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Show There Are No Loopholes In The Bill of Rights It looks now as if the days of words have stopped and that action is going to be taken to correct one flagrant example ex-ample in the case of the O. P. A. domination. Safeway Stores, large western retail grocery, has appealed a recent decision of the Emergency Court of Appeals to the United States Supreme Su-preme Court. The subject of the appeal is the Office of Price Administration and certain of its price regulations which have tended to drastically change the historical practices of business busi-ness and the public's privilege for economical buying. The Emergency Court of Appeals set up by Congress for relief from arbitrary rulings rendered a decision which permits the Price Administrator to freeze complaints aimed at its regulations through the simple stall by the OPA of neither granting nor denying a citizen's legal protest. Safeway's action is not an attack against the Price Control Act which is a public accepted law of Congress. It is, however, a warranted request for relief of illegal prerogatives preroga-tives which have been assumed by OPA and other Washington Washing-ton bureaus. These problems are not the sole concern of business though the immediate relief being sought in this particular : instance is by a successful grocery company. Rather this O J vvmuiy. IWlUCi kill problem of officious extra-legal control over all our lives is one of public concern. Everyone is familiar with shortages caused by senseless sense-less regulations governing the distribution of meat, potatoes, fruit and other food items. We are currently aware that much of the spoilage of perishable food has resulted from abrupt unworkable regulations emanating from theoristic planners in Washington. . Denial of legal relief to American citizens because of a loophole within OPA regulations certainly is not in the . spirit of the country's unified war effort nor does it appear to have been the intent of Congress in passing the Price Control Act. |