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Show Dear Down On Your Congressman President-elect Roosevelt seems to have discovered what this newspaper has been urging for months: That the national na-tional budget should be balanced, not by levying more taxation, taxa-tion, but by cutting expenses. To this end Democratic leaders are said to be planning to give Roosevelt, in March "blanket authority" to climin-.- ate or consolidate such money - wasting yffy&'J-fc'V bureaus as ho sees fit. Knjk If the leaders are sincere, this will be a Krfn'J Ioiir step forward; if they aren't, things HMmM will go on in the same old way. Maybe we should feel optimistic about Nl the plan. We would, were it not for the fact that party leaders have been promising a long procession of presidents that very power and then refusing to do anything any-thing about it. ..- -As long ago as the days of Tatt and Roosevelt, eltorts were made to consolidate and eliminate bureaus; all of them failed when they came up against the stone wall of congressional congres-sional resistance. There is, it is true, a better chance today tnan ever De-fore De-fore Public opinion is thoroly aroused about taxes; congressmen con-gressmen know they are "on the spot," and that their actions, ac-tions, if contrary to public opinion, will get them into U U The individual American can help by bringing all the m-essure at his command to bear on his congressman and senator to give the president power, to trim the bureaucratic bureau-cratic tree of many branches. And any American who wants relief from his tax burden should start doing so now. |