Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 136, Number 32, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 9 August 2018 — Page 4
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• Advance News • Thursday, August 9, 2018
Playing Hooky
I have a strong sense of duty which keeps me plugging away, my nose to the grindstone, but I have never regretted those rare occasions when I played hooky. In 1977 after the worst winter in Chicago's history I skipped a class at Bethany Theological Seminary you were not allowed to miss to go to Opening Day at Comiskey Park. Perfect weather, perfect game (White Sox victory in the bottom of the ninth with two outs) and since I got interviewed on two radio stations everyone at seminary knew what I'd done.
NOTHING happened. 1990 I was sent as a delegate to tiie Church of the Brethren Annual Conference in Portland, Oregon,
only a few years after Mount Saint Helens blew its top. I skipped a business session and drove across the border to Washington State, and suddenly found myself on the dark side of the moon, a slate grey landscape surrounding a still smoldering volcano. Yet even there tiny flowers had struggled through the layers of volcanic ash. Great day. Last month I was in Fort Collins, Colorado, volunteering with the news team for National Youth Conference. I got to spend time with the most exciting, inspiring, and hopeful part of our church. Spirit filled worship twice a day. Who needs to play hooky? But there was this Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. I had to go. What did I see? All kinds of stuff. Artifacts, storage jars, and coins twenty-five hundred years old and older. Stone boxes that once held the bones of the dead with some fairly common names scratched on the outside - like Jesus, Mary, Joseph, and Matthew. But mostly the scrolls. Pieces of parchment discovered by Bedouins seventy years ago in the dry Judean desert containing the oldest examples of the Hebrew Bible in existence. Things likes like two-thousand-year-old scrolls with books of the Bible and commentaries about the Bible and books that are not part of the Bible filled with legends and commandments and instructions survived in that dry climate which would have deteriorated and been lost forever almost everywhere else. The letters are precisely written, with sharp regular strokes. The scribes who produced these documents w'ere skilled professionals (there's an ink stand on display too) who made no effort to point to the great effort they put into exhausting work because they wanted to glorify God instead of themselves by writing words that pointed to the Word that called the world into being. My Hebrew is not great, but it was awe inspiring to look at the four letters of the name of God written by someone two thousand years ago. And the names of the patriarchs and prophets What they tell us is that these words were so important that every effort was made to copy them perfectly from generation to generation, because they spoke to us and speak to us today. I see scraps of commentaries on Genesis and Job. Rules on how a community of faithful people can live together. There's a simple letter written in the era of the second revolt of Bar Kokhba dealing with mundane matters, the rent for farming and harvesting fruit and grain on a particular plot ofland. There's a scrap from the psalms and one from Isaiah - keep in mind these are only a fraction of what's been discovered. It took me less than an hour and a half to drive to Denver and the same to drive back. Nobody even noticed I'd played hooky. But for me this was a dream come true. Frank Ramirez is the Senior Pastor of the Union Center Church of the Brethren
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Fite speech should apply to everyone
Kelly Hawes CNHI News Indiana Columnist The solution to our broken public discourse is not to ban guys like Alex Jones from social media. Don't get me wrong. The founder of the fake news site Info Wars is not a nice guy. He's a fountain of lies aimed at promoting division and hatred. Jones once claimed the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre was a hoax, and he faces a lawsuit from the parents of a 6-year-old victim accusing him of defamation. His attorney, Mark Enoch, appeared at a hearing in Texas this week seeking to have the lawsuit dismissed. "Maybe it's fringe speech. Maybe it's dangerous speech," Enoch said after playing portions of an Info Wars episode. "But it's not defamation. That is rhetorical hyperbole at its core." State District Judge Scott Jenkins now has a month to decide whether to let the
100 YEARS AGO AUGUST 13,1918 Mrs. Jesse T. Stuckman received a severe scalp injury and several facial bruises in an automobile accident on the gravel road, two miles east of town, on Friday. Mrs. Stuckman and her mother, Mrs. James Becknell, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Noble Truex and were going to New Paris to attend the Sunday school and Christian Endeavor convention. Through an accident, the' car ran into the ditch. None of the occupants were thrown out and Mrs. Stuckman was the only one injured. Mrs. Stuckman's injuries were dressed at the Price hospital and fortunately were not serious enough to confine her to the house. Several of her out of town music pupils had gained the impression that she was seriously injured and have been phoning her for infqrmation, but are advised that regular scheduling will be kept until the end of the month, when she will have a vacation. The first Ford tractor arrived at the Nappanee Ford station Monday afternoon and is being viewed by many interested in tractors. Caslial examiiiatibif shows it To bV as simple as the Ford car and powerful enough for all purposes. A demonstration will be given by the Smith Motor Company on the George Campbell farm, just south of town, on Thursday afternoon, and everyone who is interested in tractors is invited. | 75 YEARS AGO AUGUST 12,1943 Several boys from Nappanee and vicinity were picked up by state police following a tip-off a lunch room at the intersection of U.S. 6 and State Road 15 was to be held up. The state police went to the lunch room and found four of the boys, 16 and 17 year olds, in the place shortly after midnight, though the tip-off was that the robbery was to take place at 4 o'clock. Rummaging in the car of one of the boys, guns, knives, and a couple of home made black jacks were found. The young men were taken to Ligonier, where it is said confessions were made by the boys as to breaking in and robbing a service station near Milford and also their intentions of robbing the lunch room. These young men are well known in this vicinity, and while in the past some of them have been mixed up in minor affairs there seems little likelihood of reform and rather than send the boys home or placing on parole, it might be a good thing if their services could be placed at the disposal of the military services. Wakarusa must be given major credit on sale of bonds during the first week of August, the Exchange Bank selling $3,000 worth of bonds and the post office $133.50, nearly fifty percent of the total sales for mis area. Sales for the week
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lawsuit proceed. Meanwhile, Jones has declared war on special counsel Robert Mueller, calling him a "monster" and accusing him of being involved in a child sex ring made up of left-leaning political figures. Jones even went so far as to dramatize a hypothetical "wild west" shootout with the former FBI director. With music from "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" playing in the background, Jones told his listeners the only thing about Mueller that scared him was the possibility that Jones himself might fail to "man up." "I'm constantly in fear that I'm not being a real man, and I'm not doing what it takes, and I'm not telling the truth," he said. And then he insulted the special counsel and challenged him to a metaphorical duel. "It's going to happen," Jones said. "We're going to walk out in the square, politically, at high noon, and he's going to find out whether he
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makes a move ... and then it's going to happen." Jones took an imaginary shot with his fingers and continued. "It's not a joke," he said. "It's not a game. It's the real world. Politically. ... Get ready. We're going to bang heads." So, no, Jones would not leave a void worth filling if he were to disappear from the public square. Still, his current ban from Facebook, You Tube and now Spotify is no cause for celebration. The freedom of expression guaranteed under the First Amendment applies to all of us. It applies to Nazis in the same way it applies to Republicans and Democrats. It protects the racist in the same way it protects the civil rights advocate. It protects those who salute the American flag in the same way it protects those who bum that flag in protest. Balancing all of these interests isn't always easy, but this nation's founders were not looking for easy. To
totaled $6,946.60, showing good sales also in Nappanee for the period. 50 YEARS AGO AUGUST 15,1968 •w Every year about this time, the same problem comes up to the Wa-Nee School Board. The policy has been not to pick up any child living within the city limits of Nappanee. The state gives aid for transportation only outside the city limits. There are some children out opJfeite 6 who have to walk in the road because there are no One such family living near the Hollander Motel asked that the bus stop. This request was denied, although there is a bus which stops near Franklin Coach and will take children to Union Center School if the children want to go there. Ironically, there are still several children within the city limits of Wakarusa who are picked up by buses. Librarian Evelyn Culp announced that during the Village Artßertwl, the Nappanee PflWlgßSrary fr'- ii rywial display. She has gone to some froubife to secure paintings and material related to the Amish and will also display several of the art books in the Library's collection. Arthur Sprunger, area artist from Goshen who has done several paintings of the Amish, will loan some of his works to the Library during this weekend. One of his paintings on the Amish can be found in the book entitled, "Pictorial History of Protestants." 25 YEARS AGO AUGUST 11/1993 Nappanee Civic Theatre has announced its presentation of the musical "Guys and Dolls" over the next three weekends. After a 20 year absence, NCT returns to major musical theatre with this presentation. Cast members include Judy Bomtrager, Steve Phillips, Suzi Cool, Dave Kiefer, Ron Brunk, Shirley LinviUe, Adam Pollock, Bob Walter, Travis White, Mark Lawrence, Doris Peach, Kim White, Bonnie Freet, Dick Smith, and Diana Smith. The Wa-Nee School Administration Building was packed with concerned citizens Monday evening during a public hearing for the three year capital projects plan and school budget. A brief scale of rising costs included in fire budget was given by Assistant Superintendent Phil Lehman. As he finished, several citizens took the floor to speak. Jim Allen asked what the top expenses in the budget were and why taxpayers were seeing such significant increases in these costs. The board explained that the support services area of social security, health insurance, and other benefits, along with special education, are among two of the highest and fastest increasing costs.
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protect the rights of anyone, they decided, we must protect the rights of everyone. The First Amendment protects the rights of Muslims, but it also protects the rights of the anti-Muslim group banned from a street festival because of the reaction its protests might produce. There's a reason this amendment comes first in the Bill of Rights. It's the foundation of our democracy, and without that foundation, other fundamental rights begin to fade away. So what we need is not to silence crackpots like Alex Jones. What we need is to point out just how wrong they are. A true free speech advocate will tell you that the correct response to objectionable speech is not to shut down that speech. The solution is to exercise your own freedom of speech. We should also remember something else. Alex Jones has every right to speak, and we have every right not to listen.