Show results of rationing the following article issued by the industrial news service is timely and to the it is certainly no to say that everyone in the country is familiar with rationing during these war years practically all of us at ons one time or another have waited fr the wheels githiri wheels of officialdom to allot us necessities As necessary as this thi is has been it is useless 7 for any friend of bureaucracy to claim that the waiting and the filling out I 1 I 1 of blanks and forms has not been a drag on precious resources and energy one hundred and thirty j million americans know battel shiploads Ship loads 0 of f gasoline thousands of tires and millions ns of man hours have been expended or lost by consumers in responding to the demands of government agencies familiarity with the waste and slowdown effect of bureau regulation may be a blessing it may result in easier riddance of the system when the war emergency ends consumers may heed the warnings of retailers and others who must run businesses under its dead weight this regulation is ro complete that any retailer willnell will tell you the only responsibility left to him in regard to his store is thit th zt of holding the sack to meet taxes bills or ban bankruptcy krupcy not only is hs he regulated in every detail but he lives with the constant reminder on countless blanks that heavy penalties and jail are ever present possibilities he will tell you that modern mass distribution which has helped give consumers an unprecedented high standard of living cannot survive this type of regulation in peacetime and neither I 1 can the freedom of the american people the wartime emergency rule lule of the federal bureaus must end within a reasonable time after peace or it will grow until the people have no power to remove it |