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■Lancaster Farming. Saturday, November 11,1967
From Where We Stand ...
More Grateful
A Peace Corps volunteer and his
wife who served in Guatemala. Central
America, had something to say about the
“apparent apathy” of the average U.S.
citizen living in the richest society in the
world.
Writing in a national farm maga
zine. this technical advisor to a United
Nations milk plant said. “Perhaps it
v ould be good for the striking auto work
ers to live lor two years m Guatemala
where a good wage for a factory worker
is SI a day try and feed a family on 17
percent of that!
“Pei haps it would be good for the
NFO milk dumper and the people who
ciove him to it to watch a child wither
to nothing from malnutrition and even
tually die for want of ... . (rmlkl.”
After raising a question as to the
future endurance of the American So
ciety as we know it. he concludes. “If
V e are too proud to thank God for our
countless blessings and replace the greed
i i our hearts v. ith genuine love and ap
prec.a::on the end may be closer than we
ell lealize "
We can’t help be reminded of the
l.rrls say mg wmcli goes something like
"t 'll5
4 1 complained in my misery
For I had no shoes.
Until I met a Man
Who had no feet "
We should be more grateful, espe
cially as we appioach the Thanksgiving
season At least that's the way it looks
from where we stand
Youth Winners At
yd
Harrisburg
Just a few lines to say the Lancas
ter County youth showing steers at the
11th Annual Pennsylvania Livestock Ex
position did very well this week. As re
ported on page 1, we had the best group
of five and a grand champion. We under
stand quite a large number of our local
boys and girls will be going on to the
Eastern National Livestock Show at Tim
cmum, Maryland, today We certainly
hope they do as well there.
ie a ts ms
About Trading Stamps
A report came across our desk this
week, telling of a study that was made of
the trading stamp industry It seems
stamp redemption across the nation re
quired stamp companies to procure mer-
Farm News This Week
Broderick Speaks To The
Conservation Convention Page 1
Guernsey Men Set Annual Meet
For November 17 Page 19
Lancaster County Group
Is Best At Exposition Page 1
Farm-City Week Creates
Better Rural-Urban Unity Page 13
Farm Women Help Health Group
With Christmas Seal Campaign Page 1
LANCASTER FARMING
Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly
P O Box 266 - Lititz, Pa 17543
Office 22 E Mam St, Lititz, Pa 17543
Phone Lancaster 394 3047 or Lititz 626 2191
Everett R Newswanger, Editor
Robert G Campbell, Advertising Director
Subscription price $2 per yeai in Lancaster
County, $3 elsewheie
Established Novembei 4, 1955
Published every Saturday by Lancaster
Farming Lititz Pa
Second Class Postage paid at Lititz Pa.
17543
Member of Newspaper Farm Editors Assn.
“V
chandise from some 64 different indus
tries about $250 million worth of pro
ducts. In one state alone (Missouri) the
report showed the trading stamp indus
try accounted for approximately $lO mil
lion of the manufacturers’ sales and em
ployment for about 1500 workers count
ing the stamp companies and the suppli
ers.
Now we realize the stamp compan
ies pay taxes and the jobs and sales creat
ed bj r the use of trading stamps amount
to a considerable contribution to the na
tional economy. But we still can’t help
think the farmer is blamed for the in
creased prices added to Mrs. Consumer’s
weekly food purchases by the stamp
gimmick.
If the trading stamps were discon
tinued say in the super market, they
could lower food prices and consumers
could take the money saved and buy the
"stamp" merchandise from a local mer
chant. In the end the same amount of
trading could occur but the farmer and
the food industry would not be charged
for the extia unrelated merchandise.
At least that's the way it looks from
where we stand.
Spending Brakes Needed
The proposed surcharge on corpor
ate and personal income is supposed to
be a temporary measure needed largely
to finance the cost of the war in Viet
Nam But, there have been temporary
taxes enacted before, 'and a good share of
them are still with us. If the rapid ex
pansion in the size and cost of govern
ment now under way is not checked, any
tax boost made will have little effect on
budget deficits or the course of inflation.
Both will remain with us to undermine
the economic stability of the country and
depreciate the income and the savings of
the people. It is time 'to reconsider na
tional fiscal policy. In the final analysis,
it must be recognized that governments
too have limitations on their ability to
spend.
Across The Fence Row
THE QUIET TRUTH. Self-respect
cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchas
ed It is never for sale It cannot be
fabricated out 'of public relations. It
comes to us whien we are alone, in quiet
moments, in quiet places, when we sud
denly realize that, knowing the good, we
have done it: knowing the beautiful, we
have served it, knowing the truth, we
have spoken it.
—A. Whitney Griswold in a speech
IT’S THE COST of living high, not
the high cost of living that causes all the
groans at the grocery checkout counter.
Then there’s this story A little city
boy in the country for the first time saw
the milking of a cow.
“Now you know where the milk
comes from, don’t you?” he was asked.
“Sure,” he replied. “You give the
cow some breakfast food and water and
then you drain the crankcase.”
Weather Forecast
The five-day forecast calls for tem
peratures to average near normal with
daily highs in the upper 40’s to the mid
50’s The low is expected to be in the low
30’s to low 40’s. Mild at the beginning To Control Cattle Parasites...
and cooler toward the end. Normal high wint ® r seaB ° n 18
is 54 and low is 36 ly a PP roachin S- Man y strin S s
is 03 ana low is oo of feeder cattle have been
Rain may total Ato inch occurr- brought into the county this
ing as showers Saturday and as general fall. Many of these cattle are
rain end of thejieriod^^
SUBTLE IDOLATRY
Lesson for November 12,1967
Kflcbfrcund Seriplurr Hosea 4 8 through 10.
Kt«ritn|.Mark 12 28 34,
A patient in a hospital for the
mentally ill thought of himself as
a "God-maker.” In his locker he
kept a block of wood, a cube
whose surfaces had been pain
stakingly smoothed and edges
carefully squared. When some
one came to see
him, he would
take it from his
locker and dis
play it, saying:
"This is my God.
I made him. I
worship him dai
ly.”
One of his doc-
„ ~,, tors tried patient-
Kev. Althouse ]y ex pjain to
him that man does not create God,
but God creates man. When at
last the man grasped this, he be
gan to recover his sanity.
A Thing of Wood
The prophet Hosea grieved
over the national madness of the
people of Israel. It too was the
result of idolatry. '’My people in
quire of a thing of wood, and
their staff gives them oracles.”
(Hosea 4:12 RSV) The people of
Israel found strangely beguiling
and fascinating the idols of their
pagan neighbors. Though they
did not formally renounce their
loyalty to the God of Abraham
and Isaac, they preceded to make
idolatry a part of their lives too.
Why? For one thing, a god
made by our own hands is really
an extension of ourselves. To
worship a man-made thing is to
worship man and his powers of
creation. It is a matter of human
pride: "See what I have made 1 .”
It is but the visible representation
of something in ourselves that we
desire to make dominant.
This is why pagan idols often
represent a sexual motif. The idol
is revered by those who long to
set free all restraints on their sex
ual drive. Similarly, a god ofwar
is worshipped by those who de
sire to give free reign to their
own violent impulses. Idolatry is
actually the worship of something
For Full Market Reports
Read LANCASTER FARMING
To Support
Farm & Home Center.
For the past two months the
officials of the Lancaster Coun
ty Farm & Home Center have
been conducting a money-rais
ing drive among the farmers
of the county Funds are need
ed to pay for the building
nearing completion This is a
project that should benefit our
county for generations to
come; we need this Center for
Farm & Home activities. All
folks are urged to again sup
port this worthwhile effort.
wlthln'ounelves, aomethlag that
take* the place of God.
Infidelity and Decay
Hoiea had seen a leuon for
his nation In the fall of his own
wife. She had become attracted
to another man, had broken her
vows to Hosea. In time, she be
came a prostitute, going from one
man to another. Eventually, no
longer attractive enough to be a
harlot, she sold herself into slav
ery. When at last Hosea redeemed
her from slavery, she is hardly
the same woman either physically
or spiritually. Infidelity has made
its mark upon her.
The prophet saw the same
process at work in the nation of
Israel. The moral decay had be
gun with their allurement to the
worship of idols. As Comer’s in
fidelity had broken her marriage
relationship with Hosea, so the.
unfaithfulness of Israel was de
stroying her covenant relation
ship with God. Like Corner, the
people of Israel sold their her
itage for sensual and material
pleasures.
When the inner life of a nation
or person deteriorates, there are
outward signs. As the prostitute’s
body becomes prematurely old,
so an unfaithful nation begins to
show the outward signs of the
decay within. "There is swearing,
lying, killing, stealing, and com
mitting adultery,” observed the
prophet. /
Even More Dangerous
This is not ancient history!
Today, as then, idolatry is an
ever-present danger for the people
of God. Our idols are even more
dangerous because they are more
subtle. We do not call them
"gods” or build temples for them,
yet these are the things, the man
made objects that we let become
foremost in our lives, that moti
vate us, that receive the wonder'
and adoration that should belong,
to God alone. Have you never
noticed the adoring, loving care
people lavish upon man-made
things?
The lure of other gods is nc>
less a problem for us than the
people of Ho sea’s day. Man- 1
made things are still god’-s
greatest rivals. The subtle idola-'
try of today’s society is still the
greatest threat to man’s sanity.
(Based on outlines copyrighted by the Dmstin i
•( Christian Education, Notional Council of th#
Churches of Christ m the U, S A. Released kf ’
Community Press Service.) -
Go To Church
Sunday
NOW IS
THE TIME...
By Max Smith
Lancaster County Agent
the outside and stomach worms
on the inside Either of these
problems will reduce gams
and decrease profits. Feeders
are urged to give prompt at
tention to the elimination ofi
all parasites from their cattle.
To Control Winter Weeds...
Many hay fields will include
new growth of winter weeds
such as chickweed, winter
cress, and shepherds purse All' 1
of these weeds start growth ihc
the fall and continue to d6-'|
velop until next spring. All of; ,
them are much easier to kill
when small this fall than when
mature next spring. Growers
are urged to spray during No
vember and December and.
eliminate the problem in ths
1968 hay crop, f