Back to School > NS A os ol — a a ZF U.S. ea bo EDITORIALS --- Many months ago the Bulletin expressed a hope that when plans were drawn for the new elementary school at Marietta its architecture would blend or at least complement that of two previous new constiruc- tions nearby. Now, with the school approaching completion, it is becoming more evi- dent each day that the designers have given thought to making the building an aesthetic addition to the Donegal Mutual Insurance and to the Congregational Mennonite church. While: the architectural design does not match or accent the other two, it does blend well and when fin- ally completed will be a credit to the entire area. Both the business and the church congregation have taken great pains with their construction, have given the properties love and affection and if for no other reason the school. was under a moral obligation to maintain the standard and to respect the estab- lished neighbors. HM You Would Write - - Would you like to write to your state or federal representatives in Har- risburg or Washington? Here are their addresses: : FEDERAL Sen. Hugh D. Scott, Room 260, Sen- ate Office Building, Washington, D. C. 20515. Sen. Richard S. Schweiker, Room 4317, Senate Office Building, Washington D. C. 20515. Rep. Edwin Ib. Eshleman, 416 Cannon "House Office Bldg., Washington, D. C 20515.. = STATE Senator Richard A. Snyder, Box 21, State Senate, Harrisburg, Pa. 17120. Sen. Clarence F. Manbeck, Freder- icksburg R1, Pa. 17026. Rep. Harry H. Gring, Reinholds, Pa. 17569. Rep. Sherman L. Hill, 201 Manor Av., Millersville 17551. - Rep. Jack B. Horner , 23-A S. Market St., Elizabethtown 17022. Rep. Marvin E. Miiler, 501 Valley Rd. Lancaster 17601. Rep. Harvey C. Nitrauer, 125 South Street, Myerstown, Pa., 17067. > Rep. John C. Pittenger, N. West End Ave., Lancaster 17603. We have a feeling that schools make a mistake when they spend huge sums of money for showy monu- ments. Public schools are not “tem- ples” of learning. They are places of learning and the dollars for gim- crack and geegaws are an insult te the intelligence of the taxpayers. Yet, schools do represent the age and the culture in which they are built and for many many years re- flect the minds of the people who caused them to be built. Schools need to have a dignity and should project an image of last- ing solidarity without becoming un- necessarily expensive in their non- essentials. Fifty years ago schools were in- clined to feature a massive, solid ap- pearance which grew into unneces- sary ramparts, turrets, etc. More recently schools have turned toward plain, characterless, uninvit- ing buildings which were functional and unitized. Somewhere between the two is a better way. And, we have the feeling that when the new Riverview school, as it has been named, is completed, when parking lots have been instal- - led, grading finished, lawns seeded and some landscaping done, the com- munity is going to have an excusable amount of pride in a new school buil- ding which it has not experienced in recent years. It appears that the school, the ar- chitects and the public are going to stand back and say, at least to themselves, “we did find a wn "”m better way!” , Thought of the Week -- Achievement That man has achieved success whe has lived well, laughted often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth’s beauty or failed to express it, whose life was a benediction, whose memory a blessing. —Stanley And, that’s the last line for this week. The Mount Joy BULLE IN MOUNT JOY, PENNA. 17552 Published Weekly on Wednesdays Except Fourth of July Week and Christmas Week (50 Issues Per Year) 11 EAST MAIN STREET, MOUNT JOY, PENNA. 17552 In the heart of fabulous Lancaster County Richard A. Rainbolt Editor and Publisher Subscription Rate—$3.00 per year by mail $3.50 Outside Lancaster County Advertising Rates upon request. Entered at the post office at Mount Joy, Penna., as second class mail under the Act of March 3, 1879. WEDNESDAY,, OCTOBER 1, 1969 Others are saying --- Other boroughs are con- cerned about the looks of their communities — proud if things seems to be go- ing well, unhappy if ap- pearances are not up to snuff. Here's what two have said recently: “Blackboard jungle” ‘ Ghetto.” “Slum school.” Those are some of theepi- thets being tossed at the ele- mentary school complex on West High and South Pop- lar streets, Elizabethtown, these days by some parents and teachers who have watched the school grounds grow drearier by the year. They want trees, some grass, shrubbery and a few flowers. Local adults who attended school there in the 1930's and 50's remember how the school used to look, and they have been ‘swallowing hard” as one of them puts it, every time a plot of grass gives way to macadam and every tiem a supposedly dead tree is hauled away and not re- placed. They watched sadly as the macadam crept up to the windows and the two buildings took on the ap- pearance of a forbidding- looking fortress in Brooklyn. They are dismayed that provisions for natural beauty can be made at Mill Road, East High Street and Rheems Elementary schools while Elizabethtown Elem en tary and the South Poplar street building in particular grow naked and more uninviting as the years pass. We believe parking space for teachers and playground space for children can be found with- out banishing every sign of natural life. “I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree.” tree.” (Unless it is a patch of tar Laid down to hold a teacher’s car.) —Elizabethtown Chronicle * * ® “Lititz is the cleanest community this side of the Mississippi River!” That, dear reader, is what we call a real compliment. And that is exactly what a recent visitor to our borougit Manager Geo. Steedle said after spending several days viewing the points of interest in this area. It really is nothing new. All of us have realized that Lititz is a fine community in which home owners take a genuine pride in keeping their properties looking as nice as possible. And ours, too, is a community where the borough government works diligently trying to keep it clean and orderly. But when someone takes the trouble to write a letter about it, then we can be sure we have something worth protecting. Especially in this day and age when so many communities are des- perately trying to clean up slums running over with junk, abandoned cars and rats. SWEETIE PIE “All right! Come down like a nice little girl and we'il have chow mein for dinner!" §
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