'Artillery or articulation?'
To the editor:

En garde, Monsieur Price!

The glove has been thrown to the ground and the challenge is here! My "second" and I challenge you and your "second" to a duel!

I, frail damsel, have been wronged by you, and "Hell knoweth no wrath as a woman scorned."

The relief that is sought is for your violation of your own newspaper's code of ethics, namely to provide time for rebuttal against any negativism printed about a candidate just prior to any election.

Mr. William Von Hagn's lengthy disinegenuous diatribe against me, printed in the Courier two days before the BOE election, could have cost me the contest if it were not for 623 Bath school district voters who have their heads on straight.

Von Hagn did not have the right to have that scurrilous letter printed. He never polled the other six members of the BOE to approve such a missive, especially when the specific vote in question was not akin to the manner in which it was presented.

I take these issues seriously, Monsieur Price; and so, with little else at my disposal, I am forced to resort to the historic settling of matters here in America. We may "choose arms" or we may "choose words" - in effect, a debate in lieu of Le Duel. What will it be, Price? Artillery or Articulation?

With the public, en masse, in attendance, we will soon know what REALLY happened in Bath to cost the school taxpayers $1,398, won't we?

I await your response; so does my "second;" and does the public.
Rosalie Niemczyk
Bath

Editor's note

The May 11 Courier carried a letter to the editor from Mrs. Niemczyk that was explicitly critical of William Von Hagn, president of the Haverling school board. Mr. Von Hagn wrote a letter the following week rebutting several of Mrs. Niemczyk's claims, and his letter accordingly appeared in the May 18 Courier. Mrs. Niemczyk appears to believe the Courier should not have published Mr. Von Hagn's rebuttal to her initial criticisms, but the Courier respectfully disagrees.