4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 15, 1962 From Where We Stand... The American Family Farm •The Minister of Agriculture of the USSR and four other ranking Soviet agricultural experts will come to the United States early this month for a four week tour ot American farmland m the west and midwest Announcement came last week from the U S Department of Agricul ture that Konstantin Georgiyevich Pysin and his Soviet colleagues will make iheir visit within the framework of the Agreement on Exchanges in the Scien tific, technical. Educational, Cultural, and other Fields for 1962-63 between the governments of the United States and USSR. Before starting out across a north ern tier of states, the Soviet group will visit the Agricultural Research Center at Beltsville, Md During their stay in the United States, they will confer with officials of the U S. Department of Agriculture and cooperating land grant institutions on education and informa tion methods and techniques in the field of agriculture In addition to studying such meth ods and techniques, the Soviet experts will have an opportunity to observe how scientific agricultural methods are used by the family farmers of America to produce an unmatched volume of ag ncultural products We believe American farmers have one of the best weapons of the so-called cold war in their hands. We should make the point—and make it strong— that it is the American family farm which forms the basis of our outstanding productivity We believe we should do everything we can do to drive home the point that the backbone of American agriculture is the American farm family. If we make this point strongly enough, per haps the Soviet Minister of Agriculture will recommend returning some of the farm land to the farm families in Rus sia When this happens—when the fa mily is once again the important unit in the society—Communism will have lost one of its most powerful weapons. We sincerely hope that the Ameri can farmers who are visited by this dele gation will not miss this opportunity lor education Mark Twain is credited with say ing, “Soap and education are not as sud den as a massacre, but they are much more deadly in the long run ” We believe the race for control of the peoples of the world by a group com mitted to a certain political ideology can not be accomplished permanently by force We believe it can only be brought about through education and freedom of choice This is not a new thought, nor is it particularity startling, but we hope such a deadly weapon as we have at our disposal will not be used in the wrong way There is such a potential for good m this visit, it would be a shame if we missed the opportunity to use it At least that’s how it looks from where we stand ★ ★ ★ ★ A Rich Minority One of the weaknesses of Ameri cans is our tendency to think of ourselv es as being the majority, of our race, Potatoes In \ei\ Forms ■>■> < Constant .uU.uufs in pior- packaging are i ssiii4 .Hid l)ini-,uu hi-,b-r|ii«tlttv potatoe. in n< u lomis to f.innh meals, point out P'llll State extension home f (onoinu i’Ki/i n items and Tmpioiert in- 'lant jiot.l toe- ( n ■ ilawii I 1 Mtm and food \a K Lancaster Farming Lancaster County’s Own Farm "Weekly P O Box 1524 Lancaster. Penna, P O Box 2G6 - Lititz, Pa. speciaisls onues ■ 22 E Mam St Lititz Pa Phone - Lancaster Express 4-3047 or Lititz MA 6-2191 MIOd our country, and our religion as being the dominant ones. Did it ever occur to you that the white, Christian, Americans are very much in the minority in this world? Someone has figured out just how we rate in a way that makes it easier to understand than if you consider the dry figures. Suppose all of the people in the world were reduced to 1,000 That’s just about the population of Calhoun and Rumsty put together. And suppose these people were in the same proport ion as to race, religion, and economics as all of the people of the world today. Suppose you lived in this town of 1,000. In that group of 1,000, there would be only 60 Americans There would be 330 Christians (fewer than 100 of these would be Protestants) Non-Christians would outnumber Christians more than two-to-one, there would be 670 who would not be Christians Only about two hundred would be white, the other 800 would be some other “color ” Half of the population would never have heard of Jesus, but more than half would be hearing plenty about Karl Marx. Eighty would be card-carrying Communists. 370 would be under Com munist domination The 60 lonesome Americans would be dominant in one thing. They would own half the wealth of the town, while the other half would be divided among the other 940 people. You can imagine how dissatisfied that 940 might be And they could certainly out-vote the 60 with the other half of the wealth Pro vided, of course, the town were operat ed under a democratic system. Does this give you a better idea of where you, as an American, stand in this world? Does it make you a little more humble ? MeLean County (Ky ) News * * * * Is Food High? What’s happened to food costs in the postwar era? Think a minute before answering that question. For the facts may come as quite a surprise. Before World War 11, says the De partment of Agriculture, food account ed for 23 per cent of consumer income. But to buy exactly the same items to day, an official of a food chain points out, would take only 14-V;> per cent of income But we aren’t just buying the same items Consumers have consistently up graded their food purchases in recent years They are buying substantially larger quantities of meat, for instance. And they also want, and are willing to pay for, the extra convenience that com es with the prepared and semi-prepared foods. The result is that consumers today are spending some 40 per cent more for food than they would spend if the pre war food standard of living were still in effect Even so, only 20 per cent of consumers’ income currently goes into food three per cent less than the pre war rate. And it is buying a 40 per cent improved living standard. Jack Owen, Editor Robert G. Campbell, Advertising Director Established November 4, 1955. Published every Satur day by Lancaster-Farming, Lit- Itz, Pa, Entered as 2nd class matter at Lititz, Pa. under Act ol Mar. 8, 1879. When Nehemiah, with govern ment backing, went to'see what he could do in Jerusalem, by budding the wall as his Number One project he became the man of the hour Five generations had passed; Nehemiah had been needed long before now; but at last he aruved and took charge. Bible Material Nehemiih2 4 G 15 Dctotionnl Heading Ps>alm 126 KiloWi6u§[6 fllld L63u6fSnip Leadership Lesson for September 16, 1962 A MAN who succeeds m doing what no man has ever done before is a great man, provided what he does is worth doing A man who succeeds where others have failed, is even greater again supposing that what he does is a good thing to do Nehemiahwas such a man. He would be a suc cess anywhere, and not only at the time and place where he lived. The first we hear of him, he is a membei of the royal court m what is now Iran, the ancient Persia. He was evidently a man the king trusted, one to whom the king gave much power. Yet he was one of the down-trodden Jews, as they were at that time. Nehemiah him self is a fine example of what happened to the Jews who were taken into captivity. They weie not put into dungeons, only some of the more prominent ones suf fered that fate. Most were left to sink or swim, and being Jews they generally swam. Nehemiah showed how far they could use if they had the chance. The Time and the Man A glance at the calendar helps us to understand the gemus of this man It was now about 140 years after Jerusalem had been 'destroyed, or 90 years after the Temple had been started But in all that time no one had ever suc ceeded in getting a stable govern ment in Jerusalem or to build practical protection against then numerous enemies. In those days every going city had to have a wall around it; but in 140 yeais the city wall had been lying in rums exactly as Nebuchadnezzar’s primitive bull-dozeis had left it This was all news to Nehemiah when he fust heard of it, it was a shock, too That this should be so, goes to show that prosperous Jews like Nehemiah had n<r notion of the poverty stricken, dangei filled lives the Jerusalem Jews Now Is The Time . . . peals to leally be one of the great areas in the United States. Census figures reveal that Weld County is one of the few coun ties m the nation ranking higher than Lan castei The level land and many acres ot giain, otigar beets and corn, and the many cattle and hog feeding operations at the mile-high altitude makes one feel at home except irrigation is essential every year. SAND HILLS OF NEBRASKA are a big part ol the “Great Plains” of, our country. These rolling sand lulls are cover ed with rank range grasses this year; the cattle are carrying good flesh andi the ranchers aie not in any hurry to sell. This is open cattle country and very sparsely settled with ranches. Normal idintall is 20 inches per year and the 1902 season i» far ahead of this figure The thousands of small haystacks re flect lush growth and future feed supplies. MAX M. SMITH MID-WESTERN STATES aie having a good crop sea son, coin and soybean fields look good and pastme lands aie coveied with lush giowth Fanners aie making alfalfa hav and filling silos with corn. Feedlots for steeis and hogs aie many with signs of expan sion quite evident in all states THE IMPORTANCE OP WATER —t- to all agncultuiq and to all ci\ ilization comes to us as an important realization had been living. What aie the qualities that make a man a hero ? What are the char acteristics of a “man of the houi”? Nehemiah is a very good example He was a successful leader partly because of what today we would call “know-how,” a penetrating understanding of a situation, an accurate aim at the heart of his problem, and above all an ait in getting people to do what they ought to do. Sometimes a leader learns on the job, so to speak, as Abraham Lincoln did. Sometimes he comes to his great task already knowing what to do and how to do it. But if he neither Knows nor can learn, he is no leader. Nehemiah’s genius lay chiefly in this: he was able, to make handicaps work with him, not against him. The people had always been a quarrelsome lot, as the Old Testament shows us. There were many cross-cun ents of jealousy in the dusty rubble filled insignificant village that wanted to be a city again. These had defeated other men, no doubt. But Nehemiah put these jeal ousies to work He had the gold smiths working at one section of that wall, and the priests some where else He pitted them against one another, and so in duced them to do their best work. Leadership and Faith Readers may be interested in studying the story of Nehemiah to see what were the various ways in which he showed his power of leadeiship. But one of his quali ties was vital, and must not' be overlooked: Faith. The book called by his name, though Med with action, begins and ends with prayer. This man had faith, in himself, self-respect was a nota ble quality in his make-up. He had faith in people if rightly, led. But first and last his faith was m God. He-could undertake the im possible because he believed God willed it, and what God wills, can be done. Nehemiah makes it quite clear that while he worked and planned, his energy would have faded, his undertakings miscar ried, if he had not been sustained by the God m whom he constantly tiusted. (Baeed on outlines copyrighted. by the Division of Christian Education* National Council of the Churches o t Christ in the U. S. A Released by Community Press Service.) BY MAX SMITH WELD COUNTY, COLORADO ap- as we travel across our great country Without it the areas are barren, desolate and worth less With the great amount of congestion and competition for land use along the ©astern seaborn d we must remember theie is not any lack of space and open country in the West. Theie is a need of better dis tnbution and relocation in the years ahead and gieater con aeivation of all natural re sources.
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