lO—Lancaster Farmlng. Saturday, September 8~ 1973
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“Luggage inspectors at airports en
counter surprise, clanger on the job. A
Houston security man, “reports The Wall
Street Journal, . .rammed his hand into a
plastic bag containing a dairyman’s ‘messy’
boots A female guard at a Florida airport
found a boa constrictor inside a young
passenger’s bag. In Chicago, the coffee can
in one woman’s luggage turned out to
contain the remains of her recently
cremated husband. Searchers at Los
Angeles’ airport fret about set mousetraps
they’ve come acorss. Razor blades pose a
major hazard, a Pinkerton’s spokesman
reports. Wackenhut, another security
services firm, says some injuries are bad
enough to require stitches, tetanus shots.
Delta concedes turnover among its
security workers has become a ‘serious
problem,’ climbing to almost 50 percent a
year. Pacific Southwest Airlines equips its
guards with a 16-inch ‘security wand’ for
safer probing of passengers’ luggage. But
the growing use of X-ray devices at
Chicago’s O’Hare and other airports will
eliminate most luggage searches-and
eventually the jobs of some guards."
QUAKERTOWN, PA, FREE PRESS; “A
staggering statistic has come before our
eyes from the state of Michigan. It seems
that since Michigan lowered the age limits
for drinking to 18 years the increase in
‘young adult’ drunk driving arrests has
increased 99 percent. We.. .should learn
from the experience of Michigan. In our
opinion 18 througn 20-year-olds are not
yet ready to accept the responsibility of
handling alcohol."
. doing business efficiently is a social
contribution in its own right, for life is
better when quality goods and services are
available to consumers at a fair price. Jobs
are created through the production of
these goods and services . .economic
health provides the only base from which
we can truly hope to rebuild our cities,
protect and enhance our environment and
uplift the disadvantaged ”--Mr R 0 An
derson, chairman and chief executive
officer of the Atlantic Richfield Company.
COLUMBIA, MISS, COLUMBIAN
PROG RESS. “One of the perversities of
"Grassroots Opinion"
human nature is that often individuals
blessed with many things in common,
disagree violently and unmtelligently upon
the merits of a realtively minor matter.
There seems to be a trait in many in
dividuals that compels them to be fighting
about something all the time. If no major
issues appear, they virogously pump up
minor questions, arousing ill-feeling and
promoting them in positions of seeming
importance. Much the same characteristic
is evidenced in our attitude toward the
institutions of mankind. Without giving
proper proportion to the great and
overwhelming good many of us incline to
hunt up minor irritations and, in the ex
citement of the search, we often lose sight
of the tremendous good that exists."
SMITHVILLE, TEXAS, TIMES: "Most
people made it to the table at meal time
regularly during the rationing days of
World War 11, and I can’t remember anyone
going barefoot, or too many times doing
without tires, gasoline, meat, and canned
goods, sugar, etc. We accepted the
rationing as something we had to do
because we had a war to win. I guess our
mam incentive today is to get Watergate
out of the news.”
RED BLUFF, CALIF., NEWS; “Politicians,
editorial writers and others unblushingly
refer to our country as ‘this great nation.’
No doubt it is a great nation, and we have
every reason to be proud of it. But couldn't
we be just quietly proud, as we are of our
own personal achievements, without
bragging about it so much? And work just a
little harder to make the description true,
even if we don't shout it so loud and so
often?”
“Western civilization and the American
experience draw heavily upon the idea of
ordered liberty as reflected in our law and
politics. The freedoms which built our
society derive from the recognition of the
necessity for restraints upon political
power and the insistence that only private,
voluntary cooperation can build a sense of
true commumty."--Dr. George Charles
Roche 111.
| NOW IS
I THE TIME . . .
Max Smith
County Agr. Agent
Telephone 394-6851
TO ADD PROTEIN
TO CORN SILAGE
Corn is maturing rapidly and
many silos will be filled in the
coming weeks. Corn silage is one
of the most economical feeds
known today but usually is a bit
low in protein content. The ad
ding of a non-protein-nitrogen
such as urea or anhydrous am
monia has some merit and has
been getting good results. Con
sidering the high cost of
vegetable and animal proteins, it
is termed as very economical to
use one or the other forms of
protein at the silo blower. Care
should be used relating to the
amount applied in order to
prevent loss of palatibility and
avoid the danger of toxicity.
Animals being fed this treated
silage should be slowly in
troduced to it in order to avoid
digestive upsets
TO CONTROL WEEDS
IN NEW ALFALFA
Local alfalfa growers who were
fortunate to get their August
seeding made and up should keep
in mind that weeds are usually a
problem when a nurse crop is not
seeded. The use of a herbicide
such as 2,4-D,B when the small
plants are one to two inches high
is strongly suggested. Don’t
make the mistake of not spraying
because very few weeds are
noticeable; later in the fall the
weeds will come and then it will
be too late to spray successfully.
Spray when both the weeds and
the alfalfa plants are small.
WISE
AND OTHERWISE
Lesson for September 3,1973
lockground Scriptura I Corinthians 1
II through 3-23
Oovotlonol loading I Corinthians 3 IQ
-23
There is an old East Indian
saying that says; “You can con
vince the wise; you can convince
with more difficulty the ignorant;
but the half-educated you can
never convince.”
There is no one more difficult to
teach anything than the person
who already be
lieves he knows
a great deal. To
most of us, the
word “Sopho
more” generally
denotes a second
year student. This
word is actually
derived from two
contrasting Greek
words, sophos and
moros. Sophos means wise, as in
philosophy and the love of learn
ing Moros means fool, as in mor
on, one whose mind is not fully
developed. So the sophomore is
really a “wise-fool” who knows
enough at least to realize that he
does not know everything
Thinking we are wise •
Thus, Paul, in writing to his
problem-church, Connth, advises
“ Let no one deceive himself If
any among you thinks that he is
wise in this age, let him become
a fool that-he may become wise
For the wisdom of this age is
folly with God” (3 18,19).
There is nothing more decep-
TO SEED COVER CROPS
Fields from which tobacco or
silage com have been harvested
might benefit from the seeding of
a cover crop this fall; that is, if
the ground is not to be seeded to
winter grains such as barley or
wheat. Domestic ryegrass -or
field-bromegrass can be seeded
during September and will give
good growth before cold weather
arrives. This cover will protect
the soil from both wind and water
erosion this winter. After plowing
down next spring, the cover crop
will add organic matter to the
soil. Don’t permit the soil to
remain open over the winter
months.
TO IMPROVE CALF RAISING
METHODS
All cattle are in strong demand
and every producer should make
a special effort to raise more of
the calves. One of our extension
dairymen at Penn State, Don
Ace, reveals a survey of Penn
sylvania dairymen in which 19
percent of the dairy calves did
not live to be one year of age.
Most of the losses happened the
first month. Space does not
permit details of proper calf
raising practices, but local
dairymen are urged to evaluate
their calf raising methods, in
case there have been a number of
losses. Lancaster County con
tains many excellent dairy
herds; the offspring are in strong
demand for distant herd
replacements and foundation
animals. Better calf raising
results will mean increased in
come to dairymen.
tive than our own illusions of
wisdom It is when we are puffed
up with our cleverness, our crafti
ness, that most often we are our
most foolish We fail to make that
vital distinction between knowl
edge and wisdom. We may have
lots of knowledge, yet without the
wisdom to use it, that knowledge
is useless
Socrates, the great Greek phi
losopher who lived before the
time of Chnst, once said- “As for
me, all I know is that I know
nothing ” This may sound strange
coming from a man who is still
remembered for his great knowl
edge and wisdom Yet, the con
clusion to which he came has
been shared by many of the great
thinkers of all time.
The famous preacher Spurgeon
once put it this way: “The door
way to the temple of wisdom is
the knowledge of our own ignor
ance” He had discovered that
the more a man learns of this
life, the more knowledge he ac
cumulates, the more wisdom he
attains, the more he discovers
how little he really knows. It is
this recognition that can often
open a person to receive far more
understanding and wisdom
“I have observed one thing"
There’s an old legend about a
flock of crows who were fre
quently chased from a certain
cornfield One day, holding a
council of war, the crows were
addressed by a young crow who
said according to the facts, they
could drive the men from the
cornfield. “Fact number one,
there were more crows than men
Secondly, men can’t fly as crows
do” Finally, an old crow rose
and said, “That is all very well,
but in my lifetime I have ob
served one thing where there are
no men, there are no more corn
fields.”
This is why many who feel they
are wise, are really otherwise It
is God in all his seeming foolish
ness who is really and truly wiser
than men
(lased on outlines copyrighted by the
Division of Christian Education, National
Council of the Churches of Christ m the USA
Released by Community Press Service)