Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-10-24
It's News
To Me

By o. ]. Pecord

The words of Omar keep pounding through my mind
weeks before election trying to talk myself into
writing nce pleasant nnocuous words that will nJure
nobody please nobody interest nobody and which will give
sensation of intellectual retching.
before did I repentance swear but sober
when swore t?"
That's Omar. And since its just short jump from Omar
Ollie away with repentance let get political He'll
Specifically and let's not waste time in getting down to
did you your life witness such dull dry drao
boesome unterestng stupid etc. election campaign as that
which (hank heavens drawing to its sleepy close?
If decided and to blame the whole insipd
political which has enveoped our town with blanket
uninspred unnsprng indifference to the PR system
the defenders of the PR system would rise in their
wrath to dissent.
So instead doing that going to do the other
thngte you what wonderful thing the PR system Is par
cuary when happen to have weak candidate who can
only get in by managing to secure the support OF sod
minority
INTELLECTUAL HALITOSIS
didn't think old Pecord would do that did you?
Ickes has apy described in
tellecual hatos Or maybe it's just plain disgust At any
rate folks out there will be compelled to admit tat
up point nothing during the municipal cam
pagn which would make feel that the wouldn't come
up morning you failed just the least little
excited who polshe City Council with
their trouser posterors? Or would you?
that gentle reader just what the powers that be
hope accomplish with you They hope they
making the political system quiet calm SO
that you will sit down your fannies and rest
election day and them put the people in City Council
who will either hitched who will along with them
in their ideas about what is good for Toledoand them
Should happen that booster for the PR system
have just been converted it in the last week. will
admit that other system which has
ceeded quite well the PR creating gobs of public
indifference and apathy.
CHANGE OF HEART
Yes sir I'm for the PR system! It's everything its
claim for it, 1t does the job they will do and
has succeeded in creating the great political vacuum which
designed to create.
Yep the system because doesn't do the
things the people that democratic voting does
doesn't irritae anyone doesn't smu
late debate differences of opinion fails make the cand
dates mad each other and the PR folks elects
the most popular people to office.
Believe I'm for PR. Don't you this wonderful
tenn? Just look around you and see how it works.
anyone really mad at else? Do the candidates
stand before crowded halls and in loud emphatic voices
call for the elimination of this that thing that
hurting town. impeding its interfering with the
welfare of its citizens? He'll, no!
Do the candidates stand before TO- people and
23 chairs quietly and politely for votes and in
substance vote for I'm member the Sacred Order
of the Sons of Zlch the Knights Humbug the Mas
adons of Macedonia other special society church,
fraternity nationality other OF they do
IT'S REALLY NICE
That's what l like about the PR system It's polite It's
almost completely silent correct logical
It's kind and tender Its almost So what
the He'll have been complaining years
And again return to that old reprobae whose
only ambition in life jug wine thou beneath the
bough who tossed off repentance and complete failure
but glorious and ultra successful drunk.
No folks, away with Omar Jug of wine Away with
Omar and his rotten materalsm Away with his determine
ton not to REFORM but to take himself of the
grape. Reformation, that's for
Yes sir folks I'm for PR bigger better PR smaller
and smaller elections and political apathy After gentlemen
must live too.