—Lanca*tcr v teaming. Saturday. July 6.1068 4 From Where We Stand ... The Air Tour Tighten your seat belts. We’re scooting down the New Holland Airport runway. The pilot is fingering knobs and pulling levers. Then it happens. The wheels on our five passenger, one-engine plane leave the ground and we are up. up and away on the Lancaster County Soil and Water Conserva tion District Air Tour. Below, the objects become increasingly smaller and our shadow, looking like a big, black hawk, moves quickly across a corn field, flips over what looks like a miniature set of farm buildings and on across a to bacco field, a power line tower and a group of houses laid out in order along seemingly small paved streets. The gold and yellow of the ripening wheat and barley make a beautiful contrast with the browns and greens of the dirt and pastures. The sun has the morning haze burned off and though out pilot tells us there is a 35 mph wind blowing up here at 1,000 feet above the ground, we don’t know it. We feel only a slight bump now and then that he says is the upward moving air currents from the radiated ground heat. It’s a per fect day for seeing Lancaster County from the air. ' Everything looks so orderly and peace ful from up here. In fact, you would never know anything is wrong until you see the river out ahead and take a look at the stream directly below. The river and the stream are brown. Not Just half-brown, but real muddv brown. Then vou look closely and see long finger-like streaks on some of the onen fields streaks where the recent rainy downpours have sent the food-producing top-soil on its way down the eroded spots to the cree ks. Then the soil is swallowed by the n\ er and finally drown in the sea. You get the feeling maybe someday when grandchildren and great grandchil dren take their first airplane ride to see beautiful Lancaster County like we are, it may not be so beautiful. Not beautiful be cause highway and housing developers dis- Farm News This Week Four Contestants Enter Dairy Princess Pageant Page 1 Creation Of New Milk Federation Includes Philadelphia, Baltimore And Washington Marketing Areas Page 1 Kenneth Weber Is Elected Secretary Of State Future Farmers Page 1 Off-Farm Income Doubles In 5 Year Period Page 13 LANCASTER FARMING Lancastei County’s Own Farm Weekly P 0 Box' 266 - Lititz Pa 17543 Office 22 E Mam St, Lititz, Pa 17543 Phone Lancastei 394-3047 oi Lititz 626-2191 Everett H Newswanger Editoi Robsit G Campbell, Advertising Director Subscuption once- S 2 pei year in Lancaster County. S 3 elsewhere Established No% ember 4,1955 Published evei y Satin day by Lancaster Farming Liti+z, Pa. Second Class Postage paid at Lititz, Pa. 1 7 543 Member of Newspaper Faim Editors Assn. regard the need for the long range plann ing to conserve our natural resources. Not as beautiful because local farmers still cling to the ancient notion that the ability to plpw a straight furrow proves the boy a njan when really the worth of the man is proved by the condition of the natural resource (soil in this case) after he is through using it and passes it on to his son. Anyway, it makes us feel like writing an editorial urging all farmers to at least look into the possibility of cooperating with the Soil and Water Conservation people to con tour fields and build waterways to keep Lancaster County beautiful and able to pro duce an abundance of food in the genera tions ahead. We think we’ll do that. But now we’re leaning quite sharply to the left as we make the last turn down the New Holland runway. We feel like we ought to' grab for something to hold on to, but we laugh, realizing the only thing to grab is the thing that isn’t holding on to anything either so —. Anyway, we land with only a slight bounce, come to a halt beside the hanger, get out and stretch our legs after the 20- minute ride, knowing we are a little wiser. A little wiser about airplane travel. A little wiser about the beauty of our county from the air and a little wiser about why those concerned about conservation of na tural resources are concerned. Yes, we’re wiser. At least that’s the way it looks from where we flew. Not Doing Enough While planners and politicians talk of the government rebuilding cities, guaran teeing jobs, underwriting medical care, edu cation, social security, housing, cheap elec tricity, and Lord knows what else, a few facts about taxes are pertinent. Total taxes estimated to be collected in fiscal 1968 by all levels of government in the U. S. will equal about $3,550 per American family, up $134 from last year. Twelve years ago, taxes collected by federal, state and local governments combined were equi valent to $1,897 per family. Total tax re ceipts in fiscal 1968 will exceed 1967 receipts by about SlO billion. They will be over $lOO billion higher than a dozen years ago. The collections in 1968 will provide $l4B billion for the federal government and $69 billion for state and local governments. There are still those who say that tax payers are not doing enough! There are millions more of us raising families and running businesses under the mounting pressure of taxes and inflation who say that government is doing too much much more than even the wealthiest nation on earth can afford! Across The Fence Row The road to success is always under construction. “If you destroy a free market, you create a black market. If you have 10,000 regulations, you destroy all respect for law.” Sir Winston Churchill. • “The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man’s foot long enough to enable him to put the other foot somewhat higher.” Thomas Huxley Weather Forecast The five-day forecast for the period Saturday through next Wednesday calls for temperatures to average below normal, with daytime in ghs m the coper 70’s to low 80’s and over-night lows in the upper 50’s to nud 60’s. No marked day to day change is e <pected. Normal high-low for the period is 87-6:. Rain may total three-fourth of an inch as scattered showers at the beginning of the period and more wide range showers near the end. m should # #ps*k out m &• ol conscinica of ths nation.* moat of tbasa Jams poopls tad to object whan their clap* m apoka out on apcclflo mor* iuaa. [rayiniounoldiirtl ram lab, one of Judah’a latest propheta, waa ao ds apiaed for hu "unpatriotic* prophecies that he waa thrown Into a deep cistern and left dura to die. Why? Beeauae he foretold the dea(ruction of Jeruaalem by the Chaldeans and actually ooun idled hia fellow citizens to aur* render in order to avoid thia cataatropha The advisors of the king’s court were enraged: "Let . .. . . .. .this man be put to death, for bo My dictionary defines ja patriot j, weakening the hands of the as "a person who loves his coun- ioMleri who are left In this dt& try, zealously supporting and de- hands of all the peopled . fending it and its interests.* That, (Jeremiah 38:4 RSV) 'however, still leaves a lot of room ' Today one can hear echoes of for definition, for men not these word* on radio, always agree on toe methods by jq newspapers and in private dls which a «nan CUM j on>f A well-known unlversl may best support ty chaplain who has spoken out America's policy in fha and It* Interest*. V i et Nam War as immoral ha* There are hee n etridently derided as on* those, for exam* w h Q ii "betraying our soldiers pie, who un* an( g undermining toe morale of blushingly saytflie nation with bis treason.* 1 "My country ! i<i T j irow ln jail!” "Ship hlmi right or wrong— to Russia!” are toe angry re* n_. Allhouse- country! B p onseB ©f some of those who Bev. Altoouse wJU to approve of prophecy in port It and its policies even when general, but not in particular, they are unjust, false, and Im moral Foe them, duty to country A higher patrOltlSm is toe highest duty, toe greatest Jeremiah did not counsd sur allegiance. At the Nuremburg ren der to the Chaldeans because War Trials following toe dose of te did not love or was not loyal toe Second World War this was his country. Actually, he was toe defence of many of those who passionately dedicated to Judah, were judged to be "war. enmi- despite its faults. Nor was hi* nals.” They obeyed the author- counsel based upon admiration ities of their country even when of Chaldeans. Rather, it was their duties involved acts that i^ ause Judah, like Israel before their consciences recognized as lt> had become disloyal to God, immoral had become corrupt within, and Tn h» mads ritrhH would have to suffer theconse fO DB IMOe ngni. quences of her infidelity. This was There are others, however, not the judgment of Jeremiah, but whose sense of patriotism is o £Godhimsdf. summed up in the affirmation by <jhe true patriot may be more John Sutherland Bonnell: "My . once rned with his nation’s right country, when wrong, to be made ;o U sness than her "honor.” If ha right;-when right, to be kept criticizes his country, it is not be right” These men also love their [Cause he does not love her or country, but they see their highest i ac hs loyalty to her. He knows duty and allegiance belonging to that he does toe most for her wel- God alone. They believe that they f ac e by remaining true to hi* may best defend and support conscience. Perhaps this Is tot their country by remaining obe- highest form of patriotism. dient to Him. To unreservedly support their country’s policies „ when they judge them to be un- church.. .1 chmi.» u. s. a. Mwiri moral seems to them the worst of •ommuniiyPrw.s.rvic,.) * all subversions. tie mini Ltaton for July 7,196 S tmlgntoi farfrlww JwmWi M «ml If. P—<»ml liAi Pmlim U. We all know that a patriot best serves his country when he puts obedience to God first, yet we Attend The Church Of seem to forget it when we see this v r. principle in action. A recent opin- * OUr WHOICe Sunday ion poll indicated that a majority > of church people believed their- For Full Market Reports Read Lancaster Farming To Be Careful with Sorghums haust is equipped to prevent the Livestock produceis using ei- discharge of sparks, one may ther sudan grass or one of the still get out and into the dry sudan-sorghum hybrids are cau- forage; the risk is too high to tioned about the need to wait take this chance until a certain stage of matur ity before using either for graz ing or for green chopping. The sudan grass should be allowed to icach at least 18 inches be fore using; the hybiids should be at least 30 inches before feeding. The use of these ma terials at a youngei stage miaht be toxic due to larger amounts ot piussic acid in. the plant. To "e Careful with Tractors l'h • practice of running a ti actor into a barn containing hay or straw is tailing too much of a chance; even though the ex- NOW IS THE TIME... By Max Smith Lancaster County Agent To Prepare for Alfalfa Seeding August seedmgs of alfalfa will be on the agenda for some farm ers in another month The start-, mg place is a complete soil test and the ordering of the variety and quality of seed vanted. Fol low the soil test recommenda tions and get that band seeding attachment' ready foi use fee first weeh in August. With con tinued good nioistuie conditions and the use of a weed spu y the new seeding should’ be ready for winter. • h 3*- at** y > jt
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