—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. October 7.1967
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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-