European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 21, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 16 the stars and stripes May 1977 Jesse Jackson roots roots Are what we All should look for for 12 exhausting and often Des Perate Alex Haley searched for the origins of his essence and his search led him to explore the lives and memories of hundreds of men and some lives he explored through books and written others were found in memories locked in the private vaults of living we All know what Haley was looking for and what he he has told us in a phenomenally popular Book a Book not yet at the Peak of its for All of the Impact roots has had on i columns comments americans and our images of our country and one of Haleys most Power Ful messages really int being its a message that concerns Haley very visiting us in Haley patiently retraced and  the roots questions Hes heard thousands of but when time came for him to speak at length and he talked not about roots but about the roots of a modern american the tragedy that so touches Haley is the dissolution of the american sense and Structure of he believes that the aimlessness and anxiety that tortures the lives of so Many Young americans has origin in the  of modern to subject touches Haley where he lives and to feels deeply about it Haleys own quiet words Are the Best to discuss the problem and How he suggests we attack it this is what he said in Chicago tens of thousands of children Are grow ing up in Homes without connections to their grandparents have been cased out of the modern american Many of them pc moved into places with other older when that is they lose their Contact with the children of their and that a nobody can a for children what grandparents grandparents Sprinkle stardust on the lives of without Contact with a child loses a Villa and Nat ural Way to Sec and understand that he is a part of a that he has lie is the future and the Hope of All those1 who preceded we have put such emphasis on technology and materialism that we Are neglect ing our greatest cultural treasure our those we patronizing by Call senior we must not lose what they for when they Are so will be much of wha we we dont have much perhaps Only a to reconnect with our through our there is no time to there Are three things to do As quickly As get to the oldest in our families and get everything from them we can about their our go Back again and ask them to go Back and Back in their when we collect All they can Tell it needs to be it needs to be written in Clear and simple in the most direct Way if at All it should be then make As Many opinions expressed in the columns cartoons on this Page represent trove of the authors and Are in no Way to he considered As representing views the stars and stripes or lie United states copies As needed to get a copy into the hands of each family As part of this we must also pre serve those old trunks of photos and clip pings that our family members those Are our in with thought and you will find things that will shake you to your there is an urgency to if we let these elders and their records Well never know till be the third we need to Start hold ing family when families of diverse places and attitudes come together because of a common people will find thaw hey live on in though they May never have met or talked the family records and the reunion will give something important to our they will help them realize the drama of their past and so help them focus on being purposeful and proud in their that is the quiet message Alex Haley is so anxious he is challenging us to connect the roots of our past with the fruits of the present to secure our we must use the message of the struggles in our past to meet and overcome those of the for As has been if we dont learn from the mistakes of the past we Are doomed to repeat while he was with us in Alex Haley also shared other thoughts and other ideas from time to ill share More of them with  James Kilpatrick Doest permit Folly William Proxmire of the senates to seeded took off the other Day on the topic of Tennis he swept set and the senator awarded his Golden fleece for May to the National endowment for the humanities for making a Grant to Arlington to study Why people Are cheat and lie on the Oral Tennis the he was also to determine Why Tennis players hog the courts and become frustrated when they have to wait to Reading from the sponsors application for the Proxmire said the county proposed 1 to hire the consulting serv ices of a professor of 2 to hire the consulting services of professor of ethics and 3 to Survey the attitudes of about 300 local Tennis and 4 to conduct two Public meetings where among other things the professors guide the local Tennis players in role playing activities where they take the part of the suf Fering local Tennis Proxmire called the study and noted that represents the entire Federal income tax paid by a typical Amer ican wham the senators Over head smash went out of Bounds in one the funds in question were allocated not by the National endowment for the humanities but rather through the authority of the Virginia state Board in charge of such otherwise his shots landed fairly within the Bounds of senatorial the study was indeed substantially As he described the county recreation concerned that some local players had to Wail four hours for a Learned that the players were willing to try to Monitor i thought that was she so she put in for the and the Money Only was news flu we a woe 1 w new is so t so much for the Story and thank the senator could perform an even More significant service if he would look into the constitutional justification for these my guess is that he would find in my own old fashioned the Power of Congress to tax the people and to spend the Peoples Money is strictly limited by the terms of the Constitution appropriations must be made by and the to be must be made in pursuance of the the Constitution plainly sanctions appropriations for the armed for the postal for the Federal and for a seemingly endless Parade of programs in the name of the Commerce but you can sit up All Reading the Constitution line by and you will find nothing that authorizes the spending of fed eral tax funds for a study of bad manners on the Tennis courts of Arlington it is generally by those who defend a Freean Deasy spending that con Gress has the after to provide for the general but a Hundred supreme court jumping up and never will persuade me that the phrase empowers the Congress to appropriate funds for anything and Buch a Loose construction reduces much of article one to Mere Surplusage it mocks the ancient doctrine of enumerated Powers and it nullifies the sound doctrine that our Constitution was intended not merely to but also to restrain off and on for 30 years i have whooped it of u the rules of the bought is to require that every Bill carry a preamble reciting the specific constitutional authority on which the authors of the Bill such a Rute might not deter those members who Are of to the sons of Tennis but it might inhibit a few of shows who take the con Loose trouble not Many do