24260 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 18, 1972 bill. Of course, any motion to recommit Mr. JAVITS. Mr. President, will the The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without the bill, if such were made, would be Senator yield? objection, it is so ordered. in order, there would be a time limita Mr. DOMINICK. I yield. Mr. ROBER'!' c. BYRD. I thank the tion on any such motion, under the re Mr. JAVITS. I should like to say to Chair. quest, of 30 minutes, and additional time the Senator from West Virginia that the ' could be yielded from the bill on any reason why we did what we did is that if PROGRAM motion or appeal. we have any amendment that we think Mr. DOMINICK. I thank the Senator. should go into the bill, which would affect Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, The PRESIDING OFFICER. Would the result of the voting on the substitute, the program for tomorrow is as follows : the Senator from West Virginia advise Senator WILLIAMS and I feel that if we The Senate will convene at 10 a.m. the Chair whether he has concluded his give adequate assurance to the Senate, After the two leaders have been recog unanimous-consent request? the Senate will take that into considera nized under the standing order, the dis Mr. ROBERT c. BYRD. Mr. President, tion in respect of its vote. tinguished senior Senator from Kentucky I ask unanimous consent that rule XII So I did not wish supporters of the bill (Mr. COOPER) will be recognized for not be waived in connection with the agree to feel that their rights have been prej to exceed 15 minutes, after which there ment for a vote on passage of the bill. udiced by our position. But we thought will be a period for the transaction of Mr. JAVITS. It is understood that mo that, considering the exigencies we all routine morning business for not to ex tions to table the motions to recommit, or face and the high desirability of this bill ceed 30 minutes with a limitation of 3 other motions and appeals, are not and the need for bringing it to a prompt minutes on statements therein. being waived in respect of the total conclusion under the conditions we face At the conclusion of the routine morn unanimous-consent request. in this year, we should make that agree ing business, the Senate will resume the Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, ment in order to arrive at the total unan consideration of S. 3390, the unfinished I believe I specified that particularly imous consent. business, a bill to amend the Foreign with reference to the vote on the sub Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. President, will Assistance Act of 1961, and for other stitute; but I think that the distinguished the Senator yield? purposes. The pending question thereon senior Senator from New York has raised Mr. DOMINICK. I yield. will be on the adoption of the amend a pertinent point. I add to my unani Mr. WIILIAMS. Specifically, the ment offered by the able junior Senator mous-consent request the provision that agreement calls for the recognition of from Nevada (Mr. CANNON). all rights of Senators with respect to the Senator from Vermont after the vote At no later than 2 p.m. tomorrow, the tabling motions and motions to recom on the substitute. If the substitute is re unfinished business will be laid aside, mit, remain inviolate. jected, he will be recognized first, for the and the Senate will proceed to the con The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there purpose of offering an amendment deal sideration of the so-called minimum objection to the request of the Senator ing with the enterprise test. His amend wage bill, S. 1861. The pending question from West Virginia? The Chair hears ment would delete from the bill the re at that time will be on the adoption of none, and it is so ordered. duction to $150,000 annually. It would the Taft-Dominick substitute. Mr. ROBERT c. BYRD. Mr. President, keep it at $250,000. A time limitation agreement has been I want to express appreciation to the dis Mr. JAVITS. I would be for that. entered into in accordance with which tinguished junior Senator from New Jer Mr. WILLIA.MS. I, of course, supported there will be a limitation of 2 hours on sey (Mr. WILLIAMS) and to the distin the reduction to $150,000 to reach more the substitute tomorrow afternoon, and g,uished senior Senator from New York workers. But I can appreciate the prac 1 hour on any amendment to the sub (Mr. JAVITS) for their willingness to tical needs. Many employers-not hap stitute. No nongermane amendment will agree to a request which precludes any pily-probably will support it, too. be in order, and only amendments to the perfecting amendments to the bill on Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, substitute will be in order tomorrow. tomorrow and which allows only amend will the Senator yield? Rollcall votes will occur on tomorrow. ments to the substitute on tomorrow. I Mr. DOMINICK. I yield. think they were very generous, consider Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, ADJOURNMENT TO 10 A.M. ate, and cooperative in this regard, and I want to make sure that my request I want to commend them. Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, I also want to thank the distinguished provides that on tomorrow only germane if there be no further business to come Senator from Colorado (Mr. DoMINICK), amendments to the Taft-Dominick sub before the Senate, I move that the Sen the distinguished Senator from Ohio (Mr. stitute will be in order. ate stand in adjournment, under the TAFT), thP. distinguished Senator from The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is that an order, until 10 a.m. tomorrow. Vermont (Mr. STAFFORD), and other Sen additional request? The motion was agreed to; and at ators who participated in the discussions Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. I want to be 7: 20 p.m. the Senate adjourned until leading up to the agreement which has sure it is in the request. If it is not, I ask tomorrow, Wednesday, July 19, 1972, at now been reached. that it be included. 10 a.m.
EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS COMPREHENSIVE OLDER AMER enacted into law in 1965 it has brought f erence on Aging po!.nted out older peo ICANS SERVICES AMENDMENTS many needed services to older people in ple still have many lliimet needs that communities across the Nation. These deserve our immediate attention. Many have included visiting serY1ces, telephone of the provisions of H.R. 15657 are a HON. LOUISE DAY HICKS reassurances, transportation prepara response to the recommenda tlons made OF MASSACHUSETTS tion and delivery of meals, senior cen by this Conference. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ters, in-home health aides fo1 the home I wot.Id like to discuss briefly some of Tuesday, July 18, 1972 bound elderly, geriatric screening and the provisions of thic, very comprehen referral, and adult education courses. sive bill which I believe will have a major Mrs. HICKS of Massachusetts. Mr. In addition, the Older Americans Act impact on the solution of tne problems Speaker, I rise to express my pleasure has provided many service opportuni c f the aging. First of all, the bill would that the House so overwhelmingly gave ties for older people through the foster strengthen the role of the Administra its support to H.R. 15657, the Compre grandparent and retired ~enior volunteer tion on Aging as a focal point of Fed hensive Olcter Americans Services programs. The latter two programs eral concern for older persons. H.R. Jtmendments, on July 17. -:::1lese amend which are administered by the Action 15657 states clearly that the Commis ments will greatly strernJthen the pro agency have helped to oring meaning sioner on Aging who heads the Admini grams authorized under the Older Amer into the lives of older people as they stration on Aging would be directly re icans Act as well as providir..~ new au themselves brought services to disad sponsible to the Secretary of Health, Ed thority for additional types cf activities vantaged children and adults in their ucation, and Welfare and would not be under this act. home communities. able to delegate any of his functions to Since the Older Americans Act was Yet, as the recent White House Con- any other officer who is not directly July 18, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24261 responsible to him. In addition, it pro both children and adults with special act which by their terms prohibits the im vides that Federal agencies proposing needs in community settings. Older portation of chrome from Rhodesia or au to establish programs related to the pur Americans could assist other needy older thorizes trade sanctions on Rhodesia. poses of the Older Americans Act shall people in their own homes, in nursing The only way The Times can make out a case of treaty violation ls to argue that the consult with the Administration on homes and in institutions. In addition, ratificaiton of the UN Charter and the pas Aging prior to the establishment of such older people would continue to serve sage of the UN Participation Act in 1945- programs, and Federal agencies ad children in institutions and begin to 27 years ago--necessarily means that when ministering such programs shall co serve children in their own homes or in the UN Security Council barred trade with operate with the Administration on schools or day care settings. Rhodesia on the J'retext that she was a threat Aging in carrying them out. Lastly, the bill would establish special to the peace, such sanctions were automa The bill would also substantially re programs directed to the solution of crit tically converted into a treaty obligation of the United States, without any reference vise the title m State and community ical problems confronting older persons to the Congress at all. This coDJtrast with erant program which has been used to in the areas of preretirement, housing, Great Britain, which annually obtains Par fund some 1,700 projects smce it first transportation, employment, and con liamentary approval of an Order in Council. went into operation. This new title III tinuing education. Similar parliamentary involvement is found would assist State and local agencies to Mr. Speaker, the action we took in in other countries. concentrate resources in orcler to de passing these amendments will help to The UN Charter does obligate the United velop comprehensive and coordinated bring deserved assistance to many older States (Art. 25) to "accept" a "call" by the service systems to serve older persons. people who need help in making their Security Council for economic measures (Art. 41) , but only if, as Secretary of State Edward These agencies would be encouraged to later years happy years. Stettinius, Jr., assured the President and enter into new cooperative arrange the Congress in 1945, such measures "relate ment.8 with each other and with provid to the prevention or suppression of breaches ers of social services for planning for of the peace." providing social services. Services would IMPORTATION OF CHROME ORE Great Britain has throughout renounced be designed to secure and maintain FROM RHODESIA the use of force against Rhodesia; Rhodesia maximum independence and dignity in would use force only in se.lf-defense. Thus a home environment for older persons there has been, and can be, no aggression HON. HARRY F. BYRD, JR. of any breach of the peace between Rhodesia capable of self-care with appropriate and Great Britain. supportive services and to remove in OF vmGINL\ IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES Where then does the UN find a threat to dividual and social barri~rs to economic the peace? As the late Dean Acheson said and personal independence for older Tuesday, July 18, 1972 ( 1968) in his address on "The Arrogance of persons. Mr. HARRY F. BYRD, JR. Mr. Presi International Lawyers," the argument in The bill also increases the matching support of mandatory sanctions was that 11 dent, during the lengthy controversy Rhodesian independence is "continued in rates available to pay for services. Under over my proposal to end the ban on im present law, Federal funds are available time," other states might be led to break portation of chrome ore from Rhodesia, the peace to bring about a domestic change to pay not more than 75 percent of the Mr. Clifford J. Hynning, of Arlington, of the franchise in Rhodesia. This year George costs of projects for the first year, 60 Va., wrote numerous letters to the New Ball, former Under Secretary of State, wrote percent of the cost for the second year York Times in support of my position. in a Washington Post book review ithat and 50 percent of the cost for the third An authority on international law, Mr. Acheson's address "cut to bits" UN Sanctions. and any subsequent year of the projects. Moreover, any such breaking of the peace Hynning is a former vice chairman of would run afoul of the explicit prohibition Under H.R. 15657, Federal funds could the international and comparative law be used for paying up to 75 percent of the of the UN Charter itself, in Art. 2(4), against section of the American Bar Association. "the threat or use of force" by a member cost of social services which are not pro He was the founding editor in chief of state except in self-defense. vided as a part of a comprehensive and the International Lawyer, a quarterly Your answer, I suppose, retreats to the coordinated system and up to 90 percent publication of the American Bar Asso position that the validity of Rhodesian sanc of the cost of social services provided as ciation. tions is not open to inquiry outside the UN, a part of such a system. in view of the unanimous votes of the Se The Times opposed my legislation in curity Council. That is Professor Finger's The bill provides an authorization for seven editorials published in 1971 and appropriations of $100,000,000 for fiscal argument. But that raises the question 1972. whether this ls the kind of unchallengeable year 1973, $200,000,000 for fiscal year Recently the Times published a letter power-taken as an act of faith-that the 1974, and $300,000,000 for fiscal year 1975 from me responding to some of the state Congress of the United States authorized the for the administration of area plans on ments which had been made in the news President to submit to in the UN? You are aging and for the development of these paper's editorials. Subsequently, on June probably correct, insofar as you make the coordinated systems for the delivery of 25, the Times published a letter from argument, that an American court would social services. Prof. Seymour Finger maintaining that decline to rule on it as a "polltical question" H.R. 15657 adds a new title to the or "an Act of State," leaving such delicate the Byrd amendment constitutes a viola matters of foreign pollcy to the political Older Americans Act relating to the pro tion of the U.N. Charter. branches of the government. But my con vision and initial staffing of multipurpose Mr. Hynning has responded to the ar cession is limited, for the Congress ls one of senior centers. Senior centers have been guments advanced by Professor Finger, the political branches of the government. extremely successful components of the arguing ably that the ending of the pro As early as James Madison, it was recog present program but additional authority hibition against chrome shipments from nized that in the case of a treaty regulating is needed for the provision of facilities a subject specifically within the constitu Rhodesia does not violate U.S. treaty tionally enumerated powers of the Congress for such centers. These centers provide a obligations. single focal point where older people can as the foreign commerce power-the Congress I ask unanimous consent that Mr. has the right and duty "to deliberate on the gather, receive a variety of services, and Hynning's most recent letter addressed to expediency or inexpediency of carrying such be referred to other services they need. the Times be printed in the Extensions treaty into effect, and to determine and a.ct The Com.missioner of Aging would be au of Remarks. thereon, as, in their judgment, may be con thorized to make grants to pay up to 75 There being no objection, the letter was ducive to public good." This is what the percent of the costs of leasing, repair Congress has done on the Byrd Amendment ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as on Rhodesian chrome. Senator Sam Ervin, ing or altering existing facilities so that follows: they could be used as multipurpose sen the leading constitutional lawyer of the Sen BYRD AMENDMENT ON RHODESIAN CHROME ate, called Rhodesian sanctions "a violation ior centers. The Commissioner would also VIOLATES No TREATY OBLIGATION OF THE of the Charter of the United Nations, just be able to make grants for 3 years UNITED STATES as this amendment [by Senator Fulbright to at a declining Federal share of 75, 66%, (By Clifford J. Hynning) pull the teeth of the Byrd Amendment] is and 50 percent to cover the costs of pro- an offense against the Constitution of the To brand one's own state as a treaty viola United States." It must be beyond cavil that fessional and technical personnel. tor, as The TiJ:nes has consistently done in Amendments to the foster grandparent the Congress has the right to challenge the editorials on the Byrd Amendment, is a most validity of Security Council action pur program would provide new opportwii- serious charge that should only be levied 11 ties for low-income older Americans to portedly taken under Art. 41 of the Charter, based on a firm legal foundation. to determine whether the delegation of power render meaningful community service. Neither The Times nor Professor Seymous to the President under the UN Participation The amendments would permit low-in Finger (letters page, June 26), can cite a Act has been properly exercised in conformity come persons, 60 years and over, to serve treaty of the United States or Congressional with the Act and the Charter as understood 24262 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 18, 1972 by the Congress. If that challenge is bottomed [From the Wall Street Journal, June 28, 1972] there are political risks. Mr. Nixon's Demo in law and reason, as I have attempted to A STRING OF VETOES cratic challenger will accuse him of being demonstrate, the resulting Byrd amendment There was a theory not long a.go that insensitive to the needs of the needy, but does· not violate any treaty of the United the federal spending binge Congress has been this would undoubtedly occur no matter how States because the Security Council action enjoying for a decade would run its course. high the deficits soar. is den{onstrably ultra vires under the Charter Sooner or later, it was said, the projected Unless we are again being naive, even the itself. deficits would become so dizzying that infla political risks don't seem that awfully high. tion of South American proportions would The great majority of the national electorate loom. Then, even the wild-eyed spenders ha.s graduated from high school, and there is ample evidence the voters are getting smarter NEEDED: A STRING OF VETOES would tremble, peer into their souls, and find a tattered remnant of fiscal responsibility to and smarter. Surely this wisdom includes a. cling to. passable knowledge of simple arithmetic. Those of us foolish enough to be tempted HON. PHILIP M. CRANE by this theory are now compelled to face up OF U..LINOIS to our own naivete. It now becomes clear that IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in this golden era, when every ma.n's a. Key THE DEMOCRAT NATIONAL nesian, American legislators are really not CONVENTION Tuesday, July 18, 1972 that much more responsible than their coun Mr. CRANE. Mr. Speaker, the over terparts in Santiago or Buenos Aires. The whelming majority of the American peo combined federal deficit for the four yea.rs HON. HUGH SCOTT ending June 30, 1973, wlll top $110 billlon. OF PENNSYLVANU ple seek an end to inflation. Members of And as our Mr. Janssen reports, the boys a.t Congress also declared that they would the Office of Management and Budget are IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES like to see an end to the upward spiral already looking for places to trim a prospec Tuesday, July 18, 1972 of wages and prices, as do those in the tive $40 b1llion deficit in fiscal 1974. Yet the executive branch. Despite such protesta Congress remains obllvious. Mr. SCO'IT. Mr. President, the Demo tions, inflation continues. For some reason, we're reminded of the cratic National Convention of last week Part of the reason for this state of af film clips and photographs of the looters gave rise to several newspaper columns who went about their business, 1n Watts, which I believe will be of interest to fairs is that those who urge an end to Detroit, Newark, unconcerned that the po Senators on both sides of the aisle. inflation refuse to take the necessary lice stood by watching, and that photog steps to achieve it. Since part of the rea raphers were recording their moves. They I ask unanimous consent that the col seemed to sense that because "everyone was umns be printed in the Extensions of son for our economic problems relate to Remarks. the fact that Government is spending far doing it" that law was in suspension and none of them would be brought to judg There being no objection, the columns more money than·it is receiving in taxes ment. There is in Washington, now, a simi were ordered to be printed in the RECORD, and is increasing the money supply with lar sense of suspended reallty, a. curious out any backing for the increased dollars, as follows: awareness that everyone is doing it even as [From the Washington Evening Star, July 16, it seems clear that inflation can only be the press and the public look on, but that 1972] stopped by a reversal of these policies. there wlll be no retribution. The combined Federal deficit for the The administration requested $27 blllion McGOVERN'S MEETING WITH PROTESTERS AT for HEW-Labor appropriations for fiscal THE DORAL 4 years ending June 30, 1973, will top (By Carl T. Rowan) $110 billion. The Wall Street Journal 1973, a $7 b1llion increase over 1972. The House tacked on an extra. $1,275,856,000, an MllMI BEACH.-There Sen. George Mc reports that the Office of Management increase approved by its Appropriations Govern was, America's victor of the hour, en and Budget is already looking for places Committee, whose chairman, George Ma.hon titled to have a. head swelled bigger than a. to trim a prospective $40 billion deficit in of Texas nevertheless warns of "the terrible Florida watermelon, but he wa.s standing in fiscal 1974. fiscal pllght of the federal government at the midst of what some would call "kooks" In a recent editorial, the Wall Street this time." Can anyone doubt that the Sen and "rabble.'' Journal declared that: ate wlll add another several hundred million Many men savoring the highest honor a. to the pile? political party can pay would have stayed In spite of mounting Inflation and mount It is in that upper body, after all, that ing deficdts, the Congress remains oblivi in the Doral-on-the-Bea.ch penthouse and yet another open-ended spending program said, "Let •em eat dirt." ous . . . The Administration requested $27 was Just approved by a. 73-to-12 vote. The billion for HEW-Labor appropriations for And the Secret Service could have taken program would spend $2.96 blllion to embark the rap. fiscal 1973, a $7 b1111on increase over 1972. The on the development of child-care centers an House tacked on an extra $1,275,866,000. After all, the young war protesters were effort tha.t, once underway in earnest, would ugly of both mood and dress. Stringy-haired surely cost the taxpayers 10 times that ante. men were nude from the waist up. The un The Journal noted: Then, of course, there a.re the plans to In the senate, another open-ended spend kempt look of the young women wa.s exceeded boost Social Security benefits by 20 % . A in offensiveness only by the cries of "bull" ing program was Just approved by a 73-12 majority in the Senate is now cosponsoring vote. The program would spend $2.95 bllllon and worse expletives from young females who this proposal, which would add at lea.st $6 in gentler times might have been at Wed to embark on the development of child ca.re bilUon to the deficit next year. Mr. Nixon nesday prayer meeting. centers, an effort that, once underway 1D requested a. modest 5 % increase. The White If you have ever stood chin-to-chin With earnest, would surely cost the taxpayers 10 House terms the higher increase "irrespon this kind of group, you know that it takes times that ante. sible and untimely." And in testimony be courage not to walk away out of fea.r---or fore the Joint Economic Committee of Con contempt for the boorish language, the foul Unless inflation is to continue, and its gress yesterday, Casper Weinberger, director manners, the physical smell of the angry rate is to increase, action must be taken. of the Office of Management and Budget, said young men and women, some of whom love The Journal expresses the view that: that "unless Congress Wishes to force a. huge their own harsh questions so much that they At this point . . . it seems the only thing tax increase" it can't continue adding to out have no time for answers. that stands a chance of rescuing the run lays. He described the fiscal outlook as Well, McGovern overruled his Secret Serv "ominous." ice protectors, and he stayed to talk out with away budget is a. string of vetoes by the But the President is by no means innocent. President. Otherwise, next year, whoever ls these students his policies regarding the His shoulder is still behind his general reve Vietnam war. This group of leather-tough President wlll not only have to ask for a tax nue-sharing proposal, which would cost the increase, but might also be forced to put the kids soon sllnked away, realizing that, while Treasury $7.6 bllllon next year. When the McGovern refused to accept all their de economy through the wringer a.gain to pre political pressures were applied, Mr. Nixon mands, he ls about the best available to vent an inflationary explosion. could not resist signing the $1 billion black them. It is essential that we come to grips lung blll (Sen. Scott warned him he would McGovern had gambled, and won, that he lose Pennsylvania if he gave in to his budget could surmount the generation gap. political with the real causes of inflation. If we do advisers a.nd vetoed the bill). passion and a. core of troublemakers to de not, the problem will never be solved. At this point, though, it seems the only fuse a. Vietnam tempest that could have One of the most important causes is thing that stands a chance of rescuing the blown up this convention and saddled his deficit spending by Government. runaway budget ls a string of vetoes by the candidacy with the same cruel burdens tha.t I wish to share with my colleagues the President. Otherwise, next year, whoever is Hubert H. Humphrey had to carry four years President will not only have to ask for a tax a.go. editorial of the Wall Street Journal of increase, but might also be forced to put the That is "bring-us-together" leadership. June 28, 1972, and place it in the RECORD economy through the wringer a.gain to pre That ls the communication so desperately at this time: vent an inflationary explosion. Of course, needed to heal the Nation's wounds. July 18, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24263 Not tha,t a handful in that SDS (Students "I thought it was letters," said his com Ing less than a revolution in what this coun for a. Democratic Society) crowd may not be panion (who, truth to tell, had been dozing try has stood for over a generation and some somewhere making bombs today. But it is at his headset). "Something about the Boy radical changes In the way it ls run. clear that one reason McGovern won the croft Letters, I think." Among other things, he is promising $1,000 critical California primary ls that 50,000 kids "Good Lord!" said the first agent. "We to every man, woman and child in the United believed in his honesty and integrity enough better tell the chief. It might be a new States and a tax system that will do away to pound the streets, ringing doorbells, but Pentagon Papers thing. Or what was it with rich people. tonhole voters. That is why he 1s the presi with Blaine, the Mulligan Letters?" He ls promising to cut defense expendi dential nominee. "Blaine?" said the second agent, taking off tures by a cool 40 percent and stlll keep the McGovern had been in his S1Uite watching his earphones. "Who the hell ls Blaine? The United States the strongest nation on earth. TV. He had seen his staunchest backers in a new secretary of commerce?" He is promising complete victory in Viet solidly pro-McGovern Massachusetts delega Well, of course, they played the tape back, nam to the Communist leaders in Hanoi by tion swelled to outrage by some mistaken no and other Democrats started speaking up, scuttling the "corrupt, undemocratic govern tion tha..t he would make Thailand the new and eventually it sank in that the key phrase ment in Saigon." And after that he 1s prom Vietnam. He knew that already his crediblllty of the convention was, indeed, "Boycott ising to get back American war prisoners by was at stake and he had to protect it, even at Lettuce." The Republican strategists-like going to Hanoi to beg for their release. the risk of his life-or so the Secret Service everybody else- been oaahing in on national impatience both because of his self-serving, opportun Her civic involvement included member through his impractical and dishonorable istic record a.nd because of his already ship on the Lawrence University Board of proposal to pull totally out of Indochina and proven failure as a practical planner. Trustees, organizer and first president of the then to beg for our prisoners of war if elected In a word, I take a very dim view of the Milwaukee Junior League and trustee of the President. senator from South Dakota-and if you were Milwaukee Art Institute. Even if you assume that his pie-in-the· down here you would know how fervently She was a member of the motor corps sky visions of a better and more equable many Democrats share my attitude. in France during World War I, driving trucks society are basically sincere, the trouble is That is why the big show in Miami Beach from base hospitals to field hospitals near that his liberal pipedreams also have been this coming week, no matter what happens, the front lines. She also was a former WiS offered without practical foundation, except at base will be a crisis production. consin women tennis champion. to get him votes. Mrs. Chester's husband, William M. Ches As I have already suggested, a great deal of ter, was board chairman of T. A. Chapman McGovern's primary campaign success was Co. at the time of his death in 1964. He was based on his personal image of calm stab111ty. MRS. WILLIAM MERRILL CHESTER: associated with several industrial and finan That image has rapidly been eroding under cial firms and was active in civic affairs. careful scrutiny, and through his own reac IN MEMORIAM The former Alice Miller, Mrs. Chester was tion to heavy pressure. the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George P. Possibly too late, Democratic Party regu Miller. Her father at one time was attorney lars have come to realize that McGovern's HON. CLEMENT J. ZABLOCKI for Lucius Nieman, longtime publisher of irresponsible position on Vietnam, his pro OF WISCONSIN The Milwaukee Journal. Miller owned Jour posed suicidal slash of $32 billion in the na IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES nal Company stock which was later sold to tional defense budget and hiS economically Tuesday, July 18, 1972 Harry J. Grant, Nieman's successor. insane domestic programs could all but guar Mrs. Chester's grandfather, T. A. Chapman, antee defeat on election day. Mr. ZABLOCKI. Mr. Speaker, I rise to founded the Chapman department store firm. More than that they have been treated to mark the passing of an outstanding Her aunt was MiSs Alice Chapman, who willed the spectacle of a man furiously backtrack woman leader of Milwaukee, whose son, $1 million to the former Milwaukee Downer ing from previous positions in opportunistic College for construction of the Chapman search for wider support, frequently making John "Chips" Chester, is a staff consult Library. The building is now called Chapman no sense in the transition from self-pro ant to the Committee on Foreign Af Hall and is part of the University of Wis claimed crusader to would-be compromiser. fairs and a personal friend of many of consin-Milwaukee campus. Perhaps most damaging of all, they have our colleagues. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Chester are seen McGovern finally erupt in uncontrolled His mother, Mrs. William Merrill Atty. George M. Chester, a partner in the law temper in the delegate disputes, attempting Chester, died July 13 after an extended firm of Foley & Lardner; William M. Chester to take a vengeance on his opponents which illness. Mrs. Chester's involvement in Jr., vice president of the Heil Co.; John c. has m ade a genuinely united party impos civic activities spanned many decades. Chester, a former diplomat and now a staff sible. consultant for the House of Representatives There ls no space here to detail all the She was perhaps best known as the Foreign Affairs Committee, and Mrs. Verne R. various weaknesses and self-contradictions founder of the Girl Scouts in Milwaukee, Read, whose husband is board chairman of that McGovern has been displaying as party and held various offices at the national the Chapman stores. showdown time neared. The subjects covered and international level with the Scouts. Mrs. Chester, an avid traveler both for her a gamut ranging from freeing convicted Her life was filled with service to others own enjoyment and in behalf of the Girl draft dodgers and deserters to free abortion. and a dedication to the enhancement of Scouts, took her last trip in June, 1970, when I don't recall that he took a stand on Angela the educational, cultural, athletic, and she and more than 20 family members went Davis. to Malawi, Africa, to visit John c. Chester, My own favorite is his back-off from his other opportunities of our community, who had a diplomatic post there. welfare-tax reform plan, which included the particularly for young people. Soon afterward, Mrs. Chester was stricken asinine proposal to give $1,000 annually to Fittingly, the Milwaukee Journal has with leukemia and was unable to travel every man, woman and child in the country. memorialized Mrs. Chester in an editorial a.gain. Nettled by repeated analyses which showed which I will insert at this time in the In 1915, following her graduation from his programs to be dangerously unsound and RECORD, together with a detailed obituary Bryn Mawr College, Mrs. Chester organized even mat hematically wrong, he said he was on her life which appeared in the Mil the Junior League here. making revisions he considers too important waukee Sentinel. Immediately after their marriage, she and to announce "in the intensely political at her husband left for France where they both mosphere"-a would-be cop out which makes My wife, Blanche, joins me in express served in 1917 and 1918. She was in Paris no sense whatever. ing our deep sympathy to the family of during the shelling and later became cable Making even less sense, if that ls possible, Mrs. Chester for the deep loss which secretary for the YMCA. was his related comment on his $1,000-per they and our entire community has sus During the 1920s, Mrs. Chester's activities person bonanza plan. tained because of her passing. included offices in the League of Women "That ls being withdrawn pending our The items follow: Voters and the Woman's Club of Wisconsin. further study," he said. "It's just too com [From the Milwaukee Journal, July 13, 1972] Mrs. Chester was the first commissioner plicated for the average person to under of the Milwaukee Council of Girl Scouts, or stand." MRs. WILLIAM MERRILL CHESTER ganized in 1921. Her portrait hangs at Ca.mp Well-I don't think the average person A long lifetime of service to her community Alice Chester, at Booth Lake near East Troy, would find receiving $1,000 difficult to un has ended with the death of Mrs. William which was dedicated to her in 1925. derstand, except why such a nutty idea was Merrill Chester at 79. Her interests and en Her interest in youth work, particularly proposed in the first place. ergy were devoted to a wide range of proj with Girl Scouts, continued through nearly Meanwhile I hope that same average per ects, producing benefits enjoyed by thou five decades. son will be able to understand that McGovern sands of Milwaukeeans today. She helped She served on the Girl Scouts Great Lakes was trying to cover his own foolishness by organize the Girl Scouts here and was their Regional Committee and held various offices accusing the publlc of stupidity. first Milwaukee commissioner. Camp Alice at the national and international level with Who the Democratic Party will pick as its Chester was named for her. She organized the Scouts. She headed the Girl Scout standard-bearer for November remains to be the service oriented Junior League here, lent mariner program here. She was assistant seen-but if George McGovern gets the nod her support to youth programs on local, state, world treasurer, vice chairman of the Juliette the convent ion will have chosen a weak, im national and international levels, supported Low World Friendship Committee and chair practical and vacillating man. education and the arts. The example and man of the committee which maintains the His choice will be good news at least to the deeds of this great lady are a legacy to Girl Scout World Center in Adelboden, President Nixon, who certainly should pre all. Switzerland. fer to run against such a candidate rather Mrs. Chester wore her Girl Scout uniform [From the Milwaukee Sentinel, July 13, 1972] than against a sound and thoroughly expe in 1943 when she christened the wartime rienced opponent like Hubert Humphrey. Mas. CHESTER DIES; WAS CIVIC LEADER cargo ship Cape Bon at Wilmington, Del. The Hearst Newspapers a.re politically in Mrs. William Merrill Chester, 79, the orga dependent. In 1968, our papers split al In 1967, though a grandmother and 74 nizer of Girl Scouting in Milwaukee and years old, she was chosen by Gov. Warren though I personally supported Humphrey granddaughter of the founder of the T.A. over Nixon. The choice was difficult booause Chapman Co., died Wednesday of leukemia. Knowles to be general chairman of the gov ernor's 10th conference on children and both had had roughly the same practical Mrs. Chester, who had been ill for a.bout experience. two years, died at her home at 3590 N. Lake youth. She reacted with her customary en This year, barring some kind of miracle, Dr., Shorewood. She also had a summer home thusiasm for stimulating interest in young we probably will support Nixon because of at Oconomowoc Lake. people. his record and because nobody comes close She was internationally known for her As a young matron, Mrs. Chester was noted to his practical experience. work with the Girl Scout organization, ac for her ability to play tennis and for her sail We could never support George McGovern, tivities which spanned half a century. ing ability. The Chesters spent summers at CXVIII--1529-Pa.rt 19 24266 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 18, 1972 Oconomowoc Lake and were active in sailing OUR COUNTRY'S PROBLEMS ARE day when we go to the supermarket and and fox hunting there. DUE TO WILLINGNESS OF CITI find the price of steaks too high, to a great Mrs. Chester served on the Milwaukee ZENS TO HELP THEMSELVES extent because demand is outstripping sup Downer Board of Trustees from 1931 to 1964. ply; do we sacrifice a little and buy poultry She became a member of the Lawrence Uni or something else less expensive and let the versity board when the two schools consoli HON. W. C. (DAN) DANIEL free enterprise system help us by allowing dated in 1964. the smaller demand to force down prices? No, Bryn Mawr gave Mrs. Chester a distin OF VIRGINIA most of us can't do without the steak for guished service citation in 1960, citing her IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES a little while, so we buy it and go home only civic activities. Mount Mary College presented Tuesday, July 18, 1972 to fire off a letter to our congressman de her with its 1967 Pro Urbe medal for out manding that the government hold down standing civic service. In September, 1970, Mr. DANIEL of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, prices. Lawrence University granted her an hon during the recent congressional recess, I Finally, I mention the most disheartening orary doctor of humane letters degree. had the pleasure and pride to read a let thing of all. Now that we consider our chil Services wlll be at 11 a.m. Monday at St. ter from Mr. William E. Martin, of Field dren more as sources of trouble and incon Paul's Episcopal Church, 914 E. Knapp St. venience than joy; instead of doing some Burial wlli be in Forest Home Cemetery. ale, Va., to the editor of the Martinsville thing ourselves, we demand that the govern The family suggested contributions to the Bulletin. I have read few analyses of our ment set up child day care centers so that Girl Scouts of Milwaukee County, Lawrence Nation's difficulties which stated the we can get the kids out of our hair and let University and the University School of problems---and the solutions-more suc the state have the chore of bringing them Milwaukee. cinctly. up. This letter so impressed me that I re These examples are not the only ones that can be cited, but they amply show how far we quested permission of the writer to have have allowed ourselves to go. To our ever WlllTMER HIGH SCHOOL the letter reprinted for my colleagues. lasting shame, we have lost the ability or at This letter is all the more noteworthy be least the desire to do things for ourselves HON. THOMAS L. ASHLEY cause the writer is not of my generation, as individuals. The exact reasons for this loss but rather is 22 years old. of individual initiative may never be known. OF OHIO I specifically call attention to the clos One cause may well be that the tremendous IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ing paragraph of Mr. Martin's letter: growth of the mass media in recent years has made us lose sight of the individual himself. Tuesday, July 18, 1972 I don't know if we can persuade ourselves All we see, read and hear about these days Mr. ASHLEY. Mr. Speaker, it is with to change our concept of society around are masses (groups) of people. This may again. I hope we can because one thing 1S falsely lead us to believe that there are only great pride that I take this opportunity certain. If we do not reverse our thinking to congratulate the Whitmer High problems of the masses, and therefore, only soon, the already overburdened government solutions by the masses. This ls a very de School debate team of Toledo, Ohio, for in Washington will drown in a sea of un pressing thought indeed. winning its second consecutive national necessary demands by citizens and cease to I suspect, however, that a more important debate championship in the National be a source of those solutions which can cause of the loss of individual initiative is Forensic League--~Tournament, only come from the one institution that rep rthe fact that our forefathers built a society held at Wake Forest University in resents all people, all individuals, a.s a whole. that, while not perfect, was at least so suc The alternative to change therefore wm be cessful that we have all become like the brat Winston-Salem, N.C., from June 19 to chaos-if not anarchy. June 22. who inherits his father's fortune. We are I insert Mr. Martin's letter at this spoiled rotten and don't want to do anything In triumphing for the second straight for ourselves that we can get someone to do year, Whitmer becomes only the second point: for us. We have had things given to us so high school in the league's history to win [From the Martinsville, Va., Bulletin, easily that we have lost the desire to undergo back-to-back titles. The magnitude of June 28, 1972] the occasional short-term self-denial and the this achievement can be fully appreci LETTER TO THE EDITOR hard work that in the long run would make ated only when one understands how It has become commonplace for those of us our lives and the lives of all who share our competitive the tournament is. To qual who have complaints about anything to pack society much better and happier. This line of ify, a team must win either its district the blame off on the federal government. This reasoning does not come from an "old fogey". is very ironic because many of our problems It comes from a 22-year-old college graduate. tournament or its State championship. have been created by our willingness to pack I believe that there ls a remedy for our In March, Whitmer High teams won everything else off on Washington also. ailment, and it consists of a return to a more both the western Ohio championship and America's greatest problem today ls not the ordered concept of society. We must again the school's third consecutive Ohio State inability of the federal government to do its consider the individual as the center of our championship, thereby becoming only work properly; it is ours, the people's. In social structure. The individual, thus re one of four schools in the country to ability to do things for ourselves. In years moved from his present position as an obscure qualify two teams for the finals. gone by, when someone had a problem, he entity existing somewhere within the mass This year's winners of the national did all he could to solve it the best way he social system, will have to become once again knew how. He did not always succeed, but at self-dependent. He will view himself as the tournament, Jeffrey Lewis and William least he tried. That is much more than we master problem solver. The individual will Groves, outpointed some 80 other schools can say about ourselves. thus strive to do for himself all that he can; representing State and regional winners What happens today if we see something and only after he has done his best will he on the topic of whether the jury system we don't like? We ask why Washington turn to others for assistance. He wlll first go in the United States should be signifi doesn't do something about it. "My kids to those individuals who share his problem cantly changed. In addition, Whitmer's aren't making good grades in school; why and concern and work with them to find a Robert Perry and Lee Rosenbaum fin doesn't my congressman see that we have solution. If the answer eludes even this group, decent schools and teachers around here? I they will then turn to that body which rep ished seventh in the competition. watched TV last uight, and the programs resents the next largest group of individu Behind every good debate team, how were just horrible; why doesn't the govern als-the local government. Then of course, ever, there must be a good debate coach ment do something about the networks? I'm if needed, comes the state. Finally the mat and surely Whitmer's Esther Kalmbach not making enough money in my job; but ter will be taken to the federal government is one of the best. Since founding the doesn't the President make them pay me when it becomes evident that the problem program at Whitmer in 1961, Mrs. Kalm more money? I pay my taxes, and I think it's can only be solved by all individuals working bach has taken student teams to the na about high time I got something out of together as a Society of the Whole. The fed them!" eral government, now free from the task of tional finals nine times, with three State In the past, our counterparts would have having to decide questions better handled at and six district debate championships to made their kids study more; would have lower levels, wm be able to commit its full her credit. In her 12-year tenure, Mrs. watched something else on TV; or, Heaven resources to finding sound and just answers Kalmbach has coached her teams to two forbid, might even have done something con to the problems only it can solve. firsts, one second, one fifth, one seventh, structive with their time like read, knit or I don't know 1! we can persuade ourselves and one eighth place in the nationals, make odds and ends for use around the house. to change our concept of society around And if their job wasn't paying them what age.in. I hope that we can because one thing truly a remarkable record. they felt was a proper wage, they asked for a is certain. If we do not reverse our think Mr. Speaker, I applaud Mrs. Kalmbach raise or looked for another employer who paid ing soon, the already over-burdened govern and the members of the Whitmer High better. They didn't, In short, go rushing to the ment ln Washington will drown in a sea of debate teams and extend my best wishes government with their problems like a little unnecessary demands by citizens and cease for an unprecedented third consecutive child running home to his mama. to be a source of those solutions which can debate title next year. Things seem to be getting even worse. To- only come from the one institution that rep- July 18, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24267 resents all people, all individuals, as a whole. and separation from his people. It was en Senator McGovern hopes to make his $32 The alternative to change therefore, will be couraging to me to receive a warm letter of billion defense cut. chaos-if not anarchy. support from Cardinal Mindszenty endors We are already in danger of becoming a Sincerely, ing my resolution regarding the Holy Crown second-rate m111tary power. The Soviet Union WILLIAM E. MARTIN. of St. Stephen. has been expanding its military capacity It was precisely because of my concern over steadily as ours has decreased. The USSR has the present government 1n Hungary that I built a powerful modern navy while our have sponsored that resolution to insure that ships and naval power have been deteriorat HUNGARY, 1956 the Holy Crown of St. Stephen remains in ing. Soviet missile growth has continued and the safekeeping of the United States until military appropriations have flowed steadily Hungary once again enjoys a. freely elected into other armaments and manpower while HON. EDWARD J. DERWINSKI government. This resolution was supported we have de-emphasized these programs. OF ll.LINOIS by 36 members of the House, including such In addition, the Soviet Union spent 40 to good friends of Hungary as Congressman Bill 60 per cent more on military research and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Scherle, Ed Derwinskl and Frank Horton. development than the United States in fl.seal Tuesday, July 18, 1972 As I am sure you know, Secretary of State 1972. Rogers wm be in Hungary Thursday and Fri We have reached the real danger limit in Mr. DERWINSKI. Mr. Speaker, one of day of next week. I am certain you a.re as our defense cutbacks. my colleagues in the House whose ability concerned as I was as to what his visit might As that great Hungarian-American, Dr. Ed and determination I respect is LARRY mean for the status of the Holy Crown and ward Teller, recently said in his speech in HOGAN of the Fifth District of Mary for relations in general between the United New York during a. lecture series organized land. I am pleased to call to the atten States and Hungary. by the American Hungarian Historical and I am pleased to report to you tonight that Library Association: tion of the Members an address deliv I have been assured by the U.S. State De "It ls evident that, should the Russians be ered by Representative HOGAN before partment that Secretary Rogers does not plan able to successfully defend themselves while the Congress of the Hungarian Free to raise the issue of the Holy Crown. I have we could not, it would not take very long dom Fighters Federation on July 1, 1972. also been informed by the State Department before the fate of the United States-a coun I especially direct the attention of the that the Hungarian government has not re try which provided us with refuge and of Members to the poem, "Hungary, 1956," cently indicated any intention of discussing which we have become loyal citizens--wlll composed by Mr. HOGAN which is drama the issue of the Crown. be similar to that of Hungary or Czecho tic evidence of his depth of feeling and Obviously, we cannot say unequivocally slovakia. that the Holy Crown of St. Stephen will not "An equally unfortunate circumstance ls understanding of the tragic Soviet occu be included in the discussions, but I have our mental unpreparedness: the defeatist pation of Hungary in 1956. been assured by the State Department that stance of our immediate successors, the The address follows: there has been no change in American pol younger generation which ls soon to take over ADDRESS BY REPRESENTATIVE LAWRENCE J. icy regarding the Holy Crown. from us. What I as a professor have seen in HOGAN My continuing concern-and I am sure my hometown, on the Berkeley campus of Benjamin Franklin once said he would that of our visitor Benjamin Fra.nklln-18 the University of California does not augur like to come back in 200 years to see if that many Americans seem to have no re well for a sound defense . . ." Americans stm value their freedom. Sup spect for the lessons of history or have al "In the well-developed industrial parts of pose that great American Freedom Fighter ready forgotten those dearly learned lessons. the free world," continued Dr. Teller, "much returned today. What would he find? Do Take the example of Sen. J. William Ful of the fabric of stable human character has Americans stm value their freedom, or do bright who has tried to end the funding of disintegrated. Since a. like situation is hardly they take it for granted? You in this room Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty on the tolerated !beyond the Iron and Bamboo cur fought for freedom as Benjamin Franklin grounds that they are remnants of the Cold tains, the developing situation favors our ad did, so you cherish it. War. (I opposed his position every step of versaries." It would not be a very happy homecoming the way and I am pleased that his stand has Dr Teller continued, "Being among fellow for Benjamin Franklin, I'm afraid. He'd find been repudiated substantially by both Houses Hungarians who are fully aware from bitter a lack of respect for the ideas and ideals he of Congress.) experience what it means to be defenseless worked so hard for; the gift of freedom We must have Radio Free Europe and against the onslaught of superior forces, gives which too many take for granted. Radio Liberty to let the millions behind the me the chance to make a suggestion: we all The examples are everywhere: The Capitol Iron Curtain know what is really happening owe gratitude to our new homeland. To ex Building is bombed. The Pentagon is bombed. in the world. I know you don't have to be press it in a positive way, is our privilege The life work of scholars at universities is reminded of how critical that need ls. But and duty.... destroyed. Disruptions and violence have for those Americans who needed remind "We, who either through personal experi spread a.cross our land. ing-and there are plenty of those-there ence or that of our kin found oUJt about the Benjamin Franklin would be sorely dis was a recent interview with Alexander Russians, sampled their mentality through appointed about things going on in this Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning Soviet direct contact, have a. specific obligation: to country. Yes, our domestic problems con author. urge our American friends to realize the cern me, as I am sure they do you. But of He had some good things to say for Radio ever-increasing dangers looming on the hori even greater concern is our military posture Liberty. He said: "If we learn anything about zon. in the world and our attitude toward com events in our own country, it's from there." "Once the great Russian thrust for world munism and the threat it still poses to world Solzhenitsyn also said, "You Westerners domination is on the march, it is difficult to peace. cannot imagine my situation. No one dares see where and when it may stop. It is far There is no doubt that the so-called com to stand up and object to a party propa better, therefore, to prepare for it while this munist bloc is not the monolith it once ap gandist, because, if he does, the next day he is still in the realm of possibility." peared to be. But let us never forget who the may lose his job and even his freedom." I apologize to Dr. Teller for borrowing so communists really are. And yet, faced with the growing military liberally from his speech, but what he said, I It is the communists who invaded South strength of that nation which denies the thin has special meaning for you and for Korea, South Vietnam and Laos-regardless very liberties we hold so dear, we still hear me. We recognize that a strong defense of what the propagandists of the press and the loud and persistent cries of people such posture stands at the very heart of our Amer universities tell us. as Senator George McGovern who propose a ican Democracy-at the very heart of our It is the communists who keep whole na $32 billion cut in the defense budget! freedoms, our culture, our opportunities- tions captive. It 1s the communists who con Let's take a. look back for a moment at our all those things which make this country so fine Russian intellectuals to insane asylums defense spending in recent years. In fl.seal great. We must remember that these cher for "treatment." It 1s communists who tol 1968, defense spending approximated 10 per ished blessings are only as secure as our erate no dissent. cent of our gross national product. Under the m1litary defenses are strong. It was the communists who invaded Czech Nixon Administration . that figure has been So I join Dr. Teller in asking you who know oslovakia. in 1968. reduced to below 7 per cent. Defense spend so poignantly what freedom really means to And who in the world-most especially in ing for fl.seal 1972 was down more than $20 help keep the importance of our defensive this room-can ever forget who brutally billion from the 1968 level and almost down strength before the American people. crushed the heroic people of Hungary in to the pre-war spending level of fl.seal 1964- It ls also apparent after the recent sum 1956? thls following a period of high inflation. mit talks that there may be changes in the I recently heard of an 80-year-old man be In addition, the number of active duty Soviet attitude toward Hungary. Some of ing tried in Buda.pest. His terrible crime? military personnel had returned to its pre those changes toward increased economic Sending money out of Hungary to support war level. At the end of the fiscal year (yes freedom appear hopeful. At the same time, his stepson. terday) there were 180,000 fewer men in Hungary may, in the future, have to be much And it is the communists who have made uniform than in 1964 before the Vietnam more concerned about the supply of raw the last 16 years of Joseph Cardinal Minds buildup. materials fl.owing from Russia, and Russia, zenty's life a sorrow-filled time of loneliness Given those statistics, we have to ask where if trade ts opened up with the U.S., wlll be 24268 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 18, 1972 less dependent on Hungary for the supply of Freedom I Freedom ls to be! would like to share with my fellow con consumer goods. This could alter the rela Oh, to be free I To be free l tions between Hungary and the USSR. This Hearts throb for love of country gressmen Mr. Faris' comments concern could augur good or 111, depending on events Throats aching from shouting defiantly, ing the impact of education on our as they unfold. Constrict and tea.rs leak out of eyes society: I know some of you are concerned that That had wept so many of despalr's cries. I WONDER? the recent summit talks may mean a shift People, like me, without very much educa in the attitude of the United States toward "Now come, America, and give your solace tion, have a tendency to overrate its impor To this proud, brave populace tance in the scheme of our general lives. Hungary. I do not believe that ls the case. And rejoice in this heroic spirit I feel-and I hope-that most Americans Arising from a coma, and share it. We strive mightily, and go without many know that we must remain committed to the Come, America, and help this rag-tag army things so that we can give our children "the cause of Hungarian freedom. advantages we never had." Because of the importance I attach to As France helped you so long ago But I wonder, now and aagin, if our zeal in America's commitment to Hungary, yester By making your revolt her own. forcing our children into the mold of edu day I wrote to President Nlxon suggesting Come help reap what love of freedom has cated citizens may not actually be depriving that in t he same manner in which he visited sown. them of those intangibles that brought pride Yugoslavia, Poland and Rumania, that he Come, America, with your mighty hands of to my generation and glory and respect to also in the near future visit Hungary I Such a friendship this country during the time of my youth. visit would be symbolic of our undying To shelter freedom's fire in kinship. commitment to the Hungarian people and a Hear the Freedom fighter's shout I become concerned, and I wonder where pract ical opportunity to offer them our as Don't let freedom be snuffed out. we "went wrong with our educational sistance and afford them~the people of Come, America, and answer this plea theories" when I read reports like the one Hungary-the opportunity to demonstrate From a nation hungry to be free." just released by pollster Daniel Yankelovich. to the USSR and the world their bond of Mr. Yankelovich found that of those As days pass, awaiting America's hand, Americans 17 through 23 yea.rs of age, 30 affection and friendship for the United An ominous quiet envelopes the land. States. percent are in college. It ls up to people such as you and I who An eerie calm forewarns of storm He also found a great difference in the know and love freedom, to make certain that As lines of desperate resistance form. attitude of those persons in college and Suddenly, ·:;he bleak November sky those in the work force. For example: it survives in this hostile world. This great Is pierced by Soviet MIO's screaming cry. gift carries with it great responsibllities to And into every Buda.pest street, 80 percent of those not in college favor a preserve liberty here and extend its blessing Firing on all they meet, greater emphasis on law and order compared to those who do not have it. Russian tanks rumble to 57 percent of undergraduates. We have been a great legacy of liberty. To make all opposition crumble. Only 22 percent of the non-students say It ls up to us to make certain tha:t this Tanks take vigil on each corner and wait. they want more sexual freedom as against cherished legacy of freedom does not pass "Come, America, the hour is late I" 43 percent of college students. from this earth. 60 percent of the non-students felt that And now, I would like to exercise a per Salvo after salvo of artillery patriotism was important, but only 35 per sonal prerogative. I have been asked many Bear witness to Soviet villainy. cent of those in college felt it was. times why I have taken such an interest In Buildings crumble or are licked by flames the problems of Hungary since I am not of As cruel retaliation takes its claims. Mr. Yankelovich believes the reason the Hungarian descent and I have very few Wreckage chokes Hungarian street,s differences appear ls the promotion of anti Hungarians in my congressional district. And enemy fire cuts off retreats. establlshment views on the campuses. He Well, the said events of 1956 In Hungary Behind blocked windows resisters stare doesn't tell us what part a radical faculty had a deep and lasting influence on my As smoke and stench of death, poison the plays in this mess, or a permissive atmos personal life as an American. I was so moved air phere, or too much money and too many by that historic tragedy that I wrote a poem Freedom fighters spend dwindling rounds cars, or meaningless curricula. He just says to express my feelings. Because it might ex and wait these problems exist. plain why I have made Hungary's cause, In hopeless defiance of their fate I wonder if people like me, who deep down my cause, and because it might Indicate As Soviet soldiers, recapturing a nation, in their heart feel that education should how I feel about Hungarians, I would like Bring house-to-house annihilation. be the panecea to everything, the solution to impose on you at this point to read my In a last gasp to make fate pause, to all our problems, aren't really the cause poem, entitled "Hungary, 1956": Anonymous heroes die in a lost cause. of most of these troubles. HUNGARY, 1956 "Come, America., and watch a nation die I wounder if education, by itself, without As all who love freedom cry!" Under Soviet oppression pride of accomplishment or a sense of re And tyrannous aggression The Russian shooting decreases sponsibility or a love of country may not yet People lived in deep despair As the last remnant of resistance ceases. become the Frankenstein Monster that will And dark clouds hung everywhere Wisps of tell-tale smoke rise destroy us. In this nation without hope or goals. Where the corpse of freedom lies, I wonder. But, under burned-out coals, Its acrid smell should shame Freedom smoldered there The nostrils of all who share the blame. Beneath that blanket of despair. "Where were you, America, as freedom died SAVING ON THE COST OF COLLEGE Then, just as pressure of sttfllng suffocation To redeem the promise which you lied? On a dying fire makes spoDJtaneous com- You whose own quest for freedom's chance HON. G. ELLIOTT HAGAN bustion Would have failed without the aid of France. The long-dorm.ant spark exploded Where were you, America, when children OF GEORGIA To enfl.ame a pwtrlotism so long eroded. died in bravery IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Fighting a war that could have saved the Old men and young boys, Tuesday, July 18, 1972 Became r.ag-tag soldiers adrift- world from slavery. Gambling God's most precious gift Where were you, America, when the boot of Mr. HAGAN. Mr. Speaker, as the cost For a chance to rescue their nation tyranny stomped out freedom's fire? of attending college has steadily risen, By risking wild confrontation; You were there, America, as pallbearer at proposals of how to beat the high cost To make a choice: the funeral pyre!" Which ls no choice: have multiplied. Shortening the time re Quick, rewarding death quired for a degree is not a new idea, but Or slow, living death. when the suggestion comes from such a Soft-skinned boys emerge as men IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION prestigious organization as the Southern To learn what life might have been. Regional Education Board it is worthy of Old men forget infirmities consideration. The board has under study And women ignore their frailties, HON. JOHN J. DUNCAN different ways of inaugurating a degree As an inspired nation arises 1n bravery OF TENNESSEE program that will require only 3 years, To cast off the chains of slavery IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES instead of the usual 4. The board is a And invest sacrifice and dedication multistate organization, and believes With prayer and desperation Tuesday, July 18, 1972 that a 25-percent saving can result from In a Wild gamble to be free- Mr. DUNCAN. Mr. Speaker, I was very a 3-year course. 'To make impossibllity, reality. To the world's disbelief impressed by the sound sense expressed The Augusta Chronicle of June 12, And their own ecstatic relief- by William B. Faris, executive director 1972, discussed the prospects in an edi .Amazing, odds-defying success of the Tennessee Society of Professional torial entitled "Saving One-Fourth," as Exhilarating, intoxicating, joyful success I Engineers, in their June 1972, journal. I follows: July 18, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24269 SAVING ONE-FOURTH Colorado River Basin Project Blll, which FIVE CAPITOL LIVES Is anyone interested in saving one-fourth guarantees California's share of the river of the escalating cost of sending his sons and water. He ls the chief Congressional sponsor daughters to college? It ls a rare parent, of of three other projects vital to the state's HON. WILLIAM L. HUNGATE course, who isn't. future water supply The Peripheral Canal. OF MISSOURI That is what gives widespread interest to The California Undersea Aqueduct and the a three-day meeting in Atlanta, ending to Desalting of Seawater. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES day, under the sponsorship of the Southern Among his other legislative interests is Tuesday, July 18, 1972 Regional Education Board. The meeting will concern for the handicapped. Hosmer's bill have, prominent on its agenda, a thorough to provide greater job opportunities for those Mr. HUNGATE. Mr. Speaker, the July discussion of ways to inaugurate a degree who are handicapped was passed by Con 1972 jssue of the TWA Ambassador car program that will take three years instead of gress last year. It extended to the severely ried a story entitled "Five Capitol Lives'' the traditional four. It ls the first such handicapped the special privileges previously and should be of interest to all Members meeting by a multi-state organization to accorded only to the blind in sell1ng products as it contains an article on our colleague concentrate on the subject. and services to the federal government. (FRED SCHWENGEL) . It is also particularly Many educators and state legislators be At the time of its passage the Congress of lieve that as much as 25 per cent of the interesting to Missourians because its man said, "Many of the severely handicapped coverage of Joe Lastelic of the Kansas total cost of a college education could be of the more than 225,000 Vietnam era veter saved by the three-year degree. It could be City Star. ans would be eligible for employment in F.lvE CAPITOL LivEs done by several procedures. workshops having contracts under this One would be to ascertain what areas of change in the present law. The disabled need By 8 a.m., Fred Schwengel, Bob McCor instruction are subject to an overlapping rehabllitation, but even more they need jobs. mick, Jam.es Powell and Joe Lastelic are get between high school and college, and elim This will Inake that possible by providing ting ready to start their day at the Capitol inate that area from the college curriculum. federal contracts to sheltered workshops for and 16-year-old Atlee Valentine is already Another would be to test knowledge the stu the handicapped." well into hers. dent may already possess, and waive the These flve--Congressman, guide, police college courses covered by that knowledge. For his efforts, he was honored by the chief, correspondent and page--are just a A third and more conventional means ls Goodwill Industries of America. In the cita sprinkling of the cast of the daily drama simply to go to school in the summers. tion, it was pointed out that the Hosmer of the Capitol. But they, their colleagues, More than 150 persons from colleges, uni sponsored legislation would permit Goodwill and counterparts of years past, are as much versities, secondary schools, state depart to increase 1-ts employment of handicapped the Capitol story as the sandstone that ments of education and legislatures will try by 10% nationwide as the result of the ex George Washington cominissioned to be used to make serious progress toward this goal at pected increase in orders from the federal in the West Front ..• the Atlanta sessdons. It will be not merely a government. Fred Schwengel, Congressman, quips, survey of pros and cons, but an examination Congressman Hosmer ls an articulate ad "Frankly, I'm the only Republican that of the "how-to's." vocate of nuclear electric power, attempting heads any group on the run." The eight The beneficiary should be the student- to allay the fears, and the many exaggerated term Republican Congressman from Iowa's and parents who pay the bills. cries of alarm about this comparatively new First District (Iowa City, Davenport, etc.) development. proudly states he is president of the U.S. Here ls how Hosmer sums up his position, Capitol Historical Society, which he helped "Nuclear power plants are being developed found in 1962. As such, he is const antly and built because they are better or cheaper extolling the virtues of the Capitol. He drives MEET THE ME:MBER or more acceptable or more availa.ble than around it every morning just for inspira the alternatives. This ls not to say they are tion. He even carries applicable quotes in his perfect. But they are safe, they are reliable pocket, laminated, so they won't wear out. HON. GERALD R. FORD and they are economic in most regions in the "You know what Nehru said about the country. And, from an environmental stand Capitol? He said ... " OJ' MICmGAN point, they are relatively clean. The genera But primarily, Schwengel ls a Congress IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tion of electricity, by whatever means, ls man. That means he has to do his job on Tuesday, July 18, 1972 going to have some effect on the environ the Hill, and keep the fences mended back ment." home so Iowa voters will keep him there. Mr. GERALD R. FORD. Mr. Speaker, It makes for a long day. It is never possible to produce power with At 7:30 he hits his office and confers with the effective work of our respected col out some thermal effect. Hosmer points out league from California (Mr. HOSMER) his staff about what's coming up. Then his that even hydro plants have a small warm secretary brings mail-only-the-Congressman is occasionally noted by the media. The ing tendency. But ambient air or water tem can-answer and he dictates till near 10 a.m., fallowing are highlights from two of perature changes are not necessarily dis when, from Monday through Thursday, his radio commentator Joseph McCaffrey's astrous. He believes the term "thermal pol comillittees meet. Committees are where the "Meet the Member" broadcasts: lution" is a misnomer. Putting heat into bulk of Congressional work ls done, so MEET THE MEMBER the water isn't necessarily pollution. A water Schwengel attends. California's Craig Hosmer is one of the heater in a home ls not a water polluter. Between the end of the committee ses outstanding congressional authorities on Heat 1§ energy and energy is a very valuable sion and the noon start of the House session, atomic energy. As a member of the Joint commodity in our society. The objective is to Schwengel grabs a quick bite in the House Atomic Committee, the Republican Con dining room. House sessions last varying build power plants at sites calculated to re lengths of time, depending on the amount gressman has devoted years to its problems sult in minimal adverse effects, or even bene and today has a sound, first-hand knowledge of voting to be done, and the controversial ficial ones. ity of the bills. But Schwengel generally gets of it. We live with radiation every day of our First elected to the House of Represen back to his office around 4 p.m. By then, tatives in 1952. Craig Hosmer is a graduate lives, with the exposure varying each year. constituents from Iowa are waiting in his of the University of California a.t Berkeley Hosmer feels that with more experience, plus office, and Schwengel starts his dally round and of the Law School at the University of the normal flow of new technology and the of hand-shaking, anecdote-trading and Southern California. A veteran of World promise of major breakthroughs, such as problem-solving. After signing a foot-high War II, he ls now a rear admiral in the breeder and fusion reactors, the atom's over stack of mall, he's "on the horn" to im Naval Reserve. all posture will get even stronger. Hosmer portant telephone contacts back in Iowa. Hosmer ls generally recognized as an in asks, "Wouldn't it be ironic if we lost the If the Iowa Congressman were interested, formed and articulate spokesman on all tremendous potential of atomic energy, not he could attend an endless string of cocktail aspects of United States nuclear policy, being because we couldn't control its power, but parties on the Washington circuit. But frequently called upon for service with Schwengel skips most of them, unless they because we couldn't control our fear?" involve his district in some manner. American delegations to international con Not limited to his work as a member of ferences on atoillic energy and arms control. Schwengel's passionate affair with the the Interior Committee and the Joint Atomic building where he works not only leads him He also serves as chairman of the House Committee, the Congressman has joined with Republican Conference Committee on Nu to promote it personally, but when he lost clear Affairs. nine other members of the House seeking a a bid for re-election a few years back, he The ranking Republican member of the study of year round daylight savings time. spent his two-year "sabbatical" helping pro Interior Subcomillittee on Irrigatio~ and His biggest job on Capitol Hill stlll re duce We, The People, the most authoritative Reclamation which overseas all federal water mains that of helping people. Last year more and popular book on the Capitol, which has projects, the Congressman is viewed as a than 1,600 residents of his district sought his sold nearly 3 million copies. progressive thinker regarding Southern Cali help with problems involving the Veterans Atlee Valentine, Senate Page, at 16 starts fornia's water needs. In 1968, he was one Administration, Social Security, the mili school earlier than most teenagers-at 6 in of the principal architects of the historic tary and other federal agencies. the morning. 24270 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 18, 1972 That's because Atlee is one of five girl pages conventionally dressed?' " Powell granted Rebels Senior Drum and Bugle Corps of assigned to the U.S. Senate, and has to com permission. the Hamilton American Legion Post No. plete her school day before the daily 10 a.m. The Capitol police force is being expanded 20 in Baltimore for their outstanding session starts. rapidly, both in numbers and training, partly Until a year ago, there had been no girl as a. result of an explosion in a public wash achievements and promotion of pages in the history of the Senate. But Wom room in the Capitol a year ago. As usual, patriotism. en's Lib finally took its toll of tradition, and following such explosions, the police switch This group has gained national recog a girl was first named in early 1971. board lit up with phony bomb threats for nition. In August of 1971, the Yankee The pretty teenage Tennessean is up at 6 weeks afterward. "But Congress decided not Rebels won their third consecutive every morning, and attends the Capital Page to evacuate the building on just threats. American Legion national championship. School in the third floor of the nearby Library They're determined to keep democracy oper They have been the Maryland State of Congress with about 75 other pages from ating 1n an open atmosphere," says Powell. both sides of Congress. Before the sessions, Joe Lastelic, Capitol Correspondent, knows · champions every year since 1946. The Atlee and her fellow pages put Senators' no one man can cover the Capitol. No. 20 men corps are justifiably proud of this record. desks in order with copies of current legisla can cover the Capitol. But every working On July 22, the Yankee Rebels will tion, including the Congressional Record, day, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Joe Lastelic gives sponsor the 19th annual March of bills, calendars, amendments and other mate it his best. Champions at Baltimore Memorial Sta rials. During sessions, they carry messages For 11 years, Lastelic has been part of the dium. Groups from Canada, New York, and fetch water to wet Senatorial vocal Kansas City Star's two-man Washington Bu New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Connecti cords. reau. Through the keys of his typewriter, will The work may seem menial, but Atlee and readers find out what their Senators and Rep cut compete in this event, which is her colleagues treasure the opportunity to resentatives are doing, what federal legisla the largest senior drum and bugle corps work at the center of legislative power. She tion is passed regarding Kansas and Missouri, competition in the Nation. In addition, doesn't know yet what she'll do with her and how La.stelic views politics, Washingiton the U.S. Marine Drum and Bugle Corps experience; she's just glad to be there. style. and Silent Drill Team will perform. Over Bob McCormick, Assistant Chief Guide, Some Washington correspondents view life 19,000 persons attended the show last has an inextinguishable enthusiasm for the on the Hill with cynicism, but not Lestelle. year and this year's program is likely to Capitol, its history and its occupants, stem "The Capitol," he says, "is the symbol of attract an even larger number. ming from a stint as a page many years ago. democracy, far more than the White House." He supervises a team of 24 guides. He likes his Job, and he likes most politicians, In addition to providing entertainment, McCormick's day starts at 9 a.m. when the finding them a fascinating and generally in drum and bugle corps, many of which huge bronze doors open to the public. From telligent group. "You've got to remember, are sponsored by veterans' and other then until the last tour is started before the these guys all had to convince the voters patriotic organizations, instill in the building closes at 4:30 p.m. McCormick di back home that they were the best man spectators a sense of pride in America. rects his guides-12 men, 12 women-in their running," he says. The Yankee Rebels won the National task of leading 35-minute tours around the Joe starts his day at 9 a.m. 1n his down Freedoms Foundation Award for their Capitol. town office. First he checks the "tin sheet" efforts to "preserve and extend the "The biggest misconception people have is supplied by the Associated Press for the 1,500 that the President works here," McCormick accredited Capitol correspondents. It includes American way of life under the Consti says. Actually, the President seldom visits the committee meetings of the day and a cap tution and the Bill of Rights." At a time the Capitol. He's inaugurated there, speaks to sul summary. From this, Lastelic chooses in our history when patriotism has been a joint session in his State of the Union his Journalistic prey for the day, and by 10 subjected to a heavy discount by many, address, but otherwise seldom utmzes the he's at the meeting, 1f its open to the public the drum and bugle corps across our Na President's Room set aside for him. ( about 30 per cent of the meetings are tion are serving a valuable purpose. I "All of us very intensely want to convey closed). salute the members of the Yankee Rebels to visitors the majesty of this building," says Headquarters for correspondents on the for their dedication to making Americans McCormick. For this reason, it sometimes Hill are the House and Senate press galleries dismays him that the main memory some just off the respective chambers. There, a proud to be Americans. people have of the Capitol is the peculiar battery of telephcnes, Teletypes and type acoustical characteristics of Statuary Hall: writers keeps them in touch with the media. a group of people standing on one side (near The actual House and Senate sessions are where John Quincy Adams was fa.tally strick usually of little interest to him, although GULFPORT, MISS., POST OFFICE en in 1848) can hear whispered words spoken occasionally news of a hot debate goes WINS SAFETY AWARD on the other side of the hall. around the Capitol press corps and brings Dally crowds range from a few hundred to reporters flocking to the chambers. 11,000, depending on the time of year. Guides Most of Lastelic's day ls spent buttonholing HON. WILLIAM M. COLMER are knowledgeable, and answer a variety of newsmaking Congressmen and cultivating OF MISSISSIPPI questions. "No anecdotes, though. You never friendships with important contacts. "You IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES know when an anecdote wm offend someone." can't overestimate the importance of personal James M. Powell, Chief, Capitol Police, friendship on the Hill," says Lastelic, "wheth Tuesday, July 18, 1972 knows the Capitol is the Symbol of Democ er between lawmakers or between reporters racy for the vast majority of visitors. But and news sources." Mr. COLMER. Mr. Speaker, I wish to for a. tiny number suffering mental or ideo Lastelic returns to his office by late after extend my warmest congratulations to logical problems, the Capitol represents a noon to write and file his stories. If he's Postmaster W. B. Harris, of Gulfport, target for potentially lethal violence. Hence lucky, he's home to his family by 6 p.m. Burt; Miss., and the many fine postal em the 1,000-man Capitol police force, one of the that's not necessarily the end of his work ployees in his office for their outstanding best-trained-and most polite-police forces day. achievement in winning national recog in the country. Unable to attend all, most, or even enough nition for injury prevention safety for The men are taught, in Chief Powell's of, meetings where Congress does most of its words, "to be courteous, diplomatic, tactful work, Washington correspondents become 1971. The Gulfport Post Office had no and firm-with sufficient elasticity." This is omnlverous readers. Lastelic spends hours at disabling injuries during 1971. because the ubiquitous Capitol police are home perusing reports, minutes, statements I include as a part of my remarks an asked every conceivable question by tourists, and press releases. article from the June 29, 1972, issue of from: "Where can I get some of that famous Congressmen, pages, Capitol police, guides the Biloxi-Gulfport Daily Herald: Senate Bean Soup?" ("In the Senate Dining and newsmen, plus all tee other thousands Gulfport Post Office was the national Room, m'am") "How much paint does it to: who work there, make the Capitol not just winner in injury prevention safety for 1971 take to cover the dome?" ("About 1,750 gal a marble monument but a. living symbol. after a study of almost 1,000 post offices its lons, sir"). size, according to Postmaster W. B. Harris. Occasionally, however, the Capitol police The postmaster acknowledged receipt of a have to control crowds or detain trouble plaque from the National Safety Council de makers, such as the mentally disturbed man TRIBUTE TO YANKEE REBELS DRUM claring Gulfport the winner of Division 9 in who entered the House side some months AND dicating the area served by the post office had back and carved up a 20-by-30-foot painting BUGLE CORPS with a pair of scissors. "no disabling injuries during the year." Other incidents require a more diplomatic Harris commented, "I commend the 135 approach. A few weeks ago, for instance, four HON. CLARENCE D. LONG Gulfpsrt postal employees and publicly bizarrely dressed young men asked permis OF MARYLAND thank them for this admirable record. Safety sion to distribute invitations to members of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES they have proved, doesn't cost you, 1t saves Congress to attend a. religious revival. Tuesday, July 18, 1972 you." "Ten years a.go our attitude might have He addad, "I hope that in the future all the been different," said the Chief. "Now I have Mr. LONG of Maryland. Mr. Speaker, post offices in our area will be safety con to ask myself, 'What would I do 1f they were I want to pay tribute to the Yankee scious with such good results." July 18, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24271 GUNS AND THEffi VICTIMS: CHI Unlike those who died in war, most of the Cabrini-Green Homes housing projects, CAGO TRIBUNE TASK FORCE RE the victims of this manmade plague did not will not be there to describe how street gangs die for a cause, or even a. good reason. exercise that right by walking a.round her PORT, PART I A few died just because someone felt like neighborhood with pistols dangling from killing and had a gun. their belts and carbines slung from their HON. ABNER J. MIKVA Others were slain defending their homes shoulders. or shops against criminals, but the major The Task Force interviewed numerous vic OF ILLINOIS ity-7,000 out of the 10,000-were shot down tims of gun crimes and their fammes. Pamela IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in domestic spats, tavern brawls, or in dis Banks, Mrs. Malone, and Peter Pannos are Tuesday, July 18, 1972 putes over a card game. Squabbles that three of them. If they could be at Tuesday's might have ended at worst with a broken hearings, this would be their testimony: Mr. MIKVA. Mr. Speaker, two Con jaw ended in death for these people. The door leading to the Banks' famlly gressmen are having an argument over Like Carlisle, they lost their arguments to apartment at 1724 W. 66th St. ls flanked by the wording of a bill. Voices become the murderous logic of the gun. That is why the names of two rival street gangs painted louder; the tension is steadily increasing. his death and Ouster's a.re as important as on the wall. Those proclamations symbolize they a.re commonplace. the dilemma of the family. The Banks a.re There does not appear to be an available They a.re flesh-and-blood examples of what the noncombatants in the urban warfare compromise. One of the men opens his gun control experts try to say with statistics: waged with guns nightly in their neighbor drawer, takes out a small handgun, and The vast number and the availability of hood. On the night of March 17 the war shoots the other. Bizarre? Impossible? guns, combined with the ease of their use, found them. Perhaps. Yet the majority of all handgun a.re escalating fights into murders and TAKES TARGET PRACTICE making murderers out of people who might slayings, 7,000 out of 10,000, were the Pamela. and her mother, Mary, 29, were result of ''friendly" disputes, domestic otherwise never deliberately break the law. walking the famlly dog. Nearby, a. group of spats, or tavern brawls. NEVER BEFORE IN TROUBLE gang members decided to start practicing The Chicago Tribune recently put to According to the Federal Bureau of In with their .22 caliber revolvers. gether a task force to study this epidemic vestigation, the vast majority of gun killers Had they lived in the country they might of violence. Reporters toured seven have never been in trouble before, ordinary have shot at a rabbit or squirrel. But this was people who pull a. trigger in a. moment of the city and the nearest moving animal was States. They bought guns, worked as gun anger. Pamela's dog, Uno. Mrs. Banks remembers it runners, saw the carnage, talked to vic But this slaughter is producing more than this way: tims and survivors. What fallows is the the loss of life. Each death leaves tragedy and "I heard firecracker sounds and then I saw first in a series of 10 task force reports. pain that lives on in the families of the vic Pamela drop to the sidewalk. There were four Today's entry is based on interviews tims. or five teen-agers standing near her and Uno with victims of this firearm plague If all those families were gathered together, was running in circles with blood all over people who were never asked to testify they would form a long and mournful pro him. I ran toward Pamela screaming 'Oh before congressional gun contra! hear cession of orphaned children and childless my God, my baby's hurt. I thought she was parents, of widows and widowers, of hopes dead." ings. It describes the fear and the and dreams obliterated in the brief but final A bullet lodged behind Pamela's right predicament of many, who must live blast of a snubnosed .38 or a sawed-off shot eye. She lay in the hospital for 33 days mum alongside modern street gangs equipped gun. bling over and over, "No. No. Don't shoot my with the firepower of a small army. Al Altho the families of the victiIUS knew dog. Don't shoot Uno." Pollce theorized she though critics of gun control legislation better than anyone else the agony caused was shot while trying to protect the dog claim they have the right to protect their by the firearms plague, not one of them has from youths who had tortured the animal homes, the most prevalent means by been invited to the gun control hearings that summer by driving nails into its back which illegal firearms are obtained is which the House Judiciary Committee will and paws. through home burglaries. It is a vicious begin Tuesday in Washington. SHOOTING LEAVES MARK cycle ; as more people buy guns to pro "NOT A SOAP OPERA" Pamela survived the shooting without tect themselves, more criminals become Ben Zelinka, staff aide to Rep. Emanuel permanent injury, but the incident has left armed by stealing those guns. Opponents Celler [D., N.Y.], committee chairman, ex its mark on the entire family. plained why: "We're always on edge," said Mrs. Banks. to gun control legislation state that all "Congressional hearings are not a soap "Pamela can't sleep without a light on and we need to do is enforce our present laws. opera. Their testimony would be useful in she's afraid to sleep alone. I'm afraid myself. Yet, current laws are so fragmented and mobllizing public opinion, but it would not When I drive home, I get out of the car and lacking in uniformity that weak laws in be important for legislative background." I run into the building." one jurisdiction often subvert strong laws Nor will the committee hear testimony Now Uno growls at every stranger when in neighboring jurisdictions. from even one of America's walking Pamela's father, John, walks him. "He'll I commend this compelling 10 part wounded-the tens of thousands who have charge at someone and I'll think, 'Is that the series to my colleagues, beginning with been scarred or crippled by gunfire. one who did it?'" the first article which follows: Instead, it wm listen to the same type of The family also has strong views on gun witnesses who have appeared at all the gun control. FmEARMS To SLAY 10,000 THIS YEAR control hearings held in the last five years "It has to happen to one of your family be (By George Bliss, director, and reporters senators, congressmen, mayors, governors, fore you really understand what these guns Philip Caputo, William Currie, Robert En police chiefs, administration officials, and and shootings are all about," said John stad, and Pamela Zekman) spokesmen for the National Rifle Association. Banks. "I think the only thing they can Gerald Carlisle tried to win the hand but The committee will probably hear the oft do is stop manufacturing these small hand lost his life. repea.ted fact that there a.re 90 to 115 m.11- guns and just make revolvers for the police The 30-year-old South Sider was playing lion firearms in the nation, 24 million of and military. I don't think the police need poker at 6438 S. Drexel Blvd. He and another which are handguns, and that handguns ac small caliber guns, so why make them?" player began quarreling over who had won count for a.bout 80 per cent of all firearms Ribert Meltzer, president of Criterion Die a pot. murders. and Machine Co., a New York City fl.rm that Carlisle pulled a .32 caliber revolver he It will not hear 10-year-old Pamela Banks makes 100,000 .22 caliber handguns a year, carried for his protection and fired a snot tell them that she is too terrified to sleep provided at least one answer to that ques into the floor. without the light on. That fear ls the emo tion: REACHES FOR CHANGE tional wound left by the .22 callber handgun "Because it's a profitable business," he told bullet that struck her in the head three a Task Force reporter. "Be cool, man. Take the money," someone months ago. said. Regardless of caliber, handgun manufac The committee, which is holding hearings turing is profitable. An estimated 2.5 million Carlisle reached for the pile of change. It in response to the shooting and resulting was the last thing he would ever do. The paralysis of Alabama Gov. George Wallace, handguns are produced each year, with an other player opened fire with a .38 caliber may also hear that in 1970 there were 9,960 nual sales exceeding $50 million. handgun, killing Carlisle and another man, murders, 130,000 robberies, and 80,000 aggra Peter Pannos is one of the byproducts of Joseph Guster, 52. vated assaults committed with firearms. that business. Many killings such as this do not get But it will not hear Peter Pannos, 14, tell Peter ma.de the error of standing in front written about in newspapers because 30 gun a.bout the night of April 21, when a .38 ca.Uber of a store at Evergreen Street and Washtenaw homicides occur every day in America. slug struck him in the spine, paralyzing him. Avenue when the Latin Kings chose to terror Ten thousand persons are murdered year The committee will probably hear the ize their arch-rivals, the Latin Disciples. ly in the United States with handguns, shot N.R.A. argue, as it has in the past, that BRASS KNUCKLES POSSE guns, and rifles. For every American killed Americans have a. constitutional right to Like all modern street gangs, the Kings do 1n Viet Na.m since 1970, two were killed by keep a.nd bear arms. not use brass knuckles or chains. The avail gunfire in this country. But Mrs. Katherine Malone, a resident of ability of guns ha.s allowed them to eqUip 24272 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 18, 1972 themselves with the firepower of a small eral security regulations for the storage and sional team sports under the antitrust army. transportation of firearms are so lax that laws; H.R. 1206, and identical bills, to Peter knew about the gang rivalry, just as amateur burglars can obtain guns with ease he knew that he was in Disciple territory and from shipments and sporting good stores. end basketball's judicial antitrust ex that the figure across the street was dressed A black market in firearms continues to emption; H.R. 2305; and H.R. 10185, in the uniform of a Kings-black coat, snap flourish despite all the gun control laws. Gun and identical bills, proposing the merger brim hat, and maroon sweater. runners dally join with unscrupulous deal of the American and National Basket He wasn't afraid because, being of Greek ers to ship contra.band weapons across state ball Associations. descent, the Puerto Rican gangs never both lines. To demonstrate this technique, two The hearings will be held in room 2141, ered him. Then he heard the youth shout reporters lived the lives of interstate gun Rayburn House Office Building, begin "Kings run it!" As he turned toward the runners in Florida, Virginia, and Iowa. ning at 10 a.m. Parties interested in sound the figure raised a revolver and Peter Another source is the pilferage of weapons saw an orange flash. parts from firearms manufacturers. A New offering testimony or submitting state "I guess he thought I was a Disciple," Peter York City firm lost enough parts in one ments for the hearing record should con said from his bed in Walther Memorial Hos year to make 10,000 handguns. The Task tact the committee. pital. "I heard the shot and felt a burning Force found how these stolen parts were as pa.in in my stoma.ch. I thought I'd been shot sembled by gun "bootleggers," then sold on in the stoma.ch because blood was bubbling the streets of the Bronx and Harlem. out of my mouth. I tried to get back in the The nation's courts show an appallingly IDGH SCHOOL SURVEY RESULTS store. Then my legs crumpled and I was hang low conviction rate for persons charged with ing onto the door handle with my hands. gun law violations. Statistics gathered from "LEGS WOULDN'T MOVE" Chicago, Washington, and New York show HON. DAVID N. HENDERSON that only a.bout one of every eight defend "I shouted to the owner to let me in, but ants serves even a single day in jail. OF NORTH CAROLINA he was scared and locked the door on me. Current laws a.re so fragmented and la.ek IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES That's when I felt real tired like and rolled ing in uniforlnity that weak laws in one Tuesday, July 18, 1972 over on my back. I couldn't feel anything in jurisdiction often subvert strong laws in my legs. My legs wouldn't move." neighboring jurisdictions. For example, New Mr. HENDERSON. Mr. Speaker, this Peter's legs wlll never move. Neither wlll York and Chicago, which have tough gun past spring, I asked each high school in his hips, nor any part of his body below his registration laws, are flooded with unreg my district to undertake for me a survey chest. The bullet struck him in the mouth, istered guns purchased in suburban areas then drilled thru the lower part of his head with less stringent controls. of its senior class. My objective was to to lodge in his upper spine. He shifts himself Contrary to popular myth, the manufac get the opinion of high school seniors on in bed by grasping a trapeze-like bar that turing of the cheap handguns called Satur three major areas of national concern. hangs above him. day Night Specials, is not a cottage industry, The first was the extent of their realiza Peter firmly believes he will walk a.gain but big business. At lea.st two such manu tion of and knowledge about their newly and continue training to be an auto me facturers are subsidiaries of prestigious won right to vote. Second was their chanic. He clings to that lllusion as tightly firms. opinion as to what level of government- as he clings to the realities of that bar. Federal, State, or local-is the most effec However, after a costly but unsuccessful GUN CURB HEARINGS THIS WEEK operation to restore use of his limbs, doctors tive and efficient and should predomi The House Judiciary Committee will open nate. Finally, the students were asked in say Peter will be lucky 1f he lives. The paral hearings Tuesday on a gun control bill spon ysis could creep into his lungs and bring on sored by its chairman, Rep. Emanuel Celler terms of spending more, less, or about a fatal case of pneumonia.. [D.,N.Y.]. the same, what programs should be PARENTS USE SAVINGS The hearings, sparked by the recent shoot given priority. His pa.rents have emptied their savings for ing of Alabama. Gov. George Wallace, are to A total of 17 high schools completed the $6,000 operation and a.re applying to last until Thursday. the project with 2,123 individual ques public a.id to pay for treatments at a reha.blli Celler proposes nationwide registration of tionnaires returned. The results were tation center. all firearms; federal licensing of all gun own very informative. High school seniors in Mrs. Malone has become so accustomed to ers if state licensing laws do not meet federal my district showed what I believe to be the dally shootings in her neighborhood that standards, and banning manufacture of all an unusually high percentage of regis she now regards them in the way that farm handguns except for use by police, the mlli ers regard blizzards and droughts. She feels tary, and authorized pistol clubs. tered voters with 70.46 percent declaring there is little she can do about them. The witnesses will include Mayor Daley, themselves as having registered. An even There ts a bullet hole in her living room who has called for further gun control; Sen. bigger percentage, 86.90 percent, knew window, a reminder of the day three montns Edward M. Kennedy (D., Mass.]; Rep. John where and how to register. I believe that ago when the Dictators shot at her son. Murphy [D., N. Y.]; Gov. Marvin Mandel of these figures reflect a very fine program The bullet narrowly missed striking her Maryland, who recently got a tough gun on the part of North Carolina election daughter, Linda., 13, in the head. control law in his state; Patrick V. Murphy, officials in making special appearances There ts another bullet hole in her bedroom police commissioner of New York City and before high school students to conduct window, put there by some youths who were an outspoken critic of current firearms legis lation; Gen. Maxwell Rich, executive vice seminars on voting and registration and, taking target practice one night. in many instances, actually taking the FALLS OUT OF BED president of the National Rifle Association; Jerry Pritchess, Los Angeles County sheriff; registration books to the schools. "I was in bed and I'll never forget it," she and Jerome Cohn, president of the Ameri Traditionally, Southerners are sup recalls. "I fell right out of bed and stayed can Jewish War Veterans Association. there the rest of the night. I have a high bed posed to be "State's Righters," that is, and lots of nights I sleep on the floor." to believe in very strong State and local Firearms are so much a pa.rt of life in the government. The student poll tended to projects, she said, "the kids walk around with reflect this philosophy, but not as them hanging out of their pockets. They have ANTITRUST HEARINGS SET ON OR strongly as might have been expected. brand new carbines they're walking around GANIZED PROFESSIONAL TEAM Questions asked in this category were with. I saw a 16-year-old kid walking upstairs SPORTS as follows: with one like he's supposed to be carrying it. 1. At what level do you feel government ... It would be the best thing that could hap pen if they could get the guns out of their HON. EMANUEL CELLER generally does a better job and more effec hands." tive job? State, Federal, county, town, no OF NEW YORK opinion. With 20,000 gun control laws now on the books, how and why do guns get in the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Combining the State and local into a hands of the wrong people? In its investiga Tuesday, July 18, 1972 single category, 41.9 percent favored tion, Task Force reporters sought to answer State and local; 24.5 percent Federal; this and other questions about the gun crisis. Mr. CELLER. Mr. Speaker, I wish to This is what they found: announce that the Antitrust Subcom and 33.5 percent had no opinion. The most prevalent means by which illegal mittee of the Committee on the Judiciary 2. What unit of government do you think firearms are obtained is thru home burglaries. has scheduled public hearings beginning makes the best and most efficient use of the tax money paid to it by citizens? State, Fed As more people buy guns to protect them Wednesday, July 26, 1972, on a number eral, county, town, no opinion. selves, more and more criminals become of bills regarding the antitrust laws and armed by stealing those guns. organized professional team sports. Combining the State and local into a SECURITY IS LAX Included in the subcommittee's con single category, 52.5 percent favored By a conservative estimate, the number of sideration will be H.R. 11033, and identi State and local; 19.1 percent Federal; stolen guns in the nation is 600,000. Yet Fed- cal bills, to place all organized profes- and 28.2 percent had no opinion. July 18, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24273 3. At what level of government do you young people, contrary to the concept counted toward eligibility for a mortgage think the court can most often be relied that many youth of today are uncon on a family home. Representatives of all upon to make rulings which are fair and in cerned about their economic future, major segments of the credit industry accordance with the law? State, Federal, heavily favored increased spending for were also invited to testify on the legal county, town, no opinion. programs designed to stimulate the econ or other reasons for the many types of Combining the State and local into a omy by creating new jobs with more discrimination revealed in the hearing. single category, 39.8 percent favored than two-thirds-67.2 percent--taking BUSINESSES NOW REEXAMINING THEm PRACTICES State and local; 31.8 percent Federal: this position. These hearings constituted the first and 28.2 percent had no opinion. To me, at least, one of the most sur solid compendium of facts on this issue. 4. Which laws do you feel a.re most ef prising results was the reaction to the They were organized and handled for -fectively enforced? State laws, Federal laws, space program. In every single school, the Commission by Ruth K. Holstein, county regulations, town ordinances, don't a majority of those participating favored of the Commission staff, under the direc know. less spending for the space program and tion of Staff Executive Director Robert Combining state and local laws into the total overall percentage in this cate L. Meade. a single category, 48.7 percent favored gory was 57.7 percent for less spending; 26.6 percent favoring about the same; As the only woman member of the State and local laws; 35.3 percent Fed Commission, I strongly supported the eral; and 15.9 percent indicated that they and only 15.7 percent advocating more spending than the present levels. On the idea of holding these hearings, because did not know. I felt that if there were a real problem 5. Do you think that the Federal Govern theory that space is, as the late Presi dent Kennedy put it, the unexplored involving credit for women-and the ment in comparison to State and local gov hearings undoubtedly showed there is ernments: Ought to be stronger than it is ocean of this century and we must sail now and take over more things not being upon it, one might well have expected one-a full and careful exposure of thf, effectively done at other levels? Ought to younger Americans, particularly, to have issues would quickly prompt businessmen be weaker and let the State and local levels the frontier spirit and to favor a strong to re~amine their often outmoded er.edit take over more of the things it now does? program from the standpoint of adven policies, and this is exactly what has Ought to remain abouit as it is? No opinion. ture alone. been happening since May. For a long Combining a weaker Federal Govern Overall, the survey results support the time, many State laws had had the effect ment and one remaining about the same conclusion that the high school seniors in of virtually forcing creditors to extend into a single category, 50.9 percent fa my district are a relatively conservative credit only to husbands and not to wives, vored this power structure; 22.4 percent group on the subject of international regardless of the wife's credit worthiness. favored a stronger Federal Government; ism, space, and a stronger Federal role. While most of these laws have long since and 26.5 percent had no opinion. They are moderate to liberal in their been repealed, the patterns which had In the third section of the survey, it support of the poverty program, educa been in operation under those old laws was pointed out that we operate in an tion, economic development, job training, continued in effect after the laws had environment of scarcity; that there is not and social security and health care. been changed. enough money to do all of the things As the credit head of one major retail which would be good to do. On that basis, ing concern told the Wall Street Journal students were asked whether we should after this issue had come to a head in spend more, less, or about the same on a "I'M AFRAID WE DIDN'T REALLY the Commission's hearings: number of specified categories. KNOW WE HAD A PROBLEM" "I'm afraid we didn't really know we had a The categories and the responses are CREDIT DISCRIMINATION problem." as follows: AGAINST WOMEN NO-ACCOUNT FEMALES fl n percent) Mr. Speaker, I submit for the atten tion of the Members of Congress the About the HON. LEONOR K. SULLIVAN text of Mr. Hyatt's article, captioned More less same OF MISSOURI "No-Account Females," along with a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES companion article giving industry view Defense and military ______30. 9 25. 0 43. 8 points, as follows: Foreign aid ______11. 6 62. 3 25. 9 Tuesday, July 18, 1972 Education and job tralning ______76. 3 6. 0 17. 5 [From the Wall Street Journal, July 18, 19721 Farm and rural programs ______66. 7 8. 7 24. 4 Mrs. SULLIVAN. Mr. Speaker, today's No-ACCOUNT FEMALES-WOMEN COMPLAIN City and urban problems ______55. 2 12. 7 32. 0 THEY OFTEN CAN'T GET CREDIT BECAUSE OF Tax-supported public housing ______19. 0 49. 6 31. 3 Wall Street Journal contains an excellent Poverty program ______48. 1 25. 2 26. 6 article by James C. Hyatt on the prob THEm SEx Environmental and pollution controL_ 75. 3 8. 5 16. 0 (By James C. Hyatt) Social security including health care __ 55. 4 10. 8 33. 5 lems encountered by women in obtaining Headstart and other programs for credit based on their own credit worthi Estelle G. Antell, a. federal employee in educationally deprived children ____ 57. 2 13. 0 29. 6 ness rather than on the credit records of Dallas, would appear to be an ideal airline Drug education and control programs _ 66. 5 14. 3 19. 0 customer. Her income is around $20,000 a Programs designed to stimulate the their husbands, ex-husbands, deceased economy by creating new jobs ______67. 2 11. 0 21. 6 husbands, or fathers. year and she flies at least 100,000 miles an Space exploration ______15. 7 57. 6 26. 6 nually. Thus, she didn't expect any problems The article is derived from, and ex last September when she moved to Dallas pands on, hearings conducted in May by from Tulsa and applied to Continental Air Items of particular interest here were the National Commission on Consumer Lines for a credit ca.rd in her own name. foreign aid, poverty program, social se Finance, created by title IV of the Con "Back came a letter asking for my hus curity and health care, program designed sumer Credit Protection Act of 1968. band's signature,'' she says. "I called up and to stimulate the economy and create new The Commission, headed by Attorney said, 'You've got to be kidding. How many jobs, and space. Ira M. Millstein of New York City, in men in my wage bracket do you ask for the Normally, one might expect young cludes six Members of Congress: Rep wife's signature?' " She never received the people to have a greater concern than resentatives SULLIVAN, GONZALEZ, and card. And the final insult came recently oldsters with vested interests, for for WILLIAMS; and Senators SPARKMAN, PROX "when a Continental salesman ca.me by ask eign peoples and their needs, but by a MIRE, and BROCK; and also Dr. Robert w. ing why I didn't fly Continental. You can bet margin of almost two to one the stu Johnson of Purdue University and former I told him." dents favored a decrease in foreign aid. Minnesota Attorney General Douglas M. As Mrs. Antell's experience indicates, many The poverty program drew surprising Head. We are to make our final report women are finding that liberation hasn't per support for an area where it is generally by December 31 of an investigation into vaded all segments of the business world. believed to be unpopular among average the entire field of consumer credit, with Banks, savings and loan institutions, depart ment stores and other firms that extend voters. Only 25.2 percent of the young recommendations for improving the credit frequently are reluctant to let an em sters favored reduction in the program; structure and regulation of the consumer ployed married woman do business in her 26.6 percent advocated the present fund credit industry. own name. Many widowed or divorced women ing level; and a whopping 48.1 percent Our 2 days of hearings in May brought find the problems become even more trou favored an increase. At least mildly out in great detail the problems encoun blesome. And for young married couples, the surprising for this age group was the tered by women, particularly working wife's income often carries little or no weight 55.4 percent who favored increase in women, in obtaining credit in their in such vital transactions as securing a home social security including health care. The own names, or in having their incomes mortgage. CXVIII--1530-Part 19 24274 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 18, 1972 A COBWEB OF MYTHS credit cards, she found Dallas retailers 'Well, we will open the account if you insist!' Thus, the effort to weed sex discrimination reluctant. When he found out I was only charging $54, out of the credit ca.rd and the loan office is "I had excellent credit and had done a lot he almost had a stroke." Ironically, she never becoming yet another major front in the of business. But they told me I'd have to re received her refrigerator; the store couldn't women's equality battle. Department stores apply in my husband's name," she says. The fill the order, P.nd she bought at another increasingly are finding themselves subject to demand was particularly irksome, she says, store where she had had an account for sev picketing and account cancellations over because "I have always paid all the bllls in eral years. their credit practices. State and federal offi the fainily. I don't know of anyone who has (At the Washington hearings in May, offi cials are calling for legislation to correct the ever received a check from my husband." cials from Sears testified that while the com problem. Working married women who are support pany prefers to open only one account per "Men and women 1 today don't have equal ing an unemployed husband-a student, for family, a wife meeting normal credit stand access to credit,'' Martha W. Griffiths, Con instance-often find their credit status dif ards could get her own account. It isn't in gresswoman from Michigan, testified recently. ferent from that of a man supporting his Sears' best interest, they added, "to turn cus "Banks, savings and loan associations, credit nonworking wife. Early this year, for example, tomers away from its doors.") card companies, finance companies, insurance the St. Paul human-rights department sent Frustrated by credit probleins, women are companies, retail stores and even the federal a man and a woman separately to 23 area restoring to a number of tactics. Picketing, government discriminate against women in banks to borrow $600 for a used car. refusal to accept credit cards in their hus extending credit. And they discriminate Each was earning $12,000 a year and was bands' names, and general complaining have against women in all stages of life-whether the sole support of a family with almost iden led to some changes in department store single, married, divorced or widowed; with tical financial and personal qualification. But policies in Chicago and Syracuse, women say. or without children, rich or poor, young or about half the banks applied more stringent Lynne Litwmer, who heads a task force on old." standards to the woman than to the man, credit probleins for the National Organiza She was a witness at May hearings before the researchers found. These banks refused tion for Women, says that while many re the National Commission on Consumer Fi to lend the woman money without her hus tailers routinely wlll turn down a women's nance, a government agency. The testimony band's signature while waiving the co-signa credit request, "if she calls the credit man indicated "the reasoning used to deny women ture requirement for the man, for instance. ager and puts up a big fuss, more and more credit is often a cobweb of myths and sup Following the survey, depairtmen.t officials stores will give credit in her own name. But positions unsupported by research on the told the banks their policies appeared to be in the stores really don't like to do it. It still statistical risks involved or on the indi violation of the city's antidiscriminatlon or hasn't been established as a right." vidual's credit-worthiness,'' Virginia H. dinance. "We came up with an agreement Other women are considering lawsuits Knauer, special assistant to the President that they wouldn't require any more from a against lenders, although the legal grounds for consumer affairs, last month told the woman than a man. They're even rewriting appear far from certain. No state or federal International Consumer Credit Conference their forms to say spouse instead of wife," laws appear to directly ban sex discrimina in Washington. says Louis Ervin, director of the department. tion in credit transactions. Attorneys work Some women are particularly irritated that SOME TALES OF WOE ing with the women's movement say lawsuits companies freely let husbands speak for the in the works involve instances such as stores Some examples cited: wife in financial transactions but don't give A regularly employed woman in her early persisting 1n sending b1lls to a husband al wives the same privilege. Consider, for in though the goods were ordered in the wife's 30s couldn't get a loan to purchase a vacation stance, the Loudsiana woman who discovered name, a case involving two women veterinar home although she could make a substantial about two years a.go that her husband had ians who have been turned down for bank down payment. Her fl.a.nee, who had been opened up a stock-trading account in her loans while younger, less experienced men through bankruptcy, easily obtained a loan name at an office of a major brokerage house. vets have easily borrowed money, and a case to purchase the same property with a smaller "The broker apparently was glad to do it, where a bank giving men employes of a ma down payment. so long as my husband would co-sign," she jor industry a particularly favorable interest A woman in her 40s who, as head of her says. The husband filled out the application, rate has refused to give the same rate to household, wanted to buy a house for herself but the wife was never consulted by the women workers whose husbands are em and her children couldn't get a mortgage brokerage house. ployed elsewhere. without the signature of her 70-year-old Then the husband began actively trading In response, lenders often acknowledge that father, who was living on a pension. in the account, and often he transferred their policies are undergoing constant review, A woman widowed for six years found it funds from "her" account to his. "He gen easier to open charge accounts in her dead but they caution that the women's demands erally just manipulated the situation, and often ignore real risks in granting credit. husband's name than in her own. they never once had my signature, or any "More attention wlll have to be given to this As a condition to being granted a mort contact with me," says the woman. gage, a couple in Washington was asked by a When she finally learned about the ac area of lending in the future," says William E. bank "to agree in writing not to have a child count, she called the brokerage firm. "Do I Jolies, vice president of consumer loans at for a specified period of time." Another have an account at your office?" she asked. City National Bank, Columbus, Ohio. The lender wanted a doctor's assurance that "a "'Oh, yes,' they said. 'But your husband al bank is a noted marketing innovator. "More proper method of birth control was being ways does your business.' I said I'd never done women a.re working than ever before,'• he used or, in the alternate that the woman any business with them, and they'd better says. "More young people are wanting money. wasn't fertile." find a way to indicate that on their records." Banks have got to be prepared to extelid For some weeks, when she called, the broker credit to that class of people. We're all Companies and financial tnstltutlons con learning our lesson on that one every day ... tend that such examples aren't typical, and age firm told her the account was still open. they note with some irony that not so long Recently, she says, "they've been saying the BOB AND CAROL ago they were being criticized for wide dis right words. They tell me I have no account Indeed, he concedes that while City Na tribution of unsolicited credit cards. "You up there. I really don't know if they're tell tional will give married women their own didn't hear the women complaining then," ing me that." (So why hasn't she left her Bank-America.rd if they have their own in says one official in the consumer credit in husband? "I can't, for financial reasons," she come and a good credit record, "that wasn·•t dustry. Nonetheless, many credit grantors says. "You can say I Uve with my husband. the policy when we started the card six years but it is an awfully big house.") concede their credit policies concerning ago." But he stresses that a young woman women are under considerable pressure and MRS. CARLOCK'S REFRIGERATOR borrower in the child-bearing age raises ques are frequently being changed. Married women say opening new credit ac tions for credit men. "Betting on her to be coulllts in their own name, even when they able to work every day for the next four AN EXPERIMENT IN ST. PAUL are employed, is often a problem. About a years isn't the same as betting on a man," Some find the problem ls getting the word year ago, Mrs. Vee Carlock, a legal secretary he asserts. "It ls impossible to put a man of top-level policy down to the rank and file. in Baton Rouge, ordered a $500 refrigerator and a woman on the same level completely Thus, Continental Air Lines says if Mrs. An at her local Sears store. She planned to pay as far as extending credit is concerned." tell, the Dallas woman, was turned down in the blll when the item was delivered. At the Washington hearings, John P. Farry, spite of a clear credit record, "we made a At the store, however, she decided to take president of the U.S. Savings and Loan mistake. Our policy ls to treat applicants as a service contract, which cost $54, and she League, said that in' the past couple of Individuals. Tell her to refile." asked to open a charge account in her own years '"there has been a substantial re Ironically, working married women who es name. "The clerk started explaining that it shaping of our thinking with respect to real tablished a credit standing when they were is illegal in Louisiana to extend credit to a esta.te credit involving women." A survey single often appear to have the most diffi woman. I said I know tha,t isn't the law. I talked to two or three clerks, and finally the covering 421 s&Ls indicates "that it ls fast culty. "You lose your credit when you credit manager. I kept telling them I work, becoming much easier for a woman to get a marry," says Marsha King, president of the I earn more than my husband, and I'm per mortgage," he said. Most of the institutions Texas division of Women's Equity Action fectly capable of paying my bllls. said they've liberalized policies toward giving League (WEAL), a nationwide women's "After two hours of haggling, it was close credit to workilig wives in making mortgage group. When she married about two years ago to closing time, and I said, 'Let's just forget loans. and set about changing the name on her the whole purchase.' So the manager said, Clearly some lenders a.re losing business July 18, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24275 due to stringent pollcles in that area. Bob A WARNING ON McGOVERNOMICS with income of more than $50,000 a.nd add and Carol Wellman, a Cleveland couple, re very little to the net income of the under cently asked Park View Federal Savings & $12,000's. Senator McGovern ha.s mentioned Loan for a home loan and were told the HON. LOUIS C. WYMAN figures of $14-blllion transferred to those firm wouldn't consider her income in the 01' NEW HAMPSHmE earning less tha.n $4,000 and $29-billion to application. So the couple took their proposi those earning between $4,000 and $12,000. It tion to Cleveland Trust Co., where they got IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES is clear from the cha.rt, even ta.king into the loan when they assured the lending officer Tuesday, July 18, 1972 account inflation since 1969, that such they had no plans to start a. family any time a.mounts can only come from those with soon. Mr. WYMAN. Mr. Speaker, incredible incomes of $12,000 to $50,000. An officer at Park View says that to con as it may seem to thoughtful citizens, the PAUL SINGER. sider a wife's income when a youn'g couple Democratic nominee for President of the has no children "does us a. disservice and United States deliberately proposes a tax To the Financial Editor: them a disservice," for when they start a. program to impose enormous additional Some of our Presidential candidates are family "then they are stuck and she has no taxes on mid-Americans to finance vast suggesting ( 1) that henceforth estates pay income." a. capital gains ta.x (on the increased value giveaways to Americans in lower income tha.t results from inflation and other sources) brackets. His proposals are also virtual CaEDrroRS SAY ABn.rrY To PAY-NoT SEx a.nd (2) that estate tax rates be graduated ly confiscatory when applied to inherit to a maxim.um of 77 per cent on ta.xa.ble Is Fmsr CONSIDERATION ance taxes on decedent's property. estates over $500,000. This last is Senator Credit grantors, stung by allegations that Writing of McGovernomics in the cur George McGovern's proposal. (At present, they unfairly refuse women credit, insist rent Saturday Review, John Galbraith there ls no capital gains ta.x on estates a.nd their policies are often affected by factors Senator McGovern's estate tax rates consti the protesters don't understand. makes no bones of McGovern's hostility tute a 120 per cent increase over current "What we have to look at ls ab111ty to toward those at upper income levels rates.) pay," says a spokesman for Gulf 011 Corp. whether individuals or corporations. The By speaking always of the rate "applicable "And it is a very simple fact of life that political appeal of such a policy is said to taxable estates over $600,000," politicians women generally make lower salaries than by Galbraith to lie in the fact that there leave the public with an impression that the men." (He hastens to add that Gulf ls are more voters in the have-not category high rates apply only to the estates of men liberalizing many of its credit pollcies.) And than in the haves. of great wealth a.nd divert the attention of a credit official at another oll company as voters from the fact that the high rates also serts, "There ls no obligation by these credit The consequences of McGovernomlcs apply to taxable estates under $500,000. To gra.ntors to give credit to anybody, woman to Americans will mean destruction of illustrate the effect of the proposals on or ma.n, unless they have a pretty good the profit motive and a huge loss of in medium-sized estates, consider the following: idea they'll pay their bills." centives and jobs. Mid-Americans and Mr. John Ha.rdworker (a.ge 43) and his wife Thus, the officials say, when a. customer laboring men and women should take (age 38) have two children (ages 9 and 12). marries, gets a. divorce, or loses a. spouse, careful note of this when choosing their His gross estate consists of: ( 1) a term life circumstances often have changed, requir next President. insure.nee pollcy of $100,000 payable to his ing a new look at the customer's credit for wife (life insure.nee ls subject to estate taxes worthiness. The new marriage partner may McGovemomics would be a disaster if the insured retains any "incidents of have a poor credit record, or divorce pro the United States. ownership" in the policy); (2) a home that ceedings may leave the creditor legally un In this connection I commend a read cost $30,000 but (due to inflation) could now sure of which party wm pay the bills. ing of two letters appearing in the finan be sold for $42,200; (3) a savings account of Indeed, "the first group that has to be cial section of yesterday's New York $10,000 in joint name; (4) a.bout $20,000 of convinced ( a.bout extending credit to Times. high-quallty bonds, and (5) common stocks women) a.re the lawyers," says James Am The article follows: tha.t cost $10,000 but a.re quoted currently at $20,000. Mr. Ha.rdworker, who thinks of him brose, secretary-treasurer of the Interna MCGOVERNOMICS tional Consumer Credit Association, St. self as a "poor" man, would be surprised to Louis. Each status-single, married, sep To the Financla.l Editor: learn tha.t his gross estate tote.ls $192,000. arated, divorced, widowed-"ls a different Those who favor Sena.tor George McGov If now he should die and his wife should legal ballgame," adds another credit official. ern's economic program should be a.ware of survive him but predecease the children, h1s Mr. Ambrose notes that, in some states, certain facts which show that his program estate ta.x would be computed as shown in larger credit accounts pay a smaller interest will not "soak the rich," but will assuredly column 1 of the accompanying table (a.t rate; thus, giving separate accounts to a soak the middle class and leave the wealthy current rates) and in column 2 (a.t the husband and a wife might cause creditors essentially unscathed. At the heart of his rates proposed by the polltlcia.ns). to run afoul of usury laws, because the program ls a massive transfer of income tax separate accounts could result in higher ation burdens to those earning more than Present McGovern's interest payments than a joint account. $12,000 or theres.bouts from those earning law proposal Many women are puzzled at refusal of lend less. ing institutions to include the wife's income The middle class should be aware tha.t such A. Husband's gross estate ______$192, 000 $192, 000 B. Capital gains tax on estate ______0 5,500 in making a loan. "It ls actually possible redistribution of income would be essentially ------for a woman to go to work and increase the paid out of middle class pockets, since the c. Adjusted gross estate ______192, 000 186, 500 famlly's buying power by only 25% of what middle class, not the rich, in the aggregate 0. Marital deduction plus $60,000 __ 156, 000 153, 250 she gets paid," says Mr. Ambrose, "if she earns the lion's share of income in America~ ------E. Taxable estate ______36, 000 33, 250 needs a second car, clothing, and babysitting The following is a chart of the aggregate F. 1st estate tax (at time of hus- services." income and Federal income taxes for Amer band's death) ______4,080 7,887 Some lenders make the point that young, icans of various income brackets for 1969 G. Inherited estate of wife ______187, 920 178, 613 H. Deduct $60,000 exemption ______60, 000 60, 000 newly married, better-educated couples are (source: 1971 Statistical Abstract of the ------often poor credit risks because they have United States): 1. Wife's taxable estate ______127, 920 118, 613 2d estate tax (at time of wife's no clear record of making payments and [In billions! J. death) ______handling finances in a responsible manner. 29,076 57, 824 Others admit they refuse accounts to mar ------Federal Net after K. Children's ultimate inheritance __ 158, 844 120, 789 ried women for selfish reasons. Keeping income Federal ======credit cards in the husband's name, they Adjusted gross Ag~regate taxes income Note: If children keep the home paid tax and the bank account and invest say, cuts down on paperwork, particularly income bracket income the remaining funds in 7-percent bonds, they would each have for retailers without elaborate bookkeeping annual pretax income ot______equipment. (To deny a married woman her Less than $5,000 ______$56 $3 $53 3, 989 2, 657 $5,000 to $9,999_ ------166 18 148 ======own account when a retailer has the com $10,000 to $14,999 ______165 21 134 puter equipment to do so "ls more stupidity $15,000 to $49,999 ______161 28 133 RECAPITULATION OF TAXES than anything else,'' asserts Mr. Ambrose.) $50,000 and over______38 14 24 ON $192,000 ESTATE It's clear, however, that many credit grant Capital gains tax on estate______O 5, 500 ors are confused by the sudden complaints. To the above Federal income taxes must 1st estate tax______4, 080 7, 887 2d estate tax______29, 076 57, 824 "This was a sort of a. shocker to us," says be added at lea.st 50 per cent for other Fed ------the credit head at one major reta111ng con eral, state and local taxes to obtain net in· Tot aL ______33, 156 71, 211 cern. "Our business is primarily oriented to come after all taxes. women. I'm afraid we didn't really know we A perusal of the cha.rt shows that even a Wilford J. Eiteman, had a problem." massive increase of the taxes paid by those Emeritus Professor of Finance, University of Michill••· 24276 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 18, 1972 PRESERVING WILDLIFE SPECIES We have initiated ambitious programs for sound environmental land use planning is AND THEffi HABITATS the future of our recreation, land and ener not the lack of technology, building skills, gy resources-setting aside wilderness areas: or architectural models-but the la.ck of gov and banning the use of poisons in predator ernment institutions to implement these HON. PHILIP E. RUPPE control on public lands. DDT and other plans in an orderly and reasoned fashion. OF MICHIGAN harmful pesticides have been banned from It recogn.1zes that land use control is a public lands, and we are seeking to curtail IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES state responsibllity-the Federal Govern their use nationally. ment is not trying to usurp the state's role. Tuesday, July 18, 1972 Under the Endangered Species Act we have We are merely urging the states to exercise taken strong measures to protect 8 species that role more actJ.vely. Mr. RUPPE. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased of great whales and 8 species of spotted cats. It recognizes the need for state involve to insert in the RECORD the speech re The President has further introduced new ment only in those local land use decisions cently delivered by Secretary of the In legislation giving us additional authority to that spill over jurisdictional boundaries- terior Rogers Morton before the Outdoor protect imperiled species before they are ac areas of critical environmental concern like Writers of American in Mazatlan, Mex tually threatened with extinction. This estuaries and flood plains-growth inducing ico. Secretary Morton's speech reflects would allow for example greater protection facllities, like airports and highway inter the Interior Department's firm support to the polar bear. changes-and large scale developments of re More than 160 civil actions and 320 crim gional importance. for such environmental needs as sound inal actions to stop water pollution were It provides a series of federal grant&--$20 land-use planning and strict enforce filed against alleged polluters in 1971 alone, million a year-motivating the states to cre ment of laws protecting big game and by invoking the Refuse Act of 1899. ate their own land use plans, and to sharpen other species of wildlife. I believe that All of these actions exemplify our com their relationship with their own constitu we in the Congress can be extremely mitment to act now to provide all Americans ent governments at the city and county level. grateful that our former colleague, with clean air, clean water, and continuing Those states that do not develop land use Rogers Morton, has provided his strong access to the open spaces, timberland, des procedures, will be penalized through with erts, meadows and estuaries that are a.t the holding federal monies. and effective leadership in seeking to center of our national heritage. The positive spirit of the President's leg preserve wildlife species and their habi Let me hasten to add, that we cannot islation is quite clear: The Federal Govern tats and in wisely managing all of our produce an instant environment with a new ment will provide funding and expertise natural resources. set of dimensions without a long time com Washington, however, will not be involved in The speech follows: mitment. the administration of local land decisions. REMARKS OF SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR What is still needed, however, is a provi Our local zoning ordinances have failed in ROGERS C. B. MORTON sion to ensure that this momentum con the most preposterous way to ensure the tinues-that the spirit and accomplishments in I can't tell you what a pleasure it 1s for preservation of vital non-economic values me to be here in Mazatlan for your conven of our efforts now are combined with our land use planning. The President's land use tion, not merely because of the great respect programs for the future. legislation will correct this inflrmity-pro I have for your distinguished organization, In the next 30 years America will require viding a mechanism for continued economic but to take this opportunity to commend twice the dwelling units, water and power progress that preserves our ecological, cul each of you for the magnificent public serv systems, waste disposal facilities and recrea tural, and historic values. ice you perform in the accuracy, fairness, tion areas we have today. Finally, I would like to discuss some of and eloquence of your coverage of our na.it By 1980 alone, our demand for camping the major actions we are taking for the fu ural resources. and recreation sites will increase by nearly ture of our fish and wildlife. As Secretary of the Interior my major 70 % : All of these dimensions of our future In the last decades several thousand tons responsibility is to oversee the balance be will affect land use. of lead shot have been deposited into water tween the conservation of our natural re Land is our basic resource. It supports all fowl habitat-each pellet, if ingested is ca sources and environmental heritage--and others. In the face of idealists who wish to pable of killing a duck or shore bird. This the economic development of there finite halt all construction it is the key to preser Fall we are initiating a pilot program on se resources to meet the continuing demands vation: To the developer it is an inextract lected federal hunting areas testing iron for social progress. able part of economic progress. shot. Hopefully, this will lead to a pro It is an awesome task of national propor We discovered late the character of na gram preventing the needless death of mil tion, requiring the interest and commitment ture. Regardless of the ascendancy of hu lions of waterfowl and shore birds through of those not only in government, but the man progress, our earth systems answer only lead poisoning. members of our media, of industry, and those to the impersonal laws of physics, chemis Through close cooperation with Canada in every American home. try, biology and natural law. and Denmark we have prevented the ulti I'm reminded of an editorial that appeared Coastal marshlands best illustrate the mate destruction of Atlantic Salmon stocks years ago in the Virginia City Territorial En problem. An average acre of wetlands pro within the next year or two. terprise, a small Nevada paper edited by the duces six times as much organic food as an Canada has banned an commercial salmon late Lucius Beebe. The editorial addressed acre of wheat field. Two thirds of our com fishing for six years, and the Danes have an item of great concern to the Board of mercial fish and shellfish and most of our agreed to phase out commercial salmon fish Education-the construction of a new sport fish are dependent upon the wetlands ing on the high seas by 1976. school-and a hardy, less than elitist group ecosystems, to say nothing of our coastal This program will not only mean the pres of town sfolk who were fight ing for the pres and migratory birds. ervation of the Atlantic Salmon, but the ervation of a historical artifact-as old as In the twenty years between 1947 and 1967 chance that someday in the future we will Virginia City itself. In this case a rather alone, over 256,000 acres, or almost 70 per have outstanding salmon sport fishing along famous bordello. cent of California's estuarine habitat was the north Atlantic. I hasten to add that Mr. Beebe was of the destroyed. You are all fammar with our experience view that the interest of the people would We must have a land planning system in South San Francisco Bay, where the rich be met best by moving the school. As you'll which regards the environment as a whole marshlands that provide vital foraging for undoubtedly notice, we've made little prog system-and not a parcel of lots, subdi the waterfowl and shore birds along the Pa ress in the last twenty years. visions, zoning codes, and isolated construc cific Flyway have been dredged and built As amusing as this case may be it rather tion sites. A system that ensures that the upon at an alarming rate. poignant ly illustrates a crisis we face not critical decisions affecting the balance of de Through close cooperation with the Con only in national attitudes, but in govern velopment and preservation at the local level, gress, a bill creating a wildlife refuge, pre ment. That is a.n understanding of the dif not be at an environmental or human cost. serving the values of open space and water ficulty we face in matching our limited nat A number of states, Vermont, Hawaii, and for the 4 million people living near San ural resources, land, water and air-with the Maine have adopted statewide land use regu F'rancisco Bay, has passed both the House demands of the future. latory systems-all using different tech and Senate, and hopefully will be signed into I would like to take this opportunity to niques, that provide for this. law. speak with you about our recent accomplish President Nixon has sent a far-reaching I'm sure that you outdoor writers are ment s in t h e environment, as well as the legislative program to the Congress, estab a ware that this will be the first time that critical legislation creating a National Land lishing a National Land Use Policy. In his we have used money from the Land and Wa Use Policy, and the actions we are taking message to the Congress on the environment ter Conservation Fund to create a n ational now for t he future of our fish and wildlife. he said: "The use of our land not only wildlife refuge. This l s t ruly a piece of land As President Nixon has said, "the time to affects the natural environment, but shapes mark legislation. start is now," and we have. the pattern of our daily lives." We have increased the Duck Stamp fee Outlays for majol' environment programs The legislation already has the strong sup from $3 to $5. Alt hough this represents the in F iscal Year 1973 are expected to exceed port of the Senate and House, as well as key third price increase in t he last 37 years, it 2.5 billion dollars .. . more t h an three times environmentalists and developers. will mean an increase of about 11 million the level spent in 1969. It recognizes that the major obstacle to dollars during t he next five years t o our July 18, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24277 migratory bird habitat acquisition program. McGOVERN: ONE OF THE GREAT a.gina.tion. But undoubtedly O'Brien's plea This measure will add dramatically to ac PROMISERS OF OUR DAY for some measure of moderation in the up celerating our vital wetlands purchases, a.s coming presidential campaign, forlorn as it well as allowing us to acquire land at a bet may be, is perfectly sincere. ter price. HON. DEL CLAWSON There can be no question that the profes sionals in the Democratic party wlll do every We are stepping up our enforcement proce OF CALIFORNIA dures and are seeking trial of a number of thing in their power from now on to bring big game hunters and guides who have flag IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES McGovern down to earth. For their collective rantly violated state and federal hunting Tuesday, July 18, 1972 judgment is that if the American people be regulations. come convinced that McGovern would seri Let me put it on the line-we will pursue Mr. DEL CLAWSON. Mr. Speaker, the ously go a.bout fulfilling the promises he has maximum criminal action against the un July 16 issue of the Washington Evening been making, the whole Democratic party is ethical hunter who violates state and fed Star contains an objective appraisal of heading for a disaster next November. eral game laws, maligning the reputation of the conflict between reality and Political This fear was the only cohesive force be hunting in general. rhetoric which I commend to the atten hind the abortive effort to stop McGovern These are just a few of the actions we are here in Mia.mi this week. It fa.lied quite tion of my colleagues at this point in the simply because the convention had to nomi initiating to conserve the integrity of our CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. The editorial by fl.sh and wildlife for the future. nate somebody and there was nobody else I would like to conclude with a few words Crosby S. Noyes follows: a.round whom it could coalesce. But the col directed to your role in the media. McGOVERN: ONE OF THE GREAT PROMISERS lapse of the anti-McGovern faction and the We're approaching a time when the envi OF OUR DAY relatively easy victory for the South Dakotan ronmental movement is beginning to back (By Crosby S. Noyes) have done nothing at all to heal the divisions lash against the hunter and fisherman. This or ease the misgivings that the McGovern MIAMI BEACH.-"! think it comes down to candidacy inspires among the party profes wave of anti-hunting sentiment is tragic be this: Do we have the guts to level with the cause we are all working for the same thing: American people?" When you said that, Law sionals. Preservation of wildlife habitat and our nat rence F. O'Brien, you said it all. Most of them, to be sure, will swallow their ural resources. The question is: Who is "we"? Who is it bitterness and rally behind the candidate. It's up to you to relate the principles and that up uDJtll now hasn't been leveling with Even if they are convinced he can't win-and accomplishments of good wildlife manage the American people? a good many of them still are-rt;hey wlll do ment to non-hunters and fishermen, as well "We," no doubt, includes the la.st three the1r best to minimize the effect of a defeat. as castigate the unethical hunter. Democratic presidents, whose records and They hope, furthermore, to move McGovern It's up to you to represent the vital role policies have now been officially repudiated toward more moderate positions on the issues hunting and fishing play in conservation, as by the Democratic party. It also, of course, that interest them. Only those wirth irrecon well as the $250 million yearly spent by your includes Richard Nixon, whose achievements, cilable ideological and policy differences, industry-much of which goes towards pres as compared to his promises, a.re not held in such as Henry Jackson and George Wallace, ervation of wildlife. high esteem by the Democratic chairman. will continue to withhold their support. Only through this kind of action can we But perhaps most of all, the "we" whose guts How successful the professionals may be maintain a. common front among all Ameri Larry O'Brien was exhorting with such fer in ta.ming their tiger, however, remains to be cans committed to the protection of our nat vor was the Democratic nominee himself. seen. McGovern would be less than human if ural resources. The point thwt the chairman was trying to he were not very much impressed by his per I am asking ea.ch of you-not only as mem make in his opening address to the conven formance here, and he certainly is not be bers of one of our most distinguished envi tion was that politicians would do well to holden to anybody for his victory. His prom ronmental organizations, but as members of stop promising things thwt "we know cannot ises already have taken him a long way. And the media--to join with us in ensuring that be delivered by man, God or the Democratic Larry O'Brien notwithstanding, he is quite the government of our resources be marked party." His plea was to stop kidding the likely to go right on making them. not only with restraint and responsibility, American people and tell them the truth for but with courage and vision. a change-to "break the vicious cycle of over promising and underproducing that has cor rupted us all." U.N. CONFERENCE ON THE HUMAN Well, it so happens that George McGovern, ENVffiONMENT WILLIAM F. PYPER in his quest for the Democratic nomination, has turned out to be one of the great prom isers of our day. He has been promising noth HON. JOHN D. DINGELL HON. ROBERT P. GRIFFIN ing less than a revolution in whwt this coun OF MICHIGAN try has stood for over a generation and some OF MICHIGAN radical changes in the way it is run. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES Among other things, he is promising $1,000 Tuesday, July 18, 1972 to every man, woman and child in the United Tuesday, July 18, 1972 States and a tax system that will do a.way Mr. DINGELL. Mr. Speaker, since re Mr. GRIFFIN. Mr. President, the with rich people. turning from the U.N. Conference on the people of the State of Michigan lost a He is promising to cut defense expenditures Human Environment, held in Stockholm, valued friend last Thursday night with by a cool 40 percent and still keep the United Sweden, from June 5 to June 16, 1972, States the strongest nation on earth. the Department of State has compiled the passing of William F. Pyper, who re He is promising complete victory in Viet tired recently as chief of the Washing nam to the Communist leaders in Hanoi by a paper presenting highlights of actions ton bureau of the Booth Newspapers. scuttling the "corrupt, undemocratic gov taken at the Conference. It also indicates Bill Pyper was a newspaperman for 40 ernment in Saigon." And after that he is the U.S. position on and evaluation of promising to get back American war prison the Conference actions. The opening years and a Washington correspondent ers by going to Hanoi to beg for their release. ''highlights" section of the paper indi for 27 years. For 15 of those years he He is promising to keep the faith with our cates 12 Conference actions considered served as chief for the Booth Newspaper friends and allies a.round the world while by the United States to be of major im chain, which serves most of outstate pulling American forces out of Asia. and portance. Michigan. Western Europe. Although he is going to be choosy in deciding just who our friends Also included is a list of members of He was a member of the National Press and allies are, he is promising to work for the U.S. Delegation together with techni Club and the Gridiron Club, and he not just a nation, but a "world of peace, cal advisers and the text of the Declara would have been president of the Grid abundance and freedom." tion on the Human Environment. Follow iron Club this year except for problems Never mind that all of these promises are ing this are separate sections on each of of failing health. very much subject to revision as time goes the six subject areas. The text of the· on. Never mind, either, that McGovern him resolution recommending the establish Bill Pyper was not only a good reporter; self has gone to some lengths to reassure peo he was a fine citizen who will be sorely ple that Congress will never let him do most ment of a new organizational structure missed by a host of friends. of the things that he is proposing to do in the U.N. to coordinate U.N. environ Among the many friends who mourn once he is in the White House. mental activities is included under sub his passin.g are the Members of Michi "Just imagine," said Larry O'Brien, "what ject area VI. gan's Congressional delegation. it would be like to elect a President who Numbers beginning with roman num made only modest straightforward cam erals are those given to recommenda Mrs. Griffin joins me in extending our paign promises, and then seriously went tions in the Conference documents as heartfelt sympathy to Mrs. Pyper and a.bout fulfilllng them." So far as George Mc a.mended at the Conference; for example, the Pyper children. Govern is concerned, it takes quite an im- "I-136" refers to the recommendation in 24278 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 18, 1972 paragraph 136 of the Conference docu Bert Cross, Chairman of the National In Wallace Irwin, Jr., Sr. Adviser, Environ ment on subject area I. "Planning and dustrial Pollution Control Council, and mental Affairs, U.S. Mission to the UN, New Management of Human Settlements for Chairman, Minnesota. Mlnlng & Manufactur York, N.Y. Environmental Quality" (A/CONF. 48/ ing Co. Clayton E. Jensen, Chief, Environmental John D. Dingell, U.S. Representative (D., Monitoring, National Oceanic & Atmospheric 6) . Some numbers refer to new para Mich.). Administration, Department of Commerce. graphs developed anew at the Confer Roger Egeberg, Special Assistant for Health Donald R. King, Science Adviser, Office of ence. Policy to Secretary of HEW; Consultant to Environmental Affairs, Department of State. Mr. Speaker, for the information of my the President on Health Policy. Saul Levine, Assistant Director, Division of colleagues, I include the text of the De John Ehrlichma.n, Assistant to the Presi Environmental Affairs, Atomic Energy Com partment's paper at this point in the dent for Domestic Affairs. mission. Seymour Halpern, U.S. Representative (R., CONGRESSIONAL RECORD: Robert Porter, Science Adviser, Environ N.Y.). menta.I Protection Agency. HIGHLIGHTS OF STOCKHOLM CONFERENCE Jerome Holland, U.S. Ambassador to John W. McDonald, Jr., Coordinator, Multi ACHIEVEMENTS Sweden. lateral Development Programs, Bureau of SUBJECT AREA Frank Ikard, President, American Petro International Organization Affairs, Depart VI-1. Recommended unanimously the cre leum Institute. ment of State. ation in the UN of a permanent high level Samuel c. Jackson, General Assistant Sec Charles J. Orlebeke, Deputy Under Secre environmental unit to coordinate UN en retary, Department of Housing & Urban De tary for Policy Analysis & Program Evalua vironmental activities, and a UN Environ velopment. tion, Department of Housing & Urban De ment Fund expected to be funded at $100 Norman Livermore, Secretary for Re velopment. million over the first 5 years. (The U.S. has sources, State of California.. Robert B. Rosenstock, Adviser for Legal pledged• up to $40 million on a matching John A. Love, Governor, Stat..e of Colorado. Affairs, U.S. Mission to the UN, New York, basis.) Gordon MacDonald, Member, Council on N.Y. III-2. Urged completion in 1972 of a global Environmental Quality. Logan H. Sa.Hada, Deputy Director of the convention to restrict ocean dumping. Warren G. Magnuson, U.S. Sena.tor (D., Executive Secretariat, Department of Health, III-3. Recommended steps to minimize Wash.). Education & Welfare. release of such dangerous pollutants as heavy Robert McClory, U.S. Representative (R., Francis J. Seidner, Deputy Director, Office metals and organochlorines into the environ Ill.). of International Conferences, Department ment. Rogers Morton, Secretary of the Interior. of State. III-4. Recommended a global "Earthwatch" Frank E. Moss, U.S. Sena.tor (D., Utah). Harry Shoosha.n, Director, Office of Inter program to be coordinated by the UN, to S. Dillon Ripley, Secretary, Smithsonian national Activities, Department of the In monitor and assess environmental trends in Institution. terior. atmosphere, oceans, land and human health. Gaylord Nelson, U.S. Senator (D., Wisc.). John Stuart, Press Adviser, U.S. Informa IV-5. Called for early completion of con Claiborne Pell, U.S. Sena.tor (D., R.I.). tion Agency. servation conventions, including the World Laurance S. Rockefeller, Chairman, Citi- Lee Talbot, Sr. Scientist, Council on En treasures and a convention restricting in zens Advisory Committee on Environmental vironmental Quality, Executive Office of the ternational trade in endangered species. Quality; Member, National Park Foundation. President. II-6. Called for world programs to collect John Rollins, President, Rollins Leasing John P. Trevithick, Director, Science & and safeguard the world's immense variety Corporation. Technology, Bureau of International Organi of plant and animal genetic resources on William Ruckelshaus, Administrator, En zation Affs., Dept of State. which stabillty of ecosystems and future vironmental Protection Agency. Sidney A. Wallace, Captain, USCG, Chief, breeding stocks depend. William Scott, Attorney General, State of Marine Environment Protection Division, II-7. Urged strengthening of the Interna Illinois. U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Transporta tional Whaling Convention and a 10-year Elvis A. Stahr, President, National Audu tion. moratorium on commercial whaling. bon Society. Richard Wilbur, Assistant Secretary of IV-8. Recommended creation of an En John W. Turkey, Professor of Mathematics~ Defense (Health & Environment). vironmental Referral Service to speed ex Princeton University. change of environmental know-how among Ross Vincent, Member, Advisory Commit THE DECLARATION ON THE HUMAN all countries. tee on the UN Conference on the Human En ENVIRONMENT V-9. Urged steps to prevent national en vironment; Vice President, Ecology Center, In its closing meeting the Conference vironmental actions from creating trade bar New Orleans, La. adopted without objection the Declaration riers against exports of developing countries. John Whitaker, Deputy Assistant to the on the Human Environment, consisting of a V-10. Recommended higher priority for President for Domestic Affairs. Robert White, Administrator, National Preamble and 26 Principles. This document environmental values in international devel 1s the result of a negotiating process which opment assistnace, e.g. more emphasis on Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. began in a 27-nation working group in New conservation, land use planning, and quality Harrison A. Williams, U.S. Senator (D., York early in 1971, in which all members of of human settlements. N.J.). the United Nations were invited to partici I-11. Urged greater emphasis on population TECHNICAL ADVISERS pate. It culminated in a. new Working Group policy and accelerated aid to family planning Henry Brodie, Deputy Director for Multi created by the Stockholm Conference itself in countries where population growth threat lateral PrograinS, Office of Environmental Af on June 8, open to all participating states. ens environment and development goals. fairs. This group met night and day until the final 12. Issued a Declaration on the Human Theodore C. Byerly, Assistant Director, day of the Conference. It used as the basis Environment containing important new prin Science and Education, Department of Ag of its negotiations the Draft Declaration for ciples to guide international environmental riculture. warded by the Preparatory Committee as a action, including Principle 21 that states Melvin S. Day, Head, Office of Science In result of the working group sessions in New a.re responsible to avoid damaging the en formation Service, National Science Founda York. vironment of other states or of the lnter tion. national realm. Although in the opinion of the United Alden L. Doud, Assistant Legal Adviser. States Delegation the text subinitted by the U.S. DELEGATES AND ADVISERS TO STOCKHOLM Department of State. Preparatory Committee (A/CONF. 48/4) was CONFERENCE Sl81tor C. Bla.ckiston, Jr., Executive Secre more balanced and more clearly focussed on tary, Secretary's Advisory Cominittee. environmental concerns, it ls understanda Russell E. Train (Chairman), Chairman, Simon Bourgin, Science Adviser, USIA. Council on Environmental Quality. ble that in the final stage of Conference con James R. Fowler, Special Assistant, Office sideration many members who had not ear Christian A. Herter, Jr. (Vice Chairman), of the Administrator, Agency for Interna Special Assistant to the Secretary of State lier availed themselves of the opportunity t.o tional Development. contribute to the text should wish to do so for Environmental Affairs. Stuart P. French, Principal Assistant to the Howard Baker, U.S. Senator (R., Tenn.), and should press for inclusion of material ex Assistant Secretary of Defense for Interna pressing their ma.in concerns. Chairman, Advisory Committee on the UN tional Security Affairs. Conference on the Human Environment. Fitzhugh Green, Assocla.te Adininlstrator, The final text, although uneven in the Shirley Temple Black, Alternate U.S. Rep International Affairs, Environmental Protec view of the United Sta.tea Delegation, pre resentative to the UN, Preparatory Cominit tion Agency. serves a number of extremely important prin tee for the Conference on the Human En Richard S. Green, Assistant Surgeon Gen ciples of conduct for states in dealing with vironment. eral and Chief Engineer, U.S. Public Health environmental probleinS of international sig John A. Blatnik, U.S. Representative (D., Service, Department of Health, Education, nificance. Chief among these ts Principle 21, Minn.). which declares that States have "the respon James L. Buckley, U.S. Senator (C-R., and Welfare. Stanley M. Greenfield, Assistant Adinin sibility to ensure that activities within their N.Y.). lstrator for Resea.roh & Monitoring, Environ jurisdiction or control do not cause damage Clifford Case, U.S. Senator (R., N.J.). mental Protection Agency. to the environment of other States or of areas William A. Hayne, Council on Environmen beyond the limits of national Jurisdiction." •subject to congressional action. tal Quality, Executive Office of the President. Also of notable importance a.re such provi- July 18, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24279 sions as Principle 2 declaring that the earth's TEXT selves and our posterity a better life in an living and non-living resources, and repre The United Nations Conference on the Hu environment more in keeping with human sentative samples of natural ecosystems, man Environment having met at Stockholm needs and hopes. There are broad vistas for must be safeguarded for present and future from 5 to 16 June 1972, and having considered the enhancement of environmental quality generations; Principle 6 stating that exces the need for a common outlook and for com and the creation of a good life. What is sive discharge of toxic substances and heat mon principles to inspire and guide the needed is an enthusiastic but calm state of into the environment must be halted to pre peoples of the world in the preservation and mind and intense but orderly work. For the vent "serious or irreversible damage" to eco purpose of attaining freedom in the world of enhancement of the human environment, nature, man must use knowledge to build in systems; Principle 16 calling for application proclaims: of appropriate demographic policies where 1. Man is both creature and moulder of his collaboration with nature a better environ growth rates or concentration of population ment. To defend and improve the human environment which gives him physical sus environment for present and future genera are likely to have adverse effects on the en tenance and affords him the opportunity for tions has become an lmperatl ve goal for vironment or on development; and Principle intellectual, moral, social and spiritual mankind-a goal to be pursued together 25 declaring the obligation of States to "en growth. In the long and tortuous evolution with, and in harmony with, the established sure that international organizations play a of the human race on this planet a stage has and fundamental goals of peace and of world coordinated, efficient and dynamic role for been reached when through the rapid ac wide economic and social development. the protection and improvement of the en celeration of science and technology, man 7. To achieve this environmental goal will vironment." has acquired the powel:' to transform his en demand the acceptance of responsibil1ty by Principle 26, dealing with the effects of vironment in countless ways and on an un citizens and communities and by enterprises nuclear weapons and other means of mass precedented scale. Both aspects of man's en and institutions at every level, all sharing destruction, met inflexible opposition from vironment, the natural and the man-made, equitably in common efforts. Individuals in China but was adopted following a statement are essential to his well-being and to the all walks of life as well as organizations in by the Conference President "noting the enjoyment of basic human rights even the many fields, but their values and the sum statement expressed (by China) regarding right to life itself. of their actions wm shape the world environ these principles". 2. The protection and improvement of the ment of the future. Local and national gov Agreement could not be reached on Prin human environment is a major issue which ernments will bear the greatest burden for ciple 20 of the text contained in A/CONF. affects the well-being of peoples and eco large scale environmental policy and action 48/4, (not principle 20 of the enclosed text) nomic development throughout the world; within their jurisdictions. International co owing largely to strong opposition of Brazil, it is the urgent desire of the peoples of the operation is also needed in order to raise re and it has been referred to the UN General whole world and the duty of all governments. sources to support the developing countries Assembly for action. This principle read: 3. Man has constantly to sum up experi in carrying out their responslbllitles in this "Relevant information must be supplied by ence and go on discovering, inventing, creat field. A growing class of environmental prob States on activities or developments within ing and advancing. In our time man's capa lems, because they are regional or global in their jurisdiction or under their control bility to transform his surroundings, if used extent or because they affect the common in whenever they believe, or have reason to be wisely, can bring to all peoples the benefits of ternational realm, will require extensive co lieve, that such information is needed to development and the opportunity to enhance operation among nations and action by in avoid the risk of significant adverse effects the quality of life. Wrongly or heedlessly ternational organizations in the common in on the environment in areas beyond their applied, the same power can do incalculable terest. The conference calls upon the govern national jurisdiction." harm to human beings and the human en ments and peoples to exert common efforts The record of the Conference will include vironment. We see around us growing evi for the preservation and improvement of the the following U.S. statement of interpreta dence of man-made harm in many regions human environment, for the benefit of all tion regarding four of the 26 principles of the of the earth: dangerous levels of pollution the people and for their posterity. declaration. in water, air, earth and living beings; major Principles "Principle 2. The U.S. places emphasis on and undesirable disturbances to the ecologi the word "representative" which, in our view, cal balance of the biosphere; destruction and States the common conviction that-- ensures th.alt; the phrase means retention of depletion of irresplaceable resources; and 1. Man has the fundamental right to free a complete system with all of the complex gross deficiencies harmful to the physical, dom, equality and adequate conditions of interrelationships intact not a portion there mental and social health of man, in the man life, in an environment of a quality which of. Moreover, the size of the sample must be m.ade environment; particularly in the living permits a life of dignity and well being, and sufficient to represent the size of the whole. and working environment. bears a solemn respons1b111ty to protect and "Principle 12. The U.S. does not regard 4. In the developing countries most of the improve the environment for present and the text of this principle, or any other lan environmental problems are caused by under future generations. In this respect, policies guage contained in the Declaration, as re development. Millions continue to live far promoting or perpetuating apartheid, racial quiring it to change its aid policies or in below the minimum levels required for a de segregation, discrimination, colonial and crease the amounts thereof. The U.S. accepts cent human existence, deprived of adequate other forms of oppression and foreign dom the idea that added costs in specific national food and clothing, shelter and education, ination stand condemned and must be projects or activities for environmental pro health and sanitation. Therefore, the de eliminated. tection reasons should be taken into account. veloping countries must direct their efforts 2. The natural resources of the earth in· "Principle 21. The U.S. considers it obvious to development, bearing in mind their priori cluding the air, water, land, flora and fauna that nothing contained in this principle, or ties and the need to safeguard and improve and especially representative samples of elsewhere in the Declaration, diminishes in the environment. For the same purpose, the natural ecosystems must be safeguarded for any way the obligation of states to prevent industrialized countries should make efforts the benefit of present and future generations environmental damage or gives rise to any through careful planning or management as to reduce the gap between themselves and appropriate. right on the part of states to take actions the developing countries. In the industrial in derogation of the rights of other states or ized countries, environmental problems are 3. The capacity of the earth to produce of the community of nations. The statement generally related to industrialization and vital renewable resources must be main of the responsibllity of states for damage technological development. tained and wherever practicable restored or caused to the environment of other states or 5. The natural growth of population con improved. of areas beyond the limits of national juris tinuously presents problems on the preserva 4. Man has a special responsibility to safe diction is not in any way a limitation on the tion of the environment, and adequate pol guard and wisely manage the heritage of above obligation, but an affirmation of exist icies measures should be adopted as appro wildlife and its habitat which are now ing rules concerning liabllity in the event of priate to face these problems. Of all things gravely imperilled by a combination of ad default on the obligation. in the world, people are the most precious. verse factors. Nature conservation including "Principle 26. The U.S. fully supports the It ls the people that propel social progress, Wildlife must therefore receive importance purpose, aspirations, and ultimate goals con create social wealth, develop science and in planning for economic development. tained in this paragraph. We are constantly technology and through their hard work, 5. The non-renewable resources of the striving to meet such goals in all relevant continuously transform the human environ earth must be employed in such a way as fora including for example SALT which has ment. Along with social progress and the ad to guard against the danger of their future recently achieved such success. We regard vance of production, science and technology exhaustion and to ensure that benefits from our commitment under this principle as the capability of man to improve the en such employment are shared by all man identical to the treaty obligation we have vironment increases with each passing day. kind. assumed in connection with the treaty on 6. A point has been reached in history 6. The discharge of toxic substances or of the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, when we must shape our actions through other substances and the release of heat, in specifically Article VI including the require out the world with a more prudent care for such quantities or concentrations as to ex ment of 'strict and effective International their environmental consequences. Through ceed the capacity of the environment to render them harmless, must be halted in control.' We believe it obvious that agree ignorance or indifference we can do massive order to ensure that serious or irreversible ments called for in the principle must be and irreversible harm to the earthly environ damage ls not 1nfl1cted upon ecosystems. The adequately verifiable or they will not be ment on which our life and well being de just struggle of the peoples of all countries soundly enough based to achieve the pur pend. Conversely, through fuller knowledge against pollution should be supported. poses of this principle." and wiser action, we can achie~e for our- 7. States shall take all possible steps to 24280 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 18, 1972 prevent pollution of the seas by substances for the younger generation as woll as adults, high priority to human settlement problems that are liable to create hazards to human giving due oonsideration for the under such as housing, transport, water supply, and health, to harm living resources and marine privileged, 1s essential in order to broaden sewerage. This is a significant action in that life, to damage amenities or to interfere with the basis for an enlightened opinion and past development assistance has been ori other legitimate uses of the sea. responsible conduct by individuals, enter ented heavily toward the industrial and ag 8. Economic and social development is es prises and communities in protecting and ricultural sectors. The second recommenda sential for ensuring a favorable living and improving the environment in its full human tion calls for the assistance agencies to help working environment for man and for con dimension. It 1s also essential that mass developing countries recruit environmental ditions on earth that are necessary for the media of communications avoid contribut staff to advise them on environmental improvement of the qualit y of life. ing to the deterioration of the environ aspects of development projects. 9. Environmental deficiencies generated by ment, but, on the contrary, di.&lemlnate in I-137.-Environmental Improvement Areas the conditions of underdevelopment and formation of an educational nature on the natural disasters pose grave problems and need to protect and improve the environ This paragraph, supported by the U.S., rec can best be remedied by accelerated develop ment in order to educate man to develop ommends a new international program of ment through the transfer of substantial in every respect. "Environmental Areas." Governments are quantities of financial and technological as 20. Scientific research and development in urged program of "Environmental Improve sistance, as a supplement to the domestic the context of environmental problems, both ment Areas." Governments are urged to des effort of the developing countries and such national and multinational must be pro ignate areas, varying in size from a region timely assistance as may be required. moted in all counti:les, especially the de to a city block, in which they a.re prepared to carry on long-term environmental im 10. For the developing countries, stabillty veloping countries. In this connection, the provement, emphasizing international co of prices and adequate earnings for primary free flow of up to date scientific information operation and sharing information on t heir commodities and raw materials are essent ial and experience must be supported and as problems and solutions. This program offers to environmental management since eco sisted, to facilitate the solution of environ nomic factors as well as ecological processes the possibility of important breakthroughs mental problems; environmental technolo in community environmental progress. must be taken into account. gies should be made available to developing 11. The environmental policies of all states countries on terms which would encourage I-138.-Consultation Across Boundaries should enhance and not adversely affect the their wide dissemination without constitut This recommendation, supported by the present or future development potential of ing an economic burden on the developing U.S., calls for bilateral or regional consulta developing countries, nor should they hamper countries. tion where human settlement problems have the attainment of better living conditions 21. States have, in accordance with the repercussions across national boundaries. for all, and appropriate steps should be taken Charter of the United Nations and the prin I-140.-Research by states and international organizations ciples of international law, the sovereign wit h a view to reaching agreement on meet right to exploit their own resources pursuant This paragraph, supported by the U.S., deals ing the possible national and international to their own environmental policies, and the with research in environmental problems of economic consequences resulting from the responsibility to ensure that activities human settlements. It recommends t hat application of environmental measures. within their jurisdiction or control do not such research be coordinated at the inter 12. Resources should be made available to cause damage to the environment of other national level by the anticipated new UN preserve and improve the environment, t ak states or of areas beyond the limits of na environmental unit (see Subject Area VI) ing into account the circumstances and par tional jurisdiction. and identifies certain priority research topics ticular requirements of developing countries 22. States shall cooperate to develop fur such as water supply and sewage disposal in and any costs which may emanate from their ther the international law regarding liability tropica'l areas; rural-urban m1grat ion and incorporating environmental safeguards into and compensation for the victims of pollu squatter settlements; urban transport; and their development planning and the need for tion and other environmental damage caused psycho-social stresses of city life. Compan ion making available to them, upon their re by activities within the jurisdiction or con recommendations, also supported by the U.S., quest, additional international technical and trol of such states to areas beyond their were in paragraph 141 (regional research co financial assistance for this purpose. jurisdiction. operrution) and 144 (sharing of research re 13. In order to achieve a more rational 23. Without prejudice to such general sults) . management of resources and thus to im principles as may be agreed upon by the I-146, 148, 149 .-Training prove the environment, states should adopt international community, or to the criteria These recommendations, sup ported by t he an integrated and coordinated approach to and minimum levels which will have to be U.S., all deal with the need for greatly ex their development planning so as to ensure determined nationally, it will be essential in panded training, both sectoral and in ter that development is compatible with the all cases to consider the systems of values disciplinary, in all aspects of t he environ need to protect and improve the human prevailing in each country, and the extent of ment of human settlements. They call on all environment for the benefit of their popula the applicability of standards which are valid countries and the Secretary-General to step tion. for the most advanced countries but which up training activities so that the necessary 14. Ration.al planning constitutes an es may be inappropriate and of unwarranted personnel are available to apply sound en sential tool for reconciling any conflict be social cost for the developing countries. vironmental principles and practices. tween the needs of development and the 24. International matters concerning the I-150.-Natural Disasters need to protect and improve the environ protection and improvement of the environ ment. ment should be handled in a cooperative A new paper on this subject was written in 15. Planning must be applied to human spirit by all countries, big or small, on an Committee I, in view of general dissatisfac settlements and urbanization with a view to equal footing. Cooperation through multi tion with the Secretariat document on this avoiding adverse effect on the environment lateral or bilateral arrangements or other ap subject. The recommendation calls for, and obtaining maximum social. economic propriate means is essential to prevent, elim among other things, greater recognit ion of .and environmental benefits for all. In this inate or reduce and effectively control ad the need for disaster warning and prediction respeot projects which are designed for verse environmental effects resulting from systems against a wide range of disasters colonialist and racist domination must be activities conducted in all spheres, in such ( earthquakes, typhoons, tsunamis, drought, abandoned. a way that due account is taken of the sov etc.) . More research data are called for; also 16. Demographic policies which are with ereignty and interests of all states. better communication systems to bring im out prejudice to basic human rights and 25. States shall ensure that international mediate warning of a coming disaster to the which are deemed appropriate by govern organizations play a coordinated, efficient threatened area-such as might have saved ments concerned, should be applied in and dynamic role for the protection and im countless lives in the Bay of Bengal hurri those regions where the rate of population provement of the environment. cane of 1970. Also stressed was the need for growth or excessive population concentra 26. Man and his environment must be public perception of the vulnerability of cer tions are likely to have advene effects on spared the effects of nuclear weapons and all tain areas to disasters. The entire recom the environment or development, or where other means of mass destruction. States mendation is referred to the recently ap low population density may prevent im must strive to reach prompt agreement, in pointed UN Disaster Relief Coordinator for provement of the human environment and the relevant international organs, on the further action. impede development. elimination and complete destruction of The United States delegation took a.n ac 17. Appropriate national institutions must such weapons. tive part in drafting this recommendation be entrusted with the task of planning, SUBJECT AREA I and strongly supported it. managing or controlling the environmental Planning and. management of human settle 1-152, 163.-Water Supply, Sewerage resources of states with the view to en These recommendations, supported by the hancing environmental quality. ments for environmental quality discussed. 18. science and technology. as part of in Committee I United States, call on WHO and the UN de· their contribution to economic and social See Report of Committee I A/CONF. 48/6 velopment assistance agencies to give higher development, must be applied to the iden for most para.graph references below I-136. priority to supporting governments' efforts to tUlcation, avoidance and control of environ Development Aid. improve water supply, sewerage services, and mental risks and the solution of environ This paragraph supported by the U.S., con waste disposal. These recommendations ad ment.a.I problems and for the common good tains two recommendations. The first calls dress some of the most critical problems of mankind. for all development assistance agencies (in faced, particularly by developing nations 19. Education in environmental matters, ternational, regional, and national) to give which are rapidly urbanizing. July 18, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24281 The United States supported these recom A/ CON. 48/7 for most paragraph references; The U.S. supported this recommendation. mendations. and conservation conventions from Subject Wild species serve as particularly sensi I-154.-Population Area IV (A/ CONF. 48/ 9, paragraphs 121-126). tive indicators of the levels of various types Recommendation that the Secretary-Gen Agriculture and Soils of pollutants, such as heavy metals, pesti eral ensure that population concerns bearing II-46 cides, and plasticizers (PCBs); and in a on the environment of human settlement be Recommends that FAO, in cooperation with broader sense, are indicators of environ given special attention at the 1974 World other international agencies concerned, mental health and stability. They can thus Population Conference. play a valuable part in global monitoring strengthen the machinery for international systems. The United States delegate to the commit acquisition of knowledge and transfer of ex tee, Mr. Rockefeller, made a statement un perience on soil capabilities, degradation and II-82 derscoring United States support for the rec conservation. Recommends an international program to ommendation, and it was passed without The U.S. strongly supported this recom assess the total economic value of wildlife dissent. mendation. It will help to develop and apply resources. I-155.-Family Planning the technology necessary for increased pro The U.S. supported this recommendation. This was a new recommendation submit ted duction of food and fiber. Wildlife has often been overlooked as a valu as an amendment by Norway, which called An amendment was adopted recommending able economic resource. This assessment pro for WHO and other UN agencies to increase action to give value and stabil1ty to prices gram can help to chart future conservation family planning assistance to governments of agricultural raw materials in international policies. "without delay" and intensify research in trade, on the ground that this would pro II-83 this area. vide funds for soil improvement. U.N. agencies to cooperate with govern The United States supported this recom The U.S. opposed this amendment, pointing m~nt~ of developing countries to develop mendation (upheld in Plenary vote, 55-18 out that its intent was far afield and soil unldlife management training courses. with 4 abstent ions after long debate) be improvement and could in any case not be The U.S. supported. Trained personnel in cause of our conviction that the world popu achieved by this means. this field are in very short supply in develop lation problem, with its great environmental II-47 ing countries. implications, should be faced in this confer Recommends that Governments, in cooper II-84 ence, even though a World Population Con ation with UN specialized agencies, strength Recommends that governments consider ference is to be held two years hence. en and coordinate international programs to enacting international conventions and I-156.-Malnutrition control pests and reduce harmful effects of trea_ties to protect species inhabiting inter This new recommendation, proposed as an agrochemicals. national waters or those which m i grate from amendment by Pakistan, calls on UN agen The recommendation, amended to note that one country to another, and that a working cies to focus special attention on the need t o national and ecological variations must be group be established without delay to devel combat "the menace of human malnutrition taken into account in developing guidelines op a broadly based convention on game regu rampant in man y parts of the world." This and standards, was accepted with U.S. sup lations, etc., to avoid overexploitation of wild significant problem had not been included in port. life resources. the committee's original agenda. II-48 The U.S. supported this recommendation. The United States joined in supporting Recommends recycling of agricultural and No single nation can protect such species the amendment. agroindustrial and municipal wastes through adequately, nor should any single nation I-157.-Noise the soil. ;1:iave the right to exploit them; consequently, international action is required. This recommendation, sponsored by Swe Accepted with U.S. support. den, called for the UN body to be created to Livestock II-86 work toward creating international noise II-(no number) Recommends that governments agree to emission standards which would apply in A new recommendation, proposed by Ni strengthen the Int ernational Whaling Com ternationally to the production of "motor geria, was added on rapid development of mission (/WC), increase international whale vehicles and certain kinds of working equip livestock in areas of low productivity. research efforts, and as a matter of urgency, ment." calls for an international agreement for a Although the recommendation was passed, Rural development ten-year moratorium on commercial whal the United States abstained, regarding it as a II-(no number) ing. "This recommendation passed 53 (U.S.) far too limited and fragmented approach to A new recommendation, proposed by for, 0 against, 12 abstentions." the problem of noise pollution in human set France, was added calling for increased at The U.S. initiated this recommendation tlements. t ention to rural development. and strongly supported it against vigorous I-158.-International Programs for Human The U.S. supported this recommendation. opposition by Japan. It was strengthened by Settlements U.S. amendment which called for direct rec Forests ommendation for moratorium under the A new recommendation that the Secretary II-66a IWC, but also including other interested gov General in consultation with UN bodies for Recommends that the Secretary-General ernments (since not all whaling nations are mulate programs to assist countries to meet take steps to ensure that UN bodies cooper IWC members). The U.S. amendment also growth requirements of human settlements a,te to meet needs for new knowledge on for called for increased international research and to improve the quality of life in exist est management. Accepted after explanations efforts. ing settlements, particularly squatter areas. by "Man and Biosphere" Program (UNESCO) Despite regulation by the !WC, world whale This recommendation was adopted without that thast program would support ecosystem populations have drastically dropped, to objection. research on forests to complement FAO where all exploited whale species are im I-159.-Regional Centers studies in forest management, economics, leg mediately or potentially endangered or great This was also a new recommendation call islation, land tenure, and the like. ly depleted. Present trends under the rwc ing for the creation of regional centers to The U.S. supported, this recommendation. would not allow rebuilding of depleted stocks and probably would result in further reduc to provide assistance in human settlements II-66b problems through research, training, infor tion. This recommendation reflects worldwide mation exchange, and financial, technical, Recommends monitoring of the world's recognition that whales, inhabiting the in and materials assistance. The United States forest cover through various techniques In ternational seas, are the concern of mankind voted against this recommendation on the cluding remote sensing by sastellite. as a whole-not solely for economic reasons grounds that it was impractical. The U.S. supported this recommendation. but also for their role in marine ecosystems II-67a and for their distinction as the largest and I (no number)-Human Settlements Fund possibly the most awe-inspiring members of This recommendation proposed by India Recommends that FAO coordinate a.n in the animal kingdom. and Libya had strong support from many ternational program for research and ex less developed countries. It called for a finan cha.nge of information on forest fires, pests Parks cial institution whose primary objective and diseases. II-95, 96, and 97 would be to strengthen national programs Accepted with U.S. support. Recommends ( 1) special attention to in the human settlements field by providing It should be noted that II-66a ( and b) training requirements for park planning and seed capital and technical assistance. The and 67 (a and b) can contribute greatly to management; (2) a mechanism for interna United States and most developed countries environmental quality, especially in tropical tional transfer of information on park plan voted against it. The United States shared forest ecosystems where current exploitation ning and management techniques: (3) that the views of Sweden, the UK, and Canada endangers produotive capacity a.nd stability UN agencies assist developing countries to who spoke against the recommendation in in many areas. plan for visitor use of protected areas in such Plenary noting that existing financial insti Wildlife (including whales) a way as to reconcile revenue and environ tutions were logical sources for human set Il-81 mental considerations. tlements funding. The U.S. supported. these recommendat1ol18. Recommends that the Secretary-General SUBJECT AREA II insure th81t effects of pollutants on wildlife II-98 Environmental aspects of natural resources are oonsldered within environmental moni International protection for ecosystems. management discussed in Committee II; see toring systems. Recommends governments ( 1) cooperate ill 24282 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 18, 1972 managing neighboring protected areas; (2) cal and financial assistance to governments Marginal lands set aside areas representing ecosystems of in and create a roster of experts to advise them II-227(b) ternational significance for protection under in this field; (3) assess the environmental Recommends that the Food and Agricul international agreement. effects of man's continental water manage ture Organization expand its present pro The U.S. supported this recommendation, ment on the oceans, which are the ulti gram on stabilization of marginal lands. noting that such agreements should be con mate repository of water runoff and water The U.S. supported, this recommendation. borne wastes from the land. sistent with international law. Conservation conventions Genetic resources The U.S. supported these recommenda tions. IV-124.-World Heritage II-107-120 Minerals Recommends that governments, with as A major set of recommendations for global II-175 sistance of UN, specialized agencies, and cooperation program to preserve the world's Recommends an appropriate vehicle be other inter-governmental and non-govern 1mmense variety of genetic resources, includ provided to exchange information on min mental organizations, continue preparation ing domestic and wild plants and animals, in· ing and primary mineral processing and to of present and future conventions required sects and microorganisms. Includes a 5-year provide information to developing nations for conservation of world's natural resources crash program of plant exploration and col· on technology for preventing adverse health, and cultural heritage. Consideration to be lection where species are endangered (110); safety and environmental effects associated given to possible technical and financial as national and regional genetic resource con with the mineral industry. sistance to governments for protection of servation centers (112); a network of pro• The U.S. supported, this recommendation. elements of national heritage of universal tected areas containing samples of the Energy value. world's ecosystems with their component The U.S. supported, this recommendation. II-196 (a), (b), (c) wild plant and animal species (113); steps IV-125 (a, b) .-World Heritage Trust to preserve germ plasm of animals ( 115) ; Recommends steps to develop data and Convention microorganisms ( 116) ; insects ( 117) ; a global exchange information, as part of the world cooperative network embracing all these and monitoring effort, on environmental effects "The Conference took note of the Draft other activities. of present and future production and use of Convention, prepared by UNESCO, concern The need for such an ambitious new pro energy. These data are to be developed in ing the protection of the world national gram arises from two concurrent trends: the framework of studies drawing on the ex and cultural heritage, marking a significant man's increasing dependence on a few gene pertise of the International Atomic Energy step toward the protection, on an interna tic stocks of crop plants and livestock, all vul· Agency and the Organization of Economic tional scale, of the environment; and in nerable to pests and disease; and his increas Cooperation and Development, and are to vited governments to examine the draft con ing impact on the biosphere which puts in take account of new technology. The first vention with a view to its adoption at the jeopardy countless living species, thus report would be made 1n 1975. next General Conference of UNESCO (au tumn 1972)." threatening to reduce at an accelerating rate The U.S. supported this recommendation the variety of life forms, the stab111ty of eco The U.S. initiated and strongly supported systems, and the genetic resources on which Resource Development: Environmental this recommendation. The World Heritage man can draw in the future for food, fiber, Assessment Trust, proposed by President Nixon in Feb aesthetic and other purposes. II-201 ruary 1971, calls for international recog This program ls likely to be one of the Recommends (1) environmental audits nition and protection to areas of natural or major contributions of the Conference. It (pre-audits where feasible) of resource de· cultural heritage of universal significance. was a U.S. initiative in substantial part, and velopment projects in representative ecosys IV-125{c) .-Wetlands was adopted by consensus in its entirety. tems of international significance; and (2) The Conference invites all interested Fisheries steps to assess the environmental impact of Governments to sign the Convention on Con II-131-135 alternative approaches to the survey, plan servation of Wetlands of International Im These recommendations call on govern ning, and development of resource projects. portance, approved at the Conference of ments and the Secretary-General, in co The U.S. supported this recommendation RAMSAR (Iran). operation with FAO and other UN orga with the interpretation that rights under in· The Convention ls not entirely satisfactory nizations, to: (1) support information ex ternational law would be guaranteed. to the U.S., since we do not believe it goes far enough in the protection of wetlands, change, monitoring and assessment of fish Environmental impact of development ery resources, more efficient international an objective which we strongly support. assistance The U.S. nevertheless supported, the rec management of fish stocks; (2) ensure an II-203(b) adequate role for fishery agencies in prepar ommendation as a step in the right direc ing for the coming UN Law of the Sea. Con Recommends that development assistance tion. ference; (3) help prevent national resource agencies, in cooperation with recipient gov IV-125(d) .-Islands for Science ut111zation from harming international fish ernments, broaden the criteria of develop Recommends that the Secretary-General ery resources; ( 4) strengthen ( and in some ment project analysis to incorporate environ make arrangements, in consultation with areas create) international machinery for mental impact considerations. the competent agencies of the United Na developing and managing fisheries. The U.S. supported this recommendation. tions system and the non-governmental or The U.S. supported this set of recommen ganizations concerned, for a detailed study dations. Their importance can be guaged from Synthetic versus natural products of all possible procedures for protecting cer such facts as these: In 1970, world fish II-203(c) tain islands for science. catches came to 57 million tons; proteins Recommends the appropriate UN agencies The U.S. supported this recommendation. from the sea are being harvested at a rate undertake studies on the relative costs and IV-125(e) .-Endangered Species that ls increasing 6 per cent a. year; but benefits of synthetic versus natural products potential resources are jeopardized by over Recommends that a plenipotentiary con serving identical uses. ference be convened as soon as possible to fishing, pollution of coasts and inland seas, The U.S. supported this recommendation. coastal land reclamation, dredging, offshore prepare and adopt a convention on export, oil operations, etc. To protect these living re Biosphere research import and transit of certain species of sources which so largely inhabit the interna II-203(d) wild animals and plants in order to protect them from overexploitation or extinction. tional realm, improved international coopera Recommends that the international pro tion ls increasingly urgent. In the U.S. view, The U.S. supported this recommendation. gram of biosphere research be vigorously pur Under the terms of the Endangered Species better knowledge acquisition is especially im sued. This was construed to refer to the portant; to this end, a fisheries data center, Act of 1969, the U.S. 1s to hold such a con UNESCO "Man and Biosphere" Program. ference and has been working with IUCN in which all nations using fishery resources The U.S. supported this recommendation. would cooperate in research and furnish and interested governments to develop a data. on their catches, would be most de Development and cUmate draft convention. sirable. II-204 SUBJECT AREA. III Water Recommends that the World Meteorologi Identification and control of pollutamts of II-159 cal Organization initiate or intensify studies broad internatfonal significance Recommends that governments consider on the inter-relationship of resource develop Discussed in Committee m; see A/CONF. creating new machinery, such as multina ment and meteorology. 48/8 !or most paragraph references below. tional river basin commissions, for study The U.S. supported, this recommendation. m-21a.-eUm.a.te and management of water resources com mon to more than one jurisdiction, settle Remote sensing Recommends governments be mindful o! II-207 activities in which there is a.n appreciable ment of disputes over their use, etc. risk of effects on climate, and evaluate the The U.S. supported this recommendation. Recommends furtller development of re potential for resulting climate changes. The II-160 (a), (b), (c), (d) mote sensing technology in resource surveys long-range effects of increases in particu Recommends steps by the UN system to: and appropriate utllization of the use of late matter and carbon dioxide, for example, ( 1) establish. regional centers for training these techniques on the basis of proper in· a.re uncertain and the need for further study and 1n!ormatio:>. exchange on water resources ternational arrangements. is obvious. management probleDl8; (2) provide techni- The U.S. supported this recommendation. The U.S. supported this recommendation. July 18, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24283 ill-219.-Dangerous Substances contamination by chemical and biological (6) participate in the approaching Law of Recommends governments use the best agents and provide early warnings. the Sea Conference and the 1973 IMCO Ma practicable means to minimize environ The U.S. supported this recommendation. rine Pollution Conference with objective of mental release of toxic or persistent sub III-227.-Atmospheric Monitoring bringing all significant sources of pollution stances {particularly heavy metals and or Recommends a network of 10 "baseline" in marine environment, including radioactive ganochlorine compounds) if their release stations remote from pollution sources, and pollution from nuclear vessels, under appro otherwise would produce unacceptable risks. over 100 regional-level stations, to provide priate control and eliminating completely Although the language is unclear, it is our data. needed to determine the nature and by middle of present decade all intentional interpretation that such substances would extent of atmospheric pollution and direction discharge of oil from ships. not be exempt merely because their use is and rate of change, so as to predict long-term (6) strengthen national controls over land considered. essential to human health and effects on climate. ba.sed sources of marine pollution. food production; in such cases benefits The U.S. supported this recommendation. The U.S. strongly supported para.graph (4) should be weighed carefully against risks. of this recommendation as offering the best However, the wording of the recommendation 111-228.-Terrestrial Ecology possible opportunity for prompt conclusion is unclear in this respect. Recommends coordinated research in ter of the work on the ocean dumping conven The U.S. supported this recommendation. restrial ecology through appropriate inter tion first proposed by U.S. in June 1971. The m-220.-Pollutant Standards national agencies and the "man and bio U.S. also supported the entire recommenda sphere" program, and surveillance of the tion as it urges states to take legal measures Recommends that national standards for effects of poll utants on ecosystems. It should nationally, regionally, and internationally to pollutants of international significance take be noted that recommendations III-203 ( d), bring major sources of marine pollution un account of internationally accepted stand IIl-227 and IIl-234 together with 228 a.re all der control. The U.S. has misgivings about ards and act in concert with competent inter essential to the development and implemen ca.rte-blanche endorsement of all available national organizations nad other concerned tation of a global environmental monitoring instruments and believes case-by-case re governments. This approach by governments program. view is necessary, especially of non-binding would represent considerable savings in The U.S. supported this recommendation. manpower, time, and funds. instruments in form of resolutions, etc., of does The U.S. supported this recommendation. III-228(a) .-Air, Water, and Food Standards international organizations. The U.S. not accept that references in paragraphs (2) III-222.-Knowledge A recommendation that WHO, together with competent international organizations, and (3) constitute endorsement of jurisdic Recommends governments join in inter continue to study and establish primary tion other than that widely accepted in in national programs to acquire knowledge for standards for the protection of human or ternational law. "The U.S. interprets the the assessment of pollutant sources, path ganisms, especially from pollutants that are reference to appropriate controls of radio ways, exposures and risks; and also assist common to air, water, and food, as the basis active pollution from nuclear vessels to developing countries to participate. for establishment of working limits. Recom mean that each government will establish The U.S. supported this recommendation. mendation was approved without objection. and enforce controls over its own nuclear m-223.-Pollutant Warning powered naval vessels and that these govern III-229.-Food Contaminant Control ments wlll take into account generally rec Recommends that the UN system and all Recommends steps to increase the capa competent bodies provide warning of delete ognized international radiation standards." bilities of FAO and WHO to assist the Codex ill-234.-Knowledge rious effects of manmade pollutants on hu Alimentarius Commission in developing in man health and well being, both short-term ternational standards for pollutants in food, Recommends that governments support and long-term. To accomplish this an inter and to guide developing countries in the national research and monitoring efforts calibra.tion program for sampling and ana field of food control. that contribute to international programs; lytical techniques to provide meaningful The U.S. supported this recommendation. provide data to the UN, FAO, and UNCTAD; comparisons of data. is essential. Although we and make the International Oceanographic do not object to a registry of data on chemi III-230.-Pollutant Limits Commission (IOC) a more effective coordina cals, the U.S. noted that requiring hard-to Recommends that UN agencies develop pro tor. get data on pathways from factory to ulti cedures for setting derived working limits The U.S. strongly supported this recom mate disposal would unduly hamper the for concentrations of pollutants in ambient mendation as essential to an efficient scien effort. air and water, based on internationally agreed tific approach to marine pollution control The U.S. supported this recommendation criteria. and as a key pa.rt of "Ea.rthwa.tch." which we consider basic. However, we voted Although mention of WHO was deleted, ill-236.-GESAMP against an additional paragraph which was over U.S. opposition as the key agency for adopted in committee, calling for creation of this action, the U.S. supported this recom Recommends IOC's Group of Experts on an international registry of data on chemi mendation. Scientific Aspects of Marine Pollution cals in the environment; although we favor III-231.-Information Exchange of Pollution (GESAMP) reexamine annually its "Review the idea of such a registry, we regarded the of Harmful Chemical Substances" and pro Research and Control vide advice on scientific aspects of marine inclusion of a provision for data on pathways This recommendation to utilize the pro from factory to ultimate disposal as unwork pollution. posed international referral service to make The U.S. supported this recommendation. able. available information which may be request III-223 (a) .-Radioactivity Registry ed by governments on pollution research and III-236-Resea.rch Recommends exploring the feasibility of pollution control activities including legis• Recommends-- an international registry of significant radio lation. Approved without objection. ( 1) methods be developed to combine activity releases. The U.S. indicated that it is III-232.-Activities of Proposed UN Environ- world statistics on the mining, production, fully prepared to continue working with mental Body processing, transport and use of potential IAEA in establishing a suitable registry ad marine pollutants; Recommended tasks of Environmental (2) GESAMP propose guidelines to evalu dressed to peaceful activities involving re Body to include: leases expected to go beyond national ate the toxicity of these substances; boundaries." Development of internationally accepted (3) FAO, WHO, IOC, and IAEA encourage procedures for identification of pollutants; III-224.-Pollutants and Health study of the effects of high priority pollu appointment of intergovernmental bodies to tants on man and other organisms; and Recommends a major effort to obtain data assess exposures, risks, pathways, and sources on agents to which man is exposed. WHO is of pollutants of international significance; (4) IOC, with FAO and WHO, explore recommended as the agency most competent creating an institute for tropical marine examination of needs for technical assist studies. to coordinate an international collection and ance from member states; review of inter dissemination system to correlate medical, national cooperation for pollution control. The U.S. supported these recommendations. environmental, and family-history data. Adopted without objection. m-237 .-Monitoring The U.S. supported this recommendation. III-233.-Marine pollution, General Recommends that IOC, with WMO and 111-226.-National Air and Fresh Water Recommends that governments other bodies, promote monitoring of marine Monitoring pollution, preferably within the Integrated (1) accept and implement ava.llable in Global Ocean Station System {IGOSS). Recommends that WHO further assist Gov struments on control of maritime sources of ernments, especially in developing countries, The U.S. supported this recommendation marine pollution; as aid to Earthwatch and as a scientific ap in monitoring their air and fresh water (2) ensure that the provisions of such in sources, particularly in areas where there struments are com.plied with by ships :flying proach to marine pollution control. may be a risk to health from pollution. Al their flags and by ships operating in areas IlI-238.-In!ormation exchange though WHO has performed this function under their jurisdiction; Recommends steps to assure that informa for many yea.rs, the U.S. agrees that there (3) control ocean dum.ping and continue tion from marine research and monitoring 1s urgent need for increased support in some work on ocean dum.ping conventions; be made available in a. .form usable by gov areas. (4) refer the draft ocean dumping conven ernments; also possible expansion of data The U.S. supported this recommendation. tion to the Seabeds Committee for its com centers and referral systems to meet new III-226.-Food contaminants ments a.nd to a conference to be held in the needs. Recommends an FAO-WHO program of re United Kingdom for final consideration, 1! The U.S. supported this recommendation. search and monitoring to help prevent food possible, before end of 1972; See under IV-137. 24284 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 18, 1972 III-239.--Control of Marine Pollution IV-114.-Educa.tion SUBJECT AREA V Recommends that governments (1) en Recommends that the Secreta.ry-General Environment and Development dorse the marine pollution principles and and the organlzaitions of the UN system Discussed in Committee II; see A/CONF. statement of objectives reported from the especially UNESCO, establish an internwtion 48/10 for paragraph references. Ottawa meeting of the Intergovernmental al environmental education program. The Of 8 recommendations on Environment and Working Group on Marine Pollution (Novem program is to be interdisciplinary and experi Development, the U.S. supported 5 and ab ber 1971); (2) control land-based sources of mental in approach and to be directed to stained on 3. marine pollution and concert thereon re wards all levels of the education continuum, gionally and internationally. Also recom including preschool, primary, secondary, and V-31. Role of regional organizations mends the Secretary General and appro adult educa.,tion. Recommends active participation by re priate organizations provide guidelines to The U.S. supported, this recommenda.tion. gional organizations in developing areas, in governments for this purpose. This program would include technical and cluding those of the UN as well as others, The U.S. opposed this recommendation, financial support for a.n inventory of exist in environmental work including: attention stating that although there is much we ap ing systems of education which deal with to environmental problems common to the prove of in the Ottawa principles and objec environment; exchange of infonn.ation on region, especially those of the least developed tives, these have wide-ranging implications such systems; environmental training and countries and countries exposed to marine for law of the sea. problems and vessel opera retraining of teachers and other profes pollution; exchange of information and ex tion outside purview of this conference. The sionals; expert groups to exchange experience perience between regional organizations on U.S. therefore believes the proper form for between countries with similar envlronmen enviromental problems common to developing examining these subjects a.re the LOS Con taJ. conditions; new materials and methods countries worldwide; training development ference and the 1973 IMCO conference. for environmental education. personnel in environmental skills; research, IV-115.-Training education, health, human settlements and III-240.-UN Support soil problems. Recommends that the anticipated new UN Recommends UNESCO, under the Man The U.S. supported this recommendation. environmental mechanism should provide and the Biosphere Program, WHO, FAO, needed advice to Governments on marine UNIDO, WMO, the scientific unions, etc. V-32.-International trade pollution. should develop innova.tions in environmental Recommends five principals of which the The U.S. supported this recommendation training of specia.lists and technicians, and U.S. supported three and opposed two (later since t he magnitude of controlling marine foster environmental training at the regional seeking unsuccessfully to have them pollution makes eaTly dissemination of such and international levels. a.mended); abstaining on the whole para advice to all governments desirable and eco The U.S. supported this recommendation. graph. Specifics: (1) Endorsing key principle nomical. IV-116. Volunteers that participating countries not use environ mental actions as a pretext for discrimina III-241.-Developing country role in Recommends that international organiza tory trade practices: pollution work tions for voluntary service and, in particular, U.S. supported. Recommends additional financial support the International Secretariat for Volunteer (2) Calling for "compensation" to export to enable developing countries to participate Service, in consultations with the United ing countries ( especially developing coun in international programs of research, moni Nations Volunteer Program of UNDP, include tries) when environmental actions hamper toring and control of pollutants. environmental skills among the services they provide. their exports: The U.S. supported this recommendation. U.S. opposed, pointing out that many forces We believe it essential that the widest pos The U.S. supported this recommendation. affect export earnings and to single out any sible participation in international pollution IV-119.-Public Information of these, such as environmental actions, for control work be achieved. Recommends a.n information program to compensatory treatment would be wrong In III- No number.-Nuclear Wea.pons Testing create public awareness on environmental principle and a disincentive to environmental Th is resolution, wh ich condemns nuclear tissues and elicit contributions from non responsibility, but stated readiness to deal weapons tests, especially in the atmosphere, governmental organizations; an annual "in with any complaint that its environmental was introduced by Peru and New Zealand. It ternational environment day"; translation actions violate GATT obligations. was adopted 56 for, 3 against (China, France, and circulation of Conference documents; in (3) That existing machinery of GATT be Gabon), 29 absentions including the United tegration of environmental information into used to examine trade and environment States. public information work of the United Na question: The United States explained its absention tions system; and cooperation on environ U.S. supported. on this resolution as follows: "Although the mental infor.ma.tion among United Nations (4) Calling for advance consultation on United States supports the principle of an regional economic commissions. planned environmental actions affect ing adequately verified total weapons test ban, The U.S. supported this recommendation. trade, and assistance aimed at removing the wording of the draft resolution is ambig IV-120.-Environmental Information in De obstacles to trade which these actions create: uous regarding its applicability to under velopment Programs U.S. opposed, because the recommendation ground weapons testing. Nevertheless, the Recommends that certain international de is too vague and general to permit effective United States believes that its tests are in velopment programs be adapted to dis implementation. consonance with prudent safeguards since seminate environmental information and (5) Stating a principle that environment al the United States pays scrupulous attention strengrt;hen comm.unity action on environ standards in given products or processes n eed to minimizing the environmental effects of mental problems. U.S. supported this recom not be uniform in all countries where en its tests. In any event, the solution to this mendation. vironmental disruption to other countries is sensitive and highly complex arms control not involved; and that the purpose of t hese matter should be dealt with in a more suit· IV-126.-Duties of Secretary-General standards is to protect the environment, not able form." A recommendation that the Secreta.ry to gain trading advantages: SUBJECT AREA IV General make arrangements to be kept in U.S. supported this principle. Educational, Informational, Social and Cul formed of national pilot schemes for environ V-33.-Action by UN system mental management; assist countries, on re tural Aspects; also Conservation Conven Recommends UN agencies identify environ tions quest, with experiments and research; and ment and export problems and remedies; also Discussed in Committee I; see A/CONF. organize international exchange of informa help governments negotiate international 48/9 for para.graph references. tion adopted by consensus. standards on traded products. IV-ill-Continuous Social Diagnosis IV-137.-Exchange of Information: Referral U.S. supported this important recommen Service Recommends arrangements for continuous dation which will help reduce arbitrary and diagnosis to measure social and cultural im Recommends Secretary-General establish discriminatory trade actions. pacts of environmental developments. This an international Referral Service for efficient V-34.-Action by GATT and UNCTAD would include UN financial and technical international exchange information on en Recommends these agencies monitor and assistance to governments for: (a) preparing vironmental problems and solutions. report on trade barriers arising from en national reports on the environment; (b) This U.S.-lntroduced Recommend81tion was vironmental policies. developing social and cultural indica.tors for approved unanimously. U.S. supported this recommendation. the environment with a view to a common Hundreds of environmental information methodology for assessing environmental services and data are in operation but, except V-36.-World distribution of industry quality in this area; and (c) organlzing tlle to relatively small user constituencies, are Recommends (A) that developing countries exchange of information on methods for con relatively unknown and unused. The Referral consider establishing industries in which tinuous social diagnosis. Service would be a modest and practical tool their environmental situation may confer The U.S. supported this recommenda.tlon. to tell what information services exist, where comparative advantages, but avoid creating It will help foster needed data. collection and they are, and how to gain access to them. the environmental pollution problems in the assessment methods in the area of social It would, in effect, place countries request process; and (B) that the UN review t he monitoring. A great deal more study 1s re ing information of all types in contact with implications of environmental concerns for quired before meaningful internaitional re appropriate information resources in support future world distribution of industry, ports on socio-cultural environmental qual especially in developing countries. ity can be envisioned. of local, national, or international environ mental programs. The U.S. abstainBd on this recommenda- July 18, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24285 tion, noting that the study called for in (B) prompt and effective implementation by gov developing countries in the implementation would be meaningless generalities if made ernments and the international community of environmental programmes and projects, on a global basis since relevant factors vary of measures designed to safeguard and en to ensure th.at such programmes and projects so widely from country to country. hance the human environment for the bene are compatible with the development plans V-38.-International Financing fit of present and future generations of man and priorities of those countries. kind, recognizing that responsibility for Recommends a UN study of appropriate G. To review and approve annually the mechanisms for financing international en action to protect and enhance the human en programme of utilization of resources of the vironmental action. vironment rests primarily with governments environment fund. and, in the first instance, can be exercised 3. Recommends further that the govern The U.S. support ed this recommendation. more effectively at the national and regional V-39.-Environmental technologies ing council report annually to the General levels, recognizing that environmental prob Assembly through the Economic and Social Recommends studies of means to make en lems of broad international significance fall Council, which would transmit to the As vironmental technologies widely available to within the competence of the United Nations sembly such comments on the report as it developing countries. system, bearing in mind that international may deem necessary, particularly with regard U.S. supported this recommendation. cooperative programmes in the environment to questions of coordination and to the rela V-40.-Development strategy and aid flows field must be undertaken with due respect tionship of environment policies and pro to the sovereign rights of states and in con grammes within the United Nations system Following adoption of Indian amendment formity with the United Nations charter and in Committee, recommends (A) that the UN principles of international law, mindful of to overall economic and social policies and review and appraisal of the International the sectoral responsibilities of the orga priorities. Development Strategy (Second Development nizations of the United Nations system. Environment Secretariat Decade, 1971-80) take into account environ Conscious of the significance of regional 4. Recommends that a small Secretariat be ment considerations; and (B) that developed and subregional cooperation in the field of established in the United Nations, with head countries' environmental preoccupations not the Human Environment and of the im quarters in (---), to serve as a focal point affect aid flows to developing countries, which portant role of the Regional Economic Com for environmental actions and coordination should be "adequate to meet the additional missions and other regional intergovern within the United Nations system in such a environmental requirements of such mental organizations, emphasizing that way as to ensure a high degree of effective countries." problems of the human environment consti management. U.S. abstained on this recommendation, tute a new and important area for interna 5. Recommends further that the Environ pointing out that the resolution on Institu tional cooperation and that the complex ment Secretariat be headed by the Executive tional Arrangements (see Subject Area VI) interdependence of such problems requires Director, who shall be elected by the General contains in paragraph 10 a good formulation new aproaches, recognizing that the rele Assembly on the nomination of the Secre on this subject which the U.S. supports, and vant international scientific and other pro tary-General, and who shall be entrusted, that the Conference should avoid varying fessional communities can make an im inter alia, with the following responsibilities: recommendations on this important matter. portant contribution to international co (a) To provide substantive support to the SUBJECT AREA VI operation in the field of the human environ governing council. International organizational implications of ment, conscious of the need for processes (b) Under the guidance of the governing action proposals within the United Nations system which council, to coordinate environmental pro would effectively assist developing countries Discussed in Committee III; text of draft grammes within the United Nations system, to implement environmental policies and to keep under review their implementation resolution atta<:hed. programmes compatible with their develop The Conference action on this subject and assess their effectiveness. ment plans and to participate meaningfully (c) To advise, as appropriate and under consists of a single recommendation, in the in international environmental programmes, form of a Conference resolution recommend the guidance of the governing council, inter convinced that, in order to be effective, in governmental bodies of the United Nations ing a new organizational structure in the ternational cooperation in the field of the United Nations with the following elements: system on the formulation and implementa human environment requires additional fi tion of environmental programmes. 1. A Governing Council for Environmental nancial and technical resources, aware of the Programs, to consist of 54 member states (d) To secure the effective cooperation of, urgent need for a permanent institutional and contribution from, the relevant scien elected for three-year terms on the basis of arrangement within the United Nations for equitable geographic distribution, and to tific and other professional communities from the protection and improvement of the all parts of the world. have among its functions (a) the promotion human environment, and governing council of international environmental cooperation; (e) To provide, at the request of all par for environmental programmes. ties concerned, advisory services for the pro (b) general policy guidance for direction and 1. Recommends that the General Assem coordination of environmental programs in motion of international cooperation in the bly establish the governing council for en field of the environment. the UN system; (c) review of reports on im vironmental programmes composed of flfty plementation of these programs; and (d) four members, elected for three-year terms (f) To submit to the governing council, on review and approval of programs :financed by on the basis of equitable geographical dis his own initiative or upon request, proposals the Environment Fund (see below). The tribution: embodying medium-and-long-range plan Council is to report to the General Assembly 2. Recommends further that the govern ning for United Nations programmes in the through the Economic and social Council, ing council have the following main func environment field. the latter to comment on coordination and tions and responsibilties: (g) To bring to the attention of the gov on relation to other economic and social mat A. To promote international cooperation in erning council any matter which he deems ters under its jmisdiction. the environment field and to recommend, as to require consideration by it. 2. A small Environment Secretariat, appropriate, policies to this end. (h) To administer, under the authority headed by an Execu tive Director, to be estab B. To provide general policy guidance for and policy guidance of the governing coun lished as the focal point for cooperation, the direction and coordination of environ cil, the environment fund. coordination and effective management of mental programmes within the United Na (i) To report on environment matters to environmental activities in the UN system. tions system. the governing council. (The loca.tion of the Secretariat will be de C. To receive and review the periodic re (j) To perform such other functions as cided by the General Assembly this fall. At ports of the Executive Director on the im may be entrusted to him by the governing least ten sites have been offered by various plementation of environmental programmes council. countries.) within the United Nations system. T h e environment fund 3. An Environment Fund, administered by D. To keep under review the world en 6. Recommends that, in order to provide for the Executive Director u n der the guidance vironmental situation in order to ensure that additional financing for environmental pro of the Governing Council. The Fund will emerging environmental problems of wide grammes, a voluntary fund be established in finance the new environmental initiatives international significance should receive ap accordance with existing United Nations fi coming out of the Stockholm Conference. propriate and adequate consideration by gov nancial procedures. 4. An Environmental Coordinating Board, ernments. 7. Recommends further that, in order to chaired by the Executive Director and de E. To promote the contribution of the enable the govern ing council to fulfill its sign ed to ensure cooperation and coordina relevant international scientific and other policy guidan ce role for the direct ion and tion among all of the UN agencies involved professional communities to the acquisition, coordination of environmental activit ies, the in environmental programs. assessment and, exchange of environmental fund finance wholly or partly the costs of the This will be considered by the General knowledge and information and, as appropri Assembly at its 27th session in New York new environmental initiatives undertaken ate, to the technical aspects of the formula with in the Un ited Nations system. These will this fall. tion and implementation of environmental The Delegat ion worked long and hard to include t he in itiatives envisaged in the action programmes within the United Nations sys plan adopted by the United Nations Confer develop the consensus which enabled the tem. Conference to adopt this resolution unani F. To maintain under continuing review ence on the Human Environment, with par mously. We are pleased with the results. the impact of national international en ticular attention to int egrated projects, and RESOLUTION ON INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS vironmental policies and measures on de such other environment al activities as may be The United Nat ions Conferen ce on the Hu veloping countries, as well as the problem decided u pon by the governing council. The man Environmen t con vinced of the need for of additional costs that might be incurred by governing council shall review these initia- 24286 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 18, 1972 tives with a view to taking appropriate deci to the implementation of environmental pro LARRY O'BRIEN FffiST-CLASS sions as to their continued financing. grammes in view of the particular need for STATESMAN 8. Recommends further that the fund be rapid development of regional cooperation used for financing such programmes of gen in this field. eral interest as regional and global monitor 18. Invites also other intergovernmental HON. DAVID R. OBEY ing, assessment and data-collecting systems, and those nongovernmental organizations OF WISCONSIN which have interest in the field of the en including, as appropriate, costs for national IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES counterparts, improvement of environmental vironment to lend their full support and col quality management, environmental research, laboration to the United Nations with a view Tuesday, July 18, 1972 to achieving the largest possible degree of information exchange and dissemination, Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, the job of na public education and training, assistance for cooperation and coordination. national, regional and global environmental 19. cans upon governments to ensure that tional chairman of any political party institutions; promotion of environmental re appropriate national institutions shall be en is not usually an endearing one. The search and studies for the development of trusted with the task of coordination of en stereotype view of political party chair industrial and other technologies best suited vironmental action, both national and inter men is that they are usually political national. to a policy of economic growth compatible 20. Recommends that the General Assem hatchet men for the leading elected of with adequate environmental safeguards; and bly review, as appropriate, at its Thirty-first ficials of their party. such other programmes as the governing Session, the institutional arrangements But now and then those positions are council may decide upon. In the implementa which it may decide upon in pursuance of occupied by individuals of such sensi tion of such programmes due account should this recommendation, bearing in mind, Inter tivity, intellectual honesty, good taste, be taken of the special needs of the develop alia, the responsibilities of the Economic and even rhetorical restraint, that they ing countries. and Social Council under the charter. 9. Recommends that the costs of servicing do the entire political process high honor. the governing council and providing the I am inserting in the RECORD an article small core Secretariat be borne by the reg by Milton Viorst which appeared in last ular budget of the United Nations, opera LADY PEARL MITCHELL night's issue of the Evening Star and tional programme costs, programme support Daily News which sums up my sentiments and administrative costs of the fund shall be and I am sure the sentiments of a good borne by the fund. HON. LOUIS STOKES many others in this House who have 10. Recommends further that, in order to OF OHIO come to know and respect Larry O'Brien: ensure that the development priorities of LARRY O'BRIEN FmsT-CLASS STATESMAN developing countries are not adversely af IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES fected, adequate measures be taken to pro Tuesday, July 18, 1972 It is not the chairman of a political party vide additional financial resources on terms from whom one normally expects the high compatible with the economic situation of Mr. STOKES. Mr. Speaker, on June est order of statesmanship-but for his the recipient developing country. To this end, 17, 1972, the Alpha Kappa Alpha soror services last week and over the past three the Executive Director, in cooperation with ity in Cleveland, Ohio honored Miss L. years I present to Larry O'Brien the award competent organizations will keep this prob Pearl Mitchell at a luncheon. It was a of "American Statesman 1st class." lem under continuing review. What O'Brien has demonstrated so bril fitting tribute to a woman who has long liantly is that the expression "old pol" need 11. Recommends that the fund, in pur been recognized as "Miss AKA." not be a term of derogation. He has shown suance of the objectives stated in paragraphs Miss Mitchell has also achieved the 7 and 8, be directed to the need for effective that a. man who has spent a lifetime 1n party coordination in the implementation of inter distinction of being "Miss NAACP." She politics can be much much more than a national environmental programmes of the is a woman without peer, an individual "party hack." organizations of the United Nations system who has devoted her lifetime to commu I confess to having felt a certain apprehen nity service. The AKA's and the NAACP sion when O'Brien wa.s appointed chairman and other international organizations. of the Democratic National Committee in 12. Recommends that, in the implementa are only two of the many beneficiaries March 1970. He seemed like an old face and tion of programmes to be financed by the of her untiring efforts in behalf of her an old-fashioned operator in a time that fund, organizations outside the United Na fellow citizen. desperately called for new faces and new tions system, particularly those in the coun Miss Mitchell was born in Wilberforce, methods of operation. tries and regions concerned, also be utilized Ohio. Her father was, at that time, presi A public relations man by profession, he as appropriate, in accordance with the pro dent of Wilberforce University while her had been running political campaigns in cedures established by the governing council; Massachusetts since the 1940s, had master such organizations are invited to support the mother taught there. After her father's death, Lady Pearl moved to Washing minded the election of John F. Kennedy, had United Nations environment programs by twisted arms as a congressional lobbyist, be complementary initiatives and contributions. ton, D.C., Florida, Illinois, and Michigan. came President Johnson's postmaster gen 13. Recommends that the governing coun It was Cleveland's good fortune that eral and served as national chairman when cil formulate such general procedures as are Lady Pearl decided to settle there. She Hubert Humphrey was the presidential can necessary to govern the operations of the has been an invaluable asset to the city didate in 1968. fund. of Cleveland, concentrating her energies His most distinguished intellectual COORDINATION upon the National Association for the achievement, it seemed to me, was to write 14. Recommends that in order to provide Advancement of Colored People; the a handbook of practical politics. O'Brien was for the maximum efficient coordination of known as a good Democrat and a straight United Nations environmental programmes, Mount Zion Congregational Church; and guy-but many of us thought that the times and environmental coordinating boa.rd, her sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha. She called for more. chaired by the Executive Director, be estab serves on the board of the Ohio Soldiers After all, in 1968 the Democratic conven lished under the auspices and within the and Sailors Home. tion in Chicago--in a seeming afterthought framework of the administrative committee In 1955, Wilberforce University hon to the disastrous nominating procedure- on coordination. ored her with its alumni award for dis had mandated a thorough reform of the 16. Recommends further that the environ tinctive service. In 1966, she was named delegate-selection process. Sen. Fred Harris. mental coordinating board meet periodically Alumna of the Year. who became national chairman after the for the purpose of ensuring cooperation and election, had chosen a highly regarded sen coordination among all bodies concerned in She is a recipient of the NAACP Dis ator named McGovern to direct the drafting the implementation of environmental pro tinguished Service Award; the Artha of those reforms. grammes and that it report annually to the J on Cultural Foundation's Ukoya Award; O'Brien, Harris' successor, might very eas governing council. the Sojourner Truth Award from the ily have taken to sabotaging those reforms. 16. Invites the orga.nizations of the United Cleveland Chapter of the National Negro On the face of it, his loyalty was to the Nations system to adopt the measures that Business and Professional Women's old school-to Hubert Humphrey and Lyn may be required to undertake concerted and Clubs; the Zeta Phi Beta Award; the don Johnson, to Richard Daley and George coordinated programmes with regard to in Women's Medical Association Award for Meany. Faced with a $9 million campaign ternational environmental problems, ta.king Distinguished Services; and the AKA debt, he might even have been excused if into account existing procedures for prior 50th Anniversary Award. he had made big concessions to the old-time consultation, particularly on programme and party contributors. budgetary- matters. If Lady Pearl's past achievements are Again and again, publicly and privately. 17. Invites the regional economic commis any indication of what lies ahead, then O'Brien proclaimed his dedication to both sions and the economic and social office in future years promise to be good years- the principles and the practices of reform. Beirut, in cooperation, where necessary, with not only for Lady Pearl, but for anyone Still, some of us remained skeptical. other appropriate regional bodies, to further who is fortunate enough to come in con Gradually, however, what emerged under intensify their efforts aimed at contributing tact with her. O'Brien's firm but sensitive hand was a pat- July 18, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24287 tern of state delegations, first, recognizing Hellenic ideals. The order has shown the There were humorous presentations: that the party was taking the reforms seri values of this 2-millennia-old culture to Toastmaster James H. Sullivan presented to ously and, then, moving hesitantly, often be vibrantly relevant to man today. the guest of honor a gold-plated shovel and reluctantly, into compliance. a gold-plated hoe as reminders of his long The reformers had a. little scare last spring, Among those who are united in its service to the parks and the city. He also when O'Brien appointed Patricia. Harris, a bond of friendship and understanding, presented a framed likeness of King, a lion former Humphrey supporter, as head of the the Order of Ahepa numbers the late who was almost as much a fixture at Capron convention's credentials committee. Among President Franklin D. Roosevelt, former Park as Sharkey was. the wary, it looked like a plot to give the Old President Harry S. Truman, Vice Presi Sullivan and Mrs. Lillian Poirier Johnson Guard by indirection the delegates that it dent Spiro Agnew, and many other Cabi sang vocal solos and duets just as they often could not get directly. O'Brien pointed to net members, U.S. Senators and Repre did in the music shell at Capron. Music was Mrs. Harris' own good reputation, and denied sentatives. provided by Thomas Caruso. the charge. From the time the Right Rev. Gerard J. The proof was in the performance. As The Order of Ahepa really needs no Chabot, pastor of St. Theresa's Church, South chairman, Mrs. Harris was indisputably tribute-its own deeds honor it more Attleboro, gave the invocation until the fair-and the convention, though far from than words can. Nevertheless, to show Rev. David S. Dahlberg, pastor of the being free of seating wrangles, was closer my support for what Ahepa has accom Evangelical Covenant Church, pronounced to the American grass roots than ever before. plished, I wish once more to extend con the benediction, Sharkey was extolled for his McGovern's delegates, having been duly gratulations and the hope that the next honesty, hard work, devotion to his family elected, dominated. Outraged, the bosses and to his goal of making Attleboro's park did not. For this, the bulk of the credit, 50 years may be as golden as have the past 50. land second to none. I think, should go to O'Brien. Mayor Raymond L. Macomber noted the Then, from the other side, O'Brien was frustration he said Sharkey had endured at accused of showboating for the "new poli BILL SHARKEY budget-making time but he noted, too, how tics" when he chose a black lady from Cali the veteran superintendent refused to show fornia. to be convention cochairman. But frustration in his work. The mayor said the Mrs. Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, in conjunc HON. MARGARET M. HECKLER city had benefited greatly because of tion with O'Brien himself, ga.ve the conven OF MASSACHUSETTS Sharkey's work and leadership. tion unprecedentedly fair and masterful IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The principal speaker was Edward A. Con leadership. nell, superintendent of parks and natural Finally, in this list of encomiums, I'd like Tuesday, July 18, 1972 resources in Stamford, Conn. Connell, a long to submit that O'Brien delivered the most time associate of Sharkey's in regional and honest, thoughtful and penetrating speech Mrs. HECKLER of Massachusetts. Mr. national associations concerned with parks, of the convention. Far more than McGov Speaker, we are too often reminded that praised the retiring superintendent for "pro ern's, it reflected what troubles Americans good people pass our way only after they voking park people into reconsidering what a.bout our politics today. have gone. was handed out to the them by 'the great To an assembly accustomed to hoopla from thinkers' and for refusing to accept on face its party leaders, he had the seriousness of Fortunately, such is not the case with purpose to decry the custom of promising a man in Attleboro, Mass., who was hon value what had not been proven." "what we know cannot be delivered by man, ored throughout his career by those who Connell reminisced in an occasionally light knew him and, just recently, when he and occasionally serious vein but the recur God or the Democratic party." ring theme of his speech was that "it is the " ... But we have la.eked the courage to retired, was collectively paid tribute for little people who hold the world together." say this. Instead, we ha.ve promised some that career. He noted that it was "the little people" of thing to everybody, and then hoped that The man is Robert W. "Bill" Sharkey nobody would keep score. It didn't work. The Attleboro who predominantly ma.de the even people can count. And they aren't easily who has just ended 26 years as superin ing a success. fooled." tendent of parks for the city of Attleboro. About a dozen parks superintendents from as many communities in the Northeast were Indeed, just as there is in the idealism of His life of service is his monument. More than 400 of his friends, repre present to honor Sharkey. So, too, were his the Old Pro a lesson for the Daleys and the associates and his successor, all of whom re Meanys, there is in his forthrightness a les senting many more who could not be ceived praise from Sharkey for what he de son for the candidate and his young staff. there, gave him a testimonial as their scribed as their loyalty and their willingness Larry O'Brien proved last week what poli gesture of gratitude. to work. ticians can be. The party will be lucky if he I take this occasion to add my own The evening ended with the audience filing stays a.round as an example. gratitude to him and congratulations for past the head table to greet Mr. and Mrs. a job well done. Sharkey. The superintendent was visibly affected by CONGRATULATIONS TO THE The complete story of Bill Sharkey is included in the attached piece from the the tribute but he said he had promised ORDER OF AHEPA his family he would not given in to his emo Attleboro Sun Chronicle of June 28, 1972: tions and he did not let them prevent him IT WAS BILL SHARKEY NIGHT from making his acceptance speech. HON. CHARLES W. WHALEN, JR. (By Bill Hannan) He wound up his talk, that included praise OF OH.IO WRENTHAM-"Attleboro is a. good place to for the help of the park commissions as IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES bring up children." That's what Robert W. well as that of the employes, with words of (Bill) Sharkey's mother told him a few score thanks that his family had turned out so Tuesday, July 18, 1972 years ago. well. He concluded with the statement tha.t more than ever he believed that his mother I On Tuesday night in the King Ph111p Res Mr. WHALEN. Mr. Speaker, am very taurant here, surrounded by upward of 400 was right: Attleboro is a good place to bring pleased to extend my congratulations to of his friends, Sharkey said he believed more up children. the Order of Ahepa, the American Hel than ever that the words of his mother were lenic Educational Progressive Associa true. tion, on the occasion of its golden anni The occasion was a Friendship Dinner ac versary. For the past half century this corded the man who is retlring after 27 ORDER OF AHEPA CELEBRATES years with the Park Department, 26 of them GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY nationwide, fraternal organization has as superintendent of parks. sought to improve American life by in Sharkey expressed his appreciation for the fusing American culture with the values testimonial for him and his wife, Mrs. Ismay HON. CHET HOLIFIELD and ideals of the Hellenic culture of (King) Sharkey. His talk came after an eve OF CALIFORNIA ning that was a mixture of the serious and Ancient Greece, the cradle of Western the lighthearted, just, as he brought out in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES civilization. his talk, the life of a parks superintendent Tuesday, July 18, 1972 The Order of Ahepa's record of ac is as he lived it. complishments is indeed laudable. It re There were serious presentations: State Mr. HOLIFIELD. Mr. Speaker, the flects full comprehension of the needs of Sen. John F. Parker of Taunton presented Order of Ahepa, founded July 26, 1922 man and society in an area when those a. Golden Dome certificate signed by the in Atlanta, Ga., is celebrating its golden considerations frequently have been ig governor, majority and minority (Parker) anniversary during the year 1972. nored or accorded less than total com leaders and the secretary of the state. Ticket During the past half-century the Order Chairman James H. Conlon presented a mon of Ahepa, a nonpolitical and nonsec mitment. Its efforts on behalf of citizen etary gift from the assemblage and from tarian fraternal organization, has con- ship, education, and democracy are a others who were unable to attend but who tributed financially to and has cham most appropriate continuation of the remembered "Bill" on his night. pioned the causes of education, ethnic 24288 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 18, 1972 minorities, and victims of disasters on a OUTPATIENT EMPHASIS EASES final diagnosis and hospitalization. However, national and international level. Local HOSPITAL CROWDING PAT will not pay for purely diagnostic tests (By Bette Scanlan) where a physician feels his patient wlll not Ahepa chapters have always vigorously need hospitalization. supported local community activities in The almost "impossible to get a hospital A side benefit, BCA officials said, is thait the fields of education, charity, and civic bed" situation may be ea.sing a bit. sometimes the tests reveal that no hospital improvement. After analyzing data from the American ization ls necessary. Hospital Assn., the Health Insurance Insti I congratulate the Order of Ahepa tute reports that in many parts of the United for its distinguished 50-year record of States it is easier to get a bed in a hospital service and accomplishment. than it has been in many years. The availability of beds is more pro POLLUTION FROM DEVELOPING nounced in rural areas where some hospitals RURAL AND URBAN AREAS HEALTH INSURANCE PLANS PAYING are only half-filled, the institute says, but FOR MORE OUT-OF-HOSPITAL even in big cities, if you are not able to get CARE a bed immediately in your hospital, there are HON. FRED SCHWENGEL beds definitely available in nearby hospitals. OF IOWA MORE OUTPATIENT CARE IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. DONALD G. BROTZMAN One of the prime reasons for the break in OF COLORADO hospital crowding, it noted, is the greater Tuesday, July 18, 1972 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES emphasis now being placed on outpatient Mr. SCHWENGEL. Mr. Speaker, there Tuesday, July 18, 1972 care. As an example, hospital admissions in 1s no longer a clear-cut distinction be creased 11 per cent between 1966 and 1970, tween urban and rural interests in the Mr. BROTZMAN. Mr. Speaker, we all while outpaitient utilization Jumped 44 per use and management of natural re know that one of the most rapidly rising cent. Another reason cited for the break in the sources. Evtryone benefits from bounti cost items in recent years has been hos overcrowded hospital situation is the health ful supplies of food and fiber, unpolluted pital care. During the period from 1960 insurance policies are now being designed to streams and reservoirs, and the good fish to 1970, hospital charges increased by help pay for out-of-hospital services. ing and swimming that can result from about 15 percent per year. Also, family health centers, community better use and management of our nat In the years following World War II, health centers and other ambulatory care fa. ural resources. Similarly, everyone bene when health insurance policies became cllities seem to be catching on, reducing the fits from good roads, safe waste disposal, common in many families, emphasis was need for beds. and selection of building sites free from on hospitalization insurance. Even in AVERAGE DOWN soil limitations and excess water hazards. those days a lengthy hospitalization On an average day last year, there were 1.7 Similarly also, both urban and rural could cost thousands of dollars. Today fewer paitients in U.S. community hospital areas contribute to the pollution prob hospital costs have risen so fast that beds than there had been in the previous year, and the average length of stay in com lems confronting us now. Some 1.5 mil even a stay of a few weeks can cost thou munity hospitals nationally was down from lion acres are converted from rural to sands of dollars. Of course there are 7.8 days in 1970 to 7.7 in 1971, the institute urban use annually. Development plans many factors which cause these higher said. have not recognized the need or included hospital costs, but they are primarily The mr explained that a tenth of a potn,t provisions for controlling runoff, erosion, due to the higher cost of labor since may not sound like much, but when that's and sediment. wages and salaries make up to 60 to 70 happening in the 6,869 community hospitals Sediment sources and amounts are percent of the hospital's expenses. in the nation, it affects a lot of people. constantly changing with changes in our In recent years there has been a grad Institute statisticians estimate that if a single day were cut from the average length patterns of living. ual change in the coverage of health in of hospital stays, the public could save as Independent studies have shown the surance policies to include outpatient much as $2 billion annually. seriousness of sedimentation problems on and preadmission care. The American Health and health insurance authorities construction sites. public has begun to realize that it is good are stressing the need for increasing am Though similar to rural areas in some business to try to hold down costs by bulatory services. This care concentrates on aspects, developing rural-urban areas: rendering care, where appropriate, on an treating patients in out-of-hospital facllities First, involve smaller drainage areas; outpatient or preadmission basis rather when possible rather than in hospitals. This second, constitute more highly dynamic than in an expensive hospital setting. reduces overcrowding, cuts down on costs and eases doctor shovtages, the institute said. and complicated environmental interac Accordingly health insurance is in tions; third, involve extensive exposure creasingly paying for outpatient care as MOST BLUE PLANS COVER PREADMISSION of soils and subsoils; fourth, result in in well as inpatient care. Care is increas TESTING creased runoff, of often 1,000 or more ingly being given on an outpatient basis The Blue Cross Assn. announced that 56 times higher concentrations of suspended rather than on an inpatient basis. For of its 74 member plans are providing some sediment; and fifth result in rapidly ag example, hospital admissions increased form of coverage for pre-admission hospital grading or degrading channels from ex 11 percent between 1965 and 1970, while testing (PAT) to reduce hospital stays and cessive sediment or water discharge in outpatient utilization increased 44 per patient costs. concentrated areas. cent. PAT coverage pays for tests a patient needs before being hospitalized for surgery or Urban areas in the development stage As another example, the Blue Cross treatment for a diagnosed medical problem, are producing erosion and sediment out Association recently announced that 56 instead of after. of all proportion to comparable areas in of its 74 plans are now providing some A recent study by Blue Cross at Baltimore's the agricultural sector. As an example, form of coverage for preadmission hos Sinai Hospital indicated that pre-admission in the Potomac River Basin, the sediment pital testing. In one study such pread testing resulted in average savings of 1.4 days discharge rates of streams in areas un mission testing resulted in an average of bed care for each Blue Cross patient who dergoing urban growth are 10 to 50 times saving of 1.4 days of bed care for each used it. greater than those in rural areas. In one Typically, PAT works this way. A physician subwatershed in the Potomac Basin, sedi patient involved. decides his patient needs surgery and sched Mr. Speaker, I include two articles ules it, for example, on Wednesday. Instead ment rates of 89,000 tons per square mile which indicate the trend in health insur of checking into the hospital on the preced per year have been measured at the ance toward coverage of outpatient and ing Monday or Tuesday, as in the past, the source. patient goes to the hospital on Monday for An example of accelerated erosion due preadmission care. The first article is appropriate tests as an outpatient. He re to urbanization is shown in a study of a from the Chicago Sun-Times of turns to work on Tuesday and does not enter 14.3 square mile watershed above Lake March 27, 1972, and is entitled "Out the hospital as an inpatient until that eve Barcroft in Virginia, a suburban area of patient Emphasis Eases Hospital Crowd ning, or perhaps on Wednesday. In the meantime, the physician has on Washington, D.C. As the area of the ing." hand the tests a plan would normally cover watershed undergoing construction rose The second article is from the Amer on an inpatient basis. from 0.5 percent to nearly 9 percent an ican Medical News of February 21, 1972, Although PAT is most frequently used 1n nually, the volume of sediment reaching and is entitled "Most Blue Plans Cover non-emergency surgical cases, it is also ap the lake rose from 4 to 25 acre-feet per Preadmission Testing." plicable to obscure and rare medical condi year. On a small construction site at The articles follow: tions that require extensive testing prior to Johns Hopkins University, encompass- July 18, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REM.ARKS 24289 ing 1 to 1 % acres, sediment yields of culture and developing areas, and would EISENHOWER MISQUOTED AGAIN 140,000 tons per square mile per year provide for binding agreements of up were measured. to 10 years. The Secretary is authorized This severe erosion and sediment run to cooperate and furnish financial and HON. WILLIAM L. SPRINGER off clogs streams and lakes, produces technical assistance to States, counties, OF ll.LINOIS flooding problems, and causes severe municipalities, and other public agen IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES damage to the devlopment areas them cies in formulating development land Tuesday, July 18, 1972 selves. In fact, the most significant non use plans and controlling erosion and point source of pollution within metro sediment in developing rural and urban Mr. SPRINGER. Mr. Speaker, I pre politan areas is that caused by uncon areas. In the assistance agreements, the sume that during this campaign there trolled growth. Secretary shall require the cooperating will be many misquotations and may mis Most new subdivisions are stripped of agency to assure him it will enact and quoted candidates. One candidate has all trees and plant cover thereby 1·emov enforce adequate regulations and bear been trying to represent himself as a ing natural restraints to topsoil move proportionate costs for preparing the disciple of former President Dwight ment during spring thaw and rainstorms. plan. Eisenhower. Of course, the closer any developments The Secretary is also authorized to These misunderstandings come from housing developments, shopping centers, taking quotations out of context. The initiate and accelerate educational pro Boston Sunday Herald Traveler and Sun and highways-are to a lake or stream, grams across the Nation. These programs day Advertiser of July 2, titled, "Eisen the more the danger of sediment pollu can be instrumental in correcting the hower Misquot~d Again," gives you some tion. discouraging lack of knowledge that has idea of how that particular candidate Urban development, as it paves over made our developing areas a blight on considers himself a disciple of Eisen land and intensifies development of flood the environment. A summer job corps hower. Nothing could be further from plains, has diminished the absorptive made up of students in agriculture and the truth as the editorial so well explains. capacity of natural floodwater shortage related areas is established, and $5 bil The editorial follows: areas and overburdened urban drainage lion is provided for implementation of systems. Consequences include the .flood the needed programs. My bill provides EISENHOWER MISQUOTED AGAIN ing of basements and traffic underpasses, the energy and means to direct resources Guess who was trying to pass himself off as a "dlsciple" of former President Eisenhow causing extensive damage, inconvenience, where they are needed, and should re er the other day? Not Richard Nixon, who and loss of life. Attempted solutions have ceive the attention and enthusiasm that could claim that distinction with considera ranged from control of the stream, via it needs to make its programs possible. ble justification, since he did serve eight damming, zoning, and subdivision reg years as Ike's Vice President. ulations, to emergency procedures such No, the alleged "disciple" is none other as temporary evacuation. Debate has than Sen. George McGovern. arisen over the effectiveness of the above Because Eisenhower once made a brief ref CAPTIVE NATIONS WEEK erence to the so-called "military-industrial solutions in maintaining natural drain complex"-a spectre which McGovern finds age processes and in meeting environ so frightening that he ha.s proposed a 40 per mental quality objectives of the new HON. CHARLES H. GRIFFIN cent slash in defense spending-somebody water resources environment. This all OF MISSISSIPPI recently pinned the "disciple" label on the Senator from South Dakota. And the other presents a rather baffling array of prob IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES lems to local officials. day McGovern declared that he was proud The haphazard nature of urban devel Tuesday, July 18, 1972 to accept it. opment has meant that the related pol Eisenhower, he said, was a man "who con Mr. GRIFFIN. Mr. Speaker, this week cluded his administra,tion with a farewell lution is scattered throughout the coun of July 16-22 we mark the 13th annual address in which he said that the great single try and changes location with each new observance of Captive Nations Week. danger to this country is the mounting power development. As a result, public aware Every year since 1959, by PreE.idential of the milltary a.nd industrial complex." ness of the problems and efforts to con proclamation, we have taken the observ President Eisenhower, of course, never said trol them are usually localized, with only ance of Captive Nations Week to rededi any such thing. And McGovern should know a few government officials actively in cate ourselves to the ideals of freedom it, though Ike's statement about the military volved. Too many Federal, State, and and self-determination for all people. It industrial complex has been misquoted, dis local officials fail to realize the serious torted a.nd taken out of context so often that is a week in which we remember the one more misrepresentation comes as no great ness of the problem, and are unaware plight of over 1 billion people in captive surprise. that the basic principles of resource con nations existing under a form of govern In his farewell address on Jan. 17, 1961, servation are applicable to urban as well ment not of their choosing. Eisenhower did indeed warn that the nation as rural areas. I believe it is impartant that we con should "guard against the acquisition of un The aggravated erosion and sediment tinue to remember and to remain aware warranted influence, whether sought or un pollution problems in developing areas of the situation existing in the many sought, by the military-industrial complex." can be significantly reduced by simply But he added rather significantly that the captive countries of the world. As our Na existence of thati complex, though potential using the most basic technique which tion enters what some consider a new era ly dangerous, was largely unavoidable. has been used for years in rural areas. of peaceful coexistence and negotiation, "We recognize the imperative need for this In controlling topsoil erosion on exposed we cannot allow ourselves to be lulled into development," he said. noting that "we can areas, some type of ground cover should apathy or complacent self security that no longer risk emergency improvisation of be provided. Inexpensive and effective would ignore the conditions of one-third national defense; we have been compelled to materials have been developed for devel of humanity whicll lives in the 27 captive create a permanent armaments industry of oping areas where vegetation is not feas natiors. Despite all of our changes in vast proportions." ible. These include liquid asphalt, spun Another phrase in his address almost never policy and countless diplomatic agree quoted by those who seek to depict General glass, and fiber net ground covers, which ments the reality of these 27 nations re Eisenhower as a budding pacifist: "A vital are already being used in several areas mains to challenge our concern and com element in keeping the peace is our military with great success. mitment to freedom. establishment. Our arms must be kept The mechanics of controlling erosion The people of the world and especially mighty, ready for instant action, so that no and sedimentation problems in develop those in bondage look to us for encour potential aggressor may be tempted to risk ing areas are already known. Monumen agement in their quest for freedom, lib his own destruction." tal waste and environmental damage can erty and basic human rights. This week Any similarity between these statements and the twisted version of them by Sen. be prevented if the knowledge and re the Governors and mayors in 37 States McGovern is rather hard to find. sources are channeled into localities join 17 other countries in the observance No one knows, of course, what President where they are needed, and the water of Captive Nations Week. Eisenhower's attitude toward the current shed program as it now stands, is simply I welcome the observance of this week political and military situation might be if he were alive today. But our guess is that he not doing the job. as we mark it with a reaffirmation of probably wouldn't smile on Sen. McGovern's I have introduced a bill into the House, America's commitment to liberty and an plan to emasculate our defenses or be amused H.R. 15596, which would provide a di end of oppression for all the peoples of by the prospect of the South Dakota Sena.tor rect link between the Secretary of Agri- this planet. posing as his "disciple." 24290 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 18, 1972 To quote Ike's son, Col. John Eisenhower: Pakistan and Afghanistan: Oct. 9-Nov. 8. sonian Fiddlers Convention and competition "If Sen. McGovern is indeed a disciple of my Waiting list only. on Tuesday from 1-7 p.m. father in his military opinions, then the Bosa 1973: In cooperation with the National Park must be rotating in his grave at the failure Peru (archeology tour) : Feb. 8-Mar. 5. Service, a Maryland Waterways Area has been of his pupil to learn his lessons." Morocco: Mar. 6--3 weeks. organized at Ha.ins Point with the ships and Prehistoric Caves of Spain and, France: crafts of the Eastern Shore, demonstrations April 2-3 weeks. of waterfowling with Chesapeake Bay Re Middle East (Lebanon, Jordan, Cyprus and trievers, and workshops in fur trapping and Israel) : April 13-3 weeks. boat building. A shuttle will be available MONTHLY CALENDAR OF THE Sites of Civilization: Oct. 7~ weeks on the between the Mall and the Waterways Area SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION cruise ship Argonaut. from 11 a..m.-5 p.m. African Safari (Tarzania and Kenya Game On the Mall, the Maryland Horse Area will Parks and Seychelles) : Oct. 3~ weeks. feature many breeds and uses of horses and HON. HENRY P. SMITH III ponies with dressage and hunting demonstra OF NEW YORK CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS SPONSORED BY THE tions as well as the horse-drawn fruit vend SMITHSONIAN ASSOCIATES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ing carts of Baltimore's "Arabbers." The Classes are available in the following cate Maryland Area. will also include the music Tuesday, July 18, 1972 gories on a subscription-only basis. For in and food of the varied ethnic communities Mr. SMITH of New York. Mr. Speaker, formation, call 381-5157. Italian, Greek, Polish, Amish, and Turkish. Tiny Tots (ages 4-7), Two-week sessions The American Indian Area this year will it is my privilege to insert in the RECORD every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. feature the traditional culture that still plays the monthly calendar of the Smithson July 11-20; July 25-August 3; August 14-24. a large part in the Indian community of the ian Institute. The July calendar of Young People (ages 8-13). Same schedule Southwest-the crafts, dances, food and events follows: as above. clothing. Workshops and panel discussions CALENDAR OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Teenagers and Adults: Twice a week for will also be held each day, and intertribal JULY 1972 three weeks. July 10-27; August 7-24. dances wlll be performed Friday and Sunday SUMMER HOURS evenings at 9 o'clock. Changes of address and calendar requests: The Union Area wm include lithographers, Museum of History and Technology; Mu mail to Central Information Desk, Great Hall, needle trades workers and cabinetmakers. seum of Natural History; Arts and Industries Smithsonian Institution Building, Washing The oral traditions of the labor movement Building: 10 a.m.-9 p.m. seven days each ton, D.C. 20560. When applicable, please in wlll be told by folklorists and craftsmen week. clude old calendar label. through songs and discussions. Freer Gallery of Art; National Collection of Films related to the Festival will be shown Fine Arts; National Portrait Gallery; Ren RADIO SMITHSONIAN in the auditorium of the Museum of Natural wick Gallery; 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. dally. History from 11-4, and informal concerts National Zoo buildings: 9 a.m.-6 p.m., Radio Smi,thsonian, a program of music will continue on the Mall ea.ch evening until dally. and conversation growing out of the Insti 8:30 p.m. Anacostia Neighborhood Museum: 10 a.m.- tution's many activities, is broadcast every 6 p.m., weekdays; 1-6 p.m., weekends. Sunday on WG:MS-AM (670) a.nd FM (103.5) SAT. 1 from 9-9 :30 p.m. The program schedule for Exhibition: The Monotype: An Edition of MUSEUM TOURS July: One. Thirty-nine one-of-a-kind prints by INFO '72. Museum of Natural History, Mu 2nd The Worlci, of Ants. Rona.Id Goor of the four American artists-Maurice Prendergast, seum of History and Technology, Arts & In National Museum of Na.tura.l History de Abraham Walkowitz, Milton Avery, and Matt dustries Building. Walk-in tours are con scribes the complex lifestyle of ants. Explor Phillips. Ea.ch artist is also represented by one ducted by summer volunteers beginning every ing Oriental Art, with Harold Stern, Director example of his work in another medium. At half-hour between 10:30 a.m. and 12 noon of the Freer Gallery of Art. the National Collection of Fine Arts, through and between 2 and 4 p.m. at the Info Desks. 9th Concert featuring Sebastian Kelber, re August 6. Circulated by the Smithsonian In Special group tours for these buildings can corder; Lane Anderson, cello; a.nd James stitution Tarveling Exhibition Service. also be arranged by calling 381-5304. Weaver, harpsichord. TUE. 4 National Portrait Gallery. Group tours by 16th The Megastates of America. Journalist appointment, 381-6285. "Accoustiguide" tour Neal Peirce, a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Lecture: Colonial American Craftsmen: (45 minutes) of the exhibition "If Elect International Center for Scholars, discusses the Age of Pride, by Leona.rd Everett Fisher, ed ..." Unsuccessful Candidates for the Pres our ten largest states-their similarities and designer of four new postage stamps, com memorating colonial artisans, that will be idency, 1796-1968. Recorded by Dr. Marvin differences. Sadik, Director of the NPG. $1. 23rd Folk Concert, featuring British sing issued on Independence Day at Willla.msburg, National Collection of Fine Arts. Group ers David and Toni Arthur and John Har Va. Jointly sponsored by the Smithsonian and the Postal Service, this is the first in a tours by appointment, 381-6541. rison. Dial-a-Phenomenon-737-8855 for weekly 30th unaerstanding Drugs. A look at the series of Philatelic Dedicatory Lectures. 4:30 announcements on stars, planets and world drug scene today, as reflected in the Smith p.m. National Museum of History and Tech wide occurrences of short-lived natural phe- sonian's current exhibition on drugs. nology auditorium. nomena. WED. 5 DEMONSTRATIONS PUPPET THEATRE Tom Sawyer. A return engagement of Allan Design fl.Im: The Musfc Rack. Filmed by Museum of History and Technology Stevens and Company's original production the American Crafts Council, wood crafts Music Machines-American Style. Mechani of the Mark Twain classic. The fifteen pup man Wendell Castle is shown making a. com cal and electronic music ma.chines. Monday, pets include Tom, Huck, Injun Joe and Becky plex laminated mustic rack. Continuous half Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday, 1 :30 p.m., Thatcher, all acting out their adventures in hour showings from 11 a.m.; last showing 2nd floor. As part of the Music Machines ex a multi-media setting. Performances begin at 2:30 p.m. The Renwick Gallery. hibit, excerpts from filmed musical produc 11 a..m., 12 and 1 p.m., in the History and THU. 6 tions are shown continuously during the Technology Building auditorium, and will Creative Screen: Our Country's Flag museum hours. run through July 9 (except July 3rd). Ad Prints, paintings, manuscripts and maps doc Spi nning and Weaving. Tuesday, Wednes mission is $1 for children; $1.25 for adults. ument the dramatic history of the American day, Thursday, 10:30-12:30. Reservations may be made by calling the flag; Photography as an Art-Ansel Adams Machine Tools. Wednesday, Thursday, Fri Box Office, 381-5395. The Marvelous Land of explains his photography and discusses his day 1-2 p.m. oz returns to the Puppet Theatre July 12 and mehods of teaching; Multiply and Subdue The Smithsonian Monthly Calendar of will remain through Labor Day. Perform A new film that uses abstract photography Events is prepared by the Office of Public Af ances are 11 a.m., 12 and 1 p.m. Wednesdays to portray an ecological theme. Three-film fairs Editor: Lilas Wiltshire. Deadline for through Sundays. The Smithsonian Resident program begins at 11 a.m., 12 noon, a.nd 1 p.m. entries in the August Calendar: July 5. Puppet Theatre is produced by the Division National Collection of Fine Arts. Dial-A-Museum-737-8811 for dally an of Performing Arts. SAT. 8 nouncements on new exhibits and special JUNE 30-JULY 4 Creative screen: Our Country's Flag; events. Festival of American Folklife-featuring FOREIGN STUDY TOURS Photography as an Art; Multiply and Subdue. the State of Maryland, Union Workers, and Repeat program. See July 6 for details. For members of the National and Resident the American Indians of New Mexico and Associates. For further details on tours, Arizona. Sixth annual presentation sponsored WED. 12 listed below, write Miss Schumann, Smith by the Smithsonian Institution Division of Exhibition: Hall of History of Money and sonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20360. Performing Arts. Crafts, cook.Ing and horse Medals. New hall displaying the remarkable 1972: demonstrations, hayrides, concerts, dances, Josiah K. Lilly Jr. Collection; demonstrating The Pilgrimage Road: Sept. 11-0ct. 9. music workshops and panel discussions wlll the a.rt of coin-ma.king from the 7th cen No-Tour Tour (Dulles-London-Dulles): be among the activities scheduled from 11- tury B.C. to the lastest electronic methods, Sept. 11-0ct. 2. 5: 30 daily on the Mall, with a special all-day and depicting the work of counterfeiters. Russia: Sept. 12-0ct. 3. Waiting list only. gospel sing on Sunday and the first Smith- Children's Corner includes buried Roman July 18, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24291 coins shipwrecked Spanish bullion and presentation of papers with time devoted to I am sure my colleagues join me in hoarded pirate "pieces-of-eight." Third floor, questions from the audience. saluting the initiative of both the public National Museum of History and Technology. 11-12 Video replay of July 10 panel discus and private sectors in combining to bring Design film: Design and Man. A filmed look sion. 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. at industrial and commercial design, and the 13-14 Films: NIMH documentary Drugs- meaningful assistance to perhaps our design process. Continuous showings from 10:30 a.m., 2:30 and 4:30 p.m. Curious Alice- moot valuable resource for new economic 11:00 a.m.; last showing 2:30 p.m. The Ren 11:30 a.m, 3:30, 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. growth, the small businessman. wick Gallery. 15-16 Film: Long Day's Journey Into "PROBLEM-SOLVERS" GIVE SMALL FRI. 14 Night-11:30 a.m., 2:30, 5 and 7 p.m. Ques MANAGEMENT A LIFT tion/ answer session follows. Exhibition: Hall of Printing and Graphic (By William H. Wylie) Arts. New hall illustrating the printer's craft 17 Inner Voices of Lorton-Performances at over five centuries. Among the period rooms 11 a.m., 2:30 and 4:30 p.m. Sometimes it's shocking what the president is an 18th century shop like one Benjamin 18 Films: Darkness, Darkness-10:30 a.m., of a small to medium-size company doesn't Franklin might have used. In the printmak 2:30 and 4:30 p.m. 11:59 Last Minute to know. ing section, techniques of such great masters Ohoose-11:30 a.m., 3:30, 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. One chief executive drew a blank when as Rembrandt and Munch are shown. Third General question/answer session follows. asked how big the market is for the three firm floor, National Museum of History and Tech 19 Inner Voices of Lorton-Performances at sided widgets his manufactures. nology. 11 a.m., 2:30 and 4:30 p.m. Another's knowledge of recent tax changes was disturbingly lean. Exhibition: Artist-Naturalists: Observa 20 Films: US-10:30 a.m., 2:30 and 4:30 tions in the Americas. Some 70 works dating A third was hopelessly out of touch with p.m. Speedscene-11:30 a.m. 3:30, 5:30 and the la.test thinking on corporate planning. from the 1720's to the 1920's by American 7:30 p.m. artists Mark Catsby, Alexander Wilson, John Each situation had the makings of a busi 21 Film: The People Next Door-11 :30 a.m., ness tragedy ~use in a company that doos James Audubon, Martin Johnson Heade, the 2:30, 4:30 and 6:30 p.m. Question/answer Thayer family, and Louis A. Fuertes. National $2 million to $4 million a year the mantle of session follows each showing. leadership rests squarely a.nd sometimes -Collection of Fine Arts, through September 22-23 Marathon House Players of Boston 10. solely on the president's shoulders. Performances at 1:30 and 5 p.m. Obviously these "minis" of the business TUE. 18 24 Panel discussion: Drugs in Transit, world cannot afford full-time staffers for Lecture: The Glass of Frederick Garder, by Panel discussion follows presentation of market research, legal and tax counsels and Paul V. Gardner, Smithsonian Curator of papers with time devoted to questions from corporate planning. But there are ways to Glass and Ceramics. Mr. Gardner, who worked the audience. 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. keep in touch with the latest management for Carder at the Steuben Glass Works, will 25 Films: US-10:30 a.m., 2:30 and 4:30 skills without straining the pursestrings. give a personal glimpse into the life of p.m. Speedscene-11 :30 a.m., 3 :30, 5 :30 and One morning last month nearly 100 small Carder-a major figure in the late 19th cen 7:30 p.m. company executives met at the Mountain tury and early 20th century Engllsh and 26 Films: David--10:30 a.m., 2:30 and 4:30 View Inn near Greensburg. Lewis E. Conman, American glassmaking. The lecture will also p.m. Curious Alice-11:30 a.m., 3:30, 5:30 director of the Pittsburg Field Office of the focus on the sources of Carder's inspiration and 7:30 p.m. U.S. Department of Commer<:e, presided at and the development of his various compli 27 Films: NIMH documentary Drugs- the day-long session. cated processes. 8:30 p.m., The Renwick Gal 10:30 a.m., 2:30 and 4:30 p.m. Ebena-11:30 At his disposal were a. half-dozen panel lery. a.m., 3:30, 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. ists--high-priced talent that few, if any, of WED. 19 28 Films: To Find Our Life-10:30 a.m., the companies could afford on their payrolls Design films: The Music Rack. Repeat. See 2:30 and 4:30 p.m. Darkness, Darkness- full time. But for Conman-and Uncle July 5 for details. 11:30 a.m., 3:30, 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. Sam-they were working free. 29-30 Film: The Trip-11 :30 a.m., 2:30, THU. 20 One of the panelists, Marvin S. Lieber, a 4:30 and 6:30 p.m. General question/answer tax consultant and partner in the Pittsburgh Creative screen: Matrix-Design in motion session follows. law firm of Berkman, Ruslander, Pohl, Lieber using graphic computer instrumentation; 31 Films: Epitaph-10:30 a.m., 2:30 and and Engel, explained during a recent inter Mark Tobey-The rhythms and designs of 4:30 p.m. US-11:30 a.m., 3:30, 5:30 and view why he was there. Tobey seen in his paintings from the early 7:30 p.m. "These seminars give business executives market scenes to the abstract Broadway light THE SMITHSONIAN BOOKSTORE exposure to opportunities they aren't even series. Background music and narration by aware of," he said, stressing the lack of man the artist. Two-film program begins 11 a.m., A handsome new bookstore, operated for the agement expertise in smaller firms. 12 noon and 1 p.m. National Collection of Smithsonian by McGraw-Hill. Inc., opened "Some of the small companies of today June 20, with general and specialized publi Fine Arts. will be the big ones of tomorrow," he added, SAT. 22 cations reflecting subjects of Smithsonian "if they make the right moves." Creative screen: Matrix,· Mark Tobey. Re exhibits and research. It features a replica Lieber cited one of the chief concerns at of the now defunct "Shakespeare & Co.," in peat. See July 20 for details. the White House conference on business Paris, the famous American bookshop which planning earlier this year-failure of many WED. 26 figured prominently as a gathering place companies to exploit management techni Design film: Glas-leerdam. The design and during the 1920's and 1930's for Hemingway, ques, which Americans have a genius for manufacture of glass. Continuous showings Joyce, Pound, Gide, Gertrude Stein and Scott perfecting. from 11 a.m.; last showing 2 :30 p.m. The Fitzgerald. At the Constitution Avenue en Renwick Gallery. trance of the National Museum of History Another panelist, Richard C. Andres, presi and Technology. dent of Marketing Services Associates, said DRUGS; A SPECIAL EXHIBITION the session was an opportunity to tell busi Schedule of special activities arts and nessmen "what market research can and industries bui lding cannot do." Conman's "road show,'' which he said is (For last-minute schedule changes, HELP FOR SMALL BUSINESSES call 737-8811) unique to the Commerce Department's Pitts burgh office, also appeared in Erie and is July booked for Cleveland. While the "actors" 1-2 Dusty and Sweets McGee, film by Floyd HON. H. JOHN HEINZ III may change, the plot remains the same Mutrux. 11:30 a.m., 2:30, 4:30 and 6:30 p.m. OF PENNSYLVANIA offering businessmen a look at tax advan tages, marketing, accounting and other Question/answ~r sessions follow. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 3 Inner Voices of Lorton-Performances at management tools. 1 :30 and 4:30 p.m. Dusty and Sweets Mc Tuesday, July 18, 1972 If there is a quick way to get a. business Gee-6:30 p.m. Mr. HEINZ. Mr. Speaker, we all rec man's attention, it's by discussing tax 4 Dusty and Sweets McGee. See July 1. breaks. Consequently Lieber touched some ognize that small business forms the tender nerves. 5 Films: Skezag-11:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. backbone of America's economy and that, US-2:30 and 6:30 p.m. Discussion of film and He advised how to use the new 7 percent related questions follows each screening. with the growth of bigness and the in investment credit (even a new grocery coun 6 Films: Speedscene-11 :30 a.m. and 4:30 creasing merger of firms in industry, it ter may qualify) and how to take advantage p.m. The Opium Trail-2:30 and 6:30 p.m. is vitally important for the Government of the faster depreciation rules. Discussion of film and related questions fol to protect and encourage the independ Lieber also explained how an employer low each screening. ence of small businessmen. can reduce his taxes by providing jobs for 7 Films: David-11 :30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. In recognition of this, the Department disadvantaged workers. For each dollar tn Brian at 17-2:30 and 6:30 p.m. Question/ wages, an employer actually pays only 25 to of Commerce recently activated a pro 30 cents after appying tax credits, he said. answer session follows: gram to assist small businesses. What 8-9 New York Free Theatre-Performances "Once an employer learns how to com at 1 :30 and 5 p.m. follows is a story earned in the Pitts municate with a ghetto-type worker, he 10 Panel discussion: Ethics of Addiction, burgh Press on May 7, 1972, which de often gains a. valuable employee,'' Lieber 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. Panel discussions follow scribes this important effort. added. The federal government prods busi- 24292 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 18, 1972 nessmen to take a chance by offering tax in dent briefly mentionell the three interrelated to their states and schools with the ARBC centives. programs of the ARBC and then said, "The message-that there ls to be a national ren As for market research, Andres listed these third major program, the one I especially aissance between now and 1976 and that stu objectives: want to talk about this morning, will be dents as the Citizens of Century Three should A measurement of market size and growth, known as Festival USA. Its concern will be be in the forefront. The Resolution passed by including geographic dimensions, so "sales travel, discovery and hospitality. Hospitality the Conference reads as follows: muscle" can be applied in the right places by Americans to Americans and hospitality "RESOLUTION {don't assign 10 salesmen to Memphis if only by Americans to millions upon millions of "Whereas, The Congress of the United 1 percent of the market ls there). visitors from nearly every other country on States in 1966 created a Commission, the An audit of the competition to determine the globe. American Revolution Bicentennial Commis who has what share of the market. "In the near future, I will be sending in sion, to plan, encoura.ge, develop and coordi· A determination of the best ways to reach the name of all the people of the United na.te all commemorative aspects for the 20oth customers-through distributors, dealers, St ates, formal and official invitat ions to the anniversary of the nation in 1976; and ca.ta.logs, etc. governments of nations around the globe, "Whereas, The Congress of the United Andres said it's important to get market extending a welcome to the people of those States, and both Presidents Lyndon B. John research into decision-making early to make nations to visit the United States as laws and son and Richard M. Nixon have charged the sure ideas a.re salable. A company ought to circumstances permit during the Bicenten Commission with the responsiblllty of mak know whether a. product should be "red, nial Era. and especially during the year 1976. ing the Bicentennial national in scope, by "This unprecedented invitation to the square and under $500," long before it goes µroviding opportunities for participation 011. into production, he explained. world is particularly appropriate for two rea the part of all Americans, transcending Joseph F. Di Mario, a. partner of Touche sons, first because America is and always has through every level of Government; and Ross & Co., discussed accounting a.s a plan been a nation of nations. "Whereas, The President, in discussing the ning and management profit tool. "A second compelling reason for this in concept of a Bicentennial Era., beginning in International business planning was vitation to the world relates to our hopes 1970 and continuing through 1976, the focal tackled by Arthur L. Fitch of Fitch Associ for a gen uine and lasting peace among year, stated, "We want this celebration to be ates, and Edward A. Hebditch spoke on cor nations. national. It must go directly to the people porate planning for large and small com "Nations, like individuals, stand a better and derive its strength from the people. And panies. chance of working construct! vely together if we want people all over this land to sense Sales training, a luxury for most small people on both sides can learn to respect one the greatness of this moment, to participate firms, was discussed by G. Edward Winner another as fellow human beings. in it, and help us all to discover what that whose company ( same name) has trained "Our invitation to the world can contrib national spirit is."; and nearly 30,000 salesmen. ute significantly to that crucial process. As "Whereas, The President and the Commis Their topics represent the sophisticated we move toward 1976, the American Revolu sion have endorsed a community goals-set tools needed for modern management, tion Bicentennial Commission will follow up ting program as a call for achievement from whether a company is big or little. on this invitation with a. vigorous action coast to coast and border to border within Andres used this analogy: program. I urge every American to join in the nation under the concept of "Horizons On a. clear day a pilot bound for Erie can support of that program." '76" to urge the people to survey the condi see his destination from Pittsburgh once tions of their communities, to determine he gains altitude. All he has to do ls point his AMERICAN REVOLUTION BICENTENNIAL their goals and priorities for achieving and plane in the right direction. On the Fourth in Colonial Wllliamsburg, answering the challenge that confronts cities But on a foggy day a pilot needs instru Virginia, the Bicentennial's Philatellc-Nu and comm.unities across the land; and ments--altimeter, compass, radar, etc.-to mlsmatic Combination was unveiled by 17 "Whereas, Young people nationwide have make the same :flight. year old David Halaas, a member of the a special responsibility at this moment, given In the years following World War II, the ARBC's Philatelic Advisory Panel. He also the franchise of the landmark 26th Amend "weather was clear" for business. But in re malled the first medal-stamp envelope to ment. cent times fog has set in and a. businessman President Nixon in a special ceremony fol "Now, therefore, be it resolved, That the needs instruments--ta.x expertise, sales lowing the presentation of the Bicentennial National Association of Student Councils training, market research, etc.-to keep from flag on the Market Green. In the U.S. Postal shall join the United States Congress and the "hitting the mountains." Service's ceremony presenting the four new President in commemorating the anniversary He may stlll hit a. mountain if he's a. poor Bicentennial stamps in front of the Old Co of this great Nation and honor the chal pilot but if he reads the instruments cor lonial Post Office, Halaas noted that he was lenges of the day to join in a national splrlt rectly his journey should be profitable. among several young people participating in of community improvement; and Commerce is trying to steer small com various ways to help plan the Nation's Bi "Be it further resolved, That the National panies a.way from the "wing-and-a-prayer" centennial. AssocLation of Student Councils shall ac strategy and into a. more scientific flight The District of Columbia government an tively encourage high school participation in plan. nounced over the Fourth holiday weekend community activities during this Bicenten that a year-long study at a cost of $57,000 nial Era and shall encourage a positive youth wlll commence to ascertain ways to alleviate movement to be in the forefront of com NEWS BULLETIN OF THE AMERI transportation problems for the Bicentennial. munity Bicentennial activities; and The ARBC wishes to salute the producers "Be it further resolved, That the National CAN REVOLUTION BICENTENNIAL and directors and all associated with the COMMISSION Association of Student Councils in the spirit Fourth of July special on NBC, "The Sta.rs of its 1972 "Youth in Action" Conference, and Stripes Show." A special thanks ls also serve as catalyst to high school students, the HON. G. WILLIAM WHITEHURST extended to Mr. Bob Hope for his Bicenten citizens of Century Three in encouraging nial Message and to all the entertainers and them to use the time of the Bicentenniao Era OF vmGINIA sports figures who participated in this na to translate their many goals into action." IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tionwide show that was incorporated in the During the ARBO Seminar on June 28, 85 ARBC's official 1972 "Spirit of '76" program Tuesday, July 18, 1972 student delegates representing 28 states from coast to coast. handed the ARBC Members their names and Mr. WHITEHURST. Mr. Speaker, I The District of Columbia's Bicentennial asked for assistance in getting involved in am inserting the July 10, 1972, edition of Assembly, formed by Mayor Walter E. Wash the Bicentennial. ington, was sworn in on June 25 and will Contact Duke Zeller (202) 254-8007. the Bulletin of the American Revolution work in conjunction with the D.C. Bicenten Bicentennial Commission-ARBC-into nial Commission. The Assembly resolved that the RECORD. I take this action to help my "complete self-government and full congres colleagues be informed of ARBC devel sional representation become the No. 1 pri opments leading to the observance of the ority for the Bicentennial." The Assembly, CRIME AND NARCOTICS which will serve as the Commission's liaison POSITION PAPER Nation's 200th anniversary in 1976. The with the community at large, will develop bulletin is compiled and written by the plans for tourism, economic development, re ARBC Communications Committee staff. habilitation of neighborhoods. pollution con HON. MARIO BIAGGI The bulletin follows: trol and public safety. The 75-member group OF NEW YORK [From the Bicentennial Bulletin, July 10, was elected by communities in D.C. and then IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1972) appointed by the Mayor. Commission Members Thomasine Hill, Roy Tuesday, July 18, 1972 EXCERPTS FROM THE PRESIDENT'S SPEEC H Brooks and Ken Beale participated in the On the Fourth of July, President Nixon annual nationwide assembly of high school Mr. BIAGGI Mr. Speaker, at a re delivered a radio address to the Nation and student council leaders June 25-29 at Forest cent press conference our former col announced that in the near future he would View High School in Arlington Heights, a league from Westchester County, Rich be extending an Invitation to the World for suburb of Chicago. The Commission Mem ard Ottinger, made some relevant com the Bicentennial. In his speech, the Presi- bers encouraged the student reps to return ments regarding crime in our society. I July 18, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24293 consider Mr. Ottinger's remarks to be prevention as in sports. Nothing is more cant roles relieving police of non-crime reassuring to the citizen than a visible patrol duties and aiding police in the detection and extremely noteworthy and informative. man. We should act to enable high crime prevention of crimes. Auxlliary police should Mr. Ottinger's comments are signifi areas to restore the "cop-on-the-beat", an be offered basic police training and, upon cant, because he proposes realistic sug institution that served us well in days gone its completion, should be authorized to hold gestions to :finding solutions to crime by but which has become prohibitively expen peace officer status, make arrests, and per rather than just engaging in the normal sive for our hard-pressed cities today. form other appropriate police functions. To rhetorical criticism of crime. His propo I am therefore proposing that the federal the extent possible, Auxiliary Police and sals are far-reaching and cover all as government beef up the Law Enforcement civillan police employees should take over Assistance Act, adding $3 billion a year all work unrelated to the detection and pre pects of crime in our society-from the to enable high crime communities to at vention of crime, such as directing traffic, hardened to the potential criminal least double their police forces and give them controlling crowds, guarding parades, per from the crimes in the ghetto to those the pay, training and support they need to forming clerical work, giving parking tickets, in affiuent suburbia. He also criticizes a do the job of protecting the citizenry. etc. society whicl: has become too permissive Our police today are undermanned, under CONTROL HANDGUNS about criminal behavior by stating that trained and underpaid. They take enormous Today there are still many jurisdictions we have been "agonizing more over the risks of life and limb, work hard hours, en in which it is as easy to get a handgun as fate of criminals than over the fate of dure incredible abuse. This is unfair and it is to buy a peice of candy. While mail victims and potential victims." unwise. Police should be adequately compen order sales have been curbed, local sales For the benefit of my colleagues, and sated for the risks they endure for us. have not. Much stricter control including They are also too frequently abused. They licensing of holders and registration of con considering the timeliness of Mr. Ottin get blamed for conditions that are the fault cealable weapons wlll be required to reduce ger's remarks, I submit them in the REC of our society. They deserve greater support. the currency of these lethal weapons. No. ORD at this point: I therefore support wholeheartedly the legis interference should be placed upon the le CRIME AND NARCOTICS POSITION PAPER lation authored by Congressman Mario Biaggi gitimate sportsman-not even a fee for and sponsored by 130 other Congressmen, the licensing-but a real national effort is re THE BACKGROUND Policemen's Bill of Rights. It's time to get tough on crime. It's time quired to keep handguns out of criminal to stop talking and start acting, fast, before CREATE POLICE ACADEMIES hands. I also support legislation to impose drastically stiffer penalties on people who use our entire civilization breaks down. The rookie policeman today receives only In the Bronx today many of the public six weeks training before going on the job. a gun to commit a crime. schools are Jungles. There are daily reports In that short time, he has to learn all about LIGHTING of kniflngs, shootings, and muggings. Par the intracacies of criminal law, court proc Statistics prove that adequate street light ents, teachers, and students alike are ter esses, proper procedures, traffic control, nar ing can be invaluable to preventing crime. rorized. This is one of the principal causes cotics, the technicalities of arrests, how and Federal funds should be provided on a of the disasterous flight from the cities of the under what circumstances to use force, and matching basis to encourage cities to solid, middle income people who must form a myriad of other complicated matters. Such install modern lighting systems. skimpy training is unfair to the police and to the background of any healthy community. ADD COURT PERSONNEL All the central city areas of the district, in society. the Bronx and in Westchester, are like ghost I am therefore proposing that there be One of the greatst causes of police frustra towns at night. Their stores are closed, their established local police academies on a tion today is that their arrests results in so windows guarded with iron gates. Their county-wide basis for training local police few convictions and there are such long de streets a.re deserted. Fear is evident in those recruits and the upgrading of the training of lays between arrest and trial. It seems fruit who must be out as they scurry furtively to present officers, similar to what modern busi less to the polceman to make an arrest when he knows that within hours the person ar their destinations. nesses like IBM do for their employees. Spe Even in broad daylight, the people of our cifically I endorse Sherri! Daniel McMahon's rested wlll be out on the streets again and cities don't feel safe. There are pervasive excellent proposal for a Westchester Police it will be months before he comes to trial. muggings and robbery everywhere. Gangs Academy and will introduce legislation to see The chances that he will be in jail are less roam many of the streets. The subways and to it that federal funds are available for its than 1 in 100. buses are unsafe. Even those in quiet subur support. Added numbers of police in high crime ban homes live in constant apprehension I am also proposing that there be a na areas will bring increased numbers of ar about burglaries. Car thefts are rampant. tional police academy on a par with the mili rests, even though the main benefit to be Small businesses vital to the economic tary academies to give top police prospects hoped for is a preventive reduction in crime. health of the community are rapidly being the very best of education and training in There ls no use adding police without provid forced to close. Their theft and robbery losses modern methods of police work. ing additional judges and judicial personnel are becoming prohibitive and insurance rates LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANCE ACT FUNDS to process their arrests. A key to reform of are climbing beyond their reach. Insurance ~ur criminal debacle, therefore, is stream The Law Enforcement Assistance Act has llning our judicial machinery. ls often unavailable at any price. been a giant boondoggle, distributing money If present trends continue, our society will I w111 therefore propose federal legislation to communities regardless of need or their providing an additional $1 billion a year for retrogress to wild west days when everyone ability to use the money effectively. The waste lived by the law of the gun. Anarchy is of these vitally needed funds is close to be the hiring of additional judges and judicial pressing close upon us. coming a national scandal. I will provide that personnel, these funds to be distributed in These are conditions that simply cannot the funds under the Act be distributed accordance with the number of police de be allowed to persist. There is only freedom according to the rate of crime in the appli ployed on the streets of a community. This for anyone under law. What we a.re witnessing cant community and that priority in funding formula is suggested rather than a formula ts a massive breakdown of our systems of law go to police manning, training and pay. geared to the backlog of cases so as not to reward inefficient judicial systems and penal and justice. Under these circumstances, law CITIZEN PARTICIPATION abiding citizens have no freedom; only the ize those which have done a good job of outlaw is free. Added numbers of police in high crime internal management. I have no question but that our crime areas probably will not be enough to stem No funds are proposed for courthouses. problems can be attacked effectively and con the tide of violence. The active participation There are plenty of available facilities in structively without embracing repressive of the citizenry in crime detection and pre every city, from abandoned storefronts to measures that infringe on the rights of peo vention will be needed. There are just too schoolhouses that stand empty half the day. ple accused of crime. many reported incidents today where citi Priority should go to getting the job done. Politicians have given Up service to the zens fail to report crimes they see because We've seen too many bricks and mortar in soaring problems of crime, but have done of a fear of becoming involved and the de vestments that merely end up as permanent little to devote the resources and efforts mand it will make on their time and homes for bureaucracies. needed to resolve them. As I go around the resources. STIFF MANDATORY SENTENCES district I find that this is a top concern EVIDENCE INCENTIVE PROGRAM Just as arrests too infrequently result in of all citizens, black and white, in all areas. I therefore propose an Evidence Incentive convictions, people convicted too frequently Obviously a crash program with real teeth in Program that will give rewards to those who get sentences not at all commensurate with it is urgently required. I am therefore pro give police information leading to crim1nal their crimes. This is partially the result of the posing a comprehensive crime control pro indictments. I also advocate establishment inadequacy of our prison facilities and par gram designed to st.amp out the blight of of a "hot line" on which a citizen can report tially the result of a society that has become violent crime in our society. what he knows about a suspected cr1Ine too soft on crime, agonizing more over the POLICE SUPPORT without becoming involved, and stlll be fate of criminals than over the fate of vic Prevention has to be the first line of de eligible for a reward for his information. tims and potential victims. fense against crime. People want security. EXPAND AND UPGRADE AUXJLXARY POLICE For all crimes of violence, there should be They want not to be stricken or molested, Beyond this, I advocate a vast expansion stiff mandatory sentences. For wlll!ul homi mugged or robbed. of the Auxiliary Police with the help of fed cides and those who sell hard narcotics to The best defense is a good offense, in crime eral funds and having them assume signifi- youths, the maximum penalty should be im- 24294 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 18, 1972 posed. Getting a youngster hooked on drugs to feed their ha.bit, to take the profit motive will take years. In the meantime we can't is the equivalent of taking his life. There ts out of the narcotics traffic, and to end that let our society disintegrate into lawlessness. no known cure. We should throw the book at traffic as a source of financing organized Action on crime itself is needed urgently. It these offenders. crime. is needed now. ADDED JAIL FACll.ITIES Full Federal support has never been given TASK FORCE Adequate jail facllities must be con-: to the Narcotics Reha.b111tation Act which I To refine these proposals and translate st ructed. For every felony conviction, some authored with Sena.tor Robert Kennedy. I them into specific legislation, I am creating period of the senten ce should be devoted to will push for full implementation and fund ing of this Act. the first of a number of task forces of quali severe punishlnent--conflnement without fied citizens within our community. The such amenities as t elevision and socializing. Certain it is that the present system of Crime and Narcotics task force will include The bulk of the sentence should be devoted attacking our narcotics problem isn't work ing. Addition is spreading like an epidemic, retired policemen, prosecutors, prison per to reh abilitation. Serious efforts should be sonnel, parole officers, narcotics experts and made at job training, a.nd jobs must be pro with an estimated 40 % increase just la.st year. Radical new steps must be tried to stem citizens who have been working on crime vided by the government where private em this crisis. problems through civic organizations. ployment is unavailable. Half-way houses are I am establishing the crime ana narcotics badly needed so that released convicts have WESTCHESTER COUNTYWIDE DETECTIVE FORCE task force first, however, because these prob a constructtve environment in whicb to stay. On the local scene there a.rise special prob lems seem first among the concerns of the The present--average rate of recidivism is lems of criminal enforcement in Westchester people with whom I have talked in our intolerable. County a.rising out of the proliferation of district. Rather than just take a survey of I therefore propose a $1 billion a year pro police jurisdictions. Westchester ha.s 47 jeal their concerns, I have developed a specific gram for jail construction, rehabilitation pro ousy guarded kingdoms, and ea.ch one in program of action which I will do my utmost grams and half-way houses, to be distribu sists on its own police department that oper to see adopted. ted in accordance with need in communit ies ates unfortunately independently of all the across the country. others, despite recent steps taken to at least PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR CHILDREN provide common communications systems. Local pride and local interest undoubtedly An appallingly high percent of violent make it impractical to advocat e a single NECESSITY FOR NATIONAL crime is committed by youths. To a great ex couruty police force. But at the very least, PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY tent this is the result of the failure of par there ought to be a county-wide detective ents to give their children adequate super force to investigate crime anywhere within vision. Parents should be given greater legal the county and to give assistance to the HON. JACK BRINKLEY responsibility for the criminal acts of their local police upon request. OF GEORGIA children under age 18 who commit crimes harming the person or property of innocent CENTRAL PURCHASING IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES victims. I therefore propose legislation that And there surely should be central pur Tuesday, July 18, 1972 would make the parent of such child civilly chasing of a.ll police equipment county-wide. liable for the damages their children cause Economies of scale in quantity purchasing Mr. BRINKLEY. Mr. Speaker, every others through the commission of a crime. could save local communities an esti convention reinforces my belief concern JOBS FOR YOUTH mated---million dollars a year. The tax ing the desirability, and now the neces payer would get a far greater return on his Youthful offense is also ca.used by the sity, for a national Presidential primary. dollar and police departments could get bet As a first-time delegate to the Demo failure of young people to obtain jobs. There ter equipment for less money. is nothing so inviting to youthful misbe cratic National Convention in Miami last havior than the situation in which thousands GO AFTER MAJOR CRIMINALS week, I saw the enormous complexities of youngsters are on the streets with nothing Westchester in particular, though this is of housing, security, and communica constructive to occupy their time and no undoubtedly true as well of other communi tions and the process as it has come to legitimate way of earning money. Further ties, should make greater use of grants of be is something less than democratic. I more, a valuable human resource is being lost immunity to small fry criminals in order to know personally that many delegates to society. The government should become more effectively prosecute the criminal big an employer of last resort, offering jobs and fish. The tendency today is to throw the book who attended the convention were not job training to every one, and denying wel at the small guy who is easier to catch and representative of the area from which fare to all employable except mothers of convict so as to show a better conviction they came. small children. record, and ignore the major criminals who In April of 1971, Prof. William H. Ger hire the small guys, mastermind the crimes lach, of the Political Science Department LOWERING AGE OF YOUTHFUL OFFENDER and make most of the money out of the busi TREATMENT ness of crime. at Columbus College, Columbus, Ga., de Lastly we have gone too far in protecting COST veloped a suggested constitutional older youngsters from responsibility under Only a program as far-reaching, compre amendment for the election of the the law. If 18 year olds are to be given the hensive and pervasive as this has a chance of President and Vice President of the right to vote, they should be made fully succeeding. The cost at an estimated $5 United States. His thoughtful proposal responsible for their criminal acts. I there billion additional federal dollars a year ts includes a provision for a national Presi fore propose decreasing the age of youthful high, but when you realize th.at we're spend dential primary and commends itself to offender treatment to age 18. ing that much every year to build super our careful study in moving towards an WAR ON NARCOTICS EPIDEMIC highways, to go to Mars and to subsidize improved method for filling the highest Narcotics addiction is at the root of a high rich fe.rmers not to grow crops, in perspec offices in the land. percentage of violent crime in our cities tive, it seems like a small price to pay for Professor Gerlach's proposal reads: today. In the New York metropolitan area it our security. Also, crime a.nu the narcotics is estimated that there are 150,000 abusers traffic is costing this country almost this A SUGGESTED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT of hard narcotics who must steal an average much every year-a very unproductive ex FOR THE ELECTION OF THE PRESIDENT AND of $150 per day to feed a $50 heroin ha.bit. pense. VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES In some jurisdictions, it is estimated that ELI.MINATING CAUSES OF CRIME (By William H. Gerla.ch) as much as 70% of violent crimes are com In the long range, radically reducing our OBJECTIVES OF THIS SUGGESTED CONSTITUTIONAL mitted by addic·ts. The specter of 150,000 peo crime rates will require much greater at AMENDMENT ple having to mug, rob and steal from 150,000 tention to the causes of crime as well as to 1. To compromise between the proponents innocent victims every day is alarming as in the direct incidents of crime. In addition and opponents of election of the President itself to cry for drastic treatment. to providing adequate jobs, our cities will by popular vote. I wm reintroduce and press for the pro have to be rebuilt, decent housing made 2. To compromise between the proponents gram I introduced in Congress four years available at prices all citizens can afford to and opponents of unrestricted grants in aid ago to engage in a real war on narcotics ad pay, adequate health care delivery systems to the States. diction, including: 1) stiff mandatory sen- wlll have to be instituted and hunger and 3. To abolish the posstbllities of fraud and tences for non-addict pushers, sellers and malnutrition must be eradicated to make the effect on voting behavior from news re processors of hard narcotics; 2) a crackdown full and productive use of our human re leases and projections by the mass media as on countries that permit illegal processing sources. presidential elections move westward. and export of hard narcotics including boy These undertakings a.re monumental, how 4. To return the office of Vice-President to cotting their exports; 3) increased funds for ever. An immediate start on them is vital, the status the constitutional convention in narcotics education; 4) increased funds for reordering our spending priorities drastical tended it should have. addict rehabilitation, including half-way ly and closing our gaping tax loopholes to 5. To increase the probabilities of elect ing houses; and 5) providing for the treatment pay for the huge investment they will re Presidents by a majority. of addicts as health problems and establish quire. 6. To decrease the probabllities of all can ing clinics for their trea.temnt so as to re But these long range programs can't be didates falling to win a majority of electoral move the necessity of their terrorizing society expected to come to fruition quickly-they votes. July 18, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24295 1. For the 1,>urposes of this amendment can file 1Jetitions in a relatively small num electoral vote of the United States. Nominees only, the word "State" includes the District ber of largely populated States. If rural for the office of President and Vice-President of Columbia. ''Party" means political party. oriented, they can file petitions in more States respectively who receive a plurality of the "Party members" are those qualified voters with smaller populations. total vote in any state shall receive the total of a State who are identified with a party on 4. In presidential primary elections, every electoral vote of that state. the voter registry of a State. citizen of the United States, qualified to It will be easy for any party with a na This avoids repetition of the phrase "a vote in any State election, shall be qualified tional appeal to qualify its candidates for the State or the District of Columbia," it provides to vote in that State for two candidates for ballots of the Presidential General Election. for closed primaries to prevent "party raid his party's nomination for president. The It will be more difficult for ideological and ing," which can deny the electorate of its candidate in each party receiving the plural regiona,l parties. Such parties will not be dis right to choose from among the best candi ity of the total vote cast for each party's criminated against. All parties have equal dates that all parties can offer. nomination shall be that party's nomineee opportunity, with the very small requirement 2. In each year immediately preceding a for president. The candidate in each party of polling approximately 5% of the popular year in which a President's term expires, on receiving the second highest nuober of vote distributed in a way that indicates some days to be determined by the Congress, votes shall be that party's nominee for national appeal, to qualify their camdidates presidential primary elections and presi vice-president, and shall become the party's for the ballots in the Presidential General dential general elections will be held. The nominee for president If the presidential Election. The people are given the opportu Congress shall determine the voting hours nominee dies or withdraws before the date nity to reject the ideological and regional by local time in all time zones, providing of the presidential general election. The can parties by denying the vote distribution that for all polls in the United States to open didate in each party receiving the third would indicate a national appeail. The pos and close simultaneously. The Congress shall highest number of votes shall become that sibility of electing a President by a majority determine the maximum compensations and party's nominee for vice-president if the vice is increased. The danger of crises from elec rentals to be paid to conduct presidential presidential nominee dies, withdraws, or suc tions by the House of Representatives is primary elections, presidential general elec ceeds to the presidential nomination before decreased. Voting by electors is abolished but tions, and all other primary and general the date of the presidential general election. electoral votes are retained. elections for the nomination and election of Additional substitutions for party nomina 6. Each state shall have the number elec Members of the House of Representatives and tions made necessary by other deaths or with toral votes equal to the whole number of the Senate, including special elections when drawals shall be made by parties as Congress Senators and Representatives to which the vacancies occur; and the United States shall shall provide. state may be entitled in Congress. The Dis reimburse each State for all expenditures in The nomination of candidates by popular trict of Columbia shall have the same num cident to conducting any such election, ex vote is more likely to be accepted by States ber of electoral votes as the state with the clusive of the cost of capital investments, than the forfeiture of the electoral power lea-st number. although candidates for other offices may they now hold with electoral votes. It certain This makes no change in the status quo be nominated and elected at any such elec ly gives the people a louder voice than they in the foreseeable future. tion. now have. Voting for two candidates is a re 7. Nominees for the office of President and If States schedule all elections concur turn to the original Constitution which pro Vice-President respectively who receive a rently with those named, they will be relieved vided in Article II that " ... The electors majority of the total of electoral votes shall of all election expenses now borne by them . shall . . . vote by ballot for two persons (for be the President and Vice-President. If no Each State will know how much money will President) ..." This amendment makes every nominee for President has such majority, be freed for general unrestricted use. The voter an elector in the primary. The nominees the House of Representatives, immediately need for grq,nts in aid will be less crucial. The for both offices will be persons who party following its organization in the January uncertainties of new Congresses reducing ap members believe are qualified for the Pres next following the presidential general elec propriations for grants and questions as to idency. It embodies Alexander Hamilton's tion, by ballot will choose the President from whether States are using grants for other thought when he wrote in Federalist Essay among the nominees, not exceeding three, purposes than the national general welfare No. 68: " ... as the Vice-President may oc having the highest number of electoral votes. will be eliminated. Equality in aid will exist casionally become a substitute for the Pres But in choosing the President, the votes shall because election expenses are in ratio to ident, in the supreme executive magistracy, be taken by State, the representation from population. There will be no justification all the reasons which recommend the mode of each State having one vote: a quorum for for high filing fees which limit candidacies election prescribed for the one apply with this purpose shall consist of a member or to the affeuent. The fq,ct that expenses may equal force to the other." Such substitutions members from two-thirds of the States and now be paid by counties and municipalities have been more than "occasional" and the a majority of all States shall be necessary is irrelevant. They are agencies of the States 25th amendment increases the possibility of to a choice. And If the House of Representa and it is mostly for their needs that the their frequency. Vice-Presidents have com tives shall not choose a President, whenever States seek grants. The State problem of pleted terms of 8 of the 31 men who have the right of choice shall devolve upon it, making equitable allocations to its subdivi been elected President. That is more than before the 20th day of that month, then the sions would also be solved. 25%. Since 1900, in 18 presidential elections, Vice-President shall be the President. If no Capital investments are excluded to pre 29 men have had major party vice-pres nominee for Vice-President has such ma vent States from periodically purchasing new idential nominations. Only five of them, and jority, the Senate immediately following voting machines or expensive computor sys some of those may be doubted, were serious its organization in the January next follow tems at national expense. Control of voting contenders for the presidential nomination ing the presidential general election, by hours will decrease the possibility of fraud at the convention that nominated them. ballot will choose the Vice-President from and influence on voting behavior from the They were Garner, Bricker, Warren, Kefauver, among the nominees, not exceeding two, news releases and projections of the mass and Johnson. The constitutional convention having the highest number of electoral votes. media as presidential elections move west rejected the proposal that the Congress elect A quorum for this purpose shall consist of ward. the President because the concept of separa two-thirds of the whole number of Sena.tors 3. Any person constitutionally qualified tion of powers demanded that he not be and a majority of the whole number shall to be elected President may become a can subservient to the Congress. The same con be necessary to a choice. didate for a party's nomination for Presi cept demands that the presiding officer of The only change made here is the imposi dent by fl.ling, in each of any combination the Senate not be subservient to the Pres tion of a time limit on the power of the House of Representatives to elect a President of States which together have a majority of ident. It will be argued that parties will have It is possible under the 12th amendment, ~ the total electoral vote of the United States, two candidates with different political philos amended by the 20th amendment, for the a petition signed by himself and by a num ophies. It is more likely that each voter will House to elect a President at anytime in a ber, to be determined by the Congress, of vote for two candidates with similar philos four year period to replace a Vice-President that party's members 1n the State. The names ophies. How many Republicans entitled to who is "acting" as President and whenever of persons so qualifying shall appear on two votes in a primary in 1964 would have the ballots of the presidential primary elec the House was in session he would never voted for Rockefeller and Goldwater? How know how long he would so act. tion in all States as candidates for the nomi many Democrats entitled to two votes in a nations of such parties for President. 8. The Congress shall have power to put 1960 primary would have voted for both this article in effect by appropriate legisla The signature of candidates is required to Kennedy and Johnson for President? tion. prevent groups from qualifying candidatett 5. In presidential general elections, every without their consent. Petttfons are to be citizen of the United States, qualified to vote filed in the States because the States will in any election in a state shall be qualified DAVID F. MULLEN have the voter regi!try ltsts to validate signa to vote in that state for one candidate for tures. Validation expensea would be reim President and for one candidate for Vice bursable as expenses incident to the election. Prestdent, from a.Inong the nominees of all HON. MARGARET M. HECKLER The requirement for voters' signatures i3 political parties whose candidates for nomi OF MASSACHUSETI'S minimal and wm be no problem for recog nation received no 1ess than ten percent of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES nized candidates. It will hamper publfcl.ty the total vote cast for a.II candidates for seekers who attempt to use elections aa a nomlnatlons in the presidential primary Tuesday, July 18, 1972 vehicle. Serious candidates can concentrate election in each of any combination of states Mrs. HECKLER of Massachusetts. Mr. in areas of strength. If urban-oriented they which together have a majority of the total Speaker, there are those who say that of 24296 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 18, 1972 all the vocations open to people, the most dropped football, Mullen sought athletic The coatmg on the sheet and the ink rewarding is that of teaching and coach soholarship assistance at another school. He in the pen have been approved for school ing the young. I am inclined to agree. went to Boston College and graduated from the college in June 1921 with a bachelor of room use by the Federal Food and Drug David F. Mullen pursued such a voca science degree. Administration. tion for 42 years at Taunton High School It was In 1922 that the Taunton school Obviously, in a more humorous vein, in Taunton, Mass. where he taught sci committee elected to hire a football and the potential of this paper is almost un ence and coached football, baseball, and baseball coach on a full-time basis and Mul bounded. Think of the luxury which poli track. len started his coaching career and teaching ticians across the Nation would enjoy by His rewards were as many as the host science the following September. writing their speeches and making prom of fine young men he turned out. A num Last night Mullen died unexpectedly at ises on this paper. ber of them gathered to pay tribute to his home, 26 Newcomb Place. Associate Medi cal Examiner Theodore R. Thayer llsted the Mr. Speaker, the more serious contri him in 1965 upon his retirement. cause of death as a coronary. Mullen was mar butions made by this invention surely His was a full life. He died June 28 at ried to the former Bessie S. Miller. deserve recognition and more important the age of 74. Born in Concord, he was son of the late ly, utilization. The Ann Arbor Publishers I extend my smcere condolences to his Thomas and Johanna Mullen and had lived Co. has developed a product whose family, reminding them that he lives on in Taunton for the past 50 years. advantages are manyfold. Even more in many of the boys who felt his He had served on the Taunton Recreation significant is the fact that they have de influence. Commission for five years, retiring earlier veloped a product which renders sound The full story of his life and death are this year. He retired in 1964 as acting head master of Taunton High School. ecological practices a more feasible and told in this article from the Taunton He had been a chemistry instructor at realistic goal. They are to be commended Daily Gazette of June 29: Taunton High School and was the head of for that effort. DAVID F. MULLEN DIES IN 75TH YEAR the science department there. For 18 years More than seven years ago Mayor Ben he served as football, baseball and track jamin A. Friedman prefaced the testimonial coach for the high school. remarks by saying: Mullen played professional football with SPEECH OF JERRY L. PETTIS "The boys have come home tonight, Dave, the Providence Steam-Rollers. He was coach to pay tribute to a man they have admired, of Taunton High School's baseball and foot loved and respected for many years." ball teams and for several years was coach HON. LARRY WINN, JR. Among the men that were considered his of the track team until 1939. He became as OF KANSAS "boys" back in their high school days are sistant headmaster and completed his career lawyers, a police chief, Catholtc priests, pro of some 42 years serving as the acting head IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES fessional businessmen and civic leaders. master of Taunton High School between Tuesday, July 18, 1972 Hundreds of former students, teachers, September 1963 and June 1964. friends and relatives gathered during that His 1922 football team, 1926 and 1935 base Mr. WINN. Mr. Speaker, I would like evening in May 1965 to honor David F. Mul ball teams were cited as outstanding, the to take this OPPortunity to bring to the len whose teaching and coaching career at latter club was the last Taunton High School attention of the House a recent speech Taunton High School had spanned over 42 team to join the state championship playoffc;. by my good friend and colleague, Con years. Mullen died last night at 74. A communicant of Sacred Heart Church, gressman JERRY L. PETTIS. In his speech, It was at that 1965 testimonial that Mullen Mullen ls survived by his widow; a son, received a Golden Dome citation from Gov. David F. Mullen Jr. of Taunton; a sister, he discusses one of the critical problems John A. Volpe. Mary Mullen of Framingham, and several facing many of us whose districts include It reads: "For service to youth, awarded nieces and nephews. rural areas. to David F. Mullen, coach, teacher, friend, You will note that he suggests several who for more than 40 years produced fine possible alternatives to solving the med athletes and students at Taunton High ical personnel shortages in these areas. I School and whose service to his city, state RECYCLING OF SCHOOL BOOKS and nation is hereby recognized." recommend the study of his speech to Police Chief John A. Bobola. had played you as the Congress begins to debate im guard on Mullen's 1927 football team. At the HON. MARVIN L. ESCH portant alternatives to this vital problem. testimonial Chief Bobola presented Mullen OF MICHIGAN The speech follows: with a color television set as a. gift from IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FINANCIAL INCENTIVES FOR MEDICAL AND OTHER many friends of the coach supporting the Tuesday, July 18, 1972 HEALTH PERSONNEL To LOCATE IN DEPRIVED testimonial. AREAS Edward Litchfield, now news director for Mr. ESCH. Mr. Speaker, new ideas and (Remarks of Representative JERRY L. PETTIS Radio Station WPEP, presented Mullen with products which contribute to the move of California, before the Symposium on a music box at the testimonial in behalf of ment to preserve and improve our envi Distribution of Health Manpower, San the Taunton High School class of 1931. The ronment are always in demand. The city Francisco, Calif.) music box played the alma mater song from Mullen's Boston College. of Ann Arbor has long been a leader in The topic assigned me is-frankly-not Atty. Philip J. Assiran, a football a.nd bas this movement, with many groups and one to stir man's imagination. Whether we ketball player for the class of 1936 at Taun individuals making significant contribu are talking about financial 1ncent1.ves or tions. Today, I would like to commend some other kind of incentive to get doctors ton High School, was toastmaster at the testi and other health personnel into shortage monial and Henry G. Crapo, reglster of deeds, the Anr.. Arbor Publishers Co., whose de areas, it ls just not an exciting topic. wa.s general chairman. velopment of a reusable paper is indeed Nevertheless, it ls an important topic. It Jeff Hayes of Taunton, a nationally known one such contribution to the field of is also a very frustrating topic. Many of us cartoonist, had painted a cartoon which ecology. have tried to figure out how to get medical brought out highlights of Mullen's career and The paper, when used in conjunction personnel into shortage areas. There are vari that was also given to Mullen a.t the testi ous financial incentives in present federal monial. with a special ink, will retain no lasting marks. Any writing on the surface will law. There are financial incentives in many Taunton High School had its first football states. According to my information, these squad in 1922, the year that Mullen started remain no longer than a week. The paper programs have only limited success. his career here. would be used primarily in the books for Such programs primarily involve forgive A native of Frainingham, Mullen had been schoolchildren, whose continuous scrib ness of student loans or some form of direct an outstanding football player a.nd track sta.r bling renders the books useless after a payment of tuition, perhaps a scholarship at Fralningham's high school and he grad few years. sponsored by a shortage area or the state uaited from the school in 1916. medical society. There are also practice A year later he carried his talent.., to Willis This means books would no longer have to be thrown away. It would make un grants. ton Academy and in September 1917 he en As you probably know, the federal legis tered Fordham University on an athletic necessary the maintenance of large in scholarship. He attended that university for ventories of books and the costly reorder lation provides that medical students who two years, entered the Army and trained at practice in shortage areas and ln poverty ing of texts each year. Although the areas will be forgiven a. portion of any Plattsburg, N.Y.• where he was later commis paper is 100 percent recyclable, it does sioned following officer candidate school. fereral loan they received as a medical stu not have to be recycled as often as nor dent for each year they practice in such Mullen served at Fort Pitt, Pittsburgh, and mal paper because of its longer life. The was honorably discharged the following year areas. There are experts here from HEW who as a veteran of World War One and holding image can be activated hundreds of times could probably tell you how much we have the rank of second lieutenant. so that reusable books can be used again achieved from such legislation. I suspect it When he learned that Fordham had and again. ts very little. Jul11 18, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24297 One of the newer suggestions for finan ladies and gentlemen, seriously though, your of you may well believe is not a sensible cial incentives is the bill sponsored by Sen report probably hit the nail on the head action-an action which will result in ator John Tower of Texas which would pro when it said no one plan, program, incentive, physicians who are not as well-prepared, n·ot vide tax incentives to encourage physicians, or what have you will solve the problem. It as well-trained as those who graduate from dentists, and optometrists to practice in phy isn't the nature of a country this big or this American schools. But the point is that they sician shortage areas. This blll-8. 3499 and diverse. took action. its predecessor S. 576-would provide that Looking at this problem of medical care in I do not say that the Russian system is certain medical income would not be count shortage areas and deprived areas and listen better, but at least they have a system under ed as gross income for tax purposes. ing to my colleagues in the Congress, I think which the patient knows the point of entry Keeping in mind that this exclusion is we had better face up to the fa.ct that there to the medical care system. I do not say any limited to medical income, the Tower bill is a real concern in this country about access country has better medicine than the United would provide that a practitioner in a short to medical care. And when there is concern States, because no country does. But other age area. could exclude $20,000 during the in this country, the politicians, be they office countries apparently have done a better job first taxable year of such practice, $15,000 seekers or office holders, are going to respond. of distribution and so the people have some during the second year, and $10,000 $7,500 That is why there are over a dozen national place to turn. Is it possible for us to meet this and $5,000 during the third, fourth and health insurance bills. It is why many in problem and stlll give the top quality care fifth years. Congress are so taken by the HMO concept. which you get in America? The practitioner would be eligible for this That is why there is so much conversation That is your challenge in the medical pro benefit only if he is in practice in a short about the medical system in other countries, fession. It is our challenge in the Congress. age area for at least two years, and a. practi although I don't think it's either logical to It is a. challenge that we had better meet or tioner would be eligible for the benefits only compare the U.S. with another country nor we may find all kinds o! strange and radical once in his lifetime. reasonable to think that Americans are-at new plans sent out from a.Ii administration The bill also sets out the criteria for certi this time-embracing some other system of in Washington which decides that the job fication by the Secretary of HEW as to what delivering care. will be done and the hell with the doctors. ls a shortage area. But I would be wasting your time if I I am advised that the AMA's Council on didn't tell you some blunt truths: Legislation looked at both of these bills and First of all, if you and the others who are generally expressed support for this type of working on these problems-including those approach which uses the voluntary mech in the Congress and in government every REAL HOPE FOR DISASTER VICTIMS anism to establish incentives for physicians where-don't solve the problem, through to practice in needy areas. some combination of programs, then the peo Indeed, I understand that in the Board ple unfortunately may well turn to some HON. JAMES ABOUREZK of Trustees Report Q the Council on Rural much more radical idea. OF SOUTH DAKOTA Health and the Council on Health Manpower Secondly, in the Congress I heard every IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sort of suggestion for tackling these problems, recommend support for legislation such as Tuesday, July 18, 1972 the Tower bill. and many of them would cause you all sorts Many of you have spent years working in of mental anguish at best. Mr. ABOUREZK. Mr. Speaker, in the your state medical societies, on AMA coun Finally, if you think Senator McGovern's days and weeks ahead, Congress will be cils and committees, working with rural com plans to put nearly half the country on wel considering disaster relief legislation munities and medical schools in trying to fare are extreme, can you imagine what he find physicians for shortage areas. Many would propose in order to solve the problem proposed. by the administration and by worthwhile programs have been tried. The you a.re discussing today? others because of the recent tragedies National Health Service Corps is the newest Many of you know me and know that I am in my hometown of Rapid City, S. Dak.~ of a long line of ideas. I applaud the state part of the "medical establishment", or at and on the east coast. ment of the Council on Health Manpower least so my opponents have charged with Those bills contemplate lowering the and the Council on Rural Health found in monotonous regularity. My association with interest rates on disaster loans, which I · Report Q that "There is no one, simplistic CMA goes back more than 20 years. My doctor support. solution applicable to all medically deprived friends are too numerous to count. I know Some of them further contemplat.e ex rural cases; rather, each area will need to that you are individually and collectively develop its own plan, incorporating those interested in your patients singularly and as panding forgiveness features of disaster approaches most appropriate to their partic a whole, that medical schools are expaiiding loans. ular needs." and enrollment increasing, that there are all The President's proposals, for instance, As a Member of the Congress, I wish we kinds of experiments and active programs to would increase the forgiveness feature could find the financial answer. I don't think solve shortage and distribution problems. I from $2,500 to $5,000. we have it yet, in the present laws or in the know all these things but the truth is that This is certainly generous, but painful Tower blll, although I certainly would sup the problems exist and the people are be experience has taught me that it simply port the Tower bill and hope that it would coming impatient. I did not come across the is not enough. What is needed, and what take care of the need in some places. In my country to give you some pap about how good own Congressional district-Ban Bernadino things are in Washington. You have some will do the job, and what will spell real County in Southern California-I have great real problems and there are many of us who hope for thousands of innocent families contrasts. I have the city of San Bernadino want to work with you in solving these prob so brutally victimized, is something more with over 100,000 population. lems. This meeting today is evidence of your on the order of a 90 percent forgiveness. I also have vast expanses of the Mojave concern. And anyone who kn·ows AMA and its Every day my mail provides new proof Desert broken occasionally by towns and activities and the activities of the state of the need for 90 percent forgiveness. cities such as Needles, with some 4,000 in medical societies knows that medicine is It is not some wild giveaway. It is not habitants, and many which are much more responsive today than it has probably smaller. So I know what we are talking about ever been. high-risk venture investment. No, very when we talk about areas of physician short My message to you is only this: simply, it means putting people back on age. Bernardino County has a population As a friend, I want to tell you you had their feet after their homes and busi of nearly three quarters of a million. We better be responsive and we in" government nesses had been wiped out through no have over 1,000 physicians in the county but had better be responsive because there is a fault of their own. fewer than 200 in general practice and few wave of dissatisfaction which includes The people who need this forgiveness of those in the desert towns. medical care. It is probably caused mostly are not loafers. They are the backbone But there are a half dozen towns and small by higher costs but it is certainly caused in and fiber of a community. They are not )ities in my district which have physicians part by lack of access because of poor dis asking for a handout so they do not have who have left lucrative practices in Los An tribution and shortages. Because we have geles or New York City. These are mostly been too slow in providing the opportunities, to work. men in their sixties who are tired of the pace expanding medical schools and starting new They are asking for help so that they of metropolitan medicine and who are per ones, hundreds of California pre-med stu can work, so they can get their payrolls forming a real service to the people in these dents have created anot~er medical school back in operation, so that they .can get towns and cit.ies. I shudder to think wheTe we called Guadalajara. As some of you know, their businesses rolling, their homes re would be w'.thout these men. Maybe AMA the Guadalajara graduates are coming to built. should forget the financial incentives and this state and taking their exam because the At first blush, granted, 90 percent justtry to get more over-sixty physicians and state legislatures passed a law that said they sounds high. But I intend to prove to the maybe some over-fifty physicians to get off can. They will be practicing with you in a Congress that it is only fair and reason the rat race in the big cities and move to the few years. able in the wake of o. disaster. shortage areas. I think the all-too-high coro This situation illustrates my point. The My mail makes the case far more per nary rate for physicians might drop if more people were fed up. They did not care why suasively than I ever could, and so I of you considered it. To paraphrase the T.V. there were not enough spaces in medical insert into the RECORD at this point, a commercial "Try it, you may like it." Now, schools and they took action which many letter from my good friend, Dean Nau- CXVIII--1531-Part 19 24298 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 18, 1972 man. Dean runs a printing company and I close, on the "abstract" sense of it with tion for years. Invested wea.lth is increas an advertising firm in Rapid City. which I opened. What is the use of the fed ingly common in the middle classes, both His letter: eral grants, loans, etc. if they are not for individually and thru profit sharing or pen JULY 3, 1972. the business that provides thP. tax revenue sion plans. for the community, state and nation, such But this isn't what Mr. McGovern has in Mr. JAMES ABouREZK, a.s ours did? We generated income taxes on Congress of the United States, House of Rep mind. The proposals that Mr. McGovern has $130,000 payroll. At the same time, grants espoused would tax everyone above the level resentatives, Washington, D.C. are made to such things as Story Book Is of about $12,000 to support the poor. This DEAR CONGRESSMAN JIM: This June 9 flood land, a kiddie park where no admission is wiped me out business-wise, a.s it did oth would not spread the ownership of industry; paid; no tax of any kind is collected! it would confine it. The middle class would ers. Everyone thinks his story is different Ideas? and, of course, it is. Mine, however, puz have less money to invest. There would be Cordially, less money for the expansion of industry and zles me in the abstract sense. DEAN S. NAUMAN. for new jobs. And in the end, who would own I had made the last payment on western South Dakota's volume print plant in April American industry-and would it still be of this year. The business employed an aver private? age of 20 people. Now they are out of jobs; To confuse "invested wealth" with "privi most wm probably leave the state, even McGOVERN'S BEDSIDE MANNER lege" and to spread this confusion as if it were gospel is a dangerous mistake which we tually. trust most Americans will recognize even if Why am I out? Can't a loan help me? The answer is no. The problem is complicated HON. ROBERT H. MICHEL Mr. McGovern and his staff seem not to. but, in a sense, simple. OF ILLINOIS I paid $200,000. It grosses about $400,000 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and the past few years has netted a. meager $20,000 to $30,000. Tuesday, July 18, 1972 THE 22D BIENNIAL CONVENTION OF In setting up all values for an SBA loan Mr. MICHEL. Mr. Speaker, an edi THE JAPANESE-AMERICAN CITI application, I found that because we are in ZENS LEAGUE full-color printing and my two-color press torial from the July 15, 1972, edition of was flooded so badly that the machine shop in the Chicago Tribune entitled "Mc Denver would not guarantee its running GovERN's Betside Manner" relates to the HON. HAMILTON FISH, JR. (even after $12,000 worth of cleaning), along acceptance speech of the Democratic OF NEW YORK with the $42,000 note I owe on it, I would presidential candidate and also discusses have a near-worthless machine that would the concept of invested wealth which IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES stm cost me $54,000 just to get it back in the Mr. McGOVERN spoke of so disapprov Thursday, June 29, 1972 shop. ingly. This expense, along with other new pieces Mr. FISH. Mr. Speaker, I wish to join to get me back in operation and something The editorial helps to keep the record my colleague, Mr. MATSUNAGA of Hawaii, for all our people to do, would be $475,000. clear as to just what the candidate in paying tribute today to Americans of Why $475,000? This is the tough part. This stands for and I hope that we will see a Japanese ancestry on this the 22d bien is the part that collapsed our company and good deal more of this type of reparting nial convention of the Japanese-Amer caused me to lose my life's savings tl)at I had from all phases of the media during the ican Citizens League. put into this business. upcoming campaign so that the voters in My colleague from Hawaii and my The building I was in was damaged to the November will not be confused as to just extent that the landlord, also, has to get an other colleagues have already clearly SBA loan; but he cannot risk going ahead what the Democratic candidate does and and in detail spelled out the massive because the Corps of Engineers is making a does not advocate. contributions to our society which have flood plain study and does not permit the I insert the text of the editorial in the been made by the dedicated citizens of City of Rapid City to grant written building RECORD at this point: Japanese origin. It has also been elo permits. In a sense, this building is being McGOVERN'S BEDSIDE MANNER quently stated the part the JACL has held in limbo for consideration of condem Sen. McGovern's acceptance speech, like made in being a positive force in our nation because it is just over one-half block his platform, is the work of a man who does from Rapid Creek. society. not want to be thought of as a radlca.l, at For that reason, Mr. Speaker, today I In the meantime, I cannot operate and my least not for the next few months. It is a.n talented people are leaving me, without any olive branch extended to the many Demo wish to confine my remarks not to the thing of value to do. crats who were flattened by his steamroller general picture of the contributions, the Sure, I no doubt could get an SBA loan in the days leading up to his nomination loyalty, the ability or the law abiding immediately, but I have to build a special labor, the South, the old guard, and others- qualities of our fellow citizens of Jap purpose building and that, my architect tells and it is intended to persuade them to "come anese origin, qualities so clearly demon me, wm take four to six months. Why a home" to the party. strated by my able colleague from special purpose building? The building I was We can't yet tell how effective this bedside in barely met the standards of special pur Hawaii, rather, I will speak about ex manner is going to be. A certain amount of periences I have had with an American pose, which is, in the main, a building that disturbing notions still show thru. "We be can hold pressure of air constant for humidity lieve Mr. McGovern ls an honest man," the of Japanese origin of whom I have per control. We have to have humidity control to London Daily Mall observed with dry humor. sonal knowledge and understanding. print four-color process, high registration. "He really does want to soak the rich to As many of my colleagues are aware, So, if I could survive these six months, by subsidize the poor." The London Times sees my personal secretary is an American farming-out, taking a very small profit and the Democratic Party becoming a party of citizen of Japanese origin. Her name is causing new overhead and new borrowing, I the have-nots, "something approaching a stm could not make it on 3 % money if the Ayako Honda Ely. Her life, as she has social-democratic party on European lines." lived it, has mirrored both the hardships bill does pass. In Europe, "social-democratic" means socia.1- The new building will cost me $150,000, ism. and successes experienced by so many of at least. The equipment, replacement, and Consider, for a moment, the "invested her fellow Japanese Americans. clean-up will cost $325,000, at lea.st. This is wealth" which Mr. McGovern spoke of as if For as a young teenage girl, an Amer $475,000. The annual principal and interest it were a villain that should be punished. ican citizen by birth, living in Santa payment wlll start out at (on 3%) $29,800. This is tempting populist rhetoric that is Barbara, Calif., with the outbreak of The business will not warrant that kind of hard to answer without seeming to defend World War II, she, like others of her race pay back and leave anything for the inves privilege and "special interests." tor, myself. I am not assured I would get a then living on our west coast, was re But there is a synonym for invested moved from her home and, for no reason disaster loan for a building. wealth and it is private enterprise. Invesited Therefore, a man with my kind of prob wealth is the ownership of industry by the except that she was of Japanese origin, lem, in the abstract sense, cannot achieve private sector rather than by government. It placed in an internment camp. There, in economic recovery from this terrible flood has nothing to do wl.ith "special interests" or the desert, her family spent 4 long years. of June 9, even with a 3% loan. Even a 1 % privilege, unless private enterprise as a whole And there, like her fellow prisoners loan will not solve my problem. What a firm like mine needs is outright is one big special interest. In short, it is who through their ability for hard work condemnation of the building and contents, capitalism as distinguished from state social and self-discipline, made deserts bloom, with grant for recovery for both parties. I'm ism, and Mr. McGovern's logic is reminiscent she entered into the life of the camp and assuming, however, that this is impossible. I of the "revolt against capiltalism" which he seemed to be advocating 20 years ago. participated in and helped create a viable have exhausted all resources. I've talked to community within the camp. Denver 1965 flood victims with print shops, Of course it is healthy for as many people printing suppliers and finance people, as as possilbe to share in the ownership of in Also, like her fellow internees--and well. dustry, and the trend has been in this direc- like her father and mother and sister and July 18, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24299 brother-after the war she went on to fault--he is to blamP.. But think about it . . America. Growing, thriving, excellent in is he really? power. It is our wonderful country-we love rebuild her life and to participate fully The people who hre behind such action are it and respect it and try to demolish that in the activities of the community, the usually the people against the majority. They which is wrong. And for America to be better, American community, throughout her are the ones who think they are pathetically we must make It so and try harder, with life. Like them, she was and remained outnumbered and altogether ignored. Their good intentions always in mind. an outstanding citizen of which any attack to change the majority's minds ls just Our country prospers on our justice, de nation and any people could be justly that-an attack. It's more a battlefield of mocracy and peace-let's keep it that way. proud. demonstrations, arguments and guns-any And fight, America, for the things that thing but peaceful talking. The reaction ls make us better. For 3 years, Mrs. Ely was private sec usually negative, his temper slowly gives way. retary to the Commissioner of Indian As his dislike for the candidate grows, the Affairs, Dillon S. Myer. She has been crowd against his view does too. Suddenly he with me for 5 years as my private secre is extremely confused and develops a great BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION tary. In that time she has demonstrated sensation of defeat, feeling no one will give him a chance. And finally, in an explosion of TRADES DEPARTMENT COM on a day-to-day basis the qualities of MENTS ON OCCUPATIONAL SAFE hard work, dedication and ability for frustration and anger, he turns to the gun to win his way. TY AND HEALTH which any individual or any group can be That is the problem in most cases, and it is justly proud. no easy task to solve by any means, but time Mr. Speaker, just as my office and my and patience are important factors. It lies HON. WILLIAM A. STEIGER life would be poorer without the contri within the people and can be solved by the OF WISCONSIN butions made by Ayako Honda Ely, so people. To start, we should educate the pub IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES our Nation would be poorer without the lic of three important fundamentals to help great contributions made by our fel stop further situations, like the one I men Tuesday, July 18, 1972 tioned, from arising. Mr. STEIGER of Wisconsin. Mr. low American citizens of Japanese origin. 1. Attempt to show the minority the jus It is for these reasons that I feel par tice of majority rule. Teach them that ma Speaker, the Labor-HEW appropriations ticularly honored today to have the jority rule is a powerful and right procedure, bill adopted by both the House and the privilege of joining with my honored and that they should listen to learn the facts Senate includes an amendment prohibit colleague from Hawaii in paying tribute on this side of the argument. ing for 1 year the enforcement of OSHA to all Americans of Japanese descent. 2. Try to teach the minority to present and standards on small businesses. express their views in such a way to make It is my best judgment that this is not them a majority. the correct approach. Safety and health 3. Candidates and other persons should try to make clear to the minority that they are hazards are not simply a factor of the GOVERNMENT BY BALLOTS-NOT listening to their ideas and outlooks of the size of a business or the number of em BULLETS election or whatever. This is so the minority ployees. My recent statement to the feels they are getting a hearing and, most House Small Business Subcommittee of all, what they say is being taken into con hearings pointed out that a small saw HON. ELLA T. GRASSO sideration. mill or chemical company can be every OF CONNECTICUT If these three things were seriously at bit as dangerous as a large one. tempted, an election would probably run IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES more smoothly, efficiently and with a notable I have received the following excellent Tuesday, July 18, 1972 decline in the risk. Most people of the mi letter from Mr. Frank Bonadio, president, nority would be satisfied with just one fact- Building and Construction Trades De Mrs. GRASSO. Mr. Speaker, during the that they are getting a. hearing and that partment of the AFL-CIO, and I would past decade our Nation has been shocked their ideas will be considered. like to share it with my colleagues: by a rash of violent, senseless attacks on Even so, if this were done, there would still BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION the lives of public figures. At this time, it be a. good 50 % chance that someone would TRADES DEPARTMENT, is especially important that our young want to kill a. candidate for other unknown Washington, D.C., July 11, 1972. people have faith and hope in America's reasons. Maybe someone slightly mentally Hon. WILLIAM A. STEIGER, future. sick like Oswald, Sirhan and Arthur H. U.S. House of Representatives, The Kent Good Times Dispatch has Bremer (who just recently tried to put can Washington, D.C. given young people the opportunity didate George Wallace's name to the list of DEAR MB. STEIGkR: The Building and Con to assassinations), all three-unsuccessful, un struction Trades Department, AFL-CIO voice publicly their beliefs and hopes happy and lonely, with faintly distorted through Its 17 affiliated National and Inter for a better America through their Free ideas a.bout life. national Unions representing approximately dom Award Essay Contest. I applaud the To lower this risk, the candidate would 3.5 million workers strongly urges your recon GTD and commend this year's contest have to drastically reduce his contact with sideration of an amendment passed by the winner, Elizabeth McCall. large crowds and be under complete protec House and Senate to H.R. 15417. The House For the interest of my colleagues, a tion at all times. amendment reads as follows: copy of Elizabeth McCall's fine essay, Basically, most reasonable people would "None of the funds appropriated by this agree that ballots are superior to bullets. But Act shall be expended to pay the salaries of "Government by Ballots-Not Bullets," there always may be one person, out of any any employees of the Federal Government which appeared in a recent issue of the crowd, who feels differently; who just has to who inspect firms employing twenty-five per GTD follows: make his argument known in the most vio sons or less for compliance with the Occupa GOVERNMENT BY BALLOTS-NOT BULLETS lent way of a.11. He feels that anything he tional Safety and Health Act of 1970." (By Elizabeth McCall) says or does will be smashed to pieces or, In the Senate the amendment was changed worse yet, utterl:9 Ignored. Finally he reaches to fifteen persons or less instead of twenty November 22, 1963: Our president, John F. his climax, and ultimately he has just to be five which is in substance practically the Kennedy was fatally shot in Dallas, Texas. given the chance to press the trigger. same. Accused: Lee Harvey Oswald. I feel the most essential thing to remem This amendment would exempt 80 to 90 per April 4, 1968: Reverend Dr. Martin Luther ber is to make perfectly clear to the minor cent of the five million employers and ap King was fatally shot in Memphis, Tennessee. ity-under any circumstances-that they are proximately 25 to 30 per cent of the fifty-five A~cused: James Earl Ray. being heard and their aspects on the situa million employees presently covered by the June 5, 1968: Senator Robert F. Kennedy tion are being regarded with seriousness; not Federal Construction Safety and Health Act fatally shot in Los Angeles. Accused: Sirhan sarcasm. We may never completely conquer of 1969 and the Occupational Safety and Sirhan. this problem, but we certainly must try to Health Act of 1970. It would affect practi In less than a decade, three important gov reduce some of the conditions that lead up cally every construction site throughout the ernment officials have been shot and killed. to that peak of injustice. country. Obviously, there has been notably more Construction is a very hazardous occupa Is this the American way? Does shooting, American spokesmen felled by bullets than killing, assassinating a candidate "solve" the three I've mentioned. And quite a few in tion in terms of both the frequency of acci everything? No. It shouldn't be like this. The the past decade. More assassinations have dents and their severity. The Department o:t people have got to realize that we have to gone to us than any other industrial nation Labor Statistics show very high rates for con take action against this unjust, unAmerlcan, of our time. This rapidly increasing crime struction ranging from 20. 7 per million man uncivilized way immediately. Most of us makes us wonder-has an age of assassina hours worked for electrical work to 24 for would say, why ... why must we? It's not my tions begun? And we try to convince our heavy construction to 20.8 for general build fault ... I didn't do it. It's the assassin's selves: no. Yet ... ing to 43.9 for roofing and sheet metal work. 24300 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 18, 1972 This compares to the all-industry rate of veto of H.R. 13918, the 2-year authoriza casters, which includes in Us membership 6.91. In fact, statistics will also show that the tion bill for the corporation for Public most local public TV and radio stations, overwhelming number of accidents in the Broadcasting. This veto took many of us stated the following position: construction industry occur among small who were involved in the hearings and The Corporation is now in full operation subcontractors. House activity on this measure by com with lower funding than originally intended, The construction industry is unique and plete surprise; the bill was a broadly bi but its potential value is being daily demon lnvolves many factors which a.re not pre partisan measure which had the support strated and it must be provided adequate \7a.lent in other industries. Building trades funds over a period of time to enable it to men are in large part generally employed by of a wide variety of interested groups. function effectively while plans are being subcontractors who specialize in a particular Our surprise was intensified by the far developed for its genuine permanent craft. Although there may be 50 to 100 build reaching and serious consequences the financing. ing tradesmen employed on a construction veto is having: site at one time, there could also be 10 or Extensive cutbacks in children's pro And as if anticipating the President's more subcontractors engaged in work on the graming, including elimination of sev argument, he quoted the report accom same construction project. In a. large number panying H.R. 13918, which said: of cases the small subcontractor would have eral specials, cancellation of a new series, only a few craftsmen working at any given and the removal of five segments of the The process by which television program time. These subcontractors would be ex popular "Zoom" show for 7- to 12-year ing for national distribution ls funded by empted under this amendment to the detre olds. CPB is as follows: Proposals for programs rnent of workers employed by other ,contrac Substantial reductions in public affairs and program series are developed by public tors working side-by-side on the construction programing, with elimination of several television stations and other program produc site who are required to enforce safety and tion centers in cooperation with the Public National Public Affairs Center for Tele Broadcasting Service (PBS), the public health standards on the same job. This situ vision specials and segments of "Black ation would ca.use a. serious problem and ex broadcasting television network. Four times pose every building tradesman on the con Journal," "The Advocates," and "Firing each year PBS conducts a poll of local sta struction site to serious disabling injuries or Line." tion managers concerning their evaluation of death. Considerable reduction in the amount programs carried by PBS. In addition, an The Associated General Contractors of of dramatic programing, including one annual poll is conducted of these managers America. are also opposed to this amendment. of Hollywood Television Theater's sched... with regard to their program needs for the This association represents more than 9,000 uled five programs. coming year. The Corporation received fund of the Nation's leading general construction ing proposals from these public broadcasting Tabling of 12 requests by new televi stations and program production centers. companies, of which 90 per cent are small sion stations to join the Public Broad contractors. In a statement presented June In 27, 1972 by Vernie C. Lindstrom Jr., Chair casting service. sum, he saw a "close and effective man of the National Safety Committee of the A halt in the planning and funding of relationship" between CPB and local sta AGC before the House Select Committee on new programing, including elimination tions and communities and stressed the Small Business he had this to say a.bout the of a new adult learning program designed urgent need of the local stations for pas amendment: for those who have not completed their sage of H.R. 13918. "At this time, Mr. Chairman, I would like high school education. Compare this statement of the local to state that AGC is opposed to the Findley Mr. Nixon cites "some serious ques stations themselves with the President's Appropriation Bill Amendment. This blll, as message. It is apparent that the continu you know, would exclude employers with less tions which must be resolved before any than 25 employees from OSHA. Most general long-range public broadcasting financing ing experience of the local broadcasters contractors have more than 25 employees and can be seriously devised" in explaining directly refutes the President's assertions. would naturally be enforcing safety as we his veto. As a result of his concern about the have for yea.rs, a.s I stated in the beginning. I might note initially that although the issues related to localism, Mr. Nixon ap We do see serious problems, though, with the President's sprawling Office of Telecom parently concluded that $65 million was subcontractor who has less than 25 employees munications Policy has repeatedly excessive until "the structure of public who would not be required under this amend promised to contribute to the debate on broadcasting has been more firmly estab ment to enforce safety on the same job where long-range financing for CPB, it has con lished." To solve the problem, he vetoed the general contractor would be required to a bill, without which the industry can doso." sistently failed to do so. Based on the position taken by the AGC Indeed, Broadcasting magazine re barely survive. Mr. Ziegler's statement against this amendment and the facts as ported recently that, after the passage of that $65 million is "massive" appropria stated herein, I firmly belle'1e that Congress H.R. 13918, OTP abandoned even its tion is simply ridiculous in the light of was misinformed and mislead in regard to facade of concern · with long-range the original Carnegie Commission recom the merits of this issue. I am sure they were financing. mendation of minimum $100 million an not a.ware of the serious affect this amend nually. ment would have on pra.ctlca.lly every con The chief irony of the President's statement, however, is that he adopts the The most significant injury to public struction site throughout the country. Fur television brought about by this veto is, thermore, I do not believe that it was the catch-phrase of localism as the principal intent of Congress to deny millions of con defense for his veto. This defense, how however, the loss of ability for advance struction workers, the most hazardous occu ever, is little more than a sham, an in planning. pation in the country, the right of a safe articulate and uninformed attempt to To develop creative programing- place to work. It is with this understanding that I strongly urge members of the House defend an irrational action. The Presi Says Douglass Cater in the current and the Senate to take appropriate action dent said: issue of the Columbia Journalism Re under whatever parliamentary procedure is By not placing adequate emphasis on loeal view- a.va.lla.ble to delete this amendment from the ism, H.R. 13918 threatens to erode substan bill before final passage. tially public broad.casting's impressive poten takes a. critical mass of money and talent I trust you will give this matter your im tial for promoting innovative and diverse and planning time. mediate attention. With best wishes, I am cultural and educational programing. He continues: Sincerely yours, FRANK BONADIO, In examining this statement, let us (P) ublic broadcasting in the U.S. is a. President. look at the actual facts involved. This long way from unleashing a great outpour veto, which professes to protect localism, ing of creativity. Most program schedules are actually destroys a measure one of whose planned and funded in a state of chaotic un principal accomplishments would have certainty. At the present rate of development, according to one critic, we will celebrate our THE PRESIDENT'S VETO OF been the enhancement of localism. The 200th anniversary as a nation by watching a. H.R. 13918 President's action has the effect of re BBC produced series on the American Rev ducing potential local station income by olution. $18 million-$12 million from the educa HON. ROBERT 0. TIERNAN tional broadcasters facilities program, I think that I have shown the argu OF RHODE ISLAND and $6 million in community service ments in the President's veto message to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES grants. Of course, the stations' share of be empty cloaks: Appearances which programing grants will also decline. deny the reality. The question then be Tuesday, July 18, 1972 During the appropriations hearings, comes: What are the appearances trying Mr. TIERNAN. Mr. Speaker, on June William G. Harley, president of the Na to hide? Douglass Cater suggests an 30, 1972, President Nixon announced his tional Association of Educational Broad- answer: 24301 July 18, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS RESOLUTION ra.tes, the appointment of personnel, and the Recent events have raised legitimate fears promrulgating of service goals. During these of a system capable of being manipulated by We, Cleveland Lithuanians and representa years, low budget priorities curtailed crit budgetary and appointive pressures from the tives of other nationality groups, whose ica.lly needed ca.pl.ital improvements and mod White House. homelands have been enslaved by the Soviet ernization, labor management relations re Union, gathered here in Public Square in mained unstable, and a myriad of Congress Mr. Nixon is correct when he speaks Cleveland, Ohio, this 1st day of June, 1972, to about a threat to localism in public sional directive only made the system more protest the severe suppression of human inefficient. broadcasting. But that threat comes from rights in Soviet enslaved Lithuania, have The 1970 Postal Reorganization Act prom the White House and not from H.R. adopted the following ised to cure most of the ills of the past. 13918. No better testimonial could be Whereas, the Soviet Union, acting in con The legislation permits the new Postal Serv made in favor of the Carnegie Commis spiracy with Hitler's regime, broke all existing ice to do what the old Post Office Department sion's suggestion for permanent finang treaties with the Republic of Lithuania and could not: borrow money to improve facili ing. on June 15, 1940 militarily occupied its ter ties and equipment, enter into employee ritory and two days later repeated the same management agreements, adjust postal rates criminal act against Latvia and Estonia; and and mail classification systems to help the Whereas, the tyrannical clique of the Soviet Service pay its own way, and free the systen1 CLEVELAND LITHUANIAN AMERI Union has not only refused to leave the from the pressures of politics. CAN COUNCIL CALLS FOR HUMAN Baltic States, but has and still is carrying on Despite an auspicious beginning, the Serv RIGHTS physical annihilation, religious and other ice quickly became the target of public criti forms of persecution, together with Russian cism as service deteriorated and postage colonialization and mass deportations of the rates increased. Meanwhile, postal workers HON. WILLIAM E. MINSHALL na;tlve population to Siberia and other places are restive for the most part, and the Service OF OHIO with the expressed intent to destroy their faces increasing competition from private national identities; and mail services which promise reliable and rela IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Whereas, such prevailing inhuman condi tively inexpensive delivery of third-class bulk Tuesday, July 18, 1972 tions caused Roman Kalanta, a young Lithu mail. anian to burn himself to death on May 14th The public image of the Postal Service re Mr. MINSHALL. Mr. Speaker, the Bal of this year in the city of Kaunas in protest mains low, perhaps at an all-time low. But tic nations are composed of proud people to Soviet denial of basic human rights in I believe the Service should be given several who have lived peacefully for centuries, Lithuania; and years without continual Congressional in and who have suffered throughout that Whereas, Kalanta's funeral precipitated a terference to achieve substantially its goal time from the "accident of geography" youth riot, which was brutally suppressed by of good postal service for every citizen at which made them vulnerable from the special Soviet troops, who acting in their bar reasonable cost. A quick assessment of the baric ways inflicted death and injury to many first year of the Service looks like this: west by invasion by the Teutonic knights and to this day continue to arrest people by and from the east by the Russians. It the thousands and in other ways terrorize SERVICE has taken tremendous spiritual and eth them. To understand the dilemma of the Postal nic strength and courage to survive this Now, therefore, be it resolved, that we con Service, one must understand that Congress demn these savage acts of the Soviets, who has decreed that the Service must begin to seemingly endless squeeze. It should be pay its own way. The Postal Service was left kept in mind, by the way, that neither use troops to squash the quest for freedom by the Lithuanian patriots and once again re with three alternatives to operate: (1) ini the Lithuanians, the Latvians, nor the mind all that these acts are a direct result of tiate massive rate increases, (2) reduce serv Estonians are ethnically related to the Soviet imperialistic policies that have illegal ice to the barest xninimum which present Germans or Russians. ly occupied Lithuania and the other Baltic rates would support, or {3) reduce service In this century the Baltic States have States; and be it goals to levels which less drastic rates would been the victims of Soviet captivity for Further resolved, that we demand the support. withdrawal of Soviets and the complete res The Service has chosen the third alter 32 years, since the Russian invasion in native--the only feasible one under the cir June 1940, that took them by force of toration of independence of Lithuania and ask the President of the United States to use cumstances. Rather than increase rates to arms. The Communist regime in these the position of his office to influence the offset deficits, the agency has attempted to countries.did not come to power by legal Soviet leaders to cease their barbaric acts and reduce costs by cutting back on mall pick or democratic process. to stop persecuting the people involved in ups and some deliveries. A 90-day ban on Since the very outset of the Soviet oc this ill-fated uprising and all other peoples hiring was initiated in March, and 3,000 cupation, the Balts have waged an in behind the Iron Curtain; and be it revenue-draining jobs at regional and head tensive fight for freedom. The price has Finally resolved, that copies of this resolu quarters levels have been eliminated. Complaints can be heard 1il any community been high. More than 30,000 Lithuanian tion be forwarded to the President of the United States, Members of U.S. Congress from that delivery is too slow, rates are too high, freedom fighters gave their lives in an or Ohio, other public officials and to the news packages are battered, and neighborhood ganized resistance movement between media. xnailboxes are disappearing. The Service has 1940 and 1952. More than 150,000 Balts revealed that it has received 3,000 Congres have disappeared in Siberian slave-labor sional inquiries in the last year concerning camps. mail deliveries. By its own statistics, it now LEE HAMILTON'S WASHINGTON RE takes an average of 1.72 days to deliver a Two events of recent months indicate PORT TO INDIANA'S NINTH CON Ro letter, compared with 1.5 days in the first the desperate plight of Lithuania's GRESSIONAL DISTRICT part of 1969. Poor service has prompted many man Catholics, who have been a primary companies to hire private mail services. Last target of the Communist government's year, for the first time, United Parcel Serv repression. In March 1972, a petition car HON. LEE H. HAMILTON ice moved ahead of the Postal Service in rying more than 17,000 signatures was OF INDIANA delivering parcels, showing a $30 xnilllon pro forwarded to Dr. Kurt Waldheim, Secre IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES fit. So far, at least, the reorganization has tary General of the United Nations, ask not had a strong impact on the quality of ing him to relay their protest to Leonid Tuesday, July 18, 1972 service. MODERNIZATION Brezhnev. Three earlier letters to the So Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. Speaker, I in 4 viet Secretary General had gone unan elude the complete text of my recen1 The Postal Service finds itself in the posi Washington report on the first anni4 tion of beginning a crash program to rec swered. And, even more recently, in May tify years of abuse while at the same time of this year, demonstrations against the versary of the U.S. Postal Service: keeping pace with a dally volume of mail Soviet occupation of Lithuania and Com WASHINGTON REPORT with a largely out-of-date delivery system. munist persecution of religion took place The U.S. Postal Service, created by the With authority to increase obligations for in the city of Kaunas and other cities. 1970 Postal Reorganization Act, completes capital improvements to $1.5 billion in any The tragic death of a young Roman its first full year of service on July 1, 1972. one year, the Service has made a beginning. Catholic, Romas Talanta, brought inter While a year is hardly sufficient to gauge the It has invested $40 million in l'emodeling success or failure of the new venture, it does and improving some 800 post offices across the national attention to the miseries be provide some indication of the Postal Serv4 country, and plans to spend $1.5 billion by setting captive Lithuania. ice's direction, and whether it will lead to 1975 to build new bulk mail centers. These On June 1 the Cleveland Chapter of success. expenditures, however, simply are inadequate the Lithuanian American Council adopt Unquestionably, the Service began under to correct years of neglect. ed a strong resolution of protest which extremely difficult circumstances, saddled One year ago, the U.S. Postal Service was merits the attention of every freedom with a history of 196 years of polLtics, which given the task of moving the country's grow loving Member of this House. in large part determined the setting of postal ing volume of mail quickly and inexpen- 24302 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 18, 1972 sively. The new agency. created by the Postal APPROPRIATIONS the Society's role in cri:,ating better and Reorganization Act of 1970, finds itself Despite the move towards self-sufficiency, better trained appraisers has grown a pace. saddled with many of the problems and most the Postal Service will need some help in Today while the nation may ponder the poor of the inefficiencies of its predecessor, the the immediate years ahead, a.s the Postal Re practices of some speculators, builders, old Post Office Department, however. organization Act expected. The Congress will brokers and appraisers, government and fee, The public, anticipating an immediately continue to provide subsidies of about $1.5 who have brought scandal to the Federal effective new mail service, is growing in billion annually. Without them, the Postal Housing Administration's programs, very creasingly critical of inadequate service, Service would be faced with ( 1) financial dis very few, if any, of the appraisers involved rates that are too high, and too many bat aster without massive rate increases, (2) re wlll be found to be professJ.ona.lly designated. tered and damaged parcels. Efforts to im bellion by the Congress and the public if members of the Society of Real Estate Ap prove the service and modernize the facili increases are initiated, or (3) intolerable praisers. This is due primarily to the exten ties were discussed in last week's Report. service cuts to avoid the increases. sive training of the Society's 6,000 designated This week's evaluation includes: The Congress now should watch and wait, members who have achieved their status as LABOR-MANAGEMENT RELATIONS criticizing when necessary, praising when professionals. As presently structured, the Probably the most vexing problem is the it's deserved, and allow time for the Postal Society of Real Estate Appraisers requires Postal service's labor-management relations. Service to achieve its goal of efficient, inex its members to hold college degrees, have The postal reform act launched what was pensive "l.lail service to all. years of experience in practical appraising, heralded as a. new era., with collective bar while passing courses on real property ap gaining to replace long Congressional ha praising, income property appraising, ap rangues over pay levels, fringe benefits and praisal report writing and technical subjects working conditions. No longer was the Postal dealing with the financial structure of SOCIETY OF REAL ESTATE markets a.nd properties under consideration. service to be shackled with rules which pre APPRAISERS vented sound management. So far, the new Additionally, members must pass inspection era. of collective bargaining has yet to sur of their piers as to character. face. It ls in this latter area where any Society HON. H. ALLEN SMITH member found to be crlminally guilty in a. Despite the fact that a. major wage settle OF CALIFORNIA ment was agreed to last year without com court of law, malfeasance or unethical con pulsory arbitration, the first year's labor IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES duct, will also be judged by his profession. This judgment is often severe. To protect management experience has not been favor Tuesday, July 18, 1972 able. Postal unions now insist they need the the public, members are expelled from the right to strike--a. right which was not grant Mr. SMITH of California. Mr. Speak Society where deemed necessary. ed by the legislation. A recent postal union er, Mr. William W. Abelmann, the new For this reason, it is important for the campaign to lobby the Congress for addition president of the Society of Real Estate public to realize the difference between the al health benefit&-which the unions were professionally designated real estate ap Appraisers and a constituent of mine, praiser and the non-professional society unsuccessful in obtaining in collective bar made the following remarks: gaining-points up the ineffectiveness of the member who feeds off the public, because present collective bargaining system. THE APPRAISER AND CRISIS of lack of knowledge. The professional Society (By William. W. Abelmann) member will hold the titles of "Senior Res RATES AND REVENUES idential Appraiser" or "senior Realty Ap Under the reorganization, neither the The worst floods in the history of the praiser" or "Senior Real Estate Analyst" af Treasury nor other classes of mail would United States and the recent national scan ter his name. In addition to designated mem be required to subsidize any other mall dals in government subsidized housing pro bers, some 11,000 Society associates are work caitegory. Postal reform required that pref grams, combine to highlight the role of the little noticed and often unsung professional, ing toward these titles. They are not allowed erential ra.te categories be eliminated. to claim membership in the Society, how Despite what appeared to be across-the of vital importance to the economy; the Real ever, so strict is its attitude toward profes boa.rd support for postal reform, including Estate Appraiser. In areas as widely separated as private in sionalism. As a result of that attitude, the the requirement tha.t each class of mall pay publlc and the government can rely on pro· its own way, there are growing pressures to surance and federally guaranteed insurance; tectlon from the storms and floods of eco revert to some of the preferential rate cate the appraiser functions to guarantee eco nomic mismanagement, if they insist upon nomic feasibility of both opera,tions. It is gories. To accede to those pressures could be the use of a professionally designated ap the beginning of a return to the old system. the Realty Appraiser who helps estimate praiser. Thus, while the current crisis over The Postal service, wary of the public's the cost of both the storm and the govern ment program. FHA subsidized houSing programs may seem reaction to a. rate increase, has moved to cut tragic to many, it will be helpful if it serves costs wherever possible. Further rate in To function in these vital economic areas, to point out to the nation its needs to avoid creases are inevitable, however. he must be trained and re-trained. Today's professionally designated appraiser ls just use of those appraisers, both government COMPETITION that. His evolution upon the economic sense and fee, who are either untrained or are Although the Postal Service has a monop goes back to the great depression and the self-designated experts in what today is oly on first-class mall, it does not in the birth of the Society of Real Estate Ap a demanding technical profession. second, third and fourth-class categories. praisers. Recent postal rate increases and increasing Following World War I, a decade of ex complaints about poor service have prompted cesses descended upon the United States. many firms to turn to private mail services. With a lack of controls "Iniracles of sudden STEEL WHEELS ON STEEL RAILS Some metropolitan utility companies are now wealth" became common-place, both in the delivering their monthly bills themselves, stock markets and the realty markets. Hous and many newspapers are relying more on ing demands soared to new heights. Income carrier service than on mail delivery. producing properties appeared magically, HON. ROBERT H. STEELE It is now projected that the percentage often where there was no market. A short OF CONNECTICUT increase in volume of growth of the U.S. term mortgage was coinmon; interest only IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES mail will be the lowest since 1930, and, in was paid during its life, the equity was due Tuesday, July 18, 1972 fa.ct, this may be the first year that the vol at the end. Down payments were small or ume of mall has not increased over the pre non-existent. Loans were often made for Mr. STEELE. Mr. Speaker, Mr. Carl 0. vious year. One reason for the lack of growth more than the property was worth. When Anderson, of Somers, Conn., has brought is postal rate increases, but another is poor panic struck, the nation's realty, as well as er service and more competition. the stock market, was in shambles. to my attention his treatise on Ameri can railroads, "Steel Wheels on Steel POLITICS During 1931-32 the nation's near econoinic collapse was destined to worsen as bank Rails." Mr. Anderson clearly outlines In the last year, 5,389 local postmasters ruptcy followed upon bankruptcy. In re were appointed by merit rather than .by many of the current problems of our sponse the government created the Federal transportation system and the role of the politics. The reform act removes postal ap Sayings and Loan Associations and the Home pointments from Members of Congress. The Owners Loan Corp. to bring about the rev railroad in the total transportation Postal Service, however, has carried this re olutionary concept of low interest, long term scheme. form too far when it forbids any contact mortgage. At the same time, rational ap I am today submitting a condensation with Congressmen by postal workers. In ad praisal of real property was demanded, a.t of "Steel Wheels on Steel Rails" for the dition, top-level appointments have come which point a group of concerned appraisers perusal of my colleagues: mostly from the business world, not the banded together to create a professional body ranks of postal executives, and other large to train and police this new cadre. Thus, STEEL WHEELS ON STEEL RAILS order contracts smack of "business politics." was created the Society of Real Estate Ap In 1830 the first passenger boarded a rail The Service should take the same ha.rd line praisers. road train for the purpose of being trans against industrial politics a.s it takes against In the years since, as a government's role ported to another city. Today, just 142 years the Congress. in helping our nation, help itself has grown: later, we can clearly foresee the day when the July 18, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24303 LAST intercity traveller is carried by a rail efficiency will be established within the over· to medium range travel, particularly for ini road I Railroad passenger service is gasping all pattern of our many transportation needs. tiation or concluding portions of an indi its last breath! Hopefully, we will do this before it is too vidual passenger's journey beyond the perim If this service dies, and at this point it ap late. eter of local transit systems. In crowded pears that it surely will, all America could One of mans most revolutionary creations, metropolitan areas, the automobile is ex well mourn the greatest loss it has ever the automobile, might, in the end, strangle tremely inferior in efficiency. This is especial known. There will, however, be little mourn mans civilization! The automobile, either as ly true of the single occupant, private, per ing. The passing will go unnoticed by all but a passenger carrier or a cargo mover, is-in sonal vehicle. It is, likewise, usually inferior the few who see beyond tomorrow. At a later specific areas of use-most superior to any where the journey time factor is essential time, a time which men of vision can now other form of transport. This area should be and need for multiple intermediate stops is clearly see, the passing will be sadly re defined and limited. Limited not by law or not present. For long distance "family leis gretted. For, then, without an exceedingly license, but by encouragement of its efficient ure" type travel the journey time factor is efficient means of transporting mass volumes use and discouragement of its abuse by civ often secondary to supposed economy. Re of people, our cities too may die! ilization. The recently realized science of sponding to this, our transport systems can Other modes of passenger travel have ecology has caused man to know that he adapt to economic considerations through passed into history without notice. The canal cannot, increasingly, befoul the very air we lower "family" or "off peak" fares, coupled boat; horse and carriage; river packet; stage rely upon for life, merely for the selfish whim with package plan car rentals at destination coach. Each has been replaced by faster, of "personal convenience". Nor, can he pave points. more comfortable, more efficient transporta the world. The dimensions of the highways (C) Railroad passenger service, in light of tion. and byways of our urban centers can contain today's demand for speed, and in competition If these methods of passenger transport are but a measurable limit of motor vehicles in with the journey time factor in air travel, is no longer used, for reasons indicated, it can transit. A breach of this limit must result, inferior in the long distance range. In this be assumed that our rail service is being dis almost immediately, in utter chaos. As frus range, a moderate demand-peaking in vaca placed for the same reasons. However, it has trations mount, we come to realize that mass tion periods--would exist for leisure "see been firmly established that the most effi volumes of people must be moved in, out, America" travel, and for those unwilling to cient transport ever devised by man is steel and between our cities by a form of trans travel by plane. Rail travel is overwhelmingly wheels on steel rails. portation exceedingly superior to the private superior to all other forms of transport Indeed, if this fact is absolute, only the ab motor vehicle in degree of efficiency. It is the (where fast, modern service exists) within sence of comfort and speed can account for wheeled conveyance on rails, for localized and between our large population centers, our pend.Ing loss. But, even in the more re service (as the rapid transit system) and for as either rapid transit or as high speed inter cent years of decline, superb levels of com interurban travel (as the high speed train) city service. fort have been provided in most of our rail that can provide the ultimate in efficiency. These are the general priorities. Regretably road passenger cars. But for the lack of To obtain the greatest measure of this ef they have been neither applied nor even maintenance and replacement--in the face ficiency however, we must improve the jour acknowledged in the constant drive to make of continually declining revenues-little in ney time factor. This, by the exploration and each form of transport all things to all people. the way of comfort could be questioned in research of totally new concepts. With co-ordinated planning, the priorities most of our nations rail facilities. Alone, one A triumphant accomplishment of man is can be mee.ningly applied. If they are not, reason remains for the demise of intercity the aeroplane. Capable, as it is, of traveling we may see our civilization moving backward! rail transportation ... Time! long distances at speeds foreign to the mind We cannot, immediately, implement any Our civilization of today is, seemingly of average man, this newest form of transport recognized order of priorities. We cannot, for above all things, conscious of time. In com has completely revamped man's pattern of one exists almost entirely in the realm of merce, in government, in everyday living, travel throughout the world. For all of its theory-a high speed, modern, intercity rail time is the major determinant of accom speed, technological glamour and presumed system. While we may readily accept the plishment. No measure of nostalgic yearning convenience, air travel is even now being superiority of such service in theory, little, for an earlier, easier pace alters this fact. We seen having definite limitations of efficiency, in fact, exists! In the years sin'ce 1935 rail are committed to the pressure of time, and most evident in the range of short to medium roads have failed to keep pace with the need all factors so controlled must relate or be dis distance travel. Regardless of a journey's for technological improvement and advance carded. Before we discard, heedlessly, an es length, each aircraft requires the same di ment of passenger service. They surrendered, sential factor, it must be searched and re mension of air space in flight and the same without consideration of consequence, to the searched for its potential of improvement facilities for both take-off and landing. The motor vehicle and aeroplane. As a result, and total capability. consequence can be noted in most of our these newer forms of transport now attempt, In our world of today, time equates to major metropolitan centers, where delays, quite inefficiently, to serve the very critical speed. In travel, speed (thus a minimum of due to sheer numbers of units in arrival and and complex short/ medium distance range. time) is the one dominant expectation. Fail departure, are becoming the rule rather than Compounding the problems which have re ure to provide speed in any mode of trans the exeception. This is particularly true at sulted from such inefficiency is the false portation will assure nearly total rejection an hour of peak demand traffic. These con demand for more and larger airports close by the public. In this view, rail passenger sequential delays may be accepted as a part by our cities, and for an increasing and ever service today has been, for the most part, of the journey time factor for a trip of more entangling network of new highways. rejected. The validity of this point may be several hundred (or thousands) of miles. While we continue on this course there will proven by merely observing the converse ef Equal delays applied to travel distance of but be no end to such demand, until our pattern fect where substantial improvement has been a few hundred or so miles become ridiculously of civilization is literally destroyed in final made in rail passenger service schedules, al disproportionate. Frequently, in such cases, beit within the limitations of old traditional the unhappy traveller seeks alternatives consequence. concepts. which all too often (in the absence of high It is readily apparent that the railroad We do not express concern here for rail speed rail facilities) becomes the automobile. companies, alone, cannot take blame for roads in basic form. They shall exist through The alternatives of choice are but of two failure to bring about the needed technical out the foreseeable future. Without railroads, negative factors. They must contribute either or functional improvements in rail passenger this nation and the world would be totally to the overburdening of metropolitan air service. Railroads are a major, and most im different from that which we know. Without ports or to the overloaded urban and inter portant, business of our nation, committed to railroads the United States would still be a city highway capacities. With either choice, the earnin'g of profits. Freight hauling-the small nation, hugging the ocean shores and frustration and chaos reign while empty "desirable" aspect of railroading--can earn a river banks. Vast areas of wilderness and paths of steel rails stand available, capable of profit while carrying a normal share of taxa open plains would separate our shores if, carrying the existing burden of traffic many tion. Passenger service, never a source of indeed, east and west were still united. No times over. attractive profit (and usually operated at a modern industry would exist. It is, in fact, Considering the foregoing evaluations, it loss) can be recognized as being in the realm quite probable that, without railroads, nei might be interpreted that the priorities of of public service, in:capable, alone, of bear ther the automobile nor the aeroplane would transportation efficiencies have been estab ing inequitable taxation and financial loss have evolved. Ironically, it is these newer lished. True, but only in that they are while providing funds for research and de and faster means of transport that are has identifiable, not detailed. In the overall pat velopment. Certainly precluded is :the in tening the end of railroad passenger services! tern of passenger transportation it is clear vestment of outright capital to the extent Only now are we becoming aware of the that: possible areas of detriment which may be (A) Air service is far superior in the that it is needed. This situation exists in' poor attributed to our newer, faster and more journey time factor over a long distance contrast with newer modes by the existence glamourous forms of our transportation. If range. It is increasingly inferior as the travel of highway and airport funds provided and we can successfully relate each mode of trans distance lessens, reaching a peak of ineffici maintained by taxes, plus government sup port to its primary level of efficiency in to ency in the short, city to city range where port of, and subsidies for, aircraft develop days world; if we can realize that no single the "in flight" segment is but a fraction of ment and operation. ·1'his fact, alone, could method of travel is superior to all others; the total journey time. be the reason for the "surrender" of our rail 1! we can learn that ea.ch has its own point (B) The automobile must be regarded as passenger service to the automobile and aero of maximum efficiency; the priorities of an superior in the suburban/ rural areas in short plane. 24304 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 18, 1972 Tax support of our passenger transport oped modes of travel. If each syst.em can re lead to a final strangulation of the cities and systems is not wrong. They can be seen as late, totally, with the others there can be of our total life style as well. public services, without question. The denial little doubt that most of todays urban prob The proposed planning and implementa of equal status an'd support to one of the lems of congestion will be substantially re tion is far beyond either the means ur ca many systems IS wrong! Other nations seem solved. pacities of private interests. Public func.s to have corrected these areas of imbalance. In creating a plan, we must not be reluc are essential to the ultimate accompli;;;hment So, too, must we. tant to borrow from, or give consideration to, of such purpose. The "total transportation Amtrak appears to be a potential, if only advancements in planning and achievements pattern" program would acknowledge all pub partial, remedy for existing shortcomings in of other nations. While it might be said that lic passenger transportation as a public serv our rail passenger situation. The intent of problems of transport in foreign countries do ice. It must, J.nd will, be done. But Amtrak is commendable. It is seen as pro not by any comparison of standards, parallel When? viding much needed research & development, those of the U.S., basic concepts and accom Consider the alteratives, and decide ... as well as improving and revising existing plishments-anywhere-should be a source Now! service. It remains to be seen whether the of valued data, contributable to our specific intent will produce the necessary result or requiremenrts. not. The very fact of differences in our trans FOUR FACES OF FREEDOM Two factors, as established, would assure port problems is a persuasive reason for new superiority of rail service in intercity pas conceptual planning without further delay. senger movement within the short/ medium Although we have fallen behind in correct HON. CLARENCE D. LONG distance ran·ge. To one, the known efficiency ing transport deficiencies, we may now devise of rail transport, we must add the other ... an even better 'total transportation pattern' OF MARYLAND Speed! Speed on an overall 'initial departure' wherein we fully integrate the many modes of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to 'final destination' measurement. In other travel according to m.aximum efficiencies. Tuesday, July 18, 1972 words, speed on either a high average basis, Within the area of rail transportation, re or on a high sustained level throughout the search of new concepts must be far reach Mr. LONG of Maryland. Mr. Speaker, duration of a journey. The developed ability ing, Our planning must reach into a new Dr. Martin M. Weitz, director of the Cen to provide and hold this standard would, once century. New modes of travel must be tailored ter for Interfaith Studies at Lincoln Uni again, put full emphasis on the efficiency of to new modes of living. We, with our mobile and shifting status, must realign many facets versity, and Rabbi of Adas Sholom Tem steel wheels on steel rails. in Acceptance of the new Metrollner service of our transportation pattern. With this ple Havre de Grace, Md., has written between New York and Washington has been realignment will come dramatic changes in an article about America's four faces of most gratifying. While this service is based on our life style. freedom carved in Mount Rushmore. I the standard concepts of railroading--oper Our cities .may evolve, almost exclusively, should like to share his article with my ating at less than potential speed-it is proof a.s centers of commerce and government; sci colleagues : of public acceptance of improved rail service ence and services; art and culture; education FOUR FACES OF FREEDOM and improved speed. It is interesting to note and entertainment; warehousing and dis that the identical New York-Washington trip tribution, with but a small percentage of In the Black Hills of South Dakota is one was made in 1927, with heavyweight, steam people living within the core city. A residen of the world's largest works of sculpture. It powered equipment, in just seven minutes tial "suburb" may extend for fifty to a hun was carved by Idaho-born American sculp more than todays scheduled time! dred miles in every direction from the city tor, Gutson Borglum. It took 14 years for the It would appear that only in the United center. Commuters, up to 80 % or 90% of master craftsman aided by many hundreds States is rail passenger service in danger of the work force, may travel this distance in of faithful artists and co-workers, to carve an imminent demise. Progressive conceptual less time than is now spent in commuting with monumental proportions on Mount advancement of railway service is taking ten or twenty miles! Modern rapid transit Rushmore, the faces of four great Americans: place throughout the world. systems would interchange with high sp~ed Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore In America we have the ability, capacity intercity lines. The high speed systems Roosevelt. and means to advance intercity rail trans would, in turn, interconnect our metro This work of art in reality is the "Grand portation to undreamed of levels. Consider politan centers within the corridors of con American," the composite Statesmen of the our accomplishments in the area of computer centrated population. These systems would Spirit for a century and a half of our life. science. They remain unmatched anywhere intersect giant transcontinental/ internation The work is as enormous in proportion as it in the world. With this science we have done al regional air terminals located in open is bold in execution. Four hundred thousand the impossible, we have enabled men to jour areas forbidden to residential use. This type tons of granite were removed by dynamite, ney to the moon. And yet, we are unable to of terminal would serve all long distance compressed air, steam shovel and other meth move a traveller between two cities, a hun transport needs of several cities, while free ods so that it all could shine on a landscape dred miles apart, at speeds better than those ing the individual cities from increasing of national imagination and in the midst of of forty years ago. Certainly not at speeds spread, noise and peril of huge, close-by air a core of mountainous granite in mid-Amer that are in keeping with the demands and ports. Journey time to and from these maj~r ica as Four Faces of Freedom. technology of today...... Why? terminals would actually be less than that Geologists tell us that these Faces will Must we regret, once more, that other na presently required for city/airport travel. In endure for three million years. Onlookers in tions have taken the lead in advancement of termediate range air travel, interline con form us that the artists seemed as ants, as public transportation and the preservation they swung on scaffolds for their sacred script nections, and private aircraft would continue in stone. of an orderly functioning of civilization? t;o be served by present airports. An integra This, while the United States is turning out tion with rapid transit/high speed systems These Faces are the equivalent of five-story many more millions of motor vehicles structures and a tall man may stand comfort would provide fast and frequent service be ably in the open eye of a Lincoln, while the and paving thousands of additional miles· tween these airports and city centers or nose of Washington is greater than the en of highways to •take us ...... Where? suburban interchanges. F'urther expansioD Of our problems in establishing a viable tire head of the Sphinx . . . The dome of the of present airports would be unnecessary. Capitol in the City of Washington would fit intercity passenger service in the United Private automobiles may be all but ex States, a prominent British railway expert re the head of George Washington here like a cluded from future city centers) They would crown. cently stated, "-such problems-are second function best beyond the reach of rapid ary (in the U.S.) to political considerations". These Four Faces of Freedom are an epic transit/ high speed intercity lines as initial carved in stone-an epic of Independence and Our need for meaningful solutions to all of or final stage transport between individual our problems of transportation is so essen Interdependence writ large. homes and public transportation inter George Washington stands above the rest tial, so pressing, so urgent that we cannot, changes. They would serve, as now, family for one minute, regard them as "secondary". as the "Founding Father" of a nation, in convenience in shopping or leisure travel. Independence. In him, mood for liberty and We must pursue and adopt effective solutions Eleatric/ pneumatic shuttles (people movers), with forceful and vigorous effort, devoid of quest for amity saw fruition. Magnetic quali buses and taxis would complete the metro ties of personal leadership, typical American self-serving political considerations. politan transit web. No crushing influx or While our primary concern, here, is with piety, skill as a Commander-in-Chief, per exodus of motor vehicles would press in and sonal integrity, dedication of spirit as a life the present and future status of our rail out ?f our cities on small pace "expressways", passenger systems, we must not confide this line for the Thirteen Colonies so that they foulmg our urban atmosphere with noxious could stand fl.rm in war and united in peace concern to the single basic subject. If we fumes. Travellers would move swiftly, a.11 a.re here captured for endless generations. do, we do a. great disservice to the many prob smoothly, through the transportation pat lems of our present passenger transport pat He bespeaks "the right to safety and security tern in its entirety. We must recognize and tern from trip initiation to conclusion. of person," as a practical statesman of the expedite the identified priorities. We must This vision cannot be far from accurate. spirit. "First in war, first in peace, first in the explore and develop new concepts of rail Continued rape of our urban ecology and hearts of his countrymen," he continues be travel which will complement rather than space through failure to provide efficient cause he believed in fellowman broadly as he compete with other existing and newly devel- city/intercity transport systems can only worshipped God profoundly.... July 18, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24305 Thomas Jefferson authored the "Declara Some railroads have tried to help them succeeds and the North takes over the South tion of Independence." That would have been selves by enlarging their base to include non what will the bloodbath be? Four years ago history enough. He is a titan in American transportation businesses. I estimated that it would be several hundred destiny, as a foe of tyranny in any form. These days, therefore, one railroad is quite thousands. His greatest gift, even on his own epitaph, different from another, and there are many "I now wish to amend that figure to well was the authorship of a Statute for Virginia, aspects to consider when you use the word over one million (out of 18 million people)." on religious freedom. He served as architect "secure." It appears that the industry as a of his own Monticello, builder of a new whole is secure, but stocks of various rail Washington, originator of the Louisiana Pur roads will perform quite differently in com chase and spokesman for the frontier, physi ing years. LAKEVILLE, MASS., UNITED CHURCH cally and spiritually. His hearth at Monticello Both of the stocks you own a.re down about OF CHRIST REDEDICATED was a "more stately mansion" for the future 12 percent from their highs of the year but of man. He breathed life into "the right to yield a.round 6 percent, so if this income is citizenship, its privileges and responsibili sufficient, you may be in a position to wait HON. MARGARET M. HECKLER ties." for a recovery in share prices. But if these Abraham Lincoln . . . merciful mystic of railroad stocks constitute all or the ma.1or OF MASSACHUSE'ITS union and foremost American of all time. part of your securities portfolio, you might IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES He, more than any other, preserved the consider finding a mutual fund that yields Tuesday, July 18, 1972 Union when threatened with dissolution. a similar dividend but is not so heavily de· His depth of wisdom and breadth of under pendent on one industry. Mrs. HECKLER of Massachusetts. Mr. standing, gave new life to freedom. Personal Speaker, tribute is due to the members intuition, blended with frontiersman's vision, of the Lakeville United Church of Christ gave to America and to the world a portrait in Lakeville, Mass., for their unusual of greatness: humble, sad, merciful and LET'S LOOK AT BOTH SIDES meaningful beyond his time. In emancipation achievement. of slaves and preservation of the Union, he The congregations of Precinct Church was synonymous with "the right to freedom HON. EDWARD ·J. DERWINSKI and Grove Chapel, having merged as the and gift of conscience." LUCC in 1966, they decided in 1970 to Theodore Roosevelt, practical idealist who OF Il.LINOIS niove their church building and restore ignited the imagination of his generation, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES it. was reformer in politics, "trustbuster" in Tuesday, July 18, 1972 The move and restoration have just. economics, conserver for the public domain, been completed and the restored 137-old cowboy of the West, explorer in Africa, ro Mr. DERWINSKI. Mr. Speaker, the building was rededicated in an ecumen bust American everywhere. As Mount Rush continued Communist military aggres ical service recently. more depicts him in stone, so the Panama sion in Vietnam and the consequences of Canal is his "landmark"-and life-line on the The restoration work was done by seas.... U.S. military support of South Vietnam church members. For this and for their Four Faces of Freedom !s the skyline of are subject to accelerated debate due to spirit of concern, they deserve not only the spirit in America, a setting of Independ the U.S. political campaign. congratulations but also a great deal of ence and Interdependence in mid-Amer My attention has been directed to an credit. ica . . . and for the world. editorial in the New World, a publication I include the story of the rededication Though carved in stone they sing in of the Catholic archdiocese of Chicago, rhyme . . . our saga of Freedom . . . in de in an article in the Taunton Daily Ga of July 14. The editorial very properly di zette: pendence on God, independence for man and, rects attention to aspects of the Vietnam interdependence among men ... UNITED CHURCH DEDICATED ANEW AFTER conflict that are not often enough RESTORATION brought to the attention of the Amer (By Sandra Buttermore) ican public. LAKEVILLE.-Members and friends of the RAIL TAKEOVER BY THE The editorial follows: Lakeville United Church of Christ (LUCC) UNITED STATES? LET'S LoOK AT BOTH SIDES gathered Sunday afternoon at the church, In certain suburbs of Saigon are villages- located at the corner of Precinct and Bed homes and churches and shops~f thou fords Sts., to celebrate the rededication of HON. WILLIAM L. HUNGATE sands of North Vietnamese who fled to the the newly restored church and its members. The congregations of Precinct Church and OF MISSOURI South when communism took over control of North Vietnam. Grove Chapel, merged e.nd incorporated on IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES This is the other side of coin to the June 19, 1966, decided to move the Precinct Tuesday, July 18, 1972 Vietnam war. Church building onto a new site and restore The New York Times recently published it. Mr. HUNGATE. Mr. Speaker, I thought "The Human Cost of Communism," written The building, built in 1835, was moved my colleagues would be interested in by Sir Robert Thompson, described as "the one and one half miles, beginning on April this investor's report from the Christian British expert on guerrilla warfare who has 13, 1970. The journey of the 78 foot tall, 100 Science Monitor when our next call undertaken secret missions for President ton building, which took four days, was comes for funds for Amtrak: Nixon to report on events in Vietnam." completed without any problems, and the His comments are startling and very re restoration process was begun by committee [From the Christian Science Monitor, members. July 5, 1972] vealing. "Everyone has. heard of Mylai," he writes, Abraham Van Lenten, chairman, and Mrs. RAIL TAKEOVER BY UNITED STATES? "but who has heard of Caibe where the Viet Marguerite Mills, Frank Jenkins, Mansfield Q.-I read recently that American railroads cong, after its capture, lingered only to mur Whitney, Donald DeMoranville, Robert Mann, are facing bankruptcy or nationalization. der the wives and children of all the local Neil Newton, Richard Williams, and Wallace Could this prediction be possible? I own stock militia? Or of the Montagna.rd village of Wilkie, served on the restoration committee in both Chesapeake & Ohio and Norfolk & Dakson, where they moved from hut to hut and put in untold hours of work on the Western, which have been paying very good with flame-throwers incinerating more than project. dividends, and I have felt that these railroads 250 villages, two-thirds women and children? The service of rededication began with a were very secure. I would have to sell now "Most people have heard of the massacres half-hour organ recital by Bradford Bates at a great loss.-E.B., Va. at Hue in 1968 where the Vietcong and North of Middleboro. Participants in the hour long A.-Although talk of nationalization keeps Vietnamese, after its capture, executed 5,700 serv1ce included the Rev. Wayne Philbrook cropping up, it does not appear likely in the people ( as assessed from the mass graves of Greensboro, Vt., pastor of the two churches foreseeable future. Both Congress and the found afterwards) but who knows that in from 1960-1962; the Rev. Herbert Wilber of rail industry itself are exploring ways to keep captured documents they gloated over these Middleboro, a former pastor of Precinct things rolling along present lines. figures and only complained that they had Church; the Rev. Frederick Lyon of Brook field, Conn., former pastor of LUCC. not killed enough? These were not aberra Congress is considering several important Also, the Rev. Charles Carder of the Lake new steps to strengthen railroads flnancially tion, not savagery for savagery's sake, nor the ville Church of the Nazarene, the Rev. Paul and to improve their ability to compete with work of undisciplined soldiers acting in vio Sinn of Plymouth, southeast area minister other forms of transportation. And the Asso- lation of instructions, but part of a ruthless of the Mass. Conference of the United Church ciation of American Railroads is, among other deliberate policy designed to break a people of Christ; and the Rev. Dr. Robert Dodds, things, looking into ways to keep better who would not otherwise bend to their will." present pastor of the church. track or freight cars and thereby gain extra Sir Robert said: "There are distressing Russell Gardner, historian of the Wam carrying capacity. unplications for the future. If the invasion panoa tribes; Phillips Baird, chairman of the CXVIII--1532--Part 19 24306 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 18, 1972 Board of Deacons; Wilkie, chairman of the river showed no physical signs of pollu he had hit the enemy too soon and too Board of Trustees, and Abraham Van Lenten, tion in reference to the earlier oil leaks hard. chairman of the Restoration Committee, also took part in the service. or manure spill. In fact, the entire His fighter pilots, scouting across the Special music was supplied by guest soloist, stream was quite clear with only a slight demilitarized zone-DMZ-into North Mrs. Joan Frates of Middleboro; Mrs. Claire amount of turbidity. Vietnam and from Laos into North Rousseau of Lakeville, guest organist; and The wildlife species encountered were Vietnam, could watch tons of supplies the LUCC choir and the LUCC Brass Quartet. normal for the area, including several and military equipment being assembled Following the service, a buffet was served sets of deer tracks. The aquatic habitat to kill more Americans and South Viet in the Fellowship Hall, where historical items seemed complete with vegetation and namese, whenever convenient to the were on display. The blessing before the meal was pronounced by the Rev. Father Daniel several species of fish. However, State enemy's timetable, just 2 miles beyond Moran of Sts. Martha and Mary Church in biologists recently conducted a fish the line limiting our air attack---except Lakevllle. shocking survey that will be available in direct retaliation against air attacks A program of slides and movies of the later for further evaluation. on our planes-which derived from restoration process was enjoyed, and the Only on two occasions did I see any President Johnson's virtual surrender evening ended with a short hymm sing. The manmade products at the water's edge in 1968 calling off the air war in the benediction was given by the Rev. A. Chester and I was assured that with the excep North. Based on this information com Gushee of Mullein Hill Baptist Church, Lake tion of being eyesores, they were not pol ing to him, General Lavelle "chose to vllle. luting the stream. make a very liberal interpretation of the As soon as the lab tests are finished, I rules of engagement," noting that his POLLUTION IN THE TIPPY: will be able to give a more detailed re airmen even on unarmed reconnaissance PRELIMINARY REPORT port on the results of my float trip. :flights "were operating in an environ ment of optimum enemy defense." Knowing that the enemy was prepar HON. ELWOOD HILLIS ing a massive mechanized offensive to OF INDIANA GENERAL LAVELLE DESERVES THE conquer and destroy South Vietnam, he IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HEARTFELT THANKS OF HIS acted to stop the invasion before it t:e COUNTRY gan. His air attacks forced the North Tuesday, July 18, 1972 Vietnamese aggressors to step up their Mr. HILLIS. Mr. Speaker, on July 1, HON. JOHN G. SCHMITZ · invasion timetable a full 2 months, be 1972, I had the pleasure of canoeing down ginning it before they were fully ready, a stretch of the Tippecanoe River. Lo OF CALIFORNIA while over 400 tanks still sat at the port cated in the northern part of Indiana, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of Haiphong, unable to take part in the this river has long been one of the State's Tuesday, July 18, 1972 battle. Because of General Lavelle, Hanoi favorite fishing streams. Mr. SCHMITZ. Mr. Speaker, the dared not wait for them. As columnist In the past, Hoosier anglers have Fighter Pilots Credo in Southeast Asia Paul Scott pointed out June 21: fished the Tippy in quest of northern says: Had these tanks and others destroyed by pike, smallmouth and largemouth bass, Lavelle's strikes been available, American redeyes, silver bass, and catfish. If it must be said-say it now. If it must military officials doubt that the North Viet be done-do it now . . . for there may be no namese invaders could have been stopped However, last summer pollution struck tomorrow. and a section of the river suffered a se short of Saigon. vere setback-thousands of fish and With the hue and cry being raised for Enter the picture one disgruntled Air aquatic organisms were killed. Thus the the scalp of Gen. John D. Lavelle in the Force sergeant, a photo-interpreter sit reason for my float to inspect the river "peace at any price" forums from Bos ting in an air-conditioned trailer on Ton and run tests for water pollution. ton to Los Angeles and especially here Son Nhut Air Base in Saigon, who prob I took two types of water samples, one in Washington, the time has come for ably never looked down the muzzle of a from a sterile container for finite evalu Americans of other persuasions to give gun fired at him in anger with the intent ation and another for more general him the credit that is his due. to take his life or-as perhaps he de analysis. The water from the sterile con General Lavelle was a combat com serves-to enslave him to a Communist tainer will be used to run lab tests for mander responsible for the lives of his master. The Sergeant wrote to a "peace the presence of harmful micro-organ men and the safety of a land and people nik" Senator telling him that General isms and the second water sample will be in terrible danger that look to us for Lavelle was violating the rules of engage used to check for the presence of oil and help. His situation was not dissimilar to ment. The Senator told General Ryan, similar substances. that of Gen. Douglas MacArthur almost who removed General Lavelle from his A third test was run with the aid of an 20 years ago, when he faced hordes of command. Nobody to date has questioned instrument called an oxygen meter. This Chinese Communists assembling at stag the fact that this sergeant transmitted meter gave us two different sets of data: ing areas on the Yalu River, ready for a top secret material in the process of de The water temperature and a dissolved deadly onslaught that was to cost the stroying his commander's career. oxygen-D-Or-reading. The instru lives of some 30,000 American fighting As he himself stated and as General ment, designed to read D-02 directly in men defending South Korea. General Ryan confirmed, General Lavelle was parts per million-p.p.m.-uses two MacArthur was relieved of his com working under a document-the limiting thermistors in a unique circuit to com mand for insisting that we ought to at rules of engagement-made obsolete by penstate for temperature effects on both tack the enemy across the Yalu, but the rapidly changing situation in Viet probe membrane permeability and oxy came home to a tumultuous welcome by nam. He took the initiative of a com gen solubility in water. The probe meas millions of Americans, an honorary de mander in the field to protect his men ures temperature with a thermistor sen gree from the university where I was and to forestall the great invasion which sor providing water temperatures with then a senior, and an invitation which might otherwise have rendered futile all calibration and as additional data. Al he accepted to address a joint session of the efforts and sacrifices that have been though the analysis of this is not com Congress. made to save South Vietnam from com plete, I am pleased to report that most General Lavelle, on the other hand, munism. For this he was punished, in D-0:i readings were right around 7.5 was summarily relieved, demoted, and the name of political expediency, by the p.p.m. The critical D-02 range is about retired from the service, at first with armchair quarterbacks in Washington. 4.0 p.p.m. and I understand it was 0.2 little public notice and then in the face General Lavelle deserves the thanks of p.p.m. wpen the river was polluted by liq- of a rising crescendo from his critics. Americans in uniform and out of it. uid manure last summer. This explains Not until June 12 was ·a brief hearing on Mothers and fathers, sisters and broth the large fish kill-the fish simply did his case held in the House of Represent ers, of American and South Vietnamese not have enough oxygen. atives, with public statements by Gen soldiers owe the lives of their loved ones Although the laboratory report has not eral Lavelle and Air Force Chief of Staff and the preservation of South Vietnam been completed, the Tippecanoe River Gen. John D. Ryan. The gist of the to this man. The President, as Command seemed to be in pretty good shape. The charge against General Lavelle was that er in Chief, should render public recog- July 18, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24307 nition for the courage and the triumph "For every ton of feed fed, our poultry man, secretary and business manager of of General Lavelle. Those who punished produces two to two and one-fourth tons of manure. We produced more than 3,000,000 the Board of Education, Wyandotte, him for the unpardonable sin of victory tons. The fertilizer value is figured from $16 Mich., setting forth the position of the owe the most profound apology to him to $25 per ton. Using a. conservative figure of Wyandotte Board of Education in op and to the American people. General $15 per ton, we produced fertilizer valued position to forced cross-district busing Lavelle, himself a former fighter pilot, at over $45,000,000. Poultry fertilizer is used and reporting on the strong opposition of acted in the spirit of their credo: on crops, but its most drama.tic use is to the citizens of Wyandotte to such busing If it must be done, do it now-for there build better pastures. as expressed in the annual school board may be no tomorrow. "Our processing plants a.re shipping top quality U.S. government inspected poultry election on June 12, 1972. to population centers all over our nation and I am in complete agreement with the MISSISSIPPI'S POULTRY INDUSTRY to several foreign countries. No state or area views of the Wyandotte Board of Edu markets better quality. Some of our plants cation on this matter and would like to process from 9,000 to 12,000 broilers per hour share the information contained in Mr. HON. CHARLES H. GRIFFIN a.nd employ up to 475 people per plant. Our Castleman's letter with my colleagues. plants employ several thousand people. OF MISSISSIPPI Therefore, I insert the text of his letter "Our egg processing plants ship top qual IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ity U.S. Government inspected eggs to the at this point in the RECORD: BOARD OF EDUCATION, Tuesday, July 18, 1972 population centers of our nation. Severa.I of the larger buyers in the nation prefer Missis Wyandotte, Mich., July 11, 1972. Mr. GRIFFIN. Mr. Speaker, we in sippi eggs to those produced in other areas. Hon. JOHN DINGELL, Mississippi are proud of our poultry in They sa.y we produce the best quality eggs House of Representatives, dustry and the people in it. Not only has available anywhere in the nation. These Washington, D.C. poultry become the largest food produc plants also employ thousands of people. DEAR Sm: Please be advised that the Wy "The operating ca.pita.I and working in andotte Boa.rd of Education ha.s gone on rec ing industry in Mississippi, but also this ventories of our poultry operations will run ord a.s being opposed to forced crass-district industry has developed the State into a to some $500,000,000 (ha.If a billion dollars). busing. Their official position is set forth in national leader in poultry production. "Our annual payrolls will run well over the following resolution that was passed Today millions of Americans are en $100,000,000--on the farms (broiler, layer, unanimously a.t a. regular Board Meeting on joying quality poultry and eggs shipped breeder), hatcheries, feed mills, processing May 15, 1972: from Mississippi producers. The Missis plants, truck drivers, servicemen, adminis Whereas, the Wyandotte Board of Educa sippi poultry industry is making a trative personnel, accountants and many tion was one of the first public bodies in others-many thousands of Mississippians Michigan to recognize the harmful and dis significant contribution to the American have a good livelihood in our poultry indus ruptive effect upon the educa.tiona.l system consumer as well as to the economy of try. inherent in forced cross-district busing; a.nd our State. "Our Mississippi poultry industry people Whereas the Wyandotte Board of Educa I would like to include in my remarks a.re recognized throughout the poultry world tion was a. lea.ding force in organizing the an article from the McComb Enterprise a.s being the best. The people in our industry suburban school districts to jointly inter Journal on the important poultry indus growers contractors a.nd all those working in vene in the la.w suit now pending in the try of Mississippi, as outlined by Pike the poultry industry in a.ny ca.pa.city, are United States District Court before Judge County Agent George Mullendore. It throughout the nation as very efficient oper Stephen Roth in order to protect the rights ators, as producers of very high quality prod a.nd interests of the school districts a.nd the follows: ucts and a.s very fine people. communities which they serve; and POULTRY INDUSTRY Is HIGH IN MISSISSIPPI "Our industry leaders stand high in re Whereas the Wyandotte Board of Educa.• • Poultry is the largest food producing in gional a.nd national poultry circles. Two of tion was instrumental in obtaining the serv• dustry in Mississippi. our poultrymen have served a.s president of ices of one of the nation's outstanding at. County Agent George Mullendore, speak the National Broiler Council. One of our torneys, Mr. William Saxton, as legal coun• ing of last year's production in Mississippi, growers served as vice president of National sel to the 40 suburban school districts; a.nd said, "We produced one and a quarter bil Broiler Council's Producer Committee. Three Whereas the Wyandotte Board of Educatiou lion pounds of top quality poultry meat and Mississippians have served a.s president of the has made available its Superintendent of eggs-890,000,000 pounds of poultry meat Southeastern Poultry a.nd Egg Association. Schools, Dr. Fred P. Davenport, to serve ou and 282,000,000 pounds of eggs--a. total of Two have served as president of the American the coordination committee for the 40 sub• 1,172,000,000 pounds of the highest quality Poultry and Hatchery Federation. Two have urban school districts in their opposition poultry meat a.nd eggs produced anywhere served as president of the National Egg Co. for forced cross-district busing and to assist in the world. Two a.re officers (chairman a.nd secretary) of the legal counsel, Mr. William Saxton, a.a "We used about 28 per cent of these eggs our newly organized National Broiler Co-op. needed; and a.nd a.bout 12 per cent of our poultry meat to One is chairman of the board of directors of Whereas the Wyandotte Board of Education feed our Mississippi people. The rest of our the Poultry a.nd Egg Institute of America.. remains firmly convinced that the neighbor• production-72 per cent of eggs a.nd 88 per One served as president of United Egg Pro hood school concept is in the best interests cent of poultry meat were shipped a.II over ducers. Others have served on regional and of children generally and is representative America. a.nd to several foreign countries to national committees of the USDA. of the wishes of the overwhelming majority feed untold millions beyond our state's "Of course we have men serving as direc of parents everywhere, borders." tors on the official boards of our regional a.nd Therefore be it resolved that the Wyandotte "The statistics show that we produced a. national poultry orga.niza.tions, some a.s offi Board of Education reaffirm its opposition to gross income of $184,430,000--$66,540,000 cers. forced cross-district busing; a.nd from eggs, $11,250,000 from broilers, $5,440,- "We are real proud of our poultry industry Be it further resolved that the Wyandotte 000 from farm chickens and $176,000 from a.nd the people in it. Our industry operates Boa.rd of Education continue its leadership turkeys. And this is not a.ll. We have some strictly on the free enterprise system. Our in role among the school districts of Wayne, $250,000,000 invested in buildings a.nd dustry is mature, sound, solid. We expect to Oakland and Macomb Counties; a.nd equipment--broiler houses, laying houses, continue to grow. Be it finally resolved that the Wa.ya.ndotte breeder houses, hatcheries, feed mills, proc "At present we rank number five in the Board of Education go on record as unequiv essing plants a.nd the equipment to operate nation in the production of commercial ocally supporting whatever legal defense is them. broilers and number 11 in the production of necessary to protect the interests of Wyan "Our on-the-farm production houses a.lone commercial eggs." • dotte children and parents up to and includ (layers, breeders, broilers) have a. combined ing, if necessary, an appeal to the Supreme floor space of more than 100,000,000 square Court of the United States of America. feet. It takes a lot of Mississippi lumber The electorate has also given expression to a.nd labor to build these houses. OPPOSITION TO FORCED CROSS the matter of forced cross-district busing by "Our hatcheries produced 260,100,000 DISTRICT BUSING chicks for layers, breeders a.nd broilers. responding to the following advisory ques "Our feed mills produced one a.nd three tions on the ballot a.t the Annual School fourths million tons of feed a.nd that was HON. JOHN D. DINGELL Election of June 12, 1972: used in the production of our chicks, broilers Are you in favor of a.mending the United and eggs. Some of these mills produced as OF MICHIGAN States Constitution to prohibit forced bus much a.s 450 tons of poultry feed every day IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ing and guarantee the rights of each student in the year. In making this feed, our mills Tuesday, July 18, 1972 to attend the school of his choice? used, in addition to other ingredients, 43,- Yes, 1,822; no, 521. 000,000 bushels of corn a.nd 365,000 tons of Mr. DINGELL. Mr. Speaker, I have Do you believe busing of children Will soybean meal. received a letter from James N. Castle- produce better education? 24308 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 18, 1972 Yes, 128; no, 2,177. their utmost to stamp out any and all Programs with fixed costs such as Social The wishes of your constituency a.re quite political corruption; and to arouse its Security, Medicare, retirement benefits, in conclusive a.s being opposed to forced cross members to the fact that tyranny is a terest on the national debt (now $21 billion district busing and feel that forced cross menace to the life, property, prosperity, a year, enough to run the entire government district busing will in no way produce a 30 years a.go) , the everyday expenses of the better education for their children. Pa.rents honor, and integrity of every nation; Executive, Judicial and Legislative branches, and concerned citizens are vitally concerned Sixth. To promote a better and more and ongoing programs under government about this issue and are expecting you to comprehensive understanding of the at contract now account for about two-thirds support the community school concept of tributes and ideals of Hellenism and Hel of the federal budget. Only a third of the education to the fullest extent. lenic Culture; total budget is subject to cost-cutting ac The Wyandotte Boa.rd of Education re Seventh. To promote good fellowship, tions by Congress and the President. quests you and your colleagues to use the and endow its members with the perfec The pressure to spend more money for full power of your offices to oppose all pres worthy purposes will not relent. Several new ent and future legislation favoring forced tion of the moral sense; federal assistance approaches are now being cross-district busing and support the Presi Eighth. To endow its members with a given serious poUtical consideration, among dent's program as recommended to Congress. spirit of altruism, common understand them the replacement of local property taxes Very truly yours, ing, mutual benevolence, and helpfulness, with federal financing, the equalization of JAMES N. CASTLEMAN, and expenditures per pupil within the states, Secretary and Business Manager. Ninth. To champion the cause of edu costly water pollution control proposals, and cation, and to maintain new channels for greatly expanded health insurance plans. facilitating the dissemination of culture A respected Brookings Institution study recently concluded that our projected and learning. economic growth, coupled with our current ORDER OF AHEPA'S 50TH Mr. Speaker, as the Order of Ahepa tax levels, simply will not provide the funds ANNIVERSARY marks its golden anniversary, I extend for new federal programs within the next my personal congratulations and take few years. pleasure in calling the Order's work to Only two means a.re available to deal with the attention of my colleagues. this growing fiscal crisis: expenditure reduc HON. THADDEUS J. DULSKI tions and tax increases. We face many diffi OF NEW YORK cult choices in the yea.rs ahead as we deal IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES with the nation's needs. The setting of LEE HAMILTON'S WASHINGTON RE priorities in meeting these needs, the prob Tuesday, July 18, 1972 lem I have often called the toughest in gov PORT TO INDIANA'S NINTH CON ernment, is becoming more difficult each GRESSIONAL DISTRICT Mr. DULSKI. Mr. Speaker, a half cen year, despite the increase in the national tury ago in Atlanta, Ga., was founded the income. Although this, and next week's Report, Order of P..hepa, the American Hellenic HON. LEE H. HAMILTON deal only with the expenditure reduction ap Educational Progressive Association. OF INDIANA proach to our fiscal crisis, it should be kept During these 50 years, the Order of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in mind that probably the best remedy is a. Ahepa has had many distinguished and booming economy, with full employment. The Tuesday, July 18, 1972 dedicated members who have been re government's share of the revenues produced sponsible for many, many civic and char- Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. Speaker, under under these circumstances ·would go a long • itable activities. the leave to extend my remarks in the way in helping us meet the fiscal crisis. In my home city of Buffalo, N.Y., we RECORD I include the complete text of The Congress deals with the budget with out a coherent vision of where the nation have an active chapter, one of 36 in the my recent Washington Report on Federal stands and where it ls going and without Empire State. Incumbent officers of the spending: a clear understanding of the relationship of Buffalo chapter are: Angelo E. Pefenis, WASHINGTON REPORT OF CONGRESSMAN LEE competing federal programs, both to each president; Tasos Kellaris, vice president; RAMU.TON, JULY 10, 1972 other and to the whole. Instead, Congress dis Chris Liaros, secretary, and Nick Kafasis, The federal government spent $23 billion members the budget and sends pieces of it treasurer. more than it took in during Fiscal Year 1971, to a number of committees. No committee George Carcales of Buffalo is athletic will probably overspend by about $26 billion has an overview of the economic condition of director of the New York district lodge. in Fiscal Year 1972., and by $25 billion in Fis the country or a concept of the overall cal Year 1973. In short, the federal budget is budget. Dennis J. Livadas, a member of the near in serious trouble. If the Congress is to make prude.nt deci by Rochester, N.Y. chapter, is serving in No wonder, then, that Ninth District resi sions in light of expenditures and revenue national office as supreme counsellor. dents, responding to my annual question outlook, economic conditions, the provisions Membership in the Order of Ahepa naire list government spending a close sec of existing laws, and other conditions, re is open to men of good moral character ond to crime a.s their chief concern. Across forms are necessary. Principal among them: who are citizens--or have declared their the nation, and in the Congress, there is Spending Scrutiny. All spending must be intention to become citizens--of the growing distress about the soaring costs of scrutinized, and especially military spend ing, in order to do a better job in eliminat United States or Canada. In this connec government and the regularity of huge budg et deficits. These deficits a.re unsettling, re ing waste and mismanagement. For example, tion, the organization has placed em gardless of political views or economic phi a recent analysis of defense costs showed phasis on its aid to members seeking citi losophies, and no matter how appropriate a that 45 weapons now being built had cost zenship. deficit may be to stiumulate the economy in overruns of $35 billion. In the pa.st, Congress The order has a notable single pur any given year. has concentrated on exceptional items in the pose: The improvement and betterment Federal civilian expenditures as a. percent-. defense budget, such a.s the ABM system, the of our social, moral, and family life. age of all goods and services produced in this strategic bomber, and the nuclear aircraft In elaboration of that purpose, the country have doubled in ten yea.rs as Ameri carrier. These large items a.re significant, but cans have come to expect the government to we should focus even more on fundamental Order of Ahepa seeks: take a.n expu,nded role in dealing with the questions, such as the effectiveness of our First. To promote and encourage loyal whole range of national, state and local prob forces, how they are to be supported, and the ty to the United States of America; lems. During this time of increased outlays, long-range consequences of spending deci Second. To instruct its members in the federal income and excise taxes have been sions, rather than the present fiscal year. tenets and fundamental principles of sharply reduced. Subsidy programs, now totaling over $60 government, and in the recognition and Froni 1955 to 1965, total governnient ex billion a year, should be given the most care respect of the inalienable rights of man penditures increased modestly, but from 1965 ful and continuing scrutiny to ellminate to 1970, federal expenditures have acceler waste and unfair and outmoded fiscal favor kind; ated by some 10 percent each year. Moreovei::, ltlsni to special interests. Third. To instill in its membership a the growth in federal spending in the coming Spending Ceilings. A rigid expenditure due appreciation of the privileges of years will continue at a substantial rate be celling to assure the public that the federal citizenship; cause of: budgetary process is not out of control is Fourth. To encourage its members to The backlog of unniet needs for federal as necessary. It would have the dual effect of always be profoundly interested and ac sistance, keeping the budget within projected revenue tively participating in the political, civic, The continuing belief that the federal gov receipts and dampening inflationary pres ernment should play a major role in dealing sures. This type of budgetary perspective social, and commercial fields of human with our social problems, and also would force attention to alternative or endeavor; • The increased demand for more and varied substitute measures when pressure is ex Fifth. To pledge its members to do public services. erted on the spending ce1ling. July 18, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 24309 Long Range View. Since most important It is obvious, Mr. Speaker, that the 1971, authorities in Hong Kong esti budget decisions do not have an immediate AHEPA membership, through persever mated that more than 17,500 Chinese ref impact on the budget, the Congress should deal each year with a five-year budget out ing dedication to the fulfillment of their ugees entered the colony that way. look. The Joint Economic Committee of the organization's ideals and their civic A number of them made their way to Congress should hold hearings on this out duties, have truly demonstrated their the Republic of China from the British look and report its evaluations. Appropria total commitment to improving the qual colony. Recently, commemorating the tions, where possible, should be made a. year ity of this Nation's moral, social, and 10th anniversary of the "May Exodus," in advance to permit better planning, while economic life. A distinctive part of this more than 1,000 such refugees gathered other programs should be shifted to ap commitment includes such wholesome at a rally in Taipei. Lest their experience propriations on a three-year basis. objectives as giving help and encourage be forgotten in the atmosphere of illusion Zero-Based Budget. Spending programs should be evaluated from the ground up at ment to aliens seeking to attain full created by President Nixon's journey to lea.st once every three years. This approach American citizenship, granting scholar Peking, they have made a stirring appeal would require that agency appropriations ship awards to worthy students on the to the American people, particularly the be justified on the basis of its program's local, State, and national levels, and fi "silent majority," in the following open proven worth. Too often, Congress simply nancial and humanitarian assistance to letter: looks at the agency's appropriation last year, the distressed victims of floods, hurri AN OPEN LETTER TO THE SILENT MAJORITY OF then adds a little more for the current year. canes, and earthquakes both in this THE UNITED STATES Congressional Oversight. The awesome size and complexity of the budget demands that country and abroad. In May 1962 there was a massive exodus a single, joint Congressional committee as Mr. Speaker, AHEPA's golden record of refugees from the Chinese mainland which sign spending priorities and make a com of organizational accomplishment on be attracted such worldwide attention that it prehensive review of the fiscal and monetary half of their fellow Americans and fellow has since been known as the "May Exodus ramifications of the President's annual budg of 1962." We were among that unique group human beings everywhere parallels the of refugees comprising Chinese Communist et request. spirit and achievements of the golden New Approaches in Federal Programs. New party members, military officers, cadres, age of Greece. In extending my con teachers, doctors, students, and workers and incentives should be initiated to improve gratulations to this distinguished organi federal programs, such as ( 1) the use of a peasants. We have since regained our free tax on each instance of pollution, giving zation on its 50th anniversary, it is my dom on Taiwan in the Republic of China. polluters an economic incentive to reduce earnest hope that the Order of Ahepa Today, as we are assembled in Taipei to com pollution, (2) making it worthwhile for wel will forever continue to experience in memorate the tenth anniversary of the "Ex fare recipients to work, or (3) encouraging creasing success in the fulfillment of all odus," we wish to convey our sincere appre more efficiency in hospitals by allowing a ciation and profound respect to the United their great principles and ideals on be States Government and American people for single fee in advance for services rather half of mankind. than reimbursement for each delivered serv their dedication in upholding justice and in ice. resisting the sinister influences of commu The federal government also should us~ nism. experimentation to find the techniques It ls our firm conviction that we represent which really work before massive programs APPEALS TO "SILENT MAJORITY" the voice of our 700 million compatriots on are funded. the mainland who have no freedom of ex HON. JOHN G. SCHMITZ pression. We must point out that if the source of all the troubles in the world lies in Asia, then the Chinese Communist regime is the THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF THE OF CALIFORNIA root of Asia's troubles. It is only by eradicat ORDER OF AHEPA ing that evil root that peace and happiness IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES for mankind will be assured and safeguarded. Tuesday, July 18, 1972 Unfortunately, there are myopic politi HON. HAROLD D. DONOHUE cians in the free world and a handful of ap OF MASSACHUSETTS Mr. SCHMITZ. Mr. Speaker, 10 years peasers in the United States who believe that ago in May, the border of Hong Kong was IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES it is possible to "sit down and talk" with the scene of a strange but heart-rending the Chinese Communists. They advocate such Tuesday, July 18, 1972 phenomenon as tens of thousands of ref views as "waiting for a change to come among a new generation of Chinese Com Mr. DONOHUE. Mr. Speaker, it is a ugees from the Chinese mainland sought entry into the British colony. Why the mun!.sts," "containment without isolation," very great personal pleasure for me to and two Chinas formula." This has enabled .ioin in the national tribute being cur Chinese Communist regime allowed such the Chinese Communist regime to usurp rently paid to the Order of Ahepa, the a massive flow of its populace to the free Chinese representation in the United Na American Hellenic Educational Progres world has baffled all China watchers. Ac tions, thus rendering bankrupt the lofty sive Association. The Order of Ahepa is cording to impartial foreign press re goals of that international body and destroy celebrating its golden anniversary during ports, 75,000 reached Hong Kong in that ing the symbol of the pursuit of mankind for this month of July and the American 1 month, but a number of them were later peace and justice. In the meantime that price paid by thousands and tens of 'thou people are saluting Ahepa on this no rounded up and sent back by British au thorities. sands of American soldiers with their blood table occasion in recognition of its tre in Korea and is still being paid in Vietnam mendous contributions. throughout this . Said the New York Times of May 26, is nothing but humiliation and disgrace to half century, to our national progress. 1962: the United States itself. · The Order of Ahepa was founded The world has seldom, if ever, experienced In fact, the Communist bloc ls nothing July 26, 1922, in Atlanta, Ga., and its a situation quite like that which developed but a sinister organization which is obsessed membership and activities extend to 49 with the recent massive flow of people from with worldwide class struggle by brutal continental China into the tiny colony of force. The Chinese Communist regime, States, Canada, and Australia, with a Hong Kong. The exact reason for the mass claiming to be the leader of the Third World, total of 430 local chapters. The order, a outflow is not clear ... Was it caused by is even more rampant. It ha.s repeatedly fraternal organization which is both non food shortage, asked the New York Times? clamored that it must eliminate its "No. 1 political and nonsectarian, is open to Or a.s the New York Herald Tribune theo enemy" and "bury United States imperial men of high moral character from all rized on May 25, "This tolerated mass exodus ism." For many decades, it has been proven walks of life and is dedicated to the from Communist China can only mean that by historical facts that "anti-U.S. imperial wholesome goals of good fellowship and the regime of Mao Tse-tung is on the verge ism" has been the unalterable goal of the common understanding. of a major crisis of the most convulsive sort. Chinese Communist pursuit of "world re volution." The many outstanding members of the The Communists closed the gates as When the United States published the Order of Ahepa include such notable abruptly as they opened them when "White Papers" on China in 1949, the Maoist and distinguished Government leaders as regime stigmatized the document as "the the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt worldwide publicity proved to be embar confessions of crimes of U.S. imperialist ag and former President Harry S. Truman. rassing to the regime. Controls were gression on China." When North Korea in In my home district, AHEPA members tightened and patrols were ordered to vaded South Korea in 1950, Mao Tse-tung and officers, in pursuit of the order's ob shoot anyone attempting to cross the bor plunged into the war under the pretext o! jectives, bring to their respective com der in a dash for freedom. They still es "resisting U.S. and helping Korea" and un cape but in much harder way-by swim leashed the so-called "hate-America, despise munities a vitalizing community spirit of Amerlca and downgrade-America" move responsible citizenship and cooperation ming 7 miles of ocean before reaching one ment against U.S. imperialism. During the for progress. of Hong Kong's outlying islets. During anti-American riots in the Panama. Canal 24310 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE June 19, 1972 zone in 1964, the People's Dally immediate· ALMOST ALL USES OF DDT sociated with its continued use should be ly suggested that an "a.nti-U.S. imperialism BANNED resolved as quickly as possible. united front" be organized. In 1965, Lin Piao declared in his article entitled "Long Live In March 1972, after hearing from 125 the Victory of People's War" that the "rural witnesses and receiving over 300 docu villages of the world" should arise to besiege HON. DAVID R. OBEY ments and 8,900 pages of testimony over the "cities of the world." Since the expan OF WISCONSIN a period of 7 months, the EPA closed its sion of the war in Vietnam, the Chinese IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES hearings on whether or not DDT ought Communists have engaged in constant de to be banned in this country. nunication of the United States, waging a. Tuesday, July 18, 1972 Mr. sanguinary struggle in Indochina against the Speaker, because a great many of U.S. directly or indirectly. Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, the decision us have been trying for so long to ban The Chinese Communist chieftains and several weeks ago by Environmental this persistent pesticide, I do not even their propaganda machines have overtly and Protection Agency Administrator Wil know now whether to believe it has actu covertly engaged in inciting and provoking liam Ruckelshaus to ban almost all uses ally happened. racial strifes or other anti-government activ of DDT in this country was one of the In a sense, it has not, for while the ities in the United States. With the advent of most environmentally sound decisions EPA decided to ban this pesticide for 1970's, the Maoists have clamored even more loudly that "the entire world's people unite ever made by a Federal agency. most purposes, that action has been put to defeat U.S. imperialism and its lackeys," It was certainly a decision long in off, at least until December 31, 1972. asserting in the meantime that "we will coming, and one made only after pass I think a lot of people deserve a great struggle relentlessly against the U.S. for one, ing through what seemed to be an end deal of credit for this action regarding two or even three hundred years." It is thus less series of roadblocks. DDT. patently clear that the Chinese Communist It was over 3 years ago, in April 1969, One thinks certainly of Rachel Car~on regime regards the United States as its irre that Health, Education, and Welfare who brougJ-. t the problems associated vocable enemy. In the light of these facts, Secretary Robert Finch created a Com how can the appeasers justify their penchant with this pesticide to the public's atten to open relations with the Peiping regime? mission on Pesticides headed by Dr. Emil tion. I think also of Senator GAYLORD The traditional spirit of democracy, free Mrak which was directed to "reappraise NELSON of my own State of Wisconsin dom, and human dignity has insured the the problem of persistent pesticides with who was fighting against DDT when no United States role of leadership in the free special emphasis on DDT." one else would or could. And I think, too, world. Recently, President Nixon has cou In July 1969, the USDA suspended the of the many environmental groups which rageously decided to mine the ports of North use of DDT, but only for 30 days. battled through administrative reviews, Vietnam in order to stem the enemy offen In November 1969, the so-called Mrak scientific reviews, public hearings, and sive against South Vietn.a.m. It is gratifying Commission on Pesticides reported back that this sagacious policy has won the over lawsuits in their effort to rid our environ whelming support of the silerut majority. We to Secretary Finch and concluded that ment of this pesticide. Certainly their hope that beginning from now, the United all but essential uses of DDT be ended persistence rivaled that of their target. States will no longer compromise with the within 2 years. In that same month Even with this latest announcement brutal forces of world communism, or kow some uses of DDT were prohibited, but that the days of DDT are numbered at tow to international appeasers. However, in because of various appeal procedures it last, it is very obvious that the legacy of . order to adopt such a firm stand, much will was to be a long time before those pro DDT will be with us for some time to depend on the silent majority of the United hibited uses were actually stopped. States which, it is hoped, will no longer re come. DDT is a persistent pesticide. It In June 1970, Secretary of Interior stays in the environment for 10 or 15 main silent, but will articulate its righteous Walter Hickel banned the use of DDT stand to demand victory in Vietnam. years after it is used. Even though the use Let us stand together shoulder to shoulder and other persistent pesticides on De of this pesticide has decreased in this in our common endeavor to defeat the Chi partment of Interior lands. And, in country in recent years, amounts of DDT nese Communist regime which is a peril to all September 1970, an advisory committee have not perceptively decreased in the mankind, and to build a free world of the of the National Academy of Sciences re water and the soil. people, by the people, and for the people. ported that DDT and its derivations The same is true, of course, of other Signed by Lin Hsiao, chairman of the were "serious environmental pollutants." pesticides and other chemicals which Rally Commemorating the Tenth An In May 1971, EPA Assistant Adminis we are daily putting into our air, water niversary of the May 1962 Exodus of trator John Quarles said: and soil. So, while we can take heart Refugees from Mainland China, on be Because there is a substantial question as from the DDT decision, we must do so half of more than 1,000 such refugees, to the safety of DDT to man, wildlife, and with the recognition that a great deal Tapei, May 21, 1972. the environment, the benefits and risks as- more in this area remains to be done. SENATE-Wednesday, July 19, 1972 The Senate met at 10 a.m. and was APPOINTJMENT OF ACTING THE JOURNAL called to order oy Hon. JENNINGS RAN PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE DOLPH, a Senator from the State of West Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I ask Virginia. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk unanimous consent that the reading of will please read a communication to the the Journal of the proceedings of Tues Senate from the President pro tempore day, July 18, 1972, be dispensed with. PRAYER (Mr. ELLENDER). The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem The Chaplain, the Reverend Edward The assistant legislative clerk read the pore. Without objection, it is so ordered. L. R. Elson, D.D., offered the following following letter: prayer: U.S. SENATE, PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE, COMMITI'EE MEETINGS DURING Almighty God, who giveth wisdom and Washington, D.C., July 19, 1972. SENATE SESSION To the Senate: understanding to all who call upon Thee, I Being temporarily absent from the Senate Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, ask we beseech Thee to come upon Thy ser unanimous consent that all committees vants in this place to renew their ener on official duties, I appoint Hon. JENNINGS RANDOLPH, a. Sena.tor from the State of West may be authorized to meet during the gies, guide their consultations, conciliate Virginia, to perform the duties of the Chair session of the Senate today. their differences, accelerate their efforts The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem that the work widertaken may be com during my absence. ALLEN J. ELLENDER, pore. Without objection, it is so ordered. pleted for the welfare of the Nation and Presi dent pro tempore. in consonance with Thy will. Reward them with inner peace and harmony with Mr. RANDOLPH thereupon took the FULL U.S. PARTICIPATION IN INTER Thy spirit. Guide the President and all chair as Acting President pro tempore. NATIONAL TRADE our leaders through this age of peril and THE ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I ask high promise to the day of the coming pore. Under the customary order, recog unanimous consent that the Senate pro of Thy kingdom on earth. nition of the majority and minority ceed to the consideration of Calendar Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. leaders, if they so wish, is in order. No. 918, S. 1798.