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
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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
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