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Pennsylvania's "Granddaddy" Turnpike affords a turnoff at U.S. 23 to Valley Forge and on through rambling fields and decent towns with indecent names like Bareville and Intercourse in the Pennsylvania Dutch country, whose Amish farmers scorn electricity, never cut their beards, and travel when they must by horse and buggy. For them, perhaps, the beaten path holds adventure. Even the turnpikes might prove a treat...
Muttering into their beards, a cluster of black-hatted Amish farmers watched sullenly in Canton, Ohio last week, while an auctioneer sold off livestock confiscated by the U.S. Government. On religious grounds, Amishmen had refused to pay the social security levy-3⅜% of their own incomes-that the law demands of farmers. To satisfy the Government's claims, federal authorities in Ohio's Wayne and Holmes counties seized 28 head of livestock from 15 Amish farmers, seized cash assets of 50 others...
...pacifist, Bible-quoting Amish sect is a survival from the 1690s, when it was founded by a Swiss named Jacob Ammann. In some of the 50 Amish settlements scattered around the U.S. and Canada, the old ways have yielded a little to the march of centuries, but the Amishmen of central Ohio have clung steadfastly to their traditional customs and costumes. They shun automobiles, movies, even home electricity. All married men grow beards, and all men, women and children wear black headdress in public. Farming and a few related trades such as blacksmithing and harness-making are the only approved...
...their troubles with the Old Age and Survivors Insurance system, the Amish are victims of the irreversible bloat that seems to afflict social-welfare plans. From modest beginnings in 1937, when it applied only to regular employees and nicked only 1% from their paychecks, OASI has expanded in both coverage and bite. Once Congress extended the system to farmers four years ago, it was plainly necessary for the Federal Government to make the Amish pay up: laws must apply to all alike. But the plight of the Amish was a footnote reminder that the welfare state has its victims...
Again and again, bands of husky truck drivers plunged out into the storm, returned with more lost souls. One man, struggling through the waist-high drifts toward the restaurant, fell dead of a heart attack. Two Amish farmers returned to their truck, brought back a load of bologna and cheese, sold part of it to adults, gave the rest to the children. The stares grew harder, the words sharper...