4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, Nov. 15, 1957 |ancaster Farming 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 El Best Robert G. Campbell Robert J. Wiggins . Subscription Rates; $2 00 Per Year Three Years $5.00, 50 Per Copy Entered as Second-Class matter at the Post Office, Quarryville, Pa., uuaer Act of March 3, 1879 4-H Steer Sale Disappointing MEMBERS OF THE 4-H baby beef and lambs clubs throughout the Southeastern Pennsylvania area were disappointed Thursday at the prices they received at the club calf and lamb sale The average for the calves was only a few cents above market top. We believe that with all the bally-hoo thrown out by certain businesses in Lancaster County this year in an effort m increase tourist traffic at traffic that in a large part stems from the unique agriculture of this county that at least one of the men doing most of the talking could have been on hand to buy one of the Lancaster Coun ty fed and raised steers. It these “big time operators” expect to gam the confidence and backing of Lancaster County farmers, they had best awaken to the fact that a good word in the right place is one of the best public relations and promotion assets Having a reputation of not caring about the peo ple being exploited will surely come home to roost eventual ly It’s Our Second Birthday! 'TODAY WE ARE celebrating our second birthday You’ll notice that this Volume 111, No- 1. In the newspaper business this is the time that a new paper can be consid ered to have come of age. We are now eligible to join all sorts of organizations of the trade such as the NEA, ABC, and so on down the alphabet And since we are on the subject of newspapers as a whole and Lancaster Farming in particular, let’s take a look at what we have been trying to do the last couple of vears Lancaster County has the highest farm population of any county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Ac cording to the most current stastics, there are some 7,900 farms in the county with about 6,500 of them of a real com mercial farm size " This offers a demand for a newspaper devoted to the interest of the farmer This is whv we are in existence Now' what have we been trying to do 9 The newspaper industry is full of people constantly taking polls and surveys of w'hat people like and dislike in the various mediums of communication newspapers, ladio and television One of the things that they have found will probably surprise you. They have found that in newspapers and magazines, advertising has almost as much interest for the average readei than some of the editorial content In the two bi oadcast mediums this is not the case at all And in Lancastei Fanning we believe that we have carried some of the most interesting and informative farm advertising iii the trade One thing that leadeis inchoated that thev despise is the piactice of manv newspapers of “jumping” stories tiom one page to another Since ne saw the results of this survev, we have t'icd to hold “jumps” to a minimum This sometimes make*- a page look shghtlv full and dull, but when you start to lead an article, vou know that in most cases vou aie going to be able to linish it without having to search tor the end of it on some other na pp You rmtir-p that v n sa\ ‘ most of the time Frequently the best laid plans of all of us go astrav Another suwcv showed that the old theory that ieadms v,ant to make up their own minds that thev want onlv the bate facts is refuted bv all kinds of o’idem e Readers like to be told what is important and ”hat is not impoitant Thev want help in understanding the new s and recognising its importance We also opei ate under the theory that people want and like pictures big mctuies To this end we have in stalled a new modern photographic darkroom and engrav ing machine that allows us to compete in the picture field with anv newsnapei amwvhere It s a Haop\ Birthday for us and we're glad that con aie heie to help us celebrate’ STAFF Publisher Editor Advertising Director .Circulation Director BY JACK REICHARD 50 YEARS AGO (1907) John C Earl, financial secre tary of the Bowery Mission, New York City, made an appeal for na tional aid to carry on the work The appeal stated in part “The Bowery Mission ‘Bread Line’ at Which 1,000 men who are in the streets lor the night are given a breakfast of hot coffee and rolls eveiy morning at one o’clock, is one of the most pa thetic sights in all this wide, wide world Long befoie the hour of opening, these poor, starving men stand in single line that some times - extends for blocks in length, waiting for the coffee and lolls “During the winter of 1906 this breakfast was given to 144,000 homeless men and boys The first ol these breakfasts is given on Thanksgiving morning, and the last on the following Easter Sun day morning “The despairing men and boys are not native New Yorkers, but men and boys, until within a year, lived at their old home stead with father and mother, and perhaps a wife They are stiand ed here in New York Shall wc turn them away 9 It rests with the good people of this country to decide this question, and may God graciously help you to de cide it alright ” Fanner Helped To Steal , His Own Hogs Samuel Smith, a farmer icsid mg in the heart of Pennsylvania s Conewago hills helped to steal his own hogs at a late hour that Sunday night in November, 1907 Smith, who was sound asleep, was wakened by violent knocking at the door Raising thp window, he saw two men in the yard, who told him that a number of their hogs had escaped through the endgate of their wagon on their way to Harnsburg market They asked the farmer’s per mission to go into his fields and loundup the swine Smith consented and said that he would help them After an hour of hard work the porkers were loaded on the wagon, and the men were piofuse in their thanks for the farmer’s aid In the morning, when Smith went out to feed his slock he dis covered he had been duped, and every hog missing which he had helped to steal Back m November, 1907, an un usual occunence took place at Lancaster home of Mr and Mrs Homy K Shue, near White Oak in Rapho Twp, That Friday after noon Mrs Shue presented her husband with a bouncing baby boy, and on Saturday morning she gave him a surprise by giving birth to a second son While the boys were considered twins, one was a day older than the other According to a local physician, the births was a rare case in medical history The 1907 session of Lancaster County Teachers Institute took place in the Mai tin Auditouum at Lancaster. 50 years ago this week The first person to registei was Charles Oberhol/er, of Sabs bury Twp , who had been the first for seveial yeais Second to reg istei was Harry Hes, oi Oicgon Fiflj years ago a Laneastei farm in the Taj lona area con taining 88 acies, was sold to Mrs Erastus Hastings, of Philadelphia foi SlB per acre 25 Years Ago Pcnnsj h ama s Govcrnoi Pm chot liegan his Thanksgiving proc lamation with the introduction used bj Governor Simon Snjder in 1817 It lead- ‘Although the wise and Holj’ Governor of (he universe has in Ills righteous providence allud ed divei-, sections of the United States with wasting sickness, jet have we the giealcst icason to adore and praise the Supreme Dis This Week’ Lancaster Farming poser of events, we deserve, has averted from our State the hand of the destroying angel, and bless ed our land with the fruits of the eaith in the greatest abund ance ” Three Young Duck Hunters Narrowly Escape Drowning Screaming for help and cling ing frantically to a submerged rock for a long time before being icscued fiom the Susquehanna Diver, neai Columbia, Salem Wall 17, James Will, 18 and Salem Schlotthaur, 20, narrowly escaped death by drowning The boys were duck hunting Their boat over turned and none of them could swim They were able to reach the lock' David Lease, residing near the rn er shore, heard the cries foi help He summoned Peiry Miles, who owned a boat, and together they rescued the young men Leroy Dietz nine, son of Mr and Mis William J Dietz, Lan- caster Rl, who was imured by a Then it was decided to name hit and-run driver, died m the the first-bom after Franklin Lancaster General Hospital The Roosevelt, the President-elect, boy was run down near his home, and the other, ten minutes young on the Harrisburg ,pike, about* er, after Herbeit Hoover, the en oneand a-half mile west of Lan- cumbent caster ' 1 ” Howard Shafiei, residing m Co dorus Twp, Y'ork County, 25 years ago, was in the West Side Sanitarium, York, sulfenng in- Background Scripture I Corinthians I*s Devotional Reading* I Corinthians 15 50- Center of Faith Lesson for November 17. 1957 WHERE is the center of Chris tian faith 7 What is it that if we don’t believe we can hardly believe anything else 7 Every one would agiee that the center of Chris tian faith is Chi ist The religion called by his name is not bv any means first of all a philosophy a col lection of ideas, JP* tBR a system of aH thought a set of and then it is the have been touched by this Dr - Foreman Pei son But what is cential about Jesus' His vugin buth 7 His teach ing 7 His cioss' His character 7 No wheie in the New Testament is his both mentioned except in two Gospels, so we ha\e no icason to say that the early Chui ch con sideied his birth oi the manner of it, highly impoitant His teach ing is lelened to in most epistles, but only in a lather sketchy way We have to go back to the Gos pels to find what Jesus taught Much sticks W'as laid on the cioss bv the eailv Chinch but even this takes second place Central for the Church In the Gtcek New Testament in the pad outside the Gospels, —that is the pad that contains the cady Cluistian pleaching and leaching—thcie aie 11 specific icl ci cnees to Chi ist’s cross and nine to the ciuchixion—a total of twen ty On the othei hand thci c ai o eight i dci elites lo the ipsui lection of Chi Ist and the cxpicssion “God i .used him fi om Hie dead oi cquiv aknl phiases will be found 32 times—a total of fody F'om the d 'hi we have in om Now Test i nicnls theiefoic we can sav that the i t'sm icclion loomed Iwiee as iji gt in the mind of the eadv Chinch as did the ci ucifixion P ml in h.s Corinthian letter uses the woid- me mm" ‘of fust imnm t nice about Child s ci ucifixiun juries of the left hip, inflicted by an .enraged sheep buck Slhaffer was chasing' a number of sheep in to a pen, when the buck turned on him and made a vicious attack. One of the first aerial weddings on record, to which all invited out-of-town guests came by air plane, was solemnized during No vember, 1932, at Bioomsburg, Pa., when Samuel R Bigony, one of the pilots at the Bioomsburg air port was married to Miss Flor ence Schmidt, of York. Rev D L. Bomboy, pastor of the Lutheran Church, performed the ceremony Attending the cou ple weie Miss Evelyn Schultz, York, and Claude Martin, Shamo km, a parachute jumper. Later in the afternoon the newlyweds left by plane for New 7 York On the Lancaster farm of James Harra, Colerain Twp, the owner was surprised about midnight when he found a stray hog wan dering about his premises In the morning he found more pigs, the usitor having farrowed during the night Twin Doys, born two days after the November, 1932, presidential election to Mr and Mis. William Nixdorf, puzzled their parehts lor names lor a few days Twenty-five years ago this week a meeting of the Lancaster Tobacco Growers’ Assn was held at the new experiment station one-half mile south of Roseville and resuirection, but he dwells on the resuilection at much greater length, as any leader can see for himself Central for Faith Considei what the situation would be if Chust had not risen fiom the dead In the fiist place, we should not have had the Church It is on iccoid that the disciple 'foisook the crucified,Je sus but the i isen Christ drew their stiongest and undying loyalty It was the lesuirection that changed a band of timid men, even cowards, into the beginnings of a mighty army to oveispiead the earth Someone asked a Fiench states man what it would take to start a new tehgion Veiy simple, said the old man Just get yourself ciu ufied and then rise from the dead! If Chust had not nsen what would be i emembei ed of him’ Some of his teachings veiy likely; but theie would be no essential diffeience between him and other teacheis of the past If Christ had not usen we might have adorned his thoughts and the way he ex piessed them The nsen Chust challenges moie than admuation, —devotion Moie than once in the New Testament the resurrection appeals also as the one single event moie than any other, which earned the h t Chustians’ minds to heights ol nth His Life and Curs Men did not anive at belief in Chnst’s deity by pondenng the ciucihxion, rtfther by meditating on the i esui i ection It is the res ur; ection that gives the ci uciflxion its meaning Besides all this, it is clear in the New Testament that the lesun ec tion of Chnst is our best way of undei standing what our own des tiny will be Theie is a great deal we do not undei stand about this. Not all the New Testament togeth ei answeis all our questions But Paul sees the Easter stoiy as so impoitant that if it had not hap pened our whole faith is vain Fur theimoie the best reason for be lieving that ueath will not make an end of Chnst’s people is that death did not make an end of him. If he wot ; on living, changed yet the same so ue may believe that after this piosent life is over and our uoik heie done, we too, in ways of w hich only God knows the sect el will go on living, changed—beating “the image of the man of heaven"—yet still our veiy selves with the weakness and the daikness gone, impelishabla and vitloi ions, sharing his con quesl df dtalh ( B »>t*d on onliiiM a (opvrlfchtrd bv the BixMon of < hrisllan Education Na tional Council of (he Churches of Chrmt in th( I’ s \ Released by Communitr I'reas acrx It r ) •
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