Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-02-18

tlcularly nowadays, talk IKE
they have social consciousness
and act like they are socially un-
conscious.
AS a good example of poll
tician and office holder who is
once more an office seeker, take
the case Of our representative to
congress, the Honorable Homer
A. Ramey.
EXUDES GOODNESS
To hear Homer A. Ramey give
one of those inspirational talks
of his, you would almost believe
that he would sprout wings and
fly off this mundane world. Of
course, there are times when
Homer Ramey can use profanity
and vulgarity which would put
a mule driver to shame; but
never mind that for now.
Homer A. Rsmey knows bet
ter than to go against those
whose votes he seeks. And he
seeks votes, not with his record,
past or present; but entirely
with his voice.
And Homer is eloquent. He
can deliver talk on the slight
est provocation on many sub
jects, sometimes on subjects di-
ametrically opposed to each
other. He can talk before the
Women's Temperance League
and condemn liquor and those
who deal in the vile stuff, and
80 minutes later talk before a
meeting of Tavern Keepers and
condemn the bluenoses who
would foist prohibition upon the
backs of unwilling guzzlers.
LOVES AND HATES FDR
Because of his amazing mental
agility, Mr.. Ramey can find it
possible to love and hate Mr..
Roosevelt at one and the same
time. He loves the President and
wants him to be better man.
At the same time, he says he
will not let that blankety-blank
so-and-so, Roosevelt, steal the
1914 election because of the bill
to give the soldiers the vote.
What is true of the President
is also true of the ClO, parti-
larly the political action group
of the CIO which seems to be
preying upon the Rameyisn men
tality. Mr.. Ramey loves the
CIO so much that h" would like
to get as many CIO votes as
possible. Almost in the same
breath, he calls the CIO Poll
tical Action Committee a bunch
of so-and-sos'.
And because Mr. Ramey has
social consciousness, he will not
vote for the soldiers to give them
the vote. Mr. Ramey will not
vote for any subsidy bill that
would give the workers a break.
Neither will Mr.. Ramey vote for
anything else that would be good
for the plain people of the 9th
Ohio Congressional d istrict.
Really now. Mr.. Ramey has what
would call social unconscious
ness.
MARKED FOR DEFEAT
Strange as it may seem,
Homer A. Ramey no longer pre-
sents the slightest question in
the mind of any worker, or those
who realize what flip-flop artist
Mr.. Ramey really is. AS result
of Mr.. Rameys straddling and
flip-flopping, he has been mark
ed for defeat, glorious wallop-
ing which will give the people
of this district a great pleasure
and satisfaction in administer
ing.
True, Mr.. Ramey is in the
drivers seat now; but he won't
be there long. The people of
this congressional district are
going to return their congress
man to the private practice of
the law, and from all indications,
he will be unable to get himself
elected to anything again, even
dog catcher.
THE LESSON
For Mr.. Ramey and his wise
cracking, smart aleck kind, there
is only one lesson that the vot-
ers can teach, and that is, with
out social consciousness, they
can go somewhere, but not too
far, nor for too lont a period.
OF course, the lesson is bound to
be lost upon Mr.. Ramey, be-
cause before anyone can acquire
social Consciousness, they must
be conscious.
Mr., Ramey, like Gov. John
Bricker and some other politi-
clans, seems invincible in his re-
sistance to social awareness,
fact which most of the people of
this congressional district rec
ognize and which they will re-
member when the time comes to
send Mr.. Ramey to the political
showers.