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Show I THE AMERICAN WAY r ' PUT OUT vlK, FIRE DeWitt Emery We are indebted to James A. Farley who not too long ago was one of . the biggest of the big wheels in the New Deal, but who got out when he saw where Roosevelt was headed for taking President Truman's formula and doing a little figuring fig-uring on his own. Recently Mr. Truman stated that by the year 2000, based on a projection of the growth of the past 50 years, this country would have a national income of a trillion dollars that's one thousand times a billion and every worker would be making at least $12,000 per year. Mr. Farley felt that Mr. Truman Tru-man should have applied his projection to at least two other items, the cost of government and the number of people working' work-ing' for the Federal Government. Govern-ment. He contends, I think rightly so, that based on the record of the past 50 years, federal spending and employment employ-ment are both likely to increase at a much faster rate than' national na-tional income. However, disregarding disre-garding the possibility of a faster fast-er rate of increase, Mr. Farley found, that, "If we take cost of government for 1900 and compare it with the cost of government gov-ernment for 1950 and then' figure fig-ure the same rate of increase for the next 50 years, our government gov-ernment (in the year 2000) would cost six trillion dollars, or six times as much as the whole national income. "On the same basis we would have working for the federal government (in the year 2000) 20 million men and women. The lesson of these simple figures," Mr. Farley added, "is that unless un-less we find some way to reduce re-duce the cgst ef government it will soon grow so great as to consume not only everything we all earn1 but everything we have all saved, everything that we call property which is owned by all of us." Mr. Farley is 100 right. Federal spending must be drastically dras-tically reduced and we are about out of time. The budget for fiscal '51, starting next July 1, is our last chance. If Congress appropriates the 42,4 billions Truman has asked for, then in my judgment we'll go on to larger and still larger budgets year by year with bigger- and bigger deficit until ihe Inevitable Inevi-table national collapse which will bankrupt you, me and everyone ev-eryone in the country. We know from the '51 budget I that the Administration proposes propos-es to accelerate the pace of its headlong rush toward state socialism so-cialism and national bankruptcy, bankrupt-cy, so there won't be any help from that quarter on putting out or controlling the fire, We algei know from the action ac-tion taken on previous big-gpending, big-gpending, grossly e x c e s s i v e budgets that if Congress is left to itself the budget for '51 will be approved just about as presented. pre-sented. This brings us right back to us Mr. and Mrs. America. If we speak up, if enough of us let our representatives in Congress Con-gress know that we want the budget cut bylr-, I it will be cut, that's? 15. Senator Byrd of Vir- SUr t knows more about f'?' h0 ' spending than anyone''a the country, Says that1 in ' get for '51 can be C hon dollars without im S',x in any way with any S ll sential functions or .th ' the federal govern ' to you personally anri 'i l s up ' ually, yet, I mean yl 1 definitely is running tine |