4-—Lancaster Forming, Saturday, November 4.1967
From Where We Stand ...
Our Crisis In Crime
America’s crime problem continues
grow at an alarming pace. In the first
half of this year, there was 17 percent
more serious crime than in the same
period last year, according to the FBI.
Since 1960. the FBI says, serious
crime has gone up 62 percent, while the
population has gained just 9 percent.
Thus crime is growing nearly seven times
as fast as our population.
With such a startling increase in
crime, more and more Americans stand
the chance of becoming crime victims.
Close to two Americans in every 100 will
be victims of crime during 1967.
For the most part, these will be
crimes directed against property alone
burglaries, auto thefts and larcenies
of $5O or more. But in 1966. there were
153.420 robberies (such as stickups and
muggings i. 231,800 aggravated assaults,
25.330 forcible rapes and 10,920 willful
homicides. Violent crimes such as these
are up 49 percent since 1960. and crimes
against property are up 64 percent.
We believe this crisis in crime is
largely due to the leniency with which
we are treating our criminals. If the
trend is not soon reversed we will oblite
rate ourselves in our own crime wave.
At least that’s the way it looks from
v.'hei e we stand.
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Refreshing Report
Not all of the African states are un
questioning followers of communism. Ac
cording to one reporter, the President of
the Ivory Coast who visited President
Johnson in August is sometimes called
the George Washington of West Africa.
He is surrounded with procommunist
neighbors, yet he has stood firmly for
the free enterprise system. During his
he observed that many Africans be
lieve their future is tied with that of the
United States.
The Ivory Coast has welcomed
foreign capital investments. It has be
come the third largest coffee producer
in the world, the second largest cocoa
producer and ranks high in bananas and
ti epical lumber.
After all of the grim tales of war
end pillage that have come out of Africa,
it is indeed refreshing to read a report
that a 'head of state in that part of the
world hopes to develop his country in ac
cordance with the principles of free en
terprise He is indeed a latter-day George
Washington.
Farm News This Week
The Hackmans Return To Poland
After Seven Years Page 1
State Soil And Water Meeting
Here Next Week Page 1
More Research Needed To
Control Poultry Disease Page 13
Dairy Adv. Man Says Chemical
Milk Is Here Page 1
Farmers’ Association Denies Support
For Union Milk Strike Page 5
Livestock Entries In Annual
Exposition Total 3,882 Head Page 1
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Human Spirit Best Hope
In spile of the best or worst
efforts of the political promisers and
planners, the human spirit still lives. Un
fortunately. it usually takes a disaster of
some kind to reveal the unlimited capa
city of the spirit as well as the limited
ability of the planners.
A little over three years ago, a dis
aster of classic proportions was visited
upon Alaska. An earthquake reminiscent
of the San Francisco quake and fire
brought destruction to such cities as An
chorage. Valdez and Seward. As the news
and pictures trickled out of the stricken
area, the immensity of the catastrophe
was revealed. For a short time a matt
er of hours destruction and shock im
mobilized all efforts except for an ele
mental struggle to survive. Then the
great submerged force of the human
spirit came to the surface.
The rebirth of the stricken area dur
ing the past three years was lately the
subject of an interesting story by Jessie
Ash Arndt in The Christian Science
Monitor. He observed that many Alask
ans expressed the sentiment that, “As
long as it happened, it’s best that it hap
pened here: We’re used to taking care
of ourselves.” As time went on, federal
aid, of course, played a major role in re
habilitation, but the incentive and the
initiative to get started and keep moving
came from the local citizenry. As a local
businessman remarked, “We can't wait
for Uncle Sam to do it for us We must
start helping ourselves.” Now, according
to Mr. Arndt, “In Anchorage, new homes
along Turnagain Arm have replaced the
80 which slid into the sea in 1964. . . .
There are new and vastly improved port
facilities, the new Captain Cook Hotel,
and many new stores and other business
buildings as well as more than 100 new
homes in various parts of the city.” The
story is the same in Seward and Valdez.
The human spirit, in the final analy
sis, is the greatest builder of alL.The re
cent disastrous floods that Have wreaked
such havoc in major Alaskan-communi
ties such as Fairbanks will put that spirit
to the test again Rebuilding is a race
against the inexorable approach of the
bitter northern winter. Despite all out
side help that can be given, the life of
these communities will depend largely
upon the sheer strength and determina
tion of individual citizens.
Across The Fence Row
Some people think they’re dynamic,
just because they explode easily.
Habits may resemble cork or lead
gome keep us up, others hold us down.
Then there is this story: Johnny
looking out of the window says, “Oh,
mother, a car as big as a barn has just
gone by ”
Mother says, “Johnny, why do you
exaggerate so terribly? I’ve told you 40
million times about that habit of yours
and it doesn’t do a bit of good ”
Weather Forecast
The forecast for the five-day period
Saturday through next Wednesday calls
for temperatures to average below nor
mal with the daytime high in the upper
40’s and the over-night low in the 30’s.
Mild at the beginning of the period and
turning cooler Sunday. No marked day
to day change is expected. Normal tem
peratures for this period are 57 high and
38 low.
Rain may total one-half inch or more
at the beginning and again at.the end of
the period. ; _ "
paroWTfl.TiMiuft
hard way." *’ - '
JWiy? Why?
It was Infantile paralysis, say*
a biographer, that taught Frank'
lin D. Roosevelt tha quality of
patience. It was a hard lesson for
this restless, dynamic man, but
from this tragedy he learned a
lesson which was to be of inestl*
mnblc value in bis continuing
career. . .
Thus it may be for many of tha
most necessary lessons: cotnpas*
sion, love, forgiveness, humility,
the meaning of life and death; all
. of these seem to be learned best
round Scri,lurn Ho,*d I through 3.11 3. il>U ho nn»<
Ouvuhunul Ruudirif Psalm, 46. , Why Should this be SO? Why
Someone has noted theincon- should God afflict us in order to
sistency of the woman who prays <««* us something? Why is paia
for patience, but complains when •°"“ e * s ”y* .. . _ ,
she is sent an inefficient cook! . *9 rea^ zc God
Her problem is shared by all of does not knock us down in order
us: we want to learn the hard *° u * u Pj We manage to get
things by some easy, painless down in the depths quite by our.
method selves. Yet, though he does not
■■■ Painless learn- send tragedy to us, he neverthe.
inc however is less can use » to accomplish hia
W\ c « r;„7tarv purpose. God can squeeze abless
when children re- our * lves *
THE HARD WAY
Lesson for November 5,1967
,ak f their W hat’s The Lesson?
mav*’remember K u not a matter of God belnrf
A one could ze * dy at la,t to leach U 8» but
* ■■■ M gn Aem much «»heing v/illing at last to learn.
Kev. Althouse 1 J t e ™ often thi * happens only when w«
h t v . ,„. y t henf bave reached the "bottom of tho
T*Z. X™ S s£gis.Si W? hlt Y e b^nMripp^
to r» «„ h.,d * sss^snisssss^
Law Of Readiness need for resources beyond our
Educators speak of the "law of ow £ then we ma y be «*&• . •'
readiness.” This means that peo- «° s f a a P^P 11 ® 4
pie are more likely to learn when greatest insights and understand*
ftem SS them Stive*
Wh”nhtsmSscle
has progressed far enough, a J as abl f, to use his L? a f*
Child is ready to learn to walk. hiw^li' tfi
When a school child’s mind has I.uITJS
learned to deal with abstractions, fe a a ; h » n b w„ bad
hiehMforms way But for Was for
Manyofthe greatesHessons of “° at .. of us ’ il had to be " thehartl
Dr. Paul Tournier ’ 1116 famou * •
can only be toed ■when expert- Jw « s “ an V su S^‘ a tha ‘
ences have prepared us to receive « ben f are ill, w oughtte-asl?
them. Parenthood can be studied ■ what God might want ,
as an academic subject, but we t? teacb us through our illness,
cannot really learn all we need tot®.?, lt be with other adyer
know until we have become par-' ? 1 { ieSl Whatever our difficulties,;-:
ents. Often, this "seems to be "the let . ask wh f biasings God '
hard wav ” might squeeze from them, what,
A yoqng teenager seems iff ° n he teach us "the ■
headed for trouble. A number of “ ar J~ way ' , .. . „
people try to get him back on the of ,
Tight track, to keep him from Churches of Chris! in the USA. Released b/
making a tragic mistake. But he Commumiy Press service i
will not listen and in time he is f ■
sent to prison for a serious crime. IIA IA 1 It
There in his loneliness, he begins " w wipiaaa
to understand the tragic waste of \illlflail
his life and vows to be a new per- iJUIIUdy
son when at last he is released on
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To Check Heating Systems... the molding of the com in th(
~n , . . silo The frosted corn will con-''
in S. n if actmty tmue to'have good febd value
“ I - g r w - lf water is added to peimit
S v B L UI „ d tG gIV3 the C^ im - fermentation
ney and stove pipes a thor
ough inspection 'before any To Kat-Proof Corn Storage..*'
fires are built In-many cases,
the pipes may have been Wlth the jumper crop of’
knocked loose or the mortar c ®rn on niany farms tKis fall
dried out between the brick. the storage space becomes'
All of these could be fire haz- filled - One Problem with, tern*
ards and should be corrected P ol ’ary storage facilities-is that),
soon. rodents will ma_ke_it thebe,
headquarters and do consider- 1
able damage during the corn-,
To Add Water to Silage
_ , . mg winter. .When, these extra
Frosted corn may still be storage cribs are constructed!
made into corn silage but the it is strongly advised to make
amount of moisture in. the them of concrete and wire, and'
stalk may not be sufficient to other materials’to keep oulji
secure good packing in the the rats and mice. This is no|J
silo. After the com has dried 'easy and some-planning should'
f™* should be added at be done in advance of con^
the blower in border to prevent struction, * * * *
NOW IS
THE TIME...
By Max Smith
Lancaster County Agent