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Two pieces of literature came to
our attention this week about the same
sribject, but it almost appeared that they
might have been talking about two en
tirely different things.
They were both talking about the
wheat referendum which comes up later
this month, but the writers must cer
tainly have been looking at different
sides of the coin.
The first one said, “Eastern farm
ers have but one course to follow in this
referendum vote, that is, to get out and
vote no.”
The second one said, “The 1964
Wheat Program can certainly be said to
be a tremendously important program
with numerous advantages.”
As in most cases that deal with
farm legislation, we believe that the
picture is not all black or all white. We
believe it is a very complicated picture
with whites, blacks, and a large number
of all shades of gray.
We would not presume to try to
tell any farmer how to vote on such an
important program, but we would en
courage every eligible farmer to vote.
But a vote without knowledge is
almost as bad as no vote at all. We
would encourage every farmer to learn
as much about the program as he can
learn, and then BECOME ELIGIBLE
and vote.
' It appears that many farmers in
the county do not realize they must re
turn their wheat allotment cards (form
number MQ-24) signed, on the reverse
side, in order to be able to vote. Every
wheat farmer must do this whether he
plans to vote yes or no.
The county ASCS committee in
the county has scheduled a series of
meetings to explain the provisions of the
program, and information can be had
lor the asking at the Lancaster office.
On other pages in this paper are
several articles dealing with the pro
gram Information is being distributed
by several farm organizations and many
commercial firms. With all the informa
tion available, it is not necessary that
any farmer should be ignorant of the
provisions of the referendum.
Again, we would remind you that
you will not be able to vote on May
21 unless the wheat alloment notice is
returned to the county ASCS office,
signed, before May 13.
The procedure for farmers should
be become eligible to vote; find out
as many of the pros and cons as possible;
vote your conscience on May 21.
At least that’s how it looks from
where we stand.
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County Tourists
A brochure crossed our desk this
week introducing a new tourist attrac
tion in Lancaster County.
A dairyman plans to take tourists
on a wagon tour around his farm. The
visitors will ride in a Conestoga wagon
pulled by a team of Belgian horses and
will be able to see, on the half hour tour,
seven beautiful Lancaster County farm
steads with wide pastures, streams and
farm ponds, as well as a historic spot
in the county.
The tours will be conducted on
PRUNE TREES
Suckers should be removed LonCOStCr Fanning
li om trees every spring. Suck- Lancaster County’s Own Farm
eis sprout at the base of some Weekly
trees and from the limbs of P* O. Box 1524
others They are dominant in test before planting time. the wilting method- rather than
maples and fruit trees By re- nftl Growers are reminded of this n 7 n Ste <ar'vn
J Ofllces: .. down to 50- to 70 per cent will
.moving suckers before -they 22 E. Main St. new rullng s » that fertilizer reduee the amount of water ta
form big branches, the tree’s Lititz, Pa. Entered as 2nd class matter recommen dations may be fol- handle and make higher quali
conopy is better aerated and its Phone - Lancaster at Lititz, Pa. under Act of Mar lowed - Deadline for entering ty forage. No preservative hr
health improved. ’ IU; -
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Must Register To Vote
Lancaster, Penna,
P. O. Box 266 - Lititz, Pa.
Saturdays and holidays throughout the
summer with week-day tours available
by appointment.
The dairyman plans no curtailment
of his dairy program, but he does have
a married son who has assumed much
of the responsibility of running the
farm.
Here is a farmer who has siezed on
an opportunity to supplement his income
without taking, on more land or invest
ing in a lot of expensive equipment.
Living in the hurly-burly of modern
day urban centers are many people will
ing and eager to pay for the privilege of'
relaxing for a few minutes in the quiet
serenity of the country side.
In fact, a resident of the suburban
area of Maryland just outside Washing
ton, D.C. told us recently that many
people who live in Washington are will
ing to pay farmers to let them and their
sons come out to the farm and help with
the haying and chores.
It hasn’t come to that in Lancas- Dr-Foreman
ter County yet, but there are hundreds
of tourists coming through the county
each year who are willing to pay for ness is not something peculiar to
the privilege of observing farming first o ur own religion. All religions de
hand. sire a forgiving God; the difference
A newspaperman from North Caro- between these and Christianity is
lina said recently at a convention in that people in other religions
Washington, “DoL, Home we figure a 5*
Yankee tourist is worth more than understand, as followers of Christ
a bale of cotton, and a whole lot easier know, what kind of God it is who
to pick.” ‘ forgives, and why He forgives at
We believe there is room in Lan- *u
caster County for more attractions of Two misunderstandings
this kind. We do not have to turn the The forgiveness of God can be
misunderstood in many ways. Let
county into a raucous midway or side us glance at two of them. One is
show to make it attractive to city people. to SU pp oSe that He is a sort of
We have here what can be found in very vast forgiving machine. This is
few other places in the world beauti- the age of automation, when ev
ful, well kept farmsteads, a prosperous erything works by push-buttons,
farming economy, and the peaceful coun- When the electric power goes off,
. . ® v, ~,v , . , ~ a switch untouched by human
trysxde, all within a short distance from j, an( j s w m put your house on an
large cities. other power hue. When the plane
Lancaster County farmers would in which you are flying starts to
do well to show off some of these slide down,- the automatic pilot
beauties to our city neighbors. , brin § » back up again.
At least that’s how it' looks from
, , , forgiving automatically, some
where we stand. would say even before a man re
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Pig Hatcheries Growing The Wall as a sort of automatic switch: the
Street Journal says 15 percent of the minute a man says “I’m sorry”
-nation’s hogs now start life on one out comes forgiveness from heav
farm end un on another Pis? hatcheries en like candy from a machine. But
larm, ena up on anotner. rag narcnenes lt I<sJl . t hke that at all Mother
are growing rapidly. mistAe is to suppose that God’s
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How Much is $5 Billion? That’s
what farmers and their cooperatives
borrowed from the public through their
farm credit cooperatives last year.
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Make Mine Music The American
Dairy Association has turned to music
but their still promoting milk and dairy
products. The idea is to offer An album
of records at reduced prices to purchas- 1
ers of butter
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Big Expenditures
According to Chain Store Age,
housewives spend 10.45 percent of their
food dollars on. butter, eggs, and milk.
This works out to an annual total of
$2,769 billion in the nation’s 30,632
chain stores.
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What A Compulsion!
“Under a socialistic system, men
work not for profit, or the hope of
profit, they work from compulsion,” so
says Senator Curtis of Nebraska.
Jack Owen, Editor
Robert G. Campbell,
Advertising Director
Established November 4,
1955. Published every Satur
4ay by Lancaster-Parming, Lit
itz, Pa.
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To Be Forgiven
Lesson for May 5,1963
Bible Material: Psalms 32; 51; 103:8-
14.
Devotional Reading: Psalm 130,
XIT’HY is it that when a sermon
’ \or a Sunday school lesson is
to be on the subject of Forgive
ness, or anything connected with
it, the Bible passage selected is
nearly always from the Old Testa
the New? The an
swer is obvious:
the Old Testa
ment, and espe
cially the book of
Psalms, has the
clearest and most
moving account of
God’s forgiveness,
and especially the
experience of be
ing forgiven, that
can be found in
Now Is The
Modern agriculture includes various
types ot chemicals and spray materials; these
can greatly contribute to the success of a
crop and produce maximum amounts 'of top
quality food and feed. ,The farmer, or c th«
spray operator, is the person who is respon
sible for the proper use of these materials.
All directions and labels should be closely
followed Store chemicals away from children
and livestock. , 1
dangerous in the Lancaster County area after
MAX M. SMITH the first of May. This herbicide will give off
vapors for several days following appljca-
tion that may kill near-by susceptible plants, both ester and
low-volatile ester release these dangerous vapors. With so
many acres of legumes, tomatoes, tobacco, and the flowers and
shrubbery plants around homes so handy in many areas, it it
risky to use any of the ester forms. Spray operators are urged
to. use only the amine form of 2, 4-D until after the growing
season.
To Test Soil For Corn Contest To Ma * e PLana To Wilt
Grass Silage
This year it is required that Livest ock producer? who are
all entries in the Pennsylvania plannlng t 0 make part or all 0 j
five-acre contest have their soil their first cutting of hay into
put through a complete soil grass silage are urged to usd
if God said, after all, that sudier
is a
average," in fact. Such goodness'
deserves some recognition, so I
am going to reward him by forgiv
ing him. It isn’t like that either.
To be forgiven is a gift of God.
“I did not hide” '
The poet who wrote Psalm 32
knew from experience something
very important. He had tried for
a time that old dodge, pretending
to himself that he had not sinned
at all. Nothing could be more ut
terly absurd, when you think of
it, than trying to hide away from
God. Nothing can be more impos
sible than to pretend it never hap
pened. Nobody can go off and shut
a door behmd him and fancy that
God will get no nearer than that
door. Modern psychiatry agrees
with the ancient psalmist that un
admitted sin, hidden guilt, is ac
tually a serious menace to health.
Psalm 32:3 and 4 describe a sick
man. Doctors cannot cure such a
case. The patient himself has the
key to the cure, and this poet
found it. “I acknowledged—” he
says, “I did not hide;” “I will
confess.”
“Love surrounds Him”
Forgiveness is a kind of mira
cle after all. For we know that
forgiveness is no good if the for
giver is determined never to for
get. But how can God forget? Fur
ther,—and this is something that
perhaps even angels may not
understand—the question, Why
should God forgive at all? has no
final answer that leaves us without
further questions. Would it not be
simpler for God to start all over
again with some other race, a
race that could not possibly sin?,
Why does God keep patching up
human beings when he does not
have to?
The truth is, God does much
better than patch people up. Ha
makes them over. The forgiveness,
of God has a strange quality about
it. Ordinary forgiveness Jeaves of
fenders about ax they were. God’»
forgiveness does something won
derful to the sinner. Bead over
this 32nd Psalm again and again.'
What sort of man is fhis who
speaks with such profound- en
thusiasm about being forgiven?!"
He does not sound in the least
like a man who rejoices that bis
slate has been wiped-rclean so
that he can start all over again.
He is not at all thinking of God
as a forgiving-machine/ He has
penetrated to die secret—not that
he understands it, but he knows
it: God forgives because He loves.
What guarantees against future
sins? Nothing in me, only love in
Him.
(Based ou outlines copyrighted by
tbe Division of Christian Education,
National Council of tbe Churches of
Christ in the TJ. S. A. Beieased bp
Community Press Service.)
Time . . .
BY MAX SMITH
To Be Careful With Chemicals
To Be Careful With 2, 4-D Sprays
The ester forms of 2, 4-D weed-killer are
roanem