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1 BPiiiW THE ENQUIRER FRANCIS L. DALi: President and Publisher BRADY BLACK Editor and Vice President THE ENQUIRER'S DECLARATION OF FAITH, APRIL 10, 1S41 'If tee fail, that failure shall not arise from a want of strict adherence to principle or attention and fidelity to the trust we assume." Wednesday, July 12, 1972 I I The Big Nigh I DMLY TllOl CUT hhiii uith a urd itrikes deeper i' ith a nri. THE DEMOCRATIC National Convention buckles down tonight to its principal order of business the nomination of the Democratic Party's standard-bearer in the 1972 campaign. the year began, the overwhelming favorite for the party's presidential nomination was Sen. Edmund S.

Muskie "of Maine. Senator Muskie had deported himself well as the party's vice-presidential nominee in 1968, and he had conducted a quiet, seemingly effective campaign to expose himself and his views to party leaders from coast to coast. As matters turned out, however, Senator Muskie ran poorly in the initial primaries of the 1972 political season; in campaign contributions all but dried up, and he chose, of necessity, not to contest the primaries that remained and to hold himself in readiness should the convention see the wisdom of a compromise nominee. As the Muskie fortunes faltered, Sen. Hubert II.

Humphrey came briefly to the fore as the front-runner. Ho remained perhaps the most experienced, best known and most warmly regarded of the Democratic Party's presidential aspirants. But his assessment of his prospects yesterday apparently left him no alternative to withdrawing in the characteristic hope of averting a potcn- 'MeGorern's Up! I here Goes A Long One! It's Going Going Headers9 Views Fountain Square's Future remained committed ever since. Mr. Truman was being challenged in 194S by those who counseled major concessions to the Soviet Union in the interests of reducing world tensions.

He was challenged also by those who felt that the time had come to nationalize significant sectors of the American economy. The principal spokesman for that minority view was former Vice President Henry A. Wallace, who bolted the Democratic Party in 1948 and formed his own short-lived Progressive Party. The party's majority proceeded to maintain the nation's military superiority, to build the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and a succession of other regional compacts as a means of containing communism. Senator McGovern, ironically, was a delegate to the Wallace party convention in 1948, and although he subsequently dissociated himself from the Progressive movement when he recognized the extent of Communist domination of the Wallace campaign, he has since suggested that Mr.

Wallace was, in some respects, on the correct path. A McGovern nomination tonight, consequently, becomes a long step toward saying that the Democratic Party erred in 1918 and that it ha3 now chosen to rectify its error. In making such a fateful choice, the Democratic Party's leadership will be putting itself at odds with a substantial majority of its own rank and file. And Senator McGovern, as he finds himself standing in the winner's circle tonight, will face an awesome task of rebuilding a coalition akin to the one to which the party has owed its electoral majorities for the past third of a century. It would be imprudent for anyone to presuppose his failure.

For he ha3 shown himself to be a resourceful, energetic campaigner who has parlayed 25 of the popular vote into the inevitability of a first-ballot triumph. As that prospect moves toward reality tonight, the Democrats will be a party without a past. beyond, over and beside many existing peripheral buildings. Thus, an unplanned building composition now offers a view of many depths. Why is a variegated multifaceted view important? Because the human mind demands a visual release extensity.

When a constructed physical environment the position of a building is such that it retards or diminishes extensity, the end result is monotony, boredom, lowered productivity and reduced creativity. Aside from the issue of creativity, a simplistic visual experience can produce an increase in human aggressivity. This attitude may be exhibited when an individual is daily subjected to a severely restricted view. What one must be concerned about is that misdirected aggressivity may lead to crime. Expressed in another manner, physical overcrowding (high-rise, high-density developments) contribute to increased aggressivity, which in turn may support an increased propensity for crime.

HOWARD A. DAVIS, 3501 Section Rd. Doing: Business THE THREE-YEAR agreement by the Soviet Union for purchase of $750 million in American grains confirms the intention of both Moscow and Washington to broaden and increase Soviet-American trade. It also confirms earlier reports of a very poor harvest of winter wheat in the Soviet Union. The snow cover was insufficient to protect the crop from the severe cold of the Russian winter.

The sales are, moreover, of no small value to U. S. farmers. The deal gives new evidence as well of a change of great potential significance in the Soviet Union. like earlier Soviet purchases from Canada, the new Soviet-American agreement indicates the Soviet leaders are no longer willing to impose the cruel discipline of Stalin's days.

It could also be that the Soviet peoples arc unwilling to accept the privations of other times and are becoming more effective in making their will known. For all that, this development in Soviet-American trade is of no greater importance than the deal, little noticed here, between the Soviet Union and West German industry a few days earlier. The Russians have bought a ISO-million natural-gas pipeline in exchange for shipments of gas for 20 years through the line into the West German state of Bavaria. True, the West Germans a re creating a dependence for themselves on a politically unreliable source of supply of a basic fuel. On the other hand, the Russians, long-time buyers of German and Swedish steel pipelines, have committed themselves to relying on Western suppliers for a product equally vital to their economic development.

A few years ago the idea of the tially crippling battle for the presidential nomination. Thus, the inevitable choice tonight is Sen. George S. McGovern his prospects enormously enhanced by Monday night's credentials battle. From the moment the first delegates began arriving in Miami Beach, powerful elements in the Democratic Party have been struggling furiously to forestall a McGovern nomination.

But the inability of the anti-McGov-ern forces to come forward with a single alternative candidate has left the South Dakotan a clear path to victory tonight. In a sense, a McGovern nomination will serve to unravel a quarter of a century of Democratic Party achievement. In 1948, with Harry Truman's nomination for a full term in the White House, the nation's Democrats surveyed the crossroads at which they stood and chose a course to which both parties, with only minimal modifications, have Willi Moscow Soviet Union's gradually evolving economically and socially toward the Western system had a moment of popularity. It doesn't seem to be an immediately likely development. On tho other hand, neither is a contrasting fear that the Soviet Union is capable of building a modern economy entirely by itself realistic.

Autarky is just not to be. The American and West German deals with the Soviet Union in recent days hint at an interdependence that will not be to the taste of some, either in the United States or the Soviet Union, but which could, as President Nixon hopes! dissipate the East-West enmity of the Cold War vears. Well AFTER 36 YEARS in uniform, Gen. William C. Westmoreland, former commander of U.

S. forces in Vietnam, has retired as the Army's chief of staff. He will be missed. As the man responsible for the military conduct of the divisive Vietnam War, General Westmoreland was the object of much controversy, in marked contrast to the adulation accorded to other American military leaders in other, more popular wars MacArthur, Eisenhower, Patton, Pershing, Bradley. Yet General Westmoreland, despite the divisions at home and the political restrictions on his command in Indochina, embodied the same dedication to the Army's cherished concept of "Duty, Honor, Country" as did the nation's other war heroes.

Upon his return from Vietnam, he took on perhaps an even greater challenge the administration of the Army's transition from a wartime to a peacetime cess of $200,000 in 1970 who paid zero taxes? HtgTi indignation set in every time Senator McGovern mentioned the matter. What he did rot mention is that there were exactly 10f such cases, and that a study of them reveals that the overwhelming majority either ia) paid taxes to foreign countries receiving the usual tax credit; or b) paid state taxes, or it:) had deductions sanctioned by law. senator McGovern also did not mention that there are in fact 15,000 American citizens who reported incomes in excess of $200,000 who did pay income taxes at an effective tax rate of 4V. NOR DOES SENATOR McGovern stress the use of loopholes to people who are not necessarily rich. For instance, the Joint return permitted husband and wife, in the absence of which loophole the government would realize $6 billion to $10 billion in additional revenue.

The new tax law of lflfip. regularly disparaged as a rich man's tax law, deserves to be criticized for any number of reasons, all of thm. however, more complicated than those Senator McGovern comes up with. That tax law reduced the rate of Income taxation by R2rh for those earning $3000 or less; by for those earning TO THE EDITOR: The essence of a successful public living room, such as Fountain Square, is one part unimpeded exposure to the natural elements, one part softening of Letters submitted for publication should he addressed to Readers' Views, Cincinnati Enquirer, 617 Vine Cincinnati 45201. For the sake of public interest, good taste and fairness to the greatest number, the editors reserve the right to condense or reject any letter and to limit the appearance of each writer to once in 30 days.

the visual posture by the natural elements and one part spatial extensity. When ajjy one of these elements is diminished, to any extent, the enrichment and refreshment of a human spirit is correspondingly diminished. In short, society, the public at large, is the loser when any developer exercises his free will to construct a building whose form destroys the fragile amenities which enrich the fabric of human existence. These amenities cannot be assigned a dollar value any more than man can affix a cost to life itself. Values which are equally hard to assess in terms of dollars and cents are those of a psychological nature.

To exemplify the quandary of the psychological, examine this question: Is a multifaceted visual experience more conducive to creativity than a simplistic one? Multifaceted, in this instance, is in reference to a view which contains many planes, complex shapes and numerous levels, all of which are irregularly composed. Views of this complexity might be termed an abstract composition. A simplistic visual experience is defined as one composed of a few planes and simple shapes which are collectively arranged in a uniform manner. The physical embodiment of a multifaceted view can now be experienced by the pedestrian when he looks south from Fountain Square. In this specific view, the foreground buildings on Fifth Street permit a view of the background buildings on Fourth Street.

Psychologically, a simplistic view would emerge with the construction of any high-rise office tower along the south side of Fountain Square. Any high-rise structure, at this location, would visually block the pedestrian's view of the Fourth Street buildings while displacing some of the Fifth Street buildings. The resulting view would be that of a simple megalith. No less important than the pedestrian's psychological overview is the office workers' aerial view. At present, most offices which surround the square are afforded unplanned visual relief.

That is, the Fountain Square office workers can now see Loopholes IT IS QUITE LITERALLY that simple: Should Congress, or should it not, encourage married couples, home owners, the sick, the economically venturesome? Candidate McGovern will in due course need to face up to the consequences of his rhetoric. When he does so, I for one, wish that he might say something truly radical. Namely that it is not the proper business of government to attempt to manipulate human economic behavior by a tissue of built-in biases in the tax law. The trouble with (he idea of making justice via tax laws Is that one never really knows what it is that one is accomplishing; who it is that one is hurting. PROF.

MILTON FRIEDMAN has over and over again demonstrated that efforts by the government to give the little man a break by this or the other welfare subsidy end by hurting him. A true break with economic interventionism would see McGovern coming out against rinky-dink tax laws, against all deductions (except obviously justified deductions), in favor of the elimination of the progressive feature of the income tax and in favor of a maximum tax rate of 'Joy Without Alloy-Though I was a voice student many years ago (Mme. Schumann-Heink had been the teacher of my teacher), I do not claim any critical acumen of the vocal art. So I must take your critic's word that Gabriella Tucci was guilty of all the faults attributed to her in the review (July 3) of the "Salute to Verdi" concert. Despite the fact that my husband (who holds a choirmaster's degree) and our two companions (all four of us opera buffs for over 40 years) found her voice vibrant and thrilling.

Her "quaking and practically nonexistent phrasing" may have offended a musicologist: it was apparent to none of us. And I take umbrage that Ms. Tucci's superb stage presence should be described as "gloomy." All four singers were slightly constrained at first, but warmed to the wildly contagious enthusiasm of the audience. Our quartet remarked several times during the concert that Ms. Tucci's gracious dignity gave additional charm to her rich voice.

The entire concert was a joy without alloy conductor, orchestra, chorus, soloists and that magnificent old lady, Music Hall herself, combined to produce' a most memorable performance. MRS. FREDERICK O'NAN, 3890 Isabella Avenue. ''Three Cheers? I propose three cheers and a Medal of Honor for chess player Bobby Fischer. Through him the United States has once again outdone the Russians.

His pregame antics have proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that when it comes to boorishness the Muscovites have to ride in the back seat. EDWIN KLINE, 7710 Montgomery Rd. on- editorial of June 30 Learns a Useful is one of the finest statements I have seen on The Enquirer editorial page. You gave wise counsel in pointing out that there is more to life than the tax duplicate. Our community has much potential if it takes to heart the meaning of your statement: It is easy to become so consumed with growth that we overlook the qualities that make life distinctive and pleasurable.

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In a sense, this was for General Westmoreland a full-circle return. When he entered the Army in the days before World War II, it was then also an unpopular organization, as American peacetime armies traditionally are. "Fortunately for the Army and the nation," General Westmoreland recalled, "there were corps of officers and noncommissioned officers in that long-ago Army who understood why they existed, and who had such a sense of mission that they used the time available to prepare themselves professionally for the challenges which came. They understood in peacetime the need for an Army." He did not add but would have been justified in doing so that prominent among those dedicated, forgotten men was William C. Westmoreland.

Our only hope on the occasion of his retirement is that the nation's military will remain manned by his like. $3000 S.M100; by for those earning $3000 $7000. and so on, with a reduction of l.7r; for those earning $30,000 and an increase of 7', for those earninc $100,000 and over. BIT THE FKintES ARE tiresome, when put beside the principal point, which is that over the years Congress and the executive done what they thought best to affect the allocation of resources. The Mellon Hank's economic newsletter sums it up: "For example, it (the tax law) is used to encourage home ownership, to lower the cost of borrowing to state and local governments, to increase the value of retirement and unemployment benefits, to lower the cost of medical care and to encourage private philanthropy.

Reasonable men can disaurce on whether or not the individual income tax law is the proper vehicle throuch which such objectives should be accomplished. But it is clear that proposals to abolish the existing set of tax preferences, unless accompanied by other positive measures, imply a repudiation of the objectives which originally led to the establishment of the preferences." Senator McGovern And His Famous Tax By William F. Buckley Jr. LITTLE BY LITTLE the analysts rolls In, to the considerable disadvantage of Sen. George McGovern who, even as he has now embraced the cause of Israel more hawklshly than anyone since General Day-an, will surely, sometime before Election Day, deliver a paean on the tax loophole.

A fortnight ago Mr. Stewart Alsop re-parted that a big McGovern backer from California, who had made a fortune In consulted his computers, feeding them one of Senator McGovern's formulas for bringing wealth to the needy, and discovered that $42 billion was i.e., that Just one of the redistrlbu-tionlst schemes proposed by Senator McGovern was underfinanced by a mere $42 billion. The backer was not the man best. "suited to question the reliability of computers, so it Is not known whether he will. finally back off from his computers or fronj his candidate.

NOW THE ECONOMICS division of the Mellon Bank In Pittsburgh, In its newsletter, makes a few gentle comments about the lcopholes Senator McGovern is forever talking about. Do you remember the one about all the people who reported gross Incomes in ex.