4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 7, 1965
From Where We Stand...
Too Much Slush In The Fund?
One does not customarily think
of the federal government, by nature,
as a large “advertiser”. But one had
jolly well better begin thinking about
it, or else be prepared to accept it as
a way of life!
The Department of Agriculture, is
a case in point. The Department was
charged this week by Charles Shuman,
president of the American Farm Bureau
Federation, with the use of government
funds to propagandize the Administra
tion's pet farm bill, which is now pend
ing in Congress.
Shuman said in a letter to Secretary
Freeman that reports from all parts
of the nation “show conclusively the
expenditure of large sums of public
money in efforts to induce farmers to
influence their representatives in Con
gress to vote for this ill-advised legisla
tion . , the expenditure of government
funds to propagandize the citizens is an
illegal, immoral, and unethical use of
public money and power,” Shuman
stated
We have no question that Shuman’s
charge is accurate and warranted. But
it does bring the question to mind as to
just how the Department handles and
accounts for such expenditures. Is “pro
paganda padding” included' m each
appropriation as a retailer’s “mark-up”
to cover the costs of doing business?
We are well aware of the suffocating
quantity of USDA press releases that
must be sent out daily just by the
number that cross this desk. So they
own the Post Office, but somebody’s
got to be paying the tab Guess who?
Are these programs that are being
developed for us by Papa- Government
so bad that Congress can only be per
suaded to pass them by such means 9
Has the Administration so little faith
in the products they are “manufactur-
GRAND AND RESERVE CHAMPIONS (left to
this week posed briefly with their owners, Kenneth
respectively
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ing” that they have to hide each one
from public and Congressional view
by wrapping it in reams of paper as
one might a dead fish whose odor it
was desirable to hide? Well, brother, if
the programs are that rotten, no amount
of paper is going to change their
smell!
So, wherever the slush money is
coming from, and of course it must
originally come from your pocket and
our’s, isn’t it about time we called a
halt to this sort of waste? “Ibj” can
coerce all the Congressmen he wants
to in person or on the telephone, but
it’s about time the Administration, and
in this case the Department of Agricul
ture. stopped using civil servants and
government agencies to propagandize
private citizens
What Do YOU Think?
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And The Rains Came
A sudden spurt of hope swept over
Lancaster County this week hope
that the long drought that has plagued
us these past three and one-half years
has suddenly dried itself out. Through
July, it surely looked as though we had
at least one more and year to endure.
Now well, maybe we’re over the hill.
At least in the central part of the
county the reports are looking up. We
ended July with a rainfall deficit for
the year of approximately two inches,
even though July put down some very
beneficial moisture at a crucial time.
Then August was washed in with an
other two inches of the welcome stuff.
The experts say that if we can get
a couple more inches on the ground
in August we’re going to have the best
corn and tobacco the county has produc
ed since 1961
Weather Forecast
Temperatures for the five
day period, Saturday through
Wednesday, are expected to
average above normal. Nor
mal for the period is a high
of 86 and a low of 65 de
grees. It will be warmer oyer
the weekend, moderating
somewhat during the latter
half of the period.
Precipitation may total
more than Vi inch, occurring
as showers and thunder
storms over the late weekend
and early uevt week.
So, let her rain, we say!
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right) at the FFA Hog Show
Martin and David Heisey,
L. F. Photo
• FFA Hog Show
(Continued from Page 1)
Weaver, Pequea Valley, 6, Dale
Hershey, Cloister.
Mediumweight —1, Kenneth
Martin, Grassland (Yorkshire
champion-grandchampion); 2.
John Frey (Yorkshire reserve
champion), 3, ThomasZaitman,
Cloister; 4, Dale Hershey; 5,
Robert Fisher, Giassland, 6,
Kenneth Zimmerman
Heavyweight —1, Terry
Myer, Grassland, 2, Teny
Kauffman, Cloister, 3, David
Heisey, Cloister, 4, Dale Her
shey. 5, Bail Hertzog, Cloister,
6, Eugene Rissei, Warwick
(Continued on Page 9)
God Accessible
Lesson for August 8, 1965
Background Scripture: Mark 1 35, Ads
246 47 Colossians 3 16-17, Hebrews
10 19-25. . A ,
Devotional Reading: Psalm 84 1-10.
EVERYBODY HAS a god of
*- J some kind. What we worship
has all the marks of God, or a
god. Even the professed atheist
has a god of sorts. Martin Luther
remarked once; whatever a man
hangs his heart on and depends
on, that is his
god. Sometimes
a man’s god is
himself. Henley's
poem “Invictus”
shows us in a few
lines the heart of
a man who had
been beaten up
in the battles of
life, but still he
thanks “whatever gods there be
for my unconquerable soul.” It
is quite clear that Henley really
hung his heart on himself and
depended on himself rather than
any god that religious people
would be thankful for.
Cod in the Dark
Human beings are not to be
classified into believers in God
on one side and non-believers
on the other. The division ought
to be between those who wor
ship and serve the true God and
those who worship some other
kind. One of the first questions
to ask if you want to find out
about a man’s religion would be:
Is your God accessible? There
have been men in all ages, prob
ably, who believed in some sort
of god but never tried to make
contact with him. In darkest
Afnca before the white men
came, the natives in many if not
most tribes had two religions, as
a famous missionary pointed out.
They had (so to speak) their
eveiy-day religion with doll-gods
called fetishes, but they were also
dimly aware of a high god, a sky
god They seldom if ever prayed
to this God, they 3ust felt he was
there.
God in the Light
The ai*,ent Hebrews, God's
Covenant people, had traces of
YOUR CHOICE ON SUNDAY
Now Is The Time •..
To Seed Alfalfa
Early August is one of the good times
to make a seeding of alfalfa; the other time
to make a straight seeding without any nurse
eiop would be early spring (late March or
early April). The giound should be well
prepared, fine, and film. The band seeding
method is stiongly recommended in order to
get faster growth of the alfalfa seedlings.
Early August seedings have a much better
chance of winter survival than seedings made
in late August or early September.
To Prepare For Winter Oats
Local faimers who are planning to grow
a few aeies of winter oats should be plann
ing to seed about the middle of September:
winter oats will do much better on well drained land with less
danger of winter killing. Norhne or Dußois are the two re
commended vaueties for this area.
To Plan For Extra To Renovate Old- Pastures
Silage Storage Many permanent hhiegrass
Livestock producers who do pastures will be more produc
not have sufficient silage stor- tive if they are renovated and
age might consider a trench seeded down to some ot the
or bunker silo for extra space, higher producing grasses. The
In most areas of the county old sod should be plowed, or
the com crop looks promising disced several times, during
and the making of the corn August so that the new pasture
into silage is the best way to mixture can be seeded during
hai vest the maximum number i a t e August or the first few
of feed nutrients per acre, days in September. A complete
Plans for these horizontal silos SO ii test will show the Kme and
are available at the Extension fertilizer needs that ought to
be worked into the soil before
seeding. Grasses such as Penn-
On May 24, 1830, the first late Orchard, Bromegrass, or
tram drawn by a steam engine Reed Canary are adapted, and
rolled down 12 miles of track ,vill give more growth during
on the B. & O. the summer months.
the idea of God in the dark. The
room where his “seat" was In
tabernacle or temple was.*room
without windows or lights. No
on« w«* allowed to eater that
room except the high priest and
he only once a year. The mystery
and even terror of that God
loomed strongly in the wor
shipper’s mind. But for all that,
God was also a God of light. His
people could pray to him. The
very fact that they made cove
nants or agreements with him,
whether he was visible or not,
showed vividly in the prophets’
messages and m other ways.
God Accessible
The writer to the Hebrews, in
the New Testament, makes a
strong distinction between the
accessibility of God as it was m
older times (the days of Moses,
for example) and since the com
ing of Chust. Instead of being
a hidden god, to be reached on
special occasions by special
people, he now lives 311 st bejond
the door of woiship Moie than
once in Hebiews the tin one of
God is mentioned, but no longer
a throne in the dark. Christ is
the one who has made the Hu one
of God accessible God is no
longer the silent god, he speaks
to us, and what he says can be
summed up in one woid JESUS.
God does indeed sit on the throne
of the universe; but that thione
is as near as your next praj er.
Once and for all, there has come
a Light of the world, and in tune
this Light will control and destroy
the daikness God had been
known as the Creator of men, and
as the Judge of men, but now
he is to be known, in a trans
forming way, as the Companion
of men. All persons long asso
ciated with one anothei come
to be very much alike. So those
who aie companions or friends
of Chi Ist come to resemble him
in thought and action. If a man
or woman lives deeply and inti
mately with the Father of our
Lord Jesus, seeing life as Chust
saw it, living as he lived it,
Christ will be shared with more
and more people. If any man
would mastei the art of living, he
must meet and live with the
Master of Life.
(Bai«d on outline copyrighted by th«
Division of Christian Education, National
Council of tho Churches of Christ in the
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