4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, Oct. 18, 1957
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Lancaster
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Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly Newspaper
Established November 4, 1955
Published every Friday by
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Quarryville, Pa. Phone STerling 6-2132
Lancaster Phone EXpress 4-3047
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Emered as Second-Class matter at the Post Office,
Quarryvilie, Pa., under Act of March 3, 1879
A writer of note on rural life,
back in 1907, declared, “too oft
en the qualifications and quality
of service rendered by the teach-
MEDICAL AUTHORITIES ARE beginning to agree gen- f r , of country P u *> llc schools are
erally that psychosomatic medicine has a definite ZevfThemPr^JiLtel
place in the treatment of many ill persons While the term as would be shown m the selec .
itself means little to the average person, it can be inter- tlon of a groom £or our thorough
preted briefly to mean the direct relation of mental at- bred Worses and cattle ”
tidues with a person’s health The wn ter pointed out it
More physicians are relying on the mental attidues would not only be a good thing
o 1 their patients in arriving at their diagnosis Happiness for the pupils of the school, but
of a person at least in a sense of well-being and satis- satisfactory to the teacher her
faction can often be nature’s antidote for illness Anxie- self, if (patrons would visit tha
ties and fea jrs eventually will interfere with a large por- school more frequently and get
tion of the normal functions of the body You can prove on the spot knowledge of the
this to your own satisfaction After a period of worrying, teacher and the quality of her
a fight with your wife, an argument with your boss, a tiff work
Outlook Affects Well-Being
with one of the youngsters, a sudden calamity, check your-
self and see if you don’t feel physically “worn out ” It’s in a test conducted by the
an actual physical reaction to a mental situation New York agriculture expen-
In most cases of illness although not in every m ent station it was found that
case —it is quite possible that an emotional cause may ln a herd of ordmar y cows
be linked with the physical result fchere were several animals w * lch
While death rates from heart trouble, cancer, ran up feei ? _£ or V 1 ® y f, ar
tuberculosis, and many other diseases, are alarming, there am ° unt ' ng 0S , ’ w 1 e „ he
are few peopie who died from .laughing Actually we £V£ £
could cure a lot of our ailments simply by laughing at our farmer not only recei ved nothing
tioubles instead of worrying over them More nervous foi his labor but also spent $350
breakdowns and other physical crackups can be traced to on each cow m a careless sys
\vorr>ing over trivialities than any other source With t em of husbandry on his farm
the pace of present day living and problems, you some- , . ' ,
times have to hunt for things to laugh at but they are u. S. D. A. ISSUED
there The more we laugh the easier laughing becomes
Flattery Will Get You Anywhere
T|ALE CARNEGIE LISTS AND discusses six ways to
”make people like you We can only list them and leave
it to the reader to develop his points.
1 Become genuinely interested m other people.
2 Smile
3 Remember that a man’s name is to him the
sweetest and most important sound in the English langu
age
4 Talk in terms of the other man’s interests
6 Make the other person feel important
FINALLY, remember that when a person asks,
“How are you today 9,” he is usually just being polite. He
isn’t asking for a recital of your medical record.
Yon Determine Your TV Fare
TVOW THAT THE FROST is on the pumpkin and the fod
' der’s in the shock, and the small fry are bobbing for
apples, it would be a good time to sit back and consider
whether today’s TV is “trick or treat ”
The expansion of television coverage over the na
tion in recent years has been phenomenal It’s swift grip
on our attention and much of our leisure has threatened
every other form of entertainment including the plea
sure ot reading But, has TV improved as it has expand
ed 9 Does it teach as well as amuse 9 Can it inspire us as
well as sell us the sponsor’ pills, puddings or platforms.
Is it a stimulant or an opiate 9
The answer lies within ourselves. Programs vari
ety what with the costly spectaculars, the ancierrt
movies, the colossal give-away shows, the news-reels, panel
interview's documentaries, sports, travelogues and ad
ventures-in-science—gives the hand that twists the dial
the power to fill the mind with substance or with drivel
What the trend is, will depend of course on which type of
material most of us turn to
Stressing the importance of a large vocabulary, the
high school English teacher told her class, “Use a word ten
times, and it will be yours for life ”
In the back of the room, a pert blonde senior closed
her eyes and was heard chanting, “Fred, Fred, Fred, Fred,
Fied, Fred, Fred, Fred, Fred, Fred.”
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Editor
Advertising Director
Circulation Director
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by JACK REICHARD
50 YEARS AGO (1907)
The Pennsylvania Railroad Co
announced plans termed the lar
gest planting of forest trees in
the history of the United States.
The company had acquired an
extensive tract of land in the
Alleghany mountains between
Altoona and Hollidaysburg The
grounds were to be planted with
various seeds which at the end
of forty years was expected to
yield an annual harvest of more
than four hundred thousand
railroad ties
SCHOOL TEACHING
TAKEN FOR GRANTED
PROTEIN BULLETIN
The relative protein value of
wheat and corn was given in a
bulletin issued by the U S De
partment of Agriculture in 1907
It showed that 10 cents would
buy foui pounds of corn at 2Vz
cents per pound, containing a
protein content: of 31, while it
would buy two pounds of wheat
at 5 cents per pound with a pro
tean value of one In the bulle
tin' s summary, however, it was
pointed out that corn was the
more practical and economical
of the two grains for most feed
ing purposes.
An elderly granger in a west
ern town was given wide-spread
publicity while attending an af
fair of special doings by purchas
ing merry-go-round tickets, $l5
worth at a time, and distributing
them among area youngsters.
When asked about his extrava
gance the granger explained “I
feel I am making a better dis
posal of my money than if I frit
tered it away bucking one of
your slot machines ”
GERMANY WINS
BALLOON RACE
The German balloon Pommern
won the race of nine airships
which started from St Louis.
Mo, on the afternoon of Oct 12,
1907 The balloons ropresentat
ed United States, England,
France and Germany, with the
James Gordon Bennett cup and a
cash prize of 52.500 offered as
awards The Pommern landed at
A c bury Park, N J, a distance
of nearly 900 miles from The
starting point All balloons en
tered by United States landed
in Maryland, giving them fourt i
place in the race
tious search about the farm
- ’TkJc , ' stray hog was found with V
1 Alla ttCwIV head tightly in a ten-gii
in Lancaster Farming l 0”“ ~
25 Years Ago
Edward Reynolds, of Wilkins
burg near Pittsburg, Pa., mysti
fied physicians and surgeons
who had treated him for slight
ailments on several occasions
and were unable to locate the
most important organ m his
body his heart
Reynolds consented to an X :
r,ay examination offered by the
Westmghouse Electric Manu
facturing Co, Pittsburg, where
the examining medicos were al
most incredulous when X-rays
showed a pair of hearts, one on
each side The one on his left
was smaller than the right side
organ, which had the stronger
heat.
SHINY-HEADED MONSTER
STARTLES FARM FAMILY
At 3 a m in the morning a
midwest farm family were awak
ened by a loud knock at the
door They looked out" the win
dow and saw a queer looking
beast about six feet long, with
foui legs, no neck and a shiny
head three feet long Before the
farmer could get a gun the
strange animal disappeared m
the dark
The next morning, in a cau-
Background Scripture* X Corinthians 9.
Devotional Reading: Acts 26 12-23
Lesson for October 20, 1957
'T'HE man has various titles.
He may himself prefer to be
called by the simple democratic
“Mister." But he is also Pastor
John Doe, and the Reverend John
Doe, and maybe Doctor Doe, be
sides Some call him the preacher.
But the title that binds him clos
est, perhaps, to the Lord Jesus,
is the word
“Minister” Je-
sus said - “The
Son of man came
not to be served
but to serve ”
The Latin word
for “serve” <n
that verse (Maik
10 45) is the
word front which
our English word Dr. Foreman
“mimstei” is derived It is the
most inclusive of all the titles; it
means in general one who is of
service to others, and in paitlcu
lar one who serves in the name of
Christ.
The Minister’s Call
Consider three points about mm
isteis, which the people in the
pews often oveilook One is the
minister's call What he does is a
“calling” lather than a “position”.
How does a minister come to be
pastor of a particular church’
That varies fiom one denomina
tion to another, though not very
much But how does the minister
come to be One m the first place 7
That is always the same, whether
he is a Roman Catholic priest or
a Protestant minister: he is a
minister of Christ because he be
lieves, he was called by the Lord
to do and be just that Could he
be mistaken 7 Indeed he can, Thei«
are men in the ministry who have
no business” there The problem
of how to be sure about one’s call
to the ministry is a problem for
ministers, not for most of the peo
ple who read these lines. What we
need to do. when we “call" a min- ,
ister, is to be sure we get a man
vyho among other strong points
has this: he is God’s man first of
all; oute only becuase he was
God’s fi
*
Minister
A double decker barn on the
Lancaster farm of W C Venoi& e
in the Chestnut Level Area, was
destroyed by a fire at noon on
Oct 18, 1932 •*
Mrs. Venoise was alone wuk
a five-year-old child when she
discovered the barn on fire The
nearest telephone was about one
mile away and by the time help
arrived the building was a mass
of flames
Quarryville Fire Co respond
ed and saved the wagon shed and
hog pen which was on fire The
stock was all out of the bai n
Six tons of straw, seven tons oi
hay, with other contents went
up in smoke
The loss was estimated at
$4,000. Firemen stated the origin
of the fire could not be deter
mined
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FARMERS ADVISED
TO USE HAY FOR FUEL
Twenty-five years ago this
week farmers in thd St Paul,
Minn section, getting from one
to five dollars a ton for “prai
rie hay”, were advised by Di.
Gortner, of the University of
"Minnesota, to use the product
for fuel, in the place of coal
that was selling up to seventeen
dollars a ton Dr. Gortner
called the days when sheila*
corn was selling for ten cents
a bushel and farmers burned it
in their stoves
Th« Minister’s Salary
Some churches fio not have sal
aried ministers. Most of the
churches in America, -however, d®
have salaried ministers.'One thing
that many church members do nol
realize is that the salary of a min"
ister is positively not the same
thing as a weekly wage paid to a
farm hand, or a business man’s
return on an investment in stocks,
or a fee paid to a lawyer. If you
hire a man, he is your man If
’you don’t like what he Is doing,
you can fire him But the minister
is not a hired man. He is God’s
man, at your service, but not un
der your thumb The business
man wants to get rich, or ncher|
his income builds up his fortune.
But' the minister’s salary never
glows to a fortune The lawyer
has a stated set of fees, and if he
is Jjke some lawyers, he chaigcs
what the ti affic will bear, i e ha
charges the wealthy more than
the poor In the Protestant chui ch
there is no scale of fees, most of
what the minister does is fiee
Piogiessive ministers aie today
doing away with the wedding fee|
for example, manying only thoifl
own people and doing this as a I
part of the church’s seivice to its I
people Furtheimore, and this is I
most irrpoitant, the mimstei’s sal-1
ary, unlike piofessional fees, is I
NOT payment for services ien-|
dered If the minister is any ac-1
count, his seivices are beyond!
puce (How much is it woith, ml
cash, to be comfoited in sonow, I
stiengthened in temptation, illuJ
mined in spmt 9 ) The salaiy is
subsidy enabling him to u 01 k I
without a salary l I
The Minister’s Ambition
Paul made it clear that he had
a right to a salary, though he pie*
fened not to use that light bu’ to
earn a living as N he went along
But even if he had been “paid,’’
the salary could nevei have been
the main thing with him “That I
may WIN some people”—not t<|
build a kind of private empire, nor
to win people foi himself, but tor
Christ Only God saves men, but
he saves men through men And
what puce can be named which is
a fair “payment” for saving »
man’s soul 7
All dedicated men set the doing
of their work above the paycheck
in impel tance Their real heait*
ambition is not for moie puP
Their ambition is gieatei effe 'j
tiveness —a closer approach to P
fection, whether their work is ait,
teaching, bridge-building or "ha
ever else it may be So the hu«
minister’s secret ambition is nt ’
a bigger congregation, moie '•*’
ary, more prestige: it is nun*
souls won.