In East Liberty Township I interviewed local farmer John Brickner who said nearby Bascom, Ohio is only one of two places in Ohio that has a Grain Elevator and Supply Co. Co-op owned by some 330 local farmers who have all bought shares. The Co-op is 95-years-old. What’s more, Bascom (pop. 400) also has a locally owned telephone company [quite rare these days]. Our campaign promotes “decentralism,” that is a shift back to much more of a local, community focus. And both the grain elevator and phone company are excellent examples of that local focus, both of which enhance mutual cooperation in an area and a stronger community spirit in general… We went to Mass at St. Andrews (built circa 1834), a small country church in East Liberty. Afterward we had a lengthy discussion with Fr. Art Neiwiadomski here, who majored in philosophy and is versed in arguements around logic and reason. And one thing he finds quite ‘unreaonable’ is: abortion. For “Respect Life Sunday” last week, he put the following quote from the book Roe v. Reason in the bulletin: “Roe holds that a change in location, passage through the birth canal, can turn a potential human being into an actual human being. But this makes no sense. What something is does not depend on where it is. The court didn’t just reason poorly in Roe. It abandoned reason altogether.”… Later this morning, during an interview with Fostoria Focus newspaper reporter John Montgomery, I said I, too, found abortion to be unreasonable, and just plain wrong… This afternoon I interviewed Mark West in Fostoria. He started the Oasis Program at the Piqua (Ohio) Correctional Institute. A 200 bed drug and alcohol treatment ward in the prison, the nine month program had a 95% success rate and is being used as a model on the Federal level now. Mr. West, who now consults with prisons in northern Ohio, told me some 80% of crimes that land people in prison were committed either under the influence, or were motivated by someone wanting to get more drugs, alcohol, etc. The prison recovery program lasts nine months and has saved the state millions as there are less and less repeat offenses by prisoners who have completed the program, said Mr. West. Note: The prison system in Ohio is the states: 2nd leading industry, said Mark West. Ohio has 50 prisons.