4—Lancatler Farming, Saturday, April 2, 1960 f
FROM WHERE WE STAND -
Have You Ever Been A Football?
In the silly little verse about the
purple cow, the author winds up by
telling the wide world that he’d rath
er see than be one.
All of us have seen a football; al
most all of us have * touched one, at
least once, and quite a few of us have
even played in a game with one. Now
it looks like farmers are going to get a
chance to BE one.
The American farmer or at least
the farm situation, is going to' be in for
a heap of kicking around in the next
few months.
Organized football of the kind we
usually think about begins in the fall
and runs into the winter, or until the
season is over.
The kind of football game in which
the farmer becomes the object of the
well directed, or misdirected kicks has
already' begun. It will become more
feverish through the summer and -come
to a climatic turmoil just before elect
ion day.
Agriculture is not the only target
fox? the pointed toes of the politicians,
but it seems that it is one of the favor
ite targets
Already one would-be nominee has
declared that his first official duty
would be to replace the Secretary of
Agriculture with someone with the
needs of the farmer at heart. During
, the same broadcast, wherein that pro
nouncement was made, another an
nounced candidate was directing a few
strokes of the political toe at Mr. Rural
-America. He pictured the farmer as
living in a world well padded with the
hard earned dollars of the poor labor
ing people, and the horn of plenty filled
with tax dollars raining down wealth
' for- any farmer to gather in.
This is just the beginning. Before
the campaign is very much older, near
ly every political hopeful from- town
ship supervisor on up will feel called
upon to take his turn at trying for a
field goal.
“And why not”, is the attitude of
many politicians. The farmer is notor
iously independent in his voting. There
is no strong union to bring pressure to
bear on the farm vote. The farmer is
mo longer a majority or even a large
percentage of the electorate. But there
has been so much publicity, some of it
entirely false, about phases of the farm
situation, that the politician can have
a ready audience any time he desires
Dovldicn
There hangs in the official
office of the Vice President
in the Senate wing of the
Capitol Building a mirror
that, if it were granted the
gift of speech, could tell 'an
interesting story.
Sen. Karl E. Mundt of
South Dakota took the time
recently to look up the story
of the “Dolly Madison Gold
en Mirror,” and to tell it in a
recent letter which he sends
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THIS WEEK
—ln Washington
With Clinton Davidson
The Golden Mirror
regularly to his friends back was purchased by Thomas
home Jefferson, also in France It is
The story, we think, is mad e of Bohemian crystals
worth retelling. a , nd hasall u sterling silver
cups and chains.
Dolly Madison, the charm
ing wife of our fourth Presi-,, WheSi Jefferson became, the
dent, James Madison, pur- third President, he had the
chased a small gold mirror chandelier placed in' the
while in Paris with her hus- White House and it remained
band, who was on official over the President’s desk un
busmess. 'til the terra of,, Theodore
She paid $5O in American Roosevelt. ;f
money but on returning to Kis said.Mr Roosevelt was
New York fouhd there was a distracted by the wind blow
s3o customs fee due on the mg over the chandelier
mirror Mrs. Madison charged Pnsms when the windows
it the the official account, (Turn to Page 5)
and the government paid the
fee,
In due course, the audit
committee of the Senate, in
checking the salaries and ex
nenses of the White House,
came across the $3O custom pfbai.d*!
fee charge. There being no SPRINGS HERALDS
authorization for such an ex- The smaL green shoots beg n
penditure, an investigation x to show; .
was begun to determine Old winter now wing;
whether Mrs. Madison was Crocus, violets, daffodils
guilty of wrong-doing. re heralders of spring.
After weeks of investiga
tion the committee named to. The Robins now will come
look into the charge decided to see
here was no for prose- If worms are good this year,
cution and advised that the And hop across the winter
“case of the golden mirror” ground
be dropped. For spring will soon be here.
to make a statement
of agriculture.
The worst is yet to come. The ref
eree has hardly tooted the opening
whistle and already we are feeling the
boots. We had better toughen up our
hides. It is going to be a tough game,
and the spikes are sharper than ever.
At least that’s how it looks from
where we stand.
MAID SERVICE
Fifty years ago dad planted the
buckwheat, and when it was ripe, he
harvested it and took it to the mill.
Mother took the flour he brought home
and mixed it with buttermilk she had
churned from the milk she had taken
from the cow. s She added, some other
ingredients and set the whole batter in
a warm place until the next day. With
some fresh flour, more buttermilk and
other ingredients added at breakfast
time, mother would be ready to fry up
a batch'of buckwheat cakes.
This morning the nine-year-old
daughter got up three minutes before
dad, went to the sHelf and took down a
box of ready mixed, self rising, non
lumping, buttermilk buckwheat cake
mix, poured a few spoonfuls into a jar,
added a prescribed amount of water,
and in “ten shakes”, by the makers in
structions, she poured out golden pan
cakes on the electric griddle, (set accor
ding to instructions).
In grandmother’s day, the rich
could afford servants. In thus day, the
housewife demands and gets her maid
service built in. This is what we pay
for at the grocery store.
Now home economists and food
processing companies tell us that we
haven’t seen anything yet in “conven
ience foods”. Already some packages
cost more than the food they contain,
but many new products are being
dreamed up every day.
Announced but not yet on the mar
ket generally is a synthetic potato skin
for those who like to eat baked potato
skins, but want them standardized.-One
company is marketing “cook-in-pouch”
frozen foods that do not have to be
thawed and no pan needs to be wash
ed. Many other innovations are on the
way to release Mrs. America from the
kitchen
Most of us can not afford maids,
but we are all on the way to paying for
built-in maid service at the grocery
store.
The committee, however,
submitter a bill of, $2,800 to
cover cost of the investiga
tion. There is no record of
how the mirror, which cost
taxpayers $2,830, got from
Dolly Madison to the Vice
; > President’s office.
; > Whispering Chandelier
1! Sen. Mundt tells the. story
1! of another decoration in the
: ’ same office; a chandelier that
Rural Rhythms
or any segment
By Carol Dean Huber
Bible Material: Matthew 4 23 through
7.29, 9.14-17; Mark 4*l-3, 10-13, 33-34,
Devotional Binding; Psalm 119.33-50.
Master Teacher
Lesson toi; April S, 1960
PEOPLE WHO knew Jesus of
Nazareth thought of him as a
teacher. Jesus thought of himself
as a teacher. The title given him
most often in the,. Gospels is
Teacher. When'ho rose from the
dead and Mary Magdalene recog
nized him, she called him Rabboni,
My Teacher.
Jesus said trp his
disciples (a word
which itself
means pupils)*
"You call,me
teacher and Lord,
and'you ar e
right, for so l
a m. M (John
13:13.) Jesus ex
pected his teach
ings to be taken seriously. “Why
do you call me ‘Lord, Lord’’ and
hot do what I tell you?” he asked.
(Luke 6:i6). A man who hedfcs
Jesus’ sayings and, does not do
them, is like a man-' budding’ a
housa on sand. (Matt. 7:26). “The
words that ,1 have spoken'to you
are spirit afjd life,” he said. (John
6:63.) It Is absurd, it is
wicked," for a man to claim to be
a Christian, and by-pass the teach- -
ings of Jesus.
J«sns' Them* why Parsblu
When we hear that some one is \ _r ,
a teacher, the first thmg we ask, ' Je f? s
if we are interested, is: Whaf'does P a ,, e or **•
he teach? Jesus’ great theme, his “ u som * Slra f l
subject, was a tremendous one: tM \ers som
UPE, One reason why ha is called understand tit
the Master Teacher is that his was aiming to]
theme was the most important, the H*® st ° r £ lt!tJ
most all-inclusive, in the world. We l( ? ea 0 .
can make this more definite. We
can put this in three ways. 1. Jesus * ,
taught about Life in the Kingdom
of God, or to put this another way, *®’ raer ', °, ta
he taught what it means to beh dx >f ““
citizen of the Kingdom of God, or—
to say it still another way—he nna 11 0
taught what kind of behavior God (Based on «i(
requires of those who want to live
in his kingdom. 2. Jesus taught ®h r i,t in the F
about Life as God wills It.'Every- CommnmU Tm
body lives somehow, or at least
exists; and if you look about youf
Now Is The Time ...
TO' APPLY NITROGEN 1
CROPS—Stands of winter P
ryegrass, or field bromcgiassfl
plowed down as a green
corn will fully utilize an appi
least 50 pounds per acre o£
with, no manure this applied
proach 100 pounds per acrf
trogen.' .If this nitrogen is $
weeks,prior to plowing, exW
be realized and the mtrog®
there to aid in decomposing t»
and refuse.
MAX Sl*
TO USE NEW FORAGE CROP SPRAYS-®
fa producers shotlld not be"guided by 1959 s
tions; they have been changed and HcptacWJ
used; methoxychlor is the recommended w
trol of'spittle bug and* alfalfa weevil.
TO CONTROL LAWN WEEDS— Plentj of
cr on the lawn in order to get a solid tud
best defenses against weeds in the lawn
one of the best times to make both of tn
When sufficient growth appears set the m °"
2 inches) rather than to cut tire sod donn
fast-growing, heavy turf will make it d
weeds to survive; light applications of tJIC
2,4-D will control weeds.
TO BE ON THE ALERT FOR TERMI
time that termites swam; and usually a rc
inside of doors and windows where hg ,lt a ?J!
these insects are found, it means;, that tlrey
the wood structures, of the buildings T' lC ( i
termites are the ones that swarm and ar^ (
with the winged ant; by close inspection ,
is not jointed and all four are the
in the ant the body is in two sections
pair of wings are longer than the i car | 0 'j
swarms are noted, close inspection shoo
er the nesting area, in’the soil;
chlordane and other materials will kid 1
or if
self, you can
people living,
and never gl;
God thinks ,
doings. That?
taking over.!
to suit the pi
it only comnitj
•what God's Hi*
light. ThenatJJ
can tell us wl!
Christian a n j)
shown us the,
the next que„
know that j(
have Jesus’ u
will is to do I
shall know J
is from God"
it and see 1 3
life at its hq
cisely what ,'t
•pattern, it
can really b tt
Jtsus’ Method)
Jesus had vt
ing, but they a
to two. One in
statement mj
often, however
ables, or as
-•‘by story-iiiustj
son the next ti
series are goh
the Sermon ®
is mostly the{
the parables, j
ables. The
Jesus will con
ment that sutpi
the mind, vs)
.. listener and te
(sometimes) r
get what tie
makes him sot
of these direct:
plain, others 1
“Woe unto yoa
well of you” in
that sounds 1
"When you mull
can see how it
»Y MAX SMITH