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16 The Newt-Review, Roseburg, Ore Frl., Nov. 18, 1949 Each Word Spoken In Congress Costs Taxpayers Of United States 6 Cents By JANE EADS WASHINGTON Every time a member of Congress opened hl , , - - i lni of rnnovpwm I mat t hp tax- niOUUl uil uc a....' r - payers six cents. Spoken words filled 15,386 pages In the Congres sional Record, averaging 1,550 words to the page. The total number of words was 21,000,000. The cost of printing the Record for the session was $1 260,000. Newsmen In the galleries fig ured that the 1,340 bills passed by Congress averaged about 15, 000 words each. At that rate each law would cost an average of $900. In addition to the spoken words, the appendix of the Rec ord, where remarks of members are extended, carried some 9, 500,000 words. The cost of print ing these for the session was about $500,000. Congressmen can ask to have remarks extended by unanimous consent and In this way Include anything they think will please the folks back home. Included in the appendix are editorials from newspapers, speeches made at conventions and elpewhere, po ems and essays. Suggestion To Poets If you have written a poem, for Instajice, and can't get a regular publisher to accept it, you might ask your congressman to get it published in the nation's best seller, the Congressional Record. In the appendix of the Record for Oct. 13 were five speeches and prose piece on Christopher Columbus, the latter included by Rep. John J. Rooncy (D-N.Y.) and taken from the New York Journal-American. An address by Eric Peterson, general secretary-treasurer of the International Association of Machinists, at the 31-st annual meeting of the Illinois State unamoer oi Commerce, was in cluded by Sen. Paul Douglas (D. 111.). Sen. Byrd (D-Va.) Inserted a speech he made before the national wholesale druggists con vention at Atlantic City on "The March to Socialism." Sen. Mar tin (R-Pa.) included a speech made by him, but read by Dr. Raymond Kestler, at the 89th An nual Pennsylvania Sunday School convention at joniratown. Rep. O. C Fisher (D.-Tex.) whipped up a piece on the cen tennial of the angora goat in Am erica. He pointed out that Amcr lea Is the leading angora produc er and that more than 80 percent of the angoras in America now make their home In the south west Texas region he represents. cA v ;7 'iff i Z J ,r V rt MKM V f i. . - I'M V y.- r f i f W v v-V1 in this pastel felt bonnet. ..caressed with flowers... frosted with whisper-light maline Millinery Second Floor f. it A A ft 1TUHH fO. ItBOANCt,, .TO 9 N DO U Vv .TO TH CLASSIC, utriN row DC I). so f0") J A RARE PERFUME WHOSC IKOUISITC V&fyf rR0NCI IS CADOIIO TMH0U8M A COLUICTIOM VW 1 f "SHACINd TOILIT WATtK. DUSTINS POWOIH. , " AN0 CH,T llfl- - 9 i t . I I , r f. 51 tOHHw.i-iu.fj If 5' I 1 lACHITi H.fO VL VV PORTLAND PRIMATE PARLEYS ON PROGRAM Right Rev. Benjamin Dagwell, Bishop of Ore gon's Protestant Episcopal church, was' guest of KRNR's popular program, "Linger Awhile with Carol and Lyle," Thursday afternoon. The Oregon Episcopal head was interviewed by Carol Kerr, above left and Lyle Fenner, above right. Bishop Dagwell is' studying a list of questions that were about to be put to him. The taped interview was transcribed over KRNR today. Bishop Dagwell attended Cincinnati university and Seabury Divinity school. He was elevated to the top Epfscopal post of Oregon in 1936. In 1930-34, he served on the Na tional Council of Protestant Episcopal churches. He is a member of the board of overseers, Whitman college and member of the board of regents, Reed college. Bishop Dagwell was here to head confirmation of a class at the Episcopal church last night. (Staff photo). "DRUNKS" PENALIZED Justice of the Peace A. J. Ged des reported disposition of the following cases which appeared before him in Justice court: uwt .Tnhn nrnRR. rift. 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