4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, Sept. 27, 1957
|ancaster Farming
Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly Newspaper
Established November 4, 1955
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Fair Schedule-Snafu
THE HEIGHT of confusion on the show circuit for dairy
men was hit the past week in the county when two fairs
and two major state shows were held at the same time.
The result was that dairy cattle judging was held
hurriedly at Quarryville and the animals were rushed to
Harrisburg in time for the Junior Dairy Show. The same
Junior Show prompted two exhibitors from the noithern
part of the county to refrain from showing at the Eliza
bethtown fair at all
Both fairs were out the best of the Holsteins be
cause ot the State Black and White Show being held Fn
dav
The people coming to the fairs surely must have
been disappointed because the best of the cattle were not
available to be seen And at least one young showman
told a lepresentative of Lancaster Farming that he would,
have rather shown at home, but he was obligated to show
at the state event
We believe that next year when the fair schedules
are being made, the directors should make sure that no ma
jor state events will conflict with the local shows This
way, although it may take some adjustments, the exhibitors
will have a chance to show their cattle at home before
their own neighbors and at the state event
The public, which comes to see the prize winning
animals, will have a chance to see them.
And the animals will show better at both events by
being allowed to have time to rest between shows. '
Spring in September
DRIVING THROUGH Lancaster County the past week, we
were somewhat startled, amazed and gratified to notice
that the countryside looks like the first few days of Spring
rather than early Fall
The rams have made a tremendous difference in
the looks of the fields, and to some extent, in the attitude
ot the people who live from those fields
The folks you see now don’t have that sort of re
signed look to them Now they are smiling and chippe*
The fields, too have lost their look of brown dismay and
aie sporting a bright green countenance
It’s too late for much good, everyone agrees, but
this beautiful countryside this late m the season is going
to be nice to remember this winter when the dark dull
tv eat her tends to make you think that the world can never
be bright again
Livestock Income Down
A 300 THOUSAND dollar drop m cash receipts from live
stock is offset bv a 700 thousand dollar rise m receipts
from crops to give Pennsylvania a current cash farm .in
come of some 400 thousand dollars greater than last year.
The total so far this year is estimated at $419,143,000 as
compaied to $414,894,000 for the same neriod m 1956
. These figures aie reported in the current Farm
Income Situation report published by the Agricultural
Maiketmg Service of the USDA
The lepoit reveals that for the nation as a whole,
iai inch's lealized net faim income tor the third quarter of
this year may run as much as half a billion dollars higher
.’than the thud quarter of 1956 The 1956 rate is 118 bil
lion dollais as compaied to 12 1 billion this year
, Marketings totaled 17 6 billion dollars in the first
eight months of this yeai. or one per cent moie than in
the cm responding pei lod last year Prices received by
’tanners during the eight month period averaged three
per cent above last year but the volume of maiketmgs
uas smaller
}The mciease of approximately 150 million dollars
n the Januaiy-August total of cash receipts was clue to a
500 million dollar mciease from livestock and was only
paitialh offset by a drop of 350 million dollars in crop
i eccipts
Farm operating costs are running higher than a
year ago with prices paid by farmers higher than in the
third quarter of 1956 for all production items except feed
STAFF
Publisher
Editor
Advertising Director
.Circulation Director
BY JACK REICHARD
50 Years Ago (1907)
Fifty years ago this week four
murderers were hanged in the jail
yard at Lancaster, the largest
number to expiate crime on the
gallows simultaneously in Pennsy
lvania since the Mollie Maguire
hangings in the coal.regions some
30 years before The subjects of
the law’s vengeance, back in 1907,
were Joseph Cehnoe, Anthony
Delero, Stephano Carlm and Siv
erio Rodelli, who were convicted
of killing Plato Albamese, a fel
low countryman m 1906 The ex
ecution was witnessed by about 40
persons, including the sherff’s
juiy, a few prison attaches, physi
cians and newspaper representa
tives
Lunatic Called on
President Roosevelt
Orlando Toland, alleged lunatic,
who claimed he rode on freight
trams all the way from Oxford,
Ala, to the home of President
Theodore Roosevelt to get the
President to help him collect a
claim of $50,000,000 from John D
• Rockefeller, was dead in the mor
gue at Hackensack, N J
Secret service men who sur
rounded the President’s home at
Oyster Bay discovered Toland at
the gate
“I have come all the way from
Alabama to get the President to
help me collect a claim from the
Oil King,” Toland told the secret
seivice men “I discovered the
murder of a young woman in Min
nesota for Rockefeller and he
promised me $5O million
After leceiveng a sealed enve
lope containing a blank sheet of
paper, which the detectives told
him was a personal letter from the
Piesident to Mr Rockefeller, To
land was satisfied and started for
New York, stating he would go
west to find Rockefeller
Three days later the body of
Toland was found along the tracks
of the West Shore Railroad cut in
two The body was identified by a
sister of the dead man
Atheist Falls Dead
Denying God
As the words that theie was no
God passed from his lips, Amos
Clark, 45, apparently in good
health up to that moment, dropp-
ed dead at Bellefontame, Ohio
Clark, an atheist, was convers
ing with a group of neighbors
gathered in his front yaid. He
was discussing his disbelief and
arguing with members of his fami
ly He called on God, whose exis
tance he denied, to punish him if
his view was wrong Then he fell
dead
Phys. is summoned from the
nearby town stated death was due
to paralysis of the heart
Fifty years ago this week, fire
of unknown ongm destroyed a
large barn on the Lancaster farm
of Hairy G Witimer, one and a
half miles southeast of Washing
ton Boro The building, 80 x 48,
was completely destroyed, to
gether with all its contents con
sisting of farm implements, crops
ol hay, wheat and oats Three
acres of seed leaf tobacco owned
by Jacob Walk, of Washington
Boro, was in the building and also
went up in smoke All livestock,
a two-hoise wagon and a Jenny
Lind carnage weie saved
Hurt Scaffolding Tobacco
Jacob Rutter, residing between
New Holland and Intel course, was
seriously intured while scaffold
ing tobacco m his bam, 50 yeais
ago this week He fell a distance
of some 30 feet, landing on a corn
sheller
25 Years Ago
23 Yeais Ago (1932)
Lancaster County’s West Lam
peter Cpmmunify Fair Assn clos
ed its 1952 exhibit at the High
School with a community piogram
Week
ter Farming
tions by the West Lampeter Or
chestra, Marimba selections by
the Rosenbergcrs, marionette
show by Junior League members
and selections by the Harmony
Boys Glee Club
Total safes at the consignment
sale of cattle exceeded $2,500
when 42 head were sold through
the auction ring. The highest
price paid for one animal was $96
for a Holstein Cow
Celebration At Ephrata
Twenty-five years ago this week
Lancaster County’s borough of
Ephrata presented a gala Wash
ington bicentennial program on a
Sunday, afternoon in the presence
of a large gathering Choruses of
the borough’s churches united in
furnishing a number of selections
The American Legion Junior
Band, with E A Lit as director,
played several patriotic selections
Addresses were given by the
Rev George T Fitz, Dr. M W.
Schweitzer and the Rev E M.
Rhoad
Unused Building Burns
Fire destroyed a frame build
ing, formerly used for the manu
factuie of fireworks at Pequea
Valley, south of Willow Street
Damage,was placed at $3,000 by
Chester Huber, chief of the Wil
low Street Fire Co The Lampeter
Fire Co aided m fighting the
blaze
The structure was empty, ex-
Background Scripture: Nehemlah 1—
2,4; 6 15-16, 13
Devotions' Reading: Psalm 99*1-5.
Patriot in Action*
Lesson for September 29, 1957
THERE is no closed season for
patuotism You might think
there was, for there is a rash of
patnotic speeches and editorials
along about the fourth of July, and
on Washington’s Birthday and sim
ilar occasions. This time of year
people seem to be thinking moie
about the hunting season, and
school openings,
than about our
wondeiful coun-
try Now, let us
admit that patn-
otic speeches the
yeaiaround,
would be a di ead»
ful bore.
Fn e-
works and ora-
tory every night
are not called Dr. Foreman
for. Neveitheless it is true there
is no closed season foi patriotism.
There is a daily need for patriots.
Counterfeit Patriotism
Patriotism is not noise, not
speeches. The patnot is not tne
man who brags about his country
the most. Travelers abioad fiom
America know the nuisance type
of tourist who is forever complain
ing, wherever he is, about neaily
everything, loudly telling the world
that “We have it better in the
States ” Such a man is not doing
Ameuca any good Hanging out
the flag on impoitant days is a
good piactice, but a man’s patn
otism is not to be measui ed by the
regularity of Ins flag-displays Fui
thermore, a tiue patriot is not one
who thinks ot his own stock as the
true Amei leans, and all otheis as
not quite it A man like this will
think of descendants of eaiher
immigrants as antiquated, out of
touch with life; and the descend
ants of those immigrants who
came later he thinks aie “ically’’
Euiopeans or something, never
quite Ameiicans.
Initiative
Many patriots’ portraits are to
be found in the Bible; Nehemiah
is one of these He was a governor
ccpt for a few tools No fireworks
had been manufactured there
since May 29, 1930, when ah ex
plosion leveled sevcial similar
buildings on the site, killing two
workmen. v -
That same week the brick dwell
ing house on the Chester County
farm of John A Barkley, north of
Cochranville, was completely de
stroyed by fire at 430 in the
morning The loss estimated at
$6,000 was paitly covered by in
surance.
The blaze was discovered when
members of the family were a
wakened by the smell of smoke
and found a fire had started in the
kitchen Atglen and Parkesburg
fire companies were summoned
but firemen were unable to save
the building because of lack of
water
Some furniture from the first
floor of the dwelling and a quanti
ty of fruit stoied in the cellar
were saved.
-K.C.T.A. CULLS
294 COWS
Twenty-five years ago C. R.
Gearhart, supervisor of testing
for the Pennsylvania State Col
lege dairy extension service, re
ported that Keystone Cow Test
ing Assn members improved
their herds in January, 1932, by
selling 294 unprofitable animals.
In 78 associations 25,283 cows
were tested Of these 4,433 pro
duced more than 40" pounds of
butterfat and 5,431 gave more
than a half-ton of milk each In
the 40 pound group 1,541 exceed
ed 50 pounds of fat, and of the
heavy milkers 3,220 gave more
than 1,200 pounds of milk.
of Jerusalem, under the Persian
Empire, moie than a hundred'
years after Jerusalem’s freedom
had been lost Jerusalem had had
a stung of governors befoie; bjit
not one of them, or all of them
together, accomplished for that
city and its people what Nehemiah
did in his teim of office. He was
a true patriot, one whose services
really benefit his country, one who
renders sei vices without asking
payment in return; or if he is a
man on salary, as Nehemiah,
seems to have been, he goes be
yond what he is paid to do Nehe
miah never had to be pushed or
prodded He was out in front, see
ing what had to be done and start
ing to do it, while other men slept.
Leadership
There have been patriots without
much power or gift of leadership;
but suiely a better type of patnot
is a man or woman who can stir
other people to serve their country
too This Nehemiah is famous for
building a wall, but he may never
have laid a buck, personally He
did something far more muacu
lous than that; for the first time
in 140 yeais, he got the people of
Jerusalem haid at work at what
they should have been doing long
before: getting a wall built around
their little city. The people “had
a mind to woik,” but it was their
governor who inspired this ambi
tion in them The great patriots of
every nation’s history,—David, \
Scipio, Hemy V, George Washing
ton, Syngman Rhee, and all the
rest, have been men from whom
as from a dynamo electric current
flowed to vast numbers of their
countrymen. Under their leader
ship, weak men were biave, dis
cern aged men full of hope.
Religion
Religion, In any nation, is not
like an auxiliary water tank, for
the use of the flie department,—
something that can be tapped in an
emeigency and then turned oft
again when the trouble is over.
Religion if it is worth anything is
moie important thaij, patriotism,
just as God is more important than
any countiy. Nevertheless, though
God refuses to be used as a politi
cal ally, as Hitler and others have
tried to use him, other things being
equal the man with the most vital
religion makes the best patriot.
For religion is fiist and last a reli
ance upon God, as supreme Helper
and as final Judge. Nehemiah’s
religion comes out in many ways,
but it is plain that he was no once
a-week believer. His faith in God
was woven into all his actions. Ha
never spent long hours in prayer;
but there was no corner of his hi#
*hut off from it.
(Based on outlines eopyrlfhted by tho
Division of Christian Education. N'a- .
iIS&SL .Gooncft'-of the Chmrchoa of Chrlil