Show Firm Hand Needed The Administration did a good job in cutting about from the Truman budget for the current year The country accepted the view that huge programs authorized by the outgoing regime made it impossible to balance Federal i expenditures and ancl revenue But it was disturbing to hear Treasury Secretary Humphrey Humphrey Humphrey Hum Hum- a strong advocate of economy say recently that the habit of extravagance is ingrained so deeply in government government government govern govern- ment that the deficit for fiscal 1955 may be nearly Mr Humphrey was correct in saying our government is steeped in the habit of extravagance That's one reason why the people voted for a change in 1952 If the Eisenhower Administration cannot curb the demands demands demands de de- mands of the entrenched Federal bureaucracy bu and deal courageously with pressure groups asking handouts handouts its failure failure fail fail- fail I ure Ule will be its own Future deficits cannot be blamed on past Administrations |