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DEPARTMENT OJ' JUSTICE IN THE NAVY Vice Adm. David H. Bagley, U.S. Navy, Lawrence J. Semenza, of Nevada, to be Adm. Worth H. Bagley, U.S. Navy, for ap having been designated for commands and U.S. attorney for the district of Nevada for pointment to the grade of admiral on the other duties of great importance and respon the term of 4 years vice V. DeVoe Heaton, retired list, pursuant to the provisions of ti sibllity determined by the President to be tle 10, United States Code, section 5233. resigned. commensurate with the grade of admiral Mark W. Buyck, Jr., of South Carolina, to Adm. Harold E. Shear, U.S. Navy, for ap be U.S. attorney for the district of South pointment as Vice Chief of Naval Operations within the contemplation of title 10, United Carolina for the term of 4 years vice John pursuant to title 10, United States Code, sec States Code, section 5231, for appointment K. Grisso, term expired. tion 5085, in the grade of admiral. to the grade of admiral while so serving.
EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS QUALITY DENTAL CARE Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent most consumers. Future plans in the field of that a statement entitled "Dental Care in dental development should be consistent Our State: A Statement From Our State with this concept, and with a minimum of HON. JESSE A. HELMS Dental Board," prepared on March 11, Federal intervention. OF NORTH CAROL~A 1975, be printed in the Extensions of IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES Remarks. Without objection, the statement was Monday, March 17, 1975 ordered to be printed in the Extensions AN OPEN LETTER Mr. HELMS. Mr. President, on of Remarks as follows: Wednesday of last week, a number of my There being no objection, the state colleagues and I had the pleasure of ment was ordered to be printed in the HON. PHILIP M. CRANE meeting with representatives of the RECORD, as follows: OF ILL~OIS boards of dental examiners from 10 DENTAL CARE ~ OUR STATE-A STATEMENT IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FROM OUR STATE DENTAL BOARD States. Specifically, the states of Ala Monday, March 17, 1975 bama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North We are present today as representatives of Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Ten the people of our States, as the duly consti Mr. CRANE. Mr. Speaker,in the March nessee, Texas, and Virginia were repre tuted authority for the control and regula 11, 1975 issue of the RECORD I included sented. Additionally, the president of the tion of the practice of dentistry within our in the Extension of Remarks an address American Association of Dental Exam State. It is our statutory duty to protect our given by President Thieu to a delegation iners, Dr. James R. Little of St. Paul, citizens from the illegal and unethical prac of our colleagues who were recently in tice of dentistry. We do this by examination the Republic of South Vietnam. Minn.; the secretary-treasurer of the and licensure of qualified people, the investi American Association of Dental Exam gation and prosecution of those individuals Today I would like to call to the atten iners, Mr. B. J. Crawford of Chicago, Til.; in violation of our State laws. We provide tion of the Members of this body an edi and the president of the American Dental standards by which dental educational insti torial in the Saigon Post--one of 16 news Association, Dr. L. M. Kennedy of Dallas, tutions are approved. All of this is to protect papers published in that city-which Tex., were present. In all, 28 people the consumers of dental care and the health, was also addressed to the congressional took time off from their busy schedules safety and welfare of the general public. delegations. I believe this editorial ex to come to Washington and in many in We are here today because the Division of presses the view of at least a substantial Dentistry of the Department of Health, Edu body of the ordinary people of South stances traveled substantial distances in cation, and Welfare Is making it impossible order to be here. for us to continue to protect the citizens of Vietnam and, therefore, should be of They came because like an increasing our State and to guarantee them that those considerable interest to our colleagues. number of other good citizens they are who provide dental care are qualified and The editorial, dated March 3, 1975, concerned about the way things are go competent. follows: ing in this country. Particularly, they are The Department of Health, Education, and ON OPEN LETTER TO U.S. LEGISLATORS~ disturbed about a matter in which they Welfare and its Division of Dentistry have VIETNAM have special insight-the efforts on the exceeded the intent of Congress by imple DEAR FRIENDS: Godspeed as you return to part of the Department of Health, Edu menting Federal law with rules, regulations the United States after a visit to Vietnam. and guidelines which require the subordina You have heard the pros and cons on the cation, and Welfare and its Division of tion of State laws in order for dental edu need of additional aid for the Republic of Dentistry to coerce State legislatures and cational institutions to qualify for Federal Vietnam and assessments on the current sit State dental boards into allowing less funds. Such subordination of State laws is uation prevailing here. Doubtless, in your qualified, nonprofessional persons to per demonstrated by the HEW requirement that meetings with a cross section of the commu form dental functions such as actually unlicensed persons be taught dental func nity, you were treated to discourses on the placing final dental restorations-fill tions which are lllegal in forty-three States; prosaic and the ponderous. Undoubtedly, too, ings-in patients' teeth. for example, the placing of final dental you must have been regaled with perorations Now these concerned citizens did not restorations (fillings). Otherwise, funds are about what Is right and what is wrong in withheld. HEW is spending vast amounts of Vietnam. come to Washington as representatives of tax dollars on programs which are ineffec We do not propose to dwell on this right the dental profession-though they are tive in resolving the dental problems of the or-wrong-course controversy. We are not con practicing dentists; they came as mem consumers of dental care. In the granting cerned with politics. We are but ordinary bers of the various boards of dental or withholding of Federal funds, HEW is people concerned with a free Vietnam-free examiners of their respective States. As in effect coercing dental educational insti of communism and the totalitarian way of members of such boards, it is their duty tutions to advocate tlie revision of State life. to protect the consumers of dental care laws in such a manner as to allow non Allow UH simple citizens to air a few from becoming the victims of improper professionals who have not been required thoughts. to attain the same standards previously We shall not be presumptlous by discuss dental practices and to provide appro required of professionals to provide dental ing American interests. In truth, we do not priate standards for dental care in their care to consumers. Obviously, it is not the know much about it. What we do know fs States. The dental boards are agencies of proper function of unelected officials in HEW that a little over a decade ago, you committed State government. They represent the to lnfiuence or structure state laws. troops to Vietnam. And from the beginning citizens of their State, and it was in this We believe that such action on the part to the end of that presence, there were not fine spirit of good citizenship that they of HEW will result in the deterioration of a few mistakes by Americans as well as Viet met to discuss problems that are being the quality of dental care. Of course, the namese. It cannot be denied that the pres created by HEW in derogation of the poor, the disadvantaged, and the minorities ence of these American troops gave rise to a with less economic fiexib1llty, will be the very special situation replete with problems public interest. primary recipients of such lower quality care. which it was our lot to inherit. While in Washington, they drafted a It is our view that the traditional American We do not want to argue about the merits brief statement of their purpose and free enterprise system has provided the high of your desire to end involvement in Viet· goals. I would like to share this state est level of dental carP. in the world, with nam for the sake of your own interest and, ment with my fellow Senators. the greatest avallab111ty of such care to the may we say, ours too. 7014 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 17, 19'15 The Vietnamese people do realize that to omy. I heard testimony from more than money left after paying rent and utilities. As be truly deserving of freedom and independ two dozen witnesses, including heads of the cost of living rises, the problem becomes ence, they have to struggle for it themselves senior citizen organizations, government more a.nd more severe. and not rely on other people to do it for SAC has determined four major areas of agency directors, and several individu~ls. them. concern for the elderly who have to depend What concerns us is the manner and the The hearing room was crowded With on SSI for their existence. We would now spirit of how the American role in Vietnam older Americans interested in having like to describe these problem areas to you, shall terminate. You want to leave and, we their words heard by me as well as by along with steps which we feel the federal want you to leave too, aware as we are that the public officials and various adminis government could take in order to alleviate after little more than a decade you have trators who were in attendance. these problems. grown tired and decided you must go. One of the most frequently mentioned ( 1) It is presently necessary to appear at As a nation rich in the tradition of help the local Social Security office in person to problems was· the plethora of inade make an application for SSI, and to wait, ing other peoples in safeguarding their pat quacies built into the supplemental se rimony and the right to exist under the sometimes three or four hours, to be inter sun, you may not find leaving easy or sim curity income (SSD program. Ms. Mar viewed. As you are well aware, the public ple. But the situation spawned by the Amer garet Perlstein, cochairperson of the transportation in Suffolk County is deplor ican commitment requires that you look at Suffolk Action Coalition, spoke directly able at best, a.nd there is no direct service the consequences of your decision on involve to the problems of SSI at the hearing. I to our local SSA office (Patchogue). People ment regardless of whether it was a mistake think my colleagues would benefit from who need SSI, in most cases, cannot afford a or not. her testimony, which I would like in car, and have no money to pay for trans It is said that the Vietnam affair is an portation to the SSA office by taxi. Some cluded in the RECORD at the conclusion of hardy people have even attempted to hitch open-ended one, a bottomless pit. Please be my remarks. assured, that past experience has made us hike. There are many elderly people who need realize only too well the pain of humiliation Ms. Helen Gould, executive director financial aid but who are bedridden, physi as a people who have to knock on the door of of the Suffolk Community Council, has cally 111 or otherwise incapacitated. The fed another people to ask for help. But we are been tireless in her efforts on behalf of eral government should provide funds for buoyed by the determination not to rely on the less advantaged. In her testimony she district offices to hire and train additional foreign assistance in the near future. And presented to me several solutions to the staff who ca.n make field visits in situa there are reasonable chances of accomplish problems not only of SSI recipients, but tions where a person is homebound for the ing this through food production and the aforementioned reasons. This could be sub also of all those senior citzens living on ject to substantiation by a physician or so bright prospects of exploiting oil. fixed incomes. I think Members of the You have been told and we have heard cial service agency advocate. Until this serv your views about ours being an undemo House would do well to read her remarks ice has been provided, some arrangements cratic regime and that venality and injus as well. should be made to (a.) provide transportation tices are widespread here. Again, in the The testimony follows: funds for those applicants who are not physi cally ill, and (b) to accept written affidavits capacity of mere and simple citizens, let us TESTIMONY BY MARGARET C. PERLSTEIN state that we have many reasons to be un from the people who are homebound because Congressman Downey, Senior Citizens, Ad of lllness. happy about our own government and often vocates and Friends: As a member of the are frustrated and discouraged by the llls (2) The fiat-rate grant now provided by Suffolk Action Coalition of SSI Recipients the federal government is totally inadequate that plague this government. Despite such and Advocates (SAC), I have been asked to unhappiness and frustration, however, we to meet the needs of the aged in this area present to you some of the difficulties whlch due to the fact that regional cost-of-living believe there is still room for improvement we have encountered wlth the Supplemental and that this can be done. The alternative differences are not taken into account. It Security Income Program as lt relates speclfl. appears that the states which had provided is if the communists preva.ll we shall be ca.lly to Senior Citizens. cast into the abyss of eternal darkness. additional money above the federal grant It might be helpful to begin with a brief are interested in reducing their share of the Let us reiterate that our concern is not description of SAC. We are a group of peo really the amount of additional aid-in the expense, and have not passed along Social ple who are representatives of agencies serv Security and other federal pension increases. instant case, 300 million U.S. dollars-but ing the aged, the poor, and the physically, the basic attitude of your government vis-a. There has been no increase in the amount mentally and emotionally handicapped 1n of the SSI check in New York State, except vis our country. We are realistic and cog Suffolk County. SAC was organized with the nizant of the mood prevailing in your coun for the $10 food stamp cash-out allotment, assistance of the Suffolk County Community since January, 1974, even though the cost try on further assistance to us. If we are Council with the purpose of forming a union repetitious in our concern and preoccupa of living has risen sharply over the past year. of interested professionals and recipients to Provisions must be made to mandate the tion with the basic U.S. attitude toward us, deal with the serious problems engendered it is because we look at the great American pass-along of cost of living increases in Social by the SSI program. Our first official meet Security and other federal pensions to SSI nation as imbued with the most lofty of ing was four months ago, and since then we ideals and altruism. In this conviction we recipients. currently, the automatic increases have set up a county task force, a federal in these programs are deducted from the SSI do not want to be disappointed. state task force and have formed the Suf In arguing for a cutoff of American assist check, although they are now given to all folk County SSI Monitoring Program in other social security pensioners regardless ance even if it entails the collapse of South which documentation was collected regard Vietnam and a communist takeover, some of the other sources of unearned income. ing the inadequacies of SSI. Contractual hold-harmless provision agree. may say it couldn't be helped and that we Approximately two hundred actual cases deserve it. ments with certain states must be corrected have been received from community agencies, to force these states to pass on to SSI re Somehow we conceive that deep in the and we are now in the process of obtaining cioients the increases granted in the federal American psyche, a tortured voice will say further documentation through a volunteer SSI allotment. this is wrong and will not consign South program to interview individual recipients. (3) Due to the fact that rents and utilities Vietnamese to a fate they do not want nor The documentation received to date lllus are so exorbitant in the Suffolk County area, deserve. tra.tes tragic and pathetic instances of how the basic need for adequate nutrition is not An abrupt, if inglorious, end of the Amer our senior citizens are forced to live. For being met. The states had the option to ican commitment in Vietnam is a trau example, one agency related the story of an exclude food stamps from the SSI program elderly woman on SSI who, because of the and substitute a cash grant. The $10 cash matic experience too disturbing to contem high rent she is forced to pay, has very little plate . ... money left for food. As a result, her diet at given in New York State instead of food Best wishes always and love to you from stamps is totally inadequate to meet the the beginning of the month consists mainly needs of the aged and ha.s caused malnutri Vietnam. of oatmeal, and she has no food left at the Your Vietnamese friends. tion and severe physical problems. Nutrition end of the month. In order to alleviate her centers a.nd other senior citizen food pro hunger pains she fills her stomach with grams have attempted to alleviate this situa water. A worker at a nutrition center told tion, but their funds are not adequate to us that the elderly people in the program handle the overwhelming amount of people SENIOR CITIZENS AND THE come to the center with their pockets filled who a.sk for help. The food stamp program ECONOMY with plastic bags. After they have eaten their provides a. method to give additional flexi meal they return for seconds and put this bil1ty so that benefits rise with infl.a.tion, and food into the plastic bags in order to eat a therefore the food stamp cash-out option HON. THOMAS J. DOWNEY meal a.t home. should be eliminated in state agreements. OF NEW YORK A few recipients over 65 a.re fortunate ( 4) Every senior citizen who is receiving IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES enough to have relatives or friends who are SSI has to be "re-determined" eligible each year. This re-determination consists solely Monday, March 17, 1975 kind enough to provide a few meals a. month for them, but these a.re the exception rather of re-evaluating the income, resources, a.nd Mr. DOWNEY. Mr. Speaker, on March than the rule. The majority of the recipients living arrangements of the recipient. Annual 3, I held a daylong public hearing in my have to make due and eke out an existence re-determination should be done by mailed district on senior citizens and the econ- on the ludicrously inadequate amount of a.ffida.vit from the cllent rather than a face- March 17, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7015
to-face interview, and if there is no change but for all those senior citizens living on Under my bill the clergy are consid a simple statement should be sufiicient. fixed incomes. ered as self -employed unless they opt out The information received through the SSI 1. Because of the wide variations in cost of social security coverage but in addi Monitoring Program and from the many pro of living throughout the country I would tion they may be considered as employees fessionals who attend SAC meeting reveals urge that the federal government recognize if they: First, voluntarily choose this the kinds of attitudes that our senior citizens regional dlfferences and provide for increased have concerning SSI. Some of the aged feel grants in high cost areas. Also, Social Secu kind of coverage ; and second, the church that they are lucky to be getting any help rity cost of living increases should be passed to which they are assigned makes this at all from the federal government and along to recipients of SSI without lowering election also. If either the church or the should be grateful for the small amount of the supplement. minister does not choose the employee money they receive each month. Some people, 2. Congress has acted to continue the Food coverage, then the clergyman reverts who have worked most of their lives, are now Stamp program. I should like to urge that back to the status of self-employed, un too proud to ask for a reasonably comforta the cash out value of food stamps be raised less he has chosen to be out of the pro ble existence in their retirement years. Some to the 1974 cost level (instead of 1972) and are so intimidated by the whole system that that SSI recipients be allowed to choose be gram altogether. they would rather starve than go through tween the cash out value or food stamps. I do not believe that this change would the humiliation of "computer breakdown," 3. Congress should concern itself with the bring undue expense to the churches and red tape, and dispassionate treatment at the problem of housing for the fixed income per if it does, they are free to reject it. I hands of the Social Security system. And son, with more extensive tax abatement pro would like to see ministers have this some are standing up for their right to a grams not only for the homeowner, but the consideration. decent life and using the tremendous power landlord who rents to the elderly person. Sometimes we tend to forget that that their organized numbers can give them. 4. The Social Security Administration clergymen often have the same family Your obvious concern for our senior cit should have additional personnel trained to izens is extremely gratifying to all of us in assist recipients who have problems, either expenses that the rest of us have, with SAC, and we hope that your interest is through referral to appropriate community less expectation of financial remunera shared by the other members of our resources or through close coordination with tion. They must maintain homes and government. local departments of social services. educate their families and contend with Thank you. 5. Provision must be made for emergency the high cost of everything. assistance as well as other services which While in no way can they be fully com TESTIMONY BY HELEN J. GOULD may be essential for maintaining a person in pensated for the kind of service they Congressman Downey, Senior Citizens and their own place of residence such as home perform, the dedication and sacrifice friends, I count :tt a privilege to testify a.t health aides, therapeutic aids, etc. they willingly offer, we can make it a bit this hearing concerned with Senior Citizens 6. Congress should prevent the further curtailment of Medicare. It is only as people easier for them financially in this simple and the Economy. As executive director of way, by lessening the amount they must the Suffolk Community Council I have had can secure proper health care, that deblllty considerable contact with various senior citi and institutionalization can be prevented. pay for the retirement needs they face. zen groups in this county and am also a 7. Congress should encourage the develop I believe this Congress will recognize how member of the Temporary Committee to ment of mass transportation. The isolation profoundly clergymen deserve our sup Monitor SSI, a state-wide committee estab of the elderly and their inabillty to seek help port and assistance and will take rapid lished by the New York State Ofiice for the and health care, to shop, etc. is a. big factor action on this proposal. Aging. The Suffolk Community Council has in declining morale and health. a Committee on Aging and also sponsors the 8. The nutrition program has been voted Retired Senior Volunteer Program which is for an additional three years. Further ex funded by ACTION as well as by local sup pansion of this program through increased GOD AND AMERICA port. funding would be desirable. From all of these contacts there is over In conclusion I should like to urge that whelming evidence that senior citizens are Congress guard carefully the tendency to HON. WILLIAM H. HARSHA cut programs due to time of severe reces being adversely affected by the straitened OJ' OHIO economy. These people are the generation sion. These citizens who have contributed which suffered through our country's most through their labor and service to the wealth IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES severe depression of the '30's, agonized and and stability of this country should not now Monday, March 17, 1975 suffered through World War II and the be left in need. Budget cutting can be done Korean War and now-at a point in life when in many other areas--but not in human Mr. HARSHA. Mr. Speaker, a young they should be able to enjoy retirement on services. constituent of mine, Brian Stump, who hard won savings, watch those savings being Thank you. is a fifth grade student of Milford South steadily eroded by soaring inflation. Elementary School, in Milford, Ohio, re When Congress enacted the legislation cently won first place oratorical honors which developed the Social Security Supple in a competition sponsored by the Love mental Income, most of us were pleased that MINISTERS AND THEIR SOCIAL the aged, blind and disabled would be re SECURITY land, Ohio, Fraternal Order of Eagles, moved from the welfare rolls and become with an epistle to the glory of God and recipients instead of this form of social in America. surance. Unfortunately, our hopes have been HON. J. EDWARD ROUSH The eloquence with which this young shattered because of the prevailing economy. OF INDIANA man expresses his beliefs in the benevo Hardship, deprivation, loss of dignity, abject IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES lent good of mankind, his optimism for despair are the hallmarks of this program the future of mankind, his optimism for in all too many cases. Monday, March 17, 1975 The Committee on Aging of the Suffolk God and his country, has greatly im Mr. ROUSH. Mr. Speaker I am today pressed me. Additionally, the mature Community Council has been monitoring reintroducing a bill which I have spon the SSI Program since its inception, Janu caliber of this offering speaks highly of ary 1, 1974. Because of the obvious problems, sored before and which I hope the Ways the educational instruction received by the Council was instrumental in developing a and Means Committee will have time to Brian from his teacher, Mrs. Ida Mae Suffolk Action Coalition, composed of recip consider early this year. I am joined in Mills, and the institution in which she ients and agency personnel, which is serving this effort by a number of my colleagues works. as an advocacy group. The Coalition can in the House. speak directly about problems it has discov I would like to insert this letter in the This is a bill to change the present CONGRESSIONAL RECORD at this time for ered in the SSI program in Suffolk County. status of clergy under the social security In many states the federal payment ex the information and inspiration of my ceeds the former public assistance grant. system from that of self-employed-with colleagues and others who have the op New York State offers the supplement which a higher tax rate-to that of employed with a lower one. I introduce this pro portunity to read the RECORD. is the fourth highest average supplement in The text follows: the country. Even with this grant, however, posal at the r"3quest of clergymen from people cannot manage to exist. People are my district who are increasingly bur GoD AND AMERICA literally hungry, cold, and 111. Their suffer dened with the high cost of living. (By Brian Stump) ing is generally concealed in lonely rooms. The bill I am introducing allows a When God created America, He must have Their pride and confusion prevents their number of options. Under the present planned for it to be a great nation. We have seeking assistance and making known their independence and freedom, rights and Ub needs. Private, voluntary agencies cannot law clergy are considered as covered erty. In the battles beside our allies, we have meet the known needs, while public agen under social security as self-employed been strong, but not brutal. We have defeated cies are controlled by restrictive mandates. unless they choose to remove themselves our enemies in wars of mankind, but when I should like to propose some solutions to during the first 2 years in which they we do fight with our foes, it ls for good. these problems, not only for SSI recipients, are practicing ministers. reason. 7016 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 17, 1975 Even though all men have sinned, we are A graduate of the University of Kansas not have the record show that Congressman stlll faithful to God. There are many dl! School of Business, Stang received his law Dom's record during his years on this Com ferent religions, but we are reverent to them. degree in 1957 from the University of Kansas mittee, culminated by his election to the God created all men equal. Black or white, and entered private practice in LaCrosse. He chairmanship, wlll be difficult to match. The red or yellow, all men are the same on the later received a Juris Doctor from the Uni Veterans of Foreign Wars, the veterans of inside. Some men are prejudiced against versity of Kansas School of Law. this nation and their dependents, wm be other men's color, race and nationallty, but He is a member of the LaCrosse Chamber forever indebted to Chairman Dorn. there is really no reason for them to be of Commerce, Lions Club, American Legion, America's 29 million veterans and their prejudiced. We do not always live by the the state and national Bar Associations and dependents are most fortunate to have an Ten Commandments, but every man has good a legal fraternity. He has been active in the other great American elected as Chairman of in him, if only a small amount. God made Boy Scout organization for a number of years this Committee. You are well known, Mr. man In His image, above all other creatures. and is presently a member of the National Roberts, throughout the Veterans of Foreign We live in a hostlle world, but kindness Eagle Scout Association. Wars for your accomplishments and achieve can be found in many a home. America is a He and his wife, Mary Lou, live at 319 ments in behalf of veterans prograins. The country of brotherhood and liberty! Fairway Drive, Lacrosse, with their three Veterans of Foreign Wars extends best daughters, Karen, Sharon and Debra. wishes to you for every success as the leader Mr. Chairman, members of the Veterans' of this Committee with its jurisdiction over Affairs Committee and fellow comrades of veterans rights and benefits which affect our LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM FOR VFW the V.F.W., I am proud to present to you nation's veterans and their families. my personal friend and neighbor, the The legislative program of the Veterans Commander-in-Chief of the Veterans of For of Foreign Wars is established by approval eign Wars, John J . Stang. of resolutions by the delegates, representing HON. KEITH G. SEBELIUS our membership at our annual National OF KANSAS STATEMENT OF JOHN J. STANG, COMMANDER Conventions. Our most recent National Con IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN-CHIEF, VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS vention, which was held in Chicago last Au gust, approved about 300 resolutions. The Monday, March 17. 1975 Mr. Chairman and members of the Com mittee: It is a great privilege to appear before majority of these resolutions relate to legis Mr. SEBELIUS. Mr. Speaker, this week your Committee to present the legislative lation and prograins which come within the I had the honor and privilege of intro program of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of jurisdiction of this Committee. Following ducing John Stang, the commander in our Convention, I appointed National Legis the United States. lative and National Security and Foreign Af chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, For the benefit of the many new members fairs Committees, which met here in Wash prior to his statement before the House of the Commit tee, the Veterans of Foreign ington, D.C. to review these resolutions. As Veterans' Affairs Committee. Command Wars was founded in 1899 when a handful the result of those meetings, a representa er Stang is a distinguished American of veterans of the Spanish American War met at several cities in the nation to discuss tive list of our national resolutions was rec and an outstanding citizen from the big mutual problems returning veterans of that ommended by the Committees, and I have First District of Kansas which I am priv conflict were encountering. These Spanish approved as Commander-in-Chief our Prior ileged to represent. I feel his statement American war veterans later joined together ity Legislative and National Security pro outlining the legislative program for the to establish the Veterans of Foreign Wars grains for 1975. These prograins have been VFW is a positive plan of action which of the United States. From that small be printed in an attractive brochure, a copy of ginning in 1899, our organization has grown which has been furnished to each Member of merits the consideration of all of my Congress and Government officials having a colleagues and I submit it for your atten steadily. Today we have the largest member ship in our history--over 1.8 million mem responsibility for carrying out veterans pro tion and consideration at this time: bers. This is our twenty-second successive grains. It will be deeply appreciated if a. copy INTRODUCTION BY KEITH G. SEBELIUS year of membership growth. We are hoping of the Digest of our national mandates Mr. Chairman, the "Big First" District of that when we go to our National Convention adopted by the delegates attending our Chi Kansas is made up of 57 counties-the west in Los Angeles next August we wlll have cago National Convention and a copy of the ern sixty per cent of Kansas, and right attained the two million mark. brochure, listing our 1975 priority goals, be smack-dab in the middle of that area is With me today are the leadership of the made a part of my remarks at the conclu LaCrosse, Kansas, population 1750, the home Veterans of Foreign Wars who are directly sion of my statement. town of John J. Stang, the Commander-in responsible for the growth and vitality of our For the purpose of entitlement to veterans Chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. organization. Most are elected national or benefits, the term "period of war" includes His milltary involvement began at an early state officers of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. the Vietnam era which began on August 5, age because he enlisted in the Army in 1946 They represent all levels of our organization 1964. On March 29, 1973 the last American following graduation from high school. After from all over the nation and several foreign soldier departed from Vietnam. The Vietnam completing active duty he was discharged countries. They and their predecessors have era continues unless ended by Presidential as a staff sergeant, entered college and en helped m ake the Veterans of Foreign Wars Proclamation or concurrent resolution of the rolled in the Reserve Officers Training Corps. the greatest veterans organ12lation in the Co~gress. He was commissioned in 1950 and immedi land. I know I speak for every one of them The President may at any time terminate ately was called to active duty in the Korean when I express my deep appreciation for the the Vietnam era.; that will end entitlement to War, serving as executive officer of an artil opportunity to be here before your great veterans rights and benefits to which all lery battery. He was separated from active Committee. wartime veterans are entitled. duty in 1952 as a first lieutenant. Time does not permit a description of our You of all people, however, are aware During the 1961 Berlin Crisis, Stang was many prograins which carry out the high that an Act of Congress is required to termi again called to active duty. At the time he purpose of the Veterans of Foreign Wars nate entitlement to education, training, and was Junior Vice Commander of the V :F.W. "To Honor the Dead by Helping the Living." housing benefits which are generally called Department (state) of Kansas. He was re One of these prograins, however, is our Voice GI Bill benefits. When the third GI B111 was leased in 1962 and recently was graduated of Democracy program, a script-writing con enacted in 1966, compulsory m111tary train from the Command and General Staff College test with over 500,000 participants made up ing was expected to continue indefinitely. at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. of high school students from the 50 states, In the meantime our nation has adopted the Stang has held most V.F.W. Post and Dis the District of Columbia, Pacific Areas, and concept of an all-volunteer armed force. The trict offices. He was elected Kansas Depart the Panama. Canal Zone. The theme this year last draftee has completed his service re ment Commander in 1963. He has served on is "My Responsibility as a Citizen." Five quirements. Today we have an all-volunteer the National Council of Administration as scholarships totaling $22,500 will be awarded armed forces. vice chairman of the National Security C~m to the first five winners at our Banquet to With these facts in mind, the Veterans of mittee and chairman of the National Legis night which honors Members of Congress. Foreign Wars will support action by the lative Committee in 1970-71, when V.F.W. Tile young man or woman who places first President to end entitlement to veterans officials met for the first time 1n Washington, will receive a. $10,000 scholarship, to be used benefits for peacetime soldiers, unless such D.C., during the Mid-Winter Conference. He at the college or university of his or her service is recognized by the awarding of a served as Judge Advocate General in 1971-72 choice. You may have observed these Voice campaign badge or medal. and then as Junior and Senior Vice Com of Democracy State and Department winners I hasten to add that there are many rights mander before his election as Commander are with me this morning. and benefits to which peacetime service in-Chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of Mr. Chairman, in addition to the new men are entitled. For example, compensa the United States at the organization's 75th members on this Committee, we sadly note tion payments for service connected disabll annual National Convention, August 15-23, that many long-time friends and familiar ities a.re paid at wartime r81tes for all who 1974 held in Chicago, Dllnois. faces have left the Congress or are serving are on active duty in the armed forces to He has been active in his community and on other committees. Most notably absent the same extent as if such disab111ties oc state and has served on the City Commission is your immediate predecessor, the Honor curred during wartime, and the widow, chll of Lacrosse and was Mayor for two years. He able William Jennings Bryan Dorn of South dren, and dependent parents of veterans are has served as County At t orn ey and served Carolina., who served on this Committee with entitled to dependency and indemnity com four years on the three-man Governor ap great distinction for over a quarter of a pensation payments in cases where service pointed Kansas Veterans' Commission. century. I would be highly remiss 1! I did men die while on active duty. March 17, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7'017 Of course, the termination of veterans tragedy to the more than 300,000 who have personnel to carry out its mission. The Vet education and GI Bill training is a matter suffered a cut in their VA pension, must be erans of Foreign Wars is m ost encouraged for the Congress to decide. corrected. that as a result of our joint efforts for the The Veterans of Foreign Wars is ex It is recommended that this Committee first time in five years the Veterans Admin tremely proud of its record of leadership in continue to give close attention to all pro istration budget does not call for a cut in gaining approval of three GI Bills. The posals which will keep all veterans benefit veterans medical and hospital care. rationale for each of the three GI Bills was: programs up with the cost-of-living in There is one proposed cut in the 1976 VA (1) Compulsory milit ary service and (2) Re creases, with special attention on the pen budget which is causing much anxiety in the adjustment assistance to make up for the sion program-not only for those who suf Veterans of Foreign Wars. All indications time lost while serving in the armed forces. fered losses because of the social security in are that the demands on the Veterans Ad For example, the current GI Bill states that creases but also for the World War I veteran. ministration are sharply increasing because among the purposes and intent of Congress As we all know, the average age of World of inflation, recession, and the high unem when it enacted this bill-and I quote as War I veterans is approximately 80. There ployment rate. Information I have received follows: "To provide vocational readjustment are about one million World War I veterans indicates that, for example, many younger and restoring lost educational opportunities w:qo are still living from a total of over four veterans are taking advantage of GI Blll to those service men and women whose million who served during that conflict. The assistance because they cannot find jobs. careers have been interrupted or impeded by time for helping these veterans is now. The Likewise many older veterans are reopening reason of active duty and to aid such per V.F.W. position is found in the number of their claims or are calling upon the Veterans sons in attaining the vocational and edu bills introduced in this 94th Congress and Administration for medical and other serv cational st atus which they might normally referred to this Committee, which will es ices during their enforced idleness. Notwith have aspired to and obtained had they not tablish a separate and more generous pension standing this trend of increasing demands served t h eir country." program for World War I veterans. on the Veterans Administration, the 1976 Now all is changed. We have an all-volun The Veterans of Foreign Wars has always Veterans Administration budget calls for a teer army. One of the inducements for vol opposed veterans benefits being paid to non cut of 595 in the average employment in the unteering in the armed forces is t he prospect veterans. We object to any and all proposals Veterans Administration Regional Offices of a college education under the GI Bill. to authorize veterans assistance to a citizen throughout the country and another cut of 'The Veterans of Foreign Wars has always who has never worn the uniform. You will 463 for the administration of non-medical stood for universal mllitary training. We recall that bills in the 93d Congress pro programs in the Veterans Administration's have never achieved that goal. The Veterans posing veterans assistance to conscientious Central Office. These anticipated personnel of Foreign Wars has, however, supported objectors have met with a strong protest by cuts are most disturbing to the Veterans of measures through the years to assure that the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Foreign Wars, and we will be urging the Con this nation's military requirements and man There are efforts to authorize veterans gress to provide the necessary funds, so that power needs are met. In that regard, the benefits for former servicemen whose less the Veterans Adminllitration can have the Veterans of Foreign Wars would certainly than honorable service has disqualified them manpower it needs to adequately serve vet give every consideration and support to for entitlement to veterans assistance. erans. continue the GI Bill as a valuable induce The Veterans of Foreign Wars opposed the Another issue of in tense concern to the ment to maintain our manpower needs in establishment of the clemency board with Veterans of Foreign Wars, which is not the armed forces. its power to grant clemency discharges under directly before this Committee, is the shift However, we do not believe that the cost certain conditions. The V.F.W. has received ing of Veterans Day back to November 11th. of the GI Bill for persons entering the armed reports that some are advocating that per The Veterans of Foreign Wars believes that forces should be charged against the Vet sons receiving a clemency discharge be Congress made a mistake in 1968 when, in erans Administration budget, but, more prop granted GI Bill and other veterans assist enacting the Monday holiday law, it provided erly and accurately, the cost of the GI Bill ance. The approving of veterans assistance for the shifting of Veterans Day to the last as a recruiting device, should be charged to to those who receive a clemency discharge Monday of October. In the interim we have the Department of Defense as part of the would be a forgiveness, a kind of amnesty discovered that so far as Veterans Day is cost of our national security. for the commission of acts heretofore held concerned, it just hasn't worked out. The one Mr. Chairman-speaking of the Veterans to be less than honorable. day of the year which has significance so far Administration budget--it is noted that a Mr. Chairman, the position of the Veterans as veterans are concerned is the original large portion of the budget involves monthly of Foreign Wars regarding amnesty is known Armistice Day, which in 1954 was designated payments to veterans and their dependents. by the great majority of Americans. We are "Veterans Day" by an Act of Congress. 45 I am speaking of compensation for the totally opposed to blanket amnesty of any states have changed Veterans Day back to service-connected, dependency and indem kind-yesterday, today, or tomorrow. November 11th as a state holiday. These nity compensation for the survivors of vet Over the years, under the leadership of states represent about 88 percent of the 29 erans killed on the battlefield or who have this great Committee, there has been estab million living veterans. Congress must change died of service connected causes, pension lished for veterans the finest and best medi Veterans Day back to November 11th as a payments to elderly and needy veterans and cal care system the world has ever known. national holiday. their dependents, GI Bill payments to Viet Admittedly, the Veterans Administration Mr. Chairman, the Congress has always nam veterans, and educational assistance hospital and medical care system has from been most compassionate and generous in its to dependents of veterans who are totally time to time suffered from lack of funds, treatment of veterans and their dependents. disabled or died of service-connected causes. personnel, and budgetary restrictions and The passage of the Vietnam Veterans Educa All of these programs are affected almost other problems. Notwithstanding the prob tion and Training Bill is an outstanding daily by the runaway inflation we are lem, 171 Veterans Administration hospitals example of why the Congress is of vital im experiencing. and other Veterans Administration medical portance to veterans and their dependents. The Veterans of Foreign Wars is extremely facilities constitute a great national asset. It The resounding, overwhelming vote to over pleased that this Committee has initiated is expected, for example, that 1.2 million ride the President's veto of the Vietnam Vet legislation, the Congress has approved, and veterans wlll be extended some kind of care erans Education Bill is an outstanding the President has signed into law several and treatment in these VA hospitals during example of how our government should and measures during the 93rd Congress, which the next fiscal year. does work. I believe that the Vietnam vet have kept veterans payments abreast of the Now there looms on the horizon a national eran is now more nearly on an equal basis cost-of-living increases. health insurance program for all Americans. with veterans of previous wars so far as GI The most recent cost-of-living increase The Veterans of Foreign Wars has no posi Bill benefits are concerned. There are areas was the pension increase bill, Public Law tion regarding a national health program. We which have come to my attention as I travel 93-527, which provided a 12 percent increase wlll, however, oppose any program which, In throughout the nation which are of great in the rates and an increase of $400 in the Its final form, would be the basis for wreck interest to the younger veter~>.u. The con top income limitations. This new pension ing or dismantling the veterans hospital and tinuing, staggeringly hig, ~ unemployment law has prevented about 1.5 million vet medical care system. We will equally oppose rate among Vietnam veterans is their num erans and their dependents from having any national health Insurance program :)er one problem. their pensions cut. An estimated 75,000 which will reduce or wipe out the rights and Mr. Chairman, the recently-passed Viet would have had their pension checks stopped benefits to which veterans are entitled under nam Veterans Education Bill increased the altogether if this law had not been approved. present law regarding medical care an d treat total GI Bill entitlement by nine months or This pension law was strongly supported by ment. from a 36-month period to 45 months. Un the Veterans of Foreign Wars. However, there The Veterans of Foreign Wars commends fortunately, the conference agreement re are a number of veterans, an estimated this Committee for bringing to the attention stricted the use of the additional nine 300,000, who have E'xperienced reductions in of the nation the problems being encountered months of entitlement to those veterans their Veterans Administration pension pay by the Veterans Administration in its efforts pursuing a program of ed ·, .>oi~tlon leading to ments. This was not anticipated and most to provide the highest quallty medical care an undergraduate deg· ... The baccalaureate unfortunate, since it was believed that the for veterans. It will be recalled that this degree restriction on tne extra nine months increases approved in this new pension law Committee, in its oversight capacity of vet is proving to be most inequitable and has would have prevented any reduction or loss erans programs, obtained hard, irrefutable produced a harsh result among Vietnam vet of pension solely because of the 11 percent evidence from the Veterans of Forei!!'n Wars erans who had expected to use the additional social security increase in 1974. This un and others that the Veterans Administration nine months toward obtaining a graduate expected development, which is a personal medical system needed additional funds and degree. The Veterans of Foreign Wars strongly 7018 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 17, 1975 recommends that this Committee favorably recognizing their error and showing a gone on to become leaders in their pro consider and report a b111 which wm be ap willingness to listen to the people's needs. fessions and in their communities. proved by the 94th Congress, which wm Also deserving mention is the local permit eligible Vietnam veterans to use the I would like to particularly congratu extra nine months' entitlement without re news media who presented the area's late the Marin County chapter of De strictions of any kind. case well. Articles in the Kittanning Molay which has been an active and ef In conclusion, Mr. Chairman, may I again Leader-Times alerted area residents of fective organization which was founded express my sincere gratitude for this op the need for action. And a series of ar in 1921, being sponsored by Marin Lodge portunity to appear before this distinguished ticles in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette by No. 191, Free and Accepted Masons of Committee. David Leherr outlined the problem and San Rafael. I wish them continued suc It is our hope that each of you wlll be focused attention on the line throughout cess. with us tonight at our annual Congressional western Pennsylvania. Banquet at the Sheraton Park Hotel. We wlll be honoring one of your distinguished col Most important, though, were local of leagues, the Honorable Barry M. Goldwater ficials, citizens, and businessmen who TWA PROPOSAL MAKES "CENTS" of Arizona, ranking minority member of the rallied to work on this problem. I would Senate Aeronautical and Space Sciences Com like to include a brief list of them, Mr. mittee, member of the Senate Armed Services Speaker, and extend to them on behalf of HON. JERRY LITTON Committee, and also a member of the Re the U.S. House of Representatives our publican Polley Committee. He wlll be the congratulations for an excellent exam OF MISSOURI twelfth recipient of our Veterans of Foreign ple in community spirit and good gov IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wars Congressional Award for outstanding Monday, March 17, 1975 service to the nation. The dinner w111 begin ernment in action. The local citizens promptly at 7:00 p .m., with a reception include: Mr. LITI'ON. Mr. Speaker, I would like beginning at 6:00p.m. LJ:ST OF LOCAL CITIZENS to urge the special attention of my col Thank you. Mr. Grover Myers, County Commissioner. leagues to recent action taken by Trans Mr. Dean P. Wyant, County Commissioner. World Airlines which would go far in Mr. Ott K. Heilman, County Commis- sioner. remedying the financial plight of the air Mr. Roger Duffy, Executive Director, Arm line industry while at the same time pro A SALUTE TO ARMSTRONG COUNTY strong County Planning Commission. viding the incentive for travel for three Mr. Jack Underwood, Executive Director, classes of citizens who can most fairly Armstrong County Industrial Development and equitably benefit from this action. HON. JOHN P. MURTHA Council. TWA has submitted a proposal with OF PENNSYLVANIA Mr. Gerald R. Shuster, Executive Director, the Civil Aeronautics Board for its ap Middle Armstrong County Chamber of Com proval which would reinstate the youth IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES merce. Monday, March 17, 1975 Mr. Donald R. Bissell, Drexel Dynamics and family plan special fares and initiate Corporation. a new senior citizen fare. The new fares Mr. MURTHA. Mr. Speaker, we always Mr. Steve Miller, Harbison Walker Refrac are scheduled to become effective on hear a great deal about what goes into tories. April 24. I believe our economic situation good government, and what makes gov Mr. Harold Kennedy, Harbison Walker Re today justifies such action which in the ernment work. But over the last few fractories. past the CAB considered discriminatory. weeks in Armstrong County in the 12th Mr. Robert Lang, P.P.G. Industries. The airlines are facing a drastic decline Congressional District we have had a Mr. Jack Hall, Elger Plumblngware Divi sion. in airline traffic coupled with escalating perfect illustration of what combines to Mr. L. U. Brunson, H. M. Pollock Company, costs. TWA believes their proposal would make good government. Inc. provide significant revenue increases, The problem faced by the community Mr. Henry Mortimer, H. M. Pollock Com create consumer savings and reduce the was the report by the U.S. Railway pany, Inc. degree of further fare level increases. Association which called for the aban Mr. J. C. McNees, Continental Clay Prod In the past, when the Board deter donment of a rail line between Schenley ucts. mined that fares of this general type and Templeton. Along this llne are a Mr. Bernard Caruso, Allegheny Ludlum were discriminatory during phase 5 of If Steel Company. number of key industries. this line Mr. John Burdette, Burdette Lumber Com the domestic passenger fare investiga was abandoned it would have cost this pany. tion, the economic environment was to area literally thousands of jobs. Mr. C. W. Young, Joseph S. Finch Com tally different. Now the stark reality of What happened next is a wonderful pany. the picture is grim. Fuel costs have risen tribute to the people of this area and Mr. John Hale, Schenley Industries, Inc. to astronomical proportions; citizens who to our Government system. The local in prior times traveled with the airlines community leaders pulled together to frequently, are now refraining or seek make a new presentation to the U.S. THE 56TH ANNIVERSARY OF FOUND ing alternative modes of travel; pas Railway Association on the need for the ING OF DEMOLAY senger costs have risen and the airline line. Community businessmen and polit industry Is facing the deepest recession ical leaders pulled together to obtain the ary period in commercial aviation his facts and :figures to present to the U.S. HON. JOHN L. BURTON tory. Railway Association on the need for this OF CALIFORNIA The Board stated when it called for line. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the phasing out of discount fares that In Harrisburg, Gov. Milton Shapp the airlines' capacity had increased to focused attention of the rail proposal's Monday, March 17, 1975 the point that they could now accommo effects in Pennsylvania and noted the Mr. JOHN L. BURTON. Mr. Speaker, date at standard fares those who had hardship caused by the proposal aban the week of March 16 to March 23, 1975, been traveling at reduced rates. The doning the Armstrong County line. In is DeMolay week, celebrating the 56th problem Is that now in the time of eco Washington, Senator RICHARD SCHWEI anniversary of the founding of DeMolay. nomic pain, there Is a reduced demand KER joined us in criticizing the plan and The Order of DeMolay began in 1919 as for the airlines' increased capacity. focusing attention on the problem. a result of a young social worker's desire There is an imbalance between the air The end result: After a public hearing to provide fatherly advice to a boy whose craft size and traffic demands. The pro in Pittsburgh where the testimony on father had been killed in a tragic acci posal for reduced rates seem not only to the line was presented, the U.S. Railway dent. The organization has remained be pragmatic at this time but also Association reversed its decision and an vital throughout the years and deserves necessary. nounced the end of last week that the our recognition. TWA has adequately shown that their line would be included in their plan. DeMolay has built better citizens, of proposals will meet the profit impact test Many persons, Mr. Speaker, besides fering a complete program of all-around required by the CAB. Further, they have those I have already mentioned deserve youth development. Thousands of young designed the program so that it will ex credit. At the outset the U.S. Railway men who first acquired their leadership pire in 9% months, instead of the 18 Association should be congratulated for abilities in their DeMolay chapters have months allowed by the CAB so as to in- March 17, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7019 sure a fair and accurate evaluation. TWA approve this proposal and that TWA It was my privilege to be a student at has proposed its fares so as to maximize and other airlines will proceed with their Cleveland High School during her tenure generation and minimize diversion. Its plans. as coach there, and I must say that her proposals also meet the requirement that ability as a teacher and coach has grown the profits from generated traffic suffi rather than diminished through the ciently exceed the loss of profits from DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY years. Coach Wade was an outstanding those who are allowed to travel by re player in her own right, playing as a duced rates, but had originally traveled member of Delta State's Lady Statesmen by regular fare. HON. DAVID R. BOWEN in 1929-32 and serving as captain of the My understanding is that the reasons OF MISSISSIPPI team. behind the CAB's decision to eliminate IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Accompanying Coach Wade and the discount fares is based on the judgment Monday, March 17, 197~ team to Washington and the national that there are certain groups of citizens championship tournament at Harrison who get preferential treatment beyond Mr. BOWEN. Mr. Speaker, one of the burg. are two outstanding young college that which other citizens are allowed. In most progressive and rapidly developing administrators, Dr. Aubrey Lucas, presi this specific case it is true that single institutions of higher learning in our dent of Delta State and Dr. Kent Wyatt, persons traveling alone between the ages most progressive and ra_pidly developing administrative assistant to the president of 21 and 65 will not be allowed to bene of Cleveland, Miss. Delta State Univer and the president-elect of the university. fit from this action. But the practice of sity has progressed the past half-century I have known both of these educators :flying half-full planes around the world from a :fledgling teachers' college to one for several years, and it has been my is becoming a luxury we can no longer of our State's eight universities and is privilege to work closely with both of tolerate nor afford. now playing a leading role in providing them as we seek to build our State and The youth and senior citizens proposal educational opportunities for a grow its university system. will operate on a standby basis. Advance ing number of young Mississippians. This fine university in recent years has Much of the credit for the growth and reservations are not allowed so as to not development of Delta State University inconvenience anyone or impose on those seen its enrollment increase from only a must go to these men and the faculty traveling by standard fare. Youth and few hundred to more than 3,300, and its and student body which have developed senior citizens will be able to travel at educational future is indeed a bright one, as both its graduate facilities and its under their leadership. two-thirds the regular cost of coach Regardless of the outcome in the tour available all year, except for holidays. ' undergraduate programs are expanded. This week I am pleased to inform the nament this week in Harrisonburg, the TWA estimates that 414,900 youth pas people of Mississippi can be justly proud sengers will use the fare, 226,500 of which Congress that Delta State University will be in the athletic spotlight, while carry of the record that Delta State Univer ~ be newly generated passengers. They ing on its fine academic program. sity, the Lady Statesmen and Coach estimate the youth fares will contribute Wade, Dr. Lucas and Dr. Wyatt have $3.9 million to TWA's profits. TWA's re The Delta State University women's basketball team, which is undefeated in compiled. I know my colleagues join me cords show that since the elimination in wishing them well. of the youth fare in June of 1974 youth 24 games this season, will visit us this travel declined l)y 26.7 percent or almost week while en route to the national 180,000 passengers compared with the championship tournament in Harrison same period in 1972. This declining pat burg, Va., sponsored by the Association tern has continued. of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women LITHUANIAN INDEPENDENCE In initiating the new senior citizens AIAW. fares TWA reasons that this group of These outstanding young women ath citizens would be greatly deserving of a lete-scholars, under the leadership of - Coach Margaret Wade, are a credit to HON. FRANK THOMPSON, JR. benefit such as this one. They have been their university, their State and their OF NEW JERSEY one of the worst hit group of citizens by IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES inflation and are currently operating on families and communities. Those inter ested in how to formulate a sound col Monday, March 17, 1975 a fixed income. The data shows that 50 lege athletic program will be interested percent of the total passengers using the to know that all members of this fine Mr. THOMPSON. Mr. Speaker, on senior citizen fare will be newly gen team except one are native Mississippi February 16, 1975, Americans of Lithu erated. It is estimated that 259,300 pas ans. anian origin and descent commemorated sengers will utilize the new fare of which In addition to winning all 24 games the 57th anniversary of Lithuanian in 129,650 will be newly generated.' The pro thus far in the 1974-75 season, the Lady dependence. I wish to join with many posed fares will contribute about $1.5 Statesmen have left no doubt about their other Members of this body in extending million in additional profits. superior caliber of play. They have out my very best wishes to the people of The family plan was proposed in hopes scored the opposition by a margin of 30 Lithuania and to all Americans of of encouraging spouses to accompany points a game, averaging 89 points a con Lithuanian descent. pers<;>ns on business trips. It requires a test to only 59.1 for their opponents. The people of Lithuania have strug maximum stay of 6 days and is available Even such men's collegiate powerhouses gled long and hard to maintain their only in the off-peak season. It allows for as Indiana and Maryland shGuld be envi sense of cultural identity and independ the family head to pay 100 percent of ous of this outstanding display of ath ence. Although the Constitution of the coach fare with spouse or children pay letic sklll and teamwork. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics con ing two-thirds of coach fare. TWA esti Much of the credit for the Lady tain.c:; some eloquent language concerning mates the proposed family plan fares will Statesmen's record must go to their out religious and cultural freedom, in point contribute $2.5 million to TWA's profits standing coach, Margaret Wade, truly of fact, the very opposite appears true TWA estimates that had the family pia~ one of America's great women coaches. in the Soviet Union today. Protests by been in effect during the last 6 months To those of us who have known Coach Lithuanians and other people within the of 1974 total revenue would have Wade over the years, it is no surprise amounted to $14.5 million. Today, total Soviet Union against religious and po that she has turned out another winning litical persecution have attracted world revenue from this group of passengers team. Her record in coaching high school has dropped from $14.5 million-when wide attention. Americans have long ad and college women's basketball rivals mired the courage of the Lithuanian peo this plan was in operation-to $12.5 that of such male counterparts as the million. legendary Adolph Rupp of Kentucky and ple in the face of adversity and support TWA estimates total profit return from Clair Bee of Long Island University. In them in their struggle to obtain basic these three proposals will be around $8 fact, her career won-loss record of 375 rights guaranteed under the Soviet Con- million this year. They planned their wins and only 69 losses and .845 percent stitution. proposal so that no one is inconven age outranks even those distinguished All Americans rightly join in saluting ienced. It is my hope that CAB will coaches. the people of Lithuania on this occasion. 7020 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 17, 1975 UNEMPLOYMENT STRAINS Meanwhile, Mr. Smith has had to scram Beach food-stamp worker was kicked by a THE SYSTEM ble to survive. He borrowed $300 from a furious applicant. In the Detroit area, an friend to meet the remaining payments on impatient applicant brandished a gun in an his four-year-old car, and he and his chil unemployment line and demanded an lmme HON. DOMINICK V. DANIELS dren now eat all their meals at his mother's diate relief check. OF NEW JERSEY house. "You know, you always hear about Waiting--sometimes as much as two people on relief being loafers and para months before any benefits come through IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sites," he reflects. "But let me tell you, it is clearly the primary cause of such inci Monday, March 17, 1975 sure is rough trying to make ends meet. I'd dents. rather be working any day.'' It all begins as soon as a jobless worker Mr. DOMINICK V. DANIELS. Mr. The frustrations of Mr. Smith, trying to goes to his local unemployment office to Speaker, unemployment statistics-albeit feed and clothe himself and his children, apply for benefits. After enduring long lines high-hold little meaning in the robstract. and those of dedicated workers like Kathy, and finally reaching the clerk behind the No amount of numerical accounting of trying to help thousands of discouraged peo counter, out come the foriDS: white 425 the swelling ranks of the jobless can fully ple, are indicative of the pressures that foriDS; pink 425R forms; blue 402 foriDS; depict the real tragedy that loss of in have been mounting on federal, state and pink forms, green forms. local agencies since last November. Begin Once completed, the foriDS must be maUed come inflicts on millions of American ning about then, huge numbers of unem for verification to the applicant's employers workers and their families. ployed citizens descended on the agencies, in the most recent 12 months. Depending on It is in this context that I want to call creating workloads of two and three times the number of employers, whether the forms my colleagues' attention to a highly illu normal size almost overnight. get mislaid or sent to the wrong person, and minating article in the Wall Street Jour Moreover, the worst may be yet to come. the employer's own paper-work backlogs, nal, March 14, 1975. Here is a story of "If the general economy doesn't improve delays can be extensive. Completion of the the hardships, despair, and frustration by, say, June, Lord, we're really going to be file frequently takes a month or more, and that far too many of our out-of-work in trouble," declares Samuel Bauer, direc this doesn't count further processing at the citizens must endure to collect unemploy tor of the Cuyahoga County welfare depart state level. In the best of times, the process ment, which is responsible for the Cleveland oa.n take three or four weeks; under present ment insurance checks and food stamps. area. A major worry for Mr. Bauer and offi conditions it often takes eight weeks or The frequent case is one of long delays, cials elsewhere is that by about Inid-year, more. innumerable trips to unemployment of supplemental unemployment benefits, which YOU WORK SO HARD fices and weeks-even months~f wait pay many laid-off workers up to 95% of The paper-work foul-ups understandably ing ' before receipt of compensation their normal take-home pay, will be ex anger applicants. They also take their toll checks. And although the Journal's ar hausted. That wlll probably throw large on agency employes. Mrs. Elizabeth Brower, numbers of additional workers into the ticle discusses the situation in Cleveland, for instance, is almost hidden from view as Ohio, the same tale is repeated in cities food-stamp and relief quagmire. she sits at her desk in the monetary-compu and towns across the country. THE SYSTEM BREAKS DOWN tation section of the Cleveland unemploy I am including the text of the article The current long delay in getting benefits ment office surrounded by metal tubs full of to the jobless is a direct result of the sharp pink- and green-edged file folders, wire bas to f.ocus attention on the magnitude of economic downturn late last year. The sud kets, and stray stacks of more folders. "You the problem: den rise in unemployment flooded the agen work so hard, yet you always seem to be [From the Wall Street Journal, Mar. 14, 1975] cies with applicants and clogged up the flow starting over with more work," she says, RISING UNEMPLOYMENT STRAINS THE RE- of paper work. New clerks couldn't be whlle opening her umpteenth folder of the SOURCES OF WELFARE AGENCIES trained fast enough to keep up. Complex day to figure out the proper weekly benefits. (By Ph111p Revzin) regulations, requiring a myriad of foriDS to "It's discouraging sometimes, like you're be filled out properly, added more delay. As not making any progress." Mrs. Brower, like CLEVELAND.-Kathy K ., a petite, soft-spoken the system got more sluggish, both appli most Cleveland unemployment-agency 24-year-old welfare-department caseworker, cants and processors became increasingly workers, has been putting in 54- to 60-hour was in the Inidst of a particularly frustrating frustrated, fatigued, and prone to time-con weeks since November, working evenings, discussion with a food-stamp applicant. She suining errors. Saturdays and holidays. And she is worn out: was trying to explain tricky regulations and Critics of the system say the delays should "I've really got to push myself to get up in eligibility requirements to a woman who sim have been avoided. A Senate subcommittee the mornings and face another stack of fold ply couldn't understand why her stamps recently heard testimony on ways the Agri ers," she says. would cost her more than they had in the culture Department could streamline the Almost always these days, applicants as past. food-stamp process. Several state officials sume their unemployment benefits will be For almost an hour, Kathy got nowhere, have called for legislative action to end man some time in coming. To tide them over, an d the applicant got angrier. Then Kathy datory waiting periods for unemployment their next stop is the local food -stamp offi.ce, politely excused herself, ducked into the benefits and to reduce the time now con where the workload soared late last year and nearby office of her boss, Robert Dunkle, sumed in verifying information. As yet, how where staffers are also feeling the crunch. and burst into tears. Mr. Dunkle recalls: "In ever, they have faUed to take action, and Charles FitzPatrick, an affable, 27-year-old a few Ininutes, she had herself back together the delays for many applicants whose faini caseworker at the Cleveland office, says he and walked back into the fray." lies may be hungry and in need of clothing and other caseworkers each see about 18 or A fray is an apt description of the scene are simply intolerable. 19 applicants a day, compared with 12 or th ese days at food-stamp centers, unem The widening cracks in the system are 13 a day before November. ployment-compensation offices, and other much in evidence here in Cleveland, where Even so, applicants like Willis Sinith may public and private relief organizations unemployment has mpidly caught up with have to walt up to four weeks just to see a around the country. As the recession deepens the national rate, which was 8.2 o/o in Feb caseworker, the first step in getting food and the unemployed ranks swell, the system ruary. "Up to mid-November, you'd never stamps. But Mr. FitzPatrick, who often skips that is supposed to mitigate the despair of have known there was a recession in Cleve lunch to work, thrives on the heavy work joblessness Is under immense strain, and in land," says Emden Schulze, director of the load. "I find the really hectic times quite some cases it isn't working at all. four Cleveland-area offices of the Ohio Bu gratifying," he says. "It makes me think Just ask Willis Smith, the father of two. reau of Employment Services. "Then we're really accomplishing something-really For the first time in his life, Mr. Smith is whammo." helping people." out of work after being laid off early in Feb Whammo indeed. Long lines of dispirited, But the frustration of it all can some nlary from a job on the assembly line at out-of-work people, many of them jobless for times boil over. Not long ago, Mr. Dunkle, White Motor Corp.'s truck plant here. The the first time, jammed the unemployment the food-stamp department supervisor, was day after he was laid off, Mr. Smith says, offices and stretched into the streets. Clerks working intently at his desk when a big, he applied for unemployment benefits. Five had their hands full directing people to the black umbrella whizzed past his nose and weeks and five trips downtown later, he still proper counters, keeping a semblance o! order slammed onto his desk. The startled Mr. hadn't received his first check. and trying to keep the paper flowing. "At Dunkle looked up at the umbrella-wielder. a SCRAMBLING TO SURVIVE one point, with all the people waiting and all middle-aged woman who declared, "Young Mr. Smith didn't have any savings, and the papers floating around, it got so we man, I want my food stamps." At length, Mr. soon he turned to the welfare agency ror could barely move behind the counter," re Dunkle says, he was able to iron out the food stamps. Three weeks later, he was stlll calls Cheryl Celestin, a clerk at the main woman's diffi.culties with the food-stamp bu waiting. "I can't even get close to the food Cle;Teland unemployment office. reaucracy. stamps," be laments while waiting to see an Despite the crush of people, Cleveland A MAZE OF REGULATIONS examiner at the unemployment office. "It officials haven't had to contend with the vio Aside from difficulties in dealing with edgy got so bad at the food-stamp office the other lence that has erupted occasionally in un and angry applicants, food-stamp and unem day, I just upped and left. The appointment employment offices elsewhere. Los Angeles ployment workers must grapple with dizzy sheet was all full, and it didn't make any County offi.clals, for instance, are thinking ing, complex regulations. Complying with all sense to stay. I'll try again next week." of beefing up guard forces after a Long the rules often adds more delay to the March 17, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7021 bogged-down process. Added to the basic state Its purposes include preserving histori adequate energy supplies at the lowest pos unemployment-compensation regulations, for cal mementos and chronicles of the Pearl sible cost for today and tomorrow. Some example, are separate regulations for new Harbor attack; protecting graves of at sacrifices will have to come. The need is state and federal programs offering addi strong for energy conservation. We have tional weeks of unemployment benefits (a tack victims; and stimulating Americans learned that. total of up to a year in many cases). Unem to a more active interest in the affairs The energy shortages this Nation and its ployment-office director Schulze laments; of the Nation. people witnessed-and suffered-during the "we're now, in effect, administering five Mr. Speaker, there are more than a energy emergency of late 1973 and during separate laws all at once. It's very compli hundred chapters of PHSA spread across much of 1974-are certainly not to be for cated for our clerks, and frankly batfling to most of the United States. I believe these gotten. There are very real dangers it could the applicants." veterans are deserving of a charter of happen again. The complexity of the regulations has During the 1960's-the Vietnam war not slowed efforts by officials like Mr. Schulze incorporation issued by the Federal Gov withstanding-this country's legislators were to quickly hire new staff to reduce the back ernment, and I urge the Judiciary Com embraced in an effort to clean up the en logs. "We hired 70 new people to help out mittee to give early and favorable at vironment. There was the clean air and clean the 100 we had at the downtown office," he tention to this measure. water fight-and the goal to bring about says. "We're working them in as soon as stricter environmental controls. I was blood they are trained, but it takes time. Some ied more than once as I fought for strong times it takes a month or more to get the controls to halt pollution. hang of it all." The Cleveland welfare office ENERGY AND TAX AGENDA FOR Those environmental efforts-which do pulled 40 social workers from other assign THE CONGRESS AND ITS COM continue today-resemble very much the ments and retrained them to process food concentration now on the shape of the U.S. stamp applications. These extra workers have MITTEES energy policy. Energy is the grave topic of the already made a big dent in the backlogs seventies. And, I would add, health care and which were as long as five or six weeks several food production in the United States are days ago. HON. TIMOTHY E. WIRTH urgent. Meanwhile, unemployed people who are OF COLORADO This opportunity today before the national helpless in the face of all the delays are IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES press club is appreciated as I believe we can turning by the thousands to local private develop further thought and provide more agencies for emergency allotments of food Monday, March 17, 1975 information on the energy problems affecting and clothing. The Greater Cleveland Inter Mr. WIRTH. Mr. Speaker, I am sub the economy of this nation. Church Council, for example, operates eight In the 94th Congress-during its organi hunger centers that distributed food to more mitting for the RECORD the text of a zational meetings this year-the Interstate than 14,000 people last December, almost speech before the National Press Club and Foreign Commerce Committee of which three times as many as it helped in Decem of Washington, D.C., given by my distin I am a member, formed a new subcommittee ber 1973. With requests for aid in January guished colleague, the Honorable JOHN on energy and power. I was elected its chair and February just as heavy, Del Jones, pro DINGELL of Michigan. As chairman of man. The Commerce Committee in the House gram coordinator, says the centers "are ab the Energy and Power Subcommittee of of Representatives has a long history of wide solutely swamped." She adds: "There's just the Interstate and Foreign Commerce jurisdiction on energy and power matters. no way an agency like ours can take care of Committee, a subcommittee on which I You wlll recall the Emergency Petroleum all the people in Cleveland who need our Allocation Act and the Energy Supply and help. We try our best to fill in the gaps of am privileged to serve, Mr. DINGELL has Environmental Coordination Act as two of coverage left by government agencies, but moved with great skill and dispatch to the recent achievements by our committee we have more people coming in than we can coordinate efforts of our subcommittee which contributed so much to help this possibly handle." with those of other congressional com country survive the oil and gas shortages the mittees dealing with the energy and tax past couple of years. problems which are before this body. Mr. The creation of the energy and power sub DINGELL's remarks before the National committee was a must. We had to improve on PEARL HARBOR SURVIVORS ASSO Press Club on March 7, 1975, are a con the congressional legislative mechanisms in CIATION DESERVES FEDERAL order to meet the needs of the country. cise summary both of the problems we We are fortunate on that subcommittee to CHARTER face and of the hard-working schedule have very capable legislators. Chairman DINGELL and Chairman ULL Through the House committee process I MAN of the Ways and Means Committee can assure the American people we and our HON. SPARK M. MATSUNAGA have set to respond to those problems. I colleagues wlll diligently compile a complete · OF HAWAll recommend Mr. DINGELL's remarks to the energy record and write a final document IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES attention of my colleagues and submit as quickly as we can to serve the best inter ests of the country. Monday, March 17, 1975 them herewith: In February when the President sent his Mr. MATSUNAGA. Mr. Speaker, I am REMARKS OF THE HONORABLE JOHN D. DINGELL energy bill to Congress nine of the thirteen introducing today a bill which would There is indeed a great deal to be said titles were referred to the House Interstate grant a Federal charter to the Pearl about the energy legislative programs and and Foreign Commerce Committee. policy statements advanced to and within To gain an understanding of the dimen Harbor Survivors Association, an organi the Congress. sions of our energy difficulties and to give zation of men and women who survived They are all undergoing close scrutiny focus to our deliberations, our energy and the "day of infamy," that Sunday morn which they each deserve. power subcommittee during the week of Feb ing December 7, 1941, when the Japanese And, they are all under attack by various ruary 17 held hearings on the President's en attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, plunged antagonists who have their own particular ergy proposals. Our task was to identify the this Nation into World War n with un and respected-views and bones to pick. underlying goals of the program, to evaluate expected suddenness. Our good friend, Senator Pastore and his the means selected to accomplish these goals, colleagues have made a valiant effort for an and to take the economic measure of the pol The Pearl Harbor Survivors Associa overall Democratic energy program as has icies to which this Congress has when asked tion counts among its membership more Congressman Jim Wright of Texas for the to accede. These matters were explored in than 5,000 of the approximately 12,500 House. thirty hours of intense review of the Presi service members who livecf through the The Ways and Means Committee, headed dent's program concentrated in four days of December 7 attack. Ironically, Mr. by my next door neighbor in the Rayburn hearings. Speaker, although I was on active duty in Building, AI IDlman of Oregon, has proposed We discovered in these proceedings that Hawaii on that terrible day, I do not tax recommendations regarding energy. great controversy attends the energy policy qualify for membership in the PHSA, And, the President has a plan-a plan that decisions made by the President. But perhaps has undergone several chang~ during its the most dominant point made by all wit since I was neither stationed on the Is year of dra:(ting. nesses is that energy policy is inextricably land of Oahu nor on a ship within 3 miles There are other plans for curing the Na linked with economic policy. Decisions in one of the island at that time. I was an act tion's energy needs and, of course, the latest area hold considerable implications for the ing commanding officer of an infantry is one being advanced by a capable group other. company on the Island of Molokai, from the new freshman block of Congressmen The development of a rational, cohesive guarding a strategic airstrip. in the House. energy policy, therefore, must necessarily be The merits of each has the concerted and linked to tax policy and stratagems for pull However, I certainly have come to collective attention of Congress. ing this Nation out of its recessionary spiral. know the leaders and many of the mem The overall goal we are seeking is to estab In recognition of this interrelationship, my bers of this organization, and believe lish the most equitable legislative package good friend and colleague, Chainnan Ullman they fully qualify for a Federal charter. or packages to provide the American people of Ways and Mears, and I have committed 7022 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 17, 1975 our committees to a. parallel course of action if the proposed windfall profits taxes were A FARMER TODAY for the purpose of developing a cohesive and delayed until October, 1975. his action would comprehensive energy program. have resulted in an increase in the unemploy For my part, I intend to once again con ment rate for 1976 of six-tenths of a per HON. JACK BRINKLEY vene the Subcommittee on Energy and Power centage point--about half a milllon addi OF GEORGIA beginning Monday, the week of March 10, for tional unemployed workers. If no windfall IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES a series of concentrated hearings to stretch profits taxes were enacted, the increase in over a two-week period. The committee will unemployment would be almost a full per Monday, March 17, 1975 receive testimony from a number of balanced centage point-more than 700,000 additional unemployed workers. Mr. BRINKLEY. Mr. Speaker, the new panels on the subject of Federal and State to allocation and price regulation of natural gas, Our Subcommittee on Energy and Power farm blll which the House is about coal, and petroleum and its products. We will has already moved legislation to the floor of consider is of critical importance to the also examine various proposals to equip the the House which would provide a more effi Nation and has a vital impact upon my President and other agencies of the Federal cient mechanism for congressional review district. In conjunction with a sound Government with emergency powers and to of Presidential decisions to exempt petroleum peanut program, it can make the dif achieve savings in energy consumption. and its products from existing allocation or ference between keeping the farmers on Although the focus of this legislation will pricing controls. the farm or closing up shop. The issue is be in the near term, it will necessarily pro This bill would enable the Congress to not restricted to one of cost but goes to vide the dimension for future long range block an attempt to lift price ceilings on old energy policy decisionma.king. oil should the President persist in his plan the actual availability of food and fiber. Toward that end, I also intend to convene to decontrol without awaiting congressional Food does not grow on the grocer's the Energy and Power Subcommittee begin action on windfall profits tax proposals or shelves, nor clothes upon the haber ning the week of March 24 for the purpose of development of comprehensive energy legis dasher's rack. defining the policy parameters of legislation lation. Since peanuts have been recognized to be drafted by the staff during the Easter As I have noted, the information we have for so many years as a meat substitute, recess. received so far raises serious questions about through the school lunch program and Our committee counsel will be instructed the wisdom of the President's course of ac other programs, I feel it is important to to work with the staff of the Ways and Means tion. Thus, we on the committee have in Committee to assure to the maximum extent sisted, in this legislation that before any encourage the dissemination of knowl practicable consistency with the tax policy steps such as those the President proposes edge about this vital commodity. decisions of that committee. It will be our are taken, he make the economic analysis Besides, what would we do at base purpose to bring legislation to the floor by necessary to predict how his action will affect ball games without this delightful bar mid or late April to be combined with the the economy, and we must insist on Congress gain? legislative recommendations of the Ways and having an effective means for reviewing and, The Alma
DILEMMA FACED BY FARMERS AND THE UNXTED tration, addressed the annual meeting of a. key management task. Decline of emphasis STATES the American Institute of Aeronautics on technology, particularly in the private Every day farmers in Southern illinois and and Astronautics on February 26, 1975. sector, has much to do with the decline in around the nation are making a. decision productivity in this country, and wholesale He brought a message of the contribu export of U.S. technology was a major con which affects their economic future, which tions of NASA to our national well-being. will affect the American consumer, which tributor to our unfavorable trade balance in Will alter the U.S. balance of trade, and which Our space program and its direct daily recent years. Communicating these facts to could determine whether some of the world's benefits are part of the fabric of Ameri the public and to national political leaders hungry eat. can life. Dr. Fletcher's words eloquently can and must be done. That decision: whether to produce as much expressed the worth of support for our Another problem that affects our a.b1llty to food as they can this summer and fall. national space program. I commend these cultivate technology as a national resource More and more farmers I talk to are de significant comments to my colleagues: and to gain public support is the increasing ciding to cut back from 20 to 25 per cent in cost of technology developments brought MANAGEMENT OF AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY FOR about by inflation and the increasing com their production; it's sort of an unorganized NATIONAL NEEDS mass protest by people who have had to work plexity of technology applications. Finding hard, too often for little profit-and in some (By Dr. James C. Fletcher) ways to reduce costs is another of the key years it has been a loss. One of the distinctive features of our suc management tasks that we in the aerospace I disagree with their decision to cut back cess as a nation has been the development business must face in order to gain maximum on production, but I certainly understand it. and application of technology. Much of this benefit from applying technology to national They're tired of getting squeezed on the country's wealth and power has derived di needs with limited resources. prices of things they must buy, squeezed on rectly or indirectly from our ability to bring For emphasis, let me succinctly state the science from the laboratory to useful appli four points I've just made-we should all be the price they get, and then blamed by too concerned about them. many consumers for the price tags the pub cation through technology development. As lic finds in the grocery store. far back as 1840, Alexis de Tocqueville recog This Nation·~ technological capability is an Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz has nized the major role technology was playing essential national resource which should be in the development of this nation in his book fully exploited to solve national problems. urged full production, but unfortunately has This Nation requires a. well-thought-out, not coupled that plea With a program which Democracy in America. He treats the subject in a chapter titled "Why the Americans Are long-range set of national goals and ob will assure the average farmer a reasonable jectives within the framework of which our return on a sizeable investment of time and More Addicted to Practical Than to Theoreti cal Science." technological capability can be made to money. flourish. Cattle farmers are suffering big losses; The earlier inventors and entrepreneurs, using their own resources, had great impact We in the technical community must gen thousands of dairy farmers have gone out of erate the strong public support required to business this past year; grain prices are lower on our society: Whitney and Singer-textile technology, Dupont-chemical technology, sustain the large national programs that are than they should be to encourage production; needed to achieve these goals. hog farmers face problems. McCormick-agricultural machine tech nology, Bell-communications technology, We technology managers must find and What Will happen if u.s. farmers cut their apply methods and techniques to apply tech production approximately one-fourth? etc. Later, as technology requirements be came more sophisticated, more diverse disci nology directly to solving national problems (1) Per acre grain prices Will be up, but and to make this new technology competitive total farm income will drop appreciably. That plines were required to bring new technology to practical application, greater capital in and marketable by decreasing costs. will hurt rural areas generally. I'd like you to keep these four points in (2) Demand for farm labor will be down. vestments were required than could be sus tained by individuals, and it became more the mind throughout my discussion. That means higher unemployment. As responsible industrial organizations and (3) The U.S. will have less to sell abroad, province of industry and Government to pro duce and capitalize on technology advances. Government agencies, we must individually making our balance of trade position even As we evolved from technology applica and collectively assess the state of national worse. and international affairs, identify our aspira (4) Costs to consumers Will go up slightly, tions sponsored by individuals to the sophis ticated technology efforts sponsored by in tions and goals, and develop the specific but since production costs are a small part programs and management concepts to effec of the food bill, the increase to consumers dustry and Government, industry and Gov ernment laboratories devoted to research and tively and efficiently carry out the programs. will not be great. But any increase hurts and This seems a. simple, direct concept but in is inflationary. technology were established; and the ra tionale for selecting the technology develop operation is most difficult to achieve, espe ( 5) The mushrooming world population cially in our highly institutionalized society. will suffer. The United States in food is in ment changed from personal reward incen tive to that which best supports corporate We technology managers operate in a mul almost the same situation as the Middle East tifaceted arena; the elements with which we in oil. and national goals. Apace with the growing interface range from the executive and legis That's a pretty grim picture. complexity of technology have come in lative branches of Government from whom What can be done about it? creasingly complex demands upon manage we draw direct support, to other Government First, and as rapidly as possible, the Agri ment. agencies, to industry, the universities, the culture committees of the House and Sen Today the United States is preeminent in scientific community, the press and the ate must produce programs that provide some the world in nearly every area of high tech public from whom we derive our ultimate basic guarantees to farmers, whether grain, nology-and aerospace technology has been support. dairy or livestock producers. And Secretary one of the key drivers. This capability is a The attitude of all these elements toward Butz must work With them. valuable national resource which must not technology is affected by the climate of the Second, the national administration must be allowed to deteriorate-it must be care times, as determined prima.rlly by ever chang encourage world trade and not discourage it. fully and thoughtfully cultivated. I assert ing domestic and international political con The drop in the price of beans can be pin that this is a key management task. Recog ditions and social and economic trends. Thus, pointed to the exact day when restraints nizing that technology is a. means to an end the manager's job is far broader than man were placed on sales abroad. we must define the national goals and objec~ aging the internal affairs of his organization Thb:d, production of fertilizer at a rea tives which have greatest value to this na efficiently. Obviously, efficient organization is sonable cost must become a national priority. tion and the world. I firmly believe that an necessary, but the manager must also be con The last thing this nation's sick economy indispensable ingredient in achieving these stantly aware of the total enVironment within needs is further 1llness in its agriculture sec goals and objectives is the application of which he operates. He must recognize the tor. But with production cuts here and no technology; and that such application is an ways his organization can be affected by, and firm steps to alter the picture, we face some absolute essential to maintaining our pre how it can influence, that environmental. real dangers. eminence in the world. For example, in my area. of responsibility, However, this view is not universally aerospace research and technology, today's shared. The argument has been advanced by environment differs significantly from that of some that technology is the source of our the lat~ 1950's and early 1960's. The Nation problems rather than the hope for their so reacted to Russian activity in space with our MANAGEMENT OF AEROSPACE lutions. This argument is not Without sub manned and unmanned space programs. In TECHNOLOGY FOR NATIONAL stance; clear cases exist where the thought 1961 NASA had a. mandate from the executive NEEDS less application or improper management of branch and the Congress to put a. man on technology has caused environmental harm. the moon and return him safely to Earth As a result, the puplic support for technol before the end of the decade. There was no HON. OLIN E. TEAGUE ogy programs has eroded. To be sure, the question in the minds of the public about OJ' TEXAS pendulum is beginning to swing back to what NASA was doing and why. NASA had a wards a reemphasis on technology, particu clearly defined national goal with wide popu IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES larly among economists-some of their stud lar support. In the latter part of the 1960's, Monday, March 17, 1975 ies have shown that technology, such as de before that goal was accomplished, support veloped by NASA, contributes to the national for the program was eroding and has contin Mr. TEAGUE. Mr. Speaker, Dr. James economy seven times the funds expended ued to erode due to internal economic and C. Fletcher, Administrator of the Na upon it. But restoring the confidence of the social pressures and external economic and tional Aeronautics and Space Admlnis- public and regaining public support remains security pressures. March 17, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7029
Since the early 1960's we have seen signifi 1978. This is our first satellite specifically satellites might provide. As the study pro cant changes in our national perspectives. dedicated to environmental measurements; gressed and the user panelists began to un We've had growing inflation, coupled with it is designed to study px-oblems of atmos derstand the potentials, they began to per an astonishingly rapid onset and growth of pheric pollution, oceanoc;ra.phy, and other ceive useful services that could be supplied recession; energy shortages have been thrust pa.ra.meters related to the prediction of by future space systems. Indeed, the single upon the national consciousness in a way no weather and climate. The atmospheric pollu most important result of the study may be previous forewarnings had succeeded in tion part of the mission is a major new that these potential users, many of whom doing; and environmental concerns have thrust for our flight programs, evolvi:n.g had little interest in the space program at grown with significant economic impact in from the growing sophistication of our the outset, were strongly interested at the some sectors of the economy. Famine condi sensors in response. to specific nationa.l end of the study in the benefits which they tions in various parts of the world have lllus needs. For example, the objectives Cit one judged space systems could bring to their trated a growing world food problem. experiment are to develop a satellite moni business activities, whether in the private NASA is facing this changing environment toring technique for stratospheric aerosis or the public sector. The users also began to by responding to our current national needs and g:a.ses and to map concenrtmtions with specify what information would be useful in a number of ways. We are assuring that particular emphasis on ozone. The ozone to them, and to indicate some of the poten our current and planned programs are rele layer within the stratosphere absorbs a. sig tial benefits in their fields. For example, the vant to national needs. Our aeronautics pro nificant portion of the sun's ultraviolet radi costs and benefits panel, assisted by the gra,m. emphasizes noise reduction, pollution ation and provides a protective blanket for panel on agriculture, forest and range, esti reduction, safety and energy conservation. life on Earth. Recent studies indicate that mated that two dollars in benefits from re During this next fiscal year over 20 percent small quantities of oxides of nitrogen or duced production costs, better import-export of our aeronautics budget will support pro free chlorine could destroy significant quaon decisions, increased production, and im grams that address aeronautical energy con tities of ozone. Hence, the stability of the proved distribution could result from each servation. We estimate that by 1985, the stratospheric ozone layer and its ab111ty to dollar invested in a. space-assisted world technology for fuel conservation can be de replenish itself is of serious concern. wheat survey. veloped to permit a 50 percent reduction in Our space exploration program is also In ways like this the potential beneficiaries fuel consumption by new aircraft which wlll relevant to our Earth-bound problems from of the use of space become part of our plan be less noisy and will produce less pollution a longer range standpoint. The primary goal ning process so that the benefits will be of than current-generation aircraft. In the area of solar system exploration is to understand maximum utility and our programs will re of terrestrial energy, we expect to assist the the origins of our solar system and the origin ceive maximum support and acceptance. new Energy Research and Development Ad of life. Such a search cannot help but add When we have a well-developed technology ministration where we have special expertise to our understanding of energy processes, with potential usefulness in some area, we to contribute. In space, our applications pro environment, and climatology. One of the have found from experience that the tech gram is contributing to solutions to the prob most important variables in world food pro nologist must take the initiative in getting lems of energy shortages, environmental pol duction is weather. The ability to better pre it adopted. It is not sufficient to publish lution and agriculture. dict and perhaps some day control weather documents in the foreign language of the The Earth observation satellite, LANDSAT, and climate, short-range and long-mnge, researcher or to describe the capabilities of has been util1zed in the accurate prediction would add immensely to our ability to pro the new technology and expect a. potential of water coming from snow melt in remote duce food. The planets of the solar system user who has done his job one particular mountainous regions. These predictions are are natural laboratories for observing the ex way for a long time to accept another way of particular importance to our western tension of the ranges and scales of phenom immediately and without question. Rather, states where increases in the accuracy of run ena aJ.so present on Earth. A study of the we contact a prospective user and work with off predictions can mean significant economic atmospheric processes on other planets may him to learn what his problems are; if we benefit both in electrical power generation allow us to better understand the Earth's still feel we can be of value, and he agrees, and in irrigation planning. weather and climate. we continue to work with him in a technology The major contribution of LANDSAT in NASA's programs are now oriented direct use demonstration program. the area of minerals and energy continues to ly towards today's needs and problems. We Two current examples of such cooperative be its exceptional ability to show large struc have turned from the beginning of space ventures are the Large Area Crop Inventory ' tural features, such as major fault systems, flight where we were occupied with learning Experiment, mentioned earlier; and a dem domes and uplifts, and folded mountain belts to operate in space to a period where we are onstration, called ICEWARN, involving NASA, of regional or subcontinental-size. LANDSAT learning to use space for man's benefit di the Coast Guard, and NOAA to verify the is remarkably effective in revealing new rectly. We always see more opportunities than utility of an airborne, all-weather remote geologic patterns that cover states or even we have the resources to undertake. Man sensing ice information system to determine larger areas. This improvement in detecting agement's task is to structure its picking and ice type, coverage, and thickness on the geologic features is important in finding new choosing process that the probability of se Great Lakes-the purpose is to extend the targets to explore for fracture controlled min lecting the "right" technologies is maxi length of the shipping season. As a general eral deposits. mized. We need the advice and assistance of rule, this class of coopemtive venture en LANDSAT data are also potentially valu the best this country has to offer in mak compasses large multi-agency undertakings able for use in petroleum exploration, and oil ing our choices. which are beyond the capability of a. single companies are utilizing the data. As yet, these A recent example of one way we plan ad principal investigator to manage. organizations have not reported actual dis vanced technology programs was t'he Sum One example of future ventures of this coveries based on the use of LANDSAT data. mer Study of Space Applications held at class under consideration is based upon the They are reluctant to discuss their work in Snowmass, Colorado, June 30-July 13, 1974. successful prediction of water runoff from this area because of the highly competitive The purpose of the study was to identify snow melt in remote mountainous regions, nature of the business. Nevertheless, it is be needs which could be only, or more effective which I mentioned previously. We will assess coming obvious that LANDSAT has revealed ly, met by practical application of space our ability to use LANDSAT data. to map many new geologic features which should systems. The study team consisted mainly snowcover changes in near real time and lead to real benefits. of a broad cross-section of users and poten correlate these changes to the amount of run Earth resources technology investig~S.tors tial users of the benefits of space applica off in four study areas in the western part showed that particular crop species could be tions. They were specialists, drawn from fed of the United States. The areas are Arizona, identified with accuracies well above 90 per eral, state and local governments, from California, Colorado, and the Pacific North cent. This and other work we have done has business and industry, and from the aca west. Participating with NASA in the study led us to conclude that the technology is demic community, and were grouped in the will be the Salt River Project, the California available for the use of remote sensing to following panels: weather and climate; uses Department of Resources, the Colorado Divi assist in crop monitoring, including the type of communications; land use planning; agri tSion of Water Resources, the Bonneville of crops being produced, their acreage, and culture, forest and range, inland water; ex Power Administration, the U.S. Geological where they are located. Subsequent discus tractable resources; environmental quality; Survey, the Soll Conservation Service, the sions held with various involved Government marine and maritime uses; and materials Bureau of Reclamation, the Corps of Engi departments led to a Large Area Crop In processing in space. About 70 senior and ex neers, and the National Weather Service. ventory Experiment. NASA, the Department perienced users-for example, the chairman Management techniques for such multior of Agriculture, and the Department of Com of a state land use commission, the director ganiza.tional cooperative ventures are still merce are jointly testing the degree to which of the Great Lakes Basin Commission, the evolving, and are currently structured to computer-assisted analysis of space-acquired vice president of a large agricultural busi suit each individual situation. data can enhance the USDA's operational ness, the president of the American Institute NASA ha.s developed a Technology Utiliza crop for forecasting programs. The intent is of Merchant Shipping-participated in the tion Program to promQte the transfer of our to demonstrate the capability of the LAND work of the panels. technology to the industry sector of this SAT-type remote sensing and data process The members of the user panels began country. Over 75,000 inquiries for data. pack ing systems in combination with existing their deliberations with a good deal of skep ages come to us each year, and more than techniques to forecast the produotion of an ticism regarding the usefulness of space sys 4,000 industrial firms are regularly using our important world crop-wheat. tems to them. Prior to taking part in the data bank. In the area of environmental monitoring, study, most of the panel members had little The competition for resources makes it we plan to launch the Nimbus G satellite in knowledge of the information or services that clear that lower cost must receive major 7030 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 17, 1975 management attention. We are configuring For the enlightenment of my col ciety by inquiry and experimentation but is our new programs to minlmlze state-of-the leagues, I am providing brief character also doing wh&t it can to hasten the demise art developments of spacecraft equlpments. of the present one." izations of some of the organizations Among the segments of the IPS apparat The space shuttle, a.s we a.ll know, is being either whose members are actively in developed to reduce the cost of space opera present at the Citizens Energy Conference tions. In addition, we have formalized our volved with the GPP or who have were: concern at NASA by establishing a Low Cost worked with the GPP at the power proj The Energy Project: A part of the IPS Systems Ofiice. It is spearheading a NASA ect's 1973 Atlanta Conference on the Washington organization which in confer wide drive to reduce cost by standardizing Energy Crisis or the 1974 Citizens En ence literature stated that it "is examining those spacecraft equlpments and modules ergy Conference, and whose positions the economic and political conditions leading which give greatest promise of cost savings. give direct or parallel support to GPP up to the current energy situation; future projections as planned by energy conglom Initially, ten major equipments, such as tape policies. recorders, were declared standard for NASA erates; the politics of 'energy conservation;' use. Continuing investigations are in prog Among these are: future energy; and alternate energy schemes ress regarding the standardization of addi· INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES for spectflc regions of the U.S." tional equipments with complexity up to and As it has frequently done for other radi The Political Economy Program Center: including the spacecraft itself. Our analyses cal, anti-establishment or revolutionary The PEPC operates from the main Washing show that the potential cost avoidance re causes (the IPS phrase being "popular strug ton IPS ofiice and describes Its activity as sul tlng from this approach wm reach major gles for democra.tic control"), the Institute "undertak[ing] research, education and or proportions by the latter part of this decade. for Policy Studies (IPS) took a leadership ganizing on programs and pollcies for the Although we in the technical community role 1n many aspects of the Citizens Energy American political economy." PEPC stated its see advanced technology as the key to reliev Conference at which it was represented by goals are "help[ing] energize a working ing man's growing problems, there ar,e many several of its subsidiary groups: the Institute community movement for the democratic re who disagree; and there are many more who of Southern Studies (ISS), the Energy Proj construction of America's poUtlcal economy, are completely unconcerned. Yet, to do the ect, the Political Economy Program Center stressing equality, justice and liberated so job that lies ahead requires massive support. (PEPC), and Community Technology. cial relations." Our job is to do all we can to garner that IPS operates from ofiices at 1520 New The Institute for Southern Studies: ISS, support at every political level from average Hampshire Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. which operates from 88 Walton Street, N.W., citizen to President. We must, therefore, not 20036 [ 202 234-9382] . It was organized in Atlanta, Ga., is a nonprofit, tax-exempt or only make the majority of people aware of 1963 by Marcus Raskin and Richard Barnet; ganization. ISS is self-characterized as "a the key issues and alternatives but also in and soon after, the Peace Research Insti social change organization engaged in re duce them to act individually and in concert tute directed by Arthur Waskow was merged search and educational programs that ana to express their concern. We need to play a with the Institute. These men have formed lyze and clarify alternatives for the political stronger role in the decision-making process the ruling triumvirate to the present time. economy of the South and the Nation." at the highest levels in both the executive Over the past decade, IPS, a nonprofit, tax More eloquently, ISS has stated: and legislative branches. Our public relations exempt instJ..tution with a budget estimated "With roots in the movements of the Six must be more effective than in the past. We at about $400,000 annually, has been involved ties, and an appreciation for region/nation ought to get rid of our jargon-much of in the development of a wide range of radi inter-relations, the Institute for Southern what we say to the public comes across like cal organizations. These include the forma Studies is working to reshape the South's a foreign language. We must become articu tion of Federal Employees for a Democratic future. We are providing ideas, analysis, facts lat e and understandable to the layman. We Society (FEDS) ; the Washington chapter of and programs for groups and individuals must never forget that the public is the the Committee of Returned Volunteers building the South of the Seventies and ultimate source of our support in a demo ( CRV) ; Drum and Spear Bookstore which beyond." cratic society. Congress listens to its con was managed by former Student Non-violent But in an October 1972 want ad in the stituents-an understanding and supportive Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Ralph "Great Speckled Bird" in Atlanta, ISS used electorate is essential. Featherstone who died in a bomb explosion plainer language, stating, "Institute for Finally, our challenge as managers is to immediately prior to the commencement of Southern Studies, a radical research orga develop the concepts, techniques, and tools the March, 1970 H. Rap Brown trial :n Mary nization, needs volunteers to research mili for realistic goal setting and objective plan land; Jews for Urban Justice (JUJ) and tary spending and corporate power structures ning so that our Nation's limited material various community control of police proj in the South." · and social wealth can make the best use of ects. ISS publishes a quarterly journal, "South our imagination, ingenuity, and intellect. In the past two years, IPS has organized ern Exposure." The first issue (May, 1973) The goals and objectives we set must be the National Black Polltlcal Convention focused on the mi11tary and the South. It meaningful to the Nation, and to mankind in (NBPC); assisted with the organizing of the included an editorial comment, " ... mili general; they must be interfaced with other People's Party 1972 presidential election cam tarism emerges not simply as one aspect of major elements of the Government to fit into paign; taken a leadership role in assisting our society, but as the modus operandi of the whole fabric of national goals and ob Daniel Ellsberg obtain publicity for the Pen an expansionism which now threatens to turn jectives. This is a difficult "systems" prob tagon Papers; and conducted propaganda our collective existence into a global Waste lem, but it must be done. And, it cannot seminars on behalf of the People's Repub land." be done every once in a while; it has to be lic of China. A listing of a board of directors appears in worked continuously, with full recognition During the late 1960's, IPS began an "ex Southern Exposure. It includes: Julian Bond, of the dynamic state of the environment. pansionist" pollcy: the Bay Area. Institute president, Georgia House of Representatives; We, a.s a nation, have not done this sort of was set up in San Francisco; an Institute of Dr. Peter Bourne, vice president, Assistant thing very well in the past. To do it well Women's Studies was created in Washing Director, White House Special Office on Drug must be a major goal of the future. ton; the Cambridge Institute emerged in Abuse; N. Jerold Cohen, Sutherland, Asblll & Massachusetts; and by 1970 the Institute Brennan; John Lewis, Voter Education Proj of Southern Studies (ISS) had been in ect; Howard Romaine; Robert Sherrill, au corporated in Atlanta. thor; Sue Thrasher; and Elizabeth Tornquist, journalist, Durham, N.C. THE GEORGIA POWER PROJECT: Over the years, the revolutionary activities of the Institute for Policy Studies have been Community Technology, Inc.: CTI shares A STRATEGY FOR SOCIALISM office sf>ace with IPS in Washington, D.C. It PART IV of concern to a number of well-informed people. In 1967, Senator Strom Thurmond was developed early in 1973 by members of [R.-S.C.] warned his Senate colleagues that IPS, Scientists and Engineers for Social and HON. LARRY MtDONALD "by giving a tax exemption to an organiza Polltlcal Action (SESPA), and other non tion like IPS, our government is allowing tax allgned members of the alternative culture OF GEORGIA exemption to support revolution.'' Two years who are resident in the D.C. area. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES later on the floor of the Senate, the Senator In a general proposal, CTI stated its goals as "to demystify technology, to challenge all Monday, March 17, 1975 again warned that IPS, which he charac terized as an "elite," was trying to "make of the claimed economies of scale, and to Mr. McDONALD of Georgia. Mr. changes without reference to the desires of push as far as possible practical demonstra Speaker, the Georgia Power Projoot is the American people." tions of high technology in the direct service one of many radical U.S. groups calling Despite these and other warnings, IPS has of human needs and im.a.giruition 1n an urban not changed its direction. A brief 1972 char conununity." for socialism as a pana-eea for the energy The CTI proposal continued: shortage. In their struggle against the acterization from the book, "Think Tanks," by Paul Dickson provides an adequate sum "Specific projects immediately planned, in free enterprise system, the Marxists oP mary: addition to a complete information service, pose Government deregulation which "[IPS] is attempting to lay the ground are trout raising in basement-sized areas; would give private industry the incentive work for the new society that w111 replace vegetable farming in roof-sized areas; use of to develop new sources and new re the present collapsing one. It not only has solar energy on a community scale; use of sources of energy. dedicated itself to ushering in the new so- windmills as an urban energy source; effect March 17, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7031 of machine tools upon community self The time h13os come to assert our right to Guaranteed workers' job protection for rellanc~; and redesign of community faell control our own energy future, to achieve conversion from the old oil-auto economic ities, including transportation." decent working and living conditions, and to traps to new energy technologies, including In this proposal, a budget of $193,120 was receive an equitable share of energy. At the guaranteed employment in related areas, such developed. Undocumented sources indicated same time, Americans must support the as reclamation efforts aimed at undoing the that CTI planned funding requests to the struggles of Third World peoples to attain damage wrought by previous policies. government and major foundations. control over the energy supplies beneath A guarantee to every household of a basic The self-stated "core staff" of CTI includes: their lands, to end t~e exploitative policies amount of energy at a fixed low rate, along Karl Hess--an IPS "non-employee" be 'that the U.S. government and American cor the lines of the Lifeline SerVice proposals cause of his long term problems with the porations have pursued. made in Vermont. Internal Revenue Service, is Project Co • • • Our objectives should include: These actions are certainly not long-term ordinator; and Therese Hess, his wife, runs Distribution of energy so that all citizens solutions to the basic crisis of our political the information services project and acts as will benefit equally and will receive sufficient economy. Nothing short of total restructur .. community relations organizer." inexpensive energy for a decent and secure ing for popular control wlll be. However, it Karl Hess is a former editor of Newsweek, life. Access to energy is not a privilege, but a fought for with a clear understanding of a founding editor of National Review, speech basic right. Big Oil's strengths and vulnerabilities, these writer for Senator Barry Goldwater in the Public ownership and distribution of all beginning public issue fights can be vital. 1964 presidential campaign, and a one-time energy resources under local and regional Without such clear targeting, reforms can member of the White House staff who now democratic control, through such mecha only be a new part of the problem, a new eco claims to be an extreme right-wing an nisms as popularly-elected energy boards populist stage of Oil Liberalism. archist-libertarian. A "visiting fellow" at and local people's development corporations. IPS, his specialty is talking about political Workers' control of energy production and MOVEMENT FOR ECONOMIC JUSTICE decentralization and maintaining communi distribution processes, for safety, security, The Movement for E-conomic Justice cations between old conservative friends and and social purpose. (MEJ), 1609 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., his new allies and supporters on the left. Ecologically-sound husbanding of our non Wa.shington, D.C. 20009 [202 462-4200), took For CTI, his specialty is "the practical ap renewable land and energy resources, in an active role in the organizing and logisti plication of technology in community set cluding policies of con.Servation and an em cal management of the Citizens Energy Con tings." phasis upon the most abundant, renewable ference. MEJ's national coordinator, Bert De Dr. Fernwood Mitchell-an industrial energy sources. Leeauw, served on the CEC organizing com chemist formerly employed by the W. G. Whlle recognizing and remaining vigilant mittee and a staff member, oarol Cullum, was Grace Company who has brought his twenty to the lim1ts and dangers of reforms within responsible for much of the detailed plan two years of research knowledge to the agri· the old monopoly capitalist system, espe ning of the conference. culture (trout rearing) project. According to ally without mass participation to enforce The formation of · MEJ was announced in CTI, Dr. Mitchell is an authority on radia them, we must push for immediate steps December, 1972, by the late George Wiley, tion chemistry, polymer physics, physical that wm advanced [sic) the struggle to at that time leaVing his executive director chemistry, analytical chemistry, acetylene ward democratic control of all resources, ship of the National Welfare Rights Organi chemicals, plastics and electronic instru The most immediate fundamental issue is zation (NWRO). Since Wiley's death, MEJ mentation. for popular movements to push for direct has limped along providing salaries for a It is noted with interest that Dr. Mitchell's public control over the resources already handful of staff and some agitational exper wife, Esther, known in D.C. radical circles as held on public domain territories (as opposed tise to groups that hope to "build a nation ..the Maoist grandmother," has organized to the present policy of leasing them to pri wide grassroots movement for fundamental classes in MarXism.-Leninism-Mao Tse-tung vate corporations for their exploitation and change." thought for several years past and is now the control). MEJ's opportunist stance on the energy organizer and "chair-person" of the U.S. To achieve this, we do not propose a "na crisis is set out in the February, 1974, issue China People's Friendship Association. Radi tionalization" which simply buys out the of its monthly bulletin, "Just Economics": cal sources report that the Maoist Mitchell's industry. Not only would this reward it for •••although energy is much too important were among the financial supporters of the its past exploitation and help it unload its to be controlled by a small handful of peo Mayday apparat and other revolutionary bad investments, but energy would remain ple, the obviousness of this position does not causes. as remote as it is now from control by the translate instantly into a movement for pub C. J. Swet-an aged SESPA activist, is in people. We call instead for public develop lic control. As always, what we need is an charge of CTI's solar energy projects. Pres ment and distribution of the vast energy re issue that impacts locally, an issue that is ently senior engineer on the staff of the ctally without mass participation to enforce immediate and specific and realizable. We Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hop sources beneath public lands, by democrati need an issue which builds a mass-based kins University, he was previously and re cally-elected local and regional agencies. constituency demanding control of our re cently employed at the U.S. Naval Research These could develop public facilities for re sour-ces-an issue that builds the movement Laboratory. source extraction. or could contract with pri for economic Justice. Ray K. Samras--a research oc~an engineer vate companies for dr1lling and refining serv The issue that best meets these criteria is at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, di ices, while retaining ownership and control utilities. rects CTI's machine shop and computer of the petroleum and other minerals ex The issue of utility rate hikes opens the related activities. ·tracted from public lands. At the same time, door to a number of other issues which sim Other staffers from the IPS general stable these public agencies should develop and ilarly are majority issues. The entire rate involved with CTI are GU Friend and David control the most dynamic new energy pro structure of the utility industry is unfair. Morris. duction and use technologies, rather than, as It allows big users (business and industry) Among those involved with the various now envisioned, provide government subsi to pay less for using more while average IPS groups present at the Ci.tizens Energy dies for private operations. users pay the highest rate per unit of energy. Conference were Robb Burlage, Roger Lesser, The following associated steps must also be Deposit policies of most utility companies are Michael Moffit, Leonard S. Rodberg, Tina pressed for: unfair, requiring large deposits from small Conner, Robert Hall, Karl Hess, and Dr. Fern A moratorium on national coal strip min users who have low incomes. Utility power wood Mitchell. ing (and especially the "Western Coal plants are responsible for much of the air An IPS Political Economy Program Center Rush"), on commercial manufacture of coal pollution in our cities, not to mention crop position paper stated: based synthetic fuels, and on the leasing of ruinage ln rural areas. The energy crisis arises directly from the water in the Western states for industrial These are issues we can organize around structure of the American political economy. purposes, while steps to achieve regional con because the targets are in our local com Though world resources will run out quickly trol and to reduce the demand for fossll munities. Because they are specific, they are fuels are undertaken. If present rates of consumption continue, the understandable. Because they appeal to such current shortages of fuel are not basic re A total program of public transportation, a broad base of support, they are winnable. source shortages, but were contrived by a to supplant the present excessive reliance on But to win we must carefully avoid making handful of large corporations to increase the inefficient private automobile. tactical errors that wlll diffuse our movement profits and tighten their control over the Creative use of government regulation and or lead us in the wrong direction. One tactic production and distribution of energy. informa.tion-ga.thering, including est1!1bllsh to be wary of is litigation. While at times • • • in addressing the immediate crisis, ment of national standards for heating and lawsuits may seem appealing. we can't walt cooling by solar energy, increase in the rates for the courts and besides, we can't build a we are faced with basic questions of how charged for intercity trucking of freight -our society is to be shaped and run. This movement around legal action. Another trap while rail rates are lowered, and subsidized we must be careful of is depending on the must be the start of a national debate which development of intercoa.sta.l shipping and Public Utilities Commissions to do our work. can lead to a fundamental reorganization restoration of riverways. PUCs are supposed to represent the public 1o! the society. In that sense, the crisis is a National support of energy workers' move interest but more often they are only re welcome awakening to a condition we woUld ments for safety, security, and management sponsive to the utility companies. have face [ dJ, in any case, within a few oontrol (major issues in coal and oil union We must bring our case directly to the 'Short years. contract showdowns late this year) . utilities comp&il16ii ~ wa must make tne 7032 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 17, 1975 utilities issues ones that everyone must ta.ke Joseph P. Morray, the translator of Che Thus, the discussion here is not con sides on. We must force elected officials to Guevara's "Guerrilla Warfare" (1968), has cerned with decreasing social security take a firm stand. Finally, we must build been involved with a number of communist payments, but rather with the question the broadest possible base of support. This causes. In 1961 he was a visiting professor of how predicted fund deficits can be met will be critical because the ut111ty industry of political science at the University of Ha when they come, either through upping will be no pushover. vana and was affiliated with the Cuban Con Even though they are referred to as Public gress of Artists and Writers. In 1960 while a contributory rates or by injecting more Utlllties nothing could be further from professor at the University of California at general tax money into the program. This the truth. They are mainly controlled by the Berkeley, Morray hosted the founding meet should be made clear to retirees and banks and oil companies. ing of a "State committee to abolish HUAC," those nearing retirement age. Their By starting to organize now we can build the first to be formed. He now llves 1n Cor checks are not in danger. a movement to take back our power--energy vallis, Oregon. Perhaps a resolution setting forth the and political-from the special interests that In a statement made at NCPOOG's first or intention of Congress on this point would have robbed it from us. ganizational meeting, Charles Porter stated MEJ also reported to the conference on a that it would set up state chapters "to pro be the means of getting this across. It Bay Area of California. campaign by Elec mote the public ownership of oil and gas by could state simply that, under no fore tricity and Gas for People (E&GP). The re doing research, drafting and lobbying for seen circumstances, would this Govern port notes an E&GP campaign against rate legislation in the Congress, encouraging dis ment permit a lessening of social secu increases being sought by the Pacific Gas cussion and debates and publication of per rity benefits to those now receiving them and Electric Company (PG&E) and states: tinent information, and the litigation of ac or who are getting near the time when "The most exciting thing about the Elec tions against oil -and gas companies in the public interest." they will retire and claim them. I am tricity and Gas for People campaign, its sure a statement would ease many organizers explain, is that it is just the beginning of an attempt to build a. regional troubled minds among the Nation's mass based people's organization. In the elderly. Bay area, the realities of regional power are LET US REASSURE THE particularly clear, but the new organization PENSIONERS will certainly serve as a model for future "ACCIDENTAL DEATHS" regional organizing efforts elsewhere. "Another important aspect of the cam HON. JOSEPH M. GAYDOS paign is that in addition to involving the OF PENNSYLVANIA senior citizens, consumers, community or HON. WILLIAM (BILL) CLAY ganizations and other obviously receptive IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF MISSOURI constituencies, a special effort is being made Monday, March 17, 1975 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES t o include labor unions and the women's movement. Mr. GAYDOS. Mr. Speaker, as a mat Monday, March 17, 1975 "It will also be particularly interesting to ter of humanity, we should reassure the watch this utility fight because of the at social security pensioners. Mr. CLAY. Mr. Speaker, every year t empt to put the emphasis on the utility The debate currently being waged over an increasing number of deaths result itself, not the Public Utilities Commission. the stability of the social security sys from murders with handguns and armed The strategy is to put enough pressure di tem has spread fears, so I learn, among robberies that end in "accidental rectly on Pacific Gas and Electric around the many older Americans who depend in deaths." In 1973 there were nearly rate increase to force the company into part, or fully, on their monthly pension 20,000 murders committed in this coun negotiations on all of the Electricity and try, 53 percent of them with handguns. Gas for People's demands." checks. These people are reading almost daily Handguns were used in 63 percent of the NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR PuBLIC OWNERSHIP of the concern here in Washington that quarter-million armed robberies com OF OIL AND GAS the time soon may come when the pro mitted in that year and in one-half of The National Committee for Public Owner gram will be bankrupted by the growing the 2, 700 accidental gun deaths. More ship of Oil and Gas (NCPOOG) was orga demands upon it. people were killed in St. Louis by hand nized at a meeting in Washington's Capitol They cannot take this kind of infor guns in the last 5 years than in Northern Hill Hotel on February 15, 1974, shortly be mation without deep concern. They live Ireland. Yet we obviously continue to fore the Citizens Energy Conference, which condone this situation because no action was convened by Charles 0. Porter. by their social security checks. Income is taken to alter the circumstances. Charles Porter, a Harvard Law School earning alternatives are impossible for Therefore, Mr. Speaker, I would like gradualte and Eugene, Oregon, a.ttorney, those beyond the hiring age and par to take this opportunity to call atten served for five years as a Democratic member ticularly in an era of mounting jobless tion to a March 6, 1975, editorial which of the U.S. House of Representatives. During ness generally. So there are worries appeared in the_St. Louis Post-Dispatch. h is two terms in Congress (1957-1961), Por and very serious ones. The article follows: ter persistently supported any and all leftist As an example of the frightening re GUNS, GUNS EVERYWHERE regimes in Latin America. Five months after ports appearing these days in all news Castro's takeover in Cuba, Porter wrote to Representative Jonathan Bingham of New a colleague stating, "No one in the State publications, I cite this from the Wall York and Senator Philip Hart of Michigan Department believes Castro is a communist, Street Journal, based on figures said to have introduced legislation in Congress that or a communist sympathizer, nor does any be in the hands of the House Ways and would "prohibit the importation, manufac other responsible person who wants to get Means Committee: ture, sale, purchase, transfer, receipt, pos his facts straight." Recent (Social Security) cost estimates are session or transportation of handguns" by In 1959, Porter initiated unsuccessful liti revealing worsening short and long-range anyone except for those belonging to specifl.c gation to secure permission to visit the Peo problems for the nation's massive retirement clubs or organizations licensed by the Fed ples' Republic of China. In 1963, he organized program. At the current rate of spending and eral Government. It is as strong as any the Committee for a Review of Our China income, the system will run out of money by gun-control measure ever introduced in Policy which has the purpose of sponsoring 1980 or soon afterward, actuarial experts Congress, and the same powerful efforts trade with China, a cause in which he re warn. wm be directed against it that have de mains active. feated every other serious attempt to restrict Porter's known involvement with the Com No retiree living from month to month the murderous proliferation of guns. munist Party, U.S.A. (CPUSA) dates back ten on social security benefits can accept If the measure does fail, it will not be years when in 1964 he became the founder that assessment without great personal because gun-control proponents have any and chairman of an Oregon Ad Hoc Com anxiety. The year 1980 is only 5 years shortage of statistics on their side. In 1973 mittee to Abolish HUAC, a part of the na away. Millions of pensioners can expect there were nearly 20,000 murders committed tional CPUSA apparat to abolish the House live that long or longer. Will they face in this country, 53 per cent of them with Committee on Un-Amerlcan Activities whose to handguns. Handguns were used in 63 per 1969 conference he attended in Washington, destitution then? cent of the quarter-million armed robberies D.C. You know, Mr. Speaker, as I know, that committed in that year and in one-half An activist in the antiwar movement of this Government never will permit a cut of the 2,700 accidental gun deaths. the 1960's Porter is also a board member of back in their social security incomes no A society with e~en the slightest respect the American Committee on Africa (ACOA), matter what may become the state of the for human life would not tolerate such a which provides logistical support to terrorist fund which now supplies them. This t~rrible toll for a single year. And indeed, groups in Southern Africa. many countries have managed to survive Joining Porter in a leadership role of would be both inhumane and unjust. without permitting the arming of every NCPOOG were Howard Willits, Fred J. Pelt Most of the pensioners have earned their other household. In England, for example, zer, John Doar and the Marxist scholar checks, having contributed fully over an individual must obtain a certificate from Joseph P. Morray. their working years. the police in order to buy or own a rifie, March 17, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 7033 shotgun or handgun, and the certificates a very grave and frightening picture of drilling for oil. That assurance, incidentally, are rarely given. the potential dangers that oil spills may was given us in the October, 1974 Environ Only 41 people died by gunshot in England present, not only to the environment but mental Impact Statement by our own De and Wales during 1972. The U.S. may have partment of the Interior which stated that four times as many people, but that does not to human life as well. Mr. Lapinger, who "sooner or later a major sp111 will occur explain the fact that for every person who is a retired U.S. Army major, was the wherever there is significant development of dies by gunshot in England and Wales there spokesman for the Marine Environ offshore exploration and production in po are nearly 500 fatalities in this country. mental Council of Long Island. tential areas. We are certain that thousands It took the assassination of a president, the An excellent adaptation of Mr. Lapin of minor spills will occur." murder of two other national leaders and ger's remarks appeared in the March 4, Pearce spent all of ten minutes in not an riots across the country to bring about pas 1975, issue of Newsday. At this time I swering my question. Actually, I am unjustly sage of even the weak Firearms Control Law would like to submit this article for my faulting the good doctor. He did answer me. of 1968. The law did little more than ban the About a week after the lecture he sent me importation of the cheapest handguns, and colleagues' review. The article follows: by mail a copy of the Marine Pollution Bul it failed to prohibit the importation of hand OIL ON THE WATER: INCUBATOR FOR DISEASE? letin of May, 1974, which contains an article gun parts. It was supposed to restrict the (By Arnold Lapinger) entitled, "Antimicrobial-Resistant Coliforms mall-order purchase of handguns, but any I will offer evidence to show that offshore in New York Bight." Much of the informa one with $10 can still obtain a federal dealer's oil exploitation will create a real danger to tion in the article is drawn from studies "license and order his own handguns through the life of everyone who ventures onto an made by Pearce. the mall. East Coast beach in the future. Microbial life, the article shows, W1ll de Most gun-control advocates blame the fail During March and April of last year a ma velop strains that are resistant to the bac ure of Congress to pass effective legislation rine biologist associated with our organiza terial effects of sea water and that w111 also on pressure from the National Rifie Associa tion discovered a considerable quantity of resist antibiotics. "Some of the isolates were tion, and with 1,000,000 members that group tar balls washed up at Jones Beach and Gllgo shown to transfer antibiotic resistance during is of course a potent lobbying force. Behind Beach on the South Shore of Nassau County. conjugation with a recipient strain of Sal the NRA, however, stand the manufacturers Similar finds were also made at Long Beach monella galinarum." How's that for a happy of guns and ammunition, and it is they who and at Atlantic Beach further to the west. prospect--swimming in a sea of Salmonella? profit most from the proliferation of guns. The Environmental Protection Agency re The article further points to the "fallacy The NRA, in its role as a front for the sponded quickly and took samples. They de of assuming rapid decomposition and dilu manufacturers, and otherwise, has done all terminated that the oleaginous slime inside tion of sewage sludge in the marine dump it could to make advocacy of unrestricted the balls was sewage sludge with a fecal sites ..."Here's another cheering thought- access to guns a respectable position. One coliform count of 2,400,000 per 100 milliliters if you're a germ. "Many antibiotic resistant phrase of the Second Amendment to the Con of water. The EPA standard set a maximum strains are highly transmissible between non stitution, "the right of the people to keep allowable level of 240. pathogenic and pathogenic donors and recip and bear arms," forms the centerpiece of the In May, Richard Dewling [head of EPA's ients . . . these plasmids confer a resistance NRA argument, despite the fact that the regional survey and analysis division) told to a wide spectrum of antibiotics and other Supreme Court has ruled on numerous occa me that the 2,400,000 count had been ac antimicrobials and the host organisms have sions that the Amendment bestows that curate. He further explained that the oil of great survival advantage in hostile right only to the people collectively. The unknown origin-probably from a tanker environments." court has said that laws regulating the use that had blown its bilges-had fioated over To sum up: We have established the in of guns and even banning private ownership the sewage sludge dump site and had "picked cubation effect of oil on microbes. We have of certain weapons represent no infringe up a load of bacteria." The oil, Dewling said, established that strains, some of them patho ment of the constitutional right. acted as a natural incubator, hence the fan genic, have developed that are resistant to The Hart-Bingham measure is no panacea tastically high bacteria count. antibiotics. We have established that even for the inequafities which plague American We have therefore established, by state nonpathogenic bacteria (fecal coliform) can society, but it would at least reduce the ments from experts, that oil floating over a transfer their antibiotic resistance to a deadly number of shootings which happen just be sludge dump will "pick up a load" of mi variety. cause a gun is handy. The bill would com crobes and, by the time the sp111 has reached ·Therefore: Whatever it is that you are in pensate those citizens who turn in their shore, the natural incubation effect will in fected with in the future by swimming in handguns during a specified period, after crease the microbial population on the order pathogen-polluted waters will resist treat which time possession by anyone outside of of 10,000. (This occurred in the early spring ment by the major medical weapon now licensed groups would become a federal when the water temperature is quite low. In available--antibiotics. crime. The legislation would not, however, late summer, warmer air and water tem If a beach has been coated with oil it can prohibit the possession of handguns by legit peratures should enhance the incubation ef be cleaned up cosmetically. But how do you imate sportsmen-such as those belonging fect to a point where an increase in the order disinfect 100 miles of sandy beaches? Get a to pistol clubs-and collectors. The challenge of 1,000,000 might reasonably be expected.) crop-dusting airplane to spray mercuro to Congress is clear: it can begin to talk On Jan. 16, I attended a lecture by Dr. chrome? sense about the control of guns, or it can John B. Pearce at Hofstra University, in the Do we really need the oil that lies under wait until every citizen possesses his own course of which he revealed a startling bit of the Atlantic outer Continental Shelf? I sub private arsenal. information, probably inadvertently. If the mit, gentlemen, that you do not know; the learned doctor had been doing a comedy rou United States government doesn't know. tine, his casual remark would have qualified We have a Federal Energy Administration OIL ON THE WATER: INCUBATOR as a throw-away line. In the context of his and a National Petroleum Council to advise FOR DISEASE? discourse, however, Pearce's off-hand state the administration on what we need and ment was deadly serious. The topic of the what we have available to fulfill those needs. moment was ocean dumping of sewage But both agencies get their information on HON. THOMAS J. DOWNEY sludge as a threat to Long Island's South reserves, that is, how much oil we do have OF NEW YORK Shore beaches, and Pearce, director of the and can hope to produce, from the American IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Sandy Hook Laboratory of the National Petroleum Institute, a wholly owned, wholly Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, controlled propaganda creature of the oil in Monday, March 17, 1975 could reasonably be considered an authority. dustry. And who sits on the FEA and NPC? On a map of the New York Bight, Pearce Almost all of the members of these two Mr. DOWNEY. Mr. Speaker, in these units are--what else?--oll industry execu times of immediate energy scarcity this identified the portion immediately adjacent to the Area A-2 dump site as a "prime oil tives. Nation is beginning to realize that if it drilling area." [The EPA has selected two So, we may ask, what are you doing here? is to reach its goal of energy independ sewage sites--one 41 miles south of Long Is The ostensible purpose of these hearings is to ence it is going to have to begin explor land and another east of New Jersey-for dis get information to be considered by the De ing and developing its oil and natural posal of sewage from the New York metro partment of the Interior in making a deci gas reserves in the Outer Continental politan area next year.) As noted, the present sion. But the decision has already been made. Shelf. However, it is clear that this type dump site [12 miles south of Atlantic Beach] Leasing and drilling are inevitable. Was it of exploration and development may will be phased out starting this spring. Pearce necessary for you to suffer through the ago mentioned that Areas A-1 and A-2 will be nizing hours of listening to hundreds of peo have an extremely adverse impact on the ple repeat what you already knew before environment. used alternately for 45-day periods. With a total volume of 18,000,000 cubic yards daily you started? Have you heard anything new? Last month this problem was explored projected by the EPA, we can be sure that We think that you just did. It would seem at the Department of Interior hearings there will be no shortage of sewage sludge at that the consequences of the oil-incubated, on the proposed expansion of the OCS either of the two sites. antibiotic-resistant microbe is a new consid leasing program. Many individuals had I traced the history of the tar balls for eration. But we are by no means encouraged. the opportunity to speak at these hear Pearce and asked for his opinion on the ob The on will fl.ow, whether through pipelines ings, among them Mr. Arnold Lapinger. vious danger posed by the inevitable spills or on the surface of the sea. And what if epi In his testimony, Mr. Lapinger painted wh1ch must necessarily occur as a result of demics result? Well, that's progress. ~I----445--Part6