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Show osophy he adopted twelve years ago . . . Businessmen pledged to expand postwar production and distribution distribu-tion on a scale that will provide an estimated 55,000,000 jobs for the country, expressed concern about the budget message's hint of possibly still larger expenditures expendi-tures for relief abroad, and its recommendation for expansion of the borrowing power of the Farm Security Administration, the Rural Rur-al Electrification Administration, and the Commodity Credit Corporation. Corpo-ration. With the federal debt rising toward $300 billion, business busi-ness spokesmen believe a, balanced budget is the first essential of a sound postwar ecenomy. ky JamiS Preston President Roosevelt's two recent re-cent messages to Congress have served to reveal the broad outlines out-lines of the coming struggle over the future of America's free, competitive-market system. Yet, paradoxically, par-adoxically, the budget message was acceptable alike to some Congressmen Con-gressmen who want private business busi-ness to get a fighting chance to continue in peace the record that has made our nation the "arsenal of democracy," and to avowed New Dealers who demand more and more collectivist control over all business . . . The fact is that, as far as budget bud-get figures are concerned, the budget message was as nearly encouraging en-couraging to optimism as could reasonably be expected. It paid at least lip service to sound economy, econ-omy, saying, for instance: "It is the responsibility of business enterprise en-terprise to translate market opportunities op-portunities into employment and production. It is the responsibility responsibil-ity of the government to hold open the doors of opportunity . ." New Dealers found encouragement, encourage-ment, though, in the cumulative effect of scattered and apparently secondary observation that referred re-ferred to the future beyond the fiscal year covered by the budget. They proclaimed that the President's Presi-dent's budget message, taken together to-gether with his message on the state of the Union, showd FDR still faithful, to the economic phil- |