| Show I What Our Rea Readers ers Think 1 Wide Compliance With Price Control In Utah Editor Telegram The Salt Lake Telegrams Telegram's column NatIonal National National Na Whirligig It by Ray Tucker and Albert Leman reported reported re reported re- re ported that enforcement of price administration regulations has broken down almost completely completely completely com com- beyond the Mississippi river That area flows with milk and honey roast beef beet and gasoline gasoline gasoline gaso gaso- line despite bureaucratic edicts from the capital Carefully collected statistics indicate th that t this statement does docs not paint a true picture of conditions conditions conditions con con- in Utah The last statewide statewide statewide state state- wide survey of food stores re reports reports reports re- re ports that the average of compliance compliance com corn was 96 per cent Hundreds Hundreds Hun Hun- of farms who have one two or three sons in the armed service turn in the red stamps collected from individual consumers consumers con con- s sumers mers for the sale of home- home raised meat and butter As Asto Asto Asto to gasoline the great majority of motorists are arc conforming strictly to gasoline regulations Information from adjoining states also persuades us that a preponderant proportion of the population in other areas is trying try try- trying ing to abide by the price and rationing rationing ra ra- rationing ra- ra r regulations required by this world crisis This is the way all good Americans should respond Price control and rationing were not instituted by the 9 0 OP P A by the administration or by a bu bu- bu- bu These rhese wartime regulations regulations regulations regu regu- lations were authorized by the congress of the Ute United States for the good of bf f all In a monumental monumental monumental mental way price control and rationing prove indisputably that the United States has learned from its experience in previous wars These self- self enforced wartime procedures prove that a democracy in the time of need can discipline it it- it self They flout the lie of the Ute dictators that democracy cannot cannot can cannot not function In an emergency A A. total of local war price and rationing boards has been created to administer the Ute lawand lawand law lawand and make decisions locally according according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to the pattern of national national national na na- na- na regulations These boards consisting of of unpaid and busy bUBY citizens many of ot whom could not be employed at any normal rate of f pay by the government are arc giving the Ute world a brilliant demonstration of democracy at work Over volunteers ere are making surveys of prices in stores rc restaurants and service establishments In the Ute face orthis of or this display of ot patriotic devotion devotion devotion devo devo- tion to national and world need Tucker and Leman smugly rub their hands as they recount a choice tidbit of ot gossip Price control and rationing h have a v e broken down in that rural neighborly region west of the Ute Mississippi Correspondents might apply a a. simple test to this type of gos- gos sip-mongering sip by asking the questions Can such rumors be supported by facts and statistics statistics statistics statis statis- tics Does such a whispering campaign raise the standard of compliance or is it giving aid and comfort to the enemy Do Donot Donot Donot not such completely unsubstantiated unsubstantiated unsubstantiated stories have the taint of axis propaganda circulated to undermine public confidence S. S Grover Rich District Rationing Executive |
