| Show L Get Bet Govern Government tOut Out Of Business Sen Wallace F F. F Bennett CR- CR R- R Utah in speaking to the National Convention of the PrInting IndustrIes Industries In- In of AmerIca recently urged the prInters to assume leadership In a nationwIde program program pro pro- gram to reduce govern government men t competition with private indus indus- try UTAH'S SENIOR Senator In speakIng to representatives of the printing Industry from all 50 states of the union told the delegates No other group In our nation Is better prepared or has greater opportunity than does the Ue prInting Industry to inform the AmerIcan public of the multIple problems created when government agencies enter enter en- en ter Into competition with prIvate enterprIse The power of the press is the power to inform to educate and win the hearts and mInds of men on the side of freedom and away from bureaucratic bureau bureau- cratic control For several years ears Sen Bennett Bennett Ben Ben- nett has sponsored legislation In Inthe inthe the Congress designed to get the government out of many business activities He has Introduced introduced In- In a bill In the Congress Congress Con Con- gress which would establish a aa aa a carefully framed policy to phase out gradually and terminate terminate nate many existing federal activities ac- ac whIch compete with a afree afree free enterprIse system HE CITED directives regulations regulations regu- regu lations and pamphlets Issued by the Johnson administration n which pay lip s service e I v IceD to eliminating government competition competition compe- compe with business Unfortunately Unfortunately however Sen Bennett said The Johnson Administration Adminis- Adminis 1 is not showing any signs of Implementing these instructions instructions and in fact government competition has s sharply h a l' l ply increased Increased in- in creased to the detriment of private enterprise Last year the federal government government gov- gov spent more than million dollars for printing but only 46 per cent or million mil mil- lion was performed by private industry the remaining 54 per percent percent cent was accomplished by the Government Printing Office and by the many many other p printing l' l i at I n g presses presses' owned and operated by federal departments and agencies agencies agen- agen cies Bennett In informed for m e d the Printers Printers' convention PUBLIC APATHY to this tl s problem must be overcome as the first step to solving this vexing problem and the printing printIng print print- Ing Industry is well equipped to overcome this lack of pUblic awareness of the magnitude of the problem Businessmen must quit relying on slogans to accomplish accomplish ac- ac results and come up with constructive alternative ve plans for reducing government competition and gaIning a greater great great- er share in the multi billion dollar business activities now performed by br the federal government government gov- gov Bennett admonished Sen Bennett was the principal principal pal luncheon speaker at the Printing Industries of AmerIca Second Government A Affairs f airs Conference held at the Mayflower Mayflower May May- flower Hotel In Washington D DC D.C. C |
