Oh! Get Out! You're Making a Mess! | DAY. Lancaster county has the fourth best rating in the nation on the scale which measures the amount of crime! A recently issued statistical re- port for the year 1589, put out by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, rates only three other communities — all in Pennsylvania — ahead of Lancast- er county. The index of crime, as tabulated by the law enforcement agencies of the area, is fantastically low at a time when all across the land lawlessness and disregard for persons and prop- erty are on a steeply increasing curve. The question is raised, “Why is crime low in Lancaster county?” A number of reasons are advanc- ed, but our answer is “because of the church influence.” Over the years that segment of our society has made an indelible impres- sion upon the entire area. The influence and the basic ethics of that cultural section of the county If You Would Write - - Would you like to write to your stale or federal representatives in Har- risburg or Washington? Here are their addresses: FEDEHAL 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 I». 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. Or, Call the Mayor - MAYOR Henry R. Zerphey Call 653-2289 LIB MOVEMENT EDITORIALS --- have permeated the Lancaster area far more than it might appear on the surface. In fact, many many of the church-- es of the community have strong ties to their plainer sister churches. Many members are maybe only one genera- tion removed from very plain people and plain churches. While membership in a plain church or ancestoral ties in a plain family do not guarantee law abiding citizenship, the plain church has plac- ed its weight squarely in the direc- tion of a bold, strong ethical front. The churches and their influences have slowed the drift from the days when “a man’s word was his bond” and .when “children were to be seen and not heard.” The plain church has maintained a pressure for survival of many of the “old fashioned” virtues which exclude lawlessness and irres- ponsibility. These wonderful traits have be- come ingrained in the culture of the entire area and this influence per- vades the entire community — this entire county, leaving it less beleag- uered by crime. The church—especially the old line plain church — we believe, is responsible for the low crime wm rate in this county. - Although it is not making a tre- mendous noise about its efforts, the Friendship Fire company of Mount Joy is making a strong plea for funds. Already a new, super-modern pumper truck has been ordered—for delivery next spring — and several thousand dollars worth of equipment has been purchased to make the truck use it will have in this community. The new outfit will replace a truck suitable for the diversified kind of which is 30 or more years old and which in some ways is not adequate to cope with residential, business, in- dustrial, urban and county fire situa- tions. The total package is expensive but the fire company has in its coffers about half the necessarv money. As the firemen make their plea, the community should listen and thoughtfully support the effort. A community without the very best fire fighting equipment it can possibly afford is not facing facts — cold, hard financial facts connected replacement costs. inconvenience and with replacement costs, inconvenience and with such things as insurance rates, annoyance costs connected with a fire. Friendship Fire company deserves to have individual and community support in this big, important effort. The Mount Joy BULLETIN 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 fre Subseription 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, AUGUST 26, 1970 Others are saying --- WHAT SOME COLLEGES SEEM TO FORGET In their eagerness to prove that they are “relevant” by supporting the political acti- vity of their students, a good many universities seem to have forgotten something: namely, that although they owe no political allegiance to anybody in Washington they do have a definite obligation to the internal revenue ser- vice. They should therefore thank Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina (but probably won't) for reminding them, in a speech _in the Senate re- cently, that an educational institution is exempt from taxation only if it is operated “exclusively” for educational purposes, if ‘no substantial part” of its activity involves efforts to influence legislation and if it “does not participate in any political campaign or on behalf of any candidate for public office.” Mr. Thurmond was talking about Princeton University, which has declared 2-weeks pre-election holiday next fall so that students can cam- paign for antiwar candidates. One politics professor has or- ganized the Princeton Move- ment for a New Congress to promote this effort. As a number of students have said in letters to their home papers. “This is not a student strike against the university; rather it is a strike by Princeton universi- ty against the war.” To Mr. Thurmond, this looks like a violation of the tax laws, and he intends to ask for a treas- ury investigation. His warning applies to oth- er universities as well. For example, the University of Chicago footed the bill for telephone calls to allow stu- deats to convey their opin- ions on the Vietnam war to legislators in Washington, There are any number of universities in which the fac- ulty seems to have been at least instrumental in promot- ing anti-war demonstrations and in closing down. classes as the students; at least one faculty vote called for the impeachment of President Nixon and Vice President Agnew. The question inevitably ar- ises how long an educational institution can honestly call itself nonpolitical under con- ditions like this. It is one thing, and a good thing, to permit political activity on the part of students; i's some- thing quite different to fo- ment it. to support it, and to take part in it, even unoffic- ially. Leading educators argue that this is inconsistent with a university's job, but, this is not our point just now. What concerns us is that some universities, like some individuals, seem to think they can overlook laws that don’t appeal to them; or that a tax law is too trivial to fuss about. Some private founda- tions thought so, too — un- til last year, when Congress clamped down on them with new rules and new taxes. —Chicago (I11) Tribune CAMPUS FAGINS “The new Ivy League edu- cational theory is that those who need instruction so des- perately that they are unfit to go out into the real world until they get four years of it are fit, howevr, from the moment they arrive on cam- pus to instruct their instruct- ors; that those who look, act, and smell like sub-humans are the only true voices of humanity; that the only clear thinkers among us are the half-stoned, and that every- one else has rocks in his head; that our totally non- productive class is the only class worth producing for, (Turn to page 3) “You can’t forget being a zoo ettendont, con you?" / -
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