
properties of tobacco, from the time the green leaf is
harvested through curing and aging, and for cigar tobaccos
through fermentation.
zThis basic information, between chemical constituents
aid quality of tobacco, will serve as guides for the develop
ment of improved processes and products.
|| Emphasis should be given to modern engineering
methods of dehydration, accelerated aging and controlled
fermentation.
Some scattered and limited research has been car
ried out by the USDA, but most of the federal and state
research on tobacco has been concerned with production
and marketing. Industry has devoted more effort to basic
chemical and physical investigations, but is unable to do
enough to meet the need. Research on engineering aspects
of curing tobaccos has been in progress in the USDA on
a relatively small scale.
Research on curing, aging, and fermenting has been
conducted by several state agricultural experiment sta
-Ins, the USDA, and the major tobacco companies. How
»n the small amount of basic research so far done has
•ved mainly to reveal the complex nature of the problem.
STAFF
Report on Tobacco
Publisher
.. .Editor
Advertising Director
Circulation Director
BY JACK REICHARD
50 YEARS AGO (1907)
When Walter Ellis, a man who
apparenly had missed his callng
in life, stopped that day at the
Lancaster farm of Nelson Dyson,
near New Providence, it was
plainly evident that he was drunk.
After staggering around the barn
yard he finally got into the barn
to sleep off his load. By the time
Dyson finished feeding his stoijk
Ellis was sound asleep on a pile
of straw. Sometime later he got!
into the stable where “Daisy”,
the family horse was quartered.
The animal didn’t like the intru
sion and either kicked or tramped,
on Ellis, who was found the next
morning with a fractured leg just
below the knee.
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COLLAR BLAZE
MAKES NEWS
James Gimbi, a passenger on a
Lehigh Valley Railroad tram met
with a peculiar mishap, 50 years
ago this week. He was seated at
an open window and reading,
when a hot cinder from the train’s
engine dropped on his celluoid
collar, setting its ablaze. Gimbi
tried to tear off the burning neck
piece, but before he could do it
had set his ham on fire and burn
ed his neck severly.
A successful dairy farmer lo
cated in southern Minnesota, of
fering suggestions to farmers in
general, had this to say back in
1907
“There are two classes of char
ity boarders which should not be
tolerated on the farm—the hulk
of a boy that is lazy and won’t do
a lick of work if he can help it,
and the dairy cow that does not
give milk enough to pay for the
feed she consumes/ The former
should be put on a diet of bread
and water until he reforms; the
other should be sold to the butch
er”.
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ANTIQUES BRING
HIGH PRICES
Record high prices were paid
for antiques at a Lancaster Coun
ty public sale held at Lititz half
a century ago, wl\en the personal
effects of the late Mrs. Barbara
Rudy were placed on the auction
block. Some,of the items sold and
prices paid were Platter, $5O;
bedspreads, $l7 each; cups .and
saucers, $6.90, single plates, $1.40
each.
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LANCASTER GETS
NEW INDUSTRY
Lancaster County residents in
general wereunterested in the an
nouncement 'of the Armstrong
Cork Company of Pittsburg, 50'
years ago this week. Officials of
the firm stated the company had
purchased a trac of land contain
ing abou 30 acres, lying between
the Pennsylvania Railroad cut-off
and the tracks of the Reading and
Columbia Railroad, where it plan
ned to build a plant for the manu
facture of plain and inlaid lino
leum.
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That same week a charter to
the American Table Water Com
pany, of Ephrata, capialized at
$50,000, was received at the Re
corder’s office at Lancaster. The
purpose of the company was the
bottling and selling of natural and
carbonated spring water.
At the annual conference of the
Council Qji Medical Education
held at Chicago in 1907, a speaker
declared that “three-fourths of
medical students receiving diplo
mas are incompetent and unfitted
to practice”.
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23 Years Ago
The following article, given
here sin part, might apply to our
present day. It appeared in a
Fourh Reader published in 1854,
over one hundred years, ago:
Week
er Farming
m Bh—i,
“John Bull can inform Jona
than what are the inevitable con
sequences of being too fond of
glory: Taxes! taxes upon every
article which enters the mouth, or
covers the back, or is placed
under the foot; taxes upon every
thing which is pleasant to see,
hear, feel, smell, or taste; taxes
on warmth, light, and locomotion;
taxes on every thing on earth, and
the waters under the earth; on
every thing that comes from
abroad, or is grown a home; taxes
on the poor man’s salt, and the
rich man’s spice; on the brass
nails of the coffin, and the rib
bons of the bride; at bed or
board, couchant' or levant, we
must pay”.
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WATER CO. ASKED
INCREASE IN BATES -
Lancaster County residents in
the Mt. Joy and East Donegal
Township areas were being asked
to pay if the Florin Water Co. got
its way. The company, Supplying,
water to the sections had filed a
new tariff schedule with the Pub
lic Service Commission increasing
its rates effective July 1, 1932.
The increases included: Flatel
rate for first spigot from $9 to
$12.50 per year; hydrant with
screw nozzle from $lO to $12.50
per year; pave wash from $9 to
$lO and domestic service from
$12.50 to $25 per year.
In some place, in 1932, farm
Background Scrlptare: Genesis 1:37-
bevotional Reading: Psalm 90:1-13.
Resourceful God
Lesson for May B, 1957
THE BIBLE has a plot, take it
as a whole, aa. much as any
thriller you ever read. In fact the
Bible Is more thrilling, because It
directly concerns each one of the
human race. It is the story of age
long conflict between Good and
Evil, portrayed as a personal con
flict between God and Satan, a
struggle for the
control of the
earth and of man.
The story begins
in a sunny, hope-
ful way. God
makes a world,
an unfinished
world but never-
theless beautiful,
and he calls into
existence Man ® r * Foreman
and Woman, to live on this earth,
to beautify and complete it further.
They are to be God’s friends and
fellow-workers. But before the
reader quite knows how it hap
pens, the Serpent,appears on the
scene and persuades man that God
is not his friend but his enemy.
So the man rebels against his
Maker, is faithless to his divine
Friend, Philosophers and theolo
gians have other ways of telling it;
but from the simple picture-stones
of Genesis shines the same double
truth and tragedy; Man is made
for fellowship with God and other
human beings, but he has broken
the fellowship, he Has turned
agajpst his truest Friend.
iGod Planning
Mysteries darken our knowledge
| here. But of some things we can
;be sure. One is that God does not
deal with his world and his crea
tures haphazard. He is a planning
*God. Another thing that seems
i clear is that man has freedom to
'obey God or to disobey; to fit in
with the Plan or tp reject it and
the Planner. God could, no doub>,
have made a race of beings who
could not possibly do anything but
tight, a race of perfect robots; but
for some reason God chose to
make man free. One suspects that
product prices had dropped to
1832 levels'.
In Texas you could buy eggs
for seven eents a dozen. Ten and
two-tenths cents was the average
egg price in the country, 25 years
ago this week. You could buy at
pound of butter for seventeen,
cents in Tennessee, chickens for
nine cents a pound in North Da
kota. The country’s average price
for chickens was 12.6 cents.
Twenty-five years ago, State
Highways Department officials
took time out to keep taxpayers
informed just what they could ex
pect in highway improvements in
their districts J. C. McCarrell,
highways engineer in charge of
Lancaster County, spoke at a’
largely attended meeting of the
Lancaster Automobile Club held
in the Fire Hall at Denver, 25
years ago this week. > .
McCarrell explained in detail
the 1932 road building and main
tenance program as it applied tot
Lancaster County. He also an
swered questions on the depart
ment’s plans and activities in
general.
Washington, D. C. Repre
sentative Steagall asked for an
early vote on his bank bill to
establish one billion dollars to
guarantee bank deposits as a
means of restoring confidence in
the nation’s banks.
Charles A. Lindberg, Jr., miss
ing 72 days after he was kidnap
ped from the home of his parents,
Mr and Mrs. Charles Lindberg,
Hopewel, N. J., was found in a
woods, about five miles from tha
Lindberg residence by William
Allen. An examination showed
the child had been hit on the
head twice,. fracturing the skull.
the reason is that God would ra
ther be loved by persons wha
would love him freely, than to bo
loved by creatures “wound up,”,
so to speak—bound to love him,
whether or no. (Would that be'real
love?) Another thing that stands
out is that God is resourceful; in
one sense his Plan can be broken,
when men go contrary to his will.
In another sense men do not break
his Plan, for God appears in Gene
sis like a wise general who hat
more than one plan of strategy
all pointing to victory.
God Rejected
Man is not free unless he is free
to do wrong as well as to do right
And if lie is free to do wrong,
which is a short way of-saying
free to go against the will and plan
of God, then he is free to destroy
himself. For the Plan of God for
man, born as it is infinite Wisdom
and infinite Love, is always for
man’s best. For man to resist God,
to ignore him, scorn him, live by
man-made plans, is to choose tha
way of death. Genesis shows dra
matically how the sin of man
grows worse as a snowball grow*
larger—the farther it goes the
more rapidly it grows. Adam's sin
seemed a rather slight thing—then
his son is a murderer, and hit
descendants so bad Siat God could
scarcely find one good family
among them. The story in Genesis
is the Story of mankind;, men pre
fer their own way to God’s way—<
the jvay of hate and conflict rather
than the way of fellowship and
love; and they suffer the judgment
of God; namely that those who
take their own way must accept
the Inevitable disaster.
Qod Undefeated
Many religions know of just and
righteous gods who have been re
jected by wicked or careless or
ignorant men. But the God re
vealed in the Bible does not act
as the “gods of the gentiles" are
said to act. For man’s sin, other
gods may have resentment, veilfee
ance, punishment. But these things
leave man as he was, an enemy—
a conquered enemy perhaps,. .but
with rebellion still smoldering In!
his souL Other religions provide
elaborate methods by which men
may pay for their sins—going long
pilgrimages, undergoing self-im
posed tortures. But the true God
Is quite different from the god *
whom men imagine—a god unde
feated, Infinitely resourceful. He
never gives up his Plan for a peo
ple in fellowship with him. Men
are changed, saved, made fit to
be God’s friends, only by stead
fast undiscouraged love.
(Based on oatlines eopriliitil fey tho
Division of Christian EdaeaJUan, No*
tlonal Caanell of IhaChnrohsa of Christ
In tho C. S. A. BsUaaod by OaaaasanltK
Frssa fesrrlcs.)