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Show Friday, February 19, 1960 THE AMERICAN STATESMAN Page 4 Metropolitan Gover nment (Cont from 'Page 1; Col. 1) school board. At present he the by is elected by the voters. 4- - A home rule charter for the metropolitan municipality. A' board of metropolitan commissioners consisting initially of 11 members This body would replace the present five member board of county commissioners and would be a legislative, appropriating, and policy determining body with no administrative duties. A chief administrating officer (manager) picked for demonstrative competence in the field of public management He would be hired by the metropolitan commissioners and would manage all departments. Control over appointments, management, and discipline of personnel to the chief administrative officer. Abolition of four elective offices (assessor, tax collector, purchasing agent, and supervisor of registration). Abolition of the Dade County budget commission now appointed by the governor of Florida . . . . This writer feels that no comment is necessary. The above words quoted by the EXPERTS are sufficient to indicate what the goals of 1313 are. The bold type was selected by this writer to indicate areas of attention. . . New York and Los Angeles Dr. Wallace Stanley Sayre, professor of Public Administration at Columbia University, released a report of a two year study of New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey. . . . the region does not have adequet leadership institutions for the solutions of its present and future problems . . . . The above statement, coupled with other claims that the officials lack the capacity to forsee. That the communities lack the machinery to do the what EXPERTS can do. Now we wonder how this area came to become the nations first ranking metropolitan area without Dr. Sayre and his EXPERTS? Does Dr. Sayre mean, when he says machinery, power? And does that mean FORCE? Dr. SAYRE IMPLIES that the men in public office in this area do not desire to improve conditions. Dr. Sayre and his EXPERTS speak, act, and operate on the idea that everyone else is a clod who cannot possibly do what is to the best interest of the citizens. (This means to the best interest of the EXPERTS and their national plan of taking the government away from the people.) Dr. Sayre, and the other EXPERTS from 1313 East 60th Street, Chicago, Illinois, will allow the citizens to govern themselves in the following manner: the public can elect their commissioners who will appoint the EXPERTS. This results in the commissioners becoming the errand boys of the EXPERTS. The people in Los Angeles could ask the following questions of the Metro planners: Why should Los Angeles have a (Witness the Russian purges and Polish political, juggling.) CONNALLY RESERVATION District Attorney if the EXPERTS is to provide a legal advisor ant by appointment? How do you fire the Administrator in the event he is incompetent or dishonest? Why have a Board if when the Administrator is appointed he be' . comes their superior? DICTATOR a not elect Why just and be done with it? Who is running the government? How are they running it? Is the recent play on Mental Health tied in together with the Metro Plans from 1313? We think so. Heres why we think so. On page 31 of Plan-- . published by The ning 1955, American Society of Planning Officials, 1313 East 60th Street, Chicago 37, Illinois; Dr. Leonard J. Duhl, psychiatrist, for the National Institute of Mental Health, United States Department of Health, Education and welfare, Bethesda, Maryland; has an article entitled MENTAL i . (Cont from Page Col. 5) 1; ate' began consideration of the Morse World Court Resolution. The debate was over to what degree the United States would accept jurisdiction. Senator Connally offered an amendment that America would not accept the compulsory jurisdiction of the World Court in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of Candidate the United States as determined by the United States. (The last six Menry J. Laque words is the Connally Reservation.) J. Conservative Laque, Jr. Henry Candidate for the House of RepreThe significance of the Consentatives. Mr. Laques mailing address is Box 2834, Baltimore, Md. nally Amendment was that it I do not choose to be a common reserved to the United States the right to determine what issues man. It is my right to be as uncomwithin its own national were mon as I can. I seek opportunity It was added to the jurisdiction. not security. I do not wish to be a Morse World Court Resolution kept citizen, humbled and dulled by 62 vote a of to 2 in the Senate by having the state look after me. I on and is still 2, 1946, August want to take the Calculated risk: to law this the date. to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed. I refuse to barter inHEALTH AND COMMUNITY On March 24, 1959 Senator HuPLANNING. The good Dr. thanks centive for a dole. I prefer the bert H. introHumphrey, . the members of the conference challenges of life, to the guaranteed duced a resolution to amend the . . . Ifeel especially infor existence, the thrill of fulfillment Morse resolution by removing the debted to them and the field they to the state of a calm Utopia. I will Connally reservation, which action represent, since it was they who, not trade freedom for beneficience would make possible the placing of by., their discussions with me nor my dignity for a hand out I domestic affairs of the United about planning and its problems, will never cower before any master States under the jurisdiction of the helped reorient my thinking in nor bend to any threat It is my World Court. The question of psychiatry to the broader aspects heritage to stand erect, proud and whether or not to retain the Conof the relation between the com- unafraid: to think and act for my- nally Reservation of the United creaStates power is almost certain to munity and mental health. . . . . self; enjoy the benefits of my How about our churches? Why tions and to face the world boldly be put to a vote in this session of 1313 has a national plan for and say this I have done." Congress. churches and religion. Look on page 45-5- 9 of the same book. ChapWhy the Connally? ter title is CLINIC: CHURCHES . . : . . (D-Min- n.) . . .... It IN THE CITY PLAN is Where I Stand orienta- tion for church members. ASK YOURSELF THESE QUESTIONS: If the government is not doing all this planning for our betterment, if private interprise is not doing all this NATIONAL PLANNING, then WHO IS? Where does the money come from? Why do they want to do it? Whkts in it for the men behind the idea? Why should such an enormous plan be started, is it just a bunch of unselfish people who want to make living conditions better for all America? If this is true, then they are more competent and powerful than all of our churches and all branches of our government. Why do we say this? Because no one has ever before been able to blanket this nation with any plan, including the war effort that is as well organized and successful. It does have a central headquarters. What is it all about? CITIZENS, BE SUSPICIOUS OF SUCH A GRAND PLAN. (Research for this series is from What it Metropolitan Government published by E. G. Grace; Vol. 5, Number 15 and Vol. 5, Number 16 of the Don Smoot Report, P. 0. Box 9611, Lakewood Station, Dallas 14. Texas. Copies of these reports may be had 25c each. Also ha two books mentioned within the article. k Because of their national backgrounds a majority of the judges do not have the American approach to jurisprudence. (Currently the 15 judges are from: United States, Egypt, Nationalist China, Australia, Uraguay, Norway, Pakistan, Greece, Poland, France, Mexico, El Salvador, Britain, Argentina and Soviet Russia.) 2. Because of a chamber system, a judgment considered as valid as if it had been. made fay the entire World Court may be made by any three of the judges. 3. The judges take no oath of office to any principle. 4. There are no uniform UN qualifications for judges not even a legal degree. 5. Appointments are political by governments of U.N. members. (A $21,000.00 per year tax free salary for a nine year term and with all diplomatic privileges and immunities, make the job an excellent plumb.) 6. Removal is by a majority vote of a judges fellow members in the World Court 7. Several of the judges now serving are from countries that have not accepted any jurtisdic-tio- n of the World Court Further explanation will uncover other reasons why the World Court is not deserving of greater power, least of all, of the power to invade domestic issues in the United States. 1. There are two questions in every fight over a proposed policy: will the proposal achieve its purpose, and, is it worth the fight? As far as the proposal to erase the Conform. nally reservation goes, the answer I stand for freedom, which in- to both questions is no for the cludes the right of an American to following reasons: seek employment, in his selected s ENEMIES OF the Connally reserfield, without the compulsion of payvation want to remove it in order tributeto either management ing to club. or a labor union, guild or strengthen the World Court I stand firmly for minipial govern- They argue that a stronger court ment for the people and not for will help to replace war with law governmental giantism for the as a means of settling international rareaucrats. quarrels. Erasing the Connally reservation will not be a step toward I stand for the ..immediate of the Cabinet post of Sec- peace in the world, because it retary of Health, Welfare and Ed- deals only with domestic matters IF THE CONNALLY Reservation ucation and all of the ramifications within the United States. It should be remembered too, that no mat- giving the United States, not the thereof. ter how strong the statements that World Court, the right to decide I stand for the reduction of govthe World Court may make be- what is not a domestic issue is ernment waste and spendthrift some of the areas in which policies by at least 50 per cent come, it still cannot make laws erased, Court might conceivWorld the or enforce them which is obviously which will still leave our governAmerican domestic invade for interably peace in the ment more tax money to play necessary include: scene. The theory that a jurisdiction with than could be spent by the national World 1. American Immigration Court will mean stronger Fair and Deal peacetime New world law is 2. also invalid American Trade stronger Deal looters. because of 3. nations of the American Relations with many I stand for the immediate United the Nations and several who Panama nastrengthening of our state and 4. Taxation of Americans for tional sovereignty and a mighty, have judges on the court do not under same the of operate system Support of World Governhonorable fight against one world law as the United ment and States, many government, under any despicable do not have 5. American Foreign Aid for law at all. respect disguise. I stand for a Congress with the courage to regain for itself the constitutional power to make laws, Subscribers Special I which power has been usurped by the Supreme Court, by depart$2-0- 0 mental directives and executive decrees and interpretations. For Four Weeks Four of Your Friends Fill out Blank below and Mail to: not fair to take a sentence from a (Cont from Page 1; Col. 2) . context . out .but of and able Republican candidates to chapter just to whet your interest, here is activate this most important a beaut . . . PAGE 55 article 4. plank in the 1952 Republican platPlanner would do well to ... establish more programs of THE REMOVAL Of the Connally reservation would foe expensive in terms of American freedom because by giving the World Court instead of the United States government the power to determine what is a domestic Issue, it would destroy the basic American legal principle that the people, through the Constitution, have made either the United States government or the government of the states the final authority in domestic affairs within the United States. The World Court would actually be allowed to determine what is domestic and what is not by the erasing of the Connally reservation. There are, in addition to the above theoretical considerations, several practical reasons for not trusting the judgment of the World Court: abol-shme- nt . . 4 Trial Subscriptions - Only to THE AMERICAN STATESMAN State Exchange Building, 345 Enclosed is $2.00. 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