J Comme ntary Our one greatest By CLYDE DUPIN Special to The Dallas Post The elections are over, but the challenges that face our nation and the world are the same. As the twenty-first century beck- ons, our government must cope with new problems. Regardless of who won the elections, they need our prayers. Our greatest need in America is a return to the traditional, moral, and family values that made us great. We do need a balanced budget and a strong national defense. We also need moral responsibility and cour- age to protect the unborn and reject ehthanasia. Qur students need school prayer rather than teenage birth control. Until there is a moral and spiritual restoration, drug and alcohol abuse will remain a major prob- lem. Our greatest need is for cour- age to face and deal with these ething Peace on Earth - what a longed-for, but so far, elusive dream. Heads of governments come together in history - making summits to thrash out their differences - complicated differ- ences that have prevented peace for generations. Most of us are not privy to the details of these talks. All we know is what we are told by our leaders and the media. Admittedly, these super-power meetings are necessary. I wonder, however, if there isn’t something each of us can do to bring this dream to fruition. “Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me.” Let it begin with me - that phrase suggests to me that, if one is at peace within oneself and at peace with family, friends, and neighbors, this feel- ing would radiate like the rays of the warming sun from home to neighborhood to community and from nation to nation throughout the world. One need not attend momen- tous international conferences to address this issue. One need only take a very private journey - the journey inward. Take some time during the course of your By NANCY KOZEMCHAK Library Correspondent Here we are! October’s ending and Halloween is with us. A special thank you to Mary for sending us some cornstalks along with pumpkins and some very fancy gourds. These made the entrance to the library most festive. Unfortunately, the pumpkins and gourds lasted only a few days, having been whisked away to be smashed on the road. The children’s” story hours had their Halloween par- ties during the week and were attended by some different look- ing little people such as bat man, space girl, big bird, a princess, a quiet ghost, a scary skeleton, an ugly witch, a clown with colored hair, a cowboy, a goony bird and our own chil- dren’s librarian became a neat scarecrow. The children has a parade, refreshments and some fun games. An interesting quote for the season, ‘Skeletons aren’t scary. Everybody has one inside.” A fun time season before approaching the winter months. I had a very busy but enjoya- ble weekend beginning with the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic Concert on Friday night featuring guest conductor, Enrique Diemecke and featured violinist, Nadja Salerno-Sonnen- berg. This violinist was absolutely fascinating and played the violin as if it was part of her; a truly exciting, electrifying per- problems which threaten our American way of life. The influ- ence of secular humanism must be stopped or all moral values will gradually disappear. We must understand this new reli- gion and its powerful influence. Humanism says there is no God. Christianity says there is a living creator, God. The human- ist believes man is central, his reason is supreme, and his sal- vation is science. Their most powerful pulpit and sanctuary has been the public school room. It may not be fashionable to write about God, morality and traditional family values, but this is our only hope to save our future. We must protect our Constitution; and as Christians, influence our society. (Clyde Dupin is author of a column entitled ‘‘Religious busy week to sit quietly by yourself and think about your feelings. Ask yourself some hard ques- tions. “What can I do to make myself a better person?’ “Are others responsible for making me happy?”’ “What don’t I like about myself?”’ “Is what scares me real?’’ “What is my respon- sibility towards the well-being of others?” By asking yourself these and other such searching questions, you have taken the first step towards inner peace. Perhaps “Peace on Earth” really means something very personal. “Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me.” I’s something to think about... (Toby Coleman, a Back Moun- tain resident, is a columnist for The Dallas Post. Her column appears regularly.) formance. The guest conductor was also a joy to watch and the orchestra was superb. I drove to Philadelphia on Saturday to visit my son, Cliff, and his wife, Barbara. Cliff was in a special race regatta with his single crew shell on the Schuylkill River and this was a most fascinating experience. I had not seen him race before and he was in the Championship single scull race and came in 21st out of 50 entrants, which he ways is very good for him, considering he was racing against the best in the country. His time was 18 min. 16 sec- onds and first place was 16 min. 30 seconds. The course is 23; see the four man, six and eight man and some women in the race, with their own shells. We came back to their home in time to see Penn State beat Alabama, went out for dinner to a quaint little restaurant in Chestnut Hill called Rollers, and returned home to watch the Mets beat the Red Sox in the bottom of the 10th inning. Sunday morning we attended St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Chestnut Hill and had brunch at the Cock 'n Bull Restaurant at Peddler’s Village where we cel- ebrated Cliff's birthday which was on Monday. (Nancy Kozemchak is the assistant librarian at the Back Mountain Memorial Library. Her column appears weekly in The Dallas Post.) DAVID F. CONNER General Manager DOTTY MARTIN Executive Editor al Macri, Jenny Metzgar, Margaret Harrison, Marianne Linda Poulos, Karen Pacovski, Susan Stritzinger, Dallas Post/Donna Sutliff Danae Husband, Laura Uzdilla, Keri and Jessica Husband. She claims DEAR EDITOR: Did you know that federal funds that should be used to treat humans addicted to drugs and alcohol are being used to fund drug and alcohol addiction research on live animals? Your tax dollars to the tune of $311,495,000 will be wasted in 1986 on animals ‘‘models”’ of cocaine killings, alcoholism, heroin, LSD, angel dust, mari- juana and Valium addiction and the list goes on. Millions of animals from snails to dogs to primates and even horses and elephants are the ‘models’ for barbaric experiments that cause pain, fear, and agonized death. These funds should be used to expand existing rehabili- tation programs and implement programs where none exist. It is impossible to simply transfer the results of animal experiments to humans. Ani- federa mals live under completely dif- ferent conditions than man. The experimental situation is artifi- cial, one-sided, and does not correspond to real life situa- tions. These innocent, animals are forcibly addicted to drugs and alcohol. Since the animal does not choose drugs or alcohol they are forced through starva- tion, electric shock, and depri- vation of water to name a few methods. In 1786, dogs and rabbits were addicted to opium, In 1887, ani- mals were poisoned with cocaine and the first barbituate poisoning took place as early as 1911. Since 1948, experimenters at the Addiction Research Center in Lexington, Kentucky have been performing revolt- ingly cruel addiction research on spine severed dogs. These animals are forcibly addicted to morphine, angel dust, and other drugs and then plunged into the agony of withdrawal by either cutting off the drug or injecting an ‘‘antagonist’”’ which brings on the withdrawal syndrome immediately. Symptoms include rapid heart rate, seizures, fever, ‘“‘continu- ous stepping” of the paralyzed hindlimbs, retching, vomiting, hair standing on end, ‘canine delirium’ and more. The exper- imenters also routinely torment the dogs by pinching them with forceps and by burning their skin. Other ‘discoveries’ at the center include: Spine-severed rats twitch their legs more after amphetamine dosing. Spinal reflexes in morphine- addicted, brain-injured and spine-severed cats are less than in brain-injured, spine-severed cats not addicted to morphine. These experiments are not only unscientific; they are also inhu- man and brutalizing. The appli- cation to man from these exper- iments; none. There are modern methods available to test the effects of addictive drugs. By using the alternatives, the terrible suffer- ing of forcibly addicted animals, which has been going on for 200 years, can be totally eliminated. Demand that these experiments be: stopped and-the money used for treatment of human addicts. Write to Senators Heinz and Specter and your Representa- tive in Washington. If you would like a free bro- chure ‘‘Animal Agony in Addic- tion Research’ write to L.0.V.E. (League Opposing Viv- isection Experiments), P.O. Box 1284, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18703. MARY LOU PHILLIPS SECRETARY LEAGUE OPPOSING VIVISECTION EXPERIMENTS DEAR EDITOR: Americans who cherish our democratic system of govern- ment have cause to rejoice over legislation enacted by President Reagan on the civil rights of the handicapped who use the nation’s commercial airlines. “The Air Access Carrier Act of 1986,” signed into law by President Reagan, makes law the right of Americans with a handicap to use commercial air- lines with safety and dignity. For the handicapped traveler, “the adventure of flying’ has been just that, prior to the passage of this important legis- lation. Until now, the handi- capped air traveler could expect any number of difficulties, from being refused one’s choice of seat to being refused passage altogether. Other restictions often included an extra handling charge for wheelchairs, being required to travel with an aide, or being forced to give advance notice of one’s intent to travel — as a handicapped individual — well in advance of departure. Each of these restrictions was at the complete discretion of the airline official on each particu- lar flight — with no consistency among airlines or even among different flights of the same airline. The quick passage of the legis- lation, actively supported by the Paralyzed Veterans of America and a broad range of organiza- tions serving the needs of handi- capped Americans, is an indica- tion of the growing feeling nationwide that we can no longer tolerate discriminatory treatment of people who happen to have a handicap. The “Air Carrier Access Act of 1986” addresses this critical need to protect the civil rights of the handicapped passenger aboard commercial airlines and is a tribute to the fine leader- ship of Senator Robert Dole (R- KS) and Representatives John Paul Hammerschmidt (R-AR) and Norman Mineta (D-CA) in the House of Representatives. We owe our thanks and appre- ciation to these members of Congress and many others in supporting our nation’s ideal of “equality for all.” In advocating full citizenship, dignity and safety for 35 million handicapped Americans within our great democracy, our nation’s representatives have further protected these rights for all Americans. R. JACK POWELL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA DEAR EDITOR: During the last few years, and especially in 1986, school boards across the Commonwealth have used their practically unlimited taxation powers to increase rad- ically their citizens’ tax burden. in at least eight school districts to double and triple the school taxes. All this is legal and may well occur in your school district. Pennsylvania is virtually the only state in the Union where school boards can sell bonds without a referendum. Vested interests with powerful lobbies want to keep it that way. The Annville-Cleona Taxation Here is a summary of impor- tant events that occurred on Capitol Hill last week from Rep. Frank Coslett, 120th Legislative District. DER REPORT — A report critical of the state’s Abandoned Mine Reclamation Program was issued this week by the Democratic chairman of the House Conservation Committee. The study was dismissed as political and without merit by both the head of the Department of Environmental Resources (DER) and the ranking Republi- can on the Conservation Com- mittee. DER Secretary Nicholas DeBenedictis defended his agency’s management of the mine reclamation program and said the attack on the program was politically motivated. Rep. George C. Hasay (R-Luzerne) said the report was without merit since committee mem- bers were not involved in the investigation and were not asked to accept or reject the findings of the report. LCB REFORM — The author Advisory Committee (ACTAC) will hold a conference on the issue of TAXATION POWERS OF SCHOOL BOARDS at Leba- non Valley College in Annville, Lebanon County, PA on Novem- ber 22, 1986. Its purpose is to investigate the use and abuse of the current school financing laws, and to lend support to of legislation to abolish the Liquor Control Board (LCB) this week urged the committee studying LCB sunset review measures to significantly revamp the agency. Rep. Joseph M. Gladeck Jr. (R-Mont- gomery) called the LCB ‘‘out- moded, inefficient and anti-con- sumer.” Gladeck suggested that the House-Senate conference committee studying the sunset legislation consider a number of proposals he has introduced. The committee must take action on the sunset review legislation citizens several bills which were intro- duced in the legislature to remedy an impossible situation. If you wish to attend this meeting and to help bring about a change, please write to ACTAC, P.O. Box 132, Annville PA, or call (717) 867-2135. JOERG MAYER CONFERENCE CHAIRMAN by Dec. 31 or the LCB will expire. ‘Pennsylvania consum- ers are sick and tired of having to face more high prices, poor service, questionable ' licensing and limited selection. Once again, we have an opportunity to do something positive and we cannot afford to fumble the ball,” Gladeck said. (Rep. Frank Coslett serves the 120th Legislative District which encompasses parts of the Back Mountain. His column appears regularly in The Dallas Post.) ®
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