December 1, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 39419 Mr. MILLS: Committee on Ways and By Mr. KASTENMEIER: By Mr. KUYKENDALL (for himself, Mr. Means. H.R. 19567. A blll to continue until H.R. 19884. A blll to provide relief in pat­ GROVER, Mr. CLEVELAND, Mr. DON H. the close of September 30, 1973, the Inter­ ent and trademark cases affected by the CLAUSEN, Mr. MCEWEN, Mr. DUNCAN, national Coffee Agreement Act of 1968; with emergency situation in the U.S. Postal Serv­ Mr. SCHWENGEL, Mr. DENNEY, Mr. amendments (Rept. No. 91-1641). Referred ice which began on March 18, 1970; to the McDONALD of Michigan, Mr. HAM­ to the Committee of the Whole House on the Committee on the Judiciary. MERSCHMIDT, Mr. BROCK, and Mr. State of the Union. By Mr. McMILLAN (for himself and ANDERSON of Tennessee) : Mr. STAGGERS: Committee on Interstate Mr FuQUA): H.R. 19891. A bill to name a Federal build­ and Foreign Commerce. S. 2162. An act to H.R. 19885. A bill to provide additiOIIlal ing in Memphis, Tenn., for the late Clifford provide for special packaging to protect chil­ revenue for the DIStrict of Columbia, and for Davis; to the Committee on Public Works. dren from serious personal injury or serious other purposes; t~ the Committee on the By Mr. PEPPER: illness resulting from handling, using, or in­ District of Columbia. H.R. 19892. A bill to declare a portion of gesting household substances, and for other By Mr. PELLY: the Oleta River in Dade County, Fla., non­ purposes; with an amendment (Rept. No. H.R. 19886 A bilJ to amend the act of Au­ navigable; to the Committee on Interstate 91-1642). Referred to the Committee of the gust 27, 1954 (commonly known as the Fish­ and Foreign Commerce. Whole House on the State of the Union. ermen's Protdctive Aot) to conserve and By Mr. ARENDS: Mr. KASTENMEIER: Committee on the protect Atlantic salmon of North American H. Con. Res. 789. Concurrent resolution to Judiciary. S. 1079. An act consenting to the origin; to the Comm1ttee on Merchant provide for the printing of the prayers of­ Susquehanna River Basin compact, enacting Marine and Fisheries. fered by the Chaplain as a House document; the same into law thereby making the United By Mr SKUBITZ (for himself, Mr. to the Committee on House Administration. States a signatory party; making certain res­ SEBELIUS, and Mr. WINN): By Mr. FINDLEY (for himself and Mr. ervations on behalf of the United States, and H.R 19887. A bill to amend the Public CHAMBERLAIN ) : H. Res. 1289. A resolution; support for ef­ for related purposes (Rept. No. 91-1643). Health Service Acl to authorize the assign­ Referred to the Committee of the Whole ment o.r commissioned officers of the Public forts to rescue American prisoners of war House on the State of the Union. Health Service to areas with critical medical incarcerated in North Vietnam; to the Com­ manpower shortages, to encourage health mittee on Armed Services. personnel to practice 1n areas where short­ ages of suet personnel exist, and for other REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON PRI­ PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS VATE Bn..LS AND RESOLUTIONS purposes; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Under clause 1 of rule XXII, private Under clause 2 of rule Xlli, reports of By Mr. STUBBLEFIELD: bills and resolutions were introduced and committees were delivered to the Clerk H.R. 19888. A bill to provide for the inspec­ severally referred as follows: for printing and reference to the proper tion of certain egg products by the U.S. De­ partment of Agriculture; restriction on the By Mr. CLARK: calendar, as follows: disposition of certain qualities of eggs; uni­ H.R. 19893. A bil:;, for the relief of Laszlo Mr. SANDMAN: Committee on the Ju­ formity of standards for eggs in interstate or Toth and his wife, Maria Toth; to the Com­ diciary. H.R. 11895. A bill for the relief of foreign commerce; and cooperation with mittee on the Judiciary. William R. Karsteter; with amendments State agencies in administration of this act; By Mr. CRAMER: (Rept. No. 91-1637). Referred to the Com­ and for other purposes; to the Committee on H.R. 19894. A bill for the relief of Charles mittee of the Whole House. Agriculture. A. Pfleiderer; to the Committee on the Judi­ Mr. DONOHUE: Committee on the Ju­ By Mr. FOLEY (for himself and Mr. ciary. diciary. H.R. 14235. A blll for the relief of QUIE): By Mr. TALCOTT: Capt. Claire E. Brou; with amendments H.R. 19889. A bill to amend the Food Stamp H.R. 19895. A bill for the relief of Mrs. Dol (Rept. No. 91-1638). Referred to the Com­ Act of 1964, as amended; to the Committee thi Thuong Nga; to the Committee on the mittee of the Whole House. on Agriculture. Judiciary. H.R. 19896. A bill for the relief of Due Mau By Mr. KUYKENDALL (for himself, Mr. Nguyen and his wife, Heln Th1 Ngo Nguyen; BLANTON, Mr. JONES Of Tennessee, t~e Committee on the Judiciary. PUBLIC BILLS AND Mr. FULTON Of Tennessee, Mr. FAL­ to By Mr. WHITE: LON, Mr. BLATNIK, Mr. JONES of Ala­ RESOLUTIONS H.R. 19897. A bill for the relief of the How­ bama, Mr. KLUCZYNSIU, Mr. WRIGHT, Under clause 4 of rule XXII, public rey Lumber Co.; to the Committee on the Mr. GRAY, Mr. CLARK, Mr. EDMOND­ Judiciary. bills and resolutions were introduced SON, Mr. JoHNSON of California, Mr. and severally referred as follows: DQ.'\N. Mr. HENDERSON, Mr. OLSEN, By Mr BROYHILL of North Carolina: Mr. RoBERTS, Mr. McCARTHY, Mr. KEE, PETITIONS, ETC. H.R. 19883. A bill to amend the Consoli­ Mr. HOWARD, Mr. ANDERSON of Cali­ dated Farmers Home Administration Act of fornia, Mr. CAFFERY, Mr. RoE, Mr. Under clause 1 of rule XXII, 1961 to authorizE' loans for rural community CRAMER, and Mr. HARSHA): 642. The SPEAKER presented a petition of centers and fire and rescue facilities, and for H.R. 19890. A bill to name a Federal build­ the Iowa. Democrat House caucus, relative to other purposes; to the Committee on Agri­ ing in Memphis, Tenn., for the late Clifford the supersonic transport; to the Committee culture Davis; to the Committee on Public Works. on Appropriations.

EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS THE SON TAY MISSION-A RAY OF continue to :::ecure their release, regard­ was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, HOPE less of risk. I am proud, indeed, that one as follows: of the volunteers in the Son Tay raid WHY RAY CROMLEY WROTE THIS is from Lander, Wyo., Sgt. Franklin D. Ray Cromley, who is Washington corre­ HON. CLIFFORD P. HANSEN Roe. I am confident that Sergeant Roe OF WYOMING spondent for the news syndicate, Newspaper volunteered because he is one of the mil­ Enterprise Assn., was a correspondent for the IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES lions of Americans who realize how much Wall Street Journal in Tokyo on the day of Tuesday, December 1, 1970 it can mean to those Americans held the Pearl Harbor attack. On that day he was prisoner to know that their country has arrested and held in Nishi Sugamo Prison, Mr. HANSEN. Mr. President, in the not forgotten them. in Tokyo. judgment of many Americans, the major An article by Ray Cromley, himself a He was tried, convicted of "sending infor­ success of the Son Tay mission was not mation to the United States which could be in showing the enemy that such a mis­ prisoner of the Japanese during World used against the national defense of Japan" War II, published in the Washington and sentenced to 1 Y:z years in prison. An ex­ sion could be conducted in their home Daily News November 30, does much territory, but in giving a ray of hope to to change of prisoners was arranged between describe what the Son Tay raid has, the United States and Japan in July, 1943. all Americans held prisoner that there He was moved into Sumire Concentration will be no rest among their fellow Ameri­ in my opinion, done for the morale of American men who have been held Camp about one week before exchange and cans until those held prisoner are brought was brought home-to New York-along with to safety. by the enemy for as long as 5 years. other exchangees on the SS Gripsholm in The brave volunteers who participated I ask unanimous consent that the ar­ September, 1942. in the mission showed their comrades ticle be printed in the RECORD. Mr. Cromley grew so thin in prison that in arms held captive that efforts will There being no objection, the article he couldn't keep his pants up, but after 39420 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 1, 1970 transfer to concentration camp he was fed With these a. Inan can endure all things. have become bright, aggressive, competent well and ate eight meals a day to prepare Sickness, loneliness, beatings, death. students after free breakfast and lunch pro­ himself for the trip home. When he enlisted grams were provided. in the U.S. Army eight months after his re­ Local schools have increased spending for turn home he had to sign a weight waiver in FEDERAL PROGRAMS' INFLUENCE library and audio-visual materials by 75 % order to be accepted. since ESEA Title II emphasized these needs. In the aftermath of the daring attempt ON THE QUALITY OF EDUCATION (This does not include Federal dollars for to rescue U.S. prisoners of the North Viet­ IN MINNESOTA this purpose.) College and University teacher namese at the Son Tay prison camp near preparation programs have been revised. New Hanoi, Mr. Cromley has been reflecting upon State legislation has been enacted to "dove­ his experiences as a war prisoner and trying HON. JOSEPH E. KARTH tail" with Federal laws in adult education, to put himself in the place of the men now OF MINNESOTA Indian education, modem technology, teach­ held by the North Vietnamese. He describes IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES er training, human rights, and many others. his feeling in this article. A state-wide program is underway in street Tuesday, December 1, 1970 safety and driver education involving four BRINGING HOPE TO THE HEART OF THE POW Mr. KARTH. Mr. Speaker, all too often higher education institutions, five demon­ in our concern about the "bigger pic­ stration schools, hundreds of instructors and I was a prisoner of the enemy in war. For thousands of students. The reward for some six months of solitary confinement. In a. ture" of Federal programs we in Wash­ of these students Will be the opportunity to Japanese prison in World War II. ington tend to lose sight of the very live to be an adult. Perhaps, then, I can describe in some small real personal impact of Federal support Every school district in Minnesota. has way how the American prisoners of war now of education. been aided by Federal education programs. in North Vietnam feel after this attempt at Edwin E. Cain, Federal Programs Co­ Every citizen of the State has received the their rescue. I don't know of course. I can ordinator for the Minnesota Department benefits of these efl'orts either directly or only think back 28 years to my own feelings. of Education, has most thoughtfully indirectly. I remember two things quite vividly from written to me advising me of a few spe­ The demands being made on our schools that time: are tremendous. The scope of the education The Doolittle raid of April, 1942, and the cific achievements which he believes are process is growing larger each year. Although visit of the Swiss Government representative significant. I would like to share his ob­ we believe the progress is significant, the job after I'd spent about five and a half months servations with my colleagues and oth­ ahead is monumental. Drug abuse education, in solitary. ers interested in the progress which is delinquency problems, occupational orienta­ (During the war the neutral Swiss Govern­ being made under these Federal pro­ tion and training for the 80% who do not ment represented U.S. interests in Tokyo). grams. Mr. Cain's letter follows: graduate from college, human rights issues I remember these two things strongly even and many others face those of us in educa­ today because they brought hope to the heart STATE OF MINNESOTA, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, tion in the '70's. of one prisoner, who, thru no one's fault, Your continued support is vital, and your had had no sign from his government and St. Paul, Minn., November 20, 1970. The Honorable JosEPH E. KARTH, assistance is essential if we are to equip the his country during the months of imprison­ children and youth of today to cope with the ment. House Office Building, Washington, D.C. problems and utilize the opportunities of It did not matter that the Doolittle raiders tomorrow. had not come to free those of us who were in DEAR CONGRESSMAN KARTH: Programs en­ prison, but were over Tokyo for an entirely acted by the U.S. Congress supporting educa­ During the past Congressional session we different purpose. You could look out the tion and youth development have greatly in­ have encouraged school adininistrators and barred window and see the American fliers fluenced the quality of education in Minne­ educators to write to their Congressman and were there. For hours afterward you could sota.. We in Minnesota are proud of you and Senators to make their concerns known. relive this flight by watching the rising our other Representatives and Senators who Perhaps we have been lax in not encouraging smoke and by listening to the excited con­ have provided national leadership in ad­ more two-way communication. Our school versations of the guards. You could feel and dressing the problems of the schools in a. people need to be more aware of your efforts hea.r and know yourself that something was very complicated social structure. in Federal education programs. I am enclos­ being done--and in a way you could feel An attempt to describe the total impa.ct ing a list of names and addresses of schools of your efforts would be impossible; how­ and superintendents in your district. We that it was being done for you. You were hope this will assist you in making your con­ part of it. ever, I would like to mention a. few incidents Then the other incident. When the Swiss that would never have taken pla.ce without stituency more cognizent of the fine things came, I cried. I cried because I said to myself Federal support for education. you and your colleagues are doing for the "my country cares!" I said it again and Mentally retarded youngsters who are con­ children and youth of our great nation. again in happy agonizing gulps. In the fined in an isolated existence are now able Thank you very much. months of holding in during dally question­ to dress themselves and go to the corner Cordially yours, ing by teams of guards and of sitting, eat­ drugstore for a. coke. EDWIN E. CAIN, ing, sleeping in my cell, I had not realized A young man was graduated from junior Federal Programs Coordinator. how alone I had come to feel myself. high school as an honor student, who, five The freedom in my soul and in my voice years ago, was tested and diagnosed as men­ was not the thought of rescue or release tally retarded. (pleasant as release would be) that mattered One hundred young men and women re­ NELSONVILLE SETS THE EXAMPLE so much as the thought that my country ceived vocational training last year, and only cared enough for me--for us-that the Swiss one has not been successfully employed in a. should come to see ea.ch of us individually position that utilized their newly learned even for a few Ininutes and should be at­ skills. The one has returned for additional HON. CLARENCE E. MILLER tempting, whethel' successfully or not, to training. All of these young people are deaf. OF omo do something for us. Eighty-five percent of the St. Paul Voca­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I still remember the room in which the tional School faculty and hundreds of nor­ Tuesday, December 1, 1970 Swiss representative and I sat. I remember mally heat~ng students have taken com­ the expression on h is fa.ce and the way his munica.tions courses on their own time in Mr. Mrr..LER of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, in lips moved when he talked. order to provide an opportunity and a set­ the wake of the race for public office He asked me a few questions and we talked ting where the deaf students could learn and inevitably comes the campaign leftovers a little, the normal things men say to each socialize With ot her students. which blot our roadways and detract other. He did not proinise me anything. It Four years ago, three of every four Indian was not yet clear then whet her negotiations children entering Minnesota schools would from the natural beauty of the country­ for an exchange of prisoners would be suc­ never graduate. Although it was expected side. The problem of poster pollution is, cessful. But I walked. down that prison hall that years would be required to remedy this of course, most prevalent in the months with music singing in my heart as loud, as horrendous situation, we are seeing this prior to election day, and unless positive strong, as powerful and as triumphant as trend being reversed after only two years. steps are taken to remove these materials the sound of a gigant ic choir in a cat he­ Hundreds of Indian adults were back in from the telephone poles and trees after dral-418 if heaven had opened wide. school last year, in the evenings, many with the big event, they continue to stare at I was a man and an American and nothing their children who are receiving special help. could defeat my soul. Families are studying their culture and motorists, season after season, until the I have never seen that Swiss again. But heritage together, regaining the pride and elements eventually pull them from their he will remain my friend unt il t he day I die. the confidence which has characterized the bearings. Fortunately, a group of young It is hope that men require when they Chippewa and Sioux Nat ions. citizens in the lOth Congressional Dis­ are prisoners of war. And a belief that their Children who were dull, unresponsive, and trict of Ohio did not wait for the weather country cares. And their wives and children. achieving substantially below grade level, to assume the task of removing signs December 1, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 39421 around their hometown. The junior class North Vietnamese captivity have testified A YOUNG DOCTOR'S STATEMENT with their bodies as to the conditions of that ON ABORTION of Nelsonville-York High School, Nelson­ imprisonment. We feel, although we cannot ville, Ohio, recently held a campaign of prove it, that the vast majority of the prison­ their own. Their purpose was to remove ers and their families, had they been con­ HON. JOHN G. SCHMITZ the many political posters in and around sulted, would have approved the Son Tay the Nelsonville area and I must say, they raid in the full knowledge of the heavy risk OF CALIFORNIA accomplished their mission in outstand­ involved. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ing fashion. The suggestion that the one-hour foray Tuesday, December 1, 1970 On the Saturday after the election, this into North Vietnam will in some way preju­ dice the chances of a negotiated peace is non­ Mr. SCHMITZ. Mr. Speaker, now that class, under the guidance of their adviser, sense. The North Vietnamese will negotiate Mr. Bruce Rogers, traveled more than the related subjects of population con­ seriously only when and if they come to the trol, birth prevention, and abortions are 260 miles and collected over 2,000 politi­ conclusion that they stand to gain more cal posters. In a time when the trend is through a negotiated peace than through a rapidly becoming a major concern of to blatently condemn all young people protracted guerrilla war. To date, there is this House, I would urge all my colleagues for the criminal acts of a few, and when not a scintilla of evidence to suggest that to give special, thoughtful consideration the state of our surroundings is rapidly Hanoi has any interest in the Paris peace to a young doctor's eloquent statement reaching a crisis level, it is heartening to talks other than as a propaganda forum. on this subject which was recently call congressional attention to these The notion that the North Vietnamese may brought to my attention. First printed in retaliate against the helpless American hos­ the Lawrence, Mass., Eagle-Tribune of young people who, instead of complain­ tages in their hands unfortunately may have ing from the wings, are at front stage, some substance to it. Secretary Laird stated September 8, 1970, and since widely re­ center, doing their part to keep America yesterday, perhaps unwisely, that the United printed, its author is Dr. Henry G. Arm­ green and clean. I know that my col­ States will hold "the leaders of North Viet­ itage, Jr., a resident of North Andover, leagues in the House of Representatives nam personally responsible" for any reprisals Mass., who maintains his office in Law­ join me in extending our sincere thanks against the POWs. Laird may lack the power rence. He is a graduate of Notre Dame for their efforts and challenging others so to do, but Hanoi should at least be aware University and Tufts University. A native to follow suit. that all civilized men will hold it accountable of Haverhill, Mass., he is the son of a for the treatment of its hostages. physician. He wrote this essay, he says, To sum up: We lack sufficient information to make a judgment ..m the wisdom of the not as a physician and surgeon but as a raid, we deplore any effort to make political concerned private citizen. I can assure THE POW RAID capital one way or another out of it, we ap­ my colleagues that he speaks for many plaud the courage of the men who imple­ who feel as deeply about this matter as he mented it and our hearts and prayers go feels, but lack his gift of words. HON. CHARLOTTE T. REID out-particularly at this season-to the The article follows: OF ILLINOIS POWs and their families who would have had ABORTION-"THE DOVE AT THE WINDOW" IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES so much to be thankful for had it been successful. (By Henry G. Armitage Jr., M.D.) Tuesday, December 1, 1970 Coming from the Andrew Wyeth exhibition Mrs. REID of Dlinois. Mr. Speaker, the at the Boston Museum, one realizes again how 1t is possible to believe that, in the long Washington Evening Star has written a OPERATION HEADSTART: THE CON­ run, it is the artist-the poet and the very perceptive editorial on the recent CERN OF ONE GENERATION FOR dreamer, and not merely rational man, who raid on North Vietnam's Son Tay pris­ THE NEXT will have the last word with us. Known oner-of-war camp and concludes that it as a realist, for want of a better word, Mr. failed not through any lack of gallantry Wyet h at his best reveals, beneath the sur­ on the part of the brave men who risked HON. ANDREW JACOBS, JR. faces of commonplace things "worn smooth with usage," a timeless, interior world of their lives but because the prisoners had OF INDIANA order, nat ural harmony and quiet breathing. been moved. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I think the Star's views on this rescue It is a world in which there is a. single Tuesday, December 1, 1970 tension, sometimes perplexed, of hushed ex­ attempt, and particularly on the hind­ pectation, as if, for a moment, all waiting sight aspects, will be of value to all my Mr. JACOBS. Mr. Speaker, the U.S. creation is cocking its head to listen to an colleagues: Government will expend this year less intimation of the ineffable. THE POW RAm than two-tenths of 1 percent of its oper­ I turned a corner outside the museum and The only unfortunate thing about the ating budget on pre-school training for surprised a grinning boy, not above twelve, in rescue attempt on North Vietnam's Son Tay educationally disadvantaged children. sardonic play holding the edge of a straight POW camp is that it failed. And it failed not The Office of Economic Opportunity razor against the throat of his friend; and through any lack of gallantry on the part his eyes mocked me with the symbolism of has requested $339 million for operation the gesture. Was this reality and is what is of the brave men who risked their lives in Headstart for fiscal year 1971, less than an effort to free their comrades but because seen in the paintings illusion; or is it the the prisoners had been moved. half the tax dollars requested by the other way 'round? Since hindsight is 2Q-20, it is possible to administration to bail out a mismanaged Two paintings alone are disquieting. Both fault those who ordered and planned the railroad that retires its executives on show a killed deer hanging outside a farm­ &.bortive mission, particularly in terms of hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. house. their intelligence-gathering proficiency. It is The following appeared in a recent Unaccountably, one keeps remembering an­ rational to suggest that, had the prisoners other, not especially distinguished, almost issue of the Wall Street Journal: fragmentary painting which shows a part and their guards been present, there might From a study entitled "Two Worlds of have been heavy casualties among both the of the interior of a dilapidated, abandoned POWs and the Army-Air Force rescue team. Childhood, United States and U.S.S.R.," church in which pigeons have made their It is possible, if one is so disposed, to at­ Russell Sage Foundation, New York, roost. Close to the ceiling, by a window, flut­ tribute all sorts of base motives to the Pres­ 1970: ters a dove. It is not in the vacant church ident, the Secretary of Defense and others How can we judge the work of a society? that reality is to be found. It is in the dove at involved in the Son Ta.y episode. On what basis can we predict how well a the window. We are not so disposed. We are not pre­ nation will survive and prosper? Many indices ABORTION ISSUE pared to believe that the mission was could be used for this purpose, among them At the present time, in the state of New mounted either as a sop to the families of the gross national product, the birth rate, York, a. woman may go to a doctor and ask the POWs or as a mechanism to disarm crit­ crime statistics, mental health data, etc.­ for an abortion and, barring lateness of ar­ ics of the American air raids last weekend We propose yet another criteria.: The con­ rival or not being pregnant, or choosing a south of the 19th parallel. In our view, the cern of one generation for the next. If the contrary physician or hospital, she shall have attempt was made simply because it was children and the youth of a nation are af­ it. This is so because she lives in a country thought there was a good prospect of success. forded opportunity to develop their capaci­ where what she is demanding is being estab­ The question whether the mission would ties to the fullest, if they are given the lished as a right as, in successive states, the have failed even had it succeeded-because knowledge to understand the world and the abortion laws are being declared unconsti­ it would have resulted in so many casual­ wisdom to change it, then the prospects for tutional. The trend began in the Supreme ties--depends on a great many imponder­ the future are bright. In contrast, a society Court of California and came east when the ables. Not the least of these is the attitude o! which neglects its children, however well American Civil Liberties Union brought suit the POWs and their families. The very few it may !unction in other respects, risks in Federal Court in New York City. State American prisoners who have returned from eventual disorganization and demise. medical societies and the American Medical 39422 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 1, 1970 Association have voted abortion essentially to the furnace or sewer-unknown, un­ entitled to a defense of that existence. We to be a matter for a woman to determine wanted, undefended, without benefit of do that much for seagulls, flamingos and with her physician. A not unimaginable suit clergy. whooping cranes. in Supreme Court, aimed at voiding the Not without comment shall it be made abortion law in all states where abortion falsely to seem that the fertile adornment of COURT RULING is prohibited now, would remove the ques­ our race can be deluded into the notion that The Supreme Court has ruled that a young tion from the legislative arena and the reach she is a mere portress of unwanted luggage man may be exempted from military service of public opinion, thus federalizing the whole or be by blandishment seduced into believing by virtue of moral convictions developed as abortion issue. The Pentagon has authorized that she has dominion over life not her own. a result of "readings in the fields of history abortion of military personnel and depend­ Nor shall it be accounted a virtue to exploit and sociology" and that he need no longer ents at installations in states where abortion the natural fallibilities and weaknesses of claim status as a conscientious objector sole­ is prohibited. troubled women and girls. ly on the basis of religious training and be­ Where abortion has been legalized, if a Not without comment shall it be made lief. Particularly in light of so relaxed a view woman is eligible for benefits. Medicaid will falsely to appear that any political procurer of military exemption. I question most seri­ pay the bill. At the present time, there is who takes it into his head can, with impunity ously whether it is just, good or wise, to nothing to indicate that what was first and every probability of success, dangle a coin oblige a citizen to contribute health and wel­ argued as a private right may not soon be­ before a profession whose members were fare taxes, which he can think of only as come a public duty and end, perhaps, as a pledging "I will not give a woman a pessary blood money, to pay for birth control prac­ compulsory obligation. Writers already have to produce an abortion" before the birth of tices which he believes to be immoral and pointed out how a welfare worke: mi~ht Christ. for abortions which he believes are murder, pressure a recipient toward an abort1on w1th Not without comment shall it be that the based on his moral convictions or his reli­ the implication of curtailment of benefits. poor, the weak and the helpless of this land, gious training and beliefs. And I think that So, it seems that, weary as we may be with whose only vice is they are so many, shall, every citizen must ask whether onto the the fatigue of supporting freedom, we have for a mess of pottage and a ballot, yield over piled-up rubbish of the national merchandise now to contend with the notion that cor­ to the state their privacy, their dignity and culture are to be strewn the shells of the porate humanity is about to turn over the their liberty to increase. Is it to be here, littered hopes and the broken promises of a custodianship of its life energy to the state. among these, where the grapes of wrath are false and fallen republic. I submit that while we go on worshiping the stored, that society is to wield its own ter­ It has been said often enough to amount national idols we are being bewildered by rible swift sword? Out where the harbor of to an aphorism that morality cannot be leg­ the national bureaucracy. Conditioned by a Ne>: York begins, there is a big statue which islated; but there is something out of plumb full ten years of concern about population, proudly proclaims to Europe: about a society carrying a motto "In God we are experiencing a shift in emphasis We Trust" in its pocket and portraying that away from programs for the care of the un­ Give me your tired, your poor, what is legislated is neither moral nor im­ well toward others for the limitation of the Your huddled masses yearning to be free moral and that what is not legislated, to that well. Dr. Lee DuBridge, until recently Science The wretched refuse of your teeming shore extent, simply doesn't exist at all. Inherite.d Adviser to President Nixon, has advocated Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, from an age of right and wrong, the motto 1s fixing United States population at 250 mil­ to me: out of place in an era of right and non-right ; lion, world population at six billion and I lift my lamp beside the golden door. and it is likely to remain so, barring some achievement of zero population growth by upsurge of the spirit which, at this time, is the year 2000. From United Nations, where The golden door to what?;. charnel-house? nowhere to be seen. we have never been noted for modesty, he Were we only putting them on, after all; and In the pressures of an expanding popula­ has been endorsed soundly by Gen. William is that what we are to teach to our children? tion within a shrinking environment are to Draper, our representative to the U.N. Popu­ NEW YORK HAS 110,000 ABORTIONS be found the origins Of all the dissonances lations Commission. Gen. Draper adds that It has been estimated that 50,000 abortions which are vibrating our membranous society. five or six billiDn "should be quite enough will occur in New York City in the first year Man out of tune with his environment is for everyone." One can almost hear all those of the program; and guesses for the entire disoriented. Man out of tune with himself little people chanting "Yankee imperialist, state range from 110,000 to 500,000. When is demented. Man out of tune with both has go home!" viewed on a mass scale like this, abortion been destroyed. Only an uncorrupted spirit, LEGISLATIVE PLANS becomes a great deal more than a quarrel operating through an inflexible will, fastens Sen. Robert Packwood has advocated limi­ over the moral issues of isolated cases-more us to a little apex between animal and robot. tation of tax exemption to two children in a even, perhaps than another lonesome stand In the entire human epoch, no crisis has family, has stated that, if voluntary controls by the Judea-Christian ethic, truncheoning made a greater demand upon our will and do not work, we may have to resort to manda­ with the yeomen of a pluralistic society. At spirit and perhaps never have they seemed tory controls; and he has been supported by this level of intensity, it is a social phenome­ less able to respond. That is our great sin­ Sen. Barry Goldwater. Dr. Alan Gutt-macher, non of profound significance for every citi­ that we see, that we sufier and that we do president of the Planned Parenthood Federa­ zen, an ultimate impe::-ative which, whether not act. tion of America, one of the plaintiffs in the we like it or not, is forcing us to a moral OBSERVABLE FACT New York suit, has said: "Each country will plebiscite that will determine for the indefi­ What is to be said about the population have to decide its own form of coercion. At nite future the spiritual cast of our people problem? There is one observable fact. The present the means available are compulsory as a nation and as a world force. population is increasing. The rest is hypoth­ sterilization and compulsory abortion. Per­ What I am discussing is not a state of esis and speculation. Since we are observing haps someday a way of enforcing compulsory disease nor some surgical stunt but the delib­ a first-of-its-kind phenomenon, something birth control will be feasible." He acknowl­ erate interruption and c!estruction of a nat­ which has never happened before, who is a edges that, "in a democracy, introducing ural process, an act of rape against the in­ population expert? You, I, our neighbor? In compulsory measures or incentive awards to ternal environment of man. Supporters of the entire existence of the human race to control fertility would admittedly present the idea argue that it is necessary in order date, we are still only somewhere on the first awesome difficulties." Presumably, in a non­ to avoid the diseases of over-population. The curve of one cycle of which no man on earth democracy, it does not. question seems to be whether we shall suc­ knows the shape. Nor does any man know While "His Truth is marching on" abortion cumb to over-population with our morals that it is not merely the first cycle of many is becoming the law of the land. Sixteen more or less intact or to spiritual suicide with yet to come. It would be outside the range of states have adopted abortion-on-demand our population balanced. probability, in a universe otherwise so rig­ laws; and five are awaiting U.S. Supreme orously governed by laws that there should Neither the simplistic canticles of English be none governing the ebb and flow of hu­ Court interpretation of the constitutionality Common Law nor the nonsensical cadenzas of their therapeutic abortion statutes. While man existence. That we have not discovered of American Uncommon Law are adequate to one only testifies that we are early travelers millions of citizens are going to, coming from, this question. If there was little need in the saving for, paying off at their shopping cen­ on the curve. That we should set about past to defend what once must have seemed changing the shape of the curve is as pre­ ters, in a never-ending litany of getting, ''His self-evident-namely, that an agent of the terrible, swift sword" is being bent into a sumptuous as that we should undertake to principle of life is entitled to life-this is no change the orbit of the earth. curette; and the 9lst Congress of the United longer the case. Gradually, the state is re­ States has before it more than forty legal In the present circumstance, the first duty moving a line once drawn at the outlet of ot the scientific community is to observe and proposals dealing with the limitation of life, the womb and is, in effect, at one and the before and after conception. record, with absolute detachment, total ob­ same time, bringing what has been ruled to jectivity and scrupulous accuracy, what hap­ Not without comment shall it come to pass be outside the compass of the law under the pens next. I submit that it is not its first that a state, so fretful for the preservation of effect of the decisions of the law while fail­ duty to proclaim a disease of which no one the praying mantis but holding an unborn ing to make provision for a right of defense. has ever heard and, without verifying that it baby to be of no account, can send a spark of Either an unborn infant is a human being or exists, rashly to undertake an arbitrary, em­ immortality swinging out into limbo and con­ it is not; or there is a reasonable doubt that pirical, radical, artificial and unnatural form spire with citizen and physician to turn a it may be. Either an unborn infant is be­ of treatment--all, I might add, without the fragile, living object of simple innocence and yond the scope of the law and immune from consent of the patient or a license from the complex wonder into a pathetic pulp and to any decision which would affect its natural granting authority, who happen to be one consign it by rude and peremptory passages state of existence or it is under the law and and the same, to wit, corporate humanity. In December 1, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 39423 this matter, I fear, part of the scientific com­ spring of mankind. But an abortion is never WALTERS. KOBUS HONORED FOR munity and an agonizing proportion of my a commonplace. For the world holds no BLOOD DONATIONS own profession are forgetting the cardinal heartbreak like the death of innocence. principle of treatment--"First do no harm." Whenever and wherever it occurs, we all suf­ That most rational of scientists, Ren~ Du­ fer another loss from the little that sustains bos, writes at length, in Reason Awake, us and holds us together. Not alone ~use HON. PHILIP J. PHILBIN of the need for an informed body of scholars I believe it is murder do I oppose abortion. OF MASSACHUSETTS capable of critical evaluation of science and Not alone because it is a frustration of na­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of translating the evaluation into language ture, because it is a degradation of human­ that society can understand. He warns that ity, because it violates that innate respect Tuesday, December 1, 1970 "Freedom can be maintained only if citizens for life of my profession do I oppose abor­ understand the intellectual basis of scientific tion. I oppose abortion also because I believe Mr. PHn..BIN. Mr. Speaker, under expertise sufficiently well to differentiate be­ that, in the sophisticated barbarism of a unanimous consent to revise and extend tween persuasion and manipulation by ex­ nation destroying its offspring, can be sensed my remarks in the RECORD, I include perts" and that "A society that blindly ac­ the stirrings of despair in a people who are therein a tribute to my valued friend, cepts the decisions of experts is a sick society lost and disoriented in a disputative, spec­ Walter S. Kobus, formerly of Clinton, on its way to death." ulative, innovative Wilderness. I oppose abor­ Mass., who has unselfishly and gladly tion because it is fulness emptied, innocence WILLED FUTURE donated over 20 gallons of blood since defiled, song unfinished, beauty discarded, In a chapter entitled Willed Future, Dr. dream cloven, hope unsprung. It is the deer, 1932. Dubos writes of the risks and shortcomings hanged by the neck beside the house of man. His generosity and patriotism are in­ of forecasting, which, "for reasons that are It is the razor against the throat of the dove deed worthy of recognition, and I would not clear and in any case are not justified at the window. like to extend my heartiest congratula­ by actual performance," "now enjoys the I pay homage to those thousands of inno­ tions, esteem, and best wishes to Mr. dignity of an academic profession." He com­ cent souls, so rudely deflected from an earth ments at length on the comparatively unde­ Kobus and his family, and am pleased to which they shall never inherit. Not for noth­ insert the following articles in the REc­ veloped nature of the behavorial and social ing, once before, did a great Church num­ sciences and the difficulties and dangers in­ ber first among its saints other slaughtered ORD concerning his many contributions herent in trying to adapt the constitutive innocents, unreasoning and unblessed, who to mankind: principles or the concepts and methods of died for a God whose name they had never [From the Clinton (Mass.) Item, May 18, the natural sciences to the social sciences. heard. Flowers of martyrs, it called them. 1968] He points out the need for the behavioral and It may yet be that we are going to have a CABBAGES AND KINGS social sciences "to go through a phase of slow­ Second Spring of new flowers of martyrs, ter­ ly accruing a core of concrete facts relevant ribly to awaken us before there can be only (By Bill Coulter) to the mind and society before they can ar­ madness and blackness. Hats off this week to a former Clintonian rive at meaningful abstract formulations of Now, in this time of the Big Flinch, who was the honored guest at the 54th an­ their problems." He concludes, "When this a carnival has come to the Republic. nual meeting of the Metropolitan Atlanta stage has been reached they may re-examine Drawn on by the pied-pipers of peace, (Ga.) Chapter of the American Red Cross. their relation to natural sciences and per­ the populace is thronging to see the He is Walter S. Kobus, son of Mrs. Suzanna haps become partly anchored on physiology, show. The summer soldier and the sun­ and the late Peter Kobus. He was honored ecology and other biological sciences." He tshine patriot tootle the flute and pound for donating a total of 119 pints of blood to refers to the contrast between the problems the drum and the publican gapes in awe. In the Red Cross. This contribution is the of physical sciences, involving usually one the midway, the prophets of parturition and largest amount contributed by any individ­ or two variables at a time, with those of rudi­ pleasure are huckstering for the souls of ual in the city of Atlanta, Georgia-or for mentary social sciences dealing With the mothers and daughters. The academician that matter-the whole state of Georgia. His enormously intricate complex of variables of and the journalist have come down trom mother, who will be 95 years old this July, human society. I would like to cite as a single Olympus, the clergyman has come up from is believed to be the oldest citizen of Polish example (my own, not Dr. Dubos') that the Bethlehem, the social scientist has come out descent in town. His sister is Mrs. Gladys failure of social scientists to take into ac­ of the classroom-and all have gone into Chrostowski of 84 Berlin Street, an active count a relatively simple perturbation-that the marketplace to barter for the minds of blood donor. some citizens believe that many of these men and boys. At the animal show, bright Mr. Kobus now lives with his wife in At­ babies ought to be baptised--could result in and charming children thrust sticks through lanta where he has made his home since his serious and lasting social divisions-a conse­ the bars to goad the captive, bewildered serv­ retirement from the U.S. Army after 29 years quence which no alert and loyal American ants of the law. Along the sideshow, trans­ of consecutive service. He has been an archi­ citizen, consciously or subconsciously, would muted in the flickering light of a fiaming vist assistant with the Federal Record Center ever desire. A social force, or any system of republic, the bureaucrat displays his contor­ since 1959. bureaucracy, which can, with reckless insen­ tions and a magician makes a whole baby He thinks everybody should give blood to sitivity, ride roughshod over this considera­ disappear in the air. Buy a souvenir! Three the Red Cros3. He was first tapped for the tion, merits the searching attention of everg monkeys set all in a row. Hear nothing, see life-sustainii:g fluid in 1932 when he was a soberminded citizen. nothing, say nothing. young medical corpsman, and has given ever Members of a played-out demi-culture It is late and the din rises. In the gather­ since. endlessly repeating our last lines, we are ing darkness of a bemused evening, one His most dramatic donation was his first missing an opportunity to realize an un­ barely hears the faint echo "freedom" come one. In 1932, he and 54 Army buddies do­ dreamed-of renaissance. We are dying "inch back from the surrounding hills-dark hills, nated blood to his weeks-old son who was by inch in play at little games." We are where a stealthy bear watches and silently critically ill in a Massachusetts hospital. The missing the ultimate question on earth of our waits. For he sees what we do not yet know infant subsequently died, but the generosity era-how to expand our environment. Given -that, in our absence, housebreakers are of the 55 men prompted the entire detach­ the spirit and the will, we are capable of Tobbing us of everything that we own, of ment at Fort Banks (Mass.) to volunteer for unimagined prodigies. Given the imagination virtue, honor, integrity, trust, innocence, blood donations. and creative thinking, one could doubt that truth, beauty, justice and liberty. Asked if he eats special foods, he replied, we have enough workers to accomplish what "My stomach is my own. Only my blood goes we are capable of achieving. We can bring to other people. I don't particularly like about a massive re-ordering of our priorities. MAN'S INHUMANITY TO MAN­ spinach anyway." With coordinated high-level planning and a. HOW LONG? His personal philosophy was summed up systems approach we can re-create and re­ when he said, "Not everybody can give money cycle our industries, our commerce and our to help others, but almost everybody can give transportation. We can make earth, we can HON. WILLIAM J. SCHERLE blood." make forests and streams, we can even make OF IOWA one environment above another, if we have IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to. Through austerities, economies and sac­ [From the Atlanta (Ga.) Journal, May 8, rifices we can develop a natural population Tuesday, December 1, 1970 1968] in harmony with a natural environment and BLOOD DONATION'S FOR ALL, PIONEER IN feel joy again, in an act of gratitude to our Mr. SCHERLE. Mr. Speaker, a child PROGRAM SAYS past and of generosity to our future. Sooner asks: "Where is daddy?" A mother asks: (By Linda Bolt) that we should die trying than that we "How is my son?" A wife asks: "Is my Who puts the red in Red Cross? should try dying. husband alive or dead?" Blood donors, of course, those unselfish OPPOSITION TO ABORTION Communist North Vietnam is sadis­ people who year after year give the miracle Like population control in general, abor­ tically practicing spiritual and mental of life so the blood needs of a community tion is a slovenly short-order, a retreat from genocide on over 1,500 American prison­ maybe met. thesis to anti-thesis, an assertion that it is ers of war and their families. This year marks the 20th anniversary of for the good of mankind to stop up the well- How long? the Atlanta Regional Red Cross blood pro- CXVI--2483-Part 29 39424 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 1, 1970 gram. Atlanta had an active program tinue giving blood until their 61st birthday, alarming situation to the public eye. during World War II and disbanded according to Medical Director Dr. Shirley this operation at the close of the war. In Rivers. These stories, written by Post-Tribune 1948, a civilian, peacetime Red Cross Blood There is apparently little doubt in the staff reporter Tom Knightly, describe a Program was established and doors to the minds of these three men, and the myriad comedy of errors in a project callec1. JET. 81 Walton St. Center were opened for dona­ of unselfish donors like them, they'll con­ JET is an acronym for Journeyman tions. This became the first such center tinue giving until the absolute cutoff date. Employment Training; it was a project opened by Red Cross in the South, the sec­ formed with the ostensible purpose of ond in the United States. [From the Fort McPherson (Ga.) Lucky The first donor, Robert Shea, was in At­ training minority race construction lanta for the 20th anniversary commemora­ Times, Nov. 13, 1964] workers and obtaining employment for tion. He remembers filling a bottle as a doc­ GEORGIA's FIRST: RETIRED CWO KOBUS GETS them. This worthy idea was sold last tor and a nurse stood by. 10-GALLON DONOR'S AWARD February to the Department of Labor "No, I wasn't nervous . . . but they were CW0-4 Walter S. Kobus, retired, sta­ and was rewarded with a $300,000 grant. shaking." tioned at Fort McPherson, with the I.G. The only problem was that nobody in A negative donor, Mr. Shea had been giv­ Section as admlnistrative chief until his Gary, outside of a few well-paid JET em­ ing blood since 1943, the first recipient be­ retirement on September 30, 1957, was ployees, knew about the program. Now, ing his wife. Mr. Shea, currently vice presi­ awarded the 10 gallon Blood Donors Award with less than a month to run, the proj­ dent of American National Red Cross in by the Atlanta Chapter, American Red Cross. Washington, has continued to give his blood The award (the highest available) is a ect has maybe benefited one minority regularly, because "I've seen what it can Silver Key Chain with Plaque, which has construction worker. do." a gold droplet of blood with a Red Cross If it were not for the fact the $300,- The present Atlanta Blood Center is at 848 in its center, and red numerals 10 below. 000 of hard-earned taxpayers' money Peachtree St., having relocated in 1951. Some The reverse side has the words: "The Ameri­ was squandered on JET, the whole 70 hospitals within a 39-county vicinity rely can Red Cross Blood Program 10 Gallon chronicle of events would be funny. But heavily on Red Cross Center and bloodmo­ Blood Donor." the outright waste of public funds at a b1le donations. And the stars of this real­ This award is the first ever presented to life drama are donors of some 71,000-73,000 an individual in Georgia. time when Federal spending must be units of blood per year in the Atlanta area In 1959, CWO Kobus was awarded the brought under control turns the comedy alone. eight gallon award for his donations in ex­ into tragedy. Another pioneer donor, Walter S. Kobus, cess of eight gallons. Again in 1963, CWO We learn in the Post-Tribune articles an archivist assistant with the Federal Rec­ Kobus, was presented a Certificate of Com­ that the Labor Department has at last ord Center since 1959, thinks "everybody mendation by Regional Director, Region 4, locked the barn door after a minimum of should give blood." General Services Administration, for his $70,000 of the "horse" is long gone. The He was first tapped for the life-sustaining contribution in excess of eight gallons. Department has taken the first action fiuid in 1932 as a young medical corpsman, CWO Kobus, is employed as an assistant that any bureaucracy takes when a proj­ but he can't remember how many units he archivist, Federal Record Center, East Point. gave during the subsequent 11 years. Ac­ He served at Fort McPherson from July ect is in trouble; it has changed the proj­ cording to Red Cross records, he has an 1949 to May 1952, and again from July 1956 ect's name-thus giving it new respecta­ amazing 119 pints to his credit since 1943. until his retirement in September 1957. He bility, for some reason or another. The His most dramatic donation and certainly has served in both European and Asiatic discredited JET has now become MET­ his most memorable one was the first one. Theatres and at numerous posts in the for Minority Employment and Train­ In 1932, he and 54 Army buddies donated United States. ing-and we have been promised a re­ blood to his weeks-old son who was critically He resides with his wife Olanda C., and vamping, reorganization, and revitaliza­ ill in a Massachusetts hospital. The infant son Allen S., at 2257 Barge Rd. tion of the entire program. But with less subsequently died, but the generosity of 55 To date what can be proven is that donor men prompted the entire detachment at Ft. has donated seventeen gallons and three than a month to run on the grant, there Banks, Mass., to volunteer for blood dona­ pints. Donor has donated over twenty gal­ is no reason for the taxpayers to be tions. lons. optimistic. Asked if he eats special foods, he replied, I applaud the fact that the Depart­ "My stomach is my own. Only my blood [From the Clinton Dally Item, Oct. 31, 1964) ment of Labor did at last cotton to the goes to other people. I don't particularly like spinach anyway." FORMER CLINTON RESIDENT CrrED As fact that JET was a tax-eating boondog­ His personal philosophy was perhaps sum­ BLOOD DONOR gle. But it strikes me that the Depart­ med up when he mused, "Not everybody can Walter s. Kobus of Atlanta, Ga., formerly ment's action was rather late in the day. give money to help others, but almost every­ of this town, was recently presented the The most alarming thing about the body can give blood." (The normal human Ten Gallon Donors' Award for donating in JET affair is not the loss of $300,000 in adult has approximately 12-13 pints of blood excess of ten gallons of blood in behalf of a single, worthless project in Gary, but in his body, according to Red Cross infor­ the American Red Cross, Atlanta Chapter. the conditions that led to the loss. When mation.) The award is the highest now available Mr. Kobus' three sisters and two sons have and consists of a silver key chain With a the award was made, there were appar­ been active donors. gold droplet of blood inscribed With the ently no controls or guidelines to prevent G. L. Ferguson, group supervisor in en­ numeral 10. The reverse side reads. Ameri­ such a :fiasco. This indicates to me that gineering administration for the Lockheed­ can Red Cross Blood Program 10 gallon blood perhaps there is a whole fleet of JET's Georgia Corp., has logged up a noteworthy donor. taxiing around this Nation, with very few 106 pints of donated blood since 1943. Mr. Kobus is the son of Mrs. Suzanne Ko­ eve:· getting off the ground. "I just felt this was something I could bus of 254 Green Street and a brother of How many potential millions of tax do that would help others and certainly Mrs. Gladys Chrostowski of 84 Berlin Str.eet. dollars are going down the drain in simi­ wouldn't hurt me any," he said. Mr. Kobus was honored in 1959, by being He concurs with Mr. Kobus: donating the first in the Atlanta area. to donate in lar boondoggles in other American com­ blood through a Red Cros.q program is the excess of eight gallons of blood. At the time munities? How many Diamond Jim free­ best insurance he could give his family. this was the highest award. Again in 1963 loaders have dressed up a money-grub­ After the 16th pint, the donor is presented a he was commended by the Regional Director. bing racket in the robes of minority em­ card stating he and his immediate family Region Four, for his participation in the ployment, or any of a hundred other are entitled to receive free blood when Blood Donors Program. equally worthy ideas, ranging from needed, for a lifetime. cleaner environment to safer streets? Jim C. Adams, 26-year veteran lineman for Georgia Power Co., first donated blood How many good-hearted but ineffective projects, cloaked with good intentions, at the old Walton Street center. JET-GARY'S TRAGI-COMEDY There's been such a heavy call for blood are wasting our tax dollars and increas­ in the last few years that Mr. Adams wouldn't OF ERRORS ing our national debt? think of ceasing his donations. He proudly And now that the JET fiasco has come claims he's "just two pints away from the HON. EARL F. LANDGREBE to light, has the Labor Department 100 mark" and a Georgia Power supervisor De­ said, "We're awfully proud of Jim." OF INDIANA learned from its mistake? Has the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES partment taken steps to examine other Last year, he was chairman of Georgia funded projects across the country or to Power's Central District Blood Program and Tuesday, December 1, 1970 the A positive donor is always pleased to prevent future JET's? recruit more volunteers. Mr. LANDGREBE. Mr. Speaker, a pair And has the Department passed on its Under a new liberalization of Red Cross' of stories recently published in the Gary, bitter lesson to other agencies-such as national regulations, donors may now con- Ind., Post-Tribune has brought an HEW or OEO-which dole out millions 39425 (December 1, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS contractor groups over control of the jour­ [From the Gary (Ind.) Post-Tribune, of Federal tax dollars, so that these neymen's training and placement. Nov. 6, 1970] agencies can also take corrective and The two sides appeared unable to get to­ CoNFUSION FoULs JET PROGRAM SINCE preventive action? gether on how to run the program and there BEGINNING Mr. Speaker, this is a time when !iscal was confusion over who the Department of (By Tom Knightly) responsibility is essentia~ to natiOnal Labor had authorized to be in charge. Confusion has existed in the program survival. our bureaucracies must take The existence of two separate contracts, known as JET (Journeyman Employment steps to insure that our limited fiscal re­ both purporting to be the ones under which Training) since its formation about a year sources are wisely spent and that when JET was established and funded, also added ago. we spend a dollar on any project--no to the confusion. The feeling finally came to the surf~ce The situation was resolved only just re­ this week during testimony in Lake SuperiOr matter how lofty of purpose-that we get cently when an announcement was made Court over an affirmative action suit, the a dollar's worth for every dollar that the Department of Labor had approved very thing JET was designed to avert. expended. replacement of JET with MET. Joe Torres, a Gary School board member, Today, I have written a letter to the Harold P. Hagberg, an electrical union while on the stand, said that more than Secretary of Labor, the Honorable business manager and a founder of both likely, "It'll be investigated and prosecuted." JET and MET, made the disclosure from the James D. Hodgson, asking him the ques­ Torres' fiat avowal gives substance to the witness stand during a trial in Hammon foreboding that has surrounded the loosely tions I have posed here. I hope that he Superior Court. operated program from its inception. will reply with firm evidence that the Hagberg was testifying as a witness for an JET was hailed as a major breakthrough measures I have outlined are being taken, electrical company in its suit against the in efforts to place the minorities in skilled not only in the Department of Labor, b~t Gary School Board, which denied a contract construction trades when it was incorporated also in the entire Federal bureaucratic to the company because it didn't have any last November. establishment. black employes. It received a $300,000 subsidy from the De­ Mr. Speaker, I insert Mr. K?ightly's In his court appearance last Monday, Hag­ partment of Labor and was touted as having berg said JET, the one program in Gary de­ the backing of union and construction in­ two articles, together with a thir~ sh?rt signed to steer minorities into skilled jour- dustry officials as well as leaders in the black news article on the subject, at thiS pomt neymen's jobs, has to be disbanded. _ community. in the RECORD: He said the government won't finance JET This at least was the widely accepted [From the Gary (Ind.) Post-Tribune, any more because of what he called the in­ belief. Nov. 5, 1970] volvement of Inter-City Contractors Service There is now considerable evidence to Inc., a black contractor group. show thast these sectors-the union, con­ MINORITY PLAN HERE PLACES JUST ONE Inter-City was the prime contractor with ON JOB tractors and community-were never briefed the Northwest Indiana Building and Con­ or consulted. (By Tom Knightly) struction Trades Council under the $300,000 It is also evident that JET lacked enough A $300 000 federal program to train mi­ Department of Labor grant. clear thinking and planning before the gov­ norities for construction journeymen's jobs JET was then set up by representatives of ernment went ahead and funded the pro­ has less than a month to run, and so far the contractor and union groups as the orga­ gram. only one trainee has been placed on a job. nization for carrying out the training and As examples: With the Dec. 1 expiration date for the recruitment of skilled Negro journeymen. Members firms Of the white contractors as­ federal contract fast approaching, the gov­ However, it was discovered that in seeking sociation were unaware that the program ernment has stepped in to do something the contract grant from the Department of was being established even though it was the about the program known as JET (Journey­ Labor, the applicants had submitted a docu­ outgrowth of the association's Model Cities man Employment Training). ment known as the urban housing and Model Labor Agreement (the Gary Plan). What the U.S. Department of Labor has Cities agreement for Northwest Indiana. Various unions affiliated with the North­ apparently done is to overhaul the pro­ The agreement, also known as the Gary west Indiana Building and Construction gram, place it in ~he hands ~f a. new ad­ plan for minority employment, had been Trades Coundl didn't know about it either ministrative comm1ttee and g1ve 1t a new drawn up between craft unions and contrac­ and the Council was the one that supposedly name, MET (Minority Employment and tor associations. applied for the federal grant. Training). The purpose was to provide jobs for minor­ The Gary Urban League, which conducts How JET was able to operate without the ities in urban housing and Model Cities proj­ an apprenticeship training program in co­ government intervening earlier provides an ects outside the realm of private housing and operation with the building and construc­ interesting case study of the functioning other commercial construction. tion trades council wasn't involved in any and supervision of anti-poverty programs. Members of contractor associations appar­ way. Questions immediately arise. ently had no knowledge of the plan to estab­ Very few people were involved in the plan­ Some of these concerning JET and ap­ lish JET until the contract was approved by ning of the program which was done at plicable to other social welfare programs the Department of Labor. meetings in Washington with a consultant are: Because the jobs for minorities program firm. Who monitors the spending of funds and was used as the basis for getting the contract, Soon afterward the consultant firm that evaluates the programs to determine if the the contractors were in effect a party to the drew up the contract for JET was dropped money is being spent !or useful purposes? agreement. by the U.S. Department of Labor and an­ Are there built-in safeguards to guarantee At least this is the way they saw it and other finn was retained to handle manpower the programs are run efficiently without quickly said they were in the dark as to what development programs. waste or unnecessary personnel? .was going on. The new consultant, MacArthur Asso­ Who is held accountable for the spending Furthermore, the contractors weren't sure ciates, reviewed the JET contra{!t and or­ of public funds? they wanted a role in JET. The contract pro­ dered immediate revisions. Is there any auditing or accounting to vided that three contractor representatives One situation that was ordered rectified show what funds are disbursed, what the be members of the JET executive board. was the absence of any representation from money is spent for and what the expendi­ Meanwhile, training facilities and adminis­ white contractors on the program's director­ tures have accomplished? trative offices for JET were opened in a build­ ship. Finally, are there periodic reports against ing rented at 1200 Broadway and remodeled As originally conceived and approved by which the program can be evaluated, show­ for that purpose. the Department of Labor, JET was adminis­ ing the number of trainees, how many are A year's lease at $600 a month was signed tered by a six-man board of directors. placed in jobs, how long persons placed stay with the Charles Lazerwitz Management Co. Three of the directors were black contrac­ on the job and whether they come back for The first year's rent of $7,200 was paid in tors, who were associated together in Inter­ more training? advance. City Contractors Service, Inc., and three w_ere Often criticism of such programs is con­ Sam Spitale, president of the Northwest officials of the building and constructwn sidered racism. But government auditors Indiana Building and Construction Trades trades council. might have raised an eyebrow about the JET Council, became training director. Inter-City and the council officials had program had they delved earlier into the Leonard Haile, formerly with the Man­ initially applied for and received the grant operation. power Development Training Program in to conduct a journeymen's recruitment pro­ Now seems to be rather late, considering gram among skilled minority craftsmen. that vast amounts have been spent and Gary, was hired as project director. Spitale and Haile are each being paid In making the application they submitted most of it used to take care of administra­ as the "clincher" the Urban Housing and tion and overhead. $16,500 a year, plus fringe benefits. Some 20 others were placed on the pay­ Model Cities Agreement for Northwester?­ The reason Jet never got off the ground Indiana, an affirmative action plan for ml­ could be explained as having to do with de­ roll, including school teachers as instructors and counselors. nority employment. clining construction work in the area and That agreement between the council and several strikes by construction trades. It was the start of expenditures for a pro­ gram that was destined from the start to go white contractor associations provided for a But there were other factors, not the least ratio of one minority trainee for every four of which was con:flicts between union and nowhere. 39426 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 1, 1970 craftsmen on Model Cities and urban renewal JET, with an office at 1200 Broadway, 1s construction. being disbanded, but Halle said he had ~•no THE FUEL PROBLEM IN NEW Just prior to making the grant application, official Information" of this. ENGLAND the councll and Inter-City had signed a un­ Responding to Mam.et, he said he was stlll ion representation pact making the affiliated on the payroll. But he didn't answer when craft unions bargaining agent for the com­ Ma.met asked him: HON. EDWARD P. BOLAND pany's employes. "What have you done for the money you OF MASSACHUSETTS The Allied Workers Union, a predominantly have received? If no one was ever placed, !N THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Negro independent labor organization, pre­ why do you continue on the job?" viously represented the employes. Halle was introduced as a defense witness Tuesday, December 1, 1970 Inter-City, an amalgamation of various by Attorney Julian Allen, who asked him Mr. BOLAND. Mr. Speaker, I have Negro construction companies In Gary, re­ questions that led to his description of the ceived a $735,000 grant from the Labor De­ JET program. spoken here many times about the partment in January, 1969 "for providing Halle said the program sought out minority stranglehold that the domestic oil indus­ employment and training to disadvantaged race persons with experience in a construc­ try has on the New England marketplace persons." tion trade, but who had difficulty becoming for petroleum products. Facing virtually The new JET program, which was sepa­ members of the trade unions. no competition from foreign imports, the rately funded, was an extension of this but Generally, such persons were too old­ domestic industry can raise its prices it also Included the AFL-CIO craft union over 30-to be admitted into apprenticeship without fear of losing the New England council as part of the administration. programs, Haile said. consumer's patronage. Fuel oil prices­ In its re-evaluation of the Labor Depart­ Halle told the court there were 12 to 15 ap­ ment contract MacArthur associates pointed plicants for electrical on-the-job training, prices for the residual oil used by insti­ out that the white contractor associations but their applications are still on file. tutions and the No. 2 oil used by home­ should have an equal voice In administering JET was involvPd in the trial in connec­ owners-are running a staggering 60 the program. tion with Continental Electric's contention percent over the prices a year ago. A The consultant also ordered a cutback in it has sought minority employes through critical shortage of fuel oil, moreover, the number of staff personnel hired for JET various programs, including JET and Opera­ now looms before New England just as In Gary. tion Outreach, which seeks young men to be winter approaches. Some payroll checks issued to staff mem­ trained as building trades apprentices. bers were returned by the banks for insuffi­ The situation is bleak, Mr. Speaker, cient funds. There was criticism that too and it threatens to grow ever bleaker. many were on the payroll in the first place The domestic oil industry is acquiring since no one seemed to be getting processed coal companies at an alarming rate, through the program. AGRICULTURAL PRODUCERS SUF­ gaining more and more control over this Much of the financial difficulties were FERING A SEVERE ECONOMIC country's resources in fossil fuel. The traced to seemingly Innocent bookkeeping HANDICAP errors. electric power industry-an industry But it was part parcel of a turbulent state that burns enormous amounts of coal of affairs that was aggravated even further HON. JOHN M. ZWACH and oil in generating electricity-may when the shakeup took place and the white OF MINNESOTA soon be at the mercy of the Southwest's contractor representatives were installed as IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES oil barons. It is no secret that electricity having equal voice in administering the costs in New England are among the program. Tuesday, December 1, 1970 highest in the country. These costs, like Things never really got straightened out oil costs, are exacting an enormous finan­ after that. Mr. ZWACH. Mr. Speaker, we all Now the Labor Department has now know our agricultural producers are cial toll from consumers in the northeast. stepped in and is scrapping the JET program suffering a severe economic handicap, A. J. Wagner, board chairman of the In favor of a new one called MET (Manpower yet they are the most efficient of all Tennessee Valley Authority, has called Employment Training). industries. for an investigation into the oil indus­ Whatever is left of the original $300,000 They are twice as efficient as non­ try's rapid acquisition of coal companies. grant is to be applied to MET. agricultural industries. Their productiv­ Warning that the oil industry is moving Leonard Haile, $16,500-a-year project di­ ity in the 1960's increased 6 percent a toward a virtual monopoly on fossil fuels, rector of JET, reported recently that some Mr. Wagner points out that- $70,000 of the sum has been spent and that year while output per man-hour in non­ at most one minority journeyman has been agricultural industry increased only 3 The public needs to understand the con­ placed. percent a year. sequences and is entitled to a full disclosure Haile, a Negro, has been sharing top ad­ One farmworker produces food, fiber, of all the factors involved. ministrative powers in JET with Sam Spitale, and other farm commodities for himself I agree, Mr. Speaker. the white president of the building and con­ and 44 others. New England's past experience with struction trades council. The farmer spends $38 billion for the domestic oil industry makes the pros­ Spitale has the title of training director, goods and services to produce crops and which also pays $16,500 a year. pect of a fossil fuel monopoly a very livestock and $12 billion a year for food, chilling one indeed. [From the Gary (Ind.) Post-Tribune, Nov. 5, clothing, drugs, furniture, appliances, The following excerpts from the Amer­ 1970] and other products. · ican Public Power Association's Weekly No MINORITIES PLACED--JET HEAD Yet the farmer paid only $1.9 billion Newsletter discuss Mr. Wagner's warn­ HAMMOND.-The $16,500-a-year director of in income tax, about 12 percent of his ing and the soaring cost of fossil fuel: the Journeyman Employment and Training total earnings. Industry would have paid TVA BOARD CHAIRMAN AGAIN CALLS FOR PROBE (JET) program said under oath here Wednes­ over 1,000 percent more taxes based on OF OIL FIRMS' ACQUISITION OF COAL COM­ day that JET hasn't placed any minority per­ profits on an investment of the same PANIES son on a job since it was set up by a $293,100 size as the farmer's and for labor and Tennessee Valley Authority board chair­ federal grant last February. management. man A. J. Wagner has again called for a Leonard Halle, a witness for the Gary Our producers are in the lowest in­ "thorough investigation into the acquisition School Board in a suit involving the $3.9 of coal companies by oil companies and million Pulaski Junior High School expan­ come tax bracket in the United States. This is proof enough in itself of the whether this change of ownership has also sion, admitted the allegation under cross­ brought an unreasonable change of pricing examination. tragic financial situation that exists in U.S. agriculture. policy detrimental to the public Interest." "There were so many roadblocks along the Mr. Wagner-noting that TVA's coal sup­ way," he said, answering questions of Ber­ Every fact and figure on record sub­ ply shortage is still very serious and could nard M. Mamet, lawyer for Continental Elec­ stantiates the fact that the American become critical rapidly with a major inter­ tric of Gary, plaintiff in the suit against the farmer is subsidizing the living expenses ruption of deliveries--asserted that "the school board. of every consumer in the entire United consequences of a continuing rise in fuel "Things were always looking up, but they prices and consequently, in electric power never materialized," said Haile, adding that States. Mr. Speaker, with your permission, I costs, are obvious and far-reaching na­ $70,000 of the grant has already been spent. tionally as well as ln the Tennessee Valley." Haile testified that 150 persons applied for would like to insert the foregoing, which Addressing a meeting of the Tennessee the program, which seeks to involve more was taken from Frank LeRoux's "1961 Valley Chapter of the American Ordnance minorities in the construction trades by put­ to 1970, The Farmer's Worst Nine Years," Association in Huntsvllle, Ala., Nov. 17, the ting them on jobs with contractors and train­ in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD SO it may TVA chairman said that "raw fuel is one of ing them while on the job. be shared by my colleagues: what (trustbusting lawyer) Thurman Arnold December 1, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 39427 called the 'bottlenecks of business'-those control regulations that impose an 0.5% ceil­ I think it is time for the FCC to clarify essential single commodities that can exer­ ing on the sulfur content of oil. the guidelines by which the broadcasters cise controlling influence on many phases of Reports :filed by municipal electric sys­ must live. It is hard enough for radio and the business economy and upon the entire tems at APPA's request on fuel supply, avail­ television station managers and news di­ national welfare." ability and prices-which continue to show rectors to stay within the fairness doc­ Mr. Wagner warned that "when the control sharp increases-reflect these examples of of such a basic resource-coal, gas, oil, ura­ trends in various sections of the country: trine, but it is asking for the impossible nium-moves toward the hands of a rela­ Holyoke, Mass., Gas & Electric Depart­ when the FCC does not clarify its own tively few, the public needs to understand ment: 60% increase in oil prices. rules and regulations. the consequences and is entitled to a full Norwich, Conn., Department of Public Util­ disclosure of all the factors involved." ities: 95 % increase in oil prices. He responded to a claim by the National Vineland, N.J. Electric Utllity: 60% in­ Coal Association (NCA) that TVA's request crease in coal prices since Jan. 1, with dete­ DR. BARNABY C. KEENEY AWARDED for an investigation of the turnover of coal rioration in quality and an 84% increase in THE JAFFEE MEDAL companies to oil firms was a "red herring," oil prices with no prospects of obtaining re­ noting that an NCA official opined recently quired supply after Dec. 31. that there will be adequate supplies of fuel Henderson, Ky., Municipal Power & Light: HON. FRANK THOMPSON, JR. this winter (a claim disputed by the Federal 60% increase in coal prices, with mine break­ Power Commission) "at what the energy in­ downs and inadequate supply for peak pe­ OF NEW JERSEY dustry may call a fair price." riods. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES "TVA agrees," Mr. Wagner said, "that the Columbus, Ohio, Division of Electricity: Tuesday, December 1, 1970 price of coal should include not only the 63 % increase in coal prices. cost of mining but the cost of safety require­ Hamilton, Ohio, Department of Public Util­ Mr. THOMPSON of New Jersey. Mr. ments for the workers and the cost of strip ities: 42 % increase in coal prices. Speaker, one of the most satisfying oc­ mine reclamation as well as a fair return. Luverne, Minn., Municipal Utilities: 47% currences of my tenure in the House was But we are not satisfied that legitimate cost increase in oil prices. the opportunity to sponsor the legislation increases in these categories warrant the near doubling of coal prices in the last two which led to creation of the National years with the steepest part of the rise oc­ Foundation on the Arts and Humanities. curring within the past nine months." An even greater satisfaction was the op­ He pointed out that the average cost of BROADCASTER'S HEADACHE: THE portunity to come to know and become coal received at TVA plants was 20 cents per FCC friendly with the first Director of the million Btu for the past fiscal year and that National Endowment for the Humani­ the staff had estimated average fuel expense ties, Dr. Barnaby C. Keeney. Although at 26 cents a million Btu for the current HON. DONALD E. LUKENS Dr. Keeney has left the Endowment, fiscal year. But coal contract awards re­ OF OHIO cently let by the TVA Board, he said, will those who have come to esteem his cost the Authority 35 to 40 cents per million IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES friendship are delighted that he has Btu-"or almost double the average cost for Tuesday, December 1, 1970 chosen to remain in Washington as the all coal received last year." new director of the Consortium of Uni­ Mr. LUKENS. Mr. Speaker, in this versities. Quite recently, Dr. Keeney was MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC SYTEMS CONTINUE TO world of ours today, radio and television selected by the triennial council of Phi FACE CRUCIAL PROBLEMS ON FUEL, HIGH broadcasters :find themselves walking a Beta Kappa to be the first recipient of PRICES . tightrope. Assuming that they are fair to the Jaffee Medal, symoblic of the newly Serious shortages in the supplies of fuel all is no easy task, especially in an elec­ established Jaffee Award for service to they require for power generation and steady tion year. Campaign staffs monitor the increases in the prices they are asked to pay the humanities. The citation which was stations on a daily basis as the news di­ read upon presentation of the award is, for essential coal, oil and gas continue to rector's log every minute of coverage, plague many municipal electric utilities in it seems to me, a most fitting assessment widespread areas of the country. political, and nonpolitical. I happen to of Dr. Keeney's preeminent qualifica­ Reports filed with APPA by local publicly know, for example, that the news direc­ tions as a scholar, academician, public owned systems in all regions of the Nation in­ tor of WHIO-TV in Dayton, Ohio, logged servant, and gentleman. I think it en­ dicate that among the most critical situa­ each minute of air time that every poli­ tirely proper to bring this citation to the tions are those confronting Los Angeles De­ tical candidate received on his station. In attention of Dr. Keeney's many admirers partment of Water and Power, with a winter our State many stations decided not to in the Congress. It reads as follows: fuel oil requirement of 8.2 million barrels and offer free time to political candidates. To an anticipated deficit of 1.8-million bbl.; the do so would mean offering free time to CITATION FOR AWARDING THE JAFFEE MEDAL Glendale, Calif., Public Service Department, the third-, fourth-, and fifth-party can­ On the occasion of the XXIXth Triennial which reports a 206 % increase in the price of Council of QBK, it is an honor to announce low sulfur oil since Jan. 1, depleted supplies didates, and this they could not fit into the establishment of the Jaffee Award for for winter of as much as 200,000 bbl. and a their schedules. On top of this there are services to the Humanities. The donor and 10% price increase and curtailment of gas; many cases where one of the candidates the officers of the Senate were deeply sensi­ a 275% price increase in oil for the Brain­ could not make a scheduled taping and ble of the importance of making the first tree, Mass., Electric Light Department; a still demanded free time. All of these are presentation of this award to one whose 137% increase in oil costs and a shortage at problems which face the modern-day qualifications were so far above dispute as the Freeport, N.Y., Municipal Light Plant; broadcaster: The headaches of his pro­ to make him the sole and unanimous choice. and a 103% price rise in oil for the South fession. It was natural to select an historian who Carolina Public Service Authority at Moncks would appreciate the distinction of establish­ Corner, S.C. Last August the Federal Communica­ ing a worthy line of descent for his succes­ Los Angeles DWP problems are com­ tions Commission muddied the water a sors. Equally clearly, our choice fell upon a pounded by a delay in the operation of the little more when they handed down a de­ man whose "dearest action" was at one time Moheve Steam Plant in Nevada, a gas cur­ cision which granted the Democrats "in the tented field" whence his own "feats tailment 45 days ahead of schedule, and equal time to rebut President Nixon's of broil and battle" furnished both gloss and lower than anticipated rainfall in the Pacific Vietnam reports to the Nation. Ideally, glamor to the historian's task. These are, Northwest, which compelled a withdrawal of the FCC could have used this case to give however, but antecedent stages, to some ex­ the Bonneville Power Administration agree­ tent enhanced by myth and distance, though ment to sell excess energy and required the guidelines to the national networks and amply documented in citations of impeccable agency to stipulate that the capacity charge local broadcasters. Instead, it rejected provenance. In 1955 he assumed the presi­ for power from BPA must now be paid in the argument that any political party, in dency of Brown University, one of the oldest energy instead of cash, as originally or out of power, should have a continu­ in America, to which he brought the inci­ contemplated. ing right to access of the media to bal­ siveness in administration and breadth of DWP earlier estimated it would be 2.7- ance the administration's viewpoint. At understanding which characteri.ze the true m.illion barrels short of residual fuel oil this the same time it ordered the three na­ humanist. winter but arranged to purchase the power tional TV networks to give prime time When the development of national interest equivalent of 1.2-million bbl. from Pacific coverage to an appropriate spokesman in the humanities called for definition and Gas & Electric and Nevada Power; and is the invention of enabling structures, he gave negotiating for the equivalent of 100,000 bbl. who differed with the President's views. leadership to the drafting of the plans. At from the Salt River Project in Phoenix, These two actions go in opposite direc­ the invitation of the national administration Ariz. Los Angeles officials also are seeking tions and leave the broadcaster with no he was then called upon to direct the first temporary relaxation of stringent pollution clear road on which to drive. National Endowment for the Humanities, an 39428 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 1, 1970 agency unique in our history and therefore bined with the large amount of trust being unable to negotiate stairs, I have had watched with peculiar attention by friends fund money that is being used to cover to defer attendance at DeMolay !unctions. and foes alike. With that earthy common administrative expenses certainly make Now word reaches me, that 1! I want to sense and that unerring capacity to get to the attend the DeMolays will carry me up any issue and close with it, he established an it appear that the adminstration is stairs! organization responsive and yet innovative, simply ignoring the intent of Congress I proudly wear the "Hats Oft" award from which . began to demonstrate that the na­ in passing the airport bill. the Redwood Empire Division, but with tional interest could be served not only by I have requested Chairman STAGGERS humble thanks-my hat is oft' to all of them science but by the humanities as well. Among of the House Commerce Committee to this time. other achievements was the aid given to hold hearings on this problem. I am Who says the younger generation has gone Phi Beta Kappa. in establishing the National pleased to note that hearings are sched­ to hell! Examples like this could do a lot Humanities Faculty. On the completion of to bring back the ideas of community action his term in office he leaves to his successor uled for Thursday, December 3 when like "Barn Ralsings." a secure foundation !or continued activity John Sheaffer the FAA Director and MEL LAYBOURN. and a level o! achievement which can only be John Reed of the National Safety equalled but not surpassed. Board will appear. Perhaps they can As a young historian he studied that ex­ explain the priorities which are being traordinary judicial concept, judgment by placed on the trust fund by the admin­ peers. Better than most others, he can ap­ istration. TIMPORTANTSTATEMENTSREGARD­ preciate today the full fiavor o! this award, ING OUR DEFENSE POSTURE a judgment by peers, judicium parium, made for his service to a nation which knew how to bestow upon him a purple heart for TRIDUTE TO A FINE ORGANIZATION HON. THOMAS G. ABERNETHY achievements in battle, but which must look OF YOUNG PEOPLE to an ancient order of scholars to speak !or OF MISSISSIPPX the country in applauding his merits in peaee IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and his distinction in raising the quality of HON. DON H. CLAUSEN Tuesday, December 1, 1970 our common life. OF CALIFORNU. QBK confers with respect and high esteem IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. ABERNETHY. Mr. Speaker, I the first Jaffe medal for distinguished service submit for printing in the Appendix of to the Humanities on Barnaby Conrad Tuesday, December 1, 1970 the RECORD a copy of a Liberty Lowdown, Keeney. Mr. DON H. CLAUSEN. Mr. Speaker, a report issued by Liberty Lobby for No­ every day we read and hear stories a-bout vember 1970. The report contains im­ the wrongdoings of young people, but un­ portant statements regarding our de­ ABUSE OF THE AIRPORT AND Am­ fortunately, very little about the good fense posture, which are worthy of the WAYS FUND done by them. consideration of all Americans. The re­ I recently received a copy of a letter port follows: HON. J. J. PICKLE written by a constituent of mine, ex­ THE SOVIET THREAT OF TEXAS plaining some problems he had faced and Back in 1967, Liberty Lobby issued the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES how a group of young men helped him first edition of Robert Strange McNamara, a out in his time of need. special report on L.B.J.'s "Secretary of Dis­ Tuesday, December 1, 1970 So that my colleagues may once again armament," and warned that "1! America is Mr. PICKLE. Mr. Speaker, I am deeply to survive, McNamara Must Be Fired now!" be reminded that the youth of today are McNamara was moved to the World Bank, concerned over reports that some $250 not all involved in demonstrations and but not until after incalculable damage had million in funds designated for the new the like, I am placing in the RECORD at already been done to America's defense airport and airway development trust this point the story of how a group of De­ posture. fund has been diverted to cover general Molays assisted my constituent, Mr. Mel Just SO years ago this month, Rep. L. administrative expenses in the Federal Laybourn of Sonoma, Calif.: Mendel Rivers (D-S.C.) was first elected to Aviation Agency. SONOMA, CALIF., the seat he has held ever since. As long time This is deception. November 26, 1970. chairman of the Armed Services Committee, Along with several other members of Congressman DON CLAUSEN, he is recognized as one of the leading experts on mllltary affairs. Recently he addressed the the House Interstate Commerce Com­ House oj Representatives, Washington, D.O. House with !rankly unprecedented "con­ mittee, I have asked the Comptroller cern for the future of this Nation." His General of the United States for a writ­ Sm: After five trips to the hospital this year, thought that perhaps I had better see chill1ng indictment of the "dissident voices in ten statement on the legality and the what could be done, to say things in the our Nation that would destroy the very propriety of the administration's actions. way of thanks, !or those who have helped fabric of our society" and the "deterioration In the report on the airport and air­ during the period especially since March. of our military capab111ty vis-a-vis the Soviet ways bill, the Commerce Committee It only goes to show you, that some people Union" appears in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD stated that the purpose in creating the still put their hearts where their hands are. (Sept. 28, 1970, pp. 88898-38908), and has Strangely enough I've seen this not only been reprinted as House Armed Services trust fund was to insure that the user Commitee No. 91-79, available from the taxes provided for in this legislation are among the Masonic Youth Groups, but also among young people in general for either Superintendent of Documents, Government to be expended for the improvement and people who have shown them some respect Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402, for maintenance of the airways systems. The & confidence and/or who they know are in 20c a copy. Only a few excerpts can be given legislative language setting up the fund need o! assistance or a helping hand. here, but even this condensation is enough clearly states this money can only be Mine is not an isolated case, so why can't to prompt patriots everywhere to demand re­ used to pay for Department of Transpor­ we hear more "Good News" instead o! all moval of the last vestiges o! McNamaraism , the destructive actions of the more m111tant and substitution therefor of a "national de­ tation administrative expenses which termination to survive": are actually attributable to the improve­ groups. "The final measure of our ability to sur­ ment or maintenance of the airport Sincerely and Fraternally MEL LAYBOURN. vive as a nation in a hostile world will not systems. be how well we have managed our domestic To my thinking, at least some of the SANOMA, CALIF. resources and domestic programs, but wheth­ FAA expenses being paid for with trust DEAR EDITOR: Like to hear good stories er ()r not we have avoided and frustrated fund money do not come within the about DeMolay's unsung activities? the forces of evil which would draw us into I! I have been disabled !or several months the crucible of war with the Soviet Union. limited language of the act. we !aU in that endeavor, we will have !aUed It appears that the administration with a bad back, and while hospitalized recently my wife had to move to a new 1n everything. It is this circumstance which may be attempting to use money that was demands that we maintain a level of stra­ intended to build more and safer air­ house. tegic and conventional mllltary capabilit y To cut it all short, 15 DeMolay's, local ports, to help balance a deficit budget. and some from as far as 125 miles way, that will insure against any misunderstand­ Although the Congress authorized the ing by the leaders in the Kremlin o! our showed up and by the time I was released intentions to survive. ... obligating of $280 million in fiscal year from the hospital, I came home to a new 1971 to develop the airports and airways house all straightened away. "LEADXNG SEA POWER the Department of Transportation is only Furthermore, with my movements still "The Soviet Union is now one of the obligating $100 million. This fact com- rather restricted, having to use a cane and world's two leading sea powers-and possi- December 1, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 39429 bly the leading power. When Admiral Gor­ people in the Congress of the United States TRIDUTE TO THE LATE DR. shkoy assumed command of the Navy in who will say 'so what?' I can only warn JAMES J. KENNEDY 1956, it was largely a water-borne adjunct the Members of this House that we are on of the ground forces. Today, it is a well-bal­ the brink of disaster and I have never be­ anced modern force which is as equally at fore been so concerned in all the years I HON. JAMES HARVEY home on the high seas as it is in coastal have served in the Congress of the United OF MICHIGAN waters. States. "Soviet naval units now frequent waters "We must, therefore, acknowledge the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES which only a few years ago were considered fact that our naval vessels are today simply Tuesday, December 1, 1970 the private preserve of Western naval forces. not capable of discharging their wartime It was only in 1964 that the Soviet Navy be­ mission requirements if called upon to do so. Mr. HARVEY. Mr. Speaker, residents gan continuous deployments in the Mediter­ I believe these facts are as close to proof of the Washington metropolitan area ranean; now, since the Arab-Israeli war of positive as I can make available to the Amer­ were stunned this past weekend to learn 1967, a flotilla of nuclear submarines and ican people that if we are not already a of the tragic death of one of their most missile-armed surface ships has been con­ second-rate naval power, we are perilously distinguished citizens, Dr. James J. Ken­ tinuously operating there . . .. close to becoming so. I need not emphasize nedy, of Bethesda, Md. "WORLD" GREATEST SUBMARINE FORCE that in a war with the Soviet Union there Jim Kennedy's passing is a deep per­ will be little solace in being in second "The greatest Soviet naval strength is in place.... sonal loss to me, for he was not only my its submarine force-the largest ever created "NUCLEAR CAPABILITY personal dentist and that of my family, in the history of the world. The fleet pres­ but he was close personal friend and "Do not be misled into believing we can a ently has approximately 350 submarines, 80 a former resident of Saginaw, Mich., the of which are nuclear powered. The new make up for this frightening loss of naval Soviet Polaris-type submarine can fire 16 superiority by relying upon a superior stra­ largest city in my district, where he was ballistic missiles to a range of at least 1,300 tegic nuclear capability, vis-a-vis the Soviet born 49 years ago. He was a graduate of miles; at least 13 units of this class are al­ Union. Since 1965 the Soviet Union has en­ the University of Michigan and North­ ready operational, and these units are being gaged in a major effort to change the bal­ western University Dental School, re­ produced at the rate of 8 to 10 each year. ance of power in this area of military capa­ ceiving his DDS degree in 1945 and a They are testing a new submarine ballistic bility. In that period it has more than master of science degree in 1949. missile estimated to have a range of 3,000 tripled its inventory of strategic offensive But it was at the National Institutes miles. This missile will probably be back nuclear weapon launchers from about 500 to 1,700, including some 200 nuclear heavy of Health here in Washington that Dr. fitted into the existing Soviet submarine Kennedy first made his mark. He did fleet. bombers in both. In the same period, the "At the present rate of construction, the United States has made no increase in its some of the very early work on the use Soviet fleet of these Y -class ballistic missile established level of 1,710 strategic nuclear of the electron microscope in the histo­ submarines will surpass the U.S. fleet of 41 missile launchers, and has reduced its heavy logical study of human teeth. Soon after Polaris submarines by 1973 or 1974. . . . bomber strength from 780 to less than 600. commencing his tour of duty at the Na­ "In evaluating the Soviet submarine fleet, "In 1965, the Soviets had none of the tional Institute of Dental Research, he it must be remembered that the German monster ss-9 missiles operational. Today, was appointed chief of the clinical in­ submarine fleet which almost won the battle the U.S.S.R. has more than 200 8S-9's oper­ vestigations branch of the then new of the Atlantic included only 57 diesel sub­ ational, with an ultimate total of approxi­ marines in the early months of World War mately 300 when current construction effort clinical center of the National Institutes II.... is completed. . . . of Health. "It is this chilling fact that has compelled "AIR CAPABILITY In addition to his administrative the Committee on Armed Services to insist "Up to the present time, the Atlantic and duties, he continued his research inter­ that we go forward immediately on the con­ Pacific Oceans have served to protect us from ests. Because of his background in bio­ struction of the new nuclear-powered 688- foreign attack. Today these very same oceans physcis, he was intrigued with the known class submarines which we hope will be able afford the Russians a ready means of surrep­ principle of tooth cutting by means of to cope with this significant and deadly So­ titiously bringing their missile launching ultrasonics utilized by dentists in the viet capability. However, regardless of how submarines close to our cities from whence rapidly we proceed on the construction of mid fifties. this new class of submarines, it will be years they can launch a deadly attack. He joined with several others in the before they become operational in significant "Our tactical air capab1lity, when com­ country in voicing opinions that the de­ numbers, and in the meantime Soviet tech­ pared to the Soviet capab111ty, also raises veloping human tooth could be harmed serious questions as to our ability to cope nology will undoubtedly strive to maximize by cutting with such a physical tool. In this almost unbridgeable gap in our defen­ with the Soviet Union in a conventional con­ frontation. For example, since 1954 the So­ collaboration with a researcher from the sive response to this Soviet submarine threat. Naval Dental Institute, he conducted a "This existing and ever-widening gap in viets have designed and produced 18 new our defensive capability to meet the Soviet types of fighter planes-13 of these models comprehensive study comparing the con­ submarine threat is simply a current reflec­ we have actually photographed in flight. In ventional rotary cutting tool with the tion of the past unwill1ngness of defense the same time frame, the United States has ultrasonic device. The study published in budgeteers to provide for a modern Navy.... not produced a single new air superiority the Journal of the American Dental As­ fighter, and actually we have not had one on "The surface naval vessels of the United order until this year. sociation in February 1958 proved con­ States are, as compared to the Soviet Union, clusively that damage to the tooth of the 1f anything, in worse condition than those "SUMMARY experimental animal did occur and a de­ of the undersea fleet. No purpose would be "Now let me summarize for a moment. termination was made and adopted that served in attempting to detail these defi­ I have outlined to you that our former 5-to-1 the instrument was potentially harmful ciencies except to point out that the Comp­ margin in nuclear strategic weapons has in troller General of the United States recently a few short years vanished. The Soviet Union for human use. submitted a secret report to the President of now has a nuclear strategic weapon capabil­ In the years that have followed his the United States and the Congress on the ity in excess of ours, and this superiority will service at the National Institute of Den­ impaired combat readiness of the Navy's At­ continue to increase 1f we do not take dra­ tal Research, Jim Kennedy practiced his lantic and 6th Fleets.... matic action to stem the tide. We can no profession in Bethesda, Md. His easy­ "Without revealing information which longer look upon our threat of nuclear war going personality helped remove the would give aid and comfort to the Soviet as a satisfactory deterrent to aggression with "fear of a visit to the dentist" for thou­ Union, I also feel compelled to tell this House conventional arms as we could in the two sands of people whom he served in that that not very long ago I was told that the decades past. From here on if we threaten time. He was indeed an eloquent spokes­ combat condition of our cruisers and de­ nuclear war in response to aggression, we risk man for the American College of Dentists stroyers in the Atlantic Fleet was so bad, our own destruction." and the entire dental profession. both from a material breakdown and per­ Mr. Rivers' address has been hailed as Mr. Speaker, Jim Kennedy will be sonnel shortage viewpoint, that more than "one of the year's major pronouncements on sadly missed by his wife, Julienne, his half of them were in a condition that would the condition of our national security." Rep. sons, James and Michael, and daugh­ have seriously affected their combat capabil­ Don H. Clausen (R-Calif.) concluded, "The his ity. As a matter of fact, some of these ships only question remaining 1s whether or not ters, Julie Ann, and Susie, all of whom could not have engaged in any kind of naval the American people are sumciently informed he worshiped. He will be missed also, confrontation. and concerned to demand that the Congress however, by a host of friends in Saginaw, "I cannot overemphasize the seriousness act immediately to bridge the gap before it Mich., who held him in such high esteem; of this situation. Yet, I know that there are is too late." by those with whom he worked so dili- 39430 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 1, 1970 gently at the National Institute of Den­ tive, particularly one that was based on the gent need for programs that will serve to tal Research here in Washington; and, craven contention that the seaman's defec­ tion would have damaged international dis­ cultivate intelligence in the preschool finally, by the thousands of patients who child. The time is long past when mun­ never hesitated to call him at odd hours cussions on "fishing problems.'" (The State Department's euphemism for Russian raids dane activities are adequate for these and who were the recipients of his devo­ on U.S. fishing grounds) . youngsters. "Day care," if it is to be truly tion and dedication to his profession. To say that a thorough congressional in­ effective, can no longer be a synonym for My wife, June, and I extend heartfelt vestigation of this betrayal of the nation's "baby sitting." Bold new approaches are sympathy to his wife, Julie, and to his honor is in order is to state the obvious. essential if we are to expand the educa­ children in their great loss. Hopefully, the U.S. government will now take some dramatic official action to rekindle the tional horizons of our children. flame of liberty which these craven State Alphabetland in New York is giving Department and Coast Guard officials have vivid and dramatic expression to the be­ INVESTIGATE KRUSE DEFECTION snuffed out. lief that preschool youngsters can indeed But of far more serious consequence, we make significant progress in improving believe, is the relatively mild reaction of the their intelligence before they enter the HON. LOUIS C. WYMAN American people to this shameful a.tralr. To classroom. be sure, more than 500 Americans of Baltic OF NEW HAKPSHIRE The programs offered by Alphabetland descent attended last Saturday's protest rally were developed by a panel of recognized IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES on Boston Common and witnessed the burn­ authorities in the :field of education over Tuesday, December 1, 1970 ing of a comn labeled, "Human Rights, Killed by Admiral Ellis." a period of 4 years. Considerable field Mr. WYMAN. Mr. Speaker, the extent But that's just the point! Where were the testing and experimentation and valida­ of public concern over the attempted de­ rest of us? What indication has there been tion took place before Alphabetland ac­ fection to the United States and U.S. re­ that the American people fully realize that cepted its first preschool pupil. turn to the Communists of Soviet Sea­ when that one Lithuanian seaman lost his This edueational day care center in­ man Si.Inru: Kruse is reflected in the fol­ tenuous grasp on freedom, the freedom of all troduces children to problem solving and citizens of the Free World wae dfmtntshed? reasoning; they receive instruction in lowing editorial from the Manchester, If this incident does not move the masses N.H., Union-Leader of December 1, 1970. of the American people to vigorous protest, reading and in number identification and The House Armed Services Committee then-in truth-we will have forfeited a.ll devote a considerable portion of their would be well advised to investigate this right to the freedom for which Simas Gruze time to music and art appreciation. They incident without delay, under oath and sacrificed his life are able to have fun with programed with careful cross examination. Oliver Goldsmith penned two centuries learning equipment and even video tape ago the dramatic warning that every Ameri­ recorders and computers. Those responsible for U.S. policy-if can of the 20th Century should heed: there was such-calling for return of de­ Recently, WABC-TV visited Alphabet­ fectors in such circumstances, ought to "IZZ fares the land, to hastentng ills a prey, land. The following is a brief excerpt be removed. If the decision did not re­ Where wealth accumulates, and men de- from that broadcast: cay •••" flect standard operating procedures but ExCERPT FBO.M BROADCAST BY W ABc-TV was that of the local commanding officer ToM DUNN. "The preschoolers here at Al­ he should be removed from command phabetland in West Hempstead are learn­ A TRIDUTE TO NEW YORK'S ing reading, shapes, numbers and other basic forthwith. ALPHABETLAND The editorial follows: skllls which w1ll benefit them all their lives. The director of the center is Mrs. Maxine ''ILL FARES THE LAND •••" Solomon." Give me your tired, your poor, HON. FRANK J. BRASCO Mrs. MAXXNE SOLOMON. "Alphabetland's Your huddled masses yearning to breathe 07' NEW YORX unique philosophy is that children at a very free, young age a.re capable of a great amount of The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES learning. Also their reading readiness and Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed Tuesday, December 1, 1970 numbers readiness is important for today's tome; highly geared educational program that I lift my lamp beside the golden door. Mr. BRASCO. Mr. Speaker, tradition­ children will come in contact with later on." • • • • • alists hold that a child's formal educa­ A child who has a pre-school learning The stench of spiritual decay hangs heavy tion begins at the age of 5 or 6 with will continue to learn and also his I.Q. can over the shameful episode in which a Lithu­ kindergarten or the first grade. But this be increased. The social aspect of living to­ anian sailor was denied the asylum promised concept of when an education should gether in a group is very important for in Emma Lazarus' immortal words inscribed begin 1s rapidly becoming obsolete. young children. Also for many children this on the base of the Statue of Liberty. Indeed, in recent years, educators have is their first separation from the familiar, Surely, Simas Gruze, the SO-year-old sea­ from their parents and from mommy, which made a number of major discoveries is a big step in the direction of maturing. man who jumped to the deck of the Coast about childhood intelligence, most nota­ Guard cutter "Vigilant" last week and Mr. Speaker. Never before in our nation's begged "Please, God, help me I", was truly bly that two-thirds of all growth in history has there been as much concern over representative of the world's "huddled human intelligence occurs between the educational programs and the application masses yearning to breathe free." But offi­ ages of 2 and 6. of new methods that w1ll give our young cials of the U.S. Coast Guard, apparently Moreover, for many years, it was people the opportunity to realize their full acting on orders of the State Department, axiomatic that a child's intelligence was potential. slammed the "golden door" in the face of fixed at birth. This no longer has cre­ Educators in increasing numbers are be­ coming convinced that it is unwise to wait this brave young man's bid for freedom and dence; a youngster's capacity to learn can at the same time rolled a stone on the heart until a child enters school before he is in­ of every victim of Communist enslavement be altered considerably. Equally signif­ troduced to the learning process. who looks to America for help. icant, a child's IQ can be raised as much Rather, a love of learning should be in­ We view the entire spectacle with shame: as 30 points with proper training, so that st1lled in a youngster in his pre-school years. Not only was the young sailor denied political near-genius levels are not unattainable. This is why I would like to commend Alpha­ asylum, on explicit orders from Rear Admiral In order to raise a child's level of in­ betland for its leadership and for its dedi­ R. B. Ellis, commander of the U.S. Coast telligence, however, the learning process cated efforts in adding the important and Guard's First District, but also three Rus­ must begin well before he begins his valuable dimension of learning to the tradi­ tional concept of day care. sians were permitted to board the American formal education. It must be emphasized ship. beat the Lithuanian seaman until he that there is a substantial body of opin­ was unconscious, tie him up as 1f he were an ion that holds that the age of 6 may be animal and drag him back to their ship-the TRAGEDY OF THE RED SALMON entire brutal episode witnessed by maritime too late. personnel and civilians who stood by and did Educators agree that language is the nothing. most important key to intelligence. When HON. WILLIAM L. SPRINGER If ever there was a time for disobedience to a child does not have language training OF ILLINOIS an Immoral order, this was it! Not aU the early in life he will inevitably be unable IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Communists, fags and cowards in the State to communicate properly with his peers Department oombined, nor all of their infiu­ and with his teachers when be starts Tuesday, December 1. 1970 ence in the halls of Congress, could have school. The sad consequence: poor per­ Mr. SPRINGER. Mr. Speaker, I am a brought about the punishment of any man formance in the classroom situation. great watcher of TV. On Tuesday, No­ who had defied such an unprincipled direc- Clearly, these facts dramatize the ur- vember 24 at 7:30 to 8: 30 p.m , the ABC December 1, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 39431 television network produced a great pro­ by companies like yourself. The local thea­ Leningradskaya Pravda, the main morning ter, ballet and good music including sym­ newspaper. gram of wide public interest called phonies simply have hardly been touched The Soviet press, as a matter of policy, "Tragedy of the Red Salmon." On No­ by TV. rarely publishes crime news. When it does, vember 18; H. V. Williams, chairman of Congratulations to you on a good pro­ it is not until long after the event. The fact the boards and president of the Hartford gram and you are deserving of public com­ that these papers carried this report Within Insurance Group, Hartford, Conn., wrote mendation. I am taking the liberty of in­ less than twenty-four hours suggests that me a letter advising me that such a pro­ serting your letter in the CoNGRESSIONAL they were alerted in advance. RECORD together with my reply to you. That the Jews were arrested while walking gram was to be sponsored by their com­ on the tarmac is a sure sign of the KGB's ad­ pany and shown on November 24. I en­ Sincerely, Wn.LIAM L. SPRINGER. vance information and planning. close that letter herewith and my reply The probability of a meticulously co­ to Mr. Williams as of November 25. ordinated police provocation is enhanced It simply amazes me that more com­ even further by virtually simultaneous ac­ panies do not seek out good areas of tions that day. public interest, information, and amuse­ ANTI-JEWISH ACTIVITY IN THE At about the same hour of the arrests at SOVIET UNION Smolny Airport, eight Leningrad Jews were ment which have hardly touched tele­ arrested in a wide variety of places: at work vision. The Hartford Insurance Group in the city; at home in the city or in the has done a good piece of work in spon­ suburbs; on assignment some distance from soring this show. In addition they are HON. G. WILLIAM WHITEHURST the city; on vacation as far away as Odessa. working with Scholastic Magazine to OF VIRGINIA Later that same day, searches were car­ bring it to the attention of more than IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ried out in dozens of homes in Moscow, Leningrad, Riga and Kharkov; scores of peo­ 450,000 elementary and high school Tuesday, December 1, 1970 teachers across the Nation. It is a show ple were detained for questioning and then Mr. released. Since June there have been more worth seeing by children 6 years old or Mr. WHITEHURST. Speaker, re­ arrests-in Tbilisi, Kishinev, Riga and again of high school age. The letters follow: cently, Mr. Paul Grob, cantor of the in Leningrad, bringing the number of Jew­ THE HARTFORD INSURANCE GROUP, Gomley Chesed Synagogue in Ports­ ish political prisoners to thirty-one. Hartford, Conn., November 18, 1970. mouth, Va., contacted me about the anti­ The Man in Charge of the Leningrad case, DEAR CoNGRESSMAN: Knowing of your in­ Jewish activity whi-ch has been occurring involving at least the prisoners from Riga and terest in ecology and the environment, we in the Soviet Union. Mr. Speaker, news of Leningrad itself, is the chief city prosecutor, thought you would like to see the enclosed this has appeared from time to time in S. Ye. Soloviov, well known to the Jews there review of "Tragedy Of The Red Salmon," an our press, but I think that my colleagues as an anti-Semite. unusual television special to be sponsored In 1961 he served as a judge in the city's by The Hartford Insurance Group on the would be interested in knowing some of criminal court and as such presided over two ABC Television Network, November 24 from the particulars. Therefore, I would like notorious trials involving Jews. In one case he 7:30 to 8:30p.m. to insert in the REcORD a fact sheet pre­ handed down a series of death sentences for Filmed by Captain Jacques Cousteau and pared by Mr. Mosbe Deeter, director, alleged economic crimes to a group of Jews. his research organization, this unique pro­ Jewish Minorities Research of Hadassah. In another, he sentenced Leningrad syna­ gram takes viewers underwater to follow It is clear that the Soviet Government is gogue leaders, including an 84-year old, to the Alaskan red salmon's heroic struggle pursuing anti-Semitic tactics all to fa­ lengthy prison terms on charges of subver­ to return to the fresh water streams of its miliar to those of us who remember what sion, which actually reflected their deter­ birthplace where it spawns and almost im­ mined efforts in behalf of Jewish religious ob­ mediately dies. Watching this underwater happened in Nazi Germany during the servances and their active contacts with odyssey at close range involves the viewer 1930's: synagogue leaders in other cities. in the hazards of nature and provides a truly MosHE DECTER, DmECTOR, JEWISH MINORITIES These arrests and the forthcoming trials fresh view of the salmon's life processes and, RESEARCH must be understood within the context of interestingly, its implications for the aging November 20 is the date set for the trial of official Soviet policy as reflected in the mas­ process in man. thirty-one Soviet Jews, held incommunicado sive winter propaganda campaign during This film should be a vital link in help­ since their arrests within the past five January-March 1970, against Israel. What ing young people gain a better understand­ months-in Leningrad, Riga, Kishinev and began as a concerted nationwide chorus of ing of nature, and we are working With Tbilisi. They face the imminent prospect of condemnation of Israeli policies sWiftly de­ Scholastic Magazine to bring it to the at­ trials that can lead to life imprisonment, and generated into a hysterical anti-Jewish cam­ tention of more than 450,0(10 elementary even the death penalty. paign. Articles, editorials, pamphlets, letters and high school teachers across the nation. Substantial circumstantial evidence, fil­ to the editor, caricatures, publications in the We think you wlll find this to be an inter­ tered out to the outside world by close rela­ thousands all over the country, assumed an esting program and hope that you Will be tives and friends, leaves no reasonable d~ubt anti-Semitic tone and character. able to see it on November 24. that, regardless of the legal specificatiOns This campaign was an expanded, intensified Sincerely, that may be brought at the trials, the thrust version of the by-now common Soviet line H. v. Wn.LIAMS. Will be anti-JeWish. that views Judaism as the ideological pro­ In the context of recent Soviet policy, it is genitor of Zionism, and Zionism as the equiv­ alent of Nazism the whole amalgam being NOVEMBER 30, 1970. clear that the immediate purpose of the ar­ rests and trials is to crack down on the many a key element in the doctrine of "Interna­ Mr. H. v. Wn.LIAMS, tional Zionism" as the Jewish ally and ser­ Chairman of the Boards and President, Jews who persist in an overt struggle to leave the USSR for Israel in order to maintain vant of Western imperialism-an updated The Hartford Insurance Group, and refurbished adaptation of the Tsarist Hartford, Conn. their Jewish identity. The long-range objec­ tive is to crush the renascent Jewish national "Protocols of the Elders of Zion." DEAR MR. WILLIAMS: I have your letter of A number of Jews, both prominent and November 18 with reference to your show consciousness of scores of thousands Of Soviet Jews. obscure, were pressed into service in this "Tragedy of the Red Salmon." campaign, to proclaim their undying loyalty, I saw it Tuesday night and it was unusual­ All the available information leads inexor­ ably to the conclusion that a high-level pol­ reiterate official apologetics about Soviet ly good. If your company wants to do some­ Jewry, sign attacks on Israel and world thing good for America, you should certainly icy decision was made last spring to under­ take a nationally coordinated, concerted KGB Jewry, and brand as betrayal the desire to sponsor more programs of great public inter­ leave for Israel. The crescendo was reached est such as this one. I also saw the David (secret police) action, employing entrapment and provocation and involving large-scale at a press conference in Moscow by fifty-two Frost show one half hour later on which prominent Jews on March 4. appeared Jacques Cousteau, and two short searches and seizures, confiscation of printed matter, interrogations and, ultimately, forced What must have shocked the authorities, clips from your show occurred. From this, I however, was the instantaneous reaction of think you can see that your show received confessions that can be used as incriminating evidence in public trials. dozens of Soviet Jews, as individuals and another audience. At least, it benefited With in groups, in Moscow, Leningrad, Riga and the appearance of Jacques Cousteau on the THE KNOWN FACTS elsewhere, repudiating the assertions of the David Frost show. At 8:30 A.M. on June 15, 1970, nine Riga "housebroken" Jews and their right to speak I am on the Committee legislating matters Jews were apprehended at Leningrad's for all of Soviet Jewry. It was very likely in having to do with TV and radio. There has Smolny Airport as they were walking from reaction to this unprecedented audacity that never been a need, I feel, as today for real the terminal to an airplane. That afternoon, the regime decided to turn the screw. responsible TV shows. By this, I mean gen­ Vechm-ny Leningrad, the main afternoon Of course, the authorities have been aware uine entertainment that can be enjoyed by paper, carried a brief announcement of the :for some time of the growing frustration and all of the family. action, indicating that the arrestees had resentment of many Soviet Jews at the dis­ I am simply appalled at the lack of great planned to hijack the plane out of the coun­ crimination they face in higher education cultural shows which could be sponsored try. The same item appeared the next day in and employment, the anti-Jewish propa- 39432 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 1, 1970 ganda, the hostility they and their children tion goes ba-ck to the early 1920s and cul­ tem alone-in fact, to leave it altogether, to frequently encounter in the streets, at school minates, of course, in Stalin's notorious exercise their elementary human right to or at work, and, not least, at the deprivation Great Purges of 1936-40. leave the country and settle in Israel, which of their cultural rights, foreclosing the pos­ Direotly relevant to our present concern is they regard as their ancestral homeland. sib111ty of perpetuating their heritage and the oase of Boris Kochubiyevsky, the first of All the materials confiscated from all those m aintaining their group identity. the Soviet Jewish political prison~ 33- interrogated and arrested all over the coun­ Furious with official anti-Semitism and in­ year-old electronics engineer of Kiev, in the try demonstrate conclusively that this is a spired by the spiritual self-regeneration Ukra,ine. Kochubiyevsky was arrested in De­ Jewish case. Hebrew grammars, Jewish his­ which Israel represents to them, a rising gen­ cember 1968, tried and sentenoed to three tory books, open letters of appeal for help eration of young Soviet Jews rejects this sit­ years of forced labor for "an-ti-Soviet slan­ to leave for Israel, postal cards from Israel, uation as intolerable. Tens of thousands have der" at a trlat in May 1969. His slander con­ Jewish encyclopedias. In short, as some of applied for exit permits to emigrate to Israel. sisted of a public defense of Israel in June them and their relatives have written: With few exceptions, their applications have 1967, his assertion in September 1968 that Everything with the words "Jew," "Jewish," been turned down time and again. Babl Yar, the ravine outside Kiev where the "Judaism" was confiscated. Several hundred of the more daring have Na:z:J.s slaughtered scores of thousands of Within days after the June 15 KGB ac­ circulated appeals and open letters addressed Jews in 1941, was a tragedy for the Jewish tion, a young Leningrad Jew, Viktor Bog­ to the Soviet leadership, to the UN Human people, and his statements, in a letter to the uslavsky, wrote an impassioned letter to the Rights Commission, to Secretary General U Soviet leadership in November 1968, that it Soviet Prosecutor-General, Rudenko, plead­ Thant, the International Red Cross, Presi­ is impossible for him to live as a Jew in the ing the innocence of his arrested friends. He dent Nixon, Israel Premier Golda Meir-in USSR since there are no Jewish educat:l.ona.l, wrote: effect, to the public opinion and conscience cultura~ or communal institutions there­ "A lively interest in the fate of one's peo­ of the world. Such letters have been written and consequently he wants to go to Israel. ple and love for one's people cannot be con­ by individuals and by groups in every major The accusations against Kochubiyevsky sidered an offense. Their only crime was Soviet center. were in essence identical wit h the regime's that they were born Jews and they sought This wholly unanticipated upsurge of pride real grievances against its present Jewish to remain Jews." prisoners. His trial is a harbinger of gloom and national consciousness has manifestly In July, Viktor Boguslavsky was arrest ed. so upset the regime that it has resorted to for the trials to come. severely repressive measures. The striving for The Kochubiyevsky Case is documented in Jewish National identity has begun to be Khronika, the consistently reliable "Chron­ treated like something criminal or anti-so­ icle of Current Events" disseminated by the cial, with procedures of intimidation used Soviet democratic underground, which brings POW TRY SHOWED HEART against many who applied for exit permits: segments of the trial transcript as well as interrogation by the KGB; expulsion from reports by persons present at the trial. (All the Party; suspension from university; dis­ the documentation is available from the Con­ charge from employment; general social hos­ ference on the Status of Soviet Jews. 16 East HON. ROBERT H. MICHEL tility at work. 85th Street, New York, New York 10028.) In OF ILLINOIS In order better to understand what may brief, the following picture emerges: IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES happen in the course of the forthcoming Some prosecution witnesses were provoca­ trials it must be borne in mind that there teurs; several repudiated the testimony they Tuesday, December 1, 1970 are basically two separate groups involved in gave at the preliminary hearings; one ad­ Mr. MICHEL. Mr. Speaker, an editorial what may be called the Leningrad case-the mitted to having given his testimony while appearing in the November 27, 1970, dozen Riga Jews arrested at the Leningrad drunk; others said they testified under pres­ edition of the Peoria Journal Star places airport, and the ten residents of Leningrad sure from the KGB interrogators. proper. The general public was kept out of this our recent effort to free American pris­ We know precious little about their fate. "public" trial; friends and even relatives were oners of war in North Vietnam in a very No indictment has been issued. The pris­ not permitted inside the court room. At the proper perspective and I include the edi­ oners have been kept incommunicado. Rela­ same time, the KGB packed the court room torial in the RECORD at this point: tives, friends and even potential defense with its own members, as well as with mem­ POW TRY SHOWED HEART bers of the "public" who were mobilized and counsel have been forbidden to visit them. The bold raid of American volunteer forces They have evidently been under intensive instructed to act hostile to the defense. Wit­ nesses were sent out of court immediately deep Into North Vietnam in an effort to interrogation. But we have no precise idea rescue U.S. war prisoners is one of those of how they will be charged. And it is only after their testimony, which is against Soviet legal procedures. The judge acted more like things that seems to demand comment. possible to speculate on the circumstances Yet, what is there to say, really? Except in which they will be tried and the penalties the prosecutor than the prosecutor himself, allowing himself to indulge in remarks that we wish it had worked! they are likely to incur. Had it succeeded there could be no con­ About the Riga group, relatives and friends were hostile to the defense in both tone and ceivable response or discussion save thanks­ living abroad but in the closest feasible con­ substance and generally permitting anti­ giving. It was a complete success in terms of tact at home believe that the Riga Jews were Semitic and hooligan behavior in his court. the smoothness of the operation in effectively entrapped by an informer planted in their And the defense counsel assumed the role doing precisely what they planned to execute. of assistant prosecutor, not only accepting midst. Privy to their passionate desire to emi­ It was a failure in that the prisoners had grate to Israel and their repeatedly frus­ the basic validity of the charges against his been moved and were not available. trated applications for exit permits, this in­ client but actually indicating his disbelief of Hence, it was neither an operation that former gained their confidence by posing as Kochubiyesvky's own defense. got into big trouble-nor one that accom­ a pilot offering to fiy them out of the coun­ If this be a precedent, as well it might, it plished the intended result. It was just a try in the airplane he claimed he was nor­ augurs 111 for the Jewish prisoners of con­ perfect dress rehearsal. mally scheduled to pilot on a routine do­ science. Such is the risk, inevitably involved in mestic filght. It is, of course, entirely conceivable that any attempt. About the Leningrad group, we have just the Soviet authorities will attempt to un­ derplay or perhaps even avoid in any direct When it doesn't get results, this opens a learned in a letter from the wives, mothers crack for the critics to discuss strangely and sisters of eight of them that police in­ way the essentially anti-Jewish character enough, not the failure, but the motives, terrogators informed the women that the of this case. Very likely apprehensive about wisdom, and all involved in originating the prisoners have confessed to anti-Soviet ac­ an outcry of protest in the outside world attempt at all. tivity and attempted hijacking of a plane. over a mass anti-Jewish trial a la Koch­ The women make it clear that they believe ubiyevsky, they may skillfully seek to di­ None of those kinds of questions would 1lhese were forced confessions. vert attention-through emphasis on forced have been spoken, however, had those people Conspiracy to hijack an airplane falls un­ confessions-to the narrow legal question been present and a large batch of U.S. pris­ der the C81tegory of treason and is subject to of a hijacking plot. And this would serve oners rescued. the death penalty. Even knowledge of such them especially well at a period when much We would be busy welcoming them home­ a plan and fa1lure to report it can be sub­ of the civilized world has just gone through and hearing some truths about North Viet­ sumed under a charge of anti-Soviet activ­ a period of shock and disgust with airplane nam, first-hand. ity and entail life imprisonment. Attempted hijackings. So, it seems to us a little cheap to criticize h ija.clctng can be treated as a plot to damage But regardless of how the trial is con­ anything but the understandable failure of or Slteal State property and may also entail ducted and how Soviet propaganda handles our intelligence. The only trouble with that the dea.tn penalty. it, the focus simply cannot be shifted away operation, if we are honest about it, is that Forced confessions raise the ominous spec­ from the irreducible fact that people are on it didn't work-this time. tre of show trials. Such sta.ged trials, using trial for their convictions, that Jews are The rest is political invention, and rat her forced confessions as decisive evidence are, being persecuted as Jews. They had no de­ dirty ideological infighting. tragically_ no innovation in Soviet law and sire to criticize, attack, change, subvert or What some people fear the most is being public life, even though they have been in overthrow the Soviet system. On the con­ proven wrong and that inspires their criti­ disuse in the last few years. This sad tradi- trary, their only desire was to leave that sys- cism and their fears of operations like this. December 1, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 39433 Originally, folks based the whole peace THE GUT ISSUES ON PUBLIC LANDS focusing only on a few key issues, I did not movement and peace propaganda pitch on want to create the impression that these are the premise that the U.S. were the aggres­ the only major public land law problems. sors and the North Vietnamese were not, HON. JOHN D. DINGELL But, conservationists who have served so that peace did not exist because we "didn't OF MICHIGAN faithfully over the years as watchdogs of the want peace", and that if we would just stop public lands continue to stress these points: the incessant bombardment of North Viet­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES public lands belong to all the people and nam and be willing to negotiate-the whole Tuesday, December 1, 1970 they should best serve the needs of their problem would be solved. owners. This includes wise commodity use That was done. Lyndon Johnson not only Mr. DINGELL. Mr. Speaker, tile Janu­ because the public needs the resources from quit as president, but stopped the bombing ary issue of American Forests carried a public lands, but these uses should not be and initiated negotiations for negotiations most cogent editorial with regard to our dominant. They must fit into a total mul­ in March of 1968. Two and half years ago! public lands. So that my colleagues may tiple use plan with equal emphasis on all Half a dozen chief negotiators of both parties have an opportunity to see this editorial, uses and values, particularly esthetic and ago. Two administrations involved. Half a recreational. I include it at this point in the RECORD: Generally, the area of lands now in public dozen proposals and surrenders of position THE GUT ISSUES ON PUBLIC LANDS back! ownership should be retained. This does not Now that the report of the Public Land rule out limited sales in the public interest And the magic formula has produced no Law Review Commission is out, maybe we or justified exchanges of public lands for step toward peace by North Vietnam. can get down to business. For four years now, legitimate purposes, but the days of public Fulbright and company want us all to we have heard politicians and bureaucrats land disposal should be over. We cannot af­ forget the position they took then. They sidestep public land law reform with the ex­ ford the prevailing philosophy in some west­ have shifted their positions to the ragged cuse-"let's wait for the report of the Public ern areas that most public lands should be in edge of total surrender as the only way, now, Land Law Review Commission". We have private ownership. to continue to pretend that the failure to waited long enough. Now let's do something! The Public Land Law Review report places achieve peace is the fault of the administra­ The report itself, entitled "One Third of undue emphasis on "maximum economic ef­ tion and not, simply, the fact that their the Nation's Land," is 342 pages long, con­ ficiency." There is no quarrel with this as claims of three years back were completely taining some 387 recommendations. It will a business objective on private lands or as false. take years of study and debate plus legisla­ a goal for managing the sale of products 1 tive maneuvering to implement even half of from public lands. But, public use and bene­ "m~~v::.~.t;:tf~;s,t~:s~o~::e~ ~~~a~e~::n~ these recommendations, but there are a few fit should be the guiding principle on public provable. No man knows what is in the heart gut issues we should get at rig.J.t now. The lands, not maximum economic efficiency. Of another. You can make any claims you key to public land management and law can Too long has the Bureau of Land Manage­ want there, if you are sumciently unscrupu­ be summarized in a few brief actions and ment been considered a disposal agency or at lous, and all anybody can do is deny it. policy declarations contained in a resolution best a temporary management agency. The The one thing that should be recognized passed recently by the International Associa­ public domain is just as vital to the future is the growing practice of critics to skip over tion of Game, Fish and Conservation Com­ welfare of this nation as the National Forests the merits or otherwise of Nixon's actions­ missioners. If we can get positive action on or the National Parks. This should be recog­ and simply insist that his secret reasons are these, the rest will follow in good order, but nized by an organic act giving BLM perma­ evil! let's not waste any more time. Almost with­ nent multiple use-sustained yield respon­ There is no defense against such a propa­ out exception, conservationists would agree sibilities. ganda technique. on the following: Abuses under the archaic Mining Law of Which, of course, makes it the most vicious 1. Public lands should serve the needs of 1872 are so widespread as to constitute a political smear tactic possible. It pretends to all people. They should not be dedicated to national disgrace. The first order of business read a man's heart, and if he is the other any "dominant" commodity use. of the new Congress should be its repeal and side-to read it every time as the heart of 2. The total acreage of public lands now enactment of new laws which would direct evil. held in trust for the benefit and use of the public land agencies to manage and control Anybody can make such an interpretation, people should not be diminished. all mineral exploration and extraction un­ anytime, about anybody else-but the prac­ 3. The management of public lands should der a mineral leasing system. tice is more revealing of the nature Of he not be unduly weighted toward "maximum The Timber Supply Bill of 1970 was defeat­ who uses it than it is of the person attacked economic efficiency". ed because conservationists feared its em­ by such means. 4. Public domain lands should be covered phasis on timber sales and timber produc­ The presumption of an evil motive, when by a permanent organic act based upon the tion over other multiple use values. There the true purpose is buried within a man's multiple use-sustained yield doctrines. is nothing wrong with managing some public soul and beyond proof, is an unfair and evil 5. The Mining Law of 1872 should be re­ lands for maximum timber production. but practice, especially when used to avoid a pealed and all exploration and extraction of no special fund or corporate procedure fair debate on the facts. minerals and oil from public lands be placed should be set up for this purpose alone. Any It lay at the heart of the "McCarthy era," under a mineral leasing system. such earmarked money for National Forests and it lies at the heart of the present drum­ 6. There shoud be no special funding or should be to enhance all uses and public fire of hate interpretations of everything separate corporation procedures for timber benefits. and every effort of this administration. sales or for timber production on the Na­ And, finally, as a matter of principle, those tional Forests or the public domain. If ear­ who use the public lands for personal gain As for the prisoners, the situation is pretty should pay a fair price for that use. It was simple. marked funds are provided, they should be for all uses and public benefits. proven beyond a doubt that some grazing Loyalty is a two-way street. The nation fees were far below values received. Why that abandons men who have taken great 7. Grazing permittees on public lands should pay a fair market value for grazing should the owners of these lands, you and I, risks and suffered greatly in carrying out subsidize private profits from public lands? privileges and federal authorities sh~uld re­ its orders not only has lost its soul, but casts This 1s only a start, but if we could achieve away the loyalty of its defenders-and thus turn immediately to the fee increase schedule designed to achieve this goal. just these few public land objectives it becomes defenseless. would constitute a great victory for con­ These men deserve every effort on their Certainly there are other important recom­ mendations in the Public Land Law Reform servation. It won't happen, however, unless behalf. you make it happen. A nation of 200,000,000 people with im­ Commission report and some of the above mense power that deserts them is not worth were not even included, but these are saving, and would not be able to save itself seven of the major issues that conserva­ from the pressures others will gleefully tionists are most concerned about. The pro­ apply in 1uture. posed merger of the Forest Service with the THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND Duty ought to come before self-interest-­ Department of the Interior into a new De­ VALUE OF THE SENIOR AIDES if claims of conscience are to have any real partment of National Resources raises very PROGRAM IN PROVIDENCE, R.I. meaning. We need to do our duty. serious questions and is certain to be a point Given a solid chance at a rescue of these of major controversy. There may be merit prisoners, with a surplus of volunteers ready, in a totally new Department of Natural Re­ HON. FERNAND J. ST GERMAIN sources, including the Forest Service among able and willing to do the job as has been OJI' RHODE ISLAND many other resource agencies, but little if proven, we ought to make the effort. anything is to be gained by merely merging IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Anything else is completely unworthy. forestry with Interior. Tuesday, December 1, 1970 The price of being unworthy comes high Another major reform in public land law and is paid in both spiritual and material must deal with payments in-lieu-of taxes at Mr. STGERMAIN. Mr. Speaker, I am collapse. the state and local levels. This, too, is a very plea.sed that the recently passed man­ C. L. DAlfCET. complicated and far-reaching problem. By power bill, H.R. 19519, recognizes the 39434 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 1, 1970 value and use of community service em­ By wide margins, the respondents simi­ to the public. Would you favor a law to open ployment for the older worker and allows larly called for full financial disclosure these hearings to the public and the press for more ongoing development of this by all candidates for public office and for (except for those hearings dealing with na­ concept. absolute limits on campaign spending. tional security) ? This type of program has been particu­ Vietnam remained a topic of great pub­ ~es ------76.1~ larly successful and worthwhile in the lic concern, with the majority favoring No ------15.7 ~ State of Rhode Island. The educational either an immediate withdrawal of all FOREIGN POLICY climate and the community spirit in the U.S. troops from Vietnam or withdrawal 5. Vietnam-Here are four different plans the United States could follow in dealing Providence area has been bolstered by according to a precise timetable. with the war in Vietnam. Which one do you the Senior AIDES project directed by The voters expressed strong support for prefer? Dr. Mary C. Mulvey with the adult edu­ U.S. military assistance to Israel and a. Withdraw all troops from Vietnam cation department. The senior citizens in favored, by a large margin, the encour­ immediately ------26. 4 ~ this demonstration project, with ad­ agement of direct peace talks between b. Withdraw all troops by the end mirable dedication, have provided part­ Israel and the Arab nations as against a of 1970------32.9 ~ time, salaried services to many areas of peace dictated by the big powers. c. Withdraw all troops, but take as On basic domestic issues, the voters ex­ many years to do this as are need throughout the community. They needed to turn the war over to the have motivated the young in fighting pressed strong support for efforts to force South Vietnamese ______30. 7 ~ dropout problems; provided care, super­ the auto companies to produce pollution­ d. Send more troops to Vietnam and vision and training services to retarded free cars, anj equally strong support for step up the fighting______5. 3 ~ children; counseled and tutored adults Federal funding of grants to local gov­ 6. The Middle East-In view of the mount­ in adult training programs; and, have ernments for pollution control and for ing tensions in the Middle East between assisted the service agencies in a variety development of adequate rapid transit Arab nations and Israel, what do you think of administrative tasks. systems. our U.S. policy should be? Community interest and support of By wide margins, the respondents­ a. Encourage direct peace talks be­ this project has been evident, which fur­ both black and white-expressed opposi­ tween Israel and the Arab coun- tries ------72. 5 ~ ther verifies the need for such services tion to school busing to achieve racial b. Rely on peace dictated by the Big through the largely untapped resources balance and support for the concept of Four countries: the U.S., France, older workers are capable of rendering. neighborhood schools. the Soviet Union, and Great Brit- In fact, the State Department of Educa­ By a 2-to-1 margin, the voters called ain ------7. 0 ~ tion has provided cost-free scholarships for mandatory price, wage, and credit c. The U.S. should stay out of the en- tire controversy ______16. 4~ to several AIDES programed for service controls in an effort to slow down infla­ tion. 7. Middle East Arms Shipments-Which as teacher aides. alternat ive do you prefer? The humanitarian value of these serv­ And they called for a further cutback a. The U.S. should refuse to send ices cannot be overemphasized. in Defense spending as the best means of arms to either Israel or the Arab controlling inflationary trends resulting nations ------23. 7 o/.D from excessive Federal budgets. b. The U.S. should provide only non­ Knowing that my colleagues in the military aid to IsraeL______7. Oo/,D CONGRESSMAN REES ANNOUNCES Congress will be interested in the de­ c. The U.S. should sell to Israel so­ RESULTS OF 1970 CONGRESSIONAL tailed response of my constituents to phistioa.ted military equipment, QUESTIONNAffiE these and other vital issues, I include such as the Phantom Jet, which Is- here the tabulated results of the poll: rael believes is necessary for her defense ------58. Oo/.D HON. THOMAS M. REES RESULTS OF 1970 QUESTIONNAIRE BY CONGRESS­ 8. Foreign Commitments--Would you fa­ OF CALIFORNIA MAN THOMAS M. REES vor a congressional resolution requiring the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CONGRESSIONAL REFORM President to obtain the approval of Congress before United States troops are committed Tuesday, December 1, 1970 For the past three years I have been ac­ to fight in foreign countries? tively engaged in sponsoring legislation tore­ Mr. REES. Mr. Speaker, this year-as form and update Congress. How do you feel a. ~es ------68. 6~ I have for the past 5 years-! sent to about the several reform proposals listed be­ b. No ------21. i~ my constituents in California's 26th Con­ low-? DOMESTIC ISSUES gressional District my annual congres­ 1. Seniority-The sole basis for advance­ 9. Crime-As you undoubtedly know, crime sional questionnaire. And, as before, the ment in Congress is the length of time a rates are rising rapidly. A number of causes member has been in Congress. As a result, for this increase have been suggested. Please response has been gratifying. the average age of conunittee chairmen is rate the possible causes listed below in what More than 15,000 citizens were suffi­ about 70. Are you in favor of keeping this you feel is their proper order of importance, ciently concerned about the great issues system of determining the leadership of from 1 to 8. facing this Nation to take the time and Congress? a. Poverty, urban decay, ghetto con- effort to complete and return this in­ ~es ------13.5~ ditions ------32. 8~ depth poll. I thank them for doing so, No ------82. 4~ b. Lenient judicial decisions ______14. 5~ and I assure them that their views will 2. Financial disclosure-Should all office c. Not enough pollee______1. 0~ weigh greatly with me as I cast my votes holders and all candidates for public office d. Lack of jobs______3. 6~ be required to make full public disclosure of e. Increased use of drugs and nar- on the important issues before the House these assets? this year and in the next session of the cotics ------7. 1 o/,D Yes ------71.3~ f. Inadequate court facilities and too Congress. 9~ No ------24.9~ few judges______0. I might add that while the views ex­ 3. Financing political campaigns--Cur- g. Lack of proper values among the pressed in this poll represent those of rently the laws dealing with reporting cam­ young------5.0~ constituents in only a single congres­ paign spending and fund raising are very h. Lack of parental discipline ______16. 9~ sional district, I would imagine that weak. Would you favor: 10. School Integration-A recent Los An­ those views are fairly representative of a. Absolute limits on what could be spent geles Superior Court directed that all schools the views of people throughout the on any candidate's behalf? in the Los Angeles City School system be United States. ~es ------72.0~ integrated to reflect the racial composition No ------15.7~ of the district. What are your feelings? There are certain aspects of the poll b. Full public disclosure of campaign con- a. At present the quality of education is results which I would like to call to tributions made to every political committee uniform throughout the Los Angeles School the particular attention of the Members or candidate? District regardless of the income level or of this House. ~es ------83.8~ racial composition of any specific area. The most overwhelming unanimity of No ------5. 2~ ------c. Financing of political campaigns by the ~es 22.6~ attitude dealt with those questions con­ ~0 ------59.2~ government with tight regulations on b. Busing a child away from his neighbor· cerning the operations of the Congress it­ spending? hood school would be detrimental to the self. More than three-quarters of the learning process. respondents called for an end to the ~es ------34.5~ ~0 ------42.4o/,D ------61.0o/.D seniority system as the sole basis for ad­ 4. Committee hearings--Presently most ~es ~0 ------24.3~ vancement in Congress. congressional conuni ttee hearings are closed c. Busing to achieve racial balance is December 1, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 39435 needed to gua.re.ntee an adequate education LAND OF THE FREE York Times, but in this instance I stand for all children. with them in condemning this despicable to 1Les ------18.0~ act and in calling for bringing ac­ ~0 ------64.9~ HON. PHILIP M. CRANE count those responsible for the actions of 11. Education-If your child is in a public November 23,1970. school, how do you evaluate the quality of OF n.LINOIS education he is now receiving? IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The New York Times editorial follows: a. Good------12.2~ Tuesday, December 1, 1970 LAND OF THE FREE b. Average ------21. 4~ The forcible removal of a. defecting Soviet c. Below average______15. 2~ Mr. CRANE. Mr. Speaker, the total sailor from a United States Coast Guard cut­ 12. Our Environment--1970 is the year that barbarity involved in the case of a Lith­ ter with the cooperation of its American of­ the American people have become seriously uanian sailor seeking asylum who was ficers is surely one of the most disgraceful concerned about the quality of their environ­ bound over to Soviet captors by the incidents ever to occur on a. ship :flying the ment. What are your thoughts? American :flag. It flouts the American tradi­ a. Air pollution experts claim that the in­ U.S. Coast Guard within U.S. coastal tion of granting political asylum and it may ternal combustion engine is the last uncon­ waters necessitates an investigation of constitute a violation of the Geneva. con­ trolled source of air pollution, at least in the actions of all those involved in this vention on refugees. Southern California. Would you favor a law indefensible act. If the reports available The seaman, Lithuanian in origin, sought allowing only smog-free motor vehicles to be at this time are correct, the varied and refuge on the Coast Guard cutter Vigilant sold in California even if this would result in contradictory statements by the individ­ while it was negotiating with a Soviet fish­ the banning of the internal combustion en­ uals and agencies involved make it quite ing vessel in American waters off Martha's gine? clear that the stain of this gallant man's Vineyard. In brief, what then happened over 1res ------66.0~ bloocl aboard the U.S. Coast Guard cutter a ten-hour period was that the captain of ~0 ------21.3% the Vigilant permitted Soviet sailors to come b. would you favor a tax to be levied on Vigilant resulted from the misdeeds of aboard the cutter, drag the defector from his individuals, businesses, or government en­ Americans acting as officials of this Gov­ hiding place, beat him senseless in the pres­ tities in relation to the amount of pollution ernment. ence of American observers and finally trans­ they cause? There are apparently several facets to port him, in one of the American ship's life­ 1tes ------73.3% this case, any one of which should spark boats, back to the Soviet vessel. ~0 ------16.4% An "explanation" offered by a Coast Guard c. Should federal grants to local govern- congressional and Presidential concern. spokesman was almost as bizarre as the in­ ments for pollution control, sewage treatment First, there is the question of communi­ cident itself. He said the decision to return plants, and open space and parks be greatly cations or the apparent lack of adequate the Lithuanian was made "in consideration expanded? communications between those respon­ of delicate international discussions which 1tes ------77.0% sible for our seamen's complicity in this were being carried on regarding fishing prob­ ~0 ------12.0% crime. Second, we have to consider the lems." These talks, he said, "could have been d. Do you believe that adequate rapid crime itself. For surely the forced re­ endangered by any other course of action." transit is needed in order to keep the auto­ To the Coast Guard, in short, the nation's mobile from dominating our environment? patriation of this unfortunate individual, obligations to those who fish for yellow-tail a man known only as Simas, represents :flounder exceed any obligation owed to hu­ Yes ------81.1% a violation of established American pro­ ~0 ------10.7% man being seeking safety and freedom on an 13. In:flation-Infiation has been the num- cedure as well as international law under American ship. ber one economic problem this past year. article 33 of the Geneva protocol, and is The real explanation is surely craven stu­ Economists differ greatly on solutions; some as indefensible as is the Soviet policy of pidity in high places, possibly accompanied even differ on whether we have inflation, a a captive citizenry unable to emigrate. by lethargy. The damage is done; it now is recession, or both. What are your thoughts impossible to save the Lithuanian who be­ regarding a solution? Third, there is the question of the U.S. lieved, with the weight of history and tradi­ a. The administration should continue its Coast Guard's sanctioning aliens to tion on his side, that he would be safe once actions in cutting the federal budget, re­ use force abroad a U.S. ship within he had jumped to an American vessel. What ducing federal programs, and generally the territorial waters of this country. is imperative now is to take action to insure slowing down the economy with monetary These three points indicate specific against any repetition of this incredible restraints. aspects of a case which is appalling to train of events. Yes------48.0% me in its entirety. This nation has expended tens of thou­ No ------31.8% sands of lives and hundreds of billions of dol­ b. There should be mandatory controls on The thought that a man would lars to resist Communist tyranny. Defectors prices, wages, and credit. jump to freedom aboard a U.S. ship from totalitarian ru1e have been warmly wel­ :.. es ------56.4% within American territorial jurisdiction, comed from many parts of the world. Refu­ ~0 ------27.0% ask for asylum, and seek the protection gees have repeatedly undertaken hazardous 14. The Federal Budget-Assuming that of this country is understandable. What :flights to an assured safe haven in the present inflationary pressures require re­ is incomprehensible is the fact that at United States. straint in federal spending, if you were re­ some point between the State Depart­ The Administration shou1d call all those quired to make the choice as to where the ment and the Coast Guard command, responsible in this episode swiftly to account budget should be cut, which areas would and a. prompt investigation by the Congress you select? (Figures in parentheses indicate the decision was made to return forcibly might be valuable as a deterrent against any the percentage of the 1970 budget allocated this individual to the Russian ship. What repetition-ever-of the affair of the Vigi­ to each function) • then followed was that the commander lant. a. Defense (44%) ------51.5% of the Coast Guard cutter Vigilant in­ b. Social Security (21.8~) ------2. 8% vited additional Russian personnel c. Health and welfare, including med­ aboard the American vessel, where they icare, health research, food stamps set upon the struggling defector, at­ MOST PEOPLE SUPPORT (4.8%) ------3. 8~ PRESIDENT'S EFFORTS d. Commerce and transportation, tempting to beat him into submission. including highways, airports, While Americans apparently stood by, postal service, business assistance the Lithuanian managed to fight off his HON. LESLIE C. ARENDS (4.4%) ------3.8% captors and hide aboard the Vigilant. The OF ILLINOIS e. Veterans benefits (4.2~) ------1.4~ f. Education and manpower (3.9%) 1.5% roaming gang of Russians later found IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES g. Agriculture (3%) ------5.4% him and, according to one eyewitness h. International affairs, including account then beat him senseless. The Tuesday, December 1, 1970 foreign aid, Peace Corps, and De­ Russian captors and their prey, bloodied Mr. ARENDS. Mr. Speaker, the Gallup partment of State (2.3%) ------11. 3% and trussed hand and foot, were then poll which was published over this past 1. Space (2.3%) ------10. 4 ~ j. General government, including law lowered into an American lifeboat, weekend shows that President Nixon's enforcement, civil rights, Congress, manned by an American crew, which popularity remains at a steady 57 per­ and the court (1.6~) ------1. 0% transported them back to the Russian cent. One of the chief reasons mentioned k. Community development and vessel--some 10 hours after Simas made by respondents who supported the Presi­ housing (1.3~) ------1. 2% what he thought was a leap to freedom. dent is that he is doing his best in a tough 1. ~atural resources, including pol- lution control, recreation, :flood It is seldom I find myself in agree­ job, and I think this points up an out­ control, and conservation (1~)-- 0.8% ment with an editorial from the New standing characteristic of this President. 39436 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 1, 1970 President Nixon 1s a hard worker and reassignment does not deprive them of the of Defense on H.R. 18361, 91st Congress, a he is totally committed to the service of benefits of such programs." bill "To authorize the Secretary of Housing America. This fact is evidently under­ The bill would authorize the Department and Urban Development to encourage and to approve actions by local public housing approve action by public housing agencies stood by a solid majority of American agencies or other owners of federally assisted citizens, but it bears repeating for those and owners of rental housing who partici­ rental housing to set a.sdde units of lower pate in special assistance programs of the who may have missed the point. income housing for exclusive or preferential Department of Housing and Urban Develop­ Whether he is in Washington, or Key occupancy by military personnel serving on ment to accord special treatment to military Biscayne, or San Clemente, or any other active duty who satisfy the income require­ personnel serving on active duty with the part of this country, President Nixon is ments of tenant eligibility. Armed Forces to assure that Government ac­ committing all that is in him to improve This Department is sympathetic to the tion in the form of periodic reassignment objectives of H.R. 18361. the condition of life in America. He is does not deprive them Of the benefits of such Although servicemen and their families programs." understood to feel deeply that our coun­ generally have access to the Department's try has a real chance to live up to the rental and rental subsidy housing programs, H.R. 18361 would permit the Secretary of expectations of our Founding Fathers by a problem sometimes exists because of the Housing and Urban Development to approve its 200th anniversary celebration in 1976. frequency with which military personnel actions taken to set aside all or part of m ay be reassigned from place to place. Even lower-income housing projects for exclusive I think we can all be grateful that we or preferential occupancy by military fam- have elected such a man as our Presi­ where a particular housing project meets the nece6Sary fea.sdbillty standards and is 1lles. This authority would be applicable to dent and it is good to know that most constructed at a location where it would projects of public housing agencies or private of our people support his efforts. ordinarily be expected that it would at least owners of rental housing participating in any in part serve servicemen and their famllies, Federal program to increase the availability and even though it may in fact substantially of housing for lower-income families, includ­ serve those families in the beginning, serv­ ing those authorized by the United States AMENDMENTS TO HOUSING BILL TO icemen subsequently assigned to duty in the Housing Act of 1937, Section 221(d) (3) and area may find that they have a much lower Sect ion 236 of the National Housing Act, and ASSIST MILITARY FAMn..IES priority for securing units than local resi­ title I of the Housing and Urban Develop­ dents whose names may already be on the ment Act Of 1968. projoct waiting lists. Legislation along these lines would mate­ HON. CHARLES E. BENNETT Under these circumstances, it is not unrea­ rially assist the efforts of the Department of OF FLORIDA sonable to consider that the military fam­ Defense to provide adequate housing for mil­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ilies, simply because they are always subject itary families and we strongly support its to government-directed reassignment, are at objectives. Housing assets on mllitary instal­ Tuesday, December 1, 1970 an unwarranted disadvantage in obtalnlng lations are limited in number, and can only Mr. BENNETT. Mr. Speaker, tomor­ housing that would otherwise be available meet a portion of the housing requirements to them on the basis of income and need. of military fanlilies. It is therefore necessary row I plan to offer amendments to H.R. Any such disadvantage under the general to place primary reliance on private hous­ 19436, the Housing and Urban Develop­ housing programs o! this Department is all ing to meet military needs. Unfortunately ment Act of 1970. These amendments the more unfortunate from the standpoint military personnel are at an inherent dis­ would enable the families of our service­ of the lower grade individuals and fam111es advantage in competing for private housing. men to obtain more housing, which they affected since they are ineligible for on-base Unlike their civilian counterparts, who ten d desperately need; and do this through family housing, which is generally limited to to remain in a given area for a longer pe­ the use of housing programs adminis­ the higher grade "career" personnel. riod of time, mllitary personnel are trans­ tered by the Department of Housing and With respect to specific features of the ferred every two or three years. They there­ Urban Development. bill, we do not favor the setting aside od' units fore need rental rather than sales hous­ in subsidized projects in such a way that ing; and in the vicinity C1f. most major mil­ Taken together, my amendments are they could be held vacant awaiting military itary installations rental housing is In rela­ similar in intent to H.R. 18361, which tenants when there are other applicants in tively short supply, especially at rents which was introduced on July 8, 1970, by my need of housing. We also do not believe that lower-pay-grade enlisted men and junior offi­ colleague from Florida Rocky Marciano, I personally interviewed "qualified tenant" under the rent supple­ most of the living Heavyweight Champions, FAMILIES and most of the living Middleweight Cham­ ments program to assure that it includes I am intimately acquainted with the pions. In addition I spent hundreds of hours military families whose income is below need for adequate housing for military talking with Referees, Boxing Publishers, the maximum amount established for oc­ families, both from the statements and Seconds, Trainers and Historians. cupancy of public housing dwellings in comments of the top managers-military One fact kept repeating itself. Time and the area. It would also require the Secre­ and civilian-of the Department of De­ again I wa,s told of rigged contests, rang­ tary of Housing and Urban Development fense and from my own observations con­ ing from as far back as the great Jess Wil­ to inform owners of such housing, upon lard, and Jack Kearns Junior, both telling cerning the need in the Jacksonville, Fla., me about the loaded gloves that Dempsey their request, of the active duty status area. I know that the Secretary of De­ and eligibility of military families for wore in his title match with Willard, to fense, the Assistant Secretary of De­ Angelo Dundee telling me about having to such housing. fense-Installations and Logistics-the force Clay to continue his fight with Sonny This amendment would specifically in­ Secretary of the Navy, the Assistant Sec­ Liston in Miami, when Clay wanted to quit, clude military families which are being retary of the Navy-Installations and and Liston quitting With his bruised arm in reassigned, in the categories of low-in­ Logistics--and the various service wit­ the next round. come qualified tenants with respect to Jim Bishop, one of our country's leading nesses testifying before the Congress on Journalists, telling me that he sat at ring­ whom rent supplement payments can be the military construction and family made under the existing law. side in Maine, and watched as the so-called housing programs have stressed repeat­ mystery punch dropped Liston in the first The second amendment that I will edly the need for housing for the mili­ round. That from his position, Bishop could offer is as follows: tary. clearly see that Liston was not only not un­ SECOND AMENDMENT OFFERED BY MR. BENNETT Without adequate housing for military conscious, but carefully keeping tabs on the Page 117, after line 19, insert: Referee's count. To quote Mr. Bishop exact­ (M) Whenever he shall determine that, be­ families, the hope of ever attaining an ly, I called him just before preparing this cause of location or other considerations, any all-volunteer military force is very dim. statement and received his authorization to rental housing project assisted under title n Without vast improvements in housing use the quote, and had him repeat it exactly. 39438 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 1, 1970 His words were, "I was broadcasting the fight Mr. Nat Fleischer, the Publisher or Ring for Mutual. I was standing directly at the there's nobody there but you, the other guy, Magazine and a fine gentleman, who offered the Referee and those hot lights, man, that's ring apron. In the first round Clay backing us much cooperation while we were pro­ away, flicked a. light right which landed on the loneliest place in the world." ducing our computer matches, and his staff, A Federal Boxing Commission can, I be­ Liston's cheek. Liston looked at him, com­ publish what many people accept as the pletely unhurt (even at my age I could have lieve, make it a little less lonely. The fighters Bible of boxing. For months after the WBA for the first time will know that someone taken that punch), then Liston collapsed, elimination tournament, Ring continued to fell on his face With his head turned toward gives a. damn about them as human beings, list Cassius Clay as Champion. Frazier (then rather than as money making machines. me. My face was less than eighteen ( 18) recognized in New York and three other inches away from his. I could see clearly his States as Champion) as a primary con'tender eyes were open, and blinking. He was ab­ STATEMENT OF BILL EBEL--SPORTS EDITOR for the title, and Jimmy Ellis the then WBA OJ' NEW ENGLAND'S POST-GAZETI'E solutely unhurt. He could not hear the count, Champion, as another contender !or the and Walcott had moved to the far side of the title. To cure the ills of professional boxing the ring to find the timekeeper. Liston turned Boxing is in my opinion the purest form first step is to go to the source of the trouble­ over, looking for where the hell the Referee of sport. All other competitive sports are State Boxing Commissions. was. When Walcott counted ten, Liston imitations of man to man combat. Two golf­ Two States, Maine and Massachusetts bounded to his feet, unhurt. It was an ob­ ers are trying to each prove his superiority have men on the Boxing Commission, who vious fake. No man could spring up like that over the other. The same applies to two ten­ have been connected With boxing all their at the ten count, if he were knocked out". nis players, or to two teams of players in life. That is why there is more pro boxing in In addition, Gentlemen, I heard from the football, baseball, or any other sport. But the small State of Maine than New York fighters of repeatedly being cheated by Man­ only one gets down to the basics of combat. State, that was once the Mecca. of Boxing. agers and Promoters. Sugar Ray Robinson One man, trying to prove his physical supe­ What is wrong With New York BoXing is told me of having to count the occupied riority over another by actual battle. the Boxing Commission. At one time, to be seats in the house to be sure they would not When a pair of fighters are well matched, issued a trainer's (second's) license or man­ cheat him on his share of the gate. in a fight honestly fought, and well refereed, agers license, who had to have experience in Boxing is as controlled today as it ever when a. competent ring Physician is present, boXing. No more. was. Our own experiences in attempting to then boxing is great. It is inexcusable that Another rule New York State has is that set up a three man round-robin between so frequently mismatches, frauds, and dis­ a boxer who loses or is knocked out a num­ Clay, Ellis and Frazier would bear it out. gusting ftascos occur in the ring. ber of times in a row, the Commission sus­ We had no problem obtaining a valid li­ We can't blame it on the greedy Managers, pends his license. Why punish the fighter??? cense for such a. fight. The law in Florida. we know what they are. We can't blame it Go to the real source of the fighter's plight. gives each city the privilege of appointing a. on lousy Trainers, or thieving Promoters. be­ Suspend the llcense of the manager who Boxing Commission. We went to our City cause we know what they are. We can't even books his fighters over their head time after Council and asked that such a Commission blame it on the poor caliber of fighter who time. Isn't prevention better than cure. Cer­ be appointed. It was, we applied to that is overmatched, and does a. poor job, but tainly a manager who has fighter defeated Commission for a license as a Promoter, it takes his lumps while doing it. We must time after time; either he just has no knowl­ was granted. We applied for a. license for blame it on the people really responsible, the edge of boxing or he doesn't care of the wel­ Clay and Frazier. It was granted. If we had individual Boxing Commissions, either State fare of his fighter. applied far the license for Ellis, it too would or City, which permit this kind of thing to And the closed-shop at the boxing depart­ have been granted. happen. ment of Madison Square Garden, in the We then negotiated a deal with Frazier, No matter what the publicity :fl.acks might matchmaking is another ill of boxing. Cer­ Clay and Ellis, and since then have found say, those who really know boxing, knew tainly managers have their fighter on each that Without Madison Square Garden, Ten­ without question, that short of a tank job, boxing show at the Garden again and again. nis Unlimited, Mike MaUtz and Teddy Bren­ there was no way Jerry Quarry could go In Maine, the head of the BoXing Commis­ ner somehow being involved, there simply With Clay. Not o.tr his performance With sion, Duncan McDonald, has been a fighter, cannot be a major fight in this country Frazier and Ellis. Yet the fight was made, manager, trainer and promoter, before being today. and people actually believed that Quarry the Boxing Commissioner. He has been in For example, Mr. Robert Arum an attor­ could take Clay. No more than I could take boxing nearly 60-years. ney of New York City, was the negotiating Clay, Ellis, Liston or Frazier. The three-man chairmanship of the Mas­ representative of Cassius Clay. Immediately I as one individual who has had consid­ sachusetts BoXing Commission, all have been after agreeing to the terms of our offer, and erable contact With the leading professional fighters, Tom McNeeley, Manny Aronis and advising us that the deal was set, he showed boxers of the past and present, can relay to Edward Urbec. McNeeley fought Floyd Pat­ up in Tampa, Florida. With Mr. MaUtz, to at­ you that I believe these men deserve the terson for the world's heavyweight title in tempt to obtain a license for that city. He protection that a Federal Commission can 1961, then served as boxing referee before then tried Orlando, he then tried Atlanta, he give them. Many of them, having earned being a boxing commissioner. Manny Aronis then tried Toronto. All failed. Then ulti­ millions of dollars wind up With nothing. I fought, then was boXing promoter and train­ mately, Mr. MaUtz prominently in the fore­ cite to you the recent benefit for Ezzard er for 35 years before being named to the front, the fight between Clay and Quarry Charles in Chicago, Beau Jack shining shoes Boxing Commission. Edward Urbec was a. took place in Atlanta. in the Founta.inblea.u Hotel on Miami top National AAU boxing champion, leading It is my belief that boxing today has re­ Beach, the great Joe Louis virtually living on New England referee, now besides being a mained firmly in control of the same single the largess of his friends, and the list oould boxing commission is on the AAU National group in an unending chain from the days go on and on. BoXing Committee, all three of these capable of Mike Jacobs, through Mr. Norris, and ul­ But again forgetting the ones who made men, bleed one time or other, in the ring. timately today into the hands of Mr. Bren­ the millions and wound up With nothing. Over fifty percent o.f the licensed man­ ner, Mr. MaUtz and Madison Square Garden. What of those fighters who never made it. agers and seconds in New York are not However, ign'<>ring this control from the Never got the chance because they wouldn't knowledged enough to be holding a license top down, control through the fear on the give away fifty, sixty or seventy percent of where the life of a boy Is in his hands. And part of Managers and Promoters around the themselves? What of those who received every time a fighter steps into a ring he puts country, as well as Trainers, that if you nothing from boxing but a battered body his life on the line. Would New York State don't play the game by the Garden rules, and brain? These poor souls desperately issue a. drivers'license so easy? you don't get to play for the big chips at all. need your help. Unfortunately, most of Another situation eXists that cries out for them don't even know they do need it. STATEMENT OF LEW ESKIN-EDITOR OF BOXING a Federal Boxing Commission. That situa­ There are no unemployment insurance ILLUSTRATED tion lies With the inept, incompetent, un­ plans for pugs. There are no medical pro­ I am a. firm believer in the need for a Na­ qua.llfted and in !act, blatantly politically tections built into the purses, but there tional BoXing Commissioner because there appointed BoXing Commissions around the should be. are three important areas wllere state and country. Boxers are licensed, matches au­ I believe that a Federal Boxing Collllll.1B­ local control break down. However, I must thorized, Trainers, Managers and Promoters sion could and should take from the top state in the most emphatic terms that to re­ function in virtually uncontrolled atmos­ of all license fees, a portion to be used to place many political hacks With one big pheres. establish retirement and health care benefits political hack Will accomplish nothing. The This should be stopped. There are quali­ for fighters. Portions of the gate, TV income, man chosen to be National Commissioner fied men of integrity, to whom this respon­ and closed circuit income on all fights should must be a boxing person--one who has not be contributed to this same welfare fund. only the knowledge but the feeling for the sibllity should be delegated. It should not Not as a. charity, but as something paid be possible for a. fighter to be barred in one sport; without this there will be nothing. for with the blood of the men who enter I speak of the three a.rea.s where local State and pennltted to fight in another, as the squared circle. now occurs. control breaks down. They are: As Jack Sharkey put it. "There are a hell 1. Enforcement of contracts and suspen­ Who is the World Boxing Association? The of a. lot of people around you in training sions. World Boxing Counc11? Why are the ra.nk­ camp, and between fights when you're a. 2. Establishment of championships com­ ings of the leading fighters left to a maga­ Champion. But after the instructions are mittees and regulations of titles and title Zine? given, and your seconds leave the ring, and bouts. December 1, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 39439 3. Protection of the public, fighters and 9th in the Federal Building, New York City. tice the office of the National Boxing Com­ promoters. Regretfully time and distance will not allow mission and for other purposes. Let us look into the first area. Most com­ me to appear in person. In July, 1965, I accompanied Rocky Marci­ missions, unfortunately, are under the On March 30th, 1964, I appeared before the ano when he attended a Hearing before the thumb of the dominant promoter 1n their Anti-Trust Monopoly Committee, Bon. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com­ area. Often they act not in the best interests Philip A. Hart, Chairman, :for the purpose merce to discuss the merits of the "Harris of boxing or the public, but the best in­ of proposing the enactment of Federal leg­ B111," a b111 to establish a National Boxing terests of the promoter. This leads to ignor­ islation to supervise the business of boxing. Commission. I am in accord with the pre­ Ing medioa.l and contractual suspensions The late Senator Kefauver saw the need pared statements appearing on the record of from other commiSSions and can also work for a National Commission to eliminate the these hearings, Serial No. 89-18, Page 62. This in reverse. They often suspend a fighter be­ monopolistic elements as well as other de­ "Harris Bill" was passed by the House, but cause he fails to go along with an unjust fects and initiated the Bill # 1182 but its unfortunately died in the Senate. Thus, I contract fostered on him by a promoter. passage failed. am here, today, to reiterate my views con­ One set of rules should be set and fol­ On or about the year 1967, the House of cerning the urgent need for legislation to lowed by all-too often rules are bent or even Representatives approved Federal control by establish a National Boxing Commission. broken to suit the situation. a vote of 499 to 2 but the law died in the I have worked at the various phases of While I firmly believe that state, sectional, Senate House Committee. boxing for the past 30 years, having been a.n regional and national championships can be Boxing is now controlled by the World official with the New York State Athletic a boon to boxing, too often commissions give Boxing Association. I presided over this As­ Commission, as a boxing judge, and a referee their sanction too freely without thoroughly sociation in 1963-64, and am presently serv­ with the National Intercollegiate Boxing checking the qualifications of the men ing as an Executive Committee member Coaches Association. I am presently the nominated for these fights. When it comes elected by the State and Country Commis­ Director of Boxing at both the White Plains to World Championships it is even worse. sioners from around the world. Y.M.C.A. and at the Purchase Community Right now with the World Boxing Associa­ House. The W .B.A., now in its 52nd year, is a tion and the World Boxing Council we have I am here not only in my individual ca­ dual champions in the flyweight, feather­ voluntary association. Incorporated 1n the pacity, but also as President of the American weight, Jr. lightweight and Jr. welterweight state of Rhode Island and organized by le­ Association for the Improvement of Boxing, gally appointed Boxing Commissioners from classes, plus one group recognizing the true Inc. This is an organization which was lightweight champion and other listing the their respective states in the U.S., the Pro­ founded, among others, by the late great vinces of Canada, the Far East and South title as vacant. Rocky Marciano, with whom I had the privi­ To show you the real hypocrisy of it, the America and its purpose is to obtain a lege of working during the last 5 years prior two Jr. lightweight champions are both Jap­ greater efficiency and conformity in the su­ to his death. The American Association for anese and Japan belongs to the W .B.A., and pervision of professional and amateur box­ the Improvement of Boxing, Inc. was formed doesn't belong to the W.B.C. directly, but ing on all levels as a universal sport and to foster the improvement of the sport of does belong to the Orient Federation, which also as a builder of character and body. boxing and to elevate boxing to the same is a member of the W.B.C. It is a voluntary organization in every prestigious level enjoyed by other major Here in the states things are just as bad. sense of the word. If a state does not choose sports in America, both in professional and New York has always claimed they could to atnliate with the W.B.A. or observe its amateur ranks. not belong to any organization, yet there rules, they do not have to and we cannot Boxing deserves and desperately needs the is nothing in the law or rules of the New legally force them to. guidance and leadership of a strong and York Commission preventing +heir joining. The main reason behind these facts is very permanent National Boxing Commission Within the past year they ignored a sus­ simple. There is no legal basis in our Federal within the Department of Justice if it is pension put out by California on both Jerry laws permitting any group or association to to survive. Quarry and Mac Foster allowing them to supervise boxing. The lack of Federal legis­ The past record of performance of the box in Madison Square Garden, but then lation puts boxing on a very shaky tight rope states has shown an inability to establish after Conuni&sioner Dooley had been a guest to say the least, especially since the boxing interstate procedures in boxing, and, thereby, of the W .B.C. convention in Spain he went rules of the W.B.A. do not supercede state weakening the sport. It is our recommenda­ along with California, a W.B.C. member, on autonomy and therefore uniformity and con­ tion that only a National Boxing Commission the lifting of Ismael Laguna's Ughtweight trol become impossible. could insure the needed uniformity of oper­ title, because Laguna failed to fulfill a re­ There is a special concern with the situa­ ation, such as exists in other sports. turn bout contract, which is 1llegal accord­ tion in the heavyweight division because of The specific purpose of the National Box­ ing to New York rules. This 1s the most the powerful impact of Closed Circuit Tele­ ing Commission would be to synchronize recent example of commissions bowing to vision and Tel-Star and it is not impractical everything pertaining to boxing, such as: special interest groups. to envision a gate of $10 m1llion. The cham­ scoring systexns, revocation of licenses, sus­ A commission should protect the public pion and his manager are virtually dictators pensions, medical examinations, protection from being taken in, from inferior fights, of the most important segment in the field of of the fighters through maximum safety and should protect the fighter from being boxing and it is now one of the largest single measures, rating of fighters, contracts, cham­ overmatched and underpaid by not having events in the history of sports. pionship bouts, and the like. the proper physical and medical attention, The W.B.A. is constantly bringing unde­ It's my fond hope that such a commission, before, during and after a fight. They must sirable situations to the attention of the which I have been advocating since 1961, will protect the promoter because after all he is Commissioners in their respective states for finally come to fruition. the one who invests his money, by seeing their action. Unfortunately, only the tool of that contracts are lived up to, but they must suspension is used and this becomes effective protect every promoter equally, whether he only 1f the courts will take notice of the same is one of a large corporation that runs week­ or if the promoters adhere, and there 1s no ly fights or a small one that runs occasional Federal law to back any conformity. EXTRACTS FROM REPORT OF THE fights. To summarize, Federal legislation is not ilLINOIS CRIME INVESTIGATING A commission should be impartial in its only required but it is necessary in order for COMMISSION ON SDS AND RE­ judgments. A commission also must protect boxing to continue as a major sport. I fer­ the public, the fighters and the promoter by vently hope you are embarked on some action LATED MATTERS making sure that the officials they appoint to control the sport of boxing in the U.s. to are honest and competent. Too often the create uniformity-pension funds, payment only quallfication for becoming an official of taxes, etc. If properly organized by pro­ HON. JOHN . ASHBROOK of the Boxing Commission is to know the fessionals in the supervision of boxing it can OF OHIO right politician, and this political influence be a. self-sustaining body through the pay­ also plays an important part in the assign­ ment of licenses and other sources of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ment of officials to the contests. revenue. Tuesday, December 1, 1970 These are only a small sampling of the 1lls of boxing that can be cured by a Na­ STATEMENT OF STEPHEN B. ACUNTO, PRESIDENT Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Speaker, in Oc­ tional Commission, but while they are not OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE IM­ tober 1969, the city of Chicago wit­ the eye catchers that make headlines about PROVEMENT OF Box.mG, INc. nessed 4 days of violence perpetrated by "Fixed Fights" and gangsters in the sport, For many years, Gentlemen, I have strong­ the SDS and its followers in protest of they are the gut issues of the boXing busi­ ly supported any effort that has been made the trial of the defendants in the Chi­ ness and the ones that have done more to by Congress to establish a National Boxing cago Conspiracy Trial which resulted harm boxing than any others. Commission. My first effort to support the from the disruptions at the 1968 Demo­ aforesaid type of Commission is recorded in STATEMENT OF EDWARD LASSMAN-CHAIRMAN, crctic National Convention. The Dli- the Congressional Hearings referred to as: S. nois State Senate requested the lllinois BoXING CoMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI Res. 52 on S. 1474. Page 1545, Numbers of the BEACH Kefauver Hearings held May 31, June 1, June Crime Investigating Commission to CONGRESSMAN WoLFF: I am honored by 2, 1961, when the Bill was introduced to curb make an investigation of the violence in the invitation extended to me to appear be­ monopolistic control of professional boxing, Chicago which occurred in October fore you and your colleagues on November to establish within the Department of Jus- 1969, resulting in a monumental 759- CXVI--2484-Part 29 39440 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 1, 1970 page report which deals with the SDS dangerous dedication toward armed revolu­ demonstration on September 25, 1969 to and other matters. Due to its size, copies tion. coincide With the start of the Conspiracy of the report were hard to come by, but We concluded that the SDS represents trial. This action was recommended by a fortunately the Senate Internal Security both an immediate and a long-range threat steering committee which included two of to the internal security of this country. the defendants in the trial: Rennie Davis and Subcommittee has made this report a Under its new Weatherman leadership the David Dellinger. Included also, were Sidney part of its hearings on "Extent of Sub­ SDS had evolved into an organization which Lens and Maxwell Primack, both of Chicago. version in the 'New Left'," and copies has risen beyond revolution to the level of In time, plans for the action were taken can be purchased from the Government anarchy. over solely by the Students for a Democratic Printing Office at $2 per copy. Well calculated guerrilla warfare has be­ Society. The demonstrations were then post­ The report was further publicized in come an integral part of the SDS strategy. poned to October 8, 1969, and expanded to the November 13, 1970, issue of "U.S.A.," Workshops on explosives and sabotage have include four days o'f protest ... "four days the very useful newsletter published by been common since 1968. It is our belief of rage" ... that the recent bombings across the coun­ (The four days cost the State of Illinois Alice Widener, whose efforts since Sep­ try are the first manifestation of the new losses of more than $183,000 in property dam­ tember 1965, have been devoted to ex­ Weatherman doctrine of anarchy. age and personal injuries. Seventy-three posing the new left. Indicative of the A danger of SDS to America lies in the fact Chicago policemen were injured, of whom 15 worth of "U.S.A." ia its impressiv'"l list of that it is a Marxist-Leninist organization. were compelled to take sick leave lasting from subscribers which include various uni­ It uses the terminologies and epithets which 4 to 30 days.) versities, the National War College Li­ have been used by revolutionary Communists BAIL BONDS for the past 60 years. . .. brary, the two service academies at West We believe that the SDS rampage in Chi­ Of the 284 persons arrested during the Point and Annapolis and a host of com­ cago last October was the first manifestation October 8-11, 1969 riots, a total of 23 indi­ panies well known in the business and in­ of the insurrection tactics which were later viduals were not required to post bail bonds. ... For the other 261 defendants an aggre­ dustry fields. openly advocated at the December 1969 Flint, The following extract from "U.S.A." Mich., war council. There is every indication gate of $2,345,750 bail bonds were originally that the use of bombings and sabotage Will set at the time of their arrests, requiring a deals primarily with those contributors total of $234,575 for bail bond fees. who came forth to supply bail money continue to accelerate. The March 1970 ex­ plosion in a Greenwich Village town house Most of the defendants were charged with for persons arrested during the Octo­ in New York City would tend to confirm misdemeanors and their bail bonds were not ber 1969 disruption. Also included is a this future policy of increased destruction. increased. However, other defendants were provocative column by Miss Widener ad­ Further evidence is supplied by the recent subsequently charged with felonies after dressed "To Youth" which has been the discovery of a "bomb factory" on Chicago's their indictment by the Cook County Grand subject of many requests by clergymen, North Side. Jury. Their bonds were increased by $557,525, school superintendents, university ad­ On the whole, the Students for a Demo­ requiring additional fees of $55,752.50. cratic Society seem to be in a process of go­ The total bail bonds, therefore, amounted ministrators, civic associations, radio to $2,903,275, requiring total bond fees of broadcasters, and newspaper editors. ing "underground" in order to accomplish its new aiiUS of anarchy and sabotage. The $290,327.50. The extract follows: fact that the SDS national office in Chi­ The People's Law Committee, at 2156 North INTRODUCTION; PART I cago has been closed and not replaced indi­ Halsted Street, Chicago, had the responsi­ cates that the organization has elected to bility for coordinating efforts to (}btain bail Throughout our nation, poor people cease overt intercourse with other political bond money for the 284 persons arrested ... charged with petty offenses languish for groups. The more moderate SDS members Members of the Students for a Democratic months in jail for lack of bail money while have gravitated to other political organiza­ Society ... assisted attorneys assigned to the awaiting trial. But revolutionary radicals tions, chiefly the New Mobilization Commit­ People's Law Committee in this bond effort. charged with misdemeanors and felonies get tee to End the War in Vietnam and the The attorneys advised the jailed defendants bail money with greatest of ease, and there­ Young Socialist Alliance.1 Reliable informa­ to write to their relatives and friends to tele­ after have no financial difficulty in traveling tion has been received that the SDS has graph money orders to the People's Law Com­ from campus to campus, community to com­ frozen its membership and is in the process mittee. The National (SDS) Office also com­ munity, and country to country while await­ of establishing new covert headquarters in municated with SDS chapters throughout the ing trial. either Madison, Wis., or Cambridge, Mass. It country for contributions to the general bond Again and again, law-abiding Americans has now purposefully established relation­ fund. ask about the arrested revolutionary radi­ ships with the Black Panthers, the Young The recipients of these messages were told cals, "Where do they get the money?" Lords organization, and other Inilitant to send the telegraphic money orders . . . to Recently, a part of the answer came to groups. Acting in concert, it is their goal to the attention of Neil Burnbaum (also known light in the testimony of Charles Siragusa, increase the tempo of revolution in the as Birnbaum), age 24 ••., Valerie Hotz, age director of the Illinois Crime Investigating United States. Although the SDS seeiUS to be 19 ...; and Jolie Chain.... Commission, and of Ronald L. Brooks, agent, fading as a conventional national political Hotz was herself arrested during the OCtober before the Internal Security Subcommittee of organization, its numerous satellite proteges riots in Chicago. Burnbaum and Chain were the Senate Committee on the Judiciary. are carrying the "movement" forward. not arrested. Their testimony prefaced presentation to The SDS more than any other militant Burnbaum is originally from the SDS chap­ the Senate Subcommittee of the Illinois group has made it a practice to create osten­ ter in Cambridge, Mass. He was arrested in Crime Investigating Commission Report on sibly new groups for the purpose of widening that city on May 27, 1967. He was also ar­ Students for a Democratic Society and re­ its influence. Most of these new organiza­ rested in October 15, 1967 in Laredo, Texas, lated matters. tions are led by persons who have some as­ for unlawfully intimidating another of freely The EDITORS, sociation with the SDS. entering premises. U.S.A. Magazine. Even more alarming than SDS' penchant We established that someone in the Na­ STATEMENT BY CHARLES SIRAGUSA, DIRECTOR, for creating alliances and satellite groups is tional SDS office was in charge of advising ILLINOIS CRIME INVESTIGATING COMMISSION the fact that its leaders are in constant com­ the arrested persons in need of money for In October 1969, the Illinois State Senate munication with Communist regimes in bail bonds to contact their relatives and requested the Illinois Crime Investigating Cuba, North Vietnam, and the National Lib­ friends to send Western Union money orders Commission to conduct an investigation of eration Front (Viet Cong) in South Viet­ to Burnbaum, Hotz and Chain. We obtained the street riots that occurred in Chicago nam.~ copies of a total of 78 such money orders . . . earlier that month.... It was immediately Report on the SDS Riots, October 8-11, totaling $19,892.30, dated from October 9 to apparent to us that the riots were planned 1969, Chicago, Ill., Prepared by the Illinois 19, 1969. This represented sufficient bail bond and perpetrated almost exclusively by the Crime Investigating Commission, April 1970. fees to write $198,929.30 in bonds. We pre­ Students for a Democratic Society. Acting The significance of what transpired in the sume, therefore, that the balance of $214,- upon this discovery, the crime commission City of Chicago from October 8-11, 1969 is 582.07 necessary to write the remaining $2,- adopted its own resolution which directed me only now being realized. It is believed that 145,820.70 ... was not sent to Neil Burn­ and my staff to examine not only the riots the earliest plans for the rampage were form­ baum or his two associates via Western Union but also the SDS and related matters. ulated in Cleveland, Ohio, during . . . the but was furnished in some other manner. We Perhaps our most significant contribution Fourth of July week-end, 1969 .... surmise that the SDS National Office prob­ The original plan called for a Chicago ably circularized their chapters and regional pertains to the documents we obtained from offices, and their regular contributors mail­ an apartment at 4943 North Winthrop Ave­ ing list, soliciting monies for bail bonds. nue, Chicago, vacated in OCtober 1969 by 1 Editor's note: See "Trotskyism in Amer­ Bernardine Dohrn, Gerald Long, and other ica Today" by Ronald F. Lawrence, U.S.A., A total of 64 separate telegrams were sent high ranking members of the SDS Weather­ Vol. XVII, Sept. 11-18, 1970, Nos. 4 & 5. to Burnbaum for a total of $15,868.30 in bail man faction. They reveal the violent nature 2 Editor's note: Also in Algeria, Hungary, bond fees. Seven telegrams were sent to of the SDS Weathermen, their connection Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and Latin Valerie Hotz • . .; seven ... to Joey ( Jolie] with foreign Communist authorities, and a America. Chain.... December 1, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 39441 In most ln.stances, the telegraphic money From Paul Reitman, Lynwood, New York. FolloWing the riots, Fuerst and Cohen orders indicated the name of the person !or "One hundred from Paul Reitman for Rob­ gained their release by furnishing their bail whom the money wa.s to be given !or purposes ert Tomashevsky ball... From Georgann bondS. They then returned to Milwaukee of bail bondS. . . . A total of 24 money orders Stewart, Brooklyn, New York. "Fifty from where they teamed up with Hoppe and other were sent to Burnbaum without indicating Georgann Stewart !or Robert Tomashevsky." SDS Weatherman members in soliciting a.ny recipients' na.mes.... October 11, 1969 money from sympathizers at various univer­ On the following pa.ges we have reprinted sities for the purpose of obtaining bond and From Jacob Hornstein, Brookline, Mass. fine moneys for other Chicago defendants. It all relevant da.ta. concerning bond money and "Five hundred from Jacob Hornstein." telegrams delivered to the arrestees. appears that the money orders, one for $960 From Robert Hirshfield, Berkeley, Cal. and the other for $280 (dated October 16, (U.S.A. EDrroas' NoTE: It should be re­ "Five hundred from Robert Hirschfield for membered that the a.rrestees were not ''peace" 1969) represented the results of those solici­ Joan Hirschfield; contact sender." tations. demonstrators or non-violent dissenters; the His name appears on a November 21, 1967 arrestees were conducting protests in sup­ From Paul Rothstein, Corvallis, Oregon. University of California at Berkeley list of "One hundred forty from Paul Rothstein for port of the seven defendants in the Chicago registered student organizations as being a. Conspiracy Trial of a.lleged inciters to riot Carlton Olson. Bail if needed." member of the Campus West Coast Com­ Paul Rothstein, age 22, was himself ar­ during the 1968 Democratic National Conven­ mittee for Democracy in Greece. tion in Chicago. Space limitations prevent rested in Chicago on October 11, 1969. Ap­ From George Bennett, Seattle, Wash. "Five parently he made bail first, returned to Cor­ U.S.A.'s publication of the complete fine print hundred from George Bennett for Margaret text of the Dlinois Crime Commission Report vallis and then forwarded money for the bail Bennett." bond of Carlton A. Olson who had also been (a.s released by the Senate Internal Securit)' From Samuel Hackman, Forest Hills, N.Y. Subcommittee) of the ba.il money orders arrested on October 11, 1969. "Three hundred from Samuel Hackman for Rothstein was arrested by the Corvallis and the descriptions of the senders• activi­ Shelly Hackman." ties. U.S.A. ha.s excerpted those Crime Com­ Police Department on July 24, 1969, !or tres­ From Robert Real, Akron, Ohio. "From passing when he became involved in a cam­ mission listings which involve persons pre­ Robert Real for Dave Kent. Call parents im­ viously mentioned in U.S.A. Magazine in our pus sit-in. He went to trial, was convicted, mediately." and fined $50; he appealed his conviction. articles concerning Students for a. Demo­ Robert Real, Stowe, Ohio, has two sons, cratic Society, the Socialist Scholars Confer­ Rothstein lived somewhere on the East David Real and Mark Rea.l. Both sons use Coast before his arrival in Corvallis. By his ences, and other radical Leftist organizations the alias of Kent and are both active in SDS since September 1965, and also involve per­ own admission he was previously involved in affairs. Wisconsin when some U.S. Selective Service sons connected With radica.l organizations October 12, 1969 previously referred to in U.S.A. Magazine.) records were destroyed. Rothstein is unem­ From Marion Klapper, Jamaica, N.Y. "One ployed but travels from coast to coast. His October 9, 1969 hundred fifty from Marion Klapper. Bail source of funds is unknown, but he is pos­ From Max Shain, Ann Arbor, Michigan: fund receipt." sibly subsidized by the Students for a Demo­ "Two hundred fifty from Max Shain for Marion Foley Klapper . . . was known to cratic Society. Karen Daenzer for bail." "Another two hun­ be a member of the Committee for a Sane From Gladys P. Edelman, New York, N.Y. dred fifty from Max Shain balance bail bond Nuclear Policy in 1967. She is also known to "One thousand from Gladys P. Edelman for !or Karen Daenzer." have been associated With the Fifth Avenue B. Burlingham." Max Shain ... Ann Arbor, associate Pro­ Vietnam Peace Parade Committee.... From fessor of Medical Care Organization at the Joan Buck, Lebanon, Penn. "Five hundred October 15, 1969 University Of Michigan. He is known to have from Joan Buck for Judith Molinaro." From Dorothy Schlosser, Great Neck, N.Y. been involved in demonstrations in the Ann From Rose Shandling, Hempstead, N.Y. "Five hundred from Dorothy Schlosser for Arbor area. involving claims of violations of "Five hundred from Rose Shandllng forM. Ken Schlosser. Additional bail money for civil rights. Shandltng." Ken." From Alan Oberman, Washington, D.C. October 13, 1969 From A. Kopkind, Washington, D.C. "Fifty "Two hundred fifty from Alan Oberman !or from A. Kopkind for Roberta Smith." From Susie Rosenberg, New York City. (U.S.A. Editors' Note: On October 13, 1968, Mark Dinsmore. Don't get shot. All our love." "Fifty from Susie Rosenberg, Stephanie No­ the New York Times reported: "The first issue October 10, 1969 land, Laura Furman, for Ken Schlosser." of Mayday, a four-page weekly tabloid ori­ From Judith Bissell, Seattle, Washington. A Susie "Sue" Rosenberg took part in an ented toward muckraking and radical politics "Five hundred from Judith Bissell for Con­ SDS-sponsored building occupation near Co­ was published in Washington, Friday, under nie Messich." lumbia University on May 17, 1968. She was the editorship of three nationally known Judith Emily Bissell, age 25 ••• She and also a member of City College of New York journalists. The editors are Andrew Kopkind, her husband, Silas Trim Bissell are known Chapter of the [Communist] W.E.B. DuBois Ja.mes Ridgeway, former reporters for the members of the SDS Weatherman !action. Club, and Congress of Racial Equality New RepubliC, and Robert Sherrill, corre­ Both of them were arrested on November 14, (CORE). spondent for The Nation . ...") 1969 during the Moratorium Day demonstra­ From Abe Jaffe, Monticello, N.Y. "One October 17, 1969 tion violence in Seattle. They were also ar­ thousand five hundred from Abe Jaffe for rested on January 18, 1970 while setting a bond of Naomi Jaffe." From Vernon K. Dibble, Middletown, Conn. firebomb under the U.S. Air Force ROTC From Anonymous, New York, N.Y. "Five "One hundred fifty from Vernon K. Dibble Building on the University of Washington hundred from Anonymous for bail for Ken for Harvey Blume." ca.mpus. Schlosser." (U.S.A. Editors' Note: In September 1965, From Harry Tomashevsky, New York City. October 14, 1969 Vernon K. Dibble said at the First Annual "Two hundred from Harry Tomashevsky !or From H. Benenson, New York City. "Eight Conference of Socialist Scholars that Ameri­ Robert Tomashevsky." hundred from H. Benenson." can society must be broken up in order to From Harris Saltzberg, New York City. A Reverend Harold Benenson, 1095 Park bring it under the control of radicals.) "Fifty from Harris Saltzberg !or Robert Avenue, Manhattan, was arrested at Colum­ INTRODUCTION: PART ll Tomashevsky." bia University on April 30, 1968, while taking A most interesting section of the encyclo­ (U.S.A. Editors• Note: See U.S.A. Magazine, part in an SDS-sponsored student strike. He pedic Ill1nois Crime Investigating Commis­ "Subcellar Student Subversion" issue of was charged With criminal trespass and re­ sion Report on the SDS and related matters March 1, 1968.) sisting arrest. concerned the Institute for Policy Studies in From Arthur Waskow, Washington, D.C. From Jim Sessions, cambridge, Mass. "One Washington, D.C. and the Louis M. Rabino­ "Five hundred from Arthur Waskow. Free hundred !rom Jim Sessions for bail fund." witz Foundation (Delaware, 1944). Cathy. Huey, etc. Love CES." Reverend James S. Sessions . . . member Both Arthur Waskow, director of the In­ Arthur Waskow is the director of the In­ of the United Campus Ministry, Massachu­ stitute for Polley Studies, and Victor Rabino­ stitute for Polley Studies ... Washington, setts Institute of Technology. Alleged chap­ Witz, president and director of the Louis M. D.C. On June 30, 1969, Sergeant Joseph P. lain of the SDS chapter on campus. Rabinowitz Foundation, are Leftist radicals Grubisic, Chicago Pollee Department, testi­ From Carol Hoppe, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. whose activities have been frequently men­ fied before U.S. Senator John McCellan's Per­ "Nine hundred sixty from Carol Hoppe for tioned in U.S.A. Magazine, the former in manent Sub-Committee on Investigations, John Fuerst." "Two hundred eighty from connection With the National Conference for inquiring into the riots during the Demo­ Carol Hoppe for Judy Cohen." New Politics (see U.S.A., September 2, 1966) cratic National Convention ... that Waskow Carol Ann Hoppe, age 21 . . . Milwaukee, and the latter in connection with the Social­ was a speaker for the Radical Education Wis. In September 1969 she became associated ist Scholars Conferences and also with the Project, a phase of SDS activities... . With SDS weatherman 1n the Milwaukee position paper "Towards a Socialist Strategy A co-director of the Institute of Policy area. Prior to the Chicago riots of October for the United States" of .Tune 1970. Studies is one Richard J. Barnet. In Novem­ 8-11, 1969, Hoppe was observed distributing THE EDrroas, ber 1969 he a.nd W111iam Meyers from the leafiets in Milwaukee announcing plans for U.S.A. Magazine. Lawyers' Committee on American Polley To­ those riots. In fact, Hoppe went to Chicago Illinois Crime Investigating Commission: ward Vietnam attended Hanoi ra.llles to crit­ together With John Fuerst, age 25, a.nd Judy There are groups and foundations located icize .. U.S. aggression,.. according to broad­ Cohen, age 24. However, Hoppe was not ar­ beyond Dlino!s that are directly or indirectly casts from North Vietnam. rested, whereas FUerst and Cohen were. contributing money to the SDS..•• 39442 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 1, 1970 Institute for Policy Studies Steering Committee to Implement the De­ ashevsky and Naomi Jaffe. Both are listed in Under the section "Bail Bonds" of this mands of James Foreman's Black Manifesto. the Illinois Report as having been arrested report, mention wa.s made of the Western Donald Jelinek, Selma, Ala______5, 000 during the Chicago riots in October 1969. Union money order for $500 sent by Arthur Clinton Jencks, Denver, Colo______5, 750 In March 1968, Vice Chancellor Whiteman Waskow on October 10, 1969 to Nell Burn­ Ivan Kovacs, Bronx, N.Y ------1, 000 said that the SDS subcellar regional confer­ baum, who was in charge of coordinating John Katz, New York______1, 500 ence at N.Y.U. was "not very significant com­ efforts to receive bail bond and legal fees for Gaylord LeRoy, Philadelphia, Pa_____ 2, 000 pared to what else is going on around the the 284 persons arrested during the Chicago Walter Lowenfels, New Jersey______1, 500 country and the world." riots of October 8-11, 1969. Debbie Louis, Venice, Calif-______2, 300 Today, every federal and state criminal ... We obtained a schedule of grants made Law Students Civil Rights Research investigating agency in our nation recognizes by the Institute during the fiscal year ended Council, New York______2, 000 the SDS meeting at New York University in September 30, 1968, indicating that some Floyd McKissick, New York City_____ 2, 500 February 1968 as an event of major sig­ grants were made to SDS members . ... Julian Mayfield, New York City______3, 000 nificance in the radical revolutionary move­ Charlotte Weeks, Cleveland, Ohio____ $850 Jack Minnis, New Orleans, La______1, 500 ment, which has cost so ma-ny lives and James Weeks, Cleveland, Ohio______900 (U.S.A. EDITOR'S NOTE: The foregoing list wreaked such destruction on our campuses John McAuliff, New York, N.Y.______750 furnishes readers with an idea of the scope a.nd in our communities. Michael Spiegel, Washington, D.c.____ 50 of the Louis M. Rabinowitz Foundation Christopher Jencks, Harvard Univer- grants, which are too numerous to reproduce To YOUTH sity, Cambridge, Mass______5, 200 here. Following are a few of the more sig­ Ramparts Magazine______2, 200 (NoTE.-From everywhere across our na­ nificant grants as listed by the Illinois Crime tion, U.S.A. Magazine has received inquiries Louis M. Rabinowitz Foundation, Inc. Investigating Commission.) about and requests for reprints of the fol­ This foundation came to our attention Mario Savio, Berkeley, CaL______1, 500 lowing newspaper column by Alice Widener, when we found among the papers left be­ Regents of the University of Califor- which was released October 15, 1970. hind in the [Chicago] apartment vacated by nia, Los Angeles ------2, 000 (We have received requests for copies Bernardine Dohrn [on FBI most wanted list; University of Wisconsin ------2, 500 from clergymen (who read it to their con­ fugitive from U.S. justice now alleged to be John Gerassi, New York City______5, 000 gregations), from school superintendents, in Algeria], Gerald Long and other SDS Sylvester Leaks, New York City _____ 3, 000 university administrators, civic associations, leaders ... a letter dated February 12, 1969, (U.S.A. EDITOR'S NOTE: See U.S.A. Magazine, radio broadcasters and newspaper editors. signed by Dennis James, Executive Secre­ September, 1965 article on First Annual Con­ In response to these requests, we are pleased tary, National Lawyers Guild ... The pres­ ference of Socialist Scholars at which Sylves­ to publish the column with blanket permis­ ident of the Guild is Victor Rabinowitz, also ter Leaks, of the Harlem Writers Guild, fea­ sion to all readers to reproduce it with full president of the Louis M. Rabinowitz Foun­ ture writer for Muhammad Speaks and biog­ credit and no alteration of text. dation Inc.... rapher of Malcolm X, said, "First of all, (Allan Courtney, distinguished radio com­ We do not know the contributions made I'm not non-violent .... I believe we've got mentator of Station WIOD, Miami, Florida, by this foundation for the years 1968 and to tear the system down, now." Mr. Leaks invited Mrs. Widener to broadcast the col­ 1969 or for the first few months of 1970. How­ said he believes the black lumpenproletariat umn on his show. Public response was so ever, we do have a list of contributions made "should go to war now" and the slogan they great that Mr. Courtney re-broadcast the in 1967 and 1966 as follows: . . . need is, "Burn, Baby, Burn!") tape. Station WIOD has the tape-recording.) James Aronson, New York ______$3, 000 Socialist Scholars Conference, New NEw YoRK CITY, October 15, 1970. Richard J. Barnet, IPS------1, 500 York CitY------2,000 DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS: Many Of you are (This is the Institute of Policy Studies in Ronald Radosh, New York City______1, 000 part of what is currently described in our Washington, D.C. of which Barnet is co-di­ (U.S.A. EDITOR'S NoTE: Ronald Radosh is a country as a "youth culture" and "drug cul­ rector.... In November 1969, Barnet Socialist Scholar.) ture." A main aspect of your culture is Visited North Vietnam ...) "moral-sexual rebellion" conducted accord­ Nancy and Todd Gitlin (SDS), Chi­ ing to "situation ethics." Brooklyn Heights Youth Center, cago------4,000 I want to ask you a question: What are Brooklyn, N.Y------500 Todd Gitlin is a key member of the SDS your children-the next generation-going Norma.n Birnbaum, New York ______1,625 National Office. In October 1963, he signed to be like? Donald I. Barnett, Iowa City, Iowa __ _ 2,500 a manifesto written at Princeton University One thing sure: You are going to be the Cedric Belpage, Cuernavaca, Mexico __ 3,000 by a group which named itself "The Ad Hoc begetters of the next generation. Will your Lillian Boehm Foundation, New Committee on Triple Revolution." ... This children have two eyes and ears where they York ------1,333 Ad Hoc Committee was a study group spon­ ought to be? Two arms, two hands and ten Judith Coburn, IPS ______5,000 sored by the Fund for the Republic of Santa fingers? Will your children be mentally nor­ (She is on the staff of the Institute for Barbara, Cal., which is also known as the mal? Will they see, hear and speak, or will Policy Studies.) Center for the Study o"' Democratic Institu­ many of them be blind or deaf or dumb? tions.... Despite all the criticism you voice of your Bernard Conal, LaJolla, Calif. ------3, 000 Clergy and Laymen Concerned About William Mandel, Berkley, CaL______2, 000 parents' and grandparents' generations, Vietnam, New York______1, 500 Jerry Stoll (re: film "Days of Pro- there is a fact you cannot deny: Most of test") San Francisco______700 you are physically and mentally normal. (U.S.A. EDITOR'S NoTE: See "Lunch With James Petras, Berkeley, Cal------2, 000 Have you ever thought what a blessing from the Leftist 'In' Crowd," U.S.A. Magazine, Au­ Morris U. Schappes, New York City__ 1, 000 your parents that is, or do you just take gust 2, 1968, concerning Rev. William Sloane James Forman (1963)------22,945 your bodies and minds for granted and never Coffin, Jr., chaplain of Yale, host of Clergy give a moment's thought to how you got and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam EPILOGUE them? luncheon for American Documentary Films, (By Alice Widener) It is human, of course, to look on tempo­ distributor for pro-Communist films, includ­ The Illinois Crime Investigating Commis­ rary situations as permanent (and a very ing Black Panther films and tapes.) sion Report on the SDS and related matters great error!), but there is a time fact or in Columbia Survey of Human Rights conilains a photographic reproduction of the life which you cannot avoid: Most of you Laws, New York______500 diary which SDS Weatherman leader Bemar­ will grow older. Frank Donner, New York City______500 dine Dohrn left behind in a Chicago apart­ What will be your condition when you do? Horace P. Davis, Jamaica Plains, N.Y._ 1, 900 ment when she fled from justice. Miss To the females among you, I should like to Foreign Policy Roundtable, Inc., st. Dohrn's diary entry for February 10, 1968 is address these questions: After you have lived Louis ------3,600 "SDS regional." on the pill since the age of 13, have had Harvey Goldberg, Madison, Wis.______5, 000 This confirms my reporting on her presence several abortions, a dose of venereal disease, Harvin E. Gettleman, New York City_ 1, 800 at the SDS regional meeting in Weinstein smoked marijuana and taken LSD and per­ Jill Hamburg, Hoboken, N.J.______300 Hall subcellar at New York University, Feb­ haps heroin, what will be your physical (U.S.A. EDITORS' NOTE: Jill Hamburg is the ruary 10-11, 1968, a meeting at which I was and sexual condition at 25, 30, 35, 45? Will author of "Towards a Socialist Strategy for the only reporter present and at which plans your reproductive organs be intact or re­ the United States" June 1970.) were made for violence on our campuses in moved? When you have your first child, how April cxf that year. will you feel if it is deformed or mentally Hashomer Hatzair, Inc., New York Early in March 1968, after U.S.A. Magazine defective? How well will you "cope" wit h a City ------500 and Barron's had published my report on the hysterectomy at 27 or 31? How will you feel Len Holt, Washington, D.C------2, 000 SDS meeting, N.Y.U. Chancellor Allan M. when you are an old hag at 38? The February 12, 1969 circular letter ... Cartter took no action against SDS, and Vice To the males among you, I ask this: After on the letterhead of the National Lawyers Chancellor Harold B. Whiteman told the years of unlimited fornication, a dose or two Guild indicates that Len Holt is the vice press, "The lady was over-reacting and hadn't of VD and prolonged periods of neglected president of the Guild for the Berkeley, been around students and didn't know how personal hygiene, will you be potent or impo­ Calif., branch. His name appears as one of 24 they talked." tent at 42, 54, 60? Will you be a broken­ individuals nominated for election to the My article named SDS members Bob Tom- down neurotic when you go through the December 1, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 39443 male climacteric? How wlll you feel at 27 or Mr. Speaker, I include several related The berries were carefully soaked, then 29 if your newborn baby has a stump for news clippings: washed with deionized water-a more potent a leg or no fingers on one hand, or such a solvent than tap water normally used by retarded mind that it can't learn to sit up [From the Hood Rdver News, Hood housewives and commercial cooks. by itself? River, Oreg.] Now this is what the laboratory test re­ A great many of you, both male and fe­ HARVEY LoSES FLUORIDE CASE vealed: After the soaking, only 28.2 ppm male, are sincerely interested in protecting Jurors in Hood River circuit court brought :fluoride was eliminated. Still remaining on our environment from pollution. Are you in­ back a verdict last Wednesday night which the berries was 25.8 ppm fluoride-which by terested in protecting your own body envi­ found Harvey Aluminum company's The simple arithmetic figures out to 380 per cent ron ment from it? How about your own per­ Dalles aluminum reduction plant guilty of more than the permissible "safe" level. sonal mental and emotional environment? willfUl :fluoride trespass and awarded triple We charge the Food and Drug Administra­ Are you willing to live your future life with­ damages of $485,000 to The Dalles orchardist tion, the Nixon Administration, the Califor,.. out romance, tenderness, poetry and delicacy Wilson J. Meyer and his wife Mary Ann. nia Department of Public Health, the Cali­ in sex? Is it going to be exactly the same to The verdict, brought back by a jury of ten fornia Department of Agriculture, and those you as going to the toilet or blowing your women and two men after a little less than who dictate policy and operation-the Rea­ nose or vomiting? 10 hours' deliberation, ended a case which gan Administration-with grave dereliction This month, Dr. Vincent DePaul Lynch of stretched through 13 days of court hearings of duty for not demanding reduction of this St. John's University presented the results and which was first filed in the 1960's. :fluoride contamination to 7 ppm, the "per­ of his genetic studies of the effects of mari­ Exactly $161,459.85 in damages was missible" level. We further charge these juana smoking on rats. The studies show awarded to the Meyers; the suit had asked for agencies of government with gross neglect in the use of marijuana can have "very seri­ more than $200,000 in damages to the plain­ failing to publish periodic warnings to con­ ous consequences for human reproduction" tiffs' fruit trees and crops. The jury awarded sumers in order that the innocent users of and can produce "serious genetic defects." $83,129.70 for loss of market, fruit and crop such farm produce be informed and in­ Dr. William F. Genera, associate professor damage to the Meyers' cherry crops of 1960 structed as to the vital necessity of properly of pharmacology at Medical College of through 1969; $14,109.52 for lost apricot cleansing the edibles. It is not too much to Georgia has found "a dangerous potential" crops in 1964 through 1967 and in 1969; $62,- ask that these instructions and warnings be in marijuana smoking for the human fetus. 920.63 for peaches from 1962 to 1967. Twelve prominently placed upon containers in which Throughout the world, physicians have hundred dollars were also awarded for pros­ the produce is marketed. warned that use of LSD affects human pective profits from apricot production lost It is sad but true that few if any house­ chromosomes and can deform the offspring because of trees removed because of :fluoride. wives would take the time to soak produce for of LSD users. The final damages will be trebled because a long period-and admit tedly, extended Perhaps, my friends, many of you will re­ the jury found the harm to be willful, there­ soaking destroys texture of some foods such tort: "But I'm concerned with now!" Yet fore the $485,000 figure. as berries, and robs it of nutrients. now is already past by the time you have "This is a landmark case for the whole state With the knowledge that berries from at spoken the word. Moreover, your own human of Oregon," Lamar Tooze, Jr., of Portland, least some California ranches do contain vast instinct for self-preservation gives the lie to one of the plaintiff's attorneys said, referring amounts of the poison, :fluoride, it is possible, your "now," because whether you admit it to the fact that it is the first time an in­ perhaps even likely, that most mothers would or not, most of you expect a future. dividual has fought a large company for devote more time to thoroughly washing the It includes a generation that you your­ w111ful pollution damage and won. produce, even though probably not using de­ selves will produce. Several other similar cases are pending ionized water. And the chances are that with­ Permit me to suggest that you look at against Harvey. The Meyer-Harvey case, out this specialized high-potency solvent, the yourself and ask yourself if someday your which was the first to come to trial, was first :fluoride remaining will be higher than the child-the product of your own :flesh and filed in Multnomah county, then moved to 25.8 ppm found in the sample tested. blood-will be as you are. I hope so, I really The Dalles. Judge J. R. Campbell of Canyon President Nixon and Governor Reagan do, for your sake. Because if you hold in your City signed an order the first week of Octo­ should not be deceived into believing that arms an infant boy or girl afHicted with ab­ ber ordering the change of venue to Hood food is the only source of excessive :fluoride. normalities wantonly caused by you, you River. The Bay Area Air Pollution Control Dis­ wlll find it very, very tough to justify what At the same time Campbell signed the trict at long last is recognizing this con­ you call your "culture." change of venue order, he signed an order taminant, among others, in our air and the With every good wish, denying the introduction of punitive dam­ staff has been instructed by the board of Sincerely, ages for Harvey as a case factor. The directors to study the possibility of limiting ALICE WIDENER, U.S.A. amended complaint, if it had been included, :fluoride emissions from industrial sources. would have asked for $825,000 in punitive From important and responsible other damages for the aluminum company. quarters have come reports such as these: Circuit court judge Walter Wells of Pen­ Environmental Science and Technology dleton presided over the court. (Aug. 1970) reported: "Fluorine is toxic (as POLLUTION BY FLUORIDE an air pollutant) at concentrations of 0.5 [From the Times-Star (Alameda, Calif.) parts per billion-acts as a cumulative poi­ Oct. 27, 1970] son (and is a) potential danger to animals HON. JOHN R. RARICK NEW EXAMPLES ADD URGENCY TO NADER'S or even human beings." OF LOUTSIANA WARNINGS Journal of Occupational Medicine (June, 1969), lists :fluoride among "the atmospheric IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES In an exclusive story last spring, the Times-Star reported the press conference in pollutants of current major concern." Tuesday, December 1, 1970 which Ralph Nader lowered the boom on the Wall Street Journal (Aug. 8, 1970) : "Fed­ Mr. RARICK. Mr. Speaker, an inter­ federal government for ignoring the mount­ eral Water Quality Survey found the (con­ ing problems of "total :fluoride ingestion." taminant) :fluoride in hazardous amounts in esting court decision is reported in The nation's most articulate consumer's tap water samples." Oregon where a jury has found an alu­ advocate asserted. " ... The urgent con­ Medical World News (Sept. 18, 1970) re­ minum company guilty of willful fluoride sideration is how much :fluoride people are porting on the same survey: "43 per cent of trespass and awarded substantial dam­ taking into their bodies from :fluoride air the systems using well sources exceeded the ages. In the case, it seems that fruits pollution, from soil, water, products proc­ Drinking Water Safety Limit for :fluoride." and trees owned by the plaintiff were essed in water containing :fluoride, from Wall Street Journal (Oct. 5, 1970) warned damaged because of fluoride. pharma~?uticals, pesticides, herbicides, of the hazards of ":fluoroalkane gases used This case may well establish an ex­ etc.... to propel aerosol dispensers (by patients) Since that warning, a frightening barrage with asthma, housewives and others who emplary precedent in the pollution issue of new evidence supporting these fears has use pressurized aerosol dispensers many by punishing polluters under the exist­ been released-the latest a scandal which times a day ..." ing laws. has just broken across the Bay. Wall Street Journal reported the death of If fluoride can be a.ccumulated in ex­ A Menlo Park laboratory has analyzed two patients from a widely-used anesthetic cessive concentrations in fruits and veg­ San Jose-grown raspberries and found them containing :fluoride and suggested the :fluo­ etables, the day may not be far off when to contain 54 parts per million of :fluoride­ ride is particlularly hazardous to obese per­ bottlers of liquid beverages and packers nearly eight times as much as the so-called sons and patients with impaired kidney of fruits and vegetables will be forced to "safe" tolerance level of 7 ppm set by the function. U.S. Food and Drug Administration, as well Stanford Workshop on Air Pollution (Sum­ use of nonfluoridated water in preparing as the California Department of Public their products. For if the packers and mer, 1970): "Fluorides, in both gaseous and Health. particulate forms, can cause serious prob­ bottlers do not get the message now, Most of the contamination was exterior lems, even in extremely low concentrations eventually the consumers will. And a residue, apparently from a :fluoridated pes­ (a few parts per billion.) The problem new field of litigation will blossom out ticide such as cryolite. Other tests were made (:fluoride pollution) is complicated by the overnight. to determine tl the fluoride would wash off. existence o~ other environment sources of 39444 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 1, 1970 fluoride, most notably fluoridated drinking to become more aware and more involved if not a danger connected with anything we water at 1-pp million, and certaJ.n foods." equity and effectiveness are to result from might do in Southeast Asia. The main These examples of recent evidence accen­ the movement. tuate the urgency, and they are "only the The consumer protection agency would danger we face in seeking military vic­ tip of the iceberg." Fluorides proliferate al­ provide a common ground for business, gov­ tory is, to my mind, the possibility of most daily in air, food, water, soil, pharma­ ernment and consumer groups. The con­ some of the Members of the other body ceuticals, insecticides, pesticides, anesthetics, sumer needs an advoca-te in the government of Congress coming down with a severe toothpaste, aerosol bombs, pollution from and an organized approach to consumer case of raw throat. This contingency some 50 different types of industries. affacirs. must not be overlooked. I suggest that If Mr. Nixon and Mr. Reagan fail to heed I have found support for such an agency we take up a collection to cover the cost the combined warnings of eminent scientisU>, from the young people in my talks on college such as the 12 Nobel Prize laureates, who op­ campuses. I have found it among consumers of throat lozenges and press on to vic­ pose fluoridation of public water supplies, in my visits to their homes throughout the tory. the failure wm count as one of the blackest United Sta-tes. And I have found support by The statement of Mrs. Grubb taken marks against both men, and their admin­ the really enlightened businessman. from the Richmond News Leader of No­ istrat ions. American industry can learn to serve the vember 18, 1970, as well as an editorial consumer even better through this agency. comment from the News Leader of the Government, in turn, can learn from indus­ same day follow: BUSINESS SUPPORT FOR THE try through the interchange of ideas between CONSUMER these groups. COMMUNISTS INFORM MIA WIFE OF HUSBAND'S My associates at the Consumer Products DEATH IN CAPTivrrY Division of Motorola support this legislation Thursday afternoon .an Air Force repre­ HON. FLORENCE P. DWYER wholeheartedly. We look forward to working sentative called me. He said, "Mrs. Grubb we OF NEW JERSEY with the proposed agency. have some bad news. Cora Weiss from the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Business should welcome the increased op­ Committee of Liaison has just returned from portunity which this agency will provide. Hanoi with the names of six men who have Tuesday, December 1, 1970 It creates an impetus to serve the consumer died in captivity ... Your husband is one Mrs. DWYER. Mr. Speaker, on Mon­ better. of the six." Cora Weiss was to have a press day, November 30, a press conference was I have recently returned from a visit to conference on Friday with detalls of her held in support of H.R. 18214, the Con­ Europe where I went to study the consumer trip. Only then would she release written in­ movement. I noted that the consumer is well formation concerning the death of my hus­ sumer Protection Act of 1970. This bi­ served in Denmark and the United Kingdom band to the State Department. She held the partisan legislation which I have co­ where business, government and consumer press conference ... but, as of today, she sponsored will significantly aid the con­ groups are working cooperatively. Consumer­ still has not produced any written evidence, suming public in its fight against infia­ ism does not appear to be working as well and I am left dangling at the whim of the tion and would give consumers a voice in Sweden where there seems to be more enemy. and an advocate in affairs affecting polarization between consumer groups. I be­ Can you imagine the suspense and horror them. The only businessman to publicly lieve they, too, will have to form a single of the past three days of waiting? It has been support this legislation at the press con­ agency in order to be effective. torture so subtle that the mental destruc­ The bill which I am endorsing provides tion of myself and my family will not reflect ference uas Mr. Edward P. Reavey, Jr., adequate representation for the consumer on Hanoi With the vocal outrage that it de­ vice president and general manager of and all parties involved. serves-but rather, Hanoi confidently expects the Consumer Products Division of It is a good bill, a fair bill. Consumer pro­ that the news will be passed over with a few Motorola, Inc. I would like, therefore, to grams have suffered too long from an absence kind words-and then-forgotten. commend Mr. Reavey for his statesman­ of coordination and an overview which the Don't let that happen! ship in supporting this bill through pub­ new agency should provide. Newk, my husband, was called to Vietnam, lic endorsement in the glaring lights of It will be valuable to business, and to the thousands of miles away, to fight the creep­ people of America. The deeper wants and ing cancer of modern-day communism. Now, television cameras and before consider­ needs of the consumer will be spotlighted five years later, I am notified of his death able numbers of members of the press. and business will be able to more adequately by a highly organized and financed Commu­ This is, indeed, the type of response that serve those needs. nist organization right here in our own we hope to secure from other enlight­ Again, I fully support this legislation. United States. ened businessmen and Mr. Reavey is to You must comprehend the significance of be commended for his leadership posi­ this ludicrous situation. When other families tion in the business community on be­ and I must depend on this communistic COMMUNISTS INFORM MIA WIFE OF source as the only source of information from half of this cause. I would, therefore, like HUSBAND'S DEATH IN CAPTIVITY and about our captive men-then we, -too. to includu the contents of Mr. Reavey's are prisoners of a foreign government. If remarks in the REcoRD at this time: you and I allow this unofilcial death notice STATEMENT OF EDWARD P. REAVEY, JR., IN HON. JOHN G. SCHMITZ to pass unchallenged. we will forsake the SUPPORT OF H.R. 18214 OF CALIFORNIA sacrifice of every American in the Vietnam It is an honor to be here this afternoon IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES conflict. With Congresswoman Dwyer, Congressman During the months of lonely waiting­ Rosenthal, and distinguished members of Tuesday, December 1, 1970 and these late tearful days of anguish-! the consumerism community. Mr. SCHMITZ. Mr. Speaker, at this have made a decision. This decision must I want to give my strong personal endorse­ point in the RECORD I would like to in­ have your understanding-and your support. ment to the Rosenthal-Dwyer blll, House of clude a statement made by Mrs. Wilmer This is my decision: I will not accept noti­ Representatives 18214, which, if enacted, fication of my husband's death until it is would establish a much needed consumer N. Grubb following her notification by submitted according to the articles of the protection agency and a counterpart in th~ unofficial North Vietnamese ambassador Geneva Convention. The Geneva Convention executive branch. Cora Weiss that her husband, Air Force was written to protect all captives-Hanoi I fully support passage of this measure. I Major Wilmer N. Grubb, had died in a has never adhered to this Convention, or any consider "this the "magna charta" of con­ Communist prison camp. humane convention. Propaganda photographs sumerism. It is the single, most important I hope that Mrs. Grubb has taken portray the fact that my husband appeared bill to appear on the consumerism front. in excellent condition after his capture. If heart at the recent real effort which the he is dead, then it is my moral-my legal I feel that this bill is in the best interest im­ of business because it should negate the U.S. Government made to free our right-to know all the circumstances of his need for a proliferation of consumer bills. prisoned men. There is no need for her death. Here is how you can help. I need With i-ts passage, business wm be able to to expend her own funds on interna­ lawyers knowledgeable both in national and anticipate the consumer's needs more effec­ tional lawyers while the United States international law. I need funds to pay the tively and start acting instead of reacting. has a superb Armed Force. There is a many expenses of possible legal proceedings, The bill is also in the best interest of the need, however, for the deployment of but most of all I need your moral support consumer because, for the first time, the con­ these Armed Forces in a manner designed to strengthen me and my family in the com­ sumer will be adequately represented. The "to forestall the further brutal treatment ing months. I am determined to put aside con sumer will have an advocate, an agency of American prisoners of war. There is a my grief, to dry my tears, to turn from bitter- whose assigned mission will be the protec­ ness and self-pity and begin a journey-a tion of his interests, and safety. need for a swift military victory. mission to force all countries to recognize I have long been an advocate of consumer­ There is a risk in seeking military and ad.here to the Geneva Convention, which ism. This is a forceful movement that is not victory. It is not the risk of general war. will ultimately benefit 1,600 missing men. just a fad. Consumerism is a genuine cause Mr. Henry Kissinger has assured us that Forsake my husband? I will not. Let us. and t he time has come for business leaders the danger of a general war arising is instead, make this effort a tribute to a gal- December 2, 1970 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 39445 lant hero--my beloved husband. America, Major Grubb volunteered for duty in Viet­ The North Vietnamese toy with us and per­ I need you-and you are my America. I a.m nam. Now he is dead, a victim of Satanic versely tease us; they use their American depending on you. executioners. And his wife iS alone: To her prisoners as priceless assets in this anguish­ and to her four sons, Wilmer Grubb will be ing war of nerves. We will win this war­ [From the Richmond News Leader, Nov. 18, but a fortifying example and a receding mem­ rather, we will conclude this war-only when 1970] ory. Major Grubb died at the hands of an an aroused population has made American enemy that doles out news about its pris­ POWs a crushing North Vietnamese liability. MAJOR WILMER GRUBB oners in dribbles and drabs. The North Viet­ But the record of recent history suggests We never met Air Force Major Wilmer namese contend that they will release all that that day will not come soon. Grubb of Petersburg, who became a prisoner American POWs when every American has And what did Major Grubb think about of the North Vietnamese on January 26, 1966. left South Vietnam. Yet even that is dubious as he lay dying? Did he wonder about the But we did have the pleasure of meeting his consolation. For the families of these men abject weakness of a nation that will not wife [interview, November 11)-a courageous must live with the knowledge that when the retrieve its prisoners? Did he wonder whether woman of whom Major Grubb should have Korean War concluded, the North Koreans his presence in Vietnam had done any been, and surely was, deeply proud. On Mon­ failed to account for 389 Americans known good-any good at all-given the ingrati­ day Mrs. Grubb showed her abiding courage to be prisoners. Now-nearly 20 years later­ tude of so many in the United States? In­ once more: She announced that pro-Com­ the families of those prisoners of an earlier deed, did he wonder whether his imminent munist sources have informed the Defense war against an Asian Communist foe have death would be but a prelude, a foretaste, of Department that her husband has died in heard not a word about their men. what is in store for hiS beloved nation? It captivity {see her statement below], and If anything ever was calculated to move is too much, too much, the way this good that she will seek "notification of [her) hus­ us as a nation, to incense us, is it not this­ man was treated. Weep for him. And ponder band's death . . . according to the articles the indignities and the humiliations that our what perhaps were his anguished thoughts of the Geneva Convention." men suffer in Communist cages and cells? as he approached his first glimpse of eternity.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES-Wednesday, December 2, 1970 The House met at 12 o'clock noon. of the Secretary of the Interior under the trade legislation. I again remind the The Chaplain, Rev. Edward G. Latch, act of July 19, 1940 (54 Stat. 773), to en­ American people that the Mills trade bill courage through the National Park Service D.D., offered the following prayer: travel in the United States, and for other is a liberal trade bill which takes into Restore unto me the joy of Thy salva­ purposes; consideration the realities of present-day tion and uphold me with Thy tree H.R. 17272. An act for the relief of certain world trade. spirit.-Psalms 51: 12. employees of the Department of Defense; I commend the Finance Committee of and the other body for proceeding with this "We pray for this great land of ours H. Con. Res. 183. Concurrent resolution timely legislation which is in the interest Founded by men who put their trust to provide for the printing of 1,000 additional of fair trade. And I remind o-:rr people in Thee; copies of school prayer hearings. that this bill first provides for nego­ Help us again to find the mighty pow­ The message also announced that the tiations with Japan or any other coun­ ers Senate had passed with amendments in try. It will certainly not be too late after Of truth and faith and hope, to set which the concurrence of the House is passage of the Mills trade bill to nego­ us free. requested, a bill of the House of the fol­ tiate with our trading partners. Inspire our leaders, give us grace to lowing title: In spite of distortions, misleading find H.R. 12979. An act to amend title 5, United propaganda, and repeated announce­ The people who can steer the ship of States Code, to revise, clarify, and extend ments of negotiations, this legislation is state the provisions relating to court leave for making progress, and I predict it will be­ In troubled waters, men who are not employees of the United States and the Dis­ come law. blind trict of Columbia. Through pettiness, self-interest or hate. HON. WILLIAM DAWSON And may we pledge, as statesmen long The message also announced that the ago, Senate had passed a concurrent resolu­