Show Last Barrier Congress the bewhiskered target of cartoonists and scapegoat for most of the country's Ills Is actually a part of the tho last barrier that stands between the t American people and outright despotism despotis The other part Is the tho Supreme Court To confirm this fact one need o only my consider the recent controversy betty bettya between a leading merchandising concern Safe Safe- Safeway way Stores and the OPA Several months mop ago In conforming with provisions of the Emergency Price Control Act Safe Safe- Safeway Sat way registered complaints with the OPA 0 setting forth certain alleged Injustices In the price rules Congress Included a clause In the Act stipulating g that su ch complaints must be acted upon within with 30 days by the OPA In the absence ot the privilege of recovering damages prompt relief from unworkable price d de- de decrees e trees crees Is the sole protection prote of mercha n However the complaints were not answered within the prescribed period pert d' d Safeway then appealed to a special em- em cc which held that since OPA 01 s had bad not denied the tho complaint the ca cause u se was not within that courts court's jurisdiction o n In simple terms the decision tr if ail allow owed oed ed to stand means that OPA can prevent n a private citizen from having his day In Incourt ind court by merely neglecting to pass JUdg- JUdg ju d g ment upon any protest coming before As the tho case goes before the United States Supreme Court a recent warning uttered by Representative Hatton W. W ot of Texas rings with new mCADIng mean mean- meaning Ing The bulk of what are in effect our general laws are aro now being made mado not by Congress but by bureaucrats The threat ot of bureaucracy to personal liberty has become real and deadly Only Congress has the power to remove this threat |