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Show measure which will go a long way toward creating more deficits, ultimate ul-timate higher taxes, and further degeneration of the dollar's worth. The budget can be balanced. Inflation can be checked. But it is going to take the kind of public support for economy that members of Congress, on both sides of the aisles, can really see, feel and understand to bring this about. Cheers for What? There can be small doubt that President Eisenhower's attempt to balance the budget and prevent further inflation--which is clearly the most pressing and urgent of all domestic issues--has captured the support of the nation. The polls show that. But, as Congress' action on the public works bill proves beyond the shadow of a doubt, the line between a balanced and deficit budget is ominously thin. The public works bill is a pork-barrel bill in the classic manner. It provides money for projects in virtually every Congressional Con-gressional district, and many of these are unnecessary, undesirable, un-desirable, and represent a cynical political desire to spend because spending is supposed to produce votes. The President vetoed the first version of this bill, and was upheld by the margin of a single vote in the House. The second version, which differed only in unimportant particulars from the first, was also vetoed. But this veto was over-ridden with votes to spare. Press reports say that, when the tabulation was announced, the House greeted the news with cheers and wild applause. Time may prove that that greeting was for a |