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HOI1E RULE CLAUSE:
Amnendment Number
ROPOSAL NO. 4, the so-called Wayne County
Home Rule Arendment, or similar amend-
ments have been on the ballot about as long
as the younger generation can remember.
Previous attempts to have the proposal ac-
cepted by the electorate have failed mainly be-
cause of the organized resistance of office
holders, together with the apathy of the public.
Wayne County, through Proposal No. 4, is
attempting to rid itself of the patronage, cor-
uption, and graft, of an obsolete local govern-
ment. The basic structure of Wayne's govern-
ment has not changed since the 1820's. Since
that time Detroit has grown into a great met-
ropolis including 80 percent of the county's
population. Today, municipal and county gov-
ernment must be streamlined if this unwhole-
some situation is to be eliminated.
Briefly and simply the proposal will ac-
complish this by means of the following: ()
empowering a commission to re-write the
county's charter; (2) making possible a re-
duction of the county board of supervisors
from an 84 to a 21-man body; and creating
the office of a county chief executive.
Thie move to reduce -the number of super-
visors would give Detroit, with 80 percent of
the population, a maximum of 66 percent of
the votes on the board.
This refutes the charge of the proposal's
opponents that Detroit would gain dictatorial,
undemocratic power over smaller communities
in Wayne County. The proposal, in no way will
China's Politics
T HE ANNOUNCEMENT that the two highest
American officials in China are coming home
has released a flood of doubt, mistrust and
deep suspicion toward the Chiang Kai-Shek
government. A clash of personalities with the
generalissimo has been attributed to the recall
of General Stilwell while Ambassador Gauss
has been reported to have resigned from his
State Department duties.
It probably comes as a shocking surprise to
most of the American public to find that China
is not regarded as a great, heroic democratic
and firmly united country among many U. S.
officials in Washington and news correspond-
ents in the Asia theatre. Following a two-year
assignment in China, Associated Pressman Tho-
burn Wiant has written from London that the
"Kuomintang Party regime, headed by Chiang,
has been-and is-more concerned with the
inevitable civil war against the 80 million Chi-
nese Communists than in the struggle against
Japan. Apparently the generalissimo figured
the Americans would do the job for him even-
tually and he could hoard most of his resources
for the civil war.
"What also may sound strange to the Ameri-
can people is that democracy does not exist
in China. There is probably no more effective
dictatorship than that of the Kuomintang Party.
There is no freedom of speech; or of press;
or of much of anything else. There are secret
police, concentration camps and firing squads
for those who dare to speak, or write, or act
out of turn. There also are ingenious means of
applying 'do-it-or-else" pressure."
In an effort to aid China, former WPB Chair-
man Nelson and a group of experts in war in-
dustries are headed for Chungking this week.
The meeting of the central executive com-
mittee of the Kuomintang Party is scheduled
for mid-November and it is up to Chiang and
Editors Note: The following communication was sub-
mitted for publication by Professor Emeritus William
1. Hobbs.
IT HAS BEEN charged by Republican leaders
that President Roosevelt utterly failed to
prepare the country for the war which broke
out in Europe nearly seven years after his inau-
guration and in which after another two years
we ourselves became engaged. Throughout these
years, Republican leaders both in and out of
Congress had been asserting that the war could
not touch us.. Governor Dewey in his campaign
for the presidency has reiterated the charge
that Mr. Roosevelt failed to prepare the country
for the war.
The first line of our defense has always
been the navy, and under the successive
administrations of Harding, Coolidge, and
Hoover the navy had, through neglect, arrived
at an all-time low. During this twelve-year
period new construction had been only 13,800
tons, thirteen cruisers and nine submarines.
an average of one cruiser and one submarine
each year.
Within a period about one-fourth as long, or
until the middle of Mr. Roosevelt's first term,
there had been authorized on his initiative and
against strong Republican opposition in both
houses of Congress, a hitherto unprecedented
program of new :naval construction-five and a
half times that of the twelve preceding years.
It represented no less than 644,600 tons and was
made up of six super-battleships, each of 35,000
tons, three aircraft carriers, twenty-five cruisers,
ninety-seven destroyers and thirty-nine sub-
marines. All of these vessels were either built
or building when Japan's treacherous attack
was launched at Pearl Harbor on December 7,
1941. It is due entirely to the early passage of
this act and to the vigorous prosecution of the
construction that the new super-battleships
Washington and North Carolina were already
in commission some months efore Pearl Harobr
Four
reshuffle governments of small communities.
County executive forms of government are
neither new nor untried. They have been used
successfully in New York, California, Tenne-
ssee, Montana, and Virginia., In seeking per-
mission to modernize its government, Wayne
County is not taking the lead, it is merely fol-
lowing good examples elsewhere.
It is time for the voters of Michigan to
adopt this progressive measure. It is time
for tail to stop wagging the dog. It is time
for the people of Detroit to have a fair
voice in their own county government.
-Bob Goldman
Double Talk
NOT ONLY is there double talk on the part of
the Presidential candidate, but also in the
entire United States.
In one breath the United States maintained
that seats in the executive council of a proposed
world air authority should be available to
Russia if she wants them, and in the next sen-
tence stated that nonetheless the Soviet Union
had been deleted from her program for desirable
air routes.
This was shown Saturday in a list of 20
routes submitted to the International Civil
Aviation Conference.
Russia refused to attend the conference be-
cause of the presence of representatives of
Spain, Portugal, and Switzerland at the con-
ference table. Countries which she maintained
had practiced pro-fascism toward her Union.
Could it be that the United States reversed
its council because Russia refused to attend
the conference? It seems impossible that one
of the leading nations of the world, and a
nation that supposedly is fighting for a lasting
peace, could abandon its policies just to spite
another nation.
To add insult to injury the members of the
conference revised the draft to show additional
stops in Spain, the Netherlands, and Romania.
The Netherlands, yes, but Spain and Romania,
after Russia protested, is too much to expect
of anyone in Russia or in the United States
to accept.
-Aggie Miller
Enigmatic
AMERICAN and Soviet big-wigs are deadlocked
over a proposal to grant authoritative power.
to the new Allied inland European transport
organization now being formulated.
The crisis arose yesterday when the American
delegation in London proposed that the organ-
ization's executive board have power to dic-
tate its decisions to smaller nations without
their approval. Soviet representatives insisted
that the smaller nations have the right to make
their own decisions.
Obviously the Russian proposal is the more
democratic of the two. .Nevertheless seven out
of eight of the small nations represented voted
for the American proposal.
We're puzzled.d-Liz Knapp
!
Three of the four sister battleships were nearing
completion, and as the dates of their probable
commission were kept secret (three of them,
the South Dakota, Massachusetts and Indiana.
were ready only a few months later), we can
the better understand why Japan made no at-
tempt to follow up her success. The Washington
and North Carolina alone outweighed in power
all the ships which Japan temporarily put out
of action.
This, President Roosevelt's first great program
of naval ship construction, liad been authorized
in 1935 in spite of the depression that had been
"dumped into his lap" by the Hoover admini-
stration and had culminated in the nation-wide
bank failures just before he entered the White
House. Because of it even the usual appropria-
tions for government departments had had t(;
be cut to the bone, and enormous sums approp-
riated for public works which would provide
jobs for those out of employment. Yet even
this seeming handicap in providing our defense
the President had been able to use in building
up the Navy. How it was done is best told by
the Secretary of the Navy in his annual report
which covers Mr. Roosevelt's first year as
President. Mr. Swanson reported:
N ADDITION to the opportunity of
chosing the next President of the'
United States and other political
leaders, voters in Michigan on No-
vember 7 have the chance, in cast-
ing their vote on Amendment No. 4;
to let Wayne County modernize its
administrative structure. Function-
ing at present- with a county board
larger than many state legislaturesl
and lacking any leadership possessed
of power to guide its deliberations
and expedite decisions, Wayne
County has for years muddled along
without muddling through.
Scandals in Wayne County ockea
the state a few years ago, when grand
jury investigations exposed graft an~d
corruption with the result that the
county prosecutor, the county sher-
iff, two members of the county board
of auditors and numerous minor of-
ficials were removed and imprisoned.
Such scandals the county board prov-
ed unable to prevent, nor is there
yet any executive with whom respon-
sibility to prevent repetition of such,
a situation has beep lodged.!
Wayne County, with about two-
fifths of the population of the en-
tire state and far more than that
share of essential, wartime indu-
stry, is forced to get along with a
regime fixed more than one hun-
dred years ago when all counties
in the state were predominantly
rural and agricultural.
Now it will be possible, if enough
Michigan voters mark "Yes" on Am-
endment No. 4, for Wayne County to
make changes in accord with the
times and its urban, industrial needs:I
specifically, to re-organize its county
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government. The Amendment itself
is only an enabling act to give the
residents of Wayne the opportunity
to reorganize. It will then be free k
to have its own charter commission,
which can, if it so decides, aeplace
the present, unwieldy county board
with a small body, elected on a non-
partisan ballot, apportioned equitab-
ly to the population of the county.
At the present time, one township in
Wayne County with only about one
thousand inhabitants gets one rep-'
resentative all to itself, while De-
troit residents are represented in a
ratio of one representative to every
thirty-six thousand residents. More-
over, Proposition No. 4 would permit
Wayne County to have an executive
head, either mayor or manager, in
the sense that all good government,
good business and good labor prac-
tices today have executive manage-
ment to carry out the mandates of
their organizations, instead of let-
ting the democratic process run into
the ground for want of responsible
leadership.
0PPOSITION to this amendment
,on the part of the usually for-
ward-looking and liberal PAC-CIO is
to be regretted now by those who for
years have fought for this measure
in the teeth of reactionaryout-state
forces. Their opposition surely. wall
be regretted in the future oy the
PAC-CIO voters themselves if they
defeat it and subsequently see their
only reason for retaining the present
set-up vanish: i. e., the current, par-
tisan control of Wayne County. If
the PAC-CIO wants its mete and
right influence to be exerted in
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Wayne County, where its members
bulk large in the population, then it
should be far-sighted enough lo pre-
fer a modern system under responsi-
ble direction with representation ac-
corded to the number of residents;
an administration that can quickly
reflect coming trends in economic and
social life in this area. For labor to
oppose this amendment simply be-
cause it includes among its support-
ers a certain number of business men
is to overlook other sources from
which the amendment stems-the
lifelong specialists on public affairs
who make governmental practices
their profession. Such men devised
the amendment in the first place,
and for labor to withhold its vote be-
cause business has seen the light
would be similar to labor's with-
holding its vote from Roosevelt be-
cause Nelson has come out in favor
of him.
A "Yes" vote on Amendment
No. 4, in favor of Wayne County
Hone Rule, is not auyes vote for
special interests-labor, big busi-
ness, Republicans or Democrats,
Roosevelt or Dewey. It is a Mi-
chigan matter, of particular im-
portance to Washtenaw Coijnty's
next door neighbor--Wayne. A
"Yes" vote on Amendment No. 4
is only giving our next door neigh-
bor a chance to build a modern
house on up-to-date lines of ad-
ministrative architeeture. Labor
has nothing to lose in voting "Yes"
but much to lose if in voting no
it perpetuates a framework so ar-
chaic and undemocratic that labor
loses its voice.
-Olga Marshall
THE OUTSTANDING event of the year for
the Navy was the allocation of funds from
the National Industrial Recovery Act by the
President for the purpose of constructing and
equipping thirty-two naval vessels. The Presi-
dent's action goes far to alleviate the serious
condition of our private shipbuilding industry
which on July 1 was practically without work.
The President's action also starts a building
program designed to prevent further weakening
of our naval strength."
It was this timely rescue of the shipbuilding
industry which alone made possible the near-
miracle of rapid ship-building, both naval and
commercial, which was to follow.
In 1934 the Vinson-Trammel Act had been
passed, which authorized the replacement of
overage naval vessels, and Secretary Swanson
was able in his anneal report of 1936 to refer
significantly to the "unparalleled renaissance
of American naval building during the admini-
stration of PresidentRoosevelt." Even the naval
construction program put through from 1933
to 1935 now seems small beside the one of 1940
for the "two-ocean navy." Together they have
made us for the first time in history the un-
disputed "mistress of the seas," as well as mis-
tress of the air, likewise accomplished entirely
on the President's initiative.
At least four vitally important defense
measures, each of them on the initiative of
Mr. Roosevelt, have at critical times perhaps
saved not alone our own nation but the United
Nations as well. These have been:
1. Construction of a large part of the new
American Navy in advance of Pearl Harbor.
2. The Roosevelt-Churchill arrangement for
exchange of 50 overage destroyers for Atlantic
bases, which probally saved Britain in her
first supreme submarine crisis of the war.
3. The hurried shipment of weapons rushed
to Britain from our arsenals after Dunkirk in
order to equip the British Home army and
ward off a Nazy invasion. Desnatched on
fast ships were: 800 new 3.2 inch (18 pound-
er) field guns, 75,000 machine guns, 1,000,000
Lee-Enfield rifles (used in World War I but
all repaired and in good condition), together
with vast supplies of ammunition for each of
these classes of weapons.
4. The lend-lease act of 1941, a stroke of
genius which solved the most vexing problem
of the war-how to carry our aid to our allies.
Mr. Stettinius, who made the allocations
under the act, has told us that this solution
was found by the President, and that without
it the war must have been lost. Marshal
Stalin has more than once asserted that with-
out it the Soviet Union could not have with-
stood the Nazi armies.
MERRY-GO-ROUND:
IGrea t World
By DREW PEARSON
WASHINGTON, NOV. 7-During the cam-
paign, Ann Sheridan, having returned from
touring the war camps in India and Burma,
wired Warner Brothers in Hollywood, with
whom she has a long-term contract, asking if
she could suspend her contract for about six
weeks in order to do some campaigning for Gov-
ernor Dewey. She added that she knew War-
ner Brothers were for Roosevelt, but she wanted
to do some work on the other side.
To this Harry Warner wired back, telling her
to take the time off she wanted and adding:
"Isn't this a wonderful country where you can
be for Dewey,-I can be for Roosevelt and we can
all be good friends after the election."
To which words, this colufrnist would like to
say Amen and add that it's an even more won-
derful country than most of us realize, because
probably no other major nation in the world
could weather a wartime election of such im-
portance.
And now that it's over and we have demon-
strated that we can do it, let's all get on with
the war.
(Copyright, 1944, United Features Syndicate)
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I'd Rther
Sight
By Sam-uel Grafton
NEW YORK, NOV. 7-The political
campaign just ended gave fur-
ther evidence of the rise of inde-
pendent political activity in the Unit-
ed States. The Political Action Com-
mittee was an outstanding instance,
and it captured most of the head-
lines, because of its usefulness as a
campaign issue. But P.A.C. is not
an isolated piece of business; P.A.C.
is only one item in a general recent
trend among Americans toward self-
organization for political purposes,
outside the purview and beyond the
authority of the old-line party or-
ganizations.
The campaign for Wendell Willkie
in 1940 was independently organized.
It was thrust upon the Republican
party, in a fashion not too unlike
that which the P.A.C. has followed.
The Willkie Clubs of the previous
campaign were another example. In
the recent contest, independent Re-
publicans continue to behave inde-
pendently, in a number of instances,
by refusing to endorse the Republi-
can candidate, and by moving their
support to Mr. Roosevelt. The for-
mal Republican organization showed
itself to be somehow too narrow to
be able to keep many of the Repub-
lican independents "in line." Sen-
ator Ball and Russell Davenport and
Bartley C. Crum and others acted
according to their hearts'desire, quite
regardless of the suffering thus oc-
casioned in the breast of Mr. Werner
Schroeder.
On the Democratic side, indepen-
dent activity first dwarfed, then al-
most swallowed the formal Demo-
cratic organization.
The Wall Street Journal comment-
ed wonderingly during the campaign,
on the odd fact that the chief radio
orators for the President were not
Senators, not Governors, not party
chairmen, but two independents,
. political amateurs both, Mr. Quentin
Reynolds and Mr. Orson Welles..
The weakness of the movement,
so far, is that it usually allows pro-
fessionals to choose the candidates;
the independents move in, as best
they can, after the nominations have
been made. Senator Ball came
through for internationalism in Oc-
tober, but he made no fight at Chi-
cago, in June. the upsurge for Wen-
dell Willkie in 1940 shows that it
can be otherwise. It seems to me the
next trend will be the maintenance of
independent organization during the
four-year stretch between Presiden-
tial elections. There is clearly a
groping toward a new and higher
level in American political life, and
the I've-been-to-ten-conventions"
boys are in for a surprise. Some-
thing new has been added. Every
trend-spotting instinct in me is re-
cording it.
(Copyright, 1944, N. Y. Post Syndicate)
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Who cares about the election now?
Stocks are up 50 billion points!