—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 6, 1966
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From Where We Stand,..
"People Kill People"
As one person aptly put it this
week “Guns don't kill people; people
kill people”
The remark was in relation to the
controversy raging in Washington on
restricting the sale and availability of
guns. President Johnson wants a strong
measure passed to sooth the wave of
public reaction following the Texas
massacre, but the Senate does not seem
inclined to give it to him.
We’re with the Senators. While
some measure of control is probably
needed, 99.999 percent of the people
who own or buy guns do not go around
killing people with them. The place for
more control is on the so-called “lunatic
fringe”, and this represents very few
of the total number of people with
mental disturbances
Patients with known severe anti
social tendencies, known to their doc
tors, that is. should be kept under
surveilance For .example, the college
student in Texas who gunned down all
those people on Monday had told his
psychiatrist exactly what he planned to
do several months earlier at least
according to the psychiatrist He had
apparently planned it all out well in
■advance Why this wasn’t reported to
the authorities by the doctor is a ques
tion that should be probed.
And, of course, deranged violence
is not confined to expression through
guns alone But time after time in the
past few years reports of violence are
■accompanied by descriptions of a kill
er with a history of mental disorders
Doctors and hospitals would not be
neglecting the privacy of the doctor-pat-
Farm Calendar
August B—Bth to 10th, State
4-H Days at Penn State Uni
veisily
—8 p m, DHIA diiectois
and supeivisois joint meet
ing at Faim Ciedit Bldg,
Lancastei
August 11—10 a vn. Lancas
ter County Guernsey Assn
Field Day at Chiques Glen
Faim, Landisville
—1 p m, Sod wateiway
seeding demonstiation be-
hind Elizabethtown Elemen-
tal y School
August 12—9 a m , 4-H County
Diess Revue at Meadow Hills
Dining House New Danville
Pike, Lancastei
Nobody has ever explained
how that fool who is soon
parted fiom his money got it
in the fiist place
CORRECTION
Now we hope you realize
that we really do know the
difference between barrows
and gilts, hims and hers, etc.
Of course, you wouldn’t have
known that from reading
about the Consci ration Field
Day Pig Chase in last week’s
paper. It seems we got so
carried away with describ
ing the chase that we re
peatedly referred to that
valiant little 50-pound gilt
as “he” Sony about that!
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ient relationship by reporting incurable
patients who have expressed violent ten
dencies toward society. In fact, they
might thereby save many innocent lives.
And premature discharge of such
patients is an area that demands investi
gation. Too many socially unacceptable
patients are being turned loose upon
society these days; again, look at. the
record.
So it’s unstable people, not guns,
that we should seek to control.
Early Frost?
A local weather sage predicted
frost by mid-September this week. He
based his forecast on the old saying
that “when the katydids begin to sing,
it’s six weeks to the first frost”. And he
said the katydids began to sing last
Sunday night.
Whether Katy did or Katy didn’t,
and whether, if she did, it will or will
not, we can only guess But, noticing the
calendar, we see the next full moon
will occur two weeks before mid-Septem
ber, but the end of August would ba
a little early for frost in this area;
guess we’d better go with the katydid
theory
At any rate, a couple of mornings
this week almost felt like frosty autumn
in comparison with those 80 degree
a m’s we had a few weeks ago, didn’t
they?
★ ★ ★ ★
And Speaking Of inflation . . .
“While the Congress is considering
mislabeling, wouldn’t the dollar be a
good place to start 9 ” (Sen Cotton, New
Hampshire)
O Inter-State
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mg amusement-nding crowd
“Intel-State will continue to
woik foi the nandlei pool,”
he said
Actions taken by the co
opoiative because of the using
cost of pioduemg milk, and
the iceent di ought conditions,
lesulted in an inciease of 40
cents pei hundxed weight ovei
last yeai to the dany farmeis
in all markets “But even the
pi ice we now have may not be
enough to keep the milk flow
ing fiom the faims,” Honan
said Farmers will have seven
01 eight peieent higher income
in 1966, but this will not nec
essarily mean a higher net
income, due to increasing faim
expenses With drought and
labor pioblems we may get
sh" '
LANCASTER COUNTY INTER-STATE MILK
PRODUCERS DIRECTORS Robert McSparran, Peach
Bottom, District 3 (center), and Melvin Brendle, East
Earl, District 6 (right), discuss the program with Dr.
James Honan, general manager of the cooperative.
Inter-State held an information meeting Monday, at
Lenape, Park, Chester County, attended by 1700 mem
bers and their families. L. F. Photo
stoie markets “Sealtest will
take over the Acme sloies in
Philadelphia,” he said, “and
a new milk plant is being
consti acted by the A & P
company at Fort Washington
Intei-state has the contiact to
supply all the A & P stoies
needs foi fluid milk
“Quality controls aie going
to increase in importance as
more milk is maiketed thiough
retail channels,” Honan said
“We cannot be lax in milk
quality just because we are a
cooperative ”
Honan uiged faimeis not to
push the “panic button” Re
femng to ,the milk shoitage,
he recalled a similar situation
in 1947 when “within three
yeais we were flooded”
Lancaster County directors
attending the Chester County
The fifth commandment I*
unique In two ways. For one
thing, it was the first of the ton
that dealt primarily, not with
man's relationship to God, but
to his fellow men. It is significant
that the first of these Interpersonal
relationships to come under
God’s ordinance Is the child
-parent relationship. Obviously,
this it where righteousness to
others begins —.at home. How
thoughtless and inconsiderate of
Trim It (oil Paef lae our parents arc some of us who
lIUUDI6D UnSTICS enjoy the reputation of con-
Lesson For August 7, 1966 vivlality with others! Does that
not make of such reputations a
fraud?
M , :* un,l^';' hl " 20 I 2 , Prov ' rb ’ 1 ] Secondly, the fifth command
5, Work 7 9 13 Luk« 2 51, 52 Ephtsions 6 1 4 . . _ . _ „ j
D,v,ii*n«i K,Win f Pro».rbs4l s ment is the first of the command
ments to spell out its own reward.
"A man’s home is his castle," As Paul puts it: "'Honor your
men are sometimes fond of faiher and mother’ (this is the
saying. If this is so, our land to- first commandment with a prom
day is filled with troubled castles ise)" (Ephesians 6.2). It is not
The home, once the citadel of an idle promise by any means,
safety and security, is said to be Sociologists often tell us that the
"on the way out.” lowest incidence of juvenile de-
Most often the linquency is to be found in those
accusing finger homes where respect for parents
is pointed at the is part of the heritage passed on
younger genera- from one geneVation to another,
tion. "No respect This is particularly true in the
at all!” is the homes of Chinese-Americans and
iudeement oro- : n Jewish families. Th us, in
noun Ted by lilies where young people
many adults, honor their parents, every one
"What are these benefits: 'the parents, the children,
children coming and society.
Rev. Althouse to?” they ask of _ _ . . ...
no one in particular. 0 T-™ TB , .
One learned man has written: . fifth commandment then
"The children now love luxury i® not an arbitrary requirement
They show disrespect for elders imposed upon children for the
and love chatter in the place of benefit of their parents instead,
exercise. Children are now ty- 13 one a principles for
rants, not servants, of their “inching bfe for both parents
households. They no longer rise and their chuaren. In o.ier
when elders enter the room. They wor f s - dw ® ob f th , is command
contradict their parents, chatter «- Bnt we not only ooey God and
before company, gobble u P ho . nor our P we also en '
damties at the table . . . and tyr- rich our own lives.
ranize over their teachers ” B . u ‘ how ’ can J
spect from their children? Perhaps
Than Ae Mnu# at east P ar * & e ansvter 13
This contemporary - sounding f°u nd to the attitude of adults
complaint was actually written bv toward their parents. Children
the ancient Greek philosophei, f rn b y co Py in S our values. If
Socrates, m 394 B.C. Historic they experience a society m which
assure us that it was hardly th , P e ° P^ e , “V I S™™* add
x- . i. i i. « abandoned by their grown cnil
first such complaint nor an in d are y ever to take
free vent one in the long years senous] Go y d - s comma nament?
sime then. Then as now, it seem' Ag y nts we c expect to
there was trouble in men seas.!* * ourse lves have
Thus it is hardly suronsm -
that one of the commanclnen- not J? h e .„ ng tB > S lva , , .
k., n t,,,- This commandment is for both
given by God to Mose» at b m r i, llllrpn anr . nHnIK <?n inner as
was "Honors our lather and jov c y dtlren and adults, bo loiio as
mother, that your days may 1 f lthe J. ignore it, there will be
long in the land which tne Lo. b ' oubl ® ln those castles we call
Your God gives you” (E\-od„ • no
20 12 RSV). If there had be 1 : «n •uH n#, copyright,* by th« Division
no such problem in some Kebi-' chr “"°" “ ueo ' ,on ~N a' , ° f **
, , , Church** *ol Christ in Ihi U S A Released by
homes, there would have oeen n comm„n ■, s««»i
need for this commandment.
Lancaster Farming Ads Pay!
Now Is The Time ...
By Max Smith, Lancaster County Agent
Many dairy calves to be raised for held
replacements will be dropped in the next
lew months The value of horns on the
modem dairy cow is very questionable, they
ca ?u j a i rn ® nace and dangerous in herds
with li ee-stall bains or other kinds of loose
housing We suggest that the horns be ic
moyed and many of the methods require at
tention befoie the calf is more than one
month of age
To Flush Ewe Flock
Sheep pioduceis are urged to give spe
cial attention to the ewe flock several weeks
prior to the breeding season The practice of
giving the ewes extia gram or some good
this period is known as “flushing”, it is merely
res in a gaining physical condition at breeding
;ctive is to inciease the number of twin lambs.
ize Pastures To Evaluate Corn Into Silage
:ock producers Many corn fields have made
dip into their considerable change in the past
silage supplies 10 days due to the rains; we
moisture condi- continue to suggest that grow
w until freezing ers be patient to see just how
possible to ob- S ood a crop might result with
CT razin CT for the im P roved moisture conditions.
However, m many instances
eason. It might greatei feed value will be har
be helpful to be sure that vested if the crop is made into
sufficient plant food is avail- silage lather than for gram.
■able to give maximum growth Even small ears on small stalks
On ctvoinv,! „„„ „. ° , ' should be allowed to develop
On straight grass-type pastures to the dent stage for best
only nitrogen will give quick feeding value. In years of
results; on grass-legume pas- forage shortages all available
tures a complete fertilizer will feed nutrients should be har
be best. vested.
To Dehorn Calves