17402 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 1, 1971 a program of recreational development, re H.R. 8815. A bill to amend the Child Nutri By Mr. SA'ITERFIELD: forestation and conservation management, tion Act of 1966 to make the school break H.J. Res. 671. Joint resolution proposing and for other purpo,ses; to the Committee on fast program permanent, and for other pur an amendment to the Constitution of the Education and Labor. poses; to the Committee on Education and United States relative to equal rights for men By Mr. PETTIS: Labor. and women; to the Committee on the Judici H.R. 8807. A bill to amend the Railroad By Mr. SAYLOR (for himself, Mr. ary. Unemployment Insurance Act to provide that HOSMER, Mr. SKUBITZ, Mr. McCLURE, By Mr. SEIBERLING (for himself, Mr. the receipt of military retirement pay shall Mr. DON H. CLAUSEN, Mr. LLOYD, Mr. HALPERN, Mr. BEGICH, Mr. GUDE, Mr. not cause benefits under that act to be DELLENBACK, Mr. SEBELIUS, Mr. MC FORSYTHE, Mr. WILLIAM D. FORD, diminished; to the Committee on Interstate KEVITT, and Mr. C6RnovA): Mrs. GRASSO, Mr. MIKVA, and Mr. and Foreign Commerce. H .R . 8816. A bill to provide for the estab ANDERSON of Illinois) : By Mr. QUll.aLEN: lishment of the Gateway National Recreation H.J. Res. 672. Joint resolution &.uthorizing H.R. 8808. A bill to equalize civil service Area in the States of New York and New the President to call an international con retirement annuities and for other pur Jersey, and for other purposes; to the Com ference to study the problems with respect poses; to the Committee on Post Office and mittee on Interior and Insular Affairs. to the development and use of supersonic Civil Service. By Mr. SIKES: aircraft; to the Committee on Interstate and H.R. 8809. A bill to amend section 8338, H.R. 8817. A bill to further cooperative Foreign Commerce. title 5, United States Code, to correct in forestry programs administered by the Sec By Mr. WHITEHURST: equities applicable to those employees or retary of Agriculture and for other purpo_ses; H.J. Res. 673. Joint resolution to proclaim members separated from service with title to to the Committee on Agriculture. the last Friday in April as Arbor Day; to the deferred annuities, and for other purposes; By Mr. THOMPSON of Georgia: Committee on the Judiciary. to the Committee on Post Office and Civil H.R. 8818. A bill to amend the National Service. Labor Relations Act to make certain second By Mr. REID of New York: ary boycotts, regardless of motive, an unfair MEMORIALS H.R. 8810. A bill to amend title 10 of the labor practice, and for other purposes; to the United States Code to prohibit the discharge Committee on Education and Labor. Under clause 4 of rule XXII, memorials or release from active duty '.from the Armed H.R. 8819. A bill to amend section 44:91 were presented and referred as follows: Forces of persons who are addicted to nar of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to 200. By the SPEAKER: Memorial of the cotics or dangerous drugs; to the Committee provide that the weight portion of the excise Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachu on Armed Services. tax on the use of civil aircraft shall apply setts, relative to the persecution of Soviet H.R. 8811. A bill to expand eligibility for to piston-engined aircraft only if they have Jews; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. the treatment of addiction to narcotics by a maximum certificated takeoff weight of 201. Also, memorial of the Legislature of the Veterans' Administration; to the Com more than 4,000 pounds; to the Committee the State of Oklahoma, relative to the devel mittee on Veterans' Affairs. on Ways and Means. opment of Oklahoma's water resources; to H.R. 8812. A bill to amend title II of the By Mr. THOMPSON of New Jersey: the Committee on Interior and Insular Social Security Act to provide for purposes H .R. 8820. A bill for the relief of Soviet Affairs. of the provisions thereof relating to deduc Jews; to the Committee on the Judiciary. 202. Also, memorial of the Legislature of tions from benefits on account of excesG By Mr. WATTS: the State of Alabama, relative to the post earnings, there be disregarded, in certain H.R. 8821. A bill relating to the treatment humous restoration of Robert E. Lee's citi cases, income derived from the sale of cer of certain stock options for purposes of the zenship; to the Committee on the Judiciary. tain copyrights, literary, musical, or artistic 50-percent maximum tax on earned income; compositions, letters or memorandums, or to the Committee on Ways and Means. similar property; to the Committee on Ways By Mr. ANDREWS of Alabama: PRIVATE BILLS and Means. H.R. 8825. A bill making appropriations for the legislative branch for the fiscal year Under clause 1 of rule XXII, private H.R. 8813. A bill to amend title II of the ending June 30, 1972, and for other purposes. bills and resolutions were introduced and Social Security Act so as to remove the limi By Mr. BINGHAM: tation upon the amount of outside income referred severally as follows: H.J. Res. 669. Joint resolution to limit the By Mr. ADDABBO: which an individual may earn while re authority of the President of the United H.R. 8822. A bill for the relief of Ester Dina ceiving benefits thereunder; to the Com States to intervene abroad or to make war mittee on Ways and Means. Bursztyn; to the Committee on the Judiciary. in the absence of a congressional declaration By Mr. BROTZMAN: By Mr. RODINO (for himself, Mr. of war; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. H.R. 8823. A bill for the relief of Stanis RYAN, Mr. EILBERG, Mr. FLOWERS and By Mr. PEPPER: lav M. Voukovitch; to the Committee on the Mr. SEIBERLING) : H.J. Res. 670. Joint resolution authorizing Judiciary. H.R. 8814. A bill to make additional immi the President of the United States to issue a By Mr. MATSUNAGA: grant visas availaible for immigrants from proclamation designating the week begin H.R. 8824. A bill for the relief of Jesus certain foreign countries, and for other pur ning October 10, 1971, as "National Records Tagle Kangleon and his wife, Solita Alconcel poses; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Management Week"; to the Committee on Kangleon; to the Committee on the Judi By Mr.RYAN: the Judiciary. ciary.
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REASON ON HIS SIDE There being no objection, the editorial cant source of the ore in the entire world is was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, the Soviet Union. Since the U.S. invoked as follows: sanctions against Rhodesia, the Soviets have HON. HARRY F. BYRD, JR. taken advantage of their monopoly position OF VIRGINIA [From the Richmond News Leader, to raise their price of chrome to more than April 5, 1971] IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES twice their competitive, pre-sanction price. REASON ON Hrs SIDE Consequently, money that used to go to Tuesday, June 1, 1971 Virginia's senior Senator, Harry F. Byrd, companies in Rhodesia for $35 a ton, now is Mr. BYRD of Virginia. Mr. President, Jr., has a talent for zeroing in on a double being channeled to the Soviets at $75 a ton. the April 5 edition of the Richmond News standard with the precision of an expert The situation is ridiculous, and Senator Leader included an excellent editorial on bombardier. He believes that this nation's Byrd knows it. So a week ago he introduced policy on trade with Rhodesia is one of the a bihl ·to allow the importation of chrome ore the subject of the prohibition against im most yawning double standards languishing from Rhodesia (a similar biU sponsored by portation of chrome ore from Rhodesia. around Washington today, and in recent 25 Congressmen has been introduced in the Chrome ore is a material vital to na weeks he has been firing away at it. He has House). Under the Senator's proposal, the tional defense, and the United States reason on his side. President could not prohibit imports of a presently receives most of its supply from Sena.tor Byrd hopes that the Nixon Ad strategic material from a Free-World coun the Soviet Union. I have introduced ministration will drop all of the anti try, if the same material is allowed into the legislation which would end the present Rho
focus" more of its attention on South Amer more than 20 states. Lengthy delays in their ScIENTIST WARNS OF LIVING NEAR NUCLEAR ica and that a North-South Center could construction could trigger a nationwide REACTOR make Puerto Rico the link between both power shortage. (By Joyce Egglnton) continents and foster a "better understand The delays were caused by six straight ing between the two cultures." failures of laboratory-sized atomic reactors NEW YORK.-Anyone born within a 50 mile to cool themselves down in emergencies radius of a nuclear reactor, particularly a called "loss of coolant" failures. Each time, reactor of the bolling water type, has a less the emergency procedure for cooling down than-normal chance of surviving the first year of life, an expert in radiation physics ADDED REASONS FOR NEW the hot nuclear cores backfired in tests, causing the simulated reactors to close told a public hearing in New York State. ENGLAND HYDRO POWER themselves down. This opinion, backed by statistical evi "These tests were not fair models of real dence, was advanced by Ernest J. Sternglass, reactors," one Atomic Energy Commission professor of radiology at Pittsburgh Uni HON. WILLIAM D. HATHAWAY official said. "Nevertheless, we have to be versity, in opposition to a proposal to build a huge reactor on Long Island Sound, 50 OF MAINE concerned by the failures and the outside possibility that we might have a funda miles from New York City. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES mental problem in design." During the past six months Sternglass, Tuesday, June 1, 1971 The chances of basic design problems are helped by a small team of research assistants, slim, AEC officials said. But if the emergency has been investigating the effects of escap Mr. HATHAWAY. Mr. Speaker, in the coolant designs don't work it would affect the ing radioactive gases and liquids from nu past several days, Jhere have been a nuclear plants being built and the 16 plants clear reactors. In 11 out of the 12 reactors number of incisive ,articles in the Na already in operation. investigated he claims to have found "a per tion's press which combine to point up If the designs prove defective, plants op fect correlation" between increases in infant the need for development by the Fed erating today might have to be closed while mortality and increase in the escape of radio the designs were being corrected. active substances. (The 12th, in r, sparsely eral Government of a source of hydro populated area of Massachusetts, ls regarded electric power in New England, such as "We have told five utilities they can ex pect licensing delays on five nuclear power as an unusually "clean" reactor.) was authorized by Congress in 1965 in plants," an official of the TEC's regulatory The relationship between the two sets of the form of the proposed Dickey-Lincoln staff said yesterday. statistics has never been looked at before, School power project in northern Maine. "These five were chosen because they were says Sternglass. The Atomlc Energy Commis That project has since been funded in all at a juncture where some action ha.d to sion and similar authorities in other west the amount of $2.2 million, with about be taken. They had to be told they could ern countries have always set their permis $1.5 million still required before pre not meet their deadlines." sible llmlts for escaping gases according to construction planning can be completed The five utilities are Consolidated Edison the known tolerance of adults. Co. and Long Island Light Co., in New But, he asserts, radiation levels hundreds and actual building of the facility gotten York, Florida Power & Light Co., and De of times below these limits can be deadly to underway. Last week, I requested that troit Edison Co. and Consumers Power Co. the human embryo. He urges that the build the House Appropriations Subcommittee in Michigan. The Con Ed, Florida P&L and ing of all new reactors cease immediately and of Public Works include $800,000 for Consumers Power plants are ready to begin that existing ones be either put out of action continued preconstruction planning producing electricity; the other two are or fitted with devices to trap all the gaseous funds for the project in the fiscal 1972 about to begin construction. emissions. public works appropriations bill. The length of the operation and construc "The technology for doing this has existed for 15 years, but it has not been applied to In the past, the argument for the in tion delays ls anybody's guess. One AEC of ficial ,said the five ut111ties can expect delays reactors because it is very costly and was troduction of hydroelectric power to New of at least one month and probably three thought unnecessary," Sternglass maintains. England has generally centered on the months. Sternglass caused considerable controversy power-reliability, nonpolluting, and re The tests that turned up the loss-of-cool almost two years ago when he announced duced-cost aspects of such a source. But ant failures were what engineers call "blow his theory that radioactive fallout from as the following articles suggest, the ar down" tests. They were conducted on semi atomic tests had caused genetic damage to gument is gaining the force of new con scale reactor mockups at the National Reac humans. He claimed then that there was a siderations. The first of these, suggested tor Testing Station in Idaho Falls, Idaho. direct relationship between formerly inex by Tom O'Toole in the Washington Post, In the tests, engineers pretended that a plicable rises in the incidence of infant mor water-cooled reactor under pressure had sud tality and infant leukemia in certain areas Joyce Eggington in the Los Angeles denly lost its cooling water at the same time and the path of the fall-out from ma.jcr Times, and the May 28 edition of the Ru that it suffered a "blowdown," which ls a nuclear tests, before the 1963 test ban. ral Electric Newsletter, is that this coun rupture in the piping that carries the cool There peaks in infant mortality sometimes try cannot afford to place too much re ant through the reactor. persisted until five years after the fall-out, liance on nuclear power as the solution to The tests showed that when emergency Sternglass said, suggesting genetic damage to our critical need for sources of electric water was flooded in through the piping to parents before their children were even con energy. The second, detailed in an article cool down the core, it did not get to the core ceived. because pressurized steam built up and Sternglass has been criticized for these con by Robert L. Miller in the Bangor, Maine, wouldn't let it in. clusions by nuclear scientists, and particu Daily News, points to the prospect of "The tests seemed to indicate," one source larly by the Atomic Energy Commission. massive hydroelectric-power develop said, "that there is a possibllity the steam But so far, no one has been able to dis ment in Canada, and the consequent pressure within the vessel could prevent the prove them and there has been ::i. small but irony of paying our northern neighbor core cooling water from entering the vessel. growing body of support for him among considerably more for a product we could It appeared as if the core cooling water was American scientists. He ls continuing his provide ourselves at little cost. being forced out of a break in the recircula research on radiation hazards, helped by a The articles referred to follow: tion loop." team of enthusiastic students at Pittsburgh Engineers noted that the test results don't University. A-PLANTS FACE DELAYS AFTER FAILURE prove a design defect, since the tests were "It had not occurred to me that there were IN TESTS carried out on a model vastly different from any serious hazards from nuclear reactors (By Thomas O'Toole) a full-scale reactor. Only one prime coolant until last year, when I read the AEC statis At least five and as many as 56 atomic loop ls used in the model, whereas four arc tica of how much radioactive gas is coming power plants being built in the United Sta.tes used on real reactors. out of the stacks and into the rivers," Stern fa.ce construction and operation delays as the Nonetheless, the test results were viewed as glass said in an interview. "Before that, for result of tests showing possibly defective de serious in the most conservative AEC cir the whole of my professional life, I was con signs in their nuclear-fueled reactors. cles. vinced that since it is possible to make the The five plants alone represent an invest "If you get a loss of coolant and then a air in a nuclear submarine safe for men to nient of more than $1 billion and an electric loss of emergency coolant in a real accident," breathe for three months, nuclear reactors power output of more than four million kilo one oftlclal said, "your reactor core would were made equally safe for the surrounding watts, enough to light up a city the size of overheat and probably melt -.inder tempera population. But then I started to check the Chicago. Long delays in these plants could tures in excess of 5,000 degrees. facts." trigger power crises in Florida, New York and "The core would probably crumble," he He and his assistants began by visiting Michigan, where they are being built. went on, "and although you've got 10 or 12 Dresden, Ill. 45 mile3 south-west of Chicago. Far more serious ls the impact long delays feet of reinforced concrete under the core it The Dresden reactor, located in an area of might have on 51 more plants being built or Inight melt through all that. There would dense p::>pulation, began leaking in 1961 and about to be built; these a.ccount for more be steam explosions and there is a possibility did so at an increasing rate until 1966, Stern than 42 million kilowatts of planned power of the reactor bursting. Nobody knows for glass determined from official statistics. He and an investment of over $10 billion in sure what would happen." also found a corresponding rise in the incl-
r ·- June 1, 1971 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 17425 dence of infant mortality, from 24 to 25.5 per Bourassa ls making long-range plans to come what Washington now likes to call a "con thousand live births, for the same period, to the rescue. tinental approach" to energy policy. The tapering off beyond the 5-mile radius. Most Hydro-Quebec, a province-owned utility, facts are, simply, that the United States ls of the babies died in the first few days of already has a.greed to provide extra power running short of energy; Canada has colossal life from respiratory diseases and general to New York's mighty and sometimes ma reserves and obviously must somehow sup immaturity. ligned Consolidated Edison during the peak ply the U.S. demand. The questions are how "The most significant piece of evidence is summer months of electricity consumption. and at what price the supplies wm be made that in Grundy County, where the plant is But that's for this year. In the yea.rs ahead, available. So far the federal government in situated, the births of premature babies rose according to every known study, the U.S. Ottawa has not laid down a policy. With by 140 per cent between 1964 and 1966," shortage of energy-particularly hydroelec· Hydro-Quebec going ahead with the James Sternglass said. By 1968 the Dresden area's trlc power-is going to become more acute. Bay plan, the thinkers in Ottawa may be excess of infant mortality over a comparable It New York needs emergency help in 1971, spurred to an earlier decision. area in the Middle West--Ohio, which had what in the world will it do in 1981? Finally, although Bourassa has shown him much the same infant mortality rate before Premier Bourassa says he has the answer, self to be a fierce Quebec "nationalist" in the reactor started-was such that 4,000 and he has announced that his government cultural and constitutional affairs, he has more babies had died 1n the neighborhood of will go ahead with an almost-fantastic plan been anything but nationalistic when it the reactor. to harness the Wild rivers running through comes to money. At a time when many Ca Sterngla.ss believes that most, perhapa all, Northern Quebec into James Bay in the sub nadian politicians are issuing solemn warn of the 4,000 deaths are directly attributable Arctic. ings about the perils of more foreign in to nuclear leakages, although these fell well Bourassa's James Bay project ls so huge vestment, Bourassa has been taking the op within the AEC's acceptable limits. that the premier doesn't even know what it posite course. He stresses that Quebec wants These limits, based upon the reliable will cost, although he estimated a total out all the development money it can get. amounts of X-rays that can be used upon lay of from $5 billion to $6 blliion. Canada's economic nationalists can be ex adults "misrepresent the biological hazards," Involved in the plan, whose final details pected to criticize the James Bay plan. Be Sterngl·ass maintains. They also fall to take have not been revealed, is the damming of sides their concern about the vast sums of into account the way in which radioactive no fewer than 10 rivers and the diversion of foreign capital required, the nationalists 'naterial may be recycled 1n local food sup five others. The 10-year development Will re also worry about what they call the sellout plies and water. quire construction of hundreds of millions of of Canada's resources, including hydro power. He believes that the hazards increase with dollars worth of roads and other !ac111ties The James Bay project is expected to gen proximity to the reactor. "At five miles dis in what is now virtual wilderness. erate four times as much power as greater tance it is ten times worse than it is 50 The James Bay plan dwarfs the giant Lao Montreal consumes today. Those 15 northern miles away. People living really close to a rador hydro project at Churchill Falls, where rivers are flowing right now, and have been plant are suffering without knowing lt." $800 million has been earmarked to generate since the last Ice Age. At the moment, the The Sternglass team found that Dresden electricity ultimately intended for New Eng 15 combined wouldn't light a 10-watt bulb was not an isolated case. There was a com land. and they won't until somebody harnesses parable increase in infant mortality near 10 According to insiders in Montreal, funda them. It is the same thing With the rest other U.S. reactors visited. of the resources which ma.ke the nationalists mental to the James Bay project is a deal so proud. They have no value until they're Sternglass feels that the pressurized water volume and price-per-kilowatt are yet to be reactors are safer than the bolling water va finalized-between Hydro Quebec and Con developed. riety, although the hazards are stm con Ed, under which the New York utmty Will siderable. The 19 nuclear power plants which buy huge quantities of power over something existed in the United States at the end of like two decades. DR. LEWIS NOBLES 1970 are fairly equally divided between the It is also understood that Con Ed has two. Eleven more are scheduled to be com agreed to help Quebec raise ca.pita.I in the pleted this year, mostly to generate elec New York money market. On his recent trip HON. CHARLES H. GRIFFIN tricity. to Europe, Bourassa sounded out potential OF MISSISSIPPI investors in the James Bay scheme and re IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES N-PLANT PROBLEMS ADD To POWER CRISIS portedly closed deals with West German Tuesday, June 1, 1971 Design problems in several large nuclear banks and Compagnie Genera.le d'Electricite, power plants could trigger power crises in France's largest manufacturer of electrical Mr. GRIFFIN. Mr. Speaker, on April Florida, New York and Michigan. equipment. 16, 1971, Mississippi College president, Dr. The Momic Energy Commission said If Bourassa, Hydro-Quebec and the north-. Lewis Nobles, gave an address at a din Wednesday it is reviewing a technical prob ern rivers can manage to keep Mr. and Mrs. ner of Phi Del ta Kappa. lem which could cause delay in making five America's air conditioner operating during Dr. Nobles expressed with great clarity atomic power plants operational in those the summer heat waves, they will earn con siderable gratitude in the United States. and eloquence the need for discipline in states. The AEC said there is an outside all walks of life as a worthy and neces chance that if the problem proves to be of But Bourassa. is a Quebec politician, and it ls sufficient importance, some of the 21 plants home approval that he needs. sary attribute for successful and mean now operating might have to close down Behind the James Bay deal, and even be· ingful living in an orderly society. temporarily. hind the timing of its announcement are I commend Dr. Nobles' thoughts to Far more serious is the impact long delays three separ.ate but inter-related stories o! the attention of my colleagues: might have on 51 more plants being built or potent ially large pol1t1ca.l importance in ADDRESS BY DR. LEWIS NOBLES about to be built. These account for m!>re Canada. than 42-milllon kilowatts of planned power First, Bourassa revealed his intentions at I have had the privilege of spending most and delays would ca.use further shortages a celebration marking the first anniversary of my adult life in the field of higher educa of power all across the nation. of his election as head of the Quebec gov tion working with people of various national ernment--an election in which he beat back ities, backgrounds, and interests. Often at The delays in the five plants now under these times I have found myself to be looking going licensing procedures were caused by six the challenge of the separatist Parti Que straight !allures of laboratory sized atomic becois, largely with the help of a slogan intently With introspection relative to this reactors to cool themselves down in emer promising 100,000 new jobs in 1971. area in which I have spent most of my adult gencies called "loss of coolant" failures. Today Bourassa says that the 100,000-jobs life; this view has been on some occasions slogan was symbolic of a goal rather than critical, but always affectionate. An AEC official said that the five ut111ties Before World War II America was to the can expect licensing delays on the power a fiat promise. Sadly, the jobs picture in Quebec is bleaker now than it was a year rest of the world still the land of hope, of plants of at least a month and proba.bly three opportunity, and of promise. The American months. ago, thanks largely to federal anti-inflation policies and to continuing investor uneasi was still a curiosity abroad and he was seen The five plants are the Palisades plant op as something vigorous and new, uncluttered. erated by Consumers Power Co. of Michlgan, ness following last fall's terrorist crisis. Bourassa is concerned over his failure in with the traditions of the old, prosperous, Enrico Fermi plant by Detroit Edison of bright, fresh and free. Michigan; Consolidated Edison of New York's the employment field, and in discussing the Indian Point; the Shoreham operated by the James Bay power project, his aides talk In World War II the American was seen Long Island Lighting Co., Long !&land, N.Y.; grandly of 146,000 new jobs including 20,- abroad in great numbers and in the un and the Turkey Point plant of Florida Power 000 construction openings. One thing is glamorous theatre of war, he was found in a n d Light. certain, and Bourassa knows it; somehow, deed to be much as a man from many an he has to improve dramatically the employ other land, wit h the same frailties and the ment picture before the next election. Other same vanities, but he fought with riches as QUEBEC WOULD DAM 10 RIVERS J'OR POWER wise, the separatists could be formidable at well as blood in a rather clear-cut defense o! {By Robert L. Miller) the polls. human liberty. ToRoNTO.-Whlle urban Americans are Second, the Hydro-Quebec scheme pre Thereafter, America. was, once a.gain, the dusting off their air conditioners and steeling sumably will proceed before any conclusions country of hope, the people of generosity and themselves for the inevitable power "brown are reached in the continuing Canadian-U.S. compassion, for in 1947 the Marshall Plan out s" this summer, Quebec Premier Robert discussions over the wisdom of developing was announced to a war-weary world. It was CXVII--1096-Part 13 17426 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 1, 1971 an act conceived in a spirit of friendliness greater here than anywhere else. Because of in my boyhood days there was an idea that and generosity and it was seen in that way. this ab111ty to encourage and reward, this is one must earn his living; with new concepts Anthony Eden described it as "the most still the land of opportunity and with that of sociail securUy that discipUne has become unsordid act in history." Another European the land of innovation and of technological much less rigid. The wea.kening or removal statesman called it "unparalleled in the promise. of a discipline is an event of great. sociologi world's history, both as to motivation and Second, America has the heart and courage cal importance. Let's look at just •this one generosity." to tackle our major problems. Whatever the the matter of having to be self-sufficient- Since that day more than twenty years ago past and whatever one's qualifying words, of having to make one's own way. How many our Nation has sent more than 175-billion this is an act of great courage; and whatever times do we see the decay of a family after dollars to help other nations, a sum not far may be the results, this is still one of man's one generation of affluence, the sons who short of being one thousand dollars for every great humanitarian efforts. dissilpate the inheritance and pass into ob man, woman and child in America. Third, and appropriate to observe on this llvl.on. Here .the removal of a discipline has Not that America has attempted to pay for occasion particularly, is the great strength of had no compensation, such as the applica its world citizenship in money alone; it has America's system of education. America is tion of another. since fought wars almost alone in its difficult decades in the vanguard in making educa The imposition of new discipline under new role as a world policeman. It has spon tion available broadly to everyone who can such circumstances does occur. The five sored a Peace Corps and ls the cornerstone benefit from it. Whatever its shortcomings, it grandsons of John D. Rockefeller a.re as of every alliance and program for peace is providing America not only with leaders hardworking and constructive and useful as throughout the free world. and innovators, but also with a great middle can be. Indeed, an imposed discipline can be And in these years the Amerl.ce.n has indeed strength, a fairly enlightened populace that invoked and passed along in families and become a world citizen. His embassies and should be able to ride out the storms that groups, but for society at large to impose a products and business men are now encoun are due to continue in this world through new aittitude of dedication as the old re tered in every land on earth. the foreseeable future. straints go away seems to be very difficult. But while all of tihis worldliness has been These are only a limited number of ex Now to impose an arbitrary self-discipline manifesting itself, something seems to have amples of our great good, and these are set is no doubt hard at any time, but at this been happening at home; no one thing per against a background of affluence, of many time in America's history it is more than haps, but a rising frequency of worrying strengths and accomplishments. In light of difficult for one of the most unmistakable events. A presddent, his brother, and a major all this, what is this silliness that seems to ma.rks of this era and the Western Worild civil rights leader are murdered. Students be cl uttering our minds as well as our news is its radical renunciation of restraint s. This demorustmte and their methods include the papers and television sets? is the age of permissiveness. unlawful. Riots and bombings come to our Why aren't the streets of New York safe It is as though we revolted because of a big cities. The streets of our Nation's capital to walk on? Why ls a bank sm.a.ahed up down sense of guilt from the confines of mid-Vic and of fashionable downtown New York City in Santa Barbara? Because some young peo torianism. Somehow the Puritan ethic be become unsafe after dark. The United States ple profess to see a bank as a symbol of came discredited. We renounced disclpµ.ne as courtroom is a cLrcus and thousands jeer the terror and oppression this country per though we now found it opposed to freedom. when a judge charges contempt. petuates? Why is a university president's of We rejected authority as though it were So, how do I answer the question of my fice invaded and his personal files rifled and undemocratic and evil in culmination. The European acqua.1nte.nces when they ask, thrown on the floor? Why is another uni recent decades have seen us go through the "What ls happening to your country?" This versity president's office burned down? Why most unbelievable contortions to attempt to is not a question of those biased i:tge.inst does an accused individual have to be bound become understanding of the criminal, tol America, but of friends, many of whom have and gagged for the due process of law to erant of the lawless, and subservient to the lived here, who have family here, or who succeed? Why does a contempt charge against young generation. We have become so under have come here regularly. How is one to an a middle-aged defense lawyer bring forth standing, so tolerant, so permissive, retreat swer them? Indeed, something iS happening protest marchers who yell anarchy and de ing before any and every attack on our old in my homeland. From a distance one oo.n pression? What have we done to produce codes of restraint and discipline. We are for take perhaps a more dispassionate view and youth who say that "If a society is not going ever on the defensive as if our every short possibly arrive at a more objective answer. to become perfect quickly, then it had better coming were a crime for which we are now This I have tried to do but I am not com be destroyed quickly." being found out. Yes, it would seem that it pletely satisfied at what I have determined. The anatomy of a society or country is has become wrong to interfere in any fashion First, I have talked with many Europeans not determined solely by its physical meas with the actions of anyone, no matter how who know America well. By and large they urements. The availability of raw materials, they may invade my privacy or your sensi are in all truth our devoted friends, and I the state of industrialization, the extent of tivity. Sit-ins, sick-outs, love-ins, fake-outs, have found that perhaps the best source of education, etc., are all factors, of course, but we submit to them benignly as though they opinion in such regard is from other Ameri there are others as well. They include what were as out of control as the weather. In cans Uwng a.broad and I have questioned I will call national attitudes, the views and Washington, D.C., as indeed in other places, them. Next, one comes home and gets a peri prejudices that come from the history and drug taking by teenagers has become a most odic refresher course from business and aca. ethnic background of the oociety, the state serious problem. A London Times correspond demic friends, and then, of course, there are of mind that reflects its traditions and ex ent there questioned a large number of high one's friends and own children who, as all periences. National attitudes a.re as definite school teachers, and one question was about of you would recognize, are not without their as geography. They vary greatly under seem the attitude of the parents of those young own views. Add to this ftna.lly the endless ingly similar circumstances and they must sters. The answer was, "If you ring the par reading that one does when he is concerned be identified and studied if a society's ac ents merely on suspicion, they either about his native country. tions are to be understood. Let's see if some threaten to sue you, or say they know all Let me try to make some observations from where in here we can find the anwers to our about it but what can they do." No control this background. They will doubtless be questions about contemporary America. by parents over children of high school age heavily colored by my own v.1ews for which I Around the start of this century America and no support whatsoever for the poor ask your patience and understanding. was still basically a northern European trans teacher! These are some of the marks of an One qualifying comment if I may: No plant. It attitudes were still European. Many attitude in our society. To the outside world country and no people can claim to have a of us in this very room were born into fam many of the children of America are seen corner on wisdom. There are glaring imper ilies whose disciplines and moralities were as a most und~sciplined lot. I know thait you fections and problems everywhere; however, those of Victorian England. Frugality, moral recognize that as compared with the West our neighbors' shortcomings don't excuse our ity, parental discipline-as rigid in Eureka as European the American young person is al own. Therefore, let us try to look at ourselves in Edinburg. lowed to run unbridled and unchecked. The in comparison, but as absolutely and objec This was a nation.ail attitude, and it char American parent seems to look upon his child tively as possible. acterized America as much as did the fact as the embodiment of all that ls sacred, To begin, viewed from this viewpoint one that we had an unspoiled land of millions of noble, and sagacious. He pampers, pets him, sees much in America that is inordinately square miles. The America that we inherited and serves him. good. May I mention just three brief was not only a great land with a heritage of Every generation no matter what the level examples. freedom and an economy th.at technology of discipline produces its share of dissidents, First, America is still the land of oppor- was to turn into one of new aibundance, but but a twenty-year-old generation that has tunity. It is the best thing going; hobbling we were a disciplined people as well. no pru:ental restraints and has no respect for traditions are at a minimum. No, you don't Nature has a mulit1'tude of discipUnes. As authority could only be expected to appear Uke the Federal tax collector and you don't man evolved from the cave to the city, some as a mob of revolutionaries. Thus, if some like Government interference in much that of these disciplines disappeared, some have in a university student body disagree with you do, yet one does have here some oppor altered and some of them remain. An exam draft regulations, for example, is that a valid tunity to get ahead. In many another land ple--one's physical safety-becomes of less reason to shut down the whole process of this is almost impossible; the accumulation immediate concern. On the other hand, one education? Some in the business community, of money is viewed as a sin, not a mark of of the surviving ones had been the require I feel certain, would disagree with many fea success. It is still possible in America to pay ment that the individu9.l must somehow tures of the Federal tax system; ~ therefore, a man, to give him some incentives for per contribute to the group in a manner that I suppose by the same analogy we should formance. The individual's freedom ls still would allow him to share in its bounty. Even shut down the whole process of industrial June 1, 1971 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 17427
operation and let the society go without food cation is to educate, not babysit. Not only It was an occasion dominated by fun, or clothing or transportation. shouldn't we look to educators to be parents, enthusiasm, and intense interest. Yes, The student in our society is being ac it isn't fair to foist the undiscipllned child this race has its dangers and there have corded the supreme privilege o1f higher learn on them. ing. Higher education whether at the sec I have spoken here possibly too much aibout been tragedies in the past. But thou ondary or collegiate level is one of the most parents and children, but you will under sands of us owe our lives to the safety precious privileges that society can confer, stand that I mean discipline in a much wider precautions developed for and experi and precisely because students are so privi sense. It is only a.s we as a people reconstruct ence gained in the Indianapolis 500, a leged, those who would destroy this privilege some belief in discipline that the manifest race that tests man and machine to the deserve so little themselves. Where appro ills of bombings and window smashings and utmost. The entire world has gained from priate, certainly, we should listen to our sit-ins and courthouse circuses can be ex the experience of drivers at the 500, the pected to abate. It is only through believing young people and we should love and under lessons learned on the structures of metal stand them, but we will do well to discard in the inherent right of privacy, of respect the ridiculous view that all discipline of our for law, of reverence for justice, and then and the building of ma.chines, the im young today must be prefaced with an subjecting ourselves to the discipline re provements in fuels, lubricants, and tires. apology. quired that the attitude of a society will be The race is not a one-man affair, but It is often asked whether the young person revealed to that society. the work of teams. The teams are made of today is not a different creature, whether Sadly, no one can say of America that this up of the owners of the car, the driver, his new computerized world doesn't require is her finest hour. I believe that the young the mechanics in the pit, and the car that he throw o:ff the old shackles of re who want progress will see this and that itself. On the track we see the results of straint and embrace new customs and con they will learn that the annoyances and dis cepts, perhaps at odds with the past. tractions of bombings and public demon those who through the years, in the shops If by that is meant shouldn't he go on strations by the undisciplined will slow them and at the benches, at the machines and with work on population control, on improv down even as it does us today, and their in the smelters, in the drafting room and ing public health, on supplying broad edu future judgment of you and me might be on the test track, have developed this cation everywhere, on preserving the envi more severe-more severe than for the fact world of precision machinery. ronment, the answer is an unqualified yes. that we got stuck in Vietnam or polluted Just as we saw racing at its best, we the atmosphere in which we live. But if the question implies that the next also saw courage and selflessness at its generation and the one after that are a new And so as my friends ask me, "What has kind of human being who should live by to happened to America?" I am somewhat per finest. Tony Bettenhausen, son of a tally new patterns of behavior, I for one turbed as to the answer. former racer, brought his car to a would suggest that the answer is no. No The much-lamented social breakdown in screeching halt to assist in saving a fel twenty-year-old is simply the product of his America need not necessarily be taken so low driver from a flaming wreck. twenty years; he is the product of thousands seriously as some have. We have the strength, It was a great event and we left the of years of heredity-hundreds of genera the ability, the means to handle the prob track with a rather wholesome feeling of tions-throughout Which rules have con lems that stand before us. We need merely well being. There had been no signs of stantly grown outmoded and have been to stop pushing ourselves around, to stop changed, injustice has existed and has been this punishing self-criticism that concludes turmoil and dissension, no chanting of fought endlessly, unjust wars have occurred that because some things are imperfect then anti-American slogans, no Vietcong flags. forever, unending pain has been the cost of everything is wrong. We need merely to sober Just before the race our National Anthem progress-but man has persevered. No, un up and stop behaving like adolescents. was played-everyone stood at reverent for·tunately the twenty-year-old of today I for one don't believe that our pioneer attention. For several hours on a warm, must of necessity go along much of the same forefathers would be very proud of us for sunny May afternoon, 300,000 people had tortuous path. He will be healthier, better this lapse of common sense. They worked too hard and faced too many real problems to be been permitted the luxury of total relaxa educated, and possess superior technology but tion from the pressures of a very tense he will still be much the same inside. happy seeing us afraid of our own shadows. And those of this generation will find that On this night when we pay tribute to a world. It was a fitting climax to "Thirty the time-tested patterns of restraint will be man and the institution of education that Days in May.'' required as it has been for all of us before if he and· men before and about him have they are to have a chance of being even created, we can make them no better gift moderately successful during their hours of than the resolution to embrace again some greatest need. of the time-tested practices of discipline. BULLOCK'S SUMMER YOUTH FAIR They will need an orderly society working They and the children we send to them will within the confines of some reasonable set of both be grateful. laws. It might be possible, though I doubt it, HON. ALPHONZO BELL for our system to be torn down by revolt; OF CALIFORNIA but if that did occur, then their hopes would IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES indeed be shattered. Our greatest gift to them THE INDIANOPOLIS 500-MILE is to preserve this system, or something like AUTOMOBILE RACE Tuesday, June 1, 1971 it, even with all its faults for it is one that Mr. BELL. Mr. Speaker, since the focus history has demonstrated to be a good instru ment for evolution and progress. We can do of our efforts here in Washington in them no greater disservice than to show a HON. WILLIAM G. BRAY volves the search for Government solu high degree of tolerance for laxity and care OF INDIANA tions to the many problems facing our lessness and lawlessness as we allow in the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Nation, it is especially gratifying to learn mire of permissiveness. Tuesday, June 1, 1971 what some private corporations are doing The attitude of a people! entirely without Government assistance. In 1922 Sir James Barry gave an address Mr. BRAY. Mr. Speaker, for 60 years An outstanding case in point to which I while rector of St. Andrews University in the Indianapolis 500-Mile Memorial Day would like to draw the attention of my Scotland and in it were those often quoted Race has drawn world attention. The colleagues is the program of community words: "Mighty are the universities of Scot 55th running of this classic on May 29, land and they will prevail, but even in your service instituted by Bullock's Depart 1971, was perhaps the greatest. The first ment Stores of Southern California. highest exaltation never forget that they are race was held in but the race was not four but five and the fifth and the great 1911, A timely example of Bullock's multi est of them is the poor, proud homes from suspended for 5 years during World Wars faceted effort in the summer youth fair, which you come." I and II. a summer youth employment program These words were not the opinion of a There were 300,000 spectators viewing initiated in one store last summer on an man; they related to the underlying feeling this greatest spectacle in racing, this experimental basis. The fair was design of a people. Can you imagine the circus trial year, and they were as colorful and in ed to provide both employment and an of the Chicago seven occurring in Scotland in teresting as the race itself. Visitors came educational experience for youth in the 1920? to Indianapolis from all walks of life Los Angeles area and was so successful May I suggest that as a society we think millionaires and laborers, bankers and now about a return to some of the disci that it has been expanded to all Bullock's plines of those years and let's be clear that mechanics, farmers and students, clerks stores for the coming summer. Assisted we aren't addressing our young people but and teachers, ministers and musicians. by store buyer-managers, students re ourselves, you and me and you. There were old and young, long hairs, cruited from local high schools operated It isn't right to look elsewhere for help and crew cuts, black and white. Families their own businesses using space pro if we are ~lking about our own children. far outnumbered that unattached. Every vided by the store. No, please don't suggest that the school is State in the Union was represented as Contributions from Bullock's and from the place for discipline. Our system of edu- well as scores of foreign countries. other small businesses in the area pro- 17428 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 1, 1971 vided the booths, necessary working the "ecological" aspects of the decision it gratuate Proffi Jacob Loft, chairman of equipment, and loans for initial inven self. the National Issues Committee of the Already, we find that while we were de Liberal Party, and Leonard Polisar, tory, but the students themselves man bating and ultimately canceling the whole aged and operated each of 11 enterprises: deal, the Russians were working night a.nd chairman of the subcommittee on The Art Booth, the Bakery, the Car day. Their "SST" ls now flying across Eu revenue sharing, for their excellent Wash, the Craft Booth, the Ice Cream rope, landing at major cities, and advertising work on this paper, many of the conclu Parlor, the Job Exchange, the Make-up the probable future domination of the field sions of which I share. I am confident Booth, the Melon Patch, the Photo Badge by the USSR. this assessment of revenue sharing and Booth, the Shoe Shine Stand, and the For more than a generation, U.S. aero alternatives to it will be of interest to nautics and more recently "aero-space" has many Members of Congress and readers Sign Shop. Student managers met and led the world, and more than mere pride or handled their own payrolls and divided prestige was involved. of the RECORD. The text of the paper end-of-summer profits among partici The speed, efficiency and safety of U.S. follows: pating young people. equipment caused it to be widely sought POSITION ON "REVENUE-SHARING," BY NA The enthusiastic support this out around the world. TIONAL ISSUES COMM.ITTEE, LIBERAL PARTY, standing program has received from all Result: Today more than half the total MAY 1971 segments of the community-the young income to the U.S. in foreign trade comes The Liberal Party strongly endorses the participants, their customers, local busi from the sale of such products. concept that a much larger share of state That income has been life-or-death to and local governmental costs must be borne nesses, and the school district-testifies the stability of the dollar in world markets, either by the federal government or by the to the spirit of cooperation and public and it has gone into American jobs and redistribution of revenues heretofore pre service which Bullock's has stimulated. American prosperity. empted by the federal government. However, This is, indeed, the kind of community Experts say that the loss of that market we believe that there are better alternatives service which my colleagues may want to alone would be so great as to devalue the available to accomplish this goal than the encourage among corPQrations in their dollar. much publicized "revenue-sharing" pro We presently seem bent on losing it by posals of President Nixon. own districts. default. In addition to paying well-deserved 1. The Liberal Party has often reiterated in It will be a little late then to consider its State Legislative Program its support of tribute to Bullock's, Mr. Speaker, I would ALL the aspects and the physical conse "the widely recognized principle that the en also like to take this opportunity to com quences of that political decision. tire question of apportionment of tax pow mend each of the small businesses which It is already too late. ers, sources and revenues among the federal contributed to the success of this pro Some are eager, today, to go the same government, the states and the cities is in route on a long list of things. Let Lockheed desperate need of revision ... The federal gram: sink. Let the Pennsylvania railroad go busted. Alvins Photographic Supply, Bernardo San government has preempted the most impor Stop the ABM production. Cut back the tant sources of tax revenue even as the cities dals, Blake, Moffit and Towne, Bronson space program. Stop military procurement. Sportswear, Bruns Lee, Fedde Furniture, Fos and states need more funds ... A greater Bring the boys back from Germany, Turkey proportion of our total tax dollars must be ter and Kleiser Outdoor Advertising, Harris and Vietnam. Slacks, Hartogs of California, K. C. Product Do all these things and more and think allocated to state and local governments ..." Company, Moore Business Forms, Pasadena of all the money we'd have to spend for pov 2. The desperate needs of our urban cen Star News, and Ralph's Markets. erty, they say! ters cannot, however, be solved by the se Reynolds Print-A-Sign, Riviera Sunglasses, While you are at it, however, think also mantic conversion of moneys already allo Russo Leather Goods, Supreme Dairy, Wilson of all the poverty we would have, all the cated to the cities for specifically-designated Paper Company, Wood and Jones, Wlllia.m jobless people, all the wrecked organizations purposes into "free" and "unrestricted" Bjorklund, Donald Ball, Mr. McSweeney and wasted skills. funds to be spent at the discretion of the John Muir High School, Gerald Meyers, Mr. Th.ink how much bigger we would making states and/or the municipalities-with only Proctor-Pasadena High School, Ruth Sweet, a minimum of "new" federal moneys in the basic poverty problem-the welfare volved. This nomenclature juggling appears Theo, Stuart, and Mr. Walter-Blair High problem. School. to be aimed more at the harvesting of votes Think of that, too! than the saving of our urban centers from And, in closing, I would like to add a Taking money out of jobs to put into wel the hitherto impossible task of providing an special word of commendation for Mrs. fare payments is not the way to reduce the increasing amount of required municipal poverty problem. It is the way to vastly in services with a steadily eroding tax base. Robin Hague, Bullock's special events crease it, more likely. director. Mrs. Hague is a dynamic young 3. A. The most urgent revenu e-sharing There's some human ecology and economic need tcday is not only to continue-but to woman whose creativity and energy ecology involved. expand considerably-those federal program played a significant part in the success grants designed to meet the requirements of of the Summer Youth Fair-and in many local areas where intense low-income popu of Bullock's other outstanding commu lation density magnifies many-fold the gov nity endeavors. ALTERNATIVES TO REVENUE ernmental per capita cost of supplying ur SHARING gently needed health, education and welfare and transit services and police and fire pro teotion. Programed federal aid such as OUR SST MISTAKE HON. JONATHAN B. BINGHAM Model Cities, Food Stamps, Head Start, Day OF NEW YORK Care, etc. required expansion-and not po litically expedient curtallment--if the popu HON. ROBERT H. MICHEL IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES lation centers of this country are to have any Tuesday, June 1, 1971 cha.nee of staving off disaster. The financial OF Il.LINOIS crisis facing our cities is extremely real and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. BINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, for imminent, and those a.filleted areas must be many local leaders, revenue sharing Tuesday, June 1, 1971 treated with the same urgency as we treat has become a panacea that will solve all hurricane and earthquake disaster areas. Mr. MICHEL. Mr. Speaker, now that the problems of our financially strapped B. On a near-term basis, the single most the heat has subsided somewhat in the States and cities. In its recently issued important contribution to improved federal debate on the question of discontinuing Position Paper on revenue sharing, how state-local relationships would be a complete Federal support for development of the ever, the National Issues Committee of takeover of welfare costs by the federal gov ernment--up to a realistic and decent na SST, the postmortem season now begins the Liberal Party of the State of New tional minimal standard. Small differences in and in that regard I noticed an editorial York has retained an admirable degree the cost-of-living among various communi in the Peoria Journal Star today entitled of objectivity, and the result is a partic ties could then be reflected in those federal "Our SST Mistake." I ask that the edi ularly balanced assessment of revenue ly-controlled welfare payments. This takeover torial be placed in the RECORD at this sharing and certain alternatives for would remove the back-breaking wel point: achieving increased Federal funds, fare burden from those urban centers where OUR SST MISTAKE which most observers agree is essential. the welfare problem has been concentrated. The wisdom af the "popular" burial of the The general conclusion of this paper is It would also help the rural poor even more SST program here in the United States- on a comparative basis. In addition, it would that a combination of Federal assump discourage possible welfare recipients from after kicking it around in debates for years tion of welfare costs and increased Fed remains to be seen. migrating toward the now hi~er welfare It is certain that the assault on the SST eral appropriations to existing urban paying large cities, especially in the North, wa.s a straightforward blast at spending the oriented programs offers a more promis and would slow down the efforts being exert money plus a shaky series of emotional as ing solution to local financial problems ed in areas such as the rural South to en sumptions about "pollution." They neglected than revenue sharing. I want to con- courage emigration. June 1, 1971 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 17429 4. After welfare payments have become Tuscaloosa County Schools safety pa I admire our country, America, for its federally-funded, and other urban-aid pro high goals and many achievements. People trols were in Washington on their an in America are determined to make our grams to help rectify inner city problems nual tour. In connection with this trip, have been continued and expanded as re country better. Why, Just recently three oratorical contests were held in the ele American astronauts went to the moon and quired, we should then--on a lo~g range basis--examine a true revenue-sharmg pro mentary schools. We were privileged to came back safely. This shows that people in gram, which would: hear three winners of this contest. They Amerioa are great leaders, but still they have A. Involve the infusion of new monies into were Deidre Burroughs, Crestmont Ele that good old pioneering spirit. a federal revenue-sharing program-and mentary School; Dawn Wadsworth, Ves Other countries look up to and respect us should provl.de for dissemination of a large tavia Elementary School; and Nancy beoause they believe tha.t we have the righit ideas. We stand for freedom. We fight for portion O'f those monies directly to munici Henry, Matthews Elementary School. palities and not only to the states; or Justice. We hope for peace. I'm glad I llve in The students addressed various Con America, aren't you? B. As stated above, reallocate certain tax gressmen and Senators, and I am hon powers, sources and revenues from the fed eral government to state and local govern ored to present remarks made by these WHAT Is RIGHT WITH AMERICA? ments, so that funds could be raised where students for the benefit of my colleagues: (By Nancy Henry, Matthews Elementary required without passing through additional WHAT'S RIGHT WITH AMERICA? School, Northport, Ala.) administrative handHng by the federal (By Deidre Burroughs, Crestmont Elemen What's right with America? Well, not government. For example, federal income tary School, Northport, Alabama) everything, but isn't there always room for tax rates could be reduced on the un It ls very difficult to decide how to begin improvement in everything? We have a pret• derstanding that the state and local govern to tell of the many rights we encounter daily ty good start with a democracy. Abraham ments could then commensurately raise their in America. So many things we take for Lincoln defined democracy as "government income tax rates without increasing the in granted when people in other countries over of the people, by the people and for the peo dividual overall tax burden. A similar result the world are practically prisoners in their ple." In our democracy we have many free could be accomplished by permitting certain homes. One thing that makes our country so doms. Some are: freedom of religion, which state and local tax payments to be applied unbelievable is its youth. Just think, even means we are free to worship in any church as a tax credit against federal income tax. as recently as 200 years ago the United States we want to, at any time we want to; free 5. It is regrettable that the New York of America did not exist. But during those dom of speech, which means we are free to state Administration, which itself stridently 200 years, with the belief of "life, liberty, speak and to even protest things that are calls for increased revenue-sharing by the and the pursuit of happiness", the United done with which we do not agree; freedom federal government, has seen fit to drasti States has developed its unique culture and of the press, which means we are free to cally cut its own "revenue-sharing" with its grown to maturity. print anything we want as long as it ls the municipalities-and thus forced a heavy cur Compared to older countries of the world truth. tailment of essential services afforded to its such as England, France, Italy, China, ours Our democracy states that all men are needy inhabitants by those municipalities. ls still a baby. Yet with a start much like our created equal and no one will be mistreated The state must Itself 'increase its proportion own these countries' founders must have because of race, creed, or color. Our democ O'f the tax dollar devoted to such items as lacked our forefathers' determination, faith, racy enables us to get an education if we education; we urge the complete takeover and ability to realize that With a firm foun are willing to go through school to get one. by the state of the basic costs of public dation such as our Constitution and B1ll of Our democracy isn't all that's right with schools as well as public higher education. Rights, a great nation could be created. America. America is a beautiful land. She has There must also be an extension of genuine We have had our many disagreements with forests, lakes, beaches, and wildlife. She has home rule in taxing powers for the large other nations and we have had a Civil War stores, skyscrapers, and other buildings. cities. within our boundaries. These have left us America has a proud race of people. These 6. We in the Liberal Par·ty strongly be much wiser, closer together, and taught us people are willing to face problems. These lieve in the devotion of a greater proportion very costly lessons. After all these troubled people are willing to die for their country. of tax dollar to crying social welfare needs years the United States has always strived Let us be good Americans. Let us say th1S rather than to a federal budget weighted for what she thought was right and just. with the words of Stephen Vincent Benet, heavily towards highly-inflated "defense" Today, we sometimes fa1.l to realize how for not only with our lips but in our hearts. Let spending, spotlighted by an unjust War in tunate we are to be living here. In many other us sa.y this-I myself am a part of democracy, Vietnam. Our national priorities must be countries, we would not be permitted to: I myself must accept responsibilities. Democ re-examined and changed-so that emphasis Go to the church of our choice; work racy ls not merely a privilege to be enjoyed, is placed on the cleansing of our environ where we are capable of working; spend our it is a trust to keep and maintain. I am an ment and the education and rehabilitation of money as we wish; talk to whom we please; American. I intend to remain an American. human beings-rather than the perpetuation read what we wish; think what we please; I will do my best to wipe from my heart, hate, of a war where success ls measured in terms choose our own friends; vote in elections for rancor and political prejudice. I will sustain of the number of other human beings kllled people of our own choice; disagree with any my government and through good days or or the amount of acreage destroyed. one or anything; go anywhere we please. bad I will try to serve my country. 7. All in all, we believe that federal "rev These are only a few of the things that enue-sharing" can best be accomplished by are right about America. Anyone want to federal programs specifically designed to al leave all this? Not me. America, you're the leviate our urban problems to the greatest greatest! extent possible-and especially to under KIWANIS OF MESA, ARIZ., BUILDS write a welfare program that should be na WHAT'S RIGHT WITH AMERICA? SWIMMING POOL FOR LOCAL tional rather than local in scope, as well CHILDREN'S HOME as a reapportionment of tax powers among (By Dawn Wadsworth, Vestavia Elementary governments on the dtiferent levels. Because School, Northport, Alabama) of the truly desperate situation now facing America, the land of the free and the home HON. JOHN J. RHODES the large cities of the country, there must of the brave. Amerioa ls a glorious, breath OF ARIZONA be also emergency large-scale federal ap taking country to live in. I'm going to tell propriations to be given directly and without you some of the things that I think are IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES delay to such cities. We do not feel that really great about America. Tuesday, June 1, 1971 "revenue-sharing" that 1S a mere semantic Freedom is what America is all about. interchange of funds already earmarked for Even at my age, I can read the books I wish, Mr. RHODES. Mr. Speaker, the May worthy purposes to a category that 1s "unre sing the songs I want, and choose my own 1971 issue of the Kiwanis magazine has stricted" in nature can be supported by the friends. In later yee.rs, I'll have the freedom an article about "Project Splash." This Liberal Party or any other liberal-thinking to choose the career that suits me best, Uve was a project carried out by the mem group of Americans. where I would like, and go to the church bers of the Kiwanis Club of Mesa, Ariz. that best meets my needs. I am proud to be an honorary member In America we can better our lives 1f we of that club and am pleased to include TUSCALOOSA COUNTY, ALA., SAFETY are willing to put forth the effort. For in PATROL MEMBERS VISIT WASH stance, if I wanted to become a famous the article in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD: INGTON musician, I would first have to learn the jtey BOYS AND GIRLS WORK-PROJECT SPLASH board, then I would have to practice several As many Kiwanis clubs have discovered, hours each day. After that, I would probably community spirit is contagious. No sooner HON. WALTER FLOWERS be a famous musician. does a Kiwanis club announce a forthcoming OF ALABAMA Also, America is a land of great natural project than the entire community replies in beauty. There are rolling hills, fertile val a single voice. "That's a good idea, may we IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES leys, clear springs, a.nd huge Jakes and ponds. help?" Such was the case recently when Tuesday, June 1, 1971 I like the way America. changes every sea the members of the Kiwan1S Club of Mesa, son. In the winter it ls white and icy, in fall Arizona, built a sw1.m.m1ng pool at a local Mr. FLOWERS. Mr. Speaker, recently, it's windy and colorful, in spring, nature ls chlldrens' home. a group of elementary school children beginning to come alive and in summer, it's In January 1969 the Mesa Kiwanlans were from Northport, Ala., representing the warm and fun. looking for a worthy project when one of the 17430 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 1, 1971 club members suggested the Sunshine Acres and full funding of this necessary pro copy of Resolution I-183, which was Children's Home, a refuge for deserted, or gram in the new fiscal year. adopted by the city council on May 24 phaned and delinquent children. The home On May 28, fully 4 weeks after receiv and approved by Mayor William S. Hart, and the Mesa Kiwanians had enjoyed a long ing our letter, Secretary Richardson re Sr., on the following day. association thanks to a number of previous Kiwanis projects, so the club members de sponded to the appeal, and in terms that This resolution calls for the means to cided to return to the home and see what have become all-too familiar with the halt the illicit traffic in narcotics, which else they might do to help out. In reply, current administration. Despite the fact has permitted devastating narcotics to Reverend James Dingman, founder and op that lead-based paint poisoning con reach our shores and afflict our people. erator of the home, told the Kiwanians about tinues to claim the lives of small children I agree with the city council that such the tremendous need for a swimming pool at throughout our Nation, HEW apparently trafficking must be stopped, and have co Sunshine Acres. has decided to treat the problem on a sponsored legislation to implement a According to project chairman Bob Neill, club's board of directors was "enthused but pilot project basis. The administration workable eradication program. One cautious" about the idea, and appointed a now announces that it will ask Congress measure would provide that a fixed per committee to investigate the feasibility of for the sum of $2 million in fiscal 1972 centage of U.S. contributions to the such a large project. After many months and has the unmitigated gall to proclaim United Nations be utilized solely to end of investigation and analysis of contractor's that this "signifies the administration's trafficking in narcotics as well as sup estimates the special committee reported that clear intent to mount a concerted effort porting multilateral eradication of il despite its size, such a project was within to eliminate the threat of lead-based legal narcotics production. This legisla the club's power. paint." It apparently matters little to the tion would also direct the President to Although the swlmmlng pool is now an administration that HEW currently has accomplished fact, here were many times consider withholding U.S. assistance to when the project was saved by the generosity before it applications totaling more than countries refusing to cooperate in sup and community spirit of Mesa citizens and $50 million from communities which ob pressing the drug traffic. businesses. For example, the contractor, viously feel a greater sense of urgency. Such legislation must be enacted and Holiday Pools, persuaded all its subcontrac Because it so dramatically represents swiftly, for as the resolution of the East tors to blll the Kiwania.ns at cost. Likewise, the extent to which this administration's Orange City Council has pointed out, in May 1970 when the children of Sunshine spending priorities are distorted, I insert hard drugs continue to be smuggled into Acres gathered around for the pool ground at this point in the RECORD the full text the United States in spite of programs breaking ceremony, the local power and ir of Secretary Richardson's reply to my rigation company announced that it was designed to eliminate trafficking. excavating the hole at no cost as its con April 23 letter: The text of the resolution follows: tribution to the project. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, RESOLUTION 1-183--CITY COUNCIL OF Funds for the actual construction of the EDUCATION, AND WELFARE, EAST ORANGE pool came from the club's 17th Annual Pan Washington, D.C., May 28, 1971. Whereas, the Republ'ic of Turkey has over cake Day, which netted almost $5000. In ad Hon. HERMAN BADILLO, the many years last past grown poppies dition, several Mesa businessmen contri House of Representatives, which is the source of heroin; and buted such much-needed items as plumbing Washington, D.C. Whereas, the Republic of Turkey has at and fencing to the pool fund. DEAR MR. BADILLO: Thank you for your let tempted with only moderaite success to re The pool was completed on August 31, a ter of April 23 requesting the Department to strict the growth of poppies there; hot day that made the children anxious to seek full funding of the Lead-Based Paint Whereas, even wltlh suoh restriotion, the use the pool in the evening after it had been Poisoning Prevention Act. Please excuse our illegal exportation of heroin has continued; filled from the home's only source of water delay in responding to this letter. and a 750-foot well. Unbeknownst of the children, As you know, this legislation was enacted Whereas, the United Sta.tes of America has however, Reverend Dingman had learned late in the last session of congress and not continually over many years afforded and that the well could not provide the 72,000 gal signed by the President until the basic given to the Republic of Turkey moneys and lons of water needed to fill the pool. As be budget decisions for 1972 were made. Thus, other forms of a.id for the stability of the fore, community spirit stepped in to save the budget transmitted on January 29 did Turkish economy and for the r-ehab111tation the day. As soon as they learned of the dif not include any new funds for implementing of the Turkish people; and ficulty the City of Mesa, its school district, the Lead-Based Paint Poisoning Prevention Whereas, the continued lllegal exportation and a commercial water hauler loaned the Act. of heroin has resulted in its being smuggled Kiwanians three water trucks, which for two Since the current fiscal year is nearly over, into the United States to the destruction of and a half days were driven out to what we will not request a 1971 supplemental. the wellbeing of innumerable persons caus had once been the middle of the desert to fill However, the President will shortly transmit ing enormous economic loss, human pain the pool. an amendment to the 1972 budget requesting and suffering; and The ultimate effect of Project Splash is $2 million to expand our program to attack Wherea.s, it is the desire of the United that for ten hot months of the year 75 in the problem of lead-bilsed paint. We would States of America to join with the Republic stitutionalized children wm not have to be use the additional funds to make a more· con of Turkey in the suppression of illegal smug bussed to a public pool. They now have a. certed effort to define the extent of the prob gling of heroin and to aid and support the fine facility of their own, one that came to lem and support model demonstration proj economy of Turkey by replacement of funds them through the community spirit of the ects in three communities. In addition, we in kind with the suppression of poppy grow Kiwanis Club and people of Mesa, Arizona. will continue four projects related to the ing; and lead-based paint problem already begun Whereas, the continuance of such smug under other legislative authorities at a level gling of heroin into the United Strutes is in of about $200,000. This would bring our total the form of a national calamity, LEAD-BASED PAINT POISONING: AN budget for lead-based paint activities to $2.2 Now, therefore, be it resolved, That the EXAMPLE OF ADMINISTRATION million in 1972. While this is considerably congress of the United States, both the Sen less than the amount authorized in the Act, ate and the House of Representatives, be it nevertheless signifies the Administration's urged to cut off any and all economic aid to clear intent to mount a concerted effort to the Turkish Government unless the growth HON. HERMAN BADILLO eliminate the threat of lead-based paint. of poppies is completely terminated or re stricted to such modest form that its output OF NEW YORK With kindest regards, Sincerely, can only be used for medical needs; and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES / S/ ELLIOT L. RICHARDSON , Be it further resolved, That a copy of this Tuesday, June 1, 1971 Secretary. resolution be forwarded to President Richard M. Nixon, Senators Clifford P. Case and Har Mr. BADILLO. Mr. Speaker, on April rison A. Williams, Jr. and Congressman Jo 23 I was one of a number of Congress seph G. Minish. men who cosigned a letter to HEW Sec- DRUG RESOLUTION OF EAST retary Richardson exPressing deep con ORANGE, N.J. cern over the administration's failure to ON THE WAGING OF PEACE formally request funds, either for fiscal 1971 or fiscal 1972, to carry out the in HON. JOSEPH G. MINISH tent of Congress under the Lead-Based OF NEW JERSEY HON. JOHN G. SCHMITZ Paint Poisoning Act. That legislation au IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF CALIFORNIA thorized $10 million in the current fiscal Tuesday, June 1, 1971 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES year and $20 million for fiscal 1972. Tuesday, June 1, 1971 In that letter, we urged Secretary Mr. MINISH. Mr. Speaker, Edward E. Richardson to seek a supplemental ap Ruhnke, Sr., the city clerk of East Mr. SCHMITZ. Mr. Speaker, a pene propriation for the current fiscal year Orange, N.J., has sent me a certified trating article written by Mr. Henry June 1, 1971 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 17431 Paolucci, professor of political science at so many educated people today, was at least in this city, and it was with the intent St. John's University and vice chairman temporarily laid to rest. that these lands should be equally ac Napoleon resurrected that longing. He cessible to all citizens that Congressman of the Conservative Party of New York marched his armies back and forth across State, appeared in the New York Times the Continent to remove the many national WYLIE and I introduced H.R. 7479. The of June 1, 1971. obstacles to its attainment. Later it was the legislation enumerates those uses that Mr. Paolucci points out that- turn of Imperial Germany, whose Kaiser, like are to be prohibited-uses of the nature Our great danger today comes not from Russia's Czar, celebrated in his very name that interfere with equal access--and American military arrogance, which is non the august aspiration of Imperial Rome to provides for the posting of a bond by the existent, but from the arrogance of our peace impose its peace everywhere by uplifting the sponsors of demonstration activities to mongering, which intoxicates and must lowly and putting down the proud. cover reasonably anticipated damages eventually paralyze the will to act pru Vying to establish an enforceable world and costs of restoring the demonstration dently." peace today are the Marxist-Leninists, who are as tough as the toughest old Romans, and site to its normal state. The article follows: that motley band of American social scien In this context, I was very much in ON THE WAGING OF PEACE: THE DANGER Is tists, English teachers, journalists, Sanskrit terested in the testimony of the Director NOT FROM THE MILITARY BUT FROM PEACE reading physicists, existentialist philoso of National Capital Parks, Russell E. MONGERS phers, playwrights, film-makers, etc., aptly Dickenson, who appeared before a sub (By Henry Paolucci) characterized by Joseph Schumpeter as committee of the House Internal Secu "ethical imperialists." The Marxist-Leninists rity Committee on May 18 in connection To the historically trained ear, the most have an obvious advantage, for they are real ominous drums of war have always been ists. They can be deterred by a nuclear policy with the Mayday demonstration activi those pounded in the name of peace. of assured destruction, strictly adhered to by ties. Although I do not intend to put Those drums a.re rolling today with a the United States. But, if American policy in words into Mr. Dickenson's mouth, his mounting intensity unparalleled in Ameri sists on an enforceable world peace, the suggestions for legislation as a result of can history. They are telling us (in the tough men of Moscow are not about to let these demonstration activities would ap rhythms of Adlai Stevenson's eloquence) : themselves be "Pugwa.shed" into accepting pear, at least, to follow the broad outlines "We must abolish war to save our collective the petulant rule of a Western intelligentsia of H.R. 7479. This bill, I would reiterate, skins. For so long as this nuclear death-dance that thinks it can gain the world by a "great is identical to a measure that was over continues, tens of millions-perhaps hun act of persuasion" conducted on the pattern dreds of millions-are living on borrowed of a Harvard seinina.r on international affairs. whelmingly approved by this body less time." Or in the accents of Norman Coui~ins's The irony is that, with all their drum than 2 years ago. Furthermore, 291 Mem frenzied appeal for a world federation of beating for "peace now," the men, women, bers of this Congress endorsed the legis peace-lovers: "At a time when the fingertip and children who lead today's peace crusade lation when it was voted on at that time. of a desperate man can activate a whole are making it impossible for serious counsels Your close attention to the following switchboard of annihilation, and when de to be heard in the halls of government. Even excerpts from Mr. Dickenson's testimony fense is represented by retaliatory holocaust, the Commander in Chief of our armed forces is invited: the historical social contract between m.an has been reduced to gibbering that he's a and the state has ceased to exist." "devoted pacifist.'' EXCERPTS OF TESTIMONY OF RUSSELL E. DICKENSON The intention of such talk is peace; but Our great danger today comes not from its emotional intensity is unquestionably American military arrogance, which is non Mr. RoMINES. Gentlemen, as the Chair such stuff as wars are made of. When peace is existent, but from the arrogance of our peace man pointed out in his opening statement, proclaimed as a sovereign value, when its mongering, which intoxica-tes and must even these hearings are an inquiry into the origin, lovers declare themselves disposed to sacrifice tually paralyze the will to act prudently. history, character, objectives and activities all things else for its attainment--even their of the National Peace Action Coalition and pledged national allegiance-we can he sure the Peoples Coalition for Peace and Justice. that ignorant armies, terrible with self Now, for brevity's sake, I will refer to them righteous banners, are about to clash. For it as the NPAC and the PCPJ. is not at college teach-ins or on the Op-Ed MAY DAY DEMONSTRATIONS EM The principal demonstrations and activi page of The Times, but in the arena of war P;HASIZE NEED FOR LEGISLATION ties that these two organizations sponsored that the supreme national sacrifices for peace REGULATING USE OF PARKLANDS or in which their members participated in are ultimately made. IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washington, D.C., occurred between April ·24 Peace is, like liberty, one of those Janus and May 5, 1971. Would you please provide faced ideals that look two ways. The Road to the cominittee with a brief chronology of Peace remains a peaceful road only so long HON. JOHN E. HUNT events in which these two organizations as no serious obstacles are encountered. Ac OF NEW JERSEY participated during the interval as they af cording to some wise men, the fiercest wara IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES fected your departments? have been fought to remove man-made ob Mr. DICKENSON. Thank you very much. stacles to peace. Hitler was such an obstacle. Tuesday, June 1, 1971 I would like to make just a short prefatory While the rest of us were plodding down a statement and then I will go into the chro depressed stretch of the Road to Peace, he Mr. HUNT. Mr. Speaker, the widely nology. mobilized an entire people for war. Yet, portrayed "festive" mood of the thou Washington has witnessed many m.ajor what he was ultimately after with his talk of sands of antiwar protesters who invaded demonstrations in recent years and these a "New Order" was surely an arrangement of our Nation's Capital during the period have occurred for the most part in public enforceable peace-under which the entire from April 24 through May 5 is now a parklands of the Nation's Capital. The use world would indeed be living now, had our matter of disputed history. It is a matter of public lands for the exercise of First physicists not outstripped his in that first of fact and record, however, that the Amendment rights has been well estab great arrns race of the nuclear age. Those damages left behind exceeded, by very lished. Due to several recent court cases, who finally crushed him in war openly however, the National Park Service Code of acknowledged that his goal was peace in conservative estimates, $100,000 and the Federal Regulations Section 3650.19 concern their branding as "appeasers" all who sought total costs for the National Park Service, ing demonstrations and public gatherings to prevent our Inilitary intervention against the District of Columbia, and the mili has been enjoined. By order of the courts, him. tary services will run into several mil demonstrations may occur on public park Wars result from the desire to impose lions of dollars when and if the tab is lands on 15 days notice by the demonstrating one's will upon others and to resist being tallied. group. If demonstrations appear to affect imposed upon. Peace is the condition of Presidential security, constitute a threat to having one's willful way, whether actively Of course, Washington is the natural the security and welfare of the City, or 1f or passively. Even a bawling infant knows site for most political demonstrations there is likelihood of irreparable damage to the difference between being resisted and and, to be sure, the Constitution guar park resources and facilities, the Govern being pacified. antees the right of "peaceful" assembly. ment must carry the burden of seeking in The maturity of the Western nations has I do not dispute the right of peaceful as junctive relief. consisted in their mutual recognition that sembly, but I strongly differ with those I would like to note the arrangements, the the desire to establish a regime of enforce who feel that we, the Members of Con strategy and the negotiations, or large ne able peace over a vast multitude is itself the gress, the residents who live here, and the gotiations which are, by agreement, handled greatest provocation of war. That fact first tourists who visit, should stand aside and by an interagency group led by the Depart impressed itself on Western statesmen dur ment of Justice. The concerned agencies in ing the three decades of war that preceded let the protesters--for whatever cause- clude the District of Columbia Government, the so-called Peace of Westphalia, in 1648- run roughshod over everything and any the Department of the Interior, National which was peaceful only in the sense that, thing in their path. Particularly, I feel Park Service, and the Military Services. by its arrangements, the age-old longing for the Congress has a special responsibility Therefore, according to this procedure just an enforceable world peace, such as animates with respect to the use of the parklands outlined above, we received a demonstra- 17432 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 1, 1971 tion notice from NPAC regarding the events damage, are you including damage to prop has special built-in problems itself, so per of Aprll 24. erty of private individuals, or is that only haps some consideration could be given to I would like to note, regarding the NPAC Government damage? having demonstration activities occurring demonstra.tions on April 24, that most of Mr. DICKENSON. There is approximately during daylight hours, and certainly not the the activities occurred in this particular $25,000 which would be private property, but all-night type of activities which we have case outside the jurisdiction of the National was property leased to the Federal Govern recently experienced on two occasions, once Park Service in Washington, D.C. ment a.nd these were sanitary fac111ties. on the Washington Monument grounds and The parade was down Pennsylvania Avenue There is a pending claim for approximately once at West Potomac Park. and the assembly point was at the Capitol. $25,000 because these Johnny-on-the-spots, A second item that might be given some Therefore, the U.S. Park Police jurisdiction large ones, were burned by the demonstrators. additional attention is the consideration of on that day was from 14th St., west on the The CHAmMAN. It is my understanding bonding or a. bonding requirement for those Washington Monument grounds and West that one mobile restroom valued at $17,000 who do cause damage to publicly owned fa Potomac Park. was burned. Is that correct? cilities which would, perhaps, provide for Earlier, a notice of the demonstrations had Mr. DICKENSON. That is correct; that is the restoration and repair of anything that been filed which involved a musical event, a part of the $25,000 pending claim ... is damaged during an activity. rock concert, which was planned to go all • • • Those are the two broad general areas in night at the Washington Monument grounds. Mr. DICKENSON. April 25 was a day of res which I have suggestions. Later on, a supplemental statement was filed toration and clean-up for National Capital The CHAmMAN. Probably legislation (in which linked this to the PCPJ . . . Parks. During the period of April 25 through those) areas would be outside the jurisdic • • • • • May 1, which was the following Saturday, tion of this committee, but they would be Mr. DICKENSON. I would like also to note the PCPJ was in the West Potomac Park under the jurisdiction of perhaps the Com that as a part of the interagency considera area and a number of negotiations and con mittee on the Interior or the Comm1ttee on tion and by agreement between the Depart frontations occurred between the U.S. Park Public Works. I will see that the Chairman ment of Interior and Department of Justice Police, National Capital Parks, and that group of those committees receive a copy of these and the District of Columbia, Chief (of the to try to obtain voluntary compliance with hearings, and your recommendations will be Metropolitan Police Department) Jerry Wil an agreement and understanding regarding made available to them ... son was in overall command of pollce forces their occupancy of that area for demonstra in the city during the period from April 24 tion purposes. Essentially, the understand through May 9. ing called for no camping and no fires, a.nd Going specifically now to the musical event, this was consistently and continually vio AMENDMENT TO BE OFFERED TO the rock concert on the evening of April 24, lated. So our effort was to try to obtain some H.R. 7109-0FF-SHORE AIRPORTS throughout the afternoon there were about voluntary compliance on the part of tha.t six to eight thousand people on the Wash group throughout that week ... ington Monument grounds who did not par • • • • • HON. ABNER J. MIKVA ticipate in the activities at the Capitol. As Mr. ROMINES. Mr. Dickenson, do you know OF ll.LINOIS the afternoon and evening went on it built who initiated the agreement between the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES up to a total of about 50,000 people who re PCPJ and the Park Service for camping in mained on the Washington Monument West Potomac P.ark? Tuesday, June 1, 1971 grounds that night. A musical event did oc Mr. DICKENSON. As I indicated, the Depart Mr. MIKVA. Mr. Speaker, at the ap cur. Considerable damage occurred to the ment of Justice heads an interagency group. fac111ties on the Washington Monument So, therefore, the principal negotiations lie propriate time during consideration of grounds which included the benches around within the Department of Justice, but on H.R. 7109, the NASA authorization for the Washington Monument. behalf of and assisted by the other concerned :fiscal year 1972, my colleague from Illi The Sylvan Theater itself received damages. agencies •.. nois Pollution" and "Help Keep America Beau (In percent) tiful." Tomorrow my class is taking part in Yes No Undecided "Earth Day". We are going on a hike to help Yes No Undecided clean up our community. Escambia . ____ --·_ 54.2 41.0 4. 9 Your friend, Lowndes ______38.5 57. 7 3. 8 1. Would you favor increas Montgomery ______DAN A STOKES. ing the national debt Pike ______61. 8 34. 7 3. 4 by a projected $11,- 70. 9 27. 2 1. 9 BROOKLET, GA., May 17, 1971. 600,000,000 for the 7. Would you favor a DEAR MR. HAGAN: I think pollution should fiscal year 1972 in change in a U.S. order to stimulate the Representative's term be stopped. Something should be done to economy and reduce of office from the stop the smog that comes out of the factories unemployment? present 2-year term and cars. Get people to help keep Georgia. to a 4-year term? Total______26. 5 65. 7 7.8 clean. Please help keep America clean. Third Total______68.7 27.7 3.7 graders want to keep America clean. Baldwin______20. 2 71. 4 8.3 ======Love always, Butler______32. 2 61.6 6. 3 Baldwin_------62.1 33. l 4.8 BARBARA COOLER. Conecuh______22. 2 64.4 13. 3 Butler______66.4 31.3 2.4 Covington______25. 8 67.8 6. 4 Conecuh______62.2 31. l 6. 7 Crenshaw______28. 9 62. 7 8. 4 Covington______71.3 25. 0 3. 7 BROOKLET, GA., April 22, 1971. Escambia______29. 2 63. 3 7. 5 Crenshaw ______62.7 33.7 3.6 DEAR MR. HAGAN: Put up more pollution Lowndes______17. 3 71. 2 11. 5 Escambia______61. 5 33. 7 4. 9 signs than adver.tising signs and other un Montgomery______28. 5 63. 5 7. 9 Lowndes______71.2 28.8 0.0 Pike______26. 1 67. 0 6. 9 Montgomery. __. __ 71. 9 24. 8 3. 3 necessary signs. We need pollution signs in Pike______67.4 28. 7 3.8 Georgia. I smell dirty air. I want to smell 2. Do you approve of the clean air. Help fight pollution and don't be a administration's plan 8. Would you vote for a for getting the United national health insur litterbug. States out of Vietnam Your friend, ance program for all including the use of air Americans which would JEANNE. support in Laos and be financed by increased Cambodia? social security and STILSON, GA., April 21, 1971. Total______76. 0 17. 8 6.1 other Federal taxes? DEAR MR. HAGAN: I want to talk to you ======Total______23. 3 71.0 5. 7 a.bout our pollution problem. I think you Baldwin______74. 5 19. 1 6. 5 should put up more pollution signs. We a.re Butler______82. 9 10. 0 7.1 Baldwin______======22. 3 72. 3 5. 4 Conecuh______64.4 26.7 8.9 Butler______28.4 65.4 6.2 going on a hike and pick up all the trash Covington______78.0 14.2 7.8 I Conecuh______16. 7 75. 6 7. 8 along the roadside. hope your pollution Crenshaw __ ------79. 5 12. 0 8. 4 Covington______21. 5 71. 0 7. 4 signs work. Escambia______76. 1 14. 5 9. 4 Crenshaw______32. 5 66. 3 1. 2 Your friend, Lowndes______86. 5 9. 6 3. 8 Escambia______19.3 72.4 8.3 ANNA BLITCH. Montgomery______75. 8 18. 8 5. 4 Lowndes______17.3 80.8 1.9 Pike ______75. 9 15. 3 8. 8 Montgomery______24. 6 69. 8 5. 6 Pike ______21.5 72.4 6.1 BROOKLET, GA. 3. Would you be willing to pay substantially more DEAR MR. HAGAN: I hope you put up more for products and serv 9. Do you support President pollution signs. We want to help stop pollu ices (automobiles, Nixon's family assist tion. We want a clean country. We want a gasoline, electricity, ance plan which would guarantee a minimum clean road. We want a clean city. etc.) if they were made virtually pollu income to every family Your friend, tion free? but require able-bodied AL SANDERS. adults to accept suitable Total______46. 6 46. 7 6. 7 employment or job training? Baldwin ______46. 8 45.6 7.6 RESULTS OF THE SEVENTH ANNUAL Butler_ __ • ______37.6 56. 2 6.2 Total______46. 6 4.83 5.0 Conecuh ____ ----- 32. 2 56. 7 11. l DICKINSON QUESTIONNAffiE Covington _____ -- _ 38.6 54.0 7.4 Baldwin______43.2 49. 9 6. 9 Crenshaw __ ·----- 41. 0 54. 2 4,8 Butler______47. 9 46. 9 5. 2 Escambia ______46.9 45.6 7. 5 Conecuh______41.1 54.4 4.4 Lowndes ______36.5 55. 8 7. 7 Covington______43. 1 52. 7 4. 3 HON. WILLIAM L. DICKINSON Montgomery ______48.9 44.8 6.4 Crenshaw______44.6 55. 4 0. 0 OF ALABAMA Pike ______36.4 55. 2 8.4 Escambia______42. 4 52. 3 5. 4 Lowndes______21.2 71.2 7.7 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 4. Do you believe there is a Montgomery______49.6 45. 7 4. 7 need for an independ Pike______41. 9 54. 6 3. 5 Tuesday, June 1, 1971 ent Federal agency to help protect consumer 10. Would you favor an all Mr. DICKINSON. Mr. Speaker, each interests? volunteer military as spring since coming to the Congress I an alternative to the Total______49.0 44.4 6.6 present draft system? have asked the people of Alabama's Sec ======ond Congressional District for their views Baldwin______45. 6 45. 9 8. 5 Total______46.5 47.6 5.9 Butler______46.4 46.4 7.1 on a variety of pressing national issues. Conecuh______55.6 34.4 10.0 Baldwin ______======48.7 44.2 7.0 The results of my latest general opinion Covington______45. 8 47. 2 7. 0 Butler______43. l 50.2 6.6 Crenshaw______41.0 53.0 6.0 Conecuh______33.3 60.0 6.7 ballot have been tabulated and I would Escambia______41.0 50.4 8.6 Covington______48. 1 46. 3 5. 6 like to share these results with my Lowndes______48.1 44.2 7. 7 Crenshaw______57.8 34.9 7.2 Montgomery______52. 2 42. 2 5. 6 Escambia______48. 5 42. 6 8. 8 colleagues. Pike______48. 7 41. 4 10. 0 Lowndes______47.1 49.0 3.9 I am of the opinion that the answers Montgomery______44. 8 49. 7 5. 5 5. Do you favor the Presi- Pike______50.0 45.4 4.6 of over 10,000 of my constituents are in dent's proposal for deed representative of the feelings in the revenue sharing? 11. Are you favorably im Second District, the State of Alabama, pressed with the over and most probably, the Nation. I urge Tota'------·-======54. 2 32. 5 13. 2 all performance of the you to take a few moments to study both Baldwin______52.6 33. 7 13. 7 Nixon administration Butler______64.5 25.l 10.4 during its first 2 the questions and the responses: Conecuh______51. 1 33. 3 15. 6 years? RESULTS OF THE SEVENTH ANNUAL DICKINSON Covington______60. 3 25. 3 14. 4 Crenshaw______54.2 37.3 8.4 TotaL______55.4 37.6 7.0 QUESTIONNAmE Escambia______49. 7 31. 5 18. 8 ======Baldwin______50.4 41.3 8.3 I believe you will find the tabulation of Lowndes ______46.2 42.3 11.5 Montgomery______54. 5 32. 7 12. 8 Butler______48.6 46.2 5.2 your votes on my recent opinion poll both Pike______54.0 29.9 16.1 Conecuh______47. 8 38. 9 13. 3 informative and interesting. All of the issues, Covington______54.3 39.4 6.4 I believe, are &till very timely and quite im 6. Now that 18-year-olds Crenshaw______42.2 57.8 0.0 are permitted to vote Escambia ______45.8 43.4 10.7 portant to the people of the Se<:-0nd District in Federal elect!ons, Lowndes______47. l 45.1 7. 8 of Alabama. One very interesting factor in do you believe they Montgomery______59. 2 34. 4 6. 4 the voting was the particLpa.tion by both should also be allowed Pike______48. 3 44. 0 7. 7 to vote in State and husband and wife. There were spaces to re local e.ections? cord both, and the women accounted for Repub Demo- lnde- 52.4 percent of the answers while the men Total______59.2 37. l 3. 7 licans crats pendents roted 47.6 percent of the total. While the Baldwin ______======53.3 42.6 4.2 women did participate slightily more in the Butler______59.7 37.9 2.4 12. Voting preference: balloting, there wa.s very little difference be Conecuh ______53.9 38.2 7.9 Total______34. 8 18. 5 46. 7 tween male and female responses. Covington ______56.6 38.0 5.3 Crenshaw______54.2 39.8 6.0 June 1, 1971 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 17443 THE GROWING IMPACT OF PAY less, we will not have an opportunity to ple, financed almost entirely by taxes on t h e ROLL TAXES ON MIDDLE INCOMES vote on each individual section. We will working generation. There is nothin g wrong be asked to accept or reject H.R. 1 in its with this, 1n principle, but it is n ot what entirety. people think it is. HON.GLENN M. ANDERSON Therefore, Mr. Speaker, we must re The second myth is that the employer pays OF CALIFORNIA half the social security tax. In a literal sense, ject the closed rule in order to allow he does, but, as the Brookings st udies dem IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES amendments to H.R. 1. In addition, we onstrate, the whole tax really falls on wages Tuesday, June 1, 1971 must reverse the trend of increasing the and the wage-earner, because the amount payroll tax which falls most heavily on the employer pays in social security t axes he Mr. ANDERSON of California. Mr. the low- and moderate-income wage would otherwise be put ting into the pay Speaker, in the very near future, Con earner. check. gress will be oonsidering H.R. 1, a com At this point, I include an article This is worth emphasizing. When the So -pr€hensive 687-page bill which, among cial Security system began 35 years ago, the which appeared in the Washington Post tax rate was one per cent ea.ch on employee other things, grants a 5-percent increase regarding this issue: in social security benefits, includes the and employer on the first $3,000 of annual THE GROWING IMPACT OF PAYROLL TAXES ON earnings. With the new bill, the combined administration's family assistance plan, MIDDLE INCOMES rate rises to almost 15 per cent of the vay and levies an 86-percent increase in the roll on wages up to the $10,000 level. payroll tax over the next 6 years. (By David S. Broder) Among the many publicly unexplored is That tax is levied regardless of the number On the Federal level, there are two sues burled in H.R. 1, the welfare reform and of dependents or legitimate deductions the basic taxes on the individual. First, the social security bill devised by Chairman Wil earner has. It gives no real consideration to income tax, is designed to insure that bur Mills (D-Ark.) and the House Ways and his ability to pay. those with substantially the same in Means Committee, is a tax increase on mid This year, as the Brookings analysts have .comes are paying substantially the same dle-income families that will almost double noted, a family w1th a husband earning $7,000 the size of the second-biggest bite on their and a wife earning $5,000 will pay $624 in tax and to insure that the graduated payroll taxes (5.2 per cent). A fa.mily with income tax structure treats different in paychecks in the next six years. Under the bill, the Social Security tax rate the identical income from one wage earner come levels fairly. The second tax, the will rise in three steps from the present 5.2 would be taxed only $405.60 (3.4 per cent) . payroll tax, is levied against everyone at per cent to 7.4 per cent in 1977. The wage That is one inequity. Another is pointed the same rate, but falls particularly hard base for Social Security taxes wm increase up in the advisory councll study. When the upon the middle and moderate wage from the present $7,800 to $10,200 next year, social security system began in the 1930s, earner. with the result that the payroll tax for a the $3,000 wage base included all the earn ings of all but three per cent of the workers. In another blow to the working man's man making a bit less than $200 a week will wages, H.R. 1 calls for an 86-percent ri.se from $405 to $755 a year. The wage tax, in those days, was. in effect, By contrast, that same auto worker, sup the same tax on everyone. raise in the payroll tax from the present porting a wife and two chlldren and taking But in recent years, Mills and· his commit 5.2 percent on wages up to $7,800, to 7.4 only his standard deductions, will have an tee have been reluctant to push the wage percent on wages up to $10,200. In mone income tax b1ll of $1052 this year, decreasing base celling up as fast as inflation and earn tary terms, this means that the working to $995 with next year's scheduled income ings have increased. Today, somewhere be man, who paid $405 payroll tax last year, tax reductions. tween 20 and 25 per cent of the wage-earn may end up paying $755 in future years. What this example indicates is that pay ers make more than the wage-base limit. For the low- and moderate-income roll taxes are becoming an increasingly im These well-off workers get a real break on family, the payroll tax can become a portant part of our revenue system-yet one social security taxes. A $23,400-a-year-ma.n, which has largely escaped debate, either in for example, gets just as big retirement ben burden far out of proportion to what the political campaigns or in the tax-writ ing efits as a $7,800-a-year-man, but the effective worker and his family can afford to pay. Ways and Means Committee. payroll tax rate on his income ls just one A married worker, earning $8,000 a year, Unbeknownst to most Americans, payroll third of the lower-salaried man's. paid $405 payroll taxes; however, if H.R. taxes now constitute the second lru-gest There are ways in which these inequities 1 is adopted with the proposed payroll source of federal funds--and the fastest could be remedied. Proposals have been tax increase, he would pay an additional growing. Payroll taxes provide more income made for years to shift a portion of social se $191-for a total of $596 in payroll taxes. to the treasury than corporate income taxes curity financing onto the progressive income or any other federal taxes except the indi tax and off the regressive payroll tax. This is in addition to the Federal income vidual income tax. And the 1972 budget es Without going that far, there could be a tax he pays on the same earnings. timates that between last year and next, system of deductions or income tax credits Mr. Speaker, the social security tax, payroll taxes alone will rise $12.3 billion, that would help the low-income wage earner as proposed in H.R. 1, is most regressive. while individual and corporate income taxes who now is hit hardest by payroll taxes. But Under the provisions of th€ committee combined will grow by only $7.2 billion. Congress, under Democratic control, has recommendation, anyone earning $10,200 What this means is that we are becoming done exactly the opposite in recent years, increasingly dependent for federal finances cutting income taxes and raising payroll or less would pay a payroll tax on all of on the payroll tax, a tax that is not progres taxes, and thereby making the whole federal his earnings. Those earning $20,400 sive, that has little relationship to ability to tax system more regressive. According to would pay on only the first half of theirs, pay, and whose burden hits hardest on low partcipants in this year's Ways and Means those earning $30,600 on only the first and-middle-income wage-earners. sessions, the question of social security one-third. Yet, the $30,600-a-year man That this can happen without a murmur taxes did not receive -any extended discus gets an equal retirement benefit as a man of debate or political controversy indicat es sion. If Mills is successful, as usual, in ob earning $10,200. just how insensitive to real pocketbook is taining a closed rule for the bill, there wm sues the Washington politicians have be be no meaningful opportunity for presenting THE CLOSED RULE come, particularly those Democrats who con amendments to it on the House floor. If the past is any indication of the trol Congress and parade as the champions This example-and it is only one of many future, H.R. 1 will come before the House of the average man. suggests the price that is being paid for let of Representatives with a closed rule, The impact of payroll taxation has been ting vital questions of economic policy be which, in effect, prohibits amendments. amply documented in the studies of such settled in the politically insulated, tightly If H.R. 1 comes before us with a closed Brookings Institution specialists as Alice M. controlled environment of the Ways and rule, we will be required to approve or Rivlin and Joseph A. Pechman. It appears Means Committee's closed sessions. Too also in the report of the administration's ad many members of Congress have become ac reject a single bill which: First, increases visory council on social security. But it is al customed to letting Wilbur Mills do their payroll taxes by 86 percent, second, in most as if there were a conspiracy of silence thinking and decision-making on difficult creases social security benefits by 5 per by politicians to keep the taxpayers and the questions. cent, third, liberalizes medicare, fourth, voters unaware of these issues. But it also indicates something else: the liberalizes the social security recipients In part, t he Brookings studies suggest, the peculiar insensitivity of the leading Demo earning test, fifth, provides for a guar social security tax system has been pro cratic politicians, including the presidential anteed a nnual income of $2,400 for a tected. from debate by two carefully culti aspirants, to the economic issues. Discussing family of four, and sixth, prohibits the vated myths. One is the notion that it is a the inequities of payroll taxing may not at participation of certain needy families in "social insurance" system, in which an indi tract as much praise at Georgetown cocktail vidual's contributions (taxes) are held in parties as a ringing denunciation of the the food stamp program. trust for him and returned, with interest, as bombing in Laos or the tactics of the Wash While we support the provisions which retirement benefits. ington poUce. A candidate who took a seri bring needed reforms, we may oppose the In fact, it is not. It is, rather, a system of ous look at our tax system might even suffer sections which are regressive. Neverthe- transfer payments to currently retired pea- a sudden shortage of campaign contributors. 17444 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 1, 1971 But there are issues that can be raised, My uniform is that of the United States panies could lower their rates if they didn't wrongs that can be righted, and votes that Coast Guard. But I would like to speak not have to provide men and equipment to take can be earned by the politician who Will as a representative of the Coast Guard care of unforeseen events that threaten to deign to consider maitters tha.t matter to though I am certainly proud of our service disrupt the power and communications you wage-earners. but rather as a member of the Armed Forces need for daily survival. of the United States. For this is Armed The Armed Forces of the United States Forces Week, and Saturday is Armed Forces are just as important to the continued well Day. It is a special time designated each being and survival of our Nation as your year by Presidential Proclamation to pay local police department, fire department, am COAST GUARD'S ASSISTANT COM tribute to all five of our Armed Forces: the bulance service and other emergency organi MANDANT SARGENT STRESSES Army, the Navy, the Marines, the Air Force, zations are to your own community. NEED FOR MAINTAINING FULL and, of course, my service, the Coast Guard. What about the men who make up our MILITARY STRENGTH All of these Armed Forces play an im Armed Forces? Are these men you should portant role in the defense of our Nation. fear or distrust? No, of course not, no more Over the years, one lesson we have learned than you would fear or distrust one an HON. DANTE B. FASCELL and learned well is that teamwork is essen other-for the men in the Armed Forces are OF FLORIDA tial to victory. Much of our peacetime train simply citizens in uniform. This ha.s been IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ing is devoted to practicing the close cooper true since the earliest days of our Republic. ation we need in time of war. There is a great The man who wears a Coast Guard uni Tuesday, June 1, 1971 deal of sharing of training facilities and ex form-like his counterpart 1n the other four changes of lnformation. Coast Guard cutters branches of the Armed Forces-is just like Mr. FASCELL. Mr. Speaker, on May 14, participate in Navy exercises for example. one of you. They don't come from a single Vice Adm. Thomas R. Sargent, Assistant And Navy engineers study our newest pro class. They come from all walks of life, from Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, pulsion plants to see what they might adapt the East and the West, from the North and addressed an Armed Forces Week lunch to their newer vessels-we exchange helicop from the south, from rural cominunities, eon in Miami, Fla. ter pilots with the Air Force in Southeast from huge cities, from farms and factories. I found his remarks not only most in Asia. So though each of the Armed Forces Their names reflect the diverse heritage that wears its own uniform, we share a comIUon is so typically American-.Schultz, Wagner, teresting, but particularly relevant to the goal, and pull in the same direction for a Murphy, Smith, Kontowski, Coletti-they are important role which our military forces stronger United States. black, yellow and white-they are Americans. play in defending our country. Of course, we have our differences. An Those of us in the Armed Forces are not Admiral Sargent very cogently points nually, we compete for our share of the much different than you men in the civilian out that we must not live with a false budget on Capitol Hill. We compete for re world. Oh, our hair may be a little shorter, sense of security. He reminds us that cruits. We even on occasion call each other and we like to think that we might be in names like swabbie, dogface, airdale, or jar a little better physical condition. But essen within the last generation, Nazi U-boats head. There are no doubt many jarheads here tially we are just like you or your neighbors. sank American ships and took American today? The only difference is you have hired us to lives only 15 short miles from where he Well, let me tell you that this hooligan do a job-you have hired us to maintain the was delivering his speech in Miami. More has nothing but the highest admiration for defense of this Nation-we work for you-we recently, he points out, medium range the traditions and the ability of the United are your employees. When you think the task missiles were discovered being installed States Marines. of defending this Nation is important you in Cuba, only 90 miles from our shores, Though we may kid one another, deep hire more of us and invest more money in down there is a large measure of mutual re new equipment. When you get tired of paying an act which precipitated the crisis which spect among all of the services. Ask a marine the bills-when you think you don't need brought us closer to the brink of nuclear who landed on Guadalcanal, or Leyte, or the defense we provide-when the voices of war than any other event since World Okinawa what he thinks a.bout the Coast the critics get louder, you cut back and our War II. Guardsmen who manned the boats that car Armed Forces get smaller and weaker. It has Mr. Speaker, this speech emphasizes ried him to the beach. Ask an army veteran happened before, and it could happen again. what I have been saying for years in ref of Normandy Beach or of Vietnam what he Little more than 15 mlles from Where you thinks about the navy pilot or air force sit is the beaiutiful gulf stream. Isn't it a. erence to the need to maintain our forces pilot who flew air support missions. There is litltle frightening, gentlemen, to remember at full strength, particularly our Coast no question about the fact that among our that only some 29 years ago Nazi U-Boats Guard, Army, Air Force, and Navy mili selves we have a great deal of respect. roamed at wm. They not only roa.m.ed-they tary complement in the area from Home But outside the military these days, there sank ships, lots of ships, and took American stead to Key West and the Caribbean. seems to be a growing feeling of suspicion, lives. Why? How could an enemy operate so Hearings before my Subcommittee on or distrust, in some cases maybe even scorn close to the homes you hold so dear? Inter-American Affairs last year con of the man who wears a uniform. Too many The answer is very simple. There were not young men seem to think that serving 1n the enough men, not enough ships and not firmed the increased Soviet naval activ Armed Forces is the mark of a "loser." And enough planes to cope with the strength of ity in the Caribbean, and indicated the more unfortunately, too many of the parents the Nazi U-Boa.t Pleet. He was thousands of strong possibility that a nuclear subma of these young men, parents old enough to miles from his homebase. We were righit at rine base was under construction at know better, do everything tbey can to dis home. But the hulks of Ships sunk during Cienfuegos, CUba. During these hearings, courage their offspring from a m111tary these early days of the war ldtter the bottom Adm. E. B. Holmes, Commander in Chief career. of the entire east coast. of the Atlantic Command, stated: others warn "beware the military-indus The Navy did what they could-the Coast trial complex," and quote General Eisen Guard kept every ship and boat and plane The Southern flank of the U.S. is perhaps hower. They neglect, however, to quote an opera.ting to the fullest extent of human one of the most vulnerable. . . • A reduction other portion of that same famous Eisen endurance-the Air Force flew day and night of military capabllity in this whole area 1n hower statement in which the late general patrols-yet right here on your doorstep, the face of (the Soviet presence) str1kes me as folly. said: right here a-t home in plain sight of the "A vital element in keeping the peace is shore, Americans died at sea because there Furthermore, Soviet trawlers in the our military establishment. Our arms must wasn't sufficient force ava.Llable to resist a area have been harassing American fish be mighty, ready for instant action, so that tenacious enemy. ing boats in the same waters which were no potential aggressor may be tempted to The lesson? If your home is likely to catch risk his own destruction." fire, you better hope that your fire depart plied by the Nazi U-boats less than 30 Certainly the critics of the military love ment has sufficient hose to reach the years ago. They have kept our Coast their country and all the good things that hydrant. Guard busy. freedom brings. But somehow they have for Later on, of course, as our forces grew, we Last week, Admiral Sargent's speech gotten that freedom has Its price; somehow, were aible to put the fire out. Joint efforts reafiirmed the need to keep our forces any nation that is to endure, must provide of the Navy, the Coast Guard and the Army ready to defend our Nation. I commend the strength to defend itself against all Air Corps drove the Nazi a.way from our his speech to our colleagues: possible threats. It would be wonderful if all coasts and eventually, massive sea a.nd air the world was peace-loving, if all nations attacks broke the back of the U -Boat Fleet. SPEECH BY VICE ADM. THOMAS R. SARGENT could "beat their swords into plowshares." But in those early months, the situation I am sure a group this size represents Wonderful, but under existing world circum was pretty grim-I know-I was here a.t sea. many different viewpoints on almost every stance, unrealistic. That was back in 1942, so let's look at a. topic. But I think we all can agree on one It would be wonderful if you citizens of more recent example. Just seven years ago, thing-we like short speeches. So I intend Miami didn't need a police force or fire de in the fall of 1962, another enemy posed a to limit my remarks today to just ten min partment. Think of the taxes you could threat to the gulf coast and to much of our utes. save; and I feel sure that the utility com- Nation. I speak of the medium range missiles June 1, 1971 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 17445 tha.t were discovered being installed in Cuba. "If I were you I'd get out of here," the over the young man who had been brushed Suppose that we had been as weak in 1962 man whispered to her. "Why?" the girl asked but apparently not severely injured. Again, as we had been twenty years earlier? in amazement. "I've done nothing wrong." no arrests were made. Fortunately we weren't, fortunately we had She tried to continue to speak but the man In West Potomac Park, such scenes were the strength in being-the physical and shook his head. "Get off the streets," he witnessed time and again-police chasing moral strength and the combined power of said. "They're arresting everybody." The demonstrators like fathers running after modern armed forces. Because the President girl smiled. "They won't arrest me,'' she naughty children, their aim only to keep had at his disposal coordinated power that said. "I've done nothing wrong." traffic moving and not to make arrests. In could move in an instant, we were able to The man had not recognized the girl as a this, it seemed to this reporter that they demand and enforce an enemy withdrawal. lawbreaker in any way. He only saw she was were both overpermissive and successful. Because we had the force, we didn't have to a member of a minority group being swept off It was only after 9 A.M.-when the demon use it. Without firing a shot, a battle, and the streets. But he did not tell her this. He strations, on Constitution Ave. at least, were perhaps a war, was won. did not tell her to walk into the nearby mu over and the rush hour had ended without I think it is appropriate that we remember seum where she would be safe. Instead, he the protesters achieving their disruptive some lines from one of President Kennedy's only stared as she walked on. goal-that the arrests en masse began. At Speeches. In a speech he never delivered, a The girl crossed the street and began Dupont Circle, a major Washington intersec speech prepared for a luncheon meeting at walking on the next block. She managed to tion, colleagues reported that arrests did be Dallas on November 22, 1963, he said: get about a quarter of the way along that gin about 7:30 A.M. But at both Dupont "We in this country, in this generation, block before the patrol wagon came. Two Circle and on Constitution Ave. it seemed as are-by destiny rather than choice-the men in helmets and dark uniforms leaped though every casually dressed young man watchmen on the walls of world freedom. out ana gently but firmly impelled her to and woman simply walking the streets was We ask, therefore, that we may be worthy the wagon. The man stared as the wagon abruptly taken into custody. of our power and responsibility-that we doors closed on the girl, and the wagon Surely, many of them were demonstrators; may exercise our strength with wisdom and moved off. equally surely, many of them were not. But restraint--and that we may achieve in our That was not the beginning of a bad World since none of the pedestrians was breaking time and for all time the ancient vision of War II movie about Nazi Germany. That the law at the time, it seems clear that the peace on earth, goodwill toward men. That was not a science fiction film about a totali police could not know how to separate the must always be our goal-and the righteous tarian government of the future. That was innocent from those who had committed il ness of our cause must always underlie our the morning of May 3, in Washington, D.C., legal acts. And to judge from the way the strength." the street was Constitution Ave., and I was court cases came out, this indiscriminate for We in the coast guard, and men in the the man who stood there. That was the morn mula for cracking down seems of dubious other armed forces are proud to be a part of ing when it suddenly became illegal for a utility. Of the 12,000 arrested during that your strength. We have confidence that you minority groui>-every young person in first week in May, 1,999 have already gone to will keep us strong so that we may help denims and fatigues-to walk the streets of court. Of these, only one demonstrator was preserve this nation which we all love so the nation's Capital. convicted after a trial; 584 were freed after well. .Newspapers deal in immediacy and by that entering no-contest pleas. All the rest had Thank you very much. standard May 3 and the aggravating, illegal their cases dismissed or were found innocent. attempt by thousands of young anti-war By far, the greatest majority of arresting demonstrators to block morning rush hour officers were gentle as they took persons into traffic is already deep in the past. But the custody. Still, this reporter, standing on MYRON S. WALDMAN manner in which the metropolitan police sunny Constitution Ave., on the morning of of Washington dealt with that widescale, un May 3, was moved to recall the words of Sen. lawful peace demonstration is an issue which Margaret Chase Smith (R-Me.), spoken June HON. LESTER L. WOLFF will be debated for months to come. It is 1, 1970, on the floor of the Senate. "Ironical OF NEW YORK an issue that has become crucial because ly, the excesses of dissent in the extreme left Police Chief Jerry V. Wilson has repeatedly IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES can result in repression of dissent," she said said that he will use the same tactic to dis then. "For repression is preferable to anarchy Tuesday, June 1, 1971 perse similar illegal demonstrations in the and nihilism to most Americans." future. Yet it seemed to some that on May 3, there Mr. WOLFF. Mr. Speaker, few of the Chief Wilson, widely recognized as a cool, journalists with whom I have worked might have been a third way; namely, legal even-handed man who commands a. forcce arrests of those plainly breaking the law. In since coming to Congress have impressed that could be a model for any city in the a speech on the Senate floor shortly after the me as much as Mike Waldman. As the country, was given the endorsement of the events of May 3, Sen. Jacob Javits (R-N.Y.) Capitol Hill correspondent for Newsday, Justice Department for these new-and dis declared: "It is most important that Ameri he has been at once probing, illuminat turbing-actions. But a. Senate resolution cans do not say, 'We are for civil liberties, but ing, incisive, fair, and an especially dis has lauded him for his tactics and he has not when it might be difficult to grant people tinguished wordsmith. been praised by the highest administration these liberties.' Let us not, in our thankful When, earlier this month, Washington officials, including the President and the at ness for nonviolence, relax our vigilance in torney general. Mr. Mitchell went so far as the protection of such liberties." was the scene of massive demonstrations to urge other cities to copy Wilson's tactics. by thousands of young people, Mike, like To civil libertarians, this can only mean all good reporters, was there. that high government officials are saying And, being there, he became one of that the response of a democracy to lllegal those who, through :first-hand exper repressive acts must be the abandonment of CUBANS PROCLAIM GREATNESS OF ience, were deeply angry at the way in the democratic process through the tech AMERICA AND WARN US OF THE in which the authorities combatted those nique of indiscriminate mass arrests. More SOVIET THREAT over, on the streets and highways this re demonstrations. It is my belief that porter walked on May 3, mass arrests seemed the simple eloquence of his account of not to come where the young people were HON. JOHN R. RARICK the arrests merits being included in this blocking traffic. Instead, they appeared to OF LOUISIANA RECORD. I know and respect Mike well occur on those streets and highways only IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES enough to feel confident that he could after the rush hour had ended and the pro not be so angry without cause, and I test also seemed to be over. Tuesday, June 1, 1971 would like to share his thoughts, as For example, at the height of the rush hour Mr. RARICK. Mr. Speaker, in an in printed in Newsday on May 25, with my near 14th St. and Main Ave., a police lieu formative report on the nearly 650,000 colleagues. tenant stood with a detail of 20 men. A ser geant pointed out to him that a.bout a. dozen Cubans taking refuge in the United The article follows: demonstrators had formed a. human chain States in the past 12 years since the Com MYRON S. WALDMAN, NEWSDAY WASHINGTON across the road, blocking traffic. "All right,'' munist Fidel Castro assumed power, U.S. BUREAU the lieutenant said, "get 10 men and chase News & World Report of May 31, 1971, On a sunny May morning, a man paused them out of there and then come back." The relates the success story of Cubans who on a broad avenue to watch a company of sergeant carried out his orders precisely and came to the United States penniless and soldiers standing in the street. As he watched, no arrests were made, even though the young some without a knowledge of English. a girl, about 19 or 20 years old, came strolling people were clearly violating the law. Later, Through hard work, often at menial jobs, along the sidewalk. She recognized the man on West Potomac Parkway, two motorcycle they have proven themselves to be pro- as one who had talked with her and several patrolmen broke up another human chain by companions the night before although neith riding their bikes at the protesters. One ductive members of our society and have er the man nor the girl knew the other's demonstrator was knocked over by a motor advanced to positions of ever greater uame, she paused to say good morning. cycle. The police and demonstrators bickered contribution to our productive economy. 17446 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 1, 1971 CastroPs refugees are truly America's you know it the game is over . . . and then 800 small ICBM missiles (types SS-11; SS- gain. it ls too late to mount a counter attack. 13). Contrary to the opinions about this The Cubans who lost their freedom know 300 large ICBM missiles (type SS-9}-the country expressed by many of the recent what I say is true because they were en SS-9 has a range of 6600 miles and can carry slaved before they realized whait was hap a 35 mega.ton warhead ... can also be fitted antiwar demonstrators in our Nation's pening to them and their country. The same with multiple warheads. Capital, these Cubans who have experi thing ls happening here in America today. 280 submarine launched ballistic missiles enced repression and tyranny find Amer . . . Lack of respect in the institutions of (type SSN-6). ica to be a land of opportunity and the government . . . lack of respect for author 300 submarine launched cruise missiles. greatest nation on earth. ity ... lack of morals ... runaway infia. ? Orbital space bombs. In addition to being grateful to these tion . . . erosion of buying power and the The submarine borne missile as well as the Cubans for the constructive contributions destruction of the middle class . . . falsely SS-9, ICBM missiles in the Soviet Union are they are making to American life, we incited race hatred ... insidious treason in essential for a. first strike on the United government and the communications media. States. The ICBM with its large warhead Americans are appreciative of the ad All these things happened in Cuba. plus has but one target.... Our nuclear deterrent vice and warnings their informed leaders they were sold out by our country for expedi the Minuteman missile and the submarine are giving us regarding the grave peril ency in 1962, when a. United States President missile is targeted for our airborne deterrent to the United States and to freedom didn't have the guts to enforce the Monroe a.swell as airfields, communications, military posed by the Soviet military buildup on Doctrine. Our fate and that of the Cuban peo bases and population centers in the United their enslaved homeland. ple was sea.led when we allowed Commu States. In an article entitled "Pearl Harbor nism to get a foothold in the Western Hemis Senator Henry Jackson of Washington and U.S.A." the 1970 newsletter of June 1971, phere. a. member of the Senate Armed Services La. Prehsa, La. Tribuna, Patria. and La. Voz Committee reported on March 7th of 1971 published by Mr. Howard Freund; Mr. would not feature my article PEARL HAR what I warned earlier.... that while Soviet Marcelo Prieto warns of the exploitation BOR-U.S .A. on page 1 of their papers if they Nuclear Deployment of the SS-9 m~ssiles had of Cuba as an offensive base for an at did not recognize the threat to this country, been suspended a new improved Soviet Mis tack against the mainland United States. which ls the last hope for them. If America sile of the SS-9 type was in production and He emphasizes the imperative need to ex falls to Communism then it is all over for and missile silos were being constructed. So pel the Russians from Cuba so as to re our Cuban, Hungarian, Polish, Czech and while the Soviets spoke of peace and while store freedom to Cuba and to save German exiles who are waiting for the day to we believed their words since there was no America. The Monroe Doctrine--which return home after years of exile. America. evidence of the Russian intent they went has been a. friendly haven which has become on building new and improved weapons bent was diplomatically repealed-again a benevolent jail, preventing them from tak on the sole purpose of destroying our Minute proves the soundness of American doc ing action to restore freedom to their coun man missile retaliatory strength. trine for Americans. tries. The SS-9 missiles are being fitted with In a speech of May 21, 1971, to the If America. goes then communism has the MIRV (Multiple Independently-Targeted Re Miami Council of the Navy League of world and they need fear nothing . . . Viet Entry Vehicle) warheads which will give the United States, Dr. Manolo Reyes, Nam, the Middle East, Turkey and Berlin them three times their present offensive Latin American news editor of station are diversionery movements while the Con strength. tinental United States is and always has In the words of Sena.tor Jackson, it will WTVJ of Miami, cites facts and figures to been the main target of the Reds. Think come "As a. shock to most Americans that show the transformation of the pre about a beacon of light which gives hope and the Russians are deploying a. new generation Castro navy of 46 surface units with a a pathway to break the darkness for those of offensive systems while indicating a con strictly defensive mission into an en who want only to go home to countries where trary position by holding back on SS-9 de larged and more modernized fleet of they may live as FREE MEN. If the Reds ployment".... The Pentagon did not den y some 337 offensive units-a Russian can put the LIGHT out here then they go any of the charges ma.de by Senator Jackson. Navy flying the Cuban flag-with a mis out all over the world. That is the thesis on On the same subject, Joseph Alsop reported sion of exporting the revolution of the which our enemies are guided and what on 3/12/'71 that "before SS-9 deployment dawned on me the evening I wrote my ar was suspended 300 of these gigantic weapons Castro-Communist regime. t icle.... Pearl Ha.rbor-U.S.A. had been put in place. All have pretty cer This latest information on the situa Now to update the article I wrote in early tainly been fitted with a Triple warhead tion in Cuban reinforces my argwnents December of 1970 to today, April 27th, 1971: the Soviets have already tested. That means see CONGRESSIONAL RECORD pages 16544- On April 3rd, 1971 the Soviet Defense that the existing SS-9 force is probably suf 57 of May 24, 1971 entitled "Cuban In Minister, Andrei A. Grechko said at the 24th ficient at this m oment t o destroy abou t 3 dependence Day Is a Reminder of Amer Soviet Party Congress "the forces of reac of every 4 of the U.S. Minuteman Missiles". ica's Pledge To Restore Freedom to tion are again trying military adventures The new missile can do even more damage in against the Soviet Union and the Socia.list destroying the 1 out of 4 missiles not ac Cuba."-that this country should assist camp and are preparing to unleash terrible counted for by the SS-9. With each passing and not resist free Cubans in their efforts war." "However our armed forces a.re always day our nuclear deterrent withers away and to restore freedom to their homeland be ready to chastise the aggressor and right on soon our Minuteman Missiles will be worth fore the cancer of communism infects that territory from which he dares violate less a.s a means of defense. Alsop states that other free nations of the Western Hemi our borders." "Our Army is equipped with the time necessary between the turning of sphere. weapons of great destructive force and capa a. spadeful of dirt to an operational Soviet I insert an article from U.S. News & ble of reaching any point on the globe, on Missile ls 18 months. • . . The question 18 World Report, the article "Pearl Har land, sea and air". when did the Russians first turn over that On April 20th, 1970 our Secretary of De first spadeful of dirt and 1f it really takes bor-U.S.A.," and Dr. Reyes' speech to fense, Melvin Laird stated about the Soviet 18 months. follow: Union, "Thus in the space of five years from Here are the words of Senator Barry Gold PEARL HARBOR-U.S.A. 1965 to 1970 ... . The Soviet Union has vir water in March, 1971 ...• "A strategic parity If I can prove to you the evil designs of a tually quadrupled the total megatonna.ge in was reached a.bout six months ago, the foreign power bent on your destruction, it's strategic offensive force. In the same Soviets pushed right a.head into the flrst would you take action to defend your fam period the United States reduced it's mega. stages of strategic superiority over the United ilies, your home and yourself???? tonnage by more than 40 % " ... April 22nd, States". . . . The big question 18 whether Back in early December 1970 it dawned 1971, Secretary of Defense Laird reported the Russians will use this superiority to on me that this nation was being conditioned that the United States has fresh evidence, blackmail the world and impose it's will wtth and prepared for a communist attack and "confirming the sobering fa.ct that the So power.... How ripe are we for the pluck take over. You may say and think it cannot viet Union is involved in a. new-and appar ing???? happen here since you and I have never ently extensive ICBM construction pro I wrote back in December of 1970 that X was known an adversary as cunning and devious gram". . . . "This new ICBM construction convinced of the Russian plan when I read as the enemy we face today nor can we com- effort, coupled with additional momentum in of the establishment of a. Russian submarine prehend total war as the Communists fight it. the strategic defense area-all clearly base at Cienfuegos, Cuba and the construc Our adversary the Russians a.re masters ~!~~;;.e~ .~onths ago-must be of major con- tion of 8 lane super highways without center at the game of chess and deception. Chess lanes. Highways without center lanes are to any military man is the game of war and Here ls what we reported in our earlier ar nothing more than airfields and the Russians world conquest. Intrigue, hidden moves and ticle based on figures released in September have in Cuba great numbers of Mig fighter motives are prime ingredients in warfare be of 1970 by the American Security Council in bombers which can be fitted with racks to fore victory can be achieved. Men, materials, Washington, D.C.; as to the Soviet ability carry nuclear bombs. While we have been and money are moved around like pawns, to bring their destructive weapons to our defending against the large Russian Strategic rooks, horses and bishops while the screened shores: Bombers the Russians have their attack and protected Queen waits patiently to de 220 Early model ICBM missiles (types SS- planned with fighter bombers capable of a liver the COUP DE GRACE . . . and before 6; SS-7; SS-S). range of 1400 miles, which will come out of June 1, 1971 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 17447 underground fields in Cuba in swarms when Arends (Ill.) put it very well, "Those who peaceful state of being a fool among knaves." the time is ready. Yes Cuba is the key to trumpet so loudly about the size of our de And there is subversion in high places to the attack on the United States and without fense budget, using the myth of a milltary make our people believe the big LIE that it we are a little safer since all of our con industrial-complex as a scapegoat, invariably the Communists really want PEACE. We can tinental targets are within range of sub call for a reordering of our priorities that have PEACE with the Russians if we accept marines operating out of Cuban waters, land there may be an increase in spending on the peace of a slave who must obey the will based missiles in Cuba, and airborne nuclear social programs" ... we have had a decrease and whim of the Master. Oh Mr. Nixon you bomb carrying Mig fighter bombers. in spending for defense in the fiscal years are such a fool if you believe the Commu In the past 4 months I have spoken to the 1969, 1970, 1971 at an average of $2 b1llion nists will ever let us live in Peace. leaders of the Free Cuba Movement as well per year in an era of inflation, which means In Conclusion we know that the Russians as objective reporters who have helped me a much greater actual decrease in spending have the intent to conquer the world and piece together the facts into this article. than the figures show. we now know that they have the means to Men like Jose de la Torriente, Martinez Mar Among nations only the strong survive destroy us without suffering terrible ret quez, Dr. Manolo Reyes, Mr. Luis Manrara, and we in America are weak from within and ribution. The only thing we do not have pin Armando Sifredo and others . .. All agree with a tempting plum ripe for the plucking from pointed is the exact date of Pearl Harbor me of the important position of Cuba in the without.... We are morally weak in believ U.S.A. plan to destroy the United States.... And ing that the Communists would even con Since surprise, steailth and the unexpected the imminence of the attack. In my original template living with the Free World without are necessary to minimize our ability to re article I wrote that I did not believe there conquering it. We have grown fat, weak and taliate we know that the attack will come were Russian missiles in Cuba ... After in weary with too much of an emphasis on on a national holiday, when our defenses are vestigation I am now convinced that there cradle to grave support and welfare while ex weakest. There are three national holidays are Russian missiles in Cuba and in the cellence was penalized and the lazy and un coming up in the fall and wiruter of 1971 words of Jose de la Torriente, "They are all productive were rewarded with the fruits of and each has been set up as a contingency over Cuba". The establishment of the Rus our labors. date for Pearl Harbor-U.S.A. The first date sian submarine base at Cienfuegos has omin The great ponderable to the Soviet Union is Labor Day, September 6th, 1971. The sec ous meaning. The harbor at Cienfuegos is is can they attack the United States and ond, Thanksgiving Day, November 25th, now off limits to Cuban fishermen and ships not be destroyed by our deterrent. The Mid 1971; and the third, Christmas Day, Decem entering the bay cannot see what is on the dle East is the key to the Soviet Defensive ber 25th, 1971. right side because it is screened off to view. Plans and is being used as a testing ground The harvest will be in by the September The Soviet base as reported from the under for the SAM-2 and SAM-3 missiles just as date. The activities in the Middle East fit ground resembles closely the U.S. naval base Germany and Italy used the Spanish Civil in here since before any Russian atta<:k can at Guantanamo, Cuba. Cienfuegos has an War in 1936. Joseph Alsop reveals in one of be made against the United States, they offensive purpose and could also be a training his articles titled "Soviet missile strength must know if their defensive system will camp for a very important and prime Soviet more than meets the ear". He reports that work. The United States tipped its hand by target in Cuba ... Guantanamo. SAC analysts believe that the Russians al giving the Israelis our Shrike Defensive Mis The latest Russian Polaris-type submarine, ready have an extensive and efficient Anti sile, which homes in on enemy radar which the Yankee class has the ability to fire from Ballistic Missile system disguised as part of is the brains of the SAM-2 and SAM-3 mis a submerged position a balllstic missile with it's anti-aircraft defenses. The problem ls siles. As soon as the Russians are able to a range of 1,300 miles. Here ls what the Rus called "SAM-upgrading" and it was recently conquer this problem their Egyptian ally sian base at Cienfuegos, Cuba means: a sub given 30 hours of study by CIA Director will commence the 3rd round of Middle East marine operating out of this base in the Gulf Richard Helms. Defense is the key to of hostilities. The only thing the Russians of Mexico can place a missile into Chicago, fense since the Russians dare not attack us want to know in the Middle East is 1f their Detroit, New York and St. Louis .... The as long as we have the ca.pablllty to destroy missiles can knock down the Israeli Phan Russians have been testing a submarine them on the return blow. They have deployed tom Jets. They will encourage an Israeli vic borne missile with a 3000 mile range, which approximately 1200 of a new defensive mis tory or truce to lull the world to sleep for takes in every target in the United States. sile which our military people call "Tallinns" the last time before beginning Pearl Har Admiral Hyman Rickover and another won or SA-5's. This missile has a range of 100 bor-U.S.A. If the Russians are not able to derful patriot who just died, Representative miles and an altitude of 100,000 feet, which is achieve their purpose with a three month L. Mendel Rivers, Chairman of the House above the atmosphere. These missiles are peace offensive then they will step the date Armed Services Committee have been warn deployed in most parts of the Soviet Union up to Thanksgiving Day and as a last resort ing us of the terrible results a Russian base in where the SA-2 missiles are placed, which will attack on Christmas Day of 1971. Gen Cuba will unfold. Both of these men are gives them a double defensive capability. eral Curtis LeMay the former head of SAC experts in their field ... can we do less than Moscow is already protected by an ABM sys predicted a while ago that the Soviet Union listen to their warnings? tem known as Galosh. "SAC analysts believe, would issue within 18 months an ultimatum In December of 1970 I wrote that I antic the upset in the balance of nuclear-strategic to the Untted States to surrender or else. ipated the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks power is already far greater than the worst The key to the atta<:k is the Russian base (SALT) to sound like pie in the sky ... and pessimists suppose outside the government's in Cuba and we must do everything possible peace in our land wm again be heard 1n the secret chambers". To fit in with the SAM-2 to expel the Russians by any means includ land ... all part of the Communist strategy and SAM-3 testing The Institute for Stra ing open warfare if necessary to restore to lull us to sleep . . . Our President just tegic Studies in London reports there are freedom to the people of Cuba. To allow signed a treaty with the Russians banning 12,000-15,000 men in Egypt in SAM-3 mis Russia to remain in control of Cuba in nuclear weapons from the world's seabeds. sile crews and 4000 advisers to the Egyptians sures our destruction. The Russians will This could only hurt the United States since manning the SAM-2's . . . And as for the not attack us if we invade Cuba since their our aim is deterrent and nuclear weapons infallability of our missile going off with plan cannot work without the Cuban base on the ocean's seabeds would serve a.s perfect out the President's hand or the Vice-Presi operating as a Trojan horse in our back defensive weapons since they are so hard to dent's ... do you really believe the Presi yard. The longer we wait only insures our find and destroy. We have had nuclear weap dent will be around when the time comes for destruction and as Plato said many cen ons on the seabeds before and why we gave up PEARL HARBOR--U .S.A. The mission to de turies ago, "For evil to triumph aill that is this option for defense in exchange for Rus stroy our President and Vice-President will necessary is that good men do nothing." Let sian promises leads me to believe the treason be handled by the traitors who have been us fish in troubled waters and free Cuba. is very deep. So while we continue to reduce hidden a long time ago and have access to and save America. our armament and the Soviet Goliath con them by their high station for this one pur tinues to amass the weapons of destruction pose. we will shortly become the David of the 2oth In the Pearl Harbor-U .S.A. article writ [From U.S. News & World Report, Century with only a sling-shot to defend ten in December I wrote that the Commu May 31, 19711 the Free World. It is interesting to report the nists would intensify their peace talks sfx FLIGHT FROM CUBA-CASTRO'S Loss Is words of Russian Premier Alexei N. Kosygin months before attacking us. SALT talks have U.S. GAIN been going on daily in Geneva while the on signing the pact for the Soviet Union ... In the 12 years since Fidel Castro came "in the future, too, will not spare efforts to TROJAN HORSE is completed in CUBA and RUSSIA. And now we have ping-pong diplo to power, nearly 650,000 Cubans have sought find solutions to urgent problems connected refuge in the United States. with stopping the arms race and disarma macy with Red China just like the Peace in Our Time of Neville Chamberlain. And as Most have found far more than refuge. ments" ... How about now!!!! Now they are They have found homes, jobs-and opportu working day and night to build the weapons the bible says (Isaiah XLII, 3) "There is that will make it possible for a PAX Russian no peace saith the Lord, unto the wicked". nities. Thousands of refugees, in only a in a Russian ruled world. . . . Peace to the Communists is but another few years, have launched new careers in pro means of waging war and ultimately en fessions and business. The treason from within ls a great part The story of this big wave of immigrants of the Communist Master Plan .... We have slaving the Free Nations of the World. In our capitol now occupied by Red indoctri the 17th century Jonathan Swift described ls a success story seldom matched in this nated fifth columnists who are helping and today's situation . . . "This is the sublime country's long history of immigration. Few abetting the Communist cause by disrupting and refined point of felicity, called the pos other nationality groups have taken root so our government. House G.O.P. Whip, Leslie session of being well deceived: the serene, quickly or progressed so rapidly. 17448 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 1, 1971 WARM WELCOME his wife, an infant son and $40 in cash. Bank positions a.s college or university professors, Some ot this rapid progress can be credited ing was his field, but banks were not bidding doctors, engineers, accountants or business to the aid given by the U.S. Government. No for the services of refugees. He started as executives. other group of immigrants in history has an inventory clerk in a shoe factory at $45 a A HOUSTON GROCER been accorded such a helpful welcome. week. Eighteen months later he was the of Typ.J.oa.l of the Cuba.mi who have made Much of the Cuban success, however, is fice manager. Eventually, he got a bank job. good as t?OOesmen-there are thousands of generally attributed to the efforts and abil By 1966, he was executive vice president of them-is Hector Oardet, 41, who owns a gro ity of the Cubans themselves. Fidelity National. In February of 1969 he cery store in Houston. The store specdaJ.izes Talk to the Cuban refugees and you get became an American citizen-and president in Cuban foods and is a gathering pLace for stlll another explanation. of the bank. the Cuban community. "What we have found in America is the RETAINING OLD TIES Before fleeing Cuba in 1963, Mr. Gardet land of opportunity-the greatest nation on Mr. Arboleya, whose son became an Eagle owned a grocery store in Havana. Like so ear·th,'' says Carlos Arboleya, who in nine Scout at 13, likes to tell of the special camps many others, he reached the U.S. without years rose from an almost penniless refugee for Cuban Boy Scouts in Mia.ml, where the funds or knowledge of the English language. to be president of a Miami bank. Cuban flag is flown Q.longside the American He found work as a stockman for a chain of The mass migration of Cubans to the flag. convenience grocery stores. United States is still continuing. Each month "Our Boy Scouts salute the Cuban flag "At night," Mr. Cardet says, "I would load about 3,600 stream in on an airlift financed with respect for our homeland,'' he says. up the back of my car with Cuban-type by the U.S. Government. These are people "But," he adds, "they not only salute the groceries and sell t hem door to door to Cuban Castro let go with the contemptuous remark American flag-they pledge allegiance to it." ftamililes in Houston." that they were the "worms" of his Commu Tully Dunlap, president of the Riverside In two years, he saved enough to open hta nist society. Bank in Miami, credits Cuban business with own grocery store---.a.nd l!&ter a restaurant In America, however, they are proving, by lifting his bank out of the doldrums in the which employs Cubans as waiters and cooks. and large, to be capable, hardworking people mid-'60s. Mr. Cardet calls the U.S. "the greatest who are ma.king major contributions to Deposits started to move up in 1965, break country on earth." But given the cha.nee, American life. ing a steady downward trend which set in "I'd go back home," he says. A CROSS SECTION with the flight of American customers to the The Cuban population of Ohdo has been The Cuban refugees are scattered widely suburbs in 1961, Mr. Dunlap says, and estimated at 2,300. There are 3,000 Cubans in around the country. But about half of them "Cuban deposits now total over 16 million Michigan. Concentrations of these refugees have settled in south Florida. Nowhere else dollars and we have 18,000 Cuban accounts." are found in major ci11ies of both Staites- is the Cuban success story so visible as it is The New York-New Jersey area is another especia.lly in Detroit and Cleveland. in this area. place where Cubans congregate. Some 75,000 Occupa11ions a,re varied, ranging from the Wherever you turn, the Cuban influence are estimated to be living in New York and pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe Ce.thollc can be seen and felt. The new mechanic at 52,000 in New Jersey. One of them ls Dr. Church in Flint, Mich.-Faither Eduardo the corner garage may not speak English Carlos Marquez Sterling, who was a candi Lorenzo--to an assembly-line worker for tlie fluently-but he can fix your car. The Cuban date for President of Cuba in 1958. Ford Motor Company in Ypsilanti-Jose A. bus boy in the restaurant, the record sug Today Dr. Sterling is professor of Spanish Oa.brera. Mr. Cabrera is also president of the gests, may soon be running that restaurant. literature at C. W. Post College of Long Is Cuban a.ssoc.fa.tion of Michigan. Whole hospitals are now staffed by Cuban land University at Greenvale, N.Y. He says David oaveda, a manufe.oturers' represent doctors. A prime example is the 300-bed Pan this: ative in Columbus and president of the Cu American Hospital in Miami. In all, about "Most of the people who have come to the ban refugee group there, says he knows of 2,000 Cuban doctors have settled in the Mi United States from Cuba have succeeded. only three Cuban fa.mill.es on welfare, eJ.1 of ami area. Their success has been outstanding in many them aiged. He adds: These refugees, records indicate, are good fields-business, medicine, university teach "There are no a.ble-bodied Cubans on wel credit risks. Those who have borrowed money ing, accounting, law and transportation." fiare. We belong to a society where people take have, for the most part, paid it back. Cubans Oscar Rodriguez was 16 and his brother, ca.re of one another. There is a pattern-the on relief are generally too old or too lll to Omar, was 20 when they came to New Jersey ones est.&bl1shed here help the ne~omers." work. as refugees in 1960. Their first jobs were as A Cuban refugee in Detroit, Reinaldo Gon The Cuban impact on the U.S. ls felt at sweepers in a garment factory. Today they zalez, 1s now an executive for an auto-parts many levels. There ls a growing and articulate run their own garment factory, employing suppLier. In 1961, he jOlined the company as Spanish-language press. Movie houses in 75 people. an export clerk. Now, 10 years and eight pro motions later, he is responsible for manufac Washington, D.C., in Newark, in New York A DOCTOR'S STORY turing schedules for Fedeml-Mogul Corpora and in dozens of other cities show films in Dr. Ramon Rodriguez-Torres walked away tion in Western Europe and Latin America. Spanish for tight-knit Latin-American com from his own private hospital in Cuba after Mr. Gonzalez explains his attitude toward munities. Across the land, restaurants with Castro took over. The doctor, his wife, two America and Cuba.: Cuban food and entertainment are opening. small children and his pa.rents arrived vir "I feel . . . the way I feel about my Dade County, Florida, which includes Mi tually penniless in Puerto Rico. A year later mother and my wife. I love both, and my ami, is the hub of Cuban life in the United he was in Brooklyn's Down-state Medical love for one does not interfere with my States. Center as an instructor in pediatrics. From love for the other." Mayor Stephen P. Clark of Miami esti there, his advancement was swift. As the only Spanish-speaking person in his mated that 350,000 Cubans now live there. Dr. Rodriguez-Torres studied for and suburban neighborhood, Mr. Gonzalez has Nobody can be positive about the number passed several State medical examinations. a standing joke with his next-door neigh but it is known that some Cubans, after re He is now a full professor and director of the bor: "I'm better off than you are-,! don't setting elsewhere, return to Dade because of center's pediatric cardiology department. He have a. Cuban living next door to me!" the mlld climate and the proximity to other also started an intensive-care unit for chil Cubans and the homeland. Cubans tend to dren at Kings County Hospital-said to be THE CHICAGO SCENE dislike the cold North American winters. the first of its kind in the U.S. Between 20,000 and 30,000 Cuban refugees are estimated to be living in the Chicago TRADE CENTER "My family and I are very proud and happy to be in this wonderful country where we area. About 500 of these are doctors and there Because of the bilingual pool of ta.lent in have seen all our work and effort rewarded," are approximately 100 Cuban lawyers. the Miami-Dade area, more and more Amer he says. One Cuban in Chicago makes this ap ican companies have set up their Latin At Milledgeville, Ga., 68 Cubans are among praisal: "Some have done well, some not American trade headquarters there-33 in the 113 physicians on the staff at Central so well, depending mainly on how they did Coral Gables a.lone. State Hospital, the big complex for mental in Cuba." Among those companies are Alcoa, Dow patients. Five of the 10 directors are Cubans, Another refugee took a more positive view, Chemical, Chicago Bridge & Iron, Coca-Cola, each heading units with 700 to 1,000 patients. pointing out that a Cuban had to be highly Goodyear, Atlas Chemical, International Central State's top heart specialist is a motivated to leave his homeland--overcome Harvester, Johns-Manville and Bemis. Many Cuban, Dr. Sergio C. Alvarez-Mena. He ls the obstacles to getting permission to de of these trade headquarters are run by Cu chief of cardiology at the hospital and also part-and then buckle down to work in a bans. associate clinical professor of medicine at the strange land. Motivated people, he explained, Of course, it's not all clear sailing for the Medical College of Georgia. generally succeed. And, he said: "We were refugees, but in the main their story ls one Dr. Addison M. Duva.l, director of Georgia's prepared, whether we knew it or not." of astonishing achievement. mental-health div1s:ion, deolares: "We just In Columbus, Cuban Orlando Alonso, made President Arboleya of the Fidelity National couldn't have made the improvements the.t himself so valuable that he ended up taking Bank of Miami explains the success formula we have without the help these people gave over the business when the owner died 1n of his Cuban compatriots in these words: us; it was a mutua.lly beneficial th1ng." 1969. "They work. The man works, the wife In Atlanta, where most of Georgia's 6,000 When Mr. Alonso left Cuba in 1962, he works, the children who are old enough Cubans live, ass1mll&tion has been no prob went to work as a truck driver for Columbus work." lem. Cuban leaders estimate there e.re 100 Pest Control Company. In a few months, he Mr. Arboleya has shown what a refugee of their countrymen in vartous businesses, was chosen to run the business whenever the can do. In 1960, at age 31, he arrived with while about 50 per cent of the adults hold owner was away. The business had its most June 1, 1971 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 17449 profitable year in 1970-under Mr. Alonso's Even in Los Angeles, however, there are a non-political body. Presently, Castro's Navy management. He and his wife and three bright spots for Cubans. A community spirit, iS despised because, among their missions children live in a Columbus suburb. The 18- for a time dormant among them, has begun of hate, they must persecute and machine year-old daughter will soon marry an Ameri to develop. A Cuban Chamber of Commerce gun defenseless Cubans (men, women, and can. now has 100 members. About 300 Cuban. children) who try to flee through the Florida Cuban family ties, traditionally close, ac owned businesses have been established. A Straights. count in part for the low number of failures biweekly tabloid newspaper-"La Presna" Before Castro, the Navy was made up of among the refugees. -has a Spanish-language circulation of 15,- 28 surface units: three frigates, one cruiser, A newly arrived refugee often will receive 000, predominantly Cuban. twelve sub-chasers and twelve Coast Guard money by mall from relatives and close And like every other area, Los Angeles has vessels. The pre-Castro Navy's main mission friends who preceded him. A contribution its successful refugees. was to guard the coasts. Its mission was may be $1.50, or it may be $50-whatever the A GROWING RESTAURANT strictly defensive. donor can afford. Eddemio Lopez co.me from Cienfuegos, The Merchant Marine before Castro was The established Cuban will give up some Cuba, nine years ago--penniless he says, made up of 18 surface units which repre thing he needs and uses every day to help "like everybody." He sold Bibles and en sented approximately 48,000 tons. None of a relative get a foothold. For example, one cyclopedias door to door. He and his these units was more than 5,000 tons. Hence, head of household returned to his Miami brother saved enough to open a little res Cuba's Naval forces totaled 46 surface units. home one night to find the table and chairs taurant. It seated 25. Then the brothers Now the question: What is the present missing from his kitchen. His wife had given bought an adjoining building and enlarged Naval situation of the Red Regime in Cuba? them to a relative just moving into the area. their operation. Today the prospering res Directed by the Russians, Fidel Castro has These close ties, a willingness to help one taurant seats 110-and employs 13 Span divided his Navy into three parts: the War another and a fanatical belief that hard work ish-speaking persons. Fleet, Merchant Marine and so-called "Fish is the key to success lie behind the Cuban In San Francisco, some of the Cubans ing Fleet". experience in America. complain about discrimination, especially Castro's War Fleet has been tripled by the Few success stories are more dramatic when it comes to getting good jobs and job Russians since early in 1970. Presently it is than that of Mr. and Mrs. Jose Torres and training. Some have had diffi.culty in finding made up of about 80 units. Among them are their daughter, Norma. The Torres family any jobs at all. torpedo boats, missile boats, konsomal boats arrived in New Orleans in 1967 with nothing And a discouraged high-school student and sub-chasers. The Komar boats have two but the clothes they wore-and the Braillie said: "Florida is the best place for Cubans; missiles with a range of 40-50 miles. All of ruler Mr. Torres had fashioned from wood. there are enough others there to help you, to these are for offensive purposes. Also, British Both he and his wife were blind. support your business." sources have reported that the Russians have But Jose Torres was also a skilled cabinet Cubans admit--and express gratitude- given Castro 8 small submarines. This brings maker and before long he was hard at work, that U.S. Government programs help them the total of offensive naval units to 88. learning English and setting up shop with get started in this country. The Castro Merchant Marine, under the borrowed funds. On their arrival in Miami on the U.S. direction of the Russi.ans, now has 49 units Business is slow at the moment but he financed airlift, they are welcomed by U.S. with a displacement of approximately 327,000 keeps going with sales of doll houses, jewelry offi.cials and given temporary housing in tons. Of this number, some 18 units exceed cases, candlesticks and liqueur cups. His "Freedom House" at the airport. There they 5,000 tons each. This Merchant Marine, as we daughter is an outstanding student in the register with the Cuban Refugee Program of will explain later, is completely dedicated to nursing school at Louisiana State University. the U.S. Department of Health, Education the transportation of men and arms for the RECORD AS SCHOLARS and Welfare, and also with a volunteer expansion of international communism. In the field of scholarship loans, young agency of their choice. Finally, castro, following the Russian Cubans have been especially responsible in The volunteer agencies arrange tr.anspor dictates, has established the so-called "Fish meeting their obligations. Congress recently tation for refugees to homes of relatives, ing Fleet" in Cuba, made up of some 100 heard testimony that of the 12,800 loans with the cost met by the Federal Govern Russian made trawlers, each approximately granted to Cubans for college education, only ment. Refugees also receive checks from the 800 tons, and almost 100 wooden Lambda. 147 were delinquent--a performance which Florida welfare department--$100 for a fam boats. The ''Fishing Fleet" has everything ex outstrips the national average. ily, $60 for a person. Washington repays cept a fishing boat and its purpose is for The Cuban experience in the U.S. is not an Florida for this. the infiltration of international communist unbroken string of economic miracles. Many As soon as they reach their relocation city, agents, transfer of arms, espionage and coun old persons find they cannot learn English, refugees are eligible for publlc welfare, with ter-espionage. or that ill health keeps them from working. Washington again reimbursing the States. To sum it up, the Navy before Castro There are problems of assimilation in some All told, from the time the Cuban Re totaled 46 defensive units. Now it totals some areas-and complaints of discrimination. fugee Program began in February, 1961, 337 offensive units and has only one purpose: In Los Angeles, the CUban is in a particu through the end of this fiscal year on June to export the revolution of the C.astro-Com larly strange situation-he iS a minority with 30, the U.S. Government's obligations for munist regime. in a minority, and thus, in effect, invisible aiding Cuban refugees will total 583.8 mil In a rapid analysis of the twelve-and-a to the indigenous community. lion dollars. ha.If years in Cuba since Castro, it can be said that the economy ls in ruin. The Cuban peo There are some 1.1 million Spanish-speak A GOOD INVESTMENT ing persons in this area. The presence there ple are suffering from tremendous rationing Federal offi.cials regard this as a good in and there is almost no fuel (charcoal or of perhaps 50,000 newcomers from Cuba vestment. Howard H. Palmatier, director of makes scant impression on people in general. petroleum) in Cuba. HEW's Cuban Refugee Program put it this Now, how is it possible for Fidel Castro These Cubans appear to have little inter way: est in becoming part of the Mexican-Ameri to maintain his present navy if Cuba's econ "We cannot overlook the Cubans' incalcu omy ls in ruin? If there is no money to buy can scene. They have settled instead in a lable contribution to our nation. They have variety of small pockets throughout the city. the articles of primary use, how were so paid millions of dollars in local, State and many naval units obtained? If there is no MASS TRANSPLANTS federal taxes. Their presence and efforts have fuel, how are these units operated? Where Organizations like the International Res created, directly or indirectly, literally thou did he get the offi.cers for a Navy that grew cue Committee and the Cuban resettlement sands of jobs throughout the United States- so fast? division of the Catholic Welfare Bureau have which generate even more tax revenues. And It is our belief that there is only one ex helped some 35,000 Cubans go from. Miami perhaps most important, they are still mak planation: Cuba is the Russian trampoline to Los Angeles. It is estimated that an addi ing this contribution." of the Caribbean. Cuba is being used as the tional 10,000 to 15,000 went to southern base for military and political expansion of California on their own. SPEECH BY DR. MANOLO REYES, LATIN AMER the Russians in the Western Hemisphere. The About 11,000 Cubans in the area are on ICAN NEWS EDITOR, WTVJ Russians have provided and today maintain welfare, Los Angeles County offi.cials say I am not a military or naval expert. The Castro's Navy-even if the navy does fly the the relief bill for Cubans comes to a million information which you are about to hear was Cuban flag-for the exporta.tion of inter dollars a month-which is refunded by the sent to us by the Cuban Patriotic Resistance. national communism. The majority of the U.S. Government. We believe this information to be the first Naval offi.cers of these ships were born in Observers report a lack of rapport between of its kind to be said publicly. It is all related the Communist World even though their Cubans and other Spanish-speaking persons to Fidel Castro's Navy, which is a vital tool passports list them a.s Native Cubans. This ls there. The Cubans seem to identify more with for the exportation of his so-called "revolu the Russian Navy with the Cuban flag. the "Anglos," whereas Mexican-Americans tion". We say "so-called" because there is How was this situatiton initiated? In the tend to cling to their old Mexican culture. no such revolution, rather that Castro is year 1963, according to reports received from There is another big difference. The mili an agent for international communism and the Cuban Patriotic Resistance, a Russi.an tant Mexican-American sometimes leans left what he ls exporting ls international com Admiral, Ivan Balkov, Director of the Rus ward politically. Cuban refugees aren't buy munism. sian Naval Academy in Leningrad, took ing anything that smacks of Communism. To begin this analysis, we must say that charge of the Cuban Navy. That began a It's hard to find a Cuban with a Castro-type before Castro the Cuban Navy was highly complete change. The Russian Admiral said beard. respected by the Cuban people. It was always that the traditional Naval Academy in Cuba, CXVIl--1097-Pa.rt 13 17450 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 1, 1971 in Mariel, was obsolete. It would be con ranking Russian naval officers. Strong se WHAT IT Wn.L TAKE To BRING CITIES BACK sidered third level. curity is maintained by frogmen and an elec TO LIFE: INTERVIEW WITH DAVID ROCKE The Naval Academy was then transferred tric net. On land, there is a color-coded con FELLER, CHAffiMAN, CHASE MANHATTAN to the Monteverde fa.rm, which was the prop trol system. BANK erty of a. North American citizen, in the area. To describe how Castro's Navy performs Can anything be done to keep whole cities of Boca. del Mariel. espionage and the exportation of interna from decaying into slums? A plan to rebuild Later, two superior naval centers were cre tional communism, here are some examples: the cities-and establish new ones-with bil ated: One in Tarara. and the other in Ba.rlo In 1960, the ship "Bahia de Nipe" took vento in Havana.. The students of these cen lions in federal and private funds is advo arms from Cuba to the so-called "Liberation cated by banker David Rockefeller. Mr. Rock ters receive strong communist training, a.s front" in Algiers, which was still under efeller ca.me to the conference room of "U.S. well a.s training in the sabotage of port in In 1962, "Ara French jurisdiction. the ships News & World Report" to explain his pro stallations, intelligence, espionage and coun celio Iglesias" and "Gonzalez Lines" carried posal. ter-espionage. The most outstanding stu tanks and cannons, automatic arms and dents are sent to Russia for final indoctrina Q. Mr. Rockefeller, are the big cities close troops to take pa.rt in the war between Al to collapse, as some of the mayors say they tion. giers and Morocco. Admiral Baikov declared that the new are? In 1965, the motor-ship "Uvero", weighing A. While that particular statement may be naval center in Havana. was to be used a.s the 10,250 tons, left with arms, men and equip seat of the Russian Joint Command in peace a little overdramatic, it certainly is true that ment for Africa to Dar El Salam. We were the big cities are in real trouble. time And that underground installations told that all this equipment and some of Q. Why do you say that? shouid be built so that the Russian High the men later were sent to the guerrilla oper command could function in times of pre A. The school system, law enforcement, the ation in Bolivia. During the voyage to Africa, welfare system, housing and other aspects of war and war. the captain of the ship never spoke with the The Na.val system in Cuba. was operated officers and meals were served to another city administration have deteriorated mark by departments sim.1lar to that of the United high ranking person in the captain's cabin edly in the last several years, and perhaps at states Navy. Baikov divided it up into sec (no one knowing who he wa.s). We believe an accelerating pace. tions and sub-sections. Q. Is that because city governments need it was Ernesto "Che" Guevara. more money? In the center of the Port of Havana, it is In 1965, the Sierra Maestra. ·took a special easier to find a Russian officer in uniform trip to Communist China.. It embarked from A. Revenue is certainly a pa.rt of it. But, than it is to find a Cuban. The orders which Cuba empty and was so important, that two more importantly, the problem stems from proceed from there a.re signed by Cubans, cuban freighters, "Antonio Ma.ceo" and "Jose the changing composition of the cities. In even if they a.re illiterate. Said orders a.re Marti", escorted her from the islands of the period since World War Il, two basic prepared by Russian bilingual personnel and Cape Green in South Africa. to Santiago de trends have developed: later authorized by a Russian naval officer. In Cuba, in Oriente province. She brought back On the one hand, our nation-though it this way, secret cargo can be transported a. load of specia.l arms which were unloaded has become increasingly productive from an under the Cuban flag, never under the Rus In Santiago de Cuba. These secret arms were agricultural point of view-has become much sian flag. taken to Gran Piedra under great security. more mechanized, so that the number of ag Each Cuban boat has a.n experienced Rus Gran Piedra is near the Guantanamo Na.val ricultural laborers has declined sharply, sian officer who speaks Spanish and carries a Base. with the result that in the agricultural areas, particularly in the South, there is less em native-Cuban passport (possibly with a. Meanwhile, Castro's Russian masters have Cuban name) . He is the actual ship com ployment than formerly. This has induced continued their expansion work in Cuba. many agricultural workers to move to the mander. sometimes he ls merely a first-class Presently, great naval activity is reported on sailor. large cities, where they felt there would be the two extremes of the island. greater opportunities for them. Each ship ls an integral part of Castro In Oriente Province, (in the region known Communist territory. This is why ther~ is an At the same time, the home-loan programs as Saetia, to the north of the Bay of Levisa. of the Federal Housing Administration and Russian security officer on board. It is un near the Bay of Nipe) the Russians are derstood that at each port the communist the Veterans Administration made it possible dredging a.s they did when they began their for a. great many more people in the middle a.gents know precisely who is on boa.rd each base at Cienfuegos. ship. For the few who are not communists classes to build and own their own houses. By At the Western tip it is reported that the and large, they chose to build them in the and sail under Castro's flag, to transfer to a prisoners on the Peninsula of Gua.ncabibes ship is to leave one prison for another. suburbs rather tha.n in the central cities. So have been removed and a. military road is we've seen an exodus of the middle-income The Russian Admiral (Balkov) authorized being built (more than 6 meters wide) from captain Daniel Alvarez (alias Captain Rami groups from the cities at the same time that rez) to direct Castro's Merchant Marine. "El Cayuco" to the Cape of San Antonio. we've had a.n influx of lower-income groups This area is totally deserted and a. great dis to the cities. Captain Alvarez is approximately 60 years tance from other activity on the island. It old with more than 40 years of naval ex This has had an important bearing on the perience in Spain's Communist Navy. He should be an ideal location for subversive economy of the city, for the city was required served on the cruise ship "Cana.rias", later activities. It is expected to help in the trans to provide more services for these low-income portation of arms in barges to or from seeking asylum in Algiers. France. From Al families that were moving in than it had for giers, he went to Moscow. There he was mother ships, anchored nearby. The initial the middle-income families that were moving named an agent of the NKVD and had sev analysis of this activity is that it will aid out. But the newcomers, with genera.Uy lower eral interviews with Stalin. Later, he fell in the transportation of arms to La.tin Amer ineomes, were producing less in taxes, so that into disgrace and was deported to Siberia ica. there were decreased means to meet the where he lost a lung. He was brought back This is a. short and sketchy summary of larger requirements. And of course, a.t the to Moscow by Nikita Khrushchev and placed the Cuban Na.val situation under Castro same time, the trouble was compounded by his former position. Currently, in Cuba, his Communlsm. A navy which means a. real illflation, which added stm another burden title is "Delegate of the Soviet Union in Con and actual threat to the peace and tra.n on city finances. trol of the Merchant Marine." qumty of the entire American continent. Q Do you think that the welfare system The flag ship of the Merchant Marine of A Russian Navy with the Cuban flag. attr~ Southern migraints to the big cities? Cuba is the Sierra Maestra and it displaces A. There is difference of opinion on that. 17,350 tons. This ship was built in Eastern Although I'm no'& sure that one could say it Germany and was first received and com is the predominant inducement, it is at lea.st manded by Jesus Jimenez Escobar. Escobar DAVID ROCKEFELLER DISCUSSES a collateral inducement. It is surely true that received several levels of communist indoc NEW URBAN DEVELOPMENT the welfare benefits provided by the States trination. Jimenez Escobar, a.long with Cap PLAN have differed considerably-and, by and large, tain Alvarez (Ramirez), formed the shipping the Northern States have provided more gen lines of Ma.mbisa. Navigation in different erously than some of the Southern States. parts of the world to provide ports for Cas That probably does have some influence on tro's ships. HON. HENRY S. REUSS migration. rn 1968, Jimenez Escobar was named to OF WISCONSIN Q. Haven't the States and the Federal Gov the Cuban delegation to the United Nations. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ernment been pouring billions into cities to Months later he was expelled from New York help them meet their problems? by the United States for his non-diplomatic Tuesday, June 1, 1971 A. Yes. But in retrospect, the money hasn't activities. Apparently he was supporting the Mr. REUSS. Mr. Speaker, the June 7, been spent as wisely as it could have been. I think a.s we look back now a.t the federal Black Panthers. & Presently, there is a. Russian naval base 1971, issue of U.S. News World Report program, which gained momentum in the '40S a.t Cienfuegos and a. milltary arsenal at Ha contains an interview with Chase Man and '50s, there are two criticisms that per vana.. There a.re two large docks. One is a. hattan Bank Chairman David Rockefel haps could be ma.de of it: 20,000-ton dry dock and the other is a 10,- ler in which he discusses a new plan for It concentrated almost exclusively on 000-ton fioa.tlng dock. rebuilding U.S. cities. I commend Mr. housing a.nd not other related community ac Operations are directed by eight high- Rocke! eller's remarks to my colleagues: tivities, and I think this has proven to be a June 1, 1971 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 17451 mistake. The funds were not used to build a A. Yes. But there is widespread abandon feel they're just being ridden over rough rounded community; they merely built ment of buildings in other cl ties as well. shod. houses. So while people were placed in new Q. You've been talking about families mov Q. What can't the job of buying and de and better housing, they were not placed into ing out of the big cities. How about busi veloping land be done with private capital by a new and better form of community life. nesses? Why are so many of them leaving the private investors? Often, in fact, the vital element of com cities? A. That brings me to the second part of munity life was less than it was before. A. Businesses are leaving the cities for a our plan: I think that if we were starting this pro variety of reasons. Crime, rising tax and in I said the first need is for an agency, which gram over again today, we would do it on surance rates, and congestion are among the has to be governmental, which can identify a different basis. reasons. Also, many feel there ls a more and acquire land for development that would The other difficulty is that most of the plentiful supply of better-quality labor in be in accord with an over-all policy. We're public housing was built in the core areas, the suburbs. Others feel they are following also proposing a quasi public or private bank, and, since it was subsidized, it was only for their customers. Additional factors sometimes which we have suggested be called the Na the lowest-income groups. This exacerbated include room for expansion, aesthetics and tional Urban Development Bank. This would the trend of concentrating the poor families convenience of commuting. However, the be set up ou a nationwide basis, perhaps in the central cities, while the middle-income road isn't all one way, for many businesses along the lines of the Federal Reserve Sys families were pouring into the suburbs. We're are still flocking to the city-end others, tem, with a chairman who would be ap learning now that it's necessary for commu having tried the suburbs, ha.Te come back, pointed by the President of the United nities to be more mixed, in terms of income for they missed the dynamism, the excite States, and members of the board from each levels, if they're to be viable and acceptable· ment, the culture and the marketplace for of the States and key cities. communities. the exchange of ideas that only the large This bank would get its funds partly from Q. Do the cities have too many people who cities provide. commercial banks, who would put in the are unemployable? Q. Is there any possibility of rebuilding equity, and partly from insurance companies A. It is surely true that there are more the cities and making them attractive to and pension funds and other institutions of poorly educated people among the families in people of all income levels? that kind who would make loans to the bank the "ghettos" and core areas, and this is A. I think there is. I have been studying at favore.ble interest rates. partly the product of the fa<:t that the cities with a number of my colleagues in the bank Q. Would investments in the development haven't had the funds to provide good school and outside what the causes are of insuffi bank be guaranteed by the Federal Govern ing. The quality of schooling in the inner cient construction and lack of a good de ment? cities seems to be declining significantly. But velopment program within the cities, and it's A. No. The bank would go to the desig it's also the product of all the other social our conclusion that there are two prime nated federal agency and say: "We will un ills that go with "ghetto" life, such as broken missing links: derwrite repurchase of the land which you families--which are en<:ouraged by the pres On the one hand, fragmented land owner have now acquired and assembled, find a ent welfare system-dope addiction and ship, zoning laws and building codes make it developer, and make available to him the crime. difficult for developers to assemble and funds he needs to put in the necessary utili All of these things have gone together, and develop large tracts of land either within ties, roads and so on. He won't have to start the result is that a great many of the young core areas of cities or outside. The private repaying immediately, because it is going to people in the core areas are poorly educated, sector is willing to do its part, but our Gov be some time before he puts in all the facili badly motivated and, hence--without special ernment must foster private initiative by ties and can realize a return." additional training-unemployable. both identifying development opportunities It's this predevelopment money that is pres Q. Why do you say the welfare setup has and removing obstacles to appropriate ently lacking. We see no reason why it could encouraged drug use? projects. not be provided from private sources through A. Because I think that people living in We need a national urban-growth and this nonprofit corporation. The banks and slum conditions, with very little opportunity development policy. I think that such a insurance companies who put up the money for recreation or employment, are more sub national policy should include the rejuvena would be doing so because they felt it was ject to pushers who encourage young chil tion of existing cities, suburban areas, small part of their social obligation to do so, and dren to feel that taking drugs is the thing towns and new communities. they would hope-we believe realistically to do. They start them with marijuana, and Q. What's wrong with the present federal to receive a reasonable rate of interest and all too frequently add a little heroin or opium urban-renewal program? ultimately get back their capital. With the marijuana so as to hook the young A. It isn't broad enough. It only deals with Q. Would the developers get the land for sters, and then they're off. And this is what segments of the problem. Wha.t needs to be less than cost? one sees to an increasing degree. done is to develop whole new communities A. For land for new cities outside the pres Q. Are you saying the drug users are peo rather than units of housing, or commercial ent cities, the developers would pay 101 per ple looking for an escape? establishments, or industrial areas separately. cent of what the Growth Administration had A. I suppose that's a factor. In any case, Q. Do you mean whole new communities paid for the land. In other words, the fed slum families are certainly exposed much within ct.ties? eral agency would get back a small incre more than others, although the use of drugs A. And outside. Lt's estimated that there ment to help pay its administrative ex among the young is by no means confined will be 75 million more people in the United pense.s. to poor families. States by the end of this century. To accom Q. How about land for redevelopment in Q. Do zoning regulations contribute to the modate all these people in new cities would present cities? concentration of poor families in the central require 650 new cities of 100,000 people and A. The cost of assembling that land is al cities? 10 cities 01' a million. ready very high-uneconomically high. That A. Zoning has been an Important factor in Now, of course, Lt won't be done just that is the reason the private builders haven't many areas. And in some cities, notably New way. But this gives you some idea o! the gone in and done something with it. So, in York, rent-collltrol laws, which have been magnitude of the problem that we have to these areas, there would have to be a write maintained since World War II, have con deal with. There's going to be a need for down on the value of the land-a one-time tributed importantly and are partly responsi quite a number of new cities, and this is subsidy by the Federal Government. ble for the abandonment of housing which going to require the attention of the Federal RENEWAL: 50 BILLIO.NS IN 10 YEARS- is going on at a shocking r&te in New York Government, working with State and local City today. Q. Just how much do you figure all this governments, to develop the kind of· sound, will cost? Q. Is that a growing problem? national, urban-growth policy which was A. We estimate that to provide the prede A. Yes. The preseDJt rate of aba.ndonmeDJt called f'or in the Housing Act of 1970. velo.pment and land-acqulsitton money for In New York is about 25,000 units per year, We are proposing that an agency of the new cities will take about 10 billion dollars which is an enormous number. And, of Federal Government identify areas which are over a per'1od of 10 to 20 years. Redevelop course, when these homes are abandoned, consistent with this national growth policy, ment in the older c1t1es might require four they not only cease to be a source of tax help acquire the land, and make sure that revenue. but they are a charge on the city. times that muoh-4-0 b1111on. So we are talk the building codes and zoning for the land ing a.bout a total of something like 50 billion They are broken into, often become havens are consistent with an intelligent develop for criminals, and are fire hazards. in all. Spread over a period of 01bout 10 yea.rs ment program. that 1s not an unmanageable sum, bees-use: Q. Isn't that process extending to stores Q. Should the agency take over a big part durlng th1s time, some of the funds would be and other commercial establishments in the of a ci.ty and decide what was going to be rolled. over-that is, they would be used, re·> blighted areas? done with it, or would the city government pa.id and then used a.gain. A. It's happening to them, too. have a veto? Q. How much federal money W'Ould b• Now, the reason that rent control affects A. Local communities and States have to needed by the designated Government agency housing this way is that the landlords can't have some degree of veto power. Just how in order for it to make the initial purchases. afl'ord to make improvements, because they this would be worked out is one of the of land? can't get rents that are sufficient to justify things that need to be studied further. I them. A. There, aga.f.n, you are talking about a,_ think there must be effective power of emi revolving fund. I would think maybe 1 or 2"" Q. Rent control is a special New York prob nent domain in the federal agency, but qual billion dollars would do It. lem, isn't lt? ified so that the States and localities don't Q. Is it llkely that the new oommunJ.tlea. 17452 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 1, 1971 yQU're talking about may aggravate the prob Q. How could you apply that concept to a A. I don't consider this to be out of the lem of the cities by encouraging more busi decayed area such as Harlem? Would you question at all, provided they can be as nesses and people to move out? wipe out everything and rebuild the area? sured of a labor force. A. Part of the Job of the Federal Govern A. I suspect that for portions of Harlem Q. Is it your feeling that there is some ment's agency responsible for an Ul"ban that might be necessary. But there are areas thing good about cities-that people like to grow:tih policy would be to determine where in New York City-in Brooklyn and Queens live in them? these communities should go, how they fit and the Bronx and perhaps also in Harlem A. Yes. After all, they did in tho past. I into an over-all national growth policy. which have gone so far downhill, have so still like to. And I think most people would That's why I 8'8.Y that the Government en many abandoned buildings, that it would not like to much more if they saw the prospect tity is the first essent ial, wilthout which be impossible to acquire a very large area. of an improving community rather than a this program couldn't work. Q. Wouldn't you uproot a lot of people in deteriorating community. But here, I think, Q. As a practical matter, will most o:f the the process? 1,s where you have to deal with large areas development you're talking a.bout tiake place A. Not if you started with one section in rather than just a few houses in a block. outside of the existing cities? volving a very small removal of families, and Q. Mr. Rockefeller, you have just returned A. The population is so great tha.t it has built on that first, giving people the oppor from a trip abroad. Are the Europeans ahead t o take place both inside and outside. tunity to move from another section into it, of the Americans in coping with the prob I've already discussed this plan with a and so on. lems of the older cities? number of city officials in New York, and There are some areas where there are vir A. I think many European cities have done they're quite excited a.bout the idea. They tually no people living. a better job with housing than we have. feel that there may well be areas in New Q. Can the old buildings be renovated, or They have created housing developments York City where it could work. I'm sure the do you have to redevelop these slum areas which have become much more attractive same would be true in other very large cities. with modern apartment houses? neighborhood centers. Q. What's the federal rea.ction to your A. A great deal depends upon the character Q. Are you speaking of public or private proposal? of the buildings, but experience up till now housing? A. I am happy to say that there has been with rehabilitating obsolete and deteriorated A. Both. real interest. We've really run up against buildings has not been good. It has been ter B. Big apartment buildings or small town no one who has thought that we are way off ribly expensive, and by and large it hasn't houses? base. worked. But when you say, "Put up modern A. That varies from city to city. By and One of our major goals now is to con apartments," that might or might not be the large, they tend to build walk-up apartments, tinue to explain this proposal throughout type of building a developer would choose. not the high-rises we have. But somehow the various branches of the Federal Govern I think the important thing is to try to they have created a more pleasing atmos ment, for we have sensed that many per create viable communities rather than phere than I think we have in many of our sons of all polLtical persuasions in the Oon groups of isolated apartment buildings. This cities. gress, for example, have sensed the gravity is exactly where we made the mistake in the Q. Have racial animosities made the prob of the problems and are, themselves, seeking past. lem more difficult in the U.S.? solutions. One would hope to have many sizes and A. I'm sure that is part of the problem. Q. After the land is acquired and the de types of housing within each community, And another part is the cost of construc veloper provides the basic facilities, then hopefully suitable for different income lev tion, which reflects many factors, among w'hat happens? els. For people with the lowest incomes, there them building codes, zoning requirements A. Most Of the development from then on would be a need for housing subsidies. and trade-union restrictions. would be done by private builders. The de Q. Would a family of four that could afford It all adds up to the fact that we have not veloper selected by the National Urban to pay, say, $450 a month rent on an apart yet been able to apply to housing-one of our Development Bank would be the overall su ment feel comfortable living next to a fam most important industries-the mass-pro pervisor of the new communtty, as, for ex ily that could pay only $135? duction techniques that we apply to auto ample, the Rouse Oompany is in the new city A. I believe that if communities are de mobiles or, for that matter, to house trailers. of Columbia, Md. They undertook that de veloped the right way, giving adequate free And one reason that we see a tremendous velopment entirely on their own-with the growth of mobile homes is that they are not assistance of banks and insurance companies. dom of choice to the people who come in, in come levels will not necessarily represent subject to the same restrictions that non Q. Under your proposal, will the developer built-in incompatibility. mobile homes are. have to submit a plan to the national agency Q. Is that good or bad? showing just what is going to be built? But what the proportions should be, and so on, I think these are things that have to be A. Well, I think it's bad in the sense that A. Yes. And, with the help of the bank, worked out. I don't pretend that I have a some of the mobile-home parks are a blight it would be up to the developer to go out blueprint that would work everywhere. I'm on the countryside in appearance. I see no and find industries, merchants, builders and sure it would vary from city to city. reason why it wouldn't be possible-if one others to come in and put up the money to could clear away these problems that I men construct individual segments of the com "NEW SOURCES OF TAX REVENUE"- tioned-to build attractive, permanent munity-stores, homes, offices, factories. This Q. How would redevelopment help the homes using the same techniques that have is in addition to the 50 b1llion dollars for cities to overcome their financial and racial been used in the manufacture of mobile land and basic facilities. troubles? homes. Some day this will come. Now, there will be some public money re A. It would bring new life and new sources Q. Do you expect the new cities to be made quired, if it's a brand-new city. A local gov of tax revenue into areas which have progres up mostly of apartment houses or single ernment would have to be created which sively been producing less and less in the family homes? could issue bonds and levy taxes for schools way of taxes. A. I would hope for a considerable mix and public buildings of that kind. But the Q. Do you think it might attract people in ture-some townhouses, some condominium bulk of the funds would come from private the suburb back to the cities? type, multiple-family units, and some apart developers and industries. A. This could well be. I don't think this ment houses. Q. Developers of some of the new towns is at all out of the question, 1f the develop Q. What kinds of commitments have you being built today seem to feel they have to ment is done on a J:arge-enough scale and been able to get from the companies that have federal loan guarantees in order to with a good over-all pattern that makes it would have to put up the money for the make development feasible. Why is that? Do attractive. development bank you are proposing? you think your plan will work without guar If people can walk to work or can go to work A. We haven't asked for any commitments antees? easily in 10 or 15 minutes, they would much yet. We've talked with a number of banks A. Up to now, developments by and large prefer it to the present setup, where many and insurance companies, and on the whole have been too small. They haven't had the people in New York are commuting one and we've gotten a favorable response. assistance of Government in acquiring land, two and even three hours each way dally I think that American business recognizes or suitable zoning and building codes. under very uncomfortable and unpleasant that it is in its own interest and the interest Depending on circumstances the developer conditions. of our country to find a way to solve the ex may or may not have less money tied up un There is under way now the development traordinarily great urban problems that we der our proposal, but the land would be freer of housing along the fringe,s of lower Man face, and that it has a responsibility to play of restrictions, and development would take hattan which ls going to enable a good many its part. Business will put up the money, if place according to an over-all plan which thousands of families to live there and walk it sees a. way in which it can play a part would envisage balanced, small communities to work. This isn't a blighted area, for without losing money but perhaps accepting and neighborhoods within the larger com tunately, but 15 years ago there was a risk somewhat less attractive terms than it would plex. that it might become so. It come back as a normally expect. I think that is one of the interesting fea result of the concerted action of the local You're probably familiar with the fact that tures of Columbia, that they are creating landowners and businesses working in the the insurance industry has already commit small integrated neighborhoods-integrated clooest harmony with the city, the State and ted a billion dollars for urban housing. And both as to income level and racial back the Federal Government. the banking community recently pledged a ground-which promise to work extremely Q. Can you see manufacturers moving back like amount and is well on the way to in well. They are developing along lines that into New York and other cities they have vesting that for specitl.c projects in the cities. are acceptable to the people who move in. left? So our plan is not completely new. It June 1, 1971 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 17453 simply is an idea that would enable a great upon them for new or expanded services. more sensitive to what others engaged in many more institutions to invest. Favorable Spending for these services has jumped by the same line of work or endeavor may response to this proposal has encouraged us 12 times since 1946. State and local govern have to say about issues and problems to further refine and test it. To this end ment costs increased from $11 b11lion in 1946 we have retained the Real Estate Research to $132 billion in 1970. affecting that particular group. Corporation, a management-consulting firm Most of this cost is borne by sales and/or With that in mind, I should like to call specializing in all aspects of real estate gross receipts tax, which, in 46 states, is the to the attention of my colleagues an edi planning and development. largest single source of revenue. Last year, torial appearing in the May 25, 1971, edi Q. Are the banks investing in large housing only 27 states used corporate and personal tion of the Peoria Journal Star, entitled projects in New York City? income taxes for 20 percent or more of their "The Heat Got to Walter," commenting A. Yes. For example, we and a number total revenues. Eight states had no income upon a recent speech by Mr. Walter of other banks are involved in one on the tax, relying on sales, property and excise Cronkite of CBS News during which he East Side of New York-in landfill on the taxes for their revenue. river. Waterside is the name of it. This re Although the taxpayer tends to generalize made some rather dramatic charges quired a 75-million-dollar loan to put up about all taxes, the power to tax is shared against the Nixon administration. I in mixed housing, a good deal of it low-income. among the Federal government and state clude the editorial in the RECORD at this SHAPING "FUTURE OF OUR SOCIETY"- and local governments. The Indiana. General point: Assembly cannot change the Federal income THE HEAT GOT TO WALTER Q. Do you consdder your plan the big thing tax schedule, and the U.S. Congress cannot Poor old Walter Cronkite! that's going to save the cities? change the state's sales, property and ad A. I can't believe that any one projeot is He made a frightened speech before the justed gross income tax rates. "Radio and Television Society" the other day going to be their salvation. What we have While the Federal income tax liability done is to identify the roadblocks which have in which he charged the Nixon administra prevented large-sea.le redevelopment and new has remained relatively stable-or reduced tion with a "conspiracy" to "destroy the community building on a viable basis. in some instances---one type of Federal tax credibility" of the "free press"-with TV as The future of our cities-indeed, the future has increased in the last 20 years. This is the the prime target. special purpose tax, the revenues from which He admitted there was no evidence of such of our American socdety--depends on the con do not go into the general receipts of the tinuing renewia.I of older communities and the motives, but proceeded at length to describe building of new communities. Major commit treasury. this horrid "conspiracy." ments by both the public and prtvs.te sectors User taxes make up a considerable portion He sa.id it was natural for administrations a.re essentia.l. Government must do what it of this category. Federal-aid highways are to get "edgy" under the critical eye of the ca.n do best through its powers of planning, constructed with taxes from the sale of gaso press--but said there is evidence to support oo-ordina.tion, regulation, land acquisition line, tires, auto accessories and trucks. User THE SUSPICION that it has "conceived, and subsidy. Given this, business will pro taxes also are levied on airline passenger planned, orchestrated and is now conducting vide the management, manpower, material tickets, aviation fuel, air cargo, and on the a program to reduce the effectiveness of a. free and finanoing needed to rebuild our existing registration of airplanes. press." cities and croo.te new ones. Perhaps the most significant development Poor devil! We, then, a.re proposing mechanisms for in taxation is occurring without much pub After massive, constant, unremitting at both the Government and the private sector lic attention or complaint. Federal payroll tacks over a period of yea.rs on government to perform in their respective roles. One taxes are becoming an increasingly impor decisions, somebody finally talked back to mechanism is a purely public agency for tant part of our revenue system. This method Walter-and HE immediately gets "edgy" at urban growth-and-development policy. The of taxation now ls the second largest source the appearance of a "critical eye." other ls a private National Urban Develop of Federal funds. Payroll taxes provide more It is rather funny and rather tragic. The fact is, of course, that Spiro Agnew accused ment Bank. If these could provide what has income to the treasury than corporate in been lacking, then I think this proposal come taxes, or any Federal tax, except the CBS, particularly, and others of a kind of could make a significant contribution. individual income tax. "conspiracy" of a political nature--and sup ported his point of view with item-by-item Q. Do you think the President will look The Federal income tax, enacted in 1913, is a progressive tax, meaning that the more evidence of planning, polishing, and hand favorably on this proposal? tooling their presentations. A. I am hopeful that he will. Thus far, the each citizen makes, the more taxes he is ex response from people at the White House has pected to pay. But payroll taxes are not pro Although the "evidence" of the volume of been encouraging. gressive taxes, and have little relationship criticism and the techniques used week after to wage earner's ability to pay. The burden week and on subject after subject was pro of the payroll tax hits hardest on low and digious as to the TV clique's attitude-such middle income wage earners. charges were regarded as hysterical, "Mc REPORT TO NINTH DISTRICT Carthyite," and shamefully irresponsible by As an example, until 1950, the Social Se CONSTITUENTS the likes of Walter himself. curity withholding tax was 1 percent of the Now, on the sa.me kind of "evidence" but first $3,000 of income. Today, employers and much LESS OF IT, Walter is howling "con HON. LEE H. HAMILTON employees each pay 5.2 percent on the first spiracy!" OF INDIANA $7,800 of income and further rate and base If it's a matter of who has the thinnest increases are scheduled. Unless the whole IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES skin--CBS wins hands down. concept of financing social security is The real fuss is over their painful burns Tuesday, June 1, 1971 changed, periodic increasing of Social Se from a single recent fiasco--the "Selling of curity benefits will continue to require ever the Pentagon"-for which they heard such Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. Speaker, I in increaslng payroll taxes. clude the following commentary on the lively criticism as the classic letter which For the American taxpayer, there may be said that 1f a CBS documentary were tax situation: some consolation-although not much-if carefully shaped for 10 months or more to WASHINGTON REPORT--CONGRESSMAN LEE he knows the United States enjoys a level reconstruct and present John the Baptist HAMILTON of taxation at all levels of government which baptizing Jesus-it would present it as if The American taxpayer can be excused if is appreciably lower than most other indus John were trying to drown Jesus! he gets a little numb. He pays taxes to local, trial nations. Government at all levels took The truth is that "free expression" is not state and Federal governments on what he out of private income about 28 percent in a function restricted to Walter Cronkite or earns (income tax), what he spends (sales this country, as compared to 35-to-40 per the press, and there has never been a doc tax) and what he owns (property tax). cent in countries such as France, 'Jermany trine that in order to enjoy "freedom of He is probably unaware, however, that and Sweden. speech" or press you have to be artificially Federal income taxes, which seem to get most "free from criticism." of the blame for "high" taxes, have been de Tihe ·right of free speech does not make clining over the last 20 years. THE HEAT GOT TO WALTER any of us above reproach, and "freedom of Except for the 10 percent surcharge, passed ithe press" is not a license for untouohable in 1968 and now expired, individual Federal megalomania. ' income taxes have not been raised since HON. ROBERT H. MICHEL We may do a good job or a l'Ousy one, and 1951-and even that increase was allowed to OF ILLINOIS we cert'ainly have the vighlt to defend our expire in 1953. In fact, the Tax Reform Act IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES selves on that basis-but howling that any of 1969 provided substantial relief for many oriticism is an "attack on freedom" is a cop taxpayers. Tuesday, June 1, 1971 out. State and local taxes, on the other hand, '!Ule "press" has told many a vicitlm in have been escalating during the last two Mr. MICHEL. Mr. Speaker, I think it ithe public arena, "If you can't stand the decades. State and local governments have generally true that whatever profession heat, stay out CYf the kitchen." 'JJhe same been forced to increase their tax levies as or occupation an individual may have goes for people in the newsp'aiper or broad more and more demands have been made selected as his life's work, he is always cast business. (C. L. Dancey.) 17454 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE June 1, 1971 FUNDS NEEDED FOR THE UNIVER cost approximately double the depart Local governments, in line with this con SITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF mental budget. cept, have all waited to get the handout MEDICINE Other examples abound. The school's from Washington which, being slow in ability to develop a full time department coming and deficient in amount, has infamily practice has been severely ham made little progress possible, as witness HON. CHARLES H. GRIFFIN pered. Funds are inadequate to staff the fight against pollution. OF MISSISSIPPI badly needed full-time departments in But the profit motive which accounted plastic surgery, dermatology, and oph for our high standard of living and our IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES thalmology, and this deficiency is im great freedom, gets things done effi Tuesday, June 1, 1971 pairing the school's training programs. ciently, quickly and without cost to the Mr. GRIFFIN. Mr. Speaker, the House Lack of funds has forced the school to taxpayer. A good example is the exten soon will be considering important legis forego the recruiting of faculty in a num sive and expensive work done by the In lation dealing with health manpower. ber of important fields, constituting very ternational Telephone & Telegraph Corp., This legislation is a critical component real handicaps in the training of students as described in the fallowing editorial of the Nation's efforts to create a better and house staff. which appeared in the Santa Ana Regis and a more meaningful life for all Ameri Due to lack of funds, the school is ter under date of April 16, 1971: cans-a life less burdened by disease and threatened with the loss of the only good, POLLUTION FIGHTER suffering. human drug toxicology laboratory in the It is popular to point the finger of shame The reason the forthcoming legisla State. The increase in the drug abuse for all kinds of pollution at bus1ness. But 1! tion is so crucial is that health man problem makes the provision of toxi bus1ness has in the past sinned in this area, power necessary to achieving the goal of cology support obligatory. it is hastening to make a.mends. better and more meaningful lives is in Furthermore, Mr. Speaker, in an at Take for instance the International Tele tempt to increa-se class size and thus to phone a.nd Telegraph Corp. a.nd its subsidi· short supply. a.ries. Not only are they involved with devel We know, for example, thalt the United help meet the national need for addi oping new products and processes to benefit States right now faces a shortage of tional physicians, capital construction all of us, but they are ra.pidly moving into some 50,000 physicians, a shortage of has been planned by the school. But the improvement of social-environmental rela 57,000 dentists, a shortage of nearly 150,- plans have fallen through due to the tions so that more of us may be better able 000 nurses, and a shortage of more than inability of the school to secure matching to enjoy the new products. 250,000 allied health personnel. funds. The numerous subsidiaries a.re trying to Yet the academic medical centers that Mr. Speaker, I was shocked by these improve the quality of life. Stenberg-Flygt AB, maker of industrial pumps, has entered educate and train health professionals conditions of extreme financial distress the pollution-control market for the paper are facing financial crises which prevent in such a prestigious school. industry with a highly efficient proprietary them from fulfilling their essential role Provisions in the forthcoming health process that purifies and re-uses waste water. in providing this manpower. manpower legislation for construction In Hoquiam, Wash., helicopters lower anti I firmly believe that national policy assistance and for operating support of pollution "digester caps" into place on gas in support of medical education should medical schools can provide useful ap recovery towers a.t the ITT Rayonier mill. be based on two concep~that medical proaches for meeting the financial needs When Rayonier adds to its mill for chemical cellulose production in Jessup, Ga., it will be education is a function of national im of Mississippi and of all the Nation's equipped with the most advanced air and portance, and that the medical institu medical schools. water protection equipment. tions involved are a national resource. The legislation should be the opportu Also in Washington state, Rayonier al Only through viewing medical schools nity for a giant step forward, toward lows public use of most of its 350,000 acres as a national resource and providing recognizing our medical schools as a na of land for recreation and provides camp Federal support for their basic operations tional resource. It can be the beginning ing areas with cooking faclllties. It has a re at substantial levels and in a continuing of a laudable national effort to provide search unit of oceanographers, marine biolo form can this structure of vital institu gists and air pollution scientists who devote the schools with a fundamental base of full time to solving and preventing environ tions and their indispensable functions support at a substantial level and in a mental problems associated with company be sustained. continuing form. operations. It has invested $22 million for Mr. Speaker, I was disturbed to learn water protection and $3 million for air pro recently of the severity of the financial tection. conditions at the University of Missis In human relations, various subsidiaries si'ppi School of Medicine, in my own dis POLLUTION FIGHTER have provided equal employment opportuni trict. , r ties and upgrading of skills, risked venture At the school of medicine, conditions of capital in supporting minority groups hav ing difficulty in obtaining capital otherwise: financial distress have forced detri HON. JOHN G. SCHMITZ sponsored 47 drug education seminars in 1970 mental changes in the content and qual OF CALIFORNIA and turned over a building in Honolulu, rent ity of a number of programs. These are IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES free for a year, for a drug clinic; airlifted programs vital to functions of the school, blankets to Peruvian earthquake Victims; and and in some cases vital to my State. Tuesday, June 1, 1971 contributed to business training schools. As an example, lack of ability to pay Mr. SCHMITZ. Mr. Speaker, for sev The list of other volUDltary efforts 1s long competitive salaries has led to the loss of eral decades our people' have been in and the results are helpful. Perhaps instead of crying "Sha.me" so often, it is time to almost the entire department of anesthe doctrinated with the idea that only the look around at good efforts by business and siology. To rebuild this department will Federal Government can solve their ills. say "Thanks." HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES-Wednesday, June 2, 1971 The House met at 12 o'clock noon. reign throughout the world and men SCHEDULE OF APPROPRIATION The Chaplain, Rev. Edward G. Latch, learn .to live together in peace. BILLS D.D., offered the following prayer: In Thy holy name we pray. Amen.