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...docents in Maryland may not ask you back if you can't perform a speech Lincoln gave in the state. And then there are the costuming challenges--carefully shaving your upper lip, coloring the gray from your whiskers, suffering the assumptions of those who mistake you for a lost Amishman...
...cars in driveways across Elkhart County. It means $15 an hour plus benefits, on average, for assembly-line work that ranges from welding chassis to hanging kitchen curtains. It means six and seven members of the same family with RV jobs. It means that if you see an Amishman in a buggy horsing along State Route 13 in Middlebury, he may be going to his job at an RV factory. How can you not love a country in which the Plain People are fitting $100,000 motorized dens with BarcaLoungers, satellite dishes and microwaves...
...Amishman Ed Lee, who will not pay Social Security taxes [April 19], should be free to practice his long-established religion. President Reagan has appealed to Americans to return to the concept of self-help instead of relying on Government aid. The Amish have done just that by caring for their own for generations. Now the IRS wants to take Lee's property when all he asks for is to live and let live...
...broad-brimmed felt hat, which they wear as part of their religion, and this spring some 400 Amish workers in Indiana were furloughed from their construction jobs. On their behalf, Attorney John Martin Smith of Auburn, Ind., sought and won an exemption from the Labor Department. No soft-hatted Amishman is likely to demand workmen's compensation for a head injury; the Amish do not accept such insurance as a matter of principle...
...March 24). The strictest members of the sect balk at social security levies on the grounds that I Timothy 5:8 and other Bible passages command them to take care of their own. And they do: records in Wayne and Holmes counties show not a single case of an Amishman seeking public assistance of any kind...