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Show LOBBIES HELD BUSINESS NEED PITTSBURGH. Oct. 21 (A"i-Ray Hofford of Albany, executive vlre president of the Real Estate Association As-sociation of New York 8tte, defended de-fended lobbying today as "an essential es-sential link" in the American system sys-tem of government. He told the secretaries' division of tha National Real Estate convention con-vention that "business would be out on limb If It did not have Ita own representative! at Washington and state capitals to follow proposed legislation." Hofford continued: "Th honest, well Informed legislative legis-lative agent can be of tremendous aaslstance to lawmakers. It is impossible im-possible for a legislator to personally person-ally follow the thousands of bill introduced: neither ran he be familiar fa-miliar with the technical provisions or possible effects of proposed measures mea-sures bearing upon lines of business busi-ness foreign to his own." He urged ritlsena to study government gov-ernment and pending legislation, asserting: as-serting: "If they would take th trouble to acquaint their representatives in congress and the state legislature with their views w would have belter bel-ter laws." |