March 29, 1974 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 8915 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS LOWELL THOMAS, LIFELONG chose Ohio as his birthplace. It was the tiny the shortage of many petroleum based mate­ SUCCESS town of Woodington in Darke County, on rials, especially diesel fuel, gasoline and Ohio's western border. His father was Dr. asphalt cement, severe burden has been Harry George Thomas, who moved his family placed upon the highway building industry to Colorado shortly thereafter. Lowell, how­ and all Federal and State agencies charged HON. CLARENCE J. BROWN ever, did return to attend high school in With the responsibility of maintaining our OF OHIO Greenville, 0., for one year. State, County and City road systems, due The newscaster's early success was fore­ to the shortage of asphalt cement, and; IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES shadowed by his college career. He attended Whereas, the Federal allocation program Thursday, March 28, 1974 Valparaiso College in Indiana and after two has not included asphalt cement under a short years he was awarded two degrees, the mandatory allocation by the Federal Energy Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I B.S. and M.A. Later, he attended the Univer­ Office and there has, therefore, been nothing know that many of my colleagues share sity of Denver and won the same two degrees proposed under any Federal Regulation which with me the respect and affection for one all over again; probably to prove the point, would require the continued manufacture of of broadcasting's most enduring person­ except that he won them in a single year on asphalt cement as a product thereby severely alities, Lowell Thomas. his second try. damaging the maintenance of our National, It is to his 7 p.m. newscast that many By 1930, the 38-year-old Thomas was an State and local systems of highways and established author-traveler-adventurer-lec­ jeopardizing the economy of the United of us listen as we drive home in the eve­ turer-raconteur, entitled even at that youth­ States of America and each State thereof by nings after finishing our day on the Hill. ful age to look backward on an incredibly alloWing a situation to exist which coUld in The newscast is a favorite, because al­ lively and successful life. One day in that due time create a crisis of very severe mag­ though it always covers the hard news, year, he got a telephone call from a man from nitude due to the fact that our economy including the unpleasant events of the the Columbia Broadcasting Company, as it is inseparably tied to the road system of day, it also always contains an item or was then known. He asked Thomas to meet this nation; two of what is good in the world and illus­ with him and William Paley, who had just Whereas, the road building industry is re­ trates that a little humor is often re­ bought the radio network. sponsible :!or the employment of many hun­ In Paley's office, Thomas was put in front dreds of thousands in this country; there­ membered long after the problems are of a microphone. fore, it is essential that same form o:! protec­ either solved or forgotten. "When you hear the buzzer," said Paley, tion be afforded the continued future of this Columnist George Condon of the "start talking." industry: Now Therefore Cleveland Plain Dealer wrote a March 24 "What about?" asked Thomas. Be it resolved by the Senate of the Gen­ column about Lowell Thomas' lifelong "Anything. Talk 15 minutes. Then stop." eral Assembly of the State of Indiana, the success and his start in the broadcasting There were three standby musicians in the House of Representatives concurring: business in which Mr. Thomas' unique studio. Thomas ordered them to play "some­ Section 1. The United States Congress, the personality is aptly portrayed. So that thing oriental" and began to talk of his ad­ Federal Energy Office and the President of ventures in such places as India, Malaya and the United States are hereby requested to my colleagues have an opportunity to Afghanistan. He never faltered or groped for take into full consideration the possib111ty share this insight, I wish to insert it in a word. At the end of 15 minutes, precisely, he of enacting Federal RegUlations that would the RECORD at this point: stopped talking. place asphalt cement under a Mandatory (From the Cleveland Plain Dealer, That was the big audition that led to the Allocation Program and insure its continued Mar. 24, 1974] first Thomas newscast a few days later, when production at a level that is Within reason­ LoWELL THOMAS, LIFELONG SUCCESS he brushed aside typewritten manuscripts in able limits that wlll insure the continued (By George E. Condon) favor of the evening newspaper and set a new maintenance of our highway system. pattern for all radio newscasting. Forty-four Section 2. The Secretary of the Senate is To mention the name of Lowell Thomas, as years have passed since then, and Lowell directed to transmit copies of this Resolution I did a few columns ago, is to trigger an im­ Thomas still is on the air five nights a week. to the President of the United States of pressive reaction from a lot of people who That's what you call an authentic success America, to the Chief of the Federal Energy count the famous radio newscaster-author­ story. Office and to the Congressional Delegation of world traveler among their favorite Ameri­ the State of Indiana. cans. And why not? He is a singular person­ Adopted by Voice Vote this 13th day of ality; a unique, enduring, immutable part of February 13, 1974. a medium that has experienced radical MANDATORY ALLOCATION FOR mutation. ASPHALT CEMENT Perhaps more important than Thomas' in­ credible achievement as a broadcaster in lasting some 44 years is that he is one of the WKBW JOIN THE FIGHT AGAINST few great ones who were able to survive an HON. VANCE HARTKE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY early success in life. To hit the top in youth OF INDIANA probably is one of the most unfortunate IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES things that can befall an ambitious person, Friday, March 29, 1974 even if he is terrifically talented. HON. THADDEUS J. DULSKI Show business is full of middle-aged zomb­ Mr. HARTKE. Mr. President, I ask OF NEW YORK ies who once were youthful phenoms. They unanimous consent that a resolution IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES won success, some of them, before they had adopted by the Senate of the State of Thursday, March 28, 1974 to shave, and it was very perpleXing to them Indiana pertaining to a mandatory al­ that oldsters should have exaggerated the location program for asphalt cement be Mr. DULSKI. Mr. Speaker, Robert diffi.culties of making good. When their ca­ Ross, executive director of the Muscular reers sagged, as careers have a way of doing, printed in the RECORD at this point. a lot of them weren't able to cope With ad­ There being no objection, the resolu­ Dystrophy Associations of America, Inc., versity. Success can be a momentary, freak­ tion was ordered to be printed in the has sent me the following letter lauding ish thing and a person's talent has to run REcoRD, as follows: Buffalo TV station WKBW and Tom deep for it to be extended into the middle A SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION XXXVI Jolls: years and, certainly, beyond that. MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIA­ Part of the continuing success of Lowell Memorializing Congress, the President and TIONS OF AMERICA, INC., Thomas, I suspect, is a great sense of per­ the Federal Energy Office to enact federal New York, N.Y., March 18, 1974. sonal balance that has been helped no end regulations placing asphalt cement under a mandatory allocation program DEAR CONGRESSMAN DULSKI: I believe you '11 by a prevailing sense of humor. No man who be interested to know that a signal contribu­ is able to laugh at himself possibly could Whereas, the highway system of the United tion the welfare of citizens in your area allow his ego to take him far from the right States of America is essential to both the to path. Thomas has been known to break up on economy through its interrelated network and elsewhere throughout the country­ the air completely over a slip of the tongue of State, County and City roo.d systems and especially children and adults affiicted by that another newscaster would regard as dis­ to the national defense of the United States neuromuscular disease--has bee made by astrous. It obviously takes a strong sense of of America, providing access into every state WKBW, Buffalo, New York through the ef­ humor to find hilarity in one's own mishap. and every section of this nation in time of forts of Tom Jolls. Perhaps another part of the Thomas secret emergency, and; In very large measure, it's thanks to in­ 1s in his shrewd beginning. That is to say, he Whereas, the energy crisis has precipitated dividuals like Tom and stations like WKBW 8916 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 29, 1974 throughout the United States that Muscular proven method relies on the two essential Rassias' method is not simply the in­ Dystrophy Associations of America has been ingredients in the educational process troduction of a new level of energy. lt im­ able to make such gratifying progress toward which do not depend on the sumptu­ portantly involves substance, in the form increasing public awareness of the life-and­ of a carefully worked out syllabus, which. death problems represented by muscular dys­ ousness of the classroom setting; namely, through memorized dialogues and readings, trophy and related disorders-and tow!l.rd en­ the dynamic interaction between stu­ develops competence in grammar, enlarges listing constructive support from concerned dents and teacher- to produce astonish­ vocabulary and encourages fluency. citizens in your district and elsewhere. ingly successful results. All of us who The method also is varied, using different WKBW and Tom Jolls have furthered the are truly interested in pursuing excel­ means of teaching: the master teacher, the educational thrust of this Association in lence in our educational system would drlll instructor and the language laboratory, many ways, but I'd like to pay special trib­ do well to examine the "Rassias method" each reinforcing the other. The master ute to their aid in promoting our Carnivals for its potential for revitalizing language teacher is concerned with concepts-<>! the Against Dystrophy project. The enlighten­ structure of the language and of the culture ment and inspiration they've provided their instruction in our schools. it articulates, of the scope and purpose of youthful viewers through this project have Mr. Speaker, I commend Professor each successive step in the course plan. The led directly to a significant enhancement of Rassias for his outstanding work in the drlllinstructor-at Dartmouth, students who our ab111ty to serve patients in your con­ field of language instruction; and I in­ have completed their language requirements stituency and throughout the nation. sert at this point in the RECORD an article with outstanding mastery of the foreign Inspired by TV personalities at stations all from the February 1974 issue of the Dart­ tongue-is employed to drill small groups over the country, young people held more mouth Alumni magazine which more in the dialogues and readings that form the than 40,000 backyard Carnivals in 1973. Their fully explains the method to Professor core of the syllabus. They free the master efforts led to the realization of more than teacher from this chore, yet endow the drill $1.3-m1111on to help support MDAA's pro­ Rassias' "madness": sessions with a dynamism no language lab grams of research and patient and com­ !N LANGUAGE TEACHING, A CALL FOR machinery could possibly evoke. Finally, ex­ munity services. ''MADNESS'' tensive use of the language lab is required As you may know, the Carnivals project Except perhaps .as a character actor, John to give the students time to hear and learn functions primarlly through promotion by Rassias would scarcely be cast as a movie by themselves, temporarily free from the popular children's TV personalities like Tom star. kind of marketplace pressure Rassias' meth­ Jolls. These broadcasters invite their young Yet the stocky Professor of Romance Lan­ od keeps on his students in class. viewers to write for a free kit, which contains guages and Literatures is about to star in Yet always threaded through everything all elements essential to the production of a a film with the potential for revolutionizing the Rassias or Dartmouth Method does is fun-filled Carnival-which youngsters orga­ language teaching-and learning-by mak­ an almost lyrical sense of language as an art nize and run in their own backyards. ing both functions fun, and effective. form, as well as a practical vehicle for com­ Through the project, participants learn how A teaching tornado of a man, academe's munication. to organize and set up a complex event, how answer to Zorba the Greek, Rassias has In introducing his method in the field, he to cope with responslbllity, and how to meet already written the film script and directed says, "Just as genuine art finds its place In and produced a pilot version. Typically, he our being and influences us in numberless the challenge of operating a business enter­ ways beyond judgments on beauty, so must prise of their own. But perhaps the greatest made the half-hour pilot in only three days of shooting time. Now the film, illustrating language find. its place in our being and in­ benefit they derive from Carnivals is the fluence us beyond the mental ab111ty to speak "education in compassion" which it gives what he hopes will someday be known as the Dartmouth Method of language teach­ a foreign Language." them-their increased awareness of the plight Thus, the material he has developed for of the less fortunate. ing, is going to be re-shot on the campus by a professional production unit. use in learning is never far from real-life In furthering this project in your area, situations, whether simple situations or con­ Tom Jolls and WKBW have done even more Like the man, the pilot film leaves the impression of a whirlwind just past. If it temporary currents of ideas. "Language is a than help provide desperately-needed assist­ social phenomenon," he insists, "and re­ ance to the victims of neuromuscular dis­ achieves Rassia's purpose, the finished ver­ sion could break the grip of tradition on quires socialization. Society talks most; lan­ ease whom this Association seeks to serve. guage students should also talk." They've helped enrich the very spirit which language teaching and introduce a new dynamic approach. It is one he has developed To be sure they do, he calls for a kind of has inspired th1s nation's greatest achieve­ "madness" from teachers who want to teach ments. over the ten years since he arrived on the by his method of total immersion. "My ap­ Sincerely, Hanover Plain. To Rassias, traditional language teaching proach wears down a student's inhibitions, RoBERT Ross, and we all bring inhibitions initially Into a Executfve Director. was making dead languages of the liveliest of them. And he minced no words in saying classroom," he explains. "I find that stu­ Certainly, the management of WK.BW dents, reacting to a teacher generating all so. that energy in the act of teaching, forget to and Mr. Jolls are to be commended for "Language study should change the stu­ resist learning. As they loosen up and in­ this important community service and dent who submits to its discipline," he has hibitions fall away, learning occurs faster." the resulting contribution to the fight written of the philosophy behind his meth­ "Sure, it's exhausting," he says, "but, man. against dystrophy. ods. "Language study is a route to maturity. it is fun." Indeed, in language study, as in life, if a I am proud of the civic-mindedness of An Instance of the power of the Rasslas person is the same today as he was yesterday, Method to break through inhibitions and our local station, and join in saying it would be an act of mercy to pronounce thanks for a job well done. produce both human and learning situatioiUJ him dead and to place him in a coffin, rather occurred last fall when eight language than in a classroom. . . . Language is a teachers visited Dartmouth from the Peo­ living, kicking, growing, fleeting, evolving ple's Republic of China. Their 24-hour stay reality, and the teacher should spontane­ began with a demonstration by Rasslas of his IN LANGUAGE TEACHING, A CALL ously reflect its vibrant and protean method in Greek, which broke any ideological FOR "MADNESS" qualities." ice that might have ex'!.sted. As Rassias re­ His method does just that, and even the calls, a closeness of individual relationships pilot model of the film pulses with the vital­ ensued that "the parting of the Chinese from HON. EARL F. LANDGREBE ity he mvests in every act of teaching. Dartmonth the next day proved to be one of OF INDIANA For Rassias, and any of his disciples who the most touching experiences of my life." already are legion and teaching around the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The film is to be the culminating project world, an hour of teaching is almost as de­ of four years of refining and defining his Thursday, March 28, 1974 manding as playing 60 minutes of football. method under two successive grants total­ By his own rules, he never stands still. He ing $100,000 from the Exxon Foundation. :tt Mr. LANDGREBE. Mr. Speaker, I re­ strides, he crouches, he reaches, he whirls, he wm serve as a live example of the complex gret that the recent ftoor debate on the gesticulates. He looks one way and jabs the interplay of substance and style that charac· Elementary and Secondary Education air in another direction to call on an unsus­ terizes the way Rassias firmly believes lan· Act showed more concern for money pecting student to respond. He grimaces and guage should be taught and appreciated. matters than for the state of education his face flows, as if it were a rubber mask, He has plenty of evidence to back up his in this society. from frown to grin. He explodes in mock pain belief. Since he introduced his radically new or in laughter, yet always with his students, methods at Dartmouth in 1967, students on To partially counterbalance this, I never at them. He acts. Suddenly, he pro­ the average have achieved "outstanding re­ would like to draw the attention of my duces two phones and he is carrying on a sults" in various standard tests. colleagues in the Congress to an excellent typical phone conversation with a student, Rassias began development of his method method of language instruction that has who had better have studied his dialogues. after he joined the Dartmouth faculty 1D been developed by Prof. John Rassias Or the table is swif·tly set for a meal and 1964 and also became director of language of Dartmouth College. Professor Rassias' a dinner table conversation ensues. training for the Peace Corps programs pre- March 29, 1974 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 8917 paring volunteers at Dartmouth for service proclaimed today Vietnam Veterans Day, proper climate of national acceptance for the in French-speaking West Africa.. marking the first anniversary of that home­ Vietnam war by signing a proclamation. A His methods proved so successful that he coming. national sense of responsibllity can only be has continued to teach Peace Corps teach­ In the intervening year some of those achieved at the community level by seeking ers--both American and indigenous--his men have died, some have dined at the out young veterans and attempting to reinte­ methodology in such far-flung places as the White House, and still others have become grate them into society. Ivory Coast, Morocco and Micronesia. They spokesmen for what might be called a "re­ in turn have gone out and taught others member-that-wonderful-war" campaign. so now he estimates that people using varia­ The war was not wonderful for the pris­ tions of his methods must number in the oners, the Vietnamese on both sides, for THE MINNESOTA OPERA CO. tens of thousands, in cities and hamlets in the soldiers who made it home in one piece many of the far-away places of the globe. or for those with pieces missing. "People kidded me," he recalls, "about Peace for the ordinary serviceman who has HON.DONALD M. FRASER planting the :flag of language philosophy not dined at the White House has involved over the seV'en seas." waiting on an unemployment line, a run­ OF MINNESOTA Although he is a specialist in French, around from public agencies while trying IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES Rassias also speaks Greek, Italian, and Ger­ to get a job, getting into and paying for Thursday, March 28, 1974 man. He has found Greek an excellent school, and avoiding the war news in the demonstration language to use in training newspapers. Mr. FRASER. Mr. Speaker, one dic­ and sensitizing new teachers of his method. Vietnam veterans as a group have the high­ tionary definition of "hinterland" is, "a Because few have prior knowledge of Greek, est unemployment rate of any minority. part of a country or region lying beyond he says, it teaches teachers a llttle humility. They suffer from the discriminatory prac­ any or all of its metropolitan or cultural They learn smart people can sometimes ap­ tices of a Government that refuses to o:trer in pear dumb or make mistakes. They also learn benefits equaling those given to their fathers centers." Especially matters cultural, that the system works because they learn who served in world War II and from em­ many living on the east coast of the faster than they ever thought they could. ployers who do not o:ffer meaningful jobs. United States tend to think of the rest In keeping with his philosophy that lan­ Even if a veteran has managed to get a of the country as "hinterland" in the guage learning should be relevant, Rassias job and hold it for a while, the chances are sense quoted. Those of us who represent also fathered Dartmouth's Foreign Language that he is going to be among the first to be parts of the "hinterland" know that the Abroad program, of which he is sttll director laid o:ff because he lacks seniority on the job. arts are alive and thriving in our dis­ and which has become an integral and in­ After World War II, the various civil service tricts but we do not report this very often. creasingly popular part of the Dartmouth agencies hired veterans. Today, even with experience. bonus points for veterans there is a hiring Some weeks ago, Newsweek magazine, Of his total approach to language, Rassias freeze for new Federal employes, leaving only December 24, 1973, published a special gives voice to the kind of concerns that have the postal service as the last recourse for issue, "The Arts in America." One sec­ earned him four awards over the years as young veterans, at a low pay rate. tion was headlined, "Music: Out of Tune outstanding teacher. "If we can inspire our The private sector has not provided mean­ With Today?" Written by Hubert Saal, language students to appreciate another ingful employment for veterans, partly be­ it focused on 20th-century American form of expression, then we will have pro­ cause of the myth that everyone who was in classical music. A portion of this section vided them with an enriched human per­ Vietnam ate heroin for breakfast. The young lilpective ... they will have acquired an in· veteran is unwilling to accept menial posi­ looked at the situation of American formed vision." tions. operatic composers and noted that "In Referring to the in-country foreign lan­ Educational benefits today do not begin to fact, if sophisticated opera is any yard­ guage program at Dartmouth, he adds, "We approach those received by World War ll stick, there are no hinterlands." A men­ want to place our students in the culture veterans. There is a bias against those who tion was made of Minneapolis' Minnesota and give them an opportunity to realize the choose to go to a college. Those who enter Opera Co. and this was called to my at­ goals of a true education in the humanities trade schools or on-the-job-training pro­ As grams receive educational and unemployment tention. the result of correspondence by actually communicating with other with some of my constituents, I obtained people and by actually understanding them. benefits, but veterans enrolled in college only Then, in the best meaning of John Stuart receive educational benefits. Yet even after a fascinating brief history of the Minne­ Mills' definition of a liberal education, they finishing a trade school, a veteran finds there sota Opera Co. will return-as a result of this experience in are often no jobs. Mr. Speaker, I am proud of the cul­ language-as sensitive students to become The $220 a month a single veteran now tural life of the Twin Cities of st. Paul sensitive doctors, sensitive engineers, and receives cannot possibly pay for the tuition and Minneapolis. The Minnesota Sym­ sensitive lawyers." costs of more than $2,500 a year of many phony, the Guthrie Theater and numer­ private colleges. The Government paid full Min­ tuition benefits after World War II; today ous other companies including the full benefits could not only assist veterans nesota Opera Co. contribute greatly to but save many private institutions that face the attractive environment of our part of THE VIETNAM VETERAN BLUES serious financial problems. the midwest. It is an understatement to say that care The Minnesota Opera Co's. history and at veterans hospitals is not what it could be. the exce!V" from Newsweek follow: HON. CHARLES B. RANGEL Billions a!"e spent on defense but only pen­ HISTORY OF MINNESOTA OPERA Co. nies, by comparison, for providing fully OF NEW YORK staffed hospitals, physical-rehabilitation pro­ The Minnesota Opera Company is unique IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES grams and vital outpatient faciUties fGr all in America.. It maintains an ensemble of young professional American performers Thursday, March 28, 1974 veterans. The inadequate final physical a G.I. received at the Oakland Army Base hours with which it presents a varied program of Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, today, before being discharged falled to identify innovative new works as well as classics of March 29, has been designated by Presi­ mental and physical problems a veteran the standard repertoire. The excellence of its dent Nixon as Vietnam Veterans Day in might have encountered months later. productions, many of which have toured the Not too many people want to talk about country, has consistently attracted interna­ honor of the last American POW return­ tional attention. It be­ the war, what happened to the Vietnamese ing home, exactly 1 year ago. is, I and what happened to America. And nobody The Company began operations in 1963 lieve, an appropriate time to evaluate the wants to talk about the veteran because he under the wing of the Walker Art Center of present situation of the Vietnam veter­ did not win a noble Victory over a craven Minneapolis, an institution widely known for ans. In today's New York Times, John P. enemy. His only victory was surviving. its emphasis on contemporary visual arts. Rowan and William J. Simon, both Viet­ Now the veteran has a struggle to gain Financed by a grant from the Rockefeller nam veterans, have written a most per­ acceptance from a country that does not Foundation as an experimental project for want to admit it acquiesced in allowing the Walker Art Center, the Center Opera Com­ ceptive article describing the plight of pany was born. After a three-year trial run, today's veteran. war to happen in the first place. Should the veteran have to make himself socially ac­ in which the Company developed a sizeable I was deeply impressed by their article audience and a great respect from national and have taken the liberty of placing ceptable to the country, or should society try critics, a group of young American singers to make up for its rejection of him? was engaged and molded into a cohesive en• it in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, for the The country cannot undo the damage to benefit of my colleagues: semble under the direction of stage dtrecto! servicemen who were in Vietnam, to the fami­ H. Wesley Balk and music director Phll1p THE VIETNAM VETERAN BLUES lies deprived of their son, to those forced to Brunelle. The organization incorporated as (By John P. Rowan and William J. Simon) feign psychological disorders to avoid mili­ a separate institution in 1969, and is no"' On March 29, 1973-a year ago today-the tary service, and to still others who remain in called the Minnesota Opera Company to re­ last American prisoner of war returned from self-exlle. flect its independent status and regional im­ North Vietnam. Recently, President Nixon The President cannot bring about the pact. 8918 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 29, 1974 From its beginning, the Minnesota Opera a bedrock efficiency and the generosity of companies grow, opportunities for American Company has sought to prove that talented patrons like Olncinnati's J. Ralph Corbett singers grow, lessening the need to go to artists, creativity and artistic freedom could and Marshalltown, Iowa's J. William Fisher, Europe. "You'll see a new breed of opera sing­ produce more exciting opera than the estab­ deficits have not greatly troubled most opera ers," says Beverly Sills. "They will all sing lished 'star system' and 'traditional reper­ houses in the hinterlands. In fact, if sophisti­ like Orpheus and act like Barrymore--John toire'. The result was evaluated by Raymond cated opert.l. is any yardstick, there are no or Ethel." Ericson, who wrote in the New York Times, hinterlands. In San Francisco, canny Kurt -HUBERT SAAL. "as one of the most progressive ensembles Herbert Adler manages to pay his bills--and in the country, Minnesota Opera has devel­ to stage marvelous and often novel produc­ oped a reputation far beyond Minneapolis". tions. There is even a md.racle in Boston, Over the past ten seasons, Minnesota Opera where that genius Sarah Caldwell, who con­ has commissioned eight new lyric theatre ducts the Opera Company of Boston with HISC-THE WATCHDOG works and presented fifteen other works one hand and stages with the other, is actu­ COMMITTEE which have been written since 1900. Out of a ally in the black. total of thirty-three productions, twenty-six By way of contrast, the Lyric Opera of have been local, national or world premieres. Chicago flourishes with a repertory about as HON. JOHN M. ASHBROOK brave as Miss Muffet. This company is known Two of its commissioned works have been OF OHIO nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Music: as La Scala West because of its penchant Dominick Argento for "Postcard from Moroc­ for Italian operas and artists. "Are we to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES co," and Conrad Susa for "Transformations." build a fortress in which only Americans Thursday, March 28, 1974 In the current season, Minnesota Opera sing?" asks Carol Fox, the company's duce. opened with a rarely-performed operetta by Ms. Fox has commissioned a new opera for Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Speaker, Wil­ March King John Phillip Sousa called "El America's bicentennial-from Krzysztof liam Randolph Hearst, Jr., editor in Capitan." Audiences throughout the state Penderecki-a Pole. "At the moment there's chief of the Hearst Newspapers, and a responded overwhelmingly to its rousing, no American who could give us the kind of master craftsman in the art of the edi­ good-natured fun, and an extra performance lasting work we wanted," she says. Take that, was added to accommodate those who clam­ Carlisle Floyd, Robert Ward, Lee Hoiby, torial has, in his editor's report of March oured to see it. "El Capitan" was followed by Thomas Pasatieri, Samuel Barber and Domi­ 3, 1974, in the Baltimore News American, a revival of "Transformations," which re­ nick Argento. penned a perceptive piece concerning the ceived its world premiere by the Minnesota "What opera needs is a point of view," parliamentary games which a few con­ Opera Company last year. Based on Anne says Glynn Ross, general director of the gressional liberals are playing with the Sexton's poetry collection, it too received Seattle Opera. The hustling, huckstering House Internal Security Committee. accolades wherever it was performed. Ross, who has plastered Seattle with bumper Pointing out that during the 92d Con­ Occasionally, a great work from the stand­ stickers and buttons that say OPERA LIVES, was ard repertoire wm be included ("The Corona­ the sparkplug of a new national association of gress, 37 resolutions to dissolve the com­ tion of Poppea," "The Marriage of Figaro," professional companies (including the Met) mittee had been introduced-none ot "The Barber of Seville") but even with these called Opera America and presided over by which were acted upon, Mr. Hearst stated traditional works Minnesota Opera's fresh the Baltimore Opera's Robert Colllnge. One that- approach gives the work an appeal whj.ch agreed-on point is the need to erase opera's Having so repeatedly failed to torpedo the sets it apart from the mainstream of the exclusive social-club image. In Houston, the committee by other means, its congressional opera world. This year the Company will General Opera puts on fourteen free park foes now have invented a new approach­ present Mozart's "Don Giovanni," a great performances each spring. and it's a crafty one. classic which will undoubtedly reflect Min­ But the most important new idea has been nesota Opera's inimitable style. the collaboration of companies. Last season, Continuing, Mr. Hearst points out that Personnel changes in the ensemble are kept the Hous+A>n Grand Opera initiated a produc­ the Ad Hoc Select Committee on Com­ to a minimum in the interest of maintaining tion of Donizetti's "Daughter of the Regi­ mittees have been working on a master a stable ensemble and developing a coherent ment" with Beverly Sills, which has been or plan to reorganize the House committee style. The Company's low budget is offset by will be seen in San Diego, Seattle and San system, and "you can imagine what it their adventurous programming of new or Francisco. Perhaps the most futuristic ex­ unfamiliar pieces. The fourth production of ample of opera sharing is Co-Opera., the news includes"-the abolition of HISC: the 1973-74 season, for example, is the World association formed by the Kansas City Lyric The legislative ploy aimed at killing the Premiere of "The Newest Opera in the Theater, Minneapolis's Minnesota Opera HISC, furthermore involves an equally de­ World," a highly original, improwsational Company and the Lake George (N.Y.) Opera vious method of presentation. opera by H. Wesley Balk, Phlllp Brunelle, Festival, which will share singers, costumes, The recommendation for abolition is and the Company's ensemble. scenery, staging and musical direction for For the past two years, the Company has "The Magic Flute," "La Traviata" and all but buried in a mass of other recom­ offered an Opera Studio workshop for col­ "Transformations," a new work by Conrad mendations covering over 2,000 pages, he lege students. Members of the professional Susa. observed. The plot could work-unless staff meet twice weekly with these talented With this spirit of cooperation rampant, an enlightened public and a wide-awake young people. In addition to their lyric with audiences eager for opera., there ought House of Representatives flag it down. theater training, the Studio members have an to be more of a place for the contemporary HISC, the House watchdog committee, opportunity to serve as chorus members in composer despite all the economic risk. Ken­ "must not be lost to us now," he con­ Company productions, and to understudy neth Caswell, manager of the San Diego cludes. The article follows: major roles. Opera, says: "If composers would only get Minnesota Opera has also offered classes away from this tortured-souls-in-hell music, [From the Baltimore News American, for high-school and grade-school students, all this atonality which is readily accessible Mar. 3, 1974] conducted special workshops for colleges, and to musicians but not to an audience!" WATCHDOG COMMITTEE toured throughout the region with lecture­ Unlike Carol Fox, Caswell knows there are (By William Randolph Hearst, Jr.) demonstrations and classes, all of which such composers. Last season his company NEw YORK.-8ince truth consists of prov­ serves to demonstrate that Opera is alive gave the world premiere of "Medea" by the able facts, it is hardly surprising that stu­ and well in Minnesota. young American composer Alva Henderson; dents of democratic freedom keep coming up this season it is embarking on an ambitious with the same two fundamental observa­ [Excerpt f.rom Newsweek] production of Wagner's Ring cycle. This sort tions. One is that liberty has more to fear The situation is even more diffi.cult for of all-around enterprise is what's needed. from internal enemies than from those out­ American operatic composers. This year, Perhaps the best example among the regional side. The other is that liberty can be main­ when after four seasons of struggle its local companies is the Minnesota Opera, which tained only by keeping a constant protective opera company folded, The Atlanta Constitu­ mixes inventively staged standards with new vigil against the forces which would like to tion wrote that opera is a "particular form works like Dominick Argento's "Postcard limit or destroy it. of cultural expression not too well suited to From Morocco." This year's is "The Newest The twin truisms have been expressed in our country . . ." Opera companies do walk Opera in the World"-and it's totally impro­ vised, a world premiere every performance. various words by many different people. The a tight line, and the bigger you are, the U.S. philosopher William James, for example, harder you fall. Ask Schuyler Chapin, general Despite all its problems, the United States has entered into a golden age of opera. In said that "The deadliest of enemies are manager of the Metropolitan Opera, queen not foreign foes; they always dwell within." of the nation's companies, which spends $24 the last decade it has produced a raft of Its classic corollary is credited to an Ir1sh. mill!on a year, half of all the money spen~ on singers who are the toast of the world, led professional opera in the U.S. "We're broke," by Beverly Sills, Shirley Verrett, Marilyn judge, John Philpot Curran, who said In a says Chapin flatly. So is his friendly neigh­ Horne, Martina Arroyo, Sherrill Milnes, 1790 speech : "Eternal vigilance is the price borhood rival, Julius Rudel, director of the Norman Treigle and such younger luminar­ of liberty." New York City Opera, the country's second ies as Frederica Von Stade, Carol Neblett, Now you might think just about every­ biggest, performing 200 times a year. Joanna Simon, Jessye Norman, Richard Best body would agree automatically with these But, thanks to a smaller scale of operation, and Gwendolyn Killebrew. As the native principles. After all, U.S. history is full of _March 29, 1974 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 8919 the disruptions which result whenever groups and it's a crafty one. Largely unnoticed by sian of mankind. We Americans possessing of our own people start believing that their the press, it seems that the House Select liberty must exert the eternal vigilance personal convictions are more important Committee on committees headed by liberal which is necessary to preserve it." than the freedom of their neighbors. And it Missouri Democrat Richard B-olling has been The House Internal Security Committee -certainly stands to reason that a constant, working on a master plan to reorganize and has long since proven its great value as one close watch be maintained if the subversive streamline such bodies. The plan now has of the most effective instruments for gov­ activities of such groups are to be kept at a been submitted and you can imagine what ernment vigilance. .minimum. it includes . This watchdog committee must not be lost That's what you might think. And that's Sure enough, one of the recommendations to us now-and you can help save it from why it seems important today to tell you would abolish the HISC, this time by trans­ the destruction plotted and hoped for by the what is being plotted in Congress by a small ferring its legislative jurisdiction to the BolUng committee. but willful band of lawmakers who have House Judiciary Committee. Columnist Write your congressman and tell him how somewhat different ideas. The object of their Joseph Alsop, one of the most astute obser­ you feel. Make it strong and brief and do it plotting is the House Internal Security Com­ vers of the Washington political scene, right away. mittee, which untill969 was titled the House recently described this grab-bag committee It you don't know the name of the con­ Un-American Activities Committee. Why and as "a kind of dumping ground for left-wing gressman supposedly representing you, call how they have made it a target confirms the Democrats of the more far-out type." the city desk of this newspaper for the in­ warnings of William James and John Philpot The all-important point is that if the formation. Curran. Bolling committee recommendaiton is No agency of Congress has had a more adopted, it will almost certainly finish the stormy history. For more than 40 years the kind of vigorous conttnuing probe of sub­ VIETNAM VETERANS DAY HUAC-and now the HISC-has been ex­ versive activity for which the HUAC-RISC haustively and effectively probing all man­ has been noted. Sixteen of the 21 Democrats ner of subversive activity in this country. For on the Judiciary Committee have voted HON. JOHN Y. McCOLLISTER the same length of time, significantly, it has against appropriations for HISC in the past. OF NEBRASKA been strongly resisted and regularly con­ The chairmen of six of its seven subcommit­ demned as excessive by the usual loud chorus tees have done the same. You can imagine IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of liberals and left-Wing Communist the zeal with which they would continue the Thursday, March 28, 1974 sympa.thizers. HISC work. They accused the committee of having a The legislative ploy aimed at killing the Mr. McCOLLISTER. Mr. Speaker, it is pathological fear of Communism, of making HISC, furthermore, involves an equally highly appropriate that as America be­ -scarlet mountains out of pale pink molehills, devious method of presentation. The recom­ gins its second year of peace that we David Brinkley, who was he had left the American people something isters had to find a very large box and Chet Huntley's longtime partner on the useful, honest, and of permanent value. they did. They came to the entrance of Huntley-Brinkley NBC nightly news, And for myself, the best I can do is say, for one last time, goodnight, Chet. the Executive Office Building with a very devoted a portion of the NBC nightly CHANCELLOR. On my part, along with every­ large box-about 45 cubic feet, so big news program to reminiscing about this body else around here, the news of Chet's it had to be pushed on a wheeled dolly. man who gave such stature and respect­ death makes me very sad. He was quite a It was decorated with the original mark­ ability to his profession. man. He had an unparalleled passion for life, ings of the Ark of the Covenant and I am sure that any Member who did off camera and on camera. filled to the brim with petitions. not have the opportunity of hearing that What we will remember best, I think, 1s Now, when people come to make deliv­ broadcast would appreciate reading the his extraordinary warmth. Chet Huntley will White text, which I have appended to these also be remembered as one of the most im­ eries of large objects to the portant people in twentieth century jour­ House, the Secret Service has a firm rule. remarks. They represent an appropriate nalism. When he and that fellow named The box was wheeled around to the side and moving commentary on Chet Brinkley teamed up, television was beginning door to undergo the required Secret Serv­ Huntley's life and the times which he to cover the news. As television got better, ice examination and then it was brought helped to shape. Huntley and Brinkley got better. Here is how to my office, but it was too large to get CHET HUNTLEY OBITUARY they began, as a team, at the 1956 polltical inside the door. Those petitions were the JOHN CHANCELLOR. People throughout the convention. voices of the citizens speaking to the news business, and throughout the country, VOICE OF POLITICIAN .... party of the peo­ Congress and the President symbolically were saddened today by the news of the ple will nominate a candidate who will be the death of Chet Huntley, who died early this next President of the United States. as though each person were in the White VOICE OF POLITICIAN. Thank you, Mayor House Office and in the Congressional morning of cancer, at his home in Big Sky, Montana. Chet was sixty-two when he died. Daley ... Offices. He's survived by his mother, his widow, two CHET HuNTLEY. Well these, ladies and gen­ The President and the Congress lis­ daughters from his first marriage, and four tlemen, are the tidying up, or the housekeep­ tened. In the intervening months, the grandchildren. The funeral services wfil be ing processes, so to speak, getting the con­ new Comprehensive Employment and private. vention in order, getting it properly orga­ Training Act was enacted by the Con­ Chet began as a newspaperman, and in a nized, so that 1ts main function can be gress and signed by the President. The long career in broadcasting worked for all handled. Just a moment ago there, I might three networks. He was with NBC from 1955 explain, you saw a couple of shots of Senator OIC's were mentioned by name in that Smathers of Florida, and one briefly of Mr. new law. The people's petitions made a until his retirement in 1970. When he left New York he retired to his James Farley. difference. Their voices were heard. The home state, Montana. NBC gave him a horse, I'm Chet Huntley, your host, on behalf of box had fulfilled its function. Now, Leon, which he named Julian Goodman. Mr. Julian NBC News, for the complete convention cov­ tonight I have a box to give to you in re­ Goodman is the president of NBC. erage. Now with me here in TV-1, which is turn. It, too, is symbolic. It has on the Chet loved Montana. And the resort he what we call our control studio for the con­ outside the Presidential seal and the was helping to build was a place called Big ventions, are two gentlemen you know. David President's signature. It has one thing Sky. He used to come to New York occa­ Brinkley, who will be reporting as he watches sionally, but only for a visit. This was his the proceedings with you, and Bill Henry, inside-a pen engraved with the Presi­ who will share the responsib111ty with David dent's autograph. It symbolizes the real home, in these mountains. We think that Brinkley, and will summarize the many activ­ signing of the Comprehensive Employ­ showed in his character. ities in and around this convention. Which, ment Training Act on December 28, 1973. During his broadcasting career, Chat I might remark parentehtica.lly, I am sure Huntley won four Peabody Awards and two has established an all-time record for Leon, it has been an honor and a pleas­ Overseas Press Club awards. He and his ure to have taken part in the events sur­ promptness in getting started on time. partner of many years on the Huntley­ Perhaps, David, now, you have some re­ rounding this historic exchange of boxes. Brinkley Report won the Distinguished marks to make. And come in with your obser­ It symbolizes the fact that at least some­ Service award of the National Association of vations, if you will. times when the people speak, their voices Broadcasters. And the news program on BRINKLEY. Well, we're off to a flying start in are heard. which Chet and David appeared for so long, many ways, Chet. I was a little staggered to Just 18 days ago, on March 11, the Vice with so much success, won every major tele­ see this convention start on time, and so were President of the United States went to vision award, including seven Emmys. And the delegates, because they weren't here. I here is what David Brinkley said today. have one quick statistic which I think should Philadelphia to see the operation of OIC DAVID BRINKLEY. One night, years ago after as Dr. Sullivan's special guest. By the end go in the record book. It was 12:31:15 Chicago one of the all-night sessions at a political time when we first heard the words, "Will the of the tour, Vice President Ford said: convention, when Chet and I were tired out, delegates please take their seats." And it was This is one demonstration of what can be and so were a lot of the American people 12:32:15 Chicago time when we found that, done with leadership and motivation and that stayed up all night with us, Chet said as always, they did not. help from private and Federal sources. We to me, "Some time I'll be glad to get out of CHANcELLOR. That collaboration was to lead have got to expand it and we wm. We will do this, and get back out West, and sit on my to one of the most successful television our best to get you more funds. own front porch, and look out across the news operations of all time, which was cen­ range, over maybe a mtle or so of my own Reverend Sullivan has requested every tered on a program which began in October land, and see some of my own ca. ttle standing of 1956, called the Huntley-Brinkley Report. Federal, State, county, and local official out there in the sunshine."' HUNTLEY. Ohet Huntley, NBC News, New to "come see" OIC programs in action Well, when he left our news program about York. across the country. He wants them to see three years ago, he got to do a little of that BRINKLEY. And David Brinkley, NBC News, first hand what OIC is doing in the de­ in Montana. I'm sorry he didn't get to do Washington. pressed areas and to see what "is pos­ more of it. But in these last months in Mon­ HUNTLEY. Israel today accepted the . . . tana he had quite a lot to think about. Most CHANCELLOR. Personally, Chet Huntley was sible" to help the poor, unemployed and pleasant to think about, certainly, was that underemployed of America. He is hope­ honest, hard-working, honorable, courageous, whenever, wherever we traveled around this warm, patriotic, and decent. I think m1111ona ful that Vice President FoRD's visit to country, we always ran into younger people, of people understood that. He was a superb Philadelphia OIC will encourage the college age and thereabouts, who said, who reporter of straight news, and a thoughtful "come see" visitation to OIC's all over said to us, "You know, I grew up with you commentator on the news. This 1s what he America. guys. You're a part of my youth, you're a said, for example, when Martin Luther King part of my education, you're a part of my was murdered. life." HUNTLEY. This country and every person CHET HUNTLEY OBITUARY Well, he certainly was touched, and moved, 1n lt suffered a terrible loss tonight, with and affected by that. And he had that to the assassination of this man. Again we are think about. And the knowledge that he al­ made to look llke a nation of killers, at a time HON. EDWARD P. BOLAND ways told them the truth, as far as he knew when our detractors and unbridled critics, it. Over these years, with the work and the OF MASSACHUSETTS and adversaries. had already advanced that help of many others at NBC who were not so damaging assertion. The perpetrator of this IN THE HOUSE OF' REPRESENTATIVES o!ten seen, and not so well-known, we deed brings down upon all of us the pa.1nful Thursday, March 28, 1974 brought the American people the good news, charge that we Americans are prisoners of and the bad news. And in the process became violence, and destruction, and death. Mr. BOLAND. Mr. Speaker, on a part o! the history o! television and of What others think we are, however, 1s less March 20 I joined with many other journalism. I guess we and television grew important than what we are. And we are Members in memorial1zing the death of a up together. poorer as a consequence of this; farther away true giant among news reporters, Chet Well now, that part of it is over. And I from our national goals, and more a prey to Huntley. That same evening, John Chan- believe Chet had every right to think tha't complete disaster, the disaster descrtbed lD 8922 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS March 29, 1974 such stark language in the recent report of 20 to 24, and many of the employed are in fighting at every opportunity for libera­ the President's Commission on CivU Dis­ low-paying jobs. In 1971 the Emergency Em­ tion from Soviet Russian domination. orders. ployment Act was approved by Congress to There were uprisings in 1920 and others. Dr. Martin Luther King is victim of the aid Vietnam veterans, but the President in 1922. At the end of World War n, violence he preached against and eschewed. opposed allocating funds to implement the on June 27, 1944, the Second All-Byelo­ This stirrtng and gifted voice of restraint act in fiscal 1974. is now silent. And we will find it d11ficult to The Vietnam veteran does not have the russian Congress convened in Mensk, and argue convincingly in behalf of moderation. powerful lobbies that spoke for the better immediately annuled all treaties involv­ That is the tragedy of it. Restraint, gentle­ educated and represented veterans of other ing Byelorussia that had been made by ness, charity, virtues we so desperately need, foreign wars. Vietnam was an unpopular war; occupational governments, approved the have had a. dark day. but that does not diminish the nation's debt proclamation of independence of the Bye­ CHANCELLOR. Chet Huntley did that kind of to those who served in it. lorussian Democratic Republic, and work for years, and here's the last thing he elected the Byelorussian Central Coun­ said on the program, upon his retirement. HuNTLEY. I want to thank the entire staff cil as the only national Byelorussian rep­ of NBC, for this nightly broadcast has not resentation. An organized Byelorussian BYELORUSSIAN INDEPENDENCE National Guard was fighting for the in­ been an individual effort, by any means. And DAY as for you out there, I thank you first for dependence of the country, but with all your patience, then for your many kindnesses the resistance offered by the Byelorussian and the fia.ttering things you have said and HON. HENRY HELSTOSKI partisans, Soviet Russia once again con­ written. More difficult to take, to be sure, OF NEW JERSEY quered Byelorussia. has been your criticism; but that, too, has IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. Speaker, the ruling forces in Bye­ been helpful, and in most cases valid. lorussia today are merely an adminis­ But you have bolstered my conviction that Thursday, March 28, 1974 this land contains an incredible quality and trative arm of the Moscow government quantity of good common sense. And it's Mr. HELSTOSKI. Mr. Speaker, March and do not represent the hopes of the in no danger of being led down the primrose 25, 1975, marked the 56th anniversary of Byelorussian people, for liberation from path by a. journalist. the proclamation of freedom by the peo­ the horrors of Soviet Russian occupa­ At the risk of sounding presumptions, I ple of Byelorussia. tion and the restoration of freedom and would say to all of you, be patient and have While Byelorussians in the United liberty. courage, for there will be better and hap­ Today, the Byelorussian people the pier news one day, 1f we work at it. States and in the free countries of the BRINKLEY. I really don't want to say it, but world celebrated this proclamation of world over are looking forward to the day the time has come. And so for the last time, independence of the Byelorussian Dem­ when their human rights will again be re­ good luck, and goodnight, Chet. ocratic Republic, there was no joy in stored to them. I join with them in hop­ HUNTLEY. Good luck, David, and goodnight Byelorussia. This national observance ing that it will not be too long when for NBC News. in Byelorussia is replaced by the cele­ their desire is fulfilled. CHANCELLOR. And goodnight to you all bration of the Bolshevik revolution which from NBC News. is signifying the conquest and subordi­ nation of Byelorussia to Soviet Russia. Byelorussia and other non-Russia na­ VIETNAM VET IS FORGOTTEN tions, subjugated by the Soviets, are liv­ AMERICAN VIETNAM VETERANS DAY ing in conditions of double oppression: first, as victims of communistic oppres­ HON. CHARLES B. RANGEL sion and second, as colonial slaves of the HON. GLENN M. ANDERSON OF CALIFORNIA OF NEW YORK Russian Empire-U.S.S.R. Because of this the people of Byelorussia are striv­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ing for liberation and the restoration of Thursday, March 28, 1974 their independent state. Friday, March 29, 1974 Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, the best The history of Byelorussian statehood Mr. ANDERSON of California. Mr. way that Congress and the Nation can goes back to the ninth century when sev­ Speaker, today is Vietnam Veterans Day, do honor to the Vietnam-era veterans eral Slav tribes founded independent a day devoted to honor those who served today would be to take responsible steps principalities on the territory of what to­ in Vietnam. to provide them with the jobs, the train­ day is Byelorussia. The Byelorussians Unlike veterans of other wars, the ing and the education which they so were forced to live under czarist rule for Vietnam veteran returned-not to the rightfully deserve. Far too long have the several centuries until the Bolshevik cheering crowds-but to a nation deter­ needs of the Vietnam veteran been Revolution of 1917 gave them the op­ mined to forget the horror and the ignored by Congress and the Nation in portunity to proclaim their independence trauma of that part of our history. on March 25, 1918, through the Council And, as a result, his fate is hardly a selfish effort to forget the Vietnam war of the Byelorussian Democratic Repub­ befitting that which one would expect for and what it stood for. It is time for us to lic. In opposition to this, the Soviet Rus­ the sacrifice and the service asked by the realize the responsibility that we have to sian Government of Moscow created its United States. these men and women who have risked own fictitious staJte, the Byelorussian Rather than receiving the treatment their lives for a war which they did not Soviet Socialist Republic, including it they deserve, rather than being accorded create and which many of them opposed. within the sphere of the U.S.S.R. benefits equal to their sacrifices, they It is with this in mind that I take the Byelorussian territory was divided are facing unemployment lines and in­ liberty of placing an editorial found in among Russia and neighboring states. adequate educational benefits. And those today's New York Times, in the CoNGRES­ 'IIhere was forcibly brought into Byelo­ 340,000 who returned home disabled are SIONAL RECORD, for the benefit of my russia a totalitarian communistic sys­ dented adequate compensation; and some colleagues. ltem, depriving ·the population of all their of those who left an arm, or leg, or an THE REAL HONORS human rights and freedoms. eye in Vietnam are processed like num­ President Nixon has proclaimed today as The communistic ruling class imposed bers by faceless bureaucrats posing be­ Vietnam Veterans Day because a. year ago a limitless oppression and merciless op­ hind a medical facade. the last American combat soldier departed from tha·t country of casualties. The most pression and widespread exploitation of Mr. Speaker, the Vietnam war was a appropriate ceremonies to mark the occasion the enslaved people. Starvation and the reality, and the veterans of that war are would be action in Washington to give these shortages of even the most necessary ar­ home-not looking for a handout, not veterans improved rights. Educational bene­ ticles are the distinctive marks of Com­ seeking some reward-but merely seek­ fits and job opportunities are the real honors munist domination. This rule of Byelo­ ing the benefits they earned for serving the men who served seek and deserve. russia was made possible through the in the Armed Forces of our country. They have been shortchanged compared use of massive and ruthless terror which Yesterday's Washington Post carried to Second World War veterans. The $220-a­ over the 56 years enabled the Soviets to an article by Jack Anderson that suc­ month payments to cover tuition and living cinctly and accurately described the situ­ costs mean "starvation with honor," in the annihilate over 6 million of the Byelorus­ phrase of City University of New York vet­ sian population. ation facing the Vietnam veteran. At this erans. The unemployment rate for Vietnam Despite the continuous terror in their point, I place that article in the CoN­ veterans is higher than for nonveterans a,ged native land, the Byelorussians were GRESSIONAL RECORD, With the hope that a April 1, 1974 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 8923 grateful nation wm realize the inequity birth to clusters of small but adequate sub­ first crack a.t over a. million jobs, and vetoed of the present circumstances and rectify urban residences across the nation, are vir­ special burial and health benefits for vet­ this by increasing educational aid and tually worthless in toda.y's intl.ated real estate erans. market. In one celebrated case, the President's training, by increasing disability com­ Despite half-hearted efforts by the govern­ budget managers tried to save money by cut­ pensation, by expanding and improving ment, many veterans have found they can­ ting off funds for cooling veterans hospitals the rehabilitation programs, and most not find decent jobs. In hard purchasing in the summer. The Senate responded with a. importantly, by recognizing these vet­ power, according to the VA's own private vote to cut off the air conditioning a.t the erans for the sacrifices and for the serv­ calculations, a. single Vietnam vert buys $203 Office of Management and Budget. The hos­ ices they yielded to our country: less with his government check than did his pital cooling systems were hastily restored. father after World War II. Married vets are The President paid brief attention to the VIETNAM VET Is FORGOTTEN AMERICAN even worse off. veterans in 1972 when he was running for (By Jack Anderson) Disabled veterans tell us they don't receive reelection. The "Veterans Mobile Outreach" They called it peace with honor and said adequate treatment, training or compensa­ program, for instance, sent vans to assist our men would come home on their feet, not tion. But the darkest cloud hanging over the veterans three months before the election. on their knees. Just a. year ago this week, the Vietnam vet is the drug problem. An internal The scheduling and publl.city were handled, last combat troops were withdrawn. Now government memo reports that the Ameri­ not by the VA, but by the President's cam­ thousands of veterans find they are :flat on can public "assumes that all Vietnam era paign committee. Veterans have charged that their faces. veterans have abused drugs and this makes the vans visited areas where the President Vietnam was a. war with no glory and, for them more skeptical when it comes to hiring needed votes, not where veterans needed the men who fought there, no heroes. Many the younger veteran." assistance. of the young soldiers who risked their lives There's no denying many Gis came to rely But perhaps the biggest obstacle for the in the rain forests and rice paddies of South­ on drugs in Vietnam, some to relieve the returning veterans is the Vietnam war it­ east Asia. remain alienated from the society pain of wounds, others just to escape the self. America. hasn't yet recovered from the that sent them to a. war most Americans cruel realities of war. The treatment center. war. The nation was torn apart, and the neither wanted nor like to remember. promised by the Pentagon have fallen woe­ wounds are deep and slow in healing. The memories are painful, and the process fully short. They aren't even open to men Professional counseling was desperately of forgetting has been harsh on the men who who received "less than honorable" dis­ needed, but seldom provided, for those re­ came back from Vietnam. The regrettable charges, although these men often are the turning from combat to a. country in the result: the Vietnam veteran has become to­ ones who most need treatment. midst of rapid social change. The forlorn day's forgotten American. Facing a. hostile world that offers them in­ veteran, suddenly shorn of his uniform and He came home to a. cold welcome. He found sufficient benefits and few opportunities, confronted with the conflicts of a. nation in his peers had taken the ava.Ua.ble jobs, his some vets have fallen back on their chemical turmoil, had nowhere to turn. elders regarded him with suspicion and his crutches. It is odd that a. country that won't for­ government was interested only in cutting Many veterans complain that President give those who refused to serve in Vietnam veterans' benefits. Nixon behaved as if the only men who served also refuses to reward those who did their The educational benefits of the GI bill, in Vietnam were the 600 POWs. While he was duty. But the veteran is a. living symbol of which helped two generations of vets com­ hosting them in a tent on the White House that war, a. reminder to his fellow Americans plete their schooling, are now laughably in­ grounds, he gutted programs that would help of a. pain they would rather forget. adequate. Even these small benefits get en­ the soldiers who didn't. get captured. So in a sense, the forgotten veteran has tangled in the bureaucratic red tape which He slashed disa.b111ty compensation for se­ become the last victim of the Vietnam war. snarls the Veterans Administration. Scores verely disabled vets, opposed GI educational Footnote: Dozens of Massachusetts vets of former servicemen have complained to us increases as "excessive and inflationary,'' im­ are planning to come to Washington on that their college checks arrive too late or pounded funds voted by Congress to help col­ March 29 to sell apples on street corners. not at all. leges enroll vets, cut funds for a. "mandatory "Project Apple" is patterned after the post­ GI loans for home purchases, which gave job listing" program intended to give vets World War I action of veterans.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES-Monday, April 1, 1974 The House met at 12 o'clock noon. There was no objection. the House to the bill (S. 39) entitled "An Rev. John W. Eyster, First Congrega­ act to amend the Federal Aviation Act of tional Church of Emerald Grove, Janes­ 1958 to provide a more effective program ville, Wis., offered the following prayer: MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE to prevent aircraft piracy, and for other purposes," requests a conference with the Almighty God, Your creative power A message from the Senate by Mr. House on the disagreeing votes of the two and meaningful involvement in the proc­ Arrington, one of its clerks, announced Houses thereon, and appoints Mr. MAG­ ess of life challenge us to assume the that the Senate had passed without NUSON, Mr. CANNON, Mr. HARTKE, Mr. responsibilities of this hour. amendment bills and a joint resolution PEARSON, and Mr. COOK to be the confer­ We rejoice in the creative energies and of the House of the following titles: ees on the part of the Senate. capabilities which You have bestowed H.R. 12341. An act to authorize sale of a The message also announced that the upon us for Your glory and the service former Foreign Service consulate building in Senate had passed bills of the following of our fellow men. It is our awareness of Venice to Wake Forest University; titles, in which the concurrence of the these blessings which humbles us in con­ H.R. 12465. An act to amend the Foreign House is requested: fessing that we often choose to do that Service Bulldings Act, 1926, to authorize ad­ which contradicts Your just purposes and ditional appropriations for the fiscal year S. 2348. An act to amend the Canal Zone 1974; and Code to transfer the functions of the clerk righteous ways. H.J. Res. 941. Joint resolution making an of the U.S. District Court for the District of Clarify for us anew the good which urgent supplemental appropriation for the the Ca.na.l Zone with respect to the issuance You require of us: To do justice, to love fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, for the Vet­ and recording of marriage licenses, and re­ kindness, to walk humbly with You.­ erans' Administration, and for other pur­ lated activities, to the civil affairs director Micah 6: 8. poses. of the Canal Zone Government, and for other Source of courage and wisdom, so guide purposes; The message also announced that the S. 2835. An act to ren ame the first Civilian and direct us as a people that the means Senate had passed with amendments in Conservation Corps Center located near of our governance may help us fulfill the which the concurrence of the House is Franklin, N.C., and the Cross Timbers Na­ responsibilities of our days. requested, bills of the House of the fol­ tional Grasslands in Texas in honor of for­ For Yours is the kingdom, the power, lowing title: mer President Lyndon B. Johnson; and and the glory forever. Amen. S. 2844. An act to amend the Land and H.R. 11873. An act to authorize the Secre­ Water Conservation Fund Act, as amended, tary of Agriculture to encourage and assist to provide for collection of special recreation the several States in carrying out a program use fees as additional campgrounds, and THE JOURNAL of animal health research; and for other purposes. H.R. 12466. An act to amend the Depart­ The SPEAKER. The Chair has exam­ ment of State Appropriations Authorization ined the Journal of the last day's pro­ Act of 1973 to authorize additional appro­ ceedings and announces to the House his priations for the fiscal year 1974, and for CONSENT CALENDAR approval thereof. other purposes. The SPEAKER. Tills is Consent Cal­ Without objection, the Journal stands The message also announced that the endar day. The Clerk will call the bill approved. Senate disagrees to the amendments of on the Consent Calendar.