—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 28,1968
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From Where We Stand ...
A Happy And
Prosperous 1969
That time of year is here again, when
inventory is taken of the past year’s joys
and frustrations. We doubt anyone has had
all joys or all sorrows during 1968. Life us
ually affords both to provide the daily con
flicts that add to personal maturity.
For you, maybe that prize cow of your
favorite breed had the special heifer calf
you had hoped for. Or you may have won
Ist place with your steer at one of the coun
ty fairs.
Maybe, your sow had 13 little pigs or
you broke the 200 bushel-per-acre barrier
with your best corn seed variety.
On the other hand, you probably had
some problems little ones or those big
enough to call castastrophies. It could have
been blight, hail or marketing problems. It
might have been sickness or an accident.
Regardless of what happened, we
would hope we have learned something
’ aluable that can be used to advantage in
the year ahead. And as we approach the
new year coming next Wednesday, we
would wish the new year to bring the best
to you and yours. Or to say it another way,
we from the staff of Lancaster Farming
wish each of you our 5,300 subscribers and
their families and friends a happy and
prosperous 1969.
Strangers In Paradise
After the consumer strikes, the Nation
al Association of Food Chains, in an effort
to develop better understanding between
consumers and supermarkets, held a num
ber of Consumer Dialogues all over the
country and gave shopping housewives an
opportunity to become better acquainted
with the nation’s food retailers from top
executives down. The Dialogues were
credited with • opening a new era in con
sumer-retailer relations.
In reviewing results of the Dialogues,
Mr. Clarence G. Adamy, president of the
National Association of Food Chains, points
out that reminding consumers “food is a
bargain” is not enough. Nor it it enough to
remind consumers that food takes hut 18
per cent of disposable income, when as Jar
as the housewife is concerned, it appears to
take 90 per cent or more after rent, car pay
ments and other bills. Also, the Dialogues
indicated that many of the younger consum
ers are what amount to “strangers in para
dise” when they visit a modern complex
supermarket. The task of food retailers is
to “re-humanize” their stores, as well as to
develop cost-cutting efficiencies and wider
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use of computers in order that store per
sonnel may spend more time with shoppers.
Judging by Mr. Adamy’s remarks, the
evolution of mass distribution in the food
industry will contmue at an accelerated
pace. And the emphasis will be on acquaint
ing the stranger in paradise the consum
er with the fact that food really is a bar
gain, and that retailers are anxious to help
her take the fullest advantage of that bar
gain.
Seedbed Of Disrespect
■ A cynical disrespect for the law. is
shown at every level of society. We can see
it in the littered campgrounds, in the riots
in the cities and on the campuses, as well
as in the lower standards of conduct found
in some business and labor circles. It may
well be that disrespect for the law stems in
part from the mechanics of its application.
Certainly it didn’t help the stature of the
law a few years ago when in the tragic af
termath of President Kennedy’s assassina
tion, the Jack Ruby trial turned into a
dragged out side show of legal shenanigans
that was interrupted only by the death of
Ruby himself. Time after time, the ritual
of the legal ceremony appears to become an
end in itself, as well as a seedbed of dis
respect. Hapless victims of the legal pro
cess have little to look forward to, win or
lose, except financial and mental exhaus
tion.
A United Press International news re
lease recently noted that the trial of Sirhan
B. Sirhan, accused murderer of Senator
Robert F. Kennedy, was expected to be de
layed. In this case, involving the assassina
tion Of a presidential candidate, the legalis
tic ritual is barely getting warmed up
months after the crime was committed. The
accused is young and apparently not dying
of cancer, so the prospects of a costly and
exhausting legal sideshow are excellent
irrespective of the impact on public sensi
bilities. It is just-such spectacles, witnessed
by laymen who do not fully appreciate the
fine points of the law and the peculiar ethics
of some lawyers, that encourage disrespect
for law itself.
Across The Fence Row
This is the prayer offered by astronaut
Frank Borman as Apollo 8 whirled around
the moon on Christmas Eve. Borman is a
lay reader at St. Christopher Episcopal
Church, League City, Texas.
“Give us, 0 God, the vision which can
see Thy love in the world in spite of human
failure.
“Give us the faith to trust the goodness
in spite of our ignorance and weakness.
“Give us the knowledge that we may
continue to pray with understanding hearts,
and show us what each of us can do to set
forward the coming day of universal
peace.”
The secret of study is concentration;
the secret of concentration is to be in
terested.
Local Weather Forecast
(From the U. S. Weather Bureau at the
Harrisburg State Airport)
The five-day forecast calls for tempera
tures to average below normal with daytime
highs in the upper 20’s north to upper 30’s in
the south. Overnight lows are to be in the
teens to mid 20’s. Generally cold through
the period with little day to day change.
Precipitation may total greater than
one-half inch water equivalent,occurring as
rain Saturday; snow flurries in'the moun
tains Sunday and again as rain or snow the
middle of next week. ‘
THE INVmmm
Lesson for December 29,1968
Sockgrounil Scripture: R«vikati«n 21 through 23#
Dovohond 1 Corinthian* 13.
- "What value could there pos
sibly be in studying a bunch of
ancient visions?” This is often the
reaction with which people re
spond to Revelation. After all,
they reason these-visions deal
with die distant future and we are
busy enough
with just the
present!
Yet, just as
the past _ has
helped to shape'
the present, what
we do now can
be greatly, af
fected by what
we expect of the
Rev. Aithouse future. For-ex
ample, how would you answer
these questions:
1. Will our world go on and on
unendingly, or will it someday ba
brought to some kind of close?
2. In what direction is today's
world traveling? Is it getting
"better,” getting "worse,” or just
same? The Christian with whom John
3. Will Christianity be com- ahares his hope is to regard him
pletely vindicated at some point self, no t as a victim, but as a
m history? WiU good really conqueror. "He who conquers*
tn y n sm°Xl revir I ; . (Revelation 21:7) refers to the
4. Will there be a day of faithful disciple of Jesus Christ,
reckoning for each of us? particularly those who must
Behind the vision f ? r *a* than
„ , being conquered by their foes,
These questions areimpor-. they will resist the temptations oi
tant, for the lives we live now deB nair and be vindicated by
in toe present are greatly de- Go £ Unfortunately, diem are
pendent upon our view of toe also those who will not nconquer.-
futuse. For what toe who despairing of toeSesent
about toe eventual and future' join theses
vindication of God’s will and of evil rather fight aiMt
purpose is not really true, then «i em K "
then. I. the
wnnM er * futurewhich John shams utthm
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were recorded
sand years ago, these visions are £ dra wstiength from toe totore; -
important and relevant to us. We «ifc e Spirit and the Bride say.
must remember, however, tfaattoe 'Come' ..»
important factorin these visions . . . ... .. -
is toe message behind toe
symbols, not the pictorial detail* OivkAm m ctm* ; n th« u ». a. iMtt
of the visions themselves. The Swvk«.’
writer of Revelation uses a kind
of psychedelic imagery to com-
municate his experience, not the
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To Save That Christmas
Folks using a natural Christ
mas Tree may continue to get
some benefit from the tree after
it is removed from the home.
The tree itself may be used as a
windbreak for a smaller broad
leaf evergreen bush such as hol
ly or azalea. The branches may
be cut off and used as a ground
language of the
historian. ' v - ’
For one thing, his vision tells
us that the world as we know it
will eventually pass away. In its
place there will be a world newly
created by God. Many "of his
contemporaries believer! that
when the kingdom of God came
the world would be changed and
made better. But John is saying l
that the world will not be
changed, but replaced. The fill- 1
flllment of God’s plan goes be
yond this world of time.
A new creation
This view is at variance with
much of our contemporary ex-
pectations too. Many people to
day assume that the world la
"getting better every day inevery
way,” as though progress is
automatic, guaranteed. John,
however, sharply disagrees with
that view. The world would not
simply evolve to perfection, he
said, but the new world would,
come only as a new creation'by-
God.
John also proclaims Christ as
the "Alpha” and the "Omega.”
These are the first and last letters
of the Greek alphabet, indicating,
as he says,"the beginning and the
end”. (Revelation 21:6) Actually,
Alpha means more than just "the
starting point;” it means the
source. God is the source from
which the world and everything
’in it has come. Similarly, the
word Omega is not just "the
stopping point,” but the goal. God
is thus the goal toward which
everything moves.
He who conquers
NOW IS
THE TIME...
By Max Smith
Lancaster County Agent
mulch around or over shrubs
and bulbs. Spare the tree and
make the investment perform
two jobs this winter. .
To Prepare Farm Show Exhibits
The 1969 Pennsylvania State
Farm Show opens in two weeks.
All exhibitors are-urged to' se
cure a Premium List and I be
come with all of,the
rules and regulations. The entry
deadlines differ between the Var
ious departments.' Livestock! ex
hibitors should be I getting tpeir
animals prepared to meet t the
strict health regulations. Premi
um Lists are available at "the
Farm Show office or here at) our
Extension office. '",