—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April I, 1961 4 FROM WHERE WE STAND - \ ' Our Farmlands Are Being Urbanized For many years farmers have been moving to the city. Now the city is moving to the farmer and all the de velopments are not advantageous to the farmei. Urban sprawl is taking over more and more farm land each day. Housing developments are springing up like mushrooms in farming sections at a terrific rate. Tins is not news to anyone who has had his eyes open, but some of the de velopments that go along with the ur banizing of rural areas is not so ob vious. Some farmers are waking up to find themselves in a very undesir able position without knowing exactly how they got" there. With housing developments spread ing ipto a farming area; the population can double, triple, quadruple, or spiral out of sight in a very short time. Then, in a predominately agricultural area, the farmer finds he is in the very small minority among the registered voters. Until recently, a large percentage of our legislators, both local and state or national, were rural people, or at least had a rural background. Now more and more, we are finding elected of ficials with urban backgrounds. Even om local township officials, sometimes in predominately agricultural town ships, are not farmers or have little interest in farmers’ problems. Ih Lancaster County at the present time, there is a movement afoot to ser iously impair the functions of four high school departments of vocational agriculture. This is, we believe, a very grave mistake and one not likely to be corrected if it is put into effect. Up until recently many of the school A 195& ruling by the U. S Supreme Court held that “speech can be effectively limited by the exercise of the taxing power’’ and that “the denial of a tax exemp tion for engaging in certain speech necessarily will have We are on dangerous The Boggs Bill the effect of coercing the ground when the govern- Rep Hale Boggs of Louisi- claimants to refrain from the ment uses a tax law to re- ana, in a House speech, cal- prescribed speech ” strict the right of citizens to led the law” censorship by Rep Boggs pointtd out advise Congress on legisla- taxation” and a serious that tbe sect;on of law in tive proposals of vital inter- threat “to the democratic q Ues^lon 1S no t f or the pur est to them. processes by which we re- p OSe 0 f raising revenue, but Yet that is being done un- He i n^°f uce< ! H that, “it is punitive taxation yet tnat is being done un R 640 t o repeal that section which limits the right der a 1904 Internal Revenue b a y mgS Pl Mo“ t S S “ k T S ll to state and lo- actlvll in Congress and oth . T cal legislative or rule-making er leglslatlve bodle3 1S such bodies or the various govern that infinite care must b£ ex _ SE TS AYRSHIRE RECORD C groups n ° n " f rcised to prevent our being Penstate Approval’s Dutch s e P • insulated from public opin- ess, a registered Ayrshire . government bodies are how- BO facet of our economy can completed a lactation record fore xt 18 dry enou S h “right mean hard and lumpy soil w ever, le c t completely free to carry on a trade or a busi- ranking highest for milk of the rest of the summer; this often happens when li ca^ Sful t lobb^es Pe Tt Ve public PO ex’ 3 basis , of equal^ y aU Junior two-year-old Ayr- equipment is put on to clay soils that are too wet. A siitf* tirful lobbies, at public ex with those working on the shires in the State. Dutch pense, to influence the act- other side of the street," ess” produced 13,784 pounds test is to grab a handiul of the soll > give it a hard sQ llCt ions of legislative branches. Rep Boggs said. of milk and 519 pounds of in the palm of the hand, and then give it a toss along In ? Interest butterfat on twice a-dhy g roU nd; it it stays in a ball, the soil is too wet to woi*> *' The imposition of punitive milking, not exceeding 350 taxes is one of the ; most ef- days. » J it crumbles, then the soil is dry enough to prepare Davidson Lancaster Farming Lancaster County’* Own Farm Weekly P O Bov 1524 Lancaster, Penna Offices: Bt North Duke St. Lancaster, Penna. Phone - Lancaster EXpress 4-3047 Jack Owen , Editor Robert O Campbell, Advertising Director & Business Manager Esta'bshtd November 4. 1955 Pub’ishcd every - Saturday by Lancaster Farming, Lancaster, Pa. Entered as 2nd class matiei at Lancaster. Pa under Act of Mar 8 1379 additional entry at Mount Joy. P i Subscription Rates - J 2 per year: three j cars Jl, Single copy Price B cents Membe-s Pa Newspaper Publish ers Assor istlon* National Editor ial Association THIS WEEK —ln Washington With Clinton Davidson Censbrship By Taxation RURAL RHYTHMS God came down to Bethlehem so very long ago, Ask the shepherds and the wise men; they are sure to know They had faith to see the star and hear the angels say A babe was born to save the world on that happy day, TO TAKE TIME TO BE SAFE—Outside field work v l ’ starting on most farms within the next several week 5 * Men took a tree and made a cross, and hung Him there to^ A ors and machi nery will be moving both day and * (j le All operators are urged to follow the recommendatw 1 „ , , ~, , , „ , , the manufacturer relating to shields and guards and He died and then arose again and so shall you-and I. , , , „ , niH‘ jruu-anu ±. slowly and safely. Most accidents are caused by too 11 The farmer has his faith renewed, each Easter, as he sees speed and being careless. Discourage extra riders on ' r The leaves begin to grow again on dead and barren trees, tors and most farm machinery. administrators were rural boys who had gone on to school and come back to the areas in which they grew up. They had the interests and idea's _of the community ingrained in their make ups, and they looked at things from the farmer’s point of view. Several of the school administrators involved in the curtailment of the work of vocational agriculture in Lan caster County are city-bred and fail’to understand many of the problems of rural living. We do not mean to im ply that they are poor administrators. We simply mean farmers should be on the alert as to the political situations a round them and take more active part in the functions of local governments. It is, we believe, the duty of the far mer to express his views to the school administrator, or to members of the school board, when situations arise that are not in the best interest of the students involved. No longer is farming a way of life for those not fitted for anything else We all know it takes intelligence, ability, and a vast amount of knowledge to compete in the highly complex busi-, ness of farming today. Unless farmers are aware of their situation, and take a more active part in local political activity, they will soon find themselves the victims of severe zoning restrictions and other legislation designed to please the rur al non-farm population which was re cently transp 1 anted from the city. Farmers have already lost much of their representation in state and na tional governments. They are in dang er of losing more on the local level. At least that’s how it looks from where we stand. fective deterrents to the ex ercise of the constitutional right of every citizen, to free ly express his views, Rep Boggs said. THE FARMER'S EASTER By; Carol Dean Huber Bible Material: John 20. 21. Bevotnjnal Reading: I Corinthians 15 Oisr Umg Lord lesson for April 2,196 X TESUS CHRIST is not a histori *-* cal character in the same way that most such characters are. For historical characters are by definition figures out. of the past. Whether the revived character, or the “image” of him that is now cherished, resembles the original man or' not, still the historical character’ is al ways a dead-and- gone character. But Jesus Christ is radically dif- ferent. He is not dead - and - gone. He did die, to be sure; but he rose again from, the Dr. Foreman dead, as millions of Christians will be saying and singing this Easter morning. Yet this is not the last word "about'him. His rising-again m Joseph’s garden was far away and long ago. The strange and most significant truth about Jesus Christ’s resurrection is that he has risen over and over again—in the hearts of those who love him. From Sorrow to Joy Jesus Christ is a living person, our contemporary, one with whom we can speak in prayer and high moments of meditation. People outside the Christian religion do not always realize this, that Christ Is as well as was,—that what he is and what he wants and what he approves are questions to which we can find answers. He is a per son of the present and future, not only of the past. And not present as a mere ghost, a haunting spirit out of an ancient tombjbut a vivid, vital, present person. Have you ever known people whose very entrance into a room seemed to change the climate? Jesus was and is that'kind of person. What kept happening-durmg the forty days after the first Easter has kept happening since. The disciples after Calvary were in the depths of a grief close kin to Now Is The Time * •TO SET OUT STRAWBERRY PLANTS - Early spring is the best time to siait new strawberry patch; these early plan', will get a better start and develop ear ier runners than those planted late spring or early summer Runners that set early u the summer will bear heavier next vear than those rooting later. Application* o* rotted manure" and complete feitiltf® should be worked into the soil prior t 3 planting. Lime shou.d not be added MAX SMITH TO INSPECT SOIL DRAINAGE PROBLEMS—The spn" 8 of the year is a good lime to be on the alert for drained areas on the farm or property. Wet weather spi in3 or wet spots should be evident at this time and m lflSn cases these areas will limit, if not ruin, good crop The installation of drain tile is recommended to take 0 the surplus moisture and allow normal cropping despair. A darkness deep er Good Friday’s "darkness at i had settled over them. But the first shock of the East; covery that their Fnend stiij all'the shock and sorrow turned to joy. So it is wh ( Christ comes into a life. Th e ness fades, the sun comes m, are bitter no longer. From Doubf to Faith If the story of Mary Magi illustrates the change fiom to joy in the living Present the Lord, the story of T? illustrates a passage from to faith. Now there is sonu we need to remember about; appearances after the Re sil tion that may help us uatl story of Thomas. It is often posed that various poopij Jesus after the resurrection, because they saw, they 'belie As a matter of fact, e stui the four gospels is likely to vaice the reader that it other way around: Jesus 4 appear to people to make believe in him; on the cont there is no record that he appeared to unbeheveis sin Caiaphas and Pilate and Roman soldiers. Was Thoina exception? On the face 0 ( Thomas was an unbeliever, Jesus appeared to him. wj moment let us straighten out. Thomas was (he said) believer in the resurrection, he was a believer in Chr.st believed enough to be the;e the disciples the Sunday i Easter. He was ready to bd readier than he thought, as story shows. He had doubts, he was still in heart a As So the living Lord to this turns doubts into faith— t pens somewhere every day world. Frcm Discouragement fo Dsvcl V/ith Simon Peter it ius another kind of story. Ur disciple and a beliovei in resurrection besides. Bat it m at first seem to make n i fcionce with him. He went u' to Galilee, to the old fernd n in7-"rounds, to the old f„ joo. For Peter, as for no ■ ■ t Clu.st had to knock I, heard No true dnc.nlo i, .1 t.no nsen Christ ' a j .J and say, "So v; ,?» loe; Loid says sti! 'day tj <'l way believe' ‘‘Bo joa . . . Feed my sheen.” (IV’sccl on outlirss eomr nn tro Diyimon of OMisii n 1 > ‘t onal Council of tf’o C ■ Cluist in the XJ. S. A. I' .Van Community Prc»i Service ) BY MAX SMITH