4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, Jan. 10, 1958
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Cigar Use Gaining
/TOTAL 1957 CONSUMPTION of cigars-and cigarillos in
1 the United States and by overseas forces is estimated at
6 2 billion—a little above 1956, according to the December
Tobacco Situation Report released by the Agricultural Mai-
Letmg Service of the USDA
The repoit notes that this consumption is the laigest
since the late'l92o’s and that 1958 consumption is expected
to continue near the 1957 level—perhaps gaming a little
The AMS also estimates that about 40 per cent ot
total cigar output now has the processed binder instead of
the natural leaf binder A verv large share of cigarillos is
now 7 made with the processed binder.
Another record is likely to be set this year by bonded
manufacturers using imported and Puerto Rican leaf The
num,ber shipped from Puerto Rico to the United States is
the highest since 1931 Imports of cigars from Cuba aie the
largest since 1945 but remain a small fraction of total con
sumption Presently some 94 per cent of the cigars used in
the countrv are manufactured in domestic plants.
' Puerto Rico is becoming more of a factor m the cigar
business A federal market quota is not in effect for Puerto
Rican tobacco and its puce support is set in accordance with,
a sliding scale related to supply. The support price for the
crop to be marketed in 1958 reflects 90 per cent of parity as
of Oct 1, 1957 In the 1956-57 marketing year, the support
price was based on 89 per cent of parity
; On Oct 1 stocks of Puerto Rican tobacco at 50-1/3
million pounds were over seven million less than a year
earlier and nine million less than two years ago About 51
per cent w'as held on the mainland and 49 per cent on the
Island Early unofficial reports indicated that given favor
able weather, the 1957-58 ciop could be around 25 per cent
largei than the 24 million pounds produced in 1956-57
The 1957-58 total supply of continental filler type
tobcco the lepoit says is 175 million pounds, five per cent
less than last vear and the lowest on lecord Oct 1 stocks
weie up slightlv fiom last year (attributable to larger hold
ings, of the Pennsylvania type fillei), but the 1957 crop of
neaiflv 47 million pounds was over a sixth smaller than har
vested m 1956 Though acreage harvested in the Pennsyl
vania aiea was onlv two per cent smaller than in 1956, ad
veise weathei ieduced the ciop to 41 million pounds, nearly
20 pei cent less than obtained last veai The Ohio crop is
10 pei cent sinallei than m 1956.
jßciihOJi Wants to End Soil Bank
SECRETARY EZRA TAFT BENSON said Tuesday that the
administration will lecommend ending the acreage re
sene piousions of the Soil Bank progiam This progiam
has dost the govei nment about halt a billion dollars annually
. While he did not outline what the administration
v ould do in dioppmg the acieage icservo he did implv that
iecommendations to Congiess would call for widei govern
ment discietion in setting puce suppoits and greatei iiee
dom foi fanners in planning pioduction opciations
Ills statement came as no surpusc to most observers
who June been expecting an announcement ol this soit tor
‘'Ouial month, Benson s leccnt speeches including the one
betoic the poweiiul \meiican Fann Biueau Fedciation,
weic most emphatic in calling lot less governmental intei
ieiente with the lanneis pioduction plan. At the same
time he called loi a means to allow the govei nment to do
something to ieduce the staggenng load ot suiplus faun
commodities
Jhe seuetai\ has long ad\ocated the abolition of
ngid piuo suppoils Hut this loim of pncc suppoits has al
vavs had the favoi on ( ongiess While the abolition of the
seei'iineh imwoihabk an cage icsene piogiam piobablv
v ill cause little tioulile foi Ihe adnnnistiation in Comp ess
the Jawmakeis mpW likeh will balk at putting a suppoit plan
info effect that will allow Henson to do as he wants with
pi Ke-
lt s too bar! that the fufme geneiation.s can f be hcie
to help us spend then nionew Tester
farming
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Publisher
Editor
Advertising Director
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Too Had
BY JACK KEICHARD
75 Years Ago
Seventy-five years ago Ameri
cans were beihg warned of the
degrading social and political
standaxds in the nation by one
Dr Dix, author and lecturer, who
made an extensive study on the
causes of divorce On a lecture
tour through the New England
states, in 1883, Dr Dix had this
to say
“It is a fact that as civilization
advances the sacredness of home
in some walks of life seems to
decline. When there were no
telegraphs, no railroads, no sen
sational papers, no pernicious
periodical literature, there were
fewer divorce cases, fewer elope
ments and a healthier emotional
life People were content to live
as their fathers and motheis had
lived, and if there did occur an
exceptional case ot elopement
with another man’s wife, it was
the talk of the countryside for
months and the woman lost favor
among her people forever ”
Dr Dix declared that in Now
England States alone 2,000 homes
weie broken up every year, with
dimes against morality, chasity
and decency steadily increasing
In 1883 Di Dix said
“Two poisons pollute the foun
tains of our national life the
one is mm, with its attendant
cmls, the other divorce, with the
undirected passions and affections
waning against vntuc
C. P. R. R. PROPOSES
IMMIGRATION PLAN
Back in 1883 a plan of ‘ assisted
emigration” had been pioposed
to the British Government by the
Canadian Pacific Railway which
appeared to have more business
like possibilities than any emigra
tion experiments made previous
ly
It was proposed that the gov
ernment advance to the Noith
u est Land Co , on the security of
its many million acies, a loan of
one million pounds foi ten years
without interest
With the money the company
agreed to undertake the liansfer
of 10 000 small fanners with their
families, totaling about 50,000
pet sons Irom Ireland to the
Canadian Noithwcst piovide each
family with 160 acies of wheat
land, a house, cow and the im
plements necessary to begin culti
vation ot the farm
The land company was to take
a lion on the farm to the amount
ol 100 pounds, on which .inteiest
was to be chaiged after two years,
the emigrant having the right to
I'tiv oil the pnncipal at any time
The company ot coui serreceived
it-, compensation m the mcieased
value of its othci lands and in
the incioased laihoad business
50 Years Ago
Axcoiding to agiicullme o\
puts the year 1907 was one of
the most unusual wcathci wice
in the eastern section of the na
tion ovei a peiiod of half a cen
tun
Jti Mai \ land heav\ liosls and
lio cn mound extended into late
Mac Farmeis m southern Vn
< iina who plantd then com at
tli ■ usual time had most oi it
lolled aftu beim> up be uiisca
si nabk cold weathei All eail\
iu.it ei ops in Viupnia Alan land
and Pennsehania wcie wiped out
b\ cold weathei
Faun ciops m nencial wcie c\
Imiielc late Most ol the coin in
M.iic’and and Fennsc hania was
noi planted until late June lla\
wheat and oat hai vesting weie
lone diawn out allam
1 1. Lancastci CounU the .mi
awe ha\ ciop was not finished un
til late \umist
Fumble bees hornets ecllow
lackcts W'asps and house 1 lies
did not put in (hen appearance
nnliJ late in the sumniei
i’.nt if m-jin and \e«etablc
is Week*
ster Farming
ciops were late in 1907, the crop
oi tobacco in Lancaster County
pushed itself into full growth be
foie fall frosts, clean of holes
and curing a good color
THREE-WHEELED AUTOS
IN GERMANY
Fifty years ago three wheeled
motor vehicles were introduced
in Germany, but the manufactur
cis had difficulty popularizing the
autos because the public felt “the
new vehicle 1 ? suggest an old
fashioned baby coach or a wheel
ban ow”.
A lire apparatus built on these
lines was put into service as pait
ol the Fire Department of Nurem
berg, Germany, which was de
elai ed a great success It was. a
steam pump, and the same source
of power was used to piopell the
engine and drive the pump
DOG TAX
SYSTEM ABOLISHED
Victoria, the capital of British
Columbia, had a peculiar munici
pal ordinance, 50 years ago Every
person who paid a $2 dog tax was
entitled to vote in elections for
mayor and alderman But the sys
tem soon led to abuses It had
been discovered that six enter
pusmg women voted on the
strength of a single dog Worse
still, one ingenious lady unable
Bible Material; John Acta
1:1-14; 2*l-41.
Devotional Reading; 1 Gorin thlana
The Church’s Power
Lesson for January 12, 1958
WHEN Is it church not a
church? asks Dr. W. M. Hor
ton. Answer: When it has lost the
Holy Spirit. In this *ll Chustian
thinker* will agree with him. At
least they will agree this far: a
church is not a living church, it
has lost Its power, if the Holy
Spirit is not in It.
, A church may be
a true church, or
Cw* had better
say) truly a
chmch, i.e. not a
club, not a gang,
but a church
with a correct
cieed and a lead-
eiship absolutely
apostolic, —and Dr. Foreman
still not be a liva church. The
church, like a corpse, needs life
force. And suspended animation
may be about the same as death.
The chinch was expected by
our Loid just to sit there with
folded hands waiting for the skies
to open “You shall leceive pow
er,” He said, “when the Holy Spirit
has come upon you ” A poweiloss
church might as well be no chui ch.
What Kind of Power?
Chuiches have sometimes cov
eted the w i ong kind of power They
have become povvci-"vstems for
their own benefit Foi instance,
theie is political power On the
one hand political activitv is part
of a Clnistian’s seivice to his com
munity, and aleiting its menibcis
to am moial issues involved m
political issues man well be a jnop
ei dut\ of the chinch’s Icadeis
But when the chuich itself be
comes a kind of political paiiv, it
Is icaching for the kind of pouii
which, if it acquues, will Kill it off
Imagine, it you can, a pitachcr oi
a bishop going to the local politual
boss and saying, “Boss, I have r )f)0
Piesbvtenan ( 01 Methodist oi what
not, as the case may be) votes that
. can deliver next Tuesday. Let’s
cave It on the line: How much
are these votes woith to you?" If
that could be done (and it cannot)
le church would hava stopped bt-
to secure a real dog in time to
qualify, took out a license for a
china pup she kept on her mantle
piece After that disclosure, the
system and municipal franchise
was doomed
25 Years Ago
In an effort to make Lancaster
County streets and highways saf
er in 1933 the Lancaster Auto
mobile Club called the attention
of all motorists to the following
“Do and Don’t” list it had pre
pared
Never pass a car on a hill.
Always give the car to your
right the right of way.
Slow down when another car
gives signal to pass, don’t step on
the gas
Pass on the straight road, not
on a curve
Don’t cut in and out of traffic
unless you have plenty of leeway.
Don’t drive at excessive speed,
but don’t “hearse drive”.
Keep to your side ot the high
way don’t be a ‘road hog”
Don’t stop on a hill or curve.
When you do stop, pull off the
highway
Always be on the lookout for
children playing on streets, or
along the curb
When accosted by an officer be
consideiate, don t put up an argu
ment
At all times practice common
courtesy and observe that golden
rule on the highway “Drive as
you would have others drive.”
Although these rules were com
piled fox motorists of 25 years
ago, theie is no doubt that the ob
sei vance of them today would
pi event a lot of highway acci
dents and human suffering.
Ing a church It would be nothin*
but a political party at best, a
cheap mess of men for sale at tha
worst. Closely km to this is an
other wrong kind of power which
can be called compulsive. Some
times a church has not only made
herself a partner of the State; she
has become, practically, the State
itself. A church can, as in the
Spanish Inquisition, come to have
life-and-death power enforced by
the state, killing or exiling every
one who ventures to question the
chuich’s words or ways. But this
again is fatal to the church’s true
life. A thud wrong kind of power
Is braking power, where the church
becomes a diag on mankind’s
progress, hobbling and crippling
every forward step, becoming a
self-appointed guaidian of Things
As They Used to Be. But it is not
power to hold back, it is power to
go forward that the chmch needs.
Power for What?
What the church needs Is spiri
tual power, that is, power in its
own spirit, power to move the spir
its of men It needs power to win
men and women and children; to
stir the indifferent, to challenge
the cynical, to reclaim the wasted
life. It needs power, in short, to
win men to Chiist. To win them
all the way, not to stop at the
thieshold of decision but to enter
deeply into the life and spirit of
the Master The church does not
herself change lives. She is not
God, she is not divine. But under
God the church can bring men into
the presence of the Divine Spirit,
who alone can change the heart.
The Christian church moreover
needs power to become the con
science of society. And all the grey
compi onuses of the world, the
chmch at her best has the clear
vision that sees black, black, and
white, white A starvation diet will
sometimes pioduce blindness; and
a chmch staived for the Spmt will
be a blind leader of the blind The
chmch, In a word, needs power to
be the body of Chi Ist, seeing with
his eyes, woikmg with his hands,
feeling with his heart
How Does Power Come?
The kind of power the church
needs can come only thiough God’s
Spirit, vho Is n Iso the Spirit of
Chiist And the Spirit comes not
always in tho spectacular way cel
ebrated In the book of Acts, but
more olten in quiet and at first
unnoticed ways The Spirit comes
only to a church that prays, a
church that expects, and a church
that obeys It was so In the begin
ning, and so it will always be.
God Is always w'lllmg to send his
Spirit, but not to a church, or a
man, that does not desire, or will
misuse, this great gift
(Ra*rd on outlines copyrighted by the
Division of Christian Education, Na.
klonul Council of th« Churches of Christ
In (ht I s A. Released hj Community
|»rrsH >rrMd«.)