36038 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 6, 1973 By Mr. BRADEMAS: committee to study the impact and ramiflca PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS H. Con. Res. 875. Concurrent resolution tions of the Supreme Court decisions on abor providing for the printing as a House docu tion; to the Committee on Rules. Under clause 1 of rule XXll, private ment the booklet entitled "the Supreme bills and resolutions were introduced a.nd Court of the United States"; to the Commit By Mr. RANGEL: tee on House Administration. H. Res. 684. Resolution to request the re severally referred as follows: By Mr. BINGHAM: signation of the President of the United By Mr. DAVIS of Georgia: H. Res. 681. Resolution to establish as part States; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 11300. A bill for the relief of Mrs. L . of the congressional internship program an By Mr. THOMPSON of New Jersey (for 0. Crawford; to the Committee on the Ju internship program for senior citizens in himself and Mr. WHITE): diciary. honor of John McCormack, and for other pur H. Res. 685. Resolution directing the Com By Mr. ECKHARDT: poses; to the Committee on House Adminis mittee on the Judiciary to inquire into and H.R. 11301. A bill for the relief of George t ration. investigate whether grounds exist for the im V. Vincln; to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. BROTZMAN: peachment of Richard M. Nixon; to the Com By Ms. JORDAN: H. Res. 682. Resolution to seek peace in mittee on Rules. the Middle East and to continue to support H.R. 11302. A bill for the relief of Dr. Law Israel's deterrent strength through transfer By Mr. WALDIE (for himself and Mrs. rence C. B. Chan; to the Committee on the of Phantom aircraft and other mllitary sup BURKE of California): Judiciary. plies; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. H. Res. 686. Resolution for the impeach By Mr. WINN: By Mr. GUDE: ment of the President of the United States; H.R. 11303. A bill for the relief of Choon H. Res. 683. Resolution creating a select to the Committee on the Judiciary. Kyu Oh; to the Committee on the Judiciary·.
EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS BUDGET SCOREKEEPING REPORT (In billions) Completed action on budgeted outlays NO. 8-1974 (expenditures) Fiscal year 1974 [In thousands} Bills (including committee action): HON. GEORGE H. MAHON Change from Congressional OF TEXAS Jan. 29 June 1 October Jan. 29 Appropriation bills: changes in 1974 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES estimate revision re11ision<> estimate Regular 1974 bills: outlays Tuesday, November 6, 1973 Agriculture ------ +$250, 000 Unified budget: InteriorPublic Works ------______+75, 000 Mr. MAHON. Mr. Speaker, I am in Receipts ____ .: $256.0 $266.0 $270.0 $14.0 +20, 000 serting for the information of Members, Outlays ______268.7 268.7 270.6 1. 9 District of Columbia ___ _ -14,500 their staffs, and others, excerpts from the Deficit__ ___ Legislative ------ -15,800 -12.7 -2.7 -.6 12.1 Transportation ------ -30,000 "Budget Scorekeeping Report No. 8, as Treasury-Postal Service_ -42,000 of October 26," prepared by the staff of 1973 supplemental bills the Joint Committee on Reduction of 1974 scorekeeping outlay highlights: The (1974 outlay impact) ___ _ +556, 600 Federal Expenditures. The report itself impact of congressional action through has been sent to all Members. October 26 on the President's fiscal year 1974 Subtotal, appropriation This report shows that the impact of budget outlay requests as shown in this bills ------+799, 300 congressional actions completed to Octo report, may be summarized as follows: ber 26 would be to increase budgeted 1974 Legislative bills-backdoor (In millions) and mandatory: outlays by about $2.9 billion. This, to Food stamp amendments gether with certain revenue actions, (P.L. 93-86) ------+724, 000 would have the effect of raising the esti House Senate Enacted Repeal of "bread tax" mated deficit for fiscal year 1974 by more (P.L. 93-86) ------+400, 000 than $3.4 billion. Federal employee pay raise, The excerpts from the report which I 1974 budget outlay (expendi Oct. 1, 1973 (S. Res. am inserting here include the highlights ture) estimate as revised 171) ------+357, 900 and amended to date ______$270,624 $270,624 $270,624 Welfare-medicaid amend- of completed legislative action, and point Deduct: portion of congres- sional action included in ments (PL. 93-66) ----- +122, 000 up the major areas of pending a-ction revised estimates______-2,443 -2,443 -2,443 Unemployment benefits ex- which may materially affect the final im tension (PL. 93-53)____ +115, 700 pact of congressional action in this ses 1974 budget outlay estimate Veterans national ceme- e.(clusive of congressional sion. These excerpts follow: action_------__ 268,181 268,181 268,181 teries (P.L. 93-43) ------+ 110, 000 EXCERPTS FROM 1974 BUDGET ScOREKEEPING Congressional changes to date Social Security-liberalized REPORT 8, AS OF OCTOBER 26, 1973 (committee action in- income exemption (PL. No. eluded): PART I-BUDGET OUTLAYS (EXPENDITURES) 93-66) ------+ 100, 000 ApJ~~rr~i:t~~~~\~~~:------= +609 +964 +799 School lunch amendments +567 __. ______~ The 1974 budget revisions of October 18: Pen~ng action ______. __ - ~ +450 (H.R. 9639) ------+ 100, 000 Budget revisions for fiscal 1974 were officially Legislative bills: Winema forest expansion transmitted on October 18 in connection with Comfileted action ______~ +1,381 +2, 456 +2, 071 Pen ingaction ______+1,069 (P.L. 93-102) ------+70, 000 hearings before the House Ways and Means +2. 440 ------~ Veterans dependents' Committee on pending debt ceiling legisla Total changes: health care (P.L. 93-82) +64, 915 tion. Outlays were estimated at $270 billion Completed action ___ .: +1,990 +3, 420 +2, 870 Civil Service retirement and revenue at $270 billion. Pending action---._ +1,519 +3, 007 ------~ (PL. 93-39 and 93-136) _ +$37, 400 The revisions reflected substantial reesti TotaL ______. Airport development (PL. mates in budget outlays a.nd revenue largely +3,509 +6,427 +2,870 93-44) ------+ 15, 000 due to economic factors-including speci:fl 1974 budget outlays as ad REA-removed from budg- cally "higher than anticipated price in justed by Congressional creases". The revisions also reflect estimates changes to date------271,690 274,608 271,051 et (P.L. 93-32) ------146, 000 of congressional actions increasing outlays by $2.4 bllllon and revenue by $0.1 billion. Subtotal legislative bills_ +2. 070,915 Subsequent to the October 18 revisions, While this reports reflects enacted con and not reflected therein, the Administration gressional increases in budgeted outlays of Total, 1974 outlay im transmitted a budget amendment requesting about $2.9 bllllon, many significant actions pact of completed con- additional funds for military assistance to are as yet incomplete which may materially gressional action_____ +2, 870, 215 Israel and Ca.Inbodia. This amendment in affect the final impact of congressional ac Pendtng action creases 1974 budget authority by $2.4 billion tion or inaction on budgeted 1974 outlays. and outlays by $600 million. The major incomplete legislative actions Completed actions The 1974 unl:fled budget totals as revised affecting budget outlays which have passed October 18 and subsequently amended are A summary of major individual actioils or are pending in one or both Houses of shown below, as compared to the original composing the $2.9 billion total outlay im Congress are shown in detail on tables 1, and January budget estimates and the June 1 pact of completed congressional action to are summarized below: revised estimates: date on 1974 budgeted outlays follows: Appropriation bills: Incomplete action November 6, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 36039 on two regular 1974 appropriation bills is re Budget surplus (excluding con Food stamp amendments flected in this report, with the major impact gressional action)------1. 7 (P.L. 93-86)------ +724, 000 on budgeted outlays as follows: Congressional action through October Federa.l employee pay raise, 26, as shown in this report: Oct. 1, 1973 (S. Res. Decrease in revenue______0.6 171) ------+357, 900 House (in Senate {in Increase in outlays______2. 8 Trame safety (contract au- millions) millions) thority) (P.L. 93-87) __ _ +281, 000 Budget deficit as revised, amend- School lunch amendments Labor-HEW •• _------+$490 +$587 ed and reflecting congressional (H.R. 9639) ------ +210, 000 St,;te-J ustice. _. _____• ______-40 -20 action to date______1. 6 Welfare-medicaid amend PART II-BUDGET AUTHORITY (APPROPRIATIONS ments (PL. 93-66) ---- +122, 000 Legislative b111s--backdoor and mandatory: AND OTHER OBLIGATIONAL AUTHORITY) Social security-liberalized Twenty-one legislative measures authorizing income exemption (PL. Although the October 18 revisions did not +120, 000 backdoor or mandatory outlays have passed reflect a revised total for fiscal 1974 budget 93-66) ------ or are pending in one or both Houses of Con Veterans national ceme- authority, adjustments commensurate with +110, 000 gress. the outlay revisions supplied indicate that teries (PL. 93-43) ------10 Railroad retirement--fail House action on such measures would the revised and amended 1974 budget au increase fiscal 1974 budget outlays by about ure to provide trust fund thority total is approximately $293.7 billion. revenue requested (P.L. $1.1 blllion. Senate action on 13 such meas The impact of congressional action through 1974 -612,000 ures would increase budgeted outlays October 26 on 1974 budget authority, as 93-69) ------$2.4 $1.4 REA loans-removed from at least blllion, including about shown in this report, may be summarized as b111ion for social security increases. The un budget (P.L. 93-32) ___ _ -579,000 follows: determined outlay effect of increased con Other ------+172, 315 tract authority is excluded. (In millions( The scored backdoor or mandatory impact Subtotal, legislative of these pending legislative bllls includes the House Senate Enacted bills ------+2, 213, 435 following major amounts in excess of the budgeted outlays: Congressional changes to date Total ------+2. 438,618 in requested 1974 budget Pending action authority (committee ac House (in Senate (in tion included): The major incomplete legislative actions millions) millions) Appropriation bills: which have passed or are pending in one or Completed action______-$204 +$592 +$225 both Houses of Congress are shown in detail Pending action______+1, 182 +1, 783 ------ on table 1, and are summarized below: Civil Service minimum retirement Legislative bills: (including social security in- Completed action______+2, 144 +2, 885 +2, 213 Appropriation bills: Pending action on 2 crease>------+$172 +$1, 600 Pending action______+1, 094 +3, 035 ------regular 1974 appropriation bllls is reflected Mass transit operating subsidies______+400 Shifts between fiScal years in this report, with the major impact on Trade reform-readjustment costs__ +300 ------1973 and 1974 (net) due budget authority as follows: Federal employee health insurance__ +234 ------to timing of action on Veterans pensions______+208 +112 budget requests______+3. 890 +3, 890 +3, 890 Veterans drug treatmenL------+144 House (in Senate Total changes: Completed action______+5, 830 +7, 367 +6, 329 millions) (in millions) Revenue legislation Pending action______+2, 276 +4, 818 ------The October 18 budget revisions estimate TotaL______+8, 106 +12, 185 +6. 329 Labor-HEW __ • • __------+$1, 264 +$1, 846 revenue for fiscal 1974 at $270 blllion. This State-Justice_._ ••. • _. ______• -82 -63 is an increase of $14 b111ion over the original Total changes. ex January estimate of $256 b11lion, and $4 cluding shifts be tween fiscal years Legislative b11ls: Twenty-three legislative b111ion over the June 1 estimate. duetotil)1ing _____ +4,216 +8,295 +2.439 bills carrying backdoor or mandatory author The new 1974 revenue estimate reflects izations have passed or are pending in one upward revision due to a higher than antic or both Houses of Congress. ipated rate of inflation, and it also includes It should be noted that many significant House action pertaining to 11 such meas a. small reduction due to the impact of cer actions are as yet incomplete. Further ures would increase budget authority by $1.1 tain congressional action and inaction on actions, through to the end of the current" b111ion, and Senate action on 15 measures revenue proposals. session, may materially affect the final im would increase budget authority by $3 Completed legislative action to date, has pact of congressional action on the 1974 billion. the effect of reducing 1974 revenue estimates budget requests for appropriations and other The scored backdoor or mandatory impact by $492 million, as follows: obligating authority. of these pending legislative bills includes the Ra.Uroa.d Retirement: decrease of $612 Completed Actions following major amounts in excess of the million due to !allure to provide additional budget: trust fund receipts requested. The following is a. summary of the major individual actions composing the $2.4 billion Freight car loan guarantee: additional Social security wage taxes: increase of $120 backdoor borrowing authority of $2 blllion million in trust fund revenue due to a. wage total impact of completed congressional ac tion to date on the 1974 budget requests for in the Senate. base increase. Mass transit operating subsidies: addi Deficit position appropriations and other obligational au thority: tional ba.ckdoor contract authority of $400 The 1974 deficit position is summarized mlllion in the Senate. below in terms of the origina.l budget esti Completed action on budget authority re Trade reform: mandatory expansion of mate, subsequent revisions and impact of quests statutory readjustment benefits of $300 mil congressional action to date: [In thousands] lion as pending in the House. Billions Congressional Federal employee health insurance: man Original fiscal 1974 deficit estimate ___ $12. 7 changes in 197 4 datory increase in federal contribution of Budget revisions of June 1: Increase budget authority $234 million as passed by the House. in revenue estimate______10. 0 Bills (including committee action): Veterans pensions: mandatory benefits of Appropriation bills: $208 million in the House and $172 million in Budget deficit as revised June L. 2. 7 HUD-Spa.ce-Science-Veter- the Senate. Civil service retirement: mandatory in Budget revisions of October 18: ans ------+$439,047 Increase in revenue estimate______4. 0 Agriculture ------+108, 116 crease in minimum retirement costs of .:~.bout Increase in outlay estimate______1. 3 Interior ------+72, 770 $170 million as passed by the Senate and Public Works ------8,066 $172 m111ion as pending in the House. Budget deficit as revised October District of Columbia ______-15,281 Veterans drug treatment: mandatory bene Par value of gold supple- fits of $144 million in the Senate. 18 ------0 Budget amendment: Proposed in- mental ------47,000 Authorizing legislation crease in outlays for military assist- Legislative ------ -71,961 In its actions during the current session ance to Israel and Cambodia______0. 6 Transportation ------ -112,286 to date, the Congress has made increases in Treasury-Postal Service --- -140, 156 various legislative authorizing measures re Budget deficit, as revised and flected in the budget for continuation of on amended to date______0.6 Subtotal, appropriation going prograinB (see table 8 for detail). While Deduct: Portion of congressional ac bills ------+225,183 these actions in themselves do not mandate tion included in revisions of Octo additional spending, and are not scored for ber 18: Legislative bills: purposes of this report, they do provide for Revenue increase (net action and Federal-aid highways (con higher discretionary funding levels. inaction) ------0.1 tract authority) (P.L. 93- Further, on its own initiative, the Congress Outlay increase______2. 4 87) ------+1, 307,220 has authorized nonmandatory spending pro- 36040 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 6, 1973 grams which were not proposed by the a.d The program is underway in 14 cities where First Avenue, Seattle, Washington 98104, (ef mlnistratlon. Such legislation may also create the Commission's regional offices a.re lo fective 10/15/73-no phone number a.va.n additional discretionary funding reqUire cated: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, able). ments-now or in the future. For example, Dallas, Denver, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Clevela.nd-5225 Wa.rrensvllle Center Road, in the case of legislation enacted to extend Minneapolis, New Orleans, New York, Phlla. Maple Heights, Ohio 44137, (216) 522-3131, the unbudgeted Economic Development Ad delphia., San Francisco, and Seattle. Ext. 6023. ministration, supplemental funding was sub Consumer organizations and individual sequently requested by the President involv consumers who volunteer to serve a.s Con mg increased outlays of $25 million. sumer Deputies wll1 be trained by Commis Some of the major legislation of this type sion staff to canvass stores to insure that ON PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION is listed below: products which appear on the CPSC Banned Major discretionary (nonmandatory) au Products List are not being sold. thorization increases Initially, the Consumer Deputies wlll focus HON. JOHN B. ANDERSON Congressional action increasing authoriza on banned toys as part of the Commission's tions contemplated in the 1974 budget re holiday season Toy Safety Campaign. Ap OF ILLINOIS quests [in thousands} proximately 1,500 extremely dangerous toys IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES have been banned under the authority of the Authorization of budget on-going Federal Hazardous Substances Act as amend Tuesday, November 6, 1973 programs: ed by the Child Protection and Toy Safety Enacted: Act of 1969. Mr. ANDERSON of Dlinois. Mr. Housing programs (P .L. 93- Store survemance is a. normal activity of Speaker, I recently received a letter from 117) ------1-$777,000 CPSC field inspectors, but the addition of Mayor Kevin H. White, of Boston, in Health programs (P.L. 93-45) 1-401,505 volunteers, especially during the holiday sea which he proposes an amendment to Clean air program, EPA (P.L. son, provides a. boost to Commission efforts the 1947 Presidential Succession Act 93-15) ------1-469,000 to protect children from toy-related injuries. which would provide for a special elec Vocational rehabilitation After the holidays, the Consumer Deputies tion in the event the offices of President (P.L. 93-112) ------1-260, 904 wm check compliance with other safety reg and Vice President are simultaneously Older Americans Act (P.L. ulations in force for products covered by the 93-29) ------1-117,600 Flammable Fabrics Act, the Poison Preven vacated. Mayor White leaves no question Law enforcement assistance tion Packaging Act, and the Refrigerator about what he has in mind, and that is (PL. 93-83) ------1-108,876 Door Safety Act. the circumvention of the procedures Solid waste disposal (PL. A Consumer Deputy is not an official em specified in the 25th amendment to the 93-14) ------ 1-93,000 ployee of the Commission. If the Deputy sees Constitution providing for the appoint National Science Foundation a. toy or other product for sale which is be 1-53,000 ment of a Vice President, subject to con (P.L.93-96)------ lieved to have been banned, the Deputy wlll gressional confirmation, should that of AMTRAK grants (S. 2016) __ 1-56,200 inform the shopkeeper and will ask the re NASA (P.L. 93-74) ------ 1-48,500 t ailers to remove the product from sale and fice be vacated. Corporation for Public to check his supplier to ascertain whether, As I make clear in my response to Broadcasting (PL. 93-84) _ 1-35,000 in fact, the product has been banned. Com Mayor White, I consider this proposal a Pending in one or both Houses: mission field staff will pick up the case at most cynical and partisan proposal under Manpower program (job that point. the present circumstances, and feel it training) (H.R. 7950, S. In instances where the retailer is un would only compound the trauma and 1559) cooperative, the store will be visited by Com disruption which would attend the im New authorizations not included mission inspectors. If a. banned product is peachment and removal of a President. I in 1974 budget: still being offered for sale, the retailer could be liable for criminal penalties. think the succession process which pres Enacted: ently applies under the 1947 act and the Economic Development Ad A pilot Consumer Deputy Program was un ministration (P.L. 93-46) _ 1 1-430 000 dertaken last year by the Food and Drug 25th amendment is far preferable from Lead based paint poisoning Administration. Some 134 volunteers partici the standpoint of national unity and pated in programs in six cities-Atlanta, prevention (S. 607) ------1-63,000 stability. And furthermore, I think this Chicago, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, San Congress has a clear obligation to honor 1 Funding requested by budget amend Francisco, and Seattle. ment: $205 million in budget authority and Consumers who would like to volunteer as the spirit and intent of the 25th amend additional $25 m111ion in outlays Consumer Deputies should contact their ment in proceeding with the expeditious nearest CPSC area office for further infor consideration of the nomination of Con mation. gressman GERALD R. FORD as Vice Presi CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION: AREA dent. This is no time to be considering a CONSUMERPRODUCTSAFETYCOM OFFICES major alteration in the Presidential suc MISSION TO HELP MONITOR Atla.nta-1430 West Peachtree Street, N.W., cession structure for what is obviously MARKETPLACE Atlanta, Georgia 30309, (404) 526-2259. blatantly narrow political purposes. Boston-408 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, At this point in the RECORD, Mr. Massachusetts 02110, (617) 223-5576. Speaker, I include the exchange of corre HON. MICHAEL HARRINGTON Chicago-433 West Van Buren Street, Room spondence between Mayor White and OF ndASSACEnJSETTS 1222, Chicago, Illinois 60607, c/o Food and myself: Drug Administration, (312) 353-8260. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES BOSTON, MASS., Da.lla.s-P.O. Box 15035, Dallas, Texas October 29, 1973. Tuesday, November 6, 1973 75201, (214) 749-3951. Hon. JOHN B. ANDERSON, Denver-513 U.S. Customhouse, Denver, House of Representatives, Mr. HARRINGTON. Mr. Speaker, the Colorado 80202, (303) 837-4917, c;o Food and Consumer Product Safety Commission Washington, D.C. Drug Administration. MY DEAR MR. ANDERSON: I am enclosing a has recently begun a consumer deputy Kansas City-911 Walnut Street, Room proposal which should be of great intrest to program. The program is aimed at re 1905, Kansas City, Missouri 64106, c/o Food you because it is, I believe, of potentially cruiting citizen volunteers to canvass and Drug Administration, (816) 374-2034. great importance to our country. stores to make sure that toys on the Los Angeles-1521 West Pico Boulevard, Los In the present political and constitutional Commission's banned products list are Angeles, California 90015, (213) 688-7225. crisis, we are seemingly confronted with two Minneapolis-Fort Snelling Federal Build unattractive alternatives. The first is to not being sold. ing, Room 650, Twin Cities, Minnesota. 55111, I intend to write to consumer organi acquiesce to the disregard and abuse of con (612) 725-3424. stitutional powers by our current elected zations in Massachusetts to urge that New Orleans-Room 323, Gateway Bullding, leadership, and to continuing controversy they participate in this effort. To pro 124 Camp Street, New Orleans, Louisiana. about the legitimacy of that leadership to vide further information on the concept, 70130, (504) 527-2101. govern the nation. New York-850 Third Avenue, Seventh The second is to take steps to bring about I offer the following explanatory state Floor, Brooklyn, New York 11232, c;o Food ment from the Commission: the resignation, or impeachment and convic and Drug Administration, (212) 788-1456. tion, of the President. This is a.n unfamiliar CPSC CoNsUMER DEPUTY PROGRAM To HELP Philadelphia-Room 502, U.s. Custom process which will divide the country. It will MONITOR MARKETPLACE house, Second and Chestnut Streets, Phila result in succession to the Presidency of one The Consumer Product Safety Commission delphia., Pennsylvania. 19106, (215) 597-9105. of two honest and competent Congressmen, today announced a Consumer Deputy Pro San Francisco-50 Fulton Street, Room 518, neither of whom has previously been thought gram to enlist the assistance of consumers San Francisco, California. 94102, c/o Food and of in connection with the Presidency, and to police· the marketplace for banned prod Drug Administration, (415) 556-1819. each of whom, if he did succeed to that ucts. Seattle-1131 Federal Office Bullding, 909 Office, would have the liabllfty of being the November 6, 1973 36041 first leader in our history lacking a national opinion, would be a most cynical and narrow Has the UN fulfilled the "hope" .that so electoral mandate. political ploy at odds with the national many people placed in it as "The last great There is, however, a third way. Last week interest. hope of humanity?" Or, is it just a useless I proposed that through simple legislation, With all ·due respect to the work and debating society? Congress could call for a Special Election in thought you have put into this proposal, in First of all, the UN has contended with a 1974, if both the omce of President and Vice the final analysis I think it runs contrary to world of many revolutions-peaceful and President are simultaneously vacant. This the expeditious and orderly succession proc otherwise. The original memberships of the was, indeed, precisely what the framers of the ess which I feel is essential in the wake of a UN was 51; it now numbers 135, with the Constitution expected to happen, and it was traumatic impeachment-conviction-removal two Germanys recently joining. The UN has the law of the land for almost a century. upheaval. To prolong this agony by a pro many achievements to its credit. It can count I believe a return to the intentions of the tracted national election campaign which is among its successes, in the political area, the framers furnishes a possible way out of our bound to be bitter and divisive, especially negotiated settlement of disputes affecting current dilemma. when the Congress and White House are Indonesia, Kashmir, and West New Guinea, The legislation to accomplish this, which controlled by opposing parties, could do ir among others. The Middle East "question" could be a simple Amendment to the Presi reparable harm to our body politic. The 25th has, of course, been before the UN almost dential Succession Act of 1947, ought to be Amendment, on the other hand, despite its continuously since 1947. It can be shown that promptly passed before the contingency :flaws and shortcOinings, at least provides for UN presence in the area has prevented many which it is designed to meet should arise. some semblance of order, continuity and incidents from developing into a wider war. This would help to resolve the confusions and unity at a time when it would be most One might ask the question: What might uncertainties which now surround the pos needed. have happened in the Congo and neighbor sible consequences of the Presidency's becom With all best wishes, I am, ing states in 1960 if it had not been for the ing vacant. Very truly yours, UN peacekeeping force there? Critics point I hope you will join with me in expressing JOHN B. ANDERSON, to Soviet intervention in Hungary and your views to Congressman Rodino and Sen Member of Congress. Czechoslovakia and the impotence of the ator Eastland in urging their Committees to UN to act in those situations. give prompt and favorable consideration to It all comes down to big power politics this timely legislation. AMERICAN HUMANIST ASSOCIA and political objectives. The U.S. role in Sincerely, Indochina could similarly be examined for KEVIN H. WHrrE, TION AND THE UNITED NATIONS violations of the U.N. charter. Mayor. What are the principles of the charter? HON. EDWARD I. KOCH The charter is based on seven main prin CoNGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, ciples: OF NEW YORK Washington, D.C., October 31, 1973. (1) The equality and sovereignty of all Hon. KEVIN H. WHITE, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES member states. Mayor, City oj Boston, City Hall, Boston, Tuesday, November 6, 1973 (2) Fulfillment "in good faith" by all Mass. members of obligations assumed under the DEAR MR. MAYoR: Thank you for your letter Mr. KOCH. Mr. Speaker, elsewhere in charter. of Oct. 29 and the attached paper outlining the RECORD today I have commented on (3) Peaceful settlements of disputes. your proposal for an amendment to the 1947 the shortcomings of the United Nations. (4) Renunciation of the threat or use of P:reside:·yi;ial Succession Act which would pro I have been asked by Jesse Gordon, au force. vide for a special election in the event that thor of an article in support of the United ( 5) Cooperation with the UN in any action the omces of President and Vice President Nations, to place his comments in the it takes. are vaca.nrt simultaneously. (6) Encouragement of non-member states While I can understand your criticism of RECORD. The article follows: to abide by its principles. the present succession procedure which rloes [From Free Mind, september 1973] (7) Non-intervention by the UN in the m-ake possible the elevation of persons to the AHA AND THE UNITED NATIONS internal affairs of any state. presidency who have not been popularly (By Jesse Gordon) The Charter also calls for freedom of reli elected nationally, I nevertheless feel that When delegates from 50 nations met at gion. Many faiths, each with a different con ths procedures specified by the 25th amend San Francisco in the spring of 1945, World ception of God, a.re represented at the UN. A ment are preferable for several reasons. Warn was not yet over, but a determination moment of silence opens and closes each Gen- · I at least admire your can1.or in admitting to establish an international organiz81tion to era! Assembly session, and there is a Medita- . that your ~x·oposal is aimed specifically at keep the peace was paramount in the minds tion Room at UN headquarters which is open our present situation, and that what you have of the delegates. After two months of in at all times. There is no mention of God in in mind is ignoring the requirements of the tense negotiations, the language of the Char the Charter just as there is none in the u.s. 25th amendment with respect to the con ter of the United Nations was agreed upon. Constitution. firmation of Mr. Ford and proceeding with Tweuty-eight years have passed since the The UN Charter pledges all members to co the removal of President Nixon to thus force nations of the world pledged themselves "to operate for the promotion of human rights. a special election. I am curious to know if save succeeding generations from the scourge Although the authority of the United Na you would be advancing the same proposal of war." tions is liinited to debate, study, publicity, if a Democratic Administration were now In judging the political performance of and recommendation, it has exerted immeas in the same situation as the Republican Ad the UN and in making the organization the urable in:fiuence on behalf of human rights. Ininistration is, or, more to the point, whether scapegoat for the di1ficulties of its members, In 1948 the General Assembly adopted the you advanced this same proposal as an alter a number of important considerations a.re Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Its native at the time the 25th was under con often conveniently forgotten. The first of clauses on the civil, political, economic, and sideration in 1965. And keep in mind that these is the origin of the UN. The UN was social rights of human beings have in:fiuenced the 25th Amendment was drafted and not set up by small or medium powers. lt the written constitutions of a number of new adopted by a Democratic Congress. was set up by the great powers theinselves nations. Its provisions have been incorporated The main defect in your proposal as I see under the shock and experience of two dev in several important peace treaties. it is that it would have a tremendous disrup astating world wars. Kurt Waldhelm, the sec The General Assembly has also produced tive and traumatic impact on our government retary-general of the UN, st81tes: "The UN draft conventions-treaties-in the human and the nation, particularly between the was set up by the great powers to avoid in rights field. Some forbid particular offenses time a President is removed and a new one the future the mistakes, weaknesses and mis such as genocide, forced labor, and slavery. is inaugurated, the interim elevation of the understandings which, twice in less than 30 Others set standards in particular areas such Speaker as Chief Executive notwithstanding. years, had led them into total war. We as political rights of women. Such conven An impeachment proceeding in itself is ignore this historical fact at our peril." tions must be ratified by the individual UN fraught with enough trauma, but I think The American Humanist Association is ac members in accordance with their constitu the additional requirements of your proposal tive among the hundreds of non-govern tional processes. In addition, the Assembly would only compound that trauma. In addi mental or~jtanlzations sponsoring the UN. has produced two comprehensive human tion, I am especially puzzled by your proposal The A.H.A. realizes there is an urgent need rights covenants, one on civil and political that the new government be permitted to for greater understanding and support of the rights and one on economic and social rights, serve a full four-year term. Again, this seems United Nations by the millions of citizens both ratified by more than 30 governments. to be more politically motivated than any who are the constituents of non-govern For many years UN experts have offered thing else. mental organizations. The A.H.A. is repre advisory services to governments on human I am at least pleased that the Democratic sented in the NGO group by Mrs. Henrietta rights questions. Various UN-sponsored in leadership in Congress is in agreement that Rogoff with Mr. Jesse Gordon, alternate. ternational seminars on human rights have we must abide by the intent a.nd spirit of the In 1945, the UN came into existence ac been held. The UN has also served as a cen 25th Amendment in e:x.peditiously moving on companied by the usual :flowery speeches. It tral point to which aggrieved groups may the Ford nomination and not hold it political was seen as "the great hope of humanity," complain of specific human rights violations. hostage pending the . outcome of impeach "the hope of the world," and "the last, great But there is disagreement as to how the UN ment proceedings. To do otherwise, in my hope for peace." should handle such complaints. One propos- 36042 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 6, 1973 al would establish a UN office, that o! High Kohala, Hawaii, he studied at Pomona his readers that na good idea is the stuff Commissioner for Human Rights, to receive College, Calif., under a George R. Baker of which jobs are made;" inquiries and complaints from both govern scholarship, and at Oxford University, ments and private parties and to advise and More than this, the Mason and Shaver conclliate at their request. The High Com England, under a Marshall scholarship. idea has demonstrated again, and at a missioner would have no power to overrule a He was also a graduate of the University time when the forces of deadening social government, but his views would carry moral of Washington School of Law, where he ism seem to be getting stronger else authority. was editor of the Washington Law Re where, that enterprise and ingenuity, view. plus good hard work, still are paying off Robert Kennan was a man of impec in America. My district is grateful to be cable character; dedicated to his family, the location of Precise Metals & Plastics IN MEMORY OF ROBERT KENNAN, job, and friends. I extend my deepest and the other companies born since JR. sympathy to his wife Elizabeth and his World War II by the efforts of ambitious son, Alexander. I am sure that they, workmen who saw a chance to make good HON. WALTER E. FAUNTROY along with all of us who knew him, will be as industrialists and did so. OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA forever impressed by the memory of such IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES great a man. Tuesday, November 6, 1973 PATROLMAN GEORGE R. MEADE Mr. FAUNTROY. Mr. Speaker, the ENTERPRISE STll..L PAYS OFF ANOTHER GALLANT POLICEMAN residents of the District of Columbia IS CUT DOWN have lost a very fine friend in the person HON. JOSEPH M. GAYDOS of Robert Kennan, Jr., the late general OF PENNSYLVANIA counsel to the National Wildlife Federa IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. MARIO BIAGGI tion. It is with a heavy heart that I share Tuesday, November 6, 1973 OF NEW YORK this loss with you. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES At 35, Bob established himself as one Mr. GAYDOS. Mr ~ Speaker, I am of the leading conservationists in the happy to report that the spirit of high Tuesday, November 6, 1973 country. He joined the Wildlife Federa adventure and success still prevails in Mr. BIAGGI. Mr. Speaker, it is with tion in January 1971 after serving with U.S. business and that experiences in my a profound sense of sorrow and outrage the law firm of Purcell and Nelson for busy western Pennsylvania district un that I relate to my colleagues still an 6 years. He was a formidable opponent derscore the fact. other violent and untimely death of a for those who attempted to infect the The district is the home of many small policeman, Patrolman George R. Meade Nation's environment with unneeded and but markedly progressive carbide produc of the 42d Precinct in the Bronx, N.Y. dangerous undertakings. ing and fabricating firms, each a spin-off At 1:15 a.m. on October 10, Patrolman Many times, Bob stood up and fought from the old Firth Sterling Co. which Meade, off duty, was sitting in an estab against environmentally harmful and pioneered in carbide production in this lishment in the Bronx. Suddently three unneeded roads and highways. As gen country. men entered and announced a robbery. eral counsel to the federation. he led Most of the firms were started by and Meade identified himself as a policeman, efforts to keep Federal interstate high some still are in the hands of, machinists and attempted to apprehend the crimi ways out of the Big Cypress Swamp in and toolmakers who first plied their nals. A gunbattle ensued, and when it Florida and the Sandia Crest Mountains trades at Firth Sterling and then took was over two of the criminals, as well of New Mexico. His sincerity and de out on their own. They now make a wide as Meade, lay dead of gunshot wounds. termination was frequently rewarded as variety of carbide dies and instruments. The third man escaped into the night. his success in these areas illustrates. A few have been sold to large corpora Millions of New Yorkers awoke the Bob Kennan's position did not keep tions. next morning to read the account of this him away from controversial issues. He Carbide, I point out, is not the only tragedy. Yet what they could read would was involved in one litigation to open basis of industrial development back not tell them of the extraordinary man the procedures of the Federal Highway where I live. Just the other day, Precise and the fine human being who was Administration to public view and com Metals & Plastics, Inc., having outgrown killed. ment in an effort to bring them into com its facilities in the McKeesport area, George R. Meade was born in the pliance with the National Environmen began construction of a new plant on a Bronx on January 8, 1939. He served tal Policy Act. Efforts like this illustrates 20-acre site in nearby North Versailles with distinction in the Navy between the purpose behind the life of Robert Township. 1956 and 1959. He joined the New York Kennan. Using the authority of the The company today employs 280 work City Police Department on March 28, courts, he attempted, and succeeded to ers and this figure is expected to rise 1963. He had an illustrious police career, bring the Nation's environment under when the new $1.3 million plant is highlighted by his being awarded two this protection. opened. Sales are up to •the $9 million meritorious awards for outstanding po Robert Kennan's last major case is a annual mark and their steady pace of in lice work. Ironically, his last award was prime example of the cause he furthered crease shows no signs of abating. earlier this year for successfully pre on behalf of the National Wildlife Fed Of special interest to me, and to others venting another holdup. eration. In a suit he brought against the who have followed the firm's advance Yet despite these significant accom Department of Transportation and the ment, is that Precise Metals & Plastics is plishments, the death of George Meade Federal Highway Administration, 1,000 the result of what once were the dreams signified more than the loss of another highway projects around the country of two Westinghouse Airbrake Co. tool great policeman. George Meade was a were forced to meet environmental makers, Robert S. Mason and William o. dedicated family man as well. He is sur standards set forth by the Environmen Shaver. They pooled funds and skills and vived by his wife Rosalie, and four chil tal Policy Act which Bob maintained as entered what to them seemed to be the dren; Yvette, Yvonne, Andrea, and An being fair and equitable to everyone it promising plastics business. In 1964, they tony, as well as his parents and countless affected. founded their company. Along the way other relatives and friends, all of whom Locally, this dear friend of mine was they enlisted Arthur W. Roethlisberger mourn his death as a particularly tragic a member of the Committee of 100 on as an associate and acquired other :firms loss. the Federal City. He participated in the related to their operation. Later on they George Meade had a desire for excel fight against urban freeways and was sold out to KDI Corp. of Cincinnati, Ohio, lence in everything he pursued in life. personally involved in halting construc a diversified manufacturer, but retained At the time of his death, he was attend tion of the Three Sisters Bridge, the a free hand for themselves in running the ing Hostos Community College where he Potomac Freeway and Interstate 66 by company they created. was an A student. As a tribute to this using his personal time and talent in as According to William H. Wylie, busi outstanding man, Hostos College has set sisting to resolve the legal complexities ness editor of the Pittsburgh Press, Mr. up a scholarship fund in his honor. which were involved in these issues. Mason and Mr. Shaver "had a good idea Yet as decent and well-intentioned as Robert Kennan's personal life was, of and perseverance to carry it out." In his memorials and testimonials are, they do course, as honorable and distinguished story on the ground breaking for the new not diminish the agony and suffering as his public image suggests. Born in Precise plant, Mr. Wylies also reminded which must be endured by the families November 6, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 36043 and loved ones of men like George and is inserted in the RECORD for the She became intimately involved in the Meade. information of all Members: administration of Gardena and was in As a former 23-year veteran of the FIFTEEN YEARS OF PORT PROGRESS strumental in establishing the orderly, New York City police force, I felt a sense The 1973 navigation season is being her professional procedures which are a of personal as well as comradely loss alded as a golden anniversary of sort for the hallmark of the Gardena city govern over George Meade's death. As I sat at Port of Duluth-Superior-a year in which the ment. the funeral, I saw the anguish and pain 50 millionth ton of international cargo moved After over 17 years of dedicated service which Mrs. Meade and family felt, and through harbor terminals. The phrase "of to the people of Gardena, Miss Morgan sorts" deserves a bit of qualification since has decided to take a well-earned rest thought about the hundreds of other the port has been in existence for more than wives and families of policemen who a century and, handling approximately 40 from her duties with the city. However, have been forced to endure similar losses million tons of domestic cargoes annually, retirement in her case is not synonymous of their husbands and fathers. has continually been a major center of Great with idleness. It is a sorry time in this Nation when Lakes commerce. Rather, this period in her life will give even one policeman is killed in the line It was in 1959 that the St. Lawrence Sea her even more time to devote to the civic of duty. Yet so far in 1973 alone, 107 way opened to extend North America's Fourth and charitable activities with which she policemen have been cut down in the Seacoast 2,300 miles inland to the head of has become deeply involved. Lake Superior. And, Duluth-Superior's repu A member of the American Legion line of duty by depraved criminals. Yet tation as a leading bulk port was further en what will we as a society do? Do we ex hanced by it becoming an all-service port, a Auxiliary for 25 years, Ruth Morgan press shock and outrage, and then wait world port. Joining the familiar Great Lakes served as the president of Auxiliary Post for another one to be killed, or do we bulk carriers whose lengths had stretched to 187 from 1962 through 1963. act? Inherent to a stable democracy is 700 feet and more were oceangoing vessels In addition, she plans to continue her a strong and efficient law enforcement :flying the :flags of most maritime nations years of volunteer work with the Ameri system. We must demand that the police throughout the world. To accommodate these can Red Cross, in which she served as ships, more than $25 million was invested in the safety services chairman for Gar men of this Nation are better protected. new grain and general cargo terminals and in Not only must we strengthen our system modernizing existing facilities. dena, a member of the Gardena branch of justice and reduce crime, but we must Duluth-Superior became the principal port board of directors, an organizer of Red provide for the widows and children of for importers and exporters in 10 midwestern Cross first aid classes in the area, and the men who die in the line of duty. Leg states and two Canadian provinces, a hinter as a member of the Southern District islation to that effect is now long pending land that encompasses highly industrialized Board. in the Judiciary Committee. big cities, bustling mining communities and Miss Morgan has also been active in Mr. Speaker, it has been my profound vast midwestern plains that produce much the Junior Association for the Blind, the of the world's food supply. Since 1959, grain YMCA, YWCA, the Sister City Commit honor to pay tribute to this fine man has been shipped to Europe, Russia and the George Meade, and I know I speak for Far East. Powdered milk, :flour and other agri tee, Friends of the Library, and the thousands of New Yorkers when I ex cultural products have been exported to de Soroptomist. press my sincerest condolences to his veloping nations at all compass points. Steel, Her love of people has been coupled widow and family. And to my colleagues automobiles, table wine, even billiard balls with a love of animals, as evidenced by I say, let us not wait for another police and greenhouse parts, are imported from her membership in the National Wildlife man to be murdered before we act. Europe. From Malaysia comes foodstuffs and Federation and the National Audubon crude rubber. In short, the port handles all Society. products made by people for people. Import-export cargo movements started Mr. Speaker, Ruth Morgan's greatest DULUTH-15 YEARS OF PORT with a modest 1.9 million tons being handled attribute is that she cares-she cares PROGRESS in 1959 and grew to a record 5.2 million tons about people; their problems and con in 1972. This business provides employment cerns, and she has devoted her life to for more than 2,000 persons along Duluth-Su serve her fellow man. She is the type of HON. BILL FRENZEL perior's waterfront and has contributed more person that has made our community OF MINNESOTA than $40 million a year directly into the econ and our Nation great and her services in omy of the community. In the State of Min City Hall will be missed. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES nesota alone, 43,000 persons owe their jobs to Tuesday, November 6, 1973 international trade at an economic benefit to the state of $140 million a year. Mr. FRENZEL. Mr. Speaker, the peo ple of my State, and indeed of the whole SOVIETS NEED WESTERN north-central region, are proud of the TECHNOLOGY progress of the Port of Duluth TRIDUTE TO MISS RUTH MORGAN Superior. In the 14 years since the St. Lawrence Seaway opened, the Port of HON. GLENN M. ANDERSON HON. JOHN M. ASHBROOK Duluth has handled 50 million tons of OF CALIFORNIA OF OHIO intemational cargo. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Import-export cargo movements have increased annually since the seaway was Tuesday, November 6, 1973 Tuesday, November 6, 1973 opened. Commerce through the Port of Mr. ANDERSON of California. Mr. Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Speaker, the fol Duluth provides jobs not only in that Speaker, the French philosopher, Jean lowing letter by Edward A. Stern, profes city and in the State of Minnesota, but Jacques Rousseau, once said, "What wis sor of physics at the University of throughout the whole north-central dom can you find that is greater than Washington, appeared in the October 7 region of this country. The $40 million kindness?" edition of the Washington Post. Mr. annually that is contributed to the By this definition, Miss Ruth Morgan, Stern had the opportunity of recently Duluth community because of the port who recently retired as the chief deputy visiting with Soviet Physicist Andrei activity is a tiny fraction of the economic city clerk of Gardena, Calif., is certainly Sakharov. As Mr. Stern writes-and as value that this one port gives to our area. one of the wisest persons in the land. I have stated on numerous occasions--the Minnesota has traditionally been First coming to Los Angeles during Soviet Union has a desperate need for heavily involved in international trade. World War IT, Miss Morgan settled in Western technology, investments, and Our cargoes, agricultural and manu Gardena in 1956 and was sworn is as organization to avert serious economic factured, have found their ways to inter deputy city clerk in 1958. problems. The West should not extend national markets through ports of the In this capacity, her pleasant per these needed benefits to the Soviets with east, gulf, and west coasts for years. sonality and her skill in solving people's out obtaining meaningful changes in We are particularly proud of our newest problems were rewarded by a promotion Soviet society. At this point I include in port outlet in Duluth, and we congratu to chief deputy clerk in 1964, where her the RECORD the text of Professor Stern's late the Seaway Port Authority of assets could be more effectively utilized. letter. Duluth on another important milestone A devoted public servant, Miss Morgan CAN THE WEST IGNORE SAKHAROV'S MESSAGE? m its growth, its 50 millionth ton of was always available to offer an em I had the honor of visiting the famous international cargo. pathetic ear and to commit her talents Soviet physicist Andrei D. Sakharov for four The following article was prepared by and energies to helping people deal with hours on the evening of Aug. 23 during my the Seaway Port Authority of Duluth the city. recent trip to the Soviet Union to attend a 36044 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 6, 1973 scientific conference. Being a physicist my I include details of the award and its that tragic and heroic grasp for free self and knowing some of the Soviet Jewi.sh significance: dom. Dr. Andras H. Pogany, president scientists who have been refused permission HENRY ROBIN, CARRIER OF THE YEAR to emigrate to Israel, I was able to arrange of the World Federation of Hungarian through these contacts the visit with Henry Robin, a carrier for the sa.n Antonio ~reedom Fighters, delivered the follow Sakharov. Light, has been named Texas Carrier of the mg remarks at the anniversary cele At the time of our conversation Sakharov Year by the Texas Circulation Managers As bration and I commend them to your was aware of the impending attack against sociation and the Texas Daily Newspaper As attention. The parallels he draws be him by the authorities (which subsequently sociation. tween the world situation 17 years ago became public) and detailed to me several He was entered in the statewide competi tion after being named Carrier of the Year and today cannot be ignored. As Dr. instances of pressure exerted against him in Pogany points out, we should not sweep a covert fashion through loved ones who are for The Light. made to suffer so as to hurt him and black In addition to a $2,500 scholarship, which the ~ard facts of continued Soviet op mall him into silence. In spite of all of Henry plans to use to study computer tech pressiOn under the rug simply because these covert pressures and in spite of the re nology at Texas A & M University awards we are making an e1Iort toward detente. cent covert pressures Sakharov courageously to the state's top newspaper carrie; include The remarks follow: speaks out because his concern for his coun a trip to the TCMA convention in Houston THE 17TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 1956 HUN try and the world transcends his concern for where he will be introduced to the assem GARIAN REVOLUTION his personal safety. Can the West afford to bled circulation managers and presented a savings bond, and a trip to Austin where he On the 17th anniversary of the 1956 Hun ignore Sakharov's message and permit the gS:rian Revolution, we, the officers, members, Soviets to crush such a man, as they surely will be a special luncheon guest of Governor Dolph Briscoe. f:1ends and supporters of the World Federa will do without a strong outcry and use of tiOn of Hungarian Freedom Fighters, on three the leverage made available by the impend The son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry D. Robin of San Antonio, 17-year-old Henry is a senior continents, rededicate ourselves to the prin- . ing detente? ciples and demands of that historic event The first priority of the Soviet authorities . at Churchill High School, where he has won many honors for both scholarship and extra in Hungary. is to maintain themselves in power. Because We are speaking and rededicating ourselves · they have fallen behind technologically and curricular activities. Noininees for Texas Carrier of the Year on behalf of the oppressed Hungarian people their economic base is becoming obsolete whose last free voice was heard 17 year~ they desperately need Western technology, were judged on the basis of scholastic achievement, personal achievement, commu ago. This voice demanded freedom for Hun investments and organization to avert serious gary and freedom for all and everywhere. economic and military problems. Otherwise, nity service and newspaper route activity. A Light carrier for two years, Henry has In 1956 the Free World was worried about the present Soviet leaders cannot hope to Suez and, consequently, the freedom in remain in power. doubled the number of subscribers on his route, changing his route from the smallest Hungary had been let to die. Seventeen years At the same time the Soviet authorities passed by and there is still no peace around don't have enough confidence in their con in his circulation district to the largest. He has qualified for the Light carriers' Merit ~uez; more so, now the freedom of the world trol over their society to expose it to Western lS endangered much more than ever before. ideas and influence, to maintain isolation in Club eight times in a row, been named Dis trict Leader five times and has won a trip It is impossible not to remember the old say- · the face of the inevitable increase Western ~g: how little wisdom governs the world trade requires intimidating the· average So to LBJ Ranch. In addition to his Light route, Henry has mdeed! viet citizen to stay away from these foreign Are we, Hungarian freedom fighter per ers. The latest publicized dissident trial of held a part-time job at which he worked seven days a week for a year. At the same haps out-dated today? Should we change or Yakir and Krasin and the simultaneous at reconsider our goals in the seventies? tacks on Solzhenitsyn and Sakharov promi time, he maintained a high B average in school, participated in a number of extra We do not believe so, Ladies and Gentle nently proclaim the crime of "clandestine men. We cannot change, because the Com meeting witli foreigners." cur:icul.ar. activities and placed well up 1-n Un1vers1ty Interscholastic League tourna munist totalitarianism did not change at all, The Soviets want to have detente on their as we could realize it quite easily in the terms where they can receive Western tech ments in number sense, math analysis and slide rule. events of this new, raging war, fully supplied nology, · investments and management and for and encouraged again by the Soviet still maintain· their isolation. As Sakharov A member of Temple Beth-El, Henry is sec ond vice-president of the Federation of Union, supposedly pursuing a policy of happy points out, the West has a unique oppor "detente" toward us. We cannot and we are tunity to use the leverage of ai~ which the · Temple Youth. He was nominated for honors in the field of religion by the · Optimists not willing to recognize a so-called status Soviets desperately need, to open Soviet soci quo, because no status-quo is possible with ety somewhat and move the So'9'iet Union Clubs during Youth Appreciation Week last oppression, neo-colonialism and terror. There toward a lasting world order. The Jackson year. cannot be a status-quo, if the other side is Mills-Vanik legislation is the bare minimum. Henry has been a member of the Churchill doing its best to bury us, threatening our EDWARD A. STERN, ROTC for three years, advancing to first very life and .existence. Unfortunately, the Professor of Physics, sergeant, and last year was named outstand American pubh'} today is being systematically University of Washington. ing first sergeant of the school. misled and lives in an utopistic state of day He is also active in bowling leagues and SEATTLE. dreaming. Many of us sincerely believe that plays chess, golf and bridge. He is a Life a safe and peaceful world is just around the Scout, earning 23 merit badges during his corner. Unfortunately, as it is, that such four years in Boy Scouts. HENRY ROBIN, OF SAN ANTONIO world cannot be called into existence by A highlight of the past year for Henry was dramatic announcements, happy handshak LIGHT, NAMED TEXAS CARRIER being chosen one of only 33 high school ings, engaging smiles and by sweeping hard, OF THE YEAR juniors and seniors in the country to attend but unpleasant facts under the rug in the an eight-week Summer Institute of Math name of a "detente," which simply does not ematics and Computer Programming at the exist. If the Vietnam war did not teach us University of Oklahoma. He paid his own anything about the Soviet's idea of detente HON. 0. C. FISHER expenses from his earnings. OF TEXAS and co-existence, let's hope, that the new With the money he has saved from his Middle East War will, if, hopefully, there is IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Light route and his job, Henry has bought still a spark of reality left in the minds of much of his own wardrobe, books and his Tuesday, November 6, 1973 our modern American apostles of detente. senior ring and paid for his school lunches. So far, however, the voices of reality came Mr. FISHER. Mr. Speaker, Henry Rob He also paid for carpeting the upstairs of his rather of Moscow than of Washington, D.C. in, a can·ier for the San Antonio Light, family home. The voices of Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn was recently named Texas Newspaper j?ined with the unbroken voice of the great Carrier of the Year. Contesting with 30,- living Hungarians, Jozsef Cardinal Minds 000 carriers, this young man was given zenty and all of them told the same: beware this recognition by the Texas Circulation THE 17TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE • . . May God help us to understand these 1956 HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION solemn warnings better, than we did it in Managers Association and the Texas the time of the Hungarian Revolution of Daily Newspaper Association. 1956. I extend my own congratulations to HON. WILLIAM J. SCHERLE In such circumstances we, Hungarian free this woo.·thy young man. It is an achieve OF IOWA dom fighters are not willing to compromise. We repeat, with unswerving faith and ment of which he can be justly proud. It IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES bespeaks a quality which is truly out loyalty the last message of our revolution· Tuesday, November 6, 1973 if freedom, human dignity and constitutionai standing. Equipped as Henry is with rights are oppressed by naked Inilitary force character, ambition, and ability, we can Mr. SCHERLE. Mr. Speaker, on the anywhere, the freedom of the world is in be sure his future endeavors will be 17th anniversary of the Hungarian Rev mortal danger and we have to face the chal equally as rewarding. olution of 1956, I had the privilege of lenge without double talk, made-up excuses Under leave to extend my remarks, addressing a group of participants In or hesitation. November 6, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF .REMARKS 36045 This year, a year of many disappointments NOT SO SIMPLE say "no busing.'' They do not go on to and self-delusion tor America; in a year when say, "Here is a better way than busing we had the opportunity to watch the Soviet red fiag; with its hammer and sickle, unturl to achieve the goals of a desegregated in front of the White House, we turned our HON. MORRIS K. UDALL school system." attention to our last hope: to the youth of OF ARIZONA Our bill, however, offers such an alter America. You will remember, that since IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES native. The heart of the bill is a fed 1960-when then Vice-President Nixon re erally sanctioned State plan, to achieve ceived this Award-through the late Senator Tuesday, November 6, 1973 the objectives of improving and equaliz Dirksen, Ambassador Portuendo, up to Mr. Mr. UDALL. Mr. Speaker, in many re ing educational results and alleviating David Lawrence in 1972, just to mention a racial isolation. few, many important and lnfiuential per spects the civil rights revolution of the sonalities received our Federation's Freedom 1960's was a striking success. But in the The bill does not set out any final Award: politicla.nB, diplomats, newsmen, and area of education we have largely had a plan. What it says is "No one knows television personalities, outstanding bene psychological victory and a practical precisely the best way to achieve equal factors, both Americans and foreigners who, failure. Many of our southern friends educational opportunities for minorities. in a given year, made the most significant told us that things were not all so simple, But human ingenuity should be set free contribution to our uneven efforts for resto and that there would be different reac to explore innovative educational tech ration of freedom and human dignity in tions when the tough school integration niques to this end and not be locked into Hungary. This year we unanimously selected one ot problem came north. We know now how the sole solution of maximum racial those outstanding groups of Americans whose much of what they said was right. balance." If Congress does not offer some activities were not shadowed by the present Now we are faced with a nation bit alternative approach, the courts will detente-hysteria.. We selected the Editorial terly divided over the question of busing almost be compelled to order the ap Board and Staff ot a. youthfUl Washington and the vital, central issue of quality edu proach of maximum racial balance paper, the Rising Tide. I can say, without cation for all children has been for which means massive busing. undue exaggeration, that there was and there gotten. If we are to prevent this country John F. Kennedy once said that- is no American publication in presenting the case of the Hungarian people to the American from further coming apart, it is neces While we did not all come over on the public and reporting the activities of the sary that our leaders be willing to lead, same ship-we are all in the same boat. Hungarian Freedom Fighters Federation, that hard truths be faced, that old pre Indeed we are. America's white ma U.S.A. as the Rising Tide did and still doing conceptions be challenged by all of us. jority simply cannot and must not turn it. The Rising Tide cannot yet claim a very The plain fact is that a fair share of large circulation, but this distinguished that desperately needed moral leader its back on 25 mi!Uon fellow citizens. But group of young women and men represent for ship burden has not been assumed by at the same time, we cannot rely on the us the unblemished and unspoiled real spirit the White House, or by the Congress. In courts to provide definitive, publicly ac of America. Their dedication, intellectual stead, both branches have unloaded on ceptable solutions to the problem of bus honesty as well as their professional skill are the courts the problem of coping with ing. It is high time for the Congress to impressive indeed. True, these young people complex, emotional, and deadly serious assume its fair share of moral leadership and their Rising Tide do not master the social problems. on the subject. American present yet, but we pray, that it In this country we tend to overload in This legislation will not please those may show us an American future based on stitutions which work well, sometimes to who want to go back to 1954, or those principles, tradition and on the love of free who do not understand the deep emotions dom, like the Rising Tide of our days. the point where our returns diminish. and fears which many parents rightfully For this reason, even in this sorrowful year, Our schools are responsible for much of or wrongfully feel. But no single proposal we are sincerely glad and even honored to our success as a nation: and because they I have heard holds more promise for a bestow our Freedom A ward of 1973 on the have worked so well, we continue to dump on them everything from sex education to workable, permanent accommodation. I Editors and Staff ot the Rising Tide and am proud to be a cosponsor. through them to the unblemished faith, driver instruction and, if some had their reputation and good-will of the youth of way, religious training. Because our America. courts have served us so faithfully in re solving disputes, we are inclined to load THE NEW CAR REGULATIONS them down with such social problems as alcoholism, the failures of marriage and BARRY L. BANKS, DELAWARE STU the family, the burden of automobile ac BON. WILLIAM L. HUNGATE DENT INTERN PROGRAM cidents, and all the rest. The time has passed for Congress to be OF MISSOURI second-guessing the courts and harass IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ing them from the sidelines; the time has Tuesday, November 6, 1973 HON. PIERRE S. (PETE) du PONT come to us to provide some sensible OF DELAWARE guidelines and responsible leadership in Mr. HUNGATE. Mr. Speaker, the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the field of education and racial rela following editorial is from one of the Tuesday, November 6, 1973 tions many fine papers of Missouri's Ninth To this end, the distinguished gentle Congressional District, the Mexico Mr. nu PONT. Mr. Speaker, this week man from North Carolina
"InvestlgB~tlon manta," whlch now besieges had hoped the repulse of the Iraqi attack I was there. I saw it. the country, poses a threat to self-govern would have ended the Baghdad government's When dista.nt cities are hit by earthquake ment. Mr. White holds no brief for the attempts to violate the 1970 agreement. it is the United States that hurries in to wrongdoing of any politician from Richard However, they now say the supply of gas help .•• Managua., Nicaragua, is one of the Nixon downward, but he warns against the from the Soviet Union indicates Baghdad is American communities have been flattened attitude of assuming crime and evil are auto attempting a. "final solution" similar to Hit most recent examples. So far this Spring, 59 matically everywhere in politics. He says, "We ler's extermination of Jews. by tornadoes. Nobody has helped. are raising a question as to whether govern According to Kurdish spokesmen, the gas The Marshall Plan, the Truman Policy all ment is to be allowed to govern. We are is stored at the Taji army camp west of pumped billions upon billions of dollars into chewing up our public men without waiting Baghdad and at the headquarters of the 2nd discouraged countries. Now newspapers in for the facts ..•" The world looks on in puz Araqi Division at Kirkuk and the 4th Division those countries are writing about the deca zlement. headquarters Mosul. dent war-mongering Americans. As things are going, the question may The spokesman said only world opinion I'd like to see just one of those countries seriously be asked whether any President, no could head off the use of poison gas against that is goating over the erosion of the United matter how competent, can serve out a ten the Kurds and called upon the public to States dollar build its own airplanes. ure of office and remain clear of the traps urge the Soviet Union to withdraw the gas Come on, let's hear it. implicit in an atmosphere in which all await and its advisers. Does any other country in the world have expectantly for scandal to rear its ugly head. a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the The fact that the nation's last two Presi Lockheed Tristar or the Douglas 10? dents--one a Democrat and the other a Re THE NOT-SO-UGLY AMERICAN If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all publican-have all but been pushed out of international lines except Russia fly Ameri office by the emotionalism of raw democracy can planes? is far from reassuring. Why does no other land on earth even HON. HENRY P. SMITH III consider putting a man or woman on the OF NEW YORK moon? _ SOVIET UNION AND POISON GAS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES You talk about Japanese technocracy and you get radios. You talk about German tech Tuesday, November 6, 1973 nocracy and you get automobiles. HON. ROBERT J. HUBER Mr. SMITH of New York. Mr. Speaker, You talk about American technocracy and OF MICHIGAN 27, 1973, you find men on the moon, not once but on June I inserted in the CoN several times . . . and safely home again. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES GRESSIONAL RECORD an editorial entitled You talk about sca.nde.Is and the Americans Tuesday, November 6, 1973 "Americans," written by Gordon Sinclair, put theirs right in the store window for a Canadian. The editorial was aired on everybody to look at. Mr. HUBER. Mr. Speaker, in recent June 5, 1973, on Mr. Sinclair's "Let's Be Even their draft dodgers are not pursued days the role of the Soviet Union as a Personal" show over radio station CFRB and hounded. They are here on our streets, troublemaker in the Middle East has in Toronto, Ontario. most of them • • • unless they are breaking again been nakedly revealed. The United Since that time, the editorial has been Canadian laws, are getting American dollars States was hard pressed to match the :!rom Ma and Pa at home to spend here. reprinted in newspapers across the coun When the Americans get out of this enormous amount of weaponry that the try and I have received many letters on bind . . . as they will • • • who could blame Soviet Union was pouring into Arab the matter, not only from my own dis them if they said the Hell with the rest of states. By now the lack of scruples of trict, but from North Carolina, Califor the world. Let someone else buy the Israel the Soviet Union in this regard should be nia, Texas, and minois. bonds. Let someone else build or repair for evident to all. Apparently, the American people too eign dams or design foreign buildings that In this connection, an article appeared often have been exposed to the "ugly won't shake apart in earthquakes. in the Detroit News on September 4 to American" image held by some of our When the railways of France, Germany and the etfect that the Soviets have supplied ~ndia were breaking down through age, it "friends" abroad. They occasionally like was the Americans who rebuilt them. When poison gas to Iraq for possible use against to hear that Uncle Sam's etforts and the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Iraq's Kurdish minority. This would be their tax dollars are appreciated. As one Central went broke, nobody loaned them an tragic, but it would not be unprecedented. of my correspondents said: old caboose. Both are still broke. It can be recalled that in 1967, the Soviet I think this is the kind of thing people I can name to you 5,000 times when the Union furnished poison gas to Egypt to need to hear about our wonderful country Americans raced to the help of other people use against the Yemeni Royalists. The just now. in trouble. case was documented by the Interna Can you name me even one time when tional Committee of the Red Cross. For the benefit of those who might someone else raced to the Aniericans in Therefore, I think this item that follows have missed the editorial, I would like to trouble? insert it in the REcoRD for a second time: I don't think there was outside help even deserves the closest attention of my col AMERICANS during the San Francisco earthquake. leagues. Our neighbors have faced it alone and I'm IRAQ KURDS FEAR POISON GAS ATTACK (By Gordon Sinclair) one Canadian who is damned tired of hear WASHINGTON.-Representatives of the The United States' dollar took another ing them kicked around. They will come out Kurdish minority in Iraq charged yesterday pounding on German, French and British ex of this thing with their flag high. And when that the Baghdad government had obtained changes this morning, hitting the lowest they do, they are entitled to thumb their poison gas from the Soviet Union in prepara point ever known in West Germany. nose at the lands that are gloating over their tion :tor an extermination attempt against the It has declined there by 41 per cent since present troubles. Kurds. 1971 and this Canadl.a.n thinks it is time to I hope canada is not one of these. Sources said the Baath regime in Baghda.c:f speak up for the Americans as the most gen But there are many smug, self-righteous had obtained 50,000 gas masks from the So erous and possibly the least appreciated peo Canadians. viet Union for Iraqi soldiers. The Soviets ple in all the earth. And finally the American Red Cross was also have sent eight poison gas experts to As long as sixty years ago, when I first told at its 48th annual meeting in New train Baghdad's soldiers, said the sources. started to read newspapers, I read of floods Orleans this morning that it was broke. The Kurds, who number about 100,000 in on the Yellow River and the Yangtze, Who This year's disasters •.• with the year less Iraq, are a non-Arab tribal people who oc rushed in with men and money to help? The than half over • . . has taken it all and no cupy the mountains of Iraq and have been Americans did. body ... but nobody has helped. seeking an autonomous state of their own. They have helped control floods on the Nile, They have fought several civil wars in the the Amazon, the Ganges and the Niger. past century with various Iraqi governments, Today the rich bottomland of the Missis INLAND WATER TRANSPORTA the last ending in 1970. sippi is under water and no foreign land has TION'S IMPORTANCE IN THE EN Under terms reached at that time, Baghdad sent a dollar to help. promised the Kurds a semiautonomous re Germany, Japan, and to a lesser extent Bri ERGY CRISIS gion to be established by March 1974, Kur tain and Italy, were ll:!ted out of the debris dish representatives now say Iraq is reneging of war by the Americans who poured in bil on that agreement and has started military lions of dollars and forgave other billions in HON. FRANK A. STUBBLEFIELD attacks on Kurdish outposts. debts. OF KENTUCKY The latest such attacks, Kurdish officials None of those countries is today paying here say, took place in mid-August 1n the even the interest on its remaining debts to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Sinjar region of Iraq. The fighting ended with the United States. Tuesday, November 6, 1973 30 Iraqi soldiers killed and several Kurdish When the franc wa.s in danger of collapsing officials wounded. in 1956, it was the Americans who propped Mr. STUBBLEFIELD. Mr. Speaker, the The sources claim Iraq used artillery and it up and their reward was to be insulted energy crisis is upon us and this Nation MIG aircraft in the fighting. They said they and swindled on the streets of Paris. is finally beginning to feel the pinch. The 36048 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS. November 6, 1973 program of petroleum allocation. an other carriers. These carriers then deliver argument over the eventual future direc the coal to plants in Florida, Ohio, Iowa, tion and viability of rail service in nounced by the aclm1n1stration several Wisconsin and Mtnnesota. No alternate weeks ago~ became effective yesterday. source of towing is available on the Green. America. Briefly, this program will limit supplies We need 675,000 gallons a month to keep At this point, Mr. Speaker. I would to customers based on their consumption the 18 boats running, and this is only slightly like to share with my colleagues a por for the calendar year 1972. Certainly this more than we used rast year. The problem tion of recent correspondence forwarded type of program is necessary. for the is that Ashland Oil and Refining Company to me by Mr. Simon in relation to cor Nation is faced with a growing shortage. supplied over 95% of our fuel last year. We porate diversity of railroads: However. I feel it is essential that those have been notified that we will get only 70% of our November, 1972, purchases, and that COMMENTS BY MR. NORTON SIMON administering this program recognize the allocation is 410,885 gallons. Another At present, railroad companies are in certain vital and absolutely essential 250,000 gallons will bring us up to 660,000, volved in myriad conglomerations of indus needs within our economy. These needs and we hope to pick up the balance from trial land development, downtown proper must be given some form of priority the other sources from which we made small ties, service businesses, utility, natural re within the system. In the forefront of purchases. source and manufacturing activities. Not these needs, I place agriculture and es It is impossible to save fuel on a towboat only does this divert management's attention except by not running it. If we do not get a.way from the railroad, where it is obviously sential transportation. needed, but it also raises serious ethical In this spirit, I wish to have inserted the 250,000 gallons requested by this letter, at least six of our 18 boats will be tied up. problems of possible direct or indirect viola at the conclusion of these remarks. a very Even if the seven chartered towboats can tion5 of existing laws, such as the Elkins pertinent letter written by Mr. Gresham keep running, the coal delivered in our Act, S.E.C. regulations and other laws or Houghland, of Paducah, Ky., president of barges and towed on the Green will drop at regulations involving conflicts of interests the Crounse Corp., an inland water car least 500,000 tons a month. through interlocking boards of directors. The rier. Mr. Houghland's letter dramatically The 500,000 tons of coal a month will gen cash flow and projected profits generated to portrays the fuel shortage plight of the erate approximately 1.1 billion KWH of elec the railroad companies by these non-railroad inland water transport industry within tricity a month. On a national average basis, activities often tends to mislead the invest this is enough to supply the total electrical ing public as well as the company's own the country. This industry, which utilizes requirements of a population of 1,700,000 management and board members and fur the all-important inland waterway sys people. ther obscures the actual financial state of tem, is extremely vital to the production The 500,000 tons of coal will produce about affairs until a collapse is imminent. Penn of the Nation's energy. Over 60 percent 320 times as much energy as the 250,000 gal Central has now become our classic exam of all movements on the inland water lons of diesel fuel we would burn to move it. ple of this. There is little motivation for way system are directly involved in the To prevent such a gain in available energy is management to invest money in proper rail production of energy. If inland water not a way to solve the energy crisis. maintenance or in capital rolling stock, for carriers, such as the Crounse Corp., can If we are to maintain deliveries we must example, when they can improve their near have the additional allocation no later than term reported earnings to a greater degree not obtain adequate fuel supplies to move November 8. We have no fuel except in the by investing in a realty venture to show a the raw materials which produce energy, tanks on the boats and that averages only quick profit, real or not. As a consequence, such as coal and oil, this Nation will be about a week's supply. the physical plant of American railroads has truly faced with a crisis of ever-increas To be of use to us, the fuel must be avail deteriorated and is continuing to deteriorate. ing proportions. able for direct loading in.to the boats' tanks Lack of full usage of road bed, poor service The text of Mr. Houghland's letter and all or most of it must be from a facility to the public and costly accidents are the follows: or facilities on the Ohio between the Mouth end result. Further, these companies do CROUNSE CORP., of the Green and Paducah. The facilities serious disservice to the nation by the grossly Paducah, Ky., October 29, 1793. available in this area are: inadequate manner in which they become Mr. DON HAMMONS, Mouth of Green River: Ashland. involved in the business of developing other Regional Director, Office of Oil and Gas, Re Mount Vernon, Indiana: Texaco, Indiana activities they own, control or deal in. gion IV, Atlanta, Ga. Farm Bureau. As an example of what I mean, nearly DEAR MR. HAMMONS: An immediate effect Paducah: Standard of Kentucky, Gulf, every major railroad has an "Industrial De of the fuel oil allocation order will be a Shell, Texaco, Ashland. velopment Department" which buys, devel drastic reduction in coal deliveries to electric We could use 35,000 gallons a month from ops and sells or leases real properties to rail generating plants served by our company. Standard of Kentucky at Louisville with the customers. They will claim that they always Another effect a short time later will be an balance available at one or more of the loca get the full price for these properties in each equally drastic reduction in the produ
HON. JONATHAN B. BINGHAM THE LANSCO CORP. HON. KEITH G. SEBELIUS OF NEW YORK OF KANSAS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Tuesday, November 6, 1973 HON. JOHN M. MURPHY OF NEW YORK Tuesday, November 6, 1973 Mr. BINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, as the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. SEBELIUS. Mr. Speaker, last week editorial below eloquently argues, the Tuesday, November 6, 1973 my good friend and colleague, the Hon message of the Arab oil boycott is clear. orable GARNER E. SHRIVER, placed in the First it represents a challenge to the Mr. MURPHY of New York. Mr. Speak RECORD a tribute to Mrs. Mamie Alexan United States not to capitulate to black er, one of the major problems facing New der Boyd. COngressman SHRIVER correctlY mail in its support for a beleaguered York City and other large urban centers and eloquently described Mrs. Boyd as Israel. Second, and perhaps more telling, in our Nation today is the battle to retain the "patron saint" or perhaps the "ma the boycott demonstrates the need for large businesses and leading corporations triarch" of Kansas and commended to this country to become energy independ in those communities. the attention of my colleagues three edi ent. Indeed, the survival of the cities is de torial tributes to her memory. The editorial, which appeared in to pendent in large measure on those cor I should like to join my colleague in day's edition of the Wall Street Journal, porations staying in those cities. They paying tribute to "Mamie" with an arti follows: are the root of the cities' economy; they cle written by her son, McDill "Huck" To WHAT END? mean jobs; they mean tax revenues; and Boyd. Mr. Boyd writes about the life of The Arab oil boycott is proving to have they mean stabilization. his mother in a manner that I feel has more immediate impact than many of us In light of this situation, one com meaning for all of us. The following arti expected, as Ray Vicker reports on this page mercial leasing company, the Lansco cle is a modest account of the life of today. The production cutback wtll mean Corp., has been making innovative moves inconvenience for the United States and the most widely known and loved woman quite possibly real suffering for Europe and to keep corporations in the cities, by in Kansas during the past century: Japan. Whether it will gain anything for striving for harmony between building (From the Jewell County Record and the the Arabs, though, is quite another matter. owners and their corporate tenants. Ph1111psburg County Review, October 18, The Arab world, for all its oil, is a collec The Lansco Corp., a New York-based 1973] tion of poor and backward states. The United firm has taken surveys among both MRs. FRANK W. BoYD states remains the strongest nation on earth, own~rs and tenants to determine exactly After 96 years on this earth, a bright spirit dependent on the Middle East for just a the special needs of each group. In ne flickered out early Monday morning, Oot. 15, small fraction of its lush energy consump in when Mrs. Frank W. "Mamie" Boyd died tion. Do the Arabs really believe they can gotiating leases, they have used this quietly in her sleep. dictate American foreign policy? Do they formation to conclude leases that are She had entered St. Joseph's hospital in believe there is any sort of boycott that satisfactory to both. Concordia three weeks earlier following a would force the United States to stand aside With the premise in mind that neither congestive heart attack, and while her as Israel is thrown into the sea, with all owner nor tenant can live happily in the strength had gradually ebbed away, she had the memories of Auschwitz and Buchenwald cities without the other, Lansco has remained alert. Sunday, she enjoyed visiting November 6, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 36053 family and friends, and sat up in a chair in damage had been done to the family woman president of the Kansas State Alumni her hospital room for a brief period Sunday fortuntes. Dad said "don't worry about it. Association; and editor of the "Kan sas Press night. As I said good night long after visit We'll get along"; and Mother said: "We want woman" and "National Presswoman." ing hours, a soft smile crossed her face. Three you to stay in school." Pressed for a more She was chosen "Kansan of the Year" in hours later she slipped away. definite answer, she admitted that between 1959; Boyd Hall, a women's dormitory at K Mamie Alexander Boyd, daughter of Joseph the two of them, they had $6.30--so I stayed State was named in her honor in 1960. She and Hester Alexander, was born on a farm home. was presented the distinguished service award near Humboldt, Kan., Dec. 13, 1876. Most of Everything had gone down the drain. It in journalism at K-State in 1957; and won her girlhood was spent on a farm near Welda, was necessary to let the printer~ go. There the William Allen White Award for Journal and she worked for her board and room to was no money to pay wages. Dad set the istic Merit in 1967. In 1966, she was the first go to school in Garnett. She soon earned a ads, I set the type, Mother got the news, recipient of the Emma C. McKinney award, teacher's certificate; then sold her heifer calf and between us, we got the paper out, with given annually to the most outstanding for $17.50, found a job at Manhattan and an assist from brother Bus, who was still in woman journalist among non-metropolitan enrolled at Kansas State Agricultural College. high school. newspapers by the National Newspaper As There she met Frank W. Boyd, who was Throughout all of this distressing financial sociation. In 1968, she was named "Woman also working his way through college in the period, there was never a word of complaint, of Achievement" by the National Press printing office, and they started "keeping of discontent. Mother was just happy to be women's Association. She was named "Kan company." In caring for a roommate, who working and to have the family together. sas Mother of the Year" in 1965. died of consumption, Mamie contracted the When Bus and I were married, we were At 92, she won first place in column wt·itin g disease herself, and following graduation in fortunate to choose girls who fit into this (Division 3) in the Kansas Better Newspaper 1902, went to Colorado to recuperate. Mr. mold, and they became capable newspaper contest; and at 95 she published her book: Boyd finally convinced her she could get well people in their own right. "Rode A Heifer Calf Through College," an just as fast in Phillipsburg, where he had In 1939, the newspaper operation ex achievement given special recognition with a entered the newspaper business in 1904, and panded and F. W. Boyd, Jr., became editor bronze plaque at the annaual meeting of the they were married Aug. 15, 1905. of the Jewell County Record at Mankato. Kansas Authors' Club held a week before her To this union, two sons were born: McDill When he joined the Navy, Mr. and Mrs. Frank death. and F. W. Boyd, Jr. As they matured in news Boyd assumed management and Mrs. Boyd She was a member of state advisory boards paper surroundings, both entered the family was associate editor from 1947 until her death and commissions under five state adminis partnership, one which has been continued and wrote a widely quoted column, "Main trations-Kansas State Park Board; State throughout the intervening years. It was first street." She was active in chamber of com Textbook Commission; State Advisory Com broken in 1947 when F. W. Boyd, Sr., passed merce work, a member of the Modern mission on Institutional Management; and away; and again July 15, 1972, upon the Minerva club and an honorary member of the Committee on Status of Women. death of F. W. Boyd, Jr. junior Clio club, V :F.W. Auxiliary, American She was a member of the Phillipsburg And Mamie Boyd was an active partner. Legion Auxiliary, D.A.R. and Daughters of Presbyterian church, Cultus, Domestic Sci When her first-born was old enough to trun the War of 1812. ence and B.P.W. clubs, organizer and first dle around in a baby buggy, she was Mother's most difficult period of adjust president of chapter BE of P.E.O.; past presi "gathering news"-and throughout her long ment came following the death of her life dent Sixth District Kansas Federation of and active life, "made her rounds", wrot-e her long companion. "Work and travel were my Women's Clubs; past president of the Nort h columns, and won wide acclaim as one of the only salvation" she wrote in her auto west Kansas Association of University best-known newspaperwomen of her gener biography, published in book form when she Women; and one of three winners of. gold ation. was 95. But her philosophy was strengthened medallions for 50 years of newspaper service, Her awards are legion. Her activities are presented by Theta Sigma Phi, honorary legendary, but I will remember her best for and she was able to survive the heartbreak of the death of her younger son 15 months ago journalism society for women. her sincere interest in people and her pride The list is virtually endless, carrying out in her family. with surprising inner strength. Since that time, Mrs. F. W. Boyd, Jr., has the theme of her life, as best described in Before I was old enough to go to school, the creed of the White Horse Knight, which she was teaching girls how to cook and to edited the Record. Bob Boyd and Jim Log back edit the Hill City Times, Dick Boyd hangs on the wall of her office~ sew in a volunteer class that met in her "I shall pass this way but once. Therefore home after school. She simply felt that every edits the Norton Daily Telegram. Mother continued to drive her little car, any good deed that I can do, or any kind girl should have some homemaking skills, ness that I can show to any human being, let and no such courses were offered in high "Pepper" until February of this year, when concern for her safety was voiced by the me do it now, and not defer it for I shall not school at that time. "Wayward girls" on pa pass this way again." role, found a "half-way house" in the Boyd highway patrol. She was called upon to take a home. driver's license examination. Her eyesight Let that be her epitaph. The world was As the family grew, the front yard was was failing, and the examiner, with reluc just a little bit better because she was here. cluttered with jumping standards and pits. tance, decided that it was time for her to She is survived by her son, McDill and his Neighborhood boys were welcome. When the surrender her license. She shrunk back: wife, Marie of Phillipsburg; their two daugh weather was inclement, our front room carpet "That will be the end of me," she said, and ters, Mrs. Patricia Hiss of Albuquerque, N. was available to marble players; and the big he relented: "I'll let you keep your license, Mex., and Mrs. Marcia Krauss of Grand Junc couch in the corner was pressed into service but you must have a qualified driver in the tion, Colo., and their families; her daughter for fledgling football players learning to seat by you at all times." in-law, Mrs. F. W. Boyd, Jr., of. Mankato and block. The fringe on the carpet and the frame She was content. She stfil had her license. her family: Robert A. Boyd, Hill City; Rich of the couch paid a fearful penalty, but kids But she was smart, too, and never again sat ard D. Boyd, Norton; Mrs. Frances Logback, had a warm welcome. behind the wheel of her little car. She con Hill City, and their families and Betty Boyd, When it was basketball tourne.ment time, tinued her work at the Jewell County Record Silver Spring, Md., and 12 great grandchil Mamie "kept" a team, putting pallets on the office, answering the phone, writing copy, tak dren; two sisters, Mrs. Winifred Smies floor. When it was game time for the Sunday ing subscriptions, up until the final day be Courtland; and Mrs. Howard George, Me~ School basketball team, the big old 7-pas fore her hospitalization when she attended Cune,Kans. senger Paige would accommodate them an. the K-State football game at Manhattan. Memorial services will be conducted at the When World War I came along, Mamie An avid, sports fan, she had held an hon Methodist church in Mankato at 10:30 organized a Red Cross knitting class, and orary chair in "football surveillance" in the Thursday morning and at the Presbyterian for many years afterwards, her nimble President's box at the K-State stadium for 20 church in Phillipsburg at 2:30 Thursday fingers were seldom still-making garments years, and a special seat on the floor of the afternoon. Interment will be at Fairview to give away. When one of the ladies of the fleldhouse for basketball games. She had been Cemetery in the family plot. community who "took in" washing for a an inadvertent TV star during sports broad living became ill, I was pressed into service casts time and time again, as the "little lady" to pump water from the cistern. Mother caught the roving eye of a camera. did the washing for her so she wouldn't lose As awards and recognition came her way, she retained a basic humility. She had walked T~ TALK OF IMPEACHMENT IS her customers. UNFORTUNATE She really cared about people. with the mighty; she had worked with the She organized one of the first study clubs poor, and "had learned as much from one as in Phillipsburg; was president of the first from the other." She had always regarded BPW club when it sponsored the first city herself an "ugly duckling", a throwback to HON. CHALMERS P. WYLIE library and was a member of the Library the days when she was known among school OF OHIO mates as "Alexander, the mule ski.."'lner." Board for many years. She was a member IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of the first State Crippled Children's com When people heaped praise upon her for mission; and a charter member of the first accomplishments, she would respond: "I've Tuesday, November 6, 1973 Tuberculosis Association in Kansas. just lived longer than most." Along the way, she was president of the Mr. WYLIE. Mr. Speaker, the im She did things for people. Women's Kansas Day Club; president of the pression is widespread that all segments In 1927, when I was in college, two Phillips Native Daughters of Kansas; president of the of the news media are calling for the burg banks "went broke" within a single Kansas Authors• Club; organizer and first resignation or impeachment of the Pres week. I hitchhiked home to see how much president of the Kansas Press Women; first ident. On October 23, the radio station 36054 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 6, 1973
with the largest listening audience in to check the barometers of public opin a new.ch~llenge ~ Many of us in Congress my district-WTVN-aired an editorial ion. I insert the final results of this poll came to ],mow him in the 5 years that he which I commend to my colleagues. at this point 1n the RECORD. The questions ably headed Federal liaison for the 2- THE TALK OF IMPEACHMENT Is UNFORTUNATE and the yes-and-no percentages on each year colleges, in his capacity as vice President NiXon's weekend decisions on of them follow: president for governmental affairs of the Archibald Cox and William Ruckelshaus FINAL RESULTS OF LAMAR BAKER OPINION American Association of Community & came as another surprise chapter in the POLL QUESTIONNAIRE FOR 1973 Junior Colleges, and in his equally vital endless story begun with the now-infamous [All in percent) role as president of the Committee for watergate breakin. 1. Should strikers be eligible to receive Full Funding. Now, talk of impeaching President Nixon food stamps? has sprung up in Congress, mostly from its Mr. Mensel now is the executive direc liberal members. All of this talk is unfor Yes ------20 tor of the College & University Person tunate. No ------80 nel Association-CUPA. In a recent ad 2. Should we return to mandatory wage Impeachment is considered when Congress dress to the annual meeting of CUPA and price controls on all goods and serv in Knoxville, Tenn., he explained that he suspects the President, as the Constitution ices? puts it, "of high crimes and misdemeanors." has taken on this challenge out of his We believe at this time that a move toward Yes ------56 conviction that personnel decisions and impeachment proceedings against President No ------44 personnel standards will be increasingly Nixon would be a grave mistake. Whether or 3. Would you favor U.S. assistance in re vital to the progress of higher education. not you agree with what the President did building North Vietnam? He voices the concern that personnel this past weekend, he had every right to do it. It is now up to Congress and the courts Yes ------10 development could well be a key to some to proceed With their duties in the Watergate No ------90 of the difficulties confronting higher edu affair in an intelligent manner and With fore 4. Would you support establishing some cation today. Faculty alone is not the sight to their responsibilities. conditions whereby amnesty could be ex answer to the colleges' leadership needs. tended to draft evaders? By greater emphasis on personnel and management functions, on manpower FINAL RESULTS OF THE 1973 BAKER Yes ------18 planning and staff development, the col OPINION POLL No ------82 5. Should the death penalty be selectively leges can improve their capacity to deal reinstated? with new and changing needs. I insert HON. LAMAR BAKER Mr. Mensel's remarks in the RECORD: Yes ------86 A NEWCOMER HooKS AT CUPA OF TENNESSEE No ------14 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 6. Do you consider the Watergate incident (By R. Frank Mensel, Executive Director, a reflection on the President's integrity? CUPA) Tuesday, November 6, 1973 At this point, barely three months into the Mr. BAKER. Mr. Speaker, with the 1res ------55 job, I am still more an outsider than an in help of many volunteers, my staff and I No ------45 sider to CUPA. This convention has been 7. Would you favor establishing a disaster my first opportunity to meet a broad cross have been able to complete the tabula fund financed by a surcharge on casualty in section of the constituency-outside the tion of the opinion poll mailed to my surance premiums plus a federal contribu Board itself. The plunge is proving delight constituents earlier this year. I respect tion? ful and enlightening indeed! fully direct the attention of my col I want to get my early impressions on the leagues to the position of the residents 1res ------49 record for several reasons: for review and of the Third District of Tennessee have No ------51 comparison later on-after I've gotten much taken on a wide-ranging selection of 8. Should a newsman be required to reveal deeper into what I hope will be a long and the sources of his published statements productive affiliation. A sort of taking of major issues including food stamps for where slander is involved? stock-of things as I see them at the point strikers, mandatory wage and price con of just having landed in the middle. trols, aid to North Vietnam, amnesty, the 1res ------65 I have seen educational enterprise from death penalty, impoundment of funds, No ------35 many sides. From a university public rela right to work, increase in taxes, and 9. Do you consider newspapers and TV as tions unit that was then based right in the fairly representing all sides of most news President's suite. From a working seat other issues. issues? I think that they will find it signifi among the performing arts. From Capitol cant, as I have, that there are over Yes ------33 Hlll, and most recently, from the lobbyist's No ------67 role with a great association of colleges. whelming majorities against food stamps One of my lasting impressions of the en for strikers, aid to North Vietnam, am 10. Should a non-union worker have a legal right to work on a job even though a ma terprise is that we as educators-like the in nesty for draft evaders, and a tax in jority of the workers have voted for a closed siders of most large and rather in-bred vest crease to keep Federal programs alive. shop? ed interests-have a hard time viewing our Third District voters are just as strong selves as outsiders see us. So I want to make 1n their views for selectively reinstating Yes ------67 a conscious effort to keep a larger perspec the death penalty, for protecting the No ------33 tive, and hopefully to see our work as the legal right to work, and for asking news 11. President Nixon has Withheld funds grassroots and the public might see us. which might terminate a number of federal Hopefully, these early impressions will also men to reveal their sources under cer social service prograxns. Do you approve of give us some targets. Things we can all be tain circumstances. this action? shooting at. And please feel free to take some On the question of return to manda shots at me. I very much need your help in tory wage and price controls, the vote Yes ------71 directing and redirecting our efforts. was 56 percent in favor and 44 percent No ------29 I took this job early out of the desire to opposed. On whether the Watergate is 12. Would you be willing to pay more taxes contribute to a cause I think has massive to keep all our federal prograxns intact with potential for higher education. sue is a reflection on the integrity of the out increasing the federal deficit? President, 55 percent voted ''yes" with I took this job because I believe the per sonnel function looxns increasingly large to 45 percent registering "no." The votes 1res ------13 the future and the progress of higher edu were evenly divided on whether a disas No ------87 cation. And, I am tempted to say-to its sur ter fund should be established by placing vival. a surcharge on casualty insurance pre FRANK MENSEL DISCUSSES "PER I see two great dimensions to the expan miums--49 percent voted "yes"; 51 per SONNEL-THE AWAKENING CAM sion of your role. The one probably giving cent "no." The vote on the question of PUS PRIORITY'' you the most pressure right now centers on fairness in the news media shows that federal standards. Right? The individual only 33 percent feel that newspapers and safeguards that were bound one day to flow TV fairly represent all sides on most HON. JAMES G. O'HARA from constitutional roots. As you sweat these standards through in news issues. OF MICHIGAN your own shops, I hope you can see and grasp Mr. Speaker, I am grateful for there IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the added measure of stature they give your sponse to my 1973 opinion poll ques Tuesday, November 6, 1973 function. Suddenly you emerge-or should tionnaire. These expressions of opinion emerge-as the resident expert on affirmative are not only helpful to me in my con Mr. O'HARA. Mr. Speaker, a well action, equal pay, labor relations, human sideration of these issues, but they are knowr spokesman for higher education, rights, safety and health standards. also helpful to those whose business it is R. Frank Mensel, recently has taken on The second dimension I see as still larger November 6, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 36055 . . . the function of adviser and broker (I We walt on outside gifts to start some pieces (faculty, materials, promotion, etc.) of use the word advisedly) of human resources. thing important. If the priority is high, then 24 seminars in one season-but that's the In all the progress, technology and com we ought to drop lesser priorities, and re camel we're riding right now. 0! course, in plexity that the campus has helped to gener structure resources in-house to make it go. some, the registration may not prove suffi ate, the operation itself grows more and more Staff development might be such a priority. cient to do them at all. But I'll tell you this complicated. The college must search harder Surely you can help build the priority we'll go just as far as your needs demand. for identity and mission. It must start with a making and decision-making processes in Your board is taking a strong interest in complete rundown of its own resources. your institution. As I've already stressed, we some new ciirections. We'd like to be more Above all else, that means the human re can't afford to have our institutions take us flexible in our seminar programming, and sources. I don't mean faculty alone. And I for granted. More important, they can't af try perhaps some variations like these: don't mean faculty first, and staff second. ford it. The present three-day format for the in I wish I had time to tell you how much I Please understand I am not unaware of tensive, in-depth seminars compressed into think higher education has hurt itself his some of the booby-traps in these ideas. There two days. Maybe start Sunday night, in torically by such a double standard, or in will be those who will resent our filling formally, as we do now, then go hard Monday ternal caste system. I only think that you vacuums-though they would never raise a and Tuesday rather than stretch through at least some of you-have hurt yourselves by hand to fill them. And we may bump heads Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. accepting that system. The human resource in a few places, or step on a corn now and Intensive, single-issue, one-day seminars, at managers, the personnel leadership, should then. a much lower fee. Drive-in seminars, so to be the last to accept lt. And any who accept We can help each other. That's why we're speak-likely geared chiefly to state or met it now are, I feel, a party to further institu here. ropolitan groups. Of course, this kind of tional crisis and possible decline. It bothers me that CUPA's membership iS treatment might also be adaptalle to the I hope each of us can take a more global as small as it is. Not because I shrink at regiol"lal meetings. view of our work, and develop an understand the building job ahead. But because again it I see these largely as custom workshops ing of just how much our campus and the may be symptomatic of self-image-of atti that in effect you design. You call us and tell community need our human resources tudes. us what's worrying ymrr group-and we bring leadership. If only every other institution and its per you the best experts in the land on that These are the most troubled days higher sonnel staff belong to the primary national problem. education has faced in a long time. network in the campus personnel field, then Incidentally, your responses to our recent Many of its problems-perhaps nearly all at least some personnel leaders must still be membership ne~s survey clearly show that trace i.n whole or in part to staffing needs, or asking themselves, "Does the personnel func the one-day shot, the drive-in workshop is management gaps. Some of the problems tion have-do I have-a place in national could be less acute, others might never have something a lot of you would like us to try. affairs?" My answer, and yours, is an em There's another workshop we want to try arisen, if the institutions had given more phatic yes. attention to staff selection and development, this year. And your Board has given us the One target then is more converts. Member green-light. It will be a national workshop, and to organization and management. Chal ship growth, and service growth, can only lenges and crises crowding our schools today hopefully next spring-on federal standards go hand in hand. A couple of yardsticks come and national trends. that might have been blunted by better quickly to mind. manpower planning and staffing include, to It would be a two-day, or two-and-a-half With some 1,200 two-year colleges flourish day affair. The panels would run in depth, name a few- ing in the land, why do only 105 belong to Community relations and student tension and would be repeated, so that you as audi CUPA? If there ever was and is an institution ence can rotate t') cover your key concerns. (image or credibillty gaps). where the staffing development, the human Budget squeezes ·(the support gaps). The panels would give you a direct crack at resources . . . the personnel function . . . is the highest authorities in the land in these Faculty unrest and unionization. the very soul of the operation, it is the Compliance pressures on federal standards, critical areas-equal pay, affirmative action, including affirmative action, equal pay, community college. safety and health, unemployment compensa- - If a service like the College Entrance Ex safety and health. tion, manpower planning, impending legisla My list is hardly inclusive. Each of you amination Board, whose leadership and pro tion. could add a score of your own problems. gram I incidentally very much admire, yet We can do it for a modest registrat.wn, per Each of you ought to have such a list, and whose work focuses essentially on student haps $50. And that would include two you ought to ponder very carefully the per standards and testing functions, can enroll luncheons. We can do it because we would some 1,800 institutional members, then expect a substantial turnout, and also be sonnel needed to handle each problem. surely the personnel leadership can do at It is my conviction that, solicited or un cause many of our experts are right there in solicited, you should be running personnel least as well. the federal agencies. You could bring along projections on some of these obvious needs My personal goal for 1975-76 is 1,500 mem some of your top administrators who badly for your administration. Perhaps it's the bers. We're pushing 900 right now as against need schooling on these issues. purist instincts of the profession, but I 833 last year. As we move to 1,500 and on to There are other development possibilities think educators often think they should 2,000, we'll more than double our present the Board, and the Long-Range Planning wait to be asked to do a job that obviously staff. Triple it in fact. And we'll then have Committee, want to look at. belongs in their hands. our own in-house faculty on some of the We hope foundation help can be found to If the personnel administrators would fly pressures that pinch us most--labor rela help CUPA build a personnel development in the face of some of the campus drift they tions; federal standards; new legislation, etc. institute, to tackle the broad staff develop see around them, they would win peer rank A tiny crew of four in the washington ment challenges we've talked about. in the system, and achieve the recognition office can't make the push alone. I think Such an institute potentially could evolve long overdue for our function, far faster every State ought to have a CUPA chapter. into several centers. One perhaps in Wash than we ever will by turning out scholarly I don't say this idly. To help, I would like to ington, D.C. focusing on the national goals publications. get every State in the span of the next two and the national standards impacting in One of the ironies I bump into all too years. In other words, I will try to respond stitutions. Another geared to the special staff often in higher education is that tendency, to every invitation that offers a gathering of ing problems and training needs of senior when thinking of development, to think your personnel leadership-whether it be the colleges. Another keyed to the needs of com first of outside resources. Of federal grants. annual meeting of a chapter, a meeting to munity colleges. They could build intensive Or contracts with industry. Or alumni gifts. form a chapter, or simply some annual social, one- and two-week COl.U"ses for renewal and Or foundations. luncheon or dinner that draws our clan to improvement of personnel officers and other The first and foremost resource of any gether. professional staff. college-always has been and always will I believe it is as much in the interest of The Board likes, too, the idea of a CUPA be-is its own people. The human resources! your own communications, and professional National Advisory Council, to help the Asso And I mean the total manpower-staff, fac development, as in the interest of CUPA ciation develop projects of this kind, and to ulty, and administration. When the insti growth, that you promote such gatherings. help bring the management strength of in tution builds a development plan, or thinks Some of our friends in the Pacific North dustry and the community to bear on campus of new projects, that is the first ingredient west are pushing the idea of a new CUPA problems. it should catalog. region there, and we will give them all the We need to explore thoroughly the Inter And you, the personnel administrator, help we can. governmental Personnel Act. Campus leaders should be front and center with that Not only do we want to gear this annual hardly begin to participate as broadly as contribution. International Conference more heavily to they should in the kinds of personnel ex A related tendency that often hurts higher issues, work, and expert people, I want to changes that offer management experience education is that of waiting to reshape pro encourage the same thrust in the regional in another setting. This great Act is in grams, or offer new services, until new re meetings. I think we can be a resource to you tended to foster just such professional sources are first in hand. You can spot it in these programs. Certainly that is one of growth. when someone says, "we could do that, if our functions as a Washington base. We'll These are just a few of the prospects and we just had a grant." On most campuses track the best talent available, if you simply the challenges we want to close ranks with there 1s not enough concerted effort to spell ask us to help. you in pursuing. We can't let personnel play out and map out the service mission of the I can't tell you entirely where or how far a back-seat role-and still meet the tests institution, then fix goals, priorities, and we'll go with our seminar series. I just don't that now confront higher education. The deadlines. think a tiny staff can qt;:ite carry all the possibilities ahead are great. That goes !or 36056 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 6, 1973 all of us. Give us your ideas. I think you thrust of Federal funding needs to be altered 3. Evaluating proposals. can see that I a.m excited at the prospects, drastically to be effective. J. There are more paraprofessionals and happy to be on board. I wish in no way to detract from the many (aides). fine Federally funded projects that have K. There are more guidance counselors. AN EDUCATOR'S VIEW OF FEDERAL been executed, but it is important to remem WHO HAS BENEFITTED FROM FEDERAL FUNDING EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE ber that the results of these projects have DURING THE PAST 14 YEARS? not entered the educational mainstream. A. Science and language laboratory Since 1959 the Federal government has furniture companies. helped fund elementary and secondary edu B. Science equipment compainies. HON. ROBERT J. HUBER cation. OF MICHIGAN c. Audio-Visual companies, in both hard A. Because of certain historic events, legis and soft ware. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES lation was enacted to improve the teaching D. Map and globe companies. Tuesday, November 6, 1973 of science, mathematics, and modern foreign E. Book publishers. languages. F. Teachers who received subsidized Mr. HUBER. Mr. Speaker, recently in B. Later legislation was enacted to provide education. the mail, I received a pamphlet from funds for teaching "disadvantaged" children, G. Those who were added to the payrolls the National Advisory Council on Sup both those in. school and those not yet of of H.E.W., universities and colleges, and traditional school age. ;plementary Centers and Services en school systems to write, review, and evaluate C. Funds were made available to improve proposals. titled "Innovative Education Practices." libraries and classroom materials and equip This booklet lists a number of projects H. Those who were added to payrolls of ment in. certain academic areas. school districts as aides, extra teachers, that have been developed under the D. More funding was made available for clerks, and those who worked on summer auspices of title ill of the Elementary "innovative" projects and to help State De projects generated by Federal funds. and Secondary Education Act of 1965. partments of Education hire additional staff I. Even though schools are in existence for Since the House Education and Labor to provide more "services" and to help decide one purpose-to educate young people to the which "innovative" proposals to fund. Committee, on which I serve, is presently limit of their potentials, one is hard pressed E. More recently, the Congress has provided (some say it is impossible) to demonstrate marking up the bill to extend this pro funds for such diverse areas as: gram, I thought it would be worthwhile any lasting benefits to students because of 1. Guidance. Federal funding of elementary and secondary to bring to the attention of my colleagues 2. Handicapped. education. some of the activities that are being sup 3. Career education. ported by the Federal tax dollar. 4. "Drug'' education. WHERE DID WE GO WRONG? After one has seen what some of these 5. Humanities. A. Nothing has been done to radically 6. Etc., etc. change the curriculum! The same basic con projects are, one is inclined to wonder in WHAT HAVE THESE FUNDINGS ACCOMPLISHED? tent is taught 1973 that was taught in what will be gained by the further Fed 1959 (or perhaps 1949, or even 1939). eral financing of elementary and sec Do research data exist that demonstrate B. The "teaching" process is basically un ondary education. Senator GEORGE Mc on a. large scale : changed from 1959? GoVERN recently sent me a critique on A. Improved teaching? C. Pre-service teacher education, for the Federal educational assistance prepared B. Improved learning? most part, still operates in the isolation of C. A more intelligent, humane, and in departments of education. by T. C. Tollefson, director of secondary formed citizenry? D. A secondary school student still chooses education, Sioux Falls Independent D. More interest and higher achievement from a "menu" of from between 60-400 School District, Sioux Falls, S.Dak. Al in science, xnathema.tics, or foreign lan courses, depending on the size of his school. though Mr. Tollefson believes in Federal guages? His education is fragmented. funding on a much larger scale-a point E. More "innovative" approaches to teach E. For the most part the student is forced I ing and learning throughout the U.S.? into a. "book" oriented process and an with which disagree-he also believes, F. More attention to individual differences, as do I, that the thrust of Federal fund atmosphere of "middle class" values. especially to very talented, highly motivated F. Foreign language enrollments are ing must be drastically altered to be and extremely intelligent young people? dropping. effective. Mr. Tollefson, in his study, G. A shift in teacher orientation from a. G. Fewer students choose science electives asks, ''Who has benefited from Federal "teaching" role toward a. "management" than in 1959. funding; that is, of education-during and/or "facilitator" role. I submit we went wrong when the assump the past 14 years?" His answers are worth What improvements have been generated tion was made that more books, more hard noting. AB Mr. Tollefson puts it, those by fourteen years of accelerated Federal ware, more soft ware, and more semester funding? What changes are evident?· If hours for teachers would improve education. who have gained the most are those who 1,000 randomly selected teachers in 1959 had were added to the payrolls of HEW, been carefully observed for a. period of one universities, colleges, and school systems "INNOVATIVE EDUCATION PRACTICES"-A GUIDE week and then observed again in. 1973, is TO ESEA TITLE m PROGRAMS to write, review, and evaluate proposals; to anyone willing argue that the 1973 re DEVELOPING CURRICULA FOR EDUCATION OF teachers who received subsidized educa ports would show significant improvements YOUTH IN MEETING MODERN PROBLEMs-THE tion; those who were added to the pay of the 1959 reports? CONSTRUCTIVE CONTROL OF AGGRESSIVE BE rolls of school districts as aides, extra There have been changes during the past HAVIOR fourteen years that are observable, measure- teachers, clerks; those who worked on able, and widespread: • The basic objective of the project was to summer projects generated by Federal A. There is an increase of audio-visual ma prepare curricular materials that would as funds; science and language laboratory terials and equipment. sist students to develop a process for deter furniture companies and many others B. There are more books in libraries. Inining social and human values and to de who are enumerated in the article that C. There are more and updated maps and velop attitudes involved in the constructive globes. control of aggressive behavior. Meaningful follows. attitudinal and behavioral objectives were Mr. Tollefson then presents his ideas D. There is more science equipment and furniture. developed at each level and the project staff on the best solution to ESEA funding. E. There are more language laboratories was to prepare a sequence of learning ex Since the first part of his report, how and accompanying soft ware. periences designed to achieve these objec ever, raises some excellent points about F. There are many schools with fewer walls tives. The curriculum dealt with the nature what has already transpired with Fed and more carpet. of frustrations, procedures for constructively eral funding, I would like to insert it in G. More teachers have Masters degrees and resolving them, and the process of making the RECORD for the sertous consideration Masters plus 30, especially in science, mathe decisions in terms of effects of various matics, and foreign languages. courses of action on human development. As of my colleagues. This, together with the the curriculum was developed, it was tried listing of some various ESEA title m H. More university and college professors in the classroom, tested for effectiveness a.nd programs certainly must give one pause receive a. portion of their salaries from Fed- eral funds, especially those 1n science, revised on the basis of the results o! the as to the benefits of extending this legis mathematics, and foreign languages. testing. Grade level: 1-12. John R. Rowe, Co lation: ordinator; 16600 Hilliard Road, Lakewood, I. Many new jobs have been generated: Ohio 44107; (216 579-4267). No. 102 A CRITIQUE OF 14 YEARS OF FEDERAL F'UND:ING l.InHEW. FOR E~NTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS 2. In regional offices. DECISION MAKING THROUGH INQUIRY AND A PROPOSAL FOR AN IMPROVED METHOD 3.ln State Departments of Education. This project placed emphasis on teaching OF FUND:IN~ 4. In universities and colleges. students to utilize skills of inquiry in the The title of this piece and what follows 5. In school districts. social studies. Teaching units prepared by should not be interpreted a.s a. diatribe These new jobs usually cluster around the project staff provided vehicles such as against Federal funding. I believe in Federal three major thrusts: role-playing; simulation games; pictorial, funding a.t a. much larger scale than is now, 1. Writing proposals. site, and artifact analysis; and data. gather or has been, practiced; but I also believe the 2. Reading proposals. ing for implementing inquiry skills. Pilot November 6, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 36057 centers for the evaluation of social studies hour weekly class session. After the lunch The Francis Howell Marching Vikings instruction were organized and workshop hour, the staff drives the bus to another stop took first place at the first annual Great sessions were conducted to improve effective within the community where the pattern is er E1t. Louis Marching Band Festival, ness in the use of procedures and resources. repeated. This schedule operates four da.ys a The interest and enthusiasm of outside re week, with the fifth day reserved for inservlce which is held in conjunction with the source personnel were encouraged to fur training of all staff members. Each unit has Washington University, University of ther supplement and enrich the program. a teacher who serves as leader of the three which is held in conjunction with the Director; Carrcroft Elementary School, member team and works for one hour with Missouri, and the Veiled Prophet Parade Grade level: 1-6. Lucille K. Sherman, Project each group of children. A classroom aide in St. Louis. They took second place in Mount Pleasant School District, Wilmington, acquaints the adults with the materials and the field competition, finishing four Delaware 19803; (302 762-6110x217). No. 85 concepts introduced to the children, as well points behind the Poplar Blu1I High A COUNTY TRAINING PROGRAM IN BEHAVIOR as the games, puzzles, toys, and construction School from Poplar Blu1I, Mo. MODIFICATION projects which they are to share with their children during the week. The third mam In the Washington, Mo. marching This project offers training in behavior ber of the team is a community worker who band competition a week later, the How modification techniques to teachers, other serves as the liaison between the home and ell Marching Vikings came away with professional staff members, paraprofessionals, the school. She enrolls children and pa1ents, first place trophy in parade marching and parents. The approach is based on the interpreting the program to them; contacts and second place in field competition. assumption that behavior is learned as a persons who serve as resource speakers at the function of its consequences. If these con For the second consecutive year, the regular monthly parent meetings; arranges Lead Banner Carriers and their Porn sequences are restructured, students will for children's attendance at immunization change self-defeating behavio1·s and learn clinics; and assists parents in making con Porn Corps received the "Outstanding productive ones. Training is carried out tact with various social service agencies. For Band Front" trophy at Central Metho through inservice workshops which combine each child the basic goal is to acquire those dist College in Fayette, Mo. The band lectures, task group activities, role-playing, concepts, perceptions, meanings, and feelings took second place honors in overall com and videotape demonstrations. Trainees which will prepare him for learning how to petition. leal"'l basic reinforcement principles, specific learn, explore, understand, and manage him applications, criteria for devising and eval We Missourians are proud of the good self and his environment. For each parelllt the sportsmanship that was displayed and uating interventions, and tools for analyzing most important objective is to acquire new their own behavior as well as that of understandings, deeper knowledge, and a the outstanding p1ide these young men their students. Grade level: K-12, Barbara commitment for guiding the growth of the and women have in their music and Pentre and Hilde We1sert, Project Directors; child. Age level: 3-4. Carrie B. Dawson, Proj presentation. Palisades Park Schools, 249 Leonia Avenue, ect Director; School City of Gary, 620 East Bogota, New Jersey 07603; (201 487-2707) . lOth Place, Gary, Indiana. 46402; (219 886- No.5 3111). No. 64 ELil\UNATE BUZZER SYSTEMS PARENT-PARTNERS TRAINEESHIP-PPT PARENT READINESS EDUCATION PROJECT Parent-Partners Traineeship (PPT) is an The Parent Readiness Education Project is experimental investigation of the premise an effort to ameliorate the deficiencies of HON. JAMES M. COLLINS that parental involvement is a motivating high-risk preschool children by training par influence on a child's school success. ents to become change agents and enrich OF TEXAS Through a traineeship which includes their home environments and interactions IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES seminars, a pract1cum, and an open with their children. The first objective of Tuesday, November 6, 1973 education laboratory, parents are in the program is to identify children with po cluded in meaningful participation in class tential learning probleins and develop a plan Mr. COLLINS of Texas. Mr. Speaker, room prograinB. Staff configuration focuses of intervention. All children are tested dur more and more I am hearing from the on the parent-partner, a volunteer member ing the year prior to kindergarten entrance, of the school staff. who is regularly scheduled folks at home who do not want the auto and preference for admission in selection was buzzer. Why should we demand that 1n the school for one day a week. The parent give to children with younger siblings. Forty receives a stipend, which serves both as an eight children attend class once a week while each driver be forced to wear equipment incentive and as an indication that such their mothers attend a separate class. Class which in certain accidents will be fatal services are valued. The educational ell room activities and prescriptive home activ to him. In America we founded . our mate of the project evolved as a natural spin ities are selected in Expressive Langugge, country on freedom of the individual, off, with the presence of the parent-partner Visual Skills, Auditory Skills, Small Muscle and not on the idea that the bureaucrats felt in subtle ways. An atmosphere of accept Coordination, Large Muscle Coordination, ance and mutual trust is evident in the class in Washington know how you should live Enhancing the Self-Concept, and the World from sunup to sundow. rooinB. Phyllis Hobson, Project Director; Around Us. A second goal is to teach parents Maude Aiton Elementary School, 533 48th how to develop in their children the skills I want to add another followup on my Place, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20019; (202 necessary for future acadeinic achievement previous reports on the interlock seat 396-4316/629-6971). No. 14 through specific activities and an enriched belt harness buzzer system. SOLVE environment. Mothers attend classes one A Canadian study shows seat belts and Project SOLVE was conceived out of a need morning each week and help with daily home shoulder harnesses could be dangerous. to investigate how architecturally open fa assignments, and both parents attend a series The preceding sentence is the headline cilities could better meet individualization of evening parent group meetings with a so in the excellent article which was news of instruction and to organize varying ap cial worker. Parents are encouraged to help release No. 23, by the National Motor proaches to staff development utilizing con develop positive self-concepts and a "can ceptual models of cooperative teaching. Five do'' attitude. The third project goal is to Vehicle Safety Foundation, Inc., of Lee, schools from different districts consolidated train high school students for their future N.H. You will be interested in reading and served as a base of investigation for this roles as parents through practical experi some sections of this factual report: effort. Based on a mathematics program that ences in working with preschool children. AUTO BUZZER was skills-oriented and behavloralized, a sys Diane K. Bert, Project Director; Redford Un Legislation requiring automobile drivers to teiUS approach to curriculum development ion School District, 18499 Beech Daly Road, wear seat belts and shoulder harnesses was designed as a document for use by the Detroit, Michigan 48240; (313 535-2000 x 201). No. 67 would be a "waste of time and could be staff in planning a total school program. An dangerous," says a professor at the University evaluation indicated that the project's inno of Toronto in Canada. Patrick Foley, indus vativeness had a various range of effects on trial engineering professor, commented on students. Removal of undesirable behavior TRIDUTE TO FRANCIS HOWELL proposed laws now under discussion for adop patterns greatly reduced disciplinary meas MARCHING VIKINGS tion requiring that car users "buckle-up" or ures. Eliminating the causes of frustration pay a fine. created an atmosphere of relaxation and Commenting on Professor Foley's stand on spread enthusiasm for learning. Grade level: HON. WILLIAM L. HUNGATE the "seat-belt" matter, A. J. White, director K-12. Glendon C. Belden, Project Director; OF MISSOURI of Motor Vehicle Research of New Hampshire 37 Pleasant Street, Concord, New Hampshire IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES said, "It is indeed refreshing to see data 03301; (603 224-9461). No. 19 Tuesday, November 6, 1973 backed by actual real-life research in this ESEA TITLE m PARENT-CHILD MOBILE era of time when so-called consumer advo CLASSROOMS Mr. HUNGATE. Mr. Speaker, I wish to cates and misguided agencies are claiming The classrooiUS on wheels are van-type call to the attention of my colleagues the that the world can be saved i:f certain un proven actions are made mandatory by law." housemoblles which make two stops dally. Francis Howell Marching Vikings of During the first hour o! the morning, 20 Weldon Springs, in St. Charles County, White further stated, "Car buyers are be three-year-olds and their parents come :for sieged with claims that they can save their Mo., which has brought home three first lives by buying and using "sa!ety devices" instruction. After their departure, 20 four place and four second place trophies which are, in fact, dangerous. It is time that year-olds and their parents arrive for a one- within a 3-week period. advocators be held strictly accountable when 36058 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 6, 1973 such devices are used and the persons who be the special prosecutor in the Water Make me a special prosecutor, and I'll use them suffer injuries or death. gate case. Everyone seems to take for haul old Sanctimonious Sam Ervin into court Professor Foley initiated a study of seat -and ask him to explain every campaign dona belts and shoulder harness for "wear-ab1lity" granted that the regular local district tion he ever received. Maybe he'd come up using a team of fourth year students who court prosecutor should not pursue the With a satisfactory explanation for every used 3 imported cars and seven North Ameri case. I really do not understand the rea dime, but who would ever remember that can built cars of various sizes. soning. when it was all over? All they'd ever remem The results of this study indicated that ber were the news accounts that Sam Ervin many drivers, especially small people, could Many cases of notoriety have occurred was being investigated .for alleged irregular not easily reach important car controls while in recent days and years and so far as I ities in campaign funding. It's the old "where wearing shoulder harnesses. The team con know, the regular prosecutor performed there's smoke there's fire" syndrome. cluded that some women would not be able well. No, we don't need any more prosecutors. to start their cars. The group tested two In this regard. I ask my colleagues to Matter of fact, we don't need any more law women, one representing the 5 percent of the read an article from the Cincinnati En yers riding the Watergate gravy train on female population and the other, the aver both sides of the fence. I'm up to here with age female. They used a male subject repre quirer written by Bob Brumfield. lawyers. Everywhere you look there's another senting the tallest 5 percent of the male WHO NEEDS A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR? lawyer. Lawyers, reporters. commentators and population. (By Bob Brumfield) news analysts. There are just too many of us, The subjects were instructed to manipulate W~th an due respect to the executive, leg and most of us don't know what the hell the controls of each car while strapped into islatlve and judicial branches of government we're talking a.bout half the time. Sheesh, -standard seat belts in various models. (which is precious little, in my opinion), I "
tion, an'd the Attorney General of the (b) Upon request of the special prosecutor, NO CONDESCENSION United States. the head of any Federal agency shall: ( 1) The Lehman program, in terms of content, In order to encourage a broad partici detail, on a reimbursable basis, any of the may not be much different from those pro pation in the selection process, this reso personnel of such agency; and (2) provide vided the community by other CUNY units. any·relevant information or materials, to the But it is unique in one important respect: it lution calls for reaching out to our Na special prosecutor to assist him in carrying casually brings neighborhood people, many tion's leading bar associations in pro out his duties under this Act. of the retired, onto the campus to participate viding the three-man committee with SEc. 3. All materials, tapes, documents, With undergraduates and faculty at regularly nominees for the position of special files, work in process, information and all scheduled intellectual events. In short, this prosecutor. other property of whatever kind and descrip Is one community cultural affairs program It is important to note that this bill tion relevant to the duties enumerated in free of any taint of condescension. Section 2 hereof, tangible or intangible, col And what are these cultural events? One insulates against the possibility of any lected by, developed by, or in the possession arbitrary dismissal of the special prose day it may be an all-Beethoven concert by of the former Special Prosecutor or his staff the Gramercy String Quartet, the college's cutor by limiting removal from office to established pursuant to regulation by the resident ensemble composed of members of "gross impropriety, gross misconduct, Attorney General (28 C.F.R 0. 37, rescinded the New York Philharmonic. The next day it gross dereliction of duty, or for violation October 24, 1972), shall be delivered into may be a talk by scientist-author Rene of this act," possession of the Special Prosecutor ap Dubos, or a discourse on acting by Vivec The American people demand and de pointed under this Act. Lindfors, or a meeting with any one of the serve the continuation of a vigorous and SEc. 4. (a) The special prosecutor shall be scores of visiting lecturers brought onto the independent investigation of the Water compensated at the rate provided for levelll campus throughout the academic year by of the Executive Schedule under Section the college's departments. gate affair. Shaken faith in our coequal 5313 of Title 5, United States Code. The program started modestly five years system of government, precipitated by (b) the special prosecutor may appoint ago, shortly after Lehman separated from the events of the past few weeks, man and fix the salaries of such staff as he deems Hunter, when the Department of Classical date congressional action providing for necessary to assist him in performing his and Oriental Languages introduced its an exhaustive, unfettered investigation duties under this Act. "Classics of the Western World" series fea SEc. 6. The special prosecutor may be re turing noted visiting scholars. of any illegal activity, bringing to justice moved from office by the Attorney General all of the guilty. of the United States for gross impropriety, VISITORS LIMITED In the interests of the Nation's wel gross misconduct, gross dereliction of duty, The series, offering discussions of the clas fare, it is incumbent upon Congress to or for violation of this Act, but for no other sics of antiquity by such academic all-stars respond to those we represent, seeking cause, or by the Congress pursuant to Ar as Bernard M. W. Knox of Harvard, George the means for bringing about a just reso ticle 11, section 4 of the Constitution. The Luck of Johns Hopkins, and Robert T. Fortna lution to this corrosive affair which has Attorney General shall give 30 days no of Vassar, initially permitted a limited num plagued our country for too many tice in writing to the Congress of his inten ber of visitors from neighboring schools and tion to remove the special prosecutor, set colleges to audit the lectures. months. ting forth in detail the grounds for such Three years ago, The New York Times sent Accordingly, I urge my colleagues to removal. Upon giving of such notice the At a reporter to the college to scout the series. support this resolution providing the torney General may suspend the special The result was a feature story of the "Gosh legislative authority for the office of spe prosecutor and dismissal shall be finally Gee-Whiz-Culture-Is-Alive-in-the-Bronx (of cial prosecutor. effective 30 days thereafter. all places!) type." Mr. Speaker, I respectfully request That was the starting whistle for a leisur~ citizen stampede of the campus. Calls and that the text of the resolution follow my letters came from all over the metropolitan remarks in this portion of the CoNGREs area--Junior Leaguers from Greenwich, SIONAL RECORD: LEHMAN COLLEGE: A CULTURAL Conn., grey-haired men and women from the H.J. RES.-- AND CIVIC CREDIT TO THE Amalgamated Union's Housing Co-op, River To provide for the appointment of a special COMMUNITY dalians, promenaders from the Grand Con· prosecutor to investigate and prosecute course, and residents of Washington Heights. any offense arising out of campaign activi There was even an elderly Wall Streeter, for ties with respect to the election in 1972 HON. JONATHAN B. BINGHAM a time, who commuted to the college by for the office of President OF NEW YORK chauffered limousine. Be it enacted by the Senate and House IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES PATRONS INFORMED of Representatives of the United States of Tuesday, November 6, 1973 The public's clamor for an opportunity to America in Congress assembled, That (a) the participate in Lehman's intellectual life led President shall, with the advice and consent Mr. BINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, Herbert to the compilation of a cultural-events mail of the Senate, appoint a special prosecutor H. Lehman College in my district is one ing list of nearly 1,000 individuals and orga of the United States (hereinafter in this of the fine institutions that make up the nizations who are periodically informed of Act referred to as the "special prosecutor") City University of New York-CUNY. upcoming campus events. from a list of not more than three individuals Lehman College has embarked on a pro The popularity and success of the classics nominated for such appointment by a com series led to a sequel, "From the Renaissance mittee comprised of the Chief Justice of the gram to bring lectures, special events, On," With lecturers from Lehman's Depart United States Supreme Court, the President and concerts to the campus for the bene ments of English, Germanic and Slavic Lan of the American Bar Association, and the fit of the student population and the guages, and Romance Languages. It, too, is a Attorney General of the United States of general public. A special aspect of the hit With regular campus visitors. In fact, re America. Lehman cultural arts program is its in cently when Dr. Leonard Lief, president of (b) The American Bar Associaion, the volvement of the public with the school's the college and a professor of English, deliv American Trial Lawyers Association, the intellectual community-faculty and ered the lecture on Shakespeare's "Henry Association of American Law Schools, the IV," he spoke to a packed hall of 70 students National District Attorneys Association and students. and almost as many people from the neigh the National Bar Association shall submit a This program is described in the fol borhood. Latecomers were forced to sit in the list of not more than three nominees to the lowing article appearing in the Cuny aisles-and they did. committee not later than 15 days after the Courier on November 1: NOT PASSIVE OR UNCRITICAL date of the enactment of this Act. LEHMAN'S CULTURAL PROGRAMS REACH OuT The audiences are not passive. One elderly (c) This committee, upon receiving the TO COMMUNITY gentleman predictably pops up at the end lists from those organizations specified in Take it from Mrs. Fanny Kaplan of the of every string quartet concert and shouts, Section 1, subsection (b) of this Act, Will se Bronx, there's an intellectual Olympics go "Bravo." They're not uncritical, either. One lect and nomin.a.te three individuals for the ing on at Herbert H. Lehman College in the woman at the end of each academic year position of special prosecutor and submit form of lectures, special events, and concerts writes a thank-you letter that includes marks their nominations to the President within for the benefit of the public as well as reg for the speaker-"fair," "good," "excellent," twenty-five days folloWing the enactment of istered students. and "superb." Another visitor asked that one this Act. Mrs. Kaplan, a retired schoolteacher, is one speaker not get another invitation because SEc. 2. (a) The special prosecutor shall of several hundred citizens from the Lehman "he dragged in too much sex." have primary authority to prosecute any environs who stroll onto the campus several But, in general, these members of the offense against the United States: (1) arising days a week to attend what are generally audience appreciate what they are getting out of the unauthorized entry into Demo- called Lehman's cultural events. They are an for free. And no wonder. In the past year cratic National Committee Headquarters at enthusiastic and appreciative crowd. they've had a chance to hea,r novelist Kath the Watergate; (2) arising out of any cam "Let's face it," says Mrs. Kaplan, "We're a erine Anne Porter read from her own works, paign with respect to the election in 1972 little like the GI's who returned to school Eubie Blake give his ragtime lecture-concert, for the office of President. after World War II-we're highly motivated." Anthony Burgess talk about how Americans 36072 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS Novernber 6, 1973 are killing English {the language, that is), STATEMENT jobbers and distributors in the State of Barbara Ward discuss the plight of the un "Events of recent weeks have magnified Wisconsin. derdeveloped nctions, Israeli poet T. Carmi the tragic error of the Supreme Court's abor A total of 452 of the 800 independent discuss modern Hebrew literature. Others tion opinions of January 22, 1973. dealers of petroleum products returned who were heard were lexicographer Clarence "In California, an obstetrician is charged L. Barnhart, Spanish novelist Juan Goytisolo, with solicitation to commit murder because a questionnaire from my office. The pur pianist Beveridge Webster, not to mention he ordered that oxygen be withheld from pose of the questionnaire was to de dozens of other topical or cult ural presenta an infant that survived abortion. The infant termine how recent shortages have af tions. is alive today because the nurse refused to fected ·wisconsin's independent dealers GENERATION GAP NARROWED obey the doctor's order. In the court, the and ultimately consumers. The relationship between the community doctor's lawyer argued that the doctor is Ninety-seven percent of Wisconsin's visitors and regular Lehman undergraduatJs not guilty because he complied with the independent petroleum dealers and dis can best be described as respectful. Most of California abortion law which allows abor• tributors have been foroed to accept the visitors come to the college dressed in tions up till 22 weeks. However, the child allocations of fuel oil, gasoline, and pro tailored suits. Most Lehman students do not. was 32 or 33 weeks along-eight months Yet, when speakers call for questions or com when the abortion was performed. The doc pane from major oil companies. ments from the floor, students listen atten tor also defends himself by pleading that no The fact that 97 percent of the dealers tively to the viewpoin ts of their elders-and one told him the child was born normal. who responded to the questionnaire have vice versa. When a black Vietnam veteran "The reasons that a doctor can claim legal been forced to accept allocations demon spoke of his war experiences at a session with innocence for destroying a living child can strates the seriousness of the current CUNY Distinguished Professors Eric Wolf and be found in Justice Blackmun's abortion crunch. Allocations below 100 percent Hans J. Morgenthau, L.e was applauded by opinion (Doe v. Bolton): 'the medical judg result in the reduction of the total the senior citizens. ment may be exercised in the light of all amount of petroleum products that a If anything, the members of the commu factors ... relevant to the well-being of nity seem to have gained new respect for the the patient. All these factors may relate to dealer can supply to his customers. students. For instance, one woman discovered health. This allows the attending physician In addition to the high percentage of she had forgotten her purse in a lecture hall. the room he needs to make his best medical dealers who have been forced to accept When she went to the college's lost and judgment. And it is room that operates for allocations nearly 49 percent have been found, she was amazed to discover that a the benefit, not the disadvantage, of the forced to accept the reduction in supply student had turned it in-cash, credit cards, pregnant woman.' Presumably the disadvan of 20 percent or more and 84 percent of and cosmetics intact. Not only did she write tage to the child--death-is not a compelling the dealers answering the questionnaire of her delight at this proof that today's stu factor for Mr. Blackmun. said they had had "some difficulty" or a dents are t.onest, but she donated $100 to "In Buffalo, New York, a physician has been "great deal of difficulty" in obtaining the college's scholarship fund. sentenced for the death of a woman on whom he performed an abortion. The doctor's law gasoline in the past year. Similarly, 91 OFFSETS BAD IMPRESSIONS yer claims that the abortion was legal, and percent had trouble obtaining fuel oil But, from the college's point of view, the the death is the result of 'an error in medical and 81 percent encountered varying best dividend has been the goodwill that has judgment.' Yet, in the Supreme Court abor degrees of difficulty in finding propane been built up in the community. These peo tion opinion Mr. Blackmun argues against supplies. ple apprecir.te what Lehman College is offer legal restrictions so that the doctor 'may ing them-and its students. And their praise Seventy-six percent of the dealers who range farther afield whenever his medical answered the inquiry claimed that they goes a long way to ofiset the rumors about judgment ... dictates and directs him.' today's colleges, students, and standards. "In the Yale-New Haven Medical Center, needed at least an extra 50,000 gallons of As one woman, a member of the Hunter 43 children born with some type of birth product to satisfy their customers' College class of 1939, put it: "When I went to defects died because they were deprived of demand. A total of 25 percent of the collega there was nothing as stimulating as medical treatment. One doctor justified this dealers said they could have used 100,000 this going on." on the grounds that the children faced lives or more gallons of additional product. She may be right. But, then again back in devoid of 'meaningful humanhood.' This re The results of the survey demonstrate '39 she may have been too young to appre sembles Mr. Blackmun's statement that the that the current shortage threatens the ciate it. state has a legitimate interest in protecting the life of the unborn child only when the existence of independent dealers and child 'has the capability of meaningful life distributors. By putting the squeeze on outside the mother's womb.' There are no cri independent dealers through allocations, teria for 'meaningful humanhood' or •mean• the major companies are able to expand SUPREME COURT'S ABORTION ingful life' and thus we certainly ought not their share of the market and eventually DECISION to allow the Supreme Court or the medical drive some independents out of business. profession to decide who is to live and who is to die. "The tragic decisions of life and death that PESTICIDE FIGHTER HONORED HON. LAWRENCE J. HOGAN are being made by medical technocrats are at OF MARYLAND tributable to and permissible under the ab IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES surd reasonings of the Supreme Court of the HON. J. J. PICKLE United States. Tuesday, November 6, 1973 OF TEXAS "It is imperative that the American people IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. HOGAN. Mr. Speaker, I agree with understand that the Court's opinions rival in destructiveness our storehouse of weapons, Tuesday, November 6, 1973 Msgr. McHugh, director of the Family and that the philosophic concept of many Life Division of the U.S. Catholic Con physicians is a far greater danger than Mr. PICKLE. Mr. Speaker, an old and ference, who recently said that a number Watergate. very dear friend of mine, Mr. David of recent events have "magnified the "The passage of a constitutional amend Wintermann, is among 21 Americans re tragic error" of the Supreme Court's ment to reverse the absurd judgments of the ceiving this year's Conservation Awards Supreme Court and to provide some base for of the American Motors Corp. abortion decision last January. legal protection for children-born and un On his farm in Eagle Lake, Tex., David Urging enactment of a constitutional born-is an urgent and compelling responsi Wintermann learned 30 years ago that amendment to reverse the Supreme bility facing the American people. Political man can live in harmony with nature Court's decision, Msgr. James T. McHugh planning and electoral projections should be strongly influenced by these considerations." without sacrificing his productivity. To said: day he grows rice and cattle without The tragic decisions of life and death utilizing pesticides that can linger for that are being made by medical technocrats QUESTIONNAIRE SHOWS HOW FUEL years, sometimes destroying an area's are attributable to and permlssable under SHORTAGE HAS AFFECTED WIS delicate ecological balance. the absurd reasonings of the Supreme Court CONSIN'S INDEPENDENT DEALERS His conservation efforts have helped of the United States. create a refuge for the many ducks, geese It is imperative that the American people and other migratory birds that spend understand that the Court's opinions rival HON. LES ASPIN their winters in the mild climate of the in destructiveness our storehouse of weapons OF WISCONSIN Texas coast. and that the philosophic concept of many IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES David and his lovely wife Eula, have physicians is a far greater danger than been a source of advice and inspiration Watergate. Tuesday, November 6, 1973 to me over the years, and I am personally For the information of our colleagues, Mr. ASPIN. Mr. Speaker, I recently very proud to see him receive this well the following is the text of his statement: conducted a survey of independent oil deserved reward. I am inserting a Hous- November 6, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 36073 ton Post article on David Wintermann in of wading birds-hundreds of egrets and For the benefit of my colleagues, I in today's RECORD, and I commend it to my herons, along with some scarce wood ibises sert the following story from the Octo and roseate spoonbnls. Since the only access colleagues. It is a clear example of how is through a Wintermann plant, the birds ber 18, 1973, edition of the Bristol Press, men and their environment can live to are protected. telling of Tom's latest achievement in a gether in a peaceful, rewarding symbio On his agricultural lands, Wintermann has long and distinguished career: sis. The article follows: bunt and maintains six sanctuary ponds for [From the Bristol Press (Conn.) , [From the Houston Post, Sept. 27, 1973] migratory waterfowl. Oct. 18, 1973] Wintermann is a keen fisherman and PESTICIDE FIGHTER HONORED TOM QUINLAN HONORED BY WEST POINTERS hunter himself, but hunting on his lands is Bookends in the form of West Point cadets (By Harold Scarlett) limited to occasional guests. EAGLE LAKE.-David Wintermann, who has were recently awarded to Tom Quinlan, of "We have enough land so that we can Anderson Avenue in Forestville, by this year's been growing rice and cattle around Ea.gl.e relieve the pressure on the ducks and geese, Lake for most of his 62 years, accepts the graduating class at the military academy. let them rest and feed in peace and keep The gift was in appreciation to Tom for 19 marvels of modern technology. them from being shot out," Wintermann The cars and trucks of the Wintermann years of faithful service in caring for and says. beautifying the grounds around the veteran's enterprises-he also runs an irrigation com He says his interest in conservation pany and an agricultural supply business- memorial in Forestville. Tom's dedicated ac stemmed from the hunting and fishing-and tivities were made known to the cadets by Lt. are equipped with two-way radios. from the strong support of his wife. Wintermann plants and sells the new fast Col. Frederick Manross, a former teacher at The Wintermanns have been members of West Point and a native of this area. maturing strains of seed rice. the National Audubon Society for almost 40 He even has a flashy four-seater helicopter The bookends were an addition to many years, and he is a regional vice-president of gifts and honors extended to Quinlan. The fQr patroling his domain by air. The copter Ducks Unlimited. is used for spotting leaks in irrigation dikes Boy Scouts of America awarded him the Mrs. Wintermann first read Rachel Car Silver Beaver and also Order of the Arrow, its and uneven water distribution, for detecting son's "Silent Spring," a monumental early developing problems that would go unnoticed highest honor, as tokens of appreciation for indictment of DDT and other pesticides, some 30 years service as CUb and Boy Scout from the ground. when it first appeared in serial form in the But on one widely accepted modern de leader. He holds the two highest Catholic New Yorker maga2'iine. awards made in scouting and has been cited velopment, Wintermann is implacably old She was "terribly disturbed" by it and fashioned: for his work with the St. Edmundites of called it to her husband's attention. Selma, Alabama, in arranging retreats for the He happens to believe that he can grow Wintermann believes in the judicious use good rice and good beef without drenching of pesticides, but not if they damage wildlife, boys. the countryside with powerful pesticides. He has been a member of the Explorer's or if natural controls are available. Club, an honorary navy recrudter, named Twenty years or so ago, Wintermann and He beMeves cattle egrets, the white African a partner sprayed a rice field with a new Forestvllle First Man of the Year and an import often seen around grazing cattle, are honorary adult leader of Don Bosco Boys' pesticide called Dieldrin that had just come a far better grasshopper control than any on the market. Club. On several occasions, the well-known chemical. Forestvillite was given the title of "Honorary Dieldrin, like its chemical relative DDT, Wintermann sells seed rice to fellow farm 1s potent and long-lasting. ers, but he refuses to sell seeds coated with Mayor of ForestVille.'' "It killed everything in that field-fish, Aldrin for use in the Eagle Lake area. turtles, snakes, everything," Wintermann re He knows the pesticide coating repels calls. "So, I decided it couldn't do anything scavenging blackbirds. But he also knows it good, and I never used it again. kills waterfowL SECRET WRITING PLEASES MANY "Moreover, an adjoining field that wasn't "I don't preach to others what to do," sprayed at all produced just as much rice as Wintermann says. "What they do on their the field sprayed with Dieldrin." own property is up to them." HON. DALE MILFORD Wintermann believes pesticides are useful But it pleases Wintermann when a friend OF TEXAS in some circumstances, but he has long realizes there are few useless creatures in na IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES banned the use of so-called hard pesticides ture's scheme of things. on his extensive land holdings around Eagle One rice farmer told him of spotting black Tuesday, November 6, 1973 Lake, on the coastal prairies about 60 miles birds apparently breaking down his crop and Mr. west of Houston. eating it. But when the farmer got closer, he Mr. MILFORD. Speaker, often we For this and other contributions to conser could see the birds were eating insects. talk about individual responsibility and vation, Wintermann was one of 21 Americans "Of course, blackbirds eat rice too," Win the power of what one man can do. Re recently chosen to receive the annual Con termann says. "But they aren't all bad." cently, Floyce Korsak, a reporter for the servation Awards of the American Motors The grounds of Wintermann's home are Dallas Times-Herald, painted a verbal Corp. guarded by stout chain-link fences. The portrait of what one man is doing, A second Texas winner, also from the Hou fences are to keep neighborhood alligators anonymously. ston area, was Glynn A. Riley of Liberty, from eating Wintermann's hunting dogs. Despite the newspaper account, the a Federal wildlife agent and a champion of One nine-foot gator has a den in a pond a the vanishing red wolf. scant 50 feet from the Wintermann's swim Dallas suburban businessman remains Of Wintermann, the awards judges said: ming pool. But he is not molested. anonymous as he pursues his hobby to "The sound conservation programs Mr. Wintermann obviously feels that since the lighten the lives of people who strike his Wintermann conducts on his ranch serve as alligators were there first, they have as much fancy. I would like to share this account examples for crop producers throughout the right to be there as he does. of the man known as Hardy with my Southwest." His concern for wildlife may be one reason colleagues: Wintermann was particularly cited for his Eagle Lake can call itself the "goose-hunt SECRET WRITING PLEASES MANY aid to the World Wildlife Fund and the Na ing capital of the world." ture Conservancy in creating a preserve near (By Floyce Korsak) Eagle Lake for the rare and endangered Att The reincarnationist might tell you that water prairie chicken. Hardy once was a monk-a scribe in a mon The citation says Wintermann provided TOM QUINLAN HONORED BY astery along about the 15th Century tran 800 acres of his land for the 3,500-acre refuge WEST POINTERS scribing on parchment passages of Scriptures "on credit and at a fraction of its real value." and the doings of saints. Winterma.nn modestly maintains that he Hardy, himself, is puzzled about his let merely sold the land for what was a "reason HON. ELLA T. GRASSO tering talent since he has never studied the able price" at the time. OF CONNECTICUT ancient art that flows so rapidly from his Eagle Lake proudly bills itself as the hands. He uses his talent freely for the "goose-hunting capital of the world," and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES pleasure of others. Wintermann and his wife, Eula, live in a Tuesday, November 6, 1973 Both the famous and the obscure have re gracious, spacious lakeshore home that is a ceived anonymous gifts of hand-lettered year-round hospitality house for wildlife. Ms. GRASSO. Mr. Speaker, my dear messages from the wlll-o'-the-wisp Hardy, On a summer afternoon, a dozen or so friend Tom Quinlan has spent a lifetime messages that are carefully selected to be squirrels scamper around the oak-canopied in service to his community, working his meaningful to the recipient who is always lawn sloping down to the lake. Cardinals, way into the hearts of countless citizens chosen for a special reason. chickadees and titmice come in for a snack in Bristol, Conn., and its environs. "To surprise deserving people is a thrill for at the bird feeders. Over the years Tom's untiring efforts me," he smiles. "And it's always a challenge Every year, 700 or 800 teal ducks take up to devise ways to get the gift to them so winter residence on the lake by the house. in behalf of his fellow Bristol area res that they never know who sent it.'' Wintermann feeds them rice meal, and they idents have brought him many, well de The exact style of lettering he uses is im return year after year. served awards. One of his latest treasures possible to describe. It's his own. A native of On down the lake, Wintermann lands are was bestowed on him by this year's Germany, he says his lettering would be con a haven for the state's largest inland colony graduating class at West Point. sidered similar to Gothic in that country. 36074 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS Novernber 6, 1973 "Over here.'' he says, "you call it Old Eng dent. The editorial, published October 22, fairs in this country is the editor of the lish. But it's really not that either." 1973, in the Minneapolis Star follows: The frames are his own also. Sometimes St. Paul Dispatch-Pioneer Press, William wood, sometimes metal, but always rich 1D THE TIME FOR lMPEACHli/IENT Sumner. I am sure many of our col gold, bright or burnished. President Nixon has left Congress no choice leagues remember him well from his serv Among well known people who have re but to move toward hls impeachment. ice in the Ridder Publication's Washing ceived messages from Hardy are Erik Jons Since the beginning of the Watergate scan ton Bureau. While he has moved to St. son, former mayor of Dallas, President Rich dal, and the revelations of White House in Paul, I can assure our colleagues that his ard Nixon, Elizabeth Taylor, Bob Hope, Sam volvement in the affair, The Star has been perspective has increased his ability to my Davis and Conrad Hilton. There are many reluctant to support impeachment proceed focus on the essential issues of complex others. ings, largely on the grounds they would be Senator John Tower presented Hardy's divisive and traumatic. We continue to be problems. plaque to President Nixon. It was a Winston hesitant, for reasons we will enumerate, but In the past I have been tempted to Churchill: quote: "Courage is the first of the shattering events that began Friday bring Mr. Sumner's commentary to the human qualities because it is the quality night have in themselves been so divisive and attention of our colleagues. I have re which guarantees all the others." traumatic that we believe Congress must sisted that temptation fairly consistently Hardy made an exception in the case of now begin the impeachment process. since Mr. Sumner treats public o:tnce Mr. Nixon. He let his identity be known. Those weekend events began with the holders in the same nondiscriminatory He got a letter of thanks from the President President rejecting the ruling of the U.S. manner as Vince Lombardi treated his and on his birthday a card came from Mr. Court of Appeals, which upheld a lower Nixon. court order that he turn over the disputed football players. The fact of the matter is "I don't know how in the world he found Watergate tapes to the court. At the same that I run the risk of being accused of out my birthday," Hardy says. "I'd like to time, the President decided he would not attempting to :flatter the press by bring know." appeal the appellate court ruling to the U.S. ing Mr. Sumner's commentary to the at To a young Arlington matron, Ruth Proulx, Supreme Court. This is defiance of the courts tention of the House. a native of China, Hardy lettered an axiom and brings into sharp focus the appeals court The importance, however, of Mr. Sum from Confucius, "Freedom and dignity come opinion which said, ". . . the President . . • ner's remarks on the President's recent after you are warm and fed." does not embody the nation's sovereignty. He is not above the law's demands." press conference cause me to bring his Mrs. Proulx's father, a former general in thoughts to our colleagues' attention. At Chiang Kai-shek's air force, has been a Com When Nixon ordered Archibald Cox, the munist prisoner for 22 years. Hardy J'ead the special Watergate prosecutor, to give up his this time I place in the RECORD William story of her father and sent her the gift. fight to get the tapes as evidence in the Wa Sumner's column as published in the Oc A local TV weatherman got this message, tergate grand jury investigation, Cox refused tober 30, 1973, edition of the St. Paul Dis "One of the most annoying things about and was fired. Deputy Atty. Gen. William patch, a thought provoking analysis of the weather forecasts is that they're not Ruckelshaus, who refused to carry out Nix the President's press conference: on's order to fire Cox, was himself fired. And wrong all the time either." THAT PRESS CONFERENCE: ANGRY? HE JUST And to his own mother-in-law in Germany, finally Atty. Gen. Elliot Richardson, who had given his pledge at his confirmation hearing DOESN'T HAVE RESPECT upon the death of her husband. Hardy sent (By William Sumner) a poem by German poet Theodor Storm: that Cox would have complete independence "The sadness comes, the happiness is gone. in the Watergate investigation, had no re After watching the President's press con The happiness comes, the sadness will go. The course but to resign in the face of Nixon's ference on Friday it seemed necessary to wait days will never be the san1e." order. a few days before offering comment. It was There is a poignant st ory about the way Thus three highly respected public serv that distressing. Hardy got started on his hobby. He arrived ants, who were in the process of restoring I am not qualified to make judgments on in this country a number of years ago to take credibility to the Justice Department and anybody's health or nervous condition, but a job that failed to materialize. He decided refused to blindly follow the orders of the it was pathetic when the man told those as to stay anyway. President because they felt those orders were sembled, and the nation, that he had been For some reason he does not fathom, he wrong, have been forced out of office. forced to learn to be cool while under fire. decided to try his hand at lettering, even We find it highly ironic that the President Here was a corr.ered man, giving us a cou though he had studied neither calligraphy said he acted "in the spirit of accommoda ple of flashes of an ominous trick-or-treat nor art. His first attempt was The Lord's tion that has marked American constitu Halloween smile, who was sweating, clearly Prayer. He made four tries, each time mis tional history." Equally ironic was his rea troubled and intemperate, moving about spelling the word "evil." It kept coming out soning in rejecting the appeals court ruling: physically like an awkward middleweight. to avoid "the possibility of a constitutional ". . . I have never heard or seen such out "evel." confrontation." He has clearly not acted in "I've always hated the word "evil," he rageous, vicious, distorted reporting in pub smiles. "I guess I got a mental block and the spirit of accommodation, and he has pre lic life. I am not blaming anybody for it just wouldn't come out right." cipitated the worst constitutional crisis that that ..." He answered a Times Herald ad for a has arisen since the Watergate affair. Aaaaak! newspaper layout artist, showing his work Our hesitancy over recommending im This assumes that the media, particularly peachment stems from the critical problems the TV folks, were responsible for the Water with the misspelled word and got the job on facing the country. There is, first, no vice gate scandal, for the Ellsberg scandal, for the spot. He worked at his newspaper job president in office to fill a vacancy should the nation having no Attorney General at the five years. Today he is a businessman. He Nixon be impeached. Rep. Gerald Ford, the moment, for a former Vice President betng and his wife, also a German native, live in President's designate for the office, faces a "former," having had his wrist slapped, and an area suburban town. They have one difficult time in being confirmed by Congress, for the rest of the human wreckage. son, age 7. and there are growing doubts about his lead He was low enough to be self-serving in "I can't tell you how much my hobby ership abilities. There is also the continuing distorting the truth on one occasion and in means to me,'' he says. "But I have to be in problem In the Middle East, even with the offering a disputed version of history on the the mood to sit down and work at it. I can cease-fire, and there are such critical do other to justify his firing of Special Prosecu not force it at all. I have to be inspired by mestic problems as inflation and the oil tor Archibald Cox. a story or a saying or by somebody." shortage. Nixon said Richardson went along with Hardy was given a scroll himself about two Still, we feel the President has gone too the so-called "Stennis Proposal" and refused years ago. In recognition of his civic activi far toward assuming a sovereignty that is to fire Cox only because of his personal com ties, he was made an honorary citizen of above the law. We urge Congress to use the mitment to Cox before the Senate. Dallas. tool that is within the law-impeachment Let us see what Richardson said, in part: "It's my proudest possession," he declares. proceedings--to restore the presidency to its "I regarded the proposal to rely on Sen rightful place in the American political ator Stennis for a verified record for the sake system. of brevity . . . as reasonable, but I do not think it should be tied to the foreclosure of THE TIME FOR IMPEACHMENT the right of the Special Prosecutor to invoke THAT PRESS CONFERENCE judicial process in future situations." And, HON. DONALD M. FRASER " ... I, given my role in guaranteeing the OF MINNESOTA HON. JOSEPH E. KARTH independence of the Special Prosecutor, as 1n OF MINNESOTA well as my beliefs the public interest em IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES bodied in that role, felt ... clear that I could Tuesday, November 6, 1973 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES not discharge him, so I resigned. Tuesday, November 6, 1973 "At stake in the final analysis is the very Mr. FRASER. Mr. Speaker, the eve integrity of the governmental processes I ning daily newspaper in Minneapolis has Mr. KARTH. Mr. Speaker, one of the came to the Department of Justice to help called for the impeachment of the Prest- more astute commentators on public af- restore. My own single most important com- November ·6, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 36075 m.ltment to this objective was my commit heads of these officials. Since there is some its cause and the degree of provocation. I ment to the independence of the speclal times cross-conversation in such situations feel that the roots of anarchistic violence or prosecutor/' I did not receive all the details, and thought the violence of persons mentally or emotion Nixon's disputed version of history con no more of it. ally deranged will be found in incitations of cerns ThomM Je1ferson who, he said, pre After the President's speech was finished the kind that the posters represented, and pared a "compromise" summary of sub someone suggested that we look at the main embodied as a most reprehensible example. poenaed material for Chief Justice John hall that had been decorated for Halloween. You will appreciate th11.t I greatly regret Marshall. We went in and only a short distance to the being the bearer of such an unpleasant mes There is one obvious d.i1Ierence. The po right in What seemed to be a stall or cove, my sage; but I see no alternative. tential defendant then was Aaron Burr. The attention was called to some posters on the Sincerely, potential defendant now is Richard Nixon. wall. It was then that I recalled the earlier -Q. R. STRACKBEIN. In an_y case, Nixon's version of history col conservation. As I went forward to inspect lides with that which holds that President the posters I was appalled at seeing the Presi Je1ferson did indeed turn over the-subpoenaed dent's likeness as previously described and material itself, not a summary. also that of the former Vice President. DEDICATION OF THE NEW RE Other than that, it was standard Nixon What I had not fully visualized before AND BUILDING fare of being persecuted, but not blaming struck me now with the force of a shock SEARCH EDUCATION anyone for it, but then it got emlba.rrasslng when I saw the President's head encircled by or scary, depending on how one viewed this a series of concentric circles centering on coiling, sweating, grinning man. his forehead, approximately between his eyes. HON. GENE TAYLOR You only get angry with those you re The image so greatly disturbed me, reflecting, OF MISSOURI spect. An embarrassment. Sort of like "sticks as I did, that here was a virtual invitation to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and stones ..." and so forth. Or, the same shoot the President. you four times over. All of this now in third The Halloween party was to be attended by Tuesday, November 6, 1973 person ... "The President" rather than "I." youngsters and I thought of the lesson in Mr. TAYLOR of Missouri. Mr. Asked about the e1fect Watergate may have citizenship they would receive from such a had on the thinking of So'viet officials dur debasing and suggestive representation of the Speaker, on November 2 of this year, the ing the MideMt mini-confrontation, he said, President. Honorable Donald E. Johnson, Admin "I think Mr. Brezhnev probably can't quite Without further ado I tore down the post istrator of Veterans' Affairs, was the understand how the President of the United ers and threw them on the floor. Immedi guest of honor at the dedication of the States wouldn't be able to handle the Water ately I was approached by a man, quite large new research and education building of gate problems. He'd be able to handle it all of size, who told me that what I had done the Veterans' Administration hospital in right, if he had them." was a violation of the rules of the club and This seemed to get the only genuine laugh, Kansas City, Mo. that he would have to ask me to leave. I said All too often, the accomplishments of not of derision, but I thought at the time "Go ahead, Mk me" or some similar response. that it was misplaced laughter. He asked me if I were a member. I said the Veterans' Administration are taken "There was nothing funny about the re "no". He repeated that he must ask me to ifor granted and do not receive the space mark. It may have displayed a longing. leave. I asked him who he was. He replied in the news media that they deserve. On Sunday we find the glib Mr. Patrick that he was the chairman of the Club's So that my colleagues may share in Buchanan, on TV, advocating legislation to Board. I said I had been a member of the the enlightening remarks delivered by break up the "excessive power" of broadcast Club for some twenty years and was now Mr. Johnson, I offer them now for their networks. here as a guest. He asked whose guest I was. perusal: It would be awful if this group had a I said I did not wish to involve him. He re REMARKS BY DONALD E. JOHNSON docile majority at this point in time. It peated that I must leave. doesn't, for which we may give thanks. I responded that I would not leave and It is always a privilege and a pleasure for that if he wanted me out he would have to me to participate in the dedication of an call a guard. By this time our host who had addition to the Veterans Administration's been some ten to fifteen feet away, as I hospital system-the Nation's finest as well QUESTIONS RAISED BY INCIDENT judge it, came forward and said I WM his as largest hospital system, I am proud to AT NATIONAL PRESS CLUB guest. I then left the two and joined my say. group. In a matter of moments we were But I especially appreciate this morning's rejoined by our host who then took us into ceremony because it focuses needed and de HON. 0. C. FISHER the dining room where we had dinner. served attention on VA medical research and VA medical training which, with patient care, OF TEXAS After the dinner was over our host, a former president of the Club, went back into give us VA health care's three-fold mission of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the big hall and said that the posters had care, research, and education. Tuesday, November 6, 1973 been put back on the wall. We shortly left Mr. Webster tells us that "dedication" the Club and did not attend the Halloween means devotion to some work or cause. Mr. FISHER. Mr. Speaker, a letter party. Therefore I do not know what actual No work is more important, and no cause written by Mr. 0. R. Strackbein and sent use was made of the posters later. One mem more unselfish than quality health care- to Mr. Donald R. Larrabee, president of ber of our party said a hand type of gun was including medical research and education the National Press Club, should be of lying on the table, presumably a dart gun to which contribute so importantly to such care, some interest to Members of Congress be fired at the President's head. I have not for ill and disabled and aging veterans. verified this as a fact. The stall was indeed It is to this work and this cause that we and to others. The letter, which is self dedicate not only this magnificent addition to explanatory, follows: in the .form of a shooting gallery. It is, of course, not a question of whether our KansM City VA Hospital but also our OSCAR ROBERT STRACKBEIN, selves today. October 27, 1973. the posters were to be used for this or some other purpose. It is also not merely a ques In doing so, we are accepting the challenge Mr. DONALD R. LARRABEE, tion of taste. My outrage, which was not pre to be worthy of the trust which the American President, the National Press Club, people have placed in the Veterans Admin Washington, D.C. meditated, was instantaneous. We have had several most unfortunate as istration. DEAR MR. LARR...WEE: The purpose of this Our fellow citizens have said to us, to you letter is to acquaint you with an incident sassinations in this country in recent years. I am sure that these assassinations are a and me, to the 165,000 skilled, dedicated men that occurred last evening at the National and women who are the VA's Department of Press Club. I shall relate the facts M best I blot on our society, to be profoundly re gretted. Yet 1! we insist on propagating Medicine and Surgery, indeed, to all who remember them. Several witnesses were pres share our responsibility and privilege of serv ent but they may not have been within range hatred on a partisan plane against the heads of our government, those who do so may be ing those who served: to hear all the words that passed. "We want our veterans to have the best To begin with I was with a small party, regarded, not as reducing the likelihood of repetitions of unregenerate acts of violence, care in the world . . . and we are confident five in all, including myself. We were guests that VA medicine can provide such care." of a member, and sat in the small waiting but as the sowers of seeds that can beget the most deplorable consequences. This confidence is justified-never more lounge having cocktails, awaiting the Presi so than today. dent.ts speeeeh, when we went into the main .I bring this complaint not as a former member of the National Press Club, but as Do not misunderstand. lounge wher-e the televised speech came on. There has never been-and never will be While we were in the smaller lounge I a citizen who was so deeply shocked that a time when the most visible of all V.A bene his h~ard in a conversation within our group he gave himself in outrage to an act of fits and services, our hospital and medical is about so~ne posters th.a.t represented the a kind that in no sense characteristic of care program., could not be impr~ved. But I President and the former Vice President in him. think that the following facts-<:omparlsons, prisoners' garb. with the usual stripes, and Any action that you may wish to take is, if you will-evidence the growth and progress a series o:t concentric circles after the man of course, in your discretion. I did believe and accomplishments of VA medicine during ner of a rifleman's target surrounding the that you should be apprised of the incident, the past four yea:cs. They also warrant m.y 36076 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 6, 1973 very strong personal conviction that VA cooperative research projects in clinical set the prostate. This program, which involves medicine will know an even more dynamic, tings; our ability to conduct simultaneously 26 other participating VA hospitals, has made rewarding, and exciting future. the same research effort in many hospitals. substantial progress in evaluating and com I cite the past four years because of my I submit that this research technique paring treatment of cancer of the prostate. official responsibility for, as well as my per proves that the VA hospital system offers Our Kansas City Hospital-and by now I sonal familiarity with the state of VA medi great potential for reducing the time re am sure you realize that I consider the hos cine during this period. quired to test new medical treatments or pital and this new addition one and indis 1. This year the VA health care system will theories. tinguishable-has also been named the head provide inpatient care for a record 1.1 mil Further, my VA associates and I believe quarters hospital and center laboratory site lion veterans, compared with 776,000 four that we can apply the same approach suc for the National VA Cooperative Study on years ago. More than 9,000 of these patients cessfully in establishing, and demonstrating, Aspirin Therapy and Unstable Angina. This will be cared for here at our Kansas City new models or patterns of health care deliv program will test whether aspirin can pre Hospital. ery-particularly with the appropriate utili vent serious complications in heart attacks. 2. This year VA will handle 12 million out zation of allied medical personnel, such as Researchers at this hospital will have some patient visits-an all-time high-compared the Physician's Assistant and the Clinical of the most modern, sophisticated equipment with 7.1 million four years ago. Nurse Practitioner. for studies in cell processes and cell bio More than 84,000 of these visits will be To illustrate the national importance of chemistry. here at this hospital. VA's medical education and training, which In terms of specialized equipment, I would 3. This year VA will spend a record $78 cover some 60 professional and technical cite three examples: million for medical and prosthetics research categories and which will be given ever ro ald in this hospital's Clinical Pharma. (compared with $58 million four years ago), greater emphasis and more effective support cology program, there is a highly sophisti including more than $1.5 million at our wit h this addition to our Kansas City Hos cated instrument that can identify even com Kansas City Hospital. pital, permit me to point out the following p~ex chemical compounds which will soon be 4. This year VA will train 67,000 doctors, facts: purchased and installed. dentists, nurses, and other health care per Nearly one-third of all physicians now In the hospital's Calcium Research Labo sonnel in VA's hospitals--over 700 of these practicing in the United States, and approxi ratory, the role of peptides from the para at our Kansas City Hospital-compared with mately one-half of those entering practice thyroid gland is being studied with regard 49,000 four years ago. each year, have received a portion of their to body calcium controls. Unique items of 5. This year VA will spend 12 times the medical training in VA hospitals. equipment permit researchers to build such amount budgeted for hospital constructions In addition, VA contributes directly to the biologically active peptides. Since loss of bone four years ago. education each year of over 1,000 dental stu substance affects everyone over the age of 6. This year VA's Department of Medicine dents, over 20,000 basic nursing students, forty, with no known way to reverse the proc and Surgery will be staffed by 25,000 more nearly one-fourth of all social work gradu ess, great importance is attached to this type full-time employees than were on duty four ates, one-third of all dietetic interns, one of investigation. years ago. fifth of all Ph. D. candidates in clinical In another area, the use of computers will 7. And this year VA will have a record psychology, and one-fourth of all pharmacy permit data equivalent to a full day's work high budget of $2.7 billion for its health interns and residents. to be collected and analyzed in a few thou care system to accomplish the above essen In light of these facts, I think it can be sandths of one second. tial goals, compared with $1.4 billion four fairly said that the VA health care system I am sure that you will leave here today years ago. has greatly assisted in increasing America's properly impressed by the design and con This very day some form of VA patient vital medical resources. It will continue to struction of this Research and Educa.tion care or support will be provided to upwards do so. addition, and by its furnishings and equip of 167,000 veterans. Now, let's take a close look at this Research ment. Vle can agree, I think, that VA health care and Education building addition to our Kan But I know that you will also leave here today is in the mainstream of modern medi sas City VA hospital. fully aware of the fact that this facility and cine. More importantly we can be confident This look should reveal two important our Kansas City Veterans Administration that VA health care will keep abreast of fu truths. Hospital, above all, means people. It means: ture medical progress, and the changing First, this addition is not a separate en The 9,000 patients who will be cared for needs of the millions of veteran patients in tit y that exists-and will operate independ at this hospital this year-and, of course, the years ahead. Indeed the VA will help ent of the hospital. On the contrary, it is a their families. lead this medical progress through its re vital, integral part of the hospital. The tens of thousands of veterans who search and education programs. Second, our Kansas City Veterans Admin will be the beneficiaries of 84,000 outpatient I would direct your attentioh to the $5.2 istration Hospital, including the new Re examinations and treatments this year. search-Education addition, is more than a The 1,000 skilled and dedicated men and million addition to our Kansas City VA Hos single hospital, and more than just one of 170 women who staff this hospital, including its pital which we are dedicating this morning, hospitals in our total hospital system. new research and education addition. and suggest that its existence emphasizes It is part-a vital part, to be sure-<>f the The hundreds of unselfish volunteers who far more effectively than any words of mine VA's nationwide health care system. are so concerned enough about the welfare a fact which we should always keep in mind. And when I say "system", I mean exactly of our patients that they give thousands of The VA hospital and medical care pro that. hm.rrs each year to provide the companion gram is structured on the foundation of re In addition to its hospitals, the VA health ship, comfort and care which no amount of search and education as well as patient care. care system consists of domiciliary homes, money can buy. Patient care has always been, and will al restoration centers, nursing care units, and The officers, faculty and students of the ways be, the primary purpose-priority mis outpatient clinics operated directly by VA. Kansas University Medical Center and the sion, if you will-of VA medicine. Furthermore, the VA health care system University of Missouri Dental School with But a moment ago I noted that VA will utilizes-and will continue to do so-non which our VA hospital is privileged and spend more than $78 million this year for V A facilities, such as other Federal, state and proud to be affiliated medical and prosthetics research. This trans private hospitals, community and state nurs And, of course, the officials and you good lates into the involvement of VA medical ing homes, state domiciliaries for veterans, citizens of Kansas City whom my VA asso investigators in nearly 6,000 research and a variety of other extended care arrange ciates here are fortunate enough to be able projects. ments. to look to for friendship, neighborliness, pro You are familiar with many of VA's med And, as many members of the Show Me fessional, business and commercial services, ical research accomplishments and shared State's medical community know from per fire and police protection, and other neces triumphs such as the virtual elimination of sonal experience, VA's health care system also sities and comforts of community life. tuberculosis as a killer disease; the perfec relies heavily on "home town"-or fee-basis In just three more years, this Kansas City tion of kidney transplants; development of physicians and dentists. Veterans Administration Hospital will cele the laser cane for the blind; portable hemo But to return to the Research and Educa brate its Silver Anniversary. That observ dialysis units for home use; motorized wheel tion addition, each of you ic:; cordially invited ance, coinciding as it will with our Nation's chairs for quadraplegics operated through to take a studied, personal lQok at this facil bicentennial, will be a memorable one I am nudge control or voice control or even breath ity. I sincerely hope that you will be able to sure. control; and the heart pacemaker-the im make this tour so that you can see for your But I would also point out that this hos planting of the first atomic powered pace selves how the VA carries out your wish pital's 25th Anniversary observance will also makers in the Western Hemisphere; and a nationwide wish-that veterans receive the find World War I to be 58 years 1n the past, clinical proof that the early treatment of fullest and finest VA health care possible, the average World War II veteran to have hypertension will lessen the incidence of including medical research and education. been out of uniform 30 years, and Korean death or crippling strokes from vascular Con:flict veterans to have been back in civil disease. By way of a preliminary tour guide, let me And you know that the results of VA medi mention some of the specialized programs ian life nearly a quarter-of-a-century. cal research a.re quickly made available to all and equipment that may not be apparent. The few remaining Spanish-American War of our citizens. Our Kansas City VA Hospital is headquar veterans will have celebrated, or getting The point I want to emphasize is VA's ters for the National Cooperative Urology Re ready to celebrate, their centennial birth unique capability for conducting wide-scale search group which is studying carcinoma of days; while the youngest of our Vietnam war November 6, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 36077 veterans will be 1n their early or mid And the volunteer Army ls working! It is motivates our NCO leaders for the progressiVW. twenties. working because there are still young men challenges of an Army career. But all of these veterans will have one and women iil America who want to serve Some of our strongest supporters don't thing in common. their country-this is "an idea whose time :tully understand today's Army. They think A present or future need for VA hospital remains" for all Americans, young and old, the Army lost something important when we and medical care. of every race, color, and creed. And it is work initiated, for example, the idea of hiring I can assure you today that the Veterans ing because the Army offers to young men civilian help-KPs-to work in the kitchens Administration health care system, includ and women a satisfying life and solid bene and dining rooiDS. They think that eliminat ing its Medical Research and Education pro fits in conjunction with their service. There ing such irritants as KP has xna.de the Army grams, will be around, ready and able to are those who feel we are trying to buy an soft. But the Army's mission is not to peel provide that care. Army. This is not the case. We are giving potatoes; its mission 1s to fight. Peeling pota Thank you again :tor joining my VA asso young men and women who serve in the toes does not improve discipline or combat ciates and me in this dedication ceremony. Army a standard of living that is roughly efficiency. So changes to some things held comparable to the standard of living they traditional in the past are in the wind, but xnight get in the civilian community for if you look at them, you will see that each doing a similar job. This means higher ~ay; turns harder than ever on mission. We are SECRETARY OF THE ARMY CALLA paid annual leave; complete, superb medical not retreating from the Army's real business. WAY SPEAKS BEFORE ASSOCIA and dental care; life in much improved The volunteer Army is ready to fight. TION OF THE U.S. ARMY barracks, and more. We do not have and we shall not have a All of these measures are necessary. I sup permissive Army. We have and we shall have port them wholeheartedly. But let me em a disciplined Army, responsive to authority, HON. TIM LEE CARTER phasize that we are not trying to buy ·an and able to perform its mission in the serv ice of the country. You expect it; the coun OF KENTUCKY Army! We will get the Army that the Nation needs only by appeal to sacrifice and service. try deserves it; and I'm going to do my level IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES And this brings me to the second most best to see that it happens! Tuesday, November 6, 1973 important way that we are making the volun In brief, that's the program we have un teer Army work, by insuring that service to dertaken to attract young people, to encour Mr. CARTER. Mr. Speaker,in 1965 and the country is a meaningful part of the age them to enter the Army. And once they're 1966, I served in the House of Represent young xna.n or woman's life. We are making in, I know that many of them will choose atives with the Honorable HowARD H. Army service a step forward in their lives, to stay beyond their initial comxnitment, CALLAWAY, of Georgia. "Bo" is a West not an interruption. And to do this we are because they will see that the Army has a Point graduate and a lawyer. He is a man putting a great emphasis on education and very fine career progression system. of unquestioned honor and unusual abil training, and on insuring that our soldiers• I believe Axnericans will agree, then, that jobs are important and useful. we have a package that is appealing to ity. The United States of America is in We are doing this by making each soldier's toda.y's young people, appealing not only in deed fortunate to have a man of his job relate to the Army's mission, because this terms of benefits, but in the opportunity for training and devotion to duty as Secre makes Army service mean something. Our service to country. And the beauty of this is tary of the Army. I submit for the record young people want value from their lives. that it appeals to everyone in America. Serv his speech of October 15, 1973, before They want a job that matters and we've got ice to country appeals equally to rich and the Association of the U.S. Army: that job. We are also working to eliminate poor, Northerner and Southerner, educated KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY THE HoNORABLE HOWARD unnecessary irritants. We think this will and uneducated. Pride in America and H. CALLAWAY, SECRETARY OF THE ARMY, BE make the Army more attractive, and our willingness to sacrifice for her is an ideal FORE THE ASSOCIATION OF THE U.S. ARMY surveys have borne this out. which knows no cultural or economic We have developed a very attractive pack Ladies and Gentlemen, distinguished boundaries. In this fact lies the very strength guests: age of education and training. To the high of the Nation. I count on this appeal to give I'm delighted to have this opportunity to school dropout who has the ability and us an Army which mirrors America. It's be with you this afternoon. We in the Army motivation, we offer work toward a high not going to be a mercenary Army, it's going are aware of your long-standing support for school diploma, as an adjunct to training. to be an all-American Army. a strong National defense and we feel that To the high school graduate, an opportunity This then is our plan. It is not only our the Nation owes you a debt of gratitude. for college training, part of which may be as plan for the future, it is also a description It is an exciting time for me to be Secre an adjunct to training. To junior college and of today's Army. For practical purposes, the tary of the Army. We are entering a historic college students, the possibility of further draft ended for us on December 29, 1972, time, a time of basic change, as we try to do training, and even this may be as an adjunct when the last draftee entered the Army. what has never been done before. The Army to training. And to all of them, the Army (Although a few deferred draftees entered haG set out to provide security for this great offers vocational training that will be useful later.) So we have had about 10 months' country, to keep our global commitments, to when the soldier returns to civilian life: experience now in a volunteer environment, stand ready to face an aggressor on a mo With a meaningful job, a decent standard and I think it is appropriate th&!:· we review ment's natice--and to do all this with an of living, and real opportunities for contin some of the results. Army o:t volunteers. No nation in history has ued education and training, young men and Because each month we openly discuss our tried to meet such massive and complex com women can look upon a period of service to goals and quotas, xna.ny have a distorted IDitments without compelling people to serve, the country as a genuine step forward in picture of our progress. They feel we are through one form of conscription or another. their lives. And when they leave the Service, hopelessly short of recruiting goals, trying It is a challenge--a great challenge, one they will realize other very important ad to make up the gap by lowering quality, and which I assure you we are doing our utmost vantages. For one thing, under the GI Bill, as a consequence, ending up with nothing to meet. Today I want to address this ques they are entitled to more education, provided worthwhile whatever. It is true that we have tion with you-this question of meeting the by the government to its veterans. And missed our goals during the past 10 months. need for an Army with a volunteer force. they're more mature. The Army has trained But it is important to remember that our Unfortunately, discussions of the volun them, given them each a mission, and then goals are akin to the salesman's goals teer Army are usually accompanied by emo held them responsible for professional re realistic, but difficult to meet. tional considerations about the value of the sults. This responsibility develops maturity. What are the facts? During these past draft or of Universal Military Training. There Thus, both the education and experience of months, we have recruited into the volunteer are many, both in the military and out, who military service prepare them for better jobs Army some 124,000 young men and women; genuinely feel that the maintenance of a when they leave the Army for civilian careers. further, over 34,000 men and women have draft is important to our country, and so the All of these benefits are pointed toward reenlisted during this period. m fact we have debate continues. But the debate is on the the :first term volunteer. For those who been running about 84 percent of our re wrong subject. choose to reenlist for the volunteer Army, cruiting objective ever since December 29, Those who continue to hold out the false however, more opportunities for education_. 1972, when we abandoned the draft. And hope that the Army can or ought to simply maturity, and service accrue. those who have come into the Army are of dodge the problems of the volunteer environ We have, today, the finest noncommis high quality. We have had a higher per ment by quick return to the draft are not sioned officer leadership training we have ever centage of high school graduates entering facing up to today's realities. The country had, with progressive career steps going from the Army since the draft ended-about 10 doesn't want a draft today. The Congress the recruit right on through our top com percent higher-than we had in the 6 months doesn't want a draft today. The alterna xna.nd sergeant major. Our men and women before the end of the draft. As a result, we tive then is a successful volunteer Army or enjoy the benefits of our new Noncommis now have an Active Army of over 794,000 failure for the Army. The US Army has never sioned Officer Education System, a system and this is 97 percent of our programed failed this country. It has always turned the which offers to the noncommissioned officer strength. Total accessions, then, have fallen hard challenges o! history Into success. So a progressive, professional military educa somewhat short of our goals, but we are today, the challenge for all of us who support tion roughly comparable to the superb sys still filled far above any level of ..concern, and the Army 1s clear. We must set our minds to tem of schooling we have always offered to quality 1s high. making the volunteer Army work. our officers. The system trains, educates, and And we have many encourag'lng signs. Last 36078 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS November 6, 1973 year we decided to reactivate the 9th In it was at the end of the draft. But the fig [From the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, fantry Division at Fort Lewis, Washington, ures are not nearly so mea.ningful as the sub Oct. 23, 1973] but the manpower was not at hand. So we jective feel of those in the Army. I certainly A LEGAL COUP D'ETAT? told the commander, General Fulton, that don't pretent to be an expert on this, but if he wanted a division, to take his cadre, by the end of this month I wm have visited The orchestration and choreography have the Division colors, and go out and recruit all 13 of the Army's active divisions, as well been impeccable. The greedy motivation, a division. General Fulton and his recruiters a.s many other posts and stations. During disguised by skillful media manipulation, did just that. They began a vigorous recruit every visit I have talked with new soldiers, could not be faulted by Machiavelli. The ing campaign and today that Division stands with senior noncommissioned officers, with stakes are the highest--nothing less than at 102 percent strength, essentially filled with control of the Government of the United junior officers, with senior officers and com States. enlisted volunteer soldiers. Now, this is a real manders. I can tell you that without any success story, a living example which illus "Across the nation calls for impeachment question, today's Army is a far better Army, mingled with cries of amazement in an trates concretely that the volunteer Army far more prepared for combat tha.n it was emotional outpouring reaction from Amer program is not an impossible dream, but a at the end of the draft. I can just feel it ica." So read the AP's lead story on Monday workable idea, and it is typical of many everywhere I go. It's in the air. Discipline is afternoon after an extraordinary weekend other units with similar successes. better, morale is better, training is better, during which, on the home front, President We do not minimize our recruiting prob and equipment is better. The Army's future Nixon forced out of his administration three lems; we spend our time and energy work is indeed now. high-ranking members of the Justice Depart ing on them. We are trying many new ap And, what is more important, all of our ment, while, on the world diplomatic front, proaches to recruiting, which stress quality vital trends, with the possible exception of he and his Secretary of State negotiated with together with quantity--such as increasing drug abuse (and we are working ba.rd and Russia an end to the Middle East war and a the number of recruiters, expanding our effectively on that one) , are in the right consequent withdrawal of humanity from unit-of-choice and station-of-choice options, direction today. Let me emphasize--your the nuclear brink. screening out poor soldiers in our reenlist Army is good now, ready to fight, and get Impeach the man who ended the disastrous ments, administering new entrance tests, and ting better with the passage of time. I fore Vietnam war-the fourth war in this century e•1en weeding out misfits in basic training. see no doom ahead. Six months from today initiated under the leadership of the Demo T11ese efforts will continue. we will be better, and after that, better still. cratic Party? Impeach the man who has Some also have expressed concern that the This picture that I give you of today's achieved the impossible in bringing the real volunteer Army was doomed to failure be Army is enthusiastic and optimistic, and hope of peace between the Arabs and the cause it would bring a decline in discipline. purposely so. I am extremely proud of to Jews? The very idea will be viewed by his That has not been the case. If we compare day's Army and what has been done to make tory as grotesque! discipline trends for FY 72 with FY 73, a it work in the volunteer atmosphere. But I But it bas now become clear that nothing period which includes both draft and volun recognize our challenges. Benjamin Frank less than capturing control of our govern teer Army experience, we find that rates for lin once said, "the man who expects noth ment is and has been the objective of those AWOL, desertion, crimes of violence, crimes ing ... shall never be disappointed." I be who cynically have exploited the scandal against property, courts-martial, and separa lieve he would share my bel-ief that men called "Watergate" to arouse the American tions under less than honorable conditions, who do expect something worthwhile and people and in this process, incidentally, have are down. are willing to work hard for it, are apt to shaken the confidence of our foreign allies Virtually every major indicator of disci achieve it, even if the task is difficult and in the American system, contributed to de pline except drug offenses has, in fact, re unfamiliar. valuing the dollar in world trade and endan mained or turned positive in· the volunteer We are dally working on new,. innova-tive,. gering the detente achieved by President Army. Whatever factors contribute to this and exciting ideas to insure that we get Nixon with the two Communist superpowers. picture, it ·is clear that today's volunteer the right number of qualified men and wom A coup d'etat bas never been ca.rried out soldier is not causing an increase in disci en to man our Army. It will not be easy. It in American history. But skillful manipula plinary problems. will perhaps be the toughest job that the tion of the constitutional process has now Many also bad expected the volunteer Army U.S. Army has ever been called upon to do, brought us perilously close to a coup-not to herald the demise of our National Guard but I am certain that today's Army will be through violence and military overthrow but and Army Reserve as viable outfits. No such equal to the challenge. through devious political manipulation of demise is in sight, although we do face prob We in the Army have always needed the the unhappy events of the last year. lems here. We have seen modest reductions active support of the American people. To The resignation of Vice President Agnew in the strengths of both our Reserve Com day, we need it even more than ever before. has set House Speaker Carl Albert, a Demo ponents from the December 1972 levels, a Even our strongest critics have recognized crat, in line for succession if President Nixon trend in fact dating from mid-1971. But cur that the one vital element necessary for should die, be assassinated or removed by im rent indications give us some encouragement the success of the volunteer Army lies be peachment. His elevation to the Presidency that we may be able to restrain this decline. yond the Army itself. I'm talking about pub would not mean merely a change in the man We have in the past several months, for ex lic support. We need your help as we plow holding that office, but a complete change of ample, been successful in recruiting trained, new ground, as we steer an uncharted course the party in control, and of the Cabinet, and experienced, prior-service personnel into our to give the country the best Army it bas of all the apparatus of the Executive Depart Reserve Components to offset some of our ever had. Without your help, we cannot suc ment. shortfall. As you know, Reserve Component ceed; with it, we cannot fail. Together, we Senator Ted Kennedy's call for holding up strength remains critically important, so we can meet the challenges and prove worthy senatorial consent to the appointment of are very much concerned that it continue to of the Nation's trust. Representative Gerald Ford as Vice Presi receive close attention. Under the total force Thank you. dent was the keynote speech in the campaign policy any future emergency buildup will to obtain for the left wing Democrats what have to rely upon the National Guard and was denied them by the overwhelming vote Reserve rather than a draft for initial and of the people in the 1972 election. primary augumentation of our Active forces. A LEGAL COUP D'ETAT? Regardless of the rights or wrongs of the I expect the improving image of the volun Watergate scandals, regardless of the legalis• teer Army to have the positive effect on the tic question of whether or not privacy of health of our Reserve Component recruit presidential papers extends to presidential ment that is needed. HON. C. W. BILL YOUNG tapes, regardless of the multitude of petty Finally, combat readiness, which is the OF FLORIDA controversies that befog the scene, the bard heart of our business, has shown signiflcant IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES fact remains that the American people are improvement. When the draft ended, we had entitled to a Vice President appointed and 13 divisions on the books, but only 10 fully Tuesday, November 6, 1973 confirmed promptly under the provisions of formed. Of the 13 divisions, only 4 met the Mr. YOUNG of Florida. Mr. Speaker, the 25th Amendment of the Constitution. Army's stringent readiness standards and Many sincere Democrats and Republicans were considered ready for combat. By con the Congress continues to be inundated have been stampeded into losing sight of trast, we now have 13 divisions fully opera with communications and suggestions what it would mean in division of our na tional and 10 ready for combat. Thus, our di concerning the future of this great Na tion, turmoil in our government, tempta visions today, judged by the stringent stand tion, and the actions that we, as Mem tions to rashness by our enemies, and peril to ards reported to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the foundations of our 200-year-old Repub· much more nearly meet their goals in terms bers, should be taking. It is especially lic should the President be hounded out of of authorized strength, personnel job qual important that we should retain our per office. But the Ted Kennedys, the Tip O'Neils, ification, unit training, equipment on hand, spective, and our long-range vision of the George Meanys and the Bella Abzugs who and equipment serviceability than they did what we feel will be good for the Nation lead the pack baying for Nixon's blood know exactly what they are doing. at the end of the draft. Six months to a year as a whole. In aid of this balance, I want from now, l: believe our readiness posture will The basic tenet of this newspaper has al be even better. to offer for my colleagues' information ways been that the American people, given These simple facts and figures point to one an editorial from the Sarasota SENATE-Wednesday, November 7, 1973 The Senate met at 12 o'clock meridian nicated to the Senate by Mr. Heiting, one and New York. This letter documents the and was called to order by the President of his secretaries, and he announced that agreement reached and explains the facts pro tempore (Mr. EASTLAND). on November 3, 1973, the President had leading to the agreement. approved and signed the act (S. 2016) to I concur in the recommendations of PRAYER amend the Rail Passenger Service Act of the Secretary of the Interior. A draft bill The Chaplain, the Reverend Edward 1970 to provide financial assistance to the repealing Public Law 89-605 as amended L. R. Elson, D.D., offered the following National Railroad Passenger Corpora by Public Law 91-242 is enclosed for your prayer: tion, and for other purposes. consideration. RICHARD NIXON. God of this day and of all history, 0 The WmTE HOUSE, November 6,1973. be with us in this place that we fail Thee DISCONTINUANCE OF NEGOTIA not. Impart to us the humble spirit which TIONS FOR A FEDERAL-IN is taught by Thee. Give us discerning TERSTATE COMPACT-MESSAGE minds to know Thy will and obedient FROM THE PRESIDENT EXEC~ MESSAGES REFERRED hearts to do it. Work with us and through The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid be As in executive session, the Presi us for this Nation and the world. In times fore the Senate a message from the Pres of turbulence, fraught with anxiety and dent pro tempore laid before the Sen ident of the United States, which, with ate messages from the President of the surprises without end, grant us here the the accompanying report, was referred United States submitting sundry nomi strength and courage of those whose to the Committee on Interior and Insular minds are stayed on Thee. When men are Affairs. The message is as follows: nations and withdrawing the nomination unsure about so much, keep us sure of of Joseph S. Farland, of West Virginia, Thee and of Thy purposes. Guide this To the Congress of the United States: to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Nation through the perils and perplexi In accordance with section 3 of Public Plenipotentiary of the United States of ties of this era to a new age of goodness Law 89-605, as amended by Public Law America to New Zealand, and to serve and grace in the fulfillment of a divine 91-242, I am transmitting a report by concurrently and without additional destiny. When our work is done grant us the Secretary of the Interior. This report Thy peace. compensation as Ambassador Extraordi recommends discontinuance of negotia nary and Plenipotentiary of the United Through Him who is the way, the tions for a Federal-Interstate Compact truth, and the life. Amen. and suggests repeal by Congress of Public States of America to Fiji, to Western Law 89-605 as amended by Public Law Samoa, and to the Kingdom of Tonga, 91-242, the Hudson River Basin Compact which nominating messages were re MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT ferred to the Committee on Commerce. APPROVAL OF BILL Act. The report includes a letter of agree