—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. October 7.1967 4 From Where We Stand ... Representation Needed More Than Tires We gave coverage last week to the new tire and battery program being launched by the over 1000 members of the Lancaster County Farmers Associa tion in agreement with the Pennsylvania Farmers' Association Farm Supply Corp., a wholly-owned affiliate of the Pennsyl vania Farmers’ Association. Now don’t get us wrong. We’re for getting supplies (such as tires and bat teries) to farmers at as reasonable a price as possible But we have other coopera tives and individual businessmen who are doing this. What we really need more of, is a large fine organization such as the Lan caster County Farmers Association and their state and national big brothers, to speak for us in legislative and legal mat ters. This the Farmers Association has and is doing. We’re afraid if they get bogged down with retail selling, the job ot representation will suffer. If this hap pens, the few dollars saved on tires now could be quite costly when harmful-to farmer laws are passed because the farm ers weren’t represented in high places. Farmers, please keep your legisla tive work in high gear. We need that a whole lot more than we need tires a few dollars cheaper. At least that’s the way it looks from w here we stand An Asset To Any Farm While traveling with the family last •weekend, we again saw the many beau ties and wonders of nature in some of Pennsylvania’s Northern Counties such as Tioga, Lycoming and Bradford. With the beautiful colored trees and moun tains, rolling fields and sparkling water falls, you realize our wonderful inheri tance and also our responsibility to be good stewards of the bounties we enjoy. We enjoyed the farms nestled among the hills and valleys Though diff erent from our own Lancaster Farms, they were quite charming in their own way. In The Top Of The Farm News This Week Miss Weaver Wins Three In-A-Kow At Beef Show Page 1 Manheim Is Last Local Farm Show Page 8 Ralph Horchlcr Is New Pequea Valley Teacher Page 1 Gable Wins Fifty Dollar Hay Av\ ard Page 9 Co. Poultrymen Add International Touch To Upcoming Banquet Page 1 FFA Boys To Head For Kansas City Today Page 1 Ruoss Wins Pig Show At New Holland Page 1 Farmers’ Women Play Host To Teachers Page 6 LANCASTER FARMING Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly P. 0. Box 266 - Lititz, Pa 17543 Office 22 E Main St, Lititz, Pa 17543 Phone Lancaster 394-3047 or Lititz 626-2191 Everett R. Newswanger, Editor Robeit G Campbell, Advertising Director Subscription price. $2 per yeai in Lancaster County; $3 elsewhere Established November 4,1955 Published every Saturday by Lancaster Farming, Lititz, Pa. Second Class Postage paid at Lititz, Pa, 17543 Member of Newspaper Farm Editors Assn, We especially appreciated the many farm signs identifying name and product be it beef cattle, vegetables or dairy cattle. We think a farm sign is a great asset to any farm. How many businesses do you know that do not have their pro duct advertised on the side of their shop or posted in neon lights out on the side walk'-’ Us farmers have the greatest busi ness in the world supplying food for a hungry world. So let’s tell our friends passing by our farms who we are and what we are producing. A welcome sign at the end of any farm lane is never a hindrance to friend ly relations or the bank account. At least that’s the way it looked where we drove. Newspapers Get Things Done By Kenneth Byerly Professor, Journalism, University of North Carolina Humility and pride there’s rea son for both during National Newspaper Week now in progress. The late Senator Alben Barkley of Kentucky made this evident back in 1948 when he was a candidate for vice presi dent as Harry Truman’s running mate. He arrived in a Montana city just before the luncheon meeting where he was to make a major campaign speech. The local reporter learned with dis may that Senator Barkley would speak from notes rather than prepared copy. “We’re an afternoon paper,” he told the Kentuckian, “and you’ll finish your talk just before we go to press. There won’t be time to write the story and give it good play Could you give me the main points now?” He did, but hundreds of people were kept waiting The reporter was embar rassed, and said so. “Don’t apologize to me,” said Sena tor Barkley. “I’m here to get publicity for Harry Truman as candidate for president, myself as his running mate, and those on the ticket who are running for state and local offices. “You and your newspaper can give it to us. ,So I do you no favor when I take time to give this information You are doing me, my associates and party the favor. I am the one who should be grate ful.” Which was true, but how many in his position would have said it? A newspaper’s ability to decide how and what and how much it will or will not report gives it tremendous power. But good newspapermen do not re gard this as reason to beat their chests and shout of their might as did Tarzan of the Apes. They regard it instead as reason to be humble, using that power and ability to get things done in community and public service . . . using it to help man kind. They regard it too as an obligation to report the news fully and fairly with decency, judgment and kindliness. This National Newspaper Week is a time when newspapers and news paper men and women repledge them selves to this task. Weather Forecast Temperatures for the five-day period are expected to average below normal ranging m the high 60’s to the over-night low in the 40’s. It will be quite cool alt the beginning of the period and milder on Wednesday. The normal daytime high is 69 and the normal over-night low is 47. Rain may total one-half inch as showers late Sunday or Monday. ★ ★ PROPHET, 60 HOME! Lesson for October 8,1967 B«<bf r«urW ScHplurr Amos t I, 7, Pfolrm 76. Prophets have always been misunderstood. In retrospect they appear romantic and colorful. In prospect they are threatening and fanatical. In other times and oth er places we see them as patriots. In.our own day and our own land they are seen as treasona ble and subver sive. Many have re garded them pri marily as fore tellers of the fu ture, yet the prophet’s task is _ not so much to Rev. Althouse foretell the future as to change it. The prophets of Israel prophesied, not to pro nounce the inevitable, but to change men’s hearts and minds, and thus change the future as well. He spoke of God’s judgment upon the people, not his own, and the purpose of God’s judgment is always to correct and reform, not retaliate or exact vengeance. A Call to Change This is why contemporary prophets are always so unpopu lar. If their purpose was merely to forecast the inescapable march of future events, no one would get too upset. If you agreed, you could say, "See, I told you so.” If you didn’t agree, you could turn a deaf ear and walk away. The purpose of the prophet, how ever, was not to forecast what had to happen, but to warn of what would happen if people would not change their ways. Prophecy is always a call to change, a challenge, and that is what disturbs us so deeply. If the future unfolds as merely a predestined fate, there is nothing we can do but accept it. The prophet says, however, that the future really depends, not upon fate, but upon you, how you re spond. Only one of the Old Testa ment prophets seems to have misunderstood this fact. Jonah became furious and sulked when To Utilize Corn Stalks . . . plowed down late this fall af- The ‘ use of shredded corn ter ground temperatures go stalks for livestock bedding down. By fall plowing the purposes is.a growing one; af- ground will absorb larger ter the corn is picked and the amounts of moisture over the stalks become dry, there are winter and earlier seeding will v arious ways of chopping or be possible next spring on rael shredding the stalks and using low, clod-free soil. m the barn These corn stalks To Observe Shipped Cattle.. * have good absorption qualities This is the time,of the year and may be used in either when many groups jof feeder dairy or other livestock stalls, cattle will be imported into Producers short on bedding the county. These cattle should should recognize this possibil- be segregated from the acoli •ity early this fall. mated cattle and kept under To Fall Plow . . . On fields where soil and wa- eral weeks. Shipping fever is a ter erosion are not a problem very common problem and can it may be of some advantage be treated with success if to plow the area late this fall found in time. Feeders are or early winter for next urged to be on the alert for spring’s corn or oats crop. If dull, drowsy animals that won’t the area is seeded down to a eat or drink, excess saliva, and cover crop, it should be al- irregular breathing. A thermo lowed - to make maximum meter to detect temperatures growth this fall before plow- in excess of 101-102 is a goodf ing. The fertilizer may be investment. the people ol "NlneveE took ID* S reaching seriously, changed lelr ways, and were saved. Ho failed to understand that this lo precisely what God had wanted: not doom, but salvation. During the civil rights "march on Selma,” one bitter public offl* dal, instead of lamenting tho murder of a white Episcopal clet* gyman from Massachusetts, re* marked that there wouldn’t have been any trouble "if this outside agitator had stayed home and stuck to saving souls.” If you are inclined to agree with him, then what would you do with a man like Amos—He was an outsider. His home'was in Tekoa, a small village of the southern kingdom, Judah. His prophetic work, however, was performed in Israel, not Judah, He wasn’t even a citizen of Israel, yet he came with stern prophecies against die nation. Furthermore, he was an agita tor. He sought to stir up the pea* pie of Israel to awake and repent, to change their values and theie way of me. Had they taken him seriously, it would have brought broad and sweeping changes in the life of Israel. They Speak For God If we examine his message, W« find that he did not "stick to sav ing souls,” but attempted to change the social order of the land. This is a land where in jU'dce and immorality were rampant, where the rich op pressed the poor, where the law clearly favored those who could, buy the judges. Is it any wonder, then, that Amaziah, the high priest of Beth el, wanted to get rid of this "out side agitator”? "0 seer, go, flee away to the land of Judah, and eat bread there, and prophesy there.” If he wanted to be a pro fessional prophet, that was all right so long as he did his proph esying somewhere else. That i# the way most of us react to % genuine prophet in our midstt "Prophet, go home!” > "I am not here on my own,* said Amos, "but to speak foe God”. Aha! That’s what’s wrong with prophets: they speak for God and we cannot bear to hear hi* word. When we say, "Prophet, go home,” with our lips, we are say ing, "Lord, go away,” with oue hearts. (Based on outlines copyrighted by the Division of Christian Education, National Council of th» Churches ef Christ in the U. S A. Released b)f Community Press Service) J Co To Church Sunday NOW IS THE TIME... By Max Smith Lancaster County Agent very close supervision for sev-
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