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Show r DESERET A Report On Lambarene Without Schweitzer v (the great doctor). With an old mans Schweitzer had also replaced great concrete steps with ramps and erected fences along caution, paths. His last buildings boasted wooden floors, unlike most of the older wards. had The hospitals sole been installed ip the windowless room, for the hospital had long possessed generators capable of producing electricity for whatever modern devices Dr. Schweitzer necessary. But, thought except for the operating room, electric lights were not considered necessities The criticisms of this hospital in the last 10 years were constant, many, and sometimes justified Even now the African populaton of 1 000 defecate, urinate, bathe, wash clqthes, and draw water from the same area of the Ogooue which drains the hospital's open sewers Thus, they live in conditions approximating their own villages, except that this one is the most crowded in Gabon and offers a great potential for spread of contagious Is now on the staff ot Mount Zion Hospital and Center, San Francisco) Medlca JFTrst of Two Parts of Albert The terminal illness Schweitzer was caused primarily by cerebral vascular Insufficiency which manifested Itself quite abruptly on Aug. 28, 1965, with impairment of consciousness and of cerebral regulation of cardiac and respiratory function. . , At 11:30 p.ra., Sppt. 4, 1965, he passed away quietly, in peace and dignity, in his bed at the hospital he had built and Joved." Thus wrote David Miljer, M D., Amer- ican medical consultant to the Schweitzer Hospital, regarding the final days of a giant of the 20th Century, an old man of 90 whose last years were marked by controversy and criticism, both specious and deserved. The following report records the Impressions of one visiting his hospital after an interval of five years. Lambarene, with its population of 4,000, is the thud largest town in the Republic d of Gabon, disease an former French colony of half a million Africans and 5,000 Europeans. Lambarene has prospered sufficiently in the past six years to see its airport building gradually transformed from a thatched hut to a small but modern facila radio tower, ity accommodating lounge, and baggage. Daily, a TransGa-bo- n DC-brings passengers, mail, and cargo from the capital city, Libreville, a booming coastal town of 27,000. A bouncing, swaymg bus has replaced g the Jeep for the drive past native houses, markets, and e pigs to the Ogooue River. The journey upriver to the Schweitzer Hospital was formerly a languid hour's ride in a heavy pirogue propelled by a crew of chanting, sweating lepers. Now young African boys ferry visitors upstream In dugouts powered by outboard motors. There are a few more modem buildings In the town of Lambarene rising above the opposite bank, but the river flowing down to the sea at Port Gentil is unchanged. The rainy season has begun, under-populate- d 3 hair-raisin- two-mil- in 1962, he and the late Dr. Albert Schweitzer were River Ogooue for new arrivals to the hospital. the the banks of on waiting During the author's tour of duty In Lambarene photographed thrice weekly to the hospital population of 1,000. In successive years two Jeeps and a 1959 American convertible were added. and whole trees rush by in swollen brown waters which have covered sand banks used only weeks before by native fishermen. A bend In the river reveals the corruwooden buildings of the gated Albert Schweitzer Hospital, a clinic in an African jungle an anachronism of a different era, the expression of a philoso- vears ago, two crosses stood the among palms and ferns outside and below Dr. Schweitzers room, a few yards from the antelope pen. They marked the graves of Madame Helene Schweitzer and of Emma Hausskneckt, a nurse who worked with Schweitzer from 1925 to 1956 Now there are five graves in this small, level plot overlooking the river and hospital gardens. The newest grave contains the remains of an American medical student who drowned In the 1965, shortly Ogooue in after Dr. Schweitzer died. One of the ment crosses Is inscribed simply: Ci lit le Dr. Albert Schweitzer ne le 24 1.1875 Six Iron-roofe- d phy. In 1959 the Schweitzer Hospital possessed not a single motor vehicle, depending solely on the river for transport of food and patients. The following year a German diesel truck was purchased to meet the growing need for bananas and manioc which are distributed decede le ce- ' By M. DEMAR TEUSCHER SPEAKING OF POLITICS Deseret News Politcal Editor - States, stretching from the Canadian to Mexican the borders along the backbone spiney of the Rockies. It is a consoli- -' dation of purposes which can and probably will weld into a tightly knit instrument for solving the common problems of Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico and Arizona. And, if Gov. Paul Laxalt accepts the invitation of his fellow governors to join, it will include Nevada as well. Such a confederation depends upon unity for its existence and on areas of common Interest, rather than isolated Instances of disagreement In this, the federation has a head start, because the areas of common agreement are more numerous than those of conflict and give governors a base from which to launch their quest for solution of regional problems. One concept which gives the fledgling Federation a basis for optimism for the future Is that fact that it is not just a political organization of governors it is an amalgamation of government and private industry, both working toward the same goals. area, the Actually, In the seven-statchief differences are not political. The big e question is how much the economic interest of a single state should override the advantages of a regional approach. While it is true that sbt of the seven seven of eight if governors involved one counts Nevada are Republican, the problems of Govs. Don Samuelson of Idaho, Stan Hathaway of Wyoming, John Love of Colorado, David Cargo of New Mexico, Jack Williams of Arizona find Tim Babcock of Montana are basically the same as those of Gov. Calvin Ramp-toof Utah, who is the lone Democrat chief executive in the Federation states. Taken from a partisan viewpoint, while a lot of Federation problems can and will be solved at the state level, considerable help must come from the conin Washington, gressional delegations Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Arizona all have a Democratic as well as a Republican senator. Colorado has Democratic congressmen to go with Republican senators and governor. NevadaSdelegation is all Democratic, as is New Mexicos. So partisanship is only a very minor problem in a Federation which is trying to keep politics to a minimum in its efforts n BOOKS IN THE NEWS Toward the end of his life Schweitzer found walking the hills around his hospital increasingly difficult, so he was taken by Jeep to the leper village on the road through the Jungle marked Avenue Vigne, which honors the pastor who supervised its construction and who now lies In death beside le grand docteur Con-sidi- Considine obviously has enjoyed the life of a globetrot"W ting reporter, and he portrays it with humor, covering his more than 30 years as a sports news writer, feature writer, and col- umnist, novelist, and ghostwriter radio and television commentator. Mr. Considine He devotes tf chapter to his association with the wild, and wonderful" International News Service, the Hearst-ownenews which agency merged with United Press in 1958 to become United Press International. d ' The common interests of the various states forms a bond which should unite them in a community interest which can make united efforts of all more effective than the individual efforts of any states. For example, Idaho, Utah and New Mexico all have a keen interest in potash. Utah, Wyoming and Colorado share vast fields of oil shale to develop. Montana, Idaho and Arizona have a common bond in timber. The copper industry extends into Utah, Nevada, Montana, Arizona and New Mexico and the governors of these states have already united in efforts to end the crippling popper strike. In all of these states the federal government has either defense bases or defense-oriente- d industries. In ail states air and ground transportation needs united efforts for improvement. As Gov. Babcock says, it is easy to fly from Helena, Mont., to Albuquerque providing you are a bird. Water is the big divider of state interests. And, so far, the Federation has avoided this problem, leaving it for other regional and national groups to tackle. But it is water that has caused the first nft in the rapidly firming common front of the Federation. Arizonas Gov. Williams, despite the Ignored his achievements. In the last 15 years of his life Albert Schweitzer was one of the world's most famed and admired men. He had access to almost limitless funds, but refused to build a modern hospital. He drove his well-know- n make lively reading. Gen. told Considine he MacArthur Douglas could have won the war In Korea in 10 days, asserting that President Harry S Truman and his advisers never comprehended the world as a whole; they never understood the enormous forces of Asia. newsmen By HAROLD LUNDSTROM MUSICAL WHIRL another, because the arts are too closely linked, too interdependent in their search Deseret News Music Editor Whiling the hours away recently while for a plane, my neighbor waiting advanced the thesis that music is the only art. His loyalty to music was both noble and And I touching. am' sure he can find plenty of support, if he wants, in the writings of many ancient phiespelosophers, cially some of the Christian Italian Symphony, nor ls there much joy in the slow movement of Schuberts C Major Quintet. Certainly it is true that no other art so many imputed meanings as does music. This has to be so, since music in its purest form is by nature no erbal and A play, a painting or Asked what he would have done to sculpture, a poem or a bulding are solid end the Korean conflict, then Gen. and fixed; they say, whether clearly or told D. Eisenhower Considine, Dwight obscurely, what they are there to say. I would have bombed the blazes out of Bui where the implication goes someAnd their supply depots In Manchuria. what astray is in trying to Isolate music he said he wouldnt have asked anyone s writers at least by implication from its felmerewas of not Their concept music low' arts. This cannot be done Any civilipermission. ly the songs and dances of the world John F. Kennedy, when he was a around them and the hymns of the zation epitomizes its highest ideals m Massachusetts senator, explained the Church ; they found a kind of music also its total artistic expression; some of its members portray it in myslc, others m familys line of political succession: In the way men interact with one anoththe design for a cathedral or a bridge. er, and in the way heavenly bodies move When Joe died I was It. If I had been The constant cross feeding among the in their courses. killed, Bobby would have had to pick it arts is a fascinating thing to observe. It Actual music, to them, was mpre than is up . . . and ,if anything had happened to dangerous, of course, to attempt to set and ameans adeltotionJoLlhesenses would it be Bobby, up continuing analogies betweenrsayrthe Teddy's duty. of worship. It had an ethical significance music of a given period and its visual Cpnsidme sums up his career as havthat was at the root of life itself. arts, although there are many occasions ing been crowded with the kind of opThis attitude toward music has all but when these analogies are striking and and breaks all reporters portujuties a box seat near the disappeared today, at least m the West. unmistakable. But to find an exact coundream about We still talk of major as being the terpart in painting or poetry for every world stage. Call it vanity, call it what mode and minor as or oratorio m existence Is the being symphony happy but nearfor would the I you wish, grope but there are too many excep- most sophomoric kind of sad, est open grave if I had no newspaper to work for . . . besides,, better than, tions to make such generalizations stick. (not that it hasnt been attempted); The point is: One cannot really postuUnited Press Certainly there is nothing' very sad about, working for a living." the last movement of Mendelssohns late any basic superiority of one art over International carries abstract, n-- v ... -- brain-flexin- Anecdotes of presidents, popes, premiers, military leaders, sport idols, assassins, actors and actresses and mad Those who came to worship a great man were blind to his shortcomings. Those who came to debunk a legend staff as severely as himself, sometimes to the detriment of their health. He provided potable water neither for his staff fact that his state has as big a stake as nor his patients; a hepatitis epidemic in the decidFederations future, has any in the summer of 1965 ed that, for the present, he doesn't want among his staff was perhaps traceable to this failing. He to play with the rest allowed his chief female assistants, who That la why he is not joining the other had been out of contact with modern at this conference, even medicine almost as long as he, to reject governors though his state will be represented on medical Improvements suggested by most of the Federation committees. younger phvsicians. The old nurses disHis pique has been aroused by the alpensed medical supplies with parsimonimost unanimous opposition of the other ous hands which seemed to remember Federation states to the Central Arizona the shortages caused by two world wars. Project, which will depend on water But a balanced appraisal of this man from other states to give Arizona the also point to his scholarly and will supply i needs for economic developwork in music, theology, and pioneering ment. philosophy. He was among the first to The Williams attitude is that if ArizoWestern medicine to Africa, and na does not get the water it needs, there bring his dramatic example Inspired others to is no use even talking about economic do the same elsewhere In the world. Tom development because his state will not Dooley of Medico, Mellon in Haiti, Benprogress. medider in Peru are some There is some basis for his fear. But cal cawho their modeled personalities not, In the eyes of the other six goverreers after Schweitzer. nors, enough to make it profitable for Countless young students have chosen Arizona to remain aloof from other deto study medicine after reading of this velopment activities of the Federation. man who left a most comfortable life In Idaho and Montana are the have" states so far as water is concerned. Europe, at the beginning of a brilliant From these states, and from Utah, career in music and theology, for the Wyoming and Colorado, must come the steaming jungles of Equatorial Africa. water which Arizona wants to make its Schweitzers own physicians water-skie- d dream project a reality. Of all Federapast the hospital and took flying tion states, only New Mexico looks with lessons 'across the river, but his is the any degree of sympathy on the water lasting image an old man dressed in aspirations of Gov. Williams. white, wearing a black leather bow tie, a a So, for now, Arizona has elected to pith helmet on his head He was the last play it alone in the water area and great romantic in a world of people seekapparently in all other areas of Federaing such a romance. tion projects as well. Tomorrow The Hoepllel t Future. early Considine covers his career from the arly thirties as a sports writer for the Washington Post, then the Washington Herald (where he started his On The Line column), New York American and the New York Mirror. - for the Mountain iccom-Dlishmen- What Music Is Better Than Which Art? Considine Looks Back ITS ALL NEWS TO ME by Bob (Meredith Press $6.95). to gain development States. The tourist leaving the modem hotel of Lambarene for a visit to Schweitzer Hospital may feel he has stepped back into the 19th Century. Many of the older nurses still wear the white pith helmets which Schweitzer insisted upon, both for protection from the equatorial sun and to preserve the "old traditions. These old traditions, some African nationalists (but none In the Gabon) said, included deliberate treatment of the African as a childlike creature of the forest Schweitzer did. indeed, consider the Africans (as well as almost everyone else) as younger brothers. but one must not forget that his white man's burden philosophy was an enlightened one when he first came to Africa in 1913 in middle age. That his attitudes did not change and were sometimes strengthened by repeated revolutions, coups, and counter-coup- a In newly emergent and d African nations Ls understandable In a man of 90 years. Schweitts zer was mortal. His talents and were prodigious; it should not be so surprising that his faults, too, appeared monumental. under-nrepare- 4 9 1965 (Here lies Dr. Albert Schweitzer, bom January 14, 1875 died Spetember 4, 1965.) Federation Could Mean Much To The West The Feder-atio- n ALBUQUERQUE, N M. of Rocky Mountain States is a rather loosely knit consolidation of many viewpoints with a common goal the economic development of the Mountain West OUR MAN JONES its g for individuality One can, of course, express a preference based entirely on personal taste. Some find that music, more than any other form of artistic expression can be revisited with pleasure and, presumably, with a growing edification. Well and good, but again only up to a point. A great composition does indeed yield its secrets slowly and only upon deep penetration. One of the great dangers of our present way of life, with music so easily accessible via the phonobackgraph, radio and grocery-stor- e ground system, is that we equate knowing a piece of music with knowing its principal tunes. Thats a little like saying that we know the Mona Lisa when we i know the color gregn. No matter what level a composer may choose to express himself upon, whether he is out to compose a Fledermaus or a B minor Mass," the degree of his success must be measured to a great extend on how well his music expands in the listener's consciousness upon rehearing. It is a little brutal, however, to deny this quality to the other arts. There is, after all, a certain artistic distance be-- . tween a Shakespeare sonnet and the telephone book, even though they both use the letters of the alphabet to convey their message, and it is a' pretty tawdry paint-in- g tha cannot be looked at with heightened comprehension a second or a 200th time. r f Does Helen Still Can Like Mad? y By EUGENE SCHOENFELD, M.D. Colorado-size- A19 Thursday, September 7, 1967 , Wes D. Albert Schwettier (EdHw'i Not Mint er m anachronism? Something at both, sue-ana CsIHormo physician in the following artlcla. Dr Euaena Schognfetd sarvad at Schwa i liar's hospital ip Wait Atrica In IW and again in IMA Ha returned tor a third tour of duty after the groat humanitarian's death two veers ego Sept A Schoen-tolreports an the controversy that marked Schweitzer's lest years, end the carrying on ot his stork His was. report great prepared tor the journal at the American Medical Aseocistlon, from Dr Schoonteid which It it adapted by permission - NEWS By HARRY JONES My friend, Charlie Pomeroy, out on a desk the other day and stumbled across a magazine called "The New West. And, the West was a lot newer when the magazine was printed than it is now. It is over a half century old Don't get the impression that Mabel, Charlies pretty wife, is a poor housekeeper to leave magazines around for over 50 years In the first place, slie isn't that old by a long shot, and in the second place, the desk hasn't been theirs too long. Some people have relatives die and sometimes mil- they inherit money 27th South, was cleaning out lions. But, Charlie has my kind of luck. He gets an old desk. - To give you an idea how old the magazine is, you could subscribe to the paper for 15 cents per week. I dont know If that was delivered or but every- not, Mr. Jones thing past 17th South and west of the railroad was a rural route. At least that is the way it looks from some of the pic- tures. The magazine was printed in Salt Lake City down in the Walker Bank Building. The building hasn't changed much, but, of course, the weather gadget wasnt on top. You had to stick your head out of the window to see what the weather was like. So you didnt get caught so often in the rain without your umbrella as you do these days. But it is the articles that are interesting, along with the pictures. Some fellow named Sloan, possibly before he went Into the liniment business, wrote an article on the Practical Education of the Fanner. The interesting thing was the pictures Accompanying the bit. One shows a prize bull owned by the Utah Agricultural College. It looked like an advertisement lor diet drinks. That bull couldnt make the Aggie football team today! Mr. Sloan said that a few years ago, the farmer was considered one of the poorest paid occupations in the entire United States. In fact, his article could be rerun today, and people would think it written just recently by the Farm Bureau or the Farmers Union! There was a story about a ghost who wandered around Lonesome Creek down into Parleys Canyon. Some fellow who saw the ghost became so scared that his hair turned grey overnight. The ghost is gone now, but the Parley Interchange has been built to take his d place. Notice how many drivers come barreling out of Parleys these days. There was a piece about smoking by John H. Patterson, president of National Cash Register. Instead of pitching for the company product, he advised young men about smoking. He said not to smoke because it made you satisfied, and no boy can afford to be satisfied! But the piece which interested me the most was about a sweet young thing by the name of Helen Durham of Bountiful. This gal, at the age of 12, won the top prize for the Boys and Girls clubs. I guess it was the forerunner of 4 H. She put up 99 varieties of canned goods and got a pm from the government a clover with an H on it. Can you imagine our kids putting up 99 kinds of canned goods? TTiey wont cake without an argubake a ready-mi- x ment and a promise of the car on Satur- Imagme how lucky was the man who grey-heade- wooed and won Helen Durham. I wonder if she is still in Bountiful. How much fruit she has put up since? And, if she still cans? 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