—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. May 10,1969
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From Where We
That Mean Old Mother
Of Mine
I had the meanest mother in the world.
While other kids ate candy for breakfast, I
had to have cereal, eggs, or toast. When
others had Cokes and candy for lunch, I had
to eat sandwiches. As you can guess, my
supper was different than the other kids,
also. But, at least, I wasn’t alone in my
sufferings. My sister and two brothers had
the same mean mother I did.
My mother insisted upon knowing where
we were at all times. You’d think we were
on a chain gang. She had to know who our
friends were and what we were doing. She
insisted if we said we'd be gone an hour or
less not one hour and one minute. I am
nearly ashamed to admit it, but she actual
ly struck us. Not once, but each time we
did as we pleased. Can you imagine some
one actually hitting a child just because he
disobeyed. Now you can begin to see how
mean she really was.
The worst is yet to come. We had to be
in bed by nine each night and up early the
next morning. We could not sleep till noon
like our friends. So while they slept my
mother actually had the nerve to break the
child labor law. She made us work. We had
to wash dishes, make beds, learn to cook
and all sorts of cruel things. I believe she
laid awake at night thinking up mean
thing to do to us.
She always insisted upon our telling the
whole truth and nothing but the truth even if
it killed up and it nearly did.
By the time we were teen-agers, she
was much wiser and our life became even
more unbearable. None of this tooting the
horn of a car for us to come running. She
embarassed us to no end by making our
dates and friends come to the door to get
us. I forgot to mention while my friends
were dating at the mature age of 12 and 13,
my old-fashioned mother refused to let me
date until age 15 and 16. Fifteen, that is if I
dated only to go to a school function. That
was twice a year.
My mother was a complete failure as a
mother. None of us ever has been arrested
for beating his mate. Each of my brothers
served his time in the service of this coun
try. Who do we have to blame for the terri
ble way we turned out? You’re right, our
mean mother. Look at all the things we
missed. We never got to march in a protest
parade, got to take part in a not, burn draft
cards, and a million and one things our
friends did. She forced us to grow up into
God-fearing, educated, honest adults.
Using this as a background, I am trying
to raise my three children. I stand a little
taller and I am filled with pride when my
children call me mean. Because you see, I
thank God He gave me the “meanest”
mother in the world Lewis Miller, in
Guernsey Breeders’ Journal.
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LANCASTER FARMING
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Faulty Drivers
An ugly year for Americans was 1968.
Tragedy of spectacular magnitude became
a frequent front page occurrence. But a
quieter national calamity took its dreadful
toll on all the days before, during and after
the Tet offensive in Vietnam, the riots, the
assassinations.
It was “quiet” only because it was not
concentrated in a single place at a single
time. There was no focus to put this misery
on the front pages. To the families and
friends of 55,300 men, women and children
killed in auto accidents, however, it was the
ultimate calamity. To the 4,400,000 victims
of injury, it was hard core agony. The econo
mic loss, about 13.5 billion dollars, was an
appalling waste.
This view of 1968 is contained in the an
nual booklet of highway accident statistics
from a national Insurance Company. Sta
tistics in the booklet were compiled from
records of motor vehicle departments
throughout the country.
The 1968 highway toll followed a year
that saw a leveling off in the number of
highway deaths and injuries. In 1967 appro
ximately 53,000 lives were lost in motor
vehicle mishaps 4,200,000 persons were
injured.
Why the increase? Was it because
Americans were lulled by the “improve
ment” of the preceedmg year?
There are, perhaps, as many reasons
as there are people to voice opinions.
Whatever the reasons, the tragedy re
mains. More than 55,300 persons were kill
ed and 4,400,000 injured.
Mr. Driver, it’s up to you to help make
1969 beautiful! At least that’s the way it
looks from where we stand.
Don’t Sell Profits Short
Business and political leaders the coun
try over are only too well aware of the gra
vity of the problem posed by dissenting
groups of students and others who have
increasingly turned to violence to gain their
ends. Industries are working night and day
to broaden the base of jobs and opportuni
ties that they feel will bring people together
and restore stability. However, the task is
made immeasurably more difficult by the
prevalent notion among many of the dis
senters that profits and human rights are
mutually antagonistic.
Many young people have fallen prey to
the communist dogma that human rights in
some mystical way must take precedence
over the idea of private profit when in fact
the right to private profit is one of the most
fundamental of human rights. Commenting
on this subject, Mr. Robert G. Dunlop, pre
sident of the Sun Oil Company, observes,
“History, our own experience, and com
parative studies of living standards in the
nations of the world tell us that this kind of
criticism of the profit system is not valid.
Instead, the profit system is not only the
most effective incentive to economic effort,
but also the one that provides the maximum
amount of economic freedom for indivi
duals and the means for economic and so
cial progress.”
When the right to profit from one’s own
endeavors is eliminated from the list of hu
man rights, those rights become no more
than an empty phrase. When the profit in
centive is removed, the whip of slavery is
just around the corner.
Local Weather Forecast
(From the U. S. Weather Bureau at the
Harrisburg State Airport)
The five-day forecast for the period Sat
urday throught next Wednesday calls for
temperatures to average below normal with
daytime highs in the 60’s and over-night
lows in the mid 40’s. Normal high-low for
the period is 73-50.
Ram may total one-fourth to one-half
inch as showers about Monday.
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(2:8) . . .telling In their own
tongue* the mighty workiofGod"
(2:11). When the amazed multi
tude »cci this, It ask*: "What doc*
this mean?" and Peter stands up
and give* nn explanation. The
gospel 1» Intended to be under
stood.
Beauty or understanding?
This is the purpose of the vari
ous translations of the Bible.
They attempt to communicate
the imperishable truth of the
scripture in terms that men can
understand. To forsake beauty
■■■« for the take of understanding 1*
twitrwmJ Nthtmith * 1-3,*i HoWJuik n 0 o ff en ge against the scriptures;
22,aci.2M2. it is the fulfillment of their
Iteadinr. Somoni 5.21-39. nurPOSC
Several year* ago while at- P wo ’ man , n a Blble storeex .
toiding a conference in Denver, claimedj « rm sick and tired of all
Colorado, I saw a , hese translations; I just want the
board that advertised: Bible- gjhie the way Jesus and the saints
Burning Ceremony Tonight! spoke it.” What she didn’t realize,
Upon mquuy 1 found that the of coursej was the impossibility
pastor of this church was con- ber " w j S h.” To understand the
ducting n one- words of j esus as he spoke them,
man war against she wou i d have to be conversant
die Revised Stan- - n Aramaic. To read the New
Testament in the language in
the Biblebecause wbicb it was f irs t written she
he opposed any woldd h av e to have a working
knowledge of ancient Greek. In
or “ °f Jesus’ day most people read the
i. „ . Hebrew scriptures in Greek, but
f they had originally been written
Rev. Althouse “Se rver- in classical Hebrew.
sion or that on the grounds that Everyday language
“to depart from the singular The early church read both
beauties of the yer- testaments primarily in Latin. It
sion is blasphemous. Some was only dur ing the times of the
pie seem convinced that the Bible Reformation that the Bible began
wa ® written to to be widely translated into the
rather than understamhng. Still common i an gu a ge of the masses,
others maintain that the Word of T .. Version the
God is degraded when translated J»*»
into common language. Elizabethan English. Today,
‘‘They gave the sense” however, except for performances
. ; e of Shakespeare’s plays, we do not
use Elizabethan English and need
ftat versions which render the Bible
well. In Nehemiah wc find tnat . cn#?iir fn nm*
Ezra not only read the scriptures “*Va?ltoT
to the people, but placed a high RR j g ar g ued that in doing *o
S^m- r “ lty U and we lose some of beaut y of
eA the Bible, we must remember that
ffood «!« under ’ the true beauty of the Bible ha*
stood threading (8.8). _ always been, not in its words
, the Lord tells beaut jf u t as they have been in
tiie prophet, pot only to write some versions —, but in the truth
down his message to Israel, but beb j nd these words. Though at
J? f t ° limes we are blessed because the
” a 2f Ip Bible is a delight to our ears and
(2.2). The message was to be our m i nds> R the delight of the
made *vl° r^ nd ” S = soul of man that was God’* prt-
SerS."“ “ “ i,my “
SOUL'S DELIGHT
]Letson for May 11* 1969
On the day of Pentecost when (*««J « •uHm« «*yrijht*J by *• oivM«i
&e multitude began to testify in -
the power of the Spirit, the writer cwmnimtyrr.i.s.rvK.l
of Acts emphasizes that the pur
pose of this outpouring was com
munication, not confusion: "And
iiow is it that we hear, each of
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In the next two weeks most of feed upon the foliage of trees m
the common pastures grasses will the area of the tent They may
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of the weeds will also be coming methoxychlor or sevin inside the
into bloom; this is the best time webs and the web area; not
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mg of the weed seeds. The excess Control Poison Ivy
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pasture management requires by r spraying with either Amino
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Infestation of these caterpillai s 'growing in flower beds or near
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year and soon the silken -webs mg is the safest method of co|h
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blanches and foiks of trees are uiged to read the instnxc-
These fuzzy worms hare a black lions carefully and follow accii
head and body with a white i ately in the spray application!.
NOW IS
THE TIME...
By Max Smith
Lancaster County Agent
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