May has been designated as
American Legion - American Legion
Auxiliary Poppy Month, when the
Poppy Program will once again
benefit Pennsylvania veterans, their
dependents and widows.
The poppy has been a memorial to
the war dead for the past 54 years
American Legion poppies in the state
are manufactured by hospitalized
veterans of all wars in VA and service
hospitals throughout the Com
monwealth, and provide them not
only with a therapeutic activity
during their hospitalization but also
with pocket money Nearly one million
National Goodwill Week
A handicapped body does not
automatically signify a handicapped
mind or lack of will to work Yet for
many years, most people with
physical disabilities were labeled
misfits and pushed from the public
eye Fortunately, such a tragic waste
of human potential is being corrected,
with Goodwill Industries in the
forefront of those helping the
disadvantaged to achieve productive,
self-supporting'citizenship.
National Goodwill Week will be
Three’s company... four’s a crowd?
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BLOOMER, WISC., ADVANCE.
“The business manager of a large
factory collected 25 cents from each
of the 2,000 employees to purchase a
gift for the big boss who was getting
married With this $5OO he pur
chased 2,000 packages of Raleigh
cigarettes - removed the coupons
and traded them for a silver serving
set for a gift for the boss. Then he
gave every employee a package of
Raleigh cigarettes for the two-bits he
donated, thus no one was out a red
cent When the big boss learned of
this satisfactory deal, he wanted to
compliment the business manager
but was told he was on a fishing trip -
trying out the fishing gear he had
received for the trading stamps he
Wear a Poppy-
Help a Vet!
HENRS...
WILL SHE LOVO
ME /A/ JUNE AS
POES /A/
“Grassroots Opinion”
poppies are assembled in Penn
sylvania hospitals each year, for
which the disabled veterans receive
one penny per poppy or a total of
nearly $lO,OOO a year.
The patients also receive a "bonus"
each year from the Poppy Program
when, at Christmas time, the Legion
State Commander distributes
thousands of dollars worth of
televisions, radios, stereos and other
recreational equipment to hospitals.
The Poppy Program is a worthwhile
one, deserving of support from all
persons m the Commonwealth
commemorated May 5-11 this year
and focuses national attention upon
the large, highly-successful network
of Goodwill job training workshops
and rehabilitation programs across
the country Our donations of
repairable clothing, appliances and
furniture mean that the handicapped
can learn not only valuable job skills
while rejuvenating such articles, but
also earn money from their sale
National Goodwill Week is an ex
cellent time to show that we care
MAY?
got when he purchased the
cigarettes"
JOHNSONBURG, PA, PRESS.
“The lowly copper penny, the last
United States com with any intrinsic
value, is apparently about to go
Because of inflation and the demand
tfor copper, the value of the metal is
now worth more than the penny.
During World War 11, pennies were
made of zinc-coated steel, but these
were all called in and destroyed So it
is planned that next year poor old Abe
Lincoln, E Plunbus Unum and all, will
appear in aluminum and there he will
remain until aluminum, too, becomes
more valuable than the penny Then
the Great White Father in
Washington will probably resort to
wampum ”
tgIEE)
XXX
THE OPEN
MIND
Leuon for May 5,1974
Background Scripture: Acts
17.
Devotional Reading: Acts
17:22-34.
Someone has said that
when some people insist that
they are “standing on their
principles,” what they are
really doing is sitting on the
lid of a closed mind.”
One of the primary
reasons for the divisions
among men of religious faith
and the parochial spirit is
our unwillingness to listen to
each other with open minds.
Often I have found that
people in an argument may
be much closer in their
thinking than they realize.
The reason they do not un
derstand this is that are too
busy arguing to really listen
to one another.
Examining the scriptures
Many of the places that the
Apostle Paul visited on his
missionary tours greeted
him with closed minds and a
hostile reception. One ex
ception was Beroea. Here,
the writer of Acts tells us,
they “received the word with
all eagerness, examining the
scriptures daily to see if
these things were
so”(17;ll).
There was an “eager
ness,” an openness about the
people in Beroea. They were
willing to listen to Paul and
his group. AH too often,
people reject what others
have to say without ever
considering what it is that is
being said. They begin with
the assumption that they will
disagree and nothing will
deter them from fulfilling
that expection. As Herbert
Spencer once noted:
There is a principle which
is a bar against all in
formation, which is proof
against all arguments and
which cannot fail to keep a
man in everlasting
ignorance. That principle is
comtempt prior to in
vestigation.
Often I find Christians
using the scriptures, not “to
see if these things are so,”
but to prove that someone is
wrong. Thus, they take to the
scriptures a mind that is
already prejudiced.
“You are very religious”
Not only did the Beroeans
greet Paid with open minds,
but we also find that Paul
himself could be open
minded when he spoke with
men of different religious
persuasions. In Athens, for
example, he did not begin his
preaching by telling the
Athenians that theirs was a
“wrong” or “false” religion.
Rather, he began by
acknowledging that they too
were seeking God: “Men of
Athens, I perceive that in
every way you are very
religious” (17:22).
This was not only a skillful
strategy on Paul’s part, but a
recognition that these men
were sincere in their
religious quest. His
technique was to try to show
them that the God they were
seeking to know was the
same God he found revealed
so fully in the person of Jesus
Christ.
Acts 17 can be very in
structive for us today, for, if'
as followers of Jesus Christ
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I NOW IS
| THE TIME.
Max Smith
County Agr. Agent
Telephone 394*6851
To Be Careful With
Left-Over Seed*
Many garden and farm
seeds will be left over from
the spring planting. Some of
these can be used later in the
season for second plantings.
However, some will not be
needed until next spring.
Several things should be kept
in mind. First, most seeds
may be held until next year if
kept in a dry place away
from rodents and away
from weed killers. Secondly,
these grain seeds are not
suitable for human or
livestock consumption and
should not be used as feed or
food. Most seeds are treated
with one or more chemicals
to control insects and
diseases and may be toxic.
Proper care of these seeds is
important at this time.
To Recognize Stage
Of Maturity
The harvest season is
approaching rapidly and
most forage crops are
developing ahead of
schedule; already the winter
rye crop has been made into
silage on some farms. The
grass-legume crops are
growing rapidly. The ex
tremely hot weather of the
past week pushed the crops
rapidly. Space does not
permit all details but
producers are urged to learn
the best time to cut then
forage to get maximum feed
nutrients. Early cut hay,
either for silage or for hay, is
leafier, higher in protein,
vitamins, and minerals, and
lower in fiber than later or
more mature hay crops.
Alfalfa and clover are best at
full bud to early bloom stage,
and grasses should be cut
just as the heads are
emerging from the boot of
Farm
Calendar
Saturday, May 4
7:30 p.m. - Centennial
Celebration of Fulton
Grange No. 66, Grange
Hall, Oakryn.
Show Day for the 49th annual
Dairy Exposition, Penn
State.
Monday, May 6
8:00 p.m. - Lancaster County
Poultry Assoc. Board
meeting, Farm and
Home Center.
Wednesday, May 8
7:30- 11:00 p.m. - Forest Fire
Training Session for
Lancaster County
Firemen, Lancaster
County Fire School,
Pequea Rd., South of
Lampeter
Thursday, May 9
8:00 p.m. - Special public
forum on farm land
assessment, Rm. 12,
Municipal Bldg.,
Lebanon.
FFA Leadership Training
Conference.
Friday, May 10
7:00 p.m. - Pa. Egg
Marketing Assoc.
we want to be received with
open minds, so we must also
approach others with that
same willingness to listen
and consider.
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the plant. Don’t let forage
crops mature and be the
loser.
To Practice Good
Sanitation
Insects such as flies and
mosquitos will soon be
bothering most of us. The
place to start this control
program is to give all
buildings and surroundings a
good house-cleaning and
eliminate all possible fly and
mosquito breeding places.
Stagnant water in holes or
empty containers are
mosquito maternity quar
ters. Dirty bams and bar
nyards are places for flies to
reproduce. The use of insect
killers along with clean
premises and strict
sanitation should keep the
insects under control for the
summer. Residual sprays
for farm buildings are
available but suggest that
different ones be used from
year to year to prevent a
buildup of fly resistance.
To Respect Your
Neighbor.
This is always a good
suggestion but not followed
at all times. I’m referring to
the use of spray materials in
the community and
especially weed killers. With
the favorable growing
conditions weeds will
become a problem im
mediately. Herbicides have
been widely accepted to kill
trees and plants. All spray
operators are urged to be
very careful with the
chemical weed killers.
Damage may be done from
the wind blowing spray
particles (drift) or from the
fumes of the weed killer in
extremely hot weather.
Read the label and following
the instructions completely.
meeting, Colonial Motor
Lodge, Denver, Pa.
Saturday, May 11
10:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. -
Maryland Sheep and
Wool Crafts Festival,
Carroll County
Agricultural Center.
Consumers' Corner
Maintaining A-New House
Knowing how to take care of
and maintain a new house is
about as important as knowing
how to take care of and maintain
a new baby
In some areas of the country,
new homeowners can enroll in
classes on Home Maintenance
and Care at local colleges 01 high
schools r
One homemaker who took such
a course in Home Care and Mam
tenancc says she learned how to
take care of her new doors and
ceramic tile She also discovered
a moisture and mildew problem
inside her house and found out
how to curb it before it cot out
of hand
The same woman found shr
needed to put plastic underneath
her house and haul in some soil
next to one corner of the house
for better drainage
If that wasn’t enough, the same
homeowner found that the msu
lation underneath her house had
been put in backwards and need
ed to be turned over
That’s one woman who has be
come a very enlightened ladj
concerning care and maintenance
of a new home, thanks to a course
in Home Care and Maintenance