The Amish of Wayne, Holmes and Tuscarawas Counties, Ohio, are among the ' plainest of the picture-book Plain People. Their men wear buttonless dark blue overalls and jackets, wide-brimmed black hats and beards. Their women go in bonnets and shoe-length black dresses. With fierce rectitude, they forbid themselves automobiles, electricity, telephones and tractors, rather than engender the sin of pride.
Amishman Andrew J. Yoder, 33, and seven times a father, wrestled with his conscience. Twice a week he had to drive his 1½-year-old daughter Lizzie 15 miles in a square-rigged buggy so that she could see a doctor. To ease...
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