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Page 2 Section 3 Sunday, February 6, 1949 A SPOT IN CINCINNATI By Caroline Williams PORTRAITS By fames J. Metcalfe THE ENQUIRER OFFICES, 617 VINE STREET, CINCINNATI 1, OHIO. PHONE PARKWAY 2700 DECLARATION OF FAITH BY THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER APRIL 10, 1811: "if fail that failur thall not arise from if ant of ttrirt adheence to principle or attention and fidelity to the trust wo assumt." aktftk lull FOR CINCINNATI: Provide a Modern System of Motorways for the Metropolitan Area. Abatement of the Smoke Nuisance. Continued Development of Park and Boulevard Plans.

Extension of Boulevard Lighting Plan. The Perpetuation of Good Government. WANT TO HELP Al night rvhen I am D'earjj and The rain is coming down I thinly of other people rvho Are living in rnji town Especially the needy and The persons in distress Who hunger for a piece of bread Or thirst for happiness And then I turn my thoughts to Cod And say a fervent prayer That He will bless and favor them With all His loving care That He will soothe and comfort them And help them on their way With every necessary thing They seek from day to day But most of all I ask Srace To carry out my part By sharing my possessions and The sunshine in my heart. ON SALE: An attractive, Inexpensive booklet of "PORTRAITS by James J. -Metcalfe, containing 107 selected verses which have appeared In The Enquirer, is available at the counter, finrt floor, Enquirer Building, at 25c a copy.

(By mail address "PORTRAITS," The Enquirer, Cincinnati 1, Ohio, and enclose 25c.) THE ENQUIRER'S PLATFORM Building of a system of sewage disposal and use of all means to purify the Ohio the Miamis and other streams in the Cincinnati area. Completion of Flood Prelection. Extension of Airport Facilities. Concentration on the task of building needed homes for veterans especially. -y My- Under Obvious Communistic Leadership.

fj ftll DAILY THOUGHT: The mind is slow to unlearn what it has been long in learning. Seneca, A. D. 60. Innocent Bystander OLLIE M.

JAMES When the suburbs oi Cincinnati were independent villages each one had its own town hall and the town hall was the meeting place hr all political and social gatherings, the very center of community life. Pleasant Ridge was one of the lirst villages around the city. It was settled in 1809 and established as a post town in 1832. For over 80 years it remained a village, becoming part of Cincinnati after 1912. The town hall is now the Masonic Lodge and stands on Ridge Avenue, a block off Montgomery Road.

Just Sort Of A General Mess Today. DID YOU HEAR about the two Indians with only one pair of. pants? Well, we have heard and read some very eloquent discussions about the plight of the American Indian, but none which so completely fired our imagination as a report from Harry Spindier that he knows of his own knowledge of two Indians who are so destitute that they only have one LOUIS BROMFIELD Texas Takes Lead In Conservation. IN THE GREAT SOUTHWEST there is a rernarkable crusade in progress. It has directly to do with those things which are fundamental to our national and individual existence, to our economic stability, to our health and to our power as a nation.

It is concerned with the conservation and management of the natural We received in the mail the other day a pamphlet labeled "NMU Analyses Of the Taft-Hartley Law." This latel, however, was placed rather inconspicuously at the bottom of the front page. The prominent illustration was that of a sailor stumbling forward with a death grimace on his face. Buried to the hilt in his back was an ax which had ju.st been flung by a fat, bald-headed figure wearing a diamond shirt stud. And the blazoned title of the booklet was: "In The Back." We read this bit of literature from the National Maritime Union with considerable interest. It was studded with a harangue against "Fascism," called upon American workers to "fight they would against the Nazis" against "big business." The booklet dismissed the non-Communist affidavit requirement of the Taft-Hartley Act as "a pretext to go after all unions." It went on to say that "The Fascists in Italy under Mussolini and the Nazis under Hitler in Germany strangled the trade union movements in those countries through laws and decrees similar to the Taft-Hartley Law." Indoed, the booklet makes this very noteworthy statement: "Officer of a national or international union must file sworn statements that they are not members of the Communist Tarty or affiliated with it.

This provision is an insult to American labor and a flagrant attempt to dictate whom workers can elect to lead their unions. No more brazen effort to impose thought-control on workers was ever attempted." The NMU publication goes on to Bay: "We know that the World Federation of Trade Unions (which is directed at supporting and protecting, the growth of democratic unions) is a major weapon to block war, halt imperialism and oppose any phony foreign policies which spell exploitation oi workers anywhere in the world. That's resources, which are our real wealth and, Inhe end, determine the value why Big Business in America and every other country hates its guts and fights it tooth and nail bosses are the same everywhere. Our guys know that through the WFTU we can better carry out our constitutional objective 'to assist the maritime workers of other countries in establishing the brotherhood of the sea." THERE'S a lot more pictures of bleeding strikers and so forth but the whole document is so thoroughly in keeping with the Moscow line that we heartily commend the pamphlet to the attention of Congress in the framing of new labor legislation. It was not the intent of the writers of the booklet (who obviously took the afternoon off from the Daily Worker to pound out the copy) to show just how necessary it is to safeguard the labor movement from Communistic infiltration and control, but the publication does it masterfully.

There is a consistent damnation of "Fascism and bosses," with only the most gracious of silence regarding that workers' paradise in Russia. And in ease you hadn't suspected, the World Federation of Trade Unions is so completely Communist-dominated and so palpably a Red front that the AFL never joined it and the CIO became disgusted and withdrew. That's one notable thing about the purveyors of the Communist line. Every time they take pen in hand they give themselves away. However, our interest in the matter isn't only academic.

The maritime union occupied too vital a link to be regarded complacently in the control of screaming Communists. meaning If there are agriculture slums, empty stomachs and illiteracy In the lower levels of our society. Tha first leap of a pioneer society is always toward churches and colleges, and The reasons are understandable. When this Impulse gets out of balance to the neglect of other factors equally fundamental a prosperous, integrated, truly civilized society, the virtues of the Initial impulse begin to fade in the direction of folly. BUT IV the Southwest they are beginning to do a big job of the sort which must be dona on every watershed and in every state if the wealth, power and living standards of the nation are to be maintained.

It is a job which cannot be left to government alone with that idiotic attitude that "we are paying the government; let it do it; let it take care of us." It has to be done by every cili-len or let him keep silent about taxes, regimentation, high prices and lack of opportunity. There still are opportunities left and there could be much bigger ones, but only if we regard our natural resources as what they are the basis of our existence and treat them accordingly. big dividends long after Texss is as dry of oil as a bone. IN TEXAS It appears thnt everybody is getting In on the job. That fighting national organization with the gentle name, The Friends of the Land, hns more members In Texss than any other state In the union.

The Second National Bank of Houston has a long established, very effective program engaging the paid services of a whole staff and the voluntary services of any number of good, solid citizens with vision. Texas, younger than the East and the Middle West, is still in the throes of pouring millions and even billions In gifts and bequests Into colleges and "culture" generally. It Is just beginning to understand what the older East has learned and the Middle West Is learning that vast, indiscriminate bequests have very little pair of pants between them, and one has to stay at home and wait for his turn to wear the pants. We are going to take the matter up with the Secretary of the Interior. But not without some reluctance.

The trouble with this country today is that people don't stay home enough. Maybe thoso Indians are setting the rest of the country a fine example. Also, think of the splendid qualities of trust, of cooperation, of altruism a pants-sharing project would develop throughout the country. In fact we think the next time President Truman calls on us for advice we will suggest that the policies of the administration be directed toward leaving just one pair of pants for every two people in the nation. If they ain't already.

WE WERE VERY pleased to "read in the "Shopping "With Suzanne" column the other day that you can buy a zipper nix feet and eight inches long for two dollars. It sure sounds like a bargain to u.i. That's a heap of zipping for two bucks. Suzanne seemed a little puzzled, at first, as to what, you would do with an 80-inch zipper, since this is at least six feet longer than Llm usual variety. She finally found out that this king-sized zipper is used to zip inner linings in coats.

But you could of course use them for other things. If you had a seven-foot zipper, It would certainly help you to while away some of those dull winter evenings. When people asked you to do things you didn't care to do, or tried to lead you in the paths of temptation, you could just tell (hem, firmly, that you were going home and play with your zipper. In fact you could have the thing mounted on a board, like the circular track of an electric train, and you could whisk it around corners like sixty. Only, if you are old enough to have a long beard, we suggest you play with buttons instead of a seven-foot zipper.

You might ruin yourself. WE SEE WHERE some guy has Invented an electronic device which is supposed to figure out automatically a horse's chance of winning a race from his past performance. We don't think the thing would work unless it has holes in the side tor the horse, the jockey, the trainer, the owner and a few other peo ple to whisper into. You can't judge by the form of a horse. We went to Churchill Downs ence, and we know a lot of races ere won by a nose.

So we went to the paddock with a tape measure and measured all of the horses' noses and there was one with a nose like Durante. It was either the longest nose we ever saw on a horse, or the shortest horse we ever saw on a nose. So we bet on it. A lot of people were betting on another horse which had four sprained ankles. Obviously none of them had even bothered to look at him, because all four of that horse's legs were taped up and even then it didn't hardly look like at could walk.

But do you know that domed horse won? Our horse's long nose didn't help it a bit because It was two furlongs, four lengths, six heads and 16 rumps to the rear. As the winner passed we saw the jockey whispering something into that poor aching-anklcd horse's ear and we asked him later what it was and he said he kept telling the horse all the way around the track: "Roses are red, violets are horses that lose are made into glue." Now how would a machine know thalf WHEN WE WERE up orating at the Eaton, Ohio, Rotary Club last Monday we ran into a fellow who was just married. He said he'd made out his income tax, and when he came to the place where ou list exemptions for dependents he printed "W.ATCH THIS SPACE!" I) RING THE WEEK we layed a story from Uncle Mat about the two unmarried ladies who livid very confined lives and each had a tomcat. The tomcats also lived very confined lives no social privileges, in every night at 8 and forth. Whereupon one of tha ladies got married and the second day of her honeymoon wired Iha other: "Don't care what you do 'with your cat, but turn mine loose." We repeat the story because some of our public did not get the point.

We thought it perfectly plain; she had just learned what fun it is to travel. JUST HEARD about a man who was so lazy he wouldn't even look out the window to see it If was raining. He'd just call the dog aod see if he was wet. Readers' "SySTT views Vdl "Too Many Laws." Now, Government By Decree. TO TRK EBITOS Or TUB INOUlar1 of our currency.

The crusade centers, an might he expected, about the state of Texan the biggest In everything and Texans are doing at It in a big wny. It Is crntcrod principally about agriculture and (dock raising, but the conservation of water supplies plays a big pnrt In 1he crusnde, Historically, Urn background of the crusade and the reasons for Its necessity me no different in Texas than In the rest of the United States. Until very recently tha whole mitlon, behaving like fin Invading army, has "lived off the country." Its citizens cut down forests wholesale, mined the fertility of the soil and moved on the new regions until today there Is no mora new soil left. They have exploited and exhausted minerals and oils. And now, slowly but Inevitably, It Is being born home to them that we are beginning to run short of a lot of these things, and that while these things are diminishing In quantity and availability our population increases by leaps and bounds.

NO LONG Kit can a young man take a team, a plow and harrow Into the West, and for the taking claim as much free rich land as ho can handle. No longer can an ambitions young man take a quarto and run it Into a fortune. No longer can a citizen with a few dollars establish a small corporation and build It into a wealth-producing industry. (Try it some time to see what taxation and double taxation does to you in short order), All this means, of course, that we are simply arriving at that point at which Kurope has been for nearly two renturies when hard work and grindstone production must take the place of free land, forests and minerals, speculation and exploitation. Far more than has been recognised, all of these things bring about higher and higher prices and taxes and lower and lower purchasing power for the individual dollar.

Far more than has been rccognlxed these things have brought about the New Deal and the Fair Peal, and the increasing squeeze placed on small business and industry in favor of colossal monopolistic business and industry. But to return to the Southwest, the whole process of speculation and exploitation of resources is no different than the past history of the rest of the country. It simply has happened more rapidly and on a greater scale. WHKRE THK RECORD differs is In the fact that tha leaders In the Southwest are doing something about It, and are doing it on a big scale, as Texas does things. Out there, it Is not simply the case of a voice here or there crying in the wilderness, unheard, until the country reaches that sorry bankrupt depths which the Deep South attained.

Very rapidly everybody is getting In on the job bankers, newspapermen, businessmen, industrialists, even a big oil millionaire here and there. These men, who have taken the most out of Texas, are still, on tha whole, speculators and predators, and are putting the least back into the preservation ot the resources of the state to which they owe everything. The bankers and newspaper editors ivnd owners are doing a not able Job not merely of lip service. They are spending money, setting up contests and even establishing in some communities demonstration farms supported not by the state and the taxpayers' money, but by their own funds, it Is an investment which will pay back Luke (Said 30 yean Ago In Th Enqvirtr) Having served as Chief Executive in wartime, Mr. Truman tends to have an exaggerated notion of the powers of his office.

In fact, technically, he never has been President in peacetime, for the war is still on, according to international law. This may account for his statement, and that of his Attorney General, that the "inherent powers" of the Chief Executive are ample to handie national emergency strikes. IN TIME OF WAR, that may, indeed, be the fact. But we like to believe we shall not always be at war. And even in wartime, it is far better tnat the powers and duties of the President to halt strikes should be spelled out by statute.

It is to the interest of organized labor, as well as the interest of the country" as a whole, that Congress should define by law just what sort cf strike, constitutes a national emergency, and just what powers the President has to deal with such strikes. To rely on the "inherent powers" of the office has two dangers. A future President, inimical to organized labor, might so broaden those powers as to work great injury to the labor movement On the other hand, the unwritten powers of the President, which dejenci on court interpretation, might not prove sufficient to deal effectively with a paralyzing strike that endangers the national life. That is why we believe Senator Taft to be on solid ground in demanding that any new labor bill specifically should provide for the President's right and duty to seek injunctions to halt strikes when they imperil the nation's welfare. MODERN WAR is a total effort of the nation.

It entails a great deal at what might be called "government by decree." We still are influenced by tiw wartime atmosphere which justified sweeping executive action, and which gave the President a vast additional body of "inherent powers." We ought to try to get back to government by lav just as quickly and fully as possible. Do not spend so much time reflecting on the past and worrying about the future. Devote your attention to the present. Your editorial, "This Isn't The Answer," in today's (January 31) Enquirer states "Landlords as a class undoubtedly have some valid complaints." I congratulate you on this observation as it is the first time anyone has acknowledged this tact, ho far as I know. You also state "their costs have not risen as rapidly as those of most produce groups." I must differ with you regarding fhis.

Taxes have increased enormously and will continue to do so, due to Increased expenses of City government, new bond issues, sewage disposal, transit improvements, etc. Maintenance costs have tripled and quadrupled. I refer to labor and materials for necessary repairs. Pay rolls have more than coubied, The cost of supplies used has soared enormously. Utilities cost more and coal and fuel prices have more than doubled.

There may he chiseling landlords but during prohibition thele were rum runners and there are plenty of tax evaders, too. Too many laws and restrictions make criminals. There was a time when the Government in Washington remained In obscurity, just a benign presence, except on election day every four years. We want ttiat timo to come back again. We don't want the Piesldent telling us what to eal for breakfast and what our children should learn In school and giving our kids free lunches unless they are so poor they have nothing to eat.

We want to be self respecting and make our own decisions. Perhaps Washington should mind Its own business and not worry about the standard of living of the Eskimo or Whether teacher or mother wipes little Edward's nose. RUTH MATTERN, 210 Hearne Cincinnati. non-uoo! Oh, happy wards of other days, iS'ooi we'll 1 you no more. The Drjs will moke, us change ovr wnyx.

The thought makes vs feel sore. Xo more we'll say. "Have one on mc!" TM'td seem strange, I allow; Xo more we'll say, "A little skee!" A'o more we'll say, "Here's how!" PAW KNOWS EVERYTHING. Willie Paw, what Is politeness? Paw Politeness is not letting other people know what you honestly think of them, my son. "Fine Selection." TO TBS WJITOt OP Tll SNQOIBES.

I have been reading your paper for almost year and have found It well worth my time, I particularly enjoy the Readers' Views column. Judging from most of the letter, you have a fine selection of all types of people as subscribers. The great majority of the le'ters are well written and In my iptnion show that the writers have tfiven some thought to what they were writing about. One thing that puzzles me is why no one ever comments on Victor Rlescl's column. He presents his facts in a rational manner and leaves the conclusions to the readers.

He Is one of the few columnists in my opinion who does not have an ax to grind or is aftor someone's scalp. Then we have Mr. Winchell. Here Is a man who has been and out-and-out opportunist for some time now, judging by his column. (His treatment of Truman In his column before and after the election will bear me out.) Here Is a has-been, or a never-was, vaudevlllian turned gossip monger for the money involved perhaps, setting himself up as a statesman of world-wido Influence.

I honestly believe that he bow? in the direction of Hyde Park every sunrise and sunset. Take Mr. Tegler's column. If hff Is not presenting facts, I don't believe he would have remained in 'business for so long a time. Not the way he writes.

Many people say he does not offer anything constructive. How? may I ask, can you be constructive in cleaning out trash? Yet the union workers revile him and believe the trash that is printed in hand-outs by the union. I have been a member of unions from both the AFL and CIO and I can see Mr. Pegler's point that If the trash of the unions" leadership is not cleaned out, all ths good the unions have done will go to naught along with the reputation of the majority of the leaders are sincere. There Is a place for WlncheM'a column.

He can do a lot of good because he does exercise a great amount of Influence. It is too bad that he does not have some of the attributes of Mr. Riesel and Mr. Tegler. I have a lot of other things along this line that I could write about, but I have probably written myself right out of the column by nov, so I'll just tuck in my pet bullfrog, take a healthy swig of buttermilk and ponder the question of whether Ollle James wears shoes and if so, when? BERNARD MAAG.

Tarsons Hall 6A, Terre Haute, Ind. Naval Retrenchment In Order. OH! Cheer vp, old scout! Let's have a song, Don't look so glum, gee whiz! Don't think the whole blame world' i. wrong Because your liver is. Luke McLuke.

That is the truth; Luke's right Except when he is wrong; Sometimes it's not your liver, hut your conscience going strong. Memphis Commercial Appeal. Sometimes it's not your conscience, nor Your liver that's not right; But it's your hloomin' bank account That, shows up too darn tight. Hastings, (Nebr.) Tribune. HUH! Wimmin is strange.

Last winter, when it was zero all the time, they wore knee-length skirts. And this winter, the warmest in years, they have lengthened the skirts and are wearing them down to the shoe tops. BARKING AT PROHIBITION. It. is hard to pick up a newspaper nowadays without finding an editorial or an article of some kind denouncing prohibition, telling how unjust, iniquitous and odious the law is, and spluttering about what narrow-minded bigots and fanatics the drys are.

But it is too late. A little of this prohibition poison a few years ago might have changed the fate of the greatest nation in the world. But when propaganda was needed, the liberals laughed and were afraid to express themselves in cold type. Years ago Luke foresaw what has come to pass and fought against it dally. In this column he said just what other newspapers are saying today.

But Luke was held up to ridicule by the drys, Luke was alone. Tne drys denounced Luke as a degenerate, a booze holster and a beer guzzler. And the wets merely laughed. The drys even tried the boycott on Luke and threatened editors who refused to kill Luke's column in their papers. Well, It is all over and we must take our medicine.

But if Luke had one-tenth of the papers backing him up six years ago that are now telling the truth about prohibition, there would today be no prohibition. ALTAR STAIRS By John Marvin Rasr When President Truman imposed an over-all limit of $15,000,000,000 for the armed forces in the coming fiscal year the services were dismayed, and understandably. All of them were in the process of expansion, to meet the challenge of grave tension in world affairs. If Mr. Truman's top figure held, each of the services would have to trim instead of continuing its expansion.

The Navy Department, accepting the Truman-Forrestal ruling in good faith, has made clear in a letter to the appropriate congressional committees that orderly reductions in the fleet are being made to keep within the expected budget allowance. Instead of demanding very much larger appropriations from Congress, instead of going over the heads of the President and the Defense Secretary, John L. Sullivan, Secretary of the Navy, simply is outlining what the reduction of naval appropriations will entail. The Navy is laying up 72 ships, including 15 major ships, but this is off set in part by 30 new vessels to come into service. The Navy is planning to reduce personnel by 30,000 men and aircraft in operation by 400.

It also will close 15 secondary naval air stations. Every effort is being made to make these changes in such a way as not to reduce the combat effectiveness of the Navy. This is a sound and wholesome policy. The nation cannot afford as much preparedness as it would like to have. World conditions are not nearly as tense as they were two years ago, or even one year ago.

The danger of major war is reduced. It is logical, therefore, to set a severe limit on over-all military expenditure. Congress and the Army and Air Force, we hope, will follow the good example of the Navy Department in cheerful acceptance of the limits set for military outlay by the resident and by Secretary Forrestal. If they do the principle of armed forces unification will suffer another serious setback, to the detriment of the country. of The The Voice ENQUIRER: Some arith A I'KIOR CLAIM Hearing fruit in every yoort work, ami increusin? in.

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Palmer of Texarkana, newspaper publisher, and Mrs. Palmer, have set aside $100,000 for development of good character among children and young people. An initial step in this progressive move Is a national survey which reports that many of our schools are deeply interested in character development, but not one is doing all that it could to that end. On every side are evidences of need at this point. More urgent than the quest for knowledge is the quest for wisdom.

To disregard this urgency is to join the ranks of the spiritually impoverished and Illiterate. Savior, may we perceive that no goal can be higher than that of knowing Thee and of entering with Thee Into all life's experiences. It Is easier to figure profits than It Is to rollect them, ENQUIRER MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES OIW ynr 9 no Sunday only, one )vir 7 KU BY MAIL OUTSIDE OF CARRIER DlS LIVERY DISTRICTS (Runt ft out T.iceptBll IN ZONES 1, 3. 3. tod BEYOND: Pally only, oup ffur IIS 00 Sunday only, one yer 7 80 The Associated, Press is entitled cxclusivelu to the vie lor republication ot all the local news printed in this newspaper, as well as all AP news dispatches.

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IKC. 3 "All Honor To Judge." When a man does bury the hatchet, he digs it up often enougn to keep it from getting rusty. metician hps figured that President Truman now draws $520.55 a day. The "Square Deal" is really working for him! TO THS MMTOl Or IKS All honor and praise for Judge Pruffel In his stand on the issue of "Teachers And Communism." W. F.

HILDEBRECHT, Harvcys-bure, Ohio. We mail hr wrong. But we would like to bet that Heaven Will con-lam more temperate drinkcrt than intemperate prohibitionists. i..