—Lanca*tcr v teaming. Saturday. July 6.1068
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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.
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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.
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