Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You . . . EDITORIALS --- Loyalty Day served significant pur- poses this past week! As never before, perhaps, it tend- ed to focus a searching light upon patriotism itself. As Loyalty was emphasized in this community, another kind of emphas- is was displayed in Washington, capi- tal of the nation. The danger of both kinds of dem- onstrations is that each categorically label the other disloyal. While it appears probable that the Washington people made their point as early as last Thursday and should have gone home; it also appears that some people at home may have been somewhat over demonstrative, too. Loyalty, like some other qualities, can be and is expressed in different ways—depending upon the viewpoint of one who is displaying his feelings. As the days grow into months, it is becoming more apparent that more and more people are shifting their private, if not their public, stances on some critical issues before the nation. To challenge loyalty on the grounds of ideological addressment is intellectual suicide. If You Would Write - - Would you like to write to your state or federal representatives in Har- risburg or Washington? Here are their addresses: FEDEKAL 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 D. Eshleman, 416 Cannon House Office Bldg.,, Washington, D. C 20515. STATE Senator Richard A. Snyder, Box 21, State Senate, Harrisburg, Pa. 17120. Rep. Yack B. Horner , 23-A S. Market St., Elizabethtown 17022. Or, Call the Mayor - MAYOR Henry R. Zerphey Call 653-2289 A growing feeling among the peo- ple of responsible approach is that methods and seasons for disengage- ment from military activities in far corners of the world deserve immedi- ate attention. Within the framework of staunch-- est loyalty, the shifting outlook and opinions of the people are not locked onto the ‘my country/right or wrong.’ stance. Loyalty is concerned with the feel- ing cf “right” and the respon- sible approach to the object- ws ives of what is right. Thought of the Week -- THE COST IS SMALL Kindness has been described in many ways. It is the poetry of the heart, the music of the world. It is a golden chain which binds society to- gether. It is a fountain of gladness. Kind hearts are more than coronets. Kind words produce their own beauti- ful image in man’s soul. Everyone knows the pleasure of receiving a kind look, a warm greeting, a hand held out in time of need. And such gestures can be made at so little ex- pense, yet they bring such dividends to the investor. —The War Cry INHERITANCE I am most of all thankful for my birthplace and early nuture in the warm atmosphere of a spiritually-min- ded home, with a manifest touch of saintliness in it; thankful indeed that from the cradle I was saturated with the Bible and immersed in an envir- onment of religion of experience and reality. It was a peculiar grace that I was born into that great inheritance of spiritual wisdom and faith, accumu- lated through generations of devotion and sacrificial love. I can never be grateful enough for what was done for me by my progenitors before I came on the scene. They produced the spiritual atmosphere of my youth. I became heir of a vast inheritance. There is nothing I would exchange for that. —Rufus M. Jones A Last Line MY LEGACY A hundred times every day I re- mind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. —Albert Einstein The Mount Joy ULLETIN 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. MOUNT JOY, PENNA. WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 1971 WASHINGTON REPORT Congressman Edwin D. Eshleman 16th District—Pennsylvania The growing pressure by opponents of the Vietnam War to set a date for with- drawal of all American troops, regardless of existing circumstances, is a call to an arbitrary retreat that invites disaster. The Vietnam con- flict is an unpopular war, but we must not allow its unpop- ularity to permit the Presi- dent’s critics to adopt the policy they advocate — a policy, which if enacted, would produce severe conse- quences for the Nation and for the world. The President’s policy has two broad aims. First, it seeks to bring an end to Am- erican combat involvement in Southeast Asia as soon as possible, Second, it seeks to allow South Vietnam the op- portunity for self-defense a- gainst Communist aggression. That policy is working. The number of American troops in Vietnam has been reducad from 540,000 in January, ’69 to 270,00 this week. A n d, the South Vietnamese daily are assuming more of the re- sponsibility for their own de- fense, But, as the evidence mounts that the President’s -program is a success, certain political and ideological forces within this country seem even more determined to make the Un- ited States withdraw from Vietnam immediately and un- conditionally. These forces seem intent upon insuring an American defeat in South- east Asia. If the United States with- draws from Vietnam in the manner prescribed by the new isolationists which per- mits the Communists to change failure into victory, our credibility as a world leader will be jeopardized. What thousands of tons of military hardware from Rus- sia and Red China and the manpower of their ally, North Vietnam, failed to ac- complish will have been ac- compiished by leftist critics in our country. The world will have to assume that the political power of the anti- war faction has rendered the United States incapable of opposing Communist expan- sion, We went to South Vietnam to counter North Vietnamese aggression. We went because without American action there was no one else to pre- vent the aggressors from rea- ping rewards. We determined that such action was in our national interest because ag- gression rewarded breeds fur- ther aggression and eventu- ally brings on a choice be- tween all-out war and surren- der. And, that is a choice which Americans should not have to bez asked to make. Yet, because we went to Vietnam we became embroil- ed in a long and unpopular conflict, Mistakes were made in the past, both military and political. But in the final an- alysis, those mistakes should not discredit the good reas ons for ending this war in such a way that aggression is not rewarded and our credibility is not destroyed. President Nixon is determin- ed to maintain that kind of responsible policy, and to bring this war to a close without encouraging another in its wake. He deserves the support of all of us in his ef- fort. The catcher’s maks was in- vented in 1876 by F. W, Thayer of Harvard University COMEDY CORNER “Look, when | told you | had a horseless carriage, | wasn't kidding!” om aul. ot Rel ZR iN 2 Riad and dma mi a RE mao TN ai tf ™ NN = OHO Meat dn ob oh ob een Len
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