—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. May 4,1968 4 From Where We Stand ... When You Consider It, Though The Farm and Home Foundation Board of Directors adopted unanimously four guidelines dealing with the way the press is to be treated at regular board meetings .n the future. The text of these guidelines are as follows: 1, The fact that there have been many contributors to the Farm and Home Center, mposes upon this board a public responsi bility that will preclude the advisability of barring the press from regularly scheduled board meetings. 2, This board has the right to causus in which case all persons including news re porters who are not members of the board will be asked to absent themselves tempor arily. 3, Any misunderstanding or censure of a board member or the press or any per sonal grievance shall be settled outside of regular board meetings. 4, Where there is no pre-arranged agree ment concerning what shall be published .he discretion may be made by the press. The board is entirely correct in assess ing its obligation to conduct business in uublic through the eyes of the press. In act, we beheie the least amount of busi less needed to be done “under cover” by the ioard, the greater the appearance of every dung being done honestly and in order vith the consequential result of greater sup port for the Foundation by the farm com munity in the immediate future. The Farm and Home directors appear to have risen to the occasion by adopting these guidelines with the only thing remain ing to be seen; just how much of their busi ness must be conducted “o'ff-the-record”. "When you consider it, though, (laying aside all minor, touchy irritations that na turally come among men from a project of this magnitude) isn’t it really amazing that the dream of a center of action for the greatest farm community in the world has actually become a fact. With 54 meetings being reported taking place in the center m one month only and the entire office space now occupied by renters it certainly orovides the incentive to forget those prob ems of the past and go with new vigor to vard the final goal of a completely debt >ree, self-supporting Farm and Home Cen .er. At least that’s the way it looks from r.'here we stand. Timely Remarks The following remarks are quoted from the statement which a District Judge made to two youths convicted of a felony before passing sentence on them. The Judge’s pre sentence lecture to the youths was made some twenty years ago, but it contains a message of great timeliness for youth and adult today. Farm News This Week County-Wide Milk Parade Discussed Page 1 Garden Spot Bovs Tops In Land Judging Page 1 Conservationist Is Appointed For Pennsylvania Page 1 LANCASTER FARMING Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly P 0 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, Advei tising Director Subscription price $2 pei year in Lancaster County, $3 elsewhere Established November 4 1955 Published eveiy Satuiday by Lancaster Farming, Lititz, Pa Second Class Postage paid at Lititz, Pa. 17543 Member of Newspaper Farm Editors Assn. ★ * ■‘You come from good homes, both of you Yet now you have been convicted of a felony a crime for which you might be sent to the penitentiary. In this case I do not have to send you to the penitentiary. I am permitted to give you a parole. But even if you never see the inside of a penitentiary or jail, you will not have escaped the penal i ies of your crime. The record of your con uction will be here as long as the court house stands. No amount of good conduct in the future can ever erase it. “Next year, or ten years from now, or when you are old men if you are ever called to be witnesses in any court of law, some lawyer will point his finger at you and ask; 'Have you ever been convicted of a felony?’ You will hang your head and admit that you have, because if you deny it, the records of these proceedings will be brought from the vaults and read to the jury. The question will be asked for the sole purpose of casting doubt on your testimony. Convicted felons are not believed as readily as other persons. “Someday you may have a chance to live and work in one of the expanding coun tries of South America, and you will apply lor a passport. You may not get it. You might enter Canada for a fishing trip, but you would not be allowed to stay. No coun try will allow you to become a resident. Your world is so much smaller than it was. Someday you may seek a position in the civil service of your state or nation. On the application blank you will find this ques tion; ‘Have you ever been convicted of a felony?’ Your truthful answer will bar you from appointment. An untruthful answer will be detected because appointments are made only after investigation. The record is here to be found by anyone interested. “In a few' years you will be 21, and others your age will have the right to vote but you will not. You will be a citizen of your state and country, but you will have no voice in public affairs. Someday the gover nor may pardon you and restore your rights, but it is going to be humiliating to ask him. He’ll want to know your whole record. It is a bad one. “I am granting you a parole. A parole is in no sense a pardon. You will report to the men who have accepted your parole as of ten as they may ask. Your convenience is not a matter of importance. You will also obey your parents. If your parents send you lo bed at nine o’clock, you will go without complaint. You will perform such tasks as are assigned to you. Your parole is a fragile thing. Should the slightest complaint of your conduct reach this court, your parole will be revoked immediately and you will begin serving your sentence. You will not be brought back here for questioning and/or ex planations. You will be picked up and taken to prison without notice to you and with out delay.” Across The Fence Row Some men are knowm for their deeds, and other for their mortgages. Everything one sees, hears and does leaves its mark on his mind and character. Thus, the importance of clean thoughts, honest companions, and good books. Reading tends to make an old man younger, and a young man. older. Weather Forecast The five-day forecast for the period Saturday through next Wednesday calls for temperatures to average near normal with daytime highs in the 60’s and the overnight lows in the 40’s. Little day to day change is expected. Normal high-low for the period is 72-48. Rain may total one-half inch or more as showers in the North section Saturday and more generally Sunday. lEUIY SEMIS! Leuoa forMny 6,1968 They had seen the trttedy'ot the wineblbber. Theycbad'Obr MarwnJ SMpMMi Frcvfiki litJS-32,20i1, served those who had 'lsetn-d*> 23,iMi.aws. celved by theattractiveandharn* 9«v.M M*r. Prtv.rki j appearance of drink. They Your friend has "had a few" knew the sheer practicality* and suddenly he’s the life of the learning to master one’s appetites, party. Quiet, reserved, he begins Thus the sages were appealing to tell funny stories, do Imitations, to die minds of men, not tMf and sing rousing songs. Every- sense of obedience. They werenot one smiles as he picks up steam content to say "Don’t,” but went and in a few minutes they will on to tell "why not." Alcohol, It be laughing was obvious, brings gaily at his making men look foolish; it hilarius antics, vokes fights, triggers violence Everyone except (Proverbs 20:1); it interferes with hi* wife, for-our ability to work, causing ua she knows how to lose our jobs, our money the performance (Proverbs 23:21); it brings all must always kinds of woes, sorrows, andstriftf end. it is the cause of accidents and la- The tipsy juries, it dissipates the physical friend may body, induces hallucinations, de amuse us. The ludes the mind, and releases our helpless drunk on television may worst selves (Proverbs 23:33k seem hilarious. Someone’s and It forever tempts us to es~ admonition to temperance may cape from reality into a seem a cause to smirk. Yet world (Proverbs 23:351. alcoholism is no joke. It is not funny to the alcoholic, nor his The pragmatic Way family, nor his employer, nor In short: alcohol destroys th« anyone else whose welfare may drinker, physically, mentally, be jeopardized by him. It is and spiritually. Nor does it stop deadly serious. there, injuring those around u i, ' destroying our edationshipe-with Wrong because ... those around us. Ultimately it It was from Witnessing the tears down the moral fabric'of tragedies of drunkeness and our society. The Hebrewwisemea alcoholism that the writers of the had observed all this and theic Old Testament wisdom literature resulting advice is nothing less developed their pfbverbs-_of than a pragmatic manner q£ counsel in regard to the dangers dealing with a very real problem, of alcohol. When the sagefsaid, Thus it is the sages who ar« "Be not among winebibbers iT. . the realists, who are dealing with for the drunkard . .v will, come the facts. The wisdom ofthePra to poverty ...” "(Proverbs 23:20- verbs is thousands of years 614, 21), he did so because of his but it is no less realistic and con careful observation of the con- temporary for a society wheep sequences. .... alcoholism is a major health And Too often it is assumed that economic problem.* The problem the moral teachings of religion is serious; -the consequences are are the biased result of a "kill- deadly. Thus it calls for 4 joy” attitude toward life. What is response that is deadly seriou*. ° f I ten overiooked, however, is , n aullinH *, that the niorft-1 teachings are *i chmtmn N«ii«nai council ihi based upon some very practical church** *f chn*i m u. s. a. ty matters. Intemperance'is wrong, Cwnminuiy Pr«» s«vk«j for example, because of its des tructive results. Drunkeuess is castigated because of theonisery and suffering it brings to people. Alcoholism is evil because of the terrible cost it exacts from society. For Full Market Reports Read Lancaster Farming To Use Extra Corn Many livestock producers have ear corn left from the bumper 1967 crop; if these farmers are making any kind of forage-crop silage, they might make good use of the corn and cob chop as a preservative Any small grain or hay-crop forage that is made into silage will be improved by the addition of about 200 pounds of corn chop per ton of forage To Water Tobacco Beds Carefully Due to the weather conditions this pnng extra water is need ed lor tobacco plants We ad vise that the plants be watered during the forenoon so they will have time to dry before night. Wet plants during the night are more likely to be troubled with seed, bed diseases such as blue Because tha wise men of tbi Old Teatament hadwbiifcvea many penonal tragedies »nd seen what insobriety could ao to society, they were beingextrofliety practical when they counseled: j Be not among wlneblbberft. !> Do not look at wine when'|t ill red, when it sparldcs inr.th* cup and goes down smootkd# ... (Proverbs 23:31 KBV) , He who tides his spirit IsUMcr than he who takes a city Aral* verbs 16:32) Mon than “DoiTt" NOW IS THE TIME... By Max Smith Lancaster County Agent mold and damping off If-any extra fertilizer or plant food is added over the plants, it shodM be washed off the leaves and soaked into the topsoil To Wilt Forages For Silage - It is very difficult to make tfep quality grass silage from any forage crop by using the dh-icl cut method; ten years ago t < 4 i j # « i a e s t i ‘rr <•>« *