Show A SORRY sonny RECORD the appropriations bills roll swiftly on through congress it la is eltar that before this war Is done we may haie bae a national debt ot of 2 0 00 0 0 or more no citizen complains when the money la Is to bo be used for real and necessary military purposes we are aie determined that hat every american fighting man mail mu must t be 0 the e best and most abundantly ant ly equipped on earth but what has happened to the promises of 0 drastic retrenchment in non defense expenditures A glance at the record tells the soi ry story stor it is a statistical I 1 astick 11 fact that not a single significant si a nt cu cut t has hai been made in any branch of the government the non rion defense bureaus grow bigger and fatter waste and duplication of effort continue aa estial 11 extravagance Is still in the saddle and the people pay it Is 1 a a truism that all seekers of office promise economy and that once elected their pledges are aie immediately forgotten it la is up to the citizens of africa the people who pay to refresh those short memories me moiles there Is no excuse whatsoever tor for the spending of a single tax dollar for foi any activity which could be abandoned or deferred that Is true of local governments and the national government mike alike the very solvency ot of this country depends upon the g greatest possible retrenchment in all gov eminent function which are not directly i related elated to the prosecution of the war that Is the re of our public servants they the cannot evade it |