Show MIRROR OR IMAGE AE I j I r y i y f. fJ 1 r tl t t I r. r t f il r I. I I r X 1 t It p t r-t J t t i t. t Jt i Y I. I to IJ f t 1 In k d I r I Q I t s j t f I t 1 Rik Irk i 3 t X f t I fliT I I 11 1 4 ti LV r. r r. r 1 1 t I v t t r. l I t f lt r t 3 q Y a al ts si i i. i tl 1 I dd t tL 4 t 3 I f i i i. i L i A II 1 I h 1 1 4 it itS h t 1 L t G r S 1 iI j r l 0 ty i l i- i r Y tV Fg Both Separate and Equal Around Washington this year the lawmakers are arc busy creating new v bureaus and federal jobs for people who say the they are arc experts in m the Consumer Interest Suddenly however the Congressmen arc are shocked to discover they dont don't know just what consumer interest they are arc talking about Just the other day in hearings to set up a new consumer agency to speak within government government govern govern- ment on such matters they found that the new Consumer Advocate might speak up on labor matters and oppose h gher wages for workers on the ground they may raise prices Or he might oppose electricity needed in some poor rural area because it will spoil the ecology So the Congressmen began asking each other Which consumer interest will the Advocate support and which will he oppose They couldn't decide whether the consumer con can consumer sumer is a worker taxpayer investor small merchant farmer or who 1 Finally one witness suggested that the consumer is really a member of the public and when it comes to good government nothing can beat laws that are arc in the public interest It may be an old idea but its it's still the only one that makes any sense to us I |