The American auto, R.I.P.:

...cians," said Senator Howard Baker, one WHEN THE WELL RUNS DRY of his possible Republican opponents recently, and received round applause from I T MAY NOT be so bad, you know, amount of a commodity, which, when a Washington press audience...

...so prosperous, that it woke the jealousy and greed of a With them the miners brought their celebrated brass German knight, Rytgier...

...the glorious...

...That throne rights of subjects to liberty and the pursuit of happiness...

...surpass the others in beauty and imagery...

...usually cited as a weakness by political come from, or are complicated by, polit- pointed out that members of the press, columnists, remembering the clout ical changes in the country...

...The solar future is en- and turned back, the land reclaimed for it back together...

...Adalbert, the point, can we understand the feelings engendered by this Bishop of Prague, the Apostle of Poland...

...Why do we have maverick berstam, complained to the networks that we must hope that he really has the capacparty members launching write-ins for they were coming between the president ity to learn, that he can change, that he Senator Kennedy and committees for "a and people, between the parties and their will master the art of politics, the inspirDemocratic alternative...

...She was so beautiful, and the Cracow land lose its faith now...

...On Sundays the family hanced, however, by the existence of more human uses, not only in crazy San went for a ride in the country and it really plans for a kind of solar collecting station Francisco, but also in solid old Mil- was in the country, not past it in an indisout in space, which would gather in the waukee...

...He is the called to account for excessive use of his Senator Kennedy among them...

...who died throughoutt the world fighting "For Your FreeA11 around, traces of Poland's past splendor: rich bur- dom and Ours...

...Presidential primaries-without Washington Post wrote recently, sobers of his own party...

...Fallows ABIGAIL McCARTHY will not learn the connection between language and leadership...

...fast to a long tradition...

...James Reston has noted one in a day when parties are weak and uninformed younger electorate...

...It trained...

...Quite the contrary, ev- lands -began turning away from autom- years, autos came equipped with tool erything you hear about solar energy, biles even before the crisis became criti- boxes and a full panoply of wrenches and every working example you see, demon- cal...

...Each parish tries to on a tall, cloth-swathed object at the south end of the mall...

...Again, in part because he has not and to report and what they do not...

...Not willing to subject If Warsaw's mementos bring to mind the sorrowful mys- her people to a bloody war or to the cruel domination of the teries of Poland's history, Cracow's evoke the joyful and Germans, Wanda drowned herself in the Vistula...

...From double-knit suits to garishly that few such unrestricted shapes have will be gone in a century and we can live colored, instantly breakable nursery come close to the beauty that comes natu- like humans again...

...I am proud to be a politician and the son and son-in-law of politi- THE AMERICAN AUTO, R.I.P...

...senior high school students no longer day-to-day government, and report evStill the absence of vindictiveness is a learn the elementary facts about how the erything in win-lose terms rather than in personal virtue...

...More and history was lived without any oil at all...

...These stubborn people of Silesia have kept their Polish- An American pre-schooler's favorite nursery song may ness, their language and their religion through more than inform the world that "Mary had a little lamb...

...camps...

...The Muscovite is pleased: there was transgressions of Europe, to Christ suffering for the sins of no demonstration...

...They meet the either with the person or the property of an infidel...

...social, economic and artistic ventures of highway system, the shopping center What put the roar in the roaring twenties many kinds, following the short delay phenomenon, the suburbs and the ever was the gasoline engine...

...Instead, the graves of sees more than actions, hears more than words...

...If OPEC all, because he has failed to handle the at last, the bare bottom of the tank...

...On the bishop and a graduate of the Jagiellonian University, ramparts of Jasna Gdra monastery Wyszynski's brother Wawrzyniec Goslicki, asserted the God-given inalienable bishops sat on each side of an elevated throne...

...A Catholic Knight, not being an coronation of the Black Madonna as the Queen of Poland...

...It could whirl you about the car's purpose in our history has been, lot of people and a lot of quite respectable countryside and to distant cities with a anyhow, if not to create the suburbs, the highway trust, the petro-multinationals and the rest...

...The police and the Cos- soon to be Risen Poland...

...no speeches, no demonstrations...

...The irony was any luck at all, the petro and the plastics TICS...

...At the edges of the crowd groups custom of Christmas cribs, of erecting Holy Sepulchers in of Tsarist police, troops of mounted Cossacks...

...6 July 1979: 393...

...With the end of Prohibition, the complished, too...

...It lost its social purpose things the auto invented to give itself battle against Puritanism was over and and like all things with no purpose made pseudo-purpose when purpose was ants of Warsaw came to worship at the same time...

...owners of horse-and-buggy rigs and with brandt...

...Drivers strates again that it's something neigh- organized and successful opposition to were their own mechanics and cars were borhoods, cooperatives, even individual the incursion of freeways designed to built so you get at them...

...happens that a nation, rightly provoked and angered by A million pilgrims journeyed to Czcstochowa in 1956...

...meant and understood as a symbol Thus in 966 Pol and...

...They came to dem- hands...

...Late in the answerable directly to the Pope, kept his country independ19th century a Russian Orthodox Church stood here, a ent...

...monopoly capitalism, the American folk suburbs not so much made possible by as In the first place, most of the world's soul realized that the automobile, after enforced by the automobile...

...who inherMongol invasions with a wall of its bodies, is not likely to ited his throne...

...For power company...

...aid to victims of natural disasters...

...One must not interfere come to the gravesite to call in the debt...

...In the floor of the Pole's visit to these Poles...

...All eyes are their churches at the end of Holy Week...

...Messianism" when he compared Poland, suffering for the forever to remember...

...veniences...

...Some cities, for instance, rose in pliers, spare bolts, the works...

...There streets delivered from cars and given to tomobile as an instrument of pleasure or remains the problem of preventing pri- pedestrians to walk about on without fear instruction...

...the men's uniforms and the women's re- Masters and takes the full reins of government in its own gional finery proclaiming their identity...

...to be avenged with fire and sword...

...The rumble seat caused by the Depression and World War more Baroque, not to say Rococo design alone-now, like most good things about II...

...centuries of greatness, centuries of foreign oppres- Gniezno is the site of the first Polish Archbishopric, and sion, In Poland, where every stone is a relic of that past, he yet no King of Poland is buried there...

...Most of when the well tuns dry and we face, it's all used up, is all used up...

...I have noted like some presidential aides, become exerted by Lyndon Johnson, and by John in a previous column that junior and campaign junkies, are uninterested in Kennedy through "the Boston Mafia...

...The driveways families could put up and make work for split cities as effectively as earthquake of the land were filled on Saturdays with themselves, hence it attracts little interest chasms...

...Solar so far has been stuck on the In the second, there is considerable a personal freedom unknown to railroad disability that it's hard to figure out a way evidence that the Americans-and hence riders...

...pendent voter," so popular among mem- importance of what was-the comIn the past a president with such bers of the suburban middle classes, is promise peace between Egypt and Israel, strengths could expect to have his pec- only one of the things which has for instance...

...Anne's, bid farewell to the Polish Pope with a sea of A POLE has a sense of the symbolic, a sense of history crosses...

...An equally important change is the all these changes but he must not be domWhy do we see a Democratic president growing tendency of the media to act as inated by them...

...The voluntary conversion removed the German excuse for A short block from the Mickiewicz monument is Victory raiding his country under the pretext of "Christianization...

...he also wrote, "takes This June more than a million arrived to pray with their advantage of the undeniable right of defending its freedom Pope...

...New mass rail transit has been tinguishable blur of green-and-white sun's energizing beams, transmit them to installed not only in San Francisco but signs, concrete and plastic food purpower companies everywhere and thus also in Washington...

...Only by two Czechs dominate its ancient cathedral...

...Poland's romantic poet Micshrieking silence, tears his prepared speech in half...

...Then silently thevdisperse...

...It does process beyond reason and cause candi- was in 1960...

...There is another aspect to petro- that the designer could make it assume The transition will be gradual, with production, of course, and that is, as the any shape, unconfined by the natural lim- phasings out and slow changes, but with party guest told The Graduate, PLAS- itations of wood or metal...

...There was no conflict between the the obscene bulging of the cars-to goods, unhealthy colors and ' insulation mind of the maker and the material, thus realize at once what a blessing its passing from the forms and materials of the real no tension, no drama, in the finished will be...

...est...

...Now the young of Warsaw, gathered outside St...

...Freeways have been rejected drivers taking the thing apart and putting in government...

...Rockefeller the First bought the Pennsyl- than it was worth...

...He sent legates to Wanda to debands to play ancient songs to their Shepherd-the brass mand that she marry him and, as a dowry, give him the land bands that once "accidentally" played "Stars and Stripes of Krak...

...Vaclav, a good and holy king martyred by his godless lawgiver in whose statutes we find none of the harsh penal- brother, and to this church the people of Nowa Huta brought ties common to the codes of his era, grantor of unprecen' their picture of the Black Madonna to be blessed by the dented civil rights to the Jews persecuted and expelled from Pope...

...In this the automobile was eminently successful, enjoying what was, in retrospect, its heyday simultaneously with the peak of Puritanism, Prohibition...

...Here was the center of Poland's glory and, in In the village of Mogila, which translates as "grave" or the Jagiellonian University, an ancient center of learning, a "mound" there stands the 8th century Tumulus of Wanda...

...A president facing 1980 is affected by Why then do we see a president at bay...

...ghers' houses, magnates' palaces...

...veyors...

...locomotion, or even non-locomotion...

...we prove our faith...

...font from which sprang ideas of freedom and tolerance that Nearby stands the 13th century Cistercian Abbey Church of influenced the centuries...

...David Broder told a press ing use of language, and demonstrate In part, because, like Al Smith, Carter audience recently that they should admit clarity of thought, voice, and purpose in cannot seem to lay aside his regional how much they condition events by the leadership-the leadership we need idiosyncrasies even in the national inter- process of selection-what they choose now-not in 1981...

...create at once the expensive apparatus Then, too, the past several years have That's all long gone now and will and the fruitful combination of public seen in increasing numbers certain streets never possibly be re-created outside the subsidy for private profit which alone can or blocks or even whole little grids of movies...

...With it has long gone the aubring new technology into being...

...dates to proliferate in swarms...

...all Warsaw is here...

...The spirit of the "Unknown Soldier," whose tomb Russian-occupied Warsaw, 1898 A long mall leading faces the papal altar, is the legate of the legions of Poles from the Royal Palace...

...Meanwhile, to contemplate a world is thus not unreasonable to hypothesize Moreover, the prophetic among the without oil is to contemplate a world re- that even before OPEC, scarcities and folk have been engaged in a countermarkably attractive in numerous particu- price rises right out of classical migration, against the migration to the lars, even some generals...

...An kiewicz gave the most famous expression to this "Polish immense sob shakes the crowd...

...Now they prolong the elective bency is much more complicated than it ses transfer to party and country...

...This tribe of Henry the Pious, that finally broke the Legend tells of Wanda, a daughter of Krak...

...Now a group of Czech pilgrims, the spiritual Commonweal: 392 gone-the roads, the malls, the suburbs, horrors that fill our lives with shoddy rest...

...player against the Prohibitionists...

...Vietnam the tendency to exaggerate expectations leadership in the Congress so weakened and Watergate alienated older voters...

...There is no question about who won that battle, nor is there any question but that the auto was a principal...

...Most auto repair now takes vate, small-scale groups or families from of being bumped off...

...absolute subject, must be sure of the justness of the war The government barred the nation's primate, Cardinal before he takes part in it...

...Its blessings will out of oil at a not quite yet predictable people's distress-something he still be so thinly disguised as to be visible to date...

...In this city much of the symbolism is drawn from tragedy...

...Tsar's "Gift to Poland...

...entered the family of western nations not of religion but of foreign oppression...

...Bootlegging 6 July 1979: 391 would have been impossible without cars the country free to find its own ways in up several new ones for itself, notably the and trucks, the speakeasy without taxis...

...man...

...A statue of the Virgin in the center...

...It may even be a political government works...

...Wyszynski, from taking part in the solemn festivities in And some 400 years before Karol Wojtyla, another Czgstochowa...

...As this square fills with people come to celebrate the PILGRIM SYMBOLS Mass, the rite of peace and reconciliation, with the Polish JOHN PAUL II IN POLAND Pope, the spirits of the 800,000 inhabitants of Warsaw who perished in World War 11 hover over the throng of the living...

...Incumpresident the country has...

...In World War 11 Henryk Sienkiewicz pulls the rope, and the sheets fall away university artists of the Academic Church of St...

...But the purpose was cars, long gone,-did more for sexual That victory accomplished-and in- gone and it was only a question of time liberation-and gymnastics-than Mas- deed reinforced by the two disasters-the before cars went, too, and going they are...

...In part, because he persists in thinking himself above or outside of "politics" when, in fact, the Of several minds: Frank Getlein office he holds is at the heart of politics and dependent on the intelligent exercise of that art...

...which results in what was not acby "reform" that the Speaker of the The myth of the superiority of the "inde- complished overshadowing the historical House cannot exact fealty...

...The Polish Pope with a banner reading: "REMMEMBER, FATHFR...

...onstrate again, not some defiance of the government, but When John Paul preaches human rights, he is holding their national identity and their strong faith...

...Here lived and taught BOGUMIL KOSCIESZA Paul, son of Vladinrir, rector of Jagiellonian University, (Boguinil Kosciesza, a previous contributor, is a chemist, who delivered at the Council of ('i1TlSI~ink-c nn,,7irze dccla- c&!, )r rind earthy...

...It seems reasonable to guess that the real purpose was to slay once and for all the provincial Puritanism that kept this nation in intellectual, social and artistic kindergarten...

...Since we face great probwho cannot marshal support for his pro- participant in the political process...

...High above their heads stands the oldest monument imprinted on his soul by the centuries of glory...

...Anne built revealing the statue of Adam Mickiewicz, Still in silence Sepulchers that were powerful allegories of Crucified but Sienkiewic•z approaches a podium...

...ters and Johnson and Hugh Hefner taken automobile's purpose was ac- It is only necessary to glance at those together...

...Lyn- lems between now and then, and since grams from Democratic members of don Johnson, according to David Hal- President Carter is the president we have, Congress...

...could do, one must add, if he made a all and for many will outweigh its incon- There's wind and solar, of course...

...The beauty of plastic was simply form...

...fell apart tomorrow -a prospect distressenergy and inflation problems with con- That ultimate depletion will not be with- ingly remote-the world would still run sistency and flair and feeling for the out its compensations...

...A silent crowd fills the The Poles have a tradition, somewhat analogous to the mall...

...It is barelz a century since John D. outlived its usefulness, was more bother transport...

...This is not a question of Around the World in Eighty Days, but Carter's problems are not his own, but sheiks or ayatollahs, but one of a limited don't overlook windmills with their Commonweal: 390 powerful symbolic significance for ar- human achievement without petro- speed and range totally unfamiliar to tists as different as Cervantes and Rem- products...

...we have a largely terms of process...

...He could expect which Carter would not have reached of- called reforms have tended to separate support from the average citizenry and fice but now a hazard for him-were the politician from the rest of the from the opposition on matters of interna- never intended to be definitive in the populace, thus creating a "political tional import where the nation's interest nomination process, but to be a potential class" and a "permanent condition of was concerned...

...in Warsaw, King Sigismund II--a huge cross in his hand...

...Square, once the scene of a bloody battle between the Accepting baptism from the hand of a missionary bishop, citizens of Warsaw and the Tsarist invaders...

...in hundreds more unmarked spots an the first Polish Christian monarch-Mieszko I. anonymous hand drops a bouquet of white and red flowers . It was a shrewd political move on the part of Mieszko...

...It was left empty except for a single red rose...

...Here ruled Casimir the Great, a St...

...If, 'through these and many other vania legislature and put petroleum When the famed love affair began, signs, the folk has indeed written off the products on the way to the ubiquity they you'll recall, the automobile was a great auto, it is fair to speculate on what the have since enjoyed...

...In similar devel- place in professional places at astounding tapping their own solar resources, but no opments, both Rock Creek Park in Wash- prices, incompetence and brazen doubt a suitable tax scale will be worked ington and Central Park in New York crookedness, but the cars have been careup to protect the free entrepreneurs from have been reserved on weekends or parts fully engineered to make them all but unfair competition from do-it- thereof for non-internal combustion inaccessible to all but the talented or yourselfers...

...world...

...It is forbidden to force anyone to In 1956 Poland celebrated the 300th anniversary of the accept the Holy Faith...

...a church so vast as an equal, through the offices of two Czechs-a woman that it would have been empty if all the Orthodox inhabit- and a bishop...

...High above the looking at Pope John Paul II's pilgrimage from that view- main altar is the silver sarcophagus of St...

...His weaknes- powers...

...of cars themselves...

...sanctuary, just by the ancient baptismal font, lies Queen In Warsaw hundreds of tablets commemorate places of Dubrovka, the Czech princess who married and converted Nazi mass executions...

...toys, petro is behind most of the plastic rally with wood, stone, metal and the FRANK GETLEIN descendants of IJubrovka and Vojtech (Adalbert), have ration in defense of human rights...

...In the throng was a contingent of Silesian miners and and . . . throws away the yoke, chases away its Lords and their families...

...greatest tolerance is due the Jews, because by their books YOUR C ZECH CHILDREN...

...A president in office is corrective if a president needed to be candidacy" for some public figures, the president the party has...

...fresh start...

...That's a lot of time, a novelty...

...Moreover, there was a mechanito make it a monopoly of your local the imitation Americans in other cal fascination in the apparatus itself...

...a Polish half a millennium of foreign domination, through Bis- innocent's lisping rhyme proclaims that "Wanda drowned marck's Kulturkampf, through Hitler's concentration herself, because she did not want a German...

...what no observer worth his salt has failed more people lately have been moving When it appeared naturally it was more to call our love affair with the machines, back into the city, where they don't have often regarded as a nuisance than a bene- was reaching the end of the road, had garages and can get around on public fit...

...cadilloes overlooked or tolerated and his weakened the parties as nominating Last of all, as Meg Greenfield of the weaknesses down-played by the mem- bodies...

...Wind brings to mind that wonderful When all that has been said, however, There is by now no doubt at all that the sail.-driven railcar of Mike Todd's I think we must recognize that part of well will run dry...

...In spite of the arrests of the socks tense-the authorities permitted the erection and un- "perpetrators," each year a new Sepulcher was erected veiling of the statue to this Polish bard on two conditions: each year hundreds of thousands filed past the "Grave...

...constituencies...

...tyranny and usurpation of its kings...

...He warned that a refusal would be taken an insult Forever" for the visiting Khrushchev...

...The author of Quo Vadis This identification of Poland's suffering with the Cross is raises a sheaf of papers high over his head and, in a almost two hundred years old...

...It is worth remembering that to the Poles, Wanda's the rest of 14th-century Europe, protector of peasants, story is a reminder that freedom from foreign domination regulator of working conditions, provider of gigantic state has sometimes to be bought by great personal sacrifice...

...The response was typically Polish...

...not make sense to weaken him further...