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Show VfgSrLyideo from other editors , From the Granite State News, Wolfeboro, New Hampshire: The longer this editor lives the less sympathy he has with people who are forever complaining about the way their legislators and Congressmen Congress-men vote. They state with loud voice and emphatic gestures that the duly elected representatives of the people are a bunch of jug heads who don't know "enough to pound sand into a rat hole. In some cases this may be so but by and large the people in the Legislature and In Congress are level headed characters who are doing their best for their constituents. constitu-ents. But the constituents make no effort ef-fort to help the representatives. When a controversial matter is coming com-ing up for vote, the voter at home hardly ever, takes the time and trouble to write a letter to his representative rep-resentative in Concord or Washington Washing-ton giving his views on the matter. When the representative does not vote as the home folks think that he should, they yell and find fault. But the representative has no crystal ball. His people have not told him what they think about the issue and they have not given him the opportunity to tell them why he voted the way he did for often he has special information on the situation which may quite logically logi-cally offset local opinion. The longer we live the more re spect we have for our conscientious hard working representatives who try to do conscientious research work on the great mass of legislation legisla-tion presented to them and try to attend all their committee hearings hear-ings and be present at a decent majority of roll calls. In Western folklore there is the story about the sign on the piano in a very tough saloon which said. "Don't shoot at the piano player." It would do no harm to try to understand the problems faced by our various lawmakers and to give them a bit of aid and encouragement. encourage-ment. From the Whiteside County News, . Morrison, Illinois: Rome wasn't built in a day, your home was paid for in driblets over a period of a quarter of a century, more or less and If everyone had to lay out the cash for a new car all at once then the charges would have to come down considerably or the highways would . look like animated junkyards. In view of the installment plan for exerting ourselves . to which our civilization is geared, n one should be discouraged if things do not break his way fast, because it would be contrary to the system. It is only when he finds himself passing up the small gains and counting exclusively on the giant one that the citizen need start worrying about himself. |