4 —Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, January 24, 1959
Editorial - -
Of the many speeches, dscussaons,
panels and "jaw.n' sessions" which were
seen at the Farm Show last week, it is
doubtful if any were, as significant as
Sec. of Agriculture William L. Henning s
address Wednesday before the FFA con
vention.
"Because of widespread pubLcity
that "farming is becoming smaller and
smaller in terms of population, and larg
'er and larger m terms of investment re
quired to get started," he surmised that
many of the vocational agriculture stu
dents may be wondering.
"Is there a place for me in agr.cul
:ure."
For high school graduates who were
voc. ag. students, he assured them there
is an almost unending list .of occupations.
Not only m agriculture itself, but also
those fields "allied to agriculture and for
-which a farm background is valuable."
"Most of you know that good jobs for
agricultural college graduates go beg
gng every year," he said. These jobs
range from sales, to agricultural commu
nications, to research. They are available
in the United States and overseas. With
a degree in agncultuie, you can pretty
well write your own ticket."
However, it is also well known that
only about three out of 10 boys graduat
ing from high school will go to college.
What about the future of boys m agricul
ture who may not have the opportunity
to go to college?"
"It, too, is bright." He listed half a
hundred occupations outside actual far
ming, ranging from farm machinery sales
and services to custom operations, from
auctioneer ng to construction, organiza
tion representatives to forest ranger, from
lab technician to feed mill manager,
landscap ng to flonsi
"I really see no reason for anyone to
be worr.ed about future in agnculture,"
Henning continued. "The mdustr.es allied
to agnculture steel, petroleum, electri
cal power, meat packing, canning, trans
portation, communications all are an
heed of men who can speak and think
like their farm customers. You are in the
driver's seat there, because the supply of
such men is declining, just as our farm
populat’on declines."
"Business men like to hire form boys
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I [ Davidson
President Eisenhower’s pro
gram of conservative Repub--
licanism is under new, more
aggressive, management in
Congress for the final two
•years of his Administration.
The selection of new min
ority leaders in both the
Senate and House was the
tip-off that the President
plans a hard-driving cam
paign for legislation that will
strengthen his foreign andi
domestic programs.
Both Sen Everett Dirksen
and Rep Charles Halleck,
the new GOP leaders m their
respective houses of Congress
are expected to work more
closely with the White Hou
se than did their predeces
sors, Sen William Knowland
and Rep Joseph Martin.
Dirksen is a veteran of
scores of legislative battles,
first m the House and since
1960 in the Senate, who loves
lough and tumble debate in
which no quarter is asked or
given He abhors compro
mise and demands strict par
ty loyalty.
Halleck is equally hard
hitting and aggressive in sup
port of programs backed by
the Pres,dent. He was the
majority leader m the 80th
and 80rd Congresses, when
Rep Martin moved up to
Speaker of the House.
Conservative Emphasis
The selection of Dirksen
and Halleck by their collea
gues moves Republican con
THIS WEEK
—ln Washington
With Clinton Davidson
GOP Management
gressional leadership from
the West and East coasts to
the more traditionally con
servative stronghold of Re
publicanism, the Midwest
Dirksen is from Illinois' and
Halleck from Indiana.
Both have staunchly sup
ported foreign aid programs
in an area supposed to be
more “isolation-minded” in
the past than other sections
of the country. They have a
reputation of being down
the-lmc Old Line parly Re
publicans.
The President can count
on both to support him in
his fight to hold down spend
ing, keep foreign aid going
strong, get labor legislation
aimed at curbing racketeer
ing, and passing new farm
laws
Dirksen may have more
trouble keeping Senate Re
publicans in line with Ad
ministration policies than
Halleck has in the House
While the firey Illinois Senat
or was strongly opposed by
a small group of GOP “liber
als” Halleck drew support
from both liberals and con
servatives in the House.
Democratic Cooperation
How well Dirksen and Hal
leek succeed m getting the
Presidents avowedly more
conservative legislative pro
gram adopted by the 86th
Congress will depend in a
large measure, how much co
operation they get from Dem
and farm-reared men. Such men know
how to work and are not afraid of doing
a job. On the farm you learn early to
make decis ons, to think for yourself, and
to use youi initiative. There is little place
for a black leather jacket and motorcycle
boots on a modern tractor."
"The agriculture of the future Will be
different from what it is today, just as
ours jS different from that practced by
our grandfathers Never have so many
changes come so swiftly as in the past 10
years. It is a challenge to you. Are you
going to be ready to change with our
changing farm pcture; If you are, you
stand to gam much. If not, you will be
classed with the passenger pigeon and
the dodo bud extract. The decision is
yours. The future of agriculture has never
been brighter. Let it be a beacon to you
to push forwoid with our changing
tmes."
As a footnote to Dr. Henning's ad
dress, we should like to add that unless
a lugh school gradudtte must become the
bread-winner for his family, there jS little
reason for him to end his formal educa
don with high school IF he seriously
"wants to attend college.
This writer knows of several colleges
where a student may obtain a top degree
in agriculture at minimum cost. A boy,
or girl, may work part-time during die
school year and during summers and
pay their way, either with a Ittle more
help from home or money saved in ad
vance. - * -
We don't say it will be easy But it
is possible.
This is especially hue in. a number
of western colleges and universities.
There are several highly regarded west
ern and midwestern agricultural colleges,
which have actually lost enrollment dur
ing the past several years. Many of these
colleges are in umvers.ties where strong
engineering schools are also available
and resident students select the "big mon
ey fields, leaving outstanding agricul
ture staffs and facihhes without adequate
student bodies.
Pennsylvania itself is well represent
ed in higher agriculture education. Neigh
boring states provide outstanding colleg
es. In short, there is little reason for a
qualified student failing to obtain the ed
ucation of his dreams.
ocrats who out-number Re
publicans by almost two to
one.
2 expect support from censer
% vative Southern Democrats.
Z That, however, does not in-
Z elude new civil rights legis-
J lation, which the Southern-
'ers will unanimously oppose
It is significant that the
“liberal” majority of Demo
crats is headed by Sen. Lyn
don Johnson and Rep. Sam
Rayburn, both Texans and
both rated as Southern con
servatives. They may, how
ever, be able to agree about
as often with the Republican
leaders as with a majority of
their own party.
What the 86th Congress
does this year and next will
depend largely on how much
support Johnson and Ray
burn can or will give the
Republican leaders on legis
lation requested by the Presi
dent.
Those are the four men
who will have more to say
about what the 86th Con
gress does than anyone else,
not excluding the President.
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Right to Command
Lesson for January 35, 1959
/
THE Teachers’ Union in, Jesus’
lime was made up mostly of
priests. Some of these were mere
political hacks, but many of them
belonged to the old aristocracy,
with pedigrees running back for
centuries. They were no better than
mediocre teachers themselves, but
they didn’t like
any one else mov
ing in to their
preserves.
So when Jesus
came to Jerusa-
lem, the big city.
from -up-country, -
and began to
teach in the very
shadow of the
great Temple, the Foreman
authorities were aroused. He could
teach in TlalUee all he liked and
they wouldn’t interfere—much. But
let him come to the priests’ cap
ital city, where they were the ruling
class, and they were determined
he should line up as they told him —
or else . . . What that “or else’’
was we know too well. But first
they tried to get him into trouble
with his public. For Jesus had what
actors and writers call a “public,”
people who heard him every chance
they had.
Show Your License!
The first move the priests tried
was the same kind of thing a police
officer does to any shady salesman
or careless driver. Show us your
license! they said, in effect. If Jesus
said, God gave me the right to
teach, the pnests would surely re
tort, What conceit! How could God
authorize you except through us,
God’s representatives among his
people? Or if Jesus said that some
man, any man, gave him the right
to teach, the priests would lose no
time in telling him that they -were
the offeial Teacher’s License Bu
reau and had never given him per
mission to speak. Either way, they
figured, he would lose face with his
public.
Jesus’ answer stunned them. It
meant: You tell me about John the
Baptist and I will tell you about
Now Is The Time . . .
TO START A FARM ACCOUNT BCT|
—One of the most important managci|;;l
Max Smith practices in farming today is to keep arm
curate record of all farm transactions. Farm Account B«||
are available at the Extension Office and we urge tha|.|
farmers adopt this practice at the beginning of the
Also, this will be helpful at Income Tax reporting time |
TO BE CAUTIOUS—This is the time of the season v :
many farmers are approached by salesmen to buy ' v :
seeds, fertilizers, and equipment. Beware of extra
tive bargains unless you actually know the salesman ors Z
firm he represents. New strains of crops and seeds |
a good buy and they may be a failure; better penw' 'h
search workers and experiment stations to do the te^
for us. In most cases farmers get just what they pay!'
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don’t take chances or pay cash for items from strange
Farm
ime. Tins was not off tu
as we might think. Exp r J
(fully, what Jesusnfveant \ V J
; well, suppose I received iJ
ity from Jolin the Bapti,,j
of you may think? WU
/get his authority ? i
From Popular Consont?
There used to be a niatj
Ino degree hut Iris college J
members of his church c,
"Doctor” all the same lj,
say that his degree had],
ferred by vote of the pc 0 f
important matters thant,
bo conferred, in our coJ
vote of the people. The
of a president or goveriJj
from the people themsehli
is nothing essentially wm)
authority that comes froji
large. Indeed, unless tlj
consent, no man can wieijS
ity. In one sense Jesus’ J
came from the heart of m!
The common people hel
gladly, we are told. "Till
man and we love him TjJw
man; he knows!” Unless 1™
has something like that iSi
people, he is a leader m na|:||
From Personal Force? $1
But of course popular Ha
popular ,cnthusiasin, cant®
wrong. Look at Hitler in ft fa
of his power. Every Nazi .'fflj
of them, went screaming||i
He was Germany's "new «
But that did not make hifli
He was hombly wrong, in'M
all the cheering. ’
There is another kind oitdl
ity, which comes from >vii£||
man who has it does not®
appeal to any one else, heSl
need to produce a license, • I |a
no sponsois Now'Jesus | ®
kind of authority and
his fi lends and admirers fa *J|
read that after his “seme
mount” the people were a-IJ®
because ha taught as
authority, and not as tntiM
We know how the
They quoted authorities.
From God? i'l
Highest and truest
that which from cjj!
cording to the fourth Gospel!
denied saying anything st-M
his own account He spollH
words, his teaching wet'll
teaching "My teaching is n[gi
but his who sent me,” he siiwja
7:16). Now every ChnstiaJ||J
world admits tins We all 3m
believe that Christ's autipO
divme But do we act as ilNffl
llevedit? KM
(Based on outlines cop} r>*&«
the Division of Christian fajy|
National Council of the Chef $55
Christ in the U. S. A. Belr/S
Community Press Service.) f *■*■s
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BY MAX SMITH
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—Farmer's who haven’t filed their esti
ed income should keep in mind the neei
'filing a complete return, this is expecte
everj. citizen and should become a pa
your farm business. A helpful publics
titled, “Farmers’ Tax Guide” is avail
from the Internal Revenue Office 01
our Extension Service Office.