,^armirig;‘^^fur|k^y^lu, ai ! y B^S ) f 1964, n . From Where We Stand.. The Fragile Wall Reprint by special request He thought about it afterwards How had he been reduced, from respected citizen to common beggar, m just a few hours? How had it all start ed? It was only a tiny spot of printer’s ink on the cuff of his trousers, but the chain of events which followed produc ed a comedy of errors without much humor. Being reduced to begging is seldom, if ever, funny He had worked late that day on a report promised before midnight. As was his habit when quitting time found him still in the office, he phoned his wife to tell her he would be late. “Why don’t you bring the report with ydu and finish it at home 7 ” she asked She said dinner was almost ready - would be by the time he could drive home and the children liked to eat at least one meal per day with their father. He could take the report to his man after dinner. He knew he was nearly out of gasoline and had planned to stop on the way home to fill up, but dinner was waiting and he hurried on thinking he would stop at the service station when he went out later in the evening With dinner over and the report finished, he sat down for a few minutes before delivering the material. Then he thought about it that spot of ink on his cuff would dry and be hard to remove. It was a good thing he wore “wash and year” pants, he thought. Into the laundry with his old paint ing dungarees he went Onto the conven ient shelf went keys, wallet, jack knife, change and other assorted pocket para phanaha Into the washer went the soil ed trousers, and into the disreputable old painting clothes went he. He really needed a shave It had been a long day, But he would just drop the report into the letter slot and no one would see him The hint of snow in the air' made him think of his warmest clothes so he reached for his old sheep skin coat with the fur collar, and his old stocking cap They didn’t look so good, but he wasn’t planning to be out in so ciety. He pulled on his boots against the cold around his ankles, and he was on his way. Pocket the report, he thought, and then stop and get gasoline at Paul’s where he had a charge account. But the hour was later than he realized and the station was closed. “Oh well”, he said, “There are other stations open along the road.” When he had gone quite a distance from home he pulled in alongside the pumps of a strange gasoline station and reached for his wallet. Truth came to him like a pricked balloon in the pit of his stomach. He saw in his mind’s eye the convenient shelf in the laundry with the wallet on it. Well, only one thing to do Deliver the report and hope there was enough juice in the tank to let him reach home. With the report delivered and the nose of his car pointed toward home he had begun to hope for the best when the engine sputtered and died Maintain Health A<3 \ou grow older, jou need ■ just as muth protem and as Loncaster Farming many \ Hamms and mmeials to Lancaster CountVs Own Farm Robert G Campbell, maintain health, reminds Lou- Meekly Home-owners might find the next seieiail months a ven Dining the next two months good time to get the lawn-onfow a numbei oC educational meet- er sharpened and •serviced mgs and sessions will be held Many seivice men will appre- Established November 4. bv our Extension Service, these ciate the jvvoik at this slooi But, iou need fewei calories 1055 Published e\ery Satur- will be conducted in order to time of the >ear and the ownei ~ . ... . „ . ~ , daj bj Lancaster-Farmmg, Lit- bring the latest information to will not be delayed by the 0 3 Upp y P ° en ' f>l,i ccs- , tz p a _ our county ifarmers. Our Penn spring rush Most mowers need mineral-,, and vitamins, but L Mam St, State Extension Specialists will blades or kuues sharpened an fewer .aloi.es, include sk.m tz J [ a £ Entered,** 2nd class matter f PP f r °" ' pr °“ ramS 3n d 111 to do a veil poulm, • er ' -** nt T F„ nA ", *, . be here to jour ques- good job Many Rotary mowei - ws >e TOUW ,s, ~ S£zu* m rAc of t r* M , ——•* be “'-««• ,™, t i .ro£Uflnb&Oß ise Hamilton, Penn State ex- tension nutrition specialist Of Respectability The lights of an all-night service station winked “GAS” invitingly in the distance. He turned up the collar of his old sheepskin coat against the snow and headed toward the lights. He didn’t wonder at the startled look on the face of the attendant as he walked up to the pumps and tried to explain his situation. It wasn’t lack of money that bother ed him. Many times before he had been away from home with no money in his pockets, but now he had been robbed of his identity. He couldn’t even prove the car he told the atendant about was his, and he certainly didn’t look like he could afford a car of any kind. His pleas, his improbable story, and the offer to leave his old sheepskin coat and his boots as security finally moved the heart of the attendant, and enough gasoline for the trip home was handed over. He was thankful the attendant had not demanded the coat and boots as col lateral, and as he trudged back toward the helpless car, he mused on the fates which had changed him from respected newspaper editor to common beggar in just a few hours. “The wall that separates beggars from the likes of us is as fragile as a film of mist,” he thought. At least that’s how it looks from where we stand. Last year we Americans established another record in beef production and consumption. It worked out to some 95 pounds per person. And all the signs point to another increase to 97 pounds per person in 1964. That’s the prediction of the chair man of the board of the American Meat Institute. It means that total beef pro duction will reach the astonishing figure of almost 17 billion pounds this year. And total red meat production is esti mated at 30 6 billion pounds a figure that only an accomplished higher mathe matician can adequately visualize. In this spokesman’s words, “The na tion is fortunate in having a vigorous livestock and meat industry that is able to keep pace with this contmally ex panding demand for total meat. Satisfy ing this demand is a testimonial to the effectiveness of the free enterprise sys tem and its ability to meet the competi tive challenge.” That isn’t all The same spokesman foresees no general increase in retail meat prices in 1964. At the same time, while prices hold steady, disposable in come the actual amount of money we have in our pockets to buy the multitude of goods and services we need and want is expected to rise So: “This means that the American housewife will again be spending a smaller portion of her budget for meat, even though her family will be eating more.” Here is a happy prospect indeed for just about everyone likes meat, eats it once or more every day in the year and, beyond that, modern dietetics tell us that meat is a prime source of mental and physical health and energy. ********** P O Box 1124 Lancaster, Penna P O Box 26G - Lititz, Pa. • >• ★ ★ ★ ★ RECORD AFTER RECORD Jack Owen, Editor Adxertismg Director ! »I 1 / r ■ to THE ■aw .1 ,/ Aiasas'/*- - SPEAKS I'\ 'V I n laf«tn«U*n*l Uiiforn | [ ] SuadAy Sch**l L*it»na | L __ I. Two Rich Men Lesson for January 26,1964 background Scripture Luke 19 1-10. Petotional Reading: Luke 12 22-31, RICH MEN are not all alike, any more than poor men are a ike. Jesus knew both rich peo ple and poor, though he himself was very poor. Unlike some poor men, Jesus did not hate a man for being rich; he did not love a for that ru either. Luke tens stories about two rich men who en countered Jesus, and though he does not follow up his stories about them (for he was interested chiefly in Jesus, Dr. Foreman not in the people Jesus knew) he does give us hints as to what became of them. A study in contrasts Aside fiom being rich, these two men, Zacchaeus and a young man without a name, were dif ferent in many ways. One was young, the other probably older, for the publicans’ game would hardly make man rich over night. One ot these men was respected and honored in his community; one writer calls him a “ruler,” an office holder of some kind He was no doubt popular too; but the older man Zacchaeus was beyond a doubt the most hated man, or at any rate he be longed to the most hated class of people among the Jews. A pub lican was a tax collector, and in those days there was no fixed rate. It was the publican’s busi ness to squeeze the public for all they would stand, and instead of a salary, the publican, who had bid for his appointment, was al lowed by the Roman government to keep whatever he could colled above the amount of his bid. Drawn by the same magnet Did these two men, so different m most ways, men who probably never had met each other—did they have anything in common but their wealth? Even their Now Is The Time . . . To Cet Most From Your Machinery Dollar Many dollars are invested in farm mach mery, edonomists claim that tar too many farmers are over-iinvested in machinery. In larger operations it may he 'best to own the various .pieces oif big machinery, however, in many instances it might be more efficient'to hire the 'work done. When expensive machin ery is owned, then it is strongly advised to follow the recommendations ot the manufac turer in relation to care, operation, and maintenance Stretch and protect these high investments m farm machinery To Kxpand Cautiously Many farmers have .been forced into lar ger production units in order to spread the overhead and to attempt to meet expenses MAX SMITH Greater volume does not always result in greater net /profit Efficient production is still the goal to successful farming; it’s not the amount of money handled duimg the year but the amount of profit left after all expeases have been paid When we 'produce more than the market wlill 'consume, then we’re in trouble Better management in ordei to get gieater yield ,pei unit seems more fitting than larger entenpnses that bring on gieatei surplusses To Attend County Event#)