The Journal Herald from Dayton, Ohio • 29

World of the future will be a goldfish howl TO' Journal Her, i4odern Living dayton, Ohio Page 29 Friday, niary 18, 1974 By Irving S. Bengelsdorf, Ph.D tnttrprlt lawx New! LOS ANGELES Nineteen eighty-four! Only 10 years from now. What sort of world will it be? Obviously, the course of the future is determined by the events of today. And one of today's more fundamental events is the world's ever-escalating frenzy in the consumption of energy. In the United States the use of electricity now doubles every 10 years.

Put another way: Between now and 1984, the United States will have to add as much electrical generating capacity as it did in all its previous history to 1974. The world now is in the throes of an energy-binge. Although coal has been mined for about 700 years, half of all the coal mined has been dug out of the Earth in the last 32 years. And although petroleum has been pumped out of the ground for about 120 years, half of all the petroleum thus far produced has been pumped in only the last 14 years. One need not be clairvoyant to see that the continuation of such explosive growth in consumption always leads to unstable situations.

AND SINCE it is estimated that there now only is a 30-year supply of petroleum left in the ground, 1984 will see a more presents a severe social and medical hazard. CONTROLLED thermonuclear fusion, the kindling of a small star on Earth in which more energy was obtained in the fusion reaction than was put in to make it go will be achieved in the laboratory by The design of thermonuclear fusion reactors much safer than nuclear fission reactors is now well underway, and in another decade the world should be on the brink of almost limitless quantities of energy. Thermonuclear fusion fuel is a variety of hydrogen atom called deuterium. It occurs naturally in seawater. There is as much energy in the deuterium in a gallon of seawater as there is in 3oo gallons of gasoline.

Imagine 300 Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans filled with gasoline instead of water. Obviously, the modern Prometheus who gives constrolled thermonuclear fusion to the world will be presenting it with a "gift of the Gods" even more valuable than fire. AND ALONG with new sources of energy, 1984 will see new techniques for handling, distributing and storing information. Not only will there be numerous global communication satellites linking the whole world, but there also will be numerous domestic communica be used in 1984 will be small in size; limousines will be as scarce In America in 1984 as they are in Europe today. ALTHOUGH fossil fuels -coal, oil, and natural gas will still be used in 1984, other sources of energy will be nearing commercial development.

There are only three, I g-term sources of energy: solar, nuclear fission, and thermonuclear fusion. Harvesting electricity from the Sun will have begun in the Sun-drenched of Arizona. It will be a remarkable technological achievement, es-p i a 1 1 since the research funds for solar energy in 1974 amounted to only $4 million. The realization that sources of fossil fuels are both irreplaceable and finite sparked the great solar energy effort in the 1974-1984 decade. Development of the nuclear fission breeder reactor was slowed primarily for two reasons: there is no good way to dispose of its high-level radioactive wastes, and it is difficult to manage the huge quantities of Plutonium produced in.and needed for, the operation of such reactors.

Plutonium is one of the more toxic man-made poisons known and its handling in quantities of thousands of kilograms tion satellites linking all of American, all of Brazil, all of the USSR, all of China, etc. The world of 1984 will be an open arena a "goldfish bowl." What happens in Atlanta, Bonn, Karachi, Lima, or Johannesburg will be seen instantaneously everywhere else. Satellites and communications will put world society on "Candid Camera." World communications will be pervasive and rapid, indeed. But it is doubtful whether people ill understand each other better in 1984 than they did in 1974. There still will be telephones, radio, and television in 1984, but the technique to send information between these devices will change.

Along with copper wires, there also will be millimeter wave pipes and optical fibers carrying the signals of communication. Satellites, lasers, and computers will revolutionize the handling of information. Laser-produced holograms will store enormous amounts of information into small spaces the whole Library of Congress into a small filing cabinet. AND INDIVIDUAL freedom will go down. For the more a country controls its information-handling, the more the opportunity to control its people.

And past history suggests that politicians will grasp this opportunity. The very technological tools that can inform people better, also can be used exqui-s i 1 to keep track of and manipulate them. Whatever else there may be in 1981, one fact is definite: there will be a computer in your future. Computers will permeate and invade almost every field of human endeavor. Communications is nothing more than the flow of and transmission of information.

And computers like human brains can handle, process, manipulate, and corre-1 a information. Computers simply are information handling-machines. BY 1984, there will be no debate as to whether computers will invade our privacy. They already have in 1974, and will continue to do so in the future. The only concession to some semblance of privacy is that by 1984 some of the democratic countries will have passed laws permitting individuals to see what information is stored in the computer to permit them to examine their individual "electronic dossiers." By 1984, humans will have accepted computers as "intellectual partners," along with some wise laws to try to protect some human rights.

Dr. Norbert Wiener, late professor of mathematics at MIT, wrote, "Render unto man the things which are men's and unto the computer the things which are the computer's. It is an intelligent policy as far removed from the gadget worshipper as it is from the man who sees only blasphemy and the degradation of man in the use of any mer chanical adjuvants whatever to thoughts." Science and technology have provided computers. Can society use them wisely? The answer to this question will partly determine the world of 1984. Tomorrow: Biology, science and technology.

Fourth of five parts rational, stingy use of oil than to waste it by burning it in automobile engines jammed on freeway. In 1964, Sir George Thomson, the Nobel Prize-winning British physicist warned, "The motor car-menace is really a matter for economists and sociologists rather than for scientists. I can only record my hope far from a firm belief that it will not take us 20 years longer to discover that it is a mistake to use roads to provide parking space for commuters." So, by 1984, the use of the "one person per car" automobile will decreased. There is not enough parking space, garage space, air space, street space, or gasoline for the number of automobiles to increase as it did during the 10-year period 1964-1974. The automobiles that will Will th be inees? ese scar cm ib iK-v 1 i I I 1 I imrr What else is new? 1 1 'It Regan (Linda Blair) is restrained in "The Exorcist" Morie is breukiny mother is Ellen Burstjn tion look for "Serpico," which may ride in on America's rage for cop shows.

As always, the jostling for th Academy Award nominations is meaningless for some, important for others. Between now and Feb. 19 when the nominations are announced, the studios will be politicking, hoping snag as many nominations as possible. On Feb. 20 the ads will declare their success as they move on to the awards on April 2 and hope for even bigger, dividends.

Emigrants" received a nomination, which may give "Day for Night" a little hope. Other movies that have outside chances for nominations are 1 in Love" (WB) and "A Touch of Class" (Avco Embassy). My guess is that "The Exorcist" and "American Graffiti" are almost certain nominees with "The Way We Were" very likely. "Jesus Christ Superstar" may edge in for a nomination; it did surprisingly well in Golden Globe foreign press nominations. For a long shot nomina year's glamorpuss pair Red-ford and Streisand.

It is 0 1 whether the American Film Theatre can break through Hollywood's barriers. If it can, "The Iceman Cometh" is the most probable offering. It should surely get an acting nomination or two. THOUGH IT WAS selected best film of the year by both the New York Film Critics and the National Society of Film Critics, Francois Truffaut's French film "Day for Night" is a slim possibility. Last year Sweden's "The tures.

The one that is especially difficult to predict is "Serpico," the cop drama with Al Pacino. It is the 1 0 of a New York cop who opposes corruption in the force. Superpro Dede Allen edited, and Sidney Lumet directed. "Serpico" will open at the Kettering and Ames on Feb. 13.

Critics as diverse as Rex Reed, John Simon and Judith Crist have placed "Serpico" on their best lists. It was Crist's choice as the best film of the year. "Serpico" has done great business in New York, but it may be a New York movie, and the Academy in California may net be so responsive. The other Paramount candiata Js "Paper Peter Bogda-novich's movie which was very successful with various age groups. Another leading candidate is 0 1 i a 's "The Way We Were," which harkened back to lilms of old and gave us the Christ Superstar," and "Day of the Jackal "Jesus Christ Superstar" was not the success it was supposed to be, but it made more than $10 million and, according to Variety, ranked eighth on the money making list for 1973.

Incidentally, Variety reveals that the top domestic money-maker for 1973 was "The Poseidon Adventure" with $40 million. "Deliverance" was a distant second with $18 million. "Poseidon" will not be a nominee because it was released in 1972; it was not nominated last year. "The Sting" has pleased audiences with the antics of Robert 0 and Paul Newman. "Day of the a a 1" seems something of a long shot for a nomination as best picture, but director Fred Zinnemann is respected.

PARAMOUNT HAS two pic- By F. Anthony Macklin Journal Htrald Film Critic The Oscar nominations this year are wide open. The leading candidate for a nomination for best picture is 'The Exorcist," which is the hottest movie of the year. This Warner Bros, release has done phenomenal business and in many cities is outgross-ing the records set by "The Godfather." It has already broken house records in 24 cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington. It will open at the Dayton Mall on Feb.

15 in the upstairs theater. Those who don't wish to wa't for a month can see the film now at the Showcase Cinemas, near Tri-County Shopping Center between Dayton and Cincinnati off 1-275. Evening shows are quickly sold out, but there are tickets for the 12:30 and 2:45 dhows daily. THE REASON for the sensational success of "The Exorcist" is basic it is a controversial movie bristling with shocking moments. Its issues are simple, and it is full of good cocktail party topics "Do you believe in demonic possession?" "Have you ever heard such language?" "Js God a Jesuit?" If movies are magic, "The Exorcist" is black magic.

As with many instant successes, seeing "The Exorcist" gives one immediate status. "The Exorcist" was adapted from his poorly written novel by William Peter Blatty. Director Billy Friedkin has handled Elatty's screenplay with great professional skill. IT IS THE story of a 12-year-old girl who, possessed by the devil, is tormented, thrown into agony, and performs lewd and violent acts. Her mother seeks an exorcist, and ultimately two Jesuit priests fight a furious battle with the devil over the girl's battered and convulsed body.

"The Exorcist" has scathingly obscene languate; it has a scene in which the girl commits violent, bloody self-abuse; and it has scenes in which the girl vomits up a ghastly green slime on the priests. But Friedkin is a slick storyteller. His movie is all crafted, all controlled pushing its viewers but not breaking them. (I will go into this more when I review the film.) In fact, they laugh and participate with gasps, cries and excited conversation. "The Exorcist" also should garner a nomination for its willful young director, who won an Oscar for directing "Ths French Connection." The major question about the chance "The Exorcist" has of winning the Oscar is how much its shocks and lewdness will hurt with the Academy's voters.

"The Exorcist" is a better movie than I imagined it would be. It is decidedly middlebrow. But as gripping entertainment, it is unholy dynamite. UNIVERSAL PICTURES has four candidates for best picture nominations. The most likely is "American Graffiti," my personal choice.

It made more than $10 million, appealed to both the general audience and film people, and evoked a period of history and a time of life with style and grace. Its director, George Lucas, should get a nomination. Whether the four Universal films will detract from each other's chances for nomination is a moot question. The other three are "The Sting," "Jesus The presidency's beat Sidey Hugh There really isn't anything new. We thought we were taking a fresh approach to attracting downtown customers by our street fair last year and the two Christmas promotions.

Now we find they were doing it in 1899. The city fathers sponsored a great street fair downtown in June of that year with booths put up by downtown merchants and manufacturers, bands, a flower contest and a real, live attraction the like of which I wish I had seen. It could be that some of our citizens had a chance to hear and see Millie Christine and might still be around to tell us about it. Listen to this: "Millie Christine, the famous living two-headed woman, better known as the Carolina Twins speaks four languages with either head. She sings alto and soprano at the same time, dances gracefully on four feet: has performed before kings, queens, emperors and presidents.

"The New York World said of her 'There is a total absence of anything that is vulgar or repulsive about her, whose four bright eyes and dazzling rows of pearly teeth light up a fair complexion with an animation that is really attractive. Here we have a woman with but one body but two distinct minds, borne by two separate heads that are possessed with marvelous brains. Some of the sweetest music ever sung by a high soprano and pure contralto was produced. The notes issued from two heads yet but one trunk supplied the voices We can testify that no person or ordinary intelligence can be in her company but a short time without yielding to the charm of her manner and the fascination of her double smiles." THERE WAS A TRUST investigation going on Washington at the same time, and the 1899 paper detailed the testimony of one W. H.

Clark regarding the practices of the a a Oil Company in Ohio. Clark, who worked for Standard Oil in Columbus, Springfield, Marietta and Newark told of shenanigans that went on in those days. Standard Oil sold eight grades of oil at the time. But all the oil came out of two tanks, the faucet being turned in different directions for the different grades of oil. When Clark was working in Newark, Standard decided to put a competitor out of business.

The company bought the competitor's building without his knowledge. They hired a boy on a bicycle to follow his delivery wagons and make a list of all his customers. Then one day during the competitor's absence from the building, Clark and a few other men went in, tore the building down and carted it away on wagons. When the competitor returned, he was so frightened that he went out of business. Clark received two week's pay and a vacation for his good work.

When the company sold turpentine, he testified, they added six gallons of gasoline to a barrel of the turpentine. Miners' oil was adulterated with cottonseed oil. One of Clark's customers demanded oil from Cleveland. Clark painted a barrel of regular oil red and "From Cleveland" on it. Then he charged the customer extra.

At Urbana when Clark was manager, the company forced a competitor out of business by lowering the price of oil down to one cent a gallon. "The competitor went to the poor house," said Clark. He also said that he always sold four grades of oil out of the same barrel. It you wonder, doesn't it? dent and his Administration; are forced out into the real world. That's, of course, if the President isn't forced out of his office before then.

"I can't say if that will happen," Sidey said, "but he's losing right now, it's running against him. The mood of the people is that he's guilty. I -feel he's guilty. He's not "act-ing like a not-guilty man." Sidey views Mr. i 0 's first term as "quite good," but adds that he has always been critical of the President for having to point out how great he is.

"Presidents don't have to tell how powerful they are and how great they are," Sidey said. "They simply do their job and it speaks for itself. So, both Lyndon 0 0 and Nixon when they're telling me all about their great qualities, I have to look at the ground and kind of feel embarrassed for them. It's just uncomfortable, that's all." KENNEDY WAS unlike them in that respect, Sidey said. "And so was Ike.

They didn't indulge in that. They had a sense of the office in which there was no need to inject themselves or tell people how great they were. At least I didn't find it that way. They understood the dimea-- (Continued on Page 31) News Service, writes a column, "The Presidency," for Time Magazine. But with the President rarely available to anyone these days, that isn't always a choice assignment.

Sidey knows the President, though, as well as anyone can know him if, indeed, anyone really does. "But there is nobody close to this man," he says. "Nobody. He's an isolated man. Even Bebe Rebozo isn't an old friend.

He met Bebe 10 years ago." TO UNDERSTAND that different world that is Mr. Nixon's, you just really have to be around the White House to be part of it, says Sidey, who was in Dayton yesterday for Town Hall lectures. He will give a concluding talk this morning. "What a different world that is," he says. "I mean all the turmoil you see outside the White House peels off as you go in, and here you have at ihe epicenter in the oval office this man who is served by quiet and by people who tell him how good he's doing.

"He doesn't read the newspaper. He doesn't watch television. His day is ordered and planned, there are no interferences. He doesn't have to wait in line for airplane tickets or to find his baggage. His world is a cocoon." That's why, Sidey believes, the major event of 1974 for this nation may be when the Presi By Mickey Davis Journal Herald Staff writer Hugh Sidey has ridden ths American Dream from Greenfield, Iowa, where he worked as a youngster on his father's small weekly newspaper to one of the nation's top columnists.

Y'ou can take the boy out of Greenfield, but for sure nobody will ever take the Greenfield out of this boy. Solidly Midwestern, this Sidey is. There's even a touch of Hubert Horatio Humphrey in the voice but only the voice. The manner is unpretentious and refreshing, the face sincere. That face lights up Sidey starts talking about Greenfield, the old hometown he'd like to settle down in someday when he hangs up his D.C.

pinstripes. His dad and brother still run the paper which was started there by i 's great-grandfather. Population is 2,200, circulation 2,500. And sometimes, Sidey confides, the people in that community, mostly cattle farmers, have a better idea what's going on inside the White House than he gets as a reporter standing on the doormat outside. "Those people there are a good barometer," Sidey says.

"They can predict better than any peopoe I've ever found what's going to happen. I love the place." Sidey, chief of the Time-Life rf" ji I if iff 1 1 ililrliilf "Mi -HT 1 WkMkibJ A sleeper? Pacino in "Serpico".