—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 5, 1964
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From Where We Stand...
Food is A Weapon
With the pleasant memories of the
Thanksgiving feast still lingering it is
difficult to imagine the specter of Hung
er that stalks the earth, daily casting its
evil shadow upon millions of unfortun
ate people. Many of these millions in
Asia, Africa, India, and China have no
conception of what it is like to ever
“eat themselves full”.
Secretary of Agriculture, Orville
Freeman, said recently at a “Freedom
From Hunger Week” dinner that the
world’s food deficit is a measurable fact.
By translating calories, animal and vege
table proteins, and fats into tons of
grain, nonfat dry milk, soygnts, and
vegetable oil it is possible to come up
with the actual food needs of “X” num
ber of people This was done by the U S
Depaitment of Agriculture in working
out the World Food Budget. 1970 This
study shows that America could virtual
ly eliminate the world’s hunger
Freeman made .seveial excellent
points in his talk He said that '‘hungry
people fail to develop ,their individual
or collective talents. They fail to take
their proper places or make their proper
contributions . They neither buy nor
sell in the world’s great markets They
are a source of unrest and a prey to
agitation They fail to comprehend or
appreciate the concepts of democracy or
individual freedom and responsibility.
They are a handicap to world peace.”
Because American agriculture can
out-produce that of any other country
in the world, and because we have
surpluses, the Secretary says it is our
moral obligation to feed the citizens of
the so-called free world Not discounting
the humanitarian aspects involved in
this philosophy, nor detracting from the
fact that this would be the “good” thing
to do, we say in all seriousness, yes, let’s
do it, but let’s use food as a tool, as a
weapon to swing the balance of power
in our favor for a change. We have been
out-propagandized by the Communists
at every turn time and again. Now we
have the greatest propaganda weapon in
the world, food, and if we’re not very
careful about how we use it we will
throw away that advantage too. History
shows us too many cases where Uncle
Sam has held out his hand in friend
ship to the down-trodden offering food
or money; the gift is always snatched up
greedily and then the hand is soundly
bitten.
It would seem about time that we
began to make a few basic demands in
return for our efforts. In food and tech
nical know-how and equipment we’ve
got something that the under-developed
countries need desperately. But let’s
not just spread it around indiscriminate
ly. Let the people of those countries
earn it. People are believed to regard
something more highly if they earned
it than if it was given to them.
Our surplus food can open a lot of
doors for us permitting us to get in and
sell our product democracy. To ac
complish this we have to engage in the
propaganda business just as wholeheart
edly as the Communists are doing. That
takes people technicians, teachers,
and businss interests. And food is the
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key that will open the door. If used
properly it can be mightier than any
sword. But if we just blindly give food
there will be many, many cases where
we’ll simply be fattening up our de
tractors for the kill ours!
What Do YOU Think?
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What Farmers Should Know
About Social Security
Today most farm workers are cov
ered by social security. They build
credit for retirement, disability, and
survivor’s benefits during their working
years in the same way as the city work
ers
If you employ farm workers you
should be aware of certain responsibili
ties that you have under the law.
If you pay your employee $l5O or
more in cash wages during a year, or
if he works for you on 20 or more
days a year for cash wages figured on
a time basis, then he is eligible for so
cial security These cash wages do not
have to be earned during one continu
ous period They may be earned any
time during the year.
As a farm employer, you are re
quired to keep a record for each worker
who meets, or is expected to meet,
either of the two requirements $l5O
cash wages, or the 20-day work period.
The record should show his name, social
security number, and the amount of
wages paid.
In January of each year you must
file a tax return with the District Direc
tor of Internal Revenue showir.g all of
the above information for each of your
employees. The proper form for this
report is Number 943, which may be
obtained from the Internal Revenue
Service.
At the time this form is filed
the social security tax must be paid
on each worker’s wages three and
five-eights percent by the employer
and the same amount by the employee.
The worker’s share should have been
withheld from his wages during the
year.
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Happy Birthday To Us!
With this issue Lancaster Farming
begins its tenth year of publication. It
has been our privilege during that nine
years to serve the farmers of Lancaster
County to the best of our ability.
We heartily thank all of our read
ers for bearing with us so loyally and
suffering with us through our growing
pains during that nine years
Birthdays are a time for looking
back wistfully but even more they are
a time for looking ahead courageously.
The whole trend of the times in agri
culture today is one of “looking ahead.”
Unfortunately, there are more questions
than answers in this business. But has
this not always been so? And haven’t
the answers always been forthcoming
to those who sought them with vigor
and determination?
We consider it an important part of
our responsibility to Lancaster County
farmers to aid them in their search for
the answers that will unlock the door
to all our futures.
(Ed Note)—Our editorial on all oui leadeis The following
Novembei 28, “What Is Lan- letter fiom J David Lapp, and
caster County 9 ’, has diawn the additional material he
some interest—we hope a lot menions should provide an
moie can be stimulated. One excellent place foim which to
leadei suggested that we start building a leal histoiy
could get much information of Lancastei County’s faim
fiom the Mennomte Histoucal people
Society lecoids, another sug
gested the Lanacster County
Histoucal Society We plan to
visit both of these in the near Editor
future We are interested in Lancaster Farming
learning the history of your
family in the county, your ■ Dear Sir:
farm and your community and_ was extrgjnely . interested
to share this information witn (Continued on Page 13)
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November 30, 1964
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What Fits Faith?
Lesson for December 6, 1964
Background Scripture Titus 1 10 throml
2 10, 3 1-3, „b-)5.
Devotional lt»aJine: Ephesians 4 1-7,
DOES "WHAT a man believes
affect his life? The New
-Testament, at any rate, gives
little room to stand for the man
whose faith and life arc kept in
separate compaitments. Faith
that cannot work out in life, faith
that works out in
eul living, faith
that has no con
nection with life
at all, is not faith
in v, Inch Jesus
or tne Apostles
would take any
inteicst.
Paul savs to
his piotege Titus,
“Teach what befits sound 'doc
trine” We could retranslate
that; Teach what soit of person
and what sort of living it is,
which matches the high tiuths of
Christian belief.
Being what you can be
True Christlike goodness is not
a ready-made thing the same
size and color for everybody.
What is good, Christian, for an
old lady is not necessarily good
for the lady’s grandchildren live
years old. What is good for the
old lady may not be good for a
young man. Paul recognizes this.
Ke doesn’t want the young
preacher Titus to preach to
everyone just alike. Be good!
When spoken to the older women
means don’t gossip, don’t be an
alcoholic. Be good! to older men
means be serious, be sensible.
(Remarkable how sensible Paul
is himself elsewhere he speaks
of faith, hope and love, but not
here. To older men he speaks of
faith, love and steadfastness.
Older men have no great hopes;
but they can still be steadfast 1 )
Be good! to a young man means:
Control yourself, Paul seems to
be saying not o.nly “Be what you
can be the best you can be”;
but also, “Be what you can be,
you and not somebody else.”
Be what you need to be
Now Is
The Time . . .
Cold weather forces rats to move into
buildings or enter rat harbors in debris near
buildings wheie there are sources of food
and water We can’t afford to faim or to live
with them, they do millions of dollars worth
of damage each year m this country. It
doesn’t cost money to get rid of them, it
will pay you. First, we’d suggest that all
possible rat harbors be corrected or removed,
and then use a system ot lat poisoning until
they are all eliminated Rats are not a part
of modern farming and everyone should
make an effort to kill them
To Prepare Farm Show Exhibits
MAX SMITH State Faim Show is about one month
away and Lancaster County will again have many exhibitors.
We urge livestock men to get their animals treated and injected
according to the Health Rules Other exhibits should be pre
pared in plenty of time in order to reach a high degree of uni
loimity and quality Premium Lists aie available from the Farm
Show Building at Hainsburg, or from our local Extension
Office
To Eliminate Livestock Licespung’s maiket. Clean wool
Efficiency of weight gam requires yeai-iound manage
and milk production is vital m ent When sheep are in win
to remaining in the livestock tei quarters, hay should make
or dairy business Heavy in- U P a ai § e pai't of their diet,
festation of body' lice on any When feeding hay, the way it
animal Mill ieduce per- 13 handled may mean dirty
formance and cost the own- wo °l ° r good clean wool; they
er money Good herd man- should eat fi om a low rack
agement has no place for live- where the hay and chaff will
stock with lice Many insecti- n °t drop down on their backs;
tides are available that will a^so ’ whon handling hay or
eliminate the lice quickly; two straw around the shee P- do not
treatments are necessary about d on ‘t°P °t them. Many
two weeks apart. shepherds will chase their
To Produce Wool flock out of the’ pen when hay-
It’s not time to shear sheep, mg or bedding. Dirty wool
but - it. is.-time to start, produc- means a* lower market price-or
mg a quality fleece for next a reject fleece.
I Wo have only to turn Paul's
'advice inside out to see how wiso
It is. What must we think ot an
older women who is Irreverent,
a slanderer and a slave to drinkT
Paul wants Titus to urge (in his
preaching and otherwise too, no
doubt) the older women to just
that kmd o£ behavior which they
of ail people need to show. Or
take the young men, for exam
ple. The commands or advice
which Paul gives arc not easy,
and the short command he gives
young men is perhaps hardest of
all: Control yourselves. Youth ia
the hardest time in life to prac
tice self-control; but if it is not
learned then, it may never be
learned. Once this writer had the
exciting oppoitumty of speaking
to about 400 men, all prisoners
In the same great jail in New
England. What struck the speak
er was the fact that almost every
man there was young, the aver
age about 19 or 20 yeais old.
Furthermore, their crimes and
misdemeanois were mostly the
kind of thing done on the spur
of the minute, m a fit of emotion.
Older men make careful cum
inals. These joung men were too
young to be cautious. But they
needed self control to be good
cilwens; and self control was
just what they didn't have. We
would all love to control money,
the lives of others, political
movements, public opinion . . .
we all want to conti 01. But the
hardest and most impmtant thing
is controlling yourself. Be what
you need to be!
Adorning the doctrine
The congregations Titus would
preach to had many slaves. They
would no doubt think: It’s all
very well for your preacher to
tell us what we ought to do. But
I’m a slave. I’m at the bottom
of the pile. I can’t call my time
my own, I can’t call myself my
own. I do what I have to do, I
have no choice. Well, Paul has
a word for these poor men too.
Be a Christian in the things you
have to do. Even a slave can be
honest. Even a slave can be
obedient. Even a slave can show
respect, he can give satisfaction
to the man who paid good money
fordiim. There is a more and a
less Christian way of doing even
the things you have to do or
else . . . There is a more and a
less Christian way of performing
the simplest acts such as sweep
ing the floor or pruning a tree.
(Based on outlines copyrighted by tho
Division of Christian 1-duration. National
Council of the Churches of Christ in tho
V. S. A. Released by Community Tress
Servlet.)
ATTEND IHE CHURCH OF
YOUR CHOICE ON SUNDAY
BY MAX SMITH
To Kill Rats