25702 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 4, 1968 E·XTEN.SION.S O;F REMARKS A NEW FOCUS ON OPPORTUNITY­ ing over $10,000 a year have virtually doubled country-we find a great diversity in origin THE FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF in 2 years in the Southwest. Spanish-sur­ yet a great commonality in traditions and named employees in top level Federal jobs language. They have also shared the same THE INTER-AGENCY COMMITTEE have increased 185 percent since 1963. problems and experiences as citizens of the ON MEXICAN AMERICAN AFFAffiS The Civil Service Commission has requested United States and in this report the term all agencies to place Spanish-speaking citi­ "Mexican American" is used as a general zens in jobs where their ab1Uty can help designatton. HON. EDWARD R. ROYBAL those citizens with limited English. As the Anglo American moved out into the OF CALIFORNIA Seven Southwest cities with large Spanish­ frontier lands of our Nation, the Mexican IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES speaking populations have been added to the American gave way as did the American model cities program which wm use Federal Indian. He lost lands which he had held for Wednesday, September 4, 1968 funds to improve urban living, including centuries; he lost his footing in his own com­ Mr. ROYBAL. Mr. Speaker, on July 30, housing and schools. munity. He became the governed in his vil­ There are many other examples of our lage. His language, which had been the 1968, the first annual report of the Fed­ progress, which have been reported to me by tongue of commerce, became a mark of the eral Inter-Agency Committee on Mexi­ the Inter-Agency Committee, and its Chair­ "foreigner." Suddenly this was no longer his can American Affairs was submitted to man, Vincente T. Ximenes. land or home. the President. There is much work to be done, but we The Mexican Americans were pushed into This report represents a significant have started to move, we plan to continue menial jobs as the years passed; their chil­ milestone in calling the attention of the to move toward full-fledged equality for all dren rarely reaped the benefits of education. country to the challenges, problems, op­ Spanish-surnamed citizens. There appeared in towns, villages and cities portunities, and achievements of the mil­ certain poor sections, or barrios-the ghettos ANNUAL REPORT, THE MEXICAN AMERICAN­ of Mexican Americans. Caught in a vicious lions of American citizens in the Span­ A NEW FOCUS ON OPPORTUNITY, INTER• circle, the Mexican Americans set the pat­ ish-speaking community. AGENCY COMMITTEE ON MEXICAN AMERICAN terns of poverty which their children, to the Because of the importance of the Com­ AFFAIRS, 1967-68 present, encounter. mittee's report, "A New Focus on Oppor­ LYNDON B. JoHNSON, El Paso, Tex., Octo­ Some moved to other sections of the coun­ tunity," I would like to include it in the ber 28, 1967. We are moving forward. Nobody try, to the Northwest, to parts of the East. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD at this point, to knows better than you know how far we have Their lot has not been much better. The be preceded by the statement issued by to go .... A lesser people might have de­ Puerto Ricans, for example, landed on the the President on receiving the report: spaired. A lesser people might have given up east coast to find that American citizenship on paper meant nothing to employers or INTER-AGENCY COMMITTEE ON MEXICAN a long time ago. But your people didn't give AMERICAN AFFAIRS up. They believed. landlords. They believed that they were full-fi.edged Mexican American migrant farm workers (Statement by the President on the Commit­ citizens of the greatest nation on earth, even make up more than half of the migrant tee's first annual report, August 10, 1968) if others didn't always treat them as such. stream in the United States. For example, The first annual report of the Inter-Agency INTER-AGENCY COMMITTEE ON they account for about 64 percent of the Committee on Mexican American Affairs, the MEXICAN AMERICAN AFFAIRS, migrants who come into the State of Mich­ organization we created last summer to focus Washington, D.O., July 30,1968. igan. They also are as far away from the the attention of the Government on the DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: I have the honor to Southwest as New Jersey. problems of the millions of Spanish-speaking present herewith a report on the activities of THE WHITE HOUSE, American citizens, is encouraging. the Inter-Agency Coinmittee on Mexican Washington, June 9,1967. The report is frank-it indicates that many American Affairs for the year ending June 30, Memorandum for: Han. W. Wlllard Wirtz, of these citizens still live in poverty; that 1968. Secretary of Labor; Han. John W. Gard­ their housing, their educational opportuni­ Respectfully, ner, Secretary of Health, Education, and ties, their employment opportunities, are still VICENTE T. XIMENES, Welfare; Hon. Orvme L. Freeman, Secre­ wen below anything like an acceptable level. Ohafrman. tary of Agriculture; Han. Robert C. The report indicates that there has been Approved: Weaver, Secretary of Housing and Urban remarkable progress in the last 12 months, ORVILLE L. FREEMAN, Development; Han. R. Sargent Shriver, in the terms of jobs, of educational opportu­ Secretary of Agriculture. Director, Office of Economic Opportunity; nities for children and adults, of housing; it CYRUS R. SMITH, Hon. Vicente Ximenes, Commissioner, shows real progress in equal employment by Secretary of Commerce. Equal Employment Opportunity Com­ the Federal Government; and it shows that w. WILLARD WIRTZ, mission. the Federal Government is now working with Secretary of Labor. Over the past three years, many members the community in giving real attention to WILBUR J. COHEN, of my Administration have had discussions the unique problems of our Mexican-Ameri­ Secretary of Health, Education, and with Mexican American leaders and others can, Puerto Rican, and other Spanish-sur­ Welfare. interested in their problems. They have dis­ named citizens. ROBERTW. WEAVER, cussed the value of our programs to Mexican We have now recognized, as a matter of Secretary of Housing and Urban Devel­ Americans in their search for equal oppor­ Federal law, that b111ngual education is a opment. tunity and first-class American citizenship. good approach to educating children grow­ BERTRAND M. HARDING, The time has come to focus our efforts ing up in a two-language culture. In the past Acting Director of the Office of Economic more intensely on the Mexican Americans 2 years we channeled $10 million to fund Opportunity. programs for bll1ngual and bicultural chil­ of our nation. dren. WHO ARE THE MEXICAN AMERICANS? I am therefore asking the Secretary of We are now making much better use of The~e are approximately 10 million Spanish­ Labor, the Secretary of Health, Education, our Spanisl\-speaking citizens in our rela­ surnamed citizens in our country, of which and Welfare, the Secretary of Housing and tions with Latin American nations. Last fall, six and a half million reside in the South­ Urban Development, the Secretary of Agri­ when Dr. Hector Garcia was addressing the west. In 1960, Mexican Americans represented culture and the Director of the Oftlce of United Nations in Spanish, another first, we over 12 percent of the total population in Economic Opportunity to serve on an inter­ had four Spanish-surnamed Ambassadors in the five Southwestern States; this group is agency committee on Mexican American af­ this field. the largest minor! ty in each of these States. fairs. I am asking Commissioner Vicente We have moved-through the poverty pro­ The Mexican American may be a descendant Ximenes of the Equal Employment Oppor­ gram, minimum wage laws for farm workers, of the Spanish explorers Cortez, Cabeza de tunity Commission to chair this committee. tighter regulation of farm labor housing, and Baca or Coronado. Or he may have recently The purpose of this committee is to assure by virtually terminating the bracero pro­ immigrated from Mexico and may very well that Federal programs are reaching the gram-to make life more livable for the Na­ be a descendant of the great Aztec civiliza­ Mexican Americans and providing the assist­ tion's farmworkers, most of whom are Mexi­ tion. Or he may be a mestizo from the union ance they need and seek out new programs can-Americans. of Indian and Spanish. that may be necessary to handle problems Spanish-surnamed Federal employees in­ There are oth~rs in the United States who that are unique to the Mexican American creased 41 percent since 1965-up 9,000 jobs, have the same features, background, language community. many in positions where they can use their and surnames. For example, there are Puerto I am also asking this committee to meet languages to help others who speak Spanish. Ricans, Spanish Americans (from Spain), with Mexican Americans, to review their The Post Office Department has added Mexi­ Central Americans (from Costa Rica, Pan­ problems and to hear from them what their can-Americans to its staff at about 60 times ama, etc.), and South Americans. Therfore, needs are, and how the Federal Government the rate it averaged in the last 120 years. among the Spanish-speaking Americans-­ can best work with state and local govern­ Mexican-American Federal employees earn- the second largest minority group in our ments, with private industry and with the September 4, 1968 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25'703 Mexican Americans themselves in solving sons the community's very real needs had of access for the Mexican Americans and those problems. been neglected by the Government. During, to be free of interruptions in the time of t would like to be kept informed, at October 1967, however, through the medium two score and more of Federal officials at­ periodic intervals, of the progress being made. of Hearings ordered by President Johnson, tending. Above all, it was to assure that the LYNDON B. JOHNSON. the community's needs and proposed solu­ Government officials would meet face to face (The Secretary of Commerce was added to tions to the community's problems were with the Spanish-surnamed people and the Committee by Presidential letter of Jan­ highlighted to the leaders of the Govern­ would listen to s.olutions. uary 15, 1968.) ment in a history-making manner. Selecting participants A FOCAL POINT IS CREATED As a result of these hearings in El Paso, the community is seeking more Federal action, Obviously, not all Mexican Americans could On June 9, 1967, the President established and is expecting more action-and the Com­ attend. Great care was taken in issuing in­ a cabinet committee designated as the mittee is providing the kind of help which vitations to give geographical balance, a fu11 Inter-Agency Committee on Mexican Ameri­ it is uniquely qualified to provide to other range of views and experience, and represen­ can Affairs "to assure that Federal pro­ agencies, Federal, State, local and private. tation of all occupations from migrants to grams are reaching the Mexican Americans How it does this and with what results professionals. and providing the assistance that they need, is set forth as follows: Suggestions were solicited from individ­ and (to) seek out new programs that may be uals, national organizations, government offi­ necessary to handle problems that are unique THE COMMITTEE STAFF cials-both appointed and elected-at na­ to the Mexican American community." Supporting the Committee, a staff, of small tional and local levels, educational institu­ The President appointed to the Commit­ size but extensive familiarity with the prob­ tions, private business, and many others. tee the Secretaries of Agriculture; Com­ lems of the Spanish speaking/or the Federal Nearly 25,000 nominations were received merce; Labor; Health, Education, and Wel­ departments and agencies, carries out these by the application of several dozen stand­ fare; and Housing and Urban Development; functions: ards. This large number was sifted in an at­ and the Director of the Office of Economic Program and Project Assistance: This in­ tempt to find 1,500 participants able "to Opportunity, Vicente T. Ximenes, a member volves the two-part activity of guiding Mex­ talk about what can be done through speci­ of the Equal Employment Opportunity Com­ ican American groups to the program re­ fic programs to achieve the rightful ambition mission, was appointed chairman of the sources of the Federal Government and help­ of Mexican Americans to play their full role Committee. ing agencies identify and respond to the in our society." The President created the Committee to needs of the Mexican American community. Selecting subjects help meet the pressing needs of more than Too often Federal programs which fit per­ 10,000,000 Spanish surnamed Americans­ fectly the needs of other segments of society, Subjects were chosen with like care. Six the Mexican Americans of the Southwest, fail to match the needs of this community. concurrent panels of Federal officials were the Puerto Ricans on the mainland, the Without s.ssistance Mexican Americans too set up to run continuously morning and af­ Cubans, and others. Often forgotten, al­ often lack the familiarity with government ternoons for two days. The 1,500 participants though the second largest in the nation, this structure and procedure to take advantage of were assigned to sessions according to their minority has serious problems. Federal programs that already exist. experience and interest. In each case a Mexi­ These problems, at this point in the eco­ Research: The staff maintains an overview can American was appointed monitor to chair nomic and social development of our people, of public and private research of use to the the panels and assure full hearing of all are unique in dimension, geography, and Mexican American community. Essentially, viewpoints. cultural derivation. Further these are factors this consists of evaluating and synthesizing Panels were on Agriculture; Labor; HEW; which m111tate for their continuation unless the relevant research of others and the stim­ Housing and Urban Development; Poverty; vigorous action is taken. Among these is ulation of such research. Economic and Social Development. the continuing contact with the original There is literally no such institution as a. In addition, 50 round tables were held cultural sources in other countries which Mexican American college or university and concurrently on the evening separating the other minorities no longer have. with the end of the Ford Foundation's Mexi­ first two day-time se8S'ions. These were ex­ The Mexican Americans in the Southwest, can American research project at the Uni­ clusively for the participants to discuss pres­ for example, have ties of language with versity of California at Los Angeles, there is entation of their views to the officials on the nearby Mexico and this serves to envigorate no research clearing house of any kind for panels. cultural traditions. Americans of Polish de­ the community other than that of the Com­ Community cooperation scent, for example, are now long removed mittee. Public rooms in six hotels, classrooms and from the well springs of their ancestral Job Placement: Given the low level of Mex­ the auditorium of the University of Texas at heritage. ican American participation in Federal em­ El Paso, and fac111ties of the U.S. Army from And though the problems, if anything, are ployment and the rising interest in recruit­ Fort Bliss and Fort Sam Houston were used. more complex than those of other minorities, ing talented members of the community, the The staff of the Committee was augmented the community's resources are more scarce. staff works to help fill this gap. The Commit­ by Army personnel, officials and staff of tbe Mexican Americans have no colleges or other tee has been matching potential profes­ El Paso Chamber of Commerce, and other educational institutions they can call their sional-level employees with suitable Federal community groups and private citizens­ own, no substantial private institutions, positions and those in private industry whose Mexican Americans and others-whose co­ virtually no funding for their organizations, increasing interest has also been stimulated operation was unfailingly generous and help­ and, until June 9, 1967, no unit anywhere in by the Committee. ful. the Federal government that was specifically Public Information: From time to time Federal participants concerned with their problems. information is prepared for the press, radio, The Hearings were opened by Vice Presi­ In general terms, the Inter-Agency Com­ television, and magazines to alert the Mexi­ dent Humphrey. For the first time in Ameri­ mittee on Mexican American Affairs serves can American community of Federal activi­ can history, this number of Cabinet mem­ as the central liaison point between the ties. bers and several score high Federal officials Spanish-surnamed communities of the THEEL PASO HEARINGS gathered in one place in the country outside United States and the Federal government. The first assignment of the Committee, of Washington to meet with one group of Generally, the Committee: mentioned in the President's memorandum citizens for two days of give-and-take. · Lends technical assistance to Federal establishing the Committee, was :•to meet The meetings were concluded by a speech agencies which have either grant-in-aid or with the Mexican Americans, to review their of President Johnson. He brought with him direct programs of significance to the com­ problems and to hear from them what their the President of Mexico who also addressed munity so that these programs will match needs are, and how the Federal Government the final session. A traditional Fiesta ar­ the real needs of the community; can best work with State and local govern­ ranged by citizens of El Paso concluded the Lends technical assistance to community ments, with private industry and with the historic gathering and marked what has since organizations seeking program assistance Mexican Americans themselves in solving been called "a watershed in Mexican Ameri­ from the Federal government; these problems." can affairs, a milestone in democratic gov­ As occasion demands, matches the needs of Consultation with leaders ernment, and the greatest step forward to date in centuries of Mexican American his­ the community with both private and public Consultation with Mexican American resources outside the community; leaders and "grass roots" representatives was tory." rnvides rasearch and statistical assistance immediate and intensive. Emphasis was on PROBLEMS DEFINED, DIRECTIONS CHARTED to Federal agencies, serving as a. clearing positive action, on solutions, not mere state­ The specific problems the Mexican Ameri­ house for the agencies and the community ments of problems. As the President told can community has faced were minutely on what is happening in this field; Chairman Ximenes during the discussions of examined at El Paso, some for the first time. Alerts Federal agencies to the largely un­ the plans, "the time for soothing generalities From this came affirmation of goals long held tapped personnel resources of the community is over; we must now move to the solution and some new directions. and supplies placement assistance; of the problems." Typical of the problems: Assists Federal agencies in the communi­ The President personally picked the date In the five Southwestern states, Mexican cations field so that the government can, in and the place of what was designated the Americans, 14 years of age and older, have a meaningful way, let the community know Cabinet Committee Hearings on Mexican only 8.1 years of schooling, compared with what services are available. American Affairs: El Paso, Texas, October 12.0 years for the average Anglo-American of There has been a need for these services 26th through October 28th. · the same age: · for a long, long time. For a variety of ·rea- The location was to make the meeting easy Mexican American children have a school 25704 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 4, 1968 drop-out rate that is over twice the national Although long range plans are necessary, I from June, 1966 to November, 1967, with average. want to stress the importance of doing every­ hundreds more being added to the Federal Mexican Americans in barrios had an un­ thing you can now within our current fund­ rolls in most recent months. employment rate of 8 to 13 percent in 1966 as ing authority to meet the needs of Mexican­ The number of Mexican Americans in posi­ compared to a national average of 4 percent Americans. This includes assigning this re­ tions paying over $11,000 per annum has vir­ for that year. sponsibility to people within your agency tually doubled in this period in the five-state Subemployment rates for Spanish-sur­ who can and will get results and giving them area. named residents of the slums were 42 to 47 your full support. This trend towards increased representa­ percent. Addresses: Harold Howe II, Commissioner tion of Spanish-surnamed Americans in the Employment of Mexican Americans by the of Education; Robert M. Ball, Commissioner upper levels is dramatically reflected by the Federal Government was in need of atten­ of Social security; Mary E. Switzer, Admin­ 1967 increase of 185.2 percent in Spanish­ tion. The Civil Service Commission report in­ istrator, Social & Rehabilitation Service; Wil­ surnamed Gs-15 appointees since the 1963 dicated, for example, that the Selective Serv­ liam H. Stewart, M.D., Surgeon General, Pub­ level. ice Board had no Spanish-surnamed em­ lic Health service. ~uch of this progress is the direct result ployees above the Grade of as-s, and in the (cc: Paul M1ller, Philip Lee, Lisle Carter, of regular meetings and constant communi­ Department of Justice, only 62 top-level posi­ James Kelly, Donald Simpson, Ralph Huitt, cation of the Inter-Agency Committee staff tions out of a total of 11,695 were held by William Gorham, Edmund Baxter, F. Pe,ter with ranking agency personnel directors and Mexican Americans. Libassi.) special departmental task forces created to make recruitment and hiring practices more The 1959 family income under $3,000 of PROGRAMS AND PROJECT ASSISTANCE urban Spanish-surnamed famili~s was 28.5 responsive to the Mexican American com­ percent in Arizona; 17.5 percent in California; Refined by the discussions at the El Paso munity. 28.6 percent in Colorado; 33.1 percent in New hearings, the Committee's work of initiating Activities have included the launching of Mexico; and 47.3 percent in Texas. and expediting programs took on new vigor recruiting drives by member agencies of the The 1959 family income under $3,000 of and speed. Set forth below are programs and committee at schools and colleges with sub­ rural Spanish surnamed families was 50.4 projects which reflect the new impetus stantial Spanish surname enrollment. For percent in Colorado; 53.8 percent in New arising from Committee activity during the example, during early 1968, the Department Mexico; and 69.2 percent in Texas. period of this report. of Health, Education, and Welfare conducted In Arizona 32.4 percent of the dilapidated Manpower and training recruitment drives through eleven cities in the Southwest. Since February, the Depart­ homes belong to Mexican Americans and in Concentrated Employment Programs have Colorado 24.3 percent of such housing be­ ment h!ts hired 134 Mexican Americans up been established in comprehensive effort to and including Gs-15 level (paying more longs to the Spanish-surnamed citizen. against hard-core unemployment. A total of Out of discussions by the 1,500 Mexican than $18,000 a year). $30,415,166 has been allocated for the pro­ New job element rating techniques and ex­ Americans, Federal officials and other par­ grams in San Antonio, San Francisco, Los ticipants of these and a myriad of other amining procedures are being designed to Angeles, Phoenix, Albuquerque, Denver, eliminate unnecessary experience or educa­ problems came more than 1,000 specific rec­ Waco, and Oakland which account for over ommendations and agreement on the funda­ tional requirements for entry level positions. 40 percent of the entire Mexican American The Department of Housing and Urban De­ mental new directions: population. The cultural differences and background velopment has pioneered in new testing pro­ More than 18,000 Mexican Americans have cedures which will permit the Government to of the Mexican American community must been trained or are receiving training through be acknowledged and understood; evaluate the job potential of workers whose institutional Manpower Development and ab111t1es might not be reflected by written B111ngual education in all phases of in­ Training programs. This number included struction should be developed; examinations. 2,500 specially developed training slots de­ The Inter-Agency Committee is furnishing Federal agencies must develop and prac­ signed to serve the unique needs of the tice an "outreach" philosophy in bringing both technical assistance and information on Mexican Americans in various California talented members of the Mexican American services to the Mexican American commu­ cities. nity; community to interested Government agen­ In addition to the regular U.S. Department cies through a Committee staff-operated pool. Federal employment opportunities must be of Labor-funded on-the-job training pro­ opened further to the Mexican American The Inter-Agency Committee has compiled grams in which Mexican Americans also par­ and published a listing of over 1,400 Span­ community; ticipate, $3.3 m1llion has been allocated for The community must be involved in all ish-surnamed students who graduated from 3,900 on-the-job training slots for Mexican college during the current year. The first aspects of program planning whether it is in American trainees. Projects are being admin­ such compilation has been distributed to school activities or model cities programs; istered by Mexican American social service Federal agencies, private employers and other Problem solving must be undertaken organizations in Richmond, Santa Rosa, interested groups. Reports received by the through the cooperation of Government, pri­ Fresno, Los Angeles, San Diego, Salinas, Pica Committee indicate a great interest among vate industry, and Mexican American civic Rivera, Santa Clara, California; Denver, Colo­ these employers. For example, one large na­ and service organizations. rado; and Maricopa County, Arizona. For the tional corporation has already hired 22 re­ AN EXAMPLE OF THE RESPONSE FROM FEDERAL trainees who speak Spanish, the projects in­ cent graduates and one school system has AGENCIES clude prevocational English classes. mailed applications to over 175 education DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, Operation SER (Service-Employment­ majors who appeared in the booklet. EDUCATION, AND WELFARE, Redevelopment) created in 1966, is now The Civil Service Commission is studying 01'1'ICE OF THE SECRETARY. mounting Mexican American manpower pro­ a new Federal merit promotion policy to as­ To: See below. grams in thirteen Southwestern cities in sure fairer consideration of Mexican Ameri­ From: The Secretary. which more than 3,000 unemployed persons, can employees for adva:&cement and to assure Subject: Departmental work plan for Mexi- mainly Mexican Americans, will receive job that employees are more fully informed can-Americans. · preparation and placement services. , Opera­ about promotion opportunities; the Civil Date:. January 16, 1968. tion SER is directed by Jobs for Progress, Service Commission has also committed itself several months ago, I asked the Depart­ Inc., a non-profit organization sponsored by to substantially more emphasis on training ment to develop a special focus for the prob­ major Mexican American organizations; ·The for lower level employees to assist their ad­ lems of Mexican-Americans d.irecting our League of United Latin American Citizens vancement. programs more pointedly to this neglected and the American GI Forum of the U.S. Op­ The Civil Service Commission, Federal per­ portion of our population. ·I designated eration SER has received approximately $7 sonnel officers, union officials and leaders of Joseph Colmen to assist me in this effort, and m1llion in Manpower Development and minority group organizations are reviewing to organize for our work with the President's Training Act funds. proposed changes in the procedures for filing, Interagency Committee on Mexican-Ameri­ Mexican American youths in the Neigh­ investigating and resolving complaints of dis­ can Affairs. borhood Youth Corps increased to 38 percent crimination within Federal agencies. I appreciate your preliminary work in in­ in the southwest during the 1967 summer Civil Service inter-Agency Boards of Exam­ ventorying what we have been and are doing work program as contrasted with 2·5 percent iners in the Southwest regions are working that helps Mexican-Americans. Some forward earlier. with Mexican American organizations to thinking was inclUded in reports which you Federal Government recruitment and locate candidates and to identify employ­ assembled for the Interagency Committee. employment ment problems. Use is being made of the The Oommittee's hearings in El Paso iden­ Spanish language media to advertise job tified additional needs. The Post Office Department in the last openings and examination announcements. Now we must demonstrate by action our two years has added Mexican Americans to Agencies . are being encouraged to recruit good intentions. I would like your assistance, its staff at about 60 times the rate that it and hire b111ngual and bicultural employees therefore, in preparing a specific work plan. averaged in the last 120 years. where there is a demonstrated need for em­ The format attached has been provided for Civil Service Commission survey of Federal ployees with these qualifications. In the four your response. It treats separately the rec­ employment indtcates that, during the period Civil Service Regions with substantial Mexi­ ommendations growing out of the El Paso of June, 1965 to November, 1967, there was can American population, the Commission is hearings, to which we owe a response; and an increase of 41 percent in Spanish sur­ now especially employing Spanish-speaking the plans you create based on your knowl- named Federal employees in the Southwest. persons for public information and testing edge cxf your programs. · Over 9,000 such appointments .were made positions. September 4, 1968 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25705 Federal-private cooperation in employment American migrant of low literate level how to define and attack problems of the Span­ The Inter-Agency Committee, in conjunc­ to speak basic, simple English. ish-speaking. tion with Plans for Progress (a unit in the In Texas, the Department of Health, Edu­ HEW has changed its surveys so that Mex­ Executive Office of the President, staffed by cation, and Welfare, under Title III of the ican American school enrollments wlll be executives loaned by industry to intensify Elementary and SecoL.dary Education Act, has counted more usefully. private sector cooperation) and the Com­ set up special bilingual instruction for mi­ The Civil Service Commission report on munity Relations Service, sponsored the grant children. The Rio Grande Valley Edu­ minority group Federal employees has been southwest Employers Conference on Mexican cation Service Center will serve over 70,000 expanded to include more vital information American and Indian Employment Problems. Spanish-speaking and migrant children in on Mexican American employment in the More than 200 representatives of private in­ four Texas counties. Federal government. dustry convened on July 10, 1968 for a three­ In Mesilla Valley of Dona Ana County, Housing day conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. New Mexico, educational radio is being util­ The Santa Clara County Housing Author­ Another is being considered for California. ized to increase the communication skills of ity in conjunction with th.e California Better Efforts to enlist the interest of industry in over 500 children from migrant agricultural Housing for Mexican Americans Committee hiring Mexican Americans include specific families and other disadvantaged children. has received a planning grant for public assistance to companies in devising equal em­ In Northern New Mexico, the Home Edu­ housing units for 450 faml11es and 250 elderly ployment opportunity programs as well as cation Livelihood Program is providing adult people. almost daily contact with business executives basic, general and vocational education as The East Los Angeles Improvement Coun­ regarding the employment of Mexican well as assisting in the establishment of cil has receiv·ed $1,850,000 for the construc­ Americans. farm cooperatives and small village industry. tion of moderate income rent supplement Education Eight High School Equivalency Programs housing units. In January, 1968 the President signed the have received funding for their second year Funds have been granted for the construc­ Bilingual Education Bill amending the from the Migrant Division of the Ofilce of tion of 300 units of low rent and rent sup­ Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Economic Opportunity. Seventy-five percent plement housing for elderly people, 50 per­ The bilingual and bicultural education pro­ of the youths are migrants and over seventy­ cent of whom are Mexican American. visions authorize research, experimentation, five percent are Mexican American. Programs The Home Improvement Project in Albu­ demonstration and operating activities. These are in Claremont, California; Pueblo, Colo­ querque received an additional $73,000 in include the development of curricula, meth­ rado; Lincoln, Nebraska; Eugene, Oregon; March, 1968 to continue its program of re­ ods, materials, media and administrative pro­ Pilman, Washington; El Paso, Texas; Madi­ habilitation of homes and employment for cedures relating to bilingual instruction. son, Wisconsin; and Roswell, New Mexico. the unskllled unemployed. Primarily through ESEA funds, HEW has The Migrant Division of the Ofilce of Eco­ Model cities nomic Opportunity has funded twelve in­ sponsored research and demonstration pro­ The Model Cities Program now includes grams for pre-school and elementary students formation and referral centers for migrants and seasonally employed farmworkers in several cities which contaJ.n a high percent­ of multi-lingual and multi-cultural back­ age of Spanish surnamed popUlation: Fresno, grounds in San Antonio, El Paso, Travis areas with large numbers of Mexican Ameri­ cans. Mexican American migrants are in California; San Antonio, Eagle Pass, Waco, county, Texas; Northern New Mexico and Texas; Denver, Trinidad, Colorado; Albuquer­ Las Cruces, New Mexico. Included are the eight of the twelve areas covered by the information centers. que, New Mexico; and Saginaw, Michigan, southwestern Educational Development La­ and New York. boratory in Austin, the Good Samaritan Pre­ Migrant labor School Bilingual Program in San Antonto The influx of bracero labor, citizens of NEIGHBORHOOD FACILITmS and Project Follow-Through in Corpus nearby countries who compete with U.S. The first HUD assisted neighborhood facdl­ Christi. citizens for jobs, was reduced during the ity, opened in February 1967, was the LEAP Related Activities involve the utilization, past year to only 0.4 percent of its 1959 Community Center in Phoenix, Arizona, with in Denver, Colorado, and in eleven Texas level in terms of man months of employ­ a grant of $185,226 and serving nearly 3,000 counties, of televised programs to teach Eng­ ment, or to 1/250 of its former number. Mexican American families. Since, many lish and to strengthen self-image among The Department of Labor has established projects have been completed to serve the Mexican American students through an un­ higher housing standards for farmworkers needs of Mexican American fam111es, includ­ derstanding of their total cultural heritage. who are hired through the Employment ing centers in El Paso, Carrizo Springs, Texas; Under the Experienced Teacher Fellowship Service Offices. Pagaso Springs, Colorado; Flagstaff, Arizona; Program, the University of Arizona is train­ Delano, Calexico, California. Grants for these The Inter-Agency Committee, in support projects totalled $900,700. ing teachers of bilingual-bicultural students. of community efforts, continues to urge the Through the talent Search Program of enactment of legislation extending the right EXAMPLES OF INDIVIDUAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS HEW, $854,125 has been made available for of collective bargaining to farm laborers. " ... A Father of five children in Los nine projects in the Southwest to identify The 1968 Sugar Beet wage rate determina­ Angeles, California was unemployed for a talented high school students and encourage tion provides a 5.9 percent to 7.7 percent in­ period of nine months Q.ue to his lack of them to complete high school with a view crease in piece rates and a 10 cent increase in education and skills. A number of times, he toward pursuing a higher education. the hourly rate. Stricter protective provisions and his family lived in their automobile National Defense Education Act loans, Eco­ for minors and more stringent regulations while he searched for a job. In February, nomic Opportunity Grants, Guaranteed governing labor contractors were also ap­ 1968, he heard of the Mexican American Op­ Loans and the Work/Study Program are proved by the Secretary of Agriculture. portunity Foundation and was enrolled in being ut111zed increasingly by colleges in the Agriculture and rural development their on-the-job training program. He now Southwest to help needy Mexican American is earning $2.75 an hour working for a com­ students. For example, Our Lady of the Lake Seven counties ln Texas, each containing pany where he was placed." College in San Antonio has made use of all a Mexican American population of 10 percent such aids in its Project Teacher Excellence ·or more, are on a Commodity Distribution " ... A disadavntaged five-year old in San and the west Texas University combines Program target list of the Department of Antonio, Texas, was thought to be retarded. financial aid to students with an effort to Agriculture's efforts aimed at the nation's The Good Samaritan Center enrolled him in educate non-profit organizations in the uses 1000 poorest counties-counties which had their pre-school b111ngual program, partially of Work-Study participants. not previously obtained coverage. funded by the Department of Health, Educa­ A Mexican American Affairs Unit of the The Forest Service has reallocated $1,­ tion, and Welfare. The child has become a Office of Education was established at the ooo,ooo for additional use in revegetation of bright, outgoing boy with average or above urging of the Inter-Agency Committee on grazing lands in Northern New Mexico and in average ratings on all tests." Mexican American Affairs. The Unit has con­ Colorado, benefiting the many Mexican ducted a field survey among the Mexican Americans in the area who conduct small " ... A young girl in San Antonio, Texas, American communities in the Southwestern farming operations. motherless and responsible for younger States, now being analyzed. The Forest Service is dividing its contracts brothers and sisters, had a poor high school Migrant training and education into smaller units so that small village groups academic record. But her potential was rec­ can bid, thus creating jobs and stimulating In Florida, Texas, and california, a Migrant ognized by Project Teacher Excellence at our the depressed economy in areas of Northern Lady of the Lake College and she was placed Compensatory Education Project has been New Mexico. established to provide basic and remedial in the Work/Study Program. She has now education, occupational training, vocational The Forest Service has provided funding completed her freshman year with no grade rehabilitation, health and food services and for the Trinchera Ranch Exchange to pro­ lower than a 'c', fulfilling her formerly im­ economic support _to 1,000 migrant youths vide job and eoollOinic development in Cos­ possible dream of becoming a teacher of the tilla County, Colorado, where over 70 percent disadvantaged." and their families. of the population is Spanish surnamed. In Illinois, the Office of Economic Opportu­ ". . . The grandmother of 69 children in nity has established a program of adul't basic Statistical data Harvey, Illinois, came to this country from education service for Mexican American mi­ The Bureau of the Census will include in Mexico in 1913 but was never able to acquire grants settling out of the migrant stream. the 1970 Census a notation on the language the education necessary for citizenship. She In Arizona, a series of television tapes are spoken in the home if it is other than English recently completed an Americanization class being utmzed to teach the adult Mexican and other questkms to acquire data needed sponsored through the El Centro de Opor- 25706 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 4, 1968 tunidad of Chicago Heights and the Adult Identifiable Federally-funded projects Educational Research and Training Spe­ Education Program of Bloom High School. established to serve the specialized needs of cialist, Office of Economic Opportunity. She has been able to fulfill her desires of be­ Mexican Americans (not including other Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Depart­ coming a citizen, reading the Bible, and projects by which Mexican Americans, and ment of Justice. setting an example for her family. One of others as well, are served), 160. Member, Education Professions and Devel­ her daughters is now a student in the SOME FEDERAL GOVERNMENT POSITIONS TO opment Act Advisory Committee, Department program." WHICH MEXICAN AMERICANS HAVE RECENTLY of Health, Education, and Welfare. BEEN APPOINTED Consultant, Mexican American Education " ... A sixteen-year old in East Los Angeles, Project, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. California, who must help support his Chairman, Inter-Agency Committee on Personnel Staffing Specialist, Department fatherless family, was offered, through the Mexican American Affairs. of Health, Education, and Welfare. Community Service Center in East Los Ambassador to Paraguay. Personnel Staffing Specialist, Department Angeles, a job fourteen miles away in Engle­ Ambassador to El Salvador. of Labor. wood. He lacked transportation, but, through Representative to the United Nations Gen­ Members, Advisory Committee on Guidance a special "Job Bus Service", operated by the eral Assembly, with rank of Ambassador. and Counseling, Department of Health, Edu­ Center, the youth was able to take the sum­ Chairman, United States Section, United cation, and Welfare. mer job. He will continue his education in States-Mexico Commission for Border De­ Member, Advisory Committee on Voca­ the fall." velopment and Friendship. tional Education, Department of Health, Ed­ Member, National Transportation Safety ucation, and Welfare. " ... A subsistence farmer and father of six Board, Department of Transportation. Information Officer, Social Security Ad­ children in Northern New Mexico lost most Commissioner, Equal Employment Oppor­ ministration. of his crops in 1967. Refusing defeat, he tunity Commission. Consultant, National Institutes of Health. obtained a Farmers Home Administration Member, United States-Mexico Commission District Director, Bureau of Work Train­ loan to start anew. Not only is he now farm­ for Border Development and Friendship. ing Programs, Department of Labor. ing profitably, but he is also helping to Member, National Advisory Commission on Program Analyst, Office of Economic Op­ organize a farmers' cooperative through the Income Maintenance Programs. portunity. Home Education Livelihood Program which Executive Assistant to the Federal Co­ Compliance Officer, Department of Health, is aiding many Mexican Americans in the Chairman, Four Corners Regional Commis­ Education, and Welfare. area." sion, Economic Development Administration. Assistant Executive Director, Research, In­ Special Assistant to Commissioner Mem­ ter-Agency Committee on Mexican American Committee aid on programs and projects­ ber, Equal Employment Opportunity Com­ tabular summary 1 Affairs. mission. Chief, Program Division, Inter-Agency ACTION TAKEN Community Relations Specialist, U.S. Civil Committee on Mexican American Affairs. Program contacts: Rights Commission. Special Assistant to the Executive Direc­ Women's Advisory Committee for the War Federal ------­ 1,410 tor, Inter-Agency Committee on Mexican State and locaL------128 on Poverty (2), Office of Economic Oppor­ American Affairs. Private ------697 tunity. Program Specialist (2), Inter-Agency Com­ Mexican American organizations __ _ 1,758 Regional Director, Bureau of Work Train­ mittee on Mexican American Affairs. Policy changes recommended ______49 ing Programs, Department of Labor. Administrative Assistant to the Chairman, Community projects: Deputy Regional Director, Bureau of Work Inter-Agency Committee on Mexican Ameri­ Acted upon ______257 Training Programs, Department of Labor. can Affairs. Guidance provided ______133 Consultant (to assist in internal review The primary objective of the Inter-Agency Individual hardship cases aided ______35 of the impact of its programs in Mexican Committee on Mexican American Affairs has Projects initiated by committee ______37 American community), Department of Labor. been to find whether Federal programs are General information and assistance __ 1,094 Director, Southwest Area, Department of reaching Mexican Americans and to seek new Meeting arrangements: Housing and Urban Development. measures, where such are necessary, to handle Interagency : ------307 Executive Director, Peru, Peace Corps. the community's unique problems. The pro­ Private sector ______60 Staff Member, President's Council on grams mentioned in this report result from Youth Opportunity. PLACEMENT ACTIVITIES this kind of special attention to the Mexican Total applicants ______Member, National Advisory Committee for American's needs. 438 the Bureau of Education for the Handi­ However, the most vital-and somewhat 1,092 Total placementsreferrals------______capped, Office of Education, Department of intangible--function of the Inter-Agency 119 Health, Education and Welfare. Committee has been that of education. The Employment contacts with private Consultant, li'ood and Drug Administra­ Inter-Agency Committee found a great lack companies ------66 tion, Department of Health, Education and of knowledge and understanding within the AREAS OF ACTION Welfare. agencies in regard to the Spanish-surnamed Individual actions: Coordinator for the West and Southwest American. It also found a great willingness Education ------320 Equal Employment Opportunity Program, among the Government and private sector Health, welfare, poverty______168 Post Office Department. officials to learn and to communicate with Rural matters, migrants______165 Director, Mexican American Education the Spanish-speaking people of our nation. Housing ------118 Unit, Office of Education, Department of Therein lies progress. Justice and immigration______115 Health, Education and Welfare. On the other hand, the Committee has also Military ------53 Consultant, Advisory Committee on Books found it necessary to acquaint the Mexican Manpower ------208 for Poor Children, Department of Health, American community in the resources which Economic development______48 Education and Welfare. exist for them in Government and the private sector. The ultimate success of this liaison Research ------63 Member, Board of Appeals and Review, Miscellaneous ------34 Post Ofiice Department. role will be to bring the three--Government, priv•ate sector and people--together and es­ 1 Special Assistant, Office of Civil Rights, The figures in this table reflect requests tablish a permanent trust among them. and situations which required one or more Department of Health, Education, and Wel­ fare. VICENTE T. XlMENES, written communications which are in the Chairman. Inter-Agency Committee's files for this year. Director, Ofiice for Spanish Surnamed They do not include requests and situations Americans, Department of Health, Education, subject only to telephone and personal con­ and Welfare. tacts. These latter outnumber those in the Legislative Counsel to Governor of Ameri­ RICHARD W. HOMAN, OF SUGAR table many times but involved situations can Samoa, Department of the Interior. GROVE, W. VA., ELECTED TO which could be disposed of without time­ Director, National Capital Region of Na­ SERVE AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, consuming correspondence or documentation tional Park Service, Department of the In­ VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS­ or which already existed in the Inter-Agency terior. HOMAN OUTSTANDING SELEC­ files or in other agencies, government or Assistant General Counsel, Equal Employ­ private. ment Opportunity Commission. TION-DEDICATED, ENERGETIC, Project Manager for Equal Employment AND CAPABLE YOUNG LEADER SPANISH SURNAME EMPLOYMENT: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT Opportunities, Civil Service Commission. 1965 1967 Percent Member, National Advisory Committee on HON. JENNINGS RANDOLPH increase Welfare, Department of Health, Education, OF WEST VIRGINIA Worldwide ______59,853 and Welfare. 68,945 15 Member, Title III Advisory Committee, Of­ IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES Southwest______38,715 54,558 41 Arizona______1, 704 2,251 32 fice of Education, Department of Health, Wednesday, September 4, 1968 California______9, 372 15,297 63 Education, .and. Welfare. Colorado______3, 246 4, 397 35 Member, Advisory Committee on Graduate Mr. RANDOLPH. Mr. President, for New Mexico______5, 261 6, 741 28 Texas ______19,132 25,872 35 Education, Department of Health, Education, the first time in its long and distin­ and Welfare. guished histo:ry of service to the Nation September 4, 1968 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2,5707 and their families, the Veterans of For­ uated from Bridgewater College, Bridge­ I wish also to take this opportunity to pub­ eign Wars of the United States have water, Virginia with a BA degree, majoring in licly express my gratitude to my comrades of chosen a West Virginian as their com­ mathematics. the Southern Conference and the Depart­ Inducted into the U.S. Army in 1944, ment of West Virginia, who have worked un­ mander in chief. Homan received basic training in Co. A, selfishly for my advancement in this great Richard W. Homan, of Sugar Grove, 220th Infantry Training Battalion. He went cause throughout the years; and to all of the w. Va., was elected to that office in De­ overseas in February 1945, assigned to the members of my Post who initally placed troit, on August 23, 1968, at the 69th na­ 610th Tank Destroyer Battalion. He served in their trust in me. tional convention of the Veterans of the Rhineland and Central Germany cam­ In accepting the highest office in the great­ Foreign Wars. paigns and was promoted to sergeant. Fol­ est Service Organization this country has I am happy that a fellow mountaineer lowing World War II he was assigned to the ever known, I am aware, of course, of its International Military Tribunal, at Nurnberg, long-range programs and its historic and has been selected to serve in this re­ during the trials of top Nazi leaders, as effective continuity of planning-of its con­ sponsible capacity in one of our great noncom officer in charge of billeting and tinuing successful operation and growth, due national organizations and I am genu­ messing mmtary personnel. largely to our professional staff in Kansas inely gratified that this honor has come Homan returned home in mid-1946 and City and Washington. I am gratefully aware to such a hard working but essentially opened a flour and feed processing plant, of the dedicated service and the contribu­ gentle man who is possessed of the :fine which was operated by personnel during the tion to its steady climb in prestige and prog­ qualities that we so urgently need in four years he spent at Bridgewater College. ress which is made year after year by our He also assists in management of a family­ devoted volunteers on every level of our places of leadership. owned Hereford cattle ranch in Rockingham fifty-two Departments. Often we speculate on the qualities we County, Virginia and Pendleton County, Nor am I naive enough to think tha;t I can seek in our leaders. It is a real tribute to West Virginia. improve, to any great extent, the product of the membership of the VFW that they Homan is a life member of V :F.W. Post their vision and their labor. Neither am I looked at Rich Homan, considered the 9666 in Sugar Grove, which he served through egotistic enough to contemplate substantial measure of the man and saw in him the all chairs to Post Commander. He served change. qualities they sought. They found re­ two terms as District Commander and served I am, however, ambitious for our con­ spect for tradition but insistence on as a chairman of every major committee in tinued success. I am aware, also that I, as progress. They found in him honesty, the Department of West Virginia as well as your Commander-in-Chief, am both privi­ being elected Department Commander. He leged and expected to bring something fresh candor, and ambition. The membership has served on the National Council of Ad­ and inspirational into our campaign of con­ also discovered in Rich Homan an a bid­ ministration, National Awards and Citations tinuing service to this nation, and to those ing humility and an abounding pride­ Committee, National Budget and Finance who have fought this nation's wars. pride in our institutions, in the orga­ Committee, National Legislative Committee I shall devote every ounce of my energy to nization he leads, and in his State and and during the year preceding his election this dedicated cause. I shall give every wak­ Nation. as Junior Vice Commander-in-Chief he was ing moment to this honored task. Together Rich Homan is a young man, with Chairman of the National Loyalty Day we shall continue to pur'Sue the great patri­ energy necessary to his task, but with committee. otic course the Veterans of Foreign Wars has Among his various civic offices, the Senior travelled during the past seventy years. enough years behind him to provide the Vice Commander-in-Chief has served 14 Never has there been a greater need for our insight that experience can bring. I have years on the Pendleton County School Board service. Never have so many of this nation's known Rich since he was a small boy. and 12 years on the Pendleton County Ex­ friends turned from her in her hour of trial. His father, Dr. V. R. Homan, was my tension Service Committee; was a member of As we served her in the dayS of our youth good friend and counsellor during ear­ the Area Advisory Committee to the West when she was threatened only from without, lier political years. Virginia Center for Appalachian Studies and so must we serve her now as she is threat­ I am proud that Rich Homan, life Development of West Virginia University; ened also from within. member of VFW Post 9666 in Sugar was elected Vice President of the Pendleton Today the United States of America is County Bank in 1964; served on the Pendle­ threatened by unprecedented forces of evil­ Grove, has merited the opportunity to ton County Board of Health; and is serving and the greatest of these il> the outright dis­ lead his great organization. The 1.4 mil­ a 6-year term on the Veterans Council of loyalty of a substantial number of her own lion members of the Veterans of Foreign West Virginia Department of Veterans Af­ people. She faces the most destructive cam­ Wars can look forward to a year of add­ fairs by appointment of the Governor of paign of misrepresentation and degenerating ed achievement and broad service. West Virginia. treachery within that has ever been con­ Mr. President, I ask unanimous con­ Homan is a member of Francis Asbury ceived by an alien power. Fifty years of pre­ sent to have printed in the RECORD a Memorial Methodist Church in Sugar Grove, meditation and malignant practice in deceit, short biography of Richard Homan and having served as Sunday School teacher and psychological warfare, conspiracy, and inter­ to include his acceptance speech to the as Superintendent. He is a charter member national seduction directed toward the con­ of the Sugar Grove Lions Club and is a 32nd quest of the free world, have at last been Veterans of Foreign Wars national con­ Degree Mason. He is married to the former focUI>ed upon us by the Communist vention on August 23. His speech out­ Jean Ann Simmons of Franklin, West Vir­ aggressors. lines his program, but more than that, ginia. He has five brothers. In order to accomplish the great task it outlines the man-a man equal to the which lies before us we must make respon­ demanding times in which we live. ACCEPTANCE SPEECH BY RICHARD W. HOMAN, sibil1ty to the nation our watchword and our There being no objection, the biog­ SUGAR GROVE, W. VA., AS COMMANDER IN battle cry. raphy and speech were ordered to be CHIEF OF THE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS "Freedom," used as a synonym for "indi­ printed in the RECORD, as follows: OF THE UNITED STATES, AUGUST 23, 1968 vidual liberty," has long been considered the My comrades of the Veterans of Foreign most important element of our :!.'orm of gov­ RICHARD W. HOMAN Wars, you have entrusted me with a great ernment. But "Freedom" il> now being used Richard W. Homan, Sugar Grove, West responsibiUty--one which I most earnestly as a synonym for "criminal license" and Virginia, was elected Senior Vice Commander­ sought, and which I shall strive with all of "anarchy". Freedom has been made the alter in-Chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of my being to discharge with credit to this ego of lawlessness, and rebellion has been the United States at its 68th Annual National great organization and to the nation we all substituted for dissenrt. Convention August 25, 1967 in New Orleans, serve. Thus it has become increasingly apparent Louisiana. At the organiation's 67th Annual The high office of Commander-in-Chief of that responsib111ty is the true and indis­ National Convention held in August 1966 in the Veterans of Foreign Wars is a position pensible cornerstone of our form of govern­ New York City, Homan was elected Junior which I assume with both humility and ment and the American way of life--respon­ Vice Commander-in-Chief. pride-one which I respect, but do not fear. I sibility for one's personal conduct under the Shortly after assuming office, the Senior respect it because of its long-standing signif­ mandates and restraints of our government Vice Commander-in-Chief spent several icance to the veterans of America. I respect of laws. This is the essential ingredient with­ weeks studying firsthand the conditions in it for what our great organization has come out which American Democracy cannot long the Far East, including in his itinerary Viet­ to mean to the nation as a whole. I respect it endure. nam, Korea, Taiwan, where he visited the for what it means to you and me. The Veterans of Foreign Wars and its island fortress of Quemoy, Hong Kong, Oki­ I do not fear it because the very nature of Auxiliary are made up of responsible men nawa and Japan. the Veterans of Foreign Wars makes fear an and women-of responsible patriotic Amer­ Born January 14, 1923, he is the son of unbecoming trait. I do not fear it because ican citizens. Without exception, our mem­ Leafy M. Homan and the late Dr. V. R. I know from experience that each of you bers have demonstrated the highest degree of Homan. Attending Sugar Grove Elementary stands with me and behind me in every bat­ responsibility upon the Field of Honor­ School, he was graduated from Franklin tle we shall wage. regardless of their color, race or creed. In High School in Franklin, West Virginia, as I am acutely aware, however, that you have our historic service to the veterans of this Salutatorian of the graduating class of 1941. accorded me the greatest honor of my life. great nation, we have asked no man for his After service in World War II he was grad- I thank you from the bottom of my heart. pedigree. We shall renew our eternal com- 25708 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 4, 1968 mitment to this end. But we shall at all over the Communist aggressors in Vietnam. LOCAL CONTROL OF GOVERNMENT times support the Rule of Law. Our great We urge our government to turn its back STRENGTHENS DEMOCRACY patriotic and public service organization, completely upon the campaign for camou­ under its congressional charter, is steadfastly flaged surrender. We commend the President committed to this element of American of the United States for the realistic and Democracy-to individual and collective re­ courageous stand he has taken in the face HON. DAN KUYKENDALL sponsibility under law-a personal respon­ of vicious and completely un-American crit­ OF TENNESSEE sibility freely accepted, and fearlessly and icism. We urge him, as Commander-in­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES unselfishly discharged. Chief of all our military units, to take what­ We shall seek out new and greater areas ever steps are necessary to conclude the Wednesday, September 4, 1968 of responsibility for ourselves and for the war in Vietnam with an allied victory, and in Mr. KUYKENDALL. Mr. Speaker, are­ Veterans of Foreign Wars during the coming a manner consistent with the honor of this cent report on how the people of Switzer­ year. great nation under God. We urge him to We are subjected ot an almost endless initiate new planning in order that our land guard against big central ·govern­ stream of anti-American propaganda which brave fighting men may fight to win. ment and its happy results as related by seeks to promote the theory that particular We renew our recommendation of an ef­ Henry J. Taylor should be of interest to individuals and special groups should be fective blockade of North Vietnam. We urge our own people at this time in history. permitted to decide for themeslves which again the establishment of a United States Under permission to extend my re­ laws they wm obey, and which laws they fieet in the Indian Ocean. marks in the RECORD I am happy to in­ wm openly defy. There are those on every We demand prompt, fearless, and vigorous clude Mr. Taylor's report, as follows: level of society who would have us believe legal action against those who seek to impede that laws suppressing crime have gone com­ and divert the war effort here at home. If our SWITZERLAND CAN TEACH Us MucH, IN pletely out of style. There are college pro­ existing statutes do not adequately cover this MANY FIELDS fessors and members of the clergy who openly modern brand of treason we urge the Con­ (By Henry J. Taylor) assert that law should be completely sec­ gress to enact legislation which does. Any On August 1, suddenly and beautifully, ondary to the peculiar aberrations of the U.S. Citizen who knowingly and intentionally a great symphony of bells breaks out, echoing dissenting mind. Law enforcement officers gives aid and comfort to the enemy in time and re-echoing through Switzerland's moun­ have been made the public enemies of our of actual war should suffer the penalties of tains and valleys, and bonfires are lit on the time. law. With American troops fighting and dying tall peaks, flickering like fireflies. The Swiss On every hand, men and women who to protect the Free World from Communist are celebrating their independence day. profess to wear the mantle of civilization aggression, there can be no excuse for the They could teach us in the United States clamor for "morality" as the opponent of tolerant attitude we display, toward traitors, much about good government. law and order. draft-dodgers, dissenters, and demonstrators The odds against prosperity there, as well I take this opportunity to challenge all here at home. as independence, always have been large. the world to make a moral case for crimes For more than two decades, Mr. Wilbur J. About 23 percent of the nation is rock, ice of violence-to justify on any ground the Cohen has languished in the various annexes or icefield. Switzerland's sole natural re­ crimes of rape, arson, theft, rioting and the to the luxurious offices of the Secretary of the sources are scenery and water power. Yet next Department of Health, Education, and Wel­ accompanying destruction of property; as­ to Britain and Belgium (both mar.iltime na~ sault and battery, and murder. I challenge fare. He now occupies the position of Secre­ tions) Switzerland is the world's most indus­ any man to make a moral case for any of tary itself. trialized nation. the primitive lawlessness which is being per­ But this is not enough. He has recently She faces world competition without any petrated upon innocent citizens throughout recommended that he be made the "Health coal, oil, bauxite, gold, tin, iron, lead or even this land. If this be moral under any guise, Czar" of the nation, with authority to estab­ enough timber for her wood, most of which then Satan has indeed assumed command. lish policies applicable to all federal health she brings from Finland and Scandinavia. To men who have a just grievance in any programs, including the VA Hospital system. She lacks soil space to feed her people. Never­ form, I say, our courts await their call. Able We of the V.F.W. wm oppose any such theless, the Swiss import their requirements counsel will be furnished to them free of consolidation. We believe that the Veterans and convert them so successfully for them­ charge. Compassionate judges eagerly await Administration should be maintained as a selves and the world markets that the per the opportunity to redress their wrongs. This single agency for administering all benefits capital wealth not only exceeds ours but is i·s an uncontroverted fact no man of modern for veterans and their dependents, and more the highest among the three billion people on particularly, that the VA Hospital system earth. times would dare refute. There can be no should be maintained as a separate system for justification for any man taking the law the sole purpose of providing treatment for A powerful assembly of independent­ into his own hands. eligible veterans. We will leave no stone un­ minded people is inextricably knotted with We of the Veterans of Foreign Wars will these soaring masses in the cen-ter of turned to defeat Mr. Cohen's recommenda­ Europe. never surrender to these forces which are tion. abroad in the land today. We will throw our We have a continuing obligation to provide Switzerland broke the battle-axe of Aus­ individual and collective weight behind our service to all veterans, their dependents and tria and sb.attered the fearsome sword of law enforcement agencies and men, without survivors. We are particularly aware of our Oharles the Bold. Swi,tzerland maintains to­ reservation, until law and order is restored growing obligation to assist the young men day the largest ready army in all Western in every city, suburb, and hamlet of this returning from service in Vietnam. The Europe-600,000 fully trained men, backed land. staff of our National Rehab111tation Service, by 400 jets. The war in Vietnam continues as a cate­ and our Department Service Officers through­ On Geneva's restoration monument you gory of great and unsolved problems in our out the country, have assisted the Veterans can see an excerpt from an ordinance of national life-and in the personal lives of all Administration in assuring that these young 1536 proclaiming free compulsory educa­ Americans. patriots are promptly and personally con­ tion for all children. Most European coun­ We who have longed for peace in the tense, tacted and assisted in resolvlng all ques­ •tries did not have compulsory education for dark night of alien battlefield can under­ tions and claims concerning benefits in which Children until after World War I. And to­ stand and sympathize with those who feel they may be interested. I trust that each day her amazing contribution to the arts the pangs of fear and grief today. But our of you will be as prompt and diligent in your and sciences includes 14 Nobel Prize winners. nation is again at war-and "Duty, honor, cordial and persuasive invitations to them to The people are soverelgn-Re~lly sov­ country!" must be the watchword of all join our ranks as members of the V.F.W. ereign. Accordingly, the Swiss government's loyal citizens and respected men. When the I know that each of you is tired. I know performance for the people is probably the nation goes to war all men must stand a little too that I can count on you, as you can count best in the world. Flor the Swiss are deter­ taller; all women must smile away their on me, and all of our comrades at home, to mined to keep the government as close at tears. Young men must lay aside their per­ put our shoulders to the wheel throughout hand, and as controUed as possible. Thus, sonal dreams and forget their private fears­ this year of Responsib111ty to the Nation. the 25 cantons (states) are intensely con­ or go down the long and bitter road to the We have a great record of past achievement cerned with cantonal responsib111ties and in­ very end of life, despised, dishonored, and and service to live up to--a great challenge tensely antagonistic to any big brother en­ held in contempt by their :fellow men. of continuing progress to surpass. But make croachment by the federa-l alllthorlty wt the Regardless of the wisdom of war as a solu­ no mistake about it, comrades, I shall call capital in Berne. tion to the problems of men and nations, or upon each of you, every day, to surpass it. As a result, there are few federal taxes, its lack, as long as there are American men And difficult as it may be, with the help of except for defense and national highways. and boys upon the field of battle, fighting God, and the untiring efforts of our dedi­ Most revenue and other laws must originate and dying for the fiag we too have served, cated comrades throughout the fifty-two in the cantons. Then a sufficient number of we of the Veterans of Foreign Wars wm stand Departments, we will do exactly that. cantons must ask Berne for federal enact­ firm in our commitment to them and to I am looking forward to my visits w1 th melllt by the equivalent of our House and the cause for which they fight. We abhor you throughout my term of office. Go home Senate before a law can become national. the craven clamor which would deny them in safety now-and come out fighting. Finally, the proposed legislation must clear the right to achieve victory. We renew our Thank you once again for the great honor the hurdle of direct, popular vote (Sundays) oft repeated demand for a complete victory you have entrusted to my care. 1n a nationwide referendum. September 4, 1968 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25709 The parliament annually elects a seven­ Thurmond spoken an unkind word to a Negro Left-leaning newsmakers and news re­ member federal council (Bundesrat) from or the Negro race. porters sought to depict him as a racist. among abund·ant political parties. A dif­ Those who demean him for his opinions' Alert that our media sometimes maligns and ferent federal councilor is chosen president sake are talking about a citizen-soldier with indicts without evidence, I sought to back­ of Switzerland eacll year. And if he were 17 decorations earned in combat with the track on that allegation. ever caught campaigning for this honor and 82nd Airborne Division at a time when he I cannot find one act or utterance by this power he would be drunrmed out of Swiss was past normal military age. They are de­ Maryland governor which is at variance with public life overnigl).t. riding the conscience of a Southern governor what you and I and the overwhelming There is an inspiring harmony of good whose administration, 8.'.3 far back as 1947, majority of Americans of all colors have judgment, charity, true liberty, valor and abolished the poll tax as a condition of vot­ stood far-and stood against. individual self-reliance to be seen there. A ing. They are ridiculing a faith in democracy In essence, Gov. Agnew is for civil rights nation cannot be stronger than its beliefs. so deep that in 1954 he went on a write-in for everybody; against civil disobedience by Its beliefs cannot be manufactured to suit a ballot with the awkward name of J. Strom anybody. moment, a government, a policy, a political Thurmond and, having won the Senate seat, He has said: party or a person. Independence day pays its resigned in 1956 and ran again so that the "Lawbreaking cannot be condoned or our own honor to Switzerland and the Swiss. people could speak on a regulation ballot. nation's very foundations crumble." Surely He changed his party but not his principles you agree with that. in 1964. In 1966 he became the first Republi­ "There have been racism an.d deprivation can senator ever elected in South Carolinar­ for centuries. What led to the recent ex­ THE SLURS AGAINST SENATOR carrying 45 of the 46 counties, an impossi­ plosive crescendo is that lawbreaking has bility if the Negro electorate, completely become a socially acceptable and occa­ THURMOND enfranchised in his state, had opposed him. sionally stylish form of dissent." Amen. Those who vilify Thurmond with racist "Civil disobedience is at best a dangerous HON. JOHN G. TOWER · taunts haven't heard about James Stephens, policy since it opens the path for each man Negro of Walterboro, S.C., who dropped out to be judge and jury of which laws to keep OF TEXAS of Howard University for lack of funds, and and which laws to break." IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES was advanced fnnds by the senator to com­ "Rap Brown insists that 'violence is as Wednesday, September 4, 1968 plete his education and become an Army American as cherry pie.' Remarks like this dentist. They never heard of Leroy Wash­ have created in the ghetto resident the be­ Mr. TOWER. Mr. President, the dis­ ington, Negro, of Anderson, S.C., who stands lief that rioting is a right; it is not!" ~inguished columnist, Holmes Alexander, a good chance this year to win Thurmond's "Mounting civil disobedience is the be­ recently wrote a most thoughtful and appointment to the Naval Academy. ginning of riots, and riots are the beginning revealing column about the distinguished Thurmond's detractors don't know about of revolutions." History nods yes, yes! the $100,000 Thurmond Foundation at Aiken Constructively, Gov. Agnew says, "I very senior Senator from South Carolina which gives educational grants on the basis clearly repudiate white racism and I call on [Mr. THURMOND]. I feel certain Senators of "most worthy, most needy." The "repul­ Negroes to repudiate black racism." will be interested in this candid article, sive spectacle" of Thurmond at Miami Beach For the ghetto dweller he recommends and I ask unanimous consent that it be was one of honesty so pure that he dissolved "Negro ownership and management of com­ printed in the Extensions of Remarks. a $200,000 law firm when he came to the mercial enterprises-'black capitalism'-for There being no objection, the article Senate. It exposed a convention "boss" so resolving economic problems." He says gov­ lenient that he did not demur when Nixon ernment should insure only the "opportu­ was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, passed over the four men on the Southern nity." as follows: preferred list--Senators Tower, Baker and He has sponsored legislation at state level THE SLURS AGAINST SENATOR STROM Griffin and Congressman Rogers Morton­ and endorsed federal legis·lation to promote THURMOND and finally chose between two on the ac­ that equality of opportunity. (By Holmes Alexander) ceptable list--Governors Volpe and Agnew. Gov. Agnew's views and recommendations There are very few absolutes in life, and sound from here entirely forthright, fair Something's wrong with the blood of fewer in politics, but Thurmond comes as honest men if it doesn't boil at the roasting and constructive. close as humanly possible to being a man of Naturally, extremists advocating the "dis­ in the press of South Carolina's Sen. Strom unassailable character and unsurpassable Thurmond. obedience-to-riots-to-revolution" formula virtue. will object to his exposure of their There's the leading editorial in the New It would be easier to forgive the assailants York Times which calls it a "repulsive objectives. of his good name if they knew not what they So far Gov. Agnew has stood by his words spectacle" when this "flagrant racist" was did. But this man's life of 65 years is an seen to accompany Richard Nixon to the and deeds, expressed nnqualified "pride in open book. Evil to those who evil speak of my record." Miami Beach rostrum. There's columnist one so nearly above reproach. rom Wicker caterwauling about the "shock­ If he continues to stand firm, he will win ing sight of ... the burning eyed racist" in back many of the critics. Certainly he will "the party of Abraham Lincoln," and the cement the respect of the law-abiding Negro mawkish apostrophe to "any Republican if majority which is as terrified as anybody of he gains Strom Thurmond and loses his FINDING OUT ABOUT AGNEW the recent tendency toward anarchy. political soul." Most of us appreciate and applaud any Clean newsprint shouldn't be soiled by opinion, even though it may be at variance further examples of hysterical diatribes. The with our own, if it is sincerely proponnded HON. CHESTER L. MIZE and unwaveringly defended. That's not easy. excuse for it, that Thurmond "bossed" the OF KANSAS Southern states' support of Nixon and the Agnew stands between the "haters" on both nomination of Maryland Gov. Spiro Agnew, is IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sides. despicable. The name-calling and the racist Wednesday, September 4, 1968 Gen. Dwight Eisenhower once defended incitation are a disgrace to the truth and his own similar position saying, "It takes decency which journalism aspires to. I don't Mr. MIZE. Mr. Speaker, Paul Harvey, much more courage to walk alone down the the noted commentator, has done what middle of the road, being stoned from both know when as good a man as Thurmond has sides, than to walk down either side in the been so scurvily treated and the reading pub­ many of his fellow newsmen should do at comparative shelter of your extremist lic served up such fraudulent malice. the start of this political campaign­ friends." Cross my heart, I think it must be known they should find out about the candidates by every nation·al news-coverer that Strom who will be the subjects of their columns Thurmond is among the most exemplary men in political Ufe. It is common knowledge that and their broadcasts. NEW MYTHS AND OLD REALITIES he possesses in abundance, every character­ What Paul Harvey has found out about istic that is admirable in a public man. He Spiro Agnew makes just as good reading is deficient, to be sure, in the ancilliary as the GOP vice-presidential candidate HON. ROBERT H. MICHEL virtues, such as humor and bonhommie. His makes good sense. Under leave to extend OF ILLINOIS puritanic abstinence from tobacco, liquor and my remarks, I include the Paul Harvey IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES philandering has combined with his indus­ Column, "Finding Out About Agnew," in Wednesday, September 4, 1968 triousness and serious-mindedness to make the RECORD, as follows: him a man apart from the convivial frolics Mr. MICHEL. Mr. Speaker, the armed where many masculine friendships are FINDING OUT .ABOUT AGNEW (B.y Paul Harvey) invasion of Czechoslovakia by Russian formed. But this is his loss, not the public's. troops has outraged the sensibilities of Thurmond's dedication to fundamentalism When Spiro Agnew was tagged a candidate in govemment has not led him into expedi­ for Vice President, like you, I said, "Who's decent people all over the world and even ency and experimentalism, and has alienated he?" Communist leaders in other countries of him from social revolutionaries. But I take Then some famillar nit-pickers went to the world have denounced the Soviet him at his word that never in his life has work on him and I got interested. Union for its naked aggression. CXIV--1619-Part 19 25710 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 4, 1968 We can only hope that this most re­ Communist regime in the neighboring state billion decrease in spending. In the crime cent act of Russian treachery will open by force. bill, Congress was not content with just pro­ the eyes and minds of some of those mis­ In contrast, Czechoslovakia was a spec­ viding federal assistance to local law en­ tacularly peaceful country, happy and con­ forcement agencies. Instead, over opposition guided people among us who have been tent, joyously celebrating its own popular from the White House, it included provisions insisting for years that the Russians steps to loosen its own Red tyranny vol­ overturning Supreme Court decisions and were mellowing; that the cold war was untarily. authorizing wiretapping. over; that we must depend upon the There was no chaos. No guerrilla war. No The broadening of the crime bill beyond Russians to help extricate us from Viet­ street mobs. No violence. No foreign interven­ administration hopes or desires points up a nam, and so forth. tion nor foreign threats to dictate by force significant fact. Congress is asserting its leg­ An editorial from the Peoria Journal the nature of a Czech regime. islative initiative and independence, stress­ And the Red tanks rolled in from an sides ing its prerogatives. Star of August 23, 1968, addresses itself after fake "agreements" to keep hands off Your 90th Congress considered an assort­ to these questions and I include the edi­ and to approve the liberalization, in a fiat­ ment of legislation dealing with a wide va­ torial in the RECORD at this point: out rape of a happy and peaceful country ... riety of subjects-truth-in-lending and NEW MYTHS AND OLD REALITIES over the protests of its leaders and its exist­ truth-in-packaging; better housing; scenic The Fulbright School of Forensic Phi­ ing regime. rivers and trails; a proposal for a Constitu­ losophers is already trying to paper over the The Fulbright school denies these realities, tional amendment to lower the voting age Russian rape of Czechoslovakia as a mere and persists in a pretense that not even the (which I sponsored); a ban on mail order imitation of the same thing the U.S. did Russians, themselves, dare attempt--in order sale of guns to narcotic addicts, mental de­ in the Dominican Republic and is doing in to "account" for the Russians acting in a fectives and criminals; control of stream and Vietnam. manner far different from what the Fulbright air pollution; water resource development, This is quite a strain, but they have lots followers had forecast. with continued funding for Cannon Dam, of practice at straining facts. Why such crude and obvious fakery? Such Meramec Park Reservior, Union Dam and Even the Russians themselves know very sophistical argument? Such a desperate ef­ Long Branch Reservior, to name but a few. well how completely different their action hail fort to go farther than the Russians them­ Also funded were flood protection projects been to U.S. "interventions," and have ad­ selves in trying to whitewash the incident? along the Mississippi, Missouri, Chariton and vertised that they know it. Because it makes a complete shambles of Gasconade Rivers. I testified in support of They did this by the crude attempt to fake the doctrine of the High Lama of the Sect these water projects and believe their con­ three conditions that simply did not exist and of its "Bible"-"Old Myths and New struction will do much for Missouri's econ­ in Czechoslovakia. They tried to fake it that Realities." (Fulbright's book.) omy. they had been "invited" by anonymous In physical reality as heavy and real as THE OTHER WAR-THE FIGHT AGAINST CRIME Russian tanks it has exposed the arguments "Czech leaders"-a piece of fakery foiled by Along with Vietnam, our Nation's great the agility and courage of the actual Czech of that sect as a bunch of new myths which served to hide and deny the old realities that problems are our fast-growing crime rate and leaders in boldly broadcasting (while the~ the epidemic of civil disorders which wrack could) the truth. are still with us. The inventors of these new myths must our cities. Law and order must prevail; we They tried to fake it that there was a cannot tolerate those who would destroy kind of "counter-revolutionary" civil war in either confess total error, or hastily concoct some more new myths to dodge facing facts. lives and property. Czechoslovakia and a chaotic condition I have devoted a considerable amount of which required pacification. Few people on the U.S. scene, including the late Joseph McCarthy, have been as ar­ my professional career to the war on crime. And they tried to fake it that Czecho­ As Prosecuting Attorney of Lincoln County slovakia was being turned upside down by rogant, as vicious, as abusive and as sarcas­ tic in their attacks on those who disagreed ( 1951-1956), and later as a special assistant "foreign intervention" in that struggle. to the Attorney General (1958-1964), I ob­ Eyewitness accounts, and the broadcasts with them as the "New Myth" cult. And now they haven't the integrity or served the problems of our overworked and of bona fide Czech leadership, and t,he state­ underpaid law enforcement officials, the ments of Czech diplomats at t!le U.N. have manhood to adnllt they were wrong. It figures.-C. L. Dancey strength and weaknesses of our judiciary, our caught them in all three of these bold-faced prisons, and the probation and parole sys­ lies. tem. I have been angered by the smirk of a Yet, the lies are important. callous criminal evading punishment be­ They demonstrate that the Russians were cause of a technicality. I have been moved by trying the fake conditions similiar to those REPORT TO THE PEOPLE the look on the face of a teenage boy facing that did exist in Vietnam and in Santo a possible penitentiary sentence. Domingo--and regarded their actions as justi­ I am concerned with the problems of fied if those conditions could be success­ HON. WILLIAM L. HUNGATE crime, its prevention and punishment and fully claimed. OF MISSOURI the need to see that when the individual Implicit is the admission by the Russians, offender is released to society, he is a use­ that without those conditions their action IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ful and law-abiding citizen. was inexcusable. Wednesday, September 4, 1968 Improving and strengthening our criminal They recognize it, but the embarrassed laws is one of the principal tasks of the American politicians whose whole intricate Mr. HUNGATE. Mr. Speaker, each ses­ House Judiciary Committee, of which I am a rationale about "Be nice to the Reds" lies sion I report to the Ninth District of Member. Hundreds of bills have been re­ exposed are breaking their backs to ignore Missouri on major activities in Congress. ferred to us for study and I have been a firm it--and to excuse the inexcusable by just I call to the attention of my colleagues supporter of meaningful anti-crime legisla­ skipping ·over the matter of those all-im­ my current newsletter which covers leg­ tion. By a vote of 368 to 17, we passed the portant conditions. islative accomplishments and a rundown Omnibus Crime Bill, which I supported in The facts are rather clear. the Judiciary Committee and on the House The Dominican Republican was a scene on the efforts of the 90th Congress to Floor. Major provisions of the Omnibus of chaos, street fighting, roaming armed control crime and make our streets and Crime Bill are: mobs, a direct threat of a total breakdown cities safe for our citizens. Safe streets.-This bill authorizes one hun­ of services vital to life in an urban center, The report follows: dred million dollars in federal funds the first and of Castro intervention. The existing IN CONGRESS WITH BILL HUNGATE-A REPORT year and three hundred million dollars the authorities openly and clearly called for TO THE PEOPLE OF MisSOURI'S NINTH DISTRICT second to help aid local agencies enforce the help-and we sent it. Dear Friends: The conventions are over law. I am pleased that Congress voted funds Once there, our forces acted with great and your 90th Congress has returned to for support of local police-a measure favored restraint, were welcomed by a large part of complete action on pending legislation. When by more than two-thirds of you who re­ the local populati-on, and remained only the second session convened in January, few sponded to my recent questionnaire. long enough for arrangements to be made held high expectations for its accomplish­ Court decisions.-This new law gives fed­ for a free election by which a legitimate new ments. eral trial judges authority to determine regime truly representing the wishes of the The President has been confronted with whether a confession in a criminal case is majority of the Dominicans could be estab­ voluntary and thus valid. This section would lished. This was done. much opposition on many of his administra­ tion programs. Increasingly, as we reached override recent Supreme Court decisions In Vietnam, we came at the request of the appropriations bills in the closing weeks, which ignore confessions simply because of the existing regime into a condition of vicious a conservative tide seemed to take over. delays in arraignment or failure to advise of guerrilla war and mass civilian massacres, the right to counsel. The Supreme Court re­ together with decisive evidence of massive MAJOR LEGISLATIVE ACCOMPLISHMENTS fuses to consider these confessions even intrusion into that situation by the Red This Congress has been less negative than though they are found to be voluntary, trust­ regime of North Vietnam. anyone would have predicted. Its two biggest worthy and accurate. In neither case, did the nearby Commu­ legi~lative accomplishments were the tax in­ Wiretapping.-This bill permits wiretap­ nist regimes of Castro and of Ho Chi Minh, crease and the crime control bills. To get ping by federal, state and local law officers at the time, even bother to hide their in­ a tax increase, the White House-and liberals under court order in national security cases tention and expectation of bringing about a in Congress-had to pay the price of a $6 and in investigating certain serious crimes. September 4, 1968 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25711

In emergency situations, officers are author­ farmers in relation to farm costs reveal The Septen.~.ber 7 issue of the Saturday ized to eavesdrop for 48 hours before obtain­ the dreary news that the farm parity Evening Post contains a report from that ing court permission. level remained frozen at near depression book, including a summing up. FINDING NEW WAYS TO FIGHT CRIME levels of 73 percent. This summary, written by a man of As much as we have done, there is much Higher farm prices were reported for Mr. Krock's reputation, is a significant more which we must do to combat crime in hogs, chickens, and eggs, but offsetting commentary worthy of the thoughtful the streets. I recently sponsored a resolution these were decreases in corn, cotton, consideration of all Americans. Mr. to create a joint congressional committee to study the crime problem and recommend wheat, oats, soybeans, barley, ftax, and Krock's summary as printed in the Sat­ new measures of crime prevention. This reso­ grain sorghum. urday Evening Post is as follows: lution was approved by the House 319 to 12. Higher costs in interest, taxes, and If the usual standards of success and fail­ KEEPING POLICE MANPOWER ON DUTY wages resulted in another new record ure are applied as a test, then Lyndon John­ high. son's Presidency has fallen far short of ac­ Due to the increased level of crime, it is ceptability. The afiluence he cites is built on even more vital that police departments be In comparing the July factors of prices paid by farmers, and prices re­ rising inflation and the phemeral goods and kept at full strength. In my opinion, service services of a war economy. There sumption of in a l-ocal police department has greater pri­ ceived with the average of 1957-59, or 10 even a minimum peacetime footing will not ority than military service. Accordingly, I years ago, we find farmers get 8 percent for years free the nation from the crushing have introduced legislation to defer police more for their produce, but are paying burden of a long and wasteful major war officers from the draft. This bill has been 21 percent higher farm costs. In fact, we and foreign occupation. The billions expend­ endorsed by the National League of Cities. find farm costs have gone up three times ed in a secondary peninsula of Southeast ENABLING THE POLICEMAN TO DO HIS JOB as fast as farm prices during this period Asia, when we dare not press to a military As amazing as it may seem to those of us of 10 years. victory, are forever lost in the furnaces of who respect the law, there are those who The following table shows the parity battle. A war whose magnitude two Presi­ will impede pollee officials in the lawful exer­ ratio of the major farm commodities for dents made inevitable will stand in history as cise of their responsibiHties. To cope with a perfect example of the disasters wreaked this situation, Congress has passed legislation July 1968, with a comparison column for upon a nation by all-powerful chiefs of state which makes it a federal crime to obstruct July 1967: who leaped before they looked. criminal investigations. I back this law 100 [In percent) Historians will differ on whether the po­ percent! litical philosophy and the economic and mil­ It seems only fitting when our local police Commodity July 1968, July 1967, Change itary direction of any nation have changed are killed while rendering assistance to fed­ 73 percent 74 percent more fundamentally than those of the United eral officers, the federal government provide States in a comparable period of time--1933- 1967. But as an eye-witness of governmental some form of compensation to the deceased Cotton ______45 48 -3 officer's family .for this tragic loss. As a co­ WheaL ______45 52 -7 and other public action throughout these Corn ______63 74 -11 years, I formed the opinion that the United sponsor, I was glad that Congress acted to Butterfat______provide benefits for such local law enforce­ Milk ______76 77 -1 States merits the dubious distinction of hav­ 87 85 +2 ing discarded its past and its meaning in one ment officers and their families when the WooL ______------46 47 -1 officer is injured or killed while apprehending Barley ____ ------______69 80 -11 of the briefest spans of modern history. Flaxseed ______Among these changes are a federal union a person for violating a federal law. Oats ______72 74 -2 Providing sufficient funds for police work 68 76 -8 almost replaced by a mass federal democracy Sorghum grain ______66 81 -15 is important--but money won't do it all. Soybeans ______• controlled by an alliance of politician!'l and 74 80 -6 special-interest groups; fiscal solvency and While the national government must do all Beef cattle ______81 81 ------it can to deal with crime and disorder, no Chickens ______71 64 +7 confidence in a stable dollar driven from amount of legislation in Washington or else­ HogsEggs. ______------______71 65 +6 the national and foreign marketplace by con­ 84 88 -4 tinuous deficit spending, easy credit and where can ever take the place of the "cop on lambs. ______86 84 +2 the beat" or the sheriff who enjoys the full Turkeys ______62 64 -2 growing unfavorable balance of payments support of his community. in the international ledger of the United States; the free-enterprise system shackled Pictured in my newsletter: Missourians PARITY, JUlY 1968, 73 PERCENT who have shown great interest in the Lewis by organized labor and a government-man­ and Clark Trail which runs through eight (In percent] aged economy; the Republic transmuted into counties in our Congressional District. Pic­ a welfare state subsidized from Washington; a self-reliant people widely seduced by fed­ tured at a recent meeting of the Lewis and Commodity July June 1968 Change Clark Trail Commission are left to right: Bob eral handouts; spoiled generations--young Killan (Nebr.) formerly of Knox City; Joseph and old-led to expect the government to Cotton______45 47 -2 provide for all their wants free of any of Jaeger, Jr., Director of Missouri State Parks; WheaL______45 47 -2 Dayton Canaday (S.Dak.), former Chairman Corn______63 65 -2 the requirements of responsible citizenship; of the St. Charles County Historical Society; Butterfat______76 76 ------a Supreme Court assuming overlordship of myself; and Reis Tuttle (Iowa), formerly of Milk______87 89 -2 the government and all the people to fit the WooL.------46 47 -1 politioal philosophy of the current majority; Lancaster. Barley______69 73 -4 Shown on a recent visit is the Walt McQuie Flax______72 74 -2 and a Congress reflecting the people's apathy family of Montgomery City. Each year thou­ Oats.------··---- 68 78 -10 toward this assumption and foregoing the sands visit our Nation's Capitol. It is partic­ Sorghum______66 68 -2 use of its Constitutional powers to curb the Soybeans______74 75 -1 Court's seizures of jurisdiction in areas for ularly rewarding to see the keen interest chil­ Beef cattle______81 80 +1 dren take in the workings of our government. Chickens______71 69 +2 which it has no warrant in the Constitution One . of the many groups to visit my ofilce Eggs ______-_____ 71 70 +1 or the statutes. Yet despite the apparent Hogs______84 78 +6 general acceptance in this country of a ju­ and tour the Nation's Capitol was Girl Scout lamb______86 88 -2 Troop No. 968 of Florissant. This is a most Turkeys______62 62 ------. dicial autocracy, composed of citizens whose rewarding experience for groups of all ages. ------offices were obtained without benefit of suf­ Pictured in the newsletter: Mr. James Mc­ Average______73 73 ------frage, and whose qualifications the popular Clanahan, Manager, Callaway County Elec­ branch of Congress--the House of Represent­ tric Cooperative, and I discuss sonic boom atives--is barred from appraising, it is also and airport funding problems with Mr. Rob­ SUMMARY OF A FORTHCOMING the federal judiciary that is constantly de­ ert Carnahan of the Federal Aviation Admin­ BOOK BY ARTHUR KROCK fied by the population groups that make a istration. Pictured from left to right are Mr. career of violating the law. Most ironically, McClanahan, myself, Mr. Carnahan and Air the commands of federal lower-court judges Force Colonel Raymond E. Clarkson. HON. SHERMAN P. LLOYD in the name of the law terminate as mere scraps of paper. OF UTAH The changes in the area of international IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES policy have been quite as radical. When the Wednesday, September 4, 1968 surrender of Nazi Germany, soon to be fol­ PARITY, JULY 1968 lowed by the collaps~ of the Japanese forces, Mr. LLOYD. Mr. Speaker, Arthur established the Unite(\ States as the political Krock, who recently retired as Washing­ leader and the militar,· and economic arsenal HON. JOHN M. ZW ACH ton correspondent for the New York of the free world, a tragic miscalculation of OF MINNESOTA Times, whose column was printed the postwar prospect by Franklin D. Roose­ velt led directly to the barren harvest of the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES throughout America, and who spent American military victory. His miscalcula­ nearly 60 years as a journalist on the Wednesday, September 4, 1968 tion was that, in the rehabilitation of the Washington scene, is the author of a torn world, the U.S.S.R. would be a depend­ Mr. ZWACH. Mr. Speaker, the month­ forthcoming book entitled, "Memoirs: 60 able partner of the United States, the nation ly USDA report on prices received by Years on the Firing Line." that had saved it from the Nazis. 25712 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 4, 1968 The immediate consequence was the Cold ticularly in New England, it is still of the food and fiber for the rest of us. War. Among the other consequences is a great economic importance. However, the Any price we pay to keep agriculture United States hated or disrespected by the beneficiaries of its money and power, and economic health of the fishing industry healthy will, in the days ahead, be cheap without allies-except for a few client na­ in this country has deteriorated sharply insurance to protect us from the alter­ tions--who can be depended on to supply the in recent years. The use of pesticides, the native. military manpower and equipment to a mis­ damming and dredging of rivers, the de­ We must find some method of making sionary United States engaged in trying to str-uction of wetlands, and the increasing all Americans know and understand this ram its concept of democracy down the pollution of our waterways, has produced fact. We must not forget that all through throats of peoples who do not care for it. profound ecological changes that have history, when famine strikes, those who France, twice in this century saved by the been detrimental to many forms of ma­ live in the cities die first. We must make United States from becoming a pledged neutral or a German fief, finds no virtue in rine life. Much important technical in­ Americans understand that we can find the assertion of any American interest. Some formation in this area is still unknown, ourselves face to face with famine if we governments of Latin America, into whose and it is essential that research on all fail to understand what agriculture must development this country has poured billions aspects of commercial marine life be en­ have, and to provide these needs. of dollars, and to which it has lent its best couraged, if we are to use and manage A recent editorial in the Daily Oklaho­ technical brains, have continued to divert a our limited marine resources in the most man, one of the Nation's large metro­ large share of these billions into the pockets effective manner. politan newspapers, makes a crystal clear of the ruling classes. It A militant Communist state, courting Mos­ Connecticut has received about $61,000 point of this. is refreshing to know cow or Peking according to which is more in research funds in the 3 years during that some news media in the metropoli­ suitable to its immediate purpose, grows which the Commercial Fisheries Re­ tan area are beginning to become con­ more and more firmly established within 90 search and Development Act has been cerned with this problem. For the sake miles of the continental United States. funded. This money has been used pri­ of us all, I hope a great deal more of In the United Nations the African and marily for research related to the very this sort of viewpoint can be drummed Asian governments, which owe their existence important lobster and herring industries. into the minds of our people. The edi­ and independence to Washington's policy of $200,000 torial follows: putting "anti-colonialism" above the rights An additional was made avail­ of friendly governments and clear interests able to the State for disaster relief in ORATORY AND FACTS of national security, regularly join the connection with serious problems in the Give Agriculture Secretary Orville L. Free­ U.S.S.R. in making mischief throughout the Connecticut oyster industry. Altogether, man credit for his explanation of why the world. Typical of this debris of Amerioan about $14 million has been allotted to the federal land bank program will not work if postwar foreign policy was the action of States and territories under this pro­ large tracts are excluded. There have been Jordan and Lebanon, both owing their sur­ gram. some ill-considered suggestions that a low vival to the United States, in supporting Nearly all important maritime nations ceiling be placed on payments for non-pro­ President Nasser of Egypt in the 1967 crisis duction. over his blockade of shipping to Israel via provide financial support for their fish­ There is demagogic opposition to the idea the international waterway leading from the eries industries, and I hope that early of bigness with some groups and politically Red Sea. and favorable attention will be given to minded persons. Yet the purpose of the pro­ By the disastrous choice of Vietnam as the this legislation to continue the American gram is to reduce the 12 percent of over pro­ battleground on which the national-security assistance program established by the duction in farm commodities, and large interest of the U.S. required that the supreme 1964 act. tracts are the major producers. challenge to the advance of militant world Freeman told a Lutheran women's group Communism be made, the Kennedy and at Chicago that of our excess production, only Johnson Administrations also imposed the 5 percent can be used at home or for gifts severest of strains on our only strong Pacific THE FARM BILL abroad, while the other 7 percent of surplus ally, J apan. To survive economically, Japan must be eliminated at this point in popu­ must trade with Communist China. To re­ REMARKS lation and time by taking 45 million acres main safe from aggression from China, Japan OF out of production. must rely on heavy military protection from It is rather odd that bigness of any kind the United States. Nothing could have more HON. TOM STEED in the American system now is challenged greatly complicated these two needs of Japan, oratoricaUy, for varied reasons, when the and her American alliance, than an Ameri­ OF OKLAHOMA whole concept of American opportunity is for can-mounted war against Asians in Vietnam. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES any individual to enlarge his own business These are among my personal assessments Wednesday, September 4, 1968 through legal and honest means. Thds ap­ of the consequences of the revolutionary po­ more land, emp1oy1ng more people in a serv­ litical and social new American revolution. Mr. STEED. Mr. Speaker, the recent plies whether Lt involves the acquisition of And from these consequences I have con­ vote in the House to place a $20,000 pay­ ice organizS~tion, or adding retail stores to tracted a visceral fear. It is that the tenure ment limitation on the farm bill could, a small chain. of the United States as the first power in the if it becomes law, prove to be the most We can't have it both ways. We can'·t pe­ world may be one of the briefest in history. nalize efficiency in the farm production that ironic example of "cutting off one's nose m akes food cheaper in the United States than to spite one's face" in history. in any other country in relation to the man This action can be explained only by hours of work needed to acquire it. Large CONTINUED SUPPORT FOR the fact that too many people living in operations can pi.·ovide that efficiency of man­ COMMERCIAL FISHERIES metropolitan areas have been · misled, agement and production. Only the larger misinformed, and prejudiced about the f a rms can afford to let land He idle untn issue to permit the matter to be treated such times as more production is needed. The smaller operator cannot afford non-produc­ HON. JOHN S. MONAGAN on its merits. tion. OF CONNECTICUT On the surface, a limitation of pay­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ments gives the appearance of being a popular "blow for economy" when it Wednesday, September 4, 1968 THE INCOMPATIBLES: THE REPUB­ comes just prior to an election. But the LICAN PARTY AND ITS PLATFORM Mr. MONAGAN. Mr. Speaker, I am in­ very areas which applaud this action can troducing today a bill to extend the Com­ and will be the first victims of its long­ mercial Fisheries Research and Develop­ range dangers if it is allowed to become HON. CHARLES H. WILSON ment Act of 1964 which, in the absence of law. The reason: Farm programs are the OF CALIFORNIA legislation, will expire at the end of this best insurance the city dweller has to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES fiscal year. The act is designed to aid the protect him from the not unreal threat States in stimulating research and devel­ of food and fiber shortage and even Wednesday, September 4, 1968 opment projects related to the commer­ famine in the not too distant future. To­ Mr. CHARLES H. WILSON. Mr. Speak­ cial fisheries industry, and to assist in re­ day's surpluses are a deadly blind to the er, judging by their platform, the Re­ establishing those fisheries which have fact that our growing population soon publicans have declared open season on been destroyed or drastically affected by can demand more food and fiber than a fatuous promises, distorted claims, and natural or undetermined causes. sick and economically unsound agricul­ empty rhetoric. Indeed, a party plat­ Commercial fishing is one of the oldest ture industry can provide. Less than 10 form-to have any validity-should be industries in the United States and, :par- percent. of our people now produce all rooted in past performance and reason- September 4, 1968 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25713 able future expectations. But this is not from restrictions on interstate sale of bassy, Ambassador Mein got into his the case with the Republican platform ammunition. chauffeur-driven car and headed back to which, purporting to solve our Nation's The Republicans declare themselves as his office in a downtown building. On the social problems, completely ignore its friends of labor by proffering their sup­ way, a Buick automobile forced the Am­ party's lackluster record in this vital port for a minimum wage and increased bassador's car to the curb. Almost simul­ area. employment. If this is so, why did 70 per­ taneously a small truck darted up behind Recently the Democratic study group cent of House Republicans vote against the Embassy car and blocked it in. undertook a comprehensive survey com­ establishing a minimum wage for agri­ Several young men in green fatigue paring the Republican platform with the cultural workers? Why did 87 percent of uniforms scrambled out of the Buick and Republican congressional voting record House Republicans vote to delay for 1 surrounded the Ambassador's car. They of the last 4 years. The results proved year the effective date of the minimum were carrying at least one automatic overwhelmingly that, high-minded plat­ wage increase from $1.40 to $1.60 per weapon, a submachinegun. They forced form statements aside, the Republicans' hour? Obviously, this is a tenuous the Ambassador from the car. He broke performance in social welfare legislation "friendship." away and ran, and the Buick's driver is totally negligible. And, in promising to strengthen the shouted, "Shoot him, shoot him." The Let us examine this disparity more social security system to allow for cost­ submachinegunner fired a fast burst, closely. The Republican platform pledges of-living adjustments, the Republican striking the Ambassador in the back. itself to easing the urban crisis-especial­ platform also declared itself a friend of He died quickly, on the pavement. ly in the areas of employment, educa­ the elderly. Yet, 91 percent of House Re­ In the last several years, terror from tion, and housing. Yet, on the average, publicans voted to substitute a voluntary the Castro-inspired left and counter ter­ 90 percent of Republican Congressmen health insurance program instead of ror from the inflexible Guatemalan right and 72 percent of Republican Senators medicare, and 57 percent of Senate Re­ have reached tragic proportions. Esti­ voted against programs designed to cor­ publicans voted against medicare. mates of politically inspired murders run rect urban abuses: 96 percent of House Stating its devotion to the principles from 1,000 to 4,000 in that country of 4.6 Republicans voted against the Depart­ of international cooperation, the Repub­ million people. ment of Housing and Urban Develop­ lican platform pledges the party to work Castro-line guerrillas, beaten in the ment Act of 1965; 95 percent voted to cut toward this end. The contradictions: 69 rural areas and now virtually leaderless, $22 million for rent supplements in fiscal percent of House Republicans voted to moved into Guatemala City early this year 1967; 87 percent voted against legis­ cut Peace Corps authorizations; 96 per­ year to try to keep their movement alive lation to provide rat control in infested cent to cut authorizations for the Arms through terrorist activities. With them urban areas. Control and Disarmament Agency; 96 came almost nightly bombings, kidnap­ Additionally, the Republican Party, percent to cut authorizations for loan ings, and killings. Last January, you will ostensibly dedicated to easing poverty, funds under the Foreign Assistance Act recall, two U.S. military attaches were racism, hatred, and violence, has appar­ of 1966; and, just last month, 62 percent murdered. ently been unwilling to back up these be­ voted against passage of the Foreign As­ In this atmosphere, Ambassador Mein liefs with votes. Ninety percent of House sistance Act of 1968, providing our basic served with the full knowledge that he Republicans voted against the 1965 bill overseas ec·onomic aid. was a target of leftist guerrillas. His life authorizing funds for the Economic Op­ These are only a few examples. I should had been threatened repeatedly. It is the portunity Act; 68 percent voted to slash also mention that 74 percent of Republi­ mark of the man's personal courage and the 1968 authorizations for the poverty can Congressmen voted against measures devotion to duty that he spurned a body­ programs from $2.06 billion to $1.6 to meet our Nation's transportation crisis guard, believing that U.S. policy was best billion; and 58 percent voted against and 86 percent voted against legislation served by refusing to give the terrorists adding a strong fair housing provision to to support scientific research. The lesson an opportunity to boast that they had in­ the Civil Rights Act of 1968. is clear: The Republican platform is a timidated the United States. The GOP platform evinces a concern pipedream which bears no resemblance Undoubtedly, Ambassador Mein had for the millions of Americans who suffer whatsoever to the party's voting record. thought about the possibility of being from hunger and malnutrition. Yet 81 It should be interesting, and not a lit­ kidnaped since this was a favorite tactic percent of House Republicans voted to tle amusing, to watch the Republican of the Guatemalan radicals. The Ambas­ limit funds for the food stamp program nominees this fall hail their platform and sador must have considered what he and 96 percent of Senate Republicans regale the voters with its visions. How would do in the event that he was victim­ voted against establishing a summer ironical to realize that, once elected, ized. lunch program for day camps. most of these candidates will oppose the When the attackers struck, Ambassa­ In the field of education, the Republi­ very same programs which were so ex­ dor Mein consciously chose to attempt to cans emphasize the need to upgrade tolled only a few months ago. escape them rather than submit to cap­ teaching methods and promote teacher David Merrick, Broadway impressario, ture and thus provide the terrorists with training and preschool education for dis­ may have had tongue in cheek when he an opportunity to humiliate the United advantaged children. These are neces­ announced that he had given the Repub­ States and Guatemalan Governments. sary goals, but based on thin-or should lican presidential nominee the title song With the death of John Gordon Mein, I say "hot"-air rather than past per­ from his forthcoming musical, "Prom­ the United States has lost a gentle, kindly, formance. Ninety-eight percent of House ises, Promises," to use in the campaign. and deeply religious man who was dedi­ Republicans voted to cut $135.9 million But the "joke'' is an apt one. cated to public service. Ambassador Mein in aid for educationally disadvantaged was born in Cadiz, Ky., on September 10, children; 95 percent voted against legis­ 1913, the son of a Baptist minister. Part lation to establish the Teacher Corps; 74 of his childhood was lived in Brazil where percent voted to delay extension of basic AMBASSADOR JOHN GORDON MEIN: he acquired an understanding of and elementary and secondary education pro­ A TRIBUTE sympathy for the Latin American people. grams. He became a career foreign service officer The Republican Party has, however, HON. ARMISTEAD I. SELDEN, JR. after graduating from Georgetown Col­ reserved much of its demagoguery for OF ALABAMA lege in Kentucky, a Baptist-affiliated in­ the explosive issue of "law and order." IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES stitution, and after receiving a law degree Yet, when the House voted on legislation from George Washington University. to create a Federal agency to deal with Wednesday, September 4, 1968 His first overseas post was Rio de Ja­ the growing traffic in narcotics and dan­ Mr. SELDEN. Mr. Speaker, I am cer­ neiro, where he was assigned from 1942 to gerous drugs, 95 percent of House Repub­ tain that all Americans were shocked 1944. He also served in Rome, Oslo, Ma­ licans voted "nay." When the gun control and grieved to learn of the assassination nila, and Jakarta, as well as in important bill was being debated only last month, 62 of Ambassador John Gordon Mein in positions at the Department of State. percent of House Republicans voted to Guatemala City last Wednesday after­ He was rated "excellent" and "outstand­ weaken the bill by exempting shotgun, noon. ing" by a number of his instructors at the rifle, and .22 caliber rimfire ammunition After hosting a luncheon at the Em- National War College which he attended 25714 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 4, 1968 in 1953. In 1959 he was presented the Complacency and procrastination are dents who have these concerns, anywhere Merit Service Award. cousins of disaster in any age, but especially from 50 to 70 per cent of the student body, in ours, when change is so swift and often are being identified with the pitifully small Ambassador Mein was a man of deep irrevocable in its consequences. For this rea­ percentage-two per cent at most--who are religious convictions and great moral son, it would be foolhardy to ignore the seeking a resolution through lawless, de­ courage who set high standards for him­ incidents of student violence that have structful means. self and lived up to them. He won the racked various campuses around the nation This tragic case of mistaken identity, I respect, confidence, and enormous ad­ and abroad. To ignore these senseless actions fear, could do irreparable harm to higher miration of his colleagues who felt that elsewhere. because we have not experienced education. If the American people come to they could rely unwaveringly on his in­ them here would be rank complacency, and believe that this small minority-as the press to stutter in our resolve to avoid such threats would have us believe-is representative of tegrity and judgment. He was also a would be procrastination of an order that today's students, then all of Academe will forthright man, who spoke his mind would actually invite the worst. Thus, of­ experience a backlash from an outraged pub­ about what he believed. He testified sev­ ficials of Saint Louis University have drawn lic. Our American colleges and universities eral times before the Subcommittee on up and made public a statement of policy could emerge from this trial by fire as cen­ Inter-American Affairs and we found and procedure regarding demonstrations and ters for political strife and intrigue, the him to be frank and candid. sit-ins. problem that for years has held back and Ambassador Mein was also a warm and POLICY handicapped the colleges and universities friendly individual who liked people of Each student or a student group has the in Latin America and in many parts of the right to express disagreement on a particular Far East. all stations of life and felt at ease with Here at Saint Louis University, I have them. He was a stanch believer in human subject or to submit proposals for considera­ tion, provided this right is exercised in an urged our talented young people to remain rights and justice, and sympathized orderly fashion. concerned to establish reasoned positions in with some of the things the Guatemalan However, the kind of conduct which re­ this crisis, and to be prepared to demonstrate guerrillas purport to want. But he ab­ strains either the freedom of expression or leadership motivated by Christian justice and horred violence, and disagreed with their the freedom of movement of others who may charity. This is the positive aspect of out methods. not agree or which is disruptive of Univer­ policy and procedure concerning demonstra­ sity operations in any way is simply unac­ tions and sit-ins, and I have been gratified As the minister said at the burial serv­ by student response. ice on Saturday: ceptable in an intell1gent community and a democratic society. It's ironic that this gentle man, John Gor­ Proper and reasonable channels of com­ don Mein, should have died so violently. He munication do exist within the University. was a man who loved his God and his coun­ Reasonable men and women will continue THE HONORABLE MR. POLITICIAN try. He also loved the country where he to use such channels as they have in the died.... past. HON. JAMES B. UTT Ambassador Mein left a lovely wife and PROCEDURES three children, the oldest of whom is 1. Any individual or any group participat­ OF CALIFORNIA attending his father's college in Ken­ ing in such a disruptive demonstration or IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tucky. There is nothing we can say to sit-in will be given five minutes to disperse. Wednesday, September 4, 1968 2. If the response to the above statement ease the pain and loss of their devoted of policy and the first procedure is negative, Mr. UTT. Mr. Speaker, a young con­ husband and father. I would like them then the following steps will be taken: stituent of mine, Mr. John McKinley to know, however, that we recognize that A. The police of the City of St. Louis will Bowman, of Santa Ana, Calif., gives all he sacrificed his life in furthering U.S. be called in. of us as politicians a challenge to live interests, and that the Nation is grateful. Any University person, participating in up to the high-principled image we seek Meanwhile, I am hopeful that the such a disruptive demonstration or sit-in, will be charged, arrested, and prosecuted at to project to the voters of our districts. cowardly murderers will be found and He says "we are seeking the answers" to brought to justice. minimum for disturbing the peace. Any person from outside the University crime in our streets, and proceeds to re­ who is participating in such a disruptive late it to the actions of politicians, in­ demonstration or sit-in will be charged, ar­ cluding judges, which beget good or evil. rested and prosecuted at minimum for tres­ His article follows: OUR STAND ON SIT-INS passing on private property. B. Any University student who participates THE HoNORABLE MR. POLITICIAN in such a disruptive demonstration or sit-in (John McKinley Bowman) HON. ROBERT H. MICHEL is automatically suspended from the Univer­ Let's get to the point. We are seeking the OF ILLINOIS sity. Each suspended student will appear be­ answers. fore the University Committee on Student The people in Military service, the tax­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Discipline for final deeision in his case. payer, the worker who activates our industry, Wednesday, September 4, 1968 The above policy and procedure, approved the man in the street, the business man, the in November of 1967, applies without excep­ scholar, the child in the classroom, all are Mr. MICHEL. Mr. Speaker, last winter tion to all schools of the Uni verst ty. seeking the answers. The answers to what? the country witnessed the outrages at While this ofiicial statement is indeed Answers to questions that are most vital to Columbia and Northwestern Universi­ stern, I feel certain that the overwhelming all of us, vital to the one who is wrong ties, and during that period I raised the majority of our students will find it more of because he needs to be made right, vital to question here on the floor of the House a comfort than a threat. Our students, by the one who is right for he stands for Amer­ as to whether or not other college ad­ their conduct in the past, have shown that ica's moral might. ministrators around the Nation were they do not wish to be linked with the ir­ Why are our politicians losing the respect prepared to resist this type of anarchy responsible lawlessness in question. Rather of the people, and why aren't they doing than a threat, then, this statement is an something about it? Where do the people on their own campuses. attempt to reassure our students that their stand with the status quo of the politicians? Since then, of course, many schools rights will not be disregarded, that sane con­ Why do drugs, raping, looting, killing, burn­ have made it clear that these trouble­ duct will not be supplanted with disorder, ing and rioting in our streets and schools makers will not be permitted to disrupt that a misguided minority wlll not be al­ persist as something for us to live with? Is and disturb the normal routine and pro­ lowed to foist its opinions upon the rest of the criminal more important to our society cedures of campus life. One of the most the institution. than those who become his victims? Why candid and straightforward statements It bears repeating that we are extremely must our society be imposed on by a con­ of policy along this line was outlined by pleased with the general attitude of our stu­ victed murderer's second crime? What is hap­ the president of St. Louis University, dents, and we're not going to let the irra­ pening to the United States of America? tional actions of a small minority in other There is nothing wrong with the politics the Reverend Paul C. Reinert, S.J., in the institutions affeet our attitude toward our of our Great America that the politicians swnmer issue of the St. Louis University students. I would guess that more than half themselves canont make right. The people magazine, and I include his statement in of our students belong to the thousands and of this country have placed their welfare in the RECORD at this point: thousands of students who are unhappy the hands of their representatives in gov­ OuR STAND ON SIT-INs about the Vietnam war, unhappy about the ernment. These representatives of the people racial attitudes of many Americans, unhappy (By Rev. Paul C. Reinert, S.J.) have presented themselves as of the highest about the reluctance to allow students to moral character with the desire to devote The President of Saint Louis University participate in those aspects of university life their time and effort to keeping this country discusses the University's policy toward dem­ which vitally concern them. These are legiti­ the greatest nation and the highest type of onstrations and sit-ins. mate concerns. The trouble is that the stu- government known to man; "A government September 4, 1968 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25715 of the people, by the people, and for the With due respect and honor to those who the pressure of circumstances, and where people," and have declared their oaths for are in the right, we ask, in the cause of mass hysteria has no part. Thinking that this purpose. They were chosen from among righteousness, "Are our justices' and judges' has the quiet of rightness. Thinking from our most prominent citizenry to uphold and interpretation of our Constitution and the the one Great Source that becomes Justice protect our offices with honesty and integ­ decisions rendered therefrom made with a and Equity. rity of highest esteem. However, let it be conscience to protect all of the people as a understood, as we understand it. The poli­ whole, which is the purpose of the courts, tician who breaches his oath of office is a or are some of them protecting traitors and PROF. H. J. ETTLINGER traitor to his country in every sense of the criminals who are a menace to the society for word and this includes all political offices whose protection the courts were created?" and each branch of government wherein Surely the judges who make decisions con­ HON. J. J. PICKLE there is any control of the people. trary to the general welfare and security of OF TEXAS The politician, by injecting and promoting the people must realize that they themselves, more honesty into the politics of his office, their families and progeny are a part of the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES could benefit the people he represents as well society that needs and deserves their protec­ Wednesday, September 4, 1968 as his political status. He was not elected tion. Must we believe that they are wilfully to sit on a pedestal and pat himself on the being traitors to their own families as well as Mr. PICKLE. Mr. Speaker, too rarely back because he won an election or was ap­ to the rest of us whom they have sworn to we have the proud experience of asso­ pointed to a responsible position. He was not protect? If any of our judges lack the moral ciating with one of those individuals who hired to coalesce with his colleagues because courage to do that which is right, honest and seems to have excelled in every possible of personal friendship. He was not hired to honorable, they are traitors to themselves endeavor. go against the principles of right activity and our whole community and should remove for the purpose of splitting our government themselves from the responsibility that the Prof. H. J. Ettlinger, of the University into different factions so that one or the office places on them; the rendering of true of Texas, at Austin, is exactly this type other could dictate the terms under which justice. This control is far reaching and of person. As a young man, he started a our people should live. He was not hired to amounts to the political and economic future profound academic career, which in­ exploit his office to his personal advantage of our country, affecting the lives of every­ cludes a doctoral degree in mathematics and glorification in a career to the detriment one, the people who constitute this country, from Harvard, a Phi Beta Kappa key, of his fulfilling his obligations and duties without whom we would have no country. and 55 years of teaching experience at to his constituents. He was not elected for It is the solemn duty of every honest and the University of Texas. his personal aggrandizement, nor for the pur­ honorable judge to do all in his power to see pose of giving him a salary and pension for that the malpracticing justice or judge be re­ Recently, several news articles ap­ the rest of his life. He was elected for the moved from his power over the people. Be­ peared in Texas papers on the successes sole purpose of promoting, prosecuting and cause of the judicial authority vested in him of Professor Ettlinger, and at this point executing the will of the people to the ulti­ the malicious and malpracticing judge can be in the RECORD, I reprint them in full: mate of his ability and with all the power at the worst of criminals. Why should he be (From the Dallas (Tex.) Morning News, his command. Our public servant knows this allowed to hide behind the cloak of his office, July 28, 1968] truth about himself and his office because and why do our lawmakers permit such atroc­ he swore to fulfill this purpose when he gave ities against our country? Are they, the STUDENTS GETTING BETl'ER, NOT WORSE, UT's his oath to that office. The honorable poli­ lawmakers, not big enough for the job? I DR. ETTLINGER SAYS tician is not an advocate of dishonesty and think they are. (By Richard M. Morehead) disrespect and does not allow himself to slip It was not so many years ago that some of AusTIN.-Take it from Dr. H. J. Ettlinger, into this category even to the appearance of us as children in school were taught patriot­ American students are getting better, not wrong activity. He holds himself up to the ism, love for our country and our fiag, and worse. dominant qualities of honesty and integrity, that every person regardless of creed or color, Dr. Ettlinger ought to know. He is round­ and this gives him a power and distinction was entitled to and would receive protection ing out 55 years of teaching mathematics a.t above and beyond that which claims to be ur.der that fiag. We, as individuals, received the University of Texas. Nine thousand stu­ right, but which is not. Words and promises no special privileges, such as are being asked dents have received his instruction, rang­ have no meaning when righteous action is today, we were just proud to be Americans. ing from 315 high school youngsters in deferred. The true politician's prestige be­ As Free Americans under our fiag, let us summer programs to 25 university gradurutes longs not only to himself, but to the people never hold the concept that our people are receiving doctoral degrees. who elected him. Only when he has fulfilled subject to and have to submit to the wrong High school mathemwtics students today his obligation to his office, is he worthy of atrocity of any public servant, but rather are excellent, Dr. Ettlinger said. his hire and entitled to the honor of that they, the honorable politicians, having been "They are the most serious, hardest work­ office. placed in power by the people; are in all ways ing students I have ever seen," Dr. Ettlinger As one of a questioning people governed subject to, and ·may if necessary be removed said. "All I've had to do is give them the by our judicial jurisprudence, may I express by the people. Our politicians are written in problems. I've had 15, 16, 17-year-olds who my concept o:f justice which would enhance th~ history of our country, and they write can do work that some of my graduate stu­ the future of all of our people. Let's promote their own records according to the quality dents couldn't do in the past." a higher concept of legal thinking vs moral and honesty of the service they render. We The 6-foot-3-inch professor's career has thinking. It is time to override so-called legal the people live in hope that each one will so ooen an unusual combination of brains and thinking with moral and righteous thinking. honor his position that he may go hand in muscle. At Washington University in St. Thinking that would not twist the true hand with the honor and respect that our Louis, Ettlinger played football, basketball, meaning and purpose of our laws to suit in­ people bestow on that Great American Poli­ handball and baseball. He coached at the dividual or collective atrocities. Individual tician, The Honorable Mr. Lincoln, who from University of Texas for two years, freshman liberty and justice is equity in action and the his great heart of humanity dedicated to football and varsity linemen. He officiated innocent must be protected always, but a freedom and justice for all mankind in all at more than 1,500 high school and college false concept of individual liberty should time said, football games. not override the collective rights of the peo­ "Let us have faith that right makes might, Knute Rockne, later famous at Notre Dame, ple. Protecting a criminal's personal Uberty and in that faith let us to the end dare to was the star on the first football team that does not give him the right to reinstate or do our duty as we understand it." Ettlinger knew. This was at Northwest Divi­ pursue his criminal tendencies against inno­ "With malice toward none, with charity sion High in Chicago, where Ettlinger was a cent people. Personal liberty anlic service, become more and more diffi­ cause of the laughter, the youth told him cult as one's career goes on." alarm with which a good many people view current problems. "I've never been to church in my life." The senator elaborated recently from be­ Some time later, the boy began missing hLnd his desk on the third floor of the New ·~rm an optimist," he explains. "I don't see how a Christian can be anything else. You can group meetings. Senate Office Buiiding. Asked why he was absent so frequently, "My oldest grandchild has grown up to be be concerned.. But you are optim1stic and determined to do all you can to improve the youth quite seriously replied, "I'm study­ a young lady--6he's HJ-and I haven't really ing to be a priest." got acquainted with her yet," he lamented. things.'' Frank Carlson has done a great deal. The bureau has started a reward program He intends to devote himself to getting to for outstanding participants in the program. kxww all three of his grandchildren. Youths selected by their own clubs as having They were all to be in Miami this month made a. particularly meaningful contribu­ to see Senator Carlson receive another tion to the program are sent to Memphis honor-nomination as a favorite-son to be­ MEMPHIS POLICEMAN REACHES State football games, local wrestling matches come the Republican candidate for President YOUTH and other entertainment free of charge. of the United. States. The senator looked. The basic ai:tn of the whole program is to forward to the nomination and subsequent encourage youth 'to take on responsiblllty. demonstration. HON. DAN KUYKENDALL Detective Redditt takes pride in citing an "We'll have lots of fun," he forecast. "We example oY how the theory worked for one have some giant sunflowers a.nd a few other OF TENNESSEE IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES girl whom he had seen in Juvenile Court a t~ready." number of times. Since being elected presi­ After he leaves th,e Senate, Carlson will Wednesday, September 4, 1968 dent of one of the youth groups, she has devote himself to farming as well as grand­ done outstanding work in school and has children. He still operates farms in Cloud M~. KUYKENDALL. Mr. Speaker, I made no more court appearances. County. And agriculture has always inter­ would like to take this opportunity to The clubs have run into a little trouble ested him on a one-farm and national level. call attention to the accomplishments of now and then with their public projects. One of his chief regrets is that farmers one Memphis citizen in helping to make One group adviser was criticized when her "still don't receive their fair share" of the our city and our Nation a better place club was found cleaning up the Orange fruits of the U.S. economy. for all the people. Mound area and disposing of the garbage When he came to Washington and the Detective E. E. Redditt is assistant di­ during this spring's sanitation strike despite Rouse of Repreeentatives in '35, the nation warnings by strike leaders to let garbage was battling a depress-ion and passing a great rector of the community relations bureau pile up. deal of farm legislation. Sen. Garlson regrets of the Memphis Police Department de­ The Orange Mound cleaning project was tha'!; things haven't improved more for veloped to create responsibility and re­ one of many neighborhood improvement farmers since then. spect for law among young people in the projects the clubs have undertaken. September 4, 1968 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS "Our intention is for them to take pride I recently received a letter from one of prosecute on the ground that the statute of in where they live," said Detective Redditt. my constituents, Mr. Vernon E. Shaw, limitations had made conviction impossible. The pyp has also taken an interest in the Be that as it may, the Distri~t Attorney minipark project. Officers in the program of Jasper, Ala., which, I believe, ex­ threw up his hands, the young man came obtained a flag and 52 pairs of shoes for presses the deep concern of many of our back to resume his life, daily passing the needy children playing in one of the parks. people toward this ever-growing prob­ house of the victim who lived only about a Many regular duty police officers have par­ lem. He also forwarded me an article by block. away from :the place where the young ticipated in the PYP as a result of Com­ Erie Stanley Gardner which offers some man's parents had their home. munity Relations Bureau requests. This sum­ straight talk about law and order. THE VICTIM BECOMES A FUGITIVE mer, 30 policemen have supervised, coach~ I and instructed underprivileged youth m At this point, Mr. Speaker, insert in The victim told me that "the authorities'' baseball. All the officers did so on their own the Extensions of Remarks of the CoN­ warned her that this man was dangerous and time after regular working hours. GRESSIONAL RECORD, and call to the atten­ suggested that she change her name and Frank C. Holloman, director of the Mem­ tion of my colleagues, the article by Mr. move away. When I investigated this phase phis fire and police departments, expressed Gardner: of the case I found that the person who so enthusiasm for the community relations pro­ advised the victim was probably an expert ERLE STANLEY GARDNER TALKS ABOUT CRIME psychologist who may have been called in gram. IN THE STREETS Under his authority, the police depart­ by the court. ment's entire uniformed division recently A woman, related to a close friend of mine, In any event, in the mind of the victim, underwent six weeks of in-service training in and living in the residential district of a the authorities had advised her to change community and human relations. And Mr. metropolitan city where she had spent moot her name, give up her home where she had Holloman has announced that Memphis in­ of her life, occasionally rode home with a lived virtually all of her adult life, give up tends to get further involved in community young man whose family lived a block down all of her friends and move away, while the relations training through the Omnibus the street. culprit blithely walks the streets. Crime Bill recently passed by Congress. Sin~e she had known this young man all This is the Alice in Wonderland aspect of The community relations bureau has also of her adult life he was almost like a younger the new justice. The culprit walks the streets. tried to inform the more than 600 youth in member of the family. She had watched him The victim is advised to become the fugitive. its program on basic safety and legal proce­ grow to manhood. The rights of the individual are being dures. An example is the film series sponsored One day as he stopped his car at her house protected, provided the individual has com­ jointly by the bureau and local railroads to for her to get out, he asked if he might use mitted a crime. teach safety around railroad tracks to the bathroom. She readily granted the re­ The rights of society in general are being teenagers living near the major track areas. quest, opened the door of her house, told tossed into the garbage heap--simply be­ Basic knowledge of law is considered a top him where the bathroom was, and then went cause, in the past, some police had resorted objective of the program. Bureau officials into the kitchen. to psychological and physical pressure in or­ feel that if the teenagers and their parents Suddenly she was startled to hear a slight der to extract a confession from a suspect. are fully infor,med about the law and legal noise behind her. The higher courts were not unaware of what matters, respect for law and order will be She whirled in time to see the young man was going on and so, eventually, started a encouraged. · literally t118J1Sformed into a bestial assailant, trend of decisions which has now reached While the bureau's program is not limited groping for her throat. a climax, promulgating rules of law holding to youths Detective Redditt says that he and She struggled desperately. Her clothes were that a suspect must not only be advised of the other officers involved feel that that is torn off and she was being overpowered. She his right to remain silent, but must be told the best starting point. remembers her apron strings being tied that he is entitled to have a lawyer present "Not only is there a gap between the po­ around her throat. Then as unconsciousness at all stages of interrogation and, if he lice and the community," Detective Redditt was d.imming her senses she became faintly doesn't have money, society will pay the said, "but there are serious communications aware that someone attracted by her screams lawyer. gaps within the community itself." had entered the house. · No wonder crime is on the increase! Every "We feel that if the teens will get in­ The assailant heard this person come in year the FBI releases statistics showing that volved, they will get their parents inV'olved, the front door. He released his throttling there has been a significant increase in and this w111 be a major step in closing the grip, dashed out of the back door and disap­ crimes of v•iolence. communications gap within the community. peared. As a result, our legislators are now resort­ "Once we have an interested, involved ing to approaches intended to "disarm the ·The police, of course, were notified. criminal." This is an very fine if it works, community, it will be much easier to close The parents of the young man were the gap between community and police." but since society hasn't yet perfected the shocked, but they didn't know where the art of telling who the criminal is until after The officers from the bureau frequently boy was. He had completely disappeared. address PTAs, church groups and other adult he has committed a crime, the lawmaking civic organizations. It was something over three years later authorities plan to tackle the problem from . According to Detective Redditt, many of that the police got a tip that the man they the other end. They now talk about finger­ these groups don't understand the basic were seeking was in a neighboring state. .They printing everyone who owns a gun, making duties and workings o.f the police depart­ investigated and, sure enough, found they an annual license mandatory and other re­ ment. had the man they were looking for. The strictions on gun owners. He says that a .large part of the commu­ story of what happened after that is some­ In the opinion of many people who have nity relations bureau's adult programs are what confused because so many different studied the subject, this is not only putting aimed at "erasing the bad image of the agencies entered into it-the arresting police the cart before the horse, but is clubbing hell police." · in the other state, the various other police, out of the cart in order to make the horse "That image is an image out of the past, the prosecuting attorney and the courts. go faster. and it will fade when we get people to start CONFESSION-BUT NO CONVICTION We have all sorts of laws now which are aimed at preventing criminals from carrying thinking in terms of the present." Some of t~e people With whom I talked "Plans for the present call for the police feel that the so-called Miranda decision en­ weapons. · officer to look after the people in his area. tered into it. In the Miranda decision, it will In order to buy a handgun in California, By doing this, he helps the community and be remembered, police in Phoenix, Arizona, where I live, a man must first make an appli­ himself. investigating a rape case, picked up, for cation with the gun dealer. That application "People who know and trust this police­ routine questioning, a young man named is forwarded to the various law enforcement men help to stop crime." Miranda who, to their surprise, said immedi­ authorities, which have :fl.ve days to investi­ The bureau now has 5 regular. officers but ately, "You have the right man. I did it." gate the indiv>idual before the gun can be delivered to him. could use 2'5 men, officials say. What happened? · 'rhis is a very fine law. The only trouble The United States Supreme Court held with it is that when one starts to chase that because Miranda had confessed before down what actual ,investigation is made by the police had informed Miranda of his the police he is told, in effect, that they CRIME IN THE STREETS constitutional rights to remain silent, to simply don't have the manpower to conduct have counsel, etc., his conviction must be any investigations worthy of the name. reversed. There is a law in California, very hastily HON. TOM BEVIL~ This is a distinct reversal of our earlier passed, which provides that it is a crime for OF ALABAMA legal thinking. The time was when a con­ an individual to carry a weapon capable of fession was tantamount to conviction, unless IN THE HOUSE OF.REPRESENTATIVES concealment through any municipality in it was obtained with a rubber hose or by the state. Wednesday, September 4, 1968 such flagrant violence (which the defend­ Another law says an alien cannot own a ant could prove in court) that the Jq.dge Mr. BEVn.L. Mr. Speaker, as crime firearm. would hold the confession had been made Yet the person under arrest ~or the murder continues to rise in this country, our peo­ under duress. of Senator Kennedy was not only an alien ple are becoming more and more con­ Some of the people with whom I taiked but was carrying a loaded gun through a cerned about the future of America. feel that the· J?istrict' Attorney refused to metropolitan district. 25720 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 4, 1968 WANTED: MORE POLICE-NOT MORE LAWS lawmakers must keep their heads. What they more than about seventy-five to ninety of its Since the police apparently are unable to must do-and do soon-is increase the effi­ 250 horses even on the superhighways. enforce the laws they have, separating the ciency of the police and the numbers of the Rightly so, of course. But the point is: I criminals from guns, the idea is to finger­ police, and improve the public attitude to­ no longer have either the right or the free­ print the owners of all guns, issue licenses ward the police. Otherwise the citizen is go­ dom to travel as I might wish-nor, on many and see if this will work. ing to be pretty much on his own. occasions, where or when. It must be admitted that many deaths are My neighbor wanted to add a wing to his due to firearms in the home, just as a great home. He was stopped. Zoning codes, you many more deaths are due to the operation of know, and the board turned down his automobiles on the highway. Yet crimes of TECHNOLOGY VERSUS LmERTY petition. passion can be committed with almost any Conversely, one of the few remaining near­ weapon, and poison is the weapon usually by truck gardens, a ten-acre farm with used in crimes of deliberation. L. wonderfully rich soil, is the target of eminent If fewer householders had guns, there HON. WILLIAM HUNGATE domain proceedings. More schools going up. might well be fewer accidental deaths by OF MISSOURI Untillable land not far away was bypassed firearms, but what would happen if the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES because it would cost more to prepare. The householder were left defenseless when the Wednesday, September 4, 1968 lifelong farmer is dispossessed, and the last police were overworked? privilege of shopping for country-fresh I investigated a case where a householder Mr. HUNGATE. Mr. Speaker, Philip produce disappears from the scene. answered the doorbell and found a smiling B. Yeager, the distinguished counsel for The son of a friend cannot shoot tin cans young man on the threshold. He had, he ex­ the House Committee on Science and in the back yard with his BB gun. He tried, plained, had car trouble. Could he please use Astronautics, offers a thought-provoking and the city authorities confiscated his gun. the telephone to send for a tow car? Moreover, with national sentiment running The husband invited the man into the discussion of the erosion of personal as it has been, the likelihood of ordinary room where there was an intimate little fam­ liberty which results from the increas­ citizens being permitted to have firearms­ ily circle-the man, his attractive wife and ingly concentrated populations made even licensed ones-very much longer may their daughter, just blossoming into woman­ possible by science and technology, be dwindling. hood. In his article, published in the August To someone raised in James Whitcomb The door closed. The smile promptly left issue of the American Bar Association Riley country there is real delight in a bon­ the vistor's face. He produced a gun. Journal, Mr. Yeager points out that fire on a crisp fall night. The last time I made What followed was a nightmare. He forced one the police arrived in ten minutes. No the husband to stay in the room and watch, while human beings can adjust to al­ dice. Another technological convenience, the while be ordered the women to completely most any social situation we had best garden hose, turned my October exhilaration disrobe. consider just what the future will re­ into damp ashes. At his leisure he raped both the mother and quire of us. And then there is that nine-digit number the daughter, threatening their lives the I call to your attention an excerp·t which we now have attached to us as in­ while. from his article, "Technology Versus delibly as a tattoo almost from the moment The emotional impact was such that when Liberty": of birth. Our social security number is not the police were finally called in and bad ar­ just an aid to the payment of retirement rested a suspect, the overwrought victims The dally trip from my home in suburban benefits. It identifies us on each form, made an erroneous identification-which was Virginia to the Capi'tol in Washington where blank, application, file, tax return or other the reason I investigated the case. I work requires only eighteen minutes­ document regarding virtually any matter It was established beyond all doubt that eighteen, that is, unless I wish to travel with which we are associated. Somehow it is the man under arrest was not the man who between 7:30 and 9 a.m. or between 4 and symbolic of the diminished freedoms and had perpetrated the crime. On the other 6 p.m. Then it takes from fifty to sixty loss of privacy that modern civ111zation seems band, the man who did perpetrate the callous minutes. bent upon fostering throughout the globe. crime was never apprehended and is still at But it is a beautiful ride-along the river A Thoreau today is hard put to find a Wal­ large, rubbing elbows with society, perhaps parkway, across the Constitution Avenue den. (I remember Sir Francis Chichester's still ringing doorbells. Bridge, arolind the Lincoln Memorial, past comment when a Ooast Guard vessel and a­ the Tidal Basin cherry trees. f EVERY LAW HAS ITS OWN PRICE press plane found him struggling around One day recently I noticed that much Of Cape Horn: "My God, you'd think the Horn I personally investigated another doorbell the riverbank foliage was dying or gone case. Here the husband opened the front door is one place a man could count on privacy.") near Rosslyn-some choked by old quarry The free spirit is pressed to find a frontier in response to a ringing bell. Three men were wastes before Rosslyn was "improved" by on the threshold. At gun point they entered where he can shed the past, forget, start a forest of high-rise apartments and office over. Those who may want to change their· the house, tied up the husband, went up­ buildings, some eliminated by the subse­ stairs to the bedroom where the attractive identities and try something new cannot. quent black top parking areas. The number is always with them-and tbe wife was dressing in front of a mirror. Crossing the bridge I had to run up the When this woman heard the bedroom door people and machines who keep track of the car windows, though the morning was warm. numbers never seem to sleep. Even the en­ open she naturally assumed it was her hus­ Fumes and chemicals in the air from this band, and went on with her dressing. By the trepreneur who wants to close up shop and go nonindustrial city made one's eyes smart into another business sometimes discovers time she ttirned, the men were within reach­ and irritated the throat. Jets literally poured ing distance. he is too fenced in by economic pressures into National Airp.ort, trailing long plumes or unemployment liabilities to do so-except The men remained for some 45 minutes. of black exhaust, heavy and hot. Later, I Here again, the emotional impact was so through bankruptcy, which is rarely attrac­ rolled down the windows. The Tida.l ,Basin tive. great that a mistaken id,entificati,on was smelled like dead fish. made. An innocent man was convicted and These may not be the best e:xiamples. Per­ On the radio came several interesting haps they are trivia. Yet all history suggests sent to the penitentiary. Only after months items. of confinement was the man's innocence es­ that small losses of liberty, unchecked, be­ A water shortage in Marylan~·s Prince come big losses. And men of wisdom agree tablished. Georges County was growing severe. In this case, happily, the right men were that those who ignore history are doomed At the request of the local power com­ to repeat it. discovered, convicted and sent to prison. panies, the Federal Government was knock­ At the moment, there is a vast undercur­ ing off the air conditioning in number • • rent of public unrest, due to the highly dra­ a. One shudders a little at proposals for state­ of its bulld·ings. The electric loe.d was too controlled "data banks" where every con­ matic assassinations of men in public life. great and voltage had been dropping. The public wants to do something, to tinker ceivable fact and bit of information about • with the law if necessary. Red Ohina had exploded another H-bomb, the individual citizen is stored in a central It is to be remembered, however, that every while our Armed Forces were defoliating computer for use by duly constituted au­ law is "bought" by society-the individual more forests in Vietnam. thorities. The idea• . technically, is feasible has to give up some of his liberties in order Well, these things happen in the modern and efficient. But how aoout the "duly con­ to obtain a group good. But scientific, effi­ world. One might be comforted by the stituted authorities"? Where do they come cient lawmaking should see to it that laws thought that all "progress" exacts its price. from? What are their motives? What guar­ are "purchased" wisely. The individual Most people today seem at least vaguely antees their wise handling of so dangerous should be called on to give up the fewest aware of the erosion·of their natural environ­ a tool? number of liberties in order to obtain the ment, if not the severity of its rate. Trouble­ And is it really desirable to export our greatest public good. No lawmaker should some as this erosion is. I somehow find the particular brand of technology indiscrimi­ blunder, as many have, into a situation where erosion of our social environment equally nately? Do we want to Americanize the whole the individual is called on to give up a maxi­ so-particularly the matter of our vanishing world-make Zanzibar the same as Indian­ mum amount of liberties in order to obtain liberties. apolis and Paramari-bo just like Galveston? a law which just won't work. For instance: Why must native cultur~s be "developed" un­ The public can become emotional and hys­ My car is a technological triumph­ til they are like ours? In many cases, may not terical and cry, "Do something!" But the powerful, dependable, fast. But I cannot use technology subtract more than it adds? September 4, 1968 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS What is more deadly to the human spirit It is time one member of the media gave I asked a police officer? There was a city than a lack of variety? the other side of the picture because the ordnance against such use, he said, but if We are currently engaged in important public has the right to know. they arrested those using it they would only studies of oceans, the atmosphere and weath­ Never has a law-enforcing group been more be fined and somebody might be killed in er-and, indeed, we need to know a great sorely tried. They received both bodily injury the process. If this wasn't underacting, what deal more about them. The farmer whose and unspeakably vile treatment from the is? crop is destroyed by drought, the ship that hippies in Grant Park. Yet never at any time Mayor Daley was constantly referred to on founders in the hurricane, the family wiped did I see policemen show more courtesy than the air in slurring accents as the boss of out in the tornado-each is tragic. But be­ the police of Chicago. Courtesy, of course, is Chicago. He may be, and he is responsible, fore we conclude that it is desirable for man only due people who show some courtesy no doubt, for some bad as well as some good. really to control the weather, what are the themselves. But Chicago is only one city. consequences? Who can resolve the diverg­ And despite the difficult circumstances in Two famous TV commentators were boss­ ent interests of millions? Philip Handler, which they had to maintain order they man­ ing the presentation of slanted news that chairman of the National Science Board, is aged to prevent fatal catastrophe. affected the minds of millions of Americans more profound: "I hope we never find the We heard the word "over-reacted" used a in hundreds of cities. As Liz Carpenter said power to abolish the mysterious appeal of lot by commentators last week, and by busy at the women's luncheon Thursday, in all the thunderstorm." politicians who were assuming that what the talk of brutality there had not been "one Should not the concept of liberty encom­ they had been told was correct. word about the TV network brutality-the pass the right to a natural environment for .But if there was ever an over-reaction to commentator clubbing" of the mayor. those who want it? any fa · ~t of life during those seven days in When the mayor fails to do what the ma­ Hitler and Tojo demonstrated that human Chicago, it was the over-reaction of the media jority of the people in Chicago want they beings can, if forced or led properly, adjust to any effort whatsoever to stop the hippies can at least vote him out. But no vote can to almost any social or political environ­ from the flagrant civil disorders and their stop the bossism of the airwaves where edi­ ment. This is why, I believe, we need to face disgusting disturbances of the peace. torializing has been substituted again and the technological-Uberty prpblem now be­ Every time a newsman was hurt, the again for straight reporting. One NBC com­ fore we come to accept too much loss of screams of protest went around the world, mentator virtually campaigned for Teddy liberty via the path of technological con­ but how much was said about the newsmen Kennedy throughout Tuesday evening. venience. who taunted the police or tried to get action In the past I have been proud to be a Chronologically we are a young country, for the TV cameras? A member of the vice member of the Fourth Estate, but after this and our civilization has not had personal president's coterie heard two reporters hav­ past week I feel a burning inward shame. freedom for very long. But it has been won ing a great laugh in the Coffee Shop of the In my mind freedom of the press has always at too high a cost and is too critical to what Conrad Hilton about how they agitated in been necessary to liberty. The Bible states it we conceive as the purpose of mankind for Grant Park until the police started pushing most beautifully: "Ye shall know the truth, us to permit its being swept away like the them around. and the truth shall make you free." world of the sorcerer's apprentice. Wyoming Sen. and Mrs. Gale McGee and But how much truth, and how much their two grown children walked over to the biased opinion are the people, and especially park to see for themselves what was going on the youth of America, getting? and they arrived when the changing of the A clean, well-combed, pretty young girl NEWS MEDIA UNFAffi TO CHICAGO National Guard troops was taking place. for Sen. McCarthy was one of five of us who Walking through a gang of hippies they shared a taxi to O'Hare Airport Friday and POLICE saw two girls, one playing the flute. Then the conversation turned to what the hippies they saw a TV camera team lead the girls had done to convert the serious business of over to the exact place by the troops where nominating a presidential candidate into a HON. ROBERT H. MICHEL they wanted them to stand. And when their circus of vulgarity. OF ILLINOIS camera started to roll, the girl cried, "Don't Unbelievably, she stood up for the right IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES beat me! Don't beat me!" It takes no imagi­ of the Grant Park crowd to curse the Presi­ nation to figure how this contrived scene dent in four-letter words. She had no respect Wednesday, September 4, 1968 would look on the screens in millions of for the highest office of our land. Mr. MICHEL. Mr. Speaker, during the American homes. When one of the men blamed Tom Hayden recent Democratic Convention in Chi­ In the convention hall Mrs. McGee said a for leading the youth to such actions, she cago the television coverage and some youth of about 15 sat in front of them and said Tom was all right; he was a friend of clapped hard at everything said that he liked hers. newspaper repDrting gave the distinct and shouted four-letter words at everything I am not familiar with Hayden's record impression that the Chicago police force he didn't like. Instead of just grabbing him but the fact that this young woman sup­ was about on par with or worse than and removing him, as the police would have ported him and his undertaking indicated Hitler's SS storm troopers as they done in most civilized places, the Chicago the truth had not reached her as it is not sought to prevent demonstrators from police asked him first to stop it. But he paid reaching millions of young people. storming the Conrad Hilton Hotel as no attention to them so "they had to take Maybe the media had better ask itself why. well as causing other disturbances and him out," said Mrs. McGee. difficulties for delegates to the conven­ The cameras probably caught the big po­ [From the Peoria (Ill.) Journal Star, Aug. 31, licemen bodily forcing the mere youth to 1Q68] tion. leave, giving the television viewer the idea Now that the hysteria of the conven­ he had done nothing to provoke such reac­ SOME NEWS MEDIA UNFAIR TO CHICAGO POLICE, tion has died down a bit, we are begin­ tion. MAYOR, SAYS COLUMNIST AT SCENE ning to hear the other side of the story And what, by the way, has happened to (By Bill O'Co:tmell) and it does begin to appear that the the news media that provocation is left out CHICAGO.-One of the licenses granted to news media, in many instances, were of, or played down in, story after story? a political writer in a column', so-labeled, as something less than objective in report­ Most announcements or headlines told what opposed to a straight news report is the li­ the police did to the hippies but left out or cense to comment on public events, based ing these incidents to the American skimmed over what the hippies did to the upon the columnist's observation and experi- people. public or police. ence. · In that connection, it was interesting Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, World War Now that the Democratic National Con­ to note the similarities in reports on the hero and Democratic keynoter, said the hlp­ vention is history, this columnist offers a convention from two completely differ­ pies were throwing plastic bags of human few observations. and opinions: ent sources; the first from Miss Betty excrement at the police and guards in Grant The Chicago Police Dept. and Mayor Beale, respected society writer for the Park. They were also throwing rubber balls Richard J. Daley have taken a week's pound­ stuck with long nails aimed for the eyes. ing from the television networks, and some Washington Star, and the second from How would those commentators who newsmen, somewhat out of perspective. my friend, Mr. Bill O'Connell, political thought the police "over-reacted" have be­ Lawyers frequently refer, privately at least, CDlumnist for my hometown newspaper, haved if those things had happened to them? to the "parade of the horribles," an expres­ the Peoria Journal Star. I include both For three straight minutes late Tuesday sion meaning only the worst - examples of articles in the RECORD at this point: night, or rather early Wednesday morning, what happened or could have happened to [From the Washington (D.C.) Sunday Star, 3,000 hippies shouted in unison, directed by their client are presented to the jury. Sept. 1, 1968] a leader, an obscene curse at the President The networks, and some newspapers, have of the United States. They were either curs­ been guilty, in this writer's opinion, of the EXCLUSIVELY YOURS: THE 0rHER SIDE OF THE ing the police in the same way or calling same type of presentation of their case of PICTURE them pigs. And I used to think that insulting what happened this last week in Chicago. (By Betty Beale) an officer was against the law! For instance, how much time or space was This columnist has just returned from Why was an electronic amplifier allowed devoted to the hurling of human feces in Chicago-unbloodied, unpelted and even un­ to remain in the park all day and night paper bags from hotel rooms down onto bruised, thanks to the Chicago police. where obscenities were shouted until 4 a.m., police-or the hurling of sharpened files? 25722 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 4, 1968 How much time or space was given to the THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE munity and its devotion to the causes of news that more than 80 Chicago policemen PARK SYNAGOGUE, CLEVELAND Judaism and Jewry, and we take pride in the were also injured in the unfortunate, per­ HEIGHTS, OIDO Jewish achievements of so renowned a con­ haps tragic, confrontations With the hippies gregation as your own. and their political allies? I take particular pleasure in addressing How much time or space was given to the these words of congratulation to one who, news that a. policeman in the convention hall HON. CHARLES A. VANIK with his distinguished family, so finely sym­ was bttten by a delegate? OF OHIO bolizes the achievements, heritage and lead­ How much space or time was devoted to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ership for which the Park Synagogue is re­ reports of newsmen on the convention floor nowned amongst Jewry. deliberately provoking police by refusing to Wednesday, September 4, 1968 With warm personal regards, show their credentials? Mr. VANIK. Mr. Speaker, on Septem­ Sincerely yours, How much attention was given in the news ber 22, 1968, the Park Synagogue of Maj. Gen. Y. RABIN, media. to the repeated offers-always rejected Ambassador. when the TV cameras appeared-by Chicago Cleveland Heights, Ohio, begins its 100th Corp. Counsel Ray Simon and National year of spiritual and community work JULY 25, 1968. Guard General Richard Dunn of locations serving the entire Greater Cleveland Mr. MAx RATNER, for legal, peaceful assembly and speeches? area. The Park Synagogue is the largest President of the Park Synagogue, Does a. delegate who shoves a credit card Jewish congregation in the world of the Cleveland Heights, Ohio. into the electronic device located in the con­ vention hall to verify proper credentials feel conservative denomination serving over DEAR MR. RATNER: May I seize upon the he's without some fault when the result is 2,400 families. Under the devoted spirit­ occasion of the lOoth anniversary of the an altercation? ual leadership of Rabbi Armond Cohen founding of the Park Synagogue to offer my Did the network commentators who re­ and the synagogue's president, Max congratulations to the Congregation. ported the convention galleries were packed Ratner, this strong and effective congre­ The spiritual strength of the Park Syna­ with "Daley payrollers" also report the press gogue has spread far beyond the congregants gation. has reached throughout the it serves. Its religious school, its nursery section was also packed with chanting-and Greater Cleveland community to develop certainly non-working press-youngsters school, its day camp, its high school and col­ sporting McCarthy buttons? understanding and brotherhood for men legiate departments bring testimony of how Nobody is always right. There were in­ and women of all faiths. The synagogue deeply rooted the Synagogue is in "its rela­ stances of unnecessary force and other in­ has distinguished itself by developing a tionship to God and to man. stances of real provocation. program to bring to Cleveland great With every good Wish, I am, This reporter found Chicago's police ex­ world leaders . like Eleanor Roosevelt, Sincerely yours, tremely courteous, patient and helpful to Justice Douglas, Justice Fortas, Senator EMANUEL GELLER, convention visitors, especially newsmen who J. WILLIAM FuLBRIGHT, and many others Chairman. offered them the same courtesy and good manners. who have spoken before vast audiences Mr. MAX RATNER, What happened in Chicago this week, al­ on topics of the greatest importance.· President, the Park Synagogue, most certainly, would have happened in any Through the distinguished religious Cleveland Heights, OMo. other city where the convention assembled. leadership of the synagogue, the largest DEAR MR. RATNER: My good friend, Charlie Ironically, it was the Wisconsin delega­ Jewish religious school in the Nation has Vanik, has told me that the Park Synagogue tion that asked for a two-week recess in the been training thousands of Greater will celebrate the 100th anniversary of its convention proceedings and a change in lo­ Cleveland Jewish children in the t~nets founding on September 22, 1968. I want to cation because of the ."brutality in the of their great religion. The Park Syna­ extend my congratulations to you, Rabbi streets." Armond Cohen, and the members of the Having covered part of the Wisconsin pri­ gogue has also maintained extensive congregation on this occasion. mary campaign last spring and having been nursery school, day camp, high school, I know that the Park Synagogue has made present when Secretary of Agriculture Orville and collegiate departments. a major contribution to Jewish life in the Freeman was prevented from speaking by The greatest tribute to the Park Syna­ community and to the entire Cleveland area. "free speech" advocates who continuously in­ gogue has been the untold numbers of In 100 years, the Synagogue has grown to terrupted him by shouting obscenities, this outstanding citizens who have graduated become the largest Conservative congrega­ writer hopes the Badger State delegates tion in the country. It has a distinguished. didn't have in mind a switch to Madison for from its religious school and been mem­ history and membership. the convention. bers of its congregation who have con­ At this time of approaching celebration Mayor Daley, after being interrupted by a tributed to the cultural, spiritual, politi­ and rededication to the principles of Jewish youthful delegation after the Illinois dele­ cal, and economic life of our community religious life, I commend all your past ac­ gation's final caucus, urged these young and the Nation. - complishments and Wish you every success folks to take an active role in politics and My family and I extend to Rabbi and in the future. to support the candidate of their choice. Mrs. Cohen, to Max Ratner, to the asso­ Sincerely, He also urged them to be tolerant of others, ABRAHAM RmxcoFF. as well. ciate rabbis, Pearl Mutter and Howard It would be a lot easier to listen to the Hirsch, to the synagogue's executive di­ voice of youth if those who were so vocal rector, Leo Chak, to the director of edu­ THE SECRETARY OF HEALTH, were at least conformist enough to bathe, cation, Rabbi George Pollak, and to all EDUCATION, AND WELFARE, shave and even listen once in a while. Washington, D.O., July 25, 1968. of the friends of the Park Synagogue our Mr. MAx RATNER, It may be old-fashioned, but there appears heartiest congratulations and best wishes to be some virtue left in the idea that stu­ President, Park Synagogue, dents can learn by listening and ought to for your next 100 years. May these year~ Cleveland Heights, Ohio. get for the ever-increasing costs of higher be as successful and outstanding as have DEAR MR. RATNER: It is with pleasure tha.t education something besides an expanded been the last 100 years of service to your I extend to you, to Rabbi Armond E. Cohen four-letter word vocabulary. religion, the community, and the Nation. and to the more than 2,400 families of the A lot of folks came away from this con­ At this point, I wish to insert copies Park Synagogue of Cleveland my warm con­ vention convinced that Dr. Spock's theory of of some of the messages of congratula­ gratulations on the 100th anniversary of the permissiveness and full self-expression will tion from distinguished Americans to the founding of the synagogue. never replace the woodshed. The Park Synagogue comprises one of the The same thing might apply, too, to some congregation of the Park Synagogue on largest Jewish congregations of the Con­ of the "new politics" adults. this important occasion. The messages servative denomination in the world. It has are as follows: been praised as a landmark in ecclesiastic JULY 18, 1968. architecture. Its schools and educational de­ Mr. MAX RATNER, partments are known widely for their excel­ THE "PUEBLO"-HOW LONG, MR. President, The Parle Synagogue, lence. But I would! like to take this oppor- . PRESIDENT? Cleveland Hei_ghts, Ohio . tuni·ty to commend the congregation and its DEAR MR. RATNER: It is With the deepest of leaders for fidelity to their religious heritage pleasure that I greet you, and through you and for their many contributions-spiritual HON. WILLIAM J. SCHERLE the Park Synagogue Congregation, on the and secular-to their community. OF IOWA occasion of the Synagogue's Centennial. Behind you is a century of service and Your congregation has long been a byword leadership. Ahead, I am sure, is a future IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES amongst Jewish communities, famed for its equally dedicated to the advancement of our Wednesday, September 4, 1968 achievements in JeWish education and cul­ society. In this I extend to you my best ture as it is for the leaders it has sent forth wishes. Mr. SCHERLE. Mr. Speaker, this is the to serve the Jewish community at large. Jews Sincerely, 226th day the U.S.S. Pueblo and her crew in Israel and all over the world draw strength WILBUR J. CoHEN, have been in North Korean hands~ from the vigor of the American Jewish com- Secretary. September 4, 1968 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25723 THE 15TH ANNIVERSARY OF SBA tract awards for small business bidding. THREE MIAMI BANKING INSTITU­ Since 1953, more than $19 billion in TIONS START PROJECT TO FI­ Government contracts has been set aside NANCE LOW-INCOME HOUSING HON. WM. JENNINGS BRYAN DORN for small businessmen-$10.7 billion of it OF SOUTH CAROLINA in the past 5 years. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES In his state of the Union message, HON. DANTE B. FASCELL Wednesday, September 4, 1968 President Johnson reminded Americans OF FLORIDA that we are in "our eighth year of un­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. DORN. Mr. Speaker, small busi­ interrupted prosperity. The economic Wednesday, September 4, 1968 nesses with inadequate working capital outlook for this year is one .of steady face almost certain failure. A small growth-if we are vigilant." Mr. FASCELL. Mr. Speaker, during the businessman may have excellent prod­ And SBA is geared to help .the small past few years the private business sec­ ucts or services-but if he cannot expand businessman continue to contribute to tor has become increasingly involved in to meet the demands of a growing clien­ our economic growth, for the small busi­ the quest to provide a fuller life for all tele, his customers will go elsewhere. ness sector of our economy is a vital and Americans. Probably no area of concern Since most small businessmen find it necessary part of our everyday lives. needs the active participation of the difficult to obtain capital, they can business community more than that of seldom afford expansion and their busi­ making decent and moderately priced nesses either stand still or slowly die.. housing available to all. Indicative of at­ The Small Business Administration-a WHEN THE HEIGHT IS WON, tempts to reach this goal is a commend­ Federal agency created for the sole pur­ THEN THERE IS EASE able joint project recently announced by pose of helping the small businessman­ First National Bank of Miami, First Fed­ offers financial assistance and a host of eral Savings & Loan Association, Mi­ services dedicated to allowing small busi­ HON. JOSHUA EILBERG· ami, and Miami Beach Federal Savings ness an equal chance in the marketplace. OF PENNSYLVANIA & Loan Association. The purpose of SBA celebrated its 15th anniversary IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES their joint venture, entitled "Housing July 30. In the period from 1953 through Wednesday, September 4, 1968 Enablement Loan Pool"-HELP-is suc­ 1967, the Agency has made about 85,000 cinctly stated in an article appearing in business loans totaling some $3.9 billion. Mr. EILBERG. Mr. Speaker, in its July the August 13, 1968, issue of the Amer­ Much of this money has paid for expan­ 1968, edition of Feder.al Bar News, the ican Banker. The article is as follows: sion. Federal Bar Association took poignant FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF MIAMI, FIRST FED­ The success of Kenneth Leverett, note of the death of one of its illustrious ERAL SAVINGS & LoAN ASSOCIATION, MIAMI, owner of a shoe repair shop in Aiken, members, the late Senator Robert F. AND MIAMI BEACH FEDERAL SAVINGS & S.C., is a good example of what SBA Kennedy. LOAN ASSOCIATION CREATE $10 MILLION In order that those of my colleagues FuND To FINANCE Low-RENT HousiNG IN can do for a small businessman. DADE COUNTY Mr. Leverett went to the Small Busi­ who have not seen this tribute may have ness Administration on two different that opportunity, I will have it reprinted MIAMI.-First National Bank of Miami­ Florida's largest bank-and two savings and occasions. here: loans associations hav~ established a $10 mil­ When he applied for his first SBA "WHEN THE HEIGHT Is WON, THEN THERE lion credit fund to finance construction loans loan, his shop was located on a side street Is EAsE"-AESCHYLus for low-rent housing in Dade County, the in 1,200 square feet of rented space in a ROBERT KENNEDY, 1925-68 scene of civil disorders last week. one-story brick building. SBA approved In a lawful society, death is not thought Announcement came jointly from the his request for a working capital loan of as "always somewhere out there in the $542.2 million-deposit bank, 94th largest in in October 1965. crowd." And yet it was. Nothing could have the nation at midyear; First Federal Savings brought this matter more poignantly to the & Loan Association, Miami, the largest S&L In May 1967, with business growing, Nation's attention than the assassination of in the state at yearend, 1967 with $431.5 mil­ Leverett applied for a second loan to ex­ Senator Robert Francis Kennedy. At the lion savings share capital, and Miami Beach pand and pay off the remainder of the time he was seeking the support of his peers Federal Savings & Loan Association, wtth first SBA loan. for the Nation's highest elective office. He $229.8 million savings share capital at year­ At the end of May, the loan was ap­ was doing this with all of his passion and end. proved. Leverett bought the building that energy. The institutions also expressed the hope Senator Kennedy was elected an honorary that other country financial institutions will housed his shop-a wise decision, as his member of the Federal Bar while serving as paricipate in the fund, called the "Housing installments would not greatly exceed the Attorney General of the United States. Enablement Loan Pool," or "HELP." what he formerly paid in rent. His next Earlier, he had served as an attorney with Eugene F. Terkowski, vice president of steps were to tear down an old structure the Department. He also served as an attor­ First National's mortgage loan department, on the back of his lot to make room for ney for the Senate Investigations Subcom­ said Monday that the announcement was customer parking, and to add a new line mittee, the Hoover Commission and the Sen­ not made in response to last week's disorders of orthopedic shoes to his stock. ate Labor-Management Subcommittee. When in Miami and that the program had been de­ he was elected to the United States Senate veloped by the three institutions for several Facilities were further improved when from the State of New York, he became a months. Leverett added a drive-in window and member of the Capitol Hill Chapter. "Our top management has been con­ night depository where people could For a young man, Senator Kennedy had cerned about the lack of sufficient hous­ leave their shoes for repair after hours. experienced power, success and fame. Yet ing" for some time, he said, and had dis­ In less than 3 years, Leverett's annual none of these were ends in and of them­ cussed the participation idea as one step to sales have more than doubled; profits selves. As Attorney General, he was always solving the problem. Local authorities es­ ready and anxious to take the time to ex­ timated that 1,550 low-rent housing units have jumped about one and a half times plain the workings of the Justice Department must be built in Dade County during each and his employees have increased from to groups of schoolchildren. For Senator Ken­ of the next 10 years to meet housing needs. three to five. nedy love was a verb. Life was action. Men The $10 million revolving fund will be The success of Leverett Shoe Service were not made for safe havens. He knew that used to make construction loans to quali­ came about through the owner's imagi­ the problems facing America today and to­ fied foundations and non-profit groups, such nation, drive, and courage-and SBA morrow could not be solved by worn out as church organizations, for low-rent hous­ help. cliches. He knew that these problems had to ing developments insured by the Federal be verbalized with candor and compassion. Housing Administration. SBA has done a commendable job over And now he is gone. Most of the loans are expected to be made the years, offering financial assistance, Senator Kennedy often ended his speeches under provisions of section 221(d) (3) of the management aid and counseling, aid to with: "Some men see things as they are and Federal Housing Act, and can be made on a small businesses in getting a fair share say why? I dream things that never were and nine-month to two-year basis at a 6%% rate, of Government contracts. say why not?" Isn't this his legacy to us? according to Mr. Terkoskl. Since 1953, more than 11,000 manage­ For the future truly will belong to those of Such construction loans can be used for ment assistance courses, conferences and us who can blend vision, reason and courage housing developments ranging from one- to in a. personal commitment to the ideals of four-family units, the latter representing workshops have been given by SBA for America. loans "upwards of $2 mllllon," he noted. small businessmen. To his wife Ethel Skakel, their children and Each of the institutions are participating SBA has done an outstanding job in his family, the Federal Bar Association ex­ in the fund pool in proportion to its size, and setting aside Federal procurement con- tends its sincere sympathy. First National 1s the lead institution. The EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 4, 1968 bank also will administer the program, proc­ ent agencies entered into it--the arresting In the opinion of many people who have ess applications, submit them for approval to police in the other state, the various other studied the subject, this is not only putting a committee representing participating insti­ police, the prosecuting attorney and the the cart before the horse, but is clubbing hell tutions, and service approved loans. courts. out of the cart in order to Inake the horse go The program would focus on interim or CONFESSION-BUT NO CONVICTION faster. construction funds, and permanent mort­ We have all sorts of laws now which are gage financing will be obtained from other Some of these people with whom I talked aimed at preventing criminals from carrying sources, such as the life insurance industry feel that the so-called Miranda decision en­ weapons. and the Federal National Mortgage Associa­ tered into it. In the Miranda decision, it In order to buy a handgun in California, tion. will be remembered, police in Phoenix, Ari­ where I live a man must first make an "HELP" is expected to be promoted largely zona, investigating a rape case, picked up, application with the gun dealer. That appli­ by personal contact by the institutions' of­ for routine questioning, a young man named cation is forwarded to the various law en­ ficers and employees with community orga­ Miranda who, to their surprise, said immedi­ forcement authorities, which have five days nizations. Mr. Terkowskl related that one ately, "You have the right man. I did it." to investigate the individual before the gun mortgage broker already plans to submit "two What happened? can be delivered to him. or three projects" for consideration. The United States Supreme Court held This is a very fine law. The only trouble that because Miranda had confessed before with it is that when one starts to chase There is little question that this proj­ the police had informed Miranda of his con­ down what actual investigation is made by ect and others like it can do much to stitutional rights to remain silent, to have the police he is told, in effect, that they make universal the true promise of counsel, etc., his conviction must be reversed. simply don't have the manpower to con­ This is a distinct reversal of our earlier duct any investigations worthy of the name. America, and for this reason I applaud legal thinking. The time was when a con­ the initiators of HELP. There is a law in California, very hastily fession was tantamount to conviction, unless passed, which provides that it is a crime for it was obtained with a rubber hose or by an individual to carry a weapon capable of such fiagrant violence (which the defend­ concealment through any municipality in ant could prove in court) that the judge the state. CRIME IN THE STREETS would hold the confession had been m.ade Another law says an alien cannot own a under duress. firearm. Some of the people with whom I talked Yet the person under arrest for the mur­ HON. OLIN E. TEAGUE feel that the District Atorney refused to der of Senator Kennedy was not only an OF TEXAS prosecute on the ground that the statute of alien but was carrying a loaded gun through limitations had made conviction impossible. a metropolitan district. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Be that as it may, the District Attorney Wednesday, September 4, 1968 threw up his hands, the young man came WANTED: MORE POLICE-NOT MORE LAWS back to resume his life, daily passing the Since the police apparently are unable Mr. TEAGUE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, house of the victim who lived only about to enforce the laws they have, separating the the renowned author of the Perry Mason a block away from the place where the young criminals from guns, the idea is to finger­ series wrote a thought-provoking article man's parents had their home. print the owners of all guns, issue licenses entitled "Crime in the Streets" which and see if this will work. THE VICTIM BECOMES A FUGITIVE It must be admitted that many deaths are appeared in the August 18 edition of This The victim told me that "the authorities" due to firearms in the home, just as a great Week, a supplement to the Sunday Star. warned her that this man was dangerous many more deaths are due to the operation I heartily commend its reading to each and suggested that she change her name of automobiles on the highway. Yet crimes and every Member of this body: and move away. When I investigated this of passion can be committed with almost any ERLE STANLEY GARDNER TALKS ABOUT CRIME phase of the case I found that the person weapon, and poison is the weapon usually IN THE STREETS who so advised the victim was probably an used in crimes of deliberation. (By the famous lawyer and author of the expert psychologist who may have been ' If fewer householders had guns there "Perry Mason" mysteries) called in by the court. might will be fewer accidental deaths by In any event, in the mind of the victim, firearms, but what would happen if the A woman, related to a close friend of mine, the authorities had advised her to change householder were left defenseless when the and living in the residential district of a her name, give up her home where she ha.d police were overworked? metropolitan city where she had spent most lived virtually all of her adult life, give up I investigated a case where a householder of her life, occasionally rode home with a all of her friends and move away, while the answered the doorbell and found a sm1ling young man whose family lived a block down culprit blithely walks the streets. young man on the threshold. He had, he ex­ the street. This is the Alice in Wonderland aspect of plained, had car trouble. Could he please Since she had known this young man all use the telephone to send for a tow car? of her adult life he was almost like a young­ the new justice. The culprit walks the streets. The victim is advised to become the The husband invited the man into the er member of the family. She had watched fugitive. room where there was an 1nt1Inate little him grow to manhood. family circle-the man, his attractive wife One day as he stopped his car at her house The rights of the individual are being protected, provided the individual has com­ and their daughter, just blossom1ng into for her to get out, he asked if he might use womanhood. the bathroom. She readily granted the re­ mitted a crime. The rights of society in general are being The door closed. The smile promptly left quest, opened the door of her house, told the visitor's face. He produced a gun. him where the bathroom was, and then went tossed into the garbage heap-simply be­ cause, in the past, some police had resorted What followed was a nightmare. He forced into the kitchen. the husband to stay in the room and watch, Suddenly she was startled to hear a slight to psychological and physical pressure in or­ der to extract a confession from a suspect. while he ordered the women to completely noise behind her. disrobe. She whirled in time to see the young man The higher courts were not unaware of what was going on and so, eventually, st,a,rted a At his leisure he raped both the mother literally transformed into a bestial assailant, and the daughter, threatening their lives groping for her throat. trend o! decisions which has now reached a climax, promulgating rules of law holding the while. She struggled desperately. Her clothes The emotional impact was such tha.t when were torn off and she was being overpowered. that a suspect must not only be advised of his right to remain silent, but must be told the police were finally called in and had ar­ She remembered her apron strings being rested a suspect, the overwrought victims tied around her throat. Then as uncon­ that he is entitled to have a lawyer present at all stages of interrogation and, if he made an erroneous identification-which was sciousness was dimming her senses she be­ the reason I investigated the case. came faintly aware that someone attracted doesn't have money, society will pay the lawyer. It was established beyond all doubt that by her screams had entered the house. the man under arrest was not the man who The assailant heard this person come in No wonder crime is on the increase! Every had perpetrated the crime. On the other the front door. He released his throttling year the FBI releases statistics showing that hand, the man who did perpetrate that cal­ grip, dashed out of the back door and dis­ there has been a significant increase in lous crime was never apprehended and is still appeared. crimes of violence. at large, rubbing elbows with society, perhaps The police, of course, were notified. As a result, our legislators are now resort­ stlll ringing doorbells. The parents of the young man were ing to appr01a.ches intended to "disarm the shocked, but they didn't know where the criminal." This is all very fine if it works, EVERY LAW HAS ITS OWN PRICE boy was. He had completely disappeared. but since society hasn't yet perfected the I personally investigated another doorbell It was something over three years later art of telling who the criminal is until after case. Here the husband opened the front door that the police got a tip that the man they he has committed a crime, the lawmaking in response to a ringing bell. Three men were were seeking was in a neighboring state. authorities plan to tackle the problem from on the threshold. At gun point they entered They investigated and, sure enough, found the other end. They now talk about finger­ the house, tied up the husband, went up­ they had the man they were looking for. printing everyone who owns a gun, making stairs to the bedroom where the attractive The story of what happened after that is an annual license mandatory and other wife was dressing in front of a mirror. somewhat confused because so many differ- restrictions on gun owners. When this woman heard the bedroo:rp door September 4, 1968 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS open she naturally assumed it was her hus­ marily because Russia re-armed to the hilt no attention to them so "they had to take band, and went on with her dressing. By the its Arab allies, while the United States, with him out," said Mrs. McGee. time she turned, the men were within reach­ one true democra.tic ally in the middle east, The cameras probably caught the big ing distance. continues in its unfathomable refusal to sell policemen bodily forcing the mere youth to The men remained for some 45 minutes. tha.t ally, Israel, the Phantom jets which leave, giving the television viewer the idea he Here again, the emotional impact was so alone, in the hands of Israel, could discour­ had done nothing to provoke such reaction. great that a mistaken identification was age and prevent the next middle east war. And what, by the way, has happened to the made. An innocent man was convicted and Rabbi HAROLD P. SMITH. news media that provocation is left out of, or sent to the penitentiary. Only after months played down in, story after story? Most of confinement was the man's innocence announcements or headlines told what the established. police did to the hippies but left out or In this case, happily, the right men were skimmed over what the hippies did to the discovered, convicted and sent to prison. FAIR NEWS COVERAGE IS NECES­ public or police. At the moment, there is a vast undercur­ SARY TO WELL-INFORMED CITI­ Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, World War rent of public unrest, due to the highly ZENS hero and Democratic keynoter, said the dramatic assassinations of men in public life. hippies were throwing plastic bags of human The public wants to do something, to tinker excrement at the police and guards in Grant with the law if necessary. HON. JAMES F. BATTIN Park. They were also throwing rubber balls It is to be remembered, however, that every OF MONTANA stuck with long nails aimed for the eyes. How would those commentators who law is "bought" by society-the individual IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES has to give up some of his liberties in order thought the police "over-reacted" have be­ to obtain a group good. But scientific, ef­ Wednesday, September· 4, 1968 haved if those things had happened to them? ficient lawmaking should see to it that laws Mr. BATTIN. Mr. Speaker, under per­ are "purchased" wisely. The individual should For three straight minutes late Tuesday be called on to give up the fewest number of mission granted, I include the following night, or rather early Wednesday morning, liberties in order to obtain the greatest in the RECORD: 3,000 hippies shouted in unison, directed by public good. No lawmaker should blunder, as [From the Washington (D.C.) Sunday Star, a leader, an obscene curse at the President of many have, into a situation where the indi­ Sep~ 1, 1968] · the United States. They were either cursing the police in the same way or calling them vidual is called on to give up a maximum THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PICTURE amount of liberties in order to obtain a law pigs. And I used to think that insulting an which just won't work. (By Betty Beale} officer was against the law! The public can become emotional and This columnist has just returned from Why was an electronic amplifier allowed to hysterical and cry, "Do something!" But the Chicago-unbloodied, unpelted and even un­ remain in the park all day and night where lawmakers must keep their heads. What they bruised, thanks to the Chicago police. obscenities were shouted unt114 a.m., I asked must do-and do soon-is increase the ef­ It is time one member of the media gave a police officer? There was a city ordnance ficiency of the police and the numbers of the other side of the picture because the against such use, he said, but if they arrested the police, and improve the public attitude public has the right to know. those using it they would only be fined and somebody might be killed in the process. If towards the police. Otherwise the citizen is Never has a law-enforcing group been more going to be pretty much on his own. sorely tried. They received both bodily injury this wasn't underacting, what is? and unspeakably vile treatment from the Mayor Daley was constantly referred to on hippies in Grant Park. Yet never at any time the air in slurring accents as the boss of did I see policemen show more courtesy Chicago. He may be, and he is responsible, no than the police of Chicago. Courtesy, of doubt, for some bad as well as some good. But RABBI HAROLD P. SMITH course, is only due people who show some Chicago is only one city. SOUNDS A WARNING courtesy themselves. Two famous TV commentators were And despite the difficult circumstances to bossing the presentation of slanted news which they had to maintain order they man­ that affected the minds of millions of Ameri­ HON. BARRATT O'HARA aged to prevent fatal catastrophe. cans in hundreds of cities. As Liz Carpenter said at the women's luncheon Thursday, in OF ILLINOIS We heard the word "over-reacted" used a lot by commentators last week, and by all the talk of brutality there had not been IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES busy politicians who were assuming that "one word about the TV network brutality­ what they had been told was correct. the commentator clubbing" of the mayor. Wednesday, September 4, 1968 When the mayor fails to do what the ma­ But if there was ever an over-reaction to jority of the people in Chicago want they ·Mr. O'HARA of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, any fact of life during those seven days in few if any religious leaders are better can at least vote him out. But no vote can Chicago, it was the over-reaction of the stop the bossism of the airwaves where edi­ known among my colleagues in the media to any effort whatsoever to stop the torializing has been substituted again and House than Rabbi Harold P. Smith, of hippies from the flagrant civil disorders and again for straight reporting. One NBC com­ Chicago, who on two occasions has been their disgusting disturbances of the peace. mentator virtually campaigned for Teddy our acting Chaplain, opening with prayer Every time a newsman was hurt, the Kennedy throughout Tuesday evening. our daily session. Several times he has screams of protest went around the world, In the past I have been proud to be a appeared as ·witness and counselor be­ but how much was said about the newsmen member of the Fourth Estate, but after this who taunted the police or tried to get action past week I feel a burning inward shame. fore committees of the House and Sen­ for the TV cameras? A member of the vice In In my mind freedom of the press has always ate. Washington as in Chicago he is president's coterie heard two reporters hav­ been necessary to liberty. The Bible states it held in the highest esteem. ing a great laugh in the Coffee Shop of the most beautifully: "Ye shall know the truth, I am extending my remarks to include Conrad Hilton about how they agitated in and the truth shall make you free." a letter by Rabbi Smith in the "Voice of Grant Park until the police started pushing But how much truth, and how much biased the People" in the Chicago Tribune of them around. opinion are the people, and especially the August 29, 1968, as follows: Wyoming Sen. and Mrs. Gale. McGee and youth of America, getting? their two grown children walked over to the A clean, well-combed, pretty young girl RUSSIA'S ROLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST park to see for themselves what. was going on for Sen. McCarthy was one of five of us who CHICAGO, August 25.-For the last 20 years and they arrived when the changing of the shared a taxi to O'Hare Airport Friday and Russia has been practicing -and perfecting the National Guard troops was taking place. the conversation turned to what the hippies techniques of "shameless sham"-lying, Walking through a gang of hippies they had done to convert the serious business of twisting, distorting-in its never-ceasing at­ saw two girls, one playing the fiute. Then nominating a presidential candidate into a tacks on little Israel in the United Nations. they saw a TV camera team lead the girls over circus of vulgarity. Russia has never forgiven this little democ­ to the exact place by the troops where they Unbelievably, she stood up for the right racy its temerity in defending the lives of its wanted them to stand. And when their of the Grant Park crowd to curse the Presi­ cttizens against attack by foreign powers camera started to roll, the girl cried, "Don't dent in four-letter words. She had no respect .similar to the ones now unleashed on Czech­ beat me! Don't beat me!" It takes no for the highes.t office of our land. oslovakia. imagination to figure how this contrived When one of the men blamed Tom Hayden In the many yesterdays of these 20 years scene would look o~ the screens in millions for leading the youth to such actions, she ·the world has listened with lamentable in­ of American homes. said Tom was all right; he was a friend of difference as Russia excoriated Israel with In the convention hall Mrs. McGee said a hers. ~the same unabashed distortion of faot as to youth of about 15 sat in front ~ of them and I am not familiar with Hayden's record who is the aggressor and who the aggrieved, clapped hard at everything said that he liked but the fact that this young woman sup­ as to who is for justice and freedom and who and shouted four-letter words at everything ported him and his undertaking indica.ted for shameless attack, who is for freedom and he didn't like. Instead of just grabbing him the truth had not reached her as it is not who for subjugation. and removing him, as the police would have reaching millions of young people. If and when a new war in the middle east done in most civilized places, the Chicago Maybe the media had better ask itself breaks out, as well it might, it will be pri- police asked him first to stop it. But he paid why. CXIV--1621-Part 19 2.5726 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 4, 1968 JOHN R. GEHLBACH: MAN OF THE sity School of Business, then was engaged ANTIQUES IN HIS OFFICE MONTH in contract termination and surplus dis­ In his present office between 4 and 5 posal. Discharged in 1946, he had attained years, Gehlbach has it furnished with truly the rank of lieutenant commander. antique furniture. He pointed out two desks HON. WILLIAM L. SPRINGER A civilian again, Gehlbach enrolled at in particular, these being of different-than­ Northwestern University, one of the more ordinary--one having been made at Phila­ OF ILLINOIS prominent of the major law schools. A mem­ delphia more than 125 years ago. In the area IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ber of the class of 1949, he was an editor of antiques, Gehlbach's only regret is that Wednesday, September 4, 1968 of the Northwestern Law Review and received his time does not enable him to give it as a bachelor of laws degree (LL.B) in 1949. much attention as he would like. He moved Mr. SPRINGER. Mr. Speaker, now and After being admitted to the bar by the State the desks into his Pulaski st. office from his then in every community some man of Illinois, Gehlbach became assistant to the former office above the drug store at 427 grows tall as a result of service to his general counsel for Swift & Company in Chi­ Pulaski st. One of them came from the office community, his State, or his country. cago--serving in that capacity for a year. of the late Charles Gehlbach, an uncle of IN PRACTICE SINCE 1951 John's and also an attorney. John R. Gehlbach, an attorney and resi­ Gehlbach is optimistic for the future of dent of Lincoln, Ill., is one of those men. Coming to Lincoln in 1951, he has been the City of Lincoln, believing it will con­ He is not limited in service to his com­ busy in the practice of law since-his office tinue to grow and develop. His work often munity just in the practice of law, but being at 419 Pulaski st. The office building takes him to the Logan County courthouse he has made a varied contribution is relatively new among local business struc­ and the beautification of the lawn he views tures. For 8 years he was assistant attorney as a pace setter for downtown improvements. throughout all of his adult life. general (for the state) in Logan County. Mr. Speaker, I herewith append an The Man of the Month is presently serving LAWYERS ADVISE, PROTECT article by Ken Goodrich, editorial writer a third term as president of Lincoln College Contracts, wills, other legal business mat­ for the Lincoln Daily Courier, with ref­ board of trustees. With others on the board, ters-these are the duties of a lawyer for erence to the great work that has been his goal is to make it "the best of all 2-year his clients. He represents them in court in done by John R. Gehlbach for his com­ colleges." The legal professio;nalist sees a cases where it is necessary and strives dili­ great need in these times for a school like gently to live up to the ethics of his pro­ munity: L. C. where the student receives individual fession. It is a profession requiring years JOHN R. GEHLBACH DOES JUSTICE TO assistance and attention. Gehlbach much of study so that the attorney may be in CoMMUNITY enjoys association with prominent people position to advise and to protect those of the (By Ken Goodrich) who serve on the board from far and wide. public who engage his services. John R. Gehlbach has a zest for life-as In all, he has served 15 years as a trustee. The lawyer's duty is to see that justice is He is a past president of the Kiwanis club done. In the "case" of Atty. John R. Gehl­ well as love of family and home. bach, it is clearly evident that he has done Yet he has found time, interest and in­ of Lincoln ~nd a member of Lincoln Lodge 914, B.P.O. Elks. A member of the Episcopal full justice to serving his community often clination-and still does-to participate and and astutely. be a leader in community activities. church, the lawyer is also affillated with the For his activities and leadership, he is American Legion posts in Lincoln and Elk­ being cited as the July Courier Man of the hart, as well as the Veterans of Foreign Wars· Month. He spent his early years at Beason, here. new resides at Elkhart and is a practicing at­ SERVED ON HOSPITAL BOARD SERGEANT RASH DIES IN VIETNAM torney in Lincoln. Other affiliations include Logan County The lawyer was born Oct. 9, 1920, at and Illinois Bar associations as well as the Beason-the son of the late Frank P. Gehl­ American Judicature Society. The Man of HON. CLARENCE D. LONG bach and Hester Keys-Gehlbach-and bears the Month also belongs to the Sangamo club OF MARYLAND the name of a pioneer family in Logan in Springfield and for two of the three years IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES County. He has a brother, Virgil of Beason; he was on the board of A.L.M. hospital here and a sister, Mrs. Virginia Gleichman of was its vice president. Having a hand in the Wednesday, September 4, 1968 Arlington Heights, Ill., who are twins. An­ finance campaign to erect the house of Mr. LONG of Maryland. Mr. Speaker, other brother is Raymond of Beason. mercy, he is still· a member of the investment committee. S. Sgt. William G. Rash, a marine from MARRIED ON VALENTINE DAY The Red Cross is another organization in Baltimore, was recently killed in action The former Mildred Poole of Lincoln be­ which he has worked, being chairman for in Vietnam. I wish to commend the came Mrs. John R. Gehlbach Feb. 14, 1956, one of the Logan County chapter's financial courage of this young man and to honor in a Valentine Day ceremony at Davenport, campaigns. his memory by including the following Iowa. Their children are-Greta, 9; and John An enthusiastic Republican, Gehlbach is Richard (Rickey) 8, pupils in the grade article in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD: presently treasurer of the Logan County SER.GEANT RASH DIES IN VIETNAM--GITY MA­ school at Elkhart where their father serves on central committee. He has managed the cam­ RINE, 25, WAS NEAR END OF YEAR'S DUTY the board of education. paigns of several candidates in Logan The counselor first went to school at Bea­ County and puts in time for his party be­ A 25-year-old Marine sergeant from Balti­ son grade, then was graduated by Beason cause he believes strongly that citizens more, who was nearing the end of his tour of high school in 1938, As a guard he won a should work for and promote those candi­ duty in Vietnam, has been killed in action, basketball letter as well as editing the school dates who will be good office holders. "Pol­ the Defense Department has announced.. paper. It was in 4-H and Future Farmers of itics is one of my main interests," he told He was S. Sgt. William G. Rash, husband America, however, that his activities were this interviewer. of Mrs. Carol Ann Rash, of Parris Island, S.C. largely centered because of his interest in A platoon leader attached to a reconnais­ agriculture. DRAW MOST FROM LAW sance battalion of the 1st Marine Division, Attorney Gehlbach served as president of It is timely here to observe that the law Sergeant Rash was killed August 21 by an the Illinois F.F.A. and also edited the state is one of the commonest roads to public of­ enemy grenade explosion while on patrol in organization newspaper. As a member of fice. Congress, the state legislatures, and the Quangnam province. administrative branches of government the Beason F.F.A. teams, he exhibited swine, FORTY-FOUR DAYS TO GO cattle and sheep-serving as well on the draw more people from the law than from judging teams. This interest in agriculture any other profession. Most judges have been Sent to Vietnam last year, Sergeant Rash, persists today-the Man of the Month owns lawyers, and the·re are some public offices, who intended to make the Marine Corps his farmland in Logan County. such as prosecutor, or district attorney, career, would have completed his Vietnam which must be held by lawyers. About two of tour of duty only 44 days after he was kUled. ON STAFF OF DAILY ILLINI every three presidents of the United States Sergeant Rash served at Da Nang before After high school, Gehlbach studied for were lawyers prior to being el~.cted President. being assigned to Quangnam. He was two years at the University of Illinois where Interest in reading, antiques, golf and high wounded in action last November. he served on the staff of the Dally Illini­ on the list--work--are given by Gehlbach as His mother, Mrs. L1llian B. Green, of the university newspaper. From the U. of I., he his hobbies. There is also travel-the at­ 1000 block South Baylis street, said yester­ transferred to Carleton College in North­ torney recalls with delight a three-months day that in his letters her son "never said field, Minn., receiving his bachelor of arts pleasure trip to Europe before he came to what was happening over there and never degree as a member of the class of 1942. Lincoln to begin his career in law. talked about what he was going through." During World War II, the attorney put in Both the lawyer and his wife are active Born in Baltimore, Sergeant Rash attended 4¥2 years of Navy service in the Seabees, in Springfield in humanitarian work in the Patterson Park High School before enlisting the construction branch. He was on duty area of cystic fibrosis. It is a disease of the in the Marines in February, 1960. in the Pacific Theatre-in Australia and New pancreas primarily in children. The Gehl­ After training at Parris Island and Camp Guinea for the most part-for the building bachs, with others, are doing their bit to Lejeune, N.C., he served twice in the Medi­ of air bases. While in Navy blue, the M.O.M. both prevent the disease and to assist those terranean area during his first tour of duty. 'studied-for 8 months at the Harvard Univer- who have it, ' Reenlisting in the Marines in 1964, Ser- September 4, 1968 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2572'7 geant Rash attended drill instructors' school available mornings at 31 West 8th Street in Coho--"The glittering success of Michi­ at Parris Island and served there before being Holland. His telephone number is 396-3849. gan's Coho Salmon fishing program is an ex­ sent to Vietnam last year. In Washington my staff and I will be cellent example of a sensible, proper priority In addition to his wife and his mother, pleased to answer your requests. Address your in the investment of public money." Sergeant Rash is survived by his infant letters to: Congressman Guy Vander Jagt, daughter, Kimberly Ann, whom he never saw. 1133 Longworth Building, Washington, D.C. Other survivors include his stepfather, 20515. Telephone: 202-225-3511. George Green; a half brother, George Green, If you are planning a trip to Washington please let us know when you will arrive. CONGRESS RETURNS TO Jr.; a half sister, Miss Nancy Green, and his WASHINGTON maternal grandmother, Mrs. Anna Lorek, of We'll be glad to help you enjoy your visit. Baltimore. MY LEGISLATIVE RECORD ON MAJOR ISSUES Among leaders of successful move to estab­ HON. GEORGE E. BROWN, JR. lish House Code of Ethics. Vote on bill to OF CALIFORNIA MICHIGAN'S NINTH DISTRICT GETS adopt standards of conduct, yes. MID-YEAR REPORT Bill to reduce spending on space program to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES acceptable level of priority, yes. Wednesday, September 4, 1968 Bill to provide stricter law enforcement and HON. GUY VANDER JAGT to research causes of crime, yes. Mr. BROWN of California. Mr. Speak­ Bill to remove controls on major farm er, under unanimous consent I include OF MICHIGAN products, introduced. the text of my most recent report to my IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Bill to restrict loan sharks, yes. constituents at this point· in the RECORD: Wednesday, September 4, 1968 Administration's plan for travel tax on Americans visiting overseas, opposed. CONGRESS RETURNS TO WASHINGTON Mr. VANDER JAGT. Mr. Speaker, this Resolution to re-examine Administration's There is a good deal of work yet to be done week thousands of people in Michigan's conduct of U.S. military effort in Vietnam, in Washington as Congress swings into the Ninth Congressional District are receiv­ yes. final stretch run for 1968, folloWing the ing copies of my mid-year report on the Attempt to abolish freedom-of-information month's recess for the national political con­ committee in House, opposed. ventions. progress made by the House. Bill calling for swift action against water The next month (or more) beiore final The report, which is made to better in­ and air pollution, yes. adjournment will be filled with action on form the people I represent in Congress, Better school lunch program, pesticide re­ conference reports-many currently pending is part of my responsibility as an elected search, national fire prevention, supported. and others that will develop. A conference public official. Bill to help taxpayers go to court against report is the final agreement decided upon I include the following mid-year re­ national government without suffering finan­ by a special committee made up of both Sen­ port in the RECORD: cial loss after winning lawsuit, introduced. ators and Representatives who work to Each week this year I have made public reach compromises where the Senate and REPORT REFLECTS BUSY YEAR IN WASHINGTON statements on major issues. Although copies House have passed differing versions of the Congress has responded to the growing of my views are distributed among news same bill. Both sides are then asked to ap­ needs of the Nation in a responsible manner. media, the general circulation is compara­ prove this agreement in order to ready the Much more work and many landmark de­ tively limited. To better inform the people bill for Presidential signing. cisions are ahead. I represent in Congress highlights of my I have mentioned both the Redwood Na­ Although many problems have been met statements are included in this special mid­ tional Park and the Vocational Education this session, some of the major ones remain year report. conferences elsewhere in this Newsletter. unsolved. For example, the Vietnam War, Travel tax-"Any attempt to isolate the Other conference committee action that is civil unrest and the state of the Nation's people of America from people elsewhere in pending involves appropriations for military finances require the attention of this Con­ the world would be a flagrant display of con­ construction and for the Department of gress. tempt for personal freedom and a poor solu­ Housing & Urban Development and inde­ In the face of pressure Congress refused to tion for a problem that can be solved in a pendent agencies. Also in conference are the be stampeded into passing panic legislation more constructive way." Agricultural Act (farm program), Food after the most tragic violence in our coun­ Poverty-"The poverty program should Stamp authorization, foreign aid, Higher Ed­ try's history erupted across the land. bring hope and opportunity to the poor, ucation amendments, military procurement, Yet, there is a strong need for national place the children of poverty-stricken par­ the Lower Colorado River Basin program government to take the lead in discovering ents at the very top of the priority list, in­ (conferees have reached agreement on this), and curing the causes of civil disobedience volve the poor in the solution of their own and several other smaller bills. All Will have that tortures cities and disrupts peaceful problems, operate with a minimum of admin­ to be resolved before adjournment. existence. istrative expense, help people to help them­ Appropriations, gun control pending Not enough has been done by Congress to: selves through education and training." Needing action yet in both House and Sen­ derail inflation, put the brakes on federal Spending-"Positive national spending ate, With a probable conference following spending, and return more responsibility to priorities are needed now to make our coun­ that, are the Defense Department and for­ the states. try stronger. Spending should be put off for eign aid appropriations. Also, the Senate has Despite the accomplishments of the 90th public works, non-military research, highway not yet acted on the Department of Labor­ Congress there are unsolved problems of air beautification, a supersonic plane and other Health, Education & Welfare appropriations. and water pollution, mass transit, traffic con­ low priority programs." Other legislation pending action, as well­ trol of commercial aviation, an expensive, Air safety-"Congress should move de­ principally in the Senate-is the gun con­ troubled national postal system, housing, cisively to improve, expand, upgrade or do trol bill recently passed by the House, haz­ crime and an exploding federal bureacuracy. whatever is necessary to make the sky safer ardous radiation such as from color TV, the This Congress has earned more respect as for all segments of aviation and the traveling nuclear nonproliferation treaty, and the a public servant. I believe that by and large public." nomination of Supreme Court Justice Abe members of the House are responding to the Civil strife-(Quoting the late Dr. Martin Fortas to become Chief Justice. wishes of their constituents who sent them Luther King: "We must learn to live together By the time this work has been cleared to Washington as representatives in national as brothers or we will perish together as up, the 1968 Session of the 9oth Congress government. fools,") "and now, when nothing seems right will not have to be ashamed of the quantity As your Congressman I serve you with en­ and everything seems dangerously tentative, of work it will have performed, although the thusiasm, and hopefully with courage and there's only one thing America can do, quality of some of what was done may leave imagination in speaking for you in the House, America can earn the right to be proud." something to be desired and certain much keeping you informed and handling your Farming-In introducing a bill to remove needed legislation remains untouched. strangling controls on some agricultural problems involving the national government Accomplishments of 1968 in Washington. products, "We should give farming back to Sincerely, the farmers." On the positive side, Congress has some Truth-"The so-called 'gap' between truth aooomplishments this year that we can be GUY VANDER JAGT, and fiction in some operations of the national Member of Congr ess. very proud of. Perhaps the one that leads government is becoming wider and deeper." all the rest is the Truth-in-Lending law. Elections--"America's ancient, tottering This will require that the full cost of inter­ HIGHLIGHTS OF VIEWS ON ISSUES system of electing Presidents under the be­ est and other charges will have to be shown AT YOUR SERVICE hind-the-times electoral college method clearly and simply in respect to any loan, The 9th District maintains two local offices threatens chaos." mortgage, time payment plan, or revolving to assist you. James Gibson holds office hours Crime fl.ghter-"The American people who credit account. at courthouses throughout the district on a have been served so well by the FBI owe a Another important new law aJ.med at pro­ regular schedule. He can be reached at 4078 debt to J. Edgar Hoover. I,t can be paid by tection of the consumer directs the Secre­ Highgate ln Muskegon, telephone 798-3741. rallying to his side at a time when he is tary of Transportation to conduct a compre­ In Ottawa County Dr. Bruce Raymond is the target of a political barrage." hensive study of all aspects of existing 2572·8 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 4, 1968 automobile insurance procedures, including Congressional District have been tabulated located at the Los Angeles County Fair complaints related to cancellations, bank­ and printed up. I have sent a copy of these Grounds from September 13-29. ruptcies, prices, discriminatory sales prac­ results to each of the persons who replied to The Van contains an animated schematic tices, etc. the questionnaire. model of a nuclear engine, models of nuclear Shop with confidence If anyone who did not receive a copy of the propelled submarines including a cutaway Another consumer protection law passed results is interested in seeing them, please model of a polaris submarine, and surface this year is the Wholesome Poultry Produots write to me at the House of Representatives, ship models including the U.S.S. Enterprise Act, which provides for poultry inspection Washington, D.C., and I will see that they the world's first nuclear powered aircraft comparable to the meat inspection law are maHed immediately. carrier. passed last year. The grocery shopper can MUCH OF CALIFORNIA' S REDWOODS IN DANGER TV VIOLENCE STUDY BILL INTRODUCED feel much safer in purchasing both meat One of the disappointments here in Con­ A proposal which I introduced recently and poultry as a result of the Federal in­ gress recently was the totally inadequate calls for a comprehensive study and investi­ spection systems that will be set up under version of the Redwood National Park pro­ gation of the effects on viewers of the dis­ these new programs. posal that the House of Representatives play of violence in television programs. Police force aid valuable passed. 'Dhe Senate had already passed a bill We cannot be sure that the increase in The Omnibus Crime Control Act is an­ for a larger park, and a conference commit­ violence in the United States is directly con­ other landmark piece of legiSilation, provid­ tee will meet in September to try and come nected even in part with the increase in ing aid to state and local law enforeement back with a pBirk plan that will satisfy a ma­ violence in our television programs until we agencies to make improvements in their jority of both Senate and House. review every aspect of this possibility. ability to prevent and control crime and In the end, I voted against the House bill The resolution I introduced would direct the FCC to consider whether there is a "con­ riots. in order to display my dissatisfaction with The Crime Control law also included the the proposal we were asked to approve. nection between the display of violence in I have now urged the conferees to oome television programs and the attitudes of tele­ prohibition of mail order sales of handguns, vision viewers toward violence," to develop and will be supplemented by the pending back to the House with the 64,000 acre plan that the Senate passed, and I feel sure that policies regarding such displays of violence completion of the bill to control the sale of on television, and to make recommendations riiles and shotguns. Minors are also pre­ the House would accept it. After all, because of the way the matter was brought to the to Congress concerning these policies. vented from obtaining guns under these Extensive hearings were held in the Sen­ bills. Floor, there was no opportunity for amend­ ments of any kind. It was "take it or leave it." ate Juvenile Delinquency Subcommittee in The Lower Colorado River Basin plan and the early 1960's and the conclusion was that the Redwood National Park legislation which At this point, the Senate version is the only Redwood National Park plan left that would extensive violence existed in television pro­ I mentioned above are both, of course, of gramming and that this violence had a sig­ vital interest to Californians. Basically, we make any sense at all for COngress to approve. It is obvious that the lumber companies niflcent impact on the behavior of those who must be assured in Southern California that -watched it. future development of the river will not de­ won the battle on the House side, with a prive us of at least the 4.4 million acre feet great deal of irretrievable, majestic redwood HONORARY DEBATER guarantee whioh we have been holding out acreage slated for the woodman's saw 1f we Photo caption: I was pl~asantly surprised for. cannot prevail upon the Senators and Rep­ recently to be made an honorary member of There are these and many other accom­ resentatives who make up the conference the Mark Keppel High School chapter of the plishments by Congress this year and I am committe to recommend something very close National Forensic League. The picture shows proud to be able to say that I had a part in to the Senate-passed version. Miss Jana Waring, president of the chapter, them, even though I feel strongly that we CMAA AWARDS GIVEN presenting me with a certificate of member­ should have done a great deal more in the ship. Many people do not realize it but Con­ Photo caption: Film star Ricardo Mental­ gressmen are a great source of supply for way of solving some of the problems of un­ ban, District Attorney Evelle Younger, Con­ rest and decay in our inner cities. One plan materials for high school and college debate gressman Edward R. Roybal, and I were all teams. that I will work very hard for next year is the given plaques in appreciation of our work in Full Employment Opportunity Act, which I our respective fields by the Council of Mexi­ SAN GABRIEL POST OFFICE have joined in sponsoring and which is de­ can-American Affairs recently. I am shown Photo caption: I turned the first shovel­ signed to create a million jobs-one of the above with Hontalban, and CMAA President ful of earth at the groundbreaking ceremony most immediate and direct methods we can Charles Samaria (center). for the new 25,000 square foot wing of the use to help eliminate poverty. San Gabriel Post Office. Pictured, from left HEADSTART MOVE UNWISE CONGRESS ACTS ON "HISPANIC HERITAGE" AND to right, are San Gabriel Postmaster Charles VETS BENEFITS A surprise move in the Senate to transfer Elgar, Congressman Glen Lipscomb's as­ the administration of the Head Start pro­ sistant William H. Byers, myself, and San I was quite proud to have further Congres­ gram from the Office of Economic Oppor­ Gabriel Mayor Michael Falabrino. sional action taken on two bills which I was tunity to the Department of Health, EduCa­ FEDERAL COMPENSATION FOR POLICE, FIREMEN the sole or principal sponsor of 'following my tion and Welfare is most undesirable in my discussion of both of these proposals in the opinion. I have also introduced a bill recently that last issue of this Newsletter. An amendment proposed by California would assure all policemen and firemen who The House of Representatives passed H.J. Senator George Murphy to make this trans­ might be k1lled or totally disabled in their Res. 1299, which is designed to give recogni­ fer was added to the Vocational Education daily line of duty of compensation benefits tion to the role and influence of Spanish sur­ bill which the House of Representatives had for themselves or their survivors. named persons in United States history. The previously passed. Since that time, Secretary The bill is an extension of a law that Con­ resolution is now pending in the Senate, has .of HEW Wilbur Cohen and Office of Educa­ gress passed earlier this year that would been wholeheartedly supported and now co­ tion Commissioner Harold Howe II have both provide similar death or disab111ty benefits sponsored by Senator Joseph Montoya expressed their opposition to such a switch. for just police officers who are injured or (N. Mex.), and there is every possibility of Also, Chairman Carl Perkins, House Commit­ killed while enforcing Federal laws only. getting early Senate action when Congress tee on Education and Labor, is strongly op­ The criminal who shoots a policeman or returns to worlt on September 4th. sets a fire that injures a fireman in Los The plan would be to authorize the Presi­ poGed to the move. The Vocational Education bill will be taken Angeles might have just arrived from Chi­ dent to proclaim the week which includes cago, or the intended victim whom the Mexican Independence Days (Sept. 15-16) as up by a conference committee in September, and I have indicated to Chairman Perkins policeman is protecting might be a visitor National Hispanic Heritage Week, so the from New York. quickest possible action in the Senate is that I would like to have him add my strong objections to his in this regard. I am reason­ Therefore, to restrict the application of necessary. these benefits to cases in which the viola­ The second proposal which moved through ably hopeful that this poorly conceived amendment will be removed from the bill tion just happens to concern a Federal law the legislative process was my bill to au­ does not recognize the fact that we are a thorize vocational rehabilitation training on at that time. To make the Head Start program simply very mobile civ111zation now. a part-time basis for veterans with service­ If the bill becomes law, a widow would connected disabilities. It has now been signed another routine school program, which is what would happen, with all of the innova­ receive 45% of the amount of her deceased into law by the President. I previously an­ husband's wages until such time as she re­ nounced that the House had passed it. tive features and involvement by parents removed, would be a serious blow to what has married. If there are dependent children, Previously, veterans had to participate in the widow would receive 40% and each this program on a full-time basis or not at become to be generally recognized as one of the most successful of the various anti­ child would get 15%, up to a maximum of all. It is not fair to force a veteran to either 75% of the former salary. give up a job he already has in order to train poverty programs. In cases of total disability, two-thirds of for a better job-or, on the other hand, to give NAVY NUCLEAR ENGINE DISPLAY AT COUNTY up his entitlement to this training. the previous monthly salary would be paid FAIR to the injured fireman or policeman, with QUESTIONNAIRE RESULTS The Nuclear Power Van, which is a walk­ benefits being raised to 75% where there The results to my 1968 questionnaire con­ through exhibit portraying the U.S. Navy's were dependents. cerning the views of the residents of the 29th use of nuclear power, is scheduled to be When a public safety officer risks life and September 4, 1968 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25729 limb, his risk is for the nation-whether August 8, to be printed in the CoN­ them on our part. People-to-people programs a Federal law is involved or not. GRESSIONAL RECORD: can help eliminate the suspicions. Hopefully, other states will follow Maine's good ex·a.mple. YOU MUST BE REGISTERED TO VOTE NOVEMBER 5 STATEMENT BY GOV. KENNETH M. CURTIS You must register if you- With me today are men who have done so 1. have never registered to vote in Ca11- much to make our Maine partners of the forn1a before. Alliance Program probably the most suc­ 2. have moved since you last registered to cessful of its kind in the Nation. THE LATE HONORABLE ELMER J. vote. They are here because we want to an­ HOLLAND 3. did not vote in the 1966 Election. nounce that in January the castine train­ 4. have changed your name since last ing ship "State of Maine" will put into registering. port in Brazil to discharge a cargo of hos­ HON. DANTE B. FASCELL You can register at most post offices in pital and educational supplies for the state of OF FLORIDA Los Angeles County. Rio Grande do NoTte .•. Maine's sister State Last day to register September 12. in the Alliance. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The ship, more than 350 Maine Maritime Wednesday, September 4, 1968 Academy Cadets, plus a crew of 35 officers, leave on January 3 for a three months' Mr. FASCELL. Mr. Speaker, a very GOVERNOR CURTIS' CONTRIDU­ cruise of the Caribbean and the east coast great and good man has passed away of South America. this summer, a man who was truly a TION TO THE PARTNERS OF THE This will be a regular training cruise, with ALLIANCE PROGRAM the stopover at Rio Grande do Norte very man of the people whom he represented. similar to the other ports of call on the I believe that is how ELMER J. HOLLAND cruise. will be remembered, as· one who gave of HON. PETER N. KYROS But, Admiral Rodgers assures me he has himself heart and soul all his life fol­ OF MAINE plans to set up some people-to-people pro­ lowing the Gospel's command to "love grams during the stopover there. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES thy neighbor." He will be remembered I am quite proud of the way this Maine not only for what he did, but for wha,t Wednesday, September 4, 1968 Partners of the Alliance Program has been operating since it was formed about a year he was-a kind man, beloved by all who Mr. KYROS. Mr. Speaker, early last ago. knew him for his warmth and loyalty, month, during the recess of the Congress, Last year when I visited that State for and for his sensitivity to the needs and Gov. Kenneth M. Curtis, of Maine, held the first time with the original team of feelings of others. He was a courageous a press conference to announce a unique Maine partners I was impressed with some man, too, one who, as he once said of of the dire needs of Rio Grande do Norte, himself, "loved a good fight." contribution by the State of Maine to the and some of resources that state had. Partners of the Alliance program. Gov­ Since then we have sent several groups of He dedicated himself completely to ernor Curtis announced that the Maine persons there, and a few weeks ago a team the public welfare; he sacrificed much Maritime Academy training ship, the of highway people from the state came here for his country. A decorated veteran of State of Maine, will leave in January for to work with our State Highway Depart­ two world wars, he was a true patriot a 3-month training cruise in the Carib­ ment. who fought not only to defend our coun­ bean and has scheduled a visit at Maine's We have entertained leaders of that State's try but also to make it a better place in partner State of Rio Grande do Norte cultural fields and government. which to live. After a career as both a in northeast Brazil. And we have plans to do even more. business executive and as a union rep­ As a means of creating better under­ [From the Lewiston Daily Sun, Aug. 8, 1968] resentative, he served eight terms in the standing among the peoples of the two MAINE's SPECIAL AMBASSADORS Pennsylvania Assembly, four in the partner States, the ship will carry a dis­ Maine is living up to its motto, Dirlgo, in house and four in the senate. play of Maine products, and as a con­ its work for the Partners of the Alliance Representative HoLLAND first came to tribution to self-help local projects in Program. There have been many contacts Congress in 1942, when he was elected to the State of Rio Grande do Norte, the during the past year with our "sister state" of fill an unexpired term. In 1956 he again crew will unload a cargo of hospital and Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. And come won a special election to fill a vacant seat educational supplies destined for small winter, Maine wlll be sending special am­ in the House, and he was reelected to clinics and schools in rural areas of that bassadors to the south American state, a every succeeding Congress. As the years whole shipload of them I Brazilian State. Gov. Kenneth M. Curtis disclosed at a news passed, the creative genius of this great Mr. Speaker, though the visit of the conference this week that the Maine Mari­ humanitarian inspired much compas­ training ship is a first for any of the 37 time Academy train1ng ship, the State of sionate legislation that became the law States participating in the Partners of Maine, will make a stopover of several days of our land. ELMER HoLLAND was one of the Alliance program with 15 Latin at Rio Grande do Norte while on its three the early advocates of medicare. As rank­ American countries, it is but another in months' training cruise to the Caribbean. ing member of the House Education and There will be 350 cadets and 35 officers aboard a series of activities carried out between and they will take part in sports and other Labor Committee, he championed the the citizens of the State of Maine and prognmu; with the residents of our sister raising of minimum wages, liberalization the State of Rio Grande do Norte. Tech­ sta.te. of Federal employee compensation provi­ nicians from Maine have visited Brazil The special Maine ambassadors wlll bring sions, lowering of the minimum age for to assist private groups in a wide range a ca.rgo of hospital and educational supplies social security benefits, raising the stand­ of activities involving business, edum:i­ to Rio Grande do Norte, as well as a display ards of mine safety, and establishing the tion, agriculture, and medicine. In re­ of Maine products for viewing on board while 35-hour workweek. He was ready always turn, specialists from Rio Grande do the State of Maine lies at anchor in the to speak for the weak and helpless, the harbor. Norte have been in Maine to enrich the Oomblning a visit to our sister state with most humble workers, the disabled or the teaching of Portuguese and the arts. The the annual train1ng cruise was novel and aged. program activities between these two imaginative. We agree with Gov. Ourtis that It was Congressman HoLLAND who was partners are steadily increasing in tempo it will make the cruise doubly productive for first drawn to the plight of the thou­ and the spirit of their cooperation is be­ the state. It certainly will add a lot of in­ sands of workers whose jobs have been coming an example which many other terest for the young cadets. replaced in the inevitable process of auto­ The Partners of the Alliance Program is It partner States are emulating. The basic designed to promote people-to-people inter­ mation. was his plea that was first concept of the Partners of the Alliance changes. Gov. Curtis and a team of Maine heard for a program of training and program demands reciprocity between partners visited the Brazilian state last year rehabilitation to give men marketable the partners. The cooperation and mu­ as the first step in the active sister-state skills to replace those no longer needed. tual interest being displayed by the State projec·t. There have been other visitations in Out of his sympathy and determination of Maine and the State of Rio Grande both directions and more are planned. Our ~me the Manpower Development and de Norte are, indeed, strengthening the special ambassadors will give the program a Training Act of 1962. Conceived, written, entire partners program in the hemi­ big boost. and sponsored by Congressman HoLLAND, There long has been need for better under­ sphere. standing between the United States and the this landmark legislation will stand as Mr. Speaker, I insert the statement of countries of Latin Ameri-ca. For years, they a triumphant monument to a man who Governor Curtis, together with an edi­ have been suspicious of the Colossus of the never failed to heed the cries for help torial from the Lewiston Daily Sun for North, despite the many attempts to help of his fellow men. 25730 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 4, 1968 His death is a great loss to Congress I am proud of the citizens of my native In view of the cruel and disheartening and to the country; he will be sorely land. They have resisted and are resisting occupation of Czechoslovakia by military boldly. I am moved to tears by the courage forces of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw missed. His life was an inspiring por­ of the Czechoslovak youth. I fear for their Pact countries, I urge that asylum M1d refuge trayal of the noblest and most patriotic lives and safety. be extended to all Czechoslovak nationals ideals of civic and humanitarian re­ In the name of humanity we call today to currently visiting the United States. sponsibility. May the memory of ELMER the entire world: HoLLAND, man and citizen, be held · in Help the Czecho~lovak people! The young Czechoslovak nationals are reverence for generations of Americans Help a people whose democratic traditions those most interested in seeking political to come. date several centuries! asylum since they are unwilling to accept Help humanity! the new restrictions imposed by the Help democracy I Soviet Union with the new regime. Many of the older, married couples were re­ PROTEST RALLY AGAINST COMMU­ RESOLUTION NIST INVASION OF CZECHOSLO­ luctant to ask for asylum since they have (Adopted by the assembly at the protest rally children who remain in Czechoslovakia. VAKIA against the Communist invasion of Czecho­ slovakia--American Committee for the I have directed three specific cases con­ Liberation Of czechoslovakia) cerning political asylum to the attention HON. WILLIAM E. MINSHALL- We, the citizens of Greater Cleveland, here of the Secretary of State. OF OHIO gathered, do condemn, solemnly and publicly, It is my hope that the President can make an early determination on the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES before the conscience of the entire world, the brutal, ruthless and unprovoked aggres­ question of granting political asylum so Wednesday, September 4, 1968 sion of the Soviet Union and its all1es against that these young people may know how Mr. MINSHALL. Mr. Speaker, on Fri­ the Republic of Czechoslovakia; to plan their future. We deplore this invasion as a flagrant viola­ day, August 23, I was privileged to join a tion of all the canons of decency and protest rally held at Bohemian National mutual self-respect which govern the rela­ Hall in Cleveland by the American Com­ tionship between men and nations; REGIS~R AND VOTE mittee for the Liberation of Czecho­ We hold this action as an outrage against slovakia. the principles of sovereignty and self-deter­ It was a moving occasion in which all mination espoused in the United Nations HON. GEORGE E. BROWN, JR. of us pledged our united efforts to the Charter of which the Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary and Bulgaria are signatories; OF CALIFORNIA cause of a self-determination for that We fear for tl}e life and safety of the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES courageous little nation. Czechoslovak political leaders and all those Wednesday, September 4, 1968 I include in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD active and committed to the reform move­ the magnificent speech given by Martin ment; Mr. BROWN of California. Mr. Hrabik, the distinguished president of We fear for the life and safety of the Speaker, I have again urged the resi­ the committee, and of the resolution common people who have supported the dents of my district to register and vote. adopted by the assembly at the rally: liberation drive; We all know that this is the one sure We fear for the spark of liberty and democ­ way we have of maintaining democracy SPEECH OF MARTIN HRABIK, PRESIDENT, AMER­ racy which have been ignited in Czecho­ ICAN COMMITTEE FOR LIBERATION OF CZECHO­ slovakia; in the United States. For those of my SLOVAKIA, AUGUST 23, 1968 However, most of all remembering the colleagues who might be interested, I [Translated from Czech] tragic fate of the Ukrainians, Lithuanians, place the card sent to my constituents at Honorable guests, brothers and sisters, we Latvians and Estonians, we fear for the exist­ this point in the RECORD: are gathered here today at the very time ence and survival of the Czechoslovak Repub­ DEAR FRIEND: Again we approach another when the Czechoslovakians are attempting lic as a national entity. important election. Throughout the world to stop Soviet tanks with nothing else but Therefore, today, and even in our own United States, their bare hands and their own bodies. On the We call upon the United Nations; individuals are fighting for the precious right television screen of the entire world, we see We call upon each and every freedom loving to vote. As an American citizen you have a the united and spontaneous resistance of the nation in the Americas, in Africa, in Europe right and a duty to vote. Congress has ex­ Czechoslovak people against the invaders. and Asia; pressed its intent that every citizen should The ink has barely dried and the friendship We call upon the President and the Con­ vote. If you are not registered, do so now! treaties of Cierna and Bratislava which guar­ gress of the United States of America; The deadline to register for voting in the anteed the Czechoslovaks the right to con­ We call upon each and every American November 5th general election is September duct their internal affairs as they saw fit, and City; 12th!!! already the forces of the signatories repre­ We call upon men of peace and good will Sincerely, senting a population of about three hundred not to let a small nation of 14 million, which GEORGE E. BROWN, Jr., m1llion have attacked and occupied the small desires nothing more than to conduct its own Member of Congress. Czechoslovak Republic. affairs in business, honor and freedom to be You must be registered by September 12th The Soviet Union without regard to its in­ annihilated by the overwhelming force of in order to vote on November 5th. ternational obligation and to the most fun­ its enemies. damental laws of human decency is destroy­ We implore all to spare no effort to effect WHO IS ELIGIBLE TO VOTE? ing the only Socialist government in the the immedia-te withdrawal of the Warsaw You are eligible to vote if, on election day, world which has the absolute support and Pact troops from the Czechoslovak Republic. you are: A citizen of the U.S., 21 years of confidence of its citizens. By this action the age, registered to vote, and have been a resi­ Soviet Union has shattered the solidarity of dent of California for one year, Los Angeles the international Communist movement. County for 90 days, and your precinct for This solidarity has been a 50-year old aim of CZECHOSLOVAKIAN NATIONALS IN 54 days. Soviet diplomacy. The cynical declarations of CLEVELAND AREA WHO SHOULD REGISTER? the representative of the U.S.S.R. to the Persons who: Untted Nations, Ambassador Malik, have onlJ 1. Have not registered in California before; confirmed the hypocrisy and wickedness of HON. CHARLES A.' VANIK 2. Have moved, changed your name legally, Moscow. This unhumane act has forever de­ OF OHIO or wish to change your political party affilia­ stroyed the traditional sympathy the Czech tion; and Slovak people have had for their Russian IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 3. Failed to vote in the November, 1966, brethren. This invasion has also buried any Wednesday, September 4, 1968 General Elections. hope that the Czechoslovak Communists may You can register at many post offices, city have had about the feasib111ty of humanizing Mr. VANIK. Mr. Speaker, in the last halls, many food markets, Registrar of Voters and democratizing Socialism. It has also un­ several days, I have been contacted by office, or call one of the numbers below for veiled the true intentions of the Kremlin's over 40 Czechoslovakian nationals, cur­ information concerning deputy registrars in foreign policies. Today the example of Czech­ rently visiting the greater Cleveland area your neighborhood. oslovakia clearly demonstrates to the leaders on visitor's visas, concerning their status Registrar of Voters, 808 N. Spring St., Los of the free world the value of Soviet Inter­ and political asylum in the United States. Angeles, Phone: 628-9211, Ext. 63231. national agreements and commitments. If 288-4804 (Monterey Park) anyone today were to put trust in the peace­ In view of the number of people desir­ 263-9622 (East Los Angeles) ful and democratic aims of the Soviet Union, ing assistance in obtaining political asy­ 443-4332 (El Monte) he must capitulate before the overwhelming lum, I have sent the following telegram 256-2211 (Highland Park) logic of the Czechoslovak experience. to the President of the United States: 482-4500 (Los Angeles) September 4, 1968 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25731 663-1195 (Griffith Park Blvd.) "I wonder if anybody has thought what the fact of life in today's America, to an extent 263-9308 (East Los Angeles) situation of comparatively small nations that most foreigners can only dream about. 262-9036 (East Los Angeles) would be if there were not in existence a Five million more American families own 573-1554 (San Gabriel) United States-with a heritage of democracy stock than in 1963, while 23 million more 622-1527 (Sunset Blvd.) and a willingness to see that small nations have savings accounts. who otherwise might not be able to protect Home ownership has gone up from 33 mil­ themselves are given some shield. Imagine lion families to 37 million since 1960. Multi­ what the situation in the world would be if car ownership has gone up from 9.5 million to 14.7 million, and 94 per cent of all Amer­ BLESSINGS OF AMERICA FAR OUT­ there were not a great and giant country pre­ pared to make those sacrific~s." ican families have at least one television WEIGH DISADVANTAGES Today, despite its supposed "weakness," the set--often two-in the house. United States towers over the globe as no What passes for poverty in America is seen other power in history ever has been able by many foreigners as an acceptable stand­ HON. JOHN J. McFALL to do. · ard of living. OF CALIFORNIA American capital investment in Europe One visitor from Europe told of meeting a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES comes to about 16 billion dollars. Predic­ woman in the LoUisiana "back country." She tions are heard that U.S. industry on that was sitting on the porch of her wooden shack, Wednesday, September 4, 1968 continent soon will become the world's third­ and wore an old shirt, faded blue jeans and Mr. McFALL. Mr. Speaker, in these largest economic power-after America itself sneakers. She described herself as "poor." days of instant communication and the and Soviet Russia. Yet, this visitor noted, an automobile was Not only in terms of political power, but parked in the yard, and the kitchen was constant search for sensational happen­ in culture, the "American way of life" is equipped with the latest electrical devices. ings to report on television, radio, and in turning up everywhere. The visitor remarked later: other news media, a rather distorted Even in Communist countries, young peo­ "The distinction between poverty and well­ picture of America has emerged. ple are playing "rock" music. The light being in the United States is far less clear It is heartening, therefore, when a pub­ luncheon favored by American businessmen than in Europe. Telling a millionaire from a lication of nationwide circulation adds up is making heavy inroads on the Parisian person of middle income by the clothing he some of the good things about our coun­ cuisine. wears or the foOd he eats is almost impossible Not long ago President Lyndon B. Johnson here." try and publishes results that show the took issue with those who say that the U.S. PRODUCTION MIRACLE blessings preponderantly overshadow the is "sick." He said: "America, I believe, is es­ What has enabled the American middle comparatively few drawbacks. sentially healthy [and] is getting healthier." class to mushroom so rapidly-reducing the The editors of U.S. News & World Re­ STORY OF PROGRESS ranks of the very poor and very rich-is an port in the issue of September 2 have per­ economic revolution that is unmatched in A wide range of arguments can be mar­ history. formed an excellent service in presenting shaled to support the view that the U.S., if the article, "The Good Things About the not living in the "best of times," is far from In the past seven years the total output of United States Today." moving toward the "worst of times." goods and services-the gross national prod­ uct-in terms of 1968 dollars has gone up It is important that we recognize and In the U.S. itself, steady progress is being by 254 billion dollars. That gain, itself, is give full credit to accomplishments of made on a broad front toward a solution of larger than the total output of the nation in the American people during recent years major problems. This is ooing done in the 1937, or the total output of any other nation to make this a better land and a better energetic and experimental way of Americans. in the world today except the Soviet Union. world, in my estimation. I therefore com­ As just one example-- Statistics tell the story of U.S. strength in Quietly, behind the scenes of racial strife economic terms as follows: mend the article to those who may not that draw world scorn, Negroes-by the hun­ have had an opportunity to read it. The America, with 7 per cent of the world's dreds of thousands every year-are moving land area and 6 per cent of its population, ac­ article follows: out of poverty into the ranks of the middle counts for one third of the world's prOduc­ [From the U.S. News & World Report, Sept. class. In the past two years, President John­ tion of goods and services. 2,1968) son said, more Negroes and other nonwhites Its farmlands produce 13 per cent of the have risen above poverty than in all the pre­ world's wheat, 46 per cent of its corn and THE GOOD THINGS ABOUT THE UNITED STATES vious six years combined. TODAY 21 per cent of its meat-enough to feed 200 Since 1960, the number of Negro families million Americans and much of the world At home and abroad, America now is being earning more than $7,000 a year has more pictured as an ailing giant. besides. than doubled. Median income of the Negro Its factories produce a flow of goods almost Racial strife, student anarchy, a rising family has gone up from $3,233 in 1960 to wave of crime, dissent over the war in Viet­ equal in size to the combined output of the $4,900. Soviet Union and Western Europe. nam-these and other troubles are leading Reason for this is that a larger number of many in the world to conclude that the In electrical production, the U.S. figure of Negroes are getting jobs-and better jobs 1.3 trillion kilowatt-hours in 1967 came to United States is on the road to decline and too. ' downfall. one third of the world's output, and exceed­ Yet a close look at the facts of life in Between 1963 and 1967, the number of ed the combined capacity of the Soviet the America of today turns up quite different Negroes hired for professional, technical and Union, Western Europe and Japan put to­ conclusions. The nation's strengths are found managerial jobs rose 35 per cent. Total Negro gether. to be great and varied. employment rose 20 per cent. U.S. automobile factories produced 7.4 Below the surface turmoil, a peaceful revo­ Educationally, the Negro-white gap in million passenger cars in 1967, or 41 per cent lution is transforming not only the economy school years completed has narrowed from of the world output. Of the 149 million cars but the social structure. Never, in the past, an average of two years in 1960 to six months in use throughout the world, about 78 mil­ has a society offered so much prosperity to so at present. And statistics show that a U.S. lion-or 53 percent-are found on American many of its people. Negro is more likely to go on to college than streets or highways. Far from being a "sick" society, Americans is any citizen of any Western European coun­ Per capita disposable income in America, in the majority are showing themselves to be try except France. as of 1967, came to $2,744, or 45 per cent strong and morally responsible. The racial upheaval, taking place -peace­ more than per capita income in Canada and They are spending billions to erase pov­ fully behind outward turmoil, is only part the United Kingdom, and 70 per cent more erty in the nation-and more billions to help of the nation's transformation in recent than in France. other nations. years. A RUGGED DOLLAR It is the nuclear defense system main­ RISE FROM POVERTY For years, many of the world's economists tained by the United States that is pro­ Altogether, more than 14 million Ameri­ have been unable to believe that prosperity viding security for much of the world. cans have left poverty behind them during of this sort could last. Dire warnings have American troops drove Communist invaders the past seven years. been heard about the dangers of inflation, as out of South Korea, kept the peace in Leb­ Latest estimates indicate that the propor­ well as the drain of U.S. dollars abroad which anon and staved off a Communist take­ tion of families earning $7,000 or more an­ puts pressure on gold reserves. over in South Vietnam. nually, in terms of 1966 dollars, had risen Yet, between 1957 and 1967, currency of SUCCOR TO WORLD from 22 per cent in 1950 to about 55 per cent the United States declined in purchasing U.S. aid, flowing generously overseas since in 1966. And last year, for the first time, power by only 16 per cent-as against 21 per 1945, rescued Western Europe from the brink median family income reached $8,000 a year. cent for the West German mark, 24 per cent of anarchy after World War II and averted Meanwhile, the proportion of families for the Swiss franc and 32 per cent for the famine in India. Now it is generating social earning under $5,000 a year, in terms of 1966 Swedish k~ona, supposedly among the world's revolutions in many of the world's small dollars, had dropped from 58 per cent in 1950 stronger currencies. nations. to about 28 per cent. Result: Year by year, the dollar remains Recently Australia's Prime Minister John Socially and politically, the result is that the only currency in which world trade can Gorton said: the middle class is becoming ~he dominant be carried on with confidence. And despite 25732 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 4, 1968 the large outflow of gold in recent years, the the nation doubled in dollar volume, and would pay the $17,500 needed by a Mexican­ U.S. still holds one quarter of the world's may have doubled again since then. A "pa­ American woman for a kidney transplant and reserves. perback explosion" has brought popularity follow-up treatment. Beginning to dawn on leading thinkers in America and overseas to such widely dif­ A spirit of philanthropy, even with growth abroad is the discovery that America's eco­ ferent poets and novelists as Joseph Heller, of Social Security, continues to be a major nomic power, far from declining, is pushing Allen Ginsberg and John Updike. University strength of America. ahead to even more dominance in the world. presses, alone, have multiplied sales five The so-called American conscience last A French intellectual, Jean-Jacques Ser­ times since 1948. year prompted private spending of more van-Schreiber, says this in his just-published Such artists as the late Jackson Pollock, than 14 billion dollars on worthy causes. book, "The American Challenge": and representatives of the new school of More than three fourths of this huge sum "During the past 10 years, roughly from Western painters, are being widely imitated came from private individuals. The rest was the end of the cold war and the launching of in Western Europe. donated by business firms and foundations. the first sputnik, American power has made Musically, American composers are getting Each year, more than 50 minion Ameri­ an unprecedented leap forward. It has un­ wide attention, not only in jazz and "rock" cans donate time to charity. They collect dergone a violent and productive internal but in serious music. money door to door, bake pies for church revolution. Technological innovation has Cities such as Cleveland and Boston have bazaars and volunteer services at play­ now become the basic objective of economic orchestras that are world famous, and across grounds in the slums. policy. In America today the government the nation are hundreds of amateur and MONEY IGNORED official, the industrial manager, the econom­ youth symphonies performing music simply ics professor, the engineer, and the scientist because they like to. Youth, too, is caught up in the American habit of helping neighbors. Said a Florida have joined forces to develop coordinated WIDE MAP FOR CULTURE techniques for integrating factors of pro­ educator: It is this decentralization of culture that "A tremendous number of today's young­ duction." impresses many foreigners visiting the coun­ The author concludes: sters simply aren't interested in making a try for the first time. lot of money. Their first aim is to be of serv­ "America today still resembles Europe­ They find topflight opera being produced with a fifteen-year head start. She belongs ice, their second is to live a 'satisfying' life." in Santa Fe, N.M., and the Shakespeare Fes­ Tens of thousands of college youngsters to the same industrial society. But in 1980 tival in Ashland, Oreg., draws critics from America will have entered another world, this summer are working in the slums of Europe as well as New York. The town of the big cities as volunteer social workers and if we fail to catch up, the Americans Cherokee, Ia., offers its 8,000 people not only will have a monopoly on know-how, science and tutors. Eighteen graduate students in a museum of fine arts but classes in painting architecture from Yale University are build­ and power." and sculpture. 1 ing a camp for underprivileged children of PASSION FOR EDUCATION People of the U.S. are shown in a recent New York City. Schoolchildren in New Jer­ Back of this economic revolution is found Gallup Poll in 12 countries to be more du­ sey are collecting money, clothing and. an educational system unparalleled in the bious about the basic health of their nation schoolbooks for children of Inigrant workers. world. than are the people of the 11 other countries Over the years, observers from Alexis de Today Americans are the best-educated about the health of their nations. Tocqueville onward have noted the inces­ people the world has ever known. More Yet there is considerable evidence that the sant drive of Americans for self-improve­ Americans-50 per cent--have finished sec­ large majority of Americans continue to ment. Dr. Daniel Bell, chairman of Colum­ ondary school than any other people. No frown on drug-taking, sexual promiscuity and bia. University's department of sociology, other nation comes even close to matching cheating. The nude frolics of "Hair," a recent wrote: the 6.5 million students enrolled in U.S. col­ Broadway musical hit, appear unlikely to "The great thrust of the American char­ leges and universities. That figure rperesents match in longevity the traditional Yiddish acter-the urge, the compulsion to strike out 3.3 per cent of the nation's population, com­ humor of "Fiddler on the Roof," a smash suc­ on one's own, to cut away from the father pared with 1 per cent in France, the nearest cess for four years. And Americans, more and and even to surpass him-has been one of competitor in Western Europe. more, seem inclined to spend their money on the richest of the sources of dynamism in Altogether, the American passion for learn­ such hardy pursuits as skiing, camping and American life." ing enlists about 60 million people at the sailing-not on "fun" clubs and night life. Today it is commonplace to read of in­ present time, ranging almost from cradle to Nor is there visible evidence that religion stances such as a 63-year-old accountant's grave. no longer plays an important role in shaping plodding toward a college degree, one three­ Youngsters of three and four are enrolled the nation's goals and ideals. hour course at a time, or of a. retired busi­ in "Head Start" and other nurseries. Business Last year Gallup Polls found that 45 per nessman taking up a new interest-flying an firms are sending young executives back to cent of all Americans attended church during airplane. the campus for postgraduate courses-and a typical week, and 70 per cent thought Similarly, a French philoshopher noted: senior executives go to seminars such as that religion "very important." Furthermore, de­ "To make life simpler in an increasingly at Aspen, Colo., to thresh out the nation's spite the publicity that has been given in complicated world is an American art." larger problems not only in terms of econ­ recent years to "God is dead" theology, 97 That art is making it possible, as one in­ omy, but in history and philosophy. per cent of adult Americans indicated a be­ stance, for Americans to diial a number on "Education in America is a never-ending lief in the existence of God. the telephone and hear a prayer, a short process," declared a European professor after On campuses, even agnostic students are sermon, the latest baseball scores, a lecture spending several months lecturing in this reading and arguing about the new "theology on alcoholism, or arguments against com­ country. of hope" and the "secular th.eology" of Dr. mitting suicide. EUROPE SURPASSED Harvey Cox, a professor at Harvard. They can go to drive-in churches, drive-in In that process, American institutions of STEADY, UNDRAMATIC LIVES banks and drive-in movies. A drive-in mar­ higher learning have displaced those of Eu­ Equally, available evidence tends to dis­ riage service is being offered on the Texas­ rope as the mecca of students the world over. count another widely heralded "weakness" of Oklahoma border. In the burgeoning age of Today it is a physics degree from "Caltech" Americar-that its people are ridden by frus­ technology, one highly respected U.S. com­ or a diploma from Harvard's graduate school trations, sexual and otherwise, and are de­ poser and mathematician, Milton Babbitt, is of business that is the prize sought by many spairing of their lot in life. A New York ad­ writing "electronic music" in serial repeti­ of Europe's top students. Even lesser-known vertising firm, surveying housewives in the tion-with the help of a computer as well as colleges in the U.S. draw hundreds of foreign U.S. came up with these discoveries: tape recorder. students each year. Institutions that once The average housewife had been married Americans voice criticisms of the new provided little more than the traditional to the same man for 22 years, is not strong on world they are pioneering. Complaints are disciplines now are offering such specialties clubs, thinks she is happier than her mother being heard about ZIP codes, electronic as biophysics, telecommunications and Asian was, drinks not at all or very little, and is eavesdropping, traffic jams, water pollution economic studies as part of their regular cur­ wrapped up in her home and family. and the sonic boom. riculums. Fqreign students staying with American Growing, too, is fear that "bigness" Not only foreign students but their profes­ fainilies are invariably amazed by the threatens the traditional belief in the com­ sors are crossing the Atlantic in a steady flow warmth and "naturalness" of the hospitality pensations of individual enterprise and per­ called the "brain drain." A British physicist accorded them. sistence. explained: Equally, visitors from abroad note the COURAGE REWARDED "It's not just the pay. It's the fact that you American talent for combining efforts to For many, however, America is still the Americans really support the pursuit of solve common problems. Such instances as land of the free and the home of the brave. knowledge. these draw comment: One success story is that of a Negro trucker "You have not only the means, but the On eastern Long Island, near Riverhead, and World War II veteran, Joe Jones, of will to get things done." former migrant workers are building their Atlanta, who fought for years to get a Gov­ From this academic surge is emerging new own homes 1n ~ "self-help" program-pool­ ernment permit to haul goods across the strengths in the field of culture and the arts, ing their skills to help each other as fron­ nation. Repeatedly his application was dispelling the notion of Americans as being tiersmen used to do. blocked by the big truckers. Mr. Jones, never­ interested only in the material things of life. In Tucson, Ariz., interested citizens theless, kept up his fight--and last year won Between 1952 and 1962, book sales across launched a campaign to raise funds that a f~deral-court order that his application be September 4, 1968 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25733 granted. His comment: "I'm a little man, Attested to this 21st Day of May, 1968: A FARMER'S VIEW-WATER NEEDS and I think when a little man sticks in there Propeller Club of the United States, Port CALL FOR ACTION and fights, a lot of people will come to his of Charleston; Charleston Branch Pi­ aid." lots Association; Maritime Association, As another example, a Spanish-speaking Port of Charleston; South Carolina New Yorker, Adrian Cancil, was convicted State Ports Authority; Charleston Tri­ HON. AL ULLMAN three years ago of possessing a loaded pistol dent Chamber of Commerce; Delta Nu OF OREGON during a barroom disturbance, despite his Alpha Transportation Fraternity; Na­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES protestations of innocence. Last year, he ob­ tional Defense Transportation Associa­ tained a used tape recorder, strapped it under tion. Wednesday, September 4, 1968 his shirt and began looking for the man he suspected of actually owning the pistol. Mr. ULLMAN. Mr. Speaker, increased After a long search, he found_ his quarry water resource development is one of in a pool hall, and managed to put on tape the major needs of the West, and it is the man's unwitting confession to ownership MY SOLDIER, MY SON a vital factor in the growth of Oregon. of the pistol. A few weeks ago, Mr. Cancil This is particularly true in the lands was able to win complete exoneration. along the Columbia River. The full and The Legal Aid Society described the out­ HON. BERTRAM L. PODELL wise development of our tremendous re­ come as "a wonderful example of American OF NEW YORK justice." sources in that area will require a co­ As some historians see it, Americans over IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES operative local, State, and Federal ef­ the years have made a habit of finding out Wednesday, September 4, 1968 fort, and I would like to bring to the what is wrong with the nation in order to attention of my colleagues an example discover ways of improving it. Mr. PODELL. Mr. Speaker, once again, of real local initiative. That habit is throwing the spotlight on Mr. David Gimbel, the poet laureate of Mr. Raymond Bevans resides in Uma­ the weaknesses of America today. Yet it is the 13th Congressional District, wrote a pine, Oreg., and serves as legislative also one reason why the United States today poem so beautiful and timely that I is not the "sick giant" so often portrayed by chairman for the East Umatilla County thought my colleagues would like to share Water Resources Board. He has written critics--but a strong and powerful nation, my pleasure in reading it. one that continues to be the envy of the a fine article concerning water resource world at large. "My Soldier, My Son" by DaVid Gimbel development in Oregon and under per­ follows: MY SoLDIER, MY SoN mission to revise and extend my remarks, Little boy, now a man, how quickly the years I place this article in the RECORD at this point: CHAIRMAN MENDEL RIVERS COM­ have flown, For now I look upon you, oh my how you have A FARMER'S VIEW-WATER NEEDS CALL FOR MENDED grown! ACTION What only seems like yesterday we brouglh.t (By Raymond Bevans) home our infant boy, HON. WM. JENNINGS BRYAN DORN His daddy was so proud of him, our hearts UMAPINE.-Citizens in the Milton-Free­ OF SOUTH CAROLINA were filled with joy. water, Umapine, Pendleton, Pilot Rock, Echo, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Hermiston, Stanfield and Umatilla areas had I remember he was only four. He came in better start working together on a serious Wednesday, September 4, 1968 dirty and wet, water storage program or some sort of pro­ Precious moments in a mother's life that she gram for pumping water from the Columbia Mr. DORN. Mr. Speaker, no South cannot forget. River to our areas, or we will find them Carolinian in the modern history of our 'Twas when I dunked him in the tub he slowly drying up. State is held in higher esteem than our screamed, but I would scrub, Our water table is gradually going down, beloved and respected colleague, MEN­ And when I took him out, oh that ring as shown from the deep well pumping rec­ DEL RIVERS. around the tub! ords--mostly because of deep well pumping. Recently the cosponsors of the observ­ But he really was a boy, on his seat always Walla Walla recently abandoned a $70,000 ance of National Maritime Day at the a patch, well-drilling project. Milton-Freewater's deep Port of Charleston adopted a splendid And also on his knees, that I could never well table is going down. resolution which I commend to the at­ seem to match. I can speak from experience. I had two tention of the Congress and to the peo­ At last the evening came, I looked for­ of the first deep wells in our area. I pumped ward to a bit of rest 412 gallons from one well and a little over ple of our country: From a mother's little tornado, my lova.ble, 600 gallons per minute from the other at A RESOLUTION little pest. 60 feet. Whereas, Honorable L. Mendel Rivers, rep­ WELLS DROPPED resentative from the First Congressional Dis­ The Tide of Life does not stand still and my son was swept along, I recall how the purchaser of an BOO-acre trict, and Chairman, Committee of Armed tract in the area punched about six wells. Services, United States House of Representa­ He was growing up so very fast, handsome, tall and strong. From then on my water table went down. tives, has served his constituency faithfully As you go down your power b111 for pump­ and effectively; and I would tiptoe in his room and sitting by the light, ing goes up tremendously. The present own­ Whereas, Congressman Rivers has long been ers of the tract are pumping at approxi­ a strong advocate for the development of The books just spread before him, his face with study bright. mately 150 feet. My two wells were about commerce at the Ports of South Carolina and 292 feet deep. a vigorous supporter of a larger U.S. Merchant All mothers live in fear, perhaps mine was In Utah they have controls on new wells Marine; and justified, that lower others in farming areas. Our state Whereas, his contributions to the economy For in the mail those greetings came, and so engineer has very little control or doesn't of his District and South Carolina through silently I cried. enforce the law if there is one. the attraction of commerce and industry~ his But my son just stroked my hair as he concern and Interest in each and every con­ In other western states water officials are pressed me to his heart, exercising new and drastic control con­ stituent have endeared him to his people; And said, "My darling mother, we all must and tinually. I learned on a 1964 trip to South­ do our part". ern California that farmers pay as high as Whereas, he has unceasingly devoted his In this precious land her burdens we all energies to the preservation of America and $80 per acre for water. must share I have seen enough water go down the its heritage of freedom through his position And remain forever strong, so that the enemy as Chairman, Committee on Armed Services; Walla Walla River, Mill Creek and the Uma­ would never dare. tilla River in two weeks to furnish enough and In years gone by we fought and bled in Whereas, his character, his dedication to water to take up the slack for late sum­ times of agony and strife, mer irrigation. To an irrigation farmer this duty, his enthusiasm, and his courage, are Yet too the price was not great, to protect is heart-rending. If some of our streams were inspirational-not only to his constituents­ our way of life. but to those throughout the world who love in the Yakima area, they would be dammed freedom; now Now he is in uniform and will soon be on so quick it would make your head swim. Therefore, be it resolved, that the co­ his way. It is everyone's water-cities, industry, sponsors of the observance of National Mari­ Oh lord, dear God, protect my son every farmers and recreationists. Our legislators time Day at the Port of Charleston com­ moment of the day, can't do anything about putting dams in mend Honorable L. Mendel Rivers most high­ So that he comes safely home and that without the people's wholehearted help. (The ly for his exemplary record of public service fighting will all cease, Baker, Ore., area got a valuable dam after ln the Congress on behalf of his District, As those war clouds disappear in a world the people finally quit their squabbling and his State, and his Country. with glowing peace. worked together.) 25734 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 4, 1968 SITE WAITING 225 parts per billion, which is many times the linquish the county leadership next year, A dam site called Joe West on the Walla strength capable of killing aquatic insect and the as'Sassination of Senator Kennedy Walla is core-drilled and waiting. Our gov­ larvae and fish. A sample taken at the same ·almost drove him to withdraw from public ernment has spent a lot of money on this; time near a village where DDT was not used life. We are delighted that John English will I hope not for nothing. showed only a .4 part per billion concentra­ stay in politics. By the leadership, intelli­ I have often heard concern expressed by tion of the poison. gence, integrity and talent of such men, the the older water rights holders, but I am Although DDT concentrations in runoff public as well as the parties profit. may be diluted after mixing with lake waters, statisfied this concern is completely un­ Mr. Speaker, now that the Democratic founded. Bureau of Reclamation officials they still present a hazard to many forms of have explained repeatedly that they cannot life. This is because the minute amounts of National Convention has selected our take away any water rights; in fact, storage the chemical that are ingested by larvae and party's nominee for President and Vice would insure water for the future small fish are retained in body tissues and President-now that the necessary and In Washington's Walla Walla and COlumbia build-up to levels far greater than those important debates on the major issues of counties, they have a Touchet River dam found in the water. These small organisms the day have been conducted-now that planned; all they need is an appropriation are eaten by larger animals, with the poison the two major parties have started the from Congress. It has tak-en hard, coordinated eventually passing to ospreys, eagles, and fish where they again are concentrated in body 1968 presidential campaign-it will be effort by many area citizens. If we in Uma­ the responsibility of men like Jack Eng­ tilla and Morrow counties don't work to­ tissues. As has been shown with the coho gether we will be so far down the Une it will salmon in Lake Michigan, the higher con­ lish to unite the Democratic Party so centrations of the poison reduce reproduc.. be at least 20 years before our priority comes. that we may give to the American people tion and cause death. the progressive and capable leadership TRIED RECHARGING Faced with this new evidence about DDT, which our Nation demands for the next Our Milton-Freewater Jaycees did a lot of the Wisconsin Natural Resources Department 4 research on recharging our undergrou.nd sup­ is eyeing statutory revisions over the use af years. ply by getting some ditch companies to put insecticides in Dutch elm disease control. From his past record and the unlim­ water into old gravel pits. Some of the ited potential which he possesses I can springs on the Washington side that hadn't think of few men better equipped to flowed for 10 years started flowing in the handle this delicate and major task in Mud Creek area. It also worked well in the JOHN ENGLISH-NATIONAL the State of New York than John F. Umapine area. The companies stopped on ac­ COMMITTEEMAN English. count of complaints of water in one or two The preconvention campaign was emo­ basements and one well owner complained of g.as forming. I doubt that the underground tional and hard fought, but now, as be­ water caused this. One farmer told me he HON. HERBERT TENZER fore the convention, I urge all Demo­ would fill his basement if they would keep OF NEW YORK crats to join me in supporting the choice up the procedure, as it was helping the of the convention. underground supply. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I have voiced my support for Vice West of Umapine we have a large spring Wednesday, September 4, 1968 President HuMPHREY ever since the dra­ that formerly irrigated about 600 acres. Now Mr. TENZER. Mr. Speaker, one of the matic March 31 statement of the Presi­ this spring is furnished only enough water dent but I have repeatedly stated that for about 197 acres and most of this is by important elections at the Democratic careful rotation and sprinkling. My land is National Convention in Chicago last I would support the choice of the conven­ under this spring. week was the selection of John F. English tion with all my energy. Jack English The citizens and municipal officials must as the new national committeeman from may have been supporting another can­ stop fooling themselves and come to the real­ the State of New.York. didate before last week, but now we and ization that our ground water supply is not all Democrats stand as one and I look bottomless. The feasibility of a pumping I have known Jack English for a little to Jack English for the leadership needed plant from the Columbia River in the area more than 8 years and I am very pleased at this moment to unite us in purpose of Wallula must not be discounted, and that he has won this well-deserved serious effort must be exerted to see that honor. The Nassau Democratic county and in our goals for the Nation-peace feasibility studies are carried out. Unless we chairman is a bright, energetic young abroad and social justice at home. start tapping this gigantic resource. we have man who has proved his ability to lead Good luck, Jack English. no right to complain when the Southwest tries to get our water. a minority party to victory in suburban Nassau County. I am confident that he will apply his talents to the immediate LOMOND SCHOOL RATED ONE OF task of reuniting the Democratic Party NATION'S TOP 10 ELEMENTARY DDT MOVES WITH RUNOFF in the State of New York and helping SCHOOLS WATERS to elect Vice President HuMPHREY and the Democratic ticket in November. The Long Island Press, in its Septem­ HON. CHARLES A. VANIK HON. JOHN D. DINGELL ber 3 editorial, points to the record and OF omo the potential of Jack English and I place IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF MICHIGAN the editorial in the RECORD at this point IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES for the information of all of my col­ Wednesday, September 4, 1968 Wednesday, September 4, 1968 leagues in the House: Mr. VANIK. Mr. Speaker, it is with a JoHN ENGLISH MovEs UP great deal of pride that I would like to Mr. DINGELL. Mr. Speaker, the grow­ call the attention of the Congress to the ing use of pesticides and herbicides poses The election of Nassau Chairman John F. English as National Committeeman from achievement of one of the schools in the a greater threat to fish and wildlife re­ New York is the first step by feuding State Greater Cleveland area, the Lomond sources. This threat is graphically Democrats toward a poSt-convention recon­ Elementary School of Shaker Heights pointed up in an article carried in the ciliation. Ohio. ' August 2, 1968, issue of the Outdoor News After the death of Robert Kennedy, his The September issue of Ladies' Home Bulletin, the publication of the Wildlife friend and first choice for the presid~ntial Journal includes an article by Nancy Management Institute. So that my col­ nomination, Mr. English backed Sen. Eugene McCarthy. But he won the National Com­ Faber entitled, "Ten Top Elementary leagues may read this article, I include Schools" as selected by a panel of seven the text of the article at this point in the mittee post with the help of many Humphrey supporters, demonstrating the affection and of the Nation's top educators. This panel CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. respect in which John English is held by all which includes three superintendents of DDT MovES WITH RuNOFF WATERS factions of the party. schools and two deans of university Only three days after the Wisconsin village Only 42, Mr. English has had a remarkable schools of education, chose the 10 most of Maple Bluff sprayed DDT to control Dutch career in Nassau. He won a national reputa­ outstanding schools from a total of elm disease, the state Department of Natural tion by transforming the first big suburban 73,400 public grade schools. Those which Resources detected a heavy concentration of county, historically a Republican bastion, the poison in Lake Mendota, the Wildlife into a marginal battleground, electing and were selected are truly to be congratu­ Management Institute reports. relecting a Democratic county executive, two lated. Runoff samples taken after a rain from a Democratic congressmen, four state legisla­ Lomond Elementary is one of those 10. storm sewer and a ditch that empty into the tors and numerous judges. The Lomond Elementary School of lake revealed DDT concentrations ranging up He had earlier announced he would re- Shaker Heights, Ohio, has an enrollment September 4, 1968 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25735 of 635 children who are guided and in­ respect and admiration among scientists profession, a study of vertical sociological structed by an outstanding faculty of 36. and research investigators. The presi­ mobility in optometry, development of a The school, which was built in 1929, has dent of the Optometric Center's board of laboratory of ultrasound for ocular re­ been modernized with the addition of a trustees, Mr. Bennett Rose, has an­ search, development of a laboratory of $110,000 education center equipped with nounced that the institution has entered pupillographic research, development of child-operated movie projectors, slide into cont:mot for the purchase of a new a laboratory of electroretinographic re­ machines, and tape recorders. and enlarged home. The new building, search, study of clinical methods for test­ The school system spends an average to be occupied toward the end of the ing color vision by use of the land theory, of $850 per year per child in Lomond year following extensive renovations and development of a color vision clinical Elementary. This figure is proof that the alterations, will provide about 25,000 laboratory, and experimental research in citizens of Shaker Heights realize that square feet of space, almost five times the visual sciences under the conditions there is no sounder investment than the size of the present building on West of a hyperbaric oxygen chamber. quality education. It is proof of their 48th Street. A much needed expansion The Optometric Center of New York commitment to the America of the of clinical facilities, laboraJtories for has planned a brilliant future in visual future. visual science research, and classrooms science research. The Journal article also calls attention and seminar rooms for postgraduate Over the years the institution busily to the hard work of the school's faculty education will be made possible in this has been engaged in continuing educa­ and PTA which has made Lomond a seven storied, elevatored building at 122 tion for the ophthalmic practitioners for model of successful human relations East 25th Street in my district. the purpose of raising standards of eye­ within a school and community. The number of patient-visits in the care and reducing the time lag between Principal William C. Riley, who is aggregate under the present circum­ the acquisition of knowledge in the re­ beginning his sixth year at Lomond, is to stances is about 30,000 per annum. While search laboratory and clinic vis-a-vis the be highly commended for his leadership. general and specialty care have con­ practitioner. This education has mani­ The spirit of the faculty, the children, tinued to be of a higher order quality fested itself in symposia, conferences, and the parents of the Lomond School with standards of professional per­ seminars, courses, and colloquial. Practi­ are an example to the whole Nation of formance second to none in the greater tioners from 36 States and 14 foreign what cooperation and community in­ metropolitan area, the necessity to main­ countries have availed themselves of this volvement can achieve. tain it has been an abiding concern of work. Courses attended by more than 800 The entire Cleveland community is everyone associ'ated with the Optometric optometrists and 42 major symposia with proud of their accomplishment. Center of New York. Indeed, "blue chip" more than 12,000 present have comprised professional care at the center indelibly the major portions of the teaching pro­ has caused a rise in standards for all gram. Additionally, eight summer resi­ eye care in the city and this is a noble dency programs in orthoptics and visual THE OPTOMETRIC CENTER OF NEW function. Plans for the accommodation training have given intensive clinical YORK ACQUIRES A NEW HOME of 42,000 to 45,000 patient-visits by 1972 and didactic work in this important sub­ are being made. ject area to newly graduated profes­ The conscience of a scientific institu­ sionals. From time to time, optometrists HON. THEODORE R. KUPFERMAN tion is the quality and extent of its re­ from foreign countries have been in resi­ OF NEW YORK search. Nowhere are the opportunities dence at the Optometric Center for IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES for the betterment of human develop­ periods of up to 6 months. ment richer than in the :field of vision From July 13, 1964 extending through Wednesday, September 4, 1968 and perception. Entirely new concepts July 17, 1966, the Optometric Center of Mr. KUPFERMAN. Mr. Speaker, the are being offered to replace theories New York, with grants from the U.S. Optometric Center of New York, as a which have existed for centuries. The Office of Manpower Development and the community resource facility, combines years ahead give great promise that Department of Health, Education, and the best features of a teaching-clinic and visual problems may, indeed, be pre­ Welfare, undertook a 2-year residency research center primarily devoted to the vented and controlled rather than merely program approved by the board of problems of seeing and human visual dis­ "corrected." As a matter of fact, the en­ regents, for the education and training abilities. Its academic and scientific in­ tire area of perceptual and motor co­ of exiled Cuban optometrists. This major terests are broad and relate to the ad­ ordination development of the child has teaching effort, consuming six trimesters, vancement of the knowledge in the field, been demonstrated to have a visual com­ was especially conceived for the grad­ and, thereby, to the social and profes­ ponent which appears to be a key ele­ uates of the University of Havana. sional advancements for the care of ment in that development. In addition The institution believes that, in ad­ patients in the community. Socially, sci­ to present areas of research concern in dition to its courses, symposia, and entifically and professionally, the Op­ the :fields of myopia, tonometery, and summer residency programs, a major tometric Center of New York is devoted esotropia for which Government funds effort be expended to establish a foreign to the noblest principles of human bet­ from the National Institutes of Health, residency program to attract interested terment. The Optometric Center is a U.S. Public Health Service, have been re­ professionals in a comprehensive clin­ nonprofit and tax exempt institution, ceived or are committed, research en­ ically oriented program. Quite asid~ from founded on April 16, 1956, and is char­ deavors are in preparation in infrared the international good will and under­ tered by the board of regents of the Uni­ optometer methods and studies, optical standing, the center would fulfill the versity of the State of New York. classification of keratoconus, accommo­ worthy goal of seeking to elevate the April 16, 1968, constituted the 12th an­ dation studies in amblyopia, validity standards of professional care rendered niversary of the founding of the Op­ studies in caeconometry, oculographic in foreign countries. tometric Center of New York. These analysis of visual acuity in the sub­ The institution's library presents an years have been productive ones for the normal vision patient, oculographic extensive collection of texts and journals community wl..ich the center so vitally analysis of ocular motility, analysis of in optometry, ophthalmology, perceptual serves and for the advancement of the TV surround illumination, study of the psychlology and optical science. The col­ visual sciences in optometry. The institu­ accommodative function under cyclo­ lection numbers about 8,000 texts and tion has developed a unique role of social plegia, visual :field alterations in the blind 24,000 journals. The card catalogue :file and scientific concern and its place con­ spot of mariotte during accommoda­ has been kept up-to-date with the aid of tinues to grow in importance. tion, normalization and standardization the Reference Card Section of the The Optometric Center of New York of development visual and perceptual Library of Congress. has occupied lts present building at 351 tests, development of an optical tonom­ At the present time, the full-time West 48th Street since 1961. The sig­ eter, computer ray tracings of the executive director is the chief officer of nificant growth and development of the human eye, study of radiation properties the instiution responsible for adminis­ institution during the past 12 years has of ophthalmic lenses, study of the quali­ trat!on, planning, programing, person­ attracted the interest and attention of tative adequacy of ophthalmic lenses, nel and professional activities. His the community and has commanded the national social study of the optometric responsibilities relate to the operation of 25736 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 4, 1968 the institution in all of its aspects. He is The body of original authority and re­ conservation practices that have been in­ responsible to the board of trustees. He is sponsibility of the Optometric Center of stalled to date. For example: New York is its board of trustees. Its Drainage--mains and laterals-over 366,- assisted by two optometrists who serve as 000,000 ft.; irrigation systems, 6,990; tile assistant directors and whose adminis­ chief deputy is the executive director of drains, over 5,000,000 ft.; farm ponds, 5,339; trative and pr, .:essional work each is the institution. The viability of the cen­ tree plantir - over 1.5 milllon acres; pasture part time. ter is a measure of the effectiveness of planting, 2.o million acres; and water control Additions to the professional staff the board of trustees. The present of­ structures, ~~.363. carefully are made from time to time as fleers of the board of trustees are: Presi­ You have a right to be proud of these ac­ the need arises. The staff is a superb dent, Mr. Bennett Rose; vice president, complishments. unit of professional skills and knowledge Mr. Lloyd P. Griscom; treasurer, Mr. Your small watershed program in Florida Michael I. Schaffer; secretary and execu­ is most commendable. Currently you have which can be compared favorably to any 16 projects authorized for operations and other unit about the country. As a tive director, Dr. Alden N. Haffner. four of these have been completed. Nine are clinical t3am, it is probably second to The orderly growth and development presently under constructt.on and a new none in the visual sciences. The staff of the Optometric Center of New York start on another watershed is expected this numbers 70, more than. half of whom to advance the knowledge of the visual year. Florida has submitted a total of 74 possess skills in a specialized area. science and to provide community care, applications for assistance under the pro­ The nature of the qualifications for research, and education comprise a des­ visions of Public Law 566. These applications tiny of worth and nobility. The bril­ cover over 5 million acres. appointment to the professional staff be­ Some 3.6 million dollars have been spent speaks its excellence. liance of its re!)utation in community and on constru--in your time-and you Treaty was ·adopted by the United States own religious birthday-their answer to our did it in faraway places, in great fear-be­ Senate by a vote of 82 to 1. That Treaty was stopping the bombing was the Tet offensive cause no man ever got shot at who wasn't accepted by the Uni-ted States Senate for when tens of thousands of casualties were frightened-! know. You brought home your one simple reason-because in their hearts suffered by our people. We stopped the Nation's flag in honor-and you brought it , and their minds, the members of the Senate bombing again before that, for 37 long days. home unstained. And they are going to do the knew that this nation could not and would And what did they stop? Their answer was same in Vietnam. not ever stand idly by and see all the coun­ not to stop aggression, but Gener~l West­ In time-and I pray that time will be tries of Southeast Asia taken over by the moreland will tell you, they greatly stepped short--these over 500,000 young men are aggressor's heel. They hoped-and they up their aggression while we were stopping going to come back and join us. In time the stated in the speeches on that Treaty that the bombing. debates and the personalities will pass. They­ they hoped that that Treaty and the warn­ So, my friends, let's not be hoodwinked. and the American people-wm look back on ing ·that it represented would deter aggres­ Let us not be mislead. Instead our people what we have done and I think they will sion. and their people must understand one look back with the same pride that we feel But the men in Hanoi believed that they thing: We are not going to stop the bomb­ in our other efforts in the cause of freedom commanded a method of aggression that ing just to give them a chance to step up when we have defended it with our blood. would succeed in the face of our commit­ their bloodbath. We are not going to stop We all shall know that those who do not ment. They have been supported by others bombing their trucks or bombing their am­ come back, your brothers in arms, will not who felt that Hanoi's success would drive munition or bombing their supply lines have died in vain. the United States out of Asia and leave i:t while they bomb our cities and while they Every day I read reports of the courage of open for a take-over. bomb our headquarters and while they mine Americans in battle in Vietnam. Every day There is no serious and responsible leader South Vietnamese territory and they re­ I read reports of our civil efforts to help the in Asia who does not already know that the quire our American fighting men to bear the South Vietnamese build a nation--expand struggle now taking place in Vietnam to­ brunt of the increased fire power that the education-plant new rice seeds-strengthen night is the hinge on which the fate of Asia Communists would rain on our men if we their Constitutional government. Every day wlll swing-one way or the other-for many did not stop every truck and every bit of I read about our men teaching them to read years, far into the future. When we insist on the ammunition we could. and write and helping to cure the sores and an honorable peace in Vietnam, we are in­ On March 31 we stopped 90 percent of the heal the bodies of these unfortunate de­ sisting on a solution to the struggle which bombing. Have they stopped 90 percent of prived people. has the promise of permitting the independ­ their inflltration or 80 percent or even 50 Behind these militaxy and civ111an efforts ent nations of Asia to go forward in confi­ percent? No. They didn't stop anything. are, I am here to certify tonight, as fine a dence: to build in freedom, a life consistent They increased their infiltration 100 percent. generation of young Americans as America with their own traditions and their own That was their answer to our stopping the in all her history ever produced. ambitions. We are talking tonight not about bombing. So I hope that you have faith and I hope 17 million people of South Vietnam, but we We are ready tonight and we are ready to­ you keep the faith. I hope you give us the are talking about nations which contain morrow, either on the battlefleld or the support that we are going to need so dearly hundreds of millions of people. conference table in Paris, to put into effect in the trying months ahead. There are some among us who appear to any fair and reasonable ceaseflre on both So tonight I come here to thank you be searching for a formula which would get sides--but not just one side. for your honor and for the kindness to my us out of Vietnam and Asia, on any terms, We are not going to trade the safety of family and to tell you that I am of good heart. leaving the people of South Vietnam and American fighting men whose voices are not Let no one ever tell you that love of country, Laos and Thailand-and all the others--to here to be heard in this election campaign dedication to freedom, determination for an an uncertain fate. for any Trojan Horse. They are going to have honorable pP.ace is dead in this land. Laos, South Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, a voice in this campaign before it is over. Singapore, Indonesia-pretty soon we could So tonight, I appeal to all well-intentioned be back to the Ph111ppines--and even back citizens who are demanding that Americans stop the bombing to tell me what are they to Honolulu. SISTER ANNE CUMMINS I profoundly believe that this course would demanding of Hanoi. I ask each well-in­ be disastrous to the interests of the United tentioned good American to search his con­ States. I believe it would be disastrous to science when he goes home tonight and ask the world-now and in the years to come. himself, why, oh why do we hear nothing of HON. JOSHUA EILBERG On the other hand, I am equally confident any demands on Hanoi. OF PENNSYLVANIA You can look at that Marine Sergeant that if we have the will to see this through IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in Vietnam to an honorable peace, the way and say, "Please sacrifice and give up the will be open for better times: best implement you have to stop those trucks Wednesday, September 4, 1968 For a period of relative tranquillty in which and those hand grenades and those divi­ the forces of moderation, of national inde­ sions that are coming toward you. I ask you Mr. EILBERG. Mr. Speaker, in the pendence, of freedom and regional coopera­ to give up the best weapon you have." past it has been my privilege to inform tion will assert themselves in Asia as they He would look at me with those innocent, my colleagues of the remarkable hu­ are tonight asserting themselves in other boyish eyes and say: "Why, Mr. President, manitarian work being performed on a parts of the world: but what are they going to give up?" worldwide basis by an order of nuns Permitting the United States not to re­ And I say: This has not been mentioned. headquartered within my district. turn to isolation but to work as a partner I am not going to answer him that way. While highly interesting stories could with a vital region of the world which will It is one thing when you are seeking re­ be written about each of these 700 women more and more assume responsibllity for its sponsib111ty and it is another thing when you own destiny. have it. who devote their lives to the care of the That is the ultimate stake in Vietnam­ One day-and I pray every night that it sick in remote areas of the world, a press for Americans, for Asians and for the world. will be soon-the men who bear the brunt release issued by the Philadelphia Bar That is why three different Presidents have of battle are going to come back home. When Association concerning one of these sis­ taken and have held the position they have they do come they are going to ask an ac­ ters has received such noteworthy at­ taken. counting of us for the support that we have tention in the press media in my area, I _ That is why the American people, in my given them or that we denied them in the would like the opportunity of sharing judgment, are going to hold steady and see it hour of greatest need when we sent them through and not cut and run. away to protect us and to defend us. this heart-warming tale with my col­ I want the k1lling in Vietnam to stop­ I hope and I pray that we are not going leagues. but we cannot stop the killing if North Viet­ to be found wanting in that judgment. The press release follows: nam insists on sending another 150,000 new So long a;s I am the American Commander­ Among the over 700 Medical Mission Sis­ 'aggressors into the South to kill Americans in-Chief we are not going to be found want­ ters, stationed around the world, is a charm­ and allies since January the first of this year. ing. ing, warm and friendly person known as September 4, 1968 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 25743 Sister Anne Cummins. Formerly known as Sister Anne enjoys her Medical Mission the Mission Sisters are medical doctors; some, lawyer Hannah Mary Cummins, she has work; she says she finds it "challenging." specialists. served as assistant attorney general with When she is not attending classes in lin­ A current important project is the addi­ Pennsylvania's Secretary of Labor and Indus­ guistics, Sacred Scriptures, moral theology, tion of a new wing to the Indian Holy Fam­ try; as chairman of the Committee for Legal Chuch history, Mission history and anthro­ ily Hospital at New Delhi. Both Sister Anne Rights of the Governor's Commission on the pology, she works on the employment prob­ and U.S. Congressman Joshua Eilberg (D., Status of Women, and as assistant city solici­ lems of lay personnel, of whom she is in Phila.) have devoted a great deal of effort tor for the City of Philadelphia. In January charge. Lay personnel are used in the Mission toward bringing this "dream" to frui·tion. of this year, she left the legal profession and office and in the kitchen. In addition, two Construction of the new wing is already became a Medical Mission Sister at 8400 Pine men are required to service the Mission's under way. Rd., in Fox Chase, Philadelphia. grounds. Sister Anne supported and did what she Why did this apparently successful woman Housekeeping tasks, however, are also per­ could to help Congressman Eilberg in his lawyer resign her practice with the Philadel­ formed by the Sisters. Sister Anne--who says campaign to win a seat in Congress. "It phia law firm of Brickley, Cummins, Torpey she has no talent in this area-is presently was a personal effort and not really an orga­ and Bernstein to take on a completely dif­ assigned to cooking duties. Although she nized type of support," she said. ferent life's work? says, "Really, I can't boil an egg," there is The Fox Chase House of the Medical Mis­ "I want to be where I feel God wants me to evidence that she is doing quite well at the sion Sisters is situated on 100 acres of gently be now; where I can do the most good for task. She has also come to appreciate the rolling hills of green, with tall pine trees, people . . . I want to serve man, and God, problems of the commercial laundry worker, narrow winding roads and 12 attractive through service to man. Really, to answer through her experience in the Mission structures in which the Sisters 1i ve and that question is like trying to explain laundry. work. The House, which is the American "Grace" in one sentence. It can't be done," Sister Anne is a sociable, fun-loving per­ headquarters for the Mission, is a base for Sister Anne said in a recent interview. son who makes a hobby of people. She loves fund-raising, publicity and training for new When asked why she went through all the music, reading and sports (an avid basket­ Sisters. Many of the Sisters there study in expense and time to become a lawyer 1f her ball fan, her uncle, Bill Ferguson, was the various schools throughout Philadelphia. chief concern is service to God and man, she basketball coach for St. Joseph's College for The House was founded in 1939, and is home replied, "My training as a lawyer wm not 25 years, resigning in 1953) . She is a Phila­ for about 100 Medical Mission Sisters. be wasted. I expect to put all my legal train­ delphia Phillies fan, a football fan (she used In addition to the hospital services they ing to work in my present position. OUr to travel to South Bend, Ind., occasionally offer, the Society works to help people Society is working in ·two great areas in to see the University of Notre Dame play), a through the use of preventive medicine. The which I would like to help . . . community Sisters are working with foreign governments golf player and a lover of the legitimate to help the local people in any possible way. development and labor relations." theater. Born and raised in Northeast Philadelphia, "When I came to the Mission in January, She says she never liked the movies or tele­ the odds downtown on my sticking it out Sister Anne reminisces that her first school, vision. She has an antipathy for liver, fish Presentation Grade School in Oheltenham, were very short," Sister Anne quipped. and alarm clocks (she presently arises at When asked what the odds are now, she Pa., had only four classrooms when sb,e at­ 5:10 each morning). She loves foods of other tended. (She feels that this bit of informa­ quickly replied, "A hundred to one ... no lands. Her favorite American food is roque­ . . . as high as you can get them." tion .somehow dates her.) fort dressing with large lumps of cheese. In Later, she attended St. Joachim's Grade an American restaurant she would most School and Philadelphia's Little Flower likely order steak, medium, with roquefort­ Catholic High School, where she played on dressed (of course) salad. the girls' basketball team. She facetiously Sister Anne has not yet been assigned REPORT FROM WASHINGTON contends that she is still the best shot abroad because, as she says, "The Mission around ... "Can't run though." Society will not put anybody to work who is Early in her life she worked for the Phila­ not fully prepared to do her job." She is, how­ HON. JAMES V. SMITH delphia law firm of Obermayer, Rebmann, ever, looking forward eagerly to going over­ OF OKLAHOMA Maxwell and Hippe!, which inspired her to seas. "It's not for the travel, it's being where IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES enter the legal profession. She continued to God wants you to be; where you can do the work for the firm when she began evening most good for people. I want to serve man, Wednesday, September 4, 1968 studies at St. Joseph's College in Philadelphia. and God, through service to man." She loves Mr. SMITH of Oklahoma. Mr. Speak­ (Only the night school at St. Joe's is co-ed.) India, and is presently studying Hindi. Later, and while still in school, she took em­ er, attached here is my "Report From ployment with the law firm of Frazier and Her father, who died in 1963, was Daniel J. Washington" for September 1968 which Cummins. He operated a trolley car for the Frazier, also in Philadelphia, and worked I include in the Extensions of Remarks: there through college and law school. She was Philadelphia Transportation Company. Sister Anne remembers him as a "great guy." Sister JAMES V. SMITH, REPORTS FROM WASHINGTON, graduated from St. Joseph's in 1956. SEPTEMBER 1968 After graduation she began her law studies, Anne refers to her mother, the former Nora again at night, at Temple University Law Morrissey, as "the woman behind and beyond This is a report on recent activities that School in Philadelphia. She was graduated me." Her mother stm resides in Philadelphia. will be of interest to you. As your repre­ from law school in 1960, and was admitted to Her brother Daniel, who died in 1962, was sentative in Congress, I welcome your com­ the Ba.r in the same year. the special assistant in charge of Eas·twick ments and suggestions on any issue with From 1961 to 1965, she was an assistant at­ for the Redevelopment Authority of Phila­ which the Congress is concerned. torney general with the Pennsylvania Sec­ delphia, where he served from 1950 until his WATER PROGRESS retary of Labor and Industry. She was ap­ dea.th. Sister Anne, with four sisters and one brother, is an aunt to 28 nieces and nephews. One of the greatest needs for Western pointed by Anne X. Alpern, who was then Oklahoma is an adequate supply of water. Attorney General of Pennsylvania (the first The Medical Mission Sisters is an Order of Without water and the development of wa­ woman in the United States to hold such a Catholic nuns composed of over 700 Sisters ter resources, it wm be difticult to attract post), and who is presently a judge on the situated throughout the world. They have job-producing industry or maintain an ac­ Court of Common Pleas for the Fifth Judicial established 34 Holy Family Hospitals in 15 tive agricultural environment. District, in Allegheny County, Pa. countries on four continents-North and The House of Representatives has ap­ Sister Anne was assistant city solicitor South America, Africa and Asia. Many of proved the Mountain Park Dam project near of Philadelphia from 1965 until December, these hospitals are as substantial and modern Snyder, and the measure is now pending 1967. She worked with the City Law Depart­ as any found in the United States. In addi­ before the Senate. I introduced H.R. 9411 ment's CommunJty Development Division and tion, they have established numerous clinics, which authorized the Secretary of the Inte­ did special litigation work which involved leprosaria, maternity and child welfare cen­ rior to construct, operate and maintain this her in many important cases. In 1964, Penn­ ters and training centers for local people, $21 million project. As well, it has been sylvania's Governor William W. Scranton ranging from nursing, midwifery, technology, agreed that interim irrigation might be the appointed her chairman of the Committee internship and residency programs. Included result of this project_ in Kiowa county near for Legal Rights of the Governor's Commis­ in the Order are doctors, nurses, pharma­ the ~retch Diversion Dam site. As a farmer, sion on the Status of Women. cists, technicians, dentists, administrators, I know the effect that a small bit of water Sister Anne has also had the distinction housekeepers, secretaries, accountants, writ­ can have on wheat at the proper time. of being listed in Who's Who in American ers, artists, and-with Sister Anne Cum­ The Foss Reservoir west of Clinton has Women. She was the first president of the mins-at least one lawyer. been a disappointment in the unsuitable Alumnae Chapter of the Alumni Association The Order was founded in 1925, in Wash­ water it has produced, but one ray of hope of St. Joseph's College; a member of both ington, D.C., by Mother Anna Dengel, a has emerged. By legislation, the Secretary the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Bar ASso­ native· of Austria and a medical doctor. of the Interior was authorized to repay $218,- ciations; a member of the National Associa­ Mother Dengel, who is headquartered in 364 to the Foss Master Conservancy District, tion of Women Lawyers, and a member of Rome, has received two awards from the which is monies paid the Government for the nation-wide organization known as Cross Austrian government for _service to mankind, •the Foss Reservoir by the member cities of Keys. one of which is the "Ehrenring." About 50 of Cordell, Bessie, Clinton and Hobart. The re- 25744 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 4, 1968 fund has now been paid and placed in authorizes payment of $6 million in judg­ provides a penalty of $1,000 or imprison­ interest-bearing Treasury Bonds by the Con­ ment funds to the Kiowa, Comanche and ment for 1 year or both. servancy District. Apache Tribes of Oklahoma. Hearings have The problem of cigarette bootlegging Further, the legislation also authorized the been scheduled for September 4 and 5. has reached alarming proportions and Secretary to forego additional payments and Oklahoma's Indians have a proud and dis­ cancel interest accrual on the total obliga­ tinguished heritage and I welcome oppor­ the law enforcement officials both Fed­ tion until satisfactory water is delivered to tunities to serve them here in the Congress. eral and State with whom I have dis­ the communitif'!S. In the meantime, the De­ EAST-WEST TRADE cussed the need for legislation are con­ partment of Interior has appropriated funds There has been much discussion concern­ vinced that organized crime has entered necessary to conduct studies in regard to ing the desirability of "improving" relations and perhaps has already taken over the making the water usable. I introduced the with the Soviet Union and the Eastern Euro­ field. bill to a;mend the repayment contract, and pean communist countries thr ough the loos­ I am placing in the RECORD at this to construct a 3-million gallon per day de­ ening of trade barriers between our coun try point the text of the press release issued mineralization plant near the dam site for and the communist nations. treating the water. by the New York State Department of The best improvements that could result Taxation describing the conclusions of CLINTON-SHERMAN from negotiations with t he communist world the conference committee and the prepa­ Uppermost in the minds of the citizens would be our demand tha.t they assist in ration of this legislation : of the towns surrounding the important bringing about the end of the wa.r in Vietnam Clinton-Sherman Air Force Base, is the eco­ by pressures placed by them on their ally ALBANY, July 30, 1968.-A draft Of Federal nomic impact the base closure will have on in Ha.noi. legislation aimed at the heart of the cig­ their communities when the base is phased Recent events in Czechoslovakia should arette smuggling racket h.as been prepared out of the defense inventory in 1970. prove the r·eal intent of the communists in­ by Governor Rockefeller's Cigarette Tax En­ On two separate occasions my office has sofar as their dealings with freedom-loving forcement COnference Committee, it was an­ been assured by the Defense Secretary that nations are concerned. The concept that we nounced today by New York State Tax Com­ the plans remain the same-a phase-out by oan trade with an enemy who has sworn missioner Joseph H. Murphy, chairman of July 1, 1970. Approximately 126 other instal­ to bury us, who has broken almost every the committee. lations in the Nation also are affected by agreement made with us and who is trying to The committee is made up of leading rep­ similar orders. subvert the world to their caus.e at our ex­ resentatives of the tobacco industry and of No area of the state has turned such ener­ pense, does not make good sense. state, city and federal tax and law enforce­ gies and enthusiasm toward solving this prob­ My colleague from Iowa, Congressman H. ment oftlcials, who are joining forces to lem as have the various communities in­ R. Gross, introduced a resolution as an stamp out cigarette racketeering along th.e volved. The Midwestern Industrial Develop­ amendment to the Foreign Aid bill which eastern seaboard and elsewhere in the na­ ment Foundation was created to attract in­ would have prohibited American foreign aid tion. dustry into the area to create jobs in the from going to any country presently sup­ The draft legi,slation prepared by the com­ anticipated vacuum. The people who have plying North Vietnam with arms or aid. The mi·ttee hras two purposes: involved themselves in this hard work de­ resolution lost by four votes. I voted for this (1) To eliminate racketeering in the sal8 serve the commendation and gratitude of resolution because I thJnk that it is tragic and distribution of cigarettes, and everyone in the area. to give American taxpayers' money or as­ (2) To facilitate more effective enforce­ In October, 1967, I assisted in sponsoring a sistance to any country which is supplying ment of state and local cigarette tax laws meeting with local officials and representa­ arms or buUets that kill American boys in and thus to help to strengthen state and local tives of various Government agencies, includ­ Vietnam. To talk about "building bridges" tax systems. ing the Department of Defense; Department to the communist world at this time in our Bi-partisan sponsorship of the bill in both of Health, Education, and Welfare; Federal Nati.on's history will not find f avo,r with me. houses of the Congress will be sought, Com­ Aviation Administration, and the Economic Remember, as your re.presenhtive in Wash­ missioner Murphy said. Development Administration, to discuss ways ington, I want to help you in any way that The essence of the dl"aft legislation would they could be of assistance: I can be of service. I welcome your letters. be to define as "contraband", the interstate During the exploratory discussion it was Let me have your opinions and your sug­ transportation of more than 20,000 untaxed decided a comprehensive study should be gestions. cigarettes being made to anyone who is not made of the facility, and a Federal grant of Sincerely, a cigarette manufacturer, a licensed distri]:\.. $30,000 was obtained from EDA to conduct J AMES V. SMITH, utor, an omcer or agent of the U.S. Govern­ the study. Member of Congress. ment, or a common or contract carrier. In September, 1967, I introduced a bill to As drafted by the committee, the bill would create the Southwest Regional Services Cor­ make violation of tts provisions a Federal poration which would coordinate a variety of misdemeanor carrying a fine of $1,000 or Government training programs. The corpora­ CIGARETTE SMUGGLING imprisonment for one year, or both. tion would provide a central location for such In recent years, the cigarette smuggling projects as pilot and aircraft mechanics train­ racket has proved a rich source of income to ing; a residential vocational-technical insti­ HON. HERBERT TENZER racketeers and smugglers and has cost legiti­ mate tobacco dealers and state and local gov­ tution; a senior citizen and rehab111tation OF NEW YORK training center; air safety researcn center, ernments millions of dollars in lost revenue. and an industrial complex in which private IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Commissioner Murphy estimates that New industry would be encouraged to locate not Wednesday, September 4, 1968 York City and New York State are losing only to provide employment for persons in about $40 million a year in tax revenue be­ the region but also to supply needed goods Mr. TENZER. Mr. Speaker, I have to­ cause of illicit traffic in cigarettes. and services. day introduced in the House of Repre­ With the growing need for additional reve­ Now, various Government agencies are tak­ sentatives a bill, H.R. 19424, to assist nue, more and more states have increased ing another look at this outstanding facility. State and local governments in the en­ taxes on cigarettes. Consequently, Commis­ Recently I announced that FAA is studying sioner Murphy said, the traffic in illicit ciga­ forcement of cigarette taxes. rettes moving from one state to another pre­ the base for possible use in aircraft safety During the 89th and 90th Congresses training, and I hope the suggestions made in sents a revenue and enforcement problem to I have introduced other legislation in this most states along the eastern seaboard. my legislation contributed to their interest. field-H.R. 2153, 90th Congress-calling As a member of the House Armed Services Lawbreakers have found it advantageous, COmmittee, I Will continue to explore the for Federal registration of all interstate for example, to buy cigarettes in North Caro­ possibilities of further use of this base as the shipments of more than 25 cartons of lina, which has no tax and no controls on the defense posture changes. cigarettes. No action has been taken on sale of cigarettes, and in states with low rates of tax, and smuggle them into states impos­ INDIAN AFFAIRS that legislation and so today at the re­ ing higher taxes where they are sold without I noted where some of the banks were hard quest of the New York State Cigarette payment of tax. put to cash some of the checks brought in Tax Enforcement Conference Committee Since there is nothing illegal in the pur­ by their Cheyenne-Arapaho customers when to which I was appointed by Govemor chase of cigarettes in North Carolina, the the $15 million judgment money was dis­ Rockefeller, I have sponsored a new bill draft legislation seeks to hit at the problem tributed to the Tribal members. While I re­ which provides that it shall be a Federal of illicit sales through policing interstate gret the inconvenience to the banks, still I misdemeanor to ship in interstate com­ transportation of untaxed cigarettes for sale am glad these people finally were reimbursed merce contr:aband cigarettes. in states where such taxes are imposed. for the land ceded to the United States at Members of Governor Rockefeller's Ciga­ giveaway prices in 1891. On June 7, 1967, I in­ Contraband cigarettes are defined in rette Tax Enforcement Conference Commit­ troduced legislation authorizing the Secretary the bill as shipments of more than 20,- tee are: Joseph H. Murphy, chairman; Fiora­ of the Interior to distribute these funds. 000-100 cartons-untaxed cigarettes to vante G. Perrotta, New York City Finance I also have introduced legislation which any unauthorized person. The legislation Administrator; Charles Conlon, Executive September 4, 1968 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2574'5 Secretary, National Tobacco Tax Association; prosecute the persons who planned the YOUR CONGRESSMAN JIM BATTIN Edgar Cullman, President, General Cigar shipment and arranged the transaction REPORTS FROM WASHINGTON Company; William ,..Colman, Executive Di­ .rector, Advisory Committee on Intergovern­ in another State. mental Relations, Washington, D.C.; William Establishing Federal jurisdiction, in HON. JAMES F. BATTIN Kingsley, New Jersey Tax Commissioner; and of itself, would place the crime syn­ .John Sheehy, Assistant Counsel to Governor dicates on notice that cigarette bootleg­ OF MONTANA Rockefeller; Edward Rook, N.Y. State Tax De­ ging is no longer merely a local crime IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES partment, Executive Secretary of the com­ but that the FBI and the Department Wednesday, September 4, 1968 mittee; and New York State Congressmen of Justice will be authorized to investi­ lierbert Tenzer and Daniel Button. gate and prosecute violations. Mr. BATTIN. Mr. Speaker, under leave I :first became interested in this sub­ I urge my colleagues in the House to to extend my remarks in the RECORD, I ject in February 1966 when I was in­ join me calling for congressional ac·tion include the following: formed that high school students were on this most urgent matter and to join YOUR CONGRESSMAN JIM BATTIN REPORTS being enlisted to sell untaxed cigarettes me in sponsoring this legislation. For the FROM WASHINGTON to friends and neighbors at reduced convenience of my colleagues, I insert DEAR FRIEND: Because it has been my prac­ at this point the text of this bill: tice not to devote this letter to partisan poli­ :prices. Young people were being made tics, I will not use this method to comment .a part of the widespread cigarette H.R. 19424 on the Democrat Convention in Chicago; but .smuggling racket. A bill to eliminate racketeering in the sale other events in Chicago during the conven­ It was at that time that I made in­ and distribution of cigarettes and to assist tion seem to deserve analysis. The violence -quiries into applicable Federal statutes State and local governments in the en­ in Chicago last week-by the major television and found to my amazement that there forcement of cigarette taxes networks' accounting-was viewed by up­ were none. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of wards of 50 million Americans. The nation The legislation which I sponsored in Representatives of the United States of was appalled by the sights which were con­ America in Congress assembled, That, for veyed to many in vivid color. Cameras were 1966 and the additional legislation which the purposes of this Act- centered on squads of policemen who seem­ 1 have sponsored today would assist the ( 1) the term "cigarette" means ingly attacked the masses of demonstrators .States and local governments to collect (a) any roll of tobacco wrapped in paper without provocation. Chicago authorities tax revenues from the sale of cigarettes or in any substance not containing tobacco, were charged with over-reacting to the and would protect small businessmen and "peaceful" protests of the yippies, hippies from the loss of profits which results (b) any roll of tobacco wrapped in any and various unwashed persons. There was a from cigarette bootlegging. substan-ce containing tobacco which, be­ movement in the convention hall to suspend It should be made perfectly clear that cause of its appearance, the type of tobacco business and move the convention to more used in the filler, or its packaging and label­ peaceful surroundings. But the persistence this bill will not harm the cigarette in­ ing, is likely to be offered to, or purchased by, of the demonstrators made it certain that dustry or the tobacco-growing States, it consumers as a cigarette described in para­ wherever the Democrats went, the hippies will merely help assure that profits from graph (a). were sure to follow. The tenacity of the dem­ the sale of cigarettes go into legitimate (2) the term "contraband cigarettes" onstrators in seeking out the police made it channels of trade and close the trade to means a quant.ity in excess of 20,000 ciga­ equally sure that trouble was sure to occur criminal elements. rettes, bearing no evidence of the payment no matter where the convention was held. On April 15, 1966, soon after introduc­ of applicable State cigarette taxes, in the The television on-the-spot reports and later tion of my first cigarette smuggling con­ possession of any person other than (a) the newspaper accounts lacked a certain per­ manufacturer of the cigarettes or his agent; spective-that of the Chicago policeman. The trol bill-H.R. 14153, March 30, 1966- (b) a common or contract carrier; (c) a per­ over-reaction was on the part of the news a conference of the taxing authorities son licensed or otherwise authorized by the media. of 13 States, including the District of Co­ tax department of the State where the ciga­ A regular columnist of the Washington lumbia and New York City, held in Balti­ rettes are found, to deal in cigarettes and to Star, Betty Beale, gave another side of the more unanimously endorsed my bill. account for and pay applicable cigarette picture in an article last Sunday that made Subsequently in his annual appearance taxes imposed by such State; or (d) an of­ the actions of the police and National Guard before the New York State congressional ficer, employee or other agent of the United more understandable, Miss Beale was in delegation in 1967 Governor Rockefeller States, or its departments and wholly Chicago during the week of turmoil and, as owned instrumentalities. she wrote, returned "unbloodied, unpelted of New York asked Members of the House (3) the term "common or contract car­ and even unbruised thanks to the Chicago on both sides of the aisle to work for pas­ rier" means a carrier holding a certificate police." She was grateful for the protection sage of H.R. 2153 which I introduced in of convenience or necessity or equivalent the Chicago police force provided and decided the 90th Congress. Significantly this was operating authority from a regulatory agency "it is time one member of the media gave the only bill the Governor cited bynum­ of the United States or of any State or the the other side of the picture because the ber during his address. District of Columbia. public has the right to know." This female This legislation is of utmost impor­ (4) the term "tax department" means journalist, who has a reputation in Wash­ that department or agency of a State which ington of candidly expressing opinions that tance in the :fight against organized aren't necessarily popular with other jour­ crime and the continuing incidents of is charged with the administration of the law imposing a tax on the sale or use of nalists, gave the only account that I have bootlegging reported in the daily press. cigarettes. seen which gave the police credit for human These incidents are known to the FBI (5) the term "State" includes a political feeling·s and a dtmcult job well done. Her and warrant immediate congressional subdivision thereof and the District of Co­ opinions came from personal observations attention. lumbia. and interviews with key Democrat leaders of the convention. These are a few excerpts from Mr. Speaker, when we read reports of SEc. 2. The transportation of contraband her column: camouflaged lumber trucks carrying cigarettes in interstate commerce is pro­ hibited. "Everytime a newsman was hurt, the thousands of cartons of untaxed ciga­ screams of protest went around the world, rettes, or shipments purporting to be tex­ SEc. 3. Nothing in this Act shall be con­ but how much was said about the newsmen tiles but actually concealing untaxed strued to affect the concurrent jurisdiction who taunted the police or tried to get action cigarettes, we know that this is the work of a State to enact and enforce State ciga­ for the TV cameras? A member of the Vice­ rette tax laws, to provide for the confisca­ President's coterie heard reporters having a of professionals. We know from these tion of cigarettes and other property seized facts that cigarette smuggling has be­ great laugh in the coffee shop of the Conrad in violation of such laws and to provide Hilton about how they agitated in Grant come "big business" and that the States penalties for the violation of such laws. Park until the police started pushing them and local governments need Federal as­ SEc. 4. Whoever violates any provision of around." sistance in tracing these illegal inter­ this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor "Wyo. Sen. and Mrs. Dale McGee and their state shipments and assistance in and shall be fined not more than $1,000 two grown children walked over to the park prosecuting the persons who plan and and imprisoned not more than one year, or to see for themselves what was going on carry out these illegal transactions. both. and they arrived when the changing of the Often we have read about arrests made SEc. 5. The United States district courts National Guard was taking place." shall have jurisdiction to prevent and re­ "Walking through a gang of hippies they as trucks cross State lines with untaxed strain violations of this Act. saw two girls, one playing the flute. Then cigarettes-the violators are punished­ SEc. 6. This Act shall take effect on the they saw a TV camera team lead the girls but the States lack of jurisdiction to date of its enactment. over to the exact place by the troops where 25746 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 4, 1968 they wanted them to stand. And when their tors that television showed being hauled to have invaded the hall except for the actions cameras started to roll, the girl cried, 'Don't paddy wagons or subdued with police night­ Of the Chicago police. beat me!' It takes no imagination to figure sticks were not children and they were any­ With the violent riots that have been how this contrived scene would look on the thing but innocent bystanders. The militants sweeping the cities of America, police a;re the screens in millions of American homes." among the dissenters in Chicago were there front line defense against anarchy. When a "Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, World Wa;r looking for a confrontation with the police. policeman 1s called for riot duty, he knows hero and Democratic keynoter, said the hip­ Many of them wore riot helmets and distrib­ that he w1ll spend long hours without rest pies were throwing plastic bags of human ex­ uted printed instructions with advice on cop­ under the possib111ty of injury and even crement at the police and Guards in Grant ing with tear gas and Mace. They had an death. Force must be a.pplled to prevent the Pa;rk. They were also throwing rubber balls organized first aid corps standing by before rabble from gaining control of whole cities. stuck with long nails aimed for the eyes." the trouble ever began. Cadre~> of trained Having experienced a massive riot in Wash­ "How would those commentators who agitators were situated in the crowd to rush ington earlier this year, I was glad that the thought the police 'over-reacted' have be­ police lines out of camera range and then to pollee stood between the rioters and my haved if those things had happened to home. Riots seem to flourish best under the them?" move off when the police responded. The eye of a television camera. As Betty Beale Miss Beale's account seems more plausible hippies came a;rmed with caustics to throw said, "Maybe the media had better ask itself than that of ather columnists who said the in the faces of policemen and with the in­ why." police were simply brutal, sadistic and mind­ tention of disrupting the Democrats' Con­ Sincerely, less assailants of children. Those demonstra- vention. They almost succeeded and would JD/l. BATTIN.