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Police log 1/21

State police charged Robert William Cox, 57, of Pennsbury
Township with providing alcoholic beverages to minors at his McMullen Farm Lane
home, according to a police report. The report said the juveniles were drinking
the beverages during a Jan. 16 party at Cox’s home and that he was aware of the
fact.

• Pennsylvania State Police from Troop K, Media, are
investigating a home invasion robbery in Concord Township. According to a
report, three men, one brandishing a shotgun, broke into a home on Ivy Mills
Road, bound a man and a woman with duct tape and stole money before fleeing in
a red Ford Taurus or Mercury Sable. The incident happened on Jan. 17 at
approximately 5:10 to 5:20 p.m. Police describe the suspects as black men. One,
wearing a black mask is 6 feet to 6 feet 2 inches tall; a second suspect, the
one with the shotgun, is 5 feet 5 inches to 5 feet 6 inches with a heavy build
and a dark complexion with bumps on his face; the third subject is 5 feet 7
inches to 5 feet 8 inches with a thin to medium build and light complexion and
a thin beard, the report said.

• Shawn Richard Geary, 21, of Garnet Valley, was stopped for
DUI on Route 1 near Applied Card Way, a state police report said. According to
the report, Geary was stopped after going through a steady red signal shortly
before 12:30 a.m. on Jan. 19.

• Police said Calvin Stoltzfus, 36, of Honey Brook was
charged with DUI after failing a field sobriety test and was transported to the
state police barracks in Media for a chemical sobriety test. He was stopped for
erratic driving near routes 1 and 202 at 1:34 a.m. on Jan. 17, police said.
Charges were to be filed in Judge Richard Cappelli’s district court.

• State police are investigating the theft of a $30,000
utility trailer containing a skid loader valued at $60,000 from Terrain at
Styers, a report said. Also stolen were a John Deer Gator utility vehicle, a
front loader bucket and $4,700 worth of various tools. The theft occurred
sometime between 2:30 p.m. Jan. 12 and 6:15 a.m. Jan 13. Anyone with
information is asked to contact the state police at 484-840-1000.

• Someone stole four bottles of liquor from the Best Western
Hotel on Route 1 in Concord Township, according to a police report. The report
said an unknown individual walked around the hotel, then entered and broke into
a liquor cabinet. The incident happened between 8 and 9 p.m. on Jan. 12.

• State police charged 31-year-old Gregory Raymond Jadlocki,
reportedly of Chadds Ford Township, with DUI following a traffic stop in Thornbury
Township on Jan. 14. A police report said Jadlocki was stopped for multiple
traffic violations, identified as being under the influence and then arrested
for DUI.

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Money, morality and earthquakes

Opinion

To say the people and government of Haiti need help is an
understatement. Indeed, the Jan. 12 earthquake left an estimated 200,000 dead
and possibly 1.5 million people homeless.

Search and rescue teams, along with food and water supplies
have been flown in from countries across the globe. And while no amount of
money can prevent natural disasters, the Haitian people need to learn how to
improve themselves financially.

That was the thrust of a James Peron article, Wealth,
Poverty and Natural Disasters written in The Freeman recently.

Mr. Peron, the President of Laissez Faire Books, compares
the earthquake in Haiti with the 1989 quake in San Francisco. Both earthquakes
were of similar magnitude, 7.0 in Haiti, 6.9 or 7.0 in California. One major
difference was the death toll in San Francisco was 69. Peron wrote, “The
difference is wealth.”

He goes on to say the areas in San Francisco where the casualty
rates were higher were poorer areas and that wealthier regions, like wealthier
people, can better bear the burdens of even mother nature. He was talking of
such things as better infrastructure.

At best, Mr. Peron is stating the obvious, but he uses a tragedy
to preach. He ignores the concept of humanitarian aid.

Now it may be, and has been, argued that there can be no
morality without choice. From that it follows that money taken in taxes and
then used to aid those in need does not constitute a moral act.

Jacob Hornberger, president of the Future of Freedom
Foundation, raised some questions in a recent blog. Who is being moral and
caring in sending aid to Haiti? Is it the president who orders the aid sent,
the revenue service people who collect the taxes that pay for the aid or is it
Congress who writes the tax laws? Or is it the taxpayers who have no choice in
the matter?

Ultimately it’s none of the above. The truly moral and
decent people are those who, despite being taxed, ignored and even disrespected
by elected and appointed officials, still voluntarily give. Through text
messaging and a plethora of other means, Americans voluntarily contributed $210
million for aid to Haiti in six days–and that in a still bad economy.

Those people, and others around the world who also
voluntarily contribute to providing humanitarian aid are the ones who are truly
moral. And they probably don’t even think about that. They just want to help
because it’s the right thing to do.

We also praise those search and rescue, medical personnel and others
who volunteer their time and services to help those in need.

There is still decency in the world.