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—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 9.1967
From Where We Stand ...
_ 9nnn ments beyond the control of the British
rlgriCUllurc fciVUV people, the effect of the debilitating dead-
To quote from this publication re- ® nd Philosophy of welfarism in Great
cently issued by the United States De- B ? ta ‘ n “' « 1 cle * r }y apparent to anyone
partment of Agriculture; who has followed the news stones of the
“An expanding national economy re- decline,
quires >a growing resource base, A rising Illinois State Journal has ably
standard of living demands a more whole- U P cur Tf Phght of Britain:
some environment, Ful-filling the needs economy, so hemmed in by fiscal
of millions of people yet unborn cannot guidelines of Socialist planning, goes
be assured unless we improve our use of * rom «nas to crisis. Saving the country
natural resources and achieve planned financial disaster every other
patterns of land use without delay.” month ,are short-term remedies of
This is growth and the most im- borrowing, price fixing, wage freezes
portant reason why we must step up and manipulation of interest rates,
conservation of the Nation’s natural re- The utopian era which socialism
sources especially soil and water. Do promised has never quite materialized,
you realize that by 2000 A.D. the popula- There are still the poor. There are con
tion of the U.S. will increase between siderably fewer rich. There are still
100 and 160 million from the present strikes when the government allows
figure of over 200 million; that our them - There are still power shortages,
food needs will at least double; that water w°rse railroad inefficiencies and, oyer
needs for manufacturing will quadruple all > a growing bureaucracy of alarming
and for other uses will double; that proportions. . . Capitalism is anathema,
land used for houses and other buildings Profits 'are frowned upon. The ‘telly’ set
will increase 200% while land used for a weekly gamble on the soccer pools and
transportation will increase 125% and a divestment of responsibility character
for reservoirs 180 % ? With the population lze m ° der T n . socialist Britain.”
increase and shorter workweeks, the de- . The Journal logically asks .., amid
mand for outdoor recreation facilities it be a vision of American 20 years from
may increase 300 %. now?
Much of the withdrawal of land for cl Jl M
these purposes will come from the areas- TL* W. Ai*!-, Tn Hn
now used to produce food and fiber for * ® /AMU 1 O LJ\J
our present population. In order to meet jf y OU something bad, everybody
the added requirements of a5O to 80% always knows about it. But, you could go
increase in population in just 33 years to church every Sunday of your life, take
from now, we must act to conserve and home stray kittens and help old ladies
improve these resources. The fertility of across the street forever and never find
the soil must be increased, soil erosion by yourself a celebrity. The younger genera
wind and water must be reduced, ways tion and most particularly the older teen
need to bo found to retain the water a g e section of it are in this position. The
where it falls or be stored nearby. lunatic fringe, the so-called “hippies,”
To accomplish this we need to use the LSD trippers and the troublemakers
every possible means available. It may g e t a u the publicity. Every adult should
be contour farming you need or just remember that this minority of the
building contours on increasing cover younger generation is not indicative of
crops of grasses and legumes by increas- the ambition, intelligence or solid accent
ing the productivity of the soil through plishment of the vast majority of young
limestone and fertilizers. A call to the people.
local Soil and Water Conservation Ser- As a publisher, Mr. Don Robinson
vice will bring the information needed G f The American Press observes, it might
to conserve and improve our natural help if publications, “.. . would tell more
farm resources, about some of the outstanding achieve-
Prom where we stand, it looks like merits of young people and Stop encour
now would be a good time to do it. aging the mentally imbalanced by giving
M. M. M. them all the limelight.”
® £3 es This we aim to do in Lancaster
It Could Be !=£
Great Britain is 20 years “ahead” of
the United States in the development of
a welfare state socialism. While many
tend to blame the lamentable state of
British affairs on international develop-
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LANCASTER FARMING
Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly
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Office. 22 E. Main St., Lititz, Pa 17543
Phone. Lancaster 394-3047 or Lititz 626-2191
Everett R. Newswanger, Editor
Robert G. Campbell, Advertising Director
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Published every Saturday by Lancaster
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Across The Fence Row
The difference between intelligence
and education is this that intelligence
will make you a good living.
Charles F. Kettering
Chop your own wood and it will
warm you twice.
Then there’s this story: Two small
girls were playing together one afternoon
in the park.
“I wonder what time it is,” said one
of them alt last.
“Well, it can’t be four o’clock yet,”
replied the other with magnificent logic.
“How can you tell?” asked the first.
“Because my mbther said I was to be
home at four and I’m not.”
Weather Forecast
The five-day forecast for the period
Saturday through next Wednesday calls
for temperatures to average near normal.
Daytime highs are expected to range in
the mid 30’s North, to mid 40’s South.
Over-night lows in the 20’s North to the
30’s South. Colder over the weekend,
moderating Monday 'and colder again to
ward the end of the period.
Precipitation may total one-half inch
melted occurring as snow or-rain. ,
aaWhbow, To add to hot
Babylonia, a naw neat
lntht E**t
lOiy
Mlooh, (hi sm«U*(owß
from Judah'* back*
cam* to hit countrymen
-m a masrfaga (hat anvlsioned
a futura day of unlvinal world
gAct. Min would ho longer ui«
elr zesouzcM to provide wea*
Sons for national security. Now
um resources could be made
Into implements for building,
healing, and helping. What a day
■«<—>■»«»-wee. he environed: '‘•They shall sfi
_ every man under hie vine and
- Pwtfawl Mm l»w» IMS. under hi* fig tree, and none shall
The other evening ontdevlslon make them afraid” (Micah 4:4
(here were some old aim cllns ol RSVI.
the Joyous celebration* that took Statesmen have delighted in
dace on V-J Day, the end of Quoting this passage, unfortu-
World War 2. Many of us remem- nately, however, they have
ber vividly foe exhilaration we focused on only part of bis rnes
▼enly-two years sage. They have sharedhisvision
;o. After a gl- of a universal peace, but have
tntic, tragic Ignored what he aoid of the
;ruggle, foe meona whereby this peace would
/arid, it waa be acheived. So men have heard
laid, had at last foe prophecy, taken hope, had
ieen "made safe foetr hopes dashed, and then cried
for democracy.” In dismay: "But when?”
The *wor to end „ _ . „
' wars” had On That Day
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icen fought an<L Universal peace will result,
won. At lash per- naya Micah, only whensomething
Ser, Aitnouse haps, the ancient else has first taken place:
prophecy would be fulfilled: "And many nations will come,
awords would bebeateninto plow- and say: 'Come, let us go up
shares and "spears into pruning to the mountain of the Lord...
hooks; nation shall not lift up that he may teach us his ways
sword against nation, neither and we may walk in hispaths.’
shall they learn war any more.” For out of Zion shall go forth
_ _ . . _ the law, and the word of the
The PeCiSIVe One? Lord from Jerusalem” (Micah
Of course, this had not been 4:2 RSV).
the first “war to end all wars.” World peace, then, is not a
The first great global conflict had, technique, but a result It will
it seemed now, accomplished come only on the day when all
really nothing. This one, how- men. worship and serve God and
ever, we hoped had been the de- make his will their guiding light,
cisive one. It will come only when the walls
But it was not the last war between us are pulled down
and today we find ourselves in those carefully—constructed walls
the midst of an undeclared war which we delight so in building,
that threatens to divide our It will come only on the day when
nation. Some talk of "World War we will serve but one God in
3,” not in terms of “if” but acknowledgement that we are all
"when?” Thus, as in this Christ-brothers. It will come only when
mas season the old carols pro-W* can place obedience to him
claim their "peace on earth, good above loyalty for our nation, our
vail toward men,” there will be ideology, and “our way of life.”
many in the jungles of Viet Natn.To our question, "/But when
and the homes of America who wll you give us peace, -Lord?”,
will ask, "But when?” be answers: "When you and your
This was the question which brother walk in my ways,”
the people of Judah were asking
In the time ofMicah. Thereseemed (Im«i m •uKmM cwnai.wtv' foeMihn
to be nothing certain but constant j* a>n»K»n nim m
warfare and international in- stl5 tl “ fch ** u - *• *-*•!••** W
trigue. Israel, the neighbor to the
North, had fallen to Assyria,
been carried into captivity, and
virtually snuffed out of existence.
Judah’s own postion was be*
coming increasingly precarious,
standing between die two peat
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Many agreements and leases and some air movement. How
are made by fanners as well as ever > in closed barns or in some
other business men. Good farm sheds with only one open side,
management suggests that farm exhaust fans to move out this
leases be put in writing and loaded air are needed.
that each party has a copy of To EnroU - a
the agreement There is less Correspondence Courses...
room for argument and dis- ,
agreement when responsibilities . Many Pennsylvanians are tak
are down in writing. advantage of the corre
spondence courses offered at
Penn State University. These
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