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»*AuE TWO Tn-; ROCKLAND COUNTY TnVlES HAVER8TRAW, N. T FEBRUARY 21, 1952 Girl Scout Cookie Sale Benefits Day Camping For All County Areas “ Cookies for Camp ” is the Girl Scouts ’ slogan these two weeks of their second annual cookie sale. “ Cookie Caves ” were sold out* in some areas the first day of the sale, February 11. Mrs. John Coffman, chairman of the current campaign, made a hasty re-order. The success of the current sale assures the support of the summer camping program. The plans to of fer day camping to 365 girls dur ing the summer season arc well seL Day camping is an extension of the troop activities and cemes as soon os school is over. It is aimed to give experience to the young Scout and leads to “ overnight ” camping at Rocky Lodges. A volunteer group of leaders will stalT the four camp sites where camping “ by the day ” will be of fered for six all day sessions. The cost of the entire six sessions, in- (duding transportation, will be fi3.50. Mrs. James Cevasco, Day Camp Chairman of tlie Rockland County Girl Scout Council, said: “ It is the enthusiasm and industry of our 1,600 Girl Scouts and our cookie captains that makes it pos sible to offer six days of camp for only $3.50. ” At a recent meeting of the coun cil, Mrs. Cevasco presented plans for the coming season as develop ed by Mrs. Robert W. Pugh, exec utive director and Day Camp coor dinator, and the four Day Camp committees. Girls^in the western part of the county will attend Cranberry Lake Camp, loaned to them through the generosity of the Ramapo Land Company. With in two miles of the heart of Suf- fern, it offers swimming and boat ing, natural seclusion and ideal unit sites. Cheesecote Mountain, with a “ down-hill ” and an “ up-hill ” site, is again offered by Letchworth Vil lage to 110 girls who will attend from the well-known High Tor region. This vast area with its varied terrain offers opportunities for nature study, swimming and outdoor cooking, and a progression of activities for girls aged seven to 11. A newly acquired 12-acre tract of rolling land, woods and brook in Blauvelt will be available to girls from the eastern and south ern parts of the county, including Spring Valley, Nanuet and Pearl River. Miss Grace A. M. Builowa and Dr. Addisone Boyce, generous friends of Scouting, gave the campsite to the Girl Scouts to pro mote camping for the girls of Brownie ^out age. A total of 160 girls will attend this site on alter nate days — an 80-girl quota for each camp. For the older girl with a swim mer ’ s badge, there is the Mariner Sailing Day Camp to be held for six days, the second week in July, at the Minisceongo Yacht Club in Stony Point. These generous hosts also have indicated their interest in the development of sailing skills among the Girl Scouts by sponsor ing Mariner Troop 59 with Mrs. G. W. Watts and Mrs. Daniel Tom kins leaders. A REPORT FROM ALBANY AVE MARIA HO^R PROGRAM The Ave Maria Hour will pre sent the third program of the Ave Maria Hour series entitled “ Saints in Reverse ” over WLNA Sunday at 4:05 p. m. The subject for this presentation will be Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor who, because of the fear of the loss of prestige, condemned Christ to death. By his denial of Christ, the rest of his life was spent as a victim of a bad con science and frustration. The or- j iginal play has been written for radio by David Hayes and will in clude in its cast Peter Capell as Pilate, supported by Ethel Everett, Martin Rudy, Bill Smith and Rich ard Janaver. -------- 0 -------- - MISS EDITH TRIPP DIES Miss Edith Tripp, co-owner of the News of the Highlands at Highland Falls, died at her home in Highland Falls February 5. She was administratrix of the estate of the late Frank Tripp, which owns the paper, and for many years was the News ’ financial manager. She was a retired school teacher and until tliree years ago wrote news for the paper. By ROBERT WALMSLEY, Rockland County Assemblyman These are the days at Albany when the legislators are at, their busiest in the introduction of bills. Hundieds of proposed new meas ures arc introduced each day. This process will go on and even in crease over tlie next ton days. The reason is that February 19 has been fixed by the Speaker of the Assembly as the final day for the introduction of bills by the mem bers, That date constitutes a deadline. Thereafter, comparatively few bills will be introduced. They will be laigcly of an emergency nature and will be introduced and spon sored by the Committee on Rules. This is a very important commit tee which functions chiefly during the last days of any legislative session and has the ultimate word on what measures shall be con sidered in the final hours of the session. It is interesting to note that nearly 3,500 bills have been put in since January 9, when the Legislature held its first meeting of the new year. The probabilities are that as many more will be offered before the deadline. This means that the members whose bills are not already in will be doubly busy in working to beat that deadline. It also means terrific pressure on the Bill Draft ing Commission, whose task it is either to draw the proposed new bills or to see that those which have been drav/n elsewhere and are presented for introduction meet existing requirements. Such bills With Other Editors Only five days to go to beat the deadline. of purely local legislation the state shall not impinge upon the local powers without the consent of the local governing body. The idea is to safeguard home rule interests with re.spccl to legislation merely local in effect. Ihcre is another spliere of activity v;hich also comes to a bead at this stage of the session at Albany. One upstate paper labeled such activity rather sensationally as “ Free Shows on Capitol Hill. ” It was referring to the period of public hearings on pending legis lation. Each year certain public hear ings are definitely scheduled be cause they deal with matters which necessarily arise each year. Such a public hearing was the one held from other sources may. be in- on Wednesday last with reference complete or inadequate or not clearly and specifically drawn, or they may not conform to some existing orovisions of law, or they may be*in conflict with the pro visions of the State Constitution. These are all factors which must be carefully considered in prepar ing a bill for introduction. There ai-e also instances where bills to be considered by the Legislature must carry with them Lhe consent of various local govern mental bodies, such as the Board of Supervisors consenting for a county, or officials of a village or city consenting for that body. Generally speaking these require ments have to be met when the proposed law would place a specific burden upon some local political body or would in some way tend U) limit, or restrict its existing powers. There is rarely a year when in order to meet this require ment I am not compelled to call for a formal resolution from some body in Rockland County granting such consent. There is so much legislation re lating to the City of New York that -ine hears the question of consent raised much more often with re spect to measures relating to that city than to any or possibly all, other political units. I am told there are local officials in some parts of the state who feel that they are being put to unnecessary work or effort when called upon officially to provide such consent. Actually, the purpose of the con sent is to protect local interests. It is intended that in many spheres to the proposed state budget of over one billion dollars. This is always a very largely attended hearing in which advo cates and opponents of the Gov ernor ’ s budget of intended ex penditures for the ensuing year turn out in about equal numbers. They come from all over the state. This is customarily the largest public hearing of the year. There | will be an especially large turnout if some group in the state feels that the sum alloted the project they favor is too small. It is cur ious to note that the advocates of increased spending c^n nearly al ways bring out larger numbers than the advocates of reasonable or moderate financial policies. Often this hearing on the budget held in the Assembly Chamber, which can accommodate more than any other area in the Capitol, con tinues from one o ’ clock until far in the evening and even well into the night in order that spokesmen for the different proposals or against them shall all have had their chance “ at bat. ” There is a policy of fairness in allocating time on any given proposal to both the “ liberal ; spenders ” and to the “ thriftily minded.\ To one who has grown accustomed to these.*mcetings it is interesting to note how frequently the same advocates appear year after year to support their cause or to denounce a policy which they feel is wrong. Here at Albany, if anywhere, is exemplified the great American principle of freedom of speech. THE PICKWICKIAN PAT Now is the time for all good moppets to come to the aid of the I ’ ari,y! This is brought forcibly to our attention by a news photograph of Mr. Taft, with a small child pushed against his knee (both looking rather ill at ease) during a recent public appearance. Well over a hundred years ago a young reporter on the London Moining Chronicle look shrewd note of the political campaigns of his day. And in “Pickwick Pap ers, ” the book he was producing by candlelight, in his brief snatches \of leisure, Charles Dickens describ ed an election at “ Eatanswill. ” The rival parlies were the “ Blues ” and the “Buffs. ” As the Honourable Samuel Slum- key, Parliamentary candidate for the Blues, paraded through the streets, his right-hand man said to him, “ Nothing has been left un done, my dear Sir — nothing what ever. There are twenty-washed men ... for you to shake hands with; and six children in arms that you ’ re to pat on the head, and inquire the age of; be particular about the children, my dear Sir, — it has always a great effect, that sort of thing . . And, perhaps, my dfar Sir, — perhaps if you could — I aon ’ t mean to say it ’ s indispen- siuie — but if you could manage to kiss one of ’ em, it would produce a very great impression on the crowd. ” An election campaign is still an election campaign on at least two sides of the Atlantic, and long may the parents remain free to choose who shall pat their moppets on the head! — The Christian Science Monitor. TIME TO REVALUE The disclosure of gambling as a threat to high school basketball in this county came as a dismaying shock to most people last week. Hardened as everyone has become to disclosure of corruption on a national scale, we are not accus tomed to looking for it at home. We doubt if the gambling on .)ur high school games is as wide spread as the first accounts may have led us to believe but the fact that it exists at all indicates that immediate action is necessary. Games scheduled at night do attract many adults and therefore produce many paid admissions which go to support athletics. But it is apparent that many of these adults do not find high school bas ketball sufficiently exciting to watch as a sport unless they are going to win or lose some money on it. If they lose, their nagging in the days following the game makes life unbearable for the boys who usually have played their hearts out for their school. ' The scheduling of inlerscholaslic games in the afternoon, as has been suggested, would certainly elim inate the attendance of most of this undesirable gambling ' ele ment and return the events to what they should be — games be tween two schools — and not public spectacles in which our young peo ple are exploited for the brief en tertainment of a crowd. This is certainly the moment for our educators to examine ser iously an athletic program that has grown far away from the or iginal purpose of competitive sporl5. We would also like to hear a justification of games scheduled for school nights from some edu cator who could tell us when and how high school students prepare their Wednesday assignments if a game is held on Tuesday night; or how alert the players are in their classes on Wednesday after a strenuous game the night before; or whether it is necessary for members of a team to have passing marks in order to play sports. There are many questions in connection with this whole prob lem that must weigh heavily on the consciences of our educators. If there is ever to be a revaluation of the place of competitive sports in our education system — this is the time for it. — The Orange County Courier, Central Valley. MRS. MEYERS HAS CHILD Mr. and Mrs. Harold Meyers of 75 Broadway are the parents of a daughter, Lucretia' Ann, who weighed eight pounds, 12 ounces at her birth February 5 in Nyack Hospital. 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