Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-05-24
ELnunfinq The Law

FIounfing The Law
Another week has passed by, making
a total of five weeks that the United To-
Iedo Committee has Haunted the law by
falling to live up to its responsibility oil
filing its report with the Board of Elec-
tiOns
Another week has elapsed and the
limited Toledo Committee hesitates and
stalls in filing its expense incurred in put
ting over the one per cent incOme-payroh
tax at the April IL special election.
We can imagine what would occur it
the Political Action Committee were
guilty of the same brazen contempt for the
law.
BY this time, the Toledo Blade, "hght-
ing demagogy with demagogy, would
have unlimbered its heaviest editorial ar
tiIIerv and fired several well directed bar
RACES at CIO leadership, the Political
Action Committee and everybody within
range of its fire.
By this time, stern call, or perhaps
even more drastic treatment would have
been given the Political Action Committee
by the county prosecutor
By this time, thousands OF ToledOans
would be shaking their heads, clucking
their tongues and asking each other, Who
does this Political Action Committee think
IL is?"
But none of these things have occurred
TO the United Toledo Committee, which is,
as everyone knows, composed of outstand-
ing political leaders, businessmen and
other respectable, decent, civic-minded,
public spirited, law-abiding citizens.
No editorial barb is flung by the To-
Iedo Blade at the leaders of the United
Toledo Committee. Very little news and
no censure has been directed against the
very respectable, very sincere, very honest
and honorable citizens who collected the
money, contracted the debts, and we be-
lieve and hope paid the United Toledo
Committees bills
Not only has the county prosecutor
failed to take action to compel the United
Toledo Committee TO obey the same law
that the Political Action Committee
quickly complied with, but one of his as
sistants is still pouring over the law books
to see il there is such statute.
Nobody seems to think there is any
thing wrong with the failure of the United
Toledo Committee to file its election re-
port with the Board of EelectiOns, because
the daily newspapers have done nothing
to make anyone feel that way. After all,
the Toledo Blade, fighting demagOgy
with demagOgy" during the election cam
paign beat the drums and carried the
torch for that great group of public bene-
factors - The United Toledo Committee.
As matter of fact, the United Toledo
Committee is unable TO file report, and
il will hesitate to do so even when ii can
because it has been admitted by leading
member of the committee that il kept
such loose system of books that it's
records will need long period of time TO
prepare" so they will pass even the most
casual scrutiny.
We don't believe there is really any
intent on the part of the United Toledo
Committee TO flaunt the law so much as
a healthy fear OF what may occur ii
some enterprising SnOOper comes along
and conducts a careful investigation of its
income and expenditures. After all, law
abiding, civic minded, public spirited citi-
zenS must be careful.
In the long run, and il may be quite
long run, the United Toledo Committee
will file its report with the Board of EleC-
tions. In the meantime, we sincerely hope
that the Toledo Blade and that other news
paper, as we'll as the county prosecutor
will look the other way. After ALL the
United Toledo Committee is composed of
some of Toledos most respected and re-
spectacle citizens civic minded, public
spirited and law-abiding people.
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