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1953 with two suitcases and three
decades of enthusiasm from
helping people help themselves.
And for another decade he gave
southern Asians the best he had,
in mind and heart, teaching them
(and sometimes himself) much
about soils and fertilizer and flies
and roosters and love.
It is the story of a great teacher
convincing peasants and
professors alike that seeing is the
best believing . . . that rigid
standards should never stifle
imagination ... that the lowliest
man can have a good idea and
work his heart but for it when
recognized . . . that no project
should exclude women and
children because the home is
fundamental . . . that local
leaders are the best promoters ..
that good teaching knows no
classes or races and a good
Extension man gets his hands
dirty proudly 50... that one thing
well done is worth a dozen half
done , . . that self-reliance beats
government dole every time . . .
that no villager is ever inferior
and no university leader ever
superior in the end.
It is the story of a man willing
to befriend the people he helps—
to celebrate their holidays, to
play games with their children, to
dance around student fires, to
take their dousings in colored
water, and to “baptize” them
with his own water and fun.
A man breaking into song
beside a miraculous fertilizer
plot, soon joined by a young
specialist harmonizing the
people’s national anthem in their
own language as peasants stand
deathly still to listen.
A man called a fool by a village
mother-in-law returning later to
say, “I have changed my mind . .
. I did not understand... the field
is beautiful'.” And it was.
A man using less than $3,200 for
his fertilizer and seed in one land
where survey-happy committees
had dumped $3B million into a
valley that became a graveyard
for huge tractors, plows, com
bines, and other machines—
because the people were not
FIRST taught efficient water use
and fertilizer application.
A man declining a VIP dinner
at the governor’s mansion to get
in a last visit with remote
students using NPK pots and
skits to act out the value of
demonstration.
There is a mighty
wholesomeness about this book.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 6,1971
PFA Committees Named
John R. Pitzer, president of the
Pennsylvania Farmers
Association (PFA), has an
nounced committees at the PFA
21st annual meeting November 7
to 10 Camp Hill.
Among local persons serving
on the committees are: Mr. and
This is what good men are,
what they do and how they live
and share and leave the earth
richer than they found it.
This is what unselfishness
means, a willingness to carry
their know-how into foreign
valleys flooded with millions of
people speaking hundreds of
dialects ... to reach remote
villages by worn-out jeep and
bike and sometimes by foot. .to
teach with a bag of fertilizer and
a bucket of seed ... to pat a
peasant shoulder for trying to
show others it will work . . and
never to lose heart or hope.
This is human nature’s finest
hour This is what man must not
lose, if he is to survive
I don’t know how majiy George
and Lucretia Shumans are being
born on the earth this morning to
raise future sons to become
“just” simple teachers of men
But I hope to God enough to
keep saving man from himself
This book can be purchased for
$5.50 (includes mailing and tax)
Write: Drum Beats Of Change,
1601 Ridge Road, Champaign,
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Mrs James Garber, Mount Joy,
and Mr and Mrs, Jay Coble,
Hershey, host committee;
William R. Myer, Myerstown,
chairman of the nominating
committee.
Members of the policy
development committee include:
Arthur D. Hershey, Cochran
ville; William Guhl, Oxford, and
David Brandt, Annville
Agronomy
Workshop
Set, Nov. 16
The 1971 Agronomy Dealer
workshop will be held at Fleet
wood Grange, Berks County,
Tuesday, November 16.
The meeting will begin
promptly at 10 a m and adjourn
at 4 p m. Coffee and donuts will
be served at 9 30 a m.
The morning program will
emphasize agricultural services
and stress that service is the key
to repeat business The
discussion will include use of soil
testing, forage analysis, plant
tissue analysis, plant disease
clinic, linear programming, and
records programs
The afternoon program from
1-30 till 4 p.m will stress
chemicals for agriculture. En
tomologists, pathologists and
agronomists will discuss the use
of insecticides, fungicides,
herbicides, and plant nutrients in
producing high yields of top
quality crops.
4-H Capon Exhibit Set
A 4-H dressed capon exhibit
will be held from 10 a.m. till 11:30
a.m Tuesday, November 9 at the
Elks Club, 219 N. Duke St.,
Lancaster.
Exhibitors will be guests of the
Lancaster Kiwanis Club for the
noon meal. Awards and trophies
will be awarded during the meal.
Birds will be sold to Kiwanis Club
members.
• Longest Bridges
The four longest bridges in
the United States are the
Verrazano-N arrows, New
York; the Golden Gate, San
Francisco, the Mackinac,
Michigan,..and the George
Washington, New York, in
that order
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