4—lanccnter Farming, Sahirday, November -21, 1959 FROM WHERE WE STAND - / Had No Shoes And Complained \ An -old Persian proverb states," "I had no shoes and •complained until T ’ met a man who had *no feet." For several years the favorite topic of the alarmists has been our growing 1 pile of surplus supplies of food and fiber. Almost - every columnist in the country has succumbed-to the.urge to take a-poke at the surplus problem. Almost-everyone and everything haslbeen blamed for-the buildup of agricultural commodities In -the United States. ; We have been so propagandized, by the alarmists that we have largely lost sight of the .reed problem. We .have been told that we must curtail agricultural pro duction. "Cut livestock numbers and put more acres out of crop production", say these self appointed economists. And all the while the plant geneticists -and live stock breeders are giving us better strains and varieties and better-cultural methods. Even with thousands of acres being tak en out-of agricultural production every day for-housing or industrial development, and our population growing at phenom* oned Tates, supply is still beeping up with the -demand. .And so the controversy Tages. -Acting Secretary of Agriculture, True D- Morse added fuel to the fire recently in com menting .on .storage .facilities, when he said that the Commodity Credit Corpora tion is currently holding more than two million bushels of gram in commercial storage. The bill to me American taxpay ,er is over a million dollars a day, and this is just for the storage-, not purchase of the grain. Extremists take 'this' figure and do*'* all sorts of things with it. "Vfe would be: \ foolish to say that 363 rnillion dollars year is small change, but lets just com-; pare it to a few other figures the natiori.l. #####' Davidson 4 - L J Mr. Robert Lishman, coun- pf a so called’“czar ’’ with ab sel for the committee which Jhority to protect the good investigates activities of Gov- Reputation of TV. eminent agencies, answered - j suggested appointment of his telephone and then turn- someone' with- thte authority ed to me and said, “We Judge Kenesaw Moun getting the New York Grand tain Landis had in baseball Jujy records regarding the or Will Hayes has in the mo rV quiz shows. He obvious v j e industry)- and warned ly was p.eased and excited, that unless this was done TV Thus began an investiga- could destroy itself, tion which has shocked the Hollywood Morals nation. TV’s difficulties were not and more shows were produc foneseen, but were predicted in Hollywood and as a They from the un- larger number of Hollywood -willingness of leaders in the personalities were used on 'industry to punish adequate- TV programs, the moral tone ay those who violate criminal of the programs would be laws in the program -which Reeled by-Hollywood mor they bring into the living als room of millions of Ameri-~ This official, who was cans. greatly impressed with the I speak from first-hand ex- P°wer, progress and prosper perience. Shortly after the -rty of his industry, dismissed close of World War II I call- m y suggestion with the ■ed on a top NBC official statement that the movie in land urged the appointment dustr y needed such a “czar” but that te'evision did not. Shortly after that conver sation a woman featured on an hour-long program beam ed to the home, used some shocking profanity on the air. I called officials of the company and asked what they were going to do about it. I was told that the an nouncer had apologized and that they had no intention of doing anything more. The Roman Catholic Holy Name Society complained to the Federal Communications Commission, and I called on an FCC off oial who admit ted that this profanity was a definite violation of a Feder a 1 Statute and therefore a Federal Crime. The FCC, however, declin ed to do anythmy about the Lancaster Farming Lancaster County’s own Farm Weekly P O. Box 1524 Lancaster, Penna. Offices: 51 North Duke St. Lancaster, Penna. Phone . Lancaster EXpress 4-3047 Jack Owen, Editor Robert G Campbell Advertising Director t Business Manager Esta' llsheri November 4. IDS') Published every Saturday by Lannct'r Farming. Lancaster, Pa Cntirrrl ns ’nd class muter at Lancaster Pa under Act a Mar t, ts-n .nditicnal entrv * tToom Jot r> Subscription Rates: 12 per vear; thrae years $6. Single copy Price 5 <, in Xfco i . i „ Ntwspspei Publsn era icntlon, National Editor, ial ts'orlntlfn. THIS WEEK —ln Washington " Wif/t Clinton Davidson T V. Quiz 5 Shows I mentioned that as more .produces! 'ln 1957 "the American people "had forced upon them 410 million dollars worth of advertisement x>f alcoholic bever ages. It must "have been effective adver Using because that -same year we in Am enca paid out ID .billion .dollars for that alcohol. .In the same year ' Over 10 billion was spent for tobacco -and twice that a mount .went'for gambling. Just one billion in a year would be almost 3 million-ev ery day. Can you imagine worrying a bout one million 'for storage when we; throw away almost '6O million, on gambl lincin the same amount of time. Right now we .do nave a temporary over supply of'several farm commodities, and* we ,are'hot trying io minimize 'the seriousness of "the situation, but we think that is just what we have temporary - over supply • Secretary of Agriculture, .Ezra -‘Taft Benson, recently told the national officers - of .the Future Farmers of America that' out so called surpluses could very well be- ; come a blessing in disguise if. 'there shoud be a serious -world famine. .Even today there are aver a .billion per sons in the world ’who woke up hungry this morning and will go to bed tonight without even one square meal. Over half the people in the world are perpetually underfed while -we labor under surpluses. If the alarmists would like to attack something, let them attack our system of .food distribution rather than trying to hamstring progress by curtailing product ion. We should all be truly thankful that we live in a country blessed with the ability to produce surpluses. We should'-not complain about our lack of shoes when much of the world tries to progress without feet. At that's how it looks from where we stand, ‘ - '•t - v incident on the grounds that the industry was In the pro cess of setting up its own or ganization to prevent such things as this from happen ing. At the suggestion of the FCC, I talked with the party who headed this organization and asked him what penalty would result from someone' violating criminal laws on television. He replied that his organization intended to pro- -»j - . vide a seal of good behavior I\ AW I*s I HP I -11 TIP for broadcasters and that in i ’ UVV 1 11C illllC • • • the event of such violations this accrediting seal would be taken away, Television is having its difficulties today and will have even greater future dif ficulties, largely because the industry has not been willing to inflict any more than a “tap on the wrist” punish ment by removing a seal. Since this self policing or ganization was formed, liq uor advertising has been ip- TO PROVIDE PLENTY OF BEDDIN* troduced on.TV and profanity Cow com£ort * best attamed by bei „g has increased. Mr. Doerfer, MAX SMITH that Ho not have to he d( Chairman of the FCC, has that 010 animals d 0 not have to ne u suggested, since the quiz on bare concrete floors. Many milking cows that are n< show scandals, that the idea in stanchions have their legs and udders injured of a TV “czar” for television their weight * touching concrete. Cold concrete and sh should be looked into. edges exposed to the milking udder has caused many ci of mastitis. Several inches of bedding should be underi To rate meats as economic- cow a t a u times. " * I al buys, compare cost per serving or the amount of . , , , J lean meat the cut provides. TO BEWARE OF WIND EROSION Eand that lies o FILLERS during the winter months is subject to severe wind eroj All soils reflect long-tirne in addition to soil erosion by water run-off. During P er climatic conditions under 0 f freezing weather with no snow cover and high winds which they develop. topsoil drys out and is easily blown away. Land owners urged to topdress these fields with manure and to refi from fall plowing as much as possible. Earlier in the winter cover crops could have been planted to providj green cover for the winter months. j Spray cattle for lice con trol before harmful infesta tions develop. PENNS LVANIA TO ELIMINATE INTERNAL PARASITES—The proble stomach worms exists throughout the area in most ai 2m jp|| °f livestock; most producers of sheep and swine have a mil p*?Jl* ed regular treatment for their animals and are acqua |P| with the symptoms of parasite infection. In dairy and Of W cattle many producers minimize the problem of ?lo; fwPf worm trouble; the local veterinarian is in a position FARM I PITY wr-v fecal tests to determine any infection Many amma tnnIVI | vl I Y WEcK in need of treatment for most effecient production. understand what evangj else they don’t really! Christ after all—they ha] news to tell Theie is a 1 'bad way to run a new critic may not like the \i ticular, .paper is run doesn’t mean that newsp ness is bad business Philip told his good n Bible Material: 'Acta S. , "wangehs^sturk Dcv.tionaUteadins: 2 Corinthians 5.14- N, nade f, im SQ goo^aUt? " aSly never took a “coura gelism” all his life Fori he was a man sensitivi Sponsive to the leading 0 j Spirit. We first hear of I the church at Jerusalem] f „ for .men to appoint on a d IT be : said too often: (Acts 6). Qualifications i A. fs -not an organiza- . were that the men should tion,' v it iS.not'a creed,~lt,is not a of -good-repute, fun 0 ;j v set of jgood'ies’ohttronß, it is not a spirit and of wisdom ” itis not - seem that bemg full of >pfodace3 all these, but it and ofwisdom weie nol •n dheampt begin with any of tiiem. of *s being the very sarj Itbeingswithgooancws.Wehave Afcany ra.te.by the timei -• a first-ciajss* cai ' „ said to Philip, "Go join 1 in the -story/be- Pbihp knew the Spit jEoreAJsan'Acts ' At is not necessary to sup At Tthe" turning- the Holy Spirit always a point un Aira) spoketoi'hilip then, m a! - story, couM-catclv on a tape recc ±,hat -p-h-ii l- P oin t is that the Spmt’s “ojj.e.ne d '’hi. 132,4?-known uvPhilhp's; - - mouth and . knew the diffei TheGaodNews .lesson fqr November 22, '1959 toldhimtbe got news of Jesus. \lt is not said that - Philip opened Ins mouth and .gave .the stranger-good-advice, or con demned his sms, or urged him "to turn overa new leaf, or offered him a book to read, or urged him to join -a- church. He just told the , good news about Jesus, Ivangelism isGcod-Hcws-itm - The church today has a tech -nical-sounding big ward which many -Christiana do not "under stand. .It is “Evangelism.” When we hear the word, we think of saw dust trails, of mass meetings, of •Billy Graham arid the "Salvation Army and special services at tho church on the comer. We think of trained Choirs and TV and teams. Like typical Americans, we want our “evangelism” as we want everything else, on a grand scale and organized to the last mch. Actually, evangelism fas Billy Graham or any good minister can tell you) is a simple thing. As a famous Christian leader from Cey lon, D. T. Niles, has said, “Evan gelism. is ..one beggar telling an-;, other beggar where -he can find bread.” Some Christian people say they do not believe in evangelism.,Push 'the question with them, and you may find one or the other of two things to be true: either they don’t tween God’s direction am o£Jiia,own How did thii come--so sensitive to th« God?"No doubt becaus been obedient before. He Knew His Bible Another reason for Ph cess .is his knowledge of It was a. “rash” thing to be, >for this dusty pede speak to this Very Impoi . sonage in his chariot B felt-he had the right i When he heard that offi< ing aloud (for that is Greek, word in verse 28 n his dull treasurer’s-iepo that -sublime passage fre 53, "Philip could not hold i: understand what you are. he cried. The distinguish ger was too. much astoms offended. Here he was, i wealth, distinction, power poor hiker had somethin not have: he knew what has to say, he knew what God used this man, who one thing needful, to c man-who had everything he -needed God can alv those who know and love 1 (Based on outlines cop\i the Division of Chnsti in ; National Conned of tho Cl Christ 'in tho IT. S. A He Community Press Service ) BY MAX SMITH T.O CLIP UDDERS AND FLANKS— practice of c ipping the udder, flank, belly of the dairy cow is to be encour; during the fall and winter months. clipped cow is much easier to keep cl in the daily routine of washing and bn ing. In most cases it will be necessary clip several times _ during the wu montjhs.
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