EXTENSIONS of REMARKS 26251 EXTENSIONS of REMARKS to SAVE the WILDERNESS Banization It Will Be Too Late

July 26, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 26251 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS TO SAVE THE WILDERNESS banization it will be too late. When they are frailties and foibles as private citizens like gone there will be no more. us. Thus, we urge Congress to give early con I wonder if you realize that, in addition sideration to Sen. Byrd's bill to set aside to the office of the President and the 11 ex HON. HARRY F. BYRD, JR. what amounts to just slightly over a third ecutive departments, with their countless OF VmGINIA of the present park for this purpose. subordinate agencies, bureaus and councils, In years to come the benefits to the people there are 73 so-called independent federal IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES will be incalculable. agencies. These regulatory bodies, all of which Thursday, July 26, 1973 have been created in my lifetime, affect every aspect of our lives. Mr. HARRY F. BYRD, JR. Mr. Presi The political involvement of two (other) dent, the July 24 edition of the ~orthern CYRUS EATON SEES SWING BACK agencies, the Federal Bureau of Investiga Virginia Dam of Strasburg, Va., mduded TO INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM, EN tion and the Central Intelligence Agency, has an excellent editorial recommending TERPRISE newly shocked the public. As a result, serious establishment of a wilderness area in the questions are being raised about the legality Shenandoah National Park. and the morality of their activities, not to overlook the expense which. in the ease of On the day the editorial was published, HON. JENNINGS RANDOLPH the CIA, has never been disclosed to the I testified before the Parks and Recrea OF WEST vmGINIA public. tion Subcommittee of the Committee on The wars in which the United States has IN THE SENATE OF THE UNTI'ED STATES Interior and Insular Affairs, urging that become involved in my lifetime have gotten approximately one-third of the acreage Thursday, July 26, 1973 us into the habit of placing almost dictatorial in the Shenandoah Park be set aside as Mr. RANDOLPH. Mr. President, there power in the hands of one man, the Presi a wilderness area. dent. The result has been a.n eros·on <>! the is much commentary today on the uses authority of the Congress, to the point where Located withln reach of the Wash and abuses of governmental power, and it has praetica.Uy abdicated. A.s e learn the ington and Richmond Metropolitan I am confident that such introspective bitter lesson of present events, the trend areas, Shenandoah National Park is at discussions will lead to a stronger, better should be toward a return of freedom to tracting an increasing number of visitors balanced distribution of constitutional the private individual, with less faith in gov each year. In view of the growth in prerogatives. Power abhors a vacuum. ernment officials and agencies. popularity of the park, I think that now and when there is a failure on the part The time has probably come for some is the appropriate time to assure con of one branch of government to exert revisions in our Constitution.. Take the posi servation of a. portion of the park in its tion of the President as Commander-in its constitutional authority, its role is Chief, for instance. It may well have been natural state. preempted by another. highly proper for General George Washing I ask unanimous consent that the ed One of the experienced and astute ob ton to become Commander-in-chief as well ltOl·ial, "To Save the Wilderness/' be servers of this power phenomenon in as President, and also for Dwight D. Eisen printed in the Extensions of Remarks. America today is Cyrus Eaton, chan-man hower, with his long and brilliant military There being no objection, the editorial of the board of the Chesapeake & Ohio experience. In no other natton on earth is was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, Railway. He addressed stockholders at a. layman without signlfiea.nt military knowl edge made Commander-in-chief, however. as follows: the annual shareho~ders meeting at the After his retirement from office, President To SAVE THE Wn.nERNESS Greenbrier, White Sulphur Springs, W. Eisenhower told me that, as a military man, Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr. is the sponsor of Va., recently. Mr. Eaton departed from he had all along realized that tt would be legislation which is of immense importance remarks involving railroad operations to "sheer stupidity" to send American troops to Virginia. a.nd to the nation. Sen. Byrd's provide some keen insight on his inti to fight in Indo-China. mstoey records that bill provides for setting aside 72,280 acres mate observations of changing govern subsequent Presidents nevertheless sent of the Shenandoah National Park as a. wil ment structure over a period of many ground, air, and naval troops, and the "sheer derness area. years. stupidity" of so doing, as Eisenhower termed Why is a. wilderness area classification it, all but tore the American nation apart. desirable since Shenandoah has been a na He recalled to the audience the state As the aftermath of that unwanted war tional park for years and as such bas been ment of President Eisenhower, after re and the subsequent political scandals, I enjoyed by the public? The reason, of course, tirement from office, that it would be think the Senate and House must resume Is the realization on the part of millions of "sheer stupidity to send American greater responsibility !or government. In Americans that if we are to preserve the few troops to fight in Indochina." The warn time I also believe there will be an end to remaining areas of this great la.nd in the ing by the late President, a qualified man the creation of new regulatory agencies and natural state with which nature endowed to make that judgment at the time, was a marked reduction in the now arbitrary them we must act'withGut delay. ignored. President Eisenhower and Mr. powers of existing ones. If we are going to National parks, as such, are for public en continue to have private enterprise, certainly joyment but because of the manner in which Eaoon were longtime friends. Mr. Eisen we must have less regulation, less taxation they must be developed in order to make hower was a frequent visitor to the and less spending of money all over the them accessible and usable for great numbers Greenbrier. in our beautiful hill country, world. The time has come for us to let the of people their preservation in their original and they shared a mutual admiration for rest of the world make its own mistakes. pristine state is d.ifticult. shorthorn cattle. I feel that Mr. Eaton,s In contrast to the plight of the United The establishment of wilderness aTeas recollection of the statement by the Gen States, look at the flourishing condition of within parks <>n the other hand will make eral has a particular pertinence at this Japan and Germany, defeated in World War possible the process of legally sealing off and time of congressional action to end n and largely free of military expenditures, maintaining the natural state uncorrupt while we have been squandering our sub ed by any of the ma.n-made additions such as American bombing in Cambodia. I ask unanimous consent that the remarks by stance on wars and armaments, until our highways, commercial buildings, picnic areas, taxes have reached back-breaking propor etc., which dot national parks. Chairman Eaton pertaining to the tions. As Sen. Byrd correctly points out there evolvement of governmental power and are relatively few areas in the nation in the examples of its misuse be printed in Mr. RANDOLPH. Mr. President, one which wilderness conditions still exist to be the RECORD. of the myths of American foreign policy preserved. Virginia is fortunate to have is the belief that we can continue ex within its borders one of the few still left There being no objection, the state to in the eastern United States, and the desir ment was ordered to be printed in the port our material and ideological re ability of preserving it is enhanced by the RECORD, as follows: sources throughout the world, and, in so tact that the newly designated wilderness ADDRESS BY CYRUS S. EATON doing.. make every nation like America. acreage will be within 90 miles of Washing All of us are mindful of the unhappy We know that there is not enough energy ton and about 100 miles of Richmond. day-to-day disclosures in Washington of the or natural resources to do this, yet we The strongest argument in favor of wil fallibility of government. They are a dis derness areas lles in the :fact that if we tressing but timely reminder that those who persist. Our pro:tligate policies have un permit the few remaining to be destroyed hold public olfice, elective and a.ppolntiv~. leashed rising expectations of aftluence by the approach of steadily increasing ur- are ordinary human beings. with the same which are fed by electronic images and 26252 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 26, 1973 fueled by rising rebellions. Mr. Eaton 8. Do you think that some sort of news- STATEMENT OF HEAVY DUTY has said: men's privilege law should be enacted? Yes, 52 percent. TRUCK MANUFACTURERS ASSO.:. The time has come for us to let the rest No, 41 percent. CIATION of the world make its own mistakes. No response, 7 percent. Mr. President, should we continue our 9. Can we beat inflation without strict gov- HON. LLOYD MEEDS humanitarian efforts abroad and share ernment controls of wages, prices, profits? Yes, 22 percent.

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