Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 26,1969
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From Where We
Margarine On The
Door Step
The July issue of Changing Times notes
that a new era m advertising is here. You'll
smell ads as well as see and hear them.
The idea is that the odor for example of
butter, would be released when you scratch
ed the paper the ad was printed on. It
sounds a little far removed from reality. But
so did flying to the moon ten years ago.
Anjway. the thing that scares us is that
the dairies would most likely put margarine
smells on their ads rather than butter.
That’s right! We said dairies selling mar
garine.
Just this morning on this editor’s door
step along with the regular cartons of milk
from a local milk bottler w as a slab of mar
garine with a gimmick to get us to buy
more of their “wonderful’’ margarine.
With all the money farmers spend to
get their barns and milk houses ready to
produce and cool milk, isn’t it a shame
dairies must stoop to cutting up farmers
by promoting and selling margarine and
synthetic milk products? We think it is.
Sometimes we even wonder if the dairies
who practice this two-facedness really know
which side their bread is buttered on.
At least that's the way it looks from
Inhere we stand.
Work Or Starve
An editorial in The Christian Science
Monitor comments on a contemporary form
of oppression that has no place in the United
States. It says, “The Supreme Court has
agreed to decide whether a labor union has
the power to fine members for (what the
union considers) overproduction on the job.
What an amazing and saddening com
mentary on affairs today! In a land which,
perhaps more than any other on the face
of the earth, has always prided itself upon
hard work, and upon what hard work can
accomplish, how chilling it is to find that
there are those who believe they have the
right to require laziness and time-wasting.”
Am one who feels a deliberate slow
down on the job is irrelevant to today’s
soaring prices should be interested in a
brief item from the publication Steel Facts
which reports: “Hourly employment costs
for production and maintenance employees
in this country’s steel industry during the
past -two decades have been rising more
than three times as rapidly as output per
man-hour of all employees.”
Machines have done much to offset the
growing laziness of people But there is a
limit beyond which a fundamental law of
nature must take over work or starve.
At least that’s the way it looks from where
we stand.
Farm News This Week
Group Of 120 Local Farmers
Attend State Livestock Day Page 1
Lancaster Breeder Developing
Small Broiler Breeder Hen Page 1
Breeders Told They Have
Not Kept Pace W ith Moon Age Page 1
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Faith In Our Youth
A new type of youth group is roaming
the streets of Ann Arbor, Michigan. It calls
itself the Gillnet Gang. Its members de
scribe themselves as “guerrillas for good.”
As the Altoona, Pennsylvania, Mirror ob
serves, “. • . the Gillnets roam Ann Arbor
streets at night doing some rather odd
things for a youth gang. On one recent night
they painted a bridge, which had been co
vered with obscenities. On another, they
boarded up an abandoned house, which had
been a dangerous but popular rendezvous
for neighborhood children. They made a
number of adults ashamed of themselves by
filling downtown planters, which had re
mained barren of flowers because of a
squabble over which group was responsible
for them.”
An assistant professor at the University
of Michigan is frequently consulted by the
gang for advice. He concedes that some of
their activities are “extralegal.’’ To this,
the Mirror concludes, “Some will undoubt
edly say any extralegal approach smacks of
the vigilantes of old. But who will argue that
the Gillnets are not providing a community
service no one else seems capable of giv
ing?” Perhaps there’s ground for retaining
a little faith in humanity after all.
Across The Fence Row
"America gives its ear, heart, con
science and front pages to the protesters.
But. below the din. . . Each day your mail
is in your box; the bread is on the rack;
the fireman answers your call; the teacher
heads her class: the soldier answers mus
ter; the waiter brings your soup; the copper
gets mined, and the cars get built. While
critics go merrily down the river intoning,
‘We’re heading for Armageddon, ‘human
beings of high character and many back
grounds do their jobs, pay their taxes, edu
cate their children, invent, patch, scratch,
plan, plow 7. . . And make this country tick!”
Temple, Am., News.
A young mother was paying a visit to
her doctor. She made no attempt to re
strain her five-j ear-old son. who was ran
sacking an adjoining treatment room. But
finally an extra-loud clatter of bottles did
prompt her to say. “ hope, doctor, you don’t
mind Jimmy making a little noise in your
treatment room. - ’ ‘’No,” said the doctor
calmly. ‘‘He’ll be quiet in a moment —when
he gets to the poisons.”
Historians tell us the past. Economists
tell us the future. ONLY the present IS
confusing.
The best things in life may be free, but
don’t forget that gossip and eavesdropping
are also free.
Whenever you put your nose in some
body’s business, generally >ou get your foot
in, too.
Happiness seeems to be a by-product of
helping others.
How one enjoys a second 40 years of
life generally depends on hou he lives the
first 40.
Local Weather Forecast
(Trom 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 in the BG’s and over-night
lows in the low 60" s. Seasonable tempera
tures are expected Satmday through Mon
day turning cooler Tuesday and Wednesday.
Rain may total one-half inch or gi eater
most sections as showers Monday or Tues
day.
THE DELIVERER
Lesson for July 27,1969
SaclgrMiMl Scripture: Exodus 2 23-322, 5 22-6:?,
12-15.
Dcv«(i*n«l Rt«4lnf: Hosm It t*9#
Four score and seven years
ago our father brought forth
upon this continent a new na
tion, conceived in liberty . . •
In the dark hours of the
American Civil War, President
Abraham Lincoln stood in the
little cemetary
on the battle
field at Gettys
burg, Pennsylva
nia, and spoke
these words,
calling his coun
trymen to look
back to thebirth
hour of the
nation, 1776. It
Rev. Althouse was his way of
reminding Americans from
whence they had come and why.
The Lord heard our voice
What Lincoln did at Gettys
burg was frequently practiced
by many of the biblical writers.
The birth-hour to which they
pointed was the exodus from
Egypt under the leadership of
Moses. Deuteronomy recalls:
A wandering Aratnean was
my father; and he went down
into Egypt and so-journed
there, few in number; and
there he became a nation,
great, mighty, and populous.
And the Egyptians treated us
harshly, and afflicted us, and
laid upon us hard bondage.
Then we cried to the Lord...
and the Lord heard our voice,
and saw our affliction, our
toil, and our oppression; and
the Lord brought us out of
Egypt with a mighty hand
and an out-stretched arm, with
great terror, with signs and
wonders...
(26:5a-8)
Today in the Feast of the Pass
over the Jews continue to cele
brate the Exodus and look
back to the birthday of Israel.
The Hebrews had been captive
for a long time three
hundred years! That is roughly
To Renovate Pastures u*ed if upright silo storage is
Livestock and dairy producers not sufficient. The making of
that utilize pasture during the high moisture corn for all types
summer season should legard of livestock feeding is gaming
laie August to early September popularity. Rat infestation
as the veiy best time of the and con tiol becomes a major
year to ienovate an old area or , . J
to seed a new pastuie field ® “* em when ear corn is piled
Prstuie matures that are start- at several places in faim budd
ed at tins '.me of the year will mgs. Advance plannings for
get es'abMhed quicker and have g ood storage is needed
a better cnance of withstanding
the hoi, dry weather of next
summer lime and fertilizer
needs should be met accoidmg The piopei disposal of empty
to a complete sod test pesticide containers is verj mx-
poitant and one needing atten-
To Prepai e For Corn Harvest tion towaid the end of the grow-
Indications point for another mg season Many of these con
good corn oop foi many paits tamers still contain some chemi
of the strte, soaking rams at cals and may be toxic to human
trsselmg tune aie very impoi- beings and to livestock Wlmn
tans for ma>irnum yields Grow- discaided into an old junk pile
ers should plan aheei for proper o t quany hole, they can be the
stoiage mi hvi’ mop, silage is cause of water- contamination
the very best use to be made of ana the poisoning of livestock,
an acre corn more feed D'sposal pits dug several feet
fUtiiems will be hu rested by into the ground away f.om
iTmkin* n into co u silage Kon- su earns and watei supplies is
zontai or bench sues may be- one. .good, method .of. disposal.
comparable lo the time that
has elapsed In America »lnco
the coming of the Pilgrims.
Suppose that after three hundred
years we still hadn’t gained out
independence!
The wrong question
If any of the Israelites In
Egypt remembered the God of
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, w*
can imagine that they wondered:
"Doesn’t God care?” The answer
to that question was to come from
a very unlikely leader. His nam*
was Moses, a rather common
Egyptian name. Confronted by
an encounter with the God of
Abraham, this man asked, "Who
am I that I should go to Pharoah
and bring the sons of Israel out
of Egypt?”
To that question of "Who am
I . . there were a number of
answers that might have been
given:
an orphaned Hebrew adopted
by the Pharoah’s daughter,
An Egyptian noble brought
up in the culture and education
of the royal court,
A Hebrew deeply disturbed
over the persecution of hi*
people,
The murderer of an Egyptian
taskmaster,
a fugitive from Egyptian
justice,
a Midianite shepherd,
the son-in-law of a Midianit*
priest,
an eighty-year old man,
a descendant of Abraham who
knew little, if anything, about
Abraham’s God.
Doesn’t God care?
Who was this man Moses? Hei
was a prodigy whose early great
expectations had turned to tragid
disappointment and drab reality.
Yet it was this same man through,
whom the Lord would answer*
that question, "Doesn’t Godcare?*
I have seen the affliction of my'
people who are in Egypt, and
have heard their cry because of
their taskmasters ... And I have
come to deliver them...
When God made it apparent'
that it was Moses who would
lead the Hebrews, Moses asked
his "Who am I . question.
But it was the wrong question.
Instead he should have asked
God, "Who are you?”, for the
Lord tells him that it is not be
cause of who Moses is, but be
cause of who God is that the task
will be accomplished. "I will send
you,” he said, " and I will be
with you.” Moses would be but
the instrument; God would be
the Deliverer.
(Based on outlines copyrighted by the Division
of Christian Education, National Council of th*
Churches ef Christ in the U« S. A. Released by
Community Press Service}
NOW IS
THE TIME...
By Mai' Smith
Lancaster County Agent
To Be Careful With
Pesticide Containers