4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 12, 1962 From Where We Stand ... Agricultural Department Centennial 3v the President of The United States A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS May 15. 1962 marks the centennial of the approval by Pre sident Lincoln of legislation estabhsh ,ng the United States Department of Agriculture, and WHEREAS the Department of Agri culture through its research, service and educational work has enabled our farm ers and ranchers, processors and dis tributors to provide the food, fiber, and wood products necessary to a health iul, vigorous and expanding popula tion through increased efficiency in the production, utilization, and marketing of agricultural products; and WHEREAS an economically sound agriculture and rewarding rural life are essential to the national well being, and WHEREAS our productive agricul ture has enabled the government and many private organizations to initiate programs to alleviate hunger and suffer ing among peoples throughout the world, and WHEREAS the emergence of a pro gressive, efficient and productive agricul ture during the one hundred years since the establishment ol the Department of Agriculture has resulted in large mea sure from the close cooperation between die Department of Agriculture and the idtional system of land-grant universi ties and colleges which was founded under the first Mornl Act of July 2, . 962, and this historical anniversary A-ill also be observed during the same year, and WHEREAS the Congress, by a _omt resolution approved August 25, . 9bl, has requested the president to issue a proclimation designating 1962 'S the centennial yeai of the establish ment of the United States Department of Agriculture - NOW. THEREFORE, I, JOHN F KENNEDY, President of the United States of America do hereby designate i.he year 1962 as United States Depart ment of Agncultuie Centennial year, and I request the Department of Agri culture to plan and to participate in appropriate activities recognizing the anniversary to the end that the cen tennial may serve as an occasion to commemorate the contributions of agn cultuie to the health and welfare of every citizen, to the national weil neing, and to the development of emerg ing nations I also request that m its centennial observances, the Department of Agricul ture cooperate with the land-grant uni \eisities and colleges in recognition of «• century of mutually beneficial co operative relationships, and with other appiopnale organizations and indivi duals IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed Done at the City ot Washington this twenty-fifth day of August m the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and • Judging Expert (1 i oni !• i-a- I i il' nil ill IK s s ( IlMlull d I > be-cm .a s p m on \f.iv 1 1 I)1 K'l No S S]| l,j, if will be tsiliiini- .1 I )!■* M-MHitflTMl •> - te ■ Bible Material Acts 12 1 5 Peter I tluouHh 5 14 Devotional Itiadin? I Peter o 8-17 Take Your Stand Lesson for May 13, 1962 SIMON PETER had been in jail himself, so he knew what he was talking about when he wrote to people who were going to jail He was no w'ell-sheiteied man urging others to be brave. If he had been, we may be sure no one would have treas ured his letter and saved it At the time 1 Peter was writ ten, something new and frighten ing was beginning Dr. Foreman Christians of Asia Minor Otitbieaks of persecution had already occurred and more uas to come The new feature of this was that Christians were he mg jailed, their property confis caled and themselves sometimes executed as criminals, because of their religion alone Is suffering inevitable? Something like a panic was staitmg Was God going to Jet Ins people suiter 7 Would God’s cause be lost in the end 7 Should perse cuted Christians strike back 7 Those Christians ueie as confused and alarmed as ue would be if suddenly our government started iaiding out chuiches and anest mg us on no charges except that of being Clmstians So Simon Peter writes this let ter, the mam theme of which is the suffering of Chnstians He does not indulge in the platitude of saying that sufleimg is mevi table It isn t and it vi asn't and he kneft it, and so did they They could save themselves a vvoild of distiess, even toituie and death, simply by giving up being Chris tians any moie Cut Simon Peter docs not suggest that way out We know (from souices outside the Bible) that some eaily Christians did actually ienounce then faith, but mighty few Criminal or Christian? The a mt of what Peter writes i« that ■> inevitable that thoie should ! nnc suilenng, but on Now Is The To Ho On The Alert I-’or \H.illa Weevil Alfalfa growers who did not spra> hist fall for the control of torage m«ects should inspect their altalla lields every few dajs lof the pieseiue ot the small green worms tnd mg on the tops of the plants .several IB " testations have been leported on un-sprayed fields A quick MW M. SMITH dei ision must be made it the insects are present either spr*y w nil Methoxychlor and wait 10 dajs until harvest or harvest the irons at ome, and then spray inimediatelv To Sprat Strawberries The wceKh spr.ivina: of tin* straw hem plants with n pounds ot 7>\) r / e Captan w(-ru- ble powder in vvatir for the control of fun- aus and blights may mi rease tbe vield of berries from small gram with alfalfJ- 01 clcner’to nn ipas'e' j)ro,ram valup Some feedi additive ft blossoms are open until har- a is recomnienft yw ; !f™t.: 4 1 iu: n hh iiuu j i to 2 ->o p This regular sjiri’ should start whom the other hand some ought to avoided. Suffering is not a g Q Ja thing in itself, it is not bad m J? self. Theic is suffering of wW one may be ashamed, and mg for which one must thank Goi Christians, of all people, wk have to be punished foi any Km of wiong-domg, ought to be heart ily ashamed,—not ashamed u getting caught, nor sufteung th* penalty, they should be ashamej of the vvlong-doing But those whj suffer because they are Chi istuju have no cause for embairasj. ment, much less shame On the other hand it is not to covet being a martyr. In th, eaily church there was a deal of trouble with over enthuii. astie, we might say fanatic, pie, who did everything they couU to get themselves arrested am even executed The church had t* hold a steady hand on these eager, beaver martyrs. And yet when | came to the pinch, the very hi si. ops who had discouraged martyrdoms, went bravely % their deaths rather than renouno* their faith. All sounds very modorn First Peter is one of the mon up-to-date books in the whole 81. ble. We are living in a time wh*, in more than one part of tie world, it is literally as much.* your life is woith, to be knows Christian When the communist took over North Korea, where 0* Chnstian church was strong, o* of the first things the government did was to organize the-mmisUm into a sort of pro-government pi opaganda association. Some ministers yielded;-but some re sisted and were ‘’liquidated’’ by firing squads Some of these min. isters had sons, who in turn wei» in danger of their fives, merely because they were sons of mini* ters What should these boys dof, If they had been like those ancient Christians who went out of then way to get killed, they would ha* just given themselves up and been shot What they did was to escape, at great risk, and eventually come to America, where now they are preparing to go back and help what is left of Korea. But even* America they have had to take I stand, as Peter put it. They ha* been ridiculed for “sticking then necks out” again; their faith hu been attacked (m medical school and otherwise) by skeptics; the paganism' of America, subtle ana glittering, tempts them on every side. They could be rich and conn fortable here; but they are goal back, to serve the needy, iB Christ’s name. to disturb the (Bitted on ontllnti toprrlclitid k| tht OlTitlon ot Chrftllon Education National Connell of tbo Cburchit i] Chritt In tbt C. S. A. Bolonttd H Comm unity Prts* Strvio*,) Time . . . \\ SMITH BY M To I’l.inl Temporary Forage Crop' Livestock producers that are short o» hay; silage (rops. oi pasluie should keep ia mind that from mid-May to eaily June is the best time to plant sulant ins? of w'hoal of harlev h\ Uie gotei nment to**/ utilize the i rop hv marine 100 scallons (it into grass silage when a milltf Kernel is in the head soi«* 1(( growers will mro the chol>P^ '(I row pin who are inli/rwifl^