' Farming, Saturday, November 22. 1958 Editorial - - You leave home m the morning and it's raining. Several hours later after fighting traffic, wet roads and windshield oil slick, you start the-hunt for a parking place within a mile of the office. Finally, there's one, right by the door. By this tune, the ram has stopped, the sun's out and you step right square into a beautiful autumn day. All of a sudden, you're two inches taller. Then, you see the parking meter is stuck with an hour left. Yessir, little things mean a lot, • • • Arranging our first week in the new Lancaster office, getting acquainted with the new printer and his staff, keeping an eye out for photogenic turkey and being trained by the new secretary; it areally is a fine way to approach the holiday season. This year, distances being what they are, we'll spend Thanksgiving and Christmas with friends. Thanksgiving is already planned with a very wonderful couple near Washington. We've known them for a good many years, over a per iod when their home at Denver, was away from home for DOZENS of young sters. During my army days, many week end passes were spent there. Then they moved to Washington and yours truly returned to the "halls of ivy." Then, a bout June or July, 1957 came word that after 20 years of marriage and selfless sharing of their happiness with others, they had become the parents of a boy. Thanks be the youngster has fine level-headed parents, because there are many "aunts and uncles" who will do their best to spoil him, yours truly not expected. Yessir, these little things. • • • Having mst arrived here In the sec tion of America where Thanksgiving day had its birth, we find ourself anticipating the occasion even more than the boy who fed the turkey and just plum forgot the hens and hogs. Davidson WASHINGTON Now that the election ex citement has died down in Washington, farm issues are .shaping up as one of the toughest problems which the new Congres will face when at convenes in January. Agiiculture Secretary Ez ra Benson will insist that farmers be given more free dom to plant and market as they please. The new Con gress will be equally con cerned with “protecting” farmers from e xcessively high production and damag ing low prices The most pressing farm problem with which both Congress and Mr Benson must deal is that of mount ing surpluses Government holdings of farm commodi ties may reach, and possibly exceed, $lO billion by early aiext year. The government is now spending at the rate of more than 4 billion a vear in an unsuccessful effort to reduce surpluses through (1) acre age allotments and direct payments to producers and <2) subsidized disposal of as much of the excess as pos sible Soil Bank Flop The bullion dollar a year Soil Bank under which farm ers have been paid to re tire 25 million acres from production has failed to stem the rising t'de of surpluses. The costly Soil Bank acre age reserve program is be ing discontinued after this year. Total crop production this year w 11 top any previous year bv more than ten per cent. This record has been THIS WEEK —ln Washington With Clinton Davidson FARM ISSUES set with fewer acres in culti vation than any year since the 1880 s, and by a third fewer farmers than there were 25 years ago The government is spend ing more than $1 billion a year to cover losses and storage costs on surpluses It is spending another $2 bil lion a year in financing sm> plus disposal, mostly through what amounts to a give-away program abroad. Gigantic Stockpile Our stockpile of wheat, corn, sorghum, soybeans and barley is at an all-time rec ord high Wheat supplies m October were more than two billion bushels, enough to fill two freight trains with their engines in New York and their caboose in San .Francisco Farmers are harvesting a record 3 8 billion bushels of corn to add to an already rec ord 1 5 billion bushels left over from previous crops It would take five across-the country freight trains to car ry that much com. The next Congress must face up to the problem of how to stem that tide of excess production It will find ur ban taxpayers pressing it for a good reason why the gov ernment should continue to spend billions of dollars a. year on programs about which both farmers and city people complain. Mr Benson’s proposal is .simple: Ease government, planning restrictions and lower price supports to the point where there will be a market for everything farm ers produce. Lower pnce.3, he argues, will result in in- With Thcmksaiving Day coming, it might do to look at our blessings and try some simple arithmetic. For farmers in all areas, we can in clude history's highest crop production, from the smallest number of acres in years. Jr aim eruoenay iaas increased so rapidly within the memory of any person now living that for the first time in man's existence, "Food Surplus" is a problem. Might all' nations carry this burden. Increased control of disease is -an other blessing of this year. Bovine bruc ellosis soon may be a memory. Polio as a slowly-fading shadow, its departure de layed only by our failure to use the pro tection provided by dedicated scientists. This year, more weapons were develop ed in the fight against cancer and soon; the ultimate weapon will be found. Even the "lesser” diseases have met organized resistance, as man wakens to the bless ing of "Stiength in unity." Even in politics, as shown in recent elections, Americans seem to be voting more and-more on issues and for Candi da es and less and less for the party symbols, breathing real strength into the "two-party system." Not as the saying goes, "Voting for the best men, since our own party has them all." At Cape Canaveral, Florida, Ameri can rocket scientists, young, eager and determined to explore space; leave their jobs each day to drive, home —to happy wives and children —: While in Siberia anl Manchura, their counterparts trudge to cold cells to be chained to hard cots and await another day of slavery for their bodies. But so long as those enslaved bodies retain hope of freedom, the blessing of man's spirit grows. In Budapest, People's Republic of Hungary, all is quiet, where free men fell before oppression. But someday Thanksgiving Day, when Americans may ignore the world's problems and concentrate upon expressing their grati tude for the many good things they re ve. Lancaster Farming Lancaster County's Own Farm Weekly P O Box 1524 J-ancastei, Penna Offices; 53 Xmth Duke St Lancastei, Penna Phone Lancaster- Express 4-3047 Dan McGiew, juditoi Pvobert G Campbell Advertising Director <L Lubiness Manager Established November 4, 1855 v ibb«b-d fvtn turd iv by Lancaster Farming, Lancaster, Pa Reentiy as 2nd class matter at Lancastei, Pa pending, addition al entry at Mount Joy, Pa Subscription Rates *2 per t eai three years 73 Single copy Pi ice 5 cents FARMING CHANGES —• Our changing agriculture 'has brought about many new alterations in the farmer’s way of life, says Wayne Kel ly, Penn, State extension, farm management specialist. The changes include the crops he ra’ses, the breed and number of animals on the farm, the places he sells, and his marketing methods. A white roof on farm buildings will reflect sun rays and lower the tempera ture inside the building by as much as 10 degrees. Scandal is one thing that never gets shop worn by be ing continually passed a roupd. c nts and uses f'"' farm products ir th’ - s country. .Conaress.' in the past, has contended that this would driv" nrciu so low tin* million farthers would bo bankrupt within three years Mr Benson retorts that it would be better to bankrupt, two nvllion farmers than to continue an unsound pro gram. The next Congress will be pressured, both by Benson and by c ! ty taxpayers to re duce the cost' of farm pro grams. That may be the big farm issue. Bible Material: Mark 2:l—3‘C. Devotional Beading: I Peter 4:12-19. ' Opposing Jesus' Lesson for November 33, 1958 ~ i eason. WE COMPLAIN about other people on account of their i»Q ur yy a y 0 f Living” faults. Suppose we met a man with out fault? We should piobably go For one person who opposed right on complaining. We can be Jesu f on theological grounds there very critical rf other people’s sins; must been many more who but suppose we met a sinless man opposed him on social grounds for once? We should probably not Man y chur cb People will permit know -it; for we J licir Poacher for example, to would, by dong lia ‘£ theol °P phases; habit, go-right on light left or center. But let the preacher move just a tnfle to the carping and-eonv- f ~ r; , . nlamme- left socially, and his resignation is This ? a not just requested Jesus experienced this. imagination That br °f th ™ u^h bld social P at ' was precisely 163ns ' * w f s bought then, just as what happened to thmk , oday - tllat , m f can Jesus of Nazar- ue ™T h by the < s ° cia 3 c , las ,f to eth. Many won- wcbthey be ong: and tbeie derful storie's “Dr,Foreman miould never be crossing of class cluster about him, hut one of the ki ’ es , Jesas broke with these old most amazing facts-is that he had f cia , P att <f, ias * man s a f an enemies. You would think that all that” describes his attitude surely when the Divine Love in to ™ en He knew mdmduals human form "went about doing fai moic important than their good,” the welcome would he unan- cmss-status. But for tins com xmous. But it was not. " P !euely democlatic attitude to men, . _ he was opposed . . . and still is. Breaker of Patterns ‘ If Jesus stined opposition by We should not forget that Jesus did not die a natural death, he was murdered. And this not by some alley assassin, some mad crank. He was done to death by the forces of “law and order, 1 ' by people high on the ladder of respectability. His opponents were not obscure per persons from the criminal classes, they were people who had front seats in church. The muider on Calvary, for murder it was, like all events had its beginnings long be fore. What did Jesus do, what did he say, to induce solid and re spected “pillars’’ of society to sus pect, fear, hate him? It was chiefly that he was a breaker of patterns. Those who dis turb or even criticize other people’s ways of life, ways of thought, al ways run into storms .of opposition and abuse. God on Our Streets' One of the familiar patterns that Jesus broke was theological, an idea about God. This idea-pattern Now Is Tliq Time . . . TO GET YOUR AGRONOMY GUIDE The 1959 edition of the Guide has been recently released by our Exten sion Service. This publication carries timely information about the production of all crops including varieties, fertilizers, and cultural practices. We recommend it strongly for all county farmers. TO CONTINUE CALFHOOD VACCINA TION The importance of vaccinating heifer calves frqm four to eight months of Max Smith age should be recognized. by all livestock breeders; this is one of the best methods of building resistance against the disease of brucellosis in the future herd. Local veterinarians should be consulted about this treatment. TO SUPPLY SALT AND. MINERALS AU livestock have free access to sal£ at all times; the costum of mixing salt with the grain is satisfactory but not sufficient for the best production ‘from some .animals. Also, it is important that minerals be furnished; the main mineral elements being calcium and phosphorus; this may be mixed with the feed at the rate of about two- pouds per hundred or more satis- Uactorni jb to furnish a trough or box containing minerals at a i imes. This is especially true with steers that are-on heavy-gram feeding. TO PROVIDE FRESH AIR AND EXERCISE Young dairy cattle and. steers should not be housed tightly for best results; most animals prefer to spend a greater amount of time outside if given the chance. Yearling dairy heifers may be in outside barns with an exercise lot; it is a waste of time to stall them and have to clean their stable each day. Steers will usually make more efficient use of their feed if allowed outside daily-exercise. Warm, stuffy barhs ’are not adapted to heavy gram consumption and fast, efficient gains. was that God was far off, "high and lifted up,” remote from the stirrings and scramblings of men. But Jesus said things, strange things such as forgiving the-sins of a man who had not so much as opened his mouth to say "I re pent;” so that it sounded as if he \v7ro actually claiming to be equal vtth God. A God in heaven men could understand, or thought they could But a God who walks on our street, who talks tcrshady charac ters and even eats with them’ A God focused in one human person ality? No, this could not bo, though the theologians, the Pharisees . . . and the spiritual descendants of the Pharisees to this very day op pose Christ, and the high claims made in his name, for the same his claims to deity and his igrim ing of many established social pat terns, he aioused real horror in some people by his ftesh and free attitude to moral problems His healings on the Sabbath Day were cases in point No one had a higher tegard for the law of God than Jesus did But his critics confused tne law of God with their own in- Le t etations of it. Jesus on the other hand would not believe that i anal pioblems can be settled by ton aulas, or that the formulas of >co Lei day aie always and mvan loiy light, for today Laws are good, but Jesus did not accept even the law of Moses as God’s last ro,d Jesus’ approach to eveiy i jo; al problem was to ask, in. effect What is this doing to people ? (t> ~i 1 on c.itluies oopinshted by r.c Illusion of Christian Education, TT ,(.ionat Ciiuiic’l of the Chinches of Oh. ist i . the f ‘s A Released by C Press Sen ice) BY MAX CMTIH County Agricultural Agent
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