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Supplemental Defense Authorization for negotiating that tragic con:tUct so as standard of excellence in the newspaper Conference Report to preserve the honor of the United field. · States, protect our vital interests, and at In its quarter century of publication, the same time, allow the people of South the Jewish News has carved for itself a EXTENSION OF REMARKS Vietnam to work out their own destiny permanent niche in the rollcall of the OF in their own way. fourth estate. I believe there is good HON. EDWARD R. ROYBAL In addition, by expressing support for reason to forecast that the next 25 years OF CALIFORNIA "men of good will throughout the world" in the llfe of the Jewish News will be who are working to "prevent an expan even more impressive ·and gratlfylng than IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sion of the war," we are able to associate the past. Thursday, March 9, 1967 ourselves with the. efforts of our own It ls with considerable pleasure that Mr. ROYBAL. Mr. Speaker, I was leaders as well as such internationally I point to the Jewish News as an out most encouraged by the action of the renowned men of peace as Pope Paul VI standing symbol of American freedom House-Senate conference committee on and United Nations Secretary General of expression. and extend sincere con the 1967 supplemental defense authori U Thant in attempting to restrain the gratul·ations on the beginning of its 26th zation bill in agreeing to include a escalation of the Vietnam war and in year. ''Statement of Congressional Policy" exploring every possible avenue of peace originally proposed by Senator MANS ful settlement. FIELD and adopted· by the senate last I was particularly happy about the Air Pollution week. "Congressional Polley Statement's" The inclusion of the "Statement of declaration in favor of enlisting the help EXTENSION OF REMARKS Congressional Policy'' fully commits the pf all interested nations in convening a OF Congress to a program which many of us conference as soon as possible to utilize have long advocated. While it became the principles of the Geneva accords of HON. JOHN V. ·TUNNEJ necessary to include the statement in an 1954 and 1962 in arriving at an honorable OF CALIFORNIA authorization bill, it is still a big step for conclusion to this most unfortunate IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ward in establishing a policy on which conflict. ' Thursday, March 9, 1967 peace can be secured. This kind of forward-looking state The :final version of this statement ment of policy by an alert and responsi Mr. TUNNEY. Mr. Speaker, one of asserts: ble Congress, in my opinion, can make the most critical problems facing our Na The Congress hereby
Member Stat.a Branch Years Length of service
Carl Trumbull Hayden----···------·--·-·--- Arizona ______House ______Senate ______1912-21------~ ---·-·---·-- }55 years~ month. 1927-_.1914-65 ---______--···· -----··-·______-· --- 50years 2months. Carl Vinson __ ·--·--··------·-·---·-···- Georgia_---- ~ ---·- House••••• __ Sam Taliaferro Rayburn------·--··-----~--- Texas ••• _• .! ______do __ ---· 1913-6L______48 years 8 months. Joseph Gurney Cannon ______Illinois ______do ______1873-91, 1893-19f3, 1915-23 ___ 46 years. 0 0 1907-52______45 years 8 months. ~! ~E~J ~~\>i~r~~~~~~-·-:::::::::::::::::::::: -Ne:~ork':::-_-::: :::::~~:::::: 1923------·-·---·------44 years. Justin Smith Morrill_------··· ---···---·-·-- Vermont ______•••do_---·· 1855-67 ••• ·-······; -----·--··- }•a years 10 months. Senate_----- 1867-98_ -·------·· ·-••• - Lister Hill ___ ------__ ------______Alabama_------House..• ---- Senate ______~fJ::~~ :: ::: : :::: : :::::::: : :: }4a years 6~ months. William Boyd Allison_------Iowa______House ______1863-71 ______. }43 years 5 months. Senate ______1873-1908. ------Carter Glass ____ ------_____ ------______------Virginia______House ______Senate._.-·- ~~~:::::::::: : ::::: : : : ::: }42 years 5months. 6192 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD..:+- HOUSE March 9, 1967 .
Member · State J3ranch • I Years
Robert Lee Daughton ______North Carolina ___ House ______1911-53 ______: ______41years10months,11 leap years. Joseph William Martin______Massachusetts ______do______1921Hl7 ______41years10 months, 10 leap years. Clarence Cannon______MissourL ______do ______1923-M ______41 years 2 months s days. Kenneth Douglas McKellar. ------:;---- Tennessee______Senate._____ do______19171911: 5317 ------______}41 years 1 month 25 days. William Pierce Frye______Maine______House______1S71-SL ______'L..n th Senate._____ 1881'-1911 ______)"years 5 mon s. House______1869-79 ______'L..n years Senate ______1881-1911- ______J" · New York ______House______1919-59 ______39 years 11~ months. Nebraska ______do ______1903-13------39 years 10 months, 10 leap years. Senate ______1913-43______· John Taber------New York------e- House ____ ~-- 1~3------Do. Samuel Smith------Maryland______do______1793-1803 __ ... ______~---- 1 39 years 1 month. . Senate._____t'~~::-~~==== 1S22-33mt~====::::::::::::: ______: ==== _ Morris Sheppard ______: ___ ~ ------Texas______House______1902-13 ______}as years 5 months. Senate._____ 1913-41. ______.John William McConilack______Massachusetts •••• House ______1928------as years 4 months . .John Sherman______Ohio ______do ______1851H!L ______}as ears 4 da Senate ______1861-77, 1881-97------Y ys. Wright Patman------Texas ______House______1929-______as years exactly, 9 leap years. }'rederick Huntington Gillett ______Massachusetts ___ ~ -Sen~~~======~g~t~~~~======}as years exactly, S leap years. ·Robert Crosser------~-- -- Ohio ______House ______1913-19, 1923-55 ______a1years10 months. Nathaniel Macon. - ____: ______North Carolina __ - _____ do_ - ---- 1791-1Sl5 ______}a1 years S months 10 days. · J Senate______1815-2S ______Henry Cabot Lodge______Massachusetts __ -- House______1887-9a ______}:fl years s months days. Senate______1893-1924 ______----- 5 Alben William Barkley ______!_:____ Kentucky______House ______, 1913-27 ______}a years ~ mo tbs · Senate ______1927-49, 1955-56------7 2 n • Francis Emroy Warren______Wyoming ______do ______189Q-9a, 1895-l929 ______:fl years. Henry Laurens Dawes. -'- ---- ~~------, Massachusetts .••_. HouseSenate______1S75-931857-75 ______}36 years exactly, continuous, 9 leap years. Shelby Moore Cullom.--~------lliinois______SenateHouse______11883-1913865-71 ------______·-- \'.IA} years exactly, broken, S leap years. Henry Allen Cooper ______i. ___ J______Wisconsin ______House_ - ---- 1893-1919, 1921-31. ------35 years 11 months 211 days. 'l'homas Terry Connally__ - ----, ------'llexas ______-----d0------1917- 29------t~., years 10 months, 9 leap years. Senate______1929-53------} Howard Worth Smith_------Virginia______House_ - ---- 1931~1------~- 35 years 10 months, 9 leap years. Ellison Du Rant Smith______South Carolina.__ E;!enate_ ----- 1909-44------35 years 8 months. George Frisbie Hoar __ ------Massachusetts_____ House. - ---- 1869-77 ______-: ______35 years 7 months. Senate _____ 1877-190{ ______: ____ ~------} Claude Augustus Swanson.------Virginia______House_·_---- 1S93-1906 _____ ._:_ __ ..: ______35 years 6 months. , _ . ,, • • Senate ______1910-33 ______Edith Nourse Rogers __ :______Massachusetts___ :_ House. - ---- 1926--00 ______35 years 2~ months. William Rufus de Vane King______North Carolina. -- _____ do__ - --- lSll-16 ______\u years months 6 Alabama____ . ______Senate.----- 1Sl9-44, 1848--52. ------r . I Matthew Mansfield Neely _____ ·______West Virginia _____ House ______1913-21------1 ~~~:::---~=== mr;~~:~:~::======a4 years 3~ months. Senate______1949-58------Joseph Taylor Robinson ______Arkansas ______House ______1903-13 ______} years a months Senate ______1913-37 ______34 · Knute Nelson_------Minnesota______House______1883-S9 ______}a years' l month days. J • Senate ______1895-1923 ______4 24 Richard Brevard ~usselL------~- Georgia ______-----do______1933------34 years 1 month 20 days. Walter Franklin George ______do ______do ______1922-57------34 years l month. Brazilla Carroll Reece------Tennessee______House. - ---- 1921-31, 1933-47, 1951~1- ---- 34 years~ month. William Meyers Colmer._------Mississippi. ______do______1933------M years exactly, continuous, S leap years. Gilbert Nelson Haugen._------Iowa ______-----do______1899-1933______Do. _. Charles Curtis------Kansas_------_____ do______1893-1907------34 years exactly, broken, 8 leap years. • Senate.·---- 1907-13, 1916-29. ------Thomas Albert Jenkins------Ohio______House_ - ---- 1925-59------33 years 10 months, exactly, continuous. Hatton William Sumners______Texas------do______1913-47------Do. . - Roy Orchard'Woodruff ______Michigan ______do.----- 1913-15, 1921-53. ------33 years 10 months, exactly, broken, A. Willis Robertson_------Virginia______-seii~~:::::: ~~:::::::::::::::::::::: 33 years 9 months 26 days.
Wesley Livsey Jones______Washington __ ----- House_ -_:.. __ 1899-1909______33 years 8~ mopths. Senate._---- 1909-a2 _____ ------John Henry Ketcham------ New York_---~--- House.----- 1865-73, 1877-9a, 1S97-19()6___ 33 years S month11. Edward William PoU------J------~-- North Carolina ___ -----dO---.--• 1901-34-,------33years1 month,. Henry Harrison Bingham __ ------Pennsylvania ______: _do.----- 1S79-1912------33 years% month. Idaho_------Senate_----- 1907-MJ______32 years 10% months. · }"~afl1oru!~~~ci=:=====::::=: ::::::=== == Alabama __ :______House.----- 1887-1907 ______.: ______}3:2 years s~ months. , Senate ______1907-20.------. Virginia______do.----- 1933~------; ------32 yf.1ars 8 months. ~ Colorado______House._---- 1900-4L______32 years 6 mon~hs. North Carolina ______do_----- 193H7 ______82 years 5 month!! Z1 days. Illinois ______do______1935-______32 years 2 months exactly. TexasIndiana ______do ______•• ---- 19311------______: ___ ,: ______32years1Do. month. lliinofs ______do ______1933-49--, ------,------,·-; }32 years exactly, broken, 8 leap years. Senate_----- 1951------Fumifold McLe~dell SimmOllS--- --.- --·sr··-- North Carolina ___ House ______1887-89------' --} Do Senate______1901-3L ~ ___ _...______· . , J j • Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich ______Rhode Island _____ House ______1879-SL------.--~----:..--1a2 years exactly, continuous, 7 lea}' years. · , ' , Senate______1881-1911- ______.,,______. .. ·n Julius Caesar Burrows ______, ______~ --- - Michigan ______fe~~~~-_-::::: m~=igif~~~~:-~~~~==== a2 years exactly, broken, 6 leap years. :Harold Knutson ______·_------_ Minnesota ______House ____ _. __ 1917-49 ______: ______31 years lO·months, exactly, continuous, S leap years.
Allen~~~~~i!fte~=in~~~=== Towner Treadway ___======______======:___ _ ~~!?:~~~c~======~~::::::: ~~~tg:====~=::::::::::::: :: g~: · '· Wallare Humphrey White ______~:~~~~~~~::~--~~======~~:::::: = m~ ::::::::::::.:: :::::::: } ~~· I I . I · Senate ______1931-49 ______·-..,------• ' - f 'Schuyler Otis Bland______Virginia______House______191~------31 years 7 months. Thomas Hart Benton ______: ___ _ MissourL ______Senate_ ----- 1S21-5L ______} years 6~ months. House______1853-65 ______31 .Joseph Eugene RansdelL------Louisiana ______do______1S99-1913------: -·.::--- }al iears 6 months. Senate._ -·-- 1913-3L------1 .Jacob Harold Gallinger______New Hampshire_ - House______1885-89~------:-:.------}st years months. Senate______1S91-191S------5 .c>scar Wilder Underwood------Alabama ______SenateHouse______1915-271895-96, ______1S97-1915______. ______1J31 years 3 months 5 days. March 9, 1967 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE . . • - _, .. •.ii.. . •CJ -* 6193
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. ~ { Thomas Stalker Butler______:::~~ -- ~ ----- Pennsylvania _____ House ______1897-1928______31 years 2 months 22 days. August Herman Andresen ______!______Minnesota______do ______1925-33, 1935-58______31 years ~month. 1801-30, 1831-33______31 years. _~~~=~~m~~Burton::::: ;=·======·======~=· ~~~~======; =~:!t::::: 1889--91, 1895-1909 ______l House ______30 years 8 months. Senate ______~~~~=====::::: : ::::::::::= 1928-29 _------Joseph Jefferson Mansfield ______Texas ______House_----- 1917-47------30 years 4 months. Byron Patton Harrison_------Mississippi______do______Senate_._ ___ _ 1919-411911-19 ______:- ----: ------_ }3o years 3 months 18 days. John Tyler Morgan ______._ __ ·_: ______Alabama______do ••• ___ _ 1877-1907------30 years 3 months. Francis Eugene Walter.------" Pennsylvania_____ House. ____ _ 1933-1963------30 years 2 months 27 days. MichaelAllen Joseph Joseph Ellender------Kirwan ______------OhioLouisiana______HouseSenate ______1937------30 years 2 months exactly. Warren Grant Magnuson ______Washington ______do ______1937------Do. Senate ______~m-~=::: ::::::::::: :::::=: } Do. William Robert Poage _____ ~------Texas______House. ____ _ John Jackson Sparkman______Alabama______do______1937------Do. Senate ______mi~===::::::::::::::::::: } Do. William Steele Holman ______!____ Indiana______Hou'Se. ___ __ 1859-65, 1867-77, 188Hl5, · 30 years l~ months. Charles Anthony Buckley______New York ______do ______1897. 1935-651903-33 ______------_ 30 years exactly, continuous, 8 leap years. John Nance Garner_------T~as ______do ______Do. Reed Smoot______Utah ______·: _____ Senate ___ --- 1903-33 ____ ------Do. Earl Cory Michener ______._ Michigan______House ____ .,. __ 1919-33, 1935-51______30 years exactly, broken, 8 leap years. EugeneFrancis JamesMarion Keogh CockrelL______: ______~iesswo1: irk_-_-:-_:-_-_-_ ~onuasete_._-_-__·:: 1937-671875-1905 ______------'------_ 30 years exactly, continuous, 7 leap years. John Percival Jones ______" ___ . Nevada0______Senate ______1873-1903 ______Do. ' . 30 ye~s exactly, continuous, 6 leap years.
CARL T. HA-YDEN, who is still serving, I, therefore, am honored to< offer five competitive"lending rates. Competition holds the reco·rds for both con~inuous and bills which would- in free marketplace would determine the total service in Congress, as well as for Enlarge opportunities for educational- 11ates of interest; the consumer and not both continuous and total service in the ly disadvantaged veterans and expand the Government would be able to judge Senate. allowances under the GI bill; - if the rate or terms of interest are rea- Carl Vinson holds the recordS for both Increase the maximum amoUnt of sonable or·unreasonable. The object of continuous and total .. s~ryice in the · servicemen's group life insurance; :- this· legislation is to avoid any unneces House. · . Increase pensions to disabled veterans ~ sary governmental interference in the William P. Frye and Eugene Hale, and dependents; and ~ree marketplace ~nd therefore hope both of whom were from Maine, were . Assure that no reduction in .pension that the Congress t~es favorable action Senate colleagues for all bu,t the first 2 benefits Js made beca_use of teChhlc:ta.li- sqon. ' ' · · weeks of a period of 30 years, after hav- t_ies that mJ,ght arise should we.lncrease ~.. . [ ing ·been House· colleagues for exactly 8 social security allowances as- has been years. proposed. . · ·. _, Additional Accumulation of Leave Data have been broken down into half . I am sure many other Members ·of 1 '~· ~ months and days only sufficiently to this House will ·also want to spon~pr such EXTENSION OF REMARKS _ avoid ties. The same applies to con- legislation and lend their support to sideration of leap years. these worthwhile measures. OF Data for 16 contemporary Members '1 'I are as of March 4, 1967. ~~----- fJF CALD'ORNIA IN: THE HOUSE OF\ ~EPRESENTATIVES •I Tnith in ·Lending 1. · Thursday; .March 9, 1967 ~SION OF REMARKS ' · Mr. ' TUNNEY. Mr. Speaker, I would like to' join my colleague, OLIN TEAGUE, EXTENSION OF REMARKS in introducing a blll to authorize addl OJ' . -tioI).al , accwhuJation of leave in certain · 1 OF cALD'ORNL\ foreign areas. · ·. HON. JOSHUA EILBERG ·~·; ·1N THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The purpose of this.legislation, which · or ~NsYLvAmA . Thursday; March 9. 1967 . I introduced yestei;tlay, H,R. 682'7, is to allow a member of the Armed Forces to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. TUNNEY. Mr. Speaker,• today I accumulate more than 60 dars of leave Thursday, March 9. 1967 am introducing legislation to asst.st in when he has served 120 or more days M~. EILBERG. Mr. Speaker, over the : the promotion of economic stabilization in 'a"foreign area where there is hostile last several weeks we have been privi- by requiring the disclosure of finance activity. ·~ The serviceman would be able leged to have with us national and :local charges in Connection with extension of to,.. accumulate ~ up to ·9o days of leave. leaders of some of the very fine orga- credit. - . , "The legislation would ·be retroactive to 41 n1Zations, devoted tO veterans affairs, I , '.I'his bill will require lenders .to ,p:o- June 30, •19 .65-. r r r . • ; 0 Be~ause Philadelphia continues to be v1de consumers with three 1?asic:t facts. .Under existing poltcY:: military person- a center for people devoted to this cau8e F'i;rst. An it~Dµzed . sta~m~nt of ~l fi- ; 'nel may apply for two :f~day leaves W:hile . and because I myself .am a member of ·. nanc~ charges. • serving' a 12-month four of duty 1n Viet- several of these organizations, I have - Second. The total ttnanc~ charge in nam. r~ ~~l!Se ·of the ~xisting leave pol- , been pr)vileged to discuss with leaders of dollar~ and cents. . Icy applicable to Vietnam'. and the un- veterans ,organizations a number of their . Third. The total finance charge ex- certainties involved I believe that. a problems and their hopes. .< .Presse,d as an annual pet~entage rate. serviceman should be allowed to accu- A few weeks ago President Johnson de- The bill would not regulate credit or mulate additional leave:of up to 30 days. livered a message to the Congress in set maximum interest ceilings. It would Existing regulations limiting the accu which he stated in effect that this ad- instead, provide for full disclosure of the mulation of leave to 60 days is changed ministration has found many areas of cost of credit in order to give the con- only for those serving at least 120 days agreement with the legislative program · sumer an intelligent choice and ,to pre- in a foreign area where there is hostile of the veterans themselves. All of us vent the uninformed use of credit from activity and increases their leave to a agree, I think:, that the time has come to acting as a detriment to the economic maximum of 90 day~ for the fiscal year recognize the contributions made to our stabilization of our national economy. after· their return from the foreign area. Nation by' ·our men :fighting in Vietnam Our free enterprise system would be The Armed Services:committee favor- as by our veterans of other wars. . Cer- strengthened by allowing the consumer ably reported this legislation last year tain steps should be taken now. to make an intelligent choice between and it was passed by the House. How- 1 ., ~ ' • ""\ -
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ever, no Senate action was taken. I leagues may measure his actions. I ho~ Commissioner Barnard's first repcrt to hope that the Senate and the House will that the House will enact legislation Congress the following year bore out take early action on the bill this year. such as this as soon as possible. many of these fears and misgivings. He found that the elementary schools in the North had suffered during the Civil War, The lOOth Anniversary of Office of while those in the South were demoral Legislation To Establish a Select Commit ized. Many institutions of higher edu Education cation had closed their door~ or operated tee on Standards and Conduct and To intermittently during the war. The new Provide for the Disclosure of Outside EXTENSION OF REMARKS West needed help in shaping its school Sources of Income OJ' system. As to his task of gathering information HON. AUGUSTUS F. ·HAWKINS and statistics on education, he reported: EXTENSION OF REM:ARKS OF CAIIIFORNL\ No two states or cities ... include the same OF IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES particulars . . . or are so incomplete .' . . or Thursday, March 9, 1967 omit so many vital points ln the conditions HON. JOHN V. TUNNEY of the schools . . . as to render the report oF cALIFORNL\ Mr. HAWKINS. Mr. Speaker, this almost meaningless. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES year marks the lOOth anniversary of the He added: Thursday March g 1967 establishment of the U.S. Offi.ce of ·Edu- • • _ cation. At the time the Offi.ce was estab- Nearly one-halt of the States have no em- Mr. TUNNEY. Mr. Speaker, I would llshed-84 years after the signing of the clent system of public schools in operation. like to introduce legislation today to es- Constitution and following the Civil And- tablish a Select Committee of the House war-the Nation was well committed to of Representatives on Standards and the principle that universal education de!~~~~~~:!1 ~':i~:i:re~!t.good private or Conduct. The select committee will con- was inseparable from uplversal freedom. sist of 12 members to be appointed by the Under the leader~hip of such educators Obviously there was much to be done. Speaker. Six members of the commit- as Horace Marni and Henrir Barnard, the While the new omce of Education had tee would be from the majority party and friends of education all over the coun- no power other than the authority to six from the minority party. try were enoouraged to urge the Congress . gather and disseminate information on This committee would be authqrized for recognitlon and leadership at a Fed- education, the impetus of Federal inter to recommend to the House additional eral level. · est and presence gave encouragement to rules or regulations deemed necessary on March 2 1867 the act to estab- those who sought better schools. This to insure proper standards of conduct llsh a Nation~! Bu~eau of Education, was especially true as it concerned use by House Members and House employees, was signed into law by President Andrew of the vast public lands that had been in the performance of their duties and .Johnson, and Henry Barnard was ap- granted to the local authorities for the the discharge of their responsibilities. pointed to serve as the first ComJiXlis- :Purpose of establishing and supporting The select committee would also be sioner of Education. ·As prescribed by education prior to the Civil War. These authorized to re~ort any violations of the bill, the first Commissioner assumed lands, which eventually comprised a to the rules or the law to the proper Federal office at an annual salary of $4,000 with tal o-f some i 75 million acres, were ear and State authorities. a staff of three clerks unqer the aegis of marked almost exclusively for education The select committee would also have the Department of the Interior. Bar- purposes, fncluding the-land-grant col the power to conduct an investigation nard's administration, which lasted only leges established under the Morri11 Acts of any violation by a Member, omcer, or 3 years, nevertheless set a high level of of 1862 and-1800. The Offi.ce of Educa employee of the House, of standards of purpose and performance for the new tion served as a ·reporting agency to the conduct established by the House. omce of Education for the 100 years that Congress on the development and usage After the investigation.the select com- have followed. of these lands o see tba1the aim of the m1ttee may recommend to the House While the word "education" itself is donations was being carried out. appropriate resolutiQns of censure or not to be found anywhere in the consti- Another important step toward popular ,other action.. · tution, there is no' doubt that education education was the Smith-Hughes Voca . The select, committee ·Would have sub- was very much fu the minds ·and hearts tional Act· of 1917 wlUch brought voca pena pcwer and may sit and act at any of the Founding Fathers and others who tional education i.nto the secondary place or at any time and not simply followed. statesmen and educators schools. The Ofiice -of Education was when the House ls in session. agreed with Montesquieu that- later to be given responsibility for ad- Tlie bill also ca11:8 upon Members, offi.- It ts tn a republican 'government that the ministering the funds Of this program. cers, and employees of the House with whole pov;rer of education ts required. Up. until 1917, the ©ffi.ce of Education an annual salary of $15,000 or more to · remained a rSm.~11 agency operating on a make a lull disclosure of ail sources of ~ut merely to agree was not enough. slender budget and continued to devote income held by them or their wives. It Representative James A. Garfl~ld, later its energies and talents to its prescribed would also require a full disclosure of President 0 ! the United States, sponsor , responsibilities. rThe entrance of the any as.sets and liabilities of $5,000 or of the· education bill, acknowledged the United Stat-es into·World War r brought more and any financial or other .interest well-understo9d idea that- abO'ut. irrevocable ~hai;ig.es thrdughout 'all - 1n any firm de~llng with a Federal pur system of _govrernment is based upon the Federal Government, and the oftlce agency. It requires a Member of Con- the 1ntell1gence of the people. ·-for the fiTst time- became involved in gress or House employee to make a full He pointed to the high rate of llliter- matters concerning the whole ·natfonal . disclosure of any interest in any bt\Siness acy as, shown in the 1860-eensus,,includ- emergenc~. 'Most of its wartime activ whose right to operate is regulated,by the ing the American-born, ,and to the "'one- ities concei:ned its role as the official con Federal Government. · Finally, this leg- _ ~ird of a million immigrants who enter tact between the Federal Government islation would require Members of the our country annually," most of whom and the education community, repre House to file with the Clerk a written were unedueated. The illiteracy problem senting the needs and requirements of report identifying relatives who are em- "has been swelled by the 4 million slaves one to the other. In the First World ployed by the House, the Federal Gov- admitted to citizenship by the event of War, as in World War II, Korea:, and ernment, or who are engaged or em- the Civil War,'' he said. Vietnam, the giant problems of training ployed for the purpose of attempting to "We must pour upon them all the light and manpower for mobilization needs influence the passage or defeat of any of our public schools" or the alternative required the closest cooperation between legislation. would be disastrous for the Nation. He the schools and the Federal Government. Mr. Speaker, I believe the time for the urged the Congress, by passage of the In the great depression of 1the thirties, establishment of a Select Committee on bill, "to foster and strengthen those edu- the Offi.ce became an integral part of a Standards and Conduct is long overdue. cational agencies which alone can shield number of emergency measures of It is impcrt_ant for the House to estab- th~ coming generations from ignorance national urgency. It was called upon to llsh general principles of conduct by and vice, and make it the impregnable participate in the educational program which a Member's constituents and col- bulwark of liberty and law." of the CiviiJ.an Conservation Corps-- March 9, 1967 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 6195 CCC's; a college student aid· section of · certain other assistance to promote such The Jaycees' approach to community the Federal Emergency Relief Admin- programs. problems is action oriented and that 1s -tstration-FERA, the Works Progress There are over 1,500,000 Mexican- why they have been labeled Young Men Administration-WPA, and the National Americans in California. Their medium of Action. Youth Administration-NYA. income averages just below $4,000 per More and more young men are taking In 1939, the omce acquired a new year. Mexican-Americans lag seriously over leadership positions in our States parent agency, the Federal Security behind the majority of Americans in ed- and our communities. And, more and :Agency-FSA-and was removed from ucation, jobs, and income. They have more young men are coming to•Congress . . the Department of Interior. peen displaced from their farming and It is becoming increasingly important For all the farfiung educational activ- laboring occupations of the past and th~t the people ·back home are fully ities of the Federal Government, the are among the hardcore unemployed in aware of the activities which are con major role of tn.e- Office continued to be many areas. They are not adequately ducted in Congress. It. 'ts becoming in one of plannillg, advising, and coordina- prepal'ed, through no fault of their own, creasingly obvious that leadership in the tion of programs which involved the edu- to move into, new employment occupa- community and the State must be re cation community. At one point it was tions. Automation and technological vitalized. estimated that the omce controlled only change is haVing a particularly severe It is the Jaycees who are best prepared about 1 percent of all Federal education effect on our Mexican-Americans. Sta- to be these leaders, and I congratulate activities. In 1953, the Federal Security tistics show that over half of our Mexi- them on the method by which they are Agency became the U.S. Department of can-Americans have not gone beyond the seeking to better understand and become Health, Educatio:Q., and Welfare. eighth grade. familiar with the goings on in Washing- . A ~econd major" mi,iestone of change The m?st pro!-'llising me.thod of insur- ton: . ·. . . for tlie Office came about with the Fed- . ing the economic ~nd social progress of I would also like to take this opportu eral decision in the 1950's to enter the tl;l_e. Me~can-American is _aqe9ua~e . edu- nity to gfv-e recognition ' to my distin so-called space race. Federal involve- cation. .With education co1!1~s the hope ~ giliShed colleague, the Honorable JOHN ment led to the passage of the first bil- ?f new and better opportumt1~s for sel!- J. FLYNT, JR., whose coordination of the . lion-dollar education program, the Na- improvement. I offer this legislation m activities for the Federal seminar was · tional Defense Egucation Act-NDEA- the hope that it will hasten the day when outstanding and a majol' contributor to of ,1958. Although primarily under the all Americans have an equal opportunity the success of the program. guidance of the National Science Foun- to help themselves. . · · · . dation, NDEA presaged the vast legis- The. declarati?n of pollcy of. this bill ------lative programs of the 1960's that were is as follows: to follow. ·· In recognition of the ·special educational 'The ISOth Anniversary of the H~rtford The· measures of the 19601s, too cur- needs of the large numbers of students in rent and wen known to need elaboration the United states whose mother- tongue ts 1 • Times here, include the Higher Education Fa- Spanish and to whom English ts a foreign 1, • cili.ties Act of 1963, the Vocational Edu- tongue, Congress hereby declares it to be the policy of the United States to provide EXTENSION OF REMARKS , cation Act of 1963. the Elementary and financial assistance to looal educational OF Secondary Education Act of 1965, and agencies to develop and carry out new and the Higher Education Act of 1965. Last imaginative elementary and secondary school HON. EMILIO Q. DADDARIO year, additional legislation included the prograµis .designed to meet those educational ' OF cokNECTICU;i' International Education Act of 1966 and needs. · IN 'DHE HOUSE OF REPRJilSENTATIVES amendments to the 1965 programs. I hope tl;l.at the Congress enacts this Thursday, Marc,h 9, 1967 .. since passage of the giant 1965 legisla- important piece of legislation as soon as tion, the Federal Government has under- possible. · Mr. DADDARIO. Mr. Speaker, I written the State programs in the should like to call the attention of the · amo\Ult of;..some $7.3 billion. House to· the occasion marked with dis , How can one suin up all that has hap- Georgia. Jaycees-Outatandi~ Federal tinction last weekend by one of· -the most pened in the 100 ·years since the '9fflce Af • p dynamic an<,I progressive newspapers 1n of Education was;established? That the "' · - aus rogram New England, the Hartford Times. ·goal of univer~ education has been L.!' • ~ , The Times published, .to celebrate l·ts brought close to achievement-from e1e- EXTENSION OF REMARKS 150th birthday, an edition Gf 172 pages, OF mentary school throqgh ~<;>lleg~wo\11.d with more· than 360 pictures and 160 have delighted our early statesmen and HON. W.IUIAMSON S. STUCKEY stories. Its theme was "A Region on the Move," and it is characteristic of the educators. They would find education OJ' GEORGIA involvement, and sometimes -leadership, Times that it devoted six special supple crosses all levels of State, Federal, and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ments to the strength, economy, re • Ibc&l .go.vernment. They would mow · Th-'Uf1sdaiJ,.. March 9, ·1967 sources, heritage, culture, and future of that we, too, find common cause .with Mr. STUCKEY: Mr. Speaker-, I would the region it serves. Montesquieu that- .like to cmngratulate the Jaycees of my This is the 150th anniversary of the It is in a r~pl,lblican goyerJln>;ent tha.~ the State of Georgia on the Federal Affairs establishment of the Times, :first pub whole power of ec;tucatlon ts required. ' Semihar which they held in our Nation's lished in 1817. It has been .an active, Capltal during the weekend of February bustling newspaper, exerting leadership, 25; 1967. ' .bringing. the people of,. Connecticut the ~ program such as the one in which facts they have needed to make informed eur Jaycees participated is one of the decisions. In the anniversary edition, best methods of familiarizing our local the current publisher, Kenneth Burke, leaders Jn bµsine~ .atid government with noted that the newspaper has served this EXTENSION OF REMARKs community as a constructive force. Mr. OF the workings of our lqational Govern- ·ment. ' ~ Burke declared: I have noted with pride that tti was the It is our continuing commitment to apply HON. JOHN V. TUNNEY a progre8sive Point of view to the future. OF CALIFORNIA Jaycees of my great 'Strate of 'Georgia 'IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES who were the first to recognize the impor Mr. Burke said: tance of the Federal Affairs Seminar in Thursday, March 9, 1967 In knitting together our geographic area Washington, and now, more and more with the common interests o! ,each day's Mr. TUNNEY. Mr. Speaker, I intro Jaycee organizations in other States have news, and in the development o! t~e region's duced legislation yesterday-H.R. 6828- begun having_the same type program 1n commerce and prosperity, we take great satis to amend the Elementary and Secondary Washington on an annual basis. faction. Education Act of 1965 in order to pro . I am a Jaycee myself, and I believe We thank readers and advertisers who vide assistance to local educational that we are an active group. The Jaycees have had confidence in our pages. Anniver agencies in establishing bilingual Ameri are ·becoming recognized as the leaders sary recollections emphasize this newspaper's can education programs, and to provide of our communities. initiative ln the reallzation of civic ideals
·' 6196 .CONGRESSIONAL RECORB - SENATE March 10, 1967 and goals remarkable in their number and This newspaper was born in shattering There wlll be a resettling of ideas and out importance. controversy that· reformed the Standing look in the years to come and The Hartford Order of a privileged society; that disestab Times expects to stand and be counted 1n From Washington, President Johnson lished a state church; that extended voting the midst of it--wisely, we hope, and force noted this significant anniversary, and rights; tliat established in Connecticut a vi fully always. told the community: able constitution to replace the tutelage Since 1817, the Hartford Times has chron adopted from the old royal charter by which icled the progress of a hard-working. and this state had been governed even through successful people. It has perpetuated t.he the Revolution. Authorizing the Secretary of the · Interior ideals that inspired their greatness, and re We were radical, one of the first publica corded the achievements that promlse future tions In the nation to call for a political and To Reinstate Certain Oil and Gas social reorganization. progress equal to the past. Leases. Eloquent in the pursuit of responsible re · Ever since, The Hartford Tim.es has agreed form, and unswerving in the search for truth, with Lowell: the Times has been a credit to its readers, "New occasions teach new duUes; EXTENSION OF REMARKS its sta1f and our nation. Time makes ancient good uncouth; o:r As I salute its fine record, I am confident They must upward still, and onward, that it will sustain its policy of prompt and Who would keep abreast of truth." HON. JOHNV. TUNNEY reliable news coverage. Over the years our readers have looked to 0:1' CALD'ORNIA Sincerely, us !or initiative. · IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES LYNDON B. JOHNSON. On this newspaper's lOOth anniversary it Thursday, March 9, 1967 I believe all Members of the House was stated, "The Times should not empha should have an opportunity to read and size the number of its years but for the con Mr. TUNNEY. Mr. Speaker, I intro .. consider the credo which the Times it viction, shared we hope by our readers, that duced legislation yesterday which would the years have been fruitful of achievement authorize the Secretary of the Interior to -self published as its anniversary edito in the interest of the community it serves. rial, under· the motto: "To Agitate Af "To survive and prosper, a newspaper must reinstate certain oil and gas leases. The fairs," and I offer it with this statement: identify itself with movements and with text of the b111, H.R. 6893, ls as follows: To AGITATE AFFAIRS: 150TH ANNIVERSARY men commanding the confidence of the Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States of "It is Ordered, sentenced and decreed ••• , community. There must be policies and America in Congress assembled, that they meet • . • to elect and choose cer purposes appealing to the highest class of That the 1s tain deputies . . . to agitate the affairs of citizenship." Secretary of the Interior authorized and the Commonwealth"-Connecticut Funda , , We -have never confused confidence with directed to receive, consider, and act upon termi mental Orders, 1638. conventionalism, the highest class of citizen any petition of the assignee of the For 100 years The Hartford Times has en ship with the interests of the few, or the nated United States on and gas leases dured the sun and weathered the storms of democratic · process with the mere tyranny (BLMA-046840 and BLMA-046842 ' West publication. of the herd. Virginia) for reinstatement . of said leases It has been an exciting voyage and we look Now we stand at today, looking ahead. if filed within one hundred and eighty days a.head to round the buoy of the next century We see a state of greater population with after the effective date of this Act, together and a half as trim as now we sail. changing community proportions. with any rental accrulng, if not theretofore Today, in this Anniversary Edition, The In contrast to the past, the thrust of our already paid, from the date of termination TI.mes takes pride in the account of its span immediate problems seems likely to be more of such leases. The Secretary may reinstate of public service, not ozµy that it has' hewed ·., practical t:ttan philosophical. such leases under the provisions of section to the grain and character of precedent but . Despite lingering lacks, faults and prej Sl(c) of the Mineral Leasing act of 1920, as that it is kindling lively new traditions in udices we have agreed, as the accomplish amended (30 U.S.C. 188). which it will continue. Here is a· link be ment of our own era, to live together con- siderately. , The bill, if enacted, would permit the tween the fading sholllt and tumult of the Secretary .to reinstate two oil and gas past and the distant trumpet of all that is The . barrage has li!t«:'d. . We ,are slowly . to come. ' moving on and leaving the age of contest leases. These leases, formerly held by Our pages rustle with each day's responsi for the recognition of rights in which the Holly Corp., terminated automatically biUties: To inform, to clarify; to advertise; locks and fetters on human dignity and op for nonpayment of the correct rental. to search !or truth and exalt kindness, to portunity are struck off. This fact was not discovered until after champion Justice and liberty and in so doing We face now a new task-to organtze'and Holly ha'd assigned the leases to Colum to speak !or America: to raise questions and apply the widening blessings of liberty, civic bian Fuel Corp. discuss issues lucidly, reasonably and maturity and social justice that have been thoughtfully; to criticize the wayward idea, granted us through a new birth of enlight The passage of this b111 would clear to expose·co11ruption, to encourage civic bet enment. the uncertainty of the legal status of the . terment and to inspire progress. The nature of our commitment to action lease and allow the Columbian Fuel The Hartford Times has a special sense of changes, but as at the time of our founding Corp. to conduct exploratory work on the mission and advocacy in our state. the demand for leadership is ill81stent. land.
Deliver us from fretfulness and self TRANSACTION OF ROUTINE MORN SENATE . pity; make us sure of the goa1 we can ING BUSINESS AS IN LEGISLA not see, and of the hidden · goOd in the TIVE SESSION FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1967 world. Mr. BREWSTER. Mr. President, I The Senate met in executive session Open our eyes to simple beauty all ask unanimous consent that there be a at 12 o'clock meridian, and was called around us, and our hearts to the loveli period for the transaction of routine to order by the President pro tempore. ness men hide from us because we do morning business, as in legislative ses The Chaplain, Rev. Frederick Brown not try enough to understand them. sion, and that each Senator's statement Harris, D.D., o:trered the following Save us· from ,ourselves, and show us therein be limited to 3 minutes. prayer: a vision of a world made new. Set our The PRESIDEN'l:!-pro tempore. With feet on lofty places, gird our lives"that out objection, it is so orqered. O Heavenly Father, breathe into our they may be armored with all Christ souls the love of whatsoever is true, and like graces in the fight to set men free· beautiful, and good. grant us wisdom, grant us courage that MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT Help us to remember that we are Thy A message in writing from the Presi children and belong to Thee, who hast we fail not man nor Thee. We ask it in the dear Redeemer's name. Amen. dent of the United States, submittb~g a set a restlessness in our hearts, and made nomination, was communicated to the us all seekers after that which we can Senate by Mr. Jones, one of his secre never fully find; forbid us to be satis taries. fied with what we make of life. THE JOURNAL Draw us from base content, and set On request of Mr. BREWSTER, and by our eyes on far-off goals. Keep us at upanimous consent, the reading of the EXECUTIVE MESSAGE REFERRED tasks too hard for us, that we may be Journal of the proceedings of Thursday, The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid be- driven to Thee for strength. March 9, 1967~ was dispensed with. 1fore the Senate a message from the
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