)2 ity nd e WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1970 THE BULLETIN, MOUNT JOY, PA. se nam wiliim From a man who is “fed up with nonsense” comes a call for action by adults. As a college professor, K, Ross Toole is close to today’s young people. He says “most of them are fine” but some are not — and “it’s time to call a halt” to the destructive tyranny of a minority on col- lege campuses. The following by K. Ross Toole, professor of history at the University of Montana, first appeared in the Billings, Mont., “Gazette,” and since has .been reprinted .in the "Congressional .Record” and “U. S. News and World Re- port.” I am 49 years old. It took me many years and consider- able anguish to get where I am—which isn’t much of any- place except exurbia. I was nurtured in depression; I lost four years to war; I am inves- ted with sweat; I have had one coronary! I am a ‘liberal’, square and I am a professor. I am sick of the “younger generation,” hippies, Yippies, militants and nonsense. I am a professor of history at the University of Montana, and I am supposed to have ‘iiason” with the young. Worse still, I am a father of scven children. They range in age from 7 to 23-—and I am fed up with nonsense. I am tired of being blamed, maim- ed and contrite; I am tired of tolerance and the reaching out (which is always my funec- tion) for understanding. I am sick of the total irrationality of the campus ‘‘rebel,” whose bearded visage, dirty hair, body odor and “tactics” are childish but brutal, naive but dangerous, and the essence of arrogant tyranny — the ty- ranny of spoiled brats. I am terribly disturbed that I may be incubating more of the same. Our household ‘is permissive, our approach to discipline is an apology and a retreat from standards—usu- ally accompanied by a gift in cash or kind. It’s time to calla halt; time to live in an adult world where we belong, and time to put these people in their plac- es. We owe the ‘younger gen- eration” what all “older gen- erations’ have owed younger generations— love, protection to a point, and respect when they deserve it. We do not owe them our goals, our pri- vacy, our whole lives—and a- bove all, we do not owe them to MOUNT JOY % Take one phons call (or coupon below), add hostess with baskets of gifts and information about the #8 city, stir in genuine hospitality, : and you "I have a panerols pi Ann Hetrick 653- 4147 § WELCOME NEWCOMERS! § : Use this coupon to Ist us know you're z here. 8 Name i 2s Address} = City i § [] Please have the Welcome Wagon | ; Hostess call on me % [J ! would like to subscribe to the 1 “2 [J 1 already subscribe to the i & Fill out coupon and mail to Circulation } Dept., Fed Up With Nonsens | Call For Action By the Adults immunity from our mistakes, or their own. Every generation makes mistakes, always has and al- ways will. We have made our share. But my generation has made America the most afflu- ent country on earth. It has tackled, headon, a racial pro- blem which no hation on earth in the history of man- kind had dared to do. It has publicly declared war on pov- erty and it has gone to the moon; it has desegregated the schools and abolished polio; it has presided over the begin- ning of what is probably the greatest social and economic revolution in man’s history. It has begun these things, not finished them. It has declared itself, and committed itself, and taxed ii- self, and damn near run itself into the ground in the cause Fire Crew Holds Field Exercise The Elizabethtown-Mt. Joy Forest fire crew conducted field training exercises in the Elizabethtown and Deodate areas on Sunday, April 26. Fourteen members partici- pated in the exercises, which included instruction in the proper use of crew equip- ment, wildfire fighting techni- ques and the practical appli- cation of procedures in vary- ing fire situations. Each member of the Eliza- bethtown - Mount Joy Forest crew is required to attend at least two of these field train- ing sessions each year. Addi- tional training is also provid- ed during regular monthly ‘Crew meetings. BPW Members On Bus Trip Several members of the Mt. Joy Business and Professional Women’s Club and their guests traveled by bus to Washington, ‘D. C., Saturday, May 2 with a District 7 B.P. W Tour. They visited six embassies, the legation of Lithuania, the wax museum and the Con- gressional Club used by wives of congressmen to hold meet- ings and social affairs. Mount Joy members mak- ing the trip included: Misses Anna Mae and Ruth Eby, Mrs. Ann Elvin, Mrs. Ethel Shoop and Miss Helen Schule. Leisure Club Meets Monday The Mount Joy Leisure Club will hold its next regul- ar meeting at the Mount Joy Sports Farm on Monday, May 11,.at 1 o'clock. A bus is planned to New Hope, Peddlers Village, and Washington Crossing on May 15 —Members $2.00 non members. Bus will leave from parking lot of United Meth- odist church at 8 a.m. BIGGEST BLIZZARD The most famous blizzard in American history was that of March 11, 1888, in the northeastern states. The New York City streets were piled with 12 feet of snow. COURT'S PAGES Pages who serve in the U. 8. -Snpreme Court are named by merit by the court’s marshal with the approval of the . chief justice. The pages serve during their high school years. When in need of printing remember The Bulletin. Sia ae Timea | aa it a aha i | I of social justice and reform. Its mistakes are fewer than my father’s generation — or his. Its greatest mistake is not Vietnam; it is the abdication of its pusillanimous capitula- tion to its youth, and its sick preoccupation with the prob- lems, the mind, psyche, the raison d'etre of the young. Since when have children ruled this country? By virtue of what right, by what accom- plishment should thousands of teen-agers, wet behind the ears and utterly without the benefit of having lived long enough to have either judg- ment or wisdom, become the sages of our time? The psychologists, the edu- cators and preachers say the young are rebelling against our archaic mores and mor- als, our materialistic ap- proaches to life. our failures in diplomacy, our terrible in- eptitude in racial matters; our narrowness as parents, our blindness to the root ills of society. Balderdash! Society hangs together by the stitches of many threads. No 18-year-old is simply the prodnct of his 19 years: He is the product of 3,000 years of the development of mankind —and throughout those years, injustice has existed and been fought; rules have grown oui- moded and been changed; doom has hung over men and been avoided: unjust wars have occurred: pain has been the cost of progress—and man has persevered. As a professor and the fa- ther of seven, I have watched this new generation and con- cluded that most of them are fine. A minority are not—and the trouble is that minority threatens to tyrannize the ma- jority and take over. I dislike that minority; I am aghast that the majority “takes” it and allows itself to be used. And I address myself to both the minority and the majori- ty. I speak partly as a histor- ian, partly as a father and partly as one fed-up, middle- aged and angry member of the so-called “Establishment” —which, by the way, is noth- ing but a euphemism for “society”. Common courtesy and a regard for the opinions of oth- ers is not merely a decoration on the pie crust of society— it is the heart of the pie. Too many ‘‘youngsters’ are ego- centric boors. They will not listen; they will only shout down. They will not discuss but, like 4-year-olds, they throw rocks and shout. Arrogance is obnoxious; it is also destructive. Society has classically ostracized ar- rogance without the backing of demonstrable accomplish- ment. Why, then, do we toler- ate arrogant slobs who occu- py our homes, our administra- tion buildings, our streets and parks—urinating on our be- liefs and defiling our premis- es? It is not the police we need — our generation and theirs — it is an expression of our disgust and disdain. Yet we do more than permit it; we dignify it with intros- pective flagellation. Somehow it is our fault. Balderdash again! Sensitivity is not the prop- erty of the young, nor was it invented in 1950. The young of any generation have felt the same impulse to grow, to reach out, to touch stars, to live freely and to let the minds loose along unexplored corridors. Young men and young women have always stood on the same hill and felt the same vague sense of restraint that separates them from the ultimate experience —the sudden and complete expansion of the mind, the final fulfillment. It is one of the oldest, sweetest and most bitter experiences of man- kind. Today's young people did not invent it; they do not own PAGE THREB MAYTOWN NEWS NOTES Miss Grace Henderson Mr. and Mrs. George Mor- ris spent last weekend visit- ing Mr. and Mrs. George Mor- ris, Jr. and children at Pitts- burgh. Mrs. Clifford Adams enter- tained the officers of Donegal Chapter O.E.S #422 at the home of Mrs. Winona Adams last Thursday evening. The Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Fire Company served a banquet last Friday evening to the Donegal & Conoy Bow- ling League. Mrs. Goldie Yordy, the vol- unteer of the American Le- gion Auxiliary 809, to the Coatesville Veterans’ hospital will be the guest of henor of Dr. Helen Stanley’s family at the annual V.A. Awards’ din- ner. The time is* May 17 at 2 p.m. at the Downingtown V. F.W. Col. Chester Ray Smith, Vi- enna, Va. spent last weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Smith. The Spring Musical and Art Exhibit at the Maytown Elementary School will be held Monday evening, May 11. The members of the Am- erican Legion Auxiliary are having a covered dish lun- cheon Tuesday evening, May 12 at 6:30. Bring your own place setting and a covered dish. Members are urged to attend. The Lutheran World Relief Clothing Drive began May 1 and will continue until May 31. Please bring good wear- able children’s clothing and blankets to the Adult Sunday School room. On Thursday. May 7 there will be a Table Service of Holy Commusgion at 7:30 p.m. “in the social hall of St. John's Lutheran = Church. Sunday May 17. Holy Communion will be celebrated at 10:45 a. m. John H. Drace returned from the hospital last week and is convalescing at home. 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