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Show " " A Challenge to Demo Leaders The vast baggage of government should be reduced. It is overweight and unsynchronized. Why, for example, have a Committee on Latin American Affairs when there is an Under Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs and when we deal regularly with Latin American countries through ambassadors and through the Secretary himself? The budget should be balanced by intelligent planning and administration, not by budget worship. Most of the wasted expenditures of the administration have been caused by dispersion disper-sion of effort. Fiscal success can be achieved by returning the responsibility of administration to those agencies from which it was rashly taken, supposedly to "solve" perodic crises. The Democrtic leadership should re-establish a sense of national pride and purpose a sense of each citizen's participation participa-tion in government. It should summon to government duty dedicated, honest, self-sacrificing people who are aware of (Continued on Page Four) A Challenge to Demo Leaders (Continued from Page 1) the gravity and responsibility of their service. It should tell the American people the truth about America's position in the . world. There should be no attempt to hide the realities of our national problems from the people. The leadership should be a genuine partnership with the people without excuses, bromide bro-mide or hypocricy. This leadership should take the responsibility for bringing to the country a sense of the harsh reality of the second half of the 20th century. We must compete or perish. A challenge has been made to the American people, hurled by the rulers of a nation determined to overcome us economically economic-ally and if necessary, militarily. This challenge must be answered not by road-show diplomacy, not by nursery rhyme sermons on our infallible supremacy but by hard work, faith and dedication dedi-cation to our future. The world has changed drastically since World War II. World Leadership will not naturally fall to America any longer. We must work for it. If we do not, if we fall behind, our way of life in which we believe will not long endure on this planet. The Democratic leadership must show the way. We must not place our faith in an administration composed of apprentices committed to a regime of failure. Rather we believe in a party whose excuse is only that there is more work to be done than can be done. The challenge is immense, yet superable. |