—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. April 27,1968
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From Where We Stand ...
rv* * j j a • .fi ir itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a
JLMViaed Against Itselt . . . house be divided against itself
Wc wonder.
The nation’s capitol is always a smold- . .» * .
ering fire of political controversy, we Sup- * * " *
pose. And even more so in this an election SIoODV, Biased Research
year. But there is another atmospheric pres- " rrJ' >
sure here on the streets that seem to out There’s nothing like a little sloppy, or
weigh even the political conflicts. biased research to keep the diet-heart
During a free half-hour at the News- disease controversy going against foods of
paper Farm Editors of America Annual animal origin saturated fats, that is. A
Spring Meeting held in Washington Sunday case in point is a recently published ra
through Tuesday, several of us farm editors search paper. Its authors have concluded
hired a taxi and drove up 14th Street into that persons on high saturated fat diets in
the heart of the city’s recent riot area. At cur a greater incidence of heart attacks and
first we saw a store here and there boarded mortality than do persons on high polyun
up after having been stoned, looted and fired saturated fat diets. We think this conclusion
over Martin Luther King’s death. Then the is poppycock. In fact the portion of their
bombarded stores especially liquor stores study which was scientifically organized
and food stores became more numerous, and well controlled proved quite the oppo-
We finally came upon two blocks completely site
w recked
Hand painted words kept repeating lems half were put on high saturated and
themselves on u alls and broken windows on half on high polyunsaturated fat diets. At
the not streets: “Soul Brother” or “Black the end of five years results showed no
Power”. And on the streets you would catch significant differences in mortality, in
bits of conversation: “Non-violent”; “Race serum cholesterol values or in lowering of
•> or “Freedom”. cholesterol levels. This portion ot the study
, , * , was an excellently controlled project. But
We asked he cab driver what he was half through) noting that the men on
doing the night of the worst riots I was saturated fats were not having heart at .
at home, he said, and I stayed there. tacks or dying at the pre . reS earch antici-
One of the first notices of trouble on nafprj rate the researchers tossed in an
the frightful night was the sudden 'absence ot h e r 100 men to study what happened on
ot taxi service it was reported. non-controlled diets. Well, this is just fine,
And it is not over. On Monday night but half of the new 100 were 20 percent more
during the Editor’s Convention, several fires overweight than the other half . . . and ac
were set and buildings burned. “The same cordingly had problems. The conclusion was
stuff is still going on,” the cab driver said, that saturated fats were guilty.
“I feel it will break out again. Every day Any unbiased researcher would dis
on the street I feel like something is going agree. If anything, the over-weight condi
to happen,” he said. tion has as much or more to do with the in-
Then the taxi driver, a white man, ask- creased rate of coronary difficulties. Had
ed us a question. “Why are they (the Negro the researchers come to the same conclu
people) hurting their own people by burn- sion after equalizing weight differences
ing apartment buildings above the stores?” we’d be worried . . . particularly if the
There was silence in the car. No one seem- second 100 men had been reduced to desir
ed to have an answer. ed weight as the first 100 had. Yet not only
Back on the 10th floor of the hotel, we was there a 20 percent overweight differ
look out across the capitol skyline and count ence in the second 100, no attempt was made
15 American flags waving proudly in the to reduce the overweight problem ... or
sun, blown by a rather brisk wind on top of study it as another variable.
government buildings. And it seems im- As much in defense of research validity
possible that the two scenes that have as in the interests of the meat industry,
caught our eye could be seen in the same we’re keeping an eye on this one But we
town (the home of our beloved nation) only continue to be amazed at the insistence of
a few blocks apart. “polyunsaturated supporters” that certain
We try to reconcile the scenes one of ve S e t a ble oils are the salvation of mankind!
national pude and the other of national dis-
giace But we can’t. From somewhere in
Z?„ e c”sT the words °' Saint Mark come Across The Fence Row
“And if a kingdom be divided against
—, “Try praising your wife, even if it
__ __ ■ frightens her at first." Billy Sunday
Farm News This Week
New Approach Found
For Milk Fat Testing Page 19
Meetings Set On ’69
National Wheat Program Page 1
Survey Studies Consumer
Attitudes Toward Meat Page 13
Freeman Savs Fanners Are
Now More Respected And
Understood B\ Consumers Page 1
Packers & Stockyards Act
Is Explained To Editors Page 1
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In a study of 100 men with heart prob-
The ambitious farm boy trades the
peace and quiet of the farm for the noise
and dirt of the city, so he can earn enough
money to return to the peace and quiet of
the farm.
A well lived life should lead to tran
quility. without tranquilizers.
A worm is about the only creature that
doesn't stumble and tall, once m a while
It takes some kiddies a long time to
learn that bad manners are tolerated only
in adults
Weather Forecast
The five-day forecast for the period
Saturday through next Wednesday calls for
temperatures to average near normal. Day
time highs are expected in the 60’s and over
night lows in the 40’s. Near seasonable tem
peratures with little day to day change. Nor
mal high-low for the period is 69-45.
Ram may total greater than one-half
inch Saturday or Sunday, and again Wed
nesday.
Hard-headed wisdom
The wisdom and knowledge
of which the sages wrote In Pro
verbs must not oe mistaken with
intellectual brilliance, theoretical
learning, or the possession of
sheer facts. The Hebrew was not
interested in ideas as such, es
pecially not abstract knowledge.
What he sought was that which
he needed to know In order to
live successfully day by day.
This wisdom had to be practical
SadwraunS Scriptural Pr»v«rbi I Ihnugh 3. anduseful.
RMAnr Provarks 26-n. The source of this hard-headed
_ .... , , wisdom to live one’s daily life.
For most of us the greatest then, was reverence for God. He
barrier to wisdom is our refusal was no t expected to be dependent
to acknowledge that we have upon hi B intellect alone. The key
something further to learn. In his was willingness to accept
Markings, Dag Hammarslqold G od’s guidance. The man who
once observed: What! He is cannot acknowledge his need for
now going to try to teach me! guidance will be too proud, too
Why not? There self-satisfied to accept God’s
is nobody from direction. Thus, humility is of
whom you can- even greater importance than
not learn. Be- cerebred brilliance. "Be not wise
fore God, who in your own eyes; fear the Lord,
speaks through and turn away from evil” (Pro
all men, you ver bs 3:7 RSV)
THE CIfISEI HIND
Leuon for April 28 f 1968
are always in Unfortunately, few of us who
the bottom class read these words from Proverbs
°f nursery will feel that they apply to us.
Rev. Althouse scllot “*' We are certainly not too satisfied
with our own wisdom and knowl
edge! We are certainly not closed
Ignorance to what God would teach us! Are
This is hardly a new discovery. we really sure of that? Really?
Socrates, the great Greek philo- ... .
sopher who lived before the time All Wrong, blit...
of Christ, once said: “As for me. Many years ago there was a
all I know is that I know stubborn old Scottish elder who
nothing.” Coming from a man vigorously opposed the union of
who is still remembered for his the Scottish Presbyterian Church
great knowledge and wisdom, with the Church of Scotland,
this sounds like a strange state- Finally, however, the majority
ment. Yet, his conclusion is quite vote prevailed and the union was
in harmony with the findings of approved. The man was heard to
aU the greatest thinkers. mutter to himself: “It’s aU wrong,
Spurgeon, the famous I tell ye, it’s all wrong. But
preacher, once said something evidently it is the wiU of God.”
quite akin to this: “The doorway Often it is hard to let go of what
to the temple of Wisdom is awe “know” in order to accept the
knowledge of our own ignorance.” truth of God.
He had discovered that the more isn’t it quite possible that out
we learn and the more we under- minds too are tightly closed
stand, the more that we find our against God’s truth, that we re
learning and understanding are ject his wisdom for the simple
inadequate. Only when we are reason that our own under
willing to admit our limitation, standing fits in better with the
can we pass on to the greater Jdnd of lives we want to live and
wisdom. attitudes we want to hold? Might
It is this failure to acknowl- it not be that when we claim We
edge his own ignorance that so are merely standing upon out
often keeps man in the darkness, convictions, what wfe are really
We find this same line of thought doing is sitting on the lid of •
in the Old Book of closed mind?
Proverbs. "The fear of the Lord
is the beginning of knowledge”. '•?** *"
1 ,n r\c ** Christian £rfue«h«n* CAunctl «f ffi«
(Proverbs 1:7 RSV) Of course, ChorthK ~ Chm , u>i>AiMwi , -fc
when the sage speaks of "fear Cmmum* Pm, s«vk*)
of the Lord,” he refers not to
fright, but 1o reverence. M we
revere God, if we approach him.
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To Observe Alfalfa Fields
Alfalfa is still king of the for
age crops but does need atten
tion in the spring for the control
ol alfalfa weevil Manj groweis
will attempt to make .the fust
cutting before the weevils do
much damage to the crop, this
will be possible if the crop is
thnfty and well fertilized Old
stands may be cut in the bud
stage for the first editing but
new stands should be allowed to
come into the 10 to 20% blossom
stage Have either your sprayer
of your custom spray operator
handy in the coming weeks
To Be Careful
With Weed Killing Sprays
The time for weed control is
at hand and all growers are re
minded of the danger of equip
ment contamination after the
use of 2,4-D sprays, this maten-
not a j an equal but ae one whose
knowledge is to fat beyond our
own, we will be able to receive
the gift of wisdom he would give
us.
NOW IS
THE TIME...
By Max Smith
Lancaster County Agent
al sticks to spray tanks and
lines and is lery difficult to re
mote The safest method is to
hate separate equipment tor
v eed kd'eis or to get some of
the spiajmg done bt a custom
spray operator ,
To Worm Sheep
One of the major problems of
the sheep industry in this part of
the state is the internal parasite
infestation Due to the humidity
and warm temperatures early
in the summer, worm spores are
very active and contaminate the
pastures Treating each animal
in the spring as they go to pas
ture and again in the fall before
they go to winter quarters is
strongly recommended Spring
lambs on feed should be treated
e\ er>- 4 to 6 weeks to get the
best gams