Unpopularity Contest

The long July days, with the fish jumping and the beaches cool, made the hard lot of the OPA inspector that much harder. Up & down the land, OPAsters found themselves as unpopular as prohibition agents once were.

> In Colorado, two inspectors dressed as fishermen visited Gunnison, checked up on the automobiles at trout streams, made the mistake of leaving their own car unguarded while they ate in a Gunnison restaurant. They departed with 1) severe intestinal disturbances presumably caused by doped food, 2) an automobile damaged ($200 worth) by sugar dropped in the gas tank.

> In Connecticut, the Rev. Fletcher D. Parker tried to get OPA permission to make a 140-mile trip to his summer cottage, where he has a Victory Garden. Failing, he went anyway, invited the OPA to stop him, was hauled before a ration board and deprived of gasoline until Oct. 1.

> In Wisconsin, Governor Walter S. Goodland refused to let state and local police stop cars for OPA inspection. (The state recreation chief told citizens that all they needed for a motoring vacation was a legitimate cache of A coupons and a car.) The Chicago Tribune, which has always considered the war an intolerable imposition, said in an editorial titled "Wisconsin Stays American": "[Wisconsin's] victory may be considered in the future to have been the Lexington of the second American revolution. . . ."

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