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Selected doin's of well-known MOTHER-types from around the world.

Neither occasional $5.00 handouts nor bang-up benefit performances can solve the problem of world hunger, says Harry Chain—popular rock singer of moral fables-whose chief extramusical concern since 1973 has been to DO something about malnutrition.

Even a $2,000,000 concert every night for a year, Harry points out, would provide less than $1.50 for each of the world's half million malnourished people. The only long-range answers lie in increased self-reliance and redistribution of resources . . . "and the best way to start making a difference is to learn and then act.

" Harry has championed the goals of knowledge and action with relentless energy. In 1975 he and Bill Ayres cofounded World Hunger Year to provide constant exposure for the facts about starvation and to help search for causes and solutions. Among other things, WHY produces 24-hour "Hunger Radiothons" (broadcast by top radio stations across the country) to explore three questions: What are the root causes of hunger? What is being done about them? How can the individual contribute? And, when anyone does find a way to help (community gardens, improved school lunches, etc.), WHY often assists.

In 1977, Chapin and WHY expanded their education service by establishing (with the Institute for Food and Development Policy) a bi-monthly information forum called Food Mon, for which the singer writes a regular column. (A tax-deductible contribution of $10 or more to WHY-P.O. Box 1975, Garden City, New York 11530—will bring you a full year's subscription.)

WHY's activities get a big chunk of their funding from Chapin's 60-plus benefit concerts each year. Furthermore, it was chiefly Chapin, storm-talking his way through the Capitol week after week, who was responsible for the passage of a congressional resolution calling for the establishment of the Presidential Commission on hunger and malnutrition ... and Harry Is one of 14 people appointed to the group last September by President Carter. Says Ralph Nader, "I've never seen an entertainer dedicate so many hours or so much imagination to a civic cause.

" Harry Chapin responds simply: "I'm in for the long run.",— PF.

KORCZAK ZIOLKOWSKI

Korczak Ziolkowski(pronounced CORECHOCK JEWEL-KUFF-SKI) is a shaper of mountains. The 70-year-old sculptor-who assisted Gutzon Borglum in carving the busts of presidents at Mt. Rushmore-has spent the last 30 years drilling and blasting a 641- by 513foot statue out of Thunderhead Mountain (which he bought for the purpose) near Custer, South Dakota.

A statue of General Custer? On the contrary, the massive work is a monument to Crazy Horse, the Sioux chief who won the Battle of Little Bighorn.