June 3, 1969 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 14601 for congressional redistricting, and for other of Michigan the Sleeping Bear Dunes Na By Mr. KING: purposes; to the Oommittee on the Judiciary. tional La.keshore, and for other purposes; to H.J. Res. 758. Joint resolution proposing By Mr. EDWARDS of Louisiana: the Committee on Interior and Insular an amendment to the Constitution of the H.R. 11818. A bill to amend the Internal Affairs. United States relating to the power of the Revenue· Code of 1954 to provide a basic H.R. 11830. A bill to assure the safe passage Supreme Court to declare any provision of $3,000 exemption from income tax for of all students enrolled in institutions of law constitutional; to the Committee on the amounts received as annuities, pensions, or higher learning, and for other purposes; to Judiciary. other retirement benefits; to the Committee the Committee on the Judiciary. H.J. Res. 759. Joint resolution proposing an on Ways and Means. By Mr. POLLOCK: amendment to the Constitution relating to By Mr. !CHORD (for himself and Mr. H.R. 11831. A bill to provide for an addi the appointment of members of the Supreme HUNGATE): tional staff employee for each Member of the Court of the United States; to the Commit H.R. 11819. A bill to provide for orderly House of Representatives representing a tee on the Judiciary. trade in footwear; to the Committee on Ways congressional district which is the only con By Mr. MINISH: and Means. gressional district authorized for an entire H.J. Res. 760. Joint resolution to provide for By Mr. KING: State; to the Committee on House Adminis the issuance of a commemorative postage H.R. 11820. A bill to amend title 28, United tration. stamp in honor of Robert Francis Kennedy; States Code, to establish certain qualifica By Mr. PURCELL: to the Committee on Post Office and Civil tions for persons appointed as judges or jus H.R. 11832. A bill to provide for the estab Service. tices of the United States; to the Committee lishment of an international quarantine sta H.J. Res. 761. Joint resolution designating on the Judiciary. tion and to permit the entry therein of ani January 15 of each year as "Martin Luther H.R. 11821. A bill to establish a Small Tax mals from any other country and the subse King Day"; to the Committee on the Judi Division within the Tax Court of the United quent movement of such animals into other ciary. States; to the Committee on Ways and parts of the United States for purposes of By Mr. POLLOCK: Means. improving livestock breeds, and for other H.J. Res. 762. Joint Resolution to author ize the President to issue a proclamation des H.R. 11822. A bill to amend title II of the purposes; to the Committee on Agriculture. ignating the 30th day of September in 1969 Social Security Act to increase to $3,000 the By Mr. ROGERS of Florida: a.s "Bible Translation Day"; to the Committee annual amount individuals are permitted to H.R. 11833. A bill to amend the Solid on the Judiciary. earn Without suffering deductions from the WaBte Disposal Act in order to provide fi By Mr. TALCOTT: insurance benefits payable to them under nancial assistance for the construction of such title; to the Committee on Ways and solid waste disposal fac11ities, to improve re H.J. Res. 763. Joint resolution to provide Means. for the designation of the period from Au search programs pursuant to such act, and gust 26, 1969, through September 1, 1969, as By Mr. McFALL: for other purposes; to the Committee on "National Archery Week"; to the Committee H.R. 11823. A bill to amend the laws under Interstate and Foreign Commerce. on the Judiciary. which Federal financial assistance is pro By Mr. ROONEY of Pennsylvania: By Mr. WYMAN: vided for schools in federally impacted areas, H.R. 11834. A bill to reclassify certain key H. Con. Res. 281. Concurrent resolution, so as to include in the computations the positions in the postal field service, and for support of gerontology centers; to the Com number of children living in federally a.s other purposes; to the Committee on Post mittee on Education and Labor. filsted low-rent housing; to the Committee Office and Civil Service. on Education and Labor. By Mr. TAFI': By Mr. McMILLAN: H.R. 11835. A bill to amend title 39, United PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS H.R. 11824. A bill to amend title xvm of States Code, to provide extra compensation the Social Security Act to provide payment for officially ordered or approved time worked . Under clause 1 of rule XXII, privaite for chiropractors' services under the program by postal field service employees, on any day bills and resolutions were introduced and of supplementary medical insurance benefits designated by Executive order as a national severally referred as follows: for the aged; to the Committee on Ways and day of mourning; to the Committee on Post By Mr. DOWNING: Means. Office and Civil Service. By Mr. MATSUNAGA (for himself and H.R. 11838. A bill for the relief of Robah N. By Mr. TAYLOR: Browder; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. HOLIFIELD): H.R. 11836. A bill to provide additional By Mr. EDWARDS of California: H.R. 11825. A bill to repeal the Emergency benefits for optometry officers of the uni Detention Act of 1950 (title II of the In H.R. 11839. A bill for the relief Of Pa.rviz formed services; to the Committee on Armed Fara.marzi; to the Committee on the Judi ternal Security Act of 1950); to the Commit Services. ciary. tee on Internal Security. By Mr. WILLIAMS: By Mr. FALLON: By Mr. MOLLOHAN: H.R. 11837. A bill to require tba termina H.R. 11840. A bill for the relief of Mrs. H.R. 11826. A bill to provide additional tion for 1 full year of Federal financial assist Maria Anastasia Mendoza and her minor benefits for optometry officers of the uni ance to colleges and universities which are children, Ga.vino Nora Mendoza and Maria formed services; to the Committee on Armed experiencing campus disorders and fall to Nora Mendoza; to the Committee on the Services. take appropriate corrective measures forth Judiciary. H.R. 11827. A bill to amend the Communi With, and to require the termination for 1 By Mr. KEITH: cations-Act of 1934 to establish orderly pro full year of Federal financial assistance to H.R. 11841. A bill for the rellef of Robert cedures for the consideration of applications teachers participating in such disorders; to A. Pickering; to the Committee on the Ju for renewal of broadciu;t licenses; to th• the Committee on Education and Labor. diciary. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com By Mr. BETTS: By Mr. WYMAN: merce. H.J. Res. 756. Joint resolution proposin~ H.R. 11842. A bill for the relief of Ludger H.R. 11828. A bill to amend the Intiernal an amendment to the Constitution of the J. Cosette; to the Committee on the Judi Revenue Code of 1954 to increase from $600 United States relative to equal rights for men ciary. to $1,200 the personal income tax exemptions and women; to the Committee on the Judici of a taxpayer (including the exemption for a ary. spouse, the exemptions for a dependent, and By Mrs. DWYER: PETITIONS, ETC. the additional exemptions for old age and H.J. Res. 757. Joint resolution to authorize Under clause 1 of rule XXII, blindness); to the Committee on Ways and appropriations for expenses of the Office of 134. The SPEAKER presented a petition a! Means. Intergovernmental Relations, and for other Zom B. Hays, Asheville, N.C., relative to the By Mr. O'HARA: purposes; to the Committee on Government Supreme Court, which was referred to the H.R. 11829. A bill to establish in the State Operations. Committee on the Judiciairy.
EXTENSIONS OF R.EMARKS PRIZE LETTERS CALL FOR RETEN County sponsors a letterwriting contest the letters express very clearly my own TION OF NATIONAL ANTHEM for the sixth-grade class of the Parkview feeling that it would be a terrible mistake Elementary School. Dorothy J. Nelson is for Congress to change our naitional the postmistress at the Anita facility. HON. JOHN P. SAYLOR With the assistance of the smh-grade anthem. I am sure that after reading the prize letters, Members of Congress will OF PENNSYLVANIA English teacher, Mrs. Zimmerman, the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES children choose a topic they wish to write be as impressed as I am that these rep on, do their own research, and submit resentatives of the younger generation Tuesday, June 3, 1969 letters for judging. are concerned with saving the valuable Mr. SAYLOR. Mr. Speaker, each year This year 29 letters were submitted on traditions of our coun1try. the Anita., Pa., Post omce in Jefferson the subject of the national anthem. All I have appended to my remarks. the 14602 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 3, 1969 prize-winning letters in the two divisions lasting several days and nigh ts inspired farm workers committee seeking to organize of the contest. First prize for the girls Francis Scott Key to write the song. grape workers in California they, in effect, With the trouble in our land today the endorsed the movement to picket and boycott was captured by Cindy Brown; second anthem serves as an inspiration to our fight stores that sell table grapes. The leader of prize went to Becky Young; and third ing men stationed all over the world. So I the force is Cesar Chavez from the Delano prize went to Pam Brady. Douglas Lyle think we should not change the National area where he has been trying to organize the captured the first prize for the boys; Anthem. farm workers for several yea.rs. Aided by Tom Kurtz received second prize; and Sincerely yours, unions in other areas, stores have been Kevin Baranoski won third prize. DOUGLAS LYLE. picketed in a secondary boycott to put pres The prize letters follow: sure on the growers to accept union con SECOND PRIZE-BOYS trol of their farms. If the movement is suc FIRST PRIZE-GmLS PuNXSUTAWNEY, PA., cessful we may expect the same illegal boy ANITA, PA., March 25, 1969. cott of other California farm products in the March 26, 1969. DEAR MRS. NELSON; I don't think we should organizing effort. Statements by Kennedy DEAR MRS. NELSON: We are facing a prob change our National Anthem because it has and Tunney support this effort which affects lem. Should we change our National been our official anthem for 38 years. Its not only the workers but also retail stores and Anthem? Some people want to change our stirring words were written by Francis Scott consumers. National Anthem just because some notes Key while he was watching the bombard Their statements on the issue would make are too hard to sing. I think this is a very ment of Fort McHenry. Some of the words it appear the vineyard workers are terribly poor way to feel. Everything has to be easy in it are taken from our Bible. If they underpaid and deserve to be organized to to do these days or no-one is interested in change the words of the anthem it will not bargain with the growers. This is not borne doing it. be ours, as it tells the story of our flag. out by the official Crop Reporting Board of Another reason I have heard of its being It is what Key saw and felt in his heart the U.S. Department of Agriculture. That changed is because it is not modern, which and it ls not up to the people to change it. report shows California farm workers are the may be true, but the words tell a story that We should all ask ourselves if we want it highest paid in the whole United States. The is part of our history. I think it would be changed or not. report shows the average for the U.S. is $1.20 very wrong to change our National Anthem Yours truly, an hour. The California rate is shown as because everyone all over the world is famil TOM KURTZ. $1.60 an hour. A report by the growers shows iar with the tune and the story it tells. that grape workers are paid a basic wage of Sincerely yours, $1.50 an hour. But they are also paid 15 to CINDY BROWN. THmD PRIZE-BOYS 25 cents a box they pick. The average on that DE LANCEY, PA., basis amounts to about $2.50 an hour. March 26, 1969. Sen. Kennedy indicates he is trying to help SECOND PRIZE-GmLS DEAR MRS. NELSON: Some people want to PuNXSY, PA., the army of workers who are migrants with change the National Anthem and some don't. out homes who are left helpless after the har March 26, 1969. I think we shouldn't change this song be DEAR MRs. NELSON: I don't think the Na vest season. Actually about 90 per cent of cause we have had it for many years. It was the grape workers in the Delano district- tional Anthem should be changed. It was written by Francis Scott Key and was our first National Anthem to be written, and where the union is concentrating its efforts adopted as our National Anthem in 1931. It to organize the workers-are permanent should be the only one. It was based on is now part of our history. what our men were fighting for. It is based residents of that area. About 5,000 of them All Americans know this song as our Na work in the vineyards during crop picking on the flag which standS for freedom and tional Anthem. If we change this song it what is right. If we changed everything our seasons. About half that number are em would cause much confusion. Some of the ployed the year around. forefathers have done, we won't have any famous singers say it is a good anthem. This thing to stand for later on in life. Many of these workers are not heads of is why I think we should keep the National families. Many are housewives, student$ and It is like removing a root on which the Anthem. country was built. It would be like removing casuals working the crop season-September Yours truly, through December-to supplement their something the older people cherished for so KEVIN BARANOSKI. long. It would be like parting with an old family income. Most of the family heads are friend or something that could never be re employed the year around irrigating, pruning, placed. So I don't think we should change it. stripping, fertilizing and other work in Yours truly, growing the crop. The hlgher-than-most BECKY YOUNG. KENNEDY, TUNNEY JOIN CALI farm-worker-incomes have been existent in FORNIA GRAPE BOYCOTT the Delano area for many years. It is this better-than-average pay that has THmD PRIZE-GmLS given the union so much trouble in signing ANITA, PA., up workers. The present strike has been go March 26, 1969. HON. ROBERT B. (BOB) MATHIAS ing on several months. If the union could DEAR MRS. NELSON: Have you heard that OF CALIFORNIA sign up a majority of the workers it would some people would like to change our Na IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES have reason to ask the government to enforce tional Anthem. They would like to change it negotiations between the union and the to My Country 'Tis of Thee, or America the Tuesday, June 3, 1969 growers. The union has failed to get the Beautiful. They said it was easier to sing Mr. MATHIAS. Mr. Speaker, the State workers to sign up-so it has taken the road these songs. of California has recently become the to illegal boycotts hoping to hurt the indus I don't think this is right. I don't think try in selling the crops. They have been suc we should change it when we have had it for center of a nationwide controversy cessful in a few cases where chain stores have about forty years. which has led to the boycotting of discontinued buying the table grapes. But I think Francis Scott Key would be very stores which sell our table grapes. these chains are small in number and the proud of his poem. But just think how he Legislation is now before the Senate competing stores have more than made up would feel if someone changed it. which attempts to settle this controversy for the lost outlets. Just as every country has a National flag, and provide necessary guidelines to pro This writer would support NLRB action to every country has a National Anthem, and tect the interests of all concerned assume power over labor-management prob the one we have now is very beautiful. ! armers, workers, and the housewife or lems if a majority of the workers signified John Stafford Smith wrote very beautiful consumer. they wished to be represented by the union. music to Francis Scott Key's poem. He too But where this is lacking he supports the would be very proud to know that his music The bill-S. 2203-authored by Sen growers who are fighting against the higher became our National Anthem. ator GEORGE MURPHY is aimed at assur costs that would be incurred by union domi The words to the Star-Spangled Banner ing the uninterrupted flow of an ade nation. The cost of such increases would are beautiful, and have a great meaning. I quate supply of food products from our have to be passed on to consumers. don't see why anyone would want to change farms to consumers. it. As for me, I don't want it to be changed. Mr. Speaker, under unanimous con Sincerely yours, sent I submit for the RECORD a column PAM BRADY. from the Long Beach, Calif., Press-Tele A DffiECT POPULAR VOTE METHOD gram, by L.A. Collins, Sr., which I be FIRST PRIZE-BOYS lieve discusses this situation very in HON. EMILIO Q. DADDARIO REYNOLDSVILLE, PA., formatively and shows how it is being March 25, 1969. made a nationwide issue: OF CONNEcrICUT IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES DEAR MRS. NELSON: I think we should not KENNEDY, TuNNEY JOIN GRAPE BoYCO'IT change the National Anthem. Tuesday, June 3, 1969 It has been our heritage since September (By L.A. Collins, Sr.) 1814. The sight of the American flag still When Sen. Edward Kennedy and Congress Mr. DADDARIO. Mr. Speaker, recently flying over Fort McHenry after a fierce battle man Tunney flew to Calexico to join the the Connecticut State Chamber of Com- June 3, 1969 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 14603 merce unanimously adopted a resolution to a high school of 2,200 students and The oil executives in the large meeting urging the adoption of a direct popular 100 faculty members. room stirred uneasily. The government offi Howard Waymire was born in Nor cial on the platform glanced at his papers vote method of election for our President and continued: "The information we now and Vice President. Carl N. Hansen, walk, Calif., on April 12, 1908, the son of have shows that untold numbers of people president of the Connecticut State a successful building contractor. A short have been killed and the oil industry Chamber of Oommerce, Inc., wrote to me time later the Waymire family moved to throughout the South has been badly hit. on May 23, pointing out that both on the Overton, Nev., where Howard attended "The refinery at Pascagoula, Mississippi, is national level and within the State of the public schools. In 1926 he graduated 60 percent destroyed and still burning. Most Connecticut there is strong support for from Maopa Valley High School. of the other refineries in the region have been Mr. Waymire attended the College of knocked out. A few are still working at full electoral reform. His letter provides capacity, but they mainly produce fuel on strong statistical evidence of these sen Engineering at the University of Reno, not gasoline. Hospitals, civil defense, and timents, including the results of several married his wife Vern, and moved to Los the military are clamoring for gasoline, and polls, and therefore I would like to bring Angeles where he received his AB degree our surviving storage tanks are only half it to your attention: in 1939 with a major in English from Oc full. MAY 23, 1969. cidental College. Later he r.eceived a "All right, gentlemen. What are you going Hon. EMILIO Q. DADDARIO, master's degree in education and an ad to do about this?" Rayburn House Office Building, ministrative credential from the Uni For Emmett Vaughey, a dapper, white Washington, D.C. versity of Southern California. haired Mississippi oilman sitting in the front DEAR CONGRESSMAN DADDARIO: The follow row of this Atlanta motel meeting room in ing resolution was proposed and unani It was, however, his abilities in wood December 1968, the words were familiar. He'd mously adopted at our Board meeting working, machine shop, and welding that heard them before at other similar meetings Wednesday, May 7, 1969: got him his first teaching job, and began Government officials had talked dispassion "The Connecticut State Chamber of Com nearly a three-decade career at Leu ately about nuclear attacks or limited wars merce supports abolition of the Electoral zinger. like Vietnam, of refineries wrecked or hur College and urges Congress to adopt a direct Mr. Waymire's service to Leuzinger has riedly converted to wartime fuel production. popular vote method to elect our President been closely paralleled with service to the The words were also familiar because they and Vice President. community. He is a member of the Haw were part of a script, a script which had "A direct vote for the President would been outlined several years earlier by sweep away possible abuses of the current thorne Kiwanis Club, the YMCA board, Vaughey and other oilmen. method, including those that could arise and a founding member of the Fine Arts Vaughey, a quiet-spoken petroleum execu from the right of state legislatures to direct Association of the Centinela Valley. He tive in his 60's, heads his own independent methods of choosing electors, the right of was also affiliated with the Hawthorne production company in Jackson, Mississippi. electors to disobey instructions, and the ad Symphony Association and the school He is ·also the administrator of Region 3 o! vantages of big states over small states. It district's Oitizens Advisory Committee. the Emergency Petroleum and Gas Admin would also eliminate the possibility that the Mr. Waymire won the respect of fac istration (EPGA). Region 3 extends from popular vote winner would not be elected ulty members at Leuzinger for his dedi North Carolina to Florida and then west to President." Mississippi. Vaughey is responsible for mo Popular support for reform is strong both cated support of projects in classroom bilizing the petroleum industry in this area throughout the nation and in Connecticut. teaching which stress innovative ap during wartime or periods of international A 1966 membership referendum, conducted proaches to learning. As one of the strong unrest. The 75 other men in the Atlanta by the National Chamber of Commerce, re supporters of fine arts in the school and meeting room were also mostly petroleun1 vealed that 90 % of the respondents favored community, his tenure as principal saw industry volunteers. reform. A nation-wide Gallup Poll, con Leuzinger recognized for its outstanding That morning last winter, Vaughey had ducted in late 1968, indicated that 80% of theatrical productions. looked about the meeting room. Many of the those polled support immediate reform of men were ones he himself had recruited. the system. And, a recent survey of over On June 11, 1969, Howard Waymire "These are all good men,'' he remarked. 4,000 employees of the Travelers Insurance will be honored by a testimonial dinner "There's plenty of work piling up back on Company has revealed that over 80 % favor for his unselfish devotion and dedication their office desks while they participate in the direct election of the President. to education and the community. It is my these test exercises. But they've decided this I trust you will give this matter serious privilege to join in saluting Howard N. is a job worth doing. And their companies cohsidera tion. Waymire for the outstanding job he has agree with them about this and let them Sinoerely, done as principal of Leuzinger High do it." CARL N. HANSEN, School. The purpose of the Region 3 test exercise President. was to simulate the problems the men would encounter if their section were hit by nu clear bombs. If it happened, these are the OIL PATCH PATRIOTS men who would apply federal direction to TRIBUTE TO HOWARD the petroleum industry in their area. N. WAYMIRE HON. CHARLES H. GRIFFIN On the podium, John Ricca, deputy direc tor of the Office of Oil and Gas and a full OF MISSISSIPPI time "exercise director" with EPGA, was de HON. GLENN M. ANDERSON IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES scribing other exercises that had been held OF CALIFORNIA Tuesday, June 3, 1969 across the country. Vaughey nodded at Ricoa. "John has a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. GRIFFIN. Mr. Speaker, the spring specially tough job. I've just got my 40 vol Tuesday, June 3, 1969 issue of Petroleum Today contains an ar unteers to keep tabs on. But he's got his ticle on the vital national security role of work with Oil and Gas, and then he's in Mr. ANDERSON of California. Mr. the Emergency Petroleum and Gas Ad charge of EPGA. That's eight regions with Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to ministration and the volunteer execu over 600 men. He's got to run these exercises, Mr. Howard N. Waymire, retiring prin tives who man it. evaluate them, plan for new ones. It's a cipal of Leuzinger High School in Lawn grueling job." The article features the leadership of When Ricca finished speaking, exercise kits dale, Calif., for his 29 years of outstand Emmett Vaughey, administrator of re ing service in the field of secondary edu were handed out and the volunteer reservists gion 3 of EPGA. A noted and respected quickly walked off to their rooms to work cation. independent oil producer of Jackson, on their particular problems. Though this Mr. Waymire began his career at Leu Miss. Mr. Vaughey is a worthy example was only a game exercise, the problem had zinger High School in 1940 as a teacher of business executives, who give freely of been carefully prepared by the Office of Oil of industrial srts. He was appointed their time and talents when called to and Gas staff so as to seem absolutely chairman of the industrial arts depart Government service. Because of their love realistic. ment in 1942 and named boys' vice prin and faith in America, these men perform Amid a haze of cigarette and cigar smoke, cipal in 1947. In 1950 Mr. Waymire was the reservists in the various state groups important missions that have no glamour hung up their jackets and began to hammer promoted to director of guidance and and little publicity. out the steps they would take once tele curriculum. Ten years later, the Cen I commend the fallowing article to my phone communications resumed. tinela Valley Union High School District colleagues: "You have to treat the exercise like the board of trustees named Mr. Waymire OIL PATCH PATRIOTS genuine thing," one of the reservists later principal of Leuzinger High. He has "Gentlemen, the United States has explained. "People are dead, the industry is served in this capacity for nearly 10 been attacked by an enemy using nuclear wrecked, and there you are in a room with years, providing guidance and leadership weapons." a telephone and a pack of cigarettes, ancl 14604 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 3, 1969
you've got t.o get the oil and gas moving ton with his wife and daughter and went to ta.in if operating costs will stay within the again. So what do you do?" work for the Petroleum Administration for extremely narrow profit margin of Mach 2 Buzz. The first step 1s simple, the reserv Defense (PAD) , which was a successor to planes. ists agree. Pick up the phone and get t.o the PAW. Profitability will determine whether the governor or the people at the state resource "But the trouble with both PAW and PAD two countries can sell 250 Concordes at $20 agency. Let them know you are on t.op of was that we had to wait till we got into million each in order to break even. the problem. Now the job becomes more a shooting war before we established them. Military planes only hit supersonic speeds complicated. Get in t.ouch with the refineries Then in 1962, the National Petroleum Coun for a few minutes at a time. Concorde must and terminal operators. How much fuel do cil, which advises the Secretary of the In keep it up for two hours straight in order they have? Get to the state resource people terior about oil matters, was asked to correct to span the Atlantic in around three hours. who have already pooled tank trucks and the situation. In the event of another war, THREE COOLING SYSTEMS barges. What transportation is available? No the country couldn't afford to wait months To keep passengers from being fried if the oil moves without your say-so. while a new organization was set up. We Now-who gets oil first and how do you air-conditioning system breaks down, the needed a standby organization that could plane has two other cooling systems in re get it to them? Are there enough operating be activated at a moment's notice. So EPGA personnel in the refineries or will you have serve. Although the air temperature ts 68 de was founded in 1963." grees below zero at Concorde's cruising alti to bring them in? Actually, it took two years to work out the Is there enough electricity, water, and gas tude of 65,000 feet, no cool air will be basic framework of the new organization, and available. to run the industry? Emmett Vaughey was one of a group of oil One man on a phone in a room arguing, Air will be taken into the air-conditioning men who flew up to Washington every month system hurling along with the rest of the shouting, pleading, with the weight of a to help hammer out the shape of EPGA. Then mangled industry on his shoulders. plane at 1,380 miles an hour. Wing edges, Emmett and the others spent another two the plane's nose and a.Ir intakes will sudden This is the way it would be; and this is years developing the training techniques. what the reservists attempted to describe in ly compress the air so greatly that it will Vaughey had nothing but praise for his heat up to 261 degrees. a written report during the first day of the volunteer reservists. "Most of these men give EPGA exercises. This hot air fl.owing along the plane's sur many days to studying manuals and partici faces would bake those inside without unique As the men worked, Emmett Vaughey cir pating in these exercises. They a.re doing all culated a.bout the motel, stopping in at air-conditioning systems. Air taken into this to prepare themselves for something they the conditioners will be further oompressed various rooms. hope will never happen. It takes character "Our biggest problems are procedural by jet turbines until its temperature rises to and dedication to work on a job which you 1,110 degrees. questions. The men wonder about things hope will never be needed." llke, 'Do I have the authority to freeze de This highly compressed air will pass liveries?' 'How do I do it?' Fortunately, we through two heat exchangers in the wings. have a lot of state resource officials sitting in It will be cooled by the relatively "cool" air on the exercise. These are the people we'd outside and by fuel in wing tanks to a mere be talking to in a real crisis, and they are EUROPEANS SMILE OVER SST LEAD 390 degrees. working out the procedures right here with THIRTEEN BELOW ZERO us." Then this air will be allowed to decom By the end of the day, most of the now HON. BOB WILSON press as it spurts into pipes along the skin exhausted reservists were finishing up their OF CALIFORNIA Of the fuselage. Decompression will cool the written reports. The next morning, they IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES air instantly to 13 degrees below zero. convened in the meeting room. It was now It is supposed to keep the passengers' cabin assumed, for the purposes of the exercise, Tuesday, June 3, 1969 at 70 degrees. Air-conditioning problems that the time was 20 days after the initial Mr. BOB WILSON. Mr. Speaker, I of America's supersonic transport will be still nuclear attack. Telephone wires had been tougher. At the top speed of 1,800 miles an repaired and the states in the region could would like to share with my colleagues hour, outside air will be compressed until its now communicate with regional headquar the following article from the San Diego temperature is 570 degrees compared with ters and with one another. Union regarding French and British a mere 260 around Concorde. "This ts where I get busy," says Va.ughey. advances in the development of a super To penetrate the atmosphere with the "We divide the room up into regional di sonic transport. As a nation that has least possible air friction, Concorde's fuse visions for transportation, marketing, and had the unquestioned lead in air trans lage was designated nearly as slender as a refining, and put the various men in each portation, it is inconceivable that we needle. It is only 9~ feet wide although 194 division together. Reports are exchanged. would let Russia, France, and Britain feet long. There will only be room Sor The marketing people work out their major four passengers to sit abreast. The wing problems and then present them to the re pass us by. ·we must build the SST and span of the production models will be only finery people. The refinery people get to maintain our position in front with the 33 feet, 10 inches. gether with the transportation group to find fastest and best aircraft in the world's Concorde ts scheduled to be certified for out how they can get their products moving airlanes. commercial service in 1973 or 1974. around the region." The article follows: Through the afternoon, Vaughey wandered EuROPEANS SMll.E OVER SST LEAD from group to group. Officially, the exercise (By Thomas Nuzum) was over at 5 p.m., but Vaughey continued THE DISGRACE OF INDIFFERENCE to move about the room talking to his vol PARIS.-France and Britain's flying needle, TO DISHONOR unteers. He missed a flight that was to take the Concorde, has given Europe a shot in him to New Orleans for a. business meeting. the arm. Finally, almost reluctantly, Vaughey packed Europe finally has taken the lead over the HON. LOUIS C. WYMAN and dashed for the airport. United States in the key industrial sector Several days later, sitting in the deep shade of civil aviation, French newspapers chortle OF NEW HAMPSHIRE behind the porch columns of his Oolonial as a result of the first flight of the Concorde IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES prototype on March 2 from Toulouse. style home in Jackson, Mississippi, Emmett Monday, June 2, 1969 Vaughey talks about the problems of keep The British press has been more reserved ing oil fl.owing. "You begin with the premise about the Anglo-French supersonic trans Mr. WYMAN. Mr. Speaker, it must be that without petroleum, the nation would port. Some papers call it a joint triumph in a shock to columnists like Marquis come to a standstill. You can't name an in technology. But others note that the plane's 10 years of development was a $2 billion Childs to encounter face to face the ni dustry that doesn't need oil or gas. But there hilistic cynicism of some modern young are times, like World War II, when the de gamble that has yet to pay off commercially. mands are so great that you have to start "It flies but so did the pterodactyl,'' com people. Mr. Childs' description of such balancing priorities. This was why the gov mented the Manchester Guardian. The an encounter appeared recently in the ernment created the Petroleum Administra pterodactyl was the awkward flying lizard Washington Star and is as disturbing in tion for War, or PAW, back in 1941. It had that became extinct. retrospect as it must have been in person. the incredibly complex job of balancing civil FRENCH PROUD For the utter lack of patriotism and loy ian and industrial oil needs against the re The prestige-conscious French are proud alty it indicates must result from a fail quirement for keeping the oil moving to ar that Concorde will use as much power as ure on the part of parents and teachers. mies all over the world." the Queen Mary. Commercially conscious It could not just happen, and it is dis Vaughey is no newcomer to the business of Britons note that all that power will only turbingly prevalent among the hippie moving oil. He got his start in the petroleum fly an average of 130 passengers across the industry digging ditches in the Oklahoma oil Atlantic. sect-each of whom is somebody's child. fields back in the 1920's and according to his It will be eight months before test pilot It is as basic a truth as the fact that own estimate, has done "just about every Andre Turcat tries the prototype out at its day follows night that the freedom and job you can find in the oil business." Dur top speed of 2.05 times the speed of sound. material prosperity we now enjoy in ing the Korean War, he moved to Washing- Many more months will pass before it is cer- America was earned or preserved for us June 3, 1969 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 14605 by courageous Americans, many of whom to be total. The young have ILttle to say to General Koster was the guest of honor a.t gave their lives in the process. their elders. a luncheon sponsored Tuesday noon by the Each generation must be prepared to This reporter ca.me on an incident on West Liberty Chamber of Commerce. It was Cam.bridge Common that dramatized the a chance for him to greet many of the friends risk lives if it is to remain free. Repre alienation with the theatricality that would he knew as a boy in West Liberty and his sentatives of a society that has posses give a professional dramatist pause. A tall schoolmates from the Class of '37. sions or a way of life that other people man wearing the uniform of the Disabled Willa.rd Salemink, West Liberty Chamber want must be ready to fight in order to American Veterans stood arguing in a closely of Commerce president, summarized the sit protect and preserve it so that i:t may be packed knot of the young. On his overseas uation accurately when he said "We often passed on to its children to enjoy. cap was the legend Sr. Vice Commander Dis have commencement speakers who tell the As for the putrefying characters de abled American Veterans of Massachusetts. graduates to set their objectives, work hard The young were mostly hippie types, and attain their goals. Today, we honor a scribed by Mr. Childs, they have nothing, bearded, long hair. Cambridge is attracting man who has done exactly this." for their souls are apparently lost. hippies from all over the country as San Dr. John Carey, a lifelong friend who in We used to reflect on the profound Francisco once did. Three men and one troduced General Koster at the luncheon, re lines of the poem: young woman had faces painted dead white called that "Sam" was a perfectionist and a Breathes there a man with soul so dead with symbols around the eyes and mouth, good student. He was also a school athlete, Who never to himself hath said: part of a street theatre. They were not hos "the center on two of the better basketball "This 1s my own, my native land!" tile to the tall veteran so much as contemp teams this high school ever produced." tuous. General Koster graduated from the U.S. It is tragic that there should be such "I suppose you call yourself a hero, do Military Academy in 1942. He is a veteran of driftwood in human form in this beauti you?" one of the young men, more conven World War II and the Korean conflict. He was ful land of ours-that is still the land of tionally dressed than the others, said. commander of the 23rd Infantry Division in oppcrtunity if you are willing to apply "No, I don't call myself a hero," the veter Vietnam until he was named in June, 1968, an replied. "I was in the Korean War, I was as superintendent of the U.S. Military Acad yourself. shot up a bit." emy at West Point. F'EARs OF NEW VIOLENCE DARKEN A BRIGHT "Why did you go?" West Liberty has a right to be proud of SPRING DAY AT HARVARD "I went because it was my duty." General Samuel W. Koster. He has served this (By Marquis Childs) "Would you say what Stephen Decatur country faithfully in war and peacetime, and CAMBRIDGE, MAss.-An obliging legislature said?" This from one of the painted faces. continues to serve in the important job of having changed three holidays during the "'My oountry, may she always be right, but educating the young men who will be the year to fall ofiicially on Monday, this state my country, right or wrong.'" backbone of the Army omcer corps in the alone among the 50 observed Memorial Day "Yes, I would say tha-t." future. on May 26, thereby making a long weekend. "So even if your country wasn't right, like It turned out one of those perfect spring in Vietnam, you'd go out and shoot 400 days when in full sun the great elms on gooks." PROBLEM OF PERSISTENT Boston Common, in their new green, look as This brought derisive laughter. A bit later PESTICIDES though they had been washed with a bril the veteran called it off and shrugged his liant dye. way out of the crowd. No, he wouldn't give For Harvard the weekend was a respite, a his name? He didn't want publicity. He just truce of sorts after the shattering storm wanted to see if you could talk to these HON. THOMAS L. ASHLEY the "bust" as it is called locally-that left people. OF OHIO the University divided into hostile factions. The incident took place against the back IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES drop of a Civil War monument, a standing The 4 a.m. police action to end a sit-in at Tuesday, June 3, 1969 University Hall stirred passions such as Fair figure of Lincoln, topped by a uniformed Harvard had never known before. soldier of the Northern army, the sides de Mr. ASHLEY. Mr. Speaker, I am intro The fear is that the storm will break again faced by swastikas, names, smears daubed on. I stood copying the inscription when a ducing legislation today to counter the on commencement day, June 12. Whether serious threat to the environment, fish Harvard will ever be the same is being young woman detached herself from another group to say, "What are you copying down and wildlife, and man posed by the indis asked-ho~fully by the student left deter mined to break up the old power structure, there, you big four-letter word. We'll make criminate use of persistent pesticides. To and despairingly by many who see the prec you pay for copying that." meet this danger, I am propcsing two edent of disruption and violence setting a The inscription was: bills: The first would ban the use of DDT pattern that will make it impossible to re "The soldiers and sailors of Cam.bridge in the United States; and the second turn to the tranquility of the past, when whose names are inscribed here died in the would establish a National Commission Harvard stood, as all Harvard men believed service of their country in the war for the on Pesticides to improve the effectiveness with no undue hum111ty, in the forefront of maintenance of the Union. In perpetual memory of their valor and patriotism " of pesticides and to eliminate their haz scholarship and research. ards to the world we live in. On this last long weekend before the end of school, Harvard Yard was quiet. For many, Well documented research has indi exams are st1ll to come and, what with the cated that pesticides are a basic cause of excitement of rall1es, protests, and demon SALUTE TO GENERAL KOSTER serious disruption of the ecological bal strations, a lot of extra cramming was going ance, of permanent injury and death to on to make up for lost time. fish and wildlife, and a potential threat Liberated spirits am.ong the young sprawled HON. FRED SCHWENGEL to the health and welfare of the general on the banks of the Charles River, Harvard OJ' IOWA public. The persistent pesticides do not and Radcliffe in happy amity soaking up the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES disintegrate rapidly-for example, DDT sun. Beads, bells, costumes of every weird variety, the Indian predominating-this was Tuesday, June 3, 1969 remains about 50-percent toxic for 10 Harvard that even 10 years ago would have years-and thus accumulate in sufficient Mr. SCHWENGEL. Mr. Speaker, the concentration to kill wildlife and fish been unrecognizable. citizens of West Liberty recently paid But the weekend was not all cram.ming through the poisoning of foodstuffs they mixed with la dolce vita. Students for a tribute to one of their outstanding citi eat or by interfering with reproduction. Democratic Society were out on the street zens, Maj. Gen. Samuel W. Koster. Gen Scientists have discovered decreasing corners pushing their radical biweekly, the eral Koster is presently serving as Super reproduction rates in both birds and fish. Old Mole. The name is taken from the quo intendent of the Military Academy at In many birds, DDT and other persistent tation from Karl Marx on the masthead, "We West Point. I join wholeheartedly in the pesticides have caused a thinness of the recognize our friend, our old mole, who tribute paid to General Koster by the eggshell, thereby increasing egg breakage knows so well how to work underground, citizens of West Liberty and by a recent suddenly to appear: the revolution." Mole and decreasing overall reproductive suc is shrewdly, even brilliantly, edited to ex editorial in the Muscatine Journal: cess. This phenomenon has brought the ploit all the discontents of the young. The WEST LmERTY's SALUTE penguin of the Antarctic, the petrel of first page of the current issue is splashed West Liberty paid tribute yesterday to one Bermuda, and the bald eagle and pere with red and headlined: "Outory From Oc of its sons who has gained distinction in grine falcon of the United States to the cupied Berkeley." Heavy stress is put on dis the service of this nation. point of extinction. ruption in the high schools as the next front Major General Samuel W. Koster, superin At the same time, many fish face re being opened up. tendent of the United States Military Acad Cliche though it is, "generation gap" says emy at West Point, came back to the home production problems because these pesti more about what is happening in universi town Tuesday to be the commencement cides penetrate the yolk sac and Poison ties and colleges across the country than speaker for the West Liberty High school the main source of young fish. This anything else. The alienation at times seems senior class of 1969. phenomenon caused the death of a mil- 14606 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 3, 1969 lion coho salmon fry last spring. Only necessary control of disease vectors. The Fed started because Senator Hart discovered that recently, the Food and Drug Administra eral agencies should exert their leadership to the boxes of shredded wheat consumed by induce the States to take similar actions. him, Mrs. Hart, and their children were be tion impounded 28,150 pounds of Lake Eliminati on of the use of persistent toxic in coming higher and narrower, with a decline Michigan coho salmon. The FDA found secticides should be the goal. (Emphasis of the net weight from 12 to lOY-l ounces, that the salmon contained 19 parts per added). without any reduction in price. '!'here were million of DDT and three-tenths of a still twelve biscuits, but they had been re part per million of Dieldrin-both levels The report of the environmental pol duced in size. Later, the Senator rightly com considered hazardous by both the FDA lution panel of the President's Science plained of a store-bought pie in a hand and the World Health Organization. Advisory Committee in 1965 also dealt somely illustrated box that pictured, in a Many scientists are concerned that with this subject. It recommended: single slice, almost as many cherries as there the reproduction capabilities of other Research should be encouraged toward the were in the whole pie. development of pesticides with greater spec The manufacturer who increases the unit fish may be harmed. This is especially ificity, additional modes of action, and more price of his product by changing his package so in the case of lake trout, which spend rapid degradability than many of those in size to lower the quantity delivered can, 6 or 7 years in the water before sexual current use. without undue hardship, put his product maturity as compared with only about Pesticide effectiveness should be increased into boxes, bags, and tins that will contain 2 years for the salmon. The New York and total environmental contamination de even 4-ounce, 8-ounce, one-pound, two Health Commission has, in fact, reported creased by further research leading to the pound quantities of breakfast foods, cake that high concentrations of DDT are more efficient application of pesticides to the mixes, detergents. A study of drug store and target organisms. supermarket shelves will convince any ob being found in the lake trout of New server that all possible sizes and shapes of York's central and northern lakes. Reaction around the world is only be boxes, jars, bottles, and tins are in use at What is especially frightening about ginning to take form. Sweden has just the same time, and, as the packaging jour the ever-increasing number of cases of banned the use of DDT for a period of nals show, week by week, there is never any affected wildlife and ft.sh is that the at least 2 years. According to the London hesitation in introducing a new size and pesticides have managed to travel so far Observer, this is the first time any na shape of carton or bottle when it a.ids in product differentiation. The producers of to reach the animal in question. Thus, in tion has instituted such a sanction on a packaged products argue stoutly against order to infect the coho salmon, DDT pesticide. changing sizes of packages to conta.in even and Dieldrin probably traveled hundreds Several States in the United States weights and volumes, but no one in the trade of miles through air, water, and soil, and have recently started to meet the prob comments unfavorably on the huge costs in were consumed through the normal food lem. Arizona, concerned with increased cured by endless changes of package sizes, chain of up to half dozen organisms. residues of DDT in milk and other food materials, shapes, art work, and net weights Moreover, the Bermuda petrel never go products, has banned DDT for 1 year. that a.re used for improving a product's mar to the mainland and there certainly is The Pennsylvania State Senate Commit ket position. no DDT spraying in the Antarctic where tee has recommended banning DDT from When a packaging expert explained tha.t he was able to multiply the price of hard can penguins are becoming extinct. use in the fields and forests. dies by 2 Y2, from $1 to $2.50 by changing to a The effect of the wide use of these Michigan, lliinois, and Wisconsin have fancy jar, or that he had made a 5-ounce pesticides on man are just beginning to already issued recommendations against bottle look as though it held 8 ounces, he become apparent. At the 1968 Lake the use of DDT for the Dutch elm dis was in effect telling the public that packag Michigan Water Pollution Conference, ease, one of the primary targets of DDT ing can be a very expensive luxury. It evi spokesmen for the U.S. Bureau of Com use in the United States today. dently does come high, when an average mercial Fisheries testified that the con It is time ·that we, too, recognize the family pays about $200 a year for bottles, cans, boxes, jars and other containers, most centration of pesticides could reach a dangers of pesticides. I think the case of which can't be used for anything but level lethal to man and aquatic life if for banning DDT is clear, particularly stuffing the refuse can or the trash burner. the heavy use of pesticides is continued. since other less persistent pesticides are An article in Supermarket Merchandising During a recent conference on pesticides now recommended for the areas where noted that wrapped in Avisco cellophane in Stockholm, evidence was presented DDT was previously used. Moreover, a "plebeian mixtures of ground ham and pork" that DDT, even in very small quantities, permanent National Commission on Pes go at $1.39 a pound, all because "of the gar could affect human metabolism. One of ticides would provide a significant step nish of a pineapple ring and a red cherry" the studies cited was Russian research toward better and safer control of our "Not a bad way of handling ham and pork that indicated that Russian workers environment. We must act today, Mr. scraps that were formerly discarded." "Six rosettes" of ground chuck were whose jobs bring them in contact with Speaker, before any permanent damage "quality priced" at "6 cents more per pound DDT and other organochlorine pesti is done to man and his environment. to cover additional handling and packaging cides were found to suffer from changes materials." Mr. X's "smart tricks have yielded in the liver which slowed down the smart profits," the article concludes. elimination of wastes from the body. PACKAGING AND LABELING AS THE CONSUMER'S RIGHT TO COMPARE Dr. Robert Risebrough, an environ Packagers resent the idea of having com mental scientist at the University of PECTS OF SPECIAL INTEREST modities compared on cost-per-ounce basis; California at Berkeley, stated that the TO THE CONSUMER this, they hold, degrades the brand concept effect on man may be serious. He has and disregards quality differences. Yet they found enough accumulation in man to may as well get used to this idea of price stimulate enzyme production, which acts HON. DOMINICK V. DANIELS comparison, for government agencies intend as catalysts for bodily processes, such as OF NEW JERSEY to aid consumers in comparing unit prices; IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the point is strongly made and emphasized digestion. And more recently, a Swedish in the law itself, in its very first paragraph. scientist found that breast-fed infants Tuesday, June 3, 1969 Packages and their labels should enable are ingesting twice the amount of DDT consumers to obtain accurate information compounds recommended as a maximum Mr. DANIELS of New Jersey. Mr. as to the quantity of the contents, and daily intake by the World Health Or Speaker, Mr. Walter Melleng, a very ac should facilitate value comparisons. That's ganization. What is perhaps most tive senior citizen who lives in Kear what the law says. In that respect, it's not frightening is the likelihood that these ny, N.J., was kind enough to send me a bad law. We doubt that the principle will findings represent merely the top of an an article from Consumer Bulletin, which be soundly implemented. iceberg. is worthy of the attention of all Mem THE NEW LAW In the United States, two committees bers of this House and all persons who The new Fair Packaging and Labeling Law have pointed out the dangers of environ read the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. has major defects, among which a.re: 1) the mental pollution caused by pesticides. The article deals with deceptive meth fa.ct that its administration is divided The Wiesner Committee in 1963 urged ods of packaging and points out the need among three government agencies, with very for stricter regulation to prevent con different outlooks and approaches to prob cutbacks in the use of such persistent lems of industry and consumers; 2) the door pesticides as DDT: sumer frauds. Mr. Speaker, I include this article at is opened wide to an endless, unmanageable The accretion of residues in the environ series Of hearings and regulations (Regula ment (should) be controlled by orderly re this point in the RECORD: tions already total a.bout 40,000 words and duction in the use of persistent pesticides. PACKAGING AND LABELING ASPECTS OF SPECIAL their language is so intricate and involved As a first step, the various agencies of the INTEREST TO THE CONSUMER and in so many cases rela;ted to clauses in Federal government might restrict wide It is said that the public and Congressional prior legisla.tion affecting the scope and de scale use of persistent insecticides, except for concern a.bout deceptive packaging rumpus tails of the work of the Food and Drug June 3, 1969 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 14607 Admlnlstration and the Federal Trade Com the regulations under it as set up by the Food discover a world that city children never mission that only big business concerns can and Drug Administration and the Federal get the real opportunity to see. It is a dif afford the staff and legal counsel which will Trade Commission are exceedingly involved ficult world to describe, but it involves free make the rules understandable); 3) it al and capable of being understood only by dom, beauty, appreciation of animals and lows slack filling if it is "functional," which highly-paid professionals. nature. It is living with nature and God means that slack fill is permitted if it "helps The law can do some good with its labellng and appreciating them both. A young per to protect the oontents," or if the manu provisions and its expected reduction of di son who grows up on a farm seems to be less facturer chooses to fill by an inherently in versity, but there are some who doubt wheth restless and dissatisfied because he can find accurate method because it is fast, the law er the results will be worth the cost to in so many things to do on a farm. City chil wlll not stop him. (It has not stopped him dustry and the taxpayer. It would be far dren, however, have such a limited play area in the past, under previous legislation, be better if the industry were to set its own and limited activities that they often resort cause the trial court held that the manu house in order, without government compul to pranks and trouble to occupy their time. facturer's convenience was more important sion, by voluntary standardization of package As they grow older, they need cars and bev than a design of package that would not sizes and weights, elimination of slack fill erages to create excitement. deceive the consumer); 4) as to the vital and deceptive package shapes, use of large, Farm youth often resort to such things, matter of naming the ingredients, a major clear, contrasting lettering showing weights too, but there may be less cha.rice of it be loophole is provided in that no "trade and ingredients, lettering meant to be lo cause they have duties to attend to on the secret" need be divulged; 5) many products cated and read quickly, and last, by bringing farm. Farm children find a freedom from are excluded from the operation of the new the light of reason to package designers who all the people, cars, and other city problems. law; mes.ts and mea.t products, poultry and tend to work too close to the edge of legality They find security within their own families poultry products, tobacco and its products, and sound business ethics. whose members often work closely together seeds, insecticides and fungicides, certain Industrial leaders should bear in mind that to keep the farm going. City youth are often drugs, liquors, certain containers; 6) post to avoid serious and costly trouble with the so unfamiliar with this freedom and security ponements Of enforcement are freely per anti-trust laws, groups of business firms set due to their city problems that they turn mitted-as they were under the Food, Drug ting up standardization committees to estab to rebellion and demonstrations. But if more and Cosmetic Act--when the bureau chief lish package sizes, weights, and labellng prin children are to be given the opportunity to considers this to be "in the public interest." ciples, must include fair representation o:t grow up on a farm, the grain prices must Hereafter, competition on the basis of consumers and those government depart be increased so that their parents can afford small differences of weight or volume may ments that are properly concerned with a to live on a farm and raise their children not be the unquestioned right of the manu particular commodity. on it. facturers; we may be coming to a stage where Yes, the small farmers are becoming the standardized weights and volumes of pack victims of many problems including inco.Q).e ages of cereals and cake mixes are to be ex and competition from big farmers. One of pected, such as we _ now have with fl.our, LIFE ON THE FARM IS GREAT BUT the main solutions may be an increase in bread, beans, sugar, and many other com IT SHOULD PAY BETI'ER grain prices so that farmers can continue to modities. Figures in even ounces, pints, and enjoy the freedom and security of their half pints, without the fa.millar 0.1 and % homes and land. ounce appendages, are surely coming, as the HON. THOMAS S. KLEPPE government gets deeper into the problem of control of packaging. OF NORTH DAKOTA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES INCOMPLETE ADDRESSES PERMITl'ED WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING The new packaging law requires, as did Tuesday, June 3, 1969 HOME the Food and Drug Act, that the package Mr. KLEPPE. Mr. Speaker, Laurel shall give the address of the producer or distributor, but the Federal Trade Commis Hannegrefs, a student at Minot State HON. FLOYD V. HICKS College, Minot, N. Dak., presented. to me sion has "interpreted" the law, paralleling a OF WASHINGTON long-establlshed similar ruling by the Food in a recent letter some views on the cur and Drug Administration, to mean that the rent farm situation which I would like to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES address need not be one that will enable the share with my colleagues. I believe they Tuesday, June 3, 1969 Post Office Department to deliver a letter to will be especially interested in the discus the firm in question. Mr. HICKS. Mr. Speaker, in these sion of the values of rural living and the times of tension and turmoil, it would We hold that the address provided on the fact that low farm prices Lre destroying label on the package should be one that is seem appropriate to remind America and sufficiently complete and detailed that the this cherished way of life. The text of the our friends that the U.S. Government is consumer can use it to make contact with letter follows: not sitting still. the manufacturer or distributor on any prod LIFE ON THE FARM Is GREAT BUT IT SHOULD Steps are being taken; progress be uct which he happens to have bought and PAY BETTER ing made. We know of the various social about which he may wish to enter a com This letter is a response to the question programs designed to make life more plaint for replacement of or redress for an naire my parents received in the mail re unsatisfactory article. cently. The issue about which I wish to livable for black Americans and those The reasoning of the Food and Drug Ad comment is federal legislation to help in burdened with ghetto birth. ministration and the Federal Trade Commis crease grain prices for the farmers. The price But little is known of the work in this sion as to why the full address is not neces of everything else in this country seems to field which is being done by the Depart sary is too long to give here. It will suffice be skyrocketing but that of grain. Farmers ment of Defense, to many minds an im to say that on this the governmental reason must buy high-priced equipment but they probable agency for social betterment. ing is entirely unconvincing. do not get enough income from their Among the Department's programs is The consumer should not be required to crops to pay for the machinery. Therefore, project transition, which is of particular locate a city directory or telephone directory most farmers find themselves so far in debt of a distant city to find out how he can reach that they have to worry and work the rest interest to me since I am able to ob by letter or telegram the maker of Botio of their lives to get out. serve it at first hand. There is a project corn flakes or Pinko brand bug spray. In case Maybe I'm prejudiced because I grew up transition at Fort Lewis, Wash., which of poisoning of a child, as happens often with on a farm, but I feel that if something were is located in the district I represent in household articles, it may be a matter of done to increase farm prices, a few other Congress. the utmost importance that the physician be problems would be taken care of, too. For From July 1, 1968, through March 31, able to make immediate contact with a man one thing, if grain prices were increased, 1969, more than 1,900 soldiers received ufacturer of an insecticide or oven cleaner there would very likely be a reduction in to identify some ingredients of the product. the migration from rural to urban areas. training in skills in the Fort Lewis pro The manufacturer should, as a plain duty to Farmers are forced to give up and look for gram, and another 3,500 received voca the public, go beyond the government re work in the cities if they don't receiv(' tional counseling. Business, industry, quirement and furnish his full name and enough money for their grain to support schools, and the Federal Government address on the pa.ckage label and in all ac their familles. Therefore, if grain prices were participate in this excellent cooperative companying wrappings, boxes, or booklets. increased so that farmers could support program to prepare servicemen to make We believe that consumers may expect a fam11ies, it follows that they would be less the transition from service life to civil long period of ineffective and unsatisfactory anxious to look for work in the cities and ian life. More important in most cases, enforcement of the new law. This will come more content to stay on the farm. in part from the inherently involved nature Another problem which might be af it enables them to make the vital transi of governmental procedures, the complica fected by a price increase in grain is the tion from a disadvantaged past to a tion that the law is enforced by three ditier youth problem-the unrest and dissatisfac promising future. ent bureaus, and in part from the fact that tion in youth today. I grew up on a farm and One of the most distinguished of for the law as passed is obscure in meaning and I will never regret it. I feel farm children eign correspondents in Washington, 14608 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 3, 1969 D.C., has done the people of America and by a question: Why should a Black Vietnam The editor of one of the great dally Great Britain a real service in bring veteran be any more dangerous than a White newspapers in Minnesota, the St. Cloud Vietnam veteran? Daily Times gives us an on-the-spot ing such efforts to their attention. He The questioner is reminded that after every is Donald Ludlow, Washington corre war the civilians have been frightened of analysis of the great damage that reck spondent for the Daily Mirror, one of the the returning soldier: "They have given him less spending has already done. In order most widely circulated newspapers in the a gun and taught him how to use it." to share Mr. Harold Schoelkopf's views, world. Just the same, this time greater efforts I am reproducing his editorial: Mr. Ludlow has had a most distin than ever before are being made to see that INFLATION COSTS MULTIPLY guished career gathering news in many the Vietnam veteran-Black and White (By Harold Schoelkopf) should be helped to readjust to civillan life. parts of the world, including many years The Pentagon is running a multimillion One of the gravest domestic problems that in the United States. His perceptive dollar scheme called "Operation Transition" face the American people is inflation, and story in the May 16 editions of the Daily which, during the last six months of a young there seems to be no sure or certain remedy Mirror outlines the background of veteran's service, ls designed to better his lot. for it. "Black Johnny" in the armed services, in life. He can get a high school diploma and The American dollar, once worth 100 cents, and what happens when our black serv if he has not acquired a sk1ll in the services has declined in value, at latest calculations, he will be taught one. to something like 42 cents in buying power. icemen come home. Of course, almost all residents of this I commend his story to the atten Private industry is co-operating, notably the giant motor car makers of Detroit, al country suffer from inflation, but those who tion of my colleagues. ways looking for good mechanics. The Amer are hardest hit are those who live on fixed I insert the story as follows: ican branch of Volkswagen has joined in the incomes-the pensioners, the retired persons In a death cell at the State penitentiary scheme. on pensions, the folks whose incomes have in Columbus, Ohio, sits bearded Fred "Ah Operation Transition has been going less not kept pace with the inflationary spirals, med" Evans, Black militant and former ser than two years but the results seem reward and those whose incomes have not increased. geant in the American Rangers, a Com ing. And Black Johnny is taking more ad There are even wage earners who still live mando outfit. vantage of it than White Johnny-twenty on incomes set 10 to 20 years ago, and who His crime: leading a shooting spree that per cent of the trainees are black, double now are forced to dip into frugal savings to killed three police omcers and a Negro pass their percentage in the Forces. meet current bills. erby, an incident that sparked off three days By the end of June, one thousand men wm Meanwhile the costs of almost everything of race riots in Cleveland, Ohio, With arson have been trained as law omcers-and a fifth are going up and up. Our tax bills zoom and looting and cost seven more lives. Three of them Will be Black. upward to heights unimagined even a few of Evans's followers have yet to be tried for The Veterans Adminlstmtion, a branch of years ago. The social security deductions murder. the Pentagon, With a budget of 7,000 million from pay checks move higher a.nd higher. Evans, 37, won his stripes in Korea, re dollars a year, is offering bigger and better Even our little items like fishing licenses enlisted, lost his stripes, hit a White omcer, benefits such as: cheap medical care, edu cost more these days, and there is no ap served eighteen months' hard labor in an cational care, support through college, even, parent end in sight. Army prison and was given a dishonorable if a man is married, cheap insUl'ance, guar While these costs increase, those on fixed discharge. anteed housing loans, widaws' pensions and incomes are more and more moved to seek He has been described as "a nonviolent child support. And Black Johnny is taking relief on public welfare payrolls, and these man who preached Black pride." But blood advantage of these benefits to get ahead. in turn have reached levels undreamed of. is on his hands. Unless he is reprieved, Evans Black veterans are also re-enlisting in the A lot of independent people who thought Will be the first man to go to the electric Services at much higher rates than their they had laid aside an adequate "nest egg" chair in America in two years and the first White comrades. Here are the figures: for their declining years, are forced to turn in Ohio in six years. Army: Whites 12.8 per cent, Blacks 31.7 to the counties for enough money to give His fate is not S-O important as the fears per cent. them their daily bread. that men of his calibre, trained in the arts Navy: Whites 16.7 per cent, Blacks 22.5 There are other folks, who have reached of killing and guerrilla war, have aroused 1n per cent. and passed the normal retirement ages, who the hearts of White and moderate Black Marines: Whites 9.7 per cent, Blacks 15.9 cannot quit their jobs simply because the America. per cent. costs of their simple living cannot be met The middle class of both races, angry With Air Force: Whites 17.5 per cent, Blacks by whatever retirement incomes they may each other but prepared to talk rather than 26.9 per cent. have, or the supplemental social security fight it out, are asking: What happens when A top omctal of the House Armed Services checks. Black Johnny comes marching home from Committee told the other day about a young Retirement incomes or pensions, in some Vietnam? Negro veteran who came to ask his Congres instances available only to a favored few, The average age of the returning Negro man to help him get back into the Anny fall far short of providing the incomes needed. serviceman will be about twenty-two-and-a aJfter Black militants had been pressuring for a modest livelihood, and so more and ha!!; he will be restless, ..battle-prone," him to join them. more elderly folks, who have worked most highly skilled in the use of all kinds of weap The young Negro said: "Man, I've seen of their lives to make a living, are forced to ons and explosives-and himself explosive enough of war. None o! the leaders have seen turn to the relief rolls, or if they a.re still material for the racial tensions to which he a real battle and know what it means. We able, to try to secure some other "moon Will be returning. Black men can fight for our rights, but if light" jobs to make ends meet. The risks of battle aside, he will have lived we fight with guns we're sure going to lose." There used to be a time, a.nd not so many well in the Forces with good food, good War is an ugly thing, but it does have a years ago, either, as time is measured, when clothing, money in his pocket. He wm not maturing quality. prudent, hard-working wage earners could be prepared to live less well, much less see set aside a few dollars a week or a month his family in the squalor of the ghettos. in a savings account to provide for the sun Just how dangerous an element in Ameri set years of life, but those times have long can society, already torn With unrest, ls since passed. Now the government, federal Black Johnny likely to be? INFLATION COSTS MULTIPLY and state, dips into those savings, and takes First some figures: currently there are some its lion's share of an accumulated interest, 66,000 Black Americans in the Vietnam and 1n many cases, requires that the princi Forces, 45,000 in the Army, 8,700 in the Ma HON. JOHN M. ZWACH pal sums be included to meet tax demands. rines, 9,300 in the Air Force and 2,800 in the OF MINNESOTA Those of us who are now figuring our Navy. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES state and federal income taxes are well aware Negroes make up 10.7 per cent of the total of this situation, and there is little if any of American servicemen in Vietnam-little Tuesday, June 3, 1969 relief in sight. short of the 11 per cent which his people Mr. ZWACH. Mr. Speaker, redundant Truces on homes·teads, that some !ammes represent in America's total population. have taken years to acquire, a.re growing so Black Johnny is certainly doing his share as it may sound, inflation is our most high that the householders are not any in Vietnam by anybody's standards and he serious national problem. The fire from longer a:ble to meet their tax bills, and must will want his share when he comes back. this destructive force caused by feeding give up their lifetime homes to seek much Will he turn from war abroad to civil war champagne appetites on beer incomes, more modest domiciles. The number o! fam at home? has so rotted and destroyed our socioeco illes forced to sell their homesteads at bar Views vary widely. With crime rampant in nomic bases that we must face the pos gain prices is growing year by year, and the the streets of every American city-ninety sibility of our Nation crumbling. elderly folks pay the ultimate penalty of killings in Washington this year-fear will parting With their homes or having them obviously mount at the return of the young Certainly we live in a fools' world to taken from them. Black lions. continue our spend-happy ways and to These things happen in an America that The White House, the Pentagon and Con be completely oblivious to the deepening prides itself on its great prosperity, the gress are well aware of this fear and are try smoke and heat arising from the fire growth of its national product, the amu ing to "cool" it. A questioner is answered below us. ence of so many of its people, but what is June 3, 1969 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 14609 overlooked is the fate of so many millions of look, when we are beset by doubts, when tor of long service, I have watched the Town the little folks who have no relief, no re the choices to be made are all without develop and grow. I soon discovered that we dress, no forum in which to express their promise, we do what we must because have received valuable citizens with the com hardships. ing of Charles and his good wife to be with Yes, indeed, this is a rich (although per each of us is sustained by the confidence us. I found Charles to be a Christian gentle ilously close to a bankrupt nation) but the and trust of certain individuals whom we man in every respect. He soon became one riches of the domain do not filter down to know to be "good people" back home. of the leaders in helping to make this a the people most deserving of help and con They are the Americans who form the better town and place to live. sideration. Many of those elder citizens who solid moral base on which all of our na He was for every good program both for held their heads high in past years as home tional power has been built. They work. the expansion and development of the Town, owners and prompt taxpayers, are finding it They build. They hold organizations to as well as one who tried always to keep a next to impossible to meet their ever in gether. They set the tone of life in their spirit of warmth and good will among all creasing costs of mere survival. our citizens. He was never on guard to keep This ls a prosperous thriving America? communities. They take satisfaction from anything out that would divide and bring There are millions of persons who like to every good fortune met by every neigh anything mean or ugly within our mids't. have that statement spelled out in plain bor. Each and every one of them is ir Charles was a Methodist and was educated language. replaceable. in the Methodist School. Yet, he seemed that Today it is my melancholy duty to take in some way he too, belonged to me. It must note of the passing of one such man, have been because he was interested in all Ministers and Churches, while he was loyal to CONGRESSMAN HORTON SUPPORTS Charles Johnson Eib, owner and editor his own. He was a member of our Team, the AMENDMENT TO EQUALIZE DIS of the weekly Nicholas Chronicle pub team that is ever working for the better TRIBUTION FORMULA OF FUNDS lished at Summersville, W. Va., in my ment of Summersv1lle, and the happiness and IN THE MEDICAL FACILITIES CON congressional district. For 55 years he pleasure of our people. God must be espe STRUCTION AND MODERNIZATION was connected in one way or another. cially pleased with those who do justly and AMENDMENTS OF 1969 with weekly newspapers. During those love mercy and walk humbly with their Lord years he was a vital and constructive year after year. Of their reward, the half force among the people of the area he has never yet been told. John Bunyan, in his HON. FRANK HORTON served. Like many other persons who immortal "Pilgrim's Progress" describes the OF NEW YORK Christian pilgrims when they reached the knew him, I shall miss his calm and ra gates of the Celestial City. According to his IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tional counsel and his energetic good description several of the King's Messengers Tuesday, June 3, 1969 cheer. He came, he was with us for a came out to meet them. These were clothed span of years, he helped whoever he in white and shining rainment, and their Mr. HORTON. Mr. Speaker, tomor could however he was able, and now he melodious voices echoed throughout heaven. row, my colleague from New York IV to be met later in the year by a supplemen largest of these is $994 million for ''Re Nixon claims to have cut $4 billion from tal appropriation. Between March 27 and orientation of the antlballlstic missile pro 1970 outlays, and taken $1.1 b111ion, or 27 April 1 Laird boosted the estimated reduc gram to the new Safeguard system." This percent, from the military. Critics have pro tion in total military outlays for FY 1970 and the ammunition item make up almost tested that he took $3 from civilian needs from "about $500 million" to $1,113 mil $2.1 billion of that $3 billion cut in milltary for every $1 he took from the military. But lion. Most of the increased "economy" seems obligational authority on which the new Ad even this ls illusory. to have come from this ammunition item. ministration commends itself. From another point of view, even if we There are several indications in the offi A businessman in financial difficulties who accept the Nixon cuts at face value, the mili cial presentations themselves which lead one thought up such savings for his stockholders tary will have $3 billion more in fiscal 1970 to think Laird was right to be queasy. The would soon be in jail for embezzlement. The for non-Vietnamese war purposes than it had original 1970 budget projected consumption "reorientation" of Sentinel into Safeguard in fiscal 1969. We have seen that Johnson of 105,000 tons a month in ground munitions may reduce spending in fiscal 1970 but only budgeted a $3.5 b111ion cut in Vietnam war through December 1970. Actual consumption by adding at least $1.5 billion and possibly costs for fiscal '70 and then added $4.1 billion in January was given as 96,000 tons, but $5.5 billion more in the next few years. This is to the military budget for projects uncon that was before the recent enemy offensive an expensive rebaptism or, better, if we con nected with the Vietnam war. If you deduct got under way. The consumption of ammu sider the phallic significance of these mon Nixon's $1.1 billion from that $4.1 billion the nition must have risen sharply with the sters, re-circumcision. Nixon had a.n easy Pentagon is still ahead by $3 billion.6 If Nix fighting in February, March, and April, but way out of the ABM fight if he wanted one. on had applied the whole projected saving when I asked the Pentagon for the monthly He could have announced that like Eisen of $3.5 b111ion on Vietnam to civ111an use or figures since January, I was told they could hower he had decided to keep the ABM in deficit reduction, the fiscal 1970 total for not be given out. "We can only say," an offi research and development until he was sure national defense would have been reduced cial spokesman told me, "that the Secretary's it would not be obsolete before it was de to $97,499 million. All Nixon did was to cut projections are being borne out." If that ployed. the Johnson increase by a fourth. is true our troops must have been meeting If he had been a little more daring, and a Even this may turn out to be--at least in enemy attacks with switch knives. little less beholden to the military-industrial part--a familiar bit of ftim-fiam. Since John Another indication-how I love tracking complex, he might have cut billions s from son began to bomb the North in 1965 and down these liars !-appears in what we know the military budget immediately by offering take over the combat war in the South, al about the volume of bombs dropped on a freeze on all new deployment of strategic most every annual budget has underesti South Vietnam and Laos since we stopped defensive and offensive missiles if the Rus mated Vietnamese war costs. These have had bombing the North. The Pentagon's own sians did likewise as a preparation for stra to be covered later in the fiscal year by sup figures on total tonnages dropped show little tegic arms negotiations. This would not only plemental appropriations. The under-esti change. Total tonnages dropped in Septem save at least $5 or $6 billion in the new mate in fiscal 1969, as we have seen, was $3 ber and October last year, before the bomb fiscal year but ensure our present nuclear billion. The fiscal 1970 budget is running true ing of the North stopped, were almost 240,- superiority and fully guarantee against first to form. 000. Total tonnage dropped in January and strike nightmares.10 The biggest "economy" item in the Nixon February of this year, when it was dropped Nixon chose instead a tricky stretch-out. military budget is $1,083.4 million, which is only on Laos and South Vietnam, was more This offered some reductions in the new fiscal attributed to "reduced estimates of ammuni than 245,000. There was an increase of 5,000 year, as compared with Johnson's ABM pro tion consumption rates." 7 Just how much of tons. That increase makes the estimate of a posal, but at the expense of higher costs later. the estimated $1.1 billion "saving" in outlays saving of more than a half billion dollars in This ingenious compromise made it possible for fiscal 1970 wm be the result of lower con air munitions for fiscal '69 and '70 look very to offer an apparent saving to the taxpayer sumption of ammunition in Vietnam was not phony indeed. and larger eventual orders to the electronics made clear. The $1,083.4 million is given as Laird himself said consumption of air mu and missile industries. This not only fulfilled a net reduction of obligational authority in nitions was rising. On March 27 he told the the Administration's promise of New Direc fiscal 1969 and 1970. It is one of the three House Armed Services Committee that while tions but enabled it to move in opposite di main items in that $3 billion cut in obliga consumption had been estimated at 110,000 rections at the same time. Johnson's Sentinel tional authority for fiscal 1970 which make tons per month for the twenty-four months was estimated to cost $5.5 billion; Nixon's it possible for the new Administration to from January 1969 to December 1970-that Safeguard, variously from $6.7 to $7 billion, claim that 55 percent of the total cut in doesn't sound like much deescalation ahead, or $1.5 billion more. This may prove another obligational authority for 1970 ($5.5 billion) at least in the airl-"actual consumption is official underestimate. An authoritative serv came from the military. Obligational au now running at about 129,000 tons per ice which covers all developing major weap thority is not necessarily or entirely trans month." Yet he projected a saving of $42.5 ons and aerospace systems for industrial and lated into actual outlays during the fiscal mil11on on air munitions in fiscal 1969 and governmental subscribers places the total $375.4 in fiscal 1970. When he got back to the cost of Safeguard much higher. year in which it is granted. This ls DMS, Inc. (Defense Marketing Serv This projected cut in the rate of ammuni committee four days later, he placed actual consumption even higher, at 130,000 tons a ice), a ten-year-old service now a part of tion consumption is in addition to Johnson's McGraw-Hill. I had never heard of it until projected cut of $3.5 billion in Vietnam war month, but also projected higher savings! Now he was to save $89.5 mil11on on air an anonymous reader sent me a reproduction costs. Though Laird does not blush easily, of its report on Nixon's Safeguard. I checked even he seems to have been embarrassed by munitions in fiscal 1969, or twice the figure four days earlier, and $442 million for fiscal with its Washington office by telephone and this particular "economy." "To be perfectly was given permission to quote it. Its detailed frank," said Laird, who rarely is, when he first 1970, an increase of $47 million over the earlier estimate. Yet Laird said he saw "no analysis places the total cost of the system broached this item to the House Armed Serv at $11 billion and ends by warning that "in ices Committee on March 27, "I think the indication that consumption will decline by very much during the next twelve-to-eight a program as complex as Safeguard, historical ammunition consumption rates for Southeast experience indicates costs in the long run are Asia are based on rather optimistic assump een months." How then were expenditures on air ammunition to be lower than expected likely to be considerably higher." When Sen tions, particularly in view of the current Tet ator Cooper put the DMS analysis into the offensive." Yet, under pressure from the when the tonnage of bombs dropped was running higher than expected? Non-Euclid Congressional Record May 8, he noted that White House to show more economy, the op it did not include "about $1 billion AEC war timism rose sharply in the next four days. ean geometry is not half so exotic as Pen tagon arithmetic. head costs." This would bring the total cost The following table shows the change in esti of Nixon's Safeguard past $12 billion. mated savings for ammunition and its trans The ammunition figures for Vietnam are stupendous. The original Johnson-Cillford Since the ABM authorization will soon be portation in millions of dollars in those four before Congress and this defense marketing days: '70 budget in January projected the cost of service is known only to a restricted circle, ammunition in Vietnam during fiscal 1970 we give its computations here: at $5.2 billion. This expenditure of shot and Mar. 27 Apr. 1 shell over Vietnam is two-and-a-half times Perimeter acquisition radar (PAR)__ $560 the total 1970 revised Nixon budget of $2 PAR unit cost is estimated at $80 Ground munitions...... -$380. 0 -$460. o bllllon for the OSJlce Of Economic Opportu million, will be installed at 7 sites A!llmuni.ti.on transport...... -34. 4 -34. 4 nity. (down $132 mill1on), and more than Air munitions...... -417. 9 -511. 9 Missile site radar (MSR)------l, 500 Ship gun ammunition...... -47.1 -77.1 twl_ce the revised elementary and secondary MSR unit cost is estimated at $125 -~~~~~~~ education outlay for '70 which he set at million; will be installed at 12 sites Total cuts...... 879. 4 1, 103. 4 $2.3 billion (down another $100 million). Spartan missile______1, 050 v Unit cost of Spartan when deployed These figures are for total obligational au is estimated to be $3 million; DMS After this razzle-da.zzle on ammunition, believes there will be 350 missiles thority for fiscal years 1969 and 1970. Per the next largest item of military saving in installed haps the Administration hesitated to make the Nixon-Laird budget revisions is the ABM. Sprint missiles______560 public its actual outlay estimates for these Let us return to the formal document sent two years, since they may easily turn out to Unit cost is estimated at $800,000; Congress by the President. There on page DMS believes 700 missiles will be be higher rather than lower, and may have 8 17 are given "principal changes in 1970 deployed with a greater number at budget authority resulting from 1969 and Minuteman sites than at other sites Footnotes at end of article. 1970 Defense program changes." The second Data processing subsystem______1, 500 June 3, 1969 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 14631 Includes new generation computer, Senator Clark replied that casualties would Behind the glamorous names which flashed memory banks, displays, tapes and be so high as to destroy ctv111zatton "and if through the appropriations hearings and the discs plus an extensive amount of there are few people living in caves a!ter that, ads in the aeronautical and military trade software it does not make much difference." To which journals-Navaho, Snark, Dove, Triton, and Command, control and communica- Russell made his now famous rejoinder, "If even Plato (what did he do to deserve this tions ------$500 we have to start over again with another honor?)-lies an untold story of beguiling Warheads ------210 Adam and Eve, I want them to be Americans missile salesmanship and drunken-sailor Figure assumes 1050 warheads at a and not Russians." (Congressional Becora, procurement methods. It might be worth bil cost of $200,000 each. AEC funds are E9644, November 1, 1968.) Thus we would at lions in future savings if a Congressional used for development and production last achieve an unchallengeable Pax Ameri investigating committee really dug up the Construction ______._ 2, 100 cana! And thus the ABM turns out to be full story and its lessons. Figure assumes construction costs another variant of the military's unquench The need for such an investigation becomes will average $300 mlll1on annually able dream of an Ultimate Weapon, to leap plain if one examines the funny thing which through 1975 some day like a jackpot from a slot machine happened to SR.AM (acronym for short-range Total investment for 12 sites______7, 980 if only they go on pouring money into attack missile) on Secretary Laird's way to Research and development______2, 400 RandD. and from the budget forum on Capitol Hill Figure assumes R&D costs of $350 VI between March 27, his first appearance before million per year through 1975. Does I would ask the reader's indulgence for one the House Armed Services Committee, and not include the $150 million per year more foray into the labyrinthine depths of his second appearance on April 1, just four which will support work on new the Pentagon budget. Deeper knowledge of days later, SR.AM is one of the new missiles radars and interceptors these recesses ts necessary if we are ever to which have been under development. It is Operations and maintenance______700 hunt down and slay the dragon. I want to supposed to be mounted on a bomber so it Figure based on an average opera- deal with the next largest source of the can be rocketed into enemy territory from a tion cost of $100 million annually Nixon military "economies." These involve position more than a hundred miles away through 1975 deferrals of expenditures amounting to about from the enemy's defense perimeter. The idea $480 million. Most critical comment has been is to circumvent the enemy's defenses by Total Safeguard cost through content to note that mere deferral of spend stopping the bomber out of their range and 1975 ------11,080 ing is not real economy, since what ts saved lobbing the missiles over them. Assumes no cost overruns. in fiscal '70 will be spent later. There ts a SRAM has had several predecesors, all ex The DMS report notes that we have already more important point to be made. These pensive, of course; it is not a simple con spent $4.5 billion on the ABM from fiscal deferrals, if closely examined, provide addi traption. The predecessors appear in Senator 1956 when the Army started the Nike Zeus tional proof of how recklessly and wastefully Symington's table. Crossbow, Rascal, and program, through fiscal 1968, and that the the Pentagon dashes into production before Skybolt were earlier attempts at a stand-off research efforts which made Nike-Zeus ob full testing and evaluation have been com missile; they cost a total of $962.6 million be solete before it could be deployed are still pleted, before it knows, in other words, that fore they were abandoned prior to deploy going on, at a cost of $350 to $500 milllon these expensive weapons will work. We will ment. Hound Dog A, which cost another $255 annually. "A number of new concepts as well see how much pressure it takes to make the million, is another missile in the same family as hardware," the report said, "are currently Pentagon admit this elementary error. which is no longer deployed. SRAM is very under investigation." These threaten Safe To grasp the full significance of these so different in capability, range, and complexity. guard with obsolescence too. "Preliminary called "economies" of Nixon and Laird we SRAM is intended to do for the bombing research," DMS said, "has pointed the way must see them against the background of plane what penetration aids do for the ICBM. toward the following types of advances": revelations by two Senators, one the leading SRAM is supposed to carry all kinds of de One was radars of much higher frequency so pillar of the military in the Senate estab vices to confuse the radars of the enemy the interception "would be made with either lishment, Senator Russell; the other, a former defense. a much smaller nuclear warhead or even Secretary of and long-time spokesman for the When Laird appeared before the House a conventional high explosive charge." Air Force, who has turned against the mili Armed Services Committee on March 27 he Another was a new third stage for Spartan tary-industrial establishment, Senator Sym referred, without further explanation, to so the missile could fly out at greater ranges ington. "delays experienced in the SRAM develop and "maneuver through a cloud of decoys During the secret debate on the ABM last ment production program." The original to find and destroy the real warhead." A November l, Russell told the Senate one of Johnson-Clifford budget last January for third-most expensive of all-was "defensive the "most serious mistakes" he had ever fiscal 1970 called for the modification of all missiles carried either in ships or large air made as Chairman of the Armed Services seventeen B-52 squadrons of series G and H craft deployed closer to the enemy's launch Committee, which passes on all military re at a total cost of about $340 million to enable ing sites." quests for authorization, and as chairman of them to carry SR.AM. The "modification kits," We give these details to show that in em. the Senate subcommittee, which passes on all as Laird described them, were to be bought barking on the ABM we are embarking on a defense appropriations, "was in allotting vast from Boeing "at a total cost of about $220 wholly new sector of the arms race with a sums to the Navy for missile frigates before million," and it was planned to buy kits for high rate of obsolescence to gladden the we knew we had a missile that would work on ·twelve squadrons in 1970, leaving the rest to hearts of the electronics companies and of them." He said "we built missile frigates, we be modified in 1971. Laird proposed to save A.T.&T., whose Western Electric has long built missile destroyers and missile escort $30 miillon in fiscal '70 by equipping only ten been the main contractor. The reader should ships" on the basis of "unqualified" testi squadrons in '70 and the remaining seven in note that the three advances cited in the mony of "everyone in the Department of '71. He said "This change w111 give us a DMS report are relatively simple and fore Defense and in the Navy" that effective mis smoother program." seeable developments. All kinds of "far-out" siles were being developed. "It probably cost But the White House and the Budget Bu possibilities are also being investigated. The the taxpayers," Russell said, "$1 billion, be reau, desperate for ways to cut, put pressure secret hope which lies behind all this Rube cause they have had to rebuild those missiles on the Pentagon and four days later Laird Goldberg hardware is that some day some three times. was back before the Armed Services Com body will turn up a perfect ABM defense and A more comprehensive statement of the mittee. Now instead of $30 million he pro thus enable the possessor to rule the world same kind was made to the Senate by Sym posed a deferral of the SRAM program because a power so armed can threaten a ington on March 7 of this year. He put a table amounting to $326 million. It now appeared first strike, knowing it will be immune to into the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD (at page 5602 that he had been less than candid with the retaliation. that day) which showed how much had been committee. The cryptic references to "de The most candid expression of this view spent on missiles in the past sixteen years lays" turned out to be quite an understate point was made by Senator Russell during which were no longer deployed, or never had ment. He came forward with new changes in the defense appropriations hearings in May been deployed, because of obsolescence. The the SRAM program, all of them-he ex of last year. "I have often said," Senator total was fantastic. Symington gave the plained-"related to the difficulties encoun Russell observed, "that I feel that the first names, the expenditures, and the life-span of tered in the development of this Short Range country to deploy an effective ABM system each missile. The total cost of those no longer Attack Missile." Now it was not "delays," but and an effective ASW [anti-submarine war deployed was $18.9 biHion and the cost of "difficulties." fare] system is going to control the world those which were abandoned as obsolete or Laird went on to quite a revelation. "We militarily." 11 This control of the world, how unworkable before deployment was $4.2 bil have now reached the conclusion,'' he told ever, may be on a somewhat reduced basis. lion. The total was $23 billion. Imagine what the committee, "that procurement of opera Six months later, during the Senate's secret those wasted billlons could have done for tional missiles should be deferred until the session on the ABM (November 1, 1968), our blighted cities! test program conclusively demonstrated that Senator Russell admitted, "there 1s no sys Symington's table was introduced to under they will work as intended." So "we have tem ever devised which will afford complete score his point-buttressed by past testimony deleted most (but not all!] of the missile protection against any multiple firing of bal from McNamarar-that the ABM would soon procurement funds" from fiscal '69 and '70, listic missiles ... we will have no absolutely be another monument to this kind of ex for a total cut in the two years of $153 mil foolproof defense, I do not care how much pensive obsolescence. Another inference to be lion. money we spend on one, or what we do." drawn from this table is how many billlons Then he proposed to defer not only the mis might have been saved if the Pentagon had siles but the modifications designed to en Footnotes at end of article. not rushed so quickly into these miscarriages. able the B-52s to carry them. "Inasmuch as 14632 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 3, 1969 we do not know when operational missiles 1ng meaningful arms Umitation talks." These 0 The Johnson budget for 1970 placed the will be available," Laird said, "we have also are the moments when Laird sounds as if expenditure for strategic forces at $9.6 bil deferred all special SRAM modlftcation work he were dreamed up by Moliere. lion as compared with $9.1 1n 1969 and $7.6 on the B-52s and FB-llls." The total net But beyond any question of personality or in 1968. Much of this 1s for deployment of deferral-after adding $17 million to R and politics, the almost irresistible momentum of new weaponry. D for "a greater portion of the overhead cost" the military machine which is slowly trans 10 "Such a freeze," Senator Percy declared (another consolation fee?)-was to be $326 forming American society finds its ultimate in a speech April 17, "should be acceptable million. rationale in the theory of deterrence. It is to to the Defense Department. Secretary Laird This shows how much pressure it takes tO this and the permanent arms race it gener has testified that our missiles on land and squeeze the fat out of the military budget, ates that I would like to turn in a concluding under the seas as well as our long-range and a little more candor out of the Penta article. bomber force present an overwhelm1ng sec gon. Why didn't Laird tell the committee on FOOTNOTES ond-strike array. If a freeze-fully verifiable March 27 what he revealed on April 1? But 1 House Document No. 91-100. 91st Con by both nations through satellite recon for the extra pressure, the Pentagon would gress, 1st Session. Reductions in 1970 Budget naissance as well as other intelligence have gone on with procurement of the SRAM Requests. Communication from the President sources-ls put into effect, the US deterrent before knowing whether it would work, and of the United States, p. 17. will remain credible into the foreseeable fu with modification of the strategic bombers 2 AP in Omaha World Herald, March 7, ture." But if the deterrent remains credible, what will the poor missile salesmen do? to carry the missiles before it was sure that 1969. 11 it would have the missiles. What if further s Carl Kaysen, who was Kennedy's Deputy Department of the Army, Senate Hear testing modifies the missile, and this re Special Assistant for National Security Af ings, Department of Defense Appropriations quires a change also in the kits which modify fairs, has given us more precise figures than for fiscal 1969, 90th Congress, Second see I have ever seen before in the chapter on slon, Part II, page 868. the planes to carry these missiles? Why risk 12 the waste of millions? "Military Strategy, Military Forces and "On August 16, said a special survey in · The SRAM story raises simllar questions Arms Control" in the Brookings Institution Space/ Aeronauffcs, page 88, last January about Laird's rather cryptic references in his symposium, Agenda For The Nation (Dou "Poseidon and Minuteman ill were launched budget presentation to a simllar deferral of bleday, 1969). He wrote (pp. 662-3) that the with ten and three warheads respectively." "about $160 million" in the Minuteman decisions of 1961 and 1962 by Kennedy ICBM program. The most important part of "called for the bulldup by 1965 of a US that "saving" is due, as Laird told HoUse strategic force of nearly 1,800 missiles capa Armed Services on March 27, to "a slow ble of reaching Soviet targets; somewhat THE 161ST BffiTHDAY OF down in the deployment of Minuteman ill." more than a third were to be submarine JEFFERSON DAVIS This is the Minuteman which will carry launched. In addition, some 600 long range MIRV-"mutiple independently targeted re bombers would be maintained. This was entry vehicles," i.e., additional warheads in projected against an expected Sooiet force HON. CHARLES H. GRIFFIN of fewer than a third as many missiles and dependently targeted. It was t.ested for the OF MISSISSIPPI ftrst time last August 16 with three war a quarter as many bombers capable of reach heads.12 "While we are confident," Laird said, ing the United States." (Our italics.) The IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES "that the Minuteman Ill will perform as in ..overkill" was worth billions to the aviation Tuesday, June 3, 1969 tended, we believe it would be prudent to end electronics industries. reduce somewhat the previously planned de 'According to a little-noticed press release Mr. GRIFFIN. Mr. Speaker, today I ployment rate, at least through the FY 1970 by Senator Stephen M. Young (D. Ohio), a think it is appropriate that we take a f~w procurement lead-time." Why only some member of the Senate Armed Services Com moments out to acknowledge the birth what, and what does somewhat mean for the mittee, which has access to much informa date of one of the giants of America, a whole program? "This delay," Laird went on, tion otherwise secret, Johnson had originally man whose moral courage and strength "would serve to reduce the amount of over planned a cutback of troops in Vietnam. of purpose stand out in history. lapping of R & D and production and provide Y-0ung asked Nixon to recall two divisions more time for production." Why risk has before July and more later wl:th an an Few Americans, Mr. Speaker, remem overlapping altogether until testing has been nouncement, "We have accomplished our ob ber Jefferson Davis other than as the completed? Laird himself said he was plan jectives in Vietnam. Our boys are coming great President of the Confederate States nlng to accelerate operational testing "to home." Young said Johnson had decided on of America. What most of us do not real help ensure that the missile ls working well a simlla.r announcement last year but was ize is the place of distinction occupied before we return to the originally planned talked out of it by the Joint Chiefs of St.aff. and richly deserved by this man who rate in FY 1971." "Mr. Chairman," Laird said, 5 Since I have been challenged on this looms large, even in an age which pro patting himself warmly on the back, "this "peace dividend" by some colleagues, and reflects our det.ermina tion to minimize cost others have wondered by what elaborate com duced such great figures as Lincoln, overruns resulting from R and D modifica putation I arrived at it, I glve the source, p. Daniel Webster, and Henry Clay. tions after production has commenced." But 74 of The Budget of the U.S. Government for Jefferson Davis was born on this day, perhaps more serious cost overruns could be Fiscal 1970. lt says, "As shown in the accom June 3, in 1808, on the site of what is now avoided if Minuteman Ill, like SRAM, were panying table outlays in suppor.t of South Fairview, Ky. The Davis family moved, subjected to further deferrals. east Asia are antictpated to drop for the first when the young Jefferson was still very A franker if ironic account of the Minute time in 1970-decl1ning by $3.5 billion from small to Woodville, Wilkinson County, man m cuts appeared May 5 in Aviation 1969. This decllne reflects changing patterns of combat activity and revised loss projec Miss. It was here that he grew up along Week. It says "The reason for the reduction the banks of the Mississippi River. is fear of reliability problems with the new tions. Outlays for the military activities of missile." It said the Air Force had "decided the Department of Defense, excluding sup At age 16, Davis accepted an appoint 'to reduce the concurrency of development port of Southeast Asia, are expected to rise ment to the U.S. Military Academy at and production' of the missile in order to by $4.1 billion in 1970, to provide selected West Point where he formed ties and at insure reliability of all components." Even force improvements." (Italics added.) tachments which were to serve him well the Foreign Service could not have hit upon e Even that understates the case. Down in later life. Among these early close a smoother phrase to equal that "concur near the bottom of the budget outlays table friendships were Albert Sidney Johnston, rency of development and production." Avia of the Nixon revisions ts $2.8 billion more for and military (Our Robert E. Lee, and Joseph E. Johnston. tion Week added, "The cutback was publi "civilian pay increases." cized by some Defense Dept sources as italics.) Laird in his April 1 presentation said Widowed in 1835 after only 3 months evidence of US willingness to reduce strategic this would add $2.5 billion but failed to make of marriage to Sarah Knox, a daughter offensive armaments prior to arms reduction clear whether this was for the whole govern of the then Col. Zachary Taylor, Davis ment or only for Pentagon ctvlllan and returned to Vicksburg, Miss. For the next talks with the Soviets, but that was not the military-almost half the civilian employees reason." of the government work for the Pentagon. few years, he occupied his time in cotton This effort to make the Minuteman cuts Clifford in his 1970 statement gave a figure planting and reading constitutional law. look like evidence of Pentagon enthusiasm for of $1.8 billion for Pentagon pay increases but In 1845, Jefferson Davis was elected to arms talks originated in Laird's own presen did not make clear whether this included the U.S. House of Representatives. Dur tation on April 1. In a super-slick conclusion the civillan employees. So pay raises will add ing that same year, Davis formed and he told the Committee, "Our decision to between $1.8 billion and $2.5 btlllon to this slow the Minuteman m deployment- cemented the liaison with Varina Howell, $3 billion figure. a 19-year-old belle of Natchez, Miss., though necessitated for other reasons-pro 7 See page 17 of House Document No. vides a period of time in which arms limita 91-100, 9lst Congress, First Session. who was to be the great love of his life. tion agreements could become e1fective at a 8 House Document No. 91-100. Reductions The outbreak of war with Mexico saw lower level of armaments. . . . It remains to in 1970 Appropriation Request Communica Congressman Davis resign his seat in the be seen, of course, whether our potential tion from the President ... together with House in exchange for command of the adversaries will similarly indicate with ac details of the changes. 91st Congress, First First Mississippi Volunteers. After re tions that they, too, are serious about desir- Session. ceiving severe wounds as a result of his June 3, 1969 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 14633 heroic service. Davis returned to Missis one of their important cities in our hands, "To make us love our country, our country sippi and was appointed to the U.S. Sen and with an army greatly inferior in num ought to be lovely?" ate. While in that body, he distinguished bers and equipment to ours, the Rebels have Memorial Day is a time when we reflect held out so long. It is because of the sagacity. upon patriotism, upon the nature of love for himself as chairman of the Committee on energy and indomitable Will of Jefferson one's country, upon the sacrifices which Military Affairs. Davis. Without him, the rebellion would nameless men have suffered, often for feel In 1851, after yielding to the urgings crumble to pieces in a day. ings they cannot express, for reasons they do of the Democratic organization of the not understand. For, as Pascal knew, "the State of Mississippi, Davis saw the only On April 9, 1865, General Lee sur heart has its reasons that reason doesn't political defeat of his career in his cam rendered to General Grant at Appomat know." We love our country, perhaps, simply tox Courthouse, Va., thus ending the mili because it is ours, as we love our parents. paign for Governor. In 1853, he was ap But this is not enough. Patriotism is, in a pointed as Secretary of War in the Cabi tary action of the Civil War. President Davis was taken prisoner at Irwinville, sense, a nobler gesture and feeling. Jesus net of President Franklin Pierce. His said that even the criminals love their friends service in this capacity can only be de Ga., on May 10 of the same year. and fa.mi11es. Patriotism of this kind is only scribed as brilliant. During his tenure he Imprisoned at Fort Monroe, Va., Davis a primitive defense of one's hearth. And pa was instrwnental in obtaining pay raises was accused of treason. Conditions dur triotism, of course, is basically this at the for military troops, extensive improve ing his confinement were so bad that his beginning. But then it grows outward. ments at West Point and Army posts, ex health was severely impaired and he was "Love," as the lyric has it, "isn't love till pansion of the Army, improved coastal released in 1867. Treason charges were you give it a.way." dropped•in 1868. Modern critics advance the view that to defenses and in the engineering of the love one's country means, somehow, less love Gadsden Purchase. After the fall of the Confederacy, and for mankind as a whole. They urge that men Returning to the Senate in 1857, Davis the years of reconstruction, Davis was abandon feelings of kinship with a nation or attempted to close the ever widening gap repea;tedly urged to reenter the Senate. a culture or a civilization, and transfer this between North and South, ·to make the But, he refused to ask for amnesty. On feeling of affinity to au men. The goal of men voice of reason heard over that of radi December 6, 1889, at the age of 81, Jef truly living in peace and brotherhood, re ferson Davis died in New Orleans of com gardless of their race, their tongue, their calism. Even after the secession from the religion, or other peculiar national attributes, Union of South Carolina in December plications following a bronchial ailment. His body is surely a good one. It is the traditional goal 1860, Davis remained a reluctant seces was returned to Richmond, Va., of our Judeo-Ohristian religious heritage, as sionist advocating that it should be the Confederate Capital in 1893 for re it is of other world religions. turned to only as a last resort. Missis burial. The question, then, rel:ates not to goals but sippi's secession a month later, however, Today, marks the 16lst anniversary of to means. Do we achieve world brotherhood brought Davis' resignation from the Sen the birth of this great man, Mr. Speaker, and harmony by denigrating l!l.&tural feelings ate. Returning to Mississippi he was and I think it is fitting that he should be ot love and loyalty to one's own country, or immediately given a commission as remembered on this date for what he do we achieve this by nurturing love of was. As an officer in the U.S. Army, as country while at the same time opposing major general in the armed forces of both chauvinism and the concept that love Mississippi. a Member of this House, of the Senate, of country somehow implies support for the Before he could accept his command, as Secretary of War and as President of transient policies of a particular government however, the convention meeting at the Confederate States of America, Jef in power? Montgomery, Ala., chose Davis as the ferson Davis distinguished himself as a In this, as in most other areas, the best provisional President of the Confederate soldier and statesman. Although his answer seems to come with some observation States of America; h1s inauguration cause was not nationally popular, h1s of man's nature. It is easier to achieve worthy integrity, courage and spirit were held goals by enhancing man as he is, rather than taking pla.ce on February 18, 1861. A sec by tinkering with him. No one has yet ond inaugural was held on February 22, in high esteem by friend and foe. changed ma.n's nature, though dictators and 1862, with the formal adoption of the tyrants have often ma.de the attempt. Kip permanent Confederate Constitution. ling may have understood a portion of this Davis' primary concern during the first when he wrote: God gave all men a.11 earth year of his Presidency was to avoid, at A STUDY IN PATRIOTISM to live./But since our hearts are small,/ Ordained for each one spot should prove/ all costs, an open outbreak of hostilities Beloved over all. _ with the North. President Lincoln's call HON. LOUIS C. WYMAN The man who ts happy with his family is for 75,000 volunteers and his decision to OF NEW HAMPSHIRE most likely to be happy with the world and reinforce the U.S. garrison at Fort IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES with the people he sees and meets. The man Swnter, in Charleston, S.C., with the who has good feelings toward his country is subsequent fall of the fort, made war in Tuesday, June 3, 1969 likely to have good. feelings toward other evitable. Mr. WYMAN. Mr. Speaker, one of the men. Unfortunately, patriotism and love of Davis led the new nation into a war country have often been used by destructive most perplexing things about modem so personalities to stimulate bigotry and hatred. against truly hopeless odds. With only ciety is the lack of patriotism in the atti In our own country we have had movements one-fourth the white population of the tude of many of the younger generation. which tried to l1mit the concept of who was Northern States, only a small percentage This phenomenon cannot be attributed an American. This country, various groups at of the manufacturing capacity of the solely to the Vietnam war. various times have said, 1s a "white man's North, no navy, no powder mills, and Who has failed to inculcate genuine country," or a "Ohristian country," or a an overwhelming lack of arms and ma patriotism in the hearts of our young country only of the native born, or a coun terials. The South, nevertheless, mobi people? Is it parents? Teachers? try only for those whose ancestors reached lized and hundreds of thousands of its shores at a specific time. This is not pa In this connection, the following col triotism. It has been answered many times. young men abandoned their educations, umn, written by Allan C. Brownfeld, and The Negro leader A. Philip Randolph criti their farms, and their families to rally to appearing in a recent issue of Roll Call, cized those who said that this was a country the Confederate colors. deserves thoughtful review: for white men. It was, he said, a country for But, cotton and courage could not all of those who had fought and worked and A P ATRIOTIS.M FOR TODAY make up for the essentials of war, and as sweated and died for it. the conflict progressed, the Confederacy (By Allan C. Brownfeld) Religion has often been used in the same was gradually bled of its substance and On the night before her execution, Edith exclusionary manner. Jonathan Swift saw Cavell, speaking to the Rev. Mr. Gahan, that men had "enough religion to make them its llfe's blood. Even after the simul noted that "Patriotism is not enough. I must hate but not to love one another." The same taneous fall of Gettysburg and Vicks have no hatred or bitterness towards any may be true with a certain kind of patriotism burg in July 1863, Jefferson Davis con one." which looks inward in this manner and is tinued to inspire his people. The modern world seems to be short both truly destructive. If the critics ot the mod Shortly after the fall of Atlanta to on patriotism and on love. In our own coun ern world oppose it, they a.re right. But pa General Sherman in September 1864, an try, some have said that we must defend triotism which is outward, which springs interview with Jefferson Davis appeared policies of the government, whether they a.re from love of the land, from happy memories, right or wrong. But is this the level of loyalty from ideals which look to all and are not in the Atlantic Monthly. Its author, Ed we really demand? Cannot we say, with limiting, . such patriotism may be the very mund Rule, described Jefferson Davis as Camus, that we wish to love our country, but foundation upon which the brotherhood and "a man of peculiar abi11ty.'' to love justice at the same time? Can't we peace we seek may be bullt. Our int_erview-expla1ned why wi·th no agree with Edmund Burke who, in his Reflec If we destroy love for the things we love money and no commerce, with nearly every tions On The French Revolution, wrote that first and most naturally, how can we achieve 14634 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 3, 1969 the universal love we seek in the long run? successful that it serves as the motivation part of some producers extends to issues of This problem was posed by C. S. Lewis when and model for my legislation to provide health and safety. If the consumer revolu he challenged the modern intellectual critics federal grants for the establishment and tion is to be won, it is absolutely necessary who destroyed man's capacity to do the very strengthening of state and local consumer that society expand its traditional definition things they later complained he was not protection offices. Of crimes of violence. The number of persons doing. Your determination to hold this confer needlessly killed in auto accidents each year He stated: "In a sort of ghastly simplicity ence and the themes you have selected show is almost 100 times greater than the total we remove the organ and demand the func that your Office of Consumer Affairs under death toll in all the riots in our cities in the tion. We make men without chests and ex stands the plight of the American consumer. last three years; deaths relating to gas pipe pect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh Your panel discussion on the "Problems of line and coal mine safety and occupational at honor and are shocked to find traitors in the Low-Income Consumer" shows that the hazards far exceed the total number of per our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings consumer struggle cannot be fought with the sons killed in felonious assaults in this be fruitful ... calorie charts of the home economist or the country annually. The number of hospital Part of the feeling of alienation which is measuring cup of the homemaker. patients electrocuted annually by faulty inherent in the modern world rests with our The consumer revolution confronts the equipment is five times the total death toll in growing urbanization, our lack of feeling for very integrity of the free enterprise system. our riots of the la-st three years. natural beauty, our lack of connection with If that system is to endure, its ultimate goal How callous is industry's disregard for the places. John Ciardi wrote, "I have a country, must be to provide goods and services that public health and safety? but no town. Where I was born is Interstate are fairly priced, safe, and effective. Today, Hearings of the National Commission on Highway 66." Often we cannot return to the a crisis in confidence exists for the consumer Product Safety showed that the Hankscraft scenes of our childhooct. for the bulldozer in the free enterprise system. Model 202-A electric steam vaporizer could has been there first. When a building gets For the 20 million poor in our society, the easily be tipped over by a child thus drench old enough to have memories inhabit the movement toward this goal of equity in the ing him with scalding water. What is espe structure, we tear it down. The National marketplace will determine to what extent cially startling is that the manufacturer Presbyterian Church here in Washington, they shall enjoy the material fruits of our refused to take the vaporizer off the market D.C. has been replaced by an aluminum and technological society-whether they are able even though more than 100 liability suits had glass office building. So what if Presidents to obtain credit at fair rates of interest; been instituted against the company--40 of prayed there, and history stopped there for whether the food they purcha-se is as cheap, them involving explosions. moments of meditation and reflection? The nutritional and wholesome as the food pur The Public Health Service has long re old church was demolished and, for many chased from supermarkets in affluent areas; ported serious burns on small chUdren at the Americans, their ablli ty to gather strength whether their salaries will be garnisheed and rate of 60,000 a year caused by the country's from their roots has been destroyed by the their Jobs lost because they were pressured 4 million gas-fired floor heaters. The Amer destruction of such roots. "G<>d," Cowper into buying a product at an inflated price. ican Gas Association held that essentially wrote, "made the country and man made the If left unfulfilled, the legitimate demands nothing could be done. But in three weeks t.own." Men cannot give their ultimate loyal of the poor will become more and more and for an $800 fee, a small Baltimore, Mary ties to man made things. radical. land firm devised several ways to eliminate Those V{hO muse over the meaning of pa On the other hand, your panel discussion the hazard. triotism on this Memorial Day would do well on "Consumer Problems of Suburbia" sug For decades, serious injuries resulted from to consider the fact that the old formulas gests your proper refusal to accept the myth electric wringer washing machines. Since the are not keeping with the situation of today. that the only valid consumer complaints late 1940's a mechanism which stops the The patriotism we must recapture is unlike concern the unconscionable door-to-door rollers when the victim gets caught has been the patriotism we have lost, just as the tech salesman, the disreputable ghetto merchant, available to manufacturers at a cost of from nological society toward which we are mov or the fraudulent home repair operator. The $1 to $3. But a voluntary industry-wide ing is unlike the agrarian society from which reality, of course, is that the plight of the standard did not take effect until October we have come. But even in this new world, consumer is a 24 hour-a-day, 365 days-a-year 1968, although almost 200,000 persons, half the honor we hold for those who have paid phenomenon that affects the rich as well as of them children, were being injured each with their lives for our freedom to reflect the poor, the educated as well as the unedu year. as we will, is unchanged. In fact, it is greater. cated and involves some of our largest and If American industry, then, is often un For in a world where free reflection is stifled seemingly most reputable industries and willing to protect the consuming public from in all too many places, we still have the abil producers. harm, who then will stand between people ity to chart our own course. Perhaps this 1s When we talk about economic crime in and dangerous products? Can we afford the all men can ever really ask. America, we think of the bank embezzeler or luxury of relying on private organizations And patriotism never means that a country the Wall Street manipulator. But economic that test or rate products? Certainly Con has not made mistakes, even grievous mis crime in America also involves the execu sumers' Union's work is excellent-but its takes. It does not mean that we must blindly tives of our nation's largest plumbing fixture resources and the circulation of its maga support what our country does if we find it firms who bilked consumers out of hun zine are limited. Can we rely on the Under to be wrong. But to love means to help make dreds of millions of dollars by fixing prices; writers Laboratories which, though perform things better, and not to destroy, to correct economic crime also involves the deliberate ing a useful function, approved 100,000 color flaws, to chart new and better courses. To effort of certain automobile companies to television sets with defective tubes that love means never, in the midst of problems, stifle the development of exhaust fume in leaked excessive x-radiation? to withdraw from the relationship. Patriot hibitors and non-pollutant automobile en And what about those magazines that ism demands even more of the critics, and it gines; it involves the everyday deception of award commendation or guarantee seals? demands the tolerance of those who agree, consumers by fake, mlsleading or uninforma The Good.housekeeping Institute says it de as well as those who disagree. From such a tive advertising. votes an entire floor to research and testing patriotism a better world can be built and Economic crime in America involves the facilities at an annual cost of approximately this after all, is our goal. widespread practice by manUfacturers of $1 million. But I don't always share Good cleverly shrinking the contents of their Housekeeping's enthusiasm for its advertis packaged products without, at the same ers' products. Let me tell you why: time, telling the consumer or reducing the (1) In June of 1968, the FDA showed that price. Hearings to be held soon by my Spe the Sheffield Bronz Paint Corporation of COUNTY ACTION FOR CONSUMERS cial Consumer Subcommittee will show that Cleveland violated the Hazardous Substances hundreds and proba.bly thousands of pack Labeling Act in that its spray paints were aged fooct and toiletry products have ex falsely labeled as "non-toxic'', even though HON. BENJAMIN S. ROSENTHAL perienced such subtle weight decreases and they were actually highly fla.mmable and OF NEW YORK thus causing "hidden" price increases to toxic. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES consumers: Did you know, for example, that Three months later, in September 1968, the Betty Crocker Country Corn Flakes that Sheffield Quick Spray Enamels and Lacquer Tuesday, June 3, 1969 was 11 ounces in 1965 ts now 10 ounces; that were advertised in the pages of Good House Mr. ROSENTHAL. Mr. Speaker, Nas the Franco-American spaghetti that used to keeping, bearing its Seal of Approval; sau County of New York has an out be 27 ounces is now 26% ounces; that the (2) In April of 1969, the FDA reported 8 ounce can of Libby chile is now 7% ounces? that a shipment of Gold Medal flour con standing prograin of consuzner protec Prices go up and contents go down. tained rodent contamination, yet in the tion which is becoming a model for local Are you aware that the Jergens Lotion that same month, Gold Medal flour was adver government throughout the country. was 12% ounces is now 10% ounces; that the tised in Good Housekeeping proudly display I was recently honored to address the 8 ounce can of Breck Hair Set Mist is now 7 ing the famous Seal; county's :first consuzner conference. My ounces; that 12% ounce family size Halo (3) In 1967 the FDA had withdrawn from remarks follow: Shampoo has shrunk by one ounce? Some of the market a quantity of Land O'Lakes but you may be interested in knowing that the ter because it had a strange odor and the REMARKS BY MR. ROSENTHAL 21 ounce package of Serutan is now only 18 flavor of a petroleum distillate, but Land Your Office of Consumer Affairs has been ounces. O'Lakes stm bears the Good Housekeeping highly successful in protecting and repre What is incredible to me, however, is that Seal. senting the consumers of this county-so the "public-be-damned" attitude on the (4) In January 1967 the FDA charged that June 3, 1969 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 14635 a shipment of Del Monte canned peaches Although the consumer issue has great visi The Oil Import Administration of the De shipped by California Packing Corporation, bility in Washington, there is no even partment of Interior holds hearings to set Sacramento, contained mold and had been handed and effective representation of con import limits for inexpensive foreign petro prepared under unsanitary conditions, yet sumers' interest in the councils of govern leum products. These quotas directly affect Del Monte peaches still carry the Good ment. Spokesmen who a.re committed to the the price you pay for fuel for automobiles, Housekeeping Seal. consumer interest either don't exist at all or furnaces, and a host of other products. In all (5) In the September 1968 issue of Con have little control over the decision-making of the hearings held in the last five years by sumer Reports, the Mirro-Matic Electric Cof processes of government. the Oil Import Administration, not one pri fee Pot was downrated for having a. very The results are sometimes depressing. The vate consumer spokesman was present to sharp edge on top of the pot, for having no Food and Drug Administration is charged testify on behalf of average citizens. The strength control and for misstating cup with protecting the consumer against unsafe 011 Import Administration never represented capacity. And yet in the following issue of drugs, foods, cosmetics, and other products. the consumers interest in a way that would Good Housekeeping, the Mirro-Matic Electric And yet FDA has approved chemical agents have led to lower gasoline and fuel prices. Coffee Pot was advertised with the Good for food products without adequate testing Before setting quotas, consumer representa Housekeeping Seal. only to later withdraw them on the basis of tives should have been actively sought out. (6) In June 1968, Lees and Mohawk In tardy studies. Oil of calamus, used for years This persistent indifference of federal door/Outdoor carpeting was rated "not ac in fruit, chocolate, root beer, vanilla, and agencies toward their consumer protection ceptable" by Consumer Reports because of many other food products, was withdrawn responsib111ties leads me to one inescapable fl.ammabllity problems, yet in November in 1968 because it was found to cause malig conclusion: a central agency must be estab 1968, Mohawk and Lees were both advertised nant tumors in animals. Another food addi lished in Washington to vigirously represent in Good Housekeeping with its Seal of Guar tive, NDGA, was removed from the general the consumer, and consumers must organize anty. safe list only after Canadian studies show at the local and national levels and lobby If that's not enough, I can also report that ing that it may result in hazards to health, in their own self-interest. To the extent that more than a. dozen products bearing the resulted in its being banned there. . this conference goes beyond education to Good Housekeeping Sea.I are presently under The cons~ers' fair weather friend, the consumer action, it provides the proper investigation by the Federal Trade Commis Department of Agriculture, administers the catalyst for change. sion for false or misleading advertising. Federal Insecticide Act, which is intended to But consumer advocates must adjust their Obviously, private organizations alone can protect the public from dangerous doses of strategies for change to a basic fact of life not protect consumers; government must poisons in pesticides. Sixteen years ago, both in the legislative process: once a law is necessarily take the lead in providing this the Food a.nd Drug Administration and the passed, the problem that the law was in protection. Public Health Service warned the Depart tended to solve is not automatically cor The arena of consumer protection is one ment of Agriculture of a possible health haz rected. Quite to the contrary, the forces that in which all levels of government can and ard from vaporizing devices that use pesti opposed that type of consumer protection should participate. Our role is to find out cide pellets containing the chemical Lin legislation in Congress, swarm to the regu precisely what each level of government--lo dane. These vaporizers are used in restau latory agencies administering the law and cal, state and federal-can do best to help rants, so that you and I may have been ultimately accomplish their objective there. the consumer. expoted to the chemical many times over. And so, what consumers must do is agitate Let me suggest a division of responsibil Last June, the Agricultural Research Service for change. They must demand new laws ities. which approved the use of these devices, when necessary, but they must always in A local government can capitalize on its despite the devastating evidence against sist that existing laws be vigorously en intimate knowledge of local problems. In Lindane, said that it would allow Lindane forced and adequately funded. this county, we have an outstanding exam pellets for use in the vaporizers. But, after This is what the consumer revolution is ple of an effective consumer program because the release of a congressional report last all about. it is devoted to helping Nassau residents February, with further damaging evidence solve Nassau problems. aga nst Lindane, the Agricultural Research The local government can also educate. It Service tested Lindane vaporizers under re!3- can inform consumers of their rights and taurant conditions, and reported that, "By STUDENT DEFIES ATTACKS remind businessmen of their responsibilities. the end of five days' exposure, practically The local government can also give im all food ... contained illegal residues of mediate assistance--it can arbitrate disputes Lindane." And so last month, the Depart ment of Agriculture did what it should have HON. BOB WILSON between consumers and local merchants or OF CALIFORNIA local representatives of national firms. done sixteen years a.go and finally cancelled the registrations permitting Lindane pellets IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES But local government cannot cross inter in more than thirty products. state lines. It cannot determine, on its own, Or consider the Federal Housing Adminis Tuesday, June 3, 1969 if the practices of a local outlet are an iso tration's pemistent refusal to require safety lated example of consumer fraud or part of Mr. BOB WILSON. Mr. Speaker, each glass for sliding patio doors in homes whose morning the front page of the news a statewide or national pattern of deception. mortgages it insures. The additional cost for It must rely here on state and federal au ea.ch unit would have been $10. Although paper is filled with st.ories and vivid pic thorities. the Public Health Service reported 100,000 tures of campus violence and disorder, What should the role of the state be in serious injuries a year resulting from colli but yet we fail to see news space allotted consumer protection? New York State, for sions with patio doors, FHA did not change to the hardworking, nonviolent major example, has an excellent and active con its position until I threatened them with a ity of students whose primary purpose is sumer frauds division under the Attorney public hearing. · still to obtain a good education. The f al General. Our state has improved and ex Why has the consumer been virtually panded consumer education programs. But, lowing story from the San Diego Union, ignored by so many federal agencies? The which describes the activities of one when Governor Rockefeller eliminated the key to understanding the consumers lowly Office of Consumer Council, he made state status is his lack of representation when de young dedicated Vietnam veteran who wide consumer protection essentially a one cisions are made that vitally affect his in refused to allow the hippies and mili dimensional legal operation which offers a terests. tants t.o hinder his equcation, is an in tiny fraction of the consumer services avail In 1963 and 1964, the Department of Agri spiring one and I would like to share it able through your Nassau County Office. culture asked for comments on two signifi with my House colleagues: The great advantage the state government cant changes in beef grade standards. Beef Los ANGELES STUDENT DEFIES ATTACKS, has is its ability to cover the larger economic grade standards are important to the con PRESSES Bm To HALT STRIFE unit with a uniform system of legal protec sumer because they provide guides as to the tion which benefits both the consumer and quality of meat. Although more than 800 Los ANGELES.-When militants threw up the businessman. But there are serious limi people provided the Department with com barricades at entrances to Los Angeles City tations at the state level, too. The most out ments on both changes, only a handful were College this spring, they reckoned without standing shortcoming is the states' inabllity private consumer representatives. The rea Stephen Frank, 22, a handsome veteran of to deal with interstate problems like auto son: the Department does not solicit con the Vietnam war. safety, meat inspection, fair packaging and sumer opinion on proposed changes in grades Frank promptly organized a group of 20 gas pipeline safety. and standards. students who tore down the barricades so Another serious defect is the fact that in The Milk Marketing Administration of the other students could get to their classes. dustry lobbyists are in a position to exercise Department of Agriculture sets the minimum And he incurred the continuing enmity of great influence over decisions of state regula price which !armers receive for their milk. the militants. tory bodies. So while the consumer gets im These government decisions determine the Since then he has been working to repair portant help from both the local government minimum price you pay for milk. During all damage from fl.res and acts of vandalism at and at the state capital, the help is often the milk marketing proceedings from 1963- the junior college, and speaking out against too late and too limited. 1968 held in New York City and affecting the violence he believes threatens his edu I would like to tell you that consumer pro all of New York State, no spokesman ap cation, as well as that of 18,500 other stu tection in Washington is far better, but that peared for the consumer. The same pattern dents on the campus. would be a blatant case of false advertising. holds true throughout the nation. He received a complimentary letter from 14636 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 3, 1969 President Nixon. He also has been mobbed, As far as Frank is concerned, he sees noth statutes which outlaw discrimination in threatened and beaten. ing extraordinary in removlhg barricades at employment. City College. THREATS, OBSCENITIES During the course of last year's Presi "When I got to school March 12," he re dential election, a good deal of atten Militant Negroes, _ muttering obscenities calls, "there were cafeteria tables piled up and threats, shadow him from the moment six feet high and eight feet wide across the tion was devoted to the issue of law and he steps on the campus. At night meetings, entrances. I just started moving them, and order. In the context of the campaign, he ls warned he w1ll not get home allve. other students came up and began to help. lawlessness was primarily used to char While he was distributing leaflets 1n the I told them not to get involved in a physical acterize the manifest expression of dis-· student center, he was attacked by members confrontation. Severa.I times we retreated satisfaction and despair by minorities, of the Black Student Union, who smashed down the steps for a few minutes to avoid poor people, students, and others con 1n his face and split his llp. violence. "Sure I'm scared," the stocky war veteran cerned by the inverted and illogical way "Sure, I was scared, but I wanted to show in which our national resources are be admltted. "I'm scared every time I walk on the other students that 1f they show some that campus. But the militants can't be backbone they can stop the militants from ing expended. allowed to prevent the rest of us from get having their way. I think the closing of the What was largely ignored, however, ting an education." school by the militants was a denial of the was the "lawlessness" which exist.5 in Frank is the national president of Voices educational rights of others." the Government with respect to the en 1n Vital America (VIVA), founded nearly forcement of congressionally approved three years ago by a group of UCLA students who felt anti-Vietnam war groups on cam prohibitions against discriminatory em pus presented only one side of the story. ployment practices. Originally incorporated as the Victory 1n AMERICAN VETERANS COMMITTEE One-third of the jobs in the National Vietnam Association, the group changed its RESOLUTION ON EQUAL EMPLOY economy are attributable to Federal name a year ago because the old label had MENT OPPORTUNITY PROGRAMS spending. If equal employment were en become a misnomer. forced, millions of jobs, jobs previously NONPARTISAN GROUP denied minority citizens through dis Although VIVA members pack gift boxes HON. WILLIAM F. RYAN crimination, could be opened up to citi for servicemen, the group does not actively OF NEW YORK zens now unable to earn a decent living support the war. It ls nonpartisan and cur IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES wage. rently interested 1n uniting college students The executive orders and statutes pro opposed to violence and disruption on their Tuesday, June 3, 1969 campuses. hibiting unfair employment practices Frank joined VIVA last November, two Mr. RYAN. Mr. Speaker, during its must be enforced if all our citizens are months after returning to City College after first 4 months in o:flice, the Nixon admin to have an equal opportunity to share a two-year stint 1n the Army, including eight istration has exhibited an alarming lack in the amuence of this society. If the months with the Ist Infantry Division 1n of understanding of its responsibility for administration will not fulfill that re Vietnam. enforcing equal employment ol>portunity sponsibility, then it is up to Congress to "My social science teacher assigned the among Government contractors. As one insure that these laws are vigorously class to go hear a speech by Black Panther leader George Mason Murray on Nov. 8," who has been greatly disturbed at the carried out. Frank explained. failure of Government agencies to vigor I include in the RECORD the text of a "He talked about the fiag being a piece of ously enforce fair employment practices resolution on this issue adopted by the toilet pa.per and said the only way to deal throughout Government and Govern National Board of the American Veter with Nixon and (U.S. Senate candidate Max) ment-subsidized industry, I was appalled ans Committee at their May 3-4, 1969, Rafferty was to put a bullet through their by the Department of Defense's recent Boston meeting: heads. I stood up and said I favored free overruling of its own compliance staff in speech, but that I was opposed to violence. RESOLUTION AooPTED BY NATIONAL BOARD, Pour goons from the BSU picked me up the case of three large textile firms AMERICAN VETERANS COMMITTEE MAY 3-4, and carried me out. From a speech a.t my Burlington Mills, Cannon Mills, and J. P. 1969, BOSTON, MAss. own school! And they weren't even students Stevens. Such action-taken as it was in EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY PROGRAMS here," Frank said, still amazed. the face of strong recommendations for ! "That's when I joined VIVA." sanctions from compliance officials in AVC expresses its grave concern over the FOUNDED CHAPTER both the Department of Defense and the recent actions of the Department of Defense He founded the Los Angeles City College Office of Federal Contract Compliance- 1n the handling of its Equal Employment Op chapter, which now has 200 members. In only reinforces the reluctance many con portunity Program for Defense Contractors. March, he was elected national president of tractors have to eliminating employment The return to a practice of direct informal the 35-campus organization, with chapters obstacles to minorities. The message to dealings between high Department of De at Tulane, Yale, University of Florida., Ohio industry-that it is not necessary to take fense omclals and top omcials of defense State, and Southern Illinois University. requirements of equal op'portunity seri contractors which 1n the past has proved bar Wearing a VIVA button on his bright red ren of results in promoting effectively equal sweater, the speech major set up a table 1n ously-will not be lost. employment opportunities has seriously im the center of the cam.pus to pass out VIVA Similarly, the harassment of intimi paired the usefulness of this program. Such 11 tera.ture. dation of Government officials charged direct dealing not only in effect grants im "Mil1tants overturned my table and burned with enforcing equal employment op munity for past violations and from regular 200 posters. A couple of days later, I called portunity also diminishes the credibility enforcement procedures but also demoralizes a rally 1n front of the administration build of the Government's commitment to the administrative staffs within the Depart ing. About 200 people showed up. We were ment of Defense and of Labor charged with EEO programs. The attack on Clifford the administration of the program. For they passing out literature and a mob suddenly Alexander, former Chairman of the jumped on the table and tried to push me find themselves by-passed and their author off. Equal Employment Opportunity Com ity undermined. Only a return to strict ac "Their reasoning was that VIVA or any mission. by Senator EvERETT DIRKsEN counting for progress to be achieved under group opposed to the student strike has no and the announcement one day later well-defined ·action programs and their en right to free speech. from the White House that Mr. Alex forcement through regular established pro "All students have grievances. I have griev ander would be replaced-will seriously cedures, where compliance lags, can restore ances. But that doesn't mean I'm going to impair the ability of the Commission to the damage done by the Defense Depart overthrow the government or set fires 1n ment's handling of its program in its deal enforce equal employment opportunity. ings with the big Textile firms of Burlington classrooms. There are ways of redressing Coming as it did in the wake of a vig grievances in an orderly fashion. Mills, Cannon Mills and J.P. Stevens. orous campaign by Mr. Alexander to ex Moreover, it ls time that the Department of "ORDERLY DISSE:t.'"T pose and investigate discriminatory em Defense publlcy account for its stewardship "We want to educate students on the prob ployment practices, the effect of this ac of the equal employment opportunity pro lems of violence and show them the right tion, again, will be to tell industry that gram for defense contractors. Information on way to solve their problems. We have an it need not take Government regulations its activities and results in the form of de ombudsman program. Each campus has an tailed statistical data on initial hiring, up ombudsman, someone who knows how to get prohibiting unfair employment practices grading and promotion of minority group things done. Students go to the ombudsman seriously.· employees have been unavailable to the pub with their problems, and he tries to solve Mr. Speaker. the administration has lic. General reassuring answers are no longer them. Changes are needed, but we must have a moral and legal responsibility to en sumcient. We call on the new Secretaries of orderly dissent.•• force the executive orders and Federal Defense and of the military departments to June 4, 1969 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 14637 publish full data on the operation of the tion to higher positions in the career civil ployees belonging to minority groups. Instead program so that the success or failure thereof service, than has hitherto been attained, and of senatorial censure they deserve the sup can be assessed and steps taken to render it the correction of earlier acts of d1scr1m1na port and commendation of the National Ad more effective. We call on the cognizant Con tion which have prevented in numerous in ministration, of Congress and of all citizens gressional committees to obtain and publish dividual cases promotions and advancement Intent upon ending discrimination in em· relevant information and to exercise their of civil service employees belonging to minor ployment and all other aspects of public and lnfiuence to render the program truly useful. ity groups in the same manner and to the private life. We commend in particular Clif n same extent as their white majority fellow ford Alexander, the former chairman of the We further urge that the Civil Service employees. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Commission of the United States take new m for his efforts to promote equal employment steps not only to continue to combat or We protest the harassment of public serv opportunity in accordance with the laws of prevent discrimination against employees but ants who devote their best efforts to the pro the United States and hope that as a mem also to foster the employment of minority motion of equal employment opportunity in ber of the EEOC he will continue his efforts group civil service employees, their promo- business, industry and Government for em- in the cause of fair employment for all. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES-Wednesday, June 4, 1969 The House met at 12 o'clock noon. have made equal contributions to a re Mr. CONTE. I am glad to yield to the The Chaplain, Rev. Edward G. Lat.ch, tirement system. gentleman from Florida. D.D., offered the following prayer: Mr. Speaker, earlier this year I reintro Mr. HALEY. In case of emergency, duced legislation to provide for optional would you consider shifting Congressman God be merciful unto us and bless us; retirement after 30 years of service un GOLDWATER over to left field? and cause His face to shine upon us. der the act regardless of age. This bill, Mr. CONTE. Maybe center field but Psalm 67: 1. H.R. 1040, is now pending before the never left. O Thou who art the bright sun of the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Com world sending Thy light unto all Thy mittee. I mention this bill because in no creation, shine Thou upon our hearts as way do I want the RECORD to show that I POSTAL REFORM LEGISLATION we pray this moment, driving away the. intended the bill I have introduced to