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THE EVENING SUN, BALTIMORE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1976 PAGE A 9 THE OTHER SIDE Quote By Thi Assocltttd "It sounded like two cheap ward-heelers talking in the rear room of a neighborhood dive. The President was full of contempt for certain congressmen and close friends simply because they bad shown a lack of enthusiasm for one policy or another." Leon Jaworksi, former spe Of Statesmen, Porno And Censorship if EthanAllen Summer Sale cial Watergate prosecutor, in his book, "The Right and the Power," which criticizes a taped conversation between former President Nixon and White House aide H.R Halde-man. 7fr. ft. 1 Final 10 Days Save 10 to 20 on Recliners and Sleep Sofas STATESMEN AT WORK: Whatever else might be said of Maryland officials, they cannot be accused of having nothing better to do than to go to an atrociously made movie featuring pornography and violence.

Of 43 state senators invited by state movie censors to showing of such a film yesterday, 40 found something more pressing. The other three, plus a small band of civilians invited as unwitting catalysts, showed up at the mid-morning screening of the film. For thus abandoning any prospect of retaining a lunch-time appetite, they merit combat pay and the eternal gratitude of ticket-buying film fans the world over. For an idea of the subtle creativity applied to this abomination, consider these elements: UpriM Me-Tooism' Comes Full Just 3 of the 5 Recliners available during our Sale See our new "Wall Hugger" Recliners now on Display upheld the board's rejection of "Snuff." Moments before the vote on the massacre movie. Citizen Burch noted that the ban of "Snuff" was upheld by Judge Harry A.

Cole's finding in Circuit Court that -with the film's lack of artistic merit or other redeeming feature, and with its appeal to the prurient interests of sadists and masochists a sadistic mutilation scene was "the Nth degree of hard-core pornography." "In that respect," Citizen Burch told a bunch of us after yesterday's screening, "this is worse than 'Snuff'." He added that he believed he would have little trouble defending the board's action in court if it decided to ban the massacre movie. Moments later the board voted 3-0 to do so. Most of those at the viewing seemed to agree with the Circle is better government has any political momentum this year, it should be the Republicans who benefit from it. Mr. Ford's duty-and opportunity-is to get this point across to the voters.

And to suggest there is something contradictory about Carter's promises to reduce the tradition of expanding government to solve social problems. Mr. Ford's second duty-and opportunity is simultaneously to convince voters that be is not anti-people, nor as cold to the aspirations and needs of America's minorities as the Republican platform would have him be. The mood of the voters is okay, so government can't solve all our problems, but somebody has to come up with the answers. A presidential election is not so much the voters' reaction to past performance as it is an investment in future performance.

If the President senses that difference and if he can turn Carter's "me-too-ism" into a campaign asset for himself, then the fate of Mr. Ford and the Republican party may pot be quite as bleak as it seemed to so many in Kansas City. censors, but an exception was Senator Melvin (Mickey) Steinberg, the Baltimore county lawmaker who has introduced several bills to abolish the board, only one of its kind in the nation. "I agree that it's a shame to put schlock like this before the public," he said. How, he was asked, can you write a law banning such offal without also crippling the First Amendment guarantee of free speech? "You can't," he snapped.

"How do you instill values in young people? Not by stopping shows like this. You do it by affirmative action." The senator is as concerned as the board about the problem. But the influential segment of society which insists on continuing the board admits, by that very insistence, that it has failed to equip too many of its citizens with the intellectual and spiritual armor for which the board is at best a poor substitute. TALE-ENDERS: Add to your list of solid citizens: Alice Lichtenstein, who recently retired at 70 after a long career as the unusually popular teacher of a course on "Congress and the Legislative Process" to more than 2,600 Social Security employes in 87 classes. Never underestimate, etc.

As scheduled, 15-year-old John Michael Dorsey, son of Governor Mandel's wife by her first marriage, accompa nied Maryland's first couple to New York last month for the National Democratic Con vention But unscheduled, he also hopped a bus and wound up in Kansas City last week during the Republican National Convention, where he worked as an NBC messenger. Reason: To visit the daughter of KC's Democratic Mayor Charles Wheeler, whom he had met in New York. Hizzon-er took him into his home for the week. Signing off. bumper sticker not so patriotic as "Remember the Alamo" but more likely to preserve the institution of marriage, spotted on a Pennsylvania panel truck on the beltway: "Remember the Alimony." Mid RecUflin FuH Reclinlni Rockinf X7 7 1 Xf-.

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One searched long and hard for blue-collar delegates, blacks and Hispanics were scarce, albeit well-heeled. Even the Irish Republicans at the convention seemed to have more feel for a golf club than a rosary. No matter. Ford got what he needed most-the right to run as the incumbent President. From now on, he should forget the convention and its negative platform, and concentrate his energies on the campaign.

That will require looking ahead with vision, not backward with despair. But if he can do that, if he can talk to America about his aspirations, instead of simply casting aspersions on the Democrats, Mr. Ford just might be able to pull off the miracle he will need. -o- There is, after all, the making of a miracle in the un- tmSMk Edian Allen Galleries CATONSVILLE Exit 6612 Boltimore National Pike (Beltway Exit 1 3, West of Rolling Rd.) 744-7272 TOWSON 8727 Loch Roven Blvd. (Beltway 29, Near Joppa Rd.) 661-7100 .7 rtnan TlnWu lft.0 'I fa Cflturrfau Till 5-30? Oann 5undav 1 to 5 Rrowsina -l Convenient Terms Arranged absolutely no connection between the movie and art or entertainment.

None is needed. Then why bother? Why even mention this embarrassment to man's genius instead of Ignoring it in the hope that it will quietly waddle to the oblivion it deserves? Because its makers have submitted it for approval of the censors and the censors, in their frustration over the avalanche of porn-violence films dumped their way, sent out a distress signal. They asked the senators, newsmen and a few others to share the viewing with them, then offer them their views on the film as a guide to their own decision. Among the others was Attorney General Francis B. (Bill) Burch, still fresh from victory in another censorship battle earlier this year in the form of a court ruling which ities of the metropolitan areas.

There is a new conservatism blowing across America that is willing to think that too much government is too bad for the country. And one of its prominent apostles is the 1976 Democratic nominee for president. -o Jimmy Carter is alleging that the work ethic is more American than a welfare check, that federal paternalism is less desirable than self-reliance, and that (horrors!) big government is quite likely to be bad government. This is a novel concept to Democrats who cut their teeth on the New Deal, the Fair Deal, the New Frontier, and the Great Society. It certainly has not been the attitude of the heavy-spending Democratic majorities that have operated Congress for 40 of the last 44 years.

And least of all did the liberals expect to hear anti-government rhetoric from their own presidential candidate. Democratic uneasiness over Carter's conservatism is readily understandable. But there is no reason why President Ford should let Carter ride into the White House on a "me-too" line that has been owned and operated by the Republican party for at least four decades. If the precept that smaller government Not surprisingly, Carter left the meeting to engage in more of the same activity that worries old Democratic hands. He declared in San Francisco, a former hub of anti-Vietnam activity, that he would proclaim his support for Vietnam pardons to the American Legion convention in Seattle, thereby guaranteeing maximum attention.

This was certainly not hot news. Carter had fully revealed his position on amnesty last winter and now was obviously trying to squeeze some political credit from it by bearding the reactionary old Legionnaires in their den. Yet, Vietnam amnesty is a burning issue only in the left wing of the Democratic party, where potential votes for Mr. Ford are in short supply. The result at Seattle was network news broadcasts of Carter being booed by fellow Legionnaires.

Equally important, the parts of his speech that called for a strong national defense were predictably ignored by networks and newspapers alike. A Gallup Poll showing a dramatic shrinking within two weeks of Carter's lead outside the South makes clear that his real rival is not Eugeene McCarthy but Jerry Ford. "Thank God for the Gallup Poll," says one old-line Democratic politician who believes the Carter campaign might now get serious about heading for the middle of the road. The test will come on the first debate, particularly if the subject is defense policy as Mr. Ford proposes.

To the old pros, that provides an opening for criticism of detente, Henry Kissinger and the Nixon-Ford foreign policy. Whether the Carter campaign perceives it in the same light remains to be seen. Maryland Scene By Lou Panos It Is about a maniac who recruits young women into his religious cult and, through drugs and beatings, persuades them to murder a group of high-living strangers in a luxurious mansion as a means of releasing these fortunate people from their decadence. An opening disclaimer emphasizes that there is absolutely no how could you even suggest such an outlandish notion connection between this movie and any actual person or event. It is titled "The Manson Massacre." There is no closing disclaimer emphasizing that there is National Scene By J.

F. terllonl usual political situation confronting the country this year. For almost 40 years, it has been Republican candidates who have borne the cross of "me-tooism." From Willkie and Dewey through Eisenhower and Nixon, GOP presidential nominees have had to live with the charge that their proposals were just pale copies of Democratic programs already on the books. Now, "me-tooism" has come full circle. The basic precept of all Republicans, progressive as well as conservative, always has been that less government is better government.

That notion has come into favor all across the land in recent years. It has even seeped into the consciousness of the opposition party. George Wallace was the first to preach it among Democrats with his attacks on limousine liberals, pointy-headed bureaucrats, welfare cheaters, and social reformers. The message attained significant status on the assembly lines, on campuses, in rural America, and in the ethnic commun Inside Report By Rowland Evans Robert A'orafc tives relayed this warning: Despite Carter's seemingly safe lead, don't count out President Ford's appeal for ordinary middle-class voters voters who are not nearly so enthralled with Nader as liberal Democrats. In disregard of this warning, Carter launched his campaign this week at Los Angeles in the new tradition of radical chic: talking about Georgia's rural poverty to McGov-ernite beautiful people from Beverly Hills.

"I am amazed," one Democratic moderate told us. "He goes from Ralph Nader to Warren Beatty." There is, then, a gap between intent and results. Carter advisers say his speeches the past two weeks were intended to convey a centrist image by extolling the family. But front-page newspaper photos linking Carter and a grinning Beatty portray a different image. This was in the minds of many national Democratic steering committee members when they lunched with Carter at the Pacifica Hotel in Los Angeles Monday.

But with the latest published polls showing Carter over 20 percentage points ahead, who was going to quarrel with the miracle maker from Plains? The closed portion of the meeting quibbled over nuts-and-bolts relations between Carter fieldmen and local politicians, but ignored serious questions of tactics. Carter Tactics Worry Moderate Democrats uuii! muuo house ANNAPOLIS 2567 Solomon Island Rd. (Opp. Parole Shopping Ctr.) 269-1966 1 0 tistfctf ri'i ftUt "nltlHiMUfi'I I tufai Quality comes across. Hub City Cycle Center 201 West franklin Strut Hagerstowrs 797-9877 It WASHINGTON The unexpectedly sharp drop by Jimmy Carter in the Gallup Poll may now unlock anxious tongues of Democratic professional politicians who feel their candidate has made a critical tactical error: failing to move to the right after the Democratic National Convention.

This criticism was reinforced by Carter's televised confrontation Tuesday with the American Legion over his pledge to pardon Vietnam draft dodgers. Party pros perceive the spectacle of Legionnaires booing Carter having only the effect of pushing Carter's image further left Yet, apart from the Vietnam pardon, Carter's Legion speech in Seattle was conciliatory and intended to give a middle- to hard-boiled impression of his defense policy. Indeed, the professed post-nomination intent of key Carter advisers was to project a centrist image an admittedly rightward tack after his courtship of the liberals at Madison Square Garden in July- Thus, Carter's false start in a vaguely leftish pose is not a conscious design, much less a sign of doctrinaire attitudes by an infinitely flexible candidate. Rather, it stems from two factors highly worrisome to Democratic politicians: first, the Carter campaign's continuing reflexive need to reassure liberals long after the nomination was won; second, the clear pattern of McGover-nite infestation of Carter's campaign structure, -o The first danger signal from Plains, after Carter's nomination was his lavishly publicized embrace of consumer advocate Ralph Nader. Some Democratic opera- The PUCH Moped, a whole new kind of European road machine, is here.

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