— Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 10,1970
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From Where We Stand ...
54th Farm Show
They usually say farm show time brings
out the snow and bad weather. That should
be next week, but by the looks of things
outside the barn door, the weatherman
couldn't wait with the blow mg snow' and
all.
We don’t know what the weather will
be like next week but we are sure the farm
show will be another big one. Going under
the heading of “Discover The New Pennsyl
vania Agriculture”, officials expect another
grand exhibit of the best of farm produce,
livestock and poultry to appear in competi
tion for the prize money.
It doesn’t matter if you are a showman,
product exhibitor or just a spectator, you
can enjoy yourself at the 54th Annual Penn
sylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg. So go
have yourself a good time. We’ll see jou
there.
Looking Ahead
A minister was being transferred from
a rural community in Texas to a large city.
He owned a horse that he had to sell, so
he advertised and soon had a potential buy
er. He took his prospect out to the corral to
look at the horse and soon had him in the
saddle. The minister slapped the horse on
the back and said, “Praise the Lord!” and
the horse ran around the corral at a good
clip. The prospect was a bit scared and
shouted, “whoa! whoa!” but the horse
wouldn’t stop. He yelled to the minister,
“How do you stop this horse?” and the
minister shouted back, “Say, ‘Amen.’ ” He
did and the horse stopped. Turning to the
minister, he asked, “What’s with this horse,
anyway?” The minister smiled and said,
“One little idiosyncrasy. . . ~ I trained him
to go when I said, ‘Praise the Lord,’ and to
stop, when I’d say, ‘Amen.’ ”
The minister walked over and opened
the corral gate. “Praise the Lord,” the rider
said and off they went. The horse was mov
ing at a fast gallop when the rider, looking
ahead about 100 yards, saw that they were
heading straight for a cliff. He realized sud
denly that he had forgotten what to say to
stop the horse and was frightened. So, he
thought, “Maybe if I pray ... I guess that
is my last resort,” and he said, “Please
Lord, stop this horse. Amen.” The horse slid
to a stop about two feet from the 100-foot
drop off, and the man looked over the edge,
gazed upward, and said, “Praise the Lord!”
At the moment, we are m the same
situation as our horse riding friend before
he uttered those fateful words. It is time to
choose one’s words carefully as we look
ahead into 1970.
According to William H McConnell,
Chairman of the American Society of Agri-
Farm News This Week
Population Explosion About To
Begin At The Farm Show Complex Page 1
Aaron Stauffer Named
Conservation Dist. Head Page 9
Roy Rohrer Tops County
Tobacco Show Thursday Page 1
Manheim Boys Win In
FFA Tobacco Show Page 1
LANCASTER FARMING
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Office: 22 E. Main St., Lititz, Pa 17543
Phone; Lancaster 394-3047 or Lititz 626-2191
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Member of Newspaper Farm Editors Assn.
cultural Engineers, the latest edition of
Accident Facts shows that the 1908 death
rate per 100,000 farm residents stands at
69.8, a decline of 1.4 from the preceding
year. For this, after an annual increase in
the last six years, we are thankful and
grateful. Maybe we have reached a turning
point in this game of agricultural accidents.
We hope so.
But certainly, it is no time to rest on
our laurels. Rather we must dedicate our
selves anew and with increased vigor to
improving the safety record and the quality
of living for farm people. And we must
make it a personal, dedication that it will
not be anyone in our family or on our farm
who is hurt or killed by our carelessness in
1970.
At least that’s the way it looks from
where we stand.
A Poor Self Regulator
Visualize, if you can, the plight of a
private company engaged m providing an
essential monopoly service to the nation,
enjoying revenues of over $6 billion annual
ly and employing 750,000 people, that could
no longer carry out its responsibilities to
customers. In this day of consumer protec
tionism, congressional investigations and
tight regulation of private enterprise, such a
company would be brought on the carpet
forthwith.
As a matter of fact, there is such a
“company”. It is the Post Office Depart
ment. Two years ago mail service was so
poor that the Postmaster General said the
post office was in “a race with cata
strophe”. A presidential commission made
a searching study of the nation’s postal sys
tem and recommended drastic changes, in
cluding the formation of a government cor
poration to take over mail service. Presi
dent Nixon has proposed post office re
formation along the lines recommended by
the commission. Many others have also
urged postal reform. Yet, the issue lies
dormant in a mass of conflicting political
interests to which the welfare of customers
are secondary.
The incident is a vivid illustration of the
distinction between government in business
and private enterprise. There is no regula
tory commission looking over the shoulder
of a government enterprise and govern
ment is a mighty poor self regulator.
Across The Fence Row
THE MARKET AT A GLANCE
Of 202 mil. Americans, 180 mil. make up
nation’s 49 million families. Remainder
either live alone or in homes of others. 45%
married . . . 60% can vote ... 3% college
students . . . 30% in households with $lO,-
000-plus-a-year or more income. All are
customers, potential customers, for some
one with something to sell . . . water skis,
real estate, Beatle records, autos and, oh
yes, food. Meat Board Reports
You’ve reached middle age when you
suddenly realize that few things are more
precious or less valued than time!
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 in the 30’s and over
night lows in the low to mid 20’s. Cold over
the weekend and gradually moderating
thereafter. Precipitation may total one
fourth to one-half inch water equivalent
with rain or snow Wednesday.
UNTIL THE
ANGELS COME
Lesion for January 11, 1970
Jl«d|r*unJ Scripture: /,'afthiw4 H; G«n«ifc 3|
Psalms 91, Romans 7: Hebrews 2.14,4.M-16#
Devehenel Xetdinf \ Psalms 91*
•When Jtsus had miccessMly
Withstood the temptations that
came to him on the Mount of
Temptation, Matthew tells us:
"Then the devil left him and be
ime and ministered
4:11). All of us
want that part—
the ministry of
the angels —hut
what do you do
until the angels
come?
Let’s see what
Jesus did.
The temptation
of Jesus is not
simply an inter
esting event in
the life of Christ, but it is rele
vant to us in a way that few his
torical events can ever be. The
writer of Hebrews puts his finger
on it when he says: “For we
have not a high priest who is
unable to sympathize with our
weaknesses, but one who in every
respect has been tempted as we
are, yet without sinning” (4:15)
ALSO OUR STORY
It was a time of testing for
Jesus, but the same kind of test
ing that comes to us today. Thus,
it is not only a story about Jesus,
it is also our story. What we see
in this story is a reflection of,
what Robert Leslie has termed,
*the basic choices that confront
every man as he steps from the
shelter of the family into the arena
of life” (from Jesus And Logo
therapy, Abingdon Press, 1967).
These temptations, then, that
came to him in the wilderness
should not be hard to identify 1
in our own lives. First of all,
there came to him the temptation
of the body or material things.
Having fasted forty days and
forty nights, Jesus was a natural
target for the Temptor: "If you
are the Son of God, command
these stones to become loaves of
bread.” Use these powers of yours.
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To Place Seed Orders
Weather conditions during
the past several weeks do little
to remind us of the spring
planting season, however, the
good snow cover and added soil
moisture could be a veiy impoi
tant asset to agriculture in gen
eral It is not too eaily to place
your cider for crop and gaiden
seeds, if this has not already
been done Many adapted vaue
ties will perfoim so much better
than by waiting later and then
having to take what is left.
To Support The 1969
Agricultural Census
The United States Depait
ment of Commerce, Buieau of
Census, has already mailed out
the census questionnaires. This
will be a mail census and all
farmers are urged to fill out the
papers and return as requested."
i2io them to satisfy the urgent
i call of your own body! Indeed,
■why not use them to eatUfy tha
material desire of all men and
thus win their allegiance and loy
alty? It must have been a strong
temptation but Jesus knew that
men do "not live by bread alone”
and refused, as someone has put
It, to "forsake a Cross for a bake
shop.”
THE USE OF POWER
The second temptation should
also be familiar. Obviously, to
throw himself down from the pin
nacle of the temple and then to
be saved bV the intervention of
God’s angels would be' an im
pressive display of power that
would win the admiration and
support of many. Yet Jesus knew
this temptation was a clever de
ception. Tor though people are
impressed with power, they are
not won to the kingdom by it.
They will soon ask for a bigger,
and belter demonstration of pow
er. Jesus himself was later to says
"Neither will they be persuaded
though one rise from the dead.”
Naked power has never won any
thing in the long run. It wins the
battles, but loses the wars.
In the third temptation, the
Temptof is more direct. I see you
have a job you want to do, he
says to Jesus, all right, I’ll show
you how you can get the job
done quickly and easdy: All these
(the kingdoms of the earth) I will
give you, if you will fall down
and worship me.” All he would
have to do would be to compro
mise his loyalty, to employ un
worthy means for the sake of
worthy ends.
THE RESOURCES OF FAITH
It must have been a great
temptation to Jesus. It is also a
great temptation to us. We per
mit injustice to insure the pros
ecution of lawbreakers. We bear
Hrms and kill in the interest of
"saving life.” We lie for the sake
of an election or cheat in'what
•we decide is a "good cause.” We
justify the making and selling of
an inferior product for the sake
of providing for our families. We
forget that the ends cannot be,
separated from the means.
What did Jesus do until fee
angds came and ministered to
him? He reached back into fee
resources of his faith and resisted
temptation, holding fast to his
ideals and standing firmly upon
his loyalty to the Lord, fi we do
that too in the midst of our temp-,
Nations, fee angels-will come. i
{taed •n tuilints e*pyristtlW by Hi* DlvSbimb
•F Christian EJuewhan, N*h#n»| Council •! the
Churches ef Christ In the U* S, A* fttleosetl hf
Community Prtss Service.)
NOW IS
THE TIME...
By Max Smith
Lancaster County Agent
The agricultural census has
great value and is used in many
ways; we hope that every farm
er will make a special effort to
answer the questions accurate
ly which will help make the cen
sus more worthwhile.
To Attend Farm Show Meetings
People attend the State Farm
Show for many different rea
sons and no doubt many farm
ers go to see the new farm ma
chinery; others go to see the
livestock and eat baked potatoes
and hoagies. I’d like to urge all
active farmers to attend one 01
more of the educational meet
ings or banquets held in each
line of production Many of (be
events are very educational and
are intended to help the com
mercial farmer. Farm Show
Programs are available without
cost.