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MoiiiIjiv, I'ajZ 4 THE EBBING TIDE By Carlisle Innocent Bystander OLLIE M. JAMES I THE ENQUIRER OFFICES, 617 VINE STREET, CINCINNATI 1. OHIO. PHONE PARKWAY 270C DECLARATION OF FAITH BY THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER APRIL iq. 18-11: "If tct fail, that failure shall not arise from a want of ttnt't adherence to principle or attrn tm ani futility to the Itunt we aiume." THE ENQUIRER'S PI A TOR0 i CINCINNATI: What, No Pansy-Colored Pants? WELL, Sill, ONE OF OUR earliest recolU-ctions in newspaper work is a dispatch wherein some official of the International Association of Clothing Designers was bumping his gums about how during the coining year men were going to wear suits of all colors of the rainbow, including gaily colored tuxedoes.

It used to be always tho Concentration on the task of building needed homes for veterans especially. Continued Development of Park and Bou'cvard Plans. Lessening the Smoke Nuisance. Advancement of Cincinnati's Prestige as a National Art Center. Extension of Boulevard Lighting Plan.

The Perpetuation of Good Government. Building of a system of sewage dixposal aud use of all means to purify the Ohio, the Miamis and other streams in the Cincinnati area. Completion and Utilization of Rapid Transit System. Undelayed Completion of Flood Protection. Extension of Airport Facilities.

VA.T I rA ji 3 it TLQgP op SrE 4 jAouetf Ao V--. ffij will draw down the windowshades we will tell you what it said. It said sports clothes are going to be canary yellow, emerald green, red and brilliant blue, and whatever co' ts are left will be used in Tuxedos. Business Buits, it said, will be "brilliantly striped with blue, led and orchid." Of course any year now that prediction may come true. If they just btay with it long enough, there ain't any telling what men will start wearing.

But even allowing for some of the sports clothes we have seen recently, we think It will be several years yet before you'll see any costumes like the ones they predict anywhere except at a race track or within 200 feet of a handbook. We can remember during the war when the nun's clothing experts predicted men would get so used to carrying things in the Army that they would start carrying handbags Ike wome when they got back in civvies. We haven't seen one yet, but then this may be a backward community, hope. same guy we know his name as well as we know yours, but we Just can't recall It at the moment. Ami we worried about him.

because W'e figured after he Issued his prediction each year, he must have had himself about eight suits niaJe, red, green, yellow, lavender, pink, purple, and so forth, and put tlu ni on and walked up and down Uie streets hoping to get his predicted style started. Well, we ain't heard from him in several years now, and to bo perfectly frank about it we've worried a good deal about him. We're jutt afraid some hunter mistook him for a derned bird of paradise anil sort of shot him which would have been a terrible thing considering how scarce new suits and shotgun shells are. Anyhow, whether old whoosls is still around or not, his spirit is carrying on. We have just had the annual dispatch from the International Association of Clothing Designers predicting how colorful men's clothes are gonna be.

If you way for anyone to know what farm products would appear at next harvest in over-supply; what products would be in under-supply. Economists could estimate probable consumption, but estimates on farm production were out of the question. They could only be guessed at. But today, under the acreage allotment system, officials can determine within reasonable limits wlnr. supplies will be and what they should be.

As this system is developed and improved, ruinous surpluses and price-boosting may disappear completely. This in another of the "good things" which mu.st be preserved. We do not infer that the agricultural program now is perfect. Few things are. But fundamentally it is sound.

Its principles have been tried during difficult times and they held up amazingly well. Congress can take them as they are, and worn for their continued improvement. Such a plan wiUbcnefit agricullure, business au.t the nation. "The spirit ol unrest in this country is caused hf sunspots," declares an astrono-nier. We'd rather blame it on the Government.

We can't get any fun out of cussing sunspots. Walter LIPPMANN Copftifht. htbunt, Uc. Time Out For Marshall. Copyright, N.

Y. Tribune, Inc. INSTEAD OF ARGUING with Mr. Gromyko about who Is delaying disarmament, It would be better, it seems to me, if the President instructed our delegates to ask that the whole discussion be adjourned until General Marshall has had an opportunity to take charge of it No time will be lost, for no real progress can be made until the American rceaaers 'if position has been reconsidered, VIEWS Only ti tter including name, ami address of the writer will be coined thin column, However, signatures ii ill lie withheld upon specific ftiucvf. Lvlteis thould be brief.

could be determined by the agreements we aro able to make with the Russians. We are foi getting that Germany will su.ely revive as a great power in Europe, and that if a European system is not reconstituted around Germany before that happens, the terms we impose on Germany now will not be worth the paper they are written on. It would be far better to postpone the Moscow meeting than to enter it as unprepared as we are now. Whether a pestponement is necessary is for General Marshall to determine. But he should given the chance to make the decision, and not be marie to feel that he must rush off to Moscow and spend a few months arguing with M.

Molotov before he has had time to assume control our foreign policy as a whole. And to organize it in Washington. DAILY THOUGHT: The shortest way to ruin a country is to give power to demagogues. Diony-sius of Hnlicnrnnssus, 20 B.C. No Simple Matter.

In many respects, the President's budget message is the most important of the three major documents he hits provided this last week for the information of Congress. Certainly it puis forward the most controversial of the several questions which might mar the relations of Capitol Hill and White House with the possible exception of reciprocal tariff pacts. In general, the President stands for continued heavy taxation and a modest ($5,000,000,000) reduction in Federal ex penditures. If the cost of government can be whittled down to something less tluiii the proposed, Mr. Truman would prefer to have taxes maintained tr.

existing levels and the surplus used entirely for debt retirement. The attitude of most Republican leaders In Congress la that the cost of government, should be Blashed to $30,000,000,000 or at most $33,000,000,000, and personal income taxes by 20 per cent without taking tluj budget out of balance. There are two distinct questions nt issue here. How much can we cut the total expenditure of the government without impairing essential services, without endangering the national safety, and without weakening the hand of the State Department in dealing with the Soviet Union? That is not an easy question to answer. The other primary question also is easy to state but hard to answer.

If the cost of government is reduced, should taxes bo rut correspondingly? Or should we begin in the coming fiscal year to retire the national debt? These are the basic problems. If (axes lire to be reduced, there emerges a secondary question: Should we reduce income taxes "across the board," which is chiefly tax relief for the middle and upper incomu groups? Or should we restore the exemption structure of prewar years, which chiefly tax relief for those of small income? Or should we combine the two methods? These are none of the matters to be answered offhand. Unquestionably, the tax burden is a fearful one today. Barring an economic recession, and assuming the cn1 of wartime luxury taxes in July but no other tax cuts, the Federal revenue in 191S ought to be about $37,700,000,000. That is an enormous slice of our total nation.il income, which we can estimate roughly ar.

$150,000,000,000. When Federal taxes take 25 per cent of the nation's income, the drain on our system of free enterprise Is grave, and the reduction of our standard if living is severe. Yet the national defense cannot be placed in jeopardy, nor as a practical matter can veterans' benefits be reduced, sava as veterans stop going to college and en.t their job training. These two items alone represent a bit over half the budget. Debt service, an irreducible item, adds 13 per cent.

Thus about 61 per cent of the proposed schedule of expenditure must stand unless trimming in the armed forces appropriations is done with extreme care. On the whole, it looks as though GOP leaders spoke too soon, and too optimistically, when they launched their drive for radical tax reduction. We all want it. But we must meet essential demands in a period of grave world tension. And if expenditure can be cut safely, the resulting surplus ought to be used for debt retirement, not for tax cuts.

It is not the pleasant course to take. But it is the wise course. A failure is a person who never works unless he feels like doing so. Modern City Highways. Cincinnatians who shy away from the modest, highway improvement program being set up for this year by City Council would do well to look at highway developments in other cities.

Fort Wayne, has completed plans for a super-highway program, to funnel the traffic from five main highways entering tho city into one broad expressway leading directly into the heart of the city. For a town no larger than Fort Wayne, that is an Impressive project. Dallas, is just letting the first contracts for its new $10,000,000 Central Boulevard expressway. This six-lane traffic artery will be flanked by two-lane service streets on either side. It is one of basic features of a master plan for which Dallas voters have approved $65,000,000 in bonds.

Providence, R. I lias approved construction of an expressway system, to be made up of four cross-town arteries nnd two concentric super-highway belts which will encircle the city. These are random examples of what American cities are doing. The trend is toward development of a few non-stop nr-terial routes on which motorists can move at modern speeds and without any stops for traffic lights. There also is a trend toward fewer and broader thoroughfares in residential areas, so that neighborhood with their own schools, stores and other facilities can be developed as units, without being cut up by high-speed traffic routes.

Cincinnati's burgeoning master plan embodies these nnd other up-to-date features. We are not lagging behind in thy task of planning. But we are behind tic procession in actual modernization of our highway system. Many cities already arc at the stage of letting contracts for expressways and other modern installation which in our case have not yet come off the drafting tables. It would seem that to a considerable extent the Holy Land is populated with holy terrors.

clarified and unified. For the new Secretary of State will hardly wish to go on with three or four distinct and separate American policies on armaments, each formulated and administered by a separate group of officials. He is entitled to a pause during which our position can be reviewed as a whole, and a coherent policy laid down. For the present situation is, to say the least, bewildering. On atomic weapons we hnve told the world that we shall never agree to any plan except the plan we have proposed.

But at the same time we are in a tremendous hurry to have our plan adopted. ONE DAY we say that we are offering to give up our most precious monopoly, nnd the next clay we are impatient because the KusSians seem to be in no hurry to let us give up our monopoly. If it is in fact true, as our best experts think it Is, that no other nation can soon duplicate our plants for the manufacture of atomic weapons, then why, having made our offer, do we not relax a bit? Furthermore, Just what American Interest is served by insisting upon atomic disarmament before there is any other kind of disarmament? If atomic weapons are decisive, why are we insisting that we give up our own decisive weapon first? For lack of any overall consideration of our policy, we have drifted into a position which takes no account of our interests. In the world's balance of power the ultimate factors are, on the one hand, the immense reserves of the Russian Infantry capable of pressing upon the land frontiers of Europe and Asia, and on the other hand the technological superiority of the United States. Yet in our disarmament policy we are njt only agreeing to the idea, but -nsisting upon it, or reducing our technological superiority before we find ways of controlling the Russian infantry.

We alone have the atomic bomb. Yet it is we who insist that disarmament must begin with the atomic bomb. We have preeminent sit pcrlorlty in the big machines of war. We say we want to disarm them as soon as we have succeeded in disarming our atomic power. In return all we seem to ask- of the Russians Is that they should demobilize some of their infantry divisions.

THIS IS NOT the only place where it would be a good thing to have a pause with time out to think and for General Marshall to reconsider tho elements of policy. We are drifting toward the Moscow conference 'without any general plan which relates of Germany and Austria to a European We have no understanding with the countries that nust live next to Germany, and we are acting as if the long future of Germany TWENTY YEARS AGO IN CINCINNATI (JANUARY 13, 1927) Miller Outcalt, 72. prominent member of the Cincinnati bar, former Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and previously Hamilton County Prosecuting Attorney with William Howard Taft as his first assistant, died at his home on Marion Avenue, Avondale. Charles D. Oosterlein, machine tool manufacturer, was elected President of the Foreign Trade Association of the Chamber of Commerce.

H. J. Moebus, Vice President, and Ralph Pappen-heimer, Treasurer, were reelected. Malcolm M. Stewart was chosen Secretary and Robert S.

Alter, E. A. Emerson, L. R. Scholl and H.

L. Hathaway were elected to ths Executive Committee. William DeHart Hubbard, internationally known Negro athlete, bore the distinction of leading all contestants in the Civil Service examination for positions (except musical director) under the Public Recreation Commission. He attained an average of 90.05 per cent for the position of Negro recreation director, which paid $2,000 a year. Three other applicants competed for this position but all failed to attain the required average.

Hubbard was the winner of a scholarship in the University of Michigan offered by The Enquirer and was nn honor graduate of that institution. He held the world's record for the running broad jump, having won the honor at the 1921 Olympic Games at Paris. That Word "Communist." lo thk iciHiuK or Tim KMjnnrn. It has been nn interesting development to watch the growth of the efforts to label nil who disagree with conservative-reactionary thinking as "Communists." This begun some years back as a trial term, witching to see If It could bo made to stick and used only by the loader men of that group. Seeing that the temi could be used with impunity Hnd the refuting of the connection received little recognition, the use became more widespread.

Its political value was important and the Republican party and its supporting ncwspapei used It with effect. The last election gave It the widest nnd most successful application. This lias now produced an amusing situation to those who seriously want to deal with Communism in this country If and where it presents Itself. First the reckless use of the term "Communist" makes sterile the thinking, makes for lazy thinking (If the use Is successful) as constructive thinking Is not necessary. So men are elected to Important offices with nothing else to any.

Sen. John llricker Is an excellent example of this result. By all reports, his shouting of "Communist" nnd threntening of "investigations" at the Gridiron banquet deflated him to his size, before he had taken his Senate seat. If the nation could have listened In on bis campaign speeches In Ohio Inst fall the denouement would not have been a surprise. But the nation must listen to thnt for the next six years.

The Enquirer gave Mr. Brlcker enthusiastic support. Second In the results of the use of the word "Communist" to all opponen's Is like the first in a wider application. The pnrty so using it clings to It, but thnt for results and when confronted with power nnd work to do hns neither program nor will to work. The Republican party hns done this before ninny times In Its history.

Mr. Arthur Krock points this out in his brilliant analysis, "Again the Republican Fnce An Acid Test," In (ho New York Times Magazine of January 5. The latest and yon would think the most foreboding was the use of "prohibition" in the election of Mr. Hoover in 192S. The cynical remark was made "that there was one more election In prohibition" nnd It worked.

It has been too long ago to remember the barren results In wrestling with the problems that followed. Third comes the consequence to the thinking of editors of newspapers, such ns The Enquirer. You cannot think clearly when Communism is the subject. I noted your Interviews of six men by your Roving Reporter on the topic of Communism in labor unions nnd watched for your reaction. You arose to the occasion.

The score was one to five that Communism was a force in labor unions. You stressed thnt, but you did not point out that only three of your men interviewed could have belonged to a union, according to their recorded PORTRAITS HY METCALFE. DIWFKTIMK ft hen dinnertime, if drawing near Our hungry youngiters look To tee uhat appetizing diih Their mother plant to cook And usually I follow them To tee, if I ran tell ir iit kind of victualt there will he To please, my taste and smell Our risit to the kitchen it The hriefett tort of tay llecause the runt out and tart That ice ore in her way And so I read the paper or I walk around the lawn While in their pUiyful, merry mood The children carry on But when their mother calls to us To gather all around The hungry young-tlert and their dad Arm nowhere to he found, of whom never see an electric train at any other time of the year? Boys are human and It is wonderful to see how they respond to a little courtesy If given a chance. Some years ago I was warned to look out for the worst boy in town. He really was a humding or something equally misunder-atandable.

Halloween was only a few days away and many of the town folks were Jittery. Somehow I managed to have a few chats with this supposedly preordained imp. We talked of Halloween and some of the things my own boys had done, things some of the school children did nnd a few astounding episodes of my own, and such a sweet littlt girl, according to my best auntie. Perhaps all this was silly, but it worked. He opened up like a friendly bock and told me what he was going to do and just who In town was going to catch it and why.

Why? He was merely a sensitive lad, quite tall for his years, and his growing sense of well-being had been hurt. His manly-pride suffered and the only way to ease the ache was to get even on Halloween. And he did. Those who hurt him found garbage at their front door the rancor in his soul dumped right at their feet. We were not bothered a little friendliness and understanding did the trick.

He is a young man now and several months ago returned from active service overseas, the scars of victory on his neck a victory for just toleration and the right- of all youngsters to watch a toy electric train whether they can own one or not and all this without some high-sounding crab, male or female, petty or powerful, setting their earg down. Lady, where are your manners? It would have been so much lovalier if you had pushed the boys toward the window. They would have given you a big grin and we all could have laughed. GRACE SIMMONS MILLER, 314 S. Main Mlddletown, Ohio.

Forum. io tbs sniTOB tot iicqrnvei. It was interesting, and amusing, to learn from today's (January 9) Enquirer that an International forum would be held in Cleveland this week, nnd that Clare Booth Luce, Henry Luce, Arthur H. Van-denberg, Francis Cardinal Spell-man, Alclde de Gasperi and Dr. V.

K. Wellington Koo would be the principal speakers. The "forum," it was reported, was to be under the sponsorship of the Council on World Affairs and Time Magazine. Ever since I can recall, a "forum" has indicated a program of speakers of several (considerably different) persuasions. This, evidently, Is to be a new kind of "forum," since there can only bs unanimity of opinion from the speakers listed.

These speakers, from their open records, are not interested In the people, but in tha preservation of a system-monopoly capitalism, or, should I say? cartel capitalism. The sum total of such a "forum" can only mean great waves of reactionary propaganda emanating from Its platform. LEWIS BOOTH, Dayton, Ohio. occupations. And one of these gave the unions a clean bill of health.

The percentage has fallen somewhat, has it not. Would not those in a union be qualified to know if their leaders were Communists? How would those outside of a union know with authority whether there were Communists In the union positions of leadership? I do not belong to a union and would not be in a position to give an answer to such a question. I do not even know a Communist In any position. Did you so rig your deductions to suit yovir bias? Do not look now. but the blind spot in your eye Is showing.

Another interesting feature to this question Is just lately appearing. It Is the attempt by some writers to use the same tar brush with tha word "liberal" attached. That way the brush can be used in a wider application and with really devastating strokes. It winds up being humorous when the same writers slyly intimate that Mr. Taft is at heart a "liberal." Why not come all the way and make him a "Communist?" See where intellectual dlshoneesty leads you? Now as to the real threat of Communism.

Dr. Heckert of Oxford, Ohio, gave a most enlightening answer to this In the same Issue of The Enquirer of January 7 In his letter printed in your Readers' Views. To this I most heartily subscribe. Editorial Writer Walter IxK'kn in his "Trend of the in the Dayton Daily News of January 9 pursued the suhject a little further. He points out that the threat of Communism exists in only the underprivileged classes, and that by social benefits to them we effectively deal with the threat.

He states that the raising of the cost of living by the abolition of OPA, accomplished almost single-handed by Senator Taft, did more to create Communists than any other single act. Do you suppose thnt Mr. Taft foresaw that result? Perhaps he was wishing to raise an issue to which to do battle. By this letter I may now be labeled a "Communist." I must refute the charge and plead to being a loyal American. But please allow me to be a liberal.

I take pride in thnt label and would resent your depriving me of this pride. W. EIKENBERRY, Camden, Ohio. "Victory For Toleration." to tii kditoh or tu MQrim. The reply to your editorial "In Schools, Too," didn't "hit me between the eyes." It struck my funny bone Instead and after a good hearty laugh I said to myself, "That woman surely stuck out her chin." So here goes: Being the mother of two young men luckily home from the service, nnd not too long ago a couple of impulsive fun-loving youngsters of 12 and 13, I feel like a bit of authority on why boys did then, do now and shall do henceforth and forevermore.

Teaching school helped in this understanding, too. In the first place, manners begin at home nnd generally In the house, and for that matter they could be exorcised even In a stable. Has no one ever heard of "contented cows" that stay put and don't go around shoving little boys away from Christmas windows? And another thing, it Is especially good to remember at this time of year that Christ himself was born in a stable. The manner seems to be a rather humble one. Even Emily I'ost doesn't say anything about that.

Please pardon my own poor man-nets when I tell you that I wish those boys had replied something like this, "Thanks madam, you ought to know," (This in answer to her own words, "Where are your manners, were you raised in a And hers Is another thought. Were those trains put in the windows to entertain a nlc tasty lady with a testy tongua or for the amusement of younjstsrs som FIFTY YEARS AGO (JANUARY 13, J897) The people of Cincinnati, through their agent, the Board of Administration, were taking good care of their poor. During the last six weeks the City Hall branch of tho City Infirmary had distributed 500 tons of coal to the needy, the largest amount ever given out dur ing a like period in former years. The supply being nearly exhausted, August Herrmann, President of the board, ordered the purchase of 200 additional tons, or more as the demands of the poor required. The first fatality attending the erection of the new St.

Mary Cathedral on Madison Avenue near 12th Street, Covington, occurred on this date when John B. Lyons, a rigger in the employ of Charles McDonnld, contractor, was struck by'a swinging boom while on a scaffold and fell 65 feet to his death. LUKE McLUKE Said 30 'tars Ago injht Enquirer More Airport Funds. The new formula for Federal grants-in-aid for municipal airport construction should come as a boon to Cincinnati in ifs efforts to work out an arrangement for financing construction of the proposed field at Blue Ash. It appears that several hundred thousand dollars in additional revenue may be made available under the new ruling.

While this still will leave the city, hard pressed for operating appropriation with problems to be solved, the problems would not be nearly as difficult as they formerly were. It is wise and sound for the Federal Government to assist in any airport program, providing, of course, that it is a feasible program and one which fits into the national plan for development of air facilities. A municipal airport, such as that planned for Cincinnati, has more than local advantages. Such installations are advantageous to the entire country. As was pointed out recently in an Enquirer editorial, aviation is destined to play an Increasingly important role in future world progress.

Nations keeping abreast of the times must keep abreast of aviation development. This is particularly true of the United States, with intricate international commitments, obligations and opportunities. Construction of ports, incentives to private enterprise to cxpani routes and improve facilities generally these and many other matters must be advanced sharply if we are to maintain the position we now hold as a leader in world aviation. Additional grants-in-aid for new fields certainly are in line with such a program, Cincinnati holds a commanding position in America's network of air lines. From a standpoint of national defense, our geographical location is most importanr.

Therefore, a modern air terminal, located here, holds great possibilities. It would aid Cincinnati economically, to be sure. It also would aid the United States and from several approaches. Federal monies spent would be well utilized. Hold The Good Things.

As the new Republican Congress swingj into high gear, demands will come for a complete alteration of the policies of government. Citing last November's figures, many a politician will declare that tha people have demanded complete and radical change. To some extent this is true, but it is not completely true. Certain progress has been made in the last 20 years. Those gains must be preserved.

Congress is duty-bound to discard some processes, but it is obligated also to maintain albeit to improve the good things which hav been incorporated into our government. The situation of American agriculture today is definitely better than it was in 1930. That is not true in monetary matters alone. Basic operations methods have been bettered. The benefits will reflect not on agriculture alone, but in every phase of our economy.

The new Congress must see to it that these gains are protected. For the first time we have in the United States a program for preserving and restoring that vital agricultural resource, the soil. For generations, while Americans Btili were pioneers, we wasted our soils without Ihyme or reason. We had plenty in those days! But most agriculturists now know that soil erosion and lack of soil management can ruin our farms, just as poor management and waste can ruin any other business. Soil conservation must be continued as a part of the agricultural program of the nation.

It is one of the good things handed down by previous Congresses. Another is the machinery for crop distribution. Twenty years ago there was The Voice of The WE LIKE TO JOSH the women about their vanity. But when a man wants to see his Ideal of masculine perfection he looks into a mirror. ADVICE.

Don't let success make you a prig, For if you do, you're lure to lose; And no man ever got to big Some other couldn't fill his shoes, Every time we hear a man bragging that he is self-made, we wonder what would have- happened to him if it hadn't been for the woman's auxiliary. Once In a while you will run into a man who is so hopeless that you would libel the whole family if you called him an ass. The, difference between the four-legocd mule and the tno-lcuycd mule is that the tico-lcngcd mule uses his mouth when he thinks he has a kick coming. (CopyHttit, th Cincinnati Enquirer) 4 wvA ENQUIRER: If Senator Ball's plan of strike control is adopted, it'll ENQU'EER MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES Ially, one year yj.oo Bun.tny only, oni year 7 ou BY MAIL OilTKlnifi OF CARRIER 1K-LIVKRV DISTRICTS (Hural Rnmn m. reptftl) IN KuNEri 1, 1, 3 and BEYOND: Daily only, on year mmmi Sunday only, oni year 7 80 Th Associated Prcst ft exclusirely entitled to the use for publication of ait ricicji ilispntches credited to it or not otherwi-ie eredited tn this paper, and aln the local iteics published herein.

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