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Show The People Are For Victory The Associated Press recently questioned sixty-nine Democrats and Republicans from forty-two states, seeking to ascertain what the people told their solons during dur-ing their visit home while Congress Con-gress was on vacation. The majority found their people peo-ple pleased with War's progress but "critical of domestic affairs, with most of the complaints mentioning men-tioning restrictions and regulations." regula-tions." This is about what one would expect. Some of the poeple at home, at most a small majority of the population, would like to win the war but they do not like the restrictions and regulations which affect their convenience. The only Government agency singled out by name for criticism criti-cism was the OPA, with eleven members, most of them Democrats, Demo-crats, mentioning it. It should not require a poll of anonymous Congressmen to find out what the people of this country coun-try think in regard to the war. The vast majority of Americans are for any restriction, regulation, or sacrifice, that will support their fighting men. The bulk of them have no sympathy for chronic complainers who cannot can-not keep leased in times of peace, much less in times of war. |