r- wi.il -cir tafS 3T,r»iisTi3jSsrnrJ 10—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Nov. 27, 1976 EDITORIAL COMMENTS Thanksgiving reflections Thanksgiving Day has passed, but the season for giving thanks has not. In fact, it should be a perpetual happening. Some of my upbringing and recollections help to make it so for me With the spirit of the holiday still lingering in our homes and minds, I’d like to share some thoughts on the subject of thanksgiving, blessings, abundance, and need I remember well the scenes of our East German farm after harvest was completed Men, women, and children walked, half stooped, over the fields in search of grains for nourishment These people had left their own farms and homes because of oppressive Soviet occupation forces Their existence depended upon what they could find and what little the rest of us could give them I also remember my experiences in American school cafeterias, where many students treat food as though it were meant to serve as a cushion between stacked plates The wasteful use of food, whether in a school cafeteria, restaurant, or home, is something I have witnessed frequently during all of my 21 years in this country Such disrespectful use of our blessings is contradictory to the principles which Thanksgiving stands for Living in a land of plenty, as I do now, does not erase memories of life in another country To have lived among bombed-out rums in a room shared by as many as a dozen • • j LETTERS TO THE EDITOR | *•••••••••••••••••••••«••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••* Dear Editor We are regular readers of your fine paper. We don’t know much about your part of the country, and therefore enjoy so many dif ferent parts of your paper. We are cow-calf operators (small) in South Dakota. We live in the center of the state where it’s mostly grassland, but there’s more farming coming here all the tune. We have had one of the driest years for a long time. We can get by in this country if we can raise feed for our cows but there’s no hay this year unless we buy it. But it’s too high for the price of 17 to 22-cent cows I am writing about some articles m your paper - mainly about the beef research and information orders. Have you read the orders yourself’ I have read and reread it, and it bothers me. Some of it is good, but other things scare me I believe it will be hard on dairy farmers and small i anchers and farmers but good for the big purebred, breeders. Here are my reasons for this opinion: 1 Too much power by large livestock groups 2. The big feed yards will get the most money returned as they employ full-time bookkeepers to ask for the check-off money return The small operator will not take time to do this each time he sells 3 No money is to be used for lobbying 1 would like to see some of it used for lobbv mg against beef imports Why should our r hotV- Serving 7he Cenfro/ Oi*d Sowfheosfern Pennsylvania Areos BY DIETER KRIEG, EDITOR people, and then coming to the United States, is an experience which generates the kind of gratefulness America’s first settlers must have had when they arrived -Refugees to this country are possibly best qualified to appreciate the- meaning and '* purpose of Thanksgiving Like the Pilgrims of the seventeenth century the refugee comes here to seek freedom and a better way of life What most of us take for gronted;is deep and genuine cause for thankfulness to the im migrant No other nation on Earth offers as many freedoms and economic opportunities as does this country The refugee-immigrant is well aware of that, and he’s thankful Many native Americans cannot comprehend the sincerity and humbleness of this kind of gratitude because they have never known anything but affluence The abun dance of our tangible and intangible blessings is what made this country great We must treat our resources and ways of life with reverence if we want to keep our land free and prosperous Disrespect for our good is, I think, a tragic and contributing factor to our present shortages and ever-increasing prices The Pilgrims had much more than a roast turkey to be thankful for, and they knew it Let us try to remember more of our blessings each Thanksgiving and every day And let us protect those blessings for future generations. off money be used to promote imported beef 9 1 also believe that all live beef animals coming into the U.S. should be on the total beef quotas. These are just a few of our thoughts - hope you can understand what I am trying to say. Thank you. Dear Editor T thought perhaps I should explain our receiving your paper - as we are not misplaced Pennsylvania folk. In fact, we have not been to your good state. Last November while I was attending the Farm Wife Forum at Milwaukee, Wis., a dairy farm lady (Mrs. Pauline Cole, Woodstown, N.J.) and I became friends. After she returned home she sent a subscription to Lancaster Fanning to our family. We do not have a publication anywhere near comparable in our part of the U S. Your paper is read as thoroughly as our local papers’ My husband especially likes the sale reports giving the sale receipts of sales advertised the previous week We dream of coming back there and staving long enough to can up a supply of vegetables and fruits Oui product here is beef, and the market is \ci> bad, and compounded by the severe clioaght for (he past two \ ears ’ ' u< erelv, Elton Anson Wessington, S. Dak. Mrs. Klton Anson Wussington, S. DaK. GENTILES ’76! Lesson for November 28,1976 Background Scripture; Romans 1:16; 15:7-33 Devotional Reading: Colossians 1:21-29 To the Christian today the term “Gentile” has an ar chaic ring. It speaks to him of a distant era when the issue of “Gentile Christianity” was crucial for the Church of Jesus Christ. But the issue was resolved m the earliest days of Christianity when, largely through the work of Paul, it was determined that Jews and Gentiles (non-Jews) alike could share the “good news of Jesus Christ.” So, today, for all practical purposes, the term “Gen tile” seems quite irrelevant and whatever the New Testament has to say about them seems equally ob solete. The hope of the Gentiles Yet, perhaps we need to see this term from a new and different perspective. In Paul’s day, the Gentile was a person quite outside the Jewish religious hentage. The Apostle was convinced, however, that the salvation of God through Jesus Christ was intended every bit as much for the Gentile as for the Jew. Citing various Old Testament passages, Paul reminded the church at Rome of God’s purpose: “Therefore I will praise thee among the Gentiles...” (4:9) “Rejoice, 0 Gentiles, with his people” (4:10) “Praise the Lord, all Gen tiles, and let all the peoples praise him” (4:11) Furthermore, Paul believed that God had singled him out to pursue a special ministry of recon ciliation to these people who many regarded as being beyond the grace of God. Instead of writing off these pagans, Paul called for Christians to join him in extending the Gospel to them also, “so that the offering of the Gentiles may be ac ceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit” (4:16). So, Paul spent the better part of his ministry, traveling from Jerusalem to Rome itself, winning the Gentiles to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and, in time, Christianity became a Gentile faith. And also to the Greek Thus endeth the Gentile concern. Or does it 9 When we un derstand who were the Gentiles in Paul’s day, can we not look about us and see that there are Gentiles of another kind today? Are there not people today who are quite outside the Christian religious heritage? Are there not Gentiles in our jails today, in our hospitals, in our mental institutions, in our ghettos, in our factories,' in our governmental and educational institutions, in our neighborhoods? Are there not multitudes of people who are alienated from God and each other 9 Is there not still just as much a need for a ministry of reconciliation today as in the tune of the Apostles 9 Take a look at your own community Where are the Gentiles of today and who TO PLACE - WINDBREAKS Some farm lanes and barnyards can be protected from drifting snow by means of snow fences or wind breaks. This is a common practice along some high ways, and can be used on personal property. Fodder shocks have been used, or picket or rail fences work well. More permanent fences would be a planting of. evergreen trees. The idea is to place the windbreak from 50 to 75 feet into the prevailing winds from the area to be protected. This type of obstruction will slow down the speed of the wind causing the snow to ac cumulate between the fence and the lane. With these windbreaks it might save considerable shoveling or plowing of snow. TO BE CAREFUL WITH SALT Salt is a very common abrasive to be used to prevent slippery or icey walks and steps. This works fme for the purpose but the material might be toxic to nearby grass and shrubs. Injury has been experienced and we urge property owners to consider some other type of abrasive around the home and lawn. Sand works well and will not injure turf or shrubbery. Several types of fertilizer such as super phosphate will prevent slipping and not cause in jury. Sawdust is another are they? What are you and your church doing to bring reconciliation to them? In your community does Christianity stand for reconciliation, or is it just another factor that con tributes to the alienation? The problem today is often as it was in Paul’s time: we tend to write-off the Gentiles. Oh, we may let them in if they come to our churches “hat in hand,” but we would hardly set forth any great effort to go out and minister to them, to bring them the gospel of reconciliation. But until or unless we do, neither will we be reconciled either. RURAL ROUTE By Tom Armstrong O | 161131] OF m CRAPES TY OR ABOVE AND NOT THE FOOPS NOT TO STUPY NOW.,. NOW IS THE TIME... Max Smith County Agr. Agent Telephone 394-6851 material that can be safely used. The purpose of this thought is not to use very much salt where grass or shrubs are nearby. TO INSULATE FOR ENERGY SAVINGS Engineers and architects have always favored plenty of insulation to keep out the cold in winter and to keep out the heat in summer; this has proven to be very good ad vice and generally plenty of insulation is a good in vestment. Extra insulation packed around door and window frames will often cut down on the heat losses. Extra insulation in walls and ceilings is sure to lower the fuel bill. In farm buildings, filled with livestock, extra [Continued on Page 2 2] Farm Calendar Monday, Nov. 29 Schuylkill County Farmers Association directors meeting at the Extension Office, 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 30 Annual holiday meeting sponsored by the Penn State Cooperative Ex tension Service, 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the 4-H Center near Bair in York County. Mostly for the ladies, with demon strations on swags, wreaths, centerpieces, mobiles, and other Christmas decorations. Open to the public. Wednesday, Dec. 1 Lewistown Grange meets at No. 1639 Social Hall, 8 p.m. Saturday 4 Lebanon Young Farmers’ Christmas banquet, 7 p.m. in the Northern Lebanon' ’High School cafeteria. Travel and Adventure Series sponsored by the Paradise Rotary Club, 7:30 p.m. at Conestoga Valley High School. Presentation on “Romantic Austria.’’ Lancaster County 4-H horse club banquet at the Farm and Home Center, 6:30 p.m. DEAR MOM «■ DAD, COLLEGE IS SOINC? GREAT SO FAR. X HAVE A TERIf/fIC ROOMMATE andthe PROFFESSORS HERE AT THE A<F SCHOOL ARE REALLY N/CE. ...WILL WRITE LATER p.s. i iveep morusirsco.-
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers