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Show CONGRESSMAN DAWSON'S WEEKLY REPORT let will probably never know that we Republicans spent all this week reminding America of the works of our Party's great founder, Abraham Ab-raham Lincoln. FACES FROM HOME I had the pleasure of playing- host for a day to Miss Dorace Hadfield of Lehi, winner out of 300 high school contestants, ofthe Utah Junior Chamber of Commerce's "Voice of Democracy" contest. Miss Hadfield Had-field stopped for a day in Washington Wash-ington on her way to the national finals of the contest in Williamsburg, Williams-burg, Virginia. Members of my and Congressman Douglas Stringfell-ow's Stringfell-ow's staff conducted Dorace on a tour of historical buildings and I had the pleasure of introducing my good friend Speaker Joe Martin of the House to one of Utah's outstanding out-standing girls. I also had interesting discussions discus-sions with Frank G. Shelley of the Farm Bureau and Rex Mackay of the sugar beet industry this week. LETTERS FROM HOME The one thing a conscientious Congressman Con-gressman welcomes most are letters let-ters from home. I want to take this opportunity to invite all readers read-ers to send me their views. We may not see eye-to eye but each letter is studied carefully by me. In future columns I will write about some of the problems facing us back here and I will welcome suggestions from readers of any subject they would like to see discussed dis-cussed here. Note Tills will bo the first of a series of letters from Con-pressman Con-pressman William A. Dawson from Washington, in which he promises to explain some of the issues in Washington, and to give his views. Washington, D. C. President Eisenhower saved taxpayers a great deal of money and their representatives in Congress a great deal of time when he recommended rec-ommended against the re-enactment of laws setting up the Office of Price Stabilization and Wage Stabilization Board. The two agencies agen-cies except for small clean-up I crews will go out of existence on 1 April 30th. Economists predict ' that the agencies' death will hit the economy with all the impact of a feather falling on a mountain meadow. Competition already has made a mockery of ceiling prices and if it weren't for the fact that I have .had intimate experience with the hardiness of government bureaus I would have thought the OPS should have died of embarass-ment embarass-ment long before April 30th. Whatever the reason for the OPS, one thing is clear. It just didn't work. Because of conflicting conflict-ing reports, ill-advised grading regulations, livestock men have suffered severe losses. But the consumer did not benefit by reduced re-duced beef costs. Retailers and marketeers victims of devastating devastat-ing roll backs and squeeze plays in the past were afraid to cut prices much below ceiling figures. On the retail level, the effect of the OPS if it had any at all was to keep prices up artificially. And what did all this expensive bumbling cost us taxpayers? I have the figures in front of me. The OPS last November had 10,557 persons on the payroll, who in that one month alone drew $4,300,000 from the Federal Treasury. Treas-ury. The cost of the OPS office in Utah for the 12 months ended last June 30th was $393,200. Utah's State Board of Education can operate op-erate one of our junior colleges for nearly two years with that much money. Yet it comes out of he same pocket yours and mine. I was also interested in the average salary paid by the OPS. It is well over $400 per month per employee and this average includes typists, typ-ists, messengers and file clerks. One field of the OPS operations particularly attracted my attention. atten-tion. I noticed several lengthy orders or-ders last fall removing controls on mat-fibre rugs, straw dolls and reed hats woven by natives in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.. Isl-ands.. Your Congressional Appropriations Appro-priations Committee noticed the orders, too. Sure enough, OPS "investigators" "in-vestigators" had spent several weeks at government expense in the sunny Carribean finding out that price controls could be removed re-moved from these items "because their marketing does not contribute contrib-ute substantially to the cost of living." Anyway, thanks to the President's Presi-dent's stand, there will be after April 30th an additional $4,300,000 per month left in the treasury to balance the budget, to help support sup-port federal departments and military mil-itary installations and to reduce our taxes. j ANYTHING BUT TRUTH If the situation weren't so tragic, one could smile at the lies Radio Moscow funnels out to its millions of captive listeners. I have a translation trans-lation of a news report on the Inaugural celebration. The story notes (correctly) that Aaron Copland's Cop-land's "Portrait of Lincoln" was dropped from the musical program in protest to the composer's leftist left-ist affiliations. But here's where the Big Lie comes in. Moscow told its listeners the reason was the Republicans "want to forget Lincoln' Lin-coln' "Now there are other times and other songs," the Reds broadcast. broad-cast. And the people of the Sov- |
