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Show ton. The soldier's .wife who could not keep her home if there were no rent control is your neighbor. The family doctor who ! could not drive his car if there were no gas rationing, tends your children. "It is our aim to do this big job as efficiently as possible jand, despite the considerable accomplishments of last year and our difficult job in the year to come." VOLUNTEERS WITH O.P.A. A U.S senate committee is now considering legislation to extend through l!Mi the price control act, now due to expire ex-pire June 30. Also currently tinder study is the O.P.A. proposal pro-posal for movie price ceilings and another to put barber shop and beauty parlor charges under ceilings. 'I he record of O.P.A., with its effective halt of soaring prices of necessities, can he expected to be evaluated by legislators legis-lators and the press before action is taken. The degree of success OPA has had and the cost to the American people of the inflation control and rationing program pro-gram will he spotlighted within the next few weeks. Chester Howies, OPA administrator, on March i gave an official report re-port on OPA costs in which he made public the 'istounding fact that four out of every live persons connected with the OPA are unpaid volunteers. Likely this program includes more persons who give their time in interests of wartime economy than any other war necessary activity of comparable compar-able size. Following is Mr. Bowles' statement: "In its current budget year OPA will spend .$185,327,300. This means that the cost of OPA to every citizen amounts to 11.38. "Now, let's see where this $1.3.". that OPA costs each person goes. The biggest item, of course, is the cost of running run-ning the local boards. This amounts to 48 cents of the $1.33 that each of us pays. The next biggest item is for rationing, which costs each person 23 cents. Price control, now covering nearly everything we buy, costs 17 cents a person. Enforcement Enforce-ment costs 10 cents. Rent control, which now covers areas where 70 per cent of our people live, costs us 10 cents each. Of the remaining 10 cents, 7 cents go for administrative services, ser-vices, 6 cents for executive expense, 1 cents for accounting, and 2 cents lor information. "Many people wonder how the cost can be so low. Your local board people know the answer. More than 100,000 local board members and other board volunteers donate the millions mil-lions of man hours that make OPA a low-cost operation. In fact, you do the work that makes it possible for us to run it all. Today, four out of every live of those who work for OPA are volunteers, and it is impossible to compute the dollar value of your work. Most of you are experts in other lines. All of you have become experts as well in local problems of Price Administration, Most of you have other jobs, and many of you work well into the night to get your OPA work -lone. It's that effort that keeps the cost of funning local boards down to 18 cents per person. "Most of you who se. ve on local boards have 'i direct opportunity to &ee how OPA serves local communities, Vou f ee this picture in a way that is impossible here in Washing- |