European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 17, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Surgeon general Jocelyn elders is surrounded by High school students after giving a talk on teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. When elders Speaks out people react by Isabel Wilkerson the new York times rom her 18th floor suite in Washington far from the Small town where she was born into a sharecropper s family it is becoming Clear that or. Joycelyn elders is not in Arkansas anymore. The Blunt speaking surgeon general who was a Cross Between country preacher and suffragist Back Home stood Over the fallout from her latest offhand remark the one recommending More study of the legalization of drugs. She never said she was in favor of legalizing drugs when the question arose last month after her speech before the National press club but that is How it. Was taken. She pointed to the boxes and boxes of letters from Oakland calif., and Columbia mo., and new York and North Dakota with messages ranging from go girl to you need to resign  she smiled a smile of restraint and amazement. People Are listening the 60-year-old elders said. I be done my Job to make people aware and bring up the  she has been in office Only slightly More than four months and has already attracted More attention without trying than Many members of the Clinton administration. She caused a stir when she voiced support for the medicinal use of marijuana even before being confirmed. She was applauded for admonishing parents not to buy toy guns for their children for the holidays. Last month she said legalizing drugs could reduce crime and merited further study an idea that was not particularly new but words that took on greater significance because she had uttered them. On dec. 20, her 28-year-old son Kevin a White Collar worker at a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary in Little Rock Ark., was arrested and charged with Selling one eighth of an ounce of cocaine to undercover police in july. Elders said that she knew nothing of her son s possible involvement with drugs but that she stood behind him As any Mother would. She also said that her son s arrest had not influenced her position on drug legalization or her comments about studying the Issue. I have to base what i say on the Best scientific knowledge i have available she said. I can t let my emotions or personal opinions get in the Way. If i were to do that i should not be surgeon general. I can t base National policy and National thinking on the basis of my  friends and family members fear that conservatives will use or. Elders comment on drugs to detract from her crusade to fight violence and teen age pregnancy. They worry that the Public May Rush to judgment. We have to be Able to understand the difference Between family values and family problems said her brother the Rev. Chester Jones a methodist minister in Pine Bluff Ark. When you have a big family there is always one person in  for now Washington seems to have created a More cautious Joycelyn elders than the barnstorming state health director once called half admiringly political correctness on wheels who looked abortion opponents in the Eye and said they love Little babies As Long As they Are in somebody else s  Orthe Green political appointee in 1987, who when asked at her Maiden news conference if she would dispense condoms in schools blurted out Well we won t be putting them on their lunch trays but  after that condom admission Clinton who was governor then turned beet red she said but nodded in agreement. After her latest show of Candor the administration quickly repudiated the idea of legalizing drugs. President Clinton said drugs would not be legalized on his watch. As a longtime Friend of the Clinton and one of the few top ranking carry overs from his gubernatorial Cabinet elders appears to have a deep storehouse of Good will. Health and human services Secretary Donna Shalala who is elders Boss said the administration is very supportive of elders. She is a unique human being who Speaks for millions of americans who be been left out of the american dream the Secretary said. More than any other health professional i be met she Speaks with the eloquence and sensitivity of a person who has known the struggles of disadvantaged americans who be grown up in a hostile  Short Story  at St. Marys brewery the tap s always open by Kelly p. Kissel the associated press it s a bit of a Side trip 30 Miles North of interstate 80, deep in the Pennsylvania wilderness but for the Homer Simpsons of the world it s Well Worth it. For Here they will find the pot of Golden ale at the end of the Rainbow a grail with a head the eternal tap. Free Beer. Stroll into the Straub brewery in St. Marys take a Glass put it to a tap that pokes from a Wall fill it. Fill it again. There is no charge. We used to let some people stay and have four five or six and because they were Here so often they would t get drunk said Dan Straub a co resident of the 121-year-old brewery but then pulling a tap comes natural in St. Marys a town of 5,500 people in North Central Pennsylvania. From Keg sales Straub s estimates that about 30 percent of the town s houses have Home taps. I have two. One in the House and one in the garage. That s where we drink More of the Beer said Dave Weinzierl. If i m in the garage i m not going to run to the House every time i want a  in St. Marys taps Are set up All Over the place. Dave Martin Straub s sales office manager used to have a line running through his Kitchen sink until his wife told him to move it. For a while there i had spigots for hot cold and Beer he said. Back at the brewery visitors can come in six Days a week for a couple of Beers. The brewery s insurance policy imposes a two Beer 15-minute limit. At one time there were seven breweries in the town founded by German catholics. The eternal tap was turned on As a Public relations and advertising move shortly after the brewery opened in 1872. Folks used to come in and use Coffee cans. Old timers Tell me they miss the Coffee can Days. Do you know Why it s because they could get More Beer that Way Straub said. Sometime in the last 30 years Straub set out a couple dozen 10-ounce glasses and posted notices asking drinkers to clean up after themselves. When Straub bellies up to the Metal sink under the tap he washes his own just to make sure. We ask them to clean up. It does t mean they do it he said. The Beer is Good a Sweet Aroma and palate a Light body and dry finish writes Beer expert Michael Jackson and the proof is in the lines that form at the eternal tap and for the cases sold for $10.65 each. Yet there s no intention to Branch out from its Western Pennsylvania base. The 27,000 barrels made each year 145 barrels at a time is enough for them. Anheuser Busch it should be noted makes More than 86 million barrels a year. We be Learned to think Small not to be greedy Straub said. The key to our survival is people telling their friends about Straub  Pennsylvania Pittsburgh is monday january 17,1994 the stars and stripes 25