'<l—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 6. 1961 FROM WHERE WE STAND - Stewards Of The Soil . “The Earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.” Psalms 24:1' expresses the philoso phy underlying Soil Stewardship week. Beginning with Rural Life Sun day, May 7, the week has been set aside by the association of soil conser vation districts as a time for farmers to reflect on their stewardship of the greatest possession our material bodies can own. Stewardship means more than mere possession of material. Stewardship embodies the oare and use pf the. pos ession, management of the posession to the benefit of both the user and the owner, and the utilization of the pos session for the continuation and con servation of the posession. But stewardship also includes an accounting for what is done with and to the posession as wel as what is made'from it. Stewardship of the soil calls for an accounting to the owner and maker of all the soil. Another line from Proverbs says, “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” In all too many places in the world, there has been no vision and the soil has been so depleted that the people were forced'to move on to new areas. But what will happen when there are no new lands to move onto? Jere - ipiah 12:11 says—“the whole land is ttiade desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.” If we' do not love the land aad care for it as it needs to be cared ftp - , *our whole land can become deso late. just as the Old Testament prophet predicted it would. In the first chapter of Genesis, the 31st'verse says, “And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold it was very good.” Deuteronomy 8:7 tells us, “For the Lord thv God bringeth thee into a good land”— America is a land flowing with milk and honey It is a good land which has been given into our stewardship. It is ours to care for, to dress and tend, to reap the increase, to use the benefit; but *t is likewise ours to keep from desolation. The Old Testament patriarch, Job, kp°w he had a responsibility to the sqil In the book of Job 31:38 and 40 is - written, “If my land cry against me, or that the furrows thereof likewise cQmnlain —let thistle row instep of wheat, and cockel instead of barley.” The children of God are promised that as long as the earth remaineth tiovldnon Recently the United States Senate confirmed appointment of Mr Edward R Murrow as chief of the United States Information Agency, the offi cial government agency in charge of the Voice of Am erica. Mr. Murvow is m charge of several hundred people who write newspaper and magazine articles, and pre- Lancasfer Farming Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly P U Box 1524 Lancaster Penna. Offices 51 North Duke St. Lancaster, Penna. Phone - Lancaster Express 4-1047 Jack Owen Editor Robert G Campbell, Advertising Director <SL Business Manager Esta' lishrd November 4, Iflv, Pul i“h< il e\try - Saturd iv by lAnoaxfer Parmlnlf Lancawti r. Pa Entered as 2nd claew mar'e at Lancaster Pa under Act of Mar R WT't additional entry »t Mount Joy Pa Sui’scrlptlnp Rate's $2 per • tar three years t> Single cops Pi <,p B cents Members Pa Newspaper Pnh'i«h er* Avwiation- National Editor lal isocciatfcm THIS WEEK —ln Washington With Clinton Davidson Harvest Of Shame pare radio and TV programs for many millions of readers and listeners both in friendly countries and behind the Iron Curtain. For a great many of those people the USIA is their only contact with the United States. A very great respon sibility rests on the shoulders of Mr. Murrow. Mr. Murrow formerly worked for the Columbia Broadcasting System as a newscaster We do not know him well, a though we have talked with him in the past about inaccurate reporting. Liquor In The White House Shortly after Mr. Eisen hower became President of the United States the serving of liquor in the White House was discontinued. This met with g*eat public approval Sometime later, the Presi dent’s wife christened a ship and instead of using wine, she used a bottle of water. My wife and I watched a CBS TV news report of the christening and were amazed to hear Mr. Douglas Edwards state that wine was used I immediately telephoned there shaj 1 be seedtime and harvest. Seedtime and harvest shall come and go, but the earth remaineth, and it is the responsibility of each person who tills the soil to care for the land to leave it as good or better than it was when he became steward. Another verse from Proverbs, the 22nd verse of the 13th chapter, says, “A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children.” __ Lancaster County can look at the broad fertile fields and say, our forefathers left an inheritance, but part of the heritage colors the streams during rains and fills the air with dust.- - .1 Bible never uses the express^ «tTEAHT" is a word which has half T° ur heart”? The E„. x* changed its meaning in the isn expression- ‘‘halt-hearted’* j course of time When the Heb- J 10 !’. sneant5 neant 08 a compliment j lews, who wrote the Bible, used » 'hearted effort is a feeble on* it. they seldom meant the physic- "• half-hearted assent is a a! organ of the body—that was p as ecaoes V no ” mit jj, until about 400 young man wants a girl to tell years ago They she lpves hlm with haU hei h eai > usually meant it Psychiatrists ialk nowadays abouH as a figure ol spllt Personalities, and that’s t\ -speech So do we, what half-a-heart means but with a differ- Especially is this true “Trim encc When Eng- in the Loid with all your heart 1 hsh-speakmg pea- This doesn’t mean we should nev pie use the word er have any self-confidence ji “heart.“ they d °es not forbid us-to trust oj most often mean fl lends or even (on occasion) p (r the emotions, es- strangers. It does hold befon pecially connect- us fhe truth that half-trusting g® ed with love or the capacity for 18 hke climbing the, Alps fastens; love. But when Hebrews used that to the wutb a half-tied rope word in their language, they usu- q u j qj fj,, Htart ally meant the whote “Inner We.*’ out of the abundance oi «. 6r , e Z-T n heart a naan’s mouth speaks J Physical. aU that cannot be ob- Jesus of Nazareth The „ h ’ s “ served with microscopes or cut , s not a safet y-deposit box ope „ with microtomes, all that can- only on rare occasions The h not be weighed or measured on JS not a slow-growing plant bio* a y scale . mg onoe w a lifetime The heat In The Hear! is always outflowing, we canal “In the heart”—when you meet kelp it. We cannot keep ourself _ that phrase in the Bible—does not co ourselves, even if we shut or — West Bend Wis. News mean in the place where you pack mouths and refuse to speak foatj Proverbs 28:19 says, “He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of-bread;” — and in Ezekiel 34:27 we read—“the earth shall yield her increase.” The earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof. 'We are only ste words, but if we till the soil as good stewarrs there will be plenty of bread, but if'the land should cry against us because we have no vision, or because we do not lay it to heart, our whole land is in danger of desolation. At least that’s how it looks where we stand. “During the summer, drowning is a greater threat to children than polio, pneumonia, heart disease, tuberculosis, and influenza combined. Approximate ly 7,000 people in the United States die each year by drowning.” Two Denver surgeons report that automobile accidents are the major cause of death among active, young Americans Forty two per cent of young peop'e between 15 and 25, who die each year', are the victims of traf fic accidents, and this is by far the highest cause of death in this age group. The automobile is the major cause of death in our active young group and this should represent an important phase of preventive medi cine. The two doctors made a strong plea for universal use of seat belts in auto mobiles. Your chance of avoiding injury or death in case of severe auto accidents are at least 40 per cent better if you are wearing seat belts. Of the 38,000 people who died from auto accidents last year, almost 10,000 could be alive and well today if they had been wear ing these life-saving devices. CBS news, calling their at tention to the error. The per son to whom I spoke indicat ed that it was not important enough to correct. I asked his name and he replied “Ed ward R. Murrow.” The inci dent was later reported to the White House, but no cor rection was ever made. Migratory Farm Workers Ear'y this year CBS TV carried a one-hour program called “Harvest of Shame,” prepared and moderated by Mr. Murrow. It purported to show shameful working, liv ing and wage conditions a- Rural Rhythms SOIL and SOUL By Joseph Gladden Hutton The earth a bit of star- dust And all of us but smaller bits Of that celestial stuff. In each of us, a bit of Soil That makes us kin To all that breathes; Tn each „of us, a bit of Soul That makes- us kin to God. Forget not, O my Soul, The sacred Soil! The Creator through An eon’s toil Combined these two, And said, “It is enough. My work is good: In my own image - Man! And in his mortal time, Tn his own hand, / He holds his fate: To build or ruin. To plunder or create.” from T’urn to pa pc into your biam, and your bra forgets pretty easily They hav to be inscribed, cut deeply as an engraver’s tool, into your who) inner life, your mind, spiut, gJ tudes, emotions, personality, whole YOU. The other thing (j> ro 1 4 20-21) is “my words,” that ls i BlhU Material 1 l Kings 3.3-2, Prow sa y the Words Of Wisdom. WjscUj erbs 3 1-a; 4:20-23, Luke 6 43-45. has to be put inside and kenf , Devotional Ueadlng, Luke 0:43-40 slde Knowledge can be p £j * books and set on a reference shelf But wisdom has to be carriw around with you, and you can! carry wisdom in a book-bag Had it ever struck you that n„ Out Of The Heart Lesson for May 7. 1961 your emotions, where you get your thrills. It means in the whole inner self. It means in the mind. in the habits, in the attitudes of life. Two things are specially mentioned in the Proverbs which have been selected for our study this week, that should be kept “m the heart.” One is the Command- ments, the will of God for human life. That is the place where they have to be written to do any good. The Ten Commandments in a book, m a scroll hanging on the wall, carved into a corner stone or inscribed in a stained glass window—you can shut your eyes tq these, or you can forget them. But write them on your heart and you can’t forget them. Well, some one will say, I memorized the Commandments and still often 1 don’t keep them—that’s because you just put the Commandments Now Is The Time • ♦ . TO SPRAY TORACCO PLANTS G»’ : tobacco seed bed management relates $ MAX SMITH prevention is much better than trv ml ; cure a disease. Therefore tobacco plant growers axe ur£» to follow a regular spray program using Ferban and SW tomycin formulation for the control of wildfire and k’ 1 mold. This spray schedule should start when the P ls leaves are the size of a dime and continue each week ready to plant. Mimeographed sheet of suggestions is a' 1 * able. TO GIVE SHEEP FLOCK SPECIAL CARE Local & herds aie urged to dip the flock of sheep, drench them” stomach worms, and trim their feet before turning ° ut pasture for the season. All of these practices may be at the time of shearing the flock in order to avoid d° l * handling. These are good practices that will increase retn 1 ' from the flock. TO BE CAREFUL OF BLOATING—AII livestock pro* ( should use special care in early spring m order to P rel their animals from bloating when turned to pasture i° r first few times. Feeding of hay, silage, or straw before S ing is one good way to reduce the trouble Pastures taining a high percentage of legumes such as clover ° r falfa are more likely to cause bloating. Also, grazing 0 when the forage is dry is another safer method TO PREVENT UDDER TROUBLE IN DAIRY ing early spring the ground is cold and the milking should not be allowed to lie down on the ground, 111 cases the he*d is turned out to pasture for too long a and the cows will lie down to rest. Careful will remove them from the area before they get tired much safer to permit them to rest in the bam or m area* Many cases of udder trouble have bee n tq the chilling of the udder tissue. one. we are still giving away wl Kind of-persons we are For I neait is the way you arc msii and sooner or later the heart gi itself away Out of the,, heart flow ' springs of life," tProv 4 23) j this means more than u wds Pi oi the deep meaning of this gri Uuth is this - If you ate gomj oe a spring of life and not death, to those around you, Tour life is to revive others’ Ii as a spring in the desert revm a fainting traveler, it can only 6 so if there’»S' Within Vou a life tin -.--e nows- The heart that hoard as life for itself perishes (Cased on outlines copyrighted v»e Christian I ducat ■\unuuat Council of the Churches C uxs m the U. S A Released Co2«3Luunity Press 'Service ) , BY MAX SMITH TO GET CORN STALKS UNDER - ® first hatch of the European Corn Bot may get their start in corn stalks on tit top of the ground by the middle oi 3$ this insect continues to do conciderat! damage each year to the com crop ® weakening the stalk and thus loweru yields. AH growers are urged to P ,f down their stalks as soon as possible
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