4—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. November 8.1969
From Where We
A Subject Of
Deep Feeling
U.S. Senator Hugh Scott (R-Pa.) releas
ed a statement that reiterated his support
for a constitutional amendment allowing
prayer in public school. Scott said:
"I have been very much aware that al
lowing prayer in our schools is the subject
of deep feeling among the people of Penn
sylvania. I too have been much concerned.
I have received a great deal of mail in sup
port of a Constitutional Amendment. I have
supported this amendment in the past and
intend to do so in the future.
“Proposals which I have introduced in
the past would enable children who so desire
to participate in prayer or Bible reading in
their classrooms. Those who are opposed
would not be compelled to participate. I
ha\ e urged that Congress take action and I
behe\ e that such a deeply felt issue should
come up for a vote.
At least two farm organizations will be
glad to hear this. Both the Pennsylvania
State Grange members and the Lancaster
County Farmers' Association at their recent
annual meetings adopted resolutions that
seem to agree with the senator’s thinking.
The Grange reported that m counter to a
protest against the reading of the Bible by
American astronauts in outer space, a letter
was directed to be sent to NASA headquar
ters commending the spacemen for so do
ing. and another to legislators to inform
them of the Grange stand. Individual citi
zens were urged to write letters expressing
their views also.
The Lancaster County Farmers’ Asso
ciation simply stated, “We recommend that
legislators enact the reinstatement of Bible
reading in public schools.”
The senator closed his statement very
forcefully by saying, “I believe m separa
tion of church and state, but I do not believe
in separating children from God.”
We would bow our heads and say,
“Amen.” Then on second thought, we won
der, can we really ask for an open Bible in
the schools when the Good Book is so scant
ly used in the average American home.
Reinstating the use of the Bible in the
home would be the first step in bringing
back its use in the public schools. At least
that’s the way it looks from where we stand.
Making Blood Go Further
When there is a disaster, one of the first
needs is plasma to treat the injured. Disas
ters have dramatized the importance of
blood and plasma, but growing use of these
life-saving agents in illness and advanced
surgery has resulted in a chronic blood
shortage.
The October issue of The Reader’s Di
gest contains an article on ways to relieve
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the blood shortage, which has become “a
dangerous, growing national phenomenon/’
The article describes “component therapy”
which involves separating blood into cellu
lar and protein components and giving each
patient only the part that he needs. The ad
vantages of component therapy are many.
The patient’s system is not overloaded with
what he doesn’t need. Risks of hepatitis or
mismatching are eliminated or greatly re
duced. There is no blood wasted because of
outdating, and as many as seven persons
can be helped by a single unit. The Ameri
can Association of Blood Banks is engaged
in a three-year blood component workshop
program designed to train physicians and
technologists in techniques of component
therapy.
All of which means that if you are in
good health and between the ages of 21 and
66 you can help by giving blood regularly at
your blood bank or collection center. Blood
is needed more than ever before; and, under
the new technology of component therapy,
your single donation may help as many as
se\en persons.
Words From Another Age
On a small island in the Potomac river
at the virtual heart of the nation’s capital
stands the Theodore Rooseielt Memorial.
The National Park Service maintains the
island in its natural wooded state. The
Memorial, dedicated two years ago, was
recently the subject of a moving commen
tary by Mr. James J. Kilpatrick. Mr. Kil
patrick noted quotations of Teddy Roosevelt
on the Memorial as words that belong to a
different age an age that many of our
young today would call square and corn
ball. To youth Roosevelt said, “I want to see
you game, boys. I want to see you brave
and manly, and I also want to see you gentle
and tender. Be practical as well as generous
m your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars,
but remember to keep your feet on the
ground. Courage, hard work, self-mastery,
and intelligent effort are all essential to suc
cessful life. Alike for the Nation and the in
dividual, the one indispensable requisite is
character/’ ~
Concludes columnist Kilpatrick, “‘Teddy
Roosevelt has been dead for fifty years. God
knows we need his like today.”
Across The Fence Row
Echoes are o.k. but they seldom con
tribute much new.
It may take years of effort to prove
your intellengence but only a second to show
your stupidity.
Some wait for their ship to come in
others row out to meet it.
Those who have never faced real danger
cannot truly boast of courage.
A little boy said to his mother, “Say,
Mom, do you remember that antique flower
pot in the living room that’s been handed
down from generation to generation?”
“Of course, dear,” said his mother.
“Well, this generation dropped it!”
* 5fS *
Gentleman to Waiter: “Please bring me
a chicken as young and tender as you have.”
Waiter; “Then, sir, you had better have
an egg.”
Local Weather Forecast
(From the U. S. Weather Bureau at the
Harrisburg State Airport)
The five-day forecast for the period Sat
urday through next Wednesday calls for
temperatures to average near normal. Day
time temperatures are expected to average
in to 50’s and over night lows in the mid 30’s
to low 40’s Normal high-low for the period
is 55-36.
Precipitation may total one-fourth inch
or less on Saturday and again on Monday.
Freedom to choose
Yet, circumstances do not do*
termlne the durability of our faith.
They may lead us, push us, tempt
us, but they do not make up our
minds for us. Only we can do
that. Viktor Frankl, the Viennese
, psychiatrist, discovered this as a
I prisoner in the Auschwitz c0n
..... centration camp, Though the
tedtgreuml Senior*! lom.nlalloni 3.19-40 j had taken all else from
„ (~0.23 them, Frankl discovered some-
D«v«ii*noi wah»•» gg’ wh i c h could not be taken
Assume that tomorrow an awa y: the freedom to "choose
enemy of our country were to one ’ s a ttitude in any given set
launch an unexpected nuclear G {circumstances.”
missile attack on the major cities The conditions of the concen
of the United States and Canada. f ra tion camp were determined by
Although millions are killed in t h e ir captors, but the prisoners
the attack and the ensuing radio- stl u had the freedom to determine
- active fallout, how they would respond to those
there are several con ditions. As Frankl puts it: "...
million surviv- m final analysis it becomes
ors and you and clear tliat the sort of person the
your family are p r i SO ner became was the result of
among them. an inner decision, and not the
The enemy resu it of camp influences alone”
quickly occupies (Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search
the battered na- F or Meaning, Washington Square
tion. Survivors p resS) Inc . N .y., 1963).
are rounded-up _
Rev. Althouse and transported Great is thy faithfulness
to the enemy’s homeland for g 0 was w ith the Jewish
"slave labor.” Your country is a Babylonians dictated
wasteland; your home is in ruins; circumstances, but only ihe
you are separated from your j ews themselves could decide how
friends and neighbors. You are they would respond to those cir
thousands of miles away from cums tances. They could choose
home in a strange, hostile land, despair and bitterness, or they
The rricic nf faith could choose to continue in theit
The crisis Of taitn trust in God. They felt both. On
What would be your state of one han d they could say,
mind in such a situation? Would * Remember my affliction and my
you still believe in, worship, and Bitterness, the workwood and the
serve God? Could you still sing p, sou t continually thinks
your familiar hymns of faith and and jg bowed down within
hope? Could you still Keep die me „ (Lamentations 3:19,20).
faith”? yet this same voice could go
Perhaps as you ponder those Qn tQ confesS) "But this I call to
questions, even though hypotheti- mind and therefore I have ahope:
cally, you may be able to ap- &e ste adfast love of the Lord
preciate better the mood and con- er ceases his mercies never
text of the crisis of faith among e to an end; they are new
the Jews in their Babylonian exile. ev mo rning; great is thy
Judah’s armies had .been . i ness » (22723).
smashed. The little nationof g Q it may be with us. In the
Judah lay in devastation. The - ds £ 0 j our sorrows and dis
great temple had been reduced to a p pointm ents, our hurts and oar
rubble and ten thousand Jews hardships, we still retain the hftt
were carried captive six hundred freedom f to choose the response
miles to Babylon where they were , , , _ o £
to live and work in subjugation. of des P sur or 01 laim * ,
Not only had Judah b een de- (fateJ oum „„ cwr ; sW «i u y M
it had been destroyed. It j chnstion Education, Nahanaf Council ol th#
Ceased to exist! Chorchas of Christ in tha U. S. A. Ralaasa* by
As we imagine what those peo- Cetmnumfy Press Service.)
pie must have felt in their hearts,
it may seem to us quite unlikely
that the Jews would keep their
faith. The circumstances exile.
THE LAST FREEDOM
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To Protect Water Lines
Freezing weather may come
at any time and water pipes ex
posed to the air will need some
attention. If they cannot be
buried at least 24 inches under
the ground, then electric heat
ing cable may be used to pre
vent the pipes from freezing
Special care should be used
when applying the cable in
order to prevent a fire hazard
Many automatic water devices
may be purchased including a
heating unit
To Install Windbreaks
Faim homesteads that have
the problem of drifting snow
into walks or driveways that are
used frequently can be improv
ed by placing a snow fence, or
some other windbreak to collect
the snow before it gets to the
area. Corn fodder shocks may
loneliness, captivity, humiliation
would seem to guarantee tho
erosion of their faith In God. How
could the flame of faith, alwayi
slender at best, continue to burn
after they had experienced all
that?
NOW IS
THE TIME...
By Max Smith
Lancaster County Agent
be used for this purpose if they
are available. The windbreak
should be placed at least 60 to
70 feet into the prevailing winds
(northwest) away from the area
to allow space for the snow to
pile up For the future, ever
green trees may be planted for
windbreaks around buildings or
places of frequent drifts.
To Exercise The Milking Herd
Successful dairymen follow
the practice of permitting their
herd outside daily exercise. This
will improve the general health
of the herd, help maintain
stronger feet and legs, and per
mit improved breeding efficien
cies Cows that are turned out
daily Will not be bothered by
normal cold weather and should
be given from 15 minutes to a
half hour to exercise, but not
long enough to force them to lie
down on the cold ground.