The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-07-06

funds now in the state treasury
should be held in reserve for ust
in the post war period.
7. AS a returned veteran Of
1919 who remembers how soor
we were forgotten then, l be-
Iieve our first obligation at the
end of this war should be &c
provide we'll for the returning
veterans until their feet are
we'll planted on solid ground
In general, believe this to be q
national issue and one that has
been quite we'll covered in the
recently passed CT Bill OF
Rights; but the state should be
ready to step Immediately into
! the breach with added assistance
if emergency should arise or II
any shortcomings in that bill
should become apparent.
8. Nothing is more vital TO the
survival of Democracy than the
protection Of the rights of all
minoritieS. The chief factor that
lied 10 the present state of affairs
in Europe was the fact that min
GRITTY groups in too many nations
lost confidence in their nations
major political parties, formed
minority par les and thus
brought about the hopeless
divisions that led to the disinte-
grafton of their nations them
selves. In my opinion the chief
role Of the state in the safe
guarding of the rights of the
minoritieS lies in the admins
tration of its laws in such a way
that opportunities for employ
ment, for advancement or for
any other benefits covered by
these laws shall accrue to men,
bers of minority groups in full
proportion TO their proportion
Of the total population.
9. / believe that under the Is
mill limitation, with the 3 per
cent sales tax piling up a huge
surplus in the state treasury
while local governmental units
are starved for funds, a certain
amount Of that surplus should
revert to the cities, or even to
the counties or the school dist
riots where exceptional need
shall be shown. Some change is
imperative shortly for few COM
munities facing the necessity for
expansion of their school sys-
TENS can make such expansion
under the present laws and
division Of the funds.
10. | believe the most import
ant problem which will face our
legislature in the post war pc
Rod will be the drafting of a
program Of public works to
serve as a cushion against UNI
employment w h enc yer one
shall be needed. q purposely
omitted the demobilized war
workers from my answer to
question 7 because l believed
they could better be covered
here.) The construction of state
hospitals, plan under which
consolidated schools or other
public schools might be financed
with funds borrowed by the
districts from the states. the
construction of parks and park
ways and of needed highways,
the ever-present problem Of the
rcforestation of our states
denuded observation-disclosures IS
an almost endless list of projects
which only the state govern
ment can perform. | believe 1t
is the duty Of the state govern
ment TO have ready at all times
plans for enough such projects
to take up the slack Of unem-
ployment whenever private in
dustry shall be temporarily UNI
able to do so itself. With such
a program in effect temporary
would not create
the stark terror which has snow
balled into previous depressions;
hence minor recesSions would
replace the previous deep de-
pressions, and that free enter
prise in which all believe
will be able to survive instead