Evening star., 1946-01-21
Truman Reiterates
Demand for Action
On Domestic Program

VII UOnleSIC Program
Following is a condensed per-
ston OF President Trun1an's COM
otned message on the budget and
the state of the Union"
To the Congress of the United
States:
A quarter century ago the Con-
gress decided that 1t could no longer
consider the financial programs of
the various departments on a piece
meal basis. Instead it has called
on the President to present a COM
prehensive executive budget. The
Congress has shown its satisfaction
with that method by extending the
budget system and tightening its
controls. The bigger and more
complex the Federal program, the
more necessary it is for the Chief
Executive to submit a single budget
for action by the Congress. .
Since our programs for this Pc
riod which combines war liquida-
ton with reconversion to a peace
time economy are inevitably large
and numerous it is imperative that
they be planned and executed with
the utmost efficiency and the ut
most economy. We have cut the
war program to the maximum ex-
tent consistent with national Sc
curity. We have held our peace
time programs to the level neces-
sary to our national well-being and
the attainment of our postwar OBJ
JectiveS. Where increased pro-
grams have been recommended, the
increases have been held as low as
is consistent with these goals. I
can assure the Congress of the ne
cessity of these programs. I can
further assure the Congress that
the program as whole Is well
within our capacity to finance it.
AL the programs I have recon-
mended for action are included in
the budget figures.
Has Combined Messages.
For these reasons I have chosen
to combine the customary message
on the state of the Union with the
annual budget message, and to in
clude in the budget not only esti-
mates for functions authorized by
the Congress, but also for those
which I recommend for its ac-
ton.
With the growing responsibility
of modern government to foster
economic expansion and to promote
conditions that assure full and
steady employment opportunities, 1t
has become necessary to formulate
and determine the Government
program in the light of national
economic conditions as a whole. In
both the executive and the legis-
lative branches we must make ar
rangements which will permit us to
formulate the Government program
In that light. -
In his last Message on the State
of the Union, delivered one year ago,
President Roosevelt said: This new
year of 1945 can be the greatest
year of achievement in human
history. 1945 can see the final end
ing of the Nazi-Fascist reign of
terror in Europe. 1945 can see the
closing in of the forces of retribution
about the center of the malignant
power of imperialistic Japan. Most
important of all-1945 can and must
see the substantial beginning of the
organization of world peace.
All those hopes, and more, were
fulfilled in the year 1945. 1t was
the greatest year of achievement in
human history. 1t saw the end of
the Nazi- Fascist terror in Europe,
and also the end of the malignant |
power of Japan. And it saw the
substantial beginning of world or
ganization for peace.
Pays Tribute to Dead.
Everlasting tribute and gratitude
will be paid by all Americans to
those brave men who did not come
back, who will never come back
the $4,000 who died that the Nation
might live and progress.
The beginning of the year 1916
finds the United States strong and
deservedly confident. We have a
record of enormous achievements as
democratic society in solving prob
lens and meeting opportunities as
they developed
And for the immediate future the
business prospects are generally so
favorable that there is danger Of
such feverish and opportunistic &C
tivity that oar grave postwar prob
lens may be neglected. We need to
act now with full regard for pitfalls;
we need to act with foresight and
balance. We should not be lulled by
the immediate alluring prospects |
into forgetting the fundamental
complexity of modern affairs, the
catastrophe that can come in this
complexity, or the values that can
be wrested from it.
To achieve success will require
both boldness in setting our sights
and caution in steering our way on
an uncharted course. But we have
no luxury of choice. We must move
ahead. No return to the past is
possible. -
Plans to Develop UNO.
Lie cFOluGlOll Oh CeIlbuIltS mas
brought us to new era in world
history in which manifold relation
ships between nations must be for
malized and developed in new and
intricate ways.
The United Nations Organization
now being established represents al
minimum essential beginning. It'll
must be developed rapidly and
steadily.
On the domestic scene, as well
as on the international scene, wei
must lay a new and better founda-
ton for cooperation. ="
The general objective is to move
forward to find the way in time
Of peace to the full utilization and
development of our physical andI
human resources that were demon
strated so effectively in the war.
To accomplish this, it is not in
tended that the Federal Govern
ment should do things that can be
done as well for the Nation by pri-
vate enterprise, or by State and
local governments. On the con-
trary, the war has demonstrated