4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 3, 1965
From Where We Stand...
Apofhy, A Poth To Nowhere
The dictionary says that one who
is apathetic is “lacking normal feeling
or interest; indifferent; phlegmatic;
listless.” In fact, it is really a form of
“not being”.
Is life really so valueless that we
can be content to live it inside a shell
like a clam, and let a small, militant
minority make all our decisions for us
yes, even to the laws by which we
live?
There have been extreme examples
of 'mass apathy, or inertia, evident in
our society in recent times. Our subways
have provided the most recent arenas for
apathetic spectators. And we recall that
in one of our large cities not so long
ago a woman was literally slashed to
ribbons on the street while her apathetic
“neighbors” closed their windows and
drew their blinds to shut out her
screams for help. Is this the world we
inherited? Is this the legacy we want
to leave our children? Of course not,
but once begun, how do we reverse this
trend?
The treatment must start right
here, right now, in our own families and
in our own communities There is a
one-two punch that can beat apathy
every time: INTEREST and ACTION.
When was the last time that -you
became interested enough in a com
munity matter to either fight it or
push it? When was the last time you
were aroused sufficiently by a proposed
bill in your state legislature, or in Con
gress, to write, wire, or see your repre
sentative and let him know how you
felt 9 When was the last time that you
felt sufficiently INVOLVED either
pro or'con by an editorial in your
local paper, by a news item on radio
or television, by some local, national,
or worldwide incident to take AC
TION? For some, the answer may be
as recent as today, but for most it
exceeds the limitations of memory
Everyday of our lives we are lett
ing important decisions be made for
us, by others We groan about more
and more taxes; we say “yes” to our
'children’s unreasonable requests be
cause they tell us “all the kids are doing
'it”, and we’re so afraid that our kids
might be regarded as “different from the
'crowd”; we bemoan the fact that our
club’s, cooperatives, or other organiza
tions are run by small “cliques” who re
gard us as pawns. And we do nothing!
We shrug our shoulders and weakly
say, “Well, I guess it’s always been that
way ”
What do you suppose might hap
.pen if, instead of shrugging our should
ers, we started to flex our brains 9
Sugar Now Seen
As Major Cause
Of Heart Attacks
In the Mai eh issue of Food
and Nutntion News, Dr John
Yudkin, chan man of the de
ipartment of nutntion at the
’University of London, reported
•new evidence in the study of
•coronaiy heart disease that im
implicates sugar as a causative
'factoi
Dr Yudkin takes exception
•lo the theoiy that fat in the
f thet, especially so-called satu
rated fats contributes to heait
disease “In the USA,” Yud
states, “it has been shown
*that fat consumption has in- Temperatures for the five
fcreased by only 12 percent in day period, Saturday through
•ihe past 70 years with a signi- Wednesday, are expected to
'ficant increase in the ratio of average below normal. Nor
ipolyunsatuiated to saturated Ol le Period is
#ats. Accoiding to the com- degrees low lt
'monly accepted view, this W *M e . faring the first
•should have resulted in a fall with temperatures mod
-in coionaiy heart disease in- crating during the latter part
•stead of the very considerable thebperiod
•rise that has occurred Duung Prccipitat.on will occur as
~ „ „ , , rain toward the end of the
•xhe same penod, however, . , ... ... ,
* period with accumulations of
sugaP'Cbhsumption has increaS- v ~i C ss one half inch eiF
ed by 120 percent ” pected.
This could be a very dangerous thing.
If it were to spread, the collective're
sults cOuld literally pick this old globe
of ours up by the poles and shake it
till its core rattled!
We can not rid the world of apathy
by accepting apathy as a way of life.
As with many of our social problems,
apathy begins at home and in our
immediate communities. It not only is
born in our daily lives, it must periodi
cally be reborn there. And there is
where we can strike the deathblow.
One-two; INTEREST; ACTION.
Why not stop being a bystander,
Now, today' Stop window-shopping. Lift
up your head, square your shoulders,
walk into the store of life and tell the
world what YOU think!
What DO You Think?
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Our Lows Are "Going to the Dogs"
Under law, every citizen has the
inherent right to protect himself and his
property from harm or destruction.
That is, under the “old law”. The trend
of the “new law” suggests a progres
sive erosion of individual rights.
For example, House Bill 731, which
was recently before the Pennsylvania
General Assembly and returned to com
mittee for burial, would have made it
unlawful for a farmer to shoot a dog
that was attacking and killipg his live
stock or poultry If the animal was
unlicensed, the farmer could at the
risk of life and limb “detain it in a
humane way” If the critter carried a
license, the farmer could not even detain
it'
That bill would have m effect given
dog owners the right to license their ani
mals to kill or destroy the property of
others It seems that a person should be
as legally and morally responsible for
his dog’s actions as he is for the actions
of his children The fact that many par
ents neglect this responsibility where
their children are concerned is evident
from the increasing role of the juvenile
delinquent in our society Surely we
should not be asked to tolerate a tide
of delinquent dogs as well. Any dog
running loose and destroying another’s
property is either a stray or an uncared
for “pet”, and either way should be re
moved.
Too many of our animal laws are
being influenced by “people” who not
only value animal life above human
well-being, but can’t or won’t stop
shedding their “crocodile tears” long
enough to try to understand the pro
blems of farmers and other handlers of
livestock
He also pointed out that men
with lecont heait attack hist
ones had been eating twice as
much sugai as men showing no
evidence of heait tiouble
In atheioscleiosis, a condi
tion that often piecedes heart
attacks, in which arteries be
come nan owed or clogged by
the foimation of fat-like par
ticles in the aitery walls, he
icports that subjects more
regulaily have impaired glu
cose (sugai) tolerance than
high blood cholesterol.
“There are many exceptions
to the hypothesis that popula
tions and groups inevitably
Weather Forecast
What Do YOU Think’
show a lelationship between
dietary fats and coronary
heait disease” Yadkin said
He obseived \'vt tea and
coffee weie the inam earners
of the high sugai intake of
men with noted coi onary or
arterial disease This was due
partly to the amount in each
cup, and to the laigei numbers
of cups consumed.
(Continued on Page 10)
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Trial By Prejudice
Lesson for April 4, 1965
llarkffround Scripture: Matthew 26.1
through 27 26.
Hcvotioiul Heading: Matthew 26 36-46.
«\7ERDICT first, trial after
» wards!” It is only in a
wonderland where everything
makes nonsense and very little
makes sense, that one would
hear such a cry in a courtroom.
But even little Alice in her
dream knew
there was some
thing upside
down about that
sort of proce
dure. And yet
the trial of Jesus,
the trial that
ended in his be-
Dr. Foreman ing sentenced
without a single crime or even
fault proved against him, —that
trial was one where the court
had made up its mind before
hand. We cannot and should not
blame living Jews for what their
ancestors did, any more than we
blame modern Italians for the
sins of the Roman Empire. But
the fact is that the Sanhedrin,
highest court of the Jewish peo
ple at that time, had determined
that Jesus must die, before he
was even arrested —much less
tried. If ever a prisoner was
tried by prejudice, Jesus was
that man.
The way It went
The way it went was this. Put
ting all the gospels together and
filling out the story in Matthew, ‘
we find that the Sanhedrin were*
determined to destroy Jesus,!
with violence if possible, but j
anyhow destroy him. They tried j
to make him out an ignoramus, a
superstitious man, a rebel against I
Eome; they tried td make him 1
jound like a fool in public; but
it didn’t work. So they got him
arrested and charge with blas
phemy. Jesus claimed no more
than the truth, that he was in
Now Is The Time ...
To Become Efficient
This is a “must” in today’s fanning pic
ture; this might mean a certain degree of
specialization in one or more farm enter
prises It surely means doing a good job of
any undertaking and getting things done on
time; good management is part of efficiency.
We feel that it is much better to become
efficient in a normal sized operation rather
than to expand too rapidly into a big, ineffi
cient program.
To Plow Down Com Fertilizer
Many acres of corn ground will be plow
ed in the coming months We refer to the
merits of plowing down most of the corn „ IB
fertilizer in order to get the most from it It
is especially important to plow down the nitrogen 'becßttse it
moves upward in the soil and into the root irone. A starter
fertilizer at planting time is needed which supplies iB plant
food especially phosphorus
To BewalrO of Cattle Parasites
The build-up of internal
parasites in many local and
southern cattle needs more
attention. At a recent meet
ing of cattle feeders it was
stressed that stomach' worms
can reduce gains and elimin
ate any profits from the feed
ing operation. Samples of 'the
manure taken to your local
veterinarian will discover the
problem and he can recom
mend a treatment. Don’t feed
the worms..,. , }v , < -
To Inspect New
- -Wt
Some new seeding of al-
deed tHe Son Of the Koit'&Kb
God. This *#emedl)lWphd*)y to
the chief priests, who made up
Most of the Sanhedrin; and Idas*
phemy was In Jewish law a
capital crime. -But -Rome’s law
'held in 'Judea;* and in’Roman law
arrested and charged with bias*
phemy. So the problem was to
get Jesus condemned to death in
a Roman court, the only court
able to impose capital punish*
ment, for a crime no Roman
court would recognize. We know
how it went. All the trial proved
was that the leaders of the Jews
did not like Jesus, in fact hated
him. So Pilate, to save his own
career, sentenced Jesus to be
crucified, without any real
charge or conviction.
What is prejudice?
The word ‘(prejudice” ooirtes
from two Latin words meshing
to judge beforehand. That 4s,
having an opinion without'-con*
sidering the facts that -should
support the opinion—or refuse it
as the case may be.
Don’t we all?
It’s easy to latigh st other
people’s prejudices} much-harder
to get rid of our own—or even to
see our own. This is particularly
true when, many 'of the, people
we see and'know and talk with
every day have the same prej
udices we also have. We are
prejudiced whenever we say, or
think, “All Negroes" (Or all
white men, or all woflien, <ss all
Frenchmen) are like thatl” we
show prejudice when we judge
a man by the color of his skin,
before we know a single fact
about him; or When we accuse a
man of being a money-grabber
only because of the shape of his
nose; or of being a dangerous
man or an inferior type all be
cause he has some name like Mc-
Donald or U Thant or Kaminsky
and we think or say, “All Scotch
men (or Orientals, or Poles or
what not) are alike.” “We are
guilty of prejudice whenever we
condemn any person unheard
and unknown Prejudice drove in
the nails that killed Jesus: prej
udice kills people today.
(Based on outlines cODyrlrhted Inf (he
Division ot Christian Education National
Council ot the Churches ot Christ in the
V S A Released by Community Press
Sorvicc.'
Co To
Church Sunday
Haifa may not be good
to produce a profitable yield;
the slow growth 6i laet llall
along with an op** trtMer
without much snow covtr has
been hard on the** small
{plants; many -Mve.bWflwA out
of the ground. CSose tepee
tion may result in Dm cul
tivating of -the area' and lbs
making' oF a*>nejr r seed*
ing; sugglSF wethed
rather tha
of seeds .p&*tapo£ toe ground,
fiarly v spring seeding! with*
out any nurse crop amid gave
Jib^ys 0 ibis
season. OhetndCal 'VpAfyte fee
weed control -will tee needed. l