European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 14, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Toying with modernist ways traditional buggy car at right is owned by one of the Amish by Rich Kirkpatrick associated press the sunday afternoon Sun gleamed brightly off the red Ford parked off a Maca dam Lane near in the heart of Amish farm two Amish dressed in the traditional Black pants and White shirt garb of the old order sat in All the splendor of contemporary the vans dashboard was covered with shag car a keep on trucking poster adorned a sidewall behind the foam Dice dangled from the rear View Mirror and a cd radio and eight track tape player were tucked under the the no would have startled tourists who come there hoping for glimpses of the quaint Amish society Straw hatted Farmers working their Fields with mule drawn implements and families huddled in Black horse drawn carriages clip clipping to and fro along the two Lane the old order who number about in the farm area of Southeastern shun electricity and other modern trappings out of a belief that old is the intrusion of cars is a Thorn thrust into the Amish Community by its Young seeking to sow wild Oats before embracing a simple life of dedicated farm or manual interviews with current and former members of the Community a lot of Amish have a Youthful Driver says my parents dont like but they got Over they cant keep bugging they dont want to Send you away from they know Well get wild and wont come Church both to their congregations and to individual try to dissuade them from toying with modern some of whom either look the other Way or Are afraid to press the Issue too Hope whatever Charm their Young find in roaring Down farm roads in hopped up cars will one former who asked not to be explains parents feelings this Way we have to tolerate immature behaviour with the expectation  eventually grow up and become mature and its nothing More than Normal adolescent although Amish youths have been attracted to cars for their rites took a harsh turn several months a number of the youths took to playing a game with the cars that alarmed both Amish and no Namish one youth would Perch on the Hood of a car while another drove it at Breakneck Speed across a Field and then slammed on the the object was to see How far the youth on the Hood would Fly through the the wild driving sometimes was mixed with one 16yearold Amish hanging from the window of a speeding fell and was the incidents Drew the attention of residents outside modern inroads Young am semen Cheek out a Van belonging to an Amish the Community and were reviewed in an extensive Story by a local the Lancaster new fearing for the Well being of their Young and for dam age to their Community image As a Christian Amish Bishops throughout Lancaster county admonished their congregations to Clamp Down on their childrens Joy drinking and that was says an Amish who adds that Church leders constantly work with the Young people to keep them on the straight and seated in his plainly furnished Kitchen one night re with a hissing Gas lamp providing the Only Light in the the minister says Only a Small percentage of the Community teenagers were involved in the Rene Gade the biggest amount of Young folks Are he parents must shoulder much of the he because the Are not Church members and therefore Are really beyond the reach of the to give them More than they get at Home is pretty i he absolutely its the responsibility of the the minister says Hes heard the argument about sow ing wild but Doest much like you have to look at it that Way its a human but in my we didst talk about sowing wild my father said always sow Good he says the situation is out of control when local police authorities become As they did last mainly because of underage it  be that Way what happened Here was he writing in one of his Many books on the John a Temple University sociology said acceptance of the automobile would Lead to a breakdown of the tight knit Amish it would open the floodgates of social and cultural he wrote in his a Amish the size of the Lancaster county Amish Community has Given its youth the cover they need to Sample life behind the several sources we just dont know As Many of the Young people As we used says the noting that the Amish population in the county has doubled Over the last 20 in smaller Amish such As in Mifflin and Snyder counties in everyone knows each other and flings in a car would neither go unnoticed or Long be says one former in no Way could this kind of activity occur in Small he the peer pressure is great in Small although of concern to parents and Church Lead the car antics May in a Way help the Amish Community survive by serving As a safety says Merle a local author who was raised a mennonite and runs a Center to further understanding of the mennonite and Amish ways of the Amish Are a breakaway sect of the its not a new thing for Amish Young people to run he its a place where the steam is let pit it helps maintain the its very much like average teen cubans in the breakdown in be resettlement by Paul l Montgomery new York times Juan Cerillo remembers that As he walked off the trawler in key in May with the boatloads of other refugees from his mind was full of thoughts of the Opportunity offered by his new eight months All the Opportunity he has is to eat takeout meals on the tar roofs at an hour and sleep in a car parked near the Miami at least in not he if it was t for the Money coming i would be in bad Little by i to Fink it will get 24 years worked in a Havana restau rant before the now he is one of the Strag one of the thousands by some estimates who have fallen through the cracks in the severely strained cuban refugee resettlement while More than half the cubans who arrived in the summer surge have been successfully about remain in Camps and prisons without Spon and thousands of others have experienced what the government Calls sponsorship breakdown or resettle ment meaning they have had problems with their original sponsors and Are no longer with those still whether in the Camps or at Loose ends on the have the reputation of being the most troublesome of the new wave Many Are unskilled selected by the Castro regime to be snipped out of Cuba on the boats that came to Mariel because they did not fit in the islands socialist finding sponsors for which Isa condition of release from the has been made difficult by their reputation and by the fact that the nations established cuban communities Are already filled to overflowing with where More than of the Refu gees have been is by far the most severely affected some Dade county officials say there Are 000 new refugees who Are sleeping in Parks or alleys and subsisting on handouts in some Petty recent statistics show 120 of the new refugees have been convicted of committed since their arrival and Are serving time in the Dade county dozens More Are arrested each week on charges ranging from vagrancy to murder More than 200 Are believed to be awaiting every week at the Bay front scores of the new refugees report to the voluntary agencies quartered saying that they can no longer live with their original sponsors and asking for they Are put up in hotels whenever Given air plane tickets to less crowded places for resettle ment with new about refugees have been put in touch with new sponsors since problems with those refugees who live in the streets have changed the mood of Many in the the May expressions of Wel Conie have been replaced by angry demands that the Federal government step in and take the homeless and unplaced out of Dade miamis soaring crime rate homicide up 103 percent Over robbery up 124 assault up 109 motor vehicle theft up 60 percent is Laid in part to the refugees by some county Law enforcement even the Large and Well established cuban comm entered in the flourishing Little Havana area of has withdrawn noticeably in its support of the merchants say the presence of loiter ers on Little havanas streets drives away there is even a slightly patronizing meaning roughly athe poor Tittle ones from used to de scribe the new i came Here in 1960 and for myself and my sons i love this said one Cuba american woman who has tried with scant Success to interest others in the plight of those refugees who remain without but i hate what we Are doing to these the govern ment has mishandled everything and we cubans Are taking the we Are All afraid we will suffer for the sins of a the situation of Cerillo and his 27year old appears to be typical of those whose sponsorships have broken they arrived in May and spent some time at the proc Essing Center in fort Indiantown until an aunt they had not seen in 20 years who lived in Miami agreed to take them she was very old and she was not used to our he after a Cerillo the situation became unbearable and the Brothers moved for the rest of the they lived in the tent City established by Home less refugees under interstate 95 at the Edge of Little at its the Shantytown was Home to the government closed the eyesore in october and scattered the their Uncle gave the Brothers a Fivey Earold Buick Electra 225 when the tent City closed and they pushed it to Southwest 4th Avenue on the perimeter of Little where they have been living two other Young refugees live in another car parked across the in addition to their the Brothers said they receive food Stamps Worth a Juan Cerillo said they had looked for a place to live in miamis Over crowded housing but had been unable to find a when not working they tinker with the car and have succeeded in getting it in running Cerillo said he did not think that miamis new a Grants were As dangerous As pictured by some of the its like anywhere there Are some Good and some he with if people treat me with i treat them with this is just a mess we find ourselves in and we Are trying to get out of Cerillo was asked if he had heard the term Marieli he what i Call myself is Marie Lazo he the powerful one from according to James Coyle of the Cuba Nhai Tian task the Federal Agency handling re the sponsorship breakdown rate among the cubans who had sponsors was from 3 to 5 other estimates Are much Cesar the assistant City manager of said he believed that of the cubans officially settled in the area had experienced some problem with their John Ahern of Catholic charities of the archdiocese of new the major Agency handling resettle ment that of persons assigned to Spon sors in his had not been heard from meaning presumably that their resettlement had worked he said persons had been to the Catholic charities office for additional including people not Origi Nally assigned to sponsors in new York who later went there in search of Ahern said that perhaps on third of the sponsorships in new York had not become but that Many of those cases involved inability of the refugee to find work rather than once the refugees Are separated from their original the agencies attempt to resettle them with new sponsors or to set them up on their own if a family is the refugees eligible for Public assistance Are encouraged to apply for the Cuba haitian task Force began a publicity drive for new sponsors last month and the voluntary agencies Are also seeking much of the Effort is directed toward finding places for the refugees still in the Camp at fort who have been without sponsors since their and for those among refugees with criminal backgrounds in Federal prisons who would be eligible for release if sponsors could be for places like new York and Union with Large Spanish speaking the problem is complicated because refugees originally settled elsewhere often gravitate to these cities after a period in alien a lawyer in Atlanta told of finding jobs after much Effort for a group of cuban carpenters at an after a week of complaining about the absence of Spanish language movies and Spanish speaking women their own the men took the bus to Miami and have not so now they Are unemployed and in adding to that cites this is no longer a classical resettlement said John Mccarthy of the Catholic the largest of the voluntary agencies concerned with last years some of these people have been in de Tention so and some Are so unprepared for living in our Economy that its like starting All Over with new York car serves As bedroom for Juan Cerillo with fellow refugees from Page 14 the stars and stripes january 1981 the stars and stripes Page 15