4 —Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 27, 1962
From Where We Stand...
What Is The Worth Of Confidence
What is the worth of confidence?
How much is it worth to have con
fidence in your country, in your elected
officials, in the producers and processors
of the food you eat.
Immediately you will answer that
it is of utmost importance to have faith
that the country is strong and that she
is right a good portion of the time You
will say that trust in elected officials
is a necessity, or the officials should be
replaced.
But have you ever had any thoughts
about the producers and processors of
the food you eat
Secretary of Agriculture, Orville
Freeman, said recently in a speech in
California, “On the plane, as I was
traveling from New Orleans to Los
Angeles, it occurred to me that those
air passengers who ordered milk did so
without the slightest concern as to
whether it was put on the plane in New
Orleans or at some other place.
“Whether it was produced in the
South, West, North or East— they cared
not I doubt if one passenger in the
several dozen even read the brand name
on the carton
“You might say that air passengers
must have confidence in the air line that
flies them and feeds them, but the fact
is that this confidence extends to all
American travelers No matter how'
they travel or at what obscure cross
loads they find themselves they can
and do buy dairy products without the
slightest worry
“The housewife opening a bottle of
milk or a package of cheese or butter
anywhere assumes that the product
wail be wholesome, safe and of top
quality This is true even though no
food is more perishable and none is
easier to contaminate.’’
It is true Anywhere in the United
States a housewife can pick up dairy
products with confidence a confi
dence built on a continuing supply of
pure products in the past.
If the dairy industry is to continue
to merit the confidence of the American
housewife, it is up to each and every
dairyman to help maintain that supply
of pure products
We have said before, and we believe
it bears repeating, health requirements
have done more for the dairyman than
any other one thing in building the con
fidence of consumers
It is true there are those dairymen
who would produce milk of the highest
quality even if they are not forced to,
but there are always those others who
would destroy the buyer’s confidence by
putting on the market a product of in
ferior quality.
If you, as a dairyman, would like
fo complain about health requirements,
we believe you should complain that
the health code is not inclusive enough,
that it does not put stringent enough
restrictions on milk moving from one
area to another We believe dairymen
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are hurting no one but themselves when
they complain that health laws are too
strict
At least that’s how it looks from
where we stand
“I suppose you get loads of letters
every week,” she said “I read the edi
torials every week, and often think
about writing a letter, but you probably
get so many ”
We have heard this or a similar
statement so often that we get the
feeling there must be hundreds of fru
strated letter writers around the county.
We do get letters, but not loads
of them We, as do most editors, wish
we could hear from readers more often.
One of the most common concerns
among writers is, “Is anybody reading
the stuff’’’
Sometimes we begin to be concern
ed, but then we remember the many
times we, too, had an urge to write an
editor when we agreed or disagreed
strongly with something in the paper
Usually we just put it off until the
urge died, and forgot all about letter
writing again until another editorial
“got to us”
So when we remember that we are
not so instant with the letters to other
editors, we know why so few come
across our desk
To you, we issue an invitation
Whenever you agree, or disagree with
the theme of an editorial, or whenever
you particularly like or dislike a news
story, or whenever you think of some
thing that could in any way improve the
service of this newspaper to its readers,
drop a line to the editor. We assure you,
all letters are carefully read and grate
fully received whether they contain a
boquet or a brickbat.
At least that’s how it looks from
where we stand.
The average Irishman eats 45 lbs.
of butter annually the U S per capita
use is down to 7 4 pounds A recent
Harvard University study of Irishmen
indicated they weigh less, had- one-half
as many cases of high blood pressure,
and lower cholesterol counts than blood
brothers in Boston
SAFFLOWER NOT THAT GOOD
Some 60 cases of “safflower short
ening” were seized by Food and Drug
Administration in late August on
charges of false health and diet claims
FDA charged the promotional literature
falsely represented that the product is
adequate and effective to prevent athero
sclerosis, heart attacks, strokes; to con
trol the blood cholesterol; to reduce
body weight; to stay fit and active, and
to improve health and vitality.
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Stacks Of Letters
BUTTERING UP THE IRISH
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Jack Owen, Editor
Robert G. Campbell,
Advertising Director
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1935. Published every Satur
day by Lancaster-Farmmg, Lit-
Itz, Pa.
Entered as 2nd class matter
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BlbU Malarial: John 14:16-17. 25-26;
16 4-15; Acta 2, 4.7-10, 13; Homana
i. 1-27.
Devotional Heading: Romani 8:14-27.
God Within
Lesson for October 28, 1962
COMETIMES it looks as if tha
Church made it harder in
stead of easier to believe in God.
The church talks about the Trin
ity, but we don’t understand that.
It talks about
the Holy Spirit,
but that seems
very hard to un
derstand. On the
contrary, the
Church’s teach
ing about the Holy
Spirit (all the
good of which we
owe to the Bible
in the first place)
makes God much nearer than we
would otherwise dare to think
about Him. In fact, a definition
of the Holy Spirit which many
Christian teachers have express
ed is just this: The Holy Spirit is
God at work in the hearts of men.
The Holy Spirit is God-withm.
You will never be any closer to
God nor He to you, than you are
to the Holy Spirit.
Ht will send ... I will send .. •
Of course no reader will sup
pose that he can find out all there
is to know about God, in one sin
gle column in a newspaper. God
cannot be shut up iij a million
books,- and,of coursejmt in a few
lines of, pnh£. The Bible material
for this week’s study gives much
more than we can deal with in so
short a space. AH we can do is
to point out three truths, all of
them from the teaching of Jesus.
First of all is that apparentcon
tradiction: Jesus tells His disci
ples first that the Father will send
them the Holy Spirit, and then
that He (Christ) will do so. We
are intended to put these two
truths together. The Holy Spirit
comes from the Father and comes
from the Son of God, from Jesus
Christ. Now if you insist on puz
zles, there are puzzles in that
simple statement. But let’s by-'
pass the puzzles, and look at what
is plain. The least this can mean
is that the Holy Spirit is like the
Father and like the Son, we
Now Is The
Modem weed control methods include
the spraying in late fall or early winter tor
the contiol ot such weeds as winter-ci ess,
shepheids puise, ground i\y, and chick
weed Most ot these weeds aie found in
grass-legume stands and will choke out the
legume and i educe the quality ot the forage
ci op MCP is lecoiuiuended for the yanter
ciess after a killing fiost, and either a di
mtio spiay or chloro IPC should be used on
the otheis
into silage this fall, the delay ot a killing
MAX M. SMITH fiost is permitting nianj additional acres of
late-planted corn, to reach silage stage, if not maturity All
livestock men should .recognize the greater amount of feed
nutrients fiom an acie of coin by making it into silage rather
than bj picking for grain For either dairy or beef cattle feed
ing corn silage has a definite place in an economical feeding
pi ogram.
To Comport Those I..eaves
All farmeis and property T <> o«‘t Farm Machinery Under
owners can use a well-rotted Cover
compost pile each -sunimei When field work is complet-
Kathei than burn the leaves ed this fall all pieces o£
or have them hauled away it machineiy should be cleaned,
is suggested that they be nn\- gi eased, and put under cover
ed with topsoil, lime, and a against weather elements,
complete feitilizer this fall and Rust is one of the greatest
allowed to rot down into a enemies of farm machinery and
compost by ne\t sumniei This ieduces the life-span of use
pile 01 organic mattei is veiy -fulness All farmers are urged
for flower or vegetable to protect their investment by
guldens 01 around foundation Keeping then farm machinery
shiubbeiy plantings. diy at all times.
might (using human terjps ol
course) say that the Holy Spirit
is in harmony with, and repr«<
sents, both the Father and thf
Son, both the high Gqd and our
Lord Jesus. (One is no more and
no less God than the other is.)
Well, what is this? Another pus)
zle? No; this truth gives us a way
to distinguish between alleged
Spirits of God and the true Spirit,
If the “Spirit” leads a man to do
what is not Christ-like, then we
may be sure that whatever he haaj
in his heart, it is not the Spirit
whom Christ has sent. , ,
Truth and Consclanc* ’Wf!
Jesus furthermore call* the
Holy Spirit the “Spirit of Truth."'
Some Christians understand this
to mean that wherever men arsj
moving in the direction of truth
—any truth, scientific, economic,
intellectual, religious—there the
Holy Spirit Is at work. Now <4
course, if God Is a god of truths
his Spirit will never support ■
lie. And we may well believe the!
God is concerned with truth oj
every kind and in every aspesl
of life. But it is also true that the
Holy Spirit is most especially com
cemed with truth about God and
about his relation to the world
and particularly to man. It H
quite possible, it happens even
day, that men who have no rein
gion and do not believe in God at
all, make scientific exploration*
and discoveries that are true and
even valuable. But no one is likely
to learn much about God wha
does not seek the help of the Holy
Spirit. To put this another wajV
only God can introduce us to God.
What a normal human being
wants, however, is not mere bare
truth, he wants not only to know,
he wants to do. This is particu
larly true in the Christian reli-i
gion. Like its mother-religion ol't
Judaism, Christianity has
been interested in action. Rights
living is quite as important ast
right thinking, the two cannot be "
separated. So the Holy Spirit is'T
called the “Counselor." This is '
a better translation than “Com-i
forter” or “Advocate” though it“-
may include those other means-, i
ings. The word suggests that God
within is not a presence only, but !
a guiding presence. Put into sim-ij*
pie language, this means that
more Godlike, the more Christ* <
like, a person is, the more he will,
do what is right in the sight or,
God. We can’t live with people
without learning their ways; snd .
we cannot live with God without *
learning—humbly but truly—more
and more of His will.
(Based on outlines copyrlrhted feff
the Division of Christian Education*
National Council of the Churches of
Christ In the V S A Released hr
Community Press Service.)
Time . . .
BY MAX SMITH
To ('ontiol AVmtei-Time Meeds
To V tilizc Corn Silage
Many acies of corn have been made