4 —Lancaster Farming, Friday, Sept. 20, 1057 " rf ancaster ir - Farmi nq 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 Alired. C. Alspach Robert E. Best . . Robert G. Campbell Robert J. Wiggins.. Subscription Rates: $2.00 Per Year Three Years $5.00; Per Copy Emered as Second-Class matter at the Post Office, Quarryville, Pa., under Act of March 3, 1879 Modern Women and Recipes A FEW WEEKS ago in one of our trade magazines we were given a blast for printing receipes in newspapers The tirade came from a female public relations spe cialist for one of the major milling companies The lady said in part that her company, and others like it, had been making the kitchen a place to get m and out of taster She said further that no matter how many ■receipes were printed, the average homemaker clipped them, filed them and forgot them In place of the publication of receipes and house hold items, she suggested that papers fill the women’s pages with articles on world affairs, politics, health, social problems and the like She said that these items are of more interest to the modern woman than a new way to wax the floor or cook a pork chop Now we must agree with her that the woman of to day is probably much better informed about what is going on in the world about her than her mother or grandmother was But at'the same time, hei basic interest has stayed just about the same. It is far more mportant to her that the baby refuses to eat a meal than if the Arabs and British are fighting over some desert patch that has some un-prouncable name And the prospect of changing the wallpaper in the living room is of much greater impact on her life than the usual run of political bantering between parties And the clincher, we believe, is that this ladies company pioneered in the selling of ready mix pancakes Could it be that she believes that if women aren’t exposed to the contaminating (from her viewpoint) influence of good receipes that they will buy more of her companies product? So we think that we will keep right on printing receipes And we believe that women will keep right" on reading and trying them But at the same time- we have yet to learn of a rea son to keep the women readers of a newspaper from turn ing the'page and reading about what is going on in the world Do you? PENB Asks for Funds IN AN OPEN letter to the poultry industry this week Her bert Beyers, president of the Poultry and Egg National Board is asking the industry to invest in an accelerated promotion program for poultry meat and eggs. The new program is being directed at the youth of the country grade-school children and teenagers The health and appitite appeal of eggs, chickens and turkeys is being stressed. Major emphasis is also being given by PENB to the release of information which will fortify the public with the facts on the health values of eggs, and poultry meat and nullify unsupported attacks made on them in articles dealing with dietary fat and its relationship to heart dis ease. The salesmen in the job will be the 7,500 food edi tors in newspapers, magazines, and broadcasting mediums These people have learned that PENB recipe-phcto re leases and news items are accurate, reliable and creative Lloyd H Geil, new general manager of PENB, points out that it is vitally important to plant at an early age sound food habits which include adequate portions of poultry products in the minds of children This assures a belter market for poultry products when new homes and new families are established. In addition,- the children and teenageis themselves lepresent a market of some 60 mil- hon persons ‘ Beyeis concluded his letter by saying, “A prompt in vestment in the hard-hitting and far-visioned promotion programs of youi Poultry and Egg National Board will <help the industry to advance farther than ever before ” A life insurance solicitor is one of the few fellows who can always produce a workable fountain pen at a second’s notice Greensboro, (Ga ) Herald-Journal. STAFF Publisher Editor Advertising Director .Circulafion Director Always BY JACK REICHARD 50 YEARS AGO (1907) A mid afternoon‘cyclone leav ing death and destruction in its path passed through Cecil Coun ty, Maryland, back in September, 1907 The stoim, coming from the south, struck the farm of Joshua Clayton, tenented by his son, Julius, a most damaging blow The outbuildings, which had been newly constructed, were twisted into a pile of debris Three men who had sought shelt er in one of the buildings started to run when one by the name of Thomas, 45, was picked up by the hurricane and hurled against the piers of the barn, killing him, in stantly The other two men saved themselves by lying flat on the ground The large orchard on the farm was laid in ruins with all trees uprooted and many carried to ad loining fields BOY DRANK POISON BY MISTAKE Reuben C Bard, youngest son ol Lancaster County Commission er Silas E Bard, residing at Den ver, had a narrow escape fiom death, 50 years ago this week The boy had been under the care of a physician That morning he picked up a bottle which he thought contained his medicine, but instead it was filled with a lotion for ivy poison The boy took a leaspoonful of the mixtuie and when his mother discoveied the mistake she quickly summon ed a physician Meantime the fath ex gave his son a large quantity of milk, causing him to vomit When the physician arrived he found the young fellow none the worst from Ins experience In Lancaster City that week, Wesley Bucher had an unfortun ate expenence while walking in his sleep It was shortly aftei midnight when he arose from his bed and walked out on the kitchen roof, stepped oil the edge and fell to the ground below Another man residing in the same house heard the noise and investigated He found Bucher lying in the back yard suffering from a broken ankle. THEY DIDN’T CATCH ISAAC While Isaac Hildebrand, a southern Lancaster County truck ei, was on his way to Lancaster market that crisp September morning, three masked men sprang out from the side of the road and tried to hold him up. Hildebrand moved quickly and accurately He gave his horse a cut with the whip, struck one of th" foot pads m the face at the same time, and went on his way SI WHEAT AT YORK York County farmers had re alised $1 wheat for the first time during Sept, 1907 An article published in the York Dispatch staled “The price of the cereal lump ed five cents in this city today, and is now quoted at $1 per bushel Despite the attractive price, few offerings of wheat are being made to local buyers What the future of the wheat market will be no man can tell, but a glance back ward is interesting. On this date one year ago, Sept 21, 1906, wheat was selling m York at 68 cents a bushel.” FARMERS PROTESTED NEW GAME LAW Fanners in general tomed hunt eis in protest of a new small game law passed by the Pennsyl vania Legislature in 1907, permit ting the killing of rabbits from Oct 15 to Dec 1 “It’s an outrage,” said a farmer in the Manheim area, “to allow rabbits to be killed when plenty of the young ones have not at- P This Week* Lancaster Fanning tained their growth and none of them arc fit to cat It takes - plenty of frost and snappy weath er to make a rabbit game, and I would as soon think,of shooting my Tabby cat as to slip up and muider the labbits that are scampering about the roadsides at this season of the yeai” 25 Years Ago Delegates representing farm or gamzafions from 37 Pennsylvania counties met at State College and adopted a seven-point program aimed at tax reduction The oi gamzalion, known as the Tax Justice League of Pennsylvania, elected T J Railings of Blairs ville as president The piogram called for a flat income tax for school purposes until a graduated income tax could be adopted, abolition of the road tax on real estate and alloca tion of taxes on moloi vehicles, licenses and fuels to local dis tricts for maintenance, ieduction of government costs including salaries of officials to 1913Tevels FIRE DESTROYS BARN, CROPS Fne caused by overheated hay destroyed a bank bam on the Lancaster farm of Philip E Biu baker, near New Holland, 25 years ago this week. Brubaker’s daughter, Mildred, Background Scripture: Daniel I—6 Devotional Reading I Peter 5 6~11. Daring Daniel Lesson for September 23, 1957 « to be a Daniel” was the name of a song that used to be sung in Sunady schools all over America Maybe people read the stories of Daniel then more often than they do now Any one who thinks the tales about this man are exaggerated and sound more like legend than history, might ask himself this question - What sort of man must Daniel have been, what kind of i eputa tion did he leave behind him, to have such stories > attach them- selves to his name and mem- 01 y" No meek little yes-man was he On the con- trary his very Dr. Foreman name is a symbol of com age against odds Two Kinds of Courage There aie two kinds of courage: physical and moial Physical coui age means keeping on doing what you know you ought to do, even when you are being terribly huit, or about to be hurt A scoutmaster in a boat with some small boys got into some heavy waves, the boat oveiturned, and eveiybody climbed on top of the upside-down ci aft Then it became evident that theie neie too many foi the boat in that position So the scout mastei, after pulling the last boy out of the watei, swam alongside foi a while, and when he could swim no longer, quietly sank . . . dying to save a boy's life That took coinage Then there is also moral com age, which means do ing 01 saying what you believe to be right, in spite of udicule or poweiful conti aiy opinions. Against Ordars Courage always is against some thing dangei, public opinion, pain Daniol's courage sometimes was of the laie and risky soit, com age to defy orders fiom his official superiors Daniel’s salaiy discovered smoke rolling trom ihe building shortly before 5 a m, and aroused her father who went to the bain and found the build ing filled with smoke but saw no fire A load of hay had been taken into the barn the day before but was not unloaded Brubaker pul led the load of smoking hay from the barn and almost instantly the place burst into flames The sea son’s ci ops wcie destroyed, but all livestock was sav"d Fnemen estimated the loss at $5,000 YORK CO. HOME, BARN BURNS Sparks from a fodder cutter was blamed for destroying the farm house and bai n of Abraham Fake, near Lewisbeny, York County A blade of the fodder cutter hit a spike which had dropped in to the fodder, causing sparks which led to a blaze Fake was alone at the time His wife was away fiom home and his son was at school Herman Duerer, 17, Lebanon High School student, was sei tous le injured in the ci ash of his glid er at the Lancaster Airport, 25 >ears ago this week The glidei rose to a height of 150 feet and circled the field It settled down to 100 feet above the ground, then went into a nose dive At Lancaster that week, 'Wall er E Hardy lost all his pocket money while wa'lking through Cential Maiket House, when ins pocketbook containing $l6 in cash and a certificate of deposit for $l6O was stolen was paid by the loval com f mrt I'ko many sakuiod men when or dered to do something against Ins conscience and religion, might have shrugged it off “Well I hats to do it it goes against the giam. But this is my iob and who am I to talk back to my employei ’ I’v» gotta play ball if I stay on the payroll ” Daniel was made of stouter stuff When he knew that God said one thing and his bo°s said another, even if the boss was a king with poweis of life and death, Daniel saw no choice but to obey God lather than men Against Custom Damol ‘bucked” not only an old fashioncd, oriental dictatoi, all dressed up in ciown and gown, but something that is just as tyian mcal; public* opinion and long standing customs. If he had had the public on his side, he might not have been leported (foi ex ample) in the incident of the play ers at the open window Back home in Palestine many would have known that he was light, heie In Peisia almost no nns agieed with him To go against ‘‘what everybody does”—usually meaning by “everybody” the moi* impoitant people of a community takes neive It can be wrong, too. for very often public opinion is just about right One ought to think very caiefully Isetoie flying the opposite comse to eveiy one else But wljen Daniel knew he was right, he knew that fifty thou sand Medes and Persians could be wrong, and he acted accordingly. Against Personal Interests Many people take the easiest way. All they ask is, “What does this get me' Where does it get me’ Will this bring more pies tige, will it end m my promotion, will it help me up the ladder’” If the answer Is Yes, then they go ahead They don’t -dare do any thing conti ary to their own intei ests. But Daniel dared. More than once he had the courage to do something or to say something when it looked as if by doing or sayuig it he would put an end to his caieer. But the king always kept him on, though for a while he might turn against him. Men admire courage of all aorts, espe cially Daniel’s kind. The king and everybody else knew that hero was a man who could be counted on to say and to do what he was convinced waa right, even if i* hurt him, —even if It killed him. Here was a man who could not be threatened, could not be bought. Such men were not plentiful then, they are not thick as blackberries now. But they are God’s men *** ways. (tuil on oetllnea innllkM W Division of Chrlidan -B#«oatlon. «»* (tonal Cannon of (ho Chvokop ef Cnrief In (ho U. g. A. ItiliMU or «eesa»enKf Proee ferrite.)
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