4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. September 10, 1960 FROM WHERE WE STAND - One Day In A line from a poem by Christina Georgina -Rossetti declares, “One day in the country is worth a month in town.” We know what she means. We like to think a day in the country is worth many months in-town, but we could turn it around and say, “One day in the city seems as long as a month in the country.” We recently had occasion to spend a day in one of the big cities, and the fo ndly enjoyed the day seeing the sights and looking at the things one can not see in the rural areas. Yes, the family enjoyed the day up to a certain point; but not one sight in the city "could equal the sight of our little group of animals waiting to greet us as we drove in the lane to our Lancaster County home. During the conversation in the city the subject of living in an urban com munity was brought up. The business executive with whom we talked was once a farm boy but he felt that the advantage of city salaries overshadow ed the disadvantages of city living. Then he put on what he thought would be the clincher. He said, “Why fight it? Soon the entire eastern seaboard as far west as Lancaster County will be one huge city ” Our only rejoinder was, “You’re probably right, but there are some of us who are not too happy about that thought.” Unfortunately he probably was right. As we drove home through the areas where just a few years ago great herds of cattle grazed on open hillsides and wide expanses of level valleys were covered with grain crops, now there can be seen only row after row -of pepper-box type houses and service stations and motels striving to each one put up bigger, brighter and more elaborate neon signs. But to get back to the other prem ise of the business executive. In many instances salaries are very attractive and commuting to suburban areas has become quite common. In the first place commuting is a rat race any way (6 !We should heed warning. A report published in the Congressional Record shows the growth of Washington bureaucracy. The United States government is the big gest business in the world, with assets valued at over 2- I thousand billion dollars. It !has a debt amounting to al mose three-hundred billion dollars. Two Federal agencies—ln , terior Department and the Just how much do you taxes you pay and never Forest Serv j[ ce — own and op want from your government know about. erate mQre than 40 % Q f a u in Washington, and how big corporation,'for ex- the land in the Nation There xyuich are you willing to pay- will pay a part of the are dozens of other agencies Ponder that question* care increased tax burden, but with smaller land holdings, fully when you listen cam- yQU Wlll foot the blll by pay . The redera i government paign speeches abou„ wt mg higher prices for the ope rates more than 700 cor the candidates proimse to do , hmgs you buy . Most Feder- porat e activities that, as the for you if they are elected al are hidden, but you Record reports, “ride the *rff ber> £ y th p P a y them just the same. backs of the American peo nof they, who will pay the Q row i ng Washington Power p i e as interest free, dividend 1 Don’t be misled by glow- Before we ask for. or vote free, rent freest free tax ‘ne accounts of “helo from for, more assistance from free competitors of taxpay into assuming Washington we should con- mg producers' and consum that it will be 'free, or that slder that we are creating a ers someone else will pay the more and more powerful Cost of Government bill in higher taxes There’re central government and re- In 19 2 6 when the first U literally hundreds of hidden movmg control of govern- S. Code a compi!JSbh-hS ment farther and farther a- Federal laws, was published way from us. it was all in one volume. The Concentration of power ov- latest publication fills 11 vol er taxation, spending and law umes of 900 pages each, making m a central govern- In that same year, 1926, ment has preceded the col- Federal budgetary expendi lapse of democratic govern- tures totalled $2 8 billion, ments for almost 2,000 years. (Turn to page 8) Davidi** Lancaster Farming Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly P O Box 1524 Lancaster, Penna. Offices 53 North Puke St Lancaster, Penna Phone - Lancaster ENpress 4-3047 Jack Owen Editor Robfrt G Campbell, Advci Using Pircctor A Husim ss Manager Established November 4, 195 > Published every - Saturday by Lancaster Farming Lancaster, Pa Entered as 2nd class matter at Lancaster, Pa under Act ot Mar 0 1879 additional entry at Mount Joy. P t Subsetiption Fates $2 per year, three \< ns $5, Single copy Pi ice 5 certs Members Pa Newspaper Publish ers’ Association. National Editor ial Association THIS WEEK —ln Washington With Clinton Davidson RURAL RHYTHMS COUNTRY BOY ' By; Carol Dean Huber Once a farmer’s chi’dren missed a lot of things That living in the city and having money brings; Those days are gone forever and it’s a lucky boy Who CAN miss a lot of things that city kids—enjoy? • In the country where each fellow has a special job He isn’t thinking of the places he could plan to rob. When he is busy working or having wholesome fun He has no time for switchblade knives a brickbat or a gun. The Country you look at it, but suburban living is not city living. We think , about the people who have their residences with in walking distance of the downtown areas and never get farther than just a few miles from their home. We saw young men as they wander ed the streets or lounged on door steps looking bored to death with time on their hands and nothing to do from one month to the next, and we were thankful that our boys only occasional ly ask, “What can we do?”. We saw dust and smoke and filth and pollution and we were glad that when our boys come in from the gard en with grime on them, we can douse them in the tub and know have to be surrounded with the air full of trash all night long. We saw the cold grey buildings shutting out the sunlight from the streets and we were glad that our boys have sunlight and can see the bright green fields in spring and summer, the colorful leaves in the fall and the clean pure snow in winter. We breathed the sooty, smokey, smelly air of the ciy and thought how fortunate we were that the worst odors we were forced to be around is the smell of barnyard manure. t ; We pounded our feet on the steamy, hot sidewalks of the great city and could hardly wait to feel the feel of real earth under our shoe soles again. The day of the hay-seed is a day long past. Farmers are no longer the ones to be looked down on for their lack of advantages. The business ex ecutive could name only one advan tage his children have which ours lack ed They could visit cultural centers without the long car ride from the country, but he had to admit that those things become so commonplace that city people take very little oppor tunity to use them. Let’s not become so casual about our advantages in the country that we fail to appreciate them. We still agree iyith Miss Rossetti, “A day in the coun try is worth a month in town.” At least that’s how it looks from where we stand. Bible. Material: Isaiah 2 1-4; 9 2-7; 11 1-9 Devotional Beading; Isaiah 2 1-4. Why No Peace? Lesson for September 11, 1960 ASK ANY ten or one hundred people the same question: If you could have, tomorrow, an ideal world, a world made to your order, what kind of world would it be? You might get ten or a hundred different answers, but it is safe to say that one fea ture would be found in all of these Ideal worlds:' it would be a world at peace Nobody— nobody in Amer ica, nobody any where in the world wants to live in a warring world. Everybody la in favor of peace. Why We Ail Want Peace Turn to the Bible and you 'find the same thing. Every prophet who looks down the logg vista of time to God’s Golden Age, see a world at peace. Some of the best-known passages from the Bible are those from Isaiah selected for this week. So if human beings want peace, at least to this extent they are on God’s side. Why we hope for peace Is-plain enough. Reasons may vary from low (bad) to high (good). The prophets’ reasons are certainly high ones. The reason why war is had is what it does- to people. Nowadays, of course, war means total destruction; hut even when that is not true, war means the slow or swift degeneration of hu man beings. “All’s fair in love and war"' is not true but most people think it is, and the longer war goes on, the more people believe it. Ly ing, cruelty, theft, murder, adul tery become commonplace. The enemy looks to us less than human (and so do we to the enemy), so that we make excuses for our beastly treatment of him by calling him a beast. Why W§ Don’t Dot Pmco Now Is The Time . . . TO BEWARE OF LATE - SEPTEMBI HAY-MAKlNG—Cuttings of alfalfa - clover made during the last half of Se tember and just prior to a killing fro may do permanent injury to the future ■the stand. Sufficient time should be alio’ ed for at least 4 to 6 inches of growth t fore the killing frost. If this is not don then the plant roots do not have any i serve strength. In most cases if the star is of rank growth it is better-to wait u MAX SMITH til alter several killing frosts, ana tl growtn has been stopped, and then remove the forage TO TOP-DRESS FORAGE CROPS—One of the recommen ed times to apply phosphorus and potash fertilizer to aI grass or legume mixture is in the fall after the last cr< has been removed. In this area the time would be late Se tember or ear.y October. Top-dressing With 0 20-20 or 15-30 at the rate of 300 to 400 pounds per acre will mcica. the yield for next season. The other suggested tune this application is immediately after the removal of first cutting next spring. Many successful growers will =P the application between these two. tames TO KEEP THOSE STRAWBERRIES FREE OF WEEDS ■ Clean cu t vation late into the fall between the l 0 strawberries will eliminate the need for chemicals ter weed control. Ground worked or cultivated late September or October will have less trouble chickweed or other winter weeds. TO PROVIDE SPECIAL CARE AT FRESHENING T® Many dairymen are having a large number of D 1 j r£ , at this time of the year It is very important that t* e cow and the new-born calf receive the best of care injury at this tune may mean additional uddex P r ° later in the lactation. A 'clean,well-bedded box sta : from the other-cows for-e-few days will pay divide Now, why is it that, iVe all want, and that o' w« don’t get? The ern Europe, and of th yo * States, is one long sen,? 1 We scarcely get ovei o l° f the next one comes off t? bly line. If it isn’t a hot,! 1 cold one—and the “cold, 20th-century invention ni name is fiew. Of couise one reason ... get peace is that we wrong reasons. One 0 f n monest of wrong reasons,,,, want peace in order to 1 our own nation (whateve? that is) as “top dog " been such periods of p ea * r world, when Egypt, or or Rome, or the Bnt, S h j! Just sat on the rest of thl and maintained peace by a, force, maintaining its oiit,! at the top of the heap The t with that kind of peace i S i! body likes it except the r 2 top of the pile. Sooner or hi people who have been sat cide they’ve had enough-,, fight starts all over again, Th* Thh»t« Thai Malta For There are other bad moth desiring a world at peace, b can think of them withoi much trouble. Let us look l other point. We do not j Jesus weeping often; but the rare occasions when he ( was when he looked on hi capital city and wept oier saw in his minds eye "thi . . . when your enemies wi surround you ... and dash the ground” (Lk. 19 tl-nj why? “The things that nu peace are hid from your Peace does not glide down heaven on a moonbeam Pea to be made and kept. Prince of Peace Nations neglecting these are going down the load t But the most impoitant thi mains to be said: The natio neglects Christ is shutting; off from peace, while the that is Chustian is a stionj for peace. This is not just 11 of theology It is not sajmj you believe articles one, fa cetera, you will never have It is saying that the natio an increasing number of c whose lives are truly Chr who honor him and follow 1 a nation which is more am able to lead other nations way of peace. (Based on outlines copuitli the Division of Christian Eii National Connell of the Chur Christ in the XI. S A KeltJ Community Press Sen ice) BY MAX SMITH
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