Northwest city dwellers migrate to woods
SEATTLE (AP) — Ever thought
of giving up the frenzied pace of
city life and suburban sprawl, and
building your own log cabin nes
tled among the trees.
Well, thousands in the North
west have, and they are as inde
pendent about their rustic lifestyle
as their forefathers who built log
cabins which still dot the land
scape.
"Rather than living in a cracker
box, we re trying to live simply,''
said Mrs. Dale Erickson, a trans
planted Californian whose family
now lives in Sequim. “It seems to
express our own way of life better
than ranch styles."
The Ericksons escaped
California “where everything is
sterile" 3Vi years ago, and have
owned up to three log cabins at
one time.
Some log cabin owners are
adamant — “We wouldn't have
anything else," says Mrs. James
PRO-homo-sapiens—
boll weevils and tussock
moths all must die. As well as
anti-homo-sapienty in any man.”
PRO is optimistic about the final
outcome in the struggle against
anti-homo-sapienty. "We PRO
homo-sapiens are the stronger of
the two. We will prevail but I can't
say how long before we have kil
led the last anti-homo-sapient,”
he says.
PRO wasn't always a
philosopher and, no, he wasn’t
born with that name.
He was baptized Erwin Wood
Williams in an Episcopal Church,
in rural Ohio on June 13,1904. He
spent his boyhood in Virginia
where he began a lifelong love af
fair with history, theology and
philosophy. After graduating from
the University of Virginia in 1925,
he taught school until 1930 when
he entered Kenyon College in
Ohio to study for the Episcopal
ministry.
Three years later, in 1933, he
received a divinity degree and
was appointed lay vicar of St.
Mark s Episcopal Church in To
nopah, Nev.
He married a Tonopah woman
and was subsequently fired by his
bishop. Unemployed, at the peak
of the Depression, the couple
moved to Eugene where they
stretched their savings so he
Hansel — but log cabin dwellers
also say their rustic abodes are
cheaper to build, heat, clean and
maintain.
Construction costs are cut more
through labor than matenals, be
cause one or two persons can
raise a log home in a weekend,
using a commerically sold, precut
log kit marked by letters and num
bers
The Hansel’s 5-bedroom,
3-bath log home cost them
could attend graduate school
A few years afterward, in 1937,
the couple divorced — a break
that lasted until their remarriage in
1972 in Springfield.
Williams, meanwhile, left
Eugene for his native Virginia, and
began a 14-year study of
philosophy — a germination
period which culminated in his
proclamation of PRO-homo
sapienty on July 4, 1951.
Twenty years later, after a
career of activism in Virginia, he
moved to Springfield where he
dropped Erwin Wood Williams
and became, by court decree,
PRO-homo-sapiens, citizen
Why did he change his name?
$30,000; they estimate as a wood
frame it would have cost twice as
much
Other savings are in cleaning
and home heating bills.
A mother of two said, “You don t
find fingerprints everywhere
I just vacuum the walls every
two to three weeks," another said
In heating bills, “there's defi
nitely no comparison,' Mrs. Han
sel said. "We have two fireplaces,
one in the basement and one on
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“To advertise with my name,
the most powerful word in all ling
uistics," he says. "PRO-homo
sapiens is the holiest word in our
language It tells all that is good on
this planet earth."
PRO is alert for identifying
anti-homo-sapient public leaders
In his book, "Scientific Morality,
he lashes out against religious
fundamentalists. “They literally
accept a myth that Noah took
pairs of every living creature
aboard the ark There are 250,000
species of insects. Only a religous
psychotic would believe Noah had
500,000 insects aboard.” Mark
Hatfield is described as a "sad ex
ample of a man who is inade
the main floor, which keep the
house warm because it's self
insulating."
Low maintenance costs and
high resale value are other
economies
"We won't ever have to paint
the walls," Mrs Hansel noted
And because log cabins are
solid wood, not plastic," they
bring a high resale price, log cabin
companies say, as much as 20
per cent a year appreciation,
compared with about 13 per cent
for conventional homes
quately competent for public office
because he does too much pon
tificating on religion."
Other favorites are Scoop
Jackson: "A jughead jingo The
poorest excuse for a Scandina
vian;" Lady Bird Johnson:
"Neither a lady nor a bird;"
Anymore though, PRO is run
ning out of breath He s 72 and in
sadly declining health His once
prolific letters-to-editors are now
fewer and fewer His eyes are fail
ing and his hearing is nearly gone,
but his spirit remains proud and
persistent Lying on a couch in his
modest Springfield home he says,
"I’m old and tired but wiser than
any other man
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