— Lancaster Farming. Saturday. July 13,1968
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From Where We Stand ...
Food For Thought
It will take about 15 or 20 minutes to
read this page. In that interval 420 persons
will have died from the effects of malnutri-
tion.
In the same time the world’s population
will have increased by some 1,770 persons
the difference between total births and
deaths.
This means there will be 180,000 more
persons for breakfast tomorrow.
Experts of the UN Food and Agricul
ture Organization estimate that there are
3.400,000,000 people in the world and that
half of them are hungry.
Demographic specialists predict that
the world’s population a billion in 1850
and 2 billion in 1930 will be 7 billion by the
j-ar 2000. To feed so many people, global
fn id supplies must be increased five-fold,
oi by 4 8 per cent annually.
World food production increased an
a\ erage of 2 4 per cent a j ear from 1953 to
19*56. Last year there was no increase. The
piospect for this \ear is only “somewhat
brighter.”
We Are Tired
This is a time of discontent. A time of
not remembering what we are grateful for
but what we are ungrateful for. A time of
sick humor, sick standards, sick people.
The abnormal has been accepted as the
norm. Old fashioned are responsibility, pa
trotism, loyalty, tolerance, love of fellow
men Indeed, even decent reserve in life to
family and one’s prn ate and public conduct
lus been forgotten. We are negative We
aie ugly. We are unclean.
Our religious sanctuaries have been us
ed for psychedelic orgies. Our public streets
for murder, terror and destruction. Our col
lege campuses, institutes of learning, used
for the mindless roars of reactionaries. Our
lawful wav of life set aside and criminals
exhalted during riots and “marches.” Our
country and ourselves ridiculed and hated
for giving aw ay that which we have earned
bi the sweat of our brow. w hich we go with
out to gn e to others. Our Constitution and
ideals twnsted for use to permit crime, por
nography and hate to excel.
We are tired in this land of abundance
of food prices beyond reach; that we must
teach our children fear for their safety; that
v.e must censor our family’s literature, tele
vsion and films and protectively audit their
eoucation; that we must strive constantly
to improve our studies, vocations and per
sonal property only to lose it to increased
taxes and living costs, and that we must
continually support and maintain as well as
condone the conduct of those unwilling and
Farm News This Week
Holstein Men Set Field Day
For July 23 Page 1
Debrah Binkley Is New
County Dairy Princess Page 1
Shafer Signed Mandatory
Meat Inspection Law Page 1
Same Cow Herds
Top DHIA Again Page 1
LANCASTER FARMING
Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly
P 0 Box 266 - Lititz, Pa 17543
Office 22 E Main St Lititz, Pa. 17543
Phone Lancaster 394-3047 or Lititz 626-2191
Eveiettß Newswanger, Editor
Robert G Campbell, Advertising Director
Subscription price S 2 per year in Lancaster
County, S 3 elsewhere
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Published eveiy Saturday by Lancaster
Fanning Lititz, Pa
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17543
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uncooperative to share and work in an en
vironment that half the world would be en
vious to have, much less take. , .
We are tired of working toward our fu
ture and our children’s future against those
who think only of today and of self, laying
waste to this great nation, its resources, its
ideals. We are tired of labels “neurotic”
if you differentiate between right and wrong
“dogmatic” for idealism or religious con
cept “rights” as a license for intellec
tual and physical terrorism to subvert con
stitutional law.
The malignancy in the world and in
our Nation today comes not from God be
ing dead, but from mankind’s slow death
from suffocation in the conditions he alone
has created. Humanity spitting upon itself
and choking on it. Man so passive to his en
vironment is he already dead? Without
law and its observance, society destroys it
self. Without responsibility to himself and
his world, man is destroyed. Are we so
without soul, dignity or integrity that this is
no longer “One nation, under God, with
liberty and justice for all.”
We alone must vindicate the great
wrong w'e are doing to ourselves. Unified,
we must use our initiative and ingenuity to
validate the trust of our forebears in our
Nation. Regain our self-respect and, hope
fully, our world trust, by swinging the pen
dulum in the other direction the right
direction.
Interior Department Recreation
Association News
A Losing Game
We don’t hear so much now about a
little inflation being good for the country.
We have reached the point where even the
most slow-witted should perceive that they
can’t keep ahead of the game. According to
official figures, the U.S. dollar lost 3.5 cents
in purchasing power during 1967. This year,
economists predict the dollar will suffer an
even bigger loss. Federal spending and the
huge budget deficit are cited as the princi
pal causes.
During the fourth quarter of 1967, the
average per capita income after taxes rose
533 with all but $6 of it eaten by inflation.
As time goes on, if inflation is not halted,
wage and income increases will mean less
and less Keeping up with inflation resem
bles trying to run alongside an express train
as it pulls out of the station. The race should
be called off. Inflation should be stopped at
its source. Federal spending on limitless
welfare programs that will gradually be
come meaningless as federal budget defi
cits mount, thus feeding the fires of more
inflation, should be brought to an end.
Across The Fence Row
I thought I was abused
Because I had no shoes.
Until I met a man
Who had no feet.
Old Arabian Proverb
No man is such a conqueror as the man
who has defeated himself.
Talk is cheap because the supply al
ways exceeds the demand.
Local Weather Forecast
(From the U. S. Weather Bureau at the
Harrisburg State Airport)
The five-day forecast for the period Sat
urday through next Wednesday calls for
temperatures to average much above nor
mal with daytime highs in the upper 80's to
mid 90’s and overnight lows expected in the
mid 60’s and 70’s. Warm throughout the
period. The normal high-low temperature
for the period is 87-65.
Little or no rain is expected for the five
day period.
Henry Ward Beecher
* *
THE lEIIBN
lituon for July 14,1068
Now, their country wu In rulne (
the people ctrrltd off into cepttvl*
—s-“‘ tssts&m
o*v«k«ml Piaim> i37>i-6. firom arrogance to humiliation.
In 'the Book of Lamentations
Several years ago as I was we see these once-proud people
driving through East Berlin, I after the destruction of their na
saw block after block of war-don by the armies of Babylon
.ravaged buildings, many of them in 587 B. C. They are a different
still recognizable as churches, people now: "Remember, 0 Lord,
museums, and other public struc- what has befallen us; behold and
hires. I could not help but ponder see our disgrace! Our inheritance
the terrible price has been turned over to strong
men pay for their ers, our homes to aliens. We have
folly. One oftenbecome orphans, fatherless; our
wonders whymothers are like widows . . . •
men must always (Lamentations 5:1-4 RSV)
learn such bitter Now they have begun to see
lessons. Isn’twhat they, should have seen be
there some other fore: "Our fathers sinned, and
way? Must there are no more; and we bear their
__ always he such iniquities ”, (Lamentations 5:7)
lithnne* terrible waste, so They have learned that when a
nev. ah o much needless generation becomes corrupt, sub
human suffering and misery? sequent generations must often
'' help to bear the consequences,
lii love Wltn out sin They could not shrug-off the cor-
The answer, of course, Is that rosive sins of their fathers nor
there Is another, easier way, but claim that they were none of their
man is usually reluctant to responsibility. Today, for exam
choose it. When we are in the pie, you and I still bear the guilt
midst of our folly, we are like of what our forefathers did to the
young lovers, completely unable Indians and we are still paying
to see things as they are. We are the price of Negro slavery,
so head-over-heels in love with.,, . .
our sin that we will not listen to "UVe Sinned.
those who can see things clearly. Even more, however, they
Something inside us keeps us learned to acknowledge their own
from recognising what should be sins, the hardest of all lessons,
quite obvious to us. Not only do Not just their fathers, but "...
we refuse to listen, we bristle at woe to us, for we have sinned*
those who try to tell us for our (Lamentations 5:16). What they
own good. _ had arrogantly refused to accept
This is what Jeremiah had en- from Jeremiah, they now learned
countered. He had tried desper- through the bitterness of disaster,
ately to lead the people of Judah If only it had not cost all that to
to acknowledge their sin and cor- learn the lesson!
ruption and repent of it. But the h ow easy it is for us to see
people, complacent in their re- w hat they should have done, for
spectability, had been indignant us to understand what the proph
that he should even suggest these e t tried to teach them. But we are
things. Could he not see how no t asked to judge them. We need
regularly they attended to wor- to learn from their mistake .and,
ship, how faithfully they kept the judging ourselves, learn the les
feast and holy days, and per- son that Jeremiah and today’s
formed the required rites and prophets would teach us!
rituals? F
mv ' . , , (Sostd *n outlines co,yrisM«l by Division
The prpphet, however, was chrai™ Edu«,i,on, National couk.i d
not concerned with their obvious ch U rch« <,( chmt m ft* u s. a. e.itcd by
piety, not the trappings of their Community Pr«sS»rvrc.l
religion, but the core of it: their x .. , TL^
relationships with one another. Attend I tie L.nurcn Ui
He did not question their regu- Your Choice Sunday
TRY A CLASSIFIED AD!
To Plant Cover Crop In Corn
The value of a cover crop to
plow down next spring for
either another crop of corn or
tobacco should be recognized at
this time Gi’owers who have
not used atrazine as a weed
spray may broadcast field
bromegrass or annual ryegrass
after the last cultivation of
corn, this grass will grow this
fall after the corn is harvested
and give some organic matter to
plow down next spring; the
value of a cover crop is more
important on sloping land and
on fields that are to be in a
row crop for several years.
To Mark Wet Spots
Local farmers having wet
areas in cropland should make
note of them at this time by
marking the exact area; then
later this fall or early next
spring tile drains may be in
stalled to remove the excess
water and permit higher crop
tty la wofihip, but the eflM
worship bad upon their bom
thslr integrity, thslr ooaosta
the nteds and rights of others,
islr ardent churchmanshlp
tiered little If they were not
tally ardent In brotherhood
1 'Justice. And this, of course,
where they failed so miserably,
.tint of chastened
The result was disaster. While
there had yet been time to repent;
the arrogant Judeans had refused
to listen to Jeremiah, subjecting
him to humiliation and abuse.
NOW IS
THE TIME...
By Max Smith
Lancaster County Agent
yields Wet soils cannot be ex
pected to yield maximum yields
except in a very dry season.
Regular farm drain tile placed
from 3 to 5 feet deep in the
wet areas usually more than pay
for the cost
To Continue Feeding Dry
Matter
Dairymen that are depending
upon pasture for their summer
forage supply should continue
to feed hay or silage during the
grazing season Due to good
growing conditions this spring,
forage growth has been lush but
it is high in moisture content;
also, with the coming of hot
weather many of the grasses
will slow down and not give the
amount of feed needed by the
herd. Daily feeding of top quali
ty hay or silage during the sum
mer months will maintain milk
production and enable the herd
to utilize more from the pasture
crops consumed.