—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.)