4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, Dec. 20, 1957
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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
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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..
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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
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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-
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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.)
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