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TWELVEflljlMORNWG HERAU)(K^tabU«h«o 1873)BnLereu at Ui* posturbc* m Hugere-town as second clasp matteiC. NEII.l BA * LOiISdlloiU. P Phones IU4-1U6-106Member Audit Bureau or CirculationSubscrlDUor. Bates. iu Advuuce Stuglo copy .04; by carrier pei a week, .18; by mall up to ub zone per month. .75; s\x monUis. I4.2 per vear. $8.00; 4th. 6tL and 6lh zones. $10.50; 7th and 8th zones $2.00; foreign mall pei month. $1.50MliM BEK A2SSUC1 A'i'BD fc'UESfc The Associated Press la exclusively entitled to the use ol publication o’r all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited la this paper and also local news published therein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are alsorf££rve(L___those duds. Not very many people actually believed the “nearbycamp, secret or non-secret, was to be expanded after the war, or even used except by the Slate of Mary-Iland.Really, the camp Is now living up to expectations. Originally Intended as a training camp for Maryland's National Guard, it will con-♦tinue to be the training camp for the National Guard.Amish Farm LogicCamp Ritchie ClosingCamp Albert C. Ritchie, near Cascade, which was known in this section during the war as a “neurit is certain that when Homer praised the Phaeacians for their gardens, or when Virgil wrote his Georgies, men were successful in getting a lot of produce from the ground without: benefit of tractorsor a tankful of gasoline. A con-by camp/' lias passed from federal tlrmation of how much good farm-Ito slate control. ! ing can, bo accomplished by horse*The veil of secrecy which sur-idrRwn Plows- a family o£ bome* rounded the operation of tlio camp i rRised hired men and tbe sweat oC as a military intelligence training unmechanized brows has long beencenter has long since been lifted, but transfer of the installationevident on the fertile acres of Lancaster county, in Pennsylvania,from the U. S. government to the wbero Amish fanners, whosechurch tenets forbid the use ofgovernment of the State of Maryland recalls that Camp Ritchie was a well-kept secret of the war. When1soldier personnel of the camp got into trouble or figured in accidents they were identified as soldiers of a “nearby camp/' and on occasion,when some of the more talented men stationed there—and Ritchie probably had more artistic talent to the acre than any other camp in the country—journeyed from the “nearby camp’1 to Hagerstown and other nearby places to give concerts their appearances were not advertised.The tag “nearby camp'1 deceived no one in the immediate area; it was conscientiously used by newspapers of the area to shield Ritchie and its mission from prying eyes on the outside. If it approximated its aims, the newspapers can feel compensated for a practice which at times seemed as pointless to them as it no doubt did to many of their readers.1More than $6,000,000 was spent by the Army since 1041 in buddings • nd improvements at the camp. It was a most active camp from the time of its inception untilthe war ended, in training men for intelligence service overseas. It is said that some of the finest work by Intelligence in the invasion of France and in the latter part of the Japanese campaign can be attributed to Camp Ritchie products'.Army men predicted Camp Ritchie was to become a permanent training camp for Intelligence. More millions were to be expended there, they said, as they rose to the heights in their prognostications. It was just another one of4machinery, have been crowding big barns and thriving financially for more than two centuries.According to Associated Press reports, Clyde A^Zehner, chairman of the Pennsylvania Agricultural Adjustment Administration, r e -cc-utly sent letters to 1,010 members of House Amish, asking that they disregard their church's mandate against machinery, so far as to make use of tractors which might result in larger crops ofmuch-needed grain.Two bishops of the church, in negatively replying to Mr. Zehner’s appeal, argued that almost every House Amish farmer had already plowed every square inch of his land, while tractor-owning neighbors were only “thinking about plowing. The bishops, furthermore, asserted that “urging the Amish to use tractors at this time is simply out of the question, both from the standpoint of the church and from the standpoint that you can’t buy tractors/'Ren in thi pressi out seemt to sig The get e tion miuir said done the ’ YethatIt can readily be noted that in servthis last statement the- Amish spokesmen had something on the A. A. A. Surely, a federal government which has failed so lamentably in starting the wheels of industrial production has little ground for attempting to alter themethods of hard working Amish•farmers who have been successfully tilling thousands of acres of the finest farmlands of Pennsylvania long before John L. Lewis [ na-1 ergave a last tilt to his eyebrows or civi a Washington bureaucrat put his feet on his desk and lighted a second cigar.som« than Tlt; in t thro NSl N; does serv It insu the rine chil leftmigSmil“tethe
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Morning Herald
Hagerstown, Maryland, US
Fri, May 10, 1946
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