European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 27, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Bless Mother York by Charles Chamberlain associated press when hardened felons see her heading to their pulling her cart of goodies for they grab the bars and shout god bless Mother York god be with you always the 57yearold woman with the sparkling eyes moves to they touch she leans her head on the bars and they whisper to one inmate says you Are a gift by you dont have to bring Mother dressed in Black with a Silver Cross on a Silver Chain hanging from her usually has a guard unlock the cell so she can enter with her cart and i want to be As near to them As i she she enters she mingles with rapists and passing out shampoo and hair then its time to pass out the word of the As the 30 to 35 inmates Bow their Mother York holds a Brief and dynamic prayer meeting the kind that and then she pulling her cart from Cellblock to Cellblock As ranking officers and guards Greet her affect some kissing her on the Cheek As she the Consuela pastor and founder of the Christ Way Baptist Church on Chicago South has been making the rounds daily at Cook county jail for 29 she rotates her routes through the huge visit ing of the jails inmates every two she is trusted completely by the inmates and is the bes loved person working within the department of Cor says Phillip executive director of the if there was a Mother York would be the one person who could walk through the jail without fear of her Hardiman shakes his i just dont know How she finds the time to do it every bit of Money she gets her hands she spends on the her congregation gave her for a Down payment on a new station and she spent it on goodies for the Mother the daughter of a South Side Baptist attended the Chicago Baptist Institute and was ordained in she has been widowed since has three the oldest and four the inmates Are All children of the lord and they Are All special to i dont have any favor she never have i heard a cuss word when tin among them and none of them smoke near they know i dont like Mother York says she has Only spoken harshly once and that was with Tongue in i had cooked up some Chicken dinners and had the plates on a big table in the Day room of a she among the inmates was big Robert a huge Man who could steal All the plates if he wanted i saw him take a couple of pieces of Chicken from the other plates and pile it on i looked up at him and said big you Are a Chicken thief that what you just a Plain Chicken thief now put it big Robert looked ashamed of himself and returned the the next time i saw to it that big Robert had an extra big helping of says Mother Mother who has a congregation of 250 at her says she spends six to seven hours a Day at the passing out her goodies gets some thing Ana holding prayer services and Bible classes that draw up to 100 in addition to this her nightly chores include instructing sunday school teachers at her Church on monday teaching ministers and deacons on tues choir rehearsals and project planning on wednes Bible classes on special services on Fri musical prayer meetings on and regular services on most of the inmates Call me Mother she the Consuela York has been making the rounds daily at Cook county jail in Chicago for 29 but some Call me the and even in not Hung up on various religious if they say they dont believe in i Tell them just stick around a while and you without him you cant make in 29 i Haven met one i  break the i preach to them real and i get their consciousnesses Ive had dozens of hardened criminals those who maintained their innocence in court and argued they were framed come up to me and confess to a murder or a says Mother they have accepted the word of toe lord and want to get it off their we talk in strict i Call my goodies preachers but in con Vinced i dont have to pass them out to get Bible class they Tell me they want to hear the word of but none has Ever turned Down a Candy Mother York she thinks any Success she has with the inmates is because they respect i Tell them to bringing things to you to make your stay Here As comfortable As possible god wants it that and he  like it if Vou tried to says Mother who is assisted by four other chaplains As she arranges with different churches for visits to the jail with their choirs and pastors on Mother who has an office in the new Section of the receives Many letters from inmates who have moved out to prisons in the she recently got the inmates Are All children of the lord and they Are All special to Page 14 the stars and stripes one from a Man now in downstate Menard who told her that he was passing along the lords word that Man was convicted of murder and was expect ing to get sentenced to 99 says Mother  accept god at we prayed for at our prayer sessions in the jail and at my he was sentenced to 16 he was very grateful and and he realized god must have answered our prayers for so he became one of gods a devoted Mother who receives no estimates that she spends a Day on the goodies she dist rib some of the Money and merchandise is do but most comes from her ingenious Man Euver ing and Reliance on her belief that the lord always i watch for meetings in the Chicago area of distributors of certain merchandise from around the and make a Point of she i Haven been kicked out of one i very Friendly discussions and before you can say amen we get them interested in what in i get a lot of stuff wholesale that picking it up at the i make a lot of lasting and when i show up i can hear them snicker sometimes Here she comes its going to Cost us i also have a list of places where i can get damaged merchandise at a lot she the other Day i picked up 72 bars of soap for last Mother York As usual put on her own Turkey dinners for using Kitchen facilities at her Church and at the the jail gives them Turkey and All the trimmings at but my dinners have that mothers Edo Cook including Good old she Somite mothers of inmates bring big Candy Jed things like that to the we Divide it All up for our jail during the last i went to the Rose Bud Farn to buy turkeys and chickens and got As i was one of the Norm said Mother have you got our Christmas card yet i said i haunt and he said that i the next Day i received his card and in it was a Check for All those turkeys and chickens Cost me Only it was just another Way the lord says Mother february f i i i conservative a disdain for new i ukr by Dave Goldberg associated press Ronald Reagan is in the White the republicans control the and alls right with the or is it not with Reagan barely ensconced in the More conservative of the conservatives have started grumbling that his Cabinet is too one Jesse Helms of North voted against confirming Secretary of defense Caspar Weinberger on grounds that Weinberger is insufficiently concerned with the buildup of soviet others Are but they 11 wait and Richard the new Republican chairman and a Man of impeccable conservative is in no mood for ideological squabbling now that the gop is in the ideological thing int a very great Issue in organizational he none of which surprises Alan a Young 27 writer and conservative activist who suggests that the right purge itself of the so called new right single Issue the moral ideological crusaders All those who would rather go Down with both barrels blazing for the cause than Crawford is the author of Thunder on the a guide to people and organizations on the newly ascendant rightward reaches of it suggests that the new right is less conservative than Radical and reactionary obstructionist in its desire to reject anything less than True nor does the new right have much use for Crawford these i think its written by someone who does t under stand what were says Paul one of the villains of Crawford Hes got an a to grind and he grinds Crawford describes himself As a traditionalist conserve Hes a former editor of new the journal of Young americans for worked at conservative digest and human events and for several conservative the most prominent being former James Buckley of new but Crawford Doest believe that the right has a monopoly on i dont necessarily think that Ca is he its a Liberal democratic with a Small d state based on rationalism and he adds Are getting Environ for Are supposed to be but there ultimately conservative in wanting to conserve what has Crawford worries about image he thinks regular conservatives suffer from association with Jerry fall Elf moral majority or politicians like he Hopes his Book can Point out the i would have he that some conservative journalist of far greater stature would have come Forward to speak frankly of the new right and its damaging effect on the conservative when no one i in a sense to Clear my if it is the responsibility of liberals to expose the opportunists and demagogues who operate in or try to infiltrate their then it is no less the responsibility of conservatives to disavow and dissociate themselves from the reactionaries and hucksters who work their Side of the Crawford disdains groups dedicating themselves to emotional single issues like the equal rights the Panama canal homosexuality and the he distract conservatives from straightening out the Economy and running foreign poli the idea of regulating personal and sexual he is contrary to conservative in his guide to the new Crawford pays less attention to the Bette known Falwell and officeholders like Orrin Hatch and Philip Crane in favor of a cast of there is Richard the direct mail fundraising wizard there is a cherubic looking political technician and protege of Brewer Joseph who recruits and trains righting candidates on behalf of the committee for the survival of a free Congress Terry Dolan of the National conservative political action which pumped millions into the successful campaigns to unseat Liberal Senate democrats George Birch Frank Church and John the key to their appeals is anger and Crawford the fund raising letters of the new right groups depict a world gone with Liberal villains poised to destroy the american Way of they employ direct personal warnings of what will happen to they ask rhetorical they cast blame on a vaguely identified they offer a Way most could have been written by a single the Book was written before the 1980 but Crawford anticipates some of the anguish the new right has already voiced Over the course of the Reagan he in a More moderate politician than even his most ardent admirers would like to he in a to the extent that his rightist followers have made him out to be something other than he he cannot be held responsible for their sense of betrayal when he acts according to what he not what they think he is or should but Weyrich says the right can be it he judge Reagan by the totality of his not one or and so the results Are i like whats going on in health and human he but the defense department is a Crawford thinks the problems any president faces and the simple inertia of government will make it difficult for Reagan to do what he let alone what the new right if Reagan Doest do what they and he there going to be hopping up and Crawford but they Are doomed to be nothing More than the stars and stripes Page 15