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Micek, Jerome J., xxx-xx-xxxx . Wiley, Roger W., xxx-xx-xxxx . Jones, Royce E., xxx-xx-xxxx . Moore, James F., xxx-xx-xxxx . Wilson, Claude L., xxx-xx-xxxx . Katilus, Joseph P., xxx-xx-xxxx . Moore, William E., xxx-xx-xxxx . Wood, Robert T., xxx-xx-xxxx . Kuklinski, Joanna L., xxx-xx-xxxx . Mora, Edward A., xxx-xx-xxxx . Wright, Frederick L., xxx-xx-xxxx . Lambert, Sharon L., xxx-xx-xxxx . Mortensen, Eugene P., xxx-xx-xxxx . A R M Y N UR SE CO R PS Lotspeich, Angela P., xxx-xx-xxxx . Nelson, Larry L., xxx-xx-xxxx . Mangold, Kathleen H., xxx-xx-xxxx . To be captain Newborn, James L., xxx-xx-xxxx . Matson, Erland G., xxx-xx-xxxx . Olihovik, Paul L., xxx-xx-xxxx . Anderson, Luke R., xxx-xx-xxxx . McCasland, Nickey, xxx-xx-xxxx . Pleasants, James L., xxx-xx-xxxx . Baca, Richard C., xxx-xx-xxxx . Messerschmidt, Mary, xxx-xx-xxxx . Poe, Gerald D., xxx-xx-xxxx . Banks, William C., II, xxx-xx-xxxx . Moriarty, Francis M., xxx-xx-xxxx . Pollard, David E., xxx-xx-xxxx . Bennett, Mary M., xxx-xx-xxxx . Nenninger, Ann J., xxx-xx-xxxx . Purcell, Jackson D., xxx-xx-xxxx . Bouleau, Paul J., xxx-xx-xxxx . Pearce, Maurice C., xxx-xx-xxxx . Redington, Bryce C., xxx-xx-xxxx . Bowman, Linda A., xxx-xx-xxxx . Ryan, Mary H., xxx-xx-xxxx . Reichard, Lawrence, xxx-xx-xxxx . Brodkey, Caroline G., xxx-xx-xxxx . Schmoker, Arthur W., xxx-xx-xxxx . Reineck, Theodore C., xxx-xx-xxxx . Chaussee, Daniel L., xxx-xx-xxxx . Stemm, Patricia A., xxx-xx-xxxx . Ribotto, Joe W., Jr., xxx-xx-xxxx . Cogswell, Gail D., xxx-xx-xxxx . Temple, Charles L., xxx-xx-xxxx . Richards, Robert E., xxx-xx-xxxx . Couch, Kenneth R., xxx-xx-xxxx . Thompson, Marilee, xxx-xx-xxxx . Sandidge, William M., xxx-xx-xxxx . Devin, Kathleen, xxx-xx-xxxx . Underhill, Lilburn, xxx-xx-xxxx . Sawyer, James R., xxx-xx-xxxx . Dodds, Carol M., xxx-xx-xxxx . Victor, Joseph A., xxx-xx-xxxx . Schlenker, Austin C., xxx-xx-xxxx . Edwards, Carolyn L., xxx-xx-xxxx . Wachowski, Regina E., xxx-xx-xxxx . Ehrhart, Marjorie K., . Schlenker, Patrick, xxx-xx-xxxx . xxx-xx-xxxx Weir, Patricia A., xxx-xx-xxxx . Schott, Thomas A., xxx-xx-xxxx . Ellis, Merlan 0., xxx-xx-xxxx . Wolf, Jo E., xxx-xx-xxxx . Schwicker, Dale H., xxx-xx-xxxx . Freeman, William E., xxx-xx-xxxx . Zahn, Karen E., xxx-xx-xxxx . Selby, Jackie L., xxx-xx-xxxx . Gaynor, Mary E., xxx-xx-xxxx . Zanto, Raymond L., xxx-xx-xxxx . Gordon, Jacqueline, xxx-xx-xxxx . Severson, Richard W., xxx-xx-xxxx . Zuelke, David H., xxx-xx-xxxx . Sowder, Norman G., . Gouldthorpe, Barbara, xxx-xx-xxxx . xxx-xx-xxxx ARM Y M EDICAL SPECIALIST CORPS Spille, Robert M., xxx-xx-xxxx . Gramkow, Nancy V., xxx-xx-xxxx . Stingle, Norbert A., xxx-xx-xxxx . Grantham, Norma J., xxx-xx-xxxx . To be captain Stockmoe, Lyle D., xxx-xx-xxxx . Griebling, Harry W., xxx-xx-xxxx . Davis, Benjamin S., xxx-xx-xxxx . Suit, Larry R., xxx-xx-xxxx . Griess, Lorna L., xxx-xx-xxxx . Donaghue, Daniel A., xxx-xx-xxxx . Sutton, William L., xxx-xx-xxxx . Hammann, Amy D., xxx-xx-xxxx . Mayberry, John D., xxx-xx-xxxx . Vorpahl, Kenneth W., xxx-xx-xxxx . Herrington, Joyce, xxx-xx-xxxx . Meyer, Nancy A., xxx-xx-xxxx . Waters, Henry J., xxx-xx-xxxx . Jaquez, Virginia, xxx-xx-xxxx . Moore, John W., xxx-xx-xxxx . Weeks, Hershel E., xxx-xx-xxxx . Jerney, Charlotte 0., xxx-xx-xxxx . Selman, Sherley A., xxx-xx-xxxx . Weiser, Philip C., xxx-xx-xxxx . Johnston, Zula J., xxx-xx-xxxx . Thomes, Linwood J., xxx-xx-xxxx .

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THE AMERICAN FLAG-ARTICLE BY 1 6 , 1 7 7 7 , w h e n tro o p s u n d e r Jo h n S ta rk be on guard, lest w e be so occupied that the DR. WOODROW W. HAYZLETT fought in the Battle of Bennington in South- sm allest act of injustice go unnoticed and w estern V erm ont. It w as first carried on a not corrected. U.S. Navy ship on November 1, 1777, w hen T he flag code or set of rules for display- HON. HARRY F. BYRD, JR. J o h n P a u l J o n e s le f t P o rts m o u th , N e w ing and h o no ring o ur flag are guid e lines Hampshire in the Ranger. given to us to show our patriotism and re- OF VIRGINIA The piece of red, w hite and blue bunting spect for our flag and the country for w hich IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES should be loved by every citizen of this coun- it stands. Monday, June 22, 1970 try and respected by every country on the D uring these turbulent tim es our flag has face of this earth. been disgraced by being used as a garm ent, Mr. BYRD of Virginia. Mr. President, Red in the flag, is for hardiness and cour- by being burned , by being d ragged in the the June 12 edition of the Hopewell News a g e . T h e h is to ry o f th e U n ite d S ta te s o f filth of the street and by being torn by the included an inspiring article on the America is resplendent with stories of a peo- law less on our streets and college and uni- American flag, written by Dr. Woodrow ple w ho by hard iness and courage, carved versity campuses. W. Hayzlett, pastor of the First United out this land and made it w hat it is. W h e n th is is d o n e , n o t o n ly is o u r fla g The w hite in the flag is for purity and in- d esecrated but our country insulted , every Methodist Church in Hopewell, Va. red blood ed A m erican slapped in the face In a time when some radicals think it no cence. T he go vernm ent and the p eo p le of the United States of A m erica have never b u t m o re th a n a ll th is , o v e r o n e m illio n is fashionable to desecrate the flag, the had d esigns on the territory or the posses- m en and w om en w ho have given their lives words of Dr. Hayzlett are particularly sions of any other people. in a ll o u r c o u n try 's w a rs, h a v e h a d th e ir graves and m em ories scarred by those w ho appropriate. W henever our flag has been carried into w ould tear d ow n and d estroy their sacred battle on foreign soil it has been in the inter- June 14 marked the retirement of Dr. heritage. est of freedom and not for any personal gain H ayzlett from his pastorate after 33 Y o u m ig h t sa y th a t life in o u r c o u n try to our country or its people. W itness the mil- years of dedicated service. His many today is a paradox, from rags to riches thence lions of dollars poured into the Philippines friends in Hopewell honored him for his to rags in four generations. The first genera- after the Spanish A merican W ar and the bil- tio n w o rk e d h a rd to c a rv e o u t th is la n d service on the occasion of his retirement lions for Reconstruction after W orld W ar I and m ake it. The second generation tries to on June 14, Flag Day, which was the in- and the added billions of the M arshall Plan consolid ate and enhance it. T he third gen- spiration for his article. after W orld W ar II and the m onies spent in e ra tio n trie s its b e s t to d is s ip a te , to te a r South Korea and in South Vietnam. I ask unanimous consent that his ar- d o w n and d estro y . T h e fo urth generatio n ticle be printed in the Extensions of Re- Blue is for vigilance, perseverance and jus- must begin all over again. marks. tic e . O u r fo re fa th e rs le a rn e d to liv e w ith Will we never learn? There being no objection, the article danger, "they kept their pow der dry." D are In the light of w hat is taking place in the w e relax and be ind ifferent at a tim e w hen U nited S tates o f A m erica to d ay th ere are was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, the United States of A m erica is engaged in as follows: many serious-minded people who wake each a b a ttle w ith o u t a n d w ith in to d e te rm in e m orning, as did Francis Scott K ey and ask, DOES TH E FLAG STILL WAVE OVER LAND OF whether "a government of the people, for the "D o es th e fla g still w a v e o 'er th e la n d o f TH E FREE, B RAVE people and by the people" shall perish from the free and the home of the brave." the face of this earth? (By Woodrow W. Hayzlett) M y fellow A m ericans it's high tim e this June the 14th w ill m ark the 193rd anni- This is not a tim e for w eakness. W e m ust country has a new birth of freedom. It begins versary of the ad option by the Continental "be strong and in the power of His might. W e w hen w e feel a tug at our heart, a lum p in Congress, of the red, w hite and blue flag of m ust p ut o n th e w h o le arm o r o f G o d th at o u r th r o a t a n d a te a r in o u r e y e a s w e the United States of A merica. A t the time of w e m ight w ithstand the w iles of the D evil." look at old Glory and say: its ad o p tio n, G eo rge W ash ingto n and h is In itia tiv e a n d fin ish itiv e a re e q u a lly im - "I p le d g e a lle g ia n c e to th e f la g o f th e thin ranks of the Continental A rmy w ere en- p o rta n t. In o u r s tru g g le to p re s e rv e o u r U n ite d S ta te s o f A m e ric a a n d to th e R e - g a g e d in o u r w a r o f lib e ra tio n f ro m th e w ay of life, w e m ust be like C aptain John public for w hich it stands, one nation, under tyranny of G eorge III of E ngland. Paul Jones on his sinking ship, "I have just God, indivisible, w ith liberty and justice for It first flew over a land battle on A ugust begun to fight." A t the sam e tim e w e m ust all." 20842 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 22, 1970 WASHINGTON ORDERED NOT TO attack on Trenton is not only militarily territory to remote villages, he contributed CROSS THE DELAWARE-ESCALA­ sound but might be the turning point in the significantly to the Personal Response Pro­ TION FEARED war. gram. As a result of his diligent and resource­ Finally, your proposed attack will only har­ ful efforts, the operational effectiveness of den the attitude of King George III. Although the G-5 . Section was greatly enhanced. By HON. CRAIG HOSMER we admit that for 10 years negotiations with his initiative, superb professionalism, and King George have had no success beyond loyal devotion to duty, First Lieutenant Eagar OF CALIFORNIA agreement on the shape of the conference earned the respect of all who served with him IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES table, still we must persist in seeking a po­ and upheld the finest traditions of the Ma­ Monday, June 22, 1970 litical settlement. He may become even more rine Corps and of the United States Naval intransigent when word of your affront Service." Mr. HOSMER. Mr. Speaker, we hear reaches London. The Combat Distinguishing Device is au­ a great deal of sober-sided warnings After all, we really have no vital interest thorized. these days about "widening the war" in to protect in New Jersey. The Revolution can H. W. BUSE, Jr., Vietnam, 99 percent of it from arm­ be won without New Jersey. Maybe you can L i eutenant General, U.S. Marine Corps, win this war by catching General Cornwallis Commanding General, Fleet Marine chair strategists who have never been at Yorktown in Virginia. Although this is ad­ Force, Pacific close to Vietnam, or who have spent at mittedly speculation, under such a circum­ • (For the Secretary of the Navy). most a week or two there on what some stance we could get along without retaking are pleased to call "factfinding" trips. New Jersey. The Republican Congressional Commit­ In summary, General Washington, you are I AM AN AMERICAN tee's weekly Newsletter for June 22 pub­ hereby ordered to keep your troops on the lishes a letter which the Continental Pennsylvania side of the Delaware until the Congress might have addressed to George Continental Congress' Foreign Affairs Com­ HON. HERMAN T. SCHNEEBELI Washington were it moved by the kind of mittee decides to let you cross and, oh yes, OF PENNSYLVANIA be sure to have the Revolution terminated no debate we are hearing today in Congress. later than Dec. 31, 1777. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The letter, which follows, appeared first Very truly yours, Monday, June 22, 1970 in the Indianapolis News: CONTINENTAL CONGRESS. DECEMBER 12, 1776. Mr. SCHNEEBELI. Mr. Speaker, one of DEAR GENERAL WASHINGTON: Word has my good friends and constituents, Mr. been received by the Continental Congress Richard G. Schuck, prothonotary and which has caused grave concern. We are in­ CAPTAIN EAGAR PRESENTED NAVY clerk of courts in Middleburg, Pa., has formed that you are planning an expansion composed a very moving and thought­ of the confiict into New Jersey. Rumor has COMMENDATION MEDAL WITH COMBAT "V" provoking creed entitled "I Am an Amer­ it that you intend to cross the Delaware ican." Because of its timely message, I River and attack the enemy at Trenton. share it with my colleagues in the House You are advised that Congress has passed a resolution forbidding you from such a. HON. JOHN W. McCORMACK of Representatives: reckless adventure. You must be aware that OF MASSACHUSETTS I AM AN AMERICAN a large percentage of our citizens do not IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (By Richard G. Schuck) favor your military approach to this war. Monday, June 22, 1970 I am an American who is deeply concerned Furthermore, you have already announced a about events taking place in my be­ major withdrawal of combat troops since the Mr. McCORMACK. Mr. Speaker; at a loved country today. enlistment of about three-fourths of your recent informal ceremony at the Wash­ 6,000 troops expires on December 31. It seems I am an American who knows no other coun­ highly unreasonable to expect these troops ington, D.C., Navy Yard, Mr. Edward R. try has given so much to so many to re-enter New Jersey less than 10 days Eagar, Jr., who is employed by the House throughout the world while still trying prior to expiration of their enlistments. of Representatives as a clerk to our Offi­ to face its problems at home. It is the sentiment of the Congress that cial Reporters of Debate, was awarded I am an American who believes that my coun­ your pitiable supplies should be preserved the Navy Commendation Medal with try is the only one in the world that and not expended on a. maneuver of such Combat V for Valor. gives those living in suppression-such debatable value. Wha.t can you possibly hope Mr. Eagar, one of our heroes, was as in Hungary and Czechoslovakia­ to accomplish? The British command the to name a few-the hope that some­ seas and will have no difficulty resupplying awarded the Medal for Meritorious Serv­ day they too can be free. what little military equipment you may be ice while serving in the Republic of Viet­ I am an American who knows that my coun­ able to destroy or capture. nam as a captain in the U.S. Marine try has more immigrants annually We must also advise that should you dis­ Corps. than any other nation-and a. waiting obey this command and attack Trenton, that I extend to Mr. Eagar my congratula­ list of many thousands-because my all further monies and supplies will be tions on his receipt of this distinguished country is still considered the land of stopped immediately. While we regret the in­ citation, which he earned by his out­ opportunity and the land of the free. convenience this may cause to your Army, standing service in times of armed con­ I a.m an American who knows my country we feel that control of the purse strings is filet, a copy of which I herewith enclose: forgave her enemies after the World the only effective tool which we have to force Wars and assisted them in rebuilding you to limit your ambitious programs. The Secretary of the Navy takes pleasure their countries. We are further shocked that you should in presenting the Navy Commendation Medal to First Lieutenant Edward R. Eagar, United I am an American who knows that my coun­ anticipate launching a. surprise attack on try owes no debts to other nations but Christmas Eve. This is traditionally a fes­ States Marine Corps Reserve, for service as set forth in the following citation: many nations are indebted to my tive occasion on which it may be reasonably country-including Russia for arms anticipated the British Army is not expecting "For meritorious service while serving as Hospital Projects Officer and Division Per­ we supplied that country to defend to engage in combat. Perhaps this situation themselves against the Germans. might be slightly altered if you had received sonal Response Officer, G-5 Section, Head­ a. formal invitation from the duly constituted quarters, Third Marine Division in connec­ I am an American who is concerned about government of the colony of New Jersey to tion with combat operations against the the dissenters who recognize only the engage in such conduct. But we find nothing enemy in the Republic of Vietnam from 24 faults of my country and fail to "thank in the files of the Continental Congress' October 1968 to 17 September 1969. Through­ the Lord" for being able to live in a. Committee on Foreign Affairs to indicate out this period, First Lieutenant Eagar per­ country which has given them the such an invitation. formed his duties in an exemplary and highly right to dissent. We understand you have promised to leave professional manner. Joining the command I am an American who believes all the peo­ New Jersey immediately following the Tren­ at a time when the Third Marine Division ple of my country have rights-but ton operation. But how can we believe you? Memorial Children's Hospital was still in the none have the right to perform in such You have 4,500 militiamen who expect to be planning stages, he worked tirelessly to pro­ a manner so as to interfere with the discharged on December 31. What assurance cure the necessary funds for its construction rights of others. do we have that you will not keep them in and, by his dlllgent supervision, ensured its I am an American who knows there are those Trenton under some pretext of military completion within a short period of time, who think that freedom means the necessity? How can we trust you? We relied thereby materially enhancing Vietnamese­ right to obey only the laws of the land on your leadership at Long Island, Throg's American relations. By his fluency in the they are willing to obey-and scream Neck, Pelham and White Plains and each Vietnamese language and his courage in "brutality" when they violate a law time you lost. Now you say that this sneak traveling alone through enemy-controlled they aren't willing to obey. June 22~ 1970 I am an American who knows many in my petty, day-to-day problems which con­ partment of Interior as the first step toward country preach "PEACE" but turn their front all nations from time to time. We conducting hearings. As a rule, committees heads when those in their group use do, after all, share the same continent w111 not hold hearings on a b1ll until the violence. Administration position has been received. I am an American who knows that those and thus have a natural and logical So now O'Neill Historic Site backers are in my country with the dirty appear­ concern over the welfare of our fellow seeking letters from concerned citizens ance-including those with the un­ American nations. throughout the county. They suggest they trimmed beard and hair-wouldn't It is in this spirit that I today in­ be written to President Nixon and Secretary purchase a new automobile that had troduce a resolution applauding the re­ of Interior Walter J. Hickel, urging the Au­ an interior comparable to their ex­ action of this country to the recent dis­ ministration present a favorable report, and terior. aster and the manner in which this re­ to Sen. Alan Bible, subcommittee chairman, I am an American who knows that my fore­ asking him to schedule hearings as soon as fathers worked toward bettering my sponse was received in Peru. The prompt the Administration report is received. country-knowing it would take many and strong response of our people clearly For to what better use could "Tao House," sacrifices with slow results. indicated a willingness to help alleviate O'Neill's home and harbor from 1937 to 1944, I am an American who knows that past gen­ the sutiering of the Peruvian people. The be put than as open space for conservation erations have solved many problems appreciation evidenced by Peru and its and recreation in an area 15 miles from the confronting my country through sweat, people was deep and immediate. This is urban core area of Oakland and Alameda hard work, strenuous studying and moving testimony of the strength of the ... open hills of oak, mountain laurel and research. bonds between our countries. This res­ native plants. I am an American who knows that the faults Supporters believe the Cranston and of my country can only be corrected olution recognizes and pays tribute to Waldie moves are particularly timely and in by finding solutions-not by dissent the enduring nature of this relationship. tune with President Nixon's program to without sense. develop national parks and recreation areas I am an American who resents those who in close proximity to large urban population teach in our schools and colleges that THE EFFORT TO SAVE THE areas. capitalism is a dirty word and that But, right now, letters are what they need free enterprise and private initiative O'NEILL HOME most-to the President, Hickel and Bible, are only synonyms for greed. hopefully in that order with the original to I am an American who resents those who Mr. Nixon and copies to Hickel and Bible. It say they wouldn't mind living under HON. JEROME R. WALDIE only takes a little time and a 6-cent stamp. Communism while at the- same time OF CALIFORNIA The benefits to this area's future are certain are enjoying the fruits that no other IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to be enormous. country could give or would allow them to have. Monday, June 22, 1970 I am an American who despises those who Mr. WALDIE. Mr. Speaker, a commu­ THE COLEMAN CO. OF WICIDTA, set impossible standards for my coun­ nity effort to preserve the former home of KANS.-STORY OF SUCCESS try but never apply the same to other the great American playwright, Eugene countries. I am an American who cannot recognize O'Neill, has been gaining momentum since the first of the year. HON. GARNER E. SHRIVER those who criticize my country but OF KANSAS fail to "raise their voices" against other Originally conceived by a small group countries who force their will on mil­ of residents of Contra Costa County, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES lions of people who want to be free and Calif., this effort has now attracted the Monday, June 22, 1970 self-governing. attention of many residents of the San I am an American who knows my country Mr. SHRIVER. Mr. Speaker, at a time Francisco Bay area and O'Nelll admirers when there is concern over the economy isn't_always right-but then I know around the Nation. no one country, group or person is al­ and unemployment in the Nation, it is ways right either. Petitions bearing thousands of signa­ refreshing to point to a company in my I am an American who gets a lump in my tures of citizens advocating the preserva­ congressional district which has re­ throat when I hear the "Star Spangled tion of this historic house and the sur­ corded a period of remarkable growth Banner" and tears in my eyes when I rounding land which inspired O'Neill to see them burn the flag of my country. create some of his most outstanding work and success and looks forward to the I am an American who knows that those who future with considerable optimism. have been sent to my office. I cite the Coleman Co., headquartered gave their life in the wars of my coun­ I try won't be remembered by those who The community effort continues. in Wichita, Kans., which is a leader in rip, burn or stamp on Old Glory. wish to include in the RECORD a recent the manufacture of recreation and out­ I am an American who is damn proud of it editorial in the Contra Costa Times which door products and heating and air con­ because I stm believe my country is tells of the activities of the people inter­ ditioning for mobile, modular, and resi­ the greatest in the world despite its ested in saving this historic area. dential housing. While Coleman is not faults. The editorial follows: dependent solely upon Government con­ WRITERS CAN HELP SAVE EuGENE O'NEn.'s tracts for its survival, it has long served HOME BONDS OF FRIENDSHIP the defense needs of the United States STRENGTHENED Recently The Times carried a story explain­ by producing the famous Coleman lan­ ing that Sen. Alan Cranston (D-California) tern for military use around the world. introduced Senate Bill 3667, a companion measure to Rep. Jerome Waldie's House Res­ Recently, Mr. Sheldon Coleman, pres­ HON. RICHARD T. HANNA olution 8986, urging government acquisition ident and chairman of the board, sub­ OF CALIFORNIA of the Eugene O'Neill residence in Danville. mitted his report at the annual stock­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Unfortunately, many Contra Costans be­ holders meeting which demonstrates the company's progress during a period of Monday, June 22, 1970 lieve that is the end of it. Actually, this is only the beginning if the only home ever economic crisis for the Nation. Mr. HANNA. Mr. Speaker, in the last built by the famous Nobel and Pulitzer Prize­ In 1969, the company set significant 4 weeks, we have witnessed once again winning dramatist and playwright along records, split its stock two-for-one, in­ the cohesiveness of the human com­ with its 1,005 acres is to be preserved for creased its dividend rate and completed munity. I refer specifically to the out­ posterity. What is envisioned by supporters of the four acquisitions. In the first quarter of pouring of sympathy and material as­ two legislative actions is the creation of the 1970, it was able to report continued sistance from the American people in Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site as part growth. While unemployment is a grow­ the aftermath of the tragic earthquake of the Las Trampas Ridge running north ing problem in many parts of the Na­ which struck Peru on May 31 of this and south 'from Alamo to Danville, bounded tion, Coleman has been gradually add­ year. on the west and north by Bollinger Canyon ing to its work force and its employees I am, as all are, aware of the misun­ and Rossmoor Valley. Establishment of Las obtain seniority status at the end of 90 derstandings and unhappiness which Trampas Ridge National Park with 4,000 days. Not a single seniority employee in acres is part of the proposal. Wichita had been laid off in 9 years. has in the past marred the relations be­ Cranston said the O'Neill bill has been re­ tween the United States and Peru. How­ ferred to the subcommittee on Parks and Under the leave to extend my remarks ever, I must believe that the bonds of Recreation of the Senate Interior Commit­ in the RECORD, it seems appropriate to friendship which tie these countries to­ tee. He has asked that the subcommittee re- include excerpts from Mr. Coleman's gether can endure and overcome the quest a departmental report from the De- report: 20844 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 22, 1970

As your company began 1970, we recog­ and equipment, wm cost approximately $3.5 BILL, VOLUME, DATE RELEASED nized five factors would have an important million. Milit:..ry construction, part 3, Defense bearing on our ability to perform well dur­ Further, we are constructing on a. 163- ing the year. These are the following: acre site, located at the southeast corner of agencies, and so forth, Monday, June 8. 1. The economy has slowed down; Hydraulic and 37th Street North, a. 200,000- Labor-HEW, part 2, Food and Drug 2. Industries we serve as a supplier are sq.-ft. outing products facility to be known Administration and health items, Friday, having a sharply reduced rate of growth or as our northeast plant. It will serve as a June 12. are below 1969; manufacturing, warehousing and distribu­ Public works-AEC, part 4, AEC, TVA, 3. Our interest costs are more than double tion center, requiring a capital expenditure and Panama Canal, Tuesday, June 16. due to high interest rates and increased of approximately $3.7 million. Public works-AEC, part 5, Members of borrowing; We are today announcing plans for the Congress and other public witnesses, 4. We are bringing on stream new factories construction of a new, highly mechanized air conditioning plant for the Special Products Thursday, June 18. with their attendant start-up costs; Labor-HEW, part 3, National Institutes 5. Tooling costs, which we expense each Group to be located in McPherson, Kansas. year, have increased over 100 percent due to Construction of this facility, covering 150,000 of Health, Monday, June 22. new products resulting from research. sq. ft., has tentatively been set for 1971 and During the current week, the commit­ In spite of these circumstances, we had an will require an ultimate investment ap-: tee expects to release two additional vol­ excellent first quarter in 1970, substantially proaching $4 million. umes-one relating to the Labor-HEW The Canadian Coleman Company operates appropriation bill and one relating to the exceeding our goal of a 15-percent increase a manufacturing facility in Etobicoke, in sales and earnings, and we surpassed the Ontario, a suburb of Toronto. This major Department of Defense appropriation record-setting levels of 1969 in each of the unit manufactures many product lines for bill. following areas: the Canadian and export markets. When released, copies are available to NET SALES-FIRST QUARTER The Canadian Coleman Company is pres­ Members and others at the committee Net sales in the first quarter reached a ently constructing a 22,000-sq.-ft. addition to room, H-218, Capitol Building, extension record level of $34.2 million compared to their existing manufacturing plant. Total 2771, as long as the supply lasts. $27.8 million for the same period in 1969, a cost for this project, including equipment, 23-percent increase. will be $250,000. We operate two manufacturing facilities in NET INCOME-FIRST QUARTER Santa Fe Springs, California., responsible for Net income for the first quarter was $2 mil­ our production of lighting, water system BABE RUTH BASEBALL VITAL LINK lion, up 26 percent over the $1.6 million components, ranges and ovens for the recrea­ TO WORLD CITIZENSHIP recorded during the same period of 1968. tional vehicle industry. Once again this was a new record for a first Cedar City, Utah, is the production site of quarter and represents a 5.75-percent return tents and sleeping bags for western markets. HON. HAROLD T. JOHNSON on net sales. We are approaching our corpo­ Our Somerset, Pennsylvania, location OF CALIFORNIA rate objective of a 6-percent return in this serves two functions: as a headquarters for IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES area.. the Sports Vehicle Division, and as a manu­ Tuesday, June 16, 1970 EARNINGS PER SHARE OF COMMON STOCK-FIRST facturing facility for tents, sleeping bags and QUARTER camping trailers. Mr. JOHNSON of California. Mr. Earnings per share in the first quarter of In Wickham, Quebec, your company pro­ Speaker, in thinking of the late and great 1969 were 34 cents, another record, and com­ duces Skiroule snowmobiles. At the present time, this facility has been doubled in size Babe Ruth and his contribution to the pares with 27 cents in the first three months world of sports, I would reflect back sev­ of last year. to 252,000 sq. ft., with a capital expenditure of approximately $2 million for plant and eral years to the summer Olympics in To correctly analyze this result, it is im­ Mexico City '.vhere one of the most in­ portant to understand that it was a balanced equipment. performance by all major segments of our In summary, today your Company operates spirational scenes one could hope to wit­ business. All groups-Outing Products, Spe­ nine manufacturing facll1ties across North ness took place, and I would like to re­ cial Products and Canadian Coleman-con­ America. They cover approximately 2.7 mil­ call it to you now. tributed their full share, recording a sub­ lion sq. ft. and today your Company em­ On the last day of the grueling but stantial improvement over last year. This in­ ploys over 4,000 people. In 1970, we will invest over $10 million in capital expenditures, a thrilling competition, nation against na­ cluded product lines we supply to the recrea­ tion, after the last race was run, the tional vehicle and mobile home industries. major percentage of which will be for plant and equipment. various feats of strength and skill dem­ We have not taken one course of action We feel this investment will pay a fine onstrated and judged, awards and pres­ advocated by some to improve 1970 results. dividend enabling your Company to capi­ Coleman will not reduce expenses on im­ entations bestowed upon the winners, talize on the fruits of our research and de­ and the Olympic torch extinguished, the portant projects for the sake of expediency. velopment efforts. I hope I have been suc­ We are continuing to proceed on worthwhile track surrounding the arena was sud­ cessful in portraying to you the impact these denly converged upon by tens of thou­ projects, looking toward the future. factors have had on the sustained growth There are two aspects of Coleman which rate which your Company has experienced. sands of young people, including the directly relate to the sucess which your Com­ We have felt their potency in the first four Olympic athletes, victors and losers. pany enjoys. These are your Company's re­ months of 1970. The challenges presented by This mass of life began marching vi­ search and development efforts and our the current adverse economic climate have brantly around the track with linked manufacturing facilities. been met, with a more viable and competi­ arms, black with white, German with Coleman intends to continue to grow. The tive company the result. Englishman, Hungarian with Swede, and main thrust behind our progress will be Through April 30, sales are at a record Russian with American. Many were provided by internal research and develop­ level. During the same period, earnings have ment. continued a pattern of increasing at a rate dressed in their native costumes and I would like to quite briefly provide to you faster than sales. were singing each other's national a resume of where our factories are current­ Although the results are of record-setting anthem as they circled the field again ly located, the products produced at each, proportions, we could do better for the year and again, waving to the enthusiastic and major changes that are planned. as a whole than we did in the first one-third and cheering spectators, and clinging to In Wichita, your Company currently op­ of 1970 should the industries we serve and each other in a desperate attempt to pre­ erates two manufacturing facilities: a down­ the general economy show improvement later vent this last night from coming to an town location and the north plant. All prod­ this year. end, their wide smiles dampened by their uct lines for the Outing Products Group, tears. It was an electrifying experience with the exception of tents, sleeping bags, camping trailers and snowmobiles, come APPROPRIATIONS HEARINGS to say the least, and the security forces from these plants. The situation is similar VOLUMES RELEASED were unsuccessful in their attempt to for the Special Products Group. Their total clear the track. merchandise lines, with the exception of cer­ After what must have been at least an tain items for the recreational vehicle in­ HON. GEORGE H. MAHON hour, the participants did clear the track, dustry, are the result of Wichit a-based OF TEXAS only to make way for the parade of na- manufacturing. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tional flags representing each of their In addition, we are currently const ruct ing homelands; but· one could not hear the t wo new facilities. One of approximately Monday, June 22, 1970 121,000 sq. ft. will serve the Special Products anthems for the ovations of the crowd. It Group with particular emphasis on increas­ Mr. MAHON. Mr. Speaker, the Com­ was obvious that these young men and ing our capacity to serve the mobile home mittee on Appropriations has recently women would return to their homelands industry. Adjacent to our north plant, this released the following committee hear­ not untouched by what had happened new building, together with its machinery ings volumes: here, and there was a faint glimmer of June 22, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20845 hope that p.erhaps the Olympic torch had cation." Asking some reasons why we formative years of the Institute's unique not been extinguished after all. confer on him one of our honors this academic-internship curriculum. Mem­ Certainly this display of what began afternoon, the imagination is not strained bers of Secretary Volpe's department, with the wholesome sports competition when confronted with one of his former specialists in various phases of trans­ between nations and resulted with the titles: Architect of the interstate high­ portation and urban planning, have been finale described here can begin to teach way program. participants in the forums and seminars us something. I feel sure the Babe's heart Father Slattery continued: that have become part of the institute's would have swelled with pride if he could We are grateful for and admiring of his program and have lectured to individual have been there to witness this over­ national interest and generosity, but we feel classes. They have aided in enchancing whelming and unforgettable sight, for his benevolence closer and more personally and strengthening the curriculum. He it exemplifies completely those principles this afternoon as we recall his interest in said: which he strived so hard to create dur­ and enthusiasm for the program of Niagara University which is directly related to his Mr. Volpe's efforts to develop a balanced ing his lifetime and which we must keep own talents. transportation policy for the United States, alive and nourish for every generation of Indeed there is no mere token appropriate­ since his Presidential appointment as trans­ young people, rich, poor, black, and ness, in the fact that as Niagara University portation secretary in January 1969, have white, because a healthy mind and body confers it first degrees on students from its been completely compatible with the Insti­ are not the least of those vitalities which Institute of Transportation, Travel and Tour­ tute's emphasis on exposing students to an must combine in order for us to under­ ism ('ITT) , it confers the degree of Doctor overall view of the entire interrelated TTT of Laws on John A. Volpe. industry and its currrent problems. The ad­ stand and work with our fellows. ministration and faculty are most apprecia­ It is, then, this spirit of wholesome The TTT students who received their tive of the support and cooperation provided competition and teamwork, encouraged degrees with Secretary Volpe are the first by the U.S. Department of Transportation. by the Babe, which contributes not only to have completed the institute's innova­ to the citizenship of a nation, but to the The innovative TTT curriculum, in ad­ tive 2-year program designed for junior dition to academic training, permits fellowship of the world. and senior students at the university in Babe Ruth Baseball is a vital link by students to utilize their classroom knowl­ preparation for supervisory and manage­ edge in employment situations that have which we can, with the help of our young ment positions in any phase of the trans­ people, work toward this fellowship, and the cooperation of TTT industry em­ portation, travel, and tourism field, which ployers and receive full academic credit it is an extension of the ideals for which TTT Institute regards as the world's the Babe lived. for their internship. This type of labo­ largest single amalgam industry. ratory experience exposes students to the The institute strives to provide the in­ social, technical, and operational prob­ creasingly sophisticated and complex lems involved in the TTT industry. SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION fields of transportation, travel, and tour­ Nearly half of the current graduating JOHN A. VOLPE'S COMMENCE­ ism with the qualified, academically class members plan to further their edu­ MENT ADDRESS AT NIAGARA trained personnel who have gained an cation by working toward master's de­ UNIVERSITY overview of the social, technical, and op­ grees in TTT-related areas, such as erational problems involved in the rap­ transportation law, education, public re­ idly growing TTT industry, according to lations, corporate management and busi­ HON. HENRY P. SMITH Ill Dr. Samuel I. Porrath, chairman of the ness administration, industrial psychol­ OF NEW YORK institute, who established the program in ogy and transportation. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1968. Others in this first graduating class Monday, June 22, 1970 In his address to the graduating class, have secured positions in industrial traf­ Secretary Volpe noted that: fic management, advertising, public rela­ Mr. SMITH of New York. Mr. Speaker, If we are to achieve an environment that tions, hotel and motel management, you and my colleagues may recall that is truly safe, clean, healthy, and fun to live motor carriers, chambers of commerce, I have often discussed with you and with in, we will have to modify some of our most city planning, travel agencies, and goods pride of the establishment of a new insti­ deeply held beliefs about transportation. distribution. tution of higher learning, the Institute We have t.l start thinking in terms of an TTT Institute, which was opened with of Transportation, Travel, and Tourism­ overall, balanced system of transportation to provide this country with the mobility it an enrollment of 60 students, tripled its TTT-at Niagara University, Niagara demands in an age of expanding leisure, enrollment in the academic year just con­ Falls, N.Y. The first class to graduate at recreation, travel and tourism. This wlll be cluded. Another increase in enrollment is the new institute consisted of 46 young our biggest growth industry in the next 10 anticipated for the fall semester. men and women and it took place on to 15 years, according to the Wall Street I am proud of the institute which has May 30, 1970. Journal. been founded in my district, and of my It was my privilege to attend that com­ That is why I am personally delighted that Niagara University has set up an Institute friendly relations with its head, Dr. Por­ mencement and to hear the principal ad­ rath, who has guided it through to such dress delivered by Hon. John A. Volpe, for the study of Transportation, Travel and Tourism. There is nothing like it in the fine achievements. With Secretary Volpe U.S. Secretary of Transportation on I, too, say the initiative shown by Dr. Memorial Day, Saturday, May 30. Over academic world. The Institute can perform a valuable ser~ice by training eneregtic young Porrath and his colleagues will be emu­ 3,000 faculty, students, and friends at­ people in the skills of this growing industry lated during this decade by other uni­ tended. The institute has the only aca­ which is so full of potential for world peace versities, public as well as private. demic-internship program of its kind in and understanding. I include the full text of Secretary the world and is located in the 40th Con­ He declared: Volpe's address so that my colleagues gressional District, which I have the may enjoy reading it. Mr. Volpe received honor to represent. I believe, that the initiative shown by Dr. Porrath and his colleagues will be emulated a long, standing ovation from the stu­ Appropriately, when the first 46 stu­ during this decade by other universities, dent body and friends, and was enthusi­ dents received the first Bachelor of public as well as private. Those of you who astically applauded during his speech Science degrees with specialization in are getting your degrees from the TTI' Insti­ several times. I point this out because transportation, travel, and tourism from tute today will play a central role as trans­ these days, as we watch students' reac­ the Very Reverend Dr. Kenneth F. Slat­ portation experts in the coming years. tions on campus, we should be encour­ tery, C.M., Niagara University president, The next 10 years wlll be exciting ones in aged to note that our Secretary of Trans­ Secretary Volpe shook hands and warmly transportation. In the past, we accepted an ideology of growth for its own sake--more portation is able to reach the hearts of greeted each one, as did the institute's cars, more planes and so on. But that can no the young students. founder and chairman, Dr. Samuel I. longer be the answer in an overdeveloped na­ The address follows: Porrath. tion like ours. That is why we in the Depart­ REMARKS BY SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION The Secretary was granted an honor­ ment of Transportation are strongly em­ JOHN A. VOLPE ary Doctor of Laws degree during the phasizing new methods to move people. I would begin by acknowledging my grati­ commencement ceremonies and was cited Dr. Porrath acknowledged the assist­ tude for being invited to attend these cere­ by Father Slattery for devotion "of a ance given by the U.S. Department of monies today at Niagara. I feel deeply hon­ lifetime of social activity and public dedi- Transportation during the first two ored to celebrate commencement with you. 20846 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 22, 1970 I must say I share your sense of accom­ ciples in positive action programs to im­ demands in an age of expanding leisure, plishment at this major turning point in your prove society. And we have begun to see that recreation, travel, and tourism. This will be lives and I am indeed privileged to join we can't build a decent society for individ­ our biggest growth industry in the next 1() this company of distinguished honorees. uals simply by encouraging them to in­ to 15 years, according to the Wall Street I might add that my satisfaction is dulge themselves. We see the consequences Journal. shared by my wife. She trained as a nurse. of selfishness all around us in a landscape That's why I am personally delighted that and has kept in touch with the profession, that often looks like a dump or a battlefield. Niagara has set up an institute for the study and was delighted to hear that you are plan­ Let's face it, we have used this country as of transportation, travel and tourism. There ning major expansion of your excellent nurs­ if the land would last forever, as if the is nothing like it in the academic world. ing program. :frontier would never fade. But we are begin­ The institute can perform a valuable service Niagara indeed has proven itself to be a ning to learn that we must build a society by training energetic young people in the great institution. This is a good place to get on human values, not narrowly commer­ skills of this growing industry which is so a good education. cial ones. full e>f potential for world peace and under­ However, what we sometimes forget is that We have learned from the ecologists that standing. as Wllliam Raspberry, the Washington col­ we must have a greater reverence for life I believe that the initiative shown by Dr. umnist put it recently, "education is the and for the earth. We have learned from Porrath and his colleagues will be emulated solution only to the degree that ignorance the blacks that we must have a greater con­ during this decade by other universities, is the problem." He meant that it takes cern for those who have not had a fair shake. public as well as private. Those of you who more than mere facts to live the sensible And we have learned from the students­ are getting your degrees from the transpor­ life. It takes judgment, hope, and a sense from you and your contemporaries-that we tation institute today will play a central role of moral and spiritual values. That is what must come up with bett.er answers to larger as transportation experts in the coming you have really learned here at Niagara­ questions. years. you have received an education that is en­ Frustrated by the pace of social reform, The next 10 years will be exciting ones in nobled by truth and purpose. some young people turn to violence. But it's transportation. In the past, we accepted an I believe that Niagara University has a not the answer-if for no other reason than ideology of growth for its own sake--more special mission to preserve eternal truths in that it always generates a reaction. I am cars, more planes, and so on. But that can a time of spreading social and moral unrest. convinced that the young people of today no longer be the answer in an overdeveloped For the graduates of the school know who want to work for change within the system, nation like ours. they are and where they stand. I felt a sense not destroy it. That's why we in the Department of Trans­ of hope and optimism the minute I walked We must not only be brought together, we portation are strongly emphasizing new onto this campus-one I wish I could share must work together as well. The main ques­ methods to move people. We are looking at with young people and adults throughout tion then, is-what can we do as partners? the high speed trains in the Northeast Cor­ our country. Rene Dubos, the great microbiologist, points ridor, the tracked air cushion vehicle which This atmosphere must grow from that out that we have fulfilled only one-half of we'll start to build soon, the vertical and common sense philosophy of St. Vincent de God's command in Genesis. He did indeed short-take-off planes for medium distance Paul which is quoted on the first page of command man to go forth and subdue the journeys, and even such concepts as the tube the Niagara Undergraduate, Catalog: "Perfec­ earth and populate it. But the second chap­ train, the dial-a-bus, and the gravitrain. tion does not lie in ecstasies," St. Vincent ter of Genesis states that man, after he was You people are going to be living in a new said, "But in doing well the will of God." placed in the Gat:den of Eden, was instructed age of mobility that will make ours look I can't imagine a better interpretation of by God to "dress it and keep it." pretty antiquated. But you will not be a Christian duty in the secular world. It re­ And remember the prayer of St. Francis: generation which confuses motion with di­ minds public servants like myself, of course, "Praised be my Lord for our brother the rection, or speed with progress. You gradu­ that they have a twofold responsibility-to wind, and for air and cloud, . . . and all ates of 1970 are going to make a dtiference, be a dual servant of God and of the people, weathers by which thou upholdest life in more than any generation before you. What­ to know what belongs to Caesar and what all creatures." Indeed, I wonder if St. Francis ever else you become, you will not be a care­ to Christ. should not become the patron saint of all less generation. Not after attending to the As for yourselves, imbued with this prin­ ecologists and ecology-minded laymen. words of Simon and Garfunkel . . . "People ciple of Christian action, you can make a One thing is certain-our style of life must talking without speaking-people hearing great impact on the world of public affairs. change. Perhaps we will have to get along without listening . . ." You can be timely and yet timeless, open to without the no-return bottle, without lin­ I believe your generation will speak the change yet rooted in certainty. You will be gering pesticides, without leaded gasoline, truth and live the truth and repudiate those committed to learning and living crea­ without phosphate detergents. We definitely who do not have the courage or the faith to tively-without rancor, bewilderment or will have to penalize the polluters of our work within the system. greed. life-giving air and waters. We'll have to get Our problems are not those of a failing And that learning must continue with a noise under control because it has risen society; they flow from the conscience of an ven~;eance. As Bob Dylan put it, "If you're three thousand percent since 1939 and poses expanding one. Our descendants-genera­ not busy being born, you're busy dying." a real threat to the human nervous system tions in the future-{)ould look back on That's a poetic truth and also a practical and major organs. 1970 as the fulcrum of history-the time one. I know we can reach these goals. Just in when an ancient people known as the Amer­ So what have we been doing in the two my Department of Transportation alone, for icans accepted their responsibility to lead decades or so of your lifetimes? We have example, we have two contracts underway the human race toward a new epoch in its tamed the atom as a source of electrical to find out how to suppress jet engine noise. endless progress. energy, built vast computer systems, made We have reached agreement with the airlines The path has already been blazed by men enormous advances in medicine, spread to bring about speedy retrofitting of jet en­ of extraordinary foresight like Joseph Wood television throughout the land and twice gines to cut pollution. We are working close­ Krutch, the scholar and former drama critic landed men on the moon. ly with Detroit and major universities to re­ who quit Manhattan 20 years ago to live What is the meaning of these and other duce auto pollution by modlfying engines with his books and his thoughts in an adobe developments? Is their significance merely and exhaust systems. hut in the desert outside Tucson. . He be­ technical? During your lifetime have we With Health, Education and Welfare, we came an enthusiast for nature and a de­ been busy being born? Or have we, as some are establishing standards that in the next fender of the American environment long would have us believe, been busy dying? I two to five years will drastically cut air pol­ before it was a public issue. would say we are being born, born to under­ lution. And we intend to enforce them. We Just a few weeks before his recent death, standing. have encouraged the move to get the lead Krutch wrote a prophetic letter to the Ari­ For the work of science reveals again and out-of gasoline, that is. We are pushing sup­ zona Star. He said, "The 70's may be the be­ again the presence of a Divine Intelligence port of new technology which can sharply ginning of the end, or the beginning of a behind the impersonal facts of the material reduce bus fumes, and make engines quieter. new civilization. If . . . the latter, it will world. And we have helped buy low-pollution buses not be because we have walked on the moon Look at this earth. If it moved one per­ for cities in California and in Washington, or learned how to tinker with the genes . . ., cent closer to the sun we would burn to a D.C. but because we have come to realize that crisp. If it moved one percent further away Before long all buses could be equipped wealth, power, even knowledge--are not good we would freeze. with these breakthrough devices. Your pres­ in themselves, but only instruments of good We are here solely because of a divine sure as citizens can speed the day. Make or evil." plan. And we have only seen the merest your views known. What profound wisdom there is in these beginning of the unfolding of that plan. Yes, if we are ever to achieve an environ­ simple Christian words. Their meaning is One central fact guarantees further change ment that is truly safe, clean, healthy and obvious. Your generation will have the power ln human affairs-the fact that 90 percent fun to live in, we wlll have to modify some to destroy all life. Or it can create a garden of all the scientists in human history are of our most deeply held beliefs about trans­ of serenity. alive today, and their work wlll utterly portation. I hope you will always strive to be equa.l transfor:rn this planet. We have to start thinking in terms of an to this dream of perfection. Cel"ta.inly those The most radical change of all is that we overall, balanced system of transportation who have been educated here a.t Niagara will are beginning to apply our democratic prin- to provide this country with the mobility it never surrender to the forces of commercial- June 22, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20847 ism or cheap and deadly sensations. Keep June 20, 1970, emphasized some reasons THE IMPERILED ENVffiONMENT your commitment to learning, retain your why the other body should act. The edi­ passion for love and truth. Have confidence torial, entitled "Road to Better Mail in yourself, hope in mankind, and faith in Service" gives compelling reasons why HON. JOHN C. CULVER God. the other body should join us in passing OF IOWA Do not forget what it means to be young, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and to have counted. My best wishes for the postal reform measure. coming years of triumph. For the benefit of Congress, I imert Monday, June 22, 1970 the editorial at this point: Mr. CULVER. Mr. Speaker, the dam­ ROAD TO BETTER MAn. SERVICE age which man is inflicting upon him­ The overwhelming passage by the House self by polluting his environment poses POSTAL REFORM-PATH TO OTHER of a bill to modernize the postal sen-ice one of the major problems facing the REFORM brings halfway to realization a major gov­ ernmental reform. The wrangle over the bill's United States and all the nations of labor provisions obscured the fundamental the world in the 1970's. With greater HON. JOHN WOLD nature of the contribution the measure can and greater clarity we are beginning to OF WYOMING make to increasing the speed and efficiency see the tremendous costs involved in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of the mails. our present methods of disposing of If the Senate gives approval to a parallel waste products. The earth is literally Monday, June 22, 1970 bill, the way will be clear for establishment choking on the pollutants we dump into next year of an agency run by an independent Mr. WOLD. Mr. Speaker, never was I commission to operate the postal system, set our air and water. more proud to be a Member of this body postal rates, bargain collectively on wages To a large extent pollution is a do­ than last week, when despite serious and and other issues and sell bonds to finance mestic problem. Americans bear most substantial obstacles, the House of Rep­ modernization. Practices that have remained of the discomfort of eye-stinging air resentatives passed the postal reform unchanged since Benjamin Franklin's day and the fouled waterways which they bill. Truly it was a milestone. will be finally brought into the automation create. They also are the ones who con­ We all recognize that the bill, despite age. There is even basis for hope that over­ sume the DDT they have released upon its imperfections is a vast improvement night mail delivery between cities in most their land. parts of the country will become a reason­ over current law governing operation of able expectation, rather than a minor mir­ In many ways, however, pollution is the postal system. It will do much to in­ acle. an international problem, because all crease the speed and efficiency of the The strike threats and other union pres­ areas of the earth are ecologically inter­ mails. It will improve working condi­ sures that hung over the House in its con­ dependent, and because pollutants often tions and wages for postal employees. sideration of the reform bill underscore the cross international borders, affecting the These are all tangible benefits, that in desirability of moving the postal service to lives of peoples in other countries. themselves, made imperative passage of a less political orbit. '.._'hese pressures were A recent article by Robert Humphries the bill. chiefly responsible for the decision to make in "Vista" a magazine published by the the promised 8 per cent pay increase for I think the passage of the reform bill mailmen retroactive to April 16. United Nations Association, vividly de­ was significant for another equally im­ However, the inflationary impact of that scribes the condition of our environment portant reason. concession can scarcely be considered cru­ and the steps which are being taken to Many Americans believe our institu­ cial; t. much worse jolt to the Federal budg­ convene a United Nations conference on tions and values can no longer cope with et will be inflicted by the obvious intention the human environment in Stockholm in the problems, crises and needs of today on both sides of Capitol Hill to ignore the 1972. I ask that excerpts be inserted in and tomorrow. Almost all of us recog­ need for imlnediate increases in postal rates the RECORD at this point: nize the need for substantial, if not ma­ to cover the $500-million first-year cost of the pay boost. THE IMPERll.ED ENVIRONMENT jor, reforms in many of our institutions. The House did well on most other labor (By Robert Humphries} Despite the talk and many studies that aspects of the reorganization plan. It kept I have recently journeyed into one of have been commissioned little has been alive the right of independent postal un­ the world's more hauntingly beautiful pieces done. ions in New York and other centers to pre­ of real estate-the high mountain spine The passage of the postal reform bill serve their long-establisheC:: representation of Norway. I had never been there before offers new hope. Perhaps of all govern­ authority. These rights would have been but my guide was thoroughly knowledge­ mental institutions in the Nation, the snuffed out under the deal made by Post­ able of the region. At the same time he Post Office has gone the longest without master General Blount and the national was one who surely must be counted among change. It stands as the classic example postal unions after the March strike. the most prescient of human beings. of a hidebound institution, stodgy, and The House wisely left the door open for My guide in this remarkable journey in bargaining on regional pay differentials to place and time was Rolf Edberg, now gov­ resistant to change. take cognizance of higher living costs in ernor of the province of Varmland, Sweden; Yet we passed a bill that not only will major cities. The strike made plain the in­ a former editor, member of· the Swedish change the operation of the postal sys­ justice of applying uniform pay scales in parliament, and representative of his coun­ tem-it literally will revolutionize the hamlets and metropolitan areas. At this try in a number of diplomatic posts includ­ postal system. stage of postal labor relations, the legislators ing the United Nations. In 1966 he published I do not think we can overestimate the also showed sound judgment in keeping un­ in Sweden his highly perceptive study of impact of the action. It can restore faith changed the ban on union shop or other the role of' the human race in the cosmos forms of compulsory union membership. and analysis of man in the mid-twentieth in our ability to update and make rele­ The important thing now is swift action in century under the title "Spillran av ett vant our social and governmental insti­ the Senate, where a compatible measure al­ moln," published by Norstedt &t BOner. Af­ tions. The implications are staggering ready has received committee approval. What ter ten printings in Europe his book finally and lead all the way to reform of the ever differences emerge in the Senate ver­ made its way to the United States where Congress itself. sion should present no serious problem in it was published in English last summer by The task of postal reform, however, conference unless union power plays again the University of Alabama Press under the still is not :finished. The bill needs the muddy the legislative process. The national title "On the Shred of a Cloud." concurring action of the other body be­ need for postal reform is too great to permit A little book-just under twu· hundred such an upset. pages-it has already had a remarkable in­ fore it becomes law. I realize the other fluence in the course of human affairs, hav­ body is considered to be more delibera­ I also believe the other body should ing inspired the Swedish ambassador to the tive than this one is. I realize that postal consider the importance of the postal United Nations, Sverker Astrom, to put for­ reform is a complex issue and that dif­ reform bill to the second matter I have ward his government's proposals for a United ferent men, all of good intention, can mentioned-the willingness of Congress Nations Conference on the Human Environ­ hold different views on the path postal to initiate reform in hitherto "sacred" ment to be held in Stockholm in 1972. reform should take. areas. In a rare display of unanimity, with all Nonetheless I would urge the other In a sense passage of this bill will nations conceding that the impairment of body to take up the bill we passed with all air, water and soil was a problem that was prove that Congress is not, as has been neither automatically solved by communism due haste. The reasons are overwhelming charged, a creature doomed to extinc­ nor incurable under capitalism, the Swedish and date far beyond the postal strike of tion. It will show that Congress can make resolution was passed by the General As­ last March. the adaptations necessary to heed the sembly unanimously and with a minimum In an editorial, the New York Times, needs of a new era. of debate. In a follow-up sober 66 page re- 20848 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 22, 1970 port on the Problems of the Human En­ land-a place that no ship that size should high in nitrogen, phosphorous and phosphate vironment, the Secretary-General outlined ever have been-and dumped 118,000 tons content, leach :from :farmlands into brooks, with a sense of extreme urgency the things of crude oil into the sea., befoullng the rivers, lakes and ponds. The resulting heavy man is doing to his environmetn by "air beaches, and bird, animal and plant life. increase in nitrites, nitrates, and phosphates and water pollution, erosion and other forms The fissuring of sub-surface seams by oll in these water bodies provides excellent food of soil deterioration, secondary effects of' drilling rigs working off Santa. Barbara, Cali­ for certain algae whose concentrations lit­ biocides, water and noise." Included in the fornia which vented tons of oil onto Santa erally explode With a consequent marked report is the chilling statement that "if Barbara's beaches. decrease in the oxygen content of the waters. current trends continue, the future of life The report by Thor Heyerda.hl that on Other plants and edible fish life then decline on earth could be endangered.,. his recent journey on the Ra, great globs of or die out because of the lack of oxygen. The As the evidence mounts as to the damage black oil were now visible far out to sea. growing use of detergents to make dishes man is doing to his environment and thus "Black snow", caused by combustion pol­ sparkle and clothes whiter h'RS a similar re­ to himself, the words ecology and pollution lutants With a high content of sulphuric sult; eventually the oxygen decreases-eutro­ raise ever bleaker spectres and images. But acid coming from air over the Ruhr Valley phication, the scientists call it--and the body these very words may yet become common and falling on eastern Norway and western of water into which the detergents finally ground on which the youth of the world and Sweden. make their wa.y is on its way to early death. their elders, standing now viewing each other The Aswan High Dam was built to pro­ DDT (short for Dichloro-diphenyl-tri­ across the "generation gap", m:ty meet on vide a regular supply of water for irrigation, chloro-ethane) , was first synthesized by a meaningful terms. For it is the youth of the to prevent fioods and to supply electrical German chemist in 1874, but its properties world who seem to have taken most to heart power-all worthy purposes. But one of its as a.n insecticide were not discovered until the problem of what kind of a home, if any, side effects was to interrupt the annual 1939. It was almost immediately balled as a they are going to inherit. They have spent transfer o:f rich nutrients to the eastern means of stamping out insect-borne disease their entire life in a world over which con­ Mediterranean Sea. The annual bloom of and Winning the farmers' war against crop stantly looms the threat of the mushroom phytoplankton which depended on these nu­ pests. Since then, as reported by the Secre­ cloud; they see, by satellite TV, instantane­ trients no longer occurs and the time-im­ tary-General, man has dumped a. billion ously and simultaneously, what happens on memorial food chain has been broken, which pounds of DDT into the environment and is the other side of the world; for $1300 they has led to a 90 percent or more drop in the adding an estimated 100 million pounds per can jet around the world in a day; they have yield of sardines. year. It was not until Rachel Carson pub­ never known a day when, either in their The list could be expanded ad infinitum lished "Silent Spring" in 1962 that the world living room or on the field they have not and ad nauseum by anyone with a pair of woke up to the lethal side effects of DDT Witnessed the ravages of war; they sense good eyes-or lungs. No one industry can and similar pesticides. The use of DDT has and feel the damage that is being done to be singled out above others, nor one nation. now been forbidden in Sweden and it is rap­ their environment everywhere. They are well The visible pollutants would include the idly being phased out of use in the United aware that whereas previous civilizations or 142 million tons of smoke and noxious :fumes States; but it is still used with abandon in groups of people, having befouled their nest, that are emitted into the air over the United most of the rest of the world. Among its side could and did move on to untrammeled lands, States in just one year; the 7 million auto­ effects, it bas been learned, is the fact that this escape mechanism is no longer possible mobiles that are discarded each year along it inhibits the process of photosynthesis in in a world already bulging With three and a With 20 million tons of paper and paper algae by as much as 75 percent. And, it has half billion people, a number that is pre­ boxes, 48 billion cans, 26 billion bottles and been learned, it is stored in ever heavier dicted to double in just thirty years. In short, jars, 3 billion tons of rock and mill tailings, concentration as one progresses up the "food they know that in their lifetime a world the 50 trillion tons of hot water carrying chain" from simple one-celled organisms to community has been established for the first a witch's brew o:f acids and muck. Other complex mammals, including man. Only after time in mankind's evolution. They know, too, industrial nations make comparable con­ millions of tons of it and similar pesticides that since this is all new and happened in tributions of debris and toxic materials. such as aldrin, endrin, dieldrin had been their lifetime that there are no guidelines The invisible ways by which man is de­ dumped on an unsuspecting world were the or even guides for the future. As they state stroying his environment are even more in­ deadly effects o:f these chemicals on the liver it: The Future Is Now. Once these very real sidious; they are hard to see and compre­ and nervous systems of animals discovered. considerations seep upwards into the very hend and thus it becomes difficult to arouse So persistent are these chemicals that in the fibre and makeup of their elders and they, in people to take action against them. Antarctic where they were never allowed to turn, admit that it really is a new world, The reliance of modem technology upon be introduced, concentrations of them have then, just then, might the generations work the combustion of :fossil fuels has brought been found in all animals who call these together. about a ten percent increase in the carbon regions home. Meanwhlle, the evidence of the damage dioxide of the atmosphere over the past So, too, are radioactive particles instru­ man is doing to his environment mounts at century. And we keep adding to the ways in ments of either cosmic and instant death an ever accelerating pace. Every country can which this content is increased; for example, or slow killing and long lasting. The rain present scores of horrifying examples: a modern trans-atlantic jet liner puts e. hun­ of radioactive particles after the detona­ Lake Erie can no longer cope With the tor­ dred tons of carbon dioxide into the atmos­ tion of an atomic bomb continues for years rents of pickling acids from the great steel phere each time it crosses the Atlantic Ocean and decades after detonation. They fall on works that line its shore nor With the tor­ and one crosses every six minutes day and foodcrops and on pastures where they are rents of sewage and detergents dumped into night. With increased rates of consumption eaten by cattle, later to get into milk or it by the millions of people who live on its o:f fossil fuels, the Secretary-General reports meat and then into the human bloodstream. shores. The benevolent micro-organisms that the amount o:f carbon dioxide could in­ bones, testicles and ovaries with either fast which once could cope With reasonable results as on the members of the crew of the crease by 25 percent by the year 2000. The "Lucky Dragon" or with unpredictable re­ amounts of organic matter have lost the bat­ consequences of sueh an increase upon world tle to anaerobic organisms which need no sults on genes and thus future generations. weather and climate are uncertain but even­ As increasing reliance is placed on nuclear oxygen but give off foul smells warning that tually could become catastrophic. Carbon di­ the lake as a source of potable water is well energy for power even its peacetime use leads oxide is, o:f course, indispensable :for the to complications in the environment. What i:f on its way to the obituary column. The task growth o:f plants and is therefore a source of cleaning it up has been estimated at 40 the Torrey Canyon had been nuclear powered of life. Under Nature's usual system o:f checks or the bombs in the Palomares incident had billion dollars and the time required to re­ and balances the C0 that plants do not use turn it to its purity of only 25 years ago, pro­ 2 not been recovered and the soil over which 1s absorbed by the world's oceans. So great is they spread their particles had not been re­ vided all pollution is stopped, a.t 50 to 500 the excess now that it is taxing the absorp­ years. moved and burled in nuclear storage tion ability of plants and the oceans and may "farms"? What if the containers that store Cleveland's CUyahoga River. So polluted well be on the way to disturbing the heat nuclear wastes from the atomic plants should With oil waste that it is otncially designated balance of the earth because of what is split and spill out their contents? Radio­ a fire hazard and, in fact, did erupt in fiames known as the "greenhouse effect.,. A green­ active isotopes have a far longer life than last year, burning two bridges. house lets in the sun's rays and retains the any container yet devised and they a:ffect The tuna fleet working off the oil refining beat. So, too, does a layer of carbon dioxide. everyone With cosmic impartiality. center of Fos, near Marseilles, recently had As Mr. Daniel Moynihan recently put it--"It Nobody knows how many people the earth to dump a catch because it smelled of petro­ is perfectly possible that we will raise the can support--ten billion, or fifty billion or leum. In the same waters experts report that temperature of the earth's atmosphere by more. But what clearly is already at stake out o! 13 species of food fish tha-t were seven degrees in the next 25· years. If we do, 1s the quality of life that can be ma.lnta.ined plentiful before World Wa:r II, nine have dis­ this will raise the level of the seas ten feet for everyone. Is every human to have enough appeared, while the remaining four have and Philadelphia. will be under water." food, clear .air and clean water, and space to become scarce. A combination of petroleum. The quest for even higher yields of foods make for a pleasant existence or is everyone detergents and pesticides is considered the and foodstuffs by the use of potent chemical eventually to live like battery chickens? Al- cause of disappea.rance. pesticides and fertilizers has effects upon the . ready there is a. feeling of "too many people", The :foundering o:f the Torrey Canyon. ecological balance of Nature which are still a feeling that is heightened by the tendency One of the largest ships in the world foun­ but vaguely, and disturbingly, understood. of people to congregate 1n urban areas .and dered on Pollard Rock, off Land's End, Eng- Heavy concentrations of chemical :fertilizers, the choicest parcels of real estate. June 22, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20849

AE. the Secretary-General's report puts it~ sphere,. which managed to throw a certain "'I do not separate- the problems of this "Forty percent of the world's people now live amount of light on the subject. So, too, with region, or the problems of Indochina, or the in urban areas.. In somewhat more than half other UN agencies who have done research problems of Africa," ~e said... They are not a century, urb.a.nizati.on will have- reached. its in such areas as fishery production, the man­ isolated affairs. maximum and the grea.t majority of people agement of arid and humid lands and so on. ..Tension in any area. is directly linked to will live in cities or towns. The rate of urban­ The word environment re!ers to the total­ all other parts of the world, simply because ization is more rapid in the developing na­ ity of relationships among all living orga­ the confrontation between communism and tions. In 1920, the urban population was nisms. Hence the need for the Stockholm con­ free nations is global. Because of history a.nd estimated at 100 million in these countriesw ference to give everyone an idea of the in­ geography we Greeks understand this bet­ By the year 2000, it may well have increased tricate relationships of the environment and ter than most. twenty-fold. In the developed nations. the what man is doing to his globe under the "We vigorously approve President Nixon•s urban population in the same period will impact of technology and rising populations policy in Indochina. because we know it is have increased four-fold. • . . The need is: a.nd thus to give us all an idea of where aimed at restoring peace and stability in for new facilities greater in size and ex­ we're going and what should be done. that area. If he is successful the hope for tent than all existing facilities.'~ stabllity in the Mediterranea.n is automati­ Many of the causes of the ravaged en­ cally increased. vironment are, of course, national o.r local "Too many people refuse to understand and will or will not be solved on those levels. THE SITUATION IN GREECE. that the United States must take a. decisive It is to the causes and problems that cut and leading role If we are to survive. And it across national borders to become. inter­ needs support. national issues th.a.t the UN will have to HON. EDWARD J. DERWINSKI "We an are threatened by a barbarism address. itself. And as Dr. Lars Lund, the. OF ILLINOIS that comes from two colossi (Russia and senior research chemist of the Norwegian In­ China). No one nation, not even the United stitute o! Air Research, states:. "The inter­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES States, can face them alone. national question is th.e difficult one because Monaay, June 22,1970 "We understand the American dilemma.. it requires so many separate political deci­ Events have made the United States the sions, ,a.nd it takes so long to get around. to Mr. DERWINSKI. Mr. Speaker, the commander on a global battlefield. It did doing anything. If you have a. national prob­ complications in the Mediterranean are not seek this role. :rt is spending its treas­ lem you just pass local laws to clear it upr of gpecial interest to us and, unfortu­ ure and the blood of its youth, but the battle This is why we. must push so hard on the. nately, the overall picture in that area is is essential. It is tragic that some who international question now." nat promising. However, it was most in­ have the most at stake refuse to realize International issues which can. only be this." handled by international organizations in­ teresting to note a very detailed and ob­ jective commentary of the situation in Both Southeast Asia and the Middle East clude the. r1s:1ng level of atmospheric c.arbon conflicts, Papadopoulos said, are key ele­ dioxide, the spread of radioactive isotopes. Greece and the foreign policy Views of ments In a Russian plan to dominate the (hence the importance of the test-ban. treaty the o.fficials. of that Government carried northern half of Africa. The move into Cam­ and the nuclear non-proli!et"atlon tre&.ty), in a report by the Washington bureau bodia.. he said, deals this strategy & major the destruction of the ozone layer by rockets chief of the Copley News Service, Ray blow. and high altitude aircra.ft which could lead to a n:rrizzlfng" effeot because it is the ozone McHugh, in the June 3 San Diego Umon.. "It demonstrates that the American layer which screens out the ultra-violet rays; May I add that Mr. McHugh is a vet­ President understands the nature of the air pollution crossing national boUild1tries; eran observer of the complications in the struggle and will not allow the Communists noise from international aircraft, the use of Mediterranean and he has a reputation to violate international law, establish sanc­ satellites and orbiting laboratories;_ destruc­ tuaries and mock the principle of neutrality." as a very penetrating news analyst. But, he warned, American hopes of com.­ tion of the world's treasure houses of monu­ The commentary follows: ments and wilderness areas by mass tourism; plete disengagement from Southeast Asia the use o:r pesticides and herbicides whose Greek Premier George Papadopoulos ts. are illusory. effects are carried beyond their place of use; sometimes described by critics as a simple. "You can extricate yourself from the fight­ overflshing of the oceans by one or more uneducated man. ing, but you must keep your power in the countries; the extraction of minerals from These are not necessarily faults. area," he said. sea water and the side effects of such ex­ In an interview with the short, well­ In another exclusive interview, Greek For­ traction; the insta.lla.tion of military de.vices groomed former army colonel in his huge, eign Minister Panayotis Pipinelis called the on th.e seabed; leakage from off-shore drill­ high-ceilinged o.tlice on Constitution Square. Camboda.in campaign "a victO.l'y for Amer­ and in meetings with key members of his ican credib111ty :• ing; the dumping of wastes into the oceans. 0 The UN system is becoming increasingly cabtnet~ answers come in confident, straight­ The lesson will not be lost on Moscow," involved in ways to stem the "population forward terms. Sometime& the words are sa. predicted the old career diplomat, who has explosion'... Until 1965 its activities were blunt that they startle. spent almost half a century in the embassies limite-d largely to research and demographic "Those who are attempting to undermine and chanceries of Europe. and statistical studies. This hands-off. policy President Nixon's policy in Southeast Asia "Your credlbllity is indivisible. :U your was a result of both political pressure from are at best dupes, at worst tools of Com­ position is stronger in the Far East, it is Catholic countries and the fact that the UN munism," says Papadopoulos. And he mea.ns stronger in the Mediterranean and in Eu­ bodies were not equipped for large-scale it in the context of the Greek experience. rope." participation in population control programs. Here on the strategic western edge of the Americans in Athens, Including embassy In 1967 the Secretary-General. decided to violence-ridden Middle East, with Soviet. officials, are almost emba.rras.sed by the out­ create the United Nations Population Trust warships--and now Bulgarian naval unit&­ spoken pro-U.S. attitudes of the Greek Gov­ Fund to supplement financing of the five­ multiplying along Greek coasts and sea-lanes, ernment. But both Papadopoulos and Pipi­ year expanded population program approved and with nervous Balkan neighbors to the nells wave aside suggestions that they are by the Population Commission. The Trust North, the choices have become few and the fiattering Washington to reinforce their own Fund undertakes experimental field projects dangers very rea.l. position. and plays a role in providing birth control When a door opens or closes in the Krem­ nour policy is consistent," said Pipinells. services in developing countries. A level of lin, the draft is felt on this threshold to the "We do not delude ourselves. We do not try expenditure of $100 million dollars per year Communist world. to be provocative, but we are firm. Our com­ by the year 1972 has been suggested. The "The Soviets. are trying to control the Mid­ mitment is on the side of NATO and the United Nations Development Programme dle East, the Mediterranean and the Persian United States. now administers this fund and it is ex­ Gulf," said Papadopoulos. "If they can con­ ''When we say we will implement our ob­ pected that a senior officer In charge of all solidate bases o.n the north coast of Africa ligations to the Atlantic Alliance, we mean population programs of the UN will be ap­ they will link up with radical regimes in it in the full sense of the word. We have no pointed shortly. central A!:rica. to do.mlnate the northern half mental reservations.•• In other ways, too, the UN system has of that continent~ Pipinells and Minister of Coordination taken certain actions in the problems of the "Once that has happened, Europe will be Nicholas Makarezos also tied the alwa.ys global environment. The Intergovernmental finished. The United States will be isolated." volatile Balkans to Middle East and Mediter­ Maritime Consultative Organization (!MOO) Wasfl..ington, Papadopoulos argues, must be ranean problems. has recently made recommendations which, the key to thwarting this Russian design, ...Four times in one generation Greece has when approved by a. majority of the govern­ "although even President Nixon must have fought invasions from the North," said ments, will lessen the risk of damage to allies." Makarezos. "Now we see 60 Russian warships coastlines and beaches from oil slicks, a. first While othe!' European chiefs of state have and some Bulgarian Warships in the Mediter­ step toward cleaning the world's oceans and agonized over the American drive into Cam­ ranean. We see the Soviets posing threats keeping them clean. In 1968 UNESCO held bodia, Papadopoulos sees President- Nixon•s even to Communist countries like Romania, an intergovernmental conference on the move as crucial reinforcement ot the North Yugoslavia and Albania. "Scientific Basis fer the Rational Usa and Au:antlc Treaty Organ.lza.tion and U.S. power "Imagine if we were returned to the spring Conservation of the Resources of the Bio- in the Mediterranean and Middle East. o:r 1967, before the revolution, when demon- C.XVI--1314--Part 15 20850 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 22, 1970 strators in Athens were waving 'get out of thousands of new nursing homes. But how­ In 1968, writing in her nationally-syndicated NATO' and 'out with America' signs! How ever genuine the need, people both qualified column, "Your Money's Worth," Sylvia long could Greece survive in such a climate?" and properly motivated to meet it were not Porter reported that nursing-home invest­ Makarezos cited growing Yugoslav con­ that numerous. ments had become "glamour stocks." In 1969, cern, too. He pointed to an April Belgrade Many of the new facilities became primar­ 40 companies had been incorporated to con­ analysis that concluded that the U.S.-Soviet ily investments, operating more as housing struct nursing homes; chains of nursing confrontation in the Mediterranean has units than as integral parts of a health pro­ homes some of them with striking architec­ passed from the political to the military gram. And the result has been the sometime tural designs, spilled out across the country. phase. callous, sometimes merely uncomprehending Sales of stock rose to $340 million in 1968. "Why do you think Yugoslav President breakdown in warm, humane care for the Nursing homes increased in number from (Josip Broz) Tito's Defense Minister is in patients. 12,000 in 1966 to 24,000 in 1969. Three new Paris trying to buy arms?" he asked. "Who do The unpleasant facts must be faced. Stories homes were reported opening their doors you suppose the Yugoslavs fear?" are coming to light of neglect, of nonprofes­ da.ily in 1969. Pipinelis, who two years ago accurately sional personnel and underpaid staffs, of in­ Unconcerned with trained medical and predicted the Soviet invasion of Czechoslo­ humane disregard for even minimal health administrative staffing, naive about com­ vakia, said, "I would not exclude more care, and of thoughtlessness about the per­ passionate treatment of the elderly patients, Czechoslovakias." sonal dignity of patients. These stories are the nursing-home operators had no reason "Russia is obviously nervous about its painful to hear. But they must be brought to increase their opera,ting costs by cater­ buffer states," he said, "particularly Romania into the open for the sake of the neglected ing to the needs of the patients. Federal and and Yugoslavia. patients. state regulations gave them little interfer­ "She knows that every day, as progress is Credit must be given to crusading report­ ence. Although a patient's nursing-home made in all the satellite countries, the trend ers, local and state health and welfare inves­ b1lls might be paid by Medicare, there were toward independence grows. Russia cannot tigators, as well as congressmen who have no standards and regulations to protect him. accept this trend and the satellite peoples lifted the lid off this horror story. Compounding the situation are the pop­ cannot accept tight Soviet control. In February, Representative David Pryor ulation statistics. Medical strides have ex­ "It is a dangerous situation. (D-Ark.) demanded a no-holds-barred inves­ tended the life expectancy to the point "That is another reason I pray for U.S. tigation of the nursing-home industry. He where the number of persons over 65 years credibility to be constant. I put great hopes called for the adoption of a firm government of age is increasing by approximately 800 and expectations in President Nixon." policy toward the nation's 24,000 nursing persons daily. One out of 10 Americans is homes. 65 years or oldeT. As the average life span Speaking on the fl.oor of the House, Repre­ lengthens, there are more potential candi­ sentative Pryor high-lighted his text with dates for nursing-home care. SUPPORT FOR CREATING A SELECT first-hand evidence he had gathered by Government agencies have been caught COMMITTEE ON NURSING HOMES working on weekends as an anonymous off-guard: There is now no single policy or volunteer aide in nursing homes in Virginia, identifiable national goal in the nursing­ AND HOMES FOR THE AGED Maryland, and the District of Columbia. home care of the aging. mRESISTmLE LURE IN FEDERAL TAX DOLLARS Of course, some control regulations have HON. WILLIAM A. STEIGER Pryor stressed the need for stricter uni­ been attempted. Medicare and Medicaid agencies, operating under the Department of OF WISCONSIN form nursing home standards and for the adoption of rigid licensing and inspection Health, Education, and Welfare, have issued IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES regulations corroborating recommendations standards for nursing homes. But enforce­ Monday, June 22, 1970 made by the Subcommittee on Long-Term ment has been less than adequate. Care of the Special Senate Committee on Medicaid, administered by state offices in Mr. STEIGER of Wisconsin. Mr. Aging. This subcommittee, chaired by Sen­ cooperation with local welfare agencies, Speaker, every Member of this body is ator Frank Moss (D-Utah), had heard often approves nursing homes on the basis aware of the work which our colleague, ea,rlier_testimony provided by AARP's legisla­ of reports of the local county authorities. tive staff. Quality of care becomes a matter of individ­ the gentleman from Arkansas Ctors was deemed a pru­ tion on the supervision of stock issues of ones-a nightmare of not being needed. dent economy that would cut the soaring corporate bodies that have entered the nurs­ There are many good-some excellent­ Medicare hospital bills. ing-home investment field. The National nursing homes which work tirelessly to dispel Ironically, however, this decision signaled Banking and Currency Committee of the this dread. Also, of course, there have been the beginning of a mushrooming nursing­ House of Representatives deals with sections too many poorly run homes which enforce it. home industry. There was an irresistible lure of the National Housing Act that provide But the situation has come to crisis propor­ in the $2 billion Federal tax dollars annual­ mortgage insurance for various types of tions in an unexpected way: Federal subsidy ly being channeled into nursing-home op­ nursing homes. This is but a partial list. through Medicare triggered the building of eration with few regulatory strings attached. Politicians, Federal Government officials, June 22, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20851 physicians, the operators o! many good nurs­ The time has come to take a stand on lesson in political science but when do you ing hom~s. and experts in the field 0!. old-age this crucial matter-! invite the support take your course in economics? r !eel that care have CQllle forth with suggestions to of my colleagues in enacting this impor­ the colleges and universities are to provide improve the nursing-home industry. These, an education and. when you have gone as as well as other aspects of the nursing-home tant piece of legislation. far as you want to go-then you put that situation, will be discussed in detail in fu­ knowledge to work and take your place in ture issues o! your Association magazine, our society as a mature adult and contribute Modern Maturity. A MOTHER SPEAKS TO HER both your talents and your taxes. Part of Two suggestions worth brief mention here COLLEGE DAUGHTER this tax money supports these schools where are: (1) upgrading of the geriatric training the kids are demanding, protesting and dis­ o! administrative nursing-home personnel; rupting classes and I don't approve. and (2) the development of alternatives to HON. WILLIAM G. BRAY One main concern-in addition to the na­ nursing-home care such as day-care centers OF INDIANA tional economy-is with private educational for the aged, foster homes, visiting services, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES institutions and their ability to survive when sheltered workshops, and sheltered low-cost many affiuent alumni are so violently op­ supervised housing. Monday, June 22, 1970 posed to the present student thinking and Recognizing that a solution to the complex Mr. BRAY. Mr. Speaker, I have re­ therefore withdraw their financial support. nursing-home problem cannot be found ceived quite a bit of mail, as have all of Many of our private school friends here in overnight, Congressman Pryor has stressed Indianapolis have done just that! the importance that a beginning be made. us, concerning troubles on campus. An Are you protesting against phosphates in He has proposed the establishment of a nine­ exceptionally thoughtful and perceptive soap and pollution? Do you know why they member Select Committee on Nursing Homes letter came from Mrs. Robert J. Myers, are in there? They contribute to the reduc­ and Homes for the Aged in the House o! of Indianapolis, and with it Mrs. Myers tion or germs in clothes and reduce the dan­ Representatives. sent me a copy of a letter to her daugh­ ger of infection. As long ago as 1966, com­ As Executive Director of AARP, I enclose ter, a student at Dartmouth. panies have been doing research for a. substi­ Represe-ntative Pryor's plea for immediate Mrs. Myers graciously gave permission tute. They must be careful that a new sub­ action and I urge each AARP member to to have both letters inserted in the REc­ stance will not be even more harmful or support his proposal by writing or wiring his had any adverse effects on the health of the ORD, I or her Congressman. and wish to include them at this people or on the ecology of the country. A We have been concerned here with the time: new material has been found which could MAY 23, 1970. overall national picture of nursing homes. I possibly be used but it is not available in DEAR MR. BRAY: I have recently received don't think I need to remind each of you the necessary quantities so they must find that the quality o! the nursing-home care in several letters from college students stating their position on the various .. crisis" that ways to increase its production. There are your area. should be of priority concern to many reasons why they just can't e11minate you. No one can tell when someone close to have come up on campus this year and they phosphates immediately and ~ feel this also you might suddenly require the best possible have urged me to write my congressman and express my opinion. I do not support them. or true of President Nixon's handling of the war. nursing-home care. Possibly a talk with your There are many facts he knows that we don't mayor or the news editor on your local radio sympathize with them but I Will answer their letters in rebuttal and present to them my and by pulling out o! Viet Nam right now station or newspaper will stimulate com­ we might be much worse off in the long run. munity awareness about the nursing-home views as a taxpayer. I will also tell them that I have written my congressman and United We Stand-Divided \.e Fall. I say situation in your town or city. lets get behind the President and give him As an association of older persons, tt is our asked him to support our President. With responsibility to stand together in support the knowledge he has at his command, r feel our full support and confidence. or any program dedicated to the improve­ that he is far better qualified to determine ment o! conditions in the nation's nursing the safest and quickest means to end the MAY24. homes. war. We all want Peacet HoLLY: I. am grateful that your protest I !eel that these kids have a right toques­ action at Dartmouth was peaceful and with­ tion, inquire, and disagree as part of their out incident. We love you kids and want to keep the lines of communication open. I A BILL TO PROVIDE CRIMINAL PEN­ maturing and educational process-but not to demand, protest, and disrupt. rt is like don't believe in the generation gap. There ALTIES FOR ANYONE WHO DIS­ biting the hand th&t feeds them. When they is no more of a gap now tht..Il ther ever has RUPTS A JUDICIAL PROCEEDING have absorbed all the education they want been between parent and child when they do and are ready to take their place in our soci­ communicate. ety and contribute to it--by their talents The killings at Kent State were very un­ HON. ODIN LANGEN and their taxes-then they Will have a right fortunate but do point out to us that not all OF liiXNNESOTA to speak and 1f they have anything to say, people on the college campuses are registered IN THE HOUSE OF' REPRESENTATIVES people will listen. They may be getting a good students and sincere in their e1forts to get an lesson in political science but I wonder how education. This infiuence is what frightens Monday, June 22, 1970 much they know about economics. me and is what we must watch out for. I Mr. LANGEN. Mr. Speaker, I am sub­ I am also concerned with the ability of waz at the Herron Art Museum the day they mitting today a bill that would provide many private schools to survive when many were carrying !our caskets around and atll.uent alumni are so opposed to the stu­ around in protest-and they were not all art criminal penalties for persons who de­ dents views and withdrawing their financial students that were participating_ liberately interfere with the administra­ support. I wonder i! they consider that. There We haven't mentioned the subject o.! dope. tion of justice by disrupting courtroom was an interesting article in the paper this Yes. there is much in this world to be con­ and other judicial proceedings. My bill morning that suggested that maybe we ought cerned about and we do care what is happen­ would provide Up to a $5,000 fine or 5 to close all the universities for a year and ing. We must all try in our own way to do years in prison, or both, for anyone who let them pursue their courses on their own. something about it. disrupts a judicial proceeding with noisy The man had some interesting thoughts. I Come see us when you are home this sum­ outbursts, obscenities, insults, or other will enclose the article. mer. r would like to hear more about your similar disgraceful conduct. Thank you, Mr. Bray, for the job you are week of soul searching and the results it In reflecting upon events of recent doing in congress and listening to the voice produced. of America. I hope more of the silent ma­ With Love, times, we have witnessed all too often jority speak out. attempts by belligerent antisocial indi­ Sincerely, viduals and groups to reduce our system Mrs. ROBERT J . MYERS. PRIVATE ENTERPRISE AND THE of jurisprudence to a shouting match and POSTAL SERVICE to turn government into the law of the MAY 23, 1970. streets. If we stand by and permit this DEAR HoLLY: Your letter was very informa­ to continue, we will be contributing oo tive and I am glad you wrote to us. It was HON. DAVID W. DENNIS the destruction of our judicial system as refreshing and hopeful because you urged OF INDIANA us to write our congressman even if we did we knew it. And in spite of the moaning IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of those bleeding-heart critics to the con­ not support your stand, and you probably know that we don't. r have written to our Mondayr June 22, 1970 trary, our system is still a model for other congressman, Mr. Bray, and I am glad you nations to follow. Once this system is spurred me on to do it. I hope you will Mr. DENNIS. Mr. Speaker~ one of the destroyed, the rights of all American citi­ awaken more of t-he great silent majority most interesting~ and perhaps one of the zens will become meaningless and indeed and get them to be heard also. most potentially promising, amendments nonexistent. I will agree that you are getting a great offered during the recent debate on the 20852 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 22, 1970 postal reform bill was that offered by the to pause at a door slammed in his face couraging signs that things may be getting a. gentleman from llllnois

Average yearly earnings after $923 f9~o~ge yearly earnings after $923 19501 or less $1,800 $3,000 $4,200 $5,400 $6,600 $7,800 or less $1,800 $3,000 $4,200 $5,400 $6,700 $6,800

Retired worker-65 or older, Wife under 65 and 1 child ______32.00 51.00 70.20 119.40 164.60 177.20 183. 80 disabled worker-under 65 ____ 64.00 101.70 132.30 161.50 189.80 218.04 250.70 Widow under 62 and 1 child _____ 96.00 152.60 198.60 242.40 284. 80 327.60 376.20 Wife 65 or older______32.00 50.90 66.20 80.80 94.90 109.20 125.40 Widow under 62 and 2 children __ 96.00 152.60 202.40 280.80 354.40 395.70 434.40 Retired worker at 62 ______81.40 105.90 129.20 151.90 174.80 200.60 1 child of retired or disabled 51.20 worker ___ . ______Wife at62, no child ______24.00 38.20 49.70 60.60 71.20 81.90 94.10 32.00 50.90 66.20 80.80 94.90 109.20 125.40 Widow at62 or older______64.00 84.00 109.20 133. 30 156.60 180.20 206.90 1 surviving child ______64.00 76. 30 99.30 121.20 142.40 163. 80 188.10 Widow at60, no child ______55.50 72.80 94.70 115.60 135.80 156.20 179.40 Maximum family payment______96.00 152.60 202.40 280.80 354.40 395.60 434.40 Disabled widow at 50, no child ___ 38.90 51.00 66.30 80.90 95.00 109.30 125.50

t Generally, average earnings are figured over the period from 1950 until the worker reaches after is $7,800, _but average earnings cannot reach this amount until later. Because of this, the retirement age, becomes disabled, or dies. Up to 5 years of low earnings or no earnings can be benefit~ sho~n 1n the last column on the right generally will not be payable until later. When a excluded. The maximum earnings creditable for social security are $3,600 for 1951-54; $4,200 f~!sb~n~fi~.btled to more than 1 benefit, the amount actually payable IS limited to the larger of for 1955-58; $4,800 for 1959-65; and $6,600 for 1966-67. The maximum creditable in 1968 and

COMMUNITY ACTION TO FIGHT from low income areas, churches, industry provide a little extra income for those on POVERTY ADVANTAGEOUS and minority groups. Funds for the various retirement. At the present time, 20 different programs of the Commission are based on articles are being made for sale by the Craw­ population and come from the Office of Eco­ ford County Senior Citizens Group. nomic Opportunity. Last year, over $150,000 TONS OF FOOD DXSTB.mUTED HON. CLARENCE J. BROWN came into our two-county area for the vari­ OF OHIO ous programs. In addition to the government The food and aging co-ordinator for the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES funds, local contributions in the form of Commission is C&'a Hewets<>n and last year goods and services are used to run the she co-ordinated the distribution of over 341 Monday, June 22, 1970 program. tons of food. The food, basically cereal foods Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, The Commission operates two Neighbor­ donated by Quaker Oats, went to over 600 hood Centers--one in Crestline; the other in families in the two-county area, representing one of the advantages in using locally 2,500 hungry people. The wholesale cost of based community action ag·encies to fight Marion at the Lee Street Presbyterian Church. Activities of the Center include em­ fOOd distributed in the two counties was poverty is that the local organizations ployment counseling, books and jobs, Moth­ $40,000. Some of the food is also distributed are best able to mobilize the various re­ ers' Club, Senior Citizens' Club, family serv­ through Community Action Centers outside sources within the community. ices counseling, surplus food distribution, of the two-county area. The food and aging An example of this can be found in health education lectures, and physical :fit­ co-ordinator also works with senior citizen the Marion, Ohio, area. An article in a ness to name but a few. New programs are groups in both communities. The senior recent issue of the Conveyor, the in­ constantly being added as the needs become citizens, often called the forgotten group, house magazine of the Whirlpool Corp., known. Mrs. Mary Houston is the Marion living on a :fixed income :find that making Center director. items for bazaars and other fund-raising in Marion, discusses the many projects of projects is a good way to supplement their the Marion-Crawford Community Ac­ SCREENING CLINIC various programs. Activities for the senior tion Commission and how forces in the The Arnold T. Johnson Multiphasic Medi­ citizens now being planned include a trip community work together to provide bet­ cal Screening Clinic started operating a little to the Ohio State Fair and a senior citizens' ter social services for the needy. over a year ago, and in eleven months, over forum to be held May 7 in Marlon. The activities of this Office of Eco­ 500 individuals have received a variety of HOUSING PROBLEMS TACKLED medical tests such as tests !or diabetes, nomic Opportunity-funded community glacouma, hearing, tuberculosis, blood pres­ Housing in Marion has been critical for action agency can be summarized by sure, cholesterol, and others. The_ primary several years. A little over ODe year ago, a saying that the agency is helping low-in­ purpose of the clinic is the early detection of housing specialist, John Mills, was hired by come people to help and support them­ chronic diseases. Of those tested, a number the Commission. Mr. Mills works with city selves. I would like to place this article of suspected diseases have been found. Those and county governments to help them be­ taking part in the program are asked for a come more aware of state and federal hous­ in the RECORD at this time: ing programs that are available and to help THE CATALYTIC ACTXON $1.00 donation if they can afiord it. Whirlpool and Eaton were instrumental in them in securing funds. A Marion County (By Don Shanahan) developing this clinic. The doctors and nurses Housing Advisory Council has been estab­ In chemistry, a catalyst is a substance who participate in the program donate their lished to help review the housing needs for used to speed up a chemical reaction. In time. Helen Geckle, a full-time R.N. assigned our community. This 15-member committee the Marion area, we have a "catalyst" help­ to the clinic, is the only paid employee and reviews the situations and problems and ing to speed progress in community develop­ her salary comes from the State Department then suggests solutions for housing needs. ment. It's called the Marion-Crawford Com­ of Health, through the Marion County Health This council recommended the Jaycees to be munity Action Commission (MCCAC). As Department. Any clients with suspected case$ the non-profit organization sponsoring the defined by Don Shanahan, MCCAC executive of a disease are referred to local doctors. Over Fairview housing development. director, Community Aotion seeks to mobilize 50 cases of suspected tuberculosis have been A Crawford Metropolitan Housing Author­ existing community resources for the elim­ referred to the Public Health Office and 41 ity was developed l'8.St December to qualify ination of impoverished conditions in our people were found to be diabetic, 107 were for federal housing funds. This group is used community through the use of federal funds. found to have high blood pressure and 256 to get the quality of housing up to standard. The Commission causes positive action to be were found to be either overweight or under­ They can rehabilitate houses and lease them taken through these programs: Neighbor­ weight. back to low income familles, or order the hood Youth Corps, Manpower, housing, food Manpower Coordinator, Jack Brown, works demolition of houses which are unsafe and distribution, senior citizens, and the Com­ in both Marion and Crawford counties. His beyond repair. Through the housing author­ munity Action Centers in addition to the job is to counsel with low income people and ity, slum areas can be cleared and better Arnold T. Johnson Multiphasic Medica.l attempt to place them in various industries housing provided. It is hoped that Marion Screening Clinic. and social agencies. He works with senior County, like Crawford County, can develop The Commission, now in its :fifth year, 1s citizen groups in the Marion and Crawford a housing authority. made up of public officials, representatives Centers in developing small businesses which The Neighborhood Youth Corps, now in its June 22, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20855 fourth year, was set up to recruit young peo­ and a very large thorn in the side of again in 1967 and then leaped to 9 percent in ple from low income areas and to place them private power producers. 1968 and almost 10 per cent last year. in jobs throughout our community. Their Currently, power consumers in New "The economy was partly to blame, since work assignments range from custodial to it kept exceeding everybody's expectations," clerical, to teachers aids, to airport aids. This England pay the highest rates in the is the way it's put by the White House's summer, 90 high school young people will be country for what may well be the least Freeman, "but there are other reasons, like placed on jobs throughout the community. reliable electricity anywhere. The the widespread acceptance of electrical appli­ They will not only be working in industries Dickey-Lincoln yardstick is clearly ances and air conditioners that utilities (like our Job Opportunities for Youth [JOY] needed. I urge my colleagues to help pro­ should have beer. able to forecast. If we get program) but in schools, the Red Cross, the vide it. brownouts this summer because too many Recreation Department, hospitals and in The Washington Post article follows: air conditioners are in use, we may be wit­ City Hall. Through this meaningful work, nessing the victory of utility sales depart­ the young people gain job experience and U.S. AGENCIES CUT USE OF POWER IN FACE OF ments over their production departments." learn to work with other people, thus help­ EXPECTED SHORTAGES Experts believe utilities badly underesti­ mg to close the generation gap. The giant wind tunnel at the space mated the growth of two industries that use agency's Langley Research Center and the vast amounts of electricity-light metals and HEAD START IN SIXTH YEAR huge drydock pumps at the Norfolk Naval electronic computers. One final area of activity for the MCCAC Station will be run only at night this The Federal Power Commission says that is that of the Summer Head Start Program. summer. magnesium and aluminum production is in­ This summer, approximately 120 youngsters Further to the west, the Atomic Energy creasing in the United States at a rate of in Marion will be participating in the pro­ Commission's Inammoth dtifusion plants at about 10 per cent a year, and since the plants gram. Darl Gatchell of the Marion City Paducah, Ky., and Portsmouth, Ohio, will that make these metals operate 24 hours a Schools, will be coordinating this program cut their production of enriched uranium day they consume huge amounts of power. A which provides many medical and dental this summer by more than 10 per cent, a new aluminum plant near Fredericksburg, services as well as psychological tests and move that's expected to save more than 300,- Va., uses 100,000 kilowatts of power, enough some academic training. The City Schools 000 kilowatts of power. for a city of 50,000 people. have operated the Head Start Program for six In Washington, the Veterans' Administra­ COMPUTERS PLAY ROLE years. tion is replacing manual switches with timers Don Shanahan, Executive director, sum­ that automatically turn off the office lights Computers are something else. There are marized that the activity of the Commission at the end of the day, and the Pentagon has now more than 60,000 computers in use is not welfare. It is helping the low income issued an order for all base cominanders on throughout the U.S., 10 times as me.ny as people of our community learn to help and the East Coast to turn off the barracks air there were 10 years ago. The big computers support themselves. conditioning during the daylight hours when need three times as much electricity as a most of their men are on duty. residential house, and must also be kept in These attempts to save electricity are all air conditioned rooms. parts of a government drive to conserve power "A human being goes right on working in 90 degree heat," said one computer expert, PRIVATE PROFIT OR PUBLIC GOOD: this summer, which electricity experts across the country think of as the greatest period "but a computer quits right there." WHAT THE PRIVATE UTILITIES of crisis in their industry since Thomas Edi­ Possibly the biggest mistake utilities Inade REALLY WANT son lit the first lamps in New York in 1882. was in their estimates of air conditioning "We're producing more electricity than at growth. any time in our history," says S. David Free­ There are now almost 40 million room air HON. WILLIAM D. HATHAWAY Inan, director of energy policy at the White conditioners in use in the U.S., a phe­ OF MAINE House Office of Science and Technology, "but nomenon responsible for as much as 40 per cent of electrical use on a hot summer's day. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES we have a runaway market in energy. It seeins that everybody in the country wants more "Ten years ago, peak load. was always the Monday, June 22, 1970 electricity." week before Christmas," says Sol Burstein, The nation generates more than 325 Inil­ senior vice president of Wisconsin Electric Mr. HATHAWAY. Mr. Speaker, a Power Co. "Now the high loads are in the front page article in the June 21 Wash­ lion kilowatts of electricity, but it now con­ sumes almost two trillion kilowatt-hours a summer, with peaks running for four months ington Post accurately suggests that the year-a classic case of demand that is taxing instead of one week. If there are storins onus for steadily worsening electric the capacity of the country's power com­ during this time we have a real bear by the power conditions in the United States panies right to the limit. tail." belongs almost exclusively to investor­ The Federal Power Commission estimates Most utilities in the Northeast no longer owned utilities, which in the face of in­ that 39 of the nation's 181 largest utilities advertise air conditioning, but an irony of creased consumer demand for their im­ are short of electricity, a condition that is at it all is that they still promote all-electric least partly to blame for the nine power living and things like outdoor appliances at portant product, have blindly empha­ a very time when they're straining to meet sized power sales over power supply and failures that have already hit the country since May 1. the summer's demands. reliability. In so doing, they have put The Office of Emergency Preparedness went Another problem has been the trouble profit before the public good. so far last month as to call conditions in the utilties have had getting new generators into This week, the Members of this House East and Midwest "tight," and cited as "po­ production, trouble that ranges from a short­ will vote on an issue that could help tential electrical trouble spots" the cities of age of skilled construction labor to the make the private electric utilities face up New York, St. Louis, Chicago and Minneap­ growing fight by conservationists to halt olis. Jacksonville, Fla., was also mentioned. power plant construction because they pol­ to their public responsibilities-appro­ lute the air and water. priation of $807,000 requested by the ad­ While utility executives in these cities ministration for continued preconstruc­ played down such warnings, at least one of CONSERVATIONISTS BLAMED tion planning of the proposed Dickey­ them admitted that things are too close for Utilities see the conservationists as their comfort. toughest adversary and blame them for elec­ Lincoln School hydroelectric power proj­ "There's a good chance we'll get through tric power shortages in Florida, California, ect in northern Maine. the summer without having to reduce or re­ New York, Illinois, Michigan and Minnesota. The proposal's potential is great, and ject load," said D. W. Angland, group vice Northern States Power claims that it would includes, among other things, the president of the Northern States Power Co. not be in such dire straits if its nuclear promise of a 1.9-to-1 benefit-to-cost in Minneapolis, "but only if the weather power plant on Monticello Island outside ratio and a number of impressive en­ isn't too hot and we don't have any break­ Minneapolis had not been held up in court vironmental and recreational uses. But downs." by conservationists who want to put it under perhaps most significant--certainly most How did it happen? How did the world's stricter controls for radiation discharge. most abundant producer of cheap electricity As it turns out, says vice president D. W. worrisome to its detractors-would be its come on such hard times? Angland, the company must now buy 325,000 provision of a so-called power yardstick. To begin with, it wasn't sudden. Power kilowatts of power from the Bureau of Recla­ This is the measurement by which pri­ shortages began cropping up in 1965. There mation, the Upper Mississippi Valley Power vate power consumers in the New Eng­ were eight summer power failures in 1966, Pool and the Manitoba Hydroelectric Board land and adjacent areas would be made 23 in 1967, 28 in 1968 and 34 a year ago, in Canada if it is to get safely through the aware of the disparity between private all of them helped along by a widening power summer. and public prices. It would help keep shortage. Atomic power plants aren't the only ones private power prices at a more reason­ One reason for the shortage is that utilities under conservationist attack. Southern Cali­ underestimated the growth in demand. For fornia Edison was forced to abandon plans to able level. It could prove to be both a years electrical usage grew at an unwaver­ install two gas-burning plants at Huntington potent consumer weapon in the hands of ing 3 per cent a year, but in 1965 it jumped Beach, and North Carolina's Duke Power Co. millions of deserving northeasterners, to 5 per cent. I:t was 5 per cent 1n 1966 and recently turned to low-sulphur oil for fuel in 20856 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 22, 1970 some of its plants, a move that is forcing a ing in the current rhetoric regarding Cambodia, and Thailand to try to defend rate increase of almost 20 per cent. the war in Vietnam and the events that themselves against the North Vietnamese, There seems little doubt that there is an who have no legitimate claims to their lands, electricity shortage in the country, but power led up to U.S. involvement in that con­ :flict. and it is not immoral for us to help them de­ experts claim this summer's shortage is only fend themselves. the beginning of an ever-worsening crisis. While I do not know Dr. Kasun per­ Our allies in Southeast Asia-the Austra­ The reason they believe it will get worse is sonally, it is very obvious to me that she lians, the Koreans, the people of New Zea­ that the nation is short of the sources of is a woman of great insight and courage. land, Thailand, Cambodia, the Philippines-­ electrical energy, the coal, oil and gas that is Her letter "To my friends in the aca­ cannot stand without us, but our commit­ burned by power companies to create steam. demic community" ha.s gained the sup­ ment need not be and is not very large. Statis­ and spin the turbines that power the genera­ port and endorsement of many of her tically speaking, a young American is safer tors. colleagues, as well as students, at Hum­ in our forces in Vietnam than he is in his car The coal shortage is the worst, partly be­ on our highways. Contrary to the claims of cause utilities burn so much (more than half boldt State College. Since this statement by Dr. Kasun con­ interested parties, it is not the cost of wa.r the coal mined in the U.S.) of it. Power com­ which is prohibiting desirable social pro­ pany coal stocks are now less than 50 million tains a message seldom heard from our grams in this country. Economically speak­ tons, down from 55 million tons a year ago educational institutions these days, and ing, we can easily afford this war along with and about two-thirds as much coal as they because I believe it merits the widest many important domestic improvements. would like to have on hand. possible dissemination, I am including Some have suggested tha.t we just dig into FEWER MINES OPERATING the full text of Dr. Kasun's letter in the our fortified places and I~emain doggedly in The reasons far the coal shortage are many, CONGRESSIONAL RECORD at this point: Vietnam until the North Vietnamese tire of starting with the notion that atomic energy To my frient!s in the academic community: the confiiot and go away. This may be a real option in the future, but during the past few was oversold to the nation's businessmen in On November 20, 1941, the Ambassador of the past decade. The result was that coal weeks while we have pulled into our fortifica­ Japan submitted to the Secretary of State tions in preparations for our withdrawal, the mine operators underestimated coal demand of the United States a note which demanded and are down today to less than 6,000 operat­ North Vietnamese have begun to swallow that the United States end all its opposition the untrained Cambodians and the neutral­ ing coal mines from 7,600 as recently as 1964. to the new Japanese empire in Asia and place A second reason is the Coal Mine Safety ized Laotians and the outnumbered Thias the product of the vast American economy at bite by bite. This meal digested, they can Act passed last year by Congress, a bill that the disposal of the Japanese, including a so­ many coal mine owners claim will close some polish off our fortifications at their leisure, called "required quantity of oil," that re­ one Dien Bien Phu after another, so to speak. mines. quirement to be determined by the Japa­ If anything, coal supplies are likely to The most difficult thing that we must learn nese. The United States was told that if it is that we are not free to choose between in­ dwindle still further as the summer's heat did not place its economy and resources at takes its toll. stant peace thl'lough withdl'lawal, on the one the disposal of the Japanese empire in Asia, hand, or war on the other. These are not our The Tennessee Valley Authority says that it could "face the consequences." Those con­ a shortage of railroad cars is causing a lag in options. However much we might wish it sequences, which began within three weeks otherwise, there is not the flimsiest evidence its coa.l deliveries of up to 150,000 tons a week. when 2,000 young Americans were buried One TVA plant has a coal supply of only six that immediate withdrawal will lead to peace. alive in their ships at Pearl Harbor, were, Instead we must choose between a limited, days, and when a TVA official asked the rail­ as some of us remember, the holocaust of road to step up deliveries he was told that reasoned commitment probably lasting over World War II, in which 25 million human a considerable period of time, on the one the I~ailroad couldn't do so because it was beings lost their lives. unprofitable to haul coal. hand, and, on the other a series of withdraw­ In the decade preceding Pearl Harbor, the als and surrenders which will eventually lead In the next 20 years, the crisis ~ likely to United States had a thousand chances to to the same desperate choices which faced worsen. pose a limited resistance to the cumulating us in 1941. The White House Office of Science and aggression and subversion. A measured, lim­ We have n<> quarrel with peaceful com­ Technology estimates that 255 new sites will ited response on our part in Manchuria, or munism, as our millions of dollars in aid to have to be found for power plants if future in Ethiopia, or the Rhineland, or Shanghai, Yugoslavia testifies. Our only quarrel is with power demands are to be met. or Czechoslovakia, might well have averted aggression, open or covert, because by its The money alone needed to finance future that tragic conflict. But that was the decade nature it threatens our existence. So soon as growth is staggering. Utllity experts figure it of "peace." The shouting, hysterical "peace" the North Viet Namese begin to behave like will cost as much as $350 billion to construct groups of that decade had their way, and peaceful Yug<>slav communists, we should enough new plants to produce the 1.1 blllion the United States did not resist at any point begin to treat them accordingly. kilowatts the U.S. will need by 1990, an ex­ from Manchuria through Munich to Pearl We have not tried to prevent a genuine pansion that w1ll require enough transmis­ Harbor. And at Pearl Harbor we had only revolution in VietNam. Rightly or wrongly, sion lines to circle the earth four times. two options left--to surrender to the makers we did not interfere when Ho Chi Minh im­ of the gas ovens and their friends, or endure posed his will by force upon his own people the holocaust. at the cost of thousands of their lives. But My beloved countrymen, have we forgotten we have insisted that he not export that AN EDUCATOR SPEAKS OUT these lessons so soon? We thought we learned revolution of unwilling people in the rest of in World War II that the wisest answer to Indo-China. cumulative subversion and aggression lies in We should not expect a victory; just a tie HON. DON H. CLAUSEN collective security arrangements whereby all w1ll do-a stand-off, to give us time for more come to the assistance of each threatened OF CALIFORNIA negotiations, more peacefUl competition, commonwealth, hopefully early enough so more strengthening of international peace IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that no great use of force would be required. machinery. Monday, June 22, 1970 We hoped to implement this principle The fondest hope of aggressors everywhere through the United Nations but our hopes is a neutralized America. My dear friends, Mr. DON H. CLAUSEN. Mr. Speaker, have thus far, though we trust not perma­ let us not accommodate them by neutraliz­ during the trying and tense period imme­ nently, been frustrated. ing ourselves by our internal dissensions diately following the President's decision A relatively small but growing and threat­ over this mistaken "peace" movement. The to move against Communist sanctuaries ening aggression has been carried out by peace movement of our time makes about as in Cambodia and amid the tumult and the North Viet Namese in Indo-China for much sense as the prohibition movement. It turmoil on our college campuses, a noted some year.s now. This aggression has been was by way of the peace movement that we reported by a majority of the International backed into World Warn. educator in my congressional district Control Commission. It has been common prepared and circulated a letter ad­ We must continue to make it clear that knowledge for weeks that our troop with­ we have no quarrel with pea.ceful commu­ dressed "To my friends in the academic drawals from that area have been answered nism, that we will send representatives any­ community." not by a cooling down of that aggression but where to negotiate, that we will cooperate This letter, by Dr. Jacqueline R. by its thrust into Laos, Cambodia, and Thai­ with anyone to achieve peaceful economic Kasun, associate professor of economics land. and social progress for all peoples. But we will at Humboldt State College in Arcata, Now our president has ordered a limited not neutralize ourselves-or should I say cas­ military response to these new enemy initia­ t.rate ourselves-on the demands of any for­ Calif., is an outstanding historical ac­ tives, before the aggressors have gained an count of America's involvement in and eign militarists or any domestic militants. empire and a vast military machine with As the great democratic socialist Willy commitment to South Vietnam. In the which to confront us and demand that we Brandt has said, humanity has a real chance main, it is a logical, factual, and non­ choose between surrender or the conse­ 1x> survive, civilization has a real chance to inflammatory statement. Beyond that quences which in the technology of 1970-75 endure, if we will only refuse to panic, and however, it portrays the kind of historical might be very dreadful indeed. will learn to wait patiently for our oppor­ perspective that is so often totally lack- It is not immoral for the people of Laos, tunities, which will surely come. If we can June 22, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20857 learn patience a.nd restraint, if we can disci­ special accessory-receivers which will prevent Dwyer bill, and the bill proposed by the pline ourselves to many a dark night of un­ interference with reception by sonic booms administration which I also introduced. certain waiting, 1f we can learn to live or SST-airport noise no matter how close you During our third round of hearings in through years of ambiguous improvising on live to the airport. The GE model, I've been persistent a.nd recalcitrant issues, our chil­ told, has a headpiece and will come in seven April of. this year, I stated: dren-and I mean a.ll the children of the styles and decorator colors, and will sell for If we are to have (consumer) legislation, world-will yet live in prosperity and peace. approximately $3,000. The SST wlll sell !or it will have to come through compromise JACQUEIJNE R. KASUN, Ph. D., A.B., $60,000,000, if you'd rather have on of those. or • . • amalgamation. But I believe we can Associate Professor of Economics, Hum­ Other manufacturers will get into the deviSe a compromise so desirable that it will boldt State College. newly-created market by naaking accessory­ actually be an improvement over any of the receivers featuring the electronic wonder, bills individually. wider-range ultra-volume.controls. The sales That is exactly what I feel the reported advantage here is that TV can be heard over bill represents, especially in the sense of THE SST SCRAlffiLER SST take-o1f noise, which iS 50 times as loud as the jumbo jets. legislation which will be effectual and There is no stopping progress. Still more which can be passed. HON. ALLARD K. LOWENSTEIN research should be done on the impact of To the Office of Consumer A1Iairs, lo­ OF NEW YORK the SST on television. What will happen if cated in the Executive Office of the Presi­ the sonic boom topples a TV antenna right dent, there is granted the key functions IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in the middle of primetime? Nothing good, of first, encouraging and assisting in the Monday, June 22, 1970 I'm sure. development and implementation of con­ When the government and private indus­ sumer programs and activities within Mr. LOWENSTEIN. Mr. Speaker, so try start messing around with the air waves, many things we are doing these days a free society iS in trouble. Look what hap­ the Federal Government; second, coordi­ lend themselves to lampooning that we pened to the young generation once the gov­ nating Federal consumer programs and may be giving rise to the golden age of ernment and the chemical industry started activities; third, assuring that the in­ American satire. A good example of the putting fluorides into water. terests of consumers are considered and genre, inspired by the SST folly, ap­ implemented by Federal agencies; peared recently in Newsday. fourth, recommending improvements in Federal programs and operations; fifth, THE SST ScRAMBLER THE CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT conducting conferences, surveys, and in­ (By Marvin Kltma.n) OF 1970, H.R. 18067 vestigations; sixth, encouraging, initiat­ Among the claims being made for the ing, coordinating, and supporting con­ SST-which isn't one of those new miracle sumer education, research, and studies; pesticides but what the scientific writers call HON. FLORENCE P. DWYER seventh, cooperating and assisting State an airplane-is that it will increase air pol­ OF NEW JERSEY lution, intensify noiSe pollution and maybe and local governments and private en­ blot out the sun. But I'm against the super­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES terprise; and eighth, publishing and dis­ sonic transport because it sounds like it will J~onday,June22,1970 tributing a consumer register. be bad for television. To the independently established Con­ While most viewers have been sitting at Mrs. DWYER. Mr. Speaker, the road sumer Protection Agency is granted the home not thinking about the SST, the has been long and rocky, but I believe the vital functions of representing the inter­ plane's designers haven't been worrying establishment of an effective statutory ests of consumers before Federal agen­ much about the way the SST will be inter­ consumer protection organization in the cies and courts and assuming the con­ fering with television reception. Federal Government is at last in sight. A13 far as I've been able to learn, the SST sumer safety responsibilities of the Na­ will cause a sort of air turbulence in the sky Having labored so long in this endeavor, tional Commission on Product Safety that will get the channels mixed up. You will it is difficult to fully express my pleasure whose tenure will soon lapse. 'be sitting there watching Walter Cronkite at having the Consumer Protection Act­ To both agencies is given the task of when all of a sudden David Brinkley wlll H.R. 18067-reported to the full House receiving, evaluating, acting upon, and appear on your screen. That's not anything Government Operations Committee last transmitting consumer complaints; and to get alarmed about, since most of those week. developing and disseminating consumer commentators basically have the same liberal In one sense, this bill may be consid­ ideas anyway. But someday in 1972 or 1973, information, including test results. when the SST is expected to be operational, ered a compromise. And, I am proud to Those of us who drafted H.R. 18067 Vice President Agnew may be on the "Art label it as such because it represents the see this division of responsibility not as Linkletter Show" explaining why we will be true spirit of the legislative process where some form of divided or duplicative au­ pulling the troops out of Cambodia any day members of different parties and expo­ thority. To the contrary, after hearing now-and you suddenly might hear the nents of differing political philosophies testimony from dozens of leading con­ canned laughter from the sound track of "I cooperate together to devise the best sumer specialists and after deliberating Love Lucy." means of protecting the public interest. amongst ourselves for many hours, it was The scrambling of audio and video waves In thus destroys one of the basic rights we are this regard, Congressman RosENTHAL the opinion of all of us that different fighting for in Asia: the free choice of tele­ deserves a special mark of gratitude. He functions may be best performed by sep­ vision viewers to watch programs as the net­ has been in the forefront of the con­ arate organizations under different works send them out. Why should the gov­ sumer protection fight in the House for settings. ernment, then, want to get involved in a pie­ a number of years now and, although Thus, the Office of Consumer A1Iairs in-the-sky project like the SST? It may be discouragement must have visited him can employ the influences of the White that it's good for business. more than on~. he has remained un­ House to encourage Federal agencies to One of the corporations financially involved daunted in his efforts to move this neces­ in the SST is General Electric. They are put­ improve their consumer protection func­ ting up three per cent of the research cost, sary legislation forward. In like fashion, tions, to knock heads together until im­ which doesn't seem like much compared to Congressmen JoHN BLATNIK, the sub­ proved operations and coordination de­ Boeing's seven per cent and the taxpayers' committee chairman, CHET HOLIFIELD, velop, and to better assure the interests 90 per cent. All the experts have been saying the acting chairman of the full commit­ of consumers are adequately considered that the SST iS like throwing money up the tee, JOHN ERLENBORN, the ranking Re­ by the Federal agencies. This Office could flue; it will never pay o1f. My sources say the publican on the subcommittee, CLARENCE be located nowhere else, in my opinion, real reason GE is hanging in there iS that BROWN, and PAUL FINDLEY all devoted SST will help sell more TV sets. and perform its duties as effectively as it The first year or so after the SST starts many hours of their talents and time to could in the Executive Office of the Pres­ flying, a lot of people will notice that their putting this legislation together. I am ident with the prestige of the President TV sets are going on the blink (because of grateful to them all, as I am to the more behind it. those airplanes whooshing through the air than 60 Members on both sides of the By the same token, the consensus of waves). The TV repairmen will fix them aisle who cosponsored my original bill. opinion developed that the functions of time after time; they never like to admit As much as H.R. 18067 is a compro­ they don't know what's wrong with a set. representing the interest of consumers Eventually you will conclude there's some- mise, it is also an amalgamation of the before Federal agencies and courts and thing seriously wrong and buy a new set. best ideas contained in the principal con­ performing consumer safety functions GE will get its usual share of the new set sumer legislation that was before the should best be entrusted to an independ­ market. But the really big money is in the subcommittee: the Rosenthal bill, the ent agency which would be free of con- 20858 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 22, 1970 fiicting infiuences and which could take ther from the truth. Indeed, the Presi­ prescribe and shall be Acting Director during continuing action without embarrassing dent himself publicly expressed his will­ the absence or disability of the Director or the President or forcing him to choose ingness to accept a reasonable compro­ in the event of a vacancy in the position of Director. sides at the routine operating-nonpol­ mise. icy-level between Federal agencies or This legislation, as reported repre­ POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE DIRECTOR between alternative public obligations. sents just such a compromise or amal­ SEc. 102. (a) The Director shall be respon­ There are those who may feel that a gamation, as I have indicated earlier. sible for the exercise of the powers and the certain amount of duplication has been No one bill predominates; no one au­ discharge of the duties of the Office, and shall have the authority to direct and super­ built into this legislation, particularly in thor exists. Those items in each bill vise all personnel and activities thereof. extending the consumer complaint and deemed most worthwhile and important (b) In addition to any other authority information functions to both agencies. were selected consistent with the sub­ conferred upon him by this title, the Director The fact is that although the general committee's overall concept of what is is author

administration, or enforcement of such pro­ (10) cooperate with and, when requested, CONSUMER COMPLAINTS grams. provide assistaJnce to the Director of the Of­ FUNCTIONS OF THE AGENCY fice in the carrying out of his functions. SEc. 205. (a) Whenever the Agency or the Office receives from any source, or develops SEc. 203. (a) The Agency shall, in the per· REPRESENTATION OF CONSUMERS formance of its functions, advise the Con­ on its own initiative, any complaint or other . SEC. 204. (a) Whenever there is. pending information ·disclosing a probable violation gress and the President as to matters affect­ of- ing the interests of consumers; and protect in or before any Federal agency of the United (1) any law of the United States, and promote the interest.a of the people of States any investigation, hearing, or other proceeding which does not solely involve an (2) any rule or order of any administra­ the United Sta.tes as consumers of goods and tive oftlcer or Federal agency, services made available to them through the adjudication for the purpose of imposing a trade and commerce of the United States. fine, penalty, or forfeiture for an alleged vio­ (3) any judgment, decree, or order of any lation, by any defendant or respondent court of the United States involving a Fed­ (b) The functions of the Agency shall be eral matter, or to- therein, of any statute of the United States, (1) formally represent the interests of or any rule, order, or decree promulgated ( 4) any other commercial or trade prac­ consumers in proceedings before Federal thereunder, and t-he Agency finds that-- tice or practices of Federal, State, or local agencies and courts to the extent authorized (1) the result of such investigation, hear­ governments, affecting the consumer interest, by this title; ing, or other proceeding may substantially it shall take such action within its authority (2) pursuant to section 205 of this title, affect the interests of consumers; and as may be desirable, including the proposal receive, evaluate, act on, and transmit com­ (2) such interests may not be adequately of legislation, or shall transmit promptly to plaints to the appropriate Federal or other protected unless the Agency intervenes, the Federal or other agency charged with the agency concerning actions or practices the Agency shall be entitled as a matter of duty of enforcing such law, rule, order, judg­ which may be detrimental to the consumer right to intervene and, pursuant to the rules ment, or decree, for appropriate action, such Interest; of practice and procedure of that agency, to complaint or other information. (3) pursuant to section 206 of this title, ent-er an appearance in that proceeding for (b) The Agency and the Office shall ascer­ develop information from other Federal the purpose of representing the interests of tain the nature and extent of action t-aken agencies, other public sources, and private such consumers. with regard to the respective complaints and sources which is of benefit to consumers, (b) Whenever- other information transmitted by each of including- ( 1) there is pending before any Federal them under subsection (a) of this section. ( A) test results and analysis of consum­ agency any investigation, hearing, or pro­ (c) The Agency and the Office shall er products and services, and ceeding which involves an adjudication for promptly notify producers, distributors, re­ (B) information concerning commercial the sole purpose of imposing a fine, penalty, tailers or suppliers of goods and services of and trade practices and practices of Federal, or forfeiture for an alleged violation, by any all complP.ints concerning them received or State and local governments which adversely defendant or respondent therein, of any stat­ developed under this section. affect consumers, and to disseminate such ute of the United States or any rule, order, (d) The Agency and the Office shall each information in the most efficacious manner or decree promulgated thereunder, or maintaii.n in a public document room for possible, including the publication and dis­ (2) there is pending before any district or public inspection and copying an up-to-date tribution of printed material which will in appellate court of the United States any listin~ of consumer complaints, arranged in easily understandable form inform consumers matter or proceeding to which the United m.eanmgful and useful categories, together of matters of interest to them; States or any Federal agency is a party, other With annotatfions of actions taken by it, as ( 4) in the exercise of its responsibilities than that to which subsection (a) is ap­ well as copies of complaints received by it under sections 204 and 208 of this title, en­ plicable, and which may, in the opinion of pursuant to this section: PrOVided, That a courage, initiate and support, research, the Agency, subs·tantially affect the interests complaint may be made available for public studies and testing leading to a better un­ Of consumers within the United States, inspection only with the permission of the derstanding of consumer products and to the Agency upon its own motion, or upon complainant and only after the party com­ improved products, services, and consumer written request made by the officer or em­ plained against has had a reasonable time information; ployee of the United States or such agency but not less than sixty days to comment on (5) submit recommendations annually to who is charged with the duty of presenting such complaint and the agency to which the the Congress and the President on measures the case for the Federal agency in the matter complaint has been referred has indicated to improve the operation of the Federal Gov­ of proceeding, may transmit to such officer how it intends to handle the complaint. ernment in the protection and promotion of or employee all evidence and information in (e) The Office and Agency shall develop the consumer interest; the possession of the Agency relevant to the policies and procedures designed to avoid (6) publish and distribute material devel­ matter or proceeding, and may, in the dis­ duplication in the receipt and handling of oped pursuant to carrying out its responsi­ cretion of the agency or court, appear as complaints, including coordination at such bilities under this Act which wlll inform con­ amicus curiae and present written or oral intervals as may be necessary for the purpose sumers of matters of interest to them; argument to such agency or court. of determining if any duplicate complaints (7) continue the work of the National (c) The Agency is authorized to assert the or other information have been received or Commission on Product Safety as author­ developed by them. The Agency and the ized by this Act; interests of consumers in any proceeding in a court of the United States involving the Office shall agree as to which of them will (8) conduct conferences, surveys, and in­ review of an action of a Federal agency, to assume responsibility for taking such further vestigations, including economic surveys, a~ion under this section as may be appro­ concerning the needs, interests, and problems which the Agency had intervened as a party, and to this end may institute such a proceed­ pnate with respect to any duplicate com­ of consumers which are not duplicative in plaint or item of information. significant degree to similar activities con­ ing, when a right of review is otherwise ac­ ducted by other Federal agencies; and, for corded by statute. CONSUMER INFORMATION AND SERVICES the purpose of conducting such conferences, (d) Whenever the Administrator deter­ SEc. 206. (a) The Agency and the Office surveys and investigations, the Agency shall mines it to be in the consumer interest, he shall develop on their own initiative, gather have all powers which are conferred upon the may request the Federal agency concerned to from other Federal agencies and non-Fed­ Federal Trade Commission by section 9 of initiate such appropriat-e investigation, hear­ eral sources, and disseminate t,o the public the Federal Trade Commission Act with re­ ing, or other proceeding as may be authorized in such manner, at such tilmes, and in such spect to the conduct of investigations made by law with respect to such agency. form as they determine to be most effective by that Commission under that Act, except (e) Upon undertaking any action author­ information, statistics, and other data con~ that the Agency may not grant to any per­ ized in subsection (a), (b), or (c) above, the cerning- son any immunity from prosecution, penalty, Agency shall present to the agency or court ( 1) the functions and duties of the Agen­ or forfeiture in accordance with the provi­ subject to the rules of practice and proce­ cy and Office; and sions of such section 9 without first obtain­ dure thereof, such evidence, briefs, and oral (2) probleinS encountered by consumers ing the written consent of the Attorney Gen­ arguments as appropriate as it shall deter­ generally with the Unil.ted States, including eral and serving upon such person a duly Inine to be necessary for the effective repre­ particular commercial, trade, and Federal, certified copy of any consent therefor granted sentation of the interests of consumers. The State and local practices which are detri­ by the Attorney General. The provisions of Administrator, or any other representative mental to the interests of such consumers. section 10 of the Federal Tva.de Commission of the Agency specially designated by him (b) With respect to information relating Act shall apply to the act or omission of any for that purpose, shall be entitled to enter to results of produot tests, surveys, and stud­ person, partnership, or corporation with re­ an appearance on behalf of the Agency be­ ies in the possession of Federal agencies, the gard to any subpena, order, requirement, or fore any court of the United States (except Agency shall gather, develop, and disseminate information of the Agency to the same ex­ the United States Supreme Court) or Federal such information to consumers; except that tent, and with the same effect, as if such act agency, without other compliance with any if the Director of the Office finds that there or omission had occurred with regard to a like requirement for adlnission to practice before is information of this type which is useful subpena, order, or requirement, or with ref­ such court or agency, for the purpose of tak­ to consumers and available from Federal erence to like information, of the Federal ing action which is authorized by this sec­ agencies but which is not otherwise being Trade Commission; tion. disseminated, the Director shall compile and (9) keep the appropriate committees of (f) This section does not authorize inter­ disseminat-e such information. Congress fully and currently informed of all vention by the Agency before State regula­ (c) In the dissemination of any test results its activities; and tory bodies. which disclose product names, it shall be June 22, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20861 made clear, if such is the case, that not all disseminated about them conform to the test to the consumer interest and make recom­ products of a competitive nature have been results. mendations thereto, including the- tested and that there is no intent or pur­ CONSUMER SAFETY (A) administration of existing consumer pose to rate products tested over those not SEc. 208. (a) The Agency shall carry out on protection laws and the need to enact new tested or to imply that those tested are su­ a continuing basis the functions and duties laws; perior or preferable in quality over those nort which on January 1, 1970, were exercised by (B) coordination of consumer programs tested. the National Commission on Product Safety, and operations among the Federal agencies, (d) All Federal agencies which, in the except that the Agency may not carry out and between the Federal Government, State judgment of the Administrator and Director, such functions and responsibilities at a time and local governments and private enter­ possess information which would be useful earlier than the date on which the National prise; to consumers are authorized and directed to Commission on Product Safety will by law (C) consideration of consumer interests by cooperate with the Agency in making such cease to exist. At such time as the Agency decisionmaking Federnl agencies; information available to the public. commences such functions and responsibil­ (D) attention devoted to the consumer (e) The Agency and the Office shall (in ities, all property, unexpended appropria­ problems of the poor; a manner meaningful and useful to con­ tions, and information and data developed by (E) availability of information necessary sumers) disseminate to the public, on a con­ the National Commission on Product Safety for the making of intelligent consumer de­ tinuing and systematic basis, information shall be transferred to the Agency. cisions; which is developed or received pursuant to (b) The Agency may design and develop (F) existing consumer protection agencies; carrying out their respective functions under improved safety features 'for categories of and this Act, and the Agency and the Office shall consumer products which are deemed un­ (G) existing organization within the Fed­ avoid duplicating the consumer informa­ safe. eral Government of consumer protection tional services of each other and of other (c) The Agency shall not publish such in­ functions and the need to reorganize such Federal agencies. formation in a form which would separately functions. SEc. 207. (a) The Agency shall, in the disclose the business transactions of any per­ (e) The Council shall have the right of exercise of its functions-- son, trade secrets, or names of customers, access to information in the possession of (!) en.courage, initiate and support meth­ which shall be held confidential. the Office and the Agency and shall have the ods for testing materials, mechanisms, and right to request either the Office or the structures used in consumer products and TITLE III-CONSUMER ADVISORY COUN­ Agency to obtain or develop such other in­ !or improving consumer services; CIL; PROTECTION OF CONSUMER IN­ formation as it may desire. The Administra­ (2) make recommendations to the other TEREST IN ADMINISTRATIVE PRO­ tor shall serve as the Executive Semetary of CEEDINGS; MISCELLANEOUS AMEND­ Federal agencies with respect to research, the Council and shall make available to the studies, analyses, and other information MENTS Council such sta:tr and facilities as may be within their authority which would be useful CONSUMER ADVISORY COUNCIL required; and the Office and Agency shall and beneficial to consumers; and SEc. 301. (a) There is hereby established endeavor to extend such other assistance to (3) investigate and report to Congress on the Consumer Advisory Council (hereafter the Council as may be reasonable and re­ the desirability and feasibility of establish· referred to in this section as the "Council") quired. ing a National Consumer Information Foun­ to be composed of fifteen members appointed PROTECTION OF THE CONSUMER INTEREST IN dation which would administer a. voluntary, by the President for terms of five years. Mem­ ADMcrNaSTRATIVE PROCEEDINGS self-supporting, information tag program bers shall be appointed on the basis of their (similar to the "Tel-Tag" program of Great knowledge and experience in the area of con­ SEc. 302. Every Federal agency in taking Britain) under which any manufacturer of sumer a:trairs, and their demonstrated ability any action of a nature which can reasonably a nonperishable consumer product to be sold to exercise independent, informed, and criti­ be construed a.s substantially a:trecting the at retail could be authorized to attach to cal judgment. interests of consumers of products and serv­ each copy of such product a tag, standard in (b) (1) Of the members first appointed, ices including, but not limited to-- form, containing information, based on uni­ three shall be appointed for a term of one ( 1) the promulgation of rules, regulations, form standards, relating to the performance, year, three shall be appointed for a term of or guidelines, safety, durability, and care of the product. two years, three shall be appointed for a term (2) the formulation of policy decisions, or (b) All Federal agencies which, in the of four years, and three shall be appointed (3) the issuance of orders, decrees, or judgment of the Administrator, possess test­ for a term of five years, as designated by the standards, ing fac1lities and sta:tr expertise relating to appointing power at the time of appoint­ shall- the performance of consumer products and ment. ( a) provide specific notice of such action services, are authorized and directed to per­ (2 ) Any member appointed to till a va­ to the Office and Agency at such time as form promptly such tests as the Adminis­ cancy occurring prior to the expiration of the notice of the action is given to the public; trator may request regarding the content, term for which his predecessor was ap­ and purity, safety, durab111ty, performance, and pointed shall serve only for the remainder (b) take such action in a manner calcu­ other characteristics of a product o:trered for of such term. Members shall be eligible for lated to give due consideration to the valid sale or intended for sale by a manufactuer. reappointment and may serve after the ex­ interests of consumers in terms of price, In providing fac111ties and sta:tr expertise piration of their terms until their successors quality, safety, accuracy e:trectiveness, de­ upon request made in writing by the Admin­ have taken office. pendability, information and choice. istrator, Federal agencies- (3) Any vacancy in the Council shall not In taking any action under paragraph (b) , the agency concerned shall indicate con­ (!) shall charge for the services performed a:trect its powers, but shall be tilled in the under the authority of this section and such same manner by which the origin.a.l appoint­ cisely in a public announcement of such ac­ charges shall be based on both direct and ment was made. tion the e:trect that its action or decision is likely to have on the consumer interest and indirect costs, and the appropriation or fund (4) Members of the Council shall, while bearing the cost of the services may be re­ the basis upon which the action was taken serving on business of the Council, be en­ in keeping with the interests of consumers. imbursed or the head of the agency involved titled to receive compensation at rates not may require advance payment subject to in excess of the maximum rate of pay for SAVING PROVISION such adjustments on completion of the work a GS-18, including traveltime and while so SEC. 303. (a) Nothing contained in this as may be agreed upon; serving away from their homes or regular Act shall be construed to alter, modify, 01 (2) may perform functions under this sec­ places or business, they may be allowed impair the statutory responsibility and au­ tion without regard to section 529 of title 31, travel expenses, including per diem in lieu thority contained in section 201(a) (4) of the United States Code; of subsistence, in the same manner as the Federal Property and Administrative Services (3) may request any other Federal agency expenses authorized by section 5703(b) of Act of 1949, as amended (40 U.S.C. 481 (a) to supply such statistics, data, progress re­ title 5, United States Code, for persons in (4)), or of any provisions of the antitrust ports, and other information as it deems Government service employed intermit­ laws, or of any Act providing for the regula­ necessary to carry out his !unctions under tently. tion of the trade or commerce of the United this section and any such other agency is (c) The President shall designate the States, or to prevent or impair the adminis­ authorized and directed to cooperate to the chairman from among the members ap­ tration or enforcement of any such provision extent permitted by law, by furnishing such pointed to the Council. The Council shall of law. materials; and meet at the call of the chairman or at the (b) Nothing contained in this Act shall (4) may, to the extent necessary, acquire or call of a majority of the members of the be construed as relieving any Federal agency establish additional fac111ties and to purchase Council. The Director and Administrator of any authority or responsibility to protect additional equipment for the purpose of shall be an ex officio member of the Council. and promote the interests of the American carrying out the purposes of this section. (d) The Council shall- consumer. (c) Neither a Federal agency nor the Ad­ (1) advise the Administrator and Direc­ DEFINITIONS ministrator shall declare one product to be tor on matters relating to the consumer in­ SEc. 304. As used in this Act-- better, or a better buy, than any other prod­ terest including means for. improving the (1) The terms "commerce" and "corpora­ uct. e:trectiveness of the Agency and the Office; tion" have the meaning given in such terms, (d) The Administrator shall periodically and respectively, by section 4 of the Federal review products which have been tested to (2) review and evaluate the e:trectiveness Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 44). assure that such products and information of Federal programs and operations relating (2) The term "Federal agency" means any 20862 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 22, 1970 department or agency ln the executive less, is re1ative1y Ineffective for bombs and dent body of 17,000, an excellent faculty, branch of the Government and eny inde­ consequently is rarely used. Gunpowder is, and a most able board of trustees, the pendent boardJ -commission, corporation, or however, a.bsB1utely essential to sportsmen. university community has truly set about other instrumentality of the Government A terrorist could make a crude gunpowder charged with the administra.tion of any from commonly available materials. Gun­ meeting the challenge of the 1970's. It statute of the Unitect States. power for spo:rtsm.en, however must be man­ has been, however, in the labor and dedi­ (3) The term "State" includes any State ufactured with such qua.llties as granula­ cation of Norman P. Auburn, Akron or possession of the United States, the Dis­ tion and burning time carefully regulated. University's president and chief admin­ trict of Columbia, and the Commonwealth Infiat.ed prices of factory loaded cartridges istrative officer that all of our hopes and of Puerto Rico. have increasingly forced S}>C)rtsmen to te.ke expectations for a true citadel of knowl­ (4) The term "Agency.. means the Con­ up hand loading of ammunition. Black pow­ edge have come to fruition. sumer Protection Agency. der shooters, whose antique-type firearms On Sunday, June 14, 1970, I was hon­ ( 5) 'The term '"Office•' means the Office of were quite properly left untouched by the ored at the university's 98th commence­ Consumer Affairs. Gun Control Act of 1968, are in danger of having their sport crippled or eliminated. ment, along with two very good friends CONFORMING AMENDMENTS A per capita exemption on purchase and pos­ and colleagues 1n Government, Mayor SEc. 305. (a.) Section 5313 of title 5, United session is not the answer, for shooters of John S. Ballard of Akron and Ohio States Code, is amended by adding at the antique-type muzzie-loa.ding cannons need State Senator Oliver Ocasek, 1n receiving end thereof the following: black powder in quantity. Though few con­ the University's Centennial Medallion . .. (20) Director. omce of Co:r:..sumer Af­ gressmen may be aware they exist, a num­ fairs. ber of cannon shooting groups, including The .speaker at the comm.enooment of 6 '(21) Administrator, Consumer Protec­ the Minneapolis-based Midwest Cannon the largest class 1n the university's his­ tion Agency." Shooters Association. are active around the tory, was the Honorable John W. Gard­ (b) Section 5315 of such title is amended ANCHER NELSEN agenciea to allow felons and perpetrators want you to neglect it, but neither do I want OF lloUNNESOTA o! felonious acts to go uncharged, as has you, as Matthew Arnold put it, to "See all IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES been the case under the Gun Control Act of sights from pole to pole And glance and nod 1968. Such action, or lack of it, makes a and bustle by And never once possess your Monday, June 22, 1970 mockery of congressional intent. soul Before you die.•• Mr. NELSEN. Mr. Speaker, the Com­ Dag H:amm:a.rskjold said, "The more faith­ fully you listen to the voice within you, the mittee for Effective Crime Control, a better you will hear what is sounding out­ group representing more than 250,000 side. And only he who listens can speak." Minnesota sportsmen, has sent me a A TRIDUTE 'TO AKRON UNIVERSITY Thirty years from now the commencement copy of its statement on control of ex­ speakers who today are middle-aged people plosives. So that my colleagues may be like me will be middle-aged people Uke you. aware of the views of the Committee for No doubt many of you who are here today Effective Crime Control on this matter, HON. WILLIAM H. AYRES will find yourselves standing, as I a.m. now I insert the text of the committee's state­ OP OHIO standing, trying to say something to a grad­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES uating class that may or may not be listen­ ment at this point in the CONGRESSIONAL ing. That might be early in the Twenty-first RECORD: Monday, June 22, 1970 Century. STATEMENT OF THE COMMITTEE FOR EFFECTIVE Mr. AYRES. Mr. Speaker, this year of You will have found that those young CRIME CONTROL ON THE CONTROL OF EX• people of the Twenty-first Oentury are some.­ PLOSIVES 1970 culminates 100 years of progressive what scornful of people your age, and you my Terrorist bombings have produced a call higher education 1n home of Akron. will be tempted to tell them that your gen­ for further controls over explosives. We be­ Ohio. For it is this year that the Uni­ eration is neither as stupid nor as hypocriti­ lieve that legislation should be directed to­ versity of Akron celebrates its centennial ca.I as they believe it to be, and that they are ward controlllng access to high explosives, anniversary. Growing from a small land­ not as everlastingly right as they think they blasting caps, and detonators. The wording grant college to the fifth largest State are. of any legislation, however, must be suf­ university in Ohio today, Akron Univer­ Forget it. They'll never buy lt. And in any ficiently discriminating so that criminal ele­ sity has maintained a steady and pro­ case, you will have mo.re constructive things ments rather than honest citizens will bear found course of both academic and phys­ to tell them-I hope. the burden of the la.w. You are bright young people. And there are A thoughtful and d.lscrlminating a.pproach ical development 1n an unparalleled era thousands of others like you graduating this must recognize that there is a great deal of of turmoil and strife. month throughout the land. You already difference between propellants and high ex­ Through a culmination of efforts on know a great deal that is worth oommuni- plosives. Gunpowder, be it black or smoke- the part of a spirited and dedicated stu- 08/tlng. Surely given a quarter of a. century June 22, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20863 of living you will have much more that is keepers. And despite your youth, most of you Life is an endless unfolding, and if we wish worth communic81ting. So I expect that 25 or have been building your prisons for some it to be, an endless process of self-discovery, 35 years from now commencem~nt speeches years now. The prisons are constructed of an endless and unpredictable dialogue be­ will take on a depth and brilliance that they habit, apathy, fear, selfishness and self­ tween our own potentialities and the life have notoriously lacked. Or will they? deception. But if we build them ourselves, situations in which we find ourselves. And by I am interested in the path you will travel we could tear them down ourselves. We potentialities I mean not just intellectual from where you are now to where you will could free ourselves of the habits and atti­ gifts but the full range of one's capacities be then. I am interested in whether you will tudes that prevent self-renewal. for learning, sensing, wondering, under­ be sufficiently alive intellectually to have Self-renewal depends on your capacity to standing, loving and aspiring. something to say. remain versatile and adaptive, not to be The conventional thing for me to do in But first let's consider where you are now. trapped in techniques, procedures and rou­ closing would be to wish you success. But suc­ You a.re now adults, for better or worse. tines, not to be imprisoned by your own pet cess a.s the world measures it is too easy. I In your mid-teens you became old enough theories, comfortable habits and customary would like to wish you something that is so that your parents could stop punishing ways. The self-renewing person keeps a cer­ harder to come by. So I am going to wish you. Now you are old enough to stop punish­ tain flexibility of mind, a willingness to lis­ you meaning in your life. And meaning is not ing your parents. ten and learn, an eagerness to try a new something you stumble across, like the Somewhere between seven and 11 you were way. answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure old enough to begin saying clever things. You are very sure now that you will be hunt. Meaning is something you build into Now you are old enough to desist from saying that kind of adult. But when you reach the your life, starting fairly early and working clever things. age of 30 ask yourself how long since you've at it fairly hard. You build it out of your At 16 you were made self-conscious by the developed a new interest. At the age of 40 own past, out of your affections and loyalties, apparent attention of others. Now you are ask yourself how long since you've made a out of the experience of mankind as it is old enough to know that most people aren't new friend. At the age of 50 ask yourself how passed on to you, out of your own talent studying you critically; they are thinking long since you've gotten into an argument and understanding, out of the things you be­ about themselves. with someone of fundamentally ditferent lieve in, out of the things and people you It's a melancholy thing to reflect on what views and come out thinking the other per­ love, out of the values for whch you are wil­ you gain and what you lose as you grow up. son was right. It should happen occasionally. ling to sacrifice something. The ingredients When I was 17 I had the ability to look into (I wonder if any parents are listening-or are there. You are the only one who can put a man's eyes and say instantly whether he any faculty members.) them together into that unique pattern that was a hero or a bum. But then at 18 I lost it. Self-renewal depends also on your capacity will be your life. Let it be a life that has dig­ At 16 you were old enough to doubt. Now to continue throughout your life the process nity and meaning for you. If it does, then the you a.re old enough to believe again and to of self-discovery. It is sad but true that most yardstick by which the world measures suc­ bring doubt and belief into some kind of human beings go through their lives only cess will hardly be relevant. productive balance. partially aware of the full range of their You learned very early that we react to our abilities. The self-renewing person is always environment. You know that in some meas­ exploring his own interests and capacities, ure each of us creates his own environment. always trying new things. He doesn't mind a LOOK AT KOREA, EXPO 70 You may not yet grasp the power of that failure now and then as long as he's learning truth to change your life. and growing. But I'm less interested at this point in At the age of 40 you may want to ask the lessons you have learned than I am in yourself how long it is since you have failed HON. THADDEUS J. DULSKI the lessons you are going to learn And the at anything. If it is long, you are in poor OF NEW YORK thing that interests me most of all is how shape. If you are sufficiently adventurous, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES long you will keep the capacity to learn. sufficiently willing to try new things, you Some people keep it as long as they live. will stumble fairly often. It's the price of Monday, June 22, 1970 Until the day they die they keep a sense of growth. Mr. DULSKI. Mr. Speaker, the uneasy wonder, of curiosity, of zest. They care about Finally self-renewal depends on your mo­ truce in Korea is the subject of the third things. They reach out. They enjoy. They risk tivation. Have you ever noticed the enthusi­ failure. They discover new things about them­ asm and energy of people who love what article by Millard C. Browne, editor of selves. they're doing, or believe in what they're do­ the editorial page of the Buffalo, N.Y., You are very sure now that you'll be that ing? They never seem to tire. Now obviously Evening News. kind of person. But to estimate your chances all of us cannot spend all of our time pur­ Mr. Browne has just returned from a more objectively, have a look at the people suing our deepest convictions. But every­ tour of the Far East with the Interna­ you know who are 20 to 30 years older than one either in his career or in his part-time tional Press Institute. Following is the you. How many would you count as indi­ activity-his afterwork activity--should be text of his article on Korea, also his look viduals who are still learning and growing? doing something about which he cares deep­ at Expo 70 in Japan: Or to reverse the question, how many seem ly, something that is related to his deepest to have lost their zest for life? Or their values. UNEASY TRUCE PREVAn.S IN KOREAN BUFFER curiosity? Or their capacity to care? Or their One of the enemies of sound, lifelong mo­ ZONE 17 YEARS AFTER WAR willingness to learn new ways? How many are tivation is a rather childish conception we (By Millard C. Browne) trapped in fixed attitudes and habits, like have of the kinds of rewards life has to offer. SEOUL, KoREA.-It's a weird world we live gnarled tree trunks hardened into set posi­ We insist on imagining that there is some in, and Panmunjon is undoubtedly one of tions? tangible, concrete, finite, describable goal to­ the weirdest places in it. Now as to those who ceased somewhere ward which our efforts drive us. We want It's like the eye of a hurricane, a tiny along the line to be vital, growing human to believe that there is a point at which we zone of tense neutrality at the exact center beings, do you suppose they wanted it to be can feel that we have arrived. We want a of a war that still sputters occasionally and that way? Or do you suppose that they were scoring system that tells us when we've piled simmers constantly 17 years after an armis­ once as eager and open and ready to learn as up enough points to count ourselves success­ tice supposedly ended the fighting. you, confident that they would never be ful. The cloSest comparison to it on the other otherwise? Could it be that what life did to So you scramble and sweat and climb to side Of the world is probably the Berlin Wall. them it will do also to you? reach what you thought was the goal. And But Panmunjom is a far spookier place be­ My answer is that it need not Believe me when you get to the top you stand up and cause it is so much more remote and so I have the most profound respect for the look around and chances are you feel a little much more charged with the atmosphere of blows and defea.ts that life can administer. empty. Maybe more than a little empty. a war zone that is only temporarily quiescent And if you do not now have such respect you You wonder whether you climbed the between battles. will have. From this point every step along wrong mountain. A visitor gets the first real hint of this the road will give you a more tolerant under­ But it is wrong to think that life is a phenomenon after driving some 20 miles standing of those who have not made of their mountain that has a summit. It isn't and it north from Seoul through the rice-paddled, life what they had hoped to make of it. hasn't. Nor is it-as some suppose--a riddle _ thatch-roofed Korean countryside-at the ap­ But you don't need to run down like an that has an answer. Nor a puzzle that has a proach of "Freedom Bridge" over the broad unwound clock. You need not die before you solution. Nor a game that has a final score. Imjim river some 15 miles south of Pan­ are dead. You can stay alive in every sense of Life is process and the meaning is in the munjom. the word, until you fail physically. I feel so process. The really important tasks are never ONE-WAY TRAFFIC strongly about this that I wrote a book about finished-interrupted perhaps, but never Here was once a twinned span, like the it-a book called Self-Renewal. I won't re­ finished-a.nd all the significant goals re­ Grand Island bridges. But since one span peat here what I said there because I cede before one. In other words, with re­ was destroyed in the war and never replaced, wouldn't want to spoil your enjoyment of the spect to life's deepest goals, you never really a.ll traffic is a one-lane, one-way trickle over book. arrive. If you think you've arrived, it can only the remaining span, which has been stripped I pointed out in the book that we build mean that you are thinking in terms of fairly ready for instant destruction after a swift our own prisons and serve as our own jail- shallow goals. evacuation. 20864 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS- June 22, 1970 The road beyond is something one has to 1953 armistice made their irrevocable choiei long-hallowed Oriental life style in which see in a rainstorm to believe--a slippery, of sides and where, more recently, the mem­ the more materialistic West is taking ever muddy mess which, after 17 years of armis­ bers of the U.S. Pueblo crew crossed back to greater interest. tice, still looks as if it was built yesterday for freedom. ARTISTIC MIXTURE abandonment tomorrow. The temporary nature of Panmunjom be­ The soggy day on which our buses arrived came even more vivid by the evidence that The East-meets-West theme comes through the road was at its worst. It was in fact so the expectation of the Korean war's resump­ in many little touches as well as in the bad that an order had gone out to intercept tion is a more dominant reality than the over-all effect, perhaps, in the Gallery of our party of touring editors and to cancel the Korean armistice in the minds of the U.S. and Fine Arts where displays are beautifully visit. But the message didn't get through, so Republic of Korea (ROK) security forces grouped by subject or chronology but with there we were--with one bus already stuck stationed there. country-of-origin deliberately mixed so that in the mud and three others waiting for After 17 years, the entire forward area has a work you'd swear was Chinese or Persian military escort "up to the front." the uneasy feel of a. zone marked for in­ turns out to be early Italian, or a modern painting by a Japanese artist looks like a "AGGRESSIVE, ARROGANT" stant evacuatJ.on, while further down the r-oad to Seoul defenses bristle from every hill­ Jackson Pollock. Here, for example, some The army, adding a tow truck to our top. great religious art--Buddhist, Christian, Mos­ armed jeep escort, finally decided to give us While lately South Korea as a whole is en­ lem Hindu-is all displayed together in a the full tour-limited by agreement to no joying a civilian-oriented economic boom vast room for "Sacred Images" which notes more than 100 Panmunjom visitors a day and one of the Far East's fastest economic that "pTayer is the innermost voice of man­ from each side. growth rates (15 per cent last year), tfie kind." At a briefing in the U.N. command's joint nearer one gets to the uneasy border with As at Expo 67, no one in a day or two can security area (manned mostly by Americans North Korea, the more obvious is the pre­ see all of Expo 70 or do more than mere plus a few South Koreans), we were matter­ paredness against any new attack. sampling. Without a press card to bypass the of-factly told that this whole area had been longest queues, in fact, no more than two or and still was the scene of many armed con­ ROK IN VIETNAM three of the most popUlar pavilions can be frontations with the North Koreans~ "an ag­ If an invasion comes, how ready are the visited in any day, for the waiting lines gressive, arrogant bunch" who had started ROK's to take care o.f their own country? range from two or three hours at the Russian heating up the dormant war in 1966. Against a North Korea actively backed by and British pavilion to as much as six hours In 1968, over 325 North Korean infiltrators Peking, Moscow or both, they -probably at the American. (And how the people in had been killed and there had been some wouldn't have much chance without U.S. those patient lines must resent seeing the 200 allied casualties. Last year, 250 North help-and they might be quickly demoral­ privileged few walk blithely through the Koreans died trying to infiltrate the south, ized by withdrawal of the 63,000 U.S. person­ speciaJ. "Press-VIP" entrance I) and so far this year, there have been eight nel still stationed in South Korea. major incidents with 15 North Koreans killed But against the North Koreans alone, the MOST POPULAR-U.S., U.S.S.R. wil;hi.n or near the demilitarized zone along word we heard from some U.S. military per-­ The two pavilions that have caused the the armistice line. sonnel who should know was that the South most talk, of course-here as in Montreal­ Moving on up from the security area to­ Koreans could probably handle thexnselves are the Soviets and American. In part it is ward the DMZ, we passed the security fence very well indeed. The present ROK army was because they offer such a marked contrast-­ 16 feet high, tangled barbed wire on top, described as a far tougher, more seasoned quite literally the highest and the lowest heavily mined on the cleared ground on both and battle-ready force than any ROK force "profiles" at the fair, and also the most sides, heavily patrolled and intermittently in the Korean War. What has made the dif­ blatantly overstated and most modestly un­ searchlighted and stretching the entire width ference is the constant rotation of soine 50,- derstated propaganda pitches. of the Korean Peninsula. 000 South Korean forces between fighting in The U.S. show at Expo 70 gets the same mixed notices its Expo 67 counterpart re­ TRAINED BINOCULARS the jungles of Vietnam returning to Korea as training cadres. ceived in Montreal. Once again the American From there, armed jeeps bristling with South Korea's role ln Indochina, in short, presence is lighthearted and, to many Amer­ machine guns led us on into the DMZ, past is not just tokenism or a case of one ican visitors, seexns altogether lightweight. two spots where we were grimly told U.S. ally helping another; it is, !or the be­ Oddly, it got the best notices from some of armed vehicles had been ambushed and all leaguered ROK's a very practical training the European editors and publishers touring personnel gunned down, one of them only exercise, and one which may be doing its it with our international press group. last fall. part to keep the shaky truce of Panmun­ But while the U.S. pavilion drew visitors Passing into the neutralized Panmunjom jom-by convincing the North Koreans that who liked its subtle understatement, the zone itself, our first glimpse was of "Freedom their southern brothers are no pushovers. Russians 'aSsuredly attracted larger crowds Village" in which 200 South Korean farmers to see their far more massive glorifications of from the DMZ area live a fairly normal life, everything from Lenin's career to Soviet edu­ and, a half mile in the distance, a North COLORFUL, COSMOPOLITAN EXPO 70: JAPANESE cation and technology. Korean counterpart that our men call "Prop­ COMING-OF-AGE PARTY MOON ROCK, RUTH'S LOCKER aganda Village." (By Milla.rd C. Browne) Since both pavilions had endless waiting The next view was of a North Korean OsAKA, JAPAN.-After seeing Montreal's sentry post from which peered three sets of lines, the only reason the U.S.S.R. could Expo 67 and New York's 1964 World Fair, the show more of its wares to more people is that binoculars, giving our bus as thorough a temptation is to say of Japan's Expo 70: looking-over as we gave back. Then on to it has more fioor space and shoves customers "If you've seen one world's fair, you've through faster. a cluster of blue and white painted shacks seen 'em all." astride the armistice line itself. The U.S. pavillion's star attraction, of That, in fact, is the most common com­ course, is a moon rock. lt gets little comment TOUGH LOOKING GTS ment by sophisticated western travelers here. or buildup and needs none. Otherwise, the TheoretJ.cally, any authorized personnel But it's an unfair judgment on Expo 70 U.S. pavillion features none of our technolog­ from either side could go any place within for at least three reasons. ical achievements but has a fine collection of the armstice zone itself. Actually, we were First, most of the millions attending this modern photography and paintings, folk art, told in tones only half-joking that if any fair have not seen anything even remotely architecture and every sort of off-beat cul­ of us entered one of the white buildings, offi­ like it ever before, and this one, to them, is tural item. Catering to Japanese interest in cials would assume we had defected. a dazzling fantasy world. For a blase -visitor, American-style athletics, it has a marvelous Only a few days ago, we were told, one it's enough just to watch the thrilled hordes sports exhibit featuring everything from a American strayed a bit far from his group of Japanese school children, thousands upon Harlem Globetrotter movie to Babe Ruth's and found himself in the company of .four thousands of neatlly uniformed, well dis­ locker. North Korean sentries who were edging him ciplined groups of them hungrily taking it Over-all, the biggest surprise at first seeing toward their headquarters area. A burly all in. Expo is its sheer magnitude. Covering 185 American sergeant moved in and retrieved Seeond, even those who have seen much acres, it has 1.16 pavillions with far more na­ the stray visitor but got his nose bloodied the same kind of show at Expo 67 have tions (77) participating than at any other in the encounter. never seen a world's fair in Oriental garb or world's fair. For those who want to suit their The uniformed U.S. and North Korean Far Eastern context. And this alone has to sampling to their own interests, special tours personnel we saw generally clustered in twos make Expo 70 a brand new experience-­ for ladies, gourmets and art-lovers are sug­ and threes and kept a discreet few yardS ~t one far richer and more truly worldwide gested, as are a "peace-and-quiet" tour of apart from each other. The Americans, inci­ in what is being exhibited, and infinitely Expo gardens, a "children's tour" of play­ dentally, were an obviously hand-picked more ptoturesque, colorful and cosmopoli­ ground, zoos and such, and a tour of the sentry group--some of the biggest, toughest. tan as a place for crowd-watcbing and cul­ weird and unusual." most competent-looking GI's we'd ever seen. ture-sampling. Finally, there is an East-meets-West motif «o-SAK.-IT-TO-YOU., BESUJIIP'l'ION OF WA& here that makes Expo 70 unique. This starts Nearly every pavillion fits that category in From an observation tower, we looked with the theme itself, "Progress and Har­ one way or another, featuring some form of down into '8. valley where, perhaps a half mony for Mankind," since progress is an es­ multi-screen, multi-dimensional movie, usu­ mile distant, stood the famous "Bridge of No sentially western concept now being eagerly ally accompanied with a dazzling assaUlt of Return,.. where Koreans at the time of the copied in the Far East, whlle harmony is a color, light and sound on one's eyeballs and June 22, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20865 eardrums. All this flair was foreshadowed at of textiles there is another reason contribut­ physician. No trained general practitioners New York and Montreal, but at Osaka they ing to slow business and low earnings and are serving as members of the full-time really, in one wag's words, "0-Sak-it-to-you.,. that is the continued growth of imports. faculties at either of Maryland's medical But the people, especially the throngs of As you know, imports of man-made fiber schools (The Johns Hopkins University and eager Japanese children, seem to love it. Of textiles and apparel made from such textiles the University of Maryland). Hospital privi­ the 50 or 60 milllon total attendance expec­ more than doubled from 1967 to 1969 and so leges are gradually being withdrawn from, or ted, about 1 million will come from overseas far this year is 104% above the correspond­ not granted to, general practitioners. and the vast majority of the others are Japa­ ing period last year. IV. The dropping of the rotating two-year nese. They come from every corner of the We acknowledge your support and would internship has further diminished the young small Japanese empire, usually staying three appreciate your assistance in explaining to physician's opportunity to learn the satis­ or four days. other members of the House that these prob­ factions to be derived from comprehensive This exposition is, above all, Japan's own lems are not theoretical but real, not only medical care. national coming-of-age party-a display for in the Twelfth District, but in other areas of V. No financial inducement is offered stu­ all the world, but most of all for the Japanese the country as well. dents interested in general practice to help people. And so, for visitors, it is a great place We want to continue successful operations subsidize their education in this field. Nor to see not only the pavilions but Japan's in New Bedford. We feel that President are subsidies available to enable the medical interesting people of every age, custom, and Nixon's support for the textile-shoe quota graduate to set up general practice in de­ style of dress. legislation, which you and over 250 other prived areas where a general practitioner members of the House have sponsored, is is urgently needed, but where the com­ essential. Anything that you can do to per­ munity may be unable to provide a satis­ suade the Administration to support the Bill factory llving for the first three or five years. will be greatly appreciated. Yet these are the very areas where the family DMPORT QUOTAS ON SHOES AND Sincerely yours, physician may practice with the greatest TEXTll..ES K. V. CHACE, personal satisfaction and become a part of President. the community. VI. Only a very few medical students cur­ HON. HASTINGS KEITH rently are enabled through the cooperation of OF MASSACHUSETI'S NATIONWIDE SHORTAGE OF the Maryland Academy of General Practice IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to experience a preceptorship arrangement by MEDICAL PERSONNEL which the student lives and studies for six Monday, June 22, 1970 weeks with a quallfied general practitioner Mr. KEITH. Mr. Speaker, a majority during the course of his medical education. of my colleagues in the House have co­ HON. LAWRENCE J. HOGAN Some 40 medical schools in other states have· OF MARYLAND adopted such preceptorship programs with sponsored legislation to provide quotas significant increase in interest 1n general on the importation of shoes and textiles. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES practice on the pa.rt of the students. Often in committee and floor discus­ Monday, June 22, 1970 VII. General practitioners are being sion of such trade issues, the emphasis sought in communities throughout Mary­ is on the technical and legal aspects of Mr. HOGAN. Mr. Speaker, I recently land. The Medical and Chlrurgical Faculty these measures. The human dimension is had occasion to examine in some detail of the State of Maryland reports almost dally occasionally lost sight of. However, Ken the shortage of medical manpower in the urgent requests from practicing family State of Maryland-particularly as it re­ physicians who can offer associate privileges Chace of New Bedford's Berkshire Hath­ to qualified physicians who will help allevi­ away Co. has, in a recent letter to me, lates to the high cost of medical care. I would like to share with my col­ ate the shortage in their areas. The oom­ brought this a:spect of the problem into mlssion from its study and reports knows clear focus. To bring the seriousness of leagues the information I found. that a minimum of 200 general practitioners the situation in just one plant in one city It is my sincere belief that our Nation could be absorbed immediately and st111 to my colleagues' attention, I include may very well be in serious trouble unless leave room :tor many more. Mr. Chace's letter at this point in the we act to provide the support which is VIII. Unless and until the vanishing ranks RECORD: required to encourage young men and of the generalist are replenished, Ma-ryland women to enter the medical field. w1ll sutfer increasing demands on the emer­ BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY, INC., The information follows: gency rooms of all hospitals-demands New Bedford, Mass., June 11, 1970. which the hospitals cannot meet. Hon. HASTINGS KEITH, SUMMARY OF MEDICAL MANPOWER Most important the Maryland resident Rayburn House Office Building, INFoRMATION eventually wm find it impossible to have Washington, D.C. In my own State of Maryland the shortage his everyday medical needs attended to un­ DEAR HAsTINGS: As our Congressman, I of physicians was recognized several years less he is willing to travel increasing dis­ thought you would like to know about the ago and in the 1964 session of the Legislature tances to seek medical aid. business situation and employment at our a Governor's COmmission was authorized to The Commission made seven specific rec­ plant in New Bedford. As you know, we have study the shortage of physicians in Mary­ ommendations. I have received a report this operated our textile m1Ils in New Bedford for land, especially the shortage of general year from John Sargeant, Executive Secre­ over 80 years. Last year because of business practitioners. tary of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty conditions and the high level of imports of This Commission made its report February of the State of Maryland concerning these gingham, we were forced to discontinue that 24, 1965, and it stated in its conclusions the seven recommendations. I w1ll list these part of our operation. This involved the following: recommendations, and .flollowtng each the permanent displacement of about 800 work­ I. The number of general practitioners in report from Mr. Sargeant as to the action ers. We have continued with our two other the State of Maryland is decreasing annually taken in each case. divisions which make home furnishings fab­ at an alarming rate. In April, 1964, there were I. A large-scale Preceptorship program in rics and lining for men's suits. In these two 803 general practitioners under the a.ge Of 65 divisions, we employ 1100 people. Both the General Practice shall be instituted by the practicing in this State. There were 173 gen­ State Board of Regents and the University home furnishings and the linings are made eral practitioners over the age of 65 still in of Maryland School of Medicine in the aca­ of blends of man-made fibers. practice, but some of these have died or demic curriculum of the medical student. Out o! the last 13 weeks, we have been ceased practice in the interim since the last Such a Preceptorship program would be ad­ forced to close for a total of four weeks. authoritative count was made. Later this month we will shut down for an The number of specialists on the other ministered with the cooperation of the Mary­ extended vacation period of three weeks. Nor­ hand has increased three-fold in the past 15 land Academy of General Practice which mally, we shut down one week and occa­ years. There are now 1,920 specialists of all would provide ample, well-quallfied precep­ sionally two weeks. Following this vacation kinds in practice in Maryland, of whom only tors. period, we will operate about one-third of 165 are over the a.ge of 65 years. Action Taken: Started on a part-time ba­ our plant until August 17, 1970. At that II. The ranks of the general practitioner sis in 1968, full-time in 1969. The Depart­ time, we are hoping to resume a full five-day cannot be expected to be increased materially ment of Family Practice is now in full swing schedule for all our production workers. under present conditions inasmuch as fewer at the University of Maryland School of I want you to have these facts because you medical students each year make general Medicine. have sponsored a textile-shoe import quota practice a medical career choice. In. a study As an offshoot, there is a Family Practice bill identical to that introduced by Chair­ made in 1963 at the University of Mary­ Club sponsored jointly by Maryland Acade­ man Mills of the Ways a.nd Means Commit­ land School of Medicine, only 18 percen·t of my of GP and Family Practice Department tee. all the students completing the four year at the University of Maryland School of There are various causes for this lack of medical course had indicated interest in Medicine. This meets every month, and has business. The state of the economy is a fac­ general practice as a career choice. attendance of anywhere from lOQ-200 medi­ tor. As you know, the unemployment rate III. General practice is not a career choice cal students each session. in New Bedford in April was over 8% and because the medical schools do virtually J. Roy Guyther, M.D .• St. Mary's County, probably higher now. However, in the case nothing to enhance the image of the famlly is sponsor of this latter idea. Wllllam L. CXVI--1315-Part 15 20866 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 22, 1970 Stewart, M.D., of Carroll County, is in charge its primary responsibility would be to in­ and the University of Washington. Since of Family Practice Department at the Uni­ crease the supply of general practitioners in 1965 when the Duke program started, the versity of Maryland. Both are GPs. Maryland. school has certified 17 physician assistants; 23 II. The number of medical students ac­ Action Taken: No action as yet. more are in training. The Duke graduates cepted by Maryland's two medical schools I commend the medical schools and phy­ have tended to gravitate toward a hospital should be increased as much and as soon as sicians of Maryland as well as the govern­ setting, but the new University of Washing­ possible. It is urged that the Board of Regents ment officials who have all worked together ton program-called Medex-is pointing to­ take prompt steps to enlarge the enrollment to implement these recommendations and in­ ward using the physician assistants in a small of the University of Maryland School of Medi­ crease the supply of physicians in our State. town setting to relieve the over-worked gen­ cine to 150-160 entering students by 1969, The fact that the Legislature and medical eral practitioner. rather than 1971 as currently contemplated. society looked at this situation is something Other programs are being carried out at The Johns Hopkins University Medical School for which we can all be very grateful. the Cleveland Clinic Hospital, Alderson­ admission of at least 90 students a year On a national scale, I am advised that both Broaddus College, University of Colorado, should be maintained and hopefully in­ the AMA and the Association of American Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco creased to 100-110 by 1969. The Commission Medical Colleges have committed themselves Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Emory feels that an increase in medical students to meet what they describe as "the urgent University, Grady Memorial Hospital in At­ will have a direct influence on a correspond­ and critical need for more physicians if lanta, Baylor College of Medicine, University ing increase in the n urnber of general prac­ national expectations for healt h services are of Pittsburgh, and Ohio State University. titioners who become available. to be realized." The Department of HEW has established Action Taken: Maryland University has Both of these national medical groups have an Office of New Careers with a top priority increased its enrollment to the current figure endorsed the position that "all medical of developing programs for returning Viet­ of 145 in the first year class; is seeking to schools should now accept as a goal the ex­ nam medical corpsmen. It is estimated that still increase it. Hopkins has made no change p ansion of their collective enrollments to a 30,000 servicemen with some form of medi­ as yet. level that permits all qualified applicants to cal training leave the Armed Forces annually. III. It is recommended that ten (10) full­ be admitted. As a nation, we should address At least 6,000 of these have received valu­ tuition scholarships be provided by the State the task of realizing this policy goal with a able experience delivering primary medical of Maryland to medical students with the sense of great urgency". care during tours at remote duty stations, strict stipulation that they must then enter I am advised that most medical schools or at sea. general practice in a Maryland area where The AMA Council on Health Manpower has there is a substantiated need for family phy­ have been increasing enrollments, but some have not. Of the 85 U.S. medical schools in adopted national training guidelines for new sicians, such a practice to be maintained health occupations. An HEW official has in these areas for a period of no less than 1957, 67 graduated more physicians in 1969 three years. The scholarships are recom­ than they did in 1957. But 18 schools grad­ pointed out that evaluation of substantial mended as being by Maryland Senatorial uated fewer or the same number of physicians numbers of these special types of medical appointment. in 1969 as they did 12 years earlier in 1957. workers, under appropriate supervision and The reasons medical schools are not in­ over a five year period, is necessary to deter­ Action Taken: Tuition-free scholarships mine if they are indeed a permanent an­ were established in 1966. All are taken, so creasing enrollments vary from school ·to school. Some need more faculty or more op­ swer or simply a plug for the gap between that currently there are 40 such students supply and demand in health services. The now at the School of Medicine. The first such erational funds, or both. Some need to ex­ pand existing facllities. AMA coincidentally has a five year project to student is now taking an internship and will mobilize and significantly expand the na­ start practice in July, 1970, in Hagerstown. I believe it is of interest to examine the increase and the number of first year medi­ tion's health manpower working force, and Educational activity is being directed to the has joined the National Medical Association current scholarship recipients to ensure that cal students in this country. The figures sup­ plied me by the AMA show the following: in urging and approving action programs. they are considering entering areas of local Increased manpower alone will not solve need on graduation. Number of first-year medical students our health problems. But we will never solve IV. It is further recommended that the Year: Number them unless we have an increase in health two-year rotating internship be reestablished 1962-63 ______8,642 manpower. That is the first step. We then in all Maryland hospitals which have been 1969-70 ______10, 264 must face such issues as what type of de­ approved for residency training. . 1973-74 (est.) ______12,088 livery system is best suited for our prob­ Action Taken: No action as yet. lem areas, such as the crowded cities and the V. It is recommended that two-year gen­ The Federal Government has provided rural poverty areas. We must experiment with eral practice residencies be instituted for loans and scholarships for medical students changes in curriculum in medical schools to those who are attracted to general practice since the middle 1960's, although the em­ see if more students can be produced. We after this opportunity to survey the entire phasis today is on loans rather than scholar­ must continue to experiment with new health field of medicine has been afforded. Qualified ships. In addition, the Federal Government careers so that we can find out the best ways general practitioners selected with the aid is providing a substantial amount of money of using the skills of the physicians and and cooperation of the Maryland Academy of toward the construction of new medical other trained members of the health team in General Practice should be appointed to the schools and the construction of facilities so the most efficient manner, relieving them of full-time faculties of the two medical schools. that existing schools can expand their en­ routine jobs that can be done by others. Action Taken: University of Maryland Hos­ rollment. During the 1967-1968 school year, pital now has the two-year GP residency. I am advised that sources of funds for con­ VI. It is further recommended that State struction of medical school buildings were PEACEMAKER ON CAMPUS PANEL­ of Maryland grants-in-aid of no less than as follows: JOSEPH RHODES, JR. $12,000 and no more than $15,000 shall be (Figures in millions) made available annually for periods of three Federal (39.0 % ) ------­ $192.5 to five years to those general practitioners State (29.0% ) ------­ 143. 7 HON. WILLIAM S. MOORHEAD who set up practice in specific areas where a need has been shown. This stipend should University (19.0 % ) ------­ 95.2 OF PENNSYLVANIA Private (7.1 % ) ------­ 34.9 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES not be affected by the gross or net income of Other (5.9 % ) ------·------28.8 the family physician during this period, and Monday, June 22, 1970 shall be a permanent program until there is Finally, I would like to report that there no longer a shortage of general practitioners is substantial interest in the establishment of Mr. MOORHEAD. Mr. Speaker, Mr. in Maryland. new health careers and the use of the physi­ Joseph Rhodes, Jr., a native of my city Action Taken: No action as yet, although cian's assistant to serve two needs: ( 1) re­ of Pittsburgh, was recently named by the Hospital Council has a full-time person lieve the physician of some of his routine President Nixon to the commission involved in this manpower recruitment. Also, duties, thus allowing each physician to treat which will investigate campus disorders. the State has recently completed a one-day more patients per day, and (2) provide an conference at College Park on this subject of entry point in.to the health care. system in The President is to be congratulated utilizing returning veterans in all fields, in­ rural areas where there is no health prac­ on his appointment of Mr. Rhodes, a cluding health care fields. tionernow. very dynamic, aggressive, 22-year-old VII. It is urged that the State of Maryland I am advised that across the United States youth whose most recent achievement establish an office of Health Professions Edu­ there are 370 certified medical assistants, prior to his presidential appointment, cation for the purpose of recruitment, guid­ 100 having earned certification during the was his nomination as a junior fellow ance and placement of young people in health last year. In the past, the physician's as­ to Harvard. careers. This office should maintain liaison sistant has most commonly been trained and Mr. Rhodes has been widely quoted as with the medical schools, State Department employed 1n a hospital setting, although of Health, and State Department of Educa­ many officials feel the greatest need is in the to what role he will pursue on the panel, tion. But it should be a distinct and sepa­ community. which is made up of men many years rate agency. While this agency could main­ New types of health professionals are be­ his senior. tain control over scholarship programs set up ing trained in more than 20 current programs. His directness and honesty has already to broaden the source of potential physicians, Two of the best known are at Duke University elicited some fire from expected sources, June 22, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS· 20867 but Mr. Rhodes' candor augurs well that blazer, drops names so often that one is prove in one sense superfluous, but in an­ at first tempted to ca.ll him pretentious other lt could serve as a useful corroborator the commission's etrorts will be useful were it not clear that he is on very close of official findings or, should the thing turn and meaningful. terms with men in high places. out that way, as an equally useful source of Joseph Rhodes, one of five children of He has served as consultant to various skepticism. That is, such a commission has Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Rhodes, Sr., who Government agencies, often speaking with a highly valuable role to play in relation to live in my district, has done many things John D. Ehrlichman, President Nixon's a.s­ public confidence in official procedures and to earn the respect and admiration of sistant. He also directs a $95,000 independent conclusions, and it could hardly do so 1! its the people of Pittsburgh and elsewhere. study project funded by the Ford Founda­ own findings did not have to pass muster His work with the President's commis­ tion. with men and women representing the var­ He was born in Pittsburgh on Aug. 14, 1947, ious sides of the larger political and/ or social sion can only add to his sterling list of the son of a black steel worker ("I guess that issues at stake. successes. makes me working class") and an Oriental Sometimes, of course, all this merely re­ In his own words, Mr. Rhodes be­ woman his father met in the Philippines sults in the kind of tacit stalemate that is lieves in "revolutionary change with­ during the war. reflected though not acknowledged, in the out violence." He has four brothers and sisters who are no namby-pamby, on-the-other-hand prose we I would like to introduce in the RECORD less precocious. A brother, Eduardo, 24, was have come to regard as commissionese. But newspaper articles from the New York graduated magna cum laude from Prince­ often these commissions have turned up Times, the Washington Post, and the ton and is an officer in the Navy off Vietnam. some surprisi.ng conversions and have pro­ Manuel, 19, is a sophomore at Harvard, and duced some invaluable exchange and agree­ Pittsburgh :?ress, telling of Mr. ;Rhodes' Ernesto, 12, wlll attend a prep school tn ment between members who came to them appointment. And I would like to add Massachusetts this fall on a scholarship. And poles apart. It depends on the way the com­ my name to the ro:.;ter of those who are Teresita, his 10-year-old sister, dances with mission is mandated and run and on the justifiably proud of his accomplishments. the Pittsburgh Ballet. caliber of its individual members. We think The articles follow: The driving force behind this family is Mr. Nixon's action in appointing this young PEACEMAKER ON CAMPUS PANEL-­ his mother, Iphigenia, or Penny, as most man and retaining him bodes well for the· JOSEPH RHODES JR. call her. The day Mr. Rhodes was appointed first of these conditions and that Mr. to the panel, she called to encourage him. Rhodes's own remarkable record of independ­ (By Robert Reinhold) "A lot of people in Pittsburgh don't like ence (which has got him into disfavor with CAMBRIDGE, MAss.-To those who know him the murders on campus," she said. the hash-and-smash left) bodes equally well well, Joseph Rhodes Jr. is a complex, altruis­ for meeting the second. tic youth who is endowed with an extraor­ JOSEPH RHODES: WHAT'S IN A COMMISSION? dinary ability to come up with inspiring new "RHODES SCHOLARS" MAKE MARK-JOE SETS ideas and get other people to carry them out. The President is to be commended for over­ riding Vice President Agnew's apparently un· A FAST FA~Y PACE He is, they say, rather oblivious to the ameni­ (By AI Donalson) ties of lite, does not like to dance and some­ solicited advice on the fitness of Joseph times even eats candy bars for breakfast. His Rhodes Jr. to serve on the White House com­ The Big Man on campus at 1527 Oberlin St. friends and enemies describe him with such mission investigating campus violence. Like these days is Joseph Rhodes, Jr. adjectives as "charismatic," "brilliant," "vi­ the trustees of Yale University, to whom But he has three brothers and a sister who sionary" and "particulate" and say he is Kingman Brewster must account, Mr .Nixon might soon force him to share the spotlight. possessed of a leadership abllity that he evidently is not inclined to let Mr. Agnew Rhodes is the 22-year-old student who was feels-not always very modestly-must be start firing his appointees in public on his alternately honored and damned last week by put to great use. own motion. Mr. Rhodes, a 22-year-old Negro, the nation's two leading citizens. "He really feels he bas a mission in this is a junior fellow at Harvard and he ls given A week ago yesterday, President Nixon ap­ world,'' said Janet Stapel, an old friend of much credit for the peaceful institutional pointed him to a nine-member panel to study Mr. Rhodes at the California Institute of change (as distinct from violent upheaval) violence on the nation's campuses and to Technology, where be was a student presi­ that occurred at Cal Tech while be was stu­ recommend ways in which student dissent dent for two years before coming to Harvard dent body president there. Since then Mr. can be kept peaceful. as a junior fellow, one of the youngest men Rhodes has been in some kind of frank and Three days later Vice President Agnew ever to receive that honor. doubtless mutually useful discourse with the called for Rhodes' resignation accusing him On Saturday, be was appointed by Presi­ White House, and there is no reason to be­ of lacking the "maturity, the objectivity and dent Nixon to a commission to investigate lieve that John Ehrlichman or anyone else the judgment to serve on a fact-finding body campus unrest, a post that Vice President who dealt with him before his appointment of national importance." Agnew asked him to resign today because of to the presidential commission thought Mr. RECORDS r.MPRESSrvE remarks that he made in an interview on Rhodes a shy or inarticulate exponent of stu­ dent grievances. Upon his stating that he Rhodes' brothers and sisters aren't quite Sunday. ready to move in such fast company, but At 22 years of age, Mr. Rhodes bas accom­ wished to explore any possible connection between recent killings on campus and hos­ a look at their records show they might soon plished more than many men twice his age. be. At Caltecb be led what Prof. Lyman Bonner, tile administration comment on the subject of student protest, Mr. Rhodes came in for For example, Eduardo, 24, is a magna cum director o'f student relations, calls the laude graduate of Princeton University, where "Rhodes Revolution." immediate vice presidential attention. The remarks, Mr. Agnew said, displayed "a trans­ he was a scholarship student. This was ~n entirely peaceful series of Presently serving a hitch as a naval officer changes at the school by which students parent bias that will make him counterpro­ ductive to the work of the commission." He in Japan, he majored in political science, were placed on all decision-making bodies graduating in 1968. and an independent student-directed re­ therefore called for Mr. Rhodes's resignation. Transparent bias? The pri.nciple is a pretty Then there is Manuel, 19, a sophomore search center was set up. scholarship student at Harvard University, "I did everything to make Cal tech a place chancy one to invoke where commission­ making is concerned. Under it, we suspect, where he is majoring in Far Eastern phi­ of revolutionary change without violence," losophy. Mr. Rhodes said at an interview in his suite neither Senator Tower nor Senator Murphy could have made it onto Mr. Nixon's Cam­ He bas spent two summers studying in at Harvard, cluttered with old school me­ England at Cambridge University and has mentoes, and uncollected trash. bodian "fact-finding" mission. And given the Vice President's own remarks in Jackson, recently produced documentaries on drugs AN EMINENT MODERATE Miss., last fall concerning the school cases and communes for a local television station. In fact, he is given much credit by the Cal­ then before the Supreme Court, it could get Coming on fast is Ernesto, 13, who w1ll be 'tech il.dln1n1stratlon and faculty for the you to wondering what Mr. Agnew himself attending highly regarded Cambridge School fact that the school has had no student is doing at the bead of the committee desig­ of Weston, Mass., as a scholarship student disruptions. They say he was an eminent nated by the President to oversee the man­ this fall. moderate, despised by the radicals and black ner in which the court's subsequent decision Showi.ng great promise in mathematics militants, and they express surprl..se over in those cases (desegregate now) is being Ernesto bas been attending Allderdice High Vice President Agnew's attack. carried out. But it is plain from Mr. Nixon'_!; School here. He was regarded as a peacemaker, a role own actions e.nd from Governor Scranton's TEACHES BALLET he wishes to continue in as a member of remarks yesterday that the President under­ Finally there is Teresita, 11, who attends the .?resident's commission on campus un­ stands in this case, as Mr. Agnew apparently Colfax School. Highly artistic, she dances rest, and he bas vowed to get at the truth does not, a good bit about the composition with the Pittsburgh Ballet Co. and is al­ even 1! it hurts the Adlninistration. and the potential usefulness of the commis­ ready teaching ballet to younger students. He acknowledges that some feel be's "cop­ sions that are strewn across our political Perhaps most remarkable of all though are ping out" to the Administration, "but I landscape. the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Rhodes, Sr. can't afford that kind of pride when people Where the ordinary institutional processes Father Rhodes, a black steelworker, met are being killed." of investigation come into play-as would his wife Efigina while serving in the Ph111p­ Mr. Rhodes, who speaks quietly. but rapidly be the case with the Kent State and Jackson pines during World' War U . Called Penny by and usually dresses conservatively in a blue Stat e killings--such a commission could her husband and friends, Mrs. Rhodes 1B 20868 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 22, 1970 described by the :family as "three-quarters With a highly persuasive manner. He at­ Be it further resolved that a copy of this Chinese and one-quarter F111pino ... tributes his powers of persuasion to his teen­ Resolution be sent to United States Sena­ The elder Rhodes completed loth grade 1n age door-to-door sollciting for the Jehovah's tors John J. Williams and J. Caleb Boggs and Alabama and Mrs. Rhodes completed the Witnesses. United States Representative William V. third grade in the Ph111ppines. Roth, Jr. Realizing the value of education, they en­ Be it further resolved that the text of this couraged their children to extend themselves RESOLUTIONS OF THE SENATE AND Resolution be made a part of the Journal of "~holastically. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF the House of Representatives of the 125th PARENTS LAUDED THE DELAWARE GTATE ASSEM­ General Assembly of the State of Delaware. BLY ASKING THAT A STAMP BE "We're very lucky to have parents like DELAWARE STATE SENATE, 125TH GENERAL ours. They gave us spankings to study, PRINTED TO COMMEMORATE THE AsSEMBLY, SENATE RESOLUTION No. 131 spankings to practice our music lessons 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DIS­ and wouldn't allow us to play in the streets ABLED AMERICAN VETERANS Relative to the two Members of the Senate as much as the other kids," says Manuel. of the United States and the Member of "Sometimes we didn't understand, but the House of Representatives of the United now we appreciate it because we see where States from the State of Delaware urging HON. WILLIAM V. ROTH, JR. them to request the Citizens• Stamp Ad­ their motivation has paid off." OF DELAWARE The family lives in a comfortably furnished visory Committee and James M. Henderson, 15-year-old home in a middle class black IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Special Assistant to Postmaster General, Winton M. Blount to adopt a commemora­ neighborhood in East Liberty. Monday, June 22, 1970 However, Joe is still the big man, and he tive stamp commemorating the fiftieth an­ brings a most impressive list of credentials Mr. ROTH. Mr. Speaker, I have re­ niversary of the disabled American veteran to his presidential appointment. cently received resolutions from the Whereas, it has come to the attention of While a high school student at Westing­ 125th General Assembly of the State of the Members of the Senate of the 125th house, he was a member o:f that school's Delaware. I commend them to your at­ General Assembly of the State of Delaware championship football team and was concert tention. that the Disabled American Veterans Js cele­ master of the All-City High School Orchestra. brating its fiftieth anniversary; and At age 16, he spent a summer working on a The resolutions note that the Disabled Whereas, the Disabled American Veterans nuclear reactor at the University of Virginia. American Veterans is celebrating its was organized in 1920 for the purpose of Later, he matriculated at Callfornia Institute 50th anniversary, and ask that a com­ serving and assisting wartime disabled vet­ of Technology, studying physics. memorative stamp be printed by the erans, their widows and orphans; and COUNCIL PRESIDENT U.S. Post Office Department. I heartily Whereas, the Citizens' Stamp Advisory endorse these sentiments, and have writ­ Committee headed by the Special Assistant Within a year he had made his presence to the Postmaster General is responsible .tor :felt to the extent that the student council ten a letter to the Department asking the Department's stamp program; and bylaws were changed to permit his election that such a stamp be designed and Whereas, the Members of the Senate are as student body president. Formerly, only printed. desirous of having a commemorative stamp seniors could run for that office. It is my pleasure at this time to com­ commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of He was the first black and the first mend to all Members the full text of the Disabled American Veterans printed by sophomore elected president in the school's the resolutions which follow: the United States Post Office Department. history. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 125TH GENERAL Now, therefore: be it resolved by the Sen­ Using his office as a power base, he is ate of the 125th General Assembly o:t the credl.ted With persuading the school officials ASSEMBLY, SECOND SESSION, HOUSE RESOLU­ TIONN0.126 State of Delaware that the two members of to place students in all important decision­ the Senate o! the United States anC4 the mem­ making bodies at the university, and talked Urging the Honorable United States Sena­ ber of the House of Representatives of the the students into setting up an independent tors John J. Williams and J. Caleb Boggs United States request the Citizens' Stamp -research center. and the Honorable United States Repre­ Advisory Committee and the Special Assist­ His abilities came to the attention of Wil­ sentative William V. Roth, Jr. to request ant to the Postmaster General to adopt a bur Cohen, secretary of Health, Education of James M. Henderson, Special Assistant commemorative stamp commemorating the and Welfare during the Johnson administra­ to Postmaster General Winton M. Blount, fiftieth anniversary of Disabled American tion. Cohen appointed Rhodes to a. consulting and the Citizens Advisory Committee that Veterans. post. a commemorative stamp commemorating Be it further resolved that a copy of this When the Nixon administration took over the fiftieth anniversary of the Disabled Resolution be sent to the two members of the he kept his job and started working With American Veterans be designed and Senate of the United States from Delaware Robert Finch. printed and the member of the House of Representa­ EXPERIENCE CITED Whereas, it has come to the attention of tives of the United States from Delaware. Shifting into high gear, he also started the members of the House of Representa­ Be it further resolved that the text o! this consulting for the U.S. Office of Education, tives of the 125th General Assembly of the Resolution be made a part of the Journal the Rockefei.ler Foundation, the University o:f State of· Delaware that the Disabled Ameri­ of the Senate of the 125th General Assembly. Massachusetts School of Education and the can Veterans is celebrating its fiftieth an­ White House Fellows and was lecturing niversary; and throughout the country to business execu­ Whereas, the Disabled American Veterans tives and college administrators. was organized in 1920 for the purpose of He also assumed the directorship of a $95,- serving and assisting wartime disabled vet­ LOVE YOUR CLIENT 000 Ford Foundation study project. erans, their widows a.nd orphans; and Since his extracurricular activities were Whereas, the Citizens' Stamp Advisory encroaching upon his studies, he accepted Committee headed by the Special Assistant HON. JOHN M. ASHBROOK a three-year Junior Fellowship at Harvard to the Postmaster General is responsible for OF OHIO University last September. the Department's stamp program; and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Worth $5,000 annually, junior fellowships Whereas, the members of the House o:f at Harvard are normally for those who al­ Representatives are desirous of having a Monday, June 22, 1970 ready have or are about to get PhDs. Rhodes commemorative stamp commemorating the Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Speaker, Wil­ is believed to be the first undergraduate and fiftieth anniversary of the Disabled American liam Kunstler, the controversial lawyer the youngest fellow in the program's history. Veterans printed by the United States Post He is now able to pursue scholarly re­ Office Depa.rtment: for the Chicago 7 whose standing in the search free from academic regulations--leav­ Now therefore, be it resolved by the House profession is already subject to question, ing him time for his extracurricular activ­ of Representatives of the 125th General As­ has recently come under fire from the ities. sembly of the State of Delaware that the American Bar Association Journal for Rhodes has powerful political friends, such Honorable United States Senators John J. espousing a phllosophy of the practice of as White House aide John D. Erhlichma.n, Williams and J. Caleb Boggs and the Honor­ law that is totally alien to traditional who recommended his appointment to the able United States Representative William ideals. violence panel, and infiuential social friends V. Roth, Jr. are hereby urged to request of The ABA Jow·nal bases its criticism on like Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands. James M. Henderson, Special Assistant to He was a personal guest of the prince at Postmaster General Winton M. Blount, and the following statement attributed to a Zurich, Switzerland, foreign relations sym­ the Citizens' Advisory Cominittee that a Kunstler: posium two months ago. commemorative stamp commemorating the I only defend those whose goal I share. Rhodes is described by friends as a "charis­ fiftieth anniversary of the Disabled American I'm not a lawyer for hire. I only defend those matic," "brilliant" and "visionary" idea. man Veterans be designed and printed. I love. June 22, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20869 In its lead editorial in the June 1970 nearly achieving this ideal. But with respect The evidence they presented in their brief issue, the ABA Journal says: to representing unpopular persons, not just was extensive, and in many cases similar to poor ones, to be a "lawyer for hire" is a badge the evidence presented to you in our letter A lawyer for hire is available to the bad of honor. To hold otherwise 1s to take are­ of November Srd: for example, that avail­ and the ugly, the scorned and the outcast. actionary direction and cast aside centuries able scien.tiflc findings, some dating as far We know from long collective experience that of human experience and striving. A lawyer back as 1947, found increased incidence of many will go without legal defense or repre­ for hire is available to the bad and the ugly, liver tumors in rats which were fed DDT; sentation 1f they must depend upon finding the scorned and the outcast. We know from tha.t the National Cancer Institute recently a lawyer who "loves" them. long collective experience that many will go reported that DDT added to the diets of mice Some of the law's greatest milestones without legal defense or representation if quadrupled the frequency of tumors of the they must depend upon finding a lawyer who liver and lungs; that research by Hungarian have been set by lawyers willing to take "loves" them. scientists found similar results concerning unpopular clients. If the interests of jus­ the relationship of DDT and the develop­ tice are to be served, it could not be other­ ment of leukemia; and that the DDT level wise. of human milk exceeds the maximum level If those in other professions were to FORTY ASK DDT SUSPENSION allowed by the F.D.A. in cow's milk. take their cue from Kunstler-admit­ The U.S. Court of Appeals which heard tedly a not very unlikely occurrence--a this case announced on May 28, 1970, that HON. DAVID R. OBEY Agriculture Secretary Clifford Hardin must man could die for lack of medical treat­ OF WISCONSIN either suspend the registration of DDT and ment because he could not find a physi­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES stop the shipment of it through interstate cian who loved him; the unloved peni­ commerce or explain to the court within SO tent would remain bereft of sacraments; Monday, June 22, 1970 days why he should not do so. the student without charisma would re­ Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, I would like Mr. President, with that Court pronounce­ main ignorant, and so on ad absurdum. my colleagues to be aware of the fact ment, an executive decision can now be The ABA Journal's excellent editorial, made which would effectively stop the use that the following letter has been sent of DDT in this nation. "A Lawyer for Hire," follows: to President Nixon requesting him to in­ In 1963, and again in 1965, the President's A LAWYER FOR HIRE struct Secretary of Agriculture Clifford Science Advisory Committee advocated a It 1s tempting to pass over the seemingly Hardin to accept a U.S. court of appeals substantial reduction in the use or the endless public statements of W111iam Kunst­ order to suspend the registration of DDT elimination of persistent and toxic peti­ ler, a member of the New York Bar, as ill­ and to drop the Department's opposition cides such as DDT. The recently published considered indiscretions. His condonation of to banning the use of this product. Mark· Commission on Pesticides and their the mob murder of a policeman is only the Relationship to Environmental Health made most flagrant of an increasing flow of inflam­ Thirty-nine of my colleagues have recommendations similar to those of the matory remarks. either signed the letter or have indicated Presidential Committee. But unfortunately Mr. Kunstler 1s devel­ that they agree with its sentiment and Of great significance also, Mr. President, oping a cult of admirers rivaling-in behav­ would have signed if time permitted. are the findings just announced after ex­ ior and, one suspects, inte111gence-the teen­ I would hope that the Secretary of tensive hearings by the Wisconsin Depart­ age mobs who used to swarm around Elvis Agriculture would follow the excellent ment of Natural Resources on the subject Presley and the Beatles. He is more and lead of Secretary of the Interior Walter of DDT. more the spokesman for an approach to hu­ Hickel who last Thursday banned the use As you may know, hearings were held in man problems that 1s anti-intellectual, Wisconsin by that agency to determine frantically impatient, defiantly nonobjective on public lands of 16 pesticides including whether DDT should be classified as a water and intolerant, and eager for violence. And, DDT, dieldrin, and mercury compounds. pollutant and therefore subject to regula­ sad to say, a member of the Harvard Law There is now an excellent opportunity tions under the state water quality act. School faculty has been quoted as encourag­ for Secretary Hardin to ban DDT. I After reviewing thousands of pages of hear­ ing students to look to Mr. Kunstler as their would hope that any other colleagues ing testimony, the hearing examiner for the idol. One suspects, and fears, that other fac­ who are in favor of such action would Department of Natural Resources has an­ ulty members of American law schools are indicate this to the President. nounced that while "ingestion and dosage urging similar nonprofessional attitudes. [of DDT] cannot be controlled," minute In addition to his views on other aspects A copy of the letter and the cosigners amounts of the chemical "have biochemi­ of law and society, Mr. Kunstler has made follows: cal, pharmacological and neurophysiological a.n interesting observation on his role as a President RICHARD M. NIXON, effects of public health significance." lawyer. The following is quoted from The The White House, In short, he has ruled after much con­ New York Times Magazine, April 19, 1970, Washington, D.C. sideration that DDT is harmful to humans, page 92: DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: On November S, 1969, as well as to fish, and as a result has ruled "In Philadelphia, when he was asked if he a number of my colleagues in the House of that this chemical and one or more of its would defend the Minutemen on the same Representatives and I wrote to you asking rel·ated chemicals 1s an environmental pollut­ grounds that he defended the Panthers (i.e. that you ban the use of DDT, except in cases ant under the law. the right to violent 'self-defense') he said, where it may be absolutely necessary to pro­ We know that DDT is found in many sam­ 'No, I wouldn't defend them at all. I only tect the public health and safety. ples of drinking water. It is extremely harm­ defend those whose goal I share. I'm not a On November 20, 1969, the U.S. Depart­ ful to the environment, to birds, fish and lawyer for hire. I only defend those I love.' " ment of Agriculture announced that the use wildlife. And of great importance is the fact One can easily imagine the ringing ro­ of DDT would be prohibited for a number of that effective and economical alternatives mantic appeal of these words to a young, or uses, including i·ts use on tobacco, on shade to its use are available. at least inexperienced, excited and thought­ tree pests, for pests in aquatic areas, and for Mr. President, in your environment mes­ less audience. It has all of the right prose and house and garden pests. At the same time, sage to the Congress in February you said jargon-"shMed goals", "love" and "not for the U.S.D.A. announced that all uses of that "The time has come when we can wait hire". It plays on the absurdity of which the DDT would be phased out by December SO, no longer to repair the damage already done, New Left seems so fond, namely, that any 1970, except for essential uses for which no and to establish new criteria to guide us in cruelty or injustice or social destruction is alternative 1s available. the future." There is no single act which all right and even commendable, provided Despite that announcement, Mr. President, could better reverse past abuses and es·tab­ only that it is committed for motives other the use of DDT has not been curtailed be­ lish new criteria for the enhancement of than money-like neurotic vainglory or cause of a long and complex series of appeal our environment than a decision by you hatred of successful people. But most of all, procedures which are allowing pesticide and the Secretary of Agriculture to delay no to a lawyer the statement is antiprofessional manufacturers to continue to sell this pesti­ further an immediate end to the use of DDT because it scorns the "lawyer for hire" and cide in interstate commerce. It is believed in this country. The decision is in your suggests that it is noble for a lawyer to limit by many of us, however, that the Depart­ hands and we urge that you make it in his clientele to those he "loves". ment can ban the use of this pesticide im­ favor of environmental protection. All lawyers who can afford it do a certain mediately because there is a section of the Sincerely yours, amount of selection of their clients and law which would allow the U.S.D.A. to do David R. Obey, Henry Reuss (D-Wis), causes undertaken. Most lawyers prefer to so if, in its opinion, the pesticide presents an Emilio Daddario (D-Conn.), James De­ represent popular causes and prosperous "imminent hazard to the public." laney (D-N.Y.), Thomas O'Neill (D­ clients, but as a profession and individually While the U.S.D.A. chose not to act under Mass), Joseph Vigorito (D-Pa.), Ogden we know that our ideal is to provide compe­ this section of the law, several conservation Reid (R-N.Y.), Benjamin Rosenthal tent counsel for any person with a legiti­ grou~ decided to take the case ot DDT to (D-N.Y.), Michael Harrington (D­ mate cause. And the pressure for improve­ court. Their task was to show that DDT was Mass.,), George Brown, Jr. (D-Calif.), ment of the profession's service to society in fact an imminent hazard to the public Wm. Clay (D-Mo.), Edward Koch (D­ has been constantly in the direction of more and ought to be banned immediately._ N.Y.), 20870 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 22, 1970 -

Charles Wilson (D-Calif.), Daniel But­ and the now easing tight money policy to "THEY'LL ALL GET THE SAME TREATMENT; IT'S A ton (R-N.Y.), James O'Hara (D-Mich), take effect. He did, in fact, use a large part MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH" Leonard Fa.rbs'tein (D-N.Y.), Wm. of his time to chide and prod Congress to Since the execution of this first group of Ryan (D-N.Y.), Wm. Hathaway (D­ take action on measures he has asked for to offenders, the Iranian Government has had Maine), Abner Mikva (D-Ill.), Frank ease the transition from the supercharged more than two dozen narcotics tra.ffickers Thompson (D-N.J.), Joseph Karth (D­ war period to the peace period, which is pro­ shot. More cases are pending. Minn.), Peter Rodino, Jr. (D-N.J.), ducing more unemployment. Says a Foreign Ministry official: "We are Wm. Moorhead (D-Pa.), Allard Lowen­ These included a bill to strengthen the un­ very serious about this. We're going to ex­ stein (D-N.Y.), Don Fraser (D-Minn.), employment insurance system, a bill tieing ecute every one of them we catch. We've J'oshua Eilberg (D-Pa.) , Richard Ottin­ social security benefits to the cost of living, caught a woman smuggler. And we've caught ger (D-N.Y.), Donald Lukens (R­ a bill for more job training funds, and the foreigners. They'll all get the same treatment. Ohio), Gus Yatron (D-Pa.), Thomas Emergency Home Fnancing Act to stimulate It's a matter of life and death." Rees (D-Calif.), Jonathan Bingham the housing industry. The severity of the punishment underlines (D-N.Y.), James Scheuer (D-N.Y.), Mr. Nixon thus turns the political spotlight the Iranian Government's intention, since it Arnold Olsen, Jr. (D-Mont.), Paul Mc­ back on Congress where there has been passed its new laws last year, to deal harshly Closkey (R-Calif.), Frank Brasco (D­ grumbling that the President ought to slap with narcotics traffickers. N.Y.), Jerome Waldie (D-Calif.), Sey­ on price and wage controls. This he would Yet ironically, Iran is one of the countries mour Halpern (R-N.Y.), Frank Hor­ never do, he said, and talk on the hill of giv­ international experts are most concerned ton (R-N.Y.), Don Edwards (D-Calif.), ing him the power to do so is merely political about as they ponder sources of illegal drugs Henry Helstoski (D-N.J.), posturing. We think he's right on both scores in the years ahead. For hand in hand with its Members of Congress. and for tossing the ball back to Congress on new crackdown on smuggling, the govern­ the other issues. ment authorized peasants to start growing So the nation is still in the continued opium after a 13-year ban. This apparently PATIENCE WHILE THE BOAT price pain and uncertainty as Mr. Nixon anomalous decision could lead to massive COASTS IN guides his coasting boat to dock. But there production again in a country which was are a few signs he may turn out to be right, once among the world's leading growers and for which thanks be. There has been a slow­ exporters of opium. HON. EDWARD J. DERWINSKI ing in the rate of increase in wholesale food The green light has been given only for OF ll.LINOIS prices and a downturn in the prices of 13 in­ legal opium production. This is opium which dustrial raw materials. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES will be sold to the state, to be used for Iran's It will be many months before such fac­ own registered addicts, and ultimately for Monday, June 22, 1970 tors may have an effect on the prices in the export for medicinal purposes. supermarket, but Mr. Nixon thinks he sees a Mr. DERWINSKI. Mr. Speaker, a-very But, critics argue, there is always leakage light at the far end of the tunnel. Just be from legalized production. The United Na­ forthright and constructive analysis of patient. tions Commission on Narcotic Drugs says it the President's report to the Nation on is "very disturbed" about the Iranian deci­ the status of the economy was carried sion, which it terms a "sharp disappoint­ 1n the Thursday, June 18, Chicago Sun GOOD INTENTIONS NO BARRIER TO ment." Times. It is so easy for us to fall into im­ TRAFFICKERS Harry J. Anslinger, a former chief of the mediate criticism or praise of a Presiden­ American Bureau of Narcotics, 1s similarly tial statement so that a truly balanced outspoken. He says that Iran has a "moral HON. HOWARD W. ROBISON obligation" not to produce opium. He de­ opinion such as contained in this edito­ OF NEW YORK scribes the Iranian decision to resume as the rial is worth reviewing. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES "greatest blow to narcotics control" he has The editorial follows: Monday, June 22, 1970 ever known. This regret is echoed by Jean PATIENCE WHILE THE BOAT COASTS IN Nepote, chief of Interpol, the international President Nixon optimistically looks for­ Mr. ROBISON. Mr. Speaker, the police organization. He terms the Iranian ac­ ward to the year 1975 when the nation will fourth in the series of articles appear­ tion a "retrogressive step." enjoy a halcyon, peacetime consumer econ­ ing in the Christian Science Monitor de­ Mr. Anslinger declares bluntly Iran's good omy in which every American will have one­ scribing the international narcotics name has been "put in jeopardy" by its de­ fifth more of life's good things than he has cision to grow opium again. To this inter­ now. traffic outlines the problem of competi­ national criticism, Iranians are highly sensi­ But how about the weeks and months still tion in heroin production. In this article, tive. They argue they are taking careful left in 1970 and next year as prices continue John Hughes indicates that even when measures to control production. Only govern­ to rise at an annual rate of 6 per cent? I! a country attempts to stop its opium ment-licensed farmers will be allowed to this continues, a $20 bag of groceries will cost production, it may suffer serious eco­ grow opium. Police will supervise the har­ $26.76 by 1975 and $114 in 30 years. nomic setbacks when its neighbors pick vesting. The entire crop will be sold to a Patience, Mr. Nixon counsels. His plans are up the slack in the market left by its state-run monopoly. working out. departure. Mr. Hughes' message is clear: For illicit cultivation or withholding, the Mr. Nixon says his program to bring infla­ In government will impose strict penalties. And tion under control simply needs more time. order to effectively stop the growing as it has already shown, it will take extreme The mess he inherited will take more time of opium and the production of heroin, action against illegal traffickers. to clean up. In fact, he noted, some of the there must be international coopera­ Foreign critics, however, argue that de­ restraints on the heated economy have been tion and renewed emphasis on the en­ spite Iran's good intentions, a substantial eased and the nation is coasting in to the forcement of existing drug laws. amount will seep away onto the illegal mar­ dock of price stability. The article follows: ket. Turkey has a similar system of controls To satisfy those who think he should be GOOD INTENTIONS No BARRIER TO TRAFFICKERS on its licit opium production-yet Turkey is doing more than counsel patience, Mr. Nix­ a major source of illegal opium. Any increase on used his economic report yesterday to an­ (By John Hughes) in opium production anywhere, say narcotics nounce a somewhat mild program of "jaw­ TEHRAN, IRAN.-As the first light of day agents, spells more trouble for them. boning." streaked the Persian sky, the prisoners were So far there is little evidence that the A special committee will study produc­ led out. There were 10 of them: An Army newly grown opium in Iran is finding its way tivity; somehow we are reminded of Wendell captain, two lieutenants, seven civilians. in quantity onto the international market. Willkie's banner, "Only the productive can Grim faced, they took their last look at the But as yet the crop is small. be strong and only the strong can be free." soft hills around them, still swathed in morn­ The President's Council of Economic Ad­ ing mist. "WE HAVE PAID A VERY HIGH PRICE FOR BANNING visers will set up an "inflation alert", a term The firing squad was drawn up. At a sharp OPIUM PRODUCTION" that seems to be borrowed from the weather order, the soldiers leveled their rifles. An­ Last year the government authorized bureau's tornado alert. The council will call other order, and the shots rang out. opium growing on only 4,200 hectares. The public attention to significant wage and price The first traffickers to face punishment result was about nine tons of opium. This increases; such jawboning hasn't had much under Iran's tough new laws against nar­ year the government authorized an addi­ effect in the past. cotics smuggling had been executed. tional 6,000 hectares. With 10,000 hectares And a new board will review government Under this law, anyone in Iran caught car­ under opium, this nation is already back to purchasing and import policies and regula­ rying more than two kilos of opium, or more almost half the acreage it had under opium tions to see whether they can be adjusted to than 10 grams of heroin, morphine or cocaine, in the boom years of the 1950's. On that help the inflation fight. is subject to capital punishment. acreage Iran was producing between 900 and These innovations, if such they are, could The soldiers had been stopped with a mas­ 1,200 tons of opium a year. have been done at any time and are hardly sive load of opium-272 kilos-hidden in Beyond the prospect of new Iranian opium dramatic. The President obviously is still de­ their Army jeep. Then they tried to shoot seeping onto the illegal market, there is an­ pending on the slow grind of his fiscal policy it out With gendarmes, who arrested them. other, and ominous aspect. June 22, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 2087l The lranian crop presumably will make The Iranian newspaper Kayhan reflects Some foreign observers hold that the Iran­ surplus about 300 tons of opium a year official thinking. Says the newspaper edi­ ian Government has not thoroughly consid­ which has been flooding into Iran from its torially: ered the implications of its decision. For in­ neighboring countries of Turkey on the one "Iran has waited 13 years, during which in­ stance, the government talks of exporting side and Afghanistan on the other. If the ternational agencies and neighboring coun­ opium for medicinal purposes. This presum­ Iranian market dries up, here is another 300 tries have done nothing to desist. Iran has ably means selling it at around $10 a kilo. tons of opium each year available to interna­ lost a substantial market for medicinal Yet the cost of opium to the Iranian Govern­ tional buyers at cut-rate prices. opium. It loses millions of dollars in gold, ment is much higher than that. It was pique with its neighbors, particu­ which leaves the country to pay for illegally According to Dr. Azarakhch, the govern­ larly Turkey, that motivated Iran's decision imported opium. And drug addicts have ment is currently paying opium farmers to get in the opium business again. Prior to turned to heroin." about $90 a kilo for opium latex which is 1955, Iran was a major producer, with 25,000 The newspaper approves of renewed Iran­ still impure, with about 30 percent moisture hectares under opium poppy cultivation. In ian production, with strict controls over in it. On this basis, export is a money-losing its last year of cultivation-1955--Iran pro­ growing, collection, marketing, and export. venture. duced 1,180 tons of opium. Legally, and for "We w1ll cease," says Kayhan, "when our Some of these foreign observers feel that if medical purposes, it exported about 100 tons neighbors do so." a graceful opportunity afforded itself, the a year. That prospect is not likely. The Turkish Iranian Government would even now opt out The opium business was profitable for Government is on record with its intention of the opium business again. But with the some. Several wealthy landowners made $50,- to get out of the opium business, but illegal acreage under opium doubling up each year, 000 a year from it. But it was degradation production in Turkey will certainly continue. Iran is heading fast into big-time produc­ and hopelessness for many thousands more. The capacity of the Afghan Government tion. Iran had a staggering opium addiction prob­ to curb opium production and smuggling is The somber prospect is that the interna­ lem of its own. According to the Iran Medi­ limited. Even given the will, the Kabul gov­ tional traffickers will get their claws deep cal Association, some 1.5 million Iranians (in ernment is powerless to enforce such a deci­ into the country's opium business before the a population which then stood around 20 sion throughout great swaths of the coun­ Shah can get his country out of it. million) were add-icts. try where wild tribesmen reign independent. Outraged and concerned, Shah Mo­ So Iranian production will continue and hammad Reza Pahlaiv in 1955 banned opium increase, and with it a mounting opportunity production outright. His decision won world­ for diversion to the illegal market. DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN wide acclaim. In Iran it cut back addiction. If a halt to production is unlikely, one way REVOLUTION The Iranian Medical Association says that, to keep the crop down would be to reduce the though the population has increased, the number of Iran's addicts, and therefore the number of drug addicts has dropped from 1.5 demand. But despite brave words, Iran's ad­ HON. JOSEPH M. GAYDOS million to half a million. diction problem looks like one of some OF PENNSYLVANIA duration. But 500,000 addicts still need a lot of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES opium. And tragically there has been a sub­ The government has allocated $8 million stantial shift to heroin, made in illegal labo­ for the treatment of young addicts. Dr. H. A. Monday, June 22, 1970 ratories from illegally imported opium. Azarakhch, one of the country's leading nar­ The smug and conscienceless exploiters of cotics experts and a delegate to the United Mr. GAYDOS. Mr. Speaker, time and this situation have been the Turkish and Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs, says time again small, but active minority Afghan junk merchants who have poured 10 percent of all hospital beds are reserved groups have captured the Nation's news their opium into Iran, even as Iran out­ for addicts. headlines with their acts of violence and lawed its own production. Flocks of sheep, Even so, Seyd Mohammad Tabatabai, sec­ disrespect toward the United States and with opium blocks sewn into their skin, have retary-general of the Iranian Medical Asso­ its flag. We have read and seen where been herded across Iran's borders. Wild ciation, estimates that with existing facili­ the fiag has been burned, spat upon, or Afghan horsemen have come whooping over ties it would take 104 years to wipe out drug with opium-filled saddlebags. Whole convoys addiction in Iran. He thinks much more used as articles of clothing. of pack animals have been led across in urgent measures are required. He suggests But little is said about organizations darkness. the government should use the money it will who work constantly to instill in their Of course, Iranians are in the business, make from opium sales to finance addiction members and their families a love for too. In 1968, 15 illegal heroin laboratories treatment centers. their country and its flag. The programs were destroyed. Many more went undiscov­ The government certainly appears eager to and projects such groups sponsor are not ered. The ownership of some is said to ex­ reduce the num.ber of addicts. Only people sensational enough to make the head­ tend into the highest ranks of the Shah's over 60 years of age, and those considered to government. have a medical need, are permitted to buy lines. But the police are active in combating the opium, at 23 cents a gram, on a quota basis One such organization is the Daugh­ narcotics traffic. Even prior to the country's from government-licensed shops. Their regis­ ters of the American Revolution and its tough new narcotics laws, they were picking tration, which has been taking place this many local chapters, including the Queen up some 18,000 people a year for drug opera­ year, is a pitiful business. Alliquippa Chapter in my 20th Congres­ tions. In 1968 they seized 3,600 kilos of opium, One 65-year-old woman staged a sit-in at sional District. This organization has un­ and in the first half of last year alone, 8,840 a registration center because clerks refused dertaken many fine programs, benefiting kilos. There are wild gun battles as Iranian to issue her an opium permit without a gendarmes tangle with lawless smugglers photo. "I'm a servant," she cried, "I can't the youths and the adults in the district. trying to shoot their way across the coun­ work without eating opium every morning." On Saturday, June 13, the Queen Alli­ try's borders with loads of opium. In some, "I HAVE SMOKED OPIUM SINCE I WAS 20, AND quippa Chapter held its traditional Flag Iranian law officers have been killed. I'LL DO IT UNTIL I DIE" Day observance and Mrs. W. Donald It is this smuggling from Turkey and An elderly man said he had been an addict Watson, retiring as the chapter's regent, Afghanistan, and a real loss in hard cash, for 45 years. "I have smoked opium," he said, aptly summed up what the flag is and its that caused the exasperated Shah to rescind "since I was 20. And I'll do it until I die." relationship to the DAR. his ban on opium production last year. One With others, the government is taking a She said: Foreign Official, Undersecretary Fereydoun tougher line. Addicts in government service Hoveyda, calculated that illicit pur­ have been given a deadline to break the It (the Flag) is revered, not so much as a chase of Turkish and Afghan opium lost Iran habit. A government official who remains on mere symbol as for the principles for which $10 million a year in foreign exchange. Prior narcotics stands to lose his job. He may also it stands. It is our duty to pass these prin­ to the 1955 ban, Iran had been earning $40 lose his property and lands. ciples on to our children and our children's children. What we need most today is a show million from opium. Dr. M. H. Sahez-Zamain, The result is that many Iranian drug users chief of the Iranian Mental Health Commis­ of strength for those principles of democracy sion, sets the loss higher at $15 million a year. are hiding their addiction. They are not and for that one nation, indivisible, with One problem: The smugglers demand pay­ registering as addicts for fear of government liberty and justice for all. ment in gold. Thus the smuggling of opium retaliation. By March of this year, only 32,000 has generated another smuggling racket, gold. addicts had appeared for registration In conjunction with the Flag Day cere­ throughout the entire country. Dr. Aza­ mony, the Queen Alliquippa Chapter in­ The buyer must get gold to get opium. rakhch thinks the figure may go as high as "WE GIVE THIS UNDERTAKING: THE DAY 100,000. stalled newly elected officers and the in­ R. OTHERS STOP PRODUCING OPIUM, WE WU.L" Even so, that would leave another 400,000 coming regent, Mrs. William White, "We have," says another Foreign Office Iranians who until recently were drug ad­ outlined new means of passing on the official, "paid a very high price for banning dicts. Either they have suddenly cured their principles mentioned by her predecessor. opium production. But our neighbors simply problem or, more likely, they are acquiring She announced the start of a study group replaced us in the world market. Now we've drugs illegally. concentrating on American arts, crafts, started again. But we give this undertaking: Thus the prospect for a curb opium pro­ history and music. The chapter also will The day others stop producing, we will." duction in Iran 1s not bright. sponsor a naturalization court July 10 in 20872 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE June 23, 1970 Pittsburgh for persons becoming citizens National recognition. These youngsters Carlson, Queen Alliquippa's JAC chair­ of this great land. were Raymond Garafolo, Jeffrey Allen, man, and Mrs. Homer Snedden, the DAR The national DAR this past year spon­ Mark Karlinchak, Denise Gubanic, all of State JAC chairman. sored a contest, "Justice, Americanism Grandview School; Howard Leskowitz of Mr. Speaker, the JAC project is just and Character Yesterday, Today and To­ Lincoln School; and Toni Cyd Stockton one of many worthy undertakings of the morrow", under its Junior American of Eleventh Ward School. The contest in Queen Alliquippa Chapter and the DAR. Citizens program. Queen Alliquippa the McKeesport schools was conducted I believe they should be commended for Chapter participated in this project and by Miss Carol Reigard, Mrs. Edith Rei­ their efforts and interest in keeping alive I am happy to report a number of sixth gard and Mrs. Mary Lou McCain, work­ the spirit which has made America the grade students in my area won State and ing in cooperation with Mrs. Harry L. greatest Nation on the face of the earth.

HOUSE OF REPRE.SENTATIVE.S-Tuesday, June 23, 1970 The House met at 12 o'clock noon. PASTORE, Mr. HoLLAND, Mr. ELLENDER, Mr. the resignation or firing of Assistant The Reverend Stephen E. Schullery, McCLELLAN, Mr. MAGNUSON, Mr. STEN­ Commerce Secretary Kenneth N. Davis, pastor, St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran NIS, Mr. HRUSKA, Mr. YOUNG Of North Jr. He noted that this event occurred Church, Lancaster, Ohio, offered the fol­ Dakota, Mrs. SMITH of Maine, and Mr. at a crucial time in trade negotiations lowing prayer: ALLOTT to be the conferees on the part going on at this very moment here in of the Senate. Washington with the Japanese. Today, I love the Lord, because He hath heard The message also announced that the I note from the morning papers that my voice and my supplications. Because Senate agrees to the report of the com­ Secretary Stans reports some progress He hath inclined His ear unto me, there­ mittee of conference on the disagreeing in yesterday's negotiations. There is an tore will I call upon Him as long as I votes of the two Houses on the amend­ ominous ring to these developments. I live.-Psalms 116: 1-2. ment of the Senate to the bill