4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 9, 1966
From Where We Stand...
Favorite Washington Game
Pin The Tail On The Farmer
On March 31, the U.S. Department
of Agriculture put out a news release
saying that farm and food prices had
leveled off. The report showed that
average prices received by farmers
between mid-February and mid-March
were down somewhat, and lower retail
food prices were promised with the pre
diction that farm prices would show
further price declines as the year goes
on.
On the same day, March 31st, Pre
sident Johnson told the nation that
one of the primary culprits in the cur
rent inflationary spiraLwas food prices.
Food means farmers, so, in effect, John
son was saying to the nation of con
sumers -that the farmers not John
son’s own wild spending spree were
causing inflation. He urged American
housewives to boycott foods that were
too high-priced.
Now is it possible the President
isn’t on the same USDA mailing list
that we are? Or perhaps he just wasn’t
briefed by agriculture secretary Free
man. More likely, he was simply look
ing for a scapegoat, and who makes a
better federal scapegoat than the farm
er?
This “pin the tail on the farmer”
game is also played another way. It’s
called manipulating surpluses. The way
it works is to encourage farmers to
create surpluses of certain products and
put theSv. into government storage.
Then, when the market price for these
commodities gets too high, in the Admin
istration’s judgment, government stocks
can be dumped at below parity prices
to drive down the open-market price.
A current example of this techni
que is the recent increase in the sup
port price on soybeans. Freeman an
nounced it was being raised 25 cents
per bushel to a level of $2 50 cents for
the 1966 crop to give farmers more in
centive to grow soybeans. He said the
annual carryover of beans was insuffi
cient to meet demand What he meant
was it was insufficient to put enough
beans into government storage so he
could dump them on the open market
when he felt the price was too high
next year
In recent months, both Johnson
and Freeman must have been consider
ably frustrated for they had no sur
pluses with which to drive down some
of the first equitable farm prices in
years Thus the other gambit, tell the
housewives it was their duty to boycott
the higher-priced farm products
It should be evident to even the
most near-sighted citizens that the
present administration doesn’t care two
figs for the farmers’ well-being To the
Johnson-Freeman team the farmer is
Incentive For More
Soybean Production
Seen in Support Hike
In addition to extending
the wheat and teed giain
Mgnu'p tune to Apul s la->t
Lancaster Farming
Lancaster County’s Own Farm
Weekly
P O Box 266 - Lititz, Pa.
17543
Offices:
22 E Main St.
Lititz, Pa 17543
Phone - Lancaster
394-3047 oi
Lititz 626 2191
Don Timmons, Editor
Robert G Campbell, Adver
tising Du ector
SttbsuipUon puce—s 2 per
-in La nr aster Count},
year
53 elsewhne
Established November 4,"
1955. Published every Satur
day by Lancaster Farming, Lit
itz, Pa.
j; * \ *• * %
simply a food-growing machine design- . -
ed to nourish the Great Society flock at i
cost, or less.
★
When Money Flows Down,
Power Flows Up
Gov. George Romney of Michigan
recently addressed a group of Young
Republicans on the subject of the “new
centralism”, or super-federalism, of
the Johnson administration.
Romney pointed out that “Federal
funds for federal projects built to feder
al specifications are being poured into
big cities. And as the money flows
down, power flows up.” It has ever
been so, but now this trend seems to
have taken on the momentum of a
national drive.
Romney expressed the fear that the
federal coordinators who will supervise
each of these projects locally will
eventually become as “federal mayors”.
He predicts they will one day, if this
trend is allowed to continue, supplant
local, elected authority, and will be
come the real policy makers and
operating heads of the major cities.
As one alternative to this direct
federal pipeline to our major cities,
Romney suggests federal tax money
should be fairly distributed to include
state and local governments. Another,
and more basic alternative, is that
when problems can be solved on a local
level of government this should be
done, rather than running to Big Daddy
every time there is a community crises.
Basic decisions, as charity, should
begin at home. If we want our deci
sions made by bureaucrats in Washing
ton, the latter will be only too happy
to comply. If we continue to grab
greedily at the tainted bait of federal
money, we are wantonly giving away
our most prized possession freedom.
And one by one that will include all
the freedoms.
Want a prediction? We predict that
by 1968 this over-federalized approach
to government will be the key national
election issue. And while we’re predict
ing, we would not be surprised to see
Gov. Romney in the role of the Re
publican Presidential Candidate. He is
building an attractive image suc
cessful businessman, successful adminis
trator of a major state; vigorous and
dynamic personality; but above all, a
man of principle who has had a snoot
ful of federal waste and paternalism.
The fact that he openly denounced the
conservative Republican candidates in
1964 may also work to his advantage.
Time will tell, and there will be
dozens of candidates on the scene
between now and 1968, but we’ve just
got a dumb hunch that Romney looks
like a winner
■week. Secretary of Agricul
ture Freeman also announced
an mtiease ot 2o cents per
bushel m the suppoi t price
foi -oi beans, bunging the
puce let el to 50 per bush
el lot the I<l f>fi ciop teai
In making the announce
ment Fieeman said “Todaj’s
action sues sot bean pioduc
e’l s an incentite loi added
planting bt ipi ending definite
assuiance ot a substantial m
ciease in the minimum puce
level toi the coining soybean
c i op
He suggested that soybeans
oltei tainieis a good cash al
tername to com with the
lattei continuing in surplus
In spite of the me leasing
bean supply in lecent >eais
kj; is not keeping up with ■de
mand Fieeinan said He
wants iiioie annual cantoyei
o£ so beans
-Fieeman said the higher
support pure will he ie
v-ewed pilot to any Ir*1 r * G 7
suppoi t annount einent
• Beekeepers
(Continued from Page 2)
chairman ot Hoiticultuie Ex
tension at Penn State He
has been truit specialist since
1047
Bittner is a >nienibei ot
several piotessional societies
and the Pennsylvania Hoiti
culluie Association In lOfis
he tiaveled aiound the vvoild
obsen-ina ti uit pioduction in
ranous countnes
A smoigasboid dinnei has
been anauged at 12 75 per
pei son Resen ations should
be made betoie Monday -
Weather Forecast
Fair skies *rate high on
the weatherman’s list of
promises for the next seveial
days, particulary for the
Easter weekend. However,
temperatures will average a
little below noimal through
most of the five-day period.
Precipitation is expected
to 'be very light for the
entire period, with perhaps
a total of .1-inch occurring
as showers Saturday night.
• ur 7 whir* ow tiUglon baa mors pr«.
‘int, _ / tig* and influence than aver, thi
\k V®}tlll 15* "*v world 1> vary stubborn la
j,cjjjjjj z\ ' > resistance to tha Ideal* and tin
! * A SPEAKS Ufa of tha church, Tha church
’ atanda for God; the contemporary
- -i-- y', ' world livta a* If God were dead.
t C \ ~ T , j The church honor, thehome; tha
world tear* It down. Tha church
■MiiiWMrWiiißittiiii'iM.'M meachei chastity and calls un-
chastity tin; tha world (to judga
by the movies) find* unchastity
merely funny. And <o it gois, r ih e
church la low-rated ao much that
even aoma of her leaders are be-
ginning to call this thepost-Chrlst
. . ... ,„ , L ~ -. , ian era. Evan the Christian with
3 So:',^:: ! 7 IS, p,l n ’ an optimistic faith must admit
Dr/.h«%«i anoint i is-23 that this is for the church a time
Victory View
lesson for April 10,1966
Within the lifetime of living of weakness and defeat. -
men it could be truly said that uihnaa uletnru? i.
Christianity was growing faster " nOM V,ClOryf V
than any other religion in the But there is no need to he a
world. This was true, hut not pessimist The Bibls’s view of the
now. Other religions are creeping church is a victory view. When
up on us. Look at Japan for ex* wa speak of the victory or defeat
ample and figure of the church, What do we really
fit out for yourseli mean? ft is not the church alone
One half of one whose future concerns us. This
percent of Japa- is the church of Christ. Every
nese are Christ- true church is his, every defeat
ians. In other and ayery victory are his also,
words, the non-The church cannot win unless he
Christians out- wine. That would he as absurd
number the Christ- as for an army to win while their
ians 200 to one. general wat defeated. And if he
Dr. Foreman Suppose that for wine, the church will win. For in
each pair of Christian parents spite of every discouragement and
now living, there will be four setback we persist in believing
Japanese in the next generation, that Christ will win over all hie
Then 30 or so years from now and onr enemies. It is Easter, and
there will be, or can be, twice as one meaning of the Resurrection
many Christian Japanese as there Is a sign and pledge that the God
are today. But by that time, there who conquered death, the”manof
will he twice as many non-Christ- God’s own choosing” whom death
ian Japanese as today. If thenon- could not hold, will In time con-
Chrishans outnumber the Christ- quer all other forms of evil, all
ians now 200 to 1, how muchwill that is hostile to God.
they outnumber them in the next „.. . re
generation, assuming they all Wli«t Wll! Victory b«?
have about the same number of Victory we hope for, but not
children? triumphalism. - . Triumphalism
, . - means the victory of one party
Population explosion over another. A world in which
All over the-world, the popu- aome one denomination had
lation explosion works against wiped out all the others, so that
the Christians. We are presently there would he one Established
becoming more numerous, to be Church, would be -triumphalism,
sure, but no as fast as our rival and tills is not promised us in
religionists. It is not only the pop- Scripture. But if triumphalism is
ulation growth that is bringing not the shape of Christ’s victory,
that about. Christianity was en- what is? The victory of God when
joying a great prestige in the days complete will he what and where
when the * Christian” nations were it Is now: In the hearts of men.
running the world. Now with the Christ promised that if he were
decline of colonialism the prestige lifted up he would "draw all men”
of western religion has likewise to himself. No man can be forced
declined. Not only so, but here to follow Christ. The kingdom of
heaven for which we pray will
not come by force or bargaining,
ATTEND THE CHURCH It comes only where men freilV
OF YOUR CHOICE give their heart to the Son of Goo.
SUNDAY {Suit •» wUhw swnftM tor 1 B,v ] l! f! ,
•t Clirbltan UuctUnn, N««tn»I Cauncll •» «#
Churthn at Chrtil In (h* Vt I. At UtMinW
Community Fmi tirvheif .
Now Is The Time
By Max Smith, Lancaster County Agent
To Fertilize Shrubbery
Early spring is the best tune to tnm
many shrubs and trees (excluding ever
greens). When this is done, it is advised to
fertilize the plant to encourage new growth
and to get the desired shape This is especial
ly tiue when shiubs have been severely
trimmed or thinned A complete tiee and
shiub fertilizer may be used
To Practice Herd Management
When the milking herd is turned to
pasluie ior me inst time in the spring, very
caieful handling is needed to prevent oif
flavoied milk. Lush pasture may give milk
a “grassy” flavoi if the herd is permitted to
glaze close to milking time, or if the bain SMITH
is pooily ventilated after the cows come off the giass P<is
tures containing any amount of wild garlic require ven de
finite grazing lestuctions to-maintain quality milk flavoi W
moving the held 4 to 5 hours betoie the milking time is one
very impoi tant practice
To Review Insurance
Coverage
As the thundei storm sea
son appi caches, we are re
minded ot the dangei ot
lightning sinking taun build
ings .Vii'd the need ot ini'} fire
m'suiance coveiagl The -»h-
Uistment ot insmaiice cover
age to piotect the i ©place
ment costs inthei than the
original cost is needed on
mam taims A bnet
to, jour insurance agent ca‘n
obtain this added protection
so badly needed under pres
ent building conditions
- 1 ;
• • •
To Sharpen Lawn
Mower Blades
The mowing of the !■>""
will boon he a weekh clu’ie
a sharp set ot niowei blades
is ,a v \ ? r >'i important ie f l" ,ie
luent ,in-dping a good l (),) 0
Tilts is ebiie (, ‘' '
true with the blades on
tary moweis Jlany I,O " |S
owneis tail to keep
shall) and the .grass n» hen"
-oft. „(>t oii(« ‘ j
-slilitld'i be sharpened
tunes during the season
laige areas are to lj e
weekly.
> " 3 k. 5 ~
> -V V 4 J? "