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Kl TV-RADIO Today' Program Schedules and Special Notes-TV Pag SPORTS Results, Coming Events, Columnists Sports Pages "EVENII PAGE CI BALTIMORE, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 19G5 PAGE CI Russell Baker i i 'Dolly7 Leads World To Total Cultural Warfare Escalation SUA 1 fM Spy, 1 -V 'jtJY A' ft a small probe by the CIA designed to test Communist cultural defenses. Popgun In Arienal Whatsover the case, no one anticipated a violent Communist response. Compared to "Hello Dolly," Fischer is scarcely more than a popgun in the American cultural arsenal. At most, the Soviets were expected to hit back by throwing a couple of touring American engineers out of Dnieperpetrovsk. In banning "Hello Dolly" Moscow abruptly confronted Washington with a cultural challenge of the deepest gravity.

The men here who favor lobbing one into the men's room of the Kremlin are already- urging a five-year prohibition against the Bolshoi Ballet, and Sol Hurok has been warned that, "We're eyeball to eyeball under the complexion bulbs." The voice of sanity behind the scenes belongs to Dr. Hugo Hans, whose seminal work, "Culture Can Turn the Tide," defines 93 brilliantly thought Moscow's abrupt decision to keep "Hello Dolly" off the boards In Russia is bad news. The official Interpretation that the show was banned In retaliation against United States war policy in Vietnam is not taken seriously by people who understand relations between modern superstates. These people find it laughable to suggest that Moscows thinks it can give American bombers tit-for-tat by cutting off David Merrick's rubles, (Merrick is the show's producer.) The "Hello Dolly" crisis, they agree, is retaliation all right, but not against anything that is happening in Asia. In the words of one war-room thinker, "What we are faced with is the danger of total cultural warfare." In striking against Broadway's most successful musical, Moscow is overreacting in an escalation out of all proportion to the original American thrust.

Chess Champ MUsing The crisis was begun quietly enough last month when Soviet photographic planes flying over Cuba recorded the absence of Bobby Fischer from the apablanca chess tournament. Scanning cuttings in the Ministry of Cultural Warfare, several commisars reported simultaneously that Fischer, the American chess champion, had been denied American passport permission to attend the tournament. Here, it seemed, was a quiet, concealed move by the United States to strike a sneak blow against Communist culture. This suspicion may have been heightened by the negligible coverage given to the United States' Fischer gambit in the American press. The State Department's motives are obscure.

The Fischer affair may have been merely a case of bureaucratic bumbling, or it may have been fisfcjMWs ft cK INVENTOR Stephen Orback, 10, at the controls of his new car. Designer Is 10 Newest Mode Auto Has One Big Fault out steps up the escalation ladder which precede the dreadful Step 94, universal cultural war. (Banning pre-dawn Russian classes on educational TV, permitting unlimited export of movie magazines to the Soviet Union, etc.) Dr. Hans points out that in refusing to let Fischer go to Cuba to play chess, the United States, unwittingly perhaps, was escalating to Step 22. the enemy's national A reasoned response by the Russians would have been a long article in Pravda denouncing baseball as hooliganism.

Dr. Hans's critics have vilified him for daring to think about ways of making culture an effective weapon of the state. As the Russians have shown again, however, culture in the era of the superstate is as much an instrument of policy as the I.C.B.M. and the secret agent. As Dr.

Hans puts it, "You can't make an omelet without cracking a few eggheads." stitutes the chassis, and the motor is composed of discarded auto parts, coffee cans, dish detergent bottles and bricks. The pride of the Special is a toy The Orback Special, a revolutionary 1966 model car, was introduced this week by its Baltimore designer and builder. A one-seater made of discarded parts, the Special is the brainchild of Stephen Orback, of 4108 Woodhaven avenue, a designer with almost six years experience. It is the third car constructed Copyrlsht 1965, New York Timei Newi Bervicel dashboard given to Stephen by his grandmother, who also provided Ralph McGill by the youthful mechanic-inventor and is an improvement over its I I I predecessor. Concedes One Fault the "chassis." "I just picked up the rest of the parts," Stephen said today.

Favorite Source His favorite source of supply for the variety of condensers, spark plugs, distributor, fuel pump and other engine parts is a filling station near his home. A working part is the acceler Urban Slum Dilemma Tied To Emigration From South Stephen, 10-year-old fifth grade student at Columbus Elementary School, concedes that it has one important fault, however. It won ORBACK SPECIAL It looks like Pop Art but it's actually the chassis of a homemade auto. run. A discarded kitchen table con ator which, when pressed to the floor, opens up the fuel pump.

The parts are connected with a Dr. Hunter Urges Walcr Reforms maze of wires. Mrs. Lee Orback, Stephen's mother, said her son evinced an interest in autos at the age of 4 and has been able to identify the makes of various models on the Desalination Still A Last Resort with the more able-bodied and educated people leaving the county, especially from the plantation areas. By 1928, 15,785 acres had been forfeited to the State for nonpayment of taxes and another 12,000 to loan companies, with the latter figure increasing to over 18,000 by 1934.

"The losses of land to the farmers would have been even greater had the State officials or the loan financiers wanted it but by then they didn't know what to do with the acres that had already been forfeited to them and so were ready to defer taxes and reduce loan payments to keep from having still more unwanted land on their hands. "Our household interviews in 1934 showed that local white farm families on the average had annual income of $310 a year, and Negro families $15. The income of the renters and croppers, i.e., tenants, accounting for 60 per cent of white farm families and 90 per cent of Negro, were well highway for several years. not instituting an energetic con salting only after they have an1 The young inventor interest in efficient water management pro servation plan now. The Baltimore physicist's job is cars is so intense that he spends gram.

all of his spare money on auto By Ernest Imhoff De-salting water is still a costly last resort, rather than a substitute for "good management" of existing and unexploited fresh water supplies, a Government desa "There are natural resources Formerly director of concepts at1 the Martin company here, he still lives in Baltimore. Although the cost of converting sea and brackish water has decreased five-fold since OSW was formed thirteen years ago, Dr. "to provide and demonstrate economic and practical technolo magazines. we haven't looked for. Stephen said he has decided on gy" for desalting water.

His re I'm sure the pollution of rivers a career. He wants to be a veteri cent testimony at a desalting cannot be tolerated. In fact, I feel lination expert said today. narian. hearing of the Senate Committee Hunter noted, desalted water is personally sometimes that pollu "Desalination comes only after on Interior and Insular Affairs still far more expensive than tion of major rivers borders on the criminal." cleaning up dirty streams and using suitable water wisely," said fresh water.

shows the problem isn't simple. "Water problems vary exten The average American consu An estimated 300 de-salting plants in the world today produce Dr. Jack A. Hunter, of Baltimore, recently named assistant director sively for different users. Some mer, according to some esu From notes made at the Chicago meeting of American Sociologists Association Arthur Raper, a Southerner who became one of the nation's best known social scientist analysts, became well known during the 1930's by his work and his publications.

He was one of those who was used in the federally supported attempt to revive the rural economy generally and life of the small towns in the cotton Raper, now a veteran consultant, has been employed by the United States to assist with similar programs in Pakistan, Taiwan and Japan. At Chicago, his paper recalled some of the early struggles in the South. There are, of course, many "Souths." There is, for example, not much similarity between North Carolina and Mississippi, between Tennessee and South Carolina, between Kentucky and Alabama. The national impact of these various "Souths" has been, and is, considerable. The present violence and dilemmas of the slums have a socialogical umbilical cord tying them to emigration from the South.

This emigration began years ago. Neither the South nor the rest of the nation has tried to understand it. Indeed, most cities have ignored the increasing pressure of this peculiarly different population growth. A Typical "Cotton County' Professor Raper, in his convention paper, recalled the problem of a typical "cotton county." His illustration was Greene county, Georgia. "Nearly 7,000 people had left that county," he said, "between 1920 and 1930 as a result of the collapse of the decadent plantation system, occasioned by the advent of the boll weevil The Negro population (three fifths of the total in 1920) decreased by 43 per cent during the decade, and the white population 27 per cent.

The total number of farms dropped from 3,000 to 1,557. The three leading banks went broke, credit was gone. The planters and tenants knew only cotton, and even if another crop could be financed, what reason was there to believe the weevil would not eat it up again? "The cotton crop had dropped from 2.000 bales in 1919 to 333 bales in 1922, when the commercial fertilizer bill alone was more than six times the value of the crop. The migration was-selective, locations have sea water, others mates, pays 35 cents for 1,000 gal of the Office of Saline Water. brackish water, and there are lons of fresh water.

Desalted wa Dr. Hunter said most American great differences in various from a few thousand gallons per day to 3,500,000 gallons a day. Electrodialysis and distillation are the most common methods. Eventually, predicted Dr. Hun ter now costs about to $1.25 per areas will be forced by necessity brackish waters.

1,000 gallons. to clean up their polluted waters "Some users require hundreds The Only Answer and to use untapped sources before desalination becomes wide of millions of callons of water ter, de-salting brackish and sea The Office of Saline Water and each day and others a few thou spread. its 100 employees do nnt build do- wa'cr plants, but develop the "-rigation bfcorf.e man" in locations. 'We must simply reassess the salination on sand gallons. Demand For "Power" datory many more technology to allow water-starved value of water something new to Americans, but something that "Someone has predicted that by below these averages." Looking For "Something Better" Greene county's experience was roughly that of hundreds of cotton counties.

Their populations were quickly, dramatically, and painfully decreased. Their tenants, colored and white as well, went looking for "something better." The disastrous depression piled on top of the corrosive years of the weevil. The cotton kingdom, already in collapse, was further, and permanently, deflated and changed. More than 1.000,000 uneducated, unskilled men with their equally deprived familes were made mobile. They took the WPA jobs; they went on relief.

The "Oakies hitch-hiking, riding in jalopies, became a part of forklore and literature. Two world wars accelerated emigration of unskilled people into war jobs that paid well. The war ended. The emigration from the South, though slowed, continued. Almost nothing was done in the way of recognizing the steady concentration of the very poor, the most hopelessly unprepared.

Crime grew. So did frustration, despair. Today, neither the South nor the nation quite comprehends what has happened. Until we do comprehend, efforts to ameliorate the crisis will be unimaginative and inadequate. The beginning must be local in comprehension and action.

"In some situations there is industries, municipalities and Auto Census In Md. Tops 1.2 Million Maryland is keeping pace with a trend toward record-smashing passenger car registrations, Harry E. Uhler, executive vice president of the AAA. Automobile Club of Maryland, reported today. The passenger car count in Maryland last year was 1,224,549 up from 1963's count of 1,151,909, he said.

Mr. Uhler said United States Bureau of Public Roads statistics show the total motor vehicle reg istrations for the entire nation last year topping 86,200,000, a gain of 3,500,000 in one year. This 4.3 per cent increase over the 1963 total established a new all-time record. the year 2000, 10 per cent of other countries have done for de also a demand for electrical pow cades and he said in er while others may not be able American water will be desalted. Now it is only a fraction of 1 per to effectively absorb the electrical energy produced in a dual an interview.

Talking Water Dr. Hunter, president of the cent. "Serious Mistake" "And if the population keeps purpose plant. "In some areas, energy cheap, while in others it is expen growing and the standard of liv Maryland Academy of Sciences, stopped briefly to talk water after his first crowded months as head areas to construct appropriate fa-1 cilities. For certain areas, such as in the western United States, Israel, Egypt and Kuwait, desalted water is or shortly will become the only answer.

Desalination plants are running or are planned there. President Johnson's proposed $275,000,000 desalting program is aimed to alleviate critical shortages in waterless sections. Dr. Hunter said such places as the Northeast "Must look to de sive. Some need water today ing keeps rising, eventually we while others have time before the will exhaust our natural resour of engineering and development ces.

When that will happen. I problem is critical." in the Department of the Interior section. The Office of Saline Wrater don't know." He said Baltimore and other budget has grown from a tota "I've never worked as hard in my life nor enjoyed it as much," $2,000,000 its first five years to sections with abundant supplies "would make a serious mistake $20,000,000 a year now. was nis immediate assessment Thi Hall Syndicate, Inc. Norton Mockridge William Vaughan An Honest-To-Good ness 7 -League Boots Man Dad May Come Home A Hero, But The Kids Won't Notice take it for just three months.

New York Eddie Nugent1 one year than a night captain does in three to five years. "This." he said, "nearly killed me. My "New York apartment is only two blocks away!" That was eight years ago. phoned his wife in Redding, Outfitted in the scarlet coat, the 'It's nothing," Eddie told me one day last week and said: in New York. I Nugent, I think, is America recently during lunch at Luigi's triple shuffle (you an I'd call it a shawl), blue breeches, white just got in from the Coast.

1 11 be home as soon as I can make it." here. "Easy as falling off a bar stool. Only thing is, sometimes I don't know where I am." stockings, black riding boots and most traveled citizen. And he doesn't confine his promotion and glad-handing trips to the United States. Recently he swept through Next morning, when he woke, he looked at the telephone.

It gave nothing but the room number. There were no matches, no ash trays with the hotels name on the table. "I had no idea where I was," he told me, "and I was embarrassed. I picked up the phone and, not wishing to let her know what a jerk I was, I said: 'Miss, would you mind giving me the exact ad "Okav," said Mrs. Nugent, Tl white gloves, he took up his brass post horn (circa 1608) and set He swears that once, drugged tie up the dogs.

I remember you, but THEY don't." Europe on a "Visit the U.S.A." forth to alert America. It was then he learned that And when she hung up. Eddie's program and kissed more babies, mayors wives and lady govern American Airlines had had and 7-year-old grandson Mark said: with flight, exhausted by personal appearances, bereft of all sense of direction, he landed in New York and, as he customarily does, asked an American Airlines exec Gramma, is that man coming had disposed of another Royal Coachman. "Look, young feller," ment executives than anybody in the world. He found that Europeans are most eager to visit again" That's the way it is with Eddie said a hotel manager, when Eddie utive who met him, to take him to a hotel for the night.

our cities in this order: New Nucent, a man who travels more checked in in full regalia, "you'd dress ot this hotel: 5he came back like a shot: 'You're in the Belmont Plaza at Lexington 'Gotta get some sleep," he than 250.000 miles a year, an average of about 1,000 miles every working daw mumbled, as they drove into the avenue and Forty Ninth street.1 Eddie sighed and shut his eves. York, Washington, San Francisco, Detroit and Miami. World' Fair Omitted And they list our other gran-doise wonders in this wav: Niaga citv. better behave yourself this time. No more recitin' Shakespeare offn the roof." And in Los Angeles, an assistant manager said coolly: "I'm warning you, you can run up and down the corridor Eddie, whom I've known over ra Falls, Empire State Building.

the years as a movie star he did some 300 pictures for Paramount, Mack Sennett and White House, Grand Canvon, Dis when there was nobody between him and enemy but a million American soldiers. He has all sorts of audio-visual aids, in the form of photographs and discharge papers and a medal or two, or at least an area ribbon and good conduct citation. Rut Who AU? But the right time to bring the subject up never seems to arise. He can't sit there brooding and suddenly sei7e the child by the arm and shout, "Do you want to hear what Daddy did in the war?" Oh, he can, of course, but it isn't recommended because the answers are likely to be something like the following: "Teh. sure.

Dad, it sounds neat but later, huh? The guys are waiting outside. I got to go." "Do I have to? Neddy Nowhere and his Neverminds are going to be on the Ed Sullivan show in about five minutes. Could you at least keep it short?" "I'll bet what you did was real funny like in 'McHaie's Navy but I got all this homework to do." A 20-Yrar Lull I'm not saying that it isn't great to have a rich military heritage to hand down to your children. But I am pointing out that a father has a tmigh time working it into the conversation. And so it goes.

Young men, answer your country's call, but don't do it with any hope in your mind that your children, present or eventual, will pester you for the details. In childhood's bright lexicon, Daddies are very nice older men but the chance of their having had anything interesting happen to them pretty remote. Young men who are avoiding the draft, or trying to, have been the targets of indignant communications to newspaper editors, as well they might be. But I can't quite agree with the theory that they will be sorry some day when their children' ask, "Daddy, what did you do in the Great Crisis?" This appeal goes back at least to World ttar I. and probably further.

It has a rather obvious appeal. I would like to say, however, that of all the reasons for wearing your country's uniform, and there are many, doing it in order to impress your progeny is the flimsiest. Because it's hopeless. Take a composite Daddy who came home from War War II some twenty years ago. He rushed in the house and cried to his wife, "Wake up the kid, I want to tell him all about what I did in the great holocaust." Waits For Cue The wife wisely vetoes that idea, and the returned warrior sits back to wait for the questions.

He has rehearsed the story as many times as be has visualized the scene. The way it's supposed to play, the tyke sits upon Daddy's knee, looks up at him with the big blues and savs, "Daddy, what did you do. etc." "Well" he says in the dream, "Daddy would bp the last to claim that he didn't have plenty of from his buddies. Ike and Monty and Omar and Georgie. But it might have been a very different war without your old Dad, I guarantee you." And he has it all worked out so that it includes warlike sounds like "Pow!" and he has the maps to show the youngster just where Daddy was CBell-McCiure tooting your horn naked just once.

Don't try it again." neyland. Hollywood, Rocky Moun others) and as a Broadway actor tains, the United Nations and Wil and TV writer director produ And, speaking of that horn, Ed cer, explains his current situation die. with the cooperation of the this way: Juilliard School, has learned to i Tve had a real string ol no give lortn wun various coacn calls: "Passing on the near side," time off." liamsburg, Va. Hardly anybody mentioned the World's Fair. Eddie got into this Royal Coachman bit in a funny sort of wav.

He was doing all right with ABC-TV until he made the mistake of looking at the upcoming "Passing on the far side. Top TV Shows Mr. Nugent, who had some top TV shows the Bank. "Changing horses," "Staying for supper" and "Staying the night." But one night when he and C. vear's programs.

Most of the "The Paul Whiteman Revue," Chico Marx Show" and some of R. Smith, head of American Air shows were going to be made in Hollywood, and Eddie, having escaped the curse of the two-ree- the Bishop Sheen programs, row is the silk-hatted, scarlet-rohed. lers, had no intention of going black-booted Royal Coachman of back. A friend, Dick Fisher, men American Airlines. The compa lines, were trying to get a cab in Tucson, he gave the horn a migh-tv, nonmusical blast.

A cab screeched to a halt in front of them. "Hmph," snorted C. R. "I knew that thing was good for something." Car.ed Fetur tioned that American Airlines was ny's bon vivant and ambassador of goodwill, he travels more than looking for a jaunty good will tunketeer a Roval Coachman any salesman in the United 'That stuff's not for vie, thanks. Vm just browsing through iie.v and in a flash Eddie said he'd States, ana less more miles in.