4—Lancaster Farming. Saturday, December 24. 1966
From Where We Stand ...
The Wonderful Worth Of
A Form Wife
Every so often, someone comes up
with some statistics describing the dol
lar and cents value of a farm wife. Per
haps the constant pressure of inflation
makes it necessary to periodically re
evaluate the farm wife's contribution to
the family operation.
The latest calculation, based on
a study conducted by FARM JOURN
AL, finds that a fanner’s wife is
worth $l5O a week.
Who says so? Well, as part of the
study, a group of farm wives kept time
study records on their work. Hourly
rates were assigned by the magazine to
the different types of work. The result
showed a 75-hour work week, with no
overtime pay, for a total of $153 92.
On the break-down, the average wife
spent 15.4 hours a week cooking, at
$2 50 an hour, 10 9 hours as a governess,
at $2 30, she spent 8 4 hours as a farm
worker at $1 60. The rest of the work
week was spent as housekeeper, dish
washer, laundress, buyer, seamstress,
bookkeeper, and chauffeur.
So, Mr. Farmer, if you are not now
paying your wife $l5O a week for her
countless contributions to the operation
of the family farm, perhaps this season
v. ould be an especially appropriate time
to wish her continued good health,
happiness, love, and a very Merry
Christmas'
Is There A Santa Claus?
WE TAKE PLEASURE in answering at
once and thus prominently the com
munication below, expressing at the
same time our great gratification that
its faithful author is numbered among
the friends of The Sun:
Dear Editor; 1 am eight years old.
Some of my little friends say there is
no Santa Claus. Papa says “If you see it
in The Sun, it’s so.” Please tell me the
truth; is there a Santa Claus?
Virginia O’Hanlon
115 West Ninety-Fifth St.
VIRGINIA, YOUR LITTLE friends are
wrong They have been affected by the
skepticism of a skeptical age They do
not believe except they see. They think
that nothing can be which is not com
prehensible by their little minds All
minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s
or children’s, are little In this great
universe of ours, man is a mere insect,
an ant, in his intellect, as compared with
York County FFA Member Named
Region II Star Farmer For 1967
A Yoik County Futuie Faim
ei Geoige Snydei a 1966 giad
uate of Red Lion High School,
moved in to what had hadi
tionally been Lancaster Coun
ty temtoiy this week when he
was named 1967 Star Faimei
ot the 12 county southeastern
legion of Pennsylvania
Foi at least the past four
yeais, this honoi has gone to a
Lancastei County lad, and in
thiee of those years the Region
II candidate has gone on to be
come State Slai Faimei
This laltei distinction went
Snydei is the 19 year-old son
of Mi and Mrs Charles W
Snydei Red Lion R 1 With
the lesponsibility for the dairy
heid and a 25 percent paitnei
ship m the operation of a sec
ond faim George owns 65
dau\ ctmmaL his piogram in
cludes 75 acres of coin, 55 of
has 30 ol wheat, and 20 of
Hancastei County’s Own Far a bailee
“What kind of a boss ai e
you 9” Wallace A Mitcheltiee
asked faimeis during the Faim
Labor Conference at the Del
awaie Ciop Show, Nov
Dovei Mitcheltiee a Ru'g“i
University community 1 ! e
The five icgional outstanding specialist, stiessed the .'n-■»
jj i Mun si, bors toi 1907 will be lecog- tance of building good 1 >u• ■ 'u
i r'li-iii? or ni7C ‘ ( l dining the FFA Faim lelations in getting and !l
i nit/ i,ei.-2i'n ‘ ‘ Shov convention at Hauisbuig mg competent ?g icult' r '
:i i i imiiioiK i-ditoi on Jmuaiy 11 icgional woikem
t i , VfhcuiMMs; Wlllneis weie so designated be- lie pointed out that vt '
si I'-' I'MK.n in i<e pn mi in cause they outscoied all othei wages are vital in getting h.*'
E ,' miisiVt'u' * vlumii'r ' n''V'iVs' candidates from then respec- othei factois will affect vvbeni
i iii.iivii,u f\ii\ s.itunin in tive legions foi the highest ei they stay and how well thc'i
fe.'o',u l n plod ’at FFX state desiee ’ “ Kevstone produce Such things as •
Luiu, Pa i T>n ° ‘ Faimei”, which will be award- (Continued on Page 7;
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sured by the intelligence capable of not have seemed so incredible*!
grasping the whole of truth and know- Hut a Bethlehem manger! That'
ledge. was hnrdlv the place one would
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa 2 * pect to fi " d ‘ h .® - Mcsslnh - "’hen
Oloiio ’ . • i . hey arrived at the manger, they
Claus. He exists as certainly as love Uf|i|M ln*ili HIVI fifllll found that not only had the Mea*
and generosity and devotion exist, and 1,11,11 ■ 1 ® siah been born in the wrong
you know that they abound and give Lesson for December 25,1966 surroundings in the wrong town,
to your life its highest beauty and joy. but he had had the misfortune of
Alas! how weary would be the world if uujno. fvho^lS
there were no Santa Claus. It would be '‘""sst?, lour Lrn to an upstate,
as dreary as if there were no Virginias. Jt is possib]e to know the Na- backwoods carpenter and hi*
There would be no childlike faith then, tivity Story so well that it may no bride-to-be?
no poetry, no romance to make tolerable longer have the power to excite or e t the shepherds could not
this existence. We should have no en- challenge us. it may evoke sent!- d 9J lbt what they heard and_saw.
joyment, except in sense and sight. The mentality, but little awe and to°resoundfrom thifheav
eternal light with which childhlod fills to tH, Tvn^oTd!
the world would be extinguished. Tradition tells glorious light, it could not be «
Not believe in Santa Claus! You us that the an- dr eam. a hallucination. The awa
might as well not believe in fairies! You went Hebrews so and * ear mey felt was real,
might get your Papa to hire men to revereda flute w (
watch in all the chimneys on Christmas seTwas sip 0 - Then, suddenly the visitor*
Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if posed to have were gone! Now the true test
they did not see Santa Claus coming played during would begin. In the midst of an
down, what would that prove? Nobody his days as a awesome and mysterious expen
ses Santa Claus, but that is no sign shephnd in Mid- cncewecannot help but respond.
,i . d x mi < ° i ian that thevdec- *'hcn it is over, however, the con,**
there is no Santa Claus. The most real Rev. Althouse orated it 'with dihons are different. If we can go
things in the world are those that mucb g O - ld and p reC ious stones. back to our work and shrug it off
neither children nor men can see. Did Their decorative zeal, however," ? s lf nothing had happened, that
you ever see fairies dancing on the was the undoing of the flute, for * s ° ne thing. But if we respond by
lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof they clogged-up and covered-over actin g[upon the experience, thati*
that they are not there. Nobody can ™ tb curTwliln thf ange's hLflon*
conceive or imagine all the wonders it was beautiful to behold, but it away. n n
there are unseen and unseeable m the wouldn’t plav! What the shepherds had seen
wor ] ( j * and heard was fantastic, vet Luk«
You can tear apart the baby’s rat- Too Beautiful
tie and see what makes the noise inside This happens also with the a ' vay tbe shepherds decided,
tie ana see wnat manes tne noise insiae, N t . messa ,, e centuries of us so over to Bethlehem,
but there is a veil covering the unseen ornament s atlon a nd'embellish- and ® ee tbin S that has hap
world which not the strongest man, nor ment _ to say no thm°- of com- pened ’ whlck me Lord has mad«
the united strength of all the strongest mercialuationhave "enhanced known t 0 P°|
men that ever lived, could tear apart, its beauty, but covered-over thef ala c ta im b ? s .T'
Onlv faitVi fanrv nnptrv Invp rnmanfp essential meaning. It too is beau- nare was . s ° met . ??»
umy laitn, xancy, poetry, love, romance, . behold but the mess-ao-e is modern scientific spirit in them:
can push aside that curtain and view b buued beneath the lavers somethin g has happened let’sl
the picture an the supernal beauty and 5 1 !^SS l lS^S^^ hat,tl8, , .
glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, tion. , For u /> 1 “ e “ tha ? tbe sbep^
‘ here " n ° thing
Thank God he « SKS3
lives! and he lives forever. A thousand i nstance have you ever stopped 9 h a ist ’ wS* Wlt - h wo / ds » but w , ldl !
years from now Virginia, nay, ten to imagine how this tappings’ rfj
times ten thousand years from now, he event must have seemed to the thi £ d b £ to fa de, what will
will continue to make glad the heart shepherds' If today, while you you do ab & out the C( J min g c f
of childhood are working at your usual place Christ?
W,, mnn of employment, someone were to „ , . •.. .. „ ..
—The New York Sun, Dec. 21, 1897 suddenly appear and announce.,
f' s f f that the Saviour of the world had church.i .t chrut m u. s. a. »«t«i««l hf
iSa? just b een born m nearbv East c » mmu " i| y *•»» Un K *.i i
The, above is probably the most Podunk and could be found lying
widely reprinted editorial ever written, in an animals’ ieed tiough, "how
Compared with the elegance of this would vou react.’ Would you be
piece, whatever we might add would be ieveit
less than the babbling of little children.
May we wish for you and your fa-
mily all the faith, fancy, poetry, love
and romance that the coming Christmas
season brings
to Haiold Biubaker, Mount Joy
Rl, in 1964, to John Fiey,
Quan yville R 2 in 1965, and
to Glenn Weber, Mohnton R 2,
in 1966 Weber is currently
president of the State FFA As
sociation Kenneth Mvei, Eliz
abethtown R 3, was Region II
Stai Faimei in 1963
the boundless world about him, as mea-
ed that day to 208 FFA mem
beis
Each FFA boy selected as
Regional Star Paimei leceives
an awaid of $75 fiom the Na
tional FFA Foundation, Inc
At the conclusion of the Janu
ary 11 ceremony, one of the
five will be designated as State
Star Farmei, and will leceive
$2OO instead of $75.
Farmers Told
How To Be
Good Bosses
Now Is The Time ...
By Max Smith, Lancaster County Agent
To Provide Livestock Equipment
The propei handling of livestock to and
from a show, sale, or market is veiy impor
tant to reduce handling losses Loading
chutes are a veiy worthwhile investment and
may be portable or peimanent Catch gates
for treating animals reduce excitement and
permit safer handling Livestock producers
are urged to take time this winter to provide
these essential pieces of equipment to in
crease net returns
To Allow Outside Exercise
Cattle feeders aie reminded of the need
for fiesh an and outside exercise for their
fattening herd Most cattle will spend more
time outside than inside if given the chance, SMITH
regai dless of weather To retain cattle inside of a building that
is hot and poorly ventilated during the winter months is not
making the best use of feed and labor.
To Store Chemicals Safely To Own a Stand-by Generator
The paying season is about Electnc power is almost a
finished loi this yeai, most necessity on most farms at all
gaideners and faimeis should times Due to the high degree
be finished with all kinds of of automation in modern farm
pesticides loi outside use Ac- mg. normal chores become a
a .te identification of all ma- huge labor pioblem when pow
.,ils is veiy mipoilant and er is missing The winter snow
■ ,in p <ontdineis are best for season is at hand with the
' "u, most mateuals. Empty daily danger of broken power
• itainci" should be burned or lines A stand-by generator
inert Keep all mateuals out that can furnish power with
i leach of childien and live- the use of the farm tractor or
l ock Attention to safe stor- motor is considered to be a
"2 of chemicals may prevent very good emergency invest
nous tiouble in the future, ment.
Wrong Address, Perhaps? ' '
What happened to ths shep*
herds In the fields outsidq
Bethlehem was no loss startling"*
Perhaps, had the visitors told)
them to go to the house of Jcrusa*
lem’s high priest or the city’s
richest merchant, (he stor Id