4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 16, 1964 From Where We Stand... Y’all Come Over To The White House “We have an appointment at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue at five o’clock to morrow,” said one of the officers of the National Farm Editors Ass’n. This was pretty heady air for a little old barefoot farm boy like this writer. But we got there all starry eyed at the appointed time prepared to get a distant view of, or hopefully a quick handshake with, the man who holds the most important job in the whole world. Well, we did get the handshake three times. If this seems odd, let us ex plain. We shook hands upon meeting President Johnson m the conference room in the Whitehouse After the short prepared talk, he walked over toward us and we shook hands again thinking this was the dismissal, but were greeted with, “Would you farm folks like to come into my office for a few minutes?” Would we like to 1 ' Well, after about a half hour of chatting about crops, and weather, the strain of the presidency and the fast pace the president has been setting, and folksy news about the first family, Pre sident Johnson said casually, “I have a few minutes before I have to meet with some congressmen Would you all like to come over to the Whitehouse with me?” Well, can you imagine our re sponse ? We walked out through the rose garden, into the private rooms of the executive mansion and onto the eleva tor with the tall Texan. We were shown through the presidential bedroom, sitt ing rooms and other private rooms oc cupied by the president’s family. On the bedroom wall we saw the picture of the little share cropper’s house where Lyndon Baines Johnson was born 56 years ago. “I look at that picture every morn ing when I wake up ” The president said, “Because I never want to forget where I came from.” When the time came for the Pre sident to meet with the congressmen, we shook hands again His remarks made us feel that he was sorry he could not spend the rest of the evening with us His southern hospitality was sincere, humble, and gracious The visit with about 30 farm re porters might not have won him many votes, but it certainly didn’t make r|iy enemies It was a visit this reporter will not soon forget We have to agree with one of our fellow writers who said, “I never thought it would happen to me.” At least that’s how it looks from where we stand. Can It Be Solved? Is the solution of the farm problem beyond human ability 9 At least one U. S Congressman thinks so. Representative Benjamin Rosenthal of New York City told the National Newspaper Farm Editors thig week that Farm Prices Down 3% Prices received by Common wealth farmers in mid-April for farm products declined 3 per cent from mid-March, ac cording to the Pennsylvania Crop Reporting Service. The usual seasonal decline is 2 per cent. Contributing most to the de cline were lower prices for wholesale milk and eggs. Part ly offsetting were higher prices received for potatoes and ap - pies- coming -out o£ storage. - the farm problem is not likely to be solved in the foreseeable future. “The reason the problem has not been solved,” said Rosenthal, a member of the House Agriculture Committee, “Is that we have entrusted tfie problem to rural legislators.” Rosenthal, who calls himself a re luctant member of the Agriculture Com mittee, said rural congressmen have not been able to present a united frontal at tack on the problem. “You need a third party,” he said, “and the city legislators are not anxious to be that third party ” Rosenthal said there is no longer a “farm block,” and no farm program can be passed without the help of city con gressman. In the past, he,said, rural members of congress have told us (the urban con gressmen) that we did not understand the problems, and that we .would have to accept their programs or none at all. “If the rural members of congress will accept us as equals on committees and let us help in the formulation of pro grams, I think we can make some pro gress,” he said He continued, “Rural legislators are trying to perpetuate two myths. We have been told that without programs the farmers will go down the drain and the ripples in the economic lake will take the rest of us with them This is a myth “Farm legislators still believe the family farmer is the great American hero. This too is a n dh. I think the family farm is dead. Farming has be come a big industry ” Rosenthal continued, “Farming must recognize that capital is now more important than labor, and we are going to have to treat farming just like any other business.” While we cei'tainly can not agree with all Mr Rosenthal said, we must realize he spoke the truth when he con cluded, “Without city congressmen no farm bill can be passed and city con gressmen are becoming more and more reluctant to pass farm legislation ” At least that’s how it looks from where we stand. The average age of the world’s great civilizations has been 200 years. These nations progressed through this sequence - In 16 years our United States will be 200 years old This cycle is not in evitable it depends upon YOU! Reprinted from Manage Magazine, January, 1961 Lancaster Forming Jack Owen, Editor Lancaster County’s Own Farm Robert G. Campbell, Weekly P. O. Box 1524 Lancaster, Penna. Established November 4, P. O. Box 266 - Lititz, Pa. 1255. Published every Satur day by Lancaater-Farming, Lit itz, Pa. Offices; 22 E. Main St. Lititz, Pa. Phone - Lancaiter 394-3047 or Lititz 623-2191 WILL HISTORY REPEAT HERE? From Bondage to spiritual faith From spiritual faith to great courage From courage to liberty From liberty to abundance From abundance to selfishness From selfishness to complacency From complacency to apathy From apathy to dependency From dependency back again to Bondage Corn glowers who are using After grass silage or ha'j atrazine to control grassy weeds as keen put into the sito should keep m tmmd that too I>e:>t to make ® ol ™i , e 1( * seal out the air and much atrazine an any one area spoi ] age j n the upi# might damage the next crop, this may-be -done with & .We often see this result in loads of poor quality f° r! | : small grains where the sprayer 3 eed f/ or .' with „ . . . . . For-the horizontal si* o was allowed to deliver too much of , black plastic Wlght ed material while stopped for re- has - good res ults pairs Also if a cover crop is sea l should be put down« to he planted this summer * - order to permit a cover crop to and vary ui their resis* Advertising Director Take A Stand lieuon for May 11, 1964 Background ScripUrt: Provarba it ■23-3':: Matthew 18:5-14; Komans 12:11 through. 14.28. ..... Devotional Beading! Pealm 40:1-5. fjiIIE BIBLE was written in a simpler era than ours. Many people would think the Bible world ideal. At least it would seem like a world which lacked many of what are now often con sidered sources of human evils. It was a rural world; in Pales tine there were comparatively few cities and none that would he rec ognized as such today. It was a world where alco holic drinks were everywhere used Dr. Foreman even by the best people. It was a time before the invention of whiskey and other beverages high in alcoholic con tent. Drinking was confined to wines and beer or their equiv alent. It was an age without motor cars or machinery, a leisurely hand-crafting age. Yet even in that world, the writers of the Bible had something to say about drinking. The point of all this is: If alcoholic drinks were known to be dangerous in a sim ple rural world, how much more dangerous it can be in our com plex civilization! Th* speed of the problem There was once a stage magi cian who used to say over and over as he was doing his stuff, “It’s the speed of the problem and not the problem itself.” Some thing like that is true of the world we live in. This has a great deal to do with the alcohol problem. For instance: Time was when men would gather in taverns or at par-, ties, just as they do today; and some of them would get drunk, as. many do today. But when the party was over, in the good old days the friends of the man who had had too much' would dump him into his wagon and get the Now Is The Time . . . To Clip Pastures Good pasture management states the area should be mowed after each ff mg period; after the animals have e» down the current growth,' the clippu's v remove the matui e growth, keep weeds h developing, and encourage new, more uniform growth of ff and legumes. As the grasses and any weeds go to seed, i important that they be mowed in order to get new gr° and to keep the weed seeds from developing. To Use Atrazine Sparingly To Seal Silos MAX SMITH horse* started. That animal fciis his way home and fort to many people each summer, those are extremely allergic to ivy poison si varied complications The plant may be stroyed by spraying or sprinkling with i form of 2,4-D weed killer or with a® tnazole Land owners with ivy poison gio" should make a special effort to spiaj area once or twice each spring