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With elections ever closer, Congress has increasingly humbled itself in a vain effort to please everyone. And the resulting advancement of sectional and group interests has made coherent planning impossible. With its treasury tax bill reduced by almost two billions, the $25,000 limit on personal income discarded, and effective price ceiling hamstrung by a fifty per cent cut in OPA funds, the administration anti-inflation program forms a striking case in point. The continued refusal of Congress to grant Leon Henderson necessary powers and appropriations in the struggle against inflation, and its insistence on farm price parity still threatens the price structure of the nation.

Even the military effort has suffered. Typical of Congressional subservience to private enterprise was the vote of March 27th in which Representatives refused appropriations for development of the Table Rock and Bull Shoal power projects in Missouri-projects fully supported by the Army and Navy Munitions Boards and every other war agency. The Seventy-seventh Congress has failed us in our war effort. It is up to the people to see that the Seventy-eighth is of different make. For the number of dead-duck obstructionists bagged by the season's windup in November will unfailingly determine the future success of America's war effort.