Saturday. February 7. 1959 - - -3 * Editorial - We used to read nrach about the no mads of ancient tines —the'desert dwel lers who ever so often moved'their tents, flocks and famil.es from one place to an other but nothing, in h story has yet matched the mobility and restlessness of the American people. According- to .the U. S. Bureau of Census, the decade of 1947-57 was a per iod of internal migration such as the na tion had never known before. The Census Bureau figures show, that actually about one-fifth of the avihan population, or not Jess than thirty mlbon people, changed location every year m -that penod. It is interesting to note that about two thirds of these movers stayed in the same county in which they lived. The other third traveled farther, relocat ng either in another country or another state. Whether by inclination or necessity, thiSu "mov-ng- spuit" dffec'.ed not only m-_ ; dividuals and families, but inst tuiions and mdustr.es as well. Decentralization led to the development of large suburban shopping centers and the buldrng of in dustrial plants outside city hm ts all over the country. Chang ng farm conditions -brought a steady migration from farm to city, in fact, altogether some six milion farmers have moved to town since 1947. The implications of such wholesale shift of population and industry can hard ly be overemphas zed. For one thing, ec onomists tell us that it makes for good business. People on the move don't pde up money; they spend it. But we are wondering what it does to the social and spiritual character of the ncrton. In former generators, it was not un common for one family to spend a whole lifetime on the same farm -or at least in the same community. The early pioneers were generally known as settlers—people who stayed The result was a strong physical and sentimental attachment to a certain home or location. It created an inner stab Lty that showed itself in the thinking, planning and Lvng of the whole family. It bu.lt group sol danty. There is much truth in what the poet says about it taking "a heap o' Lvin' to make a house a home.” Unfortunately, all too few today stay long enough to do that amount of i.vmg in one particular bouse. Be ng able to pick up and go at will has its advantages, but the really lasting contributions are made by those who can invest ther money and talents in a place which they can call their own over a period of years.’ Credit holds the key to the future of rhe family-type farm :h Amer.ca, a no ne Davidson Congressional investigating committees are beginning to line up big business execu tives to give them the same kind of “treatment” meted out m previous Congresses to communists and labor racketeers. The crime they are to be accused of is that they are * ‘conspiring” to raise prices and thus cause inflation One legislative proposal would re quire businesses to give the government advance notice of any intention to raise prices. Staff investigators from at least four business investi gating committees have be gun or soon will begin, prob ing into business files and records m search of evidence on which to hale business men before the committees for public hearings. President Eisenhower’s State of thp Union message, which dealt at length with the danger of inflation, did nothing to reassure business that it can expect a “friend” in court when put on trial before the congressional com mittees. —Mennonde Weekly THIS WEEK —ln Washington With Clinton Davidson Headline Hunters Anti-Business Drive Business men we have talked with fear that the ad vance notice proposal, if adopted, would result in gov ernment-administered pricing just as the Interstate Com merce Commission, for ex ample, establishes transpor tation rates. The thoroughly disturbed Wall Street Journal, which usually reflects business thin king, recently Headlined a warning that Congress plans the “Biggest Anti-Business Drive Since the New Deal.” The U S Chamber of Com merce, which also has big business interests, is quoted as saying“they (the commit tees) won’t lay the cause of inflation'at labor's door. They have to find a scapegoat, and business is it.” N - It could be that business men are “talking scared,” but if so they are being given some very plausable reasons for doing so. Many business men are be coming convinced that the government is against them and that any time they ap pear before a congressional tional {arm credit spokesman told mem bers of the Fresno National Farm Loan Association at Fresno, Calif., last week. Addressmg cooperative's 25th annual meeting, Robert B. Tootell, Governor, Farm Credit Administration,- predicted that "good credit service / can make it possble for the commercial fa mily v farm to endure and continue to dom inate the farm scene by helping It ve come increasingly efficient." "Credit makes possble the substitu tion of capital for labor on farms," Gov, Tootell pointed out, "and it is keepmg the farm family in the swim of fierce compe l ton that is featuring our changing agri culture today." Farmers have already demonstrated ( heir ability to operate efficiently, the farm leader said. "Only 12 percent of our work ng force as engaged in- primary, agricultural production. Yeh'qur. farms are meeting our food and fibre needs' to day with considerable' to spare, thds re leasing the other 88 percent of our peo ple to produce other goods and services. This is an important factor contnbut ng to our h-gh standard of livng. In many countr.es it takes a large part of the pop ulation to reuse the needed food and fibre. As a result they have much lower stand ards of living." However, Gov. Tootell warned area farmers that tremendous changes cue taking place m our agriculture and m the structure of the market for agricultural products. . "Cham stores and super markets are growing rapidly m food retail ng," Gov. Tootell said. "They demand large quani ties of high quaLty, uniform'farm produc tion. Thus, the wise farmer is the'one who produces to fit this market. He often uses cooperatives to enable him to ;om with other farmers to assemble, process, aiid market large quantities of uniform quality products. These and other chang es have far reaching credt implications and are forcing farming to become more and more a business and less merely a way of hfe." "The 'Cooperative Farm Cred t Sys tem, which serves as a mechan sm for pooling farmers' credit and tapping the -money centers, particularly demonstrated its value in 1957—the tightest money year s nee 1929. That year, farmers and their cooperatives borrowed nearly $3 b llion from the r credit system. These loan funds were obtained primarily through the sale of bonds and debentures to the investing public. No farmer who had a sound bas is for credit was turned down for lack of funds." —The Farmers Exchange or administrative agency they have two strikes on them. A Fair Tri^l It is entirely within the the farmer takes the goods before province of congressional spring arid summer "rush season. Tin committees and properly con one way to reduce production costs as stituted agencies as to get the kind and quality of suj o hold hearings for the pur- needed. In many cases the popular li ion 6 necessary n tcf their functions. ed , TO PROTECT STORED FARM shoSlotTS? tte° fSS- PLIES Seeds and ferul.aars may t. to act as a court of law to for months > and m some cases for ' deprive citizens of their lib- provided they are stored in dry places and protected erty or property. That is the rodents and insects. In the cage of fertilizer is is ver proper function of our courts poitant to keep it away from all moisture; rain, snow Some committees have op- even moisture frpm the ground will cause caking ai orated on the theory that If' some cases with nitrogen fertilizers may cause combs they make their charges and and fire the building ’Rodents and moisture are most' insinuations strong enough mon enemies of stored deeds . ] a sizable portion -of the pub- j IIC W 1 the J 6 si gU!It ’ TO PROVIDE EXERCISE FOR HERDS AND FLOCJ - . . *l. . _ ... Daily outside exercise is very essential to the he« ~~ breeding sows and the ewe 'flock at this time of the I Lancaster Farming With the swine herd it is quite common that sows art Lancaster County’s own Farm and watered in a small pen and not given a chance to weekly about. In many cases this causes an - over-weight core Lancaster Penna resulting in weak pigs and awkward sows at farm office*: ’ time With the ewe flock insufficient exercise may l Lai^aster, D Penna.’ on pregnant ewe disease or weak lambs The feeck Phone % Lancaster hay, gram, nr water in separate ends of the exerci' La U E McGrow, 4 " Editor; will force anin *als to move about even in the dbad of P.obert G. Campbell, Advertising ter. - ■ i Director & Business Mfenager _ _ Established Not ember 4. 1955 TO RECOGNIZE VALUE OF NITROGEN Pracli Published every Saturday by all plant - growtiL'is-stimulated by the addition of nit a“ * *s a fertilizer; from farm manures and especially P« Lancaster, Pa under Act of Max. manure, nitrogen is one of the most important pla ll jov, B pa addftlonal entry at Mount ments. Commercial fertilizers carrying only nitrogen subscription Ratos- $2 per vear; large percentages of nitrogen, will also give more 6 h conts. ears * s ‘ Smcle C ° py PrW ° growth. Top-dressing of winter wheat or grass p» £ Members. Pa Newspaper Pubiah- early in the spring will increase yields oit most # tn\ Association.”’ Xatlonal Editor - earlier grazing may also be realized through the » Blblt Material: Luke 20 27-40: John 14 1-7. ' DerotionU Beading:; 2 Corinthians 4 13- 18- ' Death Net The EniT Lesson for Feburary 8, 1959 WHAT IS IT like in the next world? Some people ask be- cause they desperately want to know how it fares with a loved one over there. Other people ask the question out of idle curiosity. Others still ask the question merely to show (if they ) hr' idi<" ulous any answer must be. It was this last .sort* of /people.who asked Jesus the old question about the.m-unh mar- -ned -woman .who got to heaven and found her -seven husbands^there the angels (he did not, already. (They would be angels!) in hea didn’t put it juet that way, though if there is any one elenia we would) - Their question was, man life which is univst; Which of the seven ex-husbands' portant, it is sex. To he 1 would be the right one for the the'life beyond us not cor heavenly duration ? It was an old on the sex-centered plat chestnut, no one could possibly one, leaves us wondering claim 'to know, enough to answer is not all. In every respei it. So they tried it on Jesus. most all, that we can cent “Life Beyond” is in the Death and the Bible sense beyond. It is beyor, As with so many of Jesus’ an swers to questions which in them selves were stupid, silly or malic ious, in answering this question Jesus ignored the single case these hecklers brought up, and went right to the root of the matter. The fact was, the Sadducees who asked this question did not believe in life after death for anybody, at all, any where, any time. The Jews who did believe, and Jesus himself, did not speak of “heaven” and “hell” as a rule, but lumped all the future life together in the one ex pcession, “the Resurrection.” When they said “the Resurrection”, they did not mean Jesus’ or Lazarus’ or any one person's resurrection. They meant the life-heyond-ttus-hfe, the ultimate life God has in store for (Based on oull!nes J hia human creatures. Where most the Division oi Christian U Christians today would say “the “r °l. ‘a! fwl immortal life” or something of that' Community Press Service ) sort, they said “the Resurrection ” p ubljcation Week of J Jesus did not argue with the J Now Is The Time .. BY MAX SMITH TO ACCEPT FARM SUPPLIES E« —Many concerns offer discounts pi oil nitrogen, unbelieving -Sadducees, gave them two plain, t( they made the mistake, all life after,, death. o n ' they did not know the' VJ £Uiother reason f or ' dticees’ doubt, Jesus said ignorance of the powj Many people think of !t as a natural sort of th thing on a par with spn,, butterflies. The Bible oj hand always looks on j, death as a gift of God's, mortality's not someth™ God cannot rob us, so j js something which God, ' stows on us. Argun«| what “can” or “can’t” j this life, are not only , out of pure ignorance, bn nore especially the p 0 i\ God who is Love. We a 0 what God will provide, i; tail, we do know that i to provide whatever his wisdom choose. “Beyond” Jesus dropped a hint \ nature- tit the futme b| many Christians 1 It is all we need'jtpJcnoa-l be there That we cannot blueprint of heaven is a that it does not exist. !