A Lancaster Km mum. Saturday. April 11. 1970
Chains to the Future
Learning (o do
Doing to learn
Earning to live
Living to Serve
That's the FFA motto and we think it
has much to recommend it. Timothy Ruth.
Pennsylvania KKA president, spoke admir
ably on the ‘•earning to live" portion at the
Warwick FFA Chapter banquet this week
(see page 29). Ruth said that any man who
has the determination to set a goal and
work toward it has a great opportunity for
success.
Encourage Them
But Ruth also urged, "Parents, teach
ers, never fail to encourage that FFA mem
ber who's trying to reach his goal." The
point is that while young people have much
opportunity to succeed in our affluent so
ciety, they still need guidance and encour
agement to keep them on the right track.
The entire FFA program is geared to
teaching FFA members how to meet their
goals in agriculture. Many procedures and
programs have been adopted to assist in
the effort.
We would like to single out one parti
cular program which we think deserves un
limited praise and considerable expansion.
It’s the chain animal program.
This aptly named program essentially
involves giving female animals to deserving
FFA members w ith the stipulation that they
return the first female off-spring to the
chapter for perpetuation of the program.
Low Cost, Ongoing
It becomes an ongoing program with al
most no cost in\ olved, but a program which
enables young farmers to get started in an
actual livestock program at \ ery little cost.
_ One of the better chain programs in
Lancaster County is being conducted by
Cloister FFA Chapter of Ephrata, which
this year gave three dairy calves, two gilts
and two sheep to young FFA members.
Charles Ackley, chapter advisor, said the
animals are awarded on the basis of the
quality of application, need, desire and
overall ability.
While Lancaster County is a prosperous
Anti-Pollution Steamroller
We don’t have a crystal ball. We can’t
see into the future. But from where we sit, it
appears a safe bet that the time is just
around the corner when a firm which emits
a significant amount of pollution will be
forced to abate it.
This prediction is based on what ap
pears to be growing public concern about
the adverse effects of pollution and a mili
tant unwillingness to accept or tolerate pol
lution. Politicians, many of whom have
never before had any regard for clean air
or clean water, are suddenly pushing hard
on pollution
We behe\ e that both the legitimate con
cern about air pollution and opportunistic
efforts by politicians can be expected to
grow.
Many firms in Lancaster County and
elsewhere ha\e already run into problems
with local citizens and state pollution offi-
cials.
Those businessmen connected with pol
lution producing firms who are not aware of
LANCASTER FARMING
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farm area and man* young FFA members
Ret assistance from relatives or neighbors
in getting started with farming programs,
wo feel sure many youths arc not so lor
tunatc. They need help. An adequate chain
program can give many of them the help
they need.
Doing to Learn
We behe\e that every serious young
vo-ag student who needs it should get this
type of help early in his vo-ag program so
that the FFA motto can have meaning for
him. So that “learning to do” can be trans
lated into “doing to learn” and finally, as
Ruth urged, into "earning to live.”
Who can argue with the idea that vo-ag
training the young students receive will
mean far more to them if they can prac
tice in their own farm programs what they
learn in school, as they learn it?
The cost of the chain program to help
make vo-age education meaningful is pea
nuts beside the cost of four years of vo-ag
training.
A chain program helps young men at
an early age to make a realistic appraisal
of farming and whether or not they want to
make a career of it. Such a program en
ables them to make failures early and on a
small scale, rather than later when they
have committed themselves to large farm
ing operations. Such a program enables
them, as Ruth urged, to set their goals
early.
Living to Serve
Young men assisted in this way, we
believe, cannot fail to grow up without
understanding the importance and value of
“living to serve.”
Developing a chain program large
enough to meet the needs of all vo-ag stu
dents in the county probably would not cost
more than a few hundred or a few thousand
dollars a one-shot investment such as
Sears made at Ephrata in a few animals
which would supply the off-spring for con
tinuation of the program.
How about it farmers, feed and farm
equipment suppliers? It’s a high return in
vestment.
the force of the anti-pollution movement or
who refuse to act are putting themsefves
and their firms directly in the path of a
social and political force which is determin
ed both to make and break entire indus
tries.
Those firms which wait too long to act
will suffer.
They’ll have public relations problems
and all the related problems that go with
poor public relations.
They’ll have labor problems.
They’ll have legal problems.
They’ll have political problems.
’ Worst of all, those which delay may
have financial problems. To solve the other
problems will be costly in materials and
manpower and lost business. If politicians,
backed by a militant public, then demand
solutions in less time than it’s feasible to
achieve them, the businessman can be m
serious trouble
Some firms now in trouble with pollu
tion authorities are among those which hav e
had serious pollution problems for many
decades. They ignored the problems.
We're ready to give officials of these
firms the benefit of the doubt when thej
claim that the present urgency for clean
ing the air and water never existed in the
past and that standards have been greatly
upgraded.
The standards are stiffer, the concern
about pollution is much greater now. Firms
deserve leniency, they deserve time to act
We’re in favor of giving businesses
plenty ot time to solv e their pollution prob
lems. 1
But if the same old problems still exist
next year, and the next, and the next, and
no effort has been made toward improve
ment. Well, the warning has been ample.
To Buy Carefully
The new growing season is at
hand and many pm chases of
field and garden supplies will be
made Everyone is looking for
bargains, but many times Che
transaction turns but to be very
disappointing and costly We re
fei to dealing with stiangers or
fiom unknown conceins that
offer materials at i educed prices
When we deal with reliable, local
people who will stand behind
their goods and render a good
st i vice, w e w ill usually be more
successful
To Vaccinate Horses
Unlike other animals theie
aic onlv a few diseases that hors
es can be successfully immunized
against Tetanus is one infection
that requires injections to pro
tect the animal. Sleeping sick
ness is a dreaded disease of hors
es and more common in the At-
SIGNS
AND WONDERS
Lesson for April 12,197#
KacksnwiHl Scripture Acts 2 43 through t,7,
DcvMmiwl Renting: Hebrews 11 -32
thrbugh 122
Peter and John got into seri
ous difficulty because they healed
a man. What the authorities
were concerned with was not so
much that a man who had been
lame was now healed of his in
firmity, but that a remarkable
sign had been performed in the
name of Jesus.
Men were won to
the Good News of
Jesus Christ, not
only by powerful
testimonies, but
also by works in
which the power
of god was re
vealed.
Signs and wonders today
Many Christians assume that
these God-given “signs and won
ders” ceased with the close of
the New Testament age. But
many of the early Church
Fathers speak of the healing
ministry of the early church, St.
Francis of Assisi practiced heal
ing through prayer and the lay
ing-on-of-hands. Martin Luther
spoke of it in his letters to
Lutheran pastors and himself
was instrumental in the healing
of his lieutenant, Philip Melanc
thon. Other reformers such as
John Wesley and George Fox
both practiced and wrote of it.
And today? Someone has re
cently said; “Cancer is being
healed today through prayer.
There are too many cases of the
healing of cancer through prayer
to explain away by co-incidence
or misdiagnosis.” These were
not the words of a preacher,
evangelist, or “faith healer,” but
a medical doctor, Clair B. King,
MD., of Canton, Ohio. A gradu
ate of the University of Penn
sylvania School of Medicine and
a member of the American
Medical Association and Ameri
can Academy of Ophthalmology,
Dr. King is one of a considerable
number of physicians and physi
cal scientists who are greatly in
terested in the rise of the
church’s healing ministry today.
NOW IS
THE TIME...
By Max Smith
Lancaster County Agent
lantic coas; states than in some
other areas, this infection is car
ried by mosquitos along the eas
tern seaboard. Injections will
set up an immunity. Show hois
es that are transported to and
from neighboring states need
this pi election.
To Pasture With Care
The giazing season is at hand
and all livestock owners are urg
ed to acclimate their animals to
the lush forage gradually. A
feeding of drv forage such as hay
silage, 01 straw is recommended
before the animals are permitted
to consume the new growth The
time of the grazing period should
begin with only a half-hour or
less and be increased after sev
eral days of careful management.
Scouring or bloating may occur
if the animals are not handled
propeily.
The age is not over
Speaking to a group o! clergy
men in the historic St, Stephen's
Episcopal Church in Philadel
phia, Dr. King told of weekly
healing services conducted in
his church, Christ Presbyterian -
Church, Canton, during which
prayers are offered for the sick
of mind, body, and’spirit and the
the New Testament practice of
the laying-on-of-hands is carried
on. “The age of miracles is not
over,” said Dr. King.
” For one thing, many of us
have seen too many examples of
God’s healing power mediated
through prayer to disregard this
great force. For another, spirit
ual healing is not so “unscien
tific” as many people suppose.
For mahy of us, not only is our
God too small, but our world of
science is also too narrow. We
are finding once again the truth
enunciated by St. Augustine:
“Miracles do not happen in con
tradiction to nature, but only in
contradiction to that which is
known to us of nature," All heal
ing takes place according to law,
although we may not be familiar
with the laws by which spiritual
healing takes place, just as the
laws of aero dynamics have al
ways existed hut until recently
have been unknown.
Wonder and amazement
Some of the principles of
spiritual healing are evident in
Acts 3. (1) It concen
tration of attention and effort.
Peter said to the man, “Look at
us ” We often think of prayer
as getting God’s attention; in re
ality it is a matter of giving him
our undivided attention, so that
he may do with us as he desires.
(2) It involves the expectation
that we will receive something.
Unless v e truly expect some
thing to happen, we keep closed
the door through which the
power of God must enter. (3) It
involves the power of the living
Lord. Peter said: “. , . in the
name of Jesus of Nazareth,
walk” (4) It often involves the
touch of a human hand as a
channel of God’s power. Peter
reached down and took the man
by the hand “and raised him
up” (5) It may provide fresh
evidence of the power of God at
work in the world today. Those
who saw what happened "'were
filled with wonder and amaze
ment.”
The ministry of healing is a
means by which the signs and
wonders of God are still being
performed in our world today.
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