4.—Lancaster
From Where We Stand...
Something For Nothing Is No Good
.Any time you get something for
nothing, it can’t be very good.
Many people subscribe to this philo
sophy, and most of the time we do too.
But unfortunately -many Pennsyl
vanians this week missed out on a good
show that would have cost them nothing
.but a drive to Harrisburg.
The demonstrations and polo games
in the large arena at the annual Penn
sylvania Livestock Exposition combined
to make the finest show of its kind we
have seen in many a day.
When we talked about our plans to
go to one of the evening performances,
a friend (remembering the crowds at the
evening shows at Farm Show time) told
us to be sure to get there early in order
to get a seat. We needn’t have hurried!
When we walked into the seating
area at a quarter to seven, there were
more people in the arena than there
were in the seats. At times the perform
ers almost outnumbered the spectators,
but be it said to their credit, the per
formers put everything they had into
the exhibitions.
We couldn’t help wondering if more
people would have been there if an en
trance fee had been charged.
We realize that the exposition is
billed as an educational event, and we
believe this is a worthy goal, but we
have often paid a five dollar bill to see
a show not half as entertaining.
We believe the rules governing the
Livestock Exposition ought to be re
viewed with the thought of amending
them to allow charging for the evening
shows.
We believe that a nominal fee
could be charged, so as not to exclude
anyone who really wanted to see the
show, and the revenue could be used to
advertise the program. We believe that
a charge, however small, might help
overcome the* idea some people have
that if you, get it for free, it can’t be
worth very much.
At least that’s how it looks from
where we stand.
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Farm-City Week
It’s a safe bet that few observances
are given such active and widespread
support'as Farm-City Week. The officers,
advisors and directors come from a very
wide gamut of organizations. They re
present, to take but a few, the meat
packers, major retailers, heavy industry,
medicine, the press, civic clubs, broad
casting, and so on and so on.
It is good that this is so. For Farm-
City activities serve a purpose which
grows steadily more worthwhile. They
are designed to bring about a better
understanding of the way of life of free
men by bringing neighbors together.
Nothing promotes misunderstanding like
ignorance, and from it comes tensions
and jealousies and angers. When new
friendships are established, the special
problems of various groups are seen In
fresh and clear perspective. And indivi
duals get a better view of the part oth
ers play in the dynamic functioning of
the economy.
Farm-City Week will be observed
Agricultural Exports
More than 125 countries of
the -world take agricultural
exports from the United Sta
tes, reports the Agricultural
Marketing Service of the U S.
Department erf Agriculture
However, about 15 countries
accounted for 70 'percent of
our total exports ip the fiscal
year 19 61-62 Major takeis
■were, in this order, Japan, the
United Kingdom, Canada, West
Germany,, and the Netherlands.
Total wotl<l exports for the
perftd came to well over $3
billion.
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Lancaster Forming Jack Owen, Editor
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during the November 22-28 period this
year. But the week is only a culmina
tion the national, state and local
Farm-City committees work on a year
round basis. And active interest has
grown steadily last year more than
10,000 U.S. and Canadian communities
participated in Farm-City programs.
The events are interesting and reward
ing and, often, eye-opening for both
urban and rural people, who come to
realize their own interdependence.
The 1963 observance will be'-the
Week's ninth. Let’s hope it will be the
finest and most productive yet.
Creepy Invaders
When the' North winds begin to
howl a little more fiercely and a chill
hangs on the morning air, the squirrels
scurry about a little faster in order to
fill their larder before the deep snows
come. Rabbits start looking around for
a likely hole in the ground; birds begin
their southward migration, and frogs
and turtles take a dive in the mud.
But what do the bugs do? Simple
they move into the nice warm houses
along with the people!
Now most of the new residents of
your house won’t do you much harm
unless you just happen to have a natural
dislike for crawling things.
Lady beetles, house crickets, cluster
flies, wasps, and box elder bugs will in
vade the premises, but most of them
will just wander aimlessly and harmless
ly around nooks and crannies. But some
times those crickets can become vora
cious critters with terrible table mann
ers. They will attack just about any
thing around the house including the
house itself.
If you don’t care to snare your
domicile with this buggy rabble, most
of them can be controlled with the
common insecticides. However, the lady
beetle, while she may walk around
some, is quiet and doesn’t eat much, and
that" is mostly other bugs.
The house cricket (that’s a cricket
that got in the house) is a rascally fel
low who eats most any fabric, and in
large quantities. In fact, about the only
thing in his favor is his built-in tempera
ture gauge. If you count the number of
chirps in 14 seconds and add 40 you will
be within one degree of the correct
temperature but if you have a ther
mometer, you probably aren’t interest
ed.
A spray of chlordane around the
base of the house will keep the crickets
out pretty well and also discourage ants
and spiders.
Of course there are those who be
lieve in waiting to shoot until you see
the whites of their mosaic eyes, and
there are others who believe in live and
let live. For those people, all we can
do is hope for a shorter winter and an
early spring when their six legged
guests move back to the wide open
spaces.
At least that’s how it looks fr,om
where we stand.
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Writing on Hearts
Lesson for November 17,1963
BibU Malarial; Acta 16:10-40, II Co
rmthians 1 through 4.
Devotional RtaUing: 11 Corinthian* 4:7-
WHAT WAS the greatest single
influence in your life? Change
that word “was” to “is” and leave
aut the word “single” if you like,
it still is a question to think about.
Most people, if they answer that
•stion Id say truthfully that
' some particular
person, perhaps
now dead, was the
strongest single
influence. Or they
might mention
several names. But
they probably
would be names,
not things. Every
one of us may be
Dr. Foreman at the''other end,
|oo. How many lives have known
four influence in some way? How
many lives would have been differ
ent if it had not been for you?
These are sobering thoughts.
The fact is, we all are engaged,
often without trying or thinking
particularly about it, in writing
tomething, good or bad, on the
hearts of all we meet. Thinking
»bout us is (for the people we
have known) like getting a letter,
Hitter or gay, serious or silly as
the case may be. Somebody else’a
handwriting is on every heart.
Through us the fragrance ~.
The Christian-above’ all has' a
responsibility that what he writes
on others’ hearts shall be recog
nizably Christian. But what is
"Christian”? Paul mentions in the
passage chosen for this week three
points by which a Christian per
son, and Christian influence, can
be identified. Paul did not mind
mixing his metaphors, and neither
should we. There is a gloriously
many-colored beauty about the
Christian character, like an old
fashioned garden First of all, a
Christian is one through whom
the “fragrance of the knowledge”
Df Christ spreads everywhere. In
plainer English, a Christian is one
who does not leave others indiffer
ent to Christ, but whose life makes
others want to know the secret of
Now Is The
Now that winter is just around the
corner and milking herds are being kept in
at night, the cows should be turned out tor
exercise at least once a .day, when out the
cows should be observed for heat periods,
lameness, or other illness The time and
effort should be rewarded with a thriftier
herd and increased production.
, To Check For Internal Parasites
Many cattle feeders are feeding too
many stomach worms in their beef cattle as
well as young dairy animals These internal
parasites will reduce gains and increase feeds
costs. Producers are urged to consult then
local veterinarian to determine the extent
and kind of worm infestations; several types of treatments w'h
eradicate the worms and give more profitable returns.
MAX SMITH
To Practice Strict
Sanitation Measures
The disease control program
in any livestock or poultry
operation should include strict With the sheep population
regulations concerning visitors, on the increase in Lanctstei
newly-purchased animals, and County this enterprise becomes
owner visits to other herds or more important. Growers wh°
public places Service mem who are feeding lambs are remind'
go from farm to farm should ed that stomach worms ha' e
be extremely careful about en- been one of the major pro
tenng buildings at other places blems in southeastern Penn
without a thorough disinfec- sylvama. The entire flock
the of
Chtiit. Second/* Christian
cere,-he is what he claims to 'be.
Third, a Christian is a man of con
fidence not in himself-but in God,
A (attar from Ohrlst
Paul was not an over-modest
man. If credit was due him, h«
took it. Yet he never claims too
much, Paul knew very well that
be was 'perhaps the one most. in,
fluential (Christian in that part of
the Roman empire. He knew ha
would be remembered all their
life long by those converts of his
in Corinth and other cities. Yet be
does not claim credit for the hand
writing on the hearts of those he
had won for Christ. Indelible was
the writing; but it was not his
own. You (he said to his friends)
are a letter from Christ, written
not with ink, with .with the Spirit
of the living God.
You do not have to be a theo,
logian to see what Paul is driving
at. Every Christian is part of the
communication between God am}
the world. Every Christian, so, fat
as he is Christian (and no one
100%), expresses and makes clear
God’s will and word for the situa
tions in which he lives. Then Is
every Christian a sort of little
Pope, infallibly able to dictate
God’s last word in every situation
and problem of life?
Delivered by us
Not by any means. Not even the
Pope in Borne makes claims so
sweeping as all that. We have to
face the fact that men who art
perhaps equally Christian»-bj>
intention do not always agree, per
haps almost never. Paul says else
where that we have this treasure
(and he meant the message o{
God) in earthenware vessels. And
about the handwriting of the
Spirit on the hearts of the Co
rinthians, he says it was “delivered
by us,” and Paul does not claim
that he could never be mistaken.
The Corinthians, moreover, were
themselves farther from perfec
tion than Saint Paul was. The let
ter of Christ was written on the
hearts of men who (on Pauls-own
showing) were guilty of all sorts
of sins. The handwriting of the
Spirit gets rubbed, down more or
less as "the letters*‘are passm on.
So no Christian’s writing oulyour
heart or on your grateful memory
should be confused with .direct
contact with God himself. For
every Christian has the same privi
lege and the same need of the
Spirit as the greatest Christians
have had. Time and distance may
carry our friends far away, but
the Spirit is always here. He who
wrote, writes still today.
(Bdsed on outline! copyrighted by the
Division of Christian Education, Nations!
Council of the Churches of Christ in the
U. S. A. Released by Community Press
Service.)
Time . . .
BY MAX SMITH
To Exercise Milking Herd
other livestock or poultry oper
ations, unless thoroughly di»-
infected.
To Drench Lambs