2528 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS Janua1"Y 29, 1973 By Mr. YATES {for himself and Mr. H. Res. 167. A resolution to amend rule Hoyt Lunsford and Estelene Lunsford; to the LEHMAN): XI of the House of Representatives to pro Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 3185. A bill to prohibit commercial vide for adequate minority staffing on com By Mrs. :MINK: flights by supersonic aircraft into or over the mittees; to the Committee on Rules. H.R. 3193. A bill to provide that Maj. Carvel United States until certain findings are made By Mr. FRENZEL: de Bussy shall be advanced to the grade of by the Administrator of the Environmental H. Res. 168. Resolution to authorize each lieutenant colonel, and for other purposes; Protection Agency and by the Secretary of Member, Resident Commissioner, and Dele to the Committee on Armed Services. Transportation, and for other purposes; to gate to hire within the monetary llmits of H.R. 3194. A bill for the relief of certain the Committee on Interstate and Foreign the existing clerk hire allowance two addi members of the civilian guard force of the Commerce. tional clerks who are physically handicapped; 6487th Air Base Squadron, Wheeler Air Force By Mr. DAVIS of Wisconsin: to the Committee on House Administration. Base, Hawaii; to the Committee on the Ju H.J. Res. 249. Joint resolution proposing an By Mr. GUDE: diciary. amendment to the Constitution of the United H. Res. 169. Resolution to amend the Rules H.R. 3195. A bill for the relief of John States to provide that any district, from of the House of Representatives regarding Balaz; to the Committee on the Judiciary. which an official is elected to a legislative instructions to members of committees of H.R. 3196. A bill for the relief of James H. body, within a State, any political subdivision conference; to the Committee on Rules. Davidson, Vincent W. S. Hee, and Kay M. of a State, or the District of Columbia shall By Mr. HUNT: Mochizuki; to the Committee on the Judici contain substantially the same numbers of H. Res. 170. Resolution: Canal Zone sover ary. citizens; to the Committee on the Judiciary. eignty and jurisdiction resolution; to the H.R. 3197. A bill for the relief of Mrs. Alice By .Mr. DICKINSON: Committee on Foreign Affairs. Davis, Mrs. Carol Dumbaugh, Mrs. Judith H.J. Res. 250. Joint resolution relating to By Mr. POAGE: Haworth, and Mrs. Doris Chula; to the Com the war power of Congress; to the Committee H. Res. 171. Resolution to provide funds mittee on the Judiciary. on Foreign Affairs. for the expenses of the investigation and H.R. 3198. A bill for the relief of James L. By Mr. FRENZEL: study authorized by House Resolution 72; to Gerard, James W. Summers, and William D. H.J. Res. 251. Joint resolution proposing an the Committee on House Administration. Cissel; to the Committee on the Judiciary. amendment to the Constitution of the United H.R. 3199. A bill for the relief of Plotemia States to provide an age limit and a. single Mabanag Bareng and Bastiana Lilian Maba 6-year term for the President; to the Com MEMORIALS nag· Bareng; to the Committee on the Ju mittee on the Judiciary. diciary. H.J. Res. 252. Joint resolution proposing an Under clause 4 of rule XXII, H.R. 3200. A bill for the relief of Servillano amendment t.o the Constitution of the United 20. The SPEAKER presented a memorial C. Espi; to the Committee on the Judiciary. States to provide an age limit for senators of the Senate of the State of Hawaii, relative H.R. 3201. A bill for the relief of Mrs. Toyo and Representatives; to the Committee on to peace in Vietnam; to the Committee on Shota Ikeuchi and Mrs. Katherine Keiko the Judiciary. Foreign Affairs. Aoki Kaneshiro; to the Committee on the H.J. Res. 253. Joint resolution proposing an Judiciary. amendment t:o the Constitution of the United H.R. 3202. A bill for the relief of Takehito States to limit the tenure of office of Senators Kobayashi; to the Committee on the and Representatives; to the Committee on PRIVATE BilLS AND RESOLUTIONS Judiciary. the Judiciary. Under clause 1 of rule XXII, private H.R. 3203. A bill for the relief of Nepty By Mrs. MINK: bills and resolutions were introduced and Masauo Jones; to the Committee on the H.J. Res. 254. Joint resolution proposing severally referred as follows: Judiciary. an amendment to the Constitution of the H.R. 3204. A bill for the relief of Mrs. United States providing that the term of By Mr. DON H. CLAUSEN: Corazon Evangeline Quimino; to the Com office of Members of the U.S. House of Rep H.R. 3186. A bill for the relief of Jerry A. mittee on the Judiciary. resentatives shall be 4 years; to the Com Langer; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 3205. A bill for the relief of Esther mittee on the Judiciary. By Mr. BURTON: Niano Ramos; .to the Committee on the By Mr. PATMAN: H.R. 3187. A bill for the relief of Fredi Judiciary. H.J. Res. 255. Joint resolution to designate Robert Dreilich; to the Committee on the H.R. 3206. A bill for the relief of Francisco the Manned Space Craft Center in Houston, Judiciary. M. del Rosario; to the Committee on the Tex., as the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center By Mr. DELLUMS: Judiciary. in honor of the late President; to the Com H.R. 3188. A bill for the relief of Thomas By Mr. PRITCHARD: mittee on Science and Astronautics. G. Jolley; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 3207. A bill for the relief of Mrs. By Mr. RINALDO: By Mr. FRENZEL: Enid R. Pope; to the Committee on the H.J. Res. 256. Joint resolution to authorize H.R. 3189. A bill for the relief of Elmer Judiciary. Erickson; to the Committee on the Judiciary. the emergency importation of oil into the By Mr. SANDMAN: By Mr. HANNA: H.R. 3208. A bill for the relief of Giuseppe United States; to the Committee on Ways H.R. 3190. A bill for the relief of Gabriel and Means. Trimarchi; to the Committee on the Judi Edgar Buchowiecki; to the Committee on the ciary. By Mr. RONCALIO of Wyoming: Judiciary. H.J. Res. 257. Joint resolution to authorize ByMr.mCKS: PETITION, ETC. the President to issue annually a proclama H.R. 3191. A bill to incorporate in the Dis tion designating March of each year as Youth trict of Columbia the National Inconveni· Under clause 1 of rule XXII, Art Month; to the Committee on the Judi enced Sportsmen's Association; to the Com 35. The SPEAKER presented a petition of ciary. mittee on District of Columbia. the City Council, Fresno, Calif., relative to By Mr. ANDERSON of nlinois · (for By Mr. McSPADDEN: President Lyndon B. Johnson; to the Com himself and Mr. CLEVELAND) : H.R. 3192. A bill for the relief of Larry mittee on House Administration.
EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS THE 55TH ANNIVERSARY OF Nowhere was the drive for independ Since the plundering Bolsheviks en UKRAINE'S INDEPENDENCE ence more alive than in Ukraine. Amid slaved this nation 50 years ago, repres the complex events of that year the sion has been a way of life in Ukraine. Ukrainian masses created a movement Yet, hope and the will to be free has not HON. JOHN J. RHODES that led to the UkraYn'ka Narodnia been taken from the people. The belief in OF ARIZONA Respublika-Ukrainian National Repub the Ukrainian will and national spirit IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES lic. remains alive. However, as the new nation was hard I also think something should be said Tuesday, January 23, 1973 at work establishing itself, its freedoms here about the 2,000,000 Ukrainian Mr. RHODES. Mr. Speaker, January and its independence were snatched Americans and a tremendous effort they 22 marked the 55th anniversary of away. In 1922, the Bolsheviks, disregard have undertaken. Ukraine's independence. ing national boundaries and identities, Not only has knowledge of their home In 1917, as the tsarist regime crumbled seized Ukraine, clamping despotism over land, its history, literature, and culture and Russia was torn by internal forces; this nation of beauty, vast resources, and been disproportionately minimal despite the non-Russian areas of the empire 50 million people. The result was, and is, Ukraine's importance, but the Ukrainian were afire with a struggle not only to that Ukraine is the largest non-Russian American's experience as a community, attain social freedom but national in captive nation both in the U.S.S.R. and their integration into the mainstream of dependence as well. Eastern Europe. American life, and their contribution to January 29, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2529
the growth of this country have been THE TOASTMASTER GENERAL beth, from 1946 to 1962 when he retired there inadequately studied. As a result of see There will be a. moment at the New Jer after coaching his 200th basketball victc?ry. ing this need a professorship in Ukrain sey Sportswriters Association dinner Sunday COLLEGE COACH ian studies has been created at Harvard afternoon a.t the Greenbriar Inn when every On the college level, Jolly Jerry served a University. body in the place will wake up. Jerry Mol score of seasons as baseball coach at St. Pe loy's booming voice has the effect of an alarm ter's on spring afternoons at the cavernous In Ukraine itself, the range of scholarly clock but his chatter and charJll are in- research in the humanities has been one Roosevelt Stadium, Jersey City. The chief of toxicating. · Hoboken police used to chase foul balls in of the fields most sharply circumscribed "Just a few minutes ago," Molloy will the empty 25,000-seat stadium and Frank since the 1930's. The task of Harvard's begin, "the mike was on the bum. Now a. Sinatra's father a.n ex-boxer who used the Ukrainian center will be to fill the gaps. bum is on the mike." name of Marty O'Brien brought the bats back This tremendous and vital effort at Molloy will smile and the audience will to the dugout. Harvard is the result of the work of laugh. They always do. Laughter is the mid Molloy feels best among "little people." many, but most importantly involved is dle name of this fat, smiling Irishman from He once turned down a. chance to speak at a Hoboken. prestigious dinner in Washington, D.C., be a group of Ukrainian-American students Molloy is called the Toastmaster General that concluded that the only way to per cause he had committed himself to appear of New Jersey, a. title reconfirmed by every at a. friend's bachelor party in Hoboken. petuate their cultural inheritance and governor since Robert Meyner. The sports Jerry, too, was regarded as one of the best share it was through the endowment of writers will send Molloy to the microphone officials in college basketball, a position he a permanent chair of Ukrainian studies for about the 8,000th time in his long, happy attained much the same wa.y he became an at an American university. The unprece life that began June 1, 1910, near one of after dinner talker. "I was at a. game and the dented initiative of this group of students Hoboken's many cabarets. referee didn't show up. They were paying a. made possible the collection of the neces "I gave my first dinner talk at a. Kiwanis dollar so I jumped a.t the chance to sub," he luncheon at old Meyers Hotel in Hoboken in says. You can expect Molloy to toss a quip. sary funds for the endowment of a pro 1945," Molloy recalls. "The principal speaker fessorial chair. Because of this effort. "They said I was one of the best referees didn't show and my old buddy, Yorke Cala money could buy." It always draws a laugh. Harvard shall be the home of a $3.8 mil bro, suggested they let Jerry tell a few He continued as a. referee for a. few g,ames lion Ukrainian studies center providing stories." and "retired." He quickly made a comeback the means to fill the cultural gaps forc Molloy was a successful high school coach when the fee jumped to $1.50. Eventually his ibly created in Ukraine by Communist at the time and in the space of a. few min colorful court antics landed him work at ideology and anti-Ukrainian discrimina utes, he became a.n equally successful after Madison Square Garden where he became one dinner speaker. Molloy has been a. guest of the most popular officials of all time. tion. speaker for the Hoboken Kiwanis every year This effort by the Ukrainian-American Molloy's funny experiences are myriad. One since his debut on the "rubber chicken" cir he recalls occurred while his team was play community is indicative of the cultural cuit. "In appreciation, they've made me a.n ing St. Joseph's of Paterson. "I lost my chop pride and spirit of a strong-willed people. honorary member," says Molloy. Jerry won't pers yelling too hard. I was so incensed I fol In their dedication to keep a culture alive say his membership in the Kiwanis is more lowed the referee across the court, screaming there is a lesson for we who too easily compensation than he usually receives. at him and all of a sudden my teeth fell out. take our freedoms for granted. Molloy has brightened audiences in most I didn't know what to do--keep after him or I salute all Ukrainians on this 55th parts of the country. He shared a. dais with pick up my choppers. I kept after him." anniversary of their national indepen the then Vice President Hubert Humphrey Later that year, Molloy, whose teams won a.t an International Longshoremen's Associ more than 500 basketball games, was the dence. I applaud their national spirit and ation convention in Miami Beach, which may strength, and I look forward to a day guest speaker at the St. Joseph's sports din be one of the reasons the ex-veep is always ner. "They presented me with a. set of chat when Ukraine will again freely stand smiling. tering teeth." among the nations of the world. One of his most interesting engagements, It was another of the more than 8,000 however, was in a. suburb of Pittsburgh, nights that Molloy put a. smile on peoples' Pa..-McKees Rocks. "I felt at home because faces. - it reminded me of Hoboken." Jerry spoke "I'm not an entertainer," he points out. JERRY MOLLOY, NEW JERSEY'S for 20 minutes in what he describes as an "I just like to have fun." TOASTMASTER GENERAL "abandoned mine shaft." He recalls an el derly lady at a front table playing solitaire. "I had them rolling in the aisles," Molloy HON. DOMINICK V. DANIELS remembers, "and then one of the good fathers took the dice away." MAY THE PEACE BE PERMANENT OF NEW JERSEY He finished his talk with a. "prayer." It IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES went like this. "Now I lay me down to slum Monday, January 29, 1973 ber, I hope and pray I hit the number. If I HON. HAROLD T. JOHNSON should die before I wake . . . Play a deuce OF CALIFORNIA Mr. DOMINICK V. DANIELS. Mr. on 208." IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Speaker, one of the most entertaining THE NUMBER HIT persons in northern New Jersey is Jerry That was April 1970 and the number was a Monday, January 29, 1973 Molloy of Hoboken whose ability as a wit winner the next day. He received a letter of Mr. JOHNSON of California. Mr. and reconteur has earned him the title thanks from the dinner chairman on behalf Speaker, the cease-fire which took place of Toastmaster General of New Jersey. of all the lucky people who p~a.yed 208. "We in Vietnam on Saturday and the signing need more people like you," the letter said. I know of no one who is more consistent "But there was· no money for me," Molloy of agreements by the four parties direct ly funny than Jerry and, I must say, said. ly involved, which hopefully will lead to very often at my expense. Molloy played a. return engagement at Mc a permanent peace in all of Southeast Jerry Molloy is more than a comic. He Kees Rocks last year without a fee. Even Asia, are indeed most welcome news. is a man who has devoted his life to the travel expenses were out of his pocket. As I know my colleagues are, I am make a better life for other people and "They're good people," he reasoned. elated that the two agreements which there are thousands of young people who Currently, Jerry is the coordinator of youth have been initialed and were signed Sat have followed the right path in life be activities in Hoboken. He points with pride to the young people in his town where, he urday means that at long last we have in cause of the inspiration of the jolly Ho claims, JD stands for juvenile decency sight that day when all American pris boken Irishman. As teacher and coach rather than juvenile delinquency. oners of war will be released and re for more than three decades he has Molloy has worked with kids most of his turned home and there will be the fullest taken nothing for himself and given to life. He was 23 when he signed on as coach of possible accounting of our servicemen others. I know Jerry would guffaw if he basketball, baseball, football and tennis, di who are listed as missing in action. I am heard these words, but he is truly one of rector of athletics and teacher of physical pleased that these POW-MIA lists, which God's noblemen. education at St. Mary's High School in Pater we have sought for so long, have been Recently, Carmine Bilotti of· the Dis son in 1933. He was paid $50 a. year. He stayed made available immediately and at long patch, of Union City, N.J., devoted his on the job until the school closed in 1971. The building has since been converted to the last the long vigil of the families of the popular Sportscope column to Jerry Mol- Jerry Molloy Youth Center. prisoners of war and those missing in ac loy and I include it in full at the con He also coached at St. Michael's, Newark, tion will be ended. clusion of my remarks. from 1939 to 1943; at St. Mary's, Elizabeth Within 60 days we should have there The article follows: from 1943 to 1946; and at St. Patrick's, Eliza- maining troops in Vietnam en route 2530 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS January 29, 1973 home. That indeed will be a wonderful Current national efforts also include end. These environmental bills continue day-one that we have hoped and prayed Boypower '76, an intense long-range ex- to be assigned to a myriad of committees for for a long, long time. pansion program launched in 1969 which which are chiefly concerned with other The President's report and the lengthy proposes to involve one-third of all areas of legislative activity. and thorough briefing in which Dr. Kis American boys in scouting by 1976, the The problems are simply too costly and singer spelled out the many details of the 200th anniversary of the birth of our complex to be handled in this manner. peace agreements give us real assurance Nation. As a part of its Boypower '76 We need one standing committee to deal that we have a bona fide negotiated plan, the BSA has included a number with air pollution, water pollution, noise peace, one which has been achieved with of programs that reflect their concern pollution, herbicide and pesticide abuse, honor. for the environment. Project SOAR-- waste management and all of the other The task facing the Nation today, one Save Our American Resources-is one of critical concerns involving our environ emphasized both by the President and Dr. them. Boys participating in this project ment. Kissinger, is how to achieve a permanent remove litter from our Nation's high- In both the 91st and 92d Congresses, peace-a peace which will bring together ways, parks, streambanks, vacant lots, a joint resolution was passed to estab in a spirit of cooperation and concilia and public lands. Instead of merely ex- lish a Joint Committee on the Environ tion not only the people of Southeast pressing criticism, scouts are assuming ment. However, the committee failed to Asia but also our own people here at an active, constructive role in cleaning · become operational, because no confer home and the peoples throughout the up their environment and restoring ence report was ever filed following the world. I would join our President in his acres of land back to its original beauty. congressional approval. In any event, a closing comments last night in which he It is my opinion that the scouting joint committee would not have solved emphasized how much President John program has always been a relevant, the problem since no bills would have son desired and sought actively a lasting sympathetic and meaningful organiza- been referred to it and the committee peace in the world: tion responding to the needs of our would not have had jurisdiction to re No one would have welcomed this peace youth. I recall with fond and cherished port measures to the floor. more than he. And I know he would join me memories the adventures and expert- Much of my public life has been dedi 1n asking-for those who died, and for those ences which I enjoyed as a Boy Scout, cated to preserving America's great w'ho live-let us consecrate this moment by and feel confident that the lessons of natural assets for the use and enjoy resolving together to make the peace we have citizenship and fellowship which come ment of this and future generations. achieved a peace that will last. early in scouting provide a deeply per- Cleaning up our environment is cer May we dedicate ourselves to the sonal experience for every Boy Scout. tai.nly one of the most difficult and costly achievement of this azoal. The scouting movement has made sig- campaigns we have ever undertaken. nificant expansion in Kentucky and I Therefore, it is essential we do so in am pleased to note that BSA continues an effective, coordinated manner. We to be of great service to the State of owe it to the American people to get the SCOUTING'S MORE THAN YOU Kentucky generally and the Second job done. THINK Congressional District in particular. Mr. SPeaker, for the past 63 years the HON. WILLIAM H. NATCHER Boy Scouts of America have definitely NEW ADMINISTRATION BUDGET made an enormous contribution to the THREATENS CATASTROPHIC CUTS OF KENTUCKY growth of this country both morally and IN MEDICAL RESEARCH IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES spiritually, and on the eve of their an Monday, January 29. 1973 niversary, I want to wish each and every HON. ROBERT F. DRJNAN scout continued success in all of their Mr. NATCHER. Mr. Speaker, during OF MASSACHUSETTS future endeavors. the entire month of February we will IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES commemorate the 63d anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America who, as you know, Monday, January 29, 1973 were the first and the largest youth orga COMMITTEE ON THE ENVIRONMENT Mr. DRINAN. Mr. Speaker, the Nixon nization to be chartered by Congress. administration's fiscal budget for 1974, Certainly I am always proud and de unveiled today, spells catastrophic lighted to have the opportunity to pay HON. C. W. BILL YOUNG slashes in Federal funding for many pro tribute to and express my sincere appre OF FLORIDA grams in the physical sciences and par ciation for the outstanding accomplish IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ticularly in the training of medical sci ments rendered by this splendid organi ences in the teaching hospitals across the zation since its inception. Monday, January 29~ 1973 Nation. All down through the years we have Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Mr. Speaker, In Boston alone there will be a proj witnessed wonderful achievements the Congress must marshal its resources ected loss of more than $18 million in brought about by the emphasis which if the great struggle to clean up Amer Federal support. More than 850 training scouting has placed on fellowship, citi ica's environment and preserve our natu positions will be lost over the 18 months zenship, and respect for God as evidenced ral resources is ever to be won. Right at the three medical schools and their by the more than six million members now, our effort is fragmented and inef affiliated hospitals in greater Boston. and leaders who are truly committed to ficient, thus preventing the Congress To bring the forthcoming disasters to this program. However, scouting today from taking leadership on one of the the attention of the Members of Con has changed in its total concept. It is an greatest problems of our time. gress and of the Nation, I attach here organized, contemporary, and universal To bring unity to this effort, I have with a well-researched article from the program used to tackle drug abuse, pollu introduced House Resolution 41, to es Boston Globe for January 29, 1973. The tion, juvenile delinquency, and unem tablish a Standing Committee on the article follows: ployment problems, and in its continuing Environment in the House of Repre HUB MEDICAL TaAnnNG CENTERS LOSE $18 concern for American youth BSA began sentatives. MILLION UNDER NIXON BUDGET a nationwide program to combat drug While the administration with estab The Nixon Administration's fiscal 1974 abuse. Operation REACH, inaugurated in lishment of the Environmental Protec budget, to be unveiled today, dooms Federal 1971, has made highly successful and in tion Agency recognized the need for a support for training new medical scientists, coordinated program to clean up Amer much to the amazement of medical schools dispensable approaches to drug abuse and teaching hospitals across the nation. prevention and was developed to supple ica's air and water, the Congress has Boston, a world medical center, stands to ment scouting's traditional physical and continued trying to solve the problems lose more than $18 million in Federal sup mental .fitness program. This project pro on a piecemeal basis. port under the new Nixon budget. More than vides for the distribution of relia~le drug The Nation's growing recognition of 850 training positions wlll be eliminated information to youth and their parents the need to improve the quality of life over the next 18 months at the three medi thereby creating an atmosphere which and deal with the growing environmen cal schools and their.aftiliated hospitals here. opens frank discussion and promotes tal crisis has led to a proliferation of Because of the concentration of medical trust between the two generations. billS' introduced in the Congress to this research and teaching here, Boston will be January 29, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2531 one of the two or three hardest hit centers land Medical Center Hospitals receive the premium on a social insurance policy" pur in the country. Almost 15 percent of the third-largest share of training grant money chased to ensure that the nation maintains $134.5 million in Federal biomedical train $1.9 million--supporting 128 trainees at the its momentum in biomedical research and ing and fellowship money allocated for the medical school, New England Medical Center in the manpower needed to train new doc current fiscal year :flowed into local academic and the Tufts services at Boston City Hos tors. medicine. pital. From comments made recently to Boston This money nourishes not only new medi A higher proportion of the Tufts total, al scientists, it is known that Mr. Nixon's cal research talent but also provides medi most 40 percent, is devoted to faculty budget managers feel the government should cal schools with $2.8 million to help pay salaries. However, the actual amount of not support advanced training for doctors faculty salaries. faculty support is so much smaller ($587,- who might later drop out of medical research A third benefit, difficult to measure but 000) that Tufts appears to be less dependent and rake in large incomes enhanced by their clearly substantial, is the significant amount on the program to meet its academic pay Federally financed post-graduated training. of patient care that the Federally supported roll of 400 full-time and part-time facUlty. The NIH argued that most trainees stay trainees provide in their research and train The three Boston schools are a microcosm in academic medicine where their earnings ing-especially in the esoteric disease man of the degree to which the Federal commit are well below what they could be making agement for which Boston hospitals are ment to train biomedical researchers and in private practice. It told OMB officials famous. clinical faculty has served as a cornerstone that a work-study alternative would hamper The most striking example is the Massachu in the development of academic medicine the training of high-quality researchers, and setts General Hospital, which stands to lose since the mid-1950s. that many potentially creative people would 145 trainees in specialties ranging from an For instance in the current year half of be deterred from a career in research if they esthesia to neurology and surgery. The fate the $134.5 million spent on the program had to borrow the $50,000-plus it would take of 40 trainees slated to come on board July went to medical school faculty salaries. In to finance their medical education and post 1, to whom the hospital had already given fiscal 1971, 37.5 percent of all U.S. research graduate training. commitments, is very much in doubt accord ers-in-training in the basic medical sciences ing to MGH officials. drew support from the program. Based on rumors circulating during the As already noted, the spinoff for patient past 10 days, medical schools and some of PEYSER OPPOSES HEROIN care is more difficult to pin down. In most MAINTENANCE the nation's most prestigious hospitals are medical specialties and sub-specialties, the lobbying in Congress to save the program, line between laboratory researcher and pa but most observers see little chance of suc tient-care provider is virtually impossible cess. to draw. The common thread is an orienta HON. JOHN B. ANDERSON Unknown to all but a few in the a~ademic tion toward advancing medical knowledge OF ILLINOIS medical community, the debate over re and teaching new doctors rather than solely IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES search traineeships between the White House toward delivering medical care. Office of Management and Budget ( OMB) Yet in the course of research, the trainees Monday, January 29, 1973 and the National Institutes of Health (Nm) have provided substantial patient care in Mr. ANDERSON of lllinois. Mr. was being waged over the past nine months. the teaching hospitals where their labora As the budget to be revealed today shows, Speaker, my good friend and colleague the fiscal managers prevailed in that battle, tories are located, usually without charging from New York
It was "Miss Lily," as she is affectionately LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON-A championed has increased the incomes of known to Phillips Countians, got started the TRIBUTE the working people throughout America. ball rolling almost three years ago. And it was He believed in assisting rural and ur she who undertook the gigantic task of head ban areas in coping with their prob ing up the drive for $300,000 in local funds HON. JOE L. EVINS lems-and legislation to assist small to be used for matching purposes. OF TENNESSEE Although a large portion of the money for towns, rural areas and metropolitan construction of the center came from the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES areas has provided much assistance federal government, it was necessary that Monday, January 29, 1973 throughout America. $300,000 be raised from private contribu President Johnson's list of legislative tions. Miss Lily and a host of co-workers ac Mr. EVINS of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, accomplishments defies definition and complished that task in about six months. today the flags over the Capitol are fly comparison. Her work toward the construction of the ing at half-mast in memory of Lyndon He thought big-like the man he was facility will be recognized Sunday nigl:lt when Baines Johnson, the 36th President of the center's auditorium officially becomes and the State of Texas, the State of his the United States. origin. And he was a dynamo as he trans known as the "Lily Peter Auditorium." We have all participated in ceremonies Miss Lily, although she made hundreds of lated his thoughts and dreams into ac requests for donations and wrote more letters in the rotunda of the Capitol and at the tion and reality. than she cares to remember, refuses to take National City Christian Church here in As the first southern President since only the smallest credit. Washington, and have heard the beauti the Civil War, he accomplished more to "There was a great number of persons who ful and eloquent eulogies of our col assure equal rights for all Americans was," she says. "And they all work~d terri league, Congressman J. J. PICKLE, from than any President since Abraham Lin were just as interested in this pro!ect as I Texas; the Honorable Deal! Rusk, who coln. bly hard on it." served with President Johnson as Secre Lyndon Johnson had the common Among those who became involved at an tary 1:>f State; Mr. Marvin Watson, the early date was Dr. John Easley, president touch-a sensitivity for people. He loved President's close associate and assista,nt of Phillips College. people and identified with them. He Dr. Easley, while he aided in some of the in the White House; and the Rev. wanted all Americans to share in the fund solicitation, was primarily involved Dr. George R. Davis, pastor of the good life. with paperwork, seeing that all federal re National City Christian Church, which As he once remarked: quirements were met so that the federal President Johnson attended while in I believe every American has something to funds would be available. Washington. say and, under our system, a right to an "He did a wonderful job," Miss Lily said. These and other tributes and editorials audience. "Without his work, the center would have on his passing were moving and beauti I believe achievement of the full potential never been started." ful. I should like to take this opportunity of our resources-physical and human-is The college, of course, will benefit greatly the highest purpose of governmental policies from the construction of the community of adding my own tribute to this great man and close friend who served the Na next to the protection of those rights we center, since it figures prominently into its regard as inalienable. operation. tion so faithfully and well-both in the Not on1y will the facility be used as a Congress and in the White House. I recall that on one occasion during a community center, available for all sorts of Certainly I was shocked and saddened campaign swing through Tennessee in activities within the county, it will also be by the news of the passing of Lyndon B. 1964, on leaving the airport at Nashville, used by the college. Under present plans, the center will house Johnson. He was my personal friend and the President, rather than heading di the college's fine arts department and its I felt extremely close to him. rectly for the city, chose to detour to student center. Lyndon Johnson had the greatest leg greet peo:?le who were crowded behind a "We plan to move into the student union islative record of any President I have fence, hoping to catch a glimpse of him. and open it officially next Wednes~ay,'' Dr. known-legislation passed dw·ing his I also recall that as we were returning Easley said recently. When not bemg used administration has been compared to to the airport after a hard day of cam as a student center, it will be available for the famous "90 days" of President paigning, I pointed out an important con other affairs. Franklin Roosevelt's administration as stituent among the throngs along the The building, constructed by M&M Con struction Company of Jonesboro, includes he responded to the challenge of the highway. I suggested that he wave to this music and art classro6ms, an exhibition hall, depression. friend, but instead he ordered the driver and, of course, the 1,200 seat auditorium. Lyndon Johnson more than any man to stop the car, then bounced out and "The building is extremely adaptable," said I have known understood the legislative went over to this constituent, shaking Bill Stiles, executive director of the center. processes of the Congress. He under his hand and giving him a warm and "For instance, most of the facilities, such as stood the committee system and the in enthusiastic greeting. the student center, can be transformed, with tricacies of congressional interaction This was the personal style of cam little or no work, into banquet areas." The paigning that President Johnson loved classrooms can be used for conference or the work of Congress. meeting rooms for various organizations and His legislative success was a compound and that was his trademark-and he conventions. of this knowledge, his awareness of the made a lifelong friend and supporter of The auditorium, of course, is the showplace Nation's problems, and his determina the man he stopped to greet. of the community center, containing 1,200 tion to attack these problems with all While President Johnson was in office, seats and featuring the most modern lighting the force he could muster with the aid I was invited to the White House fre and sound system available. of Congress. quently to 9articipate in bill-signing "It's just ideal for any type of production," Although it may appear fashionable in ceremonies or for receptions, dinners and says Stiles. "I don't believe there's another some quarters to cs.st aspersions on the briefings. facility in the Mid-South that has it beat." Federal career service, President Jolm Following his retirement from the "Until now, there was really no place avail son was a Federal career man and he Presidency, we corresponded on occasion able that was adequate to conduct the high worked with the departments and agen and he obviously enjoyed maintaining his quality concerts which the Warfield Founda cies of Government to achieve his goals contacts with old friends in Congress. tion brings to the Twin Cities," Stiles said. and objectives. Upon leaving the White House in Jan "Now, we've got a facility second to none." He believed in education-and much uary of 1969, he wrote to me a warm Stiles added that other appearances have landmark education legislation was en personal letter in which he said: been booked into the auditorium and there is acted dw·ing his administration. a possibility that the college will sponsor In this, my last week in office, I am stirred several big name performers for appearances. He believed in assuring the elderly of by memories of old battles--and old friends adequate medical care-and the medi "We're just extremely proud of the entire who stood at my side throughout them an. complex," Stiles added. "And we want people care legislation he sponsored has pro You are one of those friends. of Phillips County to be proud also-that's vided this assurance as a matter of right My admiration and affection for you will why we'd like to invite them to come by the to the poor and needy. never diminish. center and let us show them around-we'd He believed in helping the "little man" I thank you and I salute you. like to let them see just how their money directly-rather than in the "trickle Sincerely. was spent.'' down theory"-and legislation which he LYNDON B. JOHNSON. January 29, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2535 I value and treasure this letter among Great Society"? Was it inevitable, in a rising by this particular 20th century passion for my most prized mementos. tide of bitterness and disaffection, that John responsibllity for which Lyndon Johnson F. Kennedy's successor should be struck himself was not largely responsible. Like in Although President Johnson, when he down by the tumbling ruins of Camelot? Did different lovers for fractious offspring, a na left the Presidency, had had a number of he simply fall to gauge correctly the mood tion can often take things for granted or heart attacks-the first when he was ma of the country when he vowed to nan that seem only to notice when it has been jority leader of the Senate-we, his Vietnam coonskin to the wall? Was there wronged. The death of Mr. Johnson may friends, had hoped that, with the burdens some fatal and concealed flaw in his char serve momentarily to pull us back from these of the Presidency off his shoulders, he acter which prevented him from dealing perspectives, to remind us that much which would live a long life in retirement. effectively with the burgeoning crisis of the we now expect from our government and our his races? society as a matter of course-black voting He lived a full, rewarding life and A little of each of these factors, perhaps, rights, care for our elderly and our Ul work had been completed. His achieve contributed to the downfall and bitterness came to us very recently and largely by ments and accomplishments are now his of a man whose personality so vividly re courtesy of Lyndon Johnson. tory. The Vietnam conflict which he flected the brashness, drive, optimism and The simple, inescapable fact is that he worked to end is drawing to a close. acquisitiveness of his native state. Those cared-and that it showed. Being in all ways His administration will stand in his good qualities and those defects which he larger than life-sized, he cared about a lot tory as a monument to social and do brought to the presidency, in fact, may well of things: his own political fortunes, his have been the inevitable outgrowth of his image, and his place in history, for of course mestic progress at home and to a strong state and regional heritage. defense of freedom abroad. he was vain. But he was consistent; all of When time cools the passions of the his appetites were kingsized. So he cared I was deeply saddened by the pass moment, it will be remembered that he about people with the same enormous in ing of this great friend, and my wife Ann served his state and country, as congressman, tensity. In fact, a fair case can be made that joins me in expressing our deepest and senator, vice president and President for 31 one set of appetites fed on the other; h e most heartfelt sympathy to Mrs. John consecutive years, and that if he did well by st ruggled and wheedled and hammered and son-Lady Bird-and other members of Lyndon Johnson, dying a multimillionaire, cajoled for political power because he yearned the family in their loss and bereavement. he also tried to do well (and often succeeded) powerfully to do great and good things and by Texas and the United States. that is what he wanted the power for. Because of the high regard and respect To a certain extent, the measure of states of my colleagues and the American peo men can be calculated by the passions they This was at once the strength and the ple for this great President, I place in arouse among their contemporaries. weakness of Lyndon Johnson, for while this tremendous force was more often than not the RECORD herewith copies of editorial Churchill and De Gaulle, for instance, were eulogies from the Washington Post and nothing if not controversial. In this respect, irresistible over the years, both as Senate the hostility of his foes makes the big Texan Majority Leader and President, it was, like Washington Star-News. everything about the man, very often exces The editorial eulogies follow: look llke tall timber indeed among the scrub growth which forested much of the political sive. It could bend the political process to [From the Evening Star and the Washington hills of America in our times. his will, and to good effect. But it could also Dally News, Jan. 23, 1973} Lyndon Johnson was a big man and a bear down too hard, so that the system LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON big President. cracked under his weight. A master at the He was six-foot-three and everything about instrumentality of events, he could use a Selma or an assassination .tp lever a civil him-his ability, his high sense of national [From the Washington Post, Jan. 24, 1973} purpose, his towering rages-seemed some rights law or a gun control blll through Con how slightly larger than life. Now he is gone LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON gress. But he could also use a minor gunboat at the age of 64, the second former President The public lifetime of Lyndon Baines John skirmish in the Gulf of Tonkin to produce to die within a month. son spanned almost four decades. It was a a resolution from Congress giving overwhelm The very memory of Lyndon Baines John period market not just by the development ing support to a war effort whose true nature son, thrust into the presidency by an assas of certain powerful currents in American was never revealed in terms which could be sin's bullet, is so freighted with partisan thought, but also by an eventful reappraisal expected to prepare either the Congress or feeling that it must remain for another gen of where those currents had led. Thus, much the public for the sacrifice that both would eration of Americans, immunized by time which had been considered desirable, nec later be expected to accept. from the contagion of emotion, to assess essary and even holy in Mr. Johnson's po Neither Lyndon Johnson's memory nor his fairly the man and to judge impartially his litical youth had fallen into disrepute by the place in history, we would hope, is going to presidency. time that he left office. "Internationalism" turn entirely, or even primarily on the war When that day comes, when the Vietnam had come to be known as "interventionism" that grew out of that resolution; for Viet confliot-llke the Spanish Clvll War which by many, its painful and costly effects haunt nam there is blame enough for all concerned, stirred the conscience of another genera ing the nation in a seemingly unendable over four administrations and a good num tion-has become an issue to bring the flush war. And the vital and generous impulses ber of Congresses. Confined and carried along of passion only to the cheeks of old men, that had animated Mr. Johnson's commit by earlier commitments, counseled by the we believe that the man from the Pedernales ment to domestic legislation from the New men recruited by his predecessors, unchecked will be counted among this country's near Deal through the Great Society had come to by Congress, Mr. Johnson plunged on, over great presidents. be seen by many ..as obsolete and outworn stating, over-promising, over-hoping, over Historians wlll record th81t the first South habits of mind which caused as many trou reaching. But if his time in office marked ern president since Reconstruction engi bles as they cured. At the airport sendoff the big Vietnam escalation, it also will be neered the Civil Rights Bill of 1964 (the first that January day in 1969, when Lyndon remembered for the fact that he, by impli in more than 80 years), outlawing racial Johnson's somebound plane vanished into cation and by painfully difficult decision, discrimination in public facilities, employ the clouds, his longtime friends and col moved toward the end of his term to ac ment and union membership, and giving the leagues were left with more than an eerie knowledge a great miscalculation-widely attorney general new powers to enforce Negro feeling of the suddenness and totality with shared in, let it be said-which is not some voting rights and to step up the pace of which power is relinquished in this c~untry. thing incumbent Presidents are given to school desegregation. They wlll remember The summary departure of this man who had doing. Reluctantly, grudgingly, but effec that, while he committed large numbers of been the larger-than life center of ambition tively, he turned the war effort around, U.S. troops to a conflict on the Asian main and authority in government for five years, abandoning "graduated response" as the land, he kept us out of nuclear war. This also seemed symbolically to end a self-con method of choice, and bequeathed to his and much else in the fields of civil rights, tained chapter in the nation's political de successor a greater opportunity than he him housing and health did Johnson, who was velopment. self inherited to move toward disengage perhaps the most consummate politician in It was an era characterized both domesti ment and a re-definition of the mission in modern American history, make part and cally and in foreign policy terms by an as realistic terms. parcel of our children's heritage. sumption of responsibllity-national re When Harry Truman died a few weeks ago And yet, at the last, he falled-or believed sponsibility-for the welfare of the poor, the at the age of 88, he died the beneficiary of himself to have failed-withdrawing himself rights of the mistreated, the fairness of the a gift Lyndon Johnson was not to receive: from contention in the 1968 election, leav way in which we distribute our wealth and 20 years had passed since the embattled and ing the country and his party weary and the general well-being and stabllity of coun much maligned Mr. Truman had held office divided. tries all over the world. Of Mr. Johnson's so that time and change and hindsight vastly The roots of that failure are m.anifold and participation in all this-as a Congressman, altered the view people had of him. Mr. difficult to trace. Was it, as he insisted, too Senator, Vice President and President-it Johnson was never lucky in this regard. His close to Appomattox for the country as a must be said that his impact was so pro each and every achievement from his Senate whole to accept and appreciate a Southern found that there 18 hardly a case in which years on seemed to be followed or accom president, to believe in his vision of "the the nation was either blessed or victimized panied by some series of events that spolled 2536 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS January 29, 1973 the glory of the moment. Still, we do not "Davis County farmers have used the REAP reason that some opponents of the com share the notion, now being advanced (some program and its forerunner, ACP, to good mittee believe it should be abolished. times with bitterness) of how unfair it was advantage over the years to build ponds, ter that he rarely received the recognition he races and other conservation work that has I do not like the idea of having spies deserved in his lifetime for the good and been of benefit not only to farmers, but also right here in the House of Repre also great things he did-or that the criticism urban residents. In recent years, there has sentatives, either. Not that I have any of his handling of the war unfairly over been some activity and interest in using thing to hide-! just think it is un shadowed all the rest. He would, we suspect, REAP funds to install pollution abatement American. have a wryly humorous view of all this- practices-a major worry of our time." According to a study made by a group much as he craved to be well-loved and well "The damage of dropping REA loan funds seeking the abolishment of the Internal remembered-because he was too shrewd, not is self-evident. Without them, electric co Security Committee, there were more to say cynical a student of human and politi operatives such as the Southern Iowa Elec cal nature not to have been amused by these tric Cooperative and rural telephone com than 50 employees of the committee as of efforts by those who served him badly from panies such as the Citizens Mutual Tele last June 30. time to time to revise the record in his (and phone Co. will have to turn to other financ The appropriation for operations and their) favor. Lyndon Johnson must have ing or delay improvements. It's going to staff for the present fiscal year was known that he did not need to be helped mean that rural area residents will have to $1,095,000. into history. settle for lesser service or higher rates." Of 17,230 bills introduced during the "The reasoning in Washington seems to be that the farm economy has improved so 92d Congress, 13 were referred to the much that rural people can now afford to House Internal Security Committee. Five do everything themselves. While the rural of these were duplicate bills. Of the eight A SLAP AT AGRICULTURE economy has improved, it's doubtful that it that remained, four were reported by the has much more than caught up with re committee, and none cleared the House. maining portions of the economy and only On the basis of the four reported bills, HON. WILLIAM J. SCHERLE after being depressed for some 20 years." however, it would seem that, based on the "Farmers deserve to have a better farm OF IOWA total appropriation to the committee, economy and deserve to reap the fruits of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES this better economy without having the fed some $273,750 was spent by the taxpayers for the processing of each measure. Monday, January 29, 1973 eral government attempting to pull the rug out from under it." It seems to me that this is a rather Mr. SCHERLE. Mr. Speaker, the abid "It's not that rural areas are against cut high cost for such legislative endeavors ing frustrations of the American rural ting the federal budget by $250 million and especially in view of the highly complex commnnity rarely find voice, but in the holding down inflation, but it's a question and comprehensive legislation that is face of continuing neglect by the admin of where our priorities lie." processed by other legislative commit "The federal budget is a massive docu istration more and more people are ment with thousands of areas that could be tees at far less cost per bill. speaking out. The Chariton Herald cut. There are undoubtedly areas where there Therefore, I would like to propose that Patriot in its issue of January 11, re is more waste and areas where less good is the committee be abolished and that the printed an editorial from the Davis done than the farm oriented programs cut funds usually allocated to its functions County Republican which gives an excel by the Nixon Administration." be appropriated for the use of the minor lent digest of the situation confronting "A rural resident can't help but question ity staffs of other standing committees. agriculture. Nixon's priorities when such beneficial farm From my point of view, this would be The article illustrates how drastically programs have been dropped as we continue to spend millions of dollars blasting North a much more desirable situation, and the American farmer is affected by anon Vietnam or providing tax loopholes for mil would certainly add balance and effi ymous high-level decisions. The average lionaires or providing millions of dollars for ciency to other committee staffs. citizen is only indirectly touched through special interests." the general economic equilibrium. But "President Nixon, who has glibly talked because of the Government's ponderous about improving the lot of the rural areas, power over market forces, the farmer is has slapped us in the face. Let's hope Con JAX STATERS "LIVE" COMMERCIAL entirely dependent on the stroke of a gress can muster the energy to slap him Washington bureaucrat's pen. back." This editorial deserves wider circula HON. BILL NICHOLS tion than it has yet received, and I com OF ALABAMA ROB ''BIG BROTHER"; HELP THE IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES mend it to my colleagues' attention: MINORITY A SLAP AT AGRICULTURE Monday, January 29, 1973 "Those rural people who supported Presi Mr. NICHOLS. Mr. Speaker, one of the dent Richard Nixon in the November elec HON. EDWIN B. FORSYTHE tion must have at least a small sour taste in most respected institutions of higher their mouth after the announcements of the OF NEW JERSEY learning in the State of Alabama is last week." IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Jacksonville State University, located in "President Nixon, determined to cut $250 Monday, January 29, 1973 Jacksonville, Ala., a city with a popula million from the federal budget, has cut hard tion of some 7,000. From an institution into federal programs that are designed to be Mr. FORSYTHE. Mr. Speaker, as we with slightly over 100 students during of aid to rural areas." all know, the Committee on Internal World War II, Jacksonville State has "The first was the announcement that the Security has been subject to much abuse 1973 Feed Grain program will be so designed grown by leaps and bounds and is now that payments to farmers will be less than from Members of Congress and others the third largest university in our State. last year." who believe it ought to be abolished. Until quite recently, fraternities and "Then came the announcement, four days I do not intend to add to that abuse sororities were not allowed at the school, after the action had been taken, that the already suffered by the distinguished but since their introduction in 1968, they Rural Environmental Assistance Program members of that committee, and its dedi have taken an active part in promoting (REAP) had been dropped." cated staff. not only Jacksonville State University, "This was followed shortly by the dropping However, I do have a proposal to but the city of Jacksonville. of disaster loans to farmers in areas that have been declared disaster areas.'' make. Mr. Speaker, several weeks ago, one of "And as the government shut down for I would like to suggest, in all seri the fraternities-Delta Tau Delta--car the weekend, there came the announcement ousness, Mr. Speaker, that the House ried out an unusual activity which I that the two percent REA loans to electric should consider eliminating the Com feel should be brought to the attention of cooperatives and rural telephone systems had mittee on Internal Security and using my colleagues. It shows, in my opinion, been dropped!' the funds allocated to it for more fruit that Jacksonville State University does "The dropping of the REAP program and ful purposes. not have the stereotype image that many the REA loans in particular are damaging to Now, we are all aware that the com individuals have of our institutions of Davis County. No disaster loan funds could also be damaging although they have not mittee likes to collect the names of higher learning. These young people are been necessary here in recent years. The people and compile files on them. not interested in the radical causes, drug change in the Feed Grain program may have We all know that this has been a sub abuse, and the takeover and destruction mixed effects.'' ject of great controversy, and is a major of buildings on campus. January 29, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2537 I submit this article, written by Mr. my name from cosponsorship of House education. We are blessed with an outstand Jack Hopper in the January 22 edition of Resolution 140. ing junior college and an innovative upper the Birmingham News, for my colleagues' While I feel that the study of the en level university. Originally we were the birth place of naval aviation; now we serve as reading: vironment is one of the major issues con headquarters for all naval training-land, JAX STATERS "LivE" COMMERCIAL fronting Congress today, I do not want to sea. and air. (By Jack Hopper) take away the jurisdiction of the various Our heritage has prompted the citizens to JACKSONVU.LE.-No doubt everyone has seen committees which create legislation per preserve the historic treasures in the com the television commercial about a group of taining to the subject. This is, of course, munity. The same spirit has sent an 80-bed young men and women grabbing paint what a standing committee would do. hospital to Ecuador, has helped rebuild brushes and helping the elderly lady facelift A select committee would be prefer Pensacola's sister city, Chimbote, Peru, after her house. able, in that it could conduct continuing an earthquake, has dispatched a group of The idea struck home some young men young people to the Dominican Republic to and comprehensive review of the inter immunize against disease, has financed a. who belong to Delta Tau Delta Fraternity at relationship between environmental and Jacksonville State University as being a great student delegation to Paris to petition the way to help some person unable to help him technological changes and effects on North Vietnamese for release of America's self and today Mrs. Barna Bryant, 78, of Jack population, communities and industries. war prisoners. It is the same spirit exempli- sonville likes her home a lot better. The select committee could also study . fied when fifty thousand citizens gather At first, the students and their "little sis methods of using all practicable means annually for a. historic "Evening in Old ters" just planned on painting Mrs. Bryant's to foster, promote and maintain har Seville Square." But let there be no misunderstanding e but they found more than they bar mony between man and nature and ful gained for in the 64-year-old home. about this. When you visit us, you will not fill the futw·e and present economic, so find Utopia.. You will find some poor hous The students found many rotten beams cial and other needs of man; but, the se which almost fell apart at the movement of ing; you will read of drug arrests in the a paint scraper. Then they found a sunken lect committee would not receive or re newspaper; you will hear of pollution which front porch, full of rotten planks, plus one port legislative measures. And in so has invaded some of our air and water. we entire side of the house carpeted with black doing, would not take away environmen are neither perfect nor immune to problems. and green fungus. tal jurisdiction from the various com But you will also find that we are working hard to overcome these problems through DRAMATIC MOMENT:! mittees. active citizen participation. So they went to work and found several Let me describe to you briefly our three business firms to donate the materials and chief projects: The Gulf Islands National "face-lifted" the house. BID FOR ALL-AMERICA Seashore, Community Central Services and It wasn't without its dramatic moments. Action '76. The largest problem-in addition to the First, the seashore. What could we as work-was staying away from a colony of citizens do to save the beaches? We sensed bees which they found on the premises. No HON. ROBERT L. F. SIKES the possibility that the virgin beaches might one knows how many bees were around but OF FLORIDA not always be there. The natural shorelines they gathered nearly 50 gallons of honey IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of America are disappearing in concrete and from their hive. Monday, January 29, 1973 neon, amidst tin cans and paper bags, under In two days the students repainted the shacks and bulldozers. We needed action to house, reworked the windows, rebuilt the Mr. SIKES. Mr. Speaker, I have pre convince elected officials to preserve the porch, repaired portions of the roof and viously commented on the fact that Pen beach. sealed off the screen back porch. sacola, in Florida's First District, is A committee of far-sighted citizens and AWAY, IN HOSPITAL the newspaper rallied us to action. A small among the finalists for All-America City band of hardy citizens walked the streets All this work was done while Mrs. Bryant award. The Pensacola Journal of Satur with petitions in hand. Twenty-three thou was in the hospital recovering from a broken day, December 16, commented at length sand citizens signed these petitions to ob arm and dislocated shoulder. on its editorial page about the quality tain from the County Commissioners a vote You can im.agine the feeling when she re and importance of work being done in as to the future destiny of the beaches. turned home. Pensacola by citizen groups. This news By a margin of two to one we voted to com "There are not enough words in the Eng Illit forever a major share of our beaches to lish language to express my appreciation," paper has been a leader in promoting sound programs and constructive issues the new Gulf Islands National Seashore. In she told the students. "So I'll just thank you May of this year the Seashore became a from the bottom of my heart." for Pensacola and for northwest Florida. reality, and the beaches will remain much as One of the students working on the home I take pleasure in submitting the Jour they were when the Spaniards waded ashore was Mike McMutty, who was a carpenter in nal's fine summation for reprinting in four hundred years ago. the Navy before returning to Jax State as the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD: What is most important is that because be a student. "The house had to repaired. In Bm FOR ALL-AMERICA FROM PENSACOLA, o! citizens intervention forty-three miles of its former condition, it probably would have HOPE FOR THE FuTuRE the world's whitest beaches have been spared fallen down in a few years." for all America to enjoy forever. Mrs. Bryant is happy, the students are It is the spirit of our community which prompted our citizens to take action at a Second, Community Central Services. I.n happy they contributed something worth addition to taking action to save the beaches, while to someone in need and everyone in crucial time to save our most precious nat ural resource-43 miles of snow-white we also wanted to take citizen action to help Jacksonville is proud of the project under people in distress or need; and so task forces taken by the college students. beaches. We have now dedicated these beaches to America for all posterity. of private individuals were formed to review It is the spirit of our community which the entire Welfare Program. has provided a.· centralized welfare referral You Illight ask what is unique about these service for our needy citizens and devised a efforts to help the poor and the sick and the RETRACTION OF COSPONSORSHIP unique method of funding needed programs. elderly? For one thing, we have now cut out It is the spirit of our community which much of the red tape. We have made it has helped our citizens to capture the real easier for people with problems to get help meaning of the 200th birthday of our coun and to get help from the right people at the HON. JOHN Y. McCOLLISTER try. We have resolved to commemprate the right time and the right place. Through the OF NEBRASKA American Revolution Bicentennial in 1976 Community Planning Division of United IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES by achieving goals in a. program set for our Way, we have established an Information and selves after thousands of hours of citizen Referral Service so that people in need can Monday, January 29, 1973 effort involving a complete cross-section of receive accurate i.nforma.tion from just one the entire community. central office about the proper place to go Mr. McCOLLISTER. Mr. Speaker, in These three projects have brought us to for help. There is no more passing the buck discussing the possibility of cosponsor Minneapolis. They are representative of a or begging from agency to agency. ing legislation creating a standing com community spirit and attitude stemming We have also established a nonprofit pri mittee on the environment I had indi at least in part from our heritage. vate corporation, The Community Central cated to my legislative assistant that I First settled in 1559 by the Spaniards, Pen Services Corporation, to receive federal funds would prefer to be on a select commit sacolia.ns have also served under the colors which have helped to establish active day of France, England and the Confederacy. The care centers as well as to fund the Central tee for this purpose. Through error, Con Information and Referral Services Office. In gressman DoN BROTZMAN's office was ap United States flag was first raised over Florida in Pensacola by Andrew Jackson in addition to federal funds, th1s corporation prised that I would cosponsor his bill cre 1821. From those early days we have grown also gathers local, state and private funds ating the standing committee. I, there to become northwest Florida's center for for the benefit of the deprived. fore, would like to state that I withdraw commerce, manufacturing, agriculture, and The Citizens Action Task Forces and the 2538 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS January 2D, 1973 non-profit corporation have also provided was to "gain understanding of the true This city has been already destroyed three funds for transportation services for the poor importance of art education and public times--in 1885, 1931 and now in 1972. It has and the elderly and assisted in programs for support for quality school art programs three active faults running directly through the young in depressed areas of our com it and a major active fault a few kilometers munity. by way of emphasizing the value of par away to the west. It will suffer from more Finally, Action '76. We have been sutrering ticipating art for the development of all earthquakes in the future. More lives will be from growing pains. The city has burst into children." lost and more economic loss sustained. the county. Good plans have been lying After a decade of sustained interest I believe that Nicaragua's economy will not dormant. At the polls we defeated annexa and success, the program was extended support the cost of reconstruction without tion, government reorganization, school to include teenagers, and was renamed external financial assistance, much of it pro bonds, zoning and a juvenile detention fa "Youth Art Month." vided by U.S. taxpayers. This should give the cility. The time had come to take stock of U.S. some say as to where and how Manauga ourselves and regroup for action. How could Youth Art Month is still continuing in is to be rebuilt. we harness the good will, but conflicting Wyoming. It has been an ideal way to In my opinion, it would be most unwise to aims, of our people into a. consensus blueprint recognize the work of our children, and rebuild on the same site, even though that for progress? What did we, as citizens, really to instill a sense of pride in their crea action may present short range cost savings. want for the community? tions. Youth Art Month has also been Also, in the age of automobiles, it would be Heartened b1 the success of our citizen .successful in creating a cooperative com foolish to follow the old pattern of narrow action to save the beaches and to aid the munity spirit with children, families, st reets, small blocks, and 100% lot· coverage. poor and less fortunate, we rolled up our Another problem that exists in Managua is sleeves and went to work. Beginning with a schools, clubs, business, and govern that there is no building code, no prequalifi small committee of our fellow citizens, we ment officials all lending a hand in the cation of architects and engineers, and launched a massive community goals pro organization, display, and publicity of prequalification of contractors. The very f w gram which we call Action '76 and which has the event. architects and engineers we met who would become the model for all Florida. Ten task I now propose a National Youth Art be considered competent in the U.S. unfor forces composed of more than 250 people Month to be designated annually by the tunately have no special training in aseismic from all walks of life sat down together and President. This legislation has the sup design. Without assistance from properly wrote the community goals; they also as port of the National Art Education As qualified foreign professionals, there is no as signed specific responsibilities to the proper surance that a reasonably safe city will be public or private agencies. Fifteen thousand sociation and the Crayon, Watercolor, built. copies of the tentative goals were distributed and Craft Institute, Inc. I don't know what can be done to influence throughout the community and reviewed It is my hope, Mr. Speaker, that Co~ Somoza's thinking, but if Congress can take and revised by fifty civic and community or gress will see fit to pass this joint res any action, I certainly hope they do so. ganizations. The newspaper published the olution with haste, so that we may be Sincerely, goals in their entirety. We explained them gin a national recognition of school art GREER W. FERVER. in detail in public hearings and invited dis programs in 1973. cussions and suggestions and criticisms from everyone. In May of this year the revised goals were published, and we put the com EARTHQUAKE IN NICARAGUA WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL TENNIS munity stamp of approval on Action '76. FEDERATION We have only begun to see the results, but already we have our first mini-park for chil dren built by the Jaycees under the leader HON. LIONEL VAN DEERLIN ship of a young Navy lieutenant. We are OF CALIFORNIA HON. BILL ARCHER planning for the new Government Complex, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF TEXAS including a. cultural center; and we are again working for a. new juvenile detention facility. Monday, January 29, 1973 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES We have started a. county-wide recreation Mr. VAN DEERLIN. Mr. Speaker, the Monday, January 29, 1973 program, and we are mobilizing citizens' ad recent terrible tragedy caused by the visory councils in our public schools. Many Mr. ARCHER. Mr. Speaker, today I political candidates ran for office supporting earthquake in Managua, Nicaragua, would like to offer my congratulations the goals of Action '76. Because the goals pro raised great concern in this country, as and recognition to the Women's Inter gram has been successful, we have been in all nations of the world, for the victims national Tennis Federation. This orga chosen as the pilot community for the Amer of that tragedy. This concern was dem nization is composed of the world's lead ican Revolution Bicentennial Celebration in onstrated, as always in such cases, to ing women. tennis professionals. Florida. aid those made homeless and hungry by Among the members are Billie Jean In summary, we believe that these three the disaster. programs, the National Seashore, Community King, the 1972 winner of Wimbledon, Central Services, and Action '76, demonstrate While concern for the present plight Forest Hills, and the French champion the action spirit of the community. We are of the citizens of Nicaragua was upper ships; Margaret Court of Australia, a making visible progress. Private capital is most in the minds of most Americans, three-time winner of Wimbledon and a joining with public capital. The young peo concern for the future was also felt by five-time winner of Forest Hills; Fran ple are participating. Elected officials are some knowledgeable individuals who are coise Durr, the No. 1 in France; Betty working together in harness as never before, perturbed over rebuilding plans made Stove, the No. 1 in the Netherlands; and we are very much excited and encour known by the Nicaraguan Government. Nancy Richey Gunter of Texas, four aged. We are told that Mahatma Gandhi once said, "There go the people; and I must This concern is heightened by the fact times ranked No.1 in the United States; follow, for I am their leader." Our elected that external financial assistance, much U.S. Wightman Cup players Val Ziegen officials need citizen leadership and citizen of it provided by U.S. taxpayers, will be fuss and Wendy Overton; Australian support, and they shall have it because we necessary for such rebuilding. To the Federation Club players Kerry Melville, have a new spirit of '76 which will lead us on extent of this financial involvement, Helen Gourlay, Karen Krantzcke, and an enlightened path into the third century therefore, the citizens of this country Leslie Hunt; June M. Heldman of Tex of American history. have an interest in rebuilding plans. as, twice No. 2 in the United States; I would like to call to the attention of British Wightman Club player Corinne the House the views of Mr. Greer w. Molesworth; Rosie Casals of California, Ferver, an engineer who has just re four times winner of the Wimbledon A NATIONAL YOUTH ART MO~TTH turned from Nicaragua. Mr. Ferver's let doubles and twice winner of the U.S. ter is as follows: doubles; Rhodesia's Salli Hudson-Beck, HON. TENO RONCALIO FERVER ENGINEERING Co., South Africa's Brenda Kirk and Laura San Diego, Calif., January 16, 1973. Rossouw, Brazil's Lee Connelly, Canada's OF WYOMING Congressman LIONEL VAN DEERLIN 1 Vicki Berner, Sweden's Madeleine Pegal IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES House Office Building, Washington, D .C. and a total of 18 women who currently Monday, January 29, 1973 DEAR VAN: I have just returned !rom an hold U.S. national rankings. Mr. RONCALIO of Wyoming. Mr. eight day stay in Managua, Nicaragua., where The Women's International Tennis I was a member of an investigating team for Federation incorporates all the members Speaker, in March of 1961, a very excit the American Iron and Steel Institute. On ing and worthy annual project began in my way home, and after returning, I was dis of the World Tennis magazine women's my State of Wyoming. It was called mayed to read reports that General Somoza pro tour. This latter organization was Children's Art Month and its purpose plans to rebuild the city on the same site. formed in Houston in September of 1970 January 29, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2539 by World Tennis Publisher and Editor, government has not come as easily to is identical to a bill CS. 518) sponsored Gladys M. Heldman. The first tourna the people of the Ukraine. The Ukrainian by Senator SAM ERVIN and all standing ment had prize money of $7,500. At that nation has waged several such campaigns committee chairmen in the Senate. Sen time, it was the largest prize money ever for independence through the centuries, ator ERVIN's bill passed the Senate Gov offered to an all-women's group of ten yet dedicated and visionary Ukrainians ernment Operations Committee on Fri nis players. Since then it has developed still work for the day when their country day, January 26, and is expected to come an 18-tournament women's circuit, and will be free from outside domination. before the Senate soon. in October of 1972 staged the $100,000 Congress' tribute to the last great pa My proposal and Senator ERVIN's bill Virginia Slims championships at Boca triotic struggle of the Ukrainian people, would require confirmation of the present Raton, Fla. Because the women pros culminating in the proclamation of na OMB J?ii·ector, Roy Ash, and his Deputy, stuck together, it became relatively easy tional independence on January 22, 1918, Frederick V. Malek. to establish large prize money events. is, as well, a tribute to the sturdiness and If our constitutional form of govern As a result, in 1971 Billie Jean King be bravery of those of Ukrainian descent ment is to survive, we must restore some came the first woman athlete to earn who will not give up the fight. We also balance of power to the three branches more than $100,000 in prize money in the gather to appreciate the example of of the Government. One of the first course of a year. In 1972 she again du those freedom fighters, which has up moves that should be taken is to require plicated this achievement. lifted our own citizens; and to extol the congressional participation in the ap The aim of the World Tennis women's good fortune which has brought Ameri pointment and confirmation of high pro tour and its successor, the Women's cans of Ukrainian descent to our shores. level Government executives. International Tennis Federation, has not Americans of Ukrainian descent were The language of the bill is as follows: only been to establish a good prize money among the revered builders of our own Be it enacted by the Senate and House circuit for outstanding tennis champions republic, because they best understood of Representatjves of the United States oj but also to develop the future champs. the meaning and the practice of freedoms America in Congress assembled That effec It has helped a dozen young players fi so long sought by the Ukrainian nation. tive on the day after the date ~f ena~tment of this Act, the Director of the Office of nancially so that they could afford to We pray during this remembrance of Management and Budget and the Deputy play tournaments, and many of the Ukrainian independence day that the Director of that Office (originally established young qualifiers are now in the cham people of the Ukraine will soon be able by section 207 of the Budget and Accounting pionship group. WITF is also assisting the to build their own independent govern Act, 1921, and redesignated by section 102 American Tennis Association-an orga ment. of Reorganization Plan Numbered 2 of 1970) nization of black tennis players-by add shall be appointed by the President by and ing a minimum of three more black with the advice and collSent of the Senate REQUIRE CONFIRMATION BY SEN and no individual shall hold either such youngsters felt to have great potential. position thirty days after that date unless The Women's International Tennis ATE OF THE DffiECTOR OF THE he has been so appointed. Federation is open to all qualified women OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND tennis players regardless of nationality, BUDGET AND HIS DEPUTY race, color, or creed. In addition to the outstanding group of champions in IMPOUNDMENT WITF, there are 28 young qualifiers who HON. JACK BROOKS will be given the opportunity to compete OF TEXAS in tournaments and who are also eligible IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. THOMAS L. ASHLEY OF OHIO to receive financial help. Monday, January 29, 1973 WITF is a self-supporting group that IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. BROOKS. Mr. Speaker, I am today does not seek contributions. It provides Monday, January 29, 1973 a women's pro circuit that has been out introducing legislation that would require standingly successful, and tournaments confirmation by the Senate of the Direc Mr. ASHLEY. Mr. Speaker, today I regularly play to sell-out crowds. Each tor of the Office of Management and am introducing legislation to require the of the members receive the benefits of a Budget and his Deputy. These two posi President to notify the Congress when rich p1ize money circuit but also con tions are far too important not to require ever he impounds or authorizes the im tribute by giving free clinics to children congressional confirmation of their ap pounding of appropriated funds and to at least once a week during the tourna pointments. provide that the President shall cease ment season. WITF has also eliminated OMB has become possibly the most such impounding at the expiration of 60 appearance money and guarantees, and powerful office in the executive branch of calendar days unless the Congress shall so every member of the group plays for the Government. The Director of Office approve his action by concurrent resolu prize money only. of Management and Budget wields far tion. Dr. Clyd Freeman, president of the greater power than the secretaries of Impoundment, the withholding of con American Tennis Association, has cred Cabinet-level departments. Yet, he is ap gressionally appropriated funds by the ited WITF with doing more for tennis pointed by and accountable to the Presi President, is not a . new development. players in general and ATA players in dent alone. Presidents have impounded funds since particular than any other tennis group OMB is no longer a bookkeeping agency the beginning of the Republic, but they in the world. as it was when its predecessor, the Bu have done so for reasons sanctioned by reau of the Budget, was created in 1921. the Congress. For example, title VI of Under the present administration, it has the 1964 Civil Rights Act empowers the become a principal policymaking agency President to withhold funds from fed A REMEMBERANCE OF UKRAINIAN of the Federal Government. OMB deter erally assisted programs whera he finds INDEPENDENCE DAY mines what programs will be funded, that the recipient of Federal money dis what programs will be cut, and what pro criminates in employment on the basis grams will be abolished. of race, color, or national origin. Further, HON. HOWARD W. ROBISON Furthermore, no agency in the Gov Congress has recognized the need for OF NEW YORK ernment is permitted to give its recom Executive discretion for the sound man IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES mendations on legislation to the Congress agement of public ftinds and required Tuesday, January 23, 1973 without first clearing them with the Office by statute that the President set aside of Management and Budget. This proce or "reserve" money "to provide for con Mr. ROBISON of New York. Mr. dw·e undoubtedly makes OMB one of the tingencies or to effect savings whenever Speaker, as this Nation moves toward the most powerful policymaking agencies in savings are made possible by or through bicentennial celebration of its freedom Washington. It is absolutely essential changes in requirements, greater effi and self-government, we may easily be that Congress have some participation in ciency of operations, or other develop distracted from the continuing, cen- the selection of the OMB Director and ments subsequent to the date on which turies-long struggle of another nation to Deputy Director. such appropriation was made available." determine its own future. As painful as My bill is cosponsored by Congressman Such a limited and circumscribed our own fight for nationhood was, the CHET HoLIFIELD, chairman of the House right of impoundment is far different in right to individual expression and self- Government Operations Committee and both quality and quantity than President 2540 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS January 29, 1973 Nixon's recent use of impoundment to persons who fled their country rather getic posture for the best utilization of reject congressionally designated spend than serve it during the Vietnam war, I the available resource agreeable to all ing priorities for his own. Senator SAM think the following extract from a recent four participants. ERVIN's Judiciary Subcommittee on the factsheet issued by POW-MIA Interna Finally, there is the question of respon Separation of Powers conducted hear tional, Inc., is highly pertinent: sibility of the Commission. In the early ings in 1971 which revealed that Presi Myth: Granting amnesty to draft evaders stage the Commission is to report to and dent Nixon had impounded some $12.7 and deserters after a war is a routine practice be responsible to the four separate powers billion simply because he disagreed with in the United States. signatory to the agreement. To effectively the purpose for which these funds were Fact: Granting a general amnesty has work in consort for such divided interests appropriated. Casper Weinberger, the never been the practice or policy of the is a challenge the size of which is mind United States! No general amnesty, or pardon, former Director of the Office of Man was granted after WW I. Nearly all draft vio boggling. Minister Mitchell Sharp, head agment and Budget estimated the pres lators were put in jail. In 1924, President of the Canadian contingency, stated last ent figure at $11.5 to $12 billion in recent Coolidge granted partial amnesty to 100 men week that Canada felt the forces of the testimony before the Senate Labor and who had deserted ajter the Armistice. In Commission should be responsible to and Public Welfare Committee. 1933, President Roosevelt ordered pardon for report to an international conference By substituting his judgment on spend 1,500 convicted draft dodgers and violators of from the outset. He warned that Cana ing priorities for that of the Congress, the Espionage Act. After WW II, the idea of dian participation continuance would granting general amnesty to 15,000 convicted the President has violated the separa draft dodgers was turned down-instead, each depend "on whether we are effective." tion of powers principle and posed a case got an individual review and only about President Thieu has questioned the serious threat to our system of govern 1 in 10 subsequently won a pardon, NOT effectiveness of the Commission in the ment. Perhaps the most egregious effect AMNESTY!! Amnesty and Pardon are two harshest terms, calling it a "useless and of such impounding has been to give the entirely di1Ierent things: helpless organization." We can only hope President a power clearly denied him Amnesty: Blot out one's offenses, wipe the the fears of the Canadians and the by the Constitution: an item veto. The slate clean, acquit, excuse, absolve, free from charges of President Thieu are proven Constitution does not permit the Presi blame, the offense removed from the record. wrong. Pardon: Forgiving an offense, but offense dent to veto the portions of a bill that remains on the record. Behind the machinery of the agree he dislikes; instead it limits his veto Amnesty is granted to those who have com ment what else enforces the pledges for power to entire bills, with the Congress mitted an offense but are later found to be Peace? The good will of the parties as having the opportunity to override a not guilty. Pardon is given to those who have stated by Kissinger or the threat of U.S. veto by a two-thirds vote of both Houses. committed an offense and later are forgiven retaliation as suggested by President Moreover, such an exercise of Presi for the offense they are guilty of having com Thieu? May I respectfully suggest that dential impoundment is tantamount to mitted. one of the most significant parts of the usurping the Congress' clearly defined peace and one area that should have our constitutional authority to determine close attention is the action of the Inter spending priorities through the power of CAN THE INTERNATIONAL COMMIS national Commission. I would predict it the purse. SION WORK? will need further attention and revision The bill I am introducing today would before it can accomplish the mission not affect the discretion granted to the HON. RICHARD T. HANNA described for it in the peace agreement. President by the Congress to effect econ OF CALIFORNIA As we have waited so long and paid so omies in administering public funds. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES dearly for this peace agreement, I would It would simply put an end to the un hope it shall not fail for our refusing to constitutional and dangerous practice of Monday, January 29, 1973 acknowledge its weaknesses and the need permitting the President to be both Exec Mr. HANNA. Mr. Speaker, from the to continue our efforts to resolve those utive and legislator. It would require the U.S. point of view we believe that the weaknesses. President to notify each House of Con effectiveness of the Commission of Con gress by special message of every in trol and Supervision provided in the stance where he impounds funds or au peace agreement is most important and thorizes such impoundment by any at the same time most questionable. COMMUNISTS AND CAPITALISTS officer of the United States. Such a spe Questions arise as to the ability of the cial message would have to specify the Commission to coordinate and cooper amount of the impounded funds, the ate in their joint efforts. It would seem HON. JOHN R. RARICK specific projects or governmental func to this observer that such cooperation OF LOUISIANA tions affected by the impoundment, and and coordination rests on the pressure IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the reason for such impoundment. exerted by Russia to get the two east Monday, January 29, 1973 The bill further provides that the ern bloc participants to be serious and President shall cease impounding the evenhanded in their assignment. The Mr. RARICK. Mr. Speaker, Field Mar funds designated in each special message fact that each of the four teams can give shall Tito and the Chase Manhattan within 60 calendar days after the mes separate reports will no doubt give us Bank of New York met last week in Bel sage is received by the Congress unless an early measure of the Commission's grade, Yugoslavia. the specific impoundment shall have performance. This meeting came 8 days after Chief been ratified by Congress in accordance A second question arises on the abil Justice Warren Earl Burger accepted the with a procedure set forth in the bill. ity of the originally constituted force, Order of the Yugoslav Flag, in Wash Mr. Speaker, I urge the House to take some 1,200, to adequately cover the com ington, D.C. Most Americans would ac speedy action to restore its rightful role plex of territory involved in a two-tier cept this as sheer coincidence; however. in this vital area. conflict in which part of the war was the pattern is clear. defined by a line of opposing military Meantime, Stokley Carmichael has re forces and a part was impossible of defi formed to nonviolence, urging his fol nition as it was an internal paramili lowers to "Build, baby, build" instead AMNESTY MYTH tary operation involving most of the of ''burn, baby, burn." hamlets and villages spread across the Communists the world over are "cool entire country of South Vietnam. ing it''---50 long as they can get cap- HON. CRAIG HOSMER A third question arises from the need italist support. Who is fooling whom and OF CALIFORNIA for flexibility for adequate response and for how long? IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES full mobility for a presence of the Com I include related newsclippings in the mission in the many places where an RECORD, as follow: ..; Monday, January 29, 1973 activity in violation of the agreement [From the Washington Post, .Tan. 28, 197Sl Mr. HOSMER. Mr. Speaker, in view of might take place. Given the makeup of TITo, RoCXEFELLD MBB'l' ~ the fact that even before our POW/MIA's the Commission there is good reason to BELGRADE, January 21.-Presldent Tlto and; are returned support of Members of the question whether in the first 60 days they his wife received David Rockefeller, presl-. body is being solicited for amnesty for could arrive at a cooperative and ener- dent of the Chase Manhattan Bank of New . Jctnuary 29, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2541 York, and his wife today and spent some leader. During World War II, she worked hibits, entertainment extravaganzas, recep time in "prolonged, friendly conversation:• as a staff assistant for the Red Cross and tions and dances preceding the inaugural, a. Tanjug, the official Yugoslav news agency as a substitute high school teacher. She parade, inaugural balls with as many as 25 reported from the island of Brionl. musical groups, and a Sunday worship service sings with the choir at the First United following the event. Methodist Church but also doubles as its Those who come to Washington for the VIOLENCE OUTDATED, CARMICHAEL SAYS director and soprano soloist. And yet, festivities find them to be expensive affairs. OAKLAND, CALIF., January 27.-Black acti despite her extensive interests and activi Tickets for all of the events easily total vist Stokely Carmichael says the time for ties, she still manages to find time for $500. Boxes (and breathing room) a.t the violent revolution has passed and now "we her husband, Thomas J. Lewis, Jr., her inaugural balls cost $1,000. Tickets to the must be preoccupied with building, not de family, and her home. inaugural parade range from $5 to $50. A stroying." Mr. Speaker, I commend the McKees souvenir of the occasion can range from "In 1966, 1967, 1968, Stokely was yelling $1,250 for a gold plate, to a dollar or so for 'Go out and kill them,' '' the former head of port Allied Veterans Association, its a pennant or a lapel button. the Student NonViolent Coordinating Cam president, Mr. Arthur Maund, its officers There is, however, suprisingly little mittee told a community college audience and men upon their selection of Mrs. grumbling, either about the cost or the crush here. "In 1973, such a speech would be a Lewis as their 1972 "Woman of the Year." at the affairs. The five inaugural balls staged waste of time and we would have missed She is, in truth, an inspiration to those this year were not so much dances as wall the boat,~· Carmichael said. who know her and I am proud to serve to-wall humanity-stlfling, confusing and as her Representative in the Congress loud. At one reception, arranged to accom modate 1,500 persons comfortably, 15,000 of the United States. showed up. ALLIED VETERANS ASSOCIATION OF Celebrities are everywhere to be seen. Forty McKEESPORT, PA., SELECTS of the nation's governors were on hand, en tertainers Bob Hope and Frank Sinatra, Miss "WOMAN OF THE YEAR" LEE HAMILTON'S JANUARY 29, 1973, America, prominent Members of Congress, WASHINGTON REPORT ENTITLED Cabinet members, and, of course, the super "INAUGURATION 1973" celebrities, an ebullient President and his HON. JOSEPH M. GAYDOS family. OF PENNSYLVANIA The inaugural parade was a "super parade", with. entries from practically ever~r IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. LEE H. HAMILTON state marching by in a. two-hour processio:l Monday, January 29, 1973 OF INDI~A which included the largest-ever marchin ~ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES band-nearly 2,000 musicians in a sing> · Mr. GAYDOS. Mr. Speaker, it has be Monday, January 29, 1973 unit. About 300,000 persons lined Pennsy:. come traditional for the Allied Veterans vania Avenue ta watch, enduring 30-degrc ") Association of McKeesport, Pa., to an Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. Speaker, under temperatures and a biting, 25-mile-an-hm. ·: nually select a "Woman of the Year" and the leave to extend my remarks in the wind. publicly recognize her contributions to RECORD, I include my January 29, 1973, There were protestors, too, and they stag€. t the community and its citizens. Washington Report entitled "Inaugura their own inaugural concert, which was at - tended by some 3,000 who could fit in th~ This year, as in past years, the veterans tion 1973." stately National Cathedral, and 12,000 who chose a truly distinguished and gracious INAUGURATION 1973 listened outside to a program of music di lady to receive the award-Mrs. Martha Inauguration day in the Nation's Capital rected by Leonard Bernstein. About 75,000 Mack Lewis. is a strange mixture of soleznn ceremony marched in their own anti-war inaugural Mrs. Lewis has been active in civic, and exuberant celebration. It is a festival parade from the Lincoln Memorial to the social, and church endeavors all her life. of democracy, a. celebration of unity, and a. Washington Monument on inauguration day. Her interests and accomplishments aP time of national renewal. For those who take In all, the city handled the celebration pear endless; her dedication and involve part, it is also a. time of hectic personal with apparent ease. The police restrained the schedules, massive crowds, and frustrating rambunctiaus crowds and the swearing-in ment almost unbelievable. It is astound tra.mc jams. ceremony and the parade came off on sched ing how a single individual can devote While a number of my colleagues in the ule. Within five minutes after the inaugural so much time, energy, and talent to so Congress boycotted the ceremonies, I did not. parade was over, street cleaners were hard at many people, so many things. In the rhythm of our national life, a. new work. By Sunday morning, Pennsylvania Ave Early in her career, Mrs. Lewis took administration marks a. resurgence of hope nue was all cleaned up. The celebration was an interest in McKeesport HospitaL She and a renewal of energy. So many divisions over and the hard tasks of running the gov and d11Ierences exist in the nation, forces ernznent lay ahead. worked there for several years as a volun which pull us apart, that these inaugural ob teer and her association with the insti servances are needed. An inauguration is a tution has not waned with the passing time to begin fresh and to strengthen our of time. Today Mrs. Lewis serves the hos confidence in our institutions. We need to CONGRESSIONAL REFORM AND pital as a member of its board of trustees. be reminded that, although our problems are MINORITY STAFFING She also was one of the original di mountainous, so are the talents and re rectors of the McKeesport Symphony So sources we can bring to bear to meet them. ciety when the organization was formed Although the President is chosen through HON. JOHN B. ANDERSON in 1959 and still holds that position to a party system, and stands pledged to the principles of that party, he nevertheless is OF ILLINOIS day. In addition, Mrs. Lewis is chairman President of all Americans. The inaugura IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of the Americanization Committee for tion ceremony symbolizes the essential, un the Queen Alquippa chapter, Daughters derlying unity the nation requires to en Monday, January 29, 1973 of the American Revolution; a member dure. Mr. ANDERSON of Illinois. Mr. Speak of the McKeesport College Club, the Mc The swearing-in ceremonies and the Presi er, the winds of reform are blowing Keesport 20th Century Club, and once dent's inaugural address are the most im through the halls of Congress and I am served 5 years as an associate chairman portant events of inauguration day. Presi pleased that due to a change in wind di for the United Fund. dent Nixon took only a. minute to recite the 35-word oath of office, making him the 37th rection the other side of the aisle is now However, this remarkable woman does President of the United States, and at that getting some ventilation. I am referring, not confine her desire and talent to en time he became one of only 12 men in our of course, to the fact that the House rich the lives of people solely to the city history who have more than once been elect- · Democratic caucus last week adopted the of McKeesport. She devotes a great deal ed President. House Republican conference procedure of time serving organizations in Alle His second inaugural address stressed reli for electing top committee members-a gheny County and the city of Pittsburgh. ance on self-help, the disengagement of procedure House Republicans have fol Among the groups she works with are government, and a limited American involve lowed for two Congresses now. I am de the Visiting Nurses Association, the Pitts ment abroad. His address, which was thor lighted that our Democratic brethern burgh Opera and Symphony Societies, oughly conservative in philosophy and orien tation, made no bows to the liberals, and was have belatedly recognized the wisdom in and the Western Pennsylvania Conserv clearly directed to the constituency which following our lead in breaking the rigid ancy and Humane Society. had elected him. seniority system. At the same time it .is At one time, Mrs. Lewis organized a The festivities surrounding this brief cere regrettable that another attempt to fur Brownie Scout troop and served as its mony include about four days o! parties, ex- ther follow our lead by electing the whip 2542 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS January 29, 1973 failed in the Democratic caucus. In our have available, at the committee level, ade directed to the Joint Committee on own Republican conference we have been quate numbers of professionally trained peo Printing. ple who share the same angle of political electing our whip for as long as I can vision. Policy is made, in large part, on It is my understanding that under remember. It is most unfortunate, I political differences. Real policy differences present expectations this volume will not think that many press accounts of the require sound information. be assembled prior to May 1. Those great seniority breakthrough in the Members desiring to do so many revise Democratic caucus make no mention of Mr. Speaker, I honestly do not think a and extend their own remarks and with the fact that this is a 2-year-old House member of my own minority party could unanimous consent include extraneous Republican reform, or that we have been have made a more persuasive case for matter pertaining to the life of former electing our whip for 30 years. adequate minority committee staffing, President Truman. Mr. Speaker, while the reform breezes and I hope my friend from Missouri and Now, Mr. Speaker, there are three edi are still stirring across the aisle, I think his Democratic colleagues will join us on torials from three great newspapers it would be a most appropriate time for this side of the aisle in reinstating the · which have not been included in the the Democratic caucus to reverse itself one-third provision of the 1970 Re RECORD. These three deserve to be in on an anti-reform action it took 2 years organization Act. cluded along with the collection of eulo ago last week. I am referring to the This minority staffing provision has the gies and tributes paid to our great 33d caucus decision requiring all its members strong support of Common oause Chair President. I refer to the editorial from to support deletion of the minority staff man John Gardner. In his testimony of the Washington Post of December 27, ing provisions of the Legislative Reorga December 5, 1972, before the Senate ad 1972; the editorial from the Evening Star nization Act of 1970 when the House hoc hearings on congressional reorga & Daily News under date of December 27, rules were adopted in the 92d Congress nization, he had this to say about minor 1972, and then to the editorial in the on January 22, 1971. ity staffing: New York Time.s of December 31, 1972, Despite the fact that the provision for The ability of the Congress to hear and by Cabell Phillips, who for 20 years was adequte minority staffing was offered as consider both sides of controversial issues the head of the Washington 3ureau of a bipartisan amendment on July 15, 1970, is limited by insufficient staff resources for the New York Times during the Truman the minority party. Admittedly this ap years. You may recall Mr. Phillips was by the gentleman from New Jersey It may well be that both views are true. In and to the concept of individual liberty. The Harry Truman's greatest qualit y, and the any case, Harry Truman lacked neither tactics of what came to be called McCarthy one which so well served his nation, was his opportunities nor the courage to seize them. ism were abhorrent to him, and he was un courage in the face of adversity. Once he Perhaps the greatest single decision of mod reserved in his condemnation of them. Un had decided on a course of action, he stuck ern times was made by him very early in fortunately, however, in his zeal to protect to it, fighting doggedly, openly and persist his Presidency-the decision to use the Government employees from the brutal as ently until he achieved his goal. Even his atomic bomb in the war against Japan. "The saults of McCarthyism, he established the intense personal loyalty, which sometimes final decision of where and when to use the Federal Employee Loyalty-Security Pro degenerated into cronyism, had about it an atomic bomb was up to me," Mr. Truman re gram-a pernicious process, still in full ef epic quality. called with characteristic simplicity. "Let fect, which bases the determination of an President Truman never lost the common there be no mistake about it. I regarded the employee's trustworthiness on accusations touch, whether he was belting out a few bars bomb as a military weapon and never had any made by informers unknown either to the of the Missouri Waltz or writing to a music doubt that it should be used. The top mili accused employee or to his judges. crit ic so indiscreet as to cast aspersions on tary advisers to the President recommended Despite this grievous lapse into the fun his daughter's virtues as a vocalist. It w as its use, an d when I talked to Churchill he damental error of McCarthyism, Harry Tru easy for other Americans to identify with unhesitatingly told me that he favored the man was otherwise a stalwart champion of him, to believe in him, because he always use of the atomic bomb if it might aid to principle he enunicat ed in simple terms: "In seemed to know exactly what he wanted to end the war." a free country, we punish men for the crimes do and how he wanted to do it. And that For good or for evil, a new dimension was they commit, but never for the opinions they wasn't just the way he acted; that was the added to the world. For the salvation or the have." Nothing in h is official career re way he was. destruction of mankind, a new force was dounded more greatly to his glory than his created. Years of experience with the inera veto in 1950 of the Internal Security Act [From t he New York Times, Dec. 31, 1972] dicable threat of atomic war, years of reflec which established the Subversive Activities A MAN WHO "DONE His DAMNDEST" tion on the moral implications of employing Cont rol Board. In the hysteria of the time, (1884-1972) so terrible a weapon, may lead to a judgment the bill was passed over his veto within 24 hours. But he gave assertion, nevertheless, (By Cabell Phillips) that Harry Truman was wrong. But let those On the day after Franklin Roosevelt's who make that judgment ponder his to a reassuring faith in his fellow Ameri cans and in their fealty to the principles of deat h in April 1945, the shaken new Presi straightforward justification for what he did: dent, Harry Truman, said to a group of re "General Marshall told me that it might cost political liberty. half a million .American lives to force the His faith in the American people found porters, "If you fellows know how to pray, enemy's surrender on his home grounds." reciprocation. In 1948, he sought election to pray for me now." The plea was typical of the And, conversely, let those who applaud his the Presidency in his own right. Although plainspoken, essentially modest man who oc decision ponder what foreshadows for any it was not widely supposed that he could cupied the White House during eight tumul future war. win, he campaigned with a verve, ebullience tuous years in the nation's history, and who Harry Truman made another decision in and indomitable determination that led him died last week in Kansas City at the age of expressibly more life-giving and perhaps al to victory. It may be that the American peo 88. most as momentous in its way-the decision ple saw in him an embodiment of their image Harry Truman worked less to ingratiat e to commit the immense resources, strength of themselves-an exemplification of their himself with people but succeeded better at and skill of the American people to the re own rooted virtues and values. There were it than any important public figure I have construction of Europe at the end of the qualities about Harry Truman now often re ever known. He did it, I think, because he war. The Marshall Plan, formulated and im ferred to as old-fashioned-his rather sim was so utterly honest with and about him plemented under his leadership, represented ple morality, his devotion to his family, his self, so free of what we call "side" or "put what may well be considered the most en uncritical loyalty to his country, to his party, on." lightened piece of national generosity in all to past political associates who had been He wasn't above cutting a corner or trim history. Indeed, American aid went gener loyal to him, his capacity, on occasion, for ming the truth to gain a political or policy ously to the vanquished as well as to the intemperate and injudicious indignation, his objective. He would go to almost any lengths victories . .In Mr. Truman's own estimation, earthiness--qualities that stamped him a to save the face Df a friend. But neither as "The Marshall Plan will go down in history common man yet a man capable, as other a public nor a private figure did he ever pre as one of America's greatest contributions to common men are capable, of ascent to the tend to be anything but what he was, and it heights of heroism. Harry Truman showed the peace of the world. I think the world now mattered precious little to him whether any realizes that without the Marshall Plan it his countrymen what they were made of and what they could become. one liked what he was or not. would have been di11icult for Western Europe What he was grated unpleasantly on some to remain free from the tyranny of com.. sensitive nerves-his brashness, his minor munism." (From the Evening Star and The Washing crudities of speech and manner, the fact that T<> arrest "the tyranny of c<>mmunism, .. ton Daily News, Dec. 27, 1972] he did not adorn the great office of Pr.esident President Truman took the country into a. THE MAN FRoM lNDEPENDENCE with what they considered the requisite style considerable and troublesome war of his and grace. He was the sort who synthesized own-the war in Korea. The swift American Harry S Truman may not have been much the awesome responsibilities of his office not response to the North Korean invasion of shucks as a Kansas 'City llaberdasher but in resonant phrases that would look good in South Korea afforded a fresh illustration of he was a mighty fine President. "When he bronze, but with a simple homespun aphor the President's decisiveness and toughness came to the presidency through the death of ism: Tapping his desk and looking solemn in the conduct of his office. And in the course Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1945, the world as a preacher he would say, "The buck stops of the war he gave a democratic demonstra was engulfed in World War II. Mr. Truman. here." tion that as President he was also indubitably whose ten years in the Senate had been un remarkable, showed no signs of being a man There was eloquence and deep sincerity in Commander in Chie! of the nation's armed the way he said it that made anything you forces when he summarily removed Gen. o! destiny. But Harry Truman grew into the job, han might add redundant. Douglas MacArthur from his post in the I once wrote a book about Mr. Truman, Pacific. dling the big and difficult decisions with de termination and tenacity. Ee made the deci and something I said then is relevant in this Harry Truman was a pragmatist and a po11- context: "Harry Truman was and remains an tican. He preferred the specific gain to the sion to drop two atomic bombs on Japan, a move which he always maintained, perhaps ordinary man~ .• who must make do without idealistic goal. And he understood with un any special endowments of genius, intellect blurred realism that speciflc gains in Amer correctly, saved many thousands of lives- American and Japanese-by making an in or charm. His strength lay in his ab111ty to do ican political affairs are achieved by leader the best he could with what he had and not ship which embraces not only an imaginative vasion unnecessary. He launched with his secretary of state the despair over what he did not have..•• He appeal to the aspirations of a fi'ee people never suffered the illusion that he was an but also the crasser arts of p<>litical influence. Marshall Plan to rebuild a prostrate Europe. pressure and manipulation. He was in con He played a leading role in the formation of other Roosevelt or Churchill, neither did he stant conflict with Congress. "When a Presi both the United Nations and the North agonize over whether he was their inferior. dent does not have a fight or two with Con Atlantic Treaty Organization. He promul Destiny linked his life to theirs in an gress, you know there is something wrong,'' gated the Truman Doctrine, which certainly apocalyptic enterprise and each rode it out he wrote. "A man with thin skin has no saved Greece from communism and helped to greatness according to his own fashion." The most cynical and skeptical audience business being President." other nations to maintain their independ ence. a President has to face 1s the Washington His fiercest political controversy centered When the North Koreans invaded South press corps. There is a congenital distrust in the cult of loyalty that developed in the Korea, he did not hesitate to commit Ameri between them, a built-in competiveness that late 1940s and reached its culmination in ob can troops to the defense of that small na more often than not degenerates into mutual sessive attacks upon Government employees, tion. When the Russians sought to starve hostility. especially 1n the State Department, by Sena the Allies out of West Berlin, he order.ed the No President of the last 50 years was sG tors McCarthy, McCarran and Jenner. There airlift which resulted in a stunning diplo widely and warmly liked by the reporters .as was a passionate commitment in Harry Tru matic defeat for the Kremlin, reasserting the Mr. Truman. He ''used" the press occasionally man to the principles of the B111 of Rights U.S. commitment to defend Europe. as most Presidents have done to test t he 2544 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS January 29; 1973 wind. But he never tried to "con" them with curred. Those years from 1947 to 1952 were Perhaps Mr. McCormack's affection flattery and devious favoritism. He was rea full of anxiety and uncertainty. Most people for Mr. Truman is expressed when he sonably accessible to reporters, enjoyed hav at the time thought Mr. Truman's decisions points out: ing them along on trips and liked to play were the right ones. Some, myself included, practical jokes on them or take them for still think so. There is in the Office of the Presidency an their expense accounts in after-hours poker One day in April, 1952, at his 300th press influence where, if a man has a reserve of sessions. conference as President (to explain his deci weakness, that comes out. Truman had a They felt that he leveled with them. On sion not to seek renomination). Mr. Truman tremendous reserve of strength and the awe his frequent visits to Washington after 1952, said to many of the same reporters whom someness of the Office was such that he as many reporters as politicians dropped into he had asked eight years previously to pray evidenced his strength while he was Presi his suite at the Mayflower on an afternoon for him: "I have tried my best to give the dent. In Truman's case, the Office certainly for a friendly chat and a toast of "bourbon nation everything I have in me. There are a did bring out the greatness of the occupant. and branch." great many people-! suppose a million in Excerpts from the editorials follow: Since Mr. Truman never constructed any this country-who could have done the job false images of himself, he enjoyed a large better than I did. But I had the job and I [Excerpts from "Former Speaker Salutes dividend of self-confidence. Call it cocki had to do it. Great Friend" by Bill Duncliffe, Herald ness: that was its outer manifestation much "I always remember an epitaph which is Traveler and Boston Record American, Dec. 27, 1972 and "Presidency Brought Out of the time. Whatever it was, it gave him an in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It immense capacity for making up his mind says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his His Greatness-McCormack" by Gloria Negri, the Boston Globe Dec. 27, 1972 J to do what had to be done and then putting damndest.' I think that is the greatest it behind him-whether it was a bit of legis epitaph a man can have-when he gives EXCERPTS lative strategy, or the dropping of the atom everything that is in him to do the job he Retired House Speaker John w. McCor bomb. Many people think this was one of has before him. That is all you can ask of mack, sorrowed by the loss of an old and his strongest attributes as President. him and that is what I have tried to do." cherished friend, saluted the memory of I ran into an example of this quality in former President Harry Truman by declaring: 1959, I went to Independence to write an "He lived as he believed and he died as article about him on the approach of his he lived-a fighter to the very end.'' 75th birthday. Routinely, I asked him to MR. McCORMACK ON THE PRESI McCormack, drawing on the reminiscences recall the half dozen most difficult decisions DENCY OF HARRY S TRUMAN of more than 40 climatic years in Congress, he had had to make as President. When he eulogized Truman as a man with the wisdom finished, I remarked that he had failed to to realize that some of his decisions must mention the dismissal of Gen. Douglas Mac HON. WM. J. RANDALL be unpopular-and the courage to make them because he knew they were right. Arthur during the Korean war. "That must OF 1\IIISSOURI have taken a bit of courage," I said. "He will," McCormack said, "go down in Courage had nothing to do with it," he IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES history as one of the greatest Presidents we snapped, his eyes flashing through the thick Monday, January 29, 1973 had. He will be remembered long after others glasses. "He was insubordinate and I fired have been forgotten." him, and that's all there was to it. Sure; I Mr. RANDALL. Mr. Speaker, on Jan "When he became President it may have knew there would be a lot of stink about it. uary 5, the day of the memorial services been true that the country as a whole was But it was the right thing to do and I did it, for Mr. Truman at the National Cathe little aware of the great qualities he pos and I've never lost any sleep over it since." dral here in Washington, I brought some sessed, but when he left office he did so as Did those qualities add up to greatness? of the folks from Independence, Mo., one of the most illustrious leaders this nation Was Harry Truman a "great" President? who had journeyed here to attend this ever possessed." There is no firm definition of the term, but "He was a very direct man, very courageous, servi~e to the Capitol after the services. many competent scholars have given him very intuitive: he had a mind for making that accolade. The late Prof. Clinton Ros We were seated in the House Restaurant decisions. . . .'' siter, of Cornell, said of him some years ago: for lunch where it was my privilege as Summing Truman up, McCormack said: "I am ready to hazard an opinion, to which their Congressman to introduce my :'There is in the office of the Presidency, an I did not come easily or lightly, that Harry guests to former Speaker John W. Mc mfluence where, if a man has a reserve of Truman will eventually win a place as Presi Cormack. He came to our table and for weakness, that comes out.'' dent, if not as a hero, alongside Jefferson some 5 or 10 minutes, recalled some "Truman had a tremendous reserve of and Theodore Roosevelt." strength, and the awesomeness of the office plesant moments of his long association was such that he evidenced the strength One measure of greatness, certainly, is the with Mr. Truman and particularly during extent to which a President uses the great while he was President. In Truman's case, the years when Mr. Truman was Presi the office certainly did bring out the great potentialities of his office to advance the ness of its occupant". national interest. By this yardstick, Mr. Tru dent and he served as Majority Leader in man must be rated among the best. True, the House. Before he left, he suggested his tenure was turbulent and bedeviled by that if I had anything to do with the partisan strife, he would never be certain preparation of a memorial book to be THE NATCHEZ TRACE PARKWAY that his own party might not desert him in printed as a joint House-Senate publica a showdown. But few Presidents have fought tion that he would appreciate the inclu harder, or against greater odds, than Mr. sion of some excerpts from his com HON. THAD COCHRAN Truman for the programs and the values he ments entitled "Former Speaker Salutes believed in. OF 1\IIISSISSIPPI Great Friend" which appeared in the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES His net gains on the domestic front were, Herald-Traveler and the Boston Rec in the end, relatively modest, but in the area Monday, January 29, 1973 of foreign policy they were monumental. His ord-American for December 27 and also was the era of the Cold War and of the atom. his comments and observations headed, Mr. COCHRAN. Mr. Speaker, today I His two terms in office were overshadowed by "Presidency Brought Out His Great am introducing a bill to provide for the a danger no other President has ever had to ness-McCormack," as these remarks ap completion of a large portion of the his face: the grinding rebalancing of world power peared in the Boston Globe for Decem toric and beautiful Natchez Trace Park between two hostile and incompatible forces, ber 27, 1972. each capable of destroying the other. way. President Truman met that danger with For my part I so clearly recall over It seem incredible that this project, bold and imaginative-albeit to some . per the past 14 years, on Mr. Truman's birth which was originally introduced to this sons, controversial-countermeasures. The day, either on May 8 or the nearest day body in 1934 by Congressman Thomas Truman Doctrine, the European recovery that the House was in session, John Mc Jefferson Busby, of Mississippi, has not program, NATO, the Berlin airlift, the Ko Cormack, either as Majority Leader or yet been completed. rean intervention-these were landmarks Speaker of the House would always make The first funds for construction were along the road to national maturity. They it a point to be on the ftoor to pay tribute authorized in 1935. The sum of $1,286,686 have profoundly affected the destiny of the to the man he admired so much-Harry American people and of the world. committed that y~ar indicates that Some revisionist historians now hold these S Truman. Accordingly, it came to me nearly 40 years ago, as today, the need measures to have been ill-chosen and wrong as no surprise that he would request his for construction of a roadway along this ly conceived; that they advanced rather than comments in the Boston papers be made scenic and historic trace was apparent. retarded the Cold War. They may be right. It a part of the Truman eulogy because, as In 1937, the year of my birth, the first is hard to argue with 20/20 hindsight. But a former member, he was not present contracts were awarded, and it appeared these events ought to be judged in the con to join with the large number who par that the famous Indian and pioneer trail text of their time; in terms of the stresses ticipated in the special order on the floor would gain new life. This beginning, how felt and the wisdom at hand when they oc- of the House on Tuesday, January 9. ever, was a prelude to many years of frus- January 29, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2545 trating disappointments as progress with Except for obvious areas, secrecy sim THE PRESIDENT'S FAMU..Y further construction was painfully slow. ply has no place in our Government. BACKGROUND Due to the determination and hard work Tyranny thrives in darkness; democracy of many good people, much of the park flourishes in the bright sunlight of open, way has now been completed. forthright government. Government in HON. GEORGE A. GOODLING But, the history and native beauty so the Sunshine demands prompt, bipar OF PENNSYLVANIA abundant along the ancient pathway is tisan support from the Congress. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES still today only available in a hodgepodge Monday, January 29, 1973 fashion to the thousands of travelers who seek it. Mr. GOODLING. Mr. Speaker, a lot I strongly urge.the early completion of FIRE SAFETY is known about Richard M. Nixon as a this national roadway which spans the statesman and a politician, but too little distance from the Hermitage beyond is known about his family background, a Nashville to the beautiful old mansions HON. WILLIAM J. KEATING background that ha-d a tremendous in and scenic bluffs in Natchez. OF OHIO fluence on our 36th President of the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES United States. I am proud to say that Richard Nixon's Monday, January 29, 1973 parents once resided in the congressional GOVERNMENT IN THE SUNSHINE Mr. KEATING. Mr. Speaker, this district I represent in the U.S. House morning's news contained yet another of Representatives, and Mr. Nixon stOI'Y of tragedy involving the Nation's was a frequent visitor to his parents' HON. C. W. BILL YOUNG elderly who reside in nursing homes. residence. OF FLORIDA Early this morning, fire swept through Mr. Harry McLaughlin, a star reporter IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES a two-story wooden frame nursing home for the Sunday Patriot-News befriended in Pleasantville, N.J., killing at least 10 Richard Nixon's parents when they lived Monday, January 29, 1973 people and perhaps injming several in Pennsylvania's 19th Congressional Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Mr. Speaker, more. District. Mr. McLaughlin wrote two vezy America's freedoms thrive in direct rela The initial report indicated that fire interesting and enlightening articles for tionship to the participa-tion of the peo men fighting the blaze lost precious time the January 21, 1973, issue of the Sunday ple in their Nation's business; a well stringing hoses together to reach the Patriot-News, and because these articles formed citizenry is essential to the sur nearest fire hydrant nearly three-quar shed some light on what has, up to this vival of our democracy. ters of a mile away. time, been only shadowed revelations of Too often, however, for reasons of ef Since a similar tragedy struck in my Dick Nixon's bac~ground, I insert these ficiency or simple expediency, we see the own congressional district nearly 1 year articles into the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD public's business being conducted under ago, in which 10 persons also lost their and commend them to the attention of the cloak of secrecy in so-called execu lives, a sustained effort has been made my colleagues: tive session. This trend serves to under in the Congress to enact legislation de NIXON'S "YORK ERA" RECALLED mine public confidence in government signed to insm·e that Federal responsibil (By Harry McLaughlin) and ultimately poses a serious threat to ities are being met. To understand the personality of President the health of our Nation. Almost 1 week ago, on January 23, I Nixon one should have known his late par For this reason, I have introduced reintroduced legislation aimed at re ents, Hannah Milhous Nixon and nancis H.R. 1303, a Federal Government in the quiring that tough Federal fire safety (Frank) Anthony Nixon. Sunshine bill aimed at b1inging the regulations be extended to all nursing By way of introduction to this reporter's full light of public disclosure into our homes, including intermediate care facil private interpretation of Richard Milhous Government and its agencies. The legis ities, which receive Federal funds. Nixon, the man, citizen, politician and world Dr. Marie Callendar, Director of Nurs leader, it was our good fortune to be a special lation is similar to a Florida law which friend of Hannah Milhous Nixon. I helped pass in 1967 as ininority leader ing Home Programs for the Department Our personal relationship with the Presi of the Florida Senate, a model law which of Health, Education, and Welfare, 4 days dent, Pat Nixon, and a brother, Edward Nixon has time and again proved its worth and ago announced that the administration resulted from a spring, 1952, meeting with effectiveness. will require that these intermediate care Hannah, whom we affectionately addressed My bill will guarantee the public's right facilities comply with the Life Safety as "Mother Nixon." to know while in no way infringing upon Code. This action represents a substan Professionally, U.S. Rep. Richard M. Nixon the Government's equal right to protect tial move in the right direction, although and, later, as a United States senator, was other parts of my legislative program covered by those of us of the news media our national security. whose beat in the late 1940s and early 1950s The Government in the Sunshine bill still require the attention of Congress. stretched to York area schools and the Fore requires that all meetings of Government This legislation would also require men's Club of York. agencies at which om.cial action is taken, that any facility for the aged which is Nixon, in 1948, addressed the commence considered, or discussed will be open to constructed in whole or in part with ment of the West York High graduating the public. The only exceptions would Federal funds be in compliance with the class, which included his brother, Edward. be in matters relating to national defense National Fire Protection Association's Earlier, congressman Nixon addressed a meet Life Safety Code. ing of the Foremen's Club. Mostly, his visits and security; items required by statute to York County were to his parents' farm to be kept confidential; matters relating Finally, this legislation would author home at Menges Mills, where he closed him to the internal management of an agency ize the Secretary of Housing and Urban self off from the political noise and activities or committee; or disciplinary proceed Development to make loans to nursing of Washington. ings affecting the 1·eputation of an in- homes in order that they may purchase As Nixon often did in the Menges Mills dividual. · adequate fire safety equipment. weekend jaunts, or his holiday vacations to The measure also would require that Mr. Speaker, this morning's tragic fire the farm, he enjoyed the peaceful atmosphere serves as another grim reminder of the of the countryside, or merely sitting down most meetings of congressional com on a piano bench and for his own amusement mittees be open to the public, that a fire safety problems in this Nation's striking the piano keys for music that to him transcript of all meetings be made avail nursing homes. Since 1961, there have proved relaxing. He favored reading books able, and for court enforcement of the been more than 34 multiple fire deaths on a comfortable loveseat in the farmhouse open meetings requirement for Federal in nursing homes in which three or more front living room. agencies. lives were lost, with an overall total now His current sojourns to Camp David, where The Government in the Sunshine bill exceeding 283 deaths. he can relax, meditate in the quiet of the will be an invaluable companion to mY I call upon the Congress to take fields and forests, obviously still reflects a way of life that he finds enjoyable and com H.R. 1291, which would require public prompt action on this legislation, which fortable. disclosure where public funds are in is designed to promote fire safety in our The President bears strong traits of both volved. The people are entitled to lmow country's nw-sing homes, and prevent as his mother and father. And, surprising, they how their Government operates, and how much as possible the needless loss of ad were opposites. their taxes are spent. _ ditional lives. Mrs. Hannah Nixon was a deeply religious 2546 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS January 29, 1973 woman and nurtured her sons in the Quaker come to the serviee:. "We could have pxovided at Gettysburg, a stone's throw from Julie faith. The sons went to Sunday School as a doctor and facilities here if the baby ar Eisenhower's voting residence. children. The President has strong religious rived while a:t the White House." His late uncle, Dr. Ernest L. Nixon, was convictions-a personal faith in his God The President--:-mostly through his per known in York and Adams County and but, without leaning especially to the Quaker sonal executive secretary, Miss Rose Mary throughout the East as "The Potato King... commands or any particular form. He draws Woods--over the past two decades often sent Dr. Nixon promoted the food product and from beliefs of numerous denominations, but notes of sympathy or congratulations to wrote a book, "The Principles or Potato still haS never forgotten his mother's Quaker friends at our suggestion. Only last summer. Production." teachings. in response to an autographed photo of one Ernest was the first Nixon to get a college His Quaker background aggravates many of our favorite elowns, Carlos Campa, of education, and the president credits him as Society o:f Friends members who are peace Sells-Gray Circus, which we relayed from the inspiration for his own college career. acti'Yists. Campa and his family to Mr. Nixon, the The president's cousin. Leland w. Nixon, still The President's mother was a gentle but President sent his own signed and inscribed operates his late father's' potato farm, and firm individuaL She was understanding, con official White House picture to the Campas. another, Mrs. C. J. Non, is a. librarian at siderate, and thoughtful of others, but never Nixon also refiects the traits of his Irish Pennsylvania State Univel'Sity. could be described as an extrovert even father, but mostly as the statesman and Until his election in 1968, Nixon also as though her presence was always felt in a politician. Both men never backed away from an attorney for Hars~o. an international cor crowd. battle, and if they decided .. right is right" poration based in Harrisburg. Her loyalty to friends and relatives was they moved ahead. Francis Nixon worked Mrs. Hannah Nixon, the president's mother, unwa ering. hard as a farmer, a chore he enjoyed until had an ancestry that goes back to York In 1952. for exam.ple, Mrs. Nixon urged the he fractured a shoulder in a fall from a trac County in 1769. The president's great-great then Vice President Nixon's staJI to arrange tor a.t Menges Mills. He was a critic of fed great-great-great-grandfather, William Grif tor inaugural ceremony invitations !or her eral government action (in private, and fith Jr., owned land in Warrington Twp., neighbor and companion, Mrs. Florence usually in sideporch discussions prior to the York County, although the township then Sterner; Menges Mills Postmaster and Mrs. inauguration of the Eisenhower-Nixon team). was still part of Lancaster County. CaJ-1 Stambaugh, and her new friends, the President and Mrs. Nixon jealously guard Griffith's father came to this country from McLa.ughlins and the late York news photog their rights to private life and family enjoy Wales in 1690, and settled first in rapher, Bob Motter. ment. His love and devotion to bis: mother Delaware. He moved to York County in 1735. And four years later, Mother Nixon re a.nd father-and to their memory--is obvious. He married a second time, after- his first wife peated her desires to the inaugural com Yesterday the President took his oath of died, and in all he fathered 22. children. One mittee. oftice while laying his lef1> hand on his son was named Ja.cob, who married Lydia In both instances, the president's mother mother's favorite Bible. n. marked the Hussey, also born and reared in York County. suggested her wishes to the vice presidential fourth-and last time-that her Bible will In 1790, they moved to Washington County. sta1f, and, p:refaeed with a "can it be done... be used by him. It will go to the presidential Their offspring and descendents began the She never was a demanding person. library and museum in california. westward trek tha't endecl in WblWer. Cali!. The mother showed the same parental in And. yesterday, among his pe:rsonalfamily In 1908, Hannah Milhous,. one of the de terest in her other sons. She didn't have a guests (on a non-political and non-profes scendents. married 'Francis Anihony Nixon, ra-,orlte. Always, she described her sons by sional basis) ~t the inaugural ceremony and. and they had five sons. including Richard. 'Uleil' proper first names: Richard, Donald, festivities were his friends of 20 years, the Another son, Edward, graduated from West Edward, etc. Never as Dick, Don or Ed. Stambaughs and MeLaughll:ns, who attended York High School in 1948, and his class com In later correspondence with this reporter all four Nixon illaugurations. mencement speaker was Rep. Richard M. (from california) Mother Nixon would say When the President writes his autobiog Nixon. that Richard did this or that, or he tele raphy, or factual biographies are written Nixon's father was tbe seoond son e>f Sam phoned me. or he was coming to California about him. the readers will learn that only uel Brady Nixon, who had been the second tor a visit, etc. two persons can accurately describe his per of George, the Nixon killed at Ge«ysburg. Her. happiest moment apparently came at sonality: Mrs. Pat Nixon a.nd Miss Woodsr A main reason the Nixons returned to the 1960 Republican Presidential Convention, his faithful secretary of a quarter-century. California--after a shm:t stay in Florida when her "Richard was nominated today and Third in line would be hts brother. Edward. was the continuing pain Frank Nixon suf it was an exciting event." That's what she who graduated from West York High in 1948 fered from a !arm tractor accident at Menges wrote to my daughter, on a postcard from while his parents Uvea in Menges Mills. Mills. The cold winters and his injured Chicago to my daughter, Donna~ then 13, shoulder kept him in pain, and he was in (now Mrs. S. Richard Bieda, of Red Lion). structed to reside 1n. warmer cU:ma.te. Her biggest disappointment showed after F'ROM 1947 TO 1954: MENGES MILLS HOME The 86-acre Nixon farm is now owned by the John Kennedy defeat when she paid a LESSER KNOWN PACT .A.B€>ll'T NlxoN FAMILY Mr. and Mrs. Sterling Myers., who also oper surprise visit to the Menges Mills farm "just (By Harry McLaughlin) ate a community store in Menges Mills. io sip some of the spring water." The Nixons were always remembered in She told this reporter then: "Richard YoRK.-Adams County is Itnown fnterna York County. sometime will be elected president. I just tiona.lly a.s the home of the late president, Their son, Richard, carried the county in know it." So positive was Mrs. Nixon that Dwight D. Eisenhower, and his widow, all of his national elections by large majc>rt Richard would be president that when she Mamie. They resided on a farm adja£ent to ties, including his recent 36.000 ~ vic sold the York County farm in 1954, she the Gettysburg Battlefield. tory. Also, a 152-acre- coun-ty park was made the buyers promise to donate the Nixon Their grandson, David, is a votillg resident named in his honor. piano and love seat (allowed to remain at of Gettysburg, and so is his wife, Julie Nixon the farmhouse) to a Nixon presidential mu Eisenhower. seum. Less than six months after the 1968 A lesser known historic !a.ctp however, is inauguration, the two pieces of furniture that President Nixon's parents, the late VETERANS DAY were dispatched to California for a proposed Frank and Hannah Nixon, and brother, Ed museum. ward, resided only 15 miles away at Menges The President recognizes personal loyaltJ Mills, near Hanover, in York C4>unty. HON. C. W. BILL YOUNG and friendship. He is thoughtful and con Julie Nixon Eisenhower and her sister, siderate, but refutes publicity about such Tricia Nixon Cox, for a lime spent m.an~ OP FLORIDA actions. weekends a.nd most summers ai Menges Mills IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES At the Feb. 7, 1971, White House Worship with their grandparents, who came to York 29 19 3 Service. the President introduced this writer County from California in 1947. They left Monday, January • 7 to the morning service clergyman with the in 1954. Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Mr. Speaker, comment "Harry and my mother were great President Nixon, who caps a dntm.atie poll- I have introduced a joint :resolution, friends." Then, after shaking hands with tica.l career with four more years in the House Joint Resolution 126, to return my wife, and daughter and son-in-law, he White House, still recollects about his week- America's official commemoration of Vet- learned that my son, Douglas. and his wife, ends a.nd summer and winter holidays at the erans Day to November 11. Suzanne, were momentarily expecting a baby York County farm. It was at the inaugura- and didn't want to risk the White House tion of his political career a.s a. United states Patriotic organizations such as the trip. representative, and later as. u.s. senator, thai American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Without prompting, the President reached he came to Menges Mills. Wars have pledged their full support for to the seat of a chair directly behind him In "Pennsylvania Sampler,'' a book na.r- this legislation. They feel, as I do, that and picked up copies of the service's printed rated by Paul B. Beers, Pat:l!'lot-News associ- this great national commemoration was programs-autographed by him earlier-and ate editor, and published b-y Stackpole Pub- downgraded with the Monday Holiday gave them to my daughter. He designated llshing Co., of Harrisburg, there appears an Act which moved the celebration to the that one should be given later to "the unborn article a.bou~ the Nixons and their :family a.s- latter part of October to allow for an baby... And the other was to go to her soclations in Me-nges Mills, Gettysburg, and additional 3-day weekend. da-ughter. Kelly. State College. The president's wife smiled and suggested The president's great-grandfather, George • Veterans Day is an important national that the young Mr. McLaughlin should have Nixon m, is buried 1n the National Cemetery holiday; a time to pause and honor those Ja.nuary 29, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2547 who have sa:crificed so much to preserve which the ruling would be applicable, that Eighth. "Counter advertising is unfair the precious freedoms we all enjoy.. . the ruling was limited to cigarettes, and that to honest advertisers," with no charges, the ruling did not imply that "any appeal to hearing or finding of fault or guilt. on November 11, 1918, the arrmst1ce the Commission by a vocal minority will was signed ending hostilities on . the suffice to classify advertising of a product as Ninth. He said: western front during World War I. No controversial and of public importance." Counter advertising would create bars to vember 11 was chosen by the Congress The cigarette ruling of the FCC was sus innovation, improvement and the entry of as an appropriate date upon which to tained by the Court of Appeals on the basis new products into the market. honor all the men and women who have urged by the FCC that the situation was Tenth. "The purpose and effect of fought in va:rious wars against the forces unique .... In January 1972 the FTC filed a statement counter-advertising proposals is to in of oppression and tyranny. in the FCC Fairness Doctrine inquiry ad crease Government power" and specifi Veterans Day stands for more than an vocating that the FCC require all broad cally that of the FTC. excuse for a 3-day weekend; it stands casters to provide substantial amounts of Eleventh. He said further: for patriotism, heroism, and th~ other time, both free and paid, for regularly sched Counter advertising would increase the concepts which have made America the uled "counter-advertising" on a broad scale. power of small militant groups. greatest nation in the history of the This proposal is still being debated and con world. sidered. Twelfth. "Counter advertising would The Congress should return to Vet The FTC counter-advertising proposal meet no real need and solve no import erans Day the dignity and importance echoes similar schemes urged by other busi ant problem," in that, although there are it deserves, and this can best be done ness critics and has engendered support now advertising abuses, including· false from most of the militant anti-establish and misleading advertising, the FTC has by returning the commemoration to No ment camps. Of all the attacks ~n advertis vember 11, a day that means something ing this proposal is the most basic, the II?-ost "ample power to deal with such abuses in our history, something much more bold, and the most patently political. But and there are more industry agencies at than an excuse for a long weekend. whether it promises benefits or threat~ns work rooting out the abuses than ever dangers is not so obvious, and an appraisal before." requires a rather detailed analysis. On first Thirteenth. "Counter advertising impression there is plausibility to the argu would create a host of new problems, COUNTERADVERTISING IN THE ment that since the public is exposed to a vast amount of advertising, all urging the including a test of free speech under the BROADCAST MEDIA purchase of some products or services, there first amendment," inasmuch as if the should be some comparable opportunity pro Government decides what must be said vided for those who wish to urge contrary and when it will be heard, it will be the HON. OGDEN R. REID views. However, when this proposal is re Government which decides what speech OF NEW YORK duced to specifics and examined closely, then is "right and what speech is "wrong" this plausibility disappears, virtually all the which is far from the principles meant IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES valid considerations argue against the pro by the first amendment. Monday, January 29, 1973 posal, and implications are disclosed r?aching far beyond broadcasting and advertismg and Fourteenth. "Counter advertising is the Mr. REID. Mr. Speaker, I was fortu deep into our political life. Let's take the antithesis of free speech," in that it is nate to be present recently at the annual arguments and elements one by one. Government mandated and controlled newsmaker luncheon to hear Judge Lee speech, not free speech. Mr. Loevinger then proceeds in detail Fifteenth. "The counter-advertising Loevinger, of the International Radio on the arguments against counter-ad and TV Society, formerly a Federal Com proposal can be explained only as a po munications Commission Commissioner, vertising. I summarize briefly: litical power play" inasmuch as it would deliver what I thought to be an inter First. The reasons urged for counter drive away revenues from broadcasters esting and bold speech on the subject advertising are "logically fallacious." and "ultimately drive all broadcasting to of counteradvertising in the broadcast Second. "Counter advertising would a dependence on Government subsidy or media. destroy the economic foundation of support." Although the entirety of the speech broadcasting," not only by imposing a Thus Mr. Loevinger concludes that cost by encroaching on commercial and counter advertising is not only a danger was to long for complete insertion in the broadcasting time, but also by causing RECORD, I did want to brtng important ous constitutional precedent, but also excerpts of it to the attention of my a loss to the extent that it drives adver would be a hindrance to the consumer. colleagues. tisers out of broadcasting into other While I am not necessarily in agree Mr. Loevinger begins with the back medias. ment with every point that Judge Loev ground of the counter-advertising pro Third. "Counter advertising would inger raises against counter advertis posal, and I quote: cause a deterioration of broadcast pro ing, and while I have applauded several graming and journalism," in part due to The geneology at least of the counter ad instances of voluntary counter advertis vertising proposal is fairly clear. The roots the loss of revenues. ing that I have noticed over the broad go back to the FCC decision in 1949 that Fow·th. "Counter advertising is un cast media, I do believe that he raises broadcasters could express editorial opinions reasonably discriminatory against broad serious questions that we must all con on licensed facilities but that they must casting," since the right of counter ad sider. also provide a fair opportunity for the ex vertising has not been claimed with re pression of opposing or contrasting views spect to any of the printed media. on controversial issues of public importance. Fifth. He said: HARRY TRUMAN AS A MAN (13 FCC 1246) This principle came to be OF FAITH known as the "Fairness Doctrine" and was Counter advertising would not be informa tive and would result in diatribe rather than applied only to the discussion of ~jor polit ical and social issues until 1967. In that year, dialogue. HON. WM. J. RANDALL FCC declared that the Fairness Doctrine ap Loveinger asserts that it would more plied to cigarette advertising to the extent often than not be the ''fanatics" who OF MISSOURI of requiring public service announcements exercised the right to counter-advertis IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES warning of the dangers of cigarette smoking. ing. Monday, January 29, 1973 (8 FCC 2d 381; 9 FCC 2d 921) The Commis Sixth. He said further: sion opinion quite explicitly and emphati The counter advertising proposal is based Mr. RANDALL. Mr. Speaker, when the cally declared that the situation with respect sad news of the passing of Mr. Truman to cigarettes was "unique." on the false premise that the consumer doesn't have diverse information sources: flashed across America on that Tuesday In 1965 there had been a report by a Sur morning, December 26, 1972, it went out geon General's AdVisory Committee warning Seventh. He added: that cigarette smoking was hazardous to to reach every segment and every strata Counter advertising would diminish the of American life. It saddened the man on health, and in 1965 Congress had enacted a amount of useful information now available statute requiring warning of such a hazard to the consumer. . .. Substituting a sub the street, the great industrial leaders, to be carried on all cigarette packages. The stantial amount of counter advertising for those who held the highest offices in our FCC brushed aside the argument that appli either programming or advertising is far more land; but it also brought grief to what we cation of the Fairness Doctrine to commer likely to irritate than to inform the audi can describe as the intellectual com cial advertising was an unwarranted and ence. The resUlt is likely to be that the aver munity, as well as those churchmen who dangerous extension by saying that it did not age consumer is less, rather than more, in we collectiv~ly call the clergy of our know or any other advertised product to formed. country. 2548 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS January 29, 1973 As one who has had a small measure active Episcopalians. Although a 33rd-degree among the people, he declared, would foster of experience in examining some of the Mason, he liked his religious liturgy simple needed legislation such as national programs literature on the life and times of Mr. and informal; he was not attracted by the for health insurance, housing, education, and more ceremonial forms of worship. After he an improved social security system. He said Truman, I am indebted to Mr. Bertil L. became President he attended church only he believed that the very essence of religion Hanson, associate professor, Department occasionally because, as he explained, his at could be found in the United Nations ChaJ' of Political Science, Oklahoma State tendance attracted so much attention that ter, and he called on the nation to aid the University, Stillwater, Okla., for a worth the other worshipers were distr-acted from starving millions in Europe, Asia and Africa. while contribution. He was good enough the service. All these proposals, he maintained, were sup to furnish our office with a copy of an Truman had little interest in theological ported by the precepts of the ancient proph article by Prof. Merlin Gustafson, en issues, although he had an almost funda ets and the Sermon on the Mount. titled "Harry Truman as a Man of mentalist reverence for the Bible. He liked When militant anticommunism and Mc to read and quote the Scriptures, often re Carthyism gained popular support during his Faith," which appeared in the magazine citing verses from memory to fit political sit second term in office, Truman ar-gued that entitled Christian Century on January 17, uations. On Ina.ny a formal and informal the social gospel held the answer: "The 1973. occasion he quoted from the Sermon on the menace of communism lies in the areas of Professor Hanson points out that the Mount, and he would frequently say: "Every American life where the promise of democ article not only describes Mr. Truman's problem in the world would be solved if only racy remains unfulfilled." Referring to such character faithfully but also conveys the men would follow the Beatitudes." Another problems as slums, low wages, lack of edu timely lesson that religion can be a source verse he liked to recall was Luke 6:26: "Woe cation, lack of medical care, poverty in old of great private strength without a big unto you, when all men speak well of you, age, unemployment, and infiated prices. he for so their- fathers did to the false pointed out that they all involved basic public display being made of one's re prophets"-which no doubt gave him com human rights which, when neglected, led to ligion. fort and reassurance when under attack dur extreme movements such as communism. White The article and letters follow: ing his House years. nr (From the periodical Christian Century, The nation experienced a religious revival Jan. 17, 1973] during the Truman administration, and the President Truman supported a spirit of religious tolerance. Perhaps because of the liARRY TRUMAN AS A MAN OF FAITH President's occasional religious statements to the press matched the national mood of the wide variety of friendships he had in Kansas (By Merlin Gustafson) '50; e.g., his reference to the "Christian mis City and because of his experience in the Even after the passage of more than two sion" of the United States in world affairs. army, he had never been dogmatic about his decades, the decisions made by Harry S. Tru However, a number of religious leaders and religious faith. After he became President he man during his presidency still infiuence in journals (notably The Christian Century) sought to encourage toleration in a number ternational and domestic a1fairs. His foreign criticized his simple religious exhortations on of ways: by issuing an executive order to end aid prog7ams and military alliances reina.in in complex questions. racial and religious discrimination in the force, and a. number of his recommendations II armed forces; by championing, against strong for domestic legislation have now been congressional opposition, the cause of dis On the other side, Truman, as President of placed persons who sought to be admitted enacted. the United States, had become an "institu How did he arrive at his momentous deci to the United States after World War II; and tion," and he could no longer act simply as by extending diplomatic recognition to the sions? We know that a President is often a an individual. He had become less Truina.n captive of events beyond his control and that state of Israel in 1948. He favored diplomatic the person and more Truman the executive recognition of the Vatican as well, and he decision-Ina.king in the executive branch of department. He once explained: "In the our government is frequently only a. bureau attributed to religious bigotry_the powerful White House~ never allowed myself to think opposition that that proposal aroused. Per cratic process. Hence a simple pragmatic that Harry Truman from Independence, Mis course of action may be the only alternative haps there was political motivation in his souri, was personally deciding the fate of the support of the interests of Catholics and left open to the President. Sometimes, how world. I was deciding as President and not as ever, he has the opportunity to lead, to choose Jews, but there was certainly warmth in his an individual thinking in terms o! what he relationships with members of these religious which fork in the road the nation will take. would prefer as a.n individual.•• groups as well. At such times he will-be forced back upon his No President can manage his complicated President Truman supported the ecumen personal philosophy; it is then that his per and enormous work load without a loyal sonal and religious values become important. ical movement among the churches. During staff to help handle the innumerable detailS his second term he sponsored a movement I that come with the institutional aspects of to bring religious leaders of the world to Did President Truman's religious values in his omce. Truman's closest aides included gether in what he called "a common amrma fact influence his decisions during his White members of the major U.S. religious faiths tion of faith and a common supplication to House years? It should be remembered that Protestant, Roman Catholic and .Tewish. the one God that all profess," but that effort, Truman was never an idealist with a rigid Many of the President's announcements and as he later admitted, ended in failure. set of religious principles to be applied auto proclamations for the commemoration of re Occasionally a note of Calvinist determin mati~a.lly to the important problems he faced. ligious observances were composed by his ism was apparent in Truman's public state On the other hand, he did take some religious correspondence secretary, Williaro Hassett, a ments. In 1945, at the beginning of his pres doctrines seriously, and they undoubtedly Roman Catholic. idential years, he declared~ "I believe hon affected his political decision-making. When Some of his speeches and public state estly that Almighty God intends now that we think of his religious beliefs we should ments (for which he took full responsibility, we shall assume the leadership which he in bear in mind the two roles any President has even though they may have been wr-itten by tended us to assume in 1920, and which we to play: that of an individual with personal staff members or department heads) ex refused. And ~ believe that. if we do that. preferences and that of the nation's leader. hibited distinct theological attitudes-rever our problems will almost solve hemselves. •• As an individual, President Truman was a ence for the Holy ~riptures. belief in a su Again, at the end of his second term, he ex sincerely religious Ina.n-in fact, one of our preme Being, support for a spirit of toleration pressed the same thought: more "'religious.. Presidents. He was also a among the various religious :faiths, and sup Divine Pl'ovidence has played a great pari politician, and he believed that his role as port for the ecumenical movement. Occasion in our history. I have the feeling that. God politician need not conflict with his religious ally his thinking revealed a nate of Calvinis has created us a.nd brought us to our present principles. He believed the profession of poli tic determinism or moralism. Most significant position of power and strength for some greai tics to be, as he said. the "highest and most was his deep concern for the social implica purpose. important business in the world." During his tions o! the Scriptures, as shown in his first It is. not given to us now to know fully years in the Senate and the presidency his major religious address after becoming Pres what that purpose is, but I think we may be political opponents often brought up his ident--to the Federal Council of Churches sure of one thing. And that is that our coun earlier Pendergast associations and the taint in March 1945 in Columbus, Ohio. (Inter try is intended to do all it can, in cooperatin~ of Kansas City "machine" politics of that estingly, it was Jewish presidential aide Sam with other nations to help create peaee and era. Careful studies of his early political uel Rosenman who composed most of the preserve peace in the world. It is given to career-, however, have cleared him of any in President's address to that Protestant or us to defend the spiritual values-the moral volvement in shady politics; no solid facts ganization.) His speech emphasized the need code-against the vast :forces of evn th.at seek havfl ever been uncovered to implicate him for a new moral and spiritual awakening to destroy them. in dishonest political acts. unless he is held among the people-one which would help This is a hud task. It is not one that we guilty by association. This clean bill of health bring solutions to such probleillS as poor have asked for. At times we would like to applies as well to the so-called .. scandals" housing, juvenile delinquency, racial and lay it down. And, a.s e go on with tt, we that occurred during his last years as religious intolerance. He took note of "selfi.Sb see it is full of un~mamtle& and aaeriaees President. interests so greedy for gold" that they sought. But we need not be afraid, 1t we haft ThroU«hout his life he l'etained his mem to induce Congress to hold down mi.nimw:n faith. bersbip in the G7&lldview, Missouri, Baptist wages and allow the further concentration Like many of his eontempol'11rta, Tru Church, while his Wife and daughter were of econo.Inic :power. A truly religio\lS fervor man perceived a divine mission ln the Amer- January 29, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2549 lean historical experience. Perhaps for this nificant section of what is now called "mid Crowden, Delinda Duggan, Vicki Presley, reason he accepted the rhetoric of the cold dle America." Jess Watkins, Tina Longwith, Debbie war against "atheistic communism" and the Truman was not simply an opportunist, a tu.:;.-n to militarism that accompanied it. No pragmatic politician or a public opinion poll Cox, Dora Jenkins, Kenny Lee, Donnie pacifist, he favored a large peacetime mili watcher who reacted to each situation as it Smith, Hal Smedley, Mark Edwards, tary system and universal military training arose. He took his religious values too seri Randy Barefield, Gail Bloom, Yvonne for all men of draft age. And, of course, it ously for such characterizations to be valid, Hullender, Barbara Creasman, Joanna was his decision to drop the atomic bomb and he relied on those values as he made the Sheffield, Terry Drew, Ramona McCoy, on Hiroshima. Peace was his goal, but he leadership decisions that so greatly inftuenced Gloria Bryson, Mona Millard, Robin believed it could be achieved only through the United States and the entire Western Lowery, David Goforth and Linda Gray. military strength. world. Shortly after the end of World War n he gave up · all hope of cooperation with OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY, WHAT ABOUT PAKISTANI POW'S? the Soviet Union and advocated a program Stillwater, Okla., January 19, 1973. of c.oexistence and containment of com The Honorable WILLIAM J. RANDALL, munism. He believed a strong military force U.S. House of Representatives, and a system of military alliances that Washington, D.C. HON. WILLIAM G. BRAY would balance the Russian military power DEAR REPRESENTATIVE RANDALL: I would OF INDIANA to be the best way to maintain peace. To like to suggest that an article by Professor IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES John Foster Dulles he wrote in 1945: "We Merlin Gustafson entitled "Harry Truman often hear it said that spiritual values are as a Man of Faith" appearing in this week's Monday, January 29, 1973 indestructible, but I think it should be "Christian Century" merits inclusion in the said that they are indestructible only as Mr. BRAY. Mr. Speaker, American CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. prisoners of war &re on their way home, long as men are ready and willing to take The article not only describes Mr. Tru action to preserve them." However, he did man's character faithfully, but also con now that the Vietnam peace has been not favor a "holy ·war" against the com veys a timely lesson. It shows how religion signed. However, the world has another munist nations, or think that war was in can be a source of great private strength POW situation-much larger-as a re evitable. Despite great pressures he kept the without a big public display being made sult of the India-Pakistan war. The fol Korean conflict a "limited war," even over it. lowing editorial from the Chicago though that decision meant firing a popular Sincerely, war hero, General Douglas MacArthur. Tribune of January 17, 1973, discusses BERTn. L. HANSON, the matter: President Truman will be remembered in Associate Professor. history for initiating the postwar foreign INDIA SHOWS FREE POW's aid program. Although tliere undoubtedly India, the great hair splitter, should re were a. number of motives operating-not THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, lease forthwith the 93,000 Pakistani soldiers all of them l'.ltruistic, to say the least CONGRESSIONAL REsEARCH SERVICE. still held as prisoners of war a year after the Truman personally found a basis in reli The attached information is forwarded in two nations stopped fighting each other. The gious principles for helping the less-de• response to. your recent inquiry. We hope Geneva Convention of 1949 states that pris veloped nations. His 1946 speech to the Fed it meets your needs in this matter. oners shall be released and repatriated after eral Council of Churches made that stance Please do not hesitate to call on us for the cessation of active hostilities. clear. further assistance. India itself proclaimed a cease-fire after IV Sincerely, the fighting a year ago. A resolution voted Perhaps President Truman left with us LEsTER S. JAYSON, Director. by the United Nations Security Council the most illuminating summary of his rell stated that not only a cease-fire but a cessa gious philosophy in a short speech he de tion of hostilities" prevailed. livered in 1951 at a cornerstone-laying In the face of both this record and the ceremony: "THESE COLORS DON'T RUN" Geneva Convention, how can India justify ••The essential mission of the church is to· SIXTH GRADERS AT APISON ELE holding Pakistan's soldiers at all-let alone teach the moral law. Religion is not an easy MENTARY SCHOOL, APISON, TENN., under the deplorable conditions exiSting? thing. It is not simply a comfort to those in SHOW THEIR PATRIOTISM BY The reason, an Indian spokesman told The trouble or a means of escape from present Tribune's Joseph Zullo at the U.N., is that a diffi.<:ulties, as some people today would have PAINTING THE SCHOOL'S WIN cease-fire is "not the srune as a cessation of us believe. Moreover, religion is not a nega DOWS IN THE FORM AND COLORS hostilities." With respect to the new nation tive thing. It is not merely a series of pro OF THE AMERICAN FLAG of Bangladesh, Pakistan is in an attitude of hibitions against certain actions because they hostilities in suspension." are wicked. Our religion includes those ele To find a semantic di1Ierence between ments. But it also includes more. It is a posi HON. LAMAR BAKER "cease-fire" and "cessation of hostilities" re tive force that impels us to affirmative ac Oi' TENNESSEE quires hair splitting of a high order of sklll. tion • • • Selfishness and greed can tear thiS To go a step farther and find a di1Ierence be nation apart.•.• Our religious faith gives IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES between a "cessation of hostilities•• and a us the answer to the false beliefs of com Monday, January 29, 1973 "suspension of hostilities" calls for a vir munism. We are defending freedom of wor tuosity in word twisting that borders on the ship and cons.cience.•.• " Mr. BAKER. Mr. Speaker, the students dazzling. These, then, were the highlights of Tru of Apison Elementary School in Apison, It is obvious that India is holding the man's religious philosophy. As President he Tenn., have been engaged in a schoolwide 93,000-along with 16,000 civilians-as dip could not atrord to be too far ahead or too program to promote patriotism during lomatic hostages. A spokesman for the New far behind the thinking of his constituency. the current school year. One of the ap Delhi delegation told Mr. Zullo that the His perspective was slightly more liberal than pealing and satisfying projects to be de Pakistani forces surrendered to the "joint that of his times. but he was not ex command" of Indian and Bangladesh forces treme. Leadership in the mainline Protestant veloped under the program is the one and that their release depends on the acquie churches, in Judaism and in the Roman undertaken by the sixth graders of the science of Bangladesh. In other words, Paki .Catholic Church generally supported his school who painted the school windows stan must recognize this breakaway state goals. His public policies reftected a com in the form and colors of the American which has proclaimed independence with In promise between the individualistic and flag. The result was a gigantic reproduc dia's backing--or it can't have the POW's. pietistic religious attitudes o! many Ameri tion of Old Glory. The Geneva Convention says nothing about cans and the more socially conscious theology The class has adopted as its motto,. the recognition of anyone by anyone; it says of many Americans and the more socially that prisoners shall be released after the conscious theology of many religious lead "These colors don't run," and are using shooting stops. Its intention is clear. Send ers. Public opinion surveys of the time the flag and the motto to boost the the soldiers home as quickly as possible. showed that most Americans saw little rela school's chances of winning an award in India is not in compliance with this con tionship between theology and political mat the Freedoms Foundation Award pro vention. The stalling would be wrong no mat ters, but President Truman recognized such gram. ter who engaged in it. It seems especially a relationship intuitively. Aided by his ad I commend the principal of the school~ deplorable when a rule of international con visers, he demonstrated that recognition in William P. Elsea; the sixth grade teach met is flouted by this self-appointed moral adviser to the world. which has pointed ac his speeches, his public statements, and his er, Mr. R. P. Hudlow, and the following cusing fingers at so many other nations for public programs. Hence, like the Old Testa students who served as "artists" in paint many fancied wrongs. Here is a reaJ. wrong, ment prohpets, his concern for social justice ing the flag on the school windows: and the perpetrator has turned strangely sometimes placed him at odds with a sig- Danny Hullender, Kitty Bush, Yvonne blind to the outrage of it. · CXIX--161-Part 2 2550 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS January 29, 1973 TV GOES EDUCATIONAL FOR PROF Another announcement lists the names estate operators reportedly have been using IT TO SELL BUSING of veteran desegregated school districts such the desegregation issue to drum up business. as Harrisburg, Pa., Pontiac, Mich., and Dade While reports of solicitations in these two County, Fla., while the speaker says: "It communities have focused attention on the HON. JOHN R. RARICK worked there ... Let's make it work here." potential problem, a survey of real estate OF LOUISIANA Still another shows a picture of the U.S ~ dealers indicated that there has been no panic Capitol, while the announcer says: "Laws are selling as yet. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES made in Congress ... not in schools." Charles Grammer, whose real estate :firm Monday, January 29, 1973 The announcements were written and pro handles a lot of sales in Prince Georges and duced by the Prince Georges Board of Edu Southern Maryland, said he has seen no Mr. RARICK. Mr: Speaker, January cation's information office and audiovisual panic. But he has been getting inquiries 29 is a day of infamy in nearby Prince department at a cost of $500 to $600, accord about available homes south of Prince Georges County, Md. At mid-term, 35,- ing to Robert M. Litman, school board in Georges. 000 schoolchildren are to be uprooted in formation officer. "I am getting five or six people a week in a massive sacial experiment to be bused The announcements were made as the quiring about property in Charles County or school administration continues its efforts Southern Maryland," he noted, adding that to another school to fulfill some pseudo to calm reactions to the orders calling for a this is "higher than normal." liberals' false theory of racial mixing bx transfer of 33,000 students, 12,000 of them to He said his firm is not soliciting homes now the numbers. be bused for the :first time. because "it's too hot an issue." Those looking Selling busing by TV ads must be an As the date for implementing the orders for homes, according to Grammer, "make it historic first. Not only do the taxpayers draws nearer, increasing numbers of white clear they want to move out because of de need supply an additional 57 buses, but parents have indicated to the school board segregation." now they will be called on to pay the pub and to the press that they will boycott class He said he believes that with the area's lic relations bill to sell them such slogans rooms on Monday, both in protest against housing shortage "it is conceivable that any the forced busing and in fear that violence one would lose money on a home sale because as "busing worked in Harrisburg, Pa., will erupt at the newly integrated schools. of busing." Pontiac, Mich., and Dade County, Fla." Production costs of the announcements Grammer believes "things will settle down But the· TV ad that "laws are made in will be paid out of funds set aside by the in time." He said that his firm has helped Congress, not in schools" is a most ap school board for implementing the integra integrate communities in the past where good propriate statement. Congress has con tion orders. At a board meeting earlier this relations exist today. tinually passed laws such as the Civil week, it was revealed that $110,00 has been Miss Beverly Isemann, who did not want Rights Act of 1964-which forbids bus spent thus far on "project desegregation." her firm identified, was not optimistic. "Peo ing of schoolchildren to achieve racial Litman said the announcements are being ple want to move out of the county," she said aired through next week by WMAL-7, WTOP- flatly. balance. 9, Metromedia Inc.-5 and WDCA-20. She said that even people who have al An honest ad would have said that One area station-WRC-4-declined to ready entered contracts for the purchase of laws are made in Congress, but that the show the messages because, as a matter of new homes "are now trying to get out of busing "law" was made by unelected station policy, public service announcements them." ambitious Federal judges who have ac are reserved for "noncontroversial areas.'' She believes that if a housing panic devel tually violated the law. For the law of according to James Truelove, a spokesman ops "middle and upper income families would the land is described in article VI, clause for the station. He said yesterday the busing move out" and the Prince Georges marltet 2 of the Constitution which reads: issue has been "well covered" by WRC in would deflate. editorials, news shows and panel programs. She said her firm, which has dealt primarily This Constitution and the Laws of the The Prince Georges Regional Association in Prince Georges properties, now is requiring United States which shall be made in Pur of Student Governments has sponsored a its salesmen to join the Montgomery Board suance thereof . . . shall be the Supreme 30-second public service announcement to of Realtors so the firm can step up its activi Law of the Land. be aired this weekend on several local radio ties there. The judge in the Prince Georges case stations. · Councilman Winfield M. Kelly also has called it "routine."" The message asks that students: "Don't voiced fear at a time when the county is rock that boat... - . Come Jan. 29 be cool. trying to attract upper-income families to Time was when our communications . . . Make desegregation work. . .. It's up oreate a stronger tax base. media used the power of the press to to you!" Mrs. Irma. Yurek, another real estate deal champion the rights of the people er, while not feeling any pressure yet, be against the excesses, the tyranny of an (From the Washington Star-News, Jan. 28, lieves housing "will be affected." all powerful central government. The 1973] She said when a family buys a home it is role of the free press to sell suppres BUSING ANXIETY: PRINCE GEORGES REALTY interested in the quality and proximity of sion---child-naping of schoolchildren AGENTS COOLING IT schools. can only be regarded as a further de (By Donald Hirzel) Frank Halley, who operates Carrollton Realty, said it is "too early to tell" if· prob terioration of the role of our Nation's Some Prince Georges real estate operators lems are being created but that the "school right-to-know machinery to keep up have stopped soliciting homes-for-sale list issue is very much in people's minds." people free by keeping them informed. ings in the county because they fear their calls might add to anxiety over increased When the time for full control and the [From the Washlngton Star-News, nationalization of the right-to-know ma school desegregation which begins tomorrow. Individual operators have taken the action Jan. 11, 1973] chinery comes-who will lament their after receiving reports of "block-busting,. FIFTY-SEVEN BUSES SOUGHT FOR P.G. failures caused by absence of credibility? tactics in New carrollton and Greenbelt, two COMPLIANCE When a man destroys the liberties and areas greatly affected by the court-ordered At least 57 additional buses will be needed birthrights of others, he cannot expect school desegregation plan which requires by the Prince George County school system support in defense of the loss of his pupil busing. to implement a Jan. 29 court-ordered freedoms. The request to stop house-for-sale solicita desegregation plan. I include the following newsclippings: tions came from the county's Board of Real Anthony Miller, supervisor of transporta (From the Washington Evening Star, tors, and a number of operators said they had tion for the county's schools, said yesterday Jan. 27, 1973] complied with the plea. the exact number of buses will not be deter County Councilwoman Gladys N. Spell mined until the final figure on the number TV ADS URGE P.G. To CooL IT man this past week made a plea to real es of students to be transferred is settled. The (By Lorenzo Middleton) tate operators "to keep the lid on" after she county school system now has a fleet of 500 A 10-second advertisement appearing on heard reports of the block-busting tactics. school buses. several local television stations this week Block-busting is illegal, under federal, sta'te The desegregation plan accepted by federal depicts a drawing of an empty public school and county laws. But, as Mrs. Spellman ex Judge Frank A. Kaufman calls for the trans classroom followed by one filled with chil· plained, an unscrupulous operator can get fer of 32,000 students, and the busing of dren. around the use of racial terms in soliciting 12,000 new bus riders. Miller estimates that "The choice is yours," proclaimed the an a house for sale by mentioning the desgre the desegregation plan will cost the county nouncer above background music taken from gation order. at least an additional $1 million a year. "Black and White," a popular "brotherhood" In block-busting, a neighborhood is se The county is now ma·king arrangements song by the rock group Three Dog Night. lected for a concentrated telephone, mail and to get buses from the state or to lease them It is one of four short public service an in-person solicitation campaign in which from parochial schools or private bus opera nouncements from the Prince Georges homeowners are urged to sell their property tors. This procedure would be temporary County public school system, urging compli because of the changing racial balance of the until the county can buy new buses which ance with court orders for further desegrega neighborhood. once ordered take six months or more to tion of the schools on Monday. In New carrollton and Greenbelt, some real deliver. January 29, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2551 Any buses used by the school system, content among factory and office workers The article follows: according to Miller, must meet standards alike and does nothing for integration. Per AN OPINION FROM THE WEST-FEDERAL FREEZE prescribed by state law fOT school vehicles. haps if equality would return, the average THREATENS AMERICA'S ENERGY SUPPLY He said the school system will have to hire worker would again take pride in his work additional drivers who will undergo a train and in return, the employer would receive (By John S. Wold, Geologist) ing program and then will have to be ap a day's work for a day's wages. If you asked the average American coal proved by the State Motor Vehicle Admin I wish, employers, parents and our law man what are the foremost problems of his istration. makers, would make an effort to see for them industry he would doubtless reply the envi He discounted a rumor that numerous bus selves the complete cooperation and friend ronment and coal mine safety legislation. drivers are resigning, commenting that no liness among blacks, whites and children of These are immediate dollars-and-cents prob moore than "a dozen of our 500 regular drivers all races and creed in some of our private lems which have brought a coal-rich nation have resigned." However, he admitted that schools. They were not forced to integrate. to the brink of a critical shortage. many drivers are waiting to see what kind of From the long-range point of view, how work hours they will have under the new ever, it is possible that little-publicized deci busing schedules. He said 70 percent of the FORMER CONGRESSMAN JOHN S. sions blossoming from within the U.S. Dept. drivers are women and that some may resign WOLD of Interior may have a far greated impact on once scheduling is completed because they the future contributions coal will make to will not be able to work full-time as will be ward solving our national energy crisis. required by many of the drivers under the HON. TENO RONCALIO Few coal men, much less John Q. Public, new system.-DONALD HIRZEL. OF WYOMING realize that over one half of the vast US reserves (and most of the low-sulfur coal) IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES underlie our public domain. As federal prop Monday, January 29, 1973 erty, they are managed by the Dept. of Inte HOPES FOR THE NEW YEAR rior. H<>w and when these resources are de Mr. RONCALIO of Wyoming. Mr. veloped will influence the future national Speaker, John S. Wold distinguished standard of living. HON. C. W. BILL YOUNG himself in the 91st Congress as being the The dominant fact of life for public domain OF FLORIDA only geologist to ever serve in the U.S. coal the last 2 years has been a freeze on leas House of Representatives. As the only ing, cutting off availability of new supplies. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Member from Wyoming, Congressman The chart (not shown) shows the timetable Monday, January 29, 1973 Wold served on the House Interior Com of the "freeze" on coal leases and permits in mittee and was the original House spon six western states hOlding 64% of the nation's Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Mr. Speaker, coal reserves.1 earlier this year, an article written by sor of the National Mining and Minerals There are two procedures for acquiring a one of my constituents, Mrs. 'Vlasta Broz, Policy Act of 1970. coal lease on federal lands. If the Depart appeared in the Tampa Tribune. Since I am sure a good many of our col ment's US Geological Survey classifies lands I feel Mrs. Broz' wishes for the New Year leagues remember John, and would like as having "known workable coal," they must re:flect the wishes of many, I submit a to know that since leaving the House, he be put up for competitive cash bonus bid copy of this newspaper article, so that has specialized in the assembling of coal ding. If the survey classifies them as not hav reserves for synthetic fuel plants and re ing known coal, a qualified applicant may ob it might be brought to the attention of tain a 2-yr extendable prospecting permit. my colleagues: search programs, placing western coal After exploration under permit and upon Foa 1973: PEACE WrrH HoNOR properties with major energy companies. proving to the Geological Survey that there ST. PETERSBURG.-As 1972 drew to a close, In the following article from Coal Age is workable coal, the applicant is entitled everyone longed for changes in 1973. Each magazine, "Federal Freeze Threatens to a preferential lease, issued by Interior's wish wlll have its own distinguishing quality, America's Energy Supply,'' John Wold is Bureau of Land Management (BLM), depending if the individual is seeking quite critical of Department of the Inte without a competitive bonus bid. changes solely to satisfy his own desires, or rior coal leasing policies. While I am not if they wlll benefit the nation as a whole. ready to confirm or deny his statements, 1 I too, have wishes, hopes and prayers. Most Averitt, Paul-Coal Resources of the fervently I hope and pray for a peace with many will find an interest in either the United States, Jan. 1, 1967: USGS Bulletin honor; that our prisoners are still alive and author or the subject matter. 1275. wlll be reunited with their families and most emphatically I hope there will be no am THE FEDERAL COAL FREEZE nesty for deserters! Amnesty would mean the desecration of all that men have fought, North Dakota Montana Wyoming Colorado Utah New Mexico suffered and died for. wish, I parents would again begin at home last Federal lease-date of issue ___ May 1, 197L ___ Apr. 1, 1971 Feb. 2, 1971 Apr. 1, 1970 Sept 1, 1970 Jan. 1, 1970 to teach their children respect for our flag last Federal prospecting permiL None issued ____ July 1, 1970 Jan. 12, 1971 Nov. 1, 1970 Feb. 1, 1971 Jan. 1, 1971 and instead of considering it a major under taking, old and young alike would stand at attention and men doff their hats as the flag Reasons given by the BLM for this freezing prospecting permit block in the Powder River is passing by. action which bars entry to the public coal Basin of Wyoming. The original application I wish, everyone would remember the Con lands have ranged from lack of a national to the BLM in 1967 cited the area as a locale stitution guarantees equal rights for all, pro energy policy to uncertainty on environ for research by private industry in tech viding we do not interpret these rights only mental requirements and lease terms. During niques of remote-controlled underground to suit ourselves, I wish too, that people the period of this freeze, practically every coal energy extraction (in situ gasification, would learn not to infringe on the rights top-level energy expert in the Dept. of In etc.). After a quarter-million-dollar explor of others! terior has "pointed with alarm" at the im ation investment to qualify for a preferential I wish, women had never started the Lib pending energy crisis and the need for de lease, the Dept. of Interior has delayed lease eration Movement, because their arguments veloping new domestic energy supplies. These issuance for a year and a half. Private in have been ridiculous. I, for one, cannot see words contrast with Department action, but dustry research-at no cost to the taxpayer any glamour in galnlng the right to be a are only one facet of the great paradox. cannot be started because there is no lease ditch digger, 1! I lose my feminity. But the Many potential preferential-right lessees on which to work. Libbers are more to be pitied than censured; of federal coal lands have invested hundreds In the meantime, the Bureau of Mines they, no doubt, have a deep seated feeling of thousands of dollars in exploration under announced a few weeks ago an in situ un of inferiority; have probably never known a permit. Their work in many cases has been derground coal gasification research pro man who put them on a pedestal and treated approved by the USGS, but their leases are gram. It will be conducted with taxpayers' them with courtesy, nor have they met a stymied by the BLM, presumably while new money in the Hanna Basin of Wyoming man they could honor and admire. What leasing policies are determined. where the federal government owns approxi ever they hoped to attain, no law can gain for Permittees maintain that Interior has a mately 50% of the coal lands. But the Bu them respect 1! their movement destroys contract with them to issue a preferential reau of Land Management of the Dept. of marriages and come hell or high water, nei coal lease. Regulations, however, do not Interior has a "freeze" on. Where does the ther can the law change nature and bio specify the terms of the lease, nor the time Bureau of Mines of the Dept. of Interior go? logical processes for the lot of them. interval for issuing a lease. Applicants, who They will conduct their experiments on pri I wish, employers would treat all employes in good faith have made their investments, vately owned Union Pacific Railroad proper alike, i.e., if they reprimand or disharge a are hamstrung-not for weeks or months, ties which are surrounded by federal coal white, they should deal with a black in the but for years-as the Department rests on lands. Only a Bureau knows how to deal with same manner for the same misdemeanor in the crutch that it must internally formulate another Bureau. The answer is "don't." stead o~ fearing retaliation. Fear and-or dfs policies or wait for Congress to give direction. The final frustration !or bopeful coal en cr1mlnat1on of any variety is a basis for dis- An example of this operation is a coal ergy developers was realized in a BLM deci- 2552 · EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS January 29, 1973 sion of August 11, 1972 rejecting, out of hand, the proclamation of independence and The experience of years in prison in a 119 applications for coal prospecting permits sovereignty of the Ukraine. It was on in the Dakotas and Montana, on the premise: hostile camp has thus been shown to "After consideration of all available infor January 22, 1918, and after 2% centuries have a marked relationship to the life mation, it is concluded that there is no com of Polish and Russian domination, that expectancy of those released. Despite the pelllng need, at this time, to encourage fur the people of the Ukraine threw off the intense efforts being made by Defense ther prospecting for a resource, when there shackles of oppression and declared Department officials to counteract this is already a known supply under lease that themselves at last a free and independ pattern, military medical experts are re is waiting to be developed. Your applica ent nation. Since the outset of its inde ported to expect problems. tion is, therefore, denied." pendence, the new republic was faced The conclusion we can draw is that There are some who regard this decision as the latest eurfacing of a "long submerged, with serious threats and difficulties, the unless something is done ·to compensa~ but still alive" philosophy that minerals on most severe of these being the Commu these men for a shortened life expect the public domain should be developed only nist government in the Kremlin. Free ancy, they will be asked to sac1ifice even by the government itself. The decision :fiies dom for the millions of Ukrainians was more for their country. Reintegration in the face of President Nixon's stressing the shortlived, and a few years later they into American society will be slow. Thus, importance of finding new sources of low were taken over by the Soviet Union. former prisoners will be unable to start sulfur coal. The Ukrainian people have never ac careers outside of the military and gain It appears to contradict the historic na tional mineral policy on several counts: cepted Soviet rule and have never lost retirement credits until several years First, it denies the 50-year-old philosophy their desire for new independence and after other persons their same age. This spelled out in the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, freedom. All Americans who believe in means fewer credits and a smaller retire which is designed to promote the mining of self-determination share with the ment check. coal deposits located on public lands. Ukrainians the hope that they will one Even if the prisoner decides to stay Second, it violates the intent of the Mining day live in liberty. in the military until retirement, he still and Minerals Policy Act of 1970, because Today, we join with Ukrainians in must face the problem of a shorter life rather than "encouraging private enterprise America and throughout the world 1n expectancy: Less time to enjoy retire in the development of an economically sound ment. and stable domestic mining industry," it celebrating the 55th anniversary of the sti:fies development. Ukrainian declaration of independence. I believe that America already owes Third, it is discriminatory because it shuts I am proud to join my colleagues in salut these men more than it can repay. We out developers who do not have a coal posi ing a valiant people. cannot sit on the sidelines and let them tion. It restrains trade. It restricts competi sacrifice even more for the freedom we tion by preventing investors who wish to all share. · participate in future coal energy development Therefore, I am today reintroducing from acquirlng a resource base. THE RETURNING POW'S legislation to deal with this situation. Fourth, the synthetic fuel and electric utility industries of the future, based on coal, Specifically, my bills will provide credit require the commitment of huge reserves on for all time spent as a POW toward re HON. DONALD G. BROTZMAN tirement either in the military or with a long-term basis before the capital invest OF COLORADO ments in pla.nts can be made. The lead time the civil service. For each day spent as from the <~ocquisition of coal lease positions IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES a prisoner of war, my bill would grant to plant operations may run from 5 to 15 Monday, January 29, 1973 an additional day of service credit toward years or more. These projects do not lend retirement. This, of course, is in addi themselves to the immediate prOduction re Mr. BROTZMAN. Mr. Speaker, just quirement implied in the BLM decision. before Congress adjourned last October, tion to any credits for which the POW Fifth, the technology of the coal industry I introduced legislation aimed at partial may already be entitled to by existing is changing from day to day. The chemical, ly compensating those Americans who law. physical, geologic and geographic require have served their country as prisoners To give a brief example of how these ments of coal needed to supply future power of war. Today, I am renewing this call additional benefits would be computed and synthetic fuel plants are uncertain. No let us consider the case of a man who' living person in government or private in on the Congress. In the next 60 days, over 550 Amer during his 17 years in the armed services' dustry can say authoritatively and properly had spent 3 years as a prisoner. Thes~ what coal is best suited to supply the future icans will be returning home following national needs. as much as 9 years of confinement in years need not be in Vietnam. They Coal must play an important part in the North Vietnam. If the pattern of the last would apply just as well for prisoners future US energy picture. If it satisfies the two wars in Asia holds true, these men repatriated from either World War or expected demands of 1985, it should double will have suffered any host of diseases, Korea. Upon retirement, our example its prOduction capacity. With such a large malnutrition, and abuse. In short, they would receive a total of 20 years serv percentage of low-sulfur coals underlying the will have gone through tremendous ice-17 years for his regular duty and 3 public domain of the West, the challenge is additional years for the time spent as obvious. Industry cannot serve the nation's amounts of physical and emotional stress. needs properly without support and coopera Such treatment, combined with the a prisoner of war. Of cow·se, my inten tion from the federal government. In the case shock of release into the harried pace of tion is that this legislation not force of western coals, it needs the support of the our own soCiety, may produce extremely early military retirement on those who Dept. of Interior. serious problems. Many of the men will do not wish it. I intend to make this Sometimes it seems that instead of working be beating the odds simply to stay alive. point particularly clear in any hearings in concert for the good of the nation as a In a followup study of those repatriated that may be held on these bills. whole, government takes the role of adversary. The Vietnam war omcially ended at Too many governmental decisions indicate a Americans held by the Japanese during World War n, it was concluded that 7 p.m. Washington time, January 27. lack of understanding or internal coopera 2 tion between the branches of that govern among prisoners held for such an ex Within the next months we hope to ment--even within a single department. If tended period of time, the death rate have all Americans home who are held we are to solve the energy problems facing following liberation was four times that prisoner by Communist forces. Let us America, we cannot on the one hand embrace of the public at la.rge for the first 2 dedicate ourselves to the task of seeing the competitive free enterprise system and at years. Even by the end of the sixth year that their sacrifice not grow larger than the same time reject it with the other. following liberation, this rate remained it has already become. an intolerable 50 percent above the Mr. Speaker, this legislation has the norm. full endorsement of the National League of Families of American Prisoners of UKRAINIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY One of the most serious of the prob lems to be faced by returning prisoners War and Missing in Action, the largest will be accidental injury. Apparently such group in the United States. Fur HON. MARTHA W. GRIFFITHS prisoners held out of touch for extended thermore, knowledgeable sources have told me that this very idea has been OF liiiCHIGAN periods must relearn even very simple discussed by the prisoners themselves IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES procedures which the rest of us take for granted, such as crossing a busy street. within North Vietnam and that it has Tuesday, January 23, 1973 More complicated matters such as driv very widespread support there. Mrs. GRIFFITHS. Mr. Speaker, this ing an automobile must be approached I, therefore, ask the Armed Forces week we pause again to commemorate with extreme caution. Committee and the Post omce and Civil January 29, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2553 Service Committee, respectively, to give tion. It is also equitable to the employer with administering pension plans. It is these bills the most expeditious treat- because he would not be required to pro hard to imagine that with about $150 bil ment so that we might help end th~ vide a full vested right to an employee lion in pension assets, pension plans are suffering of these brave men. who left before completing 14 years of now virtually unregulated. My bill would service. also call for increased and improved re Other proposals before this body call porting and disclosure of pension plan for full vesting after 10 years of service. activities. THE PENSION AND EMPLOYEE Others start with graded vesting after Lastly, Mr. Speaker, H.R. 366 would set BENEFIT ACT 8 years of service. But I ask you, is not up a system for the voluntary transfer that rather long to ask an employee to of vested pension credits between plans. wait? Are we really doing anything for This scheme-which is referred to as HON. CHARLES J. CARNEY him if we make him wait that long? portability-would serve to increase the OF OIUO Mr. Speaker, there is one thing that I mobility of our workers, while also pro IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES want to point out. That is the term "cov viding benefits to both workers and em Monday, January 29, 1973 ered service" which I previously referred ployers alike. to. My bill would require that employers Mr. Speaker, the time has come to pass Mr. CARNEY of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I an effective pension reform measure. would like to take this opportunity to start counting employees' service toward vesting after a period of service of no This great body can no longer ignore the discuss the need for pension reform. we legitimate pension needs of our workers. all have heard about the many difficul longer than 6 months. On the other hand, this provision would permit employers to Let the 93d Congress go down as the ties that workers are experiencing with Congress which provided for the protec regard to their pension benefits. Too exclude short service and seasonal work ers from the pension plan. I think that tion and preservation of the retirement many employees work too long and have rights of our Nation's workers. nothing to show for ir in terms of a re this is only fair. tirement benefit. We all have heard too Yet, Mr. Speaker, other bills being con many stories of plants closing down and sidered by this body would permit em ployers to exclude time worked by em workers losing their jobs as well as their GOOD SAMARITAN AWARD earned pensions. Many of these workers ployees before they reach age 25. Some are too old to start over again and earn bills would permit employers to exclude enough pension credits with another time worked by employees before they HON. DON EDWARDS reach age 30. This is really an exercise in employer. OF CALIFORNIA deceit. Are we going to tell our working Mr. Speaker, Congress must pass leg IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES islation to correct the weaknesses that men and women that we have passed exist in the private pension system. The legislation to protect their interests by Monday, January 29, 1973 inequities and hardships of the present saying to employers that they must pro Mr. EDWARDS of California. Mr. system must be eliminated so that our vide for vesting after their workers have Speaker, on Sunday, October 22, 1972, workers can have faith in it. I believe in completed say 5 or 10 years of service, I had the distinct pleasure of attending the private pension system. But, I also but then turn around and add that if the the Saint Rose Hospital's third Annual believe that it ought to play a far more employers want, they can exclude all Good Samaritan Award presentation in vital role in assuring that workers will time worked before the worker reached Hayward, Calif. have a retirement income that they can his 30th birthday. What you are saying It was most refreshing to be present live on. For this reason, I have intro to an 18-year-old worker is that "we have at a gathering where the criteria for the duced H.R. 366, the Pension and Em passed a bill to help assure that you get nominees is based on the principle of one ployee Benefit Act, which contains sev a pension, but your employer can dis human being caring for and giving time eral provisions that my colleagues in the regard the next 12 years of your working to another. Seventeen men and women House and Senate should be alert to life." were nominated for the award for dem when they finally decide on the course of Let me briefly outline the rest of my onstrating compassion for another in action which they consider to be most pension proposal. H.R. 366 would call for dividual. desirable. the systematic funding of unfunded lia This year's winner of the Good Samar My bill would deal with all the areas bilities incurred before enactment over a itan Award was Mrs. Lucille Davies of which are of such great concern to our 40-year period. Liabilities created after Hayward for her unselfish example of working men and women. Specifically, I enactment would have to be funded more love for her fellow man. Mrs. Davies, a am talking about vesting, funding, in quickly--over a 30-year rather than a mother of 10, found time in her busy surance, portability, and fiduciary stand 40-year period. Too many plans have big days to visit daily for 9 months a friend ards. Now let me briefly discuss each one IOU's-big promises but insufiicient as who was hospitalized and dying of mul of these subjects. sets to pay off in case of business or plan tiple sclerosis. First of all, my bill would require pen failure. It is time to ask these employers A special award was given to Mrs. sion credit to start vesting after 5 years to systematically fund their plans. Grace Draper and Mrs. Rosan Wilson of covered service. I stress "covered serv Yet, Mr. Speaker, that is not enough. for their joint efforts in helping people ice" because many of us may fail to rec As you can see, even with a funding re of the Fremont Community through the ognize the significance of this term. How quirement, many plans will never quite Tri-City Volunteer Mini Center. ever, I recognize that vesting may in catch up. It is for this reason that we Among the other nominees were: Mrs. crease the costs some employers will ex need to insure pension plans in cases of Gladys Keller for her volunteer work perience. That is why I start vesting plan termination. I propose in H.R. 366 with charitable organizations and assist gradually-after 5 years of covered serv that a pension reinsurance program be ance to Spanish speaking persons. Mrs. ice. A worker would have a 10-percent set up to insure against the contingency Sotera Brown who single-handedly or vested right at that time. Vesting would of plan failure. I would do this by charg ganized the Family Tutorial Program in then increase 10 percent for each year ing all pension plans a modest premium Hayward which provides tutors to as thereafter until the worker has a 100- on the amount that they owe under the sist foreign born individuals to learn to percent vested right after 14 years. He plan. This is what ultimately will provide read and write English; Mrs. Mildred would be able to take this right with him our workers with the protection that they Lackey for her acts of mercy toward a if he loses or changes his job. need. After all, if we only ask that plans woman suffering from inoperable can Our Government saw fit to use 5 years make bigger promises-without funding cer; Mrs. Rose Stewart for her work with as the minimum number of years a Fed and insurance-pension expectations will youth groups in the community; Miss eral employee would have to work in be even more disillusioning. Judy Feight for her volunteered time by order to qualify for a pension. Why not Mr. Speaker, my bill will also serve to counseling troubled youth through Proj use this same standard in the legislation protect the retirement expectations of 30 ect Eden. that we will pass? Also, by having graded million current plan participants by set From Fremont Miss Eileen Tommie for vesting along the line that I propose, ting certain standards of fiduciary con her work during the recent Muscular vesting is· not an ali-or-nothing proposi- duct governing those individuals charged Dystrophy Fund raising campaign and 2554 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS January 29, 1973 volunteer work at Oakland Naval Hos strengthened by the expansion and increased FREE FLOW OF INFORMATION BILL pital. reliability of an air taxi network linking hundreds of cities in order to meet the de Two Castro Valley couples were among manding airmail service standards. Jet air the Good Samaritan nominees. The first craft were used for the first time. We also HON. ALBERT H. QUIE is Mr. and Mrs. Herschal Vineyard who introduced some high-speed, long-haul rail OF llfiNNESOTA drive a bus for their church and pick up road runs for the bulk mail which are prov 100 young members each Sunday. The ing highly effective. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES second is Mr. and Mrs. Russ Scothorn The success of several new postal products Monday, January 29, 1973 was illustrated by the growing demand for who have collected, repaired, and dis Mr. QUIE. Mr. Speaker, I am privi tributed clothing and household articles Express Mail, a premium service for docu ments with a high time value, and the Mail leged to join with 65 of my colleagues to various charitable agencies. gram, a message which combines the speed of almost equally divided between Repub Mrs. Sylvia Sefic of Dublin was nom electronic communications with the Postal licans and Democrats--in cosponsorship inated for giving emergency first aid Services unrivaled delivery network. of legislation which I believe is as im which saved the life of a victim of an air A fundamental change is being made in portant as any which will be introduced plane crash. our view of our customers. We are treating in the Congress this year, because of its A nominee from Union City, Mrs. Mary them as customers and are undertaking a series of actions to be more responsive to protection of the right of our citizens to Sanchez has tutored schoolchildren for have a free fiow of information about 2 their needs. An intensive effort to improve the past years and helped needy Mexi existing postal facilities so as to better serve events in public life. can-American families in her city. customers and provide a modern working en The bill, in essence, would protect the Nominee Robert Smyth, an Oakland vironment for postal employees is now un anonymity of a newsman's source of in fireman who resides in San Leandro, der way. formation which is procured for publica spends his free time maintaining and re Our second goal was cost reduction. Strong tion or broadcast. Three criteria must be modeling Saint Felicitas School in San measures have been taken to reduce operat met before a district court could order Leandro. ing costs. On March 29, 1972, restrictions were placed on the hiring of additional employees. disclosure: First, there is probable cause The effect of these restrictions was signifi to believe that the person from whom the PMG'S ANNUAL REPORT LETTER TO cant, since 85 percent of the Postal Services information is sought has information BOARD costs are labor costs. In a four-month period, which is clearly relevant to a specific the employment level was reduced, through probable violation of law; second, has attrition, by more than 33,000 persons. demonstrated that the information HON. ALBERT W. JOHNSON The commitment by postal managers, es sought cannot be obtained by alterna OF PENNSYLVANIA pecially in the field, to hold costs in line en abled us to announce in the summer of 1972 tive means; and third, has demonstrated IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that the Service would avoid the previously a compelling and overriding national in Monday, January 29, 1973 budgeted $450 million postage rate increase terest in the information. The use of scheduled for January 1973. these criteria will make it difficult to Mr. JOHNSON of Pennsylvania. Mr. We achieved as significant 2.4 percent pro force such disclosure, I am assured. The Speaker, I would like to insert in the ductivity gain in the fiscal year ending June text of the bill is given at the end of my RECORD the Postmaster General's annual 30. This productivity figure contrasts sharply statement. report letter to the Board, which ap with gains averaging less than one percent annually through most of the 1960s. I understand that a Judiciary subcom peared in the "Postal Leader," January mittee will begin hearings early next 1973. In part, this reflected increased mechaniza The report letter is as follows: tion in mail processing. A larger share of the month. I have read the committee hear PMG's ANNUAL REPORT LETTER TO BOARD productivity gain, however, must be attrib ings on the bill-which I cosponsored Dear Governors: I am pleased to submit uted to our managers in the field. This year, last fall-and have been impressed with the first Annual Report of the U.S. Postal they had the authority to make more effec the arguments of witnesses who claim Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, tive use of manpower and other resources. that Congress has a duty and a respon 1972. Despite the productivity gains achieved on July 1, 1971, one of the oldest depart last year and those projected for fiscal year sibility under the first amendment to the ments of Government became an independ 1973, postal wage costs are rising singifi Constitution to protect the freedom of ent agency with authority to provide mail cantly. In addition to wage increases amount the press by such a "shield" law. services to all Americans-our customers. ing to 10 percent for rank and file postal Mr. Speaker, I believe it is well known During this first year, we tackled problems employees in fiscal year 1972, we are com that the press depends for a good bit of that were decades in the making. We have mitted in fiscal year 1973 to an additional its information upon anonymous news pursued two major goals: improve the qual annualized salary increase of 8 percent for sources who tip them off to the wrong ity and reliability of mail services, and re these employees. The average postal employee duce costs. today makes more than $12,000 annually in doing on the part of public officials and The first goal was service improvement. salary and benefits. private citizens. Insiders within the Fed While our service performance is still un In the fiscal year ending June 30, 1972, we eral bureaucracy, for instance, provide even-our tests indicate the mail service also embarked on programs that will make valuable information which the public overall continues to improve. the Postal Service more competitive in the and Congress-needs to know. If these Most of the mail is first-clas~9 billion decades ahead. A $950 million network of news sources were forced to reveal them pieces out of the 87 billion mail pieces that bulk mail facilities was approved. This is selves, it is doubtful that we would ever were delivered last year. 94 percent of the expected to bring large economies in the first-class mail deposited by 5:00 p.m. and handling of non-letter man and significant learn whether the laws that we pass are destined for local delivery is being delivered improvements in the consistency of service. functioning as they should. It is also my next day. In smaller communities, this per Still under development and testing is a belief that protecting the anonymity of centage is usually higher. preferential mall processing concept which a newsman's sources also serves to keep Another indicator of improved service was could eliminate much of the manual proces men and women in public office much a reduction in the average time for delivery. sing concept which could eliminate much of more honest, responsive and sensitive to Without regard to the time of day when the the manual processing of letter mail. the needs of the voters of this country. I letter was deposited or to the distance sent, Inevitably, these changes will bring broader quote at length from one witness, Mr. the average time for delivering each of the 49 career opportunities and greater self-satis billion first-class letters decreased from 1.7 faction for employees and local managers who Irwin Karp, counsel, Authors League of to 1.6 days. In another important category, are willing to be judged by actual accom America, Inc., because I feel that Mr. parcel post, the average time for delivery de plishments. Our customers-the American Karp gets at the heart of the matter: creased from 4. 9 days during the final quar people--will receive better, more consistent It is not to afford the reporter a privilege, ter of 1971 to 4.3 days in the final quarter of service at reasonable prices. but to guarantee the public's right to know this year. The process of turning around an organi that protection is sought for the news gather Management is directing priority attention zation as vast and geographically dispersed to improving the consistency of postal serv as the Postal Service will require time. Given ing process. The argument that the balance ice. Service standards, first introduced for the patience and understanding of our cus has to be struck against news gathering and airmail, were extended last year to first-class tomers, our employees, the news media and against the First Amendment concept is a. mail. Additional service standards, covering the Congress, I am confident that the Postal self-defeating and, in fact, a counterproduc aU other mall categories, were being tested Service will become a productive and cre tive approach to the problem. as the fiscal year ended. ative force in the coming decade. It iS self-defeating because in the long run Transportation services were vastly E. T. KLASSEN. much of this information which .•. has to January 29, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2555 do with corruption in high places and mal must arm themselves with the power which ally gratified earlier this month when feasance by public officials, is given by peo knowledge gives." my colleague from Massachusetts was ple who are not lawbreakers themselves but This bas been the theory of the American are often involved in the administration or republic. I don't mean to suggest that the unanimously elected Majority Leader. an agency. Founding Fathers enjoyed criticism any more But Members of the House only know Much of that information is just not going than their descendants do. Even the sainted one-half of the O'Neill story. TIP O'NEILL to be produced anymore. Grand juries are go Jefferson had moments of bad temper in began his career in public life by serving ing to issue subpenaes and find an empty which he recommended that state govern in the Massachusetts Legislature--of bag. It is going to increase what I call . . . ments prosecute editors for seditious libel. which he was the first Democrat ever to the Genovese effect. It would be helpful to But in their more characteristic moods the be elected Speaker. Last November, the read brie:tly from a New York Times article Founders saw a free press as absolutely es O'Neill gap that had existed in that body which illustrates that people are afraid to get sential in order to arm the people with involved... . That is the threat that this knowledge and therefore to combat the pre since the Majority Leader succeeded to unlimited subpena power creates and has tensions of government. the Congressional seat of the late Presi created . . . there are just too many people Tocqueville, who visited America in the dent Kennedy was closed with the de whose information is important who will not 1830's and wrote the profoundest work ever cisive election of State Representative give it to the grand juries and will not give wri.. ten on American society, seized the point: Thomas P. O'Neill Ill. And on Tuesday, it to investigative committees, but will only "The more I consider the independence of January 16, Tom O'Neill showed the ad give it anonymously to reporters as they have the press in its principal consequences, the vantages of growing up in the . O'Neill in the past and what the subpena threat will more am I convinced that in the modern household by winning election as Presi do is to choke this off completely . .•. world it is the chief and, so to speak, the constitutive element of liberty." dent of the Massachusetts Legislators' Mr. Karp recommended that the Fed Walter Lippmann has made the point well freshman class. eral statute cover both Federal and State in our own day: "A free press is not a privi Tom has a little way to go before agencies and juries, and I agree. His lege but an organic necessity." And he adds matching his father-he could not quite justification is that- perceptively that it is a necessity not just manage a unanimous election, but he for the people but for the government itself. It can be done under the First and 14th Without criticism and reliable and intelli did get an absolute majority from his 66 Amendments and also because information gent reporting the government cannot gov classmates on the :first ballot of a three gathering and distribution is interstate in ern. For there is no adequate way in which man contest. So this January, Mr. Speak nature-almost exclusively-and under the it can keep itself informed about what the er, we have seen the election of not one, commerce clause the Congress could prevent people of the country are thinking and doing but two O'Neills to positions of legisla restraints on the process by adopting a and wanting. shielding statute. tive leadership, and those of us who know I include a copy of my bill: the O'Neill family expect that future Mr. Karp continues: H .R.- father-son triumphs may well follow. In Caldwell, the Government argued that reporters were merely seeking a privilege com A bill to assure the free :flow of information parable to the attorney-client or doctor to the public patient privileges. But that is not a valid Be it enacted by the Senate and House of CONGRESSIONAL REFORM analogy. A reporter or author does not se Representatives of the United States of cure information by chance as do most wit America in Congress assembled, That a per nesses; nor as an incident to his profession, son connected with or employed by the news HON. GLENN M. ANDERSON as do doctors or lawyers. The writer seeks in media or press, or who is independently en OF CALIFORNIA formation deliberately, as a fundamental step gaged in gathering information for publica in the process of informing the public. And tion or broadcast, shall not be required to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the First Amendment safeguards . . . were disclose before the Congress or any Federal Monday, January 29, 1973 intended to enable him to perform the task court, grand jury or administrative entity of informing the public. any information or written, oral or pictorial Mr. ANDERSON of California. Mr. material or the source of that information Speaker, in recent months, the Con The bill which I am cosponsoring has or material procured for publication or gress has been accused of abdicating its the same purpose. Not to give personal broadcast. power to the Presidency. In far too many privilege to protect patients or clients, SEc. 2. The first section of this Act shall cases, this accusation is accurate--the but to prevent restraint on the process of not apply with respect to the source of any constitutional powers of the Congress gathering information and informing the allegedly defamatory information in any case have been eroded. public. As Karp says: where the defendant in a civil action for defamation asserts a defense based on the In the implementation of foreign The rights they would establish are not for source of such information. policy, the Executive appears to have ex the benefit of the Press so much as for the SEc. 3. Any person seeking information or clusive jw·isdiction, with the Congress benefit of all of us. the source thereof protected under this Act only serving in the role of the critic. At the end of last year, there was a may apply to the United States District Court While the Congress has the responsi for an order divesting such protection. Such bility to levy taxes, the administration news article in the Wall Street Journal application shall be made to the district from which I should like to excerpt. In court in the district wherein the hearing, ac has interpreted some regulations in a my opinion, the quotations from this tion, or other proceeding in which the in manner inconsistent with the intent of article are as pertinent today as they formation is sought is pending. The applica Congress. were when they were written: tion shall be granted only if the court after The Congress has lawfully appro To understand why this is so one must hearing the parties determines that the per priated funds to clean up our rivers_ recall the function of a free press in a de son seeking the information has shown by harbors, and lakes, yet the administra mocracy. The Founding Fathers recognized clear and convincing evidence that ( 1) there tion has refused to spend that money. that a sprawling country like the United is probable cause to believe that the person The various programs, designed by the States required a strong national govern from whom the information is sought has ment, which is why they abandoned the information which is clearly relevant to a Congress to aid rural areas, have been Articles of Confederation and drafted the specific probable violation of law; (2) has severely curtailed by Executive fiat. Constitution. At the same time, all of them demonstrated that the information sought The list of Executive usurpation of had a fear of despotism, and some of them cannot be obtained by alternative means; congressional powers is long and touches had a fear of democracy. The best antidote and (3) has demonstrated a compelling and on nearly every facet. to despotism, they reasoned, was the guaran· overriding national interest in the informa We must ask ourselves the questions: tee of freedom of speech and the press; and tion. Why? Why has Congress allowed this to the best cure for democracy was the wide diffusion of information. Few themes were happen? What can we do to reassert the more insistenty repeated by the statesmen A SECOND O'NEILL IN LEADERSHIP power of the legislative branch? What of the early republic than the idea that free POSITION must we do to allow the Congress to government would work only if it were based effectively carry out its constitutional on an enlightened and informed public powers? opinion. HON. MICHAEL HARRINGTON In my opinion, or.:.e of the solutions "A popular Government, without popular OF MASSACHUSETTS which would place the Congress on a information, or the means of acquiring it," IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES more equal footing with the Presidency said James Madison, "is but a prologue to a Monday, January 29, 1973 would be a more rapid rotation in the Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both. Knowl Members who populate the Congress. edge Will forever govern ignorance; And a Mr. HARRINGTON. Mr. Speaker, the By examining the example of the people who mean to be their own Governors, Members of the House were all person- Presidency, we see that vigorous elec- 2556 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS January 29, 1973 tions bring out new ideas and innovative HOUSE CRIME COMMITrEE The F.B.I.'s uniform crime reports showed plans to meet the current challenges to that there were 5,995,200 serious crimes in our society. With a limit of 8 years 1n 1971, an increase of 410,000 over 1970. Mr. Nixon takes political comfort from the the office of the Presidency, we see an HON. RAY J. MADDEN OF INDTANA fact that at least the rate of increase h£s individual who is elected to that office slowed down somewhat this year. But non pouring his every effort into implement IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES partisan experts and ordinary citizens agree ing his plans within the time allotted by Monday, January 29, 1973 that whether the crime figures are trending the Constitution. slightly upward or downward, no real break We see that by limiting presidential Mr. MADDEN. Mr. Speaker, one of the through has been made on the crime front . tenure to 8 years, there is a constant top issues and problems confronting the Nobody feels any safer. source of competing ideas that are placed Congress and the American people has The murder of policemen is a relatively been curtailed by the signing of the peace new and increasingly serious problem. Mr. before the public. It is through this Nixon held a conference and could come up process that both the public and the agreement last Saturday. This problem will now be supplanted by crime and high with no better idea than that policemen's candidate for o.ffice are educated, first, widows should receive an indemnity cf on the people's desires anci, second, on taxes as the outstanding issues for the $50,000. The Senate approved his proposal on the candidate's solutions. 93d Congress to solve or curtail. Mo~day but no indemnity saves a life. The It is this constant renewal and com During the last two sessions of Con regiStration of guns and purging of millions petition that brings out the very best in gress the work of the House Crime Com of dangerous, unnecessary weapons in pri mittee under the chairmanship of CLAUDE vate ~ands would lower the level of violence our society. It is through this constant in this country and save many policemen's rotation that our country is offered re PEPPER has been the only effective med ium from the Federal Government angle lives. But Mr. Nixon is not about to take the fined, ever-adapting ideas, and solutions. unpopular side of the gun issue and lead a It is through this procedure that the very that has exposed, condemned, and fight for effective control. best that our society can offer is projected alerted millions of Americans, both elders ~he Omnibus Crime Control Act of 1968 into the public eye. and youth of the alarming danger of or which set up the Law-Enforcement Assist Mr. Speaker, I feel that this constant ganized crime and their criminal opera ance Administration to channel Federal tions on drug marketing and methods money to states and localities was passed at renewal and competition has well served the behest of President Johnson. But our Nation and could also be applied to used to make crime a multibillion-dollar business in the United States. L.E.A.A. has passed most of its existence the Congress. under the Nixon Administration-and a mis If we established a limitation on the Little effective help in combating the erable existence it has been. number of consecutive years a Member crime menace has come from the Federal The agency has had three dl:tferent di of Congress could serve, we would be and State law enforcement officers, rectors, and for one long period of ten following the example set by the Presi judges, and other branches created to months it had none. Political hacks have dency. curb the crime menace. been appointed to important middle- and The House Crime Committee in the upper-level policymaking jobs. The result We would have a constant demand for has been contradictory policies or no policy Lrmovative ideas and programs to meet last several years has been very effective in alerting millions, including schools at all. More than $2.3 billion have been dis the pressing needs of our country. By in tributed to the states, much of it wasted on suring a reasonable turnover in Qffice, we and colleges through their public hear exp.ensive hardware. For example, the Bir would have a competitive system by ings in dozens of our cities and urban mmgham, Ala., Police Department bought which the country would be assured of area throughout the Nation. The city of three tanks. Sherl:tfs in rural counties which the very best in our society. Chicago is but one example. The com are almost free of crime have bought closed circuit television systems, gas masks, new By insuring a regular turnover, we mittee held hearings for approximately 10 days in the Chicagoland area last year. cars. would see every Member extending all of . According to a House government opera. his or her energies into enacting the pro These televised hearings were held in public buildings, schools, and colleges in t~ons subcommittee chaired by Representa gram for which they were elected. tlve JohnS. Monagan, Democrat of Connecti that area and the hearings were open cut: "Too large a proportion of these funds In addition, an ever-changing mem to the public and given expansive cover bership in Congress would offer ample have been wasted on partisan political pur age, editorial and otherwise by news pos~s, on exorbitant consultants' fees, on opportunities for more of our citizenry to papers, television, and radio throughout equ1pment and vehicles which are misused serve in the Congress-bringing their ex the Midwest. Mayor Daley, the cham or not needed, on excessive payments to periences, their knowledge and their par bers of commerce, business organiza equipment suppliers resulting from wide ticular expertise to this body. And tions, the heads of schools and colleges spread absence of competitive bidding and Heaven knows, the country is replete "With unethical relationships between state and publicly thanked the House Crime Com local officials and suppliers representatives.'' individuals willing to offer their advice on mittee for their great educational knowl governmental policy. Under Jerrls Leonard, the latest L.E.A.A. edge and facts brought in to millions of head, some order is beginning to emerge out Mr. Speaker, Wednesday I offered an homes and schools for the enlighten of this financial morass, but it will remain amendment, based on the 22d amend ment of all segments of the population an incoherent and ineffectual program until ment to the Constitution, which would youth and old-as to the dangers and the money is concentrated in those cities assure a constant change in the member insidious manipulations of the powerful and suburbs where crime is worst. Moreover, ship of the legislative branch. My amend the money should be spent not on more crime syndicates operating in the urban gadgets-although a few are useful-but on ment, House Joint Resolution 236, would and rural areas of our Nation. raising the morale, the intellectual horizons limit the service of a Member in the It would be a shocking mistake if the and the professional quality of the police House and the Senate to 12 consecutive House of Representatives would discon themselves. It is on them and their col years in each body. tinue the great service that the House leagues-the criminal court judges, the pro The 12-year period, I believe, would Committee on Crime has rendered to aid bation officers and the prison guards-that offer each incoming Member, assuming the law-enforcing officers of our Nation law enforcement depends. and also in the educational values and What the various branches of the law en he or she is reelected at each election, forcement profession need in the White ample time to learn the rules of the Con knowledge and information extended to House is a leader. What they have is a cheer gress, to gain greater insight on a na the unalerted youth as to the killing dan leader. gers of the use of drugs and the methods tional scale, and to implement the pro and precautions against becoming en grams which caused him or her to seek trapped and enslaved with this devastat- NEWSMEN'S PRIVTI.,EGE office in the first place. ing human affiiction of drug addiction. If, after serving 12 years in the House, Mr. Speaker, I include in my remarks a Member was still interested in public the excerpts from an editorial on the HO . MICHAEL HARRINGTON office, he could run for office in the Sen "Politics of Crime" in the September 20, OF MASSACHUSETTS ate, or some other elective office. A Sen 1972, editorial of the New York Times. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ator, after serving 12 years, could run for THE POLITICS OF CRIME office in the House of Representatives (By William V. Shannon) Thursday, January 18, 1973 and, the people willing, serve another 12 Crime continues to increase. It has risen Mr. HARRINGTON. Mr. Speaker, on years in that body. 32 per cent during the Nixon Administration. January 18, 1973, Mr. Whalen introduced January 29, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2557 the Free Flow of Information Act to pro sive influence on the private lives of our Tuesda y that anti-Portugese nationalist lead tect the confidentiality of a newsman's citizens. Why, then, do we have the bias er Amilcar Cabral was assassinated by a top information and the sources of that in against independent news reporting. It guerrilla commander in his own movement. Cabral, who led the movement to oust formation. I am proud to be a cosponsor is not that the administration is against Portugal from its West African colony of of that important measure. I regard it a free press-it is against a press that Portuguese Guinea, was slain Saturday night as crucial to sustain the principle that consistently reports what it sees, and in front of his home in the Guinean capital the first amendment rights of all of us what it sees is not a benevolent and wise of Conakry. are protected only when the ability of administration as we are supposed to be Toure had said on Monday that Cabral our journalists to provide us with candid lieve. If all news stories cast a rosy glow, was killed by Portuguese soldiers. Tuesday, and accurate reports is shielded against then we would hear little about the re however, he identified the assassin as Ino interference from an overzealous gov sponsibility of the press. Yet it would be cente Camil, whom he described as the na val commander of the African party for the ernment. at that precise moment that the news Independence of Guinea-Bissau and the Cape The Free Flow of Information Act pro media would become truly irresponsible. Verde Islands (PAIGC). vides that a newsman, including one in It would be treating us as the adminis Toure said Camil had confessed that Por dependently engaged in research for pub tration sees us-as children, fit only to tuguese authorities had promised to grant lication, may not be compelled to disclose hear what the Government wants us to independence to Guinea-Bissau on condition confidential information--or the sources hear. I fear that possibility most of all that Cabral was killed and the PAIGe de of that information-in any official pro and that is why the present administra stroyed. But the Cape Verde Islands were to remain under Portuguese rule. ceeding except under certain narrowly tion's attitude toward the news media is Portugal has denied any involvement in defined circumstances. Disclosure may so insidiously dangerous. Cabral's assassination. be compelled in a defamation suit when That is not to say that the news media Camil was the head of the group which the defendant asserts a defense based could not improve its news reporting. It killed Cabral and kidnapped several top on the source of the information. Other could, and one hopeful result that may PAIGC leaders, according to Toure. wise, disclosure may be ordered by a come of the present situation is an in Camil was captured in one of three boats court only after a hearing in which the creased awareness by the press of the intercepted about 30 miles from Portuguese person seeking disclosure has demon real responsibility it has. But it is not Guinea. The boats, belonging to the PAIGC strated "by clear and convincing evi enough to rely on this, or on the good navy which Camil headed, carried the kid dence" that the information is clearly graces of the Attorney General and his naped guerrilla leaders who were to be turned over to Portuguese authorities, ac tied to a specific crime, that it is unavail guidelines, to protect newsmen from cording to Toure. able from any other source, and that Government interference with their The Guinean president said that those there is a "compelling and overriding work. So, I vigorously support the Free involved in the plot would be handed over national interest in the information." Flow of Information Act as a necessary to the P AIGC for trial. It is sad commentary on our society measure to protect the work of the news Meanwhile, Radio Conakry announced that that such legislation is necessary at all. media and the rights of us all. Vitor Monteiro, a Cape Verde islander trained The present circumstances, in which in North Korea and the Soviet Union, has news reporters have continually been been named as successor to Cabral. subjected to contempt proceedings if they try to protect a confidential source, or CABRAL SLAIN BY RED AIDE information obtained from that source, from demands for disclosure, must be HON. JOHN R. RARICK CHATTANOOGA MANUFACTURERS seen as part of a broader picture. The WEEK OBSERVED, JANUARY 30- present administration has clearly and OF LOUISIANA FEBRUARY 4, 1973 consistently shown its bias against inde IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES pendent news media, strong enough to Monday, January 29, 1973 present information of the Government's Mr. RARICK. Mr. Speaker, following HON. LAMAR BAKER failings as well as it's successes, and to the murder of Amilcar Cabral, the self OF TENNESSEE criticize when appropriate. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES That bias appears in public outbursts styled Che Guevera of the African ter rorists, the media, in not unusual, ex Monday, January 29, 1973 against news media which publish plosive manner accused everyone from stories that seem to detract from the ad the Portuguese Premier to the CIA. Mr. BAKER. Mr. Speaker, proclama ministration's picture of itself, in veiled Now, in a very minor news story, we tions will. be issued in the city of Chat threats to use the licensing process to are informed by President Toure of tanooga, Tenn., and in Hamilton Connty, compel the broadcasting of news re Guinea, one of Cabral's comrades, that Tenn., today and tomorrow to designate garded as more favorable, and in petty the great "hate-whitey" leader in Africa the week of January 30-February 4, actions against particular reporters, or "Chattanooga Manufacturers Week." reporters who represent particularly dis was murdered by one of his own blood liked publications. That bias is clearly thirsty revolutionaries. I join in taking recognition of this spe evident despite the administration's But, the African revolution is safe cial week for the group of manufacturers public protestations that it supports a another terrorist, Vi tor Monteiro, trained in the city of Chattanooga. Their num free press--if the press is "responsible." both in North Korea and in the Soviet ber is large and diversified and altogether Union has been "elected" in Moscow to In all of this, there is little recogni they place Chattanooga in lOth position tion, publicly at least, of the power such fill the vacancy. among major metropolitan areas in the statements have when uttered by high The Communists are determined, un entire United States in manufacturing officials of government. There is little der the rover of self-determination, to employment as a percent of nonagricul understanding of the responsibility of block the construction of the Cabora ture employment. high officials to refrain from interfer Bassa Dam on the Zambezi River-prog ress by non-Red governments are labeled These plants and offices employ over ing, even by intimation, with the free imperialism. And Americans must realize 53,000 people, making articles which are dom of our journalists to do their work that some U.S. church dollars go to sup used all over the world, and every day for the benefit of all of us-a respon port this so-called civil rights movement the manufacturers of Chattanooga pay sibility those same officials say they fail with the donors thinking they are help approximately, $1,383,000 into the econ to find in the journalists they attack. ing underprivileged people improve civil omy of that area. The administration's present posture ization. It is fitting, therefore, that we recog toward the news media is strangely in I submit a related newsclipping in the nize the contribution these firms make consistent with its professed attitude to RECORD, as follows: to the welfare of the city, State, and Na ward other aspects of our Government. [From the Washington Post, Jan. 25, 1973] tion, and set aside these days in which We hear a lot these days about lower CABRAL SLA:rN BY AIDE, GUINEAN PRESIDENT special note can be made of the impor- ing the profile of the Federal Govern SAYS tant role manufacturing has in the lives ment-diminishing its impact on local President Sokou Toure of Guinea an of all of us. decisionmaking and reduW.ng its perva- nounced in a radio broadcast in Conarky The some 190 firms and businesses 2558 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS January 29, 1973 have joined together in the Chattanooga This exhibit had a marked effect in stimu Lutex Chemical Corporation, Machine Tool lating local pride in "home-made" products Div. of Noland Co. Manufacturers Association, which along and it became one of the city's important Mar-Mode Hosiery Mills, Inc., Mayfield with the Chattanooga Freight Bureau, institutions. As a means of giving publicity Dairy Farms, Inc., Mechanical Industries, Inc., has provided the organizational ve and prestige to Chattanooga goods abroad, Miller Bros. Company, Mississippi Valley hicle to advance their common goal of it has also been of much value. Structural Steel Co., Mitchell Industrial Tire placing Chattanooga among the leaJing At the time the Exhibit was in operation, Co., Inc., Moccasin Bushing Company, Mod industrial centers of the South. the Association kept a register in the lobby ern Maid, Inc., Morningside Chemical Com I salute the Chattanooga Manufac and it has been very interesting to note some pany, Inc., Mueller Company. turers Association and its members dur of the complimentary comments. ViSitors McKee Baking Company, Nabors Manu have registered from practically every state facturing Corp., Nation Hosiery Mills, Inc., ing this special week and bring to the in the union and from foreign countries. North American Royalties, Inc., Norton Com attention of my colleagues the history pany, Olin Conductors, Div. of Olin Mathie and membership of this ot·ganization son Chemical Corp., Olan Mills Incorporated which has been so successful in supplying MEMBERS, CHATTANOOGA MANUFACTURERS As~ of Tennessee. goods and services to a nation on the SOCIATION AND/ OR CHATTANOOGA FREIGHT Pepsi Cola-Seven Up Bottling Co., Percy move. BUREAU, INC. Todd Manufacturing Company, Pioneer Bank, The history of Chattanooga Manufac- A&E Machinery Company, Allied Paper Pittsburg Knitting Mills, Inc .. Polaris Indus Products, Inc., Alloway Stamping & Machine tries, Inc., Polysar Latex, Inc., Precision Pack turers Association follows: Co., Inc., Alloy Fabricators, Inc., American aging, Inc., Provident Life & Accident Ins. HISTORY OF THE CHATTANOOGA MANUFACTURERS Cyanamid Company, American Lava Cor Co., Quaker Oats Company, Quinco Kitchens. ASSOCIATION poration, American Manufacturing Company, Randolph Manufacturing Co., Inc., Rapro, The Chattanooga Manufacturers Associa American National Bank, Atlas Paper Box Inc., The Red Food Stores, Inc., Rock City tion was organized in 1902 by a small group Company, Barry of Chattanooga, Inc., Paper Box Corp., Roper Corporation, Chatta. of Chattanooga manufacturers, also pioneers Brock & Blevins Company, Inc., Brock Div., Ross-Meehan Foundries, Rossville Yarn in industrial endeavor. This association was Candy Company, Brown Fence Company, Processing Co. & Asso., Roxbury Southern brought into being by these industrial pio CMI Systems, Cavalier Corporation. Central Mills, Inc., Royal Crown Bottling Company, neers with the hope that through coopera Soya Company, Inc., Chattanooga Armature Royal-Desoto. tive effort they might not only further their Works, Chattanooga Bag Company, Chat Division of Desoto, Inc., Robert Scholze own enterprises, but at the same time, might tanooga Bakery, Inc., Chattanooga Boiler & Tannery, Seaboard Allied Milling Corp., Seal more rapidly and effectually establish Chat Tank Co. test Foods, Div. of Kraftco Corp., Serodino, tanooga as one of the leading industrial cen Chattanooga Coca Cola Bottling Co., Inc., Sherman & Reilly, Inc., Signal Knitting ters of the South. Chattanooga Coke and Chemicals Co., Chat Mills, Signal Mountain Division, General At that time, there were no other similar tanooga Container Corp., Chattanooga Gas Portland Cement Company, SIMCO Leather associations, at least in the South, and the Company, Chattanooga Glass Company-Dor Company, Inc. fact that it has achieved signal success and sey, Chattanooga Mattress Company, Chat The Singer Company-Cobble Div., Siskin bas been of inestimable benefit to its mem tanooga Pharmacal Co., Inc., Chattanooga Steel & Supply Co., Inc., Skyland Interna bers, as well as having rendered a distinct Sewing and Sales Co., Inc., Chattanooga tional Corp., Southeastern Farm Supply, public service to the community, is a tribute, Warehouse & Cold Storage Company. Inc., Southern Champion Tray Company, not alone to the wisdom of its founders, but Chattem Drug & Chemical Company, Southern Products Company, Southern as well to the fine spirit of loyalty which has Chris-Craft Corporation, Cities Service Com Specialty Paper Co., Inc., Southern Wood characterized its memb~rs throughout its pany, City Water Company, Cobble-Muse Piedmont Company, Sovex Incorporated, seventy years of existence. Hosiery Mills, Inc., The Coca Cola Company Stainless Metal Products, Inc. In 1902, the membership numbered 62, Foods Division, Collegedale Distributors, Inc., Standard-Coosa-Thatcher Co., Standard and of this number 12 are still in existence Combustion Engineering, Inc., Commercial Iron & Wire Works, Inc., Stanley-Judd Div. and loyal members. Janitors, Inc. of the Stanley Wks., Stardust Cruiser Mfg. The first year or two of the Association's Concrete Forms Corporation, Consolidated Co., D. M. Steward Mfg. Co., Tag Container U!e was spent in "finding itself" and in shap Latex Co., Container Corporation of America, Company, W. C. Teas Company, Tennessee ing and directing its efforts to meet the needs Corley Manufacturing Company, Crane Com Finishing & Dyeing Co., Tennessee Metallur of its members and to lay the foundation for pany, Chattanooga Div., Crystal Springs Tex gical Corporation, Tennessee Paper Mills, Inc., effective cooperative work in later years. By tiles, Inc., Cumberland Corporation, Cumber Tuftco Corporation, Tennessee Steel Tank degrees, various departments were estab land Machine Co., Inc., Custom Pattern Company, Turnbull Cone Baking Company, lished and they have functioned continuously Works, Cutter Laboratories. United States Stove Company, U.S. Pipe & and successfully to the present day. Dayton Products Incorporated, Dixie In Foundry Co., Soil Pipe Div., Vance Iron & In 1904, a very important department was dustries, Inc., Dixie-Portland Flour Mills, Steel Company, Velsicol Chemical Corp. in~ugurated in the establishment of the Inc., Dixie Sand & Gravel Company, Dixie Tensyn Div., Vol-State Chemical Corp., Vul Traffic Department (now Chattanooga Freight can Iron Works, Inc., Vulcan Materials Co., Yarns, Inc., The Double Cola Company-Div. Chatta. Div. Bureau, Inc.) This Department was and con of Fairmont Foods Company, Du.tr Brothers, ~inues to be invaluable to its members. Dur Inc., E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc. MEMBERS CHATTANOOGA FREIGHT BUREAU, ONLY ing the year ending September 1971, 16% E&B Carpet Mills, Inc., The Eclipse Look Benham-Deisher Company, Cleveland Mill times as many transportation rates and/or out Company, Electric Power Board of Chat ing Company, East Tennessee Shippers Asso routes were quoted as were quoted during tanooga, Electro-Lite Battery Mfg. Co., Eu ciation, Care of Proffitts, Inc., Engineered the first year of existence. Fifty percent more reka Foundry Company., Fabricators, Inc., Products, lnc., J&J Industries, Inc., Lucey elaims were filed for the period ending Sep Farmers Chemical Association, Inc., Flexible Boiler Com:l)any, Master Carpet Corporation. tember 1971, amounting to five times the Professional Gold Company, Radio and Ap amount, or approxim.ately 375,000. Foam Products Division, Grand Sheet Metal Products Co., Foundry Pattern Service, Inc., pliance Dist., Inc., Siler Bean Company, Inc., Later a permanent exhibit of manufac Southern Cellulose Products, Inc., Southern tured products was inaugurated. The estab GAF Corporation. General Oils Inc., General Shale Products Missionary College, Tennessee Alloys Corpora lishment of this department was the out tion, Porter Warner Industries, Inc. growth of a desire to make a collective Corp.-Key James Division, Gilman Paint & display of "Chattanooga Made Products", not Varnish Co., W. R. Grace & Company-Davi so much for the purpose of securing direct son Chemical Division, Halls Lifetime Toys, returns in the way of sales from samples Hamilton Concrete Products Co., Inc., Ham on display, as to demonstrate to our own peo ilton National Bank, Hammond Industries, SPECIAL ORDER ON ANNIVERSARY ple, as well as to the outside world, what Inc., Happy Valley Farms, Inc., R. K. Haskew OF UKRAINE'S INDEPENDENCE Chattanooga was accomplishing in an indus & Company, Inc. trial way. Heritage Quilts, Inc., Hite Manufacturing The enterprise was a success from the Co., Inc., Ernest Holmes Company, Hulsey HON. GILBERT GUDE beginning. The great diversity and the high Concrete Products, Inc., ICI America Inc., OF KARYLAND quaUty of the articles displayed was a revela Industrial Plating Co., Inc., Industrial Sup IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tion, not only to visitors from abroad, but to ply Co., Inc., Interstate Textiles Industries, our own people as well. This display was Inc., w. L. Jackson Manufacturing Co., Inc. Tuesday, January 23, 1973 confined strictly to products manufactured Lloyd E. Jones Company. . in Chattanooga. or Chattanooga area. New Jorges Carpet Mills, Inc., Kay's Ice Cream, Mr. GUDE. Mr. Speaker, I join with exhibits were added from time to time, and Inc., Kelley Manufacturing Company, Ken my colleagues today in marking the oc- it became necessary for the Association to yon Southern, Inc., The Kingston Corpora casion of the 55th anniversary of erect a dupltcate of the original building tion, Koehring Southern, Div., Koebring Ukraine's independence. As a free Na · adjoining Jt. Company, Lodge Manufacturing Company, tion, we take this opportunity to extend I January 30, 1973 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -HOUSE 2559 our support of the Ukrainian people, vic THREE BROTHERS RECEIVE .THEIR is quite an accompli~hment for any tims of Russian imperialism since 1920, EAGLE SCOUT BADGES young man to reach the rank of Eagle when forcibly incorporated into the Scout, but for three brothers to achieve U.S.S.R. We take this occasion as well. this goal at the same time is clearly an to commemorate the 40th anniversary HON. DON EDWARDS indication of character. of the famine of 1933 during which 15 The rank of Eagle Scout is not easily million Ukrainians lost their lives. OF CALIFORNIA reached. It requiTes a great deal of time, With deep dismay, we take note here IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES effort, and perseverance. These three of the current Soviet policy of mass ar Monday, January 29, 1973 Scouts were awarded their Eagle Badges rests and the repression of cultural, reli Mr. EDWARDS of California. Mr. in a Court of Honor held on Friday, gious, and intelleCtual expression in - December 8, 1972, in Fremont, Calif. Speaker, I would like to take this occa Not only do these boys deserve special Ukraine. But at the same time, we may sion to honor three extraordinary young take heart in the courage and deter recognition, but it is truly a tribute to mination of the Ukrainian people not to men, R. Case Rtmolfson, Robert Runolf their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Run let up in spirit in their quest for freedom. son, and Randall Runolfson, 4692 Boone olfson, and their scoutmaster, Mr. Jerry We honor Ukrainian independence today, Drive, Fremont, Calif. Nelson, who have given them support, and extend our friendship and support to In December of 1972, these three young guidance, and encouragement in their these freedom-loving people. men achieved the rank of Eagle Scout. It efforts to gain this most coveted award. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES-Tuesday, January 30, 1973 The House met at 12 o'clock noon. The Clerk read the title of the Senate The strong upsurge in interest in flood Rev. 0. H. Bertram, Good Shepherd joint resolution. insurance has been phenomenal in recent Lutheran Church, Toledo, Ohio, offered The SPEAKER. Is there objection to months. Ordinarily, sales of flood insur the following prayer: the request of the gentleman from Texas? ance policies are low in the winter Mr. GROSS. Mr. Speaker, reserving months; there is no immediate threat of Gracious Lord, Heavenly Father, there the right to object, would the gentle flooding or of hurricanes. This year, the are times in our lives when we are not man from Texas give us a little more de usual trend has been reversed; flood in able to match the challenge and the tail as to what is proposed. to be done? surance policies are increasing at the problems that confront us with our own Mr. PATMAN. Mr. Speaker, I would rate of $200 million a month and show strength and mentality. In moments such be delighted to if the gentleman will every indication of continuing at that as these we come to You, seeking guid yield? rate or a greater one. ance and assurance of Your counsel. We Mr. GROSS. I yield to the gentleman The increase from $2.5 billion to $4 ask that You might grant to the Mem from Texas for that purpose. billion which would be provided in the bers of Congress direction for the great