Show comes the dawn despite the razor thin popular majority of towo votes out of the 66 million cast and tho the subsequent charges of voting irregularities sizeable enough to change the picture in ill some states if they were substantiated we expect to see young mr kennedy inaugurated grated as the president of the united states and wo we applaud the fine sportsmanship of the vice president in combining his acknowledgement ac of defeat with congratulations to his hia opponent and his reminder to the rest of us that the election is over and that wo we must back the US team wo we note too the invitation of president eisenhower Elsen hower to ito have generous what the score is s liis boys coach tho the replacements on at this writing president elect kennedy appears grateful for these considerations as well lie ought to bo be but tor for all the con consideration that may bo be extended to him from tiny any and all quarters the clock ticks steadily on oil to the day when ho he will be on his own and will have to come up with some answers lie ho failed to give in his campaign speeches it will F soon bo be necessary for example for him to give serious thought to a method of financing his hia welfare projects for young and old at homo home and abroad of rebuilding the standing of the US among its neighbors and restoring our ability to fill the hearts of potential enemies with terror all within a balanced budget on better acquaintance with his now job which president eisenhower Elsen hower has mado made immediately possible the president elect is likely to discover that tho the US is more highly regarded by the neighbors than ho be had thought and definitely more feared by the would bo be obstreperous ones even so there ate aie still his lavish pie in tho sky and his pledges to labor promises prom ibes to all and sundry of still greater freedom to whipsaw and hamstring the national economy and national defense on these the reth ing administration cannot help him tho the now new president will have to do decide cide for himself how far lie can go and what lie he had best forgot forget nor should lie presume too much on oil the backing of a democratic congress whatever its political makeup it wi will 11 not bo be a rubber stamp congress |