Integration Frightens lowians; Dean Sees FederaQßestraints Coming ' THE AIR IS .FULL of new phrases in farm talk like vertical integration To date this has been something that most lowans have acquainted themselves with only through farm journals This so called “integration” came first in the South, to the broiler business and then more re cently to the hog enterprises As things stand now, here’s about the leaction to the idea in lowa. A good many of the smaller feed companies aie m a state of mortal fright and are more vociferous in their shouts of alarm than anyone else Large, feed companies, those who have tiie resources to “integrate” if the wind blows that way, are on the sidelines or else actively pioThoting the idea They see the possibility of essentially getting a large ‘ captive customer” market Farmers are all the way from uncer tain to alarmed And it seems safe to say that no one in this state really knows enough about this idea to have an in formed opinion But these things are reasonably clear one: If integration goes to the place where one source of capital is controlling the entire production, processing, and dis- DR EARL L BUTZ Dean of Purdue’s Collee of Agriculture, recently made these piedictions about integration- Fewer farmers inevitably means de ceased political power for agriculture Political leaders will resist veitical m tegzation, and political pressure will con tinue to be on the side of maintaining small family farms even though modern technology dictates strongly that family faims become larger. There jvill be growing government- I . THIS WEEK $ —ln Washington X With Clinton Davidson I l&fMi THE CRISIS IN SCHOOLS \ Davidson In Scptembei some 43 million lo teach them Amcimans one out of eveiv The piessures Mill become , , ~ , .. moie se\ere in the years ahead xour people m the nation will go when the populatlon bulge Wlll to school most of them to over- press ev en more urgently on al ciowded undeistalled and ill- icadj ovembuidcned facilities equiped classiooms The spoilage of both buildings In a nation of abundant pio- and teachers is becoming mcreas , , , ... . ( . mgly acute duction gieat wealth and the highest standaid of living in the Educational Opportunities tv oi Id vve have a 1 backward Limited .chool svslem When the schools The sUld> predicts thal elo . » copcn thcie will be a shoit mcn tarv school enrollments will age ol 200 000 teacheis and 150, llsc j rom about 22 million today 000 schooliooms to a b out 34 mi Hi on ln t he 1960-61 Thiee million childien will be ichool >ea! a „ lncrease of over entenng school fo. the first time 50 , f , n onl> threo veals .ml the onlv vva> we can make By 1969 h]gh s ; hooli wiU be ' OOl,l foi two million of them dtluged wlth 50% to 75% more will be bv ovei now ding shll Mudents thdn lhey Lan now d . Uuthei oui aliead\ packed class- commodate and by 1975 oui col 'ooms and b\ spieadmg oui lcj. cb dlK j uni\ci silics will late ctatheis still thmnci .t least d doubling and in some tascs a Uiphng ot present on Those die pails ol Ihe clisUoss- mg stoic of oui school cusis i ollmcnts .iiought out in a nationwide Not onlv must oui educators 'tud\ be gioups ol educatois and a huge increase in the jac men and financed In the mmibei of students.’ the rcpoit Rockelellei Biothcis fund It is emphasises but thee must ofler tailed the Rockcleßei Rcpoit higher quality in education The Woist to ( ome Om school uiioilmen! is m- v 011 thc mdnv poolly Thele ceasing ecen mo.e lapidh than lniM be no Relation plated m oui total population Between ,870 amt 1055 while ou. popula- “national oppoitun.ties Our iion «a- incnasing foul limes ' i d of society calls for the mai oui public school cniollmcnt was mum deyclopmcnl of indicidual im leasing appi oximateh eighty pou ntialilies at all ley els anu ' '(he lepoit lecommends that Some elemental v and high -chools ind colleges hau found hadeiship and conliol ovei • impossible to hue wellcquipp- education be continued and that id Rachels in such basic subjects slate local and plicate funds s Lngl sh languages and social continue as thc niaioi souice of science Some hacc ccen had to school lecenues and that I'edeial diop (hemistn physics and lands without controls be used mathematics fiom then curricu- only to close the serious gaps in ami since there wcoe no tegcbe"s 'he total educational system. We must not befoiccd to choose beteveen educating the lecv tribution operation, farmers are going to be pretty largely “hired hands ” two; If, on the other hand, integra tion goes only so far that it provides feed and perhaps marketing services, it means only another large injection of capital into an industry that already is over-ex- tended and surplus-ridden Neither of these propects looks very good to the average lowa farmer. They look better, of course, in times of distress That’s one reason why integration has taken such a firm hold in the South, in areas where farmers have been on little more than a subsistence level to start A N OLD prisoner named John with There, farmers reason that they . f® me jnt ,° V ie wa , r^u 3 °® c , e have nothing to lose at the P enitentiar y- Wh y don t nave noining 10 lose. you ask for a parole?” asked the But in any case, lowa farmers are warden, for this was a model pns going to do more than just read about it oner. John said he was not inter from now on Some teed companies are ested his people were dead by moving into an “integrated” basis Some H? at t™ 6 ’ ™ ost of hls friends of the farmer co-ops, sensing the trend, had'on the out- are investigating the possibilities them- selves Boone Valley at Eagle Grove is thinking about it and the Farmers Co-op Exchange is, too. We’ll know more about this business a year from now. * * al discrimination against larger produc ers and marketing agencies who attempt to initiate integrated arrangements This will place large concerns at a dis vantage relative to smaller concerns This is not new It is an almost in herent characteristic of the body poli tic in this country that bigness and bad ness, or at least bigness and the suspi cion of badness, aie synonymous This is a political burden which must be borne by big business. Lancaster Farming Lancaster countj’s Own Farm Weekly Alfred C Alspach, Publisher, Robert E Best, Editor, Robert G Campbell, Advertising Director, Robert J Wiggins, Circulation Director Established November 4, ISIS Published every Friday by OCXORAEO NEWSPAPERS, Quarry ville, Pa - Phone SXerlmg 6-211? or Lancaster, Express 4-3047 Lntered as Second-Class matter at the Post Office, Quarryville, Pa, u*der Act of March 3, 1879 Subscription Rates $2 per year, three years $5, Single copy Price 5 cents. Health Forces Jack Reichard To Stop Writing You will notice that V O (Jack) Reichard-s column This Week in Lancaster Fanning is missing this week The author has been m ill health foi some time and re cently his physician mloimed him that he must give up his wilting actnities or risk the ag giavation of a chrome heait condition While the editois of Lancas tei Fanning miss Reichaid s colorful commentary on the do mgs and foibles of our citizens in the days gone by, we can’t help but agree that Jie has fol lowed the wisest choice of ac tion This week we aie intioducmg a nenv leatuie It’s called ‘This Week in Washington ’ and is vntten by Clinton Davidson Davidson watches things go ing on in the Nation s Capital with the c\e of a taxpayer and a larmer He ofleis commentaiy on some of the icasons that make the news Wc believe that vou will like Davidson s column and think that vou will find it easy to Had Purdue —lowa Falls Citizen 4—Lancaster Farming, Fridays August 1, 1958 price of liberty.” That is to say,, B ' bl « Amos 7 30-J7: John freedom always has to be guarded. 8 31-38, Arts A 5 * ■ _ „ . _ i.t » > tians 1 23-28 5 1-25, Colossians il, Lot us S lve a thought to two ene -7-9 Philemon _ mies of Christian freedom, - D.Tot.onal Beading: Isaiah 58 6-12. outside us> one mslde , Guarding Freedom Lesson for August 3,195 S side John had no use for a freedom that meant no more than the priv ilege of starving to death. Freedom that is nothing but taking off the chains, opening a gate, fieedom that is only never heaung jthe words “You must,” —without ever feeling “I can,” this is fieedom nobody wants. Freedom is Basic This should be particularly in teiestmg to Chnstians, foi fiee dom is at the very centei of the Chnstian life Chnst has set us fiee for freedom, Paul writes But Chnstian fieedom does not mean that vve can now do v hatever we like Fieedom does not mean we are nevei under oideis It does not mean we should never accept any man’s authouty. It does not mean that we shall run aiound, each man woikmg out his own little rebellion A Chnstian can take 01 deis fiom other people, and if he is in a suboidmate posi tion (as most of us aie to some body), it is usually his Christian duty to take ordeis and -to carry them out as best he can. Chnstian freedom means that whatever other authonties have the right to tell us what to do and what not to do, our topmost au thority is God. Christian fieedom means that we Ifave no right to consent to, or to obey any brand or sort of tyiant or dictator who sets himself up as final judge and controller of other men. Christian Now Is The Time . . . By MAX SMITH County Agricultural Agent ‘ TO INSTALL BAND SEEDING ATTACHMENT ‘ Summer seedmgs of legumes will get oft to a much ip: better stalt .'.re planted with the use of the ® m.V band seeder on the grain drill This attachment ■tfm » carries the seeds throgh undei the drill and drops J them on top of the ground back of the drill and over it'- d band of con >Plete fertilizer This results in getting the plants oft to a quicker start and more growth befoie wmtei sets in Special leaflet available fioin the Extension Office to RENOVATE OLD PASTURES Many old MJHiHi bluegrass sods may be put into more productive use if tom up and leseedcd to taster growing giass- Max Smith legume mixtures The month of August is one of the best times to plow or disc the od sod in order to get a complete kill and prepaie the giound for a late August or early September pasture seeding A soil test followed by the application of the soil elements needed pnor to seeding is veiy important. TO BECOME MORE INTERESTED IN QUALITY HAY This one important piactice will do a lot ol good for many farmers in the lutuie One way to learn more about quality' hay is to compete in the Southeast District Hay Show at Hoishcy on August 21 and 22nd This has been a good hay year and many county farmers should have excellent hav to display We need moie paiticipation in this event to propel ly repiesent our county Entry blanks and details available TO SEED IEMPORARY PASTURE CROPS Both winter rye and Dual wheat may be seeded m eaily August loi late fall and early spnng pastuie These ciops mav be grazed at any time during the v ear without dangei to the animals A complete fertihzei should be used such as 5 10 10 in oidci to stimulate rank growth Both of ciops will lengthen the pastuie season and help keep clown feed costs 10 REPAIR SILOS Silage ciops such as coin soybeans and sor ghum, and other combinations will soon be i early' loi making ensilage with the good growing season the yields will be high and an excellent supply of valuable feed nulnents should be in the making Many silos aie in need of icpair such as painting, inner coatings, and ic plaster ing before putting in the new crop Most silo manufacturers have pioducts to be used to preserve the silo freedom means that'when a many or men, ask us or order us to dai what we know is contrary to the( will of God, we have to say as/ Peter and John did to the police court in Jerusalem, we must obey God rather than men. The Price of Liberty “Eternal vigilance,” our revolu tionary ancestois said, “is the One is the state or the commun ity around us. This turns out to be an enemy of freecjpm when a Christian is discouraged or pre vented from speaking out in any way which might seem to criticize the community or the state. That was what got Amos into trouble. The chief puest warned him not to preach any more there in Bethel: “It is the king’s sanc tuary, and it is a temple of the kingdom,” he said. In other woyds, the chutch belonged to the king and the king could not be criticized, much less condemned. The Lord had commanded him to speak, not the king; and he insisted on being heaid. So in our time there are people in politics and out who say that ministers have no business cuticizing the government, or the "Amei ican way of life ” True min isters know their call is from God, not the government, not any other organization whatever. In Atlanta, Geoigia, a group of immsteis put out a statement condemning seg legation as piacticed theie. If they had thought of the state, or the public in general, as their authority, they never would have dared open their mouths. Threat From Within Moie subtle than attack fiom without, is the attack on fieedom from within. There are in our counti y far more persons who are slaves to their own sms than per sons who are slaves (in body or mind) to the state Christian free dom is a precious thing, because freedom is what makes the differ ence between ourselves and the lower animals. If a man lets him self duft into sin far enough, he reaches a point of no return, like a man in a lowboat floating down toward Niagara Falls. When a man ferges his own chains. He may even admire the chains aa his own handiwork. But a man who cannot and dare not say NO to himself has failed to guard hia freedom against his worst enemy —himself. (Bused on outlines copyrighted bj the Division of Christian Education! National Council of the Churches of Christ in the IT. S. A Released bi Community Press Service.) one
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