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Page 4 Tuesday, August 3, 1948 HOW "DOWDY" CAN WE GET? L. D. Warren LUKE McLUKE (Said 30 Years Ago in The Enquirer) ENQUIRER THE OFFICjp 617 VINE STREET, CINCINNATI 1, OHIO. PHONE, PARKWAY 2700 DECLARATION OF FAITH BY THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER APRIL 10, 1841: we fail, that failure thall not arise from a want of ttrict adherence to principle or attention and fidelity to the trust we assume." a liar. But no man is going spoil a good story by sticking tl facts.

MEAN BRUTE! "I wish you wouldn't try to bakJ jjear. wire." said Mr. Bevel: "You claim that this is angel cakl But it tastes like the devil." Luka MpLhIta His wife responded, with some heatl roure most extreme rude! 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. 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 Protection. Extension of Airport Facilities.

Concentration on the task of building needed homes for veterans especially. And anything that you might eaj wouia sure De aevirs rood" Newark Advocate. After a woman has been marrle for 20 years and has raised a hal dozen children, it makes her snor with disgust to hear a newly mai TRT TO LIVE so that the editor of your home town paper won't have to groan "God forgive me for lying!" when he has to say nice things about you in your obituary. FACT. Man's greediness oft makes him blind To his best interest, as you'll see; 'And quality, you'll often find, Is sacrificed for quantity.

If many a rich man lost his money in the same way that he got it, he would have the other fellow arrested for swindling. You may not believe It. But It Is better to be born with a steel spine In your back than It is to be born with a silver spoon In your mouth, Another damphool who doesn't fool anybody is the man who works for a living but tries to impress you with the fact that he doesn't have to. And if a man did know himself, maybe he would be forced to admit that he wasn't acquainted with very much. A man gets mad if you call him riert woman brag about her twil Poor Security.

beds. PAW KNOWS EVERYTHING. Willie Paw. what is not lnkl Paw That is what the other fell low has in a poker game, my son! A WONDER. At pofcer, few Can brat Tom Tush; He knows when to Lay down a flush.

One-half the world knows howl to work the other half. (Copyright, the Cincinnati Enquirer) Walter LIPPM ANN Copyritht, N. 1. 77'. lie Showdown Over Germany Premature.

AS WE WAIT for the response to the representations which we are making in Moscow, the most favorable omen is that the Russian commanders in the Berlin area have thus far refrained from interfering with the air lift. Thus far, therefore, there have been no collisions, crashes and casualties. This reflects at least DAILY THOUGHT: Men's behavior should be like their apparel, not too strait but free for exercise and motion. Francis Bacon, .159 7 i The Incline Again. Here's a little game you might try playing with vacation friends you meet who have been in Cincinnati at some time or other or with visitors in town: Ask them to list half a dozen things they remember about Cincinnati.

Those who came to this city by train will undoubtedly put our magnificent Union Terminal at or near the top of their list. Others will mention our summer season of grand opera, our Symphony Orchestra, our fine hotels and our beautiful hills and city parks. But right up near the top of a good many of these visitors' lists will be the Mt. Adams Incline, one of the city's unique and distinctive landmarks and one which visitors are not likely to forget. Road maps which the oil companies again are making available to motorists almost invariably list the Mt.

Adams Incline as one of the points of interest in the Queen City. It has been nearly four months since the Mt. Adams Incline was in operation. It was closed because it needed repairs and more important because the Cincinnati Street Railway Co. felt that it could no longer subsidize its operation.

It has been a money-loser for some time. Members of City Council have indicated that they feel the incline should be put in shape and its' operation continued. Right now the city is in the midst of negotiations with the streetcar company trying to work out some equitable way in which to repair the structure and to put it back in use. We realize that these arrangements can't be made overnight. There is considerable money involved, and there are difficult problems regarding future operations because the incline probably will never pay its own way.

But we think the Mt. Adams Incline is such an important asset to this city that it should be restored and put back in operation just as soon as possible, and the public should be kept informed as to how negotiations are proceeding to that end between the company and the city. The Mt. Adams Incline is pictured on this page today in one of L. D.

Warren's effective cartoons. We certainly hope there is nothing prophetic in that drawing. a tacit understanding that for the That the testimony of Elizabeth Bent-ley, the self-confessed informer to the Communists, is sensational states the case mildly. To what extent it is true, of course, is another matter. One may fee! reasonably assured that the Communists succeeded in placing agents in as many of the so-called high places as possible during the war.

Miss Bentley's tale about Lauchlin Currie, one of President Roosevelt's advisers, sounds very fishy and has been categorically denied by him. It is hardly conceivable that a man even in his position Should have been privy to code secrets, though, of course, anything is possible. Kor does it sound likely that anyone in General Donovan's immediate entourage in the Office of Strategic Services should have been passing out classified information, though again anything is possible. It may sound a little naive to ask apropos of the Currie charge why the United States Government should have been interested during the war in breaking the code of the Russians, who were our military allies, except as a matter of routine and as something to be filed away for future reference. The answers to all such questions will undoubtedly come out in the wash.

So far Miss Bentley has done most of the talking. She has named names and mentioned dates. And apparently she has been able to refer to a number of documents which she delivered to the other side. All of the people whom she included In her list of informants undoubtedly will fce asked to testify before the Senate's investigating committee. It doesn't look too good for some of them.

What looks worse, however, is the efficiency of the agencies Which originally investigated the fitness of come of these accused individuals to hold responsible and confidential government posts. Miss Bentley's revelations, if true, certainly do not speak too well for our wartime security. Members of Congress are deserving of considerable sympathy, with August and President Truman simultaneously putting the heat on them. state could be set up this summed and made prosperous, with al frontier in the middle of Germany, was certainly no contribution tc the economic rivalry of Europe. It COPYRIGHT, THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER.

is difficult to understand the rea soning of governments which could decide on the political partitlor of Germany at the very moment when economic plans were based upon the economic reunion Frank R. KENT of Germany and Europe. THE IDEA of Western Union which was the political complement of the recovery program, called fori the formation of a European union in which Germans, and eventually the nations of eastern Europe and Election Choice Is Clean Cut. WASHINGTON: With foreign policy fortunately not an issue in this campaign, it does seem that the often-expressed desire that in domestic affairs the country should have a clean-cut choice between liberal and conservative has at least been realized. Any voter who knows the direction in which he wants to go and pos of the Danube Valley, could parJ ticipate.

But this great construe tive project required time to develop. It was impossible to unite even the five Brussels powers! quickly. It was certainly impossible to imagine them uniting with rump and puppet government id Frankfurt. sesses any sort of political philosophy, however hazy, should have no trouble in casting his ballot this time. For Mr.

Truman and the Democrats have definitely gone so far to the left that, by comparison, Governor Dewey and the Republicans are way to the right. For several reasons, the candidates and Even on the lowest terms, than of a military alliance against Sov iet expansion, the fact was that! the Western Union could not be "World conditions aren't so bad that they can't get worse," asserts a columnist. True, no doubt, but the margin is zather small. come a military power in less thaw two or three years, and that Ameri-I ALTAR STAIRS By John Marvin Rast B00KLE98 SAINTS The Message of the Cross is indeed mere folly to those who are in the path to Ruin, tut to us who are in the path of Salvation it is the very power of God. I Corinthians 1:18 (20th Cent.

N. A visitor in the home of a saint inquired if he could look over the library of the holy man. He was taken to the saint's room. There were no books there. Pointing to a simple wooden cross the saint said, "There is my library." Indeed, of what value is the poring over musty tomes and flashy bestsellers if the spirit of the cross of Christ be subdued and lost in the process? Of course this need not be.

Few of us can be bookless saints. We need all the light of hallowed learning upon our path. Only let us make sure that its rays keep the cross central and radiant. "Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way! Hold o'er my being absolute sway! Fill with Thy Spirit till all shall see Christ only, always, living in me." states' rights doctrine; that the Republicans are less explicit and offensive in their civil rights declaration and less subservient to the union labor bosses, it is easy to see how accurately one party can be classed as Left and Liberal and the other as Right and Conservative. This distinction could have been drawn in 1936, in 1940 and in 1944 but for the fact that the Republican presidential candidates in those years, alarmed by the tremendous appeal of the New Deal spending, tried, without success, to out-promise the New Dealers.

This time there is no pressure to do that. This time each party is presenting a different set of political principles and the voters have a choice not only between candidates but between political beliefs and party trends. It might be summed up by saying that one party appears to believe in the multiplication table and the other does not. can strategical doctrine and the character of American armament were quite unsuited to the defense of western Europe against an in vasion. time being the Russians are not to blockade Berlin completely by closing the air corridors, and that we are not to push convoys through the ground blockade.

Both sides have stopped Just short of the actions which would surely precipitate violence the Russians from bringing on a battle in the air, we from bringing on a battle on the ground. This leaves the struggle still within the realm of diplomacy. BUT, none the less, the diplomatic situation is very serious. Our position in Berlin is deteriorating rapidly. For while we are not being "driven out of Berlin," the air lift, though spectacular and efficient, is quite incapable of sustaining the economic life of our sectors of Berlin.

On the other hand we are not prepared for the general negotiations which we have been compelled to offer in order to extricate ourselves from the Berlin predicament. The crux of our problem is that because of a miscalculated risk taken by Mr. Marshall and Mr. Bevin we have been brought prematurely to the great, the ultimately unavoidable, and the necessary showdown with the Soviet Union about the future of Germany and of Europe. We were not able to deliver an ultimatum about Berlin because Western Europe is in no condition to face a war.

On the other hand, we are not ready for serious negotiations because the great constructive projects of the Western powers, which were designed to prepare a general European settlement, are nowhere near achievement. It was, therefore, a miscalculation to precipitate a European crisis this summer by insisting on the London agreements to establish a western German state. THAT DECISION not only led directly to the Berlin crisis, as Mr. Marshall and Mr. Bevin were repeatedly warned that it would, but it also has impaired the plans and the prospects for a successful European settlement.

The European Recovery Program, if it is to be anything more than another American dole, required' a restoration of European trade between the agricultural East and the industrial West. It required also a restoration of trade with southeast Asia, one of the important dollar-earning regions of the western European powers. But the Dutch position in Indonesia, the French position in Indo-China, the British position in Burma and Malaya, are most unpromising. It was all the more important that trade with eastern Europe should be promoted, that in return for exports of food and raw materials, the Eastern countries should receive machinery which enables them to increase their production. The idea that a western German The project, therefore, of Wes- tern Union as the nuclear alliance of a European Union demanded a diplomatic policy designed to post pone, not to precipitate, the great showdown with the Russians.

Un lunches, rivers and harbors, etc. Though the American taxpayer is burdened with the greatest peacetime expenditures ever heard of, this platform tells him our spending along these lines is "inadequate." NO SUGGESTION of where the money is to be obtained for these new schemes and expansions is offered and, though the number of Federal jobholders has now reached a peak of 2,500,000 with, as Senator Byrd says, 500 additional going on every day since March, it is the Republican and not the Democratic platform that deals with this vital matter. While the Republicans advocate additional expenditures for housing and veterans, they do not attempt to compete with the spending program of the Democrats and they do not go nearly as far in the direction of paternalistic government or national socialism. On the contrary, they denounce excessive "centralization" and bear down strongly for economy. The administration of government, they say, must be economical and effective.

They insist upon progressive reduction in the size and cost of government, the elimination of waste, the abolition of overlapping, duplicating and extravagant government agencies. The budget must be balanced and the great debt reduced. The Democrats mention the debt only casually and the budget not at all. WHEN TO All, this Is added that for the first time the Democrats have abandoned their historic til substantial progress had been made under the recovery program in tying together Europe by trade, agreements, and on the political side in making political unity in the West more than a meager blue-print, the Russians had much to gain and we had much to lose by a showdown. When we consider that besides all this, we are in the midst of an election which will almost certainly briner about a change of Ad ministration, the only sensible course for this summer was to temporize, IT IS the fashion to say that the situation in Germany was so bad Bonus And The Future.

Bonus checks are going to thousands of Ohio veterans these days. Many of these checks are in substantial amounts. The sum total of the payments will be enormous. Coming, as they do, when prices are high and living difficult, they will ease-temporarily at least the problems of many a young householder. But in too many instances the checks will go and are going into channels which only add fuel to the fires of inflation.

"Easy money," the experts tell us, is one of the basic reasons for today's outrageously high prices. To many a veteran the Ohio bonus is easy money in capital letters! He plans to toss it in the places where it will give him the most fun. We have a great sympathy for this attitude. Soldiers, sailors and Marines, after years of the deprivations and hardships occasioned by military service, certainly are ripe for a good fling. But there are things they should remember before they act.

First, by spending his bonus check freely the veteran works hardships on others on all persons in low or middle income groups. He does damage, then, to thousands of his former buddies who are now heads of families. He works hardships, in most instances, on his own family and the families of his relatives. This, in addition to the fact that he himself probably will the day when a backlog of savings would be a most welcome cushion against the economic shocks which come to most of us. Our suggestion would be a substantial purchase of U.

S. Savings Bonds with at least the major portion of every bonus check. The bonds pay good interest, are as safe as any investment in the world, and can be turned into cash at any time a future need for cash arises. The man or woman who foregoes the very natural desire to use his bonus income for a "splurge" will be doing a double duty. He will be protecting his own future, and will contribute his bit to curb the forces of inflation forces which now are endangering the future of every American.

the platform of the Third party do not affect this situation. One is that the platform was framed by the Communists who dominated the Wallace movement and is about the most addled piece of idiocy ever presented by a political agency. It could only appeal to the dimwitted and gullible. Another is because Mr. Wallace emerged from his Philadelphia experience a bedraggled, discredited and absurd figure.

By his refusal to say whether or not he had written the imbecilic Guru letters he convinced everyone who read the record or witnessed his performance that he was, indeed, their author. It amounted to a public confession and justifies the horror which so many feel when they consider how close this furtive and silly man came to being President of the United States. A third reason is because it Is now generally agreed that Mr. Wallace will poll an insignificant uumber of votes In the coming election certainly not enough to affect the result. THUS THE uncomplicated choice for the vast bulk of our citizens is between the liberal Democratic and conseijvative Republican ticket ConvhTCing evidence that no alternative exists is provided by the way in which the so-called "Roosevelt Democrats," their labor leader allies of the CIO and all the professional "liberals" and "breast-beaters" who labored so prodigiously and so futilely to do Mr.

Truman out of the nomination now admit they are going to support him. Chagrined at having made asses of themselves at the convention, exceedingly bitter toward him personally and reluctant to see him stay in the White House, nevertheless they are slowly swinging into line behind him, because there is no place else to go. The Truman platform leaves them no excuse. It is "liberal" almost up to the Wallace line. Not once in the entire document does the word economy occur.

Nowhere is waste or extravagance mentioned. Even the remotest suggestion of retrenchment, reduction or saving, in order to render easier the vast expenditures abroad necessitated by the Marshall plan, is absent. In the Whole platform there is no hint that efficient governmental management might save a nickel. On the contrary, no "liberal" (except those who drew the Wallace platform) could go farther in demanding higher Federal spending in every direction social security, education, housing, health, veterans, public works, TVA's, school Readers' VIEWS Women Live Longer. No one seems to know exactly why, but American women live longer than their menfolk.

The U. S. Public Health Service recently announced that the life expectancy of women now is something over 70 years. Males, on the other hand, have a life expectancy of only 65 years. Several theories have been advanced for the differential, but no scientist is willing to give any definite or all-embracing reason.

It appears that the human male begins life under a slight handicap. The ratio of stillborn males is and has been considerably higher than that of females. Women are constitutionally tougher than men although they are the "frailer" sex. They combat disease better; have more endurance and a greater resistance to normal ailments. Some theorists insist that the fact that women, generally speaking, feel more economically secure, adds to their life span.

In most homes the man bears the brunt cf the battle for existence. He is the one who earns the living. Hundreds of little money worries the average family head keeps to himself. He plays the part of protector. He feels the everlasting responsibility of supporting his family and, in the great majority of cases, it is a source of constant concern.

Men are more likely to continue on the job in face of what appears to be minor ailments than are women, according to recent surveys. In this day of small families, the average woman can take time out for rest if she has a bad cold or a severe headache. Not so with the average man. Either he can't afford to lose the time, on account of the loss of income it entails, or he fears that absence might imperil his position. He keeps driving even when his doctor tells him he should be taking it easy.

So strong does the urge to work become that thousands of men continue "in harness" when no individual economic reason exists; when they know that such activity is dangerous to health. Such stubbornness certainly adds its trifle to the lower expectancy among the males. While no comparative figures are available for the life spans of women and men of 75 years ago, it would be interesting td see them. In those days before the advent of the small family, the washing machine, the electric sweeper, the commercial laundry and the bridge table the ladies, we suspect, looked forward to shorter The rate of death from childbirth was astonishingly high, for one thing. Women frequently fell victim often to diseases, such as tuberculosis, which now can be combated more successfully.

At any rate, a definite difference exists and may continue to exist. It is good to know, however, that with each passing decade the average life expectancy of male and female is advancing. Still man must Improve considerably before his average can reach the fabled "three score years and ten," established by historians of biblical days as the life expectancy of the humajmale. that something had to be done about it. Something did indeed have to be done about it, though under military occupation and with Germany divided, not very much that will last can be done.

It was certainly not necessary to jump out of the frying pan of German prostration into the fire of a European crisis. The alleged remedy a Western German state will not cure the disease of Western Germany: Our Germans will still have to subsidize in order to maintain even a low standard 'of life, and German productivity will not be enhanced by holding a series of German elections in which the Communists, the Nazis and the well meaning but feeble Christian Democrats and Social Democrats are plunged into a furious struggle. Whatever the results of all that unnecessary and premature political excitement, they will not be profitable or pleasant. The revival of German political agitation could well have been postponed, therefore, until Europe is sufficiently organized to readmit the Germans into the councils of Europe. To turn on the tap of German politics under present conditions, to excite the Germans before they can have real responsibility, while they are occupied, while they are subsidized, while they are divided, while they are the stakes of a worldwide struggle of the great powers, islet us say naive.

It will not be easy to repair the mistake. But somehow, that is what we shall have to do. and try to imagine our happiness. Now, ki respect to a certain Mr. S.

C. Lindeman of your city. As to his remarks about the Easterners "shooting off," there seems to be quite a trace of "Eastern blood" through his system, judging by his own "shooting off!" That wisecrack of his "planning a trip to New Tork and going to Paducah (or any other place but New Tork) forced by "business needs" ajiem I wonder what in the kind of business this man is in! Notice, I have omitted one of his words. And as a bit of advice to this Mr. Lindeman: The first thing to do whenever visiting any city, take note Mr.

Lindeman, I say any city, is to keep your hands in your pockets, and all other things easily obtained, including even your upper plate, securely fastened, glued if necessary! And above all, if you go to a city New Tork or otherwise, and get gypped it's best not to come home and brag about it! C. H. BOOK, Portsmouth, Ohio. Dowdy Or Not! TO THB BSITOB OF THE ENQUIRES. With reference to the article in Time calling Cincinnati "a dowdy city" and the comments made as a result, most of which extol the virtues of the Queen City, I agree with.

However, why not face it. Cincinnati, downtown, is a dowdy city. The appearance of Fountain Square, its buildings, as well as the north side of Fifth Street from Main to Broadway, is a public disgrace. But I don't suppose anything will be done about it. R.

B. Union Trust Bldg, Cincinnati. i TO THB EDITOR OF THE INQUIRER. Well, it is beginning to look like a Jack Benny-Fred Allen feud, only between cities. Isn't it strange how a few, very few words can start many, many people afeudin' 'n afightin'? Suppose an editor of a magazine does publish his views about your (or my) city? Remember, we still live in America.

And besides, what benefit will be derived by your (or my) trying to reciprocate in throwing mud back at his entire city, 99.9999 per cent of their population having had not one word to say about the whole "insult." I believe it more appropriate to direct all complaints to the guilty "knocker" instead of the city in which he dwells, etc. Let's each one of us put himself in the place of each New Yorker who reads sm of these letters of revenge, FORTY-NINERS This took place In the "Ink," where the Humboldt River petered out, and the trains, or individual wagons, were caught without water between the Carson and Truckee Rivers. Histories say as many as 2,000 wagons were stranded on the desert at one time during the rush of '49. Saguaros stand in lonely land Where, once engulfed by desert sand, A thousand dream were turned to streams Of water clear and cold. Pale yucca blooms on hidden tombs Of men unknown, who met strange dooms They stood appalled when wagons stalled, And none had thoughts of gold.

Far down the way the wreckage lay, The prairie schooner and the dray. The vanquished mules, the gear and tools Designed for auric gain Far back the track was strewn with wrack, The ox gone down for water's lack. And those that stood in hardihood Meandered, mad, insane. So was it then; so was it when In forty-nine gold-haunted men Stormed to the West in reckless quest Of wealth by creek and hill. And now the sand of lonely land Is trackless where saguaros stand, And not a thing remains to bring A thought of Sutter's Mill.

VAUIN ARNOLD, in the Kansas itr Star. "Thousands of Hungarian peasants believe that to be sat upon by a bear will cure rheumatism." Newspaper filler. Our research department informs us that to be sat upon by an elephant will cure all known and several unknown diseases. of The The Voice ENQUIRER: Coping with IIP i Mm INQUIRER MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES Dally, one year 9.00 Sunday only, one year 7.8ft BY MAIL OUTSIDE OF CARRIER DBt LIVERY DISTRICTS (Rural Routes exceptedi: IN ZONES 1. 2.

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OK. The $64 Question. TO THH EDITOR OF THB ENQUIRER. The $64 question is: Which comes first in Importance, the home or the school? We all realize the great Importance of both. The 63 families who were served with eviction notices also realize the importance of enlarging the South Avondale School.

But low-cost housing is not adequate, and "No Children Wanted" is a frequency. F. TALIAFERRO, 612 Bryant St Cincinnati the Kussians is like surviving an Ohio summer. If it's not the heat or humidity, it's the hay fever Some of the current women's swim suits have very closely approached the irreducible minimum. A report comes to hand of a girl who outgrew her swim suit by gaining four ounces.

"Boys can't keep their minds on any college subject when scantily dressed girls are present," asserts a college professor. True, no doubt, with the exception, of course, of anatomy..