-Lj.ncn'-tcf Fanning. Saturday. May 31.1969 4 From Where We Look Ahead Legislation has been introduced in the Pennsylvania Senate it was reported this week, which would prohibit the use of chlorinated hydrocarbons, like DDT. in Pennsylvania. The bill says, “It shall be un lawful for any person to spray forests or field crops with chlorinated hydrocarbons. Any person violating the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $5OO or to undergo impnsonment for not more than six months or both." To be sure, it is not a law yet. but it would also appear that the complete ban ning ot DDT is a reaction to public scare tactics rather than action based on actual conditions and necessities. Certainly, w'e need control limits on the use of pesticides. But to completely prohibit use of materials for which there is no feasible substitute on some \egetable crops does not make sense. In the much publicized hearings in Wis consin, a former chief of toxicology of the U S Public Health Service said that even in tests on human volunteers and DDT plant workers who were exposed to many more times the DDT than the average person, no harm in any way could be detected He add ed that jou could eat the much publicized Coho salmon with its 19 parts per million ot DDT as your only food every morning, noon and night for 19 years without any harmful effect. Consumer protection has reached the propoitions of a full-blown crusade—a cru sade that may be heading down a dead-end road unless many of its leaders begin to think in terms of tomorrow, as well as to day What will it avail us if we initiate restrictions and laws and police surveil lance that cripple our ability to produce Under the name of consumer protection, we hear proposals for the abolishment of chemical pesticides which today play such a large role in food and fiber production and will play an even larger role tomorrow as population reaches the standing-room-only level It is instructive to consider a typical re search and development program as con ducted by a typical agricultural chemical manufacturer It takes 5 to 8 years of re search and experiment with some 4.000 chemicals to develop a new pesticide to the point where it can be presented tor registra tion to the U S Department of Agriculture. During this time, some $4 million is spent in laboiatoxies, greenhouses, introductory field studies, chemical analysis, toxicity studies and an ad infinitum. Eventually, the pesticide under investigation is offered to government laboratories and agricultural expei iment stations for independent evalua tion If after these years of research and Farm Hews This Week Visiting Doctor Schmuck And His Familv At Their Pine Lane Farmstead Home—Pg. 1 New Holland FFA Boxs Win Area Small Engine Contest Page 13 Regional Show Hosted Bv Lanchester Club Page 1 LANCASTER FARMING Lancastei County’s Own Farm Weekly P 0 Box 266 - Lititz, Pa 17543 Office 22 E Mam St Lititz, Pa 17543 Phone Lancastei 394-3047 or Lititz 626 2191 Eveiett R Newswangei, Editor RobcitG Cc.mpbell AdvextisingDnector Subsi i iption pi ice S 2 pei \ eai in Lancaster County, S 3 elsewhere Established Vovembei 4 1955 Puolished e’ eiv Satin da v by Lancaster Fanning Lititz Pa second Cms, Postage paid at Lititz Pa. 17543 Mi-' It, of \ c, vspanei Fa’m Ed.tois Assn Stand, .. the expenditure of millions of dollars the new compound meets all tests, it may reach the market as one of the invaluable aids that have made U. S. agriculture the most productive on earth. These are the things we don’t hear about from the consumer protectors who neglect to mention that the greatest consumer protection job we face is to see that there is enough food and fiber for coming generations. But anyway, in Pennsylvania, the legis lature is about to decide if we feed our vegetables to the bugs or kill the bugs and feed the people. But before we decide, we better look ahead. For if we decide to feed the bugs, there may not be any left to feed the people. At least that’s the way it looks from where we stand. Electronic Judgment Lacking A person’s credit standing used to de pend on a highly personal relationship with local merchants, the banker and local busi nesses generally. Today, it appears that much of this personal element has disap peared—perhaps unavoidably—in the hun gry jaws of numbers-onented computers. A late issue of The National Observer contains an amusing story—or perhaps not so amusing—of the trials and tribulations of a man who inadvertently fell into dis favor with credit controlling computers. Once the machinery of the system, through an error, found him to be a poor credit risk, it took him months to reestablish his identi ty and his financial reputation. In the fight to regain his credit standing, he ran an un believable gauntlet of mediocre clerks, faceless credit representatives and a me chanizd nightmare of mis-management. At the end, he concluded, “. . . I still can’t explain how my record got so distorted. . . . But I do know that by shouting and com plaining, I got justice of a kind.” If this is a sample of what becomes of the individual in a “cashless” society in which people are no more than a mass of meaningless numbers, one can but conclude we have a long way to go to reach a state of perfect civilization. You May Be Next Apologists for rising civil disorder in the United States like to remind us that an infinitesimal percentage of the overall population is involved in any form of law breaking. No one should be fooled by this sort of look-the-other-way reassurance. According to late FBI reports, “Serious crime in the United States increased 17 per cent in 1968 when compared with 1967. ...” Further, FBI Director Hoover reports that in 1968. “Crimes of violence were up 19 per cent, led by robbery up 29 per cent, murder and forcible rape up 14 per cent each, and aggravated assault up 12 per cent. The crimes against property rose by 17 per cent as a group.” The chances are growing from_ month to month and year to year that your number will come up and your person or your property will fall prey to the criminal who respects neither. Across The Fence Row Color Job; Nobody is quite as bad as made out by his enemies, or quite as good as reported by his triends. Local Weather Forecast (Fiom the U. S, Weather Bureau at the Harrisburg State Airport) The five-day forecast calls for tempera tures to average abo\e normal with day time h'ghs in the low 80's and oiernight lows m the low 60's. It is to be fair and mild o’ier the weekend with no ram expect ed The normal high-low for the period is 79-56. IMrOIIIIIII DIFFEBIMCtS Lesson for June 1 ( 1969 lodigrAond ScngKiro BtodusM 15, LovitiCUs 19 Il ls, Rulb Proverbs 10 I 5. Amos 779. LuU 15 3 10 24 44 Acts 2 I 4 Philemon Devatienel Reeding Psalms 121 In this newspaper there are a variety of literary forms. On the front page there are news stories. Inside there may be editorials and columns. On other pages you may find some recipes, a ••ather *rt, classified notices, car toons, comics, letters to the editor, advertise ments, etc. Because you. recognize these differences, you read them dif ferently. Your expectations for Rev. Althouse news stories are somewhat different from your expectations for editorials. You do not regard a column like this in the same way as you would an advertisement. Generally you would not turn to recipes for laughs, nor to comics for di rections in preparing food. A library Frederick William Farrar has written that "We must never lose sight of the fact that the Bible is not a single or even a homogen eous book. The Bible is, strictly speaking, not a book but a library.” Furthermore, like a newspaper, it is a library that contains many varied literary forms: prophecy, history, nar rative, poetry, wise sayings, Gospels, epistles, and apoc alypses. Recognizing these differences, we need to read them differently. This is not a new discovery. John Wycliffe, who in the fourteenth century translated the Latin Bible into English, also has passed on to us his rides for interpreting the Bible: It shall greatly help ye to understands Scripture, If thou mark Not only what is spoken or wntf r Read Lancaster Farming For Full Market Reports To Spray Alfalfa Stubble Alfalfa gi owers who have hai - vested their fust ciop of alfalfa without applying a weevil spraj and who have noticed any alfalfa weevil infestation, should spiay their fields within a few days If the weevil aie piesent, they will feed upon the new shoots and pi event a noimal second crop Insecticides suitable for spray ing the hist cutting may also be used on the stubbles To Reduce Flv Population Repo.ts leveal a veiy heavy fly, infestation this year on many hams The place to stait is with a clean-up progiam followed by veiy stuct sanitation piactices when all of the fly bleeding plac es aie eliminated there will be fewer flies Bains may be spiay ed with lesiaual fl\ spiays and But of whom, And to whom. With what words. At what time, Where, To what intent, With what circumstances, Consider what goeth be fore And what followeth. The reporter and the poet In most of the newer trans lations of the Bible we find largo portions of scripture that aro rendered as poetry rather than prose. Some books of the Bible, Psalms, Proverbs, and the Son® of Solomon, are entirely poetry. Other books contain poetry along with prose. It is important for us to treat Biblical poetry differently than we treat Biblical prose. The poet does not intend his words to be understood in the same man ner as the words of a reporter or a historian. He uses' colorful, imaginative language that relies heavily upon imagery. The re porter is more interested in using precise language that recounts data in as objective manner as possible. Riches Jesus used the language of im agery at times. When he said, “I am the door,” he did not intend us to interpret this to meanthathe consists of wooden planks, a lock, hinges, and a doorknob. His par ables were not intended to be re garded in the same light as some of his other utterances. When we read the words of Jesus, therefore, we must understand what kind of language he is using if we are to know what he intended to com municate. This is no less true as we read the whole Bible, To read proph ecy in the same manner as a pastoral letter, is no more logical than to regard the weather re port in the same light as the comics. The Bible is rich in its variety and diversity and those ncnss can be ours only if we recognize them and approach them ac cordingly. (Based an outline capynshtad by tha Division of Chmtion Education National Council of tha Churches of Christ in tha U. S A. Raiaosad by Community frtss Sajvica.) Attend The Church of Your Choice Sunday NOW IS THE TIME... By Mut Smith Lancaster County Agent in 01 dei to pi event lesistance to these mateuals, we suggest tnat diffeient mateuals be used fiom yoai to yeai The mateuals might include cygon korlan, ta bon 01 bayte\ To Be Alert For Hog Cholera Pennsylvania had only tinea outbieaks of hog choleia tins yeai, but this is still too many. TVo scornces of infection a..e blamed namely, impelling feed ei pigs fiom out-of-state and feeding uncooked gaibage Local pioduceis aie warned about the gieat dangei of impoiting pigs fiom othei states they may cany the disease If they a>e pm chased they should be iso lated at least 1000 feet fiom othei hogs foi at least 30 days. Pievention of this disease is veiy impoitant because a cuie is not know n.
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