Show WALTER SHEAD what about federal spending F FEDERAL spending in general and president Tr 1947 2947 budget in particular combined to make a wonderfully bo bouncy ancy political football which both parties have kicked about all year A political football is a thin tissue of truths and hau half truths inflated out of all proportion with air of a strictly torrid temperature As a result the average american working man continues to go about thoughtfully rubbing two nickels together and wondering if his government is really as extravagant trava gant as aa a night club blonde or whether it Is making a genuine effort to cut financial corners comers what chatis Is the truth probably it Is impossible to get an accurate bearing on all the true facts the republican congress raised a victory chant over its cutting of mr air Tr budget esti estimates matix and it we can believe what we read many agency apko appropriations pria eions were slashed considerably including the army navy interior department and agriculture department but the president with a weather eye out tor for his bis big day in november 1948 has come up with another idea he has accused congress of working the hidden ball trick intimating that the illustrious members have shifted various budget items around to produce the illusion that they have effected a great savings in other words did we put any money in the bank or did we blow it all at the races A A A |