—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. June 21.1969 4 From Where We Of Deepest Concern Higher education is threatened with collapse. That is the only conclusion that a great many people feel can be draw n from events that ha\e accompanied campus dis orders. Their feeling is buttressed by a single paragraph from an article in The National Obsen er on the question of wheth er unuersity faculties can handle the ris ing state of anarchy that is taking over the ration’s campuses. One afternoon, says The National Obsen er. ’Tor about 30 minutes , . Cornell’s president. Dr. James A. Per kins—denied e\ en the courtesy of a chair by militant students—sat on the floor of the stage in Barton Hall, the unuersity field house, red-faced, humiliated, and sipping a can of root beer. To the accompaniment ot densue laughter from the 6,000 students gatheied in Barton Hall . . .a . . militant student leader, referred to Dr Perkins as ‘P’ and ‘Brother Jimmy’ and told him to ‘sit down. Jimmy. I’m going to talk and you can talk when I’m through.' Half an hour later. Dr Perkins got to his feet and de scribed the week’s e\ents at Cornell as ‘the most constructu e mo\ e' the university has eter taken ” The spectacle of a college president forced to sit on the floor in abject submis s on while enduring the insults of “students” will strike manj as unrelated to anything that could be called a "construct]! e move ” On the contrary, the stark facts as related by The Observer ha\ e a nightmarish quah tv They place a US. college president in the position of a defector in a dictatorship r dden country Other events summarized in The National Observer article include a’tned seizure of university buildings, not only at Cornell, but elsewhere. At Harvard, as at Columbia University, pictrues have shown almost unbelievable scenes of mobs occupy mg the offices of college officials. Often, according to press reports, facul ty members join striking students. Fre quently, what starts out as a revolt of a few d.ssenters snowballs into mass meetings of thousands and closure of classrooms One of the most puzzling features of the disorders is a lack of clear response to the most flagrant acts of violence. In the case of Cornell, according to The National Observ e>, unu ersity administrators acceded to de mands of dissenters after Cornell w as gn en just “three hours to live ” A similar bowing to pressure and threats took place at Har vard In the words of The Observer, “At both schools the students’ grievances, real and imagined, seemed to be exacerbated by administrative ineptitude and previous fa culty indifference ” What are some of these student grievances that we hear so much aoout 9 Life magazine published the “Strik ers’ Manifesto” as posted by Harvard stu dents The Manifesto gave eight reasons for striking—among them, because classes are Farm News This Week Three Local Dair>men W in District Honors Page 1 Summer Egg Prices Forecast Above Spring; Near 1968 Level Page 1 Countv Dairj Princess Contest Cancelled For Lack Of Entries Page 1 LANCASTER F ARMING Lancaster Countv’s Own Farm Meekly => 0 Box 266 - Litit? Pa 17543 Office 22 E Main St Litit? Pa 17543 Phone Lanca'-tci 394 3047 oi Litit/ 626 2191 Eycicttß Ncw-wanj-c Pditoi RobotG Carnnbcli \dv( i L'lnc Dn cctoi Subsn iption price S2pfr.-(ai in Lancastei Counfv S 3 cl fv/hcic Established \OvCmbcr 4 1955 Published c.tij MR in day bv Lancastei I aimin', Litit/ Pa Second Class Postage paid at Lititz Pa 17543 Meinbei of Xewspapei Faim Editois Assn Stand. .. a boro. Other points in the Manifesto includ ed the demand for more power and a de mand to smash “the corporation." The portents of spreading strife on U.S. campuses is beyond calculation at a time when technology and the problems of so ciety require a higher intellectual capacity than ever before. The highest centers of learning in the land seem to be drifting help lessly in a sea of strife. Even more serious than a threatened decline in standards is the threat to freedom itself. President Nixon has said that college administrators must not "surrender to force.” He warns, “There can be no compromise with lawlessness and no surrender to force if free education is to sunne in the United States of America.” His warning makes the issue of strife on the campuses a matter of the deepest concern to all Americans. At least that’s the way it looks from where we stand. Hai3 To Summer Every season of the year has its special features—blossoms in spring, autumn colors in fall, the magic of Jack Frost in winter and the azure skies of summer. However, summer, which begins its tour of the North ern Hemisphere on June 21, also features the full blooming of our national curse—the htterbug. And this year, as on each succeed ing year, there will be more evidence of this blight than ever before. Us farmers who value and respect natural beauty can but watch in helpless outrage as the veritable scum of the human race strikes swiftly and usually unseen— throwing beer cans and pop bottles from speeding cars or vanishing without a trace from rayaged campgrounds and picnic sites. Often this creature we have dubbed the htterbug passes unobserved in the night, leaving in his wake whole boxes of garbage, as well as cases of cans and bottles. Laws are becoming increasingly stringent but to little avail. What is threat of a $5OO fine to these desppilers of the countryside that no law can catch, except, in the rare instances when their brashness overcomes their na tural cunning. The scourge of the htterbugs will get worse each summer, judging by recent esti mates that put the production of 12-ounce containers by 1982 at a possible 900 million gross Since a gross is 12 dozen, it is not hard to figure out what the landscape will look like m the summer of, say, 1985, if litterbuggmg continues uncurbed. Across The Fence Row Maybe if the “good old days” came back, we could find some fault with them, too. The difficult is that which can be done immediately; the impossible usually takes a bit longer. Wonder how long it will be until obsolete A bombs will be in our surplus stores? Rufus: “How are you getting along with your arithmetic?” Susan- “Well, I’ve learned to add up the oughts, but the figures still bother me.” Local Weather Forecast (From the U. S. Weather Bureau at the Harrisburg State Airport) The five-day forecast for the period Saturday through next Wednesday calls for temperatures to average below normal with daytime highs m the mid 70's and over-night lows m the 50’s in the north and middle 50’s in the south. It is to be cooler Saturday thru Monday and milder Tuesday and Wednes day Precipitation may total greater than % inch in most sections. Showers ending over the southern portion early Saturday and general showers developing over the region Tuesday or Wednesday. TO ME Lesson for June 22,1969 Itcliirtunrf Scripture Deuteronomy 5 I 6 30 15 20, Psalms 197-1 If 1199 16, 102 105. 2 Timothy 1 13,14 Dtv»ti«n«f Psalms 19 7* 14, Roy L. Smith once remarked, "The proof of the inspiration of the Scriptures is their power to in spire.” Thus, as we have already seen, the Bible is essential to the Church in its corporate worship and study. Through the scrip tures Godspeaks to the Church. It is also true, however, that, through the scriptures, God speaks, not only to his Church, but to individual Christians as _ .... well. It is a Rev. Alihouse resource for the fellowship; but it is also a person al resource too. God uses it to give me a message that is quite personal. A kinship For one thing, the Bible may become very personal as we study and relate to ourselves the lives and experiences of various Bible characters. W e may find a kin ship with Jeremiah, for example, when we learn that, instead of responding eagerly to God’s call, he reacted timidly, protesting that he was too young to take upon himself the task to which God had called him. "Ah, Lord God! Behold, I do not know how to speak, for I am only a youth” (Jeremiah 1:6). This may sound alarmingly similar to our own response to God’s challenges to us. Perhaps it may be Job who seems to speak personally to us. We may have had experiences that have prompted us to cry out in terms not too different from his: "God has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes. I cry to thee and thou dost not answer me; I stand, and thou dost not heed me” (Job 30:19, 20). As we study his remarkable story and try to understand his situation, perhaps we can begin to understand better our own. choice grade Heavier cattle may tend to depress puces and aie The only good kind of a rat less efficient to feed 'Feeders io a dead rat and I’d like to en- now have an opportunity to help coinage everyone to feel the deteimme the puce of beef, same way They can be the cai- To Eradicate Rats iier of numeious diseases, will To Buv Machinery destroy 01 damage all kxnds of Conservative y feed and food, and are a men- conservatively ace to everyone All known dens Many faimers aie canying a and nests of rats should be lo- ver y jjjgh investment in faun cated and the lats poisoned, m . . tirpped, 01 killed by fumiga- Ginnery, on many farms the tion If rats aie allowed to popu- machmeiy is adequate to farm late fieely during the summer, twice the acieage This is diffi they will come into buildings Cl situation to solve because and do moie damage this fall & thfi of labor foice3 wmtei Be peisistent until all man> faimeis mto gieater ma . nits aie extern n d chinery investment One solution might be the greater use of To Sell Cattle At Light Weights custom opeiatois to do the woik, and the second one would be the Fat cattle puces have been pm chase of moie second-hand favorable for the last several machmeiy Used machinery le months Faimeis can help letain duces the high first cost and the this puce level by selling then initial high depreciation Con cattle between 1050 and 1150 tact youi local farm machmeiy pounds, or when they reach the dealer and talk it over. A parallel The story of .Tomtit may also prove to be for us a very personal message. As we ponder the meaning of this book, wo may see a parallel between this an cient man and ourselves. As he tried to escape God and failed perhaps we too have found that running away from his challenge is no answer. As we recognize Jonah’s vindictiveness against the people of Nineveh, perhaps we recognize in ourselves a touch of the same. We too may enjoy more the message of condem nation than that of redemption. Others may identify personally with Simon Peter. In his bumbling impulsiveness they may see them selves. When they study and con sider his three-fold denial of our Lord and his later rise to leader ship, perhaps they can find in this the comfort to face and salvage their own failures. As they witness how Peter’s mind had to be radically changed so that he could put aside his prejudices and consent to baptise Cornelius the Gentile, they may be less threat ened to perform the personal changes he calls upon them to make. Especially for us ' Secondly, God’s message may become very personal for us, not only as we consider Bible characters, but its themes and ideas as well. When, for example, we stumble through some_ dark period of our lives, his as surance, "Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil,” may seem to us a very personal word of comfort. The words of Psalm 8 may speak specifically to our own sense of wonder and awe: "When I look at thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast established; what is man that thou art mind ful of him, and the son of man that thou dost care for him?” (8:3,4). It may seem that John’s words were written especially for us: “If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us” (1 John 1:8). The wonder of it all: that these many and diverse books, written by so many different men- iirso many different times and places and circumstances, should still speak so personally to mel (Based on ouHmes copyrighted by the Division Christian Education, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U. S. A. Koloasod by CommumV Press Service) NOW IS THE TIME... By Max Smith Lancaster County Agent
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