Show WORLDS OF RED TAPE if anyone thinks the man who runs a retail store has an easy time of it he should read some of the directives put out by the office of price stabilization concerning what retailers and people in allied lines such as eating places must do to conform with the price control law these directives in many cases are extremely complex to comley with them a great variety of records which the retailer may or may not have on hand must be consulted an enormous amount of work of course is involved news reports say that OPS officials have been disappointed by the fact that a great many businessmen just done what the law requires require within swithin the time allotted them to make their reports and post their price lists this it can be confidently confidently y said because retailers and others are callous law breakers it simply reflects the fact that many of them particularly small operators the time the staffs or the knowledge to comply with regulations which have puzzled some of the top experts on business management and procedure it reflects the further fact that on numerous occasions OPS field fi lel id men fully understood the orders either and that on other occasions orders have conflicted with each other and have been impossible to follow this always happens when government 1 takes akes a hand in running the economy and puts an army of eager bureaucrats in charge the retailers the restaurant keepers and everybody else want to be good law abiding citizens and do their full part in the current effort to check price inflation but about all they get out of it is more and more headaches and the situation seems to be getting more confused all the time A christian will find it cheaper to pardon than to resent forgiveness saves the expense of anger the cost of hatred the waste of spirits hannah more |