—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 23, 1966
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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.
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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.
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"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?
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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.
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