—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 23, 1966 4 From Where We Stand... Pennsylvania's Future In Agriculture A very important second step was officially taken this week in the continu ing effort to further the state of agri culture in Pennsylvania. Governor Scranton’s agriculture Committee reported on the many factors affecting that area of the state’s econo my, after having studied the situation and gathered evidence over the past year. The issue of competition for rural resources in Pennsylvania is a subject of vital concern to every citizen of the state, particularly those who will be in volved in agriculture in the coming years. As our population expands, the nonagricultural sector of the economy will require more and more land. Land for houses, for stores, for schools, for recreation, and for highways. The com mittee studying this pioblem reported that 15,000 acres of farmland is being lost each year to the pressures of ur banization. In a report delivered by committee chairman Amos H. Funk of Millersville HI, it was recommended that land other than Class I, 11, or 111, be used for highways and for recrea tional purposes wherever possible. As Funk reported, in the long run land will go to its most economical use if it’s worth more for growing houses than for growing food, houses will be the crop. This is an economic fact of life that can not be entirely thwarted, but, as Funk said further, we also have to consider the short run in plotting the use of our natural resources. And in the short run it is important that we lay guidelines which will shape the best development of our state for the long range picture These sub-committees have worked hard in meeting the challenge which the Governor threw down a year ago. They have given him many good, hard facts and recommendations. The matter has 'been deferred to agriculture secretary Bull for further study. It is important that it does not rest there. A good start has been made, but it is only a start. We hope Scranton’s, and succeeding ad ministrations, will continue the effort to preserve and improve agriculture in Pennsylvania. ★ ★ ★ ★ Disksen Amendment 1 Goes Down Swinging The anti-icapportionment team of Sen'll- Everett Dirksen came up with a lot of hit; but lost the second game o' 4 bi sf’ij' , to the Senators from Wash i llns • i ek. Analysis of the defeat ‘be Dji '. an foices left Leo many ‘ i n nicer..; cm base rt'thn Jasi Al'kough they-aan;n fa led by k ■'l f i “j'l Calendar i'-' i i'lOM P i .0 T) , 0)—-a’ > i V jil.fiii'. I’.nf 11.1 flor'l I J U 11, I*l >; •. ('ll ' L • u * .i " 1 ' 1 ( k i>i f ' f * V (‘hi {*/ v ; i.it’i s fnru FarP> If, I % * I -sit.w - r , r-.r UiiU p^r s . r-1% '.i>i S! !’ i,i-Ia < wl' , r . ■ '."l'n i hi. , (Cfiifji < >' Acker 1 ’ ) i 1 . ''io •*(*' *.■ j . - i I' iuuly; S 3 J 1. I L J i \v i[i j i No\ ember 4, 1955 Published e\oiy Satur day by Lancaster Fannins, Lit itz, Pa. 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Choose a div trip, it aas o\t ended ro Uuet mi they coiild \.s ll the To Store Fertilizer Propeltly ' lll *ou c.mn'J l baufiuet at ( -*' n r *' ,( ,ay ’ 110 v t u'illo 7 l‘‘ne it a 11, 'loi’.purl Mfich’H" \\ r ’lo.v - t‘o . itn f ! Victor Vc«i'vo! , ‘ ! ? ..riim; WW.-jvt-' r.r ..^ip B t'O. On tfpr.or -K-wui?iou ‘"' f ~r' '« v V fsd u ' ,r ' <.»nal* Horhv, ?!->«<-■ >0 f U,vl> the -J *na .Ut' aw t:,l .sun, < '■ “V JIH 'IV 1 |„ , ; 4 a’ >lf' Vi* lay i irm J'xvr-u'a. Vi'.y, if' 'dK tfir Ja,T i3n%- • loluo. .1 i a,-, '.luißpr. si '’A i , t \N , ■. I ' ;!■ Cu miy att . tr / V- ‘v*t i J ‘ ) "f r T« *,2 pei U. K. llep.ii liuolil oi Aiint in fill e ill Washington, 1 1. C., ''here they Client Monday, seven votes to get the necessary two thirds majority for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which would over-rule the “one-man-one-vote” edict of the Supreme Court, a change of only four votes by the opposition would have carried the day. Pennsylvania Senators Scott and Clark split, with Clark opposing the amendment. Three Republican Senators from other populated eastern states were also in the enemy camp Boggs from Delaware; Case, New Jersey; and Javits, New York. Those four Senators alone could have righted the wrong done by the Court to the U.S. Constitu tion, had they seen fit to do so. Is this the end of the Dirksen drive to preserve the rights of states? The lion-hearted one says NO. He says his forces will carry the fight to the people all across the land in an effort to defeat the foes of this important measure. Ad dressing the opposition in the Senate, Dirksen said, “You’re afraid to have this issue go before the people (for a vote) and we’re going to tell the voters you’re afraid of the people”. Hopefully, the Dirksen team will do just that, and, hopefully, the people will vindicate the faith that Everett Dirksen has in them. ★ ★ ★ ★ "Zero Tolerance" Concept Doomed We commented in an editorial in Lancaster Farming on October 3, 1964 that the old concept of “zero tolerance” and “no residue” had become meaning less because of the development of high ly sensitive techniques for measuring re sidues. This was the conclusion of the President’s science advisory committee. The matter was then turned over to the Food and Drug Administration and Agricultural Research Service for furth er study. The latter agencies completed their study last June and recently released findings and recommendations. These amount to a first major step in dump ing the whole zero tolerance concept for safe public pesticide use, and legali zation of some residues in food crops. The government has ordered that where a chemical may reasonably be expected to leave a residue in or on food, registiation will not be granted until and unless the manufacturer can prove that some of the chemical resi due in food is safe for humans. It has ordered the use of many of the ques tionable chemicals in food products off the mm kef by December 31, 1987. The Federal Food. Drug and Cos metic Act wbr'h defines the use of I he In ms “/ero toloiance” will have to bo ib-im-cd h:fc-c + he terms can he aban doned, hi 1 this appeals In'lie a mo. c lormuiilv. Show (' s over the week end, and again toward the end oi the period, will make the grass grow, and may interfere somewhat with mowing. into ihi tianda o! mean or mall* clous men. Another reason why state religion Is dangerous at worst and low-grade at best la that when religion comes under the control of government it la managed like any other depart* ment of the state with the result that religion becomes a branch of politics. J Disaster In Israel How did religion fare when it got into the hands of that enterprising young organizer, Jeroboam? After that silly speech Background Seripiur,: i Kings 12 25 ihrough 14,20* by Rehoboam, there was a great Dovoimnoi B.odmg Proverbs 2.1-9. uprising among the Israelites and State religions are older than a major secession. Rehoboam the Pharaohs. Wherever in the found himself only barely hold world you find a particular re- ing on to two tribes, while ligion or denomination supported Jeroboam had in his tight grasp and protected by the state to the all the rest of the nation. He set exclusion of all others, there is a out to make new centers of wor state religion. Perhaps a state re- Ship, and new methods andforms ligion is better than none, but of worship. Disgusting as it seems this is an arguable to us, he actually told the people point. One thing that the gold-plated calves in the is sure, the found- new holy cities of Bethel and ing fathers of Shechem were the gods who had America had seen brought their ancestors out of state churches in Egypt, action, and they , were determined »V13t16 Israel tO Sill There were good traits in r» w »m,n npvpr taVp mnt in Jeroboam, as the story shows. Dr. Fo But his good points were scrubbed America’s free soil. out by the bad. Always after* Even if the founding fathers wards, calf-worship would remind had never seen state religion in people of Jeroboam. The tag that practice, they could have read g o t attached to his name was their Old Testament and learned « w h o made Israel to sin.” He did much by its light. State religion not force Israel to like the hooves is dangerous because it depends 0 f the gilded calves; he just set for its success on the character of the example. Our ancestors used the man who happens to be the to think it would be one of the big boss or dictator at the time. j oys 0 f the redeemed saints to Solomon was head of his church visit the brink of hell and see as well as of his nation. The same there the torture of poor lost can be said of David, who ap- g o uls. More sensitive souls would pointed some of his sons to be find the sight intolerable, for one priests though (not beingLevites) might readily picture a lost soul they were not eligible for church crying-out to the sightseer, "You office. At any rate, the Jewish B hould be here! You were the people of those times wet e long first who made me sin!’’Could one used to having the kind of re- endure it, even in heaven, if one ligious observances and worship knew w hat every one else knew: which the king prescribed. So This is a man who encouraged when a bad king came along, his brother in sin? \ UJ3IBILIE ■St SPEAKS A ft laUintlional Uniform Sunday School Le««on> State- Religion Lesson, for April 24,1966 Jeroboam, the masses of the people in Israel followed him with- „ out asking ouestions. If Jeroboam chunh« o( chriit in ih* u. s. A. ,r«i«h«i by said bull calves were quite all c#n,mun " y " right as objects of worship, then that was all they needed to know. State religions tend to run down hill whenever the government gets Now Is The Time . .. By Mux Smith, Lancaster County Agent Fertilizer being held on down toward the ground and the laim should he protected treat it as you would a buzz from any kind oi moisture SEI | VV . Save your toes. * ' j %/ ' A n i\' ‘ $ "li L'JI U faSkJ- .-3