Extensions of Remarks 27007

July 23, 1971 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 27007 Mr. TOWER. I have no objection. When the Senate adjourns tomorrow, U.S. MARINE CORPS The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without it will adjourn to meet again at 12 o'clock The following-named officers of the Ma objection, it is so ordered. noon, Monday next. rine Corps for temporary appointment to the There will be a vote on the motion to grade of major general: invoke cloture on the pending business, Harry C. Olson Ross T. Dwyer, Jr. PROGRAM S. 2308, at circa 3: 15 p.m. on Monday Ralph H. Spanjer Joseph C. Fegan, Jr. next. Fred E. Haynes. Jr. Leslie E. Brown Mr. BYRD of West Virginia. The pro Lawrence E. Snoddy, gram for tomorrow is as follows: Jr. The Senate will convene at 11 a.m. ADJOURNMENT TO 11 A.M. Following the recognition of the two leaders under the standing order, there Mr. BYRD of West Virginia. Mr. Presi will be a period for the transaction of dent, if there be no further business to CONFIRMATIONS routine morning business for not to ex come before the Senate, I move in ac Executive nominations confirmed by ceed 30 minutes, with statements therein cordance with the previous order that the the Senate July 23, 1971: limited to 3 minutes. Senate stand in adjournment until 11 a.m. tomorrow. NATIONAL COMMISSION ON MATERIALS POLICY At the close of the transaction of The following-named persons to be mem routine morning business, the Senate will The motion was agreed to; and <at 4 bers of the National Commission on Mate resume its consideration of the pending o'clock and 11 minutes p.m.) the Senate rials Policy: business, S. 2308, the emergency loan adjom·ned until tomorrow, Saturday, Lynton Keith Caldwell, of Indiana. guarantee bill. No rollcall votes are July 24, 1971, at 11 a.m. Jerome L. Klafi, of Maryland. expected. J. Hugh Liedtke, of Texas. The calendar will be called with respect NOMINATIONS Lee W. Minton, of Pennsylvania. to any measures that can be transacted Rogers C. B. Morton, of Maryland. by unanimous consent. Executive nominations received by the Frederick Seitz, of New York. Speeches will be made. Senate July 23, 1971: Maurice H. Stans, of New York. EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS SENATOR HENRY JACKSON SAYS The Youth Corps program is premised on A major purpose of the Youth Conserva LEADERS OF TOMORROW MUST the fundamental concept that man and na tion Corps program is the development and ture cannot be treated separately. Human education of our greatest asset-our young LEARN OF OUR ENVffiONMENT IN resources and natural resources go together. people. Another major purpose is the conser ORDER TO PROTECT AND PRE Nature lacks meaning without man. And vation of our resources and the protection of SERVE IT FOR THE FUTURE man's life, to be meaningful, requires con our environment. tact and exposure to nature. The Youth Corps program is premised on the fundamental concept that man and na HON. JENNINGS RANDOLPH Among those present for launching ture cannot be treated separately. Human OF WEST VIRGINIA the Youth Conservation Corps program resources and natural resources go together. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES were Edward P. Cliff, Chief of the U.S. Nature lacks meaning without man. And Forest Service, and F. A. Dorrell, super man's life, to be meaningful, requires con Friday, July 23, 1971 visor of the Monogahela National Forest. tact and exposure to nature. Mr. RANDOLPH. Mr. President, 3 They know that this vital program will The Youth Corps provides an opportunity succeed. They know what can be accom for the leaders of tomorrow to learn more weeks ago it was my pleasure to accom about our environment; to be involved in pany the distinguished Senator from plished. Camp Wood, located on the site its protection and preservation. Washington (Mr. JACKSON) to Camp of a former CCC camp, once was situated More important, however, the program is Wood, in West Virginia's Greenbrier in the midst of mountainous forest land educational in the best sense of the word. It County, for the national dedication of that was badly cutover, threatened by is open to young men and women from all the first installation of the Youth Con erosion, and all the attendant forces of economic and social backgrounds. Too many servation Corps. bad land management. Today, the area Federal youth progran1s in the past have This is an exciting new adaptation of is a healthy, thriving, mature forest of provided opportunity to only the economical an old idea. During the depression years more than 820,000 contiguous acres. It ly disadvantaged. Moving young people from is a major factor in the economy of the homes of despa-ir to camps of despair is not in the 1930's there was created the Civil the answer. Isolating the economically or ian Conservation Corps which did ex West Virginia forest industry, and it is socially disadvantaged in special programs ceedingly constructive conservation work known nationwide for its excellent wild isolates them from society and from sharing in the Nation's forests and parks. As a life and recreational opportunities. in the common goals and purposes of the House Member, I helped to bring this This example of rescuing nature from nation. effort into reality. man's depredations will be duplicated in Developing a sense of community, of re Today 2,200 young men and women are other areas in the years ahead. The sponsibility, and of common purpose, by Youth Conservation Corps, which recog bringing together young men and women once again mustering their abilities and from all segments of society is important, dedication to accomplish great new work nizes that youth must be involved if we are to keep our planet livable, already but it is only one of the benefits to be de in the parks and forests of America. They rived from the program. are there because a congressional leader is in action to assure that future. There are others: saw the need--even the necessity-to The words spoken by Senator JAcKsoN Sun1mer unemployment among teenagers capture the prevailing spirit of young provide a solid platform for the launch stands at 17 per cent; among black teenagers people and turn their concerns into pro ing of this truly worthy program. I ask it is 40 percent. This is intolerable in a ductive achievement. unanimous consent that his address be country as wealthy as ours. The Youth Senator JACKSON sponsored the bill to printed in the RECORD. Corps, if expanded, can provide new mean There being no objection, the address ingful employment opportunities. establish the Youth Conservation Corps, was ordered to be printed in the RECORD The backlog of needed conservation work and it was signed into law August 13, as follows: ' in our nation's forests and parks has reached 1970. I was privileged to join the Senator crisis proportions, but it can be reduced by from Washington as a cosponsor of this REMARKS BY SENATOR HENRY M. JACKSON the efforts of Corps members. Today, with this dedication ceremony, we Young men and women can be encouraged 3-year pilot program which holds much formally begin a program which will use the to pursue careers in the fields of recreation, promise for the future. creative energies of America's young people resource management and environmental Senator JAcKsoN's address at Camp to change the face and the character of the protection as a result of participation in Wood, located in the Monongahela Na nation. Youth Corps camps. tional Forest, was a stirring charge to It is a modest beginning-60 camps When I first introduced the bill to estab throughout the country and 2200 of our na lish the Youth Conservation Corps, I saw the young people and others assembled tion's youth-but it offers great promise for an opportunity for this nation to meet two there. He said: the future. of its most pressing needs-to provide con- 27008 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 23, 1971 structive employment and educational op RED CHINA A CONCENTRATION speak louder and more consistently than the portunities for America's young people and CAMP words we read and hear. at the same time, to preserve and enhance For instance, at West Point last May 29, our physical environment. There is often a President Nixon talked about prospects for tendency to view national problems in isola HON. JOHN R. RARICK the avoidance of war, and warned the listen tion from one another when, in fact, the OF LOUISIANA ing cadets against "wishful thinking and solutions for one can also provide the passive policies." This, if you please, was im solution to the other. So it is with the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES mediately after he told them that he had unrest of our youth and environmental de Thursday, July 22, 1971 good grounds to believe that a new era ot terioration. world peace was imminent and that the great The Youth Corps can provide young peo Mr. RARICK. Mr. Speaker, informa majority of the cadets "would never be ple with an opportunity to get off the streets tion about persons escaping from the called upon to serve in any war." and to engage in productive work and im tyranny of totalitarian Communist While the President was speaking, the portant learning experiences in our nation's countries seems to be a closely guarded world press was evaluating the new Soviet parks, forests and our public lands. In this Egyptian treaty which extends the Brezhnev way, we are attacking the root causes of secret from the American people.

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