Government Budget Defended by Weeks

Sinclair Weeks '14, Secretary of Commerce, last night defended the 1958 budget of the Eisenhower administration "in the main," while acknowledging that in some areas "we're probably spending too much money."

He asked a dinner gathering of businessmen at M.I.T.'s Auditorium to "remember that there are two sides to this question of government spending."

Weeks suggested that his audience "bear in mind" that 62.6 percent of the funds requested are for defense purposes. "This is a tough world we live in," he said, "and, believe me, we're not going to save our free way of life without paying for it."