—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 23,1968
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from Where We Stand ...
Violent Demonstrations
There seems to be a worldwide spon
taneous movement among young people to
resort to violent demonstrations on univer
sity campuses as a means of resolving any
grievance that disturbs them. Many look
upon these demonstrations as a legitimate
rebellion against the shortcomings of the
established order of governments and so
cieties. Each generation is said to be wiser
than the preceding one, thus we assume the
dissident students are groping for a better
order with a vision not given to parents and
college authorities.
During the months of October and
November of 1967, students staged 71 dem
onstrations on 62 college campuses. Were
these demonstrations based upon deep
philosophical and moral premises? There is
reason for doubt on that score. Only two
demonstrations were attributed directly to
the war in Viet Nam. It ranked with college
social rules and safer road crossings. At the
bottom of the list of causes for the demon
strations were campus building programs
and the quality of higher education. Only
one demonstration was attributed to each.
Indirectly, the war was a factor in 27 dem
onstrations against a chemical company
manufacturing napalm. Three demonstra
tions each were attributed to compulsory
R.OTC and the quality of cafeteria food. The
foregoing is taken from a tally made by the
National Student Association which is based
upon student demonstrations in the U. S.
only.
Mr. George F. Kennan, former Ambas
sador to Russia and currently a professor
at the Institute of Advanced Study, writing
in The New York Times Magazine, presents
views concerning the radical left on campus
that may well stir misgivings in the minds
of even the most tolerant. Among other
things, he says, "Never has there been an
era when the problems of public policy
even approached in their complexity those
by which our society is confronted today. . .
The understanding of these problems is
something to which one could well give
years of disciplined and restrained study,
years of the scholar’s detachment, years of
readiness to reserve judgment while evi
dence is being accumulated. And this being
so, one is struck to see such massive cer
tainties already present in the minds of
people who not only have not studied very
much but presumably are not studying a
great deal, because it is hard to imagine
that the activities to which this aroused por
tion of our student population gives itself
are ones readily compatible with quiet and
successful study.”
Mr. Kennan finds the greatest fault with
the student protesters on the grounds that
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they offer no constructive program. As he
says, .. if you find a system inadequate,
it is not enough simply to demonstrate . .-.
anger . . ..If the student left had a program
. . . many of us . . . could view its protests
with respect. . .” Another disturbing fact
in Mr. Kennan’s view is that, “These people
also pose a problem in the quality of their
citizenship. One thing they all seem to have
in common the angry ones as well as the
quiet ones is a complete rejection of, or
indifference to, the political system of this
country.” He points out that the quiet ones
the hippies and flower people turn
their backs upon our political system as
thought it did not concern them. The angry
ones reject the discipline which, as a sys
tem of authority, it unavoidably entails. On,
the current notion that civil disobedience is
acceptable if the perpetrators are willing to
accept the penalties, Mr. Kennan has this
to say: “Some people, who accept our poli
tical system, believe that they have a right
to disregard it and to violate the laws that
have flowed from it so long as they are pre
pared ... to accept the penalties establish
ed for such behavior. I am sorry; I cannot
agree. The violation of law is not, in the
moral and philosophic sense, a privilege
that lies offered for sale with a given price
tag, like an object in a supermarket, avail
able to anyone who has the price and is will
ing,to pay for it.”
All in all, Mr. Kennan’s views will
strike a lot of people with the force of bed
rock logic at a time when our permissive
society needs such logic in heroic doses.
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According to J. Edgar Hoover, director
of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
“Crime must be reduced by eliminating
the huge profits and the soft justice which
attract criminal-minded individuals. Ava
lanches of crime and terrorism cannot be
tolerated in a society of free men. Either
we win the war against crime or the price
less heritage which we cherish will be de
stroyed. Full justice is needed stern jus
tice. We need justice which keeps the bal
ance true and affords the law - abiding
public an even break. We need justice
which deals swiftly and surely with the
criminal, convincing justice which means a
quick arrest, prompt prosecution, and sub
stantial punishment of the guilty lawbreak
er.”
At least that’s the way it looks from
where we stand.
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Across The Fence Row
Credit: a person who can't pay, gets
another person who can’t pay to guarantee
that he can pay. Charles Dickens
Every man has one thing he can do bet
ter than anybody else read his own hand
writing. Times Recorder, Zanesville,
Ohio
SCOTTSVILLE, KY., NEWS: “Karl
Marx would turn over in his grave if he
knew -this, but instead of a ‘handful of pri
vileged capitalists’ tightly grasping the
reins of industry, as he predicted, in Ameri
ca 20 million and more people, (more than
a quarter of the adult population), own
stock in some 6,700 of the nation’s indus
trial concerns . . . and 35 per cent of these
‘capitalists’ are housewives and widows!”
Weather Forecast
The five-day forecast for the period
Saturday through next Wednesday calls for
temperatures to average near or below nor
mal. The daytime highs are expected in the
upper 40’s and overnight lows in the mid
30’s. Near seasonable temperatures with
little day to day change. Normal high-low is
53-33. ; ' •
Rain may total greater than onfe-half
inch occurring over the week : end.
i Withered Branch
Sometime!, however, men and
men, at they have climbed the
idee to " tucceii," have cut
uiemielves off from the source of
their lucceti. John Wesley found
that many of the poor people who
were converted under his ministry
became moderately pcosperoua
because of their new way of life.
Unfortunately, as many of diem
grew in material success, they
i i nM. .J l L l iil to drift away from their
"iIS? *’ faith. They became "too busy
a Av r . for the fdlowship that lifted them
of their poverty. Weeley’a
, «. C H°l^r?wi^«n t Tu, dBolutlon: Rlf tho,e Who gain all
avidly read aroy book on can> an( j aave they can,
will likewise give all they can.*
collection of tne Gictt finmicipt* ii Biwftvi ths a!
W®*** prosperity. K tends to seduce us
and photographs of the sixteenth away f rom our source. We grow
further and further away from
systematically an d, as we do, we find
hunted down. our power begin to dwindle. It
borne of Lln- ina y no t happen suddenly, but
coin s memora-|jj t by last, overextended
ble sayings were direction, we find we
committed ~to bave exhausted our God-given
memory. power and find nothing but
° n ®. a emptiness where once Christ dwelt
years after us< «jf a man does not.abide
great project had j n me> he is cast forth as abranch
~ * \ e , n Jr? ® un * and withers ...” (John 15:
someone said to him; "Do you g rsV).
know what you remind me very *'
much of Abraham Matched Set
Smiling a LincohiMique smile, the Jesus said «... unless you
other replied: "That is under- abide me » (j o hn 15:4), but
standable, for I have lived with how do you go about "abiding”
him for many years. j n him? We have already seen
THE SOURCE
Lcuon for Much 24,1968
Dae.mhi* u: m how one young man lived for a
10 Kesemoie Him , number of years under the in-
It is sometimes said that when fluence of the words and deeds
we live with someone long 0 f Abraham Lincoln and became
enough, whether in a literal or fom him. We may abide in Jesus
figurative sense, we may very i n foe same manner. He himself
well become quite like them. Part- said . «if . . . my words abide in
ners in marriage, for example, you » (John 15 : 7). As a young
often grow to resemble each oth- man immersed himself in the ut
er. Adopted children may some- ternances c f Lincoln, so the
fames seem to bear the likeness of Christian may do the same with
their foster parents. fo e teachings of Jesus Christ.
It is in this same way that a _jf Christ is the "true vine,” the
person may grow in his fellow- branches are bound together too.
ship with Christ, until, at last, nqbis is my commandment, that
he begins to take on charactens- y OU love one another as I have
tics that reflect the influence of the f ove< i you.” The Christian who
Master. This was the challenge remains close to his source, life
Jesus set before his disciples: "By fo j esU s Christ,- also finds it
tins my Father is glorified, that brings him close to his fellow
you, bear much Truit, and so men. It is impossible to have one
?k°*Tbc?7i “^Pl® B (J 0 ! 111 without the other. The source
, compels us to be one.
This power to "bear much ... t
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fruit” finds its source rn a close, of Chnshua Educahon, Nahonal C.uuc.l ol th.
living relationship with Christ. "I Churches of Christ in the U. S. A. Released by
am the vine,” says Jesus, "you Caeiiwiiii/ frea semnj
are my branches. He who abides
in me, and I in him, he it is that
bears much fruit, for apart from
me you can do nothing” (John
15:5 RSV). Anyone who has ever
TRY A CLASSIFIED AD!
To Spray For Garlic
Wild garlic is one of the very
first weeds to grow in the
spring and needs immediate at
tention Many pasture fields are
infested with this weed often
called wild onion. Dairymen
must be certain the milking
herd does not get access to any
kind of forage including garlic
because of the very undersir
able onion flavor. Control calls
for spraying when the young
plants are 3 to 6 inches high
with IVz pounds per acre of the
low volatile ester form of 2,4rD.
Cattle should be kept from the
area for at least 10 days after
spraying.
To Manage Herd Carefully
Dairymen that will be utiliz
ing early pasture in the next
few weeks are cautioned about
permitting the cows to graze
lush forage close to the milking
ted to do it *on hli own* knows
s truth of Jeaui* claim. He U the
mm of whatever power wt
we.
NOW IS
THE TIME...
By Max Smith
Lancaster County Agent
period. It is suggested that -the
herd graze only following the
milking time and be off the
area at least 4 hours before'the
next milking. A well ventilated
barn will also help reduce
grassy flavors.
To Plan For Maximum Output
Today’s farmer must be a
good manager and plan to get
the greatest output from every
farm unit. Yields are on the in
crease and we should not be
satisfied with the production of
a generation ago. New varieties,
thicker population, and greater
use of fertilizer are partly re
sponsible for increased yields.
Some local acres of permanent
pasture that are tillable will
give more feed nutrients from
a crop of corn for silage than to
remain in pasture. Planning and
managing must get more -atten
tion.