—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. August 17,1968 4 From Where We Stand ,.. Time For An Accounting Congerssional candidates for reelection customarily return to their home states to mend political fences and campaign for re election in plenty of time to,remind voters back home of the good things they have ac complished for their districts and their states. Most of these good things have cost the taxpayers a lot of money. That is one ot the reasons the federal budget is in the neighborhood of $l9O billion a year and taxes are high and going higher. This year the homecoming congress men may find the usual political recipe for staying m office has turned somewhat sour. C.tizens all over the country are getting up in arms at the tax take from their earnings, a’id efforts are being made to drive home to voters the close relationship between taxes, deficit spending, and inflation. For e<ample, the National Tax Reform Commit tee has distributed to daily and weekly newspapers “A 15-point program” for cutt ing the federal budget by some $2O billion. Accompanying the 15-point program re lease is a summary-of the spending record or Senators from the respective states on which the people back-home can judge the economy consciousness of their senatorial representatives. The 15-point program is based on an extensive study of the federal budget The recommendations it contains to meet the current financial crisis of the L'.S. government will make good sense to many people and require spendthrift congressmen to do a lot of explaining. Of course, we heard recently from a local congressman about the constituent w ho called him on the phone and demanded he vote for all tax cuts and then before clos ing the conversation asked the legislator to get him a $2O government publication for free, naturally. ' We can’t expect our ‘'‘spendthrift” con gressman to cut the budget with one hand and make hand-outs with the other. It just doesn’t work that way At least that’s the way if looks from where we stand “Social Security” By mailing 10 cents to the Superinten dent of Documents, U.S Government Print ing Office, Washington, D.C, anyone may obtain a pamphlet on “Recent Improve ments In Your Social Security ” For an other 10 cents, a copy of another pamphlet entitled, “Recent Improvements In Medi care” may be obtained from the same source. The two pamphlets explain rules of ehgibihty and current benefits under Social Security Amendments of 1967. They answer many questions that will be arising as more and more people become increasingly de pendent on government payments and bene fits of one kind or another. Naturally, the pamphlets fail to point out that “social security” has become an Farm News This Week Belgian Horses To Join County Plowmen At Hershej Page 1 Guernsey Breeders Hold Field Day At Lindenhof Page 1 New 4-H Queens Are Miss Hess And Miss Naumiu— Page 1 LANCASTER FARMING Lancaster County’s Own Faim Weekly P 0 Box 266 - Lititz, Pa 17543 Office 22 E Mam St Lititz Pa 17543 Phone Lancaster 394-3047 oi Lititz 626 2191 Eveiettß Newswanger Editor Robei t G Campbell, Advertising Director Subsci iption price $2 pel yeai in Lancaster County, $3 elsewheie Established November 4 1955 Published every Satin day by Lancaster Fanning Lititz Pa vomnd Class Postage paid at Lititz, Pa 17543 Membei of Newspapei Faim Editors Assn extremely relative condition for everyone relative to inflation and the cfeclining value of the dollar as well as to the ever changing rules and regulations of govern ment administrators. No one in his right mind would attempt to guess what “social security" will mean ten, fifteen or twenty years from now. No one even knows with certainty whether the dollar will be an ac ceptable medium of exchange. When it comes to “social security,” government programs may help, but they will never take the place of individual effort, indivi dual thrift and a sense of individual respon sibility. , At least that’s the way it looks from where we stand. Across The Fence Row “The average American wastes 20 per cent of the gasoline hie puts in the family car because he drives inefficiently,” notes “Timely Items,” published by the Public Service Company of Colorado. “To get the most out of your gas, check your tire pres sure regularly. Underinflated tires can waste half a gallon of gas out of every 20 you buy. Have your motor tuned every 5,000 to 8,000 miles. Faulty spark plugs alone can cut your gas mileage 10 per cent. Avoid repeated, unnecessary braking; nothing burns fuel faster. Because of this, as well as plain safety-sense, leave an adequate dis tance between yourself and the car you’re following. Be sure your car can breathe by keeping your air filter clean. An engine needs at least 9,000 gallons of filtered air, for every gallon of gas consumed. Steady your driving. Drivers who race their engines at stop lights, perform jackrabbit starts and race around corners are being uneconomi cal as well as dangerous.” “Impelled by signs of spring and curio sity as to how the motoring public was res panding to nature’s unfolding beauty, a man took a two-mile hike down the highway the other day. Along with birds and buds, here is what he saw: Two empty milk cartons, mne empty whiskey bottles, nineteen empty potato chip bags, six empty paint cans, twelve empty unidentified cans, sixteen miscellaneous items, and a hundred and ninety-six empty beer cans. This, mind you, wa's on one side of one road in only two miles.” - NEW BERN, N. C. f SUN JOURNAL. “Why can’t we have just one candidate, who can stand on his own two teet and say: ‘l’m for less spending, less taxes, reduction of our national debt, less giveaways, more v ork 'for a day’s pay, less crime, no riots, less strikes, less wrangling in our schools and unn ersities, less bureaucracy, reduced doles to all federal departments, less waste in armaments, less foreign air, less big brother to the whole world, more responsi bilities to the states, less rent subsidies, less federal intrusion into everything from cradle to grave, more honesty, integrity in office, more thought and consideration to the lowly, down-trodden taxpayer?’ ” fiENTON, MO., DEMOCRAT. People and boats each toot the loudest, when they’re in a fog. Reading the Bible is Often Like Looking Into the Mirror. Local Weather Forecast (From the U. S. Weather Bureau at the Harrisburg State Airport) The five-day forecast calls for tempera tures to average near normal with daytime highs 80 to 85 and over-night lows in the 60’s Turning cooler Sunday and again Tues day with near or above normal tempera tures at other times. Rain may total one-fourth to one-half inch as showers mainly on Saturday and Tuesday. Ins of sacrifices (here. But (hen things had bogged down. The unity evident In the people when they arrived in Jeruialem from Chaldea began to disintegrate. Zerubbabel and Joshua (same as "Jeshua” In Ezra 6:2) had probably become discouraged and were no longer able to give people the unifying and motiva ting leadership they needed. Time is not yet It is In times like these that God raises up someone to bring people the leadership required for the situation. Again and again in the Old Testament we see this ••c»* r .ußS Stri,tur.i& r a 4 Ihreush «) Hogflai principle at work. Men like o.J.°i.n.u«X a :S«t“ 8 3S Moses, Gideon, Samuel, David, etc., are introduced by God when A boy was working on a the time is ripe. This Is what ha model airplane in his home. A does for the people of Jerusalem, friend of the family visiting there tending a prophet named Haggal saw him and asked, n Oh! You’re to both condemn the people’s fail a model airplane fan?” "Sure,”ure and inspire them to complete ■aid the youth. "This must be the task. the tenth one I’ve begun tfaia The people have ready a rea ayear.” son for their delay. Haggaiheara "You’ve begun?? and repeats it: "This people say said the visitor, the. time has not yet come to re* uncertain of the build the house of the Lord”, boy’s choice of (Haggai 1:2 ESV) Notice how words. “How this ancient book contains a most many have modem etlibil Is not this tile you finished?” reason advanced for failing to "None,” said the press today some of the most vi boy, "I’m not so fal projects confronting us? "The „ good ,at that Negro & not ready yet for Coll Rev. Althouse part of it” and equal right!” "The nation is not ready yet for full integra- The hard part tion!” "I am not ready yet to It seems that it is human na- hi fall and complete com ture to be "not so good at that nutment to God’s will!” We are part of it” We have a way of like the house of clocks in one beginning all sorts of projects and of James Thurber’s stories: the completing far fewer thanwehave time they told was always "then, begun. I once saw a strange- never now.” looking building that in some i» ways looked like a church and 11 Ur*" c , es , in other ways like a gas station The prophet, however, was not and garage. I learned that I fjoved by the people’s alibi, was correct on both counts, for though the time may not be the building was begun as a "right” to rebuild the then church, but the congregation ran why are they building elaborate, out of money and purpose. It paneled houses? If money is the was then sold to a man who con- problem, (hen why do they spend verted the partly-comptefed struc- fto much on themselves? Nowon ture into a gas station. There d*r the time isn’t "right” At are many such monuments , ra . te » P* re never ®e a throughout the world to projects right time ! that have begun with great ex- Haggai notes a very ironic pectations and ended in dispair. truth: the more people lavish. This is what happened in Jer- upon themselves, the less satis salem when the exiles returned md they are with what they have, from captivity in Chaldea. With T™? 6 never seems to be enough, great emotion they laid the foun- Their desires and hungers seem dations for the restoration of the insatiable. It is like putting, their temple. Yet in the book of Hag- money in a.bag with holes. They gai we find that eighteen years are only fooling themselves; for later and the temple is still not them the "right time” wilt never much' further along. For the come. 1 THE "RIGHT TIME" Ltsson for August 18,1968 most pdrt it still IIGS in ruins* (hied an •udinns They had made an exciting be- *f, chr,,llßrt , Na>i»n«i c*uwi * *• ginning in restoring the altar and a ' S * * commencing the offer- Lancaster Farming Ads Pay To Allow Corn To Mature Silo filling time is approach ing and the corn is developing rapidly All livestock produceis are urged to allow their corn to mature to the dent stage before making into silage As the corn goes fiom the silk stage, to the milk stage, through the dough stage, into the dent stage, it in creases in feed nutrients Don’t be guilty of reducing nutrient yields by cutting too soon To Reduce Soil Erosion The fall of the year is one of the good times to establish contours on slopes and hillsides in order to reduce soil and wa ter losses As the ground is be ing prepared for fall grain, al ternate strips may be planted to small gram and then next KOW IS THE TIME... By Max Smith Lancaster County Agent spring the lemaining strips go into a row ciop Following the heavy rams of this past sum mer. land owners should be able to evaluate their soil saving practices To Alternate Fly Sprays Livestock producers who are having trouble obtaining fly control with residual sprays are urged to try a different in secticide for the remamdei of this season There is some evi dence of resistance being de veloped in the flies where the same material has been used. We suggest that two or more of the following be used over a period of several years as resi dual sprays in barns Ronnel emulsion, Dimethoate (cygon), or Diazmon
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