—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. August 17,1968
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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
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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