—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. July 27.1968 4 From Where We Stand ... Nose Dive For Happiness Your dollar will probably buy a little less next ycfjr than the planner planned! It is reported that oven with the 10 per cent tax surcharge and $6 billion reduction in spending demanded by Congress, the feder al deficit for fiscal 19G8 will be around $25 billion $5 billion more than expected. De lay in passing the tax increase and higher Viet Nam war costs are blamed. The red ink outlook would be a good deal less grim if our public officials could do a bit better in figuring out what we don’t need. Many unbelievable projects pop to the surface of the federal budget and an other one is reported by the Clarkton, North Carolina. Times. It seems the U. S. Public Health Service, as part of a $249,000 re search program, “. . . has been sending psychologists and social scientists down to Puerto Rico to ask its citizens what causes them joy or sorrow.” It is not surprising that they discovered people were happier if they were healthy, had money, were educat ed and were young! The Times suggests that if a research proiect were done in the U. S. it would be found that the taxpayer’s . happiness quotient takes a nose dive -everytime he hears about some of the peculiar ways his money is being spent these days.” At least that’s the way it looks from where we stand. ★ What Government Gives - ★ ★ After months of wrangling. Congress finally passed a long-expected tax increase and at the same time, voted to force cuts in government spending by S 6 billion. In commenting on passage of the tax increase package, U. S News & World Report notes: “At this point, you can be sure of one thing: Taxes are going up. You cannot be really sure that spending will go down ” If prece dent is any indication, spending cuts will be illusory. New spending measures could easi ly wipe out the pluses of any cuts. A lot de pends upon whether the people themselves are ready to accept the comparatively slight sacrifices that government fiscal re sponsibility would call for. Writing the July issue of The Reader’s Digest, Representatu e Wilbur D. Mills, chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, and often called “the most important man on Capitol Hill,” tells why we must control federal spending difficult as that may be. The pressure on Congress to appropriate tax funds is almost irresistible. These pressures are so great that many have concluded government spending is no longer controllable. Mills Farm News This Week John Harnish Is Holstein Field Day Contest Winner Page 1 Farm Custom Work Rates Show Moderate Increase Page 16 Cattle Field Dav To Be Held By Extension Page 1 Svvinemen Have Field Day At Stauffer Homestead Page 1 Rep. Hill Speaks At Extension Meeting 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 Everett R Newswanger, Editor Robeit G Campbell, Adveitising Dnector Subscuplion puce $2 per yeai in Lancaster County, $3 elsewheie Established November 4 1955 Published eveiy Satin day by Lancaster Fai ming Lititz, Pa Second Class Postage paid at Lititz Pa 17543 Member of Newspaper Farm Editors Assn himself concedes that the difficulties are great. He describes how on one'day, Febru ary 8. 1968, eleven congressional commit tees met to consider numerous spending proposals. These included $1.3 billion for the Colorado River Basin, and additional billions for aid to higher education. On the same day, Congress received the Presi dent’s $3 billion foreign aid message and, in Mills’ words: “That same day, more than 70 new bills were introduced, calling for everything from a new $60,444,000 federal building to a $l5O-million-a-year scientific research program.” This was not all. Again, on the same day, the White House request ed a $1.2 billion supplemental appropriation for welfare spending. And the Secretary of Interior called for funds for a national shrine in North Carolina. Even as the demands for new tax dol-' lars mounted, spending on old programs continued. In a 24-hour period, the govern ment paid out $474 million $54 million more than it took in. Mills points out that federal programs, once started, inevitably increase in scope and cost. Few ever disap pear. He quotes a Tax Foundation study, which reports that in 13 years no fewer than 112 new federal programs have been launched. In the first year of their respec tive operations, they cost $3.6 billion. By fiscal 1968, their annual costs had risen to $16.5 billion. Most discouraging, in the opinion of Mills, are the endless overlapp ing and duplication of these programs and agencies. “At present, 30 separate pro grams help with teacher training, 57 . . . for job training, 35 for housing. More than 260 programs administered by 16 separate agencies and departments are included in the war on poverty.” Mills believes most strongly that the only way to bring federal spending under control is through creation of a new Hoover style commission “a 12-man, indepen dent, bipartisan Government Program Evaluation Commission drawn from the top ranks of American leadership outside government to be set up to go over fed eral programs periodically to determine whether our tax dollars are being well spent.” However, in the long run, the esta blishment of such a commission will be in vain without public support, and a realiza tion that the security of our homes, our j'obs, our savings and our freedom are at stake. Without this realization, as Mills puts it, “. . . even if we could eliminate every obviously wasteful government proj'ect, the expansion in federal spending would still not be curbed.” The passage of the new tax bill may have the salutary effect of helping us to realize the truth of the old saying, “what government gives, it must first take away.” At least that’s the way it looks from where we stand. ★ ★ ★ Across The Fence Row A university student, who was making a study of juvenile delinquency, telephoned 12 homes about 9 p.m. to ask parents if they knew where their children were. Five of the calls were answered by children who had no idea where their parents were. Not a new sin has been discovered for at least 4,000 years. 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 near normal with daytime highs in the mid 80’s and over-night lows in the mid to upper 60’s. Seasonal tem peratures throughout the period with the warmest over the week-end. Normal high low tor the period is 87-65. Ram may total one-fourth to one-half inch as showers or thunder showers Sunday or Monday. irtant tenon from 11m put. It icalled thou hard day* of their ptlvlty la Chaldea when the Ith of Daniel had brought iuch-nccdcd encouragement and 'pe to the captive Jews, The .‘iter of Daniel recalled these 'ents, not for the sake of history iclf, but to help them remember tat this particular event of the ..ast had to say about the present situation in • which they found themselves. The people for whom the Book of Daniel was written were no longer captives in Chaldea. Their fathers had returned to Judea when Cyrus the Persian had de feated Chaldea and taken its SwlirwiMl Seri>Kir« Danfel 9il-23. place. NOW, CCntUtICS IttCr, it W&S d*v«n*mlSsiims is. the Macedonians who were in People today, particularly, c ? ntroL Under Antiochus Epi youth, have little inclination P ha f n «* ft ey persecuted the Jews, to study history. "I’m alive * e tem l& “ d for b£* now,” they say, "why study about worship there. The what people did in the ‘old rwisted pwucudon as days’?” This same reaction is likely to occur in response to 8 4nn } n 8 to lose hope and despair the Bible, es- waB becoming the popular mood. pecially the Old Beyond Djlfllel Pe*oDle me Thus » Danl «t wot written to that thev have remind the despondent nation of wough Of tfifr « nother day of petsecudon and, own problems fncomrage them wiUi the insptr without con- ln S stoi y ot bow God had wa rning them- 4ained bis people in that, dark selves with Oiose hour. Although Daniel had been of a bvKOne dead for BCver » l centuries, ho Rev. Althouse age. f ould stU } aer y e »• a “ inspirattoa to a people who were losing hope. Reliving the past He should be no less inspiring What they do not realize, ol « too. He om us, cause'of 8 our * 1 whole natton byhU that we turn to to Old Testament! Philosopher George Santayana jL lira ,m nil ? has said that "Those who do not . _ exile; it directs our attention to dpmnpdTn tf 8 ” wvifin T ' the real Source of Judah’S hope; God - 14 was God who worked bhircr Quotes these words in the ...... in . beginning of his book, The Rise £f° u t f£ And FaU Of The Third Reich, * e n^fv S r g , indicating that ftefrugafroff,” J gg cause people in the 1930’s had ™ d £ATheif forgotten the lessons of the Z uS A n»n J and that something of a similar n nature could happen again if we £* st . j* if 6 . fail to learn anything significant JJS from World War Two. ° f Dam f caljs ni en to temembec We find this true of the Bible. It has something to teach us that£°F 4 p 6 P resen4 and hope for th£ is just as vital to us today as it mn i e ‘ . , ___ _ . £ was to the people of God eentu-,, Several years Senator ries ago. This is demonstrated McClelland chided again and again in the history f° re a n*l OTmnuttee of the Hebrew people. Failing * or 18 aaa azing to remember and learn from the P eo P 4e ° 4 r j C j CO mistakes of the past, they were 40 . " e reminded of Gods saving compelled to relive them again S? 4 ® past. Perhaps out and again. Their problem was f or S e44 cry is no less not in failing to grasp some new , • n c °P'' n ’ tl, *f W fo* P w “” l t 04 Chnshon Education, Naiiooel Council •( Ih»* lesson, hut *** their refusal to churches #f chnst»« a# u. s. a. Kei««sed b£ leam EH old. One* Community Press Seme*) *2 Something present £ Biblical scholars today believe Attend The Church Of that the Book of Daniel was writ- Ym,* PlwwUa ' ten to remind the Jews of anim- TOUf Cho,ce Sunday AH AMAZING FORGETTERY Lesson for July 28,1968 To Attend Cattle Field Day Elsewhere in this paper de vils of the Cattlemen’s Field Day may be found; This event should be very worthwhile and timely for all cattle feeders in this part of the country Feeders are urged to mark this date on their schedule and attend To Flush Ewe Flock Sheep breeders are reminded o£ the good practice of having their ewe flock in a gaining con dition at breeding time; this may be attained by feeding a few pounds of extra grain per day or by grazing the flock of good glass pasture Ewes that are in real good condition at breeding time will usually throw more twin lambs than if they are in poor physical shape To Use Band Seeder Alfalfa growers who are plan ning to make an early August seeding should make every ef fort to use the band seeding method; most new gram drills or NOW IS THE TIME... By Max Smith Lancastei County Agent g r ass seeders will have this at tachment, or it may be purchas ed for other models. The idea of dropping the alfalfa seed over a band of fertilizer and then press ing the soil and the seed together with a press wheel or a cultipac ker should increase the chances of getting a good stand. According to the Agricultural Outlook Digest, (2049-68), con sumer incomes are expected to rise further in the next few months, but not as fast as in the first half of the year. Legisla tion to increase income taxes and reduce proposed government ex penditures will tend to slow de mand expansion As a result of high employment and rising wage rages, consumer demand continued strong in the second quarter. Income gains and rising prices pushed the dollar value of retail store sales about 8 per cent above a year ago.
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