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DLTROI7jf,WISit (ARM ICU
EVERY JEW IN DETROIT
SHOULD KNOW
The Mayoralt y RECALL MOVEMENT is
the most COWARDLY ACTION ever taken
in thepolitical histor y of Detroit.
To achieve a recall election on absurd "charges" HIRED
mercenaries were sent out to obtain names on petitions
at so much per name
As a result, petitions Were filed with the names of DEAD men and women;
of high school pupils and others UNDER AGE; of persons residing in neigh-
boring towns and communities; of NO N-CITIZENS; of persons hi foreign
countries or Iltraway states; of persons whose names were put down without
the formality of asking them to sign; and of others ILLEGALLY used - all to perpetrate a
FRAUD on the electorate of Detroit; a HMI) that would take "too long to investigate" when
the object sought is a "hurry-up" election.
The last annual report of the Election Commission of the City
of Detroit states that the AVER AGE COST OF AN ELECTION
IN THIS CITY IS $110,000. THE RECALL MOVEMENT AIMS
TO HOLD TWO ELECTIONS.
The Old Gang left behind it deficits and mounting obligations
that seemed certain to mean another big abvance in taxes in
Mayor Bowles' first year in office. But between the Mayor, the
Council and the Board of Assessors, the 1930 tax rate has been
reduced to the lowest point in 11 years, or since 1919.
The benefit of this reduced rate will be felt by 90 per cent of
the city's taxpayers, the assessors report.
Once before, though, the newspapers had an independent
mayor to deal with. A large statue of that mayor stands in West
Grand Circus Park, close to the corner of Woodward and Park
Avenues.
Forty years ago Hazen S. Pingree became Mayor of Detroit.
The newspapers discovered that he wasn't the complaisant type
who would wait for them to tell him what to do.
Had they had the recall to serve their ends then, a recall of
Pingree certainly would have been attempted.
The newspapers couldn't recall Pingree and by the time he
finished his first term in office they couldn't defeat him. Nor could
they defeat him after his second term. Nor after his third term.
Nor for Governor of Michigan after he became Mayor of Detroit
for a fourth term.
When he was gone, they eulogized Pingree. The country rec•
ognized him as one of the greatest mayors any American city ever
had. The people erected his statue in the heart of the city.
But the hostile press would have recalled Hazen S. Pingree in
his first year in office and destroyed him politically if it could,
just as it now wishes to destroy Charles Bowles.
The newspapers want to boss Detroit by bossing its mayor.
They think there will be no trouble about that if Bowles is ousted
by means of the recall.
"Look what we did to Bowles," will be the warning to any
future Mayor of Detroit who hesitates about being dictated to.
The issues are clean-cut. If you want HONEST, EFFICIENT
end INDEPENDENT conduct of the city's affairs then vote "NO"
on July 22.
DETROIT JEWRY HAS 'NEVER BEFORE HAD AS MUCH
REPRESENTATION IN CITY AFFAIRS AS IT NOW HAS
DURING MA Y011 BOIFIES ADMINISTRATION
VOTE NO
Tuesday, July 22
INSERTED AND PAID FOR BY A GROUP OF MAYOR BOWLES' JEWISH FRIENDS