(FORTUNE Magazine) – % We have only a few questions about the latest policy initiative on the antipoverty front, in which promoter Ken Kragen is arranging for folks to hold hands across a stretch that will run over 4,152 miles of roadway and connect up hand-holders all the way from Los Angeles to New York. Ken and Jane Fonda and Dustin Hoffman and numerous other radical chicsters have this vision of 5,480,000 or so Americans, each adding four feet to the chain and each putting up a few greenbacks, as will numerous bystanders and well-wishers in the countryside, and when all the hands are held there will be maybe $50 million or $100 million that will somehow or other be transferred to poor people. And yet questions abound. For example, why must all those nice folks stand out there next to armadillos in the desert before this transfer takes place? Why can't they just mail in their checks? No answers have yet been supplied by Kragen, who was executive producer of the ''We Are the World'' record last year and whom we see as more of a big picture man than an analytical reasoner. We somehow sense that Kenny Rogers -- he being among the chicsters who signed up for desert duty -- basically failed to question Kragen closely, but then maybe Rogers suspects the project will not fly because the production values are so thin, and we would join in asking who needs liberal causes if the rock artists fail to show? Also, if it rains are you allowed to reach for an umbrella?