European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 17, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Ter eld his the ies Ich of of an at Illy an Iii a uly lint me de he is concerned about Man and what Mars his human and he fears that the permissive Ages hollow Mes Sage of doing your own thing has brought about a decline in discipline and a Rise in because of my religious 1 see Man As a Pil a searcher in the Jude Christian he pausing to let a mockingbird trill a Brief the novelists Point of View that makes us better off than the marxists and who dont write very Good the apathetic Liberal in his latest sets out on an upside Down quest for the unholy Oral of the perfect one that Hast been excused or explained away by the in times when nobody is interested in he the Way Percy is always what would happen if you prove the existence of pure and simple that be wonderful a new proof of gods existence if there is such a thing As a malignant there must be a god rejoices is the Only quest appropriate to the for everything and everyone either wonder Ful or sick and nothing is Percy is impressed with the new moral tone in Washington and president Carters personal sense of you cant fault he even if it sets your Teeth on were not used to hearing presidents guide us along paths of theological he probably Means i was thinking the other night that what makes South Erners different is that they Are More More in capable of much More corruption and evil and maybe much More moral All it Means is the evil and can be very close morality implies a sense of sin and Lester Maddox and the others May regard Carter As something of a but i like the answer thais like being called ugly by a Percy was Bora in his an died when be was and he went to live with his Uncle on a huge Cotton Plantation in Green his Uncle was the poet William Alexander whose much praised autobiography lanterns on the levee has recently been he was a Man of great Charm and a Lover of and Percy dedicated his first novel to the South they both knew then has since become the Sun and All the old hangups Are if someone told me Back then a South Georgia Farmer would be elected president of the United id say he was said stretching his Long arms and lacing his fingers behind his the southerners dont really appreciate whats happened to for the first Lime in 150 there Oul from the race problem int but there no More to blame now than the rest of the Percy went off to the University of North Carolina with his High school chum Shelby now a noted civil War Chapel Hill was a Center of the and Percy Early on began to wonder Why science spent so much time worrying about the similarity of Man to the animals and so Little about the language in particular intrigued semantics has been a lifelong the questions began forming in his mind that Many years later resulted in the message in the a study relating language to meaning and sex Percy took his at Columbia University col lege of physicians and surgeons and would have been asking his diagnostic questions in a doctors office today had be not contracted tuberculosis performing autopsies on bowery bums in new York cites Bellevue As was medical custom in those the patient was shipped off to Brood and shiver and breathe fresh air on a Sanitorium porch overlooking Lake Saranac in the Adi the Long exile brought him Back to the French and the russian and gave him time to try his hand at he abandoned Medicine life imitating Art became one of the characters in his As yet unwritten novel a doctor who Doest although he Long ago concluded that science in the 20th Century has become As dogmatic As theology in the Percy his friends All Call him Doc never regretted his medical background or left it far the experience is still important to he medical training gave me a diagnostic Outlook on Here is something wrong with Why does Man feel so bad in the Best of environments Why has Man embarked on an orgy of torture and Selides traction unparalleled in history in the very Century when he hoped to see the Dawn of Universal peace that is the natural stance of the doctor what ails you maybe that what sets me apart from other Ameri can in a novelist addressing the question of something gone Oregon an Bob Ziak avid student of Lewis and Clark arid Friend of the Bald Lewis and Clark and the logger by Jules Loh associated press t would be hard to name anyone who has viewed the lower Colum Bia River with More awed respect than these three Meriwether William Bob they were Hardy first Lewis and Clark made no apolo Gies for their love of the they stopped often on their journey to gaze for hours at the grandeur of when it was time to get Down to they never forgot their Bob of is that he is one Tough he wears a Hickory shirt and caulk the working clothes of a the Northwest term for like other he quaff great quantities of Champia slaps boasts about the Only right he Ever sober in Bob Ziaks Case it was to a Bull and his speech can be As hard muscled and calloused As his hands when they took the red lights off the Cathouse and put them on the intersections this town went to but like the two explorers he Bob Ziak also is something of a asked what he would say if he could speak to the one eyed Indian who befriended Lewis and Bob Ziaks Brown eyes watered and his voice Sang out old and see what we have first your now your and it makes me so sad i could Bob Ziak has lived All his 60 years on the Lovely Oregon he does not care to live anywhere he became acquainted with Lewis and Clark As a but when he returned from the South Pacific after world War ii he began a study of their journals in there were so Many i just wanted to know what this place looked like when they saw Industry is the Economy is 1 ought to Ive Cut Down my share of but if we damage the land beyond recognition were doing something reckless and cruel several years Bob Ziak got word that an Alu Minum smelter was to be built at the Mouth of the Columbia on almost the very spot William Clark described As a Beautiful he sat Down and wrote to his his two the Secretary of the Interior the then he helped organize the Only organization he Ever the Clat sop county environmental hearings were the Public result the smelter will go Clark bad seen More Beauty than almost anyone alive and yet be found that snore Beauty it is and americans have a a to see it the Way he saw a couple of years ago Bob Ziak got word that the corps of engineers had approved a Public boat ramp at Kappa 12 Miles from the Rivers he consulted the Lewis and Clark they had come Down the River on the North the Washington he then decided to Cross to the Oregon Side because of the number of i looked at the map on the Wall at fort the restoration of their and the map is they didst Cross at the they moved upriver to a safer i read the trying to find out where that crossing and As i read their descriptions and studied the River my heart went i realized the elevated situation they described was right Here Al the Kappa at my right Here was where Lewis and dark first set foot in Clat sop Bob Ziak rolled up his sleeves and went to result the boat ramp will Pavato go just rereading the Bob Ziak noticed that some towering Sitka Spruce at the fort Clat sop site had caught Clarks they had caught Bob Ziaks Eye the fort it a everything about it is everything except those they Are 350 Yean the very same Trees Lewis and Clark there the Only living link we something has to be done to see that there that fight May have to right now Bob Ziak is battling for Bald Eagle sanctuaries on the Colum and battling logging practices that threaten the National something free and wild and Beautiful is about to be lost and we can Stop and with Only minor inconvenience to the umber in but nobody seems to be stay gentle stay gust 1977 the stars and stripes Page 15
