July 8, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 23329 EXTENSIONS OF REMAR.KS BRIGHT FUTURE FOR NORTHEAST­ the Commonwealth, the Department of Com­ With a good reputation for action it is diffi­ ERN PENNSYLVANIA munity Affairs and the Department of Com­ cult to slow the momentum of a winner. merce wm benefit the northeast and other And it has not been done With magic, With regions as they work in the seventies. rabbits in a ha.t--not by any one local, state HON. HUGH SCOTT Once a Bureau within the Department of or federal agency, but with the combined ef­ Commerce, the Department of Community forts of responsible people, hardworking, OF PENNSYLVANIA Affairs has blossomed into an effective backed by substantial private investment-­ IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES agency for direct involvement in vital areas with faith, dimes, dollars, of people who be­ Wednesday, July 8, 1970 that have mushroomed into prominence in lieved it could be done. recent years. I believe it is an unheralded Specifically, the pace was set Dy successful Mr. SCO'IT. Mr President, on June 6, blessing for the citizens of the Common­ industrial expansion and relocation pro­ 1970, the secretary of commerce of Penn­ wealth of Pennsylvania to have such close grams. PIDA activity in a seven county area sylvania, Hon. William T. Schmidt, de­ cooperation and such common dedication of northeastern Pennsylvania resulted in 241 livered a speech to the conference of the among the personnel of two organiz.a.tions loans in the amount of $58,760,000 since 1956 that can provide so much assistance to them. to date (in excess of 25%). These projects Department of Community Affairs. In Our efforts in economic development have provided 36,101 jobs With an annual pay­ that speech he outlined the bright future been affected by recent legislative decisions, roll of $154 million. he predicts for northeastern Pennsyl­ but Governor Shafer has committed us to During the period 1965-1969, Luzerne vania. tax reform, and as I have said on numerous County led the state in expanded and relo­ Mr. President, since I, too, feel that occasions, "Don't hand out the band-aids, cated industries, Lackawanna County was this region has a great potential for we are not bleeding, because we have many third in the state, Schuylkill fifth. growth and increasing prosperity, and things going for us in Pennsylva.nia." Adding to the pattern was the major de­ since Mr. Schmidt has expressed that The nation's finest highway system; air, velopment of highways. From 1965 through rail, truck, and water transporta.tion facili­ 1969 accelerated construction of Interstate fact so eloquently, I ask that his speech ties; a rapidly expanding system of voca­ Routes 80, 81, 81-E joining the northeast be reprinted in the Extensions of Re­ tional-technical schools to keep a steady flow extension of the turnpike, and Interstate marks. of trained labor available; our geographic 84. There being no objection, the speech proximity to the world's greatest markets, When opportunity appeared through Ap­ was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, where more than half of the population in palachia assistance programs, a mountain as follows: the nation lives within 500 miles of the state; was literally moved into a. ravine to provide energetic public utilities; a most cooperative a modern airport and entrance to the jet ADDRESS OF HON. WILLIAM T. SCHMIDT banking community; cooperative community age. Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority "What's New?" leaders in local development programs; ex­ linked communities to solve waste disposal That can be a casual greeting of friends, cellent recreation diversification. problems for today, and provided opportunity a way of taking inventory, or the measure of We have had interest by firms from for­ for residential and industrial de~elopment man's planning in a community like the eign countries for relocation in Pennsylvania. in the future. northeast. If we ask wha1i's new in the way We already have attracted industries from Vooaitional-technical schooLs a.re being of accomplishment in our country today, we Norway, Italy, Canada, Germany, Mexico, built to help provide a continuing flow of can point to moon exploration, supersonic and France. We expect to pursue other pos­ skilled labor, new shopping malls, new aircraft, heart transplants, interstate high­ s.ible contacts this month during a reverse schools, new efforts to provide community ways, modern schools and hospitals, the high­ investment mission to Germany. Deputy services and attractive surroundings were est living standard ever achieved in the his­ Secretary Ketner will lead the Commerce part of the new image that said . . . "See tory of mankind. delegation. us as we are now, not as we were twenty If we ask the same question within the We face the challenge of competition from years ago." area we know as the northeast, we can say other states. We must overcome the image Perhaps with some nostalgic regret--but expansion of industry, development of rec­ of "sock it to business" ,taxes. We must seek not reluctantly-we saw recreation and tour­ reation, attention to problems of environ­ protection from foreign imports that com­ ism surpass the anthracite industry as a ment, improved transportation facilities, a pete with our native products. We must rec­ factor in the economy of the northeast. And booming tourist business, a new lease on life ognize the obligation of tighter environ­ we proudly accepted the designation as the for people who had much reason for despair a mental control of industrial waste, and we "Honeymoon Capital of the World," and decade ago. must qualify for the incxeasingly rigid re­ extended our sympathy to New York, Florida, That's why I believe that the most im­ quirements of corporations seeking new and California. We modestly acknowledged portant thing that ls new in the northeast sites. that in the northeast, our newly affluent so­ is not so much the material accomplish­ In that respect, John Harper of the Alumi­ ciety has the highest number of second home ments, but the "attitude." Theodore Roose­ num Company of America, ran down a ownership in the nation, another tribute to velt once said that "It is not the critic who check list of considerations important in our attractive facilities for rest and relaxa­ counts, not the man who points out how the choosing a site for a large facility. High on tion. man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds the list was the "quality" of a community, So what of the future? The Bureau of could have done them better. The credit be­ its attitude toward schools, its initiative in Labor Statistics in Washington projects a longs to the man who is actually in the tackling pollution problems, the ability of labor force in this country climbing by arena; whose face is marred by dust and its leaders. His firm studies fairness of taxes, twenty percent in the 70's to 100 million sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who attitude toward business, fiscal respon­ workers, with 26 million of them in the 25--34 errs and comes short again and again; who sibility, zoning and land use, anticipated age bracket. Has the northeast made itself knows the great enthusiasms, the great devo­ residential buildup, popula.tion growth pro­ attractive and available to this age group ... tions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; jections, transportation avaJI.ability and It has! who, at the best, knows in the end the costs, supply and cost of power, price of BLS says the work week Will decline in triumph of high achievement; and who, at land and availability of water, sk1lled labor hours to 38 to provide more leisure time. the worst, lf he fails, at least fails daring pool and at what r.ates, local management­ The northeast can supply the fun! The swing greatly." labor relations, attitudes toward modern to a service economy-including trade and Ladies and Gentlemen, it is our respon­ schools, hospitals, libraries, and even reli­ government--wlll accelerate, and the long sibilities, not ourselves, that we should take g.tous and political attitudes. term shift toward white collar jobs. seriously. That's what's new in northeast That's a large order and the community Training will continue. White collar jobs and that's a proven formula for success. that can meet those standards deserves a will total 50 percent of the work force by the That attitude is evident, too, in the major secure place in the industrial development end of this decade. Increases are predicted topics on the progmm today. So often we seem picture. But that's the way the rules are in demands for personnel in transportation, to take the government approach to the so­ written today, and that bridge must have a communications and public utilities. The cial and economic ills of the day, and place connection at both ends to handle the traf­ largest increase in service industries will rise too little emphasis on the improvement of fic. We in the Department of Commerce have about twenty percent, ma.inly in general man himself. found the northeast regional industrial de­ merchandise stores and eating establish­ The panels of the day are symbolic of the velopment programs a bustling expressway ments. awareness that comfortable and adequate to successful accomplishment. Services will enjoy a surge faster than the housing, security from lawlessness and fear, So what will be new in the northeast in the total employment rate, with all segments contribute immeasurably to the prosperity 70's? I have difficulty tempering my optimism benefitting. The northeast will be ready­ of a community and the well being of its so as to sound realistic. Why? Because an and because the facilities have been pro­ citizew:. area tha.t was regarded a decade ago as one vided, the tourist and recreation people can Something else is new, perhaps not in the accommodating poor country cousins has be­ meet the demand. recent past, but over a period of time. The come the symbol of achievement throughout Construction will be stimulated by the coordinated efforts of these two agencies of the world. prosperity in the northeast and the housing 23330 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 8, 1970 demand will provide employment for the "The expansion of existing medical schools approximately 89.4 million persons and re­ tradesman, the northeast is ready I is under way, but that process, too, ls being ported needs totalling $13,967,031,676 which The giant megalopolis extending from hindered by shortages of money and of could be spent through 1976 if funds a.re Boston to Washington will have the north­ trained staff. Recent cutbacks in federal available. east as its heart, with easy access in-and medical and related research funds have hit Based on this survey, we estimate that $33 transportation out-to a huge market for many medical schools hard. Some are near to $37 billion in public expenditures will local products. insolvency. be necessary to meet the nation's water pollu­ The motto of the "Boy Scouts of America" "Republicans and Democrats alike insist tion control needs in the next six years. We is . . . "Be Prepared". that they want to assure adequate, high recognize that these costs are substantial; The northeast is prepared ... and its quality medical care for all Americans. That however, they represent what is necessary to strongest asset, with all the physical accom­ assurance can become realit y only if both the get the job done. In light of these findings plishments, is still-people of strong will government and private sectors are willing to we strongly urge approval of a new funding and confidence who are willing to cooperate supply the substantial funds required to in­ program providing at least the $2.5 billion a in a worthwhile endeavor. crease the number of new doctors, nurses, year assistance suggested in S. 3687. A $3 to and other essential personnel much more $4 bllllon a year federal program can be eas­ rapidly than presently available resources ily justified in light of present needs. EDUCATION FUNDS will make possible." We appreciate your continuing interest in Much has been said by members of Con­ and support for pollution abatement pro­ gress about the need for more medical man­ grams. We look forward to working with you HON. GARNER E. SHRIVER power. Now, the time has come when they to develop a successful federal program for OF KANSAS must match their words with actions. financing the nation's clean water efforts. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Sincerely, JOHN J. GUNTHER, Wednesday, July 8, 1970 WATER POLLUTION CONTROL Executive Director, U.S. Conference of Mr. SHRIVER. Mr. Speaker, the edi­ NEEDS FOR NEXT 6 YEARS Mayors. torial from the American Medical News PATRICK HE;ALY, Executive Vice President, National which effectively emphasizes the need for HON. EDMUND S. MUSKIE League of Cities. strong Federal financial support for OF MAINE medical education programs. If we are IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES STUDY BACKGROUND to effectively provide for delivery of During testimony of Mayor Robert W. health services to the people of our Na­ Wednesday, July 8, 1970 Knecht of Boulder, Colorado and Mayor Carl tion the Government, and the private Mr. MUSKIE. Mr. President, it is my B. Stokes of Cleveland, Ohio before the Sub­ sectbrs must adequately meet their re­ pleasure to release today a report con­ committee on Air and Water Pollution of sponsibilities in financing educational taining firm figures on the Nation's the Senate Public Works Committee, Sen­ ator Edmund S. Muskie, Chairman of the opportunities. water pollution control needs for the next Subcommittee, requested the Mayors to pro­ The editorial follows: 6 years. vide his Committee With such specific infor­ EDUCATION FuNDS The report was prepared at my re­ mation as they could obtain on the extent of Once again, the American Medical Asso­ quest by the National League of Cities local needs for water pollution control faclll­ ciation has emphasized to Congress the vital and U.S. Conference of Mayors. I believe tles in the next six years. To obtain this data., need for strong federal financial support for many Senators will join me in expressing NLC and USCM undertook an extensive sur­ medical education programs. thanks for the depth and early delivery vey, sending questionnaires (a copy follows) In testimony before the Subcommittee on of the report. to all state leagues of municipalities and Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare of direct member cities of NLC and USCM. In the House Committee on Appropriations, C. Mr. President, the report strongly addition, NLC and USCM staff studied local H. William Ruhe, MD, director of AMA's Divi­ urges approval of a Federal funding pro­ needs data developed by some states and by sion of Medical Education, explained that the gram of at least $2.5 billion a year for the Association of Metropolitan Sewerage AMA believes "that in any appropriation pri­ the construction of municipal facilities. Agencies, which also prepared a needs re­ orities established for all government pro­ It adds that a Federal program of $3 to port at Senator Muskie's request. grams, those which affect health care should $4 billion a year can be easily justified in As a result of the returns of questionnaires be given primary consideration." light of present needs. and other material studied, NLC and USCM Further, he emphasized, "because of the More than 1,000 cities, counties, and have obtained data indicating the specific special need that exists at this period in our needs for water pollution control facilities history for m~e physicians, we urge that ap­ special districts responsible for water in 1008 local communities covering approxi­ propriations relevant to the production of pollution control are covered by the sur­ mately 89.4 million persons. The combined physicians be given first priority." vey. These jurisdictions include 89.4 mil­ needs reported by these communities is $19,- The urgency of training increasing num­ lion persons. 967,031,676. The needs were broken into three bers of physicians ls apparent to almost The report observes that between 50 categories by the NLC questionnaire. everyone. While the 8,500 who received MD and 60 million more Americans now are 1. Needs for primary and scondary treat­ degrees this spring represented an increase served by sewage treatment plants "or ment faciUtles. of about 20% over the figure 10 years ago, should be so served by 1976." 2. Needs for tertiary treatment facll1ties. estimates by the AMA and Assn. of American As Senators know, the Federal share of 3. Needs for interceptor and storm Sewers, Medical Colleges show that a substantial in­ including projected costs of separating storm crease in current enrollments-as much as sewage treatment construction funds and sanitary sewers, and/or storing storm 50 %-is needed to permit admission of all under existing law is authorized at $1.25 water overflows (interceptor sewers are cur­ qualified students under present conditions. billion in fiscal year 1971. The authori­ rently eligible for Federal assistance under Even greater increases will be necessary in zation expires next June 30. the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, the future. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent storm sewers are not) . Expanded enrollment, of course, can come that the report be printed in the RECORD. Replys to NLC and USCM survey indicated about in two ways-increasing enrollment in There being no objection, the report that some communities counted inter­ existing schools and the development of new was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, ceptor sewer needs as part of their pri­ schools. as follows: mary and secondary treatment facility costs. In a recent editorial, the New York Times The cost breakdown as reported ls: described the financial difficulties encoun­ NATIONAL LEAGUE o:r CrrIEs; U.S. CONFERENCE OF MAYORS For primary and secondary tered by the Mount Sinai School of Medi­ treatment------$8,701,541,974 cine-a new institution which graduated its July 6, 1970. Hon. EDMUND MUSKIE, For tertiary treatment______3, 904, 051, 553 first class of MDs last month. Planning for s. For interceptor and storm the New York City school had begun almost Senate Offlce Building, sewer improvement______7, 861, 488, 149 Washington, D.C. 10 years ago. At that time, the cost of its de­ In a.ddltlon to the nearly 89.4 million people velopment was estimated ait $107 million, but DEAR SENATOR MUSKIE: The National inflation has elevated the total to about $150 League of Cities and U.S. Conference of May­ covered by the NLC and USCM survey. there million. So far, only about two-thirds of this ors are pleased to submit to you the survey are between 50 and 60 million persons living of municipal needs for water pollution in the United States who are served by sew­ amount has been raised. age treatment works and related facilities or This, commented the Times, "points up abatement facilities which you requested during the appearance before your Subcom­ should be so served by 1976. Based on this how expensive and time consuming is the projection, and recognizing that needs in re­ creation of a new medical school, especially mittee of Mayor Robert Knecht and Mayor Carl Stokes. The survey includes specific porting jurisdictions averaged approximately one depending heavily upon private re­ $220 per capita, we estimate total national sources. needs data for 1008 cities, counties, and special districts responsible for water pol­ needs for state and local water pollution con­ Incre&Sing enrollment also ls expensive, as trol facilities to be between $30 and $33 bil- the Times pointed out: lution control. These local jurisdictions cover July 8, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 23331 lion today. Adding a five percent inflation a listing of the needs in individual Jurisdic­ by the Association of Metropolitan Sewerage factor, which we believe conservative in light tions. Those needs figures i are needs figures Agencies; those needs figures a are from sur­ of present trends, the total costs to provide where the city reporting indicated that it veys prepared in 1970 by state governments. these fac111ties over the next six year period. will range from $33 to $37 billlon. was reporting needs for an areas greater than Idaho and Wyoming are omitted from the There follows a compilation of local pollu­ its city limits, those needs figures 5 are gained survey as no data was provided from these tion control needs by state. Following this ls from the survey prepared for Senator Muskie states.

Interceptor and Jurisdictions Survey popula- Primary and Tertiary treat- storm sewer State surveyed tion coverage secondary needs ment needs needs Total

Alabama ______3 700, 000 $50, 200, 000 $31, 700, 000 $19, 600, 000 $101, 500, 000 Alaska ______4 85, 000 168, 500, 000 0 40, 000, 000 208, 500, 000 Arizona ______5 l, 200, 000 10, 070, 750 22, 300, 000 31, 264, 000 63, 634, 750 Arkansas ______4 290, 000 7, 100, 000 7, 200, 000 10, 930, 187 25, 230, 187 California_------30 14, 745, 000 577, 862, 000 528, 254, 000 362, 195, 000 1, 468, 311, 000 Colorado ______4 l, 100, 000 24, 900, 000 7, 865, 000 80, 500, 000 113, 265, 000 Connecticut_ ___ ----- 7 720, 000 32, 680, 000 8, 000, 000 130, 830, 000 171, 510, 000 Delaware ______1 20, 000 12, GOO, 000 8, 000, 000 2, 000, 000 22, 000, 000 Florida ____ ------12 l, 500, 000 236, 973, 260 80, 000, 000 127, 354, 900 444, 328, 160 Georgia ___ ------5 1, 300, 000 85, 200, 000 21, 400, 000 248, 000, 000 354, 600, 000 Hawaii______1 330,000 86, 000, 000 32, 000, 000 16, 000, 000 134, ooo, o~ Illinois ______458 8, 501, 210 874, 228, 050 322, 800, 000 1, 292, 000, 000 2, 489, 028, 05 Indiana ______10 1, 300, 000 88, 800, 000 50, 000,000 236, 000, 000 374, 800, 000 Iowa ______------11 625, 000 25, 300, 000 1, 000, 000 26, 500, 000 52,800, 000 Kansas ____ ------6 600, 000 15, 850, 000 16, 750, 000 84, 300, 000 116, 900, 000 Kentucky ____ ------1 50, 000 10, 600, 000 12, 900, 000 6, 200, 000 29, 700, 000 Louisiana ___ ------2 250, 000 7, 625, 000 12, 000, 000 9, 875, 000 29, 500, 000 Maine _____ ------2 58, 000 7, 850, 000 12, 000, 000 15, 850, 000 35, 700, 000 Maryland ___ _------3 1,600, 000 106, 950, 000 l, 950, 000 6, 000, 000 114, 900, 000 Massachusetts ______13 3,340, 000 295, 450, 000 29, 500, 000 314, 000, 000 638, 950, 000 Michigan ______12 4, 490, 000 514, 500, 000 37, 000, 000 265, 179, 000 816, 679, 000 Minnesota ______4 1, 620, 000 110, 000, 000 104, 800, 000 202, 500, 000 417, 300, 000 Mississippi______1 35, 000 500, 000 0 0 500, 000 Missour1- _------13 3, 270, 000 366, 005, 500 9, 511 , 000 60, 141, 000 435, 657 I 500 Montana _------1 55, 400 5; 100, 000 0 4, 640, 000 9, 740, 000 Nebraska __ ------4 570, 000 62, 599, 400 3, 160, 000 12, 283, 000 78, 042, 400 Nevada_------2 290, 000 17, 012, 000 19, 406, 000 13, 800, 000 50, 218, 000 New Hampshire ______52 350, 000 168, 785, 600 0 45, 400, 000 214, 185, 600 New Jersey ______7 2, 500, 000 496, 500, 000 49, 500, 000 88, 155, 000 634, 155, 000 New Mexico ______1 250, 000 2, 500, 000 5, 000, 000 39, 000, 000 46, 500, 000 New York ______10 9,430, 000 1, 459, 191, 200 2, 054, 700, 000 546, 385, 000 4, 060, 276, 200 North Carolina ______7 750, 000 58, 550, 000 27, 500, 000 27, 475, 000 113, 525, 000 North Dakota ______2 65, 200 0 850, 000 10, 000, 000 10, 850, 000 Ohio ______------20 5, 500, 000 516, 770, 000 53, 100, 000 633, 207, 500 1, 203, 077, 500 Oklahoma ____ ------6 915, 000 75, 676, 750 14, 146, 553 17, 786, 467 107, 609, 770 Oregon ____ ------79 920, 000 108, 288, 000 40, 500, 000 lll, 145, 000 259, 933, 0000 Pennsylvania ______24 7, 280, 000 941, 740, 000 58, 560, 000 l, 370, 305, 095 2, 370, 605, 095 Rhode Island ______2 90, 000 11, 000, 000 3, 000, 000 6, 000, 000 20, 000, 000 South Carolina ______5 420, 000 58, 250, 000 16, 050, 000 8, 300, 000 82,600, 000 South Dakota ______69 260, 000 12, 056, 564 4,300,000 5, 400, 000 21, 756, 564 Tennessee ______2 950, 000 165, 000, 000 12, 000, 000 150, 000, 000 327, 000, 000 Texas ______. ------16 4, 300, 000 130, 733, 000 90, 975, 000 65, 269, 000 286, 977, 000 Utah ____ • __ ._---- ___ 1 40, 000 l, 200, 000 0 4, 000, 000 5,200, 000 Vermont_ __ ------2 50, 000 3, 800, 000 3, 300, 000 13, 000, 000 20, 100, 000 Virginia __ ---- _------3 l, 000, 000 30,900, 000 l, 000, 000 58, 000, 000 89, 900, 000 Washington ______70 2, 000, 000 340, 074, 900 74, 840, 000 161, 216, 000 576, 130, 900 West Virginia ______2 129, 000 8, 500, 000 0 38, 500, 000 47,000,000 Wisconsin __ ••. ______8 2.100, 000 130, 470, 000 15, 234, 000 344, 952, 000 490, 656, 000 District of Columbia __ 1 l, 460, 000 181, 700, 000 0 0 181, 700, 000 TotaL ______1, 008 89, 403, 810 8, 701, 541, 974 3, 904, 051, 533 7,361,438, 149 19, 967, 031, 676

Tertiary Interceptor and Tertiary Interceptor and Primary and treatment storm sewer Primary and treatment storm sewer State secondary needs needs needs State secondary needs needs needs

Alabama: California: Bessemer ______•• _____ ------1 $6, 200, 000 1 $1, 700, 000 $4, 600, 000 Buena Park ______------______(7) ------$4, 000, 000 Birmingham __ •••• __ •••• ______Burbank _____ ------__ ------______$1, 000, 000 $800, 000 200, 000 140,000,000 130,000,000 ------Culver City ______• ______• ___ _ Montgomery_. ____ ••• ____ • ______4, 000, 000 ------15, 000, 000 £> ------900, 000 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~- Central Contra Costa Sanitary District_ 28, 580, 0 0 20, 000, 000 ------Tot at_ ____ ------50,200, 000 31, 700, 000 19,600, 000 Fremont, Newark, and Union City ___ _ (6) 7, 500, 000 l, 233, 000 Total needs, $101,500,000. Fresno ______110, 800, 000 17, 400, 000 20, 000, 000 Glendale ____ ------______6, 000, 000 1, 000, 000 2, 000, 000 Alaska: Hayward ______• ______------4, 400, 000 4, 500, 000 8, 000, 000 Los Angeles City ______Greater Anchorage Area Borough ____ _ 2 154, 000, 000 ------40, 000, 000 1102, 500, 000 1100, 000, 000 162, 500, 000 Fairbanks (partial estimate) ______a 4, 500, 000 __... ------.. __ ------.• ------Los Angeles County ______1100, 000, 000 1130, 000, 000 ------Juneau (partial estimate) ______' 6, 000, 000 ------NorwalkModesto ______------_------_ (6) 5, 000, 000 ------Ketchikan (partial estimate) ______3 4, 000, 000 ------(D) (D) 1,600,000 East Bay Municipal Utility District__ __ 40,000,000 ------30,000,000 Total_ ____ •• ---- ___ • ______••••••• 168, 500, 000 ------40,000,000 Oceanside ______------______5, 978, 000 2, 254, 000 ------Total needs, $208,500,000. Orange County_------' 57, 000, 000 ------Oxnard __ ___ ------______------__ 1 9, 666, 000 1 10, 000, 000 1 6, 000, 000 Arizona: Palo Alto ______------__ _ (10) 5, 000, 000 (10) Mesa._._ ••••• __ ._ •• ______••• __ • __ Redwood City ______------__ _ 875, 000 800, 000 3, 261, 000 Riverside ______6, 000, 000 4, 000, 000 (•) Phoenix ••• ______••• ___ •.•• ___ •• __ _ 16, 732, 000 I *20, 500, 000 20, 000, 000 (6) 4, 000, 000 1, 000, 000 Tempe ••••••• ____ . • ____ •••• _•••••• (4) (•) 3, 673, 000 Sacramento ______4, 000, 000 6, 000, 000 (4) Salinas ___ ------______Tucson .• ------••••• -----_ •• ___ •••• 6 800, 000 ------. - - 2, 800, 000 2, 000, 000 750, 000 Yuma •••• ___ •• ______•••••• •• ___ _ 1, 663, 750 1, 000, 000 4, 330, 000 San Diego ______55, 000, 000 1 120, 000, 000 (•) San Francisco ______------______San Jose ______89, 000, 000 ------200, 000, 000 Total. .• ____ .•••..• ___ ••• ___ • ___ • 10, 070, 750 22, 300, 000 31, 264, 000 1 30, 000, 000 1 70, 000, 000 15, 232, 000 Total needs, $63,634,750. San Leandro _____ ------____ _ 1, 675, 000 300, 000 1, 500, 000 San Mateo ______2, 000, 000 3, 500, 000 1, 000, 000 Arkansas: Santa Barbara ______.------______6, 000, 000 5, 000, 000 2, 000, 000 Fayetteville.------•••••• __ • __ • (6) 2, 000, 000 2,800, 000 Santa Clara ______• ___ • ___ • ______4, 429, 000 20, 000, 000 (1) Little Rock •• ____ • ____ •• ------___ _ 5, 700, 000 2, 500, 000 3,630, 187 Santa Rosa._ .• __ ••••• ____ ------__ _ 6, 234, 000 ------780, 000 North Little Rock ______900, 000 l, 200, 000 2, 500, 000 South San Francisco ______4, 000, 000 ------3, 500, 000 Pine Bluff._-----•••• ______500, 000 l, 500, 000 2, 000, 000 Total. _____ •• __ •• ______• ______577, 862, 000 528, 254, 000 362, 195, 000 Total. __ • ______7, 100, 000 7,200, 000 10, 930, 187 Total needs, $1,468,311,000. Total needs, $25,230,187.

Footnotes at end of table. 23332 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 8, 1970

Tertiary Interceptor and Ttrtiary Interceptor and Primary and treatment storm sewer Primary and treatment storm sewer State secondary needs needs needs State secondary needs needs needs

Miami Beach ______Colorado: $16, 000, 000 $8, 000, 000 ------Aurora ______(6) (6) $20, 000, 000 7, 000, 000 125, 000, 000 $30, 000, 000 Colorado Springs_ ------$8, 500, 000 $1, 500, 000 1, 500, 000 Sarasota~:~~~l~~t: ______======______======______======_ 120, 000, 000 I 5, 000, 000 6, 000, 000 Denver______116, 400, 000 • 3, 865, 000 29, 000, 000 West Palm Beach ______152, 000, 000 ------_-- 1, 000, 000 Pueblo .••• ------(6) 2, 500, 000 30, 000, 000 9, 000, 000 9, 000, 000 12, 000, 000 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tota'------24, 900, 000 7, 865, 000 80, 500, 000 Total. ____ ------__ ------___ 236, 973, 260 80, 000, 000 127, 354, 900 Total needs, $113,265,000. Total needs, $444,328,160. Georgia: Connecticut: Albany ______Harttord Metro______1 16, 480, 000 _------_ 1 80, 330, 000 Atlanta ______117,600, 000 ------15, 000, 000 Bristol..------1, 500, 000 2, 000, 000 2, 000, 0000 1 50, 000, 000 20, 000, 000 12 200, 000, 000 Greenwich______200, 000 5, 000, 000 ------Augusta. ______15, 000, 000 Brunswick .•. ______3, 000, 000 ------Meriden ••• ------2, 000, 000 1, 000, 000 4, 000, 000 15, 000, 000 ------2, 000, 000 Savannah ______1 9, 600, 000 1 l, 400, 000 16, 000, 000 ~!~~;~d;n======J: ~880~88 ======f8: 888: 888 Total. ••••• ______Torrington ••• ______•• -- ____ --•• ------.... ------•• ---• -- _ 4, 500, 000 85, 200, 000 21, 400, 000 248, 000, 000 Total needs, $354,600,000. Tota'------32, 680, 000 8, 000, 000 130, 083, 000 Hawaii: Honolulu ______------__ 86, 000, 000 32, 000, 000 16, 000, 000 Total needs, $171,510,000. Total needs, $134,000,000. Delaware: Dover ••• ------1 12, 000, 000 I 8, 000, 000 2, 000, 000 Total needs, $22,000,000.11 Illinois: District of Columbia ______181, 700, 000 ------Aurora. -----. -. -- --.• ______15, 000, 000 Total needs, $181,700,000. Bloomington-Normal.. ______------__ _ l, 800, 000 5 000 000 Joliet______Florida: 10. ooo, ooo 20, ooo, ooo 30' ooo' ooo Daytona Beach •• ------. ---- _-- • --- 900, 000 ------Metro. S.D. of Greate~ C~icago______588, 000,000 300,000, 000 1,230: ooo: 000 Fort Lauderdale. ____ ------. 10, 000, 000 7, 000, 000 ------_ North Shore Sewer District.______a 73, 000, 000 ------Hollywood • • __ --. --. ------128, 173, 260 10, 000, 000 I 61, 904, 900 Rock Island______2, 000, 000 1, 000, 000 12 000 000 Jacksonville •••••• ------. ------. 6 75, 900, 000 ------6 l, 150, 000 452 localities listed below______201, 228, 050 ------' ___ ' __ _ Key WesL------4, 000, 000 ce) 300, 000 15, 000, 000 1, 000, 000 5, 000, 000 Total.______874, 228, 050 322, 800, 000 l, 292, 000, 000 ~,~~f~~======9, 000, 000 15, 000, 000 10, 000, 000 Total needs, $2,489,028,050.

452 LOCALITIES AND NEEDS FIGURES

Abington._. ____ • ___ • ---•• ------. ------• -- $358, 000 Germantown·------_ $25, 000 Addison •• ____ •• ____ ------• 825, 000 _== Albion ______------66, 000 !!:~!~i;ity =------3rn:~~g Aledo North______40, 800 Aledo South ______· 35, 700 !![~!·~= =;;= ;i :;;; 1\\\ 111: i: :)\)\\\\111 \\\l '1~ Ill Girard .• ___ _------______m: bgg Alexis. ______• ------. 22, 000 Algonquin. __ • ____ ------•• ------200, 000 Alhambra .. ______•• _.------• ----. 15, 000 Allendale North _____ • --• ------• - ----• 5, 400 Glendaletf~~~~-~~==== Heights__ _====______======______=:_ 2. 6R850, 000 i1!~~{Y~-~-~~~======1 !iff ~~ Alpha. ------14105,. 350000 gfCoal City_------:t15, 500igg Cobden ______•• ______------______25, 000 Altamont Lagoon ..••• ------Altamont SW------33, 000 Coffeen ______------______------______• 2, 750 Amboy. ______------11 , 000 Colchester ••• ------58, 700 Andalusia._. __ • ______------4, 400 1 4 3 Anna .• ______------• 863, 000 g~:~~bl! ~======• r~: ~88 Arcola ______---• --•. --• __ --• • • 50, 000 Coulterville.------27, 500 Arenzville ______------15, 500 Cowden._------13, 750 Arthur______------46, 000 Ashland ______--. ---- -. ------5, 500 g~~:~~ft~i-~g_s::======~i: i~8 Ashton ______--- -- __ --• ------• 25, 500 Crystal Lake. ______••• _-- ______5, 403, 000 Cuba .• ______••• --- __ _ _ _ 35, 700 Assumption ••• ------7, 700 Astoria ______----.• ------• ---• 109, 000 Cutler •. ______------______------______11, 000 Atlanta ______------87, 500 Danvers_. ______------______22, 000 Atwood .• ______------• ------33, 000 DeSota. ______•• ------______19, 250 Auburn •• ______------•• ------•• ----. 231, 000 Delavan. ______------______----_____ 33, 200 Augusta •• ______------• 25, 000 Dix_. ______-- __ ---- __ -- _------• l, 100 Ava. ______--•• ------. 16, 500 Du Pa~e County .• ______l, 705, 000 Aviston ______----. --• ------17, 500 Avon ______---- _. -- __ • 25, 500 g~~i~~~======2g~:b~8 East Dubuque •• ------185, 000 East Dundee. ______------_____ 400, 000 East Moline •• ------Earlville. ______------_____ l, 500,38, 500000 East St. Louis. ______5, 500, 000 Edinburg______25, 500 Edwardsville •• ______310, 000 Effingham ______------___ 2, 975, 000 Elburn ______180, 000 Eldorado ______------_____ 96, 200 (sewage works) Elizabeth. ______------______• 270, 000 1~~~ston City •.•• ------Elizabethtown. ___ • ______•• ---- ______. __ 35, 000 li~: ng Elkville •• ______------______20, 000 Elmhurst.Ellis Grove ______.•• ------2, 7005,, 000500 Energy ______------__ __ _ 13, 750 Enfield A______22, 000 1 EnfieldEureka .•B------______------50024, 750000 1 !~mtt======l, rit ggg Evansville______57, 200 ~:i~~~rt======888 !l!ii'.!II II!! II !11111 11!: :·. ltt;f~~::\\::::::::::::\:::::::\::::::::::: '.t: !H Farina STW ______------______m3,: 300 IIJ~.-~I~:{!'. ill Lake County- I Farina West______------_ 12, 000 Vickry Man .______30, 000 ======~88 1 Cairo:~:~~!1~~~ .• ______= ______1, 3~b:253, 000 ~:~~=~s~lfre:======Lake in the Hills .• ------265, 000 Farmington ___ • ______--•• ___ it76, ng500 Lake Villa. ______------______250, 000 Lanark . --• ______38, 250 Lansing. ______l, 260, 000 ~f;t~t;~~I~~======11:~~g il~ii,1i~;i~'.~~:::: :: ::: : : : : ): ) ::: : :: : :: ,. !H Flora .•• ______495, 000 Lawrenceville_.______356, 000 J Forreston . ______• ______-- __ _ 28, 000 Leaf River . ______12, 750 CarlinvilleCarbondale. •.______------• ______• ______• 2, 130491,, 000500 Fox Lake .______143, 000 Lena . ______------_ 38, 250 Fox River Grove______150, 000 Lewistown . ______55, 000 Lexington.______176, 000 g:~~\~======ggg 7~~:4 ======~~1::t.~~~~~~~::=== 2i~: ggg tr~gl,nshire. ------___ ------____ : g:~ri~~t~r~~~======Galva N. _•• ____ ------266, 500 i~8: ggg Carrollton ______• ___ • ------_ rr:13, 750888 Litchfield.______180, 000 GeneseoGalva SW ______•• ------_------______------52551,, 000 Livingston •• ______--- ______217, 500 Geneva. ______---- ______-- ___ 2, 250, 000 Louisville . ____ ------______5, 000 Lovington . ____ ----- ___ -----______33, 000 Geroa EasL------100, 000 ~giiiL:::: ;; :: :::: :::: ::) ::: ) : :: : : '· l!: I~ Georgetown. ______-- ______• _• • ___ 350, 000 Mackinaw. ______------______28, 000

Footnotes at end of table. July 8, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 23333

452 LOCALITIES AND NEEDS FIGURES-Continued

MahomeL------Manhattan ______.______$120,33, 000 Wauconda __ .• ___ •• ______.______$315, 000 Manteno ___ ---- ______• ___ ------__ •••••••• __ • 70, 000 ~~ir~J~ie~-:~~======-==·------1H: ~~~ s111r:_: :::::_~\:; :;: : :: ;===~~ ~=~~;; ;~ ;:;~; =~ ,. ,J: ~1 iiiifl2 == !1!!! 11 !! !! != !! !! !i)i !!!! ii!! 1!i ,. i~! Ii Ridge Farm. __ ------______100, 000 ~fil~~§~it~;::;::::: -:::::::::::::::::::: jj: pj Ridgeway ______._. ____ ._. ______•• __ • ____ •• 25, 500 Willisville ______•• __ • _____ ------•• __ • ______••• 13, 750 Robinson ______.• ______• ___ • 247, 500 Wilmington_ •• _•• __ • ______•••••••• __ .______342, 000 Winchester __ ------__ •• __ • ______• ___ • ____ .___ 8, 800 Windsor. .• ------______------__ •• _____ • 93, 500 Romeoville~~~~:~rer== ______======•• ___== == • __== •== ______======•.•••======_____ == == =• m:187, 888000 Winnsbago __ --•• __ •• _. __ ••••• _____ • _____ •• __ __ _ 152, 000 1!11Iii}W(I)11llll;;i;ii\;;;iii -lli Roodhouse •• _----- ____ ------__ •• ______._____ 250, 000 Witt ___ - ----• ------•• __ •• __ •• ______• _. 6, 000 Mattoon ____ ••••••• ______• _____ •• ______•• _ 1, 931. i000 Roseville __ • __ • ______••• _._.___ 25, 500 Wood River._._. ------______•• __ • ____ •• _•• __ • 940, 000 McHenry ______• ___ •••• _____ •••••• ______264, 000 Rosiclaire ______------_. _____ • ____ • _ 120, 000 Wyanet______------25, 000 Rossville ______l, 500, 000 Wyoming._ ••• ------. _. ______•••• ______138, 800 Roxana_ •••• ____ •••••• __ ------•••••• __ •• ____ _ 132, 000 Yates CitY------17, 900 Mendon.~~t::~sbo-ro==== ______======••== ==______======••••••••••• ======2~8:18, 000888 Royalton ______• _____ ------__ •• _•••••• __ 6, 600 Albany._. ____ --•• ------•• ____ •• ------. __ 4, 400 Mendota ___ • ______•••••••••••••• ____ •• __ • 25, 000 Rushville __ •• ___ •• ____ •• __ ••• ___ __ •••• __ ••••••• 418, 000 Ashley_ ••• _------_____ • _.•• __ • ___ • _. __ • 15, 000 St. Anne·------400, 000 4 St. Elmo.------_____ 42, 500 ~vC == ::=::: ==== =-=- -=-=: :=::: ==: :: == ~: St. Jacob .• _. ______• ______._. 12, 500 :;!~!:!~Bloom Township ______------______3, 300, 000ggg St Peter..------7, 500 Salem •• ___ •.• ______•• ______•••••••• ______••• 176, 000 2 Sandoval.. __ • __ ---- ______.------____ ------. 120, 750 :~l:~~1t~e_._::======-- ·======i~:~88 ~[ittl\t\i/;i; ;; iii ;;ii;;;;; ;;ii;;;; i;;;; !i :: '.ii ffl Sauget______----._-----••• ___ • ___ • _____ • __ _ 5, 000, 000 Cahokia (ESLSD). ------2, 500, 000 Caseyville Twp. NL------95, 000 Momence.------__ ••••• __ •• ______186, 000 Savanna. _____ ---- ____ •• -- __ -- ______••• __ __ _ 327, 000 Caseyville Twp. SW.------______------__ 45, 000 Savoy •• __ __ •• __ ------__ ------______• _____ • 10, 000 Seneca. ____ -- - _------____ •• ______••• _____ ••• 121, 500 Sesser._ ____ ------. ------. 158, 700 g~e~{;~~~i;~======:: ======illfEt!~~iiiii:i::::i :: =~=iii i~ii ::iii= i:ii i HI: mShabbona ___ __ ------•• __ -- __ •• __ •• ______• •• 36, 500 6it ;~ Shannon ______-- -••••• --.• __ •• ------____ •••• ___ 18, 000 Shawneetown. ____ -- ______••. ______•• __ • 1, 714, 000 g~i{i~~o=e=u=r======4, ggg Mounds_.~~~tia-city= ____ ======•••• ====____ ====------== ==______======•••• ====_____ = m:49, 888500 Shelbyville ____ •• --••.• -- __ ••• _•••••• __ •• __ --- __ 448, 000 Decatur (Skoville Park)______i~8;5, 500 1 Sherrard __ __ •• -- •••• -- - _•• ------•••• ---••• --- 18. 000 Decatur (Main)_. __ ------______•• __ •• ______••• 4, 219, 000 ~~~::i~~ra1,======Sibley ______•• ------•• ------_•• •.• 130, 000 Downers Grove No. 2------300, 000 Mount Morris______·1~8: 76, 888500 Silvis_. ___ .----•••• ------•••• ------1, 750, 000 Durand _____ ------••• _---- ______• 21 , 600 1 Smithton ••• __------• -----•• --• -----• _-- --•• --• 16, 500 ~~~~} ~~~;-kc======lg88 Mount Sterling _____ ••• ______••••••••••••••••••• 86, 000 ~eC:arie;_:: ======ill:ii88 ;~i:~~t~ii;i======Mulberry Grove ______------3, 850 Staunton ••••• _------• ------•• ------•• •• • 105, 000 Galesburg (L Rice>------l~lff:·ggg500 Steelville_ . ___ ------. ------•• ------• - •• --• _. 41, 200 Good Hope._------•• --•• ------____ ---- •••• _ 7, 650 ~~~i:~;~oro======Sterling __ .• _------_-- • _•• ------• _. 1, 000, 000 Highland Hills ______------49, 850 2 ~~~ : 8~ Stillman Valley __ ------3, 300 Hinsdale ______------• ----•••• --- _•• --- 150, 000 Neoga ____ ••:======______••••••••• ======______======•== ___ == •= • 121, 200 Stockton_ ••• _•• ----•• ------•• --•• ----• 51 , 000 Irvington ___ ._ •••• ---- -• --•• ----•• ------•••• --- 2, 000 ~:~::~rii~~: r~i:~8 Streator_ •• _____ ------• • • 110, 000 Joppa .• ______------_-- •••• __ • _•••• ____ • 40, 000 New Athens______42, 500 Sullivan._._. ___ ------•• ------•• ------• 339, 200 New Baden______42, 500 Landsdowne (ESLSD)_ - - - •• ------•• ------••• 2, 481, 000 Sumner ______--- --•• ------•• -----• --- 139, 000 Hoffman (sewage works)------8, 000 Swansea ______------•• --•• --•• -••• --- 25, 000 Lou-DeL __ • _•.• -----•• ------. _•• - 13, 750 Newark ____ ------•• ----•• --•• --•••• --•• ----•• - 15, 000 ¥~~~~~~-~~-----======20~: North ElmhursL------171. 200 ~88 Noble ••• _____ ------•••••• ------19, 250 Norris City ____ •••• ------•• --•• ------. 113, 000 !ili1iJJ;\;~;i;;;; ;;; ;;;;;; ;; ;i;; i; ;; ;; ; :I! I Oak Highlands------5, 500 Patoka. ____ •• __ •••• ------•••• --••••• _•• -- - • • 16, 500 !l[~~f 11111 iii 1ii11111 ~ 11~~i;~i1111 ii~ :: :d: II Paw Paw______3, 850 Tilden .•• _.r __ ._ - -••• ------•• ------• . --- 22, 500 g~~~k ======~i: 888 Tilton •• ___ • ____ -• ------•• ------. - -- --• 246, 500 3 Toledo ••• ____ ------. - •••• -•• ---- 27, 500 Sewardf~17 !le~r ••• -======______------_======---••••••======---- ••• --======__ •• • 1, 8~t:5, 500~gg Oswegog~i~~~~-~======______•• ====__ • __ ====____ ==__ ======______== == •••=== 138,~8: 888000 Toluca ••• __ ._ -- __ ------••••• -- - -• • • 107, 150 Sheridan ___ ------__ •••..• -- ______------. _----- 30, 000 South Roxana______30, 000 3 Toulon._._ . ___ - - -• ------•• ------•• -- -- - 30, 000 1 Tremont... ___ ------38, 250 Springfield-Byp. Lag______220, 000 ~!1!:t1rie======Pana ___ • ______------•• ______======•••• _ ·400, :~: 888000 Trenton_. __ • ___ ------52, 500 Springfield ------8, 000, 000 Paris ___ •• ------•••• _____ • ____ •••• __ •••• ______900, 000 Stookey Twp.-Dorchester______2, 750 Paxton ______• ___ • ______•••••• __ ••••• 150, 000 Stookey Twp.-AR No. 1..------52, 500 i~?!a~~====Valier •• ______======------====- - ======------== === 9;t 7, 000~88 Stookey Twp.-AR Nos. 2-3______20, 000 Valmeyer.. ___ • ------18, 000 Stookey Twp.-AR Nos. 4-5______110, 000 Percy~:n~~======______• ______•• ______=== 3, 6M:22. i88000 Vandalia ______------27, 500 Stookey Twp.-AR Nos. 6-7 ______45, 000 Petersburg ______•• ___ •••••• ------••••• _____ •• _ 12, 650 Villa Grove.------213, 250 Urbana-Champaign (New)_ •• ------3, 200, 000 Pinckneyville ______• _____ .------•• __ •••• _____ 415, 000 Viola ___ __------• ------18, 000 Urbana-Champaign (Lake) ______------25, 500 Pittsfield ______------______._____ 100, 000 Virginia STW ______------110, 000 Urbana-Champaign (Main) ______•••••.•. 3, 712, 500 Pocahontas ______•• ------______22, 000 Wamac. ______------7, 50 Vienna_ •• _____ • ______•• ______------•• ___ • 93, 500 Polo ______•• ______• ______-----. __ •• _.. 63, 750 Warren ______------____ -- _ 40, 800 Virden ______._ ._. ______•• ______•• 310, 000 Pontiac ______••••••• ___ ••• __ •••••• 3, 675, 000 Warsaw ______------__ ----- 10, 450 Westville-Belgm ______•• ------467, 500 Pontoon Beach______52, 750 Washington. __ ------•• --•• --•• ___ - • • • 507, 000 Wheaton ______•• ______• ______• 715, 000 Popi er Grove ______•• ______•• __ •• ____ • 125, 000 Wataga. ____ •• ____ •• ------. --• ------. 13, 100 Woodhull_ ____ ------4, OCO Princeton ______------__ •• ______•• __ • 470, 000 Waterloo (Sunset>------7, 700 Yorkville-BristoL ______•.• ______•• ___ • __ •• ____ • 96, 000 Princeville. ______•••••. ____ ••.• _____ •• 30, 600 Waterman ___ -----• ------• -----•••• ---• __ --- 228, 000 Rockton ______• __ •• ______••• ___ ._ •• __ .__ 174, 000 Quincy. ______•••••• ------____ •••• ____ ••••• __ 288, 400 Watseka. ___ • _____ •.•• ------•• --•••••• __ ----- 470, 600

Tertiary Interceptor and Tertiary Interceptor and Primary and treatment storm sewer Primary and treatment storm sewer State secondary needs needs needs State secondary needs t needs needs

Indiana: Iowa: ElkharL______$6, 300, 000 ------. ------__ _ $15, 000, 000 Bettendorf ______-1 Evansville ____ ••• ______• 9, 000, 000 ___ . _.. ______. _ 3, 000, 000 Clinton _.•• _. ______Davenport _____ • ______Fort Wayne ______10, 000, 000 $1 , 000, 000 41 , 000, 000 $10, 000, 000 . ----- ____ ------. ---- _____ . ___ _ Indianapolis______125, 000, 000 135, 000, 000 100, 000, 000 Fort Madison _. ______• __ . __ Kokomo______4, 500, 000 1 5, 000, 000 6, 000, 000 Keokuk _•. __•. ___ . ______Mishawaka __ ------25, 000, 000 5, 000, 000 2, 000, 000 Muscatine ______10, 000, 000 2, 000, 000 10, 000, 000 ------____ . _. _-- -- ______-- . ~~tti~~~~-:.-.======:Terre Haute ______• ___ •••••• __ • ______~: ~gg: ggg ••.------~·-~~~·-~~~- ______._. -- - 2, 000, 000 South Bend______3, 500, 000 2, 000, 000 55, 000, 000 !~~~~~JJ~~~Des Moines .••:== ____ = ===_ __ ===______======J_ 5, 000, 000 --- -- __ ------$25, 000, 000 Mason City_ . ______------_ 300, 000 $!, 000, 000 1, 500, 000 Total. ______• __ _._ •• ____ •. _•••••• 88, 800, 000 50, 000, 000 236, 000, 000 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Total needs, $374,800 000 Total ______25, 300, 000 1, 000, 000 26, 500, 000 Total needs, $52,800,000. Footnotes at end of table. 23334 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 8, 1970

Tertiary Interceptor and Tertiary Interceptor and Primary and treatment storm sewer Primary and treatment storm sewer State secondary needs needs needs State secondary needs needs needs

Kansas: Nebraska: Hutchinson______$350, 000 ______Hastings ______. ______$2, 500, 000 Lincoln ______$500, 000 $160, 000 $410, 000 Kansas CitY------10, 000, 000 ------30, 000, 000 11, 755, 000 3, 000, 000 7, 562, 000 Lawrence ___ __ ------____ 1, 500, 000 $750, 000 800, 000 Norfolk ______. ___ . __ .. ___ _ ( 17) __ • __ • __ • ______• ______Leavenworth______3, 000, 000 15, 000, 000 Omaha ______. ____ . __ 150,344,400 ------4,311,000 Topeka______4, 000, 000 ------6, 000, 000 Wichita______13, 000, 000 30, 000, 000 Total______... ______•• _ 62, 599, 400 3, 160, 000 12, 283, 000 Total needs, $78,042,400. TotaL ______13 15, 850, 000 16, 750, 000 84,300, 000 Total needs, $H6,900,000. Nevada: Kentucky: Ashland ______110, 600, 000 112, 900, 000 16, 200, 000 Las Vegas ______. ______I 12, 012, 000 I 17, 406, 000 6,800, 000 Total needs, $29,700,000. Reno ______15, 000, 000 12, 000, 000 7, 000, 000 TotaL ______Louisiana: 17, 012, 000 19, 406, 000 13, 800, 000 Baton Rouge ____ ------14, 500, 000 110, 000, 000 3, 000, 000 Total needs, $50,218,000. Lafayet~e------a 3, 125, 000 t 2, 000, 000 6, 875, 000 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ New Hampshire: TotaL------7, 625, 000 12, 000, 000 9, 875, 000 Allenstown-Pembroke ______.. ____ _ 3 2, 100, 000 ------Total needs, $29,500,000. Bath-Belmont_------______------_ 3 400, 000 ------Maine: Bennington ______3 575, 000 ------Brunswick ______------__ _ 350, 000 ------750, 000 Berlin ______3 l , 800, 000 ------Lewiston ______• __ 7, 500, 000 12, 000, 000 15, 100, 000 Bethlehem ______. __ _ 35, 000, 000 _---- __ --. __ ------_------_ Charlestown ______. ______3 1, 000, 000 ------Total______7, 850, 000 12, 000, 000 15, 850, 000 Claremont. ______3 260, 000 ------Concord ______. ______• 7, 000, 000 ------Total needs, $35,700,000.H Conway ______10, 500, 000 ___ ------. ---.• _---- __ ---. _-- _ Maryland: Dover ______• ______3 650, 000 ------Baltimore______s 106, 950, 000 ------Durham ______. __ 3, 500, 000 ------Bowie______450, 000 ----- ______Enfield ______31, 400, 000 ------Salisbury ______------______1, 500, 000 6, 000, 000 31, 800, 000 ------3 l, 200, 000 _------_. __ ----·----. __ -- -- _-- TotaL ______------l 06, 950, 000 1, 950, 000 6, 000, 000 a 1, 110, 000 ------Total needs, $114,900,000. Greenvillem~nr_~~~~ __ • ~_____ ~~ ~~ ~~______~ ~ ~~ ~~~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~_ 3, 000, 000 ___ ------. ---- ______---- 31, 000, 000 ------Haverhill-Woodsville ______3 1, 100, 000 ___ ---- ___ -- ___ -- _. ---. __ ------Massachusetts: Henniker ______Boston (Metro. Dist. Comm) _------6 26, 950, 000 ------s 287, 500, 000 Hillsborough. ______. __ 3 800, 000 ------. -- . ------·-- . -- •. --- Fitchburg______20, 000, 000 ______• 10, 000, 000 Hinsdale ______• ____ _ 3 1, 715, 000 ------... ------·------Haverhill______3 20, 000, 000 ------34, 900, 000 _-- __ . _____ ----. _---- ... _------_ Lawrence______35, 000, 000 _____ ---- ______31, 700, 000 ------· ------· Lowell______a 37, 000, 000 ______Jaffrey~~~~~t~~== ______======_ =_ .== _____ == == =_ SJ, 900, 000 ------New Bedford______12, 000, 000 12, 000, 000 2, 000, 000 Lancaster______3 200, 000 ------. · ------· - Newton______500, 000 34, 050, 000 ------_------Pittsfield______(6) 4, 000, 000 (6) Lebanon ______• ___ _ 3, 400, 000 ------Quincy______1, 000, 000 ------3, 000, 000 Lisbon ______------______----_ 3 875, 000 ------·------Revere ______------______l, 500, 000 500, 000 1, 000, 000 Manchester ______. ______South Essex ______• a 58, 000, 000 ______Marlborough ______n~88: ggg ======--- ___ ~~~~~~~~~~ Springfield______3 40, 000, 000 13, 000, 000 10, 000, 000 MiltonMilford ______------______-- __ ------_ s2, 800, 000 ------Worcester______J 44, 000, 000 ------______Nashua ______3 700, 000 ------· ------New Castle ______11, 500, 000 ------5, 400, 000 Total______------295, 450, 000 29, 500, 000 u 314, 000, 000 Newfields ______3 l , 200, 000 ------. - ·------Total needs, $638,950,000. 3 600, 000 ------. ---. ------. 3 2, 000, 000 _-- -- ______------. ___ ------_ Michigan: Ossipee~~~~~~iier1a,iif_- ______-::______==:: =:::::::: :: _ S700, 000 ------··------15, 000, 000 Peterborough ______3100, 000 ------·-· 8!rr~~~--:======- --6- 4lt 40f ()()()------~~ ~~~~ ~ - 5 96, 000, 000 Pittsfield ______• ______s2, 700, 000 ------East Lansing______200, 000 10, 000, 000 300, 000 Portsmouth ______• ___ • ______3 l , 190, 000 ------Flint______12, 000, 000 3, 000, 000 3, 700, 000 Rye ______••• ___ _ 1, 500, 000 __ _-- ______--•• --. _--- . ------_-- Grand Rapids______113, 500, 000 1 6, 000, 000 24, 500, 000 3 4, 300, 000 ------·------Jackson______12, 000, 000 1 2, 000, 000 I 16, 000, 000 StewartstownSomersworth ______------_ 4, 500, 000 ------Livonia ______(16) (16) 13, 500, 000 Stratford ______3 350, 000 ------Muskegon _____ : ______11, 000, 000 4, 000, 000 3, 000, 000 Sunapee ______• ______3 180, 000 ------50, 000, 000 3 Ponliac ______------7, 000, 000 3, 000, 000 Tilton-Northfield_. ______1, 850, 000 ------­ Port Huron______9, 500, 000 ______19, 700, 000 Troy ______a 2,215, 000 ------13, 500, 000 Warner ______1 750, 000 ------· --·--·------1 8, 000, 000 1, 979, 000 Walpole-No. Walpole ______Whitefield ______• ______s i3. ======~======~======a 1, ~~:065, 600ggg ------··----·------~Jll~If ~J~~J~~ Wilton ______-. ------___ ---- TotaL ______------514, 500, 000 37, 000, 000 265, 179, 000 Winchester ______s 700, 000 ______------Total needs, 816, 679, 000. 3 l, 500, 000 ------·------· Minnesota: TotaL ______------168, 785, 060 0 45, 400, 000 Austin______3, 000, 000 I l, 500, 000 500, 000 Total needs, $214,185,600. Duluth______7, 000, 000 200, 000 2, 000, 000 Minneapolis/St. Paul Sanitary District. 100, 000, 000 100, 000, 000 200, 000, 000 New Jersey: Winona ______--- __ ------__ • 3, 100, 000 ------Bloomfield ______------_------______.______1, 500, 000 Camden ______••• ------1 24, 000, 000 1 $40, 000, 000 60, 000, 000 Total______------• llO, 000, 000 l 04, 800, 000 202, 500, 000 Hoboken ______------_ t 80, 000, 000 8, 000, 000 20, 000, 000 Total needs, $417,300,000. Middlesex County______90, 000, 000 ------Mississippi: Hattiesburg ______500, 000 --- __ _-- - __ ------__ ------__ -- _ Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission_ 300, 000, 000 _____ ------Perth Amboy ___ ------2, 500, 000 1, 500, 000 5, 000, 000 Total needs, $500,000. Plainfield ______------. ______------._------1, 655, 000 Missouri:St. Louis M.S.D ______6 86, 300, 000 ------Total______------49"6, 500, 000 49, 500, 000 88, 155, 000 Columbia ______------s 5, 000, 000 ___ -- ______------Total needs, $634,155,000. Cape Girardeau ______Hannibal______3 l, 000, 000 ------8 4, 000, 000 ------: ------New Mexico: Albuquerque______2, 500, 000 15, 000, 000 39, 000, 000 Independence ______10, 316, 750 3, 077, 000 30, 524, 000 Total needs, $46,500,000. Jackson County_. ______s 100, 000, 000 ------Jefferson City ______1, 250, 000 ------250, 000 North Carolina: Joplin ______2, 513, 750 1, 234, 000 2, 585, 000 Metropolitan Sewer District of Bun- Kansas City ______combe County ______• _____ •• 4, 000, 000 1, 000, 000 20, 000, 000 5 128, 800, 000 ------North Kansas City ______3 3, 000, 000 ------Durham ______------___ •• __ ------(6) 4, 000, 000 (6) St. Charles ______Fayetteville ______. ______I 2, 200, 000 ------18, 000, 000 2, 000, 000 5, 000, 000 St. Joseph ______318, 000, 000 ------Greensboro ______• ______------1, 000, 000 3, 000, 000 750, 000 Springfield ______3, 625, 000 5, 200, 000 26, 782, 000 Raleigh ______------_. ___ • ______38, 000, 000 15, 000, 000 ------~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Salisbury _____ .------_-----_------1, 200, 000 2, 000, 000 850, 000 TotaL ______366, 005, 500 9, 511, 000 60, 141, 000 Winston-Salem ______• ____ _ 6, 350, 000 500, 000 875, 000 Total needs, $435,657,500. 27, 475, 000 Montana: Great Falls ______5, 100, 000 ------4,640, 000 Total. ______------_. __ • ______58, 550, 000 27, 500, 000 Total needs, $9,740,000. Total needs, $113,525,000.

Footnotes a.tend of table. July 8, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 23335

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North Dakota: Nyssa ______I $250, 000 -·-·-----·---·---·-----·-····-· $750, 000 $10, 000, 000 I 125, 000 ---.. ------...... - -- .. -.. . -======------100, 000 ------f:~istown_ ------Philomath.~=~~;t~~y======___ ••••••• -·======______3 75, 000 ------­ TotaL ______-_- __-_- __-_- __-_- __-_- __-_---85_0_, OO_O ___l_0,-00-0-, 00-0 Portland ______a 507, 000 ------5 24, 150, 000 ------·-···-· I $98, 900, 000 Total needs, $10,850,000. Port of Portland (Airport) ______Ranier. __ • ______------______3 50, 000 -----. ------New York: Redmond ______••• ______•a 500,300, 000 .------______------_ Auburn______1 $4, 735, 000 ------7, 500, 000 Richland ____ • ______••••• _. Elmira______11, 906, 200 ______a 50, 000 ___ ------____ • ------8, 000, 000 Rockaway ______•• __ ••••••• __ • __ ••• • 125, 000 _-- -- ____ -- __ --. _-- .. _____ -- _-- _ New York City_------______l, 300, 000, 000 1, 900, 000, 000 North Tonawanda ______300, 000, 000 Rogue River ___ • __ • ______•• __ •• _ 15, 000, 000 St Helens ______I 120, 000 ------Poughkeepsie______1 2, 500, 000 ------9, 000, 000 2, 500, 000 4, 000, 000 Salem •••••• ____ •••••••••• ______•• _ 6, 000, 000 $10, 000, 000 600, 000 ~ochester______50, 000, 000 150, 000, 000 175, 000, 000 Sandy ______••••••• __ •• ______3,230, 000 Scappoose. ______•• ______•••• ____ _ 3 350, 000 ------sgt:1e~ectacii:======12t ~; ggg ------2, 200, ooo_ 16, 000, 000 Scotts Mills ______3 637, 000 ------• ------Watertown______2, 000, 000 2, 655, 000 Seaside •• _. ______8 52, 000 ------Yonkers______55, 500, 000 ------5, 000, 000 a 75, 000 ------­ Seneca ______------_ a 50, 000 ------Siletz ______--·· __ ··-· --- _-· ----· a 90, 000 ______------______Tota'------1,459, 191,200 2, 054, 700, 000 546, 385, 000 The Dalles S.T.P ______Total needs, $4,060,276,200. a 910, 000 ------· Tri-City S.D ______------a 407, 000 ------Turner ______------__ • 3 65, 000 - --- - • ------Ohio: Umatilla ______------______··-·· Akron ____ ------______20, 000, 000 10, 000, 000 80, 000, 000 Union ____ ._ •• __ ••• ______•• _•• _ 1 200, 000 ------Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater a 110, 000 ------Cincinnati ______Unified Sewerage Agency (Portland metropolitan area) ______Columbus ___ ------======-----5-~~·- Waldport ______41d~5: ggg ------Cleveland Heights ______: ~~: igg: ~(17J (17) 6 ~~~~~~000 000 Wasco ______--- Cleveland (next 4 years only) ______Wheeler_ . _____ • ______• ______•• 3 75 000 ------Wilsonville ______•• __ _ 3 170, 000 ------II 21H~3: :o ======---~'-~~~~~~~~ 3 400 000 ------• ------Euclid ______• ______800, 000 3, 000, 000 2, 000, 000 ~1Vrt~n======8, 000, 000 ------30, 000, 000 3 218, 000 ------Garfield Heights ______150, 000 100, 000 8, 625 000 ~=~~i~a- ______.______3 160, 000 ------Hamilton ______• ____ _ 17, 000, 000 1 7, 500, 000 1, 000: 000 TotaL ______••• Marion ______• ______6, 000, 000 1, 000, 000 4, 000 000 108, 288, 000 21 40, 500, 000 111, 145, 000 Middletown ______Total needs, $259,933,000. 7, 250, 000 ------~--- Montgomery County ______10, 000, 000 20, 000, 000 4, 582 500 Newark ______._. ______cu> 500. ooo 6, 280: ooo Pennsriivania: Sandusky ______3, 400, 000 6, 000, 000 75, 000, 000 A legheny County, Pittsburgh______5 56, 000, 000 ------, 115, 000, 000 Steubenville ______Allentown______10, 000, 000 30, 000, 000 15, 000, 000 1, 000, 000 ------500, 000 Toledo ______· ------1 21, 000, 000 11, 500, 000 100, 000, 000 5 Warren ______5, 000, 000 2, 000, 000 3, 000 000 !~t~ii"ct_~~==~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~------~·-~~~·-~~------~·-~~~·-~~ - ' ~88: ggg Youngstown ______134, 000, 000 ------120, 300: 000 Bethlehem------· 4, 000, 000 2, 500, 000 1, 500, 000 Bradford Sanitary Authority______1,270, 000 ------Tota!______._ Chester______516, 770, 000 53, 100, 000 633, 207, 500 5, 300, 000 2, 000, 000 3, 000, 000 Total needs, $1,203,077,500. Easton______4,200,000 1 350, 000 1,650,000 Franklin------1 2, 300, 000 300, 000 3, 000, 000 Oklahoma: Greensburg______1, 800, 000 200, 000 500, 000 Lawton ______·------500, 000 3, 500, 000 5, 000, 000 Harrisburg______4, 000, 000 1, 000, 000 1, 300, 000 Midwest City ______5, 500, 000 500, 000 500, 000 Lancaster______11, 000, 000 110, 000, 000 60, 000, 000 Norman ______• ___ _ 1, 000, 000 650, 000 3, 000, 000 Monessen and Donora______8, 020, 000 500, 000 ------Oklahoma City ______Monongahela______1, 000, 000 500, 000 3, 000, 000 Shawnee ______s 58, 700, 000 ------2, 000, 000 McKeesport _____ • ______.______1 3, 600, 000 250, 000 ______• ______Tulsa ______576, 750 496, 553 286, 467 9, 400, 000 9, 000, 000 7, 000, 000 Oil City______1, 200, 000 300, 000 3, 000, 000 Philadelphia and Delaware (River ... TotaL ______75, 676, 750 14, 146, 553 17, 786, 467 Basin Commission service area)____ 793, 500, 000 ------11, 150, 000, 000 Total needs, $107,609,770. Pottsville______6, 945, 000 750, 000 1,680, 000

Oregon:Adrian ______1 Arch Cape ______------____ _ ml~~;/11i1ttit? .fi1:1 :=::)Eili: ______:m:ffl York______8, 000, 000 14, 500, 000 3, 000, 000 !~~~rra~~===Aumsville ______======_ Aurora ______Tota'------" 941, 740, 000 58, 560, 000 1, 370, 305, 095 Barlow ______Total needs, $2,370,605,095. ::fd~i~ej(______Rhode Island: Brookings ______East Providence______6,000,000 ------3, 000, 000 Bunker Hill S. D------Woonsocket_ __ • __ ------5, 000, 000 3, 000, 000 3, 00(1, 000 Cannon Beach ______------__ _ ~------~-----~ Canyon City-John Day ______TotaL ___ ------11, 000, 000 3, 000, 000 6, 000, 000 Clackamas Co. S.D. No. t______Total needs, $20,000,000. Clatskanie ______Columbia City ______South Carolina: Coos Bay-Empire ______Charleston ______------I 35, 000, 000 1 10, 000, 000 --- __ --- _-- ___ -- Coquille ______------_------_ Columbia ______------14, 000, 000 2,250,000 ------Eastside ______Florence ______------2, 250, 000 1, 800, 000 6, 300, 000 Echo ______,---- ______Rock Hill ______------6, 000, 000 2, 000, 000 2, 000, 000 1150, 000 ------Eugene-Springfield Lane Co ______Spartenburg ______------______1, 000, 000 ------Florence ______23 ~gg. ggg 20 30, 000, 000 9, 740, 000 ------~--~ Gardiner ______Total ___ • ______------_ 58, 250, 000 16, 050, 000 8,300,000 GaribaldL ______Total needs, $82,600,000. Gilchrist______------__ _ Gleneden ______South Dakota: Gold Beach ______. ______Iill: ffl- _: :::: :: :: :::::))! !!!:-:- Arlington _____ ------______74, 000 _------_------Grande Ronde ______3 60 000 Alcester ______------______25, 000 ------. _------Grants Pass ______, 1, 850, 000 ___ -- ____ ------_-- ______--- ___ -- Ashton ______------____ _ Gresham ______20, 000 ------. ------3 750 000 -- Astoria ______44, 119 ------Hammond. ______------______Aurora ______Blunt______18, 000 ------Hood River______34, 000 ------__ ---- _--- _. __ -- _-- _ Island City ______------Bradley ______50, 000 ______--- _------... __ -- __ _ Brookings ______Josephine County (Redwood) ______.·:.:H: !I :::::::::::::::::::: :: ::: :::i 300, 000 I 700, 000 1, 200, 000 Klamath Falls ______915, 000 500, 000 1, 000, 000 Carthage _____ ------______27, 000 ------Claire City ______18, 000 ------Chamerlain ______100, 000 _ -- ____ ------__ ------_--- -- _. - Lanet~~~~:e~k=:: County ______:: == :: ======: ======_ 3 l~~~~. ~~~ ______:== Castlewood ______20, 000 _-- ______-- _------_---- _------Madras ______Columbia ______• ______10, 500 ------Manzanita ______------__ _ Corona __ . ______• Mapleton ______Corson ______28, 000 ------7, 000 ------McNary ______-- -- - _-- __ ----- Custer ______232, 000 ___ -- ______---- __ ---- ______-- __ _ Mosier ______===-======~~ Jl!I Crooks Sanitary District______21, 750 ------Mount Vernon ______Dell Rapids ______37, 000 ----- ______-- __ ------__ --- _-- _- - Myrtle Point______. ______DeSmet______• __ Netarts-Oceanside so ______Dupree ____ . ______69, 000 ------North Bend ______Eden ______-- ______21, 000 ------lii.ffl __ .------;:: 14, 000 ------Footnotes a.t end of table. 23336 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 8, 1970

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Washington: Elkton ______------$51, 000 ------Aberdeen ______... ______3 $1, 230, 400 ______Eth an ___ ------67, 300 ------3 Egan ______------60, 000 ------!~~~~~~~-s.oai<======-=- Gary __ --- __ -- -- __ ------34, 000 --_-- -- _. ------.. -- ____ ------f~&, ii~g ______Garden City ______------30, 000 _------. _. _. --- ___ -- -- __ ----_-- Asotin______s 69 000 Harrisburg ____ ------Hill City ____ ------166: ~~~ ======·======I • ~~~r:~ka-rii======;t m:3 g~g ======Herreid ______------___ ----- 37, 000 . ------Hot Springs ______------:ra~~~~r~~~~======3 5~' ~g~ ------_____ $11, 516, ~00 Hoven ______674, 000 ------Bremerton______31 410 800 85, 900 _------__ ------.. ------_. _ Burlington ______.__ .i 150' oo~o ------· -----· ------_-- Hudson ______61, 000 ------Iroquois ______-- ______42, 000 _-- _. _. __ .. -- ___ . _. --.. _. _. --- __ Cashmere ___ ._. ______. _____ ._. _ 5 0 0 Centralia ______------. __ _ 3 33 Kenstone- Mount Rushmore Sanitary 1 4 9 0 District______1, 200, 000 . ------_ Chelan______a 5, 000 ------Lead-Deadwood Sanitary District_ ___ _ 5, 000, 000 . -- __ .. _. _------__ ---- __ • -- _ ConcreteCle Elum ______------.___ s s414, 20, 000 ------______Lesterville ______-- __ ___ ----- _ 27, 750 ------Lewis and Clark Sanitary District__ __ _ 116, 000 ------CCoosumpeovp_o1eis_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ s 43, 500 ______Menno_------____ ------41, 000 ------111 3 29, 800 ------Midland ____ -- _- __ ------16, 000 ------Mitchell ______------139, 000 ------~3!o~~~~======Ephrata ______.______aa ;4~: 10, ~~g000 ======______Mobridge ______--______--- 120, 000 ------Nisland ______-- ____ -- __ -- _ Everett______t 25, 000, 000 1 $50, 000, 000 15, 000, 000 North Sioux City ______Gig Harbor______a 1, 700, 000 ------1~t ~~ ------3 Oacoma ____ ------__ ------41, 000 ------Olivet______------15, 600 __ . __ --. ------__ ------_ ~~!~~~1;!;_--======3 1~~: ggg ======Pierre ______------______--- _ 30J, 000 ___ . -- _. ___ ------__ -- __ ------Hoquiam ______·------a 50, 000 ------82, 600 ___ ---_------_. ------Lakeland Villa______a 5, 000 ------Platte ______------Langley______s 18, 750 ------Ramona ______---- ___ ------24, 000 ------200 Rapid City ___ ----- ______----_ 500, 000 $1, 500, 000 $1, 500, 000 ~~~~nCounty·S-anftatfonDistrict_____ s 106• ------Raymond ______-- - 30, 000 ------.. Sioux Falls ______600, 000 2, 100, 000 2, 700, 000 number 6______s 295, 000 ------Spearfish ______210, 000 ------Spearfish Valley S.D ______~~~~;~1ifek___ ======aa5R gg~ ===-======40, 000 ------Montesano______~ a 974 000 St. Lawrence ______------31, 000 ------Timber Lake ______----- 31, 000 ___ -- _. _. ---- __ ------__ ---- _ Mount Vernon______a 252 400 25, 000 ------~[:i~~------34, 200 ------Volin ___ _. __ .... ______.. ___ . __ ..• 17, 500 ------Wakonda. __ .. _. ___ .. __ ._. ______-- _ 26, 400 ------·. Okanogan___~;~~:~~~-~~~~~:-~~======______:a n: 5, ~~000 ======------======Waubay_------______------60, 000 ------Olympia__Oroville ______.______a3 940,165, 000 ------______Wentworth ______-- .. --. --. -- -. - 30, 000 ------Palouse______s 5 000 41, 000 ------3 ======44, 000 ___ . _------. __ . _. _. _--- . _-- __ -- _ 1 :ri\~!~'t~ake_-:Wessington ______... __ -- __. _-- . -. 58, 000 ------_------__ ------__ -- _---- ~~u~~ bo======}~g: ggg ======21, 000 --. __ . _-- . _------_.. -- __ -- __ _ Prosser______a 5 000 White __ .... ------.. _------3 Watertown ______----.. _-----. 120, 000 ------~~~~:~istasii1itatioii-oistrfc-c==== 3 l, Yankton ______.. ____ . _____ -- ____ ----- 400, 000 ------oi8. ggg ~-:_:: ______Custer State Park Stockage Camp- 3 ground ___ ------_ ------. ------25, 000 ___ . _. -- _-- . _. _------__ ---- _. _ ::ra~~~~======3 2gi: ggg ======Custer State Park Legion Lake ______10, 000 ------SedroMunicipal Wolley of ______Metropolitan Seattle______3109 000, ooo ------______76, 000, 000 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1160 000 Total______12, 056, 564 4, 300, 000 5, 400, 000 Skagit County, S.D. No.}______a 80, 000 ------·------South Bend______s 5, 000 ------Total needs, $21,756,564. Snohomish ____ ------a 340, 000 ______------__ Spokane______6, 000, 000 5, 000, 000 50, 000, 000 Tennessee: Nashville __ . _. -- .. __... __ . _. -- -.. -- 25, 000, 000 12, 000, 000 150, 000, 000 Memphis __ ___ .. ___ .. ____ ... __ ._. __ 140, 000, 000 ------Sumner~~a~:so_o~----======______. ______!117, ~~: 300ggg ==-======______======_ TotaL __ . ______. _____ . ____ _ 165, 000, 000 12, 000, 000 150, 000, 000 Suquamish ___ ------a 340, 000 ------______Sunnyside. ______------______a 250, 000 ______------______Total needs, $327 ,000,000. '.?-? Tacoma______13, 000, 000 8, OCJO, 000 5, 000, 000 Texas: Abilene______3, 000, 000 2, 000, 000 4, 000, 000 f~r!~~~ ~-~i~~~~·- ~~~======a!~: gg~ ==--======Tonasket______s 30, 000 ------Amarillo______233, 000 3, 000, 000 ------Vader______s 2, 000 ______------______Austin ___ ------6, 000, 000 4, 000, 000 20, 000, 000 Corpus Christi______2, 500, 000 4, 125, 000 5, 169, 000 Vancouvt:r______12314, 900, 000 124 7, 040, 000 3, 700, 000 Dallas______146, 000, 000 13, 150, 000 10, 000, 000 3 Fort Worth______1 26, 500, 000 39, 000, 000 7, 000, 000 ~hsi~~l!f~;~~-~-~~======a 11~: ggg ======Galveston______6, 350, 000 2, 000, 000 ------Wilbur______a 155 000 Garland______6, 300, 000 1, 200, 000 ------3 Houston______s 20, 700, 000 ------1, 200, 000 :i~~~g~~------======a 1& ======~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~n~ Midland ___ ------2, 250, 000 2, 500, 000 250, 000 Total______340,074,900 74,840,000 161,216,000 Pasadena -----··------2, 600, 000 2, 000, 000 4, 000, 000 Texarkana______13, 800, 000 13, 500, 000 2, 400, 000 Total needs, $576,130,900. Texas City______3, 500, 000 3, 500, 000 2, 000, 000 1 1 West Virginia: Huntington ______. _____ ------__ .. _ 7, 500, 000 ------30, 000, 000 ~1:~------Wichita Falls______---- t ~~~: ~~~ ~:4, ~~~:000, 000~~~ 2,Ug~: 500, 000~~g Parkersburg __ . __ ... ___ ._. ______1, 000, 000 ------8, 500, 000 Total______TotaL ______-----. ______130, 733, 000 90, 975, 000 65, 265, 000 8, 500, 000 ------38, 500, 000 Total needs, 47,000,000. Total needs, $286,977 .000. 1, 200, 000 __ . -- __ ---_---- _ 4, 000, 000 Wisconsin: Utah: Provo ______------Beloit______(6) 834, 000 1, 702, 000 Total needs $5,200,000. Fon du Lac______1,500,000 800,000 2,000,000 Vermont: Green Bay __ ------_____ 31, 000, 000 1, 000, 000 4, 000, 000 Brattleboro______800, 000 300, 000 1, 000, 000 Kenosha______(6) 600, 000 20, 000, 000 Madison ______------___ ------14, 500, 000 6, 000, 000 7, 000, 000 Burlington______3, 000, 000 3, 000, 000 12, 000, 000 Milwaukee M.S.D______88, 600, 000 ______300, 000, 000 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 5 Rachine_ ------3, 000, 000 6, 000, 000 8, 000, 000 Total______3, 800, 000 3, 300, 000 13, 000, 000 Sheboygan ______. _____ .______1, 870, 000 ___ . ______. _ 2, 250, 000

Total needs, $20,100,000. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TotaL ______------130, 470, 000 15, 234, 000 344, 952, 000 Virginia: Hampton Roads Sanitation District____ 20, 000, 000 ------40, 000, 000 Total needs: 490,656,000.2o Roanoke ______5, 000, 000 1, 000, 000 10, 000, 000 Richmond______5, 900, 000 ------8, 000, 000

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Total______30, 900, 000 1, 000, 000 58, 000, 000 Total needs, $89,900,000.

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•Keynote. demand ing, technical and financial problem of all ; the combined sewer problem which plagues 1 Needs figures where the city reporting indicated that it was reporting needs for an area greater almost every old major metropolitan area in the country. The present problem for the city of than its city limits. Boston and surrounding communities is estimated at$~ to $1 billion to correct with no provisions 2 30 years. for Federal aid under current policies and regulations. " -Gov. Francis W. Sargent. a Figures from surveys prepared in 1970 by State governments. Idaho and Wyoming are omitted 1s Detroit. from the survey as no data were provided from these States. 11 Construction underway. , (Phoenix). 1s Cleveland needs to 1985 total $1,602,000,000-Needs listed are for next 4 years only. ~ Figures gained from the survey prepared for Senator Muskie by the Association of Metropolitan u Under construction. Sewerage Agencies. 20 By 1990. e No need. 21 Some of these needs extend beyond 1976. 1 Orange County District. 22 A study by the Tennessee Municipal League indicated a need of $530,000,000 for adequate • City of Los Angeles. sewage treatment in Tennessee. o Los Angeles County. 23 $9,100,000 more needed 1973-80. 10 Under contract. 24 $4,800,000 more, 1973-80. 11 The State of Delaware estimates total needs for the next 6 yea rs at $82,000,000. 2s League of Wiscons in Municipalities provided information from State indicating 5-year needs of: 12 This pmgram not now contemplated because of high expense involved. 13 Data provided by the League of Kansas Municipalities indicates that secondary treatment For primary and secondary treatment______$196, 552, 000 required in 32 communities will cost $27 ,000,000. For tertiary treatmenL------20, 000, 000 u Data provided by the State ot Maine indicates that costs of approximately $146,000,000 will For storm and sanitary sewer separation ______600, 000, 000 be required through 1976 to implement a satisfactory treatment program. TotaL ______816, 552, 000 t.1 "Available Federal programs must be undertaken with financial support to solve the most

THE EARTH IS WHAT WE MAKE IT WATER QUALITY AND SUPPLY area.. For, remember, the Raritan River and Johnson & Johnson backed the campaign its reservoirs will not only store and deliver for the trunk sewer system with leadership, Raritan water, but also 300 million gallons HON. EDWARD J. PATTEN money and the film "River At Your Door." of Tocks Island water daily. We must keep this Solberg area clean ... OF NEW JERSEY In 1958, after years of endeavor, we saw the system, which serves parts of Union and AIR POLLUTION IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Somerset Counties and most of Middlesex, Our company has fought filth in all its Wednesday, July 8, 1970 built and placed in operation in the lower forms since 1886 . . . and this applies to air Mr. PATTEN. Mr. Speaker, because of Raritan River. Today, a Johnson & Johnson pollution. Our performance in the prevention executive heads the sewerage authority as of industrial air pollution is generally far the growing emphasis on more eff ec­ well as the current enlargement project for ahead of any existing regulations. tive air, water, and land pollution con­ increasing the system's waste treatment ca­ Johnson & Johnson companies in the New trol, I was pleased and impressed by a pacity and trunk lines. At an estimated cost Brunswick area were among the first to statement on environment made by of $125 mill1on, this project will be financed switch to low-sulfur fuel olls in the early Philip B. Hoffman, chairman of the by grants from the federal and state gov­ 1960's. Fuel-burning controls have con­ board, Johnson & Johnson, in which he ernments in addition to loea.1-user cha.rges. stantly been improved, and a. number of declared the past, present, and future Johnson & Johnson refused to permit the plants have switched to gas service and in­ Delaware and Raritan Canal to be abandoned stalled metering devices to monitor emis­ policy of his firm: or filled in before World War II, and, to­ sions and equipment performance. The cor­ General (Robert Wood) Johnson stood gether with other forward-looking organiza­ porate program to upgrade air pollution con­ strong for a clean and wholesome environ­ tions and individuals, we kept it open as a trol equipment is constantly reevaluated in ment in every sense of the word. He would water supply. The Canal became a facility of the light of new technical developments. never settle for mediocrity-neither will I. the state in 1945 and will long be a vital In 1967, Governor Hughes requested that asset to central New Jersey. General Johnson have one of our executives Mr. Speaker, if all of the Nation's in­ In 1958, Johnson & Johnson gave leader­ set up task forces to revise and modernize dustrial firms were as sincere, dedicated, ship and money to the Water Bond Referen­ the air and water pollution abatement struc­ and effective as Johnson & Johnson in dum, which created among others, the tures in the state government. The basic ex­ attacking pollution, our environment Round Valley and Spruce Run Reservoirs. pertise for this program was supplied by the would be much closer to being free of Last November we filled a similar role of federal government, and these combined ef­ contamination. The record of Johnson & successful leadership in supporting a clean­ forts resulted in the establishment of the water bond issue, which won $242 million Johnson in combating pollution is one Division of Clean Air and Water in the New for pollution abatement and $29 million for Jersey Department of Health under a strong of the best in the Nation. I believe that reservoir sites. administrator. This structure has been rec­ Mr. Hoffman's statement was an excel­ General Johnson always kept a watchful ognized by federal officials as outstanding lent one and I hereby insert it in the eye on the Delaware River, New Jersey's among the states. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD with deep pride. largest water resource. In 1954 his legal as­ sistants contributed to the protection of the LAND CONSERVATION Entitled, "The Earth Is What We Make Johnson Park, known so well to so many It," it is a tribute to two great industrial downstream states by stopping New York City from making huge withdrawals of water of you and your families, extends from High­ leaders and their strong efforts to im­ in New York State without being made to land Park along the Raritan River almost to prove the quality of our environment: compensate the stream from stored water. Bound Brook. In the mid-1930's, this Mid­ The late Gen. Robert W. Johnson, who Out of this came a four-state federal com­ dlesex County park originated through a land served as chairman of the board of John­ pact commission to develop the Delaware gift from Robert Wood Johnson and his son & Johnson for many years, and the Basin's water resources. A Johnson & John­ family. The total acreage of the park has present board chairman, Philip B. Hoff­ son man has represented the Governor and since been increased by the Johnson family, the State of New Jersey on this commission by the company, by other generous citizens man. for the past eight years. and, more recently, by the Green Acres The statement follows: It is particularly interesting to note that Program. THE EARTH Is WHAT WE MAKE IT the Delaware River may now supply the In Somerset County, it was Johnson & Some observations on our environment are Delaware and Raritan Canal with 100 mil­ Johnson leadership that launched the suc­ particularly in order on this April 22, 1970. lion gallons of water daily, as authorized by cessful Somerset County Park Commission. These observations far exceed the realm of law. It was a Johnson & Johnson man, on leave interested concern, however. The Delaware's Tock's Island Reservoir will of absence from the company, who, as Com­ missioner of Conservation and Economic De­ Since Johnson & Johnson was founded on supply northern and central New Jersey with the banks of the Raritan River 84 yea.rs ago, 300 million gallons of water daily. This can velopment for the State of New Jersey, helped we have sterilized so many products essential be delivered via the Raritan's Round Valley lead the Green Acres referendum campaign to the protection of health and life that our Reservoir and by open stream in the Raritan in 1961. desire for clean, wholesome surroundings is River to intake pipes at Manville. And one has only to eyewitness a plant a long-standing preoccupation. Johnson & Johnson and our family of com­ built by the Johnson & Johnson family of panies took a strong and adamant position companies in the last quarter century­ General Johnson stJood strong for a clean impressive architecture on expansive land­ and wholesome evironment in every sense against locating a major international jet­ port on the Solberg site, at the confluence scaped grounds-to agree with General John­ of the word. He would never settle for medi­ son that "factories can be beautiful." A lot ocrity-neither will I. of the South and North Branches of the Raritan. Some of the reasons for our posi­ of other manufacturers now think so, too. We are all aware of Johnson & Johnson's tion are economic, but paramount in our All of us in the Johnson & Johnson family traditional and unexcelled standards of in­ thinking is the damaging effect such a jet­ may look with unqualified pride on our dustrial environmental control. But let's take port would have on the area's environment-­ record to date and may be assured with cer­ a close look at our record of participation in particularly the obvious gross pollution of tainty that our dedication to participating protecting three of the most vital elements the drainage area and the streams them­ citizenship in the best interests of our en­ of this earth of ours--our water, our air, selves, as well as the extensive development a vironment will remain as firm as it has always and our land. jetport would bring into this potable water been ... 23338 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 8, 1970 THE TIDEWATER VETERANS This action was taken none too soon, They had enough common sense and faith to ASSOCIATION because the problem became acute less realize that the nation at least was headed in the right direction. As a result of their than 1 year later. Hampton National faith, common sense, and sacrifice, many HON. G. WILLIAM WHITEHURST Cemetery, which has served the Tide­ countries and millions of people a.re free water area, was closed. The closest na­ today who might otherwise have been en­ OF VIRGINIA tional cemetery then became the one lo­ slaved for centuries. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cated in Hopewell, Va. Because of the simple trust and obedience Wednesday, July 8, 1970 The Tidewater Veterans Memorial of these men, our nation has enjoyed un­ Gardens is now a functioning memorial paralleled progress and freedom-so much Mr. WHITEHURST. Mr. Speaker, 40 cemetery, in which the area's veterans freedom in fact that conceivably we are free million Americans make up a very spe­ enough t oday to commit national suicide a receive free burial, just as they would in thousand years before our time. cial group, a group that has been hon­ a national cemetery. This is a good ex­ ored with a national holiday in recogni­ We owe a special debt of gratitude to these ample of what can be accomplished dead because they conquered fear, self pity tion of their services. I refer to the 40 through the cooperation of interested and selfishness. They were no more anxious million veterans who have served and are organizations and private enterprise. to die than you or I or any other citizen. now serving their country honorably and In the absence of expansion of our They must have been haunted occasionally with pride. national cemeteries, and even if an addi­ by the same loneliness, doubts, and ques­ Mr. Speaker, Congress granted these tions that have assailed every generat ion of tional $150 is paid toward funeral ex­ Americans at one t ime or another. Yet, they veterans and servicemen the right to free penses, we should encourage the setting burial in a national cemetery. Under the had the strength of character to overcome up of local memorial cemeteries to honor their trepidations and any innate pettiness. present circwnstances, however, many the local veterans. The majority of na­ They did not demand an exhaustive account­ may not have the opportunity to take tional cemeteries are east of the Missis­ ing from the nation each time they crossed advantage of this right. There are 98 sippi, which means that many areas are the line into battle. national cemeteries now in existence. not served. Local veterans' cemeteries Of these dead that we honor, relatively Thirty-seven of them are already closed. would answer this need. And as in the few in recent times fought on American Many more are almost completely filled. case of Tidewater, a nearby national soil. In furtherance of a higher responsi­ Yet the national cemetery program is not bilitity, a bright er ideal, they carried the flag cemetery may not have sufficient space to distant islands, jungles, plains, moun­ to be expanded. to serve the community. Here again, local tains, and desert s. Yet, no foreign nation has As the Honorable OLIN TEAGUE, chair­ private cemeteries could provide the ever lived in subservience to the United States man of the House Committee on Veter­ space. as a result of their far-flung campaigns. On ans Affairs, has pointed out, there is Mr. Speaker, I submit to you that the the contrary, and in full justification of their tremendous expense involved in the pur­ Tidewater Veterans Association has faith, their government has extended to chase, establishment, and perpetual friends and enemies alike a degree of com­ found a satisfactory solution to the prob­ passion and generosity never before exhibited maintenance of new cemeteries. His lem faced by many of those 40 million in the annals of war. So, while these honor­ committee has, therefore, gone on record Americans: The problem of finding free able men were victors-and they had every as favoring payment of a special $150 burial space for veterans. right to expect victory in return for their cemetery plot allowance to survivors of sacrifice--they were not conquerors in the deceased veterans. In addition to pro­ classic sense. Their most vicious enemies of viding a partial defrayment of interment a generation ago are now thriving and re­ costs, this payment would encourage sur­ WE HONOR THESE MEN spected in the community of nations. This vivors to bury their veteran dead in their fact ls a great tribute to the republic in which these honored dead had such un­ hometowns. bounded faith. Mr. Speaker, in at least one area, this HON. J. CALEB BOGGS problem has been met and resolved en­ OF DELAWARE UTTER DISMAY IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES If these men who lie at rest around us tirely through local effort. The Tide­ could rise up today, they assuredly would water Veterans Association of Virginia, Wednesday, July 8, 1970 look around in utt er dismay. No, they would Inc., which now represents over 3,000 not be shocked by dissent; there was enough members of 39 veterans' organizations, Mr. BOGGS. Mr. President, recently I dissent in their day too. But they indeed began as the Armistice Day Association came across a Memorial Day address would be appalled at the manifestations of in 1948. Its aim at that time was to plan given by Col. Nicholas A. Canzona, com­ dissent: The defiling of our flag, the fren­ appropriate ceremonies for November 11 manding officer of the 25th Marines, in zied reviling of our president and sacred each year. From the beginning, it met Worcester, Mass. institutions, the disintegration of a moral with great support and interest. In 1965, Colonel Canzona's words, I believe, can code that ls 4,000 years old, the almost serve as an inspiration to us all in these capricious defiance of law and order. it became known by its present name, A typical cross-section of these American and was granted a State charter on trying times. dead that we honor were officers and non­ May 29, 1968. Through the years the I ask unanimous consent that his re­ commissioned officers. If they could awaken association has increased the scope of marks be printed in the RECORD. and rejoin us, they would hear themselves its activities, participating in veterans' There being no objection, the address taunted and branded publicly as pigs of the legislation and disseminating informa­ was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, establishment. They would be unable to set as follows: foot on many campuses without being sub­ tion on veterans' affairs to all member jected to the most virulent abuse. organizations. ADDRESS BY COL. NICHOLAS A. CANZON A Fellow Americans, if you and I saw this When it became evident that a short­ Today is a time set aside to honor the great host rise up from this hallowed ground age of burial space in national ceme­ dead, those special dead who in life fought and approach us, what would we say to them teries and the resulting restrictions our nation's wars. It makes little difference in the light of today's new left philosophy? placed on Arlington would make it dif­ now whether they fell on the battlefield in Would we say that their lives and sacrifices ficult for Tidewater veterans to take ad­ the flower of youth or whether they returned have been a horrible mistake? That the re­ home to die in later years. It makes little public has outlived its usefulness? That vantage of their legal right to free bur­ difference whether they fought in France, America. indeed has made no significant ial, the Tidewater Veterans Association Africa, Guadalcanal, Okinawa, Korea or Viet­ progress or contribution? That for almost formed a committee to investigate this nam, whether they fought on land, at sea, or two hundred years the United States has in problem and recommend action to help in the air. Or whether they were generals actuality been a gigantic fraud? That there alleviate it. In October 1968, the asso­ or privates. Nor does it make any difference is no standard of decency, dignity, respect whether they were white, black or yellow. and obedience that a Democracy can expect ciation resolved by majority vote to en­ Death is a great equalizer. Now all of them of its people? That Communist tyranny is dorse the Tidewater Veterans Memorial rest in peace, away from the ceaseless tu­ right because America is irrevocably wrong? Gardens, which would be located in mult of the world of the living. Would we tell the risen dead that this na­ Rosewood Memorial Park, Virginia We honor these men, these sacred dead, tion's policy is net, after all, inextricably Beach, Va. Thirty-five acres were set because they served us well in simple obedi­ rooted in history and justice but is only an ence to a nation that they loved and re­ arbitrary, brutal exercise in wealth and aside for the exclusive use of veterans spected. A nation that they supported when power? and their dependents, and a suitable the die was cast. Greater love hath no man. If the republic for which these men fought memorial honoring those veterans was These were imperfect men who fought tor is manifestly so evil and repugnant that we erected. the imperfect causes of an Imperfect republlc. could say such things to the assembled dead, July 8, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 23339 then perhaps we as a people should continue Virginia Wesleyan College, where he it work time and time a.gain, and he had no our breastbeating until we sink into obliv­ helped publicize the great "Gip" Battles. doubts about the formula. Men who play ion---or are pushed into it. If, with a clear well, in the quest of excellence, are better conscience we could now stand over others He has wrttten his popular daily sports column, "W·arming Up," an estimated for it. and desecrate American flags, if over stm If he will not think it a little ponderous, others we could unfurl and venerate enemy 10,000 times, and it has many avid read­ we'll say that he brought to his handling flags-if indeed the United States is so foul ers. He sought no special recognition for of sports news and his daily comment upon that we could commit such abominations himself, but the national Sportswr.iters­ it the classical ideal: A sound mind in a with a clear conscience and not out of sheer Sportscasters Association Awards Com­ sound body. idiocy-then we as a nation would have to mittee in 1960, 1961, and 1964 named There are not many o! his kind, and those admit to a complete inversion of values: of us who worked with him count ourselves Which is to say that the evolution of this Hudson the outstanding sportswriter of the year in West Virginia. lucky to have had one of the exemplary great republic has been a blight on mankind. in our company. Now, if we do not have the conviction and One mark of a man's contribution to stomach to so profane the dead, then neither society is how much he will be missed should we profane the living. It is essentially when he is gone. Dick's decision to leave indecent and irrational by any standards to West Virginia truly will be a loss for all COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS BY DR. call a man a pig while he lives, then imme­ West Virginians. Not the least of these diately canonize him when he dies. It is JOHN A. LOGAN, JR., PRESIDENT, grossly inconsistent and unfair to divorce the will be his coworkers because Dick Hud­ HOLLINS COLLEGE, VIRGINIA causes for which these men died from a na­ son was one of the most unselfish of tional policy that was born out of these them all. He always was first to take ca.uses. It is a monumental perversion of jus­ the hardest chore for himself. His work­ HON. WILLIAM B. SPONG, JR. tice to expect one generation to die for the day often began at 4: 30 a.m., long be­ OF VIRGINIA flag and allow another to drag it through the fore anyone else. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES gutter. Dick Hudson, the sports editor and the In years gone by, it was always the cus­ Wednesday, July 8, 1970 tom, when a friend died, to send a remem· man, was a purist. His penchant for fair brance of flowers. In recent years, many be­ play by the rules never wavered. Com­ Mr. SPONG. Mr. President, this spring reaved families have requested instead that petitors, spectators, coaches, and the en­ was a particularly difficult time for many donations be made to noble institutions such tire State will be the big losers by his de­ of our colleges and universities. Serious as the Heart Fund, Cancer Fund, hospitals, parture. I am certain that they, like I, questions were raised concerning the or cultural centers. Perhaps on the solemn wish him well. role of institutions of higher learning in occasion of Memorial Day, 1970, we, as a Both the city and county recreation the political process and in our society nation could make a practical request of our­ as a whole. Sertous questions were also selves. We could remember our dead not directors recently remarked how for­ merely with flowers and ceremony, but with tunate the city of Charleston was to have raised concerning the ability of some of the visible contribution of a life of selfish­ a man of the caliber of Dick Hudson cov­ our institutions to function effectively in ness, patriotism, and faith. We could thus ering sports. the face of widespread divisiveness. vindicate the deaths of these great men and B.ill Smith, who has succeeded Hudson Amid the dissension and polariza­ the high purpose of this republic. We can as Daily Mail sports editor, said: tion which permeated our Nation, many begin today by silently reaffirming our alle­ Dick leaves big shoes to fill ... they won't analyses were presented, many sugges­ giance, so that tomorrow we can move for­ be. tions made for resolving extant contro­ ward once again with traditional unity, versies and disagreements. An excellent pride, and courage. If we owe anything at all There was nothing phony about Dick commentary on these matters was given to America's dead, we owe them at least this Hudson whether he was writing about a much. by Dr. John A. Logan, Jr., president high school hero, a star for West Vir­ of Hollins College, in Virginia. Dr. Lo­ ginia University, major league baseball gan's 1970 commencement address was TRIBUTE TO DICK HUDSON or a Little Leaguer. His thousands of a forthright, rational, and balanced dis­ readers looked forward each year to his cussion of the major problems facing Christmas column devoted exclusively to our Nation and society. It outlined the HON. JOHN M. SLACK a message of world peace addressed to basic prtnciples and procedures which OF WEST vmGINIA his son. Service in the U.S. Navy in World must be accepted, honored, and pursued IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES War II helped Dick decide that the if our Nation is to fulfill its promises of Prince of Peace laid down the best set Wednesday, July 8, 1970 freedom and opportunity for each and of rules for man to follow, and that he every citizen and if our institutions are Mr. SLACK. Mr. Speaker, my home must learn to live with his fellowman in effectively to perform their functions. State of West Virginia is proud of its harmony under God or face destruction. I commend Dr. Logan's address to athletic heritage. Over the years we have West Virginia is noted as a coal-pro­ the Senate and ask unanimous consent had many heroes to cheer-men such as ducing State. But some men of pure gold that it be printed in the Extensions of Jerry West in basketball, Sam Huff in live there, and Dick Hudson's star out­ Remarks. football, and Sam Snead in golf, to name shines most of them. He always has There being no objection, the address a selective few. shown an awareness and a rare insight was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, Now, West Virginia is about to lose a of the personal involvement and pride of as follows: man who has written many stories of the competitive athlete. This is ampli­ COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS BY DR. JOHN A. their achievements for the past 35 years. fied in the following editorial written by LOGAN, JR. He is the distinguished sports editor of J. D. Maurice, editor of the Daily Mail, Members of the Graduating Class, these the Charleston Daily Mail, Dick Hudson. as he acted as spokesman for all of Dick's tradttional ceremonies mark the culmination Dick has served as sports editor of the colleagues: of your years at Hollins. Your college careers Daily Mail for 30 years and has brought Sports editors are replaceable. Our Dick have spanned a turbulent time in this na­ a perspective of integrity and fairness to Hudson is not. And on his decision to quit tion's history, and the events of recent weeks his profession that will be impossible to "Warming Up" after all these years and cool have provided an explosive punctuation for match. He has resigned effective July 15, off a litle in Florida, those of us remaining your experience. For many of you there must to accept a position on the Jacksonville, can do at best only two things. have been times when you doubted that this Fla., Journal copy desk. We can wish him well. Dick will be at peaceful moment would arrive. home wherever men compete in games. And Yet, here we are together for a last mo­ In making the move to Florida, Dick we can reflect a little on those qualities as ment, and I want to take this opportunity to and his wife, Kitty, will be near their son, a person and as a writer which D;!Jl,de him make some brief observations about these Terry, a doctor who will take his resi­ unique. recent experiences which may help put them dency work at the University of Florida He believed devoutly in the value of into perspective. at Gainesville. athletics-not as an alternate to education, First, let me say that however disturbing I believe my colleagues here will be in­ but as the natural complement. and divisive these happenings seemed at the terested in knowing something about He relished competition, but only within time-setting, as they did, students against this man of letters. the framework o! fair play. He was fussy their classmates, professors against their about the "rules of the game." colleagues, and parents against their chil· Hudson began his wr.iting career for He made no jokes about the worth o! dren or against their childrens' colleges-I the Daily Mail while a student at West sports in building character. Dick had ~n think all of us would have been ashamed of 23340 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 8, 1970 this college had it not been affected by the there be no destruction of property, nor in­ conditioned by the same attitudes. Most of great issues that have galvanized thought terference with the rights of others. Freedom this has been brought on by the excesses of and action across this nation's campuses. from disorder is as essential a component of student radicals, both in their rhetoric and The expansion of the military action in an open society as freedom of dissent. Noth­ in their behavior. The moderate majority oI Southeast Asia, and the killing of students ing is more pernicious than the conviction students must not fall into the error of at Kent State University touched deep well­ of some political activists that only violent adopting these methods, because there is real springs of feeling and opinion, and raised confrontation will gain attention and bring danger that all dissent will soon automati­ questions which had to be confronted. about social change. We learn afresh with cally •be classified by a large pa.rt of our popu­ I am proud that the Hollins community every resort to physical coercion that these lation as disloyalty, or treason, or anarchism. did confront these issues, but I am prouder methods are destructive and counterproduc­ In a recent poll, a majority of respondents still of the way in which we responded. By tive, inviting the use of repressive force by voted against the provisions of the Bill of acting with moderation and great corporate private groups and by police and military Rights, which were paraphrased and pre­ responsibility, in the midst of high emotion, agencies. The tragic deaths at Kent State sented a.s proposed legislation. This is a we agreed on a course which left individuals University and Jackson State College are genuine threat to the maintenance of our free to follow their consciences without im­ cases in point. free society. posing one group's opinions on another, in a What, then, are appropriate ways to express I cannot close without saying that I see spirit of mutual tolerance and respect. concern about these great political and social very hopeful signs that good sense and good At the same time, everyone found it neces­ issues? One method, which I do not think is order wm prevail. In spite of the sensa­ sary to define and defend his own views, and appropriate, ha.s been broadly advocated by tional incidents of mob violence which have the result was, I feel strongly, an educational students and some faculty across the na­ made headlines in the past few days, the experience of the highest order. tion in the present crisis. I am referring to fact is that a great many campus demon­ What lessons are to be drawn from this vast the attempt to use the college or university strations were peaceful and orderly. This national upheaval? In the first place, it itself as a symbol of protest by voting to was true also of such potentially inflamma­ should be clear, if it was not clear before, that strike, to close down the institution in order tory gatherings as the May Day demonstra­ the peace movement is a serious and perma­ to dramatize opposition to national policies tion on behalf of justice for the Black Pan­ nent phenomenon which runs broadly and at home and abroad. thers in New Haven, and the mass meeting deeply through the entire younger genera­ A few colleges and universities did sus­ in Washington two weeks ago. Most signifi­ tion. It is by no means confined to the young, pend entirely their regular academic pro­ cant, perhaps, was the work of student mar­ but its main stength is there. If recent events grams in response to majority opinion. Many shals, who on both occasions moved quickly have shown nothing else, they have demon­ others which closed, however, did so not for and effectively to quell scattered outbreaks strated that every decision made by our na­ ideological reasons, but to prevent the de­ of violence. Here is overt evidence of a grow­ tion's leaders must take this fact into seri­ struction of property and possible loss of ing realization by young leaders that unruly ous account. lives. There were those at Hollins who urged confrontations hurt rather than help their The disturbances on our campuses which the suspension of all classes and examina­ cause. followed the announcement that military tions and argued that the institution as such Equally significant are the newly-formed operations had been extended into Cambodia should take a public stand on the war and student organizations being set up to bring will not be properly understood 1f they are the Kent State shootings. Our faculty voted about desired social changes by working viewed lightly on the one hand as an es­ against any such action, and they were within established political institutions and pecially virulent outbreak of spring fever, joined by the vast majority of students. We the electoral process. Such responsible par­ or darkly on the other as a sinister manifes­ agreed on a formula which opened the way ticipation by students in government should for individual action, without placing the tation of Communist infiltration into our be welcomed and encouraged. Hollins has colleges. These interpretations invite either institution itself on record. been among the first colleges to do so by serious under-reaction or over-reaction. I strongly believe that this decision is the only one which is compatible with the funda­ eliminating the traditional Thanksgiving It is not a small minority, but an over­ holiday, and substituting a mid-term break whelming number of our college students who mental goals and purposes of a college. There is, of course, in the first place a legal matter in the fall, which includes Election Day, to want an early end to the war in Vietnam. It of the contractual obligation to those who facilitate political activity by student.son be­ affects their lives immediately, and they are have paid for an education and are entitled half of candidates of their choice. None of this activity will be compulsory, of course, convinced that it is immoral as well as hope­ to receive it. If a single student wishes to less. This war is, furthermore, a cancer attend class or take examinations, the col­ but it is to be hoped that many young peo­ gnawing at the vitals of our body politic, dis­ lege owes him that right. But there is a moral ple will learn in this way that their opinions torting our image abroad and at home, and obligation beyond this legal one. will be listened to, and that the ballot box preventing a reordering of our national prior­ O'f all the institutions in a pluralistic so­ is a more effective route to reform than the ities to deal with the pressing domestic is­ ciety, our colleges and universities, dedicated barricades. sues of social justice, pollution, poverty, and as they are to freedom of expression and of No one who works with young people nowa­ urban redevelopment. Our young people be­ inquiry, should shelter and sustain every days can help being optimistic about the lieve fervently in the need to address our­ shade of opinion. No individual should be future. It may well be that a revolution is selves promptly and energetically to these compelled by majority vote to be represented in the making, but it will be a peaceful and problems. by an institutional position that he does not oonstructive one, and not the kind pro­ I am prepared to believe that President adhere to personally. claimed by the prophets of the New Left. Nixon also sincerely wants to end the involve­ There is still a further dimension to this I am confident that the changes which lie ment in Vietnam which he inherited, and is problem that deserves consideration. As an ahead will bring us closer to a realization moving to accomplish it. The foray into Cam­ institution devoted to the transmission of of the ideals upon which this nation was bodia was a great political gamble, and it knowledge and the search for truth, the uni­ founded. will remain to be seen whether the short-run versity is a mighty engine for social change I urge ea.ch of you who is graduating to­ military advantages outweigh the long-run and amelioration of the human condition. Its day to nourish your passion for peace and political and diplomatic effects. But one fact great power lies in the generation of ideas justice, and carry it forward into the life already emerges clearly: that unless and un­ which lead to constructive change, and not you will lead henceforth. til the credibility of our government's desire in action itself. Furthermore, its effectiveness You are em.barking on a great adventure, for peace is established among the young, a rests on the autonomy which society has and I wish you Godspeed. serious and perhaps permanent alienation granted it out of respect for its objectivity in of our future leaders from our present form the search for truth. Once the university as a of government could result. Nothing would corporate body ceases to be a forum and be­ be more tragic or more ominous. EX:tensive comes a self-conscious instrument of policy, HOW THE NEWS MEDIA DISTORTS lines of communication must be established once it becomes avowedly partisan, then it FACTUAL REPORTS TO DISCREDIT and maintained. An important start has been abandons its historic claim to freedom '.from made, and it must be expanded and effec­ political interference. The current rash of OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT tively exercised at every level of government. threats from state legislatures to cut off Unless this is done, dissent will not only funds for higher education is a predictable grow, but will inevitably become less respon­ reaction to the politicizing of some of our HON. JIM WRIGHT sible. If it is forced outside the framework campuses. OF TEXAS of the established political system, the in­ No observer of our society can fail to be IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cidence of violence will increase in propor­ disturbed by the widening chasm of anger Wednesday, July 8, 1970 tion to the frustrations of helplessness, and and distrust which is opening up between the angry divisions which already imperil our the so-called silent majority and the aca­ Mr. WRIGHT. Mr. Speaker, a story ap­ society will grow apace. demic world. This nation is a house divided, pearing in yesterday's Washington Post Let me digress just a moment to say a not as in 1860 along regional lines, but in and the summary of a report by the Gen­ word about the right of dissent. It is central terms of age, of educational levels, and of to our form of government that citizens be occupation. The attack on student demon­ eral Accounting Office inserted in yester­ free to express their opinions and to assem­ strators by construction workers in New York day's RECORD by the gentleman from ble peaceably to petition for redress of griev­ City is symptomatic of a growing blue collar Iowa gave fresh substance to the mount­ ances. But it is equally important that any revolt against dissenters, and the responses ing body of evidence as to how news such demonstrations be non-violent, that of policemen and National Guardsmen are media and others intent upon discredit- July 8, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 23341 ing the activities of our Federal Govern­ Nor does the report conclude that the I am very pleased-2.nd relieved-to note ment so often stretch and distort factual interstate highways are "cracking up." that-so far, at least--all 320 members of this reports, magnifying each grain of un­ There is no evidence that they are "crack­ graduating class are still in their seats. No one has walked out--yet; no one is even favorable data until it looms through the ing up." The overlay program authorized carrying a sign. lens of the news media as a glaring ex­ by Congress and selectively applied by the As brand new members of the alumni as­ ample of Government inefficiency. Department of Transportation is a wise sociation, perhaps there has already been Some weeks ago, a field team of the preventive measure to insure that they some slight adjustment in your outlook­ General Accounting Office conducted a shall not "crack up." That is all there is even without realizing it. 9-day study relating to the congression­ to it. While the generation gap that we hear so ally sanctioned policy of building pave­ But the news treatment would make it much about is real, I am convinced, not ment overlays on certain interstate high­ appear that the Congress and the De­ only that there is nothing new about it-but also that the distance to be bridged is not ways so as to preserve the longevity of partment of Transportation both are en­ really as wide as some would assume. these segments of our arterial highway gaged in some terrible boondoggle, and It his day Mark Twain wrote in Harper's system where the volume of traffic has this, of course, is not the case at all. magazine: been greater than that initially antici­ Since it is well known in the House "When I was a boy of 14, my father was pated when that system was first de­ and in the Committee on Public Works so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the signed in 1956. that the gentleman from Iowa has been old man around; but when I got to be 21, I The Congress in 1967 authorized this engaged for some years in a personal was astonished at how much he had learned vendetta against the trucking industry of in 7 years." program of protective overlays so as to In a speech last weekend, at Northern guarantee that the structural integrity of the country, it is understandable that Michigan University I suggested that this the Interst.a.te Highway System would he would have inserted this news story in transition point in the life of a college gradu­ endure ,and be serviceable without major the RECORD of yesterday. But it is fortu­ ate is a good time for you to be re-introduced reconstruction for at least 20 years. It nate that he inserted beside it a copy of to, and to be come re-acquainted with, your was, in my judgment, and in that of the summary of the General Accounting parents and grandparents-the members of most members of the authorizing com­ Office report, since this gives us such an the last two generations, who are here be­ mittee, a wise decision. It was the kind of interesting example of how an official cause they are so proud of you. Despite the protests, the demonstrations a decision Congress makes when it looks repart can be twisted out of shape by the and all the rest, I submit that they are very to the future and tries to plan intelli­ time it reaches the public through the remarkable people--those of the last two gently for the needs of the next genera­ news columns. generations who sit to the right and left and tion. The question raised by the GAO report behind you-those who have been in charge During the entire life of this program is whether or not the pavement overlay of things during the past fifty years. which began with congressional enact­ program of the Department of Trans­ With an assist from Professor Burgen ment in 1956, the Public Works Commit­ portation should be considered as con­ Evans of Northwestern University, let me tee of the House has kept a very close and struction or as maintenance. The Depart­ recount a few facts: During the period from 1920 to 1970, these careful eye on all developments relating ment of Transportation regards it as con­ people--the members of the last two gen­ to our interstate highways. We have had struction. I agree with that interpreta­ erations-increased your life expectancy by a special highway investigating commit­ tion, and I think it accurately reflects fifty per cent. tee with a highly skilled professional the congressional intent. While cutting the workday by one-third­ staff. This subcommittee has maintained they have more than doubled per capita out­ constant surveillance over the state of put in this country. our Nation's highway system. On oc­ They have given you a much healthier casion, as a result of its investigations, THE LAMP OF REASON-COM­ world than they inherited. Today you have MENCEMENT ADDRESS AT ALBION no fear of smallpox, or dlptheria and many indictments have been brought against other diseases. Polio is not a medical fac­ individuals who have failed to provide COLLEGE, MICHIGAN tor, and TB is rapidly becoming unknown. honest and adequate standards of high­ Those remarkable people--your parents way construction and maintenance. HON. ROBERT P. GRIFFIN and grandparents-lived through the worst All in all, when viewed in any sense depression in modern history. Most of them of perspective, the interstate highway OF MICHIGAN know what it's really like to be poor-and IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES to be hungry and cold. program has been an exemplary under­ Because of this, they determined that it taking from which the American Nation Wednesday, July 8, 1970 would not happen to you-that you would and the American economy have derived Mr. GRIFFIN. Mr. President, I ask have a better life--a better education and truly enormous benefits. unanimous consent that a commence­ a better opportunity to succeed. Now, as result of a relatively innocuous ment address delivered recently at Al­ Because they gave you the best, you are GAO report directed at a policy question bion College, Michigan, be printed in the the healthiest, the best looking, the tallest concerning whether these overlays should and the most intelligent gener~tion ever to RECORD. inhabit the land. be regarded as construction or as main­ There being no objection, the address They fought the nation's gristliest war; tenance, certain headline hungry people was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, and after defeating the tyranny of Hitler, in the news media have seized upon the as follows: they had the compassion to spend billions report and twisted it completely out of THE LAMP OF REASON to help their former enemies. context for the purpose of fabricating a These are the people who had the sense sensational news story. The article which (By Senator ROBERT P. GRIFFIN) to establish the United Nations. appeared in the Washington Post on President Norris, members of the Board of They've built thousands and thousands yesterday began with the following lead Trustees and the faculty, distinguished of schools and colleges. guests, members of this graduating class of And they made a start, though a late one, sentence: 1970, ladies and gentlemen: toward giving real meaning to the word The nation's interstate highways are crack­ I am most grateful for the generous intro­ "conservation"-toward healing the scars of ing up from heavy truck traffic that may force duction-and for the high honor accorded the earth and fighting pollution. many hundreds of millions of dollars in re­ me by the invitation to participate in your All this, while they were moving the na­ pairs, government investigators reported commencement. tion forward from the tin Uzzle model T yesterday. Let me assure you that I am keenly aware Ford era into the age of space travel. of the distinction which automatically ac­ As impressive as ls the performance record The thousands of Americans who read companies membership in the Albion College of your pa.rents and grandparents, they have the news story and never read the factual community. I am impressed that ·in the Na­ fallen short of your hopes--and theirs-in report on which the story purported to be tion's Capital-and far beyond.--everyone some respects. · based thus naturally would draw a seems to know about Albion College--and to For example, they have not found an ac­ thoroughly unwarranted and erroneous recognize that it is one of the very best lib­ ceptable alternative for war. They have not conclusion. eral arts colleges in the nation. eliminated all racial prej-1.:.dice and bigotry. Significantly_, in the summary of the Incidentally, I am also impressed by the Perhaps you will be able to perfect our unusual combination here of academic excel­ social mechanisms and make such dreams GAO report appearing in the RECORD yes­ lence and athletic power. There Just aren't come true. terday, the word "truck" does not appear. many colleges around anymore that can boast But they-those two gener81tions-have It does not even appear as a significant or an undefeated football team and such an made more progress-in terms of human item in the more lengthy report itself. active chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. values-than in any previous era. in history. 23342 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 8, 1970 Frankly, I hope your generation can do In our society, the extent of division and tion. "Democracy," he said, "is the worst as well. violence.has grown to the point where there form of government--except all the other But it won't be easy. And I am sure of is reason for deep concern. kinds that have been tried." one thing-it won't be done by tea.ring down As John Gardner put it recently: In closing, let me express the hope that what they have built with such effort a.nd "We all become a little readier to grow you will bring to your idealism, to the im­ care. angry, a little readier to identify villains, a paitience of your youth-a measured commlt­ on Monday of ";h1s pa.st week, a disti:.i- little readier to resort to violence ourselves men t w persevere for the whole .truth, to guished colleague of mine, Sena.tor Margaret ... The moderate conservative does not ex­ balance vision with a. tolerance for the short­ Chase Smith, delivered an important speech plicitly approve of police brutality, but comings of others-and to protect and pre­ on the Senate floor. The date was June 1- something in him ls not displeased when the serve the values you have learned here in 20 yea.rs to the day after her Declaration of billy club comes down on the head of the this fine temple of higher education-this Conscience speech in 195G-e speech that long-haired student. The liberal does not mighty guardian of the lamp of reason. marked the beginning of the end of the endorse violence by the extreme left; but he Thank you. (Sen. Joseph) McOarthy era. may take secret pleasure in such action when Twenty yea.rs ago, she said: it discomforts those in authority. In short, "Those of us who shout the loudest about extremists often enjoy ta.cit support from the AMERICA IS ALIVE Americanism . . . a.re all too frequently those moderates nearest to them. Thus does a so­ who, by our own words and acts, ignore some ciety tear itself a.part." of the basic principles of Ji.mericanism- If we would heal the divisions among us, HON. JOHN M. ZWACH "The right to cri""ic~e; we must address ourselves as a society to OF MINNESOTA "The right to hold unpopular beliefs; (and) the causes which give rise to violence and "The right to protest (peacefully)." discord. To be sure, the government has a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES La.st Monday, she told the Senate: special responsibility. For example, only the Wednesday, July 8, 1970 "I spoke as I did 20 yea.rs a.go because of government can end our involvement in the what I considered to be the great threat Vietnam war. Mr. ZWACH. Mr. Speaker, usually from the radical right--the threat of a But private citizens have important re­ when we read something in our s-overnmen t of repression. sponsibilities too-and I wish to emphasize newspapers or magazines or hear over "I speak today because of what I consider the point that a special responsibility fa.Us the air anything about the condition of to be a great threat: from the radical left to the educated man and woman during pe­ America we get a very bad report. We that advocates and practices violence and riods of discord and violence. hear only the negative, not the positive. defiance of the law-and again, the threat For, if the educated do not, who will hold the center when society begins to divide According to most of these reports, of the ultimate result a reaction of re­ everything is wrong and nothing right pression.... against itself? "Who will light the lamp of "Extremism bent upon polarization ls in­ reason again if others like you were to allow with our country. creasingly forcing upon the American peo­ it to :flicker and die? Where is the la.st line We know, of course, that this is not ple a. narrow choice between anarchy and of defense against the forces of unreason, a true appraisal. There is very much repression. prejudice and fear-if not in the academy?" right with America. With all of our prob­ "And make no mistake about it, if that Believe it or not, I can understand the lems we still have the greatest Nation narrow'choice has to be ma.de, the American frustration of young people with the proc­ esses of government. the world has ever known. people even if with reluctance and misgiv­ I was gratified to see one of our Min­ ing, will choose repression. You have a right to be impatient. Frankly, "For the overwhelming majority of Ameri- I have been impatient for many more years nesota Sixth District newspaper editors, cans believe that: than you. Gene Kronberg of the Olivia Times­ "Trespass is trespass-whether on the cam- When one knows he is right--but can't get J ournal have an editorial on this sub­ pus or off. the majority to agree with him-it is frus­ ject. "Violence is violence-whether on the cam- trating. We need more editorials of this kind pus or off. As the President of Venezuela. reminded us to remind our people of what a wonder­ "Arson is arson-whether on the campus recently in an appearance before Congress, ful country America really is. or off. in four more years, the Congress of the United States will be 200 years old. It met Mr. Speaker, with your permission, "Killing is killing-whether on the cam- I would like to share this editorial with pus or off. for the first time in Philadelphia. in 1774-­ She continued- two years before the Declaration of Inde­ my colleagues and all of the other read­ "The campus cannot degenerate into a pendence. ers of the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. privileged sanctuary for obscenity, trespass, The office of Speaker of the House of Rep­ The editorial follows: violence, arson and killing with special im­ resentatives is older than the office of the AMERICA ls ALIVE munity for participants in such acts." Presidency. Pick up almost any newsp3per of conse­ It is time, she said, that the great center During this period of nearly 200 years, our quence, or any national magazine for that of our people, those who reject the violence nation has undergone profound transforma­ matter, and you find an overwhelming abun­ tions; it has suffered through periods of in­ and unreasonableness of both the extreme dance of articles on the ills of America. If right and the extreme left, searched their tense anguish, and it has felt justifiable the focus isn't on racial strife, it's on the souls, mustered their moral and physical pride in extraordinary achievements. campus dissent over the war in Viet Nam, courage, shed their intimidated silence, and It has proven its capacity not only to the spiraling crime rate, violence in the decl&red their consciences. survive in the vicissitudes of time-but also streets, poverty, welfare, or staggering taxa­ Those who cannot understand the im­ its capacity to adapt to new needs and new tion. patience of young people on American cam­ ideas-though not always with the speed that In fact, if we were to think only in terms puses today might do well to read a report by is sometimes demanded. of the headlines, one could readily conclude a student advisory committee submitted re­ During my 14 years Of service in Washing­ that America is teetering on the brink of cently to the Illinois Boa.rd of Higher Edu­ ton, I have found that the overwhelming social, economic and moral disaster. Is this cation. At one point, it summarized by say­ majority of my colleagues in Congress--of great experiment we call a Democracy about ing that: both parties-are extremely able, conscien­ to come crashing down around us? "Students see a widening distance between tious, honest men and women--dedicated to We think not. what our nation preaches and what it prac­ the nation and its best interests. We do have problems-some very real tices, between the American dream and When one considers the unfortunate problems that require the very best of our America's reality.... " image of Congress that ls often projected thinking and technology to solve. It ls not Unfortunately, that criticism is altogether across the country-because of the dispropor­ the intent of this editorial to "whitewash" justified and deserved, in too many respects. tionate publicity focused from time to time our problems, but there's another story be­ But as Congressman John Anderson of Il­ on a few bad actors-( and students can ap­ hind the headlines that we belleve also needs linois told a graduating class recently: preciate this problem)-fra.nkly, it ls some­ to be told. "If those who are most highly trained, and what surprising-and encouraging, that Never before in the history of the world presumably most highly skilled, in the use there a.re, nevertheless, so many able and has a society offered so much prosperity of rational argument to achieve desirable well motivated men and women who are will­ to so many. American scientific and tech­ ends--if they submit to the temptation of ing to run tor office and serve. nological achievements have thrilled the hu­ over-simplification, emotional argument, Times change and we change with them. man race, and, in the development of this intellectual shortcuts, sloganeering in place But I hope the idealism and impatience of great technology, our system of creative free of debate, the walk-out instead of the talk­ your youth will not fade too rapidly-for enterprise has made an unequaled pros­ out--if they reach for the violent weapons of such qualities provide the nation with a perity, for both the owners of the new the street in their frustration over the slow very necessary and powerful driving force. machines and the skilled workers who oper­ pace of change, then their epitaph will be But at the same time, I hope you will be ate them. written in the debris of a once civilized so­ patient enough t.o recognize the wisdom of The American worker-white collar and ciety." Winston Churchill's fam111ar words of ca.u- blue-has played an important role in the July 8, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 23343 development of our economic strength. And, course, but it doesn't necessarily record what some other outside groups have challenged the American worker has shared, like no a senator or representative said on the floor; the secrecy rules to lit tle avail. other in history, in the rewards of our pros­ the member may revise his remarks for pub­ Now, for the first time in anyone's memory, perity. He or she is, without question, the lication. Nonrecord votes on the House floor a group of concerned House members has highest paid of the world's workers, re<:eiv­ are tallied in such a way that nobody knows come forth with a serious critique on the ing innumerable fringe benefits; works few­ how his or anybody else's congressman voted. secrecy problem and some proposed solu­ er hours a day, and enjoys a standard of liv­ When the Legislative Reorganization Act tions. The Democratic Study Group (DSG), ing unequaled in the world today. of 1970 comes up for considerat ion the middle a band of liberal Democrats seeking House The American worker is part of that vast of this month, some of this secrecy will be reforms, worries that public confidence in majority of Americans who are proving challenged. But whether amendments to the the House may be destroyed unless some­ themselves to be strong and morally re­ rules intended to open up the public business thing is done to expose the deliberations of sponsible by spending billions to erase the to greater public scrutiny come to a record Congress at their roots. problems of poverty at home-and additional vote, may itself be decided in court. The DSG point s out t hat secrecy takes billions to help ot her lesser developed na­ The principal challenge t-0 House rules per­ many forms. It is closed committee meet­ tions throughout the free world . . . a re­ mit ting the House to work in the dark is ings; it is refusal to disclose record votes sponsibility we cannot shirk. coming from the House Democratic Study taken in committee; it is the unavailability We are making progress toward the solu­ Group, 120 to 140 modern members who of reports and other information about the tion of some of our m ajor problems. During balance t he informal coalition of Republicans contents and effects of bills. the last nine yea.rs, for example, more than and Dixiecrats that often doniinates House Beyond t his, on the floor itself, there are 13 million Americans left poverty behind business. The challenge will be based on an scores of non-record votes on major amend­ them. Media n family income has increased 11-page DSG report made public June 24. ments in the House (but not the Senate) . to $8,000 a year , 5 million more Americans Some of the Study Group's findings : And all House-Senat e conference committees, became owners of their own homes, and "two The Appropriations Commit tee holds about where the final barga.i ning is done are closed cars in every garage" became a realit y for 300 meetings each year, all behind closed t ight. over 15 million Americans. doors, and beyond the view of taxpayers, "Whatever the form,'' the committee says, To be sure, in our free enterprise society whose money is being allocated. "t he effect of S'UCh procedures is to deny the rich sometimes do get richer, and the A 1946 act required committees to main­ the public and members of congress them­ big sometimes do get bigger, but through tain a record of all votes on which a record selves basic informat ion they need to par­ our free enterprise process t he poor make is demanded, but there is no rule which says ticipate effectively in the democratic proc­ more money too, and the lit tle guy has a it must be released to the public. ess." way of getting bigger. This doesn't always Appropriations Committee ir-eports and CLOSED MEETINGS make the headlines. It's the story behind t he hearings are generally not available to House headlines-these positive factors-wh ich members until the day bills are reported. It is probably true that the secrecy per­ make America great. The record of Armed Services Committee vading the legislative process has helped to hearings is normally not available until the m ake t he House incomprehensible to the day before floor consideration of a bill from average citizen and, in its special way, has that committee. contributed to the unfavorable public im­ age o! a congressman as one not to be HOUSE SECRECY When the whole House acts, votes on trusted. amendments are usually not recorded. Votes are taken either by voice or a division of the Since most congressmen are hard-work­ HON. WILLIAM D. HATHAWAY House (in which members stand to be ing, respectable people who deserve public counted), or by teller (members file up an trust, it would be in the interest of Con­ OF MAINE aisle between tellers who count them). The gress to invite greater public scrutiny. A IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES public doesn't know how, or even if, a con­ good argument can be ma.de that secrecy prevents members of Congress from doing Wednesday, July 8, 1970 gressman voted. Reporters in the press gal­ lery see only the backs of heads. Since no their Jobs effectively. Mr. HATHAWAY. Mr. Speaker, mid­ one will know anyway, only a third of the Nearly half of· the hearings and meetings way through this month, the House is members bother to vote in many instances. of the House committees are current ly closed expected to take up consideration of the All House-Senate conferences, which iron to the press and public. Most of these SP.s­ out differences in the bills passed by the two slons involve major committees such as Ways proposed Legislative Reorganization Act and Means, Armed Services, Foreign Affairs of 1970 and, as it does, avail i~elf of the houses are secret; votes aren't recorded. A conference report is sometimes filed at the and appropriations. first opportunity in more than 20 years end of one day, the vote taken the begin­ Indeed, the DSG found that the powerful to make major changes in House rules ning of the next, before members have time appropriations pa.nels--the ones that exam­ and procedures. to read the report carefully. ine the budget in detail-hold all of their The measure (H.R. 17654) will come to Secrecy would be curtailed by DSG-recom­ more than 300 annual meetings and hearings the House floor under a rule permitting mended amendments to the House rules. behind closed doors, "out of sight of th~ They would allow clerks to record the names taxpayers who foot the bills for its actions." amendmen~ relative to all aspects of The House appropriations committee re­ House operations except committee of members as they pass through teller lines. Committee votes would have to be made leases the transcript of· its hearings in due jurisdiction, and numerous amendmen~ public. Committee meetings could be closed course but they are heavily censored. It are anticipated-including some aimed only on a two-thirds vote of the committee, should be noted that the companion Senate at opening up the proceedings of this and in each such case the reason would itself committee manages to hold about three­ body to greater public scrutiny. have to be disclosed. Committee reports on fourths of its meetings in public. Three articles have recently appeared appropriations bills would have to be de­ Although the legislative reorganization act in the national media which treat such livered to congressmen at least a week before of 1946 requires all committees to keep a. antisecrecy proposals sympathetically, House action. record of the votes on any question on The House has company. The Pentagon which a record is demanded, the informa­ intelligently, and, I think, objectively; I keeps secret from Congress the amounts of tion ls never released by the committees, insert these for the general information military aid going to specific countries. Tai­ with one exception in the House, the Edu­ of my colleagues in the CONGRESSIONAL wan got $144 million, a probe disclosed, when cation and Labor C-Ommittee. RECORD. The first, entitled "What You Congress had thought it got $341,000. Se­ MORE RECORD VOTES Don't Know," appears in the July 11 crecy shrouds the Laos operation. What does A new attempt at legislative reorganization issue of the New Republic magazine; the it cost? $50 million a year? $400 million? will be before the House in a. few weeks. The second, entitled "A Secret Society," is Somebody knows but isn't telling. DSG is suggesting that the measure be the product of the distinguished Wash­ amended to open House proceedings to more ington journalist, Donald R. Larrabee, A SECRET SOCIETY public scrutiny. of the Griffin-Larrabee Washington (By Donald R. Larrabee) Perhaps the most significant move wm News Bureau, and has appeared in a WASHINGTON.-America may have an "open be an effort to require record votes--not now society," compared to Communist countries, permitted-when the House ls considering number of New England newspapers; but C-Ongress remains largely a "secret so­ amendments. If a lawmaker had to take a and the third, "Decisions Made Anony­ ciety." Most Americans actually do n ot know stand in public, he might make it a point to mously," is the work of Les Gapay of the what their congre5':man is doing much of be present and voting. Currently, the partici­ Congressional Quarterly. the time, despite the extensive press cover­ pation is less than one-third of the House The articles follow: age of the House and Senate. membership. WHAT You DON'T KNOW There will be a proposal to require a two­ SECRECY RULES th irds roll call vote to close a meeting or The House of Representatives is a semi­ This is because the real work of Congress hearing, plus disclosure of the reason for secret society. Thirty-seven percent of its is done in committees, behind closed doors, doing so. And the DSG wants every mem­ committee meetings are closed to press and a.nd not on the floor in open view. Congress­ ber's vote on committee roll calls to be made publlc; committee votes in such proceedings men defend the practice as being in the public. are part of the record, but not the public interest of either national security or a The efforts at procedural reform will be record. There's the Congresstonal Record, of smoother legislative process. The press and closely watched but could suffer at the hands 23344 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 8, 1970 of the present system. Ironically, whether to provide for a public record of votes. The Student and nonstudent militants vowed the House is to change its ways and get "on House effort comes 138 years later. to close the school, and now they have. the record" Will be decided by "non-record" The U.S. Constitution requires record votes They set out to defy authority-any au­ votes under the ingrained procedures of the (called roll-call or yea-and-nay votes) be thority. As for the deaths it is ha.rd to justify past. taken in either chamber of Congress when­ the loss of life. Those students died for noth­ ever one-fifth of the members present ask for ing. I was going to the library and, unfor­ DECISIONS MADE ANONYMOUSLY it. tunately, in a position to see the rioting and (By Les Gapay) However, the Constitution also provides the Guardsmen shoot. They were taking a lot each chamber can determine the rules of its WASHINGTON.-Bells ring throughout the of abuse in the way of rocks and other ob­ own proceedings. Under Senate rules, any jects. They were prepared. There were no House of Representatives and its environs­ member can force a roll-call vote on any from the ornate chamber to the handball rocks of that size on the campus. They had issue. them prior to the incident. court in the basement of the Rayburn Office But the House takes most of its votes while Building-to summon representatives to vote None of the students shot were coming sittiniz: as a cominittee comprised of all its from class. They were in the Iniddle of ses­ on a piece of legislation or to answer a call members ( called the Committee of the for a quorum. :-:tons at that time. Nobody would walk be­ Whole) . Roll call votes are prohibited in the tween the rioters and the National Guard. DINNER BELL RING Committee of the Whole and it is allowed to All who viewed the riots said the Guard was Capitol Hill area restaurant and bar hide­ conduct its business with a minimum of 100 taking a beating and in fear of their lives. aways of members of Congress announce the members present. This compares to a major­ number of rings and one clangs a dinner ity of the 435 members required in the House Expressing an opinion echoed by con­ bell, thanks to quick phone calls from oblig­ itself (218 representatives). cerned students on other campuses ing doorkeepers in the House halls. RECORDING DIFFICULTIES wracked by minortty provoked unrest, Often, one ring of the bells won't budge Votes in the Committee of the Whole are Mr. Hagerman points out that he is: a House member from his leather chair 1n taken by voice, diVision or teller. Tired of hearing my country defiled and the restaurant or from poolside or the hand­ my flag desecrated by a few radicals .... I ball court in the Rayburn gym, even though On teller votes it is difficult to record the the vote may be on a vital issue like the anti­ names of representatives from press galleries am frustrated at seeing people duped by balllstic missile system or American troops since members have their backs to reporters these people, at seeing naive idealists who in Cambodia. and the vote moves quickly. Anti-war lobby­ follow without knowing, at seeing people ex­ For two or three bells, though, the same ists recently published non-roll call votes of ploit what happened at Kent for their own members may vote for the same or lesser is­ members on key amendments off,ered by purpose. I am tired of hearing about "the sues on an empty stomach or wearing tennis doves to a defense bill, but some representa­ students" when this only represents a few shoes. tives claimed the lists contained errors. of us and when I know that those who lead The difference is one belJ means only total In addition, it is against the rules of the these "student.s" are not sincere. I'm frus­ numbers, and not names of representatives, House to take notes from the public galleries trated at having my school closed and all I will be recorded. For two or three bells, mem­ and attempting to spot members and write have worked for lost. down their votes can be cumbersome. bers' names become a matter of record for It is encouraging that Mr. Hagerman constituents to see. The rules state that only amendments or Representatives voted in anonymity so far legislation passed by the Committee of the has sought to inform the President of this year on issues ranging from desegrega­ Whole can be voted on by the full House what he feels to be the opinion of the tion to American troops in Ca.mbodia. where roll call votes can be demanded. majority of concerned students at Kent The votes came by voice (ayes and nays Under the procedures, members can re­ State University. It is encouraging that aloud), division (members stand and are main anonymous on politically-sensitive is­ there are students on our campuses to­ counted) and teller (representatives file past sues. In some cases, members have noted, day who are more concerned with build­ designated tellers who count their num.ber they have helped to kill or pass measures ing a better society than with tearing but do not record names). they would have voted the opposite on had down the one that now exists. NONROLLCALL VOTES their names been recorded. The Democratic Study Group claims only Mr. President, I ask unanimous con­ An analysis by Congressional Quarterly about one-third of the House's members par­ sent that the article be printed in the shows legislation upon which the House made ticipate in the non-record votes taken in the Extensions of Remarks. decisions this year without the scrutiny of Committee of the Whole, while 80 per cent name-recorded votes included: There being no objection, the article to 90 per cent turn out for roll call votes and was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, Eight amendments concerning the use of routine quorum calls where names are funds for American forces in Cambodia, Laos recorded. as follows: and Thailand. On the non-record SST amendment, for WILLARD, OHIO. Attempts to cut funds for the anti-ballistic DEAR PRESIDENT NIXON: As president of missile system (ABM), multiple-warhead example, only 188 members voted. On non­ controversial roll call votes this year which the Kent State Young Republicans, I be­ missiles (MffiV), the proposed B-1 bomber. lieve I have a responsibility to express my the F-14 fighter plane and other military were passed unanimously (there have been seven) as many as 300 members turned out. views and I believe too, views of a lot of projects. other students. I cannot speak for the club Amendments to change or cut language in members because I have not talked with the Labor and Health, Education, and Wel­ most of them since the tragic events of the fare Department's appropriations bills limit­ LETTER TO PRF.sIDENT OF THE 4th; although, before my hasty departure, ing the ability of the federal government to UNITED STATES BY STUDENT I talked with other students. seek further school desegrega.tion. YOUTH LEADER AT KENT STATE We want our university open. I do not Twenty-two amendments to the District of UNIVERSITY know where to begin but the first thing is, Columbia crime bill covering such areas a.s Frustration. I feel frustrated with the news pre-trial detention, "no-knock" search war­ media and with the fact that we oannot go rants, wiretapping and mandatory jail sen­ HON. STROM THURMOND back to school this quarter. The majority tences. OF SOUTH CAROLINA of students at Kent want an education. Out An attempt to delete funds for the develop­ IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES of 20,000 maybe 1500 at the most were in­ ment of the controversial Supersonic Trans­ volved. It is the story of those students port (SST). Wednesday, July 8, 1970 that I would like to convey. It is something The system of frequent non-record votes in that the press seldom shows, especially now. the House on vital issues ls now under attack Mr. THURMOND. Mr. President, in from reform-minded members. the latest issue of the Young Republican, Ever since last year I have had an interest Rep. Charles S. Gubser, R-Callf., and 50 official publication of the 50,000-member in the radical students and have attended other representatives from both parties have Young Republican National Federation, their meetings, collected their literature and introduced resolutions to modify the House talked endlessly in an effort to understand there appeared a letter, addressed to and find out what they stood for. At one rules to allow more record votes. President Nixon, from a student leader In an attempt to speed action on the pro­ such meeting I heard Mark Rudd, KSU, SDS posal, leaders of the Democratic Study Group, at Kent State University. leaders talk about radicalizing students. an organization of House liberals, plan to The letter was written by Mr. Stephen They did not care about any issues; they tack ,a revision of the chamber's voting sys­ E. Hagerman, chairman of the Kent only thought of issues they could exploit. tem to a congressional reorganization bill State University Young Republican Club. They talked of confronting the students and expected to come to the House floor for ac­ this is what they have done. They vowed to In his letter, Mr. Hagerman points out close the school a.nd now they have. tion in July. that a small group of Kent State stu­ The House's non-record voting practice I have one of their training manuals wheTe was patterned a'fter a centuries-old English dents had been radicalized by nonstudent they talk about getting the student to go system whereby members of Parliament militants during the 2 years prior to the along with a cause. Your decision to send could bide their individual votes from the incident of May 4, 1970, when four stu­ troops into Cambodia was not the reason for king. dents were killed there. According to Mr. the KSU riots. Cambodia was just an issue In 1832, the English system was reformed Hagerman, in the days prior to May 4: with which this group (not called SDS any July 8, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 23345 more) could arouse the students. Some of See the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, volume problem, in its present form, it contains the the students are sincere in their beliefs-­ 116, part 16, page 21889. One aspect of seeds of official repression'." but very naive. As the riot progressed the that campaign was the erl'O'Ileous im­ Congressional Quarterly then listed, in same three SDS demands of last year were summary statements, the provisions of S 30 pressions being conveyed of what pro­ which the Bar Association committee on issued. in As for the burning of the ROTC building visions were actually contained spe­ Federal legislation and other groups most and destruction downtown-there was no cific pieces of legislation. strongly opposed, reporting them as the Bar excuse. The National Guard was necessary A central thrust of my remarks was Association report described them. to safeguard lives and property. When they that several liberal commentators and GRAND JURY ACCUSATIONS came there were posters put on every door editorial writers had apparently derived Steiger Statement. Steiger labeled as in­ on campus a.nd passed out to everyone say­ erroneous impressions of S. 30, the "Or­ accurate and misleading Congressional ing "No rallies, peaceful or otherwise and no ganized Crime Control Act of 1969," from Quarterly's statement that S 30 had been throwing rocks or other objects". These stu­ an article which appeared in the June 5, criticized as allowing grand juries to accuse dents had no respect for authority. I talked 1970, edition of Congressional Quarterly officials of misconduct without providing for with some at length Sunday night and they reply. said that the Revolution was here. They also at page 1499. I now rise to draw the attention of my Bar Association. The bar group's report knew that they were breaking the law and said: they planned to break it on Monday the 4th. colleagues to an article in the July 3, "A public official could be publicly con­ They set out to defy authority-any au­ 1970, edition of Congressional Quarterly demned on the basis of accusations of the thority. As for the deaths it is hard to justify at page 1709, which sets the record grand jury which he had no opportunity to the loss of life. Those students died for straight in this regard. This article at­ rebut at a trial." nothing. I was going to the library and, un­ tributes the erroneous information in the Additional Steiger Comments. Steiger said fortunately, in a position to see the rioting June 5 article to a report of the New that an official so accused would have "ample and the Guardsmen shoot. They were taking opportunity" to refute any charges by nam­ a lot of abuse in the way of rocks and other York City Bar Association of May 12, 1970. What it demonstrates is that Con­ ing witnesses to testify before the grand jury objects. They were prepared. There were no before the report was filed and that he could rocks of that size on the campus. They had gressional Quarterly was the victim and appeal and refute in writing a court order them prior to the incident. not the perpetrator of inaccurate report­ authorizing publication of the grand jury None of the students shot were coming ing. I am pleased that Congressional report. from class. They were in the middle of ses­ Quarterly has now placed this matter in CONTEMPT sions at that time. Nobody would walk be­ proper context. Steiger Statement. Steiger labeled as in­ tween the rioters and the National Guard. I insert the Congressional Quarterly accurate and misleading Congressional All who viewed the riots said the Guard was article at this point: Quarterly's statement that S 30 had been taking a beating and in fear of their lives. criticized as providing that an uncoopera­ I am tired of hearing my country defiled STEIGER DISPUTES CONGRESSIONAL QUARTERLY tive grand jury witness could be imprisoned and my flag desecrated by a few radicals .... REPORT ON ORGANIZED CRIME BILL for contempt for as long as three years with­ I am frustrated at seeing people duped by Rep. Sam Steiger (R. Ariz.) in a June 29 out trial or bail. these people, at seeing naive idealists who House speech charged Congressional Quar­ Bar Association Report. The Bar Associa­ follow without knowing, at seeing people terly with "inaccurate and misleading" cov­ tion report stated that "a grand jury witness exploit what happened at Kent for their own erage of the Organized Crime Control Act could be imprisoned for three years for civil purpose. I am tired of hearing about "the of 1970 (S. 30). contempt without trial or bail." students" when this only represents a few Steiger criticized four paragraphs of a Additional Steiger Comments. Steiger said, of us and when I know that those who lead June 5 Congressional Quarterly report on op­ "a witness, after being held in contempt, these "students" are not sincere. I'm frus­ position to major crime-control bills. could be incarcerated for the term of the trated at having my school closed and all I (Weekly Report p. 1496) grand jury if he persists in his refusal to have worked for lost. I am tired of fighting a The section of the Congressional Quarterly comply with the court order which, in some losing ba.ttle for what I believe. report dealing with S. 30 was based on an cases, could amount to 3 years." I believe in this country. We have what analysis of the bill by the committee on ILLEGALLY OBTAINED EVIDENCE no other people have, yet this very freedom Federal legislation of the Bar Association of Steiger Statement. Steiger labeled as in­ invites the crisis we now have. Democracy is the City of New York. accurate and misleading Congressional Quar­ a delicate mechanism and a few have been In the speech, titled "Is the Congressional terly's statement that S 30 had been crit­ able to exploit this. Now they are winning. Quarterly Working for Organized Crime?" icized as providing that only that part of WHY? Steiger quoted the following paragraphs and illegally obtained evidence which a court It is time that a few stop ty:rannizl.ng the described them as "the pertinent parts" of found relevant and "in the interest of jus­ majority. The school must and I am sure Congressional Quarterly's report: tice" would have to be disclosed to a de­ will open. Those who use violence should be "Grand juries could publicly accuse an fendant who challenged its use against him. severely punished. The schools must start ex­ official of misconduct without filing an in­ Steiger said the phrase "may be relevant" is pelllng those who do not want to learn. The dictment or furnishing an opportunity for S 30's standard of relevance for disclosure. majority of students want to learn. the official to refute the charges." CQ Correction. On June 26, three days be­ I just wanted to give my views and opin­ "A grand jury witness refusing to testify fore Steiger's statement, Congressional Quar­ ions for what they are worth. It is time oth­ could be imprisoned for contempt for as terly published a correction inserting the ers of us made our views known. We all want long as three years without trial or bail." words "may be" before "relevant." (Weekly peace, the only difference is how to achieve "All illegally obtained evidence (by illegal Report p. 1657) electronic surveillance, compelled testimony Bar Association Report. The Bar report it. Good luck to you in your attempts to or illegal searches) no longer would be dis­ bring peace in Vietnam and at home. cited the Senate committee report (S Rept closed to a defendant challenging its use, as 91-617) on S 30 which said that "the phrase Sincerely, the Supreme Court ruled in 1969. Instead, 'may be relevant' . . . is intended to act as STEPHEN E. HAGERMAN. after enactment of S. 30, a court could dis­ an absolute floor preventing disclosure ex­ close only that part of the evidence which cept where a reasonable likelihood of rele­ it adjudged relevant and 'in the interest of vance appears." justice'." SPECIAL SENTENCES CONGRESSIONAL QUARTERLY SETS "A judge could impose a 30-year special Steiger Statement. Steiger labeled as in­ RECORD STRAIGHT ON ERRO­ offender sentence upon a man convicted of accurate and misleading Congressional Quar­ NEOUS IMPRESSIONS GIVEN ON a felony with a maximum two-year penalty terly's statement thait S 30 had been crit­ S. 30, THE "ORGANIZED CRIME as well as upon a convicted bank robber who icized as providing that a judge could impose CONTROL ACT OF 1969" could receive a 25-year sentence." (Weekly a special 30-year sentence upon a. person con­ Report p. 1499) victed of a minor felony as well as upon one Context of Statements. Steiger did not in­ convicted of a major crime. HON. SAM STEIGER dicate the context from which he took the Bar Association Report. The Bar Associa­ statements he quoted from Congressional tion report said: "A judge oould give the OF ARIZONA Quarterly. Preceding the statements was a same 30-year sentence to an offender guilty IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES list of referen<:es to previous Congressional of a minor felony, for which the maximum Wednesday, July 8, 1970 Quarterly coverage of S 30 and a paragraph punishment was only two years, as to a per­ stating: son convicted of bank robbery, who could Mr. STEIGER of Arizona. Mr. Speaker, "As the House Judiciary Committee began otherwise receive 25 years." on June 29, 1970, I rose to bring to the hearings May 20 on S 30, the Bar Association Additional Steiger Comments. Steiger said House's attention certain aspects of a of the City of New York issued a 106-page that before an individual was sentenced as analysis of the bill. The report urged com­ a "special" otrender it must be proved that campaign apparently being conducted by plete revision of the measure: "Taken as a he was in one of a set of categories defined some to undermine items in President whole, while S 30 demonstrates commendable by law, and he must additionally be ruled Nixon's anticrime legislative program. effort and attention to a terribly serious "dangerous." CXVI--.1471-Part 17 23346 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 8, 1970 A "SILENT MAJORITY" OF FINE I enclose some excerpts from their was itself a landmark in consumer legis­ YOUNG PEOPLE letters. As I read them, I could not but lation, but it is good the House passed feel that we were raising some dedicated this amendment. This corrective action HON. WILLIAM H. AYRES Americans. The excerpts follow: needed to be taken so that the small GIRL ScOUT LETTERS processor would not be unduly penalized. OF OHIO My co-lead.er and I wish to express our The 1967 act contained a provision per­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES very deep appreciation for your kindness in mitting custom slaughtering for private Wednesday, July 8, 1970 speaking to the girls, arranging for them to customers for nonbusiness purposes, but be shown around and attending this pro­ also contained a restriction prohibiting Mr. AYRES. Mr. Speaker, we are view­ gram. They also like the little key pins! those engaging in custom slaughtering ing a false image of the youth of Amer­ It greatly clarified to them how each of us from engaging in the sale of any meat ica. There is a "silent majority" of fine ls truly a part of our Government, when they or meat products. Under the provisions young people who are diligently prepar­ could meet a man from their own city who of the bill as passed, a locker plant oper­ ing themselves to assume leadership po­ represents them, their needs and interests in Congress, as well as taking an active part in ator will be able to engage in custom sitions so that they may achieve effective running the affairs of the entire nation. processing and slaughtering and also en­ solutions to the multiple problems that Our trip was a. great success a.nd we were gage in regular locker plant operations they will take over when they reach full impressed with the friendliness with which and meat processing business-so long as ma.turity. we were received by everyone we met in he keeps the two acts clearly separate, Their thoughts turn to the constructive Washington-from Government officials to the custom processed meat clearly rather than the destructive. They would bus drivers, hotel clerks, and people on the street. It is truly a great city.-Mrs. Glenn marked, and meets sanitary standards resolve our problems rather than seek to in both operations. defame. Unfortunately their quiet voices Weigand, Co-leader, Girl Scout Troop 671. The Flag Day program in the U.S. House In my part of the State, there are have been drowned out by the raucous of Representatives was indeed an impressive many splendid meat processors who need screams of the so-called dissidents. ceremony. Though our country is sometimes this kind of corrective legislation in order On the Fourth of July, hundreds of criticized and looked down upon, this cere­ to continue in business. Otherwise, the thousands of good citizens gathered in mony revived a feeling of national patriot­ cost of complying with the original act Washington to honor their Nation. There ism that is absent in many Americans. The were others who blatantly announced American flag, which symbolizes the immor­ would be prohibitive. their determination to gather a larger tal history of this country, has a lasting I am glad that this bill provides for the group that would then shout down those character and existence by which it is recog­ right of a small processor to prepare wild nized by the world.-Karen Hunt. game such as deer. Deer hunting and who were assembled to pay their respects On June 15, 1970, my Girl Scout Troop 671, to their Nation. the processing of deer meat is a very had the pleasure of seeing the House of extensive operation in central Texas, but To give their group the courage to Representatives' Fla.g Day program. I had make this confrontation, they announced never seen such an impressive ceremony. It unless this legislation had passed there that they would supply marihuana to all sent chills down my be.ck when I saw our would have been severe question whether who participated in their revolutionary flag come in and when we sang the National a small meat processor could risk han­ practice. Anthem. dling deer meat. Only a possible 200 hard-core dissi­ I felt proud because here were people from It is my hope that this bill goes a long dents turned out. They had nothing to all over the country joined together under way in righting the restrictions against one flag. I thought it was great.-Ellen the small meat processor. I am happy it add to the occasion but obscenities, rocks, Barresi. and bottles. They had completely failed The Flag Day ceremony which was pre­ has passed both Houses of Congress and in attracting our youth to their side. sented in the House of Representatives on hope that it will soon be made law by The quiet voices of the majority of the June 15, was very inspiring to me. When the the President. This amendment corrects students are increasingly becoming flag of the United States was brought before a situation which needed attention, con­ the Members and the audience, it brought tinues protection of the consumer of in­ heard. No longer will the strident voice tears to my eyes a.nd tickled my spine. How I spected meat, and provides for safe, sani­ become the symbol of truth. No longer wish everyone in our country could see this will they listen to the voices of those who tary slaughtering of farm and game and be as honored as I.-Ann Weigand. animals. have led them to catastrophe. The ''big As I sa.t on the steps watching the Fla.g lie" is being disavowed. Day ceremony I couldn't help thinking of the There is still further help needed for It is to these quiet voices to which we song "Milk and Honey" from the play of the small processor under the Meat In­ as legislators should turn for the true the same name. It goes: "This, the la.nd of spection Act. The little operator is still feelings of the students. milk and honey, this is the la.nd of sun a.nd being asked to comply with the present song, this is the world of good and plenty, law that is applicable to the big meat Thousands upon thousands of students humble and proud and strong. This is the packers of this country. Hopefully we are almost daily coming to the Capitol. place where the hopes of the homeless and can consider further amendments of the They traverse our halls on guided tours. the dreams of the lost combine. This is the They respect our laws of conduct. They la.nd that heaven blessed and this lovely la.nd law as we gain more experience in this look with reverence upon our national is mine!" When I see the flag I think of area. monuments. They are truly fine people. America, and when I think of America I think Meanwhile, this bill today will help of "the land of milk and honey". the small operator in custom slaughter­ I would not have you believe that they Then singing the Star Spangled Banner, ing. are satisfied with the status quo. They really put the life of our great country into join with us in the search for programs the hearts of all the people present. that will bring an ever-improving life for It was the most beautiful ceremony I have VIEWS OF THE CITIZENS OF LOUI­ all of our citizens. ever taken part in or have witnessed.-Sue SIANA'S SIXTH DISTRICT Recently, I spent time with a group Mueller. who came the 400 miles from my district to see their Capitol. I was impressed by HON. JOHN R. RARICK AMENDMENT TO WHOLESOME their knowledge of national affairs and MEAT ACT OF LOUISIANA particularly their interest in the Na­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tional Timber Supply Act. Wednesday, July 8, 1970 These teenage girls from Cadette Girl HON. J. J. PICKLE Scout Troop 671, from Akron, Ohio, had OF TEXAS Mr. RARICK. Mr. Speaker, I recently been earning money over a 2-year period IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES conducted my 1970 legislative opinion so that they might visit their Nation's poll, and am happy to have the views of Capital and actually see their Govern­ Wednesday, July 8, 1970 more than 32,000 citizens who took the ment in action. Mr. PICKLE. Mr. Speaker, the House time to let me know their thinking on When they returned home, they on Monday passed S. 3592, a bill to the important issues facing our country promptly sat down to write me of their amend the Wholesome Meat Act of 1967. today. impressions of the Flag Day ceremo­ The amendment was urgently needed to Believing that my colleagues will find nies that they had viewed with me in aid those engaged in custom slaughter­ the results of interest, I insert in the the Chamber of the House of Repre­ ing as well as the smaller slaughtering RECORD my latest newsletter, which in­ sentatives. business and locker plants. The 1967 act cludes the tabulated results of this poll: July 8, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 23347 JUNE 1970. Slightly------5.7 is one thing. At least this can be ex­ DEAR FRIEND: Thank you for your coopera­ l\[oderately ------48. 1 plained-if not justified-in the context tion in responding to my 1970 legislative Seriously ------46. 2 of stopping U.S. casualties. But to state opinion poll. As of June 15th, some 32,318 replies were received-and returns a.re still 3. l\[a.ny suggestions have been made for that "our national interest would best be trickling in. I feel the enthusiastic response curbing inflation. Which, if any, do you sug­ served by a unified Vietnam even if is a healthy indication that citizens of the gest as a solution? under Communist rule" is to suggest an Sixth District are vitally interested in good Curtall federal spending______43. 5 end result in Vietnam that would make government, and rightfully concerned with Wage and price controls______28. 4 45,000 tragic American deaths and 200,- the many affa.irs facing our country and Credit controL------16. 5 000 American casualties an exercise in your representation in our Nation's Capital. Other------6.9 futility. The large numbers of returns have kept Increase interest rates______2. 4 Mr. Speaker, we are in Vietnam be­ me and members of my staff working over­ Raise taxes------2. 3 time tabulating them. This ls a. sizeable in­ cause of communism's continuing ag­ crease over the la.s.t legislative opinion poll. 4. What is your opinion of the Adminis­ gression against the forces of independ­ I had sincerely hoped to personally answer tration's bussing of school children and ence and freedom. Basically, we are there each reply, but I found that Just tabulating transfer of teachers to achieve a "unitary to prevent the whole of Southeast Asia was quite a Job in itself! Each return, school system"? from being overrun by Communist forces whether signed or unsigned, was counted. For------4.4 supplied by the Soviet Union and to some It was interesting to note the large num­ Against------92.5 extent by Red China. ber of young people who expressed a. con­ Undecided ------3. 1 cern in government. One high school civics My colleagues just back from Vietnam teacher wrote requesting extra forms to per­ 5. What is your opinion of selected groups report that we are making progress in mit a civics class to participate. receiving special quotas in membership and the Vietnamization program and that it While a full breakdown of the returns is "compensatory" seniority in labor unions, appears probable that President Nixon is listed on the back page of this report, I such as provided by the so-called "Philadel­ going to be able to get us out of the tragic would like to make a few comments on the phia Plan"? overcommitment of manpower to land answers. It is only by having your views, in­ dividually and collectively, that I can con­ For------4.3 combat on the continent of Asia, stage­ tinue to accurately represent you here in Against------75.6 set by former President Kennedy, who Washington and let your voice continue to Undecided ------20. 1 sent 12,000 advisers to Vietnam, and be heard. 6. What is your opinion of the proposed President Johnson, who sent over a half­ I have entered the results of the 1970 legis­ guaranteed minimum income to all citizens million Americans to fight in Vietnam, lative opinion poll in the Congressional as a substitute for the present welfare pro­ all without any declaration of war by Record for all my colleagues here in Con­ grams? Congress. gress to know how you feel on important legislation. Also, I have sent a. copy of the For------18.0 If President Nixon can turn the con­ resulm to the President, because I feel it is Against------69.2 duct of this war over to a South Viet­ imperative that he know your thinking on. Undecided ------12. 8 namese force capable of defending South national issues. 7. Do you favor abolishing the Electoral Vietnam against Communist aggression The school crisis, inflation, crime and College to permit a minority of 40% of Amer­ we will not only withdraw honorably but drugs, and the war seem to be the biggest ican voters to elect a U.S. President? we will have kept our commitment to items facing the nation today, according to South Vietnam that was the occasion for your answers. Some 93 percent of our people For------34.8 our being there in the first place. do not favor bussing of school children. With Againet ------50.0 3 percent undecided, only 4 percent indicated Undecided ------15. 2 To urge a unified Vietnam under Com­ they wanted bussing. Inflation has affected munist rule, in these circwnstances, 8. What is your opinion of the President's might be overlooked as a pathetic ges­ 94 percent of you either seriously or moder­ recommendation for additional U.S. funding ately. And, on the war issue, 81 percent favor of the United Nations Organization? ture of political appeasement if its source either victory or Vietnamiza.tlon. did not involve a Member of the U.S. The closest return involved the question For------10.2 Senate. on the Electoral College-with 50 percent Against------76.7 In this connection, I commend the favoring retention of the present system, Undecided ------13. 1 reading of a recent colwnn by the Hon­ while 35 percent opposed the college, and 15 percent were undecided. There were some in­ 9. How do you feel we should end the orable David Lawrence somewhat mis­ quiries as to why I phrased the question as Vietnam War? leadingly referring to isolationism but I did-"to permit a minorLty of 40 percent Unilateral withdrawaL------12. 2 discussing the disastrous consequences of American voters to elect a. U.S. President." Negotiated gradual withdrawal {Viet- that would follow the adoption of such a The b111 currently pending would provide namization) ------34. 9 policy. that as few as 40 percent of the voters could Victory by conventional m111ta.ry pres- The article follows : sure on enemy ______46.8 elect a President. The out-cry we hear over "ISOLATIONISTS" IN SENATE CAUSE HARM the need to change the Electoral College be­ Other------5.7 (By David Lawrence) cause of the fear of a minority-elected Presi­ Undecided ------0. 4 dent conveniently overlooks the fact that American combat troops got out of Cam­ such a change would do Just that. It is for 10. What should be the position of the bodia a day ahead of schedule, though dur­ this reason that I phrased the question as United States in the Middle East? ing seven weeks of debate in the Senate ex­ I did. Pro-Arab------1.2 pressions of doubt were frequently heard Thank you once again for helping me con­ Pro-Israel------29.8 that President Nixon would keep his word. tinue to reflect your views here in Washing­ Strict Neutrality______63. 9 The harm done to the prestige of the United ton. The results a.re tabulated on the back. Undecided ------5. 1 States abroad and to the conduct of foreign I know you will find them interesting, as I policy by such political opposition tactics did. will be felt for a long time to come. Indeed, Sincerely, one Democrat already has had the temerity JOHN R. RARICK, to make the following statement in the Member of Oongress. A COMMUNIST VIETNAM? Senate: "I submit that our national interest would HERE ARE YOUR RESULTS OF CONGRESSMAN best be served by a unified Vietnam even if JOHN R.ARICK'S 1970 LEGISLATIVE POLL HON. LOUIS C. WYMAN under Communist rule, as it would then [ Answers in percent J OF NEW HAMPSHIRE serve as a relatively firm barrier to Chinese IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES expansion." 1. What do you regard a.s the three most This ls hardly good news to certain mem­ important issues facing us today? Wednesday, July 8, 1970 bers of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organiza­ School crisis______22. 7 Mr. WYMAN. Mr. Speaker, when a tlon-Australla, New Zealand, the Philippine Inflation------18.4 Republic and Thailand. They have regarded Crime and drugs ______17.0 U.S. Senator has the demonstrated inan­ the pledges of the United States as obliga­ Vietnam War______15. 1 ity to recommend that Vietnam be uni­ tions that would be honored in the event Communism ------13. 8 fied under Communist control I begin to that communism endeavored a.gain to impair Pollution of air and water______7. 9 wonder what is going on in this Nation? the right of self-determination of peoples Hunger and poverty______2. 7 To urge an immediate pullout in Viet­ covered by the treaty. Other------2.4 The speech is reininiscent of what used to nam, even if it may lead to Communist be heard prior to World War II and prior to 2. How ha.s the rising cost of llving affected control should the South Vietnamese World War I, when "isolationists" in the you? prove unable to handle their own defense Senate were giving foreign governments the 23348 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 8, 1970 impression that ,they need not fear opposi­ tory agencies, originally established to America's airline industry has two classes tion from the United States if free countries protect the public, have come instead to of travel-individually-ticketed, regularly­ were invaded and their independence threat­ represent the interests of the industry scheduled service over set routes, and group ened. charters. Under the charter rules, each flight America's participation in World War I be­ they were supposed to regulate. operates under a separate agreement in which gan 53 yea.rs ago, and in World War II near­ Mr. Nader has not yet turned his at­ a group hires the plane for a trip to a des­ ly 29 years ago. After ea.ch war period new tention to the Civil Aeronautics Board. tina.tion of its own choosing. Thousands of generations grow up, and history is not re­ But there is probably not a single per­ fraternal groups, employee organizations, examined even by lots of members of the son in the United States who doubts that professional societies, consumer organiza­ American Congress. Yet, both World wars the CAB is ripe for a Nader-style expose. tions, unions, and social clubs have enabled were in part the direct result of a. belief by Instead of representing the air travel their members to enjoy such vacation won­ autocratic governments in Europe that the consumer, the CAB's primary concern ders as Europe, the Caribbean, Hawaii and United States would not give military 1aid to the Far East because charter travel brought the countries attacked. seems to lie in actively preventing the the cost within range of modest budgets. pressures of the market from giving the Today some members of the United States CONGRESS RECOGNIZED THE NEED are, in effect, telllng the world once more consumer better or cheaper service. that the United States, because of a costly One of the major sources of low-cost Charter specialist airlines were granted experience in Vietnam, isn't going to help permanent operating authority by Congress modern-equipment service has been the in 1962. Ever since, these a.i.rlines-fl.ying the the small nations in Asia-or perhaps even in charter, or supplemental airline. Char­ Europe-and that communism ls free to take same planes as scheduled airlines under the over wherever it chooses on the continent of ter flights have enabled millions of Amer­ same federal safety regulations-have offered a new dimension in air transportation bring­ Asia. icans to enjoy air travel with the latest This means there could be an outbreak of safest equipment and crews at sharply ing the world's exotic and popular v~a.tion a major war within a few years--and a ca­ reduced prices. spots within the reach of moderate-income tastTophe for the whole world could ensue­ But now the CAB, in its efforts to pro­ Americans for the first time. unless the policies of the United States are In 1968, Congress recognized that the sup­ tect the scheduled air carriers, appears plemental a.i.rlines had "become solid, respon­ enunciated with such resoluteness that there to be moving to greatly restrict the avail­ could be no mistaking the intention of our sible, safe and profitable business entities." ability, convenience, and practicality of It extended their authority to include a com­ government to uphold its treaty commit­ pletely new type of charter, the inclusive tour ments. charter flights. Those members of the Senate, of course, Under unanimous consent agreement (ITC). At that time the Assistant Secretary I insert an explanatory statement by th~ of Transportation said: "The supplemental who preach "isolationism" think this is carriers have provided the benefits and ex­ popular at home. Certainly it would seem National Air Carrier Association in the perience of air transportation to people who that everybody would applaud a speech which RECORD at the end of my remarks. otherwise might not have traveled by air. is against wa.r. But the conflict in Vietnam is The NACA is the trade association of The supplementals have provided a new a small affair compared to a world war, and the charter airlines. Generally, I take a degree of competitive endeavor which the the casualties insignificant in number as rather dim view of insertions of state­ scheduled airlines have been unwilllng or un­ against the millions of deaths in a world ments by special interest groups in the able to initiate despite encouragement by the war, particularly nowadays when nuclear (Civil Aeronautics) Boa.rd." weapons are likely to be used. The foreign RECORD. But in this case, the special in­ terest seems me clearly coincide Supplemental airlines now offer a variety policy of the United States needs, there­ to to of passenger charter services: fore, to be made unequivocally clear. with the public interest. Single Entity: A contracting party pays the The Senate has a Foreign Relations Oom­ The statement follows: entire cost of a planeload charter. Examples mittee which has the right to discuss foreign THE CONSUMER'S STAKE IN LOW-COST AIR include athletic teams, "incentive" travel for policy, but not to make it. Comments are company sales personnel, etc. supposed to be advisory and not obstructive. TRAVEL Thanks to low-cost charter air travel, mil­ Affinity: An organization charters the plane Now that the whole Cambodian expedition and the cost is prorated among the members has been finished, the Senate Foreign Re­ lions of low and middle-income Americans took advantage of the opportunity la.st year making the trip. This type of charter 1s lations Committee is still inclined to meddle. governed by the numerous regulations thaJt But very little objection can be raised, as the to visit foreign countries, enjoy far-a.way vacation spots in the United States, improve limit eligibility to individuals (and their im­ American effor.t has been completed and mediate families) who are bona. fl.de members South Vietnam has ta.ken over the task. their education, or broaden their cultural horizons at about one-half of the cost of an of social, religious, fraternal, education or To declare, however, that it would be better employee associations, not organized primar­ policy for the United States to favor a "uni­ individual ticket on a scheduled flight. On May 8, 1970, the Civil Aeronautics ily for the purpose of travel. fied Vietnam even if under Communist rule" Inclusive Tour (ITO) : Full or split-load is to undermine the strength of the South Boa.rd proposed new regulations covering charter services offered on both scheduled charters to a tour operator who organizes Vietnamese government and to invite more and promotes the tour and arranges the trouble in Indochina by indicating that the and charter airlines. These proposals, if adopted, would sharply curtail the avail­ charter. Clients pay the tour operator. CAB supporting a.rm of the United States is weak­ must approve the tour, which must have ening. ability of low-cost charter air travel to the members of many American organizations three stopping points and la.st at lea.st seven There a.re senators who recognize the dan­ days. The cost to the client must include all gers and want to continue to supply financial that now sponsor such trips. The following information has been pre­ hotel accommodations a.nd surface transpor­ and military assistance not only to South tation and be at least 110 percent of the low­ Vietnam but to other countries which may pared in response to requests for more facts on this important consumer policy issue. est available individually-ticketed scheduled wish to help Cambodia. fa.re over the route. The President has not the slightest in­ THE ISSUE: THE PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO INEXPENSIVE tention to turn to "isolationism" and let the GROUP AIR TRAVEL THE DEMAND FOR LOW-COST AIR TRAVEL Communists grab whatever countries they The Federal Avia.ti on Act calls for "the La.st year, members of the National Air wish. Such a course might be less expensive, promotion of adequate, economical, and effi­ Carrier Association (NACA)-the supple­ but it would be a discreditable policy for cient service by air carriers at reasonable mental industry's trade association-peti­ the free nation which leads the world in charges, without unjust discrimination, un­ tioned the Civil Aeronautics Boa.rd to revise its help for humane causes. But will the due preferences or advantages, or unfair or and update its charter regulations. They Communists risk a big war and bet on what destructive competitive practices." proposed to broaden low cost Jet air travel they mistakenly believe is "public opinion" Despite this, one segment of the aviation and bring it within reach of many more in America? industry-the charter specialists who offer Americans who cannot now afford to fly. low cost transportation-is threatened with Charter fares average 50 percent lower proposed CAB rules and regulations that than individually-ticketed coach fa.res on would sharply curtail the popular low-cost scheduled airlines. This proposal would make SUPPLEMENTALAffiCARRIERS: THE charter concept that was authorized by an it possible for many more people to plan Act of Congress. Many well-known American vacations and study tours to different parts GOVERNMENT SHOULD SERVE of the world by giving them access to charter THE PUBLIC INTEREST voluntary organiza.tions--such as coopera­ tives, fraternal groups, trade unions, senior travel. citizens, study groups of students and teach­ In its desire to simplify the rules and to HON. ROBERT L. LEGGETT ers, etc.,-that now provide inexpensive trav­ make low cost travel available to even more el programs for their members, would also be Americans, the supplemental airllnes sug­ OF CALIFORNIA severely restricted under the proposed CAB gested a number of changes in the now 11- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES rules. year-old affinity group rules. Key points are Wednesday, July 8, 1970 The right to travel is a strongly-held Ameri­ summarized here: can belief. And charter airlines-known as Expand the defl.nltion of "immediate fam· Mr. LEGGETT. Mr. Speaker, in recent "supplementals"-have brought transporta­ ily" of a charter passenger to include all his months Ralph Nader and others have tion to Americans at lower costs than have dependents, a.11 members of his household, dramatized the fact that many regula- ever before been available. and close relatives. July 8, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 23349 Permit "special event" charters for groups, rule changes that would curtail the public's allowed up to three separate affinity groups­ such as to the annual Rose Bowl. right to low cost travel. These changes are with at least 40 passengers each-to charter Allow stockholders in a company to have couched in phrases that suggest a belief that a single plane. The three group limit in a charter privileges similar to those now en­ many persons who "should be" traveling as 400-seat jumbo jet would require the average joyed by their employees. individuals are members of large organiza­ group to have more than 125 members travel­ Open up all charters to depositors in tions for the sole purpose of obtaining cheap ing together. In its proposed regulations, the savings and loan associations for whom fares. CAB indicates it is willing to consider a relax­ thrift, credit, and travel would go hand­ Chartering organizations, under the ation of the three group limit, but does not in-hand. planned •rules, would ·also be limited to a. total clearly say it will. Allow charters to members of automobile of only 2,000 seats in a calendar year. This During the heavy tourist season, one out associations, who are already knowledge­ is equal to eight charters on a modern plane of every five transatlantic travelers flies by able about safe, insured, and low-cost land such as a stretch DC-8, and fewer on the charter. The present rules invite evasion, and travel. new Jumbo jets. It would not matter whether are virtually impossible to police effectively Permit the sale of up to 20 percent of the trips were for college students planning because of the legitimate desire of people the seats on a charter flight to friends of to study abroad, for football fans with tick­ with modest means to seek the lowest fare. members of the chartering group. ets to a Bowl game, or for vacationers wish­ The charter airlines believe that their pro­ Permit married students on a charter study ing to attend EXPO '70. A l·arge group simply posed changes in "affinity" rules would en­ tour to take members of their immediat e could not charter more than 2,000 seats in able the CAB and the airlines to enforce the familles along with them. any one year. revised regulation more effectively, and at the CIVIL AERONAUTICS BOARD TURNS BACK THE It should be noted that waivers may be same time, satisfy the growing public de­ CLOCK sought for any of the charter rules. But since mand for low cost air transportation. there are no clear-cut, objective standards COMPETITION BENEFITS THE CONSUMER But the Civil Aeronautics Board, rather covering such requests, members of charter than clarifying and simplifying its rules to groups would be allowing CAB staff mem­ The acceptance of charter travel has clear­ broaden the opportunities for low cost char­ bers-who are elected by no one-to deter­ ly established the public demand for addi­ ter air travel, now proposes to restrict it even mine which of them may exercise their Con­ tional low cost air transportation. Since further. Its proposal would eliminate many stitutional right to travel. 1963, the supplemental airlines have been presently eligible groups from chartering Some of the other ways in which the CAB the fastest growing segment of the aviation trips for their members. The suggested reg­ proposes to identify those groups which are industry. ulations threaten the very existence of the qualified to charter seem equally strange, if Where foreign airlines once dominated the Congressionally-authorized charter airlines. not capricious. Groups which have more than transatlantic charter market, U.S. supple­ If the proposed rules are adopted, many one class of member with different dues rates mentals have contributed to a dramatic re­ clubs and organizations will find that they would automatically be disqualified. Thus, versal in the trend. Their share of the charter have taken their last modestly-priced vaca­ the National Press Club would no longer be market has climbed from 17 percent in 1963 tion tour. And once the travel market has allowed to plan its annual members' charter to 50 percent last year, part of America's suc­ been given entirely over to the scheduled air­ to Europe. Organizatlons that elect officers cessful attempt to stop the gold flow from lines on this silver platter, it would not be and directors every three or four years in­ leaving our shores. During the same period, long before their international price-fixing stead of every two years, or whose officers the total U.S. airlines' share of this market cartel-the International Air Transport As­ are elected by the directors rather than rose from 20 percent to 65 percent. The sociat ion (IATA)-would push international directly by the members, would also be scheduled airlines have benefited from the air fares upward. It has been demonstrated barred, no matter how reputable these groups growth of chartering, increasing their share that only the availab111ty of low cost fares might be. Agricultural and marketing co­ from 5 percent in 1962 to 15 percent in 1969, through the charter airlines brings IATA-set operatives would no longer be allowed to a three-fold increase. fares down. schedule charter trips for their members be­ Secretary of Transportation John A. Volpe The public has long demanded low cost cause of the nature of their business. last year cited competition by the supple­ travel. But only when the supplemental air­ mentals as being "largely responsible" for lines answered this demand did IATA come RULES DESIGNED TO PRESENT OBSTACLES TO transatlantic air fare reductions which were up with new group fares of its own. Some CHARTER TRAVEL announced in November, 1969 by IATA mem­ of these fares were designed only to deter Most intelligent persons, before embark­ ber airlines. groups from flying the charter airlines. Last ing on a major trip, would expect to know Secretary Volpe said: "It seems certain that year, at the very time they were announcing not only where the airplane was going, but they (the supplementals) have demonstrated new lower-priced group fares, the IATA air­ also where they would stay and what they a clear public need for their services. In the lines also raised individual ticket prices by would see and do while on their vacation. One past they have accommOdated a lower in­ eliminating the traditional five percent dis­ of the proposed new rules would bar an assist­ come market of people who would not other­ count on round-trip tickets. A CAB exami­ ing travel agent from sending descriptions of wise be traveling abroad. And now, threat­ ner recommended rejection. He was over­ available land tours to organization members ened with more widespread supplemental op­ ruled by the Board. until after they have signed up for the erations, the scheduled IATA carriers have Instead of clarifying its rules, CAB has charter flight. The consumer would have to been compelled to lower their group fares to proposed arbitrary standards to determine put his money on the line for the flight a. competitive level." who may use affinity group charters. A large without knowing what the full costs would The Senate Commerce Committee, in a percentage of chartering organizations would be for the tour. 1968 report, said the supplementals are "a automatically be ineligible for charter travel. Nor would travel agents be allowed to help permanent and integral pa.rt of the national Such prestigious and reputable groups as the small and inexperienced groups in preparing air transJXJrtation system. They have actively American Bar Association, the National Edu­ their required passenger lists. Organizing a promoted the airline charter business to the cation Association, the Knights of Colum­ charter trip would be made much more point where it is a. growing means of travel bus, and B'nai B'rith would not be allowed to difficult, even when a group is clearly quali­ for American citizens who otherwise would plan vacation charter trips for their mem­ fied. In ,the fa.ce of rising costs of printing, have been denied the opportunity to take bers. postage and office work, the CAB intends to low cost vacations by air." place a limit of $4.00 per passenger on the ORGANIZATIONS WITH MORE THAN 20,000 amount of administrative expense allowed SCHEDULED AIRLINES WAGE WAR AGAINST MEMBERS EXCLUDED for organizing a trip. Present rules do not COMPETITION They would be denied this right because limit these expenses, but do require that Only six percent of Americans have ever they have more than 20,000 members. In receipts be filed if they are over $750 per been abroad and only 50 percerut have ever trying to screen out groups whose only pur­ planeload. traveled by air. Despite the vast untapped pose is to offer low cost travel (and which Under another planned rule, ·financial risk millions of potential passengers anxious to already are ineligible) , the CAB has selected for acceptable groups would be greatly in­ travel, the world's soheduled airlines and the an arbitrary size to determine whether or creased because they would not be allowed to foreign governments who control them have not an organization is a bona fide "affinity solicit their own members until after a not been content to compete openly in the group." A large organization that accepts a charter contract has been signed. Making it marketplace. They have consistently tried to few too many members-no matter how well more difficult for organizations to provide eliminate low oost charter travel through qualified-would find itself disqualified. charters for their members, another rule restrictions of landing rights at foreign air­ Thus the government Wishes to regulate vol­ would ban solicitation across chapter lines. pons, predatory and often discriminatory untary or2anizations rather than airlines. This would eliminate many small chapters pricing, and archaic rules governing who IATA, which never has encouraged low of "charter-worthy" organizations now able may charter a plane. cost group travel, tried to limit group sizes to fill a plane with their own chapter's mem­ Scheduled airlines a.re now using new low back in 1963. At that time the CAB refused bers and those of the same organization in group rates (subsidized by increased regular to accept an identical membership size re­ nearby chapters. Thus, CAB would restrict fa.res) in a concerted effort to drive U.S. striction on the grounds that it was adverse the very small as well as the very large groups. charter airlines from the skies. If they are to the public interest. With larger jets already in service, it is allowed to succeed, they will have elimi­ In its stated desire to assure that only bona more difficult for chartering groups to fill a nated the only challenge to their monopo­ fide groups take advantage of charter travel, plane. When jets replaced smaller piston listic rate-setting system. the CAB now proposes a number of other planes, the CAB recognized the problem and The president of one foreign scheduled 23350 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 8, 1970 airline said of the supplementals: "They In that post, he has not only been a where not to differentiate in labor contract cater to the cheapest poss.ible traveler and strong right arm to outgoing Secretary provisions as they affect the sexes. In the thus lower the yields of the domestic tourist George Shultz, he has been a creative workplace, we find ourselves moving from industry." There is a strong suspicion that a time of dual standards to a time of single if IATA succeeds in el1.m1natlng the Si\lpple­ force in his own right during one of the standards. In each of these three areas, then, mentals, scheduled ca.rriers would find it Labor Department's most creative pe­ problems of sex are present. And if you could "necessary" to considerably increase their ex­ riods. visit our staff meetings on Tuesday morn­ cursion and group fa.res and turn up their Through Secretary Hodgson, therefore, ing, you would understand me when I say, noses at the "chea.pe.st possible traveler." the Department of Labor is passing Libby Koontz never lets us forget it. With most members of IATA government­ through a smoother transition of au­ Today I find special satisfaction in being owned, it has been easy to make the drive thority than has been the case in some a part of this conference, not only because it political as well as economic. Some European marks the 5oth anniversary of the Women's carriers have been successful in pressuring former years when the new authority has Bureau but because it may well turn out to their governments to restrict landing rights come, untried, from outside. be an historic event, drawing together for for supplementa.ls. In welcoming Secretary Hodgson to concerted effort as it does the widely diver­ But who really suffers by this economic his new position, I am gratified to be able gent forces that make up what we think of warfare? First, of course, the traveling public, to single out for special commendation as the women's movement. which either pays more or is limited in its his particular support for the principle of WOMEN TREATED UNEQUALLY choice of destination. equal rights for women. Many consider the status of modern CONGRESSIONAL ACTION ON AVIATION POLICY He made this clear in one of his first American woman a contradiction in our so­ The consumer clearly has a stake in low­ appearances as Secretary-designate, ciety-a. contradiction hard to explain and cost air travel. This right must be assured when he addressed the 50th anniversary therefore often ignored or denied. But the by Congressional enactment of a national celebration of the Women's Bureau of faot remains that we cannot reconcile some aviation policy. This policy must recognize the Department of Labor on June 12. I contemporary remarkable inequalities af­ the concept of a total U.S. air transportation fecting women with our stated national prin­ system that includes both the scheduled air­ take pleasure in offering the Secretary's ciple of equality for all citizens. lines, which specialize in individually-tick­ remarks on that occasion at this point in The Labor Department has a special re­ eted service, and supplemental carriers, which the RECORD. They will stand as a reaffir­ sponsibility in the matter of discrimination specialize in group transportation--charter mation of the Nixon administration's in employment. We are concerned on two flights at low fares. Such a policy, backed by commitment to achieve equal rights for counts. U.S. government support for charter airline all Americans, including the abolition of In the first place, we must recognize that rights abroad, would broaden the base of the unjust discrimination based on sex. every person in America. has the natural de­ market to include millions of moderate in­ The text fallows: sire to feel useful and needed. For those to come travelers who fly infrequently or not whom the route to self-fulfillment is through at all. SPEECH OF HON. JAMES D. HODGSON AT 50TH work, we must help open Job opportunities At the same time, what is urgently needed ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF WOMEN'S free of discrimina,tion. is a simplified, easily understood set of rules BUREAU, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Secondly, we are concerned about the con­ which would make low cost charter travel The ma.le of the species is not exactly servation and wise use of human resources. available to as many Americans as possible. known for his sensitivity. He frequently As a nation, we have not yet devoted atten­ Simplified, fair and easily enforceable rules evidences this fa.ct by ma.king small jests on tion to the ut111zation of our "people" re­ would discourage cheating by the public. the subject of women and women's rights. sources nearly as widely as we have our nat­ Group travel is in itself a restriction that is There is, of course, perhaps no more serious ural resources. A nation devoted to high clearly distinguishable from individually­ subject around. And if you don't believe it living standards can 111 afford to waste its ticketed fa.res. This simple criteria would women's organizations

But skeptics--and there are many-point "INHmITOR" EFFECT search grants at Roswell Park. Now, he 1s on out that mice are different from men. They The injection-which he calls an "inhib­ his own again. doubt that Strong's present work will have itor" because it inhibits the growth of the He won a major victory recently when Ros­ much impact on man's fight against cancer. tumor-resulted in regression of a tumor. well Park agreed to work on the analysis o:! Many experts say Strong is living in the Extending his line of thought, Strong in­ the extract and to suxn up the results of his past, struggling to complete an impossible itiated a series of experiments aimed at de­ experiment, when it is completed. dream, not compatible with modern science. termining the effect of the injection on suc­ Strong believes if his experiment can be Nevertheless, scientists at Roswell Park ceeding generations. translated into human terms, a mass in­ M~morial Institute, Buffalo, N.Y., a. highly He found that in each generation the oculation could lead eventually to victory reputable cancer research center where tumor was smaller, and began regressing over cancer. Strong once was research director, vouch earlier, even if no mouse beyond the first That is scoffed at by many members o:! for the validity of Strong's experiments. generation was injected. By the time he Strong's profession who believe cancer can­ LONG TIME YET reached the ninth generation, he said, the not be treated in this way. tumor began regressing almost immediately But Strong argues that the problem in "Because a. man is in his 70s doesn't mean combating tumors of any kind is the same-­ that he is senile," said Dr. E. A. Mirand, as­ after it appeared, leaving only a small scar. His overall batting average is 83.6 %, al­ the inability of the host to control the se>eiate director at Roswell, in a. telephone tumor. Strong believes that if his inhibitor interview. "His work does have merit. We though in certain pilot experiments he has achieved 100 % regression. corrects that situation in humans, then it must gdve him a. ch.a.nee." could be used as a vaccine. Another Roswell scientist, Dr. Arnold Mit­ However, Strong concedes that an inhib­ itor that works for mice may not work for Today, he works toward that end, with a telman, 1s currently eng~ed in a. project to private goal in mind. identify the chemical nature of the sub­ humans. He was especially troubled by a serious "I have seen so many mice with tumors," stance in the liver extract responsible foc he said, "that I hope someday it will be pos­ preventing the mouse tuxnors. shortcoming in his findings-he did not know why his inhibitor worked, or what in sible to destroy what I created as a young But, Mittelman cautions, it is a. "long, long man." time away before this sort of thing could be the liver extract enabled the mice to control the tumors. He keeps a graph tacked on the wall be­ used on humans. In the meantime, we're side his desk. When it is completed, Strong willing to do anything we can to lend him To answer that, he needed time . . . but time was running out. hopes it will show what he set out to prove a hand." In 1964, Strong turned 70, the mandatory so long ago. Strong began inbreeding mice in a tar­ "When you see that published," the scien­ paper shack in 1921. He was a young scientist retirement age at Roswell Park. He had a number of offers to continue his work else­ tist said as he slumped behind his metal then, working on h1s doctorate degree at desk, "then you will know I have retired." Columbia. University. where. After examining them all, he decided Strong believed then~ he does now­ to join Jonas E. Salk at the Salk Institute that cancer is influenced by genetics. He for Biological Studies in La Jolla. Salk agreed argued that while cancer itself may not be to back Strong for five years, the time the inherited, the susceptibility to cancer tends elder scientist believed he needed to finish DISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION to be passed from one generation to the his work. PROGRAM Six years ago Strong moved to San Diego, next. With that hypothesis before him, Strong carrying with him thousands of mice and set out breed strains of mice in which scores of file cabinets filled with papers from HON. JOSEPH G. MINISH uo a. lifetime of research. the susceptibility to cancer seemed more OF NEW JERSEY There were problems from the beginning­ dominant. By restricting matings to brothers IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and sisters, he produced many strains, in­ especially with the loss of some of Strong's cluding the now-famous C3H strain, in which valuable records during the move to San Wednesday, July 8, 1970 Diego-and in 1967 Salk informed Strong he 90 % of the females develop cancer. would have to leave. Mr. MINISH. Mr. Speaker, I want to Strong thus gave fellow researchers a price­ Strong felt that to move on at that point less tool. The discovery insured a ready flow take this opportunity to call to the at­ of subjects for laboratory evaluation. Dur­ would have been disastrous to his experi­ tention of my colleagues in the Congress ments, so he decided to fight. He sued Salk the outstanding work being done by the ing a recent 17-month period, about 840 in an effort to make him stick to his five­ medical publications appeared using mice for distributive education program at East year agreement, and on Dec. 11 1967 won research. Of those papers, 43 % depended on a partial victory. The court orde~ed S~lk to Orange High School. the use of one or more strains first devel­ pay Strong his salary for the remaining two Under distributive education, high oped by Strong. years of his contract, plus $13,000 for the school students in their junior and sen­ Prior to Strong's discovery, cancerous mice lost data. ior years attend regular classes in the were extremely rare, and thus extremely It was a bitter six-month ordeal for morning and spend their afternoons on costly, seHing for around $300 each. Now, the Strong and his wife. She has never fully market value is 75 cents. the j_ob in the fields of retailing, ware­ recovered her health, and Strong soon housmg, and related service work. The GENETIC LINK learned that the Salk incident would have entire program is under the supervision Strong's discovery also provided the first more significant effects than he had first of the high school. sound evidence of a genetic link in the origin realized. of a cancer. When Strong joined Salk, he gave up his At East Orange High School, 25 stu­ During the succeeding years, Strong la­ priority on research grants, and as he ap­ dents were enrolled in the distributive bored under the conviction that success in plied for help he found all doors securely education program during the last aca­ the fight against cancer rested in isolating closed. The American Cancer Society, the demic year. In addition to the work study the host's deficiency which permits a cancer federal government and various funding program, the students devote 1 day each to develop. He served in various teaching agencies have rejected his pleas for aid. week to planning and conducting com­ and researching positions, and in 1933 Joined But using his life savings, and the salary ~unity service projects. For example, Yale University's cancer research program. he won through the trial, he struck out on his own. Friends formed the L. c. Strong Just recently the East Orange Distribu­ He stayed at Yale for 20 years, finally taking tive Education group honored members charge of the program. Research Foundation, and a few contribu· Strong left Yale in 1963 to become director tions trickled in. of that city's police force for their work of the biological station at Roswell Park But the funds lagged far behind the ex­ in protecting and serving the community. Memorial Institute. Roswell, at Springville, penses-it costs $250 a month just for food At this point in the RECORD I insert N.Y., is the largest and oldest cancer research for the 13,000 mice Strong is using-and it three news articles which enlarge upon institute in the world, Strong said. is not certain at this point whether he will be able to finish his work. the latest community service project of About 12 years ago, while directing Ros­ the distributive education program: well's cancer research program, Strong em­ Strong estimates he needs about four more months to complete his experiments. That [From the East Orange (N.J.) Record, barked on a. project which has become an will cost about $20,000. Apr. 16, 1970) obsession in the twilight years of his life. He has helped meet some of his expenses by He began injecting liver extract into cancer­ DECA MEMBERS SPONSOR SALUTE TO selling some of his mice. MEN l:N BLUE ous mice. For Strong, the financial predicament "I chose liver because it controls so many means he has come full circle. The Distributive Education Program, a equilibrium processes," Strong said recently branch of the Business department o:! East in his laboratory at 10457-1 Roselle St., San PAID OWN WAY Orange High School, will present a "Salute Diego. He said cancer is partly the result of When he first began his experiments near­ To Our Men In Blue" at the Hotel Suburban the loss of the body's equilibrium, i.e., the ly a half century ago, he paid his own way. Crystal Ballroom on May 24 at 9 a.m. body's ability to resist the tumor. Later, he used more than $2 million in re- The proJect, a breakfast honoring city po- July 8, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 23353 lice and firemen, was the idea of five DECA [From the East Orange (N.J.) Record, the Republican administration on these students, members of DECA, who wanted to May 28, 1970] pledges. recognize the esteem felt by themselves and STUDENTS EFFORTS REWARDED IN "SALUTE TO The complete transcript of last night's many of their contemporaries for the men MEN IN BLUE'' who protect the public safety. telecast follows: Over 300 persons attended the testimonial THE DEMOCRATS RESPOND.' PART ONE According to the program's chairman, Patti breakfast "A Salute to Our Men in Blue'' Pleas, too many voting age citizens of East held at the Hotel Suburban last Sunday. WASHINGTON, D.C., July 7.-Following is Orange take their protection agencies for The breakfast was the idea and project of the the transcript of "The Democrats Respond: granted. East Orange High Distributive Education Part One," a 25-minute broadcast-telecast "In a time when there is so much adverse Clubs of America. These young students presented by the Democratic National Com­ publicity given out about crime and disorder decided to show their law enforcement of­ mittee over the Oolumbia Broadcasting Sys­ in our cities, the DECA students decided that ficers that their efforts at citizen protection tem, which granted the time free to the they, as junior citizens, wanted to bring to were appreciated by the young as well as the Democratic Party: the attention of the community how they old. President NIXON: "In these difficult years, truly feel about their enforcement agencies." The guests were greeted by Patricia. Pleas, America has suffered from a fever of words; "We always hear the bad," said Patti, "and who chaired the DECA committee handling from inflated rhetoric that promises more we just want the critics to know that they the affair. The invocation and blessing were than it can deliver; from angry rhetoric thait aren't the only ones who can speak out." given by Rev. N. Spencer Glover Sr. and Rev. fans discontents into hatreds; from bombas­ At the breakfast, which will be attended by Addison Groff, respectively. tic rhetoric that postures instead of per­ Mayor Ha.rt and to which Governor cahill has Miss Pleas ,then introduced .the speakers suading. been invited, four a.wards will be presented to who included Mayor William S. Hart '\7ho "We cannot learn from one another until police and firemen whose service to the com­ spoke on the theme of the breakfast and we stop shouting at one another-until we munity has been outstanding. Harry F. Veal Jr., principal of East Orange speak quietly enough so that our words can Other members of the committee working High School who spoke on the Distribu­ be heard as well as our voices." (Inaugural on the project are John Battle, Phyllis Smith, tive Education Program. Captain G. R. Address, Jan. 20, 1969) Pam Taylor and Charles Neals. The young­ Quinn of the New Jersey State Police also Democratic National Chairman LAWRENCE sters a.re being assisted by members of the spoke on the Community Relations Bureau F. O'BRIEN: Like most of you, I applauded Community Relations Committee including and the approprt,a.teness of the testimonial the appeal for lowered voices and national Mrs. Lois Vreeland and Mrs. Terry DuPre. breakfast. unity when Richard Nixon assumed the Pres­ One thousand tickets 'for the event are on A wards were presented to police and fire­ idency 18 months ago. sale at six dollars each. Proceeds will go into men who had distinguished themselves in Good evening. I'm Larry O'Brien, national the DECA treasury. the line of duty. The a.wards were presented Chairman of the Democratic Party. I man­ The Distributive Education class at East by DECA students. Policemen Stephen Pas­ aged the Democratic campaign for Presi­ Orange High School consists of 25 seniors kell and Charles Grimes were honored with dent in 1968. And I recognized after the who were selected from a group of 135 stu­ awards presented by Colleen Corum. A special election that we all ha.ct tc turn away from dents. Each student ls required to take four award was presented to Auxiliary Policeman the narrow confines of partisanship and work major subjects during school hours and is William Stoss by John Battle. in the active pursuits of national reconcilia­ released at noon each day to gain experience Fire department awards went to James D. tion. in the business world. Students are employed McBride and Raymond G. Meyers for out­ But today the divisions within our society in East Orange and surrounding commu­ standing rescues. These a.wards were pre­ are far greater than they were 18 months nities. Every student presently employed sented by Phyllis Smith. A Speciru Posthu­ ago. through the Distributive Education Program mous Award was presented to Ca.pt. carmine I don't have any easy answers. But the is virtually assured a job after he or she Evangelista, who lost his life on November American people are not afraid to face prob­ completes high school. 30, 1969 in the line of duty. Mrs. Evangelista. lems squarely, and I know you want facts. accepted the award, presented by all the In this spirit, then, the loyal opposition members of the DECA planning committee. [From the Newark (N.J.) Evening News) has the responsibility to ask: How, in fact, Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Russell are we being governed? What progress are TEENS To HONOR EAST ORANGE COPS Jackson made the closing remarks. we making as a nation? How can we do bet­ A breakfast honoring East Orange police The entire event was planned and executed ter? How can the nation and our two-party and firemen has been scheduled for May 24 by members of East Orange's DECA chapter, system meet the challenge of the '70s? How by the Eas,t Orange chapter, Classroom Dis­ under the direction of teacher-co-ordinator can we achieve the goaJs the new President tributive Educa,tion Clubs of America. Luther Bowen and Jerome Gordon. set forth in his Inaugural Address 18 months The 9 a.m. breakfast, titled "A Salute to ago? Our Men in Blue," will be held in the Hotel NIXON: In pursuing our goals of full em­ Suburban, East Orange. ployment, better housing, excellence in edu­ Patricia Pleas .a senior at Ea.st Orange High NATIONAL CHAIRMAN O'BRIEN SETS cation; in rebuilding our cities and improv­ School and student chairman of the group's THE RECORD STRAIGHT ing our rural areas; in protecting our en­ liaison committee, said it was their feeling vironment and enhancing the quality of "it was about time we as teen-agers should life--in all these and more, we will and must recognize them for a job well done." HON. ED EDMONDSON press urgently forward. (Inaugural Address, BEHIND POLICE OF OKLAHOMA Jan. 20, 1969) IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES O'BRIEN. Those were the promises, no less "The police have received a lot of bad pub­ urgent today than when the President spoke lici-ty lately, and have been accused of Wednesday, July 8, 1970 harassing teen-agers and needlessly getting them on the Capitol steps 18 months ago. In Mr. EDMONDSON. Mr. Speaker, last a few areas-such as reform of the outdated down on us. We feel honoring them could welfare system and the antiquated postal be the greatest tribute paid to municipal night the American public heard Na­ system-the Nixon Administration has come law enforcers," she said. tional Democratic Chairman Lawrence forward With proposals that could make a "We always hear the bad," Patricia pointed F. O'Brien set the record straight on a lasting contribution to the fabric of Ameri­ out, "and we just want to show that the number of major issues. can life. police and firemen have our respect for all the good they do." In a 25-minute presentation over fa­ But unfortunately, in most areas we see cilities of the Columbia Broadcasting little or no progress; we share the concern "This breakfast could bring more unity of all Americans with the decline in our econ­ between future leaders and current leaders," System, the Democratic chairman made effective use of a series of film clips omy. Every housewife, every wage earner, Patrida said, "and let the police know we every stock holder, every farmer, every small are behind them-not against them.'' featuring the remarks and pledges of businessman-yes and many big businessmen The other members of the committee .a.re President Nixon during the past 3 years. know that our economy is lagging far behind Charles Neals, John Battle, Phyllis Smith The Nixon pledges on econ0mic policy, its potential. and Pamela Taylor, all seniors at East crime, pollution control, full employ­ A reporter asked the President about this Orange High. Other members of the distribu­ ment, and other questions are best un­ at a news conference earlier this year, one tive education club will act as ushers and year after Mr. Nixon's Inaugural Address. usherettes at the breakfast. derstood in the exact words used by the President in commenting directly on REPORTER. The question is, how, sir, do you Patricia said the breakfast was the club's assess the possibllity that we may be in for idea, and is designed to show police critics these questions. These are the words used "we .are bigger than they are and know the perhaps the worst possible sort of economic by Chairman O'Brien in his presenta­ condi tions--infl.ation and recession? police have more good than bad points." tion last night. NIXON. Well, Mr. Cornell, the major pur­ East Orange Mayor William S. Hart Sr. is The public can judge for itself, on the pose of our economic policy since we came to be the guest speaker. record, as to the level of performance by into office a year ago has been to stop the CXVI--1472-Part 17 23354 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 8, 1970 inflation which had been going on for 5 yea.rs percentages, let's remember that more than nesses, to be managers and executives as without doing it so quickly tha.t it brought four million seven hundred thousand Amer­ well as workers, to have a piece of the ac­ on a recession. icans are out of work tonight. tion in the exciting ventures of private enter­ Now, a.s a result, we are now in a. position, Let's look at another major concern and see prise. the critical position, in which the decisions what candidate Nixon promised-and wha.t "I pledge to you tonight that we shall made in the next month or two will deter­ has happened since he took office. have new programs which will provide the mine whether we win this battle. NIXON: "And if we are to restore order and equal chance. . ." (Nomin,a.tion Acceptance I would simply say that I do not expect a respect for law in this country, there's one Speech, August 8, 1968) recession to occur." (News Conference, Jan. place we're going to begin. We're going to "Now I know all the words. I know a.11 the 80, 1970) ha.ve a new Attorney General of the United gim.micks and the phrases that would win the O'BRIEN. Regrettably, the President's ex­ States of America ... applause of black audiences and professional pectations ha.ve not materialized, and, as so "The wa.ve of crime is not going to be the civil rights leaders. I am not going to use many of you are painfully aware, we have wa.ve of the future in the United States of them. I am interested in deeds. I am inter­ inflation and recession at the same time. America." (Nomination Acceptance Speech, ested in closing the performance gap." (News We call it Nixonomics: everything that is August 8, 1968) Conference, Jan. 30, 19'70) supposed to go up-your income, productiv­ O'BRIEN: Of course every new President has O'BRIEN: One of the biggest disappoint­ ity, housing construction, profits, the stock the power to appoint his own Attorney Gen­ ments of the first 18 months of the Nixon market--is going down. Everything that is eral, but what has been the record of the Administration has been precisely this fail­ supposed to go down-unemployment, inter­ Attorney General President Nixon appointed? ure to match its words with deeds-to provide est rates, the cost of living-is rising. Eighteen months have passed. The crime new opportunities for minority citizens, op­ Every housewife is alarmed over the con­ rate in this country has not gone down. In portunities that must ultimately benefit all stant rises in food prices--hot dogs up 14 the first three months of this year it rose 16 America.us. cents a pound, hamburger up 12 cents a percent over the sa.me period la.st year. And Again, a number of experts brought to pound, potatoes up a third-you know your it is especially alarming that the fastest Washington by the Nixon Administration grocery bill and how much it has gone up rates of increase a.re now in the suburbs and have resigned. They recognized this per­ in the last year. in rural areas of our country. formance ga.p. Do you know of a family earning less than The wa.y to stop rising crime is not to The failure to define clearly the policy $13,000 annually that has been able to buy a blame others, such as Congress. The wa.y to for school desegregation has led to confusion home this past year? And even those able to stop the rising crime rate is to help local and in local school systems, and growing resent­ borrow money for a new home know that a state law enforcement agencies who carry ment and discouragement by families seek­ $20,000 house costs an additional $36,000 for the major burden. ing equal educational opportunities for their interest charges alone-the highest interest NIXON: "While it is true that State and children. rates in 100 years. local law enforcement agencies are the cut­ Above all, in the pa.st 18 months we have In recent weeks Democrats and Repub­ ting edge in the effort to eliminate street been denied the strong moral leadership on licans alike have been pleading with Presi­ crime, burglaries, murder, my proposals to this issue which only the White House can dent Nixon to use the great powers of his you have embodied my belief that the Fede­ provide-that ls must provide. We have office to stop this recession and inflation now, ral Government should play a greater role in lacked a. President speaking forthrightly before more damage is done. working in partnership with these agencies. about ithe moral rightness of making the The President must use his great pers0nal "That is why 1971 Federal spending for guarantees of the Constitution a reality for influence to roll back inflationary wage and local law enforcement wm double that every American. price dec!sions, just as President Kennedy budgeted for 1971." (State of the Union Again, Congress has had to take the lea.d­ and President Johnson did on many ocoa­ Message, Jan. 22, 1970) in overcoming the Administration's obstacles sicns. O'BRIEN: That's how the President ad­ to renewing the Voting Rights Act, a law that Right now-tonight--Mr. Nixon could di­ dressed the crime problem in his State of provides all Americans with the most basic rect the lowering of interest rates on home the Union Message last January. What action of democratic rights as well as extending mortgages, car loans, and the clothes you buy has followed those farsighted words? the right to vote to 18-yea.r-olds. on credit from a department store. The facts a.re that the Nixon Administra­ The times call for a. new vision of our A Democratic Congress gave him this power tion budget requires one thousand dollars priorities. The President seemed to under­ last year, but unfortunately, he has refused from every one of you--every American-to stand this when he addressed the nation to use it. run the government. Of that one thousand la.st month. I urge the President to act immediately. dollars, the Administration has earmarked NIXON: For the first time in 20 years, the Please don't wait any longer for our econ­ only $2.40 to assist state and local govern­ Federal Government is spending more on omy to decline even further. ments in the fight against crime--cuttlng the human resource program than on nation­ There is probably nothing of greater worry Democratic program in half. al defense. to the American family than the threat of And, while I am sure the President and the "This year we are spending $1.7 billion less unemployment. At a news conference two Attorney General wa.nt to reduce crime, I on defense than we were a year ago; in the months ago a reporter asked the President cannot understand why they ha.ve refused to next year, we plan to spend $6.2 billion less. about this problem. support further improvements in the Safe This is more than a redirection of resources. REPORTER: "On a domestic subject, the Streets Act advocated by a. Democratic Presi­ This is an historic reordering of our national economy, sir. Unemployment is up, the mock dent and enacted by a Democratic Congress priorities." (Address to the Nation, June 17, market is down, things look generally dis­ in 1968-our major federal anticrime pro­ 1970) couraging. Do you have any views on that, gram. They are improvements that would O'BRIEN: The President says he favors this and do you have any plans?" give cities with the greatest crime problems change in our priorities. But it was Con­ NIXON: "Yes. Unemployment reached the the most help. gress, not the President, that cut five-and-a.­ point of 4.8, I noticed, this last month. In I regret that so many of the top law en­ half billion dollars from the Pentagon budg­ order to keep it in perspective, it should be forcement experts brought to Washington by et. And when Congress tried to channel noted that in 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, and the Nixon Administration last year have now less than a quarter of that money into edu­ 1966 the average unemployment was 6.7. resigned, because, as they said, Attorney Gen­ cational and health programs--llbra.ries, 6.7 is too high. 4.8, I think, is also too high. eral Mitchell has refused to do what must be books, student loans-the President re­ But the unemployment we presently have is done to control the growing crime rate in sponded with a. nationally televised veto the result of the cooling of the economy and America. message. our fight against inflation." (News Confer­ President Nixon's own anti-crime proposals NIXON: "Now, if I approved the increased ence, May 8, 1970) have not been primarily directed at the spending contained in this b111, I would win O'BRIEN: As the President said, it is partly national crime problem, but rather at Wash­ the approval of many fine people who are a matter of perspective tha.t 6.7 percent un­ ington, D.C., and many people believe that demanding more spending by the Federal employment rate mentioned in the early some of these proposals are unconstitu­ Government for education and health. But 1960s reflected a. steadily declining rate of tional. I would be surrendering in the battle to stop unemployment, a. decline from the high of 7 For the past generation both major po­ the rise in the cost of living, a battle we must percent which President Kennedy inherited litical parties have stood t.ogether in the fight and win for the benefit of every fam­ from the Eisenhower-Nixon Adntlnistration struggle for equal rights a.nd opportunities ily in this Nation." (HEW Veto Message, Jan. of the 1950s. for all of our citizens. In his acceptance 26, 1970) The fa.ct ls that unemployment fell dur­ speech, Mr. Nixon seemed to recognize the O'BRIEN: In that same week when Mr. Nix­ ing the 1960s a.nd it was down to 3.3 percent human stakes involved 1n the next urgent on vetoed the education and health bill as in December, 1968. It has climbed stea.dlly steps tha.t must be ta.ken 1n this continuing inflationary, he announced a new multi­ since President Nixon took office. Since last struggle. b1111on dollar spiral in the nuclear arms race. December, we ha.ve experienced in the NIXON: "They want the pride and the Why wasn't this just as inflationary, 1f not fastest five-month rise in unemployment self-respect and the dignity tha.t can only more so? since the recession in the late 1950s. But be­ come if they have an equal chance to own Only a. few days a.go Congress overrode an­ yond this, instead of talking statistics and their own homes, to own their own busi- other Nixon veto and so restored funds to July 8, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 23355 build desperately needed hospitals and men­ Cabinet or with Congress before he expanded MINSHALL OPINION POLL RESULTS tal health fac111t1es for the nation's sick peo­ the Indochina. war. He has never told the ple. The President turned down this bill be· American people that the Communist head­ cause he said it was infl.ationary. But more quarters he said would be attacked was nev­ HON. WILLIAM E. MINSHALL than two-thirds of Congress-including a er attacked and apparently never even lo­ OJI' OHIO majority of the members of the Republican cated. Party-voted to allocate for hospitals some Instead Mr. Nixon now has given other IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of the money cut from the budget. reasons to justify h1S surprise move of Amer­ Wednesday, July 8, 1970 National priorities? Let's consider again ican troops into a neutral country, among each American's thousand dollar share of them the preservation of a new Cambodian Mr. MINSHAIL. Mr. Speaker, I insert the nation's budget: $4.50 for air and water government. in the RECORD my latest Washington Re­ pollution; $5.00 for urban renewal for our And now we have become involved, wheth­ port whioh contains the results of my cities; $7.60 for elementary and secondary er or not we like it, in that new government. opinion Poll: education; 50 cents for training the handi­ Now-although our ground troops are out-­ MINSHALL OPINION POLL RESULTS capped-and $875.00 for the milltary. our bombers and our artillery continue to Once again, we must look to Congress for bomb the Cambodian nation. Now the South More than 85,000 completed questionnaires leadership. Vietnamese army continues to sustain a full have been received in an avalanohe response It was Congress that more than doubled sea.le milltary operation in Cambodia.. unprecedented in all my years in Congress, an President Nixon's initial request for an in­ Before our military incursion, as this map indication that there ls a genuine and in­ crease in social security providin g a badly shows, Communist activity in Cambodia was tense concern a.bout the critical issues fac­ needed 15 percent increase. And just this primarily limited to border sanctuaries. ing our nat ion. All returns have been care­ week, your paychecks will be larger because But now, just two months later, Commun­ fully tabulat ed and I personally have noted a Democratic Congress voted to increase per­ ist control has expanded to half the land the many thoughtful and helpful comments sonal tax exemptions and eliminated the 5 area of Cambodia. and Communists have in­ accompanying them. Thank you for your en­ percent surtax. filtrated over a large part of the rest of that thusiastic pa,rticipation. Results follow: So I ask you tonight: Who is really en­ beleagured country. [Answer in percent] gaged in a. "historic reordering of our na­ The question must be asked: Has our ac­ 1. Do you approve of President Nixon send­ tional priorities"-the Congress or the Pres­ tion actually saved Cambodia, or put its sur­ ing U.S. troops in Cambodia.? ident? vival in greater jeopardy? One of our most urgent priorities for this To be patriotic American is to question and Yes------60.3 decade is cleaning up our environment. Most probe the activities of those who govern us. No opinion------______86.4.2 5 of you heard the President speaking to this That ls our duty and our right. problem in his State of the Union Message The newly elected President promised to 2. Should the United States this pa.st January. "bring us together again." But the opposite (a) Continue Vietnamizing the war while NIXON. "The program I shall propose to of that is occurring, polarization, unfortu­ gradually withdrawing our troops? Congress will be the most comprehensive nately encouraged by Vice President Agnew and costly program in this field in America's in speech after speech across the country. Yes ------60.0 history. AGNEW: "You can't bring 200 m1111on peo­ {b) Step up efforts for an all-out mmtary "It ls not a program for just one year. ple together. Let's stop talking in techni­ vict ory? A year's plan in this field is no plan at all. calities and look at the President's figure of Yes------16.0 This is a time to look ahead not a year, but speech-was a. plea for national unity to 5 years or 10 years-whatever time ls re­ bring the responsible elements of our so­ (c) Pull out all U.S. military forces at quired to do the Job. ciety together. But let's never overlook the once? "I shall propose to thlS Congress a $10 fact that there a.re also irresponsible ele­ Yes------15. 3 billion nationwide clean waters program to ments of our society and instead of attempt­ ( d) other suggestions: put modern municipal waste treatment ing to dignify and condone what they're do­ plants in every place in America where they ing, let's polarize--let's get rid of these un­ Yes------6.5 are needed to make our waters clean again, desirable people by recognizing that they ( e) No opinion: and do it now." (State of the Union Message, cannot participate in our legitimate proc­ No opinion ______8.2 Jan. 22, 1970) esses of government unless they play the O'BRIEN. That ls what President Nixon rules." (Washington Window, UPI Interview, 3. Should the U.S. increase arms aid to said he would propose, and to many it November, 16, 1969) Israel? seemed an impressive call for action. But O'BRIEN: The words and though ts of Vice Yes------33.5 the fact is that the 10 billion dollar program President Agnew leave me saddened and dis­ No------68.7 he promised ca.Us for federal spending of heartened. While I realize there are many No opinion______7. 8 only four billion dollars. The a.mount Mr. who support Mr. Agnew, I deeply believe his 4. Do you support the Safeguard Anti­ Nixon proposed for the first year of his new road can only lead to further division and Ballistic Missile program? program to fight water pollution turned out mistrust among our people. to be less than Congress had already au­ In attacking the loyalty of millions who Yes------67. 7 thorized. sincerely question the course of the present NoNo------opinion ______84.08.8 And so, 18 months later, the pattern of the Administration, the Vice President is him­ Nixon Administration's domestic program is self questioning and jeopardizing the very 6. Are you in favor of an all-volunteer abundantly clear-ringing calls for action, democratic tradition that has ma.de us Army? but few results, except when Congress takes strong. Yes------65.0 the initiative and calls the shots. Is this the way we are to be brought to­ No------89.0 But our attention to our critical domes­ gether again? Is this the lowered voice Pres­ No opinion______6. o tic priorities continues to be diverted by the ident Nixon urged upon all of us eighteen seemingly endless struggle in Indochina., months ago? 6. Should college draft deferments be about which the President addressed the na­ This is a time for healing, not for wound­ phased out so that all men of eligible age tion on April 30. ing, for trust and understanding, not for are selected by lottery? NIXON. "Tonight, American and South hatred and suspicion. Yes------69.5 Vietnamese units will attack the headquar­ For 14 years, I was a friend and close as­ NoNo------opinion ______------22.87.7 ters for the entire Communist military op­ sociate of a man who could express these eration in South Vietnam. This key control feelings far better than I. One bright, wintry 7. Do you think 18-year-olds should have center has been occupied by the North Viet­ day the world seemed full of promise as he the right to vote? namese and Vietcong for 5 years in blatant reached out to us and summoned forth the violation of Cambodia's neutrality." (Ad­ best we Americans had to offer. Yes ------31.0 dress to Nation, April 30, 1970) No------69.8 KENNEDY: "All of this will not be finished No opinion______9. 2 O'BRIEN. I have no intention of "taking in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be on" the President in difficult decisions a.bout finished in the first one thousand days, nor 8. Should the House of Representatives military strategy, but I do want the Presi­ in the life of this Administration, nor even bring impeachment proceedings against Su­ dent to level with all of us. perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But preme Court Justice William 0. Douglas? I share the relief of all Americans that our let us begin... " (Kennedy Inaugural Ad­ troops have crossed back into South Viet­ dress, Jan. 20, 1961) Yes------41.4 nam, but I also share the confusion of O'BRIEN: The Democratic Party, and the No------39.8 most Americans who wonder what Cam­ Democrats in Congress accepted that chal­ No opinion------18.8 bodia ls really all a.bout. lenge a decade ago-and we rededicate our­ 9. To control inflation, do you favor: The President never consulted with his selves today. (a.) Wage and price controls? 23356 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 8, 1970

Yes ------60.5 TECHNOLOGY.DEVELOPMENT AND tion is full of ideas about how to decrease No------No opinion ______18.021.5 POPULATION GROWTH ' the amount of smog. An expert on education has many ideas on how to improve our school (b) Credit controls? system to meet increased demands. Sociol­ HON. GEORGE E. BROWN, JR. ogists have theories on how to lower the Yes------49.4 OF CALIFORNIA amount of crime and violence in our cities. No------15.2 Housing experts list programs to meet our No opinion ______35.4 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES housing shortage. Politicians, especially thls Wednesday, July 8, 1970 season, have notions about decreasing (c) Reduced government spend!ing? taxes. Yes------72.8 Mr. BROWN of California. Mr. But there is a catch. We are losing on all Speaker, this March I had the privilege No------No opinion ______------17.39.9 fronts at once. Why? If you look into these to chair part of an important series of plans presented by each of these experts, 10. In the fight ,against environmental pol­ hearings conducted by the Subcommittee you wm find that they have two things in lution would you support: on Science, Research, and Development common. First, every one of them costs a (a) Higher taxes at all governmental levels of the Science and Astronautics Commit­ great deal of money. We could only afford to provide adequate solutions for one or two for an all-out crash program? tee dealing with the overall topic of problems, but there is not enough money Yes------24.7 "Technology Assessment and the Envi­ and resources to solve all of them by a No------41.0 ronment." piecemeal approach. At a time when man's No opinion------34.3 Of the two sessions I chaired in San survival is threatened from several direc­ (b) The President's Great Lakes Clean­ Francisco, one afternoon was devoted to tions, solving only one or two problems will up proposals? analyzing both the severe problems not be sufficient. caused by increasing population growth Secondly, it is entirely inappropriate to Yes------60.8 rates and possible remedies to offset attack each problem as an individual entity No------5.8 because everything is interrelated. Crime No opinion------33.4 these ever-growing resource demands. is related to poverty and poverty to employ­ Today, I would like to insert in the (c) Strong locial enforcement of more strict ment. Employment is related to transporta­ reguliations governing municipal and indus­ RECORD, the statement made at that tion and transportation to pollution. Pollu­ trial pollution? hearing by Dr. Eugene V. Coan, the direc­ tion is related to the amount of medical tor of Political Activity for Zero Popula­ care we need and this care is related to pro­ Yes------93.1 tion Growth. fessional training. We now have to force NoNo------opinion ______5.81.1 Dr. Coan stresses the need for broad­ ourselves to look at the whole picture at ening this country's foreign aid program once. (d) Strong enforcement of more striot Our analysis of this picture indicates that to emphasize population control and we are in trouble and will have to move regulations governing motor vehicle and air­ family planning projects, a position I plane pollution? quickly. In the United States, population strongly agree with. threatens the quality of our lives, but the Yes------78.1 His statement follows: greatest danger we face as a result of the No------5.8 'I'EsTIMONY OF EUGENE V. COAN enormous and rapidly increasing numbers No opinion------16. 1 of individuals is the political consequences Mr. Chairman and Members of the Sub­ 11. Should the U.S. proceed with more ex­ of overpopulation in the so-called "under committee: I am Eugene Coan, Direotor of developed" nations. None of us can predict ploration of the moon and deeper probes of Political Activity for Zero Population outer space? what will happen. Population-created con­ Growth, a nationwide educational and politi­ flicts may cause rapid break-downs in the Yes------42.8 cal action organization concerned with the governability of large areas, rendering relief rapid growth of population, both in the NoNo------opinion ______51.26.0 or long-range solutions difficult or impos­ United States and in the world. 'sible. The underlying imbalances among pop­ 12 To halt student violence, what policies We a.pprecia.te this opportunl.ty to appear lation, resources, and disease have already should be adopted in riot situations on cam­ before you to discuss the relationship of our become apparent in some areas of the pus? capacity for properly assessing the impact world, such as in Nigeria, India, and El of new technology to our policies with respect (a) Expell students who are disorderly to population growth. Salvador. As examples of what we may face or refuse to obey regulations ______39. 8 in the future, the populations of both Ni­ In the first place, we applaud the concept geria and India wm double in 28 years, (b) Strict law enforcement, but no use of "Technology Assessment." After reviewing that of El Salvador in 21 years. of deadly force ______14.5 the articles on this topic which were sug­ gested to us, Mr. Chairman, we conclude that The concept of overpopulation is a. relative ( c) Strict law enforcement, use deadly one. For instance, America is not only one force if absolutely necessary ______13. 1 "Technology Assessment" is a technologist's word for ecology, and we certainly need more of the most overpopulated countries on the (d) Firmer control by college adminis­ ecological concern. Ecology is a field that has planet by virtue of her high per capita use to do with the relationships, with the multi­ of energy and raw materials, but she is also trators------8.4 one of the greatest consumers of the re­ (e) Keep outside agitators off cam- pLicity of interactions within and involving the living world. This may sound all-encom­ sources belonging to other areas and peoples puses------6.0 passing, and, indeed, it is, but it is not that of the world. Such artificial affluence cannot (f) Miscellaneous suggestions ______13. 7 aspect of ecology which makes it new and last. (g) No opinion______6. 5 especially significant for us. There ls a quali­ The second greatest danger we face is the tative feature of ecology tha.t ls of far greater result of the global nature of pollution. Al­ The July WasbJngton Report will bring importance. An ecological point of view is ready, we have begun to tip balances we have you up to date on the status of major legis­ a new way of looking at the world. It is in discovered only after we upset them. Birds lation, as well as my activities representing the broadest possible perception and in the become extinct ,because farmers thousands you in Congress. recognition of the many consequences of of miles away spray their crops with cholor­ what we do and what is happening to us inated hydrocarbons. Trees become sick in that we have a completely fresh approach Arizona because people drive to work in Los to our problems. This approach is difficult Angeles. Changes in the weather occur be­ MAN'S INHUMANITY TO MAN-HOW !or us, because throughout most of western cause we are using too much fossil fuel. This LONG? civilization it has been man against nature, is probably only the beginning of the things raither than part of it. that will happen to the oceans and the at­ There is no better demonstration of the mosphere of our planet as the world's popu­ HON. WILLIAM J. SCHERLE application of ecological principles and the lation doubles. ,Some biologists believe we OF IOWA complexity of relationships than with re­ will soon be ,faced by a series of global ecolo­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES gard to population growth. Every social and gical catastrophies for which we need a environmental problem in our society ls whole new kind of national preparedness. Wednesday, July 8, 1970 adversely influenced by population growth. What we require for this preparedness are Mr. SCHERLE. Mr. Speaker, a child Air and water pollution worsen. The land institutions which enable us to see the full asks: "Where is daddy?" A mother asks: becomes covered with refuse. Crowding ag­ page of factors which may be involved in our gravat es life in our cities. Resources and planning, whether the pending decisions are "How is my son?" A wife asks: "Is my open space decrease. Facilities and services technological or not. Our greatest needs at husband alive or dead?" are t axed to capacit y, as are citizens. The the present time are for biological and socio­ Communist North Vietnam is sadisti­ subtle qualities of life have a.11 but van­ logical considerations to enter into major cally practicing spiritual and mental ished-space for hiking and thinking, quiet, technological decisions. However, the mere genocide on over 1,500 American prison­ wilderness, and individuality. presence of new boards, committees, councils, ers of war and their families. Each population-related problem can be and agencies is not enough. They must, in How long? solved-by itself. An expert on air pollu- addition, have the necessary breadth and July 8, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 23357 quality of membership and staff to carry out sweeping changes in this Department Will What, in fact, ls the "message" of the Dec­ the task, and, more importantly, they must require careful consideration. laration of Independence? be given the political power both to halt Finally, and I believe most importantly, Perhaps the best expression of the political bad technology and to suggest better ap­ we need some major changes in our State philosophy that inspired it is set forth in proaches to problems. Department. We need an entirely new, eco­ the "American's Creed," which resulted from With regard to specific measures, Zero Pop­ logically-oriented foreign policy which places a nation-wide contest conducted in 1917. ulation Growth has already announced its its greatest emphasis on areas of rapid popu­ The winner, William Tyler Page, said the support for Representative Foley's bill, House lation growth and environmental danger Creed was "a summary of the fundamental Joint Resolution 1071 ( co-authored by the rather than on ideological relationships be­ principles of American political faith as set chairman of this subcommittee, among oth­ tween nations. Differing ideologies now forth in its great documents, its worthiest ers), to establish a Joint Congressional Com­ threaten man less than bad ecology. For in­ traditions, and by its great leaders." mittee on Environmental Quality and Popu­ stance, we need a new way of providing for­ The text of the Creed is as follows: lation Policy. To consider population in eign aid by bilateral and multilateral means. "I believe in the United States of America terms of absolute numbers of individuals Aid agencies should be made up of teams as a government of the people, by the people, has little meaning. To make statements from the countries involved and should have for the people, whose just powers a.re derived about environmental quality without consid­ a degree of autonomy Irom their respective from the consent of the governed; a democ­ ering population growth is equally useless. countries. Our contribution should be ecol­ racy in a republic, a sovereign nation of We supported the recently pa.ssed, admin­ ogists and sociologists, rather than politi­ many sovereign states; a perfect union, one istration-sponsored legislation to create a cians and paramilitary personnel. Funds and inseparable, established upon those "Commission on Population Growth and the would be raised on matching formula basis. principles of freedom, equality, justice and American Future," only after its duties had The aid provided would be a complete pack­ humanity for which American patriots sacri­ been amended to include study of ways to age that made long-term ecological sense for ficed their lives and their fortunes. achieve population stability. We initiated the particular area, not just short-term po­ "I therefore believe it is my duty to my and a.re backing legislation to establish an litical sense. country to love it, to support its Constitu­ even more comprehensive Commission on We might also consider the establishment tion, to obey its laws, to respect its flag and Population and Environment in California of a new, massive educational program by to defend it against all enemies." (State Senate Bill 186, introduced by Sena­ our country for foreign students. This could Stirring words on a timeless subject, as tor John Nejedly). be in the form of crash courses in the needs meaningful today as when they were written. In the fields of population and environ­ of their areas of the world and potential ment, there are several immediate needs at solutions to their problems. These should be the Federal level. Let us consider ways for given in the students' native languages and Congress to examine broader-than-tradi­ should be designed so as not to contribute to tional relationships. the "brain drain" from other countries to U.S. LAND LAW REVIEW: VITAL TO First, we need to obtain and widely pub­ ours. UTAH licize information on what technology can I would like to conclude on an encouraging really promise in the way of solutions to the note. In just a few months of activity, Zero population problem. In the opinion of ecolo­ Population Growth has gained substantially HON. LAURENCE J. BURTON gists and demographers with whom I am ac­ in membership and in number of chapters. OF UTAH quainted, there are no real technological Many of the chapters are on college cam­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES solutions to overpopulation. Nevertheless, the puses. I believe that what is necessary, and belief that there a.re such solutions continues what has already begun, is a major move­ Wednesday, July 8, 1970 to be widespread among the general public. ment, especially among young people in or­ ganizations such as ours. We hope that this Mr. BURTON of Utah. Mr. Speaker, A set of Congressional hearings, perhaps by the long-awaited report of the Public the House Committee on Science and Astro­ will carry over to other countries. The time nautics, would be a good idea. is past when concerned citizens can feel they Land Law Review Commission, on which Secondly, there is 11 ttle in the way of are doing enough by protesting the ineffec­ I was privileged to serve, was submitted common knowledge about the relationship tiveness and wrongness of our government's to the President and to the Congress on policies. What we need now are bold new June 23, 1970. It represented 5 years of of population growth to urbanization and to approaches to meet man's needs, approaches the social ills of cities. While people are which continually assess the impact of tech­ intensive study and contained several rapidly becoming aware that population nology on the entire biosphere, oI which man hundred specific recommendations for growth adversely affects environmental qual­ is only a part. updating the laws that govern our public ity, the relationship of that growth to the lands. The Ogden, Utah, Standard-Ex­ lives of most Americans has not been made clear. As a beginning, a set of hearings on aminer carried a lead editorial on the this subject would prove useful. INDEPENDENCE DAY report the date of its issuance, and I As a first step toward what is required believe these comments might be of in­ for man's survival in the whole world, we HON. EDWARD J. DERWINSKI terest to some of my colleagues. The must take measures to stabilize the popula­ editorial follows: OF ILLINOIS tion of the United States as soon as pos­ U.S. LAND LAW REVIEW: VITAL TO UTAH sible. We must do this in order to set a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The 289-page report issuect today by the credible example for countries which can Wednesday, July 8, 1970 still save themselves by stopping their popu­ Public Land Law Review Commission after lation growth. Stability will enable us to Mr. DERWINSKI. Mr. Speaker, I re­ five years of careful study contains 387 spe­ realistically face the political situations that cific recommendations, most of them vital emphasize to the Members the tremen­ to the future of Utah and neighboring west­ will a.rise in other areas as a result of over­ dous resurgence of spirits which I wit­ population. We must also achieve this stabil­ ern states. ity, or preferably a reduction of our popula­ nessed on Independence Day in visits to Uncle Sam is our state's largest land own­ tion, in order to conserve our own diminish­ numerous communities throughout the er. Of the 52.7 million acres in Utah, more ing resources and to have time to solve our Fourth Illinois District. than 35 million--or 66.5 per cent--are owned own population related problems. A positive contribution to this spirit by the federal government, including 34.5 This brings us, then, to the topic of gov­ was an editorial in the Chicago Heights million acres still listed as public domain. ernmental re-organization to achieve more Star, Saturday, July 4, which reempha­ This makes Utah the third state, behind encompassing and balanced policies. This Alaska 95.3 per cent and Nevada's 86.4 per sized the historic message of the Dec­ cent, in federal land ownership. Idaho is area must be approached with caution, for laration of Independence. governmental re-organization is no panacea. fourth at 63.9 per cent, Oregon fifth at 52.2 We must weigh carefully the political bal­ The editorial follows: per cent and Wyoming sixth at 48.2 per cent. ances which would be achieved by proposed As WE SEE IT: INDEPENDENCE DAY Those figures show why the Public Land changes. Today is Independence day, the red, white Law Review Commission's study is so impor­ Zero Population Growth supports the leg­ and blue-letter day on the American calen­ tant to the future of our area-particularly islation by Senator Joseph Tydings, Senate dar. It marks the 194th anniversary of the as Congress, in months and years to come B111 2108, which would, among other things, adoption of the Declaration of Independence, takes up the recommendations and decides give the population programs of the Depart­ one of the world's great testaments to the if they should be made into law. ment of Health, Education and Welfare a rights of man. On a national basis, the most sweeping better balance and position within the de­ When delegates to the Second Continental change would be affected if the present De­ partment. Congress adopted the Declaration in 1776, partment of the Interior was changed to the We would support a measure to bring the they were agreed on the reasons for the Department of Natural Resources and the relevance of population into the Department revolutionary proclamation and on the ideas Forest Service, so much a part of the West, of the Interior, either by the establishment of expressed in it. But times change, of course, changed to the new department from its a Bureau of Population or by moving the and over the years other interpretations of present berth in the Department of Agri­ Bureau of the census to Interior. More this historic manifesto have been offered. culture. 23358 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 8, 1970 The Standard-Examiner bas long felt tha.t She is the daughter of the late Judge enhancement of the image of women in such a change would be helpful 1n elim­ James S. Watson and Mrs. Violet L. Government"; the American Caribbean inating overlaps in agency jurisdiction, es­ pecially if the commission's further recom­ Watson and was born and reared in New Scholarship Fund, Inc. Special Award of mendation is followed to concen.rtra.te all York City. Her father was a man of Merit "in recognition of the extraordi­ congressional activity into single committees eminence, the first Negro to be elected to nary and remarkable intellectual and in the House and Senate. a Judgeship in the State of New York, academic qualifications reflected in her Utah had two members on the commission who served faithfully in that capacity for devotion to duty in the field of human -Rep. Laurence J. Burton and Salt Lake 20 years. relations and the affairs of state;" the City a.,ttorney Byron Mock, former Bureau She is a graduate of Barnard College United Seamen's Service Humanity of Land Management director for our state. of Columbia University and of New York Award for her "humanity and sympathy, Like the five other "public" members named by President Johnson, Mr. Mock is a Demo­ University Law School where she re­ vision, and understanding of the isola­ cr.a.t-but President Nixon was wise enough ceived a prize as the "most outstanding tion and dangers that confront our ships not to change the membership in the mid­ law student in the city of New York," and seamen of the great waters of the dle of the study to preserve continuity. based on the selection of a committee of world." We agree with Rep. Burton that the most eminent jurists. Little more need be said in her behalf important single recommendation, so far as From 1962 to July 1966 Miss Watson other than a statement that the Govern­ Utah is concerned, calls for the federal gov­ served as attorney on the New York City ment is that much richer for the able ernment to make payments to states "in lieu Board of Statutory Consolidation, as as­ and unselfish leadership of the Honorable of taxes" for the land it owns, subject to a "public benefits discount of at least 10 per sistant attorney in the law department of Barbara M. Watson, Administrator of cent but not more than 40 per cent." New York City and as executive director the Bureau of Security and Consular This carries out the practical concept that of the New York City Commission to the Affairs. residents of other states, who enjoy the use United Nations, which commission is the of public lands in the West, should help official liaison between the New York pay for the maintenance of services so City government and United Nations THE SENECA NATION OF INDIANS necessary to their m.aintenance. personnel. ffiOQUOIA PROJECT Federal "in lieu" payments on public lands Of continuing interest to the Congress would be a major step in correcting the and to the Judiciary Committee, is the current financial problems of Utah and its excellent leadership she displays as Ad­ HON. JAMES F. HASTINGS sister states. ministrator of the Bureau of Security OF NEW YORK Also important is the commission recom­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES mendation that grazing fees on public lands and Consular Affairs. Her ability to work be determined by the quality of the land harmoniously with others and to coordi­ Wednesday, July 8, 1970 involved. As Rep. Burton pointed out, it is nate and make available the facilities of Mr. HASTINGS. Mr. Speaker, I am unfair to ask the same fees for land "so the Bureau to the Congress, to the com­ poorly vegetated that grasshoppers have to most proud to have as constituents of my mittee, and to private organizations and district the Seneca Nation of Indians. pack their lunch to cross it" as is charged individuals is a tribute in itself. The for other land "where the cows are belly­ Their contributions to my area, New high in grass." smooth changeover in the implementa­ York State, and the United States have Over the long haul, the suggestions that tion of the 1965 amendments to the im­ been substantial since the birth of this the leasing of oil shale lands be rearranged migration law was a direct result of Miss Nation. Their history goes back much to expedite the unlocking of the tr1111ons of Watson's superior ability. She person­ farther than most people realize. This ba.rrels of oil that they contain could mean ally conducted a successful series of con­ year, 1970, is the 400th anniversary of more to our state than any federal legisla­ sular conferences abroad to insure a uni­ tion since passage of the Colorado River the Iroquois Confederacy, founded in form interpretation and understanding 1570, before non-Indians thought of Storage Project. of the features of the new law and reg­ Rep. Burton, Mr. Mock, Chairman Wayne forming a separate government on this Aspinall and their colleagues and staff can ulations. Personnel resources were eff ec­ continent. be proud of the task they ha.ve performed tively redirected under her leadership The Iroquois Confederacy, comprising for the nation on the Public Land Law and, in the first year of operation under initially five nations and eventually of six Review Commission. Now, 1f Congress will the new law, 99.97 percent of all avail­ different tribes, was and is one of the act, instead of placing the report in a pigeon able visa numbers were used, a record strongest unions of Indians ever estab­ hole, these long-overdue changes can be­ that speaks for itself. come an actuality instead of a dream. lished. The Senecas played a very impor­ It is gratifying that Miss Watson has tant role in the development of our infused the Bureau of Security and Con­ country. sular Affairs with new life and has exert­ Today the Seneca Nation of Indians is BARBARA M. WATSON, ADMINISTRA­ ed fl.rm direction to, and renewed the fighting for Federal assistance for all concept of, the consular career idea nec­ Indian tribes in the United States to help TOR, BUREAU OF SECURITY AND essary to the high caliber of consular CONSULAR AFFAffiS reduce unemployment and improve the activities. economy on Indian reservations. They Her untiring efforts have been evident have a $10 milllon recreation/tourism HON. EMANUEL CELLER from the beginning. She has been avail­ project planned for their own area to OF NEW YORK able at all times to Members of Congress, make the best of a situation whereby the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to specialized agencies of the United U.S. Government flooded 10,000 acres of Nations, to voluntary agencies and Wednesday, July 8, 1970 reservatJon land. Recently, Mr. William to individuals. During the aftermath of Seneca, the president of the Seneca Na­ Mr. CELLER. Mr. Speaker, I welcome the Mideast war, Miss Watson, her staff, tion of Indians, Mrs. Ladonna Harris, di­ this opportunity to acquaint my col­ and foreign service posts literally worked rector, Americans for Indian Opportu­ leagues in the House with some of the around the clock to insure the safety of nity Action Council, and Mr. Bruce A. good deeds of the Administrator of the some 20 ,000 Americans stranded in that Wilkie, executive director, National Con­ Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs area. She has been similarly involved in gress of American Indians, testified of the Department of State, the Honor­ the safe repatriation of Americans from before the Senate Appropriations Com­ able Barbara M. Watson. Miss Watson Cuba, a continuing project. mittee indicating the specif:l.c nature of has served the Department with distinc­ The excellence of her contribution to the problem the Seneca Nation of Indi­ tion since 1966 when she was appointed America has been recognized by the De­ ans have encountered and emphasizing special assistant to the Deputy Under partment of State in retaining her as Ad­ that the Appropriations Committee in­ Secretary for Administration. She was ministrator of the Bureau of Security and crease funds in the Economic Develop­ successively appointed Deputy Adminis­ Consular Affairs, and by numerous non­ ment Administration for projects under­ trator, Acting Administrator, and finally governmental organizations who have taken by American Indians to reduce Administrator of the Bureau of Security singularly honored her for her service. unemployment and to improve the and Consular Affairs, the first woman The Hadassah has bestowed the Myrth economy of the American Indian. Be­ with the rank of Assistant Secretary of Wreath Achievement Award, "in recogni­ cause national attention should be State. Her excellent record was to be tion of her outstanding work in behalf of brought to bear on this important prob­ predicted. social welfare and in appreciation for her lem, I insert in the RECORD the state- July 8, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 23359 ments of the above representatives of dian projects to reduce unemployment an, The Nation cannot fund the attention be given to American Indian eco­ certainty. whole project by Itself and will have to nomic development would substantially lift The United Nations General Assembly has abandon the Project if no Federal assistance their hopes and opportunities in American moved to organize a worldwide assault on is made available; society today. pollution. United Nations sponsored inter­ Whereas, The Nation has one of the lowest The Senecas typify the new spirit of self­ national conference on the fast rising global EDA Public Works grant per Indian ratio help and self-determination of American pollution crises is scheduled to convene in of all reservations in the United States hav­ Indians, Eskimos and Aleuts. The Americans Stockholm, Sweden, in June 1972. ing received such grants; for Indian Opportunity Action Council re­ In the United States, President Nixon And whereas, The failure of the Federal spectfully urges this Committee to act now signed a bill on January 1, creating a council Government to assist the Nation pursuant to to encourage this new spirit and these new on Environmental Quallty. "It is Iiterally the above will contribute to the continued efforts by substantially increasing-for the now or never" in combating pollution, said high unemployment of members of the Na­ Senecas and for all American Indians-funds the President at the signing, his first official tion and to the delinquency of the Nation's available for economic development and pub­ act of 1970. "I have become convinced that improving the economy of the area, contrary lic works. the 1970's absolutely must be the years when to the desires of Congress, as stated in Pub­ America pays it's debt to the past by reclaim­ lic Law 88-533; STATEMENT BY BRUCE A. WILKIE, EXECUTIVE ing the purity of it's air, it's waters and liv­ Now, therefore, be it resolved, That the DIRECTOR, NATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICAN ing environment," he said. In his state of the Council of the Seneca Nation directs the INDIANS, JUNE 25, 1970 union message, he prolnised the most com­ President of the Seneca Nation to: We respectfully request that this Appro­ prehensive and costly pollution control pro­ (1) Advise and inform the appropriate priations Committee, as it considers further gram in U.S. history. elected, appointed and other individuals, in­ funding of the Economic Development Ad­ Everyone is talking about it, but who is cluding the President and Vice-President of ministration, look seriously at the needs of doing anything about it? One of the most the United States, of the history of the the American Indians nationwide. important meetings to date on the pollution Iroquoia Project, seeking their support for American Indians, not by choice, are crises was held in San Francisco in late No­ the EDA application; among the most economically deprived peo­ vember 1969, but how many heard of it? It's (2) Appear before the appropriate c_on­ ple on this Continent. We have not in the title was "Man and His Environment: A View gressional Committees With appropriate past, had the opportunity nor the tools and Toward Survival" sponsored by the United supporting testimony in official hearings to expertise to develop on the same level or even Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural present the Nation's case; near the same level as other United States Organization. Over 60 outstanding authori~ (3) Appear before the 1970 Supplemental citizens. ties on every phase of pollution-air and wa­ Appropriations Committees, seeking a sup­ Programs which have been developed from ter pollution, industrial wastes, oil spillage, plement in EDA funds to make possible the funds appropriated th.rough the Economic solid waste disposal, food contamination­ funding of the Nation's Project, and to ap­ Development Administration have been provided the nucleus of the conference. pear before the 1971 EDA Appropriations creating a grand opportunity for American Rippling through the corridors was the Committee, seeking a larger and reasonable Indians to, in a sense, catch up with the rest theme: "ACT! do something now, don't just amount for Indian projects, with testimony of the nation in progress and in opportunity. talk about it." There has been more verbage concerning the Nation's Project. about garbage in the last few years than in ( 4) Seek any and all means to assist the We respectfully urge that this Committee provide increased funding th.rough the Eco­ all history. Meanwhile, garbage and pollution welfare of the Nation through the Recre­ in general continues to mount. ation-Tourism Project by continuing with nomic Development Adlninistration to In­ dian Reservations throughout the United A large poster on display, in the lobby the EDA application process, the efforts to of the St. Francis Hotel stated in no uncer­ obtain Appalachian Funds, and efforts to States. The National Congress of American Indians tain terms the gravity of the situation. obtain financial assistance wherever possible; "Civilization faces a crises ... the question ( 5) Do everything possible to exert the supports the Seneca Nation of Indians in Its application to the Economic Development is whether man can live together in the num­ Nation's thoughts and influence to increase bers that make culture possible, Without de­ the funding of public works in Federal pro­ Administration for the funding of their pro­ gram. We request that the Economic De­ stroying the conditions of his existence." grams for all Indians and that this be done With our very survival at stake, nothing is as soon as possible. velopment Administration act favorably Without delay on this application. The Sen­ more important than to move quickly from eca Indians have worked diligently for sev­ thought to action. STATEMENT BY MRS. LADONNA HARRIS, DIREC­ At most, five young pelicans hatched this TOR, AMERICANS FOR INDIAN OPPORTUNITY eral years on the development of this pro­ gram and we feel that further delays or a year out of 1200 nests in California. All other ACTION COUNCIL, BEFORE THE SENATE AP­ eggs broke before hatching, with DDT con­ PROPRIATIONS COMMITl'EE rejection of their application could only lead to a great injustice to this Nation of Indians. centrations of up to 2500 parts per million Mr. Chairman and Members of the Com­ in the thinnest-shelled eggs. The Brown mittee: Positive action by your Com­ Pelican does not pollute. He does not gather mittee is needed now to provide adequate PLANET EARTH IS SICK together in numbers that nature cannot sup­ and appropriate economic development port. He is a victim of man and a warning funds for assisting American Indians, Eski­ that man himself may perish, by his own mos and Aleuts in the reduction of unem­ HON. JOHN D. DINGELL ignorance. Here is a danger signal that some­ ployment and low income conditions which thing is drastically wrong on earth. No one are so prevalent in many areas where they OF MICHIGAN wants the Brown Pelican to perish. live. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Arthur Godfrey said at a U.N.E.S.C.O. Con­ The Americans for Indian Opportunity Wednesday, July 8, 1970 ference: "I like to use the analogy of the Action Council supports the earlier testi­ miners. They used to take canaries-they mony of Mr. William Seneca, President of Mr. DINGELL. Mr. Speaker, the July still der-ctown in the mines with them. The the Seneca Nation of Indians. The case his­ 1970 issue of the American Sportsman's canary topples off the perch: look out man, tory of the Seneca EDA application substan­ Journal carried an article by Charles let's go! That's what the brown pelican is tell­ tiates the desire of American Indians to de­ Arnett in which are discussed some of ing us--and the osprey and the eagle: Look, velop programs for incorporating their pres­ you're about to be killed. Let's do something ent values With new opportunities for human the symptoms of "planetary disease" about it! We're running out of air, we're resources development. which are to be found on planet earth. running out of water, we're running out of If such a comprehensive program as that Under unanimous consent I include land. You see, all our technology can't pro­ of the Seneca is not funded, other Indian the text of the article at this point in the duce one square inch of soil or one drop of tribes Will be seriously discouraged in their RECORD: water." Why are we in this predicament? It economic development activity. is the direct or indirect result of advances in PLANET EARTH Is SICK-VERY SICK American Indians do not seek a dispro­ technology. Man's insults, terrible abuse and portionate share of EDA funds. Instead, the (By Charles Arnett, American Sportsman's tampering With his environment. So much, Americans for Indian Opportunity Action Guild) in fact, that he threatens to destroy it. Council recommends as does the Seneca The symptoms of this planetary disease To name but a few: the internal combus­ Nation of Indians, that the EDA appropria­ are all around us. In our air, our water and tion engine, synthetic pesticides, inorganic tion be increased by $60 million for American our food. Some scientists say the disease may nitrogen fertilizer, plastics, man made radio Indian economic development. have already progressed too far. Will this be isotopes-the list is endless. More auto­ Native Americans are entitled to a fair man's last decade? We must do something mobiles, more electrical power, more gadge­ share and to equality of opportunity while about it, and the American Sportsman's try, more food from depleted soil. Man has still retaining their right to be different-- Guild intends to do something about it. Ac- felt it his destiny to manipulate, control, and 23362 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 8, 1970 drastically alter his environment: to exploit considered as discouraging. It is the nature over"--chemical replacement--of molecules nature and the earth's abundant riches, of scientific research that the initial stages is sufficient to prevent accumulation of inert rather than to live in harmony with the laws of most research efforts are characterized by molecule sand mutations but nerve cells, that govern the intricate ecological balance the proposing of a great number of theories. muscle cells, and collagen do not "turnover." of our globe. There is usually a separate theory suggested In those last three items, crosslinkage grad­ Dr. Barry Commoner, a noted biologist, to explain each different aspect of a given ually removes molecules from the "normal" stated recently that mankind, the United phenomenon under study. (This is often category, and the molecular efficiency-num­ States in particular, has embarked on a considered to be the "hunting" stage of re­ ber of remaining "normal" molecules times "suicidal course" and our ability to recover search.) Eventually, however, laboratory 100% divided by the number of original becomes harder and harder with each pass­ work sifts this crude material--eliminating "normal" molecules--decreases with age. The ing year. He suggested that President Nixon that which is useless, and leaving the worth­ difference between an organism's actual should declare a state of national emergency while concepts to form a sound basis for more molecular efficiency and its minimum mole­ and reassess national priorities in order to sophisticated approaches. cular efficiency required for survival is a solve our grim ecological problems. Until recently, attempts to explain the measure of how much stress the organism In a panel session he was asked, "How long phenomenon of aging were in the "hunting" can stand-ex. youth 96-83 = 13 % , old age do we have?" He contended that unless we stage; a great number of worthwhile con­ 80-85 = 4 % . Whenever the applied stress decide to act deciSlvely in thiS decade we cepts were advanced during thiS stage, but exceeds the organism's capability to with­ have had it. laboratory evaluation of these concepts was stand it, the organism dies. President Nixon's own science advisor, Dr. most notable in its sparsity. Despite the dis­ Now comes the question: does the "Inte­ Lee DuBridge, stated at the opening session couraging fact that the amount of laboratory grated" theory actually provide a comprehen­ of the U.N.E.S.C.O. Conference the following support is still very inadequate, enough use­ sive theoretical picture of the way that real and his words, too, were grave: "It is our ful experimental results have become avail­ biological aging and death occurs? In all whole planet that is in danger of deteriora­ able to permit the proposing of more sophis­ honesty, we don't know I The theory is plaus­ tion. Surely mankind has reached a turn­ ticated theories. ible but that does not mean that it ls right. ing point in history. He must do some­ In 1968, Carpenter and Loynd suggested an It merely seems to interrelate the known thing now to reverse the deteriorating en­ "Integrated" theory of aging in which many facts better than has been done previously. vironmental trends, else our children and of the preceding theories were blended to­ If we really wish to determine the truth of grandchildren will find the earth quite un­ gether to form a cohesive theoretical picture. the matter, we need to make a coordinated inhabitable and it will even be increasingly The "Integrated" theory assumes that (1) experimental and theoretical assault on bio­ more unpleasant and unhealthy for us." the major cause of aging is cross-linkage of logical aging. all types of molecules within the organism, Dr. DuBridge did not read before the as­ ASSAULT ON BIOLOGICAL AGING sembled delegates the conclusion of hiS (2) the cross-linkage rate is roughly propor­ printed text which was released ahead of tional to the metabolic rate and is depend­ Other than to satisfy your insatiable thirst time to the press. It packed a wallop. It read: ent upon the density of chemical crossllnk­ for knowledge, are there any constructive "The problem of pollution ls a huge one. It ers within the system, and (3) some types reasons why we should try to understand involves nothing less than changing the and amounts of increased stress upon the the physical processes underlying biological habits of biUions of people and the adoption organism result in biochemical changes aging? The answer to that challenging ques­ of wholly new attitudes and very expensive which enhance the rate of crossllnkage. tion lies in the intriguing fact that, almost new technologies by our whole worldwide in­ The modes through which this detrimental invariably, understanding brings control. A dustrial system." crosslinkage affects the organism are sepa­ deep knowledge of the basic causes of bio­ Informing the public of the gravity of the rated-according to function-into (a) the logical aging could conceivably lead to a pollution crises ls no easy task, even with non-genetic mode and (b) the genetic mode. retardation or an arresting of the biological the current, nearly fooliSh, excitement over The non-genetic mode includes treatment aging process. This, in turn, would yield at the topic. we must attract attention to the of both collagenous and non-collagenous least three vitally important results: 1) the death of our planet. The sudden death of an molecules. Both of these types of molecules productive life span of individuals would be individual makes the front page of the news­ obey diffusion relationships; additionally, extended; 2) the onslaught of degenerative paper, but the slow imminent death of us waste products also accumulate in accord­ illnesses associated with advanced biological all goes unreported. ance with diffusion relationships. On the age would be postponed-giving medical re­ The American Sportsman's Guild ls em­ other hand, the genetic mode is principally search more time in which to develop effective barking on a tremendous undertaking to ed­ concerned with genetic material. The cross­ treatments; and 3) with an increase in the ucate the masses in our great country. The linkage of such material produces mutations, average age, the attitudes of the populace on next two series of this article will appear in but mutations are also normally produced the problems--social, econoIIlic, et cetera-­ our next two issues of the American Sports­ by diS5ociation; in a radiation environment faced by our nation and our world would be man's Journal. In these articles we will ad­ further mutations result from radiation­ far more mature, leading to more long-term, induced deletions and nucleotide substitu­ beneficial solutions. vise you of our endeavors. tions. The effect of the mutations is strongly In the next issue we will diScuss our earth, To illustrate the outstanding significance enhanced by immunologic reactions. of these three results, we will examine some our water, whose purity has been sold out to The genetic structure of each organism progress, our air-Don't Breathe Too Deep­ of the benefits which would follow from just determines the molecular shapes, locations one of them-increasing the individual pro­ ly-the Ocean, that Final Garbage Dump, and functions of the organism's component solid waste, ( a total of 3.6 billion tons of dis­ ductive life span. In a long-range sense, the parts. In turn, lf many parts do not function output of scientists, engineers and other cards per year and growing) , mountains of adequately the organism will die. Thus, be­ waste, noise pollution-the very survival of experts would increase because a smaller por­ cause of Its genetic structure, each organism tion of their lives would be taken up by edu­ man ls at stake. Be sure to get your copy of has a definite minimum molecular effici­ our next edition. cation, thus leaving a relatively longer period ency-about 83 %-above which it must op­ of productivity. Of course, continuing profes­ In our third article, we'll tell you what erate in order to survive. (For example, a could and must be done. We must begin to sional education would be required a.t peri­ hummingbird most likely would not survive odic intervals just as it is needed today. act, not Just talk, or we'll have another form if it operated at the metabolic rate of a of pollution-Word pollution. Nevertheless, a greater percentage of one's turtle. Thus, if a sufficient number of energy­ life could be devoted to gaining valuable conversion molecules became inactive within operational experience and to applying this the hummingbird's cells, it most probably valuable experience to the material and men­ would die.) tal betterment of the human race. In turn, IS BIOLOGICAL AGING When an organism's genetic material is ad­ this would lead to dramatic improvement in INEVITABLE? versely mutated, succeeding generations of the present miserable condition of the world's the organism's body cells are poorly struc­ poor, and to significantly increased rates of tured for inter-cellular cooperation and sur­ scientific progress in all fields. And, of course, HON. JOHN J. DUNCAN vival. This means that the organism can lll­ a longer productive life span would also give OF TENNESSEE afford to lose the use of any of those func­ us more time for fishing. tional molecules which are essential to its IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES life processes. Thus, the minimum molecular Considering the enormous benefits to be Wednesday, July 8, 1970 efficiency required for the organism's sur­ poS5ibly reaped from organized research on vival is increased; it ls further increased be­ biological aging, why weren't well-financed Mr. DUNCAN. Mr. Speaker, under cause of immunologic reactions-perhaps to research programs started years ago? Well, in leave to extend my remarks in the REC­ 85%. the first place, only during the last quarter ORD, I include the following: However, mutations and immunologic re­ century has enough background information become available to make such research pro­ Is BIOLOGICAL AGXNG !NEVXTABLE?-PART II actions do not appear to be the major cause of aging and subsequent death. The major grams feasible. Even now, very few people INTEGRATED THEORY OF AGING cause appears to be a decrease in molecular are aware that this essential background The inability of the foregoing important efficiency-where such decrease ls primarily information existiS. The second reason for theories--and others--to present lndlvldu­ brought about by the changing of non­ delay in the starting of such research pro­ ally a comprehensive theoretical picture of genetic molecules iby crosslinka.ge. In some grams ls the type of response obtained from the causes o! biological aging should not be parts of each organism, the normal "turn- individuals who have not had time to evalu- July 8, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 23363 ate carefully the available information. Even to all of us concerned with the preserva­ Pointing to the administration's deep people who are trained to think logica.lly tion and enhancement of our most im­ usually respond that it ls impossible to solicitude for those who suffer financial change the rate of biological aging-and then portant natural resources. loss through the troubles that beset bro­ they give one or more apologistic reasons as The Geological Survey report con­ kerage houses, and to the strong adminis­ to why it is impossible. (In one case, a physi­ cluded that there is ample scientific evi­ tration recommendations that the Gov­ cist known to the authors stated rather dence to conclude that diverting great ernment bail out the Penn Central Rail­ matter-of-factly. "If God wanted man to live quantities of fresh water inflows into the road, Mr. Woodcock asks for no more longer, he would.") Furthermore, people bay and delta estuary system will result than equal treatment for "the many naively a-Ssume that increasing the life span in serious degradation of this magnif­ American workers who own no railroads means increasing only the period of decaying icent resource. and possess no stock portfolio to speak of, senescence rather than the useful middle Mr. Speaker, a recent editorial in the years. Naturally, such attitudes are wrong. only a private pension promise that of­ Yet, because of these attitudes-which have San Francisco Chronicle describes the fers them hope." been implanted in peoples' subconsciouses by significance of the USGS Report and the The General Subcommittee on Labor, the apologistic themes in our culture-there logical conclusion that the proposed of the House Education and Labor Com­ is significant opposition to research on aging. Peripheral Canal project, jointly fi­ mittee, chaired by the gentleman from This opposition shows up in several ways. nanced by State and Federal funds Pennsylvania (Mr. DENT), are working First, it is difficult-but not impossible--for should be scrapped. vigorously on this precise problem, and researchers to obtain financing for their proj­ The editorial follows: ects. This drives researchers into working on it is my hope that when that subcommit­ projects where funds are more readily avail­ NEW WARNING ON DELTA CANAL tee concludes its work, it will have made able. Second, it ls difficult to interest scien­ The U.S. Geological Survey has now issued a significant start in the direction in tists in working on biological aging because what prudent men would consider the final which Leonard Woodcock's letter points. neither researchers nor graduate students word on the proposed $209 million Delta I insert Mr. Woodcock's letter at this want to "wa-Ste" their time examining what Peripheral Canal. point in the RECORD: they wrongly believe is tenuous evidence. In essence, the survey has found that sig­ Third, no funding agency is willing to pro­ nificantly diminishing the flow of the Sac­ INTERNATIONAL UNION, UAW, vide the necessary leadership and org,aniza­ ramento and San Joaquin rivers into North­ Detroit, Mich., July 2, 1970. tion which are at present so conspicuously ern San Francisco Bay would probably create DEAR CONGRESSMAN: I am writing to you absent although at least one nationally­ in the Southern Bay a torpid, turgid stag­ and to the other members of tlhe Oongress to known drug company has hired an inde­ nation, incapable of supporting marine life urge that at least as much considere.tion be pendent laboratory to investigate biochem­ other than algae and totally unattractive for given to public reinsurance of the accumu­ ically the crosslinkage theory of aging. Of human uses of any kind. lated private pension rights of workers as ls course, these foregoing comments apply only The Geological Survey scientists found being given to bailing out both Wall Street to the Western na,tions. Russia, on the other that the bay south of the San Francisco­ speculators whose brokers go bankrupt and hand, has been involved in organized research Oakland Bay Bridge receives its major flush­ the stockholders of the Penn-Central Rail­ on biological aging since the 1930s. L. V. ing (and cleansing) from its receipt of large road. Komarov of Moscow has stated that there ls quantities of fresh water from the north In his June 17 televised address on the no apparent biological barrier to man's living and not, as the State Department of Water state of the economy, President Nixon told to age 200. In contrast, the United States' Resources contends, from Pacific Ocean tidal the nation that we are in transition from a a ttttude towards research on aging ls re­ flows. The Federal scientists, in preliminary wartime to a peacetime economy. Senator vealed by the Department of Health, Edu­ studies, have also found that periods of high Mansfield and economic indicators suggest cation, and Welfare's assignment of biological river runoff are also periods of low South that the word for our situation is recession. aging research to the National Institute of Bay salinity and phosphate content. We in the UAW are struck by the fact that Child Health and Human Development. The They have determined, through use of whether we are in an economy of war, peace Department's Section Head for biological flow markers, that incoming tidal flows by­ or transition, in recession or whait passes for aging research, Bernard Strehler, became so pass the South Bay and move into the North prosperity, the conduot of government and disenchanted with HEW's attitude in 1967 Bay and Delta. economic affairs remains too largely in the that he resigned, accepted a position with the The Peripheral Canal, as envisioned by grip of a double standard: all Americans are University of Southern California, and State Water Plan enthusiasts, is a massive equal, but some Americans are more equal started a non-profit organization-the Asso­ 43-mile straw which would suck up 10 mil­ than others. Walter Reuther used to refer to ciation for the Advancement of Aging Re­ lion acre feet of water annually from the this double standard as Park Avenue social­ search (AAAR). The AAAR recently for­ Sacramento river south of Sacramento and ism for the rich and free enterprise for the warded a proposal to the Senate Special deposit it at pumping plants near Tracy for poor. The President's program "specifically Committee on Aging, which the Senate Com­ export to the south. Though there is much addressed to help the people who need help mittee amplified into a B111 known as the expert opinion in the long record that the most in a period of economic transition" re­ Preliminary Gerontological Research Act. canal would cause severe ecological destruc­ flects that double standard. Mr. Nixon called Senator Harrison Williams (D-N.J.) Intro­ tion in the Delta, adherents have insisted for: duced this Bill (No. 3784) into the senate that it must be built. "~tabllshment of an insurance corpora­ on July 15, 1968 but it apparently was intro­ The la.test warning ls the most ominous tion with a Federal backstop to guarantee duced too late for consideration in 1968. (It thus far. It poses the threat, as Congress­ the investor against losses tha.t could be will be re-introduced this year.) The core of man Paul Mccloskey and Jerome Waldie caused by financial difficulties of brokerage the Bill is formation of an inexpensive ($5 have observed, that the southern end of the houses.... " million to $50 milllon a year) Aging Research bay will become another putrescent Lake Yet he made no reference to and indicated Commission (ARC)-flrst suggested by Don­ Erie. The Bay Area ls being asked to pay no support for a long-pending proposal to ald Carpenter in Science-which would have an overwhelming price for the development provide simll.ar iru;urance to meet the urgent the authority to support fundamental bio­ of waste lands far to the south. need of wage-earners and lower-salaried logical research on aging, and be responsible workers who stand to lose the protection of only to the President and Congress. Despite privately negotiated pensions if the com­ some inadequacies in the proposed Bill, it is HELP WHERE HELP IS NEEDED panies they work for should go out of busi­ hoped that the ARC will gain enough popu­ ness before their pension programs are fully lar support that Congress will soon pass the funded. Yet the closing of plants and the pertinent legislation. HON. JAMES G. O'HARA wiping out of workers' pension rights are an OF MICHIGAN obvious potential consequence of a transition from war to a peace economy, while it is diffi­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cult to see any necessary oonneotion between NEW WARNING ON DELTA CANAL Wednesday, July 8, 1970 such a transition and trouble in brokerage houses. Mr. O'HARA. Mr. Speaker, in a recent Again, the collapse of the Penn-Central HON. JEROME R. WALDIE letter to the Members of the Congress, Railroad has brought on the spectacle of Ad­ OF CALIFORNIA Leonard Woodcock, newly chosen presi­ ministration figures falling over each other IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES dent of the United Auto Workers, has in their haste to shore up the managements made the simple and preeminently equi­ and to protect the stockholders of the Penn­ Wednesday, July 8, 1970 table proposal that people who are the Central and other threatened lines through Mr. WALDIE. Mr. Speaker, last week massive infusions of Federally guaranteed supposed beneficiaries of private employ­ loans. The Secretary of Transportation ad­ the U.S. Geological Survey released a re­ ers' pension plans be given at least as mitted that such action to help the Penn­ port on the hydrology of South San much consideration as those who invest Central management would be "gambling" on Francisco Bay that is of vital importance in the companies that employ them. "high-risk loans." Nevertheless he attempted 23364 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 8, 1970 to panic the Congress and the country with policy. The catastrophe to the worker who When plants are closed down, there is apt the hobgoblin of nationalization of the rail­ sees the security which his pension rights to be talk about "the price we pay for prog­ roads if the risk were not taken. And the represent to him swept away by the failure of ress"-yet that price is too often inequi­ President himselif, in his June 17 speech on an employer is just as great as the catas­ tably distributed, entaillng, for example, a the economy, authorized the gamble by call­ trophe of the depositor who loses hiS lifetime more efficient operation for the employer but ing for: "legislation that will enable the savings in a bank failure. The solution is es­ unemployment and a wiped-out pension Department of Transportation to provide sentially the same." promise for the worker. Certainly from the emergency assista.nce to railroads in financial Congress in the relatively prospering early fruits of the progress that we are all supposed difficulties." 1960s was not impressed by the reality or to enjoy, assurance can be given that the We in the UAW are not in principle criti­ urgency of this problem and failed to enact security of pension benefits will be main­ cal of financial aid to stricken corporations. legislation which would have shored up the tained. Nor are we necessarily opposed to action to security of workers' pensions. Then, 5 days The President speaks of the people who protect investors or even speculators from before Christmas 1963, the last car came off need help in a period of economic transi­ losses stemming from financial difficulties of the South Bend line of the Studebaker tion. But it should be clear that for wage brokerage houses. Yet we ask: Are these peo­ Corporation, and as a result some 4,400 earners and to a somewhat lesser extent for ple--the well-heeled managements of con­ workers between the ages of 40 and 59, who salaried workers, the "transition economy" glomerate corporations and others affluent had earned a vested pension right through is not a. someti.me thing but a. permanent enough to be able to speculate in Wall ten or more years of service to the corpora­ aspect of their lives. Blue-collar workers par­ Street--among "the people who need help tion, found that right meaningless when ticularly work and live all their lives on the most in a period of economic transition"? their plant shut down with only enough cutting and bruising edges of technological We think not. These people may need help, money in the fund to provide pensions to and economic change, in war and peace, in but they certainly need help less than the workers age 60 and over. As a result, workers sickness and health, in youth and age. A poor, the unemployed, and millions of aging with as much as 40 years of seniority who, special White House panel that studied the Americans for whom retirement brings a even if they found another job, were too old problems and needs of blue-collar workers severe slash in income that frequently means to start acquiring new pension credits from has within the last few days transmitted a ending their days in poverty. another employer, were left stranded. report to the President urging Administra­ The President gave a thought to these older The collapse of Studebaker dramatized the tion action to deal with the economic and Americans in his economic speech, propos­ predicament of its workers and of workers in social needs of such workers, whom the re­ ing that the Congress tie Social Security other companies who might also find the port described as economically trapped and benefits to the cost of living. This would be paper promises implicit in unfunded pen­ socially scorned. It is primarily these work­ helpful, but tying a poverty retirement in­ sion rights repudiated as a result of plant ers and their families, rather than railroad come to the cost of living would merely closings. Still the Congress failed to enact managers and speculators, who need help. guarantee an unruffled prolongation of a pension reinsurance law, leaning heavily We detect a disproportion in the rationing poverty. on the argument that great technical difficul­ of the President's concern, a show of prefer­ It is the gross inadequacy of Social Se­ ties in framing such a law stood in the way. ence for a kind of Wall Street or Easy Street curity benefits that has given privately ne­ As of February 26, 1970, when Walter welfare state which if indulged by the Con­ gotiated pension rights such crucial impor­ Reuther made a plea. for a. pension reinsur­ gress would come dangerously close to--if it tance in workers' hopes and plans for retire­ ance law in one of his la.st statements to the did not actually arrive at--a. politics of class ment. Yet the President was silent with re­ Congress, the opposition no longer rested verging on the classic Marxian strain. spect to the plight of the many American on technical difficulties; it was more or less In this diSturbing situation, we feel that workers who own no railroads and possess no conceded that, as Mr. Reuther said, for a the Congress has a strong role to play and stock portfolios to speak of, only a private small premium cost spread universally over a considerable responsibillty to play it. The pension promise that offers them hope of a all plans, they could be protected. The argu­ question of establishing a pension reinsur­ standard of life in retirement beyond the bare ment had now shifted to the claim that there ance system has been in r::ongressional limbo minimum possible under Social Security. was no need for such a protective mecha­ for years. The President o. the United States Public reinsurance of private pension nism, since only a small percentage of work­ has asked the Congress to produce legisla­ funds--similar to the insurance provided ers were affected in what was after all but an tion to insure investors against their losses. since the 1930s for bank deposits and akin "incidental failure" of the present system. We earnestly hope that the Congress will to the backstop Federal protection the Presi­ Mr. Reuther stated that this is the logic now see the substantive and symbolic merit dent asks for investors-would bring all of to be expected from a computer but not from of enacting a pension reinsurance law with­ us closer together and nearer to fulfillment a human being. He called for: out further unseemly delay. Having thus of the American dream of which Mr. Nixon "A balanced combination of adequate pub­ offered assurance of retirement security to spoke to such applause in his address to the lic and private pension plans, with appro­ American workers, the Congress could then Junior Chambers of Commerce. priate public support assuring the fulfill­ go on with good grace to consider the se­ The number of persons dependent upon ment of expectations of the private curity needs of Wall Street speculators. private pension plans is far greater than the sector ..." If we are to bring this country together, number of Wall Street speculators and Penn­ And he stated: we are going to have to curb the impulse Central stockholders whose problems have "As the richest nation in the world we can­ of Wall Street socialism in favor of much generated the urgent concern and precipitate not continue to deny our older citizens their larger doses of Main Street and back-street haste of an army of would-be rescuers. Some measure of economic justice and human dig­ democracy--0n both sides of the railroad 28 million persons are presently covered by nity. We must act now to assure society's tracks. Treating Americans more equally private pension plans and it is forecast that promise to present retirees and to avoid the would facilitate our progress not only to­ 42 million will be covered by 1980. potential failure for even a small number ward a peacetime economy but toward a In contrast to the handful of brokerage of the millions of workers rightfully antici­ more peaceful society as well. Enactment of firms that have experienced difficulties and pating a secure retirement." a law to protect negotiated pension funds the one railroad recently forced into receiver­ The closing down of plants or operations would be one firm step in that direction. ship, some 4,000 pension plans were termi­ is not a rare occurrence in any industry in Sincerely yours, nated in the United States between 1955 and our economy. In our own industry, we think LEONARD WOODCOCK, 1965. These terminations, a.11 too frequently, of Hudson, Studebaker, Packard, Kaiser­ President. subjected affected workers to the double Fraser as well as a host of smaller companies. tragedy of lost Jobs and loss of substantial Nor has it been rare in recent yea.rs for plants prospective pension rights at a stage in life to close or operations to end, wiping out the LIBERAL FOOL TAXPAYER TWICE, when they had little or no opportunity to hopes of security in retirement for men and earn further pension entitlement. women too old to start from scratch on other SHAME ON TAXPAYER We in the UAW have been pressing since Jobs. In recent years the UAW has been 1961 for an insurance program to protect obliged to close out negotiated pension plans private pension funds. Delegates to a UAW for a variety of reasons: a fire totally de­ HON. JOHN M. ASHBROOK convention that year, comparing the promis­ stroying the plant; the close-out of a smaller OF OHIO sory nature of bank deposits and pension plant bought by a larger company; part of an IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES plans, declared: operation discontinued because an obsoles­ Wednesday, July 8, 1970 "Pension plans also represent private cent plant had become uneconomic. The promises, this time by employers, which they latest closing of a plant under contract to Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Speaker, the may not be able to keep if they get into deep UAW took place on July 1, 1970, with its pen­ lead editorial of the Wall Street Journal financial difficulties before the plans have sion plan 11 years a.way from full funding. of July 8 raised a very pertinent and oft been fully funded. These plans are so wide­ Among the victims of that closing were a ignored question as to what benefits spread and private pensions to supplement man and a woman, both 52 years old, each social security have become such an integral with 37 years of service. Because of their age, have accrued from the vast outlays of part of our system of providing for retire­ their entire 37 years with the company were Federal funds for domestic programs in ment that their protection must also be ac­ washed out as far as pension benefits are recent years. For those who would still cepted as an essential feature of public concerned. resolve national problems with more July 8, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 23365 dollars from Washington, the question The problems are bad enough, everyone in the Johnson Administration and now is of past performances should prove em­ knows. So much having been granted, the chairman of the National Urban Coalition. argument that the Government should spend Gardner has confirmed that he and his barrassing. What has happened to stag­ its Indochina "savings" on them, plus con­ colleagues at the Urban Coalition are about gering sums expended on urban renewal siderable additional money no doubt, in­ to launch an unprecedented mass-member­ and antipoverty programs, for instance. volves a couple of leaps in logic that ought ship political organization to help America It would seem that the taxpayers are not to be allowed to pass unchallenged. pull up its socks and get on with the busi­ entitled t-0 an accounting, especially First, it is not the case that the public ness at hand. from those who advanced and supported sector has been starved, that favorite theme "There are a lot of people out there," Gard­ these programs in the recent past. of John Kenneth Galbraith and others. War ner declared in an interview, "who want to If an article in the Philadelphia In­ outlays notwithstanding, Federal domestic be part of something that's moving-to be spending has risen more than they have, in able to join a large-scale citizens' effort to quirer of July 8 is any indication, the fact at fantastic rates. As Milton Friedman solve the problems of his country." days of the big Federal spenders are far asks (and these columns have often asked) , This grass-roots organization-which still from over. It seems that former HEW what has the public been getting for it all? has no name-will be pragmatic and non­ Secretary John W. Gardner, now chair­ The answer is, not much, if indeed anything partisan, he explained, not competing with man of the National Urban Coalition, is of value at all. the Democrats and Republicans but goading pl1anning a new mass-membership polit­ Scores of b1llions of Federal dollars have them to do better. ical organization to deal with the Na­ poured into the cities in recent years, and The focus will be on efforts to deal with yet in many way~onvenience, environ­ the nation's nagging problems of race rela­ tion's domestic problems such as race ment, "quality of life," to name a few-the tions, education, housing, poverty and the relations, education, housing, and pov­ cities are worse off than ever. When you get like. erty. According to Mr. Gardner, as down to specific Federal urban programs, hor­ Gardner drew a parallel with the Populist quoted in the article, the new effort will ror stories abound. movement of the late 1800s, which eventual­ be slanted not only toward liberals but So-called urban renewal and public hous­ ly faded as the major parties began adopting will include "people who are in the cen­ ing, for example, are notorious for their fail­ large chunks of the Populist platform. ter but want to see progress." Their ures. The barracks-like structures designed "We're set up for people to steal our thun­ method of operation will be to influence to replace slums have often turned into new der. We'll say 'great--take it and run,' " slums. Worse, bureaucratic inhumanity has Gardner explained. "We will needle both par­ legislation by large quantities of mail on evicted many poor people without providing ties and do everything we can to encourage specific issues to Members of Congress. alternative accommodations, or accommoda­ leadership." When one considers that the liberals tions at rents they could afford. InevLtably, rumors about Gardner's new in recent years have been resPonsible for Under the Federal aegis, the nation's trans­ enterprise have in turn triggered talk in the huge waste of tax dollars on ill-de­ portation is chaotic. A number of the na­ Washington that he was bullding a. base for vised and poorly administered schemes, tion's vital and potentially highly efficient an unannounced Presidential candidacy in Mr. Gardner's new venture rings like railroads are in parlous state, while the high­ 1972. If ways and streets in and around urban areas This gossip has been spurred along by an echo from the recent past. the same are clogged with autos and trucks beyond Gardner's outspoken disenchia.ntment with people and philosophies direct this pro­ belief and patience. Some coordination, not President Nixon. posed undertaking that squandered vast to mention the money. Both Gardner and his closest associates, sums of tax moneys in the last decade, The Federal effort to pull people out of however, insist that he has no suoh inten­ the taxpayer would be well advised to poverty, albeit well intentioned, is a dubious tions. ask of Mr. Gardner and his colleagues effort at best. True, people are rising out of "I personally am not inclined to politics,'' an accounting of, say, antipoverty funds, poverty all the time, encouragingly so, but it Gardner said. His new organization he added, since the inception of this program in is largely the result of the workings of, and would be doomed from the start if people the opportunities available in, a relatively suspected it was merely a front for a Gard­ the 1960's, along with other ill-fated pro­ free economy. Manifestly the outpouring of ner-for-President campaign organization. grams which they would rather forget. Federal funds in this and other directions "I literally cannot see how I could be a To paraphrase an old Indian saying: has failed to ease the hatreds and factional­ candidiate--even in my own mind-and make Liberal fool taxpayer once, shame on lib­ isms now marring our society. that organiziation go," he said. eral; liberal fool taxpayer twice, shame on So it goes. The public and its representa­ While plans for the new organization are taxpayer. tives ought to think long and hard before still taking shape, Gardner grows almost deciding to spend vast new sums, from any rhapsodic in discussing his views of its po­ I insert the two above-mentioned items Vietnam dividend or the inflationary print­ tenttal for American poll.tics. in the RECORD at this point: ing-press or both, on further such exercises "I would like to see this organiziation PRIORITY ON FAILURE in futility. Why, moreover, should the hard­ bring about a Renaissance in the politicru working citizens who pay the bulk of the op­ The air is full of talk of reordering na­ life in this country," he declared enthu­ pressive taxes be forced to subsidize more of Sia.stically. tional priorities as the Vietnam involvement this kind of failure? continues to diminish. The President himself "I would like to think it would be a fac­ gave impetus to the discussion in his speech We know it is anathema. to those who long tor in rehabUitating the political process­ stressing that the nation is already in a to get their hands on military money to making politics again a worthy calling for transition from a wartime to a peacetime widen the Government's domestic role, but Americans." economy. the real priority should be on giving the At the moment, Gardner added sadly, Plainly the Indochina tunnel is still a long people and the economy more leeway, with politics rarely attracts the nation's best tal­ one, even if the Administration eventually far less of a burden of Federal spending and ent. does get the U.S. out of it. Yet the troops are taxation. That is how the nation has always "There are some very good guys in poli­ coming back, and defense spending, although prospered, materially and spiritually, and tics-and GOd knows we don't deserve unacceptably high, is declining. So it is none that is how it could again. them-but there are also a lot of hacks. By too soon to weigh national priorities, and and large, the political parties have fallen we are in favor of the principle, depending MASS-MEMBERSHIP CRUSADE Is ENVISIONED To int o the hands of hacks." on what is meant. Unfortunately, what many ELIMINATE NATION'S NAGGING PROBLEMS In the Last year, the 57-year-old Gard­ ner-by nature a quiet, reflective man-has people mean by it is but feebly grounded in (By James K. Batten) reason and experience. become something of a blunt-spoken, latter­ Liberal Democrats and Republicans in WASHINGTON.-One day sometime in Au­ day Jeremiah. Congress especially have in mind quite gust, 200,000 letters will be dumped into He has warned agiain and again that the simply to turn not only the Federal Govern­ Washington's Post Office headed for unsus­ nation's racial, economic and political divi­ ment's attention but also more of its money pecting citizens in every state in the Union. sions are cutting dangerously deep. faucet onto America's myriad domestic prob­ The recipients, identified by the hawkers In one memorable statement a few weeks lems. (At the moment, of course, the prop­ of high-priced mailing lists as public-spir­ ago, Gardner declared: "And while each of osition sounds slightly academic, with un­ ited, good-hearted Americans, will be invited us pursues his selfish interest and comforts official forecasts suggesting a multibillion­ to join a new crusade aimed at nothing less himself by blaming others, the nation disin­ dollar Federal deficit this fiscal year.) than saving the Republic from disintegra­ tegrates. I use the phrase soberly: The na­ One of the liberals' main complaints about tion. tion disintegrates." the war over the years has been its cost in The man behind this visionary scheme is Now Gardner has decided to take his own relation to those problems; think, they say, not some religious crackpot, a right-wing advice and try something new. what the war's $30 billion or so a year could zealot or a hot-eyed revolutionary of the His proposed organization, which he has have done for the nation's beleaguered cities, New Left. already discussed in private with members of crowded schools and hospitals, the poverty He is John W. Gardner, the widely re­ Congress and others, will be an offshoot of disadvantaged minorities and other spected scholar-politician who served as of the Urban Coalition Action Councll, the citizens. secretary of health, education and welfare lobbying arm of the Urban Coalition. 23366 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 8, 1970 As Gardner and his staff see it, the new ly adverse to the reputable ideas. But the to lack subtlety of mind and manner~to go org,anlzation will attract thousands of people heretics were a minority and the adverse evi­ too abruptly to the point. The sociology of who have not been active in politics and dence could be attributed to a lag. In eco­ economics is not without interest and by no who may lack strong ideological convic­ nomics, any inconvenient disassociation of means unimportant. tion~but who share a deep apprehension effect from cause is always attributed to a The fl.aw in the respectable doctrine ls the about where the nation ls headed. lag. But not forever. appalling obduracy of circumstances. Wages "We think there's a great hunger on the The doctrine was, of course, that the do not shove up prices. Prices do pull up part of individual cdtizens to make them­ United States economy could be regulated wages. The bargaining that produces the selves heard," explained a Gardner lieu­ by general measures in such manner that wage and price increases continues even un­ tenant. prices would be approximately stable. A der conditions of severe fiscal and monetary "We're interested not just in the guy who's "trade-off," a new and popular word among restraint. Circumstances can be unbelievably always supported liberal causes, but also in economists, would -exist between price sta­ cruel. people who are in the center but want to bility and employment. The closer the ap­ Accordingly, after a full year and half of see progress." proach to the level prices, the more people the most rigorous application of the general For dues of $10 or $16 a year-the figure who would be out of work; the lower the measures, prices are still rising at a nearly has not yet been set-members will be kept unemployment, the greater the rate of price record rate. informed of current issues in Washington, increase. Meanwhile unemployment has risen to especially in Congress. The Nixon economists when they came to nearly 5 per cent of the labor force and ex­ Using the same lobbying techniques used office a. year ago last January were superla­ ceedingly uncomfortable side effects of the so effectively by groups like the National tively confident of such management. Under policy have appeared. Rifle Association, Gardner and his aides be­ their guidance, the President promised never Smaller business men who must borrow lieve that their organi2iation can produce to interfere with wages and prices; in one money a.re being punished with a highly se­ great volumes of well-timed mail and tele­ of the more ecstatic examples of economic lective brutality. Tight money does not much grams to sway key votes in the House and phrase-making, he said that inflation would hurt the big corporation which has internal Senate. be ended by "fine-tuning" the American cash fl.ow and favored position at the banks. Also, members will be furnished informa­ economy-a figure of speech roughly com­ In contrast the policy has put the housing tion and suggestions on how to work effec­ parable with one a.bout fine-tuning a major industry into an acute depression, as the tively for political goals in their home com­ Mississippi flood. ad.ministration itself concedes. munities. The then current inflation was blamed on The continuing price increases in the pri­ Gardner conceded that many people may the previous bad management of the econ­ vate sector of the economy have been ex­ regard his scheme as naive and idealistic, omy--on tuning that, that was too coarse. ported to the public sector as increa-ses in without much chance of having any serious The reaction to anyone who suggested that living costs. And there, among teachers, impact. wage and price restraint might be necessary police, firemen and sanitation workers, they "There just isn't any way of knowing," he was lofty. are ca.using an unprecedented but wholly said. "It's a big g,amble. But we're going to Pierre Rinfret, the consulting economist, predlotable turmoil. The balance of pay­ dispatched a letter to his clients telling them, go for broke." ments ls also weakening again. quite correctly, that so far as the adminis­ Finally, there has been the effect on the tration was concerned, the lid on prices was financial markets. These had been made now off. It is possible that in these first weeks vulnerable by jerry-built and debt-burdened the administration did more to promote in­ conglomerates, overbidden glamour stocks RAMPAGING INFLATION flation than it accomplished in the next and the multiplication of the mutual funds year and a half in controlling it. headed by financial geniuses whose genius But promises that inflation would end were consisted only in a rising market under the HON. HENRY HELSTOSKI not lacking. Advising the President of the pressure of the tight money policy, this price OF NEW JERSEY United States on economic policy, since few structure has collapsed. This had to happen IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES presidents find the subject at all interesting, sometime. But further pressure on the finan­ is tedious work. The tedium is relieved, after cial market would be very uncomfortable for Wednesday, July 8, 1970 a fashion, but the liturgical functions of the all involved. Mr. HELSTOSKI. Mr. Speaker, once office. Within the framework of general meas­ As the promises continued, so at a.n in­ ures, there is almost nothing the administra­ again I call attention to the wild infla­ creasing rate did the inflation. tion can do. It is trapped. It could allow an tion that is threatening the very exist­ Dr. Paul W. McCracken, the head of the increase in loanable funds at lower rates. ence of our Nation while the present council of economic advisers, became, per­ This would ease unemployment, encour­ administration sits idly by watching the haps, the most overpromised man in the his­ age home construction and ease the sorrow destructive forces at work. tory of the economics profession. There is an in Wall street. But inflation is still at a On this occasion I call attention to unfortunate tendency in public life when near-record rate. This action would make our plight by placing in the RECORD an you want something to happen to predict l t worse. And just ahead are wage negotia­ article written by John Kenneth Gal­ that it will happen. And then when it does tions which, with the compensating price in­ not happen, you escalate the predictions. creases, will g1 ve that inti.a tion protean braith on the low estate of our economy Not since Herbert Hoover predicted the shove. and steps that can be taken to halt in­ turning of the immortal corner has predic­ To continue the present policy is to ac­ flation. tion therapy been so remorselessly pursued cept the side effects and to invite more of Professor Galbraith's article should as in the last 18 months. It was called the the inflation that the policy has not cured. awaken all, and above all the slumberers "game plan" for defeating inflation. There To tighten up and end the inflation is to in the executive department, to the need has been no game quite like it since the Rose invite worse side effects and perhaps a seri­ Bowl of 1929, when Roy Riegels ran 75 yards ous recession. for rapid action to end inflation and the toward the wrong goal. Economics, like foreign policy, allows for unemployment that is sweeping the Na­ As the Kennedy and Johnson economists an escape from error thru what may be called tion. It is my continuing opinion that the returned to the campus, talk of wage and the Indochina effect. Congress, with every means at its com­ price restraint was muted. The guideposts This generous device enables a man who mand, should whiplash the President, his were defended as a useful adjunct to the has been wrong to denounce his previous advisers and aides into affirmative and policy-more cosmetic than real: It was fiscal position without admitting error and, by be­ fruitful action. and monetary policy that really counted. coming right, thus greatly to enhance his The article follows: Almost no one talked a.bout making the reputation. Arthur Burns, now chairman of guidelines mandatory, I.E., making them the federal reserve board, has taken this GALBRAITH ASKS Foa WAGE, PRICE CURBS To work. That was too radical. route. STOP INFLATION There was never any strong proof that high He now demands the wage-price guideposts (By John Kenneth Galbraith) employment and stable prices could be com­ he previously condemned. His transmigration These last few months have, just possibly, bined. Much of the proof antedated modern is still incomplete, for he proposes something been decisive in the modern history of eco­ corporate price-ma.king and collective bar­ less strong than the Kennedy-Johnson meas­ nomics. gaining. Rather there were hope and faith. ures. Ideas in which economists have reposed But in economics, hope and faith coexist The only answer is one that has for so long the greatest confidence have been proved with great scientific pretension and also a been dismissed as too disreputable. That is to wrong and therewith, not surprisingly, the deep desire for respectab111ty. act directly on the wage-price spiral-to have responding policy. And this has happened Fiscal and monetary measures in whatever wage and price control where the spiral con­ under circumstances which admit of no mix are impeccably respectable, and the tributes actively to inflation. really plausible explanation, rationalization question of the particular mix ls the kind This must be real control. Dr. Burns and or alibi-things in which we economists are of thing thrut can be resolved between the economists of the Kennedy-Johnson more than minimally accomplished. gentlemen. period are ducking reality when they talk There was, to be sure, more than a. sus­ Control of wages and prices ha-s no similar about a return to the voluntary guideposts. picion of error before; the evidence was high- standing. Its advocates have been thought The guideposts will not do. They were July 8, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 23367 strong enough before; even stronger meas­ for popularity; everyone unites in disliking IMPORTANT CURBS SHOULD NOT ures are now required. Also voluntary meas­ the price-fixer. DAMAGE FOREIGN RELATIONS ures are highly discriminatory. They favor But If it is confined to the unions and to the individual or organization which refuses the corporations with market power, the to comply and penalize those that are coop­ administrative structure need not be vast. HON. WM. JENNINGS BRYAN DORN erative. This guarantees their eventual break­ Dealings will be with only a few hundred down. And there is nothing to be said for unions and a few thousand firms, and for OF SOUTH CAROLINA Billingsgate as an enforcement device. It is the latter it ls sufficient to specify the limits IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES much better public practice to lay down fair within which average as distinct from indi­ Wednesday, July 8, 1970 firm rules after careful consultat ion wit h vidual prices may be moved. all concerned and then, when someone vio­ All price and wage control involves an ar­ Mr. DORN. Mr. Speaker, one of the lates the rules, have resort to law. bitrary exercise of public power. But this is arguments raised against the Mills textile Given wage and price controls, interest not an objection, for it replaces an arbitrary garment-footwear import bill is that its rates can be reduced for they will not have exercise of private power and one that has passage would provoke our trading part­ to carry the present burden of inflation con­ further and exceedingly arbitrary effects for trol, which they cannot control anyway. those that suffer from the resulting inflation. ners, especially Japan, into enacting re­ With lower rates, home construction would In the weeks and months ahead, more and prtsals in the form of trade barriers increase, the pressure on small business more economists will come to accept the rem­ against U.S. goods. But in fact Japan has would be reduced, employment would rise, edy here proposed-including, one suspect s, long maintained various barriers against and all without a new surge of inflation. those who advise the President. They are U.S. trade which have helped create the Were this policy combined with prompt very decent men who have been substituting severe trade imbalance in Japan's favor withdrawal from Indochina-which would hope for reality, and hope unrequited does not sustain even an official economist forever. between our two countries. ease the pressure of demand and, a more my important matter, restore our reputation for Promises of eventual prices stability have I commend to colleagues' attention elementary good sense--the immediate eco­ become comic. Within the older framework the following editorial from the Colum­ nomic problem would be largely solved. of policy, the choice is bet ween very severe bia, South Carolina State of June 30, Such price and wage action, it is said, inflat ion-worse than now--or severe unem­ 1970, which cogently develops this point: interferes with free markets. This is self­ ployment, extreme distortion with the econ­ IMPORT CURBS SHOULD NOT DAMAGE FOREIGN evident nonsense. omy, great turmoil among public employes, RELATIONS The policy interferes with markets in and serious strain in the financial market.s­ and along with all this, a good deal of in­ At long last, the Nixon administration has which the interference of unions and cor­ flashed the green light for textile import porations is already plenary. It fixes in the flation, too. Whoever made respectable economic policy curbs. It has come not a. moment too soon. public interest prices that are already fixed. American textile jobs are being washed a.way Only prices that are so set by unions and a choice between such repellent alternatives had obviously a bad upbringing and is a every day by t he flood of imports from the strong corporations need to be [ or should Far East. be] controlled. Prices of farm products, most ver:y mean man. But so it is. So the less rep­ services and products of small manufacturers utable course of controlling the wage-price It is therefore imperative that the House need not and should not be touched. These bargaining obtrudes itself. And, since there finish work on the bill, chiefly sponsored by a.re still subject to market influences. is no escape, it will continue to obtrude House Ways and Means Committee Chair­ it self. man Wilbur Mills, and that the Senate which Where prices are stm set by the market, seems to prefer debates of limited purpose to general measures to restrict demand still substantive action, give the legislation pri­ work--or they do as much as can be done. ority attention. One does not need to interfere with the EULOGY FOR AL ATKINSON market where the market still governs. We can expect more speeches of course, to Over the yea.rs I have experimented with the effect that this bill is protectionist, that various ideas for such a limited system of HON. ROMAN C. PUCINSKI it goes counter to America's long commit­ wage and price control. [I am not without ment to free trade. Perhaps it is, to an ex­ OF ILLINOIS tent, but it must be remembered that the experience in the matter or in the difficulties IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES involved. During World War II, price control United States is about the only real free was under my direction from its inception Wednesday, July 8, 1970 trader in the world today. until mid-1943. No one else, I suppose, has New Hampshire Sen. Norris Cotton made ever fixed so many prices.] Mr. PUCINSKI. :Mr. Speaker, all of this point most forcefully in a major speech But the most practical pending proposal Capitol Hill was stunned recently with in support of the Mills b111 two weeks ago. ls not mine, but that of Robert Roosa, for­ the news of the sudden death of one of "The free flow of goods-free trade--should mer under secretary of the treasury under the most capable, knowledgeable lob­ be our goal. At present, we do not have a Kennedy and now a leading Wall street byists in Washington-Al Atkinson of free flow of goods. Every nation with whom banker. the Communications Workers of Amer­ we trade has, in some form and to some ex­ He would simply freeze all prices and tent, barriers against American goods--tar­ ica. iffs, quot as, import licenses and so on. We wages for six months. During this time, pre­ I was a freshman in the 86th Congress sumbably, there would be extensive consul­ a.lone raise no such barriers . . . Free trade tation with firms and unions to work out a and Al became legislative representative must be a two-way street; otherwise it is not more durable system of restraint. of the CWA in the middle of the second free trade." Such a course would get immediate results session of that Congress. In all the years There has been a good, solid, historic rea­ while offering eventual accommodation to since then, in countless meetings and son for America's big-hearted view toward the problems and inequities of particular legislative sessions and committee hear­ international trade. For decades, the United unions and industries. ings, I never knew him to be other than States has been the world's economic and It would be possible to incorporate in the totally honest and genuinely willing to industrial Goliath. After World War II, we Roosa proposal arrangements of an even set out to rebuild the shattered economies earlier correction of gross irregularities. And work with others. of Europe and Japan. We could afford to take immediately after the freeze, all small enter­ In these sad days since his death, I a generous view and we repeatedly gave up prises--those employing, say, fewer than a have heard dozens of my colleagues on more in trade negotiations than we received. hundred people-should be exempted. both sides of the aisle remark that his This attitude helped our friends and allies I would also exempt all retail firms; they particular integrity and truth will be abroad to regain their economic strength. As have little independent market power. sorely missed. We could always count on strong foreign competitors appeared in vir­ The objective is not perfectly level prices, him for specific answers to questions, for tually every indus11ry, American Presidents but something much better than the grossly a willingness to put in untold hours of were reluctant to risk damage to foreign rela­ inflationary thrust of the present wage-price tions by taking a stronger stand in trade spiral. The long-run objective is, of course, work on a bill, and for a rare ability for negotiations, by administratively restrain­ an annual wage gain that accords roughly keeping a cooler head than most in try­ ing imports undercutting U.S. industry, or with the increase in productivity and thus ing situations. by supporting legislation to do this. requires no general increase in prices. Al Atkinson was a close personal friend But, as Senator Cotton has said, "the Controls are not a temporary expedient. and adviser. Those of us who had an world of t he 1970s is a very d ifferent world There must, also, be a permanent system of opportunity to work with him over these from the one we knew in the past. We can restraint. That is because we will continue past 10 tumultuous years will miss him no longer afford to squander economic ad­ to have strong unions and strong corpora­ vantage for uncertain political or foreign tions and a desire to minimize unemploy­ greatly. Mrs. Pucinski joins me in extending relations gains." ment. The combination, in the absence of The Japanese, who have raised the greatest controls, is inflationary. It will not become heartfelt condolences to Mrs. Atkinson hue and cry over the Mills bill, a.re in no otherwise in the future. and their two children. They have a position to charge the United States with No one who has had experience with war­ memory of a man who was proud of his protectionism. While Japan's own bustling time price control will be casual about the work and whose pride was reflected in industries have a well-protected corner on problems in managing it. Nor is it a formula everything he did. the rich home market, that nation has built 23368 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 8, 1970 up a $1.5 billion annual trade surplus with which the Mayor and citizens of San Fran­ population has increased from under two the United States, which of course poses a. cisco have so generously given us to cele­ and half billion in 1945 to well over three and terrific strain on the dollar. brate here the twenty-first anniversary of a h alf billion today; that in the next 38 Furthermore, the Nixon administration, the signing of the Charter of the United years this population is likely to be doubled and its predecessors, have negotiated in good Nations. again; that more than half the people of faith with the Japanese over a long period To return to San Francisco ls not only the world were not born when the Charter of time in an effort to gain voluntary con­ to come b'ack to a beautiful, gracious and was signed 25 years ago; that in this quarter trols over imports of woolens and man-made civilized city; for us in the United Nations, it century we have seen the advent of nuclear fibers (items covered by the Mills bill}. The ls also to return to the birthplace of the energy and weapons, intercontinental mis­ Japanese have been unyielding even after it Organization and to the congenial and for­ siles, space exploration, computer technology was all but certain that they were forcing ward-looking atmosphere in which the and comparable advances in medicine, biol­ Congress' hand. When the last round of talks Charter was created. Here we are reminded of ogy, biochemistry and other branches of collapsed Ia.st week, the Administration haid the sense of dedication and urgency, tem­ science, accompanied by revolutionary ad­ only one responsible course of action left­ pered with realism and a vivid awareness of vances in the techniques of communication. support the Mills bill. the horrors of war, which inspired the au­ These, and a hundred other developments, Senator Cotton believes this will impose thors of the Charter 25 years ago. If we have have changed our lives and our prospects on no foreign relations risk. "Rather, I suspect not yet succeeded in realizing their vision of a scale and at a speed never experienced be­ we will gain further respect from them (the a world at peace, we can still draw inspira­ fore in history. It is small wonder that those Japanese). They are able competitors and tion from the ideals and objectives which of us who grew up in t he twenties and they Me known to respect strength in those they set out with full support from the thirties may sometimes be regarded as ante­ they deal with in business and government." peoples. Our best tribute to them is to in­ diluvian by the youth of today, who are The Mills bill will not by any means shut crease our efforts to strengthen the United tempted to reject many of the habits and Japan and other Far East exporters of cut­ Nations. ways of doing things which we have always rate textiles out of the American market. It This is the third time that the representa­ taken for granted. This reaction should not will merely limit imports to allow the severely tives of the United Nations--national am­ dismay or surprise us. It should rather en­ damaged American textile industry to re­ bassaidors and international Secretariat­ courage us to adapt our ideals, our behavior cover. Furthermore, the Mills bill has a bandy have come back to San Francisco to cele­ and our institutions to meet the challenges clause whioh will exclude from its provisions brate the signing of the Charter. which we ourselves have created, and to lean any country whioh negotiates voluntary re­ Fifteen years ago, in 1955, this ceremony on the younger generation to help us meet straints. It will be, in effect, a lever, a bar­ took place in an atmosphere of cautious opti­ the urgent demands of change. gaJ.ning tool. mism at a time when the world seemed to The widespread disillusionment of the We will be very surprised indeed if the be a.wakening from the tribulations of the young with institutions is now more impor­ Japanese or other nations aittempt any seri­ post-war period and the long winter of the tant than ever for another, more encourag­ ous reprisals as a result of this legislation. cold war. ing, reason. The younger generation of to­ They need us and we need them. They must Five years ago we gathered here again in a day is, in general, more widely conscious of learn to sympathize with our problems as we less happy mood to speak of a world in which what goes on and what is wrong in the world sympathize with theirs. The relationship ls new problems and new conflicts had dimmed than their predecessors. Much to their credit, too strong and the business too good to make the hopes of a just and peaceful world they are also far more demanding and con­ a trade war likely. order-hopes encouraged by the great politi­ cerned about it. It is thus increasingly diffi­ cal emancipation of decolonization and the cult for institutions which do not fulfill their possibility of emancipation f~om drudgery objectives to command respect. made possible by science and technology. At An acute observer of the international that time, the United Nations itself was in scene recently wrote t hat "All institutions UNITED NATIONS SHOULD CON­ the throes of a crisis which had arisen over provide a tempta.tion for their members to TAIN ALL NATIONS, U THANT the fundamental issue of financing peace­ clothe selfishness in the language of ideal­ DECLARES keeping operations. ism". Our twenty-fifth anniversary is a most Now we meet again in a mood of un­ appropriate occasion to ponder this uncom­ certainty and anxiety, with only the knowl­ fortably shrewd comment. HON. DONALD M. FRASER edge that humanity is moving at an increas­ I do not think that responsible people OF MINNESOTA ing speed in uncertain directions, and that anywhere doubt the need for a world or­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES time is running short. I hope we can make ganization or the validity of the basic ideals use of this opportunity, so generously af­ and objectives of the United Nations, which Wednesday, July 8, 1970 forded by the City of San Francisco, to turn were set out here in San Francisco 25 years the tables on the forces of doubt and gloom, ago. On the contrary, the world has never Mr. FRASER. Mr. Speaker, the Secre­ in order to survey calmly, but with a sense tary General of the United Nations has before so urgently required a universal or­ of urgency, the course we must take in the ganization which can build and maintain a urged that "the universality of the next 25 years. peaceful and safe terrestrial society, and the United Nations" should be "the priority Like many institutions, the United Nations United Nations is undoubtedly the best­ item" for this year. is today facing a crisis of confidence. It has in fact the only-existing organization with Speaking in San Francisco on June been the lot of instt utions throughout his­ the potential capacity for that task. What 26, U Thant said: tory to have their usefulness quest.toned from we should be asking ourselves in this twenty­ time to time by the people. This process fifth anniversary year is how can we make The absence of the People's Republic of serves a useful purpose in keeping insti,tu­ China and of the divided countries has given the United Nations the organization we know tions up to the mark. we need, and what changes in attitudes and to the United Nations a great deal of ar­ In our time, this disillusionment has un­ tificiality. priorities are imperative for this purpose. doubtedly reached a new pitch. The United This evening I can only briefly sum­ The Secretary General added: Nations, as a relatively young institution, marize the new approaches which seem in­ faces a crisis of confidence without ever dispensable to me. The simple people in the street, those having emerged, as some older institutions whose sons are dying in far away countries, have, from relative impotence to a position First and foremost, there must be on the cannot understand why the United Nations ls of accepted power and authority. part of Governments a radical change from not seized with the most burning issue of present power politics to a policy of col­ If we are to respond to this challenge, na­ lective responsibility towards mankind. Gov­ 1970, the war in Inda-China. Rhetoric and tions, especially the great nations, must im­ intelligence are not enough to explain the ernments, especially those of the great na­ prove and change the quality and perform­ tions, have drifted year after year farther reasons to them. They demand, as concerned ance of the United Nations and the way it citizens of the world, that their national away from this basic requirement of the is used. There can be no question of taking Charter. leaders and international officials find the the easy but suicidal way out by con­ means, through necessary vision and eleva­ signing the United Nations, along with other As matters stand, the management of world tion, to solve urgently this fundamental affairs lies essentially in the hands of na­ institutions, to the dusty attic of history. In tions. A successful management of the world problem. I therefore urge Governments to an age where physical conservation has be­ consider the idea of the universality of the come a.n urgent issue, a degree of institu­ therefore depends on the behaviour of na­ United Nations as the priority item of this tional conservation may also be in order. tions. The justice, peace, security, prosperity, year's agenda for world affairs. health, cleanliness, and the beauty of our Institutions must constantly adapt and world must become the prime preoccupation With unanimous consent the full text develop in response to new challenges. In our time, the inherent obsolescence of in­ of Governments. The world is too small, its of his speech of June 26 is set out at this stitutions has been emphasized by the ex­ people are too intelligent and the mass point in the RECORD: traordinary rate of change in the way we live. problems that lie in store for us are too ON GIVING THE CHARTER A CHANCE I scarcely need to remind you that the mem­ frightening to allow continued blind ac­ All of us who work in the United Na­ bership of the United Nations has grown ceptance of the sacrosanct concept of na­ tions are deeply grateful for the opportunity from 51 in 1945 to 126 today; that the world's tional interest. July 8, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 23369 World affairs are no longer foreign affairs Fourth, I believe that it is high time that There is, I am glad to say, a new movement of Governments. They have become internal we look more inquisitively into the obstacle in the United Nations to face these problems affairs of all. of ideologies. From the vantage point of the through the initiative of various Govern­ Where has national interest led us? To an United Nations, the crisis of extreme inward­ ments, from the largest to the smallest. The arsenal of ugly weapons, which cost hu­ looking nationalism is further aggravated by Organization has become concerned with manity 200 billion dollars a year; to the the superimposition of ideologies or political such problems as population, outer space, the greatest historical deadlock between Big systems which claim that they alone have the peaceful uses of the sea-bed, and, more re­ Powers that the world has ever seen; to key to man's future. cently, the most complex question of all, nm:,th-south, ea.st-west, ideological, racial There has been nothing more dangerous the preservation of our environment. and economic cleavages; to a bel·t of divided and more damaging in human history than This is a step in the right direction, but countries; ,to a series of smouldering or the claim of exclusivism. To it we owe the only a step, and it would be naive, if not active conflicts stretching across the globe. long religious wars, all waged in the name of dishonest, to pretend that efforts to grapple No big Power will be able to solve these exclusive possession of the truth. It is only with these problems of the future are not problems alone. No big Power will ever rule recently that there has been evidence of tol­ still seriously impeded by political difficulties the world alone. No -naition will ever be able erance and some mutual understanding in and attitudes, which are largely a remnant to live ,again in splendid isolation. the pursuit of common religious objectives. from the past. For this reason, the advance­ Since the weight and cleavage of interests Should we again lose precious years in a. ment from inward-looking nationalism to is greatest among the big Powers, I have re­ similar divisive exercise? Is it so difficult to active international commitment must still cently recommended that their Heads of recognize that systems and ideologies are have priority among our aims, for our hopes State, Heads of Government or Foreign Min­ perfect only in theory? of success depend upon it even in fields which isters, including the People's Republic of We must realize that adaptation and are not primarily political. China, meet from time to time at one of change are imperative to the survival of so­ Progress in solving the problems of the the offices of the United Nations in a neutral cial systems and institutions. Indeed the environment may well show how far this new country to initiate a change from confronta­ world has become so complex, the pace of concern for problems of the future can lead tion and division to the building of a safe change so rapid and the newly emerging us. A few weeks ago, I suggested that urgent and peaceful world. I have made this pro­ problems so numerous, that no rigid system, consideration be given to creating a global posal because I feel that it is high time that however well established on a few sacrosanct authority to study and act on environmental the People's Republic of China is involved principles, is able to cope with all problems. problems in the interest of all earth-dwellers, in international affairs. Are not the events I believe that we are about to embark on and that, if it were to be of real value, this in South-East Asia, the 750 million people of the most variegated search for political, in­ authority should have powers to police and mainland China and its recent emergence stitutional, legal and moral solutions to the enforce its decisions. I hope that this sug­ as an atomic and satellite Power enough evi­ social problems of our time. gestion will not be taken simply as a well­ dence that the People's Republic of China is In a world of many billions of people, who meaning idealistic exercise, for I believe that a key element if we are to move towards a are divided into highly industrialized socie­ our capacity to preserve and enhance life on solution of many of the present world prob­ ties as well as regions of extreme poverty, our planet may well depend on our ability lems? This is also why I have recommended each with their own culture and special prob­ to set up a new kind of international in­ a reactivation of the Geneva Agreements and, lems, there can be no universal recipe or stitution with new authority. more recently, proposed a new Geneva con­ system. Nations must therefore enrich each Of course, the possible form and methods ference on South-East Asia in which the other with what has proved good in the of operation of such an institution are very :People's Republic of China. would participate. art of governing men. complex and will take time and effort to work Second, and still having the People's Re­ Private initiative may be the solution in out, but that is all the more reason for mak­ public of China in mind, I recommend that one case, public initiative may be the answer ing an early start, and the hour is already the United Nations be made universal. The in another. Many countries have demon­ late. I also believe that if this step could absence of the People's Republic of China strated that the two can coexist and that successfully be taken, it might help us to and of the divided countries has given to the one can admirably complement or even cor­ find solutions to some of our other problems United Nations a great deal of artificiality. rect and stimulate the other. Each system and a way out of some of the emotional, The simple people in the street, those has good and bad aspects. ideological and political blind alleys in which whose sons a.re dying in far away countries, Those who have the difficult task of gov­ we, in the United Nations, now spend so cannot understand why the United Nations erning should recognize that such an art much of our time and energy. is not seized with the most burning issue of must be highly flexible and non-dogmatic in Ladies and gentlemen, no one can accuse 1970, the war in Indo-China. Rhetoric and a rapidly changing world. The earlier we me of having been impatient during my eight intelligence are not enough to explain the recognize this, the sooner we will reach an and a half years of service with the United reasons to them. They demand, as concerned accord and understanding among nations, Nations. Some have even accused me of being citizens of the world, that their national and such recognition will conform to one of too patient. I have made every effort in the leaders and international officials find the the basic purposes and principles of the privacy of my functions to be of help and means, through necessary vision and eleva­ Charter that the United Nations shall be to bring people and their points of view closer tion, to solve urgently this fundamental a centre for harmonizing the actions of na­ together. I will continue this task in the same problem. I therefore urge Governments to tions. manner until the end of my mandate. consider the idea of the universality of the But, on this solemn occasion, when the Fifth, we must look anew at the categories eyes of the world are focused on us, I must United Nations as the priority item of this of vast unsolved world-wide problems such year's agenda for world affairs. most emphatically warn nations not to pur­ as economic and social development, justice sue their present outmoded and fratricidal Third, we must resolve, with new determi­ and human rights, with which the United nation and will, the dangerously deteriorating course. Time is running short. People are Nations, through its system of specialized getting impatient. We need a fresh start: we situation in the Middle East. The world is agencies and the United Nations aid pro­ increasingly alarmed at the trend of events need a fresh look. Governments must be able, grammes, have come to grips during the last once a.gain, to lift themselves to the same in that theatre of hostilities. In this case, 25 years. Much more needs to be done. Eco­ high level of determination and vision as that the conflict is within the responsibilities of nomic aid must become a matter of interna­ the United Nations. Big Power responsibill­ of the authors of the Charter. tional justice and progress and not remain Sages tell us that if there is a will, there ties in the context of the Charter of the an appendix of divisive power politics and in­ United Nations have been acknowledged. is a way. We have the way, but there seems fluence. Individual rights must be upheld to be diminishing will and increasing dis­ But here again we have the vivid illustra­ and protected and not remain the dead letter couragement. tion of a deadlock nourished by claims, of lofty declarations. The present anarchy The Charter drafted here 25 years ago is counter-claims, arguments, positions, coun­ and absence of the rule of law at the inter­ still our best chance. May nations therefore, ter-positions, accusations, denials, atitacks national level is a constant invitation to especially the powerful ones, give it at la.st and counter-attacks. Again the simple man dissension and conflicts. Progress must be a real chance. in the street wonders why the people in this made towards the adherence to international region cannot live in peace. law. During the three years following the 1967 Sixth and last, we must diagnose, monitor PICTUREPHONES? war, there has been no evidence that the is­ and face together the new collective chal­ sues of the Middle East conflict can be set­ lenges and dangers which arise from a rapidly tled by the parties through their own efforts. mushrooming scientific and technological HON. JONATHAN B. BINGHAM Therefore, international assistance should be civilization accompanied by unprecedented OF NEW YORK increased and intensified. Here, the United mass phenomena. If not, while Governments Nations has a definite role to play, and in are actively bent on spending the best of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the past few days there have been indica­ their intelligence, people, resources and Wednesday, July 8, 1970 tions that the permanent members of the Se­ energies trying in vain to advance their re­ curity Council have made perceptible prog­ spective zones of influence, the world wm Mr. BINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, The Bell ress in their common search for a just and rapidly deteriorate behind their backs and System is installing its new picture­ lasting peace. above their heads. phones in Pittsburgh, Pa. This news 23370 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 8, 1970 has an ironic twist for those of us who tales of disillusioned veterans who thought traditional stern-wheeler, however, that have to struggle with deteriorating tele­ their country would do what it could to com­ makes militants in this one good cause out phone service in New York City. The pensate for their sacrifice. of relaxed vacationers. Making the VA mess all the more inexpli­ The Delta Queen ls truly unique, in a world following is an editorial comment on the cable ts the fact that, in other respects, our that has been stretched almost out of all matter in the New York Post, July 2, soldiers are treated better than ever. Their meaning by the hot-rod publicists of Holly­ 1970. equipment is the best in the world, and they wood. It is the only survivor of the old SORRY, THAT FACE HAS BEEN DISCONNECTED enjoy more amenities in the battle zones river steamers in all of America that still lt's interesting to contemplate some of the than their counterparts in past wars. They takes passengers on overnight trips. sights the new picturephone will focus on have a better chance of surviving serious There are still a few day excursion steam­ when the Bell System gets around to intro­ wounds because of efficient evacuation meth­ ers, notably the Belle of Louisville, that ducing it here, after a trial run 1n Pitts­ ods and quick surgical attention. There have give people a taste of river travel. But it burgh. been few complaints about the military hos­ takes the longer exposure offered by the Delta The first view will probably be the tor­ pitals, where moot of the wounded recupera.te Queen alone to turn harried, hurried, Twen­ mented expression of a caller waiting for a for further duty. tieth Century Americans into relaxed river dial tone. Or it might be the dogged look But the level of attention to the needs of philosophers, ready to hobnob with the of someone trying to dislodge his dime from the wounded man drops off sharply at the genial ghost of Mark Twain. a vandalized coin slot, the bewilderment point where it is determined he cannot re­ A June weekend found a group of 18 such sweeping the face of the person who keeps turn to duty and must be discharged and tenslon-fleers from Louisville in a floating dialing the right number and keeps getting sent to a. VA hospital for long-term care. In party aboard the Queen. We drove up to Cin­ the wrong party, or the flagging features of such a. case the patient may be permanently cinnati to board the boat for an eight o'clock the guy who repeatedly encounters an out­ disabled, having paid a price as great as sailing on Friday evening, and returned to of-order message whenever he dials a phone death itself for the privilege of serving his dock at five on Sunday afternoon. country. he knows to be functioning in his own home. WHERE'S THE RIVERBOAT GAMBLER? Plcturephones will also add titillating new It is particularly fitting in the wake of the star-studded Fourth of July festivities-at The very act of stepping onto the gang­ dimensions to the daily lives of those tele­ plank seems to turn back the hastening phone company employes, who, according to which we were exhorted to realize how great a nation we are--to consider whether we seem hands of the clock. Life suddenly assumes a recent reports, arbitrarily monitor hundreds more leisurely pace. A wide staircase opens of thousands of personal calls in a check-up so great to a paralyzed veteran waiting to be tended in an understaffed hospital. into a. capacious lounge, decorated in the called "service observation." rococo style of the old river boat days. There The last significant observation of service There ls plenty of blame to spread-among this administration, Congress and their pred­ was a full load of passengers, but nobody here, undertaken by the Federal Communica­ was crowded, nobody was in a hurry. tions Commission in January, found it to be ecessors-for the failure to provide the best the worst in the nation. For that reason, possible care for the most seriously wounded The staterooms are comfortable, clean, and Pittsburgh rather than New York was chosen of the returning veterans. It ls more im­ air-conditioned. Instead of nautical bunks, by the Bell people for yesterday's first com­ portant, though, to rectify the situation im­ they are equipped with regular beds with mercial installation of the picturephone. The mediately. good mattresses. Plenty of lounging chairs new device is an impress! ve piece of sophis­ The administration has asked for a $122 surround the two decks. Nothing ls formal. ticated technology. But for the moment New million increase in the VA medical budget, everything is easy. Yorkers would settle for more modest re­ and Cranston would add another $174 mil­ The moment of sailing is celebrated by a forms. Like just hearing the sound of a lion. These amounts may not be enough. But rising tide of music from the ship's calliope. voice. whatever ls needed to make VA medical care Nothing quite rivals the nostalgic, sllghtly the best there ls, the American people ought off-key strains of the traditional steam piano. to provide it. This ls visible as well as audible music, for ea.ch note emerges in a little jet of steam DEBT OF HONOR from one of the instrument's pipes. Deck­ hands cast off ropes. onlookers wave, small HON. ALLARD K. LOWENSTEIN PUBLISHER PUSHES FOR THE boys run along the wharf in a fever of ex­ LIFE OF A QUEEN citement. OF NEW YORK There is good food waiting in the dining IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES saloon, and cheerful service to go with it. HON. LEE H. HAMILTON (The quality of the fa.re was the only point Wednesday, July 8, 1970 I could not praise on a cruise in 1969, but it Mr. LOWENSTEIN. Mr. Speaker, those OF INDIANA has improved markedly since.) The break­ of us who have seen the scandalous con­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES fasts are in the old, hearty tradltlon--cerea.l, Wednesday, July 8, 1970 scrambled or fried eggs, bacon, country sau­ ditions in veteran3 hospitals cannot be­ sage, grits, hot biscuits, and big pots of lieve that they can continue to exist in Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. Speaker, under steaming coffee. The other meals a.re a little the richest country in the world. the leave to extend my remarks in the more restrained, but ample. Whatever our differences on the war, RECORD, I include the following excellent The passengers are nearly all in family we ought to be able to agree that those editorial from the July 5 edition of the groups. Many are middle-aged, but there are who have been wounded and maimed Louisville Courier Journal & Times. some llvely oldsters and plenty of children. fighting it should have the best medical Mr. Barry Bingham, editor and pub­ The black-mustachioed gamblers of the old care available. packets, with their gaudy vests and gold lisher of the newspaper, asks not only watch-chains, have no counterparts in this I hope the President and the leaders of for the exemption of the picturesque wholesome company. both parties will read the editorial in Delta Queen riverboat from Federal For those who like entertainment, it is Tuesday's Washington Star, another safety-at-sea regulations, but for the readily a.valla.ble. A combo plays dance music voice in the national outcry against this preservation of a bit of river history. in the dining saloon after dinner, and its disgrace, and then act to do something As he points out, the beauty of the members break up into a pleasantly corny about it. I am inserting the editorial in floor show. There may be a Bloody Mary party the RECORD. river and the tradition and romance of or a. Scarlett O'Hara cocktail party in the DEBT OF HONOR the stern-wheel riverboat are incom­ bar. The band provides some spirited New It would seem to be an elementary rule of parable and irreplaceable attractions of Orleans jazz for these occasions, and the bar­ decency that men wounded in our nation's the area. tenders strut to the music as they serve the wars should be cared for by the people for Mr. Bingham's editorial reads as drinks. Juleps a.re available, garnished with whom they fought. Yet a combination of follows: mint from two out-sized window boxes that budget-scrimping, ignorance and bureau­ flank the paddle-wheel. LET'S ALL RUSH TO THE RESCUE OF A DAMSEL The heart of the cruise, however, is the cratic fallure--all of it amounting to ne­ IN DISTRESS glect--ha.s resulted unconscionably in an beauty of the scenery that glides so softly by. increase of suffering for some victims of the (By Barry Bingham) There can't be many rivers in the world a.s hostilities in Vietnam. "Save the Delta Queen!" The plea wafts out fine to travel a.s the Ohio. Its aspect varies The evidence of this neglect cannot be dis­ from the loud-speaker system, to the plain­ from mile to leisurely mile. counted. Testimony before a subcommittee tive strains of a country-rock tune, and the On the Kentucky side may be towering headed by Senator Cranston of California in­ passengers lounging on the sunny deck of the cliffs, hung with luxuriant greenery that cluded authoritative accounts of filthy con­ steamer stir from their happy reverie. The hides any trace of human habitation. On the ditions, inadequate staffing, obsolete and un­ Queen must be saved. Indiana shore will lie a great water-meadow, comfortable buildings, broken equipment and It is hard to invoke the crusading spirit stretched serenely along a. majestic bend in la.ck of space in many Veterans Administra­ among a group of people as blissfully con­ the river. Then, a little further on, the tion hospitals. Assurances from the VA that tent as the Queen's customers. It is their scenery may reverse itself from port to star­ all ts well have a hollow sound besides the joy in cruising down the Ohio on a richly board. July 8, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 23371 The locks at Markland Dam, and those tourists and their happily-spent dollars. "No. I don't consider LSD a hard drug. below Louisville at McAlpine Dam, offer a Nothing fills the bill more neatly than the Personally, I feel the bad trips are caused lively diversion for the passengers. Further Delta Queen. when a person is in poor physical condition downstream are the famous Ox-Bow Bends A loud cry should go up to Washington or is under a severe emotional strain." of the Ohio, where the river flows in sinu­ from the whole Ohio Valley. Life in America Is it difficult to get marijuana in San ous coils between steep, wooded banks on has grown increasingly strained and stand­ Francisco? both sides. ardized. A paddle-wheeler gliding along the The 5-foot-5, 115-pound brunette who will gentle Ohio is a floating lesson in regional enter Heliotrope Free Universi,ty of San MEMORIES OF A DISASTER history, a reprieve from the pressures of the Francisco this fall, said her mother knew Sailings depart and return on time, but modern world, a tranquilizer more soothing about her venture with drugs but that her the schedule afloat is informal. There will than any doctor's prescription. There is just stepfather was "hostile when I told him be 13. stop at Loulsv1lle, with the big bridges enough time left to make ourselves heard in about it after I had stopped. It scared me. He looming impressively above. A pause at Mad­ Congress: "Save the Delta Queen." didn't want me to come down here." ison can afford an opportunity for walking "Talk to your kid openly and freely and past handsome old houses, prime examples of listen to him. Always have your mind open the urban architecture of the earlier Nine­ and don't shut him out. Make him feel free teenth Century. FIGHTING DRUG ABUSE to come to you without fear of the conse­ Longer cruises take the Queen down to quences. If you don't know the answers tell Kentucky Lake. The most extensive of all is him so. Then help him try and find out the a trip to New Orleans and back, always HON. WILLIAM S. MAILLIARD answers." scheduled to include the Mardi Gras cele­ bration. Shorter cruises, such as the Cin­ OF CALIFORNIA cinnati Weekend, are scheduled through IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ADDRESS OF MAJ. GEN. WILLIAM R. most of the yea.r. Those who have been on Wednesday, July 8, 1970 DOUGLAS fall cruises say they are the best of all. Must this delightful diversion end for­ Mr. MAILLIARD. Mr. Speaker, I rise ever on the second day of next November? roday to dramatize the attack against HON. JOHN J. DUNCAN That is what will happen, unless Congress drug abuse among our very young. A San OF TENNESSEE passes a bill to keep the Queen in overnight Francisco girl, described in an article in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES service. And the time for such action is get­ the July 5 Evening Star, began experi­ ting short at the current session. menting with marihuana at 13. But, real­ Wednesday, July 8, 1970 The problem lies in a Federal law pa.ssed izing the dangers of drug use after 3 Mr. DUNCAN. Mr. Speaker, during the in 1966. It followed a disastrous fire at sea years, she stopped and has been coura­ past Armed Forces Week Maj. Gen. Wil­ on the S.S. Yarmouth Castle. Only steel­ liam R. Douglas of Tennessee's Military structured ships are allowed to carry over­ geously fighting drug abuse ever since. I night passengers under this law. The Delta should like to insert this item in the CON­ Department delivered a speech which I Queen was given a steel hull when built in GRESSIONAL RECORD as an instance of val­ wish every Member of Congress would Scotland in 1928, but the superstructure is iant and exemplary action in this field: read. a traditional blend of teak, mahogany, iron­ MAR!HUANA AT 13: GmL TELLS OF "KICKING" General Douglas speaks with knowl­ wood and oak. Daua edge and authority, having entered the The Queen has been reprieved twice by SAN F'RANcxsco.-At 13, Linda Mayfield of Tennessee National Guard as a private special acts of Congress, in order to give the San Francisco began experimenting with in 1933 and having gone through the Greene Line a chance to plan for a replace­ marijuana. At 16, she kicked the habit and ranks to major general in 1964. He re­ ment. But the cost of such a vessel has joined a student team crusading against tired from the Tennessee National Guard soared above $10,000,000, which casts the drug abuse. project in grave doubt. A new vessel would in 1966 and 2 years later was appointed The attractive, miniskirted youngster, now Deputy Adjutant General in the Mili­ apparently have to be diesel powered. That 17, was the only teen-age member of a panel would eliminate all the romance of the old on drug abuse at the National Education tary Department of Tennessee. crimson paddle-wheel, splashing through Association's 108th annual convention in San Here follows his speech: the water in a soft cascade of spray. Francisco Civic Auditorium. ADDRESS BY MAJ. GEN. WILLIAM R. DOUGLAS The Safety at Sea Law of 1966 doesn't She told how the Washington High School Ladies and gentlemen, my talk here today make sense as applied to the Delta Queen, team of 20 members--half of whom had used will have four areas on which my personal anyway. It was designed to protect passen­ drugs--talked with elementary school pu­ concern has reached a stage of alarm. They gers on oceangoing vessels. The Queen plies pils about the experience. are proper sense of -values in the world to­ only along inland waterways, and she is "I think we got through to a majority of day; 1nab111ty to see a clear picture of the never more than four minutes from shore. A the kids because they trust us. Kids were designs of enexnies of freedom; failure to put simple beaching operation would be the an­ open to us. I think we taught them some­ our aims on proper targets; and the action swer to any conceivable em.ergency. Fires thing,'' she said. which I feel each of us must take to put us on the old river packets were caused by boil­ Later in an interview she told her own back on the right track. ers bursting in a desperate effort for speed. story. To take action we must first analyze con­ The Queen never moves out of a dignified "Some friends and my older sister experi­ ditions in our own country and throughout saunter. The owners would no doubt be will­ mented with grass," she began. "I waited a the world in order to get a clearly defined ing to provide a full sprinkler system, or any long time but I was curious and tried it at picture of the problems; then we must apply other reasonable device considered necessary. a friend's house. a proper sense of values to judge the appro­ Bills to exempt the Delta Queen have been "I enjoyed it. It was strange, a different priate target for our aims in the interest of introduced in the House of Representatives feeling than I'd ever experienced-laughing mankind; and, finally, take action in that by Reps. Leonor Sullivan of Missouri and Lee and feeling light, kinda not caring. interest and that interest alone. H. Hamilton of Indiana. Kentucky Republi­ "I used it for nearly three years-just Never in history have problems been can Marlow Cook and Indiana Democrat every once in a while, mostly socially." greater-population explosion, pollution, Vance Hartke have piloted an exemption What caused her to give it up? poverty, inflation, crime, dissension ... and through committee action in the Senate: The "Not any one particular thing. I was sleep­ last but not least, the threat to freedom. In critical point seems to be the House Mer­ ing too much. Drugs made me very tired. my book, I place that last item as number chant Marine and Fisheries Committee, of All I did was read and sleep. I got nothing one on my list. I do so because I feel never which Frank Albert Stubblefield of Ken­ done. before has this threat been so ominous. And tucky and William G. Bray of Indiana are "Beginning last summer I decided to stop." the frightening aspect ls that never before members. Committee chairman Edward A. Did this cause her marijuana-using friends has this been placed so far down the list Garmatz of Maryland has shown ·reluctance to drop her? on world problems. In World War Two, na­ to bring up the Delta Queen issue for a hear­ "No, they would ask me why I stopped tions united and defeated an enemy to free­ ing. and I told them. This was fine and it had dom which tried to enslave other nations THE QUEEN FILLS THE BILL no effect on our friendship. Even when and snuffed out the lives of six to seven The boat lures tourists from all over the they're stoned we communicate better than million persons through atrocious genocide. country and Canada to the Ohio Valley, and when I was stoned." In Korea the United States sprang to the puts them in a mood of mellow appreciation Did she have adverse effects fr-0m drugs? rescue when overt aggression took place by for all they see. The publicity of the annual "I had a little loss of memory. My will to Communists, but without defeating the en­ race with the Belle of Louisville at Derby do anything was broken down. I 'had a :tend­ emy, an enemy which has snuffed out the time would coot hundreds of thousands ·af ency to be forgetful and had loss of lives of some fifty million persons, or a total dollars if it had to be bought, but it comes memory." of some eight times that of Hitler's Ger­ free. Our region needs the unusual, the pic­ Did she or her friends ever use a hard drug many. But in Korea, we only fought off the turesque, the colorful attraction to woo the like LSD? enemy, we didn't defeat him. In Vietnam to- 23372 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 8, 1970 day the United States and a handful of al­ Thailand? Would Malaysia? Singapore? In­ to think hard. Where or when have any lies have battled nine years, not to defeat an donesia? Would we now be engaged in more similar demonstrations urged the communists enemy, but to prevent a. Communist take­ fighting in South Korea? Would not Laos to end such defense programs??? One more over. And the so-called "spin-off" from our and Cambodia already be Red? Where, I thing on freedom of assembly. I'm going to "Don't Win, Just Defend" policy has so con­ ask, Just where do we draw the line on ag­ quote verbatim the reading in our consti­ fused the free world that Laos and Cambo­ gression? How many millions of people do tution on this and you can read between the dia. face certain Communist takeover from antiwar critics think we should sacrifice lines as to another important point and I the same attackers-North Vietnam. Why? to the slavery of Communism? quote: "The right of the people peaceably to I think this. So much has the information And where is that point of no return­ assemble." media. allowed itself to focus attention on tha.t point where the balance of power ls The previous freedoms are listed in amend­ the minority clamors and goals. . . . So tipped to the enemy to an extent that de­ ment one to our original constitution. Let's much have they allowed the anti-Vietnam fense of our own land would be useless? go to amendment two and I shall also quote war yells to ring out . . . and so little has No, gentlemen, Vietnam was and is no mis­ verbatim: "A well regulated militia., being the media done to bring world condemna­ take, Americans proved we keep our word. necessary to the security of a. free state, the tion on the Communists for their aggres­ Americans proved overt aggression cannot right of the people to keep and bear arms, sion and subversive actions which caused go unpunished. Americans proved we shall shall not be infringed." Here, too, the enemies these wars .... The so much and so little fight for freedom and we proved we shall use to our way of life are using one of our today has created an atmosphere which our strength to help the weak defend their freedoms toward an apparent attempt to end hands Laos and Cambodia to the enemy with freedom. No, gentlemen, we did not make the that freedom. Organized crime and terrorists, only token resiStance. mistake, Hanoi and her Communist allies both contributing to the decay of this nation, We have never lost a war in our two-cen­ made the mistake. That we so intervened in have projected violence to an unprecedented tury hiStory. That iS, we have never lost a Vietnam may already have discouraged ad­ high under the false front of their right to war with weapons. Today, however, we are ventures they may have considered in recent bear arms. losing a war-a battle for public opinion, years or any they might consider in the An article last month said troublemakers, worldwide public opinion. The Communist­ future. That alone may already have saved foreign and domestic, are now concentrating directed, frontal attack against the U.S. is hundreds of thousands of lives and billions on phase three of a concerted effort to knock winning support not only on the other side or trillions of dollars. We may never know our Nation off balance. I would have called of the curtains, but even in the United what could have happened, but we do know troublemakers what they a.re--communists. States. Their continuous verbal assaults on that we are still a free nation and we can The flirst phase was street and campus dem­ us, both from within and without, have assemble like this and say what we wish just onstrations Ml.d the second ,a. militant af­ gained such momentum that it is obvious like I'm doing here and now. front to our court system. Now, the article this Nation may have to write off Laos and The disturbing factor about this is the continues, Guerrilla warriors, schooled and Cambodia. to the Red side of the ledger. With very principle of the situation. Criticism­ skilled in making and planting bombs have 105,000 Communists overrunning Laos and such as this statement that the United launched a. spring offensive against military, Cambodia. and threatening the program un­ States ma.de the mistake in South Vietnam­ governmental and industrial installations ... der which we would withdraw forces from yes, anti-American criticism such a.s this has New York had 400 bomb scares in 48 hours South Vietnam, the President sent troops to prevailed in a steadily increasing manner less than a. month ago. A blast damaged 23 erase sanctuaries. Within hours the public since World War II. Where, on the other stores in Pittsburgh. Seattle had 32 bomb­ opinion assault labeled us as the invaders hand, have you read in the news commen­ ings, most of them in the past four months and you know what else took place. Now we taries, heard on radio programs, or seen over ... within the past month two packages were wonder what will happen if Russian-backed, television criticism of the enemy? Think mailed from Seattle, one to President Nixon. Russian-helped Arab attacks on Israel ac­ hard. Have you heard anyone say: "Let's the other to Selective Service Director Theo­ celerate to full-scale war status. We wonder admit the Communists made a miStake in dore Tarr, both containing bombs triggered because public opinion has reached a point Vietnam"??? For every 100 articles, com­ to explode when opened. They were inter­ where the defense of any nation anywhere mentaries, so-called television specials, dem­ cepted and defused ... San Francisco had one in the world will bring nothing but violence onstrations, speeches, or the like . . . for hundred bombings, attempts or threats. within our own borders. The immediate cries one hundred of those, which are in sub­ R.O.T.C. buildings, a Jurist's home, police sta­ will be don't make the same mistake you stance anti-democracy, anti-establishment, tions, draft boards and even the office of an made in Vietnam. Don't make the same mis­ anti-free enterprise. and anti-American I Army irecrui,ter were targets. In Greenwich take you did in Cambodia. would estimate you can find less than five Village fire and explosions destroyed a town­ The latest popular expression is: "We which are anti-Hanoi, anti-Peking, anti­ house where evidence of a bomb factory was made a mistake in Vietnam, let's not make Moscow, anti-Cuba, or anti-Communist, this found. Among the dead was Theodore Gold, another in Southeast Asia." is frightening. It is terrifying. You some­ S.D.S. campus revolt leader at Columbia Uni­ times wonder whose side the information versity who last year spent several weeks in I cannot agree with this or the popular media is on. You wonder if the so-called expression which made its rounds earlier. Cuba. The F.B.I. has identified other radicals silent majority is quickly becoming a silent involved in recent bombings as having close It was: "Let's admit we made a mistake in minority. There had better soon be a. 180- Vietnam." This, to me, ls completely idiotic, links with foreign Communists. How many of degree turn in the principles of our freedom you right here remember the news about erroneous and ridiculous. Our nation signed of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of a treaty with Southeast Asian countries to these bomb cases? I'm sure most of you do. the press, and freedom to bear arms, or we But let me ask another question. How many come to their aid with weapons and man­ soon wm be a silent minority. power in the event of aggression. The Com­ Now let's analyze the status of these free­ of you were informed in those news stories of munists conducted a reign of terror in South doms as it appears today: these communist links I have Just men­ Vietnam, a program involving torture, as­ tioned? I wasn't. I had to learn this from an­ Freedom of speech.-This is being used other source. sassinations and finally overt attack by daily by communist elements for anti-Ameri­ forces infiltrating from North Vietnam. Can can purposes and even condones open, out­ If I make no other specific point in my anyone with honest and sincere logic say right, public pronouncements advocating talk, it is this ... let's help bring about a we made a mistake In keeping our promise, violence and revolution. 180-degree turn in our information efforts. in carrying out our pledge in that SEATO Let's get off the backs of defense leaders Freedom of the press.-Such pronounce­ treaty? The fTosting on the cake to this iS ments, anti-war activities and operations and let's instead return our attention to the a vote of approval-with only one dissent­ which logically can more aid and abet the ill-doings and the dangers of our enemy or ing ballot--from the hundreds of congress­ enemy than help preserve our own principles enemies. I do not mean end criticism nor men which were elected by the millions of hide wrong-doings. But I do mean we should are ,accelerating rapidly in the ttotal informa­ attempt in every way possible to provide that Americans as their representation in Gov­ tion output. You hear more and more on ernment. To say we made a. mistake is to atrocities of our troops or our allies. You information which wm help keep the free say Congress and four Presldents--Elsen­ hear less and less of the atrocities of the world free. Let's think twice about any and hower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon-were enemy. More time and space are given to ac­ all activities and information which aid and guilty of sacrificing 40,000 American lives tivities bent on reducing and weakening our abet the enemies of freedom. in our Vietnam action ... for nothing. To defense posture. Less and less time and space The strategy and tactics of such enemies say we made a mistake is to condemn the are given toward strengthening it. ls to use various minority group movements advice given them by civilian and military Freedom of assembly.-In this area---with to tear down and destroy the entire fabric leaders of the most highly qualified knowl­ few exceptions-aims and goals of the most of the free society. Where they are thus allied edge of international affairs. And to call it publicized assemblies are anti-American. to such causes, a democratic society must a mistake ls to say we did so from day to Demonstrations are for Americans to get out screen carefully such minority goals. The day, month to month and year to year over of South Vietnam. None ask the North Viet­ church, the courts, the entertainment world, a period of almost a decade. Can anyone say namese get out of South Vietnam. There schools and the press must not ally them­ the leadership of this greatest nation on were and are demonstrators to ban-the-bomb, selves with smoke screen causes which chip earth could so compound a miStaken mili­ stop producing nuclear subs, forget anti­ a.way at freedom. tary action? And finally, let's assume we had ballistic missiles, elimlnate-the-draft, take If the letter of the law were obeyed, there not provided assistance In that area over R.0.T.C. out of colleges, quit manufacturing would be no need to suggest whait I have these years. Would thiS small nation stlll napalm bombs, and others which have been ... but somehow, in some way it is being be among those of the free world? Would and are anti-United States. Again I ask you disobeyed continuously.... Here is the law July 9, 1970 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE 23373 on which I speak and it has been upheld by from within and without, and give less time in uniform in the interest of freedom. And the Supreme Court .•• "whoever knowingly to Rap Brown, Eldridge Cleaver, Chica.go Sev­ I am sure all of you have served as civilians or Willfully advocates, abets, advises, or ens and Communist lackeys to spew their in the same manner. And my text is not di­ teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or venom of hatred and revolutionary, treason­ rected at you, in a manner of speaking, but propriety of overthrowing or destroying the ous propaganda against our country. Ditto for you. If enough of us get toget her and Government of the United States . . . by for other information professions. speak out on issues, maybe we will find it force or violence . . . shall be fined not Yes, the mass information media--govern­ ea.sier to unite and get this country back more than $20,000 or imprisoned not more mental, military, entertainment, journalistic, on the right track. than twenty years, or both.... " That is religious and others providing influence on In a recent Rotary magazine was a history section 2385, Title 18 of the U.S. Criminal the general public--this media must make a of your mottoes and one, in particular, Code. A little bit of enforcement of this 180-degree turn. caught my attention. It says "Rotary is based could go a long way toward protecting those The question now is how to make this 180- on the ideal of service and where freedom, freedoms of which I spoke. And it could stop degree turn. I suggest the answer is for ac­ justice, truth, sanctity of the pledged word some of this destructive action by dissidents. tion in the national interest. Government and respect for human rights do not exist, When we get into discussions on the dis­ officials must act in the public's interest, not Rotary cannot live nor its ideal prevail." I sident elements across our Na.tion, I think party or politica.l interest, businessmen must believe this reflects much of the content of our Vice President h81S summed up my feel­ act in the public's interest, not personal in­ my words today. ings, Mr. Agnew's words were, to be exact: terest. Newspapers must print in the pub­ This is Armed Forces Week and it is set "Indeed, as for these deserters, malcontents, lic's interest, not in the publisher's interest. a.side to honor those who are dedicated to radicals, incendiaries, the civil and the un­ Radio and television must operate in the na­ the task of defending our nation against the civil disobedients among our young, S.D.S., tional interest, not minority interests. La­ communist threat, to the defense of free­ P.L.P., Weatherman one and Weatherman bor must perform in the interest of national dom. Our heritage is rich in heroic deeds of two, the revolutionary aotion movement, the unity, not union interest alone. Jurists must men who have preserved our freedoms. It hippies, yippies, yahoos, black panthers, lions judge in the interest of the majority, not of continues today and to those who have made and tigers alike-I would swap the whole the minority. The entertainmen.t profession the supreme sacrifice, I repeat remarks of damn zoo for a single platoon of the kind must return to moral interests, not financial General Douglas MacArthur: of young Americans I saw in Vietnam." interests. Churches must return to religion "His name and fame are the birthright It was Vice President Agnew who gave the and abandon politics. Teachers must educate of every American citizen. In his youth and right answer in responding to a statement of in the interest of freedom, not in the inter­ strength, his love and loyalty, he gave all Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair­ est of freedom's enemies. Parents must close that mortality can give. He needs no eulogy man J. William Fulbright that if the Viet­ the generation gap in the home, not through from me, or from any other man. He has nam war goes on much longer "the best of juvenile courts. The individual must act in written his own history and written it in our young men" would flee to Canada. The the interest of all, not just himself. red on his enemy's breast . . . I do not know Vice President replies: "The best of our It may seem ironic that I speak before Vet­ the dignity of their birth, but I do know young men are serving their country in erans of Foreign Wars and Rotarians at this the glory of their death. They died unques­ Vietnam." moment to bring out these issues. I say it tioning, uncomplaining, with faith in their Television should continuously inform the is ironic because you of the V.F.W. and most hearts and on their Ups the hope that we public on Communist and subversive threats of you in the Rotary already have served would go on to victory."

SENATE-Thursday, July 9, 1970

The Senate met at 10 a.m. and was it stand in adjournment until 10 a.m. jority leader whether he thinks we are called to order by the Acting President tomorrow. moving along a little better now, a little pro tempore (Mr. METCALF) . The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem­ more rapidly, and that we may yet catch The Chaplain, the Reverend Edward pore. Without objection, it is so ordered. up with the other body. L. R. Elson, D.D., offered the following Mr. MANSFIELD. Well, may I say prayer: that after the Republicans, following RECOGNITION OF SENATOR YOUNG their leadership meeting with the Presi­ Eternal Father, holy beyond our com­ OF OHIO TOMORROW prehension, loving beyond all earthly dent on Tuesday morning last, prodded love, good beyond all that is good, help Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I us, we have been showing reasonably us to pattern our lives after the Great ask unanimous consent that fallowing good progress, thanks to the cooperation Galilean. disposition of the Journal tomorrow, of the Republicans in this matter, and Spare us, O God, from being cruel the distinguished Senator from Ohio due to the good attendance on the floor because we have power, blunt because (Mr. YOUNG) be recognized for not to of the Senate, and also due to the fact we !have authority, aJrrogant because we exceed 20 minutes. that the committees are still meeting. have wealth, or unbrotherly because we The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem­ The legislation, although it is not pour­ have won a victory. Grant that in our pore. Without objection, it is so ordered. ing out, is coming out, because it has to differences there may be moral unanim­ be given legitimate and due considera­ ity, in our diversity a spiritual unity COMMITTEE MEETINGS DURING tion. I would say that the Senate is in which strengthens our labor for the SENATE SESSION very good shape at the moment and we Nation. hope to keep it that way in the weeks Give us stout hearts, 0 Lord, that Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I ask and months ahead. having resolved upon the course we be­ unanimous consent that all committees Mr. SCOTT. I want to thank the dis­ lieve to be right, we may steadfastly be authorized to meet during the session tinguished majority leader. I think it pursue it, serve Thee faithfully, and leave of the Senate tomorrow. proves the healthy interaction of the the consequences to Thy providence. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem­ two-party system. In the Redeemer's name we pray. pore. Without objection, it is so ordered. Mr. MANSFIELD. It does, indeed. Amen. ORDER OF BUSINESS THE JOURNAL PRODUCTION OF THE C-5A The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem­ AIRCRAFT Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I pore. Under the previous order, the dis­ ask unanimous consent that the reading tinguished Senator from Georgia (Mr. Mr. TALMADGE. Mr. President, I have of the Journal of the proceedings of TALMADGE) is now recognized for 30 min­ been very much concerned about the fate Wednesday, July 8, 1970, be dispensed utes. of the C-5A military cargo airplane. I am with. concerned about the aircraft, the com­ Mr. SCOTT. Mr. President, will the pany, and the people of Georgia who The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem­ Senator from Georgia yield? pore. Without objection, it is so ordered. build it. Mr. TALMADGE. I am happy to yield Mr. President, the fact is the very ex­ to the Senator from Pennsylvania. istence of the Lockheed-Georgia Co., is ORDER FOR ADJOURNMENT UNTIL at stake. Congressional debate over fund­ 10 A.M. TOMORROW PROGRESS IN THE WORK OF THE ing for the C-5A will determine the fu­ Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I SENATE ture of the company. This in itself is no ask unanimous consent that, when the Mr. SCOTT. Mr. President, I should small responsibility for the Senate and Senate completes its business today, like to inquire of the distinguished ma- the Congress to shoulder.