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Show Wli Doesn't Concjress Do Us Job? When our national constitution was written, its writers diil a good job anil one of the things they said congress must do is "regulate the value of money." That is a very simple phrase; anyone can understand it. for three, years, in the midst of a miserable time for nearly all of us, Ihe value of money lias gone unregulated by congress. As a result of this dereliction of its plain duty, by congress, con-gress, everyone who contracted a $1 debt a few years ago now is asked to pay $1.51); if he contracted to pay (i per cent interest, he must now pay 9 per cent. This means we face one of two alternatives: .Either the value, of money must be regulated; or else those to whom money is owing must resign themselves to repudiation repudi-ation of debts, and lake over their collateral which they don't want. Why doesn't congerss do what the constitution says it should tio: Regulate the value of money V Hasn't it got the nerve; or is it just unable to understand what regulating the value of money means? If one man is dishonest in this country, some attempt is made to regulate him. But billions of dishonest dollars may wreck homes, slop dividends, halt business and disrupt progress and congress drone along, wondering whether to make beer 2.75 or :!. 2 per cent alcohol! Congress should do its duty; it should read the constitution, consti-tution, and follow instructions. It should make dishonest dollars honest. Every day it delays it throws the nation farther into chaos. |