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of telephone calls this morning to my office and to
the Secretary's office indicating that persons did not
know of the public hearing, notwithstanding the fact
that these hearings are announced well in. fact in the
chamber and are included in the announcements made by
the Public Information Service, and in every way that
we have been able to advise, made known to the public
generally. This is part of the over-all problem of
getting the word out to the citizenry of these hearings.
It is particularly important when a committee goes to
the trouble of scheduling a public hearing in the
evening, at a time when any citizen can come and pre-
sent to the committee holding the hearing any views he
may have, that the citizens are not informed. I would
therefore request each delegate to make it his business,
to make himself a committee of one, to publicize in his
own locality to the greatest possible extent the open
public hearings by the various committees.
If you have any suggestions as to means by
which the Information Service can get wider publicity
of these hearings, they will be gratefully received. |
