May 26, 1971 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 17193 EX·TENSIONS OF REMARKS NATIONAL VOLUNTEER BLOOD representing 1,500 covununity and hospi Glover. The accomplishments in Florida JX)NOR MONTH tal blood banks and 3,E-00 professional were discussed in an editorial in the members in the 50 States, strives un Orlando Sentinel. ceasingly to persuade adults in good Mr. President, I ask unanimous con HON. TIM LEE CARTER health to become volunteer blood donors. sent that these two editorials be printed OF KENTUCKY The association, the world's largest dev in the RECORD. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES oted specifically to blood banking, trans There being no objection, the editorials Wednesday, May 26, 1971 fusion services and related areas, car were ordered printed in the RECORD, as ries on numerous other programs to im follows: Mr. CARTER. Mr. Speaker, we are prove the quality and safety of blood [From the Weirton (W. Va.) Daily Times, living in an age of scientific wonders, transfusions, further research, and c0n May 19, 1971] not the least of which is the trans serve available blood supplies. One of its MAN OF CONFIDENCE plantation of human organs. Actually, most valuable services is the national George A. Stinson, president of National however, the first successful human tis clearinghouse program. Through this Steel Corp., of which Weirton Steel is a sue transplant took place more than 150 program, a donor may give blood at his division, was the speaker at the Steelm.ark years ago, in 1818, when James Blun local AABB blood bank or Red Cross Month kickoff banquet in Follansbee Mon dell, the English physician, performed a Blood Center and have the credit trans day night and reiterated the commitment he blood transfusion to control hemor ferred to a patient almost anywhere in made before a U.S. Senate committee that rhage in a woman fallowing childbirth. the steel industry is "hard at work and will the United States. By enabling blood continue at that work" until the recycling of The miracle of that first transfusion banks with surpluses to lend to those has been repeated hundreds of millions all steel containers can be carried out as a with shortages, the program aids signif "regular routine matter with benefit to all of times. Although there have been icantly in the nationwide utilization of of us who value the preservation of our raw many dramatic advances in the prac blood supplies. materials and our environment." tice of medicine, there is still no sub Our Nation's blood banks are truly He called for cooperation by the govern stitute f.or the vital, living human tis "Guardians of Life" whose service pro ment, the public and producers of all con sue-blood. The person who gives blood to tects all of us. They need the support of tainer materials. help another is performing a service as all our citizens in their vital work. I urge National Steel, like all other steel compa unique and as indispensable today as it nies, is deeply involved in environmental you to take favorable action on asking problems, including air pollution and stream was a century and a half ago. the President to proclaim January 1972, pollution, and millions of dollars have been To honor the millions of Americans National Volunteer Blood Donor Month. spent and will continue to be spent to cor who share "gifts of life" with the ill and rect these problems. injured, and to remind others of the Much of Weirton steel's production goes need, the month of January has been into the canning industry. The Tin Mill here observed for the past 2 years as National INDUSTRIALIST GEORGE STINSON is one of the largest and most up to date in Blood Donor Month. In 1970 and 1971, PROVES HIS LEADERSHIP IN RE the world. the observance was established follow CYCLING EFFORT-EDITORIALS Mr. Stinson, who has had a close attach ing a joint resolution of Congress asking ment to the Weirton Steel and the Weirton INDICATE ATTENTION TO CON community, has spoken often in the Weirton the President to proclaim it. National STRUCTIVE PROGRAMS area and he always tells the story as it is. Blood Donor Month was initiated by the Despite the continually multiplying prob American Association of Blood Banks lems confronting the steel industry generally and has the support of the American HON. JENNINGS RANDOLPH including the import threats, Mr. Stinson National Red Cross, the American Medi OF WEST VIRGINIA has always spoken very optimistically and cal Association, the American Hospital IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES inspiringly of the steel industry generally and Weirton Steel in particular. Association, and other national orga Wednesday, May 26, 1971 nizations. In Monday's address he described how Weirton Steel was one of the first i;;teel com Once again, these organizations are Mr. RANDOLPH. Mr. President, it panies in the nation to experiment with re urging the designation of January as Na has now become widely accepted that cycling of tin cans and steel cans and he gave tional Volunteer Blood Donor Month. the development and use of methods to assurances that "the future for steel in the There is a great need to encourage recycle our precious natural resources is container market is bright." Its competi more eligible people to voluntarily donate essential to our efforts to provide a clean, tion-aluminum, paper, glass and others-is blood. A recent National Academy of healthful environment. It is gratifying tough, but Mr. Stinson assures that the fu Science report indicated that blood ob to me to regularly observe the efforts of ture of the tin can is secure because it is in tained from paid donors generally car individuals and industries as they work expensive, it is totally reliable because of its to greater strength, it is convenient to use and ries a higher risk of transmitting hepati bring this goal to fruition. it can be disposed of, collected, separated and tis than does that from unpaid donors. One of the leaders in the effort to de recycled with greater facility than any of its Figures ranging from 1.4 to 13.7 cases per velop practical recycling technologies is competition. 1,000 units of "commercial" blood have George A. Stinson, president of National Mr. Stinson said he was impressed with been reported. Steel Corp. Under his leadership, Na the friendly spirit and cooperative nature of The need for transfusion blood has tional Steel continues to point the way in the local communities. this important field. He paid tribute to the sponsors of Steel• never been greater. Open heart surgery, mark Month and underscored the fact that for example, is totally dependent on the Mr. Stinson spoke last week in Follans the observance originated in the Ohio Valley. availability of fresh blood obtained from bee, W. Va., at a banquet marking the The Steelmark observance not only pays donors whose blood type is compatible beginning of Steelmark Month. At that tribute to the men and women who make with that of the patient. The transfusion time he reviewed the progress National steel, but encourages people to buy products of blood platelets, together with cancer Steel continues to point the way in this made of American steel. chemotherapy, is prolonging for months, products. With the American economy confronted even years, the lives of many leukemia National Steel's plant at Weirton, with critical problems, it is reassuring to patients who formerly would have died in W. Va., has for some time been engaged have people like Mr. Stinson come to Weir a few weeks. Massive transfusions of in important research on the recycling ton and express their hopes with such su preme confidence and in the tradition of the whole blood and blood comJXments are of steel containers. Other industrial in past administrators of the Weirton industry. saving the lives of countless accident vic stallations, notably Continental Can tims, patients undergoing general sur facilities in Florida, have done equally gery, and victims of a variety of blood important work in this field. (From the Orlando Sentinel, May 14, 1971] disorders, such as hemophilia. Mr. Stinson's address and the work of RECYCLING METAL CANS To meet the increasing need, the his company were noted in an editorial One of the great fears of ecologists-that American Association of Blood Banks, in the Weirton Daily Times edited by Paul the nation will be interred under a mam- CXVII~l081-Part 13 17194 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 26, 1971 moth pile of beer cans-will be unfounded A very similar bill was vetoed by the Pres revised to allow flexibility for entry into the if a pilot program started this week is suc ident last year on the grounds that it would system and protection within it. cessful. lock people into dead-end, make-work jobs. 3. All enrollees would have an equal oppor With the endorsement of Gov. Reubin We believe that this bill overcomes such ob tunity to compete for available permanent Askew and Apollo 7 Astronaut Walter Cun jections. It requires that special consider Civil Service jobs in their areas of training. ningham, an ecology advocate, five Florida ation be given to jobs with advancement 4 . A delivery system for supportive services metal can recycling plants will be buying prospects, with built-in training, and in directly and/ or by contract js established and cans at salvage prices for recycling. occupational fields most likely to expand in functioning now providing health services, Two of these centers are in Central Flor the public and private sector as unemploy transportation, child care, counseling, adult ida-the Continental Can plants in Au ment recedes. It demands assurance that the education, etc., to enrollees of the presently burndale and Winter Garden-and will be employing agency tie in with upgrading and operating programs described above. receiving scrap cans at $10 a ton for those other manpower programs to meaningful 5. Entry level Civil Service positions, par ma.de of steel and aluminum, $20 a ton for careers. ticularly in the health and public assistance all-steel and $200 a ton for all-aluminum There can hardly be much danger that such fields, have been revised to allow hiring of cans. jobs would be "make-work." There is more the hard-core disadvantaged after an indi Continental isn't trying to make money real work urgently needed now than we vidualized minimum of training. Career mo from the project; the company just wants to could hope to get done with a dozen times bility is a built-in feature of the Civil Service break even and keep the cans from being a the money provided by this bill. State and system... blight. local governments are driven closer to the Pennsylvania State Government is not This seems to us an excellent opportunity wall of fiscal disaster daily by their public only a large potential publi-c service career for civic and fraternal groups to make service needs and costs. Our most essential employer but a considerable Pennsylvania money and help clean up the environment services are shockingly, dangerously under permanent employer as well, as there are at the same time. staffed. Streets are not repaired; transporta currently 130,000 employees on the State tion grows more sporadic; houses are collaps payroll. The ability of the State, however, ing; neighborhoods rot; schools abandon to increase the number of State employees essential services; crime and delinquency is limited without Federal assistance, espe mount; health and welfare services are cially in light of the rapidly rising unemploy ENDORSEMENT OF PUBLIC tragically inadequate. It has been estimated ment rate and its resultant rise in public SERVICE EMPLOYMENT that there is a need for 5.3 million public assistance caseloads. . . . service jobs suitable not only for the margin A public employment program which is ally skilled but for out-of-work technicians properly identified as such, will lessen the HON. DOMINICK V. DANIELS and laid-off production workers and that human and fiscal waste inevitable to the OF NEW JERSEY 140,000 jobs in 130 of our largest cities can job-oriented programs that promise perma IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES be filled immediately by untrained workers nent employment but live up to only a frac and another 140,000 by skilled or paraprofes tion of their expectations in a period of Wednesday, May 26, 1971 sional workers. Community service needs in large-scale unemployment. . . . Mr. DANIELS of New Jersey. Mr. the fields of public health, welfare, safety, Pennsylvania endorses a program of public Speaker, recently the Governor of Penn child care, neighborhood preservation and service employment because our people (in so on are almost limitless. In Pennsylvania, all categories of the work force) need jobs sylvania, Milton J. Shapp, submitted our Department of Public Welfare alone now, and because much public work needs to my subcommittee a statement en could place 5,000 more people today in its doing now. We view it as an emergency dorsing H.R. 3613 to provide emergency mental health and mental retardation, geria measure, rather than a total expression of employment in times of high unemploy tric, public assistance, child welfare and what national manpower should be. We hope ment. As Governor Shapp points out, general health facilities, and has already that its passage Will be followed up by a public service employment would help submitted estimates to that effect to the comprehensive revamp of the total manpower alleviate rtwo serious national problems Regional Manpower Administrator and the picture to realign fis:::al and programatic rising unemployment and deteriorating State CAMPS Committee ... priorities into a well-articulated and coordi The bill singles out employable public nated national work planning, work trainin~ public services. Based on the most re assistance recipients as particularly appro and work providing system. . . . cently released statistics from the De priate for this program. It specifies that work The Emergency Employment Act of 1971 partment of Labor, Pennsylvania has 12 and training programs related to physical by matching people who badly need work to major areas of persistent and substan improvements give special consideration to new jobs of increasingly urgent national tial unemployment, constituting an un deteriorating, low-income areas. It could civic need, can be an important milestone in employment rate of over 5 percent. As make a significant dent in the public assist our national drive toward full and meaning the chief executive of a State in which ance rolls, which are substantially affected ful employment. by job availability. And even more discourag 258,000 are unemployed and another ing to a recipient, many of the best training 801,500 are on public assistance, Gover programs running at present lead only to nor Shapp fully realizes the inability more disillusionment because the expected POOR RONALD REAGAN of the States to financially meet such jobs never materialized and the training great civic responsibilities without the proved only another revolving door back out immediate assistance of the Federal Gov into more unemployment. This bill does HON. WILLIAM L. HUNGATE ernment. guarantee irnm.ediate jobs--useful work at OF MISSOURI decent wages in which the recipient can I would lke to draw special attention IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to the projected institution of a public take pride ... Pennsylvania has long expressed its com Wednesday, May 26, 1971 service program in the State of Pennsyl mitment by actual outlays of substantial vania resulting in virtually no major ad State monies for training and employment. Mr. HUNGATE. Mr. Speaker, since justments in existing State employment We had a State manpower training program welfare reform will soon be before the procedures. H.R. 3613 is designed to before the Federal Manpower Development Congress, I thought this recent article of promote public service employment and Training Act. Based on our past ex Art Buchwald may be of some help: perience in Pennsylvania, this State could which can be coordinated to prevailing POOR RONALD REAGAN implement a large public employment pro State requirements and to promote pub gram with little or no major disruption in (By Art Buchwald) lic service jobs which can be expanded the State's operation. The Department of No matter how I try, I can't stop worrying. occupationally once high unemployment Welfare alone could irnm.ediately produce about Gov. Ronald Reagan's personal finan recedes. Therefore, I would encourage 5,000 new jobs. The Commonwealth has al cial situation. As everyone knows by now, my colleagues to carefully read the fol ready developed a system which could ac Gov. Reagan had such bad financial reverses lowing testimony from Governor Shapp commodate itself to a public service em last year that he didn't have to pay state and consider the merits of a public serv ployment program in the following ways: income taxes. ice employment program in each of their 1. The Non-Civil Service classification of Instead of Californians sympathizing with State Work Program Trail.nee presently used him over these financial reverses, they be States: by the State's New Careers Programs, is came upset and felt there was something TESTIMONY BY Gov. MILTON J. SHAPP suited to a wide range of other public service wrong because they had to pay taxes and The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania jobs. This position carries all benefits of regu Reagan didn't. strongly supports the Emergency Employ lar State employes except for permanent Very few people in the state said, "If the ment Act of 1971 (HR 3613) which could status and participation in the State Re governor makes $44,000 a year as salary and pump $4 billion into public service jobs for tirement Plan. has assets of around $1 million and still can't the unemployed and underemployed over the 2. The position carries an hourly wage of pay his state income taxes, then he must be next five yea.rs. Estimates a.re that it would $1.82 which could be adjusted aocording to .llurtlng very badly, and needs pity rather mean half a million useful new jobs-some the requirements of the bill. Civil Service and than censure." 150,000 of them immediately ... personnel procedural requirements have been My first thought was that the governor May 26, 1971 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 17195 should seek legal aid from the local Office of out the postal system, it was obvious tion is now carried by mail. We are seeking Economic Opportunity. Although Reagan is overhaul and reform was urgently to find other methods of delivery and un doubtedly will be able to divert some circu trying to abolish legal aid for the poor in needed. It should also be recalled that California, I'm sure the poverty lawyers lation from the postoffice. But for those who would take his case anyway, just to prove during consideration of the postal reform must receive their newspapers and maga that they will take anybody in dire financial bill Congress amended the bill to protect zines by mail, a surcharge probably will be straits, regardless of race, creed, or elective the right of postal employees to join or necessary if all the increases are put into office. not join a union. Under the circum effect. This hasn't happened yet, however. To make sure, I telephoned a CRLA (Cali stances, there was no choice but to sup If it does, the burden will fall upon the fornia Rural Legal Assistance) lawyer in Gali port postal reform legislation. farmer and the residents of small towns fornia and asked him if he would take Rea Mr. Speaker, since that time I have those already getting the short end of the gan as a client. been most concerned over recent devel stick. City prices will not be affected where "Yes," he said, "he would qualify for free carrier delivery is possible. legal aid. Our charter specifically says that opments within our postal system. Everyone, of course, will pay more for any governor of a state whose finances are in First, I know the well-advertised de magazines taken through the mails. And such poor shape that he doesn't have to pay cision to take politics out of the Post businesses with heavy mailings will suifer as personal state income taxes is in no position Office was long overdue and correct. well. No one will escape entirely the new to pay a lawyer, and is therefore eligible for Nevertheless, I am concerned over a sys lug. free legal advlce. It would be our pleasure tem that in reality made sure the polit Out at Rays, Lloyd Ballhagen comments in to help Gov. Reagan in any way we could." ical patronage system of the past would his News on the sad situation as follow: "How would you go about it?" "Got any 6-cent stamps laying around the "From a legal standpoint it would prob remain intact and a system that in many house? ably be the most interesting case we've ever cases will not even allow a competitive "Better use them. This week. Or else you'll handled. Most of our cases have had to do examination to determine personnel have to add a two-cent stamp to them. with people who didn't pay any state income placement. " As of Sunday, the U.S. Postal Service will taxes because they didn't make any money. Second, in voting for postal reform raise regular postage on a letter to eight This would be the first time we represented legislation, I expressed concern that this cents. Air mail will go up to 11 cents. Penny someone who made money but didn't pay in reorganization would simply mean high postcards go to six cents. All second and come taxes. er . postal rates, a further decrease in third-class rates, plus some fourth-class "Surely there is something wrong with the rates will increase by from 10 to more than system if the governor of the largest state in service in our rural areas, and finally 20 percent. the Union has been hurt so badly financially the closing down of many of our rural "What has ~appened? Congress has turned that he can't pay any taxes." and smalltown postal offices. Since last over the rate-making powers to the board of "But what legal defense would you have session of Congress we have had a postal governors. No longer do our lawmakers set for him?" I asked. increase, the service has not improved, the rates. They've apparently decided others "First we would have to find out what fi we have lost many regional offices, and are more capable of determining how much nancial reverses Reagan had, whether they we are waiting for the other shoe to drop it should cost us to mail a letter. came from cattle, oil, real estate, or the stock regarding our local post offices. "The mail was established as an econom market. Then we would prove that it wasn't ical way for the public to transmit messages. his fault that his investments went sour. It \Vhat has happened to the concept It never was supposed to support itself. Sud was probably due to the general economy." that our national mail service was estab denly the bright idea occurs, somewhere "But the Republicans are in charge of the lished as an economical way for our citi along the line, that the Post Office Depart economy right now. Wauldn't it look bad if zens to transmit messages rather than ment should be self-sustaining. That it Reagan blamed his own party for the fact being run as a profitmaking corporation? shouldn't be subsidized as much by tax he had such a bad income situation?" Recently, the editor of the Salina Jour money. That the users of the mail should "I guess you're right. We'll have to think try to pay their own way. Wow! of something else. Perhaps we could persuade nal, Mr. \Vhit Austin, summed up this situation very well in an editorial called "Applied to other areas of government, the courts to allow the governor to make one this means only those who use the public motion picture a year. "The Post Office Robbery." Mr. Austin schools should pay for the schools, only those "Or a new 'Death Valley Days' series," I clearly makes a case for the problems who use the police or fire departments should suggested. newspaper publishers face regarding pay for them, only those who use the streets "I was thinking of a remake of the 'Grapes postal rate increases, but perhaps even should pay for them. A radical departure of Wrath,'" the lawyer said. "They could more to the point, he states correctly that from our system. shoot most of it around Sacramento, so the the burden will fall upon the farmer, the "The Post Office Department is in trouble, governor wouldn't have to be on location too they say. It needs more money, they say. long. But the important thing is to get him senior citizen, and the residents of rural and small-town America. I should like "It's not in trouble for the lack of funds healthy financially so he doesn't have to eat but for the overabundance of bureaucracy. from the public trough. to pose the question many of my con It, like the railroads, is so bogged down in "This thing has far more ramifications stituents are asking: If postal reorga civll service bureaucrats that no Postmaster than anyone wants to admit," he said. "We're nization means higher postal rates, a fur General, no matter how dynamic and effi trying to pull the poor up by their bootstraps ther decline in rural service, loss of our cient, can streamline the department. so they become honest, hard-working citi zens. But if they see somebody like Gov. Rea regional post offices, the closing down "As a result, we'll all pay through the nose gan, who has worked all his life and still of many of our rural post offices, and a after Sunday-for our right to use the has nothing left over for income taxes, locked-in noncompetitive patronage sys mails-a public service institution.'' they're going to say to themselves 'The hell tem of the past, who needs it? with it. Let's stay on welfare.'" I commend the following article from the Salina Journal to the attention of my colleagues, all of whom were between LATEST SEGMENT OF "THE FBI a rock and a hard place regarding postal STORY" THE POST OFFICE ROBBERY reform legislation last session of Con- gress: THE POSTOFFICE ROBBERY HON. JOHN M. ZWACH HON. KEITH G. SEBELIUS OF MINNESOTA Newspaper publishers rightly are con OF KANSAS cerned about the increases in rna111ng costs. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES And so should be the subscribers! Wednesday, May 26, 1971 Wednesday, May 26, 1971 Maynard Watkins, The Journal's circula tion manager, estimates that the postal hike Mr. Z\VACH. Mr. Speaker, while we Mr. SEBELIUS. Mr. Speaker, there is on second class mail to go into effect Sun have found the Federal Bureau of In an old expression in my home State of day Will increase mailing costs about 28 per vestigation under heavy attack by some Kansas that when a farmer is faced with cent. This jump The Journal is prepared to Members of Congress and some of our an unpleasant decision he is caught be absorb for the time being. mass news media people, out in country tween a rock and a hard place. That is But if all the projected increases in news side America, where I come from, the precisely the position I think we faced paper rates eventually are put into effect, mailing costs will increase three times. If people seem to believe that the FBI and during the last session of Congress re this were to happen, Watkins estimates The its Director, J. Edgar Hoover, are doing garding postal reform legislation. Journal's annual postage bill would jump a commendable job. Faced with wildcat strikes that threat from $60,000 to $180,000--0r about a nickel As a further example of this attitude, ened our Nation's postal service and per copy. I insert in the RECORD an editorial by !aced with deteriorating service through- Nearly a third of The Journal's circula- Father Roger Vossberg of the St. Cloud 17196 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 26, 1971 Visitor, a Catholic weekly, in our Min Medicare in his area of southern Missouri with these national emergencies when .nesota Sixth Congressional District: was behind in processing claims for his multi the railroads face shutdown. specialty group to the tune of $150,000 since I don't have the solution. At the same Now THE FBI January. time, there is no shortage of recommen · ~· The case against the FBI is very weak, in The Bulletin called the local Medicare of dations before the congressional com •deed . . . If anybody wants to make a more fice to inquire about the situation. After -convincing case against the FBI, surely it several calls to a busy number, contact was mittees and they offer many variations. should take the form of saying that it is established and we were told that the Medi What I do feel-and very strongly Underachieving rather than overzealous." care people were working very hard. Further is that the Congress needs to act to find This is the view of columnist William F. more, they did not wish to discuss the matter a permanent solution. Let the legislative Buckley of the Washington Star Syndicate. of being behind in processing claims since committees work out their best judg In his defense of the FBI, Buckley points they did not feel this would be good publicity. ments and then let us have up-or-down out the spectacular rise of ma.jar crimes such The intent of these comments is not to votes in the House and the Senate. Only as car theft, mugging, rape and murder over castigate a system of health care payment in this way can we move toward putting the past ten years. "That requires intensified or to reflect on individuals who run the sys police activity, refined methods of crime de tem. More accurately our intent is to draw a solution into law. tection and improvement in the judicial public attention to the matter of delin CANNOT JUSTIFY INACTION and penological systems." quency in paying for a contracted service We in Congress cannot justify inac Buckley points out the great job the FBI and to ask what can be done to control this tion on a permanent system, thus forc has done in counteracting subversion, a far backward slide before the system becomes ing now-repetitious emergency action more subtle brand of crime. "During the '30s, as far behind as our court system is in trying whenever a railroad impasse arises. '40s and '50s, subversion was mostly the or cases. ganized job of the Communist Party, as Our federal government has felt the pinch Mr. Speaker, the two daily newspapers agents for the Soviet Union. The FBI bril of inflation in other ways besides failing to in my home city of Buffalo, N.Y., have liantly penet rated the CP, and the tightly hire enough people to administer Medicare editorialized on the subject and it is in disciplined Communists were neutralized." claims. Look at the new enlarged one page teresting to note their differing ap Buckley is right when he points out: "Af narcotics form recently received which now proaches. One criticizes my vote of last ter all, when one gets mugged, raped, mur has a four page set of instructions, a new week which is its prerogative. I will let my dered or blown up these days, it is not done prescribing number which has doubled or record and position stand for them by the FBI, but by those the FBI failed to tripled in size and requires five times as selves. lay its han ds on". much tax as the previous form ($5.00). The (Personally, I would feel much more com penalties for incorrectly filing the form also As part of my remarks I include the fortable living in a city or the country if I have increased considerably. two editorials. knew the FBI were on the job there. I have Perhaps we should hire some of the public [From the Buffalo Evening News, May 19, no fear whatsoever of the FBI, the state relations people from the Pentagon to sell 1971] highway patrol, the sheriff, the local police. us on the idea of accepting with pleasure WRITE A NEW RAIL LABOR ACT I try to respect them and when tagged or late payments from Medicare and the change One wonders how many more disruptive warned for traffic violations, I have always from simplicity to extreme complexity in railroad labor disputes the nation must en found they were right and they were kind. prescribing certain medications. dure before Congress ceases to legislate only on the other hand, I fear to live in cities Some might think it wiser to use reason crisis-to-crisis stopgaps and begins to legis or other areas where crime is rampant and in solving these problems with haste, and let late broad, long-range refonns to cope with where it is not sa.fe for anybody to be out the quality of the result do the selling for fundamental causes Of these periodic dis- after dark. I am always happy to see the po itself. putes. • lice around and have the assurance that the With the strike precipitated by 13,000 sig FBI is trying to do its job of spotting and nalmen already on, Congress had no better identifying dangerous characters and pos RAILROAD LEGISLATION immediate choice, given its past defaults. sible plots against life and property). than it had in the one-day strike last Decem ber when it ordered the strikers back to HON. THADDEUS J. DULSKI work, extended a cooling off period in which OF NEW YORK to negotiate a settlement--and prayed. FIGHT DELINQUENCY IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Even the granting of an interim pay raise to sweeten the bitter no-strike ban for the Wednesday, May 26, 1971 workers echoes last December's stopga,p tech HON. DURWARD G. HALL Mr. DULSKI. Mr. Speaker, the rail nique. OF MISSOURI roads are rolling again as a result of It's all as predictable as tomorrow's sun IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES rise, or as the next rail crisis. But what if no emergency legislation swiftly enacted by settlement is reached voluntarily when this Wednesday, May 26, 1971 the Congress last week and signed into new cooling-off period expires? Congress and Mr. HALL. Mr. Speaker. Andrew Mc law within hours by the Chief Executive. the President will be no more ready to toler canse editor of the Greater Kansas City In a nutshell: This is no way in which ate a prolonged strike then than now. Nor should they. While the dwindling pas Medic~l Bulletin, speaks for many in a to run the railroads--or the country. I opposed the emergency legislation senger service has dulled the public's immedi recent editorial about delinquent medi ate personal awareness of the damage a care payments. As Mr. Mccanse states, just as I have opposed each similar bill nationwide rail strike can do, trains still the Kansas City Medicare Office is 34,000 in the past. haul more intercity freight than all trucks, claims behind. It was less than 6 months ago that barges and airplanes combined. Thus a rail It is most unfortunate that physicians Congress last was required to enact strike can quickly rot tons of perishables who diligently and methodically care for similar stopgap legislation. And that headed for the supermarkets and close down their patients, then fill out the reams --almost everyone tries to keep up CambO
in F.A.P. allowing increases in the federal bers receive training allowances or have 11. The federal government will not pro payment of $2400. States will have no incen school children who work, the most a family v i de jobs. Public service employment author tive to provide increases since they must of four can receive in welfare and wages com ized by F.A.P. would receive federal funds for pay for them entirely with state and local bined is $4140 a year. This provision will not only three years: 100% in the first year, 75 % money. Poor people will become poorer as allow a family to work its way out of poverty in the second and 50 % in the third, nothing the cost-of-living rises. since the poverty level will be above $4140 thereafter unless states fund the entire cost. 6. Family Maximum Imposed. by the time the bill goes into effect. More extensive legislation has been passed by A family of two people receives, $1,600; 5. The incentive to work will be less than Congress but vetoed by President Nixon. three people receive, $2,000; four, $2,400; under present law. Under current law, re 12. Jobs for welfare recipients are not five, $2,800; six, $3,100; seven, $3,4.00; and cipen ts retain the first thirty dollars they available. The punitive nature of the forced eight (or more), $3,600. make each month plus the entire amount of work requirement assumes that jobs are Families' payments vary with the num their work related expenses and a third of available for welfare mothers and that the ber of people in the family. The more peo the remaining income. Under the O.F.F. pro rolls are filled with employable people who ple, the more money it can receive. However, visions of H .R. 1, recipients will retain $60 simply refuse to work. Neither assumption is families of more than eight members will · instead of $30 plus a third of their remain correct. The 1969 H.E.W. Study of Aid to be able to get no more than $3,600. the ing income. However they will not retain any Families with Dependent Children reports amount a family of eight receives. FAP dis of their income to cover work related ex that 20.1 % of welfare mothers are in the criminates against large families. penses except for some portion of their child labor market. Of these, 66.5 % are working. 7. Discrimination against single individ care costs. Recipient.s will be forced to take 33.5% are unemployed-looking for work but uals, childless couples, families and against money for transportation, lunch, union dues, unable to find it. This is over five times the blacks. F.A.P. provides benefits only for uniforms, tools and income and Social Se national unemployment rate. families with children. Single individuals curity taxes out of their earnings. This Governor Reagan of California wrote to and couples without children receive no usually amounts to far more than the $30 309,485 employers in the state asking each to benefits whatsoever, unless they are aged, additional amount recipients are allowed un hire one welfare recipient. Only 13,000 em disabled or blind. They must rely on almost der the bill. ployers responded. A total of 337 jobs were nonexistant state and local relief programs. 6. The incentive to work is completely reported but only 26 actual jobs resulted Families with children would receive only destroyed if you get sick. F .A.P. recipients from the effort. The average salary was $71.00 half as much as the aged, disabled <1.nd blind. must spend a third of their earnings on a week. While a family of four receives $200 a month, bills medical before they become eligible for LEGAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS by July, 1973 an aged couple will receive Medicaid coverage. Since F.A.P. recipients the same amount. are allowed to keep only a third of their 1. Recipients would have fewer legal rights Half of the families on welfare are black. earnings in the first place, this means a under F.A.P. than they have now. The few Only one-fifth of the aged, disabled and family will be reduced to the basic welfare legal rights to welfare poor people enjoy un blind recipients are black. The program level of $2400 before they get Medicaid. der current law are seriously undermined or 1. that is largely black will pay half as much 7. Recipients are not protected by the outright denied by H .R. Several provisions fly in the face of constitutionally protected as the program that is largely white. federal minimum wage. It is unlikely that rights to equal protection and due process of FORCED WORK PROVISIONS recipients will be referred to jobs paying the law. Many provisions further demean poor 1. The forced work requirement is more minimum wage since the jobs available to the poorest workers are not covered by the people and destroy their family life, dignity repressive and punitive than present law. In and pride and make them less able to stand minimum. The bill forces recipients to take the light of growing unemployment these on their own. provisions will only serve to deny benefits whatever work is available unless the job pays less than three-fourths of the federal 2. Needy people who lose their jobs can be to needy people, harass innocent r 1tizens, denied assistance. The present law says that destroy family life and deny real opportuni minimum. The present federal m.iniimum wage is $1.60 an hour so recipients must payments are based on current needs, no ties for advancement. Families with mem matter what the family's past earnings were. accept $1.20 an hour, or $2400 a year. bers considered employable will be referred Under H.R. 1, this concept is rejected. Income to O.F.F., "Opportunities For Families," a 8. Recipients may be referred to any type received in the previous three calendar quar separate program run by the Labor Depart of job. The only language in the bill on the ters is to be deducted from benefits due the ment. Recipients who refuse to participate suitability of the job prevents recipients family in the current quarter even if in real will be thrown off welfare. However, the lack from being forced to strike break. Provisions ity all the income has been spent. A family of adequate training, child care and employ insuring that no one would have to take a could be denied assistance for six to nine ment provisions means no real opport uni job that endangers health and safety or that months under this provision. is too far from home have been removed. The ties, only harassmen t for poor people. 3 . Families are denied the right to prompt 2. Mothers with children over 3 years old clause allowing a person to refuse a job for assistance. Aged, blind and disabled recip will be forced to work. All family members "good cause" means little without some defi ients may receive assistance simply by filling will be required to register and accept a job nition written in the bill. out a form and stating that they are eligible. offer unless they are specifically exempted. 9. Opportunities for training are re On the other hand, families may be put Under present law only those specifically re stricted. The bill makes it very clear that the through a long and complicated investigation ferred to work are forced to register. Mothers purpose of F.A.P. is to subsidize low wage of eligibility before they can receive assist of children over three and children over six paying employers rather than enable poor ance. There is no language in the bill stating teen and not in school are among those not people to become self-supporting. Families t hat families must receive aid promptly. This exempted and forced to work. Mothers with headed by a college or university student will is a clear act of discrimination. Experiments a father in the home who registers need not not be eligible for benefits. Under current with the declaration form under present law register. But if there is no father in the home law welfare mothers are regulia.rly attending show no evidence of cheating. the mother will be forced out of the home college in the WIN Program. Under F.A.P. 4. Recipients will be cut off assistance and into a job. family heads will be denied the opportunity fined for failure to report their income every 3. Stable family life is threatened. If a to receive the training necessary to enable three months. Recipients who fall-for what family member refuses to register or refuses them to advance to the limit of their capa ever reason-to report accurately all earn a job that member is cut off welfare. This in bilities. ings plus other income from Social Security cludes a mother in cases where there is no 10. Child care opportunities are almost and other sources will be cut off and fined male parent in the home. Payments for other non-existant. Mothers with children will be $25 for the first offense, $50 for the second members of the family will not be sent to required to accept whatever child care facil and $100 for later times. If found guilty of tha..t member. Instead the children's welfare ities are offered by the Labor Department or fraud, recipient.s would be fined $1000 or be is required to be paid to a third party. The be cut off welfare. Under present law a imprisoned for one year or both. Under the government can pay the children's benefits mother has the right to be consulted about Medicaid provisions of H.R. 1, hospitals and to someone outside the home whom the gov the adequacy of the child ca.re arrangement. nursing homes must be reviewed by "pro ernment believes will be more interested in No standards that child care arrangements gram review teams" before those hospi~als the well-being of the children than the must meet are written in the bill. Authori and nursing homes which abuse the program mother who prefers to work raising her zation of funds for child care in this bill are can be cut off. People under the F.A.P. pro- family rather than work outside the home at totally inadequate. Families may be asked visions of are not given this review A H.R. 1 a menial, low-paying job. receipient who to pay all or part of the child care costs opportunity. refuses a job will not be entitled to a hearing alt hough some of these costs m ay be credited 5 . Recipients Tnust reapply every two years. before the third party payments begin. Third to the family's income. Child care authori party payments were not required by earlier Since the provision noted above requires re ties estimate the actual cost ait over $2100 a versions of F.A.P., and should be restricted cipients to report accurately their income to cases where the mother is proved to be un year for the care of just one pre-school child, every three months, there is no need for this able to manage funds. but the bill allows a total cost O'f $2000 for provision which forces a family to reapply 4. The plan will help only the very lowest a family of four for all child care plus earn as if it had never been receiving assistance. paid workers. Recipients will be allowed to ings of school children. The bill also limits It is a means of harassing rec:l.pients and keep only the first $720 a year they earn the amount of child care costs that may be encouraging those eligible for aid to go with one third of their earnings above $720 and deduoted from income under the income tax out it. still receive assistance. Unless family mem- law to $750. 6. Recipients and applicants can be de- May 26, 1971 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 17213 I nied adequate representation. The Secretary government. Representatives of recipients and recipient organizations are not specified. Grant Number of of H.E.W. is given broad authority to ban State level recipients certain people from entering Family Assis~ MEDICARE AND MEDICAID PROVISIONS ance offices to help recipients obtain their 1. Basic principles of the present Medicaid legal rights. Furthermore, the bill contains $3,600 per year, $300 per month: Program are undermined in a separate part 5,601,900 or 64.3 percent: language which could be used to interfere of R.R. 1, Title II. Recipients would have to 32. District of Columbia ______$278 51, 200 with organizations like N.W.R.0. which are Idaho ______------pay for services now completely paid by 33. Iowa ______282 18, 400 attempting to organize recipients. . . the government and the quality of the serv 34. 283 71, 100 7. Families can be cut off assistance i/ 35. Kansas ______------284 61, 400 ices which is already horrible in many com 36. North Dakota ______295 11, 500 they fail to apply for other benefits. If a munities would be cut back further. The 37. 295 105, ()()() :family is informed that it may be eligible for requirement that a state provide a compre 38. 297 28, 300 39. ~~!~ii~Michigan=====---~======______297 312, ()()() Social Security, Unemployment Insurance hensive Medicaid program by 1977 is elimi Rhode Island ______and similar benefits and fails to apply for 40. 297 42, 100 nated. States will be able to cut back on $4,000 per year, $333 per month: them within 90 days it will no longer receive services already provided. 6,282,100 or 72.1 percent: Illinois ______Family Assistance benefits. 2. Medicare Recipients would have to pay 41. 316 427, ()()() 8. The right to appeal decisions is cur 42. New Hampshire ______324 11, 200 part of their hospital bills. After the 3oth 43. Minnesota ______----- _ 329 91, ()()() tailed. Recipients and applicants may apply day of hospitalization a recipient would 44. South Dakota ______330 18, ()()() for a hearing if they feel they have been have to pay $7.50 a day. After the 60th day 333 133, ()()() unjustly treated. However, hearing proce a recipient would have to pay $15.00 a day. $4,2045i>e~::~;n1~ia -p-er-montil :------dures need not conform to present regula 6,952, 200 or 79.7 percent: The longer a person is ill the lower his ability 46. Vermont______334 13, 100 tions nor to the requirement set forth by to pay becomes. But the federal government 47. Pennsylvania ______339 508, 000 the Supreme Court in Goldberg v. Kelly, reduces its contribution and forces the re 48. Massachusetts ______340 149, 000 "397 U.S. 254 (1970), that benefits be con cipient to increase his as time goes by. $4,500 per year, $375 per month: tinued pending a hearing decision. Therefore 8,563, 200 or 9.0 percent: 3. Recipients would have to pay part of 49. Connecticut______356 91, 000 the rights to present evidence, cross-examine their nursing home bills. After the first 60 50. New York ______362 1, 140, 000 witnesses, and be heard by an impartial days of nursing home care, the Federal Gov 51. New Jersey ______371 380, 000 hearing examiner are not guaranteed, al ernment reduces its contribution by one $4,800 per year, $400 per month: to 8,709, 200 or 100 percent: though they are granted citizens and third. For mental hospital care a one-third 52. Alaska ______------_ 399 146, 000 corporations in their dealings with other fed reduction is made after the first 90 days eral agencies and to welfare recipients under and after one year there is no Federal con the current law. In addition, factual rulings tribution. III. SHOULD A MOTHER WORK FOR $1.20/HR.? made by hearing examiners are not per 4. Services covered by Medicaid may (Weekly} mitted to be appealed to the courts. be cut back and people eligible for A mother of 3 working 40 hours a 9. Illegal residency requirements may be assistance for the first time under F.A.P. week at $.1.20 per hour earns___ $48. 00 imposed. States which choose to supplement are not necessarily eligible for Medicaid. Social Security tax (5.2% )------2. 50 above the federal $200 a month payment may States are not required to spend more on Other deductions (union dues, hos- also choose to impose a one year residency Medicaid than they now spend. Rather than pitalization, etc.)------2. 50 requirement as a condition of eligibility for paying for the additional cost of the program, supplementary payments. F.A.P. would obli the Federal Government will allow states to Net pay______43. 00 gate the Federal Government to follow the reduce the medical services provided under state's decision in administering the supple medicaid and to decide whether or not newly (Her costs) mentation. This entire provision violates the eligible families with a father employed full Bus fare at $1.00 per day______5. 00 Constitution as interpreted by the Supreme time will be eligible for Medicaid at all. Court in Shapiro v. Thompson, 394 U.S. 618, Lunch away from home ($1.50 is 5. Profiteering by nursing homes in rural April 21, 1969. reasonable; allow $1.00/day) --- 5. 00 areas will be encouraged. Requirements that Extra personal expenses; clothing, 10. Step parents of F.A.P. children are held nursing homes in rural areas have at least liable for support payments. Under present tools, cleaning and laundry, etc. one full-time registered nurse on staff would ($10.00 is reasonable, allow $5.00/ federal welfare law, a step parent must sup be dropped. port the children of his or her spouse only wk. ------5.00 if there is a general state law requiring all Bus fare to get 3 children to ba.by step parents to support their step children. II. RECIPIENTS BELOW VARIOUS FEDERAL FLOORS, JULY 1970 si tter or child care center ($3.00 is Only a few states have such general laws. [Cash and food stamp bonus combined) reasonable; allow $2.00) ------10. 00 This provision of F .A.P. would require step Child care for 3 children: pa.rent support and thereby provision of Grant Number of F.A.P. would require step parent support and State level recipients HEW estimates $2,100/yr/child, thereby discriminate against the poorest fam or $40.00 per week per child. ilies by imposing an unnecessary financial $1,600 per year, $133 per month : We estimate $25.00 per week per hardship. Rather than reducing the amount 249,000 or 2.7 percent: child for babysitter. Allow of government funds necessary for the sup 1. Puerto Rico ______$53 249, 000 $20.00/wk/child ------60. 00 $2,200 per year, $183 per month: port of step children, it will increase the 572,700 or 6.6 percent: need for welfare payments. A mother with 2. Mississippi ______160 124, 000 Total 85.00 children will be deterred from remarrying 3. Alabama J ______168 146, 000 because her new husband would be forced to 4. Arkansas ______------181 53, 700 Net loss from working full $2,400 per year, $200 per month: time at $1.20 per hour____ -42. 00 support the entire family. Step fathers would 872,500 or 10.2 percent: be encouraged to leave home so that the 5. South Carolina ______184 63, 800 Work without pay is slavery! work for mother and children could receive higher pay 6. Louisiana ______190 236, 000 minus pay is tyranny! ments. The Supreme Court has ruled that $2,800 per year, $233 per month: FAP-OFF grant is $2,400 per year for 2 123 700 or 24.4 percent: a mother with 3 children each such provisions are illegal under the present ' 7.' Missouri ______202 162, 000 law in King v. Smith, 392 U.S. 309, June 17, 8. Tennessee ______204 157, 000 week that comes to______$46. 15 1968. 9. Georgia ______205 237,000 10. Florida ______206 242, 000 As a reward for working, a mother 11. There is no limit on parents' support 11. West Virginia ______with three children ends up obligations. Even if a mother or father can 210 104, 000 12. Nevada ______------212 14, 800 with ------4.15 not afford to support the children, a parent 13. Indiana ______214 93, 000 who leaves home would be obligated to the 14. North Carolina ______222 137, 000 A family of four needs $6,500 a year or $125 United States government for every cent the 15. Arizona ______231 58, 700 a week net for minimum health and decency 16. Maine ______232 45, 700 family receives from F.A.P. unless the amount $3,000 perlear, $250 per month: in 1971. of support payments were fixed by a court 2,871,50 or 32.9 percent: WHAT IS A REAL WORK INCENTIVE? 17. Texas ______-- _------237 284, 000 order. If no court order has been issued, the (Weekly) ability of the parent to pay is not permitted 18. New Mexico ____ ------_ 240 56, 900 19. Oklahoma ______243 99, 900 Mother of three working 40 hours to be a factor in limiting his or her liabil 20. Delaware ______------245 23, 000 at $2 per hour ______$80.00 ity. Many fathers do in fact leave their wives 21. Kentucky ______------_ 245 135, 000 22. Maryland ______149, 000 4.16 and children because they cannot afford to 248 Social security tax (5.2%) ------ $3,300 per year, $275 per month: Other deductions (union dues, hos support them. Parents who travel in inter 4,900,900 or 57.4 percent: state commerce to avoid supporting their 23. Nebraska ______------_ 252 34, 000 pitalization) ------2.84 24. Ohio ______252 306, 000 children are subject to a fine of $1000, a year 25. Utah ______258 39, 500 Net pay ______in prison, or both. 26. Wisconsin ______263 85, 600 73.00 27. California ______12. Advisory committees may exclude re 267 1, 378, 000 28. Oregon ______271 83, 000 (Her costs) cipients. Advisory committees to evaluate the 29. Wyoming ______273 6, 000 program would be composed of representa 30. Montana ______274 16, 400 Bus fare------5.00 31. Colorado ______tives of labor, business, the public and the 275 80, 900 Lunches ------5. 00 17214 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 26, 1971 (Her costs)-Continued THE PROPELLER CLUB OF THE UNITED STATES, PUERTO RICO AND THE MINIMUM Laundry, etc______$5. 00 POSITION No. 10-1971, THE CROSS-FLORIDA WAGE Children's transportwtion and child- BARGE CANAL care provided in her neighborhood, BACKGROUND free. The Cross-Florida Barge Canal project, linking the Gulf intracoastal waterway and HON. HERMAN BADILLO Total -15. 00 the Atlantic intracoastal waterway, was au OF NEW YORK thorized by Congress in 1942 to promote the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Net real income______58. 00 National defense and facilitate the trans portation of material and supplies under Wednesday, May 26, 1971 Adequate income grant, $6,500/year_ 125. 00 both wartime and peacetime conditions. Mr. BADILLO. Mr. Speaker, one of the One-third of her real income is ex- In addition to providing flood control, wa empt in computing her grant ter supply hydrology and navigation, the major pieces of legislation currently be (Yax $5= $20) ------20. 00 Army Corps of Engineers' project plans ap fore the Congress is that which seeks to The family ends up with $145 and actu- proved by Congress were designed to prevent raise the Federal minimum wage. A par ally improves their standard of living by or eliminate danger to the environment. ticularly controversia.l issue-and one working. The Corps' action in considering the need which the House General Labor Subcom The mother has a choice of whether she for protecting the environment and main mittee carefully examined in recent wants the additional money or the addi taining ecological balance was in keeping hearings in San Juan-is the proposal tional time with her children. with its long-standing practice in construc that the minimum wage be fully appli tion of other water resource projects. cable to Puerto Rico, on the same basis Each year since 1962 Congress has appro as it would apply to the 50 States. PROPELLER CLUB OF THE UNITED priated funds for the design and construc STATES SUPPORT COMPLETION tion of the Cross-Florida Barge project. In Although much has been written OF CROSS-FLORIDA BARGE its fiscal year 1971 appropriations, Congress about the effects of the minimum wage CANAL specifically directed that the project not be in Puerto Rico, I do not feel that labor's delayed for any additional environmental side of the issue has been adequately impact studies, feeling that sufficient studies presented or fully considered. Further HON. CHARLESE. BENNETT already had been made to prove that the en more, opponents of the proposal seem to OF FLORIDA vironmental quality would not be disturbed want separate treatment for Puerto but would, in fact, be enhanced over the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES years. Rican workers, even though they are American citizens entitled to the same Wednesday, May 26, 1971 On January 19, 1971, President Nixon or dered a halt to further construction work benefits and protections as other Ameri Mr. BENNETT. Mr. Speaker, the on the Cross-Florida Barge Canal. He indi can citizens. Cross-Florida Barge Canal, authorized cated he was taking such action on recom I have recently received a letter from and funded by the Congress, is a nation mendation of the Council on Environmental Sr. Nicolas Nogueras Rivera, president of al project which will benefit all Ameri Quality. The Council had pointed out to him the Puerto Rico Free Federation of La cans. The canal has wide support, not "that the project could endanger the unique bor. In urging that the minimum wage wildlife of the area and destroy this region only in Florida, but across the country. of unusual and unique natural beauty." Sub be fully applied to Puerto Rico, Sr. No An indication of this support is the sequently, the Army Corps of Engineers or gueras presents a forceful and percep resolution recently adopted by the Pro dered all work on the project stopped. At tive argument. As he aptly notes, Puerto peller Club of the United States. Mr. that time the project was one-third com Ricans are American citizens and de William M. White, president of the Port plete and the United States had expended serve equal treatment. of Jacksonville, Fla., chapter of the Pro more than $50 million on design and con Commenting on the position of certain peller Club has called to my attention a struction. The Canal Authority of the State industrial groups and special business of Florida has disbursed an additional $12 interests, Sr. Nogueras comments that-- recent resolution adopted by the South million since 1964 when actual construction east Regional Convention of the Propel on the project got under way. Sometimes they have expressed the idea of ler Club. It is similar to the action taken Water transportation interests, water re leaving out Puerto Rico from the benefits of earlier this year at the national conven source development interests, and the Con the National Labor Standards Act. In other tion of the organization. gress of the United States are united in the occasions, they talk about flexibility, mean I include in the CONGRESSIONAL REC belief that continued development of the ing that the law should continue with the Cross-Florida Barge Canal is essential to the so-called Special or Industrial Committees, ORD a copy of Mr. White's letter to me where employers have practically the domi and the resolution of the national or nation's defense posture, and transportation needs of the country as a whole. They be nant privileged position. In some occasions, ganization backing the Cross-Florida lieve this can be accomplished in harmony they maintain the position that some indus Barge Canal, which is economically jus with ecological considerations. tries in Puerto Rico may afford to pay the tified, will help the environmental con statutory increases, but not all the indus trol in central Florida, and is needed for POSITION tries or employers. national defense, especially in light of The Propeller Club of the United States This Puerto Rican labor leader con increasing Soviet Navy activity in appeals to the President of the United States to re-consider his action on the Cross-Florida tinues his letter by noting that Puerto Caribbean. Barge Canal and to allow construction on Rican workers are entitled to equal pro The material follows: this essential project to proceed without fur tection and the opportunity to achieve a PROPELLER CLUB ther delay in accordance with authority al standard of living at the same level as OF THE UNITED STATES, ready granted by the Congress. their fellow Americans on the mainland: Jacksonville, Fla., May 12, 1971. We are just simply and plain and loyal Representative CHARLES E. BENNETT, American citizens entitled to the equal pro House of Representatives, House Office Build tection of the law. The American citizenship ing, Washington, D.C. MAN'S INHUMANITY TO MAN of which we are really proud should not be DEAR REPRESENTATIVE BENNETT: Delegates HOW LONG? understood only to receive grants-in-aid; to attending the Southeast Regional Conven enjoy subsidies and protection for agricul tion of the I'ropeller Club of the United tural, commerce and industries and help to States held r · ~cently in San Juan, Puerto carry on the economic burden of the local Rico unanimo·.isly adopted a resolution call HON. WILLIAM J. SCHERLE government o!f the Commonwealth. The ing for completion of the Cross Florida OF IOWA American citizenship contemplates also the Barge Oanal. A copy of this resolution is en fulfillments of individual and social duties. closed for your information. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES They, the conservative and ultra-reactionary This action re-emphasizes the favorable Wednesday, May 26, 1971 employers, do not believe in economic and position taken at the National Convention social justice; do not believe Puerto Ricans and the importance of this project to the Mr. SCHERLE. Mr. Speaker, a child are entitled to the high standards of living local sixty (60) clubs and thirteen thousand asks: "Where is daddy?" A mother asks: of the continental fellow Americans; they do (13,000) members of the Propeller Club "How is my son?" A wife asks: "Is my not believe in the constitutional precepts of across the nation. husband alive or dead?" the equal protection of the law. Your restudy of this project and support Communist North Vietnam is sadisti The Puerto Rico Free Federation of Labor for its completion without further delay cally practicing spiritual and mental gen ("Federaci6n Libre de los Trabajadores de will be appreciated. Puerto Rico") founded 1899 by the late Sincerely, ocide on over 1,600 American prisoners Santiago Iglesias Pantin, and the member WILLIAM M. WHITE, of war and their families. ship and leaders are hopeful that the people President. How long? will be protected in their rights to live a May 26, 1971 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 17215 decent life and to receive the economic jus the application of the Federal Labor Stand PUBLIC SAFETY AND POLICE tice of the federal law to face, to some ex ards Act. In 1940 the law was amended with POWERS tends, the infiationary spiral so as to afford the excuse of protecting the needlework in our people the opportunity to pay goods, dustry. All other industries were covered by commodities in general and services so the protection. As we have said in previous HON. ROBERT F. DRINAN badly needed in the homes of the Puerto statements "this long break has produced OF MASSACHUSETTS Rican families, integrated by loyal American anxiety, social and economic frustrations, citizens. hopelessness in the hearts and homes of the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES working people and have developed malnu Wednesday, May 26, 1971 Attached to Sr. Nogueras letter was a trition and diseases and has hampered the copy of a statement which the Puerto normal development in the social and educa Mr. DRINAN. Mr. Speaker, I take Rico Free Federation of Labor submitted tional fields in a great segment of underpaid pleasure in including in the RECORD an to the General Labor Subcommittee last labor"; excellent statement from America maga fall. Although this statement does not 3. The discrimination of the Wage and zine, the National Catholic Weekly, ed specifically pertain to minimum wage Hour and Public Contracts Law against the ited by the Jesuits of the United States. legislation, it eloquently expresses the working people of Puerto Rico who are also This statement, entitled "Public Safety status and plight of the Puerto Rican American citizens doesn't assure the people and Police Powers," appeared in the May of Puerto Rico the equal protection of the labor movement and petitions the Con law. The Constitution of the United States 22, 1971, issue of America and states gress for equal treatment under the laws was adopted and amended to guarantee the that the thousands of arrests made by we enact. As I mentioned in my speech equal protection of the law to every citizen of the police of demonstrators in early May on Puerto Rico earlier this month, wages our Nation. A minimum wage rate for agri in Washington would be legal only "by on the island are only a fraction of those cultural workers and other !or industrial changing the Constitution to permit 24- on the mainland, although the cost of employees have been established to workers or 48-hour detention by the police of living in Puerto Rico is much higher than on the mainland nationwide and uniformly. any citizen for reasons of public safety." If But when coming to Puerto Rico and other America magazine goes on to state, how in many U.S. locales. we are going territories integrated by American citizens, to effectively grapple with the urban by loyal Americans, wage rates are lower and ever, that-- crisis and the impending influx of Puerto the procedure to fix them are let to special As a nation ... we have wisely declined Rican migrants, we must make certain industry committees where labor has a mi to give the police this authority. It is too that Puerto Rico receives its full and fair nority vote; easily abused. These days, the government share. 4. Sometimes you have to hear and endure can find a need for public safety anytime Mr. Speaker, I commend the Federa the argument that we do not pay direct it wants to. tion's statement to the attention of our federal taxes; that we do not economically The article from America magazine to cooperate to keep the public structure of colleagues and am pleased present it the administration. This is one of the falacies follows: herewith for inclusion in the RECORD: that have been used once and again by some PuBLIC SAFETY AND POLICE POWERS STATEMENT OF MR. NICOLAS NOGUERAS RIVERA, enemies of the United States in Puerto Rico; Through the technique of mass arrests, PRESIDENT OF THE PUERTO RICO FREE FED by secessionists. The people of Puerto Rico the Washington, D.C., police force efficiently ERATION OF LABOR TO THE HOUSE GENERAL are one of the best buyers of the American thwarted the efforts of the "Mayday Tribe" to SUBCOMMITTEE ON LABOR ON PROPOSED BILLS production both on the mainland and of this disrupt the government during the opening AMENDING THE NATIONAL LABOR STANDARDS island. In all that we buy we pay all the costs days of May. But the mass arrests themselves ACT of production; all the taxes; all the wage demonstrated that, where public safety is the Distinguished members of the Subcom increases; all the interests; all the expenses issue, constitutional principles will be dis mittee: We have the privilege to appear from the area of production to the market regarded until order has been restored. The before the general Subcommittee of Labor on in Puerto Rico. And we have to buy and pay ancient Romans immortalized this principle behalf of the Puerto Rico Free Federation of the high prices of commodities with the low in the words Salus populi, suprema lex; we Labor founded in 1899 under the leader wages received by the toiling masses, who, might render it in modern English as "no ship of the late Santiago Iglesias Pantin and naturally have a very low buying power; government, no rights." voicing the sentiments of the toiling masses 5. In 1938 when Congress adopted the Na The principle is sound enough, but its of Puerto Rico integrated by loyal Americans. tional Labor Standards Act and extended it application must be carefully restricted to We are urging, as we have done before, that to Puerto Rico fixing a minimum wage of situations of the utmost urgency. When in considering any amendment or amend 25 cents an hour, the employers in Puerto police cleared the parks, the bridges and the ments to the National Labor Standards Act, Rico vigorously opposed the Act and used traffic circles in Washington, they were con Puerto Rico be treated as if it were a state almost the same arguments they are using fronted with mobs openly dedicated to public of the Union and that no discrimination be nowadays. But they are not opposing federal disruption. In the process of suppressing made affecting the Puerto Rican working subsidies; grants-in-aid; and other federal those mobs, the police also swept up large people, your fellow citizens. We base our programs to protect agriculture, commerce, numbers of peaceful sympathizers and a petition on the following points: business, etc. small number of curious onlookers and com 1. By the Treaty of Paris signed with 6. Inflation is constantly deducing the buy pletely innocent bystanders. The arresting Spain, the United States assumed the re ing power of the dollar and the discrimina officers did not have time to distinguish be sponsibility of the political destiny of Puerto tion in wages make it impossible for the tween the zealots, the eggers-on, the sym Rico. This island was occupied by the Amer American workers in this American territory pathizers, the :fire-watchers and the casual ican troops in 1898. In 1900 the U.S. Con to keep pace with the high standards of liv passers-by. Anyone caught within the limits gress adopted the Bill Foraker and a civil ing and inflation in the mainland. And we arbitrarily declared off-bounds was rounded government was established in our beloved buy with low wages the high priced com up and hauled away, without any of the island. In 1917 the U.S. Congress approved modities. usual niceties of constitutional procedure. the Jones Act and a new Organic Law was 7. We suggest that the definition of "State" It would be possible to legalize everything extended to Puerto Rico and American citi should include Puerto Rico and that this the police did during the recent demonstra zenship was bestowed to the people of this island be treated in the law and in its amend tions by changing the Constitution to permit Island. Thus, we are, by the will of Congress ments just as any of the states of the Union 24- or 48-hour detention by the police of any and the people of the United States, Ameri are treated or will be treated. We in Puerto citizen for reasons of public safety. As a na can citizens. And we are proud of being Rico are American citizens as are the citi tion, however, we have wisely declined to Americans. And we have shown and dem zens of New York, California, Louisiana or give the police this authority. It is too easily onstrated once and again that we have Michigan. We have fought side by side with abused. These days, the government can find been loyal and fullfledged Americans. And our fellow Americans from the mainland a need for public safety anytime it wants to. there ar3 no two different classes or cate during the First and Second World War; It is better to bend the ConSti tu ti on now and gories of American citizenship. during the Korean War and recently in then rather than declare open season on our 2. In 1938 the U.S. Congress considered it Vietnam. individual freedoms. proper and justified in adooting the Fair We are confident that the distinguished For the same reason, when the Attorney Labor Standards Act making it applioable to members of the Honorable Subcommittee on General of the United States claims the au Puerto Ric0 in equal footing with conti Labor will understand the position of orga thority to wiretap, without court approval, nental United States. The late Santiago nized labor and the toiling masses of Puerto any group suspected of domestic subversion, Iglesias Pantin, who by that time was Resi Rico who have to face the constant resist a.s Mr. Mitchell did in an appeal filed with dent Commissioner of Puerto Rico in Wash ance of employers who have in their hands the U.S. Supreme Court on May 8, that au ington approved the congressional action to means and ways to fight against any meas thority must be emphatically denied him. gether with our Free Federation of Labor and ure of the U.S. Congress destined to afford We should take it as a simple fact of life our working people in general. There seems to to our people in this island economic and that government authorities will use wire be no valid reason to continue since 1940 dis social justice and the American way of life taps whenever they think it indispensable criminating against Puerto Rican labor in to which we are entitled. to do so. But if we are to preserve any pri- 17216 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 26, 1971 vacy, we must maintain the basic principle wars and I know that ending this one now Member, to serve on three Sub-Committees: that government surveillance of individuals wm create an economic problem. But just as (1) Asian and Pacific Affairs; (2) Near East; and organizations, by wiretap or otherwise, we would not legally allow the murder of a and (3) Foreign Economic Policy. is the exception and not the rule. son in a civ111an home for the sake of family FOREIGN AFFAms COMMITTEE REPORT Where foreign espionage is concerned, de economy, I do not think we should con licate problems of international diplomacy tinue battlefield murder for the sake of na During my April visit to Paris, Ambassador justify maximum swiftness and secrecy in tional economy. I believe we should have Bruce, our chief negotiator to the Paris Peace our government's counter-operations. But strong military defense at home and lock talks, reported a complete stalemate. where domestic subversion ls the issue, it our doors to outside intruders, but to con Congressman Rosenthal and I arranged will be the rare case in which the F.B.I. or tinue sending our troops to foreign nations an informal meeting with the North Viet the police do not have time to secure a court because we are afraid they might intrude namese chief negotiator, Nygen Vy, the first order permitting wiretapping. The necessity on us is too much like going over and mur informal conference in 1¥2 years, since sen of securing the order, under penalty of not dering my person.al enemy because I'm afraid ator Vance Hartke of Indiana saw them. I being able to use the information acquired he might come over and murder me. cannot report great progress in any area. in a criminal prosecution, will effectively I believe that an international extension However, as "small steps for man" have been deter the government from conducting drag of our personal morality based on Christ's taken before, this could prove to be one of net wiretaps. It will also be a constant re teaching of peace through love is our only them leading to discussions on the fate and minder, to both the government and to all hope for the survival of our present civiliza release of our POW's--a cease fire and peace. of us, that freedom and privacy, however tion and that if we continue our "might Their response was that if a reasonable much restricted in times of great peril, are makes right" policy with Russia, we will termination date were set for our presence in primary constitutional values and therefore end up like the proverbial gingham dog and Vietnam, they would arrange for the release not subject to routine suspension. calico cat. of "all captured Americans" in their custody and would guarantee the safety of all of our withdrawing forces. REPORT TO THE THIRD CONGRES I do not fully trust the words of Hanoi, but since we are engaged in a "phased Vietna.mi A NEW STAGE OF CIVILIZATION SIONAL DISTRICT OF NEW YORK zation and withdrawal", as articulated by President Nixon, we could gain lives and HON. LESTER L. WOLFF safety for our forces and those who are rot HON. WILLIAM L. DICKINSON ting in prison camps by testing this proposal. OF ALABAMA OF NEW YORK If we set a date and Hanoi fails to release IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES our POW's according to plan, we have the Wednesday, May 26, 1971 option to rescind our withdrawal date. By Wednesday, May 26, 1971 failing to respond to this proposal, we are Mr. DICKINSON. Mr. Speaker, a very Mr. WOLFF. Mr. Speaker, earlier this failing our men who pay with their lives in discerning constituent of mine sent me a month, I sent to my constituents in the Vietnam and those at home who pay with copy of a short article she has written Third Congressional District of New York their dollars to support the war while condi a report on Federal activities of interest tions at home continue to erode. which I found to be most profound and Recently, as a Member of the Middle East impressive. I would like to share it with to them. Included in the report were my subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs my colleagues and include it herewith: thoughts on the economic situation in Committee, I visited Israel to assess the U.S. A NEW STAGE OF CIVILIZATION this country, revenue sharing, and the interest in this troubled land. The Soviet de lack of progress in. the Paris peace talks. sign for a take-over of the entire Middle (By Mrs. Zell Gaston Pope, Georgiana, Ala.) I would like to include a copy of my re East has been a long standing policy. Our na About twenty years ago a Maxwell Field port at this point in the RECORD: tion, concerned with our own basic Middle Chaplain spoke to our county teachers' East interests, cannot permit this "take A REPORT FROM YOUR CONGRESSMAN, LESTER organization on the development of our over" to occur. It would be an invitation for civilization in regard to social acceptance of L. WOLFF, THmD DISTRICT, N.Y. further penetration into Africa, India and murder. He said we had finally come to MAY 1971. Pakistan and control of the Mediterranean; reject any form of civilian murder except DEAR FRIEND: The past several months have it is in our interest to continue supporting for self-defense, but we still accepted mass been unusually busy for the beginning of a the independence of the State of Israel. murder in the form of war as right and new Congress and there is much to report. In Israel, I found a strength of purpose honorable as long as we could consider the First, for those of you w!lo want to visit or and dedication seemingly unparalleled. This victims as a part of an enemy nation. He correspond with me in Washington, note my type of support was unfortunately not predicted that some day we would reach a new office address: 403 Cannon House Office evidenced by the South VietJ:\8.mese. stage of civilization when we would realize Building, Washington, D.C. 20515. For my Israel has built strong defenses and has that war murder is as wrong as civilian mur Queens constituents, I have a new direct put those items that they have been per der. I am hoping and pr.aying that the pres New York City line to my District office (212) mitted "to purchase" from us to good use. ent anti-war sentiment will bring us to that 423-1050. The Nassau number remains un To request the Israelis to cede defensive ca stage. changed (516) 767-4343. pabilities by giving up strategic areas would According to the news media, however, we . NEW COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENT be an open invitation to rekindle the war are still lagging in some relative priorities. which could involve the entire world. In my The Calley incident of civilian murders made Last month I was elected sole downstate Member of the Veterans' Affairs Committee. talks with leaders, Israel requested not one top news while the list of our fighting men American soldier to do battle for them. They killed, wounded, and missing oan hardly be In addition to continuing service on the For eign Affairs Committee, I sought the added need and should have U.S. materiel to meet found on some obscure page in sm.all print, the combined Soviet-Arab challenge. Gerald and with no TV mention at all. Are not our assignment because I believe Congress must devote greater effort to meeting the needs Ford, Republican Leader of the House of military sons also innocent victims of a war Representatives said: "U.S. security is tied to they did not make or ask to fight? Are we of former servicemen. It is my intention to use this new Committee assignment to push Israel's". Since the program of materiels so steeped in the customs ar:d traditions of support closely follows the Nixon Doctrine, war that we cannot honorably admit th.at we for a shake-up of Veterans' Hospital care, a new VA Hospital for Long Island and to do less than fill Israel's materiel needs love and cherish the lives of our sons as would be in conflict with our basic interests. much as our daughters and children? There needed benefits for those who have served our is public concern about the right and wrong country. INDOCHINA of the death penalty for criminals and I shall be making a special effort in the The war in Indochina continues to be on their unsanitary prison conditions. But what area of veteran re-employment and job train center stage in Washington. I have been ac about the present count of our 262 thou ing. Unlike the programs which existed after tive on several different projects to end the sand men in the death row horrors of Viet World War II and the Korean War, the Fed conflict. nam? We criticize the irresponsible attitude eral Government has not given the needed More than 40 colleagues from both parties of todays youth and continue with a draft attention to helping discharged servicemen have co-sponsored my legislation to send a. law that is so disrupting to their careers secure Jobs. This is especially important high level U.S. study team to the October that they do not know how to plan their because the generally poor employment pic South Vietnamese presidential elections to lives. ture complicates this problem. I will try to determine whether these elections a.re fair As an ordinary American citizen, I may find a. solution to the growing Vietnam Vet and free. Senator Adlai Stevenson of llilnois not always be able to see the difference be erans narcotics addition problem. I am sponsored similar legislation in the Senate. tween political honesty and personal ambi hopeful that in my new position on the Protecting the South Vietnamese right of tion among the antiwar candidates, but I Veterans' Affairs Committee I can be of di self-determination has been the avowed pur am with the young people who plan to take rect assistance to Long Island veterans. pose of our involvement. We have the right their anti-war campaign to the polls. As a This is an appropriate place to note that and the responsibllLty to determine if this former student and teacher of history, I with my reappointment to the Foreign Affairs purpose has been fulfilled. know there have been economic causes of all Committee, I am continuing, as a ranking A large bi-partisan group of my colleagues May 26, 1971 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 17217 and I have sponsored the Vietnam Disengage work with local authorities to achieve this revenue sharing proposals. New York State ment Act providing for the orderly and total goal. would pay more than 12 percent of all taxes withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Vietnam In Hempstead Harbor, the Town of North and receive only 10.68 percent of "shared by a fixed date. This measure assures maxi Hempstead applied to the Army Corps of revenue" under the President's proposal, mum protection for our troops during the Engineers for permission to fill 26 acres of obviously not a Fair Share. withdrawal period, provides for the safe re marshlands preparatory to enlarging the I think the Federal Government should turn of all American POW's and gives the Town incinerator. At a public hearing called assume the burden of welfare, the largest South Vietnamese fair notice they will be at my request by the Corps, I opposed this expenditure of city, county and state govern responsible for their own defense. This is the request and suggested the Town use the ments. Since much of the problem has been only responsible pa.th to pursue. We should Port Washington sand pits as a short-term created by the in-migration, especially to not get out in the same haphazard way that location for dumping incinerator residl!e. I New York, from all over the United States, we got into this war. urged the Town to show some initiative by this would save New York State and the local I have sponsored and endorsed several reso moving toward modern means of refuse dis governments in the State approximately $1.7 lutions and statements in Congress making posal including recycling and residue treat billion a year compared to the ¥2 billion to certain that the total withdrawal of U.S. ment. Creative and imaginative solutions to be returned via revenue sharing. forces includes the return of all our prison the solid waste problem are the only alterna Such financial relief should enable New ers of war. The POW situation concerns me tive to being buried in our own garbage. York State to assume the full cost of public greatly and I think it imperative that we Further east is the Bayville-Oyster Bay education and eliminate unfair and regressive maintain ou:r Interest in these brave men area where the State would like to locate a local property taxes as the base for educa until they are finally back on American soil. bridgehead for a Long Island Sound cross tion. The net effect of such a program would ing. I am continuing to oppose this project be fair taxation, better public services and ECONOMIC ILLS CONTINUE with the goal of protecting the 5,000 acre more responsible administration. . The rate of inflation has slowed just federal wildlife refuge created by the Town I am pleased that House Ways and Means slightly and the level of unemployment re at my suggestion three years ago. The bridge Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills is giving mains excessively high---obviously the lack of battle has been long and difficult, but I am high priority to welfare reform. Inequities coherent, responsible national economic poli convinced that the public can win if we sus and waste in the present system must be cies has taken its toll on Long Island. I am tain our interest and continue to cooperate. eliminated. Public assistance is essential but continuing to work with industrial and la wasting the public's money is wrong. bor leaders on Long Island to increase em ASK CONGRESS I welcome your comments and suggestions ployment opportunities and bring new busi It has been my privilege to serve as mod on the wide range of issues pending before ness to our area. erator of the new nationally br:>adcast tele Congress. The President, responding to repeated re vision i;uow "Ask Congress." Now seen in ap Sincerely yours, quests to give special attention to Ol,lr par proximately 20 major cities across the coun LESTER L. WOLFF, ticularly severe unemployment problem, has try, "Ask Congress" is a non-profit, bipartisan Member of Congress. designated Nassau and Suffolk among the 14 public affairs show which presents leading regions in the country selected for special members of Congress, answering viewer ques relief. tions. You may watch "Ask Congress" in The Congress has also acted to help fight New York at 11 :30 p.m. every Sunday on WPIX, Channel 11. THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER: KNOWN our economic problems. I was proud to be BUT TO GOD counted on the "Low interest honor roll" SOCIAL SECURITY BOOST compiled by Banking and Currency Com The newly convened 92nd. Congress took mittee Chairman Wright Patman to fight quick action to pass legislation which I co high interest rates and am even more pleased sponsored to raise Social Security benefits by HON. JOHN J. DUNCAN that our effort has seen a reduction in in 10 percent. This was the minimum increase OF TENNESSEE terest rates. required to enable those on Social Security to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Extension by Congress of unemployment keep pace with sharply rising inflation and compensation as a means of immediate re unless the cost-of-living spiral is check~d. Wednesday, May 26, 1971 lief and to secure the release of blocked fed another increase will be required. Mr. DUNCAN. Mr. Speaker, today I eral funds as a long-term solution to our eco To solve this constant emergency action nomic weakness is under consideration. I am on Social Security benefits, I am an author would like to place in the RECORD a com a sponsor of both efforts. of legislation, the concept of which was en position that ties in with the day we I have written to you many times about dorsed by the President, to provide auto observe with reverence and dedication the short-sighted fiscal and monetary poli matic cost-of-living increments in Social Se Memorial Day. cies pursued by 2 consecutive Administra curity payments. Senior citizens and others Written by Mr. Gene Rickett of tions. I reiterate my fundamental commit receiving Social Security would not have to Knoxville, Tenn., the work is called "The ment to a reordering of national priorities wait for the legislative and bu!·eaucratlc Unknown Soldier." It follows: which can effect a net reduction In federal machinery to provide needed and justified in spending a nd, at the same time, provide creases. There is reason to believe that such THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER: KNOWN BUT TO GOD constructive employment for all Ame1foans. a change in the Social Security law might be (By Gene Rickett) Nurturing of soecial interests through costly enacted this year thereby resolving the in Known but to God, is the unknown soldier. and unproduct ive programs must stop. flationary bite on Social Security pensions. Laying in his tomb, he represents the war LONG ISLAND SOUND AND ITS SHORELINE SAVING THE MUSTANGS dead. After years of working on this prolllem, it A justifiable public outcry gained momen Known but to God, is the fate of our country, has been highly gratifying to have secured tum in recent months against the continual protected by those, who lie in our substantive Federal action on the conser stead. destruction of the remaining wild horses on Known but to God, he represents a. great vation of the Sound and its shoreline. our Western plains. The mustang population army, of loved ones to us, who will , I had two staff members at the New Eng has been reduced since the start of the cen never more roam. lan d River Basins Commission meeting in tury from an estimated two million to fewer Known but to God, are the souls of the last March. The Commission announced a pre than 17 thousand today. ones. liminary timetable for their comprehensive Long Island has become a center of na May they rest in peace, til God calls them three year study of the Sound. tional interest in saving the mustangs from home. The Environmental Protection Agency extinction. A number of constituents called Known but to God, is the strength of our held an enforcement conference designed to this subject to my attention early in the cur nation. secure industrial, municipal and private ad rent Congressional Session. I promptly au United by. him, we know we will stand. herence to existing water quality laws for the thored a strong measure to protect the mus Divided among us, are the strangers of Sound. Hundreds of polluters-most of them tangs and hearings have already been held Satan. on the Connecticut side of the Sound-are in the House and Senate on legislation which Known but to God, our life's in his hand. violating existing laws which, if enforced I proposed along with Congressman Baring Known but to God, are the hea.:rts of all could effectively clean up the Sound. I pledge and Gude and Senators Jackson, Nelson and people. to use all the power I can command to im Mansfield. Known but to him, we must do what we can , prove the water quality of the Sound. There is an excellent prospect of prompt if we should lose, our life to gain Closer to home, the Interior Department legislative action on this measure which freedom. completed a study I requested of Udall's would instruct the Secretary of the Interior Known but to God, is the freedom of man. Cove, at the tip of Little Neck Bay, and re to take steps to protect the remaining wild Known but to God, is the fate of our country. ported that portions of the Cove have eco horse herds from destruction for commercial Divided by fear and troubles within. logical value worth protecting. The Depart or other purposes. Known but to God, we must seek the right ment's Bureau of Sports, Fisheries and Wild AID FOR THE CITIES AND STATES answer. life said it favored conservation of the land The financial plight of state and local gov Down on my knees, is t he place where I've for open spaces recreation and ofrered to ernments will not be solved by the President's been. · 17218 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 26, 1971 "YOU ARE THE FLAG" GRAND PRIZE 9. Allen Schriver, 7th Grade, M.R. # 2, stripes. My future at that time was uncer WINNERS-PITI'SBURGH Baden 15005 (869-7203), Principal: Fred Mll tain. anovich, Teacher: Virginia Woodling Baden The year 1814 found me waving over Fort Economy Junior High School, Beaver County McHenry while the British were bombarding HON. WILLIAM S. MOORHEAD (869-2146). it. "Why am I here, I asked. I was not OF PENNSYLVANIA 10. Matthew Scroeder, 8th Grade, 106 Link harmed, and when morning dawned, a young Ave. Pgh 15237 (366-0319), St. Teresa School, man was inspired to write the "Star Spanglecl IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES North Hills (364-4216), Principal Sister Banner." Wednesday, May 26, 1971 Marcia, O.S.B., Teacher: Mrs. Mae Crenner. I recall that tragic time when my nation 11. Mary Beth Styslinger, 7th Grade, 292 was divided. I witnessed much bloodshed as Mr. MOORHEAD. Mr. Speaker, patri Hansell Ave., Verona 15235, Seneca Junior I was carried into battle. That question otism might be said to be love of coun High School, Penn Hills, Principal: J. D. again: Why am I here? I could not have try, pride in it, desire to serve it. Snyder, Teacher: Miss A. L. Jerema. realized that this was a great turning point On April 7 it was my pleasure to call 12. Anna Tepsic, 8th Grade, R.D. 1, Indus in the history of my young nation. try, 15052 (643-8214), Western Beaver Jun In the years to follow, two more wars af to the a tten tion of my colleagues in the ior-Senior High School (643-8500), Principal: fected my motherland: World Wars I and II. RECORD the unique "You Are the Flag" Carlisle McPherson, Teacher: Mrs. Sabina I was the symbol of a democratic nation essay contest, sponsored by the Duquesne Walsh. which fought to make the world safe for Light Co., Pittsburgh, in cooperation with 13. Joseph Tierney, 7th Grade, 1330 Sheri democracy. We were victorious. However, the the Allegheny Trails Council, Boy Scouts dan Ave. Pgh. 15206 (326-8518), Sacred Heart struggles continue. Mine is not a country at of America, which had the twofold aim School, Pittsburgh (441-1582) , Principal: Sis rest. It is continuously growing and search of encouraging a meaningful vision of ter Irene Mary, Teacher: Sister Mary Clark. ing. America in our young people, and honor 14. Arnd Von Waldow, 8th Grade, 2629 Mid I've looked back long enough. It is time to dle Road, Glenshaw 15116 (486-0518), Hamp look forward. There beyond this dismisal ing our bicentennial. ton Middle School, Hampton Township ( 486- horizon, shining like a jewel against the The 15 grand prize winners have now 6000), Principal: Raymond Snyder, Teacher: black sky, is earth. How precious a gem it is. been chosen by a panel of local educa Mrs. Katherine McCormick. My nation, under God, must preserve it. tors, business and ci vie leaders from 15. Joan M. Zolkoski, 7th Grade, 1071 Wood among more than 25,000 seventh and low St. 15205 (922-1309), St. James School THE FLAG'S MEANING TO ME THROUGH THE eighth grade entrants in Allegheny and (921-6059), Principal: Sister Lucia Marie, YEARS ONE To THmTEEN Beaver Counties. Their prize will be a S.C., Teacher: Russell Steiner. (By Michelle Brewer) 3-day all expense paid "Cradle of De It is hard to put into words my feelings mocracy" Historic Flag Expedition to You ARE THE FLAG about the flag. I will start from the begin Boston. (By Suzanne Ague) ning of my knowledge of the flag and recall the special meanings it has for me. I remem Mr. Speaker, I feel quite honored to You are the flag. Not just ordinary colors, ber as a pre-school child watching a tele have been asked to present the certifi white, blue, and red made from bits and vision program, where one of the main at cates of award to the grand prize winners pieces of cloth, but a symbol for our great tractions was to teach the children to stand on June ' 14 in Flag Plaza, Pittsburgh, nation and for what this nation and its with the hand over the heart and recite the and would like at this time to announce citizens stand. So what do the letters spell? pledge of allegiance to the flag. I recall how them to you, and share some of their To many they just spell flag; but to an pleased I was when I could recite the pledge, American, they stand for: and was praised by my parents for learning inspiring essays with you, as well as some F: Freedom stands for the European im of the remarks of the judges. so quickly. At this time I had no idea what migrants who came to the shores of the it was all about. In these days of questioning and dis United States. For Negro slaves in slavery When I became of school age, once again, sent, it is refreshing to know that patri until brave men under the stars and stripes every day the class would stand and recite otism is not dead in our youth. Congratu fought for and won their freedom in 1865. the pledge to the flag. It still had little lations to the winners, sponsors, judges, This is the flag that stands for freedom for meaning to me. When I was in fourth grade everyone. we learned about the flag's history. I was and all involved in this contest. L: Love. The love Nathan Hale showed for GRAND PRIZE A WARD WINNERS--DUQUESNE anxious to tell my parents what I had his country when he regretted "that he had learned, not realizing they already knew all LIGHT Co. "You ARE THE FLAG" ESSAY CON but one life to give for his country." Love TEST of this information. that America gave to "the sick, the homeless, When I attended football games with my 1. Suzanne Ague, 8th Grade, 926 Mina St., the affiicted." No child will die of starvation family, I remember how my parents looked Pgh. 15212 (231-8291), Latimer Junior High in the United States when we have the abil so proud as they stood up looking at the School, Pgh. (321-0312), Principal: A. Bellini, ity to keep it from happening. The love flag. Teacher: Frank M. Craig. shown to defeated enemies that we have When I became a Girl Scout and partici 2. Bob Beggs, 8th Grade, 200 Belladonna aided after our victories. pated in the Flag Ceremony, it had a special Dr., Glen.shaw 15116 (486-4046), Shaler Jun A: Achievement which America made in meaning to me. I carried out my procedure ior High School (486-1900), Principal: Ed putting the first flag on the North Pole. with honor. ward A. Winkler, Teacher: Mrs. Lois Kazen Achievement to keep it waving in the war of I remember my father assigning me the ski. 1812, when our National Anthem was writ job of erecting the flag and taking it down 3. Michelle Brewer, 8th Grade, 1002 Deer ten. Achievement to be the first flag on the on all special occasions at our home. I was field Dr., Elizabeth 15037 (384-7714), Eliza moon. Achievement in d.iscovering cures for proud to have this job and handled the flag beth Forward Junior High School (751- Polio, Yellow Fever, Smallpox, and measles. 5903), Principal: A. Raymond Kochis, Teach with tender, loving care. G: Greatness for its outstanding power As I became older and interested in the er: Ronald F. Corbin. that it held with humility for many years. news of the day, I recall all of the trouble 4. Joye Kosis, 8th Grade, 506 Ehman Ave., The greatness that all religions may worship about people misusing the flag and being Baden 15005 ( 869-9443) , Baden-Economy freely. Every boy and girl no matter who Junior High School, Beaver (869-2146), Prin disrespectful to it. This bothered me be they are can have free education. Greatness cause I was always taught to respect and cipal: Fred Milanovich, Teacher: Virginia for what the flag means. Woodling. honor it. Through all of these encounters The flag isn't an ordinary piece of cloth with the flag, my feeling for it was still not 5. Donna Marie Little, 8th Grade, 158 Hol with colors on it. Freedom, Love, Achieve quite established in my mind, other than it's iday Park Dr. (Plum Borough), Pgh. 15239 ment, and Greatness, "You are the flag." red, white and blue standing for my country. (793-9196), St. John Baptist School (793- The true meaning came to me after all 0555), Principal: Sister Mary Mark Lowry, of these years as I stood and touched the flag Teacher: Sister St. Helen Sullivan. WHY AM I HERE? (By Bob Beggs) that draped over the casket bearing the body 6. Melanie Matich, 8th Grade, 5308 Adobe of my brother. He loved the flag enough to Dr., Pgh. 15236 (653-3492) Whitehall Junior How stark my shadow looks against this fight to protect it and ctied that it may ever High School (881-8848), Principal: William gray, desolate surface. Why am I here? I have fly in freedom. This flag to me means the John, TeachP.r: Vance R. Bunardzya. asked this question before in years past. In love of my country. Love strong enough to 7. Mark Reilly, 7th Grade, 347 Fingal the peacefulness and loneliness here on the die for, as my brother did, for a land I call Street, Pgh. 15211 ( 431-9007) , St. Mary of the moon, I can review my life. home, my country, the United States of Mount Elementary School ( 431-4645), Prin My origin dates back to 1777. I did not America. cipal: Sister Clare Roche, I.H.M., Teacher: look the same as I look now. Originally, my Sister deRicci Baker, I .H.M. stars numbered thirteen, but presently fifty You ARE THE FLAG 8. Jill Scheide, 8th Grade, 3218 Mt. Troy stars adorn my field of blue. The nation Rd., Pgh. 15212 (321-3315), St. Aloysius which gave birth to me, the United States (By Joye Kosis) School, Reserve Township (821-1454), Princi of America, preserved the traditions and You, the flag of the United States of pal: Sister Barabar Mary, Teacher: Mrs. Ann ideals of its original thirteen states, which America, symbolize the brave pioneers who Stockhausen. is represented by my thirteen red and white first settled in our country and endured the May 26, 1971 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 17219 hardships of the wilderness building a coun doms? The right of free enterprise has played and his children, better than himself. Amer try where freedom of religion, speech, and a big part in the dynamic growth of our ica may not be perfect, but it has the press could long endure. You represent the country. The right to vote gives each of us strength, the ability to see it to a day when colonists who bravely defended America in a voice in our way of life. This right is now every man can call each other brother. the Revolutionary War to keep these im being extended to eighteen year olds. This, America's strength lies not in its govern portant freedoms and make our land inde and other constructive changes, are possible ment or in a handful of men in Washing pendent and free from foreign rule. You under this flag. ton, but in its people. Its citizens are Amer stand for the laws of the nation which give It is true that all men have not always ica's greatest resource. When Americans the people the opportunity to elect their been given their guaranteed rights. However, start believing that they don't count, that's "Own officials to represent and speak for them. this same flag will help them in their struggle when we lose everything, our strength, re You are courts where justice reigns, with to attain their rights. Much needs to be done spect and courage. So when we are pledging trial by jury and protection of life, liberty, to see that all who live under this flag are our allegiance to our flag we are really ex .and property. You fly over a nation where a treated equally. The fact that we are talking pressing loyalty to ourselves . firm stand was taken against slavery in a and thinking about our shortcomings shows The flag is a multitude of faces, back four year struggle between brothers in the we care. You and I are the flag! We must grounds, races and religions. It is the Presi Civil War. You are a banner of people of all care! · dent in the White House, the colored kid races, all colors, and all religions proudly The flag has been with us through good in the slums. It is the demonstrators, mili working side by side to make our nation a times and bad. It took part in the expansion tants, the radicals and conservatives. Some leader of nations. You signify open arms of our country. It was tested to the utmost people say, eliminate those who protest, but welcoming refugees and the homeless who during the Civil War, but weathered the if we do we are taking away people's rights to are seeking shelter. You are the great defend storm. be themself, even though they are dUierent ers who fought oppression in the two World Today, once more, it is being tested by than yourself. But weren't all our great men Wars. You are charity that provides for the some who have chosen to desecrate and burn militant or radical? They wanted a country underprivileged in our nation and abroad. our symbol. Because of its foundation, the where you could walk free and fear nothing You are opportunity of education for all. flag will withstand this test, too. No other from anybody. Wasn't that revolutionary You are happiness, under God, which gives flag would allow dissent of this nature. It is then? Are you not condemning the younger us values that are permanent and enduring willing to undergo changes to make what it generation for wanting just that? We are a rather than those that fade and die. So stands for a reality for all and not just a part of the flag, a vital part, for we represent I will respect you, honor you, and fly you dream of a few. America's future, someday we hope to be and be proud I am an American. Today, this symbol of our way of life flies as glorious as our past. proudly on another heavenly body, the moon. You ARE THE FLAG The flag represents hope for the future. You ARE THE FLAG (By Donna Marie Little) You are the flag! Are you satisfied with (By Allen Schriver) What is the flag? What is the symbol for yourself? You are the flag! You symbolize a country which it stands? It is the land, and the peo that will be 200 years old in 1976. You rep ple on the land. It is the bright new sun, You ARE THE FLAG resent the dreams of those who explored peeking its head over the horizon; the morn (By Mark Reilly) this land, and the bitter struggle of the ing dew, sparkling on the new grass. It is a pioneers who carved a new land from a wil Lady Liberty, a nation, a seamstress of re derness. Many men have risked their lives and child, building a snowman in mid-winter. It nown, threads her shining needle with white is rain, announcing a new spring, and the fortunes in your honor. and black ... and plunges it into the fabric You are more than just a brightly-colored rays of the sun, painting bodies stretched of royal blue. She has been sewing for quite on the beach. It is the brightly colored leaves piece of cloth. Each stripe, star and color has some time-almost two-hundred years now a special meaning. Your thirteen stripes, al of autumn in mid-September. It is the soft, on a banner made of people. stirring breeze, and the familiar smell of salt ternating red and white, stand for the thir (Who are the people?) teen original colonies. Each star, one for each water; it is the "little bit of everything" A few of her stars have fallen, Abraham, smell in big cities. state now totaling fifty, symbolizes dominion John, Martin and Bob, but she patiently and sovereignty, as well as high hopes. It is people: the farmer who tills the soil; picks them up, one at a time, and repairs the factory worker, the refuse collector, the The flagmakers of 1 777 left no records to the breach with new material. tell why they chose the colors, red, white and plumber, the electrician, the construction (Who are the new?) blue as your colors. But in 1782, the Depart worker, the man who forges steel. It is the Of course, breaches are made to be filled ment of State said your colors have these doctor; the teacher, leading a child to dis and tears to be mended. Diplomacy, indus meanings: cover new things; the dentist, and, in a spe try and commerce are a tough fabric to sew, Red stands for hardiness and courage. cial way, it is the family, gathered around the and medicine and science are no small thing; White is the symbol of hope, purity, and table, giving thanks to God for another yet each great star depends on the small, the innocence. Thanksgiving Day. neat little stitches that hold it in place. Blue, the color of heaven, stands for loy It is a lot of happy memories: the house (Who are the small?) alty, friendship, justice, truth and reverence you grew up in; the town and the people you Valley Forge and Bunker Hill needed many to God. loved; that favorite teacher who made learn stitches; and in 1861, the lady wept when Even your letters have special meaning: ing such fun; that one special friend. It is her banner of freedom was torn in half . . . F stands for faith in our country; your very own dream, never to be revealed. and brother fought brother in the Civil War. L stands for loyalty to our country; It is the Pilgrim, dying as he faces the She needed much thread, then. Much strong A is Amo---the la.tin word for love for our hardship of a new land. It is the minuteman thread. country; and at Concord; the battle of Lexington; the (Who are the strong?) G stands for glory of our country. freezing cold that made men die at Valley However, her restless peoples are her Just a short time ago, you traveled with Forge. It is "Old Glory" at Appomattox; it strength. She is a young nation, working with two of our astronauts on a historic journey is a surrender, in 1865, that established a raw and tough fabric; a fabric never seen to the Moon. You now stand on soil 238,548 America a free nation, indivisible. It is before in the halls of history; a fabric woven miles from Planet Earth. You carried with George Washington, accepting the Grand from the fleece of freedom. Freedom, threaded you American ideas, American history and Union flag of the new American Nation. It is on the needle of good will, and thrust into American feelings. the North, fighting the South, in a Civil War the very moon above, a standard for all peo We salute you, "Old Glory"! You are the where men died, that their brothers might ples to rally to, the banner of a new thing symbol of the mighty, yet humble Nation be free. It is the raising of the 48-star flag in this old world. that we have become. over Mount Suribachi, in Iwo Jima. It is our Stand tall, every American, so that all the beloved Tom Dooley and Alan Shepard; it is nations will see the needlework of the Lady MY FLAG James Meredith at the doors of Mississippi called Liberty! Line up and make a thread (By Matthew Schroeder) State University. It is Medgar Evans, bathed ... for it is your day to enter the eye of the The flag is a symbol of liberty and justice in his own blood. It is men like John and needle. You are the flag. Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King. for one and all, See that flag! Wherever it's displayed today THE MANY FACES OF THE FLAG Young Americans, stand tall! That flag is In stores and on classroom walls. yours! You are the flag! (By Jill Scheide) The flag to me is wonderful From the tattered remnant of the Red, In every perfect way Since Betsy Ross first stitched the stars and You ARE THE FLAG White, and Blue waving proudly over Fort McHenry to the flag hanging motionless in stripes of yesterday. (By Melaine Matich) the atmosphere of the moon, our flag stands It makes me think of battlefields, When I recite the Pledge of Allegiance, I for America. It reflects our past, present and Of boys in grey and blue, am doing more than just talking to a piece our future. America was built on ideals . . . It makes me wonder of the men who gave of cloth. I am saying that I believe in the ideals that could not be relinquished as their lives for you- aspirations we are trying to achieve and in long as man dr~ams of freedom and a better They also gave their lives for me; the way of life represented by the flag. life for himself and his family. The flag is For strangers of all races, The flag stands for the basic rights of man. the symbol of the American dream. Dreams Who came across the ocean blue What other flag stands for so many free- that a man could do better than his father To settle in new places. 17220 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 26, 1971 But most of all it makes me think of This statement by Paul Powell, Secretary while singing the National Anthem at the America. our nation. of State, rings true in the hearts of Ameri beginning of a baseball game, a warm image Of all our presidents, old and new, cans today, but for it to live on in the future, comes over me. I can picture the millions Who've won through their frustration. we must continue to stand for Truth, Jus of men and women fighting to preserve our I am so very proud to be raising a loy,al hand, tice, and Freedom. flag. I do not mean the cloth of the flag, To this great flag that flies above our great but the nation it stands for. United land. You ARE THE FLAG The flag most certainly should and does (By Joseph Tierney) mean more to me than a vision of Betsy You ARE THE FLAG Although the :flag of the United States Ross sewing by the fireside. To me it stands (By Mary Beth Styslinger) for the two-hundred trying yea.rs the many represents a glorious heritage and a great people have courageously tried to preserve I am the :flag of the United States of' nation, it also has to stand for the dark and make our nation what it ls today. It America. I am the symbol of liberty and side of our country. In this essay I want to stands for the thousands upon thousands justice to the American people. I am the say that the flag must also bear the ugly of young men giving their lives because they symbol for the independence of this country. half of the United States. believe our nation ls worth fighting for. That is all I am, for I am just a symbol. Too many people are under the impression Also is represents to me, all the great wom It ls the people who are the :flag. They are that the flag represents only something beau en and men who have striven excessively to the ones who make Lt stand. My colors would tiful or wonderful. The United States is far keep our United States going. By this, I have no meaning if it had not been for the from a perfect nation and there a.re a great mean not only political leaders but those people. Because of' our leaders and the fathers many problems left unsolved. These problems who work through fields of science and art. of our country, I do have meaning. My thir include the war in Asia, pollution in the These a.re people such as Albert Einstein, teen &-tripes stand for the original colonies water and air, poverty, prejudice, drugs, Robert Kennedy, Clara Barton, Jonas Salk and the stars for the states we have now. runaway inflation, rioting, campus unrest, and Neil Armstrong. In the words of George Washington ... "We a high crime rate, and many more. Most important, however, I feel the :flag take the stars and blue from heaven, the Sometimes when I see the flag I think of represents us, the people of America who red from our Mother country, separating it something dark or evil. may not have gotten our name in history by white stripes, thus showing we have sep Besides, the flag's colors seem to have lost books but are playing our role as Amer arated from her, and the white shall go down their meaning. The red represents the blood ican citizens. If it weren't for us there would to posterity, representing liberty." I have of the men that have fought and died for be no reason for our nation to stand, no stood through many a war, gaining more our country . . . now many men refuse to reason to have a government, no reason to meaning every time. I have been respected, be drafted. White stands for purity ... now fly a flag. Yes, we, the common people of sometimes revered, and sometimes mis there is so much obscenity that there a.re America make the nation. We are the coun treated. Lately it seems I am more mistreated demonstrations against it. Blue is supposed try, we are the a.ag. by those who protest what our leaders are to mean justice . . . but there a.re stm many In that "we", I include not only myself doing. In their own way, these protesters prejudices against many people. and others but you too. Yes, you also make only serve to make me have more meaning. Despite all of this, the flag in itself ls not the country, you also make the flag! If I didn't stand for justice, the protesters something bad or evil. It merely represents could not protest. If I didn't stand for liberty, something which may have both good and COMMENTS OF JUDGES: "You ARE THE they would not be free to use me to demon bad. And the United States does have many FLAG" ESSAY CONTEST strate against injustice. And so as my country admirable qualities, all of which we should Judge William S. Rahauser, Allegheny learns to walk and grows in knowledge, I be proud of. County Orphans Court: Industry is to be con become prouder and more meaningful as a A flag, of course, ls no better than what symbol of truth, justice, liberty, and the gratulated and I hope the essay contest wiII it represents. If what the flag symbolizes is be continued. dreams of' men before I was born and men honorable, then the flag is honorable. If who are yet to be born. I am the American The essay contest was an impressive exhibi what the :flag stands for ls evil, then the tion of our young people. It was proof that a :flag. I am the American people. I stand flag is evil. Therefore, in order to improve proudly as their symbol for: lofty stimulus will produce a spiritual reac the image of the flag we must improve what tion of depth and feeling. F-reedom it represents, the United States. L--iberty and The contest and the content of what these A-llegiance with young people had to say was an encouraging You ARE THE FLAG proof that our oncoming generation has both ~d. (By Arnd Von Waldow) the patriotism and the ablllty to carry our I was born under the :flag of Germany, nation forward in the years to come. You ARE THE FLAG a country which was destroyed by a dic William R. Jackson, Sr., Chairman of the (By Anna Tepsic) tatorship, injustice and war. I lived seven Board, Pittsburgh DesMoines Company: It is: To my grandparents, who came from Eu ~ears under the a.ag of Brazil. My friends very encouraging to see the thoughtfulness rope, our Flag meant a great deal. To them were very poor, many of them were col and perception with which the boys and our Flag represented a refuge where they ored and suffering from malnutrition. Now girls view the problems in our country to could live, work and raise children in peace. I am in the United States of America. I day. In America they found that peace and an urged my parents to apply for citizenship. Their expressions of faith, that the prin abundance of pride in living like free human I want to live here for the rest of my life ciples of freedom and liberty will survive and beings. They came here looking for domestic because I like you (the flag) and the ideals will help solve the unrest is also encourag tranquility and they found it. My grandpar for which you stand. ing. ents, mere peasants, had a feeling that Amer The first English words which I learned in It is reassuring to see these expressions ica was too far from their grasp and too school was the Pledge of Allegiance. I un of faith and belief in the younger generation great a. dream to ever really be here, but derstand that these words if taken serious and they suggest that the generation gap ls Kahlil Gibran said, "In the magnifying glass ly can protect this country from the way not as wide as some people think. of man's eye the world looks greater than Germany went and can create conditions William J. Stephens, Chairman of the it is." which are better than those from which my Board, Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., Presi Love, freedom, tranqui11ty, justice ... are Brazilian friends are suffering today. When dent, Flag Plaza Foundation: Four hours of just a few of the things which the Flag I say together with my parents for the first a thrilling experience! The response to the means to me. When I see the Flag and hear time as an American citizen the Pledge of essay contest, "You Are The Flag," clearly the National Anthem, many thoughts race Allegiance to you I feel that I am taking demonstrated the deep and real feeling of through my mind. I think of all the men who over a responsiblllty. This nation is indi the boys and girls of school age as they a.d have died at Valley Forge, Gettysburg, in visible so I have to make my contribution drer:s themselves to writing a.bout their :flag. Korea, Germany, and Guadalcanal, and those to bring together young and old, rich and Make no mistake-they ca.re! They do not dying in Vietnam. And I think of all the poor, black and white. You stand for lib understand disrespect to the flag shown by great inventors who assisted in making our erty and justice for all. This means that the few. They are proud of their flag and see I must help to protect this and make my country great. While these thoughts race contribution that it really becomes true. it in their hopes for the future and the fu through my mind, tears course down my face, ture of the world. My greatest wish is that your colors are and I think how proud I am to be an Ameri Duquesne Light and Plag Plaza Founda can. I get an indescribable sensation when respected as a symbol of peace by all na tions. I understand that without peace in tion have blazed new trails, through this I read these words, "With a good conscience magnificent effort, to record the thoughts of our only sure reward, with history the final our nation and in the world nobody can enjoy liberty and justice. the students 12 to 14 years of age. Their judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead love of their flag comes through in many ex· the land we love, asking His blessings and pressions. Would that all the essays could be His help, but knowing that here on earth You ARE THE FLAG printed and read by those who believe that God's work must be our own." These are the (By Joan M. Zolkoski) devotion to the flag is waning in the hearts words of J. F. Kennedy. Whenever I watch the American flag as and minds of the young. "The world's richest person is the one who it dances with the wind in the schoolyard Judge Maurice B. Cohill, Allegheny Coun can say ... I am an American!" or salute it every day in the classroom, or ty Common Pleas Court: Congratulations to May 26, 1971 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 17221 the Allegheny Trails Council, Boy Scouts of reflecting all of our world's ills. The mean tor of Chicago Today, expressing his own America and to Duquesne Light Company. ing of our American Flag has not changed, views and not those of that publication, It was inspiring to participate in the judg and the participants in this outstanding con presented a very effective argument in ing of this contest. If all of our young peo test support this opinion. favor of an American SST. ple could concentrate on projects such as Richard L. Thornburg, U.S. Attorney: The these, I'm sure we could operate Juvenile Flag Plaza Foundation and Duquesne Light The editorial follows: Court on a part-time basis. Company deserve the highest commendation IN FAVOR OF THE SST E. H. Eaton, Treasurer, PPG Industries, for affording youngsters the opportunity to There are honest differences of opinion Inc., Treasurer, Flag Plaza Foundation: The express themselves regarding their flag. I concerning the wisdom of building an SST "You Are The Flag" Essay Contest has stimu found the essays to be well prepared and an aircraft that will fly 300 passengers from lated students to think about the develop thoughtful and-as we might expect in a Chicago to Europe in less i;ime ~han it now ment of their country and the responsibili free society-reflecting a variety of view takes to drive to Springfield. ties each citizen has to this country. The points. All who assisted in this project and My own newspaper, Chicago Today, believes sponsor of the contest is to be congratulated put in the long hours necessary to bring it. other projects should take precedence--and for backing a contest with such meaningful to fruition are owed a debt by us all. has said so editorially. results. Reverend Dr. Robert J. Lamont, First Pres Yet nearly 20 years of aerospace reporting Alfred W. Wishart, Jr., Director and Secre byterian Church: I was impressed by the have convinced me that President Nixon is tary, Pittsburgh Foundation: In addition to clarity of thought and sincerity of spirif1 right: The supersonic jetliner will be a good being a bit weary after reading these essays, expressed in many of the essays as they re thing for the United States and for the my mood is one of surprise at the depth and lated to American history and most especially world. grasp of these young people and hope in to the deep-seated hopes of the 7th and 8th As one of the first newsmen actually per the insights and spirit which they all evi graders. I was pleased to be asked to serve mitted to fly through the sound barrier in denced. These young Americans are all as a judge and I was encouraged by the atti a jet interceptor, I am satisfied that a faster worthy of commendation. I hope my judg tude of these young people who seem to be than-sound jetliner will not change our ments have bee_1 adequate and fair. It has determined to be part of the solution, rather weather, will not cause skin cancer, and will been a pleasure to participate in this con than part of the problem of our day. not irradiate its passengers. test. Paul E. London, Executive Vice President, Moreover, tests indicate that one American Robert L. Richmond, Senior Vice-Presi Beaver County Times: I hope 7th and 8th SST, flying at 1,800 miles an hour-that's dent, Ketchum, Inc.: Duquesne Light is to grades across the country feel as the writers three times as fast as jetliners now fly and be congratulated and lauded for sponsoring of these essays do about our flag and coun faster than a pistol bullet-will not pollute this essay contest in Allegheny and Beaver try-for if they do, we as older citizens need our air any more than three compact cars County Schools. While such a program is not be so terribly concerned about the fu going along at 60 miles an hour. always meaningful, it has provided a much ture of "Old Glory." I hope that in the near As for the thunderclap-like sonic boom more vital focus at this point in time. future our government can spend millions people on the ground won't even hear it. For me, it has underscored that our great advertising projects "like this" instead of That's because our SST's will not be permit est American resource is our young. But advertising military recruiting. ted to fly beyond the speed of sound while only if they are properly lead and educated I Mrs. Carmen R. Capone, First Vice Presi over land, only while over the oceans. The Flag Foundation's program properly ac dent, Allegheny County League of Women What an American SST will do is this: It centuates the positive and by so doing helps Voters: I was extremely happy to serve as will assure our nation's continued leadership to beget that sort of a response from Young a judge for Duquesne Light's "You Are the in commercial aviation. Americans. Flag" essay contest. I hope the contest will We took that lead shortly after World War This nation, or no nation, can constantly be continued because it makes the young II. We kept it through the Jet Age, and to withstand constant abuse and derision about sters think about patriotism and what the day most of the world's flying public files in its every institution. Each and every firm and flag really stands for, and helps to counter American jet transports. Our Boeing 747's company in our free enterprise nation has act publicity about those who desecrate our a.re the undisputed queens of the skies. the obligation to help teach the fundamen flag. But if we don't build the SST, we will be tals of freedom and responsibility upon Dr. Edwin c. Clarke, President, Geneva throwing it all away-and suffer serious eco which all else depends. Hurrah for Duquesne College: Duquesne Light Company should nomic consequences as a result. Light for helping to light the way here in be congratulated for inaugurating this Regardless of what Congress does tomor Pittsburgh as we move into our third cen imaginative educational program which helps row, a fleet of SST's will be built. tury in 1976 ! to focus the attention of the young people The only question is: Will it be built in James R. Mcilroy, President, Anvil Prod on our country's history, and, hopefully, the United States? ucts Co.: I am impressed by the undoubted stimulates them to have an appreciation of sincerity of these young people in writing the things that are good and which should on a "square" subject. Their essays reflect be nurtured and continued. I appreciate the time and effort given by the feelings of an age group which has be LEST WE FORGET gun to appreciate, but has not yet begun to the teachers and thousands of students who doubt, its heritage. May these feelings and responded in such a capable manner. this strength and faith carry them through It was encouraging in reading the essays to learn of the breadth of the knowledge of HON. CLARENCE E. MILLER those turbulent late teems! OF OHIO James H. Bierer, President, Pittsburgh these young people and their appreciation of Corning Corp.: Judging 55 essays on "You those things which make our country great. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Are The Flag" has been a rewarding ex Wednesday, May 26, 1971 perience-it proves once again that the ma jority of American boys and girls stand for Mr. MILLER of Ohio. Mr. Spea.ker, in the things that have always made this coun IN FAVOR OF THE SST a land of progress and prosperity, it is try strong. often easy to assume an "out of sight, Duquesne Light Company has performed out of mind" attitude about matters a great service in promoting the contest. HON. EDWARD J. DERWINSKI Winners and losers alike just have to be bet which are not consistently brought to ter citizens because of their participation. OF ILLINOIS our attention. The fact exists that today W. McCook :-~Iller, Esquire, Senior Partner, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES more than 1,550 American servicemen in Kirkpatrick Lockhart, Johnson & Hutchin Wednesday, May 26, 1971 are listed as prisoners or missing son, Secretary, Flag Plaza Foundation: I see Southeast Asia. The wives, children, and now one of the whys of the generation gap Mr. DERWINSKI. Mr. Speaker, while parents of these men have not forgot these girls and boys are far ahead of what I the American SST appears dead as a re ten, and I would hope that my colleagues was in their day. When I was their age, I sult of the onslaught against it in this in Congress and our countrymen across couldn't possibly have written with the imag session of Congress, I do not believe that America will not neglect the fact that ination and clarity they uniformly show. we have heard the last of this subject. Leonard Swanson, Vice-President and Gen all men are not free for as long as one eral Manager, WIIC-TV: The reflection of Now that the dust has settled a bit, of our number is enslaved. I insert the confidence in our nation evolving from the I trust it is Possible for one to oomment name of one of the missing: efforts and expressions of the young people on the subject without the furor that has Sgt. Robert L. Luster, U.S. Army, in this "You Are The Flag" contest were most existed. RAll 710378, Upper Sandusky, Ohio. heartening-and encouraging. As a judge, I WBBM-TV, Chicago CBS station, edi Married. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred wanted to generalize that these youngsters torially opposed the SST but, in keeping Luster, Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Gradu are indeed representative of the vast majority of our nation's young people-and that our with their policy, presented the oppor ate of Columbia High School. Officially future Will be in responsible, sane hands, in tunity for a proponent of the plane to listed as missing January 23, 1969. As of spite of our worst fears exaggerated today as state the positive point of view. On Tues today, Sergeant Luster has been missing a result of excessive, instant communication day, May 18, Peter Reich, aerospace edi- · in action in Southeast Asia for 853 days. 17222 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 26, 1971 SOVIET UNION SEEKING CREDIT Militant Atheists was formed m the So cission was "put on tTial" in Kharkov in FROM THE UNITED STATES viet Union to publish and spread an ti 1928. religious material and, like the govern In 1924 a "Red Haggadah" was read HON. PHILIP M. CRANE ment's economic plan, an atheistic 5-year which substituted the deliverance from plan was launched in 1927 and again in c21arist rule for deliverance from the OF ll.LINOIS 1932. The program aimed at the com IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES pharaoh's oppression. Following the plete disappearance of God's name from example of the living church-the Com Wednesday, May 26, 1971 the U.S.S.R. by 1937. In the late 1930's munist dominated effort at using religion Mr. CRANE. Mr. Speaker, at the pres the league was reported to have 3.5 mil to serve political purposes-the Evsektsiia ent time the Soviet Union is seeking cred lion members. tried to set up a "living synagogue" in it for the purchase of $15 million to $100 The much heralded decree on the sep 1924. "Communism is the Mosaic Torah million of purebred livestock from the aration of church and state and of school translated by Lenin into the Bolshevik United States. and church of January 23, 1918 was not tongue," one of its founders declared. Two Russian missions have called on aimed at religious freedom or tolerance The "living synagogue," however, died a. but at the undermining of the very ex Agriculture Secretary Clifford M. Har~in quick death and Professor Gitelman esti and his staff to inquire about extensive istence of religion. The clergymen of all mates that of the one thousand rabbis in cattle purchases. Unlike the wheat faiths were deprived of voting rights and the U.S.S.R. only six are known to have purchases made here and in Canada were considered obscurants and enemies had pro-Communist sympathies. In of the people, not engaged in work. By several years ago, the Russians are ~o 1922-23 alone over 1,000 kheders were longer willing to pay in gold for therr order of Lenin, the All Russian Extraor closed. In Vitebsk 39 kheders with 1,358 purchases. dinary Committee for the Suppression of students and 49 teachers were shut down. The Department of Agriculture has Counterrevolution wa.s established in In his foreward to the volume, Rich stated: 1918 and during the first 3 years of Com ard Marshall, Jr., criticizes those who munist rule thousands of clergy were vic have tended to overlook and minimize It is now only a question of whether the tims of Soviet terror. Russians are willing to go ahead at our prices. Soviet religious persecution: If they want to buy, we are ready to coop According to official Soviet data, for ex Exponents of the ... "soft" view would ap erate. ample, 423 churches were closed and 322 pear to be unaware of the harsh repressive destroyed in the first half of 1929, and measures taken against various religious Before any such agreement is made, it 1,440 churches were closed by the year's groups and individuals throughout the last is important that the Department of Ag end. Synagogues were converted into half-century (and as recently as the early riculture understand the misgivings of clubs, Buddhist monasteries were closed, sixties) for no other reason than the fact many Americans about such extension of mosques were converted into atheist mu of their religious beliefs. They also do not credit to the Government of the Soviet seums, and the printing of the Koran face up to the contradiction between the Union. guarantee of freedom of confession, on the was prohibited. one hand and, on the other, the strictures The Committee on Soviet Jewry, for No one who reads this volume, edited placed upon religious instruction by a example, wrote to Agriculture Secretary by Richard J. Marshall, Jr., and pub continuing and extensive campaign of anti Clifford Hardin, stating: lished by the University of Chicago Press, religious propaganda . . . Furthermore, we oppose this sale for many reasons. But will suffer under any further illusions. they do not seem to be aware of either the primarily, our opposition stems from ~he In the essay, "The Communist Party tenacity of traditional religion or of the in bankrupt moral philosophy of . the i:-ussi~n creased interest in rellgion m the USSR, government by not allowing their Jewish cit and Soviet Jewry," Zvi Gitelman, pro especially among the intelligentsia, which has izens cultural and religious freedom, or the fessor of political science at the Uni been manifested in a variety of ways since right to emigrate. versity of Michigan, discusses one of the Stalin's death. more bizarre aspects of the campaign Shall the U.S. Government help against the Jewish religion: the trials. Despite a 50-year campaign calling for to subsidize a government which has On Ro.sh Hashanah, 1921, the its eradication, religion remains a force deprived its own citizens of all basic and Evsektsiia-the Jewish section of the in modern Russia. Many in the West be elementary freedoms? More and more Communist Party-in Kiev "tried" the lieved that the death of Stalin would Americans are concerned about the fact Jewish religion in the same auditorium, usher a more liberal period into the life that such subsidization encourages the ironically, where the Beilis trial had been of Soviet citizens. In an essay concern Soviet Government in its pol:cy of tyran held. According to a non-Communist ing "Khrushchev's Religious Policy, 1959- nizing all Soviet citizens who seek to re source, a weird cast of characters ap 1964," Donald A. Lowrie and William C. tain their own religious and cultural peared before the "Judges:" a lady Fletcher tell a far different story. Fletch identities. dressed in old-fashioned clothes ex er is director of the Centre de Recherches Before we entertain the possibility of plained that she sent her children to et d'Etude in Geneva and Lowrie is past such a deal with the Soviet Union, let us kheder-religious school-because, she director of the YMCA press. look briefly at only one single area of proclaimed haughtily, she was no "low They point out that at the 22d Con life under communism, that of the treat class tailor or cobbler" but of a "distin gress of the Communist Party in 1961 ment of religion. guished religious family." Khrushchev openly gave his support to In recent days there has been a great This was submitted as evidence that the the antireligious campaign which by then deal of discussion about the alleged "lib Jewish religion was a creature of the was well under way: eralization" of life in the Soviet Union. bourgeoisie. A "rabbi" testified that he The battle with survivals of capitalism in Many clergymen have expressed the view taught religion in order to keep the the consciousness of the people, the chang that communism and Christianity are, masses ignorant and servile. When some ing by our revolution of the habits and cus in fact, compatible and that past misun toms of Inillions of people built up over cen one in the audience accused him of be turies, is a prolonged and not a simple mat derstandings may have been based upon ing a "lying ignoramus," stormy ap ter. Survivals of the past are a dreadful pow ignorance rather than truth. Carrying plause broke out, according to a er, which like a nightmare, prevail over the this new philosophy into action we find a stenographic report. The culprit in the minds of living creatures. They are rooted new Christian activism, one which holds audience was immediately arrested. After in the modes of life and in the consciousness that capitalism and not communism may further testimony by a corpulent woman of millions of people long after the economic be the enemy. bedecked with glittering gold and conditions which gave them birth have van Yet a recently published volume, "As diamond rings, the Evsektsiia "prosecu ished. pects of Religion In The Soviet Union, tor" summarized "the case against the Khrushchev declared that: 1917-1967," reminds us of the fact that Jewish religion" and asked for a "sen ... Communist education presupposes ever since the Russian Revolution of tence of death for the Jewish religion." emancipation from religious prejudices and 1917 religion has been held in disrepute The "judges" retired to their chambers superstitions which hinder individual So in the Soviet Union and from that time and returned with a verdict of death to viet people from fully developing their cre forward the most strenuous efforts have the Jewish religion. Professor Gitelman ative powers. A well thought out and well been made by the Soviet Government to proportioned system of scientific atheist reports that a similar trial-this time of propaganda is necessary, which would em eliminate it. the kheder-took place in Vitebsk. The brace all strata and groups of society to pre In 1925, for example, the League of yeshiva was tried in Rostov, and circum- vent the spread of religious attitudes, espe- May 26, 1971 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 17223 cially among children and juveniles ... the Religion, we must remember, has been In fact, as .f!:ugene McCarthy pointed out interests of building communism require the enemy of all modern tyrannies. Mus in a weekend speech at a peace rally in Min that questions of communist education stand solini stated, "Religion is a species of neapolis, the policy of "Vietnamlzation" it at the center of attention and activity of self appears illogical if it is really Mr. Nixon's each party organization ... mental disease." Karl Marx called it the aim to insure South Vietnam "a chance" for "opium of the people" and Hitler de self-determlnati on. Discussing the Stalin period as a "lib nounced Christianity not only because The President has insisted that he will eral" one with regard to religion, the Jesus was a Jew, but because it was not set a date for the complete withdrawal Soviet atheist journal Nauka i Religya cowardly to speak of giving love for hate. of American forces from Indochina until stated in its April 1962 issue that: Tyranny is also the enemy of religion. Hanoi promises more than a mere discussion The Soviet Union, in its more than 50 of the prisoner issue. "We need acclon on During the period of the personality cult, their part and a commitment on their part all churches, and the Orthodox Church in years of Communist rule, has wasted no with regard to the prisoners," he said on particular, received a number of privileges effort in teaching us this lesson. April 28. which contradicted Lenin's decree on the Given the fact that this tyranny is not But what is the threat, if any, which makes separation of church and state. loosening up, but, in fact, tightening up this stand credible? Mr. Nixon also has said Reference here is being made to the as a period of re-Stalinization appears to that all American troops will not leave South temporary suspension during World War be upon us, it makes little sense to ex Vietnam-a "residual force" of unspecified II of blatant religious persecution in an tend credits and to propose business deals size will remain-until the prisoners are re with those who are enslaving millions of leased. But a residual force certainly cannot effort to unite the country against the effect the release of the prisoners if the larger German invader. men, women, and children. For the De force of this year or last year could not do so. Beginning in late 1961, children under partment of Agriculture to approve such Thus, Mr. Nixon's stand not only can do 18 years of age were for bidden to attend an agreement would be a cynical act, es nothing to effect the release of the prisoners; Baptist worship services and by the fall pecially for an administration which it ls also an explicit admission that the pol declares that human freedom and human icy of unilateral withdrawal cannot be a pol of 1963 this restriction was being applied icy of total withdrawal but one of withdrawal in Orthodox churches as well. In 1963 the dignity is its goal. Strengthening tyrants has never been the path to either peace to some point to be determined by Mr. Nixon. Central Committee of the Komsomol On that basis, if we are to keep some troops urged that services not be allowed to be or freedom. It is not the path to peace in South Vietnam until the prisoners are re gin if children were present in church. and freedom today. leased, we may keep both troops and prisoners These measures are without parallel in there forever. Soviet history, for the most that was All of that, Mr. Thuy told Mr. Lewis, merely confirms the suspicion of Hanoi that Mr. ever done in the thirties was to claim QUESTIONS PRESIDENT'S STAND ON Nixon does not intend a total withdrawal, that it was illegal for parents to force POW ISSUE but plans to keep enough American force in children to go to churches against their Indochina to guarantee the survival of a will. Similarly, priests were categorically non-Communist South Vietnamese regime-a denied the right to give religious instruc HON. LESTER L. WOLFF so-called "Korean solution." tion to children. These restrictions were OF NEW YORK It may well be that Mr. Nixon ls correct that "a promise to discuss means nothing far more severe than the regulations in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES troduced in the Stalin era when priests from the North Vietnamese." Even so, if he Wednesday, May 26, 1971 is determined to stick with his withdrawal had not been allowed to teach religion to policy, it is difficult to see what could be children in groups larger than three. Mr. WOLFF. Mr. Speaker, many re lost by extensive secret discussions, in Paris Denial of parental rights was given sponsible Members of Congress and other and elsewhere, to see if there could not be ideological justification in 1962 at a Kom citizens of this country have recently developed an understanding, tacit or expli somol congress, when it was explained questioned the wisdom of the President's cit, that Washington and Hanoi would an that freedom of conscience does not nounce simultaneously (a) a date for the insistence that all American troops will completion of the American withdrawal, and apply to children and no parent should not leave South Vietnam until our pris (b) that on the same date or sooner the be allowed to cripple a child spiritually. oners of war have been released. All of P.O.W.'s would be released, probably in Qev Judaism in the U.S.S.R. is subject to us are deeply concerned over the safety eral installments. unique discrimination. Jewish congrega of our POW's and those missing in ac This would not only remove the necessity tions are not permitted to organize a tion, of course. But after talking last for the residual force, which would be a cer nationwide federation or any other cen month with Senator Nguyen Ninh Vy, tain point of political controversy in this tral organization. Judaism is permitted Deputy Head of the North Vietnamese country and elsewhere; it would also at a no publication facilities, and no Hebrew stroke deprive all the potential Democratic delegation to the Paris peace talks, I can Presidential nominees (save Senator Henry Bible has been published for Jews since only conclude that the President's in J ackson) of their chosen position on Viet 1917, nor is a Russian translation of the transigence on this point is not only pro nam. Jewish version of the Old Testament al longing our involvement in the war, but Mr. McCarthy is another matter. He hinted lowed. The study of Hebrew, even for is also postponing the release of our strongly that he is thinking more nearly in religious purposes, has been outlawed prisoners. In my judgment, if the admin terms of a third-party candidacy than of an and the production of religious objects. istration set a date for withdrawal of all other run within the Democratic party. And such as prayer shawls, is prohibited. in addition, he set himself apart from the our troops, the North Vietnamese would Democratic aspirants by advocating a nego The numbers of Jews in the Soviet promptly enter into discussion for fixing tiated settlement rather than a unilateral Union is over 3 million, of whom more a date for release of all our POW's being American withdrawal by a certain date. than 1 million have been estimated to held in North Vietnam. I will therefore Mr. McCarthy pointed to the inescapable be believers. For these there are approxi continue to urge that the administration but often obscured fact that there ls little mately 60 synagogues and rabbis. or one set such a date and force the North Viet chance the United States can have more in synagogue and rabbi for each 16,000 be namese to fish or cut bait. fluence than it now has on the future of lievers. No new rabbis are being trained The New York Times of !\l[ay 25, in Indochina after it has pulled out all its and the average age of rabbis is over 70. forces (either at Mr. Nixon's order or under cluded two perceptive columns on our Congressional mandate). But to negotiate Little hope remains for a continuation of involvement in Vietnam. I would like to now, while there ls some rough equilibrium Jewish religious life in the Soviet Union. include at this point in the RECORD Tom of forces and with the lure of cutting short The campaign against religion has Wicker's provocative analysis of Presi a war costly to all sides, might produce more mounted in recent years. Mr. Oliver Cle dent Nixon's stand on the POW issue, acceptable arrangements than withdrawal or ment, an orthodox professor, declared and Dean Acheson's thoughts on wind the "Korean solution." It might even get that from 1959 to 1962, the number of ing down the war: the prisoners home more swiftly. Mr. Thuy lent credence to this view when churches open decreased from 22,000 to ILLOGIC IN VIETNAM 11,500 and the number of priests carry he expressed to Mr. Lewis that because of the (By Tom Wicker) f ailure of Mr. Nixon's efforts to win a "mili ing on their functions from 30,000 to tary victory" through escalation in Cambo 14,000. More than half of the monasteries WASHINGTON, May 4.-An interview with Xuan Thuy, North Vietnam's chief negotia dia and Laos, the North Vietnamese now have been closed, from 69 in 1958 to 31 in tor in Paris, by Anthony Lewis of The New have only to wait for the fruits of an in 1962. Of eight seminaries reopened in York Times, has made plain the essential evita ble victory of their own. 1945, two have been closed and two have illogic of President Nixon's stand on the so If that represents Hanoi's attitude, it wm been almost stripped of students. called "P.O.W. !ssue." not be possible to negotiate any kind of an 17224 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 26, 1971 Indochinese settlement without substantial Once this has been done, the logic of the ommenda.tions relating to the problems fac concessions from Washington and Sa.igon facts would make clear a complete with ing the nation's correctional system. These presuma.bly the acceptance of an interim drawal from Vietnam by the end of 1972. findings and recommends.tions were in turn arrangement for sharing political power in based on a Task Force Report on Corrections, South Vietnam among all contending ele published under the chairmanship of for ments until a longer-term arrangement can mer Attorney General Katzenbach. That, be reached by the parties themselves. HEARINGS ON CORRECTIONS also, included recommendations for achiev It is true that that might open the door PRACTICES UNDERWAY ing community-based corrections and for to a Communist take-over at some point in improving correctional institutions. the future. But withdrawing all American In the hearing starting today, the Subcom troops will far more surely open that door, HON. JOHN CONYERS, JR. mittee will seek to ascertain, among other and prolong a sad, destructive, pointless war things, the extent to which the recommen by how many years no one can say. OF MICHIGAN dations of the various task force reports IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES on corrections have been implemented or re Wednesday, May 26, 1971 main to be carried out. At the outset, how DEAN ACHESON: ON WINDING DOWN ever, we shall hear a number of witnesses who (By Dean Acheson) Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Speaker, Subcom have basic criticisms to make of the correc The present debate abOut the President's mittee No. 3 of the Committee on the tions system in one or more of its aspects. intentions regarding troop withdrawals Judiciary has embarked on a series of Very probably, also, the Subcommittee will from Vietnam arises from what he has said hearings explorative of corrections prac wish to make some visits to correctional in rather than from what he has done. The logic tices in the United States. The next stitutions. The ultimate direction of our of the facts is plain. When Mr. Nixon an probe remains to be determined as the hear nounced the beginning of troop withdrawals hearing date is June 2, at 10 a.m., in ings progress. the authorized troop strength in Vietnam room 2226, Rayburn House Office Build was 549,000; actual troop strength probably ing, where the first witness will be the a few thousand less. Withdrawals actually Honorable Ramsey Clark, former Attor made since that time, plus the 100,000 an ney General of the United States. CENTERS OF HIGHER EDUCATION nounced by the President to be made by De In opening this new series of hearings, cember 31, 1971, will a.mount to 365,000, leav Subcommittee Chairman KASTENMEIER ing a remainder from authorized strength made the following remarks: HON. F. BRADFORD MORSE of abOut 185,000 in Vietnam. The average OF MASSACHUSETTS withdrawal rate over the thirty months of With this morning's hearing, the Subcom the operation has been 12,000 per month. mittee embarks on a probe of corrections IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES What a.re the prospects for withdrawals in practices in the United States, their faults Wednesday, May 26, 1971 1972, a Presidential election year? One would and shortcomings. We shall be concerned hardly expect a reduction of the monthly both with Federal correct ions on the one Mr. MORSE. Mr. Speaker, in this era rate. A continuation of the rate would leave hand and state and local corrections on the of increasingly diverse and difficult pres about 40,000 men in Vietnam at the end of other. We shall seek to determine and report sures on our colleges and universities, the year, rather fewer than remain in Korea. what Federal action, if any, will appropri ranging from severe financial strains to If the process of strengthening the organiza ately stimulate improvements at the state campus unrest, and the need for greater tion, training, and armament of the Viet and local levels. Where legislation seems namese Government forces is to be success needed, we shall propose its enactment. institutional relevance, a widespread ful in 1972, this would seem to require an If there is any single proposition as to search is underway for men and women end to such sorties as that into Oambodla which there is virtually no disagreement, it with the dedication, the administrative in 1970 and into Laos in 1971. A sensible way is that corrections reform presents a major skills, the creative energy and courage, of preparing the South Vietnamese military if not the major--domestic challenge of our and the strong leadership capabilities establishment to assume full defense of Viet time. It has been charged, for example, that necessary to insure the continued effec nam would not be to enlarge lts theater of many, if not most, of the nation's corrections tiveness and, in some cases, the very operations to include over three times the institutions a.re correctional in name only; survival of our centers of higher edu area of Vietnam. Furthermore, the way to that state after state reports that most of remove the Vietnam issue from the 1972 its prisons and jails have no program to cation. political campaign in the United States reha.biliate the offender, or indeed that con As an alumnus of Boston University would not seem to be to enlarge the war. ditions prevail which can make a criminal I was, indeed, gratified to read that such Whatever their critics may say of the Presi where none existed before. The clear im a man has been found to head that dent's political advisers, it can hardly be be plication is that prisoners a.re often sub institution. According to the description lieved that they are that obtuse. jected to a kind of "warehousing" under provided by Emanuel Goldberg in the Should we, however, assume that the logic conditions that virtually assure their further Jewish Times, Dr. John R. Silber is of events would point to leaving 40,000 deterioriza.tion. These charges were not ma.de by some ready, willing, and exceedingly able to American troops in Vietnam at the end of take on the prodigious tasks at hand. 1972? If the Vietnamization program has dissident or radical, but by the Attorney been successful, these troops will not be General of the United States as recently I am, indeed, pleased to share this out needed to effect a. final withdrawal or to as last February. Mr. Mitchell went on to standing profile with my colleagues in prevent a. sudden takeover of South Vietnam point out that one state had reported that the House, and know they join with me by the North. If it has not been successful, half of the inmates in one of its jails had in wishing him every success in his posi they will be too few. In any event, this coun not been convicted, but were being detained tion as president of Boston University try will have done all that one country can for lack of bail; that in many localities no and meaningful progress in the realiza do for another to give it the opportunity to effort is made to separate first offenders from hardened criminals or juveniles from adults. tion of the objectives he has espoused. preserve itself from such dangers as faced The article follows· Vietnam. The facilities themselves, he said, were often It has been said that the United States antiquated and overcrowded. DR. SILBER: AWAKENING B.U.'s SLEEPING should not withdraw all its forces from Viet This was the context in which President GIANT nam until satisfactory arrangements have Nixon had instructed the Task Force on Ever since the late Daniel L. Marsh cen been made for the return of our prisoners. Prisoner Rehabilitation to recommend what tralized and built Boston University into With that few will disagree. To say this, how could be done in this area to enable deter mammoth size and consideration at the ever, is not to argue for maintaining in a. mination of how the ex-offender "could higher education counter, the tug on the dangerous position an aggregate of troops best achieve a lastingly productive and re Commonwealth Avenue campus has been to wholly insufficient to enforce the return of warding return to society." In its report of combine quantitative considerations with the prisoners. April 1970, the Task Force recommended de a.cross-the-board quality. There has con Yea.rs ago Justice Brandeis told me of once velopment of a program of jobs and job tinued. however, the traditional pattern of having been pressed, while at the bar, to do training for ex-offenders as well as a program seeing the well-heeled among B.U.'s 100,000 something he was unwilling to do. He replied, for improvement of correctional institutions, or so alumni either ignore completely de "I must inform you that I cannot do what stressing the need for so-called "community velopment appeals from their needy alma you ask. So that you may know that my re based" corrections. mater or give liberally to the prestigious col fusal is final, I give no reasons." Bad rea It must, of course, be borne in mind that leges of their children. sons for a. refusal carry no conviction. Soon national concern about the American cor In fact, when one evaluates how much the end of our effective military presence in rectional system did not begin with the pres a B.U. education meant to so many gradu Vietnam will be plain enough to be no mili ent Administration. In 1967 President John ates, particularly those who were the chil tary secret. Before that time arrangements son's Commission on Law Enforcement and dren of the Depression, the situation in some for the return of prisoners can be ma.de and the Administration of Justice issued its gen cases was scandalous. sufficient trust established to insure what eral report, "The Challenge of Crime in a. Now along comes a 44 year old Texan, Dr. Hanoi would have no reason f'or refusing. Free Society," including findings and rec- John R. Silber, who is a philosopher and May 26, 1971 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 17225
Kant authority, as well as a first rate aca But one thing is sure: if Dr. Silber keeps heart transplants; hijackings; the Pueblo demic administrator as witness his celebrated pressing his thesis, "A B.U. Second to None," incident;-Hurricane Camille and an earth and innovative tenure as Dean of the Col he'll galvanize at long last the 100,000 sleep quake in California;-and getting down to lege of Arts and Sciences at the University ing giant alumni, along with a torrent of really important things: of Texas, who has already managed to elec foundations, corporations and individuals The New York Mets won a World Series; trify-for the first time-the 100 year old, and then even Harvard had better look out! mini skirts gave us all an . uplift; Jackie Methodist-founded institution in Boston. Kennedy married Aristotle Onassis; and Kate I haven't met him yet but must confess Millet and Germaine Greer dealt a devastat that I quivered when his appointment was ing blow to the hapless American male. first announced and he promptly sounded off COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS AT DE Whatever happened to the four placid and in the press, even before taking over the job, PAUW UNIVERSITY, MAY 23, 1971 peaceful years of study and reflection in the about the need for financial aid to B.U. from sequestered halls of academia which were the city and state. After his arrival, some once the birthright of every college student? feedback indicated that Silber was not a HON. LEE H. HAMILTON Apparently they have vanished, and perhaps hail-fellow-well-met and, in fact, was quite forever, because one of the distinguished a solitary figure and provocative in utter OF INDIANA characteristics of the United States in the ances at various meetings. What gives, one IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1970s is that virtually every major institu thought? Wednesday, May 26, 1971 tion is under fire and in a state of crisis: But now we know. From the military to the university; from The other day, speaking to alumni, B.U.'s Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. Speaker, under Lockheed Aircraft to the Methodist Church; new President announced a series of dis leave to extend my remarks in the REC from the courts of justice to the county hos tinguished new faculty appointments, in ORD, I include the following commence pital; from the U.S. Congress to the Ford cluding the creation of "University Professor Foundation. ships" and the advent of a cadre of out ment address which I gave at DePauw University on May 23, 1971: Indeed, for an institution not to be in standing scholars from abroad. More of the a state of crisis is almost a badge of dis same has been promised in the near future. COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS honor and ill repute. B.U., despite overwhelming :financial ob I was thinking about the problems of De Take a look about you: ligations and puny endowment, Silber Pauw students when my wife, Nancy, and I The people, the President says, are simply opined, was going to the top-or, by impli were here as students years ago. At that time fed up with government a.t all levels. Any cation, if :financial failure ensued, would we were concerned about the hours for politician can tell you that people are have to throw in the sponge entirely. women, visitation rights, the administra beginning to doubt whether their govern There couldn't have been a better time tion's intransigent attitude toward alcohol ment is responsive; whether they can make for B.U. to take this position for nearly all on campus, intown housing, and frequent a difference in the decision making process; private institutions in America, which con run-ins with the campus security police. whether government can meet its problems duct business as usual, face the possibility of It is heartening to learn that some twenty before they occur or only fight off disaster either extinction or plummeting to medioc years later all these matters have been re after they occur. rity. Silber also recently announced an ex solved and the great work of the university The welfare system is a colossal failure. cellent administrative appointment in mak can go forward unimpeded. It is costly; almost impossible to admin ing Daniel J. Finn, a B.U. trustee and former Let me assure you that you have made ister; degrading to the recipient. Administrator of the Boston Housing Au progress. I am almost embarrassed to admit No one is satisfied with it. thority and one of the city's finest public to you that we had to have our dates in by Our most responsible health officia.ls say servants, Director of Community Relations. 10 p.m. on week nights. I can recall de we are faced with a breakdown in the delivery As one probed deeper, I learned from one livering my future wife to the front door of of health care unless immediate and drastic of the leading education writers in the coun the Tri Delt house at the ghastly hour of action is taken. Health costs are rising ra try that she considered John Silber to be 10 minutes after 10 in the evening, and be pidly, while access to health care is inequi "one of if not the" most exciting college ing threatened with banishment from the table, and the quality of care is not as good President in the United States. In this day Tri Delt house by the House mother; expul as it ought to be. and age, Prexy, even a young and dynamic sion from the University by the administra In education, teachers strike, students one, can't serve too long-so Silber may have tion and incarceration by the campus police. riot, whites and blacks clash, taxpayers revolt, a half dozen years to complete the prodigious Not even the most revolutionary campus and we have a crisis in the classroom. task of lifting middle-brow B.U. into the elite radical among us ever dreamed that we could The cities are des<:ribed by the poet: "Why sphere of American higher education and of achieve no hours for women. are the mayors all quitting? Why are the energizing the fund-raising potential of In this instance, if not in others, the sys cities a.II broke? Why a.re the people all alumni and friends. tem has been responsive. angry? He has an excellent board chairman, Hans When you entered DePauw three years and Why are we dying of smoke? Why are the Estin, to pull with, as well as really interested 9 months ago, the Vietnam war was at the streets unprotected? Why are the schools in and dedicated trustees (in stark contrast to peak of its intensity. Today, although things distress? Why is the trash uncollected? How the window-dressing of yesteryear). He must are better, men still die there, and you will did we make such a mess? The battle against also overcome the historic fact that B.U. has live your entire life profoundly affected by crime falters? occasionally had narrow, conventional ap Vietnam and its aftermath. Our law enforcement agencies a.re under proaches and uninspiring objectives. When you entered DePauw a Ughtning manned and undertrained. Silber's record as the person who first quick war had just been fought in the Mid The courts are clogged, and prisons become brought Operation Headstart to the attention dle East, and as you leave a peace is stm universities of crime. of the Johnson administration (comments to be won. Not even the church stands serene, its of Senator Ralph Yarborough of Texas in the When you entered only the science majors growth has leveled off, new construction has December 31, 1971, Appendix of the Congres among us could define the word eoology. As slackened, circulation of religious publica sional Record) attest that he will not let the you leave, the threat to man's environment tions is down, and there is an alarming lack pursuit of excellence become the Holy Grail is a paramount concern for all. of interest 1n the organized church among rather that he will press for the right mix You came to DePauw after the summer of large segments of the population. of the underprivileged, the ghetto, the need And, as one constituent reminded me the for "relevance" and community-orientation the race riots and during your years here the nation became acutely disturbed by acts of other day, we don't even know how to keep in today's university while not compromising the same time in Indiana. the essential academic posture. He seems violence and demonstrations of non-violence. stern, too, and unlikely to tolerate excess Your college years have introduced the And so it goes. Before the Congress it is permissiveness with students or the antics phenomenon of student unrest, and the hard to find a witness who does not speak 1n of the "crazies." tragedies of Kent State and Jackson State apocolyptic terms about his ooncern, what Silber's maturity and sensitivity should have been seared into our minds. ever it is. also assist him in explaining to irate alumni During your college years: man set foot We live, of course, in a maze of paradoxes. why a Howard Zinn cannot be fired merely on the moon;-a United States Senator and The GNP doubles in a decade, as cities and because he fans tempestuous disagreement a civil rights leader were brutally assassi states teeter on the edge of bankruptcy. (here I heartily commend a dip into B.U. nated; a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court We have built a nation of incredible history, during the infamous Joe McCarthy resigned under fire, and two Presidential wealth, and yet never have the problems of ere, when the institution courageously re nominees were rejected by the Senate as the poor so beset us. fused to bend to pressure in the Professor unfit for the Court. We have passed civil rights laws of sweep Halpern case). A bomb exploded in the United States ing dimensions, yet discrimination stm One hopes that President Silber can fully capitol, a President resigned, there was the denies jobs and housing to millions, and document and communicate effectively the McCarthy campaign from the left. the W&l many young still grow up stunted, inartic story of B.U.'s long, many and continuing lace campaign from the right, and a new ulate, a.nd angry. contributions to our community (whether form of political protest: the mass demon We a.re progressing, but our expectations tax money will roll in as a result is another stration. soar, and the gap widens between where we question). During your DePauw years. There were: are and where we would like to be. CXVII--i1083-Part 13 17226 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 26, 1971 So you graduate at a time when the mood coin, shines with a luster that the more Both labor and management, generally of the nation ls troubled and our problems tarnished gmdualtes among us admire and speaking, would rather operate in the tradi seem more stubborn and incurable than even envy. We include in our congratulations tional atmosphere of free bargaining. Each they once did. parents and relatives for whom this ls a very fears that it will lose something through I mention these crises-not to depress or special day, and who deserve some credit, too, compulsion as each has done when the fed to discourage-but because I believe that for your achievement-although you might, eral government actively intervenes in labor our best hope for resolving them ls men and at the moment, be reluctant to admit it. And disputes. Even though arbitration procedures women who possess the finest qualities of all of us who are visitors join you who gradu are freely used in labor-management rela a liberal arts education. ate in expressing our deep sense of gratitude tions, particularly in the field of handling What disciplines, if not the liberal arts, to President Kerstetter, the faculty, and the grievances, the final step to compulsory ar will better cultivate the imagination, trustees, and the DePauw fiamily, for making bitration as a substitute for collective bar lengthen the perspective, sober the judg DePauw the kind of institution it ls. gaining appears to be frightening in both ment, refine the taste, broaden the sym From this memorable afternoon you travel the corporate board rooms and the union pathies, encompass the relatedness of things diverse paths-to graduate schools, marriage, offices. in balance and proportion, and give direc military service and, if I read the employ But is there any other permanent answer tion and purpose? ment figures correctly, a few of the more to the strike against the public interest and In the tradition of the liberal arts, we have fortunate among you, Sifter four years of col one which has ramifications far beyond the been taught the importance of knowledge, lege study, may even find a job. workers and the industry involved? not for the sake of knowledge, or to give We wish you Godspeed. If there is another solution, it has failed immediate results. Measurable in dollars, but But none of you will be left unitouohed to appear over decades of debate and legis as a means to enhance the quality of life. by the crd.ses that confront us. You have lating on labor-management relations. People sensitive to the impact of these crises been equipped, as few in this day have been, The right to strike seemingly ls so deeply on other people are in short supply. to deal with them constructively. Not all ingrained into the American oonsciousness This nation needs people who see that too of you will. But the hope ls that enough of and its political system-that even anti many for too long have been in a headlong you will to move this NBltlon, in your genera strike legislation in fields of public service, rush toward progress and power measured tion, a step or two clooer to a more perfect such as education and health and safety in terms of dollars, miles of concrete laid, um on. services, often ls rendered ineffective. miles per hour achieved, killowatts gen Administrators, management, enforce erated, nuclear missiles stockpiled, who rec ment agencies, and even the courts resist ognize that this nation ls rich enough to every possible way that hard decision that provide for all Americans health care, educa CONGRESS FUMBLING CRISIS puts the final barrier to the right to strike tion, and the basic necessities-if we have STRIKE ISSUE and imposes penalties for those who disobey the will to redirect our resources to the goal the law. of improving the quality of life. This hesitancy is more evident in Congress In the liberal arts tradition, we can break HON. CHARLES E. CHAMBERLAIN where one crisis strike after another is dealt free from the limitations of ignorance and OF MICHIGAN with through emergency legislation without prejudice, from the prisons of class, race, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES coming to grips with the nub of the matter, time, undue self-interest, and the servitude which ls a permanent decision to provide of the crowd. The man or woman unencum Wednesday, May 26, 1971 for compulsory arbitration or its equivalent. bered by these limitations brings to the chal Mr. CHAMBERLAIN. Mr. Speaker, the That ls exactly what happened in the pres lenge of these crises a freshness of perspec action taken by Congress on May 18 in ent dispute. It was ended by an "emergency" tive and a quality of judgment that is rare resolution designed to make the walkout and essential. ending a 2-day nationwide railway strike illegal, while offering the signalmen an in In this tradition of the liberal arts we is but the most recent reminder of the terim wage increase. know that we cannot hide from these crises urgent need to find a better way of Thus does Congress once more go through in our tidy suburbs and green country clubs. settling disputes which threaten the the charade of putting off a strike and delay They come crashing down upon us in the broad national interest and potentially ing a crisis without really offering anything form of tax dollars demanded, congested traf even the security of the country. Unfor which will keep these public interest strikes fic, an assault on the streets, an impoverished tunately, the stopgap agreement passed from happening. It may only have achieved family, or an unresponsive elected officials. a delay in the real crisis for a few months. These things happen because the institu by Congress offers no hope of avoiding Because organized labor ls powerful in the tions that have served many of us well, such crises in the future. This problem political field and stoutly resists any incur serve others very inadequately, or not at all, has been near the top of the list of sion into the right to strike, no matter how and we know our duty is to deal with them. President Nixon's priority requests both disastrous a given walk-out may be, positive In this tradition we hrave been educated to to the 9 lst and 92d Congresses. Other improvement in the field of labor legislation a. point beyond which we can educate our proposals have been introduced as well ls almost impossible to come by. selves. And there is hope to be found in but still we have had no effective action And so, ten years from now, we expect to people: who can push beyond traditional ap be saying about the current crisis strike, proaches, who can reject the cascade o! plati by the Congress. In an editorial on Wed whether it be on the rails or elsewhere, that tudes and clic'hes that inund&te most o! our nesday, May 19, 1971, the Jackson Citizen something needs to be done. problems, who cran push aside the deception . Patriot made clear what it thinks about If Congress makes that unnecessary we which accompanies the soaring rhetoric, who this failure of the Congress in a persua shall be surprised-pleased, to be sure, but can analyze and articulate with precision sive argument entitled "Congress Fum certainly surprised. and cla.rlty, who can a.da.pt to new disciplines, bling Crisis Strike Issue." I commend it ideas, methods, and integr.aite them to solve to the attention of my colleagues and to problems. the House leadership: I do not deceive myself about the contri JIM HUNTLEY, COLLEGE ATHLETE butions those of us educated in this tradi CONGRESS FUMBLING CRISIS STRIKE ISSUE OF THE MONTH tion can make to solving these challenges. National welfare strikes, such as the one Some of us are apathetic. in which 13,000 signalmen briefly tied up the others become quickly cliscouraged, and rail system with an immediate, potentially lose hope. dangerous effect on the economy, have got HON. JACK F. KEMP Some figure thait 1! they take care of them to go. OF NEW YORK selves a.nd their own, everything will work Which ls something that has been said a out a.11 riight. thousand different ways over the past half IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Some respond with passion, thrashing century. Wednesday, May 26, 1971 a.way with great fervor and little skill. There ls utter frustration even in saying Some become cynica.l. and blame someone it because society, through its government, Mr. KEMP. Mr. Speaker, I have heard or something for everything 1fu.at goes wrong. never has made the difficult decision to end some commentary to the effect that com All of us show some of these attiitudes some such walkouts through the only device which petitive athletics are coming under in of the time. A liberal arts education ls not protects the rights of both employer and em creased attack by those who believe that a panacea for t.he crises which surround us ploye-compulsory arbitration. competition precludes cooperation. I dis or the attitudes that deter us. Until that decision is made, the strikes agree, Mr. Speaker, and as a prime ex But, a :fine liberal arts educa.tion has pro will continue to occur, as they have despite to duced, and will continue to produce, more the elaborate laws made available by the gov ample I can point with pride Brooks than 1.ts share of people who can make a con ernment. Robinson of the Baltimore Orioles. He structive contribution to solving these chal Compulsory arbitration and legal ma has been helping the youth of America lenges. I hope you shall be among them. chinery which will make it possible to bar find the best answers to life with his co All of us congratulate you and hail your walkouts in industries and services vital to operative desire to give young people entry to the ranks of college graduates. A the public interest, is resisted on both sides super leadership. Brooks feels this is new college graduaite, like a newly minted of the bargaining table. necessary if we are to help our youth May 26, 1971 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 17227 bring peace and love and renewal to our Huntley said that the college students in Thus the Europeans are rallying around the country and the world. volved in the program couldn't help being Deutsche Mark, the most stable and valuable Brooks Robinson is a member of the impressed with the enthusiasm of the young currency on the continent. sters. "It was just amazing to watch how Admittedly there is a basis for European Fellowship of Christian Athletes as am eager they were to learn how to swim," he fears. For more than half a decade, the I. The FCA is not an assembly of saints, saiid. "They never gave up." None of the col United States ha.s refused to come to grips but a group of strugglers, such as Sport lege students had any special training in with a r-ag.lng in.fiation whose effects are felt magazine's college athlete of the teaching sw1mmlng, but some had ta.ken a keenly 81broad because the dollar is the on!ly month-Jim Huntley, in the good fight course, "Physical Education for Atypical international medium of exchange. of faith propagating a he-man brand of Children," which was helpful. Now the Fel Aware of the adverse consequences to their Christianity that is Christ-centered. lowship is planning on extending its pro own econolllies should the dollar lose its in Mr. Speaker, each month, Sport maga gram during the upcoming academic year. ternational eminence, our friends and trad zine runs a feature titled "college athlete "We hope to work right around the area," ing partners in Europe have in the past pro Jim says. "There a.re some sohools that need tected it--as they put it in exchange for our of the month." The award goes to a stu people to officiate, and there is a reform physica~ protection of them with troops and dent who has lettered in one or more school for boys thalti needs people to help set arms. intercollegiate sports. But more impor up physical education facilities." The or The current crisis exhibits that Europeans tant, he is a young man who has made an ga.nd2ia.tion also hopes to bring some speakers see a limit to this reciprocal arrangement. outstanding contribution to his college to campus and take children to some of the So many dollars have flowed out of the through his involvement in meaningful college's sportJing events. United Sta.tes in recent years that our finan No maitter what time of the year it ls, the cial allies are no longer w1lldng to purchase community activities. kids will be able to watch Huntley perform. It will be my pleasure to be on hand all of the surplus dollars to get them out of He's a fine athlete, as evidenced by the fact circulation. At the same time speculators when Sport magazine honors all 12 ath that he made the gymnastics and rowing are aibandoning their dollars, seeking the letes of the month for the 1970-71 school teams even though he had never participated safer and more stable Deutche Mark-add year on June 8 at the Madison here in in either before transferring to Ithaca from ing to the surfeit. Lehigh as a sophomore. "I got interested in Washington, D.C. It will be particularly None of the solutions is painless. Raising gratifying to see Jim Huntley get his gymnastics while I was taking a parallel bar the value of the Deutsche Mark in relS1tion course," Jim said, "and I wanted to stay ac to the dol'la.r, or letting our currency find its award, not only because he is a member tive." He was introduced to crew by a foot of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, own wJue in an open exchange, does not get ball teammate (Ithaca's team won the Metro at the roots of the present crisis. but also for the fact that he is from politan New York Championship). "Right Hamburg, N.Y., which is in my congres from the starit I liked it," he said. "It's a fan The financial crisis is not a "German sional district. tastic sport because you are busy all the problem" a.s some suggest, but an American Mr. Speaker, at this point I include time." and Free World problem. So is Jim Huntley. Sort of. Nor does the offer of the United Stastes to an article from Sport magazine concern sell attractive securities to banks in Europe ing Jim Huntley; in order to blot up some of the surplus dol JIM HUNTLEY, ITHACA COLLEGE lars do more than postpone a solution. (By Gene Sunshine) WARNING TO THE UNITED STATES The dollar crisis in Europe is a warning (NoTE.-Beginning with this issue, SPORT to us that we must start putting our eco introduces a new monthly feature, College nomic a.trairs in order if we want to be the Athlete of the Month, which will honor col world economic leader. Phrased another way, lege athletes who are making significant con HON. ff. R. GROSS if we want to continue to enjoy the present standard of living and freedoms that we tributions to their campuses, communities OF IOWA and society. Oandida.tes are nomin81ted by have, we had better start biting the economic their respective schools, and all winners re IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES bullet at home. ceive engraved awards a.t special presentaUon Wednesday, May 26, 1971 A catastrophe may be averted this time by ceremondes.) the support that the dollar has received. Jim Huntley has a gift for understaitement. Mr. GROSS. Mr. Speaker, I am insert There ls little doubt, however, thaili there are A 22-year-old senior physical education ma ing in the RECORD at this point an ex only so many shocks that the dollar can jor &t Ithaca (New York) College, Huntley cellent editorial from the Waterloo, Iowa, take before it succumbs. modestly describes himself as "sort of an ac Daily Courier on the dollar crisis in tive person." He spends his time particip81tlng Europe. in three varsity sports, working for the serv With billions of American dollars float ice-oriented Ithaca Fellowship of Athletes SENATOR BUCKLEY SPEAKS ABOUT he organized. last fall and hitting the -books ing around the world, and especially in hard enough to make Dean's List three times Europe, foreign financial experts have THE PROBLEMS OF POLICE IN in a row. That's Huntley's version of "sorrt repeatedly warned the United States that OUR SOCIETY of" active. it must correct the staggering deficit in Jim was a defensive guard on the footlbaU its international balance of payments. All team, a parallel ba.r specialist on the gym too Iittle heed has been paid to these HON. MARIO BIAGGI n:astics team and the :fifth man on Ithaca's crew last year. Surprisingly, he seems to pre warnings and recently a dollar crisis OF NEW YORK fer to talk aibout his work for the non was precipitated when Europeans rallied IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sectartan Ithaca Fellowship of Athletes, around the German mark, thus giving which was inspired by a Fellowship of Chris clear notice that the American dollar is Wednesday, May 26, 1971 tian Athletes' conference he attended in no longer regarded as the world's sound Mr. BIAGGI. Mr. Speaker, in recent ssouri. est currency. years this Nation has experienced an un Huntley, a native of H.a.mbUTg, New York, If those who manage the financial af precedented attack on its law enforce tarted his org.a.nizaition by gathering to fairs of the United States wish to avoid ether about 30 male and fem.a.le students, ment system. Policemen have been sub ost of them varsity athletes. They elected an international financial debacle, they ject to verbal abuse not only on the im president, and he immediately began will do well to heed this and other warn streets of our cities but also in the hal rep-a.ring for the group's first project, a ings. lowed halls and grounds of this building. eekly learn-to-swim course for the phys- The editorial follows: They have been the victims of sniper fire cally handicapped and mentally retarded DoLLAR CRISIS IN EUROPE GIVES WARNING TO and wanton assaults in ever-increasing hildren of Ithaca. THE UNrrED STATES Using the college's pool, the group held numbers. And now, in New York City im sessions every Saturday, beginning in An uneasy truce seems to exist in Europe especially, we are witnessing what ap ovember and running through April. Ten so far as attacks upon the dollar a.re con pears to be an all-out war on the police. hildren were involved in the program, which cerned but it would be a mistake to dismiss This trend takes on the appearance of njoyed remarkable success. "One boy didn't the seriousness of the current threat to inter outright anarchy with every slaughter ven want to purt his face in the water," Jim. n.aitionail finanoial stability. and it must stop. Cooler heads must pre ecalls. "H1s parents had spent summers with The subject ls complex and controversia.1. in to im at the lake but they could never get him However, lit is plain that Europeans, particu vail order for our police system sur put his head under water. But we got him larly me West Germans, are rushing to the1r vive and remain an effective and fair dis swim 15 to 20 yards. We did it with a banks 1;o get r.id o! their dollars !or 'the sim penser of justice for all. More sober norkel th.at he liked. We put it underwaster, plest of all reasons. Their faith in the &b111ty minds must put the difficult task of the nd one time he just dldn't think anything of the United St.ates of America to resolve law enforcement officers of our Nation bout it and he just went in a.nd got it." its domestic financial problems is wavering. in perspective. 17228 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 26, 1971 I am pleased to present, in this re rupt," they shout, "the system must be de thodically and tirelessly did their job, and gard, the remarks of the distinguished stroyed." did it in the only way it could be done. They junior Senator from New York, Mr. This is the background which is necessary countered mass invasions of buildings and to an understanding of what took place in key intersections with mass arrests after first JAMES L. BUCKLEY. His recently deliv Washington during the first week of May. using bullhorns to warn the crowds to dis ered address given before the Police The Mayday confrontations were different in perse. As a result of their action and self Conference of New York State focuses on quality and purpose from the earlier, often restraint, injuries were kept at an absolute the fine efforts made by the Metropoli moving, mass protests against the war which minimum and the city of Washington was tan Police Force in the District of Co had taken place in April. Those who wrote kept open and the Government of the United lumbia during the potentially chaotic the Scenario for the week beginning May 2nd States allowed to function. had far more in mind than the peaceful ex But now that the city has been saved, now demonstrations of early May. I urge my that civil order has been maintained, now colleagues to read his message printed pression of dissent. Theirs was a program which had as its explicit purpose the disrup that the Government has demonstrated that at this point in the RECORD. tion of the city of Washington and the stop it will not be intimidated, we are hearing SPEECH BY SENATOR JAMES L. BUCKLEY AT THE page of the Federal Government. And their the predictable cries about police st ate tac POLICE CONFERENCE OF NEW YORK STATE, stated objectives went far beyonc an imme tics and the denial of constitutional rights- THE PINES HOTEL, SOUTH FALLSBURG, N.Y., diate American withdrawal. all those charges which these days we have MAY 17, 1971 The Scenario was written by the "Peoples come to expect anytime anyone attempts to draw and enforce the clear distinction be I would like to discuss a new dimension of Coalition for Peace and Justice" and its ad junct, the "Mayday Collective." They had tween the lawful exercise of the rights of a problem which is not just a police problem, free speech and assembly on the one hand, but a problem of our society as a whole. I their nonnegotiable demands and they dis tributed their literature in which they de and the unlawful acts of coercion, disruption, speak of the problem which confronted the destruction on t he others. police of the District of Columbia and the scribed their demands and their specific goals. To give you the flavor of what they planned Those who raise their voices in protest citizens of the city of Washington during the against the actions taken by the city of Mayday protests of two weeks ago. for the first week of May, let me quote from this Uterature--literature incidentally, Washington seem so exclusively concerned To place these in perspective, I think it with the rights ot those who sought to close ls useful to go back a few years and to review which featured the Viet Cong flag and never the American flag, except as a. symbol of down the city, that they appear oblivious of the events which paved the way for this the rights of the public at large. They are un challenge to the Federal Government. death: "The same military machine that is chok concerned, apparently, over the rights of the This country has had a long history of 800,000 persons who live and work in the Dis mass demonstrations; of demonstrations or ing Vietnam is killing black people and young people in America. Angela Davis, dope-smok trict to go a.bout their daily lives in peace, ganized to express concern, to express dis secure in their persons and property; uncon sent. But these other demonstrations, by ers, draft-resisters, poor people, the people who are trying to challenge the stronghold cerned for these citizens' right to unob· and large, have observed the legitimate limits structed streets for their own legitimate use of dissent; and although some from time to it now grips us with. "We will go to Washington in May to focus and for all those public uses-fire engines, time have gotten out of hand and have trig ambulances, and the lo~n which the safety gered rioting and destruction and injuries, in on the war, poverty, racism, sexism that (are) the natural outgrowths of maintaining of a great city and its people depends. True, they have represented lawful exercises of our some innocent passersby were undoubtedly great constitutional rights of petition and American capitalism and imperialism. swept into the vans used in the mass arrests. assembly-lawful because they never set out "In May we will take to the streets in But what was the practical alternative? By as a matter of deliberate purpose to trample righteous anger and force the American Gov standers had been warned to stay away from on the rights and freedoms of others. ernment to accept the wishes of the Ameri the disruptions, and the police had to clear But in recent years, principally on our can people ... the streets and omce buildings if the city campuses, we have seen the growth of some "Mayday begins the first national imple and Government were to continue to func thing dangerously different. We have seen a mentation of the peoples peace ... we will tion. step-by-step testing of the limits of outrage; ask Government workers to join us in imple True, thousands of those arrested were of the limits to which the lives and rights of menting the treaty by striking against Nixon kept in hastily mobilized compounds with others could be trespassed upon with im on May 3-7. We will jam into their hallways out adequate sanitary facilities, and often pugnity. Accidental aggressions became de and omces ... without food for long hours at a time. But libera.te; and a.s campus and civil au1ihorities "And on May 3 we will enter some 26 roads does this mean that we must keep on hand backed down, excusing the militants with and bridges in the downtown Washington 10,000 or 20,000 standby cells just in case talk about the understandable frustrations area, in rush-hour tramc, to stop the Govern we need to cope with future emergencies of of young idealists or the righteousness of ment." the kind created by the May Day collective? their non-negotiable demands, the militants so we see the true dimensions of the May And what a.bout the long hours which the reacted with new demands and new reports day confrontations. They were not so much thousands of police were forced to go with to force. Thus we have seen an escalation in anti-war as anti-America. They rallied be out food as they worked to keep the city the tactics of confrontation politics from hind the Viet Cong flag; and, if the Govern functioning? picketing and shoving to sit-ins and shut ment of the United States refused their pre True also, some pre-arrest procedures were out s, to kidnappings, to the destruction of posterous demand to ratify their "peoples dispensed with, and long delays were expe files, to the fouling of omces, to arson, to peace treaty," which for all intents and pur rienced in the processing of individual cases. orchestrated bombings, to the closing down poses was drafted in Hanoi, they would-in But again, what was the alternative if the of entire universities. their own words-"stop the Government." essential, emergency job of protecting the All this, of course, in the name of causes This was the challenge which the Mayday rights of the public was to be a.ccomplished? of such transcendent righteousness that tribe and their camp followers presented to The arrested demonstrators can well be those who advocated them assumed special the city of Washington and to the Govern asked, in the words of Eric Sevareid, "Why immunity to flout the law and to throw the ment of the United States; and they boasted they are furious at delays in the legal proc rights and lives of entire communities into that they would bring into the city some essing of their cases when they had set out jeopardy. These causes, let us recall, have 70,000 to 100,000 persons to make good their to put a full stop to all processes of govern not been exclusively or even principally con threat. It was a naked challenge to the au ment here. Or why they resent the unsanitary cerned with the Vietnam Wa:r. thority of government, and to the rights of conditions in their detention centers when, They have ranged the gamut from the a city of 800,000 persons. had their own plans succeeded, there would right to shout obscenities at Berkeley, to And it was a challenge that was met firmly, be no sanitation anywhere in the city, in the propriety of a proposed gymnasium at effectively and eflciently by what must be cluding the hospitals." Columbia, to campus recruitment by the po one of the great police forces of this or any I believe that we need to give CM"eful study lice, to abolition of ROTC. As Jerry Rubin nation. The innocents who had flocked to to what was done to cope with these demon once observed, if there had not been a Viet Washington to join in the fun of paralyzing strations. As we have been spared this kind nam war, the New Left would have invented a city were quickly put on notice that the of confrontation through most of our his one. authorities intended to do their duty, and tory, we may still have much to learn about And so a self-righteous corps of self-styled tens of thousands of them quietly stole away. more effective countermeasures and about revolutionaries have been given their head But the 20,000 or so who stayed on fully in keeping these measures in the closest possi and encouraged to seek out ever-grander tar tended to carry out the planned disruptions, ble harmony with our proud traditions of in gets for their increasingly refined guerrilla :flooding .the streets with their thousands, dividual justice. But to say that the emer tactics; and in the process we have made ce slashing tires, overturning trucks; and, when gency measures taken in Washington two lebrities of the Abbie Hoffmans and the Jerry deflected by the pollce, they roamed through weeks ago represented a suspension o! the Rubins who roam a.bout the country's lecture residential areas relieving their frustrations constitution is to distort what in fact took circuits preaching their special brands of dis through random acts of vandalism. place, and to state that a free society cannot ruption and anarchy. "The system is cor- Throughout this period, the police me- as a. practical matter protect imelf against May 26, 1971 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 17229
mass action. This ls to enshrine le~al abstrac I am proud that they did so in the best equal to the basis of the property to the tions at the coot of the common sense which tradition of the peace officer-with firmness decedent immediately before his death. is part and parcel of any system of con but restraint, exercising no more authority The bill also contains a provision chang stitutional rights. As former Justice Arthur than necessary to accomplish their duty of Goldberg once wrote, "While the constitu protecting the Washington citizenry. I am ing the time when a decedent's last in tion protects against the invasion of indi proud that they gave their opponents no come tax return must be filed and pro vidual rights, it ls not a suicide pact." excuse to cry, 'police brutality!' I am proud visions permitting the Secretary or his And now we come to what ought to be that they have presented to the world a delegate, in certain situations, to extend the principal lesson to be drawn from our picture of police fairness and effectiveness the time for paying the tax due on gains most recent experience with confrontation a picture that can go a long way to counter at death. politics. the unfavorable police image that extremists A detailed explanation of the bill Freedom ls a fragile thing. It is not the have tried to palm off on the American pub follows: natural state of human society, but a state lic." which is achieved through sacrifice, through I want to echo the attorney general's sen This bill adds a new section, section self-discipline, through a common under timents. I believe that the kind of profes 84, to the Code which provides for the standing of the need to substitute the mech sionalism exhibited In Washington two inclusion in the decedent's final income anisms of representative government for weeks ago, and the kind of professionalism tax return of the gains and losses which force. Freedom thrives where civil order which the pollce of New York State routinely would have been taken into account if thrives and where there ls the broadest wm display will build a new respect for our law the taxpayer had sold all the property ingness to abide by the rules. This is not to enforcement officers, a better understanding which is considered "to have been ac sugg·est that the rules may not be wrong or for some of the problems which they face quired from or to have passed from the may not need changing; but it does suggest today, and a new appreciation of their crit decedent"-within the meaning of sec that the rules must be changed in accord ical role in preserving our freedoms. ance with the rule book if the conditions of I know that recent times have been hard tion 1014(b)-at a selling price equal to a free society are to be preserved. ones for you who have chosen the honorable its fair market value at death. Property Any reading of history will indicate that career of policeman. But I believe your stead which is income in respect of a decedent when a people ls required to choose between fastness in your duty, your self-restraint, is not subject to the tax on gains at anarchy and civil disorder on the one hand, your courag·e and cool in the face of often death and is treated in the same manner and a restriction of their freedoms on the outrageous abuse will achieve once again as under present law. If the decedent's other, a people wm usually decide in favor that broad-based respect which Americans fiduciary elects the alternate valuation of order even at the expense of some of have traditionally shown their police. And in the meantime, I want to express this date for estate tax purposes, the prop their freedoms. erty is considered to have been sold by This is why we need to be so very con citizen's gratitude for your fidelity. cerned about this growing impulse to an the decedent at its value on the alternate archy, this flowering of confrontation poli valuation date. The gains and losses tics. This is why it has become so important arising as a result of this section are that those who occupy positions of moral or TAX REFORM considered to be amounts received from civil responsibility begin making the neces the sale or exchange of capital assets sary distinctions between lawful dissent and held for more than 6 months, that is, the unlawful disruption of the rights of HON. CHARLES A. YANIK long-term capital gain or loss. For pur others, why it is time that we stopped excus OF OHIO poses of computing the losses under this ing and flattering our self-styled revolu tionaries. This ls why we must begin drawing IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES section, the provisions in present law the necessary lines. Wednesday, May 26, 1971 relating to the disallowance of losses Happily, in Washington this month, the from wash sales and the provision limit city and federal authorities drew the line Mr. VANIK. Mr. Speaker, as part of a ing the deductibility of capital losses by and let it be known that we as a society package of tax reform bills, I have today individuals will not apply. intend to survive with our freedoms intact, introduced legislation which provides for Two types of property will not be and that we will not be bullied by the new the income taxation of unrealized ap subject to the tax on gains at death. A anarchists among us. preciation from a decedent. The gain, · household or personal item which is There is still another lesson to be learned which is treated as having been realized acquired from a decedent will not be from this month's experience, and that ls by the decedent taxpayer in his final tax the critical role which a skilled, courageous subject to the tax if the fair market and professional police force is called upon able period, is treated as long-term capi value of the item at death-or the alter to play in the protection of a free society. tal gain. Losses on depreciated property nate valuation date-is less than $2,000. Although thousands of troops had been mo are also taken into account in determin If the value is in excess of tha~ amount, bilized and deployed in case the demonstra ing the net gain or loss from property the property is to be subject to the tax tions got out of hand, these were largely which is acquired from a decedent. There like any other property acquired from a kept out of sight. It was the police of the are two exemptions from the tax on decedent. Losses due to the depreciation city of Washington who had the prime re gains at death. First, the tax will not in value of personal and household items sponsibility for maintaining order in the city; apply to gain on household or personal and it was the police who during those three will be disallowed, following the usual critical days waged a successful effort to keep effects if the fair market value of the rules relating to losses of a personal the thousands of rioters from closing down household or personal item at the time nature. Also exempt from the tax on the city. It was the police, not the military, of death is less than $2,000. Second, pro gains at death is property which passes, who held the line between civil order and perty which passes to the surviving or has passed, from the decedent to his chaos. spouse-and is eligible for the estate tax surviving spouse, but only to the extent In so doing they deprived the rioters of marital deduction-will not be subject •to that the property interest is deductible what they wanted most-the drama of con the tax. So that decedents possessing a under the present estate tax marital frontation between clvillans and the mili relatively small amount of appreciated deduction. tary. What the citizens of this country saw property at death will not be subject to instead was a demonstration of mob control The new section also contains three which highlighted the full role of their po the tax, the bill also provides that each basis ru1es to be used in computing the lice in the protection of their rights. They decedent is considered to have a mini tax on gains at death. The first rule pro saw and understood that the police exist mum basis in property which passes as vides a minimum basis in property owned not only to protect them from the aggressions a result of his death of $60,000-or the by the taxpayer at his death. According of the criminal, but from the disruptions fair market value of the property, if to this provision, property acquired from and violence unleashed by the arrogant few lower. a decedent will be considered to have a who claim some superior monopoly on moral Generally, the rule relating to the minimum total adjusted basis to the ity or high principle. basis of property acquired from a de Attorney General John Mitchell summed decedent of $60,000, or the fair market up as follows the special accomplishments cedent is not changed by this bill. The value of the property, if lower. If the of the forces of law which the country wit bill provides, however, that an interest actual basis exceeds $60,000, then the nessed two weeks ago; in property which is received by a sur gain or loss is computed from the actual "I am proud of the Washington City Po- viving spouse, and is not subject to the basi~ . If the fair market value of the lice. I am proud th1t they stopped a repres tax on gains at death, will have a basis property is less than $60,000, that value sive mob from robbing the rights of others. in the hands of the surviving spouse will be the basis for determining gain. 17230 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 26, 1971 The second basis rule relates to property the decedent transferred property during sufficient for the people of the Jewish acquired before the date of enactment. his lifetime reserving the right to revoke faith residing in Russia to endure every So that only appreciation occurring after the transfer. kind of political, social, and religious per the date of enactment will be subject to Although the estate is liable for the secution. Now they must submit to har the tax on gains at death, the bill pro tax on gains at death with respect to the assment, arrest, and persecution for at vides that if the basis of the property property transferred, it is appropriate to tempting to leave the Soviet Union. determined under the normal rules-is provide that the executor of the dece The Soviet Union, with its oppressive less than the fair market value of the dent' estate may collect a proportionate and discriminatory social structure, has property as of the date of enactment, the portion of the tax generated by the prop proved to be uninhabitable for a people basis for determining gain shall be the erty transferred during the decedent's who merely desire to practice their reli fair market value on the date of enact lifetime from the transferee. gion and live in peace, without fear of ment. While the normal basis rule relating reprisal. The kind of treachery which However, depreciation which occurred to property acquired from a decedent is forces a people to want to flee from their prior to the date of enactment may not changed, the bill provides that prop homeland is indeed extreme. And not be taken into consideration in determin erty acquired from a decedent by a sur content with the day to day harassment ing the net gain or loss from the provi viving spouse--and not subject to the of the Jewish citizenry and their subjug sion imposing a tax on gains at death. tax on gains at death-will have a carry ation through official sanction, the Soviet The third basis rule provides for the al over basis in the hands of the surviving Union has initiated the most inhuman location of basis between the marital spouse. This carryover basis is, however, and calculating tactics aimed at van share of the decedent's property-which determined by taking into consideration quishing the Jewish people and destroy is not subject to the tax on gains at the basis allocated to the marital prop ing their culture. While this corruption of death-and the nonmarital share of the erty for purposes of determining the tax justice takes place, the free people of the property-which is subject to the tax. on gains at death. world stand idly by and watch the tra The basic objective of using allocated, With respect to the decedent's final vesty unfold. It is apparent that decisive rather than actual, basis is to eliminate income tax return, on which the tax on and quick action is necessary to save the any incentive for the decedent or his fi gains at death will be reported, the bill Jewish people from further persecution. duciary to transfer any particular piece provides that the return will in no case The Soviet Union is a world power and of property to the surviving spouse. For be due before 9 months after the date of as a world power should be made more example, without a basis allocation rule, decedent's death. Since the va1.uation responsive to the humanitarian concerns considerable incentive would exist to for estate tax purposes will be utilized of the rest of the world. Such irrespon transfer low basis property to a surviv in computing the tax on gains at death, sible action by a government of the world ing spouse so that the gain on that prop it is appropriate to provide that the community of nations is inexcusable and erty woud escape taxation at the de decedent's final income tax return may reflects not only on the Soviet Union, but cedent's death. To avoid this effect the be filed on or before April 15 following likewise on the United States. bill provides a basis rule which requires the close of the calendar year or within Pressure must be brought to bear on allocation of the total basis among all 9 months after the date of the decedent's a government which has hardened itself property-other than cash-before com death, whichever is later. to the suffering and torment of a people puting the taxable gain, with a carry Provisions for obtaining an extension whose history is one of continuous strug over of the allocated basis in the case of of time for the payment of the estate gle against adversity and hostility. As a property on which the gain is not sub tax are made applicable to the income Nation of free people who value highly ject to taxation at death. tax on gains at death. Thus, under the the right to live in peace and tranquillity, If the application of the provision pro bill, the Secretary or his delegate may and who also cherish and respect the viding for taxation of gains at death pro extend the time for payment of the in right of other people to seek that same duces a net long-term capital loss the come tax on gains at death for a rea freedom, we must exert ourselves on the amount thereof may first be utilized sonable period not to exceed 12 months behalf of the enslaved Jews of the Soviet against the net capital gain for the de from the date on which the tax is due. Union and secure for them the dignity cedent's final taxable period. Any Also, if the Secretary or his delegate finds and justice to which every human being amount remaining may be carried back that the payment of the income tax on is entitled. to each of the three taxable years pre gains at death would result in undue I join my colleagues, friends and con ceding the decedent's final taxable year. hardship, he may extend the time for stituents of the New England Region of The net loss eligible for carryback shall payment for a reasonable period not in the Zionist Organization of America in first be carried, as a net long-term capi excess !>f 10 years. Further, if a dece calling upon the Soviet Government to tal loss, to the third preceding year and dent's estate consists largely of an in permit Soviet Jews freely to practice any amount remaining, after use as a net terest in a closely held business, the ex their religion and maintain their culture. long-term capital loss in that year, may ecutor may elect to pay the income tax The resolution follows: be carried back to the second and first on gains at death which is attributable to the closely held business interest in RESOLUTION ON SOVIET JEWRY preceding years in the same manner. If At a meeting of the New England Region any loss remains after the application of two or more-but not exceeding 10- equal installments. of the Zionist Organization of America, held the loss as a net long-term capital loss on Sunday, May 16, 1971 at the Sidney Hill in each of the three preceding years, one The bill provides that it shall apply Country Club, Chestnut Hill, Mass., the fol half of the amount of any remaining to decedents dying on or after the first lowing resolution on Soviet Jewry was loss may be carried back, as an ordinary day of the first calendar year beginning passed: loss, to the three preceding years in the after the date of enactment. This meeting strongly condemns the mock Leningrad trials, the religious, political and same manner. The carryback of a loss racist repression of the Jews in Soviet Rus may not increase or produce a net sia. It deplores unequivocally persecutions operating loss for the year to which it SURVIVAL OF JEWS IN RUSSIA and the refusal of the Soviet government to is carried back. permit Jews to leave the Soviet Union, in The bill also provides that the execu accordance with the Universal Declaration of tor may, in certain circumstances, collect HON. THOMAS P. O'NEILL, JR. Human Rights and the International Con a proportionate share of the tax on gains OF MASSACHUSETTS vention on the Elimination of Racial Dis at death from a person to whom prop- crimination, subscribed to and ratified for~ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES mally by the Supreme Soviet, which clearly erty was transferred by the decedent obligates governments to recognize that during the decedent's lifetime. In certain Wednesday, May 26, 1971 "everyone has the right to leave any coun situations property which is transferred Mr. O'NEILL. Mr. Speaker, once again try including his own." during the decedent's lifetime will, none the survival of the Jewish people has It called upon the Soviet government to theless, be subject to the tax on gains at been seriously threatened by the Govern permit Soviet Jews freely to practice their death. This would occur, for example, if ment of the Soviet Union. It is no longer religion and maintain their culture.