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Show Homer Wants To Hear From You Ever wonder what happens when you wire your congressman? con-gressman? By way of experiment we decided to find out last Sunday after hearing a news broadcast which attributed to a U. S. senator one of the zaniest remarks ever made about the American "peepul." The newscaster stated that Homer Capehart, Republican Republi-can senator from Indiana and chairman of the senate banking bank-ing committee, answered as follows when asked what action ac-tion his committee intended to take against inflation: "The people don't seem to be interested in an anti-inflation program." pro-gram." That did it, and before you could say, "Butter costs 93c a pound but who cares?" we had Western Union on the line dictating like crazy. "Sen. Homer Capehart, chairman U. S. Senate Banking Committee , Washington, D. C- Amazed at remark credited to you. Quote. The people peo-ple don't seem to be interested in an anti-inflation program. Unquote. High price of keeping my small family in food clothing and housing prohibits trip to Washington. Otherwise Oth-erwise I should gladly pay my own way to let you and your committee know just how interested are the people out here in anti-inflation program. Publisher, Mt. Pleasant Pyramid Mt. Pleasant, Utah" ' It must be said to the senator's credit that he gave prompt answer and Monday the following wire was phoned to us from Nephi. "My statement to effect public did not seem interested in present program because letters telegram calls were few when ordinarily controversial matters bring deluge of expressions from people." Step right up to the mailing chute, folks. The post ; office is sending letters to Washington at a bargain rate of : 3c per letter. |