The Morning Herald from Hagerstown, Maryland • Page 24

HERALD See Me Inside! mail. Hagerstown, Md, Saturday, August 30, 1969 Graffiti Lives! NEW YORK For a picture of the world today, look at the writing on the walls graffiti. It's the real nitty gritty pop literature of the sixties. A good graffito (singular of graffiti) has all the qualities of a old saying or adage, she points out; it's memorable and has 1 voltage shock quality. Some graffiti have become part of the popular language.

For example: "God isn't dead, He's living in Argentina under an assumed "Yankee, go home! And take me with "Stamp out mental "Draft beer, not men." Graffiti often have humor, sometimes black humor with an unpleasant bite: "Ban the bomb, save the world for conventional warfare" is a famous New York underground statement. Others hark back to the Keystone cops type of slapstick shriveling a person or point with an absurd kind of ridicule: Edgar Hoover sleeps with a nite lite." The best humorous graffiti take a droll look at modern society and its hang-ups. An urban pessimist "Chicken Little was right," on a pillar of a New York subway, for example. "Sacred cows make great hamburger" is not only a prime slice of wall writing, it's a kind of manifesto of graffiti-dom. Graffiti often grows into which are a form of free communication.

The public writing place is an open forum for the writer and his critics to carry on comparison and refutation. One of the classic sequences started with the comment: "I like Grils." Underneath, a second person wrote: "It's girls, stupid, G--I--R--L--S." And a third passerby added the punch line: "What about us Girls?" At times graffiti take an intellectual turn. One of the best thinking man's graffiti was discovered in New York. The first line was: Shakespeare eats Bacon" followed by: "II can't be Donne." Travelers on the London underground were mystified by a graffito in exotic "script until it was identified by a scholar as Osmania (a written version of the Somali a a and translated: "I hate English pudding!" The use of graffiti is as old as ancient Rome (examples have been found giving some very blunt, funny and sometimes obscene views of military officers and Roman emperors), and psychiatrists are now busily investigating the reasons for its increasing popularity, but according to the article there is one simple explanation: "People want an audience for their wit, their frustrations, even i hates." Graffiti are free every sense. There are no editors, a publishers or typesetters to wade through, not even censor.

Graffiti in the form of buttons and bumpers stickers are now good business. All the great graffiti like "Frodo lives" and "Help retarded children Support schools" have ended up on buttons. Still the 'flow of graffiti continues. Signs such as "Do not write on the Walls' have no effect, except as inspiration for retorts like "Maybe we should type?" Off To Green Boy, Wis. James Buchanan Band Will Perform At Game The James Buchanan High School Band was informed recently that it had been invited to provide the half-time entertainment for the Green Bay-Detroit football game on November 23 at Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Announcement was made to the band by Richard Rotz, James Buchanan band director, who had received the invitation in May but had not told the band until Thursday night. The band will arrive in Green Bay on November 22, stay overnight, and perform the show for CBS television on the morning of the 23rd. The band which includes 92 musicians, 8 color guard and five majorettes, has been working this week at Gettysburg College in preparation for the coming football season. Smithsburg High Plans Car Wash The Junior Class of Smiths- and Country Department Store burg High School is sponsor- on August 30 from 10 a.m. ing a car wash at the Town 5 p.m.

All The Top Bands Were There A First Hand Look At EDITORS NOTE: David Brown, local student, attended the recent Woodstock Music and Art Fair held in N. Y. He notes below all the top bands tHat were there and talks a little about the Festival itself. Upcoming concerts in the Washington D.C. area include the Canned Heat and The Young Bloods, Paul Butterfield and the Who.

By DAVID BROWN The recent Woodstock Music and Art Fair, held in White Lake, N.Y., was huge in every respect. The crowd of young people was even larger than predicted the U.S. Army said there were 400,000 and Arlo Guthrie said there were a million and a half of us. It just depends on who you want to believe. The crowd soon became its own enemy in the lack of facilities, which seems to be the only part of the festival that has received publicity.

There was no violence of any form during the festival. This in itself was a kick in the head to imminent psychologists, and that sort, who had been saying since the advent of Be-bop-a-lula that rock brought the animal passions in the typical teenager. The lineup of entertainers was incredible, as well. The best of a long list included Crosby, Stills, Nash Young, Jefferson Airplane (who jammed with Nicky Hopkins), Canned Heat, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Who, 10 Years After, the Mothers, Santana, Winter, Arlo Guthrie, the Band and John Sebastian putting in a surprise solo appearance. Some of the legendary communes and such were there the Merry Pranksters, subjects of Tom Wolfe's bestseller "The Electric Kool-Aid Test, brought their four day-glo buses and came tripping across the country from the Oregon wilds.

The Hog Farm was there as well uprooted and flown in from New Mexico. But although the. fathers of Atlantic City have seen to it that there will be no more Atlantic City Pop Festivals not in Atlantic City, anyway and Newport is in danger, it is hoped that people will go on trying. Woodstock set a noteworthy first, with the festival officials letting everyone in free. The people there set another--we established good relations with the local yokels, who at first were leery about their town being destroyed by youthful rioters and freaks.

And even if Bobby Dylan wasn't there (as the rumor mill predicted) there certainly was enough to keep the mind alive. Janis Joplin Top Entertainment Cross The Verbal Sound Barrier NEW YORK Young pie who can communicate with friends through a special vocabulary or merely a gesture often have trouble getting their message across to "outsiders" even their own family. The a "generation gap" occasionally a communication failure, and the demand for "confrontation" is a call for mutual understanding, according to Daniel A. Sugarman, Ph. and Rollie Hochstein.

The authors offer a seven point program on "how to get through the verbal sound barrier, improve your reception and communicate without 1. Stop, look, listen. Pay attention to what you're saying to what others are saying. Open your eyes to visual clues: intense eyes that belie a bland voice, a whimsical curve of the mouth, a self- abasing stoop of the shoulders. Observe and assess the manner before you judge the matter.

2. Explain yourself. Nobody outside your innermost circle has a background exactly like yours, so you've got to establish your frames so reference. Never assume that anybody knows what you mean until you explain exactly what it is. 3.

What is he saying and what is he telling you? The statement is not necessarily the message. Try to catch the signals behind Ihe words. For example, a boy who blasts of his achievements might be really telling you he feels insecure. Everyone a selectively, tries to present the image he wants to project. What he doesn't say, then, becomes just as revealing as what he chooses to say.

4. Beware of prejudgment. Experience, deeply etched, affects your a a Anytime you place a label on a new acquaintance, you're being unfair to yourself and the other person. Intuition is often right, often wrong. When you're predisposed to like mebody, your warmth is usually reflected.

And if you're expecting trouble, you can usually find it. 5, Try to avoid detours. For example, Sylvia and Suzy have the same Every Sunday their parents whisk them off to i i relatives. Both girls would rather spend the time with a their friends, tells her parents, and reach a compromise: she stays home every other Sunday. Suzy, afraid to cause a stir, says nothing.

But communicates her resentment by getting or stomachs, usually on Sunday nights. Unconsciously, she is telling her parents that she's "sick" of visiting. The parents do not receive the correct message, but they do worry a lot about her health. Many communicate displeasure through their own suffering; everyone would be better off if they would actually voice their complaints. Never take the devious way if you can deal directly and honestly.

i. Offer feedback. During a telephone chat, respond with spirited "Tell me more" rather than a perfunctory murmur. In facc-lo-facc conversation, let the talker know that you're with him through a nod of agreement or an "I think I know wbnt you're getting at." If you don't un- upscl dcrsUnd, ask for clarification..