Springville Herald | 1947-03-06 | Page 10 | Most Congress Members come from Main Street

MOST CONGRESS MEMBERS COME FROM MAIN STREET Congress has ben called the TJ. S. in miniature and as in the nation itself, Main Street is its backbone, points out Pathfinder news magazine. maga-zine. The voice of small town America Amer-ica packs a wallop On Capitol Hill. Legislators from home towns of 25,000 population or less could easily pass any bill they agreed on. They make up 76 percent of the membership of the House and 56 percent of the Senate. Through their representatives, America's grass root areas wield a tremendous power a power perhaps per-haps never fully realized in the small towns themselves. But Rep. Norris Cotton, New ztion is growing t,,1 resident of the s.m li, lyi'lol1 is thinkin mnro , coimlty tal problems of r"-'U'.i-