—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. March 2fl, 1969
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From Where We
Indefensible
Coercive tactics and intimidation on a
nationwide scale in an effort to organize
agricultural labor show evidence of back
firing, judging by public reaction to at
tempts to boycott California grape grow
ers who have refused to submit to union de
mands. During recent months, supermar
kets and retailers all over the country, as
well as consumers, have been made the vic
tims of an unprecedented drive to bring so
called collective bargaining to the nation’s
farms beginning with the grape produc
ers.
The evidence that this type of organiz
ing may do more harm than good from
the standpoint of the unions comes in the
form of a survey of consumers that reveals
only 31 per cent approve the actions of
grape boycotters. The survey covers a typi
cal area around Minneapolis, Minnesota.
One of the most objectionable phases of the
boycott, according to the survey, has been
the effort to enlist church support. Eighty
two per cent of those responding to the sur
vey believe that it is not right for a church
to ask its members to refrain from buying
grapes. They do not consider it a church
matter.
Using consumers and merchants as
weapons to bring agricultural producers to
their knees is indefensible. If a supermarket
can be forced to remove grapes from its
shelves under duress dr threats, the same
tactic can be applied across the board of
production and distribution. The principle
that has been at issue in the grape boycott
is that of the free market and the right of
merchants to operate .in what they believe
to be the best interests of their customers.
Since the boycotts violate a basic principle
of the marketplace, they deserve and should
expect the disfavor of consumers, as well as
merchants.
Are We Intelligent?
The late Adlai E. Stevenson, statesman
and politician, once said, “We travel to
gether, passengers on a little spaceship
. . . preserved from annihilation only by the
care, the work, and I will say the love we
give to our fragile craft.” Anyone who has
seen the remarkable photographs taken of
the earth by the crew of the Apollo 8 must
humbly acknowledge the prophetic truth of
Mr. Stevenson’s words. From 200,000 miles
or more out in space, the earth appears to
be a body of transcendent and fragile
beauty. The astronauts called it “the good
earth.” And as Mr. Stevenson intimated,
it is a fragile earth supporting life as man
knows it on a finely balanced combination
of cosmic circumstances that are slowly
being altered by man himself.
Only in recent years have scientists
suspected the many ways in which human
beings, by their numbers and technological
achievements, are beginning to threaten
human existence A part of this threat
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stems from ignorance of the nature of the
life-sustaining forces of earth, plus a stunn
ing lack of perception of the real meaning of
what we are pleased to call the population
explosion. Dr, John H. Rediske, former
Atomic Energy Commission Fellow and
now head of a forest tree sciences group
at a large timber company, writes of peo
ple and resources in a manner that in
delibly impresses a lay reader. He points
out, “If one could compress all geologic
time, the 4.5 billion years since the earth
was born, into one year some startling
facts regarding the recency of life on this
ball of rock would become evident ... let
us assume that the earth is born on the
first of January It is May before single
called living organisms appear in the warm
sheltered coastal waters. In the first week
of December the primeval forests rise from
the lowlands. Twelve days later dinosaurs
are roaming the earth and the first mam
mals appear the day after Christmas. At
10 p.m. on December 31st primitive man
makes his appearance. The pyramids are
built a minute before midnight. Fifty-seven
seconds later Christopher Columbus dis
covers America and we enter the Industrial
Revolution about one second before the
New Year.”
These words of Dr. Rediske show how
brief man’s existence has been. He goes on
to show that in spite of this briefness, man
is multiplying at a rate and creating condi
tions that can terminate his sojourn on
earth in a matter of seconds, geologically
speaking. Again, he uses a dramatic ana
logy. To place population growth in an
understandable framework, he compresses
the 2000 years from the birth of Christ into
one 24-hour day. And here is what he finds,
beginning Sunday at 12 midnight. There are
some 190 million people on earth at that in
stant. At 7:48 Monday evening, nearly 20
hours later, the population has doubled. It
doubles again only 2 hours and 24 minutes
later. And again in less than one hour. And
yet again, at 11:36 p.m., the population
doubles for the fourth time since Christ was
born to yield the present figure of approxi
mately three billion people. Twenty-four
minutes later, at midnight (the year 2000).,
it will double for the fifth time and six bil
lion human beings will inhabit the earth.
And by the year 2070, at the same rate of
progression, the earth’s population will be
an incredible 25 billion!
Dr. Rediske then goes into the real
stickler, the resources of nature, about
which most of us know little or nothing that
will be called upon to support the teeming
billions of persons who are just over the
horizon. He tells how the most essential ele
ment of life, oxygen, is dependent upon the
photosynthetic activity of the seas, the for
est and growing plants. Most of us think of
these resources in terms of food and forest
products. But one of their main functions is
to proiide oxygen for present and future
generations.
Observes Dr. Rediske, “It is alarming
that, with his tremendous power to alter his
environment, man does not even compre
hend the questions involved in his survival,
much less know the answers. Considering
man’s demonstrated talent for error, one
might ask, half-seriously; ‘ls there intelli
gent life on Earth?’,” and if so, does' it
know how long it plans to stay?
Local Weather Forecast
(From the U. S. Weather Bureau at the
Harrisburg State Airport)
The five-day forecast calls for tempera
tures to average much below normal with
daytime highs in the 30’s and over-night
lows in the teens to mid 20’s. Turning cold
er Sunday and continued cold the remain
der of the period. The normal high-low for
the period is 56-35. t
Precipitation may total one-half inch in
the North and West portions of the area to
less than one-fourth inch in tße Southeast,
water equivalent. Chance of snow in the in
' terior Saturday night and snow flumes the
remainder of'the period. ' k ’ v
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The twenty-four hours that
comprised Jesus’ last night and
day, the first Maundy Thrusday
evening l and Good Friday, were
twenty-four hours of terrible suf
fering for the man from Nazareth.
The ordeal which we call his
"Passion,” be
gan at the scene
of the Last Sup
per when he
darkly forecast
the treachery of
one of his own
disciples. It grew
in the garden of
Gethsemane as
he found them
Rev. Althouse too- fatigued to
share with him the long night of
prayerful preparation. That inner
torment came to a climax when
Judas, one of the Twelve, led
the Temple soldiers to the very
spot and betrayed Jesus with a
kiss.
“He was despised...”
In his moment of great need
his discigles fled from the scene,
leaving Him alone with bis cap
tors. None of them, not even the
brave-talking Peter, stood by him
as he underwent the ordeal of a
hearing before the high priest and
tire Sanhedrin. As he stood be
fore these authorities, he was
slandered, abused, and struck on
the face.
Without sleep, tired in body,
and sorrowful of soul, he was
forced to appear before the
powers of Jerusalem and was sub
jected to the same disgraceful pro
ceedings each time. He was stared
at and mocked like an animal or
madman.'’'He'was treated with
brutal contempt and no one
raised a voice of protest or
concern.
While in the palace of Pilate,
be was abused by the Boman
soldiers who beat him and made
sport of him. They put a robe
on him and pressed down a
crown of sharp thorns upon his
head. Later," as he was exposed
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To Kecord Pesticides
I’d like to repeat the sugges- for the milking herd. Cows that
tion that it is very important are grazed on lush growth early
for every farmer to keep accu- in the spring should be given a
rate records of his use of all feeding of dry matter first and
types of pesticides on both his then removed from the pasture
livestock and his crops. Our Ex- area at least 4 hours prior to the
tension Service has record next milking time. ‘
blanks available for this use;
they are available for the ask- To Beware Of Wild Pets i
ing. These records may be very The keeping of wild animals
useful if food products are ques- as pets is to be discouraged.
Honed for chemical residues. ' Monkeys, skunks, raccoons, K
„ zards and snakes make unust cal
-. To Manage Herd Carefully p e ts but they may-be-carriers
The pasture season- is ap- of dangerous human disea ips
preaching when it is very im- and infections. 1 Tuberculosis
portant for milk producers to may be 'carried by monkeys,
handle the milking iqws very rabies -virus’ is often present in
carefully; that is, if the .herd is 'the saliva of skunks; bites from
to be grazed, or to be Ted green--lizards and snakes may not be
chopped material. Succulant for- deadly poisonous but may p ro
age may transmit a grassy fla- duce dangerohs infections. 1 >o
,vor to the milk and cause quali- mestic animals make the safest
ty-problems. Pastures including pets.
to hostile crowds that had
ed at the palace, no one stood
forth to defend him or plead for
his release. Instead, the crowds
loudly called for bia death and
chose a murderer to be released
in his stead.
“And rejected...”
Exhausted by his physical and
emotional ordeal, a heavy cross
beam was laid upon his shoulders
and he was made to struggle with
it up the narrow, winding streets
of Jerusalem in disgrace befoc*
the cursing, Jeering mobs. When
he stumbled under its
[none of his friends were them
to help him, only a bystander
who was forced assist him
with his burden.
Having reached the desolate
Golgotha outside the city, he was
subjected to even greater torture.
Great nails were driven into his
hands and feet. Roughly, the
cross-beam was fitted to an up
right pole and he was jerked into j
position. The weight of his body
sent terrible pains racing through
,his hands and arms and 1
shoulders.
He looked down from the
cross. What he beheld
sharper the pain within. Several
soldiers were casting dice for hli,
.clothing. Curious crowds gawked;
at him while others paraded,
round him, hurling taunts, curses,,
and insults. Some of them spit
upon him to show their contempt. {
He saw also the pitiful form op
his weeping mother and a few!
sorrowful friends, all helpless in,
their horror.
“A Man of Sorrows”
Added to the pain was «
raging thirst the loss of blood,
and a combination of symptom?
that-guaranteed to makehis death
one of slow agony. In the midst
of all this, a hateful voice spat
out at him from below; "Hesaved
others; he cannot save himself.
Let the Christ, the King of Israel,
come down now from the cross,
that we may see and believe.*
(Mark 15:31,32 RSV)
General Booth of theSalvatlon,
Army once declared-that: "It is,
precisely because he would noli
come down that we believe in l
him.” Jesus stayed on the cross,
because he was the Son of Godt
not in spite of it. Death could!
not take from him his commltL
ment Thus'/ the cross is th« 3
symbol of the victor, not the;
victim.
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NOW IS
THE TIME...
By Max Smith
Lancaster County Agent
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