10—Lancaster Farming. Saturday, July 22, 1972
National Farm Safety Week will be ob
served starting next Tuesday, July 25.
It’s good time to take a safety inventory
around your farm. Pinpoint the dangerous
spots and eliminate them.
Uncovered wells, broken a wmdows,
unmarked low doorways, broken ladders
all can lead to broken bones, lost
manhours, disruptions in personal lives,
even lawsuits under the new stringent
regulations of the Occupational Safety and
Health Act.
It would be a good idea to inventory your
working habits, too. Do you leave the
engine running when you get off the
tractor 7 Do you allow passengers on the
Beautiful Arnie, Terrific Tillie,
and the Good Use Vegetable Growers
Tuesday night was hot and humid, kind
of hazy, and filled with bugs A bad night for
a picnic
But we were at a picnic that night, and
we didn’t mind the heat, the dampness, the
mosquitoes and beetles. We didn't mind
any of that, because this was a special
picnic It was an event which proved once
again that the Lancaster County farming
community is chock-full of nice people
The Good Use 4-H Club is an inner city
nutrition education project described in an
article which begins on page one of this
week’s paper
Lancaster City has its share of low
income minority families. Certainly, the
southern part of the city isn’t equatable
with ghetto areas in larger cities. But the
existence of an area like that, means that
there are people in our midst who, for one
reason or another, need a helping hand.
BRIDGEPORT, ILL, LEADER
“Regardless of the amount of funds
Congress appropriates to help people
there will always be those who are
unhappy and insufficiently provided for as
-shown by the following story as related by
Congressman Harold R Collier (R-of
Berwyn, Illinois) In the home of a rich,
childless couple, there was a young
housekeeper One day she came to her
employers and said that she would have to
quit, because she was about to become an
unwed mother The wealthy couple said
she could keep her job, that they would
adopt her child and raise it as their own A
year later she came to them with the same
story, and they adopted her second child.
Later they adopted her third child One day
she again handed in her resignation and
when the millionaire couple asked if she
was in trouble again, she said, ‘No, it’s just
that I’m sick and tired (of) having to cook
for such a large family
GLENDIVE, MONT., RANGER-REVIEW
“You can criticize the President You can
criticize the Vice-President. You can
criticize the Congress. But you've got to
hand it to the Internal Revenue Service 1 ”
NASHVILLE, ARK , NEWS’ “A vacationer
from back East was jolted by a mail
delivery A batch of litter the family left on a
corner of an Arizona rancher's property
was shipped express, collected by the
understandably outraged rancher. The bill
was for $33 which made littering quite
expensive According to a story in a Soil
Conservation magazine, the uninvited
campers left the scenic ranch spot strewn
with newspapers, cans, bottles, paper
plates and napkins, plastic spoons and
Farm Safety Week
Grassroots Opinions
tractor? Do you use SMV emblems and are
they clean and properly mounted?
Sometimes safety demands new
methods, sometimes equipment
alterations, maybe even new equipment.
Whatever needs to be done, should be
done. Not just during Farm Safety Week,
but all year long.
The best piece of safety equipment you
own is permanently mounted on your
shoulders, and it’s called a head. Use it
properly to think about safety and it'll
keep you out of a lot of trouble. Use it
improperly or not at all and you may
lose it.
Now, in this day and age there are all
kinds of helping hands for disadvantaged
people. And sometimes the helping hands
offer money, sometimes advice and
sometimes empty promises.
On Tuesday night, the helping hands
offered brotherhood. For at least one
impressionable newspaperman, the picnic
was, quite frankly, an emotional ex
perience. It was heartening to see the
cooperation and the friendship which
made the Good Use Club possible.
For their work in this project, we would
like to here commend the members of the
South Christian St. Mennomte Church, the
seven volunteer leaders, Mr. and Mrs.
Lloyd Weaver, the Good Use club mem
bers, Mrs. Tillie Gibson and Mr. Arnold
Lueck.
We salute you, we thank you and we hope
your efforts will be an inspiration to other
groups.
forks, cardboard boxes, milk cartons and
comic books. The rancher poked through
the mess and found an envelop with the
name and address of the unwanted guests
He wrote the campers to explain they had
left some ‘personal belongings’ behind and
advised that he would be happy to send
them if they would pay shipping charges.
They accepted, and deservmgly got hanged
with a $33 bill, for littering Sort of a long
range fine ”
MOVILLE, lOWA, RECORD “It is said
that national health insurance will cost
every family about one thousand dollars a
year Blue Cross ” and Blue Shield is
currently about $4OO per year Why in
the name of common sense do we want
national health insurance at $l,OOO per
year when the present cost is $4OO Most
programs taken over by federal control
usually have a much higher price tag than
those operated by private business."
PAWTUCKET, R. 1., TIMES:
“Nationalization is repugnant to many m
this country and there’s no guarantee it
would be an improvement... It would be
far better for labor and management to
work together in developing an efficiency
that would prove the free enterprise
system can work if people really believe in
it."
MOVILLE, lOWA, RECORD: “One
snowflake doesn’t amount to much, but a
whole skyful of them falling can stop a
tram. Successful lives... and even empires
have been built on the same homespun
philosphy."
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NOW IS
THE TIME . . .
Max Smith
County Agr. Agent
Telephone 394-6851
To Take Time To Be Safe
The week of July 25 to 31 has
been declared Farm Safety Week
by the National Safety Council.
This is a time when everyone
should focus their attention on the
many farm and home practices
that assure safety rather than
hazards and accidents. The
subject of Farm Safety is not
very appealing to farmers until
after there has been a serious
accident; we usually think that
the accidents will always occur to
the other fellow. Farmers are
urged to-stress the importance of
taking time to be safe to all of
their family and to their em
ployees. Haste and taking
chances have been the cause of
numerous farm accidents. Farm
machinery will not be the cause
of accidents if the operator
practices safety measures and
practices. Become acquainted
with the causes of many serious
accidents and try to prevent them
from happening on your farm and
to your family.
To Combat Basement Odors
Many basements were recently
flooded and the poor drying
weather since the flood has
resulted in musty basements with
foul odors; these odors may not
be harmful to health but they are
very unpleasant; in addition the
dampness and high humidity in
the basement area may do severe
damage. The first step is to get
maximum ventilation; open
doors, windows, and use electric
fans to move the air. Bleaching
powder sprinkled over the floor
area until it is dry and then swept
up will help reduce odors: use
WHEN WE
CONFESS
Lesson for July 23,1972
Background Scripture 2 Samuel 12 1*
15, Psalms 1 8 9, 1 John 1 8, 9
Devotional Reading Psalms 32 1 11
A friend of mine says he can’t
accept Christianity because, as he
puts it, “It’s obsessed with sin!”
People would be a lot healthier
emotionally, he says, if the church
were not “all the time telling
how sinful they are ”
Yet, I have come
to the conclusion
that it is not the
church that is ob
sessed with sin
(though some
Christians have
been), but the hu-
man soul. The
gospel of Christ
Rev. Althouse d oes not crea t e a
sense of sin and guilt, for it
seems the human soul, in one way
way or another, is aware of these
realities and is very sensitive to
them What the gospel does is to
help us identify sin and guilt and
deal with these realities in the
only possible way
Truth in the inward being
Unrecognized and unconfessed
sin is like a splinter we pick up
from a wood floor. We may be
quite unaware (consciously speak
ing) that we even have a splinter
in our foot. But as the days go
by, the splinter begins to fester
and Anally the foot gets sore and
we are aware that something has
happened to our foot. Only when
that foreign body is taken out can
caution with the bleaching powder
because it is poisonous and can
irritate the skin. Another
material is dry lump charcoal
that may be spread liberally
throughout the basement to
remove odors. Good sanitation
and good ventilation is the place
to start.
To Grow Emergency Feed Crops
Some dairymen may need to
make some adjustments in their
feeding program due to the heavy
rains and long periods of wet
ground. Some crops have not
been able to be harvested in top
quality condition and others have
not been planted due to the ex
tended wet weather. Livestock
and dairy producers may want to
plant some emergency crops for
extra fall feeding or grazing. If
that late corn or tabacco was not
able to be planted, it might be
possible to sow sudan grass, or a
small grain crop in order to get
something from the ground which
would produce a feed forage crop
later this fall. Sudan grass may
be used for either grazing, green
chopping, hay, or silage; small
grams such as rye or spring oats
may be seeded in August to make
extra forage this fall and in case
of the rye will give early growth
next spring For immediate
feeding periennial hay crops may
be made into silage when
weather conditions do not favor
making them into hay. With extra
moisture some feed additive or
ground grains such as corn, oats,
and barley should be used to take
up the moisture and improve the
feeding value.
the foot begin to heal once again.
So it is with sm Very often we
may be quite unconscious of what
we have done ( we manage often
to hide these things from our
selves) Yet, an unrecognized sin
seems to fester within us until at
last we begin (o realize that there
is some foreign body disturbing
us from within Thus, the psalm
ist is a most realistic man when
he prays -
Behold, thou desirest truth in
the inward being;
therefore teach me wisdom in
my secret heart. (51:6)
Something inside us knows
when we have sinned We feel un
clean. “Wash me thoroughly from
mine iniquity . . .” (51 2). The
deed haunts us. “. .my sin is
ever before me” (51:3). We sense
a broken relationship with our
Creator “Against thee, thee only,
have I sinned . . .” (51:4) There
is a sense of brokenness: “. .. .let
the bones which thou hast broken
rejoice” (51 8).
A new and right spirit
Yet, it is never enough for God
to “forget” our sin; “Hide thy
face from my sins and blot out
all my iniquities” (51:9). To can
cel out the sinful deed is futile
unless there is also a change of
heart: “Create in me a clean
heart, 0 God, and put a new and
right spirit within me” (51:10).
If God forgives the sinful act and
does not find us willing to change
the heart that gave birth to that
act, our confession is meaningless.
Many of us want forgiveness,
but we must also want “a clean
heart,” and “a new and right
spirit” within us. When we con
fess it is not enough to ask God
to take away our sin, unless as
the hymn, “Love Divine,” puts it,
we can say also: “Take away the
love of sinning.”
(Based an eutlines ceyyrightad by tin
Divisien ef Christian Educetieo, NaHanal
Cauncil of tKn Churches af Christ in the U.S.A.
Released by Community Prats Service.)