16784 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 20, 1969 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS UNIVERSITY STUDENTS OF TEXAS Robert G. Yoes, Faculty Associate in Militant nationalism 1s an absurd concept AND FACULTY OPPOSE ABM Physics; Eugene Couch, Faculty As­ in this nuclear age. The United States can sociate, Dept. of Physics; Alfred Schild, only protect her people by insuring world Professor of Physics; Laurence Shepley, peace. This means that we must actively put HON. RALPH YARBOROUGH Assistant Professor of Physics; Rich­ an end to the action-reaction cycle which ard Matzner, Faculty Associate, Dept. can only escalate the arms race, draining the OF TEXAS of Physics; Albert R. Exton, Faculty financial resources so badly needed to cope IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES Associate, Dept. of Physics; William with the world's domestic problems. The de­ Friday, June 20, 1969 Kinnersley, Faculty Associate, Dept. of ployment of the ABM will serve only to bring Physics; Richard Tropp, Teaching As­ us one step closer to a nuclear disaster, Mr. YARBOROUGH. Mr. President, I sistant, Dept. of Physics; William H. prompted by thooe who claim they are seek­ have recently received a letter from 13 Marlow, Research Scientist; Ph. D. ing but to defend the nation. Let us not members of the faculty and graduate Candidate; Physics; John W. Middle­ force the Russians into the position of hav­ students in the Physics Department of ton, Teaching Assistant, Physics; Yin­ ing to deploy a system even more terrible ger Ehlers, Professor of Physics; Robert than the ABM, a device that will spell the the University of Texas at Austin, Tex., S. Castroll, Teaching Associate, Math­ doom of the up-coming arms negotiations, another letter from 14 members of the ematics Dept.; John A. Campbell, As­ if not the world itself. Physics Department of Texas A. & M. sistant Professor, Physics and Com­ We are well aware of your solid opposition University, and a letter from eight stu­ puter Science. to the ABM. We hope this letter and the pe­ dents and members of the academic tition enclosed (signed by more than 1000 community of the University of Texas at Hon. RALPH YARBOROUGH, members of the Austin academic community) Austin, all opposing the ABM. The last­ U.S. Senate, will bolster your position in Congress, and Washington, D.O.: help influence your colleagues to follow your mentioned letter was attached to a pe­ example. Please make our position known to tition containing the signatures of over We the undersigned members of the phys­ ics department of Texas A. & M. University, as many members of Congress as possible. 1,000 people at the University of Texas wish to express our opposition to the pro­ We would appreciate a reply from you con­ at Austin who are against the ABM pro­ posed deployment of the Safeguard Antl­ cerning the prospects for the fight against the posal. Ballistic Missile System. We respectfully ABM. Mr. President, these names on the pe­ urge that you vote against the authorization Sincerely, tition were collected over a period of and appropriation of the funds necessary James C. Kearney, Stacy Heinen, Ben several days when the petition was avail­ to deploy the Safeguard System. Davis, Bill Holder, Claire Wilson, able for signature outside the Student This petition reflects the individual senti­ Steven Shankman, Marsha Maverick ments of the undersigned individuals and in Wells, Nancy J. Moore. Union Building at the University of no way represents an official position of the Texas at Austin. The petition and these named institution. We, the undersigned students of the Uni­ letters tell me that there is great public J. Nuttall, associate professor; Ronald versity of Texas and members of the Austin opposition to the ABM proposal in my Bryan, visiting lecturer; F. Alan Mc­ academic community, deplore the NiXon Ad­ home State of Texas. We cannot ram Donald, asst. prof.; William A. Pearce, ministration's iadvocacy of the ABM system, this multibillion-dollar program down asst. prof.; Lee C. Northcliffe, assoc. and we urge both Senators from t he Stafte prof.; R. K. Vaneyer, asst. prof.; G. W. of Texas rto fight very strongly in Congress the throats of an unwilling people. I for the defeat of the ABM program. hope that the Senate will keep this fact Kattaman, assoc. prof.; E. Reyne, assoc. prof.; C. N. Adams, grad stu­ Agnes I. Edwards, Karen Leiner, SuzannA in mind when it votes on this proposal. dent; L. L. Rutledge, Jr., grad student; Davies, J. B. Perkin, John R. Doggett Mr. President, I ask unanimous con­ Mitty C. Plummer, grad student; Joe III, James Coates, Carol Thompson. sent that these letters, one from the De­ S. Ham, prof.; Donald F. Weekes, pro­ Kerry Kremer, Robert A. Devine. partment of Physics, University of Texas, fessor; Harold Cohen, post doctoral Jennifer Gee, Jan Dohoney, William dated February 26, 1969; one from the research associate. Brans, Ryan W. Oliver III, Rachel Physics Department of Texas A. & M. Maines, Edwin 0. Prin<:e, Carole Myse, Adrienne Diehr. APRIL 19, 1969. University; and one from a group of Uni­ Nancie B. Anderson, Eugene E. Wells, Jr., versity of Texas students dated April 19, Hon. RALPH YARBOROUGH, Senate Office, Claudia Stewart, Steve Brake, Bernard 1969, along with the names of their Washington, D.O. Duck, Jr., George Byars, Mr. and Mrs. signers; and the text of the petition from DEAR SENATOR YARBOROUGH: We strongly be­ P. Nugeon Guenluck, Bob Goldman, the University of Texas at Austin, to­ lieve that the ABM system advocated by the Tony TenaneUa, Ken Bayn, John Dietz, gether with the names of all of the present administration is sheer madness. The Karen &owlett, Sha,ron D. Rueler, Mark signers, be printed at this point in the Administration claims that this "defense" R. Lerner, Diallla Allen, Carolyn Na.nee, Stuart Greenfield, Charles Cervantes. RECORD. system is not provocative; this is simply not true. When the Soviet Union had set up ,a Martha Sherer, Bruce E. Harberry, Rob­ There being no objection, the material ert G. Milne, Edward Malewitz, Karo­ was ordered be printed in the RECORD, limited ABM system around Moscow we re­ to sponded by developing the MIRV, the most lyn Stark, Mr. and Mrs. Dennis R. as follows: deadly warhead ever created. This, in turn, Friedel, Mr. and Mrs. Roger Shattuck, THE UNIVERSITY OF TExAS AT forced the Russians to keep abreast militarily Elizabeth Bernard, Charles Tandy, AUSTIN, DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS, of the Americans. In now advocating the de­ Joan Sechler, Margaret Gardner, John Austin, Tex., February 26, 1969. ployment of the ABM system, our military H. Whiteford, Robert Logan, John H. Hon. RALPH YARBOROUGH, leaders fail to recognize how terribly they are Mannehler, Arlene Welfel, Charles L. Senate Office Building, escalating the arms r ace. Does our military Borgeson, Jr., Ann Caraway, B. K. Washington, D.O. assume the Soviet Union will react more Guyler, Joel Finegold. DEAR SENATOR YARBOROUGH: We the under­ sanely to our ABM than we did to theirs? Mary Charles Lucas, Fred L. St earns, signed faculty and graduate students at The There are purely technical reasons for oppos­ James R. Eskew, John R. Schallow, University of Texas at Austin urge you to ing the ABM. In the February, 1968 issue of Lucius A. Ripley, Gary B. Rodgers, vote against any additional appropriations Scientific American, Hans Bethe maintains William A. Brine, Philip McGuire Mar­ for the Sentinel Antiballistic Missile System. that after spending billions of dollars, the tin, Victor J. Guerra, John W. Bowler, We believe that the Sentinel system does not system could be quite easily foiled by new Gustavo R. Ortega, Charlotte Webb, const itute a technically feasible defense Russian technological advances. Another Donald S. Webb, Judy Blumenfeld. against a nuclear attack with ballistic mis­ scientist, writing in the April, 1969 issue of David Spaw, Travis Briggs, Bob Gold­ siles and that any advantage obtained from the same journal, claims that the chances of man, S. C. Littlechild, Lacy Daniels such sr stem can be easily offset by minor, in­ nuclear war will be greatly increased 1f the Richard Whiddon, Ted 8amsel, Warren expensive modifications of offensive weapons. ABM system is adopted. Presently, neither Dean, Joe Bryson, J ames Richard We also feel that the construction of the side can gain much of an advantage by ini­ Rogers, Ferver E. Syleyks, Noelb Hen­ Sentinel system at this time will increa-se in­ tiating a nuclear attack. We, like the Rus­ dricks, Gilbert Cardenas, Perrell D. ternat ional tensions and lead to an immedi­ sians, will suffer equally, whether we initiate Epperson, Ron Klcheger, BlaninP. ate escalation of the arms race. We therefore or retaliate. If, however, ABM's are set up Cohen, Bev. Strittmatter, Juan Caro­ conclu de that the costs as well as the dangers on both sides (if they indeed function; many tez, 14 St. 506 Michael Woodward, Cole. inheren t in placing nuclear warheads in scientists have their doubt s) , the country Forrest S. Higgs, Judith A. Zemore, Mark populated ar eas far out weigh any advantages which attacks first will suffer least . There­ Simon, Katherine Murphy, Ann Lock­ of the Sentinel system and we urge you to fore, when a crisis situation arises, either lear, James Reddell, A. S. Marshall, oppose its construction. side is more likely to push the panic button. Betty Cotton, Rick Priwy, Jane Beek- June 20, 1969 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16785 strand, Robert W. Hoffman, Kelvin B. Wenorah Lyon, Tom Kincaid, Sharon Bower, David Vando, Diane Shottand, Pratt, Thomas A. Green Jr., George Bosting, Larry Grisham, James M. Donald McQuarle, Anthony J. Stant­ Zapalas, Jan Marston. Cody, Barry Banelle, Kurt Gustafson, zenberger, John Mikov, John Nibrow, John Lan, Randy Cally, Judy Morrison, Robert D. Bain. Robert Mayfield, Ann K. Clark, Brooke Juan Valdez, John Taylor, Wallace Stuart Clayton, Walter E. Wehrle, Tony Conley, Henry E. Bower, Ralph R. Read Stapp, Mark D. Roffman, K. Douglas Pecora McAdoo, Frederick D. Asnec, m, Asst. Pro!. of German, Margaret Anderson, Cornelius C. Laird, David Martha Alexander Petkas, Peter J. Kieckhefer, J. M. Milburn. Glover, Paulina. COOk, Gerhard C. Patten, Barry Brookshire, Michael An­ Michael A. Archenhold, Hank Henri­ Geohandi, David Edwards, David van thony Howe, Kenneth B. McCullough, ques, Gary R. Wells, Sylvia Hughes, Os, Herbert Hirsch, G. Bowman, Don­ Frances K. Sage, Dana Waldman, David D. W. Byde, W. Z. Schild, Mrs. Leslie ald H. Sacks, Dennis R. Robinson, Joan Peeples, Alex Arevalo, Philip Rogers, Vuran, Robert L. Dislant Jr., Lynn Ellen Foote, Doug Bradley. Randy Boykin, James F. Wood, James Peery, Linda Helland, Jones T. M. Richard W. Lehman, Patricia V. Leh­ C. Fogo, Kent Landrum, Meredith Midler, Jr., Lyndon Knippa, Carolyn man, Charlie Robinson, Jr., Ben Morgan. Shirley, Larry Hazard, J. Chrys Doug­ Owen, Griff Batten, James Creswell, Scott L. Ferguson, Edmund S. Princoffs, herty, IV, Bob Franklin, Jim Darden, Tommy Hill, Richard L. Shocket, Leoda Anderson, Hubert R. Fowler, Dave Gebser, Leon Gibson, Kent Gray. Carolyn Moore, Alan Lccklear, Leslie Bert Meisenbach, Beto Brunn, Phillip Michael W. James, Gregory Hicks, Spen­ Fenton, Alan Fenton, Robert E. Garrett, Charles Cervantes, Elliot cer Leitman, Iris Hennington, James Whienmeny, Mike McMurtrey, James Zashin, John Loyee, Joe A. Shull, C. Todd, Wm. Meacham, Jerry Poizner, 01lsen, Mike Matthews, Jeffrey H. Candy O'Keefe, R. J. Leddy, G. Wich Alberto de Lacerda, Bill F. Fowler, Kester, Luther Balllew. C. Meirs, Aliddrington. Carole Mgre, Rob Deacon, Wayne A. Kenneth C. Fountain, Robert A. Koch, Stenan Shankman, Henry T. Benedict, Rebhow, William W. Rienster, Wil­ L. Parker, Nicholas C. Kaullos, J. D. Dennis G. Flinn, Marsha Maverick liam C. Gruben, John Crowley, Peggy Uzzell, Elizabeth Powers, Willlam Wells, Henry Allen, Thomas Kuber, Redcom, James Houckins, Robert H. Green, Susan Krenik, Cynthia E. Mayo, Barbara Roseman, David A. Gonga, Zibul, Jenny Roquemore. Joe B. Ferguson, Kathleen Hughes, Nancy J. Moore, Kathy Hughes, Carey George Bou, Michael O. Tobin, Anna Stephen D. Drake, Jim Traweek, David K. West, Sigmund D. Bue, Robert P. Kathryn Webb, Mark S. Goodrich, Wil­ Forman, Raymond L. Neubaur, Mal Aguirre. liam. L. Spilker, Richard Simpson, Lesly, Judy Ka.plan. Sebastian Davis, Tom Ricker, Jesse M. Wright Will1ams, Torn Macheor, Julie David Earnest, Winford Harold Gattis, Garcia, Roger D. Duncan, Elizabeth Ryan, Candace Camp, Robert Cald­ J. Renfro, Art Ma.noquin, Tommy Zane, Kirk Thompson, Bernard A. well, Richard Bauman, David M. Nor­ Rainbolt, Jr., Mark Glen Chemsted, Nipply, James Bean, Roy Powell. man, Nancy Niland, Joann Chang, Bill Frank Floes, Amelia. Sonet, Jim Lur­ Bob Consel, John P. Herov, Frank J. Holden, Dwight McMurrin. more, Gary Rose, Richard B. Fuchet, Smith, Mike R. McHone, Carolyn Lang­ Bettie Watford, Clyde James, Jr., David Jr., John C. Cullen, Jack Ruchelman, ley, Barrey DeBakey, Bob Kar Hu, Jose J. Wadden, Jr., Patricia K. Carlson, Steven Foster, Gene Stoine, Ken Hous­ E. Linnon, W. L. Richey, Jr., John P. Scott Pittman, S. R. Smith, Daniel K. ton, Cyndy Fowler, Michael McKinney, Kin, Alyce Russell. Morgan, Shelby Duval, Richard W. Alicia Helton. Glenda Boreice, Kaven Lane, Marilyn R. Vanderdraft, John Howard, Janet Bin­ Jos. Wristers, Richard Moore, Bruce Gor­ Barders, Frank Head, A. Joe Stubbs, zegger, Jesus Tumbler B., Carolyn anson, Marie Friedman (Mrs. Lelan Robert Westheimer, Robert Griffin, Gates, Lindole Calin, David Moore, W.), Suzanne Evans, David A. Upper, Michael L. Aee, Robert Waters, Greg Carletta Kassover, Walter Harrison, Debby Passman, Michael Burgess, Allen Dun, Wm. J. Olson, Stephen E. Felp. Jose G. Sanchez. R. Thomson, Perry Raybuch, Chris Rowland R. Nathaway, James P. Allison, Carolyn Virginia Jamer, Bruce Gregg, Taylor, Anne T. Payne, Tom Gonzalez, Stuart Isgeor, Rebecca Rezmhoff, Bill McKee, Dave Flacy, Barbara Stock­ Mike Perry, K. M. Breen, Gilbert Ro­ Claire Wilson, Michael P. Wesbegt, ing, J. R. Card, Jon Cavalier, Patrick chiger, Lar Kaufman. Richard W. Minis, Robert Printch, L. Evans, Ann MacNaughton, Kig Page, J. Keith Grienieks, Wiley J. Roark, Ju­ Alan Phenix, Caralee G. Woods. Donna Dees, Ron Bates,, Paul Bucke, dith Searcy, Rita Richards, Kathy James Seven, Sharon Shelton, Flex 0. Bill G. Dickey, Michael J. Cracraft, Bailey, Lang C. Owens, Jennifer Dis­ Calvert, Lawrence Caroline, Din a Robert W. Lewis, Jr., Julla O'Neal, brow, Jeffrey W. Newman, Randall Hol­ Caroline, Sandy Carmichael, Steve Candida E. McCollom, James Michael lis, Bob Higley, Ken Schutze, Charles Gibson, Nicholas A. Hophimus, Richard Peal, William R. Green. Aherz, Barbara Greenberg, William W. Tedlars, Carole J . Anderson, Tom Wm. 0. Bellmosko III, Bill Manshall, M. Montgomery, Michael A. Lacey, N. Taylor, M. Ann Miller, Elaine Tru­ Mayme Walters, Barbara Wuensch, Marc Bernstein, Dotty McDaniel, Jon man, Ton y Abrigo, Pat Dillon, Avia John H. Howard, Jr., David A. Stewart, Montgomery, Dick Yoer, Bob Baird. Aguillard, Maria L. Abrigo, Tom Daniel Taylor, John R. Cope, R. Terince Joie Bullion, Ella Dolomon, Carlos J. K incaid. Stoup, S. J. Colletta, Bob Pian, James Chapa, Jeros Medeao, Pat Guerra, Bon­ Nancy Bender, Barry K. Odell, Harvey L. P. Keogh, Zigmunt W. Smuggy, Karen nie Hinshaw, Bill Cowsar, Franz E. Mayton, Robert J . Cartis, David L. Nob­ Carsch, Robert Ryman, Em.et M. Hal­ Meadows, Edward V. George, Mildred lin, Mike Levin, Jennifer Oppenheim, lock, Morton Lane, Susan E. Venel, W. Douglas, Sp/4 James M. Lutz, Robert N. Thefers, Sheryl Patterson, Sandra McGumonville. Lynn Elkins, Robert P. Poteat, Nan S. Ann Clark, James Page, Richard Ald­ Karen Kilsdonk, Charlie Bicksley, Can­ Blake, Troy Ellison, H. F. Oeandumbit, riedge, Amelia L. Ca.rolls, Jane Ross. dase Page Herring, Beverly Huntsman, Bill Kimbot. Donald E. Walker, Joe Jordan, Dave Mike Chase, Patricia Blum, Judith A. Len Sherman, Ellen Deacon, Ruth Kee­ Haase, Bruce Grube, Philip Sterzing, Smith, Charles Johnson, Jonathan Los, nan, Sherrie S. Cerris, Dennis Stacy, Mark Macha, Kristine Deweese, Jame Janie Hall, Peggy Jan :Mllls, Clinton J. P. Hill, Jr., Albert R. Owens, Jr., Calillo, Joyce Sanders, Jol Ittillg, Mark Mallari, Kate Keller, Becky Balkin, Wayne Holtzman, Jr., Jimmie D. Free­ Rinehart, John P. Hinds, Robert E. B. K. Guyler, Patricia Harp, Rafa.el m an , Gary Agatt, Karen Northcott, Deweese, Henry C. Mecrcek III, C. Quintanilla., Allos Sloholl. J an E. Siteri, Richard I. Grant, Jr., Thomas Bermann, A Marie Blazik, Gary Douglas M. Webb, Richard Johnson, Robyn Barclay, Roy Powell, Steve Anderson, T. E. Fogwell. Bruce L. Gardner, Richard Lynch, Kotter, Connie Singleton. Bill McGraw, Dickie Pena, Karen Wel­ Linda. Maddox, David Rigney, Neil Salvador Franco, Suzanne Wenger, Todd don, Wayne Maddox Jr., Michael Bro­ Landsman, Peggy Martin, Bob Rus­ W. Cone, Peter Gill, Ron Walker, Allen phy, Michael J. Irwin, J. P. Mays, Lau­ sell, Richard Paul, Rosa Maria Gon­ Pitts, Mike Center, Steven A. Carriker, rie Sarger, Harry M. Pope, Donna zalez, John Christian, Roger Dickey, Clara Studar, Mark Plummer, John Jane Graham, Mrs. Linda Garrett, David Hall, Mark V. Roderick, Willia m Ziley, Paul Neumann, Glennys Peter­ John Beauduz, Suzi Duffy, Henry B. C. Davis, Spiror Veller, Otano Mims. son, Debbie Drake, Linda. Morgan, Gary Green, James H. Hyrd, Steve Cava­ Armando Gutierrez, Jr., Lewis Mr. Ros­ L. Thicken, William R. Duncan, Toni naugh, Robert Connell, Quinn W. enthal, Donald T. Carr, Tony M. Mor­ Ward. Schurwitz. gan, Dennis Stacy, Cliff Lewis, John N. 0. Brookshire, A. L. Mackey, Robert Tracy D. Terrell, William Mullen, Shelby Hay, Linda Mackey, Lewis A. Mcelvy, Mayfield, Eric Samat, John Hana!, Al­ Hallmark, William Levitan, Robert A. William D. Bradford, Betty Stevens, fredo Peno, Mary F. Spencer, F. Dee Wallace, Arch Ritter, Arthur S. Nietz, Stephen Seaquist, Mary Marias, Wil­ Shorte, Mark B. Ba der, James Zigler, Howard Heitz, William R. Pakalhn, liam H. Gorman, Danette Moss, Max Bill Smith, J. Payne, John Conley, M. Banksont, Robert G. Twombly, L. Kisschel, Rita Peterson, Richard Jim Colby, Rebecca Martin, Nelson Harry J. Suguima, Henry Naha!eur, Hill, Bob Ciderman. Martin, Marlyn Hall III. Robert L. Russell, Thomas W. Hainze, Alex P. J. Mounlefer, Tom Robinson, J. Wes Ingram, Robert C. Foster, Victor Jr., Thomas B. Hudson, Jr., Laura G. Daniel C. Morgan, Jr., Margery Engel, X. Rivera, Sybil Bossby, Christopher Richardson, Michael M. Garrile. Phyllis Oaldwell, Carol Austin, George Blake Upjohn, Barbara Poston, Steve Anne Olivia Boyer, H. W. Johnson, Ver­ Bussy, James Peterson, Gary Michael, Hutchison, Charles G. Jennings, Jr., non Willlams, David Sobeg, John David G. Washburn, Barbara Sher, Ted rT • • r 16786 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 20, 1969

Kiptchek, Karen Peterson, David Tom MacLeod, Barbara Hines, Betty din, Pat H. Thorton, Ashton Pitre, Moore, Bobby Skelton, Joe Trumm, Fulwiter, Larrle Hall, Raul J. Garcia, Leon F. Kenman, Jack Millin, Mar­ Charlotte L. Tedhams, Oha.rles W. Jr., Fran Ditti, George R. Prey, guerite Gillis. Lindsey m, Thomas Herbt, Thomas S. Thomas c. Chase m, Albert B. Harper, Robert G. Yaea, Faculty Associate, Anderson, William B. Proxtel, Jr. Douglas B. Balfour, Ronnie c. Stew­ Dept. of Physics; Lawrence Shepley, John Exdell, John B. Shenill, Jr., Richard art, Linda Muller, Wanda Wutzler, Assistant Professor, Physics; Alfred E. Frich, John Wm. Peck, Joseph S. Andree Nolen, J. Barton Arnold m, Schild, Professor of Physics; Eugene Rosser, Lloyd Weathers, Neston Reyes, Elmer L. Deal, Jr. Couch, Faculty Associate, Physics; Patrick Shannon, John Donald, Ed­ Stephen Cornell, Larry Frey, Ronny Ronald s. Parsons, Assistant Professor, ward Haverlah, Helen Gedde, John Knape, Thomas Wagner, George Physics; Arnold B. Lopez-Apero, Fac­ Red.de, Russ Beckor, stephen L. Entemer, Arthur J. Orbin, Edward J. ulty Associate, Physics. Hastes, Wood.lief W. Plive. M. Rhoads, LeVie c. Jacobs, Mark Richard. Ferroy, John Teltsor, James Durln, George H. Moore, Jr., William Kearney, Gene Cunyon, Kenneth A. A. Reaves, Peter Foster, Ralph Allen, RECOGNITION OF THE NEED FOR Fisher, Patricia E. Fisher, Richard C. Jerome Frank, Jr., Mike s. Harms, CONGRESSIONAL REFORM Parish, Thomas J. Hannibal, James Gale Alexander. Lind.say, Jam.es Caldwell, Bruce Virginia Printz, Bruce Lane, Robl Hoemes, Mike McDougal, Jane A. Den­ Glewonor, Bruce Hallock, Pat.see HON. JAMES C. CLEVELAND nis, John K. Clare, Ronald J. Herring, Luce, Eldridge, Dennis Grensky, OJ' NEW HAMPSHIRE Duane Ripkin, Jeffrey F. Huntsman, Robert M. Sweeney, Marie E. Goyen, Blews Vewen. Patti Walther, Savls E. Rogers, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Darryl Balley, Don Rodgers, ~ul Terper, Frank s. Sisti, Grace Angelena Hede­ Thursday, June 19, 1969 Jerry Morrisey, Sharon Berliner, Bill mann, Randy Rogers, DaVid Koenig, Harrfbro, James Hales, Michael Berger, Bernard Wollank, Robert C. Gray, Mr. CLEVELAND. Mr. Speaker, on Carl Cochran, Mark V. Gregg, Jose Barney DelBakey, Peter Riskind, June May 28, I had the pleasure of attending Ramez, Lynne Telllngtoh, Doug Skinner, David Braun, Don Rawlins, a testimonial dinner in the honor of Rowley, Marta Berryman, Terry Pink­ Brian Ornene, James Byrd, John G. Speaker Marshall Cobliegh of the New ard, Charles F. Willia.ms. Corbett, Laurel Seltzer, Alan Seals, Hampshire General Court. The guest Robert D. Atkinson, PamelUnited States Congress at times in sounding out sentiment, get only $8 per tury. appears to have lost its capacity for broad decision they are called upon to make on Tonight, I'm supposed to talk and you're policy initiation, having recently implored the floor of the Senate; only $8 per vote they supposed to listen. If you get through before the President to submit a legislative program are called upon to make ranging from a $6.4 I do, please let me know. to which it could react; but 1f it has lost bllllon budget to delicate issues of church­ I appreciate your chairman's generous in­ power in the areas of foreign relations and state. And the public little understands that troduction. It is a great deal more sympa­ war to a powerful Presidency, at lea.st in the a legislator makes more decisions in a ses­ thetic than one I received in New York City, field of program auditing it is showing spark. sion than the average man makes in a ll!e­ when after listening to the master of cere­ The truth is that most of the world's popu­ time. monies recite the dreary facts of my ll!e I lation does not know government by strong, THE UAL REFORMS heard him conclude: "And now we shall independent legislature. And one of the most But let me warm to the task of suggesting hear the la.test dope from Albany." useful steps the nations of the world could where the real strengthening of our legisla­ It is just great to come to New Hamp­ take to strengthen freedom would be to tures lie. It lies in knowing itself. The real shire, from whence many of our New York bolster their legislatures. A people that does task of legislatures is setting broad policies. leaders gain new energies and new insights. not have a free, strong legislature ls not The states are a $60 billion a year business I Our New York Senate Minority Leader Jo­ free. Legislatures need to tool up, staff up and seph Zaretzki has lived in New Hampshire Of course in Lebanon, they have solved shape up. for years, but votes in Manhattan! And our the problem of parliaments. The rule there I will not stress the electronics and com­ Senate Majority Leader Earl Brydges extracts is that controversial subjects that cut into puters that many legislatures are using to as many fish from your waters as your gen­ religious lines may not be brought before the help draft b1lls, codify statutes, and test al­ erous laws permit. Unpublicized, many of legislature! They have solved their problem. ternate policy proposals. I will not stress our New Yorkers come to New Hampshire to They have deep dug-in religious sects which anything tonight but main routes to get at get a breath of unpolluted air, unpolluted would be at each other's throats if issues the guts of bringing legislatures back to the water and unpolluted politics. of controversy were to come before their leg­ glory that was theirs in the early 19th cen­ Your state flower, the purple lilac; your islature, so they have worked out their own tury. state tree, the white birch; reflect so well the system: no controversial leglslaJtionl These channels of strength are: clean tangy scent of your air and the dignity THE STATE LEGISLATURES 1. The legislature must gain control over of your people. the planning function of state government. And I bring you greetings from Gov. Rocke­ New Hampshire has given the nation the Today, the federal government is requir­ feller who was educated here. When he was a motto: "Live free or die I" That 1s the cry ing comprehensive planning in higher edu­ kid, before he went to Dartmouth, his father, our whole country has for the world. And cation, welfare, health, highways-in vir­ so the story goes, gave him blocks to play that is the message of our legislatures to our tually every segment of government--and the with-5oth Street, 51st Street, 52nd Street. people. Unfortunately, there is current in planning is being done by executive agencies We have just gone through the 1969 ses­ our nation a massive cynicism toward legis­ usually without knowledge or consent of the sion. In New York, we had nearly 6,000 bills latures and an elitist cynicism that is de­ legislature. Today state agencies are develop­ introduced in the Senate alone, and about structive of representative democracy. ing broad programs of economic development 7,500 in the House. We passed 1,500 b11ls Each group in our society, the educators, and these by-pass the legisla.tures. Today and at this moment the Governor is signing the doctors, the engineers, the scientists feel state agencies develop plans for the physical about 1,155 of them. It was an exciting ses­ they know better than the legislatures how growth of the state, and these blueprints sion, replete with historymaking events-the to run our government. But it ls the unique frequently escape legislative review. Plan­ function of the legislature to apply the com­ first school decentralization law in the his­ ning is power, and legislatures are being tory of the nation, an increase in the sales mon sense of the generalist to the diverse locked into spending by plans over which tax, an attempt to curb campus rioters and viewpoints of the specl:allsrts. they have little control. a move to re-write state-aid formulas that Our state legi&latures are under fl.re from 2. The legislature must gain control over was :fiscally crippling the state. Also, we had the Aitlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. the allocative function, over determining a wonderful under-estimate of revenues some Some Of the attacks by civic reformers bas how much money will be distributed between people are snide enough to say is designed to some basis. private and public sectors and what the keep us going through the election year of Our legislatures have not organized for priorities are within the public sector. 1969. And our leaders reduced the number their main tasks, but have permitted them­ Today, our legislatures are using often of interim committees because some cynics selves to be snowed under a paper blizzard primitive methods in budget. Few use an say we found there were committees that had Of trivial legislation. Do we really need the investment budget; few use an economic de­ solutions to which they couldn't find prob­ 35,000 new laws adopted by our states each velopment budget. Few legislatures are given lems I I mean they had wonderful answers biennium? a broad economic review before the legisla­ but couldn't find the questions to go with They have permitted themselves to be out­ ture convenes or after. Legislatures need them! maneuvered, out-staffed, out-budgeted by more than fiscal notes on b1lls; they need to the Governors. They have permitted them­ correlate area-spending with area-unemploy­ THE LEGISLATIVE SITUATION IN THE WORLD selves to become ratifiers rather tha.n initi­ ment to make certain the money is going Today legislative bodies around the world ators. They have permitted themselves to be where the money is needed. The legislature are ln dire trouble. The mmtary have taken punched senseless by edttorialists who never needs a short-range and long-range budget. over in many parts of the world from weak had to mediate between conflicting forces in Money is power and legislatures weakened legisJatures, and civilian dictators make some our society, and who rarely have access to by the executive budget system need to be parliaments meek rubber stamps. A Peruvian time or research to sift fact from dazzling brought back into the partnership. legislator visited me and said his Congress headlines. They have permitted the bureauc­ 3. Legtslatures are being inundated with wouldn't dare oppose the military lest they racy to mobilize a vertical ladder of decision­ trivia, and need to ga,in control over the big be killed! making extending from the locallties to the decisions. If we were to paint the globe white on those states to the federal agencies, by-passing the Legislatures a.re being swamped with bills. spots which have virile, creative, forceful legislatures. And llttle effort has gone into keeping the legislative systems, the globe would appear And ruefully I must agree that legislatures trivia out of the legislative machinery. We mostly black. have brought deserved attacks on themselves need new mechanisms to keep the work-load In the trouble spots of the world, you will with their all-night sessions, and closing down and the bra.inload up. We need explore find on the whole they have weak legislative night hi-Jinks. The glaring headllghts of concepts of negative legislation, reta.1n1ng systems. Let us call the roll: publicity shine on these theatrics. And the review over expanded adm1nlstrative regu- 16788 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 20, 1969 latlons; eonsolldatlng bills; elimlnating local THE NEED FOR LABOR LAW dal said, gave top priority to the proposal to bllls, and concentrating on the bull's eye. REFORM strip NLRB of power to rule when an em­ We need to bring in $1-a-year men to ad­ ployer or union has committed an unfair vise our legislatures, the nation's top scien­ labor practice as defined in the labor law. tiflc brains, foremost industrial management HON. PAUL J. FANNIN Some 28 per cent of the votes put that brains. We should not be shy about asking 0:1' ARIZONA change in the No. 1 position. !or help. Marshall Cobleigh has already Here, in order of preference as indicated moved in this direction. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES by the poll, is what some of the other pro­ There are so many other procedural im­ Friday, June 20, 1969 posals would do: provements urgently, desperately needed by Grant bargaining rights only after secret­ our legislatures. Internship programs, sys­ Mr. FANNIN. Mr. President, for sev­ ballot elections-not on showing of cards tems analysis, program development em­ eral years I have called the Senate's at­ signed by workers. Twenty-three per cent phasls, systematic modernization o! legis­ tention to the need for a restoration of gave this top priority. lative rules, a standing committee system balance in the administration of labor Amend the preamble to the National Labor geared to do its job o! evaluation, are but law in the United States today. Over and Relations Act to make it clear that federal some of the obvious improvements needed. come my in policy allows workers to decide for them­ We need better, closer relationship between over cases have to attention selves whether to join or not to join a union. our legislatures and the Congerss. Legisla­ which the rights of individuals have In the poll, 19 per cent rated this No. 1. tures through control over congressional re­ been subordinated to the interests of big Stop unions from picketing a store in order apportionment have considerable leverage labor organizers and in some cases em­ to punish a manufacturer of products on they have not used to gain a proper hearing ployers have been willing to go along sale there. at Washington. with these inequities. Compel unions, before going on strike, to The legislature's job is mana.gement of Now it comes to my attention, through submit the strike question to a secret-ballot tensions and hostilities in society. If it con­ an article in U.S. News & World Report, vote of workers, if requested by the em­ tinues to !a.11, if it continues to fumble and is ployer or by 10 per cent o! the employees stumble, our whole system of representative that a nationwide group embarked on involved. government is in danger. And so I would a program of labor law reforms. I note Allow employers to sue a union !or dam­ urge a massive restructuring of our state that the J)(riorities expressed by this ages if the union violates a no-strike clause legislature to do the job they need to do, a group are along the same lines I have in the labor agreement. massive redirection of legislative activity to been advocating over the years; namely, Prevent NLRB from restricting an em­ focus on planning and iiew kinds of fiscal the proteetion of the rights of individual ployer's right to discuss unionism with his controls, shedding the trivia and zeroing in workers. workers prior to elections. the big problem areas. I commend this effort on the part of Give back to employers "management The legislature is never going to be loved. rights" which the Chamber says have been Its job is that of umpire and who ever heard the Chamber of Commerce of the United turned over to unions by NLRB. An example of a pitcher and batter sending love notes States and a panel of 100 labor relations offered: forcing a company to bargain with to the man in blue behind the plate. But lawyers who are attempting to restore a union on matters such as contracting part that is your job: to call the balls and strikes balance to those charged with the re­ of the operation to an outside firm. as you see 'em, let the curves come as they sponsibility of administering our labor Prohibit unions from fining their mem­ may! laws, to the attention of Sena.tors for bers for such actions as working during a CONCLUSION their study and information. strike or exceeding work quotas fixed by the The Legislative leaders of our nation's I ask unanimous consent that an ar­ union. 8,000 state legislators are helping to shape Set new rules for determining the size of ticle published in the U.S. News & World a bargaining unit to prevent what the Cham­ the resurgence of the states. They are being Report of June 16, 1969, be printed in joined by Speaker Marshall Cobleigh, !rom ber calls NLRB's tendency to "gerrymander" the White Mountain State, a dynamic young the RECORD. the unit to fit the part of the shop that is man who seeks to strengthen the legislature There being no objeetion, the article organized. and the legislative system, who shunned the was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, CHAMBER SAYS: IT'S ONLY FAIR easy path for hard work, who shuns the as follows: The Chamber argues that those changes, quiet life of ease, which as Elizabeth Barrett How BUSINESS HOPES To CHANGE THE with others on its list, are essential if em­ Browning said, "Is no life at all." NATION'S LABOR LAWS ployers are to be given a fair break with In an age of mankind that cries out for An employer drive to rewrite the basic unions under the labor law. leadership, Marshall Cobleigh is rising to the labor law is getting under way, with a spe­ The basic law-the National Labor Rela­ challenge. And from New Hampshire there cific list of changes being sought. tions Act, or Wagner Act--was adopted in goes out to the nation an electric message: For years, employer groups have asked for 1935. There was a major revision in 1947, "We have here a man who can help mankind curbs on the National Labor Relations Board, aimed at putting some curbs on union pow­ bind its wounds, who can gain common on the ground that the NLRB's rulings have ers. This was the Taft-Hartley Act, written ground from diverse points of views, who is been giving unions the breaks. by a Republican Congress upset about the not afraid of change, who can see the far But, in recent years, Democrats controlled postwar wave of strikes. distances, who has hope and determination the White House and Congress. Nothing came In 1959, after Senators had heard testi­ and the qualities so desperately needed of the "reform" pleas. mony of racketeering and corruption in some today as our nation copes with congestion, Now, with Republicans in the White House unions, Congress passed the Landrum-Grif­ mobility, revolt, corruption, pollution, im­ and labor's support weakened somewhat in fin Act. It included a "bill of rights" for morality and the curse of inflation." Congress, pressure for changes is being union members and restrictions on some Let me end with the poem of Emily Dick­ stepped up. forms of strike and secondary boycotts. inson who couldn't believe that men would One of the leading groups in this campaign The Chamber of Commerce, in a leaflet die for law. The great Persian army under is the Chamber of Commerce of the United outlining its campaign, declared that the King Xerxes, moving to conquer Greece, States. It announced on June 4 that it is Labor Board has failed to apply the proper !ound standing in the way at the pass a;t setting up some 25 meetings of businessmen balance to its rulings. The booklet stated: Thermopylae a small band of Greek soldiers across the country-called "labor-law reform "The NLRB ... refused to abandon the hemmed between mountain and sea. These workshops." philosophy of encouraging unions and it is were the 300 Spartans under King Leonidas Anthony J. Obadal, in charge of the cam­ this intransigence, more than anything else, left to hold the narrow pass. And the King paign as the Chamber's labor-relations man­ which explains unfair decisions of the Board. sent a stranger back to Sparta, saying, "Go ager, said these workshops "will emphasize The Board sees whatever will strengthen the stranger, and tell Sparta that here, obeying the need to remove from the NLRB jurisdic­ unions as ~eing in the best interest of the her commands, we fell." tion over unfair-labor-practice cases and as­ nation.... And Emlly Dickinson, as a woman, couldn't sign them either to the federal courts or to Therefore, the Chamber said, it "has taken understand this sacrifice. She wrote: a special labor court." on the ambitious job of bringing reform to "Go tell it--What a Message. Mr. Obadal made it clear that the strategy the NLRB, to change that agency into a To whom-is specified.- is to build pressure for the "reforms" in the neutral decision maker, rather than a pro­ Not murmur-not endearment 1970 congressional races, hoping to get leg­ moter of unions." But simply-we obeyed­ islative action from a new Congress in 1971. Chairman Frank W. McCulloch of the Obeyed-a Lure--a Longing? TWENTY-ONE-POINT PROGRAM NLRB has denied that the Boa.rd favors Oh Na.ture--none of these-- unions or employers. He says the Board is To Law-said sweet Thermopylae From a longer list of complaints drawn applying the law as it was written. I give my dying kiss." up by a panel of 100 labor-relations lawyers, Today we stlll have in our legislatures men the Chamber 1s concentrating on 21 specific OUTLOOK FOB NLRB like King Leonidas. Men like Marshall Cob­ proposals. Members of the NLRB are named to five­ leigh-willing to fight for principle-willing A poll taken among local chambers o! year terms. Two of the five present members to fight for law. commerce and trade associations, Mr. Oba- are Republicans.

. ( June 20, 1969 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16789 President Nixon's first chance to nominate with enforcement of the Federal laws, it the Black Muslim lee.der, for example. It ls an NLRB member does not occur until Dec. holds itself to lie outside the ambit of those beside the point 1!, as the FBI now asseru;, 16, 1969, when the term of Sam Zagorla-a laws; committed to the championship of the the Attorney General, a.t that time Robert F. Republican--explres. The White House has United States Constitution, it holds itself to Kennedy, authorized the eavesdropping; no indicated that a new Chairman will be des­ be free tram the restraints of that funda­ Attorney General had any authority to do so. ignated at that time. Mr. McCulloch could mental charter. Expressly, the Department The FBI also bugged and tapped numerous remain as a member. declared on Friday that is possesses legal persons alleged to be pa.rt of that undefined The next vacancy is due on Aug. 27, 1970, power--despite a clause of the Constitution group called the "Ma.fl.a.." This eavesdrOpping when the McCulloch term ends. There is to and an Act of Congress to the contrary, and was done in violation of the Constitution, in be another opening in August, 1971, with without bothering to obtain judicial authori­ violation of the law, in violation of a presi­ expiration of the term of Gerald A. Brown. zation 1n advance--to carry on electronic sur­ dential. order and in violation of repeated Mr. Brown and Mr. McCulloch are Demo­ veillance of any members o! organizations assurances by the Director of the FBI that 1t crats. who, in its opinion, may be seeking to "at­ ~ not being done. J. Edgar Hoover has for­ Thus, it will be late 1971 before President tack and subvert the Government by unlaw­ feited the confidence of the American people. Nixon could name three members-barring fUl means." He ought to resign or be removed from office. resignations. Employer spokesmen contend No more pernicious notion has ever been A Federal Bureau of Investigation which that all five present members usually favor propounded by an agency of the United eavesdrops on citizens 1s a peril to privacy the union side. States Government. What this comes down to and a menace to freedom in any circum­ This delay in revamping the Board's mem­ is a. bald assertion that the Department can stances. But a Federal Bureau of Investiga­ bership is cited by some employers as area­ take the law into its own hands whenever it tion which does this in direct defiance of son for the proposal that NLRB be elim1- thinks the national security is threa,tened­ Congress is intolerable. Congress, in its wis­ nated, or at least confined to handling from within or from without. Last week, in a dom, decreed le.st year that bugging and tap­ election cases. Federal District Court in Chicago, the De­ ping could be done under court order. For partment d.1sclosed that it had employed the Department of Justice to assert now that wiretapping or bugging devices to monitor it may bug and tap at its own discretion is to conversations of the antiwar activists who undermine the whole concept of a govern­ were indicted for inciting riots at the Demo­ ment of laws. OUTSIDE THE LAW cra1tlc National Convention last August. What is the Department's justification? "Any President who takes seriously his oath to HON. ABNER J. MIKVA 'preserve, protect and defend the Cons,titu­ DEMANDS OF CERTAIN BLACK OF ILLINOIS tion,'" the Department a.sserits, "will no MILITANT GROUPS doubt determine that it is not 'tmrea.sonable' IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to utilize electronic surveillance to gather in­ Thursday, June 19, 1969 telligence information concerning those orga­ HON. HARRY F. BYRD, JR. nizations which are committed to the use of Mr. MIKVA. Mr. Speaker, as revela­ illegal methods to bring about changes in our OF VIRGINIA tions about the nature and extent of il­ form of government and which may be seek­ IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES legal Government wiretapping continue, ing to foment violent disorders." Friday, June 20, 1969 the citizens of this Nation grow daily Of course, the Constitution which any more concerned and more fearful. Added President has taken an oath to "preserve" Mr. BYRD of Virginia. Mr. President, to the revelations about tapping of the specifically forbids unwarranted searches. the demands of certain black militant telephone of Dr. Martin Luther King, we And the Supreme Court has plainly said that groups were the subject of an interest­ electronic surveillance constitutes a search ing column by the able and perceptive now have the Justice Department baldly permissible under the Fourth Amendment asserting that its authority to wiretap only when properly circumscribed and au­ writer, James J. Kilpatrick, which was extends to organizations which, in the thorized in advance by a judge. Congress only published in the June 19 edition of the estimate of the tappers, may be seeking last year, wishing to regularize and control Washington Evening Star. I ask unan­ to "attack and subvert the Government electronic eavesdropping, stipulated precisely imous consent that Mr. K.ilpatrick's col­ by unlawful means." in the Crime Control Act the conditions un­ umn be printed in the Extension of Re­ The vital question-the question der which bugging and wiretapping could be marks. which really transcends the details of authorized. There being no objection, the column Yet the Department of Justice appears to was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, recent revelations--is who will decide be saying that both the Constitution and when a case involves "national security." the Crime Control Aot can be ignored when­ as follows: Who determines when a real threat to ever the President thinks that certain groups BLACK DEMANDS FOR MONEY GREE'I"ED our Government exists? And once the are "committed to the use of mega.I methods DOCILELY decision has been made in a case or to bring about changes in our form of gov­ {By James J. Kilpatrick} series of cases, what internal adminis­ ernment." Whait could better illustrate the It is not so strange, when you come to trative controls exist to insure that the absurdity of this standard than its applica­ think about it, that Roy Innis should be tapping does not go on even after the t ion in regard to the tatterdemalion crew of putting the bite on the bankers and James responsible policy makers have made New Leftists who stirred up disorder in the Forman should be making the churchmen streets of Chicago. If the President or the kneel. After all, banks and churches have their decision against it? These are Department of Justice can see a threat to money. Innis and Forman would like a large questions which must be answered. Con­ the Nation's security in that tawdry, loose­ chunk of it. If you're going to make hay, gress and the people of this Nation must lipped cabal, it can see a threat in anything. you look to the high grass. be reassured that there are effective, And 1! a supposed threat to naitional secu­ What is strange ts the c:a.lmn.ess with which functioning controls on would-be wire­ rity can justify setting aside the Constitu­ acts of sheer effrontery are now received. A tappers which will give some concrete tion and the law respecting electronic eaves­ curious paralysis seems to have hit our sense meaning to the judicial warrant pro­ dropping, why can it not be used to justify of r.ight conduct. In the presence of hTa­ setting them aside for any other purpose the tional behavior, rational thought is sus­ cedures enacted into law last year. President a.nd the Department of Justice may pended. Gross nt.deness passes as acceptable This morning's Washington Post, Mr. deem e:icpedient or convenient in the protec­ civility, and the most preposterous demands Speaker, carried an editorial which elo­ tion of na.tional security? Will they some day are reported in the press as soberly as budget quently expresses the sense of outrage think it not "unreasonable" to set aside the hearings on Capitol Hill. and dismay with which millions of prohibitions against arbitrary arrest or Consider the scene the other day in Chi­ Americans greeted the King wiretapping against random physical searches of citizens' cago. The American Bankers Association and disclosure and events which have fol­ homes or against imprisonment without tria.l the National Bankers Association had ar­ or against suppression of speech deemed dan­ ranged a conference on urban problems. The lowed it. I insert that editorial today for gerous? What the Department of Justice has 300 delegates had barely sa.t down when a the contemplation of my colleagues, and so blandly enunciated is the rationale of disturbance was heard at the rear of the for the purpose of helping us all reflect dictatorship. It is the justification of every hall. In marched Innis, executive director on what widespread, uncontrolled, illegal despot from Caligula to Adolf Hitler. of the Congress of Racial Equality, at the wiretapping by the Government will It has been disclosed recently that the head of a squad of fifteen. He strode to mean for the future of free communica­ Federal Bureau of Investigation systemati­ the pocttwn, completely uninvited, and an­ cally, over a period of years, tapped tele­ nounced that he intended to make the con­ tion in America. phones in flagrant violation of the law and ference relevant to black people. The editorial referred to follows: in cases having nothing whatever to do with Did the bankers give him the bum's rush? OUTSIDE THE LAW national security. It bugged and tapped the No, indeed. They asked him to lunch. Where­ The Department of Justice has come for­ homes and hotel roomes of the Rev. Dr. Mar­ upon Innis demanded six billion not as a ward with an appalling paradox: entrusted tin Luther King and of Elijah Muhammad, loan. mind you, but as a gift. And not really 16790 EXTENSIONS OF REM.AllKS June 20, 1969 aa a gift: This was to be an initial down changes taking place within the Soviet bloc, rectlons. For this, three things are necessary. payment "as recoupment of the birthrights with signltlcant developments taking place In the first place, resources must be made of black people with compounded interest." in m111tary hardware and its deployment, available to A.I.D., the State Department, "We're not here to make threats," said and with an increasing influence in inter­ and other internationally involved agencies Innis, "but we are here to give you a mes­ national politics being assumed by the to enable the requisite analytical work to be sage: We have two kinds of operations. We Third World, the strat.eglc · calculations of undertaken. Secondly, a resolution of the operate either in the streets or on the draw­ the 'fifties and the concept-of Soviet con­ existing organizational and attitudinal con­ ing board. We would prefer to operate on tainment are becoming increasingly obso­ flict between the roles of State and A.I.D. the drawing board.'' lete. This allows for and necessitates con­ toward the LDC's must be sought. And ulti­ Innis let that s1nk in. Then he ad.vised his sequent changes in the approach o! the mately, a presidential decision must be taken hosts that while he was in no particular United States towards third-world coun­ that continued U.S. Government association hurry. It would be nice to have the 6 blllion tries. In particular, it enables the U.S. to be (whether inadvertent or deliberate) with the in a couple of weeks. His Bla.ck Urban Co­ less concerned with short-run, strategic con­ status-quo forces in aid-recipient countries alition was waiting. siderations or the fluctuating cold-war pos­ must gradually give way to a more far­ Were the bankers flabbergasted? Dis­ ture of such countries; it should give A.I.D. sighted and subtle rapproachment with the turbed? Resentful? Apparently not. They the opportunity to consider the longer-term, popular forces of change in these countries. listened to Innis as mildly as if he were ask­ broader-gauged development needs of these (2) Broadening the Scope of the Country ing them to support the Community Chest. countries and to offer-or refuse-assistance Planning Process.-Individual "grass roots" The churchmen, reacting to the demands of in accordance with the degree to which Title projects can in cases contribute significantly Forman, have been equally docile. IX goals appear realizable.14 to Title IX objectives. Yet Title IX does not Forman's thing is the National Black Eco­ The relevance of Title IX in this new for­ encourage an ad hoc, project-oriented re­ nomic Development Conference, organized eign policy context critically hinges upon sponse. On the contrary, its successful imple­ last April In Detroit. The conference came whether U.S. foreign policy is accommodated mentation w1ll require the int.egration of a up with a. manifesto demanding that pre­ to this new \nternational configuration and variety of mutually reinforcing actiVities and dominantly white churches pay $500 mil­ whether popular and Congressional pressure the utillzaition, in concert, of a variety of lion-since raised to three billion-as rep­ behind Title IX causes that provision itself public and private assistance instruments. arations for oppressions imposed upon the to become a determinant of the manner of Technical assistance efforts divorced from ( or black man. The money would be used for a that accommodation.Ill Such an accommo­ ineffectively dove-tailed with) related capital land bank and a black university, among dation would entail: (a) a major analytical projects, or vice versa, can spell the relative other things; mainly it would be used for effort to understand and identify the re­ failure of both. Sector loans which negleot to building "a Socialist society in the United sponsible forces of social and political mod­ address systematically-and often concom­ Stat.es." ernization in individual LDC's; and (b) a mitantly-a variety o! social, cultural, polit­ By way of making their intentions clear, search for ways to support overtly-through ical as well as economic problems 1n that Forman and his followers have been occu­ public or private channels-those groups sector can produce counterproductive dls­ pying church property, invading pulpits, and who represent these forces and to promote equilibria and popular frustrations harmful threat.ening "guerrilla warfare" if the to the process of development already under­ churches fall to pay up. In Detroit last week, the institutional developments which will channel them in organizationally respon­ way. they simply took over a vacant Presbyterian In recent years, A.I.D. has progressed !ar church building, declared it "liberated ter­ sible and developmentally constructive di- towards developing relatively sophisticat.ed ritory," and demanded $50,000 in ransom economic planning tools and procedures, al­ as the price for getting out. H This position is reflected in a conclusion though statistical imprecision still renders Have the churchmen called the cops? Gone of a conference on Title IX sponsored by many of the findings suspect. Occasionally to court? Have they even denounced this A.I.D. during the summer of 1968. See The these tools are employed for more than pub­ churlish fellow as a new kind of highway­ Role of Popular Participation in Develop­ lic relations purposes. More often, however, man, engaged in a new form of extortion? ment. Report of a Conference on the Imple­ country programs are determined by such Not for a moment. The United Presbyterians mentation of Title IX •.. June 24 to Au­ other factors as host-government priorities, invited Forman to address their conference gust 2, 1968 (Max F. Millikan, Conference U.S. strat.egic considerations, the availab111ty in San Antonio; when he demanded $80 Chairman), Chapter Two. of funds, and the special int.erests and ex­ milUon, they applauded. lll It might be argued that 1f bipolar, cold­ pertise of USAID field officials, each of whom Maybe the psychiatrists can explain this war security considerations no longer need has his privat.e developmental axe to grind. curious reaction in t.erms of a national guilt loom so large as a justification for foreign Further refinement of the country program­ complex. Or perhaps an explanation lies in aid, the United States can turn its attention ming approach is required to increase its in­ the infinite impositions to which society be­ to urgent domestic priorities, leaving the fluence on the allocation of resources by ad­ comes accustomed; in a world of unl1mited Third World at least temporarily to fend for herence to explicitly stated long-term devel­ rudeness, arrogance becomes acceptable so­ itself. Such a policy would be short-sighted opment goals. Changes in the foreign policy cial behavior. Even so, the patsy syndrome in the extreme. Foreign aid must always be context of aid programs and consequent holds exceedingly small appeal. The bankers with us in one form or another if only be­ changes in American foreign policy goals would be better advised to tell Innis gen­ cause of the ever-increasing interdependence could now make this possible. erally where he can go, and leave it to the of the nations of the world and because the Beyond such refinement, however, ls the preachers to make the directions more great mass of the world's population hap­ need for the expansion of this programming precise. pens to live in countries where the standard approach so that a broader range of activ­ of living is appreciably below ours. Just as ities is considered and systematically int.er­ conflicts based upon glaring inequalities meshed with host-country development TITLE IX-A NEW DIMENSION IN within our own society are surfacing today, goals. Simply because a given activity is a the gross inequalities within individual "good thing" is no excuse to fund it; simi­ FOREIGN AID-V LDCs and between the rich nations and the larly, because a given activity is likely to poor are bound to lead eventually to inter­ contribute to Title IX objectives does not national forms of conftict (in which the U.S. imply that it should be program.med at this HON. DONALD M. FRASER cannot help but become involved) unless time, or under U.S. government sponsor­ OF :MINNESOTA concerted action is taken to reduce the so­ ship, or without supporting or ancillary ac­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cial and political inequities which tend to tivities being undertaken simultaneously. give rise to conflict. Foreign aid is a small The interdisciplinary long-t.erm pla.nnl.ng Thursday, June 19, 1969 price to pay for some insurance against the which this approach assumes will require Mr. FRASER. Mr. Speaker, Mr. forms of retaliation that activist groups in both personnel and organizational changes Schott's paper, which I have been in­ the benighted nations may eventually be in within the official foreign affairs establish­ This RECORD in a. position to take against us. is the ment, and a much greater emphasis upon serting in the sections, con­ opposite side of the more humanitarian, "no research and evaluation than has been tradi­ tains excellent suggestions for carrying man ls an island" argument in favor of for­ tional for A.I.D. and its predecessor agencies out the congressional mandate for po­ eign aid, which ls equally valid. To give to undertake. litical development as an integral part cogency and perti.nence to either argument, (3) The Effective Ooordina.tion of U.S. Pub­ of our foreign aid efforts. The next por­ however, requires reference to individual lic and Private Assistance Instruments.­ tion follows: LDC country situations and a variety of Just as Title IX constitutes more than a How To PUT TITLE IX m EFFECT other variables important to a determination simple package of discrete projects, so also of relative national priorities, which ls :far does its implementation require resources Yet, given these obstacles, is it realistic beyond the scope of this pa.per. Here it need beyond the capab111ties of any one agency. to anticipate a serious and imaginative re­ only be said that the arguments of this pa.per For its successful implementation, Title IX sponse to Title IX on the part of A.I.D. or are based upon the assessment that foreign should become a responsib111ty of the wide its successor agencies? From this vantage aid is a valid and effective device to over­ range of U.S. public and private agencies point, there are three prerequisites to such come some of the sources of conflict in which are involved, in one way or another, in a response: particular LDCs, and that it is in the U.S. the foreign aid business. As the principal co­ ( 1) Change tn the foreign poltcy stance national interest to extend foreign aid for ordinator o! U.S. foreign policy instruments, of the U.S. Government.-Wlth rapid this purpose. the State Department should assume a pre- June 20, 1969 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16791 eminent role in this, ideally orchestrating yeggs, hoodlums, and misfits now mas­ or at least culturally oriented a.nd carefully the instruments reposing in the U.S.I.A., the querading as students. selected, minority. Department of Defense, the ·peace Corps, and in Barriers dropped or requirements lessened. A.I.D. to make certain that each performs, in Dr. Dumond was a liberal pioneer perceptibly. Students came without language a complementary and mutually reinforcing the fight for the freedom of the Negro in equtpment, without an abllity to write in­ way, a developmental (rather than purely America and is particularly well quallfl.ed telligent English, without adequate prepara­ strategic, or propagandistic, or otherwise self­ to comment on what is happening on tion in subject matter, and, worst of all, servlng) role in the LDCs. This requires American campuses and on the goals and without manners. within the Washington foreign affairs estab­ action of Negro students on the cam­ Almost before anyone knew wha.t was hap­ lishment a greater centralization of existing puses. pening, a group generally considered riffraff analytical and decision-making responsi,blllty Du­ showed up-disreputable characters who with respect to the LDCs than is presently I ask unanimous consent that Dr. dressed like tramps, smoked incessantly, used the case; it also involves a degree of bureau­ mond's article, published in the Arizona drugs and seldom bathed. They had no ap­ cratic self-abnegation and policy reexamina­ Republic of June 11, 1969, be printed in parent respect for themselves, for anything tion on the part of each of the concerned the RECORD. or for anybody. agencies. The impulse behind Title IX should There being no objection, the article They had no social consciousness. discourage unrelated programs serving in­ was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, They had nothing, in fact-did nothing compatible objectives within individual as follows: useful-but wanted every experience in life countries. Experience has regrettably shown in a day and night and took what they that the Country Team concept ls in itself 8cHOLAR l.AMBASTS CAMPUS REVOLUTIONARIES wanted. They thought no one before them unable to harmonize diverse programs im­ (By Dr. Dwight L. Dumond) ever had any problems or any experience, plemented by different and sometimes antag­ (NoTE.-Dr. Dwight L. Dumond ls a distin­ ever did very much, or ever did anything onistic agencies. The job, at least in part, guished professor emeritus of history of the right. must be done in Washington. University of Michigan, who speciallzed in What we soon had to deal with was an In addition to this, effective procedures the history of the American South and oligarchy of Ignorance, conceit and plain must be established to coordinate govern­ taught in this field for 35 years at Michigan. immorality. ment-sponsored activities with those of U.S. He is the author of several definitive works The second area. of contlict embraced per­ private organizations sponsoring or directly dea.llng with the abolitionist movement, the sonal conduct. The age of drug addiction. undertaking developmental activities in the antislavery origins of the Civil War and siml­ sexual promiscutty, and nudity was upon us. Third World. This ls a hope long dreamed lar subjects. The demand was for all restraints by faculty of among foreign aid administrators. Yet the (As a student of Southern slavery and its or adm.1nistrative officials perta.inlng to stu­ extraordinary diversity of these organizations aftermath, Dr. Dumond wa.s a liberal pio­ dent behavior to be abandoned. and their understandable suspicion of gov­ neer in the fight for the freedom of the black If they wanted to have sexual relations in ernment regulation and interference h·ave man in America. He ls particularly qualified lounges or university buildings or in the thus far enabled them to fend off any gov­ to comment on the tragic effects of the dis­ rooms of men'a dormitories; if they wanted ernment-sponsored "rationalization" of ruption of American campuses and the goals to use drugs to release all inhibitions; if they their overseas activities. Token atttempts at and actions of Negro students on those cam­ wanted to hurl obscenities at professors; if this have been made, both in Washington puses. they wanted to come to class half naked; or and the field, but not with any particular (Dr. Dumond ls now the A. Lothrop O'Con­ if they wanted to put on plays while nude success. nor professor of American Institutions a.t or publicly show films formerly found only 1n Yet if Title IX is to be t aken seriously, Colgate University, Hamilton, N.Y.) bawdy houses or at stag parties-if these or such coordination of public and private de­ Rioting on college campuses in the United other acts ordinarily considered immoral and velopment efforts becomes more desirable States has now become such a disgrace tha,t degrading pleased them, then no one should than ever before. Many of the activities to we may well be caught in the tentacles of interfere. which this provision draws attention can worldwide revolution. They said that God was dead and religious best be done by private sector organizations: We are dealing with a unique institution. tenets were no longer respectable. It is they who can most efficiently admin­ It ls the most precious establishment in a The third area of conflict was that of for­ ister small-scale projects and can m&intain democratic society, so fragile as to be an al­ eign and domestic policy as related to the a high degree of flexibility in the manner luring temptation to every would-be dicta.­ Vietnam war. This was a legitimate, per­ in which they undertake them. They also tor and propagandist spawned in a free so­ haps compelling subject for investigation frequently prove to have greater access to ciety. and discussion in the halls of learning at the certain countries and relevant private sec­ It consists of two essential elements-pro­ proper time and place. tor groups than a U.S. public agency re­ fessors and students. But if present disrup­ We started out with proper seminar dis­ quired to a.ct on a government-to-government tions continue, we may have to turn more cussions, but degenerated to desecration of basis. Coordination need not imply control and more to research institutes, unburdened the flag, insults to and a.bout men who had nor the rigidification of NGO programming and unencumbered by hordes of students. died in the service of their country, de­ procedures--but it does involve consulta­ There ls a deep cleavage between adminis­ mands for the end of ROTC training, ca.ncel­ tion, the mutual exchange of information trators and professors. It worries the adminis­ la tion of all recruitment and research, ob­ and a candid discussion of programming in­ trators, annoys the professors, confuses the struction of the shipment of war supplies, tentions. Owing to security requtrements, students and destroys morale. invasion of official conferences with govern­ these conditions are as difficult for a gov­ The arrogance and power of administra­ ment authorities and sit-downs in court ernmen,t agency to meet as they are repug­ tive officers depends largely upon their con­ rooms and legislative halls. nant to many non-governmental organiza­ trol of finances. There is enormous compe­ All of this, vulgar as it was, pales into in­ tions, which attach great value to their free­ tition between deans for larger budgetary al­ significance beside the source and purpose dom of action. But a mutual accommodation lowances for their colleges, between chair­ of the initial agitation. would appear necessitated by Title IX, at men of departments in division of college Not all, but a substantial part of the en­ the risk of a futile intensification of "project funds, and between professors for ever higher tire business bore a direct relation to civil act hocism." salaries. Great inequities exist in all areas. rights. Two premises will haunt professors Herein lies the deadly virus that has done of history from now until eternity, if they more to weaken and destroy independent do not recognize and deal with them: CAMPUS REVOLUTIONARIES teaching and research than all other things (1) The bitter crusade of denunciation and combined. vilification of President Lyndon B. Johnson LAMBAST.ED There never has been a revolt without the and his Vietnam policy was begun by men encouragement and assistance of a portion who had never lifted their voice in support HON. PAUL J. FANNIN of the faculty. It is precisely in those areas of civil rights, who were suspected of strong which have been neglected and suffer the in­ racist tendencies and who aimed at co.ntus­ OF ARIZONA equities that trouble starts. ing and confounding the entire civil rights IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES The adminlstrators have little to do with movement. Friday, June 20, 1969 teaching and research. (2) They were aided and abetted by pseu­ Today, students, who know nothing at all do-liberals, who, frightened by progress of Mr. FANNIN. Mr. President, it is en­ a.bout anything much, also are demanding the crusade for equality of Negroes and couraging to be reassured that not all and are getting membership on all policy­ whites, dared not openly oppose it and sought members of the academic community are making boards and committees, and making to retard it by attacking the President who in important oollege and departmental deci­ had done more in six years for the Negro lacking courage and determination in sions. and the poor and the underprivileged than the face of the campus re.volutionaries. Disaster flrst struck when we were com­ all the other presidents combined since the Dr. Dwight L. Dumond, a distinguished pelled. ti<> educate, or try ti<> educate, a great founding of the Republic. professor emeritus of history of the Uni­ unwieldy mass of young men and women We might have tried with as much suc­ versity of Michigan, shows by his article who ha.cl no definite objective in a system, cess to brush back the tides with whisk that he 1s neither intimidated nor fooled designed, organized and operated with rea­ brooms as to bring order out of the chaotic by this motley collection of unwashed sonable success for an intellectua.lly elite, situation at that point, and the worst was 16792 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 20, 1969 yet to come. We were entering the fourth The young Negroes in the universities are coffee and doughnuts, hamburger sand­ area of confilct. The black militants were on being misled by power-hungry men who ex­ wiches and sof·t drinks. Some of them come the march. ploit their gullibility for personal reasons of 1io classes in pajamas and with everything Negro students began with a demand for money and power. from ga.rllc to ctga.rettes on their breaith. full integration, passed to a demand for The demands of black militants are sup­ They cannot speak Without obscenities. courses in Negro history and ended with a ported by many white students through ig­ They cut great holes in desks, write erotic demand for autonomy and separation. Along norance, a desire for segregation, an impulse notes on desks at which decent people have the way they ma.de many demands conform­ to help a. minority group regardless of merit, to sit after them and burn holes in the car­ ing to the various stages of the power strug­ or their own gain. It may have elements of pets and cork floors. They have revolted gle going on among the Negro population. exaggerated self-pride, of inferiority com­ against everything that 1s decent and re­ Black power 1s the battle cry-black col­ plex, or narcissism, of budding masculinity. spectable. Their study habits are irregular leges in the cultural complex of a university; They talk about doing their "thing," thus or nonexistent. black professors; courses designed for and by revealing an intellectual poverty and sub­ Faculty members have become so accus­ black students; and admission without re­ servience to ignorant leadership. tomed to these things and so intimidated quirements, as if blackness removed all hand­ They want power without knowledge. by colleagues who go along with the stu­ icaps to the understanding of higher ma.th­ Those who come frOlll wealthy homes, and dents' behavior that they cease to be con­ ematics, political theory or genetics. many do, say over and over again that they cerned if someone throws a brick through the They had no program but shifted from one never have to work if they don't want to, window. demand to another day by day. They had no and intend to create such Wide-spread fear Professors have a long tradition of concern proposed curriculum of studies and wanted by rioting and destruction that people will !or the dignity, and security of the students none. get down to the serious business of creating and educational process. They know that They wanted to invade and pa.rticil)8,te in the kind of society they want. They are ad­ some of the students' complaints are legiti­ faculty meetings. They wanted college and venturers and revolutionaries, and happily mate. In fact, they know more about that universlty funds to spend running around so. than anyone is willing to admit. from one campus to another, to import University adm.1nistrators, totally unpre­ Too many administrators and faculty speakers, many of whom have deliberately pared and uninformed, were paralyzed into members, also, have been more interested in violated the law and thumbed their noses ait inactivity when the rioting began. their own security and advancement than the courts, a.nd to publish and distribute Students who seize university offioials and in the students. propaganda. buildings, disrupt faculty meetings and con­ Just as some of the problems of the cities They wanted separation, but white money. ferences, resort to arson and bombing, and lie in the poverty and illiteracy of the rural They wanted autonomy, but the benefits of make it impossible for law-abiding students South whence the immigrants came, so do university degrees. They were supported in to go about the business of getting an educa­ the problems of the universities lie in the all of these demands by a small but violent tion for which they paid, a.re guilty of crimes homes, the public schools and the churches. minority of white students and intruders on sufficient to send them to prison for life. Youngsters coming to college have never the cwmpus. Every one o.f them who attacked police, been disciplined. This 1s a permissive society. Who a.re these youngsters that demand the security officers, and national guardsmen Our cultural level is in steady decline. very segregation and alienation that genera­ with weapons could have been killed in the Children have never been failed in public tions of their forebears fought to overcome? melee and it would have been due process schools, since there are no standards for Most of them know little or nothing about of law. promotion from year to year. They have the work of Walter White, or Roy Wilkins, or I am not saying that severe :rrepression is never been taught respect for persons and Thurgood Marshall. They know of Martin wise, or advocating resort to it, but facts are property. Luther King because in their impetuous ig­ faots; and when law eruforcement officials are Universities cannot in a few months make norance they destroyed him and abandoned called upon to perform their primary func­ up the deficiencies of parents, schools, his philosophy of nonviolence. tion of :>roteoting persons ,and property some­ churches, and public officials over a period of They know nothing about how black and one is certain to get hurrt. 16 to 18 years; and they have more sense white men working together in mutual re­ In many respects the situation is more than to try to do it by repression. spect and understanding overcame lynohings, serious tha.n crime in the streets. In every Governors, legislators, even congressmen secured abandonment of segregation by law case, militMl:t students have demanded com­ in education, in housing and in public ac­ and the President shun the problem and plete immunity from law enforcement-no find justification for their inaction in the commodation, or about the painful struggle one sh.ould be arrested, offenders should be for support of Negro colleges in the South. peculiar nature of educational institutions, released from jail, excused from trials, and or in the structure of the federal system They have been misled and deceived. They reinstated in school without being disci­ demanded black colleges, b:iack teachers, and which lodges police power in state and local plined. This is anarchy, ·and when mobs at­ government. black studi~ther names for subordina­ tack public officials Lt approaches planned tion, ghettos and apartheid. This is not a local matter. There is revolu­ insurrection or treason. tion involved, and the campus disorders are Black power is not a thing of virtue. Universiities alone oonnot hMl.dle this prob­ The true basis of power is economic, politi­ calculated, whether by design or not, to con­ lem of law enforcement, but they can expel taminate the vast reservoir of moral and in­ oal, intellectual and moral. The highways to those students who are involved and dismiss achievement run along these lines. There are tellectual power which is the great strength participaiting fa.culty members. Law enforce­ and security of a democracy. no other roads. Division of the country or ment agencies have their responsibilities as any part of it, or any of its institutions, on do parents. The right to dissent does not mean the dis­ the basis of color, is no more poss'1ble than Students do not lose their rights as in­ senters' views must prevail. Militant stu­ division of freedom. dividua.ls when they enter a university, but dents say it does, that their demands are not There is no such thing as black freedom, neither do they shed their obligation to obey negotiable. It does not include a right to or white freedom. Everyone is going to have the law. In fact one of our most predous destroy property, to prevent by obstruction, it or no one is. No person ever was accepted, rights is to live under the rule of law. noise and physical violence, the vast ma­ or evaluated, or elevated to power for long To make martyrs out of men who violate jority of the students from going about their because he belonged to a group--only on the the law is to invite anarchy. The legal prin­ business of getting an education. basis of ability, knowledge, and individual ciple must be sustained on the college cam­ Militant students who call themselves Afro­ achievement. pus as elsewhere. Why then has there been so Americans are devotees of black power. I am not an amateur in the W1°iting or much delay in correcting this serious and To many it means unity in everything­ teaching of history, or on the lecture plat­ disgraceful business? to act as a black person though elected as form, and few men have done more in the Agitators are not interested in discussion a delegate to a political convention, appointed area of human relations or for the cause of or reform, but in destruction and domina­ to a teaching position, given public office and racial equality, but a leader of the militants tion. They have no intention of making the so forth. at Howard University dared to say to me in educational process a continuing and ever­ It means no longer to be a responsible the classroom, "I don't want to hear any chianging o,ne. person but a member of a group in poli­ more about your constitutional democra.cy." The idea is to create havoc, confusion, tics, in business, in education, in religion. After a public lecture at Colgate Univer­ destruction. Whether the basic motives can Their professed objective is a worthy one, of sity, one white student called me a "damned be classified as Oommunist, fascist or plain giving to black people a sense of dignity, radical" and a black student called me "an­ anarchy, the actual program is plainly iden­ of belonging, the need of which may well be other of those -- liberals." tifiable as destruction of educational institu­ overemphasized, but the value of which can­ This is what we have come to in our uni­ tions rather than reform of educational not be denied. versities; a composite of intolerance and processes. What then has been the result of these ignorance. The militants follow a practice of staying campus disorders? What has it all gained? Rejecting integration, young Negroes talk away from classes and public lectures; and What are the losses? of black history, art, economics, political ac­ of mutilating books, magazines, and manu­ Those things which militants among the tion, leadership, nationalism and capitalism. scripts which do not conform to their mo­ students want are not within the province They say they will go it alone. Nobody is mentary mood. of anyone to give. The structure of a uni­ going anywhere alone. Black racism and They check out thousands of books to dis­ versity cannot be changed overnight, in all white racism are equally bad and both are rupt the learning process, but never bring a probability should not be changed at all. beyond the pale of respectability. precious tome to class. Instead, they bring Teaching methods, tbe content of admis- June 20, 1969 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 16793 sion requirements, the intellectual attain­ Housing and Urban Development and the An adequate supply of minerals--fuels for ments which justify conferring degrees-all city of Seal Beach. power a.nd transportation, metals for con­ of these elements in the educational process The total water system improvements struction, a.nd minerals for crop nutrients to are constantly under scrutiny and revision maintain life-and absolute requisite for any by college faculties. There is always intellec­ represent an expenditure of approxi­ modern industrial economy, now and in the tual ferment, though not always change be­ mately $800,000. Construction crews have future. cause change does not always denote progress. been working on the project since De­ There a.re limited quantities of these The militants are not progressives, not lib­ cember 1968. needed minerals on or in the earth, and these erals. They are reactionaries of the most ex­ quantities of these needed minerals a.re now treme sort. They seek to destroy, not to build, being depleted at increasing rates as popula­ and they are achieving little except chaos and tion growth, and demand increase. retardation. When the revolution has con­ CONSERVATION OF OIL AND GAS Exploration costs rise rapidly as the most sumed its leaders, as always happens, and DEPENDS ON RETAINING DEPLE­ easily found deposits are exhausted. There is the wreckage is cleared away, we will be TION AJ.;LOW ANCE therefore a need to reexamine depletion al­ about where we were before the trouble lowances periodically and increase them as started. necessary to provide the incentive for invest­ Those responsible have: ment of risk capita.I by balancing rising ex­ Destroyed academic freedom. HON. CHARLES H. GRIFFIN ploration costs. Betrayed the education!ll process by seek­ OF MISSISSIPPI The fact that, in the past few years, dis­ ing objectives through ultimatums, threats IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES covery of new reserves has not kept pace with of force, and destruction of property. production of oil and gas, and of some other Infringed upon the rights of others to im­ Thursday, June 19, 1969 minerals, indicates that this objective is not prove their talents and skills. Mr. GRIFFIN. Mr. Speaker, during our being attained in all cases. Greatly retarded understanding and peace consideration of the revision of the In­ between people of different colors by de­ manding separation instead of integration. ternal Revenue Code, it is appropriate that we discuss depletion allowances. I favor retaining the 27%-percent oil OUR ECONOMIC CRISIS DEEPENS depletion allowance because, in my SEAL BEACH RESERVOffi INCORPO­ humble opinion, its reduction or elimina­ RATES LATEST TECHNOLOGY tion would drastically curtail the ex­ HON. RICHARD L. OTTINGER ploration of oil and gas. If we are to OF NEW YORK preserve for the use of future generations IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES adequate supplies of petroleum, we must HON. CRAIG HOSMER Thursday, June 19, 1969 OF CALIFORNIA continuously locate and identify reserves. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The essence of the question then, is con­ Mr. OTTINGER. Mr. Speaker, I view servation. last week's increase in the prime rate Thuraday, June 19, 1969 In this context, I call my colleagues' for bank loans as an extremely unfor­ Mr. HOSMER. Mr. Speaker, on Sun­ attention to the following comments of tunate development for our economy. But day, June 22, the city of Seal Beach, James Lambert, editor of the Natchez I view with even greater alarm a more Calif., will dedicate its new reservoir and Democrat. It follows: recent talk by leading U.S. bankers that the event is significant far beyond the [From the Natchez (Miss.) Democrat, a further increase in the prime rate may city's boundaries. Completion and opera­ June 3, 1969] be in the offing. tion of its newest reservoir will mark sev­ NEED DEPLETION .ALLOWANCE This latest report came from Copen­ eral achievements. When Congress proposed, and the State hagen, where the American Bankers As­ The additional 3.6 million gallons of ratified, the income-tax amendment to the sociation is conducting its annual inter­ water storage will assist in providing the Constitution in 1918, the intent clearly was national Monetary Conference. Reports necessary water supply for the present to tax net income from constant assets. indicate that many of our bankers feel Replacement of ordinary capital invest­ a further prime rate boost to 9 percent population and for growth of the com­ ment, such as for machinery and equipment, munity for several years. A 900-foot well, was provided for by tax deductions for depre­ would be likely unless business loan de­ which has been sunk at the site, supplies ciation. mand drops in the next few weeks. water to the reservoir. Other water for For mineral and certain other natural re­ I wonder how the average American the city comes from additional wells and sources such as forests and fisheries, where wage earner feels about these pro­ from the metropolitan water district. the capital is a wasting asset, replacement nouncements ema.nating from the cas­ The most distinctive feature of this of the capital investment is partly provided tles, palaces, and luxurious restaura?,ts reservoir is its nylon-vinyl air-supported for by the 'depletion allowance' tax deduc­ in which our bankers are conductmg tion. In the case of mineral resources, the cover, a radical departure from the specific asset is irreplaceable and a new their conferences? standard use of concrete. The nylon­ 'asset' must be found by exploration. Does anyone believe the typical family vinyl cover performs the necessary func­ Since most extractive industries are high­ is content to be trapped in the ever­ tions of preventing evaporation and con­ risk enterprises, incentive for risk capital to tightening vise of higher prices and tamination, but at much less cost-­ invest in mineral exploration could only be higher taxes? slightly over 3 cents per gallon of stor­ provided by greatly increased profits, if tax Whether this latest increase in the age capacity, instead of 5 to 10 cents per relief through depletion allowances did not prime rate was due wholly or in part to exist. Since independent studies have re­ gallon with concrete cover. peatedly shown that current profits in the a lack of adequate guidance from the The cover weighs almost 2 tons. extractive industries a.re, on the average, administration is an academic question About 2% pounds per square foot of air about equal to or less than those of industry at this point, although it is significant pressure prevents a collapse of the roof. in general, and the tax load also about the that no spokesman for the administra­ The pressure is supplied by two 1 %­ same, this means that greatly increased prod­ tion has said anything definitive or indi­ horsepower motors. Both motors would uct prices would be needed to offset explora­ cated how it might view yet another in­ have to be inoperative for a full day be­ tion costs and risks. crease. What should really concern us fore the cover would settle to the water­ The degree of exploration risk ls theoreti­ now is the urgent need for a more even­ cally balanced by the amount of the deple­ line. The cover was designed by Indus­ tion allowance, based on the discovery value handled approach to our economic prob­ trial Covers of San Francisco to cover an principle. Thus depletion allowances range lems and a far better balance in the use acre of ground to a height of 36 feet. It from 5 to 27~ per cent of the gross value of of monetary policy and fiscal policy. is the largest illi""lated roof on any water the product produced, depending on explora­ As the New York Times pointed out in reservoir in the United States. tion co.sts, but in no case may exceed 50 per­ a recent editorial, the effective prime Other improvements completed as part cent of the producer's net income from the rate actually is more than 10 percent. of the prnject include a 4,000-gallon-per­ property concerned. And the latest increase will make it diffi­ minute pumping station, approximately Periodic studies over the past 40 to 50 if years by committees of the Congress and by cult, not impossible, for thousands of 3 miles of 18-inch and one-half mile of other investigative bodies have repeatedly re­ families to obtain credit to buy homes 12-inch water mains. affirmed the justice and economic soundness and for small businesses to finance their The project was :financed by a grant of the depletion-allowance principle. Criti­ operations. of 50 percent of construction and other cisms, of this principle seem unjustified, par­ For many Americans, our economic eligible costs from the Department of ticularly the one for on a.nd gas. boom has actually been something for a 16794 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE June 23, 1969 recession. As the gross national product was quoted as saying that the recent modest budget cuts proposed by the ad­ has soared, the standard of living for prime rate increase "is just one more ministration are commendable, but leave the average worker and his family has reason to raise prices,'' and predicted a considerable fat untouched, particularly actually declined. Latest Labor Depart­ price increase of 4 to 5 percent over last in the areas of public works, farm sub­ ment figures show that the typical year's levels. sidies, highway construction, space, the worker has a weekly pay of $112.13 but A leading consumer finance company supersonic transport and a military purchasing power of only $77 .62. This said it will increase charges on loans budget that proposes to take more than is $2.24 below last September's :figure wherever possible. And a large savings 60 percent of our free funds. At least and below the yearly averages for each bank said it will increase its charges on $10 billion in additional cuts can and of the last 4 years. home mortgages guaranteed by the Fed­ should be made in the new fiscal year. The buying power of the average work­ eral Housing Administration. Combined with a tax reform program er's family has actually been declining If this vicious cycle continues, it is that will ease an unfair burden on the for more than 10 years. Every increase in clear that the typical worker simply wlll average family while opening up new wages has been more than overcome by not be able to win enough pay increases sources of revenue, these spending cuts increases in taxes and by inflation. One to offset the costs of inflation. At the could achieve fiscal stability and reverse prominent economist has predicted that same time, labor efforts to offset infla­ the dangerous cycle which has charac­ purchasing power for the average family tion by improving their pay contracts terized our economy in the past few will continue to erode and that even would probably serve to intensify the years. while pay scales may increase, the price spiral. At the same time, we must demand standard of living will decline. The ineffectiveness of the income tax that monetary policy and those who Higher local, State, and Federal taxes surcharge in curbing inflation and its make it be fully responsible to the na­ are part of the reason. But another im­ obvious unfairness in adding to an al­ tional interest-not just to one segment portant reason is the proclivity of busi­ ready inequitable tax structure make it of the business community. It is long ness firms to merely pass on higher taxes obvious that substantial cuts in Federal past time that the American consumer and higher credit costs to the consumer. spending and comprehensive tax reform and taxpayer stopped paying blackmail An official of City Stores Co. of New York are matters of highest priority. The to domestic and international bankers.

HOUSE, OF REPRESENTATIVES-Monday, June 23, 1969 The House met at 12 o'clock noon. H.R. 1939. An act for the relief of Mrs. for other purposes,'' requests a confer­ The Chaplain, Rev. Edward G. Latch, Marjorie J. Hottenroth; ence with the House on the disagreeing D.D., offered the following prayer: H.R. 1960. An act for the relief of Mario votes of the two Houses thereon, and ap­ Santos Gomes; Bear ye one another's burdens and so H.R. 2005. An act for the relief of Lourdes points Mr. BYRD of West Virginia, Mr. fulfill the law of Christ.-Galatians 6: 2. M. Arrant; RUSSELL, Mr. PASTORE, Mr. HOLLAND, Mr. Eternal God, who hast called us to pray H.R.4600. An act to amend the a.ct entitled ELLENDER, Mr. MUNDT, Mr. YOUNG of and to work, sustain us with Thy power "An act to incorporate the National Educa­ North Dakota, and Mrs. SMITH to be the tion Association of the United States", ap­ conferees on the part of the Senate. that we may be dally mindful of ThY proved June 80, 1906 (84 Stat. 804); The message also announced that the presence and ready to help bear the bur­ H.R. 5136. An a.ct for the relief of George Senate had passed bills, joint and con­ dens of others. Tilson Weed; current resolutions of the following titles, Gulde us with Thy spirit that we may H.R. 6607. An a.ct to confer U.S. citizen­ understand this troubled time in which ship posthumously upon Sp4c. Klaus Josef in which the concurrence of the House is we llve and so lead us that we may use Strauss; and requested: our talents to bring forth the fruit of H. Con. Res. 114. Concurrent resolution s. 152. An act for the rellef of Dr. Joaquin faithful living. commemorating the 200th anniversary of Juan Valentin Fernandez; Dartmouth College. s. 632. An act for the relief of Raymond Grant unto us the wisdom to order the c. Melvin; life of our Nation upon the principles of The message also announced that the S. 690. An a.ct for the relief of Chong P1l justice, righteousness, and good will. Senate had passed, with amendments in Lee; Give us the readiness to render real which the concurrence of the House is S. 912. An act to provide for the establish­ service to Thee, our country, and our requested, bills of the House of the fol­ ment of the Florissant Fossil Beds National fellow man, that out of our efforts may lowing titles: Monument in the State of Colorado; come peace to our world, peace to our H.R. 1632. An act for the relief of Romeo S. 1087. An act for the relief of Vernon Louis Hoberg; Nation, and peace to our own hearts. da la Torre Sana.no and his sister, Julleta de Again death has invaded this Cham­ la. Torre Sana.no; S. 1128. An act for the rellef of Mrs. Chong H.R. 2336. An act for the relief of Adela. Suk Stroisch; ber. In the prime of his llfe our colleague S. 1173. An act to authorize the Secretary has entered the life immortal. We thank Kaczmarski; H.R. 8644. An act to make permanent the of Commerce to employ allens in a. scientific Thee for his presence in our midst and existing temporary suspension of duty on or technical ca.pa.city; for the contribution he mace to our coun­ S.1677. An act for the relief of Dr. Augusto crude chicory roots; and G. Usategui; try through this body. Bless his family H.R.11400. An act making supplemental with the strength of Thy spirit and the appropriations for the fiscal yea.r ending S. 1704. An act for the relief of L1111an comfort of Thy love: through Jesus June 30, 1969, and for other purposes. Blazzo: Christ, our Lord, in whose name we pray. S.J. Res. 88. Joint resolution to create a The message also announced that the commission to study the bankruptcy laws of Amen. Senate insists upon its amendments to the United States; S. Con. Res. 17. Concurrent resolution to the bill (H.R. 8644) entitled "An act to recognize the 10th a.nnlversary of the open­ THE JOURNAL make permanent the existing temporary ing of the St. Lawrence Seaway; and The Journal of the proceedings of suspension of duty on crude chicory S. Con. Res. 33. Concurrent resolution fa­ Thursday, June 19, 1969, was read and roots," requests a conference with the voring the suspension of deportation of cer­ approved. House on the disagreeing votes of the tain allens. two Houses thereon, and appoints Mr. LoNG, Mr. ANDERSON, Mr. GORE, Mr. HAR­ MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE RIS, Mr. Wn.LIAMS of Delaware, Mr. PERMISSION TO EXTEND REMARKS A message from the Senate by Mr. Ar­ BENNETT, and Mr. CURTIS to be the con­ Mr. ALBERT. Mr. Speaker, without rington, one of its clerks. announced that ferees on the part of the Senate. creating a precedent, I ask unanimous the Senate had passed without amend­ The message also announced that the consent that all Members may extend ment bllls and a concurrent resolution Senate insists upon its amendments to their remarks in that Portion of the of the House of the following titles: the bill (H.R. 11400) entitled "An act RECORD known as the Extensions of Re­ H.R. 1437. An act for the relief of Cosmlna making supplemental appropriations for marks today, and to include such extra­ Ruggiero; the fiscal year ending June 30, 1969, and neous material as may be relevant.