4 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 5, 1966 From Where We Stand,.. Promise 'em Anything, But Give 'em Shapp That would geem to be the tone of the Pennsylvania gubernatorial Demo cratic candidate's campaign to-date. Milton Shapp has to be the most “pro mising” candidate to come along for many a campaign. For the homeless and the slum dweller, he promises decent housing. For the farmer, he promises better pi ices. For the laborer, he promises bet ter wages and greater job security. For the young, he promises free higher edu cation. And . . . the biggest promise (at least financially) is to the taxpayer. To him, he promises all these bounties of a benevolent state at no extra charge! Promise ’em anything, but give ’em Shapp, Shapp, and more Shapp. The temptation to indulge in rhyming words is very great at this point, but we’ll try-to resist it. It is often unfortunate that a governor cannot succeed himself, but our outmoded State Constitution does not permit it. As the saying goes, four years is too short a time to have a good governor and too long a time to toler ate a bad one. Since Scranton cannot succeed himself, there is probably no more qualified man in the Republican party for the job than Ray Shafer. He has had the experience both legisla tive and executive and he knows that the formula for building a prosperous and successful state goes way beyond wild promises. Shafer knows that any successful governor will have to work with a state legislature composed of individual minds and diverse interests; and with members of both major parties. He knows that he will have to operate in a “fishbowl”, so to speak. That every move he makes as governor is subject to criticism by the state’s more than 12 million citizens. Shapp, as president of his own company, is not used to operating in such an open and above board manner. If he can’t get along with an employee, he can fire him. And he has already demonstrated that he can’t even get along with members of his own party. How can he possibly hope to operate satisfactorily with a bi-partisan legisla ture 9 William Scranton will be a hard Governor for anyone to follow. He has been a strong and progressive adminis trator, and he has set in motion long range forces for a better Pennsylvania. ,Shafer seems the most likely candidate to continue the direction and momentum of these forces Letters To The Editor Editor, Lancaster Fanning Dear Sir Another election is just a tew days away Let’s take a Hook at Milton Shapp and what he proposes I—To equalize leal estate taxes by the enaction of a law jtequmng public utilities to oay real estate taxes to the lownship or municipality in which they own leal pioperty vowei companies, raihoads telephone companies, and LANCASTER FARMING Lanca&tei County's Own Farm WeeMy P O Jiii, Ol \ H < I Hit/ Pi 17343 3i I Al im Si J-it 11/ 1 i 17'.!! 3?iione ] uu islt-i ’'it-iOl7 or J-mu (iiC-2191 Don TmiiiiidU"-, Ixluoi j lob*') t f. L imjjbUl 1)11 1-CtOl Giib'-ri iptmn juice { .2 pci uai in i--ici OoiinU , S 3 elsewlieie E-taliliMurt Aoiembei 1, I'*"," Pnblislicd e\ei\ Satin das bs Ij.uicacter Fanning, In tits, Pn tone] Clacc Postage paid at Inlilz, Pa 17543 transport lines own millions of dollais’ worth of real es tate in Lancaster County alone They are privately owned cor porations, operated for profit, and they pay no real estate tax You and I pay tax on every quarter acie we own So should they, and they do in neighboring states Does this make sense’ 2—To enforce stieam anti pollution laws Those of us who Lve along the Muddy Creek have lepoit ed many fish kills, piles of foam below the dam bieast ten feet high, and watei the color of indigo With what result’ Either no action or report, or the official leport labeled “an exaggeration, ’ or, “a few pan fish killed” The (daily) news paper that took good pictuies of hundieds of dead fish stinnded on the riffles con veniently neglected to publish them Why’ The industues that we believe have been re sponsible for the poison had the powei to influence official action and to suppress infor mation that in the public in- Adi ei Using But don’t take his election for granted. Shapp could win by default if enough voters who really care about the future of Pennsylvania stay away from the polls next Tuesday. Imagine how you would feel upon waking Wednesday morning to learn that Milton Shapp was our new governor, and recalling that your vote against him was one of those not tallied because you didn’t take the few minutes necessary to cast it. Don’t let that happen. Vote against one-man rule of Pennsylvania. Vote for Ray Shafer. Your vote does count! ★ ★ ★ ★ What Are Anti-American "Slogans"? Have you ever heard certain words that public figures keep using that sort ot “bug” you? That is, words which you’ve been accustomed to hearing and using in one context all your life that suddenly are used to mean something entirely different. For example, for quite some time newscasters have been describing com munist vocal demonstrations by agita tors as “anti-American slogans”. You’ve heard them, “mobs of Red Chinese stu dents stormed through the streets of X-ville today chanting anti-American slogans”. The use of the word may be quite proper, but for some reason we find it annoying. For example, it is hard to ■think of “Warmongering, Yankee, Im perahst Capitalists” as a slogan, es pecially in the context in which it is offered According to the dictionary, one definition of slogan is “a brief, striking phrase adapted for use in advertising a product, industry, etc.” And that’s the way we have always thought of the word; in a positive way. Like “All the way with LBJ”; Duz does everything”; “The pause that re freshes”; “Tippicanoe and Tyler too”; and like that. Of course “Yankee go home” has a real ring to it, and has apparently achieved widespread acceptance. That one might pass as a slogan in the tradi tional sense. Another definition found in the dictionary, however, would seem to justify the use of the word as the news casters use it “The war cry or gather ing word of a Highland Clan in Scot land”. However, it would seem more suit able somehow to label these negative, anti-American expressions as threats, which they are meant to be, rather than calling them slogans. At least that’s the way it looks from this corner of “The Garden Spot of America”. ! terest should have heen pub lished Tiymg to keep our lit tle creek from becoming a completely “dead” stream has been like trying to break through a rubber wall too tough to even dent and too slippery to climb We can see it no other way Let’s put an end to this 3—To find common sense in the administration of the Proj ect 70 law Anyone who knows the Bard farm, and -the neighboring farms near Cocalico, has been disturbed by the destruction of good farms, the land improved and excellent homes and barns built by the efforts of genera tions of hard woik Is this in the good public mtei esP Mi Shapp saw this pioject and his statement added up to an emphatic “no ” Why can Milton Shapp bung all this about’ He was nominated in spite of all the opposition that well entienched mteiests could put up. and when elected, it will not be by any help they will give him. Painless Invitation Lesson For November 6,1966 Bockflrtuml Scnjifurt Jeremiah 7, 26. Dtv#lion«l K««aimj P.aImJ2JI6. Are you one H those who do- Elwood P. Dowd, the humor lights in practicing the art of ous eccentric in the play Harvey, painless invitations? It’s really constantly amazed people by quite easy, you know. All you taking seriously their insincere have to do is say something like invitations. He took them at face this: "You must come over for value and transformed painless dinner ” and then add invitations into uncomfortable mickly, " . . .confrontations. When someone nnctime.” You would say, "You must come over ;e, one harm-and see us sometime,” Ellwood ;ss - looking would pull out his little date book ord gets you and ask "How about Tuesday if the hook. evening?” A German ex- It is amusing to think of Ell hange studentwood P. Dawd taking painless ho was a sem- invitations seriously, but there is ary classmate nothing at all amusing in con jed' to say that templatmg that God might take Americans are us seriously too. The words we particularly adept at this art of speak so effortlessly in our painless invitations. "We’d like to churches or in the privacy of our have you for dinner,” people own room, they are dangerous would say to him, "... some- invitations, time.” It always sounded like a The Prophet Jeremiah was most gracious invitation, but be-much distrubed with the same cause it was left indefinite, nothing situation in Judah. The people ever came of it, The words were trusted in deceptive words o£ superficial and insincere: good worship and ritual. God didn’t intentions that cost nothing. want w'ords from his people, ha if Tn»i, wanted realities. What he wanted If Took Seriously was not p lous words but right- Some of us carry this art of eons lives. "Amend your ways painless invitations over into our and your doings,” he demanded, religious life too. We utter all Back up your words with deeds, kinds of invitations and prom- There’s an old saying about ises, none of which axe expectedinsincenty: "Put your money to be taken seriously, where your mouth is.” God This Sunday, for example, doesn’t want painless invitations, you aie likely to pray:" ... and insincere rituals and words of forgive us our debts as we for- w'drship. He wants to see oue give our debtors.” We certainly commitment as well as hear if, don’t mean that, do we? Cer- He wants us put out lives where -t a inly you w r ant considerably our words are. more grace and forgiveness from God than you extend to Others, (Bos«d on outlines cdjiyrigliled by tli* Division rlrmH of Christian Education, National Council of n 1 y° U • , , . Churches of Christ in lh. U. S. A. Released b/ Perhaps -J-OUTI stand jn your Community Press Service) r pew and sing, "Take my silver and my gold, not a mite would I withhold,” Surely you don’t mean it! That dollar bill of yours ATTEND THE CHURCH on the plate already seems to be so great a sacrifice. Perhaps we OF YOUR CHOICE would be more honest if w r e were to sing: "Lord, in spite of all we say and, do, this is reaHy For Full Market Reports Read Lancaster Fanning Now Is The Time ... By Max Smith, Lancaster County Agent To Exercise Sheep Flock The winter season should not mean con finement foi the ewe flock; a serious man agement mistake is to shut Them into a small pen with little outside exercise As long as the pasture season lasts, they should have access to forage when it does not have frost on the blades When the grass stops growing, quality hay should be given free choice Daily outside exercise is a “must” for healthy ewes and strong lambs. To Check Chimneys Many tobacco cellars will soon have (heating activity, all pipes and chimney mortar should be carefully inspected, all joints should be tight and cracks resealed. Many fnes have been caused by faulty pipes and chimneys To Use Meat Type Boar The hog industry has ex peuenced a very successful year and the outlook shows piomise of a growing demand for meat-type pork Breedeis should make every effort to mate their sows to meaty boars with size and trimness These No matter how you decade to vote, come out and vote Miles W. Fry Ephrata R 3 mt we think of you!* Juit think of nil the palmeii wltatione we give God 4a aa mt’a time on a Sunday morn* "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven” "I believe In God, the Father Almighty ...” "... as it was In the begin ning is now and ever shall be, world without end . . . » "Draw me nearer, nearer blessed Lord, to the cross where thou hast died . . . n If he took us seriously what a frightening thought! Where Your Mouth Is SUNDAY kind of hogs can be found in almost every breed, and no one breed has this desirable charac ter cornered Recent pork markets demand a carcass with a high percentage of red meat and a minimum of laid. Breed ers should recognize this fact and try to produce animals meeting this demand. Like rare perfume, flattery should be smelled, not swal lowed. SMITH
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