Show f a t AHEAD BY GEORGE S S. BENSON ri College olle Team Work 1 Whom does your representative I represent This is a fair and timely I question moreover not as silly as asit ash i it sounds He is supposed to represent represent sent you and a few thousand other people in your county and an nearby counties but does he do it If so how does doe he go about it How does docs he know what the people who elect him think about questions he be must help decide t c cOf Of course congressmen all have plenty of people to tell ell them what to do and pressure groups are always on hand Whenever a congressman is appointed to an im im- important important im- im important committee he can be sure of one thing a line will form to the left outside his door people waiting to tell him which side of his bread is buttered show him very startling statistics shout words scare-words in his ears or and/or shed tears on his desk Welcome Callers Such lines are made up of miscellaneous miscellaneous miscellaneous I laneous people very much like lines lines' that form fonn in fn cafeterias or at ticket- ticket I office windows Usually nobody is is present whom you know or really want to see But when the unusual occurs when somebody from back home falls in line at a congress congress- congressman's congressman's congressman's mans man's door he gets admitted to the representatives representative's own private office Why The congressman congressman n wants to see him t I Representatives R are elected and sent to Washington to represent the people back home I know several of them and all told I have known a great many Every one I ever knew wanted sincerely to represent them well They were smart men but there was not a reader mind in the bunch They couldn't sit in Washington and have a a very clear I idea what the electors expected of I them The Right Approach In a few words the average average con con- congressman congressman congressman gressman gets plenty of advice of- of offered of of- offered to him and very little of it comes from the right place In rare instances when somebody writes or wires him from back home the mes mes- message message message sage represents one mans man's hasty perhaps judgment At other times when messages come in big bunches they plainly reflect a written frame frame up written by one man signed by many People who know how to walk in crowded streets and build their homes in layers sometimes make facetious references to Arkansas but down here we are doing something to help congress Just before Thanksgiving a group of sixty important im im- important important men of Batesville and there there- thereabout thereabout thereabout about held a meeting to consider some national legislation soon to be considered by their representative At the end of the meeting they i mailed him their opinion accompanied accompanied accompanied nied by a list of persons present Not an Accident The gathering was no kind of a co co- co- co incidence Somebody called the meeting and made sure that it was Conducted conducted in an orderly fashion Ar- Ar Arrangements Arrangements Arrangements were made to have some impartial expert opinion on hand to answer questions explain technical terms if necessary and j speed up deliberations The matter under discussion was something soon to come up before the committee of I which their congressman is a mem mem- ber I I would like to commend this method to public spirited and pa pa- patriotic patriotic citizens everywhere It is isI easy I enough for men who dont don't even evenI know ow their representatives representative's name to I lean against a post gate or a lamp lamp- lamppost lamppost post and revile Congress On the lother Iother other hand helping out a congress congress- congressman man who you know wants to do the right thing is loyalty teamwork and Uld nd citizenship of the first order |