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Show "HSEE-SAW under control of the Eisenhower administration. It would seem that these are two of the paramount domestic problems facing the U. S. today. The foreign situation is one for everyone to face realistically, with Republicans and Democrats alike being intensely concerned over what to do to stop communism from sweeping the world. Well, sir, the Tuesday vote would indicate that the Republicans are not doing so hot, that the Democrats Demo-crats are far from being shelved. But be that as it may, the Grand Old Party is justified in not losing heart or face, and the Democrats need not be overly optimistic. All good thinking folk will remember re-member that the Republicans inherited in-herited the debts piled up by the last 20 years by the Democrats; the Bourbon farm policies are virtually vir-tually still intact. To cut taxes would not balance the budget; to set in motion a new farm policy is not as simple as waving a wand. True, the Democrats won some significant victories, enough to put the Republicans on ther mettle, to shake them out of day dreaming. dream-ing. " "Rut thoro ic nnnther election in ' 1954, one. that is at least two years after the Republicans will have taken office, and it should be more of a criterion to go on than this off-year voting. Congress and Ezra Taft Benson by then should have a sound farm policy and program, and taxes and the budget will be more clearly |