—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. May 4,1968
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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.
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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.
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■‘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.
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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<us
was very popular, but now we
discourage this practice becsilse
it is handling too much water.
For quality silage from any win
ter grain or hay crop, it is very
important to wilt in order to get
nd of extra water From 50 to
60% moisture in the forage will
group it as wilted silage; down
as low as 50% moisture or low
er would put it into the haylage
class. Either of these will !be
much better feed than direct cut
silage.
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