The Law of Diminishing Returns
EDITORIALS ---
a burning building, the non-combatant
caught in the cross fire of a shooting war,
is going to burn. the wide-eyed, spectator at a spectacular
The Kent State affair is a case of fire who was blasted by a high-pressure
smoke and fire. Someone got hurt. Per- water hose.
haps he was killed because he was simp- One of the first admonitions given by
ly standing too near a raging fire. every thinking parent to his children is
The boys and girls who were wounded “stay out of trouble.”
and those who were killed may have ¥
they were not trouble makers or in any
been innocent bystanders. We hope that
way feeding the fire of rebellion which
roared out of control.
But, someone lit a match somewhere
in the Kent State area last week. The
smoke rolled and the flames licked red
and angrily at anyone and everyone who
watched the conflagration.
Emotions were on fire and as is true
in every gangerous situation, some inno-
cents were involved.
But, such is the case of a passenger
in a speeding auto, the trusted companion
and buddy on a tragic hunting expedi-
tion, the man trapped on the top floor of
Where there is smoke, there is fire.
And, where there .is fire, something
Those four words of wisdom have a
wide implied meaning that youngsters,
perhaps, do not understand. But the cau-
tion means ‘“do not cause any trouble”
and “keep away from where trouble is
brewing.”
Those words have come home the
hardest way to Kent State, to the stu-
dents, the parents, the faculty and to a
nation which mourns the loss of the boys
and girls and the situation which caused
the tragedy.
If one would look for wisdon in the
horror and tragedy of last week, he
would find a warning to all those who
would find any glamor or excitement in
the futility of violent protest.
Violence is tragedy upon the heads
of all who participate.—.either actively
or passively.
We mourn the loss, and for their
families, but we beseech the almighty for
peace from violence and from the
bitter scars it leaves upon the ww
guilty and the innocent.
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Sen. Hugh D. Scott, Room 260, Sen-
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zoos, Win ok hg To
Sen. Richard S. Schweiker, Room : i :
” i. : may become a personality. The happiest
4317, Senate Office Building, Washington people are those who think the most in.
D. C. 20515. teresting thoughts. Interesting thoughts
Rep. Edwin D. Eshleman, 416 Cannon can only live in cultivated minds. Those
House Office Bldg, Washington, D. C who decide to use leisure as a means of
20515. development, who love good music, good
books, good pictures, good plays at the
theatre, good company, good conversation
—what are they? They are the happiest
Sen. Clarence F. Manbeck, Freder- people in the world; and they are not on-
ly happy in themselves, they are the
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Millersville 17551.
Rep. Jack B. Horner , 23-A S. Market
St., Elizabethtown 17022. GROWING INWARDLY
Rep. Marvin E. Miiler, 501 Valley Rd., ¢ Y7e are put here to grow, and we
Lancaster 17601. : ought to grow, and to use all the
Rep. Harvey C. Nitrauer, 125 South means of growth according to the
Street, Myerstown, Pa., 17067. ' laws of our being. The only real sat-
Rep. John C. Pittenger, N. West End } isfaction here is, is to be growing
Ave., Lancaster 17603. \ up inwardly all the time, becoming
| more just, -true, generous, simple,
Or, Call the Mayor - { manly, womanly, kind, active. And
this can we all do, by doing each day
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Senator Richard A. Snyder, Box 21,
State Senate, Harrisburg, Pa. 17120.
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1970
"WASHINGTON REPORT
Congressman Edwin D. Eshleman
16th District—Pennsylvania
THE MIDDLE GROUND
As today’s generations view
one another suspiciously aec-
ross a gulf of years, style and
attitudes, one truth becomes
abundantly clear: Extremes
simply cannot be made to il-
lustrate the whole. They can-
not even approximately sug-
gest the whole.
Greed, compassion, savag-
ery, decency, love and hate
are a monopoly of no age or
class. Some human beings en-
rich life—their own and oth-
ers’. Some destroy or degrade
it. You cannot tell the players
by their gray flannel suits or
their buckskins and beads.
And anyone who says other-
wise is preaching nonsense.
And dangerous nonsense, at
that. There is no man, no
group, to be more feared than
the one who claims to have
sole possession of the truth.
Behind every war, every po-
gram, every inquisition you
will find men of that convic-
tion.
Between the angrily paro-
chial extremes of today’s gen-
erations there is a broad mid-
dle ground where individuals
—whatever their age or cos-
tume—can usefully commun-
icate. Their success in doing
so depends very largely on
their ability to resist the
temptation to view one an-
other as caricatures.
-—Kansas City Star
Mavtown, Pa.
Editor, Mount Joy Bulletin
Dear Sir,
As the 1970 Indians contin-
ue to uphold the tradition of
good Donegal baseball, the
handful of DHS “fans” who
comprise the Anti-Don Staley
League continue their tradi-
tion of the finest in back row
heckling and critique. Merely
showing up at a Donegal
game can be entertaining. Be-
tween plays executed by a
well drilled and talented
squad, one may witness fool-
ishness and ignorance untold
in the stands and spilling out
over the backstop.
It is truly hard to imagine
a.coach as successful as Stal-
ey being harrassed and ridden
as is so often the case. He
has established Donegal as the
hotbed — of local schoolboy
baseball. Most important,
however, is the fact that Don
Staley has the absolute, 100
percent respect of his players
not to mention his oppory ats.
It hurts Donegal players, past
and present, to hear their vir-
tual idol criticized at every
turn.
Having played four years
under him. I, like almost all
former Donegal players, have
become a Staley disciple. Don
Staley could run down the
street stark naked and I
wouldn’t question his mo-
tives.. Besides, he would prob-
ably force the police into
three or four errors while
trying to catch him!
Sincerely,
Jack Frank
IDENTITY CRISIS
In Idaho. the state senate
has passed a bill requiring
that newspaper editorials be
signed or initialed by the per-
son writing them.
This proposal, now before
the Idaho House. seems to ov-
erlook the fact that, in every
newspaper, there always is
some individual. by whatever
title known. who is prepared
to accept the responsibility
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