2432 · CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE IilARCH 9 Delaware, vice Charles Stewart Lynch, term Howard Arnold Craig inheritance and make l{nown Thy provi­ expired. David Goodwin Barr· dence in guiding the desting of our Re­ COLLECTORS OF INTERNAL REVENUE Howard Kendall Loughry public. As we walk humbly among men. Lipe Henslee, of Dickson, Tenn., to be col­ James Millikin Bevans we pray Thee to keep us true and un-· lector of internal revenue for the district of Curtis Emerson LeMay Robert Battey McClure daunted in our labors to maintain those Tennessee, in place of Joe F. Hale. institutions upon which it must forever James P. Finnegan, of St. Louis, Mo., to be Bennett Edward Meyers collector of internal revenue for the first dis­ George Clark Dunham rest for its perpetuity. trict of Missouri, in place of Robert E. Hanne­ Roderick Random Allen Blessed Lord, at times we are silent Cecil Ray Moore ~ gan, resigned. and bewildered; take Thou our chilled George Jacob Richards IN THE MARINE CORPS hearts and our determined wills and Robert Wells Harper mold the:rp in responsive devotion anj Col. Walter G. Farrell to be a brigadier ~en­ Daniel Noce eral in the Marine Corps, for temporary serv­ Hugh John Casey obedience. Whatever may betide us, ice, from the 25th day of November 1943. whatever fails us, grant 'that it shall not To be brigadier generals The below-named citizens to be second dim the insignia of our responsibility. lieutenants in the Marine Corps from the Whitfield Putnam Shepard When sorrow comes, teach us how to 7th day of August 1943: Everett Ernest Brown use it and impress us tha · the human Frank,C. Caldwell, a citizen of South Caro-· Joseph Jones Twitty Una. Russell Alger Wilson heart is built for trouble that always John T. McFadden, Jr., a citizen of Cali­ George Clement McDonald comes with the years; when disappoint­ fornia. Royal Bertrand Lord ment c:ouds the day, forbid th~.t it should William C. Hawkins, a citizen of South Jesse Auton weigh us down Nothing of great worth Carolina. Morris Williams Gilland can be accomplished with half a mind, Platoon Sgt. Ralph M. Budnick, a meri­ Charles Orval Thrasher with a faint heart nor with a lame en­ torious noncommissioned offtcer, to be a sec­ Murray Clarke Woodbury deavor. Almighty God, bless us with that ond lieutenant in the Marine Corps from the Ewart Gladstone Plank Joseph Franklin Battley glorious release-liberty of faith, liberty 11th day of August 1943. of conscience, .and freedom for all-and The below-named · citizens to be second Ch!'trles Yawkey Banfill 1i -utenants in the Marine Corps from the Donald Reuben Goodrich Thou shalt have the praise. We pray 29th day of October 1943: Edward Wharton Anderson in the name of Him who is the "On­ John C. Landrum, a citizen of Georgia. Ray Henry Clark summation of our love and hope. Amen. John L. Bricker, a citizen of Minnesota. Theodore Morrison Osborne Staff Sgt. Billy E. Horner, a meritorious Albert Daniel Smith The Journa~ of the proceedings of yes­ noncommissioned officer. to be a second lieu­ Isaac William Ott terday was read and approved. Frank Otto Bowman tenant in the Marine Corps from the 3d day SWEARI~G IN OF A MEMBER of November 1943. Arthur Thomas David W. Ketler, a citizen of Pennsylvania, Fremont Byron Hodson The SPEAKER laid before the House to be a in the Marine Corps William Horace Hobson the following communication from the from the 15th day of December 1943. Francis Hopkinson Griswold Clerk of the House: Charles Toma, Jr., a citizen of Ohio, to be Charles Pearre Cabell Edward Michael Powers MARCHi!, 1944. a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps from The Honorable The SPEAKER, the 4th day of February·1944. Thomas Edison Roderick Condon Carlton McCornack The House of Representatives. Harry Briggs v:aughan Sm: The certificate of election in due form of law of Hon. JAMES H. ToRRENS as a Repre­ CONFIRMATIONS Norris Brown Harbold Joseph Pescia Sullivan sentative-elect to the Seventy-eighth Con­ Executive nominations ·confirmed by Duncan Grant Richart gress from the Twenty-first Congressional the Senate March 9

'- 1944 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE Elections,'' respectively. Those writings build up our armed forces and to con­ of Europe, some of the erstwhile duped by Rhylick, Browder, and Dennis cut the script needed soldiers. . These men are liberals dropped away from the league. pattern for the C. I. 0. political action now . masquerading as patriots and or­ Now, Mr. Speaker, not only were these committee. They appeared some weeks ganizing 14 regional offices and commit­ leaders of the C. I. 0. political action before the formation of the Hillman or~ tees in every town and city in the coun­ · committee active leaders in the Ameri­ ganization. An examination of the views try, going from house to house, from door can League for Pea-ce and Democracy of Rhylick, Browder, and Dennis shows to door, spending the hard-earned money and later in the American Peace Mobil­ how they anticipate in every detail the of the workers of this cquntry who dare ization, but we find them identified with organization and activity of the C. I. 0. not refuse to pay this tribute levied by numerous other Communist organiza­ political action committee. a group of un-American racketeers with­ tions in the United States. In the re­ In his article entitled "Hold the Home out parallel in the history of any free port which I hope our committee will ~ront," Browder wrote as -follows: country. submit to the House we will detail the We must unite the C. I. 0. behind the lead­ The American League for Peace and records of every promiment leader in the ership of Phil Murray and his clear-cut pro­ Democracy had the distinction of having political action committee. We will gram for the labor movement, and we must been the first Communist Party's front to show that more than 500 of them are work with every honest leading element who attract to itself a large following, Our now active in the various parts of the goes along with Murray, and the fullest col­ committee heard voluminous testimony country stirring up hatred against Mem­ laboration, giving them our confidence, and concerning the American League and its bers of Congress and other public of­ so forth, without any regard to possible past or present ideological differences. We must activities, and by a unanimous vote found ficials who refused to be subservient to build unity of all anti-Axis elements for the that the organization was a Communist them. We will show that these leaders war now. front. The American League for Peace have been active from the very beginning and Democracy was the predecessor of . in spreading communism in the United And on and on. I have a number of the American Peace Mobilization. Many States. articles that I will not take the time of of the leaders in the C. I. 0. political Early in the present year the National the House to read, all clearly showing action committee were the moving spir­ Committee of the Communist Party an­ that it was the Communist leadership in its, leaders, and agitators in the Ameri­ nounced that it had decided to dissolve the United States which conceived the can League for Peace and Democracy, the party as such and to transform it strategy of building the political action unanimously found by our committee to into an organization with . some such , committee, then seizing control of it and be a Communist-controlled organization. name as the American Communist Polit­ levying tribute upon every worker in What was the program of the Ameri­ ical Association. . Earl Browder imme­ their organization to build a fund for the can League for Peace and Democracy? diately delivered a speech in which he purpose of destroying parliamentary Let me refresh your memories so that as elaborated this decision. This Com­ government in the .United States and to I bring down to current date the history munist maneuver was a first-class news bring about the election of men who will of these moving spirits in this conspiracy story. The immediate significance of sexve as their stooges in the Congress of to destroy parliamentary government the party's dissolution is that during the the United States. Other Communist you may understand the evolution of the 1944 elections Communists will throw Party publications such as the New whole organization. The program of the their entire weight into the C. I. 0. polit­ Masses and the Daily Worker bore down American League for Peace and Democ­ ical action committee. Their political heavily upon the need for an org_aniza­ racy was as follows, and I quote from leader will be in effect Sidney Hillman in­ tion like the C. I. 0. political action their own program: stead of Earl Browder. They will at· Committee in the weeks which immedi­ To work toward the stopping of the manu­ tempt, indeed they are already attempt­ ately preceded the formation of Hill­ facture and transport of munitions in time ing, to do by stealth and subterfuge man's committee. of peace or war, and in time of war the through the C. I. 0. political action Whether or not Philip Murray and transport of all other materials essential to committee what they have failed to do Sidney Hillman knowingly adopted a the conduct of war through mass demonstra­ wh~n functioning as a political party program of action for the 1944 elections tions, picketing, and strikes. under their own name. Communists which had been set forth by prominent Many of the most prominent C. I. 0. have long been entrenched in the leader­ Communist Party leaders and individ­ leaders were affiliated with the American ship of most of the unions which are uals, the record shows beyond the possi­ League for Peace and Democracy; as we affiliated with the C. I. 0. They now bility of dispute that well-known Com­ shall point out in citing their records aspire to more complete political control munists immediately assumed important individually. We are concerned chiefly over that organ of organized labor, the roles in the regional, State, and local ac­ with their support of the American Peace C. I. 0., which numbers several millions tivities of the C. I. 0. political action Mobilization. of voters. committee. Murray and Hillman may The signing of the Soviet-Nazi pact on Mr. Speaker, I do not have the time to allege that it was a mere coincidence August 23, 1939, marked a sharp turn in go into this question in detail, but as I that their organization so completely the line of the Communist Party and all have previously indicated, the report conformed to the one whose pattern had of its subservient front organizations. which I trust our committee will soon been drawn by the Communists. They Stalin's embrace of Hitler was the begin.:. issue contains conclusive proof showing cannot deny the presence of well-known ning of the end of the American League how the Communists have seized control Communists in the ranks of the C. I. 0. for Peace and Democracy. This organ­ of this Political Action Committee, how political action committee as it has been · ization has been found unanimously by they are now using it and the vast funds functioning from coast to coast during the members of the Special Committee which•they are raising not only for the the past 7 or 8 months. on Un-American Activities to be a front purpose of electing people friendly to One of the most striking facts con­ organization of the Communist Party. them, but more insidiously to create the cerning the C. I. 0. political action com­ Its propaganda has been especially widespread impression that in the. Con­ mittee is the large proportion of its lead­ adapted, however, to the period of Com­ gress of the United States a majority of ers who were affiliated not so long ago munist effort known as the People's its Memberr are Fascists and sympa­ with the seditioUs and Communist-con­ thetic with Hitler. It would seem to me, trolled American Peace Mobilization, Front. Mr. Speaker, that minority groups who these people who are now busily engaged It was practically impossible for the enjoy the protection of the American calling the gentleman from Alabama party to readapt the organization to the Constitution would be very careful not to [Mr. BOYKIN) and the gentleman from purposes of the new period of Stalin's engage in the same type of intolerance Idaho and numerous other Members of pact with Hitler. Various prominent ·and hatred that characterized their own this House Fascists and agents of Hitler. members of the American League for suffering in Europe, that they would be Prior to the invasion of Russia by Adolf Peace and Democracy found it fmpos­ careful to set an example of tolerance, Hitler, these same men were denouncing sible to justify Stalin's alliance with the that they would not associate with any all of us for supplying England with Nazis. When, therefore, the league's movement or any group designed to en­ badly needed materials to preserve her­ executive committee refused by a vote gage in the same strategy, the same tac­ self in the hour of need. They casti­ of 14 to 1 to condemn Stalin's and Hit­ tics that led to the defeat of democracy gated the Congress for voting funds to ler's wiping of Poland trom the map in Europe and the rise of totalitarianism. 2440 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE MARCH _9 The SPEAKER. The time of the gen­ dicates that the various departments of House and repeatedly made before the tleman has expired. Government are absorbing $584,210,717 subcommittees of the Committee on Ap­ Mr. FISH. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani­ of the required additional cost for over­ propriations, we now find them able to . mous consent that the gentleman from time pay and additional compensation absorb and pay out of current funds the Texas [Mr. DIES] may be permitted to out of appropriations heretofore made. huge total of $584,000,000 necessary to continue for an additional half hour. The War and Navy Departments alone complete their responsibility for over­ The SPEAKER. The Chair, of course, are absorbing all of the estimated cost of time pay and additional compensation will put the request, but it is a very un­ additional pay to employees in those De­ under laws we have passed. usual thing when a Member is recognized partments tctaling $414,324,115. The Mr. LANHAM. Mr. Chairman. will for an hour on a question of personal other agencies of Government are ab­ the gentleman yield? privilege to extend-the time. sorbing additional costs amounting to· Mr. KEEFE. I yield to the gentleman Is there objection to the request of the $173,031,007. As a result the committee from Texas. . gentleman from New York [Mr. FISH]? recommends the appropriation of $240,- Mr. LANHAM. I wonder if that con­ Mr. RABAUT. Mr. Speaker, I object. 108,931. dition could not be very largely corrected FIRST DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATION BILL, Mr. Chairman, this stipulation has in­ by the adoption of the resolution I have 1944 - spired the interest of many Members of introduced, and which has been pend­ Congress. ing for well over a year, to have an office Mr. CANNON of Missouri. Mr. Speak­ We find the various departments of of fiscal investigations as an agency of er, I move that the House resolve itself Government including the Army and the House of Representatives to· see what into the Committee of the "Whole House Navy paying to Federal employees a total is done with the money we appropriate. on the state of the Union for the further of $827,464,053. They only need $240,- Mr. KEEFE. May I say to the distin­ consideration of the bill :en from an article entitled "After Mr. DONDERO. I yield to the gentle­ you hold prices stable and there is no the War-Full Employment," from the man from New York. infiation involved in the transaction, you National Resources Planning Board, Jan­ Mr. FITZPATRICK. As I understand can spend only what you produce. uary 1942, pages 5 and 6. I ask the the gentleman's statement, Mr. Stude­ The CHAIRMAN. The time of the House to listen to the theory and the baker would favor the Federal control gentleman from Michigan has again ex­ philosophy expounded in this article: of education in this country, according pired. Mr. HOFFMAN. Mr. Chairman, I The notion that we cannot finance our own to that pamphlet? production is quite without foundation. Mr. DONDERO. The pamphlet speaks move to strike out the last word. Every cent expended, private and public, be­ for itself. Mr. Chairman, a short time ago the comes income for members of our own so­ Mr. FITZPATRICK. I am under the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. CocHRAN] ciety. Costs and income are just opposite impression that is just what he would and some other Members of the House sides of the same shield. lil~e to see, but the States of this country were discussing, if I understood it cor­ Then, quoting again, from page 21, want to control education and not turn rectly, the proposition of more money under this paragraph I find this lan­ it over to the Federal Government. for some agency to check Government guage: Mr. DONDERO. I agree with the gen­ expenditures. May I ask the gentleman There are some individuals who are ap­ tleman entirely. from Missouri if that is correct. prehensive about the debt we are now as­ Mr. WHITE. Mr. Chairman, will the Mr. COCHRAN. There was quite a suming for the waging of the war. In com­ gentleman yield? discussion on the subject; yes. menting upon debt Hansen writes as follows: Mr. DONDERO. I yield to the gentle­ Mr. HOFFMAN. I know nothing about "An individual will always improve his man from Idaho. the need for another agency or for more asset position if he is able to pay off a part Mr. WHITE. The gentleman speaks money for that purpose, but it does hap­ of his debt. But a nation may make itself of education. Is it not a fact and have pen that I was present a few days ago poor by repayment of public debt." you not found that there is a blind spot when one of the committees was exam­ That is the theory and the philosophy in our educational system, that the sub­ ining some of the officials of the Ship­ expounded. I am amazed and surprised ject of money is not taught. to the rising ping Board or the board which trains to find such theories quoted, printed, and generation? and recruits seamen for the merchant 1944 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE ~447 marine. We heard one of the officials Perhaps I should not have called it to the of, and you know as well as I do that testify that he had been drawing pay attention of the gentleman, or of the this minimum is very much too low to here in Washington at the rate of $5,900 House, but I still think these mistakes, expect. per year working for the Government, though small in number, should be On pages 122 and 123 of the hearings that he had some sort of a promotion checked up. General Hines gives the following esti:. and went up to New York in connection · The CHAIRMAN. The time of the mate of the beds needed for the care of' with the work of the Shipping Board, gentleman from Michigan has expired. veterans: In 1945, 105,200; 1950, 1t2,600; so-called, and that his salary has in­ Mr. FORAND. Mr. Chairman, within · 1955, 171,900; 1960, 204,900; 1965, 249,400; creased to $7,500 a year. the next few minutes we will reach the 1970, 287,900; 1975, which is expected to Also, that for at least 3 months he re­ item for Veterans' Administration. I be the peak, 298,400. ceived two checks, one at the rat~ of am one of those, like the gentleman from The State of Rhode· Island is furnish­ $5,900 a year, and one at the rate of ConneCticut [Mr. MILLER], who spoke a ing about 1 percent of the men for the $7,500 a year. He says that he received few minutes ago, who prefers to speak armed forces, and it is only fair to esti­ those checks, and that before getting on that item before it is reached, so that mate that it will also suffer 1 percent of them he had to sign.a voucher each time there will be no misunderstanding. I the casualties. On the basis of only one­ stating that he had not received any · am in favor of the appropriation of half of 1 percent of the total number of other compensation from the Govern­ $30,000,000 now, as I was in favor of the Rhode Island men in the service needing ment. Nevertheless he drew pay on two appropriation of $10,300,000 a few hospitalization the figures show that the , pay rolls, and it took the Government a months ago, for the construction of hospital load will run from 526 in 1945 year to get him to pay back the amount additional veterans' facilities, but I do to 1,492 by 1975. he was not entitled to receive. He· is take this time to voice a protest against There are many other reasons why still on the Federal pay roll. His boss, the continued refusal of the Veterans' Rhode Island should have a veterans' Mr.· Dimock, I believe, said that he did Administration to build in Rhode Island hospital, but I shall use only this one and not think, as long as the man returned a veterans' hospital. leave it to your good judgment as to the money, that there was any reason I, as well as others, have beseeched, whether or not we are justified in asking why he should be discharged. He did not begged, and implored the Veterans' that a veterans' hospital be constructed believe the fact that the man believed Administration to build a veterans' hos­ in Rhode Island now. • in social equality among the seamen re­ pital in Rhode Island. The State government of Rhode Island cruited and shipped on the vessels where, . We have until now been denied such is ready, and has advised the Veterans' regardless of race, they had to eat and a hospital, and Rhode Island veterans Administration that it will either pro­ sleep together; he did not think that who have been given hospitalization have vide a site for such a hospital suitable to that was any reason for discharge, al­ had to go to hospitals in other States to the Administration or it will pay up to though he did admit that perhaps that get it. $50,000 for any site which the Adminis­ would create a situation that would not Always when I talked to General Hines tration desires to ptlrchase. Under either {:Ontribute to the efficiency of the ship­ ir. the matter he either told me that the offer, the Federal Government is assured ping industry in wartime. To an out­ Federal Board of Hospitalization had that a Imitable site will be provided at sider, who does not know very well how just recently cQmpleted a survey and no cost to the Government. the Government machinery operates, it found that figures did not warrant a In these days when we voice so much would seem that we ought to check mat­ hospital for Rhode Island or he told me solicitude for the veteran, I feel it is high ters of that kind when a thing of that that the Board was about to make a sur­ time that the Administration stop dis­ kind happens, when a fellow can get vey. Again this morning I talked to him criminating against Rhode Island and away with it, with one agency paying on the subject and was again told the get busy to provide its veterans with a him and another issuing a second check, subject is under study. suitable hospital. · 1t does not seem as though we had tight­ The only local hospitalization provided The Clerk read as follows: ened things up quite enough, I assume in Rhode Island by the Veterans' Admin­ that the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. istration has been under a contract for FEDERAL WORKS AGENCY War public works (community facilities): CocHRAN J is doing something along the 80 beds in the naval hospital at Newport. For an additional amount to enable the line of keeping a check on this matter, When the load in veterans' hospitals Federal Wo~ks Administrator to carry out so that a fellow cannot be on two· pay in New England became too great from the functions vested in him by titles II and rolls at the same time and get away time to time, instead of constructing a III of the act of October 14, 1940, as amended with it for 3 months, and for a year keep hospital in Rhode Island for Rhode ( 42 U. S. C. 1531-1534 and 1541), $127,500,000, the money without paying his overdraft Island veterans and moving these men to remain available during the continuance back to the Government. I am sure that from hospitals outside the State into of the unlimited national emergency de­ the gentleman who has been sometimes their home State, thus making room for clared by the President on May 27, 1941, of which amo'unt not to exceed $5,100,000 shall characterized as the watch dog of ex­ residents of the States where the hos­ be available for administrative expenses, in­ penditures, except of course when New pitals are located, the Veterans' Admin­ cluding the objects specified under the head Deal expenditures are involved, will take istration has constructed new hospitals "Def.ense public works (community facili­ this up. in those States and continued to hos­ ties)" in the Second Deficiency Appropria­ Mr. ROWE. Mr. Chairman, will the pitalize Rhode Island veterans at long tion Act, 1941, and the joint resolution ap­ gentleman yield? distances from their homes. proved December 23, 1941 (Public Law 371) : Mr. HOFFMAN. Yes. The difficulty I have just described ex­ Provided, That not more than $7,500,000 of the funds for war public works shall be used Mr. ROWE. I want to make an obser­ isted at a time when the Veternns' Ad­ for construction of outplant facilities: Pro­ vation. There was a statement made be­ ministration was dealing only with World vided further, That the funds herein and fore the District Committee yesterday, War No. 1 cases, but now that cases aris­ heretofore appropriated to the Federal Works that a man employed here in a building ing out of the present war are beginning Agency for community facilities may be allo­ on the Hill, who certified six names of to come in the condition is bound to cated for contributions to public and private men who were supposed to be working demand a change, agencies for the maintenance and operation for him, and this continued for nearly 4 There are now in the armed forces of of public works without regard to the limi­ years, and until more than $60,000 had the United States approximately 80,000 tation contained in the act of July 15, 1943 been paid to him before he was appre­ Rhode Islanders, and this figure is ex­ (Public Law 150) •. hended as a crook. Another statement, pected to rise to 100,000 by the end of Mr. TABER. Mr. Chairman:, I make a that a person serving as a C. C. C. offi­ this year. Even if we should be so con­ point of order against the paragraph on cial certified a whole company of names, servative as to believe that only 1 per­ the ground it is legislation in an appro­ when there were no such persons, drew, cent of them will require hospitalization, priation bill. I call the chairman's at­ endorsed the checks, obtained more than and I cannot believe the figure will be tention to the language at the top of page $80,000 before he was apprehended. that low, because I realize that our cas­ 8, "without regard to the limitation con­ Mr. HOFFMAN. Oh, that was just ualty lists will mount terribly as we in­ tained in the act of July 15, 1943." a simple matter of graft, and this other crease our activities, that would mean a Mr. CANNON of Missouri. Mr. Chair­ may be only one instance in millions. minimum of 800 cases to be taken care man, as i understand it, the gentleman 244$ CONGRESSIONAL .RECORD-HOUSE MARCH 9 from New York [Mr. TABER] makes the Mr. CANNON of Missouri. Mr. Chair­ ture in a single year, they have spent point of order against the proviso only man, I offer an amendment, which I upwards of $7,500,000 of these funds for and not againsfthe whole paragraph? send to the desk. · building a power system in Puerto Rico, Mr. TABER. Mr. Chairman, I make The Clerk read as follows: and it is proposed that they spend $3,000,- the point of order against the whole par­ Amendment offered ~Y Mr. CANNON of Mis­ 000 out of the funds that are here in­ agraph. .souri: On page 7, after. line 6, insert: volved for a water.system in.Puerto Rico. I wonder how many of you had that in Mr CANNON of Missouri. The gen­ "FEDERAL WORKS AGENCY tleman from New York is within his "War public works {community facilities): mind when you were thinking about this rights. I was in hopes that he would let For an additional amount to enable the Fed­ situation. They are making all sorts of the rest of the paragraph go through. eral Works Administrator to carry out the allotments for schools, for recreation cen­ Mr. TABER. There are so many functions vested in him by title II and III of ters, for so-called child care and recrea­ thing·s in that paragraph which require the act of October 14, 1940, as amended {42 tional activities. Large parts of them are the attention of the committee that I U. S. C. 1531-1534 and 1541), $127,500,000, to being done in the most wasteful way. feel that whatever might finally be in remain available during the continuance of Large parts of them are being done in the the unlimited national emergency declared the bill would be better accomplished if by the President on May 27, 1941, of which most inefficient way. I am going to give the whole paragraph were thrown out amount not to exceed $5,100,000 shall be you a tip so that you can go and find out and an attempt made to put it back in, available for administrative expenses, includ­ for y.:>urself something of the kind of job or such part of it as might be desirable ing the objects specified under the head "De­ that is ·being done, without too much ef­ to put back in. For instance, there is· fense public works (community facilities)" fort on your part. If you will call at 314 something that the gentleman referred in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, D Street SE., you will find the largest to this afternoon, the continued availa­ 1941, and the joint resolution approved De­ child-welfare set-up in the District of cember 23, 1941 (Public Law 371) : Provided, bility of the fund. There are large · That not more than $7,500,000 of the funds Columbia. I would suggest' that you go amounts that are in this set-up for so for war public works shall be used for con­ there and see if you think that is being many things that really I do not think struction of outplant facilities." handled in such a way to promote child ought· to be considered. welfare. That is the largest child-wel­ Mr. LANHAM. Mr. Chairman, will · Mr. CANNON of Missouri. Mr. Chair­ fare organization in the District of the gentleman yield? man, the point of order of the gentleman Columbia. Mr. TABER. I yield. from New York is based on the proviso Mr. RABAUT. Mr. Chairman, will the · Mr. LANHAM. The gentleman does beginning at line 22, on page 7. The rest gentleman yield? not contend that there is no authority of the paragraph is in order, but under Mr. TABER. Yes; I yield. of law for some of the provisions of this the rules of the House, if a part of a para­ Mr. RABAUT. Why does not the gen­ paragraph, does he? graph is out of order, the entire para­ tleman tell us something about it? graph is subject to a point of order if the Mr. TABER. Oh, no. But there is a Mr. TABER. I have had it inspected. limitation in the law of $40,000,000 for point of order is made. In view of the fact that the gentleman makes a point The people who came back from it told certain things which it is sought to get me it was dirty and was not the kind of rid of by this language, and to that, I of order, not only against the proviso but against the entire paragraph, I am a place that children ought to be kept in. think, we should direct our attention. I know who is in charge of this set-up. Mr. LANHAM. Should not the gentle­ reoffering in this amendment all of the paragraph which is in order, that is, all I do not know whether the rest of the man confine his point of order to that House knows it or not. Mrs. Florence rather than to the parts of the para­ of it except the last proviso. It is vital that this proviso be included in the bill. Kerr is in charge of this set-up. She has graph for which there is authorization in a record. She was Assistant Adminis­ the law? · If this should be stricken from the bill, it would stop the projects which are now trator of the W. P. A. under Mr. Harry Mr. TABER. I feel just as the chair­ Hopkins. All of you know about the man of the Committee on Appropriations under agreement for maintenance and which are of vital interest to the war pro­ efficiency with which the operations of said a little while ago, that we should the W. P. A. were conducted. Up in my confine our efforts just as far as we can gram and it would stop the operation of these facilities already in operation. For State this thing is little used. Members to annual appropriations. I feel this is here have received telegrams from their one of the cases that cries out loud for that reason the remainder of the para­ graph should be included now in the educational authorities, hoping that that kind of treatment. I should like there will be no more of this. Members very much to see it in there and I do not present amendment. There are over 1,300 service projects which are in opera­ from my State· and Members from other see any way of getting as far as that States adjoining have received similar without throwing it out and letting it tion. They are operated under agree­ ments by which the sponsors put up telegrams hoping there will be no more be offered in some way or other, which­ of this proposition with Federal control. ever procedure is in order. money and the Federal Government puts up some to run to a certain date. The The CHAillMAN. The time of the The CHAIRMAN. Does the gentle­ gentleman from N~w York has expired. man from Texas [Mr. LANHAM] desire to elimination of this proviso means the dis­ continuance of these projects when the Mr. TABER. Mr. Chairman, I ask be heard on the point of order? unanimous consent to proceed for 5 addi­ Mr. LANHAM. I would like to make present agreements expire. this inquiry. I do not know whether the Mr. TABER. Mr. Chairman, I offer an tional minutes. chairman of the Committee on Appro­ amendment to the amendment, which I · The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection? priations contemplates · offering that send to the desk. There was no objection. part of the paragraph which is clearly The Clerk read as follows: Mr. RABAUT. Will the gentleman authorized by the law, and I would like Amendment offered by Mr. TABER to the yield? to interrogate him in that regard in case amendment offered by Mr. CANNON of Mis­ Mr. TABER. Yes; I yield. the point of order of the gentleman from souri: Strike out "$127,500,000" 1\nd insert Mr. RABAUT. Are not these facilities New York [Mr. TABER] is sustained. "$68,690,000." all under certain grants? Who is run­ The CHAIRMAN. Does the gentle­ Mr. TABER. Mr. Chairman, I recog­ ning this particular center? What man from Missouri [Mr. CANNON] desire nize that there i:? a certain unpopularity agency is in charge? to be heard on the point of order? connected with doing one's duty. I rec­ Mr. TABER. It is impossible for any­ Mr. CANNON of Missouri. Mr. Chair­ ognize that there are people who are in one to tell. man, we concede the point of order and favor of the Federal Government doing Mr. RABAUT. Well, you are making I will offer an amendment providing for all sorts of things and going a long way. great complaint about it. that portion of the paragraph which is in I am going to tell you a few of the things Mr. TABER. It is a job that is being order. that this money has been used for and a done under this appropriation bill. That The CHAIRMAN. The Chair rules few of the things that it is proposed to is the only thing I can tell you. that the last paragraph is legislation and use this money for. At a time when the Mr. RABAUT. Will the gentleman sust ains the point of order made by the revenues in Puerto Rico are $65,000,000 yield further? gentleman from New York. in excess of their demands for expendi- Mr. .TABER. Yes. 1944 CONGR-ESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 2449 Mr. RABAUT. In my opinion, it is I have told it once and I will not tell it to the schools. They also feel that these very unfair-- - again now. child-welfare propositions should be Mr. TABER. How can anybody do Mr. HOFFMAN. Mr. Chairman, a handled in a better way than thsy are anything else with the things we have point of order. The gentleman from being handled. been supplied with? It· has been almost Michigan [Mr. RABAUTJ is just filibuster- Mr. LANHAM:. 1\u. Chainnan, will impossible for us to know anything'. I ing. He is not doing anything else. . the gentleman yield? have spent hours and hours going Mr. TABER. I appreciate that the Mr. TABER. · I yield. through that blue volume that you have majority in this House does not want Mr. LANI-IAM. The gentleman does on that table in front of you. It is al­ to have the facts at all. That is why not contend that the money that goes to most impossible to get your finger on we are going to have a statement made the schools for additions to the schools anything and get down to earth on it. before we get through that my operation where necessary to take care of the chil­ All you can do is to get the information here is based on partisanship. Let me dren of these in-migrant workers and that is available to you, and that I have tell you it is based on a desire to do my to pay the salaries of additional teachers b~en doing and I have been telling about duty to the United States of America, who may have to be hired-the .gentle­ it as I have gone along. and I will tell you that first. · man does not contend that that is not Mr. RABAUT. Will the gentleman Now I am going to tell you what I pro­ controlled by the local school authori­ yield further? pose to do and what this amendment ties, does he? Mr. TABER. I am going to take my would do. It would cut down, so that Mr. TABER. It has been so far, that own time now. If the gentleman does the unexpended balance of the $40,000,- is true; on the other hand they . seem not understand it, when I get through 000 limitation that was _put in tills bill to be all worked up about it and they do he can get up in his own time and he when it was being considered, the au­ not seem to like it. They do not seem can tell. thorization bill by Mr. LANHAM's com­ to like the way the money is being Mr. RABAUT. Nobody will defend the mittee-it will cut down the amount that granted by the Federal Go.vernment gentleman any more than I will. I will can be used for so-called services like direct to the schools and circumventing defend the gentleman any time I think recreation centers, like these child-care the State departments of education. he is right. set-UP$, like grants to schools, which are Mr. LANHAM. The local school sys- Mr. TABER. But let me tell my story quite small in the aggregate compara­ tems like it. · _ first. tively, to the $40,000,000 which is the Mr. TABER. I do not think so; that Mr. RABAUT. The gentleman knows limitation. · is where the telegrams come from. that from his own experience. The CHAIRMAN. The time of the The CHAIRMAN. The time of the Mr. HOFFMAN. Mr. Chairman, I de­ gentleman from New York has again ex­ gentleman from New York has expired. mand the regular order. pired. Mr. WOODRUM of Virginia. Mr. Mr. RABAUT. Will the gentleman Mr. TABER. I ask unanimous consent Chairman, I ask to be heard on the · answer a question? to pro'ceed for 3 additional minutes, be­ amendment. Mr. TABER. Yes; I yield for a ques­ cause I think this should be brought out. The CHAIRMAN. _The gentleman tion. The CHAIRMAN. Without objection, from Virginia is recognized for 5 minutes. Mr. RABAUT. I will ask the gentle­ it is so ordered. Mr. WOODRUM of Virginia. Mr. man this question: Under what agency There was no objection. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent to is this center operated? The agencies Mr. TABER. It will also cut down to proceed for an additional 5 minutes. that we are talking about only make $40,000,000 the amount of new money The CHAIRMAN. Without obje.ction, grants. Now, who is operating it? that will be available for projects that the gentleman from Virginia will be rec­ Mr. TABER. Oh, these agencies­ are not covered by allotments. That is ognized for 10 minutes. some agencies are local and some agen­ the amount that covers those that are There was no objection. cies are national. The Federal Works in proc.ess of review in the central offices Mr. WOODRUM of Virginia. Mr. Agency has as the head of it-Mrs. Flor­ and the regional offices; that amount Chairman, this is a very important mat­ ence Kerr is the head of this so-called that covers $11,000,000 that have been ter, and I ask the fndulgence of the Com­ child welfare. approved by the Federal Works Agency, mittee that they may have the full facts Mr. RABA UT. Is she operating the but which the President has not yet ap­ and know just what the implications are place at 314 D Street? proved. It will allow in addition to the if they adopt this amendment offered by Mr. TABER. Oh, I do not know. $11,000,000 that they have spent on these my distinguished friend from New York. Mr. RABAUT. I thought that is what so-called welfare outfits, $28,000,000. To I repeat what I have said many times, the the gentleman said. my mind these welfare outfits are of . House and · the Nation owe a debt of Mr. TABER. I said it was being oper­ doubtful validity because of the way they gratitude to the gentleman from New ated with funds under this proposition. are being handled. My State, for in­ York, JoHN TABER, for his fine work That is all I said. Now, if the gentle­ stance, spent more money, 10 times over, on the Appropriations Committee, but man expects that I am going to be able than the Federal Government spent in every once in a while he gets wrong and to find out who it is-evidently the gen­ our State for that purpose. They do a when he gets wrong he does a good job tleman does not want to have the facts fairly good job, but we do not have very of ·it. Now, he is dead wrong on this. brought out. I have told as much as I much of this kind of operation with This is a vitally important link in the could. Federal aid. · war program, the furnishing of commu­ Mr. RABAUT. The lady to whom the That would allow $28,000,000 yet to be nity facilities. It is as vitally necessary gentleman referred, if he will yield fur­ spent in addition to the $11,000,000 that that this sort of thing be done as it is to ther, works for the Federal Works has already been spent. That would make the airplane, to make the tank, and Agency. · carry them through all of the projects to make the ammunition. And you can­ Mr. TABER. Oh, yes; she does, but that are in process of review in the cen­ not have this production if you do not she is in charge of this set-up, and that tral office in the same way. come to the aid of these communities is one of the reasons that makes people This thing has got to stop sometime. that feel the impact of this war program. suspicious because we know what she did That was what General Fleming came be­ I have here a list that comprises every before and what her record is. fore us with, that this thing must stop State in the Union; I think, some 2,317 :Mr. RABAUT. In what C8.pacity? sometime. Why not set it up in such way projects. In some States there are 60 or Mr. TABER. I have told it once. The that it will stop at the end of 1945 and 70 projects authorized. There is hardly gentleman evidently was not paying at­ not try to spread it out forever? There a State in the Union that has not some tention or was not present. If I am are a great lot of things in here that are need for these community facilities. going to have to tell the same thing not necessary and that we should not You will find in the report the type of over five or six times before the gentle­ give in to. I cited one set-up. All of our thing that is embodied: Schools, child man can get it through his head, it either educational authorities feel that the State care, medical-general, venereal-disease indicates the gentleman is not paying educational authorities should have the control, water systems, sewer systems, attention or else he did not want to listen. handling of whatever money is granted recreation, power, fire and police, streets 2450 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE MARCH 9 and highways, garbage disposal, sanitary just a part of it, and I hope you will read Mr. WOODRUM of Virginia. I yield facilities. the balance. It is not what I say about to the gentleman from Ohio. What does it mean? It means that this but what th'ese ladies say: ·Mr. ROWE. I am a little perplexed in some of these large war industries have As of course you know, under the wartime that the gentleman from New York [Mr. gone into small communities and that child-care program, funds are allotted for TABER] said only eleven million of the suddenly, almost overnight, the popula­ assistance in the operation of facilities for forty million had been expended; now tion of those communities has been dou­ the care of children whose mothers are em­ the gentleman says if the limitation· is bled, trebled, or quadrupled. People ployed in jobs. essential to the war · effort. not removed projects will stop. Local communities participate in the cost of have been brought in there to face inade­ the service to the extent that funds are avail­ Mr. WOODRUM of Virginia. It may quate sanitary facilities. There are no able and the parents pay a fee which must not be expended, but it is stated and the school facilities for their children, there cover, at least, the cost of food. agencies tell us that if the limitation is is no housing, there are no venereal­ not changed they will stop. That is the disease control centers, there is no medi­ Let me say parenthetically that these information that is given. That is the cal care, and those commodities are abso­ projects ·are not run by Mrs. Curry in the statement filed before the Members of lutely unable to meet that load and to Federal Works Agency. Allotments are Congress, and the gentleman from Texas carry it, and ·they would not have been made to the actual community that runs can also verify it. Without the lifting of able to function had it not been for the the project. Every one of these proj­ that limitation some of these existing relief the Federal Government has given. ects are run by the local communities. projects. will either have to be closed or We have been scrupulously careful in If there is something wrong with the one curtailed. this program. In the last deficiency bill in the 'District of Columbia, it is because Mr. ROWE. The gentleman, having there was a Budget item for $50,000,000 the District of Columbia is not looking made a study, w:ill tell us the difference in for community facilities. What hap­ after it properly. The allotments are the commitments between eleven and pens? We did not allow a penny because made to the communities; it is up to the forty million dollars? they had $14,000,000 left. Even my be­ communities to run them. Then they Mr. WOODRUM of Virginia. It is the loved friend the gentleman from Texas say: difference between eleven and forty mil­ [Mr. LANHAM], whom we all love and We want to call to your attention the lion dollars. The whole forty million has admire and usually follow, offered a mo­ urgency of this program because of the vast been committed and will not run until tion to cut the item to $25,000,000, but the numher of women now in industry and the the end of the fiscal year. There is no · House defeated it.and there was not any need for more than 1,000,000 additional question about that. women work-ers by July 1. 1\lr. RUSSELL. Will the gentleman money put in there. We told them to The health and safety of our children, · as come back and bring us a detailed state­ well as the achievement of our war-produc­ yield? ment outlining specifically where these tion goals, depend on speedy provision of Mr. WOODRUM of Virginia. I yield to funds were to be used. 'rhey did so and the necessary funds. the gentleman :from Texas. on the desk or table there is a large vol­ Mr. RUSSELL. I have a project in my ume that must have· taken months of Now as to the $40,000,000 thi6 is what district, Camp :aarkeley, which has asked work, day and night, to assemble; it con­ ~hese la,dies say: the city of Abilene, Tex., for water facili­ tains the statistical data they have sent A further step is necessary ·to the fulfill-· ties. Abilene itself does not need the to the committee. ment of this program. The limitation of water facilities. These water facilities $40,000,000 imposed by act of Congress of are for Camp Barkeley, where two divi­ What has happened? The point of July 15, 1943, on the amount of funds per­ order took out of this bill the proviso, mitted to be used for maintenance and sions have been trained and are now on page 7, line 22, which would have operation of these war services should be fighting overseas and a third one is just permitted the Federal Works Agency to lifted. Allocation of funds to the child-care about finished. If this is knocked out have continued for the balance of this projects already approved and pending \!OUld Camp Barkeley will have to close in the fiscal year some 1,360 projects heretofore bring the total allocation up to the limit summer months part of its a.ctivities. approved, not available for continuance imposed. Therefore, the failure to remove The city there, as I say, does not need this limitation would mean a total collapse the water facilities, but it is contributing after the present date of termination. of the child-care program. That point of order will not permit the $74,000 in order that these facilities may continuance of those projects. We tried to remove that limitation, but go to Camp Barkeley. I am sure our Mr. TABER. Mr. Chairman, will the the point of order takes that out of the friend from New York [Mr. TABER] does gentleman yield at that point? bill. We are hoping, of course, that the not want to cut that out. ' Mr. WOODRUM of Virginia. I yield. body at the other end of the Capitol Mr. WOODRUM of Virginia. That Mr. TABER.· The point of order sim­ will take care of it, but I want to say to condition is duplicated all over the coun­ ply wipes out the provision that would you, Mr. Chairman,- that we have cut try where there are large industries and do away with the $40,000,000 limitation this community facility program from a large concentration of troops. on those things. Only $11,000,000 has so the $150,000,000 Budget estimate down The CHAIRMAN. The time of the far been spent. This would not affect to $127,500,000. I want to say to you gentleman has expired. the continuation of those projects. very frankly and candidly that it is my Mr. BLAND. Mr. Chairman, I rise in · Mr. "WOODRUM of Virginia. I am belief as well as that of other Members opposition to the amendment. told by the Agency that unless that limi­ who have studied this that to further Mr. Chairman, I come · from possibly tation is removed these projects close. cut will seriously cripple and endanger the most congested area in the United There is no doubt about that. I want to this war program. I am sure that the States. I believe that the Hampton read a little statement. If you want to Members of Congress who have these Roads section is known as military con-:. find out something about what ought to projects in their districts will find out if gested area No. 1. We need the entire be done for these children, these nursery they have not already found, out that $150,000,000, I do not say for that area projects, these child-care projects, our there will be a lot of protest and disap­ · but for the country at large. committee had the distinction of having pointment where these projects have If the pending amendment of the gen­ the lady Members of Congress appear been curtailed. tleman from New York [Mr. TABER] to before us, every one of them: The gen­ Mr. FITZPATRICK. Will the gentle­ reduce the amount in the bill prevails, tlewoman from New Jersey [Mrs. NoR­ the situation will become chaotic; it will 'ION], the gentlewoman from MassachU­ man yield? be impossible for us to carry on ade­ setts [Mrs. RoGERS], the gentlewoman Mr. WOODRUM of Virginia. I yield quately our work of production of ships. frcm Ohio [Mrs. BoLTON], the gentle­ to the g~ntleman from New York. People are not coming and staying in any woman from Maine [Mrs. SMITH], the ·Mr. FITZPATRICK. If we do not community which does not give them gentlewoman from Connecticut [Mrs. make this appropriation there will be a reasonable facilities. The schools that LucEJ, and the gentlewoman from New great deal ·more juvenile delinquency are to be provided cannot be built and Yo!"k [Miss STANLEY]. I wish all of you than exists today? cannot be supplied with teachers unless would read this statement. If I had the Mr. WOODRUM of Virginia. I think this appropriation goes through. We time, I would read it in its entirety, but it is vitally necessary to be carried on. . need hospitals, sewerage .systems, addi­ I do not have the time, so I will read Mr. ROWE. Will the gentleman yield? tions to jails, bridge repairs, schools, "1944 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 245l sewer improvements, recreational facili­ which are very necessary and could not be by the Committee on Public Buildings and ties, comfort stations, and various serv­ made unless the total amount of $150,000,000 Grounds and the authorization was only ices at miscellaneous projects. recommended by the President and approved made after the necessity for that amount was The schools are operated and con­ by the Budget is appropriated. For my own demonstrated. I know that the Appropria­ district, this would include projects for has- t~oris Committee does not desire to place it­ structed strictly in accord with State law - pitals, nurses, homes, sewerage, health center, self in a position of retarding the necessary and regulations and are under the super­ addition to jail, bridge repairs, schools, sewer defense work, and I am sure that that result vision of State officials and State au­ improvements necessary to health, recreation will inevitably follow the failure to provide thorities. In every instance the Public and comfort stations, and service at various now the full appropriation of $150,000,000 Work$. Agency, so far as I know-and I projects including schools, all of whi.ch will with such flexibility in the appropriation as think I am correct-has secured the cer­ be stopped and war work seriously impeded that the program can go forward, new situa­ if the full appropriation is not granted. The tions can be met and new conditions can be tification and approval of the State offi­ workers needed for defense work are not relieved. This appropriation above all others cials to the project before it has been coming to the community to do this work is one that cannot -be placed in a strait approved. I wish you would read the and will not stay there unless provision is jacket. speech of the gentleman from Indiana made for these projects, and many workers As an illustration of the need of funds [Mr. LUDLOW] yesterday in which he now there are going to leave. Defense works to meet future applications and because al­ brougqt out the w ~ 1tribution that is essential to the su<:cessful prosecution of the ready pending, I may mention the situation . made to crime by reason of failure to war will inevitably be slowed down. very near my own home where a volunteer provide proper facilities for the children. The need for protecting fire equipment in organization known as the Wythe Fire De­ this locality is great. The climatic condi­ partment in Elizabeth City County has served In my own particular area, with the tions are such that property unprotected the United States adequately and promptly Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock rapidly deteriorates. There are many similar throughout this emergency. That organiza­ Co., with the Langley Fleld operations situations throughout the United States and tion with the head of the Board of Super­ there, and the training bases th~t train particularly in my district, which is so very visors of Elizabeth City County has been able the men before they are sent overseas, greatly congested with defens3 projects. I to maintain efficient and modern equipment, you · can see the result that will imme­ may mention the shipyard with its construc­ but has been unable, though they have an tion, the various !"~1·my camps and war ac­ application pending, to secure the necessary diately follow. We have a Seabee train­ tivities, which have resulted in such an in­ funds for a fire house. That fire department ing camp there; we have there a port of crease in the population in this area that the is located near a settlement built with Gov­ embarkation and debarkation through existing communities, are unable to take care ernment money where there are 22,500 per­ which the soldiers are passing to go over­ of these demands. I am speaking for' the sons needing protection. seas to fight and returning. To deny the area which includes, in addition to the ship­ There is the greatest need for this project, community the facilities that are ne~es­ yard, the port of embarkation at Newport and it ought to be provided, but I fear it will sary would be a colossal calamity. I News, aviation activities at Langley Field, ac­ not be secured unless the appropriation is tivities at Fort Monroe, the Navy mine depot made in this bill. It should be fully studied, call your attention to the fact that the at Yorktown, Army activities at Fort Eustis, and it will be, but however meritorious this population of that particular area on my all of which are taxed to the limit and bring or any other project may be it cannot be con­ side of the water increased from 87,388 in a- population for which schools must be structed unless the appropriation to be made. in 1940 to a present population of 189,329. provided and hospital facilities, sewers, com­ now for community facilities has sufficient Mr. KEEFE. Will- the gentleman fort stations, recreation facilities, fire pro­ flexibility and is sufficiently large to cover yield? tection, nurseries, and various other con­ meritorious cases at present undetermined. Mr. BLAND. I yield to the gentle­ veniences necessary to preserve morale, to The Committee on Public Buildings and secure personnel, and to retain the workers Grounds had this in contemplation when it man from Wisconsin. necessary to the defense work. This area made the authorization. Mr. KEEFE. The fact of the matter comprehends Fort Monroe, Old Point, Hamp­ We have made a remarkable record in de­ is I assume that in this area that the ton, Newport News, York County, Warwick fense work, and it has been due considerably gentleman comes from, as well as other County, Elizabeth City <;::ounty, and it is im­ to the provision of necessary community similar areas throughout the United possible to determine accurately some time facilities. States, the development of homes and so in advance just what activities will be needed. This defense area in my district embraces on has not added anything to the tax An illustration exists in the case of the 260 equare miles. It includes the cities of water line from the present water system at Newport News and Hampton and the town roll of those communities because of the Newport News to the Chickahominy River. of Phoebus. It includes the counties of acquisition of property and land by the To show the necessity for flexibility in the Elizabeth City, York, and Warwick. The Government which really takes land off appropriations, I may mention that when population in 1940 was 87,388, and as of June the tax roll? this project was approved originally, it con­ 1943, the population was esti.mated at 189.329, Mr. . BLAND. That is the situation. templated a pipe line of certain dimensions, the estimate _of population being based upon We are begging that something may be which had subsequently to be materially in­ 145,726 No. 2 ration books plus an estimated done to relieve us from the burden that creased to take care of the Seabee operations floating population. As of January 1, 1944, · near Williamsburg. This was not known there were 161,934 No. 4 ration books. The we are carrying with respect to that loss when the project was originally granted and estimated population of 189,329 appears in taxables. the existence of a flexible fund enabled conservative. Mr. KEEFE. Due to the loss of taxes W. P. A. to meet the situation which other­ I am convinced that there is imperative and due to this influx of people, those wise it could not have done. need of getting the program throughout the communities are unable utterly to pro­ If the increase is not granted, schools are Nation, which is now in a position of stale­ vide the necessary community facilities? not going to be built which have been al­ mate, resumed as quickly as possible and not Mr. BLAND. The gentleman is ab­ ready approved, but which lack money for only resumed, but pressed to completion. their construction. Tl1is would include two Members of the House of Representatives solutely right, yet the community is bear­ ·schools in \Varwick County and in York who represent districts in which the full im­ ing its share in these facilities as best it County, a school in Elizabeth City County, pact of the war upon community life has can. and there will be no money with which the not been felt are less aware of the need. Mr. Chairman, pursuant to leave given necessary services for these schools can be I have tried to show, and I know that me to extend my remarks, I submit the provided. communities in the vicinity of shipyards and following statement that I made to the Some of the facilities needed such as a munitions plants of all kinds are crowded committee: health center, addition to jail, bridge re­ with working men and their families who pairs, schools, comfort stations, and sewers have been attracted from other parts of the COMMUNITY FACILITIES already have been approved by W. P. A. and country. Many of these communities have STATEMENT OF HON. SCHUYLER OTIS BLAND, A some have gone so far as to receive Presi­ experienced a vast increase in population REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE dential approval, but unless the money is within the last few months. Old patterns of OF VIRGINIA provided in this bill, they cannot continue. a once settled community life in such places If I understand the break-down correctly The question of necessity was gone into very are breaking up. A vast number of new as to the needs for the $150,000,000, there are fully by the Federal Works Agency. These problems have arisen in relation to public now certain projects in process of negotia­ people have done an excellent job. They health, sanitation, education, recreation, and tion, practically concluded but still in process have sci·utinized carefully all the applica­ transportation that are completely insolvable of negotiation as to the conditions for the tions and have only approved projects where without Federal assistance. award, that would be omitted if the blll con­ the evidence procured in the field and sub­ Let me cite a few instances from the Hamp­ fines the appropriation to existing projects mitted by the applicants 11as shown the ton Roads area, in Virginia, which today Is where contracts have been let and money projects to be necessary. Not only is this .the scene of intense military, naval, and allocated. There are now many projects true as to the approval of projects, but the shipbuilding activity. The area had a 1940 awaiting final approval or allocation o:! funds authorization wa.s most carefUlly considered population of 386,394. The population now. xc-155 2452 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE MARCH 9 as estimated by the Bureau of the Census, is From Newport News alone additional ap- other agencies which have been out­ in excess of half a million. This is only the plications for facilities are expected. The moded. population domiciled within the. area. It regional director has sent his engineers and Let us examine the record and see does not include the thousands of visitors investigators to the city to survey the need what the community facilities program who come in every day to transact business, and to make sure that it is war connected, nor the naval and military personnel who, since there is no point in going to the trouble has provided during the past 33 months. in large numbers, are being constantly moved and expense of preparing an application, with You will probably recall that this pro­ into the area to remain for some days or all the complicated statements as to local re- gram was started in July 1941. During weeks before assignment elsewhere, and sources that are called for, unless it can be these 33 months there have . been ap­ whose presence enormously complicates established in advance that the work intended proximately $360,000,000 expended, or problems of public health and the protection comes within the limitations of the Lanham b t $10 000 h of life and property. Act. The war-connected need has been estab- a ou • ,000 a mor_t · The appro- When we examine individual communities lished up to the hilt, but there is still no priation which is proposed by the · gen­ within the area, the contrast between the assurance that the faciUties can be provided. tleman from Missouri [Mr. CANNON] situation 4 years ago and the situation today I cite these instances, not because I think would take care of a program on the is even more extreme. The city of Hampton that the particular section of the country in same basis without any streamlining bas increased in population from 5,800 to which I live is enitled to greater considera- or retrenchment during the next 12 7,000, N~wport News from 37,000 to 6o;ooo, tion than hundreds of others similarly sit- months. , Elizabeth City County from 32,000 to 40,000, uated, but simply because I have personal A few minutes ago I go.; the impres- Warwick County, outside of Newport News, knowledge of them. Hampton Roads is a from 9,000 to 2a,OOO-a threefold increase. vital bastion of our war effort, but it is no sion from the remarks of the gentleman Figures for other communities in the area more than mustrative of the problem as a from Virginia that thir appropriation are equally startling. whole which now afflicts hundreds of over- was only for the balance of this fiscal The impact is felt in many directions. crowded war production and m111tary areas year, QUt the report made by the com­ For example, a new housing development throughout the country from coast to coast. mittee points out that this appropria- in W&rwick County, known as Copeland I hope the full sum of $15o,ooo,ooo will be tion would carry through &.n active pro­ Park, and tenanted by shipyard workers, is appropriated. In the past we have been ap- gram until June 30, 1945, or about 15 propriating to the Federal Works Agency th h uld k without adequate school facllities. Applica­ under the Lanham Act in piecemeal fashion, mon s. Is o li e to recall what the tion has been filed with the Federal Works a little somewhat grudgingly advanced at one chairman of the Committee on Appro­ Agency for assistance .In building a school for about 400 pupils, to cost around $120,000. time, a little more later. In view of the priations said yesterday during the There can be no question whatever about tremendous need, that policy is not logical. course of his remarks-and I quote the the need; it has been attested not only by I understand that General Fleming will gentleman from Missouri [Mr. CANNON]: the regional office of the Federal Works tell you that if the entire balance of the au- They asked for $150,000,000. we allowed Agency but by the State educational au­ thorlzation were made avallable to him he $127,500,000, which gives $5,100,000 for ad- would be able to finish up the program, so m1 · t ti o thorities, the local officials, and by the Army, far as the need can now be foreseen. Know- rus ra ve expenses, $101,50 ,000 for proj- Navy, and Maritime Commission. Yet the ects which are ready to go or will be a con­ school cannot be built because there are no ing something of the dimensions of the need, tinuance of operation of existing projects, funds for the purpose. The importance of I think that may be a somewhat overly op- and $21,000,000 for new applications which this to the war effort cannot be exaggerated. timlstic prediction. But I strongly urge, have not cqme in fr~m field offices. Ships are imperatively needed, but the work­ however, that we give him the help he needs ers will not stay to build them, as past ex­ to try to carry out the promise. We have heard a great deal on the perience abundantly proves, unless there are What is at stake is the healtl;l and safety floor of this Chamber during the past few educational opportunities for their children. of millions of people throughout the country. years about blank checks, and now Also at stake is our all-out effort to win th t N:ot only cannot the vitally needed addi­ this war as quickly as possible and with as rough his amendment offered by the tional schools be built. but there are no funds little loss of life as necessary. Unless we gentleman from Missouri it is proposed with which to operate many of the schools can throw about these people at least mini- to issue another blank check so that this already in existence. Warwick County re­ ceived in Federal funds last year $44,000 mum protection of their health and welfare Federal Works Agency can, during the to meet the deficit in its school operations. they will not stay on the job to build the next 15 months, approve some of these This year it has asked for $205,213. The ships and planes needed or, if they are com- applications which have not yet been difference between the two sums affords some pelled to stay. their productive efficiency will processed and are still in the field offices. measure of the increasing strain on the local deteriorate to a point where lives will be im- Mr. LANHAM. Mr. Chairman, will facilities caused by the rapidly increasing periled for the lack of tools of war which our the gentleman yield? fighting men must have to win. population. This is money needed. not to The problem is truly national in scope. Mr. DWORSHAK. I yield to the gen- pay for luxuries or for educational fads and frills, but just to take ·care of the These overbul'dened communities throughout tleman frorri Texas. minimum essentials-to heip pay the teach­ the country have a right to look to us for Mr. LANHAM. Can the gentleman ers and the janitors. Elizabeth City County' aid in their time of peril and we must not give us any assurance that the war is go­ has asked $430,244 with which to help carry fall them. Nor must we fail the war effort. ing to end with this fiscal year, and on regular school work, and unless that sum Let us do now what we would eventually ~hould we make provision in our produc­ is provided the schools will have to close. be compelled to do in any event, and let us tion merely for the accommodation of do it as ungrudgingly as we would act to re- th k And so I could go through a long list of lieve distress brought about by a flood, an e wor ers ·for this fiscal year, or wlth needed school buildings, support for existing earthquake, or any other kind of public reference to the duration of the war? schools, health centers, hospitals, garbage calamity. Mr. DWORSHAK. I can assure the disposal, sewage treatment plants, new sewer extensions, care for the children of working gentleman that, regardless of how long mothers, comfort stations, the repair of a The CHAIRMAN· The time of the the war lasts, this Congress or the sue- bridge over which people have to pass to get gentleman has expired. · ceeding Congresses will be in session; and to their work, an addition to the jail. The Chair recognizes the gentleman just as this is a deficiency appropriation Applications for some of these have been from Idaho [Mr. DwoRSHAKJ. bill, ~f a legitimate and logical need :filed in the regional office of the Federal Works Mr. DWORSHAK. Mr. Chairman, I exists for these facilities and services, Agency. In due time those applications will rise in support of the amendment offered I am sure that the Committee on Appro~ be forwarded to General Fleming. I think by the gentleman from New York, to cut priations will not hesitate to bring here he will have to approve them and send them approximately $60,000,000 from this ap- and present to this House legislation for to the President. If the President should ap­ propriation. I was somewhat amazed to the necessary funds. There is no need prove, and I think he must, since the need is war-connected by every conceivable test, hear the distinguished .·:entleman from at this time for issuing another blank they will be returned to General Fleming. Virginia [Mr. WOODRUM] a few minutes check, anticipating that for the next 15 And there they will come to rest. This is ago make the contention that if we at- months this program must be carried on nothing more than preliminary paper work. tempt to cut any money from this appro- to the same extent that it has been dur- Without funds additional child-care centers priation we will be frustrating or retard- ing the past 33 months. That is an inde- cannot be provided, no schools will be built, ing the war effort. In reality, we would fensible position to take. no sewage treated. The need for speed is be conserving both manpower and Mr. MILLER of Connecticut. Mr. perhaps most evident in the case of schools, for unless money is made available within the finances. I agree with the gentleman Chairman, will the gentleman yield? next few weeks, construction cannot be com­ that the Federal Works Agency, through Mr. DWORSHAK. I yield to the gen- pleted within the coming construction sea­ . the· community facilities program, has tleman from Connecticut. son and the buildings made ready for occu­ done some outstanding work, but so did Mr. MILLER of Connecticut. I am pancy next September. W. P. A., N. Y. A., C. C. C., and these sure the gentleman knows tha~ there are 1944 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 2453 projects being completed now in new in­ sentatives have come to see me, beseech­ Then, also at Geneva, N. Y., there. is· dustries where the housing projects have ing me that something be done to give a hospital, built with Federal funds, cost­ not even been started yet. The Federal them the. benefit of these facilities at ing $82,621, all wrapped up and in the Government has said to those towns, these plants in their districts, than with bag in the gentleman's district. "You permit this housing project to go reference to any other matter that has I want to say further that his amend­ into your town and we will make a grant ever come before me personally for at­ ment will ultimately affect his own dis­ for a school." tention. A great many of these Mem'­ trict in New York for a child-care center, Mr. DWORSHAK. I do not know of bers from all over the United States have the total of which is $25,766. any housing projects like that. appeared before the Committee on Ap­ The gentleman's position, as evidenced Mr. MILLER of Connecticut. Come propriations urging the necessity for by his amendment, is opposed to mine. up to my district arid I will show you these -facilities in order that our war pro­ It strikes at community facilities so nec­ some. duction may be carried on. With the essary to child life such as schools, care Mr. DWORSHAK. I will take you to appropriation mentioned in this bill we centers, and hospitals. For my part, it N:agara Falls and different places and still lack $22,500,000 of m~eting the au:.. is a pleasure to stand on the floor of this show you hundreds and hundreds of va­ thorization, and the Congress evidently House and champion those concerning cant housing units that ought not to have believed that that authorization was whom the Saviour of the world said, been built. necessary or it would not have enacted "Suffer little children to come unto Me, Mr. MILLER of Connecticut. That is it into law. As to this idea of providing and forbid them not, for of such is the not true in Connecticut. There is a only for the fiscal year, you cannot put Kingdom of Heaven." question of good faith involved. up these various facilities in a few days; Mr. TABER. Mr. Chairman, will the Mr. DWORSHAK. The gentleman often not in a few months. gentleman yield? will recognize that we are already can­ We must provide for this war. No Mr. RABAUT. Yes; I yield to the dis­ celing billions of dollars of war contracts, man knows just what its duration will tinguished gentleman from New York. and there is no legitimate need at the be. You cannot expect these women, present time for continued shifting of Mr. TABER. I realize that the gen­ for instance, with reference to that par­ tleman is trying to put the heat on. I population. • ticular feature of community service, Mr. WOODRUM of Virginia . . Mr. only ask that' we cut this down to give who are working in these plants and who them enough to work on and then stop. Chairman, will the gentleman yield? are being called upon more and more to ·Mr. DWORSHAK. I yield to the gen­ contribute their labor to the war effort Mr. RABAUT. The gentleman should tleman from Virginia. in the production of the necessary equip­ remember that the women Members of Mr. WOODRUM of Virginia. Is the ment, to go into these plants and be de­ the Congress, women w:ho have intimate gentleman ·familiar with the projects nied every reasonable living convenience knowledge of this situation, came before that are contained in this bill for ·the his committee and advocated support of to carry on. this measure. State of Idaho, and can he say that they It is -of the very highest importance are not necessary? - that this appropriation be made. Let us What is the situation concerning the Mr. DWORSHAK. I will say that the hope that the amount provided in the $40,000,000? Thirty million . dollars of projects that were completed during 1943 bill will be sufficient to meet this emer­ the sum is allocated at the present time, probably were. gency. Undoubtedly it should not be re­ and the remaining $10,000,000 will not Mr. WOODRUM of Virginia. No; the duced. I think if those of you who have take care of the balance of the projects ones that are in this program that you come to see me urging the necessity for on hand. And there is no money for new are fixing to cut out by this amendment. this legislation, with reference to con­ projects, and no funds with which to Mr. DWORSHAK. I believe in that ditions in your own districts, will sup·­ renew the contracts of the existing pr.oj­ kind of economy that will involve re­ port it, the figure which is stated in this ects when they expire. If that is what ductions in my State on the same basis bill will remain there. the . gentleman wants-chaos- his that I am asking for economy in other The CHAIRMAN. The time of the amendment is perfect. States. gentleman from Texas has expired. In substantiation of these facts I quote Mr. WOODRUM of Virginia. The gen­ Mr. ·RABAUT. Mr. Chairman, I rise from the report No. 1239 accompanying tleman thinks that half the projects in in opposition to the pro forma amend­ the bill, H. R. 4346: Idaho might be cut out and not hurt any? ment. Mr. DWORSHAK. I believe that some , The act of July 15, 1943 (Public Law 150 of Mr. Chairman, this is indeed an odd the 78th Cong.), the last authorization for of them can be eliminated. situation in which the House finds itself community facilities, placed a limitation of I call your attention .to the fact that, this afternoon. To take a real appraisal $40,000,000 on the total amount of com­ when you stress child care, there was of this picture we must go back to the munity-facility funds that could be allocated only about $38,000,000 of a total of a days when we took the women into the for contributions to public and private agen­ . half billion dollars expended for child armed services of this country and took cies for maintenance and operation of public care, so when they say that' this program many a mother's helper away from the works after July 1, 1943. This limitation will is for the children of the mother:..; that shortly be exhausted and further aid to home. We must realize that we have mafntenance and operation of schools, are working in war plants, I contend tb.at called for women to go into the indus­ child-care centers; hospitals, and other fa­ only a very small proportion 'Of the funds tries of our Nation, and we must realize cilities will not be possible unless it is re­ have been devoted to this worth-while that child care is a mother's first love. moved or modified to meet the needs of the purpose. For Members who recognize their posi­ program to June 30, 1945. Pursuant to the The CHAIRMAN. The ti,me of the tions as Representatives of the people to Budget request and the recommendation of gentleman from Idaho has expired. stand in the well of the House and argue the Federal Works Agency, and after con­ Mr. LANHAM. Mr. Chairman, I move sultation with the chairman of the Com­ to strike out the last word. against the proposition for the support mittee on Public Buildings and Grounds, the of child care throughout the United committee recommends the removal of the Mr. Chairman, I wish to call attention States in these days of war is beyond my limitatigp so that the service program may to the fact that this legislation is strictly continue without interruption. war-emergency legislation. It is de­ comprehension. My special concern in child care is A great many Members of the House have signed to take ·care of the in:-migrant appeared before the committee in the in­ workers at these great war-production aggravated by the attitude of the gen­ terest of additional facilities to meet the plants without whom the plants them­ tleman from New York, but in the same need in communities that are hard pressed selves could not operate. If you do not breath I desire to call your attention to because of the heavy impact of' war condi­ wish to continue and accentuate absen­ the fact that his own district has been tions. The committee was also privileged to teeism and the lack or loss of morale, well provided for. He has a sewage proj­ have a report from the Committee on Publi~ ect in his district, to which the Federal Buildings and Grounds, through· its capable then do not deny these workers the ordi­ chairman, Hon. FRITZ G. LANHAM, WhO nary living conditions which are unfor­ Government contributed $13,650, at fathered the legislation authoriZing the pro­ tunate, at best, in these various areas. Geneva, N. Y. The entire cost of the gram and who has kept tn close contact with This is a war-emergency matter purely. project was $40,965. It is wrapped up its administration. The following is the con­ Let me call attention to the fact that and in the bag, and in the gentleman's cluding paragraph of his statement before more M;embers of the House of ~epre- district. the committee: 2454: CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE MARCH 9 "The Committee on Public Buildings and are in charge of operation. In a few The Axis Powers Jtave destroyed youth. Grounds has had monthly reports from the cases where the schools have been un­ They have taken from women in tremen­ Federal Works Agency on this program. I able or unwilling to assume this respon­ dous measure the capacity to produce am glad to report to the Appropriations sibility, funds have been granted to wel­ children for the future. Here in America Committee that our committee feels~ that the program has been capably and economi­ fare departments, parochial schools, or we are faced ·with a situation that in­ cally handled. The-present estimate looks to other agencies qualified or authorized to volves our asking our women to go onto its completion. It has required less money operate this type of facility. This same the production lines in addition to doing than was anticipated. The maintenance and Lanham Act specifically prohibits any their first and foremost role of home­ operation funds necessary for the services Federal agency or department from su­ making·. Have we no responsibiiity to involved are certainly urgent. I am also im­ pervising, administering or interfering help them in this? Are we r~membering pressed with the need for supplementary facilities in hard-pressed communities in with school operation in any way. This that children need care and protection? direct aid of war production. These are has been strictly and carefully followed We are troubled over delinquency. Can needed because of the extraordinary employ­ by the F. W. A. The same community we expect it to decrease if we create ad­ ment of women, the consequent strain that agencies ope1~te the program as would ditional causes for such tragedy? · Is it that employment makes on their homes, and do so under any other type of Federal not necessary for us to be more forward­ the congestion of war workers in isolated cen­ financing. The F. W. A. program has looking and to -have more vision? ters, which makes it difficult, if not impossi­ the further advantage of being an estab­ Heaven knows I am against Federal en­ ble, for access to normal community facilities lished, going concern and is better croachment on States' rights or local at hours which war jobs permit. The Gov­ ernment has a tremendous investment in adapted to a wartime program since it rights. I do not like it. I do not approve shipyards, airplane factories, and oth~r war can promptly meet needs in any con­ it. But it is the Federal Government industries. To make that investment com­ gested war area without waiting for the that is asldng women to go into produc­ pletely serviceable and fruitful every effort development of over-all State plans. tion. Are we going to be penny-wise and must be made to prevent labor turn-over and Mr. Chairman, as one who had a great pound-foolish? Are we going to fail to to provide means by which the workers can deal of experience in nursery work, hav­ keep first things first? get at the necessities of life." ing organized day nurseries during the Admitted that there are probably many The CHAffiMAN. The time of the last war, I say to you that it is the only things <1one in this program that should gentleman from Michigan has expired. proper way to take care of the children not be done, it seems to me that unless Mrs. NORTON. - Mr. Chairman, I am of working mothers. We cannot do it we have something better to put· in its very much surprised and disappointed at in any other way. If we want these place to protect our children we must see this debate today. A few days ago Mrs. women to work, and the War Manpower that that which is being done continues; ROGERS, Mrs. BOLTON, Mrs. SMITH, Mrs. Commission and every other agency of that we must see to it that there is some LUCE, Miss STANLEY, and I appeared be­ the Government insist they are abso­ way proYided to protect the children of fore the Committee on Appropriations lutely necessary, then we must provide working mothers. Do not confuse this to discuss the child-care program. We for their children, or we cannot have the with the old-fashioned charitable insti­ were led to believe that the committee benefit of their services, and I am sure tution that gave everything. These was in entire sympathy with the pro­ that the gentleman from New Yor~ [Mr. mothers are paying for much of it. gram, and so I am amazed at the way in TABER] is not really serious when he tries I am in accord with the gentleman which the debate has developed today. I to cut down this worth while project, from New York that we should do an cannot believe that there is a man on the and I beg of the Members of the House enormous amount of watching and try­ floor of this House, and I know there is not to go along with him in doing so. ing to see to it that the thing is done not a woman who does not consider that The dividends this appropriation will better, but the way to do· that at this this is an absolutely necessary program. pay in petter health and happiness for moment, with the war in is present stage, We have been begging women to take the children of working mothers are diffi­ and with our need for production the way jobs in industry. A great many of those cult to estimate. Not only will the chil- it is, is not by such curtailment of these women have children. You know and I . dren be safeguarded but the mothers of projects . know that a woman's first consideration these children will do much more efficient I know what it is going to-do to the is to care for her children, and no woman work if they are assured of the safety nursing situation if we do not get more will leave her home and her children if and welfare of their children. These housing for our students. We are not she does n·ot believe that proper care will facilities are understood and recognized going to have nurses for the men at the be given to those children, nor should as a wartime expedient. The authoriza­ front. Nor are we going to have chil­ she-not even to serve her country, be­ tion of the Lanham Act is limited to the dren growing up strong and well, the cause the care of her children should duration of the war. Of all the money children of the great masses of our people come before anything else. How can she appropriated for wartime services none unless we protect those whose mothers answer the call of her Government and is more important. go on to the production lines. take a job in industry unless her Govern­ Mrs. BOLTON. Mr. Chairman, in We have a responsibility to see that ment assists in providing the necessary spite of the fact that I discussed some of the administration of all these projects care for her children? She cannot. It this program yesterday, I want to say a improves, that it stops encroaching where is simply impossible. And the best few more words today, and put more em­ it does not belong-but our greatest re­ ineans to provide this care is by the con­ phasis on the child-care program rather sponsibility is to the children whose til;mation and expansion of the nursery than upon the nursing end of it as I did mothers are responding to the call sent program with Lanham funds. The fact yesterday. No one is more a ware of the out by industry that our armies may be we must bear in mind is that this appro­ fine work being gone by the gentleman invincible. priation is for a wartime emergency­ from New York [Mr. TABER] than I am, Mr. CANNON of Missouri. Mr. Chair­ strictly so. It is wartime legislation. We nor more aware of the need for great man, I ask unanimous consent that all have got to have this money to provide economy in every. aspect of our war pro­ debate on this amendment and all proper care for the children of working gram, as well as the home program, but amendments thereto close in 30 minutes. mothers. There should be no disagree­ there is such a thing as being penny:.. Th~ CHAIRMAN. Without objection, ment about that, and I do not see how wise and pound-foolish. There is such it is so ordered. there can be. a thing as doing for today and forgetting There was no objection. There seems to be much confusion re­ all about tomorrow. It is· the responsi­ Mrs. SMITH of Maine. Mr. Chair~ garding this appropriation. The Federal bility of woman to look toward tomor­ .man, I rise in opposition to the amend..: Works Agency does not operate child­ row and to see to it that every conceiv­ ment. care facilities. Neither does it adminis­ able thing is done to make it possible for Mr .. Chairman, it has been my privi· ter, supervise, or prescribe standards. us to have children tomorrow, to have lege during the past year as a member Every nursery school and child-care the children of today grow into adults · of the Congested Area Subcommittee of unit receiving assistance from Lanham of tomorrow who will be strong, fine, the House Naval Affairs Committee to Act funds is under the full and complete true Americans. On the Continent of visit eight congested war areas. My control of the local ·community. In Europe there has been a complete de­ committee visited industries, housing nearly all cases the local public-school struction of homes. Children are no projects, schools, and nurseries and systems are the applicants for funds and longer children. child-care centers. We talked with men 1944 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD.:_HOUSE 2455 and with women workers. We made a We had a sudden tremendous influx of that the Government, through their em­ survey of -labor turn-over of absenteeism, war personnel. and war workers, with ploying agencies, have gone out and so­ and of delinquency, and found that the their families. Our population was more licit~d the districts and have pled ·with· lack of community facilities was largely than doubled. It is quite obvious that the people of that district, asking that responsible for the problems which this great influx and the expansion of the women do their part and that, in existed. Women are coming into in­ Federal war activities, plus increased turn, the Government will try to cooper­ dustry in increasing numbers. They are housing activities, greatly overtaxed our ate with them to the extent that they trying to do their part in the shipyards community facilities. For a while, our will take care of the children and pro­ and the aircraft plants. But in addition situation appeared to be abfoolutely hope­ vide the necessary facilities under such to this women are obliged to maintain less, but with the aid of the Federal Gov­ · circumstances. their homes and to keep their children ernment, through the Federal Works You must bear in mind th-at women and their husbands fed and clothed. Agency, in cooperation with our com­ working in retail establishments, for in­ We found many women standing in line munity governments, the situation -was stance, are taking the place of men who waiting for medical care, for themselves taken in hand, and has been handled ex­ have either gone into the service or who and for their children. · We found them ceedingly well up to this time. are working in other war industries. waiting hours after work to get their The counties and the cities in that The average weekly earnings of those groceries and other necessities. 'we area were eager to do their full part, and women is $20.89. I know from personal found children roaming the streets and they have shouldered a fair and gener­ observation and contact that domestic some even locked in automobiles, not only -OUs part of the financial burden. But help is asking 75 cents an hour. When because their war-working parents were there is a definite and inescapable obli­ we take into consideration the fact they absent from home but also because of the gation resting upon the Federal Govern­ are required to pay that much for do­ lack of child-care facilities and schools. ment to make its proper contribution to mestic help, there is not much incentive This is an emergency. We have waited the solution of this problem. To the ex­ to work. We hear so much about the altogether too long to meet it. We tent that the Federal Works Agency has earnings of the workers in the aircraft should anticipate these things and be been able to do so, the problem has been industry. . The average earnings of the ready for them. We cannot expect these solved. The installations in that area women 1n the aircraft industry is $35 a women to come into industry and take have contributed vitally to the efficient week. There is no incentive for them to the place of men unless we help them. functioning of the war program _and that wor~ unless we have facilities for assist­ The war is not over. The end does not -part of the war machine. Let me give ing them in their home problems. As a appear to be near. These war-congested you one example of the problem that we result, we find a great many of them areas are carrying the burden for the rest -ran up against. The utilization of water quitting their jobs. We have a very of the country. This is only a part and by the Navy and other Federal activities serious situation.there, which is directly a very small part that many of us can in the Norfolk area of Hampton Roads connected with the war, and it is -of an ·do, and I hope that nothing may be done district increased tenfold or twelvefold. emergency nature. to curtail this program -that can. be so It was necessary to go many miles to a · For that reason I cannot go along with helpful toward winning the war. I hope ·river for an additional supply of water. the distinguished gentleman from New with the rest of you that after the war Even that could not provide the increase York [Mr. TABER] in what I think is a we can go back to normal living. But in the water needed, and pipe lines, with definite curtailment of the program. For let me point out that appropriation for pumping stations, had to be laid another that reason I will support the original ·community facilities is an investment, great distance to a second river. amount of the appropriation. not a short-term expenditure. These We also had to lay pipe lines all the Mr. DWORSHAK. Will the gentle­ community facilities increase the pro­ way to Fort Story, at Cape Henry, and man yield? ductivity of war workers and decrease to Camp Pendleton, farther down the Mr. POULSON. I yield. absenteeism and labor turn-over-the coast .from Norfolk. The Navy said at resulting greater production shortens the that time if this water was not provided Mr. DWORSHAK. Great stress has war and each day the war is shortened quickly, the Navy would have to move been placed upon the child-welfare pro­ means the saving of untold lives and out. gram. Of the approximately $500,000, ... expense. Then we will be out of the We ran into comparable problems in 000 which has been spent on this entire emergency and we can economize, but connection with sewage, schools, hos­ program, only about 7 percent has been ·not when it comes to the care of our pitals, fire protection, and other vital utilized for the child-care program. children. As my subcommittee observed health matters. That will not be jeopardized in any way in its Columbia River report, the unwise There have been erected in my part of even with this prevailing cut. saving of dollars is sowing a whirlwind the Hampton Roads area more than 20,- Mr. McCORMACK. Will the gentle­ of juvenile delinquency. 000 additional housing units. In one man yield? - The CHAIRMAN. The time of the Government project, there are over 5,000 Mr. POULSON. I yield. gentlewoman has expired. new houses, making necessary additional Mr. McCORMACK.· As far as specific Mr. HARRIS of Virginia. Mr. Chair­ community facilities. The same need appropriations are concerned, any money man, of all the money that we have ap­ which exists in our part of the country appropriated to build homes for these propriated here sin-ce Pearl Harbor, with obtains in many other areas. I, there­ workers to live in, where there are chil­ the exception, obviously, of that part fore, earnestly trust that this appropri- dren, certainly the children are the ben ... which went for direct combat activities, ation shan be approved. · eficiaries of that. So that it is far greater none, in my opinion, has been more im­ The CHAIRMAN. The time of the than simply a direct appropriation. portant nor more successfully expended gentleman from Virginia [Mr. HARRIS] The CHAffiMAN. The time of the than that which we have provided for has expired. gentleman from California has expired. the installation of these community The gentleman from California [Mr. The gentleman from Minnesota [Mr. facilities. I come from a district where PouLsoN J is recognized. JUDD] is recognized. expanded and additional community Mr. POULSON. Mr. Chairman, I dis­ Mr. TABER. Mr. Chairman, will the facilities were perhaps needed more than like to oppose the very capable minority gentleman yield? in any other part of the United States. leader, the gentleman from New York Mr. JUDD. I yield. As my colleague the gentleman from Vir­ [Mr. TABER],· because I feel he is not only ginia, Judge BLAND, has stated to you the very well qualified, but he has very com­ Mr. TABER. For the benefit of the Hampton Roads, Va., area officially has petent information. However,_ in sug­ majority leader, I would like to say that been designated as the No. 1 war-con­ gesting a reduction of the item by 50 none of the housing construction is in ... gested area of the United States. The percent, I do not consider that in the volved in this amendment, and that only facilities which the Federal Works light d being an approach from an econ­ $22,000,000 gross is asked for this child­ Agency, in cooperation with the locali­ omr standpoint. I think that is merely care proposition, out of the proposal on ties, has provided have attested to the a matter of doing away with the pro­ my part of $68,000,000. vital worth of this Agency and the ap­ gram. In the Los Angeles area one of Mr. McCORMACK. Will the gentle.. propriations that this Congress has made the great problems is the labor problem. man yield? for it. In connection with that problem we find Mr. JUDD. I yield. 2456 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE MARCH 9 Mr. McCORMACK. I was referring hearing on that bill before the House of our 1943 allotment until -the middle of to the $500,000,000 heretofore referred Committee on Education. January 1944, and we received no part of our "to. I should like to have been able to vote 1944 allotment until February 23. As a re­ sult, it was necessary for us to borrow on our Mr. TABER. That is not a part of the for specific appropriations .to carry the personal notes the funds needed to pay the appropriation. child-care program, as well as other salaries of our teachers and other staff mem­ Mr. JUDD. Mr. Chairman, perhaps I, most worth-while and urgently needed bers. During the major portion of that time too, might lay claim to being· somewhat projects, through to the end of the fiscal no other bi~ls were paid, and the credit of interested in the care of the children of year, to June 30, and in the meantime the project and relationships with the com­ working mothers. The real question, work out a b~tter program whereby we munity were decidedly strained. however, is not whether or not they need can be sute at least this part of the total . The ' experience has convinced us that a State education department, handling only care; that is recognized by all. The community services can be taken care of the extended school projects in one .State question is whether or not this is the best not from the standpoint of providing could operate more efficiently than a Federal way to provide it. jobs or multiplying offices and salaries agency handling a multitude of States. There seems to be considerable confu­ but from the sole standpoint of taking Certainly, from the local point of view, it sion here this afternoon on this point. the best possible care of these children would be infinitel-y easier to deal with a It is presented as if a vote against this while their mothers are at work. single agency. We hope, therefore, that you appropriation as it stands is a vote May I say that I have not heard a will report favorably bill S. 1130 and support single word or received a single letter its passage. If your committee is not pre­ against child care; that our only choice pared to act favorably at once, we earnestly is child care under the Lanham Act or from my district criticizing the program request an immediate public hearing on the no care at all. If that were the case, I there. It has been most admirably han­ measure. Such an important bill should not should favor this full appropriation; but, dled by the local authorities and-they are be allowed to die in committee. ·fortunately, it is not. There is another all for it; but that does not allow me to Sincerely yours, alternative, and one about which no one close my eyes to the fact that there are KATHRYN H. STARBUCK, has yet spoken. I favor that alternative in~reasing complaints from many areas Chairman of Civilian War Services~ rather than this plan not because I am and many mothers are quitting their war ALICE P. REEVES, not interested in the care of children jobs because the effects on their children Chairman, Child Care Committee. but just because I am intensely inter­ have been so bad tney are unwilling to The CHAIRMAN. The time of the ested in the best· possible care of chil­ leave them longer under the program as gentleman from Minnesota has expired. dren, and I do not believe this is the best administered in those places. I am The gentleman from Massachusetts way to handle it. including with my re1:1arks a lettter re­ [Mr. McCoRMACK] is recognized. This bill is entitled "First Deficiency ceived just today giving light on admin­ Mr. McCORMACK. Mr. Chairman, it Appropriation Act, 1944." Its official istrative difficulties encountered in a is very seldom I inject myself into debate purpose is supp·osed -"to supply defi­ project in New York. on an appropriation bill, as the Members ciencies in certain appropriations for Mr. Chairman, it seems too bad that know by experience. On every amend­ the fiscal year ending June 30, 1944." this bill does not permit us to vote on ment, however, I have my own personal If it were drawn so as to d·o just that, clean-cut issues, approving definite views,· but as leader I feel that in most to supply the money necessary to carry amounts for those projects which are matters, particularly in appropriation on to the end of the fiscal year the demonstrated to be sound, and demand­ bills where an amendment is offered, the program to which we have been com­ ing improvement of those which are less members of the committee on both sides mitted, and if the total amount of sound. Instead we are being asked to are best able to make a greater contri­ $127,500,000 were broken down into spe­ give a blank check in the words of the bution in assisting Members to make up cific appropriations so that we could bill, "to remain available during the con­ their minds. know just how much of it is to go for · tinuance of the unlimited national emer- . I take second place to no man in this child care, how much for schools, how gency," howt-ver long that is going to be. House in my respect and admiration of much for water systems, and each of the It makes a decision very difficult. I be­ my good friend the distinguished gentle­ other 8 or 10 projects, I certainly would lieve we should appropriate now onl~ man from New York [Mr. TABERJ. He go along. But all we have is a table in enough to carry through this year and clearly understands from many past ex­ then bring in a more specific program so the report of estimated total costs, and pressions and actions on .mY part, the ~e­ no assurance the money will not be spent we can legislate with a greater degree of gard I have for him and my respect for in totally different proportions than sug­ intelligence and discrimination. his ability as a legislator, but in this in­ gested in the table. When are we going SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y., March 7, 1944. stance I am constrained to disagree to stop issuing these blank checks? The Honorable WALTER H. JuDD, sharply with the argument he has ad­ My concern for the proper care of our Member, House Committee on Educa­ tion, House Office Building, Wash­ vanced in support of his·amendment. children requires that I try to make sure ington, D. C. This is emergency activity directly con­ how much is to go for that purpose and DEAR SIR: We are writing you in behalf of nected with the war. This activity con­ how its allocation is to be determined. bill S. 1130 which is now before the House cerns itself with the home life, with the I feel there is a far better way of provid­ Education Committee. community life, with the program of ing proper care than through this omni­ We have been operating in Saratoga Springs child care, schools, and other public fa­ bus sort of appropriation. It was pro­ a child-care program, with funds appro­ cilities, all of them arising as a result of. vided for in a bill passed by the Senate priated under the Lanham Act, since April 1943: We have experienced considerable diffi­ the war. I am unable to look forward, last June, and referred to the House culty in meeting the requirements of the much as I wish I could, and say that the Committee on Education, where it has various agencies involved in the financial war is going to close in 3 or 6 montl1.S lain ever since, the so-called Thomas administration of these projects, and we are from now. I wish, I hope, and- I pray, as bill, S. 1130. It sets forth a program convinced that the administration outlined which I think is far superior to this, be­ in S. 1130, which provides Federal funds as we all do, that it might terminate tomor­ cause it makes its primary and sole ob­ grants-in-aid to the States and puts the row-. While I hope it will terminate in ject not politics or patronage but the supervision of administration in the hands the near future, in response to the exer­ best possible care of the children; and it of the State education department, would cise of my rational mind I cannot say eliminate these unnecessary difficulties. that it will; therefore, we have got to therefore provides · for dispensing the Although our relations with the regional money and - directing the work not office No.1 of the Federal Works Agency have look ahead and plan from a long-range through a polyglot emergency patchwork been most cordial, that Agency handles proj­ angle. The matter under discussion is set-up but through those whose life ects from 9 States. This burden, plus an definitely connected with the war and di­ work it is to take care of and train chil­ insufficient staff, has resulted in almost in­ rectly concerns the family life. Each dren; namely, the regularly established tolerable complications and delays in financ­ and every one ·of us is concerned with as and experienced departments of educa­ ing our local projects. strong a family life as we can have, even For example, although we made our request tion in the respective States. for the final quarter of our 1943 allotment under war conditions, and it seems to me For some reason, not officially ex­ in October, and our application for the re­ this appropriation as recommended by plained, some of us have never been able newal of our Federal grant in the same the committee should be adopted by the during almost 9 months to get even a month, we did not receive the full amount committee, and the amendment offered 1944 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 2457 by the gentleman from New York de­ Emergency Price Control Act of 1942 and in the RECORD and to include therein cer­ feated. the Stabilization Act of 1942 which ex­ tain excerpts from Supreme Court deci­ It also seems to me that those Mem­ tends the operation of both of those acts sions and also a brief editorial from the bers who have projects in their districts from June 30, 1944, until June 30, 1945. Saturday Evening Post. are not the ones most interested. As a It makes no change in existing law, it The SPEAKER. Is there objection to matter of fact, I sympathize with the merely extends the operation of these the request of the gentleman from West Members who have these projects in their acts as they are now upon the statute Virginia [Mr. 'KEE]? districts. The projects are there because books. There was no objection. of war industry and the increased activi­ The President in his message stated Mr. KEFAUVER. Mr. Speaker, I ask ties as a result of the war. There is that this had to be done in order to avoid unanimous consent to extend my own re­ going to be a tremendous displacement price chaos and to insure the stability marks in the RECORD and to include and readjustment in those districts after and integrity of the American dollar. therein a brief magazine article. the war is over. Those communities Before long we shall conduct hearings The SPEAKER. Is there objection to .have got to have these extra facilities. upon this very momentous question. I the request of the gentleman from Ten­ rrhe war brought about this condition. feel confident that the Congress will pass nessee [Mr. KEFAUVER]? The local taxpayers in the main are un­ this amendment which is so necessary There was no objection. for the preservation of the prosperity of able to meet it. After the war is over Mr. ROWAN. Mr. Speaker, I ask there are going to be ghost villages in the American people. unanimous consent to extend my own more than one community throughout The SPEAKER. The time of the gen­ remarks in the RECORD on two subjects this Nation. So the Member who has no tleman has expired. and to include in one an editorial from project is just as much interested in this, EXTENSION OF REMARKS the Christian Science Monitor and in the I"sometimes feel more interested, as the Mr. REED of New York. Mr. Speaker, other a communication by Judge Harry Member who has a project, because after I ask unanimous consent to extend my M. Fisher, of the Circuit Court of Cook the war is over his community is not go­ own remarks in the Appendix of the REc­ County, Ill., on the American Jewish ing to be affected by the disturbance that ORD and to include therein an editorial. Conference. will take place with the termination of The SPEAKER. Is there objection to The SPEAKER. Is there objection to ·the war. I hope the amendment will be the request of the gentleman from New the request of the gentleman from Illi- defeated. York [Mr. REED]? nois [Mr. ROWAN]? · . The CHAIRMAN. The , time of t:Qe There was no objection. There was no objection. gentleman from Massachusetts has ex­ Mr. WOODRUFF of Michigan. Mr. SENATE ENROLLED BILLS SIGNED pired; all time has expired. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to ex­ The question is on the amendment of­ tend my own remarks in the RECORD and The SPEAKER announced his signa­ fered by the gentleman from New York to include therein a newspaper article, ture to enrolled bills of the Senate of the to the amendment offered by the gentle­ and I also ask unanimous consent to ex­ following titles: man from Missouri [Mr. CANNON]. tend my own remarks in the RECORD. S. 391. An act for the relief of Jack Lecel Mr. CANNON of Missouri. Mr. Chair­ · The SPEAKER. Is there objection to Haas; man, I ask unanimous consent that the the request of the gentleman from Mich­ S. 393. An act for the relief of William Clerk may again read the amendment. igan [Mr. WOODRUFF]? Kovatis; The CHAIRMAN. Without objection, There was no objection. S. 397. An act for the relief of Lt. (Jr. Gr.) 'the Clerk will read the amendment again. Mr. TALBOT. Mr. Speaker, I ask Svend J . Skou; There was no objection. S. 617. An act for the relief of Homer C. unanimous consent to extend my own Chapman; The Clerk read as follows: remarks in the RECORD and to include Amendment offered by Mr. TABER, of New S. 776. An act to confer jurisdiction on the therein a letter written by my colleague, ·court of Claims to hear, determine, and ren­ York, to ~he amendment of Mr. CANNON of Missouri: Strike out "$127,500,000" and in­ the gentleman from Vermont [Mr. der judgment on the claim of Louis H. Pink, sert "$68,690,000." PLUMLEY.) superintendent of insurance of the State of The SPEAKER. Is there objection to New York, or his statutory successor, as statu­ · The CHAIRMAN. The question is on the request of the gentleman from Con­ tory liquidator of Ne\\' York Indemnity Co., the amendment. necticut [Mr. TALBOT]? against the United States; The question was taken:· and on a • There was no objection. S. 1427. An act to authorize the appoint­ division

COMMITTEE ON INVALID PENSIONS By Mr. KEARNEY: 5213. By ¥1'. HART: Memorial of the emer­ The Committee on Invalid Pensions H. R. 4370. A bill· to further amend the gency mass meeting of the communities of Servicemen's Dependents Allowance Act of northern Hudson County, N.J., memorializing will hold hearings on Thursday, March 1942, as amended, so as to provide for the the Congress to exert their best efforts to­ 16, 1944, at 10:30 a.m., in the committee relief of certain widows, children, and other ward the immediate passage of House Reso­ room, 247 House Office Building, on S. dependents of servicemen who die as a result lutions 418 and 419; to the Committee on 1225, entitled "An act granting a pension of Injury or disease incurred in or aggravated Foreign Affairs. to Constance Eager," which was intro­ by mil1tary or naval service, and for other 5214. By Mr. MYERS: Petition of 160 citi­ duced by Senator TYDINGS, and s. 662, purposes; to the Committee on Military zens of Philadelphia, Pa., protesting against entitled ''An act to authorize pensions Affairs. the passage of the Bryson bill (H. R. 2082); By Mrs. NORTON: to the Committee on the Judiciary. for certain physically or mentally help­ H. R. 4371. A bill to provide for cooperation 5215. By Mr. O'BRIEN of Illinois: Petition less children, and for other purposes," with State agencies administering labor laws of the delegates and electors of the American­ which was introduced by Senator BILBO. in establishing and maintaining safe and Jewish conference held in Chicago, Ill., March proper working conditions in industry and in 1, 1944, endorsing House Resolutions 418 and EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, ETO. the preparation, promulgation, and enforce­ 419, respectively; to the Committee on For­ ment of regulations to control industrial eign Affairs. Under clause 2 of rule XXIV, executive health hazards; to the Committee on Labor. 5216. By Mr. SCHIFFLER: Petition of Mrs. communications were taken from the By :M'..r. WHELCHEL: J. W. Powell and other citizens of Fairview, Speaker's table and referred as lollows: H. R. 4372. A bill requiring concurrence of W.Va., urging the passage of House bill 2082; seven Justices of the Supreme Court to re­ to the Committee on the Judiciary. 1269. A communication from the Presi­ 5217. By Mrs. SMITH of Maine: Petition of dent of the United States, transmitting sup­ verse prior decisions; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Rev. Nellie Lanpher and 25 other signers of plemental estimates of appropriations for Freedom, ,Maine, urging action on House bill the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal By Mr. BROOKS: H. R. 4373. A bill to provide that where the 2082, to prohibit the manufacture, sale, and year 1945, totaling $40,000 (H. Doc. No. 478); transportation of alcoholic beverages for the to the Committee on Appropriations. rating of disability of a veteran of the World War as to an arm or leg is equal to the rating duration of the war; to the Committee on 1270. A letter from the President of the the Judiciary. Civil Service Commission, transmitting a for amputation at any level, the loss of use of draft of a proposed bill to amend the Classi­ such extremity shall be considered as estab­ 5218. Also, petition of Rev. Mabelle R fication Act of 1923, as amended; to the Com­ lished, for statutory award purposes; to the Whitney and about 40 other citizens of Win­ mittee on the Civil Service. Committee on World War Veterans' Legisla­ terport, Maine, urging action on House bill 1271. A letter from the Secretary of the tion. 2082, to prohibit the manufacture, sale, and Navy, transmitting a draft of a proposed bill By Mr. MANSFIELD of Montana: transportation. of alcoholic beverages for the to· authorize Lewis Hobart Kenney, Charles H. R . 4374. A bill to modify section 4 of the duration of the war; to the Committee on the Garber, Charles Clement Goodman, and Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934, Judiciary. Henry Charles Robinson to accept decora­ With reference to certain funds collected in tions and orders tendered them by the Gov­ connection with the operation of Indian Serv­ &nment of the United States of Brazil; to ice irrigation projects; to the Committee on the Committee on Naval Affairs. Indian Affairs. By Mr. DIMOND: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES H. R. 4375. A bill to authorize increases in REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON PUBLIC wages for cer-tain employees of the Alaska FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1944 BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS Railroad for services rendered from May -1 The House met at 12 o'clock noon. Under clause 2 of rule XIII, reports of to September 30, 1943, inclusive; to the Committee on tbe Civil Service. The Chaplain, Rev. James Shera Mont­ committees were delivered to the Clerk By Mr. SPENCE: gomery, D. D., offered the following for printing and reference to the proper H. R. 4376. A bill to extend the period of prayer: calendar, as follo,ws: operation of the Emergency Price Control Mr. COCHRAN·: Committee on Accounts. Act of 1942 and of the act of October 2, 1942, 0 Lord God of heaven and earth, hear House Resolution 466. Resolution providing entitled "An act to amend the Emergency our supplication and move us to pray for for the payment of the expenses of the in­ Price Control Act of 1942, to aid in preven­ the things we most need. Quicken in vestigation authorized by House Resolution ing inflation, and for other purposes"; to the us those springs by which we may dis­ 52; without amendment (Rept. No. 1244). Committee on Banking and Currency. cern Thee more perfectly. Grant that Referred to the House Calendar. we may not be satisfied with the things Mr. PATMAN: Special Committee on Small Business. Fifth interim report pursuant to PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS of the past; give us a more generous and . House Resolution 18, a resolution creating a Under clause 1 of rule XXII, broader understanding. Flll us with a Select Committee on Small Business of the Mr. VINSON of Georgia introduced a bill desire to possess the grace of humility House of Representatives and defining its (H. R. 4377) authorizing the President to and spiritual knowledge, out of which powers and duties; without amendment present, in the name of Congress, a Distin­ grow the fruits of. divine love and which (Rept. No. 1245). Referred to the Committee guished Service Medal to Admiral Chester W. make secure against the winds of fate of the Whole House on the state of the Nimitz, United States Navy, which was re­ and chance. Union. ferred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Mr. MAY: Committee on Military Affairs. 0 King eternal, fulfill Thy mission; rule H. R. 3528. A bill to provide effective date of in human hearts and reign in all lands, awards of death pension or compensation in PETITIONS, ETC. pouring out Thy beneficent and reform­ cases of persons missing or missing in ac• .Under clause 1 of rule XXII, petitions ing zeal in wisdom and power, winning tion, to authorize payment of such benefits and papers were laid on the Clerk's desk victory for that righteousness and truth from the date of death of such person as re­ and referred as follows: which are stronger than all the schemes ported or found by the Secretary of War_ or of men. We rejoice that in these evil the Secretary of the Navy, and for other pur­ 5210. By Mr. JUDD: Petit~on of the Minne­ poses; without amendment (Rept. No. 1246). sota State Branch of the International Union days we do not mourn as those without Referred to the Committee of the Whole of Operating Engineers, opposing passage of hope and do not fear as those who have House on the state of the Union. House bill 2082, which would impose eom­ no faith. Let our greatest grief be lost plete prohibition for the duration of the war; in the certainty of trust and joy, putting to the Committee on the Judiciary. · PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS our lives and destiny in the enabling care 5211. By Mr. CASE: Petition ot the Rev­ of a good God. 0 lift all minds to Thee Under clause 3 ·of rule XXII, public erend R. B. Bonney, pastor of the Methodist and deepen within us that gratitude that bills and resolutions were introduced and Church of White Lake-Kimball-Underwood, S. Dak., and 65 citizens of these communi­ Thou wilt guide our desires; in using severally referred as follows: ties, urging passage of House bill 2082, pro­ nobly and happily our earthly years is By Mr. COLE of New York: hibiting the manufacture, sale, or transpor­ found that larger life beyond. In the H. R. 4368. A bill to amend section 3360 (c) tation of alcoholic liquors in the United name of our blessed Redeemer. Amen. of the Internal Revenue Code; to the Com­ States for the duration of the war; to the mittee on Ways and Means. Committee on the Judiciary. The Journal of the proceedings of yes­ By Mr. FISH: 5212. By Mr. DOUGLAS: Petition of about terday was read and approved. H. R. 4369. A bill to authorize the Admin­ 800 citizens of Oneida County, N. Y., Thirty­ MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE . istrator of Veterans' Affairs to furnish seeing­ third Congressional District, protesting eye dogs for blind veterans; to the Committee against the enactment of any prohibition leg­ A message from the Senate, by Mr. on World War Veterans' Legislation. islation; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Gatling, one of its clerks, announced that