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atucay, juiy 13, ivj 38TH PARALLEL -By D. Warren Innocent Bystander OLLIE M. JAMES THE ENQUIRER OFFICES, 617 VINE STREET, CINCINNATI 1, OHIO. PHONE, PARKWAY 2700 DECLARATION OF FAITH BY THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER APRIL 10, 1541: fa.l, that failure not arm from a leant of strict adhergnc to principle sr attention and to the truat attune," LIGHT ON LOCAL COMMUNISM. Saturday Scrapple.

AS A P.L'LE, a man doe well to hide from Ms wife any style news of firry description from Paris, but here Is an Item you certainly should show the little woman. One of the latest things designed by Schiaparelli is a set of patched pants for women. Yep, really patched, with big red patch pockets over the places where pants usually wear out. So, when the question of a new fall outfit comes up, you men can tell your iparertbs that they can have the latest thing a pair of your old trousers with patch pockets on back. And with tht money you save, naturally, you can buy a new suit for yourself.

SOME DAYS AGO we liked if anybody had any mysteries they wanted solved. Well, William D. Murray, publisher of the Lawrence-burg. Ind. Press, says we can help him locate his great grandpa.

Mr. Murray has been tracing his family tree, and he got as far back as Isaiah Henderson Murray, vho lived out In back of where Shlllito's store Is now, In 1830-1835. That is a little before our time, but he says his grandpa, Thomas Murray, always said he was born on the present site of the Cincinnati Federal Building although the 1831 directory showed the family to be living on George Street near Western Avenue (now Central) at the time. Will anyone with any dope on Isaiah please write Mr. Murray at Lawrenceburg? WE HAVE a slight mystery of our own.

It concerns a bottle. Some months ago somebody stuck a bottle of "McLaran'g 3 out of 5" hair dressing In our mail box in the newsroom. We contemplated it for a long time before it fearful that It might be something on the order of oxygenated moost oil but one day In a burst ot bravery wt tried It, having run out of sheep fat, glue and axle grease. And It was fine. It even had sort of a gentle smell about It, Instead of tht usual quinine and creosote aroma.

But when the bottle was empty we began to wonder if the whole thing was an elaborate gag, because none of the drug houses In Cincinnati or wholesalers knew anything about it and a letter addressed to the "International 3 out of 5 Co." In New York, as listed on the label, was returned by the Post Office Department because of "insufficient address." We would think we had been taken for a ride In a flying saucer except the manager at Shapero'i says traveling men ask for It too. Does anybody know anything more about It than we do, which ain't anything? position involving serious security risk. It has been revealed how the local party followed the orderi from Moscow through any gyration, and with no regard whatever for the national interest of the United States. As Mr. Edmiston remarked, "The Communist did all right in Cincinnati." There is more much more to be put in the record before the exposure of Communism in Cincinnati can be considered complete.

The House committee thus far has heard only the first of tho series of witnesses enlisted by The Enquirer in its effort to rip the veil completely off of local Communism. Already, however, the initial witnesses have shown that the series articles prepared during the last year by James Ratliff, and printed in The Enquirer several months ago, were as factual as a blueprint. Significantly, although this newspaper endured a lot of journalistic abuse at the time, no one any longer contends that there is nothing to our exposure of Communism, nor dismisses it as a "circulation itunt" or "a story that simply blew up." Yet we harbor no impulse to say, "We told you so." WE THOUGHT from the very be-ginning, when James Ratliff first began his investigation of Communism here, and began to hit real pay dirt in his contacts with undercover agent in the party, that it was something the publiu deserved to know about in full. That is, and remains, our sole consideration. The House committee is to be congratulated for permitting the public to hear the facts thus far.

There's more to the story. That, too, should and must be heard. During the fast week the House Un-American Activities Committee began its long-awaited hearing of testimony and evidence concerning the operations of the Communist conspiracy in Cincinnati and throughout Southern Ohio. There is not room in these columns to recite all that has been brought to public knowledge, during the first days of this hearing. Most of our readers, we believe, have been sufficiently interested to have followed the detailed revelations in the many columns of news reports from Washington that have been carried by The Enquirer and other newspapers.

There have been several protests of mistaken identities; several denials of complicity from those named. With due allowance for these, the fact remains that a thoroughly creditable account of serious Communist activity in this area has been read into the public record during the week. The testimony of the first witnesses, Mr. and Mrs. John J.

Edmiston of Dayton, former FBI undercover agents, and Victor De-cavitch of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, have sketched the pattern of Communist operations with well-documentei reports. Some, but by no means all, of the actual Communist conspirators have been named publicly. The modus operandi of the party has been sketched. It has been shown how the party members helped precipitate a strike at a Cincinnati industrial plant as a means of crippling our war preparedness effort during the days before it became Stalin's war too. It has been shown how various men identified at the time by the undercover agents as Communist party members were, nevertheless, commissioned as officers in the U.

S. Army one to a VOICE of the PRESS Editor! Approve Draft Call. (The draft call was issued because the nation has only two-thirds of its authorized strength now in uniform and the Korean situation requires that this country should at least be up to its authorized strength, editors of the nation said this week. With iew exceptions, they ireed that the dralt call was needed. This digest was compiled by The Enquirer.) BRADY BLACK Columbui Bureau, 207 Spahr BIdg.

ton has followed by far th safer of th courses open. If return to selective service at this tlm heirs confine tht war to Korea and per-suades Russia to stay out it will have been one of the wisest moves in American history. DAYTON JOURNAL HERALD: It is the possibilities which stem out of the Korean problem which Justify the resumption of tht draft, and which, as a matter of fact, demand that ths United States lose no time In readying Ita defenses for instant use. 0 Ucking and greatly needed in the Poor Relief And The Legislature. DAILY THOUGHT: Caution is the eldest Victor Hugo.

of wisdom. COLUMBUS: A rise in employment, predicted as a result of the fighting in Korea, may bring Ohio a respite from the poor relief financial crisis brewing in virtually every urban center. If this does occur the edge will be taken off what has been shaping up as a possible squabble in the Legislature In 1951. This li the ittuatlon: Local government, In the fiscal curricula of the School ot Experience is a good memory course. Plenty Of Sugar.

Few people will admit the selfish and unpatriotic practice of hoarding, but a frightful number of folk have been buying scarce articles "in order to lay in a supply before the hoarders get started." One of the most senseless forms cf this "precautionary buying," to give it a polite term, is the headlong rush on the sugar counter. The Agriculture De AKRON BEACON-JOURNAL: What does this Invocation of ths draft art and ths call for volunteer mean? It means, first of all, that ths United 8tates Is getting ready for anything that may happen. It takes time to get ths draft machinery into operation Induct men Into service. It takes time to train and equip these new men. If volunteers, especially veterans, do not respond in sufficient numbers to meet ths needs, selective servict will bs ready to fill those requirements.

It means, as Senator Wherry told his colleagues, that ths Korean operation "Is more than a pclics action." The Korean campaign ap-peara destined to be prolonged. The danger of other Soviet produced explosive Incidents elsewhere In the Red perimeter Is recognised. The threat of full seals war with Russia Is ever present in the background. DALLAS NEWS: The draft eall and ths probable subsequent moves are a present need to bring back Into being the magnificent American Army of 1944-45. We have had half a decade of demobilisation of all arms.

It would be folly to believe that we can make up lost ground In a few weeks. We can start now to rebuild. year which ended June SO, spent million on poor relief. They did thii even though several of them cut well below itate standards. Hamilton County even mortgaged Ita poor relief fundi for the next 10 years by $1 million to meet relief coeta In the latter half of 1949.

CHICAGO TRIBUNE: This war would have been avoided by a rational foreign policy over th last ten years, but the fools and ths traitors In Mr. Truman's administration had left no honorable escape by the time th attack cam in Korea. Mr. Truman could have had a lawful declaration of war for the asking and he could have told the truth about his Intention to draft ths young men of th country without risking defeat of tht law. Ht chose to bt devious and deceptive not from political necessity but from habit.

ST. LOUIS GLOBE-DEMOCRAT: It Is now apparent that ths North Koreans are well armed and well trained. What appeared to an porting the party ticket without mentioning Mr. Ferguson or Mr. Taft, he can endorse Senator Taft or he can endorse Mr.

Ferguson. The first opportunity for the Governor to clarify his position is expected to come in August. Senator Taft then is expected to endorse Don H. Ebrlght, Governor Lausche's Republican opponent. Whether the Senator will recognize Governor Lausche's statement remains to bsteen.

It is doubtful whether he would go farther than to thank ths Governor for his praise of the Senator. It will be recalled that In his White Sulphur Springs remarks Governor Lausche mentioned that he did not know whether Mr. Taft or Mr. Ferguson would vote for him. Now if Senator Taft publicly says he will, vote for Mr.

Ebrlght will the Governor be in the position of having made a frlendiy overture to Senator Taft and been turned down? Would this permit the Governor to make a further statement saying he will vote for Mr. Ferguson, while not jeopardizing his position of independence? Would Reiiubli. cans friendly to the Governor feel that Mr. Taft was offered the Governor's support and rejected it, therefore freeing the Governor to likewise support the nominee of his party? And if the Governor did make such a belated statement in support of Mr. Ferguson would this soothe the ruffled feelings of hia own party? Would Democrats feel that Mr.

Lausche was Just milking a play for votes all the time and really meant no harm? against tht $l'- million in the second quarter pot for October, November and December. If ths second quarter finds the problem still severs the Stata could borrow from the third quarter. AT THIS rate $1,200,000 a month the State, in 12 months, would spend $11,400,000 instead of the $10 million appropriated. This means, unless the cost of relief nosedives, that along In February, 1951, there will loom a problem of depleted Stata matching funds. However, at that time ths Legislature will be in session and th problem of what to do cau be dumped In ths laps of ths legislators.

The Legislature always has made deficiency appropriations for poor relief when the State fell behind on its 50 per cent reimbursement of local spending. It provided $2 million for such purposes for the first six months of 1949. At the current level of spending the legislators, in 1951, would get a $34 million bill from 1949-50 and be asked to cough up another $4,400,000 for 1950-51. Finances figure to be a little short around the State-house when, MOST OF thla 364 million came from taxes collected by the state, for local governments, on gross income of public utilities and from a $10 million appropriate by the Legislature. The state, from the $10 million, was permitted to reimburse local governments up to 50 per cent of relief spending, but reached only 37H per cent, because the $10 million waa S3 4 mlHIon short of aufflclent for 50 per cent reimbursement.

On July 1 another $10 million for reimbursement became available. It is for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1951. This was set up in funds of $2Vi million for each of four quarters, making $823,333 avail-able each month. However, monthly waa needed for 80 per cent reimbursement. Local gov-ernmenti were clamoring for the State to provide more help.

So Governor Lausche, perhaps with an eye on the November 7 election, approved change in tactics. It is this: John H. Lamneck. Welfare Director, will release 11,200,000 to local governments In July and another $1,200,000 In August That will leava only $100,000 for September. The Stats Controlling Board then will be asked to permit borrowing partment has just pointed out that there are a billion tons of sugar avail able in Cuba and the other sugar-producing areas, with no discernible thrert of submarine interference with sugar shipment such as made rationing necessary in World War II.

The Department of Agriculture fixes import quotas, and can permit a much greater volume of sugar shipments into the country at any time. Meanwhile, however, the buying rush on the competitive market will drive the price up. And then, quite likely, when millions of householders have their cellars stocked with aging and caking sugar, a state of oversupply will make the price drop considerably. To say tht least, the cold war has been taken out of the deep freeze. 0 Open Season.

Along with its substantial increase in population, Cincinnati has added to its community of chiggers. These minute pests, we are informed, have appeared on the scene in excessive numbers this year. People are scratching, but, unfortunately, scratching does not help. Veb6ter describes the little beast as a larval form of certain mites which attach themselves to the skin of warmblooded animals, which means you. The dictionary extends its remarks to say, with some degree of restraint, that the American species of chigger is very troublesome.

There are two defenses against chig attack that had initial success Because of ths surprise element tnd tht inadequacy of tht South Korean defense, has developed Into a major action that has the American command worried. It is too early for the full Impact of American reinforcements to be felt, but as of yesterday they were not sufficient. Mort arms, mort men art needed and they will be supplied. MILWAUKEE JOURNAL: If shortsighted men, Isolationists and ultrapacifists had had their way in 1946, 194S and even In early 1950, tht nation could not be ready to start orderly Inductions for four or five months. Extension of the Selective Servlcs met strong oppo-aition in 1948 and 1948 from left wing organisations with Communist leanings, soma labor and farm groups and many churchmen.

On both occasions ths Selectivs Service law was extended by comfortable majorities, KANSAS CITY STAR: Such a development, In other words, does not appear to reflect any official calculation that a third world war la mor Immediately In prospect than It has been sine th Korean crisis began. The substantial reinforcement of our armed forces at this time can he explained reasonably on the basis of the Asiatio situation, tht seals of tht Cctamu-nist offensive in Korea and tht dlrtct threat of Formosa from Red China. COLUMBUS DISPATCH: Tht American people will support this latest demand upon them, Just as they have supported other demands including thos unnecessary ones caused by tht mistakes, conceit and Incompetence of their leaders past and present. Th American peopl com forth when they art called with money, with labor and with life Itself. Their willingness and thtlr generosity has been viciously and grossly abused In time past and times not so far past.

Let these newest sacrifices, and those others turt to come, not Wartime Taxes. One of the first economic casualties of the new outbreak of war has been the bill to reduce the World War II excise taxes on such items as Jewelry, furs, cosmetics, railroad fares and telephone bills. The House of Representatives already had been persuaded that these selective taxes no longer were fair, in peacetime, and the Senate peemed in the mood to go along when word came from the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue that President Truman did not consider it "prudent" to go ahead with such tax reduction with war raging in Korea. Admittedly, the abrupt ending of peace whether or not we are at war iti a moot question does put a different complexion on the excise tax situation. When they were enacted originally these taxes were intended not merely a.4 revenue raisers, but also to divert public upending from "extravagances" and to discourage too much use of essential transportation and communications facilities.

It cannot yet be said that these same reasons have become valid again, but at least they are somewhat more valid than they were during the intervening postwar years when they were almost completely unjustifiable. Mr. Truman had been insisting that any cut in excise taxes would have to be offset, from a revenue standpoint, by some other form of new taxes. Obedient administration followers thereupon had turned to the politically popular strategem of increasing corporation taxes the infereAce being that the wealthy corporations could bear the burden. Had this plan been carried out, we would have traded the excise tax structure for one in which everyone paid a little higher hidden tax bill.

Taxes any taxes are a regular item of the cost of doing business, ani any increase in the corporate tax load, therefore, merely would have been reflected in another rise in the coat ot manufactured goods and business services. Significantly, the administration, already Is talking about higher taxes. It the present situation degenerates into a full-scale war, or remains in so acute a stage that our preparedness expenses must be stepped up to a virtual war footing, we shall of necessity have to consider higher taxes and more taxes. But meanwhile no ore should overlook the point that the Federal Government AS TO Governor Lausche's political future, If he is reelected, tnese are considered to be the possibilities: A 1952 race for a fourth term as Governor, a 1952 bid for the V. S.

Senate now occupied by John W. Bricker, a 1952 bid for his party's presidential or vice presidential nomination, or a Judicial appointment. The Governor's White Sulphur Springs statement probably would be most hurtful to him at a party convention, where straight-t'eket Democrats and labor leadera hostile to Senator Taft, If their present mood should prevail, would oppose him. Nevertheless, It Is thought probable that if Mr. Lausche is reelected some of his friends will begin work at once to line up delegates for him for President for 19S2.

If the top spot should not be open then they would be In position to move for Vice President For this reason It may be very Important what, If any, clarification the Governor may make of his position In the Senate race. ALTAR STAIRS By John Marvin Rast DAYTON NEWS: The President has acted now to use the powera which Congress Just gave him to revive drafting of young men under selective service. This will rot be good news to most of the young men affected, or to their families. But It Is nsws a lot less disturbing than the news we otherwise might wake up to ons of these days the news that ths North Koreans had pushed us into ths sea of Japan and that the Russians, or their satellites, were on the march In Indo-Chlna, Iran, Germany or Yugoslavia. PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: We should tell our own people, and ths world, that th foul Red aggression in Korea is going to be stopped and that wt Intend to hit it hard with weapons that will stop it.

Winston Churchill, speaking to America for Britain In 1941, said: "Give us th tools, and we will finish th Job." But ths hour was too lata and America's own bovs had to help "finish the Job." This time the hour Is not too lats. Give our soldiers In Korea the tools they need. Glv MacArthur th tools for victory NOW. ATLANTA CONSTITUTION: Tht aim of tht draft la to build our strength to what the military leaders believe should have had all along In a comparatively peaceful situation. This Is to be done by removing budgetary limitations.

Thus, should occasion arise, our strength can expanded swiftly to meet any contingency. DETROIT FREE PRESS: Resumption of Selective Service does not necessarily mean, at this time, that any general mobilisation will result. It simply offers assurance that a man-power pool for our armed force will be available, to bring our defens stabllshment up to authorised strength, If voluntary nllstmnts are Insufficient At tht same time. It 1 th course of wisdom, regardless of how much th necessity I to be deplored, to have the machinery well oiled and functioning If a sudden expansion of our military Tower Is required. BOSTON HERALD: It s.ems that largely for budgetary reasons the armed services art not up to their authorized strength.

Thr are only 1.4M.40O In uniform when the authorised strtngth is 2,005,882. This means that, somhow, 847,. 482 additional must bt found, Con- slderlng tht pool of man power from which that can bt raited, It is not a frightening figure. Indeed, thert Is probably great hop In Washington that th authorlsutlon to use th. draft will Induo a considerably higher rate of voluntary enlistments so that If th drnftlng power Is used at all, It will be employed most sparingly.

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH! repeat that th decision was a hard on. But wt think Washing the lawmakers gather for their next regular session. The guessing is that the Legislature will be Republican. It seems safe to deduce that before hunting up the nearly $8 million the lawmakers would shoot soma criticism at Governor Lausche.

However, he either will ba back In private life or safely past another election and, in either event, ths speeches probably won't hurt him much. If employment rise and relief costs go down the deficiency bill for relief won't be so large. NEVERTHELESS, the picture of a Legislature hunting for such a chunk of money is likely to stir state departments to try to commit improvement funds allocated to them. Money unspent on next June SO would go back Into the general fund. Or, if It became sufficiently desperate, the Legislature could put a hold on all such unspent money and then reapproprlats only that which it chose.

In 1949 the- Legislature appropriated $98 million in the Aids and 'Rettermenta bill. Of this, $1,1 million was to match Federal highway money. At the end of June 30, $34,721,000 of the $83 million balance had been committed. Among money still not committed was $5 million for a parka program. EVER SINCE Governor Lausche reluctantly yielded to urging by newsmen to hold a press conference at White 8ulphur Springs, W.

last month, there has been speculation about hla political future. It was at this press conference that he disclosed, in answer to a question, that he had not decided whether to vote for Robert A. Taft or Joseph T. Ferguson for U. S.

Senator. There has been a variety of opinion whether ths Governor helped or hurt himself in hla rae for reelection. The same has been true as to his future after 1950. Labor spokesmen have talked of labor's refusing to vots In the Gov. error's race.

Soma Democrats, angry al the Idea of a Democratic Governor admitting publicly that he might vote for a Republican, have talked of refusing to support Governor Lausche. This has touched off a variety of speculation as to what the Governor might do. THE rOSMBILITIKS on tho Governor's statement are: LUKE McLUKE Said 30 Ytart Ago in Tht Enquirer A PORTRAIT Our gospels are not photographs. They are portraits. They set forth certain Important facta about Jeeua.

In addition they record beliefs. To all who walked with Him, or even cams In contact with Him, He was always a personality plus. So It is with us today as we read the scriptural story of the Galilean. We cannot escape, the extraordinary power of Him who Increasingly appears as the Master and the Redeemer. Our lack is not a dearth of understanding, but a lack of faith an obsession with temporal values and a leaning upon them to the exclusion of confidence in Him who claims: "I am the way, and the truth, and the Ufa." "Then Simon refer ontifered him, Lord, to uhom, ahull ire got Thou hat the words of eternal life." (John 0 THOU WHO ART light and life, our hope Is in Thee.

Enable us to adorn our profession with works acceptable in Thy eight BIRD SOMG All of hear en' harmony and tnrlh't Hlirnrdant not Catrading imrn tht century From on tmall throat. PKARL YEA DON McGINMS In tht Columbus Dispstrh. gers. One requires the spraying of shrubs, bushes and grass, where chiggers thrive these wet days. The other comes under the head of self-defense, and demands that you keep away from places where chiggers are certain to be.

Once the chigger hfs put the bite on you, however, you are out of luck. The choice then lies between futile scratching and a cold application. Some people use kerosene, but would almost prefer to itch than to smell like an old paraffin lamp. We believe there is a point somewhere beyond which soap can't be improved, and that this is also possibly true of goai flakes. The Voice of The THE UNEXPECTED does not always happen.

When there Is a woman In the case ths txpteUd always happens. IWOHOO! We laid poor Proinald away. Ala, the blow vat hard! A thought etrut-k him one fatal dan When he tins off hit guard. Some married women run around so much that the Stork never finds them at home and quits trying. D00 DAY noar.EREL.

A riter of cold highballs flows Betide mv fret. Oh, boy I III hurry and take off my clothes And tphth around for joy, 1 a lake of brrr to tool, I'll ttand upon the brink, Thrn dive into the amhrr pool And drink and drink and drink. The world is growing better. The low-crowned, fried-eerf Derby hat baa guns out of style. ENQUIRER: There's dif- JL-1f ference be- tween home WW i inquifw mail svmcntrnoH katw DuIt.

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Act at 1ST! HSWS Rl'REAl'S. WnMnfton National PrMt Sitdt': Co'ummii 30T Sphr Buildinf CSKtRAL ADVERTISING RrrRrsfNTATTVI MOLONAY, RiOAH tj SClUUTr, IPC. has been indulging itself in peacetime spending at wartime velocity. Part of the attainment of th Welfare State, it seems to us, should await the finding out of just what sort of a state thu world is going to be in. grown Commies and back yard menace.

Poison ivy doesn't camouflage its telltale red. Another sign of the uncertain times: A leading national magazine has discontinued carrying continued stories. He can remain silent, ha can make aoms statement about sup.