16—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. June 17. 1972
Can one man make a difference
in the modem world? I am asked
that question often by people who
for one reason or another have
lost faith that an individual can
bring about significant change in
today’s society.
In his travels to Peking and
Moscow, President Nixon should
have given new hope to those who
have raised that question. While
it cannot yet be said that the
President has changed the world,
it is apparent that he has brought
the world to the brink of change.
And for one man, even one as
powerful as the President of the
United States, that is an ac
complishment worth noting.
Anyone who remembers things
as they stood on our globe when
the President took office can see
the difference that he has made.
In January, 1969 the foreign
policy of our country was in
shambles. The Vietnam dilem
ma, the Middle East crisis and
our deteriorating relationships
with our allies had put us in the
position of being a world power
with little or no influence m world
events. Peace was an impossible
dream because we were unable to
deal with the other great powers
in the world, namely Russia and
China, in an effort to attain it.
But President Nixon changed
the situation. Slowly and
sometimes with the handicap of
uninformed criticism he did those
things that needed to be done
before he could successfully
negotiate with the Russians and
Chinese on the goal of peace. He
began a withdrawal from Viet
nam, but one that fulfills our
commitments rather than
abandoning them. He worked
toward cooling the crisis in the
Middle East so that there was
less chance of a shooting war that
could produce a direct con
frontation between the U.S. and
the Soviet Union. And, he
traveled and talked to our allies
in an effort to assure them that
the United States will continue its
role in helping to keep the Free
World free
Only then could he open the
doors to China President Nixon
had no illusions that traveling to
Peking would result in making
the Communist Chinese our
friends. But ending our isolation
of them meant that other nations
could no longer think of the U.S.-
China relationship as being non
existent. From the President’s
trip on, the world had to consider
the possibility that we could get
together with the Chinese on
matters of mutual concern.
That fact increased the
chances for success in Moscow.
Broiler Placements Up
The placement of broiler chicks
in Pennsylvania as of June 9 went
up 51,000 over the week before but
the current findings of the
Pennsylvania Crop Reporting
Service show this to be still five
per cent below the same week a
year earlier
The average of the 10 most
recent weeks shows 1,187,000
broiler chicks being started on
the feed cycle to marketing,
seven per cent behind the same
indicator in 1971
The shipment of broiler-type
chicks hatched in the Com
monwealth for feeding and
marketing elsewhere continues
to run at a high level The current
three-week average is 266,000, 35
per cent ahead of the same period
The rivalry between Moscow and
Peking is well known, and the
Soviet leaders were anxious to
make certain that their ties to the
United States were just as strong,
or stronger, than those of the
Chinese. Therefore, the
President found a willingness to
negotiate in Russia that no
American President had found
before.
All of this means that we once
again have a working foreign
policy. It is not a policy that
promises instant peace, but it
does make peace a possible
dream. Danger still lies ahead for
there is always the chance that
all of the negotiations and all the
hopes produced by those
negotiations will break down in a
moment of madness or because
of some new drive to dominate
the world. But today the future
looks a little brighter for all of us
because the United States is
again in a position to exert some
moral leadership. And one man
made the difference.
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Eastern Co-op Officers Named
On June 8, the Board of
Directors of Eastern Milk
Producers Cooperative held its
annual election of officers at the
Association’s headquarters in
Syracuse, N.Y. The nearly 10,000
member dairy cooperative
completed their 50th Annual
Meeting the day before.
James L. Martin
Dies at Age 37
James Lee Martin Sr., 37, died
unexpectedly Monday at 8 p.m.,
while working on his farm at
Strasburg Rl.
Born in Manheim Twp., he was
the son of Ralph S. and Amy R.
Metzler Martin, both of East
Petersburg. He was a member of
the Neffsville Mennonite Church
and was secretary-treasurer of
the Lancaster County Farmers
Assn. He was a farmer for about
nine years and operated an
automated hog and steer farm.
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Officers re-elected for a one
year term were: President,
Francis Cole of Dion, N.Y.; Vice
President, Dwight Burnham of
Vergennes, Vt.; and Treasurer,
Howard Merrill of Walton, N.Y.
George Willow of Mifflinburg,
Pa. succeeded Robert Baldwin of
Maryland, N.Y. Secretary of the
Cooperative.
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were elected to Eastern’s
Executive Committee for the
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Waynesboro, Pa. and Alfred
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serve with Cole, Burnham and
Merrill to make up the five-man
committee.
New directors elected to the
Board are Clyde Wilson of Rush
ville, Pa. and Cyril Filiatrault of
Gouverneur, N.Y.
Mr. Wilson succeeds Mrs.
Pauline Van Dusen of Sayre, Pa.
who is completing her term of
office. Mr. Filiatrault, a former
Board member representing one
of Eastern’s affiliates, Allied
Federated Co-ops, returns to
succeed Alfred Lawrence. Mr.
Lawrence is retiring.