4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 26, 1966
From Where We Stand...
How Clean Is “Clean''?
If a stream is not dirty, ds it then
a clean stream? If a stream is not clean,
is it then a polluted stream?
Qur legislators talk about a “Clean
Streams Law”. But who can properly
define the terms in which we measure
and discuss stream cleanliness and dirti
ness? This may seem trivial but lest the
national drive to unfoul our communal
nests bogs down in linguistics, we had
better be able to define our problem in
clear cut not just technical lan
guage.
For example, the Board of Health,
authorities may examine a stream, sam
ple its contents, and say “this is a clean
stream” A farmer looking at it may see
billowing ladders of detergent foam
trying to scale his dam; he may find
that fish don’t thrive there because of
an extremely high sift content in the
water, and he says, “this stream is un
clean”
Obviously, the Health man means
one thing and the farmer another. But
what is a clean stream? According to
the accepted Board of Health definition,
pollution is ‘ noxious and deleterious
substances rendering water unclean' to
the extent it is harmful to the health of
people or livestock’". This is a definition
that a technical man can measure and
can live with It does not satisfy Mr.
Average Citizen He wants to think of
a stream as either clean or unclean.
Whereas, technically, the authorities are
concerned with the degree of cleaness,
or the degree of pollution
A sanitary engineer, speaking at a
community meeting on stream pollu
tion this week, said. “If you are thinking
of ‘clean streams as your great grand
parents knew them, forget it. A small
degree of pollution is one of the prices
a civilized society must pay for ‘pro
gress’ ”
He is saying that the sparking, pure
streams of yesteryear have no place in
our “great society”. And he is right Un
fortunately Today, we have too many
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Febiuaiv 2& 7 30 pm,
IVlanheim Young Farmei
Assn at Manheim Cential
High School Suhj “Soil
Feitility’ speaker Wame
SOS county con
sei vationist
—7 30 pm Ephiata
Adult Fanner Welding
Comse at Ephiata High
School
—S pin Red Rose DHIA
diiectois quaiteilv meet
ing at Faint Ciedit Bldg
411 W Roseville Rd , Lan
castei
Maich 1 —') 4 5 am to 3
p’in Lanra'stei CounOt
Hany Day at Guemset
Sales Pavilion Lincoln
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people, too much sewage, and too few
streams. A low-level pollution both
air and stream is one of the facts of
civilization with which we have to learn
to live.
But no one, least of all the Boards
of Health, is saying that we have t 6 live
with our streams as open sewers, or pur
air as soot-filled chimneys. This is be
coming a concern, more and more, at
state and federal levels. Money, interest
and technical help are available for
communities to 'take action to clean up
their environments. But the action must
be initiated at local levels.
It was encouraging to see such an
exploratory “first step” being taken
this week by a small community in
Lancaster County. That first step is
adult education, and it was appropriate
that it was instigated by a local school
district one of the tiniest districts in
the county, as a matter of fact, but one
that regards its job of education in the
broad sense of community betterment.
This fight to make one’s communi
ty a better place in which to live is a
worthwhile fight. But let there be no
delusion here. We are not going to roll
back the calendar to the year 1900 All
that can be hoped for in both air and
water pollution is that we stop the
clock at this instant and say “here is
the point beyond which we will not
go” Our efforts must be directed toward
discouraging continuing sources of pol
lution of -our most precious natural re
sources, air and water, and toward cor
recting the existing extreme cases of
each. We have to arrive at some realistic
compromise as to the degree of resource
contamination with which ”we are will
ing to live.
As was said at the water pollu
tion meeting this week, there is no
point to cleaning up the big streams and
rivers until we clean up the creeks and
trivial tributaries that feed the rivers.
This means local interest and local ac
tion The government can help, but the
initial step is ours alone. Would you
have it otherwise?
—4 30 i) m Lancastei
Count;, Vo-Ag Teachers <
A«yn . at Wanvi'Ch Union
High School
Maich 3
10 15 am,
Southeast Pa, DHIA dilec
tors meet at Trexleitown
Grange Hall. Lehigh Comn-
—1 ip m Chester County
DaDy Clinic Woi kshop at
Ru'sselkv ille Giange Hall
—8 pm . Lancastei Coun
ty Swine Producers Assn ,
at Farm Ciedi.t Bldg , 411
IV Roseville Rd . Lane
—S pin , Chester County
Haiiv Clinic Workshop at
Ortoiaia Area High School
Raich 4 4th and sth, S
p m Annual 4-H Play,
“Heie We Go Again’ at
Mu nil ei ni Twip High School
—l2 noon, County Exten
sion hoaid ot directois
■lnniclieon meeting a.t Mead
ow Hills Dining Room
New Danville Pike Lane
—1 pin Ohestei County
Danv Clime Woikshop at
Konev Bi ook Fire Hall.
—8 pin Chestei County
Daily Clime Woiksliop at
Owen J Robeits High
School
Weother Forecast
The promise of near
normal temperatures for the
next several days is the best
the weatherman has to offer
this week. We can expect
seasonable days with the
overnight lows dropping into
the mid-20’s. Not much
change from day-to-day.
Precipitation is expected
to total between V*-Vi inch,
probably occurring as rain
along about Tuesday or Wed
nesday.
• Anderson & Joines
(■Continued from Page
has taken part in thd agri
business and young farmer pro
grams
Jomes is shown on the far
right of the other photo, in
structing vo-ag shop student
Duane Weaver in the tricky
process of figuring the propei
angje in forming a triangle by
using a square In this case the
students are constructing a
ladder Also observing this in
stiuction are students Leroy
Eshelman, left, and Claude
Miller, in back Jomes, too, has
gotten a variety of teacher
experience at Penn Manor, in
cluding adult farmer classes
The teacher training pro
gram is of ten-week duration
Both future teachers began
practicing January 3; they will
complete that phase of their
tiaimng by March 3rd.
Jomes hopes to get a teach
ing job in southeastern Penn
sylvania following graduation
in June Anderson would pre
fer to locate near his home
in noi theastern Pennsylvania
He will graduate in Maich,
1967.
• Dairy Day
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keting cooperatn es, and the
dairy breed associations.
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"You were. ransomed (re-
writes St Peter, “not
with pefishaßle things such as
silver oil gold but with’the prec
ious blood of Christ.” What is
the price Jesus paid for being
a redeemer? Years ago m the
days when the white man was
pushing the red man back and
back away from their old homes,
tsome U.S.'soldiers were murdered
fcy Cherokee Indians. Tim Jioops,
thirsty for vengeance, were about
to destroy the Cherokces. men,
B.ck,r*un4 Sctfcto.. Roman, M-Ili women, and children in revenge.
EchMian. 2:UOt Tltu. I Pet.r At this point (so the story goes) a
S„.a 2 on«I R«.An 9 . Roman. .chief named Junaluska -got the
. , i . . ,> , .ear of the leader off the soldiers,
Tl/’HfAT '.QANNOT be put In(oi a nd offered to bargain.' If you
* “ words can be attempted in W ill let my people go, he said,
a picture. Every language is sup- and give us a safe conduct across
plied with picture words we the Mississippi, I oiler my life
may ,call them drama words or for -The soldiers agreed;
story-words —• not so much to and so Chief Junaluska died
compass, the whole truth as to for his people. How would the
point out the di- Cherokees have felt about their
rection in which chief? And what was the market
we may look for value of the lives he saved? You
truth. The more do not offer money to one who
important a truth has saved your life,
is the more nec- _ . , ...
essary these Conquest and Liberation
story-words are to Another meaning wrapped up
express it. The in that word Redemption is de-
Bible is no excep- liverance, conquest, freedom. In
Dr. Foreman tion. Most of our the last days of World War 11,
words about God are such words, probably the most wretched hu
and when we come to what God man beings were Germany’s war
does for men in redemption, only Tortured, on the edge
story-words will do. Let us see of starvation, those living corpses
what we can make of the word cheered when they heard the
used in the title above the sounds of air raids. America
various words “redeem”, redeem- ruled the skies. Freedom was at
er”, redemption”. hand. Freedom came to those
men so long shut off from hope.
Back in the family again This isransom-by ; conquest. Christ
is the freedom-bringing champion
• Man Redtemed
Lesson for Frtrusry VI, 1908
ir*r
These words are fair transla- of those who are enslaved tOi
tions of words found in both Old evil, the devil’s prisoners, so
Testament and New. The Old to speak. But can you imagina
Testament “redeem” referred to one of the men thus set free, ablo
a custom now passed away but to live where he liked and to dot
then very important and familiar what seemed desirable— can you l
to all. When an ancient Hebrew Imagine such * man throwing!
got into trouble, let us say got away his freedom hy clinging tot
into debt so far he could never the old barracks of the prison
pay his way out, his creditor or camp and refusing to leave? Op
creditors would take him over as can you think happily of a freed)
a slave. That he might have a prisoner cherishing his new free"
wife and children made no dif- dom hecause it would give him
ference to the creditor, who had an opportunity to carry on-a life
no other way of getting his money of crime? Saint Paul makes much
back except *to make a slave of of the truth that those who have
the debtor. Now it was the duty been set free (redeemed) have
of the next-of-kin, if it was at all an obligation to live as men whose
possible, to go to the creditor and lives so to speak have been given
buy back his relative by paying back to them,
his debt and thus restoring him „ . ..... ..
to his family and friends. This
buying-back was called redemp* Council of th» church**oi.Chwiin tk«
tion and the self-sacrificing rela- ** Cw “‘*
tive was called the redeemer, -
Now Is The Time ...
By Max Smith, Lancaster County Agent )
To Inoculate Legumes
Alfalfa and red clover growers are re
minded of the importance of inoculating the
seed with the proper nitrogen-fixing bacteria
before broadcasting this spring These bac
teria will make it possible for the legume
plants to form root nodules and to extiact
mtiogen from the an for the more rapid
growth ot the plant The seed should be
inoculated just prior to seeding
To Reinforce Manure
Many county farms continue to be low
in phosphorus, complete soil tests have
verified this condition for many yeais Dairy
men who use super-phosphate in the barn
gutteis, or cattle feedeis that apply super- SMITH
phosphate on the manuie pack befoie each bedding, are doing
the light thing to attempt to coirect this shortage. This extra
phosphate not only adds moie available phosphorus but helps
tie up some of the nitrogen in the manuie Tins practice is not
getting the usage that it deserves.
To Plan For New
Pasture Seedings
Early spring is the sevond
best time to make a new
pasture seeding (late sum
mer or earlv fall rates best).
tSeedlngs made during late
Ifthrch or eailj .Apnl will
have a much better chance
to get well stalled befoie
hot, diy iveathei arnves A
nurse crop -such as spring
oats may be used (one bush
el per acie) to help get the
seedlings stalled and then
removed for hay or silage at
heading tune.
I* Mil*
1
fhe coi.r
To Spray For Wild
Garlic Control
D'anymen that .have been
having a problem ot wild gar.
lie in their pastures might
be on the alert for spring
growth ot this weed and have
it sprayed when 4 to 6 inch
es high, this growth will us
ually be attained during ear
ly to mid-March. When,
sprajed at this time, and
when there is very httia
giowth ot the pasture leg
umes, a dosage of 1 to 114
pounds per acre of tiie ester
form of 2,4-D will help elim
inate the garlic without do
ing any damage to the leg-
umes,