16—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 25,1971
WASHINGTON REPORT Aft
Congressman Edwin D. EsMeman
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There is an urban crisis in
America. But the crisis that
we’ve all heard so much about
and spent so many billions of
dollars trying to solve may not be
the real crisis at all.
Urban decay may not be the
result of teeming ghettos,
blighted downtown areas, lack of
adequate mass transit systems,
insufficient personal income for
city residents or one of a hundred
other items on which we -have
centered our attention.
Instead, these things may be
symptoms rather than the
disease itself. Some study during
my recuperation has convinced
me that the real disease is far
more fundamental. It is the loss
of a sense of community.
A sense of community means
simply that a person must have
some place where he or she has
identity. Each individual must
feel that he has roots somewhere.
It can’t be a vague somewhere
like a State or even a city. It must
be a place small enough that
other people know the person and
the person knows the other
people.
There were always such places
within our cities—South Philly in
Philadelphia, Brooklyn in New
York, Bridgeport in Chicago, and
on a smaller scale, but just as
important, the Hill in Lancaster
and Northside in Lebanon. These
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Walter Binkley & Son
Lititz
Brown & Rea, Inc.
Atglen
Elverson Supply Co.
Elverson
L T. Geib Estate
Manheim
I. B. Groybill & Son
Strasburg
L Musser Heisey & Son
R. D. #2, Mt. Joy, Pa.
Heistand Bros.
Elizabethtown
Red Rose Form
Service, Inc.
N. Church St., Quarryville
David B. Hurst
were communities as tightly-knit
and small-townish as any village
in a rural area. They were places
to put down roots and find self
identity.
But, systematically, our
modern society has gone about
destroying those communities
within urban areas. Federal
programs have been directed
toward the whole city with no
regard for their effect on the self
contained communities within
the city. Urban planners have'
sent in the bulldozers to level old
neighborhoods in the name of,
redevelopment. City govern
ments have taken more and more,
power out of thejiands of neigh
borhood officials and con
centrated that power in city halls.
Social reformers have thrust
housing patterns into
without regard to the established
character of those areas.
As old neighborhoods have
been destroyed, the sehse of
community has died. It is im
possible for an individual to
identify with something as big as
the whole city of New York or
even the whole city of Lancaster.
There has been a loss of a place to
cal] home, and this loss has led to
the urban decay that we see
today.
G. R. Mitchell, Inc.
Refton, Pa,
Mountville Feed Service
Mountville
Musser Forms, Inc.
Columbia
Martin's Feed Mill
Ephrata, Pa.
Chas. E. Sauder & Sons
Terre Hill
Shelly Brothers
R. D. 2, Manheim, Pa.
E. P. Spotts, Inc.
Honey Brook
H. M. Stauffer & Sons,
Inc.
Witmer
Some people simply quit the
cities to find a community
elsewhere. They moved to the
suburbs and established new
neighborhoods where each
person could feel that be had
roots. But these people took with
them the talents and the tax
dollars that the cities needed to
grow. And, therefore, the urban
crisis is partially a result of those
who fled.
Other people remained within
the city, but lacking a sense of
identity, they became aimless in
their outlook. Property
deterioration means little to the
man who could care less what his
neighbor thinks. It is easier to
begin taking a welfare check
when there is no one to answer to
except some bureaucrat down
town. Education has less per
sonal importance when your
child is bused across town instead
of' sent to the neighborhood
school.
Each of these factors, and
others like them, have con
tributed to the deterioration of
the cities.
There is still a chance that the
sense of community might be
regained. Some of the recent
cries from within several large
cities have been for more com
munity control.
It’s important that we listen to
those cries, because it may be the
only way the cities will be saved.
Dollars alone won’t do the job.
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FROM EACH MAN!
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Dr. Guss Honored
Dr. Samuel B. Guss, professor
of veterinary science Extension
at Pennsylvania State Univer
sity, has been named “Extension
Veterinarian of the Year” by the
American Association of Ex
tension Veterinarians.
Dr. Guss, a past president of
the PVMA, was honored at the
Association’s recent annual
meeting in Detroit for his con
tributions to animal health and
veterinary medicine. There are
84 Extension veterinarians in the
United States.
A native of Reading, Dr. Guss
received his doctor of veterinary
medicine dgree from the
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569-07^6
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Roy H. Buch, Inc.
Ephrata, R.D. 2
University of Pennsylvania in
1943.
His major field has been
diseases of cattle, sheep and
goats.
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Lancaster, Pa.