Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-01-19
It's News
To Me
By O. J. Pecord
PR MUST GO


Every citizen Toledo about the Proportionate
Representation system elecng councimen and the
majority of them opposed to it for variety of reasons
Nobody that the PR system hasn't had fair trial.
yet the that the people of Toledo sold something
when they dsgused with the old form of gov
ernment
After enough years have passed give system fair
trial has been weighed the balance by the citizens of To-
wanting. And now, PR must
There is absolutely no argument with the
cil its size and theoretical duties
anyone severely criticize the city form
While city not perfect and
still plenty of for improvement is great step
the old council system when ward
had its representative.
DEMOCRATIC NOT
10 people of this city because Y
posed possible for large
minores who stuck together to get representato Bascay
giving mnorties representation soud yet the
fact remains that small minority cannot accomplish this With
teamng with another of several other minorites
government supposed to be government of mi
to give the Polish representation minor
y French Scotch Lhuanians Hungarans
group And while breaking the mi
nore what with giving the religious groups (of
which they are so many representation? -
Ours a democratic form of government in which the
majority with theoretical safeguards for the rights of mi
nores moreover, if did to the point where
minority represented the natural development of pol
c would split the representatives and would discover
that a majority would again be running the show
While this subject that is majore why is that our
city council is composed of number of men? The
answer is so majority If this true then the mi
noriy being treated unfairly unjusty wish to follow
the reasoning Of those who favor the PR system to its most x
treme limit
MINODITIES MINORITY
If minority is supposed to have representation
upon unity then the Polish have representative in
council who there result of the unity of this group
but in spite of its disunity
Polish majority did Councilman
them and said with their ballots
still him despite their aversion, argument
the PR system If the Polish people could elect their
without the Hungarians French Irish
Catholics Luherans others being counted for Coun
your dough that
Mr. Czeusta would be practicing law exclusively
The logical thing to do if those who conceived and put
the sincere their mnorties
each minority hold its election choose its
representative hold Council meetings in the Civic Audito
rum believe they could get them all in with standing
only for the spectators, If any.
LABOR is INTERESTED
interested in the city council CIO is par
cuary interested city and has record
expressing with the PR which willing to
concede o places a minority group
Labor is interested in preventing political cique which
solid minority vote and succeed time after time in
getting themselves reelected
Labor is interested democratic of government
which will permit to develop its political place. acting
majority and not minority.
WATCH THE RESULTS
We're is possible types elections at
time the belief of people, including of the city
themselves that the picture altered is
doubtful several of the gentlemen sitting in Council
would be there
1t would be extremely interesting to many observers
the whole thing is that Ad getting old and that
by the time the 1947 election bringing with it
democratic method of eectng city councimen Ad
may be in his dotage building sand piles in Florida