The Evening Sun from Baltimore, Maryland • 53

TIE EVENING TV-RADIO Today's Program Schedules and Special Notes-TV Paga SUN SPORTS Results, Coming Events, Columnists Sports Pages PAGE 1 BALTIMORE, THURSDAY, MARCH 16. 1967 TAGE Dl I INSIDE BALTIMORE Killipplsl iL. 'WMtS 'i I 4 7 sHLy WELCOME BREAK Assistant Scoutmaster Phillip Ford encourages weary 40-mile bikers. On the ground, from left, are Ramsey McPherson, 13; Sandy Cockey, 16, and John Rohoderick, IS. REFRESHER-A cool drink and a snack give Pirie Woods, 13, energy to continue hike.

She needed it. Arhong those who prosper at the expense of suckers, it is axiomatic that one must never give a sucker an even break. But rarely, if ever, do propounders of the axiom say how unven a break is allowable to the sucker. For this reason alone, a committee hearing in Annapolis the other day was iv At the hearing, held by the Senate Finance Committee of the Legislature on a bill designed to prolong the legality ef slot machines in Southern Maryland, defenders of the sucker's right to be relieved of his gold wheeled a demonstration machine into the Senate chamber and spoke glowingly of its 'The nickel device was set, they boasted, to pay off in "hits" 70 cents of every dollar dropped into it. They did not say that it was set to keep 30 cents of every dollar, which seems to add up to about the same thing.

As the machine swallowed the nickels and coughed back an appropriate payoff (it was actually 80 per cent, suggesting that the machine was in a particularly generous mood), my ear caught a comment from a neatly dressed gentleman sitting nearby. "I've got some machines in my place that are set (the pay-off) at 90 per cent," he nodded vigorously. While the machines bave another fifteen months of legal life left, I asked, wouldn't it be good business to advertise the rate at which each is set to pay off? "You couldn't do it," he said, and, that was that. Well, since protectors of the machines have emphasized their great potential value as sources of State why not put sealed calculators on them to assure the State of an efficient count? "Wouldn't work," he said, and that was that, too. Govt.

Gastronomies The expression, "Let them eat cake," generally attributed to Marie Antoinette, popped into mind the other day in Annapolis at almost the -same time that philanthropic slot machine was swallowing nickels. But this was upstairs in the State House, where a conference on Federal-State relations was being held in the governor's reception room. A Federal official said something about "marble-cake federalism" and warned we'll be hearing the phrase quite often in the future. The official, Jonathan Lindley, ex-; plained that in old, "layer-cake federalism" Government agencies channeling money to the states were stacked one on the other like the layers of a cake. But under the present set-up, he said, with so many Government agencies and authorities (more than 400) doing this job, "they are all scrambled up, like the chocolate in a marble-cake." Mr.

Lindley 's title is deputy assistant secretary, Department of Commerce. Can you think of a better title for somebody explaining "marble-cake Incidentally, while "Let them eat cake" may generally be attributed Marie" Antoinette, she apparently was' innocent of that. The book says Jean Jacques Rousseau pinned it on an unspecified princess two years before Ma- rie ever saw France. Short Hops No Business Like, The Big Top- less circus drew 145,000 gawkers for its 23 performances this time around at the Civic Center, up 32 per cent over last year. And Harold Jennifer, executive director at the center, says the 31,000 who turned out last Saturday marked a one-day record for the place.

Nearly Full House: At the same time the circus was enjoying its big week, "The Odd Couple" was doing big business at the Mechanic Theater. Last week's gross of $51,800 was the second highest since the show hit the road seven months ago, bettered only by Milwaukee. In Memoriam: Speaking of the theater, a bronze bust of its founder, Morris A. Mechanic, is to be placed at the main entrance. A gift from his brother William, it will be done by an artist thus far identified only as "an internationally recognized portrait painter and sculptor" and its placement has been approved by James and Joseph Nederlander, operators of the Name Dropping It happened last Saturday at the Gridiron Club dinner in Washington, but they're still talking about it.

Michigan Gov. George Romney gives a big handshake and bigger smile to Spiro Theodore Governor "of the Free State of Maryland, "and blurts: "Hi, Tom!" What's Wrong, Boys? Non-Scout Is Fastest In 40-Mile Hike practically danced into Frederick, is the sister of David Woods, a Life Scout in Troop 35 who gave up after 30 miles. "Dave will have a hard time living that down," Mr. Zapffe predicted, v' Troop 35's long annual hikes are phys Mr. Zapffe also said that he hoped to get in touch soon with the young winner of the hike, Smith, perhaps to recruit him into formal Scouting.

A Scout's Sister "He hiked with us in past years to Hanover and to Gettysburg and always finished among the leading group. But at the moment, I don't know his home address. He told me that he had intended to join the Scouts last year but had forgotten to. He walked to Frederick in 9 hours and 56 minutes." Miss Woods, the ballet student who ical fitness demonstrations "to show that this younger 'generation is not fx ii i- son, me scuuiinasiw saw. The treks don't count toward winning the Hiking merit badge' or First Class rank, as in the old days.

"They're part i-i i ir ii II iT 3 4 or tne resident ftenneay wing, mr. Zapffe explained. Of the 41 Boy Scouts and friends who hiked 40 miles from Baltimore to Fred- erick within 13 hours the other day, the boy who walked the fastest was not a Scout and the hiker "who looked freshest at the finish" was a girl. Troop 35, of the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, sponsored the trek. Ward Smith, age 13, is the civilian who came in first.

The durable girl is Miss Pirie Woods, 13, of 201 Goodale road, a student of ballet. At the beginning near McDonogh School, in Baltimore county there were 113 starters who had signed up for the hike. Numerous family members and friends, including about 30 girls, tagged along for 10 or 15 miles as the column 5 strode westward beside Highway 26. '7 One Adult Made It All the adult walkers fell out and into trailing automobiles long before the march reached the Francis Scott Key Hotel in Frederick. Except one: Harlan Hyde, a Boy Scout district commissioner here, made it afoot.

The Troop -35 scoutmaster, Carl A. Zapffe, rode most of the way. "I don't show off in front of 1 kids," he said later. mmmm Norton Mockridge Fractured English Put In Cast Sets The Funny Bone Straight DOGS BARKING Blisters on the feet of Logan Cockey get attention during rest. He walked plenty far.

i'rr fay ti teiimil couple of neighbors had died of injuries a week after an auto accident. she said, "I always thought they had died instomatically." Lou Setlow, of Holyoke, once described a Greta Garbo-like beauty as "tall and slanky," and I believe he was responsible for: "The shortest line is a distance between two points." "It Clashes Beautifully" Milton Unger, who runs a hat shop, swears that many of his customers read my columns and my book about Fractured English. "At least," he says, "they speak as though they have. A well-dressed mother and daughter came in one day to get hats for the daughter's wedding. The daughter finally made a selection, but the mother said: like it, but it doesn't clash with my said the daughter, 'It clashes Another of Milton's clients was trying on hat after hat while her husband sat and got bored and more bored.

"Look," he exploded, "will you please take the bull from the horns and make your decision?" Cookbook author Marion Tracy met me one night at the House of Chan just after she'd come through the heavy glass and metal doors. "Those doors," said the tiny Marion, "are much too heavy for a woman to open by himself." "Wear Little Lion Clothes" "In some sections of Africa the natives wear nothing but little lion cloths," said a lady speaker I heard recently. And Marshall Berland, of Vogue, heard a lady who said: "She's so lovely she's a very imaginary person. He's a regular Madonis. He doesn't have a flemish on his body, and she fell for him, hook, sink and ladder." New Roy of Codella Duffus Baker, is the man who told me about the next few lines of Fractured English and so when Sam Nuspli-ger, the man who allegedly uttered them, comes after me with a shotgun, I think he should visit Mr.

Duffus first. Anyway, Duffus says that Sam, of Lippincott Margulies, once told his associates about a certain situation and said: "This presents an insurmountable On another occasion, speaking as an advertising agent when shown a client's new product, Sam reportedly said: "This fills a much-needed void." And then one day when he was referring to a company's over-developed office procedures, he said, quite brilliantly: "They have a handicap-the-hired program." Which shows that Sam ain't all bad! Louis Antosh, a reporter on The Daily Times, Chester, got a hot tip from a policeman recently. The policeman warned him not to let anybody know who had leaked the story. "If they ask you," he said, "just say you can't devour your source of information." The Perfect Triple And Jim of the New York Daily News, tells me that an Air Force policeman once lectured a bunch of inductees on the menace of "the Conumist infilitration of the universaries," which, says Jim, simply has to be the perfect triple. Fred Biancolli has a friend who maintains that a best man's friend is his dog, and once, describing a house, he declared: "It's a house just like my cousin's, Aunt Rose." Arthur Samansky knows a lady named Barbara who was told that a HITCHING RIDE Chris Zapffe, 12, got a lift briefly because of aching feet Helping out, from left, are sister Gussie, 14; Laura Wilson, 12; Sally Miller, 11.

DETERMINATION That's the quality these members of Troop 35 are displaying most as they trudge toward Frederick. It was a tough grind. Some Teachers Forget It Slums Don't Breecl Brilliance TDIstrtbutpd by United Features Syndicate. Ine.1 The Better Half Pixies EXAMPLE WHO of James Baldwin by Marvin Elkhoff. The course materials and instructional methods were designed to capture the students intellectually by: 1.

First focusing on things pertinent to their personal problems and situations. 2. Gradually widening their horizons "from the personal to the community, from the community to the nation and from the nation to the world." After Two Semesters After two semesters the experimental group had left the comparison group behind, tests of communications skills showed. And the experimental group got better grades as well. Some leading educators venture to.

say that defeating the learning handicaps of the underprivileged may be the education problem of the century. Despite their enthusiasm, Dr. Ford and Dr. Turpin are the first to concede that though their teaching methods may be one answer, they are not the final solution. Only partial results are in, but they are nevertheless encouraging.

Test results indicate that when a student is sufficiently motivated with instructional materials which are interesting, challenging and significant to him, he will read and write. And he will enjoy it. The experiment went like this. Fifty Morgan freshmen were selected at random as the test group. For comparison, fifty students with similar, aptitudes' were identified.

The test group worked with a novel textbook of 500 mimeographed pages. Title Of One Unit One unit was titled, "Understanding Limitations and Opportunities of Minorities in the United States." It included the following selections: "7hv We Can't Wait" by Dr, Martin Luther King; "Black Muslims: Asset or Liability to Negro Protest" by Phyllis Barber; "Thurgood Marshall: Counselor at Law' by Saunders Redding; and Knows His Name," a study problem and chosen an illustration of something familiar, according to Dr. Nick Aaron Ford and Dr. Waters Turpin. Says Dr.

Ford, chairman of Morgan's English department: "The learning experiences generally furnished by the school are irrelevant to much of contemporary life." Says Teacher Forgot He witnessed the classroom incident and says the teacher evidently forgot that: 1. None of her students had ever been exposed to luxury of any kind. 2. Many had no bathrooms or even private toilet facilities in their homes. 3.

Some had actually never seen a modern, tiled bathroom. Motivation Needed In 1964 the Morgan professors secured a $49,842 Federal grant in an attempt to prove that college students who lacked intellectual stimulation to some degree could be reached and helped. By George Rodgers The English teacher in the slum high school was trying to prod her Negro students into expressing their thoughts out loud. She held up a magazine advertisement of a lovely young white woman enjoying a bubble bath in a circular tub. The teacher asked for volunteers to tell what it was like to luxuriate in hot suds.

The students' hands stayed down. The teacher almost lost her temper. Later she told an observer it was almost impossible to motivate( her students to express themselves. Was Not Surprising The class response was not surprising, say two English professors at Morgan State College. In fact, they claim this Inablility to relate to middle class experiences may make reading a chore and correct speaking a bore for underprivileged young people, The teacher should have realized the 'Care to liuy a couple of tickets to the Refuse Collector's Ball? Highlight of the evening tdU be the crowning of 'Jfisa Garbage of 1.