February 9, 1971 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2279 H.R. 4038. A bill for the relief of Francisca By Mr. METCALFE: Mrs. Ka.tse C. Semeny.a; to the Committee on Ocampo; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 4055. A bill for the relief of Sjoufjan the Judiciary. H.R. 4039. A bill for the relief of Giuseppe Awal; wife, Sofie Awal; and son, Leksin Awal; By Mr. RHODES: Orlando; t o the Committ ee on the Judiciary. to the Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 4071. A bill for the relief of Sein Lin; H.R. 4040. A bill for the relief of Esperanza By Mr. MOLLOHAN: to the Committee on the Judiciary. Sindol; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 4056. A bill for the relief of Anna By Mr. ROONEY of PennsylVJania.: By Mr. DELANEY (by request): Veltri; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 4072. A bill for the relief of Emanuele H.R. 4041. A bill for the relief of Luigi By Mr. MOSS: Csta.nzariti; to the Committee on the Judi Gambino; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 4057. A bill for the relief a! Peter ciary. By Mr. HAYS : Heinrich Joehnssen; to the Committee on the H.R. 4073. A bill for the relief of Herbert H.R. 4042. A bill f'or the relief of· John A. Judiciary. Chan, Szeto Wing Ha Chan, and son, Frank Martinkosky; to the Committee on the H.R. 4058. A bill for the relief of Agripino Chan and twin daughters, Martha. and May Judiciary. Erano Tenchavez, Jr.; to the Committee on Chan; to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mrs. HECKLER of Massachusetts: the Judiciary. H.R. 4074. A bill for the relief of Dr. Kai H.R. 4043. A bill for the relief of Mrs. Ana By Mr. MURPHY a! New York: Loo Huang; to the Committee on the Ju Maria de Lima Sousa Raposo and her two H.R. 4059. A bill for the relief of Gianiale diciary. children, Paulo and Cil.rlos; to the Committee and Anna Russo; to the Committee on the H.R. 4075. A bill for the relief of Andonios on the Judiciary. Judiciary. Merkouris; to the Committee on the Judi By Mr. HORTON: By Mr. O'NEILL: ciary. H.R. 4044. A blli for the relief of Dr. Ming H.R. 4060. A bill for the relief of Harvard H.R. 4076. A bill for the relief of Marina. Derek Chan, his wife, Belle Chan, and their Specialty Manufacturing Corp.; to the Com Merkouris; to the Committee on the Judi two daughters, Evelyn and Jeannie; to the mittee on the Judiciary. ciary. Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. PEPPER: H.R. 4077. A bill for the relief of Serafina H.R. 4045. A bill. for the relief of Mario H.R. 4061. A bill for the relief of Julian G. Patti; to the Committee on the Judiciary. DiBattisto; to the Committee on the Judi Carr; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 4078. A bill for the relief of Dr. Angelo ciary. H.R. 4062. A bill for the relief of William Zosa; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 4046. A blli for the relief of Joseph H. Evans; to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. SMITH of California: P. Mahady; to the Committee on the Judi H.R. 4063. A bill for the relief of Edward H.R. 4079. A bill for the relief of David ciary. M. Fleming Construction Co., Inc., a corpora Anthony Burch, born as Shigenori Ishihara; H.R. 4047. A bill for the relief of Domenico tion in the process of liquidation represented to the Committee on the Judiciary. Stalter!; to the Committee on the Judiciary. by its surviving board of directors; to the By Mr. TALCOTI': H.R. 4048. A bill for the relief of Mr. and Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 4080. A bill for the relief of Mr. Due Mrs. Alfonso Vancherl; to the Committee H.R. 4064. A bill for the relief of William Mau Nguyen and his wife Hien Thi Ngo on the Judiciary. H. Nickerson; to the Committee on the Ju Nguyen; to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. KEITH: diciary. By Mr. BOB WILSON: H.R. 4049. A bill for the relief of Vitorino H.R. 4065. A bill for the relief of World H.R. 4081. A bill for the relief of Lauro da Costa Csbral; to the Committee on the Mart, Inc.; to the Committee on the Ju Eduardo Damerval; to the Committee on the Judiciary. diciary. Judiciary. H.R. 4050. A bUrl for the relief of Maria By Mr. PEYSER: H.R. 4082. A bill for the relief o! Arthur Manuela da Jesus Gambino; to the Com H.R. 4066. A bill for the relief of Mrs. W. Feldman; to the Committee on the Judi mittee on the Judiciary. Vita Oranza Praino and her children, Salv·a ciary. H.R. 4051. A bill for the relief of Argentina tore, Michele, and Marcello; to the Commit H.R. 4083. A bill for the relief of Thomas. Garcia; to the Committee on the Judiciary. tee on t he Judiciary. William Greene and J111 A. Greene; to the H.R. 4052. A bill for the relief of Qarlota Mr. PODELL: Committee on the Judiciary. Gujmares; to the Committee on the Judici H.R. 4067. A bill for the relief of calogero ary. Mendola; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 4053. A bill for the relief of Dr. H.R. 4068. A bill for the relief of Antonio PETITIONS, ETC. Raghuram Pothapu Reddy; to the Commit Monticciolo; to the Committee on the Judi tee on the Judiciary. ciary. Under clause 4 of rule XXII, By Mr. LENT: ByMr.REES: 23. The SPEAKER presented a petition of H.R. 4054. A bill for the relief of Josephine H.R. 4069. A bill for the relief of Philemon the Board of Commissioners, Tarpon Springs, Palazzolo and Michele Palazzolo; to the Com M. Hou; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Fla., relative to Federal-State revenue shar mittee on the Judiciary. H.R. 4070. A bill for the relief of Mr. and ing; to the Committee on Ways and Means.
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DOUBLING OF PAY SCALES FOR legislation to see that it was put into troop level requirements. Pay scales FIRST-TERM MILITARY PERSON e:trect. could be doubled for enlisted men and NEL RECOMMENDED The Gates Commission refuted every increased by 25 percent for officers- claim made against a largely volunteer without, as we have pointed out, putting service. They reported that it would cause a severe burden on the Federal budget. HON. WILLIAM S. BROOMFIELD only a small budget increase, most of the The .argument that a volunteer profes OF MICHIGAN costs being absorbed by increased effi sional Army would develop into a threat IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ciency and professionalism. Volunteers to our civilian institutions was likewise would serve longer terms, a higher frac refuted by the Gates study. Such a threat Monday, February 8, 1971 tion would reenlist, and they would have would come from the officer corPs rather Mr. BROOMFIELD. Mr. Speaker, when a higher average level of skill. The armed than the enlisted personnel, and officers the Gates Commission was established services would waste fewer man-hours in currently are, and always have been, to investigate the feasibility of creat training and being trained. Because man recruited voluntarily. Moreover, our tra ing a volunteer military force, it recom power is cheap to the military, it now dition of civilian control of the military mended, among other things, that pay tends to waste it, using enlisted men for has always been sufficiently strong to scales for first-term personnel be raised tasks badly suited to their abilities or for minimize any possibility of a military to double their present levels. The Com tasks that could be performed by civil takeover. mission found that pay for soldiers with ians or machines. Better pay to volun With these considerations in mind I over 2 years of service had risen by 111 teers, at the same time, would decrease believe we can move toward an all-vol percent since 1948, but by only 60 per the veteran's benefits we pay out annual unteer force. The first step must be the cent for those with less than 2 years. ly. These now cost $6 billion a year or reduction of the draft call to a zero level; Their report found that a volunteer one-third as much as current payroll then, with the weight of evidence on our force or, in other terms, a zero draft costs for the active Armed Forces. side, we may begin the long process of level could be achieved by correcting this The Gates Commission reported fur repealing the draft law. I am confident, unfair treatment of first-term service ther that a volunteer military could be Mr. Speaker, that my bill will give us men. I agree wholeheartedly with that achieved without impairing the Nation's evidence--conclusive evidence--that an appraisal, and I recently cosponsored ability to meet existing and anticipated all-volunteer Army can work. 2280 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 9, 1971 SCIENCE AND POLITICS Wells hated authority, but longed for clar ABORTION, FEDERAL JUDGES, AND ity, a.nd wondered how to get the latter CATHOLIC BISHOPS without the former, a.nd he fell back in the end on the hope that there was something HON. HALE BOGGS in the scientific process that might help OF LOUISIANA produce some unity of purpose and common HON. JOHN R. RARICK control of human affairs or at least avoid LOUISIANA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF disaster. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Tuesday, February 9, 1971 It is easy to argue about the cost of the space program, a.nd whether it took money Monday, February 8,1971 Mr. BOGGS. Mr. Speaker, in a few from more urgent human problexns here at minutes, God willing, the crew of Apollo home; but there are some a.s~ects of its sci Mr. RARICK. Mr. Speaker, socialized 14 will return safely to earth from the entific process which may be relevant to the abortion-murder of the unborn at tax third American lunar exploration. Much political process in America. payers' expense--was given a boost by has been written about the sense of won "Science is a. great many things," Jacob U.S. District Court Judge Joseph C. Wad der engendered by this, the most spec Bronowski wrote in a remarkable little book dy, who ruled this past week that the tacular achievement of human technol called "The Common Sense of Science,'' "but Washington Hospital Center in our Na in the end they all return to this: science is ogy. Little, however, has been written the acceptance of what works and the re tion's Capital must permit free therapeu which seriously attempts to understand jection of what does not. . . . tic abortion in the case of an unmarried the ultimate significance of this human "This is how society has lost touch with pregnant woman. adventure--little has been said about science: because it has hesitated to judge The judge further ruled that an abor what it offers a world torn by hatred, pov itself by the same impersonal code of what tion could be legally obtained without erty, and war. works and what does not.... We must consent of a parent or guardian by any No one can deny the paradox of the learn to act on that understanding in the 18-year-old or older resident of the Dis world as well as in the laboratory.... " precision and expertise of human science Again, this is slippery and even dangerous trict of Columbia. The decision ignored and technology and the imprecision and ground, for "what works" for an industry any premise as to what legal duty ex occasional stupidity of human affairs. We may not work for its community, a.nd "what isted for society to be made to pay for can place three men on the surface of works" for the Soviets in Czechoslovakia. or the operation if society was without the the moon, but are we equally adept at the United States in Cambodia and Laos may power to prevent the abortion. creating a job, or providing shelter, or not work for the decency and order of the This recent ruling was the most signif feeding a hungry child? Obviously, we world. icant step in dignifying abortion at will Yet there are some things in the space pro are not. gram and the scientifl.c process which would since District Judge Gerhard A. Gessell This was the thesis an excellent column obviously help the political process in Wash struck down Washington's antiabortion by the distinguished journalist, James ington. Science does concentrate on the fu law passed by Congress in 1901. Possibly Reston in the New York Times of Sun ture. It does take a. critical attitude toward murder of "unwanteds" has become styl day, F~bruary 9, 1971. I am inserting it its own assumptions and habits of thought. ish after 70 years. in the RECORD and calling it to the atten It does question abstractions and assume The judge apparently rationalized that tion of my colleagues, for I believe it well that wrong assumptions will produce wrong results. And it does insist that ignorant, in since the mother makes decisions affect worth their reading: competent or even half-trained men, no mat ing the baby after it has left the womb, SCIENCE AND POLITICS ter how amiable, are not good enough to go she may likewise make decisions affect (By James Reston) to the moon. ing the baby before it has left the womb, WASHINGTON) FebrUalj' 6.-Watching our This is what troubles Washington when including disposing of the unborn child. fellow countrymen on the moon from the it watches the lift-off from Cape Kennedy, According to this brand of logic, the capital of the United States, one question sees the struggle between power and control mother has the right to do anything to is unavoidable: How can the scientific mind in the rocket, listens to all the intricate her child after its birth, including mur produce such precision, and the political measurement exchanged between Houston dering it. mind produce such confusion-both centered and the men in space, hears on top of all this the catch in the throat about the beauty This is the strange double standard of on this same majestic city? of the universe, and then wonders about all those who feel society has no right to What explains the spectacular success of this being sent across the greatest gap or prevent death of an innocent unborn the scientific process and the staggering fail all, from the moon to earth, on television ures and frustrations of the political proc child, yet with tears in their eyes, clamor and in color into the circle of our families. against society having any right to de ess? The easy answer is that the scientists The question is almost trite but cannot be are dealing with measurable a.nd controllable evaded. Why, if Washington can organize mand capital punisment of even those factors and the politicians are not. The sci all this intricate information, reduce all this convicted of the savagery of first degree entists have the power of decision: to deter mathematical diversity to identity in a. single murder. mine their ends and means, and insist on rocket-big as a forty-story building-and In sharp contrast to the decisions of their best men; and the politicians do not. send it on bullseye target to the moon, why District Judges Gessell and Waddy is And it is just as well. For if we carried then can we not apply some of the principle the comparison too far, we could easily reach the statement on abortion by the Na of the scientific process to the political proc tional Conference of Catholic Bishops. the conclusion that the totalitarians were ess? right, and that the state should have the Even the politicians are troubled by the The Bishops strongly oppose the liberal authority to define the ends and the means question, and it has not escaped the Ad ization of abortion laws, basing their de and pick the most "efficient" men and dis ministration and the White House. Some fense of human life on the Command card the rest. And yet surely there is some thing very interesting is going on here now. ment of God in the Holy Bible: "Thou thing in between, something in the scien Even the men around the President, as is shalt not kill." tific process that might be applied to the clear in the latest State of the Union Mes The following excerpt from their state political process without imposing the au sage and in the budget, are beginning to ask thority of the fascist or Communist state. the scientist's question: "What works?" ment should be read, studied, and med At least, thoughtful men have yearned "This is the message of science," said Bro itated on by lawmakers, the President, for some middle ground between the pre nowski, "our ideas must be realistic, flexible, judges, and all other citizens who be cision of the men of action and the confu unbigoted. They must create their own au lieve in God: sion of the men of polltics for many years. As thority. If any ideas have a claim to be We remain convinced that human life is long ago as the First World War, H. G. Wells called creative, because they have liberated a priceless gift, and our pastoral duty was living in the two worlds of science fic that creative i.Inpulse, it is the ideas of prompts us to reamrm. that "God, the Lord tion and politics, and wondering about the science." of life, has conferred on men the surpassing difference between the two. Very slowly, very subtly, this idea is be ministry of safeguarding life, a. ministry "Are there no men," he asked, "to think ginning to spread from. the scientific world which must be fUlfilled in a manner which is as earnestly as one cli.Inbs a mountain, and to of Washington to the political world. The worthy of man. Therefore from the moment write with their uttermost pride? Are there explanation of the President's switch on of conception life must be guarded with the no men to face truth as those boys at Mons economic and social policy is that the old greatest care, while abortion and infanticide faced shrapnel, and to stick for the honor of arguments have "not worked," so he is ad are unspeakable crimes." (Pastoral Constlti the mind and for the truth and beauty as justing to the realities and moving into a tion on the Church in the Modern World, those lads stuck to their trenches?" different political orbit. No. 51) February 9, 1971 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2281 The bishops rely on the word of God; its rule that anyone under 21 needs the per her world crashed in and she was truly on the Federal judges, on myth and populist mission of a parent or guardian. her own and along with the death of her But Waddy cited a section of the D.C. Code aunt," when she dropped out of her senior fad. that says "a natural guardianship or an ap year in high school to work to support her My earlier statement on abortion pointive guardianship of the person of an self. which appeared in the American Legion infant ceases . . . in the case of a female Miss Boe "very much wants to finish high magazine of June 1970, follows: infant when she becomes 18 years of age or school . . . She knows she cannot probably Homicide is the taking of human life. Abor marries." do this with a child, but more important to tion is a homicide of an unborn child, justi Parents are legally defined as natural her ... is a firm resolve that she would fied in many jurisdictions because of over guardians. not want her child to be subject to being whelming public interest in preserving the The judge refused to appoint a guardian parceled out here and there as has been the life of the mother, preventing the birth for Barbara Boe, the fictitious name assumed case with the children of her family," the of what is termed in medical parlance a by the woman, and said she is "entitled to temporary guardian said. monster, or for some other reason regarded consent to herself." Mrs. Guhring also pointed out that D.C. as pressing enough to justify the taking of She "does not have and cannot have any law permits an 18-year-old woman to commit human life. In all civilized jurisdictions, the guardian of her person," Waddy wrote in a herself to a mental hospital, write her own law forbids murder or other criminal homi ruling that went well beyond what was will, vote, marry and choose her own employ cides. sought by her attorney, Charles Herz of the ment. A review of the social revolution indicates Covingt on and Burling law firm. "The determinations and decisions affect a well-publicized attack is being carried on Waddy's ruling also applies to married ing the baby when it has left the womb are against all abortion restrictions. Appealing women under 18. made by the baby's mother," she said, and arguments dealing with the so-called rights Because of the unusual legal procedure in law dictates that "she and she alone" may of women to bear or not to bear a particular volved-a probate case filed with the register make decisions "affecting the baby before it child can be dangerously misleading. Entire of wills rather than the clerk of the District has left the womb." ly apart from religious, moral or ethical sanc Court--Waddy's decision is final and not Dr. Jaye Grollman, who will perform Miss tions against such conduct, there exists a subject to appeal. Boe's abortion today, said it will be paid for real pitfall. Legal sources called it the most important by the city through Medicaid. Since she is al In this situation we are dealing with life step in revision of abortion law here since ready 16 to 18 weeks pregnant, he said today itself. The essence of abortion is the termina a November, 1969, ruling by District Judge is the deadline for the operation. tion of a life. If we accept the unrestricted Gerhard A. Gesell striking down Washing termination of a life at the will of another, ton's 1901 antiabortion statute. STATEMENT ON ABORTION we have opened a Pandora's box. That decision, still pending before the U.S. (National Conference of Catholic Bishops) Supreme Court, said that any "competent li When abortion of the unwanted is per Last year, we stated our strong opposition mitted, at the sole option of the unwilling censed practitioner of medicine" may per form an abortion for reasons satisfactory to to ongoing efforts to strike down laws pro mother, we must face squarely the question hibiting abortion. Our defense of human life of euthanasia or other "mercy" killings-the himself and his patient. efficient disposition of such other unwanted Last November, the D.C. City Council went ls rooted in the biblical prohibition, "thou shalt not kill." Regrettably, there has been as the aged, ill, infirm, insane or mentally on record in favor of liberalized abortion reg deficient-or even the unproductive. ulations for the city, but postponed a final a radical turn of events during this past It doesn't require much of an extension of vote pending the Supreme Court ruling. year, and a new effort has been directed to these principles to justify the drastic reduc The number of abortions here has re the total repeal of all such laws. At the same tion of the welfare rolls, the permanent solu mained relatively small, compared, for ex time, an effort has been mounted in the tion to growing problems of illegitimates--or ample, to New York City, primarily because courts to have such laws declared uncon even the efficient dispatch of troublesome of the rules of various hospitals, where most stitutional. dissenters and losing politicians. of the operations are performed. Therefore we speak again on this impor Those who urge the propriety of such ac An attorney for the Hospital Center, John tant issue of public policy, addressing our tion should never forget that under the pro Arness, insisted yesterday that its require selves to the Catholic community and to all gressive euthanasia laws of the Third Reich, ment of a guardian's consent will remain in our fellow citizens. For the question of abor many of the killings which appalled the effect. tion is a moral problem transcending any civilized world were entirely lawful under particular sectarian approach. Our oppo "Another girl" in the same situation as sition to abortion derives from our convic German law at that time. Miss Boe, he said, "would still have to go to Those who advocate abortion as a popula court, we will require it every time." tion that whatever is opposed to life is a vio tion control measure would better serve hu lation of man's inherent rights, a position But the register of wills, Peter J. McLaugh that has a strong basis in the history of manity by assisting in the restoration of the lin, who handles many such cases, took sharp tried and proven methods of reducing illegi American Law. The U.S. Bill of Rights guar exception with that view. antees the right of life to every American, timate conceptions. In the future, McLaughlin said, "we will My state of Louisiana has recognized that and the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of advise anyone who is 18 that she does not the Child, which our nation endorses, affirms the unborn child-the human being in the need permission even if she has living par womb-has rights protected by the Constitu that the child, because of his dependent ents." status, should be accorded a special protec tion and can even recover damages for pre GROUND RULES natal injuries. This recognition and protec tion under the law before as well as after tion of the person of the most helpless of Sources close to the case agreed that the birth. (U.N. General Assembly, November 20, Hospital Center as a private institution is 1959) humans is genuine progress in human rights. legally entitled to formulate its own ground The unrestricted killing Of such an inno In light of the attempts to remove all pro rules, but suggested that it will eventually hibition of abortion from our legal system, cent, tolerated by society, is a regression to yield to Waddy's view once it has been re barbarism. the life of the innocent unborn child is no iterated in other cases. longer given universal protection in the laws A newsclipping and the "Statement The judge made his ruling after a half of our land. Moreover, the absence of all Abortion" of the National Conference of hour closed hearing in his chambers yester legal restraint promotes the acceptance of Catholic Bishops follow my remarks. day morning. In order to protect Miss Boe's abortion as a convenient way for a woman identity and the nature of her testimony, he to terminate the life of her child and the ABORTION RULES EASED BY JUDGE ordered the transcript of the hearing sealed. responsibilities that she has as its mother. (By Sanford J. Ungar) It was clear from the public documents, The implications of this proposed change Any woman 18 or older who is a resident however, that Waddy relied heavily on the in legal philosophy are enormous. Once we of the District of Columbia may legally ob report of Elizabeth Guhring, whom he ap allow the taking of innocent human life in tain an abortion without the consent of a pointed as Miss Boe's temporary guardian the earliest stages of its development for the parent or guardian, a federal judge ruled Monday for the purposes of the court pro sake of convenience, how can we logically yesterday. ceeding only. protect human life at any other point, once In a decision that makes Washington's Mrs. Guhring, a lawyer, wrote that Miss that life becomes a burden? abortion laws among the most liberal in the Boe was "fully emancipated," having been The assertion is made that a woman has a country, U.S. District Court Judge Joseph abandoned by her parents at the age of five right not to be forced to bear a child against C. Waddy ordered the Washington Hospital months to the custody of a great-aunt and her will, but when a woman is already preg Center to permit a therapeutic abortion at uncle. nant, this right must be considered in light 8 a.m. today in the case of an unmarried The uncle died in 1963 and his wife last of the child's right to life, the woman's re pregnant woman who will be 19 next week. June. sponsibilities as its mother, and the rights The hospital, which opened the area's first "ON HER OWN" and responsibilities of the child's father. The out-patient abortion clinic last month, had "One takes the impression, in talking with life of the unborn child is a human life. The balked at performing the operation, invoking her,'' Mrs. Guhrlng wrote of Miss Boe, "that destruction of any human life is not a pri- CXVII--il4~Part 2 2282 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 9, 1971 vate matter, but the concern of every re by the automatic checks built into the chaplain of that organization; Samuel J. sponsible citizen. full employment budget. We remain convinced that human life 1s Rinella; George Matta, past commander a priceless gift, and our pastoral duty The budget proposed by President of Catholic War Veterans Post 1559; prompta us to reaffirm that "God, the Lord Nixon is ideally suited for the manage John R. Yeager, president of Allied Vet of life, has conferred on men the surpassing ment of a huge, industrialized economy. erans a.nd the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Michal A. ministry of safeguarding life, a ministry I am pleased that President Nixon has Dravecky, chaplain of the Catholic War which must be fulfilled in a manner which is made America the first major country to Veterans Auxiliary and pastor of Holy worthy of man. Therefore from the moment move in this direction. Trinity Roman Catholic Church, Mc of conception life must be guarded with the greatest care, while abortion and infanticide Keesport. are unspeakable crimes." (Pastoral Consti Mr. Speaker, I believe people such as tution on the Church in the Modem World, Mrs. Kascak, who sacrifice much of their No. 51) WOMAN OF THE YEAR private lives to help others, should be Once again, we declare our determination recognized and it is with pride that I to seek solutions to the problems that lead insert this tribute to her into the RECORD some women to consider abortion. We pledge HON. JOSEPH M. GAYDOS today. our efforts to do all that is possible to remove OF PENNSYLVANIA the social stigma that is visited on the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES woman who is pregnant out of wedlock, as well as on her child. We also pledge the fa Tuesday, February 9, 1971 SPECIALTY TUBULAR STEEL IMPORT PROBLEM cilities and the efforts of our Church agen Mr. GAYDOS. Mr. Speaker, it is with cies to provide counseling and understanding to the woman who faces a difficult preg great pleasure I call the attention of my nancy. At the same tlme, we are encouraged colleagues to a resident of my 20th Con HON. FRANK M. CLARK gressional District in Pennsylvania who by the scientific advance of recent decades OF PENNSYLVANIA that has already provided us with ways to recently was honored for "generous in support and maintain the life and health of volvement and personal dedication" to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the mother and the development of the child her community, McKeesport, Pa., and its Tuesday, February 9, 1971 in the womb. citizens. Finally, we are aware that the value of hu Mr. CLARK. Mr. Speaker, I would like man life is not exclusively a Catholic con Mrs. Anne Kascak of 902 Soles Street, to address Congress on the import prob cern. Many Americans agonize over the loss a mother of five children, was singled out lem and how it relates to the producers of life involved in modem warfare, the seri for personal recognition by the McKees and markets of specialty steel tubular ous ethical questions raised by recent scien port Allied Veterans Association as the products. tific and surgical advances, the implications "Woman of the Year." For years, she has The address follows: of pollution on our environment and the labored diligently on behalf of veterans, long-range effects of drug use. But safe particularly those who are hospitalized, SPECIALTY TuBULAR STEEL IMPORT PROBLEM guarding the life of all men requires safe and veterans organizations. She also has Of all the mill forms of steel, pipe and guarding the life of every individual, for our been extremely active in her church and tubing account for about 10 to 11% of total hold on life itself 1s only as strong as the shipments of steel. Steel specialty tubular weakest link in ow- system of law. community projects. products, in turn, account for about 15% Mr. Speaker, this gracious lady is a of the shipments of all steel pipe and tub charter member of the Ladies Auxiliary ing. Therefore, when we refer to steel special to Catholic War Veterans Post 1559, join ty tubular products we are referring to a ing the unit and its organization in 1952. product which makes up about 1 Y2 % of the FULL EMPLOYMENT BUDGET BASIS total shipments of all mill forms of steel. FOR REAL ECONOMIC GAINS IN Since then she has held every office in the In Specialty tubing, by definition, is either THE NEXT YEAR local chapter. addition, she has served seamless (made from a solid round bar of as president of the Allegheny County steel) or welded (formed from fiat rolled strip Chapter of Catholic War Veterans Aux and welded into tube form); it is produced HON. GILBERT GUDE iliary in 1958 and also has held office on in carbon, alloy and stainless steels to meet OF MARYLAND the State level. various special requirements for pressure of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mrs. Kascak has worked long and hard mechanical applications. A great number of applications require special metallurgical, Tuesday, February 9, 1971 on numerous charitable projects spon sored by the Catholic War Veterans. She physical and mechanical characteristics to Mr. GUDE. Mr. Speaker, the full em has spent many, many hours comforting meet the needs of the end use service condi ployment budget which President Nixon tions. These can involve combinations of such and cheering patients at Oakland, properties as high temperature strength, low has proposed for fiscal1972 should be the Leech Farm, Aspinwall and Deshon Vet temperature strength, corrosion resistance, basis for real economic gains in the next erans Hospitals. Presently the secretary abrasion resistance, hardness, toughness and year. As the President said in his budget of the local post chapter, Mrs. Kascak resistance to fatigue failure. On the whole, message: has remained active in hospital work it is an engineered product; the equipment The full employment budget idea is in the and volunteer programs. used to manufacture it is expensive and com nature of a self-fulfilling prophecy: By oper However, she has not confined her ded plex; the "know-how" is by no means simple; ating as if we were at full employment, we ication to veterans alone. She has worked and, the cost of engineering development is will help to bring about that full employ considerable. ment. equally hard to promote pride in people The question has been asked many times- of her own national origin. Because of what does specialty tubing do for the people By stimulating economic activity dur her efforts in this field a nationality in in the United States. The average individual ing slow periods and checking the econ surance program, "Jednota," has become has never seen it, has never bought it in its omy when it is overheating the full well known to citizens of Slovak descent mill form and, in all probability, if he were employment budget provides a built-in in the area. shown it and asked what it was, would say system of checks and balances. This sys Evidence of the esteem held by it was a piece of pipe. That is one of the clues to the import problems of the specialty tem eliminates the guesswork and wish veterans groups and the city of Mc tubing industry. The same difference exists ful thinking of past budgets. Keesport for Mrs. Kascak was clearly between a piece of butt weld water pipe and A further advantage of the full em demonstrated by the number of people a seamless stainless nuclear quality tube as ployment budget is that by holding out who attended the testimonial in her exists between a little Piper Cub airplane lays to match the revenue produced by honor. More than 200 guests were there, and the 747; the same difference exists be the tax system operating at full employ including many prominent figures in the tween an outboard motor boat and an air ment, there is an automatic ceiling on city, county, and State: craft carrier; the same difference exists be this is tween a stripped down small automobile and Government spending. Again, a John T. Walsh and Bernard Novak, one of these new giant box-car-like truck highly desirable feature in view of the members of the Pennsylvania Legisla trailer combinations. huge deficits that have been run up in ture; Leonard C. Staisey, chairman of Al To get back to the question, what does the past, most notably 1968, when the legheny County Board of Commission steel specialty tubing do for the people in Federal Government spent $25 billion ers; John G. Brosky, judge of common our country- more than it took in. This type of gross pleas court; Joseph Hreha, past presi First-just about all the electrical power overspending should be nearly eliminated dent of the Allied Veterans; David Ward, developed in the United States comes to us- February 9, 1971 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2283
courtesy of steel specialty tubing. In this 16% of domestic production, about double dieted that if something is not done to curb case it is boiler tubes and related types of that in 1968. the growing imports of the six key products tubes of carbon, alloy and stainless steel 6. The sixth member of the fa,mlly, cur mentioned earlier, and some others on the sometimes seamless, sometimes welded, de rently showing signs of injury, is seamless horizon, this nation of ours will be increas pending on pressures and temperatures in alloy steel bearing tubing. Domestic produc ingly dependent upon Japan, West Germany, volved. Steel specialty tubing is used in large tion is in the neighborhood of 225 to 250 United Kingdom, Sweden and a number of quantities in coal, oil and gas fired power thousand tons per year. In 1970 imports others. generation type boiler installations. Spe were 16.5 thousand tons, much higher than The subject of imports of steel specialty cialty steel tubing is also used in nuclea-r 1968 and more than 5~ times what they tubular products may be of little int erest to power generat ion type boilers. were in 1964. The market is further injured the average citizen of the United States. But The automobile we drive contains ball and by increasing imports o'f finished bearings none can deny that the average citizen is in roller type bearings, a transmission, and a as well as imports of automobiles and ma terested in the products and services sup number of other parts-made from steel spe chinery-the prime markets for bearings. plied to him by the markets for steel specialty cialty tubing. The same can be said about There are other members of the family of tubular products. Consider these markets trucks, farm machinery, locomotives, railroad steel specialty tubing becoming exposed to electrical power generation, oil, gasoline, the cars, airplanes and helicopters-military, imports. The problem we have today came to automotive industry, aircraft, chemicals, ma commercial, and the other types. full bloom since 1964. What will be the prob chine tools, food processing, farm machinery, Every gallon of oil, every gallon of gasoline, lem in five or siX more years-unless some construction machinery. every gallon or pound of the other hydrocar thing is done. We, who are part of this in It does not appear t o be logical that those bons--somewhere in their life were processed dustry, are genuinely concerned. in government would knowingly permit such through equipment such as furnaces, heat We are not only concerned because of the vital industries to become dependent upon exchangers, stills, and condensers employing quantities of the materials involved and the overseas supplies of a common vital compo steel specialty tubing. share of market currently enjoyed by im nent-steel specialty tubing. But, if some The same can be said about just about ported steel specialty tubing-but thing is not done to control the increasing every one of the myriad of chemical com We are concerned about loopholes and imports of that common vital compon ent- pounds used by industry, used by farmers questionable product definition in the Tari1l steel specialty tubing--dependence can be and used by homeowners. Schedule, the measuring tool for imports. come a fact. And, let's not overlook food processing If there is not an unquestionable measuring where the attributes of stainless steel in tube tool. how can a quota system work? form maintain product purity. We are concerned about the fact that These are but a few of the many uses of scheduled changes in duty actually lower WINDING DOWN THE WAR BY steel specialty tubular products. In relation the tariffs on the products currently in HEATING IT UP FAST to these uses: jured. And, to top it off-unless we are sadly 1. No other mill form of steel can do the mistaken the cost of entry (duties, taxes and job at all or, alternately, as economically as other charges) for these specific products HON. JOE L. EVINS steel specialty tubing. are lower-much lower-for the foreign pro 2. No other metal can do the job at all or, ducer bringing it into this country than we OF TENNESSEE alternately, as economically as steel specialty must pay to export the very same product IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tubing. into their countries. Tuesday, February 9, 1971 3. Domestic producers of steel specialty We are concerned about the fact that the tubing can adequately take care of the needs voluntary quotas, arranged for in late 1968, Mr. EVINS of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, of the domestic markets for the product. did not work with our product in 1969 and much comment and controversy has re 4. Domestic producers of steel specialty this same situation was more grievous in sulted from administration decisions to tubing have in the past, and will in the fu 1970, and there is no reason to say it won't intercede in Cambodia and mobilize sub ture, invest their money and their efforts to be worse in 1971. develop tubular products which wm take We are concerned because those who make stantial American and South Vietnamese care of the needs of the market. government decisions tend to believe that a forces near the border of Laos. What about the import problem? tube is a pipe is a tube. They do not appear In this connection the Nashville Ten There are four of the family of steel spe to recognize that steel specialty tubing is a nessean in a recent editorial questioned cialty tubular products which are hurt badly rather sophisticated product, requires highly the tactic of "Winding Down the War by now; a fifth is fast reaching the point of be specialized manufacturing equipment, and Heating It Up Fast." ing hurt, and a sixth showing signs of in specialized manufacturing know-how, and is Because of the interest of my col jury. an extremely critical product when related leagues and the American people in our 1. Seamless stainless and heat resisting tu to its use. bular products. Total current domestic pro There are a fair number of companies in involvement in Southeast Asia, I include duction is about 18 thousand tons per year; the United States who manufacture steel the editorial in the REcoRD: imports in 1970 were about 6,400 tons. This specialty tubing. Some manufacture seam WINDING DoWN THE WAR BY HEATING IT calculates out to over 35 percent of domestic less; some manufacture welded. Some manu UP FAST production. facture carbon steel tubing; and some manu In his conversations with television com 2. Seamless alloy pressure type tubular facture stainless and heat resisting. Some mentators not long ago, President Nixon said products. Total current domestic production manufacture pressure tubing; some manu the end of the American combat role in Viet is about 55,000 tons per year; imports in facture mechanical tubing. Some are inte nam was in sight; that the war was winding 1970 were about 12,000 tons. This is about grated-that is, make their own steel and down and that it is "beginning to end." 22 percent of domestic production and it process it to the finished tube; some pur Lately, the American public has h ad some has been increasing yearly. chase rounds and make seamless tubes; some object lessons in "winding down a war." One 3. Seamless carbon steel pressure tubing. purchase fiat rolled stock and make welded was a resumption of air strikes against North Total current domestic production is about tubes. Some purchase a semi-finished tube Vietnam in retaliation for having reconnais 100,000 tons per year. Believe it or not, until hollow and redraw it to smaller sizes. sance planes fired upon. But the ultimate the Tariff Schedule was revised beginning in Some are large units of diversified steei reason, Mr. Nixon indicated, was t o discour 1971 there was no way o'f measuring the im producing companies; some are rather small age any buildups by the North that would ports of the product. Based on market knowl companies. To put it into today's vernacular, threaten "our remaining forces in Vietnam." edge, however, imports for boiler tubing each domestic producer of steel specialty tub Now, the South Viet namese, with Ameri alone are estimated at 25 to 30 percent of ing does his own thing. Collectively, they are can support, have launched twin drives into domestic production and increasing yearly. geared to satisfy the needs of domestic mar Cambodia and toward Laos. Some 10,000 Sai 4. Welded carbon steel pressure tubing. kets. gon troops have made an incursion int o Cam Total domestic production is about 100,000 But these domestic markets simply are not bodia slmilar to those across the border last tons per year. Again, here is a product for large enough to take care of the productive May and June. Seven thousand or more were which imports could not be measured untll capacity of the domestic industry and in there already. 1971. Based on market knowledge, imports of creasing imports from the rest of the world. The aim of the drive, according to one boiler tubing alone are estimated at 30 to 40 The domestic markets are not insatiable. source, "is to be sure we haven't missed any percent of domestic production and increas The domestic markets for steel specialty tub thing that would endanger the withdrawal ing yearly. ing are relatively small. of U.S. troops." 5. The welded stainless steel tubular prod And, what happens when markets diminish, The strategy behind the thrust at Laos is to ucts member of the family is fast reaching or disappear? Is it not logical to say that the cut the Ho Chi Minh trail and convince the point of being hurt. Domestic produc companies which serve that market either North Vietnam that any future large scale tion 1n the size range %" through 4.500" in go out of business or tool up to manufacture offensive in Cambodia or in sout hern Sout h diameter in 1970, as measured by the Welded a product for which there is a market? Vietnam might be imperiled by having its St eel Tube Institute is about 28,000 tons. In This is what is happening now in the steel supply lines cut oft' from the rear. 1970 imports were about 4,600 tons or over specialty tubing industry. And it can be pre- American field commanders have long 2284 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 9, 1971 wanted to move into Laos and cut the Ho numbers of graduates in prominent po tion, we can bring about these long Chi Minh trail, but previously the arguments sitions across the country. It is the qual against it have prevailed. They are that this needed reforms of government. would only widen an already oversized battle ity of the contributions being made that area, undermine the useful facade of a neu is the real measure of the university. And tralist regime in Laos, and give North Viet the majority of these contributions are SPEECH OF EAGLE SCOUT CHARLES being made relatively quietly in the day nam the excuse it needs to seize Vientiane. P. ILLSLEY The two operations have already brought to-day lives of men and women in com threatening noises from Communist China munity after community across our Na and the pledge to support the Communist tion. forces "until final victory." One such contribution made by a grad HON. SHERMAN P. LLOYD In the two operations, South Vietnam ts OF UTAH uate of the law school in 1899, George V. tying up the use of three divisions, which 1s IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES a questionable expenditure of manpower Weimer, a man little known in the Wash when the Saigon government has enough ington area but widely respected as a Tuesday, February 9, 1971 problems for its troops at home. circuit court judge in Kalamazoo, Mich., Mr. LLOYD. Mr. Speaker, the Boy Although American air support backs both had the greatest influence on my decision operations, it 1s doubtful that Mr. Nixon Scouts of America is presenting its an to attend the George Washington Law nual report to President Nixon and to would risk the political storm at home by School. His years of service to the com sending U.S. ground forces into Laos. SO the Congress this week through 14 Boy action in Cambodia and Laos will have to be munity of Kalamazoo exemplified the Scouts and Explorers, 12 of whom are carried by the SOuth Vietnamese. highest standards of personal and pro regional winners of the Reader's Digest And the question this boils down to is fessional integrity and made an inesti BSA National Speaking Contest and two what happens 1f the Saigon troops do engage mable contribution to the quality of life of whom were selected for their activities in major action-and get bloodied to the and practice of law in that community. point of defeat? in conservation. Mr. Speaker, the quality of Judge At a kickoti breakfast this morning, The thrust of Vletnamlzation was to pre Weimer's life and of that of thousands pare the SOuth Vietnamese troops to defend presided over by our colleague the Hon their own country against the enemy. But like him, a quality to which the George orable JOHN Y. McCoLLISTER of Omaha, they are now being used to spearhead opera Washington University made important Nebr., who was himself a member of the tions in Cambodia and another aimed at contributions, is, I think, the real meas Mid-American Council Executive Board, Laos. ure of the greatness of this university, member of the National Council Execu If this is part of the process of winding and in the final analysis, pays far higher down the war, perhaps the next idea of the tive Board, and chairman of region 8 of tribute to this institution than any words the Boy Scouts of America, a most im planners will be to invade North Vietnam we may utter here today. after all the main sanctuaries and staging pressive presentation speech was made areas are there. by a young constituent of mine, Eagle Scout Charles P. Dlsley of Salt Lake City, PRESIDENT SETS A PATTERN OF who was one of the two 1971 national LEADERSHIP IN DOMESTIC AF youth representatives. He is the son of THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF FAIRS Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Dlsley of 3428 GEORGE WASHINGTON UNI- South 2610 West, Salt Lake City. He is a VERSITY student of Granger High School in Salt HON. ROBERT T. STAFFORD Lake City, one of the upper 2 percent of OF VERMONT his class and belongs to the National HON. GARRY BROWN IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Honor Society. His speech to the assembled Members OF MICHIGAN Tuesday, February 9, 1971 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of Congress and scouting executives was Mr. STAFFORD. Mr. Speaker, in his written only within the last few days, Tuesday, February 9, 1971 first two major addresses to this new but it represents the dedication of the Mr. BROWN of Michigan. Mr. Speak Congress-the state of the Union and Boy Scouts of America to a conservation er, as a graduate of the George Washing the budget message-the President has program designated as SOAR, denoting ton National Law Center, I am pleased to set a pattern of leadership in domestic the motto "Save Our American Re join my colleagues today in extending affairs that shows great promise for this sources." At the request of many of my recognition and congratulations to the country. colleagues who were impressed with the George Washington University on its A distinguishing quality of the Presi talk made by Charles under these au 150th anniversary. dent's initiatives is their boldness. He has spicious circumstances and because of Those who live in the Washington area clearly indicated that he does not intend my own interest and desire, I insert in are aware of the contributions that this to run a caretaker government; and he the RECORD for wide distribution and institution's alumni are making to the has cast away the cosmetic approaches readership the speech which Charles pre immediate community and to the Fed used too often in past administrations. sented: eral Government. I understand that The President's proposals are not rhet SPEECH BY EAGLE SCOUT CHARLES P. !LLSLEY most recent statistics indicate that some oric; they are far reaching, in fact, revo Members of Congress, Scouters, Scouts, and 20,000 graduates reside in the metropoli lutionary ideas that would change the Friends: In the Beginning GOd created the tan area. and that the university is entire structure of our Government. Heavens and the Earth and every living crea represented by more alumni throughout A second characteristic of the' Presi ture. He created man in his own image and made him steward of the earth. He looked at the Federal Government than any other dent's new initiatives is their merit. his handiwork and it was good. God rested university in the country. Whether it is revenue sharing, Govern on the seventh day. The school's impact, however, extends ment reorganization, welfare reform or After the seventh day man began to do a far beyond Washington. In my own State health care, the administration has taken little creating on his own. He progressed from of Michigan, for instance, the former a commonsense approach to reform. It the Stone Age into the Jet Age. Unbelievable Governor and the present Secretary of has taken a hard look at our domestic advances have been made in technology, Housing and Urban Development, George problems and put forth meaningful solu medicalscience. He produced the awe-inspir Romney, is a graduate of the George tions. They are not vague, blue sky ideas, ing mushroom cloud, transplanted human hearts and has left his footprint upon the Washington University, as is my col but solid programs which can be enacted lunar surface. And yet modern science 1s league and friend representing Michi now if the Congress only has the will. stl1ll so young that 80% of the scientists who gan's Sixth Congressional District, In considering the President's legisla ever lived are alive today. CHUCK CHAMBERLAIN. I know other States tion, the Congress must do so with utmost I think you will agree with me that these can also count among their leaders in seriousness of purpose. There are no are wonderful and exciting times. Yet these government, business, and the pro throwaways in the President's legislative changing times have brought many problems fessions, alumni of the George Washing program. The six great goals are each . . . Wildlife threatened with extinction. some species have already gone beyond the ton University. aimed at solving a critical problem in our point of no recall. OUr rivers and lakes are This school's contributions, to the Na society. If we approach them with the polluted and the oceans show signs of refuse tion, however, should not be measured same spirit of boldness, of willingness to in their waters. The very air we breathe bears solely in quantitative terms, that is, in innovate, as displayed by the administra- traces of our technological advances. Some February 9, 1971 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2285 anthropologists tell us that man is out on effort to continue focusing public atten doctor, knows that our real problem in a limb and is busy sawing off that limb. we tion on the plight of American prisoners health care is in the delivery of services. are facing an environmental crisis of a most in Southeast Asia. As I have noted on That is the problem the administration grievous nature! President Nixon has challenged the Boy previous occasions, this problem has be has chosen to confront and it should be Scouts of America to undertake a massive come for all of us in this body both a na the problem which the Congress ad program of conservation education and ac tional concern and a national frustra dresses when we discuss health care. tion activities in 1971. He challenged us to tion. To date, all attempts by Congress a keen awareness of importance of using our and the executive branch to alleviate natural resources wisely. He challenged us this totally unsatisfactory situation have knowing this awareness is vital to the young proven unsuccessful. As a result, we have people since they must manage these re THE AMERICAN FARMER'S INTER sources with prudence and imagination in felt rising indignation, not unmixed with ESTS WILL NOT BE JEOPA.RDIZED the years ahead. a sense of futility. My generation is the first to view our Nevertheless, Hanoi-despite its in earth from the moon. The Apollo moon flights transigence on this issue-is not totally have demonstrated with astounding clarity immune from the pressure of U.S. pub HON. KEITH G. SEBELIUS that this "Good Earth" is a closed circuit lic opinion. Although it has consistently OF KANSAS system. All the water, soU, air, and vegeta chosen to flout the Geneva Convention IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tion so vital to life are contained within this one circuit. There is absolutely no way to which it is a signatory, the regime has Tuesday, February 9, 1971 we can obtain more of these resources. recently attempted to convey the im pression-however misleading and inac Mr. SEBELIUS. Mr. Speaker, in the The youth members of the Boy Scouts of January 19 issue of the Southwestern America accept the challenge of President curate-that an "official' list of POW's Nixon and Congress. Project SOAR--Save Our has, in fact, been released. The claim was Miller, a most respected and well-read American Resources--is designed to meet transparently false, but the attempted publication throughout the world and a that challenge by preserving and recycling deception indicates that Hanoi is listen leading spokesman for the breadstuffs the elements necessary for life-a process ing. industry, there is an editorial I would which must occur if man is to live ln har Similarly, a recent upsurge in direct, like to commend to the attention of my mony with his environment. colleagues. Project SOAR has three ultimate objec spontaneous communication with the The editorial concerns a letter from the tives: North Vietnamese leadership apparently 1. The importance of all natural resources has had some effect. For instance, the White House written to my good friend is vital to young people personally, to the Herndon Co. of Madison, N.J., which and colleague, Senator Boa DoLE, of my future of their country, and to their way of sponsored a "write Hanoi" campaign home State of Kansas. The letter is sig life in a democracy. over a year ago, reports that since the nificant because it underlines this admin 2. Young people should develop an under campaign began, three times as much istration's policy regarding American standing of their interdependence with their trade, agriculture and this Nation's fu environment. mail has been received from U.S. pris 3. They must also understand their re oners. ture grain negotiations. In effect, it states sponsib111ties as citizens to contribute to This joint resolution is designed to sig the American farmer's interests will not the development of a better environment nal to the North Vietnamese that Amer be jeopardized by the European Common in which to live. ican concern over this issue is real and Market advocates of liberal trade. At the last National Jamboree in Faragut continuing-and that in the long run The letter also serves another purpose. Park, Idaho, I heard Chief Scout Executive It points out specifically how Senator Aldon Barber quote these lines: compliance with our legitimate demands will be in their best interest as well. DOLE is continuing to fight for the best "I am only one, But I am one I urge my colleagues to join in this interests of his State and the American I cannot do everything, But I can do some effort to make the signal both loud and farmer-not only as a U.S. Senator, but thing as the leader of the Republican Party And that which I can do, is that which I clear. must do as well. The letter follows: And by the Grace of God, I will" A LANDMARK L~R Indeed, "One man can make a difference A REALISTIC HEALTH CARE PLAN The recent letter from the White House and every man should try." to Senator Robert Dole of Kansas spelling Project SOAR wlll motivate the American out President Nixon's position in regard to public through the boy and the young man British grain import proposals is an official HON. JOHN J. RHODES utterance of major importance in the recent membership of the Boy Scouts of America. OF ARIZONA The possibility of some 6 million members history of American trade policy. That letter, telling a conservation story through word IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES written by William E. Timmons, a White House aide, at the suggestion of President and deed to parents and sponsors of scout Tuesday, February 9, 1971 ing alone, could influence a substantial seg Nixon, most significantly discloses that the ment of the American public. Mr. RHODES. Mr. Speaker, I was President has told Prime Minister Edward Astronaut Ed White made a thought-pro heartened to note that in his state of Heath of the United Kingdom that the U.S. voking statement. He was speaking about his the Union message, President Nixon in government is "unwilling to accede" to the thoughts as he walked in space: troduced a realistic health care plan. We British requests. "Our problems look mighty small from have recently been treated to a great What the British proposed and the Pres 180 miles up. The world looks cleaner ... ident rejected are two actions regarded as so much more beautiful. Maybe we can make variety of health plans, some of which are patently absurd. I would particularly a preamble to eventual U.K. membership in it that way ... the way God intended it to the European Community-an increase in be." note one such scheme which would re minimum import prices on grains next spring The young people are the world's best hope quire an appropriation approximately to be followed by adoption of a variable levy on earth. By what we choose to do, we shall equal to all the money the Government system beginning next July 1. The Pres nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope spends on domestic resources. ident has the power to reject the increase in of earth--or earth itself. Such flights of fancy are not in the minimum prices in view of the U.S. partic Project SOAR is our answer. best interests of this country, and it is ipation in a five-country agreement that reassuring to see that the administration originally allowed the U.K. to impose mint takes health care more seriously. mum levels on grains moving into the coun try from abroad. The aim of that original .HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 22, The President's health proposals are agreement was to lessen the cost to the CALLING FOR NATIONAL WEEK within our financial means and, more British government of deficiency payments OF CONCERN FOR PRISONERS OF important, the administration has put its made to farmers at levels that reflected the WAR/MISSING IN ACTION priorities for health care in the proper difference between actual market income order. While it may be politically ex and specific support levels. Since imports pedient to promise every citizen free govern the level o! the U.K. market, Brit Hon. PETER H. B. FRELINGHUYSEN medical care, the administration has re ish espousal of import minimums was at OF NEW JERSEY jected such rhetoric and chosen to bite least understood among supplying nations a.s a step to relieve a severe strain on the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the harder bullet. budget. It also is recognized that the pro Tuesday, February 9, 1971 Anyone who has had to wait for hours posal to raise the minimums in that original in a doctor's office or been turned a way agreement is simply a preliminary step to Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Mr. Speaker, from a hospital because of lack of beds ward increasing grain prices within the I am pleased to join in this bipartisan or travel 30 miles to reach the nearest U.K., not as a budgetary move, but as a prel- 2286 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 9, 1971 ude to embracing the Common Agricultural improving the quality of life. I am con published locally, which is in the Williams Policy of the European Community. fident that this new program will also Library. That the Heath government has not sought be a success and I again want to com A couple of final points: a) the Greeks to suppress knowledge of its ultimate goal mend Ted Johnson for the leadership who work in West Germany (but not in is indicated by the second request--that the large number in France) , seek the employ United States accept its wish to adopt a he has provided as international presi ment themselves. To only a limited extent variable levy system on grain imports begin dent of Kiwanis. are they recruited. Most are anxious to go rung with the 1971-72 crop year. As the Tim in order to build a nest egg for investment, mons letter notes, the U.S. ability to prevent marriage or whatever when they return to that from happening is not as great as in Greece; b) The Human Rights charges the case of the import price advance, since GREECE-A DIFFERENT OPINION which are now being resurrected at Stras the latter can only occur with the consent C1! bourg have become so obviously tangential the United States. "We do have very strong that one of the earlier prosecuting nations, rights under the General Agreement on Ta The Netherlands, will not associate itself riffs and Trade," the White House letter HON. JOHN G. SCHMITZ with the latest brief. notes. From the tone of the letter, it is obvi OF CALIFORNIA Far better than my words here is the ous that the President made clear that this IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES advice to anyone who feels strongly about country strongly opposes adoption by Brit Tuesday, February 9, 1971 the matter of the justice of the Colonels' ain of a variable levy system. No other course seizure of power and/or of their methods could be followed by the President unless Mr. SCHMITZ. Mr. Speaker, the fol (which admittedly are at times painfUlly it was his intention to forsake agriculture lowing letter appeared in the Williams obtuse) to come to Greece and investigate as one C1! the principal advocates of liberal Alumni Review, fa111970. I hope that all as much as he likes. No one will stop him. trade. In fact, the government welcomes open and The letter from Senator Dole that my colleagues will take the time to read this short letter written by Mr. Bayard honest inquiry from abroad. prompted the welcome White House reply BAYARD STOCKTON '&1. is in itself a highly significant commun1ca Stockton who has lived as a journalist Athens, Greece. tion, coming as it does from the man who in Greece since 1964. now serves as chairman of the Republican The letter follows: National Committee. The senator, represent ing Kansas in the House for many years DIFFERENT OPINION before his election to the Senate two years To the EDITOR: A TRffiUTE TO THE CARRIER ago, always has displayed a keen awareness I hate to take issue with fellow Williams PIGEON of the importance of trade to the economy of graduates (or erstwhile professors) , but the nation's most important wheat-produc Professor Simpson's sympathetic review of ing state. His standing in relation to t::.e James Beckett's Barbarism tn Greece in the HON. CHARLES J. CARNEY national scene is now substantially enlarged spring number of the Review, as well as and strengthened. For that reason, Senator the substance of the book itself deserve a OF OHIO Dole's recogn1tion that British negotiations few words. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Firstly, I am a journalist and have lived for entry into the European Commun1ty Tuesday, February 9, 1971 stand as about the last hope in achieving in Greece since 1964. Secondly, I have moderation in the Community's destructive written a book about the Greek revolution Mr. CARNEY. Mr. Speaker, I would agricultural policies is also important. which wm shortly appear in the U.S. like to introduce a bill today in support One of the most intriguing aspects of (Phoenix with a Bayonet, Georgetown Publi cations, scheduled to be on sale Oct. 15.) of issuance of a special postage stamp the White House letter is its confirmation as a tribute to the effective services per that the British government "made another All the f~!'eign correspondents in Athens proposal to which we have not formally and most of the Western foreign embassies formed by homing pigeons for the Armed reacted" during the recent visit of Secretary here have gone to considerable lengths to Forces of the United States during three of Agriculture Hardin to London. That hints determine whether the charges of systematic major wars: World War I, World War of some negotiating headway that should torture raised primarily by disgruntled II, and the Korean conflict. It is not be fac111tated by the ground rules Presi Greek exiles such as Andreas Papandreou much of an exaggeration to say that dent Nixon laid down so emphatically for are justified. None of us has been able to without the pigeons we would have had future grain negotiations. substantiate the charge. There have been isolated cases of torture, due to the zealous trouble making it through those wars. officiousness of individual policemen. These The pigeon has been used as a bat officers have been disciplined. Papadop tlefield courier for almost 2,000 years. oulos himself once unguardedly said he Extensively employed in World War I, KIWANIS OPERATION DRUG would hang any cop from a tree in Consti the pigeon was found capable of :flying ALERT tution Square whom he determined was 500 miles in one day, averaging 40 to 50 guilty of torture. miles per hour. With a tail wind he could The charges are part of a wider effort, HON. JAMES D. (MIKE) McKEVITT subtly directed and heavily financed, using average 70 miles per hour. Compared to OF COLORADO the facile exiles as well as well-meaning the courier dog's range of 4 miles at 10 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES liberals to discredit a regime which is miles per hour, the pigeon clearly proved demonstrably improving the lot of the his worth. Tuesday, February 9, 1971 Greek citizen. The chaos that existed before The U.S. Army, unlike Great Britain, Mr. McKEVITT. Mr. Speaker, I would was real. One simple instance is that I rarely continued maintenance of its pigeon lofts like to call the attention of the House received the Review because the postal system after World War I. With the outbreak of Representatives to the accomplish was so inefficient. of World War II, the Army Signal Corps As fur the documentary record. I can ments of Kiwanis Clubs around the Na only say that misinformation is a highly instituted emergency measures. The tion over the past 2 years in informing tricky but effective technique practiced by pigeon center was expanded and 40,000 our young people of the dangers of drugs. the Soviets and their allies. I was interviewed pigeons were raised and trained for serv Denver is a case in point. Two years ago by one of the Amnesty International inves ice. Hundreds more were ordered, and the Capital City Kiwanis Club launched tigators; he struck me as biased, woefully civilians were encouraged to contribute its "Kiwanis Operation Drug Alert." It misinf'ormed and naively conspiratorial. homing pigeons for military service. is a program that sent speakers, in Andreas Papandreou, appearing in front of During the Korean war once again the cluding ex-addicts, into the junior high the Council of Europe's Human Rights need for a speedy, yet mobile, means of Commission could not remember whether it and high schools of the city to inform was the toenails, the fingernails or maybe communications to serve small probing young people about the dangers of drugs. the teeth of a friend of his which had been patrols was recognized. Wire, although it The program has been tremendously suc "extracted." Witnesses were coached, has been reduced in weight and bulk cessful, although its real success probably suborned and threJJ.tened by the militant until a man can carry a mile's length of cannot be measured. "11berals." The hearings were in no way fair it on his back, was not the answer. Then, One of the leaders in the Kiwanis pro to the Greek government which, however, too, even a whispered conversation car gram has been Mr. Theodore "Ted" R. was in no position to make its case heard ried a long way on a cold, still night. effectively. The International Red Cross re When patrols go out the enemy gets pret Johnson of Denver. He is the interna port merely examined the conditions of tional president of Kiwanis. We are ex detention of the Island detainees, and f'ound ty close. Radio was not the answer in tremely proud of Ted Johnson in Den them by and large satisfactory. this situation, either. The answer to the ver; among other things he is the first Some of these thoughts, and some specu problem was clear once someone sug Denverite to serve as international presi lation about where the Revolution will go, gested it--pigeons. So the Signal Corps dent of Kiwanis. I am told that the next or even its slgn1flcance for other countries, came up with a loft of them. project of Kiwanis will be to focus on appears in a booklet called The New Approach The pigeon proved his worth against February 9, 1971 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2287 the Korean hawks. Those Korean hawks spect for the qualities of initiative, personal YOUR CONGRESSMAN REPORTS FROM were enormous-the size of an eagle. sacrifice, and readiness to seize opportunity, WASHINGTON .Twenty pigeons of a total of 116 received that made the individual American the won (By FRANK T. Bow, Member of Congress) for active duty in Korea were victims of der of the world. WASHINGTON.-In their unseemly haste to this enemy. Only one pigeon is known Well, Mr. Speaker, I believe this total abolish one of the major reforms of the leg to have been killed by friendly forces, $16 billion revenue sharing progr-am rec islative reorganization act, the "liberal" northern Democrats 1n the House of Repre this by a U.N. soldier who had a lan ommended to us by the administration sentatives resorted to one of the most un guage barrier problem. There were no is a beginning in the realization of this democratic parliamentary procedures ever reported desertions. goal. devised. The pigeon is not without his faults. There are those who say in this Cham Having proposed that the minority staffing He would rather lose valuable time by ber that we cannot trust our localities provisions of the new law be repealed as a following rivers and valleys than :fiy over and our States to responsibly spend mon first act of business of the new Congress, the a mountain. No one has been able to ey collected by Federal taxes. "liberals" went on to insist that the action convince our fine feathered friend that For 38 years power has been drained of the Democratic caucus be binding upon all members of that party. They proposed and the shortest distance between two points from the people and it has been trans the caucus adopted a "unit rule", under is a straight line. ferred to Washington, where it has i!l which all Members of the party are bound Nevertheless, I think all must agree, toxicated generations of politicians and and required to vote as directed if two Mr. Speaker, that the faithful carrier bureaucrats. I wonder if this is really thirds of the caucus supports an issue. pigeons who have served us so well have any better. This "unit rule" has been the tool of po earned not only a place in our history I have said many times that Govern litical bossism over the years, wherever a books, but a special tribute, in their hon ment can be operated most effectively ruthless majority seeks to stifie dissent. It strikes at the heart of the parliamentary sys or. It seems to me highly appropriate and most efficiently by the people who tem. The whole concept of free and open de that this tribute be the issuance of a know and understand the local needs. bate is destroyed by the unit rule. No Mem special postage stamp. These people back home want to be ber of the Democratic Party is free w speak heard. They want to have a greater say his own mind or vote the dictates of his own in the governmental decisions that affect conscience when the caucus invokes the their daily lives and their futures. I be unit rule. ON REVENUE SHARING lieve promises can, indeed, be trans I hope this cynical exercise of antidemo formed into performances at the local cratic power will be kept in mind when the same men who invoked its use this year HON. EDWIN B. FORSYTHE level. speak publicly about the necessity for re OF NEW JERSEY Mr. Speaker, I say we must untie the form and modernization of the legislative hands of our local officials and give them process. They have taken a step backward IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the means to cope with the critical prob into the era of the Tammany Hall bosses and Tuesday, February 9, 1971 lems with which they are beset. I am the one-party politics of the old South. It convinced this can be accomplished with is difficult to reconcile their public pro Mr. FORSYTHE. Mr. Speaker, Presi nouncements with their private power plays. dent Nixon's far-reaching revenue-shar the assurance that the job will be done. ing proposal is a program that I believe The Federal Government always will the Congress, in its wisdom, must enact. have the means to withhold money if it I am pleased to join many of my col is misdirected or misused by the States EDITORIAL REACTION TO THE leagues in sponsoring the President's $5 and localities. Recent surveys have revealed that a PRESIDENT'S STATE OF THE UN billion general revenue sharing legisla ION MESSAGE tion, which I believe is a vitally needed huge majority of Americans support the first step toward breathing new life into concept of revenue sharing. our State and local governments. Local officials and Governors across HON. SAMUEL L. DEVINE I realize that there are problems with our land have urged approval of the pro far-sighted programs of this nature, and gram. OF OHIO I am sure there are pitfalls which must A former distinguished member of this IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES body, William T. Cahill-now the fine Tuesday, February 9, 1971 be avoided. Governor of New Jersey-has urged Con But I believe the time has come for Mr. DEVINE. Mr. Speaker, editorial re the politicians of this country begin gress to enact this program. to The New Jersey Legisl·ature was the action to the President's state of the turning the power of government back first in the entire Nation to adopt a res Union message has been overwhelmingly to the people. And, I don't believe the olution calling for a constitutional con favorable. While most newspapers have people will be satisfied until this is done. vention to devise a revenue sharing plan. quite properly reserved the right for fur Americans today, as our President has Since then, many other States have ther comment pending the details of the said, are tired of an impersonal govern followed. administration's legislation, they have ment. They are demanding self-determi Meanwhile, the newly-elected chair been almost unanimous in pointing out nation and, my colleagues, this means man of the New Jersey Association of that the President did address himself that there must be a shift from Federal Chosen Freeholders, George Makin of directly to our tough domestic problems. rule to home rule, from faceless manipu Ocean County, has also urged approval As an illustration of this point, I insert lation to personal participation. of the program. in the RECORD six editorials which repre During the political campaign of 1968 sent a broad geographic spectrum: Richard Nixon remarked in Williams These are only examples of the bur burg, Va. that the American system had geoning support the proposal is receiv [From the BiTmingham News, Jan. 24, 1971] gathered so much momentum that we ing in my State, and my district. A NEW REVOLUTION I urge my colleagues in the House to The address Richard NiXon delivered to a could not detect the slow erosion of our join in support of this most important personal freedom, the gradual diminish joint session of Congress Friday night was measure. far from a run-of-the-mill State of the Union ing of human dignity. message. And, he added: In its organization, its emphasis and its Now, a generation later, we feel it. And eloquence, it was extraordinary. we miss what we lost. UNIT RULE Foregoing the customary broad-brush treatment of the situation in which the na He said: tion finds itself at a particular time, Mr. Americans have the feeling of being a cog HON. FRANK T. BOW Nixon chose to confine himself to six "great ln a huge machine; of being no longer in OF OHIO goals" which, 1f achieved, he said, could control of our own lives; of not having our launch a "new revolution" in this country IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES own Important say in the direction of our a peaceful revolution as exciting and signifi communities and our nation. Tuesday, February 9, 1971 cant as the revolution out of which came the United States of America. He said further: Mr. BOW. Mr. Speaker, under leave to There will be, obviously, considerable and Then we must find a way to make govern extend my remarks, I include my current heated debate of his siX recommendations. ment work for aU of us without dominating weekly report to the people of my district The debate will not necessarily follow strict any one of us. We have to establish new re- as follows: party lines, for some of what he proposes is 2288 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 9, 1971_ distinctly un-Republican~r at least un If the Democrats stall or subvert his "revo [From the Gary Post-Tribune, Jan. 23, 1971] traditional-Republican. lution," he can remind the voters just as Just about everyond has come around to easily that "this is the Congres which did HAS THE STATE ENOUGH UNION? the view that his proposed "full employment not ..." The 92nd probably will not be "recorded budget," mvolving a deficit up to the amount As we said, it was an extraordinary political a.s the greatest Congress in this nation's of federal revenues which would be gener document. history" as President Nixon says it has a ated if the nation were experiencing full em chance to become. Neither is it likely to join ployment of its labor force, is necessary and him in "a new American revolution . . . as [From the Christian Science Monitor, profound, a.s far reaching, as exciting" as the feasible. Jan. 25, 1971] And there's not likely to be much opposi one 200 years ago. That probably would be tion to his conservation and environmental REVOLUTIONARY PROGRAM asking too much of a Democratic Congress protection goal, although no doubt there will President Nixon was not exaggerating when working with a Republican President in a be opposition to specific proposals for achiev he spoke of his State of the Union program time, which, while continuingly critical, is ing it. The people simply demand that as revolutionary. And it is no exaggeration to not gripped by the sort of overriding crisis greater attention be given to this matter, and say that it will can for an almost revolution which tends to blot out partisan differences. congressmen know how to sense their con ary burst of activity on Congress's part if However, by working together through stituents' mood. the program's potential for good is to be compromise toward some of the generally The concern her£> is that the environment J;.ealized. The President has set forth meas popular, though in detail controversial, "six is such a politically attractive subject these ures which would shake the federal govern great goals" of the President's State of the days that they may stumble over themselves ment to its foundations and work great Union message, the two branches could get trying to outdo each other, and thus end up changes in the lives of tens of millions of much done that needs doing, much that doing little. Americans. Congress must respond construc most people want done. Less unanimity exists on the desirabillty tively. If the much that is progressive and The danger Is th81t for reasons sometimes of the family assistance plan-a guarantee of worthwhile in this program is passed, there partisan and sometimes Ideological or con a base income of $1600 a year. plus $860 in will be ample credit for all persons and troversial they won't make as much progress food stamps, for a family of four-which is parties. as they should. The hope must be that both at the heart of Mr. Nixon's reform program. It would be a serious mistake-practically sides see that there is more to be gained in There is widespread agreement that welfare and, we also believe, politically-for Congress the 1972 elections, as well as for the coun not to study President Nixon's bold and far try, in getting more done than did the 91s·t reform is urgently neederi; there is agreement Congress. with the President's avowed goal of aiding reaching program carefully and with con the needy and stopping aid to those who structive goodwill. For there is a great deal The President verbally at least recognized could help themselves but won't. The Presi in it which, whether in exactly this form or that potential in discussing welfare reform, dent's advisers believe that eventually the with adaptations, goes to meet a number of which he called the "most Important" part program proposed by him will encourage wel today's gravest problems. At the very least, of his first listed goal of "left over legisla fare recipients to get off the dole and begin this program seeks to make both the instru tion." He said "we may honestly disagree producing rather than consuming tax reve mentalities of government and federal pro on what to do but we can meet." They didn't nues. But they admit that's a fairly long grams more responsive to the needs of last time around. We still believe, though, range hope; the immediate effect would be to today's complex and troubled society. the President is on sound ground in advocat add millions more names to the welfare rolls. Welfare reform, seeking to combine a floor ing both an Income floor and the work in We'll have to wait further development of under poverty with work incentives, is des centive concepts. So do many congressmen. the President's proposals in the health field. perately needed to bring dignity and order Somewhere they should agree on details. His call for more money for medical educa out of a situation which grows more chaotic Everyone is for the "second great goal" of tion and cancer research was clear enough and unsatisfactory daily. "full prosperity in peacetime," and the and will have strong support; his ideas for Revenue-sharing with state and local gov President has shown courage in departing how to guarantee medical care for the poor ernment has become an absolute must if Republican orthodoxy to propose an ex are not yet as clear, and this issue will be these are to be restored to financial health pansionary "full employment budget" (one further clouded by efforts of some Democrats and to social and political effectiveness. with a built in deficit) as one way of achiev to expand the concept to cover all citizens, Furthermore, President Nixon is on sound ing it. If Congress balks at that It needs to not just the poor, with a blanket national ground when he recognizes that the federal find an alternative that works. But the econ health insurance program. government has become so immense and re omy needs more than oratory. mote as to be "musclebound." Sixteen billion The third goal of attacking environmen The most dramatic part of the President's dollars is a vast sum, but it is not too large tal problems is one everyone favors, but the speech, the part earning for him the right to for the vast job which needs to be done. big problem here could be Democratic lib label his proposals "revolutionary," was that We warmly welcome the President's de erals wanting to spend more than the section containing his recommendation for cision to confront the problem of federal President and forcing vetoes which could a massive reversal of the tides of power in the reform. Whether the amalgamation of the 12 hurt both sides. The public wm want more country. remaining cabinet posts into eight is the action than extremism. That same danger For several decades those tides have moved best approach must await further study. But may be involved in the fourth goal of "1m inexorably toward Washington, where they we applaud the idea of zeroing in on Eco proving the nation's health care'• with some have created a pool of centralized power. nomic Development, Human Resources, Democrats already pushing for a "health Mr. Nixon said, in effect, that too much power Natural Resources and Community Develop insurance" program so broad that Nixon has accumulated there, that it can't be exer ment because these sum up in broad but might balk. cised effectively to serve the needs of the peo succinct outline so much of today's challenge Revenue sharing with the states and cities ple, and that it is time to begin returning to make life better. may face its toughest fight from Democratic some power to the governments nearest the It is natural that increasing thought be conservatives led by powerful Ways and people--and with the power, the resources paid to better and more equitable health care Means Chairman Wilbur Mills. Still, the for carrying out their increased responsibili for all. But each individual must be allowed President's request to put $5 bllllon more ties and opportunities. to choose the method of healing which his into it without cutting other urban pro This, truly, is the sort of "revolution" in conscience dictates. Furthermore, care must grams should win It new liberal support. which all Americans-most pointedly includ be exercised that no profession, medical or There is courage in the proposed executive ing those who have been tempted by the otherwise, be given undue influence or power reorganization by cutting 12 Cabinet depart street orators to believe that violence is the in national life. ments to 8. It could bring sounder busi only means of changing "the system"-can Few physical changes could make life ness management. The question may be how enlist. pleasanter for more people than a great na sound it Is politically considering entrenched It won't be an easily won revolution, for tional park, open space and recreation pro interests of some in the bureaucracy and those who exercise the power now won't sur gram. It is desperately needed. some in Congress. render it easily. Nor will there be total agree An expansionary, deficit budget will be The "Union" as the President sees it is ment on strategy and tactics-revenue shar justified to the degree that it stimulates the In a "State" of opportunity for real progress, ing, for example, or drastic reorganization of economy, lowers joblessness, without encour- but it will require hard-headed common executive departments. aging or maintaining inflation. This can be sense and much political unselfishness to But he has raised a stirring banner and achieved, but it will require bold and firm achieve it. faced with a Congress dominated by the other guidance and control. party and recognizing the reality of the sys This program could work tremendous na [From the Times-Picayune, Jan. 25, 1971) tem by which the President proposes and tional changes, most of them in a needed NIXON MESSAGE WELL CoNCEIVED Congress disposes-he invited the lawmakers direction. We urge that, in this period of For his State of the Union message, Presi to assume the credit for enacting his pro social, economic and political crisis, this pro posals: "This can be known as the Congress dent Nixon has delivered a well-conceived gram be studied for what it can do for the document of unusual depth for what it can which ..." na.tion, not for what it can do for party or mean to the nation domestically. Needless to say, he is likely to remind vot politician. It will, of course, require refine Who can argue against need for: welfare ers next year of his own role in all this ments. But let these have the single aim of reform, stimulation of the economy, bettered and, likewise, of Congress's. increasing the program's potential for good. health care, more financial help for state and February 9, 1971 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2289 local government, overhaul of sprawling bu To the Republican leader of the House, mental impact statement with regard to reaucracy and improvement or restoration of the President "unveiled a visionary course the proposed trans-Alaska pipeline. our natural environment? for the nation." Mr. Nixon will be unfolding his blueprints To a member of the majority leadership, So that my colleagues may have an op for specifications on how he believes these the message was "Pa.blum." portunity to be familiar with the Free goals best accomplished. And it is at this How the 1971 State of the Union message Press' views on this matter, I insert the juncture his approaches will come under will finally be seen is, for the present, a text of the editorial in the CONGRESSIONAL close-even hypercritical-examination in question without an answer. The speech is RECORD: the 92nd Cc~gress and the country. either a milestone in the physical structur ONLY HALF THE PIPELINE FACTS The message was far from routine. It dealt ing and the phlilosophic developmeDJt of with what confronts individual Americans in American government, or it is a bag of tat In the case of the new oil pipeline pro putting bread on their tables, doctoring their tered dreams. The decision depends on two posed for Alaska, former Secretary of the ills, preventing deterioration in services pro actions that have not yet taken place. First, Interior Walter Hickel has the right idea. If vided them by their local governments, alle the presentation to Congress of specific pro environmental safeguards are established, viating the smothering load of impersonal posals, fill1ng in the details of Mr. Nixon's there's no evident reason why the pipeline ized government and protecting their nat six great goals. Second, the reaction of Con shouldn't be built. ural surroundings. gress to those specific proposals. But the performance of present Interior Questions do arise, but they are not to be The President has it in his power to trans officials has so far been less than encour argued before specific programs are forth form his bright vision into a shallow bid for aging. The draft report they issued Wednes coming from the White House. That is, they political advantage. He can guarantee the day in support of the project falls to include are not to be condemned unless there is par failure of his plan to reverse the steadily key details on pipeline design, and on the tisan resolve that a Republican president is increasing ilow of power to the center of location of segments elevated to avoid melt incapable of good proposals. government by using his pledge to return the ing the Alaskan permafrost. That some in Congress are willlng to power to the people as a declaration of war Thus the public hearings planned for Feb pass judgment on the six-goal objective pre on Congress. He can reduce his revenue ruary may fall well short of full and ener maturely before seeing its details is a fresh sharing program to an attack on the social getic examination. "If you don't know what nudge that the new Congress may be even progress of the New Deal, the Fair Deal, you're commenting on, how can you com less congenial to the President than the un the New Frontier, the Great Society. He can ment?" one environmentalist -complains. distinguished 91st. For the presidential elec taint his welfare reform plans with reaction And if Interior hears none but pablum criti tion is 21 months away. and repression. He can try to pin the label cism, how can it arrive at balanced conclu Comparison of Mr. Nixon's first and second on obstructionism on the 92nd Oongress. He sions on how best to complete the project? State of the Union messages mirrors chang can scrap his revolution for a campaign issue. Interior hasn't been very forthright even ing times. A year ago the emphasis fell on Congress is possessed of equal powers of about the purposes of the line. The draft re peace; curbing inflation with such measures destruction. As the presidential election port said the project would serve national as a balanced budget; crime control, and draws near, the Democratic leadership wlll security by reducing dependence on Middle anti-pollution. be tempted to view the Nixon proposals not Eastern oil. But in truth very little Middle Now withdrawal from South Vietnam is as an admlnistratlon program to be con Eastern oil comes to the United States, and well advanced; inflation curbs are slowing sidered on its merits, but as a political target any immediate security value in the Alaskan down the economy to the point that stimu to be shot on sight. line would be indirect at best. lation has priority, including an expansion But therr is reason to believe that both The line has a great deal more to do with ary budget; crime is subsiding here and the President and the Democratic leaders sust aining the economic health of a nation there, if not in New Orleans; anti-pollution recognize the fact that the critical needs that runs on on and oil-using machines. efforts have made first strides, however un of the country relegate the question of That is well enough. Societies must run and, steady. whether Mr. Nixon will be a one-term Pres as they do, an environmental price must be The 91st Congress did a pedestrian job in ident to a position of secondary importance. paid. The only alternative is to clean the dealing with many great national concerns, The President had no word of criticism for earth of humanity altogether. and in a variety of respects gave short shrift past congressional performance. He made, in But the price can be kept in bounds, and to presidential objectives set forth In the stead, an eloquent plea for future cooper society's incursions on nature planned with 1970 State of the Union message. ation. Senator Mansfield, the majority lead more diligence than Interior is displaying. For the country's sake, we hope there is er, called the President's message "excellent This pipeline project is a critical factor in a larger area of agreement In the months and hopeful," adding: "I want to see the the Alaskan environment, and the safeguards to come. specifics; it was painted with a very brood taken will set precedents for later attempts bru.sh." to use the earth without poisoning it. [From the New York Times, Jan. 24, 1971] Senator Mansfield is right on both counts. Full understanding and discussion would be better for all concerned. NIXON'S "REVOLUTION" He will have more to say on the program President Richard M. Nixon's State of the when the deta.lls are spelled out. So will we. Union message more than lived up to advance But the speech was extraordinary in elo b11ling that It would be a bold blockbuster quence and in scope. There were notable recharting the whole course of American gov omissions--crime, race and violence were WELFARE IN AMERICA ernment. scarcely mentioned. But something more im EXAMINED What Mr. Nixon has proposed Is nothing portant tha.::J. the missing legislative details less than a complete break with the philos was presented to Congress and to the Amer ophy of centralized power that has domi ican people. They saw a President unawed nated the nation for two generations. by new, broad programs, a President willing HON. LEE H. HAMILTON The President called his blueprint a "new to change governmental and economic con OF INDIANA American Revolution." Perhaps "restoration" cepts in the face of changing conditions, a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES would be more accurate, for it would revive President seemingly eager to meet the com the concept of coexisting federal and state plex challenges of leadership. If the promise Tuesday, February 9, 1971 centers of authority on which the wise of a change of presidential style contained Mr. HAMn.TON Mr. Speaker, Nick framers of the U.S. Constitution based our in the State of the Union message is trans lated into the reality of administration per Kotz of the Washington Post has written society. a comprehensive series of articles on wel President Nixon will rely on two tools In formance, th .... "long, dark night of the Amer fashioning this 180-degree turnaround from ican spirit" that Mr. Nixon spoke of may fare in America. He notes in closing that: the policies of the past 40 years. The first is indeed be ending. America may or may not make the called revenue-sharing, the pass-along of federal for re-allocations in the nation's wealth, re funds to states and communities with the sources, and energies, but observers of the fewest possible strings attached. The second welfare crisis believe fast, short-range action is a. drastic shake-up of the executive branch ONLY HALF THE PIPELINE FACTS is mandatory. to make its departments correspond to func tional requirements rather than serve paro I recommend these articles, from Feb chial Interests. ruary 7 to 9, 1971, editions of the Post, to HON. JOHN D. DINGELL my colleagues: OF MICmGAN THE MEssAGE THE WELFARE TIDE--A HUMAN CRISIS To President Nixon, the State of the Union IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (By Nick Kotz) message was a call to "a New American Revo Tuesday, February 9, 1971 Bertha Hernandez supported her !am1ly in lution," offering a chance "to close the gap the slums of Houston, Tex., for 18 years on Mr. between promise and performance 1n Amer Mr. DINGELL. Speaker, a recent the strength 0! her back and her ab111ty to ican government" and providing "the foun issue of the Detroit Free Press carried an turn out spotless laundry for the ladles in dation of a new greatness . . . in all the editorial commenting unfavorably on the the suburbs The tiny Mexican-American years to come." Department of the Interior's environ- woman raised three sons by working seven 2290 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 9, 1971 days a week, earning $30 to $45 when busi eral guarantee of the program for a four industry moved out of the central cities into ness was good. member family. the suburbs. She never went near a welfare office until In fact, payments to those now on AFDC At this point, unemployed men began de 1968, for a number of reasons: Under Texas would rise in only the seven Southern states serting their growing families in record num welfare regulations she made too much that now pay less than $1 ,600 annually, while bers and the scene was set for a welfare ex money. She knew thP state seldom helped 36 other states, including Texas, would con plosion. And then the political climate forced "her people." The presence of a husband tinue providing support at less than the offi open the welfare system, which had been further disqualified her for public welfare, cial federal poverty line and less than their tightly guarded until this point by an inge even though he drifted in and out of the own established standards of need. nious set of federal, state and local restric household and only occasionally contributed Since all the Hernandez children are of t!ve practices. a few dollars earned by moving furniture or school age the Family Assistance Plan would "The '50s were a period of calm in the digging ditches. And she was proud. require Mrs. Hernandez to accept either job cities, so there was no pressure to open the But in 1968, a national tide reached Bertha training or jobs offered her at a minimum rolls," says Prof. Cloward, "but the riot-torn Hernandez. wage of at least $1.20 an hour. If she found '60s were a different ~natter. The federal gov The tide was a phenomenon of the '60s. a job she could still keep part of her welfare ernment responded through its intervention The civil rights movement began to show check "as a work incentive," but not neces to try to deal with the turbulence in the that in many cases poverty was the result of sarily as much as present welfare regulations cities. The political response and the over discrimination and therefore not a personal would permit her to keep if she were work whelmingly important force was the anti sin. The war against poverty further dram ing now. poverty program-the Vistas, legal services, atized the problems. Federal court decisions $3,920 MAXIMUM cominunity action agencies--that's what challenged welfare agencies to justify why The Nixon plan also would provide, for spawned the welfare rights movement. they arbitrarily excluded poor families from the first time, federal income supplements to "The recent rise in the rolls is chiefly a payments. The easy entry, low-skilled jobs 12 mllllon persons in families of "the work political phenomenon, not an economic one. in the central cities began to shrink with ing poor," permitting up to $1,600 in federal The urban blacks couldn't gain housing, automation and the growth of suburbs. In aid to boost their total incomes to a maxi education or jobs, but they now had politi flation began to make it impossible to raiSe mum of $3,920. cal power, particularly with the National an urban family of four on $45 a week. Tele In the eyes of many angry taxpayers and Democratic administrations, and they did vision convinced the poor that the nation politicians, Mrs. Hernandez and people like gain welfare. Finally, the present recession really might care about them. her are lazy, cheaters, breeders of illegitimate came at a time when restrictive (welfare) For Mrs. Hernandez, personal circum children and riders in welfare Cadillacs. To practices had collapsed all over the coun stances helped make the decision; her age, sympathetic liberals, she is the product of try." a final breakdown of her 18-year marriage, a culture of poverty that has trapped 25 The "welfare crisis" today comes in large the accumulated wear and tear of scrubbing million Americans at the bottom of this most part because in the past most families tech and ironing seven days a week. affiuent society. nically eligible for welfare were, in fact, "I was too proud before," Mrs. Hernandez Mrs. Hernandez's life does not fit tradi arbitrarily excluded for a variety of reasons. says, "but the migraine headaches got just tional welfare myths, but her attitudes and In the past few years, court decisions and too bad." recent actions are indicative of the new new federal regulations have taken the posi She went to the Texas State Welfare De aspirations of the welfare poor. tion that if a family meets the standard that partment office that October and signed up Growing up in t h e generations-rooted pov its children are needy and there is no fraud, for $38.50 a week under the Aid for De erty of the Southwest's Mexican-Americans, it has to be granted welfare status if it pendent Children (AFDC) program. she never finished the sixth grade in school. wants it. Thus the four members of the Hernandez Of her $154 monthly welfare check, $30 goes For the first time, welfare clients had family became a statistic in what President for rent in overcrowded public housing and lawyers representing their cause, and restric Nixon has called a national scandal-the $37 for food stamps "that don't stretch a tive welfare department regulations and crisis in welfare. whole month." When the children need shoes, practices came tumbling down in a torrent of In Texas, AFDC rolls have doubled in the she bakes and sells pies; when Rudy wanted Supreme Court and lower federal court de two years since Mrs. Hernandez's family be to study the clarinet, she traded out $40 cisions. came recipients. Nationally, in the same two worth of laundry work for a used one. She The Supreme Court knocked out the so year period, AFDC rolls have gone from six stat es forcefully that "my middle-class con called "man in the house" rule, by which wel million to nine million recipients. Today, al cerns include group therapy, which she be fare departments summarily cut off AFDC most 10 percent of the nation's children are lieves is helping Philip with emotional diffi families when ever welfare investigators being supported by welfare. In 1968, AFDC culties." found a man living with or visiting an AFDC welfare payments cost taxpayers $2.5 billion. And she is no longer ashamed of welfare. mother. Today, the cost is $5.3 billJ.on annually, with Although she doesn't look the part, she is Next, the Supreme Court ruled uncon the federal gov&nment paying $2.9 billion even blossoming as a cominunity leader "to stitutional the one-year residency require and state and local government footing the help people get the right to a decent life." ment by which states and counties kept balance. Less than five feet tall, a dumpy little woman newly arrived migrants from benefits. Some state and local officials, unprepared with long brown hair, she appears older than The Supreme Court then invalidated the for the new tide or unwilling tn appropriate her 43 years. She wore an apron when timidly vague "unsuitable home" device by which funds to meet it, say the program is push attending her first welfare rights meeting. Southern states had purged thousands of ing them toward bankruptcy. Now she sits on three community boards, is welfare families from the rolls on grounds determined that other poor people get on that mothers were not caring properly for Similar ·volfare progra:ns operate for the their children and home. aged, the disabled and the blind, but the welfare, that benefits be raised, and that the AFDC program, with accompanying Medicaid poor be permitted full access to education Lower federal courts eliminated the "step benefits, accounts for most of the rising cost and all the benefits of an affiuent society. father responsibility rule," under which a and numbers. Bertha Hernandez, welfare statistic, sym stepfather was required to assume financial bolizes a new movement in this country responsibility for his wife's AFDC-supported IN MASS CONFUSION a movement regarded both by critics and ad children from an earlier marriage. "Our welfare funding is in mass confusion, vocates as a welfare revolution New HEW regulations, backed up by the our recipient rolls are growing by 10,000 Strangely enough knowledgeable critics of federal courts, required welfare departments monthly," Texas Gov. Preston Smith told the spiraling welfare rolls and advocates of to act on applications within 30 days, rather his state legislature last month. His answer: expanded government aid for the poor agree than the frequent indefinite delays. The new fund the state's share of Mrs. Hernandez's closely about most of the long-term and regulations prohibited cutting persons off AFDC check for only 10 more months, mean short-term causes of the welfare revolution. the rolls arbitrarily, without first giving while beseeching the federal government to Conservative welfare cominis.sioners such them an opportunity for a fair hearing. take over the entire program. as Burton Hackney of Texas and William Congress, in a little-noticed amendment to The present AFDC program has "degraded Sterret Of Indiana agree, for example, with the 1967 Social Security Act, required states the poor and defrauded the taxpayer," said much of the analysis given by Richard to update their cost-of-living standards, President Nixon. His solution: the proposed Cloward, a. professor at the Columbia Uni though not necessarily the actual benefits. Family Assistance Program, "the most com versity School of Social Work and resident Washington, D.C., for example, until last prehensive and far-reaching effort to reform phiiosopher for the national welfare rights year paid AFDC recipients on the basis of social welfare in nearly four decades." movement: 1953 housing costs and 1957 flood and clothing Mr. Nixon's plan, now before Congress, A 25-year migration of unskilled black, costs. would provide more federal funds to reduce brown and white poor from rural areas to The District and many states responded the state's share (22 per cent in Texas) of the cities created a vast pool of eligible poor by raising the standard, but then paying Mrs. Hernandez's $154 monthly welfare check, people who originally came to cities seeking only 75 per cent or it ln benefits. Neverthe on which she is supporting Rudy, 17, Ph111p, work and a better life. Most worked at menial less, the higher payment standard made far 13, and Robert, 10. But the President's pro jobs, survived off the charity of relatives or more families eligible for benefits. posal would ·not add a penny to her check, lived by their own wits, hustling in the swell Another provision of the same law for the since Mrs. Hernandez's payment already ex ing ghettoes. Their economic plight worsened first time provided a positive "work incen ceeds the $1,600 annual ($133 monthly) fed- as unskilled and seini-skilled grew fewer and tive," permitting fami11es to keep part of February 9, 1971 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2291 their earnings. Previously, all earned income in the walls, until the building was con her husband deserted her last year, Mrs. was deducted from weli'a.re payments. demned. The New York City welfare depart Schwab says she tried supporting her three Vista volunteers, Legal Service attorneys, ment moved her family to the Hamilton sons working at two jobs--a t-avern until 2 community action agency workers and the Hotel, until it also was condemned last a.m. and then in a radio parts factory starting emerging National Welfare Rights Organiza month as unfit for human habitation. She's at 7 a.m. "I ended up in the hospital with tion helped steer the poor through the still still on a welfare tour of the city's fieabag nervous exhaustion," she says, "and for the formidable bureaucratic welfare jungle. hotels and says of her recent homes: "I've next six months we lived on a $12 weekly Many of the poor learned for the first time never lived in hell but I can imagine what grocery order, until they finally accepted about their legal rights. it's like. Believe me, we don't want to raise me on welfare." Finally, the stigma that had kept many our kids in filthy slums. This is killing Of her $150 monthly welfare check, Mrs. eligible poor away from the welfare office them." Schwab says $58 goes as rent for an un began to lessen as the poor and their allles Leaving rural poverty and her husband in furnished apartment. "We make our own openly lobbied for welfare benefits as a right, Georgia, Sarah Glover came to New York in clothes or pick up used ones at a church," not "charity." And as welfare became more 1956 with a job as a sleep-in maid. Then she she s-aid. "I had to call the school to say I respectacle, many or the urban poor began supported her children by caring for in didn't have shoes for two boys. This Is not to view it as an acceptable alternative to valids. She always considered welfare a last right. Children should have new clothes." their traditional dead-end jobs as maids, resort, and that came when she had an evic Mrs. Schwab's bare living is now endan janitors and kitchen helpers--jobs that often tion notice in her hand and only bus fare in gered by a government and taxpayers revolt. paid less or only slightly more than rising her purse. "I went with my children to the For the politicians in Indi-ana., New York and welfare benefits ln northern industrial states. welfare department and told them, 'I'm mov Texas are now debating whether to cut the Welfare advocates and welfare critics, in ing in somewhere, lf I have to move in with welfare payments of Mrs. Schwab ln Rich accord as to those root causes, stop agreeing you.'" mond, Mrs. Glover in New York and Mrs. at this point. They differ markedly in assess A 30-week manpower training course in Hernandez in Houston. ing the implications of the welfare crisis for bookkeeping "gave me hope," says Mrs. American society. Glover. "Then the only job I was offered was From Columbia Prof. Cloward's viewpoint, $71 a week as a cashier clerk. I would have WELFARE: TAXPAYERS REBEL--DEPARTMENTS "the criS'is is really the reform-namely that lost my Social Security, and with five kids to TIGHTEN ELIGIBILITY RULES poor people are finally getting some money. support, I couldn't take it. So I went back on (By Nick Kotz) The normal state or the system is that the welfare." Edith Reese, 19, unmarried mather of a poor get nothing." Indeed, a New York AFDC mother receiv 2-year-old daughter, looked at the list of 47 National Welfare Rights Organization ing an average $278 welfare check is better jobs. It included, "zoo keeper-apply at In Director George Wiley adds: "H this is a off than she would be working at the typical dianapolis zoo" and "go-go dancer-call 291- crisis, there ought to be a bigger one. My $274 monthly salary level for which AFDC 1010." question is not why so many people are recipients can qualify. And with Medicaid She had walked 21 blocks to the county getting benefits, but why so few. In a benefits, she is far better off than many of welfare office to ask for welfare for her law-and-order society, these people have the city's working poor. daughter. The ca.se worker told her: been denied their legal rights." The willingness of women to regard welfare "Before I will even give you an applica Government officials, on the other hand, as an acceptable alternative to work appears tion form, you have to try all these jobs. define the "crisis" as a burden to the tax related directly to welfare benefit levels, You must get the lady's or man's name at payer and to government budgets and as a HEW studies show. In high-benefit states like each place, the time and date you went there, disruption to the economy. New York, only 8 per cent of AFDC women and what they told you. I want it in writing." "The crisis is basically fiscal," said HEW work, but in states like Mississippi, Georgia Edith Reese said, "How am I gaing to get Under Secretary John Veneman in an inter and Florida where payments are near the there? I don't even have bus fare." view. "State and looal government can't bare survival level, more than a third of The case worker replied, "You'll do it or handle it. And the whole (welfare] system recipients supplement their welfare checks else you'll never get an appllcation." is posing a challenge to the wage structure in with low-paid jobs. Miss Reese started with the less exotic the country. Seven and one-half million peo In New York City, the question of work is jobs--kitchen helper, janitor, counter lady ple are working for less than the minimum fast becoming academic, particularly for poor but at each place she received such com wage. It's a fundamental challenge to low men. New York welfare officials estimate the ments as, "There's no vacancy here. Tell the wage, marginal employment. It creates anal city has lost several hundred thousand un welfare office to stop sending people here." ternative, seriously undermindng these jobs." skilled and semi-skilled jobs in the last few Partway through the list of 47 jobs she Within the genernl public and the govern years. consulted the Indiana Welfare Rights Or ment, there has always been angry disagree "This has become a city of the very rich ganization, which threatened legal action if ment over the real characteristics of the wel and the very poor," explains William John the county did not give Miss Reese an appli f·are poor. Myth blends with fact ln efforts to son, who has just completed a welfare study cation form. She received the form and filled analyze family st ructure, divorce, desertion, for New York's Rand Institute. "The jobs it out. Several weeks passed without a deci illegitimacy, racial composition, work ethics, and the middle-income people are leaving for sion on the appllcation. The welfare rights welfare fraud, economic and geographic mo the suburbs, and what's left is the trapped group pressed again. The county said they'd bility, and living standards of AFDC recipi migrant, who can't find housing or trans put Mrs. Reese's child on the Aid to De ents. portation to follow the jobs. The jobless hus pendent Children program if she would drop Several facts are clear. Widening access band deserts and the family goes on welfare." any legal action. to welfare benefits did not occur simultane "Desertion, sure," says Beul-ah Sanders, "This is the new game," says Jlll Hatch, ously throughout the country. Numerous leader of the New York Welfare Rights Or organizer in Indianapolis for the National states stlll prevent the vast majority of po ganization. "Do you think a man is going to Welfare Rights Organization. "It's one of the tentially eligible poor from obtaining bene sit there and see his family starve?" new m aneuvers. The welfare departments are fits, and access to welfare in even the high Life may or may not be worse for the wel est-benefit states has not necessarily pro really digging in their heels.'' fare poor in Indiana, which, in contrast to "The new game" is part of the welfare duced economic security for the recipients. New York, pays the lowest welfare benefits New York City is the welfare capital of the crisis. of any Northern state ($150 a month for a Battles like the one between Marlon Coun nation with more than 800,000 women and family of four) and has the smallest propor children receiving the highest AFDC bene tion, of its poor receiving AFDC benefits--2 ty and Edith Reese are being duplicated daily fits (nearly $4,000 annually for a family of in welfare offices, governor's offices and state per cent. legislatures throughout the country. four). But a critical shortage of low-cost "The entire philosophy of welfarism is housing, an absence of jobs, and the highest alien and foreign to the people of Indiana," On one side are the poor. Empowered by cost of living nationally makes women swear explains St-ate Rep. Robert Bales, chairman court decisions, new federal regulations and about "welfare hell" in this supposed welfare of the House Health and Welfare Oommittee. welfare rights groups, they are increasing the paradise. "We run a very tight ship.'' size of Aid for Dependent Children (AFDC), The city's AFDC rolls have risen from the nation's major welfare program, at the 195,000 in 1960 to 809,000 today. The city's FIFTY -THREE PERCENT A YEAR rate of 200,000 a month. share of welfare costs has grown from $89 But the rolls are rising even in Indiana. On the other side are state and local gov mlllion 10 years ago to $500 million last year, The number of people receiving AFDC pay ernments, confronted with growing welfare including $182 million for AFDC alone. ments went up 53 per cent last year. lists, facing either drained treasuries or angry Judith Irby, an attractive 31-year-old And in contrast to New York, where vir taxpayers or both. In response, many states black moth& of six, would like to know, tually all AFDC recipients a.re black or Puerto are using a variety of stratagems to discour "Where has all that money gone?" She knows Rican, 55 per cent of the new welfare poor age and delay welfare applications or in it has not gone for public housing, for which are native, white Hoosiers who grew up in creased welfare benefits. she has been on the waiting list for 10 years, rural poverty and now are moving to the Some states and cities face bankruptcy, but or for adequate child day care facilities, the cities and towns. others have tax and welfare policy rahller absence of which forced her to quit work. Marilyn Schwab, for example, grew up on than pocketbook problems. Home for Mrs. Irby and her children was a farm and moved to Richmond, Ind., where Indiana., for example, ranks 11th in total a rat-infest;ed apartment with gaping holes her husband worked in a tire factory. After personal income but although 17 per cent 2292 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 9, 1971 of its population is poor it has a smaller per persons--rather than the state's generosity sixth in total personal wealth. But although centage of its residents receiving child wel in benefit payments. Seventeen states pay it spends only $80 milllon in state welfare fare benefits than any state in the country. higher benefits than California's average money on its 2.6 mlllion poor, the federal Its state taxes are relatively low-40th per monthly grant of $193, an amount that government pays almost 80 per cent of total capita among states-and it hopes to keep meets only 51 per cent of the state's self welfare costs for Texas, compared with 50 it that way. estabilshed standard of need. per cent for New York and California--each To keep taxes low, Gov. Edgar Whitcomb Rather than endlessly raising taxes to pay of which pays out more than $1 b1llion. recently vetoed a state welfare appropriation welfare costs, Reagan says he will "excise the "We know we've been restrictive," Texas that would have permitted the state to com cancer eating at our vitals." The OaJifornia Welfare Commissioner Burton Hackney said ply with a federal requirement that welfare governor, already facing a federal welfare in an interview. "Of necessity, we've had to payments be based on the 1969 coo1i of living. fund cutoff for refusing to provide the 1969 be restrictive and serve only the poorest of It would have cost the state $10 million. It cost of living increase, now plans to elimi the poor." would have raised support for a mother with nate the "tax break'' for working AFDC Texas has used a number of devices for three children to $47 a week from the current mothers, put thousands of them to work on keeping down its welfare payment. It is the $37.50, the lowest payment of any state out public projects, and revise eligib111ty stand only state with a constitionallimit on welfare side the Deep South. ards downward. spending-any substantial increase in indi "We ended the fiscal year with a healthy [One Reagan proposal applauded by lib vidual benefits or total recipients requires a $56 m11lion surplus," Gov. Whitcomb told the erals, 1s to simplify welfare payments for the referendum and an act of the legislature. state legislature last month. "I always feel elderly, disabled and blind, thereby elimi It required a court order last year to force proud to live in Indiana because things are nating the need for hundreds of welfare one-third of the state's counties to operate going so well." The observation was made workers.] a food assistance program for the poor. The at a governor's conference, where he noted, California's welfare burden is compounded state welfare department has a maximum "that the states that spend the most, tax the by the largest old-age assistance rolls in the of $50 allowance for rent, regardless of the most, also have the most civil disturbance, oountry. Its total of 317,000 elderly reclpi size of the poor famlly, 75 per cent of whom the highest welfare, and the most crime. I ente is 50 per cent higher than that of any live in cities. ask you to give thought to these matters, other state. When California's Medi-Cal costs In 1969 when welfare funds began to run and let us work together to make Indiana are added the state's taxpayers end up pay out the maximum payment for a family, re an even greater place to live . . ." ing more per capita for total welfare costs gardless of size, was cut from $135 a month Several days after Whitcomb's speech, the than those of any other state except New to $123. This meant that a family of ten leg:isla ture sustained his veto of higher AFDC York. had to live on $31 a week. After a federal grants. The governor and legislature knew New York was the first state to respond court invalidated this cut, voters raised state that the Department of Health, Education, generously to the welfare rights movements' welfare :funds from $60 to $80 million. Now and Welfare would cut off Indiana's federal d·emands for legal entitlements, and, ironi funds are exhausted again and Gov. Preston welfare funds on April 1, if the state has cally, the first to plug up liberal provisions Smith says he will not recommend another still refused to raise its AFDC payment in its welfare laws. increase in welfare spending. standards. If the governor and legislature do In its most successful campaign, the Na Despite pressures of higher taxes and less not have a change of heart, the state's dwin tional Welfare Rights Organization in 1966- wealth than Texas, many other states are dling AFDC funds will force a reduction in 1968 helped thousands of New York City attempting to meet the rising welfare costs Mrs. Reese's welfare check, rather than per AFDC mothers claim the "specla.l grants" for the poor. Thirteen states raised their wel mit the federally called-for increase. provided for clothing, furniture, kitchen ap fare payments last year. Many states are Indiana's actions do not represent an Iso pliances and other essential needs. At the either raising taxes or making excruciating, lated example of a growing government re height of this drive, in August 1968, welfare Solomon-like choices between competing hu bellion against the cost of welfare. Ten other mothers had won $100 million in special man needs. Oregon, for example took school states and the District of Columbia have not grants, an average of $104 per welfare family. funds to meet welfare crisis needs, and Ver raised their benefit standards to match pres Since these benefits had to be sought in in mont Gov. Deane Davis froze state spending ent living costs, or otherwise violate separate dividual bouts with the welfare office and on education to raise AFDC payments. "A provisions of the 1967 Social Security Act. most welfare recipients did not participate, high quality of education is part of the long Nine states last year reduced AFDC benefits. those participating actually received far more range solution," Davis said." "But the tragedy In an effort to save $11 million annually, than $104 in benefits. is, a long-term solution is of little help to the District refuses to provide a congres Reacting against this successful cam a child who is hungry, sick or cold this sionally-ordered "tax break" for 5,000 AFDC paign, the New York State Legislature elim winter." mothers who work full time at low-paid jobs. inated the special grants and slightly reduced The most devastating governmental blow to As an incentive for them to work, the law total AFDC benefits. the welfare rights movement may have been requires that eligible welfare recipients be Two to four years ago people were pulling signalled last month in a 6-3 U. S. Supreme permitted to keep one-third of their earned themselves together through the vehicle of Court decision, says Ronald Pollak, who suc income rather than have the entire amount special grants," says New York City Welfare cessfully argues federal court cases that subtracted from their welfare checks. The Department official Robert Jorgen. "When helped open up the welfare rolls. Justice District refuses el1gib111ty and the "work in that ended, hope ended. Now there's no Harry Blackmun, in his first written opinion. centive" to these women with full-time jobs. money for furniture or for winter school ruled that a welfare recipient must admit a The District's pennypinching may prove clothing for the kids." caseworker to her home. It is not the im counter-productive. A woman applying for Despite the legislature's best efforts wel mediate case that bothers Pollak so much as AFDC support last month was told her full fare costs continue to soar and New York the welfare philosophy now expressed by a time job, earning $74.50 a week cleaning of Mayor John V. Lindsay is attempting coun Supreme Court majority. fices at night, disqualified her family. The termeasures. Lindsay, the liberal mayor Commenting on the notorious midnight next day the woman with her five children twice elected with black votes, had voiced welfare raids which lower courts long ago was back, minus job, and onto welfare with approval several years ago when the per ruled unconstitutional. Blackmun pointedly a $313 monthly check. The District would centage of welfare applicants accepted on left open the possibllity that the constitu have saved money by letting her work and the rolls increased from 60 to 80 per cent. tionality of such searchers will "present an receive a greatly reduced welfare check. But Now, he is tightening welfare ellg1b111ty, has other case for another day." Blackmun com the often-stated goal "let's get them back rejected hiE welfare to force the state and pared welfare aid with "purely private char to work" is often lost sight of today by gov federal governments to take over the city's ity" and said the benefactor "expects to know ernments tearful of sheer numbers on wel share of welfare costs. At present, the de how his charitable funds are utilized." fare. partment's budget is too expensive, and his "The court has come very much in tune Nevada last month cut off 22 per cent of filed suit federaJ. government pays 50 per with the political climate," said Pollak. its AFDC recipients. In the view of Ronald cent, and the city and state spilt the bal "Judges are again seeing welfare as a gratu Pollak, a leading welfare rights attorney, Ne ance. ity, not an entitlement. A beggar must prove himself worthy. If we've now lost the support vada violated the court-ordered rights of all Lindsay challenges the compllcated for of the Supreme Court, it's very hard to figure 3,000 recipients by denying each family a mula by which welfare costs are shared by out of strategy." "fair hearing." Pollak says an investigation cities, states and the federal government. The next struggle over the welfare crisi:s now under way already indicates that hun New York City pays $500 mllllon a year as will be in the present Congress, as it debates dreds of those denied assistance were clearly its share of total welfare costs but there are President Nixon's Family Assistance Pro entitled to their welfare checks. laws in 25 states that permit their cities to gram, and alternatives offered by welfare ad Leading the welfare rebellion is California pay nothing. vocates and critics. Gov. Ronald Reagan, whose state has 1.5 In general, the richer the state, the smaller the portion it gets of federal money for m1llion AFDC recipients, the highest number WELFARE IN AMERICA: "CONSUMING OUTRAGE" in the nation. California's annual AFDC pay welfare. As the individual level of monthly ments now total $900 million, and the state payments go up, the federal share becomes (By Nick Kotz) pays one-half of this cost. California's soar smaller. Thus, the federal formula encourages The nation's welfare rolls have swollen by ing AFDC costs are more a product of an in states to pay low benefits. almost three million persons since August credible rise in recipients--now coming on The difference among states is most dra 1969, when Pr"6sident Nixon first proposed his the rolls at an annuaJ. rate of aJmost 400,000 matic in the case of Texas. Texas is rich, Family Assistance Plan. The annuaJ. costs February 9, 1971 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2293 have risen by $1.7 billion. And Congress is The most conservative governors, such as The proposed plan would establish, for once again debating how to cope with what Ronald Reagan in California. and Edga.r the first time, a federally paid fioor under the President ca.lls "a. monstrous consuming Whitcomb in Indiana., are considering an ADC payments of $1,600 for a family of outrage" for both the taxpayer and the wel other approach withdrawing their states four-raising payments for the one milllon fare poor. from the present federal-state program and recipients living in the seven Southern and The Nixon administration's answer is a operating much less costly welfare entirely Border states that now pay less. controversial new plan that would for the on state and local funds. Both strongly op For example, it would add $76 a month in first time offer federal income supplements pose the Nixon plan's guaranteed income for benefits for Mary W1111a.ms, who tries to sup to workers in low-paid jobs. Any family of the working poor. port three children in a. Mississippi shack on four with less than $3,920 annual income From the viewpoint of advocates for the a $57 ADC check. could gain benefits, ranging from a. few dol welfare poor, the President's plan provides But for the 8.5 million receiving ADC pay lars to $1,600. The hope of this plan is to far too little money and too much potential ments in the 43 states whose benefits are ease the financial plight of 11 million "work coercion. above the fioor, the Nixon plan does not offer ing poor" and keep them off the soaring "The Nixon plan is an attempt to stem increased benefits. welfare rolls. the tide of rising benefits," says George Pamela Johnson and her two young chil The Nixon plan also would attempt, by a Wiley, director of the National Welfare dren in Houston, Tex., would receive the "carrot and stick" approach, to lift some of Rights Organization. "This so-called welfare same $129 welfare check. Although the Nixon the 9.5 mill1on now on welfare back into the reform will be more punitive than the pres plan would require states to maintain bene workforce. ent system. The welfare department will be a. fits at the present level and would permit a Most of these poor are women receiving new employment agency for substandard in maximum of $3,720, it is unlikely any states benefits for their dependent children. dustry, agriculture, laundries, sweatshops." would raise their payments. Most states want The underlying thesis of the proposal is to Labor union leaders criticize the plan for to cut benefit costs, not raise them. pLace a. fioor under the income of every family subsidizing low-wage pay, and say it will As in the present system, Mrs. Johnson with children. Need rather than dependency undermine efforts to organize farm and and Mrs. Willla.ms could retain part of their would be the governing factor. domestic workers. earnings from a. job and still get welfare Every family would be guaranteed $500 for Wiley's National Welfare Rights Organi benefits although reduced. But under the each of the first two family members and zation favors a. $5,500 a. year guarantee an Family Assistance Plan, they would be denied $300 for each additional child. Thus, a fam nual income. Additional incentives to the $500 of their annual welfare payments if they ily of four would receive $1,600, if they had working poor would bring their incomes up refused job training or "suitable" employ no other income. to a maximum of $10,000. The plan would ment paying at least $1.20 an hour. The plan President Nixon calls his plan "the most cost $50 billion a. year and provide varying also would offer day care for children. comprehensive and far-reaching effort to re benefits to 100 million Americans. Despite The revised ADC plan is being touted to form social welfare in nearly four decades." its costliness NWRO's plan has a surpris state and local governments chiefly on the Initially hailed by many liberals because it ing number of supporters: the White House basis that it will reduce their share of pro embraced the concept of a guaranteed an Conference on Food and Nutrition endorsed gram costs. The federal government would nual income, it enraged many conservatives the plan at its December, 1969, meeting. pick up $356 mill1on of the $2.3 billion state who consider it the straw that will finally The Family Assistance Plan would affect and local governments will pay this fiscal destroy the American work ethic that a. man the lives of 25 million poor Americans in year in AFDC costs, plus $166 million for should rise strictly by the sweat of his own differing ways. adult welfare programs: old age assistance, brow. The plan really contains two different pro aid to the blind, aid to the disabled. The Nixon proposal passed the House last posals, one brand new and the other a. re But state officials throughout the country year, but was blocked in the Senate by an working of an existing welfare plan: are becoming increasingly doubttul as to unlikely coalition of conservatives appalled 1-A form of guaranteed annual income whether the Nixon plan might end up cost by the cost and the emerging philosophy of for "working poor" families with children. ing them more money. guaranteed annual income and liberals dis This would offer benefits to almost 11 mil All agree, for one thing, that the present satisfied with the benefit levels and the pro lion Americans in families who now cannot cost-sharing inequity among the states visions forcing recipients to work at low-paid receive welfare, in most cases, because there would be maintained. The federal govern jobs. is a. father in the house and he works. ment would take over the entire cost for But the debate has broadened into far Any family of four with less than $3,920 Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana., Mississippi, wider issues. At heart, critics of the welfare annual income would get some benefits. South Carolina., Tennessee and Missouri. Cost crisis and of the President's proposed solu From the maximum payment of $1,600 for savings to the biggest states would dtifer tion are questioning what kind of country a family with less than $720, payments would widely depending on their present efforts. America. is or should be. decllne as work income approached the State officials and others are appalled that Does a. work ethic origina.lly premised on $3,920 cutoff. Almost one half the potential the plan would very likely oontinue-and "useful work," still apply to an affluent so beneficiaries live in the South. probably even further complicate-the pres ciety that spins out both redundant luxuries Take a. drug store clerk trying to support ent tangled federal-state-local partnership and grinding poverty? Does the country a wife and two children in Washington, D.C., of welfare costs and administration. need a. fundamental re-allocation of its on a. $1.60 an hour salary, the federal mini Further, officials in most states now be wealth and resources to meet basic human mum wage. His $64 weekly paycheck would lieve that their share of soaring Medicaid needs? be supplemented by $5.70 weekly in federal costs will soon outstrip any possible bene The questions, endless, are being asked as "family assistance." His annual income fits in ADC cost-sharing. The administration Congress scrutinizes the Family Assistance would rise from $3,328 to $3,624. He would acknowledges this problem but says it will Plan and wonders how to stop the spiral in have to agree to accept job training or move reduce Medicaid costs by its forthcoming which thousands are forced out of employ to a. higher-paying job if a suitable one were Family Health Insurance Plan. The plan most ment--or leave voluntarily-for welfare. offered. likely will transfer some of these costs to Criticism of the Family Assistance Plan The program would be paid for entirely the welfare poor, who now get Medicaid ben grows as various state and local officials ex out of federal funds. The administration efits. amine how it would affect their tax rolls, as estimates the first year costs at $1.7 billion. State officials also are skeptical about how well as welfare rolls. Benefits would be the same, no matter which many welfare recipients can be put to work. "The Family Assistance Plan represents state a person lived in. In this and other re Of the 9.5 mill1on ADC recipients, less than only another attempt to add a patch to an spects, Family Assistance for the working 200,000 are able-bodied men. The expected already overburdened system of welfare poor would differ from the second part of workers are principally mothers, 80 per cent patches," says Texas Gov. Preston Smith. the plan. of whom have children under eight years old. Concerned mainly about the skyrocketing 2-A revision of the present Aid to De The administration hopes to put 40 per state costs, conservative Smith and other pendent Children program, in which federal, cent of available, they question whether the governors want to tum over the entire wel state and some local governments share ad plan's provision for 250,000 job training slots fare burden to the federal government. Lib ministration and costs. It would continue to will be any more successful than a present erals such as Rep. Donald Fraser (D-Minn.) assist fa.mmes in which one parent (usually program for job training, which is falling. also see full federal control as a. way to un the father) is absent or incapacitated. Most The child day care program is criticized as to tangle the welfare bureaucracy and bring of the present 9.5 million recipients are expensive if the only rationale for it 1s to justice to the poor. mothers and children. Most of the mothers put women into low-paid jobs and inade Recently the powerful House Ways and do not work. quate if the purpose is to help children. Means Committee has become intrigued with At present, benefit levels are set by the In addition, many state officials believe the idea. that a. federal welfare system might states and the federal government simply the best contribution of mothers should be provide the most direct and helpful kind of pays part of whatever level the states estab to care for children growing up in already revenue sharing with the states. The states' lish. Payments for a. family of four now vary broken homes. The poor also strongly oppose share of welfare program costs is about $5 from a. low of $720 a. year in Mississippi to a forcing a woman to work if she would rather billion a year, the same amount the Presi high of $4,164 in New Jersey. The Family care for her children. dent has proposed for new funds going into Assistance Plan would only slightly alter this "These are people with large fa.milles," says revenue sharing. disparity. Wilbur Williams, chairman of a welfare re- 2294 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 9, 1971 form committee in Houston. "The mother Veneman of this criticism." It's a fact of genocide on over 1,500 American pris should be home caring for them. This is not life that millions of jobs pay below the mini putting a family together. It's destroying mum wage." oners of war and their families. it." The over-all critcism by welfare reformers How long? The level of benefits provided the poor is that the Nixon administration's Family under the Family Assistance Plan is hotly Assistance Plan, doesn't try hard enough to disputed by both liberal and conservative really change the present facts and quality critics, but for very different reasons. of life for poor Americans. PROVIDING ADDITIONAL ASSIST In the judgment of the conservative Coun A survey for HEW recently showed that ANT U.S. ATTORNEYS FOR THE cil on Economic Development and of many 80 per cent of women receiving welfare would VffiGIN ISLANDS in the economic-political power structure o'f like to work, and 40 per cent are good pros the Deep South, the support level is too pects for employment. But these women have high. The CED believes that hundreds of increasingly soown in their job training thousands of service jobs such as waiters, choices that they not only want decent sal HON. WILLIAM M. McCULLOCH gas station attendants, and household help aries but work in human services rather than OF OlUO are now going begging partly because welfare drudge labor. They sign up eagerly to be IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES benefits already pose too attractive an alter come nurses aides, community action aides, native. Some Southerners fear, for example, day care center workers. Tuesday, February 9, 1971 that a black woman with three children no Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the former White Mr. McCULLOCH. Mr. Speaker, at the longer will work as a maid at $15-20 a week House counselor who helped design the Fam request of the Attorney General I have if her welfare check rises from $15 to $30.79 ily Assistance Plan, is impatient with criti a week. cism about the nature of work. As a pragma introduced a bill to amend the Revised Advocates for the welfare poor argue that tist, he says that the first need of poor peo Organic Act of the Virgin Islands. My the plan is designed to put a lid on higher ple is for more money. He thinks the plan able colleague on the Judiciary Commit benefits the poor have been winning in the establishes that right for the first time. tee, Mr. PoFF, is a cosponsor of this legis federal courts, in Congress and by their own "Do you have a meaningful job?" Moyni lation. This amendment would delete efforts. "Whenever the federal government han asked a critic. "How many Americans from section 27 of the act the phrase talks about reform," says Richard Cloward, a have meaningful jobs?" which prevents the appointment of more professor at the Columbia University School Leaders of the National Welfare Rights Or of Social Work, "it means reimplementation ganization quote author William Stringfel than one assistant U.S. attorney for the of restriction and o'f the system. The normal low on the point of jobs. Stringfellow con Virgin Islands. state of the system is that the poor don't get tends that the "work ethic" lost its legitimate In all U.S. judicial districts the United anything." original meaning when most Americans no States Code, 28 U.S.C. 542, authorized the The Nixon administration does want to put longer produCed tangible products of human Attorney General to appoint one or more a lid on benefits. The plan would permit 48 needs but "redundant luxuries in which the assistant U.S. attorneys in any district states to freeze benefits to ADC recipients at package rather than the product is mar when the public interest so requires. In as much as $2,100 below the federal poverty keted." Yet the affiuent American society st111 line of $3,720 for a family of four. Forty "enforces the work ethic with a literal ven this way the Attorney General may ad three states could continue paying less than geance against the poor." just the nwnber of assistants in light of their own "standards of need,'' a cost of liv Stringfellow, along with welfare rights ad changes in a district's case volume. The ing appraisal of the essentials of life: food, vocates Richard Cloward and Michael Har limitation contained in the Revised Or clothing and housing. rington, says the poor will be lifted out of ganic Act of the Virgin Islands prevents Another basic criticism of welfare advo their welfare poverty trap only by a massive such a discretionary adjustment in that cates is that the combination of continued reassignment of national priorities. Their district. low payments and the "must work" provision viewpoint, shared by many liberal members of will force the poor to continue performing Congress, is that the government should re The existing situation in the district of the lowest-skilled, dirtiest and worst-paid direct its resources into jobs that would help the Virgin Islands requires elimination of jobs. Debate over the work requirements improve the quality of American life. this limitation and extension of the At leads inevitably into the broader implications Sens. Jacob Javits (R.-N.Y.) and Gaylord torney General's discretion to this dis of welfare reform as they affect the essential Nelson (D-Wis.) introduced legislation last trict. quality of American life. week to spend $1 billion creating 200,000 At the present time the volwne of judi "Has welfare become an acceptable alter public service jobs. cial business within the Virgin Islands native to work?" questions Robert Patrecelll, America may or may not make the called exceeds that for U.S. judicial districts deputy under secretary of HEW. "We think for re-allocations in the nation's wealth, re that liberals won't face up to that possibil sources, and energies, but observers of the which presently employ two assistant ity." welfare crisis believe fast, short-range action U.S. attorneys. For example, for the first Indeed, the poor are openly expressing is mandatory. quarter of fiscal year 1971 which ended growing unwillingness to trade even a meager Dr. Henry Rossner, scholarly assistant di September 30, 1970, the case fiow for the welfare check for jobs at the bottom of rector of the New York City Welfare Depart Virgin Islands and for U.S. districts with American society. ment, has worked at that city's welfare prob two assistants compared as follows: "Who needs to be trained to wash dishes lems for 37 years. Last week, while two Amer or clean toilets" questions Dorothy Pittman icans were walking on the moon, Dr. Rossner Category Hughes, a black community leader in New observed: Virgin Islands: York City. "What happens when we ask for "Welfare is a holding action and I'm afraid Filings ------89 meaningful work, like a proposal to train we don't have any long-range programs. Pub Termina~ons ------118 black mechanics to run their own coopera lic assistance is the price we pay for social or Pending ------160 tive business? That competes with someone der. Over $1 billion a year is going into the Districts with 2 assistants: else and it's turned down." slum areas of this city. Do you think all those Filings ------51 Asked in an interview what work the people in Bedford-Stuyvesant and Harlem Terminations ------51 welfare poor would be expected to perform, would starve peacefully? Pending ------143 HEW Under Secretary John Veneman re Final statistics for the fiscal year 1970 plied: "Where they will work will depend on were as follows: the economy. With today's economy there would be problems. Logically, they would Category MAN'S INHUMANITY TO MAN-HOW Virgin Islands: work in services--hotel, fOod, beverage, jani LONG? tors, cleaning, domestics." Filings ------212 What if the poor would rather care for Terminations ------195 their children than do that kind of work? Pending ------194 "If a woman is adapted to that kind of HON. WILLIAM J. SCHERLE Districts with 2 assistants: work," replied Veneman, "Then I think she OF IOWA Filings ------170 should do it. If someone has been a maid IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Terminations ------156 for 10 years at $1 an hour then that's an Pending ------148 appropriate job." Tuesday, February 9, 1971 The workload capacity of the Virgin Is- The welfare poor also criticize the $1.20 Mr. SCHERLE. Mr. Speaker, a child lands district will be further increased when wage at which they would be required to their new judgeship, which was authorized accept jobs under the Family Assistance asks: "Where is daddy?" A mother asks: "How is my son?" A wife asks: "Is my in the recent omnibus judgeship legislation, Plan. It is 40 cents below the federal mini is filled. I call to my colleagues' attention mum wage law. husband alive or dead?" the fact that after approval of the addi "I don't think the Social Security Act is Communist North Vietnam is sadisti tional judgeships, the Ninety-first Congress the place to set the minimum wage," says cally practicing spiritual and mental approved a suppleme:p.tal appropriation, Pub- February 9, 1971 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2295 lie Law 91-665, which provides !or 122 new consumer products and publicize its find repair costs, providing, of course, you can assistant United States Attorney positions ings. find an appliance repair man in the first to serve their 61 judgeships created by the I would like to see a Consumer Ad place. They are extremely scarce today omnibus judgeship act. This number of a,t torneys is based on a ratio of two attorneys visory Council set up, comprised of and costly. for each judge, reflecting the general feeling knowledgeable and experienced private Loopholes in warranties and guaran that new judgeships increase work capacity citizens who would see to it the other tees must be closed, particularly if an in and hence require additional attorney as agencies mentioned function in a re dividual is threatened by the malfunc sistance in the affeoted U.S. Attorney offices. sponsible manner to the best interests of tion of the product. The Congress last If the limitation of one assistant United the consumer. year took unprecedented steps to protect States Attorney for the Virgin Islands is not The interests of the consumer, Mr. the American worker by adopting a Na eliminated, there will soon be only two at Speaker, must be protected. It is true torneys, the United States Attorney and his tional Occupational Safety and Health assistant, to handle the litigation of two most of the manufacturers and distribu Law. Can we do no less for the public judgeships. This volume would place an un tors of products and services in our Na which uses the product the worker pro desirable burden on the attorneys to the tion are honorable and upright in their duces? If manufacturers and suppliers of detriment of the representation of the United business dealings with the public. But, services are made to stand behind their States in that district. The Attorney General there are those who believe and thrive written promises, I believe we will see should have the authority to review the on P. T. Barnum's motto of a sucker be safe, durable and better quality products situation and to increase the complement ing born every minute. They seek to roll off assembly lines and suppliers of of assistant United States Attorneys in ac- gain----and do--at the expense of an un cord with the needs of the district. services will improve that service rather Accordingly, I recommend prompt con wary or trusting public. They are shrewd than risk severe penalties. sideration of my proposal to remove the operators, clever, intelligent, and, in Mr. Speaker, the "Buyer Beware" slo limitation and ves·t the needed discretion in many cases, perfectly legal. But, in truth, gan of yesterday is outmoded today. I the Attorney General. they are morally, if not legally, dishonest. think it is time the producer pays if his Their greed and lack of principle revolts product falls short of his promise. any legitimate businessman or manufac turer. CONSUMER PROTECTION Unfortunately, these days the con sumer finds it difficult, if not impossible, A SHOCKING NEGLECT to tell the good guys from the villains in HON. JOSEPH M. GAYDOS this commercial melodrama. Too often OF PENNSYLVANIA the knowledge comes too late. HON. JAMES R. MANN IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Because of present circumstances I be OF SOUTH CAROLINA lieve the need for consumer protection is IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Tuesday, February 9, 1971 greater than ever today. The steep rise Tuesday, February 9, 1971 Mr. GAYDOS. Mr. Speaker, once upon in the cost of living has wiped out any a time Americans enjoyed the reputation wage gains achieved by the average Mr. MANN. Mr. Speaker, many people of being good horsetraders when it came worker and now, with the continued in are dismayed by the gap between Presi to transacting business. Unfortunately, crease in unemployment, he is forced to dent Nixon's rhetoric and his actions. We this trait has all but disappeared t<>day. stretch his dollar as far as possible. Be can now add to the list of the dismayed More often than n<>t the individual buyer cause he is more susceptible to bargains, the leadership, and perhaps the member now is mesmerized and influenced by he is apt to get less than he bargains for. ship, of the American Nurses' Associa massive, sophisticated, cleverly worded It is estimated some $14 billion is lost tion. Scarcely more than 2 weeks ago advertising campaigns which disguise a by consumers in supermarkets each year. the American people heard Mr. Nixon pig in a poke as a top shelf pr<>duct. They are misled or confused by decep promise to "propose a major increase in Subsequently, the consumer is being tive packaging and labeling on products. and redirection of aid to medical schools, robbed as surely as if someone stuck a Billions more are spent on the purchase to greatly increase the number of doctors gun in his ribs. Through fraud, decep of ineffective, but widely advertised, and other health personnel." Surely the tion, manipulati<>n or neglect, he is bilked drugs and nonnutritious foods. Medical shortage of nurses is known by the Pres out of $30 of every $100 he spends. The and hospital expenses have boomed and ident, and surely he was referring to such total "take" from this type of robbery is families have been frightened into pur personnel as nurses when he referred to estimated at $200 billi<>n a year, and it is chasing expensive private health plans "other health personnel." And yet as high time this rising crime rate against which offer a pittance in return. Another P<>inted out by the news release of' the the American consumer is stopped. $8 to $10 billion annually is wasted by American Nurses' Association received Last week I placed in the hopper a consumers on repair work that was not by my office today there is a substantial bill I believe can stop it-if the proposed necessary, not properly performed or reduction in the amount of funds pro agencies to be established are permitted which should have been covered by war vided for nursing education in the Pres to function-and do function-in a re ranty or guarantee. ident's 1972 budget as compared to 1971. sponsible, efficient manner for the benefit The monetary statistics are staggering, Of particular distress to me is the mon of the buying public. Similar bills, I but there are others more shocking. strous cut of more than 40 percent in know, are being introduced by several There is the human factor to be con the student loan program. The student colleagues. I am confident the Committee sidered. Injury and death have resulted loan program represents, to my mind, on Government Operations, in its wis from products foisted on the public by one of the finest investments that gov dom, will study these bills and consoli unscrupulous manufacturers and busi ernment can make, particularly in areas date the best of each into a single piece nessmen. Twenty million people each of critical occupational need. Such a pro of legislation which will guarantee the year are injured because of using unsafe gram results in a minimal ultimate cost American consumer a fair value for a products-110,000 of them are perma to the taxpayer. Surely this is the time purchasing dollar. nently disabled, 30,000 are killed. to provide a "majm· increase" in these I would like to see an Office of Con In view of these statistics, it has be funds, which some people understand sumer Affairs created and emp{)wered come imperative quality controls be ably thought the President meant, in with the authority to coordinate pro placed on products and appliances. war stead of a major decrease, which is grams and activities of all Federal agen ranties and guarantees must be made to what the President did. Perhaps the key cies and advise and recommend to the have meaning. The housewife is entitled word i.Il his speech was "redirection." We Congress and the President on the devel to the assurance she can get reasonable are waiting, Mr. President, hoping that opment and improvement of consumer repairs made on appliances and not be it will not be too little and too late. The programs. forced to continually purchase new re news release of the ANA follows: I would like to see a Consumer Protec placements. Many homes today have two ANA DEPLORES NIXON'S NEGLECT OF NATION'S tion Agency established which would or three toasters gathering dust in the NURSING NEEDS IN PROPOSED 1972 BUDGET represent the consumer in legal proceed cellar because it is cheaper to buy a new NEW YORK, N.Y., February 1.-"Dismay and ings, encourage research and testing of replacement rather than pay exorbitant extreme disappointment" were expressed by 2296 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 9, 1971 the American Nurses' Associa.tion to Presi American people for health ca.re. No existing SICKLE CELL ANEMIA dent Nixon at the inadequate level of fund or proposed health care system will work In early November of 1970, Robert Patri ing for nursing education proposed in his Without adequate numbers of qualified celli, deputy undersecretary of Health, Edu budget for fiscal year 1972. nurses. We urge the release of total amount cation and Welfare, told his father, Leonard In a telegram on behalf o'f the ANA Board authorized by the Congress for the current Patricelli, about sickle cell anemia. of Directors, President Hildegard E. Peplau, fiscal year. Robert Patricelli called the neglect o! R.N., Ed.D., deplored the fact that while Hn.DEGARD E. PEPLAU, R.N., Ed. D., sickle cell anemia. a. na. tiona! disgrace and "other schools preparing health professionals President, American Nurses• Association. suggested that his !ather might consider do are provided for in the proposed budget . • . ing an editorial on WTIC Radio and Tele nursing schools have not received any type of vision on the disease that has been termed basic support to meet costs of education." "America's most neglected health problem." Dr. Peplau reminded President Nixon The memorandum h~ led to an extensive that "basic support was authorized by the PRIORITY STATUS NEEDED FOR campaign on the Hartford, Connecticut sta Congress in 1968." She further pointed out SICKLE CELL ANEMIA tions to make the public aware of what has that "the fiscal distress of schools of nursing been "the forgotten disease," and inherited is as urgent as that of other professional blood disease that afflicts mainly blacks and schools." takes the lives of half of its victims before The American Nurses' Association has long HON. ELLA T. GRASSO they reach the age of 20. One in 400 black taken the position that several registered OF CONNECTICUT children are born with sickle cell anemia. nurses are needed as back up for every single IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The disease can only be transmitted to a physician if adequate standards of health child when both parents have what is known care are to be achieved in the United States. Tuesday, February 9, 1971 as the sickle trait--a relatively benign con It is Widely known that units of recently Mrs. GRASSO. Mr. Speaker, I would dition that can be identified through a constructed hospital facilities remain un simple, inexpensive blood test. used due to the lack of qualified nursing like to call attention to an inherited blood After calling public attention to the eXist personnel to staff them. disease, known as sickle cell anemia, ence of the disease in his first editorial, Mr. And yet, while in the proposed budget for which has by neglect become a national Patricelli devoted a second editorial to ex 1972 funds for educating other health pro disgrace. This inexcusable ignored dis plaining how the disease's spread could be fessionals has increased by $90 million over ease claims the lives of half of its victims prevented through testing and counseling 1971, there is a $6.6 million decline in the before they are 20. It debilitates its sur those with the sickle trait. The stations advo proposed budget figures for nursing. vivors and makes their lives a living cated statewide testing and a bill calling for In the crucial student loan program, there agony. such testing of school children will be intro is a. cut of $7.5 milllon from the slightly over duced during the current session of the Con $17 million appropriated in 1971. The Pres Over the past year, funds in excess of necticut General Assembly. The Hartford ident proposes, moreover, not to release, un $1 million have been spent by the Na Board of Education, reacting to the WTIC til 1972, $1.5 million of a. total sum of $9.5 tional Institute of Health for research editorials, has already arranged to test all million authorized by Congress for nursing of sickle cell anemia. The National In children in the Hartford school in Grades 7 school construction in 1971. The American stitute of Arthritis and Metabolic Dis through 12 1n March. Hartford has thus be Nurses' Association strongly urged the Pres eases has granted over $600,000 for the come the first city in the nation to conduct ident to release the "total amount authorized citywide tests of school children for sickle by the Congress for the current fiscal year." study of the disease. President Nixon has said that both research and treatment cell anemia. For such vital programs as special project In addition, WTIC-TV has presented two grants for improvement of nurse training, programs will be expanded. The admin prime time television programs on sickle and student scholarships, the sums recom istration's health budget includes $5 mil cell anemia. and a. third is contemplated. The mended in the proposed budget, despite the lion for research of sickle cell anemia. A first, December 4th, designed to introduce the vastly increased need for nursing in the na task force has been set up to investigate southern New England audience to the dis tion, remain unchanged. various ways of informing possible car ease, was a. discussion featuring two of the ANA informed the President that "assist riers about sickle cell anemia, and to nation's leading authorities on sickle cell ance to schools and students is crucial if study methods of detection and preven anemia., Dr. Louis Sullivan of Boston and Dr. su.ffl.cient numbers of qualified nurses are to Robert Scott of Richmond. be prepared to meet the needs of the Amer tion. Programs have been planned The second, January 15th, was filmed at ican people for health care." already at the NIH and the National Howard University in Washington where Dr. "No existing or proposed health care sys Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Roland Scott of Freedmen's Hospital has tem will work without adequate numbers of Diseases. worked in sickle cell anemia. research for qualified nurses," ANA's message to the There is no greater tragedy than that twenty years--With little support from either White House concluded. of a youngster who from birth is unable public or private sources. In the second pro At a time when it is clearly acknowledged to fulfill the bright promise of his life. gram, Dr. Roland Scott (no relation to Dr. by everyone from the President of the United Robert Scott) told of his dream of a. Center States down that the health of the country It is my fervent hope that sutncient ap for the Study of Sickle Cell Anemia a.t is in jeopardy, the American Nurses' Associa propriations will be made available at Howard. tion is deeply concerned that the critical need long last for continued work toward the A committee, headed by Dr. Arthur Banks, for quality nursing care in America. today is prevention and cure of this disease. Also, president of the Greater Hartford Commu not reflected in the President's proposed efforts should be made at all levels of nity College and composed of members of the budget for 1972. government to inform the public of the WTIC staff and leaders of Hartford's black nature and impact of sickle cell anemia. community, has been formed to find ways the AMERICAN NURSES' ASSOCIATION, In this area of public information, I stations can call additional attention to the New York, N.Y., January30, 1971. disease and support efforts to treat and hope am very pleased to say that a Connecti fully cure it. The committee is currently The PRESIDENT, cut television station has taken a forth The White House, working on plans for a fund drive, public Washington, D.C. right lead in educating its viewers of the education program and a. symposium for The Board of Directors of the American fight to detect and prevent sickle cell Connecticut doctors to be conducted under Nurses' Association in session in New York, anemia. Mr. Leonard J. Patricelli, presi WTIC's sponsorship by Dr. Scott of Howard Wishes to express to you its dismay and ex dent of Broadcast-Plaza, Inc.-WTIC and his colleagues. treme disappointment a.t the level of funding radio, TV, channel 3, Hartford, Conn. for nursing education proposed in your has been constructive and productive in WTIC EDITORIAL NoVEMBER 12, 1970 budget for fiscal year 1972. No provision for his editorials and special programs which Have you ever heard of a. disease known as basic support is proposed. Other schools pre are worthy of recognition and should sickle cell anemia? Most people have not. paring health professionals a.re provided for serve as an example to the Nation of Yet sickle cell anemia is one of the more in the proposed budget. But nursing schools common and one CYf the most serious of all have not received any type of basic support what can be done to bring public atten childhood diseases. to meet costs of education. Basic support was tion to the need for priority considera Sickle cell anemia-this disease most CYt us authorized by the Congress in 1968. The fis tion of this little known afiliction. have never heard of-is more prevalent than cal distress of schools of nursing is as urgent The following material on the good many of the more highly publicized child as that of other professional schools. We re work Mr. Patricelli and channel 3 have hood diseases. For example, the dreadful gret and seriously question this continuing done will provide informative reading cystic fibrosis occurs once 1n every fourteen neglect. hundred births; sickle cell anemia occurs Assistance to schools and students is cru for those who wish to learn more of this once in every five hundred births. cial if su.ffl.cient numbers of qualified nurses disease. Half of the children born With sickle cell are to be prepared to meet the needs of the I include the article, as follows: anemia. die before they are twenty; half of February 9, 1971 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2297 the remainder die before they are forty. The The sickle cell trait can be detected through victims before they reach the age of 20. disease is characterized by severe anemia, by a simple, inexpensive blood test. It is a blood Nearly all of its victims are black. bone pain and by increased susceptib111ty to test that could be given in schools, years be The disease has already been the subject of infection. It can cause stroke or seizures, fore youngsters reach marriageable age, to a special program and two editorials by Leon chronic bone infections, enlarged hearts and warn them if they have the sickle trait. ard J. Patricelli, president of Broadcast-Plaza, livers and yellow jaundice. Women suffering If a man and woman, knowing that each Inc. The editorials stressed the lack of at from the disease bear children at great risk. has the sickle trait, decide to marry and have tention sickle cell anemia has received in Here are some facts. There is no known children, that's their business. However, the the past and advocated statewide testing to cure for sickle cell anemia. There is little re opportunity to protect unborn children from detect it and prevent its spread. search being done to seek a cure. No founda the tragedy of sickle cell anemia should be Most of the January 15 program was filmed tion exists for the study of the disea,se. While made available to young men and women. It at Freedmen's Hospital of Howard Univer volunteer groups raised nearly two million is not being made available today. sity in Washington, D.C. and at the National dollars for cystic fibrosis and nearly eight If this simple blood test were administered Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. million for muscular dystrophy last year, by the State of Connecticut in the schools, Dr. Roland Scott of Freedmen's Hospital less than one hundred thousand dollars was thousands of youngsters would quickly learn tells what he has tried to accomplish in deal raised to combat sickle cell anemia. whether or not they have the sickle cell trait. ing with sickle cell anemia with a minimum Yes, there is one more fact you should They would learn whether or not they, when of support during the past two decades. In know about sickle cell anemia, a fact that married, can transmit sickle cell anemia to an interview conducted in the Pediatrics may account for its being one of the most unborn children. This isn't being done in Ward at the Howard University hospital, Dr. neglected health problems in the nation to any state ih the country. Connecticut Scott tells of his dream for the establishment day. could ... and should be ... the first. of a Center for the Study of Sickle Cell Sickle cell anemia is suffered almost ex Anemia at the predominantly black univer clusively by black people. It originated in THE FoRGOTTEN DISEASE sity. Africa. It is the result of a mutation of the Two of the nation's leading authorities on Dr. Scott also explains his views of the genes caused by a massive malaria epidemic sickle cell anemia, the hereditary blood dis widely publicized urea treatment for sickle many centuries ago and it is transmitted ease that affects Negroes almost exclusively, cell anemia victims and tells why he be~ when each parent has a sickle cell gene which will discuss the disease on "Sickle Cell lieves the so-called urea breakthrough may causes the blood cells to change their shapes. Anemia-the Forgotten Disease" Friday night be considerably less important than its in The disease has also been passed on to (Dec. 4) at 8:30 on WTIC-TV. itial publicity indicated. descendents of whites who were affected by Dr. Robert Scott, director of the Laboratory The program also includes conversations the same malaria epidemic, but the vast for Hematological Research at Virginia Com with a 16-year-old sickle cell anemia victim majority of those who suffer from the disease monwealth University, and Dr. Louis W. Sul and his mother and a statement from Dr. livan, co-director of the Hematology Section Donald Fredrickson of the National Insti are black. tutes of Health who describes the federal If sickle cell anemia were as common at the Boston University Medical Center, among whites as it is among blacks, it might were in Hartford earlier this week to video government's role in sickle cell anemia re tape the program. search. have received a great deal more attention The extent of Dr. Scott's activities at How than it has. There might have been a major Appearing with them on the program are research effort to seek a cure . . . there Mrs. Walter McBride of Hartford, the mother ard is illustrated with footage taken in Hart of a sickle cell anemia victim, and Dr. Mer ford's North End where a former student of might have been a national foundation Dr. Scott, Dr. Evans Daniels, is now oper formed to fight the disease and there might ton S. Honeyman, a geneticist with the Connecticut State Department of Health. ating a non-profit health center. have been a widespread educational program "The Forgotten Disease--Sickle Cell Ane to prevent its spread. Dr. Scott and Dr. Sullivan will describe the disease, discuss its history and explain steps mia" was filmed by Robert Dwyer and John These things are far overdue. The lack of Coates, with sound by Randy Scalise. It was attention that has been given to this disease being taken to treat it and to prevent it. They will also explain the significance of directed by Roy Benjamin and produced by is truly a national disgrace. At least now . . . Rufus Coes and Richard Ahles. we hope more people know about this ter a treatment for the disease discovered by rible disease. And we promise you this is defi physicians doing research in Michigan and nitely not the last you will hear of sickle the Washington, D.C. area and announced COMMENT BY MR. PATRICELLI FOLLOWING cell anemia on this station. last week. SECOND SPECIAL PROGRAM ON SICKLE CELL Mrs. McBride will tell of the experiences ANEMIA, JANUARY 15TH her family has had in raising a youngster WTIC EDITORIAL, NOVEMBER 27, 1970 This is Leonard Patricelli: Wh.en we sent who has suffered from the disease for 14 a documentary crew to Washington, we What can be done about sickle cell anemia? years, and Dr. Honeyman will tell what the hoped they would find some answers to your This is a question we have been asked fre State of Connecticut can provide in the area questions about sickle cell anemia. We quently since we presented an editorial on of providing blood tests that will tell young sters whether or not they have what is known wanted to show you what was being accom this dreadful disease two weeks ago. We have plished at Howard University, where Dr. been contacted by scores of individuals and as "sickle cell trait." Dick Bertel will be the Roland Scott has been working on sickle organizations by business and professional program's host. While in Hartford to tape the program, Dr. cell anemia treatment and research for dec groups, civic organizations, civil rights ades. And we hoped to find out what the groups and others who want to know more Scott and Dr. Sullivan were guests at a federal government was doing about sickle about this serious health problem. luncheon held at Broadcast House to give them an opportunity to discuss sickle cell cell anemia and what help it could provide One of the things we were asked was how the states, especially Connecticut. sickle cell anemia got its name. That, at anemia with a group of community leaders. least, is easy to explain. Blood cells are nor At the luncheon, State Senator-elect Wil At Howard University, we learned that Dr. mally round. But when a person is affiicted ber Smith announced that he will introduce Scott and his associates are severely limited with sickle cell anemia, the shape of his legislation in the next session of the Gen by a lack of support from either public or blood cells changes from round to a shape eral Assembly to provide for testing for private sources. However, we also discovered resembling a sickle, the tool used to cut grain sickle cell anemia in Connecticut schools. The that Dr. Scott has a dream-a dream that or high grass. Rev. Richard Battles, chairman of the Hart may someday become the Center for the Most of the people we have heard from hl'\Q ford Board of Education, said he has asked Study of Sickle Cell Anemia. Such a Center, not known about sickle cell anemia ... an in school authorities to begin a feasibility study as Dr. Scott told us in the program you just herited blood disease that takes the lives of on testing, which was also endorsed by Dr. saw, would provide care for sickle cell anemia half of its victims before they reach the age Allyn Martin of the Hartford City Council, victims, extensive research facilities and a of twenty ... a terrible disease that strikes Dr. Arthur Banks, president of the Greater bureau of education which would disseminate at children. Nearly always at black children. Hartford Community College, and the Rev. knowledge of this terrible disease to the In the past several weeks, we have been in Segundo Las Heras, a leader of the Spanish public and to physicians in every corner of contact with a number of doctors and med speaking community. the world. Ical school professors who are recognized as Providing the simple, inexpensive blood At the National Institutes of Health, we the nation's leading authorities on sickle test for school children was first advocated found that the federal government was not cell anemia. We are bringing some of them in a WTIC editorial by Leonard J. Patricelli, really prepared to say what it could do to Hartford next week to appear on this sta president of Broadcast-Plaza, Inc. about sickle cell anemia. However, at our tion and hopefully to shed more light on this WTIC-TV will present another special pro request, the government has been research disease. gram on "The Forgotten Disease--Sickle Cell ing the problem and within a few weeks, rep From our preliminary conversations with Anemia" on Friday, January 15, at 7 p.m. resentatives of the Department of Health, these authorities, one fact is already appar The program, filmed in Washington, D.C., Education and Welfare will come to Con ent. Sickle cell anemia can be prevented. Bethesda, Maryland and Hartford, is part necticut to meet with key legislative and Sickle cell anemia is transmitted only when of WTIC-TV's continuing coverage of what health officials. This meeting should provide both parents have what is known as the has been termed one of America's most ne some specific answers. sickle cell trait. It is not possible for a. child glected health problems. We can also report some local progress. to be born with sickle cell anemia if only Sickle cell anemia is an inherited blood Eight weeks ago, in a WTIC editorial, we one of his parents has that trait. disease that takes the lives of half of its advocated a program of testing and counsel- CXVII--145-Part 2 2298 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 9, 1971 ing for sickle cell anem.la. On the fifth of struction of supplies. Now, of course, we are THE VICTIMS OF CRIME January, Hartford became the first city in hearing precisely the same things about the America to authorize citywide testing of foray against the Laotian access routes--that school children. The Board of Education this, too, will be decisive because the Laotian HON. WILLIAM J. GREEN plans to begin voluntary sickle cell anemia trails are all that remains of the enemy's life OF PENNSYLVANIA tests in the schools this spring. line to the South. This is the genuinely dis In other words, this program on sickle cell quieting aspect of this latest Vietnam ad IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES anem.la is the last we will be able to entitle venture, the sense that the Adm.lnistration Tuesday, February 9, 1971 "The Forgotten Disease." It's beginning to really believes it is doing something deci look as if there is a groWing awareness of sive-that this is it. It is the irrepressible Mr. GREEN of Pennsylvania. Mr. this disease and a groWing desire to do some tendency to oversell that shakes the faith Speaker, I am today introducing a bill thing about it. of even those war critics who would like to that I believe will indicate to the victims In November, when we first broadcast an accept the adm.lnistration's scenario-the of violent crime, to their relatives and to editorial on sickle cell anem.la, we promised phased Withdrawal, the irreversible process of their friends, that government is con that it wouldn't be the last you would hear Vietnam.lzation, the skillful buying of time and all the rest. cerned about them and compassionately of the disease. Tonight, we have another interested in their lives. promise. This is not the last you w111 hear of But it isn't only the oversell; it is also the Dr. Scott's dream of a Center for Sickle Cell wrong sell; the South Vietnamese plunge into Crime is never neutral in its effects. Anem.la. Laos could hardly have been presented with Yet, the reaction of society to crime has less regard for public and congressional sen generally been to focus less on the victim sitivities. First there were the futile efforts and more on the enforcement agencies REPRESENTATIVE MOORHEAD at secrecy which only fanned the darkest and the criminal. In this country, we URGES LAOS REAPPRAISAL speculations; then there were the incompre have a system of well developed criminal hensible speculations from responsible offi procedures. We take seriously the dic cials themselves. It was almost as if the ad ministration had gone out of its way for ten tum that rights of all must be protected. HON. WILLIAM S. MOORHEAD days to conjure up the worst in order to We insist on correct rules of evidence. OF PENNSYLVANIA make the real thing more palatable-which We demand of our court prosecutors and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES might not have been a bad tactic were it not enforcement personnel fairness and re for its effect upon public faith in the real straint in the kinds of investigative and Tuesday, February 9, 1971 thing when it finally materialized. judicial methods utilized to secure justice. Mr. MOORHEAD. Mr. Speaker, like The real thing, as far as we can gather, is We have provided our law enforce a South Vietnamese sweep through the Lao many of my colleagues, I am disturbed tian access routes, strongly supported by ment agencies with new powers and new by the most recent military incursion American air and logistics, but not by orga sources of money. We have increased into Loos by the South Vietnamese nized U.S. combat units. It is supposedly the size of enforcement training and ed Army. intended to impede the infiltration flow, if ucation programs. We have provided With so little information available, not to stop it, until the rains come in the funding for updating police communica it is hard to make accurate observations. early Spring. This, in turn would materially tions through the use of on-line com But from what is known, I have my affect the capacity of the ·enemy to operate puters and information networks. Police much further SOuth in Cambodia and South salaries are increasing. We certainly doubts about the total worth of this ven Vietnam during the late Spring months- ture. until the monsoon season reaches that re have not solved all the court and en Let us, for the moment, set aside the gion in June. And so you buy not two forcement problems. There is a heavy congressional restraints embodied in the months, but maybe eight or ten, and Viet backlog in our courts. We still have too Cooper-Church language. I say this be namization proceeds apace. It makes some few judges and prosecutors. We still have cause the administration takes no heed sense, if you believe that Vietna.miza.tion w111 not reconciled the role of the policeman from Congress, or else makes so literal an proceed; it then can reasonably be said to in our changing society nor have we interpretation of the provision that Coo advance in a very positive way our prospects taken adequate measures of the problems for a continued, orderly, even accelerated of the police in relation to the kinds of per-Church is all but negated. Withdrawal from the war. What angers me is that I have a strong But it still isn't Stallngra.d. It isn't in duties they are called on to perform. feeling that the rationale behind the tended-allegedly-to Win the war--only to Their problems are ongoing and we must Laos adventure springs from belief that facilitate our disengagement from it. And it continue to seek answers to them. the United States can bring a military may not even do that, because the South But, in all of our efforts at criminal end to the Indochina war. Vietnamese could get badly mauled; or the justice, one omission is glaring and over Our Nation, according to the President, repercussions could bring down the neutral powering-we have not considered with is pledged to a political settlement in ist government of Souvanna Phouma in Laos the same dedication and sensitivity the with who knows what consequences; or-the third sector of any criminal act-the Indochina. I think we should begin put North Vietnamese could react in the way ting flesh to those words. they have reacted to every significant altera victim. The victim of violent crime has Last year, I introduced a resolution tion of the ground rules on our part; they become the "forgotten victim." His plight that resolved "that no funds in fiscal year could come With one of their own. This is and suffering have too often been dis 1971 be used to finance the operation of what has always bedeviled Vietnam-the un missed as the unfortunate byproduct of any American combat or support troops foreseen consequence. Last April 30, Cam violent attacks. in Cambodia, Laos, or Thailand." Need bodia was suddenly critical to everything Yet, if government has the obligation less to say, passage of this resolution whereas it hadn't been worth more than a to protect its citizens, if it has the obli phrase in a definitive war report by the gation to provide enforcement assist would have precluded what is now hap President ten days earlier. A month or so pening in Laos. ago, who was saying that Laos was suddenly ance, if it has responsibility for public I plan to reintroduce similar language the key to it all? And what is there to say safety, so too does it have the obligation with an appropriate updating of fiscal that next month it may not be a North Viet to help and care for the innocent it fails year limitations. namese build-up across the top of the De to protect. An editorial in today's Washington militarized Zone--or the beginnings of heavy To do less is to abrogate and make null Post is a very accurate account of the infiltration down through the DMZ-which the very heart of the relationship be wa,y I feel about the Laos activity. will be said to oblige us to embark on yet tween a citizen and his government. another, final, definitive military adventure As an idea and concept, crime com At this time, I would like to put this beyond South Vietnam's borders for the sake editorial in to the REcORD and urge all of the safe withdrawal of our troops? pensation is hardly novel. Several for of my colleagues. who have not yet done This is the sort of hard question to which eign countries and a small number of so, to read this editorial and then ask we hear no answers from. the men in charge. Americn States already have crime com themselves, What are we doing assisting And this also is the sort of grim possibility pensation legislation. California, New an invasion of Laos? that is once again causing some war critics York, Maryland, Massachusetts, and [From the Washington Post, Feb. 9, 1971] to warn anew of an "expanded war" and to Hawaii, presently have ongoing pro charge violations of the Cooper-Church re grams. New York, for example, in its LAos: REAR GUARD OR THmD FRoNT? straints and to threaten, With some good crime compensation policy notes that When the President came up with his Cam reason, further congressional efforts to stay bodian surprise last Spring, we were told the President's hand. For they cannot find, "many innocent persons suffer personal that it was indispensable to our success in either in the record or some of the rhetoric, physical injury or death as a result of Vietnam, and that it would be as decisive much reassurance that this is in fact a criminal acts. Such persons or their de as, let's say, Stalingrad or D-Day, and that strictly limited rear guard maneuver and not pendents may thereby suffer disability, we had bought a year's time or more in terms the opening of a third war front. And neither, incur financial hardships or become de of disruption of enemy infiltration and de- as far as that goes, can we. pendent upon public assistance." EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2299 The basic bill I am introducing today percent in the last decade, all too fre Mr. Speaker, that we ask other llations first proposed by fanner Senator quently leave their victims with sizable to observe the same stringent rules we Yarborough in 1965. That bill did problems both financial and mental for impose upon ourselves-or suffer the con the Congress, but Yarborough which they receive no help. sequences. eetntl~ocluc:ed it in each succeeding year. Our society and government cannot The joint resolution I am introducing De:ceJml:1er of 1970, Senator MANSFIELD become so large or so remote that it fails is identical to the one I offered at this i:nt, rociuc~ed a version of the 1965 bill. The to identify with the individual citizen. time last year; only the circumstances ority leader's bill was rein Yet, government has too often failed to are more urgent, and they demand im "'"r'rf''~"'rf in the current session of Con- consider the victim of violent ctime. I mediate action by the Congress. believe that this bill, while not address bill I am introducing is similar to ing all the grievances and all the sorrow MANSFIELD'S bill. My bill, how of the innocent victim, will make our DEFENDERS OF DDT requires States to provide a pro governments more aware of the human to inform victims about the avail factor in crime. of compensation. The provision HON. DAVID R. OBEY makes it clear that the State is to OF WISCONSIN the victim of how to apply for IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SEIZURE OF AMERICAN TUNA compensation. I am including this Tuesday, February 9, 1971 ""' '"'"";";"'""' because the history of many of BOATS our programs suggest that unless an Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, a few weeks effective program of outreach is con ago those of us who have been working ducted, the benefits of the program will HON. WILLIAM S. BROOMFIELD for some time to prohibit the further use not be distributed equally among all of OF MICHIGAN of DDT won a significant victory when our citizens. If there is a program for IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Environmental Protection Administrator William Ruckelshaus announced that the then government must tell the Tuesday, Februa1·y 9, 1971 people about it. registration of DDT would be canceled The bill would establish a Federal Vio Mr. BROOMFIELD. Mr. Speaker, the for all uses, and that hearings would be lent Crime Commission and empower recent seizure of American tuna boats by held to determine whether DDT registra the Commission to grant awards of up Ecuador points up the real need for a tion ought to be suspended immediately, to $25,000 for Victims of assaults, rob change in U.S. policy toward our terri effectively halting the shipment of that beries, arson, murder, rape, atttempted torial seas. Such incidents occur all too compound in interstate commerce. rape, kidnaping, and other violent crimes. regularly, and they will continue as long In spite of the great and constantly Compensation can be paid to the injured as a double standard governs the law of growing volume of evidence that DDT is person, to any person responsible for the the open sea. For too long, our friends narmul to birds, fish, and wildlife, there care of the injured person and to the de and enemies have taken advantage of are still some who contend that DDT is pendents or closest relative of any de our generous 3- and 12-mile claims with not the culprit at all. In an excellent ceased victim. out returning the favor to American article which recently appeared in the The bill contains safeguard against vessels. Ecuador, for example, used Amer Washington Post, Irston Barnes answers fraud and an audit provision to insure ican-built destroyers to enforce it ex these critics, and recites again the harm against extravagant or unjustified travagant 200-mile limit; an irony which this chemical has done to the bald eagle. awards. The Commission can withhold I do not find particularly humorous. I include the article in the RECORD at grants if the applicant has not com The historic rule of thumb among this point: maritime nations has been that a coun [From the Washington Post, Feb. 7, 1971] plied fully with the provision of the act. try's territorial rights extend 3 miles The Comptroller of the United States is DEFENDERS OF DDT provided access to any of the papers, seaward; the 3 miles representing the (By Irston R. Barnes) effective range of a 17th century onshore documents or books for the purpose of Rearguard actions against the termination audit. Criminal penalties are provided cannon. The United States continues to of the use of DDT, against governmental ac adhere to this traditional limit for navi tion to halt the damage to life and the en for the misuse of the benefits of the act. gational purposes, while claiming a 12- I will be the first to admit that this bill vironment, con tinue to be fought. mile boundary for fishing rights. Both The recent decision of the U.S. Court of is not perfect. I am hopeful that hearings claims, I might add, are eminently rea Appeals for the District of Columbia, in re will be held in the near future and that sonable when compared with those of sponse to a suit brought by the Environ at these hearings hard questions about most other nations. men tal Defense Fund, the National Audubon the scope, cost, and impact of the bill But times have changed, Mr. Speaker. Societ y, the Sierra Club and the West Mich will be a~certained. I invite these ques The 3-mile limit no longer guarantees igan Environmental Action Council repre tions. I believe they need exploration. sents a sign al victory for those seeking to use our security, leaving us open to numerous legal methods to protect the environment. I am convinced however, that society forms of electronic surveillance and en The Court directed the government to cancel must make some attempt to understand emy espionage. The 12-mile limit no all registered uses of DDT and asked the En and comprehend the plight of the inno longer protects the rights of our fisher viron men tal Protection Agency to determine cent victim. I know that monetary com men against nations claiming 200-mile whet her a suspension order should be issued pensation does not begin to repay the jurisdictions. And the entire situation stopp ing immediately all DDT shipments in victim for injuries, for loss of income, merely perpetuates the inequity of the in t erstate commerce. for pain and suffering. I am not naive The Environmental Protection Agency has double standard which governs our in responded with notices canceling the regis enough to believe that monetary com ternational waters. tration of all remaining uses of DDT. How pensation provides adequate condolences The joint resolution I introduced today ever, the statutes allow elaborate appeals, to the family of a murdered relative. calls for an international conference to during which m anufacturers cou ld contrinue What compensation may do is to pro resolve the debate over territorial seas. selling DDT, unless the EPA determines t hat vide the victim or his family with the The need for such a panel should be ob all DDT uses are "an imminent hazard to vious. the public." Such a finding could bring an economic assistance and reserves to immediate interim halt to interstate sales a void the often catastrophic conse More important, however, my legis of DDT. quences following an unprovoked and lation would establish an American pol EPA Administrator William Ruckelshaus unanticipated attack. Such compensation icy of reciprocity with regard to other has p romised such a review within 60 days. may provide the victim with the ability nations. It would impose the same limits Cancellation of registrat ion will predict to pay unforeseen or extended medical in U.S. waters on the ships of any coun- ably be opposed by t he manufacturers, by try which itself claimed limits beyond cotton growers (the principal domestic users) costs. It may provide the victim with a what are considered to be normal under and by various spokesmen for the agrico source of income to cover some of the international agreement. Thus, Russian chemical complex who have for so long rep loss of wages caused by violent criminal or North Korea ships would be allowed resented the chemical viewpoint in state and acts. federal agencies. only within 12 miles of our shore, wheth Despite irrefutable evidence o! damage to While property crimes are generally er fishing or cruising; Ecuadorian ves fish, birds and other wildlife of both m an covered by insurance, crimes against sels would be restricted from areas with altered and natural environments, defenders person, which have increased some 130 in 200 miles of the coast. It seems time, of chemical pesticides still protest that the 2300 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 9, 1971
case against DDT is unproven and still seek eggs to be so thin-shelled that they cannot 0rHER PUBLIC RETmEMENT BENEFITS to confuse the issue. be successfully incubated. Public retirement benefits other than What appears to be a prime example of Sublethal ingestion of DDT and its deriv OASDHI (excluding veterans' benefits) were such tactics is an incredible article in the atives also causes infertility in adult birds, substantially higher than private pensions, December issue of The Virginia Outdoors, an infertile eggs, and young which do not sur and, on the average, they were also higher official publication of the Virginia Commis vive to grow up. than OASDHI benefits (table 5). The higher sion of Outdoor Recreation. The piece, "The Certainly the destruction of habitat, the benefit levels for these public pensioners re Killing of the Bald Eagle," by Dr. H. Gruen general increase in pollution, and lawless flect the fact that in many o! these programs, hagen, is directed against "certain groups or shooting have reduced eagle numbers. But OASDHI benefits were not anticipated as a individuals" who "pick out specific items for these forces did not interfere with normal major source of income for persons retiring special emphasis," e.g., "the apparent decline reproduction. They have not made the bald under the system. Private plans, however, of the bald eagle." eagle an endangered species I explicitly or implicitly anticipate OASDHI The article begins with a series of ob When DDT came into general use in 1946, benefits as a source of retirement income for servations: the concern for bald eagles ante there were still hundreds of eagles nesting their members. More than 35 percent of the dates the use of DDT; cutting of timber and in Maine, in the Chesapeake Bay region, and aged units with other public pensions pollution have degraded eagle habitats; a in Florida and lesser numbers were nesting chiefly railroad retirement and Federal Gov bounty was paid in Alaska on bald eagles in the Great Lakes region and in many east ernment pensioners-did not concurrently (which could hardly affect eastern popula ern states. Eagles could be seen flying over receive OASDHI benefits, the proportion was tions); and autopsies on 76 dead eagles per Washington. They nested all along the Poto much smaller among private pensioners formed at the Patuxent Wildlife Research ma.c River below Washington. The 1949 about 3 percent. Center from 1960 through 1965 showed that Christmas Count in the Washington area. Federal retirement programs are liberal in 54 birds died from identifiable causes re recorded 20 bald eagles. (In the decade 1945- comparison with private industry and State lated to man. His conclusion is a complete 54 the Washington area Christmas Count re and local government plans as a whole, be non sequitur: "that man is prima.rlly re corded an average 10.3 bald eagles. In the cause they relate pensions to peak earnings sponsible for the decline of the bald eagle decade of 1955-64 the average count fell to and maintain the value of benefits after re and that the role of pesticides has been 2.1.). tirement as living costs rise, through auto greatly exaggerated." A footnote on Dr. Gruenhagen's interest in matic adjustment of benefits. Furthermore, How could the author be ignorant of the eagles. He is reported to be an extension spe the high average benefits under Federal pro true facts regarding the disastrous crash in cialist of the Chemical, Drug and Pesticide Unit at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. From grams reflect the growth in the number of bald eagle populations, particularly in the retirees with long service as an aftermath of Eastern United States? The evidence has been 1946 to 1958, he was a group leader in plant pathology for Dow Chemical. Earlier he was the expanded employment of the forties. much publicized and 1s overwhelming. Benefit levels under the railroad retire The year-to-year surveys directed by the a plant pathologist in the Wisconsin and United States Departments of Agrlcul ture. ment system are at a substantially higher National Audubon Society have esta-blished rate than those under OASDHI, because the declining populations, declining numbers of wage-related benefit formula is more liberal active nests, and poor nesting suooess. Simi- in the former program. In addition. a system lar trends have been observed in the pere- SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFIT IN- of supplemental benefits was introduced in grine falcon, Scottish golden eagles, and CREASE NEEDED NOW 1966 for long-service railroad workers retir American ospreys, as set forth in the docu- ing at age 65. State and local government re mented report of an international confer tirement plans, typically basing benefits on ence at the University of Wisconsin in 1965. HON. FRED SCHWENGEL past earnings and length of service, also tend The list of DDT-endangered American species to provide benefits at a higher level than also includes the brown pelican, and other OF IOWA that of private plans.1 Most of these govern species are under intensive study. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ment systems require substantial employee The mechanism by which DDT kills species contributions, presumably reflected in higher has been established in controlled research Tuesday, February 9, 1971 benefit levels; most private plans are fi experiments at the Patuxent Wildlife Re- Mr. SCHWENGEL. Mr. Speaker, today nanced in full by the employer. search Center, with the results so widely cir- I insert in the REcoRD, part V of the ar- culated that they could hardly be unknown ticle entitled: "Private and Public Re- 1 Saul Waldman, Retirement Systems for to anyone expressing an opindon on the ef- Employees of State and Local Governments fects of DDT on wildlife. Sublethal accumu- tirement Pensions: Findings From the ... 1966 (Research Report No. 23), Social se lations of DDT and its derivatives interfere 1968 Survey of the Aged," by Walter W. curity Administration, Office of Research and with the birds' calcium metabolism, causing Kolodrubetz. Statistics, 1968. TABLE 5.- SIZE OF OTHER PUBLIC PENSION INCOME BY OASDHI BENEFICIARY STATUS: PERCENTAGE DISTRIBUTION OF AGED UNITS BY SIZE OF OTHER PUBLIC PENSION INCOME, 1967
Nonmarried persons Nonmarried persons Married Married ------Other public pension income All units couples Total Men Women Other public pension income All units couples Total Men Women $500 to $999 ______All units 1 26 16 35 32 36 $1,000 to $1,499 ______. __ _ 17 $1,500 to $1,999 ______19 15 9 17 Number (thousands): 14 M M ~ 13 Total with other public pension $2,000 to $2,499 ______. ______11 12 9 11 8 income _____ ------_------1,466 614 833 243 589 $2,500 to $2,999 ______·----- 9 11 7 12 6 Reporting on other public pension 5 $3,500$3,000 to $3,499·-----·-----·------$3,999 __ . ______8 4 2 4 income ______------·------1, 365 570 796 229 566 2 5 (2) ------1 $4,000 to $4,999 ______3 4 2 4 1 Percent of units ______$5,000 to $7 ,499 ______.. ______100 100 100 100 100 2 4 ------$7,500 to $9,999 ______• ______1 2 $1 to $149 ______1 (2) 2 1 2 $10,000 or more ______1 (23 ( ~ ~ ------1 $150 to $299 ______2 2 2 1 2 $300 to $499 ______4 2 5 6 5 Median public pension income___ ------$1,428 $1,800 $1,060 $1,394 $1,005 $500 to $999 ______24 13 32 21 36 $1,000 to $1,499 ______18 15 21 11 24 Nonbeneficiary units $1,500 to $1,999______13 12 13 21 10 $2,000 to $2,499 ______14 16 12 22 9 Number (thousands): $2,500 to $2,999 ______9 13 6 7 5 Total with other public pension in- come ___ ------______$3,000 to $3,499 ______6 11 3 2 3 520 173 348 lll 236 $3,500 to $3,999 ______2 5 1 1 (2) Reporting on other public pension $4,000 to $4,999 ______3 5 2 3 2 income ______------_ 503 168 336 $5,000 to $7,499 ______101 234 2 5 ------$7,500 to $9,999 ______1 1 1 3 ------Percent of units ______------""==,;10=0===10=0===1=0=0===10=0===1=00 $10,000 or more ______(2) (2) 1 1 1 $1 to $149------(2) ------1 ___ _ 1 Median public pension income ___ $1,538 $2, 188 $1,214 $1,738 $1, 104 $150 to $299______1 ------1 --- T 1 $300 to $499·------2 ------3 2 3 OASDHI beneficiary units t l~~~ot0t~9~~49!C:::::::::: :~:~:~::~~ ~~ ~ ~~ 1l ~~ Number (thousands): $1,500 to $1,999______11 7 12 23 7 Total with other public pension $2,000 to $2,499______19 23 17 36 9 income ______-· __ . ____ 926 441 485 132 353 $2,500 to $2,999______~ ~g 4 2 4 Reporting on other public pension income ______------862 402 460 128 332 n:ggg$4,000 ~~to tH~~======$4,999______24 59 2t 2~ ------~ 2 Percent ot units ______100 100 100 100 100 $5,000 to $7,499______2 6 ------$7,500 to $9,999______1 1 1 5 ------$1 to $149 ______2 ( 2) 3 2 3 $10,000 or more ______---- __ ------$150 to $299 ______2 3 3 $300 to $499 ______2 ---·------5 3 7 8 7 Median public pension income___ $1,768 $2,721 $1,272 $1,996 $1,092
1 Excludes beneficiaries who received their 1st benefit in February 1967 or later, the transitionally 2 0.5 percent or Jess. insured and special "age-72" beneficiaries. February 9, 1971 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2301
TABLE 6.-SIZE OF OASDHI INCOME BY TYPE OF RETIREMENT BENEFIT FOR OASDHI BENEFICIARIES t: PERCENTAGE DISTRIBUTION OF AGED UNITS BY SIZE OF OASDHI INCOME, BY RECEIPT OF RETIREMENT BENEFITS, 1967
Nonmarried persons Married couples with OASDHI benefits and- Total with OASDHI benefits and- Men with OASDHI benefits and- Women with OASDHI benefits and- Private other Private Other Private Other Private Other group public No other group pu~lic No other group public No other group public No other OASDHI income pension 2 pension pension pension 2 pens1on pension pension 2 pension pension pension 2 pension pension
Number (in thousands): TotaL ______1, 009 392 3,438 605 476 6, 353 287 128 1, 476 317 348 4,876 Reporting on OASDHI income_ 1, 002 392 3, 398 605 476 6, 315 287 128 1, 463 317 348 4,852 Percent of units ______100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
$1 to $249------(a) 1 2 (3) 1 ------(a) 1 2 (8) $250 to $499______(a) 8 3 (8) 5 6 ------2 3 1 7 7 $500 to $749______1 19 1~ 1~ j~ ~ j~ ~~ 1~ 1~ ~~ 750 2 17 n $ to $999 ------13 27 16 25 16 13 23 36 18 26 $l,OOO to $1•249 ------4 11 16 36 14 11 49 24 21 24 11 8 $1,250 to $1,499______10 12 13 20 7 3 24 11 7 16 5 1 $1,500 to $1,749______14 12 $1,750 to $1,999 __ ------______13 7 12 _____ ---- __------__ - _------__ --- ____ ------______------__ _ $2,000 to $2,249______32 8 14 ------(8) ------(3) ------$2,250 to $2,449 ____ ------_ 16 5 7 ------$2,500 to $2,749______2 1 1 ------$2,750 to $2,999______2 _------1 ------$3,000 to $3,499 ______-~===1====1===~(2~)=- -=-=--=-=--=-=--=-=--=--=-=--=-=:--=-=--=--=-=--=-==--===--=-=--=-=--==-=--=--=-=--=-=--=--=-===--==-=--=-=--=--=:-=--=-=--=--=-=--=-=-_=_=:__ ::::::_ -=-=--=-=- _=_==:_-==--=-=- -=-=--=-=- -===--==-- Median OASDHI income ___ _ $2,040 $1, 150 $1, 483 $1,304 $826 $870 $1,396 $960 $1,008 $1, 188 $775 $840
1 Excludes beneficiaries who received their 1st benefit in February 1967 or later, the transitionally 2lncludes a small number of units reporting both a private and another public pension. insured, and special "age-72" beneficiaries; also excludes~ small number of ~nits repo'1ing priv_ate a 0.5 percent or less. pensions but no OASDHI benefits, as well as some who d1d not report on pnvate pens1on rece1pt. Though both pubUc and private pensions REVENUE SHARING LEGISLATION plan is that State and local governments showed the heaviest concentration in the would receive their share of the revenue $500-$999 range the median for public retire with no strings attached, and determine ment benefits other than OASDHI ($1,540) HON. C. W. BILL YOUNG themselves how the funds best be spent. was $600 higher than the median in private OF FLORIDA plans (table 5). For payments under public It is time we started trusting our cities, programs as for private-plan payments, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES counties, and States. After all, it is they levels were higher for married couples and Tuesday, February 9, 1971 that make up what is best in America. nonmarried men (with medians of $2,190 and $1,740) than for women without hus Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Mr. Speaker, bands (median of $1,105). The lower pen I am pleased to join with 136 of my col sion levels for nonmarried women reflect their leagues today in cosponsoring President STOP BEING FUNNY lower earnings levels and shorter service pe Nixon's general revenue sharing plan, riods (factors in the computation of bene and I urge prompt action on this vitally fits), as well as the reduced levels associated needed legislation. HON. EDWARD J. DERWINSKI with survivor benefits. Local government in this Nation ap OF ILLINOIS Pensioners drawing only public pensions pears headed for destruction, the victim IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES other than OASDHI in retirement typically of long years of neglect and economic had higher benefit levels than those receiv Tuesday, February 9, 1971 ing such pensions in addition to OASDHI starvation. Unless we reverse this trend, benefits (table 5), for the reasons that were life in America, as we know it, will be Mr. DERWINSKI. Mr. Speaker, the previously discussed.2 The median benefit of lost to us forever. obvious public opposition to heavy taxa $2,720 for couples in the former group was The President's plan to pump $5 bil tion and an ineffective use of Federal $900 higher than the median for couples in lion a year in new and unrestricted funds moneys at all levels of government is the latter group. The difference between into our local governments is a major properly emphasized in an editorial Sat median public pensions for nonmarried men urday, January 30, in the Polish Ameri with and without OASDHI benefits was about step in restoring vitality to our State $600, but the medians for nonmarried women and local governments. can-Chicago. were about the same. My home State of Florida alone would I believe it is pertinent, Mr. Speaker, receive an estimated $167.5 million a year for us to recognize that this logical public under the President's plan. Some States frustration with taxation is directed at Median pension of will receive much more--significantly, all levels of government and under no with no strings attached. circumstances will duplication of effort, Nonmarried persons Married In our desire for so-called efficiency, waste, or unneeded government spending Type of pension couples Men Women we have rushed headlong into centraliza be tolerated. The editorial follows: tion of power at the Federal level. As a STOP BEING FuNNY result, we have sapped the strength of OASDHI benefit______$1, 555 $1,080 $860 The old saying that "people are funny" Private group pension ______970 865 665 our State and local governments, which was never truer than it is today. Never were Other public pension ______2, 190 1, 740 1, 105 lack many of the resources available to there so many millions asking for public And OASDH'------ 1, 800 1, 395 1, 005 charity doled out to them under a pleasing And no OASDH'------2, 720 1, 995 1, 090 Big Brother in Washington. It is long past time to decentralize, to variety of titles. We overlook the fact that return government to the people. Our government has no money to give that it does not first take from its citizens in taxes, In summary, the median private pension local officials are most familiar with local or higher and higher public debt. The latter payment, as shown above, was not only lower problems, and best able to find meaning today requires the payment of over $20 bil than the median OASDHI benefit payment, ful solutions. Some of the worst decisions lion a year in interest charges alone. but it was substantially below the median in recent years are the result of bureau No matter what the government, federal, amount of public pensions other than crats in Washington deciding what they state or local is giving you, don't think you OASDHI. think is best for people living thousands are not paying for it. We are paying for ex of miles away. orbitant government spending and debt in infiated prices and the reduced value and 2 For a detailed analysis of dual Federal Yes, Washington on occasion has been buying power of the dollar. We are paying for Government and social security coverage, see willing to share some of its revenues with it in everything we eat, wear and use. The Elizabeth Heidbreder, "Federal ClvU-Service our local communities-but at the price amount of taxes withheld from the average Annuitants and Social Security," Social Se of endless redtape and impossible condi income would have paid for a home not so curity Bulletin, July 1969. tions. A major feature of the President's long ago. What used to be put into savings, 2302 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 9, 1971 now goes to the tax collector, and the one broadened in this generation, national lead Una, near a place called Hell Hole Swamp, who earned it never sees it. ership is so often diluted, undermined or the low country of that state's coastal The people will have to stop being "funny" negated by the plethora of bombast and His father farmed and operated a small if they wish to save their bacon in the U.S. propaganda spewed out to the public and pentine still. When Mendel (he never used Your savings and your government are being constituting as it does an intellectual pollu his first name "Lucius") was eight his father destroyed by those who put politics ahead tion so thick that the citizenry cannot pos died. His mother lost the family home of fiscal responsibility. sibly be expected to make logical decisions moved her six children to North Cl:Lar·lef;to'n based upon actual truth. where she took in boarders. Mendel Rivers was not the victim of this Young Mendel grew up determined to be miasma; he could not be intimidated by lawyer. He clerked in a country store, TRIDUTE TO L. MENDEL RIVERS propaganda; his character was not subject livered papers pony-back, played outfield to assassination. Despite all that has been a semi-pro baseball team and worked 1n said about him and the basis for the longev Charleston Navy Yard. He attended the HON. ROBERT L. F. SIKES ity of his service to the half million people lege of Charleston and the of the First District of South Carolina, there South Carolina but was economically OF FLORIDA is no general recognition of the degree to to quit his formal education. He gained IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES which he was held in the esteem and affection ployment in a Charleston law office where Tuesday, February 9, 1971 of the broad base of citizenry which he repre pursued his law studies. He passed the South sented. The fact is that Mendel Rivers' Carolina bar examination in 1932 before ob Mr. SIKES. Mr. Speaker, the great stature, his gifts, his leadership and his taining a law degree. loss which Congress and the Nation have warm personality made him an institution of He served in the South Carolina Legislature experienced because of the death of our historic Charleston and environs, whose his from 1933 to 1936. From 1936 to 1940 he esteemed colleague, L. Mendel Rivers, is tory and mores were based upon the earliest served as a special attorney in the United and purest Americana. States Department of Justice; and was ad very well expressed in an editorial in If a man is known by his enemies, as well mitted to practice before the Supreme Coul'lt the February 1971 issue of "The Officer," as by his friends, it can be said of Mendel of the United States. a publication of the Reserve Officers As Rivers that his career had a brightness upon In 1940 he ran for Congress against sociation of the United States. which he should reflect; because he was de advice of seasoned and influential local In a similar vein, the February issue of spised and lampooned upon every opportu ticians. He campaigned against "the v.~..u:u~.,-,, "Naval Affairs'' published by the Fleet nity, by every element of those who were not ton crowd" and drew heavy tolerant of his stern adherence to a strong the rural areas of the district. To the Reserve Association in Washington car military policy in the nation, including many ries a great tribute to our esteemed de of all, he won and thereafter never who honestly and in good conscience de serious opposition. He had opposition in parted colleague. plored his giving first priority to national two or three of his subsequent fifteen I submit both for reprinting in the military safety, as well as by those who either cessful campaigns for reelection. Co-mRESSIONAL RECORD: were a part of, or encouraged, the miniscule In the second session of the 88th Congref!S LOOKING AHEAD 30 YEARS AFTER THE DEATH element of American society who are in open in 1964, The Honorable Carl OF MENDEL RIVERS revolt, advocating revolution and overthrow Chairman of the House Committee on of our Government and its Constitution. Services, announced his retirement. One of the most powerful men in the na Chairman Rivers had the support of the tion, the President Pro Tem of the Senate, sentative Rivers was the ranking De~miDCI'at great majority not only of the Armed Services on that Committee and he succeeded Richard B. Russell, said of the death of L. Committee but of the whole House, as was Mendel Rivers: Carl" as Chairman upon the convening demonstrated time and again during the past the 89th Congress in January 1965. "No man ever lived who was more whole several years when he was a target of abuse heartedly dedicated to the defense of this and libel. It may be sadly true that as Sena Shipmate Rivers was always a strong ad Nation than Mendel Rivers and those of us tor Russell predicts a future generation may vocate of legislation beneficial to mili who are convinced that a strong defense is tragically discover that Rivers was right and personnel. He played a key role in the House's our hope for continued freedom and peace that his critics were in deep error. Yet we passage of the provision to restore the prin have lost a champion. cannot accept the thesis that his influence ciple of recomputation of military retired pay "For three decades, I met with him in con and example of leadership Will not continue for those who retired prior to 1 July ference and we worked together in matters under the 92nd Congress, and the succeeding in the 1963 military pay bill. He was relating to the Armed Services. He not only Congresses, because his policy and his resolu main of the House Armed Services Su bad a far-reaching understanding of the tion represented the very essence of unhappy mittee on Military Medical Benefits in operations of the Department of Defense, but but pure truth-that is that the United His leadership resulted in the enac·tm.en.t be was unyielding in his efforts to insure that Public Law 89-614 establishing the Ci States of America can survive only if it re Health and Medical Program for the Uni the Department was supplied with the nec mains militarily strong and if the leadership essary means to guarantee the security of of the nation continues to insist that every formed Services ( CHAMPUS) in 1966. this Nation. citizen must be willing to place his life on As Chairman of the House Armed services "I am deeply saddened by his passing and the line as the price of freedom. Committee he immediately began to I extend to Mrs. Rivers and her family my strong influence for the improvement profound sympathy." military pay, allowances and benefits. The The depth of senator Russell's convictions TRE HONORABLE L. MENDEL RIVERS, 1905-70, first test of his leadership was the success U.S. REPRESENTATIVE, FmST CONGRESSIONAL ful passage and enactment of a military pay was conveyed more forcefully, however, in his DISTRICT OF SOUTH CAROLINA private comment to friends that it would ba raise that was twice the amount another generation before the real tragedy THE U.S. SERVICEMEN'S CONGRESSMAN AND A by the Administration in its 1965 budget. of the loss of the House champion of na SHIPMATE Following that victory, military personnel tional preparedness would be felt. Thirty Shipmate L. Mendel Rivers of Charleston knew they had found a champion and thet.r years from now, he said, would come the Branch 50, Chairman of the U.S. House of benefits increased each year because of time of reckoning with regard to this na Representatives Committee on Armed Serv legislative innovations, expertise and tion's safety, and even survival, because the ices, joined the Staff of the Supreme Com cation to his philosophy, "The se:rvi·ceina:n stalwart, resolute, and therefore embattled, mander at 0240 E.S.T., Monday, 28 December and his family are entitled to a standard Chairman of the House Armed Services Com 1970 while recovering from cardiac surgery at living equal to the standard of living they're mittee, bad been removed by death from the the University Medical Center in Birming defending." bastion he manned in this nation's defense ham, Alabama. Chairman Rivers underwent Chairman Rivers left no stone structure and its defense philosophy. open heart surgery by Dr. John Kirklin on and he never missed an opportunity to act Much has been written about Mendel 11 December to replace a leaking mitral valve in behalf of all military personnel. His record Rivers, and the fact that he was a con in his heart with a plastic valve. His post of military personnel legislation enacted is troversial figure on the national scene. The operative recovery was progressing normally almost legendary in the annals of legislative media generally have fully disclosed his until 20 December when he suffered heart history. He fought tremendous odds, includ character as the hero and guardian of the stoppage and was revived by chest massage. ing two Administrations, to provide our na rights of the men and women in the uni Thereaf,ter, his condition remained critical, tion with an adequate military defense. form of the United States of America. And but improved slightly, until his demise. Chairman Rivers was a member of the yet, in everything that has been written The National Charter of the Fleet Reserve Grace Episcopal Church in Charleston, South about Mr. Rivers, in summary of his career Association will be draped for thirty days. All Carolina. Funeral services were held there at and his contribution to national survival, Branches of the Fleet Reserve Associ81tion Will 1300, Wednesday, 30 December 1970 and in none has adequately conveyed the real drape their Charters for the same period com terment followed in the town of St. Stephen, strength of the man nor his spiritual com mencing on 30 December 1970 in accordance South Carolina. St. Stephen was the home mitment to protection of this country's in with Section 2707 of the Fleet Reserve Asso of the Chairman's parents and is forty-six stitutions, its ideals and traditions. ciation "Rituals." miles from Charleston. Shipmates National The way the game is played in Washington, Chairman Rivers was born on 28 Septem President Robert L. Bastian and National with channels of communication so greatly ber 1905 on a farm in Gumville, Sotllth Caro- Executive Secretary Robert W. Nolan repre- February 9, 1971 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2303 sented the Fleet Reserve Association at the challenge, from whatever source, when LUNAR TRIUMPH church and graveside services. their basic premises are questioned. His 82,500 Shipmates of the Fleet Reserve May I repeat here today what Presi HON. OLIN E. TEAGUE Association, indeed, all military personnel, dential Assistant John Ehrlichman said active duty and retired, deeply mourn his OF TEXAS passing. His beloved wife, Margaret, his recently, because it is important that the daughters, Mrs. Robert Eastman and Marion, facts be iterated constantly so that both IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and young Lucius Mendel Jr. can take great the Congress and the people can judge Tuesday, February 9, 1971 pride in the Chairman's service to his nation revenue sharing on its merits. Mr. TEAGUE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, and the Free World during the past thirty Mr. Ehrlichman said: years. Dr. Albert Einstein said: with the successful return of Astronauts We are not going to raise taxes or cut exist Shepard, Mitchell, and Roosa, the United "ONLY A LIFE LIVED FOR OTHERS IS A LIFE ing prograinS. It is not true that some cities States has again demonstrated that its WORTH WHILE" and States will receive less money under the Shipmate Chairman Rivers' life is the epit Administration proposal. It is true that some hope for the future lies in its ability to ome of that statement. Lt will be a space will receive more. apply technology. The same technology of time before another like him walks with that has taken us so successfully to the us and carries our burden to make the way Governors, county executives, and moon on Apollo 14 is today being well easier for us, his Shipmates. mayors should all be aware of this and, applied to our problems right here on The family has requested that those who being aware, should support the program earth. The New York Times of Febru wish to remember Chairman Rivers in a spe wholeheartedly. It is, I believe, their ary 7, 1971, carried a landmark editorial cial way may wish to address their remem salvation. which places the success of our Apollo brances to the L. Mendel Rivers Heart Sur gery Research Fund, Department of Surgery, 14 in perspective. This editorial states Alabama Medical Center, University of Ala well that- bama, Birmingham, Alabama. Messages of ANOTHER NEW YORK CITY POWER. Shepard and Mitchell have provided vivid condolence may be addressed to: Mrs. L. FAILURE evidence of how much more men can do in Mendel Rivers, 640 Federal Building, Charles space than even the most ingenious instru ton, South Carolina 29403. ments now available. As the years roll by, one by one, we end our HON. RICHARD FULTON Programs now underway, both auto cruise. The anchor is dropped to rise from the OF TENNESSEE waters no more. mated and manned, in the earth re Shipmate L. Mendel Rivers sailed through IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sources surveys and other areas of space life's cruise, meeting more than his share of Tuesday, February 9, 1971 effort will benefit from the experience calinS and storms, adverse tides and favoring of Apollo 14 if we have the will to ade winds; his ship of life has come to its final Mr. FULTON of Tennessee. Mr. Speak er another power failure, this one caused quately support our national spa~e pro anchorage in a harbor still uncharted by gram. The editorial follows: mortal men. We who remain do not know the by an explosion of unknown origin, has waters there, but we do know the course to again left a part of New York City with LUNAR TRIUMPH steer and we believe that our Shipmate, set out adequate electric service for a con Astronauts Shepard and Mitchell have en ting his course by those beacons that have siderable length of time. acted a brilliant chapter in the history of been given us, has found that harbor safely. The latest interruption of service for lunar exploration these past two days. They To those loved ones whom our departed spent more time traveling over the lunar sur Shipmate has left behind, awaiting their own the long-suffering New Yorkers came face and covered a greater area. of the moon day of departure and voyage to that same this past Sunday evening when midtown than men have ever done before. They set up harbor of eternal mercy, we can only offer our Manhattan slipped into partial darkness more scientific instruments, they conducted sympathy in this time of separation and for over 2 hours. more experiments than any of their predeces loneliness. There are many words that could The Consolidated Edison Corp., said sors, and in a region o'f extraordinary geologi be used at this time to describe the good and the trouble was caused apparently by an cal interest they gathered far more lunar outstanding qualities of the one who has explosion in an East Side powerplant, an rocks and soil than the astronauts of Apollo gone before, but we of the Fleet Reserve explosion of unknown origin. Shortly 11 and 12 or the unmanned Soviet Luna 16 Association, of which he was a member, sum device. If they return safely to earth with it up in one word: Shipmate. That word, thereafter someone phoned the Asso their precious cargo, man's knowledge and when spoken by naval men, embodies all ciated Press in New York in an attempt understanding of the moon and of the origin that can be said of any man. Chairman L. to give the impression that the incident of the solar system are likely to reach a peak Mendel Rivers was a Shipmate. was caused by sabotage. However, at last well above the present level. We who remain to carry on should not report no sabotage was indicated. The Soviet press has in recent days been think of Shipmate Rivers as gone from us, Mr. Speaker, for several weeks running seeking to downgrade the Apollo flights and but rather that he has been transferred to to argue, implicity and explicitly, that sci another ship or station where we all hope now the New York City area has been entific exploration by means of unmanned to be Shipmates again. suffering from one power shortage or col probes such as those Moscow has sent to the R.W.N. lapse after another for a variety of moon and Venus is adequate for man's de causes. sired knowledge of the solar system. Yet it However, no matter what these in must be recognized that it will be decades FEDERAL REVENUE SHARING dividual causes might happen to be, they before instruments can do on the moon or all add up to an inadequate power supply another planet what Shepard and Mitchell did these past 48 hours. The variety of tasks production and delivery system not only they performed, the speed with which they HON. LOUIS FREY, JR. for New York, but for the entire eastern worked, and the precise detail of the observa OF FLORIDA seaboard and much of the United States. tions they reported back to earth are far IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES It is my belief that the House of Rep beyond anything machines alone are now resentatives should closely study this able to per'form. Remote-controlled instru Tuesday, February 9, 1971 situation, and for that reason I have in ments are still clumsy, slow and limited Mr. FREY. Mr. Speaker, I think it is troduced House Resolution 155, to estab means of getting information as compared important to note that the White House with astronauts who have highly trained and lish a select House committee to investi versatile minds and bodies. does not believe it has erred in its pro gate the energy resources in the United The success of Apollo 14, therefore, should posal for sharing Federal revenues with States. go far to put in perspective the relative the States and local governments. Mr. Speaker, the most recent power merits of manned and unmanned space ex Too often in the course of our his collapse in New York City is yet another ploration. The achievements of Soviet un tory there has been validity in charges svmptom of what may well be a serious manned rockets in landing instruments on that an administration has erred in disease which can cripple our future eco Venus, in returning three ounces of moon judgment or in fact when presenting an nomic expansion and growth unless we dust to earth and in putting Lunokhod into ope11atlon on the lunar surface were in every important program and, as a result, those diagnose, treat, and cure it immediately. way remarkable. But now the exploits of charges have gone unchallenged. I believe the establishment of the se Shepard and Mitchell have provided vivid But today, we see the President and the lect House committee called for in my evidence of how much more men can do in White House fully confident that they are resolution would be a significant first space than even the most ingenious instru right and fully prepared to meet the step toward a cure. ments now avallable. 2304 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 9, 1971 From a long-range point of view there is As you know, the Nixon-Hardin farm bill thing by arguing that this question doesn't no real conflict between the two types of was rejected by the voters in the Novem have to be answered now: Ins position is space exploration. Both are important, use ber election in every race where it was an that the nation's system for training den ful and, in fact, essential. It is in planetary issue. While the Congress may be reluctant tists, physicians and auxiliary personnel is exploration that instruments now offer the to consider a new farm program after just incapable of turning out enough sk111ed man greatest promise, 'for they can go to Venus. passing one, it is my profound belie!! that power to meet the need, and that the socio Mars and more distant planets in the pe we must have a new farm bill if agriculture economic structure for delivering health riod immediately ahead, while it will be as we know it today is to survive. care Is so hopelessly confused and unrespon decades before men will be able to make South Dakota can and should take the sive that it would have to be junked. those same journeys. But on the moon, as lead in this vital matter. When the President's advisers, under ir Apollo 14 has shown so irrefutably, manned Sincerely, resistible public and political pressure, visits are the most productive means of BEN H. RADCLIFFE, President. started putting togeth.er a mass!ve program exploration. to improve the quantity, quality and avail ability of health care, Dr. Egeberg had thus persuaded much of the public, much of the DENTAL CARE-A NEGLECTED profession and many of the leaders on Capi tol Hill that drastic change was required. FARM DISCONTENT ART But Dr. Egeberg probably didn't expect that the Nixon staff people would go so far beyond what he was saying publicly was the first HON. JAMES ABOUREZK HON. LIONEL VAN DEERLIN priority. OF SOUTH DAKOTA OF CAIJFORNIA They accepted as a fact that more health IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES professionals were needed and in a hurry, and that entirely new methods must be Tuesday, February 9, 1971 Tuesday, February 9, 1971 found for distributing health care and Mr. ABOUREZK. Mr. Speaker, in ana Mr. VAN DEERLIN. Mr. Speaker, in financing it. lyzing the results of the 1970 elections, all the anxiety over the urgent need for Without officially shifting the Republican improving the availability of medical posLtion so as to favor "socialized medicine," columnist after columnist has pointed the Nixon team of legislative drafters took out that it was in ijhe traditionally Re care, those in the Congress and the agen the step that Dr. Egeberg had hesitated to publican Midwest that the Republican cies and the general public are inclined, take-they decided that Social Security Party suffered its greatest losses. Indeed, I think, to pay too little attention to the would have to be used to finance a huge sec the largest gains in House seats made by vast deficiencies in the amount of dental tion of the public's medical bills, from "cat Democrats in any one State was in the care received by the people, particularly astrophic" costs for all income groups to State of South Dakota. This should be children. And this despite the fact that some financial help to low-income and convincing proof that there is a mani every President since Harry Truman has middle-income families. How does dentistry share in all o£ this fest dissatisfaction among American made separate appeals for making more planning? Some dental leaders fear their pro farmers. dental care available, regardless of in f,ession--e:Jroept for education-won't figure In State after State where the Nixon come. in a new system to any important extent, Hardin farm bill was an issue, Republi The fact is the Federal Government, and that the public will suffer as a conse cans fared poorly and Democrats did like States and local communities, con quence. Others are convinced that the pres well. The farmer wants and deserves bet tinues to emphasize medical care while ent private fee system can be made to work ter than what has been offered to him. dental problems are shunted aside year with a few changes, such as formation of after year. more den tal insurance systems and provision If this spark of dissatisfaction is not to of dental care by more states in Medicaid be fanned into the full :flames of farm An excellent article on the current plans for indigent and low-income families. revolt, we must consider corrective meas problems of dentistry has been prepared At any rate, an American Dental Associa ures in the farm bill. I recognize the re for Dental Survey by George Connery, tion task force on national health insurance luctance of Congress to go over this the magazine's Washington correspond is expected to finish its studies by midsum ground again so soon after passing ma ent for more than 20 years. Mr. Con mer. Naturally represented in the task force jor farm legislation. Yet, if we are to nery suggests that now may be the time of professional and lay leaders is the tradi for the dentists themselves and their tional viewpoint of ADA-to move carefully prove the American representative sys and slowly because dentistry won't be able tem viable, as we all believe it to be, we American Dental Association to make to retreat from government red tape and con cannot ignore such a clear voice of pro their own case with Congress and the trols once it voluntarily walks into them. test as was raised at the polls last No Government. Edging the task force in the direction of vember by the constituency most imme Mr. Connery's article, as published in co-operation with some phases of national diately involved. the current issue of Dental Survey, health insurance is the American Medical follows: Association, which is slowly but perceptibly In support of what I say, and as proof shifting its position. The professional groups, of this dissatisfaction, I would commend DENTISTRY'S HEALTH ROLE: A QUESTION OF however, will not have to go so far as to to the attention of my colleagues the fol "URGENCY" support "socialized medicine"-lf only be lowing letter by my good friend Ben WASHINGTON, D.C.--One big question hov cause the Nixon plan technically is not "so Radcliffe, President of the South Da ering over all discussions here of national cialized medicine," and great efforts will be kota Farmers Union. health problems involves national health in made to point this out. (In the past ADA I include the article as follows: surance. It seems clear that a new system is has supported AMAin opposition to national on the way which will, for good or bad, affect health insurance under Social Security.) SOUTH DAKOTA FARMERS UNION, almost all of the population. If ADA leads dentists into co-operation Huron, S.Dak., January 8, 1971. Indeed, there is now so much support for with government on national health insur Hon. JAMES ABOUREZK, the idea that the old battle lines are wiped ance, it doesn't have too much time to lose House of Representatives, out and the issue in the 92nd Congress is no in seeking to shape a new law so that the Washington, D.O. longer whether the people are going to have public's dental needs are properly serviced DEAR JIM: I note w'ith serious concern the help with their health care b111s--but when and the profession's rights protected. recent announcement that prices South Da this help will come, and how it will be pro Last session the hoppers in Senate and kota farmers received 'for their products were vided. Whether dentistry is to be included, House were weighted down with a variety down 12 per cent from a year ago. And each however, remains very much in doubt. of health insurance plans, from lean and in month the United States Department of It should be noted that the controversial expensive catastrophic coverage to omnibus Agriculture tells us the parity ratio has Dr. Roger Egeberg, chief medical officer for and expensive programs of complete health fallen again untn now it stands at 67 per tb.'3 Nixon Administration, went a long way care. This year there w111 be still more of cent, the 1933 level. My concern is magnified toward crystallizing professional, public and them in addition to the Nixon plan. by the fact that I am convinced the present governmental thinking on the issue. Dr. Ege If there is anything nearly uniform about farm law will spell disaster for thousands of berg, squarely on record as favoring national the varied plans, it is their almost total lack SOuth Dakota farmers. health insurance before he became a spokes of provision for dental care. The omission If this year's program is any indication of man for the Republicans on health matters, is rooted in the fact that most legislators what we can expect under the new bill, I has shaded his public remarks to stay a 11 ttle interested in the health fields get their ad can only be pessimistic about the possibility closer to what was believed to be the Nixon vice largely from physicians and welfare of the Secretary of Agriculture using what policy of moving slowly-but he did not workers, both in and out of government. options the bill provides to raise farm income. change his basic ideas, and never said he had With almost no exceptions, those who in Indeed, it appears that American agricul changed them. fluence the lawmakers are obsessed with the ture is being made the whipping boy of our He dodged direct answers on whether na idea. that government must intervene tx> economy. tional health insurance would be a good get good medical care to au of the people, February 9, 1971 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2305 and help them pay the bllls, but that dental the fact that military pay scales have concern with the problem of unemployment. needs are not too urgent and can be met consistently been lower than pay scales Although there are no statutes that fiX the responsibility for employment on local (except for charity cases) through the tra in the other professions. ditional private practice machinery. government, the fact is that we are the closest At this writing it is not known whether Mr. Speaker, the legislation I am pro to the people and they look to us for leader dental expenses will even be included in the posing has enjoyed the support of many ship in meeting problems that directly af deductibles under the Nixon program, and of our colleagues in both Houses. They fect their lives. Further the place to meet planners haven't decided whether to allow believe, as I do, that retirement pay problems is where the problems are, and the them under the various benefits. should once again be linked directly with cities have the greatest numbers of the There is an opening for tax-paid dentistry active duty pay so that automatic ad unemployed. in Medicaid, however. Part of the Nixon I believe that there are two aspects to justments in retired pay will be assured the blll. One is to meet the problem of un project is to completely revamp this pro whenever the active duty rates are gram. which is run by states and now offers employment during periods of recession, medical and some dental care to those em changed. and the other is to fill public service needs welfa.re and low-income famllies. The White I urge our colleagues to join me in sup in such areas as environmental quality, House idea is to have the plan run by the porting the restoration of the recom health care, housing, neighborhood im Federal government with eligibility and putation principle. provement, recreation, education and other benefits the same in every state, regardless programs that contribute directly to the of per-capita income. betterment of the community. I woUld Uke Something more than half the states now to add a third consideration, and that is provide a measure of Medicaid dental care, EMERGENCY MANPOWER to provide maximum opportunity for a job to any one who has a genuine desire to work. from very minor benefits to almost complete LEGISLATION coverage. Congress now 1s looking into the In regards to periods of high unemploy possibU1ty of allowing states to cut back ment, there are questions that I believe and to relieve them of the requirement that deserve your serious study and considem HON. DAN ROSTENKOWSKI tion. they expando benefits for all medical and OF D..LINOIS dental needs. The requirement that there be in excess If this objective prevails, dental care IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of 4.5 percent unemployment nationally for probably will be largely eliminated from Tuesday, February 9, 1971 three consecutive months before the b111 Medicaid. becomes operable appears to be unrealistic. Should dentists as a groUip decide to co Mr. ROSTENKOWSKI. Mr. Speaker, Even when employment is high nationally operate in any national health insurance the alarming increase in the rate of un we all know that there can be regional and idea, the pressure for more "health main employment in our country's urban areas local areas of unemployment. There must be tenance organizations" (HMO's) offers them is a 8ituation which can no longer be consideration given to cover these condi another opportunity to have patients' bills tions that do not reflect the national per tolerated. We in the 92d Congress must centage. paid--and to practice in a high-level dental take up where we left off in the last medical atmosphere as well. We also recognize that even in those areas President Nixon may or may not encour Congress to insure final passage of strong where unemployment may be under four age this HMO concept, in which groups of emergency manpower legislation. Con and a half percent, the unemployment rate physicians or physicians and dentists could sidering the crisis level this problem has for minority groups may be substantially contract with the government for the total reached in certain areas of our country, higher. medtcal or medical-dental care of patients I was heartened to see that Senator NEL I know that there is considerable support and receive uniform per-capita payments for soN's Subcommittee on Employment, for the theory of a mobile labor force--that "keeping the patienrt healthy." This idea. fol workers will go from areas of high unem Manpower, and Poverty, has acted swift ployment to more prosperous areas. To a lows the pattern of the West Coast Kaiser ly to insure early passage of his emer program, which has offered evidence to Con great extent this may be true. However, gress that it costs less to keep patients gen gency manpower legislation. It was also there are some groups which do not re erally well than to treat them. gratifying to witness the strong show of spond to this pressure: the man who is over For dentists, ofllcial adoption of the HMO support for S. 31, Senator NELSON's blli, 45, the person who is unable to move for concept would offer a constant flood of pre that was demonstrated by the Legislative compel11ng personal reasons, and those who ventive care. Whether dentists would like Action Committee of the U.S. Conference· feel uncertain about the consequence of their move. per-capita payment is, however, another of Mayors. ;question. The further effect of this mobi11ty is to The presence of such prominent lead place a greater burden on the city that ac ers as Mayor John Lindsay of New York, commodates them when the economic picture Mayor James Tate of Philadelphia, changes and there is unemployment. This is FASCELL URGES RESTORATION OF Mayor Kevin White of Boston, 1\Iayor one of the reasons for the current plight of RECOMPUTATION Carl Stokes of Cleveland, Mayor Jo many of our cities. seph Alioto of San Francisco, and the I am confident, for example, that the citv mayor of my own city of Chicago, Rich of Seattle will restore its economy but it HON. DANTE B. FASCELL will be in great difllculty in the future if OF FLORIDA ard J. Daley, at the hearings conducted there is an exodus of skllle'd labor from the by Senator NELSON's subcommittee this IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cltv. morning demonstrates quite clearly the I believe that every section of our country Tuesday, February 9, 1971 concern that these urban leaders have should be strong economically and able to Mr. FASCELL. Mr. Speaker, America for much-needed legislation. provide opportunity for employment for their residents. owes no greater debt than to her retired I would like to insert a copy of Mayor Daley's remarks in the RECORD as they I feel that this committee should give con servicemen and women. They have sideration to exceptions to the 4.5 percent served their country with honor and quite clearly depict the problems we in formula. courage. Chicago are facing in this area. The needs of the cities have become ob The legislation I am introducing to The remarks follow: vious. There is no question that cities could day provides that military retirement STATEMENT BY MAYOR RICHARD J. DALEY hire and efllciently use workers to fill unmet pay be based on current active duty I am Richard J. Daley, Mayor of the City needs in publtc health, anti-pollution pro rates. This more equitable system was of Chicago. With me is Samuel Bernstein, grams, education, publtc safety, sanitation the city Manpower Coordinator who has and other equally important areas. We now used until 1963 when the Congress, act have a situation that while the private sec ing in good faith, voted to discard the served as Commissioner Of Placement and Unemployment Compensation for the State tor is te111ng the unemployed it has no open principle of recomputation and replace it of Illinois from 1942 to 1963, and formerly ings, there is a great need in the public sector with a straight cost-of-living increase was illinois Employment Security Adminis to hire additional workers for essential serv for retirees. trator until he joined the city last year. He ices. But there are no local resources with Unfortunately, experience has shown is an outstanding authority on employment which the cltles can hire the additional us that the cost-of-living increase is in and manpower training. personnel. equitable in comparison to the recom- As lVCayor, I am here to comment on Sen The opportunity for jobs in the public sec tor exists at the same time that the nation putation principle. In recomputation, the ate Bill 31 which is designed "to provide during times of high unemployment for pro suffers from a six percent unemployment retiree receives direct benefits from .each grams of public service employment for un rate, with no assurance that it will not go military pay raise. employed persons, to assist states and local higher before it declines to the 4.5 percent A rate of retirement pay based on communities in providing needed publlc level that the President hopes to reach by current active duty rates has tradition services, and for other purposes." late 1972. ally been one of the benefits which offset All the mayors of our cities have a direct This unemployment figure includes highly 2306 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 9, 1971 skilled professional workers-managers, en the Work Incentive Program for those who War One Widows which I will let you know gineers, technicians, the recently returned are in training under the "Aid to Families about at a later date, regarding Pension cuts veteran from Viet Nam with skills acquired of Dependent Children" program proVided in when Social Security raises are given. in the armed services, as well as the unskilled the Social Security Act. This little piece of Poetry I composed my and inexperienced worker who even with In the last analysis, the Public Service self in your Honor, Let me know if you like it. unemployment reduced to a level of 4% per Employment concept is not compromised if Respectfully yours, cent would find it difficult to obtain a job the worker, with his newly acquired skills, JOSEPHINE STURGEON, in prl.vate industry. Chicago could, and would, can continue his career by entering private Youngstown, Ohio. hire workers from all skill levels-including industry. Government and industry could THE MAN FOR THE JOB engineers and technicians to do essential achieve no finer partnership than in a pro work not now being done. But its major gram dedicated to such "\dvancement of the No matter whose shoes you try to fill thrust would be the hiring of the untrained American worker. The climb for you will be uphill, and inexperienced and, through training, In Chicago, as weJ' as in other cities, we Your Task's will be from dawn till dark both on-the-job and in educational institu have taken advantage of every federal and Upon this road you did embark. tions, provide them with the skills that will state program in the employment field. We Your many friends will wish you well enable them to make a real contribution to have been deeply concerned about the re And really time will only tell, the welfare of the city in which they live. turning veteran from Viet Nam. We estab That you were the man to take the reins At the same time, it will lessen unemploy lished a special office in the City Hall to pro To solve our problems and make some gains. ment and provide the worker with an income vide job placement services for the veteran. for himself and his family, and with self We enlisted the aid of the state employment Each day I bow my head and pray respect, and standing in the community. agency and private employers. This program That God take care of you today, Obviously, this is not a "made work" pro was successful and we were able to place And guide you in your daily tasks gram. The city will create entry level jobs in more than two-thirds of the applicants in This is all that one can ask. vital departments where in-service training good paying jobs--some in city govern (Submitted by Josephine Sturgeon to Con and accredited education will be used to im ment--most in private industry. With the gressman Charles J. Carney, 19th District. prove the workers' skills. The Civil Service decline of the economy, however, we now Youngstown. Ohio.) Commission will link entry positions to a are not able to find jobs for returning vet city-wide career ladder based on proper task erans. And recently we have witnessed the analysis so that employees wlll know that bitterness of the veteran who has been laid opportunities to advance will match their off the job which we located and is seeking skill development. This is not new in Chi employment again. NEEDED: JUDGES EQUALLY CON cago. For years, the city has had an educa Our Model Cities and urban opportunities CERNED WITH RIGHTS FOR VIC tion incentive program for all its workers program give the highest priority to job TIMS providing for released time and tuition reim training and employment opportunities. bursement. Public service employment, to be We also have a program opening the ranks truly effective, should include a commitment of building trades unions to minority mem HON. JOHN R. RARICK by the city to upgrade its workers and thereby bers through the Chicago Plan which is a OF LOUISIAN A improve its services to the community. Cer cooperative agreement between building tainly this will afford workers an option of contractors, trade unions and minority IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES entering private employment as well as being groups for training and employing minority Tuesday, February 9, 1971 absorbed into regular government employ workers. ment as their skills improve. There is a universal realization that our Mr. RARICK. Mr. Speaker, one of the A survey, just completed by the Nationa.l present welfare system has become self most untouchable persons in America to Civil Service League, of departments in the defeating. It appears to me that there is no day, according to FBI Director J. Edgar City of Chicago showed that the city could better way to rescue able-bodied, employable, Hoover's article in the current issue of use more than 30,000 additional workers in but unemployed, men from their present the FBI bulletin, is the habitual law expanding services that would contribute di eroding idleness which slowly kills morale breaker who is granted freedom time rectly to the community. and initiative, destroys the spirit, and affects Typical jobs include engineering techni the off-spring, than to give meaningful work after time by our liberal society prior to cians, draftsmen, clerk-typists, health aides, at decent wages. fulfilling any penalty. Mr. Hoover quotes data control operators and rodent control Men and women need work. They need the statistics to show that after being pre inspectors, as well as positions which do not chance to find themselves in the world. The maturely released, a substantial majority require specialized skills. opportunity for a meaningful job is the most of the repeating offenders are re-arrested Experience has taught us that even in times important fact in maintaining a basic level within a few years. By abusing parole, of high employment there Me men and wom of dignity in our way of life. Certainly em probation and bail privileges, a sizable en who can not find a place in private in ployment is not a panacea for all of our so number of lawbreakers are free to again dustry. This is particularly true for those cial problems, but nothing will make a wreak their violence on society and to over 45, and these older workers not only greater contribution toward alleviating such include the unskilled or low-paid but the problems. make city streets unsafe. individual who has worked in a high-paid job With the modifications I have recom Mr. Hoover places much of the blame for ten or fifteen years and has been laid off mended, I urge the passage of Senate Bill 31. for this condition on the over leniency of during a recession. In many instances he Thank you very much for this opportunity judges who are hostile to police and are will not be hired back and he is finding it to appear before this Committee. overly "root cause" sympathetic toward extremely difficult to get a job. There also criminals. is the young worker from 18 to 25 without Admitting that prisons and jails could a college education who finds it hard to get be improved, Mr. Hoover points out that an entry job in private industry. The problem THE MAN FOR THE JOB is even more distressing for members of mi they are greatly improved over what they nority groups. were in the past when it was still safe to Public Service Employment should not be use the streets to walk on. These facts just stop-gap employment--make-work jobs HON. CHARLES J. CARNEY would indicate that lawlessness is caused in which the worker simply marks time un OF OHIO by lawbreakers--not on the condition of til the economy improves and unemployment IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES prisons. is reduced to some arbitrary p ercentage. The Tuesday, February 9, 1971 Taking issue with the FBI Director is employment and service needs are too greaJt Judge John D. Fauntleroy of the Supe for any such limited program. Public Service Mr. CARNEY. Mr. Speaker, I recently rior Court of the District of Columbia, Employment should generate real jobs; jobs received a letter and poem authored by and Kenneth C. Hardy, head of the city's in which the worker can take pride because one of my constituents, Josephine Stur he knows that he is proViding a needed Department of Corrections. Judge Faunt service; jobs which are not dead-end but geon, of Youngstown, Ohio, which I am leroy rationalizes the releasing of con those where the worker can see advancement pleased to commend to the attention of victed criminals gradually since "they're opportunities in permanent employment. my colleagues: going to be back on the street sometime The Committee should therefore consider Hon. CHARLES J. CARNEY, anyWay." Hardy supports doubling tax extending the authorization for appropria Washington, D.C. funds for rehabilitation so as to put more tion in section 4(a), beyond July 1, 1973. DEAR MR. CARNEY: First let me offer my If this permanency can not be assured Congratulations to You as our new Congress offenders back into the community on through legislation, then the worker should man. We all felt that you would make lt work release, parole, and other human be assured that he will not be dismissed un and we know that you will do a good job. experimental programs. til a suitable job is made available to him by I won't burden you with any problems at The opinions of this Federal judge the federally supported state employment this time because I know that you have and official were publically expounded service. Precedent for this a!lready exists in many, We do have problems with our World at the second annual meeting of the February 9, 1971 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2307 Adams-Morgan Federation. Adams and young and healthy she would probably have Some 80 percent Of young offenders are Morgan are schools involved in an ex survived the beating and that, hence, it real "not dumb, not borderline, but clever in ly wasn't murder. dividuals, who have the ability to achieve, periment in community control. School A man arrested after an unsuccessful at to become good citizens." Superintendent Hugh J. Scott is report tempt to hijack an airliner was ruled by "If you're going to be effective," the judge ed to have said that Washington's another judge as insane at the time of the said, "you're going to have to start before schools are in a state of anarchy and attempt but sane for the trial. The court offenders graduate" from juvenile into adult that it would take more than a few years ordered the jury to turn him loose. criminals. to really improve the situation. In a. western state a man with a. 40-year Kenneth L. HMdy, head of the city's de Supporting Mr. Hoover's position is a criminal record was sentenced to life in 1959 partment of corrections, agreed. But making as a. habitual criminal. Released after only rehabilitation work will be costly, he said. group of law-abiding, taxpaying citizens eight years, he was picked up for a hit-and The corrections budget must double next of Baton Rouge, La., whom I am hon run accident and given 30 days. Shortly year if the job is to be done, he said. ored to represent. These understanding thereafter, while on bond for a. new armed And effective rehabilitation will mean put citizens have taken a strong stand for robbery charge, he killed a police officer. He ting more and more offenders back into the law and order. They realize that their was finally given 20 years--much less than community on work release, parole and other local police officers are the front line in his 1959 sentence. programs. the defense of the citizen against crime, An appeals court in an eastern city freed "The general attitude of the community," anarchy, and insurrection; and that the an alleged burglar because, it said, the lower said Judge Fauntleroy, "is keep them out of court had erred in not telling the defendant sight, keep them out of mind. They're going primary duty of organized society his trial could proceed without him. The de to be back on the street sometime anyway," through its law enforcement officers is fendant, who had been convicted 20 times in and it is better to release them gradually to maintain safety and protect the citi 33 years, had ignored two summonses to show while maintaining some control. zen's life and property. For these rea up for trial. His excuse was that he had been Crime was only one of the problems con sons, thousands organized a citizens for depressed and gotten drunk. sidered at the ail-day session entitled "Ad law and order group to supiJort local po A 6-foot 2 inch 185-pound youth, guilty of ams-Morgan, A Community Gets Itself To lice and to back them in maintaining a rape at gunpoint, attempted rape, robbery gether." and assaulting arresting officers, was re Schools and housing also presented clear peaceful community. manded to juvenile court because he was 16- problems with unclear solutions for the more In a recent statement, the Baton right along with youngsters who break than 100 citizens who took part many of Rouge Citizens for Law and Order placed windows. whom represented the area's numerous or the responsibility for the spiraling crime The FBI has followed up 19,000 offenders ganizations. rate in their city on the leniency of local released from the federal crimina.! justice School Supt. Hugh J. Scott said, "One of judges. These citizens have issued a pub system in the year 1963. Of those put on the things that has got to be done im lic notice to the elected judges to cease probation, 57 percent had been arrested for mediately is change the image of the school new crimes within the next six years; of those system. It•s a bad one." being soft on criminals lest their city p.a.roled, 63 percent. Of youths under 20 re But making real improvement will not be deteriorate to the anarchy which pre leased from federal custody in 1963, 74 per done in a few months, or even a few years, vails in some northern cities. cent had been rearrested by 1969. he added. People power groups, such as the Ba Much is being said these days about the Making little direct reference to the ton Rouge Citizens for Law and Order, inadequacy of our prisons. They surely are. Adams and Morgan schools, each of which organized in communities throughout They are usually overcrowded, outmoded, is an experiment in community control, Scott America can serve as a boon to making overgloomy, understaffed, lacking adequate nevertheiess said, "I need the community elected officials more responsive to the schooling and job-training and short on psy behind me. You're my strength." chiatry and counseling. His next move, Scott said, will be per rights of the law-abiding people. But they are vastly better, in general, than sonnel shifts to develop a leadership cadre I insert several newsclippings follow any prisons we ever had in the past. And if of principals and administrators. ing my remarks: life is less secure in America now than it "I'm trying to destroy what I consider an [From the Washington Star, J.an. 30, 1971] was when we had worse jatls and peniten archy in the schools,•' he said. HOOVER TuRNS SPOTLIGHT ON INDULGENT tiaries, if increasing numbers of innocent A morning panel on renewing the com JUDGES citizens are preyed upon by the beneficiaries munity agreed on the need for more hous of a generation of juvenile courts, hair ing and more business in the once-afiluent, (By Jenkin Lloyd Jones) trigger parole boards and maudlin judges, now thoroughly mixed area bounded by s. Old J. Edgar Hoover, long a clay pigeon let's not overblame the prisons. The locked Street, Connecticut Avenue, Rock Creek for professional libertarians, has brought one up prisoner is no menace. The unrepentant Park, Harvard and 16th Streets. up from the floor in the current issue of the released prisoner is. The problem, said the Rev. Channing E. FBI Bulletin. Says Hoover: Phillips, is to move "beyond the talking From the files of the bureau he has col "In today's society one of the most priv stage." lected a few gaudy examples of soft-headed ileged of creatures is the repeating offender, "Planners have not been sensitive to the ness among some judges and parole boards prematurely released time and again, free community," said Mr. Phillips, "and are which help explain why once-safe cities have to abuse parole, probation and bail privileges justly criticized. But having residents do become jungles and why citizens who used while wreaking havoc upon law-abiding all the planning is no better.'' to stroll the streets in the evenings now bar citizens. The community's role should be to lay ourt ricade themselves in their homes. "We have sunk into this morass through a the concept to be followed by professionals, Most disturbing, we now have on the bench distortion of human vaJ.ues. We have for said Mr. Phillips, who is head of the Housing some judges who are patently hostUe to gotten history's lesson tha.t law, order and Development Corp., which has rebuilt Clif police. justice exist only when personal liberty is ton Terrace on 14th Street NW. One such character, according to Hoover, balanced with individual responsibllity, that not long ago announced that he would hand public welfare must take precedence over [From the Baton Rouge State Times, Jan. out a light sentence to any defendant claim private privilege." so, 1971) ing mistreatment by police. The judge in Amen! sisted on no corroborating evidence. He ap LOCAL GROUP BLASTS "LEND:NT" SENTENCES peared perfectly willing to damn the police [From the Washington Post, Feb. 7, 1971) A statement suggesting that local judges by hearsay. have been lenient in meting sentences to One young thug, previously convicted of EXPAND AID FOR CONVICTS, DISTRICT OF criminals, especially "influential" criminals car theft, assault and attempted rape of a COLUMBIA WARNED and teenage vandals, was released today by child, was captured after a gun battle fol (By Andrew Barnes) Norman Day, president of the Baton Rouge lowing an attempted jewelry store holdup. More police and better courts are only part Citizens for Law and Order. Three policemen were injured. of the solution to the city's crime problem, The statement follows: But when the captive complained that the Judge John D. Fauntleroy said yesterday. "The members of the Baton Rouge Citi police had roughed him up, this judge sen Crime prevention and rehabilittation of zens for Law and Order are becoming in tenced him to two years probation, condi convicted offenders also will have to be im creasingly concerned over the decisions being tioned on his getting treatment for drug ad proved if the city is to get a handle on elim rendered by local judges pertaining to con diction. When the narcotics institution re inating crime, said Fauntleroy, a judge on victed criminals. Our members feel that the fused to accept him on the grounds that he the old Juvenile Court, now a part of the leniency of judges toward criminals is largely could not be rehab111tated, the judge let Superior Court. responsible for the spiraling crime rate in him go. Increased appropriations for police, and our city. This same judge gave a five to seven-year the reorganization of the courts under the "The Baton Rouge Citizens for Law and term to another hoodlum who beat a 75-year D.C. crime act of 1970, may lull citizens into Order were particularly alarmed over the re old woman to death in a $5 street robbery. thinking that crime is really dropping, cent statement made by Judge Elmo Lear The judge explained the light sentence on Fauntleroy told the second annual meeting who said that punishment was not a deter the grounds that if the woman had been of the Adams-Morgan Federation. rent to crime. Statistics clearly prove that 2308 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 9, 1971 the criminal element multiples. Our entire forces during the Civil War. Twenty of the true place of women in a sound so system of law and justice has always been these men were recognized for valor and ciety recently came to my attention. In based on the premise that criminals must be punished or anarchy will prevail. The more received the Nation's highest medal for these days of rampant pornography, all we deviate from this proven truth, the more heroism-the Congressional Medal of out drives for sex education, and de anarchy prevails. Judges owe it to society to Honor. structive agitation, it recalls us to some carry out their sworn duty to uphold the There were more than 5,000 black cow lasting truths. I would recommend it laws of the land by punishing law breakers. boys in the Old West. A black man, Bill particularly to the advocates of women's we feel that judges who are at variance with Pickett, invented the art of "bulldog liberation as showing the way to real this basic American philosophy should resign ging." James P. Beckworth '?'as a bl~ck freedom and dignity for women. and perhaps seek employment in the field of frontiersman who excelled m trappmg The statement follows: social work. "The Baton Rouge Citizens for Law and and hunting. OPEN LETTER TO MAN Order are also concerned over the preferen The first black physician in America I am a Woman. tial treatment that certain influential crim was James Derham, who established a I am your wife, your sweetheart, your inals receive over the insignificant ~known prosperous medical practice in Philadel mother, your daughter, your sister . . . your criminal. We were most disturbed over the phia. The first doctor to perform open friend. I need your help. light five-year sentence recently meted out to heart surgery was black-Or. Daniel Hale I was created to give to the world gentle· the local public official who confessed to Williams. Dr. Charles Drew, a black sur ness, understanding, serenity, beauty and stealing approximately $500,000 of our tax love. I am finding it increasingly difficult to money. We are also most alarmed over the geon invented the blood bank and be fulfill my purpose. fact that many of the instances of violence cam~ the world's greatest authority on Many people in advertising, motion pic in the public schools seem to be performed blood plasma. tures, television and radio have ignored my by the same individuals and that these per The achievements of Booker T. Wash inner qualities and have repeatedly used sons are not punished. Instead they are re ington and George Washington Carver me only as a symbol of sex. leased whereby they return to the publlc are well known to students, but how This humiliates me; it destroys my dig schools and again commit criminal acts. many Americans have read the works of nity; it prevents me from being what you "Our organization's 3,000 members will be Alexander Dumas, the author of "The want me to be; an example of beauty, in closely watching future sentencing of con spiration and love. victed criminals and, if necessary, will use Count of Monte Cristo," and realized Love for my children, love for my husband, their influence to remedy the deteriorating that he was of African descent, as was love of my God and country. situation in Baton Rouge by taking what Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and Alexander I need your help to restore me to my true ever legal action is necessary to halt lenient Jushkin. Black Americans such as Paul position . . . to allow me to fulfill the pur judicial decisions." Laurence Dunbar and Charles Waddell pose for which I was created. Chestnutt have left thejr mark in the I know you wlll find a way. literary annals of America. Black men have prospered in the field NEGRO HISTORY WEEK of business. C. C. Spaulding developed an insurance company that had assets SOCIAL SECURITY INEQUITIES HON. GLENN M. ANDERSON worth $33 million when he died. S. B. Fuller set up a firm in Chicago that HON. FLETCHER THOMPSON OF CALIFORNIA manufactures toiletries and cosmetics IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and distributes them by door-to-door OF GEORGIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Tuesday, February 9, 1971 salespeople. The Fuller Products Co. is one of the largest black-owned businesses Tuesday, February 9, 1971 Mr. ANDERSON of California. Mr. in America. Mr. THOMPSON of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, this week, February 7 thro~gh Leaders in the movement for civil 13 is Negro History Week-an occasiOn Speaker, many of us are aware of ~ rights have admired such leaders as equities in the social security laws which whlch has been observed in Los Angeles Frederick Douglass, and, of course, the for a number of years. In view of this ob we have been unable to get cleared up outstanding leader, the late Martin Lu through legislation in recent years. servance I would like to pay homage to ther King, Jr. these ~ericans whose participation in One of the most glaring of these is the our Nation's development began in 1619. The residents of Los Angeles know the way in which working wives are treated The black man's history in the United fine architecture of Paul Williams, who under existing social security laws and designed the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, a regulations. Basically, although pay States, although often neglected ~ our Saks Fifth Avenue store, office buildings, history books, is one of great achieve ments to the social security fund are de and mansions. He ranks high among ducted from their wages at the same rate ment and accomplishment which have architects of the world. improved life in America. _Due to . the as from the pay of other workers, they Incidentally, in 1969, I had the honor are denied retirement benefits and they publicity and public adulatiOn recerved of participating in the ceremonies paying by sports heroes and celebrities, the aUnited States Army, and they're poor be to put-turn on the hot water, and I told education." cause they're here serving their country. Ser him we didn't have hot water. And next he Students are permitted to borrow a maxi geants and officers get along all right; their told me to put him in the shower and put mum of $1,500 annually, at 7%, with the wives and families are brought to Europe at him near the shower and turn on the hot total amount that may be borrowed for both February 9, 1971 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2315 undergraduate and graduate work limited to cause he's even more vehemently against the "The whole thing is just incredible," he $7,500. war now than he was when he made his his says, "that the American people could have To provide funds needed for loans, Twin toric but little-noticed Senate speech on been bamboozled by sheer mendacity at the City State Bank plans to sell $250,000 of March 10, 1964. top. And that mendacity continues to this seven-year, 6% capital notes and an equal Certainly it's not his advanced !llge. He day. As inexcusable though understandable amount of 6%,% notes due in 1981. Maturi looks 84, all right, stooped and wrinkled and as it was earlier, it's more so now. We know ties of the two issues, he said, "coincide with his eyes a bit watery, but he moves about now how we've slaughtered innocent non the expected repayment period of the stu his cluttered old house off Rock Creek Park combatants and made millions of refugees dent loans." like a youngster of 60. And his views pour with our bombing." Sale of the issues, currently awaiting clear out in a flood of names, dates and debater's Unlike some Vietnam critics in the Senate ance from Federal and state regulatory agen incisive points, especially on the Vietnam who were persuaded by peace-movement cies, will permit the bank to more than dou war. propaganda against the war, Gruening was ble the amount of student loans currently Just down the road from his house is Wal a do-it-yourself dove. outstanding, he added. ter Reed Army Medical center, and the "When I came here I didn't know anything "We expect a portion of the notes to be short, balding Gruelling tells of visits to the except what I read in the papers," he re purchased by senior doctors and others wards of Vietnam veterans who have lost calls. "I began reading everything I could affiliated with the medical center,'' Mr. Hig limbs or their eyesight, and of how the sight get my hands on. It seemed to me there gins said, "thus permitting individual funds fans his conviction that the war is all wrong was no U.S. Vital interest at stake. I was a to be channeled to the guaranteed student and must be stopped. rooting-tooting supporter of American in aid loans." But no one is listening anymore, because volvement in World War I and I served in it. he has not been in the Senate for four years. But I knew this domino theory was absolute So Ernest Gruening gets up every morning bunk, and Nixon years ago saying we would ERNEST GRUENING: EVOLUTION OF and goes to work on his autobiography, into be fighting Communism on the beaches of which he is pouring all his thoughts and his California-absolute rot. A WAR CRITIC arguments against the American involve "If we had stayed out of it, we would have ment in Vietnam he sought to stop almost had in North Vietnam the strongest sup alone in the Senate in the early 1960s. porter in opposing the Chinese moving south. HON. NICK BEGICH The role of peacenik came late in life to We should have supported Ho Chi Minh, OF ALASKA Gruening. He was medical student, cub re who was analagous to Tito and not part of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES porter, big city editor, magazine writer, ad the Communist conspiracy." Gruening made his first open break with Tuesday, Feb1·uary 9, 1971 viser to Secretary of State Cordell Hull, FDR bureaucrat, Governor of Alaska, and a prime Vietnam policy on October 7, 1963, when he Mr. BEGICH. Mr. Speaker, Senator battler for its statehood before becoming one charged that the official American position of its first elected senators. that U.S. Forces in Vietnam were simply Ernest Gruening is one o.f this Nation's "advising," not fighting, was false. most distinguished citizens. His wisdom In the Senate, he listened from the outset to the claims and promises about Vietnam, His March 10, 1964 speech calling for a and determination have guided Alaska and he doubted. He read Indochinese his pullout found only one solid ally-Morse and the country for many years. tory and he listened some more, and he and five months later, when President John Through the years, Senator Gruening doubted some more. And then, with only one son sought and got his Tonkin Gulf Resolu guided Alaska to statehood through the clearly identifiable ally-Sen. Wayne Morse tion from Congress, Gruening and Morse were difficult and challenging years of the of Oregon, now also retired by the voters the only dissenters in the 88-2 vote. 1950's. Mr. Gruening served as Alaska's Gruening began to speak out. Vietnam hawks in the Senate attributed territorial Governor longer than any Today, he is still speaking out, even Gruening's HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE,S-Wednesday, February 10, 1971 The House met at 12 o'clock noon. H. Con. Res. 135. Concurrent resolution appoints as members of the Board of The Chaplain, Rev. Edward G. Latch, providing for an adjournment of the House Visitors to the U.S. Air Force Academy D.D., offered the following prayer: !rom the close of business on Wednesday, the following members on the part of the February 10, 1971, until noon on Wednesday, The Lord shall preserve thy going out February 17, 1971. House: Mr. FLYNT, of Georgia; Mr. and thy coming in jrom this time forth SIKES, Of Florida; Mr. RHODES, of Ari and even jorevermore.-Psalm 121: 88. The message also announced that the zona; and Mr. BROTZMAN, of Colorado. 0 God and Father of us all as we leave Senate had passed bills of the following titles, in which the concurrence of the for our recess ke:ep us aware of Thy APPOINTMENT AS MEMBERS OF presence wherever we go or wherever we House is requested: S.J. Res. 31. Joint resolution extending the BOARD OF VISITORS TO THE U.S. stay. May our steps be ordered by Thee in COAST GUARD ACADEMY all wisdom and in all good will. Grant date for transmission to the Congress of the that the work we do, the trips we take Repor.t of the Joint Economic Committee. The SPEAKER. Pursuant to the pro and the speeches we make honoring the The message also announced that the visions of 14 U.S.C. 194(a), the Chair Father of our Country and the savior of Vice President, pursuant to Public Law appoints as members of the Board of our Nation may add to the unity of our 754, 81st Congress, appointed Mr. Larry Visitors to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy Republic and to peace in our world. A. Hen·mann to the Federal Records the following members on the part of the During these days be unto us and unto Council. House: Mr. MoNAGAN, of Connecticut; our people a tower of strength. Let Thy and Mr. STEELE, of Connecticut. power support us, Thy mercy keep us, Thy grace guide and Thy love redeem APPOINTMENT AS MEMBERS OF us COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE APPOINTMENT AS MEMBERS OF us. So may we live with faith and hope NONESSENTUL FEDERAL EX BOARD OF VISITORS TO THE U.S. for the good of our land and the glory of Thy holy name. Amen. PENDITURES MERCHANT MARINE ACADEMY The SPEAKER. Pursuant to the pro The SPEAKER. Pursuant to the pro- visions of section 601, title 6, Public Law visions of 46 U.S.C. 1126c, the Chair THE JOURNAL 250, 77th Congress, the Chair appoints as appoints as members of the Board of The SPEAKER. The Chair has exam members of the Committee To Investi Visitors to the U.S. Merchant Marine ined the Journal of the last day's pro gate Nonessential Federal Expenditures Academy the following members on the ceedings and announces to the House his the following members of the Committee part of the House: Mr. WoLFF, of New approval thereof. on Ways and Means: Mr. MILLS, of Ar York, and Mr. WYDLER, of New York. Without objection, the Journal stands kansas; Mr. WATTS, of Kentucky; and Mr. BYRNES of Wisconsin. 91pproved. APPOINTMENT AS MEMBERS OF There was no objection. And 'the following members of the Committee on Appropriations: Mr. MA BOARD OF VISITORS TO THE U.S. HON, Of Texas; Mr. WHITTEN, of Missis MILITARY ACADEMY MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE sippi; and Mr. Bow, of Ohio. The SPEAKER. Pursuant to the pro A message from the Senate, by Mr. visions of 10 U.S.C. 4355(a), the Chair appoints as members of the Board of Arrington, one of its clerks, announced APPOINTMENT AS MEMBERS OF that the Senate had passed with an Visitors to the U.S. Military Academy BOARD OF VISITORS TO THE U.S. the following members on the part of amendment in which the concurrence of AIR FORCE ACADEMY the House is requested, a concurrent reso the House: Mr. TEAGUE of Texas; Mr. lution of the House of the following The SPEAKER. Pursuant to the pro NATCHER, of Kentucky; Mr. DAVIS of title: vtsions of 10 U.S.C. 9355(a), the Chair Wisconsin; and Mr. PIRNIE, of New York.