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*» —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supply-demand is no longer applicable,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
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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)
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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 )
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