Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-04-19
It's News
To Me
By o. J. Pecord

Now that the income has been by the
voters of Toledo confidently sit back wait
great City Councmen begin of turning Toledo
into the kind of town they have promised us
Under ordinary conditions the departure made by Toe
doans last week from their approving the
ordinance might be greeted with the enthusiastic out
burst which the local free" press showed when it
known that demagogy had triumphed.
On the other hand if the publisher paper which
used demagogy to win election would throw the editorial
writer who admitted it out of the second floor window
his noggns in the hope that the slight conclusion might knock
some discretion INTO his cranal cavity at least to the point
free" press.
OF the ncome-paySgn issue is the only
issue and there many when any newspaper
wishes to do so little demagogy.
CONSTANT DRIP
Nobody knows better than newspapers the of
Stanty holding organization rdicue cr
cism whether be justified AS the
water the hardest rock does the constant
rdicue and criticism seep public until
at last people end by accepting gospel truth charge
made by the newspapers otherwise they could not make
them"
And town like Toledo the job should not diff
on for there is other daily compete with the local
and they have free sailing anything who
ncurs their wrath who something which they
interested.
handed to the opposition the payroll
exactly what it 1t to ridcule,
criticize mock otherwise beat down opposition Never mind
the truth ignore the issue attention moral
sderaon, skip the consequences but gve them the works
And all this is done, because or two men, or small
of have decided that certain point must be
which they consider of crucial Importance the old premise
that the end ustifes is the idea that
though evil may accomplishing good that the
good outweighs the evil, so "give them the works"
WORKERS UNDERSTAND
Every worker particularly who have had experience
in the the basic philosophy behind the
give them the works principle The principle
piled when striking workers subjected to
fire hose clubs because their employers
thought that the justified and them the
works.
The principle applied before that when
poyers whose selfish gain the ultimate good lin their
opnon) hired spies hardboied labor rela
tons the workers organizing and then
gave them the works when they did Certainly the end jusi
fled the Then, now surrounded by his
the sole judge of what workers incident
ally, what better himself
With this knowledge of what give them the works
applies to hem it becomes quite clear to of the
workers who might have been msed by the works that
not the individual and organization which getting the
persuaded that the
thing that the editorial writer said they
NO CONFIDENCE
1t mistake because the workers. least them
like elephants The wolf WOLF eventually leads to its
own defeat and there another time with another
important issue when the Toledo fooled into
ming to the rescue will the wolf and continue
their indifferent
Whatever be the of the victory it
be costly in responsible newspaper
which flung duty to the four winds in their determine
ton to point not the merits of the point itself but
by damaging individuals and organization by campaign
of hate
There which said here in
that would be better left unsad but they apply
ties and those for whom they intended should wit
understand what they We the
to those responsible for the hate campaign hope
will register with them as it did with