—Lancaster Farming, Friday, Sept. 13, 1957 4 _____ pyj |ancaster parming 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 STAFF Allred C. Alspach Publisher Robert E. Best Editor Robert G. Campbell Advertising Director Robert J. Wiggins Circulation Director 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 IN CASE OF EMERGENCY OUR NATION’S PLAN for handling biological warfar on livestock is based on an extension of our peacetim activities in keeping out foreign diseases, and getting rid c them if they manage to slip past our borders. If they do slip past, we must be able to recognizf and eradicate them quickly. This is where we’re concen our efforts to prepare for biological warfare. Here’: what has been done so far in our emergency “plan for ani mal-disease control. Nationwide training programs have been set up and teaching materials have been made available for veteri narians, staffs of veterinary colleges and commercial bio logic houses, and veterinary students. These materials are designed to inform veterinarian's of the dangers of foreign animal diseases, and how to recognize, prevent, and con trol them . USDA, with the cooperation of Federal Civil De fense Administration and the Department of Defense, has made many films for professional audiences on clinical and pathological aspects of foreign animal diseases These films —on African swine fever, bluetongue. rinderpest, scrapie, and others —are available at the extension film library of the agricultural college in each State Or they may be obtained at USDA Film Service in Washington, or at the film library of the American Veterinary Medical Associa tion, Chicago Color slides showing symptoms and lesions of vari ous animal diseases are being circulated to help m identi fication These slides are available from the veterinarian in chaige of animal-disease eradication in each State and have been distributed to schools of veterinary medicine ARS has scientists in several countries to study in fectious foreign animal diseases It also has a laboratory at Plum Island, NY, for research on foot-and-mouth and othei potentially dangerous diseases. USA is continually developing and distributing in formation on unusual or foreign animal diseases that could be used as biological warfare agents. Border quarantine inspections have been strengthened Federal and State Emergency Disease Control Organizations havs been de veloped in every State and set up to operate in any com munity on short notice { Veterinarians at key spots in the Nation have re ceived special USDA training in diagnosing unusual or suspicious diseases Once a disease has been diagnosed as dangerous, the emergency plan goes into action This is how the emergency organization is set up to do its work: It operates mainly at the State_ level and is headed hy a State and a Federal veterinarian'm each State Nor mally, the Federal veterinarian coordinates Federal-State legulatory work and the State veterinarian is responsible lor regulatory work within the State One of these two .veterinanans is designated m advance to head up emer fgency activities 1 In case of an outbreak of foreign disease, the emer gency State organization will go into action The designated veterinarian will immediately assume responsibility for all emergency regulatory work He will hire additional per sonnel, buy supplies, and provide maintenance as needed. Much responsibility for success of foreign-animal disease control lests with farmers and stockmen, who must lecogmze the need for prompt reporting of suspicious disorders. How livestock owners can help against biological warfai e ‘ 1 Take all normal sanitation measures to minimize 'the spread of disease—domestic or foreign 2 Check all animals regularly for disease signs 3 Isolate all new livestock for at least 10 to 14 days to be sure they do not cairy disease 4 Report unusual disease or increase in native disease to veterinanan Time is vital 5 Follow all approved vaccination practices for any diseases that may be found within the area 6 Carefully dispose of wastes and discharges of Sick animals and carcasses of dead animals 7 Do not visit any infected or quarantined 'farms. BY JACK REICHARD 50 YEARS AGO (1907) Fanners and business men throughout southeastern Pennsyl vania were watching with great interest a movement started by citizens of Fulton, Little Britain and Drumore Townships in lowei Lancaster County during the fall • of 1907 • A notice, signed by Harry Fair • lamb, Dr James A Peeples, Amos . K Bradley, George H Brown, W L. Shoemaker, James Wood, Frank C Pyle, Forest Preston, Day Wood, Frank M Greenleaf, Charles Whitson, James M Pax son, William F McSparran and Silas' Herr, called for a meeting scheduled in the Little Bntain High School The obiect and purpose of th o get-together was to form a pe: “ manent active association in th ' area, “in order that farmers an *■ citizens in general might work i: unison and harmony for the ger eral improvement, betterment am ■ advancement of the farming com munity financially, intellectual!: and morally” “The idea is to enroll, as nearlj as possible, all of the progressm farmeis and business men mtc one strong, thorough organiza tion, in which each shall work for the good of all and all tor each,” stated the notice Among the ten points listed were the following “Introduction and encourage ment of the public improvements, such as trolley lines, electric pow er and lighting foi the faim, slate roads, etc “Introducing manufacturers’ plants in our midst, the use of our waste products and opening ways for new products such as cannenes, evaporators for apples, sugar beet factories glucose, starch and denatured alcohol mills” KANSAS PEACH CROP SET AT 7 IN 1907 The killing of the peach crop in Kansas, a half century ago, was declared to be no myth It had been reported on good authority that due to heav> frosts theie were lust seven peaches produc ed in that slate in 1907, and those grew on a tree located between two buildings about seven feet apait The tjee, it was stated, had grown from a pit which had been tossed from a nearby window, and, while the location was not favoiable on several accounts, it was sheltered from the heavy freezes which occurred in early May that year throughout the cen- tial and southern states All peach trees out in the open yards and orchards were wiped out by frost A SINGED RAT PLAN A farmer who tried the plan and knew it woiked declared that if the hair of a live rat, caught in a cage trap, was singed and turn ed loose every other rodent on the piemises would take oil for other fields He stated the rats loked upon their singed fellow lat as conclusive evidence that a fire is imminent in the locality and that it was time for them to move It was pointed out, how ever, that the method had one drawback because it did not ex tei inmate the pests, but simply drove them to the premises of neighbors Back m 1907 a well known southern newspaper asserted that “he who docks a horse’s tail should be confined naked on a sugar dock m fly time with his hands tied behind him” A case in which punishment adequately fitted the crime' 25 Years Ago A meeting of the Lancaster County Publishers’ Assn was held at the General Sutter Hotel, Lititz with the president, ohn G Zook, of that borough presid ing Chief speaker of the evening was Prof F F Bailey, principal ol the Rothsville High School He spoke of ways the schools and publishers could help each other His message made such a favor able impression that a motion was adopted to anange a mint meet ing of all high school principals and publishers of Lancaster Coun ty. FOOLING WITH FIRE Judge Attle at Lancaster point ed out it did not pay to fool with fire, in sentencing three young men to the Huntingdon Reforma tory, 25 years ago The trio had confessed to the burning of an abandoned house in Caernarvon Twp, and a hay stack- belonging to Herbert P Best also of that township , Twenty-five years ago the learned Prof Darwin, 82, son of the great Darwin, warned our eivilation was headed for doom if we did not breed a better race of people What we needed, ac cording to Darwin, back in 1932, were more sons and daughteis B ick.'round Scripture: Ezekiel I 1-3, « 24 15-18, 34 Devotional Reading: Ezekiel 34 23-31 The Pastor Lesson for September 15, 1957 A POPULAR name for the mm ister of a Piotestant chuich In America is “Preacher *’ It is an unfoitunate title, because it sug gests that the minister’s job is all talk People by the thousands think of their minister as only a preach er, and it must be admitted that some “pieacheis” are that and nothing else But talking for half an hour a week Isn’t the main job he has. th,eie is something dise that (if he woiks at it) takes up far moie time It is being a pas- tor. In churches with a paid minis- Dr. Foreman try, the minister’s salary is not "payment for services rendeied, tor if he does render a pastor’s serv ice, what he does cannot possibly be measured in money. His salaiy is a subsidy enabling him to resign all other work and spend all his working days at being a pastor. What Is a Pastor? Most people don’t realize that the woid “pastor” was originally a figure of speech, it comes from the Latin word for shepherd. Like all figures of speech, this one does not tell the whole truth, but it is very useful The prophet Ezekiel was called a pastor or shepherd, so is Timothy in the New Testa ment In one of Jesus’ last mtei views with Pctei, that apostle was commanded* “Feed my sheep ” Jesus, in fact, spoke of himself as the Good Shepherd, and in the 23id Psalm the woids are familiar, “The Lord is my Shepheid ” Both Roman Catholic and Piotestant churches think highly of the pastor and constantly seek better ones Much time and expense is de voted "to their tiannng Saint Paul (Eph 4-11) mentions being a pas tor as a special divine gift, dis tinct fiom that of the evangelist or the teachei .—though indeed with intelligent fathers and moth ers, instead of leaving most of the breeding to the lowei classes. Critics, .however, pointed out a so-called “lower class” mother that wanted a baby and is ready to muse it, may be better for civilization "than a higher class lady that turns her baby over to somebody else while she fixes her eyebiows and paints her lips”. EGG PRODUCERS OPEN EXCHANGE The first egg auction of the Egg Producers Exchange of Coatesville, Pa , was held during September, 1932, in the basement of the Breuninger Building, with Leonard T Miller the manager The exchange had some seventy members who agreed to take their eggs to the auction Buyers were watching the new organization with gieat interest 1 H. R Stackhouse, executive secretary of the State Fish Com mission, announced ythat bass and other fish valued at $B,OOO would be stocked in the lower Susque hanna River in 1932. Aug 18. 1932, was an unlucky day for the Noah Eller family residing on the Lancaster farm of Mrs Laura B iStubbs in the Hensel 'area While working about a tractor with a lighted pipe in his mouth, gasoline fumes ignited and pain fully burned Eller about the face. He had just returned after being treated by a physician, when - Rose Howell, residing at the El ler home, badly split her foot with an axe while cutting wood. She fl'as rushed to the physician for emergency treatment some men have more gifts than one Leading There Is nothing stiange about a minister not having a congrega tion For theie ale various forms of the Christian ministry, includ ing teaching, editona] writing, ex ecutive woik But the pastor car ries the main responsibility of the chin ch, and a pastor without a congregation is a contradiction in terms; he would be hke a stole keeper without a stoi e, a pilot whe never flies a plane, a father with out a child In the days when the word shepherd was first used God’s servants, as for example of the prophet Ezekiel, it brought def inite ideas to people’s minds, for shepheids weie a common sign in that time and place These ide >s aie as true as evei they were Oi of them is that the shepherd lea.,, the sheep There weie no neatly fenced pastmes in that country; each shepherd led his flock by the creeksides, to places where ha knew there would be some water left (foi the creeks were often diy) and some green glass Without the shepheid to lead them, sheep would simoly starve So today a pastor leads his people; a man without leadership capacity is ]ust not made foi a pastor He leads their minds, he leads then hearts A good pastor is not a dictator, he leads by inspiring his people, not intimidating. Feeding The other mam service a shep herd would do for his flock was to feed them So the pastor of a con giegation is expected to feed his flock Not their bodies, not pri marily their minds, but their hearts and lives as a whole That is why we expect a pastor to study the Bible moie deeply than we in the pews have time to do; that is why we expect him to read more widely in Christian books and magazines than the rest of us can That is why we have a right to expect that a pastor shall have a deeper ex perience, and a greater wisdom on the whole, than the average church members We want him to intei pret God for us That is why being a good pastor takes all a man’s time The pastor must mingle with his people so as to know what they need, but he must be out in front of his people in order to be able to give them what they need If Ezekiel the piophet had been no closer to God than the people to whom he v as a shepherd, he would have had nothing to give Without a pastor, many souls will staive (Based on outlines copyright'd by the Division of Christian Education, Na tlonal Council of the Churches of Chrul In the USA Released by Community Press Service.)
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