Show Other Points of View WHAT CO CONGRESS CAN DO IF IP IT WILL ILL Acting Actins- as an ani executive budget committee presided over overby overby overby by President Deschanel tho the French council of ot ministers concludes that thai tho the yearly national expenses can be reduced reduced re rc re- re at once by francs This is not such an enormous sum with tho the franc reckoned at its current ex exchange ex- ex change e value But for France and tho the French rench people it means What it says ays and in terms of or American money expresses cx- cx ex ex- presses a reduction of or This ia Is for a country much less than half as large largo in population as the United States It is r a n. budget wh whose e ex expense nse side whether In peace or war Is far less extravagantly gantly padded than cur Gur own Nevertheless the extreme figure of oC possible expense reduction given shen at Washington ton from the vastly Inflated war account I is hi or much below what the tho French government expects to be bo able ablo to do And no one in Congress Is now talking of or a dollar billion expense re reduction re- re or or much of ot any reduction at all Tho The prevailing talk is rather of new taxes to meet various Projects of ot In Increased In In- creased expense How does a a Congress falling taIling so far short in accomplishment accomplish ment meat of or what tho the financial position of or tho the country de demands demands de- de mands and wh what t can easily be done expect to fare tare in inthe the elections of Cr next fall New York World |