—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 10, 1960 4 FROM WHERE WE STAND - When a man has all he needs, and all he needs is all he wants, he is a happy man. This sentiment, expressed in a Sun day School class several years ago and accredited to an old-time hobo, has been a spring board for a lot of good discussions since. We can’t help agreeing that the sentiment as expressed is a good one and undoubtedly true. But we wonder just how you know what you need. Grandad “went to farming” with one Shanghai, rooster and one hoe. Grandma brought a fireplace oven (the kind that she buried in the ashes on the fireplace hearth) to set up house keeping. They set up housekeeping and set out to make a living with one rooster, one hoe. one oven—and good neigh bors. Of course the good name they car ried "with them didn’t detract from their chances of making a success. Through hard work and the good fortune of favorable weather their "first corn crop, planted on rented land with a neighbor’s team was marketed by the young couple for enough hard cash to set them up in a regular way for farming. In past generations, the farmer de pended heavily on his neighbors, his church, his school, and his country store keeper to help him over the rough spots and to supply those things he needed but could not pay for in cash. No young man in his right mind to day would attempt to go into the high- Be a “Don’t Driver!” That’s the startling and vitally important—title of an article by Dick Pfister, a farm safety specialist, which appeared in the July 16 issue of the Michigan Farmer. Since 1950, he writes, more than 2 dozen pre-kindergarten age children in the single state of Michigan have died in tractor accidents —and so the total for the country as a whole must be of [horrifying size Of extreme signific ance, 3 times as many Michigan chil dren under 5 years of age have been killed in farm tractor accidents as [have men in such age groups as 20 to 24, 30 to 34, and 40 to 44. Many of the accidents involving young children oc Davldion In a few days the U S. Department of Agriculture wi 1 announce that American ■farmers have again set a new a 1-time production rec ord in 1960. The announcement won’t result in newspaper head- Lancaster Farming Lancaster County’* Own Farm Weekly P O Box 1524 Lancaster, Penna Offices 53 .North Duke St. Lancaster. Penna. Premier Krushchev ta ks UNUSED ADVICE ■Phone - L.anca'itor a great deal about Russia’s By Carol Dean Huber j^ P o« S cn 4 ; Editor “superiority” over the U. S. In spite of all the good TO USE CHEMICAL BRUSH CONTROL—Now is the W Robi rt o Campbell, Advertising in H-bomb rockets, and he advice to us® dormant brush killers on hard-to-kill trees and bu- Estai P i? s l hcd & Novcmblr £“m l 5 ir brags a . bout gaming on us In That j attempt to give, es - By s P- a ymg or soaking during November, Decent Published every - Saturday by industrial production He T +VI . . or January chemica's will give more effective root kid IW XAnc&tStcr FErnunS P3. novpr mnnfinnc citnnn'm* AH 3 X tnG Q Our Secret Weapon i| lures; it has become rather commonplace in recent years New production records have been set xn six of tire past ten and four of the past live years. From behind the Iron Cur tain there are reports of a “dissappointmg harvest” m both Russia and China. They are concerned about not en ough food, while we worry about too much. China’s per capita food production is only about half that of the United States. ly complex business of farming with one rooster and a hoe, nor would he be likely to find a girl willing to cook over an open fire and put up with a few pieces of home made furniture. But times have changed. Americans Have the highest standard of living the world has ever known. Rural and ur ban families alike have grown to need comforts which were considered pure luxuries just a few years in the past. These are not just imagined necessi ties; many people could not live for very long if they had no more of the implements of civilization than the American pioneers posessed. - Today the farmer’s markets are broader; his contacts are wider; he is aware of many things in many parts of the world, but he may know little about his neighbor across the road. He has become by people, but in many ways he has had to become more "independent than ever before. Farmers have to be more self suf ficient because of competition for the consumer’s dollar even though farm communities are still the most neigh borly places in the land. Of course if every person since the first man had been completely satis fied with things just as they were, we might still be living in trees, but then not all men in the world are happy men. . We think it bears repeating at this approaching Christmas season, “When a man has all he needs, and- all he needs is all he wants, he is a happy man.” At least that’s how it looks from where we stand. Teen-age youth also have had "a. bad tractor record, with a mounting toll of injury and death. The overly-young tractor drive? -is. definitely accident prone. As Mr. Pfister see it, “This farm ac cident problem calls for a family ap proach” Every member of the family should understand and recognize haz ards, and help in finding ways to re duce or eliminate them. The farm equipment people have given every effort to making their pro ducts safe. And'they are safe, if prop erly used and maintained. But the makers can’t control the users—and it’s on the users that the ultimate re sponsibility falls. gaged in farming; in the United States 10 per cent Russia can never catch up with the United States in industrial production so long as ha’f of her population is engaged in food production, while in the United States 90 per cent of our population is available for non-farm oc- cupations TO PROVIHE MINERALS—AII animals require sufficici So little, has been said, or minerals for maximum growth and production In the ls genera ly understood, about Q -f growing caves it is quite important that ihey be give ZtTSht ataoTS I>lB " y 01 “0 Phosphorus; these are necessary t garded S fur most Krowlh and bone development. The chewmg of leg f u i “secret weapon” in the es> P os * 3 other wooden objects is* a symptom of phe co d war. phorus defeciency. The feeding of IVz ounces of dica cui Hunger still is liie 'oiggest phosphate per head per day, or the free-choicf feeding ! prob em in many nations a- steamed bonemeal will provide sufficient ca.cium and plif round the world. American phorus. farmers not only provide TO SPRAY C ATTLE FOR LICE-Before cold weather < this country with more food . , , , .. .. ~ . . . per capita than any other nves *** before the cattle get tbeir heav y wmter coats '' nation, but with enough left is suSgested that producers treat their amma.s for ace I (Turn to page 9) many eases heifers are stunted during the wmter montt because of heavy infestations of body lice With steers c feed this is aso an item that wul reduce gains and fee effeciency. In warmer weather the animals may be sprs ed and in co der times dusting with residua* msecticiti' containing lindane or rotenone will kill the lice. Rural Rhythms Billie Material: Isaiah 9, Matthew-4 12- 17, 23-25, Galatians 4 4-7. Derotlonal Beading: Isaiah U-. 1-9. The Great Promise Desson for December 11, 1860 NOTHING that happens is a sur prise to God. Human beings are sometimes surprised when they need not be. The birth of Jesus was surely no surprise to God, for it was he that planned it. It need not have astonished any one, for it had been promised. The trouble was, nobody had looked for just • this kind of an- swer to their long prayers—long m the sense that for centuries the Jewish people had been praying for a Deliverer (that is what “Savior” means m the Bible). Furthermore, this Deliverer had been promised, for many of the prophets had pointed forward to the coming of One to whom they gave various names—Son of David, God’s Anointed, God’s Servant, Shepherd, and so on. One of the names was not a name, it simply expressed the great hope in a word: He that is coming (all one word in Greek or Hebrew). Peace and Justice The problem at this point may turn the mmd to thinking about what Jesus really means to Chris tians now and eventually to the world. The problem, to make it short, is this; Why was it that the Jews, the very people who had cherished the Great Promise, the Hope of "One who is to come,” the people in whose sacred books alone this Promise was preserved, the people whose prophets had pointed down the future to that great Com ing—why was it that these very people of the Promise failed to see the fulfillment of that Prom ise when it came to pass? One reason was that they ex pected everything to happen all at once. For example: in Isaiah 9, one of the famous piophecies about the Coming One, any reader Now Is The Time * BY MAX SMITH ' TO GET THAT CHICKWEED Wan i open weather during the past month li -| given duckweed a good start m mai ..-4 aialfa and clover fields This weed ecu agj become -a serious problem on many fau "4 unless sprayed by Christmas time The I J Nitro sprays for warm weather and gu.. 4 legume stands, and the Chloro IPC spu for straight alfalfa stands and colder v.e |j ther are recommended. The import a. thing is to spray this fall MAX can see the hope and expect of justice, righteousness peace. The coming Savior un up a kingdom of peace and o -tlce. But when Jesus came hi bornr in a stable because of s justice on the part of the g 0 ment; and he died as a crin again because of probably most unjust death sentence u history of the world. Lookin the world today, peace and ji still seem far off. What has gened to the Great Promise Short Perspective, Long Histi -Travelers in very dry flat ( try have noticed that distance deceptive. You see a watertan a tower or"a hill apparently a j or so down the road, but the j just seems to back away fiorrl the mile or two may turn in] miles before you reach it \ the prophets did not say maybe did not see) was the spective; they had no time of things to come. So when jd and peace did not descend oh world ail at once when J came, many thought then,] many nowadays think, tha‘ couldn’t be the One that [ intended " Tfce Mighty God? Another reason why pr found it hard to see that the (j Promise of a Savior was full in Jesus of Nazareth, is the ence in seme of the prophet’ Isaiah 9 notable among then, startling language more than*-, ing that this Coming One wa T ’ mg to be far more than ma-' deed no less than God The “ch the “son” of Isaiah 9:6 is presij named “Mighty God, EverlaJ Father" How can this be’? can we believe such high thin' the Carpenter of Nazareth we can believe it, we do be. it. But what the Christian cl'- hascometosee (notto it passes human understand is something that most peof'h his life-time did not see: na>J that God does not always d himself known in awesome I temble ways, but in gently’, even humble ways. The worn y tiuth which the Christian ac;s is that tins very Carpenh | Nazareth, not only on the ij| sion of great miracles but tfk day in- all the things he said, was God himself "upon tfj We believe that Christ was st’j-s the truth when he said, "He’■'? has seen me, has seen the F?i - (Based on outlines copyright! ' : tlio Division of Christian 13ilar,- National Council of therein -01 Christ in the TJ. S. A. Kelt isi \) Community Pres* Service ) j ♦ ♦