—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. July 27.1968
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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.
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What Government Gives -
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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.
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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.