May 8, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 13665 program; to the Committee on Public Works 93-233 to extend for an additional 12 committee to conduct an investigation and and Transportation. months (until Juy 1, 1976) the eligibility of study of executions, abductions, and other By Mr. SEIBERLING (for himself, Mrs. supplemental security income recipients for denials of basic human right 1n Southeast MINK, Mr. WoN PAT, Mr. DE LUGO, food stamps; to the Committee on Ways and Asia by Communist forces against civlllans, Mr. CARR, Mr. TSONGAS, Ms. ABZUG, Means. mllltary personnel, police, and others; to Mr. BELL, Mr. DINGELL, Mr. GUDE, By Mr. OBERSTAR: the Committee on Rules. Mr. REES, Mr. RYAN, Mr. STARK, and H .R. 6851. A bill to increase the retired By Mr. DON H. CLAUSEN: Mr. STUDns) : pay of certain members of the former Light­ H. Res. 449. Resolution to declare U.S. H.R. 6843. A bill to provide for the man­ house Service; to the Committee on Mer­ !SOVereignty and jurisdiction over the Pan­ agement, protection, and development of the chant Marine and Fisheries. ama Canal Zone; to the Committee on Inter­ national resource lands, and for other pur­ By Mr. BELL: national Relations. poses; to the Committee on Interior and H.J. Res. 448. Joint resolution to save the By Mr. RODINO: Insular Affairs. great whales from extinction by amending H. Res. 450. Resolution establishing a By Mr. VAN DEERLIN (for himself, Mr. the Fishermen's Protective Act of 1967 to select committee to study the problem of METCALFE, and Mr. McCOLLisTER): impose an embargo on the products of all U.S. servicemen missing in action in South­ H.R. 6844. A bill to amend the Consumer foreign enterprises engaged in commercial east Asia; to the Committee on Rules. Product Safety Act, and for other purposes; whallng; jointly to the Committees on Mer­ By Mr. WON PAT: to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign chant Marine and Fisheries, and Ways and H. Res. 451. Resolution expressing the Commerce. Means. sense of the House of Representatives With By Mr. WIDTEHURST (for himself By Mr. BLOUIN: respect to the Cambodian and Vietnamese and Mr. SNYDER) : H.J. Res. 449. Joint resolution proposing refugees; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 6845. A bill to direct the Secretary an amendment to the Constitution of the of Defense to continue to operate and main­ United States to provide an alternate pro­ tain the commissary stores of the agencies cedure for the ratification by popular refer­ MEMORIALS of the Department of Defense; to the Com­ endum of future proposed amendments to mittee on Armed Services. the Constitution; to the Committee on the Under clause 4 of rule XXII, By Mr. WOLFF: Judiciary. 130. The SPEAKER presented a memorial H.R. 6846. A bill to authorize the emer­ By Mr. COLLINS of Texas (for himself, of the Legislature of the State of Texas, rel­ gency issuance of 2,000 special immigrant Mr. PICKLE, and Mr. WAGGONNER): ative to the use of natural gas for irrigation visas to nationals of Ireland; to the Com­ H. Con. Res. 271. Concurrent resolution purposes; to the Committee on Interstate mittee on the Judiciary. recommending voluntary agreements between and Foreign Commerce. By Mr. WRIGHT: the Government and industry for the devel­ H.R. 6847. A bill to amend the Federal opment of passive restraint systeins in auto­ Aviation Act of 1958 to insure the avallabll­ mobiles until these systeins have been proven PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS ity of air transportation to consumers at the effective; to the Committee on Interstate and lowest reasonable cost, and for other pur­ Foreign Commerce. Under clause 1 of rule XXII, private poses; to the Committee on Public Works By Mr. METCALFE: bills and resolutions were introduced and and Transportation. H. Con. Res. 272. Concurrent resolution severally referred as follows: By Mr. YOUNG of Alaska: concerning u.s. policy with respect to south­ By Mrs. BOGGS: H.R. 6848. A bill to designate certain pub­ ern Africa; to the Committee on Internation­ H.R. 6852. A bill for the relief of John T. lic lands and waters in the State of Alaska al Relations. Knight; to the Committee on the Judiciary. for national conservation purposes and to By Mr. OTTINGER: By Mr. FLOWERS: provide for the benefit, use, and enjoyment H. Con. Res. 273. Concurrent resolution H.R. 6853. A b111 for the relief of Mr. Ohln­ by present and future generations of certain expressing the sense of the Congress with Pao Shao; to the Committee on the JudiCiary. public lands containing forested, geological, respect to the United Nations position con­ By Mr. KOCH: scenic, historic, scientific, cultural, recrea­ cerning the discharge by pressurized cans H.R. 6854. A bill for the relief of Israel tion, and wildlife areas ln the State of of fluorocarbon compounds into the atmos­ Wald; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Alaska, and for other purposes; to the Com­ phere; to the Committee on International By Mr. SYMINGTON: mittee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Relations. H.R. 6855. A bill for the relief of Mrs. Hope By Mr. BEDELL (for himself and Mr. By Mr. ARCHER: Namgyal; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mlm:TA); H. Res. 447. Resolution to provide that H.R. 6849. A bill to provide resettlement adjustments of certain allowances to Mem­ assistance for Vietnamese and Cambodian bers, officers, and standing committees of refugees and for other purposes; jointly to the House of Representatives made by the PETITIONS, ETC. the Committees on the Judiciary, and Inter­ Committee on House Administration shall national Relations. not take effect unless such adjustments are Under clause 1 of rule XXII, By Mr. FULTON (for himself Mr. approved by the House of Representatives; 121. The SPEAKER presented a petition of CORMAN, Mr. RANGEL, and Mr. to the Committee on House Administration. Clifford Barrister, New York, N.Y., relative to STARK): By Mr. ASHBROOK: redreas of grievances, which was referred to H.R. 6850. A b1ll to amend Public Law H. Res. 448. Resolution creating a select ·the Committee on the Judiciary.

EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS "SEND THESE, THE HOMELESS, Vietnamese refugees wm be cared for in this they have either worked for or had been TEMPEST-TOSSED, TO ME" country. friendly with the Americans in their coun­ There is some degree of consternation in try, or they have been in a position to ad­ California over the fact that a large number vocate the things that we stood for in Viet­ HON. ANDREW J. HINSHAW of refugees will be landing through the ports nam. Los OF CALIFORNIA of Angeles and San Francisco, and fear They are in their present position because expressed that the refugees will become a they were friends of ours. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES burden on the state. It is ungrateful for us to start questioning Thursday, May 8, 1975 California officials make the case that the what is going to become of them and worry­ care of the refugees 1s properly that of the ing about their impact. It is almost as if we Mr. HINSHAW. Mr. Speaker, under whole United States and that all fifty states were reluctant to rescue a neighbor from his the leave to extend my remarks 1n the should participate in the program. burning home, untll such time as he had REcoRD, I include the following article State Secretary of Health and Welfare, given us assurance that he would not be com­ which was published in the Blade Trib­ Marlo G. Obledao, has wired the command­ ing to live with us. une on Monday, April 28, 1975, Thomas ing officer of Travis Air Force Base asking The number of refugees to be received and F. Missett, publisher: that no more refugees be scheduled to Cal­ cared for has not yet been confirmed. Esti­ ifornia untll such action be cleared with Sec­ mates vary from 50,000 to almost three times F'LEEINo VIETNAMESE OUR FRIENDS retary of State Henry Kissinger. A wire was that many. The urgency of evacuation of both Amer­ also sent to Kissinger. Florida took care of more Cuban refugees ican citizens from South Vietnam. and Viet­ We think the excitement 1n California than this, with Miami and Dade county being namese whose lives are endangered by the over the refugee problem to be a Uttle hys· the principal area for receiving the Cubans advance of the Communist northern forces, terical and almost un-American. who fled. has not given the admJ.nistratton ttme to an­ The Vietnamese fleeing to this country are Most all of us are descended from people nounce a settled pollcy on how the South coming here 1n fear of their lives because who left their homeland to seek a better life 13666 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 8, 1975 in America. And our nation has been enriched cek's letter of protest written to the Fed­ and at the same time extremely harmful by the many national strains which now eral Assembly and the Slovak National to Socialism, not only in Czechoslovakia. make up our population. Council. The letter was made available Corruption inevitably spreads in a party English, Irish, Scotch, Welsh, Germans, deprived of the possibllity of open discussion Dutch, Scandinavians, Poles, Italians all to the New York Times by the Czecho­ and of regular and effective control of even were refugees to America from one condition slovak Socialist Opposition Abroad, its highest offices. or other in their native land, which made it which attests to its authenticity. In the Fear for their means of existence leads desirable for them to leave. letter, Mr. Dubcek denounces the gov­ a great number of members to endorse deci­ Few, however, fied under the threat to their ernment's use of surveillance and harass­ sions they do not agree with. Duplicity be­ lives which is the case with many of the ment, and strongly criticizes party poli­ comes general. An atmosphere of suspicion, South Vietnamese. cies and practices that have developed fear, hypocrisy and pollee-informing is cre­ There will be problems with these people, since the Soviet-led invasion of five War­ ated. In that kind of situation it is impossi­ but they will eventually be relocated ble to obtain a democratic majority in thP throughout the United States it is certain. saw Pact countries on August 20-21, 1968, party, and therefore it must lack drive to­ But geographically it would be remarkable if of Czechoslovakia. It is fitting that on ward progessive development. they were disembarked in Omaha, Nebraska the 30th anniversary of the liberation of We have gained enough experience to grasp or Canton, Ohio. Czechoslovakia from Nazi rule, I reprint that Marxism-Leninism is not a blind These people are refugees in great part here excerpts from Mr. Dubcek's letter dogma, a textbook and a primer, in which because of us and our involvement in their with the hope that Czechoslovakia will the same prescription and procedure is given country. It is ungrateful and utterly inhu­ once again be a free country. The letter for every Communist party irrespective of mane to hinder their access to this country, is appended: where it is, what stage of development it has merely because it will be temporarily unset­ reached, and in what historical and economic tling to some regions. [From the New York Times Apr. 13, 1975] situation it finds itself. We know that We might consider the inscription on the ON DUBCEK AND CZECHOSLOVAKIA Marxism-Leninism is in itself a guide for Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, the At May 1 and [Slovak National Rising] the activity of each particular Communist first thing that many of our ancestors saw as anniversary celebrations, and on other occa­ party, even if it has generally valid maxims they came to the United States: sions our party leaders justly demand free­ and principles. "Give me your tired, your poor, your hud­ dom for the Chilean patriots. But how is I mention this because it is hard for me to dled masses, one to judge such appeals considering the bear being lumped together with party The yearning to breathe free, wretched ref­ things happening in a Socialist state under traitors because I, like so many others, dif­ use of your teeming shore, Communist leadership, aimed at other Com­ fered with the present party leadership in Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed munists, internationalists and patriots of our view of the implementation of party to me: their own country and party? They are part policy at a given stage of development and I will lift my lamp beside the golden door." of the method of governing a system of per­ the method of solving difficulties and sw·­ sonal power and are being carried out against mounting obstacles. hundreds of thousands of Communists with Under conditions of Socialist power and the aim of strengthening and confirming Socialist developmen ~specially in view of old practices, already condemned by the today's level of development and of the his­ ON DUBCEK AND CZECHO­ party and the Communist movement, which tory of our working-class and Socialist move­ SLOVAIGA have caused the Communist movement so ment-agreement with party politics and much harm in the past. determination of its correctness in the party During the post-August, 1968, period,l and society cannot and may not be obtained I. under the pretext of struggle against coun­ by force, especially armed force. HON. EDWARD KOCH ter-revolution from a sectarian position, ad­ It is totally inadmissible to achieve this by OF NEW YORK vantage was taken of the situation that had calling in "aid" from the outside, as hap­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES arisen to liquidate the official policy of the pened in August 1968. The enforced dismissal from the industrial Thursday, May 8, 1975 Central Committee of the Communist party of Czechoslovakia (C.C. of the C.P.), the and cultural spheres of large numbers of Mr. KOCH. Mr. Speaker, tomorrow Government and the National Front. This qualified people who have expressed and marks the 30th anniversary of the liber­ led to the victimization of not only ex­ continue to express a different opinion from ation of Czechoslovakia from fascism. functionaries of the party, Government, Na­ the leadership will continue to cause im­ Recently, the New York Times reported tional Assembly, revolutionary trade-union mense damage. The creative intelligentsia movement, the youth movement, women's are the hardest hit; the hands of those who that the Government of Czechoslovakia movement, antifascist federations, cultural can create and write are tied. The greatest extended a proposal to Alexander Dub­ and artistic and other bodies comprising the threat to means of existence concerns those cek, the deposed Communist party National Front, but also of hundreds of capable of creating socially committed works. leader, to leave the country. Mr. Dubcek thousands of rank-and-file members of the I think that the working class and its lead­ was ousted as Communist party leader party and the said organizations. ing role has been morally affected. I should in 1968 after his liberalizing policies re­ Furthermore, the official line of the present like to be mistaken when I say that the sulted in the Soviet-led invasion of party leadership still threatens their social working class, as the most important com­ existence and civil rights. Officially this is ponent and nominal bearer of power m a Czechoslovakia. Mr. Dubcek's notice of called systematic implementation of the Socialist state, feels that it is being thor­ expulsion was issued after a series of his party's leading role and restoration of its oughly manipulated. It has been deprived of articles appeared in the West criticizing standing and infiuence in society. what it regarded as progressive and has had what he views as a lack of political and Certain sections of the state security or­ a different conception forced upon it. Work­ personal freedom in his country. gans are misused for the conduct of 1llegal er participation in public affairs and admin­ If Soviet-run Czechoslovakia continues activities, and forces within those organs are istration has been reduced to a minimum to pursue this policy of expelling rather attempting to seize sole control of political insofar as it exists at all. than imprisoning its political dissent­ and public life. That is why these com­ In my view the most serious consequence ponents of armed power feel called upon of the present policy is the fact that the ers-in much the same manner that the again to direct their activities against the people have been deprived of the possib111ty Soviet Union ousted Nobel Prize winner "enemy" inside the party. That is why sur­ of discussing party policy without fear, i.e., Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn from Russia last veillance webs have been spun _and inform­ freely, and thus of making decisions about year-then there is hope that political ants have been planted not only where I matters affecting society. prisoners who are presently being held work but throughout our society. I am forced to conclude that the present by the Czechoslovakian Government This hinders the activity and the educa­ party line has been successfully imple­ would be allowed to leave the country. I tion and political work of the party, stultify­ mented, social values have been successfully have written to the Czechoslovakian Am­ ing its main function, which is replaced by destroyed, but none of the confiicts that led rule based on coercion. This is much simpler to the crisis in the party and society in the bassador, Dr. Dusan Spacil, requesting sixties (before 1968) has been solved. the release of Mr. Antonin Rusek and 1 The period after the invasion of Czecho­ [The party's development has been set Mr. Jiri Muller, who were imprisoned by slovakia by five Warsaw Pact countries, led back] not only to the stage prior to 1968, the Czechoslovakian Government for by the Soviet Union, on Aug. 20-21, 1968, but to a situation the like of which has not their dissident behavior and attempts at to end the liberal regime of Alexander been seen during the whole of its history. "ideological subversion." I have also Dubcek and pave the way for a return to Since April, 1969, the party, having failed to more orthodox socialism. The incursion was solve the existing crisis, has fallen into an written to the State Department urging later justlfled by the Soviet leader Leonid I. to even deeper crisis the seriousness of whose their supporting efforts obtain the re­ Brezhnev as the duty of socialist states to consequences it has not yet fully appre­ lease of these two prisoners. intervene to protect their system against ciated. On Sunday, April 13, the New York revisionism. This policy of limited sover­ I understand now more than ever that the Times printed the first of a three-part eignty became known as the Brezhnev system of personal power is an amalgama­ series of excerpts from Alexander Dub- Doctrine. tion of political, ideological, organizational., May 8, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 13667 cadre and other instruments and measures without a doubt one of the finest in Ohio status of the Cyprus negotiations: dis­ wielded primarily from a position of power. and the Nation is a direct reflection of cussions continue but no sign of com­ It is not enough to agree with this analysis: It is necessary to consciously overcome this the dedication, imagination, and pro­ promise comes from Turkey which con­ system, to thwart it through legal norms, fessionalism of this excellent man. I have trols both the talks and the situation on prevent its perpetuation and existence; we known him for a long time and am the island by its predominant military tried to do this partly. This method is in­ honored to have his friendship. presence there. compatible with Marxism-Leninism. What Among all of the many good things Until this stalemate ends, there is no is important is not so much the individuals that come to mind in describing Chet chance, in my view, of ending or modify­ and personalities who put this system into Roush, the one that perhaps swn.s him ing the military aid ban on Turkey which operation under the pretext of protecting up best is that he is a gentleman in the is now part of the permanent aid law. It orthodox Lenin!sm, threatened by various "improvers,'' although this factor is by no fullest sense of the word. To know him is up to Turkey to move now so that the means negligible. It is crucial that the very is to realize that he is a kind, warm, con­ June 5 negotiations in Vienna can resume concept behind this method of governing, siderate human being. This trait, to­ on a positive basis. based, among other things, on manipulating gether with his many other attributes, The Times editorial follows: the masses into obedience and discipline "in makes him what many of us believe to be CYPRUS REOPENING order that Socialism may not be threatened," the ideal superintendent. The results of the first round of Cyprus be destroyed theoretically, organizationally Chet has been engaged in the profes­ talks under United Nations auspices have and politically. sion of education for 35 years. He began been but modest: an agreement "in principle" I have written about my political reflec­ of the Greek and Turkish Cypriote represent­ tions and views also to show that I am not teaching in 1940 after graduating from Holbrook College with a B.S. degree. His ative to reopen the Nicosia airport, which a case for the state security forces. What I has been closed since the fighting last sum­ have written here is not and cannot be a first assignment was as a teacher and mer, and a decision to set up a committee of subject for political agitation at chance coach in the Salt Creek High School in experts-three from each community­ meetings with workers in the state forests Circleville, Ohio. World War II inter­ to study the powers and functions of a new commission or in the streets, or with the vened and }le went into the U.S. Army federal government for the island. friends I run into sometimes when swim­ Air Force for 4 years, rising to the rank The two sides are at least engaged in serious ming at Senec, or when I go to see my rela­ of captain. discussion of the critical issues-their first tives or the grave of my parents and brother direct contacts since the Turkish Cypriotes at Uhrovec, as the surveillance officers who Leaving the service, he returned to Ohio and moved to the greater Dayton unilaterally proclaimed their "autonomous have spun so many webs around me clearly federated state" in February. They have imagine. area as a teacher and coach at Randolph agreed to resume negotiations with U.N. If they want to know my views, they are High School in Englewood. Chet entered Secretary General Waldheim in Vienna in one here at their disposal; it is partly due to the Kettering system in 1948, went back month, by which time the group of experts them that I have expressed myself. The main to Englewood for 2 years in 1952 and in is expected to have some proposals on govern­ content of this letter is intended to show 1954 become a permanent part of the mental structure for their consideration. more clearly that my "guilt" (and not mine Kettering educational operation. During What was disappointing about this first alone) consists of a different evaluation of round was the absence of any goodwill ges­ our development than the one expressed in this period, he continued to educate him­ self and obtain an M.S. degree in 1952 ture by Turkey, whose army still occupies 40 the ["Lessons From the Crisis Period of per cent of Cyprus. There have been no troop 1968-69" 2] and a different view of the neces­ and also pursued further graduate work. reductions, no territorial withdrawals, not sity to overcome the lasting and deepening Chet's honors are understandably even permission for some Greek Cypriote ref­ crisis in the party and in society than that numerous. He was one of 25 American ugees to return to their homes in the north­ held by the present leadership of the party. educators who made a month-long study ern part of the island. Slight concessions in I reject the injustice shown toward me and of schools in the Soviet Union. Chet is these areas could have improved enormously comrades who think the same way, includ­ the climate for negotiation and agreement in ing even the use of the security organs. (In past president of the Western Ohio Principals and Superintendents Round both Cyprus and Greece. their defense it would perhaps be more cor­ The Greek Cypriotes, with Athens' backing, rect to say that they are misused.) It is Table, was chairman of the State Board have gone a long way to meet Turkish de­ worth mentioning that the President of the of Education Advisory Committee on title mands for a bicommunal federal state in Republic had the habit of placing transistor II of the Elementary and Secondary which the Turkish Cypriotes, who comprise radios at the windows before opening any Education Act, was a member of the less than a fifth of the population, would discussions. This requires no comment and State Board of Education Advisory Com­ control more than 20 per cent of the territory speaks for itself. mittee on statewide educational televi­ and nearly half the island's existing economic sion programs and was vice president and assets. Turkey might have shown its appre­ president of the Ohio Association of ciation for these concessions with some of her own. CONGRESSMAN WHALEN SALUTES School Administrators. He also is past Even after all the setbacks of the last year, CHET ROUSH AS AN OUTSTAND­ president of the Kettering Rotary Club, there 1s little doubt that, left to themselves, ING SUPERINTENDENT OF was selected as the Kettering Man of the Glafcos Clerides and Rauf Denktash, the SCHOOLS Year by the Kettering Kiwanis Club in chief negotiators, could work out a just solu­ 1968 and was named the Ohio University tion for the island. The trouble is that Mr. Father of the Year in November 1968. Denktash is held on a short leash by Ankara; HON. CHARLES W. WHALEN, JR. Chet Roush and his wonderful wife, and the biggest question still is whether Tur­ OF OHIO Dottie, are warmly regarded and deeply key genuinely desires a Cyprus settlement. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES respected by the citizens of Kettering. I am very pleased t-o be able to add my Thursday, May 8, 1975 sentiments to the many that already Mr. WHALEN. Mr. Speaker, I rise on have been and will be expressed about FAffi AffiLINE FARES this occasion to pay tribute to one of the them between now and the end of Au­ pillars of the city of Kettering, Ohiq, gust. We honor them for their contribu­ HON. JOSEPH G. MINISH Chester A. Roush. tion to the community. We wish them OF NEW JERSEY Chet Roush is retiring as the superin­ well in the years ahead. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tendent of the Kettering City School Dis­ trict, the post he has occupied for the Thursday, May 8, 1975 past 16 years. It is with no reservation Mr. MINISH. Mr. Speaker, recently whatsoever that I single him out as an MOVEMENT ON CYPRUS Station WPIX-TVof New York City pre­ outstanding superintendent of schools. sented an editorial citing the unreason­ That the Kettering School District is able costs incurred by persons flying be­ HON. BENJAMIN S. ROSENTHAL tween Washington, D.C., and the New 2 "Lessons, From The Crisis Period of 1968- York metropolitan area. 69," a document adopted by the Central OF NEW YORK Committee of the Czechoslovak party on IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES It incisiv.ely points out that Federal Dec. 11, 1970, sought to justify the 1968 in­ Thursday, May 8, 1975 regulation of interstate air travel can, tervention and condemned the Dubcek re­ and in this case does, help to set arti­ forms and all liberalization tendencies o1 Mr. ROSENTHAL. Mr. Speaker, the ficially high ticket prices, thus unfairly Czechoslovak Communism. New York Times today summarizes the burdening the flying public. 13668 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 8, 1975 I include this editorial comment in the tional women's group-the National As­ intendent of the William Union High RECORD, so that my colleagues may be sociation of Pro Americar-and also in­ School District. World War II came and made aware of the flagrant abuse of the eluded among their resolutions was one Dr. Morgan, along with thousands of public trust perpetrated by the Civil opposing Federal control of the use of other Americans, joined the Armed Aeronautics Board's misguided policies: land in our Nation. It is very important Forces to serve our country. FAIR AIRLINE FARES that we as the elected representatives of After this 4 year departure from his In New York, a person getting on an air­ the people keep ourselves informed on work, Dr. Morgan returned and became liner for a two hundred fifteen mlle trip the views of the citizens, and these two the superintendent of the Dinuba Joint to Washington needs a ticket that costs national women's groups are good ex­ Union High School and Elementary $33.00. In Los Angeles, a person getting on amples of how many of the people feel School District. Finally in 1956 he moved an airliner for a three hundred forty mile about land use controls imposed at the to the position where we find him today, trip to San Francisco needs a ticket that costs $18.00. The planes, the service and the Federal level. superintendent of the Jefferson Union ftylng times are all essentially the same. So, In my opinion, the House acted wisely High School District. you ask, why the difference in cost. when it rejected the Federal land use bill Mr. Morgan's work continues beyond Well, the difference is that the New York in the last Congress. I hope that we will his duties ru; superintendent. He holds to Washington ftlght crosses state borders, continue to recognize that such a pro­ membership in many professional educa­ and in so doing subjects the airline to the posal would violate the protection of pri­ tional associations; the American As­ ticket pricing regulations of the federal gov­ vate property rights that are guaranteed sociation of School Administrators, the ernment. The Los Angeles to San Francisco to every American in the Constitution. Association of California School Ad­ ftight is all within the state of California, so the federal government doesn't get involved The full text of the resolution adopted ministrators, to name a few. in setting the fare, that's f-a-r-e. If you by the Woman for Constitutional Gov­ Mr. Speaker, those of us in govern­ think that isn't fair, that's f-a-i-r, you have ernment follows, and I urge all of my ment, as well as the public, owe a debt to a lot of company, including the President colleagues to read it carefully: those educational personnel, like Dr. of the United States. LAND-USE PLANNING ACT Morgan, who realize that their job is not The White House has estimated that fed­ Whereas under Article 10 of the Bill of simply to get the students to memorize eral airline regulations cost the American Rights, Congress has no authority over non­ facts, but rather to prepare today's people at least one billion dollars a year, and Federal land; and youth to live and function within our has announced that it wm propose legislation Whereas non-Federal lands are reserved to society, and develop within these in­ which would end most of the government's the States and the people under our Con­ dividuals the desire, incentive, and abil­ Involvement in the nation's airlines except stitution; and for federal safety standards, which would re­ ity to make this world a better place to Whereas seizure of land is a danger of dic­ live. main unchanged. At the present time, the tatorial government, and federal government sets the rates, decides Whereas the adoption of Land Use Policy I know that Dr. Morgan's influence which airlines can fly where and requires and Planning Assistance plans would enable will never stop and will be felt in future that the airlines maintain their routes even the government to seize property under pri­ generations. if they are unprofl table. vate ownership and violate the rights of in­ The people who favor the proposed legis­ dividuals to own and control private prop­ lation believe that while government involve­ erty; and ment may have been necessary in the early Whereas compliance with this legislation ls days of aviation, the industry is now mature purported to be voluntary, but has also been THE CASE AGAINST COLLEGE enough to regulate itself, and should be al­ demonstrated to be tyrannical. lowed to decide on routes and compete with Therefore, be it resolved: That Woman for one another on the price. Constitutional Government oppose this legis­ HON. JOSEPH M. GAYDOS On the other hand, the people who oppose lation as violations upon State and private the White House plan, and interestingly, ownership rights. OF PENNSYLVANIA that includes most of the airlines, believe it Motion was made by Mrs. John Faulk, Jr., IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES would lead to chaos. They point to the fact seconded by Mrs. Ma.ry D. Cain, and passed Thursday, May 8, 1975 that air fares are lower now than they were unanimously November 15, 1974. in 1938, and believe that the carriers would Mr. GAYDOS. Mr. Speaker, we have seriously disrupt national air service by before us in Washington a bill which simply closing down unprofitable lines. $2.2 After considering the matter, the Manage­ would provide billion for higher ment of WPIX favors the White House plan. TRIDUTE TO EDWARD D. MORGAN education in the coming year, or· $228 We believe that competition between the million more than currently is being airlines would not only lower the cost of air spent. Should this increase be voted? travel, but improve service as well. We be­ HON. LEO J. RYAN We in Congress are well aware of the lieve that the free market should set the OF CALIFORNIA rising debate in the country as to the price of air travel. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES wisdom of pouring more and more money into higher education when thousands Thursday, May 8, 1975 of degree holders already are finding job Mr. RYAN. Mr. Speaker, on May 22. markets oversupplied. WOMAN FOR CONSTITUTIONAL 1975, the friends and associates of Ed-, Caroline Bird, a best-selling author, GOVERNMENT OPPOSE FEDERAL ward D. Morgan will pay tribute to this has a book out now, "The Case Against LAND USE REGULATIONS man of education with a testimonial din­ College," in which she purports to show ner. For the past 18 years, Dr. Morgan by facts and figures that higher educa­ has served with dedication and distinc­ tion, for many, is a poor investment and HON. JOHN H. ROUSSELOT tion as superintendent of the Jefferson that a youth would be better off finan­ OF CALIFORNIA Union High School District. His out­ cially if he or she put college costs in a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES standing leadership has been a source of lump sum in a savings bank and went to inspiration to all those who have served work at once. Thursday, May 8, 1975 with him. Under his guidance these men Miss Bird's figures are convincing pro­ Mr. ROUSSELOT. Mr. Speaker, ana­ and women have worked to change the viding monetary reward is the chief aim tional women's group, the Woman for classrooms into vibrant centers of hu­ of higher education. I dispute this. Col­ Constitutional Government, passed a res­ man experiences. lege, in my judgment, is a means not only olution on November 15, 1974 opposing Superintendent Morgan has worked of preparing the student for a meaning­ the imposition by the Federal Govern­ his entire life preparing our youth to ful job, if one can be found, but also of ment of land use regulations. face the challenges of tomorrow. He be­ producing a more well-rounded person, This resolution was passed at the gan his professional career in 1937 as a one able to live a full, intelligent and in­ 36 State group's national convention teacher with the Oakdale Union High teresting life. which was held in Sherman Oaks, Caltf., School District. He soon took on the re­ We are fortunate in having opened the and it passed unanimously. sponsibilities of dean of boys and vice way to higher education to most young As the Members of this body will recall, principal. Then in 1941 Dr. Morgan be­ people who desire it. With governmental several weeks ago I placed in the RECORD gan a new phase in his career and be­ grants, student aid loans, and various the resolutions adopted by another na- came an administrator, district super- scholarships provided by the private sec- May 8, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 13669 tor, foundations and the schools them­ I know the Members of Congress will profits tax on oil compa.nlles. He also recom­ selves, most every young American can want to join me today in acknowledging mends incentives for conversion from petro­ develop his or her potential to the fullest. Hugh Conner's retirement from the leum and natural gas to co211 and other en­ ergy sources. The President thinks that the I am glad of this because, no matter broadcasting industry and to wish him plan proposed by Congressman mlma.n what the state of the current job market, and his lovely wife, Mary, and their fam­ would not cut imports of oil sharply enough, we are creating a nation with a high ily years of continued good health and and th81t hili plan concentrates too heavily percentage of educated people--citizens, happiness. on reducing gasoline consumption r21ther indeed, capable of discharging thought­ than the consumption of aJl fuels. fully the immense obligations of adem­ ------One group of Congressmen wants govern­ ocratic society. This to me is assurance LEE HAMILTON'S APRIL 23 WASH­ ment controls retained and prices rolled of a good national future and a better INGTON REPORT, "ENERGY" back, rather than having prices rise. They would curb oil imports directly by fixing life in time for everyone. quotas which would cut the amount of fuel It would be a disaster, in my mind, to ava.tlable in the country. The problem is how have this trend arrested or the present HON. LEE H. HAMILTON to adjust to reduced supply and how to educational opportunities diminished by OF INDIANA handle the government intervention in the a failure of the Federal Government to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES economy it entails. do its part. Congress must find the pre­ The major controversy about energy pollcy cise point where programs of higher edu­ Thursday, May 8, 1975 centers around the suggested increase in cation meet the long-range need and Mr. HAMILTON, Mr. Speaker, under the retail gasoline tax, but there are plenty see that they are maintained there. leave to extend my remarks 1n the REc­ of other areas of disagreement, including whether or not impose oil import quotas, ORD, I include my April 23 Washington to the extent to which the President should report, "Energy": have broad emergency standby power to deal ENERGY with future energy shortages, how tough to THE RETIREMENT OF HUGH J. The development of an effective and equi­ be on the automobile industry to improve CONNER table energy policy is one of the top priori­ fuel efficiency in new cars, and to what ex­ ties facing the 94th Congress. tent we should deregulate the federa.l inter­ There is basic agreement between the state prtce controls on na.tura.l gas. HON. JOSEPH M. McDADE President and the Congress that the prob­ In developing an energy policy, the Con­ lem is how to cut back oil imports to reduce gress has no easy choices. Everyone wants OF PENNSYLVANIA the growing control oil producing countries to save energy, but everyone wants someone IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES have over our economy and security. We now else to do the saving. I agree that in OT"der Thursday, May 8, 1975 import about 40% of the on we use, and at to reduce nS~tional vulnerability to eco­ present rates of production and demand the nomic disruption, dependence on foreign on Mr. McDADE. Mr. Speaker, the radio percentage will rise to 50% by 1980. In 1970 must be reduced. I support the enactm.en~ broadcasting industry in northeastern we paid $3 btllion for imported oil. Last year of a comprehensive energy program to curb Pennsylvania is about to lose one of its we paid $24 billion. That means, not only a energy waste and reduce its consumption 1n most active and popular personalities massive outflow of dollars, but a loss of busi­ a manner which w1ll not make worse either ness and jobs. It also means th81t the United inflation or recession. The energy program with the news that Hugh J. Conner will States becomes more vulnerable to pressure should take effect only gradually, allowing retire as station manager at Radio WEJL from the oll exporting nations. persons, famtltes, and businesses time to ad­ in Scranton effective on May 9. Just about everyone in the Administration just. Emphasis must be placed on conserva­ Hugh Conner is one of Scranton's fore­ and the Congress has been involved in devel­ tion now, and every effor:t must be made to most radio personalities and he is also oping an energy plan. More than 600 energy expand domestic supply a! energy. one of Scranton's most notable citizens. bills have been introduced in Congress so far I would hope to be able to avoid ration­ Hugh's career and the success of WEJL this year. The goal of all of the major energy ing by a program designed to decrease the proposals is to reduce energy consumption amount of foreign oil at the approxim.a.te have gone hand in hand since he first and to expand domestic production in order joined WEJL as staff announcer 27 years rate that conserva.tion, conversion, and alter­ to lessen U.S. dependence on foreign sources, nS~te supply programs resul·t in decreased ago. However, the timing and methods used to consumption of foreign oil. Special consider­ Since that time he has moved up the achieve these goals vary. ation would have to be made for farming ladder to program director, sales man­ The President, whose plan basically is to and other essential pursuit.e. I do not con­ ager, and finally general manager, a po­ reduce energy consumption by increasing the sider it desirable to increase the cost of the sition he has held for the past 9 years. price of fuel, recommends an increase in on basic amount of gasoline that drivers need. ' His activities in the communications import fees, a. $2 excise tax on domestic crude I do consider it necessary to make automo­ field have won him statewide recognition. oil, and decontrol of domestic oil prices. He bUes more efficient in use a! gasoline and to Hugh has served the Pennsylvania supports the deregulation of natural gas make buildings less wa.stefui a! energy, and price, coupled with an excise tax on natural to educate the public on the need for, and Broadeasters Association, as first vice gas, and a windfall profits tax if domestic the means of achieving, energy conservation. president, member of its board of direc­ prices are decontrolled. He also recommends tors, and convention chairman for its an­ the development of the naval petroleum re­ nual statewide convention. serves, continuation of the leasing pollcy for Closer to home, Hugh has embodied outer continental shelf areas, conversion of HAPPY BffiTHDAY SPEAKER the concept that radio communications electric power plants from oil to coal, enact­ ment of a less-restrictive strip mining bill, ALBERT and public service go hand in hand. He a relaxation of clean air standards, and emer­ has given his time and talents to every gency standby authority. charitable and civic improvement orga­ Critics of the President's proposa.l com­ HON. CHARLES J. CARNEY nization imaginable including service as plain that it would add to inflation, and the OF OHIO a. member of the board of directors of President's own economists admit that it IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the Scranton Red Cross, Lackawanna would add two percentage points to the in­ United Fund, American Cancer Society, flation rate. They also say that the President's Thursday, May 8, 1975 plan is more than the economy can bear this Mr. CARNEY. Mr. Speaker, today we Heart Association, the University of year until it works its way out of the reces­ Scranton's Purple Club, the Young Mu­ sion. honor the prestigious and honorable sicians Society, and countless other or­ Ways and Means Committee Chairma.n Speaker of the House, CARL B. ALBERT. ganizations that have contributed much ffilman has recommended import quotas on Speaker ALBERT was born May 10, 1908, to the civic and charitable resources of petroleum and a 7 cents per gallon retail on a farm near McAlester, Okla. He was the city of Scranton. ' gasoline tax beg'inJDing tn 1976 and risdng 1n the oldest of five chfldren of his humble In 1967 Hugh was appointed by former stages to 37 cents by April 1980. He also and hard-working parents, Ernest Governor Shafer as sectional chairman proposes an income tax credlit which would Homer and Leona Ann Albert. of a 14-county area study on vocational oompl~ly offset the tax on 9 gallons a week, and the creaotion of a ten-year energy Speaker ALBERT attended the Univer­ rehabilitation. Hugh has also developed trust fund created by revenue from the gaso­ sity of Oklahoma, graduating with a a reputation as one of the area's out­ llne ta.x 'to finance energy research. He sup­ B.A. 1n government in 1931, after dis­ standing toastmasters, MC's, and author­ ports an excise tax on ca.rs based on m:Ues tinguishing himself as a member of Phi ities on radio programing and produc­ per ga.llon, an import licensing system using Beta Kappa and Kappa Alpha, president tion. a sealed-Ibid publll.c auction. and a w1ndfa.ll of the university student senate, and 13670 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 8, 1975 winner of a nationwide oratorical com­ Romania without raising the issue of na­ One Peortan telephoned the Journal Star petition. Frc.m 1931 to 1934, he was a tional and political discrimination a couple of weeks ago to shout that he hoped against the almost 3 million Hungarians that the first plane-load. of Vietnamese or­ Rhodes scholar at Oxford University in phans would be shot down. I wonder how he England, where he graduated with a B.A. in Romania. felt the next day when one such plane filled and B.C.L. in law. with children did crash. He served in the Army in the Pacific I also wonder whether the sydicated. car­ theater in World War ll, holding the "THE REFUGEE REACTION: SICK toonists who have caricatured the refugees rank of colonel, and also practiced law HEARTS AND MINDS" from Vietnam as torturers, deserters, thieves. before his election to Congress. and prostitutes are going to feel when they Elected to the 80th Congress, Speaker look back on their sick production during ALBERT has represented the Third Con­ HON. ROBERT H. MICHEL the last days of Saigon. OF ILLINOIS The negative comments gathered by the gressional District of Oklahoma continu­ Associated Press from politicl.a.ns and some ously since 1947, and has served in the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES unidentified citizens in California, Florida, House of Representatives longer than Thursday, May 8, 1975 and Arkansas where receiving camps have any other Oklahoman. He served as been set up at milltary bases were shocking Mr. MICHEL. Mr. Speaker, in the last illustrations of selfishness and bigotry. House majority whip from the 84th Con­ several days there has been much discus­ gress through the first session of the How different the America we are living in sion, a great deal of it profoundly dis­ today seems from the America which opened 87th, and then as House majority leader tressing, about the plight of the thou­ its arms to the refugees from the crushed from January 1962 until chosen Speaker. sands of refugees from South Vietnam Hungarian revolution in 19561 On January 21, 1971, CARL ALBERT was who are now in our country. In the face of so much cynicism about elected 46th Speaker of the U.S. House The distressing part of the discussion "Operation New Life"-that's what Vietnam­ of Representatives. ese resettlement program is being called-it has been coming from certain segments may be useful to look back to "Operation At this time, I would like to com­ of the population, aided and abetted, mend the record of the Speaker on the Safe Haven ..-the name which was applied to very unfortunately, by a number of na­ the Hungarian refugee program. occasion of his 67th birthday, and to ex­ tional leaders, particularly within the Here in Peoria the news of the Christmas press my admiration for his notable per­ Congress. season of 1956 was dominated by st.ory after formance in office. Since entering this It is my sincere conviction that the story about the extraordinary efforts which body some 28 years ago, he has won rec­ American people as a whole do not share the Local citizenry was making to help a ognition as a practical man of affairs, an plane-load of 77 Hungarian refugees who the sentiments of some of the hotheads landed at the Greater Peorta Airport on expert organizer, and, above all else, a who have been shouting that these peo­ man of his word. Throughout his long Dec. 18. ple are not welcome here. Indeed, I was There had been, prior to that arrival, a and distinguished career, Speaker AL­ gratified to learn yesterday that the virt ual contest between Peoria and other BERT has admirably represented the best State Department has been literally cities in America over who would get the interests of both his district and his flooded with calls from citizens asking first plane-loads of those "freedom fighters .. country in the House of Representatives. how they can help the refugees, and in who had fled from the Russian tanks which crushed what had been the first revolution many instances specifically offering em­ against a Communist regime. ployment, housing and other assistance Four hundred people had crowded into the THE SITUATION OF THE HUNGAR­ to them. LaSalle Room of the Hotel Pere Marquette IANS IN ROMANIA That is the American spirit, the true on DeVietnam war. not hold much promise. a period of stabilization between 1968 I was proud to read a very statesman­ What is t he difference between the Hun­ and 1972, a new repressive cycle started like editorial in my hometown news­ garians who had t.o flee Communism in 1956 in 1974. paper, the Peoria Journal Star this week, and t he Vietnamese who had to flee this Hungarians in Romania were once and I include this editorial, written by week? And what is t he difference between again finding it almost impossible to set­ Associate Editor Tom Pugh, in the the hearts and min ds of Americans of 1956 tle and earn a living without some offi­ RECORD. and Americans of today? cial interference. In addition, Hungarian I It would take a book t o answer those ques­ also include in the RECORD an ar­ tions, and much of that book would be a churches, private archives, and libraries ticle which appeared in the Chicago Tri­ history of what happened to us and the were being confiscated while the school bune, by the political writer Mike Kil­ Vietnamese we urged to resist Communism system suppressed the very being of Hun­ lian. This article uses a heavy dose of and tried so hard to help for so long. garian language and culture. sarcasm to make the same point, and The end or that book can't be written, These complaints are manifold and in­ very effectively at that. The articles fol­ because the story isn't over. How it comes creasing. They are significant, however, low: out will depend u pon what Amertcans do in in view of the President's recent request [From the Peoria (ID.) Journal Star, May 2, the da ys ahead in respect to the Vietnamese to Congress to grant Romania the most­ 1975] refugees who n eed help. favored-nation clause under the trade THE REFUGEE REACTION: SICK HEARTS AND If the recriminations which began with agreement of April 5, 1975. I suggest, Mr. MINDs their evacuations continue and more of us Speaker, we must be careful to remind There has been something sick about the do not respond with compassion, 1975 will the administration that we should not reactions some Americans have been making be a darker spot in American history than extend major economic concessions to to the Vietnamese refugee situation. it need to be. May 8, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 13671

[From the Chicago Tribune, May 5, 1975] Q. Mr. Haynesworth, are you opposed to present Director of the National Science allowing Irish immigrants into the United Foundation since 1972, and his able, To LivE IN AMERICA BE A REAL AMERICAN States? (By Michael Kilian) A. What, those drunken bog-trotters? They hard-working staff, deserve our thanks for their advancement of science and Seeing the generous American spirit in need not apply. We didn't cause their potato action is enough to warm the cockles of the famine. If they have no potatoes, let them science education and they merit our heart. drink whisky. But not here. America for the encouragement as they build on the To about 212 degrees Fahrenheit. Americans. notable achievements of the past quarter Consider the response of so Inany of our Q. Chief Running Fox, are you opposed to century. glorious elected leaders to the decision to letting English immigrants settle in Amer­ allow between 50,000 and 70,000 South Viet­ ica? namese refugees to immigrate to the United A. Me opposed. No English. America for FEEDING THE BEAR Sta.te3. Americans. You would have thought the South Viet­ namese were black welfare mothers trying to HON. LARRY McDONALD crash the Daughters of the American Revolu­ OF GEORGIA tion. THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES A proposed resolution welcoming the refu­ NSF ACT gees was resolutely voted down by a margin Thursday, May 8, 1975 of 7 to 1 in the Seattle city council. Other pollticia.ns in such enlightened provinces HON. MARVIN L. ESCH Mr. McDONALD of Georgia. Mr. a.s California. yelled and screamed about how OF MICHIGAN Speaker, we axe admonished by signs in the South Viets would bring in strange our Western parks not to feed the bears. jungle diseases and take away American jobs. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Presumably feeding encourages the Instead of congratulating President Ford Thursday, May 8, 1975 and the Pentagon on their last-minute bears, who may then prey on their feed­ rescue of some 6,000 refugees from the Peo- Mr. ESCH. Mr. Speaker, the 25th ers. pie's Liberation beheading squads, the carp- anniversary of the establishment of the Such is not the case, however, with re­ ing liberals on Capitol Hlll complained that National Science Foundation on May 10, spect to the bear to end all bears: The Ford violated their precious War Powers 1950, is an occasion deserving our notice Soviet Union, who has preyed upon and Adt in doing so. d · f tul t• devoured more nations and people than What are a few heads when it comes to the an expression ° congra a Ions. sanctity of liberal legislation? Besides, most This independent agency, which sup­ any other aggressor in history. Yet the of those refugees really aren't "people," but ports fundamental research in the nat­ larger its appetite, the grea.ter we are ad­ merely members of the south Vietnamese ural and social sciences and, since 1968, monished to increase the nourishment. middle class. the application of scientific knowledge President Ford in his ''state of the such ~ypocritical knavery is to be expected and techniques to national problems, has world" speech on April 10, simultane­ of elected leaders, especially those on Capitol extended our understanding of natural ously requested funds to defend South Hill. But I wondered if they truly reflected forces and our ability to deal with them, Vietnam from the bear's cubs in North the attitudes of the millions of average and it has enriched our culture. The Vietnam, and to remove the few remain­ Americans who have made our country what it is today. Foundation has also exerted a strong and ing trade barriers preventing full, en­ To find out, I set forth with a tape re- beneficial influence on science education, riched nourishment of the mother bear. corder. To get a. truly representative re- from the elementary grades through the The latest meal, a grand dessert to top sponse, I also borrowed my neighbor, Mad postdoctoral level. Even before the So­ off the main course, was reported by the Marvin's time machine. Here is the tran- viets launched their first sputnik in Wall Street Journal on April 25 just as script: October 1957, and thereby caused na- the moans of the latest victims were dy­ Q. Mr. Lopez, are you opposed to the im- tiona! anxiety about the condition of our ing away in South Vietnam: Our State migration of South Vietnamese refugees to science instruction, the Foundation was Department had just allowed the ship­ the United States? A. sure, man. They just gonna bring in initiating significant reforms in the ment of uranium to the Soviet Union. diseases and take a.wa.y our jobs. We got a content of school curriculums and 1m­ The article follows: recession here and we oughta take care of proving the capabilities of science teach­ [From the Wall Street Journal, Apr. 25, 1975] our own first. I got it bad enough makin' ers through summer institutes. UNITED STATES QUIETLY ALLOWS URANIUM payments on my motorcycle. Why they want The Foundation has always empha­ SHIPMENTS TO SOVIET UNION FOR PROC­ to come to America, anyway? Why don't they sized quality-in research and educa- ESSING INTO FuEL stay in their own place? ti •t Q. Mrs. Bernstein, are you opposed to the on-and 1 has fostered the growth of (By Barry Kramer) immigration of Cuban refugees to the United quality by encouraging merit wherever WASHINGTON.-The United States alone is states? it could be found. To insure a healthy unable to meet the long-range needs of for­ A. Yes! They'll come in here with their academic base for American science, the eign nations for nuclear fuel. For political cigar leaves and ruin Miami. They don't even Foundation has invested heavily in the and commercial reasons, it has bowed to the speak English. If they don't like that Castro improvement of colleges and universities inevitable-and is quietly allowing the ship­ ment of American uranium to the Soviet of theirs, that's their problem. seeking to increase the number of center~ Union for processing into fuel for power sta­ z!rt;:~ti~~~e;~~~ -!~~ ;>:r~~!~~ ~ ~~: · of scientific excellence in both graduate tions in other countries. united1 states? and undergradute education throughout The cold war had prevented such ship­ A. You betcha. we fight the war for them; the Nation. It is improving educational ments since the dawn of the atomic age. But what more do they want? I didn't build no opportunities for ethnic minorities, and the government recently decided that send­ concentration camps. They just come in and it is trying to remove some of the ob­ ing American uranium to the Russians for ta.ke our businesses. I work hard for what I stacles to careers in science for women. processing would "not be inimical to the got. Send them to Palestine where they be- Increasingly, the foundation is encour- common defense and security" of the U.S. long . . t 1 . ts gi and its allies. Q. ·Mrs. Kosinski, are you opposed to let- agmg. experrm~n a proJec t~at ve So said a. letter from the State Depart­ ting more Italian immigrants into the United promiSe of maJor change and rmprove- ment last week informing the Nuclear Regu~ Sta.tes? ment in science education. latory Commission that it could approve a A. I am. I am. They shiftless and gang- The National Science Foundation has license sought by Edlow International Co., sters and smell up the neighborhood with been fortunate in having had stabllity in Washington, D.C., to export 1.4 million their cooking. We got a nice neighborhood. its leadership and having had four dis­ pounds of uranium oxide, or yellow cake, milled from uranium ore dug from mines in We work hard for our houses in steel mill. tinguished science administrators to Wyoming and New Mexico. The yellow cake No Italians! direct the agency's course. The late Dr. is to be transformed into uranium hexa­ Q. Mr. Kelly, are you opposed to letting Alan T. Waterman headed the Founda­ flouride in the United Kingdom, and the ·Polish refugees immigrate to the United tion from its establishment until 1963 hexaflouride gas will be processed in Soviet States? - - · A. Sure, that I am. They may be Catholic, Dr. Leland J. Haworth led the NSF from enrichment facilities lnto pellets rich in ura­ nium 235. This isotope provides the power but they don't speak English. They don't 1963 until 1969. From then untll 1972, for nuclear electric plants and for the know how to vote. 'Twasn't easy for us, you Dr. William D. McElroy served as atomic bomb. The ultimate customer 1s West know. We're not going to give up what's ours Director. Germany's Kraftwerk Union AG, the nu­ to any Poles. Dr. H. Guyford Stever, the fourth and clear unit of Siemens AG. CXXI-863-Part 11 13672 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 8, 1975

U.S. OKAY IS NECESSARY Like the U.S., the Soviets apparently many, for instance, U.S. experts say, ex­ The Edlow shipment is the first publicly have built up their nuclear-weapons stocks ports far more to the Soviet Union than it announced case in which U.S. uranium was to such an extent that the enrichment facil­ imports, and has apparently sought enrich­ permitted to go to the Soviet Union for en­ Ity Is largely free to process nuclear fuel. ment contracts in an effort to correct the richment. But industry sources say at least But unlike the Soviets', u.s. fac111ties are trade imbalance. ("After all,'' comments one other shipment, by Tra.nsnuclear Inc., heavily committed to supplying nuclear one U.S. official, "there's only so many White Plains, N.Y., 1s destined for the So· plants here and abroad. The Russians' nu­ wooden dolls they can buy from the Soviet viet Union. The shipment is still in Britain. clear energy program Is a small fraction of Union.") A spokesman for Transnuclear, privately the size of the U.S.'s. As of last June 30, the So far, the Soviets have required their owned by French, West German and U.S. U.S. stopped accepting new long-term con­ Western customers to supply their own ura­ interests, confirms that last August it tracts from utilities for nuclear fuel process­ nium yellow cake. Countries that have shipped about 400,000 pounds of U.S. yellow ing in the knowledge that the three ERDA asked for enriched Soviet uranium have cake to British Nuclear Fuels Ltd. of the faclllties wlll be fully committed by the been turned down. "The assumption Is that United Kingdom to be transformed into ura­ early 1980s. they're hoarding their own uranium, or per­ nium hexafluoride. The place of enrichment Several U.S. companies are considering haps they just have outdated laws on the was unspecitled on the export license, but commercial nuclear enrichment ventures. books like we had," says one State Depart­ industry sources outside Transnuclear say it But because of the difficulties currently ment official. 1s the Soviet Union. faced by utilities in obtaining finances, no A Nuclear Regulatory Commission commitments have been made. spokesman says Transnuclear hasn't asked In Europe, the multibillion-dollar Eurodlf for permission to have the uranium en­ project, whose main participants are SPACE DATA AVAILABLE TO riched in the U.S.S.R., but that such permis­ France, Iran, Italy, Spain and Belgium, ex­ SOLVE PROBLEMS sion, 1f asked, would probably be granted. pects to be enriching nuclear fuel at an an­ The eventual customer is the Italian utillty, nual rate of 10.8 million separative work Agip S.p.A. units by the early 1980s, and discussions are HON. OLIN E. TEAGUE being held about a second plant. Urenco Under the Atomic Energy Act, it's illegal OF TEXAS for American companies to produce nuclear Ltd., owned by government and commercial material outside the U.S. unless the Nuclear interests in Great Britain, the NetherlandS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Regulatory Commission approves. Requests and West Germany, also operates two large Thursday, May 8, 1975 to deal with Communist countries are ptlot plants that produce 75,000 separative passed on by the NRC to the State Depart­ work units, and hopes to increase produc­ Mr. TEAGUE. Mr. Speaker, to benefit ment and other agencies, which must deter­ tion to two million by 1980 and 10 million by the general public, a large amount of mine whether the deals are in the national 1985. useful practical information is available interest. EUROPEANS AND U.S. RELIABILITY from the space program. NASA has Also, under the U.S. agreement with the Elsewhere, South Africans say they in­ operated for a number of years an Office European nuclear community, Euratom, the tend to get into the business, too, utilizing of Technology Utilization. This office, al­ U.S. must approve any such export of nu­ that country's large stores of uranium ore. though modest in size, is benefiting busi­ clear material from Euratom countries. The The desire of European nations to diver­ U.S. has routinely been approving of con­ sify the sources of their enriched uranium nessmen throughout our country with tracts by European nations to send non-U.S. fuel 1s both practical and political. There's new capabilities for new products, prod­ uranium into the U.S.S.R. to be enriched. confusion about U.S. plans to increase pro­ uct improvements, and manufacturing Approval also was granted for the Edlow duction. The Arab oil embargo also has technology derived from our national shipment of U.S. uranium to Russia. shown the need for multiple sources of space program. A recent article in Small In fact, the growing number of Western fuel. Business magazine by Mr. Mark Stevens enrichment contracts with the Soviets was Distrust of U.S. reliab1Uty in supplying describes in brief the significant prog­ the major reason the U.S. abandoned tts ban nuclear fuel can be seen 1n the way Europe­ ress being made in the technology util­ on allowing U.S. uranium Into Russia. ans bristled recently when NRC commis­ It's also clear from the change in policy sioners announced that they would person­ ization program. I commend the reading that the U.S. no longer fears that the Soviet ally review all "significant" shipments of of this article to my colleagues as an Union would steal American uranium if it nuclear materials abroad while they re­ important source of information and got its hands on it. "If the Soviets are pre­ vamped commission safety requirements. benefit to the general public. The article pared to enrich uranium for civil use in the The Europeans reacted angrily to what they follows: considered a temporary ban on shipments, West, then you must conclude that they SPACE DATA AVAILABLE To SoLVE PROBLEMS even though the NRC said the review would have produced all the enriched material (By Mark Stevens) they need," says a State Department offi­ only mean a slight delay in some shipments cial. Next to the U.S., the Soviets have the "Such a decision, taken without prio~ Thousands of small businesses are profit­ largest nuclear stockpile, and both nations consultation ... is liable to threaten the or­ ing from a unique service of the National already have an atomic overkill capacity, derly development of the (European Eco­ Aeronautics and Space Administration. he adds. nomic) Community's nuclear programs and Known as Technology Utilization, the service After enriching uranium for a French gives rise to serious concern regarding the links space technology with the needs of utility In 1971, the Soviet Union announced security of supply from the U.S.," Henri Si­ private enterprise. in 1973 that It would do so for any Western monet of the EEC said in a harshly worded A vast pool of information developed by nation that asked. So far, France, Italy, cable to the U.S.'s ERDA. space program scientists is being put to West Germany, Belgium, Sweden. Spain, Some countries, either because of politi­ work to solve America's business problems. Austria and the United Kingdom have cal alignment or proximity to the Soviets Technical experts work together with entre­ signed long-term enrichment contracts with must deal with them. So if a u.s. nuclear~ ­ preneurs to seek commercial applications the Soviets. Other contracts are being nego­ energy company wants to do business with for scientific innovations. The idea Is to tiated. Finland was already a customer. these countries, it must have the option to seek broader uses for space-related research The signed contracts cover more than 27 go to the Soviet Union for enrichment serv­ data. million so-called separative work units ices, State Department sources point out. Already in full swing, the TU program spread over several years, enough fuel to RUSSIAN DE:\LS: THE REASONS has been applied to a wide range of busi­ operate 225 thousand-megawatt power ness operations from pollution controls to American companies began approaching manufacturing processes. plants for one year. It's estimated that Eu­ government officials several years ago with rope now gets 40% of its nuclear fuel Major features of the TU program are: that in mind. At least one company, General Technical briefs: Information developed through the Soviet Union and the rest from Electric, held discussions with the Russians the U.S. (By comparison, total U.S. enrich­ in NASA labs or by government contractors two or three years ago, according to indus­ is made available to businessmen through ment capacity 1s about 17 mlllion separative try sources. (GE officials couldn't confirm units.) the Tech-Brief Program. The briefs are sum­ the contact, but they note that the company maries of technical innovations published THE JAMMED AMERICAN PYPELYNE isn't any longer in the enrichment business· to inform entrepreneurs o! new technology. The Soviets are believed to operate an so to them at least the question ts moot.) T~ The Tech-Brief program, which is :free, enrichment facility tn Siberia, northwest of compete with foreign companies offering simply keeps entrepreneurs up to date on Lake Baikal, using power from the giant their customers enrichment services in the the full range of formation on the more Bratsk hydroelectric dam. Experts estimate U.S.S.R., American companies have told the promising concepts, write to NASA for that the fac111ty produces 8,000 to 10,000 met­ State Department they, too, must be able to in-depth reports, test results, and research ric tons of separative work a year, about the offer the options. Cost alone Isn't a major materials. Small firms account for 55 per same as each of the three enrichment plants factor, though the price charged by the Rus­ cent of the 18,000 companies on the Tech­ operated by the U.S. Energy Research and sians Is slightly less than that charged in Brief mailing list. Owner-managers may be Development Administration (ERDA, which the West. put on the list by writing on company let­ with the NRC perform the functions of the Another reason to turn to the Russians 1s terhead to Jeffrey Hamilton, NASA, Wash­ former Atomic Energy Commission) . to maintain a balance of trade. West Ger- ington, D.C. 20546. May 8, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 13673 Industrial Application Centers: Designed no bigger than a shoebox, according to vol­ the First Continental Congress to adopt as a customized technical service for the unteer Fay Brisk. A hound shipped from Greek as the official language of the newborn nation's business community, Industrial Ap­ Missouri bled to death after his tall was in­ American renublic. The motion lost by one plication Centers help companies tackle jured because his crate was too small, she vote from being adopted. specific problems. By tapping NASA's com­ said. Two puppies died of malnutrition and The interplay of the two countries is also puterized data base, even the smallest firms dehydration after a four day trip to Washing­ evidenced by the request of the eminent can move on to greater efficiency and profit. ton without food or water, Miss Brisk said. lea::l.er of the Greek War of Independence, The centers service client companies by Yesterday, the U.S. attorney's office in Alex­ Adamantios Koraes to Thomas Jefferson for progra.mming computers to seek solutions to andria said it intends to step up its prosecu­ his views on the political system for the mod­ business problems. Company managers tion of those who ship animals through Na­ ern Greek state on the basis of the experi­ work with experts to define and isolate tional and Dulles airports in violation of Vir­ ence gained by the American political system. operating deficiencies, to tap NASA data files ginia law that prohibits cruelty to animals. Greek-Amertca.n solidarity can be attested for corrective measures and to implement U.S. Attorney William B. Cummings re­ throughout history, particularly during the new procedures based on superior technol­ leased a list of guidelines that prohibit ship­ first and second World Wars. The Western ogy. The centers operate as independent, ping animals in crates that are too small, or democracies have not forgotten the first vic­ non-profit organizations under contract to without provisions for food, water and suffi­ tory of the second World War, the defeat of NASA. Since the majority of companies are cient air. Mussolini's Italy in Albania in 1940, and the small firms, charges tend to be modest. Animals must be healthy when they are heroic resistance against Hitler's Germany in Making contact with an Industrial Ap­ shipped and crates must be safe and strong northern Greece and in the valiant island of plication Center is simple enough. Regional enough to withstand travel, Cummings said. Crete. As a result IDtler's campaign against centers are operated across the nation by The penalty for a violation is $1,000 fine Russia was delayed by more than a month, the Universities of Connecticut, Pittsburgh, or one year in prison or both. which provided the necessary timlng for Indiana, New Mexico, Southern California Hitler's defeat at Leningrad. and by the State of California. Owner-man­ The Truman Doctrine in 1948 was instru­ agers should write to the nearest center to mental in the defeat of the Communist in­ set up an initial interview. GREEK INDEPENDENCE AND surrection against the Greek nation. Patent licensing workshops: Traveling AMERICAN HISTORY During the Korean War the Greek expedi­ across the nation, groups of NASA experts tionary forces fought valiantly alongside the teach local entrepreneurs how to apply for American forces for saving the Republic of NASA patents. Holding special workshops Korea from Communist aggression. for the business community, spokesmen HON. ANDREW YOUNG American econoinic assistance since world promote NASA's 3000 available patents and OF GEORGIA War II enabled the Greek nation to rehablli­ explain the techniques of private licensing. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tate its economy from the ruins of war. In addition, workshops for minority-owned The success of the Greek immigrant in the firms are held in cooperation with the Com­ Thursday, May 8, 1975 United States is a testimony of the simllar merce Department's Office of Minority Busi­ ~.YOUNG of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, democratic ideas which permeate Greek and ness Development. Detalls on workshop American traditions. At present many Greek­ dates and locations may be obtained from as we approach the 200th anniversary of Americans are in positions of leadership in NASA, Technology Utilization Department, the founding of our Republic, it is impor­ business, education, and government. In pol­ Washington, D.C. 20546. tant to remember the significant contri­ itics there is a score of mayors, members of butions made by other cultures and city councils, as well as the Governor of Mas­ countries to this Nation's historical sachusetts, and five Congressmen of Greek growth. We are reminded that America descent. CONCERN FOR WELFARE OF is representative of many peoples whose The present misunderstanding over the ANIMALS national origins have lent important policy of the present administration on Cy­ prus will be dissipated in view of congres­ values to the emergence of our unique sional support in favor of justice in Cyprus. HON. G. WILLIAM WHITEHURST cul·tural spirit. Congress, by cutting off mllltary aid to my OF VmGINIA I submit for colleagues' interest an Turkey, was consistent with its constitu­ article written by a Greek-American tional obligation to have compliance for the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES constituent who exPresses this senti­ laws of the land, which prohibit the use of Thursday, May 8, 1975 ment with historical insight: U.S. mllitary assistance for other than de­ fensive purposes. Indeed, the decision of Mr. WHITEHURST. Mr. Speaker, GREEK INDEPENDENCE AND THE SPIRIT OF 1776 Congress is consistent with UN Security the Washington Post of Thursday, May Council and General Assembly resolutions 8, carried a brief but effective article by (By C. G. Alexandrides) calling for the immediate withdrawal of all Ms. Laura A. Kiernan which emphasizes In commemorating the 154th anniversary foreign troops from Cyprus and the re­ the need for prompt action on legislation of the Greek War of Independence, which in turn of refugees to their homes. Moreover, 1821 shook the world of status quo imposed the Congressional authorization for emer­ such as H.R. 1152, to amend the Animal by the Holy Alliance of the Powers of Europe­ gency relief for the refugees in Cyprus dem­ Welfare Act of 1970 to provide adequate as had the American Revolution 45 years onstrates the humanitarianism of Congress. protection for animals in transit and in earlier, we are cognizant of the parallelism It is with the moral leadership of the U.S. terminals of common carriers. of the two historic events. Among the Congress that a solution to Cyprus wUl Dedicated people such as the volun­ staunchest phllhellenes of the Greek War of become possible; thus, restoring the tradi­ teers from the Washington Humane So­ Independence against the Ottoman Empire tional friendship of U.S. with Greece. ciety and their counterparts in Phlla­ were President James Monroe and Senator delphia and elsewhere are a tremendous Daniel Webster, who like Lord Byron, ignited with their fiery speeches the Imagination of [From the Wall Street Journal, Mar. 3, 1975] help, but they cannot do it alone. I hope freedom-loving people everywhere for the GREEK OBJECTIONS that meaningful legislation in this area resurgence of Greece from the hordes of EDITOR, The Wall Street Journal: your can be enacted in the near future, and I Attlla's descendents, who had occupied the editorial "Congress and the Turks" (Feb. 21) am inserting the article at this point land of democracy and freedom for nearly stating that "Congress can take some credit in the RECoRD for the benefit of my col­ four centuries. for the founding of the Turkish Cypriot Re­ leagues and others who share my The deeply entrenched bonds of friendship public ..." since it came "just 10 days after concern: between Greece and the United States can be the congressionally ordered end to our mlll­ No-FRILLS FLIGHTS FATAL TO ANIMALS traced to the founding of the great American tary aid to Turkey" is misleading and un­ republic. The authors of the American Dec­ founded. (By Laura A. Kiernan) laration of Independence were imbued with Congress, by cutting off military aid to For the past three years volunteers from Greek phllosophy and the teachings of Soc­ Turkey, was consistent with its constitu­ the Washington Humane Society have spent rates, Plato, and Aiistotle. Among the tional obligation to have compliance for the several evenings a week at Washington Na­ framers of the Constitution, Thomas Jeffer­ laws of the land. The Foreign Assistance Act tional Airport caring for animals they claim son and James Madison were among the stu­ of 1961, Section 505(d) requires that U.S. were shipped to the airport either sick or in dents of political experiments in federalism Inilitary aid be used for defensive purposes. crates so small they couldn't move and lacked based on the experience of the federation of Under this act, "the use of U.S. Inilltary adequate food, water and air. Greek states such as the Achean League and assistance for other than defensive purposes In addition, over more than 10 years, the the Aetolean League. The political concept is barred by law," according to the legal society has catalogued more than 100 serious of separation of powers is directly attributed opinion of the Library of Congress. cases 1n which they say anlxnals were sub­ to the writings of ArJ.stotle. So much were President Nixon and his Secretary of Jected to cruel treatment because o! the way the framers o! the American Federal Consti­ State Kissinger, preoccupied wtth Water- they were crated for shipping. tution impressed with Greek philosophy and gate and related matters, did not bother to Once, 12 baby raccoons arrived in a crate democracy that a motion was introduced in warn the Turkish government in spite of 13674 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 8, 1975 repeated recommendations of the Ameri­ The stars had five points 1n the blue "I take care of my sister, and I want to see can Ambassador to Athens. The lack of With red and white stripes it looked almost that she gets food, and, maybe, some cleav concern by the U.S. administration during new. clothes. She's blind and deaf. the month-long period of preparation of as­ It now flies high above the land. "I don't want money to do anything. I sembling U.S. military equipment and sup­ And under it we're proud to stand. ain't got nothing to do. plies by the Turkish government to invade "I do the best I can. Cyprus, convinced the Turkish leadership "All I want is a little comfort before I of U.S. tacit acceptance of their aggressive die." intentions SENIOR CITIZENS AND THE If we take this as a barometer of how we Indeed, the decision of Congress is con­ ECONOMY treat our senior citizens, I'm afraid that we sistent with UN Security Council and Gen­ aren't doing a particularly good job in caring eral Assembly resolutions calling for the for them. immediate withdrawal of all foreign troops HON. THOMAS J. DOWNEY from Cyprus and the return of refugees to OF NEW YORK their homes. However, Mr. Kissinger's IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES VOTE TO SUSTAIN FARM Bll..L votes in the UN and his implementation of these resolutions are two different things. Thursday, May 8, 1975 VETO This double standard by great powers sworn Mr. DOWNEY. Mr. Speaker, on March to uphold their obligations under the UN in Charter is damaging the foundations of the 3, I held a day-long public hearing my HON. PETER A. PEYSER UN and world peace that Mr. Kissinger is district on senior citizens and the econ­ OF NEW YORK eager to preserve. omy. I heard testimony from more than IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES It is therefore appalling that instead of 2 dozen witnesses, including heads of condemning the Turkish aggression 1n Cy­ senior citizen organizations, agency Thursday, May 8, 1975 prus for the "protection" of 18% of the directors. The hearing room was filled Mr. PEYSER. Mr. Speaker, the vote population, when it lllega.lly occupies 40% with interested older Americans anxious of the most prosperous area of the country, to attempt to override the President's you "phllosophlze" about the Congress and to be heard by their Congressman as well veto of the emergency farm bill will be the Turks. as by the various public officials who were on Tuesday, May 13. C. G. ALEXANDRinES, also in attendance. I urge my colleagues to sustain the Secretary, Congress of America Hellenic Probably the most moving testimony veto and offer the following for their Organizations. taken that day was that of Mrs. Jose­ consideration. It is a speech delivered Atlanta. phine Edwards, a woman receiving dis­ by Mr. Robert Wei! of the American ability benefits. She was unable to attend Cotton Shippers Association. the hearing because of illness, but we The speech follows: "IT'S OURS" were able to get her words on paper. I THE COTTON LOAN! AN OPTION IN DISGUISE read her testimony into the RECORD. Mrs. The word "loan" as used in cotton legis­ Edwards is a strong and proud woman lation is a misnomer because it is not a HON. JOHN H. DENT who is battling to maintain herself and recourse loan. Because it is non-recourse, the OF PENNSYLVANIA her blind and deaf sister in dignity. How­ "loan" actually amounts to an option avall­ able to the farmer to deliver to the govern­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ever, the programs we have established to help her do not seem to be adequate. ment at a certain orice if the farmer can­ Thursday, May 8, 1975 I think my colleagues would benefit from not obtain a better price in the market. reading her testimony: Otherwise, there would be no point to a Mr. DENT. I think we Americans have non-recourse "loan". been hanging our heads for the last SENIOR CITIZENS AND THE ECONOMY Until a few years ago, the law provided several weeks over something that has Mrs. Josephine Edwards was unable to that the farmer's option would be in effect long been beyond our control. This situa­ attend today's hearing because she is con­ until July 31 of the marketing year; and tion becomes decidedly ironic in that one fined to her bed with 1llness. in actuality, this is as long as an option tends to forget, amidst all of the head She wanted to testify. So we arranged to should continue, because, beginning in Au­ get her story down on paper. gust, another crop comes on the market. hanging, that we are at present on the The following is what she said: The Bill recently passed by the House and verge of our 200th anniversary, some­ "Mr. Downey, I am Josephine Edwards of Senate contains a provision for an eight­ thing for which we should be very proud 16 Pine Street in Central Islip, and my com­ een month "loan". The effect of this pro­ indeed. plaint is about me and my sister. vision would extend the farmer's option Not many governments last in a "We live alone. She is seventy-one years to as long as two-and-a-half years after the singular. form for 200 years. Oh, sure, old, and I am fifty-eight. And we can't get respective crop is planted; or to as long as there Will always be an England, and any help. I've been 1n the hospital for two two years or more after the respective crop I can trace forbearers in Italy back weeks, and I been trying to get someone to is harvested. The reason for this is that the keep house for us. I called, but it doesn't farmer has untll May 31 to enter his cotton beyond Lexington and Concord time. But do any good. You call people and some­ in the "loan" and the "loan" period begins governments have changed so many times they hang up on you. I'm talking on the date the cotton is entered. Therefore, times all over the world and they will of about the people in Bay Shore and also in a farmer, planting his crop now for the course continue to change, if ancient his­ Hauppauge. They give me the runaround. 1975/ 76 season, has untll May 31, 1976 to tory and/or current events are any in­ You have to call this place and that place. enter his crop in the "loan" and he may dication. For some reason, though, our Sometimes, I have to make four or five tele­ wait as long as December 1, 1977 to redeem Founding Fathers hit upon a pretty good phone calls trying to reach the right person the cotton to be marketed. to tell you what's happening. Sometimes, All during this time, the farmer has con­ formula, comparisons being what they that person hangs up. And you just don't trol of his cotton. He can determine how are. get nowhere. That phone bill has got to be much to plant and he may, even at the time Perhaps considerations for the flag are paid by me because there's nobody else to of planting, sell Futures or sell his crop a bit old-fashioned, but I am one of those pay it. forward to a buyer. From the time that he who revere the flag as something im­ "I called Bay Shore and they said I needed harvests the cotton in the fall of the year portant to our sense of this sovereign a paper from the doctor. So I sent it in. No he can sell the actual cotton in existence land and its history. If we can instill response from them. So I called Hauppauge or he can withhold it from the market. the feeling embodied in this poem, a first­ and stlll have not gotten any response. Beginning at the time the cotton is plant­ "And is going up on my rent. It was $200. ed until the time that the eighteen months place award winner in the National Now it's $210. They told me to send a letter expire after entry into the "loan", the gov­ Poetry Contest, by Josie Sever of St. when it came from my landlord. I sent it ernment has no control over the disposition Edward's School in Herminie, Pa., then 1n and have not gotten any response from of that cotton. The cotton is "in limbo", we might begin recouping some of the that. I'm gonna try to pay it. sitting in a warehouse collecting carrying pride in America that should be appro­ "I have to have medicine. Some I can get charges, creating economic W81Ste, whlle the priate in our Bicentennial celebration: lfrom my Medicaid card, and some I can't. government, or even the market, are power­ "I have a telephone. I have to pay my "IT'S OURs" less. telephone bill. This is twenty dollars a The option for this crop actually lasts It was Betsy Ross who made Our Flag, month. Well, my electric and gas bill Is through the planting and harvesting of two She started from a tattered rag forty-eight to fifty dollars a month, and I succeeding crops, so that the cumulative ef­ On which she sewed thirteen stars get only $184 a month on SSI. My sister gets fect of the Blll may be that we will have lay­ The people were proud and said, "it's ours." $206 a month. ers of three crops in the ''loan" Sit one time. May 8, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 13675 The crop, having entered the "loan", will be that day in 1945, that the long nightmare Because the whales are disappearing competing with not one but two subsequent of World War ended in Europe. rapidly, the whaling industry is also dy­ crops. With the signing of unconditional sur­ ing. Catch Per Unit of Effort, the meas­ When the government finally takes over the render treaty by the Nazi General Jodi ure universally used by the fishing indus­ cotton, the Bill provides that the government at Allied Headquarters in Rheims, this try to determine resource levels, is drop­ may offer the cotton for re-sale at not less terrible holocaust came to a close. ping steadily. Unfortunately, the whalers than 115% above the target price. Suffice it appear to be amortizing their rusting to say, a.s a practical matter, should the mar­ Thousands upon thousands of Amer­ ket advance to that level the cotton would icans and their allies paid the supreme whaling fleets at the same rate as the tend to come out of the "loan" before the price in the European theater to bring whales. government takes control. Hence, it may be the twin-monster of Nazism and Fascism The economics of whaling are the eco­ assumed that any cotton which the govern­ to its demise. To quote the great histo­ nomics of extinction. The food and agri­ ment takes over will be at a. market below rian, Samuel Eliot Morison: culture organization, affiliated with the the target price and, conceivably, this min­ United Nations, made this pessimistic imum market level may not be reached for Thus ended, in ruin, horror, and despair the Axis that pretended to rule the world, report last year: many years. Wherefrom then comes the support for this and the Reich which Hitler had boasted It is not realistic to presume (the whalers) would last a thousand years. will ensure either the maintenance or even extrenae measure? There are a. few cooperatives which, not the continued existence of a whale stock. I want to commend the CBS Televi­ It pays to exploit a resource (the whales) being geared to cope with the efficient mar­ sion Morning News for its retrospective excessively heavily, even to extinction, and Keting utilized by p::ivate entrepreneurs, reLy report yesterday morning on VE Day, not on a sustainable basis. on the "loan" as a. crutch, and these groups and special recognition should be given have consistently relied on the government Now the Japanese whalers are greed­ to provide assistance which would compen­ to Charles Collingwood, who commented ily setting their sights on the California sate in one way or another for their failure on the ceremony which-he covered as a gray whales, whose annual migration to cope with the market. Individual farmers, war correspondent at Rheims. who would be satisfied with a. July 31 expiry, down the West Coast from Alaska to the would naturally support a longer option even lagoons of Baja California is a great if they did not contemplate using it, simply natural spectacle. The gray whales have because it is natural to seek as many options SAVING THE GREAT WHALES been protected by special international as one can get. The provisions is a bonanza FROM EXTINCTION treaty for more than 30 years, but the for the warehouse trade, particularly ware­ Japanese whalers now claim the right houses closely associated with groups of to renew the slaughter. farmers, because the cotton can be stored HON. ALPHONZO BELL for long periods of time--as much a.s two More than a century ago, Herman years-and the charge may be accrued for OF CALIFORNIA Melville foresaw the fate of the great the government eventually to pay. In this IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES whales. The author of the whaling classic respect, the "loan" is a. vicious, blind sub­ Thursday, May 8, 1975 "Moby Dick" wrote: sidy to a. particular business segment. The moot point is, whether Leviathan can On the other hand, it is well-known in the Mr. BELL. Mr. Speaker, today I in­ long endure so wide a chase and so remorse­ history of cotton legislation that the "loan·• troduced a House joint resolution aimed less a havoc; whether he must not at last has been the chief impediment to the fre~ at saving the world's last remaining be exterminated from the waters, and the marketing of cotton. The entire concept of whales from extinction. Foreign whalers, last whale, like the last man, smoke his a market-oriented economy contemplates the primarily from Japan and the Soviet last pipe, and then himself evaporate in the direct entry of a crop, not only into a. do• Union, are ra;pidly killing off these great final pulf. mestic market but also into a. world market, where it will compete with synthetics at marine mammals. Jacques Cousteau, the French ocean­ home and with many other growths abroad. My bill calls for an immediate embargo ographer, writes: During the past decade, when the "loan" on the products of all foreign enterprises Our century, as it turned out, was much had become less of a factor, the United engaged in commercial whaling. It is more destructive to the whales than the pe­ States has regained much of its pre-emi­ specifically v,imed at the Japanese and riod of the great romantic hunts described nence in world markets, although there is Soviet whalers. 'I'hree giant Japanese in the work of Herman Melville. A hundred much ground yet to be recaptured. fishing companies operate pelagic whal­ years ago, a whaler's three-year expedition If, in the long run, the American cotton ing fleets that account for more than a netted him 37 whales. Today, a. whaler's economy is to be sustained, then all impedi­ modern weapons and fast boats give him ments to the free marketing of cotton should third of the 38,000 whales killed each one whale a. day, and sometimes three or be removed. The eighteen month "loan" will year. These companies-Taiyo Fishery four. be a most serious impediment, particularly Co., Nippon Suisan Kaisha Co., and with the "loan" at a level above the world Kyokuyo Co.---export large quantities of Cousteau explains: cost of production. The eighteen month fish products to the United States, in­ The only creatures on earth that have "loan", along with some of the other pro­ cluding tuna, mackerel, salmon, sardines, bigger-and maybe better-brains than hu­ visions of the House and Senate Bill, oysters, and crab. The Soviet Fisheries mans are the Cetacea., the whales and dol­ would inevitably return us to the conditions phins. Perhaps they could one day tell us Agency, whose pelagic whaling fleet ac­ something important, but it is unlikely that of ten years ago, when cotton was produced counts for more than 40 percent of the for the "loan", the government amassed we will hear it. Because we are coldly tremendous surpluses of cotton, the United annual whale kill, exports caviar to the efficiently and economically killing them off: States was a. residual supplier to world mar· United States. By placing an embargo on these prod­ The whales are the most complex ani­ kets and, most importantly of all, we will mals in the ocean, just as man is on land. inevitably return to a two-price system. ucts from the offending companies, my bill could succeed in halting the whale Both t~e whales and man are at the top slaughter. Only economic pressure is of their ecosystems. Scientists are just likely to force the whalers to end the beginning to learn of the complex inter­ VE DAY REMEMBERED killing. Every other form of appeal and relationships of marine life. The loss of pressure has failed so far. The Japanese the whole species could have a profound and Soviets have ignored appeals from impact on the ocean ecosystem. Unless J. J. the U.S. Congre38, the United Nations, the whale slaughter is stopped soon, we HON. PICKLE and the international scientific commu­ may learn too late that the great whales OF TEXAS nity to halt the whale slaughter. The are a vital part of life on this planet. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Japanese and Soviets have defied the Next Tuesday and Wednesday, May 13 quotas set by the International Whaling and 14, hearings on this bill and other Thursday, May 8, 1975 Commission. Mr. PICKLE. Mr. Speaker, amidst the The whale ;;laughter has been so whale-protection bills will be held be­ recent turmoil and the ending of the hug&-more than 2 million killed in fore. the Subcommittee on Fisheries and con:ftict in Vietnam, I am afraid that we the past 50 years-that all eight species Wildlife Conservation and the Environ- might be overlooking a historic event of great whales are facing extinction. ment of the Merchant Marine and Fish­ which occurred 30 years ago yesterday, They are all on the U.S. Endangered eries Committee. involving another war. For it was on Species List. Following is the text of my bill : 13676 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 8, 1975

H.J. RES. 448 has found that Japan and the Union of So­ necessary to identify any foreign enterprise Joint resolution to save the great whales viet Socialist Republics have subverted the engaging in commercial whaling. In carrying from extinction by amending the Fisher­ goals and diminished the effectiveness of out any such investigation or other action, men's Protective Act of 1967 to impose an the International Whaling Commission pro­ the Secretary may request the assistance of embargo on the products of all foreign en­ grams; and any other Federal agency, and such Federal terprises engaged in commercial whaling Whereas the Secretary of Commerce has agency shall, to the maximum extent prac­ informed the President of the United States ticable, so assist the Secretary. The Secre­ Whereas whales form a resource which is that Japan and the Union of Soviet Socialist tary shall reimburse any such other Federal of aesthetic and scientific value to mankind; Republics have violated an international agency for the cost incurred by that agency and fishery conservation program, and that sanc­ in assisting in such investigations or other Whereas whales live in international waters tions under section 8 of the Fishermen's actions. a.nd therefore are the common interest of all Protective Act of 1967 (22 U.S.C. 1978), the mankind; and "(2) If the secretary, as a result of any Whereas the great whales have been over­ embargo of fishery products from offending investigation or action under paragraph ( 1) exploited by commercial whalers for many nations, may be invoked at the President's of this subsection, finds that any foreign discretion; and enterprise is engaging in commercial whaling, years, resulting in the commercial extinction Whereas the vast pelagic whaling fleets of of several species; and he shall immediately publish the name of Whereas the slaughtered whales are con· Japan and the Union of Soviet Socialist such enterprise in the Federal Register. Un­ verted into petfood, fertilizer, soap, lipstick, Republics are rapidly depleting the popula­ less any foreign enterprise so named files shoe polish, mink food and lubricating on, tions of fin, sei, sperm and mlnke whales (before the close of the 30-day period after all products for which there are cheap, in international waters; and such date of publication, and in such form plentiful substitutes; and Whereas Japan and the Union of Soviet and manner as shall be prescribed by the Whereas the California gray whale, pro· Socialist Republics each account for more Secretary) an objection to the finding by tooted by special treaty for nearly four dec­ than 40% of the 38,000 whales killed each the Secretary, such finding shall be deemed ades, ls a great natural and scientific resource year; and to be a determination that such enterprise along the west coast of North America; and Whereas the thiee Japanese companies op­ is engaging in commercial whaling. Whereas the Japanese whalers now claim erating pelagic whaling fleets are Taiyo Fish­ "(3) If any foreign enterprise files with the right to renew the killing of the Cali­ ery Co., Ltd., Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd., the Secretary an objection pursuant to para­ fornia gray whale; and and Kyokuyo Co., Ltd.; and graph (2) of this subsection, the Secretary Whereas the whalers are steadily diminish­ Whereas these Japanese companies export shall treat such objection as a request by ing the species stlll hunted; and to the United States large quantities of fish­ such foreign enterprise for an agency hear­ Whereas the Congress enacted the En­ ery products, including tuna, salmon, mack­ ing (pursuant to section 554 of title 5, United dangered Species Conservation Act of 1969 erel, sardines, clams and crab; and States Code) with respect to whether the (80 Stat. 926, 83 Stat. 282-293) to protect Whereas the Soviet Fisheries Agency, which foreign enterprise is engaging in commercial endangered species; and operates the Soviet pelagic whaling fleet, ex­ whaling. Such hearing shall be commenced Whereas the secretary of Interior in 1969 ports fishery products to the United States, not later than 30 days after the date on placed all eight species of great whales on the including caviar; and which the objection is filed. Endangered Species List; and Whereas these Japanese and Soviet enter­ prises are ruthlessly slaughtering the great " ( 4) On or after- Whereas the Congress in 1971 adopted Sen­ "(A) the close of the 30-day period referred ate Joint Resolution 115 and House Concur­ whales to extinction in defiance of interna­ tional and scientific opinion; Now, there­ to in paragraph (2) of this subsection, if the rent Resolution 381 requesting the secretary foreign enterprise concerned does not file an of State to negotiate a ten-year moratorium fore, be it Resolved by the Senate and the House objection as provided for in that subsection, on the commercial killing of whales; and or Whereas the Secretary of Commerce effec­ of Representatives of the United States of tively banned all commercial whaling by America in Congress assembled, That the "(B) the date of publication in the Federal United States nationals in December 1971; Fishermen's Protective Act of 1967 (22 U.S.C. Register of notice of a determination pur­ suant to paragraph (3) of this subsection of and 1971-1979) is amended by redesignating sec­ Whereas the Secretary of Commerce has re· tion 9 as section 10, and by adding immedi­ commercial whaling by any foreign enter· sponsibllity for the protection of whales; and ately after section 8, the following new prise, Whereas the Congress enacted the Marine . section: it shall be unlawful for any article produced Mammal Protection Act of 1972 (86 Stat. "SEc. 9. (a) For the purposes of this sec­ (in whole or in part), or distributed, by 1027), which required the Secretary of Com­ tion- such enterprise to be imported into the merce, through the Secretary of State, to " ( 1) the term 'commercial whaling' means United States. The Secretary of the Treasury initiate international negotiations to develop any use of any vessel or other seagoing craft shall take such action under the customs law agreements to protect all marine mamma.Js; on the high seas for the purpose of killing as may be necessary to prevent the importa­ a.nd or capturing any whale if such whale, or any tion of any such article. Whereas, fifty-three nations, including the part thereof, is, will be, or is intended to be "(5) The first sentence of paragraph (4) United States, unanimously adopted a res­ used for the production of any by-product. of this subsection shall cease to have the olution at the June 1972 United Nations Con­ Such term does not include the kllUng or force and effect at any time after the Secre­ capturing of any whale primarily for sub­ ference on the Human Environment at tary finds that the foreign enterprise con­ Stockholm, Sweden, urging a ten-year mora· sistence purposes by members of any aborigi­ cerned has ceased to engage in commercial torium on the commercial killing of whales: nal community. "(2) The term 'foreign enterprise' means­ whaling. and "(c) (1) In the case of any foreign enter­ Whereas that call for a ten-year morato­ .. (A) any citizen or national of any foreign nation or instrumentality, including any prise to which subsection (b) (4) applles, rium was confirmed at Geneva, Switzerland, any action by such foreign enterprise to in June 1973 at the first session of the corporation, partnership, or other legal entity established pursuant to the law of any such dismantle any vessel or other seagoing craft United Nations Governing Council for En­ (including equipment) used in commercial vironmental Programs, and reconfirmed at nation or instrumentality; "(B) any agency, office, or other public or whallng, or to convert such vessels or craft Nairobi, Kenya, in March 1974 at the second to non-whaling purposes, shall be deemed session of the United Nations Governing quasi-public entity of any foreign nation or instrumentality; and to be prima facie evidence that such enter­ Council for Environmental Programs; and prise has ceased to engage in commercial Whereas representatives of the United " (C) any subsidiary which is partially or States have provided leadership for strong wholly owned by any citizen or entity referred whaling. measures to protect whales, as demonstrated to in subparagraph (A) or (B), regardless "(2) Any transfer, by sale or otherwise, by by a three-fourths majority vote by members where the subsidiary is located. the foreign enterprise concerned of any ves­ of the International Whaling Commission to "(3) The term 'Secretary• means the Sec­ sel, seagoing craft or any other equipment conserve the sperm, fin and minke whales retary of Commerce. used by it in commercial whaling to any 1n the international waters near the Antarc­ "(4) The term 'whale' means any blue, fin, other persons, corporation, or other entity tic; and sei, right, bowhead, humpback, gray, Bryde's, which subsequently uses such vessel, craft minke, or sperm whale. or other equipment in commercial whaling Whereas the Governments of Japan and "(b) (1) Before the close of the 90-day the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics have shall be construed, for the purposes of this period after the date of enactment of this exercised their right under the International section, as the engagement by the foreign section, the Secretary shall undertake and enterprise concerned 1n commercial whaltng. Convention for the Regulation of Whaling complete such investigations and other ac­ to disagree with said conservation measures, tions as may be necessary to identify any " ( 3) If a vessel, seagoing craft or other thereby disregarding the views of the Inter­ foreign enterprise engaging in commercial equipment used 1n whaUng 1s used by any national Wballng Commission and the ad­ wha.Jing. After such 90-day period, the Secre­ subsequent owner in commercial whaling, vice of its Scientlflc Committee; and tary shall undertake such investigations and full force of subsection (b) ( 4) shall apply Whereas the Marine Mammal Commission other actions as may from tune to time be to the original owner or operator." May 8, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 13677 ADDRESS THE PRESIDENT MIGHT full share to maintain peace and stability gram of assistance, to friend and foe alike. HAVE GIVEN around the world. We will remain strong, through the Marshall Plan. But even that even as we remember the purpose of our great example provided a relatively small eco­ strength. nomic sacrifice compared to the expenditure We have learned some painful lessons and we were w11llng to make for war. That pat­ HON. PAUL SIMON it is clear that we must work more closely tern of response must gradually change. OF n.LINOIS in concert with other nations, when disputes The nations of the world are as much con­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and difficulties do arise. I Wish that we lived cerned by our economic problems as they are Thursday, May 8, 1975 in a world in which we did not need to main­ by the d11Hcultles in Southeast Asia. I can tain arms, but we must. Anyone who reflects assure them that basically the U.S. economy Mr. SIMON. Mr. Speaker, 1 month on the defense posture of this nation and 1s sound and that steps which I will be taking ago this coming Saturday evening the other nations understands that we must shortly will stimulate the growth of our gross President of the United States addressed reduce the armed might of all nations and national product and reduce the tragic un­ Congress and the Nation on the topic take much more substantial steps toward employment which this nation has experi­ arms limitation agreements with the Soviet enced. We Will have a balanced economy and. of international affairs, one of the longest Union and with others. Using the explosive after a year or two, we will have a balanced presidential speeches in this century. power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima budget. Let no one in this nation or any I respect the President's sincerity. But as a gauge, this nation has 615,835 times that other nation be deceived. If we fail to put I must also acknowledge great disap­ much explosive power in nuclear weapons our own economic house in order, we not only pointment that his address did not alone. Every Soviet strategic site has more cannot be of assistance in helping to achieve launch into some new directions. I have than 30 nuclear warheads aimed at it, and world stability, we w111 become a cause of taken the liberty of composing "The every American installation of importance instability. We are in a situation which re­ Speech That Might Have Been." I use has many Soviet warheads aimed at it. The quires economic self-discipline. But I believe nuclear nations today have enough nuclear that the members of Congress and the pe{)ple that title fully aware that Anthony Lewis warheads to destroy the total population of this nation are Willing to exercise that of the New York Times used the same of the earth-and do it 27 times. A nuclear self-discipline. title on a column immediately following holocaust has become unthinkable. Yet if Nothing could stimulate the economy of the President's address. And I enter this more decisive steps to control these weapons this nation and other nations more than 1! "speech" on the RECORD and present it and all weapons are not taken. that possi­ the poorer nations of the world could to my colleagues and those on the White bility could become an inevitability. I ask strengthen their economic muscle and be­ House staff in the hope that something this nation and the other nations of the come healthier trading partners in the world world to pursue with much greater vigor economy. here may kindle an idea which can be their efforts to establish arms limitations. To those who view such leadership as fu­ used at some time in the future: Smaller, limited conflicts easily can lead tile, let them note these statistics: Between THE SPEECH THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN to major wars; a minor explosion in any 1945 and 1975 the world's pr{)duction grew Mr. Vice President, Mr. Speaker, and my part of the world can lead to the disaster from $400 b1llion a year to almost $4 trillion. friends in Congress: that none of us wishes to contemplate. For Even when inflation and population growth When I spoke to you on January 15th that reason I am asking Ambassador John are considered, this means an average dou­ delivering the State of the Union Message, Scali at the United Nations to request of bling of income per person. But that growth I said, "The state of the union is not good." the members of that body adoption of a has been uneven, and far too many of the Tonight I come to you with a report that resolution caling for a cut-back each year world's billlons have not shared in It. the state of the world is not good. for the next five years of 20% in arms sales The U.S. spent approximately $23 billion on Right now our friends in Cambodia and abroad. The U.S. now sells arms to 69 nations the Marshall Plan and the nations which we South Vietnam face a difficult situation. We and provides military assistance to 51 na­ once aided are now our strongest trading have shared in their tragedy and heartache. tions. Whether the United Nations and the partners. Since the end of the Marshall Plan, More than 56,000 American young men have other arms suppliers accept or reject this the United States has sold $256.3 b11lion been killed in South Vietnam. This nation initiative, the U.S. unilaterally will begin worth of our production to Western Europe. has poured more than $1·50 billion in military moving in that direction. During the next The U.S. today is a richer nation economi­ assistance directly to South Vietnam and far fiscal year we will reduce by twenty percent cally because of that Marshall Plan aid. What more indirectly in costs of inflation and other our weapons flow abroad-both arms aid we conceived as charity turned into a great impacts on the federal budget. The erutire and arms sales. We are willing to enter into investment in our own economic future, an cost has probably totalled more than $300 agreements with the other major arms sup­ investment that has already paid off many billion. This war has caused an anguish of plying nations at any time in any practical times. The same w111 be true in the develop­ spirit that all of us recognize. No war in effort to reduce the flow of conventional ing nations. The dollar return on that invest­ which this nation has been involved since weapons. ment will not be as rapid, though it is of the Civil War has so deeply divided our I am asking Secretary of State Henry more than casual interest that in 1975 for the people. The scars of that division still show. Kissinger to become a special direct ambas­ first time, the largest cash purchaser of wheat I shall not attempt to reWrite history. We sador of the President of the U.S. to the from the United States wlll be India. have made mistakes--honest mistakes--and world's trouble spots. Through his energy And the balance of trade with India tn history will be the judge of what we did and great skill, the nations of the Middle 1975 will favor the United States by approxi­ right and what we d.id wrong. East are moving toward negotiation rather mately $425 million. Now we shall do what we can to exert than conflict. Obviously, a great deal more A nation which can spend well over $150 every pressure on those who control cam­ progress still needs to take place. In order billion to wage war in Vietnam, has the capacity to wage peace by assisting nations bodia and Vietnam to d.iscoura.ge the possi­ that Dr. Kissinger may devote undiluted bility of massive slaughter. in desperate need. And in the process we wlli energies to this great mediation skill, I am help ourselves. To those in the South of Vietnam, we asking him to devote full time to healing We need not only new directions, we aLso will extend every possible hu.m.anttarla.D the world's wounds in this special capacity. assistance, but we will not take actions which need a new phrase. We have traditionally In order to make clear that the policy of talked in terms of foreign aid, and lt has the will prolong or encourage unnecessary blood­ the U.S. 1s a bipartisan policy, I will consult shed. connotation of charity. In fact, what we are more frequently with members of the Inter­ doing .through assistance is making an invest­ This tragedy which has seared this nation national Relations Committee of the House ment in the economic prosperity and future and divided other nati{)ns causes us to re­ and the Foreign Relations Committee of the flect on where we are and where we must of this nation as well as paying more tha.n Senate and I will nominate as the new llp service to the concept of economic jus­ go. Tonight I ask Congress to work with me Secretary of State (George Ball, Mike Mans­ in launching into new directions, in launch­ tice. I will recommend a change tn the de­ field, Joseph Sisco, or Bradford Morse) . signation of the divlslon of the department ing a new offensive for peace. This nation and the other nations of the which is IlDW kllDwn as A.I.D., a change that I Wish that we lived in a world in which world must recognize that building a peace­ will carry both the concept of economic we did not need to maintain arms, but we ful world requires sacrifice. just as it takes do. Our friends abroad should not misunder­ justice and American investment abroad. sacrifice to wage war. Unfortunately. either I shall also recommend fundamentall stand either the attitude of this adm.lni1stm­ because of some quirk in mankind, or be­ tion., the Congress, or the people of the changes in that investmerut/sss:lstance. More cause of inadequacies of leadership--and I of it can and wlli be channeled through in­ Undted States. While we have made great ternational agencies. Some portions of the sacrifices, the cours& of history in Southeast believe it 1s the latter-mankind has always internattonal community operate with re­ Asia has not turned as we had hoped. But been much more willing to sacrifice for war we are not going to crawl into a shell; we than for peace. The greatest exception to that markable efficiency. The World Bank is a will not abandon either our commitmentts grim record came from this nation following good example. But some portions of in­ or our friendships. To do so would invite World War n when without precedent the ternational organiza-tions have not yet de­ International chaos. This nation wm do its American people launched a generous pro- veloped the maturity and expertise to deal 13678 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 8, 1975 with investment/ assistance effectively. So the Children's Fund, CARE, church pro­ States has not ratified, generally through direct investment/assistance from our coun­ grams, refugee relief, and the welcoming of neglect rather than hostility. Where we differ try must continue. But some basic changes foreign students. on a. proposal, let us state that difference in are needed. No other program for which Con­ It is time now for us to declare that we accepting or rejecting a proposed convention. gress appropriates money has as much flexi­ will participate as a willing partner in a But let the "spare tire" attitude we all too bility in it as does our foreign investment/ generation of effort to meet the basic require­ often have toward the United Nations, the assistance. While some flexibility must con­ ments of every human being-for life is Organization of American States, and other tinue, too often our money has been used the first and most fundamental requirement, bodies end. These are not groups to be called less effectively than it should have been. Too the very basis of liberty and the pursuit upon in an emergency, but agencies in which often political whim has been more important of happiness. we must join effectively with other nations than need; too often we who thrive on free­ Such an effort must go far beyond aid­ in the undramatic but vital day to day work dom and independence have discouraged as-charity, to international agreements for of building peace. Three decades ago the o t;hers who wished to express their freedom greater equity within countries, the manage­ United States made the choice between a. and independence. Open, above-board reasons ment of population growth, and the trans­ world of international order and a world of for investment/ assistance must replace fer of resources between countries through chaos. That resolve is unchanged. closed-door d.ecision making. Nations in need international agencies. In a world where no When John F. Kennedy was President of must find us an ally; na.tions who spend ex­ one country is, or should be, in charge, each the United States, he conveyed-through the cessively on e.rmaments must know that their nation must be part of a new bargain for Alliance for Progress, the Peace Corps, and in investment/assistance wlll be cut; nations life. This nation is ready to do its part and other ways--that the leadership and the citi­ who work hard at internal reform to lift the I am appointing --- to talk to govern­ zens of this country cared about people lot of those least fortunate must understand ments and international organizations to everywhere. that such programs have our support. Once a develop a concrete plan for the definition Let people in every section of this shrink­ tentative investment/assistance formula has and provision of basic human needs. ing globe understand that we still care. We been arrived at, I int;end to discuss it with I believe that this earth has the resources will show-not by words, but by deeds­ the members of Congress and representatives to provide the basics of life to all human that we do. A world of peace will not be of developing nations before formally sub­ beings. There are obstacles--political ob­ built in one giant step. But if this nation mitting that formula for adoption as U.S. stacles--but they have been erected by all of and the other nations of the world are policy. us who are the family of man, and we can willing to take those necessary smaller steps. When I talk about investment;-a.ssistance, overcome those obstacles, if we have the will future generations will reflect that, while I do not mean only investment of money. I to do so. other generations were great warriors, this will ask each of the 50 states to attempt to The most fundamental need is, of course, generation helped to move us toward a day develop a special friendship and extend a the right to food. The dominant issue for when people did not starve and nations did helping hand to one particular foreign na­ the remainder of this century and well into not war. Let history note that this genera­ tion, as many did with Latin American na­ the next century will be the struggle between tion of Americans helped to build a world tions more than a decade ago. This can in­ food and population. If we are to build a fu­ of peace. This year, in this country, let us volve the universities of our state\S helping ture with any hope for the children of the provide that leadership. the universities in the other na.tions, just as world, that struggle must be won. There is no the universities of other nations can help our guarantee that a world of well-fed people will universities. The cities in each of our states not go to war; but we can be sure that a can exchange ideas and visits with the cities world with a growing food gap, where some of another nation. Businessmen and labor eat too well and some eat almost not at all, JOZSEF CARDINAL MINDSZENTY A leaders, teachers and farmers and physicians is a world unsafe for our children. And the TRULY GREAT MAN can exchange visits. What can be achieved is two topics--food and population-are inex­ much greater understanding and sensitivity tricably intertwined. From the beginning of to the international situation; trade can in­ time until the year 1830, the world accumu­ crea.se; and there can be significant cultuml lated a total of one billion people. About HON. JAMES J. BLANCHARD enrichment. a century later we doubled that figure to OF MICHIGAN Twenty-eight percent of our military ex­ two billion people. The official statistics now IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES penditure since the Korean War has been show a population of 3.97 billion people. made in Indochina. With that large an ex­ Shortly after the year 2000-unless there is a Thursday, May 8, 1975 penditure no longer required, we are in a great change-there will be eight billion peo­ Mr. BLANCHARD. Mr. Speaker, on position to invest more in the economic fu­ ple on the face of the earth. There is no Tuesday, May 6, 1975, the world suffered ture of those both at home and abroad who easy, dramatic way to alter this pattern. But a great loss. For on this day, Jozsef Car­ have not had the opportunities they de­ what is clear in every nation of the earth serve. A military investment provides some and in statistical studies between nations, dinal Mindszenty, a man who exempli­ jobs and economic stimulus to the country is that generally as the standard of living fied the traits of courage and bravery manufacturing the arms. But it does noth­ rises, the birth rate goes down. If we want to passed away. The free world mourns the ing for the recipient nation economically. If avoid a population holocaust on the face of loss of this remarkable individual. instead of $150 blllion-plus on Southeast the earth, we must increase the standard of I, too, feel this loss for I have long Asia's conflict, the United States could have living in poorer nations where most now see admired and respected this brave man spent that same amount in economic invest­ having a large family as a means of social and the principles he stood for. His life ment/ assistance abroad, many nations would security. have healthier economies and would be buy­ The nations of the world must act to­ was one of sacrifice and dedication to ing our production-reducing substantially gether to meet these problems. We wlll have principles of freedom. He was a man of the unemployment which now plagues us. and we should have disagreements. But we integrity and fortitude. He was a man The United States has gone from almost can settle those disagreements either through of deep faith and devotion, a fighter three percent of our gross national product direct negotiations, or in the halls of the against tyranny. in assistance to those in need (under the United Nations, or in the International Cardinal Mindszenty spent nearly Marshall Plan) to less than one-fourth of Court of Justice. The United Nations has one-third of his life in prison or in exile, one percent today, one of the lowest per­ made mistakes. But so has this nation and centages among the wealthier nations of the every other nation. The United Nations has fighting for a freedom he was never able world. It is in our best interest to reverse also done some great and good and noble to enjoy. Yet, he never compromised his that diminishing response. I shall consult things and it has much greater tasks ahead ideals. He stood steadfastly behind his with the members of Congress to establish of it. The growing problem of how we handle beliefs though they brought him undue more realistic goals, goals which both our the resources and traffic on the international pain and suffering. He rebelled against economy and world needs dictate. seas is a problem that can be handled effec­ the forces of oppression; against And I want goals which are more than tively alone by the United Nations. The fascism and communism. dollar measurements. I want goals which rec­ multinational corporations which have con­ Perhaps, his greatest disappointment ognize certain basic human needs, and our tributed a great deal to many countries­ responsibility to work with other nations in good and bad-also represent some major was having to leave Hungary and being satisfying those needs. We Americans have problems that often cannot be dealt with removed as primate of Hungary in 1974. long known in our hearts that poverty any­ effectively by any one nation. Other exam­ It was not easy for him to leave the where is partly our problem. We have shown ples could be given. The new directions which country and the people he loved. As he this by the spectacular initiatives of the I am proposing tonight are not a call for stated then, "Cardinal Mindszenty can­ Marshall Plan, President Truman's Point retreat from international organizations. I not abdicate." Four Program, and our support of interna­ am in fact suggesting just the opposite. And The world has lost a heroic individual tional banks and funds to speed develop­ the indifference we have too often shown to ment tn the poorer countries. This deep hu­ world opinion and tb suggestions of inter­ and I mourn. The world will remember manitarian feeling 1s also reflected in the national bodies must pass. Right now there a man of spirit, a man of unwavering de­ extraordinary outpouring of American con­ are 29 human rights conventions called for votion. No one could respect freedom tributions to international relief agencies, by international bodies which the United more than Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty. May 8, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 13679 INSURING REPAYMENT OF FOREIGN Government has been unilaterally taking and violence on television and anti-social DEBTS actions affecting millions of Americans behavior. The information we examined, such without consulting Congress. The area of as the research project con ducted by the Surgeon General's office, did not confirm that HON. LEO C. ZEFERETTI foreign debts is an example of this kind any specific type of relationship consistently of activity. This is a time of congres­ exists. While some reports concluded that OF NEW YORK sional insistence on prerogatives set sex and violen ce is direct ly responsible for IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES aside for the legislative branch. The as­ anti-social behavior, and equal number of Thursday, May 8, 1975 sertion of congressional control over reports repudiated it. Most studies, both pro these negotiations and debts is a criti­ and con, have concluded that television is Mr. ZEFERETTI. Mr. Speaker, the cally important reassertion of the pre­ only an outside stimulus that can cause anti­ United States has laid out billions upon rogatives of the American people. social behavior. Psychologists have list ed billions of dollars on behalf of foreign many ot her possible factors such as stress governments. Today, those billions of dol­ within the family structure, uncertain moral lars remain on our books in the form values, increased academic demands, and a more automated, less personal society. Low of unpaid foreign debts. In the minds income, unsuitable employment, and poor of many, these debts have been writ­ REPORTS OF THE SEVENTH OHIO living conditions are still other causes for ten off. I feel, however, that they should DISTRICT YOUTH ADVISORY violent and/ or anti-social behavior. be repaid to our country by those na­ COUNCil.. Using the last three factors as an example, tions who incurred them. Furthermore, we can see why it is very difficult to deter­ these repayments should be on mutually mine the exact cause for a violent act. If a agreed-upon terms. HON. CLARENCE J. BROWN young man from a ghetto area commits a As of the end of the last fiscal year, murder while robbing a bank, is it because, we were owed $32 billion by foreign na­ OF OHIO 1) he watched a great number of violent pro­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES grams, 2) his family has a low income, 3) his tions, exclusive of World War I debts. father has a "dead-end" job, or 4) he was This is a staggering amount of money. Thursday, May 8, 1975 cold last night in his unheated apartment? More unsettling, however, is the fact Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, the Thus, while televi.sion may play an important that in recent years, the executive branch fourth annual Youth Advisory Council in role in anti-social behavior, to place the of our Government has been entering blame entirely upon the medium when so the Seventh Ohio District has again pro­ many other factors could be involved would into agreements with a number of debtor duced some valuable studies of current nations, resulting in the write-off of some be incorrect. Likewise, to enact legislation national issues. These high school stu­ on such slim evidence would also be in­ $5 billion. This is an unacceptable pol­ dents from my district have reported to correct. icy to the overwhelming majority of me on the results of the deliberations This committee has several suggestions for Americans and to the overwhelming ma­ they made during the school year, with voluntary legislation by local and network jority of the Congress. the help of expert witnesses. stations. First, we feel that the Ways and The average American is very heavily So that others may benefit from the Means Committee and its subcommittees taxed today. Some 10 million Americans should consider the possib111ty of offering tax results of their work, I would like to place breaks to networks and advertisers who: 1) are out of work. A combination of these in the RECORD at this point, the Clark two facts only serves to aggravate the provide positive television programming, and, County Committee's report on sex and 2) consistently furnish m.tings and/or warn­ fact that these Americans are left with violence on television and the Marion­ ings for viewers. the burden of making up the loss of rev­ Union Counties Committee's proposed Second, we feel that long-term financing enue resulting from unpaid foreign debts. bill on the subject of tax credits for high­ should be enacted for the Corporation of And, the burden is increased when our er education: Public Broadcasting. This corporation's pur­ Government cancels delinquent debts or pose, as set in the Public Broadcasting Act CLARK COUNTY COMMITI'EE REPORT ON THE of 1967, is to disperse federal and private fails to collect others. Such attempts by QUESTION OF THE NEED FOR LEGISLATION TO the executive branch to cancel, resched­ funds for cultural program production. Up CONTROL SEX AND VIOLENCE ON TELEVISION until now, the Corporation's budget has been ule, renegotiate, or settle any foreign The members of the Clark County Com- set for only one fiscal year at a time, and debt at less than the full value of that mittee on the Legislation of Sex and Violence has varied from year to year. This has pre­ debt should require full congressional on Television have studied this issue for sev­ vented the Corporation from establishing approval. eral months and have come to the conclusion effective long-term programming. Presently, these debts are being nego­ that no legislation should be made regulating Finally, this committee has concluded that tiated with little public or congressional sex and violence on television. The first and the ultimate authority on programming be­ knowledge. Yet, such debts are owed foremost reason is that restriction of the longs to the general public. All of our wit­ every U.S. taxpayer. These are the people media by the government violates the First nesses assured us that the public reactions Amendment to the Constitution, which pro­ are the major factors in determining pro­ who extended the loans on the reason­ tects the freedoxns of speech and of the gramming. We strongly urge the people to able assumption that they would be hon­ press. Such a thin line exists between cen­ use this power to its utmost capacity to ored and fully repaid according to the sorship and restriction for the common good, assure them of better programming. agreed-upon terms. And, the funds that any blll concerning this would not stand Following discussion, with no amend­ themselves were lent as a result of con­ up in a court of law. ments, the full Council adopted the report gressional action. Therefore, any nego­ Our second reason for not writing a bUl is of the committee by a vote of 23-0. tiations affecting these debts should al­ that the terms SEX and VIOLENCE can not Clark County Committee Members: low for representation on the part of the be uniformly defined by anyone-including Tecumseh High School-Nancy Fluty, 1720 the Supreme Court--for the American pub­ Addison Rd., New Carlisle 45344. Congress. lic. This is because of the vast differences in Northeastern High School-sue Prosser. I feel that the behind-the-door nego­ the moralities and tastes of the general pub­ 1312 Waltin Lane, Springfield 45503. tiations are resulting in a massive give­ lic throughout the country and even with­ Northwestern High School-Kent Stewart, away. Therefore, what is evident is the in a broadcast range. 3668 St. Paris Pike, Springfield 45504. need for congressional oversight and in­ No legislation can be enacted {effectively) North High School-steven Parker, 1003 vestigation into the matter. Legislation concerning "family hours" and "adult hours" Fruitland Rd., Spl'ingfied 45503. has been introduced in both Houses to because of the different time zones. Our wit­ Shawnee High School-Roger Southward, nesses from WHIO, Station Manager Jack 2341 Crabill Rd., Springfield 45502. require congressional approval for settle­ McCarthy, stated that It is financially im­ Joint Vocational School-Mr. Chris Daul­ ment of any foreign debt at less than its possible for every local station to delay all ton, 1019 Cypress St., Springfied 45505. full value. I am pleased to have been in­ "adult" shows that originate from New York Southeastern High School-sarah Mc­ formed that the bills have received or L()S Angeles that are relayed during "fam­ Donough, 5906 E. Pitchin Rd., South Charles­ strong bipartisan support, and to an­ ily hours". ton 45368. Documentaries and the news present an­ nounce that I joined in cosponsoring the Catholic Central High School--cathy other problem for legislation. If sex and vio­ bill in the House and will vote for it in lence are presented in a factual and "taste­ Bookser, 1220 Glenmore Dr., Springfield its present form when it reaches the ful" form, this doesn't make lt any less harm­ 45503. tloor in Congress. ful. Once again, we must protect the right Greenon High School-Jim Stephens, 135 I feel that more is at stake than just of free speech. Green Valley Dr., Enon 45323. the settlement of previous debts. For a This committee attempted to determine South High School-Robyn Markley, 1557 number of years, the executive branch of what type of relationship exists between sex McKinley Ave., Springfield 45505. 13680 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 8, 1975

TAX CREDIT FOR HIGHER EDUCATION and triumph, of domination and deter­ fellows by two or three of the confederates A BILL mination. For centuries, the Polish peo­ who never lost sight of them for a moment. On the stroke of eleven, the King entered To provide tax credits for students seek­ ple have struggled to build a society free the Hall of Sessions preceded by the Marshal ing l1igher education by revising federal tax from the influence of outside govern­ of the Diet and followed by a numerous ret­ codes. ments, and a nation dedicated to the inue. He was greeted with loud applause. The following deflni tions shall apply to principles of freedom and dignity. Yet, The High-Steward then struck his staff thrice this blll: even today, the Polish people stil suffer to impose silence and, amidst a deep hush, Student: A person who is enrolled in an from alien interference in their lives. Malachowski opened the session. He reminded accredited educational institution. the deputies of the disasters which had al­ Higher Education: Accredited colleges and Today, however, I would like to call our attention to one of the more glorious ready befallen the Republlc. He warned them universities, and technical and business that still more terrible disasters might mo­ schools. moments in Polish history, the adoption mentarily be expected. Then he beckoned Tax Credit: Amount of aid extended in of the Constitution of Poland. On May 3, to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs the form of a credit subtracted from the 1791, Poland adopted a constitution based to read aloud the latest dispa. tches from the amount of income taxes due to the Federal on the idea that men are free and equal, Polish Ambassador abroad. government after deductions and exemp­ and designed to establish a democratic ". . . They were serious enough certainly. tions have been taken into account. legislature and to curtail the oppressive From Vienna., Paris, Dresden, and the Hague Educational Expenses: Tuition, fees and came reports of Prussian intrigues aiming at books. power of the king. One hundred and eighty-four years later, the Polish Con­ a fresh partition of Poland. St111 more alarm­ The following persons shall be eligible ing was the news from St. Petersburg. Debill, for full educational tax credits: The stu­ stitution remains as a shining tribute to the Polish Minister at the Russian Court, dents who have been enrolled in a. higher mankind's noblest instincts. reported that Catherine's official mouthpiece, education program for not more than ten In conjunction with this month's cele­ the Russian Vice-Chancellor, Osterman, had (10) years and whose net adjusted income bration of Polish Constitution Day, it has said to him: 'If you Poles are eternally does not exceed $30,000 per annum. Those been my privilege to appear before vari­ wrangling and quibbling among yourselves students (or their families it the student(s) ous groups interested in Polish culture without coming to any conclusion, you wm receives full support from them) whose net lose all your provinces and be made quite adjusted income exceeds $30,000 shall have and history. Thousands have joined in retelling the story of Polish Constitution that way.' He concluded with a note of warn­ the amount of the tax credit reduced by ing: 'Our divisions and disorders are only one (1) per cent for each $1,000 in excess of Day, and today I would like to share with too welcome to our neighbors who wlll take the $30,000 level. my colleagues an excellent account which the first opportunity of compensating them­ The amount of the credit shall be deter­ appeared recently in the Post Eagle, a selves at our expense.' Finally, Matuszewica mined by taking 100 % of the first 200 dol­ north Jersey newspaper. Written by Post turned to the throne with these words: lars of educational expenses, 50% of the next Eagle columnist and associate editor 'Such, Sire, is the political situation abroad. 300 dollars of educational expenses, and 15% E. Wilczynski, this account further un­ It behooves your Majesty and the Ulustrious of the next 2,000 dollars of educational ex­ Estates to provide for the safety of the Re­ penses for each student. derscores the importance of this famous day. Mr. Speaker, the article follows: publlc.' The intent of the bUl shall in no way be "For a. moment intense sllence prevalled. constructed as a replacement for ed.ucat.lonal A COMMENTARY ON POLISH HISTORY Then an uneasy muttering was audible, in grants. (By Associate Editor E. Wilczynski) the midst of which Ignatius Potocki slowly Amendments: I have been receiving many letters as of arose. All eyes instinctively turned toward Line 11: By a. vote of 30-2 the words "and the leader of 'the Patriots' who for so long books" were added following the word late requesting that I reprint some of my earlier historical columns for use by vari­ a. time had been the most determined op­ "fees". ous Polonian institutions in teaching our ponent of his Sovereign. In view of the dan­ Line 15: By a vote of 81-3 the words "1! ger threatening the Republic, said Potocki, the student(s) receive full support from culture. Since many topics have been cited, I will attempt to write of them in the order there was but one thing to be done-ap­ them" were added following the word "fam­ of their historical significance. peal to the King for counsel. 'You, Sire,• he ilies". continued, turning toward Stanislaus, 'you, Line 20: By a vote of 28-1 the words "for During the upcoming month of May as in every May past since 1791, the adoption of Sire, have the authority, the will, and the each student" were added following the word talents which entitle you, and you only, to "expenses". the viable Constitution of Poland is cele­ brated. It is probably the most important render this service to the Republic. God Following the addition of amendments, the grant us grace to forgo forever our private blll was adopted by the full Councll by a landmark in the history of our Fatherland. There happens to be an actual account of animosities.' vote of 34-1. how it all happened on that fateful May 3rd, "Stanislaus Immediately stood up and Marlon and Union Counties Committee beckoned to all the Ministers and Senators Members: 1791, a mere 184 years ago. Since there is no doubt that it wlll enrich your historical to draw near to the throne. Then, very sol­ Ma.rysvllle High School-George R. Ihnatko understanding of Poland, I've decided to emnly, he declared that after what they had m, 523 Amrine-Mlll Rd., Marysvme 43040. share it with you. The excerpt is from "The just heard lt was obvious that any further Ridgedale High School---scott Hoffman, Last King of Poland and His Contempo­ delay in establlshing a new and stable Con­ 1637 Irving-Shoots Rd., Morra143337. raries" by R. Nisbet Bain. Here it is. . . . stitution must be fatal to Poland. I suppose,' Fairbanks High School-Rob Wilson, R. R. "Early on May 3, 1791 an unusual he concluded, 'to read to you a project, care­ #2, Box 266, Marysvllle 43040. commotion was observable 1n the streets of fully drawn up and earnestly recommended North Union High School-Mark Redmond, Warsaw. Regiments of foot and squadrons by many well disposed citizens.' Cries of R. R. #8, Box 219, Richwood 43344. of horse soldiers were seen hastening from 'The project, the project' came from every Pleasant High School-Dan Jesse, 2156 the barracks to the Palace where the Diet part of the House. The draft of the new Bethlehem Rd., Prospect 43342. was about to assemble. They were speedily Constitution was then read. It was received River Valley High School-Mary Lawrence, followed by civic guilds, headed by their with shouts of 'Zgoda! Zgoda!' (Agreed! 150 Harding Way East, Marlon 43302. residents, with their banners borne before Agreed!) Malachowski, on behalf of the Diet, Elgin High School-Mike Mosley, 1180 them. The streets were thronged by excited, thereupon thanked the King for glvlng them Keener Ave., Marlon 48302. gesticulating crowds of all classes. The most the best of all possible Constitutions and Marion Harding High School-Bue Court­ disquieting rumors were afloat. Every one begged him to confirm and strengthen 'the right, 628 King Ave., Marlon 48802. was 1n a state of febrile expectation. People new contract between King and people!' by Marlon cathollc High School-Phlllp Feld­ whispered to each other that something swearing to observe it there and then. The man, 244 Hane Ave., Marlon 43302. great, something unusual, was about to hap­ Chamber supported the petition of its Mar­ pen, and that the fate of Poland depended shal with loud cries of: 'We beg! We Beg!' upon the events of the next few hours. ". . . The Marshal very adroitly, ordered "The Hall of Sessions was already full to all those who were 1n favor of the Constitu­ overflowing. The galleries were thronged by tion to keep sllence a.nd all those who were, POLISH CONSTITUTION DAY women of the upper classes. The benches of not 1n favor of lt to come forward and the deputies were surrounded by extra par­ speak. This placed the malcontents ln a very liamentary pollticians and agitators. In the awkward position by revealing thelr numeri­ front of the Marshal's barrier sat Prince Jo­ cal weakness, for it was now patent that HON. HENRY HELSTOSKI seph Poniatowski with the King's adjutant, they would only count upon eleven members OF NEW JERSEY General Golkowskl. A score or so of Uhians 1n a House of more than two hundred. Be­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES stood near them at attention. The throne was fore they could recover themselves, Zabriel­ Thursday, May 8, 1975 surrounded by numerous officers of the Royal lo, the deputy for Livonia, moved that all Guard. The opponents of reform had taken who loved their country should vote for the Mr. HELSTOSKI. Mr. Speaker, the their seats three tlmes, but each of them was new Constitution on the spot and that h1s history of Poland has been one of tragedy speedily surrounded and separated from hls Majesty should set the example by swearing May 8, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 13681 to observe it first of all. He then left his He was, in addition, awarded numerous Advanced weapon technology relies on seat and approached the throne followed decorations for duty in both World Wars, sophisticated computers ... Soviet computer by all the Ministers and Senators and the and in 1948 he received a commission as technology has always been years behind that great majority of the deputies. Surrounding of the West. the King, they begged him, with enthusiasm, a reserve brigadier general. to watt no longer but to take the oath. The While in Congress, Kenneth Keating Everybody seems to agree except the ladies in the galleries, waving their hands distinguished himself especially in the administration and the U.S. Department and fluttering their handkerchiefs, and the fields of civil rights, immigration and of State. general public on the floor of the Chamber congressional reform, health care, crime There is still a third area in which the concurred. and narcotics control, and draft law United States seems determined to help Loud cries of: "Long live the King! Long revision. the Soviets. While a $300 million limit live the Constitution!" resounded on every side. For the moment the Diet had ceased I would close, Mr. Speaker, by includ­ on credits from the U.S. Eximbank to to be a legislative assembly and had become ing in the RECORD this short but apt ex­ the Soviets is in effect, El Paso Natural a huzzahing mob. The enthusiasm within ~erpt from a statement by Vice-Presi­ Gas is going ahead in getting American the Chamber penetrated first to the corridors dent ROCKEFELLER: banks to finance gas exploration in the of the Palace and then to the crowds out­ With courage in wartime, with effective­ Soviet Union. side and soon all the streets and squares in ness in both the House and Senate, with jus­ At a time that the United States is Warsaw were ringing with cries of: "Long tice on the bench of the highest court of seeking to increase its own domestic en­ live the King! Long live the King!". In all New York State, with diplomatic acumen in ergy supplies-a job that the Chase Man­ that vast assembly the sole dissentient was India and Israel, Ambassador Keating served hattan Bank says will take billions of the irrepressible Suchorzewskl. Unable to this nation brilliantly and tirelessly. His make himself heard any longer he flung him­ death at this time is a particular loss because dollars--El Paso Natural Gas Co. is put­ self down in front of the throne and the of the key role he had been playing in the ting together a $100 million package of mob of Senators, Mintstem and Deputies search for peace in the Middle East. commercial bank financing. It is ex­ trampled him under foot as they rushed for­ pected that the project will need more ward to take the oath. The wretched man I join with all Americans in mourning than $4 billion. As I have repeatedly would have been trodden to death on the the loss of a friend and outstanding asked, do we think the Soviet Union spot had not the gigantic deputy, Pan Kub­ public servant. licki, snatched him up and taken him out would be less willing to use as a weapon of the Chamber like a child, yelling and any energy dependence on them by us struggling to the last. than the Arabs have? Do we really think "Mean while, the din and tumult around SENDING AMERICAN URANIUM AND that if we became dependent on Soviet the throne had become so great that Stanis­ COMPUTERS TO THE SOVIET energy the Soviets would not use that laus was obliged to mount upon his chair­ UNION dependency as a political and economic of-state and make signs that he would speak. weapon against us? Why are we helping Silence instantly prevailed, and the King, in the Soviets to develop their energy re­ a loud voice, expressed his desire to accede HON. JOHN ·M. ASHBROOK sources when our own country needs to the unanimous will of the Diet that he OF OHIO should swear to observe the new Constitu­ such development? tion. 'Let some of you who are priests come IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES In the last few moments I have dis­ forward, therefore, and prescribe for me a Thursday, May 8, 1975 cussed three diiferent things that we are proper form of oath!' he concluded. Turski, providing the Soviets: Uranium, com­ Bishop of Cracow, and Fr. Gorzewski there­ Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Speaker, is the puters, and money to develop their en­ upon approached the throne, and while the supplying of uranium to the Soviet Union ergy resources. If the Soviet Union was former recited the proper formula the latter by the United States in our national in­ a friend, this help could be understood. held a copy of the Gospels wide open in terest? I do not think so. However, the But the Soviets have not shown their front of the King. With his hand resting U.S. Department of State is allowing the firmly on the Holy Gospels, Stanislaus took friendliness in Indochina, the Middle shipment of American uranium to the East, Portugal, CUba, nor to their own the oath. The whole assembly, in an ecstasy Soviet Union. Supposedly, the uranium of joy, thereupon flung their caps into the people. air, and, with streaming eyes, shouted: 'Long is to be processed by the Soviet Union They have been showing something live the King! Long live the King!' After into fuel for power stations in other else: The largest naval exercises ever, taking the oath, the King exclaimed: 'Juravi countries. The processing results in the the development of two advanced anti­ Domino et ne poentibet! I call upon all production of an isotope which provides ballistic missile interceptors, and the de­ those who love their country to follow me power for nuclear electric plants and for velopment of a number of new ballistic to the Church to take the oath in common atomic bombs. missiles. and, at the same time, to thank God for According to the Wall Street Journal, permitting me to complete so solemn and The Soviets' massive supply of North benefici.al a work... the U.S. State Department says that such Vietnam is well-known. What is not so shipments would "not be inimical to the well known is that the Molotova mllitary common defense and security" of the trucks which were carrying North Viet­ United States and its allies. All kinds of namese soldiers and weapons were built KENNETH 'KEATING-A FINE rationales can be put forth and are being in the Gorki plant. The Gorki plant AMERICAN put forth, but I for one cannot under­ was built by Ford in the last large expan­ stand how such shipments of uranium sion of U.S.-Soviet "trade" in the 1920's can be anything but harmful to our in­ and 1930's. Will the uranium and com~ HON. RONALD A. SARASIN terests. Shipping uranium to the U.S.S.R. puters that I have been discussing also OF CONNECTICUT which can be used to make atom bombs be used against the United States or its IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES is beyond belief. How can our Govern­ allies? ment be allowing such trade? Thursday, May 8, 1975 But shipping uranium is not the only Mr. SARASIN. Mr. Speaker I wish to thing that is happening. It is reported note, with great sadness, the passing of that ffiM has been given permission by FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY a good friend and fine American. Ken­ the administration to sell 11 computers BICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION neth Keating, who had been serving since worth $10 million to the Soviet Union. August of 1973 as Ambassador to Israel, Computer technology is necessary for the HON. ANDREW MAGUIRE died on Tuesday from a heart attack advanced weapon systems of today. OF NEW JERSEY suffered while visiting a hospitalized rel­ Even Jack Anderson has written 1n a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ative in New York City. recent column: Thursday, May 8, 1975 Ken Keating's distinguished career in The Soviets are at least 10 years behind 1n public service began in this very House computer development. They have produced Mr. MAGumE. Mr. Speaker, it is with in 1946, where he was a Member for 12 one computer of significant capacity, and it pride that I insert into the CONGRESSION­ years. He has also served as senator from would take about 32 of them to equal one AL RECORD information about a most New York, as Ambassador to India and, top-line U.S. computer. unusual overseas Bicentennial commem­ between these two, as an associate jus­ It seems everybody is agreeing with oration sponsored by Fairleigh Dickinson tice of the New York Court of Appeals. what I said more than 1% years ago: University, New Jersey's largest inde- 13682 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 8, 1975 pendent higher educational institution. of lawns, lakes and woodlands in the heart humanitarian effort to rescue the thou­ Fairleigh Dickinson University, one of the of the Cotswold country, is an appropriately sands of South Vietnamese from almost. historic and beautiful setting for such a certain death. 10 largest private universities in the Na­ symposium. The North family occupied what tion, with an enrollment of more than was Wroxton Abbey for almost 300 years. As possibly the whole civilized world 19,000 and alumni numbering nearly 80,- The abbey was the home of Frederick, Earl knows, Guam has played host in the past. 000, is interested in promoting meaning­ of Guilford, Lord North of Kirtling who was weeks to thousands of South Vietnamese ful colloquy about the revolutionary Prime Minister from 1770 to 1782. It has refugees. At present, there are over 40,- period and its impact on the two nations been left to future generations to surmise 000 refugees on the island although they directly involved. what Lord North would have said about his are rapidly being processed to move on stately Oxfordshire mansion being used to to other areas. It is anticipated that. Fairleigh Dickinson University is in a educate the descendants of those erstwhile unique position to do this because in colonial rebels. thousands more will be arriving there in 1964 it acquired a permanent campus in The present mansion wa.s rebUilt on the the near future. Wroxton, England. From June 11 through foundation of a Priory of Augustin1a.n Canons In the midst of the confusion and end­ June 14 of this year the university will founded in 1217 by Michael Belet, a North less work surrounding the processing of bring together at its Wroxton campus Oxfordshire landowner who endowed the the refugees, Ambassador L. Dean Brown leading scholars from the United States Priory with his Wroxton Manor House. In must be commended. He and his staff as the 320 years between 1217 and 1537, England well as many military and civilian offi­ and England for a Bicentennial sym­ changed a grewt deal but Wroxton hardly at posium aimed at reinforcing through all. Very little is recorded of its history dur­ cials on Guam all deserve our support academic dialog the close ties that have ing this period. In 1537, Sir Thomas Pope, a and recognition for doing a very difficult developed between the United States and wealthy courtier and friend of both Henry job under such circumstances. England. VIII and Sir Thomas More, whose famlly had Guam, however, is a small island with At a time when the world needs in­ acquired the Wroxton property, used the limited resources. Our ability to do more telligent discourse to promote better un­ Priory and tts then 3,000 plus acres, to endow than lend a temporary helping hand is Trinity College at Oxford University. hindered by an economy which is in pre­ derstanding among all nations it is most Although Pope had no d.ireot heirs, here­ appropriate that Fairleigh Dickinson tained for the descendants of his brother cipitous decline. The island already University should offer this kind of Bi­ John, a perpetual right to loo.se and live in faces a rising unemployment rate and centennial conference. Because I am for­ the Priory which came to be called "The Old only in the past few days have we dis­ tunate to have this university among my Abbey House," and later "Wrox.ton Abbey." covered that the U.S. Navy is laying off constitutents I include the following for From this a.ct is derived the curious f.act tha,t over 350 personnel at the Guam naval inclusion in the RECORD: the la.ter Popes and the more important ship repair facility. Although I have Norths, who were united to the Popes by opposed such action, both on the basis FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSrrY PLANS marriage in the 17th century, almost alone WROXTON BICENTENNIAL among the greatest of English families, were of humanitarian concern for those work­ At what will certainly be the first, and per­ not owners, but merely tenants in their "own ers affected and because any move to haps the only, American bicentennial cele­ home." For this reason, when William Henry reduce naval forces on Guam would, in bration on British son, Fairleigh Dickinson John North, ll.t.h Lord North, died in 1932, my opinion, be disastrous for U.S. mili­ University will bring together scholars and and his heirs decided to leave WroXJton, the tary plans in the Pacific at this point in government leaders representing both sides Abbey reverted to Trinity COllege, Oxford, our history, the Navy's decision only re­ of the Revolution. The event is a. unique the rightful owner for almost 400 years. It inforces my concern over the island's four-day bicentennial symposium beginning wa.s from Trinity College that the Abbey was economic condition. June 11 in Wroxton, England. acquired in 1964 by Fairleigh Dickinson Uni­ The double irony of the bicentennial con­ versity. Under these circumstances, I am ference is that FDU's Wroxton campus-the The University has done much to retain deeply concerned that Guam may find first British-based higher education institu­ and add to the historic charm o! rthe ancient itself called upon to provide permanent tion to be owned by an American univer­ homestead, while making it a pLace for sert­ residence to more individuals than we sity-was the ancestral home of Lord Fred­ ous academic study for both undergraduate can reasonably handle. In fact Governor erick North, Prime Minister under King and graduate students. Bordallo was forced by circumstances to George Ill during the American Revolution. As part of the June bicentennial symposi­ The symposium will be a. British-American um, the Univer.:.i:ty wlll dedicate the recen,tly declare the island of Guam in a state retrospective examination of the Revolution­ renovalted carriage house of Wroxton Abbey of emergency. Almost across the board. ary period by distinguished historians, edu­ in honor of Mr. Morris Leverton, a generous leaders of major American communities cwtors and political leaders from both coun­ benefactor of the Wroxton Campus and of are resisting any influx of refugees into tries. Fairleigh Dickinson University. The former their areas. Noted American historian Dr. Henry Steele carrLa.ge house will be dedicated as Morris While I appreciate the efforts of the Commager will discuss "The Creative Force of Leverton Hall and there will be a rededication U.S. officials in charge of the refugee American Revolution." Professor Esmond of the building previously named for Morris task force, I am concerned about the Wright, director, Institute of American Leverton, in honor of his wife, Ann Leverton. Studies, University of London, will speak on Through the generosity of the Levertons, the impact of their decisions on an island "The Role of the Losers." old carriage house has been remodeled and 30 miles long and 8 miles wide. We on Professor Ian Ralph Christie of University furnished, providing additional liVing quar­ Guam are proud to do our &hare. But College, University of London, wlll talk of ters and new dining and kt.tchen fac111ties for quite frankly, many members of the "British Ministerial Perspectives During the the ca.mpus. government of Guam, our legiElature. American Revolutionary Crisis, 1763-1776." It is a true symbol of the American heritage private citizens, and myself are con­ Dr. Saul Padover, Distinguished Professor and Anglo-American cooper.wtions that each cerned that the State Department, lack­ of American History, New School of Social year Fa.irleigh Dickinson University sends Research, will speak about "Benjamin Frank­ about 80 undergraduate students and 60 ing alternative destinations for the refu­ lin, A Man Truly for All Seasons." summer semester graduate students to l.Jts gees may attempt to resettle dispropor­ Others speakers on the program are: Wroxton campus to bask in the glory of tionately large numbers on Guam. There Norman Cousins, editor and publisher of British history, drama and llter&ture. Wh&t are undoubtedly some desirable refugees The Saturday Review; The Hon. Brendan T. betJter place to ha.ve a bicentennial sympo­ that can contribute to the well-being of Byrne, governor of the State of New Jersey; &l.um? the territory such as skilled and profes­ Chancellor J. Steven Watson, St. Andrews sional people as well as busineES entre­ University, Scotland; Dr. Charles Ritcheson, preneurs. Finally, it should be recog­ cultural attache, United States Embassy, STATEMENT ON VIETNAMESE nized that this is a Federal problem and London. REFUGEES The symposium, conceived by Fairleigh S. its solution lies within the Federal Gov­ Dickinson, Jr., chairman of FDU's Board of ernment. We cannot impose an undue Trustees, was designed as" a unique example HON. ANTONIO BORJA WON PAT burden on our State and territorial gov­ of Anglo-American academic cooperation, OF GUAM ernments-a responsibility they are not marking the close ties that have developed IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES adequately prepared to assume. between Great Britain and the United States. In recognition of the role which the The program is a joint effort of the Institute Thursday, May 8, 1975 of Graduate International Studies at Fair­ Federal Government must play in this leigh Dickinson University, the United King­ Mr. WON PAT. Mr. Speaker, on behalf matter, I have earlier E.ponsored legisla­ dom's Royal Society of Arts and the New of the American people of Guam, I rise tion with Representative ANDERSON of Jersey Bicentennial Commission. to express my deep pride in the role California and other Members of the Wroxton College, on 56 picturesque acres which our island is playing in the great House to amend the Migration and Refu- May 8, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 13683 gee Assistance Act of 1962 to provide for Massachusetts Committee of Safety, to people from many countries of the assistance to the refugees from South­ capture the fort. All the men had been world, joined in winning the ultimate east Asia. The House Judiciary Com­ raised by Allen, and they refused to victory which gave to us this great mittee is presently considering a similar march under another leader. Allen al­ Nation. legi~.lation and I look forward to early lowed Arnold to march at his side, but pasEage of such a II118asure by the House. retained command. I am also today introducing a House A large scow and one small boat com­ WE THE PEOPLE . . . .Tesoiution which addresses itself to the prised the available transport. Allen need to assure equitable placement of filled these with 83 men and embarked the Vietnamese refugees by providing with Arnold. The force arrived beneath HON. L. A. (SKIP) BAFALIS language which states: the walls of the fort shortly after 3 a.m. OF FLORIDA The President should take any steps With Allen leading, the men climbed an within his power to prevent the refugees embankment to a breach in the south IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES from settling indisproportionate numbers in wall of the fort, opposite a wicket-gate Thursday, May 8, 1975 -Guam or any other State or Territory of the with a sentry. 'United States. Mr. BAFALIS. Mr. Speaker, I would Ethan Allen overpowered the sentry, like to submit, for the review of my col­ It is my belief that America can and raced into the courtyard, and, with leagues, the remarks of Judge Harold will produce a solution to the refugee Arnold at his side, demanded the sur­ Smith, judge of the 20th circuit court of question which will be fair to all con­ render of the fortress, "In the Name of Florida, dealing with the Constitution of cerned. I trust that the legislation I in­ the Great Jehovah and the Continental our country. I have read Judge Smith's troduced today will be a ~mall start Congress." Bowing to the inevitable, the remarks and feel that they constitute a toward that end. After the years of British commander, Capt. William de la Place, handed his sword to Allen. It was fitting birthday remembrance for Amer­ American sacrifice on behalf of democ­ ica. If we were to all keep these ideals in racy and liberty in South Vietnam, the over in a few minutes; no one was killed. mind while exercising our legislative re­ resettlements of those who were dis­ But America had achieved her first vic­ sponsibilities, I feel we could do a more placed by recent events will be a fitting tory. There was great rejoicing, and, to trustworthy job in representing our con­ .and proud end to our involvement in quote the redoubtable Ethan: stituents-the people of this great coun­ that tragic war. The sun seemed to rise with a superior try. lustre-and we tossed about the flowing bowl. The remarks follow: Two hundred years later a dramatic REMARKS BY JUDGE HAROLD SMITH reenactment of that day will take place We the people of the United States, in TWO-HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY when at 3 a.m. on May 10, 1975, at Fort order to form a more perfect Union, establish REENACTMENT OF THE CAPTURE Ticonderoga, descendants of Ethan Allen, Justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide OF FORT TICONDEROGA TO BE Benedict Arnold, and the 83 captors cross for the common defense, promote the gen­ HELD MAY 10, 1975 Lake Champlain before dawn and invade eral welfare, and secure the blessings of lib· erty to ourselves and our posterity- the fortress. These words are the preamble to the Con­ The U.S. Army's "Old Guard'' 3d stitution of the United States. The Constitu· HON. ROBERT C. McEWEN Infantry Fife and Drum Corps, and the tion is the outgrowth of the independence OF NEW YORK Ticonderoga Fife and Drum Corps will that was declared 13 years earlier on July IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES participate in day-long festivities. Most 4th, 1776. Listen again to those words.... appropriately, the reenactments and We the people of the United States, in Thursday, May 8, 1975 celebrations will be New York State's order to form a more perfect Union, establish Mr. McEWEN. Mr. Speaker, May 10, first Bicentennial event. justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general 1975, is a date of great significance to Fortunately for America, the fort welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty all Americans. On that date, America's stands today as it did 200 years ago be­ to ourselves and our posterity.... Let us first victory in the Revolution was won cause of the foresight and initiative of analyze these objectives one by one. without firing a shot when Ethan Allen an individual American citizen and the Form a more perfect union. This union has and 83 Green Mountain Boys captured continuing interest and effort of his been formed, enlarged and maintained. Many Fort Ticonderoga, N.Y., from the British. descendants. At a time when so many times new states were admitted until this Fort Ticonderoga was strategically lo­ may feel that if anything is to be done perfect union was enlarged from the original cated on the inland waterway route be­ right, it has to be done by government, 13 to its present union of 50 cohesive, unitary states. At one dark period in our history this tween the British colonies and Canada. Fort Ticonderoga is a monument to the union was threatened with dissolution, but The fort, built by the French but taken concern and dedication of individual after the blood of brothers was spilled and by the British, commanded the outlet of Americans. Mr. John Pell of Ticonderoga, the wounds of war were healed, the Union Lake George into Lake Champlain. Sol­ now heads the foundation, which has was preserved. idly built on a promontory it was known done an outstanding job in the restora­ Establish Justice. This is the keystone of as the "Gibraltar of the New World." tion and preservation of this magnificent our nation. We have established justice to Allen's victory had three military re­ old fort. It was John Pell's great, great the point where all men are equal under sults: Fort Ticonderoga, guardian of the grandfather, William Ferris Pell-and the law. No man is below the law. No man is above it. Thank God, throughout the life colonies' north gate, was denied to the the great, great, great grandfather of of our nation this great country has been British; cannon from Ticonderoga en­ Senator CLAIBORNE PELL-WhO acquired a government of laws and not a government abled the Americans to drive the British title to this fort 155 years ago. Had it not of men. It is the established laws which out of Boston; American morale was been for the unstinting efforts and devo­ provide the framework by which the men stimulated by the victory. tion of this great American family, the who are but temporarily in charge run the Lexington and Concord are highlights planned reenactment could never have country all within the guidelines and limita­ of America's story, but those actions were come about. tions of the law. Men may come and men may go but the law lives on. We may not in response to British aggression. At F'ort Many Americans will be privileged to love nor respect the particular individuals. Ticonderoga, American troops, for the witness the stirring reenactment at Fort in our government at any particular time, first time, took the offensive against Brit­ Ticonderoga on May 10. For the many but we must at all times respect and obey ish regulars in a British stronghold. This millions of others who will be unable to the law that controls them. was rebellion. attend, I take this means of recalling In a commencement address at Princeton The operation began when some 230 to them that on that date, 200 years be­ University in 1835, Supreme Court Justice men assembled at Hand's Cove, about 1 fore, a band of hardy Americans won the William Gaston said, "Rebellion against the law is in the nature of treason. The law mile north of the promontory of Ticon­ first victory in the battle for freedom in deserves our obedience; it alone can recon­ deroga and across the lake from the fort, America. At this time of turmoil and deep cile the jarring interests of all and blend on the evining of May 9, 1775. Allen was inner doubt, let this day serve to remind into one harmonious union the discordant in command but Benedict Arnold joined all Americans that not only a rugged materials of which eociety 1s composed." the group, with a commission from the group of colonists, but freedom-loving Think on those words. There are some 1n 13684 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 8, 1975 our nation today who have tried to place So it has been our heritage of independ­ voting "present," in support of my themselves above the law, and to select ence and liberty for nearly 200 years. So will amendment. However, that vote was re­ those laws which they choose to obey and it be forever. versed in the full committee by a vote of Now to go back to the very beginning. We those they chose to disobey. Yet should 30 to 2 so that the SBA legislation now someone else choose to disobey the law which the people of the United States. Yes. All of protects these people, these selective law­ us. North, South, East, West, rich, poor, continues to allow this discriminatory breakers would proclaim that they were being black, white, Christian, Jew, Indian. All of practice of limiting funding to the six brutalized. This point so clearly illustrates us. We are the people of the United States, designated groups in certain programs. why the selectivity of obedience to the law and we the people of the United States love Most recently our colleagues JAMES is totally fallacious. As Justice Gaston said, this country of ours, this cradle of liberty ScHEUER sought to impose comparable "Rebellion against the law is in the nature and independence, May it endure forever. antidiscriminatory language, not related of treason." It is that simple. Happy birthday America. to poverty, in an amendment to the Insure domestic tranqu111ty. This part of our Constitution is of particular significance health manpower bill, H.R. 5546. His today. Never in our history except during amendment would have prohibited medi­ cal schools receiving funds under the bill the Civil War has our nation been so domes­ PART I: IN OPPOSITION TO RE­ from according a preference in admis­ tically un-tranquil. This strife and unrest VERSE DISCRIMINATION in our cities and universities ties directly sions to applicants based on race. He too back into what was said about respect for won in subcommittee by a unanimous our laws. We are a prosperous nation, yet we I. voice vote but the amendment was re­ have pockets of poverty. We are a peace­ HON. EDWARD KOCH loving nation, yet we have a world-wide mili­ OF NEW YORK jected in the full Interstate and Foreign tary commitment and are fighting a bloody IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Commerce Committee by a vote of 18 to 10. war in Viet Nam; (now closed thank God) Thursday, May 8, 1975 We are a law abiding nation in our interna­ Those of us who oppose quotas and tional relations and we respect our treaty Mr. KOCH. Mr. Speaker, on Sunday, preferential treatment support affirma­ commitments, but domestically we have a May 4, I attended a breakfast held by the tive action programs and do not find menace to our tranquility in the form of the Metropolitan New York Coordinating them inconsistent with our opposition to rioters, looters and arsonists in the streets, Council on Jewish Poverty. The purpose reverse discrimination. We believe that together with the subtle specter of organized Mafia-like crime. Our nation can be tran­ of the breakfast was to alert the legisla­ everyone-the poor, the uneducated, and qun if we will but enforce our laws that tors in New York to the fact that the those who have heretofore suffered dis­ insure this tranqu111ty. Enforce the laws Jewish elderly in the city of New York crimination-should be sought out and without fear or favor. are not receiving their fair share of alerted to the programs that are avail­ Provide for the common defense. Our na­ poverty funds made available by the Fed­ able and provided with an opportunity tion has not only provided for the common eral Government to deal with poverty be­ to increase and enhance their skills so defense but has insured that we shall be cause of the restrictions placed on the as to place them on a par with others prepared to meet and overcome all our en­ emies, domestic and foreign. To prove the de­ distribution of those funds by Federal to apply to all Federal and private pro­ termination set out in these words, our law. There are two major restrictions grams that may be available: but country has fought many wars in many which impact and in some cases deny when they apply the criteria should be places. American blood has enriched the soil assistance to those in poverty, not only based on poverty or merit or both but of many lands where our troops went forth Jews but a whole host of other identifi­ never on the basis of race, religion, creed, to do battle with those who would trample able groups. One of these artificial re­ national origin, color, or sex. on our flag. We must be equally vigilant to strictions allocates and directs pro­ Mr. Speaker, this issue is one that stifle those within our borders, calling them­ gramed funds only to people living in must be addressed directly. Notwith­ selves Americans who would defile and de­ face our flag. A Nazi or a Viet Cong owes designated poverty areas. The effect is standing the attacks that will be made on no allegiance to this grand old emblem of that those who are poverty stricken and those who seek to take it on, those who liberty and justice. All Americans do. Yet not living in a particular part of the city, are opposed to discrimination in any some bearded, beaded, filthy, scurrilous perhaps being even more deserving in in­ form must oppose preferential treatment scum proclaim their disdain for liberty by dividual cases than others living in such based on the factors of race, creed, color, asserting and arrogating unto themselves the designated areas, are denied funding. religion, sex, or national origin. To per­ liberty guaranteed by the blood in that flag A second artificial restriction is to mit discrimination in favor of anyone by defiling it. We must also provide for the limit certain funding programs to speci­ common defense against these enemies of because of his or her being within one of liberty. fied groups those classified as black, these classifications is, in fact, reverse Promote the general welfare. These words Spanish surname, Oriental, American In­ discrimination. And we must not flinch must not be construed to mean that ours dian, Aleuts, and Eskimos. The effect of from our obligation to oppose discrimi­ is to be a welfare state. It was independ­ such designation is to leave without equal nation whether it be direct or reverse. ence that our nation proclaimed on July 4, opportunity for assistance the more than 1776, 199 years ago. It was independence to 120 other national or ethnic groups, such open up a new country. To till the soil; to as Italo-American, Ukrainian American, tie the nation together by railroads and telegraphs. Independence to risk capital to Irish American, and Jewish American to PUBLIC LIBRARIES begin new enterprises. Independence to do a. name a few, as second class citizens inso­ days work for a day's wages. It was never in­ far as Federal poverty programs are con­ tended to promote the general welfare by cerned. How does one justify to a poverty HON. DAVID F. EMERY looking to the Government for a handout, stricken Italo-American living in earn­ OF MAINE nor to receive a bonus for laziness, sloth nor arise or a Ukrainian American living on IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES indolence. The general welfare means that First Avenue, that he or she is not eligible all must work that none might be deprived. for Federal poverty assistance when Thursday, May 8, 1975 The key word there is WORK. Secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves others perhaps less poverty stricken are? . Mr. EMERY. Mr. Speaker, I would like and our posterity. We have had the blessings In December 1973, when I served on to express my respect for the free public of liberty here 199 years. It laps over us like the Banking and Currency Committee, library system. Books open many differ­ a comforting cloak of security. It is truly a I sought to end what I consider to be a ent worlds for people of all ages. Books bles:;ing, this liberty of ours. Liberty is a discriminatory practice which effectively are adventurous, mysterious, informa­ hard-bought thing. It didn't just happen. denied direct loans to any otherwise tive, and entertaining. The free public It cost blood and swea.t and toll and tears. ~ligible applicant if he or she were not library has served as the threshold to With the destructive forces present today, in one of the six designated groups. I these worlds for the American people both within and without our country, it will was able to muster support in the Small since the early 180Q's. Now the existence require more blood and sweat and toll and tears to maintain it for ourselves-and more Business Subcommittee on which I sat of the free public library has been placed to provide in the SBA legislation lan­ importantly, to pass it on to our posterity in serious jeopardy with proposed Fed­ as a priceless heritage. A heritage that can­ guage which would bar discrimination eral funding cutbacks. not be bought, but can only be earned. It based on race, creed, color, religion, sex, My distinguished colleague from will be the greatest endowment that anyone or nationa! origin. The vote in subcom­ Maine, the Honorable BILL CoBEN, re­ could ever receive. mittee was 9 to 0 with two members cently spoke before the Maine Library May 8, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 13685 Association in Rockport, Maine. His knowledge, there are new and greater chal­ private elementary and secondary schools; lenges facing both you, as librarians, and for the purchase of laboratory and other spe­ speech best articulates our mutual re­ us in the Congress. cial equipment; and for testing students and spect for libraries and for books as an More and more, we as a Nation-and in­ strengthening guidance and counseling. educational vehicle. If there are no ob­ deed, the whole world-are faced with an This year, the administration requested jections, I would like to submit the text "information explosion." $137 million for these consolidated programs. of Mr. CoHEN's speech for the benefit of We have more books, more papers, more But no money was allocated for college my respected colleagues of the 94th documents of every kind, chronicling every libraries, even though existing law authorizes Congress. field of human thought and endeavor. Such basic grants 0'! up to $5,000 to each of 2,380 a wealth of information does us no good institutions for maintaining and updating The speech follows: unless it is accessible to those who need it their library collections. (In Maine, 25 insti­ SPEECH BY CONGRESSMAN Wn..LIAM S. COHEN when they need tt. Organizing this informa­ tutions stand to receive $125,000 in aid, if Aristotle, was once asked how much ed­ tion is a. monumental task--one we ha.va this mandate is fulfilled.) ucated men were superior to those who were delegated to our llbra.ry system. In the a.dmlnistra.tion budget, proposed uneducated. "As much," the gea.t philosopher In the face of the growth of knowledge, grants under the Library Services and Con­ said, "as the living are to the dead." the need for new books and materials has struction Act were reduced by more than Education and knowledge have been multiplled. Yet so has the cost of publishing one half. The administration has for some cherished goals for Americans since the Re­ and managing those same books and ma­ time been trying to reduce this kind of public was established. Education has been terials. The average book today costs about library aid in favor of some new kind of the vehicle for social and economic advance­ thirteen dollars-double its price in 1967. Federal support to be proposed through new ment for millions of Americans during the And the costs of construction, education, legislation and as part of the existing revenue past two centuries. And free public educa­ maintenance and technical manpower have sharing program. For the past two years, the tion has been a cornerstone of our political continued to climb with the inflation rate, administration has asked for appropriations system. For, as Thomas Jefferson once said, with no relief in sight. for its new library legislation, but the Con­ "If you expect a nation to be ignorant and I find it somewhat ironic. gress has yet to be provided with copies of free, you expect what never was and never Indeed, our country's hard economic this proposal for its consideration. will be." times have doubly challenged our li­ And It is worth pointing out that only one Education is the essential ingredient of braries. While inflation has been push­ per cent of general revenue sharing funds liberty. ing costs through the celling, unem- have been spent for libraries, and that sum Consider, for example, the words of Pres­ ~ ployment has been pushing more custom­ has reached only 14 percent of the libraries ident James Garfield: ers through your doors. Traditionally, hard throughout the country, much of it as "re­ "Next in importance to freedom and justice economic times have meant better business placement money" for State and local sup­ is popular education, without which neither for libraries. Today, we are witnessing a. re­ port. General revenue sharing can be help­ freedom nor justice can be permanently peat of the experience of the depression ful, but it is not an acceptable substitute maintained." era.. Now, as then, adults are using the li­ for the Library Services and Construction Compare them with those spoken by brary as a source of information about the Act as presently constituted. Adolph Hitler: job market, as a. place where they can get So what are we going to do about libraries? "Universal Education is the most corrod­ help in sharpening their occupational skllls I was distressed to walk into a local library ing and disintegrating polson that liberal­ or in acquiring new ones, and as a. virtually recently and read a. sign asking patrons to ism has ever invented for its own destruc­ cost-free way of passing the time construc­ list which services provided there they could tion." tively and purposefully. do without, because there was going to be The policy of the Fascist state or the to­ How are we going to meet these chal­ a. cutback in the budget. talitarian one is the repression of ideas and lenges? To leave the future of libraries in such a the suppression of the human spirit. Clearly, some careful long term planning state of uncertainty is unacceptable. I, for Without an educated electorate, without is called for. Last year, during the 93d Con­ one, intend to do all I can to provide librar­ educated leaders, our free Government could gress, a law was passed authorizing and re­ ies with the Federal funds they need to meet not have persisted these past two hundred questing the President to call a White House current demands. I believe there is a desire years. Conference on Library and Information Serv­ now in Congress to do just that. In keeping with our deep commitment to ices, to be held not later than 1978. The Just two weeks ago, for example, during education, Americans have always highly stated purpose of the legislation is to de­ National Library Week, the House approved prized their books, the storehouse of their velop recommendations for further improve­ the education division appropriations for knowledge. From the earliest New England­ ment of the Nation's libraries and informa­ fiscal year 1976, including substantial funds ers, whose libraries were their dearest posses­ tion centers. The conference can help the for libraries. sions, to Abraham Lincoln, whose devotion States and the Federal Government better As reported from committee, the bill con­ to books and learning helped carry him from to assess their publlc library needs and the tained $194 million for library resources, a log cabin to the White House, Americans resources avalla.ble to try to fill those needs. some $27 million more than the budget have placed their faith in books. Even today, While President Ford has not yet set a request. During the course of debate, an with all the competition of records, radio, date for the conference, there is an indica­ amendment was offered, which I supported, television and movies, the book maintains tion of his support in the fact he co-spon­ which added another $15 million for library its special character. People believe in books sored the legislation ca.ll1ng for the White programs. when they believe in nothing else. House meeting wh1le he was stlll a. Con­ As the legislation passed the House it con­ Our libraries, the proud repositories of the gressman. Some of you have already inquired tained almost $52 million for public librar­ books that chronicle our heritage, are the about the possibility of participating in the ies, under the Library Services and Con­ prime vehicles of America's progress. His­ conference. Clearly, the time to start par­ struct ion Act, and nearly $10 million for torically, when we have found our libraries ticipating is now. I would hope that the library resources under title II of the Higher not measuring up to our own exacting stand­ discussions here today have placed in per­ Education Act. Finally, over $147 million ards, Americans have taken the direct action spective those areas of library service which was appropriated for advance funding in fis­ necessary to improve and expand services. need reassessment. In the meantime, it will cal 1977 of the consolidated programs, in­ In recent years, our efforts have been re­ be up to State groups to gather basic sta­ cluding elementary and secondary libraries markably successful. tistical information under the direction of and instructional resources. Before the enactment of the first Library the National Commission on Libraries and But you as librarians should be on notice. Services Act in 1956, it was estimated that Information Science. The supply of funds from the Federal Gov­ 30 mllllon Americans-then 20 percent of But I think we all recognize that one ernment, as from State and local sources, the population-were without the services of of the greatest difficulties is financial. is not limitless. The continued effectiveness a library, and fifty-three mllllon received This year President Ford called upon every of our public and private libraries will de­ insufficient service. As many of you will re­ library to "seek to improve, equalize and pend far more on your ingenuity and crea­ call, Maine had adequate service for only make more accessible its services to all." But tivity than it will on Federal dollars. one-third of its population. We have made all that takes money. And the administration The present period of belt-tightening is tremendous progress over the last two dec­ budget just doesn't provide enough money forcing us to re-evaluate our priorities. In ades. According to the American Library to fulfill the commitment. my view, first consideration must be given Association, service in Maine has increased Last year, an important piece of legislation, to those areas of the country that are still to 84 percent of the population as of 1972. the Education Amendments of 1974, was without adequate library resources, most of National estimates reveal that eighty-eight passed into law. Among its many programs, which are in rural America, many of them percent of our people have access to librar­ the legislation provided for the consolidation in Maine. ies. This figure rises to 94 percent when we of certain education programs, including We must reaffirm our commitment not to consider such services as bookmoblles and library and learning resource projec,;s. 1li limit our own or our children's educational books by ma11, programs which have been specified that the Commissioner or Educa­ opportunities. We must continue our support successful in Maine. tion may make grants for the access o! school for libraries, the custodians of our heritage, But despite the advances we have made library resources, textbooks and other printed with whatever funds we can afford and in developing our libraries and distributing instructional materials for use in publlc and through continuing improvements in admin- 13686 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 8, 1975 istration and efficiency. Libraries are person­ growth of these programs by 5.7 billion dol­ tiona! Welfare Rights Organization, which is alized, local institutions. They must be con­ lars next year. comparable to a union in winning benefits tinued in the same spirit which prevailed And finally the President has appealed to fur its members wno are on welfare." when they were begun. Congress to rescind, or at least defer, the Adding to HEW's power are 306 official ad­ As one of the founders of the American spending of 1.2 b1llion that already had been visory committees, each with a dozen or so Library Association, John Dewey, remarked authorized for a variety of HEW projects members from outside Government who are in the first issue of the Library Journal, pub­ during the current year that ends June 30. experts in medicine, sociology, education, lished in 1876: "The schools teach them to SHRINKPROOF BUDGET research and related fields. read; the library must supply them with Despite all the efforts by the White House, Some of these committees-perhaps as reading which will serve to educate." many as 60 of them, according to one HEW That 2000-year-old invention, the book, the prospects for slowing HEW's spending are rather dim at best. official-are "after entirely too much money, is just as relevant today as it was then. And power, publicity and congressional clout to so it will continue to be in the automated Even if the President's program were adopted in full-a prospect regarded almost further their causes, and many are out-and­ libraries of the future. For without libraries, out lobbyists." education is impossible. And without edu­ unanimously as nil-the HEW budget for next year would rise by 8.5 billion dollars This official also says that almost all of cation, as Jefferson said, A nation cannot the committees, "even the quiet, effective hope to be free. over 1974-75. If, as generally predicted, none of the Administration's cutbacks is adopted ones," are champions of various causes and spending will increase by at least 13 billion. are constantly seeking new money. The seemingly inevitable growth in HEW One big problem in curbing HEW is that traces back to its founding in 1953 as the fully 95 per cent of the Department's mam­ ' HEW-$301 MTI.LION A DAY tenth Cabinet department, during the Eisen­ moth outlays are officially regarded as "un­ hower Administration. Ever since, HEW has controllable," dictated by laws already on the mushroomed in power, money and influence. books. Spending levels can't be changed HON. BILL ARCHER Compared with its modest beginning, when thl'ough congressional appropriations or the regular budget process. OF TEXAS its spending amounted to less than 3 cents Instead, the laws have to be amended or IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of every $1 of federal outlays, the HEW em­ pire now accounts for more than one third of repealed. Mustering support for such actions Thursday, May 8, 1975 the total U.S. budget. is difficult at best because Congress is loath to cut benefits provided to its constituents. Mr. ARCHER. Mr. Speaker, I have One social program after another-Social Security, medicaid, medicare and others-has Such votes can prove to be pol1tical suicide. been strongly opposed to the continuing been brought under the HEW umbrella. By No Government department so directly in­ growth in the power of the Federal Gov­ now its activities affect the lives of every volved in the lives of so many Americans ernment. A government which is so big American in one way or another, from pre­ could avoid controversy. For HEW, contro­ to give the citizens everything is also natal care to a payment for burial expenses. versy has become a way o! life. Some exam­ big enough to take everything a way. Ad­ And there is talk of taking over even more ples: programs, such as food stamps and subsi­ Should cigarettes, which an agency of HEW vocates of big government can find no has found dangerous to health, be banned? end to activities which they feel can and dized meals for schoolchildren, which are currently administered by the Department How far must school districts go to elimi­ should involve the Federal Government. of Agriculture. nate racial discrimination? One of the most massive of the bureau­ If nonprescription drugs are ineffective, cratic agencies is the Department of CHANGING ATTITUDES should they be ordered off the market? Health, Education, and Welfare, which What has caused such rampant growth? Should colleges that grant athletic schol­ spends an average of $301 million a day. One HEW official makes this observation· arships to men be forced to grant them equal­ "In this country, welfare is no longer char­ ly to women? The HEW empire includes more than one ity, it is a right. More and more Americans Should a Government agency become an third of our total national budget and feel that their Government owes them some­ agent for consumers who claim tbey have this agency continues to grow both in thing." been sold merchandise that is defective? power and in expenditures. An excellent Consider these points: analysis of this agency and its growth Every seventh person in the U.S. now re­ HOW HEW PARCELS OUT $110 BILLION A YEAR appeared in the April 21, 1975, issue of ceives a monthly check directly from some U.S. News and World Report. This arti­ HEW agency. For mill1ons of people this is Year their only income. ending cle should be a message to Congress that HEW dispenses funds through 300 major June 30, Share of we need to take action to gain control 1975 total programs and thousands of smaller ones. Big­ (billions) (percent) over the growth of HEW expenditures: gest of all is Social Security, which became $301 MILLION A DAY FOR HEW-AND No END a part of HEW in 1963. About 31 million peo­ IN SIGHT ple receive Social Security cash benefits now, I nco me security: Social Security ______------$63.5 58 No Government department spends as and the number of those eligible grows year Public assistance ____ ------__ 9.5 9 much, nor touches as many, as Health, Edu­ by year. Other payments ______------1.1 1 The scope of HEW activities virtually de­ Health programs ______------25.8 23 cation and Welfare. And few can match it Education: for controversy. fies imagination-hospitals for merchant sea­ Elementary, secondary and vocation- The Department of Health, Education and men, Eskimos, American Indians: a college al aid _____ ------4. 0 4 Welfare celebrated its 22nd birthday on April for the deaf; a printing house for the blind· Higher education ______2.1 2 medical assistance for the elderly and th~ Research, other purposes______• 5 ------11 by spending 301 million dollars. Social services, manpowdr, other pro- It was just an average day. indigent; counseling for teen-agers in trou­ grams______3. 4 ble; a range of educational programs from HEW spends 301 million dollars every day, TotaL ______--10-9-.9- __-_- __-_- __-_-_ 365 days a year-a whopping 109.9 b1llion prekindergarten through college, and con­ in the year ending June 30 and perhaps 13 trols in one degree or another over carpet for billion or so more than that next year. your floors, paint for your walls, clothing for Source: Office of Management and Budgf.t. These massive figures make HEW far and your children and what you can or cannot eat, drink or smoke. At latest count HEW was involved in 8,021 away the biggest-spending department of any court cases, either as plaintiff or defendant. government anywhere--and a prime target As one observer comments: "This is truly a case of name it and HEW is involved in Department officials expect another 5,000 for President Ford as he searches for some cases this year and estimate that within the place to trim Government expenditures. it--or wants to be." In assessing the never ending growth of next year new legal actions will be running Calling the situation "very ominous," Mr. at least 11,000 annually. Ford has launched what observers call the their Department, HEW insiders cite Con­ gress, lobbyists and the courts as prime Suits frequently are brought by citizens most aggressive assault ever by a Chief Ex­ who feel the Government is meddling in ecutive on the constantly rising outlays at factors. One high official notes: "Congress­ men are intent on doing something for their their private affairs. But more often HEW is HEW. sued by those who feel they are not getting First, in reviewing HEW's proposals for constituencies and tack on another program, and we have to suffer with it. They listen their fair share of the federal dollars avail­ next year, the Office of Management and able from the many welfare programs. Budget--at the direction of the White intently to the lobbyists who are always ask­ House--turned thumbs down on almost every ing for more. Civn.. RIGHTS request for increased funds. For health serv­ "There is more of a lobbying effort to push Racial discrimination has proved an espe­ ices alone the final OMB mark was 485 mil­ new programs or get more money for HEW cially ticklish area. Since it was set up in lion dollars less than the Department sought. than there is for all the rest of the Govern­ 1964, the Department's Ofl:lce for Civil Rights Mr. Ford is also attacking head-on HEW's ment combined. And, of course, some of the has checked all of the nation's 16,300 local largest programs-social Security, public, as­ lobbyists are right here in HEW. school districts and the 3,000 colleges and sistance, medicare and medicaid. He has "Now the courts are in the process of giv­ universities for compliance with civil-rights urged Congress to pass a series of legislative ing some groups the privilege of having a laws. Hospitals and nursing homes have un­ proposals that would curtail the natural voice in HEW affairs. An example is the Na- dergone similar investigations. May 8, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 13687 The Civil Rights Office has initiated 635 Instead, the substitutes only add to the get Supplementary Income Security pay­ court suits which have led to the cutoff, at bureaucracy. Commented one insider: ments. least temporarily, of federal funds to 199 "Programs continue on and on even after NOTE: M1llions get help from two or more school districts. More than 700 other school they've outlived their usefulness." of these sources. districts are following desegregation plans One frequently cited is the Hill-Burton that had to be approved by HEW. Still more plan first passed by Congress in 1946 to sub­ districts-as many as 65o--are desegregating sidize hospital construction. Now, with a under court orders resulting from suits filed surplus of hospitals in many areas, the pro­ TAX REFORM PACKAGE by HEW and others. gram still is running in HEW. In late Janu­ With the racial problems still far from ary, the House Appropriations Subcommittee settled, particularly in Northern districts, overwhelmingly turned down an Administra­ HON. DON BONKER HEW now finds itself involved in another tion request to rescind 291.7 million dollars OF WASHINGTON in Hill-Burton funds appropriated as long bitter discrimination fight--this time over IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sex discrimination in high school and college ago as 1973 but still unobligated. athletics. DUPLICATION Thursday, May 8, 1975 Regulations to guarantee women equality Even inside HEW, officials admit that the Mr. BONKER. Mr. Speaker, the fol­ in athletics and coaching could cause schools department is a "massive hodgepodge" with to increase many times their expenditures on lowing is by Archie Bunker in "All in the many duplicated services. For example, 10 Family," April 14, 1973: women's athletic activities. One possible re­ complete but separate programs deal with sult: a curtailment in the benefits for prom­ the handicapped. GLORIA. How could you cheat on your taxes? ising male athletes, such as full scholarships Efforts to break through red tape seem to ARcHIE. I'm just, what do you call it, plus free board and room. get nowhere, in part because of infighting exercisin' my loopholes, that's all. Like the Framers of the plans that produced HEW within the Department. Says one HEW em­ big guys. in 1953 say they had no idea how big or all­ ploye: "There are bureaucratic battles on pervasive the agency would become. Mr. Speaker, when the 16th amend­ every floor. Each agency within HEW and ment to the U.S. Constitution was rati­ A conservative Republican, the late Sena­ each lobbying group supporting an agency tor Robert A. Taft, of Ohio, came up with the considers itself to be the hub of the fied some 60 years ago, the idea was very name for the department, according to Ar­ universe." simple: The Congress shall have the thur s. Flemming, one of the early HEW This year HEW will spend 77 billion dollars power to lay and collect taxes on incomes Secretaries. on "income maintenance" and "social serv­ from whatever source deriveRonald Reagan, in 1970, is the pet projects. There 1s no question that we tenth person to serve as Secretary of HEW. spending and the need to cut expendi­ need t o streamline an d centralize HEW, but tures to achieve balance. More recently, He succeeded Elliot L. Richardson, now it should become a depart ment of all human Ambassador to Britain, in 1973. resources, such as 26 States already have." we have noted that the sluggish economy A fiscal conservative, Mr. Weinberger What are the chances of such reform? and the lost receipts caused by unem­ nevertheless suoported the HEW budget re­ For now there seems little likelihood of ployment only add to the deficit. Little quests which President Ford ordered sharply major change. The pat t ern for continued is said, however, about the fact that $50 trimmed. Yet he is also known to feel that growth is built into law and, as President to $60 billion never reaches the Treasury Government, including his own de-o artment, Ford is fi nding out, Congress shows no incli­ because of tax expenditures. The point has grown despite an unorganized kind of nation to alter it. taxpayers' resistance that has not made itself easily overlooked is that t 'l x breaks­ heard or felt effectively in Washington. WHERE ALL THE MONEY GOES tax expenditures-are really no dif­ The Secretary, along with some others, Scarcely a family in the U.S. is untouched ferent than Government spending. A favors replacing various nrograms such as by one or another of HEW's diverse programs. preference that reduces tax receipts by Aid to Fam11ies of Deoendent Children, food Among those getting direct cash payments $1 billion is just the same as a new $1 stamps and the Supplemental Security In­ or indirect benefits- billion spending program. The money come programs- that provide federal aid to 31 million people draw Social Security. 25 million low-income individuals receive that does not come in from one group the blind, aged and disabled with some form of taxpayers must be wrung out of of "guaranteed annual income" to welfare medicaid in the course of a year. recipients and the "working poor." 13 m1llion aged and disabled get medi­ another. Otherwise, programs are cut, or A single nayment , verhaps as a "negative care. the Federal defi cit is increased. 11 million persons share in Aid to Families Last week, the House of Representa­ income tax," it is suggest ed, could head off with Dependent Children. a helter-skelter expansion of HEW programs 5.5 million children benefit from federal tives registered its support for legislation by Congress. educational programs. to raise $3 billion in revenues by closing Yet, some otficials at HEW remain skeptical 5.4 mlllion college students get federally tax loopholes. That is only a begim;ling. of any substitute welfare program because no backed loans. We could raise many billions more by new scheme ever seems to replace another. 4 m1llion who are blind, aged or disabled, reinstituting a more fair and equitable 13688 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 8, 1975 tax system. We could realize our Federal and higher-set of figures as tax deduc­ It is evident that further changes in objectives, implement our programs, and tions. the minimum tax are needed if it is to reduce the deficit at the same time sim­ Many wealthy individuals use business have its intended effect. I am, conse­ ply by requiring everyone to pay their deductions to, in effect, lessen their per­ quently, reintroducing a proposal by Con­ fair share. sonal income taxes. Under current law, gressman BROCK ADAMS to: For these reasons, I am introducing a an individual, simply by incorporating First. Eliminate the $30,000 exemption tax reform package which will revise the his business, can deduct certain personal in the minimum tax; tax laws affecting multinational corpo­ and family expenses that would not be Second. Raise the rate of taxation on rations, remove numerous tax loopholes deductible by the average wage earner. preference income from a flat 10 percent affecting the wealt~ and big business, This bill would eliminate various tax to one_-half the normal taxation sched­ and provide for a greater effective rate loopholes whereby individuals have le­ ule; and in the minimum tax. I recognize that I gally deducted, as corporate expenses, Third. Remove the deduction for other can have the greatest impact on tax re­ their families' meals and lodgings, medi­ Federal taxes paid. form efforts by joining with other Mem­ cal and dental bills. With these changes, wealthy individ­ bers of Congress who are interested in Also eliminated by this bill are deduc­ uals would still have some incentive to tax reform. Therefore, I am cosponsor­ tions for travel expenses to certain con­ tnvest in those areas where a preference ing proposals introduced by two distin­ ventions abroad, deductions for the busi­ is deemed necessary. However, they guished members of the Ways and Means ness use of homes, the rental use of vaca­ would be required to carry a more fair Committee, Congressman CHARLES VANm: tion homes, and the use of beach houses, share of the tax burden. And an addi­ of Ohio and Congressman JAMES CoRMAN ski resorts and the like as business tax tional $3 to $4 billion in tax revenue of California. I am also reintroducing a shelters. The bill would, furthermore, would result. minimum tax proposal originally spon­ discourage wealthy persons from invest­ Mr. Speaker, I understand that the sored by Congressman BROCK ADAMS of ing in losing business ventures simply Ways and Means Committee plans to my home State of Washington. Below for tax purposes. take up tax reform legislation during the is a summary of the package's salient PERSONAL TAXES summer months. It is my belief that by provisions: I am also cosponsoring several pro­ approving the above amendments, the FOREIGN INCOME TAXES posals by Congressman CORMAN relative Ways and Means Committee can provide to the taxation of trusts and estates. additional revenues well above the $3 Various tax credits and special provi­ billion figure set by the budget resolu­ sions encourage many corporations to in­ Individuals with large amounts of capital vest funds abroad rather than in our own can give much of it away during their tion-without further increasing the tax lifetimes with trust agreements that burden on low- and middle-income country. Given the current outflow of Americans. American dollars and our Nation's seri­ avoid various income, gift, and estate ous unemployment problem, we must re­ taxes. For example, by giving capital to vise our tax laws so that foreign invest­ their minor children, the atnuent can ment is no more profitable than domestic split their income and cut down consid­ investment. To this end, I am cosponsor­ erably on their effective tax rate. By giv­ FINANCIAL RECORD ing the Tax Neutrality Act proposed by ing away much of their holdings during Congressman VANm:. This bill would: their lifetime, they avoid paying high HON. THOMAS J. DOWNEY estate taxes at death. These provisions First. Reform the foreign tax credit, OF NEW YORK thereby increasing Federal revenue by are, for practical purposes, unavailable $1.7 billion a year; to middle-class Americans who do not IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Second. Eliminate the deferral of for­ have sufficient holdings to give away the Thursday, May 8, 1975 · eign earnings taxation at an annual $1 majority of their estates during their Mr. DOWNEY. Mr. Speaker, public of­ billion savings to the Treasury; lifetimes. They need their limited re­ ficials at all levels of government must Third. Eliminate certain exceptions for sources for the expenses of everyday liv­ be prepared to offer to their constituents lesser developed country corporations ing. Consequently, middle-income Ameri­ a full and complete :financial record on a and the Western Hemisphere Trading cans may end up with proportionately regular basis. This is not simply a mat­ Corporation at a tax savings of $180 mil­ larger estates-and larger estate taxes­ ter of idle curiosity, but rather, the pub­ lion per year; and at their deaths than do very wealthy lic has a right to know of all sources of Fourth. Eliminate the Domestic Inter­ Americans. This legislation would cut income that may affect the public offi­ national Sales Corporation provisions, down on these inequities by changing the cial's performance in office, and, of considered by many to be the most use­ taxation of trust incomes, integrating the course, that he or she has paid a fair less provisions of the Internal Revenue gift and estate tax rates, and making share of taxes. In light of recent history, Code, at a yearly tax savings of $1.3 certain other changes in estate tax law. I have decided that although extensive billion. Finally, this bill would provide for the disclosure is not required under the law, BUSINESS INCOME TAXES taxation of dividends and interest on a I will make an annual full disclosure of I have also included a number of busi­ current basis. The average wage earner my personal finances as long as I con­ ness tax law revisions drafted by Con­ has his taxes withheld from every pay­ tinue to hold public office. gressman CoRMAN. One provision would check. Yet, an individual who lives off Financial statement as of Decem­ repeal the investment tax credit which dividends and interest does not have his taxes withheld on a regular basis. We ber 31, 1974, follows: was recently raised from 7 to 10 percent. Income for 1974 This credit in theory stimulates the can increase Federal revenues by $1 bil­ lion per year simply by applying the Salary, Suffolk County Legisla- economy by encouraging business to in­ ture ------$16,870.00 vest in the purchase of new equipment withholding procedures to dividend earn­ Other income: and machinery. In fact, this credit is ers that we do to wage earners. a. Honoraria for speaking en- often used to offset the purchase of THE MINIMUM TAX gagements ------800.00 equipment that the businesses would Even with the above changes in the tax b. Fair rental value of county have had to buy anyhow. While not law, some people may avoid taxation by automobile-personal use ------500.00 appreciably stimulating the economy, maintaining preference income holdings c. Suffolk County Education this subsidy--even before the 3-percent that are exempt from Federal taxes. The Tuition Refund ______840.00 increase-was estimated to cost $6 bil­ 1969 Tax Reform Act imposed a mini­ lion in 1976. mum tax on individuals with significant Total 1974 Income ______19,010.00 The bill would also prohibit the use preference income. Yet in 1971, 1 year Standard Deduction ______2,000.00 of the asset depreciation range system after the implementation of the new Personal Exemption ______750.00 and provide that tax deductions for de­ minimum tax, there were still 276 people 1974 Taxable Income ______16,260.00 preciation and repairs may not exceed with incomes over $100,000 paying no Federal Income Tax Paid ______the actual amounts recorded on busi­ Federal income tax; 23,889 people with 3,918,40 preference income averaging $100,000 New York State Income Tax ness books. Incredibly, under current law, Paid ------996.00 businesses may record one set of figures were paying the minimum tax at an aver­ FICA (Social Security) with- in their books, and a totally different-- age rate of only 4 percent. held ------772.20 May 8, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 13689

Statement oj net worth, December 31, The loss to urban encroachment is partic­ these prime agricultural lands and t o develop 1974 ularly disturbing of two reasons. First, ur­ policies to protect them before they are lost banization seldom discriminates between through unplanned development or unre­ Assets: Personal Belongings_____ 1, 000.00 highly productive land and that of less agri­ trievably committed to other uses. Liablllties: Personal Loan- cultural value since the potential develop­ Many states, concerned about the loss of Chase Manhattan Bank, W. Is- ment value derives from its location rather farmland' and the resulting loss of income lip, N.Y------5, 000.00 than its quality. Second, as urbanization from agricultural products, are developing a I have no outside business interests, and surrounds isolated pockets of farmland, in­ variety of techniques to deal wit h these prob­ no connection with any business entity that creased pollution may lessen productivity. lems. In Suffolk County, the largest farm does business with the Federal Government, We cannot expect to watch this trend county in New York State, the number of or subject to Federal regulatory agencies. continue without experiencing greater scar­ acres being farmed decreased from 123,346 city of food supplies and accompanying high­ in 1950 to only 68,000 in 1972, a drop of al­ er prices. A USDA study indicates the eco­ most 45%. Today there are only 45,000 acres nomic importance of farming on the edge left in production. That county has adopted of urban areas. The 17.2% of U.S. farms that a plan based on public ownership of develop­ LAND USE AND RESOURCE CONSER­ are located within the 242 Standard Metro­ ment rights. According to the plan, the VATION ACT OF 1975 politan Statistical Areas produce 21% of the farmer retains the ownership of his land value of the nation's agricultural products and the right to farm it without losing the sold and account for one-third of the na­ value it would bring if sold for potential HON. ALAN STEELMAN tion's food. development. Because the value of his re­ An unpubltshed report prepared for the maining property rights decreases, his prop­ OF TEXAS Senate Agriculture Committee indicates that erty taxes become proportionately lower, as IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES whlle much o! the land lost to indiscriminate do the inheritance taxes which heirs must Thursday, May 8, 1975 urban development is of the highest quality pay for keeping the ownership of the land. and therefore at a premium because of the Simllarly, New Jersey, which ranks third Mr. STEELMAN. Mr. Speaker, as most relatively low cost of production, much of in the nation in fruit and vegetable produc­ of my colleagues know, the House In­ the land avaUable to replace it is of mar­ tion, lost more than 600,000 acres of agri­ terior Committee, Subcommittee on ginal or poor qualtty for farming. The Bu­ cultural lands to suburbs between 1950 and reau of Reclamation has estimated the cost 1970 and now has only a m11lion acres of Energy and the Environment, has con­ of irrigation and fert1llzer to bring this new cluded hearings and markup on H.R. farmland left. The value of agricultural cropland into production at more than $1000 products in New Jersey is $275 m111ion a year 3510, Land Use and Resource Conserva­ an acre, and the figure Is sure to go up. Even and the total impact of farming through re­ tion Act of 1975. then, the new cropland may never reach the lated employment and services is $1.5 b11lion. During these hearings the subcommit­ natural productivity of the land that is lost. The New Jersey State Senate, after a spe­ tee heard testimony from such organiza­ The National Audubon Society has been cial study of the loss of farmland, is consid­ tions as the National Association of Con­ particularly concerned about one strikingly ering a proposal slm1lar to that of Su1folk bad example of the costs of increasing pro­ County. If adopted, each community would servation Districts, the National Grange, duction through irrigation. This is the Gar­ and the National Farmers Union, in sup­ rison Diversion Project, planned to irrigate set aside at least 70% of its farmland for port of this legislation as a means of en­ 250.000 acres of farmland in northern and which the development rights would be pur­ hancing and protecting agricultural pro­ eastern North Dakota. The cost of the project chased by the sta.te. Here again the farmer per acre has soared to $1,375 and is still ris­ would not be penalized for continuing to ducing lands. farm. The Farm Bureau Federation has en­ In testimony before the subcommittee, ing, but each farmer who participates will be charged only $77 an acre for his share dorsed the plan. Ms. Sally Robinson of the National Au­ of the construction. An article in the March In Maryland the farmers are banding to­ dubon Society made an impressive argu­ issue of Audubon magazine describes the gether to ask the sta.te to protect their land. ment in favor of the bill because of its project's financing in greater detail and con­ They are seeking passage of a bill which agricultural ramifications. I commend it cludes that the ditrerence between the actual would allow farmers who own a total of 500 costs and the farmer's payment will have to acres or more among them to group together to my colleagues: and petition their local county government TESTIMONY BY SALLY RoBINSON be met by a massive subsidy from the publtc treasury. There are many other examples of to designate their farms as an agricultural Mr. Chairman and Members of the Com­ projects carried out by the Army Corps of district. If they are designated as a district, mittee: My name is Sally Robinson. I am Engineers or the Soil Conservation Service ln they agree not to sell the land to commerctal representing the National Audubon Society, which the cost of reclaiming a few acres 1s interests for 20 years. Any farmer within the an organization of over 300,000 members disproportionate to the value of the re­ district can then receive a one-time only whose interest in sound land use planning is claimed land when farmed. payment equal to the difference between the of long standing. We strongly support H.R. In addition, the pressure to bring new land's value when farmed and when sold as 3510, as we have supported previous land use farmland into production 1s encouraging the commercial property. As in the other states, planning measures, and urge the Committee use of short-sighted agricultural practices the Maryland plan has developed in response to report land use legislation in spite of the which threaten the lon~-term productive to a critical decline in agricultural land. The lack of official support from the Adminis­ capacity of the land. In the future consid­ number of farms there in 1935 was 44,000 tration. erable public exnenditures may be reoulred with a total acreage of 6.3 million; in 1974 While we recognize that the econc;>mtc to restore the damage. In response to the there were only 15,000 farms, totaling 2.5 problems of the country are serious, we do demand for food suppltes, there has been a mlllion acres. not agree with the Administration's conclu­ rush to put millions of dry grassland, pri­ Other states with similar problems are sion that this b111 should not be funded be­ marily in Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico considering their own systems of land bank­ cause of its inflationary impact. We find the under cultivation. In many cases a grass ing, preferential tax assessments, or land authorization for this bill modest and well­ cover had just been successfully reestablished trusts to prevent farmers from being driven warranted when contrasted to future expen­ on these lands after the thin vegetation was off their farms against their wlll or from be­ ditures which will be incurred in the absence stripped by poor farming practices in the ing forced to suffer financially for supplying of good land use planning. I will Umit my years preceding the dust bowls of the '30's. the nation's food requirements. I mention comments to one case in point, the retention A recent New York Times editorial reports these examples particularly to indicate the of prime agricultural lands for food produc­ that current failure to employ the erosion degree of initiative by farmers and involve­ tion. controls that have proved effective in the ment of local governments in this effort and Events of the last year have forced us to past has resulted in a loss of 60 mill1on tons to draw attention to the diversity among realize that land available for food produc­ of topsotl from newly cultivated land in 1974 state solutions to the problem of disappear­ tion is limited. Five years ago we were able to alone. The need for new cropland has also ing agricultural lands. produce sufficient agricultural goods even encouraged the drainage of wetlands, par­ In our view HR 3510 is an important step though 51 mllllon acres were deliberately held ticularly those along the North Carolina. in supporting these state efforts. The bill as idle as a result of federal programs. Last coast, often in disregard for the fragile eco­ introduced encourages individual farmers to year, however, the demand for food supplles systems that make wetlands economically participate in planning for land use and sup­ both domestically and abroad had increased important in their own right. ports the role o! the local governments in so dramatically that all available acreage was Rather than financing the high cost of implementing state policies. Section 303 1n returned to cultivation a.s American farmers bringing marginal land into production or leaving to the states the choice of particular were urged to maximize their production. restoring fraglle lands damaged through poor "policies and procedures for identl!ylng Yet whtle the need for prime agricultural prime food and fiber producing lands and for farming practices, it seems clearly preferable promoting their continued use and produc­ land has never been greater, it is disappear­ to use public funds to keep prime agricul­ ing rapidly. The USDA reports a net loss tivity to meet long-range food and fiber re­ o! agricultural land o! 1.4 mllUon acres a tural land 1n production. Relatively small quirements" wlll encourage states to adopt year to highways, reservoirs, stripmlntng, en­ sums of federal money made available programs which fit their particular needs. ergy-related activities, and urban develop­ through grants to the states, as provided in Finally, we think strong citizen participa­ ment. HR 3510, would enable the states to identl!y tion is an essential part of the formulation 13690 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 8, 1975 of a state land use program. Therefore, we that isolationism is unrealistic, that the the lid and they either leave it off or don't urge that the Committee include in HR. 3510 U.S. has vital interests in the world which take the medicine as often as prescribed. One specific language which not only describes must be protected for our national security. such cap was so hard to remove, a neighbor the opportunities !or citizen involvement, So should all Americans. could only remove it by placing the container but also guarantees the access to informa­ on the floor, place his heel on same and Wilth tion and financial resources which are nec­ the addition of his weight, and turn of his essary to make that involvement meaningful. foot, loosen the cap I We thank you for th1s opportunity to pre­ RELIEF FROM A FEDERAL HEAD­ Another cap responds only when a blunt sent our views. ACHE instrument is used to pry the cap off after the arrow has been lined up With the slot on the container. I have a friend of mine who HON. KEITH G. SEBELIUS had to break a Ud off of some medicine for GOLDWATER,BRADEMAS: AVOID OF KANSAS het' children. Then she had an open bottle ISOLATIONISM of medicine that had to be used up immedi­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ately before evaporation changed the con­ Thursday, May 8, 1975 tents! HON. LEE H. HAMILTON Frankly, I think it is a shame such meas­ Mr. SEBELIUS. Mr. Speaker, back in ures need to be taken by the U.S. Congress to OF INDIANA 1970, Members of this body passed the safeguard the small child. As a mother ot IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Poison Prevention Packaging Act. That six chUdren, active as any, ranging !rom Thursday, May 8, 1975 legislation required the use of special 7 to 18 years, I found it no great problem to child resistant packaging to protect keep medicine out of their reach. It is too Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. Speaker, under children from serious personal injury bad we must add to the discomfort of our leave to extend my remarks, I am in­ from various medicines and household senior and handicapped citizens to cover the cluding the following editorial from the substances. 1rresponsib111ty of a few parenU!. I realize Elkhart Truth, Elkhart, Ind., May 2, there is a problem but this is not the an­ I have no doubt the Food and Drug swer. 1975. The editorial demonstrates that Administration or perhaps the Consumer there is overwhelming bipartisan sup­ I hope by bringing this to your attention Product Safety Commission has statis­ you might be in a position to point out there port in the Congress for continued sup­ tics that will support the intent of this are disadvantages to a great many things port of our allies around the world. The legislation. However, I wish to call the you do back there and to pass these com­ editorial quotes two of our distinguished attention of my colleagues to a letter I menU! on to others. Thank you !or your time colleagues, Senator BARRY GOLDWATER received from a mother of six children and efforts. and Representative JOHN BRADEMAS. I who in plain language and with a great recommend it to the attention of my deal of commonsense and concern has colleagues : summed up why I feel many of the GOLDWATER, BRADEMAS: AVOID ISOLATIONISM bills we pass back here are self-defeat­ THE NEW LAND SEN. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., and Rep. ing when measured by a cost-benefit John Bradema.s, D-3rd-Ind., politically are yardstick. a "couple of light years" apart in their views. Before we continue at breakneck pace HON. RALPH S. REGULA But it's significant that each recently OF OHIO counseled the U.S.A. against a return to to protect us from ourselves, I would isolationism following the defeat of our ally, hope we could first reflect on the kind of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES South Vietnam. advice contained in the following letter Thursday, May 8, 1975 Goldwater warned in a TV interview that from Mrs. Kramp of Ellinwood, Kan. the country is returning to pre World War I might add section 4(b) of the Poi­ Mr. REGULA. Mr. Speaker, this morn­ II policies, living in "a happy little dream son Prevention Packaging Act does pro­ ing while perusing the New York Times, house" based on detente with the Soviets. vide drugs and prescriptions within reg­ I noted an article written by Stephen He said world leaders are questioning Fuzesi. Mr. Fuzesi, now a lawyer with a whether the United States ever could be ular containers can be ordered upon New York law firm, left his native land trusted to fulfill its commitments. "I don't special request: But, what the authors with his family at the age of 8, a refugee know 1! we have the national guts to get of this legislation did not stop to figure from the Hungarian revolution in 1956. back the clout we have to have," he added. out was that faced with these Federal' His story is a poignant one and one in "I'm reminded precisely of the days in requirements, the container manufac­ the 1920s and 1930s when no one thought we turers simply stopped making regular which Americans can take pride. I think were ever going to war again, and we're his article is worth reading in light of containers. As it stands, it appears as if the present Vietnamese and Cambodian actually in worse shape internationally now we will have to continue to push, shove, than we were then," he said. refugee situation. Brademas, speaking in West Germany, was twist, and pry in order to get relief from I ask for unanimous consent to insert less gloomy on the subject, criticizing Sec. this particular Federal headache: Mr. Fuzesi's article, "The New Land," in of State Henry Kissinger for s)lggesting that DEAR CONGRESSMAN SEBELroS: I am Writing the RECORD at this point: in regard to medicine containers, i.e., caps, no one again will believe America's word. THE NEW LAND But he was equally vehement about the lids, etc. I have spoken With my pharmacist necessity of a vigorous foreign policy. and family doctor about these containers and (By Stephen Fuzesi Jr.) He said that With America "freed from our have been advised regulations regarding the Though I was only e1ght years old at t he preoccupation With Vietnam," the nation use of these caps, lids, etc. is enforced by the time, I will never forget the tears in my can direct attention "to other areas of the Federal Food and Drug Administration and father's eyes as we crossed the Hungarian world which we have been neglecting but that it was an act of Congress that brought border one cold November night in 1956. where America's vital interests clearly are them about. Thus, the letter to you to bring My brother, a little over a year old, slept in a at stake." He suggested U.S. foreign policy this m at t er to your attention . blanket strapped to his back. Mother held should zero in more on western European The purpose of these caps etc. 15, I realize, dad 's hand and mine. We had just walked problems and NATO problems. He mentioned to make it difficult or impossible for young­ twenty miles searching for the border. the "threat of a burgeoning authoritarianism sters to get into medicine that could be in­ Having helped us crawl across the remains of the left" in Portugal, the Greece-Turkey jurious to them. This method, !rom where I of the bombed bridge at Andau, my dad dispute and Italy's economic and political see it, isn't the answer. First of all, some lids turn ed back, staring for a moment across woes. I find very difficult and frustrating to open. the snow-dotted Hungarian countryside. Brademas said he and an overwhelming My young children delight in showing me Then looking straight at me, he said: "If we majority of Democrats and Republicans in how they can do it. can't live in Hungary, America is the coun­ Congress favor "a vigorous NATO and a con­ My hands or fingers, when in a position to try to live in. You and your brother will have tinuing commitment by the United States to push , tur n or squeeze and turn simoly do n ot the opportu n ity to live an d work and b elieve support it and work within it." He said the have the strength to do the Job. My mother freely. It is sad that our little Hungary should U.S. isn't going Isolationist but that the has t he same problem and others I know lose two such fine young men." We walked American people and their Congress "are with arthritis simply leave the lids off or ajar. quickly the 100 yards or so to Austria. unwilling any longer to support a univer­ In doing this, the purpose is defeated. These It would be incorrect to draw parallels salistic interventionism that sees our na­ open containers are an invitation to youn g­ between the Vietnam war and the Hungarian tional interests equally at stake everywhere." sters. revolution. It does seem fair to note through Goldwater and Brademas disagree in large When sen ior citizens or handicapped folks that the vast majority of Vietnamese who measure on foreign policy as well as domestic have several medicines to take they find it have left their homeland have done so, much policy. So do many Americans. But they agree too frustrating to spend so much time with like us, with tears not smiles. They left rely- May 8, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 13691 lng on the opportunity to begin a new life relish that same sweet flavor. It would be a pose have truly enriched our community, in the United States. mistake consistent with a history of bad State, and Nation. We do indeed salute It would seem a mistake to deny that op­ judgments to deny that opportunity, but not portunity now. The Vietnamese refugees, a fitting end to our 25-year involvement in John J. Pasquale, our Nation's Small among them tens of thousands of innocent Vietnam. Businessman of the Year. and politically unaware and uninvolved chil­ The article follows: dren, should not be made to bear the back­ PLASTICS KNOW-HOW MADE A DREAM lash of popular disgust with our foreign­ COME TRUE policy failures in Indochina, reflected in CONGRESSIONAL TRmUTE TO THE HONORABLE JOHN J. PASQUALE (By Bert Nawyn) further Congressional rejection of requests He has been selected as New Jersey's Small for appropriations to fund resettlement. OF PATERSON, N.J., OUR NATION'S Businessman of the Year and for John J. The 40,000 Hungarian refugees who have SMALL BUSINESSMAN OF THE Pasquale, president and founder of Liberty come to the United States since 1956, and YEAR Machine Co., Inc., 275 Fourth Ave., Paterson. the 675,000 Cubans who have followed, as the award is another step in an American the millions of immigrants who preceded dream which has come true for him. them, all have been absorbed in our culture, HON. ROBERT A. ROE The award will be given to Pasquale on economy and political life. Even if 150,000 OF NEW JERSEY Wednesday at the eighth annual statewide Vietnamese refugees were resettled in the meeting of the Service Corps of the Small United States, this would represent · only IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Businessmen's Administration in the Coach­ slightly more than one-third of the total Thursday, May 8, 1975 man's Inn in Cranford. number of immigrants admitted legally to The Small Business Person of the Year the United States each year since 1968, and Mr. ROE. Mr. Speaker, this week the Award comes to Pasquale for many reasons, less than 3 per cent of the immigrants ad­ people of my Eighth Congressional Dis­ including his initiative, drive, determina­ mitted in the decade 1960 to 1970. In 1960, at trict and State of New Jersey applaud tion, perseverance, self-confidence and will­ the beginning of the Cuban immigration, the a distinguished citizen, outstanding busi­ ingness to work long and hard and make United States was suffering from the highest ness executive, and public official, lead­ personal sacrifice to achieve his goals. level of unemployment of that decade. And ing plastics manufacturer, champion Liberty Machine Co. does very little ad­ while an exact total of Government expendi­ employer. good friend, and neighbor, the vertising getting almost all of its business tures for activities related to Vietnam, be­ through word-of-mouth publicity by satis..; ginning with our involvement in the 1950's, Honorable John J. Pasquale, whose fled customers, including Chrysler Corp., would be impossible to calculate, the $507- expertise in the plastics industry, man­ Goodyear Rubber and many other world re­ million that President Ford has asked from agement-employee policies in his busi­ nown firms. Congress for resettlement and transport ness enterPrise, and business acumen, na­ The products of Liberty Machine Co. can would clearly be less than 1 per cent of the tionally and internationally, as founder be found 1n most South American countries total, and less than 2 per cent of the $30 and president of Liberty Machine Co., and in almost all of the 50 states. Foreign billion expended in the peak year of 1968. Inc .• of Paterson, N.J., have earned him exports account for 60 per cent of all sales. Statesmen and scholars, as well as all of the highly coveted State and national Pasquale founded his company in 1946 us, will search our experience in Vietnam for with $1 ,500 in a two-car garage at 124 E. 18th lessons and morals. One focus of this review award of "Small Businessman of the St. In 1950 a plot of ground was purchased will certainly be the meaning of an American Year." on Fourth Avenue, 75 by 100 feet, for $450 commitment to an ally. The foreign-policy The distinction and honor that John and the firm moved to new quarters. Putting impact and realignment of policies as well as Pasquale has brought to his family, his up some capital to get the firm started were treaties and relationships with the United neighbors, the city of Paterson, the his brother, Anthony, and Carmen Cianci. States provoked by such an evaluation will Eighth Congressional District, and the The struggle to get a new business on its vary, perhaps country by country. Commit­ State of New Jersey is manifested by the feet, in the late 1940s, was intense. The ment, to have any value, must mean at least excellence of the professional expertise firm had no products, no customers and no that we will open our doors to refugees rrom work coming ln. A number of times Liberty a country with which we had been allied in and judgment represented in the life­ Machine Co. was on the verge of closing its a cause that met defeat. times of varied experience in the busi­ doors forever. Leaving one's homeland, famlly and ness world embodied in the membership "Each time," Pasquale says, "it was my friends, and the culture in which one feels of the Service Corps of Retired Execu­ wife who was the prime motivator in keep­ natural, is a sad occasion chosen by few in tives-SCORE-who wholeheartedly en­ ing me going." search of opportunity and suffered by mil­ dorsed his nomination for this annual The turning point came in 1949 when Pas­ lions of victims of international politics. award of the small business community quale's probing and inventive mind formu­ Perhaps some leave solely in the pursuit of lated ideas which would revolutionize the a more comfortable life. For Vietnamese, from of our Nation. I share the pride of his sheet plastic industry. Up to that time, sheet a war-torn country, is that so unforgiveable? wife, Elda, and his family in John's life­ plastics were used primarily to make un­ The masses who seek refuge after a war time of achievements that have brought printed, dull-looking, blemish-surfaced leave with children clinging to their arms. him success not only in his career pur­ shower curtains. They seek opportunity-but opportunity for suits but in the respect and admiration Pasquale's intensive research convinced their chlldren to live a life in peace, in a of all of us who have had the good for­ him that he could polish the plastics, re­ country whose people have a tradition of tune to know him. move the blemishes, create a patent leather evaluating men for what they do, not for Mr. Speaker, with your permission I look and emboss the plastics with any type where they were born; a tradition of respect­ of grain he wished. ing individuals not on the basis of their would like to insert at this point in our Knowing that he could build a machine name, or the color of their skin, but on their historical journal of Congress, the fol­ which could do things no other machine character and decency. lowing news story that appeared in the had ever done before, Pasquale advertised It has been almost twenty years since we May 1 issue of the Paterson News, one of this fact throughout the plastics industry. came to the United States, over ten since I New Jersey's most prestigious news­ He soon received a contract to build such a have become a citizen. My dad's first job, papers, authored by the distinguished machine which proved to be an overwhelm­ although he had advanced degrees in chem­ journalist and highly adroit news corre­ ing success. The turning point had come and istry and law, was that of a janitor 1n a spondent, Bert Nawyn, who most elo­ orders appeared for the small firm. Each General Motors factory. Earlier this year, I machine manufactured by the firm 1s cus­ reviewed, as legal counsel, the $600-million quently portrays the exemplary per­ tom built for a specific requirement. check that underwriters were delivering to formance of John Pasquale in the small Liberty Machine Co. holds 17 patents 1n General Motors Corporation at the closing for business community of America. The the plastics field. It was the first firm to in­ the largest public offering of industrial-debt news article reads as follows: troduce continuous embossing of calendered securities in American history. I am honored Mr. Speaker, it is indeed my privilege plastics; the first to perfect the lamination to have tasted of the opportunity my dad had and honor to have this opportunity to of plastics to woven cloth; the first to per­ noted during our last moment in Hungary. call to the attention of you and our col­ fect lamination of plastics to nonwoven fab­ As I have watched televised news of Viet­ leagues the great contribution that John rics; the first to perfect the printing and namese refugee children scattered in camps, embossing of simulated floor tile from single my memory has often wandered back to 1956 Pasquale has made to the success story color to multlcolor 1n a host of different and our arrival at Camp Kilmer, N.J. I have of America's business community and ask tones and patterns; the first to heat lami­ remembered the taste of my first bite of that you join with me in extending our nated polyurethane foam to cloth, vinyls creamy American-style chocolate lee cream. warmest greetings, felicitations, and best and other materials used widely for insulat­ I hope that each Vietnamese refugee wm wishes to John for all of his good works. ing purposes, and the ftrst to laminate some day have the opportunity, should he His standards of excellence, the quality knitted goods to woven goods used in wom­ seek admittance to the United States, to of his leadership and sincerity of pur- en's apparel. 13692 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 8, 1975 In 1946, Liberty Machine Co. had three tinction by 1985. Perhaps in becoming a They could replace eXisting missiles with employes and grossed $7,000. Today it has military/nuclear establishment, we have larger, more advanced missiles. They could 35 employes and grosses in the milllons. The overlooked an important point--and replace fixed land-based missiles with mobile firm builds machines which may be more missiles. The pact does not cover (and there­ than 350 feet long and sell for as much as that is the dangerous example we have fore does not restrict) the Soviet Backfire $350,000. The plant has 30,000 square feet set in showing others the way to go to bomber, the U.S. FB-111 bomber, and the of working floor space, more than 2,500 feet war. new shorter-range cruise misslles being de­ of office space, and its own fully-equipped In having introduced the world to the veloped by the United States, presumably engineering department. destructive aspects of nuclear forces, it because they are not inter-continental in John Pasquale is an unusual employer. is essential that we now assume a more range. The United States could build Trident Every morning he greets each employe with responsible role by making a concerted submarines and B-1 bombers and deploy a cheery "good morning, how are things to­ effort to curtail the proliferation of them as older models are removed. day." All employes share in joint meetings strategic arms. The accompanying state­ The agreed ceilings could permit the to discuss problems related to the business. United States to add several hundred launch­ The employes rate each job that is per­ ment addresses itself to that respon­ ers. The United States could also buUd up formed, establish the base pay rate, and de­ sibility and I insert it in the RECORD: its arsenal of MIRVed launchers from 1,286 termine their pay increase. STATEMENT BY SANE ON THE VLADIVOSTOK now deployed or underway to 1,320; the Pasquale says the firm stands ready to AGREEMENT USSR, which now has none, could add the help employes financially when the need For more than a generation the United entire 1,320. And celllngs tend to become arises. "We loan money for the purchase of States and the Soviet Union have engaged quotas. a house, or a car, and deduct a weekly in an arms race. The cost of their mllitary By 1985, the United States could place be­ amount from the employes• pay check. We establishments since the end of World War twen 16,500 and 22,000 strategic warheads on do not add interest charges," he explained. II has attained $1.5 trillion for the United its launchers. The Soviet Union could deploy The firm is run on a famUy-like atmos­ States, more than $1 trillion for the Soviet an estimated 10,000-14,000. For the United phere seldom found in any business estab­ Union. A large part of this expenditure has States, these 1985 levels would be at least lishment today. One employe said, been invested in nuclear arsenals. By mid- twice as high as the 1974 levels. For the "Throughout the years, no employe has ever 1974, the United States had 7,940 strategic Soviet Union, they would be four to five times been turned away when help was needed nuclear warheads (H-bombs). The Soviet as high. and not one employe has ever lost a day's Union had 2,600 as of that date. Each H-bomb THE ADVANTAGES pay due to lack of work." can destroy a city. These arsenals thus In the absence of an agreement, the ceil­ A deeply religious man, born to poor im­ represent staggering overkill. When tactical ings set by the pact, high as they are, could migrant parents who came to this country nuclear weapons are added to the number be exceeded and the arms race soar to even at the turn of the century, Pasquale has al­ of strategic bombs, the American nuclear higher levels. The accord institutionalizes ways had a great deal of sympathy for his arsenal possesses the equivalent of mora. the concept of overall parity for all kinds of fellow man, especially the poor, the disad­ than 615,000 Hiroshima-size explosions. inter-continental weapons, which should vantaged, and the minorities. IDs company Through their continued nuclear compe­ make it easier to negotiate further agree­ has been an "Equal Opportunity Employer" tition, the United States and the Soviet ments. From a political point of view, the since its inception, which is many years be­ Union have ignored the commitment they existence of the agreement should make less fore equal opportunity laws were enacted. jointly made in the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty tenable the argument of weapons-develop­ Pasquale is amazing not only in his busi­ of 1963, namely, "the speediest possible ment advocates for more "bargaining chips" ness acumen but also in his civic life, which achievement of an agreement on general and and the use of scare tactics which cite Soviet is an inspiration to many. He has given complete disarmament under strict i'hter­ millta.ry programs or potentials. freely of his time, energy, ab111ty, and money, national control". They have set a danger­ THE DISADVANTAGES not only to his employes, but to the com­ ous example for other nations with nuclear The basic requirements for any meaning­ munity-at-large. capacity, enshrining the concept that ful arms agreement, at the current state of Scholarships to needy students, sponsor­ H-bombs guarantee international status and weapons development, are: (1) reversal of ship of numerous athletic teams, assuming security. There are now six members of the the nuclear arms race through significant all expenses for cerebral palsy chUdren, are nuclear club, whlle perhaps a dozen other reductions in armaments; (2) progress to­ just a few of the responslblllties assumed by nations ponder entry-on the eve of the re­ ward comprehensive disarmament; (3) sig­ Pasquale. view conference of the Non-Proliferation nificant reductions in mllitary costs. Pasquale has been president of the Pater­ Treaty. The Vladivostok agreement meets none of son Board of Education, chairman of the In their nuclear competition the United these requirements. There is no reduction in Passaic County Welfare Board; Elk of the States and the Soviet Union have squan­ weaponry; there 1s only controlled mutual Year, designated by the Grand Lodge, Na­ dered material and human resources which escalation to future ceilings. The fear of sur­ tional Organization; chairman of the board could have been applied to the economic prise attack will continue to be fed by the of trustees of the Passaic County community and social development of their own coun­ enormous growth in the number of H-bombs College; chairman of the Paterson Fire and tries and of other countries grappling with on both sides. The replacement of weapons Police Commission; New Jersey State Chair­ the problems of hunger and poverty. More­ within the agreed ceilings will permit the man of the Association of Community Col­ over, the massive expenditures lavished on development production and deployment of lege Trustees; listed in Who's Who in Amer­ complex nuclear weapons systems have added vast new weapons systems. ica; member of the board of directors of the to the money supply while producing no Without reductions in stockpiles, there is Greater Paterson General Hospital in Wayne; goods or services that consumers can buy. no progress toward comprehensive disarma­ Past Exalted Ruler of Elk's Paterson No. 60 The nuclear arms race has thus fueled and ment. Lodge; past president of the All Wags Ath... continues to fuel 1nfiatlon. The mllitary programs permitted under letic Club; and trustee of Our Lady of THE PROVISIONS the accord, particularly the sophisticated Lourdes R.C. Church. It is against this background that the launch vehicles which carry the H-bombs, Pasquale is married to the former Elda will prove enormously costly. It would cost Bardone and l'eSides in Paterson. Their only Vladivostok agreement must be examined. The agreement would set ceilings of 2,400 the United States an estimated $70 billion child, a daughter, Elda Barbara, is married to increase the size of its missiles and the to Robert Fontane of North Haledon. There launchers (missiles and strategic bombers) on each side. With that ceiling, each side size of its nuclear arsenal. The price of just are two grandchlldren, Jon, three years, and two of the planned weapons systems, the Cristina Marie, five months. would be permitted to place multiple war­ heads (MIRV's) on 1,320 launchers. The B-1 bomber and the Trident submarine, is number of missile silos would remain con­ expected to reach $34 billion-before any stant. EXisting sllos could be enlarged no additional cost overruns. On the Soviet side, more than 15%. The agreement would last the cost of MIRVing misslles which currently untll 1985. Originally, the negotiators stated have no multiple warheads is estimated at $30 billion. A STATEMENT ON THE VLADIVOS­ that additional talks looking toward reduc­ TOK AGREEMENT tions in the agreed levels of arms, to take WHY NOT DISARl!llAMENT? place after 1985, would begin no later than I.f rough parity is conducive to agreement, 198o-81. This deadline was subsequently would not parity at lower levels of destruc­ HON. BOB CARR eliminated and replaced by language calling tive power offer greater benefits? News leaks OF l!lll:CHl:GAN for new negotiations as soon as possible, to from within the Adm1nistratlon suggest that take e1fect as soon as there is 'further agree­ the USSR resisted major cuts, both 1n prior IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ment. sessions and at Vladivostok. Although what Thursday, May 8, 1975 occurred at the negotiating table may re­ WHAT ARMS DEVELOPMENT WOULD BE main sceret it could be revealing to discovel' Mr. CARR. Mr. Speaker, six nations PERMrrTED? whether either side ever put forward a pro­ are now nuclear powers. Twenty-four The parties to the accord coUld bulld up posal for significantly lower ceillnP'R. other countries may well share that dis- to the agreed levels of launchers and MIRV's. Cellings less than half the size of those May 8, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 13693 negotiated at Vladivostok would represent a tives to military-oriented systems of national poppies and the manufacturing of heroin ts meaningful cut in arms. They would also security. The suicidal institution of war must carried on in the northwest part of Mexico, provoke a major battle with the m111tary, be replaced by a new system of international the San LUis, Sonora, area 1s a terminal and security. dispersement point of hel'oin and other dan­ political or industrial interests on both sides gerous drugs into the more heavily populated which stimulate the arms race. The Vladi­ To achieve these goals, we urge the Ad­ parts of California, Arizona, and other points vostok agreement satisfies these interests be­ mlnistration to seek the implementation of cause it guarantees their power at least until past American pledges on behalf of com­ in the United States. 1985. Neither President Ford nor Secretary prehensive disarmament, buttressed by the TASK FORCE ORGANIZED Brezhnev is ready for a fight with the gen­ Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of The .individual e:fl'orts of the customs agen­ erals and their allies. That is why, we believe, States which the UN General Assembly cies, the sheriff's office, and the Yuma Police despite urgent economic reasons to reverse adopted on December 12, 1974: "All States Department were unable to cope with the the arms race, no weapons are being have the duty to promote the achievement drug problem. After analyzing the e:fl'orts scrapped. of general and complete disarmament under of the narcotics squads of these agencies, international control and to utilize the re­ it was found that officers were putting in THE RESPONSE OF CONGRESS AND CONCERNED sources freed by effective disarmament meas­ crriZENS many long hours attempting to stem the ures for the economic and social development fiow of drug traffic into the community and Because of its narrow perspective on the of countries, allocating a substantial portion that much of their effort was being dupli­ arms race, the Ford Administration leaves of such resources as additional means for Congress and the public a. number of bad op­ cated by other officel'S working toward the the development needs of developing coun­ same end. tions. If the Vladivostok agreeemnt is ren­ tries. To solve this problem, the decision was dered in treaty form, it will require ratifica­ made to consolidate the narcotics squads of tion by the Senate. If the Senate rejects the the city and county Into one squad known treaty outright, the arms race continues NARCOTICS TASK FORCE as the Yuma City-County Narcotics Task without restraint and relations with the so­ Force, whose only duty would be to enforce viet Union are damaged. If the Senate at­ drug laws. taches reservations (conditions), the latter HON. SAM STEIGER In starting a new organization of this would have to be accepted by both signa­ type, some plan of operation had to be sub­ tories. If the reservations are not accepted by OF ARIZONA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES mitted to the governing bodies of the city both, the treaty is, de facto, rejected. And if and county governments in order to se­ the Senate ratifies the treaty as offered, it is Thursday, May 8, 1975 cure the necessary financing. After submit­ buying fia.wed merchandise. ting a. rough plan to the governing boards, The Kennedy-Ma.thia.s-Mondale Resolutton Mr. STEIGER of Arizona. Mr. Speaker, permission was given to go ahead with the offers a. constructive alternative. The Resolu­ I want to bring to my colleagues' atten­ consolidation. Help was solicited from the tion expresses the "sense of the Senate that tion an article which appeared in the organi2lation which handles Federal funds the President should make every possible May 1975 FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin. for the State of Arizona. A small grant was effort to negotiate further arms limitation The article highlights the effective obtained, in 1970, to supplement existing and reduction measures as part of the final efforts of Yum•a County, Ariz., Sheriff task force funds. accord carrying out the Vladivostok agree­ Staffing of the newly created task force ment." Travis Yancey, who organized a Yuma city-county task force to stop the heavy was the next order of business. The super­ Since the final accord is not expected until visor chosen was an individual who had a the spring of 1975, there 1s time to seek and drug traffic into Yuma from nearby complete understanding of the objectives achieve lower ceilings than those negotiated Mexico. Since it was begun 3 years ago, and a full knowledge of the job. The second at Vladivostok. In addition, Congress can the program has resulted in 836 arrests, in command was equally knowledgeable as and should refuse to vote funds for new and seizures which, on the streets, would to the problems and objectives. The remain­ weapons systems. have been valued at well into the millions ing pel'Sonnel was made up of the best avail­ SANE will vigorously support the Kennedy­ of dollars. able manpower. Ma.thias-Mondale Resolution, as well as con­ All manpower, equipment, bullding space, gressional moves to reject new weapons sys­ Sheriff Yancey has always been one of the finest law ehforcement officials I utilities, and supplies had a monetary value tems and cut the swollen milltary budget. placed upon them in order that the two However, if these immediate efforts fall to have known, and is to be commended participating agencies could arrive at a some­ reduce the Vladivostok celli.ngs before the for this effort. In a nation of growing what equal share in the cost of the new final accord in 1975, SANE will actively op­ crime, this effort points up the success task force. pose ratification by the Senate. We will no that can be achieved when there is active After the first year of operation, it was longer support international agreements cooperation between Federal, State, and felt that the plan was right, however, the which, in the name of restraint, result in fur­ manpower and the equipment were insuf­ ther escalation of the arms race. Eleven local law enforcement agencies. The article follows: ficient. The next move was to apply for years ago we embraced the Limited Nuclear additional Federal moneys. A grant was re­ THE YUMA CrrY-COUNTY NARCOTICS TASK Test Ban Treaty, which permitted under­ ceived in the -a.mount of $14,000 and was used ground nuclear testing, because we saw it as FORCE for the addition of two agents to the task a small first step on the path toward dis­ (By Travis Yancey) force. After another year of operation, the armament. Today, it is clear that small steps Few officials in the law enforcement pro­ task force was again evaluated, and it was do not begin to deal with an enormous prob­ fession have the opportunity to start with an found that more agents and equipment were lem. Nor wtll we permit appeals to the fur­ idea and see it develop into positive law needed. Another Federal grant of $50,000 • therance of Soviet-American detente to dim enforcement which benefits the commund.ty was received and was used for the addition our critical view of agreements which add to as well as the law enforcement agencies of two agents, one clerk, cars, and radio the complexity of the problem. Detente will which are involved. equipment. The addition of the two agents become meaningful to peoples, as distinct For this to be accomplished, there must brought the total to seven persons working from governments, when and if it leads to a be a clearly defined problem in the com­ on the task force. llfting of the burdens of the arms race. munity that is not being solved by the pres­ The tra.ftlcking of dangerous drugs in For it is not simply a matter of endorsing ent method of operation. In Yuma, AriZ., Yuma. County reached its peak during the or rejecting the halting step negotiated at the problem dealt with narcotics and drug year of 1973. Many long hours were spent Vladivostok by the two nations with the most traffic. Specifically, the problem was that of by task force agents and Federal agents en­ massive arsenals. Rather, it is long past almost free fiow of dangerous drugs from forcing the drug laws along the Mexican time for the United States and the Soviet Mexico into and through the community to border. Seizures of contraband were doubled Union to lnltiate a. worldwide process of other parts of the southwestern United from the previous year. Again, Federal major arms reduction. Otherwise, more coun­ States. One of the first questions to arise moneys were sollcited, and a $100,000 discre­ tries wtll "go nuclear", more precious re­ was, "Why is Yuma County one of the hottest tionary loan was received. With this grant, sources wtll be wasted, and more fears will spots along the international border for drug four new agents were added, as well as new be spawned with each new escalation. The traffic?" The answer is to be found in the equipment, including eight walkie-talkies, Big Two can begin the arms-reduction proc­ geographic location of Yuma Counrty which four new cars, and one small airplane. The ess by agreeing to lower the Vladivostok ceil­ offers almost unrestricted travel along ap­ task force now has 10 working agents, in­ ings, negotiating substantial further cuts by proximately 100 mnes of border between cluding the supervisor, and 1 clerk who 1985, and engaging all other nations in nego­ Mexico and our country. Seventeen miles of maintains records and files and types tiations through a world disarmament con­ the border is the Colorado River. Any part of reports. ference and other forums. the river can be waded by men and an.imaJs, Probably the most valuable purchase made Beyond the nuclear arsenals, vast arrays and little dtlficulty is encountered by motor­ for the task force wa.s the aircraft. This has of highly destructive conventional arms also ized equipment. In addition, there are miles proven to be most effective in surveillance need to be scrapped. And beyond reductions of desert terrain., which can be crossed by a. of vehicles after they cross into the United of arms both nuclear and conventional lies pickup truck or four-wheel drive vehicle. States with dealers attempting to ma.ke the parallel long-term need to find alterna- Since much of the growing of opium contact with their buyers. New radio equip- 13694 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 8, 1975

ment has given the task force complete cov­ rocketed. Firemen around the country "FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE erage of the entire county. are reporting a tremendous increase in "SEc. 703. (a) The Secretary shall enter The objective has not yet been achieved. arsons this year. into arrangements with eligible applicants It may never be achieved, but the task force In addition to menacing the public in accordance with the provisions of this is working hard toward its goal. title in order to make financial assistance cooperation among Federal, State, and safety, these cutbacks are also menacing the personnel involved. If force strength available for the purpose of providing ade­ local agencies is at its greatest height. With­ quate levels of public safety officers to units out the full cooperation of Federal and is cut back, the remaining personnel are of general local government that are finan­ State agencies that is now enjoyed, Federal being asked to provide a greater amount cially unable to maintain such levels without funding would have been much more diffi­ of services with less resources. Police assistance as provided in this title. cult to obtain, and the smuggling of nar­ and firemen will be responding at weaker "(b) The funds appropriated pursuant to cotics and drugs from Mexico into the United strength then is sufficient. This puts their this title shall be expanded by an eligible States would still be flourishing. lives in danger. . applicant solely for wages and employment PROGRAM SUCCESS My bill amends the Comprehensive benefits pursuant to this title. In evaluating the full 3 years of the pro­ Employment and Training Act of 1973, "(c) As used in this title: gram, it is felt that a certain degree of "(I) the term 'eligible applicant' means success has been obtained. Seizures of dan­ by adding a new title "Public Safety any unit of general local government which gerous drugs are becoming less frequent. Emergency Aid." Under this title, the applies for assistance under this title and One reason for the decrease in seizures can Secretary of Labor would make financial which the secretary determines has suffered be attributed to Mexican federal officers who assistance available to units of general severe financial hardship, and due to this have increased their pressures upon the drug local government to enable local govern­ severe financial hardship has laid off, or smuggler. ments to hire personnel who have been otherwise reduced the level of public safety Over the past 3 years, 836 persons have laid off, and to fill vacancies which have officers, prior to May 9, 1975, persons em­ been arrested for smuggling, and seizures ployed as public safety officers, so that as of include 13,850 pounds of marihuan a, over been created due to hiring freezes. In May 9, 1975 there are no longer as many pub­ 9 pounds of amphetamine powder, and fact, reduction of force levels due to lic safety officers employed by that unit of 312,000 amphetamine and barbiturate pills. attrition created by these hiring freezes general local government as there were on Street value of these seizures would be well has been more serious to this point than October 15, 1974; into the millions of dollars. The task force actual layoffs. Half of the money pro­ "(II) the term 'public safety officer' means has also provided the regular law enforce­ vided in the bill will be allotted according a person serving a public agency, with com­ ment officers with valuable information con­ to population, and half will be allotted pensation (excluding any reimbursement for cerning stolen merchandise such as televi­ in proportion to how severely hit a unit such service) in any activity pertaining to- sions, silverware, weapons, and cars. "(A) the enforcement of the criminal laws, The most important result of the task of general local government has been. or the prevention, control, reduction, or in­ force operation is that vast quantities of The bill authorizes $250 million annually vestigation of crime; or illegal drugs and narcotics are not reaching for 2 years. "(B) firefighting; the streets and homes in cities throughout This bill has the support of both the "(III) the term 'severe financial hard­ the United States. police and firemen associations, and I ship' means that, with respect to a Unit of would like to particularly thank Mr. general local government, notwithstanding Edward Kiernan of the International d111gent efforts on the part of the unit of Conference of Police Associations and general local government, it is unable to THE PUBLIC SAFETY EMERGENCY Mr. Jack Waller of the International generate sufilcient revenue necessary to AID ACT OF 1975 maintain the level of governmental services Association of Fire Fighters, AFL-CIO­ that it provided during the previous calen­ CLC, for their assistance in helping me dar year and is currently or has within the prepare this legislation. last six months been laying off public safety HON. PETER A. PEYSER The text of the bill follows: ofilcers. OF NEW YORK H.R. 6837 " (d) In employing public safety officers IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES with financial assistance provided under this A blll to provide em ergency financial assist­ title, eligible applicants shall give preferred Thursday, May 8, 1975 ance to assure that there are adequate consideration, to the maximum extent feasi­ levels of police and fire personnel to provide Mr. PEYSER. Mr. Speaker, today I ble, first, to those public safety officers who for the public safety of citizens residing were laid off due to the severe financial hard­ am introducing the Public Safety Emer­ in areas which have been forced, due to 1975. ship of the applicant prior to May 9, 1975, gency Aid Act of The purpose of severe financial hardship, to lay off public second, to those public safety officers laid this legislation is to meet a mounting sa,.fety officers off after May 9, 1975, and third, to unem­ crisis that is facing local governments Be it enacted by the Senate ana House ployed individuals with prior experience as today; namely, the fact that they are be­ of Representatives of the United States public safety officers, but in no event may ing forced to lay off police and fire per­ of America in Congress assembled, That this the total number of public safety officers sonnel at the peril of the public safety. Act may be cited as the "Public Safety employed by an eligible applicant that is Since last October, municipalities Emergency Aid Act of 1975." receiving funds under this title exceed the around the country have been SEc. 101. The Comprehensive Employment number employed as of October 15 1974. and Training Act of 1973 is amended by "(e) Payment of wages to pe~ons em­ placed in a position of severe financial redesignating title VII, and all references ployed pursuant to the provisions of this hardship. Higher costs combined with de­ thereto, as title vm, by redesignating sec­ title shall be at the rates prevailing for creased revenues have resulted in lay­ tions 701 through 715, and all references publlc safety officers employed by the unit offs in all sectors of municipal govern­ thereto, as sections 801 through 815, respec­ of general local government who perform ment. Recognizing this critical problem, tively, and by inserting after title VI the fol­ simtlar functions. the Congress enacted the "Emergency lowing new title: "ALLOTMENT OF FUNDS Jobs Act" last year to help alleviate the "TITLE Vll-PUBLIC SAFETY EMER­ "SEC. 704(a) (1) Not less than 90 per burden and keep essential governmental GENCY AID centum of the amounts appropriated under services continuing. "STATEMENT OF PURPOSE section 702 for any fiscal year shall be al­ Unfortunately, police and firemen "SEc. 701. It is the purpose of this title to lotted among ellgible applicants by the Sec­ have not been the beneficiaries of funds provide emergency financial assistance to retary in accordance with the provisions of from this act. This is ironic, since the assure that there are adequate levels of this subsection. police and fire personnel have truly been police and fire personnel to provide for the "(2) (A) Fifty percent of the amount al­ public safety of citizens residing in areas lotted under this subsection shall be allotted the backbone of municipal government which have been forced, due to severe finan­ among eligible applicants in proportion to in this country, and now they find them- cial hardship, to lay off public salfety officers. the reduction in the total number of publlc selves victims of the economy with no safety ofilcers suffered by the applicant since relief available. "AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS "SEc. 702. There are authorized to be ap­ October 15, 1974 as compared to the reduc­ This is more than just an unfortunate propriated $250 million for the fiscal year tion in number of public safety omcers suf­ situation for police and fire personnel, endillg June 30, 1976 and $250 million !or fered by all eligible applicants in all the however. It is a menace to public safety the fiscal year ending September 30, 1977 for States. and something must be done. Just re­ carrying out the provisions of this title. Any "(B) Fifty per centum of the amount al­ cently, statistics were released indicat­ amounts so appropriated for such fiscal year lotted under this subsection shall be allotted ing that serious crime has increased over which remain available for obligation durillg among eligible applicants on the basis of 21 percent this year. Arsons have sky- the succeeding fiscal year. population of the eligible applicants as com- May 8, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 13695

pared with the population of all eligible affected more by the political news than the tory authority in this area under the applicants in all the States. economic news, particularly what they read Communications Act of 1934. "(b) The remainder of the amount appro­ about tax and fiscal policies of the 94th priated under section 702 shall be available Congress. As a result, every licensee is open to to the Secretary for financial assistance un­ Congress has concentrated on efforts to charges by any group who wishes to ob­ der section 703 as the Secretary deems ap­ stimulate the economy through tax cuts and tain a license, with the burden of proof propriate to carry out the purposes of this other programs even while a consensus was falling on the current holder. This situa­ title, taking into account any change that developing that forces were at work within tion has unnecessarily disrupted the op­ may occur in the financial condition of a the economy pointing to a turnaround this erations of many responsible broadcast­ particular applicant. summer. The decline in housing starts in ers, and could have the undesirable ef­ ''REALLOCATION OF FUNDS March does not alter the fact thait there is fect of driving some of these broadcasters a pent-up demand for housing around the "SEc. 705. The Secretary is authorized to country which can trigger a resurgence in from the industry. make such reallocations as he deems appro­ that industry if prices and interest rates can Coupled with the current 3-year term priate of any amount of any allocation under be kept within reasonable range. Despite for broadcast licenses, this decision has this title to the extent that the Secretary the first-quarter decline in the GNP, the brought a degree of instability and un­ determines · that an eligible applicant will sold-down inventories in many industries are certainty the broadcasting industry not be able to use such amount within a to setting the stage for an increase in produc­ that threatens the continuity of service Teasonable period of time. Any such amount tion which will reverse that decline. may be reallocated only if the secretary has needed to best serve the public interest. Readers of economic news thus have Three years is certainly not a long provided thirty days' advance notice to the grounds for opt1Inism--or would have if eligible applicant and to the Governor m Congress were as concerned about inflation time for a station to accomplish goals the State of the proposed reallocation, dur­ as it has been about recession. While we such as community involvement and in­ ing which period of time the eligible appli­ know enough about business cycles to pre­ creased public service. In order to meet cant e.nd the Governor may submit com­ dict that recessions lead inevitably into re­ these goals, broadcasters must make ments to the Secretary. After considering covery, we do not know for sure how an long-range plans and substantial invest­ any comments subrnitted during such period economy heading into recovery is going to ments of both time and money. In return of time, t h e Secretary shall notify the Gov­ behave when the government wm be borrow­ ernor and affected eligible applicants of any for these plans and investments, broad­ ing as much as $100 b11lion to pay its bills. casters should have some assurance that decision to reallocate funds, and shall pub­ It is the question of whether the inflationary lish any decision in the Federal Register. force of such deficit financing will derail they will not be abruptly forced out of Any such funds shall be reallocated to other our recovery that surely accounts for much business. A 5-year term would allow areas within the same State." of the doubt many Americans still harbor broadcasters to become even more re­ about the immediate future. sponsive to the public by providing that Our estimation is that the American people assurance, and allowing more time for have confidence in themselves and their abil­ planning and investment. INFLATION TREND DIMS OPTIM:ISM ity to make their economic system work. We As I stated last year when this leg­ are not so sure about their confidence in the islation passed the House, it is important ab111ty of their government to avoid rocking HON. DON H. CLAUSEN the boat with fiscal policies that aggravate to note that these provisions will not OF CALIFORNIA the most serious problem threatening their make it easy for irresponsible broad­ casters to remain in business. They will IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES economic system-inflation. As breadwinners, consumers, taxpayers and still be subject to challenge by groups Thursday, May 8, 1975 investors, Americans on the whole are so­ who feel they have failed to act in the phisticated enough to keep the ups and downs Mr. DON H. CLAUSEN. Mr. Speaker, best public interest. But at least it will in the economic news in proper perspective. give licensees the opportunity to stand the Ukiah Daily Journal recently printed If the news would show that Congress has an editorial I believe should be read by awakened to the inflationary danger in its on their previous record of service, and every Member of Congress because it own spending policies, then the confidence­ force challengers to prove any charges expresses so eloquently the economic sit­ index of the American people would surely they may make. uation we face and the role the Congress begin an upswing? Mr. Speaker, this bill is certainly in the must play in our recovery through rea­ best interest of not only the broadcasting sonable and responsible fiscal enact­ industry, but the public served by this ments. industry, as well. I am hopeful the Con­ The editorial is timely, relevant, and A BILL TO AMEND THE COMMUNI­ gress will grant it prompt and favorable well written. It reflects the views now CATION ACT OF 1934 consideration. being articulated by many economic ex­ The bill follows: perts led by Secretary of the Treasury H.R. 3879 William Simon. HON. WILLIAM S. BROOMFIELD To amend the Communications Act of 1934 Therefore, I am inserting the text of OF MICHIGAN to establish orderely procedures for the consideration of applications for renewal the editorial in the RECORD for the bene­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES fit of the Members: of broadcast licenses Thursday, May 8, 1975 [From the Ukiah (Calif.) Daily Journal, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of May 1, 1975] Mr. BROOMFIELD. Mr. Speaker, to­ America in Congress assembled, That section INFLATION TREND DIMS 0PI'IMISM day I am introducing legislation to estab­ 307 (d) shall be amended by striking the Some economists have complained to the lish procedures by law for the considera­ first two sentences and inserting the follow­ American Society of Newspaper Editors that tion of applications for renewal of broad­ ing: "No license granted for the operation of reporting of economic news is so laced with cast licenses, and to extend the term for any class of station shall be for a longer gloom and doom that it is underrnining such licenses from 3 to 5 years. term than five years and any license granted America's confidence in the future, thus My colleagues will recall that both may be revoked as hereinafter provided. holding back recovery from recession. Al­ bodies passed bills of this nature during Upon the expiration of any license, upon most as they spoke, the nation's news­ the 93d Congress, but House and Senate application therefor, a. renewal of such papers were reporting that housing starts de­ license may be granted from time to time clined again in March, and that the gross conferees never met to approve a final for a term of not to exceed five years if the national product had dropped by 10.4 per version, and the legislation died at the Commission finds that public interest, con­ cent in the first quarter, the steepest decline end of the session last December. venience, and necessity would be served since 1946. The great need for this legislation thereby: Provided however, That in any This was not the kind of news an optimist exists as a result of a 1971 court of ap­ hearing for the renewal of a broadcast license would have hoped for, but newsmen have to peals decision regarding broadcast li­ an applicant for renewal who 1s legally, tell it like it is. We also would submit that cense renewal procedures. In effect, this financially, and technically qualifl.ed shall Americans are worried less about the cur­ decision revoked the policy of the Fed­ be awarded the grant if such applicant shows rent pace of business as reflected ln the that its broadcast service during the preced­ economic indicators than they are about the eral Communications Commission to give ing license period has reflected a good-faith prospects for more inflation in the future. preference to the current holder of a effort to serve the needs and interests of its Opinion polls bear out that Americans re­ license over an applicant if the licensee's area as represented ln its immediately pre­ gard inflation as our No. 1 economic prob­ service has been substantial. The court ceding and pending license renewal applica­ lem, and their confidence in that regard is ruled that the FCC did not have statu- tions and if it has not demonstrated a callous CXXI--864-Pa.rt 11 13696 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 8, 1975 disregard for law or the Commission's torpedoed by a German sub in 1915. Millicent fronts in March) and criticized the Demo­ regulations: Provided further, That if the was 5. cratic caucus for killing many of last year's renewal applicant fails to make such a show­ She gave up formal schooling at 15, shortly heralded parliamentary reforms. ing or has demonstrated a callous disregard after her father, Ogden Hammond, was ap­ Representative Fenwick usually rises at 6 for law or the Commission's regulations, such pointed ambassador to Spain by President a.m., grabs a quick breakfast of vitamin pUis failure or demonstration shall be weighed Calvin Collidge. "Education was not con­ and is at her desk by 7. She doesn't often against the renewal applicant.". sidered important for women then," she return to her rented Capitol Hill townhouse says, adding that her ultra-Victorian step­ before midnight. But despite her 65 years, mother never encouraged her to go on to she says she finds the pace invigorating. college. Mr. Fenwick takes a stern view on political TAUGHT HERSELF morality. She says, "I've never known a wom­ REPRESENTATIVE Mn.LICENT FEN­ So she read widely on her own, became an in politics who has been offered a bribe. WICK: A STAR OF THE NEW CON­ fiuent in four languages, studied philosophy If the door of the smoke-filled room is closed, GRESS briefiy under Bertrand Russell, and returned women are always on the outside. There is to the U.S. just in time for the Depression. a general feeling that women don't under­ She modeled sporadically for Vogue and stand political realities. I'm not certain Harper's Bazaar with other steel butterftles whether this immunity to corruption is sex­ HON. EDWIN B. FORSYTHE ual or occupational. But I hope the spirit OF NEW JERSEY like Clare Boothe Luce ("Clare always got to the mirror first," she recalls) . of awe and wonder with which we seem to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES In 1938 her four-year marriage to Hugh approach public office doesn't change once Thursday, May 8, 1975 Fenwick ended in divorce. Because the fam­ we have more women holding government ily funds had been invested badly, she went jobs." Mr. FORSYTHE. Mr. Speaker, an arti­ to work to support her two children and re­ Mrs. Fenwick's strict moral stance predates cle recently appeared in Parade maga­ pay debts. She spent 14 years as a feature her polltical ventures. Explaining why her zine recognizing the capabilities of one of Writer for Vogue, and also wrote the 1948 friend was chosen to write the Vogue eti­ our new colleagues, the gracious Con­ Vogue Book of Etiquette. quette guide, Allene Talmey says, "Milllcent gresswoman from New Jersey, the Hon­ "We were brought up with a certain has always had a deep feeling for what was amount of simplicity,'' reca.lls her daughter, right. She is a most moral person. After all, orable MILLICENT FENWICK. It has been Mrs. Mary Reckford, herself the mother of people felt ethically secure with Millicent's my pleasure to work with her on many five and a nursing school student. "We were etiquette book for 25 years." of the important iss,les facing this Con­ raised to be economical and to do a great Sometimes, according to Mrs. Fenwick's gress. I insert the article to be reprinted many things for ourselves long be-fore wom­ son-in-law, Kenneth Reckford, a classics pro­ in the REcoRD for the attention of my en's lib became fashionable. Mummy herself fessor at the University of North Carolina, colleagues: used to save by picking up designer clothes "She is just too virtuous. During last year's after the Vogue models had finished with fuel crisis, for example, she turned down the REP. MILLICENT :FENWICK: A STAR OF THE NEW CONGRESS them.'' heat in her old Bernardsville home to a ri­ "A lot of Vogue editors were then terribly diculous 55 degrees.'' (By COnnecticut Walker) involved with their children," explains Al­ TOO DANGEROUS WASHINGTON, D.C.-Mrs. Millicent Fen­ lene Talmey, who was Mrs. Fenwick's friend Wick, a 65-year-old, pipe-puffing grandmother And in a sim.1lar burst of high-minded and boss in the '40's. enthusiasm she once announced to her fellow who was elected to the U.S. House of Repre­ TIME TO RECUPERATE sentatives last fall, has quickly become a New Jersey legislators that she was going to star of the 94th Congress freshman class. Mrs. Fenwick left Vogue in 1952. By this have her car converted to run on clean-burn­ Mrs. Fenwick is a millionaire representing time _her children were grown and the fam­ ing propane gas. She was forced to abandon New Jersey's wealthy 5th District, yet she ily's real estate holdings had appreciated the project when she learned that she bas a long record of active concern for the many fold. She inherited a siZable sum of wouldn't be perm.ltted to drive such a mov­ poor, the elderly and the unemployed. She money (during her 1974 Congressional cam­ ing bomb through any of New York's tun­ seems a Republican version of Eleanor Roose­ paign she reported her net worth at $5,112,- nels. velt, though the taut elegance of her looks 637.40) and retired to the family's Bernards­ If she had ever blown up her car, the spark and assertiveness of her manner are more vllle, N.J., home to wrestle with a variety of would probably have come from her ever­ reminiscent of Katharine Hepburn. Ulnesses, including skin cancer from which present pipe. Millicent Fenwick's small briar, She made her debut last winter at the she has now recovered. which she fusses with more than smokes, Washington Press Club's annual Congres­ Mrs. Fenwick resumed her activities by has been part of her life for too long to sional Dinner with a speech that sent the volunteering to aid Cl11ford case 1n his Sen­ dismiss as just an attention-grabbing politi­ town's hostesses scurrying home to add her ate campaign in 1954. She became vice chair­ cal g1mm.1ck. But, like Rep. Bella Abzug's name to their guest lists. Mrs. Fenwick ex­ man of the state Republican Party, presi­ wide-brimmed hats, it does serve to distin­ pl&ined, extemporaneously, how her first day dent of the county Legal Aid Society and guish her from the 434 other members of on Capitol HUl had started out badly: spent four years as a member of the New the House. "I showed up in my best outfit with a little Jersey Advisory Committee to the U.S. com­ fur hat," she said, "only to be told that hats, mission on Civll Rights. while appropriate as a mark of respeot in the In 1969, at age 59, she concluded she "wasn't pushy enough. I hesitant to house of God, were not allowed worn on the was too THE IS IN YOUR promote myself, and in politics if you don't DEFENSE BALL House fioor. COURT "But apart from such rules, which pre­ no one else does." With that conclusion in sume that anybody who is going to be good mind, she won a seat in the New Jersey State enough to get elected to Congress is a man, Assembly. Although Representative Fenwick hails HON. BOB WILSON things are better now," she continued. "Some OF CALIFORNIA years ago when I was a member of the New from a section of the country where fox­ Jersey State Assembly I was making a speech hunts are a more common sight than welfare IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES earnestly proposing an Equal Rights Amend­ offices, she has long held sympathies for the Thursday, May 8, 1975 ment. After I finished, one colleague rose and down-and-out. She was concerned about the housing problems of Newark's poor long be­ with real anguish in his voice-you could tell Mr. BOB Wll.JSON. Mr. Speaker, one he was addressing a subject close to his fore the riots of the '60's. She was also out of our country's most distinguished mili­ heart--said, 'I just don't like this amend­ in front of the consumer movement, and tary experts, Frank Gard Jameson, ment. I've always thought of women as kiss­ thus became the obvious choice of Gov. wn­ former head of the Navy League of able, cuddly and smelling good.' llam Cahill for Director of New Jersey's Di­ vision of Consumer Affairs. She held the post America, and a consultant to many im­ "It was the kind of thing you really don't portant defense industries has written believe,'' she added. "The only answer of in 1973 and 1974, and according to local re­ course was, 'That's the way I feel about men, porters, made efficient and 1.mag1native use an article soon to be published in the too. I only hope for your sake that you of a very llmlted budget. National Defense magazine. haven't been as dls81ppointed as often as I VISITS INDOCmNA I insert this article entitled "The De­ have.'" Mrs. Fenwick, like many freshman Con­ fense Ball Is in Your Court" to be in­ Millicent Hammond Fenwick was one of gressmen, ls busUy and anxiously dividing cluded in the appendix of the RECORD as three children of a. suooessful New Jersey her time between learning and legislating. a portion of my remarks: banker. Her mother's family, the John stm, she's trying hard. Among the bills HONORABLE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS THE Stevenses, made their money through the for­ she has introduced to date is one aimed at DEFENSE BALL Is 'IN YoUR COURT tuitous purchase of 500 acres along the Hud­ equallzing the tax burdens placed on mar­ son River across from New York City. The ried and single individuals, and another de­ (By Frank Oard Jameson) Stevens family home is now the site of the signed to keep the Food Stamp Program at "We may see AprU 1975 but its a certainty Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, its present funding level. She has spoken that none of us will live to see 1976.'• N.J. Mrs. Fenwick's mother, not quite 26, ourt against millltary aid for Vietnam and "The market will penetrate the Dow 572 went down with the Lusitan~ when it was Cambodia (she visited the Indochina battle- low and then go to 450.'• May 8, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 13697 "Unemployment will hit 10%.'' And they put forth no solution or recommen­ when health, education and welfare is the "We should immediately take over Mexico, dation of what we must do to keep the peace. highest percentage ever. Venezuela and Canada by force." You don't stop crime by firing the police Now let those who are trained in defense Statements like this are commonplace to­ force or stop fires by shutting down the fire matters buy those items needed to insure day among our frustrated, somewhat spoiled, department. peace in the least expensive manner possible, wasteful and worried citizens. Many of them The Congress has the awesome responsi­ "in the best interests of the government", are waiting for a man on a white horse to b1Uty of deciding what and how much de­ not the cheapest equipment available. take over and tell them what to do so they fense is enough. But Congress ignores the Let's ask Congress to audit the spending won't have to think for themselves. They Adm1nlstration, the Department of Defense and results yearly after the fact. If errors find it easier to accept discipline from some­ and even its own committees charged with are made, chastise the defense officers. Even one else than practice self-discipline. advising what its responsib111ties for national though we know that Monday morning Americans have been spoiled, like many defense are under Article I, section 8 of the quarter-backing is easier than calling the an over-indulged child. We complain about Constitution. They have created many com­ shots on game day, most defense officials high food costs . . . and yet we feed our mittees whose purpose seems to be to stop would welcome that risk. families on 17% of our take home pay. That all action. Even a low-ranking committee It should be clearly understood by all, but 1s down from 19% three years ago. can block legislation that the Department of is sometimes overlooked, that a 100 billion At the same time, it costs Europeans 35% Defense desperately needs. dollar defense budget does not mean 100 of their take home pay to feed their families. DOD people are so busy testifying and pre­ billion worth of m1ss1les, weapons, and air­ It costs the Chinese 80%. You can buy a paring testimony that DOD is becoming craft each year. Over two-thirds of the de­ good-sized chicken here and in Portugal for hopelessly and bureaucratically overstaffed fense budget is spent for personnel costs and about $1.40. Here it represents 20 minutes and unable to adequately pursue its original only about 20 per cent is for new weapons. work ... in Portugal, 7 hours work. mission. Position papers must be checked and When I say we should tighten our belts, We complain about oil costs. We threaten rechecked by hordes of paper shuffiers who work harder, spend less, stay at home more, our best friends and customers, the Persians produce nothing constructive. Hearings upon work with government, drive smaller cars and Latin Americans, but we continue to hearings are held in what shamefully has that use less gasollne, be less wasteful in drive around in automobiles tWice as big as become an adversary relationship between all ways, many who know me well may be we need, one person to a car. the Congress and the Department of Defense. cynical and say that I have spilled more than We build bigger parking lots in our high When our first Secretary of Defense en­ many have used. They may well be right. schools so the kids can park the million cars visioned a complete OSD staff of 140 people I certainly agree that I have lived well, but they don't need. We leave far more lights to set policy for the Army, Navy, and newly I will try, and I hope we all Will, to change, on in our homes and offices than we need. created Air Force, the idea was good. Now we now that it is clear that some of those ways I fiew into southern California recently on have almost as many civilians in the DOD were wrong, more importantly because of a beautiful, clear night. I could see the lights as we do uniformed people. the quadrupling of energy prices and the pos­ in both Santa Barbara and San Diego ... The Office of the Secretary of Defense was sible end to a free way of life, as we know it, and all the· way in between. At least 40% of set up in 1947 as a policy group with opera­ we don't change. those lights were not needed. tions carried out by the various services. In I am certain that Congress wm recognize' we don't seem to understand that the 1958 under President Eisenhower, it was that we must have many different ways to energy of oil is one of the greatest bargains changed to an operational group, but the fight the many different national emergencies in the world ... even at $12.00 a barrel. It Army, Navy and Air Force, were left also that may be thrust upon us. At the present does things for us no servant or worker could operational. One or the other should be op­ time, the triad of intercontinental ballistic do, and for a fraction of the cost. erational and the other (or others) cut way missiles, bombers and submarine launched we complain about the unemployment back. In my opinion, the original concept was ballistic missiles are not only needed for problem. It is true that we have more unem­ good and OSD should be cut back. strategic defense, but need constant year ployment in numbers than we have had in World War II has been over for thirty years by year up-grading With new and improved years, but we also have more employment in and we still have 700,000 men overseas. This systems. total numbers than in most of our history. is happening at a time when the President is We also need the means of fighting con­ Some of President Franklin Roosevelt's presenting an $80 billion budget deficit over ventional wars. We must never rely on nu­ policies ... that my conservative parents the next eighteen months and our overseas clear force as our only course of action. The thought were going to ruin the country ... balance of payments is becoming our biggest conventional forces in readiness can pre­ look pretty good right now. Remember the national problem alongside the preservation vent small wars from starting and end them CCC and the WPA. They gave people the dig­ of freedom. quickly if it ·is in our national interest to nity of work, not the stigma of welfare . . . Our $4 blllion military commissary system do so. which provides stored up labor in the form rivals the A & P, Bafeway, and Sears Roe­ All this adds up to a life and casualty of money for no work. buck. Our military schools and recreation insurance policy for the Nation at a cost of We see the Russians building up their army, facllities . . . all needed if we have troops about $500 each per person per year, even navy and air force at a feverish speed. Yet overseas . . . pile more and more costs on in inflated dollars. Almost all of it is spent we listen to uninformed but well-meaning the m111tary and national budget. here and taxed there and lt does provide protesters who say we do not need new de­ As Pogo said, "We have identified the jobs and advance our technology. fense projects. We fall to heed our Presidents, enemy and it is us," or, "We can protect our­ We insure our automobiles and hope we who have access to all of the intelligence selves from our enemies, but not from our don't have a wreck on the way home. We data, when they tell us what we need to main­ friends." insure our home and business and hope tain peace. It is no longer a case of . . . do we, as they do not burn. We also buy insurance Hopefully, our Members of the House and Americans, want freedom? Of course we do. with our national defense budget and hope Senate (Mendel Rivers once said this is the It is a question of ... do we, as Americans, we never have to use those weapons in anger. only insane asylum in the world run by the deserve freedom? We had pilots flying in Vietnam in airplanes inmates), have taken the time to carefully Most Americans faUed to see the threats in older than the pilots were. Even after Eng­ analyze the Russian mllitary threat and mas­ "Das Kapital," the "Communist Manifesto," land was in the war and France had fallen, sive build-up of new weapon systems of all and "Mein Kampf." Few Americans even read we approached World War II with horse types. They are preparing for war, they Will those books. Why do we today not read the drawn artillery and obsolete weapons and be able to fight in any of a number of Gulag Archipelego to see how hopeless our alrcraft. I, for one, don't believe Congress ways ... from guerrilla support of revolution­ future would be under Communist rule? An Will let this happen again when new car­ ary movements to limited wars to massive old proverb goes, "Dwell on the past and you riers are only $5.00 each for every American, weapon support of selected pawns, to full wllllose one eye." But it goes on to say, "For­ F-14 and F-15 fighters are 7 cents apiece nuclear war or nuclear blackmail. get the past, and you will lose both eyes." and new B-1 bombers to replace the aging Many of our idealistic well-meaning Mem­ The Great Depression of the Thlrties was B-52's are 42 cents each. Mel Laird, the bril­ bers of Congress understandably want better bad, following a bad time in World War I. liant former Defense secretary, has said, education for the hopeless, better housing World War II was bad, and so were Korea "Detente without defense is delusion.".•• for the poor and mass transit systems to con­ and Vietnam. The oil crisis and current re­ So, honored Members of Congress, Please serve energy and control pollution, but they cession-depression are bad. Let's all now roll don't be against virtually every major new fall to realize that unfortunately we are still up our sleeves and do something about our system. Tell your constituents what you are living in an international jungle ... a world country and its needs. really for, item by item, and sign your name in which the lean, hungry, and aggressive As Charles Edward Hunter once said, "The in your newsletter stating that in your opin­ strong nations prepare for war. race is not always won by the fleet nor the ion your list is sufficient to meet the threat These same Congressmen would not walk you know is there. alone at night on the streets of Washington, battle by the strong. But if you are a wager­ That's the truly honest way to do it. I New York or Los Angeles because they know ing man, you had better count on it." would hope that if you have an error 1n that an armed thug wit~out principles might Let's start by agreeing on "how much" judgment, it will be a little on the high side, harm them. defense the country can afford. It seems to because it takes much planning and ten Yet, they come out against mllitary pro­ be about 100 blliion dollars a year, the small­ years to develop an adequate system, and grams that have been carefully thought out est percentage of our national budget or that can't be done after you are attacked. to prevent war !or America and the world. gross national product in years at a time Most of my conservative friends are wring- 13698 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 8, 1975 ing their hands over the structure and the FAMU..Y LoSING HOME OVER LEUKEMIA BILL? nism in the little Hungarian nation. His so-called "threat" of the new Congress. They (By Ann Hellmuth) spirit stood out like a shining beacon had better realize that these new men are ORLANDo.-Nine months a.fte:r 4-year-old as Soviet tanks crushed the Hungarian in the saddle and we had better help them Rusty Byrd developed leukemia, doctors dis­ nation again in 1956. His selfless example ride easy in it because they are molding our covered his twin brother, Jamie, also was of no compromise with evil was a great future. suffering from the often-fatal disease. Two of my best friends, Otis Pike and Fred contrast to the inactivity of the West and "I don't ask the purpose of these things," in particular the United States, when Richmond, are Members of this so-called their father, Jerry Byrd, 29, said. "I think liberal, democratic, socially-minded Con­ there is a purpose behind all suffering and the Soviet tanks rolled into Budapest. gress. They are adamantly against mllltary difficulty. I believe this will give us an op­ The year 1956 was a great dividing waste but one hundred per cent for enough portunity to come out better people than point and never again would any of the of the best defense products we can buy ... we went in." "Captive Nations" in Eastern Europe but just enough, which is the tough, life Now the Byrds, facing $20,000 in medical take seriously our statements espousing and death question for our country. bills have lost a legal battle to prevent their They and their colleagues in Congress will, 'freedom for all nations of the world. The Orla~do home from being foreclosed. Circuit U.S. weak reaction to the invasion of 1 am sure, not be against every major defense Judge Maurice Paul today enterd a $14,000 procurement that is built outside their dis­ foreclosure judgment against Byrd and or­ Hungary was among the first in a series trict. And I believe they will be positively dered his house sold at publlc auction May 26. of evasions and procrastinations in our for the small premiums in dollars our na­ Frances Schneider, who requested the foreign policy that are exemplified by tional defense insurance pollcy needs to keep foreclosure, said she lent Byrd more than no-win wars in Korea and Vietnam. But the enemy from our shore and to see that $10,000 to help with medical bills. She said now the downhill slide is moving at a bullies and aggressors do not intimidate our she thought she was getting a second mort­ fa..ster pace and no one knows where it friends and allies. gage on his home but in fact it was a third I am sure also that they will seek counsel will end. Therefore, it behooves my col­ mortgage. leagues to think of t'he life of Cardinal from the experienced "old heads" like Eddie "We borrowed the money to help pay Hebert and Barry Goldwater, along with Tom Rusty's medical bills," said Byrd, an insur­ Mindszenty and the example he set in Moorer, Lyman Lemnitzer and George Brown. ance agent who also has two daughters, ages the struggle for freedom. The story of his They will also talk to the young sergeants, 10 and 7. "We planned to sell our house to death as it appeared in the Washington majors and It. commanders in their dis­ pay the woman back, but because of the Star on May 6, 1975, follows: tricts ... men who have fought in recent economy we couldn't find a buyer." JOSEF CARDINAL MINDSZENTY, COLD WAR years. These men are the professionals who Byrd said tragedy first hit the family last are ready to lay their lives down for us as FoE OF REDS, DIEs May. VIENNA.-Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, so many have in our 200 year heritage! De­ "We love to go to the ocean and we were fense is much like a dog team-only the strong-willed former primate of the Hun­ at the beach when I noticed Rusty wasn't as garian Catholic church who became a symbol front dog has a good view. It's up to you, active as Jamie and his Ups were pale," Byrd honorable gentlemen. of inflexible resistance in the Cold War, died said. here today, the Catholic Press Service re­ Doctors at Shand Teaching Hospital in ported. He was 83. Gainesvllle diagnosed the problem as leuke­ A bitter enemy of Communism, Mindszenty mia, a form of cancer which attacks the was a refugee in the United States mission THE PRICE OF HEALTH CARE­ blood cells. in Budapest for nearly 15 years. Commu­ A FAMILY'S FUTURE? "He has been in and out of the hospital nists had tortured him and sentenced him ever since but now is in remission," Byrd to life imprisonment in 1949 for fighting the said. Red takeover of his country. HON. ANDREW YOUNG He said "everything was starting to level He spent 23 years of his life, except for four OF GEORGIA out and we felt confident about the future" days, either in prison or as a refugee in the when last month he noticed an unusual IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES U.S. Mission, which he reluctantly left for bruise on Jamie's cheek. Rome in 1971 after the Hungarian govern­ Thursday, May 8, 1975 "I got suspicious and we took him to an ment granted him amnesty. Orlando doctor who told us the dreadful To be closer to his homeland, he soon Mr. YOUNG of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, news," Byrd added. the United States has long lagged behind moved to Vienna, where he died today. A Byrd said he and his wife, Patty, 28, had a spokesman said the former primate of Hun­ the industrialized nations in the field of heartbreaking journey to Gainesville with gary underwent prostate surgery at Vienna health care. No significant programs for Jamie, who chatted all the time about how hospital this morning and died four hours personal health care were enacted prior he was going to be like his twin brother. later from heart failure. to medicaid and medicare in the 1960's, "He said, 'Gee, Daddy, I'U get to eat an He was a symbol of life-long resistance to although Congress has considered a suc­ my meals in bed like Rusty and I'll lose all Nazi and Communist tyranny. cession of proposals over the last 30 years my hair and all the girls will laugh at me in When he was only a parish priest, the to alter the role of the Federal Govern­ church and I'll get to ride around in a short-lived Communist government of Bela wagon with a tube in my arm'," Byrd said. Kun arrested him after World War I for op­ ment in prvviding health care to the Byrd said Jamie's disease is now in remis­ opposition to the regime. American people. sion and doctors will say only that if the boys Nazis jailed him during World War II for I would hope that as this debate be­ go five years without lapses they may be protesting the slaughter of Hungarian Jews. gins to take form in the 94th Congress, cured. Freed by Hungarian Freedom Fighters dur­ we recognize the need to attempt to "The thing that makes you angry is the ing the 1956 uprising, he pledged "Now I formulate a national policy on health helplessness of the middle income people will continue where I had to leave off eight care. I personally feel that in a country in a situation like this," Byrd said. years ago." But his optimism was short­ with a gross national product approach­ lived and he fled to the U.S. Mission five days later when Soviet tanks crushed the revolt. ing $1 .5 trillion, health care ought to be There he remained in self-imposed confine­ a right. A healthy people is indispensable CARDINAL MINDSZENTY-A GIANT ment, a symbol of bitter opposition to the to a healthy nation. But even if this IN THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM DIES Communist government until September, Congress can not address itself to such 1971, when age and falling health forced him a broad policy question, we ought to be to leave Hungary for good. able at least to agree that health care HON. LARRY McDONALD Pope Paul VI removed the cardinal as pri­ should not be the cause of destruction of OF GEORGIA mate of Hungary and Archbishop of Eszter­ a family; it ought not ruin careers: it gom on Feb. 5, 1974. Mindszenty empha.tl­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ca.lly denied that he stepped down volun­ ought not cost a man his home and all of Thursday, May 8, 1975 tarily. his hard-earned savings. As h1s years in the U.S. legation passed, With the recent upsurge in unemploy­ Mr. McDONALD of Georgia. Mr. the gaunt churchman ceased to be a threat­ ment, people who have lost their jobs Speaker, the death of Cardinal Mind­ ening martyr in Communist eyes and there may also lose their medical insurance, szenty this week left a great void in the was frequent specUlation that a change was and most insured individuals can not af­ ranks of those who oppose totalitarian­ to be made in the cardinal's isolation. ford catastrophic coverage. ism in the world. The Cardinal had the I n April 1963, for example, Pope John Mr. Speaker, I recommend to my col­ distinction of being imprisoned by both XXIII, who was anXious for M!ndszenty to come to Rome, sent Franz Cardinal Koenig of leagues an article from the May 1, 1975, tne Nazis and the Communists at differ­ Austria to Budapest for secret talks with the issue of the Atlanta Journal concerning ent times. primate, reportedly to persuade him to accept the most tragic case of the Byrd family However, he will be largely remembered amnesty terms. of Orlando, Fla.: for his stand against athiestic commu- On May 11, 1963, Janos Kadar, the leader May 8, 1975 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 13699 of the Hungarian Communist party, hinted now, to complete the destruction of the Nixon The tragedy that is occurring in South that he hoped to settle Hungary's disputes presidency and the triumph of the Politics of Vietnam and Cambodia, both of which are with the United States in return for U.S. Protest--whatever it costs the nation. on the verge of downfall, is impelling evi­ diplomatic recognition. Kadar's regime had Never mind the irony of Clark Clifford, the dence. The loss of these two countries to hinted for a long time that it wanted Minds­ man who bossed the Pentagon while 400 to North Vietnamese imperialists will be a zenty out of the country and hoped to ar­ 500 U.S. soldiers were being killed every week severe blow to American prestige throughout range h1B freedom to improve relations with in Vietnam, now attacking the Kissinger the world. the West. peace failure. But this is what is in prospect, and one The United States denied knowledge of The opposition first cried "No recrimina­ must raise the question: Where does it go any such negotiations and sa.ld any decision tions. It is sinful to use this tragedy politi­ from there? for the cardinal to leave Hungary would have cally!" when they had first pulled out the You have only to look at a map of Asia to to be made by him. In June of 1963, he rug and knew they were the logical subject arrive at some kind of an answer. Laos, a for­ made the decision: to stay. for any such recriminations. mer part of French Indo-China, like Vietnam The following year, the Vatican and Hun­ Now that they think they have found a and Cambodia, will be ripe for the plucking. gary signed an agreement on church-state re­ scapegoat, however, it is no longer sinful. It Then turn your eyes westward to Thailand, lations and speculation of Mindszenty's de­ is time for recriminations. then southward to Malaysia and Singapore. parture surged up again. But again, the They blame the treaty and its author at The expansionist drive of the rulers of cardinal decided to stay. this late date! Hanoi surely must include plans for move­ Then on sept. 28, 1971, Mindszenty sadly That treaty got us out and it held for two ments against all these countries. And there and unceremoniously traveled to Rome, leav­ years as long as as there was a Nixon in must be fears rising in their capital cities ing his homeland for the last time. He was the White House and a balanced Congress, about just how far this tenacious new ag­ quoted as saying the decision to leave was and it became a dead letter in Hanoi after gressor may want to go in its bid to become a "perhaps the heaviest cross of my life." this Congress made it abundantly clear that major power in Asia. Two days later the Hungarian government it was a dead letter in Washington and The possibilities of aggression do not end announced it was suspending the remainder that we wouldn't lift a finger to replace with the countries we have named. There of the cardinal's life sentence. An agreement South Vietnamese munitions much less react ar~ greater worlds to conquer. reportedly had been reached between the to a major treaty violation. One of the richest areas in Southeast Asia Vatican and the Hungarian government. The facts remain there and in every world is Indonesia, which is now enjoying relatively When Mindszenty ended his exile he was hot spot. Until this Congress pulled the good relations with the United States after a. fraU 79 years old, but gaining his freedom rug out from under the State department years of flirting with the Communist world. was not a. joyful occasion for him. The Cath­ publicly on negotiations with Russia, the Its economic capacity is immense, as the olic prelate had vowed for 22 years not to Middle East and Vietnam in succession, Japanese understood so fully when they em­ leave Hungary unless he was completely there was progress, movement in the right barked on their invasions of the late 1930s cleared of all charges. direction in all three. and early 1940s. Although some observers interpreted the And after this Congress made it clear that And over the horizon lies the archipelago Hungarian government's suspension of the they would tear up and start over with of the Phillppines, more than a thousand sentence as an implication that the 1949 gamesmanship on anything Kissinger nego­ islands rich in resources, largely undeveloped. verdict has been rescinded, no retraction of tiated, and back up nothing, all three have The Phillppines, once considered a classic charges was officially announced. Neither did come unravelled--of course. example of transplanted American democracy the Vatican withdraw its condemnation of To hell with the consequences to our coun­ into the Far East, is now under the dictator­ Hungary's treatment of the cardinal. try, it seems, so long as it provides political ship of President Ferdinand Marcos. leverage for me. HOW MUCH FURTHER? (Note: The above is not a new idea born Although Marcos rs mainly pro-American of an answer to "current events." As evi­ and anti-Communist, he has been compelled WHY KISSINGER MUST GO dence of that, in late 1974, we suggested in the last few years to turn his attention that if Kissinger was wise he would resign more to the Asian mainland than to his his­ on the grounds that it is impossible to con­ toric associations with the United States. HON. ROBERT H. MICHEL duct foreign policy under the conditions This ts a time of vast change in that whole created-and sit back and let others preside OF ILLINOIS area, and no one is sure what may happen or over the disasters sure to come. They have how far the toppling of one government after IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES since come, right on schedule.) another to Communist rule may go. Thursday, May 8, 1975 But there ts no question that the Com­ munists are gaining ground rapidly at the Mr. MICHEL. Mr. Speaker, the edi­ expense of American interests and American torial I should like to have printed in the HOW MANY DOMINOES WILL FALL? prestige. · RECORD today from the Saturday, May 3, President Ford has asked Congress for edition of the Peoria Journal Star is a additional military and humanitarian funds very good one, notwithstanding its title. HON. OLIN E. TEAGUE to bolster what is left of South Vietnam, but True, the title is an eye-catcher, but OF TEXAS Congress does not appear to be in a good the thrust of the content of the editorial mood to invest anything further in that area. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The mood of Congress these days seems to certainly does not suggest that "Kis­ Thursday, May 8, 1975 be clearly isolationist. This raises the ques­ singer must go," but quite to the contrary tion of whether the United States is in a should stick it out and prove to his ad­ Mr. TEAGUE. Mr. Speaker, a recent mood to abdicate its responsibilities over the versaries that he has been right all along. article in the Dallas Morning News asks globe and retire behind its own borders. I want to make it unmistakably clear the rhetorical question "How Many Dom­ Does it not feel any longer the concern for that I personally do not subscribe to the inoes Will Fall?" The editorial is self-ex­ the world that most presidents since Wood­ title, but rather the content of the edi­ planatory and I hope every Member of row Wilson felt about a national mission? torial. It just puts a few things in proper Congress will read Robert E. Baskin's Perhaps the people in Congress are reading thoughts on the subject. It is not a new the will of their constituentt> correctly. The perspective and commend it to my col­ nation, during its days of military involve­ leagues for their thoughtful considera­ thought. The idea that once an Asian ment in Vietnam, failed to show the patience tion: country became dominated by commu­ necessary for eventual Victory--or even the WHY KISSINGER MUST Go nism the remainder would fall "like a protection of the political integrity of South It has never been much of a secret that the row of dominoes" has been echoing in Vietnam. meteoric rise of Henry Kissinger, and the these chambers since 1954. We grew weary of that unpopular war, and "personalization" of foreign policy was large­ The editorial follows: now we apparently are prepared to stand by ly the work of the news media in this coun­ and let South Vietnam go down the Com­ How MANY DOMINOES WILL FALL? try. munist drain. Nor was it any secret that they lionized (By Robert E. Baskin) How far will the domino process go? Kissinger because they were hot on the For a while it became fashionable in elite Somewhere we have to draw a line and say Watergate trail and it was a handy device to intellectual circles to sneer at the so-called to the world that we will not permit aggres­ divert "credit" for break-throughs in China, "domino theory" on foreign affairs. It be­ sion beyond certain points. But right now Russia, the Mideast and Vietnam from the came quite a laughable subject in that realm the rest of the world has no idea of where Pr

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES-Friday, May 9, 1975 The House met at 12 o'clock noon. In the spirit of Him who built on a able but not committed for military assist­ The Chaplain, Rev. Edward G. Latch, rock we pray. Amen. ance to South Vietnam and Cambodia to be D.D., o1Iered the following prayer: used for humanitarian assistance for refu­ gees from South Vietnam and Cambodia. Whosoever heareth these sayings of THE JOURNAL S.J. Res. 34. Joint resolution asking the Mine and doeth them, I will liken him President of the United States to declare the unto a wise man who built his house upon The SPEAKER. The Chair has ex­ fourth Saturday of September 1975 as "Na­ a rock.-Matthew 7: 24. amined the Journal of the last day's p.ro:. tional Hunting and Fishing Day"; Almighty and Eternal God, as we bow ceedings and announces to the House his S.J. Res. 44. Joint resolution authorizing approval thereof. the President to proclaim September 28, 1975, in Thy presence do Thou confirm our as "National Indian Day"; faith in those deep foundations laid to Without objection, the Journal stands S.J. Res. 46. Joint resolution authorizing our forefathers, lest by feverish ways, or approved. and requesting the President to issue a proc­ futile works, or foolish words we find There was no objection. lamation designating October 5-11, 1975, as ourselves building on sand rather than "Newspaper Week" and also designating October 11, 1975, as "Newspaper Carrier on rock. MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE Day"; and During this period of swiftly moving S .J. Res. 79. Joint resolution to authorize change when anger bursts into violence, A message from the Senate by Mr. "National Shut-In Day." when passion dims our minds, and when Sparrow, one of its clerks, announced doubts blind our hearts, grant unto us that the Senate had passed bills and to be calm and courageous in the dis­ joint resolutions of the following titles, PERMISSION FOR COMMITI'EE ON charge of our responsibilities. May our in which the concurrence of the House THE JUDICIARY TO FILE REPORT is requested: faith be strong and our spi.rits steadfast ON H.R. 6755 S. 240. An act to amend the act entitled that out of the turmoil of this age may "An act granting a charter to the General Mr. BRADEMAS. Mr. Speaker, at the come a better day for our people and a Federation of Women's Clubs"; request of the chairman of the Commit­ greater day for America and our world. S. 1696. An act to authorize amounts ava.u- tee on the Judiciary, I ask unanimous