Show the insistent demand of the people for a national budget system by PAUL M WARBURG federal reserve board the change caused by the war in the chart of oe the world is probably no more ile drastic than the transformation horn bom of the same cause el that haa 1 taken place in the human mind thoughts that were ware characterized as utopian dreares dreams only four bears ears ago are now being formulated into actual plans plane by highly practical men having both feet on the ground the national budget idea is a now case in point sporadic efforts in lie its balut behalf if have been made for decades both path parties stand committed to it but it me could id not take tangible form in the past because conditions and minds were not ripe for it now ow they are an the war has done away with stagnation it has haa given so me gigantic c a scope cope to our political ammonium econom io and social metal problems that on the one hand it has awakened fruin from lethargy the peoples mind that gre generally bothers very little about the intricacies of government and OR on the other it has I 1 imbued b rea our one legislators with a realization of their grave responsibilities aties it the problems pro blema of government are am now DOW so staggering that they are an capable at least of overcoming the point of new of the local or personal at mind interest the angle of the bailiwick must meet now make room one for th the a IS larger rg or national mt interest t it is the conscious and subconscious recognition of these them facts that in I 1 congress has brought about the crystallization of the thought that we roust must in modernize IT a our governments financial methods and which on oil the part of the people has haa brought about an insistent demand for a national budget sa extern stem george bernard shaw poverty la is the greatest of evils and the worst of crimes ow our first find duty a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed is fis not to he be poor poor but honest the respectable poor and such phrases are as intolerable rod and go aa immoral fis as drunken but amiable fraudulent but a good after dinner dincer speaker splendid criminal or the like |