Show THE NEW DISEASES DISEASE S SENATOR SENATOR NEELY of West Virginia has discovered discovered discovered dis dis- dis- dis covered a new disease which has broken out in congress He calls it virulent verbosity verbosity verbosity ver ver- and he declares it to be the most costly contagious and menacing malady I that has ever afflicted the taxpayers payers of America Describing the disease the senator says it lilt has prevented the enactment of relief measures measures meas meas- ures for more than a million bankrupt farmers it has prevented the enactment of relief legislation for more than eight million unemployed ed men and women who are in dire distress it has prevented the passage of the revenue bill and the balancing of the budget at the staggering cost through the loss of revenue of a day Senator Neely pointed out that eloquent addresses have cost the government almost for every heartbeat or more than an hour He then further points out that to the best estimate made by him the debates which appear in the last twelve volumes of the Congressional Record contain more than seven thousand times as many words as the Master used to promulgate the ten commandments commandments commandments command command- ments for the tile guidance and government of all the nations and tribes of men from the tile days of Moses to the end of the world and had the children of Israel been encumbered with this ponderous repository of useless verbosity verbosity verbosity ver ver- they would still stin be in the wilderness and would never have reached the tile Promised Land This is an eloquent reminder that economy economy economy econ econ- omy like charity begins at home and that congress can If it will win shut off the expensive hot air |