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Page 2-A i f' H7/VS A r £JF C.4K—Henry Clay Stokes, Jr., of Hert ford is the owner of a new car, won at a recent auction sale at Belvidere-Chappell Hill Volunteer Fire Depart ment. Presenting the keys is Wayne Sawyer, department president, with Jimmy Chappell, fire chief, on the right. Sen. Sam Ervfoj,ffeifarts WASHINGTON—The Senate Government Operations Com mittee is considering S. 1177, a bill to establish a new con sumer protection agency. Dis enchanted consumers will welcome any bill of this na ture in the thought that "it is about time’’ that the fed eral government lends a helping hand to those who have purchased shoddy mer chandise or services. But before we get carried away in r.ew hopes for the future, it should be recogniz ed that this “age of Consum erism” has proposed a very drastic bill. I find difficulty in accepting as valid the thesis which underlies it— that consumers are a class of people separate and apart from all other people in our land and that there is so much antagonism between consum ers and producers of goods and services that we arc com pelled to establish a new super agency to work out problems that up to now we have somehow resolved by other means. What this bill says is that Americans have reached such a stage of dishonesty and dis trust that we can no longer live in harmony without cre ating a new federal regula tory agency with powers over all governments, departments, agencies and individuals. The strange thing is that while—the advocate* -of- t+i4s-- bill express the utmost dis trust of every other African they have the utmost faith in a new agency staffed with bureaucrats that will have vast powers never before granted to any American gov ernment. This is so because most of the powers granted to this new protection agency are so broad and so vague that they depend upon the protectors for interpretation. This bill, in its original form, can be compared to Old Mother Hubbard's dress. It covers everything remotely connected with the produc tion, the marketing, the sale of goods of any kind, except perhaps professional services. Thus, as drafted, although the bill has now been chang ed in committee in certain re spects, virtually every Am erican would be regulated as a producer of goods and ser vices. What is not readily realized is that we already have a vast network of fed eral and state agencies regu lating many of the same func tions in our economy. The Federal Communications Com mission regulates television, radio, telephone and tele- Resale Os Land Two Tracts of Sycamore PldritaHon on Albemarle Sound, ChovMMCMpty, n.c tliti PUBLIC AUCTION Thursday, Sept. 28,1972, 11:00 A. M. At Plantation Home on Road No. 1110 TRACT 1—102.25 Acre*. About 2,454 Foot oft Albtmarlo Sound— STARTING BID __s 82,475.00 TRACT 2—346-02 Acres. About 1,992 Foot on Albomarlo Sound— STARTING BID—. .$162,800.00 For Furthor Information Contact John A. Hammond, Trust Officar, or Ben L. Allen, Forester, Peoples Bonk 4 Trust Company, Executive Grayson H. .Hord ing Estate, Rocky Mount, N. C. 27801. Telephone (919) 442-7187. TRY A HERALD CLASSIFIED AD! graph! UnLUalioL The Inteisjahy JitnjlU'te Com mission rc%unne?. Transport!-, tion systems and facilities. The Federal Trade Commis sion regulates many business practices. The Securities and Exchange Commission regu lates security transactions. Under S. 1177, the new con sumer protection agency would regulate the regulatory agencies as well as virtually every facet of business. The difficulty with this is that we already have a maze of laws and regulations affecting our free enterprise system. Bur dening it further with a new super agency is likely to com pound many of the problems we now face in keeping busi nesses, large and small, alive. Without doubt there are some men in business who arc dishonest. There is no ques tion that capitalism is not do ing all that it should to sat isfy consumer complaints. The syslem is far from perfect but I seriously question where the process will end if we eventually have to have somebody lo regulate the regulators and then that sys tem does not work any better than what we now have. One thing for sure, it will cost' the consumer more to add tier, after tier of regulations, con trols and bureaucrats to the payrolls. In my judgment, most -businessmen are compelled to be honest simply because we' live in a competitive * and in our system those who produce the best goods and services for the lowest prices ultimately get the business. Good will is still the business man’s most valuable asset. Aside from that. I am dis turbed about the granting of | bread powers to one adminis-! trator in the federal govern ment who can preempt the j decisions of every other ad- i minislrator and every busi nessman and every individual in this nation. Such law is tailored to assure tyranny and even beneficienf tyranny soon turns sour. The bill can b" improved by establishing a board oi men to exercise its powers. The powers granted to the agency ought lo be review able. Moreover, the powers granted ought to be spelled out with clarity. For Congress to enact a consumer protection bill with out these ultimate safe guards could spell disaster not',-only for the businesses and? others affected but also foi££*£ie consumers themselves who Ultimately pay the bills. (rail ComethiM Special (p&. \markf/ WPtOUR FAVORITE FOODS Wat POPULAR PRICES! \market/ U.S. GRADE A WHOLE urreirs luter-s FRYERS SMOKED FRESH PICNICS PICNICS ‘33-53,-49c No Limit - Huy What You Need! 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