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THE K

Wednaday Afternoon, Oct. 4, 1967

 

Symington:
U.S. Should
Suspend War

WASHINGTON (UPD-Sai.
Stuart Syrrflngton, (D-Mo.) we
posed Tuesday that the United
States hilt all military activities
in Vidnam in a bid for peace
talks, but return freely to thewar
if the Commnists fail to re-
spond.

"That the United States
would feel free to pursue this
war in any manner ofits own
choosing." he told the Senate.

Sen. Syminflon went beyond
rising demands for an uncondi-
tional halt in the bombing of
North Vietnam, which he said
would result in greater American
casualties.

instead, he said, "I propose
that this government announce,
as of a certain date/the cessa-
tion of all military action in
South Vietnam as well as over
North Vietnam; also that there
will be no reinforcements into
the theater.

“The governmart would an-
nounce that these policies were
being undertaken in earnest hope
that their adoption would result
in prompt and meaningful nego
tiations in'the interest of a just
peace," he said.

Annesty Urged For VC

At the same time, he said,
South Vietnam should declare
its willingness to“negotiatewith
anybody and offer austesty to
meubers of the Vietcong."

If the Cornrntmists refuse to
talk peace and continue figh-
ing, he said the United States
could resume the war as it saw
fit. Sen. Symington did not say
what military steps he would
favor or whether escalation of
the war would result.

The former Air Force secre-
tary, a merrber of the Senate
Armed Services and Foreign Re-
lations Committees, left the im-
plication, however, that the
United States should beprepared
to get the war over with mili-
tarily if such a ceasefire peace
gesture failed.

Sen. Symington said the
United States had achieved its
political objectives in Vietnam
with formation of the new repre-
sentative government in Saigon,
and there are pressing obliga-
tions elsewhere.

UK's football team files into the First Baptist Church of Middles-

ENTUCKY

[The South’s Outstanding College Daily
UNIVERSITY or KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

[\ERNEL

Vol. LIX, No. 27

 

The Mouln Rogue? No, BlazerHall!

 

Two UK coeds, Ruth Ann Hopkins and Sharon dormlobby Tuesday night. A serenade by theBSU'
Lewis, artertained residents of Blazer Hall with Quartet and a general songfest confided the
a canécan dance during a “Hootenanny” in the program.

KernelPhotobyDickWare

 

Greg Page Laid To Final Rest
On A Hot Middlesboro Afternoon

By FRANK BROWNING

just what a reporter should
say when he writes about a
funeral of someone he didn’t
know is not at all clear.

He might describe the walls
of perfumy flowers that lined
the inside of the Baptist church
and surrounded the open casket
containing deceased University
student Creg Page. Or a flower-
spray centered with a football.

He might talk about the bus
that raced its way into Eastern
Kentucky, jarring 25 student
friends of the boy from one side
of it to another.

He might tell of the Negro
girl who dropped quiet tears
before she boarded the bus to
leave UK, of the laughing and
fun-making of the students as
they rode the bus, of the awful
weeping of those same students
on the painful trip from the
church to the cemetery.

First Negro Funeral

Then he might add that

 

 

boro to attend the fungal of their teammate, Greg Page, who died
of iniuries received during a preseason practice session.

Tuesday’s service for Dwayne
Gregory Page was the first
Negro funeral ever held in the
First Baptist Church of Middles-
boro, and that all of that city's
leading officials were present.
That Kentucky Covemor Ed-
ward Breathitt slipped quietly
into a pew behind the family
shortly after the service began,
and that he headed the line of
pallbearers as the service ended.
He might quote the eulogy
of Rev. R. H. Johnson, minister

AA

On Aug. 22, Greg Page was
injured during a preseason
football ractice session. He
lay paralyzed in University
Hospital until late last Friday
night, when he died. A
memorial service for Page
was held Sunday afternoon at
Stoll Field. Attending were
his teammates, the coaching
staff, his parents, University
President John Oswald and
several hundred silent stu-
dents.

 

at Lexington's Main Street
Baptist Church, who tried to
give solace to Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Page, telling them their
son was asleep with Jesus.

Or of the pallbearing UK
football squad, and its coach
Charlie Bradshaw who quietly
wiped his eyes at the cemetery
service.

Creech Attends

Clenwood Creech, vice presi-
dent for University relations,
was there.

The funeral of Greg Page was
clearly the central event in
Middlesboro Tuesday, and not
just because the church is on
Main Street. The mayor, the
judge, the country attorney, the
editor were all there. Even 8
Knoxville television truck ap-
peared.

And state police blocked off
the street out front as towns-
people flooded down the church
steps, onto the yard and beyond
the sidewalk.

Even the engineer of IAN
Number 134 halted to let

 

the funeral procession continue
across his tracks without inter-
ruption.

A girl with orange pants and
colorful shirt, a fine lady be-
decked with furs and a school-
boy in a sport shirt were there.

It was a hot afternoon.

The cemetery service ended,
and those 25 students-all Negro
but four—boarded the bus,
silently. It was late afternoon,
and the bus stopped at a dairy
bar. for no one had eaten.

They joked and they kidded

and they laughed.

 

Corps Held
At Mercy
By Congress

By WALTER GRANT
The Collegiate Press Service
WASHINGTON—The Teach-
er' Corps, which has already
proved its efl'ectivuiess in sup-
plying teachers for slum schools,
is currently dangling in mid-air
waiting for Congress to decide
how nuch money the program
will receive for the next fiscal

year.

The arnmnt of funds Con-
gress appropriates will deter-
nine whether the Corps can ex-
pand its pom-ants or merely hold
its own.

The Teacher Corps has been
swinging on theendoftheCon-
gessional yo-yo most of the year.
Its very existence was in doubt
until mid-summer, when Con-
gress at the last minute voted
to extend the program for three
years.

President Johnson and Teach-
er Caps omcials have requested

an ere near the requested 83

' on. ‘In fact, the committee
is expected to suggest an approp-
riation somewhat below $18 mil-
liar.

As far as Teacher Corps om-
cials areconcerned, any appropri-
ation less than the amount re-
quested will mean the Corps
cannot meet the crying needs of
urban and rural slums adequate-
ly. WheatheSenate slashedfunds
for the program, Corps Director
Richard Graham said the cut
would knock out programs in
my citia which were torn by
riots during the summer.

One Corps official said she
expects the Corps will be able
to increase the number of in-
terns by only about 500, at most.
This increase would fall far short
If the number of interns needed
to fill positims in local school

Continued on Page 8, Col. 1

 

 

 

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Silent onlookers stand outside the church where hmeral services

were held Tuesday for UK football plays Greg Page. Kmtucky's
Governor Edward T. lreathlt was meant.

 

  

2 — THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 1967

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AIR FORCE ART SHQWN AT UK GALLERY—A portion of the

U.S. Air Force art collection will be on display at the University

of Kentucky Studait Center Art Gallery Oct. 9-12. The paintings

[resent a panorama of Air Force activities from World War I to the
present.

STARTS TONIGHT!

3rd feature (9:55 only)
PAUL NEWMAN is "HUD”

ENCES ONlY!
Thu film IS not meant to be seen by everyone! Please do N07
attend ll you are apt in be embarrassed or oflendcd by the
Hat hosiial scenes

.NEVER ANYTHINIi LIKE IT BETIIRE...NEVERI

SCENES THE PUBLIC HAS NEVER SEEN BEFORE

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NOTHING LEFT T0 THE IMAGINATION

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Air Force Art
ComingToUK

An exhibit of Air Force art
depicting scenes from World War
I to the presmt, will be on dis-
play Oct. 9—12 at the University
of Kentucky Student Center Art
Gallery.

Featuring 40 original works
of art, the display is a panor-
ama of Air Force activities, in-
cluding fighter pilots on alert in
Japan, airmen undergoing tropi-
cal survival training in Panama,
an aerial refueling mission over
England, interceptors training
over the Arctic, and scenes from
Operation Chocolate Drop—the
helping hand of the Berlin Air-
lift in the 1940's.

The paintings are a pageantry
of the USAF Art Collection, pur-
porting to portray the role of
American aerospace power in the
world today.

Several prominent artists have
donated their time and talents
to portray the Air Force story
from its days of infancy to the
present. Most are members of the
Societies of Illustrators in Los
Angeles, New York and San Fran-
cisco.

.THE
INNER
WALL _'
IS ’
COMING!

‘Inner Wall’ Due Tomorrow

”The Inner Wall" is coming tomorrow. This art supplement to
the paper will contain poetry, short stories, reviews, and cartoons.
Submit copy to Joe Hinds, Kernel Arts Editor for the next supple-

ment .

What Was Billy Joe Throwing?

By BOB THOMAS
HOLLYWOOD (AP) —The
problem with a hit like ”Ode
to Billy Joe" is keeping one's
identity—and sanity—and, so far

Bobbie Gentry appears to be
retaining both.

it hasn't been easy. The show
world can suddenly become big
business, with all the attendant

 

 

 

Art Department Presents

'MONIKA’ by Ingmar Bergman

THURSDAY, OCT. 5 — 7:30 p.m.

STUDENT CENTER THEATER

Le Bonheur, originally scheduled to be shown
on this date, will be shown on Oct. I9.

 

 

 

 

pressures. Within the brief span
of two months, it has happened
to Bobbie, the Mississippi lass
whose sultry ballad of life in
Chickasaw County has been the
No. 1 song in America for six
weeks.

The single record of "Ode to
Billy Joe" was released by Cap-
itol on July 10. The sales to date
have totaled 1.6 million. An al-
bum was put together with "Billy
Joe" as the leading attraction;
within three weeks it jumped
to second rating on a music
industry listing.

Bobbie Gentry remains calm
through it all. She is a IOng—
legged beauty of 24 years, with
long black hair which may or
may not be her own, andlengthy
eyelashes which are obviously
not. She is single—STEADY
DATE: Jim Nabors, TV's Comer
Pyle— and level-headed.

Everything has been happen-
ing fast," she admitted, “But so
far I think I have maintained
control. My only concern is that
I might get too busy to have
time to write. It would be a
mistake to neglect the thing that
got me where I am."

Bobbie appears to place more
faith in her uniqueness as a
song writer than as a perform—
er, and not without reason. Her
singing style fits the materially
skillfully; she has a throaty, ex-
pressive voice that is especially
rich in the lower registers and
conveys a quiet sense of drama.

But even more remarkable is
”Ode to Billy Joe" itself, an af-
fecting talethat beSpeaks as much
drama in its four-minute span as
does a short story by William
Faulkner. The song tells of the
suicide of one Billy Joe McAl-
lister and the effect that the
tragedy had upon a Mississippi
girl and her family. The reaction
of listeners has amazed Bobbie
Gentry.

 

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Pushcarts Greased For Derby

Posters are floating around
campus, pushcarts are being
greased, and dates being set up
for this week end’s Lambda Chi
Alpha Pushcart Derby.

This will be the 15th annual
derby held on Uif‘s campus, but
the LXA National Fraternity has
advocated this activity for their
chapters for my years on other
campuses.

The derby is held as a project
for charity. Last year, S615 was
donated to the United Fund.
This year, the money will be
given to the American Cancer
Society and the Greg Page Me-
morial Fund.

To raise the money, students
are asked to vote for the "Ugli-
at Man," at a penny a vote.
The sororities participating in

Seeker 0f Simplicity-

 

Life Is Pain For Coed

The Associated Preu

She wears her hair long and
her skirts short and her eyes
are , sad, glazed but still
innoc t.'

She is a seeker after simplic-
ity but her life is an endless
complication. Her creed is to
hurt no one but she constantly
hurts herself. Life, she says, is
pain; and suicide she accepts as
an option for later, but not
now. There is too much life yet
to be tasted; too many experi-
ments yet to be tried; too much
pain to sift for meaning.

Her name, not her real name,
is Ursala.

Girls who resemble her are
returning to campuses all across
the nation this month. They are
part of a growing army of the
alienated.

Ursala spent her summer in
Canada. She thought it would
be cool to spend time observing
the profusion of symbols of the
mechanized, computerized soci-
ety she can't abide.

Boredom set in and sent her
to Mexico.

She could have gone to Lon-
don or Athens or Paris. That
will come later.

Her life is a conscious pursuit
of the individual self but her
style falls into a shared pattern
of pot, promiscuity and petty
crime. She is stamped a hippie
and judged. Dropping out of one
society, she drops into another.

Ursala is tall, rawboned and
nearly beautiful. in her freshmn
year in college, she had started
out to be a psychiatrist, she be-
gan sleeping with a graduate
student. He moved on. She be
gan sleeping around. She still
considers herself innocent but
adds with a touch of sadness,
”I find myself constantly rede~
fining what I mean by inno-
cence."

The daughter of professional
people, Ursala's intelligence quo-
tient is in the 150s. She was a
leading student inher high school
class. She was active in_school
clubs. She liked science. Sheliked
drama.

But in college something hap-
pened. "I became aware. i be-
came open. I began to search
for myself,” she said.

Ursala's parents were of little
.help to her even before college.
Her home life was painful. Her
mother had lovers. Her father
had mistresses. Eventually, they
had a divorce. Ursala doesn’t
blame them. She doesn't pity
herself. She says she accepts,
she understands, she forgives.
Her anger is reserved for less
personal things—the war in Viet-
nam, racial hatred.

God or the traditional idea of
God is irrelevant to her. The so-

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lace to be plucked from a cold
and barren universe is love and
love alone. “I want 'to write. 1
want to write a long novel about
love," she said as a freshman. She
is now a junior and she has
collected her material. But the
energy for the long novel isn't
there. So she writes poetry, love
poetry, but talks with contempt
(1’ her lovers.

At a party, she danced in bare
feet and wore flowers in her hair.
The windows were open, but the
smell of pot was there. Her friends
sat on the floor and devoured
a watermelm as if it were the
source of life. Ursala danced and
danced, and her loneliness was
utter.

 

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the derby have nominated can-
didates and the voting will take
place on Thursday and Friday
from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in
the Student Center.

At this time, students will
also vote for one of the contest-
ants nominated by the fraterni-
ties for the Lambda Chi Alpha
Pushcart Derby Queen.

The queen and Ugly Man
will be announced at the dance
on Friday night at the Student
Center Ballroom. The Aqua Lads
and the Chanteles Revue will
be playing‘from 8 p.m. to 12
p.m.

On Saturday, the derby will
begin with a prade at 12 a.m.
which will begin at the Sports
Center and end in front of the
Administration Building, where
the derby will be held.

Post time is 1:30 p.m. The
heats have been paired at ran-
dom except that one previous
heat winner is in every group.
Sororities will race approximate-
ly one-half the distance around
the administration circle, while
the fraternities will make a com-
plete circle.

This will be the first year
that community colleges have
been invited to come to the der-
by. ‘It 'is hoped that they will
carry the project back to their
campuses.

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UPI Photo

 

Pope Paul VI (seated on throne) presides over the opaiing of the

Roman Catholic Church's first Synod of Bishops. The Pope’s order

if secrecy concerning the conferaice is being protested by Italian
newspapers. ‘

Italian Press Protesting
Vatican News Blackout

VATICAN CITY (UPI)—Ital-
ian newspapers Tuesday pro-

tested a news blackout ordered

by Pope Paul VI on the Roman
Catholic Church's Synod of Bis-
hops by refusing to print any
news at all of the important
conference.

The 180 cardinals, bishops and
priests attending the Synod were
pledged to silence by the Pope,
according to Vatican sources.

The only non-Synod member
allowed to attend the daily ses-
sions is the Vatican’s official

press oflicer. He gave a resume
d the speeches made :dun'hg the
first working meeting on' Monday,
but said he Lw'as' not permitted
to identify the speakers.

One independent news ser-
vice, however, did manage to ob-
tain the names of Monday’s
speakers, together with what each
said.

The agency, named Communi-
cations CoordinatingCenter for
the Synod, was established ex-
clusively for coverate of the meet-
ing by John Horgan, a joumal-
ist from Dublin, Ireland.

 

  

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Unbelievable!

Speaking last week about dorm-
itory government, Complex Six
Vice-President Ann Groves said,
“It's good if students can handle
it—if they realize it’s not for power
but for responsibility and leader-
ship." Her attitude reflects a qual-
ity found in nearly all of this year’s
campus politicians: a refusal toun—
dertake meaningful programs char-
acterized by a-complete lack of po-
litical knowledge. ~

Recent actions by the Student
Covemment assembly concerning
President Steve Cook's ombudsman

 

program have revealed that organi-
zation’s reluctance to take on any
new responsibilities to meet the
needs of its constituency. The al-
ternative which the Assembly sug-
gested, an administrative office to
fulfill ombudsman functions, re-

veals an unbelievable naievete
about the function of administrative

omcers: They can not have two
masters.

Similarly, Miss Croves’ remarks
show more than she might suspect
about how little she understands
government of any type. Covem-
ment has, at its basis, power. The
responsibility which Miss Groves
urges is impossible without power.
Indeed, responsibility implies po-
wer, for it implies the ability to
implement actions for which re-
sponsibility must be taken.

Furthermore the leadership
which Miss Groves hopes to pro-
mote is no insurance of proper
government. Excellent leaders do
not necessarily have good concepts
of the functions of government. But
no leader, no matter how well
qualified or well intentioned can
function in a powerless government.
And the most ruthless of leaders
can function terrifyingly well in a
government where powers are un-
defined or unjustly derived. Instead
of shrinking the possibilities of in-
creased power for the University's
student governing complex, our
elected representatives should ra-
ther demand the right to define
the powers inherent in the Admin-
istration and those belonging tothe
student body. The only power to
be feared is the loosely defined one.

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“. . . I Have Not Been Brainwashed . . .

I Have Not Been Brainwashed .. . I”

 

 

Parking Structures

 

One Wonders, Could A Pipe Dream Really Come True?

' "University faculty and stafir
will begin payingfor parking Sept.
1 ’under a plan adopted by the
Executive Committee of the Board
ofTrustees Friday afternoon

“The faculty-stallr fee system
will enable the University to begin
this fall to implement the parking
portion ofthegeneralcampus plan.
Two 500 car parking structures
should be under construction by
September. Their completion isan-
ticipated by September, 1965. ”

The Kernel, Feb. 25, 1964:
It is more than two years since
the University announced the plan
and expected date for the proposed
multi—story parking structures. Ac-
cording to the February, 1964,
Trustee action, the parking facili--
ties should have been built and
been in operation one year ago this
month. They were to be constructed
between the Student Center and
McClean field and at Washington
and Rose Streets.

Today, planning has yet to be-
gin. The appointment of an archi—

tect for the project will probably
. be made within the next two weeks,
Larry Coleman, campus planner,
said Tuesday.

As might be expected, a num-
ber of reasons for the delay are
readily available. Inability to ac-
quire all the land needed for the

Washington and Rose Street struc-
ture has been cited as one reason.

 

 

 

THE KENTUCKY [\ERNEL

The South’s Outstanding College Daily
UNIVERSITY or KENTUCKY

l'vl \BI.ISIIEI) 1894

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 4, 1967

Editorials represent the opinions of the Editors, not of the University.

\Villiam l“. Knapp. Jr., Editor-Intihief

L l. n .\l(('.lo,\~ Managing Editor

‘ lxmnnins, Associate Managing Editor
t lull) w lillis, \Vomrn‘s Editor
'm xry l’mu'll, Graduate Assistant

Joe Hinds, Arts Editor

Frank Browning. Editorial Page Editor
Bill Thompson. Cartoonist
(lily Mendes. Sports Editor
Rick Bell, Director of Photography

ASSISTA NT NIANACING EDITORS

l5»~lwrt Brandt. Martin \\'i-hb. Del l’utrell,

Jo Warren, Lee Becker. Darrell Christian

BUSINESS STAFF

Hank Milam, Advertising Manager

Mike Moore, Asst. Advertising Manager

Mike Halpin, Circulation Manager

Mary McGee. Advertising Salesman

Earl Orcmus, Delivery

”We were unable to acquire the
needed land as rapidly as we ex-
pected," Coleman said. In fact,
.deed to the last parcel of land
required on Rose Street was taken
just last week.

[ Landfor the parking structure
near the Student Center is already
University owned. The planner said
this site was not developed because
it was second priority to the Rose
Street structure. Also, there was
some doubt where to relocate physi-
cal education classes which usethe
area intended for a parkingfacility,
the planner said.

The validity of both reasons
seems questionable. Campus plan-
ners should have anticipated and
investigated possible delays in
property acquisition. If there was
any doubt the land might not be
available, the announcement
should have been withheld. Even
eight months after the initial an-
nouncement, Coleman still was
expressing hopes that the parking
structures would be in use by
the fall semester, 1965.

Relocation of the physical ed-
?ucation classes had already been
determined at the time of the an-

nouncement. Now, as was planned

in 1963, the classes are to be
moved to a site near the new
dorm complex. The land has been
available for at least five years,
but no relocation has been at-
tempted. The priority excuse is

also superficial. Just because one.

parking structure could not be
built does not mean that the other
could not be built. Even though
the site was ”second priority,"

a need still existed and was not
filled. _ -_- __fi .

Parking is, and probably al-
ways will be a problem so long
as the University continues ex-
panding in size and personnel.
Until some serious planning is
made, and the plans are followed
through and implemented, there
is little hope the University will
ever begin to catch up, let alone
alleviate, the problem.

And now they’re condemning
Boone Alley for space for new park-
ing towers. Dare we believe?

Letter To The Editor

 

Supports Cook Reply

To The Editor Of The Kernel:

Pardon my delay in responding to
the first jobeel Q. Haidar letter; you
know, the Arabian chemistry graduate
student. But I have only now finished
reading his verbose document.

I find Mr. Cook's reply correct in
its entirity and courteous in its tone,
deserving none of the vitriol it received.

The ensuing reply by Jobeel had not
met any of the points raised, but once
more was a laborious exercise in side
ways thinking. If Jobeel's letters are to
be a regular feature, it would be more
appropriate to place it in the comic sec-
tion between Betty Coed and Little Man
on Campus. Your sense of humor in
passing off Jobeel as an editorialist was
highly imaginative.

Ali L. E. Bonne
A&S Freshman

Kernel

The basis of our government
being the opinion of the people,
the very first object should be to
keep that right; and were it left .
to me to decide whether we should
have a government without news-
papers, or newspapers without a
government, I should not hesitate

a moment to prefer the latter.
Thomas jeflrerson

 BooksrkBerry’g Novel
T ermed ‘Remarkablé’

A PLAOI 0N lAll'l—Iy Wendell Berry; lasso-rt. Brass 5 Co" 51.“, I“ pp.

By ROBERT HEMENWAY

Warsdonotendinvictory;theywearthemselvesoutinloss.
Thoselefttomoumthedeadmustexplaintheabsenceimposed
uponthern,realizemeaninginthesacrifice,andfindanew
for the future. Wendell Berry’s second novel, “A Place On Earth,"
describestheanguish,despairanddignityinheringinthisprocess,
and afirms man's ability to live beyond it. The result is a re-

markable, important book.
Virgil Feltner is reported
missing in action in March,
1944. This ambiguous message,
permitting hope but counseling
despair, informs all the events
of the novel. Mat Feltner,
Virgil's father, must ultimately
acknowledge its unstated truth:
that his son is dead, that his
daughtepin-law is a widow,
that his newly born grand-
daughter will never know her
father. Once recognizing the
finality of this loss, Mat struggles
to determine its meaning, to
relate his son's irrevocable ab—
sence to his own life's values.

Native Location For Novel

Mat Feltner is from Port Wil-
liam, Kentucky, a hamlet on the
Kentucky River. A farmer, he
defines himself in terms of place.
Virgil was a part of this place,
the legatee to the ancestral
Feltner soil which has always
passed from father to son, not
by force of will, but through a
filial awareness of its promise of

life.

When Virgil's loss breaks this
continuity, Mat Feltner must
seek a new principle of re-
newal; he must re-deIine the
future by relating his son's
death to the place that sustains
him. As he puts it, “I've come
to the place where I'll have to
discover better reasons than I've
had.”

Mat discovers that the land
is its own continuity, that al-
though man's efforts to impose
himself on the soil are not
meaningless, they are them-
selves incorporated in the
greater meanings of the land.
He comes to recognize that the
necessity of natural pattern de—
crees profound truth: “Death
can only give into life."

Final Hope For Renewal

Mr. Berry's skill is in taking
us from the initial report of
Virgil's probable death to Mat’s
final hope for renewal. The ex-
perience assumes the form of a
pastoral clergy, and Mat's con-
solation arises from the only
immorality to which man bears
witness: the endurance of the
earth itself.

There is a good deal more to
the novel, of course, than Mat
Feltner's education in loss. In-
forming and compelling his ef-
fort at self-recovery is Port Wil-
liam and its surrounding farms.

This is the world of Iayber

Crow, poet, barber, grave-
digger, humanist; of Whacker
Spradlin, boot-legger, drunk,

obese monument to human
waste; of Old jack Beechum,
eccentric, priest, prophet; of
Burley Coulter, a man, like Mat,
forced by the capricious violence
of war to examine his life’s pur-
pose; and especially of Margaret
Feltner, Mat's wife, who helps
solve the equation of Virgil’s
loss by calmly asserting: “I
don't believe that when his
death is subtracted from his
life it leaves nothing.”

Tehcnique Of Parallels

Parallel episodes develop and
enrich the book’s theme. Mat's
loss of his son is duplicated in
Gideon Crop's loss of his young
daughter in the spring flood.
Swept away by sudden water,
she too is missing in action, and
Gideon must undergo Mat’s
trial.

Duplicating Mat’s search for

law. A crippled veteran of
World War 1, Ernest is only
able to Sustain life so long as
heliveswithasenseofpossi—
bility. When hope is gone, when
he cannot look beyond the dusk
in? the next day, he kills him-
se .

Mat's commitment to the land
is a counterpart to the travesty
of the land perpetuated by
Roger Merchant, his alcoholic,
Harvard-educated cousin; Mer-
chant ignores his soil, and his
life, as a consequence, is value-
less.

This duplication of structure,
one meaning illustrating and ex-
tending another, reveals the
novel's organic method. Its
structural metaphor is the
process of the land: all action
slowlv grows toward Mat Felt-
ner's final harvest.

American Pastoralism?

“A Place on Earth” could
have become a sentimental ex-
ample of American pastoral at-
titudes: an indiscriminate glori-
fication of rural virtue and
rustic character. At times it may
approach this precipice. There
are, perhaps, too many prophets;
too many characters seem
graced with special truth. Port
William sometimes assumes the
guise of an idyllic land; there
is a vaguely disturbing absence
of malevolence about it.

But the novel never takes the
final step into blatant senti-
mentality, and we discover that
a subtle and commanding in-
telligence has revealed the.
values, not the parodies, in an
existence deriving its meaning
from the soil.

This is not a “modern novel”
in our contemporary, “black
humor” fashion. It does not
grotesque the absurdities which
afflict us, or mock the human
rendition. Instead, “A Place On
Farth" affirms the relevance of
human life. A society which de-
fines success as a favorable
“kill-ratio” must somehow be
compelled to listen to Old lack
Beechum’s analysis of war:

‘We Ain’t Won Anything’

“When you talk about victory
you're talking about what you’ve
lost—and by God, you'd better
not forget it . . . We've lost a
mighty lot we wish we could
have kept. And we ain't won
anything.”

Mr. Berry has not written a '

“war novel" in a formal sense,
and the book is certainly not an
allegory of American involve-
ment in Vietnam. But it is an
index of Wendell Berry's talent
that his novel transcends its
own time and place; “A Place
On Earth" offers profound truths
to a country beginning, perhaps
too late, to question the value
of its losses.

 

Dr. llelnenwsy is an assistant pro-
fessor of