■' ' ' iii i'ii *i —** ~ r ' • #> ' mw • *» —jjancaster Farming, Saturday, April 10, 1965 From Where We Stand... "Too soon oldt, und too late schmart" We learned this week that we are apparently old-fashioned and out-moded in our thinking. Actually, we suspected this all along. But it was brought home recently by the words of a farm leader of national significance. It is his reported opinion that the good things of life should be distributed to each person on the basis of his NEED, not on the basis of his contribu tion. The Soviet Union has been flound ering with that doctrine for nearly half a century. We must admit that the Com munist Chinese regime has solved the problem more readily they’ve got it figured out so that nobody gets any thing! Much of our economic thinking on supply-demand is no longer applicable, as this man says, but the main reason for that is that the federal government has so completely fouled the mechanism with its conflicting programs and its “end of the rainbow” philosophy that no sound system could remain in effec tive control. But these points are for the econo mist “experts” to thrash out, and we don’t pretend to qualify. The thing that shakes us is to be told by a farm leader that the old-fashioned virtues of hard work and thriftiness no longer apply. That farmers, one of the last bulwarks of real independence, no longer need dirty their hands with hard work, that the big, benevolent, federal govern ment will provide for everyone accord ing to his needs' This farm leader seems to propose that now, with our great technological know-how, a farmer can expect to get to heaven in his own lifetime, and a god like federal government will watch over A FEW OF THE LANCASTER COUNTIANS PRESENT AT THE GOVER NOR’S CONFERENCE ON AGRICULTU tE at Harrisburg this week. (Front row, left to right) they are- Melvin Stoltzfus; Paul Rowe, Willis Esbenshade; (back row) Snavely Garber, Victor Plastow; and Amos Funk The meeting featured five speakers and” a panel discussion before an audience of about 600 Pennsylvanians. L. F. Photo • Gov. Conference (Continued from Page 1) on increasing it or he priced right out of the market'” 'Fallon noted that the need to produce more units has led to 'fewer and larger faims in Pennsylvania, with ‘com mercial farms dropping in number from 88,000 in 1950 to 53,000 last year. 'He re ceived a scattering of ap plause when he remarked that one of the forces the farmer has to cope with is government programs “Taxes have to increase so long as we accept all the services of fered If we’re going to ac cept them, We’re going to have to pay for them,” he thundered’ Bennett 'S Chappie, Jr., vice president U S Steel Corporation, told the farmers.^ him all the rest of his days. Wouldn’t that be great? . - There are some people in our cpun try who apparently think it would. If the “Great Society’s” sweeping plans for rural rejuvenation are fully realized we may all eventually, come to share benefits now enjoyed by some in the big cities economic assistance, for example. If we were real lucky we I might even get on the welfare rolls, mckcroun* scripture: Matthew sim-w.' Some “poor” city families have been w ''° llon<l Bead,n,: room's enjoying that bounty on into the third Tt was nothing unusual for three generation a recent report showed, y*- crosses to stand on the place Some of them are sterling examples of •called The Skull. That was where what can be accomplished if one will crucifixions always took place, but shed the enttquaLi virtues of work saving, and human dignity and accept and criminals breathed “the dole” as the proper way of life.- tortured George Orwell some years ago LatCtS wrote a book called 1984. We re- their bodies were commended it as pre-election reading thrown into a If you missed it then, pick up a copy common ditch at your library or bookstore now He aiK j hastily .cov pictured life about the year 1984 With an erec l up t 0 omnipotent central authority called “Big the jackals out. Brother” watching over a rigidly struc- So three crosses tured society in which all citizens were Dr. Foreman were not an un property of the State from birth. The heard of sight. Yet how' dif bureaucrats were the machines, and ferent were the three that April they “programmed” every step of each afternoon! Two were hanging citizens daily life. Far-fetched? Perhaps. thei « who ' were criminals But the year 1984 is less than a genera- one k . he ,. J j , . ~ T. _ what came to him, and the other tion away and considering the changes- ■ But th ’ e third cross that we have seen during this past he id 'a man who in air his life generation we had better soon decide had done ho wrong, a man whose what we want the next one to look hand had never been laid on any like! ‘ other man in anger hut always in This reminder of our old-fashioned - way of thinking about the value and rights of the individual and our regard for the virtues of life would have made us feel old and feeble if we had not re membered that we share these beliefs with some pretty important “old fashioned-type” people. What Do YOU Think? that they had a larger capital investment than any other single industry in Pennsylvan ia, but that “as large and ef ficient as the State’s farm economy appears to be today, it still has a long 'way to go to keep pace with the growth in the nation’s economy, and it is challenged toy direct competition with farmers in the rest of the country ” A panel moderated by Dr. R. E Larson, dean of Penn State College of Agriculture, discussed some of the oppor tunities for agribusiness in the state Panel member Samuel A Du®, county dairyman, spoke of some of the agri cultural barriers and poten tials fiom a farmer’s view point Other panel members wei e Alan R Wai ehame, pres- ident of Hanover Canning Company, Sigfned Weis, pres ident Weis Markets, Walter E. Wilmarth, poultiy producer. Tq Think Home La)ndsc)a(p(j|ng rear; finally, develop the out- There are many new, in- door living area formative nursery and seed To Remove Mnjlcb catalogs available that should If you have a strawberry be studied Home owners bed still mulched, it is now should (be sure to select time to remove this covering plants adapted to the situa- from the plants and place it tion in which they are placed, within the row. This mulch Make certain that you order will aid in keeping the weeds from a reliable source. It under control; 'conserve miois isn’t necessary to spend a lot hire, and make a cleaner bed of money. You can budget for the hemes to lie on. yourself -to (buy those plants Tq Properly Identify Gajves which are necessary to make Good dairymen Know 'the the home grounds more at- practice of properly identify tractive. Plantings can ibe mg young calves (born in their made over a period of years herds is a very un’portant —it doesn’t need to be done part of their management all at onee. You might want program. Proper identification to do it this way. establish is especially important for the - - shade trees the. first year; many dairymen using artificial Second Class Postage paid next, plant the front en- insemination sires. Many sires at Lititz, Pa. and at additional trance; then the sides and (Continued on Page 5) Lancaster Farming Lancaster Countv’s Own Farm Weekly P. O. Box 266 - Lititz, Pa, 22 B. Main St. 'Litit*. Pa. Phone - Lancaster 394-3047 or Lititz fi23-21 01 Don Timmons, Editor Robert G. Campbell, Adver tising Director Established November 4. 1955. Published every Satur- Jay by Lancaster-Farming, Lit t ’Pa. , -is * < i /- * V The One Cross Lesson for April 11, i 965 blessing. - Many crosses To this day all over the world when Christian people say “the cross” they usually mean that central cross and the Man upon it. The Cross means, as it ought to mean, the cross of Christ. That form of capital punishment has long since been abandoned; we see no more such cruel sights upon our highways. The memory of the countless crosses erected by the Homans has long since vanished; yet that one cross re mains, in song and story and praj ers. But on the other hand, is it not true that there are today many crosses, —crosses to look at, cross es of the mind and spirit? They are to be found on the counter of every jewelry store—and it does net prove that the jeweler is a Now Is The Time . . . To Prevent Scrap Metal Harm To Animals No one can explain why faim animals seem to like to eat bits of wire, nails, scraps of hardware, sciews and bolts The costly fact is that many Valuable animals have been lost by mutation or puncture caused by swallowing such objects To a laige extent these losses can be prevented. Remove fences of woven and stranded wire that are weak from rust before small bits of wue drop into the glass After a construction job in the barnyard it is worth the time to sweep the area thoioughly. More difficult is detection and removal of trash metal from ground feed, hay and silage. Permanent or electro magnets in feed chutes from bins to feeders MAI SMITH will remove a major portion of the trash It is important that some type of magnet be installed in home-grinding mills and mixes. religious man or a, Christian*) Crosses are used for ornaments on expensive gowns. They «rs used to decorate the interior of churches; yet there the minister is not always asked, but tha architect is, How many crosses should we have, and where? This is -not the true Cross; it was never an ornament. Christians come nearer tht meaning of the one cron when they speak pr sing of the "crow of grief ■ or pain;” or sorrow* suffering or death, or of lighter things such as disappointment* and frustrations, as “crossee.** Yet—none of these things can be called the One Cross. The true Cross Through the Christian ages, there has been a kind of curios ity-seeking effort to find tho “true cross,” that is to say the acual wooden cross upon which Jesus died. The tuith of the cross is not m wood, it is in the soul. And there are two meanings of the cross above all: tragedy and triumph. The Cross stands for the defeat of the Son of God. It is the tragedy of “but you would not” when Jesus would hava gathered all men to him. It is the tragedy of man’s saying No to the God of love. Yet in the true cross there is also triumph. It is the triumph of the God who. in love refuses to take No for a final answer, the triumph of divine love over human stupid ity,' envy and hate. Christians have wept over, the cross but they have never been ashamed of it. The True Cross ' It would be « study worth making to think out thejneaning -- of the- three crosses on Calvary; each .of them has a different meaning.- But let us only think of that cross which stood at the center there, and has been at the center of man’s heart ever since, wherever men have found the way of God. No other cross than this has revealed the love of God so fully, so movingly, so simply. No other cross has brought God and man together. In no other sign or symbol, in no other reality, is there the haimonv, the atonement, be tween the holy God and un holy man. (Based on outlines copsifelited by the Division of Christian I-duration. National Council af.tjie Churches of Christ in ths ISA Released by Community Press Service ) » XL» * $ i
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