Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-11-09
It's News
To Me
By O. J. Pecord


You that this election could be passed with
out few (we chosen hope) relative to your stand
system the election of Stanley A. Grzeznsi to
the municipal bench did you?
You were one councilman who in your place in
Council the day body passed official okay the PR
said 1--WE cannot elect anyone with Polish
except under Pr" u.s.
Again you attended meeting debated the PR system
with Josephine Gueau the Wilson Park shelter house
and repeated your conviction that the only Polish
candidate public office could be elected in cyde cleo
tion under the PR system
again. writing in Lagrange ST. throaway sheet just
prior to election you repeated your accusation that had
caly admitted that candidate OF Polish extraction with
Polish could be elected except under Pr
MY ALOYSTUS YOUR FACE MUST BE JUST A WEE BIT
Obviously voters of Toledo do not share your bgoed
views for they picked Grzezns by substantial vote
and YOU must confess Grzeznsh much difficult
pronounce and write than, shall say, Czelusta?
You may your for reelection to City Council,
thanks to the political bngo called the PR
system believe Ollie certainly have not done your
self any good with Americans who live in the 4h
I4th wards You Stanley A. Grzezin<i with
your appeal to prejudice Your defeasm possibly isn't your
fault but this would be good time for you to try and over
inferoriy complex which has been eating at your
brain all these years
REPRESENT WHO?
Polish people Perhaps have fooled the American
people OF roisn descent Sppy are $500 % S % h ~ p they viii
prove themselves smarter this time.
When Stanley Grzezinsi judge he stood his
own proudly people Toledo vote for
him American He asked the votes of the people of Toledo
ability to a based his performance the
the people of the ocaled Polish wards
to elect him because his GrZeznsk And he was
not elected because his was Grzezinsk
say the representative of the Polish people
who the Poles representa- under the impress
that the Polish people living in Poland Certainly you
them. And if do you're doing lousy job
for them if they don't know it,
lot of including myself have been aboring under
the for that the people living the Attn
14th wards Americans They also to be labor
ing that impression. They don't like to be called
"Poack They real Americans, the kind
Americans whom waved the flag orhe who went
the people who bought the bonds worked the
factories their lives that like could spout off
their big mouths They also vote like Americans and they will
eventually catch with you and repudate you surely
they vindcated Stanley A. GrzeznsSr the American,
GOOD AMERICANS
don't think that anyone who went around during
ica like did stirring nationality prejudice
a good American and this knowing that
fought don't think it fight
democracy and then home preach racial
and nationality bias,
Personally likeable chap, we'll inentioned if
misguided think have the makingS of good
American, would like to you
Pole, American without apoogizing
ancestry, without waving flag without
appealing the baest impulses fellow citizens and
without that inferority complex which should be dis
carded result of the election Of Stanley Grzezns
Nobody knows how you will turn out Ollie your attempt
at reelection; but it looks to like wn
going TO be to the
pie who live in this from you
yourself but boy had better get busy
plantations going and they better be good,