—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 22, 1964
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From Where We Stand...
Motorists Wont' Money / s Worth
An old thing the taxpayer gets
awfully tired of hearing is the one that
goes: “If you want good roads, you have
to pay for them.”
This is no news to the motorists
of America. They have paid for just
about every foot of highway in exis
tence, and for a lot more that never will
be built because the money has been
spent on other things.
In the past eight years the Federal
government has collected $34 billion in
special highway user taxes, but only
$20.6 billion of that went into the
Highway Trust Fund. The other $13.4
billion was spent on projects having no
connection with roads.
During the next eight years, motor
ists will pay $52.4 billion more in Feder
al highway user taxes, but only $32.7
billion will go to build highways. The
other $19.7 billion will go into the gen
eral fund and from there who
knows?
Some States also use large amounts
of highway user taxes for non-highway
purposes, the total State diversion
amounting to around $4OO million every
year.
It would be extremely difficult to
convince most motorists that they
should pay more gasoline taxes or
any other highway user taxes until
all the money they now pay at both
the State and Federal levels is put to
work building highways.
At least that’s how it looks from
where we stand.
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Drugs And Risks
The safety of prescription drugs
has become a subject of controversy and
of regulatory action. Like all matters
which are beyond the comprehension
of the layman, a result may be widely
held and unfounded fears in some in
stances may reach a degree of hysteria.
The fact is that every possible step
is taken by the pharmaceutical industry
and other interested organizations to as
sure any drug’s safety. The techniques
for detecting possible toxicity in every
known body system have been tremen
dously improved in late years. Testing
is far more thorough than is generally
realized. For instance, the Pharmaceuti
cal Manufacturers Association estimates
that, in a recent typical year, its mem
ber firms made use of nearly 9 million
animals in order to determine whether
or not various new drugs were suit
able for trial in man.
But the animal tests are not
enough. At a certain stage testing on
• Relation Of Milk
(Continued from Page 1) stncted feeding of grain with (Continued from Page 2)
only a small amount of forage * oa “ s High Choice and Prime
acids present. made the milk considerably 1550 lbs - 24 50 - Choice 110 °-
Exploratory experiments riC h er m unsaturated acids 1450 lbs 24 75-25.75, scattered
have indicated that the com- lower in total fat con t e nt, and loads 1200-1350 lbs. 26.00, few
position of milk fat can be mod eratelv higher in nrotein loads Cboice 1600-1650 lbs. 23.-
significantly changed by vana- intent 75 . load 1825 lbs - 22 50. Choice
tions in the cow’s feed. The Maryland scientists will 000-1150 lbs. 24 00-25 25, Mixed
These earlier studies showed determine whether the results Good and Choice 22.50-23.75,
that unrestricted feeding of q£ these exploratory expert- Good 22.00-23 25, Standard and
corn silage resulted in milk uients are borne out in long- Low Good 19 50-22 00.
extraordinarily high in satur- term feeding studies Slaughter heifers: High
ated fatty acids and correspond- 'p he research is under the Choice and Prime 900-1050 lbs
mgly low in unsaturated acids, supervision of Professor J. H. 24 50 -24 - 75 > load High Choice,
Vandersall of the University mostly Prime 1025 lbs. 24.85,
o' Maryland’s Department of l° ad Prime 1025 lbs. 24,75,
Dairy Science USDA’s techni- Choice 900-1075 lbs 23 00-24 -
cal representative is Dr. George ew loads a * 2425 carn ® d
C Nutting, who heads milk f« d “ f^ ho l ce * o °f oo
property investigations at the lbs - 2275 ' 23 SO’ Good and Choi-
Eastern utilization research ™§ bts 22 00 ' 2275 ’
laboratory. Philadelphia. and Commer .
w. cial closed at 12 00-1400, Can
• vintage ner an( j cutter 1125-12.75,
(Continued from Page 2) shelly canner 10. 50-11 00.
At the August 15 hog sale, Bulls - Cutter to Commercial
Lancaster Farming
Lancaster County’s Own Farm
Weekly
P. O. Box 1524
Lancaster, Penna.
P. O. Box 266 - Lititz, Pa.
Offices:
22 E. Main St.
Lititz, Pa.
Phone - Lancaster
394-3047 or
Lititz 625-219 1
Established November 4,
1955. Published every Satur
day by Lancaster-Parming. Lu
lls, Pa.
Entered as 2nd class matter and 240 lb and up 13 25. Ofie 75, lca<f jGood s ssQ lbs. 2100, the leaf will be lowered. could, s Jig- 1 suppleme:
at Latitz, Pa. under ’Act of 'lot of feeder pigs weighing 28 few Good 400450 lb. heifers To Secure Needed Bedding sawdust or wood si
March 8, 1879. i.< < lb. brought 30.00 18 75-19 50. Many livestock producers dairy barns or bo:
humans must be carried out under
the direction of responsible physicians.
The number of humans thus involved
must be steadily increased until a large
enough sample is obtained to determine
the safety and utility of the drug in
actual clinical practice. During these
tests, great numbers of compounds are
eliminated. Actually, only one out of an
estimated 3,000 compounds originally
synthesized by the pharmaceutical
manufacturers survives as a drug.
Even so, all risk cannot be eli
minated a truism which applies to
all ventures into the unknown. But,
measured against the benefits, the risk
in drugs produced by reputable manu
facturers and prescribed by physicians
is seen for the minuscular thing it is.
And legislative or regulatory efforts to
eliminate all risk, no matter how sin
cerely meant, can only act as a brake
on progress in this most vital of fields.
At least that’s how it looks from
where we stand.
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Guarantor Of A Free Press
Something recently said by the
Boonville, Indiana, Standard should be
remembered.
“One of the most important by-pro
ducts of advertising is the American
concept of freedom of the press.
“Freedom of the press as it is con
ceived in the English-speaking world
derives financial support from advertis
ing
“From the time of the American
revolution until approximately 1830
American journalism was represented
by a profusion of small highly biased
political sheets .... However, when
expanding business firms recognized the
need for reaching a new public through
advertising, publishers found a neutral
and varigated source of support which
made them independent.
“Indeed, advertising made it im
perative that the newspapers should
think in terms of serving the whole
public ....
“As government has become more
complex, as law and rule by bureaus
and agencies have burgeoned, there is
more than ever a need for a press free
from control of political interests.
“Such a press exists only where
advertising support has made it pos
sible for a publication to serve the
whole public without fear or favor.”
Whatever shortcomings advertis
ing may occasionally be guilty of, its
virtues as a supporter of a free press
overwhelmingly outweigh them.
At least that’s how it looks from
where we stand.
They also showed that unre-
206 hogs were on offer. Hogs i 6 0 0-17 00, Fat Commercial 14.-
weighing 160-180 lb brought 00-15 00.
16 60-17 25; 180-200 lb. were Feeders - Good and Choice
17 60-18 50; 200-220 lb. 17.85 650-900 lb. steers 20 25-21?$
18 50, 220-240 lb. 17.75-18 50; two loads Choice 550 lbs. 22.-
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Dependable
Lesson for August 23,1964
Background Sc rip tare I Deuteronomy 1; t
through It.
Devotional Beading: realm 7Sil-7.
A STUDENT w»iter in the school
dining ball was complaining
about another waiter. “He just
took off without saying anything
I about it, and the rest of us had
to carry his job. There wasn’t
time to get a substitute.” Now
the student who
walked off the job
leaving the others
1 < with extra work,
and all without
» letting any one
ft know he was leav
ing, may have
been a very good
waiter. But be
■HIMJH won’t stand a
Dr. Foreman good chance of
being recommended for the job
,next year, if he keeps up this sort
of thing. No matter how good he
is at waiting on table, if he can’t
be depended on, he’s not a good
prospect. Dependability is what
makes all good qualities strong,
God at tha canfar
The heart of the matter, as
usual, is to be found in the Bible.
Deuteronomy 6:4-17 is as good a
place as any to find dependability
—not the word but the thing it
self—described plainly. What are
the qualities of a dependable life?
First of all, it is one that has God,
the true God, at the center. It is
life oriented to God, taking or
ders from him. Centrally it is a
life filled with love for God. This
means devotion, admiration and
not mere adoration, it means loy
alty through thick and thin. Now
there were few if any atheists in
those days. Belief in God, some
kind of God, was to be <found
everywhere. Constantly, through
all their prophets, the Hebrews
were reminded of what kind of
Goi the true and only God is.
Insitfa and out
The heart—to modern ears—
means the emotions. But when
the prophet said love God with
Now Is The Time ...
To Clip Sudan and Sorghum Hybrids
After livestock have grazed down th
growth of sudan grass or the soighum ®
bnds, the old growth should be clipped a
3” to 4” height; this will eliminate the w
stalks and will encourage new, umfoim grow
th After clipping, the new growth should e
allowed to reach the recommended gro" 1
of the first crop before being glazed aga»
(18” for sudan grass and 24” foi the sw
ghum hybrids.
To Kill Old Sods
Old lawns or old pastures that ai< ,
be renovated and re-seeded this fall shou
have the old growth of grass and
thoroughly killed; this may be done W
MAX SMITH
peated cultivations. When preparing the seedbed thi
fertilizer should be applied as recommended by
soil test. Repeated working and rolling of the area v
ate low places and get a firm seedbed.
To Use MH-30 Cautiously need to buy addi
Growers who are using the ding material each
chemical method of prevent- many kinds of bei
mg suckers on tobacco should a wide range for
be careful that it is used feeder or the dairyi
properly. The plants should many farmers ha’
be allowed to reach 75% crop of straw in
bloom before topping and then this fall, it might h
the proper amount of material for those in the
should be applied (4 to 6 make their purcha;
pints per acre). If an over- next spring or suran
dose is applied, or if the plant and barley straw
is immature, the quality of high on the beddm
all your heart, he did not m eaßl
love him with all your emotion.
Loving God with emotions o n|»
turns worship into a kind ,«
binge. The Hebrew word could 1
almost be translated “Stand
—stand by your God with all y 01 1!
loyalty and all your dedication
The “heart” meant the spring? 0 j
life, the motives at the very con.
ter of a man’s life. The point m
that in the character of a good
man or woman there is an inner
and outer side. The outer side «
his actions, habits, what we ses
of him. The inside is what h
really is; and if what he is, „
not right, then what he does mu
he all wrong. Nobody likes to in
called a hollow person, yet that’s
just what any of us is it tha
strength is not there, the God*
created strength, on the inside,
Waakdays and Sundays
We don’t know whether Mows
meant to be taken literally or not
when he ordered the Israelites to
write the laws on their heads and
hands and on the doorposts«{
their houses. They took it liter,
ally, anyway, and tied on then
foreheads and on their wrists tmj
boxes containing quotationi from
the Law. Jesus rather made fun
of this practice, because it had It
come a substitute for actual!;
keeping the Law. Anyhow, om
point is clear. The conduct, the
habit-patterns, the ambitions, the
purposeful actions of a man be.
long in his head and hands and
home. What he thinks, what he
does, where he goes,— his home
life and his work life,—should
be all of one piece. You can't
live selfishly six days in ever;
week and then break out into un
selfishness on Sundays, You can’t
he dependable as a man and a
Christian on one day devoted to
goodness. The six bad days will
vote the one good day down.
People have often tried to divide
their lives into compartments, in
some of which they could do u
they pleased and in others the;
would conform to what they took
to be the will of God. Isn't tint
in fact what most of us do? How
often in the course of an ordinary
weekday do we ask ourselves,
“What will people think?” and
how often do we ask, “What does
God think?” What society expects
of me may he good; what God
expects and demands is good,
And he expects it seven days i
week.
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(Based on outlines copyrighted by ti<
Division of Christian Education, Nations
Council of ths Churches of Christ in tbi
XJ. S. A. Released by Community Prw*
Service.)
BY MAX SMITH