—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 6, 1963
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The Pleasure Of Hard Work
Let’s have a race!”
How many times Dad said that
to us boys when we were growing up
would be hard to count.
We'never had any hard work to do
on the farm. It was always a race or a
game. We didn’t work for rewards. The
work was the reward. Dad taught us
early in life that work itself can be
•pleasant; work can be fun, and the
greatest reward for work is the satis
faction of seeing a job well done.
Charles Brower, president of the
advertising firm of Batten, Barton,
Durstine and Osborn, said recently, “For
this, in America, is the great era of the
goof-off, the age of the half-done job.
The land from coast to coast is populat
ed with laundrymen who Won’t iron
shirts, with waiters who won’t serve,
with carpenters who will come around
some day, maybe, with executives whose
mind is on the golf course, with teach
ers who demand a single salary sche
dule so that achievement can not be re
warded, nor poor work punished, with
students who take cinch courses be
cause the hard ones make them think
. . . and the salesman who won’t sell
is only part of this overall mess.”
He went on to say that history
is repeating itself; the Russians are
doing a wonderful job as the barbar
ians in our modern historical drama,
but we are outdoing them in our super
lative immitation of Rome. He said we
may lack a few of the refinements of
Rome’s decadence, but we do have the
two-hour lunch, the three day week, and
the all-day coffee break. And if you
want to, you can buy for $275, a jewel
ed pill box with a built in musical alarm
that reminds you (not_too harshly) that
it is time to take your tranquilizer.
Perhaps Mr. Brower stretched the
point a little bit, but perhaps he didn’t.
Sometimes we in the rural areas of the
nation fail to realize just how far this
business has gone of pay for work not
done, of time frittered away, of the
something-for-nothing jobs, and the
idea that everybody on the job must get
the same pay whether he works or not.
We realize there is not the back
breaking labor connected with farm--
ing that there once was, but we know,
too, that it is still hard work making a
living from the soil. There are many
jobs that pay better for less work, but
we believe that Dad made a lot of sense
when he said work can be fun.
And we see some signs that people
generally are beginning to find this
out. We believe, and xve sincerely hope
that it is true, that Americans are be
ginning to become bored with soft jobs.
Many are trying to make up for the
lack of work by going all out for stren
uous forms of recreation, but they still
lack that greatest of all rewards the
satisfaction of seeing a job well done.
The greatest truth we can teach
our young people today, in this “great
era of the goof-off”, is that work
just.plain hard work can be fun.
At least that’s how it looks from
where we stand.
Picnic? Humbug!
So, we said one bright blue sum
mer morning last weekend, why not
have a picnic today? Approximately five
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courage new plants and result
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vine crops, su'ch as cucumbers, 9 will yield best the first year
sauash numinkins and musk- Lancaster County’s Own Farm R ohert G . Campbell, after planting; however, in To Drench
' ' Weekly Advertising Director many cases with good care and * With the sheep population
melons, you 11 need a good rich # . , when the weeds and grasses on the increase in Lancaster
loam soil containing plenty of F - ° Box **** November 4, bave been controlled the bed County this enterprise become*
organic matter, explains James p q p ox 266 - Litltz Pa o*' 0 *' a i T U * S f ® ver y atur- may be for several years, more important. Growers who
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miserable hours later we returned to
the home’s cool interior, hurled our
sandy, sooty, leiponade-spattered bodies
on the couch, and relapsed into a long
muse of reconsideration on this whole
business of picnics.
What is there in the nature of a
man that drives him to agonies of guilt
laden recrimination if he does not, on
bright blue summer mornings, pack
hardboiled eggs, hardboiled children
and leaky thermos jugs in the old
flivyer for a miserable meal, gulped on
the ground between dabs at smoke
smarting eyes and swipes at voracious,
headhunting insects ?
Why does one leave a gorgeous
view of the mighty Columbia (folks
drive thousands of miles over dangerous
highways at great cost to see the same
sight) and Mt. Adams for a damp musk
scented hole in the woods?
Some score and seven years ago
our forefathers cleared the trees, cover
ed the dirty ground with fine, soft lawn,
invented lawn chairs, hammock; port
able television and luxurious homes in
which to take post-picnic naps.
Yet, come summer and the week- do? The God of the Bible is not
ends, up we rise, eyes filled with puri
. • i r i .j. c , lost mms own great thoughts.
tanical fire, and set out for some weedy viewing human affairs with in
comer of the forest our forefathers difference, as an emperor might
shunned like the plague! look at an anthill. The God we
tvt . v _ n worship is a God who acts. He is
•4. i, b X 1 G l 0r ? e ’ We as we a God whose actions, so far as
itched the nettle burns on our sunburn- they are concerned with us, have
ed forearms, never again, not for a been revealed to us through the
thousand pleading children! Then came Bible. At the beginning of the
blessed sleep, which removed the neces- Ten Commandments God is iden
sitv of admitting that como tbg npvt hned, not by describing what He
ut-lw u 8 ’ tne next i s like, but by recalling what He
bright blue summer morning, we’d be has done.
off with a song in our hearts and disaster Why God* acts
waiting at the picnic grounds. _ The very first mention of God
ti nn j -p • _ x -ivr TT „ in the Bible, in the very first sen
ood Eiver (Ore.) News tence, tells of something God did:
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Flex Market Muscles! Dairy co- ® ar i h ;” F* must not fancy that
op officials have been charged with midlenessaTdTat™ w“e
setting a more competitive pace in their first time He was stirred up to
markets. Stronger Cooperatives should action. But whatever else God has
be built “to carry farmer-members’ pro- done, His dealings with men and
duction as far as possible toward the women began, we may say, when
consumer,” urged Glenn E. Heitz, direc- mad ® w *
tor of the cooperative bank service of generally believe that God didn’t
Farm Credit Administration, It has have to create any world at all,
been demonstrated many times,” he or this one in particular; He was
said, “that cooperatives can coordinate entirely free in creation,
their efforts to get high quality pro- , Still, He must have had reasons,
ducts to consumers by smart merchan- Ie is not a Go< * who < * oes any ‘
dising, modern brand dentification, and
by telling advertising. In so doing, they
can expand their markets and gain a
fairer share of the consumer dollar for
their members ”
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Now It’s Compact Pigs The craze
for things compact has invaded the ani
mal kingdom in the form of miniature
pigs. Three such animals strictly ex
perimental were acquired recently by
the Virginia Polytechnic Institute. One
advantage of “mini-pigs” is that 3 of
them can be kept in the same space
needed for a full size hog. They eat less,
too. When full grown, they are expected
to weight between 125 to 150 pounds
each. Easy to handle and park in re
search experiments, presumably. .
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Changing Time® The occupations
that absorbed 60 percent of the 1962
college graduates were not in existence
when they were born.
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The God Who Acts
Lesson for July 7, 1963
Bible Material; Genesis 1 and 2.
Devotional Beading: Psalm 33:1-12,
pTjELIEVING there is a God la
necessary to religion; but just
believing that God exists doesn’t
make a person religious. Believ
ing there is a school doesn’t make
me educated; believing there is
a hospital somewhere will not
mend my broken
leg; believing that
women exist does
not make a mar
riage. So believ
ing that God ex
ists does not make
religion, it is only
the bare start of
it.
That God is, is
important; what
He is, is more important; but the
Christian religion, and the Jewish
before us, believe that we haven’t
got to the heart of the matter till
we have asked, What does God
Now Is The
Corn growers who have not used any
Atrizine for weed control on this year’s corn
should consider the broadcasting of a cover
crop immediately following the last cultiva
tion. The use of 20 pounds per acre of either
domestic ryegrass or field bromegrass should
give some growth for this fall and winter;
bromegrass is preferred because of less dang
er of winter-killing This cover crop is es
pecially useful where the ground is going
back into corn and when the organic matter
of the soil is low.
MAX M. SMITH
plum are often severly injured or killed by
borers working in' the trunk near the soil level; in many cases
these borer holes may be detected by looking for gum oozing
from the injured area. A good method of prevention and con*
trol is to spray or paint the trunk of fruit trees with DDT-;,
make two applications with the first about July 15th and thn
second one about August 10th, Use 6 tablespoons-0f'50% DDlj
per gallon of water.
tiling “Justfor the fun of
are ngt .'hip
We can perhaps - pot- w*njMshep
why God should create anything a
all; but we can think of some gooi
reasons why God created this kin<
of universe. The story in Genesli
tells of God’s creating a work
carefully ordered; a world iiegin
ning with light; a world filled witl
life. It is a fair belief that Got
acted in this way because He doei
not approve of disorder, darknes;
and death. (
Where Qod acts
God doubtless acts in ways an*
places far beyond, our power tea
follow Him even in thought. Bira
within the range of our line on
sight, so to speak, God acts in twafi
realms: the realm of nature and’
the realm of man. God does not
force His way into nature or tha
life of man. He belongs in both
because He created and He
did not shut himself put when He
made them. People sometimes
make the mistake of ascribing to
God only events that are mysteri
ous and terrible. On insurance
contracts, for example, “act ot
God” means disaster of some
kind. But God is in the world on
a sunny summer morning just as
much as in a blizzard. It is by an
act of God that the sun is bright
and the sky is blue; for it is by
an act of God that there is a sun
and a sky at all. Christians do not
believe that God made this world
and tossed it—this earth and all
the stars there are—out into space
to spin in the emptiness as besj:
it can. Rather, God upholds the
earth and the heavens, keeps
them going, is at work continu
ally. The growth of a flower is as
much of a miracle as could be
imagined, only we have g>owa
used to the mighty and amazing
acts of God that we can see every
day.
How God acts
God also acts in man. We be
lieve that all good comes from
him. Wherever we see an unself
ish act, wherever we see a self
less devotion, wherever there is
sincere repentance for sin, there
we see God at work by His Spirit.
Whoever abides in love abides in
God, one apostle wrote,—for “God
is love.”
But how can the Holy God work
in unholy man? How can the in
finite God who is Spirit be at work
in this material universe? This
we do not know, and God has not
revealed to us the how of His ac
tions. If we knew how God acts
in the universfe and in man espe
cially, we should know as much
as God does. To recognize God, to
love and to serve Him, it is not
necessary first to explain Him.
(Based on outlines copyrighted by,
the Division of Christian Education,
National Council of the Churches of
Christ in the V. S. A. Released by
Community Press Service.)
Time . . .
BY MAX SMITH
To Seed Cover Crop In Corn
To Control Fruit Borer
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