European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 20, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Charity thrives at Albert Schweitzer Schweitzer in 1961 in photo by Mort Rosenblum associated press to those on hard benches in the waiting room the Barefoot disconsolate mothers clutching and victims of Jungle mishaps nothing has changed at the Hospital Albert Schweitzer founded in 1913 in a gleaming new Complex surrounds the original Slat and tin there Are modern such As which Schweitzer opposed until his death in 1965 at the age of a new Laboratory isolates aids antibodies and probes into tropical six doctors treat outpatients a the 200 Beds Are often once seven Days up the Ogo Oue has an Airport and a Road to the but the Hospital remains a struggling outpost of Chris Tian threatened each year with financial discs patients still walk or paddle for Days to see Succes sors to be grand two huge Chrome sterilizers replace the outdoor pot where Schweitzer boiled his but fat Orange lizards scamper beneath them across the freshly scrubbed Schweitzer sheltered his ramshackle Hospital from modern ways to spare africans culture he oper ated by Daylight or Gas families cooked meals and camped near so numerous that doctors had to scramble Over sleeping relatives to reach their a to modern he was even the negro is a he wrote in saying african societies had to be prepared slowly for cultural clashes with unfamiliar european in he told a French visitor africans will always be it is hard to find a place for someone from the past in 1 an age when people Are going to the said Jean nine the French the 27 european doctors and staff members earn Token wages on two year working with hardly a break in a tiny Community hemmed in by thick Poland contributes a staff Only Mademoiselle Maria and Ary Van also remain of the doctors doctor Ary studied with Schweitzer and then returned years after his in the old it was like a medieval cloister one sunday off every two no bathing in the River or walking in the very strict routine every and very hard he it took a certain sort of the still All gathers As before for lunch at noon in the Stone just As Schweitzer doctors and staff Are hard to a few leave within de spite their married people need schools for their with a glut of doctors in Young graduates want to establish practices some come to flee their problems and find problems Are Only magnified Van Wynen at friction splits the staff into and though brought together for every meal some people choose not to speak to portrait of Schweitzer at the Jungle Hospital he founded in a photo i dont think that was exactly the idea of shrugged one Young staff who said he was the victim of unexplained you have to have a very Strong religious Back to believe in the work like then you can stand said asked if she Ever consid ered moving Home to she Many came Here to adore but then they  keep or they had to leave when he i came because the lord called Van Wynen takes care of the Village of Light which Schweitzer built for lepers with Money from the 1952 Nobel Back 637 lepers ived in the with medical fewer than 100 Are being it would be a tragedy for this country if the Hospital had to Cut said Alain chief of the Village and Hospital Board whom Schweitzer cured of we want to be but the government must give patients who can afford it pay the equivalent of three dollars for a Laboratory tests and followup visits Are Schweitzer made 13 trips to Europe and the United raising Money by playing lecturing and publishing Maria has taken Over fund handwriting letters and travelling As much As her two heart attacks will after Schweitzer some gabonese officials wanted to turn the Hospital into a it nearly closed for Lack of then the famed twins Max Capulet of France and Holm Habricht of West Germany it into a modern equipped for specialized an International pushed by the Gabon gov raised million for new the main clinic was opened in but Little Money was raised for operating and the Hospital nearly closed in a succession of administrators has kept it and a new French director is to take charge Schweitzer himself lies buried under a simple Concrete near his wife and a few lifelong the House he built in with a Plank veranda and a corrugated tin is kept As a museum visited by up to 50 tourists a the old surgery is with a torn rubber Glove hanging limply Over the crude operating but visitors and a few patients still occupy the Origi Nal Wood structures which survived a recent Schweitzer first Hospital was three Miles at a no abandoned French protes Tant As a German citizen in a French he was taken to Europe As a prisoner in when he returned after the he built a new in the social cases Sebastian lives in a with a narrow bed and enough space to Cook his meals on a tiny Gas the great Man did this at the old he told a proudly revealing scars on his leg from an Accident 60 years he is gone but his spirit is still the Hospital must stay where else would i 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