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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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