34812 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 9, 197k tlefl.eld Park in the State of South Carolina., U.S. warship; to the Joint Committee on ByMr.REES: and for other purposes; to the Committee on Atomic Energy. H. Res. 1429. Resolution expressing the Interior and Insular Affairs. By Mr. ASPIN: sense of the House with respect to participa­ By Mr. WYMAN: H. Con. Res. 663. Concurrent resolution tion by State and local governments in the H.R. 17215. A b111 to amend title 39, United expressing the sense of congress concerning formulation of Federal policies and pro­ States Code, to permit organizations or as­ recognition by the European Security Con­ grams; to the Committee on Government sociations of older citizens to qualify for spe­ ference of the Soviet Union's occupation of Operations. cial bulk third-class mail rates; to the Com­ Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania; to the Com­ By Mr. RODINO (for himself and Mr. mittee on Post Oftlce and Civil Service. mittee on Foreign Affairs. EILBERG): By Mr. MARAZITI (for himself, Mr. By Mr. ROBISON of New York: H. Res. 1430. Resolution concerning the REGULA, Mr. MoLLOHAN, Mr. PARRIS, H. Con. Res. 664. Concurrent resolution to safety and freedom of Valentyn Moroz, Mr. LENT, Mr. BEARD, Mr. KETCHUM, establish a target for budget outlays for fis­ Ukrainian historian; to the Committee on Mr. RoNCALLO of New York, Mr. Qum, cal year 1975; to the Committee on Appropri­ Foreign Affairs. Mr. BENITEZ, Mr. DERWINSKI, Mr. ations. By Mr. WALSH: HARRINGTON, Mr. DOMINICK V. DAN­ By Mr. WRIGHT: H. Res. 1431. Resolution concerning the IELS, Mr. MITCHELL of New York, Mr. H. Con. Res. 665. Concurrent resolution to safety and freedom of Valentyn Moroz, ESHLEMAN, Mr. WHITEHURST, Mr establish a target for budget outlays for fis­ Ukrainian historian; to the Committee on BURGENER, Mr. CASEY of Texas, Mr. cal year 1975; to the Committee on Appropri­ Foreign Affairs. BROYHILL of North Carolina, Mr. ations. HANLEY, Mr. ABDNOR, and Mr. Mc­ By Mr. FRASER (for himself and Mr. CLORY): NELSEN): H.R. 17216. A b111 to prohi·bit the shipment H. Res. 1425. Resolution providing for the PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS 1n interstate commerce of dogs intended to printing as a House document of the pro­ be used to fight other dogs for purposes of ceedings of the Committee on the District of Under clause 1 of rule XXII, private sport, wagering, or entertainment; to the Columbia incident to the presentation of a bills and resolutions were introduced and Committee on the Judiciary. portrait of Hon. Charles C. Diggs, Jr.; to the severally referred as follows: "By Mr. MARAZITI (for himself, Mr. Committee on House Administration. By Mr. PHILLIP BURTON: WYLIE, Mr. CONTE, Mr. MICHEL, Mr. By Mrs. GRASSO: H.R. 17219. A blll for the relief of Rhody BAPALIS, Mr. YoUNG of Alaska, Mr. H. Res. 1426. Resolution concerning the E. Laigo; to the Committee on the Judiciary. LOTT, Mr. SPENCE, Mr. RONCALLO of safety and freedom of Valentyn Moroz, By Mr. MURPHY of New York: New York, and Mr. WYDLER) : Ukrainian historian; to the Committee on H.R. 17220. A bill for the relief of Lee In H.R. 17217. A blll to dea.uthorize perma­ Foreign Affairs. Deuk; to the Committee on the Judiciary. nently the construction of the Tocks Island By Mr. GUYER: By Mr. ROY: Dam on the Delaware River; to the Commit­ H. Res. 1427. Resolution expressing the H.R. 17221. A bill for the reUef of Ults S. tee on Public Works. sense of the House of Representatives con­ Anderson; to the Committee on the By Mr. ESCH (for himself and Mr. cerning the need for immediate and substan­ Judiciary. QUIE} (by request): tial public investments in agriculture re­ By Mr. SHRIVER: H.R. 17218. A blll to establish a. special un­ search and technology for the express pur­ H.R. 17222. A b111 to direct the Secretary employment assistance program; and a com­ pose of increasing food production; to the of the Interior to convey certain lands in muniy improvement program; and for other Committee on Agriculture. Geary County, Kans., to Margaret G. More; purposes; to the Committee on Education By Mr. PEPPER: to the Committee on Interior and Insular and Labor. H. Res. 1428. Resolution expressing the Affairs. By Mr. HOSMER (for himself and Mr. concern of the House of Representatives with By Mr. WRIGHT: PRICE of Illinois) : respect to the financial situation of U.S.-fiag H.R. 17223. A bill for the relief of Oscar H.J. Res. 1161. Joint resolution assuring carriers engaged in international air trans­ Antonio Salas, his wife Alberta Garcia, and compensation for damages caused by nucrear portation; to the Committee on Interstate their children Bertha Maribel, Patricia, and Incidents involving the nuclear reactor of a and Foreign Commerce. Juliza; to the Committee on the Judiciary.

EXTE:NSIONS OF REMARKS THE FINANCIAL PLIGHT OF PAN was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, the United States, when they are going to AMERICAN WORLD AffiWAYS as follows: use thoe:e planes to compete with U.S. air­ lines that must pay prevailing high com­ SUBSIDY IDEA Is WRONG mercial interest rates to buy the same kind HON. HARRY F. BYRD, JR. Pan American World Airways, the "flag of planes? Why is the U.S. Postal Service carrier" of the United States on many inter­ OF VIRGINIA paying foreign carriers more to carry mail national air routes, is appealing for federal than it pays to our own airlines? IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES subsidies to avoid financial collapse. We Some of these inequities can only be ironed Wednesday, October 9, 1974 sympathize with Pan Am and its employes out at the international level. The United and stockholders, but we think it would be States has followed ~ an "open skies" policy Mr. HARRY F. BYRD, JR. Mr. Presi­ a bad idea for the American taxpayer to giving foreign airlines virtually unlimited dent; the financial plight of Pan Ameri­ bail out this famous airline, even if it would access to the U.S. travel market. Some for­ can World Airways is a serious matter. be a blow to our national pride to see it go eign countries openly discourage their citi­ I support the administration's plan to under. zens from flying on U.S. airlines in order to secure more equitable treatment for If there is any argument to be made at all create patronage for their own national car­ for federal funds to be used for rescuing riers. There should be the same reciprocity Pan Am and our other international Plan Am, it is that the airline owes many of in the sphere of air travel that we pursue in carriers. its problems to short-sighted policies of our our free trade policies. However, I cannot endorse the pro­ own government. Rather than start writing Pan Am is not the only U.S. airline caught posal which has been advanced for a checks to cover these mistakes, the govern­ in a squeeze between skyrocketing operating large-scale cash subsidy of Pan Am to ment should try to create conditions that costs and fare and route structures that are be paid from tax funds. I do not believe make it easier for our international air often slow to reflect changes in competitive the Government should be in the busi­ carriers to survive. conditions in the travel market. Trans World ness of bailing out distressed firms with Our government can do nothing about the Airlines, for one, is suffering the same dis­ fact that most of the 57 foreign airlines advantages as Pan Am in international serv­ the taxpayers' money. that compete directly or indirectly with U.S. ice but can cushion its losses with its do­ An excellent summation of the issues airlines on international routes are subsi­ mestic routes and subsidiary operations. If involved in the situation of Pan Am dized by their governments. However, there the survival of Pan Am is important to the appeared recently in the Shenandoah is no excuse for the United States to be national interest, domestic carriers might Herald and Shenandoah Valley of making the competitive advantage of for­ consider yielding on their opposition to Woodstock, Va. D. Lathan Mims is eign airlines even greater. granting Pam Am some domestic routes, too. president of this newspaper, and Robert Why, for instance, should Australia's Congress will no doubt be told that Pan Qantas Airlines pay a $271 fee to land one Am's appeal for subsidies is a "last resort." P. Thompson is the editor. of its 747 jumbo jets at San Francisco when It can hardly be viewed as that when changes I ask unanimous consent that the Pan Am must pay a $4,200 fee to land at are possible in our national and interna­ text of the editorial concerning Pan Sydney, Australia? Why is our government­ tional air policy that could put Pan Am and Am, "Subsidy Idea Is Wrong," be sponsored Export-Import Bank loaning other U.S. carriers on a far more equitable printed in the Extensions of Remarks. money to foreign airlines at special low in­ basis of competition in the world travel mar• There being no objection, the editorial terest rates so they can purchase aircraft in ket. October 9, 1974 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 34813 THE CARGO PREFERENCE BILL American tankers to bring oil to our shores SCHOOLBUSING IN BOSTON becomes la.w, the consumer is in for another round of inflation on all products which have crude oil as their base-and that in­ HON. JESSE A. HELMS cludes thousands of petrochemical products, HON. HARRY F. BYRD, JR. OF NORTH CAROLINA paints and fertilizers as well as the gas and OF VIRGINIA oil for cars, trucks, industrial plants, utlll­ IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES IN THE SENATE OP THE UNITED STATES ties and homes. Just think about it for a Wednesday, October 9, 1974 moment: Some of the very members of Wednesday, October 9, 197 4 Congress who speak the loudest in public, Mr. HELMS. Mr. President, on Sep­ to stop inflation, and call for prompt action Mr. HARRY F. BYRD, JR. Mr. Presi­ tember 17, and again on September 18, to do something about inflation, have voted dent, news of the difficulties associated Mr. Robert F. Hurleigh devoted his eve­ for this bill which wlll drive up the prices with implementation of a schoolbusing ning news commentary over the Mutual for literally thousands of products from the order in Boston was received with mixed Broadcasting System Network to the food store to the gas station. emotions in the South. Senate's passage of the cargo pref­ That's why the expression "talking out In the September 23 edition of the ence bill. He made some rather pointed of both sides of the mouth" seems to fit Richmond Times-Dispatch, Ed Grimsley, remarks about "talking out of both sides quite well. So goes the world today. the editor of the editorial page of that of the mouth.": newspaper and author of a column called Some of the very members of Congress, COMMENTARY BY ROBERT F. HURLEIGH "Metronome," took a sly poke at some he said, "who speak the loudest 1n public SEPTEMBER 18, 1974 of the hypocrisy surrounding busing, in to stop inflation and call for prompt action We reported yesterday that the House and the form of an open letter to Mayor to do something about inflation, have voted Senate have passed the "Energy Transporta­ White of Boston. for this bill which will drive up the prices tion Security Act of 1974" which would cre­ I ask unanimous consent that the text for literally thousands of products from the ate another inflationary pressure on con­ of Mr. Grimsley's humorous column, food store to the gas station. sumer prices on all products made from "Should We Dispatch Freedom Riders?", For the benefit of Senators who may crude oil-and that means thousands of be printed in the Extensions of Remarks. not have heard these commentaries on products from medicines to plastics, from There being no objection, the article fertlllzers to insecticides as well as the mun­ this very inflationary legislation, I ask dane uses of refined oil for industry and was ordered to be printed in the REcORD, unanimous consent that they be printed home, and cars and trucks. as follows: in the RECORD. If the measure passes the Congressional SHOULD WE DISPATCH FREEDOM RIDERS? There being no objection, the com­ Conference Committee and is signed by the (By Ed Grimsley) mentaries were ordered to be printed in President, it will require that at least 30 Han. KEVIN H. WHITE, the RECORD, as follows: percent of all oil imported to this country Mayor, City of Boston, COMMENTARY BY ROBERT F. BURLEIGH, be carried in American flag ships by 1977. Boston, Mass. SEPTEMBER 17, 1974 The bill is intended to assist the maritime uni.ons whose jobs have been disappearing DEAR MR. MAYOR: I was surprised to learn Once again the expression "talking out as the high wages of the American seamen from news stories that you are having trouble of both sides of the mouth" is most apt to caused ship owners to move to the cheaper integrating your public schools. You see, I describe a number of law-makers who have labor provided by crews in foreign nations. thought Boston's schools had been inte­ been the most articulate in calling for The bill has been around for a number of grated for years, if not forever. This I was led prompt and drastic action in stopping in­ years, and certainly had some merit as to believe by the outraged reaction of flation, yet vote for a measure which will American seamen found themselves with Bostonians a few years ago to the resistance increase the cost of consumer products. The higher wage soa.les but fewer and fewer jobs. some Southern communities offered to inte­ most recent case in point is the 42 to 28 The higher wage rates were necessary to gration. Senate vote to approve the Energy Transpor­ maintain a standard of living commensurate But I was misled, and that's that. The pur­ tation Se<:urity Act of 1974. The bill has a with the cost of living in the United States pose of my letter is to say that many of us curious history. It was first introduced in which is much, much higher than that of, down here would like very much to help you the Congress as a means to stop the "run­ say, Liberia. But this bill and the American make the difficult adjustments you now find away" ships of our Merchant Marine to for­ seamen are victims of the Arab-Israeli war necessary. Kindness deserves kindness, after eign flags and foreign crewmen. The high of last October, and the resultant oil em­ all, and many Northerners, including Boston­ wages paid to American seamen, and the re­ bargo leading to quadrupled cost of crude ians, were good enough to come south to help sultant high cost of operation was the reason oil from the Persian Gulf. overcome this region's opposition to school American ship owners gave for registering Now, with almost every product using oil integration. Why, one of your good 1'8.Clies, tankers and other cargo ships in foreign as a base raw material increased in price, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Peabody, was even nations, such as Liberia. As this practice be­ the question of whether this added infla­ courageous enough to spend a night in jail to came almost the custom the job loss to tionary measure should become law 1s being set an example for the South. American seamen became critical. There ignored by many who otherwise have as­ What specifically oan we do for you? Some seemed little likelihood that wages could be sumed the posture of "inflation fighters" of my friends have suggested that we try to lowered to compete because the cost-of-liv­ and protectors of the consumer. Some mem­ send some Freedom Riders to Boston. The ing faced by American seamen has always bers of congress apparently didn't want to only trouble is that we might find it dlftlcult been higher than that of their counterparts make the hard decision, didn't want to be to arrange transportation, since most of our in the countries where these ships were reg­ re<:orded for or against the measure and buses are needed to haul children hither and istered. simply didn't vote. yon to keep ouT schools in proper racial bal­ Members of congress in the maritime Almost a third of the Senate was absent ance. But if you think Preedom Riders would ports were understandably sympathetic to when the measure was passed 42 to 28. help, we'll see what we can do. the problem and supported the legislation That totals 70 present and voting, with 30 Could you use a few good sermons? During which wlll force at least 30 percent of all Senators absent. An unusually large number our own difficulties, there were some power­ oil imports to be carried in American flag of absentees on such an important, infla­ ful sermons preached about the South's need ships by 1977. One of the more curious tionary measure in this year of shrinking to accept integration. Some of the ministers aspects of this legislation is the apposition dollars. And what of the silence of the many who delivered them are still around and by the Defense, Commerce, Interior and consumer protective groups publicly dedi­ might welcome the opportunity to visit Bos­ Transportation Departments, yet the title cated to concern for the people's interest? ton. Barring that, we probably could send of "The Energy Transportation Security Act So much good is accomplished by these con­ you copies of some of the sermons, which you of 1974". sumer groups that they must never allow could distribute to ministers in your own The bill may have had considerable themselves to duck an issue of this sort, else city. No doubt they could use them as they merit before the Israel-Arab war of last their crediblllty may lessen and they could are, for racial prejudice is racial prejudice year brought the oil embargo by the Arab find their public support eroding should they wherever it may be, in Boston as in Birming­ states and precipitated our own oil crunch began to pick and chose their targets. ham, and opposition to massive busing is a earlier this year; then the quadrupling of The inflationary aspects of this legislation sign of prejudice. Right? the ~ice of oil by the oil producing na­ are apparent and consumers would ulti­ Another potentially helpful suggestion 1s tions and the resultant increase in the cost mately feel the impact on their pocketbooks. that we in the South petition Congress to of oil products all over the world. Perhaps the consumer interest groups are suspend all other business and devote its ef­ Now, again, the oil producing nations have hopeful the bill will not survive the Con­ forts, for as long as may be necessary, to the voted another 5 percent increase for their gressional Conference Committee, or that objective of integrating the schools of Boston oil which will affe<:t oil importing nations President Ford will veto the measure, and and of the North in general. If congressmen once again. If this blll to force American thus allow them to avoid the controversial reacted as they did when the South was in­ importers of on to use at least 30 percent issue. So goes the world today. volved, they would make fiery speeches, issue 34814 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 9, 1974 indignant statements, propose pious resolu­ his stay in the United States will be a the Vietnam-Era Veteran's Readjustment tions and express themselves in other ways­ ple:J.sant and productive one. Assistance Act of 1972 (Public Law 92-540), all in an effort to persuade Boston and the I would also like to note on this occa­ the Rehabll1tation Act of 1973 (Public Law North to integrate their schools. 93-112) or the Comprehensive Employment One effect of this would be to focus the sion that I had the recent honor of be­ and Training Act of 1973 (Publlc Law 93- national media's attention on your situation. ing named the "Outstanding New York 203). In no time at all. Boston would be swarming Congressman" by the Polish Cui tural Area employers are urged by Commander with newsmen from CBS, NBC and ABC-all Society of New York. It is an honor for Davison to list their jobs and training op­ eager to prepare specials on busing in Boston. which I am deeply grateful and I look portunities with the nearest Publlc Security It would be an experience you'd never forget. forward to personally receiving this Ofil.ce and to discuss job placement for dis­ Time, Newsweek and other publications prestigious award from the society. abled veterans with the Local Veteran's would devote special issues to you. Tom As we approach our 200th birthday Employment Representative. Wicker of The Neu; York Times would lecture you for a month, at least. celebration, it is only fitting that we take This 1s tbe way the national media would the time as a nation to pay tribute to react, I am certain, for this is the way they those who have in some way contributed treated the South when it was involved in to the growth and success of America. BOLLING REPORT major integration controversies. And surely The Polish American community is an the national media would not wish to treat integral part of both our Nation's past the North differently. Would they? history and future dreRms. I salute my Please let me hear from you at your earliest many Polish friends and extend to them HON. ROBERT J. LAGOMARSINO convenience. my best wishes on Pulaski Day 1974. OF CALIFORNIA Sincerely, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ED GRIMSLEY. P.S.-If you need an extra federal judge to Wednesday, October 9, 1974 help supervise your busing plan, we have one Mr. LAGOMARSINO. Mr. Speaker, that we may be willing to let you borrow for awhile. NATIONAL EMPLOY THE HANDI­ due to a long-standing engagement in CAPPED WEEK my district, I was unable to be here for the final vote on the Bolling report New York City which during October 6-12. I wholeheartedly House. Indeed, indifferent is too mild a marks the great Polish holiday of the concur in the remarks of Hershell E. word. The transparent attempts of some same name, which happens to fall on Davison, Jr., commander of Arlington­ of the Democratic Caucus to kill off com­ October 11. Fairfax, Chapter No. 10, Disabled Ameri­ mittee reform this year reflect a disdain On this day millions of Poles around can Veterans as follows: for the public welfare. It is no wonder the world pay tribute to Count Casimir REMARKS OF HERSHELL E. DAVISON, JR. that the Congress is consistently at the Pulaski, a nobleman who became one of Hershell E. Davison, Jr., Commander of bottom of the respect list of public insti­ the most distinguished leaders of the Arlington-Fairfax, Chapter No. 10, Disabled tutions in the eyes of the American American Revolutionary Army. After American Veterans, today called upon all area people. joining the Army in 1777, Pulaski rose citizens, particularly employers, to observe If we are ever to regain the esteem and in prominence, and reached the rank of NATIONAL EMPLOY THE HANDICAPPED confidence of the public, we are going to brigadie1· gene,ral and chief of cavalry. WEEK during October 6-12. The purpose of have to return to the original concept NETH Week is to focus public attention on His most noted accomplishment was his the "Hire the Handicapped" program and that this is a representative government. leadership of the successful siege of the to remind employers that handicapped work­ An institution which does not have the strategic port city of Savannah, a vic­ ers, especially disabled veterans whose skllls, capacity or the will to reform itself is tory which resulted in his death, but maturity and dependability have been sharp­ in trouble. contributed much to American's later ened by military service, make excellent em­ I hope this is not true of this House. freedom. ployees when selectively placed 1n the right I hope it will not be said of the 93d Con­ On Pulaski Day we take time to pay jobs. gress that this was the Congress which tribute to the many accomplishments Commander Davison stated that the U.S. buried committee reform. Department of Labor and large employers of the large Polish American community such as Bzndix Corporation and E.I. duPont Mr. Speaker, I wish to commend those in this Nation. Many people are not de Nemours and Company have conducted members of the majority who found the aware, but on October 3 we marked the studies to compare the work records of han­ will to resist the pressures of their o'vn 366th anniversary of the arrival of the dicapped and able-bodied workers perform­ cauc·1s. ':.'he;-' have my genuine admira­ first Polish immigrants to our shores. ing similar tasks. These studies, involving tion, because they did so knowing that The il1fiuence of the Polish American thousands of worlcers, concluded that the they have much to lose in the short run. community has been felt in each era of handicapped had fewer disalbling on-the-job But in the long run, they will receive the our history and continues to be felt in injuries, and their attendance and job per­ formance were "as good as or better than grateful thanks of the American people, all aspects of our modern day American the able-bodied." and thev will know they did the right society. The DAV leader asserted that Congress thing when faced with a choice. It is symbolic that as we celebrate and the Executive Branch have expressed that Mr. Speaker, I hope this does not mean Pulaski Day 1974, we find the current qualified job-seeking disabled veterans, in­ that the issue of committee reform is leader of Poland, Mr. Edward Gierek, cluding more than 300,000 wounded in Viet­ dead or finally settled. The American in the United States for meetings with nam, and handicapped persons should receive either special emphasis or affirmative action people, in a few weeks, will have a chance President Ford. It is the hope of Poles to express themselves on this issue. And and Americans alike that these talks will by all U.S. Government agencies and fed­ eral contractors, and that programs imple­ I hope that when we return next year, if help pave a new road of better relations mented with manpower revenue sharing we do return, we will find the courage to between our two nations. I extend tO""'Krr. funds should reflect special consideration for finish the job the people sent us here Gierek my best wishes and hopes that theSe groups, according to the provisions of to do. October 9, 1974 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 34815 TOASTMASTERS INTERNATIONAL by the size of district 36, which is re­ ing, exercising fiscal restraint-these are CELEBRATE 50TH ANNIVERSARY sponsible for Toastmaster operations in the tools we must use in waging warfare this area. Over 20 new clubs were formed against inflation-the real cause of last year alone, bringing district 36's which is a surplus of money and credit total to over 125 and increasing its mem­ chasing after relatively fewer goods and HON. DAVID TOWELL bership to 2,600. It is now the largest dis­ services-rather than increasing the tax OF NEVADA trict in the world. burden of productive Americans. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The headquarters of Toastmasters In­ For these two reasons then, I am op­ Wednesday, October 9, 1974 ternational is located at 2:ZOO, North posed to the 5-percent tax surcharge and will not vote for it. I have told my con­ Mr. TOWELL of Nevada. Mr. Speaker, Grand Avenue, Santa Ana, Calif. 92711. The art of communication is often stituents that I will not vote to raise Toastmasters International is a nonprofit challenging and sometimes difficult, but their taxes, and I propose to be true to educational organization providing train­ it is one where practice and application my word so long as I am their Congress­ ing in the communicative skills of listen­ are rewarded. Toastmasters offers the man. ing, thinking and speaking. This year opportunity for improvement in many they are celebrating their 50th anni­ areas of communication, ranging from versary, and I think it is appropriate to acquiring the skills of a polished plat­ STATE AND LOCAL FISCAL ASSIST­ take note of it here. All of us, as Mem­ form speaker to learning how to really ANCE ACT OF 1972 bers of this legislative body, know the listen when someone else speaks. value and importance of communication. On its 50th anniversary, I join with A large part of our work involves listen­ many others in wishing Toastmasters HON. JAMES T. BROYHILL ing to determine the views of our con­ International continued growth and suc­ OF NORTH CAROLINA stituents, evaluating the merits of pro­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES posals we must pass on, and expressing cess in its mission. our own positions as clearly as possible. Wednesday, October 9, 1974 We have all encountered people whose ----- Mr. BROYIDLL of North Carolina. lack of com~~.ur.icative skills works an STATEMENT IN OPPOSITION TO THE Mr. Speaker, I joined with a majority of injustice on the issues they support. PROPOSED 5-PERCENT TAX SUR­ my colleagues in supporting the State Despite the technological advances in CHARGE and Local Fiscal Assistance Act of 1972, communication media, the human fac­ which established a general revenue tor remains the biggest obstacle to bet­ sharing program to assist State and local ter understanding. Toastmasters offers HON. WILLIAM H. HUDNUT III officials in solving local problems. Com­ training to those who want to improve OF INDIANA munities have recently been mailed their their ability to communicate. Members IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES payment for the ninth period of entitle­ participate in a professionally designed ment, under this program, and I am program founded on learning by doing Wednesday, October 9, 1974 pleased that throughout my congression­ and constructive criticism. Mr. HUDNUT. Mr. Speaker, the Presi­ al district, I have found tremendous In the past 50 years, over a million dent's economic proposals to the Con­ support for this program. men and women have been afforded the gress yesterday contained many con­ Because of the funds provided through opportunity to improve themselves structive ideas worthy of favorable con­ revenue sharing, local people are now able through membership in local Toastmas­ sideration, but the new tax is not one of to have a greater voice in meeting local ter clubs. This impressive figure is a trib­ them and I do not support it. needs and solving diverse community ute to Dr. Ralph Smedley, who orga­ A 5-percent surtax-even if it is an­ problems. There have been some criti­ nized the first club on October 22, 1924. nounced as only temporary-on indi­ cisms about how funds were spent under Two dozen men met with Dr. Smedley vidual incomes of $7,500 and up, and on this program, but I am sure that the vast in the basement of a YMCA in Santa joint family incomes of $15,000 and up, majority of communities have used these Ana, Calif. That one club has grown to is a proposal to maul the middle class funds to build badly needed water sys­ over 3,000 today with over 60,000 ac­ and mollify the inflation-generating big tems, recreational facilities and to up­ tive members. The goals of Toastmasters snenders. grade the services to local citizens. International-better listening, thinking - In my opinion, the President's pro­ I wanted to share with you a resolution and speaking-are perhaps more im­ posed tax increase has two glaring de­ passed by the board of commissioners of portant today than at any time during fects. the town of Granite Falls, N.C., endors­ the past half century. First , it would hit an already strapped ing the concept of revenue sharing and In pointing out the opportunities middle America much too hard. Why asking our continued support of this through Toastmasters membership, I single out the millions of unmarried type of cooperative problem solving which spea l{ as or. e who has personally bene­ Americans making $7,500 or above and is the goal of revenue sharing and that fitted. As a member, I prepared and the millions of families with joint in­ reassures me that the concept of revenue delivered short speeches, participated in comes above $15,000 a year, for another sharing deserves our eontinued support. impromptu talks, and gave and received blow amidships? Already fighting sky­ RESOLUTION constr\lctive criticism. These form the high prices on food and fuel, already Whereas, The Board of Commissioners of core of the communication training. In carrying monthly payments on cars and the Town of Granite Falls desires to go on addition, I was fortunate to participate houses, already striving mightily to get record as supporting the Federal Revenue in the leadership experience offered by youngsters educated, already bending Sharing Program; and, Toastmasters, for before coming to beneath a load of property, sales, and Whereas, the monie.s received by the Town income taxes, already struggling to make of Granite Falls have been used to upgrade Congress I was privileged to serve as the water and sewer system of the Town in one of the 68 elected district governors. ends meet, the middle American ought areas that would otherwise been impossible While the headquarters furnishes pro­ not to be forced to bear this additions.~ to provide the increased services; and, fessionally prepared materials, the op­ burden. It is just not fair. Whereas, the citizens of the Town of Gran· erational responsibility for growth and Second, increasing taxes will not effec­ ite Falls have been informed and have playecf education rests with the elected and ap­ tively combat inflation. It will only give an active oart in the use of these funds; and, pointed officers at various levels. It is more money to the Federal Govern­ Now, therefore, be it resolved that the truly a self-help effort. ment to spend-faster than it takes it Board of Commissioners of the Town o\ in, no doubt, if it runs true to form­ Granite Falls go on record as supporting the As a form~r district governor, I am Federal Revenue Sharing Program and re­ pleased to note that Toastmaster train­ and this in turn will only fuel inflation's quest that all Federal elected officials from ing is widely available in and around the fires. The key to controlling inflation is this area and the State of North Carolina Nation's Capital. There are clubs on both to control deficit Government spending. and all candidates for election in the up­ the House and Senate sides. Support Putting the Federal Government on a coming November election be notified of the. by Government agencies and private pay-as-you-go basis, balancing the contents of this resolution. firms in the metropolitan area is shown budget, cutting back on wasteful spend- This 19th day of August, 1974. CXX--2.195---Part 26 34816 EXTENSIONS OF R£MARKS October 9, 1974 TRIBUTE TO ZALMON SHAZAR­ GLOBAL INTERDEPENDENCY-AD­ dowed by our Creator, of "life, liberty, and ISRAEL STATESMAN DRESS BY SENATOR W...ARK HAT­ the pursuit of happiness." The threats to FmLD TO THE ANNUAL DINNER those basic rights can come from numerous OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS FOR sources both within and without the nation. HON. MARIO BIAGGI PEACE THROUGH LAW Social disintegration, ecological deteriora­ OF NEW YORK tion, economic erosion, morally destitute cor­ porate values held as a people, domestic and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES international injustice, and world-wide Wednesday, October 9, 1974 HON. JOHN F. SEIBERLING forces of instab111ty are a few of the threats OF OHIO to our nation's security apart from the Mr. BIAGGI. Mr. Speaker, I join with IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES m111tary power of governments whose ideol­ millions of Jews around the world in ogy is hostile to our own. mourning the death of Zalmon Shazar, Wednesday, October 9, 1974 Further, it is these other threats which, former President of Israel who died on Mr. SEIDERLING. Mr. Speaker, last in fact, seem far .tnore imminent to the Saturday at the age of 84. month those attending the annual fundamental rights and qualities that de­ Shazar was one of the foremost leaders Washingtion dinner of Members of Con­ fine our security. Thus, we should analyze of the Zionist movement in Israel, and with care precisely what it means to preserve gress for Peace Through Law were privi­ and insure the ideals of "life, liberty, and was one of Israel's finest public states­ leged to hear an exceptionally penetrat­ the pursuit of happiness" ln today's world. men. He served. as the nation's third Pres­ ing and eloquent speech by Senator There ls one central truth we must realize: ident from 1963 to 1973, and despite the MARK HATFIELD of Oregon on the real­ Protecting and preserving the life of citizens many adversities of that period, he ities of the precarious world in which in America is directly dependent upon the worked to insure the continued growth we are living. conditions that will preserve and nurture life of the Israel nation. To attempt to summarize it would fail throughout the world. This increases as we Like his two predecessors as President, to do justice to Senator HATFmLD's bril­ realize the finite limitations to the resources Mr. Shazar was born in czarist Russia. necessary to preserve life. In a ultimate but liant speech. However, I will try to do so. very real way, the conditions for securing He struggled through a turbulent early The "central truth" which he said we life here in America are dependent upon con­ life in this highly anti-Semitic region must all realize is that- ditions and resources for sustaining life of the world. He began his illustrious Protecting and preserving the life of citi­ everywhere. We are tied together with man­ career in the Zionist movement while in zens in America is directly dependent upon kind in a single destiny. Russia serving as the secretary of a the conditions that will preserve and nur­ A major threat, economically and even secret labor Zionist conference in Minsk, ture life throughout the world. This in­ militarily, to our national well being and the north-central Russia. creases as we realize the finite limitations world's peace is posed by the division be­ After this, Shazar joined a labor to the resources necessary to preserve life. tween those, like us, with a monopoly of the world's basic resources, and those struggling Zionist newspaper in Lithuania, and de­ Senator HATFIELD pointed out that it to allow their people to eat and live. Such spite being imprisoned for 1 year, here­ is a mistake to assume that our Nation's a world is inherently prone to violence, and mained active in Zionist affairs. Upon security is wholly dependent on our mili­ provides no guarantee to security for either his release, he founded the German Labor tary might. He further pointed out that the rich or the poor. The greatest threat Zionist movement, and played an active by the year 2000 we will depend on for­ to wars in the future w111 stem from po­ role in the establishment of the Labor eign sources for more than one-half of tential "wars of redistribution" for the Zionist Party in Poland. our supply of all but 1 of the 13 basic world's wealth and resources. Shazar's work gained him worldwide Consider our past quest for security. Since industrial raw materials. World War II all the nations of the world fame, and in 1929 Shazar became one of Senator HATFIELD suggested that the have spent $3,699 trillion in this quest. The the founders of Mapai, Israel's Labor developing nations of the world can United States alone has spent half of that Party which grew out of the Zionist hardly be expected to continue to ac­ amount, or about the same as all the other movement there, and which produced all cept the demands put upon them to sup­ nations of the world combined. With our of the major leaders of early Israel his­ ply our wasteful consumption habits nuclear arsenals, man possesses the capabil­ tory. By the time independence was while a majority of their people suffer ity of releasing explosive power equivalent achieved in 1948, Shazar had already to 15 tons of TNT for every man, woman, and from malnutrition and even starvation. child on the face of the earth. In a world founded the Tel Aviv newspaper Davar Finally, Senator HATFIELD contended of nearly four billion people, there exists and served as it<:; editor for the next 10 that there is enough for all in this world the capacity for destroying 400 billion peo­ years. As the Israel nation grew, so did but only if we recognize our interde­ ple. In a matter of a moment, a thermonu­ Shazar's importance. He served as the pendency and strive for a global commu­ clear explosion 3,000 times as large as the Minister of Culture and Education and nity under law as the only alternative bomb dropped on Hiroshima can be directed was nominated to be Israel's first Am­ that leads to true security and peace. to any point on the globe. bassador to the Soviet Union. Although America is the number one military power Mr. Speaker, in yesterday's RECORD I ln the world. Yet, we are 14th in the infant Moscow rejected his credentials, Shazar was pleased to offer the brilliant report mortality. We are 8th in the ratio of doctors remained active serving three terms in by Congressman CHARLES WHALEN as per patients. We are 22nd in life expectancy. the Knesset and later as the head of chairman of the Developing Nations We are 14th in llteracy. Israel's Office of Immigration. Committee Members of Congress for The U.S. budgets for milltary spending During his decade as President, Shazar Peace Through Law. The address by have continued to rise, over and above in­ emerged as one of Israel's most articulate Senator HATFIELD helps place Mr. WHA­ flation, despite the end of the war. Further, spokesmen, and as a result he spent a this is the first time in recent history that LEN'S report in the broad perspective of military spending has risen following a war; great deal of time promoting Israel to overall global interdependency. Senator after World War II and following the Ko­ other nations around the world. Shazar HATFIELD's address follows these re­ rean war, there was a marked decline in our was also a noted intellectual, a writer of marks: defense budgets. But today, we are spend­ political and historical works in four dif­ ing more in "peace" than ·we were in "war." ferent languages. GLOBAL INTERDEPENDENCE: "LIFE, LIBERTY, AND Winston Churchill once said that increas­ Mr. Speaker, in the past year, Israel THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS" IN TODAY'S ing nuclear strength serves only to "make WORLD rubble bounce." Yet we have continued to has lost two of her foremost statesmen (By Senator MARK 0. HATFIELD) with the deaths of David Ben-Gurion and increase our nuclear forces in what we call Constantly we hear the term "national a quest for "security." Further, we still be­ now Zalmon Shazar. These men were security" invoked to justify policies and pro­ lieve that security ls primarily a function of dedicated to the cause of Israel and grams as if no other explanation is neces­ mlUtary strength and international diplo­ served her with distinction throughout sary. What we must do is define exactly macy. However, it is becoming more and more 'her early history. The present-day Israel what we mean by this term. It is a prevalent clear that the forces shaping our nation's stands as a testimonial to them, yet as and frequent mistake to assume that our and the world's real security go !a.r beyond it was 26 years ago, her future remains nation's security is wholly identical to our what can be even insured by treaties and uncertain. Let us hope thatl in the mllitary might. That can be a component, arms. but only one component, of what constitutes, We must accept the growing global inter­ memory of Zalmon Shazar a durable in reality, our "national security." dependence of the world, and also recognize and lasting peace can prevail in the Fundamentally, the security of our nation the position of dominance and frequent Middle East so that the people and na­ ·means the guarantee that we can live in exploitation that has charactetized our role. tion of Israel which Shazar loved so a way and under a government that is So far, total U.S. investment in developing well, can at long last live in peace. committed to insure us the rights, as en- nations has been very profitable, far more October 9, 1974 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 34817 so than U.S. investment in industrialized na­ be fed only by the sharing of resources which children who inhabit the earth. This is the tions. The United States invested $16.23 bil­ the rich of the world have assumed to be image which compassion 1nst1lls 1n our lion in Europe and $10.9 billion in Canada their unquestioned possession, and through hearts, and which can se.ve our future. from 1959 to 1969. Repatriated profits for the changing of values and patterns of life We are approaching the 200th anniversary these investments amounted to $7.3 blllion which the affi.uent have barely questioned. of the Declaration of Independence. Those from Europe and $4.7 billion from Canada At least 60% of all those 2.5 billion people men who signed that document saw the for the ten-year period. living in the poorer, developing world are truth of their times, and were captured by a However, in the Third World nations of malnourished. We have not even touched on vision to which they pledged their lives, their Latin America, Africa, and the Middle ~ast, how malnutrition leads to death through fortunes, and their sacred honor. Today, U U.S. investment from 1959 to 1969 amounted disease for millions of people. One oa.n have we are to act in that same spirit, we should to $5.8 billion. Repa-triated profits from these enough food to ke~p himself alive, but mal­ issue a Declaration of Inter-dependence, investments were $15.1 billion, more than a nourished, making him far more susceptible pledging to it our lives, our fortunes, and 250 percent return. This situation may very to disease and dearth. Even more tragic is the our sacred honor. well change, however, as the poor countries evidence that malnutrition during a mother's of the world realize how dependent the in­ pregnancy and the first months of an in­ dustrialized nations are upon the Third fant's life can cause permanent damage to World's natural resources, and begin to the mental ab111ties of the child. OLD TIMERS' ATHLETIC ASSOCIA­ charge prices more in keeping with the de­ The world produces enough food to feed mand. all its inhabitants. But when one third of TION OF GREATER DANBURY Consider the United States' dependence on the world's population-all those who are the mineral resources of the poor countries. comparatively the "rich"--consume two­ Like other rich countries that industrialized thirds of the world's protein resources, then HON. RONALD A. SARASIN early, the United States has sorely depleted millions of the other two-thirds of the world OF CONNECTICUT its indigenous sources of basic industrial raw suffer, starve, and die. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES materials. Thus we have reached an era of Ghandi put it cogently and well: "The Wednesday, October 9, 197 4 growing dependence on the largely unex­ earth provides enough for everyman's need, ploited mineral reserves of the poor countries. but not for everyman's greed." There is no Mr. SARASIN. Mr. Speaker, this past 01 the thirteen basic industrial raw materials problem faced by this world more likely to weekend when I returned to my district we require, the U.S. in 1950 was dependent breed instabllity and conflict, threatening in Connecticut I had the privilege of on imports for more than half of its supplies our security and that of the entire world in of four-these were aluminum, manganese, the years a.head, th111n the disparity in dis­ attending the annual banquet of the Old nickel, and tin. tribution of food and basic resources for Timers' Athletic Association of Greater By 1970, zinc and chromium were added, sustaining life. Danbury. What impressed me most bringing to six the number of raw materials To add to this global picture, we see that about this pleasant affair, and what for which we were dependent on imports the gaps between the rich and the poor in the urges me to write in this RECORD, was the for more than half of our supplies. By 1985, world have continued to widen. The gap refreshing good cheer and optimism of the list will grow to nine as iron, lead, and between the per capita Gross National these men who work for a better life in tungsten are added. By the year 2000, we Products of the rich and poor nations was will depend on foreign sources for more than $2000 in 1960. But currently, according to their community through organized half of our supply of each of the 13 raw reports it 111pproaches $3000. Further, in the sports and civic affairs. materials except phosphate. Most of these next 35 years the world's population is pro­ This fraternity of Old Timers, many sources are Third World developing nations, jected to double, with the greatest increases who continue to play ball or coach on such as Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Zambia, Zaire, coming amongst the world's poor. Yet, in fields and sand lots throughout the Dan­ Ghana, and Nigeria. 1970, the world's m1litary expenditures bury area, had gathered to honor six of wm the developing nations of the world totaled $204 billion, a sum exceeding the their members with special a wards. I continue to abide the demands put on them entire income of the poorest half of m!lin­ feel their special character is best sum­ to fuel the industrialized nations when they kind. have their own very real needs at home? I True peace is not the absence of conflict. med up in the opening lines of the trib­ believe not, especially when the demands It is the fulfillment of human needs. ute to James Leonard, one of the old of the industrialized nations arise out of "Shalom" is the historic term embodying this timers who was added to the local Sports wasteful consumer consumption and ever- vision of wholeness, fulfillment, and true Hall of Fame: increasing m111tary budgets. . peace. Our world wm never know the hope If one could examine the wallet of James Although Americans comprise only 6% of for pe!liCe, and we will never have a genera­ B. Leon.a.rd you would find it crammed with the world's population, we consume 40% of tion of peace, until man can believe that the tickets and chances for every conceivable the world's resources, and % of the world's basic needs of life can be provided for him cha.rlty and sporting event in the area. It total energy. Our society is awash in more and for his children. would be physiC!Iilly impossible to attend all and more consumer goods designed for the This is the vision of Members of Congress these affairs, but it's Jim's way of participat­ affi.uent society, and sold to us by advertising for Peace through Law. We are trying to look ing in the things he cherishes most. techniques that even try to induce these at our world, not from the narrow perspective "needs" within the public. Our consumptive of blind nationalism, nor from the limited Another man added to the Old Timers' style of abundance and waste contribute~ to view of what the present seems to require, honor roll was carmen Melillo. His inter­ the inequity and exploitation of the poor. but rather from what is mandatory for man­ est in and devotion to sports did not What pierces any sensitive heart most kind to survive in peace during the decades end with high school, where he was one deeply is the suffering of the hungry of the ahead of us. We believe that recognizing our world. Most of humanity is hungry. This is inter-dependence and striving for a global of Danbury high's few four-letter men, a daily struggle for millions of people, at community through law is the only alterna­ playing baseball, basketball, football and home and throughout the world. Each day tive we have that leads to true security and track. This devotion to work in the literally thousands lose that struggle and die peace. This is the overriding aim of all our community is typical of all the mem­ of starvation. One-third to one-half of the efforts. These issues which will shape our bers of the Old Timers' Association of world's people suffer from continual hunger future w111 be considered, in one way or an­ Greater Danbury. or nutritional deprivation, and its effects. other, by the Congress. Whether we act on Mr. Melillo was one of the original ap­ During a year, our diets require a ton of them parochially, or from a global perspec­ to grain to support our consumption of meat, tive, depends on how well our vision can be pointees Danbury's Recreation Com­ poultry, dairy products, and other ways of articulated to our colleagues in the Senate mission, which provides sports and other getting protein. But the person in a poorer and House. recreation to townspeople of al~ ages. He country has only 400 pounds of grain avail­ Recently, I read a frightening article. It also helped organize the Little League able each year for his diet. It takes five suggested that the vision of the world today more than 25 years ago, and while he times the limited resources of land, water, is like that of a lifeboat amidst a sea of peo­ still remains active in that organiza­ and fertilizer to support our diet than to ple struggling to Stay afloat. The lifeboat tion, he has also served as president of support the diet of a Nigerian, or Colombian, could only hold so many people, so those who the Industrial Basketball League for 6 or Indian, or Chinese. were in had the right to keep the others out-­ It is crucial we realize that there are to even beat them back with oars-in order years. limits to the "size of the pie." Famine will for the boat to survive. The conclusion was "Big" Mike Baran, now a resident of not be averted by simply thinking we can that the rich of the world h!lid the right not Maine but long a Danbury sportsman just increase the pie. Most ara.ble land in to make any room for the poor. Such a cal­ and civic leader, also received plaudits the world is in use. The seas are being "over­ lous, inhumane view will be heard among from the Old Timers at their 11th an­ fished." The pie is limited, and it must be those who cannot bear to face the realities of nual banquet. While he lived in Dan­ shared more equitably. the future. Mr. So what does all this mean? We can no In contrast is the recognition of our com­ bury, Baran was fondly nicknamed longer suppose that our extra abundance­ mon humanity: That we all inevitably ride Mr. War Memorial for his extensive the crumbs from our table-can feed the together on spaceship earth; and that our work on behalf of that town institution. hungry of the world. ,Rather, the world will destiny is linked together with all of God's The Old Timers added another out- 34818 EXTENSIONS OF R,EMARKS October 9, 1974 standing man to their honor roll-Gor­ from an operation necessitated by a war can nationals-the Department of Trans­ don Johnson, who umpired the Little injury, was doing carpentry work nearby. portation asserts that only about 40 per­ League for 25 years and Republican With the aid of several people, he tied a rope around his waist and, securing three ten­ cent are American citizens and the in­ politics in Danbury for many years as a foot planks, began walking out on the ice. dustry claims the true figure is between member of the Republican town com­ He pushed the planks as far as they would 70 and 80 percent--the fact remains that mittee. go to help hold his weight on the thin ice. the job security of many Americans will Charles Troccola makes his important When about fifteen feet from her, Johnston be affected, either directly or indirectly, contribution to sports and community too broke through. The little girl was float­ by the action of our Government-­ welfare through bowling. Once a cham­ ing face down, unconscious in the frigid whether by omission or commission. pion bowler, he now owns the Sokol Lanes water. He swam to where she was bobbing Mr. Speaker, let there be no doubt that about in the broken ice, seized her by the in Danbury where he trains and coaches clothing as she was sinking, and pulled her the U.S. Government has a responsibility youngsters on bowling teams that have to the surface. By this time he was exhausted to act, for the life of this vital flag system captured many State trophies. His jun­ from cold water shock, and his hands and is in jeopardy in large measure because ior league teams have twice been na­ arms were badly lacerated. Both Johnston of the discriminations of our Govern­ tional champions, the only Danbury and Rosemary were pulled to safety by spec­ ment, as well as those perpetrated by athletic team ever to win a national tators by the rope he had had the foresight foreign governments. For example, the championship. to attach to himself. U.S. Government pays the Universal Winning the evening's civic award I would like to take this opportunity Postal Union mail rate to foreign carriers was Carl Burdick, who was honored pri­ to commend Harold C. Johnston for his for the carriage of U.S. mail-but refuses m ·:l rily for his work in the community bravery as he, despite his own physical to pay the same rate to our own carriers. outside of sports, although he, too, handicaps, ventured to save the life of According to the International Economic h e lp ~ d organize the Danbury Little another human being. He is an example Policy Association Report of August 1974 League more than a quarter century ago. which all Americans should be proud to the UPU rate is 63¥2 cents per ton mile While remaining active in the Old acknowledge and follow. for parcel mail, and the letter rate is Timers, Carl also served as president of $1.73 per ton mile. However, Pan Am and the Danbury Exchange Club and the other American flag carriers only receive Connecticut District of Exchange Clubs, 31 cents per ton mile. was po:t commander of the local Ameri­ CRISIS IN THE AIRWAYS Abroad, Pan Am and TWA suffer from can Legion, r nd was active in and served a multitude of discriminations. To name as pr · ~ ident of the Danbury branch of just two-landing fees and monetary dis­ the Cancer Society. Mr. Burdick is now HON. EDWIN B. FORSYTHE criminations. The fact that our U.S. Tetired but he continues the civic career OF NEW JERSEY carriers are charged as much as $4,817 that won him the Danbury News-Times IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to land a jumbo jet in Sydney, while the civic achievement award. He was the Wednesday, October 9, 1974 Australian airline pays less than $200 to second individual in Danbury history to land in Los Angeles is appalling. Cer­ win t h~ newsp"per's award. Mr. FORSYTHE. Mr. Speaker, I would tainly this is one inequity that must be T h ~ evening's featured speaker, Wal­ like to address myself to the U.S. inter­ corrected. ter Ker.nedy, president of the National national flag carrier problem-and what It is equally disconcerting to me that Basket!:a!l Association, praise- d the men must be done to correct the inequities many foreign governments make it vir­ honored and the other Old Timers, under which that system suffers. Since tually impossible for their citizens to stressing the importance of this elder Pan American Airlines and TWA repre­ purchase a ticket on Pan Am within their generation providing youngsters with a sent approximately 75 percent of our in­ countries. The way this is accomplished healthful program of organized sports. ternational flag system, I refer specific­ is through regulations which prohibit cit­ A good sports program, he emphasized, ally to these lines. izens to possess U.S. currency and i ~ an excellent competitive exercise in However, before examining the under­ through other regulations forbidding the citizenship, for it teaches youngsters the lying causes of the problem confronting conversion of local currency into U.S. id als of camaraderie and respect for these carriers, I believe it would be use­ dollars. The result--an artificial barrier t eamwork and cooperation, all of which ful to explore the relationship between to trade that restricts Pan Am's ability wilJ help them in later life. And that, he the U.S. international fiag system and to compete. It defies common business added, is the best legacy the Old Tim­ our economy. In 1973, U.S.-flag carriers logic for Pan Am to sell an unrestricted ers can leave the younger generation on earned approximately $4 billion. Of this number of tickets to the citizens of na­ the s- ndlots and ball parks, where the amount, Pan Am alone accounted for tions which have adopted these restric­ old timers themselves first learned to $2.5 billion. If all U.S. international flag tive regulations because after Pan Am love sport<; and develop healthful regard carriers ceased doing business, the entire meets its local payroll and expenses it for citizenship. $4 billion would go to foreign-flag car­ is left with a currency it cannot use and riers-with the resultant impact on our which cannot realistically be reinvested balance of payments deficit. Similarly, in foreign firms that only make more if Pan Am failed, that portion of its $2.5 money than Pan Am cannot use. TRIBUTE TO HAROLD C. JOHNSTON billion business which was not absorbed Further, while Pan Am and TWA have by other U.S. carriers would be lost to been denied the right to fly domestic foreign companies. It is clear, Mr. Speak­ routes, they have watched helplessly as HON. JAMES A. BURKE er, that the demise of any portion of the the Civil Aeronautics Board has allowed OF MASSACHUSETTS U.S. international flag system would, to several domestic carriers to penetrate IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES some extent, adversely affect the U.S. Pan Am's foreign market. American Air­ Wednesday, October 9, 1974 balance-of-payments position. lines is now flying to Australia and in the Furthermore, Pan American Airlines Caribbean. Eastern Airlines also has been Mr. BURKE of Massachusetts. Mr. employs 32,500 people and TWA employs granted Caribbean routes. Braniff, Delta, Speaker, it gives me great pleasure to another 20,000. Should these two air­ and Northwest have recently begun join the people of the Massachusetts Hu­ lines fail, their employ.ees could join the carrying passengers to South American mane Society to commend Harold C. already swelled ranks of the unemployed. nations. National, which already has Johnston for his service to the Massa­ However, there are another 137,500 in­ some transatlantic routes, has been chusett'5 community. dividuals employed indirectly because of joined by National, Northwest, and Delta I submit for the RECORD, Mr. Speaker, the business generated by the American in requesting that the CAB give them a the following article from the Massa­ international fleet. The demise of the larger percentage of the transatlantic chusetts Humane Society, which ex­ two principal U.S. carriers could result plicitly tells his story: market. The impact of this expanded Little four-year-old Rosemary Starr had in thousands of these people being un­ competition in the single market to wandered out on the ice of Snug Harbor, employed. which the CAB has confined Pa.n Am Quincy Bay, o~ the first day of February, Although there is a diffe!'ence of opin­ has been a major cause of Pan Am's pres­ 1952. The ice gave way under her about one ion between the airline industry and the ent plight. Clearly, the CAB should hundred feet from shore. Harold C. Johnston Department of Transportation regarding either grant Pan Am the right to fly do­ of North Quincy, an ex-Sea Bee recuperating how many of these employees are Ameri- mestic routes or it should restrict the October 9, 1974 EX~ENSIONS OF R£MARKS 34819 entrance of other airlines into the inter· FIREARMS FACTS FOR THE AMERICAN cheap-handgun ban also acknowledges there. national market. CONS'l'ITUEN r is no absolute right to bear arms. Gun crime: In 1973 there were 13,070 gun Gun crime cost: The FBI reported that The plight that Pan American Air· 8.6 m1llion serious crimes had been com­ lines finds itself in is, to a large degree, murders in the United Stntes, or 67 per cent of 19,509 total murders. The Federal Bureau mitted in 1973, double the 1963 figure. The the result of forces beyond its control. of Investigation also reported 102,402 ag­ L.E.A.A. distributed $3 billion for state and But the continued existence of the air­ gravated assaults with firearms, or 24.6 per local enforcement the past five years. Other line is a matter of importance for this cent of the total, and 252,186 armed rob­ costs involving gun crime are welfare to de­ countr.Y for another reason which I have beries, or 65.9 per cent of the total. The Law pendents, workmen's compensation, private not discussed. One avenue presently be­ Enforcement Assistance Administration re­ and government insurance, court expenses, ing considered as a way to reduce the vealed this year that less than 50 per cent other enforcement and incarceration outlays, of seri::.us crimes are reported-one in five business losses and price increases. Aid to U.S. balance-of-payments deficit is to crime victims and government purchase of reduce the number of U.S. troops sta­ in some places. Foreign laws, murder: ca.nada, Japan, firearms are developing costs. tioned overseas. While this reduction Australia and 29 European countries have America's irony: The United States has the may be needed, our defense posture must strict gun controls. England and Wales had highest standard of living in the world, the not suffer and in this light, the Civil 35 gun murders in 1973. Fewer than 100 an­ best-equipped police forces, the increasingly Reserve Air Fleet becomes ever more im­ nually is commonplace in the above coun­ strongest sentences for gun crime, the great­ portant for strategic lift purposes. We tries. No ·nation outside of the U.S. has re­ est number of guns per capita, the weakest must have the lift capability to move ported as many as 200 gun murders a year. gun control laws in idustrialized civiUzation our forces when and where they are In 1971 England and Wales had seven hand­ and the highest gun crime rates in the world~ needed. Pan Am has committed 63 long­ ~un murders; the U.S. had 8,991. State laws: According to the Federal Reg­ range jets to this fleet--an amount rep­ Ister of May 9, 1974, a total of 40 American resenting somewhat over a billion dollars. states have a mir. imum age limit for fire­ BO\VIE METI:::O:JIST CHURCH Certainly, the Amelican taxpayer should arms ownership, but 32 states have no pro­ CELEBRATES CENTENNIAL not be burdened with the purchase of this hibition against the mentally ill. Thirteen kind of lift capability-something they states do have a prohibition but no lh:ens­ would have to pay for if the American­ ing to certify eligibUity. Twenty-five states HON. LAWRENCE J. HOGAN flag system disappeared. forbid t1rearms ownership to ex-felons but OF MARYLAND I am sure that you realize, if our have no precautions except the applicant's IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES conscience and the dealer's intuition. Thir­ American-flag carriers are to survive, Wednesday, October 9, 1974 something must be done now to improve teen states ban concealed weapons or require licenses to carry them. Fifteen states ban Mr. HOGAN. Mr. Speaker, this year the environment in which they operate. any gun ownership by aliens, but no state While I do not support subsidy payments, licenses owr..ership of long guns, which were marks the lOOth anniversary of the there is now, within the Aviation Sub­ u sed in 29 per cent cf U.S. gu:1 murders, or Bowie Unitrd Methodist Church in. committee, a bill, H.R. 14266, entitled 2,730, in 1973. Ammunition curbs are sc!l.rcely Bowie, Md. Since 1874, this church has. "International Fair Competitive Prac­ mentioned in state laws although there are b;: en a symbol of the religiou::; faith that. tices Act of 1974" which seeks to remedy believed to be more than 150 million guns is a foundation of our Nation's great­ the discriminatory practices I have dis­ in the U.S. ness. The church h"'s been an active par-· M111tary gun control: United States mili­ ticipant in th.:! affairs of its community. cussed and I urge the House to act tary personnel are generally qualified fire­ promptly on this bill. arms users who have individual responsi­ The church has prepared a history of bility for registered weapons and who are the highlights of this century of service. trained to shoot, dismantle and clean their and I know that m'lny of my colleagues guns, as well as safeguard their ammunition wi~l enjoy reading it. For that purpose,. FIREARM FACTS separately. I msert the text in the RECORD at this General licensing: There are at least 50 point· types of licenses in our country, including HISTORY OF T.dE BOWIE METHODIST CHURCH, HON. MICHAEL HARRINGTON a perm! t to carry a concealed weapon. In no 1874-1974 case is the requirement for a license waived OF MASSACHUSETTS (History compiled by Elizabeth Trott) IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES because the authorized person is law abiding. General restrictions: The U.S. does not It was in the year 1874 that the Sansbury Wednesday, October 9, 1974 require a license to own a firearm or ammu­ family, along with the fam111es of J. B. nition, but federal or state laws ban or re­ Ridgeway, J. M. Carrick and a Mr. Hadlow. Mr. HARRINGTON. Mr. Speaker, with strict possession of dynamite, narcotics, de­ began the services that were the origin or the recent release of the FBI report on structive devices, fireworks, poisons, switch organized Methodism in Bowie. crime, we are once again confronted with blades, tobacco, alcohol and gasoline, in At that time, there were no churches in the disturbing fact that the United home containers exceeding one gallon. Huntington, now known as Bowi~. There States leads all other civilized nations in Punishment: Most states penalize addition­ were only about ten Methodists who at­ the number of murders by handgun each ally for gun-carrying crime. Federal and state tended Perkins Chapel at Springfield, a '!ew year. The reasons for this are in my view sentences for gun crime have been stiffened Episcopalians who attended Trinity Church in the last three years but serious crime has at Collington, and the Catholics who at­ obvious; a lack of effective gun controls, risen 30 per cent in that time. Eighty per tended Whitemarsh. These people had been and the sheer preponderance of the cent of felonies are committed by repeaters. attracted to the town of Huntington by the handgun in U.S. homes and businesses. Only 20 per cent of serious crimes were clear­ railroad junction of the main line and the Indeed, most handgun deaths are not ed in 1973 although 79 per cent of murders Popes Creek branch of the Pennsylvania the product of criminal elements, but and 63 per cent of aggravated assault cases Railroad. ' the result of arguments between friends, were cleared. (Clearance means that an en­ The Methodists, along with certain Episco­ relatives, neighbors, or people equally forcement officer has identified the offender palians, began to hold meetings in various has evidence to charge him and takes hi~ homes. When an old store near the Popes close. Creek line was sold, this became the first The subject of handgun control is into custody.) Ci vll defense : The Second Amendment to formal meeting place. Both denominations controversial, but the statistics are ap­ the U.S. Constitution gives states the right used the building as a place of worship. palling, and though I risk sounding re­ to form and control militias as a counter to Soon, a brick building was constructed dundant, I feel the point must be made a central army, a feared threat at the time across the street from the present church over and over again; the Congress must of the adoption. The U.S. Supreme Court has site on 7th Street, and regular services were take prompt action in developing strict ruled against gun-bearing appeals on the held there by the Methodists. This building ground that the violators were not author­ was later owned by the Straining family and gun control laws if we are to save our now by the Barry family. The meetings were society from becoming a deadly arsenal. ized m111tia. No military conquest in the world has ever followed gun control action. conducted by a circuit preacher, and there Mr. Speaker, what follows is a short No U.S. President, Attorney General or Sec­ were many Sundays when the members were account of facts and statistics relating without the leadership of a minister. How­ retary of Defense has ever called for civilian ever, there were men of God in the group to firearms in the United States. These arming. Thirty-six states prohibit private facts, relayed to me by Mr. James B. who did everything for the other members ownership of machine guns, according to the except baptize and perform weddings. Sullivan, a board member of the National Federal Register. Kentucky has had a con­ Bowie was then on what was known as the Council for a Responsible Firearms Pol­ cealed weapons law since 1813. Thirteen Bladensburg Circuit. Other churches on the icy, it seems to me, should be persuasive states have laws for emergencies under which circuit were Whitfield, Perkins and Bladens­ in providing the case for gun control. the governor or acting chief of state can close burg. The minister was Rev. Charles 0. The text follows: gun shops. Firearms industry approval of a Cook. Other pastors folloWing Rev. Cook 34820 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 9, 1974 were H. S. France in 1876, James McLaren in ship at this point in time. Mrs. Molly Mar­ Mrs. Preston was unable to play because of 1877, W. H. Laner ln 1878, and E. H. Smith tin, Mrs. Emma Knowles and Mr. H. B. Kel­ 111 health. Mildred was always very generous in 1880. baugh were faithful 1n their leadership of with her time and money and at her death It was pro':>ably in the year 1880 that J. B. this very active group. left a sizable amount in her wm to Bowie Ridgeway. who had acquired property ad­ Mrs. Louise Kelbaugh Presley organized Church. joining the Popes Creek tracks, deeded to the choir in 1938 and Dorothy Baldwin Kel­ During this time, the Ross Methodist the Methodist Society the land where the baugh became the organist after Mrs. Church, established in 1913 and located on first church was erected in 1884. Rev. Cross Nichols. Dorothy was followed by Ellen Pres­ 11th Street in Bowie, was having problems. was the minister. Prominent on the list of ton Bla'lr and then her mother, Mildred The Ross Church was part of the Lanham­ subscribers were the names of Governor Oden Preston, was organist for about 30 years. Glenn Dale-Bowie Circuit, and had a par­ Bowie, Richard Sansbury, J. Knowles, J. B. Opal Cowan became our choir director and sonage next to their church which had been Ridgeway, John Zug, Charles Brown, J. w. when she moved to Florida, Roberta Hoffman built in 1930, using lumber reclaimed from Ryan, E. E. Perkins and the Mr. Hadlow, served in this position for several years, until the old Bowie Methodist Church. The con• who ran the post office in· Bowie. J. M. Car­ Opal returned to Bowie and resumed as gregation did the construction led by the rick hauled the lumber used to build the choir director until 1958. minister, Rev. c. c. Martin, who also was a church. Rev. Norris had preached and called Naomi Anderson took over the job of carpenter. for donations to launch the effort, and the church treasurer in 1943 and continued until Increasing need for the services of the church was built by a Mr. Hunt at a proba­ 1968. church led the congregation in 1957, under ble cost of about $1,000. Rev. Alvin T. Perkins filled the pulpit 1n Rev. R. W. Hall, to decide upon the pur­ The first persons buried in the church 1944 and Rev. J. H. Tackett 1n 1945. Rev. chase of five acres of land on the Duckettown grounds were Charles Brown, about the year Tackett lived tn a rented parsonage on lOth Road for future erection of a community 1882, and Miss Martha Sarut.>ury in 1884. Street while a new parsonage was being hall and sanctuary. Through considerable Ministers folloWing Rev. Cross were Rev. built by Millard Schafer, next to the church. effort, sacrifice and loss of rest, which in­ W. McKinley Hammock, 1885, and Rev. J. C. Perkins Chapel shared the expenses. volved many dinners, fish fries and other Starr, 1886 to 1888. Rev. R. M. Black and Dr. Rev. C. J. Craig was the first minister to fund-raising activities, the property was Menges filled in when there was no minister live in the new parsonage tn 1946. Arthur totally paid for. This acquisition also in­ in 1889. Then Rev. J. L. Hayghe was put in Kelbaugh became the chairman of the Offi­ volved participation of friends in the com­ charge. The parsonage at Lanham was built cial Board and he also served as Sunday munity other than the congregation and during the ministry of Rev. w. T. Dice in the School superintendent from 1949 to 1959. plans moved forward for expansion. year 1891. Revs. Daniel Haskell, J. W. Steel, Others following him in this position were In the spring of 1966·, the pastor, Rev. W. F. Dell and Spielman served the church Opal Cowan, Lena Botts Kelbaugh, Mar­ McCants, together with the District super­ from 1893 to 1906, when Rev. M. F. Lowe was intendent, advanced the idea of a merger appointed to the charge. The pastorates of guel"lte Eastep, Alma Delpy, Elsie Wild, and now Mary Lou Billings. with the Ebenezer Church in Lanham. The Rev. J. R. Pardew, G. W. Rice and J. I. congregation was opposed to this but was Winger filled the years from 1911 to 1919, Many oyster and ham dinners helped with the expenses of the church and parsonage. led to believe that if the merger was later when Rev. J. R. Cavileer came to the charge, found not to be desirable, the Ross Church then consisting of Bowie, Lanham and The Ladies Aid, whose presidents had been Mamie Schafer, Cora Kelbaugh and Mar­ could be reopened and the property returned Perkins Chapel. to them. In June, 1966, the merger was ac­ Mrs. Mabel Nichols was the organist at garet Galdwin, ;had become the Women's Society of Christian Service and continued complished but was only consummated under that time and continued to serve faithfully heavy pressure and never really desired by for 20 years. Willlam L. Trott became the to be a very active force in the church. Presidents of this Society through the years the Ross congregation. An honest attempt church treasurer at about the same time was made to merge with the Lanham con­ and served in that position for more than have been Louise Kelbaugh Presley, Delsie gregation, seven miles away, but with the 20 years. Kelbaugh, Lena Botts Kelbaugh, Elizabeth reception at the Ebenezer Church less than It was during Rev. Cavileer's ministry Lammers, He'l.en Hay, Myra Porter, Alma enthusiastic, the Ross members began at­ that a move for a new church was begun. Delpy, Dorothy Lawson Fitzgerald, Mildred tending the Bowie Methodist Church. The The present site, originally belonging to the Jones, Carol Bischoff, and Elizabeth Trott. Bowie and Ross congregations merged in Swartz family, was considered one of the Rev. Rufus B. Fink came in 1956 and Rev. 1969. The Ross Church has been utilized for most beautiful in town. There was a stone Marvin Bonner in 1958. Or.. April 13, 1958, operation of a Thrift Store for the com­ house on the property and a spring which the Perkins Chapel congregation voted to munity with laudable success. is under the basement :floor of the present become a station, and their new parsonage Rev. James N. Caldwell filled the pulpit church. The site was purchased from Mr. was built in 1959. Bowie was then on its own, many times and was very active in the work W111is Johnson in 1920 for the sum of $900, even though the congregation felt that they of the church. He retired from his job as which sum was l.a,rgely raised by the Ladies could not support a minister. dean of men at Bowie State College in 1978 Aid Society. Rev. Eldon C. Watts was our minister from and has rejoined his church in Baltimore The cornerstone of the new church, butlt 1959 to 1962. Alma Delp was chairman of but still serves our church when needed fu by Mr. M1llard Schafer, was laid at an an­ the Official Board from 1960 to 1962. The 1968 James Stanier became church treas~er day meeting in the early summer of 1924. The minister who was appointed after Rev. Watts and Dottie Mayr became financial secretary .church was dedicated May 26, 1925. The cost decided he didn't want to come to Bowie. The church belfry was rebuilt in 1972 as ~ of the finished church was $12,900, including Rev. Marion Michael was the District super­ memorial to Mr. and Mrs. M111ard Schafer the ground. Mr. Willis Johnson contributed intendent and asked his father, the retired through the generous contributions of the~ $1,000. The lights in the church were donated Dr. Walter Michael, to fill the pulpit until many friends. and installed by Rev. Cavileer, who had another minister could be appointed. Every­ The choir continues to be outstanding moved before the cornerstone was laid. Rev. one liked Dr. and Mrs. Michael so very much under the leadership of Perry Gilbert, choir 13ilburn was pastor at this time. Rev. Sadof­ that they were persuaded to stay on. Mrs. director since 1958. The choir members are sky was pastor at the time the church was Kitty Michael played the organ on many Elva Hall, Mildred Thompson, Elaine W111is, completed. The workmen who built the occasions. Our membership expanded and Debbie Durst, Brenda Edelen, Theresa Gil­ church very generously gave the money for we had a very good year. The piano in the bert, Clyde Durst, James Sta.nier, Joe Trim­ the church bell. Those contributing were sanctuary is dedicated to the memory of mer (our oldest church member), and Rev. Dr. Michael. Messrs. Millard Schafer. Norman Clark Ira Patrick Wadsworth. New choir robes are to Phelps, Clifford Lanham, Jesse Schafer' and Rev. William E. Polk, a retired Navy com­ be ordered and wm be dedicated to the Wilbur Anderson. mander, filled the pulpit from November, memory of Mildred Preston. 1963, to June, 1973. His wife, Carol, orga­ Mrs. Mildred Thompson places flowers on In 1925, Rev. H. H. Roland, a missionary nized the Youth and Junior Choirs in which Teturning from service in China, filled the the altar each Sunday to beautify our sanc­ their daughters Marcia and Laura and son tuary and many of the :flowers are from the ·pulpit, followed by Rev. W. E. Nelson 1n Timmy fully participated. Rev. Polk worked 1930, also a missionary returning from garden of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Anderson. closely with the students at Bowie State Col­ In 1968 we became the Bowie United ·China. During this time, the minister llved lege, organized and held chapel services on in Lanham. He rode the train to Springfield Methodist Church and in 1973 the WSCS be­ Sunday afternoons. He administered the came the United Methodist Women. In .Station and walked or hitched a ride to Perk­ Campus Ministry Funds for the college and .ins Chapel for the 11 o'clock service, then preparation for our Centennial Celebration advised Methodist students of the availabil­ a 95th year fete was held at which Bishop hitched a ride to Bowie for the 2 o'clock ity of the Student Loan Fund of the United service, and rode the train back to Lanham John Wesley Lord delivered the morning Methodist Church for those in financial message. Former pastor David L. c. Wright :for the evening service. need. Mr. E. T. Johnson was the Sunday School was also present. Chaplain Ray Strawser filled the pulpit on Rev. Patrick E. Wadsworth became our superintendent, followed by Mr. W1lliam L. many occasions during the tenure of Rev. "Trott, Sr., tn 1934. Rev. M. T. Tabler was the minister in 1973. His wife Donna took over Polk. He and his wife, Elva Jean, were very the job of organist from Martha Ballet, who minister in 1934, followed by Thomas M. active with the youth group along with the is temporarily residing in Germany. Mr. Dickey in 1938. Mr. Millard Schafer became Folks. Elva Jean was our organist frequently Harry Yeich 1s currently the chairman of the Sunday School superintendent in 1942 and and stlll plays when needed . Administrative Board-Council of Ministries. .faithfully served 1n this poSiltion until 1948. Mildred Jones filled in as organist ma.~y He was preceded by Jack Bischoff, who h~ld 'The Epworth League had a large member- times until Martha B-allet took .over after this position for many years. Dr. James D. October 9, 1974 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 34821 Foy has been our District superintendent ton to visit his daughter without a guard a much worthier idea than the tax relief for six years and will retire this year. He or supervision, in September 1974. He mostly for the rich that would be provided has been most helpful and encouraging with was to be back October 1-he is still in the so-called "reform" blll painstakingly the changes in our church. prepared by Chairman Wtlbur D. Mills of Ar­ Our own beautiful house of worship can be gone. kansas and his colleagues on the House Ways traced back 100 years to the efforts of that Judge Gasch made the following com­ and Means Committee. The Mills b111 may small group of sincere and determined people ment: look like a real "reform" in that it would who felt the need of a place to meet and I think a man is committed to an insti­ first reduce, then eliminate (by 1979) the oU praise God and who had the courage and wlll tution for a definite term of years and a industry's controversial depletion allowance; to put that which they felt into action. Our furlough is inappropriate in these cases. I but it has another look altogether in that it church on the hill stands ready to serve the don't know of any authority they (correc­ would also reduce sharply the capital gains community for another 100 years. tions officials) have for giving furlough. taxes of many upper-bracket taxpayers. While committee staff experts contend that U.S. Attorney General William B. the Mills btll would add $400 mtllion to Fed­ Saxbe bitterly attacked this action, and eral tax revenues, it also appears to be rid­ GET CAREER CRIMINALS OFF THE the Board of Corrections is, apparently, dled with special-interest provisions, some taking steps to see that such outrages of which aid only one company or one in­ STREET dustry with the result that liberals on the end. committee now plan to oppose the whole Attorney General Saxbe, in a television btll, despite its sections on the on-depletion HON. WILLIAM G. BRAY interview, stated that the Nation's crim­ allowance. OF INDIANA inal justice system has to ''get tough" Thus, Mr. Ford and his aides--who ought IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and "remove career criminals from the to be wiser in the ways of Congress than of streets." He further stated: their new executive branch habitat--may Wednesday, October 9, 1974 On these career criminals, where they have have to keep their low-income tax-relief pro­ a history of violence, you just can't put them posals well clear of Mr. Mills' shady-looking Mr. BRAY. Mr. Speaker, the rising package. The temptation wm be to trade the crime rate, of concern to all law-abiding up for a year or two or even give them fur­ loughs and allow them on the street when President's endorsement of tax breaks for the Americans, is bad enough. But, in addi­ we know that they are violent. rich to gain Mr. Mills' backing of a tax break tion to this, there is so~I~-ething else for the poqr. equally, if not more appalling: the care­ The public should back Attorney Gen­ That would be a bad bargain on the part less manner in which dangerous prison­ eral Saxbe and demand that such stu­ of Mr. Ford, who doesn't at this point ap­ ers are released on so-called "furloughs" pidity end once and for all. pear to be a man who examines a horse's teeth too closely before he takes him in trade. which, not only makes a mockery of court Tax relief for the poor-perhaps one of the decisions, but has given them oppor­ most often suggested proposals during the tunity for more crime and they have recent series of economic conferences spon­ taken the opportunity. TAX RELIEF FOR WORKING PEO­ sored by the White House--could have eco­ A rather notorious example occurred PLE: THE STARTING POINT nomic importance in a time o! "stagfiation." in Washington, D.C. on October 1. James Infiation is not, that is to say, the na­ Hunt, age 30, along with another man, tion's only economic problem; the economy attempted to rape an 18-year-old re­ HON. JOHN CONYERS, JR. is stagnant, too, and unemployment is high OF MICHIGAN and rising. Tax relief for low-income work­ tarded girl at gunpoint. Passersby heard ers would have the double effect, through the girl's screams and called police who IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES their increased purchasing power, of en­ arrested Hunt and his accomplice at the Wednesday, October 9, 1974 abling them to pay their food bills and of scene on September 19, 1970. He was stimulating the general economy. While that tried before district court judge, Oliver Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, Federal might be somewhat infla.tionary, it might Gasch, and convicted on three counts. income tax laws are complicated and also begin a needed attack on the stagnation tax bills are often difficult to understand. side of the economic problem. On June 30, 1971, he was sentenced for But we must not hide behind this com­ It is strange, however, that the Administra­ 5 to 25 years on one count, from 3 to 10 plexity and, thereby, ignore some of the tion also is reported to be considering ''con­ years on another count, and, on the basic facts of economic life. For example, sumption" taxes-sales or excise-as a means third count he was sentenced for 1 year. of offsetting the Federal revenues that sup­ While he was out on bond on this case, despite AI~ an Greenspan's cavalier de­ posedly would be lost through tax relief for Hunt was one of three men who raped a nial, inflation has its most devastating the poor. Such taxes, fall1ng on the low­ 19-year-old girl at gunpoint in a North­ effect on people with low and fixed in­ income consumer with greater effect than west Washington, D.C. garage on comes. Prices will continue to rise un­ upon the affluent, would therefore tend to less either the Congress or the President offset the increased buying power for the March 9, 1971. This was before he was finds the courage to institute strict price poor that is ostensibly the goal of low-income tried on the earlier case. controls. And if prices go up, poor people tax relief. If the lost revenues would truly On February 4, 1972, the three de­ be lost--after all, the stimulus of tax relief fendants were found guilty. On must find more money somewhere or ought to expand the tax economy and there­ March 16, 1972, Hunt was sentenced by they will not be able to properly feed, fore tax revenues to some degree-they would Judge Gasch on four counts: on one clothe, and house themselves and their more properly be recovered in increased count he was sentenced from 7 to 25 families. Arcane arguments of econo-­ taxes on the higher brackets. years; on a second count he was sen­ mists will not make this truth any less Income-tax relief, moreover, has the vir­ harsh. tue of taking quick effect, particularly :tor tenced 5 to 15 years; on a third count he low-income persons who pay their taxes · was sentenced to 10 years; and, on the Protecting low- and moderate-income families must be the first concern of any through pay-check withholding. Relief can fourth count, was sentenced 3 to 10 yeats. even be made retroactive, which would have Two of these charges were for armed effective and humane economic program. the effect of providing substantial refunds rape and armed robbery. That this can best be done by making next April, if that should be considered use­ While in prison in 1971, Hunt, in re­ the income tax laws truly progressive is ful. questing bail on one of the rape charges, one of the points made by Tom Wicker As a matter of fact, the idea of low-bracket wrote a letter to Judge Gasch: in a provocative article, "Why Wait for tax relief seems so sensible, and has such wide Ford?" in the New York Times of Sep­ backing in the economic community, that the As for my being considered a risk, well, wonder is that Congress--beset by popular your honor, there's no threat to this extent, tember 27, 1974. I commend Mr. Wick­ er's analysis to your attention: pressures to do something about inflation­ for I am a God-fearing man and my ultimate has not already acted. The reason seems to values are spiritual, which includes human WHY W Arr FOR Foan? be two-fold. Mr. Mills, in whose obedient dignity, liberty, opportunity, and equal rights (By Tom Wicker) committee tax legislation must originate, has as well as justice. The Ford Administration is now giving been preoccupied with his "reform" btll. Despite this criminal record involving "intense, active study" to the proposition More important, Congress, as it habitually two offenses of armed robbery and armed that tax relief should be afforded to low­ does and despite all rhetoric to the contrary, income workers in this curious period of in­ has been waiting for the President to tell it rape-the first being committed in Sep­ ftation and economic stagnation. If that is what to do. tember 1970, and the second in March not just talk, such a proposal would be a Even now it is being argued that Congress 1971, while he was out on bond before splendid way for President Ford to break cannot possibly pass tax-relief legislation being tried on the earlier case--the Dis­ out of his single-track economic concentra­ this year because Mr. Ford will not be pre­ trict of Columbia Department of Cor­ tion on cutting the nonmilitary budget. pared to make his recommendations until rections gave Hunt a furlough from Lor- In the first place, tax relief for the poor is late October, when Congress may have 34822 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS Octob er 9, 1974 started a pre-election recess. After that, many It is pleasing to note that the Congress There are other areas where we have not ot its members will be "lame ducks." has approved acceptable strenet.h levels for achieved total success but we are moving Delay until next year doesn't make any the current fiscal yen.r frmn t~ree stand­ closer in the 93rd Congress than we have sense at all. If low-bracket tax relief is a good points. First, they are acceptable from the in the previous Congresses. I refer to such thing, as it seems to be, the Democratic lead­ standpoint of providing the needed trained bills as retirement at age 55 after 20 years of ers of Congress are perfectly capable of get­ manpower as a backup to active duty forces credible service, annuities for survivors of ting a bUl started on their own, and of in times of national emergency. They are guardsmen who die before reaching age 60 passing it with or without Presidential sup­ acceptable from the standpoint of being re­ and the National Guard technicians pay port. It is, as always, not means or oppor­ alistic and attainable if you continue your b111. Although I have doubts that the tech­ tunity that they lack, but w111-which is excellent record of recruiting and retention. nicians bill will receive final approval be­ why Congress became and remains any Pres­ And thirdly, they are acceptable from the fore the end of this Congress, I do have ident's second banana. standpoint that they w111 not cause us to lose hope for the 94th Congress. The fact that any of our present manpower through reduc­ the bill was passed by the Senate and has tion in forces. finally received approval by the appropriate Speaking of reductions, I was particularly subcommittee of the House Post Office and "SONNY" MONTGOMERY SPEAKS pleased that we were able to head off Penta­ Civil Service Committee is indeed encour­ gon efforts to eliminate 14 Air National aging. I discussed this matter with Chairman TO NATIONAL GUARD Guard squadrons. Such an action would have Dulski of the P.O. and C.S. Committee just been a very serious mistake and caused a gap prior to coming to your meeting. He told in our defense structure. In fact, I supported me that he does support the concept of HON. 0. C. FISHER strongly language in this year's authorizing the technicians bUl, although he does not OF TEXAS legislation that mandates the current level favor the fulllOO% proposal. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of 91 squadrons. Enlistment and re-enlistment bonuses are I am also aware that we may have another still very much a high priority matter in Wednesday, October 9, 1974 fight on oul' hands to sidetrack a DOD pro­ my opinion. It appears that we are nearing posal to cut 48,000 personnel from the Army a compromise on this proposal with the Mr. FISHER. Mr. Speaker, one of the Guard and Reserve. It makes absolutely no Pentagon as a needed incentive. The bonus best informed Members of this body on sense to me to cut the Guard and Reserve legislation will be one of the first bills I matters relating to Reserves and the Na­ when the Congress is reducing the Regulars. introduce in the 94th Congress. tional Guard is our colleague from Mis­ I mentioned earlier that your association One final bill in which you might be in­ sissippi, G. V. "SONNY" MONTGOMERY. has had a good year in the legislative field. terested would establish a tuition assistance Himself a general in the Guard, his One of the main reasons for your successes program for enlisted personnel of the guard services to the Guard and Reserves are on Capitol H111 is Jim Deerin. Your executive and reserves. Having just been introduced vice president and his hard working staff are this past August, I realize the measure wm invaluable both in and out of the to be commended for the straight forward not be passed this Congress, but the pros­ Congress. and persistent manner in which they repre­ pects for next year are encouraging. Under leave to extend my remarks, I sent your best interests. Because of their The bill would allow partial payment of include a speech made by the gentleman knowledge of the subject matter and the sin­ tuition, or fees in lieu of tuition, as an in­ from Mississippi on September 26, to the cerity of their approach, I can assure you centive for enlisting and re-enllsting in the National Guard Association in San Juan: they have the respect of my colleagues in National Guard and selected reserve com­ Congress. REMARKS OF REPRESENTATIVE G. V. MONT• ponents. The proposed rate of assistance GOMERY There is an ad on television that says would be 60% of tuition cost for enlisted men "When E. F. Hutton speaks, people listen." and women with less than 12 years of serv­ Thank you for the generous introduction. Well, when Jim Deerin speaks out on mat­ ice and not having a college degree. The as­ It is really good to be in Puerto Rico. I do ters affecting the National Guard, the Mem­ sistance would be for those wishing t o take not refer to the relaxing beaches and beauti­ bers of Congress listen. It is right and proper courses at an accredited college or vocational ful girls, but the opportunity I have to visit that they should, because Colonel Deerin school. with some of my very favorite people-my represents the individual guardsman, as well The only drawback to this legislation which fellow guardsmen. Whether it be in Alligator, as the National Guard as a military entity. could delay its passage next year is the esti­ Mississippi, or San Juan, I always look for­ I also commend your president, General mated price tag of $90 million. However, I ward to the chance to meet with members McM1llan of Florida, for the very active in­ feel the education program would more of the National Guard in order to discuss our terest he has taken in guard affairs. He has than pay for itself since it would be an in­ mutual objectives to improve a very im­ been a very hardworking and dedicated centive for present personnel to remain in ponant component of our national defense. president who is most deserving of our the guard and we would then cut down on Before beginning my remarks, I would like tribute. the cost of training new people. to convey the warm wishes for a successful The association is to be commended for Other beneficial changes that I would like meeting from Dr. Theodore Marrs. He asked bringing aboard Fran Greenlief as your new to see take place would include reducinG en­ me to relate his deep regrets that he was executive vice president. General Greenlief listment periods from six to three years unable to join you. However, it was neces­ knows the problems the guard has in the and working out a more equitable program sary for him to remain in Washington to Pentagon, as well as the Congress. I know for a guardsman to complete his required chair a meeting of poultry producers as part you are going to be pleased with Fran Green­ basic tr!l.inin g period. We shou ld also do away of the White House pre-summit meetings on lief's performance in the years ahead. wW.1 t h e so-called meat memorandum and the economy. In fact, Ted noterl that I would In addition to legislation holding the allow new guardsmen to be paid as soon as be taking care of his m111tary business in strength levels in the guard, another sign.ifl• they come aboard. Puerto Rico whUe he takes care of my chicken cant achievement for the reserve components Thus far my remarks have dealt mainly business in Washington. this year was passage and approval by the wilth programs that affect the lnd.ividua.l If the accomplishments of the National president of fulltime coverage under the guardsman. It might be well to turn our at­ Guard Association in 1974 could be bottled servicemen's group life insurance program.. and left on the shelf to age like a good wine, tention to problem areas for the National This is a piece of legislation that we have Guard in general. In this case, problem is it would soon become a collector's item be­ been pushing several years and it is reassur­ spelled out with a capital E-equipment. No cause 1974 has truly been a vintage year. ing that we were finally able to obtain Sen­ matter how good a job you do in meeting Of course, with the cutback in manpower ate approval. We owe a debt of gratitude to for the active duty forces, we are going to your manpower levels, we are only spinning Senators Hartke of Indiana, Stennis of :r-.ns­ our wheels unless we have the equipment to have to have a lot more vintage years for sisslppi, Allen of Alabama and Byrd of VIr­ maltch the manpower. the Guard and Reserve because YO\l are the ginia for their successful efforts in gaining backup we must have for a viable national a favorable vote in the other body. At one time, I thought we had reversed the defense structure. trend of the guard the stepchUd of the Penta­ Another important incentive that was pro­ gon when it comes to equipment. Unfortu­ Maybe wo should pause a moment to pat posed by the Department of Defense and ap­ ourselves on the back for the accomplish­ nately, all too often we are still receiving old proved by the House Armed Services Com­ and outdated equipment or no equipment at ments in the legislative field and more im­ mittee will result in more realistic PX privi­ portantly the accomplishments of the States leges. Under the new regulations you w111 all. I belleve part of the problem stems from and local units in recruiting and retaining be provided unlimited mmtary exchange our military aid program to allies. Every tank personnel. The fact that overall the National privileges for each day of inactive duty train­ or aircraft we ship to another country could Guard has done well in maintaining its au­ ing. More importantly, your day at the PX can have been a tank or plane going to the Guard. thorized strength levels is indeed good news. be anytime and will not be limited to just However, the Congress appears to be taking It shows that Guardsmen are fulfilling their those days you are actually training. Al­ the bull by the horns. For the first time in my responsib111ties as part Of the total forces though your spouse wm not be able to make memory, the Congress has written into au­ concept. Nor must we forget that your suc­ purchases, he or she will be able to accom• thorizing legislation that the Guard w111 re­ cesses in maintaining strength levels are nec­ pany you at the time you exercise your ex­ ceive new equipment. In this particular case, essary to perform the second part of your change privileges. I am quite proud of the an amendment by Congressman Clarke Fisher dual mission-that of the State m111tia dur­ fact that I was the only member of Congress of Texas mandates 24 New A-7 aircraft for ing times of natural disaster or civil disorder. to testify in favor of this proposal. the Air Guard. The authorization has now October 9, 1974 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 34823 been funded and new A-7's wm be forth­ of his early day; namely, that hard work Mr. Haber was waiting to hear when the Fed­ coming for one of our squadrons. was the key to continued success. He rose eral Appeals Court would examine the case~ Speaking of aircraft there are 71 F5-E's rapidly in the political ranks and was Mr. Schieber has left no one in doubt of ordered for Vietnam use, but because of leg­ his determination to stay in the United. islative restrictions cannot be shipped. It the youngest man ever elected president States. He is an outspoken anti-Zionist, who makes good sense to me for the Air Force to of the San Francisco Labor Council. In believes in a tripartite "Holy Land state" that turn these F5-E's over to the Air Guard to between these duties, Shelley found time would include Christians, Muslims and Jews. replace the antiquated F100's thereby giving to put himself through law school, and He claims that he faces persecution if he is us three updated squadrons. Whatever use after this he embarked upon his quarter forced to go back to Israel. the Air Force might have in mind for these century of political life. Mr. Haber suggests that there is more to F5-E's, the Guard is the most deserving. John Shelley was a man who governed the deportation case than the legal tech­ Also of interest to the Air Guard is the a city nicalities that have come up in court. He fact that the Congress has increased funds during the turbulent middle 1960's. suggests that there have been pressures on for your flying time program by $20 million Yet his conciliatory skills which served the immigration authorities from Zionist over last fiscal year. him so well as a labor leader, carr... e in groups in the United States, that find Mr. This past Monday I received a copy of a equally handy as mayor of San Francis­ Schieber's views uncomfortable and would letter written by Assistant Secretary of De­ co. Ill health forced him to give up the like to see him gone. fense for Manpower and Reserve Affairs Bill mayoralty in 1967, but his influence was Mr. Schieber was born in PoLand in 1909, Brehm to Chairman Hebert of the House still sought by many leaders in San Fran­ and emigrated to Palestine in 1932. He arrived Armed Services Committee stating that 128 cisco until his death. in the United States in 1960, has since devel­ KC-135 jet tankers will be transferred to the Mr. Speaker, the people of California oped his own building business and made his Air Guard and Reserve over the next several polltical views known. years beginning in fiscal year 1976. He also have lost one of their finest public serv­ His petition to the federal appeals court is noted that aircraft in seven F-101/ 102 and ants, and we in the House, one of our only the latest in a long series that has. nine KC 97L squadrons will be phased out. most distinguished former Members. I caused no little irritation to the American This does give the Air Guard an updated extend to his widow and family my immigration authorities. He has already ap­ mission, but I would have to leave it to you deepest condolences. pealed for political asylum in the United blue suiters whether this is good for the Air States without success. Guard or not. The American case is a simple one. The im­ Most of these actions are steps in the right migration authorities say that Mr. Schiebel' entered the country in 1960 as a visitor, and direction that must be continued if the THE HAVIV SCHIEBER CASE Guard is to be combat ready. that his request to be given a permanent In closing I would like to read part of Bob status was refused, largely because of con­ Sike's speech to you and I quote, "There must victions in Israel for theft and embezzlement. be new understanding and acceptance by the HON. JOHN M. ASHBROOK He cannot stay, therefore. Guard and Reserves that they are a vital OF OHIO Mr. Haber's counter to this is that the cases for which Mr. Schieber was convicted were part of the nation's defense. Given this goal IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and the responsibility, they must train as minor ones dating back to the confused days they have never trained before"--end of Wednesday, October 9, 1974 of 1949 when he was mayor of Beersheba. Even in those days, Mr. Haber says, Mr. quote. Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Speaker, re­ Schriever ran into difficulties with the Israel In the past when I addressed you I usually cently my attention was directed to two Labour Party. One conviction was for putting closed by saying 1f you give me good training anti-communist literature in crates with back in the armory; I will work harder for articles which appeared in the press con­ cerning the case of Haviv Schieber oranges destined for the Soviet Union, ac­ you in Congress. My fellow Guardsmen it's a cording to the lawyer. new ball game-incentives, equipment and whose 15-year fight to gain permanent good pay will be coming your way. status in the United States has been [From the Jewish Week and American As we move into this new era of life in the championed by several Members of Con­ Examiner, July 11-17, 1974] United States a large share of the responsi­ gress and businessmen and individuals in FIGHT TO AVOID DEPORTATION To ISRAEL NEAR. b111ty in defending this country is being the New York City area. As I pointed passed on to you. May God give you the END out in earlier remarks in the CoNGRES­ (By Max Friedman) strength to carry these additional colors and SIONAL RECORD, Mr. Schieber's work as a help to keep the torch burning for free men A few days from now, a 15-year fight to everywhere. housing rehabilitation contractor and avoid deportation to Israel may be decided his hiring of minority groups has, in the for one obscure yet highly controversial Jew estimation of those who know of his ef­ named Haviv Schieber. TRIBUTE TO JOHN F. SHELLEY forts in New York City, earned him the Schieber, who has lost 11 appeals to im­ opportunity to continue his exemplary migration officials and seven appeals in fed­ life in our country. eral courts, has been given until Sunday to To indicate the widespread interest leave the United States voluntarily. Other­ HON. MARIO BIAGGI wise, immigration officials say, he wm be OF NEW YORK in Mr. Schieber's case, I insert at this deported to Israel. Meanwhile, he is staying IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES point an article by Peter Strafford date­ in a Washington apartment while last-ditch lined New York, May 6, 1974, and appear­ efforts to keep him in the country con­ Monday, October 7, 1974 ing in the London Times along with a tinue. Mr. BIAGGI. Mr. Speaker, I am hon­ more extensive treatment of the case by The ground for his expulsion is that his ored to join with m~ distinguished col­ Max Friedman in the Jewish Week and visa expired in 1961. league from California (Mr. PHILLIP American Examiner's issue of July 11- Schieber and a number of influential BuRTON) in this special order to pay 17, 1974: partisans-who range from several conserva­ tive Congressional leaders to Washington tribute to our former colleague, John F. [From the London Times, May 1974] Post columnist Nicholas von Hoffman-con­ Shellei, who recently died at the age ANTI-ZIONIST ISRAELI FIGHTS U.S. tend he is a victim of "moral turpitude" of 68. DEPORTATION ORDER charges stemming from his conviction in John Shelley had a distinguished ca­ (By Peter Strafford) Israel a quarter-century ago in connection reer in public service first as a labor NEW YORK, May 6.-Mr. Haviv Schieber, with a protest of poor mail service in the leader, a State Senator, a 13-year Con­ an Israeli aged 64 and a former mayor of town of which he was then mayor. But im­ gressman, and mayor of San Francisco Beersheba is fighting a last minute battle to migration offi.,cials say that's not his problem, from 1964 to 1967. He was noted avoid being deported from the United States that he simply overstayed his visa after com­ to Israel. He has been fighting that battle ing to the United States 15 ye·ars ago, and throughout his career as a friend of the that he has been unusually successful in workingman and minorities. since 1961, when he was first ordered to be deported, and he has been on the point of fighting deportation so far. In his years in Congress, John Shel­ losing it several times. Whatever happens, there are civil liber­ ley was a ranking member of the House Last Wednesday, according to Mr. George tarians in both the liberal and the con­ Merchant Marine and Fisheries Commit­ Haber, his lawyeT, Mr. Schieber was actually servative camps who contend the whole affaii tee, and was noted s.s one of the fore­ on his way to Kennedy airport when he has been a travesty of justice by the U.S. most supporters of a strong merchant slashed his wrist and had to be taken to hos­ Government, especially the Immigration and marine in this Nation. pital. Two days later, he was put on board an Na.tlll"8.liz.ation Service. ,John Shelley was a man who rose from aircraft bandaged up and was taken off again TO PALESTINE ~ 1932 modest background, but no matter what when Mr. Haber heard what was happening Schieber 1s 63 and a refugee from totali­ and filed a petition for review of the case. tarianism. In 1932 he led a group of Polish level of success he achieved, he never Tod·ay, Mr. Schieber was being held in a Jews to Palestine because he foresaw what lost touch with the fundamental beliefs psychiatric ward in a New York hospital, and lay ahead with the Nazis. He continued to 34824 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 9, 1974 help Polish Jews escape !rom Communism mittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and RECONCILIATION AT WOUNDED after World War Two but was later arrested International Law, headed by Rep. Eman­ KNEE by the British and put out of action tor a uel Geller (D-N.Y.), himself a Jew. Geller whtle. He joined the Israeli Army in 1948 tabled the blll and because O'f a mutual during the War for Independence and later congressional agreement, the Senate Judi­ went into the business of rehabUitating ciary Committee would not take up a bill HON. JOHN CONYERS, JR. abandoned housing in Israel for incoming that a House Committee had tabled. OF MICHIGAN refugees at no profit. Recently several conservative leaders of He was elected mayor of Beersheba, then a Congress, Sen. James Buckley (C-R-N.Y.). IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES small town, which is where most of his and Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.). pushed for the Wednesday, October 9, 197 4 troubles began with the Israeli government untabllng of the 1969 bill so that they could and its bureaucracy. When his town was submit a new bill. However. the Subcommit­ Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, all crim­ suffering from poor ma.U service, he took tee voted 5-3 not to untable the blll, so Schie­ inal charges have been dismissed in the two street tiles and erected a symbolic post ber's last chance for a reprieve by the U.S. Wounded Knee trial of Dennis Banks and om.ce. For this he was arrested, charged and Congress went down the drain. Among those Russell Means. The jurors acquitted both found guilty of two crimes, theft and oper­ voting to keep the blll tabled were such lib­ defendants of the charge of conspiracy, ating a post office without authority. He was erals as Jerome Waldie (D-Calif.), Joshua Ell­ and Judge Nichol dismissed the remain­ fined about a dollar (or one day in jail) berg (D-Pa.) and Elizabeth aoltzman (D-NY) and then commended by the judge for his whose parents, llke Schieber, are Jewish ref­ ing charges after one of the jurors be­ actions. An anti-Communist, Schieber says ugees from Poland. The other Subcommittee came incapacitated and the Justice De­ the present Israeli Government is socialist voters were Charles Wiggins (R-Calif.), and partment refused to permit the remain­ and/or Marxist in its orientation and that is Walter Flowers (D-Ala) for continued tabl­ ing eleven jurors to proceed to a verdict. not good for anyone. Schieber is also an anti­ ing, and John F. Seiberling (D-Ohio), Ham­ All of the jurors have recently written Zionist, and that too doesn't set well in a ilton Fish, Jr. (R-NY), and Larry Hogan (R­ to Attorney General Saxbe. indicating country founded by Zionism. Md), for untabling, with Tom Railsback (R­ that they would have acquitted the de­ Schieber claims to have been arrested 18 Ill) absent but for untabling. times in Israel for political and social ac­ Schieber's attorneys are Bruce Terris, form­ fendants on all counts and urging that no tivities. For instance he founded the Anti­ er head of the Democratic Party of Washing­ action be taken against other persons Communist League of Israel and once got ton, D.C., and Zona Hostetler, a former leader involved in the Wounded Knee affair. arrested for putting anti-Communist leaf­ of the American Civil Liberties Union, both Having heard all the evidence against lets in crates of oranges being exported to well known liberals. Hostetler is deeply con­ two leaders of the American Indian Russia. He also tried to form a political cerned with the civil liberties aspects of the Movement, the jurors unanimously party as a base for people to acquire case, involving a possible violation of due recommend that the Justice Department economic independence and social services process. She says "it is unjust and inhumane adopt a long overdue spirit of reconcilia­ outside the usual political party channels. to send him (SChieber) off to another coun­ Schieber says that Israel should not be a try at his age." However, they have lost each tion. I have also written to Mr. Saxbe, Zionist state but that it should be a "Holy appeal so far before the imxnlgration service's urging him to give serious consideration Land State" whe~ Jews, Christians and Board of Appeals, and are now about out of to the jurors' request. For the informa­ Moslems all would have equal rights. He is legal courses to pursue. Only intervention tion of my colleagues. both letters to the particularly disturbed that Jewish refugees by Attorney General William Saxbe could Attorney General follows: have more rights than do native-born Pa­ help Schieber, but so far there has been no ST. PAUL, MINN., lestinian Arabs. He carries on this philoso­ move on his part to do this. September 20, 1974. phy by writing and helping support a New SLASHES HIS ARMS Hon. WILLIAM SAXBE, York Arab Newspaper, "Al-Islaah," and by Schieber had been detained in the Federal Attorney General of the United States, appearing on Radio shows with Arabs, as House of Detention in New York City for Department of Justice, Washington, D.O. well as through his "Holyland State Com­ four months earlier this year. Then, on May 1. DEAR MR. SAXBE: For more than eight mittee." when he had lost more appeals and was being months, beginning in January of this year, He left Israel in 1959, and decided to forcibly deported, Schieber cut his arms­ we have served as jurors at the Wounded start a new life in the U.S. He became a he says it was not a suicide try, but just Knee Trial of Dennis Banks and Russell successful building contractor in New York enough to keep him in the country-but he Means. From the outset we approached the City specializing in rehabUitating low-cost was then placed in a leather straitjacket and evidence in the case as impartial observers housing, for which he has gained official held at Bellevue Hospital. He was then sent who had been selected by the government recognition and thanks. He makes it a point to the airport, stlll bound in the straitjacket, prosecutors and the defense lawyers. Possibly to employ minority groups and Vietnam when a court order came staying his deporta­ more than any other group of citizens we veterans. In fact, the Bronx chapter of the tion. have had the opportunity to hear the facts National Congress of Puerto Rican Veter­ Schieber's account of what happened next and to judge them. ans has praised Schieber and is opposing is categorically denied by Maurice Kiley, act­ As you know, we voted unanimously to hts deportation. ing district director of immigration in New acquit both defendants of the charge of con­ NO PENDING CHARGES IN ISRAEL York. Schieber says immigration otn.cials spiracy and we were continuing on with our The Israeli Embassy says that the Im­ acted in a brutal and cruel way by forbiding work when one of our number suffered a migration and Naturalization Service re­ him to be exaxnlned by his own doctor; by stroke. The Justice Department refused to quested that the Israeli government give denying the attempts of another doctor to perxnlt a jury of the remaining eleven to Schieber a travel document so that the U.S. see him and his medical records; by not even reach a. verdict; Judge Nichol granted a could send him back to Israel, that there giving him an electric razor and a clean set motion to dismiss all the charges against both are no known criminal charges pending of clothes so that he might arrive in Israel of the defendants. against him there, and that there has been with some dignity instead of a five-day beard, We think it is important for you to know no request by the Israeli government for his hospital garb and a straitjacket; by denying that while all of the jurors undertook their deportation. him perxnlssion to call his lawyer, and by obligations very seriously while we were a Schieber blames the immigration serv­ falling to notify his lawyer of his imxnlnent jury some of us believe that our obligations ice for his failure to get a permanent visa deportation as was promised by immigration continue. It is for that reason that we have so that he can become a U.S. citizen. He ofilcials in Washington. Schieber also says written this letter. says American "Zionist" pressure hurt him that immigration otn.cials refused to get his we, the undersigned, wish you to know as well as pro-Israel feelings by otn.cials of personal effects from his apartment, but they that we could not have voted to convict the New York State Immigration Otn.ce, did bring him two luggage bags containing either of the two defendants on any of the including the district director, Sol Marks. his writings and tapes whose subject matter charges and that we would not have voted The New York Post quoted an unidentified was both anti-Communist and anti-Zionist. to convict because each of us concluded that Israe11 otn.cial as describing Schieber as a Schieber says that this material, upon in­ there was not enough evidence to do so in "trouble-maker." Schieber himself has re­ spection in Israel, might inflame passions spite of the fact that the government pre­ quested "political asylum" in the U.S. against him and lead to serious persecution sented evidence for 98 days and the de­ because he contends that U he is sent back by the Israeli authorities. fendants response was comprised of but to Israel, he wlll be persecuted, even jalled Immigration director Klley calls Schieber's five witnesses. In our view a. government that for many of the things he has done here in account "absolutely wrong." cannot, in an eight month trial, present the U.S. For instance, he recorded anti­ "I don't feel at all bashful about my deci­ sion," adds Kiley, who is responsible for car­ enough evidence against the two leaders ot Zionist messages to Israeli troops for rying out the deportation order. the Wounded Knee seige to secure a con­ Egyptian authorities during the Yom Kip­ As of this writing. Schieber has been un­ viction on any count should for moral and pur war last year. able to find any country except Israel that ethical reasons, drop the criminal charges FAILURE TO UNTABLE BILL would take him if he left the U.S. voluntar­ against all of the other Indian people and Since 1961, Schieber has been fighting lly. He says he wlll not go back to Israel. their supporters. Since the two leaders were his deportation. In 1969, a "blll of relief" by He has vowed that, "As long as they (im­ guilty of no crime we believe that others former Rep. James Utt (R.-Callf.) was migration otn.cials) have me in their hands. should not be prosecuted for following them. submitted to the House Judiciary Subcom- they wlll not take me to the airport alive ... It 1s 1n the spirit of reconclliation and October 9, 1974 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 34825 redemption that we urge you to respect this -~paper, food, and electrical appliance needs a sugar substitute. Clorox has to find suggestion and to join with us and other industries. The oil industry is specifically a replacement for soda ash 1n bleach and so Americans in an effort to bind up the wounds described as a worldwide cartel. on. . . ." Aluminum Company of America that have been caused by this, our longest, . . (Alcoa) is so squeezed for raw materials that and perhaps our least honorable, war. ··.,, The article continues: it has decided to abandon one of its most Respectfully, !'~1 Those companies with the same banking popular items, household aluminum foil, Therese Cherrier, Maureen Coonan, Ger- interests, conspire to administer prices. The December 31. Housewives clamor ln vain for aldine Nelson, Joyce Selander, Susan Federal Trade Commission estimates that if jars and tin lids to can peaches, pears, and Overas, Linda Lacher, Elaine Grona,. the highly concentrated industries were berries; they are not available because there Katherine Valo, Richard Garcia, Fran broken up by antitrust action, prices in those is a scarcity of soda ash and tin plate. Del Aiken, Louanne Boeke, Theola Dubois. industries (the heart of the economy) would Monte Corp., unable to purchase enough fall by 25 percent. glass for jars, fiberboard for boxes, and tin HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, plate for cans, has decided "not to get very The article alleges that the food indus­ far away from what we are doing now"-to Washington, D.C., October 8, 1974. try is dominated by monopolies which Hon. WILLIAM SAXBE, stick to the old products, 1n other words, Attorney General oj the United States, De­ cost consumers $2.5 billion a year in and introduce no new ones. partment of Justice, Washington, D.C. overcharges. The most visible form of scarcity has been DEAR MR. SAXBE: I have received a copy of The article continues: petroleum, because it reached most consum­ the letter sent to you on 20 September 1974 Moreover, a quarter of all food production ers, and we gradually became accustomed to by the twelve jurors in the Wounded Knee is "vertically integrated"-big companies long queues at the gas pumps and the melo­ Trial of Dennis Banks and Russell Means. control production from the farm to the dic pleas of William Simon to conserve gaso­ I am obviously not privy to all the facts retail market, and are able to manipulate line. But scores of other shortages disable the presented to the jurors during the course supply and the cost to consumers almost at economy. "There isn't anything not in short of the trial, but I must respect their deci­ will. supply," complained Inland Steel's purchas­ sion and judgment. I am writing, there­ ing agent recently. fore, to express my interest in the disposi­ Thus, the article concludes, any mean­ The list of scarcities for part or all of this tion of whatever criminal charges are stlll ingful program to control inflation must year includes paper, plastics, steel, toilets, pending in connection with the Wounded involve the control of monopolies and freezers, cotton, copper wire, lumber, onions, raisins, chicken, beef, gasoline, fertilizer, Knee affair. I hope that you will give the the elimination of overcharges to the most serious consideration to the jurors' propane, nylon, acetate yarns, salmon, peni­ American people. cillin, cortisone, cement, aluminum, vinyl, recommendation. Because of the interest of my col­ I look forward to hearing from you at your tin cans, antifreeze, paints, sporting goods, earliest convenience. leagues and the American people and plastic lamps, and many other products. Sincerely, the timelessness of the issues involved "We're experiencing something out of all JOHN CONYERS, Jr., in this most important matter, I place dimensions to what we experienced in the Member of Congress. the article in the RECORD herewith: past," said a senior vice president of Manu­ facturers Ha.nover Trust, "a supply slow­ RUNNING OUT OF EVERYTHING down." In the construction industry earlier (By Sidney Lens) this year the "supply slowdown"-pipe, sheet metal, plastics, reinforcing rods, paints, "RUNNING OUT OF EVERYTHING"­ Comedian Frank Darling says, "The way ceramics, and plumbing, electronic, and elec­ WRITER ATTRIDUTES "SHORT­ to get prices up is to tell you there's a short­ trical items-cost 100,000 jobs, in addition AGE ECONOMY" TO MONOPOLIES, age. There's a shortage of gas, a shortage of to those lost because of the slowdown in wheat, a shortage of paper-and the greatest housing purchases resulting from high in­ ADMINISTERED PRICES shortage of all is the shortage of truth." One can hardly argue with this refiective observa­ terest rates and the lack of mortgage money. L. tion. Every shortage led to others, affecting prices HON. JOE EVINS The National Association of Manufactuers, and production in mysterious ways we have OF TENNESSEE not celebrated for its sense of humor, last never experienced before. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES year distributed a poster that read: "Yes, An obvious effect of shortages, either at the we have no bananas, steaks, eggs, blue jeans, producer's or consumer's level, is that prices Wednesday, October 9, 1974 candles, gas, tennis balls, freezers, wheat, rise. In our peculiar form of "free market," prices seldom fall when demand is "weak," Mr. EVINS of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, leather, air conditioners, fuel oil, pajamas, floor covering, sardines, chicken, paper, hot but they always rise when demand outpaces Mr. Sidney Lens, author and lecturer, supply. Gasoline and every product that uses in a thought-provoking article in Pro­ water bottles ...."The poster added a touch of whimsy to an increasingly unfunny prob­ petroleum, such as plastics, went up astro­ gressive magazine, discusses the causes lem. nomically earlier this year in cadence with a of inflation and our "shortage econ­ Then men who did Richard Nixon's econ­ contrived shortage. The domino effect 1s in­ omy"-and describes as "bandaid eco­ omic thinking-Herbert Stein, Earl Butz, exorable. Soybeans, in short supply, cause a nomics" any measures designed to curb William Simon-were telling us a year ago boost in soybean oil prices from thirteen inflation which do not include cuts in that if we would let prices find their true cents to forty-three cents a pound, and may­ higher level on the free market, we would onnaise, salad dressing, and many other military spending and the breaking up products that use soybean oil rise accord­ of cartels and monopolies. soon have an abundant supply of everything. The dreams of these economic sages have ingly. When such instances are multiplied by The opinions and recommendations now been partially fulfilled; prices are rising thousands, they account for much of our expressed by the author of this article about 12 percent a year-a steeper rate than raging inflation. entitled "Running Out of Everything" at a.ny time since 1947. But the shortage The full significance of the shortage econ­ may have some merit and be worthy of problem is stlll with us. The "abundant omy, however, extends far beyond its effect consideration as the Nation, the Con­ economy" has turned, perceptibly and insist­ on prices. It is a fever chart of the basic ently, into a "shortage economy," though economic and political ailments of the 1970s. gress, and the President consider and It is a manifestation of a crisis-more prop­ evaluate the problems of inflation af­ the full import of this change has not yet impressed itself on the national conscious­ erly, a blend of a half dozen crises--qualita­ fecting the Nation and the world. The ness. tively different from anything we have ever article is provocative and possesses a A Congressional survey of 258 major indus­ experienced. The half dozen recessions since wealth of statistical information on tries this August showed that 245 of them 1945 may have been, as the economists said, shortages, monopolies, and other reasons confronted shortages of at least one com­ "adjustments" to rectify secondary imbal­ for the current inflation. modity vital to their business. Honeywell, ances. The current shortage-inflation-reces­ Bell & Howell, Stokely-Van Camp, and Utah sion syndrome, on the other hand, reflects a The article points out that 245 of breakdown-a breakdown of the Bretton 258 major industries surveyed by a con­ International said they were short of almost everything they needed; 108 firms were un­ Woods money system, the disarray of the gressional committee confronted short­ able to get a sufftcient supply of petrochem­ dollar on the world market, the shattering ages. The net effect of shortages, how­ icals, 106 were buying steel on a catch-as­ of the Pax Americana. In sum, the shortage ever created, the article continues, is to catch-can basis, 94 were hit by shortages in economy is a symptom of the decline of increase prices, nonpetroleum chemicals, 74 could not find American power. The United States can no Today only 500 industrial firms control enough aluminum on the market, 62 lacked longer organize the world in its image, and three-quarters of industrial employment an adeqaute supply of copper. All told, the can no longer impose the necessary discipline and two-thirds of sales in the United 245 corporations listed a "shortfall," to use on its allies, on its satellites (such as Iran), William Simon's overworked term, of 64 or on its own national and multinational States. The article reports that many of commodities. monopolies. our major industries ar~ dominated by Large companies. Bustness WeeTe reported This crisis in power manifests itself in dif­ two to four companies each. These on August 10, 1974, are "seeking alternatives ferent forms at varying times-a supply slow­ include the steel, rubber, automobile, for practically everything-General Foods down, price-gouging and infiation, semi- 34826 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 9, 1 V'i-4 panic on Wall street, a credit crunch eco­ "open door" for U.S. private trade and in­ long over. According to the industry's trade nomic pressure on Washington's allies, and vestment (as well as that of America's allies) journal, Pulp and Paper, there was not only above all a drop in the living standards of and adherence to the Bretton Woods money a. sizable rise in production 1n the Un1ted the American people. From the third quarter system which made the dollar the inter­ States, but in imports from Canada and of 1972 through the second quarter of 1974 national unit of exchange. Europe as well. Some theorists traced the the real wages of 52 mlllion workers in pri­ For a quarter of a century this Pax Ameri­ problem to unconscionable "hoarding"; it vate industry fell by 8 per cent-the worst cana worked tolerably well. The CIA and true, however, that only indicates there was decline in living standards since the Great Pentagon intervened in dozens of countries apprehension that supplies would run out. De ~:>ression. And it is going to fall further. to assure "stability," to overthrow govern­ Why should buyers worry when production The First National Bank of Chicago, which ments it did not like, or to install right-wing and imports were on the rise? is more candid about such thi ·:~gs than are forces it approved. But the cost was a shat­ Their worries were justified by two cir· politicians, shows how the petroleum crisis tering $1.4 trillion spent on militarism since cumstances, one going back to the begin­ alone must lead to a drop in 11\·ing sta 1dards. 1945, causing budget deficits for all but three ning of the Cold War in 1945, the other to The oil producing nations, it says, will be years since 1952, some of them as high as devaluation of the dollar and the imposition exacting $60 bi.Hion a year more from oil im­ $25 billion, and an astronomical increase in of price controls in 1971. As a result of the porting nations this year tlJa'll last. Since the the national debt. Every year but two (when Pax Americana, industry burgeoned and cap­ weak economies of such producers as Saudi there were small surpluses) America also ital became so concentrated, through merger Arabia, Iran, Libya, and Ve,1ezuela can, at s-affered multi-billion dollar balance-of-pay­ and other devices, that today only 500 in­ most, absorb additional purchases fn m the ments deficits. Two-thirds of the U.S. gold dustrial firms account for three-quarters of United States, Western Europe, and Japan of hoard fled the country, and as of 1972 about industrial employment and two-thirds of $10 billion or $15 billion a year, t hat lea,:es $82 billion were fioating around the world, sales. Under the New Capitalism our main a deficit for the West of $45 or $50 billion. accepted by other nations because they were industries-steel, rubber, autos, paper, cer­ "This means," said the First National Bank allegedly as "good a,s gold," though they tain foods, aluminunl, electrical appliances, in its August 1974 report, "that the import­ were actually much depreciated in value. and others-are dominated by two to four ing country has to expand its export of gocds Finally, in August 1971, a staggering deficit companies each. Those companies, often in­ and services to pay for the more expensive of aoout $25 bll!ion loomed on the horizon. terlocked with the same banking interests, imports. To accomplish this, some resources U ncl ~ Sam's credit was no longer sound, the conspire to administer prices. The Federal that would have been used t::> produce goods dollar was shal{y, and the nation needed to Trade Commission estimates that if the for domestic consumption wlll have to be increase exports and decrease imports to highly concentrated industries were broken channeled into the production of goods for ke~p its ship from foundering. In this cir· up by antitrust action, prices in those in­ foreign consumption (exports) . This means cumstance President N1xon took the drastic dustries (the heart of the economy) would that consumers' Teal incomes must decline step of de·;aluing the dollar-to make U.S. fall by at least 25 percent. Collusion ~.orne­ because there is less real output available goods cheaper abroad, and foreign goods times goes further. Oil companies collude tor the domestic 1Jopulation." (Emphasis more expensive here-and he instituted wage to win drillin g rights at low cost, or collude added.) The hope, of course. is that the West controls in an effort to hold down costs for to drive independ,ents from the scene, or col· can borrow back that money from the oil U.S. entrepreneurs so they could remain com~ lude to cause a shortage in order to exact countries, or can lure that money into the patit i·;e on the world market. concessions-such as the Alaska pipeline and purchase of western real estate and stocks. It seemed like a simple and decent solu­ relaxation of environmental standards­ But additional debts draw interest and must tion-except that other nations took coun­ from the Federal Government. be repaid in due course, so the long-term termeasures, and eventually the dollar, the That seems to be the case with the paper prospect is for even worse balance of pay­ economic pivot of American power, had to companies as well. They not only admin­ ments deficits. When the oil problem is com­ be devalued further, then abandoned to istered prices but contrived a "shortage" pounded by the dollar-gold problem, the cop­ f:loa t at whatever price it could command. to exert pressure for additional cutting per, bauxite, coffee, sugar, and many other Today the international money system is in rights in such national forests as T ::mgass similar problems, living standards in the chaos, with currencies rising and falling 10 and Chugach in Alaska. In 1973, however, West must fall, and the specter of depres­ or 15 per cent against each other, and ex­ the pressure for concessions from Govern­ sion-not recession-becomes real. porters and importers hedging sales and ment-perennial under the New Capitalism How did this situation originate? Why has purchases by speculating on the currency -was complicated by the existence of do­ a country with such monumental resources­ market. mestic price controls. International sales the envy of every nation on earth-become a Domestically, the system of controls was were not subject to controls, and the paper "land of shortage"? How did three decades a fiasco, like plugging a broken dam with a moguls took full advantage of this fact. In of unparalleled U.S. "prosperity" come to cock. The lifting of controls was just as bad. the first half of 1973, export of chips and such an abrupt halt? Controls led to shortages, which then ac­ pulp to Japan increased by 49.2 percent, re­ The answer lies in the peculiar circum­ celerated infiation, and both problems sur­ ducing to that extent the stockpile at home stances of that prosperity: It was built on vived. Neither controls nor the "free market" -hence, a paper "shortage." And what was. the quicksand of m111tarlsm, and the United can cure our present sickness, for what is so attractive about selling to Japan? A rep­ States now cannot survive without mili­ happening is that the tide of de'Jt has resentative of the American Paper Institute tarism and cannot survive with it. During reached our chins. and we are faced With put it candidly: "Other countries seem to World War II, national income in the United an old mortgage to pay. We mortgaged our be paying a higher price due to the Cost or States more than doubled and the capital future to support militarism-so that we Living Council's freeze on price increases." equipment industry, in the words of the Na­ could exact discipline for the Pax Ameri­ Another perplexing group of shortages has tional Planning Association, was "nearly cana; now we must pay the mortgage by been that of foodstuffs. Something is rotten. twice the size which would be needed domes­ lowering our standard of living. in the wheat bins when the nation whose tically under the most fortuitous condi­ Thus, by a long and circuitous road, we farmers produce two and a half times as. tions ...." "Free enterprise" America re­ have arrived at the shortage economy, in­ much wheat as is consumed at home came­ quired a vast new market to dispose of this tractable inflation, and a looming depression. within a whisker this year of bread short­ surplus--or face depression. But the rest of Consider these examples of how our weak­ ages and bread lines similar to those in gaso­ the postwar world-friend and foe alike­ ened world position exacerbates the prob­ line. And though that specter has momen-­ was in economic chaos and not far from lems of supply and price: tarily receded, the long-term prospect both revolution. Last year there was a shortage of many in bread and food generally is that deficits Washington "solved" the problem in bril­ kinds of paper, including cardboard boxes, in supplies will come and go. The Admin­ cartons for TV dinners, and, most notably, istration, says the Community Nutrition In­ liant fashion. Any nation willing to join the newsprint. Two large newsprint firms, "American system" was given aid (some $150 stitute of Washington, "sooner but probably billion in economic and military assistance), Crown Zellerbach and Powell River, cut sales reluctantly later, will be forced to ration. to their regular customers by 7 to 12 percent. as well as the protection of America's mili­ food." Salt Lake City dallies reduced circulation by The international balance of payments tary power, against internal revolution and 7 per cent to conserve the precious product; Soviet pressure. pin ch dictates that we must sell more food The Boston Globe cut down its comic sec­ abroad each year. What Will happen, then, To prevent "disorder"-that is, revolu­ tion from twelve p a.ges to ten; the Marshall tion-the United States built the world's if we have a serious drought? If Washington, F ield papers in Chicago cut newsprint use in those circumstances, reduces exports to greatest navy, acquired 2,500 minor and by 10 per cent, and The New York Times re­ major military bases abroad, stationed about feed the home population, America's balance ported difficulties in obtaining paper for its of p~;~.yments position will worsen and we a million troops overseas, and was prepared m agazine and book review sections. The to intervene at a moment's notice against will be unable to import such items as baux­ drop in supply was coupled, as usual, with ite and copper: if, on the other hand, Wash­ a n y government or force that threatened to a jump in price: from 1970 to January 1974, secede from the "American system"-as it ington insists that export commitments must. the price of newsprint spiraled from $152 a be met, we will have dire shortages-and did in Korea, Vietnam, the Dominican Re­ ton a $213.50. public, Lebanon, the Congo, and other "trou­ perhaps hunger-at home. The paper shortage, like so many others. A new factor has been added to ~e equa­ ble spots." In return'for this military-protec­ is mystifying to the average citizen. In 1973 tion, for the food industry, contrai!P'to con­ tion and economic aid, those who accepted it might have been attributed to the paper­ ventional wisdom, is also dominated by­ the American arrangement had to pledge an workers' strike in Canada,out the strike was monopolies. According to the Federal Trade- October 9, 1974 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 34827 Commission staff, seventeen food and food­ of oil that costs eleven cents to produce in and doubled and redoubled the price of their related industries are so concentrated that Saudi Arabia would be selling on the world product. Moreover, while the Seven Sisters they are "producing an overcharge to con­ market for $10 to $12, three or four times its were also exacting their pound of flesh, the sumers of more than $2.5 b1llion." Govern­ previous price, or that the oil-producing oil nations took advantage of the Middle ment• studies indicate that three companies nations would be draining away from the big East war forcibly to buy up some of the sell two-thirds of processed dairy products; western powers an additional $60 billion each foreign company holdings on their son. four firms dominate 70 per cent of the year? Twenty years ago, under these circum­ Thus a schism developed among the three cracker and biscuit market; four firms take stances, the United States (or Britain) actors in the drama--the United States and care of three-quarters of bread and proc­ would have occupied Saudi Arabia and Iran. its allies (the consumer states), the Seven essed flour sales; three firms handle 85 per Indeed, twenty years ago the U.S. Central Sisters, and the producing nations. The pro­ cent of breakfast cereals; six firms have 90 Intelllgence Agency organized a coup d'etat ducer states gained substantially. The Seven per cent of the grain sates overseas, and one against the Mossadegh government in Iran Sisters were hurt minimally-they lost some firm has 90 per cent of the soups. because it had nationalized the oil industry, control over the extractive end of the indus­ Moreover, a quarter of all food production against London's and Washington's wishes. try, but remain a multinational monopoly is "vertically integrated"-big companies Now the United States would have to run in shipping, refining, and marketing; they control production from the farm to the re­ over the Soviet navy or face endless guerrllla will recover the extra royal ties and taxes tail market, and are able to manipulate sup­ warfare, as in Vietnam, if it chose to take they must pay the producing nations-and ply and the cost to consumers almost at will. such action. In light of these realities, more more-from reductions in their U.S. taxes. And the food industry is falling under the and more weak nations can be expected to According to Stanley H. Ruttenberg, a for­ aegis of conglomerates which have invaded assert control over their own resources and mer assistant Secretary of Labor, the jump lt for tax shelter and other reasons. As Wil­ do what the great powers have done for in the oil from $1.90 to $8.30 a barrel in­ liam Robbins reveals in The American Food centuries-charge whatever the market will creased tax credits for the American corpora­ Scandal, the turkey for your Thanksgiving bear. tions at home from $1.13 to $5.56 a barrel, dinner may be produced by Greyhound, your By now everyone is acquainted with the a "hardship" Exxon, Texaco, and the others ham by ITT, lettuce by Dow Chemical, pota­ raw facts of the energy crisis. The United can live with. toes by Boeing, fruits and vegetables by States consumes 6.5 b11lion barrels of oil and Only the consumer states lost heavily­ Tenneco, and fruit juice by Coca-Cola. If 22 trillion cubic feet of natural gas a year­ though the United States lost least of all new price controls were imposed, as they monstrous quantities that will eventually because more than two-thirds of its oil might have to be to check inflation, the con­ exhaust the subsoil. But that time is stm comes from domestic sources. The western glomerates which tower over the industry remote, for according to the U.S. Geological world (including Japan) is now weighted would not hesitate to boost their exports--at Survey there are proven and suspected (but down with a balance of payments problem higher foreign prices--even while Americans as yet undiscovered) rese·rves of 500 billion that is not amenable to solution without went hungry. barrels of oil and 2,400 trillion cubic feet of slashing standards of living. The Nixon-Ford Then there is the bewildering situation in natural gas, enough for many decades. The proposal to achieve energy "independence" the meat markets. By December 1973 ham­ energy is there, but it is not being properly by 1980 is a pipe dream. Thornton Bradshaw, burger was selling at about a dollar a pound, tapped and, in the case of oil, not being president of Atlantic Richfield, points out a whopping 28 per cent more than in Janu­ refined in sufficient quantities in the United that the United States can, at best, reduce ary. The reason, according to the Department States. its dependence on foreign oil by 1980 from of Agricuture, was that farmers brought two 18 percent to 15 percent of its r. eeds, but In 1973 not a single major refinery was even that only through the huge expenditure million fewer cattle to market than the pre­ built in this country, and in the previous of $50 billion a year for the next decade. vious year-lower supply, higher price. But five years only eno-qgh to refine 1.9 million that explanation begged the question: Why In effect, the "energy crisis" is a mani­ more barrels a day, though demand swelled festation of a world-wide change in political did the cattlemen reduce their herds? The by three million. Why is there a "refinery answer lies in the realm of foreign relations fortunes: The socialist countries are grow­ gap"? M. A. Wright, chief executive officer of Ing stronger, and they can offer the Third and international trade. For both polltical Exxon, was disarmingly frank before a Con­ and economic reasons, the United States World increasing diplomatic, economic, and sold a vast amount of grain to the Russians, gressional committee: "It is a problem of how m11itary support; the Third World is begin­ causing an imbalance in the supply of feed much people want to pay for it [oil]. If they ning to feel a sense of growing control over grain at home, hence a boost in feed grain want to pay enough for it to make the market its own destiny, and the Great Powers are in prices, hence a boost in the cost of produc­ profitable in Europe, sure, we will sell it obvious decline. ing a pound of beef, hence the withdrawal of there. We are in business.... "From 1963 to A chart of the rise and fall of American marginal producers unable to earn an ade­ 1972, the five largest companies increased power, which the shortage economy now quate return crude oil production in the United States by punctuates, would look something like this: Concurrently there was the collapse of the 45 per cent, but outside the United States­ 1. From 1945 to 1965, steady growth; Amer­ dollar and devaluation. The dollar became where it was more profitable-by 97 per cent. ican foreign investments doubling, and then cheap currency for Japanese, Swiss, and Ger­ The shift in refining was even more drastic, redoubling again; living standards rising man buyers--the same number of yen, francs, going up only 34 per cent in the Western dramatically. and marks brought considerably more dol­ Hemic;phere and 176 per cent in the Eastern 2. From 1695 to 1971, coincident with the lars and therefore considerably more grain Hemisphere. Vietnam war and other crises, the gradual or cattle. As foreign importers rushed to buy Such manipulation of tbe oil market, and appearance of the credit crunch and all the American foodstuffs-U.S. exports went up through the oil market of national econ­ problems associated with balance of pay­ from $8 billion annually to $20 billion within omies, is possible only because the U.S. ments deficits. two years-the end result was shortages and Government helped the Seven Sisters become 3. From August 1971 to the 1973 Yom Kip­ higher prices at home. the largest cartel in history. For "national pur war, the first clear evidence of a turn­ The most insidious shortage of the whole security" reasons-where have we heard that about in international political power, and shortage economy, of course, is the one in rationale before?-the State Department has the consequent turnabout in economic energy, and particularly in petroleum. Here since 1950 openly encouraged the five Amer­ fortune. all the dilemmas of American capitalism ican firms and their British and Dutch 4. From the Yom Kippur war to the pres­ coalesce: We need a safe supply of oil not partners to function as a tight cartel-aided, ent, a "free world" in traumatic decline that only for our economy but for our vast mill­ abetted, and protected by U.S. diplomacy and co.n only end either in a "managed" reduction tary machine. Under the profit maximization military power. Without that power American of living standards in the West or in a dread­ system, our Government is unwilling or un­ firms would never have gained their original ful, unmanaged depression. Italy and Brit­ able to check the greed of the seven oil oil concessions in Latin America and Canada; ain are already only a few steps from such a corporations, five of them American, which other foreign companies could enter this depression, and are thinking in terms of the constitute a tight world cartel. But as the hemisphere only on sufferance of the Stat& kind of "austerlty"-lower consumption lev­ Se7en Sisters contrive shortages and inflate Department. Subsequently, State performed els-they were forced to adopt during World prices, all the economies of the western the same service for the U.S. firms in the War II. world, dependent on the Seven Sisters for Persian Gulf states, Africa, and Asia-in tune In this state of political decllne, a capital­ their fuel, totter. Each country seeks to re­ with U.S. economic and military aid. Nations ist America (and its allies) cannot avoid fur­ pair its balance of payments difficulties at the that granted concessions, received economic the economic pressure. What the economists expense of the others-through devaluations, aid and military protection; those that did not were fortunate if the CIA refrained from call "terms of trade" are turning against the floating of currency, trade restrictions, uni­ United States not only in oil. but in many lateral deals with the Russians, Chinese, and overthrowing their governments. The vise in which the Great Powers now other commodities. In the era of lmperia.llsm, Arabs, and other makeshift devices. The the terms of trade were a means by which the fabric of the Pax Americana, already severely find themselves, euphemistically called the strained, shreds further. "energy crisis," thus began with the forma­ advanced countries robbed the underdevel­ In this state of weakness and confusion, tion of a Washington-sponsored world mo­ oped ones. While Colombian coffee, for in­ the "terms cf trade" between the advanced nopoly. It was tightened before and after stance, was going down from eighty cents to nations and the weak oil-producing countries the Yom Kippur war in the Middle East forty-five cents a. pound in the late 1950s and have been totally reversed. Who would have last year, when the oil producing nations early 1960s, the price of a Chevrolet was going predicted eighteen months ago that a barrel suddenly realized their bargaining strength up-it took much more coffee in Bogota to 34828 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 9, 1974 buy a Chevy from Detroit. A tractor made by debt or by exploiting the peoples of other ernment is spending at least $300 billion, Ford, the Major, could be bought by a Uru­ nations. We must learn to live by our own and probably more. guayan national in 1954 for the equivalent labor and ingenuity. This is no time to red:uce purchasing of twenty-two young bulls; in 1963 it cost the The shortage economy tells us that capi­ power, and money available for savings equivalent of forty-two young bulls. The un­ talism is in decline as a viable economic sys­ derdeveloped countries were in constant hock tem, that tt can only plunge us into depres­ and investment. Many economists feel to the developed ones, forced to borrow more sions, international trade wars, monetary we are on the edge of a period of reces­ and more to keep afioat. conflicts, and military confrontations. Not sion. Now this process is being reversed. "Oil," only radicals, but many populists and lib­ Cuts must come in Federal spending. said The New York Times on January 27, erals as well, now recognize what Charles The individual taxpayer carries a load 1974, "is just the beginning, for three rea­ Beard and John Dewey told us tn the 1930~ that is already too heavy, both in taxes sons. First, the lesson of this startling re­ that our only salvation lies in .a planned and prices. versal of power seems obvious for other coun­ economy. Dean Acheson hinted at that back tries with key primary products: Band to­ in November 1944, when he said that under ------gether and your revenues can rise dramati­ another system-that is, socialism-the cally. Second, higher oil prices force the other United States could adjust without being STATEMENT ON PRESIDENT FORD'S primary producers to increase their own ex­ concerned with foreign markets, but that ECONOMIC MESSAGE port earnings to pay for their oil needs. under our present capitalist system it could Third, OPEC [Organization of Petroleum not have "full employment and prosperity" Exporting Countries) itself appears ready to unless it found some way to dispose of its HON. JOHN F. SEIBERLING support the formation of other cartels, as gtant surpluses. The internal market of the OF OHIO the one way to avoid opprobrium for bank­ nation can be controlled and shaped by the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES rupting the "developing countries." Government, which has political and police The danger is that the four countries that power to enforce its will; but the interna­ Wednesday, October 9, 1974 control the supply of copper (Chile, Peru, tional market is something else agatn-here Mr. SEIBERLING. Mr. Speaker, while Zaire, and Zambia), now joined together, 150 or so sovereignties clash with one an­ President Ford's economic message con­ will be doing the same thing as the petro­ other, and there are no means to control tained some important and worthwhile leum producing nations. The price of cop­ them short of war, the threat of war, or the per went up from 53 cents a pound in July Pax Americana discipline the United States recommendations, it falls far short of be­ 1973 to $1 in December. Five bauxite coun­ was able to exact for a quarter of a century. ing a comprehensive program for dealing tries (Australia, Guinea, Guyana, Jamaica, Under a planned economy, by contrast with with our most serious economic crisis Surinam), four nations that control natural the so-called free economy, the Government since the 1930's. rubber, and four that account for virtually could plan the allocation of resources to Mr. Ford commendably called on the all the tin exports may raise prices and cre­ meet the needs of our people. It could begin people of the country to fight inflation by ate synthetic shortages in the near future. by calculating a realistic balance of trade exercising voluntary restraint and self­ U.S. pressures may prevent concerted action and money accounts around the world, and discipline. That, of course, is essential, here and there, but in the long run it wlll determine how our $1.4 trillion gross na­ take place anyway, both because American tional product should be apportioned after and I am sure that most patriotic Ameri­ power is limited and on the wane, and be­ allowance is made for the outward fiow. cans wm respond. cause, as the price of gold increases (it is An American planned economy in which However, I had hopes that the Ford now four times what it was in 1972), the in­ the resources were put at the people's com­ administration was also prepared to re­ flationary pull becomes irresistible. mand would not be nearly so dependent on spond by asking for Government policies The economists of the Nixon and Ford Ad­ monetary and trade gyrations abroad. It and programs to control inflationary ministrations are reacting to the shortage could reorder its priorities to meet human economy and infiation as if they were tra­ practices, avoid unemployment and re­ needs rather than the greeds of private mo­ cession, and insure that the burdens of ditional problems, requiring only "adjust­ nopoly. Having determined that it requires ments" such as those that adjusted our six so much for exports and can expect so much fighting inflation and depression are postwar "recessions"-monetary manipula­ from imports and so much from its money borne equitably by all groups in our tion, fiscal changes, tax incentives, and the accounts, the Government could proceed to population. like. According to one of Nixon's former set the level for minimum and maximum A tax surcharge without real tax re­ economic advisers, Paul W. McCracken, the living standards. By controlling foreign form to close some of the most serious cause of our troubles is that "we obviously trade through a state monopoly it could free loopholes favoring special interests would have run out of plant capacity before we itself from decisive dependence on such have run out of employable labor." Thus if aggravate rather than improve the situa­ trade. Its surpluses could be channeled in­ tion. This is particularly true of his pro­ we can "cool down" the economy, so that ward to improve living standards, and its demand drops and steel companies can again posed surcharge which would strike mid­ factor!~ could be redirected to meet the operate at, say, 85 per cent of capacity in­ actual needs of people rather than the arti­ dle-income taxpayers, who are already stead of 95 per cent, all will be well again. ficial demands induced to enhance private carrying a disproportionate share of the Inflation will abate, and shortages will dis­ profits. appear as people buy less. If there is unem­ tax burden. ployment, the Government can provide a By slashing the $90 billion-a-year war President Ford endorsed the so-called few hundred thousand public service jobs budget and the 2,500 m111tary bases it main­ tax reform bill pending in the Ways and and increase jobless compensation. Such pre­ tains abroad, the nation could attain a de­ Means Committee. The tax relief pro­ scriptions have already proven themselves gree of prosperity and stability never known vided by this bill is insignificant, partic­ before. Instead of the tail (foreign trade, naive, for the economy has "cooled down"­ ularly in the light of the give-aways in we are in a recession-yet 1nfl.at1on shows private monopoly) wagging the dog, the dog could finally wag its own tall. The shortage the bill for special interests. Increases in little sign of slackening, nor are the short­ unemployment insurance, and an as ages disappearing. And if the economy cools economy is a warning that we disregard at down much further, we may check infiation our peril, and it is an opportunity that must yet undefined community improvement only to find a steep rise in unemployment. be seized. corps' proposal for temporary jobs, are President Ford, whose geniality tem­ helpful. However, it is far more im­ porarily obscures his Nixonite philosophy, is portant to change present economic preparing to perform the feat of the century. NATION'S TAXPAYERS DO NOT NEED policies which are curtailing permanent He tells us he will reduce infiation without AN EXTRA LOAD jobs in health, education, police protec­ attacking its two major causes-military tion, housing, and other areas. A simple spend~ng, which contributes nothing to the consumer economy and withdraws many bil­ lowering of interest rates would do more lions of dollars, and monopoly, which in­ HON. WILLIAM G. BRAY for the housing industry and many cessantly fuels the inflationary fire. This is OF INDIANA other key industries than expansion of the ktnd of "Band-Aid" economics and di­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES federally secured mortgages or the in­ plomacy that brought us to our present vestment tax credit. The housing in­ despair. Wednesday, October 9, 1974 dustry would be particularly stimulated The shortage economy tells us that Key­ Mr. BRAY. Mr. Speaker, I will not sup­ by a system of credit allocation and a nesian capitalism, which patched up the tax exemption for the first $1,000 on planless economy through deficit spending port the proposed 5 percent income tax for forty years, has exhausted its potential surcharge. savings and loan accounts. and tts usefulness. The Pax Americana, This cut in purchasing power of $2.6 I am gratified that the Ways and which organiz~d the planet around the goals billion for one-fourth of the Nation's tax­ Means Committee today reported out a of the American mllitary-lndustrtal com­ payers would be a definite harruhip. tax exemption for interest on the first plex, ts similarly passing into oblivion. We It cannot be called an anti-inflation $500 of savings accounts. I was particu­ cannot live endlessly by going deeper into measure, either,. when the Federal Gov- larly gratified, as a member of the Judi- October 9, 1974 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 34829 ciary Committee, that on the morning immunization levels. At least half of in­ for his effort, also donated the film to the before President Ford's speech the com­ fant mortalities are preventable with King Foundation. It is constantly shown mittee approved a bill to strengthen the current technology and at least 60 per­ in schools, colleges, churches, and on administration of antitrust laws, includ­ cent of handicapping conditions can be television throughout the world. ing increased fines for violations of these corrected or prevented if treated before It is to Ely Landau's credit that after l~ws, a step which the President endorsed the child reaches 18 years old. a long and distinguished career the yesterday afternoon. Fifth. Surveys show that up to 10 mil­ American Film Theatre built of his own I would like to believe that President lion of 'the nearly 14 million 1 to 4-year­ energy and resources has now created Ford is right in rejecting economic con­ olds are unprotected agains one or more hundreds of art centers across the na­ trols and relying essentially on voluntary preventable diseases. tion. For the first time, people who are actions and tax manipulation. Experience These most distressing facts indicate a interested in entertainment of a high tells me that there is no way to combat most simple message-that children are cultural level presented by world famous the grave threats of inflation and reces­ America's greatest natural resource, and actors, playwrights and directors, have sion without wage and price controls. thus comprehensive health care for our been able to find its as close to home as However, I will do everything possible to nation's youths most hold a high pri­ their local motion picture theater. cooperate with the President to make his ority. For while children represent 40 programs succeed, if they can. I will also percent of America's population, they are continue to work to reduce wasteful mili­ 100 percent of our country's future. In tary expenditures and to promote jobs more ways than one, America cannot NATIONAL DRILL TEAM PAGEANT that will meet the needs of our people afford not to provide preventative serv­ for housing; mass transit, medical care. ices to her children and youth. education and improved law enforce­ · HON. ALPHONZO BELL ment. OF CALIFORNIA ELY LANDAU AND THE AMERICAN IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CHILDHEALTHDAY-ADAY FILM THEATRE Wednesday, October 9, 1974 UNNOTICED? Mr. BELL. Mr. Speaker, I would like HON. CHARLES B. RANGEL to call to the attention of my colleagues HON. OGDEN R. REID OF NEW YORK in the Congress the National Drill Team OF NEW YORK IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Pageant to be held during the first week IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of February, 1975. Wednesday, October 9, 1974 The pageant is sponsored by the Coro­ Wednesday, October 9, 1974 Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, Broadway, nettes, a college dance-drill team com­ Mr. REID. Mr. Speaker, traditionally, through its presentation of legitimate posed of 70 young ladies at Santa Monica by Presidential proclamation, the first theatre productions in their highest form College in California. The Coronettes put Monday in October is proclaimed Child is perhaps the most respected center of on half-time activities for Santa Monica Health Day-a day set aside to urge that the performing arts. Ely Landau, one of football games, and have also performed all Americans be aware of children's the country's acknowledged leaders in for the Los Angeles Rams and the San diseases and handicaps which must be the entertainment field, has created the Francisco 49'ers half-time shows. They treated and prevented. This year, Child American Film Theatre, to bring the have appeared in numerous television Health Day fell on October 7. I find the great plays of Broadway into some 400 shows and motion pictures, and are con­ situation to be most unfortunate that the communities across our land. Recently, sidered one of the finest drill teams in day came and went with so little notice. the finale of the premier season of his the State of California. For there is no worthier or more im­ American Film Theatre was observed, As a part of their annual activities, portant group of Americans than our and soon, the curtain of its second sea­ they sponsor a Miss Drill Team U.S.A. nation's young people. son will rise. Pageant, which will be held this year Although Child Health Day has passed, This innovative concept of a national during the week of February 2-8. Par­ we must continue to realize that the Theatre-On-Film which brings master­ ticipants in the pageant enter in various health needs of our children are simply pieces of the theatre to the film medium competitions, including dance and mili­ not being met. There are hundreds of for exhibition on a unique subcription tary drills, baton twirling, flag twirling, thousands of youth from all economic basis in local motion picture theatres songleading, and cheerleading. The main and social backgrounds suffering from a throughout the United States has re­ competition, however, is for the coveted wide range of illnesses and disabilities ceived unparalleled public acceptance title of Miss Drill Team U.S.A. on the which perhaps might have been avoided and critical acclaim. final day of activities. Last year 2,500 by prompt attention and care. The Na­ A resident of the Empire State of New contestants from all over the country tional Council of Organizations for Chil­ York, Ely Landau has served his coun­ participated in the pageant. dren and Youth has compiled the follow­ try and his profession with distinction. I would like to take this opportunity ing statistics which are indicative of the Twenty years ago, he organized his own to commend the American high school present status of our children's health independent television production-distri­ and college drill teams for their worth­ needs: bution company and it grew to become while contributions to the lives of par­ First. Due to inadequate maternal, one of the world's largest TV film organ­ ticipating students. Participation in drill prenatal, and postnatal care, more than izations. He subsequently founded a TV team activities helps to promote the 200,000 American children each year are station in New York City which acquired qualities of discipline, wholesome com­ born with birth defects, a staggering 7 a reputation as one of the most public­ petition, and good citizenship which drill percent of all births. minded and creative television stations teams exemplify. Second. America lags behind 14 other in the United States. In 1961 he turned Drill teams offer a service valuable to westernized countries in the rate of in­ to independent motion picture produc­ the community: the energy of youth fant mortality. tion and won innumerable awards. channeled into constructive activity 1n Third. Birth defects have left 2.9 mil­ After a brief retirement in 1968, Mr. benefit projects for charitable organiza­ lion retarded, 750,000 with hearing im­ Landau organized and directed a unique, tions, in weekly performances at athletic pairments, and 500,000 totally or par­ one-night, simultaneous showing of the events, and in service to their schools. tially blind citizens. In total there are film, "King: A Filmed Record * • • Mont­ The teams provide for their members 15 million Americans who have been left gomery to Memphis." These showings the opportunity of joining with their with birth defects serious enough to in 663 theatres across our Nation raised competitors from all regions of the coun­ drastically effect their daily lives and the milllons of dollars for the Martin Luther try to exchange idea.c;, and to compare lives of their families. King Foundation of Atlanta, Ga., to im­ athletic and organizational techniques. Fourth. Action is urgently needed to plement Dr. King's ideals and ideas. Consequently, it is with pleasure that reverse the alarming trend of declining Landau, who received no compensation I recognize those drill teams today. 34830 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 9, 1974 TAYLOR OPPOSES FEDERAL LAND CHILDHOOD IN RUSSIA his girl friend. After dinner his mother asked CONTROL what we'd been talking about so avidly, and I told her. HON. LEE H. HAMILTON "'Why,' she said, 'You've found out more about my son than I ever knew before.' You HON. GENE TAYLOR OF INDIANA know, in Moscow a boy that age wouldn't OF MISSOURI IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES go to the family dacha (house in the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wednesday, October 9, 1974 suburbs) without discussing it thoroughly with his parents, but that French boy was Wednesday, October 9, 1974 Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. Speaker, under planning a trip to Chile that he's never even Mr. TAYLOR of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, the leave to extend my remarks in the mentioned at home." only a few months ago, the House of Rep­ RECORD, I include the following article Generation gaps exist here too, but they on the upbringing of children in the So­ seem narrower. Young people accept a resentatives rejected the concept of Fed­ parental role in details of their life that eral land use control when the Members viet Union. I hope that my colleagues Western adolescents would regard as private. of this body voted down the rule on H.R. will find it informative. There is a strong family hand that is espe­ 10294, the Land Use Planning and As­ [From the Washington Post, June 17, 1974] cially evident at times of crisis, such as the sistance Act of 1973. FOR RUSSIAN BABIES: "ONLY THE BEST" last year of secondary school. This bill seriously threatened State By Robert G. Kalser "We have examinations this year," a Rus­ sovereignty by setting up a process for sian parent announces with a combination Moscow .-In winter, Russian parents take of pride and trepidation. In other words, the Federal review of actions taken by their small children outside on sleds. On a their 18-year-old is hoping to win a place in the States to regulate their lands in ac­ Sunday there are thousands of sleds in the a college or university, and the entire family cordance with criteria interpreted by parks and boulevards of Moscow, each carry­ is mobillzed for the entrance exams. "enlightened" Washington bureaucrats. ing a carefully bundled-up minicreature who Though the Russian parent's inclination rides triumphantly behind papa or mama. is to smother a child with attention, the This was to be accomplished by a greatly If there's a little hill in the park, the expanded use of State zoning powers, a children yell to be pushed down it. The par­ facts of Soviet life limit the opportunities method which provides no compensation ents are nervous about that idea, so there is for doing so. Arkadi Raikin, the Soviet or consultation with private property a compromise. Papa pulls the sled up the Union's most popular comedian, has a famous hlll, turns it around, takes the rope in hand monologue on this subject. owners, and, because it involves no cost It concerns Slavik, whose mother, like most to the Government it is an easy method and runs down the hill ahead of the sled, never letting go. Soviet women, has a full-time job. Slavik's for exercising public control over private That is the theme of Russian parenthood­ grandmother used to take care of him, but property. don't let go. she died. Now Slavik's mother stops around Fortunately, the dangers of this legis­ Russian parents devote themselves to the neighborhood on her way to work in lation did not escape the notice of a ma­ their children with a startling zeal. the morning asking for favors. jority of the House and it was wisely "When a baby arrives, it's as though we She asks a pensioner in their apartment defeated. However, despite this expres­ were all marched to the wall and told to put house to knock on the wall to be sure Slavik up our hands," one Moscow father observed is up in time for school. She asks a nurse sion of the will of Congress, the environ­ to feel his forehead if she sees him after mental Protection Agency is now pro­ with a defeated grin. "Go ahead, we say, take it all, take everything .. Y school. She tells the policeman to blow his ceeding to adopt regulations that im­ Children, being children, do just that. whistle if Slavik gets into a fight. pose the same kind of Federal land use Many are the Moscow apartments in which a "But I think," Raikin says, "that none control that was an unacceptable part of child of 8 or 9 is the center of attraction for of these people can substitute for a mother H.R. 10294. all who live there. who can sing a lullable, answer any question, Like the Federal land use bill, the EPA "For that child," one mother said recently, feed, pity and comfort. Mothers should regulations will require State land use "we must keep up all the norms. We may probably work ·a little less and pay a little control programs to regulate the con­ have a cup of coffee and a piece of bread and more attention to their children. Everybody butter for dinner, but for the baby-hors would benefit-children, parents and the struction of airpor~. large office build­ d'oeuvres, soup, meat, potato or vegetable, state." ings, shopping centers, sports facilities, dessert, everything! And only the best!" Raikin's monologue is warmly applauded, parking lots, and highway interchanges. This attitude toward children has conse­ but in fact, the state disagrees. The Soviet Under H.R. 10294, these projects are quences which strike an American eye as economy needs women's labor. They make up termed "key facilities'' or large scale de­ both good and not so good. Not so good is the 51 per cent of the work force. Moreover, the velopments.'' EPA terms these projects child's total dependence on his parents. Chil­ Soviet expense seems to prove that many, dren under the age of six or seven are rarely perhaps most women who take up careers "complex" emission sources. The Wash­ allowed to go outside by themselves. An a­ prefer to continue them rather than stay at ington-based EPA directives impose year-old often won't dress himself to go home with a child. the same Federal land use requirements outside. So the typical Russian mother faces a and raise the same issues as H.R. 10294. An American visiting a family in Moscew series of dilemmas, beginning immediately Regulations of such fundamental im­ may-out of habit--ask the eight-year-old after her child is born. Does she return to portance should be settled on the floor son to bring him a box of matches from work at the end of the two months paid of the House and not by the director of across the room. Before the bewildered boy maternity leave, or does she take off a year an administrative agency, or by the local has a chance to even shrug his shoulders, without pay, knowing she can resume her papa is on his feet patting his son reassur­ old job without loss of seniority? Or does government officials who must reside in ingly and jumping for the matches. she gtve up work altogether to raise her the affected communities. "Here they are, here," he says. Little Miska child? Mr. Speaker, the inevitable result of hasn't moved an inch. A small minor! ty of mothers, particularly increasing the number and amount of In public, at least, a Russian child's be­ among the intelligentsia, decide to commit controls on land use is to terminate the havior is sternly regulated. The courtyards three to six years to their children, regardless freedom of the individual to acquire and of many :Moscow apartment houses have of their own careers. In many families this own property, that freedom which is the sandboxes, which are popular with the chil­ is economically imnossible. The average dren. nut mothers don't allow them to sit Soviet worker's family budget depends on foundation for most other rights. in the sand. They must learn to squat on two sources of income. Regulating the use of land through their haunches, so as not to get sand in their For those who want to, or must, continue broad-scale State and Federal zoning is clothes. Anyone who slips into his or her working, the most ponula.r alternative is to a violation of the 5th and 14th amend­ bottom is certain to be lifted out of the sand­ leave the new baby with grandma ments to the Constitution which state box with a jolt. (babushka). When a babushka isn't available, that no person is to be deprived of life, On the other hand relations between par­ the state nrovides substitutes. liberty, or property, without due process ents and children seem much closer in this For infants there are nurseries which will of law. country than in the West. One Soviet writer, take a child from the age of three months, a woman, discovered this on a trip to Paris but only 10 per cent of the country's infants Mr. Speaker, I want to make it clear several years ago: are 1n these nurseries. From ages one to that I am opposed to the Federal Gov­ "I wa~ invited to a fancy apartment for three, the figure rises to about 30 per cent. ernment imposing itself on the rights of dinner. The family had a teenage son, and Some of these children stay in the nurseries the property owners of this Nation. I I sat next to him. We had a long talk. He from Monday morning to Friday evening, but will vote against any bill that seeks to told me that he wanted to go to Chile to see most go home at the end of each day. circumvent these rights. what was going on· there. He told me all about Predictably, these are controversial insti- October 9, 1974 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 34831 tutions. The professionals responsible for which can last 12 hours--with fun. Some­ tunities, and pride in craftsmanship and them in Moscow are convinced of their worth, times the fun carries a message. service. and argue that most children would be well The instructions for teachers of 2- and 3- Stanley certainly deserves this cher­ served by moving into a nursery at the age year-olds in nurseries stipulate: "The teach­ of three months. er will teach the children to recognize V. L. ished distinction. For many years, it has At that age the children adjust most easily Lenin [founder of the Soviet state] in por­ been an important force in the economic to the group, and develop strong immunities traits and illustrations, and will arouse feel­ life of the New Britain area, long provid­ to infectious diseases. ings of love and respect for him." Teachers ing worthwhile employment for its work­ The testimony of mothers and Western of 4- and 5-year-olds are told that "on holi­ ers, and contributing greatly to the eco­ specialists who have visited Soviet nuroeries days, children decorate the portrait of V. L. nomic well-being of the area. suggest another side of the issue. Lenin in their playroom." Six-year-olds, the Stanley has also displayed a deep con­ They are, by all accounts, undermanned. teachers manual instructs, "should be taken The children get less attention than they to the town monument to V. L. Lenin on his cern for the welfare of the community theoretically should, and are ruled by a strict, birthday, and should put flowers there." it serves and the people, who are this inflexible schedule. Not surprisingly, Soviet children are cer­ community. The many contributions and "You sense that these kids lack spunk, tain that Lenin was the kindest, most intel­ accomplishments made by this fine com­ they're a little dopey," one Western specialist ligent and greatest man who ever lived. pany reflect its tradition of service and commented after extensive visits to nurseries The best kindergartens may fulfill the involvement for the common good. here last year. ideal curriculum that Moscow recommends, Certainly, Stanley Works is an exem­ "I wouldn't think of putting my child in a but, as always in Soviet society, there is a nursery,"--,the comment is repeated by many vast gulf between the ideal and the actual. plary citizen of the New Britain area women. particularly among the Moscow in­ Komsomelskaya Pravada, a popular daily business community, and of Connecticut, telligentsia. There is a class distinction here. newspaper, reported recently on the grimmer and it is the people who have benefited Worl~ing class women seem less reluctant to realities in Semipalatinsk, a predominantly most from this record. use the nurseries, partly because they have Russian city in Kazakhstan. Management and labor at Stanley less choice. Semipalatinsk has a serious shortage of Works have consistently shown an acute There is less argument ~bout the merits of nurseries and kindergartens, the paper re­ awareness and sensitivity to the critical Soviet kindergartens, which take care of ported. The nurseries that exist have places human issues that affect so many of us millions of 4, 5, and 6-year-olds, more than for 1030 infants, and they presently take care two-thirds of the total population in this of 1631. The kindergartens are also over­ in daily life. Moreover, they have ap­ age group. crowded. proached each other with an openness "Our kindergartens give children a better Big factories with money and resources and an understanding that is truly com­ upbringing than any family could, even the to build their own daybare centers have ade­ mendable. most intelligent," according to Irina Ovchini­ quate fac111ties, but everyone else in the The quality of Stanley products is kova, who writes about children for Izvestia, Semipalatinsk does not. known worldwide. The fine craftsman­ the government newspaper. "There's no argu­ Mrs. T. Staparova wrote the paper ship evident in the company's tools and ment about that." that she had to take her daughter to kinder­ She is exaggerating, but kindergartens are garten on two trolleys to the other side of other items is indicative of a commit­ p<>})ular. Some fam111es dispute the official town, though they could see a kindergarten ment to excellence and a dedication to view that a small ohild should be quickly im­ from the window of their apartment. It be­ hard work and diligence by the firm and mersed in a "collective," subordinating some longed to a factory, and was open only to its skilled, efficient workers. of his own individuality to the group. But the children of its workers. The New Samaritan Corp. has chosen that is part of kindergarten life, accepted by A 10-year-old American who is now study­ wisely in deciding to ho'1or Stanley the vast majority of parents and chidlren. ing in a Moscow school remembers that in Works. In the short time since it came The message was forcefully delivered by the Washington "you could get up from your desk director of a kindergarten in Volgograd (for­ and walk around the room if you wanted into existence, the corporation has made merly Stalingrad). Boasting about her school to. Here, if you get up just to get a pencil, many, meaningful contributions to the to visiting Americans, she brought out a they bawl you out. And you've got to raise welfare of Connecticut residents. Most beautiful painted watercolor of a tree on a your hand a special way, and memorize the notable are the corporation's efforts in riverbank. answers to all the math problems ..." providing housing and services for the "One of our 6-year-olds did this," she Yet there are signs of an independent elderly and others in my State. said. "Look, here are some more." spirit among the young. Many Moscow par­ This latest decision adds luster to the The director then held up a dozen more ents report with awe on the political sophis­ record of accomplishment that marks watercolors of a tree on a riverbank-pre­ tication of their 10-year-olds. cisely the same P·icture, the same colors, the "My boy's at a special English school," the brief history of the New Samaritan same strokes. How did they all turn out alike? one father reported. "The school has a spe­ Corp. It is a credit to the corporation "That's how we do it. The teacher puts a cial relationship with some school in India. and to its "Citation for Excellence" re­ picture up on the board and asks the chil­ When [Leonid I.] Brezhnev went to India cipient Stanley Works of New Britain. dren to copy it," she said. they put a · lot of pictures of the trip up This isn't the system everywhere. A music on a bulletin board. What did they use that teacher in Moscow, observed by a foreign board for? My boys say·s it was the place guest, taught her children the principles of everybody gathered to tell the latest .1okes HOME PURCHASE ASSISTANCE ACT high and low notes, harmony and rhythm, about Brezhnev. Can you imagine my genera­ then encouraged them to invent their own tl.on telling jokes about Stalin when we were dances to accompany tunes she played on the 10?" HON. BOB WILSON piano. This seems rarer than the reliable OF CALIFORNIA methods of note and repetition. Kinderg.artens sustain strict folk wisdoms CITATION FOR EXCELLENCE FOR IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES about raising child'l'en--<>verdressing them STANLEY WORKS OF NEW BRIT­ Wednesday, October 9, 1974 for play outside, for instance, so they often AIN, CONN. come inside hot and sweat.ing, or forbidding Mr. BOB WILSON. Mr. Speaker, as children to eat or draw with their left hands. everyone knows, inflation and high inter­ Lefthandedness is reg,arded as an inadmis­ est rates are making it one of the worst sable abnormality here. HON. ELLA T. GRASSO years ever to buy, sell, or build houses. The curricula for nurseries and kinde'l'­ OF CONNECTICUT That is why I introduced the Home Pur­ gartens are determined by government au­ chase Assistance Act yesterday aimed at thorities in Moscow, and are conveyed to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES teachers in a book. Each teacher is expected Wednesday, October 9, 1974 making it easier for middle- and low­ to stick to the offic-ial plan. income families to buy homes. My plan Its goals, not surprisingly, are to produce Mrs. GRASSO. Mr. Speaker, Stanley would not cost the taxpayers because it ideal children-healthy, oreatlve, clean, or­ Works, of New Britain, Conn., has been sets up a housing trust fund which could derly and patriotic young Communists. chosen as the recipient of the first an­ draw on the Treasury for money to make "A kindergarten," the book says, "must set nual "Citation for Excellence" of the New home loans. As an anti-inflation step, the na.ttern for the Communist upbringing Samaritan Corp., a nonprofit corpora­ a..11other bill I introduced yesterday would of children." tion, sponsored by the Connecticut Con­ There is no way to poll preschool opinion, also encourage people to save by allow­ but informal observation and inquiry sug­ ference, United Church of Christ. ing a tax exemption for the first $1,000 in gest that the overwhelming majority of So­ The citation represents excellence in interest paid on funds on deposit with viet children think kindergarten is grea.t. important areas such as community in­ savings institutions. This money, in turn, The combination of play, dancing and sing­ volvement, environmental concern, la­ would be loaned to the construction in­ ing, drawing, and pasting fills their days-- bor/management relaMons, equal oppor- dustry so new homes could be built. In 34832 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 9, 1974 the process, thousands of construction committees-! was struck by the eager­ programs which would begin to operate workers would be hired and more homes ness on all sides, House and Senate, ma­ should the national unemployment rate aver­ age six percent or more for three months: would be available because loans could be jority and minority, and the administra­ ( 1) A temporary program of income re­ made. The President in his address yes­ tion, to work together and to work with placement known as Special Unemployment terday urged prompt congressional ac­ dispatch to effectively aid those struck Assistance Program for experienced unem­ tion on both these legislative initiatives, by rising unemployment. I want to con­ ployed workers in areas of high unemploy­ and I urge my colleagues' early and gratulate Secretary Brennan and his ment who have exhausted all other unem­ favorable consideration of these bills. associates for having both a draft bill and ployment compensation or who are not eligi­ a statement concerning it prepared only ble for such compensation; and one day after President Ford's address to (2) A program of employment projects for the Congress. And I want also to con­ these same areas, known as Community Im­ provement Program. NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT ASSIST­ gratulate Chairman DANIELS and Chair­ While the primary purpose of the two pro­ ANCE ACT OF 1974 man NELSON for their equal promptness grams is to alleviate the hardships of unem­ in commencing a consideration of the ployment upon individuals, it will also allevi­ proposal. The questions and answers and ate the adverse impact on those local econo­ HON. MARVIN L. ESCH exchanges of views during the hearing mies hardest hit by unemployment. OF MICHIGAN accentuated this spirit of cooperation. -The unemployment assistance benefits IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Obviously, there are questions raised serve to cushion the effects of protracted by this proposal, particularly by the pub­ unemployment by providing additional in­ Wednesday, October 9, 1974 come replacement to workers who have lic works portion of it. These questions, either exhausted their regular unemployment Mr. ESCH. Mr. Speaker, I have today however, all relate to the most effective compensation benefits or to individuals with introduced by request the administra­ way to proceed, not to the necessity for a demonstrated labor force attachment not tion's bill entitled the National Employ­ action. There are a number of alterna­ otherwise eligible for UI benefits. Not only ment Assistance Act of 1974 designed to tives in terms of creating more public does this replace lost income, but it pro­ carry out President Ford's program of service jobs. We could enact the Presi­ vides workers with the time and opportunity emergency assistance for those who find dent's proposal. We could enact a version to look for work consistent with their skills themselves unemployed in our fight of Mr. DANIELS' or my bill which expands and experience. upon title II of the Comprehensive Em­ The table below first shows funds and serv­ against inflation. Mr. QUIE, the ranking ices now available under Unemployment minority member on our Committee on · ployment and Training Act-which deals Compensation laws and the Comprehensive Education and Labor has agreed to co­ mainly with public service employment­ Employment and Training Act (CETA). It sponsor the bill. or we could quite simply appropriate then indicates how much would become We have moved swiftly to consider this more funds for title II of CETA. More available over a twelve month period for cur­ proposal. This morning our Select Sub­ funds for the existing title II CETA pro­ rent unemployment programs, and for the committee on Labor, chaired by Mr. gram-which has an open-ended author­ two new proposed programs at average na­ DANIELS, and the Senate Subcommittee ization-would be the most expeditious tional unemployment levels of six percent form of action available to the Congress. and 6.5 percent. Title II of the National Em­ on Employment, Poverty, and Migratory ployment Assistance Act would make a fur­ Labor, chaired by Senator NELSON, heard However, there may be sufficient reason ther $1 billion available if national unem­ testimony from Secretary of Labor Bren­ for not choosing that route, and Secre­ ployment averaged seven percent for three nan in support of the bill I have intro­ tary Brennan argued forcefully that the months or more. duced. Additional witnesses were heard President's proposal is preferable in that today, and others will testify tomorrow, it emphasizes a temporary, emergency situation, whereas CETA is designed to 5.8 6 6.5 with respect to other bills pending before percent percent percent our committee designed to speed the pace achieve mor€ long-range goals. He also emphasized that the administration pro­ of public employment programs. CETA public service jobs: The President's proposal is two-fold. posal is not intended as a substitute for Funds ______$1,015 $1,015 $1,015 title II of CETA. I have already elabo­ Jobs ______, ______170, 000 170,000 170,000 First, it would authorize grants to States CETA other training and employ- to provide out of appropriated funds up rated on the advantages of my bill, H.R. ment: to an additional 13 weeks of unemploy­ 16926, which mainly are that it is a sim­ Funds (millions>-----·------$1,700 $1,700 $1,700 ple amendment to CETA-hence would Man-years ______380, 000 380,000 380, 000 ment insurance for individuals in high­ Unemployment benefits (current unemployment areas who have exhausted cause neither administrative confusion law): nor delay-and it contains no cum­ Payments (millions) ______$7,775 $8, 145 $9,065 their benefits under State unemployment Beneficiaries (millions)______7.9 8.2 9.2 insurance programs, and up to 26 weeks bersome unemployment rate "trigger" National Employment Assistance mechanisms. Act: of coverage for individuals in such areas Special unemployment benefits who were not previously covered by the In any event, these issues will be re­ (millions): program. Second, the bill would estab­ solved by Congress working with the ad­ 2 $2,550 ministration, and I am pleased and grati­ ======: = 3. 31 lish a community improvement program ~:~~3~~sries======Ul exhaustees______$ 2~~~• 83 1. 05 of work for unemployed individuals in fied by the speed with which we have Previously ineligible______1. 9 2.26 areas of high unemployment, with proj­ commenced working toward their reso­ Community improvement proj- lution. When we are dealing with prob­ ects: ects limited to 6-months duration but Funds (millions>------$500 $1,250 subject to renewal. The maximum salary lems of unemployment, time is of the Man-years of employment______83,000 208~ 000 paid such individuals would be at a rate essence. of $7,000 per year, and the minimum Following is a summary of the Presi­ The initiation of temporary projects by would be the highest applicable mini­ dent's proposal: State and local governments is perhaps the mum would be the highest applicable FACT SHEET: NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT least inflationary way of providing jobs for minimum wage rate specified by law. The ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1974 unemployed workers. Jobs provided by these entire program is "triggered on" when Increases in unemployment have raised the projects help to cushion the loss of income the national unemployment rate for any Nation's unemployment rate to 5.8 percent due to unemployment, while enabling State in September. and local governments to provide their citi­ three consecutive months averages 6 per­ During this period of high inflation and zens with a socially useful product. cent, and it applies to defined labor mar­ unemployment, there is a need for Federal Because projects under this program will ket areas having had an average of 6.5 standby authority with minimal inflationary be generated in and geared to areas with high percent unemployment for the 3 most impact, which will help alleviate the impact unemployment in which there exists a sub­ recent months. of unemployment should unemployment stantial amount of available manpower, I am including in this statement a fact rates rise. there should be little or no adverse impact sheet prepared by the Department of Such action is necessary to help alleviate on the regular labor market. There 1s a limit Labor describing the proposal in more unemployment problems in areas most af­ of $7,000 a year 1'or jobs authorized by this fected and to assure that the impact of in­ program and therefore the average wages detail. flation does not unduly burden those workers wl11 be considerably less than those earned Mr. Speaker, during the hearing with least able to bear the costs. in the private sector. Most workers wm ob­ Secretary Brennan-which in itself was The National Employment Assistance Act tain private jobs as the economy grows. remarkable for being one of the rare joint of 1974 would respond to these needs by au­ The added cost of Community Improve­ hearings held by our House and Senate thorizing, during the next calendar year two ment Projects may be offset somewha;t by re- October 9, 1974 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 34833 duced demand for food stamps, welfare pay­ COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM the Phillis Wheatly Association. She has ments, and by some increase in tax receipts New program is structured so that as the been a member of Shiloh Baptist Church from employees in these projects. national employment rate rises, more money for 51 years, and served for many years BASIC FUNDING PROVISIONS OF THE NATIONAL is available for community improvement as the secretary of the Main Body Mis­ EMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT projects. sionary of her church. Projects are limited to areas eligible for Funds for both the Special Unemployment the Special Unemployment Assistance Pro­ I esteemed it an honor to be among Assistance Program and the Community Im­ gram. those paying a debt of gratitude to this provement Program become available when E11gible applicants are prime sponsors un­ remarkable woman for her unselfish the national unemployment rate averages 6.0 der the Comprehensive Employment and contribution to the welfare of our com­ percent or more for three consecutive Training Act, in areas that qualify. munity. I know my colleagues will join months. For the Special Unemployment As­ Projects may be with State or local gov­ sitance Program, such funds as are necessary me in extending heartfelt congratula­ ernment agencies. tions to Cleveland's own Sister Ruth are authorized if unemployment is above this Each Community Improvement project is level. For Community Improvement Program, limited to six months duration. Fletcher. successive increments of funds are authorized Not more than 10 percent of a sponsor's if the national unemployment level aver­ funds may be used for administrative costs, ages, for three consecutive months: supplies, material, and equipment. DOES GOVERNMENT PREVENT MO­ 6.0 percent-$500 m111ion authorized; Individuals eligible for employment on NOPOLIES OR CREATE THEM? 6.5 percent-another $750 million author­ these projects are those who have exhausted ized; and their benefits under the Special Unemploy­ 7.0 percent-an additional one billion dol­ ment Assistance Program. HON. PHILIP M. CRANE lars authorized. Wages paid project employees must be at OF ILLINOIS When the average national uneJl}ployment least the minimum wage under the Fair IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES rate recedes below these respective levels for Labor Standards Act, or the State or local three consecutive months, no additiona.l Fed­ minimum wage, whichever is higher; how­ Wednesday, October 9, 197 4 eral funds for new projects will be provided. ever, in no case may the wage exceed an an­ Eighty percent of the available funds for nual rate of $7,000. State or local govern­ Mr. CRANE. Mr. Speaker, those who Community Improvement Projects will be ments may not supplement wages with their urge Government intervention in the distributed by formula . :~.mong eligible ap­ own funds. economy often tell us that such inter­ plicants based on (1) the relative number of Prohibitions against political activities and vention is necessary to prevent the for­ unemployed residing in areas of substantial discrimination apply to the program. mation of monopolies and to protect the unemployment within their jurisdictions, The Community Improvement Program public. and (2) the severity of unemployment; 20 wm provide funding for projects such as: All too often, however, the result of percent would be expended at the discretion conservation, maintenance or restoration of Government intervention proves to have of the Secretary, principally to finance proj­ natural resources, community beautification, quite an opposite effect. Instead of stim­ ects in areas which become eligible after the anti-pollution and environmental quality formula. distribution is made. efforts, economic development; and the im­ ulating increased competition, Govern­ The local labor market area-and balance provement and expansion of health, educa­ ment tends to stifle it. Instead of broad­ of State-unemployment rates determine tion, and recreation services and such other ening a given market, Government the communities in which both programs services which contribute to the community. involvement tends to contract it. Not will be operating. Both programs are di­ one additional airline has come into be­ rected to those areas in which unemploy­ ing, for example, since the creation of ment is highest. Both programs come into the Civil Aeronautics Board provided vir­ effect in a labor market area, with a popu­ SISTER RUTH FLETCHER tual monopoly control to those airlines lation of 250,000 or more, when it has an unemployment rate averaging 6.5 percent which existed at the time of its estab­ or more for three consecutive months. The HON. LOUIS STOKES lishment. balance of each State not included in such OF OHIO It is because Government economic in­ areas will constitute a single area in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tervention tends to bolster the position which the programs will become effective of already established businesses that subject to the same unemployment rate Wednesday, October 9, 1974 many corporate leaders welcome it. It is criterion. Mr. STOKES. Mr. Speaker, I wish to the general public-in whose name such When the average local unemployment relate to my colleag\}es a very moving intervention occurs-which is the real rate recedes below 6.5 percent for three con­ loser. secutive months no new individuals become and rewarding experience I recently had eligible and no new projects may be started. in my home district. On September 21, In a recently published book, "How To This new temporary unemployment as­ at Cleveland's Mid-Town Sheraton Ho­ Beat the System and Get Rich-A Para­ sistance program will be separate from but tel, I was among the many friends and legal Strategy for Achieving Business supplemental to the existing Federal-State admirers of Sister Ruth Fletcher honor­ Success," Carl E. Person, a prominent Unemployment Insurance (UI) System, and ing her at a recognition banquet spon­ Wall Street attorney and author of the is designed to extend coverage to experienced sored by the Gardenia Court of Calanthe bestselling book, "The Save by Borrow­ persons in the labor force who have ex­ No. 42, and the Edwin Cowles Lodge No. ing Technique," shows how Government hausted their UI benefits or are otherwise has stifled competition. He states, for ex­ ineligible for such benefits. 17 of the Knights of PYthias. Sister The program would be ope.rated through Fletcher wa.s paid this very fitting trib­ ample, that the excessive regulatory agreements with the States. ute in appreciation of her 22 years of schemes of the present day constitute a All experienced members of the work­ dedicated service as an organizer and formidable "barrier to entry" to many force will be eligible for oenefits as follows: worthy counselor of Gardenia Court No. fields of private enterprise. They must have last worked in a labor 42. Among the many distinguished com­ In a review of this book, Harold C. market area (or balance of State area) with munity leaders joining me in offering Gordon summarizes Mr. Person's view substantial unemployment. greetings to Sister Fletcher on this aus­ this way: Benefits will be governed by benefit pro­ Instead of helptng the consumer by pro­ visions of each State UI law. picious occasion were Cleveland City Councilmen Charles Carr and James moting competition, the unreasonable Individuals who had exhausted their ben­ standards and bureaucratic watchdogs de­ efits under State UI programs wlll be eltgi­ Bell, State Representative Troy Lee manded by the consumerists actually play ble for a maximum of 13 weeks benefits. James, Cleveland's Mayor Ralph Perk, right into the hands of the corporate giants Individuals who were not previously eli­ and the honorable Judge Lillian W. by eliminating their competitors for them. gible for State UI benefits w111 be eligible Burke. . .. To combat ... inhibitors to competition for a maximum of 26 weeks provided that Sister Fletcher is among the most re­ Mr. Person offers dozens of original and use­ they have attachment to labor force as re­ spected women in Cleveland's black com­ ful suggestions. But the spearhead of his quired by the relevant State UI law. proposed counterattack is, as his title pro­ Benefits for UI ine11gibles w111 generally be munity, known for her untiring, self-sac­ rificing commitment to serving others. A claims, a "paralegal strategy for business the amount that would be payable as com­ success." puted under State law if all work was per­ county welfare worker for 20 years, she is formed for covered employers. now retired, but continues to be deeply Mr. Person's advice to businessmen is No new beneficiaries would be eligible after involved in civic affairs. Sister Fletcher to find a way to fight the bureaucrats December 31, 1975. is an active member of the NAACP and without inhibiting their own commercial 34834 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 9, 1974 efforts and his idea of a "paralegal" favor the established giants by discouraging ering evidence, assisting the trial lawyer and, strategy is certainly worthy of consider­ competition. Certainly, he submits, the exces­ generally, reducing the cost of litigation to ation. It is clear that the advocates of sive regulatory schemes of the present day the point where it may b2 available as a (made up of detailed licensing requirements, remedy to those businessmen who need it Government intervention have produced involved administrative proceedings, arbi­ most. an economic situation in which competi­ trary-even inane-rules, standards, quotas, Space unfortunately does not permit a tion has been stifted and not stimulated. and general bureaucratic red tape) consti­ more thorough discussion of Mr. Person's Mr. Gordon's review concludes with tute a formidable "barrier to entry" to many book. Suffice to say that it is a blockbuster: the thought that: fields of private enterprise, and can actually brUliant, hard-hitting and controversial. Mr. Person is doing nothing more than hamstring anyone who dares attempt to While his thesis is likely to prove discon­ carrying on the work of such venerable eco­ breach the wall. Bewildered by a maze of certing to an extraordinarily wide variety of nomic thinkers as Adam Smith and Frederic federal and state laws, ~nowed under by tons individuals (If the corporation executive 1s Bastiat--both of whom were passionately de­ of official forms, harassed by bureaucrats and livid at being portrayed as a grasping mo­ voted to pure competition as the only way "consumer advocates," the fledgling entre­ nopolist, what of Ralph Nader's reaction to by which free enterprise could be pre­ prePeur is frequently uncertain as to his legal being branded a creature of the 6pecial inter­ served. And, as it is st111 the only way, Mr. position. Yet, more often than not, be lacks ests?) it is so effectively argued as to \\ ar­ Person's book is both an inspiration and a the extra cn.pital either to hire a battery of rant the most careful attention fron'l e-;ery challenge for all those who would seek to corporate lawyers to ::.~.dvi'3e him, or to er.gage serious student of our economic system. reclaim the American Dream. in the costly and dn.wn-out litigation neces­ After all, in spite of his apparent l: eresy, sary to secure his rights. Unable to cope with Mr. Perso:'l is doing nothing mere than car­ I wish to share with my colleagues the the regulatory overk111, he is generally forced rying on the work of such venerable eco­ review by Harold C. Gordon which ap­ to close up shop before he can even begin to nomic thinkers as Adam Smith and Frederic­ peared in the August 1974, issue of the threaten the establishment--thus demon­ Bastiat--both of whom were passionately de­ U.S. Industrial Counc.il's Foundation Re­ strating the essentially counterpr::.ductive voted to pure competition as the only way view, and insert it into the RECORD at nature of both contrcls and consumerism. by which free enterprise could be preseNed. In the case of the !attar, t~ e paradox is And, as it is still the only way, Mr. Parson's this time: particularly striking. Instead of helping the book is both an inspiration and a challenge GUERRILLA CAPITALISM consumer by promoting competition. the un­ for all those who would seek to reclaim the (By Harold C. Gordon) reasonable standards and bureaucratic American Dream. "People of the same trade seldom meet watchdogs demanded by the consumerists together even for merriment and diversion, actually play right into the hands of the but that the conversation ends in a con­ C')rp"Jrate giants by eliminating their com­ spiracy against the public, or in some con­ petitors for them. To take a particularly cele­ FREE CHINA AND DOUBLE TEN trivance to raise prices."-Adam Smith, The brated example, Mr. Pers::n cites the noto­ Wealth of Nations. rious cycla.mate scare of several years back. Is the American Dream dead? Has the day Banned in 1970 as allegedly cancer-producing, HON. EDWARD J. DERWINSKI finally passed when an enterprising indi­ cyclamates were found to be acceptable three vidual could set up his own business and years later. But by then the damage had been OF ILLINOIS achieve a Horatio Alger success? done-a serious competitor to the sugar in­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES dustry had been ruined by irresponsible "Yes" say an increasing number of dis­ Wednesday, October 9, 197 4 illusioned Americans who believe that the consumerist propaganda. Multiply that ex­ corporate behemoth has made the single ample .many times over and it will be easier Mr. DERWINSKI. Mr. Speaker, on Oc­ entrepreneurship obsolete. to underst:md why the head of the U.S. tober 10, 1911, the Manchu monarchy "No!" says attorney Carl Person who be­ Chamber of C:>mmerce is n;:~w warmly recom­ was overthrown after 267 years of des­ lieves that with proper know-how it is still mending Ralph Nader to his colleagues. potic rule over China and a new republic possible to realize the American Dream and To combat these and other inhibitors to has written an important new book to prove competition, Mr. Person offers dozens of was born-the Republic of China. This his point. original and useful suggestions. But the Thursday marks the 63d anniversarv of Accord1:1g to Mr. Person, it is indeed still spearhead of his proposed counterattack is, that auspicious occasion, familiarly possible to "beat the system and get rich." as his title proclaims, a "paralegal strategy known as Double Ten to all Chinese and However, it requires considerably more than for business success." their friends. pluck and luck to do the job. To be success­ PARALEGAL STRATEGY Throughout these many years, one ful. oDe must have both a clear understand­ man, one symbol, has remained, Presi­ ing of how the American system really works A paralegal, as the n~me implies, is to the and mastery of (or at least access to) the legal profession what the paramedic is to the dent Chaing Kai-shek. Since 1927 and legal and technical skills necessary to operate medical profession: a layman trained to assist especially in the last 25 years on the is­ within it. the professional practitioner. And, in actual land of Taiwan, President Chiang has led Mr. Person is uniquely qualified to advise fact, the paralegal can be as useful to the the people of the Republic of China to an on the fine art of business development. A small businessman as the paramedic can be economic prosperity, democratization, prominent Wall Street attorney, the author to the emergency case. and the right to basic freedoms un­ of the bestselling book The Save by Borrow­ As Mr. Person points out, (and this re­ viewer as a law school graduate entirely matched by any other province in ing Technique, and the founder and director China's long history. of the Paralegal Institute, Inc., Mr. Person agrees) much of the work performed by law­ is endowed with a profound insight into the yers can be performed both ethically and The Republic of China is not a perfect inner-workings of this country's corporate competently by a paralegal assistant. For the society. It is still in a state of war with establishment and he is relentless in expos­ small businessman this means that instead Communist China. But nevertheless, ing what he considers to be its shortcomings. of going to a lawyer every time he has a legal there is complete religious, cultural, and problem (which would be ridiculously ex­ economic freedom on Taiwan. There is THE GREAT DECEPTION pensive) or going to law school himself His central thesis is blunt: The American (which would be ridiculously time-consum­ freedom of movement and freedom of Dream today is a fraud. Many giant corpora­ ing) he can hire a paralegal who is able to choice--choice of residence, job, associa­ tions in this country are not interested in a perform a high percentage of the tasks that tion, and friends. true free enterprise system based on vigorous would normally fall to a corporate counsel Elections in the Republic of China are competition; rather, they prefer to main­ (reviewing legislation and regulations, fill­ universal, equal, direct, and cy secret tain their plutocrat shtus by doing every­ ing out tax and other governmental forms, ballot. thing in their power to prevent would-be lteeping corporate minute books, preparing rivals from competing. In this respect Mr. memoranda and doing general legal re­ The 16 million Chinese on Taiwan are Person agrees with the consumerists, the search) at only a fraction of the cost. In a living symbol of what remarkable nee-populists, and the other anti-business short, the par.v legal can provide the small things men, women. and children living elements in our society that there is a seri­ businessman 11 ith the legal know-how nec­ and working in a free society can accom­ ous lack of competition in our economy. He essary to pick his way through the mine field plish. does not agree with them, however, that the of regul!ttions and other anti-competitive de­ I take this occasion to salute the Re­ solution llf"s in increased government regula­ vices which might otherwise destroy him. public of China, to wish long life and tion. On the contrary, he maintains that it To be sure, the paralegal may not plead a good health to President Chiang Kai­ is precisely through regulation (much of case in court. Only a lawyer may do that which was instigated by these very groups) a.nd. as Mr. Person \Varns, the small business­ shek and to express my hope and my that big business has been able to forestal] man may very well have to go to court t:> confidence that the Republic of China potential competitors in the first place. fight for his right to engage in business. and the United States will continue to Undeniably, says Mr. Person, many aspects But even here the parale~George Meany said that the AFL-CIO Bessemer is that he has not allowed "the has more political "clout" than ever in its successful terms as Mayor of Bessemer: times" to pass the city by. history. And this is the result of having MAYOR JESS LANIER A great defeat in his plans for the city "a very, very effective political organiza­ Jess Lanier will voluntarily step down came in 1959, when he attempted through tion . . . we do have a machine . . . that Monday as mayor of Bessemer after having urban renewal to create a shopping center on reaches into the precincts of every industrial served some 18 years in that office-in which the west side of the corner of 9th Ave. (the state in this country." time, in our opinion, he has done more for Superhighway) and 19th St. And when Meany, labor's chief of chiefs, Bessemer than has any other chief executive We believe, had this proposal gone through, says it's a machine, he certainly means it. I of the city. downtown Bessemer would no~r be alive with do believe it never has been matched in po­ For openers, federal indices listed Bessem­ shopping areas all the way from the Super­ litical history. During the next weeks, it will er housing as 67 per cent slums in 1950, and highway, along 19th St., to the 2nd Ave. run the most electronicized election cam­ in 1970 that figure had dropped to an amaz­ area-traditionally the heart of downtown paign any free nation ever has known. ing 19 per cent. This came about by Mr. shopping facilities. According to a confidential packet of docu­ Lanier's reactivating a moribund Housing That didn't happen-and shopping centers ments and t~o huge folding charts prepared Authority soon after he took office and in­ have since sprung up in Midfield and in Bes­ for a special closed conference of COPE's stituting a program of low-income housing semer itself, private capital furnishing the Operating Committee (made available to projects-with, naturally enough, opposition impetus, and since 1959 some of those who me) labor's political-action strategists have all the way from real estate entrepreneurs. vigorously opposed Mr. Lanier's plan for the developed new techniques under a hitherto He was the first mayor in the Southeastern shopping center have told him they were mis­ unraported name and formula known by the states to appoint an all-black advisory board taken in their opposition to that plan. code "CPM." to the city's Housing Authority, a fact which During his administration many new The procedure, using computers all the undoubtedly has contributed to the relative schools have been built, with integration way, is intended to saturate every state in a peace and tranquillity of the operations of going more smoothly than expected; the old short time, reach down to every single union that entity. Postoffice Building obtained for use as a member, get his registration record, match it One of the pledges contained i:-J. Mr. library--one of the finest such facilities for with the party in which he registered, if he Lanier's 1956 "program of progress" w~ the a city of its size in Alabama, incidentally; did; determL"le whether he voted or not, upgrading of streets in the city; this has re­ water fac111ties have been built to allow print out his telephone number and union sulted in about 250 miles of city streets hav­ building of fine residential areas; the hos­ relationship-and electronically give the ing been paved. pital and technical college, plus the placing Committee on Politl.cal Education directors He will leave office with more than $8 mil­ of I-59, have inspired the building of three access to every unionized working-class home lion in the city coffers, although admittedly new motels in the area of those fac1lities, etc. in the land. this sum comes not so much from operating Naturally, Mr. Lanier has taken his lumps, This futuristic politicking is called "the at less than income but more as a result of from citizens and the press, as does anyone AFL-CIO National COPE Critical Path the sale of the Memorial Hospital and income who occupies an elective office for as long as Method political procedures program." from the receipts of the sale and other prop­ he has been mayor, and as many have had to In effect, it couples an electronically com­ erties on tr..e hospital grounds. take in far fewer years. puterized "network" with handcard selection, The one campaign promise he made in 1956 But when the final count is in he has done merging of political units, special budget­ that is as yet unfulfilled is sewers serving what the citizens of Bessemer elected him to ing of money and manpower in state after every home in the city. do, back there in 1956: improve the city. state. At least 13 states already are geared The money left in the treasury has been He took a city rapidly deteriorating into a for action. They have deadlines for getting pledged to this project by the mayor's suc­ 100 per cent slum ghost town and brought it their members registered. They have alerts cessor, Safety Commissioner Ed Porter, but to a. viable, vibrating city that has eliminated for unions and political action committees installing sewers in a city situated as Besse­ more than 5,000 understandard "homes" and to tell them they are behind in view of pri­ mer is-mostly over solid rock-is expensive built about 1,400 units of low-rent housing maries or the actual November balloting. busines3 and this project may be years in which has meant a great difference in the To describe the CPM's intricacies, the fruition, even with federal help on the hori­ lives of many of the city's under-privileged chart, the arrows and interlocking boxes'' and zon. citizens. list each state would take several columns. Naturally enough, Mayor Lanier did not And made it an attractive place for many Today this "Critical Path Method" (CPM) achieve all these-and many more projects :t!iie homes that would sit comfortably with is aimed at the November elections. It has not mentioned-by himself; he has had the those in the richest suburbs of Birmingham. devised its own enemies list in marginal help of his fellow commissioners and, to a. We hope the good he has done lives long states and regions. It appears to be able to large degree, state administrations in Mont­ after his presence in city hall, and is not forecast victories and defeats. For example, gomery. interred with his bones in his grave. Meany said that noontime in his office that 34836 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 9, 1974 he would not (repeat not) be "greatly sur­ is William Barber. The dozen boys on JOSEPH D. SMITH, INNER-CITY prised" to lose to the Republicans the old the championship team were coached by PRINCIPAL RETIRES Jerry Ford Graud Rapids, Mich., 5th and Mrs. Kay Partridge of Clinton, Md. The the Ohio 1st Congressional Districts in the team is affiliated with the Boys Club of Citlcirmati area this November. HON. LOUIS STOKES Though the Path operation no longer calls Clinton. for a "veto-proof Congress," it hasn't changed Nothing in our country is more im­ OF OHIO its objectives. Now it is driving for a "Peo­ pressive than the great athletic programs IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATI VES ple's COngress" or "a Pro-People Congress." for youth which have been developed by Wednesday, October 9, 1974 There is no difference. concerned adults, who have devoted so Point is to be able to oYerride President much of their time and energy to these Mr. STOKES. Mr. Speaker, on July 1, Ford on labor's bills or those it supports. As programs. 1974 the Cleveland Public School System a wise political scientist, Meany isn't tack­ lost one of its finest administrators. After ling the President head-on in this campaign. These people deserve our recognition and our encouragement, and we should 11 highly productive years Joseph D. For the labor chief it would be senseless. Smith retired as principal of East Tech­ Event ually he may need the President politi­ be particularly impressed with the hard cally. Meany and most of labor may find work that produces a championship nical High School. Since Mr. Smith took themselves unable to take the Democratic team. that man-sized job in September of 1963, preside.lt ial nominee in 1976. And Meany The boys on this Clinton team have East Tech has progressed into a modern already has indicated he believes that Sen. learned the value of diligent work toward b<1s tion of learning in the heart of an Ted Kennedy, were he nominated. would be the goal of excellence, and we should urban ghetto. This remark9.ble accom­ defeated because of Chappaquiddick. plishment did not go unnoticed. Joseph As for Sen. Scoop Jackson, those around name them here in recognition of their Smith's exceptional abilities as an edu­ Meany believe the Washingtonian has sacri­ splendid achievement. CP.tor and his special talent as an ad­ ficed much of the AFL-cio support with his They are: Mike Keyes of Oxon Hill, ministrator h ave long been recognized championing of Peking over Taiwan. And, John Hammerer of Oxon Hill, Mark and prized by those concerned about pro­ says one close friend of Meany's, "Jackson is Mihlbauer of Clinton, Tom D. Towle of dead politically anyway. I believe George be­ Clinton, Tony Young of Clinton, Ron viding equal educational opportunities in lieves Jackson can't get off the ground, so Hoffman of Clinton, Ray Towle of Clin­ our predominantly black inner-city . why stay with a loser?" ton, Rick Moreland of Clinton, Ken Tay­ schools. But now, as another school year So the COPE line now, ac<:ording to the ·begins, Mrs. Smith's presence is sorely documents before me, is to say we'll support lor of Oxon Hill, Ron Cook of Clinton, missed, and I think it is well to look the new President and fi ght him only when Chuck Miller of Clinton, and Jimmy back on his achievements and appreciate we have to, but his conservative record dis­ Avery of Clinton. all that he gave us. closes he'll not back our bills, so we· need a People's Congress to override him when Mr. Smith was himself a graduate of necessary. LAW REVISION COUNSEL East Tech. He then attended Wilberforce But no disrespect is shown for the Presi­ University and graduated in 1937. He dent. Part of the strategy is to campaign in began his teaching career at Central each district where possible by saying such­ HON. WILLIAM A. STEIGER Junior High in 1938. Until taking his first and-such a Republican candidate is "Nixon's OF WISCONSIN administrative post in 1954 as assistant man." IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES principal of Patrick Henry Junior High, And Path certainly can get into each dis­ Mr. Smith taught mathematics and dis­ trict. As Meany said: Wednesday, October 9, 1974 "We've a computerized voting registration tributive education at his alma mater. list that reaches right down to the grass roots Mr. STEIGER of Wisconsin. Mr. He also coached football and basketball of our own membership." Speaker, the responsi.bility for law re­ for many years with great success. Mr. As for financing, Meany, when asked about vision for the District of Columbia gov­ Smith's teams won five east Senate contributions to COPE, replied the money is ernment shifts to the D.C. government championships, two city championships "bigger than ever .... Our voluntary contri­ for all titles of its code effective on Janu­ and appeared in three regional finals. butions are up. I don't have the figures, but ary 2 of 1975, under the act passed by Mr. Smith went on from Patrick we did have a report the other day. We had Congress commonly re.ferred to as the Henry Junior High to John Hay where a meeting of the Operating Committee of COPE (August 26-28, as first revealed here­ home rule bill. he also served as assistant principal. He VR) and we went down the line, as it was a The provisions of section 204 of was the principal of Kennard Junior plus all the way." amended House Resolution 988 were High for 5% years before coming to East It was at this Operating Committee confer­ cognizant of this transfer and provide Tech in 1963. ence, attended by Meany personally, that the only that the new editions of the District At East Tech Joseph Smith worked intricate Path packet was unveiled. Little of Columbia code and annual cumulative passionately and with the deepest sense was overlooked at the sessions. Representa­ supplements are to be prepared until of commitment to improve the academic tives of organizations of youth, retirees, blacks, and those of Latin-American descent, "such time as the District of Columbia atmosphere at the school and make it and women, as well as of labor, reported Self-Government and Governmental Re­ really work for the young people under and participated actively. But the Critical organization Act become effective." his charge. His educational philosophy Path Method electronic network chart was There seems to be some concern about always reflected his personal vigor. Mr. the most fascinating innovation created for the orderly transfer of functions for Smith would tell llis teachers that it the 1974 elections. Especially in the marginal D.C. law revision which has arisen in the was their responsibility to motivate their district program sectron. last few days. In any transition there students to the joys of learning. He The Path electronically lights up the way are, of course, problems that will have would urge them to get to know their to a People's Congress. to be worked out. I am sure the staff students and to try to incorporate their of the Judiciary Committee which works personal interests into the educational on law revision could, under our proposal, subject matter. He would in turn urge A CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM complete work on supplement II which is the students to get involved, to partici­ being prepared at the present time or, pate in school activities and to be good if D.C. revision staff was prepared to citizens. Mr. Smith took the initiative to HON. MARJORIE S. HOLT assume the burden, turn over the work organize groups that continue working OF MARYLAND to them, and explain it so that it could today toward on going academic prog­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES be published by the new D.C. office. ress at the school. He personally began Wednesday, October 9, 1974 The suggestion made by the D.C. bar the Student-Faculty Council, the Curric­ t>ffices to deny transfer until 1978 of this ulum Committee, and the East Tech Mrs. HOLT. Mr. Speaker, I am very function clearly goes against the new Area Schools Committee. proud to announce that a team from statute for home rule and delays the Although the results of his genius and Prince Georges County, Md., won the transition unduly as well. I am confident leadership will endure at East Tech, Mr. intermediate championship of the Na­ that since the language in House Reso­ Smith is no longer at the helm. For­ tional Junior Tennis League in the finals lution 988 clearly vests the responsibil­ tunately for Cleveland, he is still vi­ held recently in Princeton, N.J. ity-there are no lapses there-that the tally active in civic affairs. He continues This achievement was attained by the matter can be successfully worked out to contribute as a member of the Man­ Prince Georges County National Junior without the need for delaying the transi­ power Planning and Developing Com­ Tennis League, of which the president tion for 3 more years. mission of the Welfare Federation, a October 9, 1974 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 34837 trustee of the Greater Cleveland YMCA, and Postal Service, which held hearings rights for all Soviet citizens, their lives a member of the Central Area Commu­ on this appropriation for 1 day, Septem­ have been a continued tragedy since nity Council, a trustee of St. Luke's Hos­ ber 12, with myself as the only congres­ then. Mr. Moroz is now n~ar death as a pital, a member of the Lee-Harvard sional witness, to oppose the allowance result of a 2-month hunger strike under­ Community Council, and other organi­ of any funding for the former President taken in response to the extreme harsh­ zations too numerous to mention. One of until such time as we had a greater ap­ ness of prison life which has left him cut his lifelong interests has been scout­ preciation for his role in the Watergate off from family and friends and denied ing, and he plans now to devote more affair and his actions as President which him the attention of a physician to treat time to the Council Wide Protestant led to the initiation of article II of the his illness. Committee of Scouting and the Center­ articles of impeachment--the so-called These two brave Ukrainian men are City District Committee of the Boy "abuse of power" area-which was sub­ among the courageous dissidents in the Scouts of America. stantially supported by the Judiciary U.S.S.R. who only wish to be assured of Mr. Smith also intends to write a book Committee, I made my feelings and my their national identity, their national based on his experience as an inner-city intent clear on that occasion-that no language, and the freedom of cultural ex­ administrator. We, in Cleveland, know money, given the public dismay, outrage, pression-the very rights we in America full well that Joseph Smith is an expert and cynicism which resulted from the take for granted. in that sphere and we are glad that he handling of the Nixon pardon, should If we are committed to insuring these will make his valuable insights available be given until many of the questions basic human rights for all citizens and to others. I know my colleagues will join which remained unanswered, particu­ ending the plight of Valentyn Moroz and me and the people of Cleveland in wish­ larly those affecting the President's role Leonid Plyushch, then it is up to all of ing Joseph Smith every happiness in his in the Watergate affair, were better us to keep our voices raised in protest retirement, and in expressing our grati­ understood. against their imprisonment and not to tude for his enormous contribution to Last Wednesday, the House had a cease in our efforts on their behalf until our children's futures. chance to reject the appropriation of they are freed from prison and permitted $398,000 for former President Nixon to emigrate with their families to a coun­ which had been approved by the Appro­ try of their choice. priations Committee. On that occasion EXPLANATION OF HARRINGTON I voted for the amendment offered by VOTES ON PRESIDENTIAL TRAN­ Congressman STOKES, of Ohio, to strike THE 63D ANNIVERSARY OF THE SITION FUNDS all of the requested funding from the Supplemental Appropriations Act of REPUBLIC OF CHINA 1974; the amendment to cut the transi­ HON. MICHAEL HARRINGTON tion budget failed by 169 to 228 and the HON. CARDISS COLLINS OF MASSACHUSETTS amendment to strike funds for pension OF ILLINOIS and staff failed by 107 to 277. Since the IN THE.HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES other amendments all concerned them­ Wednesday, October 9, 1974 selves to varying degrees with only por­ Wednesday, October 9, 1974 Mr. HARRINGTON. Mr. Speaker, in tions of the money being removed and Mrs. COLLINS of Illinois. Mr. Speak­ an effort to explain the votes I cast last since it was obvious that the votes on er, tomorrow the 15.7 million free people week on the question of funding for them, in general, were never close enough living in Taiwan will celebrate the 63d former Presidents and their transition to be in question, I voted "present" in an anniversary of the founding of the Re­ which were included in the supplemental effort to reaffirm my unwillingness to public of China. Just as we proudly pro­ appropriations bill, I think it might be associate myself with a process that claim the 4th of July as the day of our useful, by way of background, to recon­ would result in a senseless compromise Independence, free Chinese honor Oc­ struct the events as they occurred with on funding. Though the amendments I tober 10 as the National Day of theRe­ respect to President Nixon's departure. had originally supported failed, I felt it public of China. Just as we recognize On August 8, the President in a na­ was important to make clear my con­ George Washington as the Father of Our tionwide message which ran some 16 tempt for the appropriation of funds to Country, they look to Dr. Sun Yat-Sen as minutes, alluded once and very brie:fiy to a former President who as a result of his the Founder of their Republic. the erosion of political support within resigning would further enrich himself All of us, who recently visited the tiny the Congress on the question of his role while making no effort to reveal the island of Taiwan, were impressed with in Watergate and related matters as be­ crimes that had taken place during this the tremendous progress being made in ing one of the reasons for his decision to administration. this country with few natural resources resign. He made no other statement on Thus, the votes "present," indicating except a literate and industrious people the morning of August 9 as he left Wash­ that I was there and had participated, as determined to live and prosper in free­ ington to retire in the seclusion of San the RECORD shows, in the debate, made dom. In spite of the numerous diplomatic Clemente. known my intention that I did not asso­ reversals in recent years, the Republic of The next statement Mr. Nixon made ciate myself in any way with anything China is engaged in an unprecedented came immediately after the announce­ that would appear to be funding even a program of social, industrial, and eco­ ment by President Ford on Sunday morn­ portion of the pending Nixon transition nomic expansion. ing, September 8, that he had pardoned or pension. Mr. Speaker, one of the reasons for former President Nixon for all crimes this fantastic success story is that the which may have been committed by him THE PLIGHT OF TWO UKRAINIAN free Chinese have turned to foreign trade while President. In that statement the DISSIDENTS rather than foreign aid. In 1973 they hit former President indicated his apprecia­ $8.4 billion in foreign trade volume and tion for the pardon and expressed the all indications are that they will reach belief that his perspective on the events HON. HUGH L. CAREY $12 billion this year. which led to his resignation had certainly As just a small note of encouragement OF NEW YORK to these dedicated people, I would like to been altered during the month in Cali­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES fornia. This, he said, had given him a dif­ include in the RECORD the text of a tele­ ferent appreciation for his own handling Wednesday, October 9, 1974 gram I, along with my colleagues, Mrs. of the Watergate affair; Mr. Nixon never Mr. CAREY of New York. Mr. Speaker, BURKE, Mr. CLAY, and Mr. STOKES, sent once alluded to his own involvement in two men are slowly being destroyed in to Prime Minister Chiang Ching-Kuo the crimes that had taken place during Soviet prison, because they believe in the this morning: this term of office. That event ended any right of individuals to live in dignity and (Telegram] expectation, in my opinion, that Presi­ Hon. CHIANG CmNo-Kuo, to maintain their own heritage. The two Prime Minister, Republic of China, Executive dent Ford might be able to nurture back men faced with extreme cruelty are Val­ Yuan, Taipai, Taiwan ROO: the then almost totally missing confi­ entyn Moroz, a Ukrainian historian, and We wish to extend to you and the 15.7 dence in the Govemment process. Leonid I. Plyushch, a mathematician. million people living in freedom on the When I appeared before the House Ap­ Incarcerated in 1970 after a closed trial island of Taiwan our sincere congratulations propriations Subcommittee on Treasury prompted by their efforts to achieve civil on the 63rd Anniversary of the National Day 34838 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 9, 1974 of the Republic of China. The positive lead­ sonr.J Information in hundreds of Federal cerned or the U.S. They called for their dis­ ership of your government, the farsighted data banks. continuance. They further strongly disassoci­ programs of your business and industrial H.R. 16373, the Privacy Act of 1974, has ated the churches and missionary groups leaders, and the dedication and industry of my enthusiastic support, except for the from any such covert activities. your people were a source of inspiration to provisions which allow ur~ limited individ­ The letter grew out of a consensus which all of us on our recent trip to your country. ual access to records vital to determining quickly developed at the meeting. Those Your industrial, social and economic accom­ eligibility and promotion in the Federal present were all mission superiors or mission plishments under very difficult circumstances service and access to classified information. coordinators or officials within their groups, in recent years should demonstrate to the I strongly urge floor amendments permitting but they were signing as individuals, not as world what free people can do when they workable exemptions to accommodate these official representatives of their organizations. want to put forth the effort. We appreciate situations. the friendship of the people of Taiwan, ad­ The Senate, also, has made substantial AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT GERALD R. mire the spirit in your nation and hope and progress in writing privacy legislation. S. FORD-OCTOBER 7, 1974 pray that you Will enjoy many more celebra­ 3418 parallels the House bill in many re­ Mr. PRESIDENT: While grateful to you for tions of the birth of your Republic in the spects, but I believe major technical and publicly admitting the role the CIA played years to come. substantive amendments are needed to per­ in "destabilizing" the Allende government in Hon. CARDISS COLLINS. fect the bill. I do not favor establishing a Chile, we are dismayed at your attempted Hon. WILLIAM CLAY. separate Commission or Board bureaucracy defense of such interventions. Seldom have Hon. LOUIS STOKES. empowered to define privacy in its own terms there been events so blatantly inc::>mpati­ Hon. YVONNE BURKE. and to second guess citizens and age :1cies. ble with the ideals we hold as Americans and I vastly prefer an approach which makes as Christians. Federal agencies fully and publicly account­ As members of fifteen distinct Protestant able for legally ma::J.dated privacy protec­ and Roman Catholic missionary groups tions and which gives tr..e indiVidual ade­ who work in Third World countries, we see THE PRIVACY ACT OF 1974 quate legal remedies to enforce what he such interventions as immoral and inde­ deems to be his own best privacy interests. fensible. The adequate protection of personal pri­ You tried to justify the U.S. intervention vacy requires legislative and executive ini­ in Chile by saying that communist natlions HON. WILLIAM S. MOORHEAD tiatives in areas not addressed by H.R. do the same. We flatly reject using the im­ OF PENNSYLVANIA 16373 and S. 3418. I have a,':lked Executive morality of others as justification of our own IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES branch officials to continue to work with actions. Are we to tmitate the very evi1 the Congress to assure swift action on which we claim to be opposing? Wednesday, October 9, 1974 measures to strengthe::J. prlvacy and con­ You also implied that the CIA was merely fidentiality in income tax records, criminal defending democracy in Chile by supporting Mr. MOORHEAD of Pennsylvania. Mr. justice records and other areas identified as Speaker, I would like to call attention to opposition press and political parties, and needed privacy initiatives by the Domestic this was "in the best interests of the people a statement issued this morning by Presi­ Council Committee on the Right of Pri­ of Chile." Aside from the arrogance of such dent Ford on privacy legislation we are vacy. a claim, we find your statements far short now considering in which he expresses of the truth. CIA funds were allocated to his "enthusiastic support" for H.R. 16373, bribe the Chilean Congress, to support na­ the Privacy Act of 1974. In the develop­ CHURCH REPRESENTATIVES AT­ tional strikes, and to foment civil disorders ment of this legislation, our Government TACK PRESIDENT FORD FOR HIS which precipitated the coup. Furthermore, Operations Committee has received ex­ DEFENSE OF CIA INTERVENTION where is the CIA support for freedom of the cellent cooperation and technical assist­ IN CHILE press and democratic parties in Chile now that they have indeed been suppressed? ance from the staff of the Vice President's Contrary to what you would have us be­ Domestic Council Committee on the right HON. ROBERT F. DRINAN lieve, CIA covert actions in the Third World of privacy-long before Mr. Ford became frequently support undemocratic govern­ President-and also from the Office of OF MASSACHUSETTS ments which trample on the rights of their Management and Budget. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES own people. We missionaries have felt first­ The statement follows: Wednesday, October 9, 1974 hand the effects of such interventions, which are certainly not in "the best interest" of STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT Mr. DRINAN. Mr. Speaker, I know the majority of the citizens of those coun­ Legislation to protect personal privacy is that my- colleagues will be interested in tries. U.S. interventions serve the interests making significant progress in the Congress. the attach<:d material sent to President of their wealthy minorities and are-as our I am delighted about the prospect of House Ford concerning his recent defense of critics often say-instruments of American and Senate action at this session. CIA intervention in Chile. economic domination. Renewed national efforts to strengthen Nor do such actions, which are prohibited protections for personal privacy should be­ This material has been sent to the by international law and by Article 6 of our gin in Washington. We should start by en­ President by 15 Christian missionary own Constitution, serve "our best interests" a c ti ~g uniform fair information practices sending groups. as you stated. Gangster methods undermine for the agencies of the Federal government. I attach below a press release concern­ world order and promote widespread hatred This will give us invaluable operating ex­ ing this material, and the full letter to of the United States. Watergate has shown perience as we continue to examine 13-nd rec­ President Ford along with the names and that such methods, once accepted, wilL even­ ommend needed actions at the State and identification of the 15 individuals who tually be· turned against our own citizens. local level and in the private sector. In view of these facts, we hereby dissociate The immediate objective should be to give coauthored this letter: ourselves from our government's use of the every cl tizen the right to inspect, challenge CHURCH REPRESENTATIVES ATTACK FORD AND CIA to intervene in the internal affairs of a 1.d correct, if necessary, information about CIA INTERVENTIONS other countries. We further demand: a dis­ him contained in Federal agency records Members of 15 protestant and Roman closure of the CIA's past and present covert and to assure him a remedy for illegal in­ Catholic missionary sending groups, at a actions, the termination of all future CIA vasions of privacy by Federal agencie3 ac­ meeting at the Inter-Church Center i:n New covert actions; and the prosecution of any countable for safeguarding his records. In York City on Oct. 3, attacked as "immoral who may have perjured themselves regard­ legislating, the right of privacy, of course, and naive" President Ford's recent defense of ing CIA activities. must be balanced against equally valid pub­ CIA intervention in Chile and other foreign We will support congre!Osional and other lic interests in freedom of information, na­ countries. responsible efforts to achieve these goals. tional defense, foreign policy, law enforce­ President Ford, when questioned at a re­ Sincerely, ment, and in a high quality and trust­ cent press conference about the U.S. Gov­ SIGNATURES worthy Federal work force. ernment's right to destabilize the Constitu­ Sr. Teresita Austin, SC, Mission Coordina­ Immediately after I assumed the chair­ tionally elected government of another tor, Sisters of Charity, Mt. St. Vincent. manship, as Vice President, of the Cabinet­ country, replies: "It is a recognized fact that Mr. John Buteyn, Secretary for World Min­ level Domestic Council Committee on the historically, as well as presently, such actions istries, The Reformed Church in America. Right of Privacy, I asked the Office of Man­ are taken in the best interests of the coun­ Sr. Madeline Conway, SND, Mission Coordi­ agement and Budget to work jointly with tries involved." nator, School Sisters of Notre Dame, Wilton the Committee staff, the Executive agen­ Members of several protestant denomina­ Province. cies and the Congress to work out realistic tions met with members of ten Roman Cath­ Rev. William J. Davis, S.J., National Direc­ and effective legislation at the earliest pos­ olic orders of men and women. They termed tor, Jesuit Social Ministries. sible time. Substantial progress has been the Ford view "outrageous and indefensible." Sr. Betty Ann Maheu, MM, Member of Cen­ made by both the Senate and the ,House on In an open letter to the President, the group tral Governing Board, Maryknoll Sisters. bills extending personal privacy protections stated that CIA covert activities are not iii Rev. William Mcintire, MM, Secretary Gen­ to tens of millions of records containing per- the best interests of either the people con- eral, Maryknoll Fathers. October 9, 1974 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 34839 Dr. Lois Miller, Associate General Secretary, during his military induction physical progmm which is aimed at eliminating sub­ World Division of the Board of Global Minis­ that he had been stricken with glaucoma standard housing, replacing it with livable tries, The United Methodist Church. quarters. Rev. Milton J. Olson, Secretary for Latin and was fated to become totally blind. It Model Cities, according to the Congress­ America, Division for World Mission and Ecu­ is characteristic of Jim as a feisty man, has brought in $9,479,000 during its menism, The Lutheran Church in America. and courageous Irishman that he did not short life span which concludes within the Rev. Hugh O'Rourke, SSC, Director, Colum­ give up in the face of this misfortune. In­ next year. He explained that Athens was one ban Fathers USA. stead of accepting increasing blindness of only four cities in Georgia which received Sr. Mary Reynold, OP, Secretary General, as a limitation, Jim moved out to Cali­ Model City status, and he noted that his Dominican Sisters, Sparkill. fornia and contributed to the war effort insistence played a role in the selection of Rev. George Telford, Corporate Witness Athens for the funding. and Public Affairs, General Executive Board, by working in the shipyards. Even when he became totally blind in August 1955, Under the 1974 Housing Act, Stephens The Presbyterian Church U.S. noted that during the next five years, Athens Dr. William Nottingham, Executive Secre­ it did not prevent his starting a new busi­ will receive close to $12 million through the tary of the Department of Latin America and ness-the Mission Palm Restaurant­ Community Development Block Grant .. Dur­ the Caribbean, The Christian Church (Dis­ which he personally ran until he retired ing this fiscal year alone, $3,446,000 will be ciples of Christ) . in 1960. With the strength of character available to Athens for improvements. Sr. Janet Wahl, RSM, Mission Coordinator, and wry Irish humor so typical of Jim, The congressman noted that many of the Sisters of Mercy, Rochester. he says that he never regretted this larger dormitories at the University of Rev. William L. Wipfier, Latin American Georgia have been constructed through low Working Group, National Council of blindness, but . admits that it is "a bit hard on the shins." interest loans made possible through Con­ Churches. gressional action. Rev. James Zelinski, OFM Cap, Provincial For Jim retirement has brought what At the Athens Airport, federal funding Councilor, St. Joseph Province of Capuchin I think retirement should bring for made possible a half-million dollar Air Traf­ Fathers. everyone-the time and the energy to fic Control Tower, Stephens said, thus en­ Rev. Benjamin Gutierrez, Liaison with actively pursue community interests. For hancing the safety factors of the air field. Latin America and the Caribbean of the Jim this has meant actively participating The congressman noted the wide-ranging Program Agency, United Presbyterian agricultural rese·arch facilities in the Athens Church in the USA. in every Democratic campaign and work­ ing for every education bond issue that area. Among them are the Southeast Water has come up before Fremont's electorate. Pollution Laboratory, the Russell Agricul­ tural Research Center and the Southeast Although according to Jim, "organized Poultry Research Laboratory, together rep­ TRffiUTE TO JIM BRAY labor is first in my life, the Democratic resenting an investment of many millions of Party second," since 1960 he has worked dollars and representing the employment of diligently and without asking any com­ hundreds and hundreds of persons adding to HON. DON EDWARDS pensation in every Democratic campaign the area's economy. OF CALIFORNIA in southern Alameda County. I am proud Over $5 million in construction projects IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to say that Jim Bray has supported me have been tackled at the U. S. Navy Supply since I first came to the House of Repre­ Corps School in Athens during recent years, Wednesday, October 9, 1974 and the facility continues to have a signifi­ sentatives in 1963, and his loyalty and cant impact on the local scene. Mr. EDWARDS of California. Mr. dedication to the goals of the Democratic Speaker, on Sunday, October 13, hun­ Congressman Stephens noted that during Party mean a great deal to me. The en­ the last three years, over $35 m1llion in fed­ dreds of people in Alameda County will thusiastic and energetic support he has eral research grants have been awarded to gather to pay tribute to Jim Bray, one of given to me and to so many other Demo­ the University of Georgia. During fiscal year the Bay Area's most distinguished citi­ cratic candidates in southern Alameda 1971, there was $11 million; fiscal year 1972, zens, a political leader of skill and County has helped us all be better rep­ $12 m1llion; and in the fiscal year ending integrity, a veteran trade union member, resentatives for the Bay Area. June 30, 1974, $12 million. and, I am proud to state, a close personal The congressman also spoke proudly of the friend of mine. recently completed federal building facing Hancock Avenue. This particular project had Mr. Speaker, my personal view of Jim FEDERAL IMPACT IN ATHENS, GA. its origin over a decade ago and was to in­ Bray is as one who epitomizes what the clude a new main post office as well as: offices Democratic Party is all about, as the HON. ROBERT G. srEPHENS, JR. for federal agencies. When President Johnson party dedicated to hard work, fair play, impounded funds to loosen money for fight­ and equality of opportunity for all OF GEORGIA ing the Vietnam war, the fac111ty fell by the through education and other humani­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES wayside. The General Services Administra­ tion had the building constructed by a pri­ tarian concerns. Wednesday, October 9, 1974 Jim's commitment to the union move­ vate contractor and has leased it from the ment and to the Democratic party both Mr. STEPHENS. Mr. Speaker, I re­ firm for use by a myriad of federal agencies. cently spoke in Athens, Ga., on the im­ The federal building represents an invest­ came at an early age. Life was hard for ment of some $4 m1llion. Jim's Irish parents, Edward and Grace, portance of Federal funds in enabling Congressman Stephens was correct when who lived in the Yorkville area of New Athens to establish an outstanding he asserted that Athens certainly has gotten York when Jim was born on January 8, record of progress over the past decade. its fair share of federal spending-and per­ 1911. Jim was obliged to cut his educa­ Mr. Robert Chambers, publisher of the haps and probably it's correct to say that it tion short after the eighth grade to help Athens Banner-Herald and the Daily has received more than its share. support his widowed mother. It was at News, reviewed my talk in a recent issue When you take all the federal spending this time that he formed his first of of the paper, and I would like to insert into consideration with the spending of state his article in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. and local governments and private enterprise many labor union affiliations, working for during the last decade, Athens shows a re­ a time as a tilesetter and later with the The article follows: markable record of progress-aU aimed a.1 building trades. Although prohibition THE FEDERAL IMPACT IN ATHENS making this community a better place in may have interrupted Jim's career as a Congressman Robert G. Stephens, making which to reside. bartender, he later became a lifelong the featured talk at the opening of Athens member of the Culinary Workers and History Village last week, took the oppor­ Bartenders Union and still pays his union tunity to address himself to the impact of EMPLOYEE THEFT AND RISING federal spending in Athens during the last HOSPITAL COSTS dues today. decade or so. By the age of 17, Jim Bray was also And, it could not have occurred at a more actively organizing for the Democratic appropriate place since the new motel com­ HON. NORMAN F. LENT Party. At 21 he became a precinct captain plex is situated on what was Urban Renewal OF NEW YORK and he attended both the 1932 and the land, property that had little V'alue for the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1936 Democratic National Conventions. city and county tax digests. Now a $3 million In 1941 two very significant changes project occupies the site. Wednesday, October 9, 1974 occurred in Jim's life. First was his mar­ Congressman Stephens noted that during the last four fiscal years, Urban Renewal and Mr. LENT. Mr. Speaker, some interest­ riage to his lovely wife Maybelle, a mar­ Neighborhood Development projects in the ing remarks regarding employee dis­ riage that has seen the birth of two chil­ City of Athens have brought in $1,823,000, honesty and its effect on rising hospital dren, Kathleen and Jim, Jr., and five including $311,000 just announced for con­ costs have been recently brought to my grandchildren. Second was the discovery tinuation of the Neighborhood Development attention. The remarks were made by C.XX--21196----Part 26 34840 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 9, 1974 an expert consultant and well-known hibitive that the health care industry, as the textbook controversy in West Virginia we know it today, can no longer exist. has "nothing to do with censorship or book­ author, Norman Jaspan, whose books in­ Furthermore, in the area of kickbacks, burning" but rather raises squarely the ques­ clude "The Conspiracy Against Profits," there is virtually no legislation and, in the tion of "to what extent do the people in a "The Thief in the White Collar," and handful of states that do have applicable democratic society have a voice in deter­ his latest publication "Mind Your Own commercial bribery laws, kickbacks are clas­ mining how their schools are run?" Business." I submit these remarks for sified only as an offense, or misdemeanor, Up until recently the delicate relationship the attention of my colleagues: where the penalty would be no more than between academic freedom and the primary for spitting on the floor. "The need for uni­ rights of parents to impart their values to EMPLOYEE THEFT AND RISING HOSPITAL COSTS form federal and state laws to protect the their own children was kept in balance by CoLUMBUS, OHIO, October 3.-"Employee public has never been more urgent," Jaspan local community consensus on widely shared dishonesty has a greater impact on runaway insisted. values. Since the passage of the Elementary hospital costs than inflation, even though Some directors unduly rely on statistics, and Secondary Education Act of 1965, how­ health care constitutes the fastest rising charts, and data that are either internally ever, the educationist complex (headed by component in the Cost of Living Index," Nor­ generated or supplied by other institutions. the NEA and a coterie of bureaucrats and man Jaspan, president of the international But it is too easy to manipulate usage reports social planners) has arrogated to itself the management engineering firm bearing his and historical costs to conceal dishonesty power to determine the purpose and content name, told administrators and financial ex­ which then becomes built into the budget. of public education. Many educationists in­ ecutives of the Hospital Financial Manage­ Right now, declared the consultant, there sist that the schools be centers of social ment Foundation at the Fawcett Center at is better than a 70 percent chance of sizable and attitudinal change at the expense of aca­ The Ohio State University today. fraud or theft in any health care facility­ demic learning. "Despite the ever rising costs of hospital if dishonesty is not being uncovered, the The continued decline in nationwide test service, patients have the finest technical chances are that management is not looking scores is a frightening indication of how well skills and facilities at their disposal. But in the right places. they are succeeding. It may well be that this excellence in service is straining the The problem can best be dealt with by the only way to restore true academic free­ hospital budget-and this strain can be businesslike procedures and policies that are dom and parental rights is some form of uni­ eased by engineered control of dishonest fair, just, and easily enforceable. "Excellence versal voucher system in which all parents, practices," said the consultant. in control and performance in an area can regardless of income, would be able to choose The opportunities for professional and be nullified by let-down in another," warned the type of schools they want for their chil­ supervisory employees, as well as rank and Jaspan. "That is why administrators must dren. No tax-supported educationist has the file, to engage in theft, fraud, conflicts of develop a total approach which we call 'In­ right to impose his values on a captive audi­ interest, collusion, kickbacks, and exorbitant ventory of Exposure.' It is the initiation of ence in the classroom. That is not academic waste in this industry with assets of nearly a comprehensive security program designed freedom but tyranny. $50 billion stagger the imagination: to protect assets, both tangible and intangi­ 0NALEE MCGRAW, Ph. D., Pharmacy .-Pharmacists run their own ble, by establishing practical controls and Coordinator Coalition for Children. private businesses, with the hospital serving by conducting educational programs which as their warehouse, in collusion with detail revitalize and motivate employees." men, and local drug stores. Furthermore, FALLS CHURCH, VA., manipulation of consumption reports often September 27, 1974. masks their dishonesty. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, Maintenance.-Collusion with vendors and THE CHARLESTON TEXTBOOK The Washington Post. contractors is rampant-padded charges, DISPUTE DEAR SIR: Elementary and secondary edu­ non-deliveries, excessive overtime, falsifica­ cation has beeu very much in the news late­ tion of labor vouchers, use of hospital labor ly. The press has paid more attention to the and materials on private jobs for both em­ disruptions attendant upon busing in South ployees and outsiders. HON. EARL F. LANDGREBE Boston, but the continuing demonstrations Purchasing.-Kickbacks in countless forms OF INDIANA over school textbooks in and around are prevalent--from cash to extravagant gifts IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Charleston, West Virginia, are very likely to and entertainment. be far more important in the long run. In The purchasing staff frequently becomes Wednesday, October 9, 1974 Charleston the parents who should exercise a "personal shopping service" for all levels of Mr. LANDGREBE. Mr. Speaker, par­ ultimate control over the local school sys­ hospital employees-including relatives and ent and minor protesters in West Vir­ tems have finally begun to look closely at friends. In many cases the staff merely rubber ginia have finally called national atten­ what the schools are actually doing-and stamps transactions initiated by other de­ did not like what they saw. They discovered partments, enabling fraudulent purchase tion to the question of what sort of that {in many cases through the instrumen­ orders to filter through. materials children in the public schools tality of Federal funding) programs have Laboratory.-Technicians use expensive are being required to read. The prob­ been introduced into their public schools hospital facilities, equipment, chemicals, and lem is not merely a local one, and the designed to separate children from their personnel-often on overtime-for their out­ reaction to it localized. That this is true parents, from the society in which they live, side sidelines which include work for labs, is shown by two letters recently sent to and indeed from the whole western tradition doctors, and nursing homes. They become Washington papers by individuals who of which they should form a part. They dis­ "silent partners" in the blood bank, X-ray, have been active at the national level in covered that, instead of imparting intellec­ and other diagnostic labs in the hospital. calling attention to very much the same tual sk111s, the schools are functioning as Billing and Collection.-Substantial in­ agents of social change in certain definite come is lost because hospitals often get materials to which the West Virginia directions. As Mr. Sidney Marland, Jr., once little or none of the money they earn for parents object. Commissioner of Education for HEW under services rendered-it is frequently diverted The first letter was published in the the Nixon administration, wrote in a report to individuals on the medical staff. Washington Star-News for October 2, for 1971, "the schools in a sense are being Construction Contracts.-These afford the 1974, and was written by Dr. Onalee Mc­ asked to remake our society. as distinct from greatest opportunities for kickbacks, shake­ Graw, national coordinator for the Coali­ nurturing it.'' Mr. Marland's words are in­ downs, and rigged bids. The building trade tion for Children, an organization which dicative of his near-complete rejection of the at large is forced to add 8 to 10 percent to has done much to raise serious questions traditional conception of the schools. their bids to absorb anticipated losses stem­ about Federal funding of elementary and The Charleston demonstrations are no iso­ ming from theft and other forms of fraud. secondary education. The second letter, lated phenomenon. Over the last few years The operation of a. hospital is not only a parents in nearly every state of the union big business, it is a complex of many busi­ submitted to the Washington Post but have organized for the purpose .of calling nesses comprising a pharmacy, a hotel, res­ not as yet published, was written by Dr. attention to what is transpiring in the taurant, laundry, warehouse, research, and Charles A. Moser, who has taken an ac­ schools today. This concern prompted Con­ treal estate m.anagement. Medical centers tive role with the emergency committee gressman Earl Landgrebe of Indiana to of­ have literally become cities. for children, which did a great deal to fer his 1974 Freer Schools Act to phase out A hospital administrator must cope with oppose the recent attempts at child de­ Federal funding for the schools, and Senator all of these enterprises-simultaneously act­ velopment legislation. The texts of the James Buckley of New York to offer his pa­ ing as a fund raiser, educator, and public two letters follow: rental ttghts amendments to the Elementary servant. Because of these varied demands he [From the Washington Star-News, Oct. 2, a.nd Secondary Education Act extension of is more dependent on department heads who 1974] this past summer. But the majority of the may be the very individuals most respon­ members of Congress have been either too sible for the problems. Therefore, financial LETTERS TO THE EDITOR oblivious of the realities of American edu­ executives of health care institutions must BOOK BATTLE cation, or too fearful of the wrath of the be given a more active part in the protection Sir: Kudos to Vic Gold for his recent col­ powerful education lobby, to pay serious at­ of their assets, or costs wm become so pro- umn, "Why the Book Battle?" As he says, tention to the issues which the people of October 9, 1974 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 34841 Charleston have now been compelled to raise SUPPORT OF GUAM RESOLUTION No.4 S. 1296-the Grand Canyon National tn the streets. Whereas, the Territory of Guam has been Park bill-when it is considered by the The central issues in the Charleston dis­ a part of the United States since 1898, and House: pute-and in the South Boston dispute as Whereas, during this period of association AMENDMENTS TO S. 1296 well, for busing is only one facet of the drive with the United States, the people of Guam AMENDMENT NO.1 to "remake our society" through the have taken slow but steady steps along the schools-are whether the parents or the edu­ road of self-government and economic self­ Page 2, line 15, strike "one million four cationists shall exercise the fi n al say in de­ sufficiency, and hundred and six thousand five hundred", and insert in lieu "one million two hundred termining school curriculum, and whether Whereas, in recent years Guam has experi­ the schools are to "nurture" or to undermine and seventy five thousand four hundred and enced a tremendous surge of economic de­ thirty nine". our culture. The parents of Charleston have velopment vital to its goals of economic self­ at last succeeded in showing the public that Page 2,line 19, strike "113-20.021 and dated sufficiency and July 1974," and insert in lieu "113-91,006 and these are genuine and serious issues. Whereas, Guam is in dire need of financial CHARLES A. MOSER. dated October 1974,". assistance requiring approximately 800 mil­ Page 3, line 4, strike lines 4 through 9, and lion dollars to deal effectively with its 5-year insert in lieu, "Slide Mountain, and Jensen capital improvement program, such assist­ Tank areas, to determine whether any por­ ance may be available through associate tion of these lands". membership in the Asian Development GUAM'S BID FOR ECAFE WINS Bank, and AMENDMENT NO. 2 NATIONAL SUPPORT Whereas, Guam has been fortunate in O:ffered by Mr. Steiger of Arizona previous years to obtain such needed funds Page 6, line 14, strike Section 9 and insert through the Guam Rehab111tation Fund in lieu the following: HON. ANTONIO BORJA WON PAT under federal loans and grants-in-aid "SEc. 9. (a) Nothing in this Act shall be totaling 75 million dollars which has already construed to alter, amend, repeal, modify, or OF GUAM been exhausted and is therefore seeking be in conflict with the provisions of sections IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES other ways to obtain these critical funds 601 to 606 of the Colorado River Basin Project Act, approved September 30, 1968 Wednesday, October 9, 1974 through the Asian Development Bank, and Whereas, membership into the Asian De­ (82 Stat. 885, 901). Mr. WON PAT. Mr. Speaker, in recent velopment Bank can only be achieved (b) The Congress hereby specifically au­ months, the territory of Guam has been through the initial membership of Guam thorizes and directs the Federal Power Com­ into the Economic Commission of Asia and mission to issue a license to the Arizona attempting to be admitted to the United Power Authority for the construction and Nations Economic Commission for Asia the Far· East (ESAFE) which cannot be ef­ fectuated without the sponsorship of Guam operation of a power project at Bridge Can­ and the Far East-ECAFE-and the by the U.S. Department of State, and yon on the Colorado River, including a dam Asian Development Bank. Whereas, associate membership into (to be known as "Hualapai Dam"), reservoir, Guam's membership in these organiza­ ECAFE will also qualify Guam for various powerplant, transmission fac111ties, and ap­ tions would provide the island access to assistance programs involving economic purtenant works, and the Moenkopi and the full range of technical expertise and guidance and planning, foreign investment Tolchico silt-detention reservoirs, pursuant planning, resource potential studies, and to the Act of March 3, 1921 ( 41 Stat. 1353). knowledge of developing areas in the (c) The Federal Power Commission shall Asian region. other technological areas which are also greatly needed for its further development, include among the licensing conditions, in As Guam is a developing area, we are and addition to those deemed necessary and re­ quired under the terms of the Federal Power in dire need of the kind of assistance Whereas, the promotion of Guam's par­ ECAFE can and has offered to other Act, the following: ( 1) Hualapai Dam shall ticipation in the Pacific basin is entirely be constructed so as to impound water at a areas such as our island. Recently, for consistent with the mandate of the United normal surface elevation of one thousand example, preliminary arrangements were States under the United Nations Charter to six hundred and ten feet above mean sea completed by U.S. offi.cials to permit the insure for territories whose people have not level; and (2) the use of lands with the trust territory to become a member of yet attained a full measure of self-govern­ Hualapai Indian Reservation, and the com­ ment, their economic advancement, to pro­ pensation paid therefor, shall be in accord­ the Asian Development Bank and mote constructive measures of development, ECAFE. ance with the agreement between the Ari­ to cooperate with specialized international zona Power Authority and the HuaLapai As a first step toward realization of bodies with a view to the practical achieve­ Tribe, dated August 30, 1960, including any our goal, offi.cials of the Guam Legisla­ ment of social, economic, and scientific pur­ amendments or supplements thereto. ture, the Government of Guam, and I poses set forth in Chapter XI of the United Nations Charter, and (d) Section 7 of the Act of February 26, have approached the U.S. Department of 1919 ( 40 Stat. 1175, 1178); is amended to State for its assistance and concurrence Whereas, it is the desire of the delegates to read as follows: the 27th Annual Meeting of the National "Whenever consistent with the primary in this effort. Our request is presently Legislative Conference in AlJ'Juquerque, New being studied by that Department. purposes of such park, the Secretary of the Mexico, to assist those States and Territories Interior is authorized to permit the utiliza­ Although we appreciate that Guam's within its membership in need of its help, tion of those areas formerly within Lake membership would thus be the first time Now, therefore, be it resolved, that the Na­ Mead National Recreation Area immediately any American area has qualified for tional Legislative Conference assembled at prior to enactment of the Grand Canyon ECAFE, we believe that our unique eco­ its 27th Annual Meeting in Albuquerque, National Park Enlargement Act, and auded nomic and geographic situation is suffi­ New Mexico, this 16th day of August, 1974, to the park by such Act, which may be nec­ cient reason to make our request a viable respectfully petitions the Department of essary for the development and maintenance State of the United States to sponsor the of a Government reclamation project." one. U.S. Territory of Guam for associate mem- AMENDMENT NO, 3 I am pleased to report that, at its an­ bership into the Economic Commission of Asia and the Far East (ECAFE) and the O:ffered by Mr. Steiger of Arizona nual meeting held this August in New Page 8, line 5, strike "one hundred and Mexico, the National Legislative Confer­ Asian Development Bank (ADB) to enable eighty-five thousand acres" and insert in ence adopted a resolution supporting Guam to ut111ze all assistance available lieu "one hundred and seventy thousand Guam's bid for admission to ECAFE and within these two organizations to better acres". eventually to the Asian Development achieve its goals of self-sUfficiency. Page 10, line 22, strike subsection (d) and Bank. reletter the following subsections. The members of the National Legisla­ EXPLANATION FOR AMENDMENTS OFFERED BY tive Conference are to be congratulated MR. STEIGER TO S. 1296 for their most generous gesture of sup­ AMENDMENTS TO S. 1296 No. 1. This amendment deletes acreage port and for their understanding of added by the House Committee on the north rim of the canyon, and makes conforming Guam's special needs. corrections, as needed, throughout the bill. In the thought that my colleagues will HON. SAM STEIGER No. 2. This amendmeent authorizes and be interested in our efforts on this crucial OF ARIZONA directs the Federal Power Commission to is­ matter to date, I include the text of the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sue a license to the Arizona Power Authority National Legislative Conference's resolu­ for the construction and operation of the tion in the RECORD at this point. Wednesday, October 9, 197 4 Bridge Canyon Dam on the Colorado River. No.3. This amendment deletes the "Rain­ Thank you. Mr. STEIGER of Arizona. Mr. Speaker, tank Allotment" of approximately 15,000 The resolution follows: I will offer the following amendments to acres from the Havasupai Indian trust lands.