Word: amish
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...stolid, austere Amish farmfolk of central Ohio, education beyond the eighth grade is a waste and a danger; it is enough that a child learn to read, write and cipher. This stubbornly held tenet of their strict, old-fashioned sect runs squarely into an Ohio law requiring children to remain in school until they are 16. From time to time in Amish country, parents have been prosecuted for violating the law, but more often, tolerant school boards ignore the Amish boycott of high schools, or make senseless obeisance to the law's letter by letting Amish schoolchildren repeat...
Into Wooster, the county seat, drove bearded Amishmen who hitched their buggies near chrome-splashed V-8s, walked heavily beside their black-bonneted wives into the courthouse, where three Amish couples were on trial for contempt. Their offense: after refusing to let their children start the ninth grade, they carted the three teen-agers to an Amish settlement in Pennsylvania, defying a court order that they be placed in a children's home and allowed to go to school...
...session began, Judge Don Young told the defendants that they could avoid punishment if they obeyed the order (two other sets of Amish parents obeyed last month, turned a boy and a girl over to the children's home, let them go to school). Replied stocky, 46-year-old John Hershberger: "I couldn't give up my son. It is against my scriptures.'' Defendants
...week's end, the three Amish youngsters were still at large, and their parents were still in jail. Amish Bishop Samuel Swartzentruber said they would stay there "if it is God's will. We are not giving in." Some non-Amish Wayne County residents sympathized with the industrious, black-clad farmers, with whom they get along well, if distantly. But most of them agree that not even religion should be allowed to cut off children from the opportunity to become businessmen, doctors, lawyers or musicians, if they want to, instead of farmers. Prospect for the next school year...
...Warp's Pioneer Village at Minden, Nebraska," and "SNAKES!"), conjured up technicolor dreams as they stood in the weed-grown parade ground of Fort Laramie, Wyo. under the flapping flag of the most important post of Western frontier days. And few who took highway 340 through the staid Amish community of Intercourse, Pa. (just three miles this side of Paradise-pop. 549) missed the chance to mail some sure-laugh postcards...