4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, Dec. 20, 1957 <ss^T..^rr^m lancaster 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 Alfred C. Alspach.. Miss Brubaker had spent the day in Lancaster and left for .Advertising Director home on the 11 p. m. trolley. When the car stopped at Bonk’s Robert J. Wiggins Circulation Director R o ad she was the only passenger to get off. Shortly after the trolley started away the young woman was fol lowed by two men. Both wore masks. Upon approaching her one called out: “Don’t make a noise or well blow out your brains”. With that they grabbed her, threw her down and chloroform ed her. She was then dragged into the trolley station and assaulted. When the men left they took the woman’s handbag in which there was a purse containing about two dollars. Robert E. Best Robert G. Campbell.. Subscription Rates: $2.00 Per Year Three Years $5.00; 50 Per Copy Entered as Second-Class matter at the Post Office, Quarryville, Pa., under Act of March 3, 1879 Is There a Santa Claus? After recovering, Miss Brubak- WTE TAKE PLEASURE in answering »* ‘ h “= W prominently the communication below, expressing at half mile away Shg reached the the same time our great gratification that its taithiui autnor g ei i er residence in a disleveled is numbered among the friends of The Sun: and hysterical condition and - . .. I, e fainted soon after her arrival. Dear Editor: I am eight years old. Some ot she was care4,for by the Beilers my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa and later taken to her home, says “If you see it in The Sun, it’s so. Please tell When the assault become me the truth; is there a Santa Claus? known, the prevailing Christmas spirit of Good Will Toward Men in the neighborhood was turned into one of indignation and threat against the guilty brutes. VIRGINIA YOUR LITTLE friends are wrong. They have Miss Brubaker described her been affected by tte skeplteta rf do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can other about s six inches less in be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All height and shm section was minds, Virginia/ whether they be men s or children s, are combed by searching parties but little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, n o trace of the men were found, an ant in his intellect, as compared with the boundless Brubaker, a man of moderate world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable means, offered a reward of $lOO „f grasping the whole of truth and*»*«£. £ <*£*■ Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as broll „ M to the attenUon o( the certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you Q oUnty commissioners and they know that they abound and give to your life its highest offered an additional reward of beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if $5OO for the apprehension and there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there conviction of the guilty persons, were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, Constables went to work on the no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight The ®» s e hohda J s who 2 J; e e charged eternal light with which childhood fills the world would he wd jj criminally assaulting and extinguished. robbing Miss Brubaker. Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not one of the men, about forty, believe in fairies! You might get your Papa to hire men to was married; the other was much watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa younger and unmarried, in de- Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming fault oi bail the were down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, of Lancaster “ but that is no sign there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world, You may tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view the picture in the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. No Santa Claus! Thank God he lives! and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood ★★★ ★ ★ THE ABOVE IS probably the most widely reprinted edi torial ever written. And compared with the eloquence of this piece, anything we say about the joys of Christmas will sound like the babbling of little children. So we wish for you and your family all the faith, fancy, poetry, love and romance that this blessed season brin s s - ■h~^dptnlng STAFF Virginia O’Hanlon / 115 West Ninety-Fifth St, —The New York Sun, Dec. 21, 1897 BY JACK REICHARD 50 YEARS AGO (1907) One of the most brutal assault cases on record in Lancaster County occurred at Honk’s Road, on the old Lancaster and Phil adelphia turnpike, about seven miles east of Lancaster, near mid night Dec. 19,1907. The victim was Miss Mamie E. Brubaker, 21, daughter of Jacob Brubaker, blacksmith at Ronk’s Station. .Publisher .Editor lOWA BOY WON 160 ACRE FARM An lowa youth by the name of Ray Bennet exhibited ten ears of corn at the 1907 Chicago Corn Exposition. When the awards of the judges were made it was found this boy, still in his teen age years, was the winner of a 160 acre farm in Texas worth $6,- 400, in addition to other prizes amounting to several hundred dollars. The wife of a Wisconsin farm er who used a sningle on her dis obedient son, incidentally explod ed a dynamite cap in his hip pocket. She lost two fingers and received other injuries in the ex plosion. The son escaped serious injury. YORK COUNTY LED IN CIGAR PRODUCTION Pennsylvania topped the nation in the production of cigars, with a total of 1,923,575,754 manufac tured in 1907, according to an ad vance copy of the annual report of the Commissioner of internal revenue released by Revenue Col lector H. L. Hershey, of the Ninth District. York County headed the list for producing more cigars than This Week 4 Lancaster Farming '*9», ' any other inland county in the United States. Back in 1907 they raised large hogs in Lancaster County’s Den ver section B. K. Lausch slaugh tered one which dressed 550 lbs and another 505 lbs. Isaac S. Gor man had a pair which dressed 860 and one of-Joseph Pennypack er’s porkers tipped the beam at 521 lbs. But the hog of all hogs in the area was one to be raffled off which weighed 900 lbs. and was expected to reach 1,000 lbs. before raffle-off time. The largest tomato patch in the United States in 1907, if not in the world, was located in Clark County, Mo., just south of the Des Moines River. It contained 170 acres and was exactly one mile in length and about one third mile in width. 25 Years Ago At a meeting of the Lancaster County Holstein Breeders’ Assn, held in Lancaster, Earl L. Groff, of Strasburg, was re-elected pres ident. Other officers elected were: Harry R. Metzler, Paradise, vice president; Elvm Hess, of Stras burg, secretary; Earl Ranck, Gor donville, treasurer. The executive committee consisted of T. Don- ' lukinnl l«rlatar«! Philippian* S; liuha DcratUmal Knllac Colosilana 1:11- U. To Share Our Life Leaaon for December 22, 1957 THE baby Jesus we have been seeing everywhere these days. His picture is on the greeting cards, songs about him are sung' (mechanically lor the most part) on every street. Fresh candles are lighted in front of his statue in many churches. Luke 2 is mem orized in a thou- sand Sunday schools. Now that is about all some people ever see or think about Jesus. He is the baby we have to hear about once a year. Christians know better than this. Indeed Christians, fiom very early times, never saw only a baby in the manger at Bethlehem. Here is no ordinary child, made romantic by the hardships of his birth He is more than a symbol and example of the sweetness and helplessness of all babies in the world. “Who (or Us Men-Becamo Man” The Child of Bethlehem is the Event of all time For this child is the Son of God made man. What men have often longed for, what poets have dreamed, what every man needs, heie it is . . . only not as we expected. What we want is « God who is near us, nearer than heaven, nearer than Mount Olym pus, yes nearer than the nearest temple. If possible—and who dared it could be?—we want God in hu man form. But what we might have expected is a very grand hu man figure, some super-man, born to power and majesty. What God has sent us is quite different: just a baby. A baby who cannot talk nor walk nor live without help, a baby born to displaced persons in the poorest of circumstances, with no very bright future likely. Yes, this is He. When God became man he came all the way. He came to share our life. Sharing Slrugglt Theologians say that Christ had a human “natuie” and a divine aid Patterson, Gap; Amos Mei linger, Strasburg; George Sand er, East Earl; Abner H. Risser, Bambndge and Jacob Houser, Lampeter. Professor R. R. Welch, of State College, addressed the group. Sev eial reels of motion pictures were shown. A realistic picture in figures of how two and a half years of depression had affected the pock etbooks of American citizens when they filed their income tax returns for 1931 was released in a report by the Internal Revenue Bureau in December, 1932. Of the “super-millionaires” with incomes of one million and over, there were 75 of them who filed returns compared to 150 who managed to keep in this class in 1930. The National Department of Agriculture reported that Penn sylvania farmers and dairymen slaughtered 26,399 cattle in 1931 in the drive to eliminate tubercu losis from state herds. For the cattle slaughtered, the state paid indemnities in the amount of $972,899 and the Fed eral Government, $610,762. The average Federal indemnity was $23. The state averaged $36. In disposing of a number of criminal cases, 25 years ago this week, Judge Atlee, at Lancaster, refused to send a single defend ant to jail for the holidays, and in several cases granted indefin ite suspensions and postpone ments of sentences to prisoners pleading guilty to serious of fenses. ‘‘nature.’’ Tha Bible seldom t£ eve*, u#ea auch language. The New' Testament just calls Jesua “He.’*j Jesus himself called himself Son, of God; he also called himself a. man. (John 8:40.) The Nicene, Creed, one of the .most ancient and widely used creeds of the church umvcxsal, says that the Son of God "was made” (i.e. became) man. We can make this clearer to out', minds if we simply say that Jesue shared our life. He shared It to the full, he identified himself with 1 mankind. He shared the circum stances and the conditions under' which all men live. We said just now that a baby born as Jesus would have no rosy future; and this was tiue of Jesus. His life was one of constant struggle. In his boyhood it must have been a strug gle with poverty; as he grew older he had to wrestle with temp tation, with misunderstanding and hatred. Sharing Suffering Possibly not all human life Is a struggle; but there is no man with lifelong exemption from suffering. We know Jesus suffered on the cross; we often forget that he wai always a "man of sonows and ac quainted with grief.” We do not read that he wept on Calvary; wo do know that he wept at the death of a friend. We know the Pharisees hounded him to his death. We for get the times when he was nearly lynched by angry mobs. He knew a kind of suffenng which is haider foi a sensitive soul than physical pain; suffenng of the mind and heart That his mother misunder stood him, that his brothers did not believe in him, that he “could do no mighty woik” at Nazareth, his own home town, because of their stubborn unbelief. Dr. Foreman Staring Sin One thing Jesus did not share with us: sin. And yet even this he shared in two ways. He always sided with the sinner, so much so that his critics called him “friend of sinners;” and in the end he suffeied because of sin. Paul in one place wntes, “For our sake he' (God) made him to be sin who knew no sin” (II Cor. 5:21). This brings us face to face with the awesome mystery of the Atone ment; but as a Scottish minister ont;e said, the reason we do noti understand the Cross is not be-i cause our minds are dull but be cause our hearts are too poor toj undei stand love. If the baby in the manger had died then and theie,. it would have been sad. But only] if that baby lived, and grew, and) suffered, could the child become 1 Man, giving his matured life a ransom for many. (Based am aatllnca copyright** fry tfc« PirltUn «f Christian EdacatUa, N»- tiaaal Caaacll af th« Churohts if Christ In tha i>. 8. A. B«Uat»A hy Community Proas Scrrlaa.) << * >*• !l-
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