15984 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE July 2 By Mr. THOMPSON of Texas: PETITIONS, ETC. tlon call1ng upon the TV industry to cease H.R. 11944. A bill for the relief of Joao all its propaganda relating to warfare; to Pereira Morals and Marla da Gloria Morais; Under clause 1 of rule XXII, petitions the Committee on Interstate and Foreign to the Committee on the Judiciary. and papers were laid on the Clerk's desk Commerce. By Mr. BOB WILSON: and referred as follows: 952. Also, petition of Henry Stoner, Avon H.R. 11945. A bill for the reUef of Jose Park, Fla.• relative to the civil rights bill, DaSUva Da Luz; to the Committee on the 951. By the SPEAKER: Petition of Henry H.R. 7152; to the Committee on the Judi­ Judiciary. Stoner, Avon Park, Fla., to initiate legisla- ciary.

EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS

A Pioneer Air Service can Highway or by a 3-hour nonstop jet freedoms we hold so dear and to renew Clipper flight. our personal dedication to continue our EXTENSION OF REMARKS Although cargo volume doubled almost American way-of-life in the face of 0 overnight the capacity of Pan Am's growing threats from all sides. OF Boeing 707 jet clippers was so great that We should rekindle in the hearts of HON. RALPH J. RIVERS no backlog of cargo developed except for all of our citizens a feeling of pride and OF ALASKA the first few days immediately following patriotism such as that felt by our fore­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the earthquake. bears when the first Independence Day While the entire community was de­ was celebrated or when this young Na­ Thursday, July 2, 1964 pendent on air transportation for fresh tion withstood trials and emerged Mr. RIVERS of Alaska. Mr. Speaker, produce and dairy products, Pan Am's stronger and more prosperous than citizens of the great State of Alaska have highly nonstop flights to Fairbanks pro­ before. a particular reason to be concerned with vided a 1,520-mile aerial supply line. I join with the members of the Na­ any activity or ceremony affecting Pan During the emergency, Seattle and tional Cowbelles and invite you to "ring American World Airways. That is why Fairbanks airport personnel referred to out the bells on the 4th of July." I take great pleasure and pride in join­ Pan Am's nightly jet flight 901 as the "My country, 'tis of thee, ing with my other colleagues in com­ "flying milkwagon" because of the large Sweet land of liberty, memorating the memorable and sig­ amounts of fresh milk and dairy prod­ Of thee I sing: nificant event in the history of Pan ucts that went aboard each evening. Land where my fathers died, American World Airways, consisting of Land of the pilgrims' pride, Mr. Speaker, it appears that Pan From every mountainside its successful inaugural :tlight across the American, who pioneered service to Alas­ Let freedom ring." Atlantic. ka in 1931, will be serving our great State -Samuel Francis Smith, 1808-95. Residents of Alaska, Mr. Speaker, re­ for an indefinite period of time. We call all too clearly the horror which certair..ly hope so and we anticipate that struck our State last March. Well do its services will be maintained, not sole­ we remember the immediate, enthusias­ ly for emergency purposes, but to bring National Open tic, and unselfish response of Pan Amer­ to the great State of Alaska many thou­ ican in making available its equipment sands of our fellow Americans who have EXTENSION OF REMARKS and extensive facilities to alleviate con­ never been exposed to the magnificence tinued su.ffering in Alaska. and beauty of the northernmost State in OF Commercial jet transportation played this Union. HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. an important role in helping Alaska back OF FLORIDA to its feet after the Good Friday earth­ quake. Let Freedom Ring: July 4, 1964 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES When the docks at Seward and Whit­ Thursday, July 2, 1964 tier were demolished, Pan American Air­ EXTENSION OF REMARKS Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, 2 weeks ways• jet clippers began carrying average OF ago the Nation's Capital and the Con­ cargo loads of 6 to 9 tons every night to gressional County Club were host to one Fairbanks. HON. DAVE MARTIN of the world's prime sporting events, One passenger jet carried 23,826 pounds OF NEBRASKA the 64th Open Championship of the U.S. of badly needed supplies to Alaska--one IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Golf Association. of the heaviest cargo loads ever trans­ Golf fans who witnessed the National ported on a passenger aircraft. Thursday, July 2, 1964 Open this year, either on the scene at Part of this record load was 9,000 Mr. MARTIN of Nebraska. Mr. the Congressional Country Club or via pounds of fresh milk. Foods and other Speaker, in anticipation of the 188th television, were privileged to see the perishables make up a heavy proportion Anniversary of the signing of the Dec­ greatest chapter in the long history of of each jet :flight, augmented by drugs, laration of Independence on July 4, this event. In every respect, from the clothing, and other necessities. 1964, the members of the American Na­ hospitality given visitors by the com­ Passenger traffic for the weeks follow­ tional Cowbelles-an auxiliary of the munity and the club to the thrilling ing the earthquake reflected the resur­ American National Cattlemen's Associa­ climax of the tournament itself, this 64th gence of the 49th State with a 41 percent tion-have sponsored the presentation of National Open was the finest of them all. gain for Pan American during April over tiny cow bells to each Member of Con­ For this success we can thank Frank the same month of 1963. gress to observe Independence Day by the J. Murphy, Jr., general chairman of the Destruction of the docks at Seward and ringing of bells across the Nation. tournament. It was Mr. Murphy's ini­ Whittier posed a major threat to the Since the initial effort to revive this tiative, planning, and dedication that entire State, even areas not directly af­ American custom of ringing bells in cele­ brought the 64th Open to Washington fected by the earthquake. Port facilities bration was started, it has grown steadily and the Congressional Country Club, and at these two cities serve as important through the participation of . patriotic assured its flawless operation during gateways to Alaska for surface cargo, citizens throughout the Nation. In Ne­ tournament week. Appreciation must shipped in bulk or containers. braska, the American Legion has spon­ also be expressed to A. E. (Lon) Martin, · From these points, cargo is trans­ sored a statewide program to enlist com­ club manager, and to all the officials and shipped aboard the Alaska Railroad for munities to ring school and church bells employees of the Congressional who con­ carriage into the interior. Following the at a specified time. It has been en­ tributed so much to making the Open a earthquake, Al.aska had the alternative thusiastically received. success. of bringing in vitally needed goods via I can think of no better time than the And, of course, no one will ever be the long hard truck haul along the Al- present for each of us to reflect upon the able to mention the 64th National Open 1964 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 15985 without remembering the gallant and in­ from anybody, and I'm not interested in up or voted down. I agree. However, the spiring championship effort of the tour­ anything the Federal Government has to administration refuses to go along with this ·nament winner, Ken Venturi, of the giveaway!' idea. When a measure is voted down, the Paradise Country Club, Crystal River. NEED SOMETHING TO READ? administration turns up its power, twists a The U.S. Government Printing Office, using few more arms, makes a few more deals, and Fla., which is in my congressional dis­ taxpayers' money, prints just about anything. the legislative chambers must again act on trict. By his performance· and courage Here are a few examples: ( 1) "Restoration of the same b111. For example, on March 12, in winning this year's Open, Ken Venturi Lost or Obliterated Corners and Subdivision by a vote of 184 to 222, we voted down the reflected credit not only upon the club he of Sections"; (2) "Porosity and Bulk Den­ pay raise blll for Federal employees including represented, but the entire golfing world. sity of Sedimentary Rocks"; (3) "Your Baby's Congressmen. With a few minor changes We are proud of Ken Venturi, as all those First Year," Spanish edition; (4) "The and without further hearings, it came back Search for Extraterrestrial Life"; (5) "Impact to the House on June 11 and was approved who are interested in golf and the Na­ by a vote of 243 to 157. There were many tion's Capital might well be proud of the of Office Automation on the U.S. Revenue Service"; and (6) "Screw Thread Standards proposed raises in the bill which I thought success of the 64th Open Championship for Federal Services." could have been deleted. For instance, in­ oftheUSGA. General Accounting Office reports uncover­ creases for Cabinet and sub-Cabinet officers, ing of $486,900,000 in wasteful spending and Foreign Service Officers, members of the Su­ mismanagement practices by the Defense preme Court, judges and other judicial em­ Department in a 12-month period ending ployees whose incomes are over $20,000 a Washington Report by Congressman May l, 1964. year and cannot be called totally inadequate. M. G. Snyder, of Kentucky America fights poverty yet Uncle Sam A pay raise of approximately $450 a year for raises the cost of living. Much is being said letter carriers certainly is reasonable, but we in favor of programs which are supposed to could not afford the luxury of such a blll at EXTENSION OF REMARKS eliminate poverty and prevent inflation, but this time. OF little ls said a.bout how the low-income fam­ The spectacle of a Member of Congress tlles will pay more. voting to reduce Government income by HON. M.~ (GENE) SNYDER Item: Housewives wlll pay more for flour $11.5 billion (the tax cut bill), and then OF KENTUCKY and the price of bread will rise. voting himself and all other Federal em­ ployees a sizable pay increase, which has to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Reason: The newly enacted farm bill in­ creases the price of wheat. be paid from borrowed money, makes a Thursday, July 2, 1964 Item: Coffee prices will continue to in­ mockery of a decent standard of fiscal moral­ crease. ity. The administration made a faithful Mr. SNYDER. Mr. Speaker, for the Reason: The administration backed the promise that strict spending restraint would benefit of those interested, I enclose my International Coffee Agreement Act of 1963 follow the tax cut, and I think they should July 1 newsletter, omitting therefrom which passed Congress and which set a floor practice what they preach. excerpts from the RECORD which would protecting producers but provides no protec­ Benjamin E. Smith, treasurer of Southern be a duplication of material already tion for the American consumer. Conference Education Fund, is registered printed herein: Item: Milk prices in most metropolitan as representing Castro's Communist Cuba in areas are increasing. this country, according to the Internal Se­ WASHINGTON REPORT Reason: Dairy economists report that Fed­ curity Division of the Justice Department. (By Congressman M. G. "GENE" SNYDER, eral milk orders raise consumer prices of milk The SCEF ls listed in the Louisvllle telephone Third District, Kentucky, July 1, 1964) about 5 percent above what they would be directory with an address of 4403 Virginia otherwise. Avenue. Carl Braden ls listed as residing DEAR FRIENDS: Another month has rolled at the same address. around since my last report to you. I am According to a letter of June 22 from Orro grateful and humbled by your many kind E. PASSMAN, Democrat, of Louisiana, Member AMERICA MUST WAKE UP letters. A few are not so kind but the of Congress, chairman of the Subcom­ I am worried and deeply concerned about goodness of the good letters heals all the mittee on Foreign Appropriations, he is be­ the course our country is taking. Most Amer­ wounds made by the little cuts along the ing asked to yield to strong executive icans, I think, share this concern. The gall way. The encouragement of your letters; demands and pressures to get more foreign and callousness of those who would destroy the inspiration of your comments and the aid money appropriated. Mr. PASSMAN, who our traditional way of life is shown in the promise of your prayers gives me the cour­ is an outstanding member of Congress, in­ letters below: Madalyn Murray is the Balti­ age to face up to the great odds in advocat­ dicates that the facts are so overwhelmingly more atheist who filed the suit which banned ing and laboring for the positions I believe against the claims of the foreign aid people prayer and Bible reading in the schools and in and in which you have given me such that there ls positively no honorable way has another suit pending to delete the words wonderful support. I am confident that in for him to yield to the pressures. He re­ "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance the days, weeks, and years ahead, we wm veals that during fiscal 1965 our Government to the Flag. win the fight for fiscal sanity in our Gov­ wm be dispensing Federal aid in 99 nations GENTLEMEN: It has been brought to my ernment; for responsible foreign policy and 9 territories. Further, Mr. PASSMAN attention that you are circulating mimeo­ which does not insult our friends and cater writes, "This uncontrolled and apparently graphed half sheets asking for signatures for to our enemies and for a domestic policy uncontrollable program now has 71,416 peo­ "protest" against "under God" being deleted which recognizes the importance of each ple on its payroll. It has reached such proportions that even the confusion is con­ from the flag. individual citizen who has the God-given Have fun. abillty to think for himself. fused. There are now 26 Federal agencies dispensing some type of foreign aid and the But meantime, at least, spell my name cor­ BUREAUCRATIC BUNGLING aggregate for fiscal 1965 may exceed $7 rectly if you are going to spread hate. It is One can always find examples where tax billlon. This does not include the interest Madalyn, not Madeline-the latter spelling money hurts taxpayers because of projects our Government is paying on the money it is the name of the alleged Jesus Christ's girl authorized and administered from Washing­ has borrowed to give away, which ls now in friend, a streetwalker with whom he played ton. One recent incident ls typical of com­ excess of $3 billlon annually!' footsie-or haven't you ever read the Bible? plaints. The Area Redevelopment Admin­ As of June 30, 1964, the foreign aid people Sincerely, istration (ARA) was set up supposedly to have on hand and unexpended from previous FREETHOUGHT SOCIETY OF AMERICA, INC., assist in depressed areas. Eighteen years years' appropriations, $7,133,461 ,000. During MADALYN MURRAY, President. ago, Mr. and Mrs. James Willis built a 10- the past 9 years, total economic and mllitary room motel in Woodv1lle, Tex. They were assistance under the regular foreign aid ap· • GENTLEMEN: One of our members sent us thrifty, worked hard, and later built on an proprlatlon bill totaled over $30Ya blllion. a tract that your organization is passing out additional 14 rooms. Twelve years ago, Mr. Of the countries of the world receiving titled "A National Emergency." Willis passed away, but his wife carried on foreign aid, there are 57 which from 1958 to Buddy, you ain't seen nothing yet. This the business and improved the motel which 1963 received $12,436,400,000 in mllltary and is more than an emergency for you super­ 1s now her sole income. The ARA looked economic handouts from us. During this stitious Neanderthals. around Woodv1lle, decided it was "poverty same period, these same 57 countries pur­ - You are absolutely correct, we fully intend stricken" and channeled some $850,000 into chased $6.977,800,000 in gold from the United to destroy superstition in the United States a 72-room motel near Mrs. Will1s. The 68- States. This would indicate that to some of America for one and for all. year old Texas widow has had to cut her paid extent they are buying our gold with our We threw superstition out of the schools, staff thereby creating more unemployment. money. Even though the latest Treasury next we will throw the chaplains off the bat­ The new motel has its own problem in that reports indicate that the outflow has been tleships, and we will teach American children occupancy is only 50 percent compared with somewhat arrested, our gold stockpile stood that Tyrannosaurus was not on Noah's ark. the 65 percent necessary for an operating at only $15,596 million on December 31, The exploitation of sex by the church is profit. According to the bureaucrats, there 1963. This compares with the gold stock­ another era that has passed. 1s a solution to the problem. Let ARA help pile of $22,857. mlllion on December 31, 1957. Defiantly, Mrs. W1llls-whlch has been proposed. But A popular slogan in Washington today is GARRY DEYOUNG, Mrs. Wlllis reacted: "I don't want a nickel that bllls before Congress should be voted Vice President. 15986 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE July 2 Results of Questionnaire From represents. In this connection, a public to allow as many of the returned ques­ information questionnaire was sent to the tionnaires as possible to be included in Constituents constituents of the Second Congressional the final tally. District of Kansas. Approximately 110,- When analyzing the results, consid­ EXTENSION OF REMARKS 000 questionnaires were distributed. eration was made for the fact that it is 01' These were mailed to every person with difficult to answer some of the questions HON. WILLIAM H. AVERY a telephone and copies were distributed with a simple "yes" or "no." through clubs and organizations request­ If anyone desires extra copies of the OF KANSAS ing such. Slightly more than 10,000 tabulation, I will be happy to furnish IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES questionnaires have been returned to date with over 30 percent including a special them. Thursday, July 2, 1964 letter or additional comments. My office I am grateful for the fine response and Mr. AVERY. Mr. Speaker, it is essen­ continues to receive a few completed I hope everyone will continue to write me tial that a Congressman be properly in­ questionnaires daily. I have purposely on matters of interest. formed on the views of the people he delayed this tabulation of results in order The tabulation follows:

Percent Percent Question Question No No Yes No orc,1:- Yes No oroi:· ---- 1. Do you favor sale of wheat to Russia and other Communist 11. {a) Do you favor a voluntary medical aid program on a COOP- countries?.------··----··------M {() 6 erative basis with the Government contributing to pre- (a) Would you favor this sale if a Federal subsidy is mium costs for health insurance with private required?. ______------______-----______------11 73 16 companies?.------30 52 18 2. Do you favor a continuation of the foreign aid program at (b) Do you favor compulsory medical aid program for the aged present level ($3,000I000,000)? ______20 73 7 attached to social security?------Z1 62 11 3. Do you favor a civil r ghts bill that extends the police power 12. ~a) Do you favor the U .s. membership in the United Nations?. 76 16 8 of the Federal Government over business not in interstate b) Do you believe U.S. problems are handled with fairness commerce? •• ------16 72 12 in the United Nations as presently organized? ••••••• ----- M 45 21 i. Do you believe our foreign rclicy has been sufficiently firm 13. Do you believe the test ban treaty negotiated with Russia was in dealing with Castro an Cuba?------· 19 75 6 in the national interest?.------·---·------152 31 1T S. Would you favor an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to 14. (a) Do you believe the Peace Corps mission is necessary for permit Bible reading and voluntary prayer in public the success of our foreign policy at a $100,000,000 annual cost?. 315 l50 11 schools? __ • ______------__ -----_------77 18 s (b) Do you favor a National Service Corps if costs are com- G. Do you believe the administration tax reduction bill should parable to the Peace Corps? •• ------24 47 20 pass without regard to Federal spending?••• ------·· 17 76 7 115. Do you believe the present veterans' pension and hospital 7. Do you favor the continuing efforts of the Federal Communf· programs are adequate? •• ·------· 157 20 21 cations Commission to regulate the programs on radio and 16. Number the following issues in the order of their importance television stations? •• ------···········---- 56 29 15 to you: 8. Should Congress- (1~ National defense. ~a) Approve a new voluntary wheat program?•••••••••••• 46 19 35 (2 Redurtion in Government spending. b) Extend the soil bank contracts? •••• ------23 34 43 (3~ Foreign affairs. ~c) Take no action? ___ ------11 24 65 Balanced budget. 29 r d) Repeal present programs?._------14 57 5~ Tax reduction. O. Do you believe gresent U.S. import duties are fair to our farm- 6 Farm problem. ers and manu acturers in view of the treatment given Amert- (7) Juvenile delinquency. can products abroad?------·-··--··--·---·-····----- 11 61 28 (8) Civil rights. 10. Do you favor Federal aid for- t) Elementary and high schools?.------····- 40 51 9 (10<•l FederaLabo< f'°b'"""'· aid to education. b) Colleges, public and private?.------··------37 51 12 (11 Veterans' benefits. c) Vocational training schools? __ ------····------52 35 13 (12 Bobby Baker investigation.

ATCHISON COUNTY BROWN COUNTY CLAY COUNTY

Percent Percent Percent

No No No Yes No oroi:· Yes No oroi:· Yes No oy~------Question 1------1 (a) ______55 41 4 Question 1•••••••••••••••••••••••••• 50 44 6 Question 1------l(a) ______151 41 8 14 71 15 Question l(a>---······-----···----·· 14 67 19 3 72 215 Question 2------14 81 5 Question 2--·····-···········------11 81 8 Question 2--·------·-·····---···---- 10 67 23 Question 3------·· 18 " 69 13 Question 3-----···-···-······-----·· 20 66 14 Question 3------12 64 24 Question 4_ ------22 72 6 Question 4------16 76 8 Question 4------10 75 15 Questlon 5------77 18 5 Question 5•••••••••••••••••••••••••• 82 16 2 Question 5------91 6 a Question 6 ______------16 78 6 Question 6•••••••••••••••••••••••••• 13 76 11 Question 6------5 87 8 Question 8(a)7______------59 26 15 Question 7•••••••••••••••••••••••••• 63 26 11 Question 1------57 20 23 43 18 39 Question 8(a) ••••••••••••••••••••••• 50 20 30 Question 8(a>------···------59 12 21J Question 8(b) •. -----·------22 34 44 Question 8(b) ••••••••••••••••••••••• 35 30 35 Question 8(b) ••••••·-···------37 21 '2 Question S{c)8(d) ______------12 27 61 Question 8(c>----·-··-····------16 27 57 Question 8(c).------9 23 68 30 14 56 Question 8(d). --· ·-····-·-·····-··· 29 15 56 Question 8(d)------30 15 55 Question 9------9 68 23 Question 9------6 74 20 Question 9------lO(a) ______5 75 20 Question lO(a) ______40 50 10 Question lO(a) .••••••••••••••••••••• 35 55 10 25 58 17 36 52 12 34 53 13 24 55 21 Question lO(b).lO(c) ______------Question lO(c)lO(b). ______------Question lO(b) ••••.• ------Question 11 (a) ______53 33 •14 Question ll(a) ______47 38 15 Question lO(c~------41 37 22 36 44 20 20 56 24 Question 11 (a ------25 55 20 Question 1112(a) (b). ______------30 55 15 Question ll(b) _.• ---·-··-·-···----- 24 66 10 Question 11 Cb>------12 74 H 81 11 8 Question 12(a).------70 23 7 Question 12(a) ••. ------60 19 21 Question 12(b)13 ______------30 45 25 Question 12(b) _------·--·-·-··- 27 46 27 Question 12(b) •••• ---···------20 55 25 49 34 17 Question 1314(a) .••• ______------·····- 42 35 23 Question 13------36 35 21J Question 14(a) ___ ------33 50 17 30 53 17 Question 14(a) ••------29 '2 2IJ Question 14(b). _------22 56 22 Question 14(b).------20 46 34 Question H{b) ______16 37 47 Question 15------54 25 21 Question 52 27 21 Question 56 29 15 Question 16: Question 15------·16: Question 15------·-··-16 (1) National defense. (1) National defense. (1) National defense. Reduction in Government (2) Reduction in Government Farm problem. spending. spending. (2) Reduction in Government (2) Foreign affairs. Foreign affairs. :£ending. Balanred budget. (3) Balanced budget. (3) B anced budget. (4) Tax reduction. Tax reduction. (4) Tax reduction. (5~ Civil rights. (5) Farm problem. (5) Foreign affairs. (6 Farm problem. (7) Civil rights. (8) Civil rights. (7) Labort£roblems. Juvenile delinquency. Labort£roblems. (8~ Juven e delinquency. (8) Labor problems. (9l Juvon e d-quoncy, (10 Federal aid to education. (9) Federal aid to education. (10 Veterans' benefits. (11~ Veterans' benefits. (11) Veterans' benefits. (11 Federal aid to education. (12 Bobby Baker Investigation. (12) Bobby Baker Investigation. (12 Bobby Baker Investigation. 1964 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 15987

DONIPHAN COUNTY JACKSON COUNTY MARSHALL COUNTY

Percent Percent Percent

No No Yes No Yes No opin­ Yes No opin­ ion ion ------·1------·!------Question L------46 45 9 Question 1------56 39 5 Question l(a.)l __ ------______55 36 9 13 67 20 Question 1 (a.) ___ ------10 70 20 10 71 19 17 78 5 Question 2------10 77 13 Question 2. _ ------14 75 11 Questiona~~~f~~ 3------~2~~~======- --- 12 73 15 Question 3------16 70 14 Question 3. _ ------13 72 15 Question 4------19 79 2 Question 4------14 80 6 Question 4. ------12 81 7 Question 5 ____ ------71 24 5 Question 5------83 13 4 Question 5------78 17 5 Question 6------17 79 4 Question 6------9 84 7 Question 6. _ ------15 78 7 Question 7 ____ ------55 27 18 Question 7------58 26 16 Question S(a.)7 __ ------______47 33 20 Question S(a.) ______16 Question S(a.) ______59 20 21 14 Question 8(b) ______53 31 60 26 36 27 37 Question S(c)S(b) ______------______------40 30 30 Question 8(b) __ ------45 21 34 Question 8(c) ______------10 19 71 5 31 64 Question S(c) ______9 37 M Question S(d) ____ _------29 16 55 Question 8(d) __ ------23 21 56 Question S(d). ------27 18 55 Question 9 ____ ------__ 7 75 18 7 67 26 8 68 24 Question 9lO(a.)------______Question 9.lO(a.) _ ------______------Question lO (a.) ____ ------35 57 8 34 57 9 Question lO(b) ______34 56 10 Question lO(b) ____ _------27 60 13 Question lO(b) __ ------31 53 16 28 56 16 Question IO(c) ______------37 Question lO(c) ______51 31 18 Question IO(c) ______47 40 13 50 13 Question 11 (a.) ______Question 11 (a.) ______Question 11 (a.) ___ ------23 62 15 26 50 24 Question ll(b) ______33 50 17 Question 11 (b) ______------24 66 10 Question ll(b) __ ------26 58 16 20 70 10 Question 12(a.) ______Question 12~a.) ______Question 12(a.) ______Question 12(b) ______69 23 8 74 18 8 65 27 8 28 44 28 Question 1312 _b)______------33 46 21 Question 12(b) _ ------21 55 24 Question 13 ______------__ 43 34 23 51 33 16 Question 13. _ ------43 37 20 Question 14(a.) ______27 18 Question 14(b)14(a.) ______------26 58 16 Question 14~ ------27 57 16 55 25 48 27 Question 1514 ______) __ ------20 50 30 Question 14(b) __ ------16 49 35 Question 15------50 32 18 58 21 21 Question 15. _ ------58 23 19 Question 16: Question 16: Question 16: (1) National defense. (1) National defense. (1) National defense. (2) Ba.la.need budget. (2) Ba.la.need budget. (2) Reduction in Government Foreign affairs. (3) Tax reduction. spending. (3) Reduction in Government (4) Foreign affairs. Bala.need budget. spending. Reduction in Government Fa.rm problem. (4) Tax reduction. spending. (4) Foreign affairs. (6) Juvenile delinquency. (5) Civil rights. Tax reduction. (7) Farm problem. (6) Farm problem. (7) Juvenile delinquency. (8) Labor problems. Juvenile delinquency. (8) Labor problems. (9) Civil rights. (7) Labor problems. (9) Civil rights. Veterans benefits. (10) Veterans' benefits. (10~ Veterans' benefits. (11) Federal a.id to education. (11) Federal a.id to education. (:11 Federal a.id to education. (12) Bobby Baker investiga.- (12) Bobby Baker investige.- (12) Bobby Baker investiga- tion. tion. tion.

GEARY COUNTY LEAVENWORTH COUNTY NEMAHA COUNTY

Percent Percent Percent

No No No Yes No opin­ Yes No ofo~- Yes No ion oroi:------·!------·!------Question!______Question 1------59 35 6 Question L------50 44 6 55 35 10 Question l(a) ______Question I (a) ______Question l(a) ______------_ 16 70 14 11 70 19 Question 2 ______14 65 21 Question 2------18 74 8 17 74 9 16 74 10 Question 2 ·------Question 3 ______------______Question 3------17 73 10 Question 3------13 75 12 Question 4 ______14 59 27 Question 4------19 75 6 Question 4------19 74 7 22 72 6 Question 5------82 15 3 Question 5------76 20 4 Question 5 ______------___ 84 13 3 Question 6------19 74 7 Question 6 ______------20 71 9 Question 6______- ~ -- ______14 75 11 Question 81------(a.) ______58 28 14 Question 7 ______------__ 54 29 17 Question 1------___ 56 25 19 Question 8(a.) ______16 Question S(b) ______50 17 33 Question S(a.) __ __ ------44 19 37 Question 8(b) ______56 28 Question S(c) ______24 30 46 Question Ste)S(b) ______------______19 35 46 42 26 32 7 19 74 12 20 68 Question 8(c) ______------15 22 63 Question S(d) ______------______Question 8(d)------31 15 54 Question S(d) __ ------28 15 57 Question 9 ______23 20 57 Question 9------IO(a.) ______- - 9 65 26 Question 9lO(a.) __ ------______- ---- 9 64 27 5 77 18 49 43 8 48 42 10 Question IO(a) ______28 60 12 Question IO(c)lO(b)------______38 46 16 Question lO(c)lO(b) ______------39 47 14 Question IO(b) ____ _------30 53 17 55 32 13 52 36 12 Question lO(c) ______------__ ------40 43 17 Question ll(a.) ______Question 11 (a) ______Question 11 (a.) ______------Question 11 (b) ______38 47 15 32 51 17 25 56 19 Question 12(a.) ______27 62 11 Que.c;tionQuestion 12(a.)_11 (b) ______------30 55 15 Question ll(b) ____ _------12 75 13 82 14 4 71 20 Question 12(a.) ______------79 9 12 9 Question 12(b) ______Question 12(b>------38 46 16 Question 12lb) __ ------31 45 24 33 38 29 Question 13------50 34 16 48 34 18 Question 13 ______------49 25 26 Question 14(a.) ______Question 1314 (a)_------____ _--______------Question 14(a.) ______Question 14(b) ______33 55 12 30 57 13 34 41 25 24 53 23 Question 14(b) ____ ------2.J 48 27 Question 14(b)------18 36 46 Question 15------__ 53 24 23 Quei;t.ion 15. ____ ------55 26 19 Question 15 ______------_------57 16 27 Question 16: Question 16: Question 16: (1) National defense. (1) National defense. (1) National defense. Reduction in Government (2) Balancro budget. Farm problem. spendin~. Reduction in Government (2) Reduction in Government (2) Foreign a. airs. spending. spending. Ba.lanced budget. (3) Tax reduction. (3) Tax reduction. (5) Tax reduction. (5) Foreign affairs. Ba.la.need budget. (6) Civil rights. (6) Juvenile delinquency. (4~ Foreign affairs. (7) Federal a.id to education. (7) Farm J?roblem. (5 Juvenile delinquency. (8) Labor problems. (8) Civil rights. (6) Civil rights. Juvenile delinquency. Labor problems. (8) (9) Fa.rm problem. (10) Veterans' benefits. (9) ~~~~a.Y~~~l~~duca.tion. (11) Veterans' benefits. (11) Federal a.id to education. (10) Veterans' benefits. (12) Bobby Baker lnvestiga- (12) Bobby Baker investiga- (12) Bobby Baker investiga- tion. tion. tion. 15988 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE July 2

POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY SHAWNEE COUNTY WASHINGTON COUNTY

Percent Percent Percent

No No No Yes No oro1:- Yes No opin­ Yes No opin­ ion ion ------·!------Question!______57 37 6 Question i______52 43 5 Question !______54 39 7 Question l(a)______12 67 21 Question l(a) ------9 78 13 Question l(a)______14 65 21 Question 2------18 71 11 Question 2 __ ------2-0 74 6 Question 2------15 75 10 Question 3------18 67 15 Question 3_ ------17 75 8 Question 3------13 60 Z1 Question 4______22 70 8 Question 4_ ------19 76 5 Question 4------13 76 11 Question 5------79 15 6 Question 5_ ------76 19 5 Question 5------71 21 8 Question 6------18 71 11 Question 6_ ------17 77 6 Question 6------11 82 7 Question 1------51 29 20 Question 7 _ ------54 31 15 Question 1------55 25 20 Question 8(a)______50 23 27 Qm1stion 8(a) ______43 18 39 Question 8(a)______53 17 30 Question 8(b)______33 32 35 Question 8(b) _ ------19 35 46 Question 8(b)______35 32 33 Question 8(c)______16 24 60 Question 8(c) ______11 22 67 Question 8(e)______13 24 63 Question 8(d)______31 15 54 Question 8(d) ___ ------30 11 59 Question 8(d)______30 21 411 Question 9 ·------11 64 25 Question 9_ ------11 58 31 Question 9------· 6 78 16 Question lO(a) ______34 55 11 Question lO(a) ______38 53 9 Question lO(a)______29 57 H Question lO(b)______32 54 14 Question lO(b) _ ------37 52 11 Question lO(b)______23 58 111 Question lO(c)______45 38 53 36 11 Question lO(c)______46 41 13 Question ll(a)______29 52 31 51 18 Question ll(a)______26 57 17 Question ll(b)______22 66 12~~ Question8~~~~~~~ m~L=11 (h) ______======______======_ 26 63 11 Question ll(b)______16 76 8 Question 12(a)______69 18 13 Question 12(a) ______77 16 7 Question 12(a)______69 17 H Question 12(b)______30 44 26 Question 12(b) __ ------34 47 19 Question 12(b)______25 50 25 Question 13 ------52 26 22 Question 13 __ ------52 34 14 Question 13------42 30 28 Question 14(a)______37 44 19 Question 14(a) ______36 51 13 Question 14(a)______26 55 111 Question 14(b)______23 45 32 Question l4(b) ______24 · 49 27 Question 14(b)______20 42 38 Question 15______62 16 22 Question 15_ ------63 16 21 Question 15______511 15 26 Question 16: Question 16: Question 16: (1) National defense. (l) National defense. (1) National defense. (2) Balanced budget. (2) Foreiim affair~. Reduction in Government Reduction in Government (3) Balanced budget. spending. spending. T~x reduction. (2) Foreign affairs. (3) Tax reduction. Reduction in Government Balanced budget. (4) Farm problem. spending. (4) Tax reduction. (5) Foreign affairs. (6) Farm problem. (5) Juvenile delinquency. (7) Juvenile delinquency. (8) Juvenile delinquency. (6) Farm problem. (8) Labor problems. J,abor problems. (8) Civil rights. Civil rights. (9) Fe

RILEY COUNTY WABAUNSEE COUNTY WYANDOTTE COUNTY

Percent Percent Percent

No No No Yes No opin­ Yes No opin­ Yes No oroi:· ion ion ------·!------·!------Question L __ ------63 29 8 Question L------53 42 5 Question L __ ------56 41 I Qurstion l (a) ______------___ 16 67 17 Question l(a) ____ ------___ 16 74 10 Question l(a) ______------11 75 H Question 2 __ ------32 60 8 Question 2------25 71 4 Question 2 ______------___ 24 70 8 Question 3_ ------23 66 11 Question 3 ______------___ 18 69 13 Question 3 ____ ------___ ------= 14 78 8 Question 4 __ ___ ------22 72 6 17 81 2 22 72 8 Question 5______------______Question 4 _____ ------Question 4 ___ ------67 28 5 Question 5. ------77 20 3 Question 5 _____ ------_____ 82 16 2 Question 6 ______------~- 18 72 10 Question 6 _____ ------21 71 8 Question 6 ____ ------____ ------_ 21 75 4 Question 7 ___ ------53 29 18 Question 7------55 30 15 Question 1------62 26 12 Question 8(a) .. ------_ 46 21 33 Question 8(a) ____ ------55 22 23 Question 8(11)------42 20 38 Question 8(b) __ ------24 33 43 Question 8(b>------44 29 27 Question 8(b) __ ------16 42 42 Question 8(c) ______12 29 59 Question 8(c) ______10 21 69 Question 8(c) ______12 24 64 Question 8(d). _ ------31 18 51 Question 8(d) ______------13 26 61 Question 8(d) _ ------31 13 56 Question 9 ______15 47 38 4 77 19 Question 9 ______------___ 12 61 Z1 Question l'l(a) ______. _ Question 9------Question lO(a) ______40 52 8 Question lO(a) ____ ------33 53 14 M 40 6 Question lO(b) __ ------44 46 10 Question lO(b) ______31 55 14 Question lO(b) ____ ------45 46 II Question ICl(c) _____ ------______57 31 12 Question lO(c) _____ ------49 38 13 Question lO(c)------55 35 10 Question 11 (a)_------______33 50 17 Question ll(a) ______18 64 18 Question ll(a) ______31 53 16 Question 11 (h) ______2.1 65 12 Question ll(b) ______23 64 13 Question ll(b) ______39 52 9 Question 12(a) ______------79 13 8 Question 12(a) ______82 13 5 Question 12(a)------7!l 15 6 Question 12(b) ______40 39 21 33 62 5 41 40 111 Question 13 ______Question 12(b13 ______>------Question 12(b)- _ ------59 23 18 51 27 22 Question 13. ------58 28 14 Question H(a) __ _------____ _ 51 37 12 Question 14(a) ______29 56 15 Question 14(a) ______35 li2 13 Question 14(bJ------32 42 26 Question 14(b) ______------20 46 34 Question l4(b)------25 4!l 28 Question 15-_ __ ------57 13 30 Question 15 ______------53 ~5 22 Question 15_ ------49 29 2Z Question 16: Question 16: Question 16: (1) National defense. (1) National defense. (1) National defense. (2) Foreign affairs. Farm problem. (2) Foreign affairs. Balanced budget. 3 Reduction in Government Redurtion in Government < >i:~a~c~~nbl:idfie;.;.ernment spendin{; spending. spending. (3) Balanced udget. (3) Tax reduction. (4) Civil rights. (4) Tax reduction. Civil rights. (5) Tax reduction. (6) Farm prohlem. (4) Flll'rn prohlem. (6) Juvenile delinquency. (7) Juvenile delinquency. (7) Juvenile delinquency. (7) Foreign affairs. (8) Federal aid to education. (8) Labor problems. (10) Labor problems. (9) Labor problems. (9) Federal aid to eduration. (11) Federal aid to education. (10) Veterans' benefits. (11) Veterans' benefits. (12) Bobby Baker investiga- (12) Civil rights. (12) Bobby Baker investiga- tion. Bohby Baker investlga- tion. Veterans' benefits. tion. 1964 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 15989 Address by Senator Harry Flood Byrd of medicare through the social security trust cialized medicine and understands the im­ fund.· The pressure for it is tremendous. I portance of protecting medical services Virginia, at the Luncheon Held in am still opposed to it. against government control. Group Hospitalization, Inc.-chartered by All of those associated with you-partici­ Honor of the Millionth. Subscriber of act of Congress-is about the same age as pants and others--share these responsibili­ Group Hospitalization, Inc. social security. It ls reassuring to see the ties. But as leaders in your field, you have sound maturity you have reached in con­ the added responsibilities of leadership. structive enterprise. Men and women in your business have my EXTENSION OF REMARKS Acceptance of the contributions you are very best wishes in their endeavor to meet OF making to the requirements of our time are their responsibilities as they see them. It exemplified by the fact that 59 million per­ ls a privilege to be with you. HON. JOEL T. BROYHILL sons have availed themselves of Blue Cross OF VIRGINIA coverage which you represent in this area. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES This is a third of the Nation's population, and it includes employees of such great A Century of Political Campaigning Thursday, July 2, 1964 American industry as A.T. & T., General Motors, Ford, United States Steel, Du Pont, Mr. BROYHILL of Virginia. Mr. and Western Electric. EXTENSION OF REMARKS Speaker, it is an honor to insert the text The 3 Vii million Federal employees and OF of an address by the Honorable HARRY F. their families constitute the largest prepay­ BYRD of Virginia, at the luncheon held in ment health insurance group in the world. HON. FRED SCHWENGEL honor of the millionth subscriber of And they may exercise free choice of cover­ OF IOWA Group Hospitalization, Inc., Mr. Carl G. age offered by 38 carriers. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I can understand your pride in the fact Kirk of Alexandria, Va. This luncheon Thursday, July 2, 1964 was held at the Mayflower Hotel yester­ that 56 percent of those participating in the day. Inasmuch as I would like to afford Government group chose your Blue Cross Mr. SCHWENGEL. Mr. Speaker, in and Blue Shield plans. this historic election year, it is most ap­ my distinguished colleagues the oppor­ And Group Hospitalization, Inc. is an in­ tunity of reading Senator BYRD'S ad­ stitution which has never sought nor received propriate that the Smithsonian Institu­ dress, I herewith insert it in the any Government subsidy. It has paid its tion's Museum of History and Technology RECORD. way since the beginning-more than a has set up a display of campaign memo­ quarter of a century. rabilia which dates back over the past ADDRESS BY SENATOR HARRY FLOOD BYRD, OF Its strength lies in the motivation of century and is a significant part of our VIRGINIA, AT THE LUNCHEON HELD IN HONOR constructive initiative, the achievements of OF THE Mn.LIONTH SUBSCRIBER OF GROUP political heritage. sound progress, and the profitable benefits This exhibit was opened this week with HOSPITALIZATION, INC., MAYFLOWER HOTEL, of efficient management and operation. WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1964 Your record of operating expenses for Blue appropriate ceremonies and our own dis­ It 1s a pleasure to meet with people Cross in the Washington area, which account tinguished colleague, the gentlewoman engaged in such a worthwhile business as for 4.9 percent of subscription income, tells from Ohio, Representative FRANCES BoL­ Group Hospitalization, Inc. I am pleased a story of interest. And the national record TON, added to the importance of the oc­ to join those congratulating. you on your is not far behind. casion with pertinent remarks which millionth participant. This may be one good reason why you can have a message for all of us, young and I have a special interest in this milestone tell me that Blue Cross alone pays nearly old, who view this exhibit and reflect on because more than 100,000 residents of near­ half of all the hospitalization benefits which by counties in Virginia are among the mil­ are paid out under our insurance and pre­ the chain of events which have brought lion who have chosen to associate with GHI. payment programs. our Nation _from that historic date in I have come here today to express my Your record of service in the Nation's 1776 to the present. - appreciation for the nonprofit Blue Cross and Capital area may well be regarded as a Representative BOLTON'S background Blue Shield plans which you represent. So monument to the vision of the late Joseph and experience on the Committee on many have reason to regard them as god­ Hendrix Himes who, in the days of depres­ Foreign Affairs of the House of Repre­ sends. sion, called your founding group together. sentatives permits her to view history Personally I can understand the impor­ His objective was to bring hospital care with a perspective which few of us have. tance of the mission you have chosen for within easier reach of those who needed it-­ yourselves. And, officially, as a Member of particularly those of limited means. Your She has served on the committee for 22 the Senate I can appreciate the tremendous founders were pioneers in an uncharted years and is its ranking minority mem­ responsibility which is yours. field. ber. She is close to the work of all of You cannot fail people who rely on you. Since then the developments in medicine, the subcommittees and has traveled ex­ They have paid for insurance against a surgery, and related facilities, have been re­ tensively so that she knows not only rainy day. They have a responsibility not markable. But the costs have risen too-­ what is meaningful for Americans but to exploit your services. But. you are dealing for all of the reasons involved. also how the American story is an in­ with human suffering. This makes your work-trying to keep hos­ I have had some experience with respon­ pitalization and medical care within the spiration and a hope to other nations, sibilities of this kind. I was a Member of reach of those who need it, when they need especially those which are emerging as the Senate, and the Senate Finance Com­ it--more and more important. No one is separate entities in the family of na­ mittee, when the first OASI (Old Age and more aware of this than GHI. tions. Survivors) Act was passed. You are a company of high purpose. You Her remarks at the opening of the In the beginning I was not satisfied with have met your earlier challenges. You have campaign display off er a great deal of the soundness of the program. I think it is earned a fine reputation. You have ex­ food for thought, not only for students evil to make promises to people--partlcularly perience, know-how, and motivation. involving their old age and health-unless You have the gratitude of so many whom of history but for patriotic Americans. every reasonable safeguard is taken to guar­ you have served so well. You have the con­ I wish that I could have been present to antee their fulfillment. fidence of many of us who have been priv­ have heard them. It is always a treat I think the evil is compounded if it ls the ileged to watch your sound development over to hear this gracious lady speak on sub­ Central Government that is remiss in a com­ the years. jects which are close to her heart. In pulsory program which applies Federal tax­ These are the rewards of a good company, order that they have the circulation they ing power against the lowest brackets of rendering good service to the public, as you merit, I have the honor of placing them income. do. But there is another side to the coin. in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. I com­ Senator Pat Harrison-then chairman of An institution, such as yours, has responsi­ the Finance Committee--named me to a bilities too. mend them to the attention of my col­ three-member special committee to work You have all of the responslbillties of an leagues: with some of the best insurance experts in institution on which the community has OPENING OF THE HALL OF HISTORIC AMERICANS the world to devise additional safeguards for come to rely so heavily for the important OP THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION the OASI. services of your business. Mr. Bradley, if you are here, even though It took us 2 years to come up with the 1939 You have the responsibilities of an insti­ you might be in hiding, and Mr. Taylor, the amendments, and I have spent much of the tution dedicated to the principles of com­ privilege of taking part in the opening of past 25 years trying to protect the CASI trust petitive enterprise which is vital to our eco­ this Hall of Historic Americans in this won­ fund from raids that would impair its sound­ nomic welfare and our system of govern­ derful Smithsonian Institution is greatly ap­ ness. ment. preciated. May I take this first moment to From what I have said, you can see some You have the responsibilltles of an insti­ thank you and the Board of Regents from of the reasons I oppose financing old-age tution which knows the public evils of so- my heart. 15990 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE July 2 May I also thank Mr. Washburn and Dr. What we were and are can never be ex­ Have we prepared our youth to meet them in Melder, who were good enough to let me plained to anyone unless this unique com­ such combat? oome over a few days ago so that I could get bination of things in our history ls under­ When are we going to give our oncoming the feel of this remarkable place that gives stood. Ours is an unusual story-as unusual generations a truly feeling understanding of us such a sense of the reality of these men as the land itself. Because this land spelled the miracle of freedom under God that 1s and women whose lives are part of the warp freedom and opportunity, these words are at ours so that they may be filled with power to and woof of our country. the very heart of what we were and are. withstand the icy arguments, the cold cer­ This great Institution, begun by the gift of "The past is but the beginning of a begin­ tainty of the adversary? When are we going an Englishman and built step by step with ning" (H. G. Wells}. The lee-covered earth, to see to it that they know that adversary other gifts from collectors of Americana such the rain forests, the small areas of fruitful and can answer him with an equal certainty as Miss Mary Louise Adams Clement, Mr. soil, the hardy men whose women came with plus the faith that should be ours? Peter Jay, Jr., Mr. Lincoln Isham, Mr. Walter them into untold hardships because there Here in this hall ls much that can help us G. Peter, Mr. Ralph Becker, and many others, was love between them. All they had was all to see the visible side of the great urge plays and will play an increasingly useful character. All they did was work. All they that created and sustained us--that has been and important role. wanted was self-respect. The sum of those built into the Nation we call the United In such a country as ours there is great three traits became America. They built States of America, one Nation under God. need for us to remember the roots from their own churches, their own town halls, which we stem and the influences that have their own schools with their own hands. given us our direction. This wing holds From earliest days as has been expressed much of which we should be aware. It shows so beautifully by an unknown author in us one part at least of our inherited pro­ "The Flag Speaks": Appalachia cedures. Studied, it might bring us to a "There was a dream • • • that men could saner, safer way of working out our destiny. one day speak the thoughts of their own EXTENSION OF REMARKS We need so urgently a feeling of understand­ choosing. _ OF ing of all that has gone into the making and "There was a hope • • • that men could the development of this Nation. one day stroll through streets at evening, HON. CARLTON R. SICKLES I would ask you first of all, What ls a na­ unafraid. OJ' MARYLAND tion? "Surely it ls not something built of "There was a prayer • • • that each bricks and mortar that will crash to ruins could speak to his own God-in his own IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES at the first strong blow. Rather, it is an church. Thursday, July 2, 1964 echo from the past and a whisper from the "That dream, that hope, that prayer-be­ future, the whole bound together by the came America. Mr. SICKLES. Mr. Speaker, I would hopes and fears, the dreams and endeavors, "Great strength, youthful heart, vast en­ like to submit for the RECORD my state­ the joys and the anguish in the lives of mil­ terprise, hard work, make it so." ment on the proposed Appalachian pro­ lions of men and women." It is never static. All down the ages after the spark was gram now being considered by the House It ls constantly evolving, changing, moving kindled in the human breast men dreamed Public Works Committee: now out, now in, now up, now down-but dreams of freedom. Then a man saw a moving, moving, moving. vision-and in spite of confusion, bitterness, STATEMENT OF THE APPALACHIA BILL We have believed that this Nation of ours hardship, and bloodshed, brought it into (By Congressman CARLTON R. SICKLES) came into being with a great destiny. That being, protected its first and made it a I am pleased to support the proposed pro­ our Declaration of Independence and espe­ nation. This man was George Washington. gram to relieve poverty and develop eco­ cially our Constitution and the Bill of Rights Towering above his companions in physical, nomic resources in the 10-State region of are documents written under the inspiration mental, and spiritual stature, he drank Appalachia. As Representative of a State of overshadowing spiritual forces. deep of the cup of loneliness that freedom which has three counties in the Appalachian We like to think ourselves worthy of all might be given form. area, I can only add my own voice to the that was given us to do. We like to believe And again a tall figure raised himself up call for urgency which has been sounded so we have upheld the principles laid down in by the sheer force of his inner need to serve clearly by President Johnson. We in Mary­ those documents. What was it Mr. Lincoln that same freedom under law-and the Union land realize that the full potential of our said: "It ls for us to prove whether that was saved. Lonely beyond most men's counties in the western part of the State nation, or any nation so conceived and so knowledge of loneliness, Lincoln lived out cannot be realized except as a part of a pro­ dedicated, can long endure." his destiny and forged a great link in the gram whose aim would be to rebuild and A century has passed since he spoke those chain of human freedoms. revitalize the economy of the entire Appa­ words. How much have we proven? How Leadership, friends, ls a lonely business. lachian region. We realize that the full po­ true have we been to those profound prin­ How many are today prepared in their hearts tential of the port of Baltimore cannot be ciples that were expressed so all embracingly for the possible loneline~ of such responsi­ reached without full development of the in our great documents? How true are we bility? port's natural economic hinterland. We in going to be in the onrushing future? · Every 4 years we face a choice of leaders. Maryland realize that the whole country has Let me first remind you of matters to Do we base our judgments upon profound a stake in what happens in the western part which we seldom give any thought: American principles, or, in the excitement of our State and a stake in the similar prog­ We have been told that some 25,000 years of the moment, in strangely thoughtless ress throughout the whole mountain range ago there was a sheet of ice 1,000 feet thick eagerness do we look only at the superficial­ from Pennsylvania to Alabama. It has been covering the New England part of the United ities, forgetting that- said that a chain ls no stronger than its States. It ground the earth down for a very "Leadershlp is only courage and wisdom weakest link. The same thing applies to a long time and it had much to do with the and a great carelessness of self" (John nation's economy; when part of the economy people who came over from England in the Bucham, Lord Tweedsmuir). Do we forget or the economy of a region lags, it affects early days of the 17th century at Plymouth that in Philadelphia when Franklin was other parts and other people. The program Rock. These people had unusual ideas about asked what form of government had been set before this committee aims, as President freedom that fitted into the terrain of the up he replied, "A Republic if you can keep Johnson has put it, "not merely at the symp­ New England area-and when they were it so." And he said in no uncertain terms toms of the economic malnutrition but at made part of what the glaciers did to the that the power had been given to the people. its causes." Let us consider for a moment earth, they add up pretty well to what good Did he know that he was repeating what the problems which have accrued in this old Thomas Jefferson said about what we call was said in Rome in the year 452 B.C.? region of the country. "our way of life." It was one of the products "What the votes of the people have ordained The largely rural Appalachian region has of what he described as the individual fam­ in the last instance is the law." And which fallen behind the rest of the country in eco­ ily farm of his time. The story of the ter­ Cicero followed in 49 B.C. by saying that nomic development. In every category of rain, of the centuries of grinding ice, the "No one has power except from the peo­ human welfare our fellow citizens in Appa­ heavy rain, the trees, the rocks forming as ple • • •. This ls the condition of a free lachia are below, and some of them are well they did these small areas where the soil people: to be able to give or to take away below desirable national standards. Low in­ was good were the natural sources of our by their votes whatever they see fit." come and an inadequate standard of living ideas about individual initiative, private en­ We are at a moment in time when two are commonplace. In health, in housing, in terprise, our kind of capitalist economy-and powerful nations are meeting on the great employment, in education, in the level of our kind of freedom. The one-family farm battlefield of life--head on. Oh, yes, we community services, in transportation, in with all it means of what we've been-what "back and fill," we try dance steps along the farm technology, and in sanitation the region we are--and what many of our people would way-but each day, each month, each year lags. In community after community and like to go on being-has its very roots im­ makes it clearer that we are in a war to the in county after 'county, the struggle against bedded in the ice, rain, trees, and roclcs death between those who deny the very ex­ these inadequacies goes on without being which are really the takeoff point for any istence of God and those who believe that won. While the Appalachian region ls clas­ understanding of the American story. "in the beginning God." sified as predominantly rural by census defi­ There in the early New England are the For 40 years Moscow has been training its nition, it has never been a major agricultural roots of what we've been, what we still are, younger generations in argument-infusing region. Its present ills arise in part from the what we shall become. them with a passion that is like a flame. decline in employment in leading nona.gri- 1964 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 15991 cultural industries, principally coaJ., and its lean Revolution, I am always interested I, too, commend the Director, and I also cures lie mainly in the development of non­ in the activities of our patriotic sister want to take this opportunity to com­ agricultural pursuits, principally recreation organization, the Daughters of the Amer­ mend the DAR for its thoughtfulness in and manufacturing industries, including in­ dustries based on the timber resources. ican Revolution, and in its efforts to en­ praising a good job well done. Too The region's farms, while they ·should be courage wider public awareness of the often, public servants receive only criti­ made as productive as possible, can never be­ principles on which our Nation was cism for their errors or alleged errors come the economic base for more than a founded under God. Furthermore, as while seldom receiving recognition for small proportion of the population now re­ the Member of Congress who sponsored excellence in the performance of their siding therein. Many of them are too small, Public Law 140 of the 84th Congress, duties. and the terrain is too rough, for efficient which requires the use of the national Under unanimous consent, I submit farming techniques. Almost half of the farms in the region have gross incomes of motto, "In God We Trust,'' on all coins, the text of the resolution adopted by the under $2,000 a year. and eventually on all currency, I was District of Columbia Society, Daughters Survey after survey has been made in the particularly interested in a resolution of the American Revolution, as follows: Appalachian area and plan after plan has adopted earlier this year by the District COMMENDATION TO DmECTOR OF BUREAU OP been developed, but until now there has been of Columbia Society, Daughters of the ENGRAVING AND PRINTING no satisfactory regionwide plan for develop­ American Revolution, dealing with this Whereas many citizens of the United ment-one which measures the level of re­ subject. States have expressed concern over rumors sources, both public and private, required to Public Law 140, approved July 11, 1955, that the time-honored motto "In God We provide the framework for rapid economic required: Trust" was to be removed from our coins growth. and currency; and The Government program that is proposed That at such time as new dies for the Whereas a conclusive statement appeared would provide an economic framework for printing of currency are adopted in connec­ in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD for January future economic growth. Nothing in the tion with the current program of the Treas­ 20, 1964, by the chairman of the Subcom­ bill works against private efforts-certainly ury Department to increase the capacity of mittee on Consumer Affairs which has the the people in the area are .doing their best, presses utilized by the Bureau of Engraving responsibility for bills dealing with coins and and they will do better with the help of this and Printing, the dies shall bear, at such currency, that there ls no bill pending in proposal. Far too often in the past the frag­ place or places thereon as the Secretary of Congress to remove the motto from coins mented efforts of individual communities the Treasury may determine to be appropri­ and currency; and have been understandably inadequate to the ate, the inscription "In God We Trust" and Whereas "In God We Trust" appears on task. thereafter this inscription shall appear on all coins in keeping with a law passed in 1955 Also, we can never really arrive at a per­ all U.S. currency and coins. making it mandatory, which law also made manent solution to the problems of this re­ On January 20, 1964, the Honorable it mandatory that the motto be placed on gion until we stop thinking of it as a "dis­ all currency issues at such time as new tressed area" shoving its problems under a LEONOR K. SULLIVAN, of Missouri, chair­ dies for printing are adopted; and rug of gloom and begin to consider it as an man of the Subcommittee on Consumer Whereas the same CONGRESSIONAL RECORD underdeveloped region with vast untapped Affairs of the House Committee on Bank­ published a chart furnished by the Director human and natural resources-a region that ing and Currency, placed in the CONGRES­ of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing can only find its rightful economic level SIONAL RECORD, at page 701, a report from which showed that by 1965 over 77 percent through a plan of overall economic develop­ of our total currency will carry the motto: ment, programed for a period of sufficient the director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Mr. H.J. Holtzclaw, on the Resolved, That the District of Columbia years to rectify the situation. This plan has Society, Daughters of the American Revolu­ three necessary ingredients; investment in schedule which is being followed by the tion, commend Mr. H.J. Holtzclaw, Director the people of the area to improve their Bureau in converting the various denom­ of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, for schools, housing, health, and to help them inations of currency to include the na­ placing into effect the conversion schedule acquire new skills; investment in needed tional motto, as.called for in Public Law physical facilities such as roads, airports, for new currency as rapidly as manpower and dams; and finally a regional organiza­ 140 of the 84th Congress. This conver­ availability will allow. tion to coordinate the efforts of Federal, sion schedule showed that in addition to State, and local officials in attacking the the billions of $1 silver certificates deliv­ problems of the region. TVA has proved that ered since 1957, and more than 150 mil­ these officials can work together for the gen­ lion $1 Federal Reserve notes delivered Immigration and Nationality Ad eral good of the community, and similar in November and December 1963, con­ cooperation is certainly feasible in the Ap­ taining the national motto, the Bureau EXTENSION OF REMARKS palachian region. would soon be printing $2 U.S. notes, $5 In summary, this bill is based on the idea OF that the economc progress of the region re­ U.S. notes, and $10 Federal Reserve notes quires the wholehearted cooperation of both bearing the inscription "In God We HON. HERMAN TOLL local, State, and Federal officials dealing with Trust." Other denominations would OF PENNSYLVANIA the problems of Appalachia, and the leaders follow in turn later this year and early IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of business, industry, labor, and the local next year. communities in the region. The special Subsequently, it was a pleasure and an Thursday, July 2# 1964 needs of this area justify a special approach. honor for me to accompany Congress­ Mr. TOLL. Mr. Speaker, for some The entire Nation, not only the people of the region, have a stake in what ls done woman SULLIVAN and Chairman WRIGHT time I have been urging favorable action there. In addition to the fact that develop­ PATMAN, of the Committee on Banking on proposed legislation-including my ment of this area will provide new markets and Currency, to the Bureau of Engrav­ bill H.R. 7960-seeking to correct dis­ for industries all over the country, the people ing and Printing for a little ceremony criminatory provisions in our Immigra­ here must be given the opportunity to fully marking the printing of the first new tion and Nationality Act. Because of the enjoy the productive fruits of American soci­ series of currency this year to carry the widespread interest on this vitally im­ ety. We have this obligation to all of our national motto, the $2 U.S. note. I am portant subject, I wish to have printed people. happy to report that Director Holtzclaw in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD my state­ has succeeded in maintaining the con­ ment on June 26 before Subcommittee version schedule as outlined on January No. 1 on Immigration and Nationality, District of Columbia DAR Commends 20. House Committee on the Judiciary, which Director Holtzclaw on "In God We COMMENDATION TO DmECTOR HOLTZCLAW reads as follows: Trust" Currency Conversion Schedule The District of Columbia Society, STATEMENT BY CONGRESSMAN HERMAN TOLL Daughters of the American Revolution, AT HEARINGS OF SUBCOMMITTEE No. 1 ON in its 63d State conference, noted that IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY, COMMITTEE EXTENSION OF REMARKS ON THE JUDICIARY, U .8. HOUSE OF REPluc• OF by 1965, under the conversion schedule proposed by Director Holtzclaw, approxi­ SENTATIVES, JUNE 25, 1964 77 It is a privilege to present th!l.s statement HON. CHARLES E. BENNETT mately percent of our total currency on behalf of my b111, H.R. 7960, and I thank OF FLORIDA note production will carry the national the Chairman and members of the subcom­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES motto, as provided under Public Law mittee for the opportunity to do so. 140. It commended the Director of the The experience under the Immigration and Thursday, July 2# 1964 Bureau of Engraving and Printing for Nationality Act, since it was enacted in 1952, Mr. BENNETT of Florida. Mr. Speak­ the manner in which he has been carry­ has corroborated the views of Presidents Tru­ er, as a member of the Sons of the Amer- ing out his responsibility under this law. man and Kennedy and the major religious, 15992 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE July 2 labor, nationality, and community organiza­ for Italian Migration, Philadelphia chapter; fleets my views on the subject of immigra­ tions, that the policy on which the law is American Jewish Committee, Philadelphia tion, nationality, and citizenship. It is also based and the law itself are designed to ex­ chapter; American Jewlsh Congress, Great­ clear that enactment of my bill would be in clude people and not to facilitate their entry. er Philadelphia region; Anti-Defamation keeping with the announced wishes of the The law constitutes an obstacle race for new League of B'nai B'rith; Association of Im­ citizens of Philadelphia, as well as the rest of Americans and not an avenue for immigra­ migration and Nationality Lawyers; Asso­ the country. tion. ciation of Philadelphia Settlements; B'nai My bill, H.R. 7960, is identical with H.R. The single major defect of our Immigration B'rith of Philadelphia-Men and Women; 7700, introduced by the eminent chairman Code is retention of the discriminatory na­ Board of Rabbis of Greater Philadelphia; of the House Judiciary Committee, the Hon­ tional origins quota system as the basis for Catholic Resettlement Council; Casa Del orable EMANUEL CELLER. Since Congressman admission. This formula was first adopted Carmen; Commission on Human Relations; CELLER presented an excellent detailed analy­ in the isolationist period of the 1920's. The Division of School Extension, School District sis of his bill in his July 11 testimony, at present law is not only exclusionary, but its of Philadelphia; Episcopal Community Serv­ these hearings, I will avoid repetition and deportation provisions are harsh beyond rea­ ices; Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania; save the time of the co~ittee by omitting sonable requirements, and inequities in the Family Service of Philadelphia; Federation my own analysis. law as between native-born and naturalized of American Hemmie Societies; Federal Bar citizens make a farce of the principle of Association; Fellowship Commission; Great­ AUGUST 7, 1963. naturalization. er Philadelphia Council of Churches, Com­ To the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: It is because of these and other discrimina­ munity Services Department; Health and We, the undersigned organizations, wish to tory features of the present law that the Welfare Council HIAS and Council Migra­ endorse strongly the historic step you have great 1960 Democratic National Convention tion Service; International House of Phila­ taken in your message of July 23 in calling included a forthright plank on immigration delphia, Inc.; International Institute of for the elimination of the national origins in the party platform. Philadelphia; Jewish Community Relations quota system. That plank does the following: Council of Greater Philadelphia; Jewish Em­ We have long urged the removal of this 1. Calls for adjustment of present Ameri­ ployment and Vocational Service; Jewish discriminatory aspect of our American im­ can immigration, nationality, and refugee Family Service; Jewish Labor Committee; migration policy. policies to eliminate discrimination and to League of Women Voters of Philadelphia; We are greatly encouraged and wish to ex­ enable members of scattered families abroad Legal Aid Society of Philadelphia; Lithuanian press our appreciation for the outstanding to be united with relatives already in our American Society; Lutheran Board of Social leadership you are giving in this major field midst. Ministry; National Association for the Ad­ of human rights. 2. Acknowledges that the national origins vancement of Colored People; National Asso­ American Baptist Home Mission Societies. quota system of limiting immigration con­ ciation of Social Workers, Philadelphia American Civil Liberties Union. tradicts the founding principles of this Na­ chapter; Neighborhood Friends Guild; Neth­ American Council for Emigres in the Pro­ tion and is inconsistent with our belief in erlands American Association; Philadelphia fessions. the rights of man. Citizens Committee on Immigration and American Council for Nationalities Serv­ 3. Reaftlrms adherence of the Democratic Citizenship; Philadelphia Council for Inter­ ice. Party to the principle that enlightened im­ national Visitors; Philadelphia Housing American Committee on Italian Migration. migration, naturaliza,tion and refugee pol­ Authority, Social Services; Travelers Aid American Federation of Jews from Central icies, and the humane administration of Society of Philadelphia; United World Fed­ Europe, Inc. them, are important aspects of American eralists; YMCA of Philadelphia; YWCA. American Federation of Musicians. foreign policy. As at the first conference held in March American Friends Service Committee. 4. Recognizes that laws to bring greater 1962, Gregory Lagakos, Esq., an eminent American Fund for Czechoslovak Refugeee. skills to our land, reunite families, permit the member of the Philadelphia Bar and then American Jewish Committee. United States to meet its fair share of world President of International Institute of Phila­ American Jewish Congress. programs of rescue and rehabilitation are delphia, was chairman of the conference. Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. important factors in the growth of the Amer­ The cochairmen of the conference committee B'nai B'rith, National Commission on Cit- ican economy. were Jules Cohen, Executive Director of the izenship, Veterans and Community Affairs. The deficiencies of the present law are also Jewish Community Relations Council of Brethren Service Commission. responsible for the historic call made by Pres­ Greater Philadelphia, and Sharon Hatch, Catholic Committee for Refugees. ident Kenned·y in his special immigration executive director, International Institute of Catholic Relief Services, NCWC. message to the Congress on July 23, 1963. The Philadelphia. The other committee mem­ Church World Service, National Council President's demand for correction of the un­ bers were: Tess Corens, HIAS & Council of Churches of Christ. equal and discriminatory provisions of the Migration Service; Florence Davies, Episcopal Council for Christian Social Action of the present immigration law has met with wide­ Diocese of Pennsylvania; Herman Gart, Jew­ United Church of Christ. spread approval by Citizens and citizens' ish Employment and Vocational Service; Lary Division of Immigration and Americaniza­ groups. On August 8, 1963, 72 organizations Groth, Commission on Human Relations; tion, Commonwealth of Massachusetts. affi.Uated in the American Immigration and Helen E. Heydrick, Greater Philadelphia General Conference of Seventh-day Ad­ Citizenship Conference commended the Council of Churches; Melba Hyde, Interna­ ventists. President for his message, in particular his tional Institute; Audrey Maetzold, Health Governor's Commission on Refugees, Bos­ recommendation to substitute an equitable and Welfare Council; Beatrice Muller, Jewish ton, Mass. and nondiscriminatory formula for the iniq­ Family Service; Richard F. Smith, American Greater Miami Section, National Council uitous national origins quota system. At­ Friends Service Committee; Joseph Vanko, of Jewish Women. tached to this testimony ls the full text of Catholic Resettlement Council; Grace HIAS and Council Migration Service of that brief joint statement with a listing of Yocum, Travelers Aid. Philadelphia. the 72 signatory organizations. It will be This significant meeting was not a legis­ Immigrants' Service League. seen that they are representative of the lative conference. It was convened for infor­ International Institute of Gary, Ind. religious, labor, nationality and civic groups mational and educational purposes. Never­ International Institute of Greater Bridge- that make up these great United States. theless, it is quite clear from the summary port, Inc. Within 60 days after he assumed the Presi­ of the proceedings that in Philadelphia, as International Institute of Jersey City. dency, following the grievous tragedy suf­ elsewhere, there is widespread support for International Institute of Los Angeles. fered by our Nation when President Kennedy substantial improvement of American immi­ International Institute of Metropolitan was assassinated, President Johnson met gration policy and extensive revision of the Detroit. with a representative group of some 50 con­ Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, to International Institute of Providence, Inc. gressional leaders and leaders of private na­ eliminate unnecessary exclusionary provi­ International Institute of San Francisco. tional organizations to indicate his complete sions, the unfair national origins quota sys­ International Institute of Toledo, Inc. support for reform of the Immigration and tem and other discriminatory sections. International Rescue Committee. Nationality Act of 1952, our present Immi­ I introduced H.R. 7960 on August 6, 1963, International Social Service--America.n gration Code. to help carry out the recommendations made Branch. The committee will also be interested to by the late and beloved President Kennedy International Union of Electrical, Radio know that immigration reform, along the in his July 23, 1963, message. Those rec­ & Machine Workers, AFL-CIO. lines of President Kennedy's message and ommendations have my full and unequivocal International Union, United Automobile, my bill H.R. 7960, has the approval of prac­ support. Respectfully, and strongly, I urge Aerospace, & Agricultural Implement Workere tically all leading organizations and citizens this Subcommittee on Immigration and Na­ of America, UAW. in Philadelphia. On May 13, 1963, 45 or­ tionality to report out favorably H.R. 7960. Iuliu Manlu American Romanian Relief ganizations cooperated in the Second Annual Enactment of my measure by the U.S. Con­ Society. Greater Philadelphia Conference on Ameri­ gress would, in large measure, redeem the Italian Welfare League. can Immigration Polley, Citizenship, and pledge made by the Democratic Party in its Japanese American Citizens League. Refugee Matters. The representative nature 1960 platform plank on immigration. This Jewish Community Relations Council of of this conference is reflected in the list of becomes especially important on the eve of Greater Philadelphia. cooperating agencies which are: AFL-CIO the 1964 Democratic Party Convention. The Jewish Community Relations Council of Philadelphia Council; American Committee Democratic Party pledge on immigration re- Greater Pittsburgh. 1964 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 15993 Jewish Counselling and Service Agency. medical findings of the health hazards reliance on the Government for protection Jewish Labor Committee. of smoking to make it unnecessary for from such hazards. Since the dangers asso­ Jewish War Veterans 1n the U.S.A., Na- the Federal Trade Commission to act in ciated with smoking are less immediate, dra­ tional Ladies Auxmary. matic or coercive action certainly cannot be Lutheran Immigration Service. this matter. These persons argue that a used. However, implicitly until a. cau­ Methodist Committee for Overseas Relief. cigarette company should be permitted to tion • • • is instituted, a significant seg­ Michigan Committee on Immigration. sell its particular brand of cigarettes ment of the population will continue to be­ National Board YWCA. without reference to the hazards involved lieve that there is no hazard because no National Catholic Rural Life Conference. since the public has already been alerted caution is reqiured by the Federal Govern­ National Catholic Welfare Conference, De- to them. I think the Commission an­ ment. (Oommission decision, pp. 117-118.) partment on Immigration. swered this question very ably in its National Community Relations Advisory Let me say also, Mr. Speaker, that the Council. decision, when it said: FTC decision need not retlect adversely National Conference of Catholic Charities. There is no inconsistency in holding that on the tobacco industry. It certainly National Council of Jewish Women. such disclosure is necessary because of lack does not mean that people have no confi­ National Council Protestant Episcopal of sufficient public knowledge of the hazards dence in the industry's efforts to assist Church, Department of Christan Social Re­ of smoking and in recognizing, as the Com­ mission has implicitly throughout this re­ in solving what must be termed a major lations. National Travelers Aid Association. port, that there is considerable public con­ public health problem. Nationalities Service Center of Philadel­ cern with and anxiety about the hazards of The results of my annual newsletter smoking. In the first place, a deception, to phia. questionnaire are, I think, a good indi­ Naturalization Council of Metropolitan be actionable, need not be universal. If many cation that the public suppcrts the FTC Area, Kansas City, Mo. people are cognizant of the hazards of smok­ in this issue and, at the same time, looks New York Association of New Americans. ing, many others, and probably more, are not. In the second place, while there is to cigarette manufacturers with hope New York Protestant Episcopal City Mis­ and confidence. This poll of Wisconsin's sion Society. little doubt that the publicity accorded the New York Section-National Council of smoking and health problem has engendered Second Congressional District was taken Jewish Women. widespread anxiety about smoking-anxiety in February and March of this year, re­ Order of AHEPA. which some cigarette advertising, at least, sulting in over 5,000 returns-70 percent Philadelphia Citizens Committee on Immi­ has attempted to allay-there is an obvious of those replying said they favored regu­ gration and Citizenship. difference between a generalized anxiety, lation of cigarette advertising and label­ Polish American Immigration and Relief suspicion or fear, on the one hand, and par­ ticularized knowledge of a fact, on the other. ing; 90 percent wanted to see a cam­ Committee. paign to educate people about the risks Selfhelp of Emigres From Central Europe. The existence of the former kind of aware­ The United Presbyterian Church in the ness without the latter is likely to create of smoking; while 87 percent favored U.S.A., Committee on Resettlement Service. public confusion, and therefore increases joint research by the tobacco industry Tolstoy Foundaton. rather than eliminates the need for clear and the medical profession to reduce the Ukrainian Workingmen's Association. disclosure in cigarette advertising and label­ health hazards of smoking. Union of American Hel:rew Congregations, ing that smoking is a substantial health This shows an impressive degree of Social Action Commission. ha21ard. An argument based on the present level of suppert for both the FTC's recent action United Friends of Needy and Displaced and the industry's voluntary efforts. People of Yugoslavia. public awareness of the Advisory Commit­ United HIAS Service. tee's report or other sources fails, in any The industry will continue to have United States Committee for Refugees. event, to reckon with the dynamic factors this support during a very difficult period United Steelworkers of America.. that are involved here. It is perhaps true in its history if it rededicates its major that today, but a few months after publica­ effort toward reducing rather than re­ tion of the Advisory Committee's report, public awareness of the hazards of smoking pressing the health risks associated with is at a higher level than previously. But the smoking. While it has the right to test Public Support for FTC Cigarette Ruling release of that report was an extraordinary the FTC's decision in the courts, we must event. No similar event has occurred since hope it will exercise that right responsi­ EXTENSION OF REMARKS or is likely to occur within the near future. bly and with due regard to what is at The publicity given the report has already OF stake in terms of the health of the whole diminished greatly and it may be surmised Nation. that the report is rapidly receding in the HON. ROBERT W. KASTENMEIER public consciousness. There is no basis on OF WISCONSIN which to project the amount of publicity IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that will be given to health hazards of Washington Report Thursday, July 2, 1964 cigarette smoking in the future. (Commis­ sion decision, pp. 115-116.) EXTENSION OF REMARKS Mr. KASTENMEIER. Mr. Speaker, Other persons, though admitting that OF recently, the Federal Trade Commission a real public problem of crisis proportions took a historic step toward increased exists in this matter, argue that it is best HON. BRUCE ALGER consumer protection when it ruled that, left to voluntary industry action for cor­ OF TEXAS effective January 1, 1965, cigarette com­ rection. I think the statement. before IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES panies must label their cigarettes as a the Commission, by Dr. Edgar F. Borgat­ Thursday, July 2, 1964 health hazard. It has long been held by ta, chairman of the Department of Soci­ the courts that "to tell less than the ology of the University of Wisconsin ex­ Mr. ALGER. Mr. Speaker, under the whole truth is a well-known method of plains admirably why it is imperative leave to extend my remarks in the REC­ deception"-P. Lorillard Co. v. F.T.C. that the Federal Government assume the ORD, I include the following newsletter of (186 F. 2d 52, 58, 4th Cir. 1950). For ex­ legitimate responsibility of requiring an July 4, 1964: ample, for some time the Federal Trade explicit statement concerning the health FREEDOM'S BIRTHDAY Commission has required that a seller hazards of cigarettes. He said, in part: Today America observes the 188th anniver­ of a product of foreign origin affirmative­ CUrrently, there is no implication that sary of the birth of freedom. It is a good ly disclose the country of origin on the there are any dangers or potential hazards as­ time to i:efiect on what America means to grounds that to do otherwise is to with­ sociated with cigarette smoking. Further, each of us. It is a good time for us to re­ hold from the consumer a fact material from my limited experience, it appears to be evaluate the meaning of such words and to his decisionmaking process. Similar­ a most common assumption that the health phrases as: the Declaration of Independence, hazards associated with cigarette smoking the Congtitution, freedom, patriotism, the ly, the Commission has required affirma­ flag, constitutional government, the Bill of tive disclosure concerning the hazardous are trivial because no action is taken on the part of the Federal Government. There ap­ Rights. characteristics of commodities. The ra­ pears to be an implicit assumption on the Consider what Gladstone, Prime Minister tionale underlying the requirement of part of a substantial number of persons that of Great Britain, said of the American Consti­ affirmative disclosure is that in the ab­ if there were something really wrong with tution: sence of a warning to the contrary, a cigarette smoking, the Government would "I have always regarded that Constitution product cannot be safely employed for do something about it. The Government has as the most remarkable work known to me its intended use. intervened dramatically in the case of ob­ in modern times to have been produced by Some persons have argued that suffi­ viously dangerous drugs and of immediate the human intellect, at a single stroke, 1n cient publicity has been accorded the food hazards, and thus there is some obvious its application to political affairs." 15994 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE July 2 Contrast this view of the Constitution with figuring withholding taxes, and dozens of M. has developed an increasingly eff ec­ the modern liberals and "democratic Social­ other measures. All of these bills are spon­ tive interdisciplinary program of coop­ ists." Read some of President Johnson's re­ sored by President Johnson. He uses every eration between the many parts of the cent speeches as he attacks those who believe means including pressure, coercion, reward to institution concerned with water prob­ in constitutional limited government as "liv­ get them through Congress. The same peo­ ing in the past," or having "outmoded ideas." ple who demand that Congress oppose the lems. One specific result of the estab­ How do you feel about maintaining individ­ legislation, in many cases, go all out in sup­ lishment of the Water Research and In­ ual freedom, the r'..ght of the people to govern port of the sponsor of the bills, the Presi­ formation Center has been the successful themselves, on this 188th birthday of Ameri­ dent. Does this make sense? Where do you conduct of eight water-for-Texas con­ can liberty? This is the question you will be stand? Do you have the courage to vote ferences held on the campus with pub­ called to answer in the coming months when your convictions? Or ls your Representative lished proceedings available the country the essence of constitutional limited govern­ in Congress supposed to go it alone? over. ment is under attack. It 1s the issue you will be voting on in November. Independence, Another result of past emphasis on not interdependence, 1s the issue. water problems has been the bringing to­ gether of many documents on water and WELL, WE PASSED THE FOREIGN AID Bil.L Water Resources Research hydrology in the form of a collection. The House approved a foreign aid bill to This collection, which includes many spend $3,739,249,400 of money we don't have EXTENSION OF REMARKS publications not available anywhere in and will have to borrow to give away. The OF key vote on the foreign aid appropriation bill, the country, is housed in the Texas Pro­ H.R. 11812, was on the motion to recom­ HON. OLIN E. TEAGUE f essional Engineers Library located on mit. This lost 'by only 10 votes, 208 to 198. the Texas A. & M. University campus. My objections to the appropriation were de­ OF TEXAS In the field of research, over 100 Texas tailed in the newsletter of June 13. I voiced IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Agricultural Experiment Station re­ additional arguments in debate this week. Thursday, July 2, 1964 search projects deal either directly or 1. "We are told that our foreign aid 1s saving the world from communism. This is Mr. TEAGUE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, indirectly with water. In addition, many not true. I am pleased that the Congress has water projects are included in the re­ "The United States is supporting and finally taken action on the subject of search activities of the Texas Engineer­ aiding communism by money, by food, by water research legislation. I introduced ing Experiment Station and the Texas arms, by moral support, by trade, by cultural one of the original bills in the House of A. & M. Research Foundation. In the exchange, by giving them our military and Representatives on this subject and ap­ past 4 years, there have been over 100 nuclear secrets. We are pretending that peared before the Committee on Interior graduate theses having some bearing on communism and Communists mean no harm. hydrology completed at the Texas A. & M. We are aiding them as they aid other Com­ and Insular Affairs in support of it. munists and eliminate any vestige of free­ The bill, S. 2, when signed into law and University. During the past year Texas dom in the subjugated countries. implemented, will meet two national A. & M. has become a member of the 2. "Why? Because there is profit to be needs, the acceleration of research in Universities Council on Hydrology, a vol­ made by some businessmen in· foreign aid, water problems and the acceleration of untary organization of leading universi­ military expenditures, and big Government the training of hydroscientists, who are ties with a demonstrated interest in spending. desperately needed to deal with the re­ strong programs of teaching and re­ 3. "We now jeopardize the very currency gional and national water problems that search in the field of hydrology. of our country. Example: In 5 years, 1958 The Texas A. & M. University board to 1963, we gave $12Y:z billion to 57 countries are growing so swiftly. who promptly bought $7 billion of our gold The bill is designed to enlist the com­ of directors has just recently approved with the dollars we gave them. petence of our university faculties and the renaming of the Water Research and 4. "Now we propose to give them $3.7 bil· facilities in needed water research work Information Center to the Water Re­ lion more. Already foreign governments hold and at the same time to develop and sources Institute. At the same time the $26 billion in money which can be redeemed train new additional scientists and organization is being given added 1n our gold, except we have only $15Y:z bil­ engineers. It proposes to do this pat­ strength so that greater emphasis can lion in gold left to give away ($12 billion terned after the original Hatch Act be placed on research and education in must be kept on hand to back up our money) • which created the system of State agri­ water resources on a multidisciplinary 5. "Further, there are $7 billion now in the basis. The Institute will provide a focal 'pipeline' of unexpended accumulated funds, culture experiment stations. I do not whether we appropriate any more now or believe there is a person in this Con­ point for concentrating the many aspects not. Large amounts can be deobligated and gress who has any knowledge of these of A. & M.'s total resources effort toward spent for new and other programs." facilities who could not attest to the fact a unified plan for the better understand­ In view of these facts brought out in a of the fine work and contributions they ing and solution of water problems. masterful minority report of the subcom­ have made to our everyday life. The Texas A. & M. University is ready, mittee on appropriations for foreign aid, M.any schools throughout the country willing, and able to assume the leader­ where is the justification for spending more have done pioneer work in the field of ship for the research activities provided than $3Y:z blllion of your money at a time for in this bill, Mr. Speaker, and I am when we have just raised the debt limit an­ water research and conservation. One of other $9 billion? In spite of all the con­ the leaders in this work is my own alma glad that I had a personal part in its trary propaganda, the truth is President mater, the Texas A. & M. University, lo­ passage. Johnson is spending more of your money. cated at College Station, Tex. Early in Instead of working toward a balanced budg­ 1952, a water advisory council was or­ et, an end to deficit spending, less Federal ganized at Texas A. & M. to study the Panama Canal Policy: Dangerous spending, he is demanding more and great­ er expenditures for Federal programs. Such water problems of Texas and to submit Failings of State Department fiscal irresponsibility is a serious threat to recommendations which would enable your freedom. This 1s something to think them to more effectively discharge the responsibility of education and research EXTENSION OF REMARKS about on this July 4. Maybe its time for OF Americans to reassert their independence in the important area of water resources. and demand a return to the constitutional Following this action on the part of HON. W. J. BRYAN DORN principles which alone guarantee freedom for Texas A. & M., the board of directors of OJ' SOUTH CAROLINA all our citizens. The burden of Federal debt the A. & M. University established the and taxation ls not economic freedom. Water Research and Information Center. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES WHERE DO YOU STAND? By this action, the board of directors di­ Thursday, July 2, 1964 My mall ls filled with thousands of let­ rected that Texas A. & M. University take Mr. DORN. Mr. Speaker, among the ters protesting much of the legislation we leadership in education and research are passing. Businessmen, chambers of com­ most crucial foreign affairs policy mat­ merce, trade associations, and individuals programs in water resources. Also, the ters to come before the Congress in many demand that I vote against the civil rights responsibility for publication and dis­ years have been those affecting the bill, the extension of wartime excise taxes, pensing of research results to the public Panama Canal and interoceanic canals the mass transit bill, the inclusion of tips 1n was emphasized. Since that time, A. & generally. Expounded on the floor of the 1964 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 15995 House on many occasions by my able and press regret over President Kennedy's assas­ State that there's something sinful about brilliant colleague from Pennsylvania sination-and State knew about this, too. exercising strength. [Mr. FLoonJ, the canal problem, espe­ But what did State do? It soft pedaled Take Vietnam. In the wake of the State the grim facts and clung to the old line that Department-encouraged overthrow of Presi­ cially the role played by the Department the coup was merely a nationalist revolu­ dent Diem last November, the war against of State, has become a subject of na­ tion that had picked up some Communist the Communist Vietcong gravely deteriorat­ tional interest and concern. overtones. Then Red China announced a ed. Nonetheless, elements in our State De­ Featured by indecision, timidity, and half-million-dollar loan to Zanzibar, and our partment continued to resist the one obvious downright incompetence, the conduct of one remaining diplomat was given 24 hours and long overdue tactic: hit-and-run guer­ our relations with Panama concerning to pack his bags and get out of "The Peo­ rilla strikes by the Vietnamese against the the Panama Canal culminated on Jan­ ple's Republic of Zanzibar." Four days later, enemy on his own home ground in North at State's insistence, we responded by recog­ Vietnam. To be sure, this is a power uary 9-11, 1964, in Red led and directed nizing this Communist-riddled regime which maneuver, but the alternative may be to mob assaults on the Canal Zone, killing was soon to demand removal of our space abandon Vietnam-and ultimately the rest a number of our soldiers, endangering tracking station and receive Soviet arms and of southeast Asia-to communism. the lives of our citizens, and jeopardizing technicians. Yet, in stark contrast, when a State's attitude toward exercising leader­ the security of the canal itself. new anti-Communist regime took over last ship was also obvious after the bloody Jan­ It was, therefore, with the greatest in­ fall in the Dominican Republic, we would not uary riots in Panama. Soviet, Chinese, and terest that I read, in the June 1964 issue recognize it although we knew the over­ Cuban propaganda instantly spread lies that thrown government had refused to crack our troops had slaughtered innocent Pana­ of the Reader's Digest, a thoughtful and down on serious Communist infiltration. manians. Then Panama lodged a charge of very able article on "The Dangerous Fail­ Such foolishness can lead only to further "aggression" against us before the Organiza­ ings of Our State Department," by Hon. failures. Before we suffer additional set­ tion of American States. FRANK J, LAUSCHE, distinguished senior backs, something must be done now. For a Instead of responding to these smears in Senator from Ohio and member of the campaign ls already mounting within our a manner befitting a great power, the State Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. foreign-policy complex to change our atti­ Department timidly consented to an investi­ It is especially gratifying that in this re­ tudes toward Communists. Honest criticism gation of Panama's complaints. Then and there, vast evidence could have been pre­ vealing article Senator LAuscHE empha­ of our State Department, especially by Con­ gress, has been scorned long enough. Real sented for the public record, including photo­ sizes our failures at Panama. reforms have been shelved too often. My graphs and tape recordings showing how at The major part of the indicated article own experience on the Senate Foreign Rela­ least 70 trained Communists, some recently follows: tions Committee, plus a vast amount of ma­ schooled in Cuba, staged the riots and fanned THE DANGEROUS FAILINGS OF OUR STATE terial on the public record, convinces me that them to a bloody pitch. Indeed, State so DEPARTMENT there are five chronic weaknesses which underplayed Communist infiuence that Cuba (The Government agency primarily re­ plague the Department: was not even openly mentioned before the sponsible for fighting the cold war is a study Weakness 1. State has a habit of glossing OAS at that crucial time. in indecision, timidity, and inefficiency. Re­ over critical matters until they turn into Obedient to State's orders, our Voice of sult: we're in danger of losing that war.) disasters. America made qnly fleeting mention of Com­ Indonesia is one case. More than 2 years munist involveme'nt in the riots, during (By Senator FRANK J. LAUSCHE) ago the Department's files were crammed broadcasts to Latin America about the OAS In every corner of the world we are los­ with hair-raising evidence revealing how meetings. Communist activity was not dis­ ing ground to the Conununlsts. From Pana­ Communist-leaning President Sukarno had cussed at all in VOA's newscasts to Western ma to Cambodia to Ghana to Bolivia to Indo­ mortgaged his Government to the hilt to Europe and most other regions. Is it any nesia, we are belittled, battered, and back­ acquire Soviet military aid, while accepting wonder that after the OAS voted 16 to 1 to pedaling. Our fiag is trampled, our pres­ what has added up to $780 million in U.S. seek evidence of U.S. aggression, our allies tige and power are fiouted. Our embassies economic aid. Naively hoping for the best, a.nd most of the rest of the world concluded are mobbed, our officials threatened or ar­ State's policymakers insisted we keep prop­ we were in the wrong? rested at gunpoint. Respect for our strength ping up Indonesia. Until the State Department realizes that dwindles. Because we did not dare tell Sukarno to we must act like the great nation we are, As the agency responsbile for our foreign give up his partnership with the Russians opportunists, half-pint dictators and even relations, the State Department must stand or get along without our help, a dangerous some of our friends will continue to slice chiefiy accountable for our defeats in the small war is brewing in Asia-as Sukarno away at us. And in doing so they will gladly long struggle against communism. The threatens to crush the newly formed Federa­ watch us slide into second-class status. harsh fact is that State ls not equipped to tion of Malaysia with his Russian weapons, Former Under Secretary of State for Political cope with the explosive conflicts our enemies telling us, "To hell with your aid." Affairs Robert Murphy, who directly served are stirring. Secretary of State Dean Rusk Much the same folly has been evident in three Presidents, recently said, "In appropri­ is a sincere, devoted diplomat who works our policy toward Ghana. For more than 3 ate cases our Government should use its tirelessly to do the best job he can; but, years the government of President Kwame power and capacity to deal directly with a unfortunately, the vast organization over Nkrumah has been degenerating into a provocation whether in Panama, Ghana or which he presides contains long-entrenched Marxist tyranny. Again we ducked a show­ Cuba. If we do this from time to time in and frequently misguided men whose views down, not having the guts to inform Nkru­ suitable situations, I am convinced the Unit­ too often account for our unsuccessful poli­ mah that we would not subsidize his regime ed States will regain an element which it cies. Thus, while our opponents run circles as it slid toward conununism. All the whlle seems ·more recently to have lost--interna­ around us, these officials, from their lofty State issued rosy "fact sheets," including a tional respect both for American leadership glass-and-granite heights above the Potomac, recent one claiming that Ghana has "stead­ and American power." persist in underplaying Communist advances. ily increasing ties of friendship with the Weakness 3. State has not devised a con­ Consider the Department's actions during United States." Today Ghana has all but sistent plan to defeat communism's political­ last January's revolution in Zanzibar. After plunged into the Soviet orbit; our Embassy warfare strategy. a band of rebels, at least 30 of them trained has been mobbed and our flag pulled down This stems from an ingrained belief that in Cuba, seized power, statements began to by Nkrumah's stooges. the solution to our conflict with communism ooze out of our foreign-policy superstructure To force State to rise above its fears of lies not in taking the offensive but in seek­ disparaging the importance of the Commu­ showdowns, a persistent effort must be made ing areas of understanding. This attitude nists. "U.S. Aids Unconvinced Pro-Reds by both the press and Congress to compel was typified recently by our Ambassador to Run Zanzibar" ran a New York Times head­ the Department to tell the truth. Coverup West Germany, George C. McGhee, who de­ line based on one State briefing. and deception are too often practiced by clared, "We must seek solutions by indirec­ Yet, State's own files revealed that a misguided, arrogant officials who distrust and tion through promotion of evolutionary Zanzibar political office had been set up in fear the judgment of American citizens. change in the context in which the problems Havana in 1961. Cuban-instructed students Weakness 2. State too frequently forgets appear on the world scene." had returned to Zanzibar shortly before the that we must act our role as the free world's This naivete has filled the corridors and rebellion-and State knew about it. The new leader, and enforce our rights if we expect conference rooms at State for years. The entrenched powers at State are stm convinced Foreign and Defense Minister, Abdul Rah­ to survive. No major nation has ever achieved peace they can reach gentlemanly agreements with man Mohanuned, had been a paid agent of without courageous use of its might at proper the Communists, and talk them out of ag­ the Chinese Communist press agency-and times. The calm that descended over Berlln gressive aims. State knew about it. Vice President Kassim and other crisis points after President Ken­ State has gone even further down this Hanga, educated in Moscow and with a fa­ nedy's dramatic action on the Soviet missiles road of self-delusion with its policy of mak­ natical hate-America record, had stalked out in Cuba in OCtober 1962 ls proof. Yet, a ing life more palatable behind the Iron Cur­ of a meeting last fall when it moved to ex- deep-seated feeling ls too often evident at tain. If, the Department argues, we sell our CX--1006 15996 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE July 2 wheat to Russia, we help Khrushchev avert The Department's ablllty to discern be­ "myths" and declares that Russia has "ceased an agricultural dtificulty and give him a tween desirables and undesirables is in seri­ to be totally and implacably hostile to the breather to put his house in order. Then ous doubt. West." Approval reverberates through our a better atmosphere will prevail for negotia­ Just as alarming, the raw talent coming diplomatic echelons, where the word is out tion. Help poor Nikita, so the line goes, into the Foreign Service, our future Ambas­ to educate the public a.bout "good" Commu­ prove to his Communist competitors, par­ sadors, ls below par. Moreover, State's per­ nist nations. Our offi.cials pontificate about ticularly Red China, that his peaceful co­ sonnel training continues to be grossly in­ the Soviet-Chinese dispute over how to bury existence policy works. adequate, and all too few of our diplomats us, and all the while communism creeps His policy works all right! It stirs terror have a sophisticated knowledge of commu­ a.head. and mass murder in the Congo, spreads lies nism's social-demolition techniques. Not If we will but courageously help our about us in Panama. It shoots down our nearly enough of those in Red target areas friends and not aid our enemies, the protec­ off-course filers over East Germany, even as know how to deal with a professional agi­ tion of our interests can be achieved with State Department encouraged trade deals tator or can spot a Communist-led riot in the least risk of violence. And if we are to send tons of U.S. grain to this despised pup­ themaklng. survive, one top piece of business at the pet regime. It teaches Castro's elite how Individually and collectively, these five White House must be an immediate study, to operate missiles, and it poisons the blood­ weaknesses at State have spelled setbacks, reshaping and strengthening of our State stream of every free society with antl­ blunders, and catastrophes. Nothing more Departnrent. For how long can we afford to Amerlcan hate. vividly shows this than the case of Cuba. fail? Still, our State Department strategists are For months we watched as the slow infiltra­ so enchanted with the search for minor tion of Soviet troops and weapons wiped agreements that they have not even begun out the Monroe Doctrine, yet did nothing. to think through the major problem: ways Finally the missile crisis of October 1962 was to thwart and destroy communism's world­ upon us, and we stood at the brink of world Exchange of Remarks Between President wide social-demolition apparatus-be it di­ war m. Afterward, the state Department Lyndon B. Johnson and Prime Min­ rected from Moscow or Peiping. announced a bold program to isolate Cuba Weakness 4. State's declslonmaking ma­ by discouraging all free world shipping to ister George Papandreou of Greece chinery ls so ineffi.cient that it moves at a the island. Promise was further made that caterpillar pace. Cuba's exportation of communism would not Upon the Latter's Arrival on the South Shortly after President Kennedy took be tolerated. Nearly 2 years ago Secretary Lawn of the White House offi.ce, the White House asked the Depart­ Rusk told our committee that "if the ment for a swift answer to a Russian ma­ Cubans or the Soviets in Cuba attempted neuver in Berlin; 43 days later lt arrived. to move arms illicitly into other Latin EXTENSION OF REMARKS Bureaucracy has reached such proportions American countries, the Armed Forces of the OF that an estimated one out of every three United States would be used to intercept Foreign Service employees is bogged down in such traffi.c." HON. JOHN BRADEMAS strictly administrative chores, while well Both programs have now collapsed. Cuba OF INDIANA over half of State's 24,000-man payroll per­ is today a training center for guerrillas and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES forms clerical, housekeeping. duties such as terrorists. A full-scale African indoctrina­ processing 2 million pieces of paper a tion program there has already sent more Thursday, July 2, 1964 week. Vital matters crawl through in-out than 100 graduates back to their homelands, boxes gathering signatures of approval as which range from Algeria to Southern Rho­ Mr. BRADEMAS. Mr. Speaker, a dis­ crucial hours tick by. Recently, Secretary of desia. The OAS has compiled massive evi­ tinguished recent visitor to the United State Rusk admitted to Congress that tele­ dence showing Cuban aggression against States was His Excellency, Prime Min­ grams which come to him can take as many Venezuela, including financial aid and sub­ ister George Papandreou of Greece. as 10 days to go up and down the line before stantial arms shipments. (Captured plans Under unanimous consent I include in a decision ls reached, when everyone knows disclosed a plot to seize Caracas with the the RECORD the exchange of remarks be­ what the answer should be. help of mortars, bazookas, and recoilless tween President Lyndon B. Johnson and Such a senseless roundrobln is an out­ rifles slipped in from Cuba.) Prime Minister Papandreou upon the rage. And not just because of the delays As for the economic embargo, its bally­ involved. All too frequently, in the course hooed success was rudely shattered by Brit­ latter's arrival on the south lawn of the of the buckpassing and the ponderous dis­ ain's $11 million sale of 400 buses to Castro. White House on June 24, 1964: cussion in one committee after another, pro­ We knew well in advance that this and other EXCHANGE OF REMARKS BETWEEN PR!:smBNT posals get so emasculated that the decision deals by our various allies were in the mak­ LYNDON B. JOHNSON AND PRIME MlNisTD ls: don't act. Surely the unnecessary eche­ ing. State might have devised a campaign GEORGE PAPANDREOU OF GREECE UPON THB lons can be eliminated. to nip these deals in the bud. Instead, lt LATTER'S ARRivAL ON THE SOUTH LAWN 0:1' Weakness 5. State's personnel ls not up to argued that we should sell wheat to the THE WHITE HOUSE the tasks that confront it. Soviet Union, the main source of economic President JOHNSON. Mr. Prime Minister, lt Despite numerous dedicated, able Foreign support to Cuba. is a proud privilege for me to welcome you Service offi.cers, the entire personnel struc­ Nothing could have more thoroughly un­ to the United States this morning, and to ture needs more disciplined, realistic men dermined our embargo, since it was precisely express my deep personal appreciation tor coming in at the bottom and moving to­ the kind of excuse our allies were looking your coming to our country at this time. ward the top. The Department has more for to launch full-scale commerce with This country and your country are bound than enough bodies, and not nearly enough Castro. Thus, even while a 42-milllon-dol­ together by ties that are both ancient and mental brawn. Particularly ls this true at lar contract for the sale of 1 million tons modern. The founders of these United the desk-offi.cer level. For nearly every coun­ of wheat to Russia was being negotiated States drew deeply from the wisdom and try we deal with, there ls a "desk man" ln in New York last January, a British freight­ the ideals of ancient Greece in formulating Washington whose authority and influence er, the Sycamore Hill, was taking on 10,000 the concepts of our own free and democratic on foreign-policy decisions can be enormous. tons of Canadian wheat in Nova Scotia. society. In this 20th century, your country Too often these posts are filled by juniors Destination: a Russian Black Sea port. Some and mine have stood stalwartly together to who either buck decisions up another rung 48 hours after the deal was consummated, defend those enduring idea.ls against aggres­ or, worse, make mistakes that are not caught. the ship's captain got new orders from Mos­ sors, and to advance their fulfillment among We need seasoned top diplomats in these cow: Head for Havana. our people. jobs, men who can be held accountable for A few days later the Tulse Hill, another We are friends in freedom; we are allles decisions. British vessel, docked in Baltimore. Long­ in NATO for peace; we a.re coworkers in the Deputy Under Secretary of State for Ad­ shoremen refused to load it and 25 other common labors of progress and prosperity. ministration W1lliam J. Crockett recently ships, some of them scheduled to carry wheat These are strong and welcome bonds. We admitted to a congressional committee that for Iron Curtain countries. Why? These are bound together also, Mr. Prime Min­ a rigorous "weeding-out process" at State was same ships had been delivering goods to ister, by close and la.sting ties of kinship. "a matter of highest priority." The real Cuba. State Department offi.cials rushed to Americans harbor a very warm affection for question, however, is who goes out. Too talk the union out of its anti-Cuban boycott. those of your countrymen and their de­ often it ls the wrong man. Ambassador Small wonder that our friends fall away pendents who have honored us through the Clare Timberlake, among those credited with from us and our foes make mincemeat of us. yea.rs by coming to live in our midst as saving the Congo from a Soviet-run take­ Yet, instead of stern measures, we are now neighbors, as friends, and as leaders in over, was called home in 1961 because Ra­ hearing calls for reevaluations looking to a American life. jeshwar Dayal, the Indian U.N. commander still weaker line against communism. From In recent months, occasions of grief have in the Congo, considered him too anti-Com­ my own party in Congress, one influential brought us close together in moments of munist. foreign-policy voice, conditioned by ·State national sorrow. Last November Queen • • • • • Department thinking, decries cold war Fredericka came to our country as a repre- 1964 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE 15997 sentative of your country at the time of the suffered as much as ours from the violence The communique follows: tragic death of President Kennedy. Only of war and the reverses of history can only JOINT COMMUNIQUE OJ' PRIME MINISTER a short time later, Mrs. Johnson made a long for peace, but no peace can be durable sad mission of mourning to attend the fu­ without justice, and no settlement of prob­ PAPANDREOU OF GREECE AND PRESIDENT neral of your beloved King Paul, whom we lems can be right and just if it is not based JOHNSON had been privileged to meet so happily on on democracy and freedom. During the visit to Washington of the our visit to your land only 2 years ago. In the past there existed a distinction be­ Prime Minister of Greece conver1:1ations were Today I am confident that your visit and tween the world of ideals and the world of held between Mr. George A. Papandreou and the talks that we shall have together will politics, between a policy based on idealism the President of the United States, the Sec­ again aftlrm the close and cordial relations and a policy based upon realism. Nowadays retary of State, and other officials of the between Greece and the United States. they have merged into one, and the policy is U.S. Government. With d111gence and understanding, we shall today the more positive the more it ls con­ The conversations, which were conducted seek to chart a course that will preserve the sonance with ideas. This constitutes the in an atmosphere of friendship and warm union and harmony of free nations, mili­ glory of our times, the glory of the free cordiality, have contributed to the strength­ tantly opposed to Communist aggression. world whom you are called upon by history ening of the close ties between Greece and We in America know that the people of to lead. the United States. Greece yield to no other people in the world My country does not forget that the The visit provided the opportunity to the in their devotion to freedom and independ­ United States, through the doctrine which Greek Prime Minister and the President of ence, and in their desire to keep the peace bears the nanie of one of your great prede­ the United States to review various aspects won and maintained by such great sacriftce cessors, President Truman, has been instru­ of the international situation and to discuss from freemen in our times. mental in the defense of Greece against ag­ subjects of mutual interest. Mr. Prime Minister, it is to that cause of gression, as well as in the rehabilitation of The President of the United States and peace that our efforts are dedicated today. the country, exhausted and devastated by the Greek Prime Minister had a sincere and Prime Minister PAPANDREOU. Mr. President, cruel years of war. Greece also feels proud useful exchange of views on the Cyprus situ­ I thank you for your kind welcome. I re­ to be represented in your great democracy by ation. Both expressed full support of the gard it as a great privilege that upon your a number of citizens of Greek descent who efforts undertaken by the Security Council friendly invitation I find myself in the constitute a living link between the two and the Secretary General of the United Capital of the mighty American democracy, nations, and of our national cultural ties Nations for the establishment of peace in the great friend and ally of Greece, and be­ to the world of American civilization. the island and for rapidly finding a perma­ fore this famous mansion which has housed Mr. President, I welcome this opportunity nent solution. The Greek Prime Minister so many illustrious promoters of human to bring to you and to the people of the explained in detail the Greek position on the achievement, of liberty and justice. United States the cordial salute of the problem. He emphasized that a permanent I am happy that I shall be given the op­ people of Greece. solution should be based upon the principles portunity to become personally acquainted JOINT COMMUNIQUE OF PRIME MINISTER PA­ of democracy and justice. The two leaders with the present great leader of the United PANDREOU OJ' GREECE AND PRESIDENT JOHNSON reiterated their determination to make every States, the champion of peace, as well as effort to increase the understanding among with members of his administration and of Mr. Speaker, I also a.Sk unanimous allies. the Congress of the United States. consent to insert in the RECORD the text The Greek Prime Minister expressed the Your concern for the maintenance of peace of the joint communique of June 25, deep appreciation for the generous support and freedom ls shared by the Greek nation 1964, of Prime Minister Papandreou and of the U.S. Government and people in the and by myself. Greece has always tried for President Johnson with respect to the hard struggle of the Greek people for the promotion of peace. A people that has Cyprus situation. their freedom and welfare.

and that each citizen worthy of free­ from the President of the United States SENATE dom, jealous of the total strength of the submitting sundry nominations, which were referred to the appropriate com­ MONDAY, JULY 6, 1964 commonwealth, shall have as his high­ est joy, not what he takes, but what mittees. The Senate met at 12 o'clock merid­ he gives. (For nominations this day received, ian, and was called to order by the We ask it in the Name of the One see the end of Senate proceedings.) Acting President pro tempore