-Lj.ncn'-tcf Fanning. Saturday. May 31.1969
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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
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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
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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.