' 4— Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 19,1 From Where We Stand. •.. Allies In Suburbia As we celebrate Farm-City Week, November 17-23, we are reminded once again of the increasing inter-dependence between these two main segments of .the American population the produc es and the consumers. As farmers, we need the products and the markets of the cities and the suburbs. For consumers, the future de pends on a constant flow of high quality foods from producing areas at reason able prices. But if this relationship is to con tinue, it is vital that we convince the general consuming public of two things: (1) food is the biggest bargain in their budget; (2) it can only remain so if the farmer can continue to produce it as a free and independent businessman. ■ We can have Mrs. Consumer as an ally, or as an enemy; the decision lies jjn how effectively the farmer gets his ' message to her. We can’t really use any more enemies at this time, but we sure <fo‘need some good friends. /As the farmer’s voting influence •fcoiffinues to shrink through reduced .numbers and reapportionment, he will . have to become more and more depen dent upon sympathetic city and subur ban votes if he is not to be disenfranch ised. It is, therefore, important that the general consuming public come to un derstand some of the problems the farmer has in the tremendous job of feeding a growing nation and a hungry world. In our everyday contacts with non farm friends it is the duty of each of us io keep plugging that message to the con suming public until even we get sick of hearing it. Food is indeed the greatest bargain in this country. It is the case in no other country in the world that the con sumer can walk info a market where 6000-8000 different items are in stock, ,and buy the week’s food needs- for ah’ average of one day’s pay. In the Soviet Union, for example, it takes about three days’ pay to buy the family’s food sup ply for the week, and it seems reason ably certain that the average Russian does not consume, at our bargain prices, the 171 pounds of red meat, 38 pounds of poultry, 175 pounds of fruit, 336 pounds of vegetables, and 634 pounds of dairy products that constitutes the aver age American diet If American farmers are to continue making the high-risk investment of money and labor to maintain this mira culous flow of food and fiber to every corner of the land, the least they can expect m return is a reasonable price for their product, and political and economic independence ' t ! Yes, the consumer certainly needs the farmer, but this is not a one-way street;' we need her to buy our farm products and to support our best politi cal and economic interests Only a con tinuing educational campaign at all levels from elementary schools on can accomplish this farmer-consumer 'alliance But once accomplished, and carefully tended, it can become a lasting guarantee to both parties that the best interests of each will be protected ★ ★ ★ ★ The Thanksgiving Feast Is Truly American! ; “panics giving Day is .-a purely' American feast, begun traditionally by the Pilgrims, and continued through the centuries as a national day of religious and gaßtroh'omic 'Significance. ~ Even today when -all the foods, of the world are available to enrich our daily diet, the Thanksgiving menu of the average hous'ehold is still predominantly American in • origin and production. A sumptuous Igast can be spread with only the kinds of food that the pre ,Columbian Indians knew and taught the white men how to raise and use. An All-American Thanksgiving menu is • ' * -i* t? * "X* - tempting to a gourmet’s taste and satis fying to a hungry, growing boy. Turkey, cranberries, both white and sweet potatoes, numerous sorts of beans, squash, pumpkin, tapioca, corn, including sweet corn and popcorn, pepp ers, avocado, cocoa and chocolate, oys ters, pineapple, chestnuts, peanuts, bra zil nuts, cashew nuts, and while not strictly a food, the tobacco of the after dinner cigaret, cigar or pipe. All of these are of strictly American origin. Even without excluding non-Ameri can dishes, the usual Thanksgiving din ner, with roast turkey, cranberry sauce, string beans, corn bread, pumpkin pie on the menu, is American enough. Those who wish can easily build in their kitchens a strictly made-in America Thanksgiving .bill of fare. The turkey that is the center of the usual Thanksgiving feast has a dual claim to the' 100 per cent citizenship. It is as native to the American continent as the Indians. Yet the turkey also has a record of early immigration from Europe Cranberry sauce is as American as the roast turkey that it accompanies to the relish of the feast. Cranberries are found only on the American continent. The cranberry bogs of New Jersey are famous the world over. “Fixin’s” are indispensable to the turkey, and sweet potatoes are indispen sable to the “fixin’s.” Sweet potatoes, as well as the white potatoes, misnamed Irish, are American in origin. The sweet potatoes, “taters” south of the Mason and Dixon line, are pro bably of tropical origin. At any rate, they thrive best now in the warmer parts of the country. The white potato is not Irish but Peruvian m origin. It got its misnomer because it was so widely grown there and Irish immigrants in the early 1700’s brought large quantities of them to the United States. For the salad course, there may be avocadoes; also called alligator pears, for these are native to this hemisphere. The bread should be com bread, of course. Corn is the greatest of the agricul tural gifts' of America to the world. When the first settlers from England found this gram being cultivated by the Indians they called it Indian corn to distinguish it from the use of the word com to mean in British usage all kinds of grain, wheat, barley, rye and all the rest. Corn probably originated in the South American highlands but by the time the white men came its cultivation had spread as far north on this con tinent as the climate permitted. In the fields of Indian corn found by the early colonists, there were orange - yellow pumpkins growing much as they are grown today. Pumpkin pie is as Thanksgiving as turkey, yet just 50 years after Columbus the American pumpkin had been so adopted m Europe that it was being called the Turkish cucumber, Beans of many varieties deserve a - place in the American Thanksgiving table, for' they were extensively culti i vated by all the native populations of the New World. Nuts give Thanksgiving a double dessert. ' ' America is a land of rich and , varied food .supplies, capable of sharing its bounty with other areas of the world and filling to aid other countries 'tp xfaise larger crops of food, often of rfijtnisphere origin. We are ‘"-thankful fdr this at this Thanksgiving "as ij. may hlip bring peace to the' future oT*a less hungry world. * -’★ ★ ★ ★ 'Best of the IVeek r Republicans have been overheard telling defeated Democrats lately “Cheer U£>. Jf you liked Milton Shapp, , love Ray Shafer!” Prophet,Go Home! I-cs.ion For N'ovembcr 20,1966 l«k*r»vrMl S<riphirr? Kmj* Blb Jorciriih*;. D«v*h«n«t ftariinf Ramuns 12 9 21. Imagine that you arc n mcm her of a Christian minority in n land that has been overrun by the Communists. Although they have not succeeded in destroying the faith, their persecutions o) the Church have taken a heavy toll. The faint hearted have defected and the biave minor ity’ grows e\et smaller and weaker. The word "revolt' begins to be heard frequen tly' among the Kcv. Althouse faithful. Then an important letter ar rives. It is from the exiled leader of the Church, a man greatly re spected throughout the nation. The letter is smuggled through the Iron Curtain and a secret meeting of Church leaders is called to hear its counsel. Unwanted Advice What will the letter say? You hope that it will be a call for an unrelentless campaign of under ground harassment, sabotage, and eventual revolt against the godless rulers of your land. You anticipate a ringing denunciation of the Chinch’s enemies and a promise of God’s help in throwing off the yoke of tyranny. Surely this is what God will say through this prophetic leader! But he says none of this. The letter begins rather with an ad mission of guilt: jour country is captive because it deserted God. It continues with unbelievable counsel - you and jour fellow Christians are to settle dow n into a normal, peaceful pattern of life there is to be no re\ olntion. You are to work for the welfare of your nation as constructive citizens, even prajing for it and its godless leaders. It counsels patience - tins tyranny will not soon end. It closes w ith a prom ise: God will bring great good even out of this tragedy. | This is not the message you 1 Now Is The Time ... By Max Smith, Lancaster County Agent To Spray For Winter Weeds Modern weed control requires some at tention to the chemical killing of weeds dur ing the fall and winter season With good moisture conditions this fall we ars aware of considerable growth of shepherds purse, duckweed, and ground ivy Most of these weeds will be found in alfalfa seedings or othei hay crops The use of one of the di nitro sprays when temperatures are above 50 degrees F will help control all of these weeds. The use of Chloro IPC for duckweed when temperatures are below thus level, will give best results Spray when the weeds are small and immature. To Be Cautious With Tobacco truck and livestock trafffe in Some growers may be think- Y^ ch mak f ln g tSe TeTf J° TIT i to pointfiut the lateness of SSS^t^W ha m 6St 0n many f T S °™ oi woof a.e S S? "T'nf? Tni 61 ' ui'ged to contact their vefenn* this fall. Many plants went in- f if 'aic to the shed full of sap and * * " nt “ conditions moisture and it will take more - time to' get them dry. Sug- gest that care be used in not m stripping too soon and to be * Morse I ItleS sure the leaves and ribs are ready (to be bafed. . .< j f f m I'JN Even though the state of fi , orse and pony PW 1 " Pennsylvania is listed as scab- according to associate W ll ies free on the livestock health. records,' all local producers are to ’’develop riding c a urged/to heron* the-.alert for self confidence through* coin any skin 'condition that may petition, and learn the ‘mean cause the animals'to rub off ing of responsibility by f? 1 ' 111 ” "the 1 wool.'There'is considerable " for-an animal. ‘ - -1-'- 1 » Indignant, dlinppolnted, and Furious with this man nnd traitorous advice. What kind n| Christian is ho? Has he no fall' . No patriotism? AH' Part Of Plan Tills is, of course, an 1.r.. . nary situation. lVihups.l...wtvi., It may help us to understa id I >< the exiled Jews in Habvion ' ; when they received .leivmud s long-awaited letter Wi'.it ii wanted from this prophet who - , often had proven toruct. v encouragement and a tall • - resistance against their cap’" i Jeremiah did not tell t, i i what they wanted to Ivar. •, < what he believed (lod had plan. ' upon his heart: (1) It vas (.. d Himself who permitted tl .m to • carried into exile; (U. "llu'd houses and live in then; pi, i gardens nnd eat their product ; (3) ". . . seek the vvelfaie ol »i e citv . . . and pi ay to tr.j Lo’i’, for in its welfare you will i, 1 your welfare : (4) the captiv, would last for no le-,> tn,>i seventy vears"; (5) this v ns > nt an evil fate, but within tne pi. and purpose of the Lord. ’J t letter exploded like a booov-ti.v'! How eagcily vve war for • t word of God until we discover that the Lord, more often than not, sends us a message we i o not want to hear. Like mn, .■ who go to professional coi - selors, vve ask for his help l,w what vve want is not hi»coui>v’, but his blessing upon our ov n point of view. Even if we're i the wrong track, vve want him to tell us vve are on the right o>-e. The French critic, Vmet. O'ui observed: "Most friends of tn ! n love it as Frederick the Grtal loved music. It used to be said of him that, strictly speaking, re was not fond of music but of«it flute, and not indeed ot the flute but'of his flute.” Is it not li-.it way in our friendship with trudi. not Truth, but our truth ’ Prophet, go home! Do not con fuse me with the truth. My mini is made up. (B«t*4 *n capyrtf hf*W by Hi* Divisicn •( Christian Educahan, Naltanat Canned «4 <*•* Church** *f Chnsl in ih* U S« A H*l*aa*«3 Ly Community Feats Sarv«a) ATTEND THE CHURCH OF YOUR CHOICE SUNDAY SMITH >!' -
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