Agricultural Exporters, Surplus Sellers
Meeting Increased Resistance Abroad
ECONOMIC lecession is foicmg faun glut
cutters to run still faster to stay m the
same place, accoichng to a conyiightecl
stoiy in the Wall Stieet Journal this week
The article goes on to say that a slide
in farm exports is causing most of the halt
in surplus stockpile cuts Foreign buyers
aid turning up their noses at American of
fers that include sale at low prices, for
foreign currencies rather than dollars,
barters and easy credit.
The reason, observers say, is that othei
nations regard the United States as the eco
nomic bellwether for the free world To
conseive cash and protect their own pro
ducer, many foreign lands will tighten
import curbs that affect farm as well as
manufactured goods
Here are some predictions of exports
for the coming year Cotton shipments may
shrink to 4 7 million bales from 5 5 million
in the year ending next June and an extra
ordinary 7 6 million bales in the past year
The rice outgo, it’s expected may slip
to 16 million hundred-pound bags in the
3 ear ahead from 19 million in the 1957-58
vear and 26 million last year Such declines,
Federal salesman fear, may outweigh pos
sible smaller increases next year in exports
of wheat and feed grains
In the 3 ear ended last June, the U S
shipped abroad the output from 60 million
acies. or one-fifth of the nations total faim
production Shipments in 1956-57 took
mare than half our wheat cotton and rice
cr|ps. a third of our soybean output and
a Quarter of our tobacco
I All faun exports added up to 36 mil
lioh tons of cargo last year, enough to fill
80p,000 boxcars or 3,600 cargo ships
| Much of the export volume, moreover,
comes directly fiom the surplus pile Last
3 ear, $2 2 billion worth of surpluses were
shipped abroad. Over the past four years,
exports have taken 70 per cent of the $lO 5
billion worth of surpluses moved out of
Till government’s inventory.
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BY JACK REICHARD
75 Years Ago
in a small loom in the uppei
Mon of the National. Museum,
ionncilv Foul's Theatre, Wash
melon D C were two wooden
tiavs, similai to those then in use
in housewives in kneading dough
I in the museum the trajs were
mod to hold the highh polished
bodes ot the assassin Guiteau
It was explained that in pre
pmng the bones ol the dead
niuidorci that moie than usual
c me had been taken to pieser\<‘
them The pioccss bv which the
bones ueic being tieated was
claimed to insuie then pcipetua
11on 1 01 an indefinite period and
it v' as said that when ai titillated
the skeleton would be the best
m the museum 4 trusted official
earned the kev to the loom m
which the bones were kept, and
no one was pet milted in the apait
mein
IN V VKVOISr. F\., 188.3
A utvvspapei wutci In the
of Jonna had this to sa> ol
Paiadise Pa Ins native village
in 11881
It is not Iho Paiadise we load
til jjn the llolv Wnt whole the
slietls arc paved with gold and
v host slicants flow with milk and
lioiev ami when we all hope to
i<ati! and rest liom out lahois
Put it is that o'hcj Paiadise on
1 Ik south hank of the beautiful
Peejuta and on tht Lantast'rand
I nilafh Iphia pike about 9 mile 1
liom flu f(ii mei place -- when
the ‘Meets an pa\<d vvilh stones
~nd the stiiam flows with walei
\ luch 11 scs fiont a laige spnng in
tht Welsh Mountain and where
evert bode minds (hen own bust
ness and everv other persons
and if Kiev cannot do it fot them
lehrs the} will have plenfv to
This Week^
in Lancaster Farming
help them We have everything
here with which to supply the
needs of mankind Two coach
works, one hotel, two beer sa
loons coal and lumber yard, gen
ual warehouse, lively stable, gen
e t al store, saddlcrj, two tinsmiths
ano wagonmaker shop, six segar
lactones one chug stoic seveial
icecream saloons two gust and
meehant mills two shoemaker
shops one tanneiv, one tobacco
packing establishment, and three
hakiers We also have a cornet
1 and of 31 members Our popula
lion is about eight hundicd, and
ve have a light cveiy day in the
week”
At Philadelphia in 1883, all Uccs
in histone Washington Squaie
vue poisoned b.v being ‘in too
close proximity to the gas pipes”.
C eneial Clocks campaign
against the Apache Indians had
been partially a success aeeoid
■na to a teporl from the West 75
nans ago this week
50 Years Ago
I'enned in nanow hal!vva>s and
lammed against doots that onl.,
opened inward the lives of some
170 school children were wiped
cut hj fue smoke and beneath
the giindmg heels of panic-sine
ken classmates m a suhuiban
I'la/e at Collinvvood 10 miles liom
Cleveland Ohio
One teachei was killed and
another sti iouM> mimed who
v «e not expected to lecovei
All the viclmis vvtie between
flit ages ol sis and fifteen The
se fiool contained ovei 300 pupils
and ol this number only 80 weie
known to have ledl the building
untnii I
'I he se (tool was a two-storv
Whether surpluses stay in government
storage or are sold at cut raes abroad the
taxpayer still takes a beating About a mil
lion dollars a day are spent in storing the
surplus products However in getting rid of
$591 million worth of goods in the second
half of 1957, the government lost about
$4OO million
Farm exports were already tailing be
fore business began to slump The drop
began more than a year ago Then m'any
nations which had hurriedly stocked up on
farm pioducts at the time of the Suez crisis
began to trim their purchasing Some
drained their gold and dollar reserves so
low that they had to start pinching pennies
The huge purchase of U S cotton in the
past year outran the needs of foreign mills,
so overseas stocks of our cotton were built
up to 2 5 million bales, the highest since
1947.
There are some bright spots A couple
of years ago, farm officials decided to de
velop a demand in Germany for U S ready
to-cook poultiy At first they let the Ger
mans use marks to obtain $l2 million
worth of poultry German house-wives lined
up to buy the birds Now Germany pays
for U S poultry in dollars
Other bright spots are in Japan where
an extensive education program is making
the people a little more fond of bread, us
ing U S wheat, of course, rather than rice
In Brasil theie is also a wheat program un
derway showing that cereals superiority
over the native corn.
In Thailand people are using more meaning hei'e at tnst sight But
than 300,000 pounds of U.S milk solids a the simple woids seem to point
y ea j. to something beyond expcncnce,
Such programs cost money, but mar- almost {lightening to
, y ° j ~ ■" ■ that gieat majouty of us who aie
ket developeis can draw on the millions in m j S t lcs and no t inclined that
foreign currency paid us for our farm sur- way
pluses- Even, so, some lawmakers such as - in j_ oud L atl g„ a g e
Senate agnculture committee chairman El- j s some simple meaning
lender, the Louisiana Democrat, object be- foi us plain people'* is the expies-
CaUSe Uncle Sam doesn’t get “full Value” sion “One in Chnst” auj thing but
When he disposes of surpluses abroad for an emotional slogan* The gieat
local money. Church Universal the Ecumenical
J Church, that gieatest of all Piotes
tant chmch movements today, cx
piessing itself in the Woild Council
and the confeiences at Madias and
Amsterdam and Lund and Evans
ton and Obeiim, has used often
that plnase, “One in Christ ” The
Obeiim Confeience, made up of
279 lepresentatives from 39 Ameri
can Christian bodies, last Septem
ber sent a Message to the
Chinches, wheiein they spoke of
unity; and the veiy fiist thing the
message says about it is that it is
a “unity in Christ who died for
us.’’ What exactly does this mean
—“Unity In Christ’’’ It ceitainly
Lancaster Farming
Alfred C Alspach, Publisher Robert
E Best Editoi Robert G Campbell,
Advertising Director, Robert J
Wiggins, Cnculation Dncctor
Lancaster County's Own Faun Weekly
Established Novemboi 4. 1155
Published every Friday by OCXORARO
NEWSPAPERS. Qnai lyville, Pa
Phone STeilmg or Lancaster,
Express 4-3047
l.ntcred as Second-Class matter at
the Post Office, Qnarryville, Pa ,
Act of March 3, 1879
Subscription Kates S 3 per vear,
tluec teals $5 Single copy Price 5
cents
structure with attic, constructed
ol buck There was one fire
escape in the rear of the building
Two stairways one leading to a
door in the front, and the other
to a door in the rear, led from
the upper rooms to the ground
flooi Both these dooi opened m
w.'id
The fire stalled from an over
heated furnace in the basement
A dispatch out of Cleveland,
Ohio, 50 years ago this week, told
of a one-handed locksmith who’s
shop was on Piospect Avenue,
near the Colonial Arcade The
a-ed man had only one arm The
other was oh at the shouldei By
the use of a vise which he opeiat
cm with his knee he was able to
hold the rough pattern of Keys
ol difficult design while he work
ed on them wit'h his file, turning
out work far supenoi to many
locksmiths with two hands
A Gciman, aftci having spent
a icvv week;, in New York, receiv
ed letters fiom hoi|e asking him
to send back something typically
American as a souvenir of the
land of the free Being a con
scientious man he studied condi
tions about the city before decid
ing upon any one commodity
repiescnlalive of Amencan cul
tmc and habits Finally he made
up his mind He sent si\ pack
a; es of chewing gum
The I’ennschania Game Com
mission launched a co operative
campaign with county agents and
stale gianges in an effort to mini
25 Years Ago
4 Lancaster Farming, Friday, Feb. 28, 1958
Bible Material: Luke 9 49-50, John
17 20-20, Ephesians 4 1-16
Devotional Reading. PluhppiansZ 1-11.
One In Christ
Lesson for March 2, 1958
WE HEAR the preacher saying
things we feel sure he ought
to aay, but some of the time all
we can do is credit him with good
intentions What he is actually say
ing, or what ho means by what he
says, may seem dim to us The
woids aie deal enough, but what
do they mean’
A high example <*|Hi
of this is the ex- W*' a|
pression “One in
Chust ” We have
heaid it in ser- J 3
mons, maybe \^e
ment, is' it not? Dr - Foreman
The words ghmmei vaguely in our
minds “Tney in us I m them
. . that they may become pei
fectly one” ‘We aio to giow up
in every way into him who is the
head, even Chust” No doubt a
mystical soul would gathei the
Now Is The Time . . .
By MAX SMITH
County Agricultmal Agent
TO CULL DAIRY HERD One ol the important
practices in efficient dairy pioduction is the cull
ing of the poor producers when milk prices are
the lowest and beef prices the highest Records
leveal that in the spnng just puor to the glazing
season we find the mist lavorble time for beef
puces for dairy animals It is suggested that local
produccis keep this in mind te mcieasc net ic
tin ns
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TO ENROLL IN OWNER SAMPLER HERD
TESTING One of the veiy practical herd test
ing programs is available to every herd owner in
the country This practice icquircs that the held
owner draw a milk sample Horn each cow once a
Max Smith
month and get it to one of the regular D H I A
Testeis, a rcpo-it is then given of t'hc pounds of milk and pounds of
butterfat pioduced monthly by each cow Dany men may enroll
through any Testei 01 at the County Extension Oflicc
TO STORE FERTILIZER PROPERLY One economy practice is
to 01 dci and receive feitihrer early, piopcr storage is essential if
best results aie expected Give fertilizer loom to breathe by allow
ing air space between each stack of bags alwa.vs stores in a dry
place and not on conciete or giound floors, be sure it is away from
all livestock
TO USE LIVESTOCK BROODERS To the swine and sheep pro
ducers the use of pig and lamb broodeis have paid big dividends,
annuals born early in the spung during cold weather need extia pro
tection and will gel them started faster The small investment re
quired will save many pigs and lambs and mciease the animal in
come Constiuction plans are available
mi/e the loss of game caused bv sinMl game
spung brush flies It was pointed
out that the needless binning of Mistaking a moonlit concrete
biush bv farmers and landowners highway ncai Petersburg, Ind ,
throughout the stale each spring lui a stream of water, a flock of
to clear fields and fence rows wild ducks swooped down and
vas responsible foi a noticeable hit the road so hard that 18 of the
depletion in the ranks of much buds were killed.
(ioes not mean that we Christians
are made one by loud language
about Christ All churches smg
hymns sounding much alike Watch
any laige gatheiing of Chnstians
,fiom all denominations singing
“All hail the power of Jesus’
name ” Most of them can sing it
without the book But singing all
together, even in peifect tune, is
not being “one in Christ" Even
using and memorizing the same
cieed is not unity in Chnst.
One in Loyalty
There are two simple, plain
meanings of “one in Chnst” The
fust is oneness in loyalty. This
again is not a mattei of words.
Most of the manned couples in
America have “plighted their
tioth” in much the same words.'
Veiy impiessive woids, too: “For
richer, for pooler, for better for
•woise . till death do us part”
But anybody can plainly see that
while all wives and husbands have
promised to love and to cherish
each other, they don’t all do It.
Trained loyalty is a far deeper
thing than saying fine eloquent
woids Gills make this mistake
time and time again; they give
their heart to the young man with'
the smoothest line You would
think any girl would have better
sense, but not all of them do.
Loyalty in a public official means
moie than taking the oath of of«
flee, it is living up to it Loyalty
in a soldier is moie than signing
up for the reciuitmg officer, it is
standing and not running away
when the fighting is hot Lbyalty to
Chnst is more than signing up for
him, it is standing by him and
fighting even when the danger runs
high Wheiever people aie loyal
to him, there is unity in him.
One in Likeness
Some one wrote a book called
“The Galilean Accent ” The *dea
of that book, it was said, was that
all Chustians can be-told by their
“Galilean accent," they sound like
Jesus Of course the writer meant!
something deeper than that Christ
tians who grow in the knowledge
of Jesus come to think like him.
They come to be like him. There
Is a family resemblance among
Christians everywhere Just
as people who belong to the same
fraternity tend to resemble one
another; just as employees of the
same corporation sometimes come
to form a type of their own, so)
even more, and far more, do those
who belong to the brotherhood of
Christ and do his work come to reJ
semble one another because they
are in truth his brothers But it
is not automaticl Only with the
loyalty will there be much likeness.,
(Based on outlines copyrighted by th«
Division of Christian Education Na
tional Connell of th# Churches of Christ
In the USA. Released by Community
Press. Service.)