A significant and little known farm bill was voted on in the U S Senate re cently It was a bill that called for the elimi nation of the parity concept from all farm legislation at a set future date. When farm leaders in the early thir ties, representing both parties and a num ber ot commodity groups, met to draw up farm legislation, they concluded that some standard with which to measure farm income m relation to non-farm income was essential As a result the parity concept was bom the legitimate child of intel ligent economic planning In all farm legislation from the- early 30’s to the present where farm prices were in any way involved, the parity con cept was recognized Federal reports of ’farm puces or incomes are usually stated in terms of the parity concept. It has come to be almost universally recognized, and accepted as the standard by which farm prices ueie to be expressed We do not contend that the parity pnnciple is a perfect measure of farm prices It is not. and it has been levised, and vi ill no doubt need further revisions from time to time But it is one thing to correct the er i ors on a measuring rod and another thing to throw the rod away We don’t throw away the yardstick because the bean stalk does not stand as high on it as the sweet coin stalk This Bill before the Senate was a case of attempting to throw the whole pauty Principle overboard Who desires this 9 j It has been surmised foi some timt that the parity concept was embarrassing ★★★ ★ ★ : I '» <! i: i . 4 ft ' 2 Davidson lA man Republican paitc chiel ans wanted Ined onh thiee i|mth' ago E/ia Tail Benson Is week is being quieth groom | ior entiv into the 1960 pi cm jntial lace \s iccentl' as lasi Juh man\ the lon Republicans in Wash -1,, ton labeled Benson a failuie Societal\ oi Agnculluie and hj but a liahdiU to cauc into ic 1958 election campaign Wh\ this sudden leceisal’ hat has happened to change the uet-sDokcn chinch oliicial liom tab into a political heio almos* (might’ His is tiecond doubt e ol the quickest political comi icks on leand 'lhc’K aie smeial leasons 'on But the most plausible aie a ili th( lai m u \ oil against in has cjmcUd down (2) he is qnilai with mam cites \otu il it) In is a good spcakei and mpaigm i Iteji'-on has been one ol the i d ( onti o\ e i sial me n in Pi (-i. m ! w nhow 11 - Cabinet 3T< la! eii without Hinelntia lm mh that would haie diseoui an mam nun Hi has uns\e i\ ma 111 Kit PI e in 111-, pi iik iplt s in I’loeiam lln Xflmmi'U all in (ai ip |n o Ol) l lilt h ll atlll ( i 1110 l i lit ( in loi lai nu h l/ojii enu i p nl pi n inand pi mine I ,on <or N Ji i> be e n nun ( popn) ii w nil iiiiiii' i' 1 haii with ( n iik i s oi lha Maid i v 1 Hi C ma l <■" !l< spi I( low ( i 'iippoi N hi’ n\ ' i dip lln nidi i nl lai in t' non is 5 alien i a \( a, alilioiiah -till 15 • below 1 IU jison K(( iirl' if l< a-' d n(- lo -.how ih.d farm uu one lai I In- u.n hi- In c n Id' Is Parity THIS WEEK —ln Washington With Clinton Davidson THE BENSON BOOM lughoi than in the same months c, ( last veai Late in the past session of Con cuss Benson teamed up with con giibsmen tiom uiban aieas to ch leal a laim bill backed In the S" bscri P tlon 52 per year. Demouat.c majontj. and 'then years * 5 ’ Single col,y Pnce 5 pii'-h through a hill which it was chained will icsult in lowei laim ' -!■ —■ ana lood prices V 'X aft Man Denson uas a close Inend and poetical suppoitci oi the late Sen Ilobtit A Tall a distant iclattvc Tiis middle name, Tail, is a lami- K name It is lepoited that Sen Tall iccoinmended him to Presi dent Eisenhawei The quiet campaign to piomote Benson itu Pi evident is being lacked b> main ol the ioinici Taft siippoiteis They compnse v! at is genoialh descuhecl as the consercatne wing ot the Re publican pait\ -Mthough Benson has ben a staunch suppoitei of I’iesiclent iTstnhouet he has not become to> closelj identified with Eisch hov ei-K( pubic an bianch of the (.etc He iiouccei campaigned loi the i e-clcc lion ol Mi Eisen howei in 195 b Denson is a Inek’ss and con. iiiuina campanula Since the eh st of Confess he has beem ii. Kina three and Join speeches a uee'k in suppoii ol his lai in p ii-i.ini anei Ke publican tonyies final candidate's some eil whom hn e in f he’ past be eii e i ilical ol In in He is a den ph leiiai'nis man h. taken hale as a meinbei i I 111 <• (oune 1 1 ol 7wehe \postlcs o' !ln ( hine hol Jewels Chi jsi of 7 allei Dai Saints to become' Sec i. 'tan ol \"iieulluit in 1953 Obsolete 1 to some m highest policy making positions Specifically, we have in mind those who regard lower farm prices as the panacea for farm ills—especially farm surpluses. It is clear that they have been moving gradually toward a position where parity was to be regarded as of diminishing im portance The role of the future farmer as they envisioned him was that of a produc er of cheap food. Prices to him were not to be measured in terms of prices of goods and services he must buy This would be increasingly embarrassing. At first they just wanted to revise the original parity formula that is adopt a later date than 1910-14 as the standard. This was done, but it was not enough. The farther they went down the road of lower prices, fewer farmers and cheap food the more obnoxious the whole parity idea be came Even when we accept parity of in come instead of parity of price as the goal, we are still dealing with parity The whole parity idea must be thrown over board . It was this that the Dirksen (Rep III) Bill was designed to do We may be quite sure that the Senator was not merely in dulging a personal whim when he intro duced his bill While to our knowledge no organized group openly espoused the bill, its passage would have been heartily ap plauded by some in highest policy making positions in Agriculture, the gram trade and industry generally. The Bill was decisively defeated We may confidently expect that this is not the end of the effort to abolish the parity idea The effort has friends in prominent places. —The Farmers Exchange ri ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ "I Lancaster Farming Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly" Alfiod C Alspaeh, Publisher, Dan McGievv, Editor, Robert G Campbell, Advertising Director, Robert J Wiggins, Circulation Director Established November 4, 1955 Published every Friday by OCTORARO NEWSPAPERS, Quarryville, Pa - Phone Sterling 6-2122 or Lancaster, Entered as Second-Class matter at the Post Office, Quarryville, Fa, under Act of March 3, 1879 Admission to the Pennsylvania National Livestock Exposition November 10 thiough 14 at the State Faun Show Building, Har risburg will be liee this yeai William L Medloid, Exposition than man, has announced Medfoid explained that admis sion was ehaigod last yeai at the In si Keystone International ’ hut the management this yeai has decided hat the big 1958 open Unstuck exposition will be iiee to the public Anothai l iee ieatiue ot the shwo tin-. \eai will be (he lust Mid Ulmtic Ti uck Show This show w ill leal in c much iaim equip Mint as mounted teed mills cal lie and horse \ans and cattle' fading equipment Back loi the second (nne will in the 'tommy Stemei Wot Id C m.mpionship Rodeo n is the only pal t ot the Exposition ioi which a chaige will be made Seven pei foi malices have been scheduled in the r.nni Show Anna each night fiom Novem hr i 11 h» 15 indusne with mail pecs on Vctoians Day \’o\em bc i 11 and Satin day November 15 1 or ticket and reset\atmn in foi niation vi ilc Rodeo Chan man 18sl Noilh Camel on St Ilairis hurg Pa Express 4-3047 4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, October 17, 1958 Bible Mate rial; Matthew 3 3-17, Lube 3 15-22 Devotional Reading; Romans 6 l-ll Uncelebrated Day Lesson for October 19, 1958 THE PAYS we celebtate aie milestones, turning-points They are days marking’ a line between Befoie and After. A birthday, a wedding day, a Declaialion of in dependence, these are days worth celebrating So the chinch does tight in celebrating, as we do, vai ious impox tant events connected - with the life of Jjr^ Jesus. Not all «> churches obsei ve jSStnv over wide aieas of Chustendom /2g congiegations-Jsl the annunciation Dr. Foreman to Mary the Vngm, the both of Jesus, the presentation in the temple when he was 40 days old, ms ciucifixion, his lesuilection, his ascension. But his baptismal day is uncelebrated, that day when he, then about 30 years of age, was baptized by his cousin John A Decisive Day It seems all the stiangei that the chuieh should not celebiate this day, because it was such a turn ing-point in the life of Jesus On the one hand, this was the day be fore which Jesus was a pnvate citizen, a carpentei, a home-town man, but never again This was the day aftei which Jesus was the dedicated Teacher, the mystenous Messiah, as nevei before This was the line between Jesus’ pnvate and his public life On the other hand, on the day of his baptism and fi om that day foiward, Jesus was en dowed with the Holy Spirit as never before Whether you take the stoiy of the dove hteialiy or as a symbol, it is clear that John, who had a keen spmtual eye, leahzed that this was the day the Spirit came, an event as definite as the settling of a dov e on a man’s shoul der Immediately alter this gieat day we lead in one gospel the Spmt “led” Jesus For another gospel writer the woid is not “lead” but drive. Why should the church not ★★ ★ ★ Now Is The Time . . . By MAX SMITH County Agricultuial Agent TO BE CAREFUL WITH NEW CORN lor bolter tuif Applications of 25 to 30 lbs per com is high 111 moislme and may bloat 01 scour Incstock il led 100 much at the slait Gund fre- quent! \ to avoid healing and use only 20 to 30 Max Smith per cent ot total amount (oi the first week or ton days Hog piocluccis need not be concerned about dangci of feeding new corn Sheepmen should be espeualh careful TO UTILIZE SHREDDED COR\ FODDER Main livestock men umaid shiodded tom foddei as one ol the best heckling malouals It will absoih maximum amounts ol moistuio and ma; still be ictuin- od to the hold foi 1011111701 Some growers use rota-beaters 01 shred- deis m the Held and then rake and bale for easier handling Caic ‘'houki be used to h,ne it dn to pieicnt molding and heating celebrate that high day? Embarassing Baptism The i eason for the church’s pe culiar silence about this great day is pell haps that vve aie embarrassed by one thing that took place then : Jesus was baptized 1 This baptism of John’s was distinctly understood to be a baptism "of lepentancc, for the remission [foigiveness] of sms ” But what sins did Jesus com mit 7 How could he need forgive ness 7 The church finds it easy to understand the Spmt’s coming, the Voice from Heaven may be harder to understand, but it "fits’’ what we believe. But the baptism does not appear to fit It looks as if either Jesus was a sinner after all, and confessed his sms in being bap tized, oi else he was making people believe he had sinned —which of course would be a sin in itself. This Is indeed a puzzle, but we may be able to find an answer. Let us be bold enough to rule out thi ee possibilities at once. Jesus was not baptized in order to have his own sms foigiven The church is surely light in affuming that Jesus lived without blemish, the one perfect man in history. Jesus was not baptized to fulfi'l the Old Testament law, for no law in the various codes of the Old Testament requires all men to be baptized “Fulfilling all righteous ness” is not the same thing as obeying a specific law. Fuither, Jesus was not baptized as if he weie playing a pait, en couraging others to do as he did A peifectly healthy mother will sometimes encouiage a timid child to take medicine by fust taking some heiself. Is J** is our consid eiate Elder Bi other who takes a “cuie” he does not need, m order to coax us to take it because we do need it 7 Calvary Began There No - no to all these theories of the why of Jesus’ baptism The real leason lies deepei. This was the day (so fai as we know) Calvary began Jesus became known in hn lifetime as the “fuend of sinners” and aftenvaids and ever since, he has been called the savior of sm neis The Bible shows us that he did this by becoming one of us, identifying himself with us, even the woist of us, so that as St Paul says, “he who knew no sin was made sm—for us.” Jesus publicly, diamaticallv, decisively, by hii baptism declaied and declaies tnat he sides with the icpentant smnei, always, lather with those who in then own eyes need no i epentance, (Based on outlines copj righted by the Illusion of Chnstinn Education. N itioiuil Council of the Chuuhes of Christ in the ISA Released by Community Tress Service ) TO FERTILIZE LAWNS Octobei is one of the best times to top-diess lawns 1,000 sq ft oi 0-20-20 01 0 15 30 arc recommended Applv dining penods when the grass is dry or wash mlo lawn thoioughlv Late September or New
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