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28744 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 6, 1969 erans who are simultaneously participating H.J. Res. 923. Joint resolution providing Mr. LATrA, Mr. LoWENSTEIN, Mr. in certain teaching assistance programs, and for the display in the Capitol Building of a LUJAN, Mr. MCCLORY, Mr. MCCLOS­ for other purposes; to the Committee on portion of the moon; to the Committee on KEY, Mr. MCDADE, Mr. MACDONALD Of Veterans' Affairs. House Administration. Massachusetts, Mr. MACGREGOR, Mr. By Mr. PURCELL (for himself and By Mr. BOLAND: MARTIN, Mr. MATSUNAGA, Mr. MEL­ Mr. CULVER) ; H. Con. Res. 398. Concurrent resolution ex­ CHER, Mr. MESKILL, Mr. MICHEL, Mr. H.R. 14206. A bill to improve farm income pressing the sense of the Congress relating MIKVA, Mr. MINISH, Mr. MizE, Mr. and insure adequate supplies of agricultural to the withdrawal of U.S. Forces from South MONAGAN, Mr. MORSE, Mr. MOSHER, commodities by extending and improving Vietnam; to the Committee on Foreign and Mr. NELSEN) : certain commodity programs; to the Com­ Affairs. H. Res. 568. Resolution concerning wtth­ mittee on Agriculture. By Mr. FINDLEY (for himself, Mr. drawals from Vietnam; to the Committee on By Mr. STAGGERS: ADAMS, Mr. AnDABBO, Mr. ANDREWS Foreign Affairs. H.R.14207. A bill to encourage the growth of North Dakota, Mr. AsHLEY, Mr. By Mr. BROWN of California: of international trade on a fair and equita­ BEALL of Maryland, Mr. BOLAND, Mr. H. Res. 569. Resolution relative to the anti­ ble basis; to the Committee on Ways and BRASCO, Mr. BROOMFIELD, Mr. BROTZ­ trust case brought against the automobile Means. MAN, Mr. BROWN of Ohio, Mr. BUSH, manufacturers; to the Committee on the By Mr. TIERNAN: Mr. BUTTON, Mr. BYRNES of Wiscon­ Judiciary. H.R. 14208. A bill to amend section 4005 of sin, Mr. CARTER, Mr. DON H. CLAUSEN, title 39, Code, to restore to Mr. COHELAN, Mr. COLLIER, Mr. such section the provisions requiring proof CONABLE, Mr. CONTE, Mr. CONYERS, PETITIONS, ETC. of intent to deceive in connection with the Mr. COWGER, Mr. CULVER, Mr. CUN­ use of the mails to obtain money or prop­ NINGHAM, and Mr. DELLENBACK); Under clause 1 of rule XXII, petitions erty by false pretenses, representations, or H. Res. 564. Resolution concerning with­ and papers were laid on the Clerk's desk promises; to the Committee on Post Office drawals from Vietnam; to the Committee on and referred as follows: and Civil Service. Foreign Affairs. By Mr.VANDERJAGT: By Mr. FINDLEY (for himself, Mr. VAN 273. By the SPEAKER: Petition of R. F. H.R. 14209. A bill to amend chapter 44 of DEERLIN, Mr. WHALEN, Mr. CHARLES Nichols, , Calif., and others, rela­ title 18, United States Code, to provide that H. WILSON, Mr. WINN, Mr. WOLD, Mr. tive to $100 monthly pensions for veterans such chapter shall not apply with respect to WYDLER, Mr. YATRON, Mr. ZWACH, of World War I; oo the Committee on Vet­ the sale or delivery of certain ammuni­ Mr. CLARK, and Mrs. HANSEN of erans' Affairs. tion for rifles or shotguns; to the Committee Washington) : 274. Also, petition of the board of super­ on the Judiciary. H. Res. 565. Resolution concerning with­ visors, Sutter County, Calif., relative to fund­ By Mr. WATSON: drawals from Vietnam; to the Committee on ing for the Army Corps of Engineers flood H.R. 14210. A bill to amend title 28, United Foreign Affairs. control program for fiscal year 1970-71; to States Code, to establish certain qualifica­ By Mr. THOMSON of Wisconsin (for the Committee on Appropriations. tions for persons appointed as Judges or Jus­ himself, Mr. OLSEN, Mr. PELLY, Mr. 275. Also, petition of the board of super­ tices of the United States; to the Committee PERKINS, Mr. PODELL, Mr. PREYER of visors, Yuba. County, Calif., relative to fund­ on the Judiciary. North Garolina, Mr. QUIE, Mr. REES, ing for the Army Corps of Engineers flood By Mr. WIDNALL: Mr. REID of New York, Mr. RoBISON, control program for fiscal year 1970-71; to H.R.14211. A bill to amend title XVIII of Mr. RoGERS of Colorado, Mr. SCHADE­ the Committee on Appropriations. the Social Security Act to provide payment BERG, Mr. ScHNEEBELI, Mr. ScHWEN­ 276. Also, petition of the American Asso­ for chiropractors' services under the pro­ GEL, Mr. SHRIVER, Mr. SMrrH of New ciation of Workers for the Blind, Inc., Wash­ gram of supplementary medical insurance York, Mr. SNYDER, Mr. STAFFORD, Mr. ingoon, D.C., relative to vocational and per­ benefits for the aged; to the Committee on STANTON, Mr. STEIGER of Wisconsin, sonal rehab111tation services oo the blind and Ways and Means. Mr. SYMINGTON, Mr. TAFT, Mr. visually impaired; to the Committee on Edu- By Mr. POLLOCK: THOMPSON of New Jersey, Mr. UDALL, oation and Labor. . H.R. 14212. A bill to provide for the settle­ and Mr. ULLMAN) : 277. Also, petitioii"""of Henry Stoner, York, ment of certain land claims of Ala.ska Na­ H. Res. 566. Resolution concerning with­ Pa., relative to a memorial to the late Hon­ tives, and for other purposes; to the Com­ drawals from Vietnam; to the Committee on orable Thaddeus Stevens; to the Committee mittee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Foreign Affairs. on House Administration. By Mr. THOMPSON of New Jersey: By Mr. HUNGATE (for himself, Mr. 278. Also, petition of the dongress of Mi­ H.R. 14213. A bill to amend sections 5580 DIGGS, Mr. DONOHUE, Mr. DUNCAN, cronesia, Trust Territory of the Pacific Is­ and 5581 of the Revised Statutes to provide Mrs. DWYER, Mr. En.BERG, Mr. ESHLE­ lands; relative to the use of Eniwetok Atoll; for additional members of the Board of Re­ MAN, Mr. FISH, Mr. FLYNT, Mr. to the Committee on Interior and Insular gents of the Smithsonian Institution; to the FOLEY, Mr. FRIEDEL, Mr. GALLAGHER, Affairs. Committee on House Administration. Mrs. GREEN of Oregon, Mrs. GRIF­ 279. Also, petition of Banner Council No. By Mr. DEVINE: FrrHs, Mr. GUDE, Mr. HALPERN, Mr. 39 Junior Order United American Mechanics, H.J. Res. 922. Joint resolution to designate HANSEN of Idaho, Mr. HASTINGS, Mr. Louisville, Ky., relative to display of the Route 70 of the National System of Inter­ HATHAWAY, Mr. HECHLER of West American flag in public school classrooms; to state and Defense Highways as the Eisen­ Virginia, Mr. HICKS, Mr. HOGAN, Mr. the Committee on the Judiciary. hower Memorial Highway; to the Committee HORTON, and Mr. HUTCHINSON): 280. Also, petition of the Imperial Valley on Public Works. H. Res. 567. Resolution concerning with­ Grocers All1a.nce, El Centro, Calif.; relative to By Mr. BROTZMAN (for himself, Mr. drawals from Vietnam; to the Committee on "Operation Intercept"; to the Committee on DENNEY, Mr. FRIEDEL, Mr. COWGER, Foreign Affairs. Ways and Means. Mr. WEICKER, Mr. DIGGS, Mr. WOLD, By Mr. O'NEILL of Massachusetts (for 281. Also, petition of the city councll, Wor­ Mr. NELSEN' Mr. CARTER, and Mr. himself, Mr. JOHNSON of California, cester, Mass., rela,tlve to Federal revenue shar­ LOWENSTEIN): Mr. JONAS, Mr. KLEPPE, Mr. LANGEN, ing; to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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ONE THOUSAND SLOVAK PILGRIMS Senate by Senator J. WILLIAM Fur.BRIGHT, Bishop Andrew G. Grutka, of Gary, VISIT ROME chairman of the Foreign Affairs Com­ Ind., and Bishop Michael Rusnak, of mittee, on June 5, 1969. Toronto, Canada, spoke at the mass Pope Paul, in addressing the gather­ gathering honoring Pope Paul VI at his HON. RAY J. MADDEN ing, welcomed the Slovak pilgrims in summer home. OF INDIANA their native tongue and exhorted them to The newsstory follows: IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES be faithful to the Christian tradition. POPE PAUL VI ExHORTS SLOVAK PILGRIMS IN Monday, October 6, 1969 Constantine the Philosopher, the Slo­ ROME To BE FAITHFUL TO THEIR CHRISTIAN vak educator, was the creator of the TRADITIONS Mr. MADDEN. Mr. Speaker, during the Slavic script and was generally known On September 13, 1969 Pope Paul VI re­ week of September 13 of this year Slo­ after his adopted name of Cyril, which ceived over 1,000 Slovak pilgrims at his Sum­ vaks from many countries throughout is a contraction of Cyrilica. mer residence, Castel Gandolfo, who came to the world visited Rome in a united group. Mr. Speaker, I include a newsstory the Eternal City to pay tribute to St. Cyril They also visited Pope Paul VI at his of the pilgrimage which was submitted on the 1,100 anniversary of his blessed death. summer palace, Castel Gandolfo in ob­ The Holy F1ather exhorted the pilgrims to be to me by John C. Sciranka, associate edi­ faithful to their tradition, fearless in their servance of the l,lOOth anniversary of the tor of Good Shepherd, the official organ convictions and united in their acts of blessed death of St. Cyril. The memory of the Catholic Slovak Federation of charity. of St. Cyril was eulogized in the U.S. America. "This is the exhorta.tion I want to leave October 6, 1969 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 28745 with you," he told more than 1,000 pilgrims, exports of cotton and other commodities I have, I plan to propose an appropriate their bishops, and priests from the diocese helps our balance of payments. change in our tax laws which will, to of Kosice in Eastern Slovakia who visited Just recently I received from a con­ say the least, discourage our great tax­ him a.t his Summer residence in Castel stituent news that greatly disturbed me. free foundations from using their funds Gandolfo. Also present were hundreds of American I am told that the Ford Foundation is in a manner contrary to the best interest and Canadian pilgrims of Slovak descent, in­ considering an allocation of funds for of our citizens. cluding Bishop Andrew G. Grutka of G&y, the purpose of expanding the production Indian.a, and Bishop Michael Rusnak of of cotton in Pakistan. The Ford Foun­ Toronto, Canada. dation, which under our laws is not re­ Also present were Bishop Paul Hnilica., quired to pay taxes on its income, is ac­ THE SUPERSONIC "GO" S.J., exiled Slovak bishop now living in corded special preferential tax treat­ Rome; and Cardinals John Wright and Confalonieri. ment. Accordingly, I think that the Gov­ HON. DURWARD G. HALL "Be faithful as you have been throughout ernment of the United States and the OF MISSOURI your history, even in the midst of trials and citizens of this country have an interest oppositions, faithful to your authentic in the manner in which the foundation IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Christian and Oatholic faiths," he said. spends its funds. If these moneys are to Monday, October 6, 1969 "Be fearless, because by not compromising be spent on projects which have a harm­ Mr. HALL. Mr. Speaker, President with the anti-evangelistic mentality which ful effect on the U.S. economy generally, all too often permeates today's world you may Nixon's decision to move ahead with the profess your convictions." specifically on a particular segment construction and flight testing of a He also asked them to be united in prayer thereof, then I am strongly persuaded supersonic transport, has, and will con­ and charity "in order to give to the world that Congress should take another look tinue to generate much discussion and that testimony which is expooted of the true at the Internal Revenue Statute which debate. Ohristlan: not words but acts; not hesita­ exempts the income of the foundation In order to help throw as much "light" tions by examples; not doubts and contesta­ from Federal income taxes. on the subject as possible, I offer an edi­ tions but coherence and fusion of mind and Congress has long recognized the im­ torial from the magazine Aviation Week of heart." he said. portance of a strong, expanding export He said the Slovaks give tangible proof and Space Technology. of their charity by their exceptional spirit of market for cotton. It has many times The article to which I refer, presents generosity. reiterated the need that the United a learned and interesting discussion of The Holy Father, Pope Paul VI welcomed States regain and maintain its fair share the merits of the so-called SST. the pilgrims in Slovak "Vitame Vas, Mili of the world markets for cotton and The editorial follows: Slovaci" (We Welcome You, Beloved Slovaks). that the exports of 5 to 6 million bales Rt. Rev. Msgr. Joseph S. Altany, Supreme annually be considered the United THE SUPERSONIC "Go" President of the Slovak Oatholic Federation States fair share. The United States will build a Mach 2.7, of America presented an award to His Emi­ titanium 300-passenger supersonic transport nence John J. Cardinal Wright, former Bishop A special program was instituted to compete in the international airline mar­ of Pittsburgh diocese for his m.any services aimed at achieving that objective. For ket of the next two decades. This is the im­ to the Slovak people. several years we did export an average port of President Richard Nixon's loud and Bishop Grutka presented an award to Mr. of around 5 to 6 million bales. But then clear "go" signal to the supersonic transport John Sabol, Supreme Secretary of the First exports have fallen off and for the last program last week. The President's de

As a. condition of ea.ch of the three pris­ ers. For the next couple of weeks they re­ there to see them for myself. To television oner releases, Hanoi has insisted that US ceived Hanoi's "grand tour," were escorted audiences, the returning prisoners may have pacifist groups be sent to North Vietnam to on a 500-mile trip into the DMZ, met with looked reasonably well cared for. But their take custody of the prisoners and accom­ the Prime Minister, and were ultimately appearance on the hot, noisy flight line was pany them out of the country. entertained at a farewell party well-oiled deeply saddening. AHer a protracted wait, the identities of with rice liquor and propaganda. When the general passengers and the paci­ the prisoners are presented to the world in At the farewell ceremony, according to de­ fist escorts had disembarked, the famiUes a staged ceremony. Finally, they are allowed tails churned out by the North Vietnam News of the prisoners were allowed to board the to depart for home with their pacifist coun­ Agency (VNA), the prisoners were "handed plane for a brief reunion away from the eyes trymen, who are merely used by Hanoi in a over ... to the American antiwar delegation" of the curious. Twenty minutes later, the grossly overt effort to foment further un­ with a Madame Bui Thi Cam denouncing men and their families began emerging. rest among American citizens and abet mili­ the "monstrous crimes" perpetrated by the There was no brass band, no flags, no tant critics a.broad. "US imperialists" who had destroyed towns clamoring throng to welcome them. Only a The first two prisoner releases took place and crops and massacred . . . women, chil­ cluster of newsmen, cameras, government last year. Three men were released in Feb­ dren, and old folk." representatives, police, and a small crowd of ruary, three more in July. All six were "short She said US pilots "caught in the act of onlookers. termers"-that is men who had been held committing grave crimes" are not entitled Lieuoonant Frishman, followed closely by prisoner for relatively brief periods of time. to the protection of the Geneva Conventions, Seaman Hegdahl, was first off the plane. Both The February 1968 group consisted of two but are, nevertheless, treated "in accordance wore their new uniforms, the Navy blue con­ Air Force officers, Lt. Col. Norris M. Overly with the humanitarian policy of the gov­ trasting starkly with their drawn, pallid and Capt. John D. Black, and twenty-three­ ernment." faces. Captain Rumble, ill, stooped, pale, year-old Navy Lt. (jg.) David P. Matheny. James Johnson, accepting the prisoners was assisted down the steps, helped into a None had been in captivity as much as six "on behalf of the American antiwar delega­ police car, and rushed to a. waiting medical­ months. Lieutenant Matheny had been cap­ tion," said, "We know, as these pilots mu.st evacuation plane. tured only four months earlier. know, that all over the world the United The two Navy men and their families were The three prisoners relased in July 1968 States has been branded an outlaw nation." led to a small platform, barren but for a were all Air Force officers: Maj. James F. Low His statement, running some 500 words, gaggle of intertwined microphones. Uncer­ and Capt. Joseph V. Carpenter, imprisoned for might almost have been writoon by Hanoi. tainly at first, and then with alert precision seven and six months, respectively, and Maj. The North Vietnam said, they returned the salute of Air Force Col. Fred N. Thompson captured less than four "The three released American military men Milt Keglet standing nearby. months before. then took turns in expressing, ea.ch in his They were ashen in color. Their eyes were The man designated by Hanoi as the prin­ own [way], their deep gratitude to the Viet­ deep, hollow circles of darker gray, much cipal go-between for the releases is a. fifty­ namese People, the DRVN government, and like the exaggerated eyes of starving chil­ four-yea.r-old pacifist named David Dellinger. the Vietnam People's Army, for this humani­ dren. They smiled, but somehow their smiles Chairman of an organization known as the tarian act as well as for the humane treat­ seemed macabre; not forced, but not exactly National Mobilization Committee to End the ment all of them had received throughout real; joyful surely, but with an underlying War in Vietnam, he has traveled frequently the period of their detention." tautness; perhaps nearer to tears than to Communist bloc nations and to North The names of the prisoners were revealed. laughter. Vietnam. Currently, he is under indict­ Two were Navy men: Lt. Robert F. Frishman, Lieutenant Frishman once again spoke for ment on charges of conspiring to incite a captured twenty-one months earlier, and all three men, repeating what by now had riot in Chicago during last year's Democratic Seaman Douglas B. Hegdahl, imprisoned for become his stock statement. They were happy Convention. two years and four months. The third was to be home, they had received "adequate As the ma.in contact in the prisoner re­ Air Force Capt. Wesley L. Rumble, held for food, clothing, and housing" from their leases, Delllnger, in turn, has named other fifteen months. captors. US pacifists to aot as "escorts" in bringing The prisoners and their escorts left Hanoi He, himself, had been "seriously wounded." the prisoners out of Hanoi. on August 5. Arriving in Vietiane, Laos, that The North Vietnamese doctors had removed night, they were seen for the first time by his elbow and tied the muscles together. "I THREE RELEASED IN AUGUST US newsmen. They were described as "pale am glad to still have my arm," he said. The most recent release-three men, and gaunt," clad in "dungarees and san­ THE ARM WAS WASTED again-came in August of this year and il­ dals." lustrates how completely Hanoi milks the The press accounts noted that Frishman, It hung at his side, the loose sleeve of his prisoner situation for its own purposes. How­ acting as spokesman for the prisoners, se­ jacket emphasizing that the arm was wasted, ever, it marked a minor breakthrough of lected his words "carefully." He said only thin, far shorter than the other. When the sorts. For the first time, North Vietnam re­ that he was happy "to be returning home, suggestion had been made to him earlier leased prisoners who had been held captive to be back with my country and my wife." that, "They'll fix it better at home," he re­ for fifteen to twenty-eight months. There then followed a question-and-an­ plied, "Oh, no. They won't. It's impossible The new policies of the Nixon Administra­ swer session. Here are revealing excerpts from now." tion may have had something to do with the Frishman's interrogation by the newsmen: Now, as he extolled the "adequate" treat­ release of the longer-term prisoners. Publicity Question. How was the treatment you re­ ment he and the others had received, and about two of the men had been widely aired ceived... ? praised the North Vietnamese for saving his by DoD several months earlier. Answer. I received adequate food, clothing, arm, Frishman voiced the "hope that there Like the two preceding releases, the third and housing. will be some more releases." also was carried out under the banner of Question. Would you describe it as hu­ At his side, Douglas Hegdahl, once a ro­ David Dellinger. On this occasion, he des­ mane treatment? bust heavyweight, continued to smile, his ignated a somewhat ragtag escort group. The Answer. Sir, I believe I have answered that face almost skeletal. A reporter asked how group was substantially larger than any pre­ question. much weight he had lost. He had "no com­ viously dispatched. There were four escorts. Question. Did they make any attempt to in­ ment." They took along three cameramen. doctrinate you or brainwash you in any way? But then Frishman addressed the micro­ Leader and spokesman was Renna.rd C. Answer. I have no comment. phones. "I lost forty-five pounds; Seaman Davis, twenty-nine, National Coordinator of Question. Was their treatment better at all Hegdahl lost sixty pounds," he said. It was Dellinger's National Mobilization Committee. when they decided you were going to be the first detailed confirmation of their dep­ A member of Students for a Democratic released? rivations. Society, Davis is also under indictment on Answer. As I say, my treatment has been A newsman asked Frishman why the North charges growing out of the Chica.go riots. He adequaoo. Vietnamese had selected him for release in had to obtain a. court ruling in order to Question. Are you concerned that other preference to some other prisoner. leave the country. prisoners might be harmed by something you "I am sure they released me for some rea­ With Davis in the escort group were Linda might say here? son ... this reason I do not know," he said. Sue Evans, twenty-two, an SDS regional or­ Answer. Yes. I in no way want to jeopardize What about the welfare of other prisoners ganizer; Grace Paley, forty-six, a member of any of the others who have been . . . stm held by Hanoi? antiwar and antidraft organizations; and The sentence trailed off. "No comment," Lieutenant Frishman said. James Johnson, twenty-three, Negro, former When the prisoners arrived in Bangkok the PRESS SESSION QUICKLY ENDED GI who served a stockade term for refusing following day, Frishman was quoted as say­ The session with the press was over quick­ to fight in Vietnam. The three cameramen, ing. "It's great to be back." Nothing more. ly, the final questions muffled in the roar from an underground movie-making outfit, At some point during the return journey, of a nearby jet. The men were tired; they had were identified as Robert Kramer, thirty-six, Frishman had indicated the desire of all three been traveling for thirty-six hours. an SDS member during a stint at Columbia men to be furnished with military clothing. "I want to be with my wife. now," Lieu­ University; Normal Fruchter, thirty-two; "We left in uniform," he said. "We intend to tenant Frishman said. He pla.ced his good and John B. Douglas, thirty-one. return in uniform." The clothing was rushed arm around her. The prisoners and their TEAM FLEW TO HANOI to Frankfurt, last stop before New York. families moved off the platform. The seven-member team flew to Hanoi in ARRIVAL IN NEW YORK As Frishman turned, I saw him for the first mid-July, about two weeks after North Viet­ When the three men arrived at Kennedy time from the side. His shoulders were in­ nam announced plans to release the prison- International Airport in New York, I was credibly thin. The collar of his shirt hung 28780 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 6, 1969 loosely about his neck. The lines of his nose, The press conference produced nothing of But those still imprisoned want the facts his cheeks, and his chin were sharply drawn, any kind a.bout the status of U.S. prisoners out in the open, he said. One told him "not haggard. So were Hegdahl's. held by North Vietnam. The pacifists had re­ to worry about telling the truth," that if it If the two men had been well-treated, turned believing what they wanted to be­ means more torture, "at lea.st he'll know why Ghere was nothing in their appearance to lieve. They brought back no list of prisoners he's getting it and he Will feel that it will be verify it. The almost corpse-like pallor of held by Hanoi, no hint that North Vietnam worth the sacrifice." their skin, tightly stretched, almost trans­ might consider changing its policy on While North Vietnam's claims of "humane" lucent, mutely testified to long seclusion prisoners. treatment of the prisoners have failed to from the sunlight. Except for some fifty letters Hanoi had stand up to public scrutiny, it is equally The men and their families moved to wait­ permitted them to carry home, they had apparent that Hanoi's policies and those of ing transportation for the short trip to the returned only With an array of sugar-coated the Viet Cong have been cruelly lacking in medical-evacuation plane and the final leg propaganda. They had swallowed whole as compassion for the families of the prisoners of their journey to military hospitals. I much as possible and stuffed the rest into and missing 'men. turned with the other newsmen to walk back their luggage. Take Andrea Rander, whose husband, into the International Arrivals building for The press conference could only raise seri­ Army SSgt. Donald Rander, is held by the the meeting with the pacifist escorts. ous doubts about the value of continuing Viet Cong. He was first reported missing dur­ We waited for an hour in a small, stuffy to allow Hanoi the luxury of using such the January Tet offensive last year. Four room intensely 1lluminated by bright klieg groups to bring back tiny numbers of pris­ weeks later she was officially notified that lights. oners. Some Administration officials, even he had been wounded and imprisoned. She Finally, the pacifists straggled in, having some wives and families of prisoners and has been waiting almost two years for a letter been delayed in customs. The four escorts missing men, also a.re beginning to question that has never come. She has great difficulty, and the three cameramen gathered on a plat­ the validity of this practice. she told me, in making decisions. "I keep form at one end of the room. By any stand­ At the current exchange rate, it would take putting everything off. I keep telling myself ards, they were unprepossessing in well over 400 yea.rs to get all the men home. I will wait until Donald comes home. It's appearance. And the current release procedures in the my way, I guess, of convincing myself that The leader and spokesman, Rennie Davis, words of the Washington, D.C., Evening Star, he will be back." was the most presentable, dressed in neat are "a little like Oriental water torture-and trousers and shirt, hair slightly long but just as humanitarian." SPORADIC LETTERS combed and parted. Twenty-five days after Frishman, Hegdahl, Billie Hiteshew, wife of AF Maj. James Peering from time to time at notes clutched and Rumble reached New York, I went to Hiteshew, who was captured by North Viet­ in his right hand. Davis began a recitation Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland to hear nam in March of 1967, has lived with the of what the seven-member team had seen the two Navy men tell a.bout their prison problem longer, but at least she has heard and done in North Vietnam. His monologue life. Sunshine had improved their color; they from her husband. She receives sporadic let­ had little to do with the prisoners. It mainly had regained some weight. They were ready ters, including two this year. And she has emphasized the "devastation" that US bomb­ to open up. seen photographs of her husband. Shortly ing forays had inflicted on a "determined" Frishman recounted how he had been after his capture, CBS purchased a film of and "unbeatable" people now instilled with blindfolded after his capture and, despite Hiteshew--

Denison University, the University of Louis­ his interest in Army medicine. He will con­ NEW LEFT ACTIVITIES ville, the University of West Virginia, tinue to advise in matters of military-medical While the New Left movement may or may Brandeis University, Seoul National Univer­ importance. not make the dean's list this year, it rates an sity, and Gettysburg College. A plus in revolutionary exploits. The SDS In 1963 President John F. Kennedy ac­ and its adherents have rocked campuses from corded him the honor of being the first Sur­ coast to coast with violence, riots, and sabo­ geon General in 30 years whose tenure in GRAND PRAmm PLUMBER HAS tage. that office was extended beyond the usual GOOD ADVICE At the SDS National Convention last sum­ 4-year period. mer a workshop on violence and explo­ President Johnson followed suit when he sives was held. Literature explaining how too shattered precedent by extending his as­ HON. JAMES M. COLLINS explosive devices can be manufactured and signment as Surgeon General again until May used against Selective Service installations, 1969. OF TEXAS ROTC buildings, and university facilities has The President said at the time, "Your IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES been distributed. The results are a disgrace leadership has been marked with a consist­ Monday, October 6, 1969 to a society which owes its very existence to ency of wisdom and compassion that ls rare democratic processes under the rule of law. to any executive level. ..." Mr. COLLINS. Mr. Speaker, Here is an Many of the criminal acts of the New Left General Heaton who had served so ably interesting letter that I received this were, and are, committed as expressicns of under three presidents, continued his tenure morning from my plumber who lives out rights under the first amendment. Corn:.,ption under a fourth, when President Nixon for­ in Grand Prairie, Tex.: of the first amendment would be a better mally extended his term of Office until Octo­ term for such antics. ber 1, 1969. DEAR CONGRESSMAN COLLINS: Recently as Certainly, free speech and dissent a.re not The mission of the Army Medical Depart­ I made a plumbing call to your home I was synonymous with despotic obstruction and ment has remained the same since its be­ telling you about my son going to Vietnam. force. The wild and insatiable demands of ginning-to maintain the health of the Army You asked me to write his opinion of this the New Left for unlawful power and its blind so as to conserve its fighting strength and country. When he saw this country, it made determination to silence and destroy all who to prepare in time of peace for service in him realize what a great cotmtry we have. stand in its way are tyrannical acts of the time of war. But he feels as others that the people of first order. The only changes since the Revolutionary this country should do the fighting for their Under the first amendment, a person may War have been in the scope of the task in­ own country. Especially since there has been hire a hall and speak on any subject to as volved and in the conditions and circum­ ample time to train their own soldiers. We many people as he can persuade to listen. stances under which the mission must be should continue to help them financially However, he has no right to disrupt classes accomplished. and advise but not with our boys lives which and assemblies and prevent other persons These changes have been monumental in ls so precious to us. from hearing a ~peaker of their choice. the decade that General Heaton has served It seems to me since this is th~ type of war that it is some comforts could be provided RESTRICTION ADVOCATED as Surgeon General. Not only has the scope Neither the New Left nor any other group of professional medical ca.re steadily broad­ for the boys that they may not have to sleep in the rain. Even to a foot of water. should be allowed to plunder, riot, and ter­ ened, but the medical problems of military rorize our educational institutions and im­ preparedness have increased in magnitude My greatest concern ls we are letting these same type of outside forces destroy this pose its will upon a majority of student s who and intensity. Responsibility for the execu­ do not share its views. Crime under the ivy­ tion of this great mission is vested in The wonderful government. I am enclosing this report from one who should know just in covered arches of a college campus is no more Surgeon General. excusable than crime in our city streets. In contrast to the formal and official de­ case you have missed this report. I would like SDS leaders know that if a revolution is to lineation of his responsibilities, General to suggest a campaign be made to promote patriotism by leaders which is you and others. be brought about, they must inject more dis­ Heaton expressed his view of the scope of his cipline and organization into the movement. duties when he became The Surgeon Gen­ That the government owes no one a thing because if we did there would be ex-soldiers The anti-discipline, freewheeling, individual­ eral in 1959. which sacrificed, the Indians, and others that istic, anarchistic mood of the New Left must "The responsibilities of The Surgeon Gen­ contributed anything to society. This would be controlled and molded into a strong, cen­ eral are numerous indeed ranging from daily make it impossible to repay every one. tralized, Marxist-Leninist revolutionary force. operational actions to th~ broadest of policy Yours truly, The Old Left groups, of course, are working decisions; from signing routine correspond~ I. J. TAGGART. hard to capture at least a part of the move­ ence to advising the Chief of Sta.ff and the ment. secretary of the Army. However, there is one He then enclosed an article by J. Edgar The Progressive Labor Party already has a responsibility that looms above all others. Hoover which he had clipped out of the strong beachhead inside the SDS. On some One responsibility on which there can be no key issues the PLP comes close to having buck passing. The Surgeon General must July 23 Baptist Standard. The Baptist Standard had in tw·n reprinted it from enough strength to swing votes in national direct the course of the Army Medical Serv­ meetings. ice . . . the opera ting philosophy of the the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin. The article is headed "The New Left Danger," While considerable factionalism now exists Army Medical Service, if you please. He and within SDS ranks on "how to bring about a he alone is responsible for that ..." and the basic thought by J. Edgar Hoover revolution," the pro-Peking, the pro-, He considered it his duty, he stated, as is "Never before in this country has there and the Trotskyites all agree that students he took his office as Surgeon General, "to been such a strong revolutionary Marxist alone cannot bring about a revolution. One see that the progress of the Army Medical movement of young people which is so well-known communist youth leader wrot.e, Department is not only continued but accel­ to "We must view the worker-student alliance erated during my period of office." eager destroy established authority." It follows: as a mutual necessity and do everything in As a means of attaining increasing perfec­ our power to insure its growth and endur­ tion to foster progress, he recommended It should be readily apparent that the stu­ ance." The PLP and the Trotskyites also sup­ adoption of the methods and techniques he dents in the New Left revolutionary move­ ment are not on college campuses to seek ported similar linkage of the students and had successfully employed throughout his workers. career. He emphasized the importance of education. Rather, this conglomerate of mal­ Not all SDS members accept the Old Left attention to details, the need for balance and contents is engineering a drive to destroy organizations. Many feel that SDS can pro­ proportion in planning as well as the simul­ our educational system. mote a viable revolutionary youth program taneous pursuit of improvement in all More and more, the New Left is being free of parental tutelage from a foreign or in­ programs. controlled by the followers of Karl Marx ternal Marxist party. Whether this is possible In addition to the reorganization of the through the Old Left organizations of the or not remains to be seen. Office of the Surgeon General for greater Communist Party, USA (pro-Moscow), the efficiency and effectiveness, General Heaton Progressive Labor Party (pro-Peking), and BASIC FACT has nurtured and supported the development the Socialist Workers Party (Trotskyites). Meanwhile, a basic fact looms. Never before of medical commands overseas. The estab­ Not since the New Left came into being has in this country has there been such a strong lishment of the U.S. Army Medical Com­ the influence of Marxism-Leninism been so revolutionary Marxist movement of young mand, Europe, and the U.S. Army Medical strong. people which is so eager to destroy estab­ · Command, Japan, which reflect his interest The Students for a Democratic Society lished authority. in keeping in step with major organiza­ (SDS), largest of the New Left groups, is -The New Left movement has made it em­ tional trends in the Army, have also con­ rapidly gaining a definite Marxist-Leninist phatically clear that mere change and revi­ tributed significantly to the flexibility and coloration. At the SDS National Council sion are not its objectives. Armed with a long efficiency of the Army Medical Department. meeting in Austin in March, one of the or­ list of "non-negotiable" demands, its iimme­ General Heaton's mllltary-medica.l career ganization's top leaders was quoted as stat­ dia.t.e goal is the complete overthrow and comes to an end on October l, but he wm ing, "Our primary task ls to build a Marx­ control of our eduoational system. We all neither lay down his scalpel, nor put aside ist-Leninist revolutionary movement." know what its ultimate goal is. October 6, 1969 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 28785 Concessions and appeasements will not sat­ SALUTE TO MARIE SUTHERS 12th District of Illinois, and Mrs. Everett isfy those bent on anarchy and nihillsm. McKinley Dirksen as well as the Honor­ America should take note before it is too late. able Ray Page will be featured speakers HON. ROBERT McCLORY at the dinner meeting honoring Marie OF ILLINOIS Suthers. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Miss Gertrude Miller, president of the SLASH IN FEDERAL AID WOULD Monday, October 6, 1969 Republican Women's Club of Chicago, HAVE DISASTROUS CONSE- and Mrs. Alan-Virginia...-Macdonald QUENCES Mr. McCLORY. Mr. Speaker, my long­ are dinner cochairmen. time friend, Marie H. Suthers, a mem­ Others who will attend are: Ray Page, HON. JOSEPH G. MINISH ber of the Chicago Board of Election State superintendent of public instruc­ Commissioners since 1952, is being hon­ tion· Joseph I. Woods, Cook County OF NEW JERSEY ored at a testimonial dinner at the Fur­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sheriff· William Fetridge, president of niture Club of America in Chicago on the Urtlted Republican Fund of Illinois; Monday, October- 6, 1969 Tuesday, October 14, 1969. Robert H. Hanrahan, Cook County su­ Mr. MINISH. Mr. Speaker, private This "Salute to Marie Suthers" spon­ perintendent of schools; Patricia Hutar, agencies, no less than public o~cials, are sored by the Republican Business Wom­ public relations chairman of the Na­ seriously concerned as to the rmpact of en's Club of Chicago and other organiza­ tional Federation of Republican Women; the urban renewal policies announced by tions will honor a woman who has Mary Brooks, newly appointed Director the Department of Housing and Urban brought honor and credit to her sex and of the Mint and former lliinois national Development on our major cities with has served in many important political committeewoman; Gladys O'Donnell, their massive, urgent problems. and public offices in the course of her president of the National Federation of I submit for the attention of the Con­ distinguished career. Republican Women; Hazel Watson, pres­ gress and the administration a thought­ Mr. Speaker, it was my privilege to ident of the Illinois Federation of Repub­ ful letter from Mr. James W. Tindall, serve with Marie Suthers in 1951 during lican Women; Virginia Kenney, past president, Council of Social Agencies the 67th session of the Illinois Genera.I president of Illinois Federation of Re­ of Essex and West Hudson, N.J., Assembly. While this was the only term publican Women, and Mary M. Mc­ who is fully aware of the tremendous in the Illinois House which either of us Donald, chairman of the women's divi­ needs of our urban areas. What are the served, it provided a sple~did opportu­ sion, Cook County Republican Central people in our decaying cities-~ith nity for a close and abiding friendship Committee. shameful housing and schools-to think and enabled me to gain an appreciation It is with genuine regret that I find it of their Government's sense of propor­ of her political philosophy and to learn impossible to attend personally. How­ tion and of values? We abandon our of her determination to contribute to ever, my thoughts and good wishes will be cities with the excuse of lack of funds the improvement of society in the State with Marie Suthers and with her devoted but money can be easily found for the of Illinois and in the Nation. husband, W. Glenn Suthers, to both of SST that will make flying easier and Marie Suthers marched with other whom I extend my congratulations and swifter for the privileged few. young women in the early days of her affection. Mr. Tindall's letter, dated October 2, career to gain voting rights for women. follows: This early activity was indicative of her COUNCIL OF SOCIAL AGENCIES, latest service in behalf of equal justice THE PULASKI DAY PARADE IN Newark, N.J., October 2, 1969. for all Americans-particularly in the NEW YORK CITY Hon. JOSEPH 0. MINISH, area of voting rights. Member of Ccmgress, As a member of the Chicago Board of Washingtcm, D.C. Election Commissioners, Marie Suthers HON. JOHN J. ROONEY DEAR MR. MINISH: The threatened. slash in pursued an unceasing campaign to re­ OF NEW YORK federal aid to Newa.rk's urgently needed ur­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ban renewal program, it effectuated, would duce vote frauds and other voting in­ have disastrous consequences for the city, equities. During my service later in the Il­ Monday, October 6, 1969 with attendant serious repercussions na­ linois Staite Senate, I was privileged to Mr. ROONEY of New York. Mr. tionally. receive her frequent advice and sugges­ Speaker, the Members of this body who The scars of Newark's 1967 riot are not only tions in behalf of sound State legislation still clearly evident, but they have been ag­ were privileged to witness the Pulaski to protect the sanctity of ~e ballot bo~ Parade move impressively up Fifth Ave­ gravated by the resulting mass exodus and This was the primary mission of Marie shutting down of retail establishments. Fires, nue yesterday afternoon, viewed and the levelling of overage, da.ngerous and aban­ Suthers' work as an election commis­ sensed with intense appreciation and doned housing and the tearing down of un­ sioner. gratification the spirit of patriotism and inhabitable buildings, have left large cleared Mr. Speaker, while Marie Suthers al­ loyalty manifested to this Nation of ours. areas awaiting redevelopment. The decreas­ ways supported the public welfare above All of us observed with great pleasure the ing availability of housing in the city, has partisan interests, she was a devout Re­ been forcing the continuing flow of poor, thousands of children in their gay cos­ publican worker during the entire period tumes. All of us took satisfaction in see­ immigrant families into the remaining, al­ of her public career. Marie Suthers ready overcrowded and dilapidated old frame ing their bright faces and watching their houses which are representative of most of served as the first president of the Illi­ enthusiastic parading. All of these pa­ the city. nois Federation of Republican Women raders were of Polish birth or lineage, The combination of Newark's critical so­ and later became president of the Na­ but all of them were true blue Ameri­ cial-economic problems, its serious housing tional Federation of Republican Women, cans. For more than 30 years I have not shortage, and its battle-scarred appearance, a post which she held between 1942 and missed these annual Pulaski Day pa­ contain all the elements that could translate 1946. At the 1944 National Republican rades. Since their inception in 1937, I that appearance into a grim reality. Policy Convention, she introduced the then decisions should not ignore such a smolder­ have marveled at. their growth in par­ ing threat, which it might be charged, could presidential candidate, Thomas E. ticipants, in color, and in their deep sig­ amount to colossal neglect and complete in­ Dewey. nificance. I have marveled, too, in the difference to human values. Mr. Speaker, the activities and accom­ ever increasing crowds who line the Our organization and its 168 member agen­ plishments of Marie Suthers are legion famous Fifth Avenue to watch the pa­ cies ls deeply concerned about the inevitable and I will not endeavor to recount them rade and to applaud the groups from consequences that would result from further all here. But let me add that many other their own communities, their lodges or pursuing the proposed course of action. Members of this House, particularly my We urgently request that you contact and other fraternal societies. lead those who can move toward a recon­ Republican colleagues from lliinois, join This year the Pulaski Parade and the sideration of this whole matter and a reex­ in this expression of felicitations to observance of the 190th anniversary of amination of the critical factors involved. Marie Suthers. It ls reparted to me that the tragic and untimely death of that · Sincerely, our former· colleague, Marguerite Stitt gallant Revolutionary War Hero, Gen. JAMES W. TINDALL, Church, who was my immediate prede­ Casimir Pulaski, have special meaning President. cessor in the Lake County portion of the for me because of a visit I was privileged CXV--1813-Part 21 28786 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 6, 1969 to make only a few weeks ago to Pulaski's Pulaski paid with his life on the bat­ The only real surprise was in the effect of homeland, Poland. tlefield of Savannah, the victim of a _the explosion as it was recorded here. The burst of grape-shot from the British blast, equal to one milllon tons of TNT, The thousands of words of tribute socked the seismic instruments in Anchor­ which are annually paid Pulaski for his guns. General Anders paid with his age with a reading of only 5.8 on the Richter bravery, for his dedication to freedom and health and vitality in battles waged from scale, compared with an 8.4 reading for the independence, for his selflessness in the Norway to Tobruck, but he lives today as 1964 earthquake tha.t smashed at South­ service to his fellow men and for his will­ a monumental symbol of the courage and central Alaska. ingness to die for his adopted country dedication of Polish fighting men to the Elsewhere, the blast was recorded at 6.5 on take on new meaning since I was able to cause of universal freedom. the Richter scale, precisely on the button talk face to face with Polish men, women, Mr. Speaker, this recent privilege of with the responsible forecasts made in the and children. meeting with General Anders, whose planning for the test. feats of military strategy and whose dar­ Such seismic pounding is common out in As I visited the magnificent American the Aleutians, where nature stages quakes Children's Research Hospital in Krakow, ing exploits are still a vivid memory of of that size with frequency and without built by our American taxpayers, I was our time, all intensify my own apprecia­ terrible consequences. not only tremendously impressed with tion for the contribution which the thou­ The Ban-the-Bomb crowd, including Sens. the dedication of the hospital staff, but sands upon thousands of Polish fighting Mike Gravel of Alaska and William Fulbright, I was interested in the spirit of the young men have made to my country and to our had forecast the possibility of awful things patients and their parents. Our conver­ gallant allies. These countless legions happening in the wake of the blast, however. sations convinced me that the same love who bled at Bunker Hill, who froze at They managed to terrify thousands of house­ of independence and freedom which Valley Forge, who died ait Bull Run, who wives and children in the process, and lifted a goodly portion of the population of An­ characterized Casimir Pulaski is a dom­ stormed San Juan Hill and held back the chorage to its tip-toes in trembling during inant trait of the people of Poland today, Kaiser's onslaught at the Mame, who the hours before the detonation. particularly with respect to their chil­ withstood the brutal beating inflicted in The fact that nothing did happen to send dren. World War II and who later followed tidal waves crashing across British Columbia, The expressions of gratitude for our our flag through the hills of Korea and the West Coast, Hawaii, Alaska, Russia and help and of hope for firmer bonds of the jungles of Vietnam are all called to Japan won't stop the campaign of fear, how­ friendship made a marked impression mind as we pay tribute to General ever. upon me. Pulaski. The organizers of the protest marches and Pulaski Day this year has added sig­ May the observance of this historic demonstrations care Uttle about Amchitka Island. Their campaign is against the na­ nificance for me for another reason. On occasion whereupon we honor the glori­ tion's commitment to the Anti-Ballistic Mis­ August 15 last I had the pleasant oppor­ ous sacrifice of a great Polish general to sile system and a posture of defensive arma­ tunity of speaking to the assembled his adopted and dearly beloved second ment in an unsettled world. thousands gathered at Monte Cassino in homeland become more and more a day Their target ls the nuclear device that Italy to mark the 25th anniversairy of upon which we as Americans remember will be the warhead of the ABM, and the successful defeat of the Nazi defend­ and acknowledge with gratitude the the probably correct assumption that the ers of this famed monastery by the Free magnificent contribution which the un­ planned series of Aleutian tests involves that Polish Army under the leadership of numbered thousands of American heroes weaponry. Gen. Wladyslaw Anders. of Polish extraction have made over the In stiriring up their fear and film-flam, Not only was it a distinct honor for me In these protesters dismissed as bi'ased bureau­ years. paying tribute to such heroes, cratic propaganda the assurances of the AEC to be invited to address the gathering, we intensify the tribute we pay to Gen. scientists and engineers that they knew what but it was a most gratifying experience Casimir Pulaski. was likely to happen on Amchitka. to be a part of the great throng of people They probably will do the same as the mostly of Polish birth or descent who results of the Thursday test are analyzed were commemorating the historic event CHICKEN LITTLE'S OLD TALE and the findings put under study to see and paying moving tribute to those who whether the series of underground shots can died on the blood drenched slopes of be safely continued with an even larger nu­ Monte Cassino or who survived the gory HON. CHET HOLIFIELD clear punch. battle which raged for 8 hellish days. OF CALIFORNIA This time, however, people who had their IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES wits rattled by the dire claims of the oppo­ It was thrilling indeed to witness the nents may be able better to judge the situa­ crowd pay tribute to these revered vet­ Monday, October 6, 1969 tion. The next time, before they let their erans, many wearing the tattered and Mr. HOLIFIELD. Mr. Speaker, the dis­ nerves get on edge, they might be better able long unused uniforms in which they senters who protested the atomic de­ to consider the source of the subtle campaign were clad when they wrested control of vice test on Amchitka Island, 1,400 miles of fright. the ancient abbey from the German de­ We won't know for some weeks, probably, fenders. But the high point of the cere­ west of Anchorage, caused considerable what the prospects are for the next detona­ mony was the emotional and heart!elt fear to spread among the people of tion at Amchitk:a. But hopefully most of tribute which was paid to their heroic Alaska. Alaska now will not make prejudgments, Polish general who had risen from a sick­ I was present on Amchitka when the and will feel more confident about the words bed to join them. test occurred and I am pleased to report of the scientific advisors to the President, that there was no tidal wave, no radia­ who bear the responsibility of saying yea or I was struck with the great similarity tion release, and no harm done to the nay to a continuation of the tests. of this modem-day hero with the hero ecology of Amchitka or elsewhere. of our own struggle for independence. I had occasion to read copies of the General Pulaski. As I listened to General Anchorage Daily Times for several issues Anders and as I chatted with him and as before and after the test date. I wish to THE SUPERSONIC IS SUPERFLUOUS I conversed with men who had fought compliment the Times on its balanced with him, the likeness to Pulaski became reporting, and its objective treatment of HON. HASTINGS KEITH more pronounced. the atomic test program. Both were Poles, possessed of intensive OF MASSACHUSETI'S Under unanimous consent, I include IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES military training. Both 'possessed the an editorial from the October 3 issue same unquenchable thirst for liberty and of the Times, in the RECORD at this point: Monday, October 6, 1969 freedom of mankind from any bond of [From the Anchorage (Alaska) Daily Times, Mr. KEITH. Mr. Speaker, the Presi­ servitude. Oct. 3, 1969] Both, upon being forced to absent dent's decision to proceed with Federal themselves from their own beloved CHJ:CKEN LrrrLE'S OLD TALE financing of a supersonic transport pro­ Well, well, well. totype has stirred up a great deal of homeland, their families and their The Sky didn't fall after all. friends, joined with other nationals in The Atomic Energy Commission's one­ controversy. the pursuit of liberty, offering their megaton underground blast at Amchitka Proponents of the SST maintain that talents, their experience and their very Island Thursday afternoon went just about it is the next logical step in aircraft lives in the cause of freedom. like the government scientists said it would. development. They further argue that if October 6, 1969 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 28787 the United States does not keep pace THE RIGHT TO READ are being denied a fundamental eduoatLonal with French and Russian efforts in this right--the right to read. area we will face a severe technology It is true, of course, tha.t the ina.blillty to gap and a possible deficit in the balance HON. ALBERT H. QUIE read effectively is only one of the many vex­ OF MINNESOTA ing problems facing American eduoation, just of trade. as heart disease and cancer represent only However, Mr. Speaker, there are two IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES limited dimensions of our National health sides to this question. The case against Monday, October 6, 1969 problems. Yet, we have seen the value of con­ SST has been forcefully and persuasively centrating attention on such medical con­ stated in an editorial which appeared Mr. QUIE. Mr. Speaker, it is a tragic cerns. recently in the Cape Cod Standard­ fact that about half of the unemployed The inability to read effeotively, contam­ youths of America-ages 16 to 21-are inating as t,t does every other dimension of Times. In order to bring the dissenting education, is clearly one cha,llenge deserving views of the Standard-Times to the at­ functional illiterates, that half of the students in large city school systems read of our concentrated efforts. As we learn how tention of my colleagues, I include the to attack this deficiency cooperatively we editorial at this point in the RECORD below expectation, and that there are more than 3,000,000 adult illiterates in will not only be getting at this foundation under unanimous consent. this country. of learning, but will be gaining the strength THE SUPERSONIC Is SUPERFLUOUS and the skills to meet together many other The ability to read and the desire to educa,tion.al problems. The SST's are on their way! read are the cornerstones of success in From a variety of statistical information Hold on to your pocket books! life today. Without the skill to read, a aocumulated by the Office of Education re­ Comes now a flat statement by President garding reading deficiencies throughowt the Nixon: "The supersonic transport aircraft is man is stymied in the pursuit of almost any occupation. Reading can open the country these shocking facts stand out: going to be built. I want the United States One out of every four students nationwide to continue to lead the world in air doorway to skills and knowledge neces­ has signifioant reading deficiencies. transport. sary for meaningful participation in our In large city school systems up to half of Nixon then proceeds, without batting an society. If a person reads well, he can the students read below expeotartion. eye, to say that he will ask for $662 million educate himself. There are more tha.n three million illiter­ in the next five years to develop this air­ ates in our adult population. borne monster. A concerted effort to improve reading skills and eliminate the causes for slow About half of the unemployed youth, ages The president candidly notes that his deci­ 16-21, are functionally illiterate. sion to support the big bird was arrived reading must be made. I commend Com­ Three-quarters of the Juvenile offenders in at after a "spirited debate within the missioner of Education James E. Allen, New York City are two or more years re­ administration." Jr., for making the right to read the goal tarded in reading. For spirited debates we recommend that for the 1970's. I commend his speech to In a recent U.S. Armed Forces program the president pay close heed to the howling the annual convention of the National called Project 100,000, 68.2 percent of the and growling which will emanate from the Association of State Boards of Education young men fell below Grade Seven in reading sacred halls of Congress when funding this and academic ability. project is debated. held September 23 to my colleagues and urge active support of his recommenda­ The tragedy of these statistics is that they Perhaps we may be accused of quaint 19th represent a barrier to success that for many century thinking on this subject, but why tions: young adults produces the misery of a life in Heaven's name does this world need a THE RIGHT To READ--TARGET FOR THE 70's marked by poverty, unemployment, aliena­ passenger plane that will travel 1,800 miles (Address by James E. Allen, Jr., Assistant tion and, in many cases, crime. an hour? Is time so precious, is life so fleet­ It must be recognized also, however, that ing, that we can't sit back and enjoy a few Secretary for EducaJtion and U.S. Oommis­ sioner of Education) for the :majority who do acquire the basic hours on the rather swift jets which have reading skills, there can also be a barrier Imagine, if you can, what your life would thus far been developed? which llmits the fulfillment of their right to For instance, it now takes 6 hours and be like if you could not read, or if your read­ ing skill were so meager as limit you to the read. This barrier exists when the skill of 45 minutes to fly from New York to London to reading is not accompanied by the desire to simplest of writings, and if for you the door on a 707. A relatively short interlude of read. We fall, therefore, Just as much in as­ relaxation. to the whole world of knowledge and inspira­ tion available through the printed word had suring the right to read when the desire is Hop on an SST for the same journey, how­ absent as when the skills are missing. ever, and you scarcely will have time to ad­ never opened. It is inexcusable that in this day when man just and get comfortable, with the trip being For more tha.n a quarter of our population has achieved such giant steps in the develop­ accomplished in 2 hours and 45 minutes. thds is true. For them educaition, in a very ment of his potential, when many of his ac­ A great cause for concern about this SST important way, has been a faiilure, and they complishments approach the miraculous, proposal is the deafening crack of the sonic stand as a reproach to all of us who hold in there stilil should be those who cannot read. boom which will extend out 75 miles from our ha.nds the shaping of the opportunity for While still in New York State, I had begun the plane when it breaks through the sound education. to develop plans for launching a Statewide, barrier. These individuals have been denied a concentrated, attack on reading deficiencies. A greater cause for concern, however, ls rigb.t----a. righJt as fundamental as the right to Now I ha.ve national responsibilities and my the threatened escalation of the price tag. life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness-­ view of the educational scene from this level It has been estimated that the costs will the right to read. convinces me that there is no higher nation­ skyrocket, with the government, once com­ The suppression of the individual which wide priority in the field of education than mitted, pulled along to billions of dollars for so long characterized the governance of the provision of the right to read for all, and of appropriations, when the money could be nations rested on the ignorance of the many that the Office of Education and the Depart­ put to so much better use helping to solve and the learning of the few. With the inven­ ment of Health, Education, and Welfare can so many pressing human problems. tion of movable type there was created a do no greater service for the cause of educa­ The President made a big point that the source of widespread learning that held hope tion than to spearhead. a nationwide attack United States must get in the SST race with for the eventual abolishment of ignorance to ellminate this failure of our education Russia and the English-French combine, and for removal of the barrier to the par­ efforts. both of which are working on SST's. ticipation of the common man in the deter­ Therefore, as U.S. Commissioner of Educa­ "We must continue to maintain leadership mination of his destiny. tion, I am herewith proclaiming my belief in this field," he said. The education for all, necessary as a foun­ that we should immediately set for ourselves Why the deuce must we always spend, dation of a democratic society, became a pos­ the goal of assuring that by the end of the spend, spend to be first, first, first. sibility, making feasible the quest for the 1970's the right to read shall be a reality for We agree wholeheartedly with Sen. William. realization of this concept which honors the all-that no one shall be leaving our schools Fulbright who stated: "The administration dignity and worth of the individual. without the skill and the desire necessary to talks about saving money and then decides Thus, from the beginning of our Nation, read to the full limits of his capability. to allocate huge sums for this plane. To the importance of education has been recog­ This is education's "moon"-the target make it a matter of prestige for this country nized. EduC8/tion has come to mean :many for the decade ahead. With the same zeal. represents the worst form of vanity." things and to encompass a wide range of dedication, perseverence, and concentration If you feel a.s we do, we suggest that a information and experiences, but certainly that made possible man's giant step of la.st strong communication to your representa­ it must still include, as it did in the begin­ July 20, this moon too can be reached. tives in Washington might do a world of ning, the ability to read. While it is obviously impossible to expect good. They listen, you know. Those who do not gain this ability in the that our target could encompass the com­ We prefer to call the SST the Super course of their early education lack a skill plete elimination of the reading deficiencies superfluous Transport. necessary to all other areas of learning and of the out-of-school population also, this 28788 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 6, 1969 decade devoted to the improvement of read­ tise in the field of reading. Few other areas every child in your State will learn to read, ing should include a new and intensive at­ of learning have been so thoroughly and and I r~quest that you begin immediately in tack in this area of need bringing to bear the widely studied. May I add here parentheti­ your own State to consider how this goal can kind of widespread concentration of effort cally, however, that we must avoid the danger be achieved, to assemble resources, to plan, and resources that will be given to in-school of allowing education's reading "moonshot" and to report back to me what actions you youth. to become bogged down in debate over have taken under State leadership so that I have chosen to set forth this target at methods of the teaching of reading. It is the the school year 1969-70 can be recorded as the meeting of the National Association of gr,aZ with·which we must be concerned. the year when together we set in motion the State Boards of Education because you bear This is a time when science and technology Nation-wide effort that will erase this in­ the responsibillty for shaping basic educa­ have gliven us a. whole new array of resources tolerable deficit in American education. tional policies for the primary and secondary to apply to the solution of the reading prob­ The Office of Education has already begun schools of our Nation. The responsibilty for lem. this kind of activity, and we shall be con­ the provision of educational opportunity, This is a time when school boards and sulting with you and all other educational traditionally and legally, rests with the school administrators a.re less preoccupied forces, as well as with representatives of the states. The public education system of our than at any time since World War II with the total national community, as to procedures. Nation has developed on the premise that pressing problems which have been created The decade of the 70's Will see the 200th education belongs to the people and its con­ by ever-increasing student enrollment. anniversary of our Nation. A most appro­ trol shall be in the hands of lay boards. It This is a time of growing understanding priate celebration of that event-a celebra­ is you, therefore, who have the original re­ of the effects of environment and other fac­ tion that would honor the true spirit of the sponsibility and authority, within the frame­ tors on the ability to learn. democratic concept, and recognize the funda­ work established by your respective legisla­ This is a time when preschool educatioll'al mental importance ascribed to education tures, for the setting and enforcement of opportunities are being more generally incor­ from the beginning of our Nation, would be standards, and for the evaluation of per­ porated into the public education system. to secure for an of our citizens that right to formance. It ls you also who must be ac­ This is a time when new Federal legislation read which so long ago made possible the countable for your stewardship. You are at has provided increased funds for attacking feasibility of a democratic society and con­ the center of any effort to· raise the level of problems such as that of the improvement tinues to undergird its strength. achievement in our educational system. of reading. Continuing toleration of the failure to give everyone the abil1ty to read breaks faith State boards are, of course, not a.lone in This is a. time when there is a great latent this responsibUlty, for its falls also upon readiness to support a program that holds With the commitment to equality of oppor­ all those who participate in the administra­ promise for the improvement of reading. The tunity which is the foundation of our pub­ tion and operation of the educational enter­ lic education system. Having arrived at a concern of parents, public officials and th-e time which holds forth the possibility of prise. Therefore, in presenting the challenge general citizenry about the effectiveness of of this target to you I am also presenting the schools seems to find a focus in the prob­ ellmlnating this failure we must, in all jus­ it to groups such as the Education Commis­ tice, seize the opportunity with the utmost lem of reading failures. The failure to teach vigor and determination. sion of the States, the Council of Chief State everyone to read is a. strong factor in the loss School Officers, State education departments, of full confidence in our schools that is find­ Remarkable success has been achieved by local school boards and their staffs, the Na­ ing expression in larg.e numbers of defeated our educational system, but so long as there tional Education Association and the Ameri­ budgets and bond issues, in student and is one boy or girl who leaves school unable can Federation of Teachers and their State community unrest, and in the growing tend­ to read to the full extent of his capabillty, and local affiliates, the National Congress of ency to seek new instrumentalities for edu­ we cannot escape the charge of failure in Parents and Teachers, students and their carrying out the responsibll1ty entrusted to cational reform outside of the traditional us. organizations-indeed, to all individuals and system. This is in a sense a negative situa­ organizations comprising the total educa­ tion that needs only a believabl.e expectation tional endeavor of our Nation. F.ssential also, of success in solving the problem to trans­ of course, will be the intensive participation form it into a tremendous positive force. The ATTORNEY GENERAL MITCHELL of the colleges and universities and their relatively simple, universally understood ob­ ADDRESSES POLICE CHIEFS schools of teacher education. jective, implicit in the "right to read" goal, But to hit the target by the end of the standing out clearly amidst the confusions 70's, to achieve a goal of such enormous di­ of the complexity of the educational en­ mensions, involvement will have to reach HON. BARRY M. GOLDWATER, JR. deavor of these days, can be the rallying OF CALIFORNIA far beyond the courses of education. point for the renewed confidence in our Necessary will be committed participation IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and support of the Congress; State and local schools that will gather to them a new surge political leaders and legislative bodies; busi­ of enthusiastic public support. Monday, October 6, 1969 ness, industry and labor; civic and commu­ The cumulative effect of the conjunction Mr. GOLDWATER. Mr. Speaker, At­ nity groups; publishers; advertising organi­ of so many pooitive factors at this particular time, can but serve to reduce doubts and to torney General John N. Mitchell recent­ zations; television, radio and the press; re­ ly addressed the annual convention of search and scientific organizations; founda­ support that reasonable degree of assurance tions; the entertainment industry; the sports of success that mandates the attempt. the International Association of Chiefs world; and, perhaps most essential of all, While the main task of carrying out the of Police in Miami Beach, Fla., and in the understanding and support of an en­ activities necessary to achieve the goal of that talk "laid it on the line." lightened and enthusiastic public. In other right to read for all by the end of the 70's The Attorney General said una­ words, I am calling for a total national com­ will fall upon the States and localities, the Federal Government has a vital supportive shamedly that his first and foremost mitment to and involvement in the achieve­ task was to enforce the law. He said that ment of the "right to read" goal. role to play. It is not the role of the Federal This is a proper goal for our society be­ Government to make specific plans, nor to persons who break the law ought to be cause it will not only correct the injustice prescribe the programs and methods to be properly arrested and tried today. At­ done to individuals by the denial of their used. The diverse needs and conditions of torney General Mitchell said: right to read, but it will also, because of its the various States and their communities While I sympathize With physical condi­ Widespread social and cultural effect, bene­ require the fiexib111ty of approach that our tions and emotional problems which may fit and strengthen the entire fabric of our decentralized. system makes possible. The cause persons to commit crimes. I cannot society. main contribution that can be made at the sympathize with those who seek only to I hope that by this point in these remarks Federal level will be the coordination of excuse criminals. I have succeeded tn arousing your enthu­ the effort, the marshalling of forces and siasm, but I suspect that certain doubts resources on a nationwide basis and the Mr. Speaker, I find this attitude of as to the practicability of the timing and provision of the technical, administrative the present Attorney General a refresh­ scope of the goal have also crept into your and financial assistance required, all done in ing change from the views of former At­ thinking. Indeed I can already hear the a spirit of total and fervent commitment. torney General Ramsey Clark who, at excuses, the expressions of fear and reser­ Once more then, I proclaim my belief that it 1s possible for the 70's to be the dec­ times, seemed more concerned about the va.tlon, the "yes, buts" with which ma.ny excesses of a few policemen than he will greet this challenge. To accept these is ade in which the right to read becomes a to continue the rationalization, the justifi­ reality for all, with no one leaving our schools did about the thousands of criminals cations for fallure that for too long have per­ lacking the skill and the desire necessary to murdering. robbing, ::i.nd raping in this sisted, demoralizing our wW and genera.ting read to the full llm1ts of his capablllty­ country every day. a defeatist attitude. and that it ls our duty to set for ourselves magQ.zine recently featured Of course this goal cannot be easily at­ this target. Attorney General Mitchell on their cover tained. It will be far more difficult than the The months immediately ahead should be and referred to him as "Mr. Law and landing on the moon. But the time ls right, a time of preparation in the hope that next I believe, to try, for so much is at stake and summer will see the beginning of the count­ Order" and I agree. With the crime there are so many favorable auguries for down, with the launch scheduled for the rate being what it is in this country, success. opening of the 1970-71 school year. Americans should be thankful that we This ls a time when we have accumulated I therefore call upon you to take upon have such a fine Attorney General as an enormous amount of research and exper- yourselves the obligation of assuring that John Mitchell. October 6, 1969 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 28789 Attorney General Mitchell's speech social scientists who can explain the moti­ federal efforts against crime. We also hope vations of the criminal, but who can do little that these actions will say to state and local follows: to protect the innocent against the mugger law enforcement officers: "The Justice De­ ADDRESS BY ATrORNEY GENERAL JOHN M. or armed robber. partment ls with you. We want to help you MrrCHELL Let me tell you that, as Attorney Gen­ whenever and wherever possible." I. INTRODUCTION eral, I am first and foremost a law en­ As further evidence of our commitment to 1. It 1s a pleasure to address the annual forcement officer. I believe the Department law enforcement, I would like to outline for convention of the International Association of Justice is a law enforcement .agency. I you briefly some highlights of the federal of Chiefs of Police. think tha,t persons who break the law ought government's e.ntlcrime program in terms of I understand that I am a Last minute sub­ to be promptly arrested and tried today. Executive action, legislative proposals and stitute for President Nlxon. Unfortunately While I sympa,th.ize with physical condi­ fiscal appropriation requests. the President 1s unable to be with you today. tions and emotional problems which may ll. WASHINGTON MODEL PROGRAM I know that he wanted to be here to as­ cause persons to commit crimes, I cannot By far the most serious aspect of crime we sympathize with those who seek only to ex­ sure you of his support of your efforts in face as a natl.on is crime in the streets. I the field of law enforcement. cuse cr:l.minals. have told you of the latest FBI Uniform During the past eight months, I have been When this Administration took office eight Crime Reports which show a 17 percent in­ in close oommunicaitlon with the IACP, espe­ months ago, we declded that the time had crease in serious crime. cially with your most able Executive Director come to stop talking, to stop offering excuses What the FBI reports do not show is the Quinn Tamm. and to start acting now. And we did a.ct-we increase in fear and national anxiety. For Several months ago, I participated in your have put forward a carefully-planned, well­ every law-abiding citiZen who ls the victim working seminars held in Washington. A flnanced, and aggressive action program to of a crime, there are dozens of friends, rela­ major portion of these discussions concerned combat crime now. tives, business associates and neighbors, who student violence and civil disorders. What Of course, we recognize the need for and fear that they may be next. particularly impressed me was the awareness, we strongly support research and develop­ Basically, the federal government has very by the participating police officials, of the ment projects which may help us solve crime limited jurisdiction over street crime. We can necessity for preventive law enforcement. tomorrow-sometime in the future. set the tone for leadership. We can initiate These seminars emphasized. that law en­ But tomorrow is too late for the ghetto pilot projects. We can offer fin.ancial and forcement is not merely the application of housewife who is m.any times more likely to technioa.l MSistance. But the primary respon­ force. Enlightened police officials recognize be mugged than the suburban housewife. sibility is still with the state and loca.l that careful pre-planning, oommunica.tion Tomorrow is too late for the small store ~vernments. e.nd negotiwtion can frequently avoid serious owner who is killed in a holdup by a nar­ One place where the federal government confrontations. cotics adtdlct. does have substantial jurisdiction over street I was pleased that the IACP stressed that Indeed, tomorrow may be too late for all crime 1s in the District of Columbia. In the law enforcement officials should be flexible of us. That is why we have launched .a com­ first six months of this year, the District in order to solve new law enforcement prob­ prehensive anticrime campaign as a first pri­ of Columbia crime rate increase has exceeded lems within the currently prevaillng social ority in our domestic program. the national average. and legru philosophies of the nation. The As President Nixon has said: "The publ1c In many ways Washington is a microcosm American law enforcement comm.unity would climate With regard t-0 law is a function of of the national crime problem. It has had a do well to look at your leadership. national leadership." major racial disorder. lit has a high welfare Your high stand.a.rds of professionaJ.ism, The leadershd.p of this nation believes that and unemployment rate. Some of its down­ your openness to new ideas, and your desire any effective anticrime campaign must rely town area suffers from ecenomic blight. Many to bridge the gap between law enforcement pr,imarily on Law enforcement officials. The of its citizens a.re afraid to walk alone in the officials and certain alienated parts of our police a.re the first line of defense, and they evening. citizenry, have made you leaders in the ad­ must be given every reasonable tool if they Very early in his Administration, on Janu­ ministration of justice at the state and local are to meet the challenge of crime in an in­ ary 31st, President Nixon launched an ambi­ level. creasingly complex society. For this reason, tious program to combat crime in the District We, at the Justice Department, have called the Administration's executive, legislative of Columbia. It was generally designed to be on you in the pa.st for your help and advice. and budgetary proposals to combat crime a model for other cities. We will continue to call on you in the com­ concentrate strongly on the law enforcement As the President said: "By searching for ing years. function. new ways of applying the resources of the We will continue to support this organi­ I think that you wm find that this Ad­ federal government in the war against crime zation and its more than 7 ,000 members in ministration ls sympathetic to law enforce­ here (in Washington), we may discover new every way possible, especially through the ment and that in areas of doubt, we tend to ways of advancing the war against crime Law Enforcement Assistance Administra­ put our faith in the good intentions of the elsewhere." tion grant program. We hope that you will police, rather than to rely on the bad in­ A critical part of the model a.nticrime pro­ seek our counsel when you have problems tentions of criminals. gram for Washington 1s massive aids to law to be solved. Let me give you some examples of how we enforcement. I have come to Mia.mi Bea.ch today to have exercised our federal leadership---how We believe that the well-trained beat pa­ speak to you about the single most pressing we have resolved areas of doubt in favor of trolman is our most effective single weapon problem that I face a.s Attorney General and law enforcement. against the street criminal. that you face as concerned and responsible The previous Administration refused to use Therefore, we asked for the addition of police officials-crime in America. Congressional authority-Title III of the Om­ 1,000 policemen to the authorized force and The la.test FBI Uniform Crime Reports nibus Crime Blll-to wiretap except in na­ for more effective recruiting methods to fill show that in 1968 there were 4.5 million seri­ tional security cases. We have reversed that the existing vacancies. ous crimes committed in the United States, policy. We have authorized wiretapping for As a result, the Metropolitan Police Depart­ a 17 percent increase over 1967. organized crime and · narcotics crimes on a ment is now recruiting about 115 officers per There was a. 30 percent increase in armed highly selective basis. So far, we have found month as opposed to 18 per month in 1967. robbery; a. 15 percent increase in rape; a. 13 court-approved wiretapping to be extremely We have a.greed with the Department of De­ percent increase in murder and an 11 percent productive and a major aid to law enforce­ fense to participate in a pilot project which increase in aggravated assault. ment. would permit a six-month early release from From 1960 to 1968, the volume of serious The prior Administration failed to suggest military service of individuals who qualify crime has risen 122 percent, while the popu­ any method for detaining criminal suspects and agree to become police officers. lation has increased only 11 percent. The prior to their trial even if these suspects Our plan so calls for improved manage­ citizen risk of becoming a. victim of a. crime showed a substantial likelihood of commit­ ment and manpower utilization. For example, has nearly doubled .from 1960 to 1968. ting another crime. We have proposed a pre­ we have asked for an increase in police cadet In February 1967, the President's Crime trial detention bill which would, on a ra­ and civilian positions which will hopefully Commission reported: "There is much crime tional basis, deny freedom to those wbo release professional policemen for patrol and in America, more than ever is reported, far appear likely to commit another crime pend­ law enforcement functions. more than ever is solved, far too much for ing their trial. We have asked for an expansion of the the health of the nation. Every American The prior Administration declined to uti­ police Legal Advisors who are available to ad­ knows that. Every American is, in a. sense, lize Congressional authorization in Title II vise police officers on the street a.bout complex a. victim of crime ... The most understand­ of the Omnibus Crime Blll for the admission legal requirements which a.rise during in­ able mood into which many Americans have of voluntary confessions which did not vestigations. been plunged by crime is one of frustration strictly adhere to the Miranda warning re­ We have proposed or supported legislation and bewilderment." quirements. We have reversed that policy. which would a.id the police in apprehending Despite the Presidential report and the While we still require federal law enforce­ criminals-by authorizing police to wiretap ever increasing crime rate, there has been a ment officers to give the complete Miranda under judicial supervision, by ma.king it ille­ tendency in the past to shrug our shoulders warning, we. will not automatically concede gal to resist an unlawful arrest, by permitting and to hope that if we talk a.bout crime it if, by inadvertence, the complete warning police to stop and frisk criminal suspects 'and will eventually disappear. has not been given in obtaining a voluntary by eliminating the "no-knock" bar to There ha.s been a tendency to ignore the confession. searches where the evidence is in danger of law enforcement com.munity in favor of the We hope that these actions will aid our being destroy~d. 28790 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 6, 1969 As pa.rt of the model District of Columbia. states and local communities improve their sta.ntia.lly expand federal law enforcement plan, we have also placed great emphams on police and criminal justice systems. authority to control narcotics, barbiturates, criminal trial and court procedure. We have In its first year of operation in 1968-1969, amphetamines and marlhuana. proposed a complete reorganization of the it expended most of its $63 mllllon budget­ For example, it would authorize agents local court system where, unfortunately at $19 million in planning grants to states and of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous present, the median time from indictment local communities; $29 mlllon in action Drugs to arrest persons for violations of any to disposi tlon of a criminal case ls now 10 grants, including special funds for 11 major federal, la.w and not just for violations of months. cities; $3 million for research and develop­ the federal narcotics statute. It would per­ We have asked for more judges so that the ment into crime problems; and perhaps most mit a.gents to break into suspected premises guilty may be convicted quickly and the in­ promising was $6.5 milion to finance college without knocking and would also permit nocent may be cleared. studies for law enforcement personnel. them to conduct administrative searches for We have asked for more prosecutors in the For the current fiscal year, we have asked illegal drugs and marihua.na. United States Attorney's office. We have es­ for $296 million for the Law Enforcement I know there is a great deal of controversy tablished a Major Crimes Unit which will Assistance Administration. If appropriated, surrounding the use of marihua.na. But handle serious criminal problems such as $250 million of this ls scheduled to go to the marlhuana ls an illegal substance. Most professional narcotics traffickers and orga­ states for action programs. medical authorities have staites that it is nized gangsters. We have set up two and The greatest single emphasis in the LEAA at lea.st a hall ucinognic with no known three-man Crime Teams who will be able to program ha!:; been the funding of police ef­ medical purpose. If used excessively, it can devote enough time to difficult and impor­ forts to decrease street crime. be dangerous. Furthermore, current statis­ tant prosecutions. For example, one large mid western state re­ tics indicate that many hard narcotics users We have proposed legislation which would ceived $1.3 million la.st year. Of this amount, started off on marihu,ana. correct some of the technical barriers that $236 thousand was awarded for police civil­ Under these circumstances, we decided to now unnecessarily tie up criminal trials and ian disorder control; $120 thousand for the stop closing our eyes to the marihuana. prob­ exclude otherwise reliable evidence of guilt. development of police training programs; $30 lem in this country, Two weeks ago, we Justice must be evenhanded to be effec­ thousand for a study of how to use civlllans launched the first major search and seizure tive. Therefore, we have propo.sed legislation in police departmentt; $48 thousa,nd for a border operation in history aimed at stop­ which would establish a full-fledged Public special program to train promising young ping the importation of illegal drugs from Defender Service, capable of offering free police officers; $180 thousand for manage­ Mexico. lawyers for about 60 percent of the indigent ment studies of the efficiency of local police It ls estimated that the Mexican border persons who appear in most criminal, juve­ departments; and $60 thousand to etsablish traffic accounts for 80 percent of the illegal nile and civil commitment proceedings. model community relations units. marihuana. in this country, 20 percent of the We have also supported legislation which In other s·ta.tes, we have funded experi­ heroin and large amounts of barbiturates, would increase payments to private lawyers ments in using helioopter patrols; in setting amphetamines and other dangerous drugs. who represent indigents and which would up new electronic a.la.rm systems in high bur­ By utlllzing the resources of the Depart­ permit these payments in a wide variety of glary rate areas; in establishing special teams ment of Justice, Bureau of Customs, the De­ cases in Washington and in other federal to deal with youth gangs; and in funding partment of Defense, and other agencies, we jurisdictions. statewide criminal teletype networks. have started a. coordinated and intensive We have proposed legislation which would Our studies of plans submitted by a,11 50 land, sea and air operation against border expand the District of Columbia. Bail Agency states show a most promising and continued smuggling. to permit more effective investigation of the emphasis on law enforcement, with 77 per­ We realize that the wide publicity given to background and personality of an arrested cent of the fund!;; going to the police and to this operation will probably deter many suspect in order to determine whether he anti-street crime programs. The larger break­ smugglers and may not result in large scale should be released pending his trial. downs show 18 percent for police training, seizures. But if we can keep ma.rihua.na and We have made special provisions .for the salary increases and career development; 22 other drugs out of the United States by juvenile who now accounts for 38 percent of percent for police civil disorder control pro­ whatever means possible, then I think we our crime index arrests. grams, aind 11 percent for detection and ap­ will have succeeded. Our goal ls not the oc­ We are asking for the establishment of a prehension techniques. casional user. It is the large scale profes­ combined Juvenile-Family Court which can Unfortunately, I must tell you that not sional trafficker who makes a. living out of more sensibly handle many of the problems only has the Congress failed to pass this smuggling illegal narcotics. of juvenile offenders and intra-family of­ $296 million appropriation request, but it ap­ The Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous fenses. We have asked for an expansion of a pear!;; to be headed toward a substantial de­ Drugs in the Department of Justice is our juvenile group reha.blllta.tlon project and for crease. main agency concerned with the enforcement a well-staffed psychiatric-care residential fa­ Law enforcement agencies an over the na­ of federad. drug laws. We have asked for an cility for delinquents. tion will suffer if the full appropriation is not increase in its appropriation from $17 million We have also requested major reforms in passed promptly. in fiscal 1969 to $25 million in fiscal 1970, e.nd the local corrections system with new physi­ IV. NARCOTICS an increase in its personnel from about 1~00 cal facilities, more use of halfway houses and Another area in which the federal govern­ to almost 1500. expanded rehabilitation counseling. About 46 ment h:as substantial Jurisdiction involving These increased appropriations and man­ percent of arrested suspects have previously street crime is the battle against illegal nar­ power will permit the Bureau to step up its been in prison. cotics and dangerous drugs. Between 1967 a.nd enforcement program in our cities, to imple­ This is just a brief summary of our model 1968, there was a 64 percent increase in ar­ ment its plan to train 22,000 state and local anticrime package. The federal government rest!;; for narcotics and marihua.na.. Ha.If of law enforcement officers and to expand its and the District of Columbia government those now being arrested for drug abuse are international operations. have implemented much of the Washington under 21 years of age. Our goal ls not long jail sentences for the plan by Executive action. The battle against narcotics ls a.n integral average narcotics addict who must sell a bag But the Congress has not approved a single part of the Administration's anti-street crime or two of heroin in order to sustain himself. legislative proposal. Nor has the congress ap­ program. A narcotics addict may need $70 or He should be the object of research and re­ proved a. single dollar of the $22 million in $80 a. day to satisfy his habit. Thus, he turns habilitation. I am interested in prosecuting additional monies which was requested for to robbery, mugging and burglary in order to those who make their living by dealing in fiscal 1970, which commenced on July 1, 1969. obtain money. It was recently estimated that substances which ruin men's mental and Without the money, the District of Columbia in New York Oity alone $2 billion a year it physical health, and which pose a danger to a.ntlcrlme program will be paralyzed. Without stolen by narcotics addicts and that about 11 our general welfare. court reorganization and the other legisla­ percent of those arrested for violent crimes V. ORGANIZED CRIME tion we have requested, our a.ntlcrime efforts have a. history of narcotics addiction. Another aspect of crime where the fed­ may fall. Last July 14, President Nixon delivered Crime continues to rise in the District of eral government has broad jurisdiction is a statement on the problem of drug abuse organized crime. Oolumbia. and promised that action would be taken by The citizens of Washington-and the peo­ Relying on the hOJ'elessness of ghetto resi­ this Administration now. The President dents, organized criminals sell heroin and ple of this country who look to Congress for said: "A national awareness of the gravity leadership-should not be forced to wait cocaine; playing on insecure credit, they of the situation is needed; a new urgency loanshark the honest working man; recogniz­ longer. and concerted national policy is needed at ing elector indifference, they corrupt labor llI. LAW _ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANCE the federal level to begin to cope with this unions and political leaders. ADMINISTRATION growing menace ..." Here a.gain, President Nixon proposed an The other major area. where the federal One of the most significant parts of the aggressive program to combat this interstate government can lead the way to combat program so far has been a landmark pro­ network o! criminal syndicates. He said that street crime is through the Law Enforce­ posal called the Controlled Dangerous Sub­ "the moral and legal subversion of our society ment Assistance Administration of the De­ stances Act of 1969. It would consolidate and ls a life-long and lucrative profession" for partment of Justice. The LEAA is the federal reorganize all the existing drug laws-some the organized racketeer. government's major commitment to help of which date back to 1914. It would sub- The core o! the federal effort against or- October 6, 1969 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 28791 ganized crime has been to reorganize the then by relying upon you-the law enforce­ Senator John Williams of Delaware and Con- Strike Forces. They are interagency teams ment community in this country. gressman H. R . Gross of Iowa. . designed to throw a whole net of federal law You can be sure that this Administration The sponsors of the clambake invited me enforcement over an organized crime family will, to the best of its abilities, marshal all to make a few remarks. I am not at all cer­ in a particular city. We have expanded these of its moral, political and economic power to tain tha..t this is what I said, but it is what tea.ms from four to seven, and we plan to support law enforcement officers in our bat­ I had in mind to say: reach 20 by the end of fl.seal 1971. tle to defeat crime. On the record, gentlemen, our cause goes In addition, we have set up a federal-state We all know that with your help we will well. In both the House and Senate, the racket squad in New York City. If this Joint succeed and without your help we will only number of conservatives gradually increases. venture proves to be successful, we plan to face a national disaster. The same modestly encouraging picture may organize others in an effort to cooperate with be seen in statehouses across the land. Our state and local authorities in our Strike peerless leader in the White House may not Force assault. be a true-blue conservative--not as true­ The LEAA has also made several initial CONSERVATIVES SHOULD BE SUP­ blue as Messrs. Williams and Gross--but he grants to states and cities to aid them in is far more congenial to our views than, say, establishing organized crime units. If their PORTING CONSERVATION EFFORTS Hubert Humphrey. He ls as conservative a appropriation is approved, we hope that more President as we had any hope of electing, localities wm apply for funds to combat or­ HON. JOHN P. SAYLOR and we are lucky to have him. ganized crime. Yet the conservative cause, if it would We have also asked for additional legLsla­ OF PENNSYLVANIA continue to prosper, must in some fashion tion to help us in the battle against the or­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES overcome its image as the negative party. ganized gangster. Among the bills we have Monday, October 6, 1969 Damrnlrt, gentlemen, when will conserva­ proposed or supported are a general witness tives apply their talents to affirmative an­ immunity law which would have a broad Mr. SAYLOR. Mr. Speaker, no con­ swers to American problems? scope for many potential witneEses against servative in the Congress can feel very One of the most serious problems in organized crime; an amendment to the Wag­ good these days after receiving the recent American society goes to the quality of life ering Tax Act which would expand our cur­ in the world around us. Our rivers and lakes rent ab111ty to prosecute gambling; and a blast delivered by Mr. James J. Kil­ are dying of pollution. Our greatest cities law designed to make it a federal crime to patrick. He said in effect that con­ stifle in smog, Our littered streets insult the corrupt local police and other public of­ servatives have "lost their way," and eye. Concern mounts at the residual damage ficials. proceeded to document his case. Coming done to man's environment by such pesticides While we have had only limited experi­ from one of the leading columnists in the as DDT. Year by year, our loveliest country­ ence with judicially approved wiretapping country, his remarks were sobering. That sides are yielded up. authorizations, this experience has proved we have a ''negative image" is well known The problem essentially is a problem of to be very successful in combating organized and deplorable. That we have missed conservation--of conserving some of the great racketeers, especially in the field of nar­ values of America; and oonserva.tives, of all cotics. opportunities to present a different im­ people, ought .to be in the vanguard of the In New York City, 124 pounds of heroin age is equally well known. That so far fight. Yet if one were asked to name quickly was seized as a result of a wiretap. In Wash­ we have failed to change our ways, is the political figure most identified with pol­ ington, 41 persons involved in an alleged nar­ also evident. lution, it would be Muskie of Maine. If beau­ cotics trafficking ring were apprehended as The touchstone for Mr. Kilpatrick's tlfication of the highways is identified with the result of one wiretap. Some of them re­ remarks dealt with an area in which a single person, it is identified with Ladybird portedly had organized crime connections. I claim some knowledge: the preserva­ John.son. Think of pesticides, and one thinks In Ohio, a wiretap led to the seizure of $100,- tion of our Nation's environment. I can­ of Nelson of Wisconsin. Where lies the lead­ 000 in counterfeit bills and the arrest of seven not fully explain the "why" of the con­ ership in preserving wild rivers, redwood persons; and in Buffalo, 23 persons were ar­ forests, wilderness areas? Gentlemen it is rested on a charge of being involved in a servative's disinclination to lead in the not to be found on our side of the aisle. United States-Canadian gambling organiza­ battle to conserve our natural heritage Ours is the pwty most idellltlfied wirth tion. but I can make a guess or two. We have, commerce, business and industry. We defend In order to mount this broad attack on as a group, become so dollar conscious their interests well. But isn't something more organized crime, the Administration has with our continued and justified appre­ demanded in the name of an affirmative con­ asked for a $25 million increase in funds for hension over inflated budgets, wild Fed­ servatism? Why do we let Ralph Nader mo­ all government agencies involved in this ef­ nopolize the duties of right conscience? Do fort-a 40 percent increase over the previous eral spending, and impossible social ex­ perimentation, that we have lost sight we not have an obligation to wage our own Administration request. About $16 milUon war upon fraud, shoddy merchandise, and of this will go for more FBI and IRS per­ of some of the deeper and more sig­ exploitation of the poor? sonnel, to work with the Strike Forces. Al­ nificant concerns of the ation at large. One of the great principles of our phi­ most $3 million will go to the Criminal Di­ We have been emphasizing the present losophy goes to the right of privacy-to man's vision of the Justice Department and the when we should have been equally so­ right to be left alone from the harassments o! remainder of the money will be spread among licitous of the future. In fact, to be the state. Yes, we have done better here. the Secret Service, the Department CYf Labor, Ervin of North Carolina, for one, has been and other government agencies. truly conservative, we should be pro­ tecting the environment now rather than in the forefront of an admirable effort to The result of our activities so far has been protect the privacy of federal workers. Yet promising. In fl.seal H}69, 44 indictments were waiting until a time in the future when conserva,tives, by and large, are not identi­ returned against 59 suspected organized the costs of having failed to act will be fied with this effort. Libera.ls have beaten us crime figures (38 more than in 1968) and 29 out of reach of our technological or to it. suspected organized crime figures were con­ financial ability to make environmental Wha,t are we doing-really doing---about victed. In total, 71 organized crime figures r·epairs. our cities? Wbere a.re our leaders in relieving were either indicted or convicted in this racial tensions? What effective answers have fl.seal year as compared with only 48 the I sincerely hope that Mr. Kilpatrick's previous year. remarks have been conscientiously we offered for the housing of low-income Furthermore, we have arrested a number studied by the Republican leadership; families? Do conservatives have a program for the hope of the party's future must be elderly Americans, caught in the vise of in­ of crime figures who are members of the rul­ flation? We are bold and fearless, to be sure, ing eommission of the organized crime syn­ down the path of more affirmative poli­ in the cause of law and order. But where are dicate in Buffalo, in Newark, in New Orleans, cies. In my opinion, there is no better our voices for penal reform? in Rhode Island and in Chicago. We think way to help change the conservative's lt is a feeble response, my brothers, to in­ that this new assault shows great hope of image than by assuming leadership of success against this difficult problem. sist tha.t of course conservatives are "for" the drive to preserve our natural and something: We are for the greatest personal VI. CONCLUSION national heritage for the future. freedom consistent with ordered liberty. We A model program for the District of Mr. Kilpatrick's article follows: are for the proposition of limited ~vernmerut Columbia, direct federal grants to states and CALL FOR ACTION under a federal system. We are for balanced local communities, and aggressive new pro­ budgets, sound dollars, strong defense, and grams against narcotics crimes and organized (By James J. Kilpatrick) honest work. We are for the church, the crime--these are some of the highlights of WASIDNGTON.-8everal hundred leading home, the flag. We are keen on clean m.ovles. this Admin1stration's action plan to reverse conservatives gathered at the Shera.ton-Park Our strength is as the strength of ten, be­ the flood of crime now. last weekend t.o take the waters and roast cause our hearts are pure. Great! But 1f I had In each one of these programs, there has the Republic. The occasion was an awards only one polltica.l wish, conservatively spea.k- been special emphasis on law enforcement. I dinner sponsored by American Conservative 1.ng, I would wish to see us transla,te broad want criminals off the streets and there is Union, Human Events, National Review, and conservative principles more frequently into no better way to get them off' the streets Young Amer1cans for Freedom, honoring specific, affirmative action. 28792 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 6, 1969 AGAINST AMENDMENT TO PREVENT cities. This is clearly intended to be used These dollars probably would not circulate for a first-strike capability. As far as any more than the silver Kennedy half-dol­ LIMITED DEPLOYMENT lars. The silver used would be distributed to our arsenal is concerned, our warheads the people at a profit to the Treasury con­ are only 1 megaton in destructive siderably more than they are realizing from HON. HASTINGS KEITH power. They are designed to retaliate the sales presently being ma.de through GSA. OF KASSACHUSETTS against Soviet cities if we were attacked If the use of silver ls not justified in the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES first. Eisenhower silver dollar which people desire, Monday, October 6, 1969 Our ABM's are designed to preserve how is it any more justified when USed in this second-strike capability and are silverware or jewelry by the same silver users Mr. KEITH. Mr. Speaker, when the therefore purely defensive in purpose. If who oppose a silver Eisenhower dollar? House considered the military procure­ by the deployment of our ABM's, we can There is no shortage of silver. To emphasize ment bill last week, I voted to proceed preserve some of our retaliatory ICBM's, this point, may I quote Handy and Harm.an, with limited deployment of the Safe­ the lea.ding domestic supplier a.Dd dealer in the leaders of the Soviet Union will not silver metal, who in their 1968 Annual Re­ guard ABM, as recommended by the be tempted to launch a first-strike view of the Silver Market said, "We have President. against us. continually emphasized that there will be no Having closely followed the debate in Furthermore, the ABM can be a use­ shortage of silver for future industrial needs, Congress and in the press for the past ful bargaining card for the President as and this has been confirmed by events." I year, I have been impressed with the he proceeds with the strategic arms have xeroxed pages 18 aDd 19 of this report logic and concern of these who oppose the and this copy ls attached and appropriately limitation talks. It would be most un­ marked for your ,attention. Note also at­ anti-ballistic-missile system. At a time fortunate if Congress were to deprive tached, xerox copy of a Wall Street Journal of inflation and serious domestic crisis, him of this on the eve of negotiations article which quotes Mr. M. W. Townsend, it would be unjustifiable for us to waste with the Soviets. Chairman and President of Handy and Har­ money on unnecessary weapons systems. Mr. Speaker, a year ago when this man, on July 25, 1969 as saying there is an And, at a time when limitations on the committee considered the more ambi­ estimated. 400 million ounces of contract arms race appear possible, it would be a tious and less debated Sentinel ABM sys­ silver stored in vaults. mistake to upset the balance of terror and tem, I raised a number of questions on We submit that it is only a question of perhaps trigger a new round of nuclear the floor. With some reservations I time until the U.S. Treasury must stop sell­ ing silver through GSA, and when such sales weapons buildup. voted then to proceed with deployment. cease, the silver market will be subject to Nevertheless, Mr. Speaker, while Now a new administration has proposed the natural forces of supply and demand. charges of waste and destabilization may a less extensive system---one less likely We believe the present market is artificially be made against other weapons, I do not to upset the existing weapons balance. depressed and further argue that this is believe they apply to the Safeguard This system has been overwhelmingly hurting not only the silver producers, but ABM. The Soviet buildup in SS-9 super­ approved by the members of the Armed consumers as well. mtimately, silver con­ missiles raises serious doubts about their Services Committees who obviously sumed by industry will have to come from were privy to much secret data of a tech­ the ground and if exploration for new de­ intentions and about the continued in­ posits is to proceed vigorously, a higher price tegrity of our retaliatory force. Faced nological and intelligence nature. Fur­ set in the give and take of the market place with uncertainty concerning the relia­ thermore it was supported by the leader­ could provide the required stimulus. bility of our second strike force in the ship on both sides of the aisle. Even so, I would also like to point out tha.t the 1970's, it is incumbent upon us to take a number of doubts remain in my mind; U.S. Treasury in selling its silver through protective measures. The Safeguard ABM a number of unanswered questions await GSA has done a remarkable job of obtaining is such a moderate protective measure. clarification. Nevertheless, I believe, in the lowest possible price. How can the The carefully drawn plan for phase-by­ the area of national security one must Treasury Depa.rtment account to the tax­ call the close ones in favor of prepared­ payers for such action? (Mexico bought $1.29 phase deployment as, and if, the threat an ounce silver from the United States, develops, insures review of the strategic ness and our Nation's defense. For this minted it into 30 million 25-peso Olympic situation before more funds are commit­ reason I voted against the amendment medals, and thereby made a $40 million ted. The money we are authorizing is for which would have prevented the limited profit!) phase I, a limited deployment of missiles deployment of the ABM. Sincerely, W. H. LOVE, and radar at two sites. President. Essentially, this amounts to an ex­ P.S.-Let's not put Ike on the first "cheap" pansion of research and development SILVER non-silver dollar ever minted by the United to include testing and evaluation. After States! we have reviewed the interaction of the radars at the two sites we will be in a HON. JOHN R. RARICK [From the Silver Market Annual Review] better position next year to pass on the OF LOUISIANA THE Sn.VER MARKET IN 1968-53D ANNUAL feasibility of an ABM defense. Next year, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES REVIEW too, we will have a clearer idea of Soviet Monday, October 6, 1969 (Compiled by Handy & Harman) intentions and the possibilities for arms THE OUTLOOK Mr. RARICK. Mr. Speaker, is there a control. If things are brighter in these We have continually emphasized that there two areas, then clearly we should halt shortage of silver in the United States? will be no shortage of silver for future in­ further deployment. At present, how­ A letter from the president of the dustrial needs, and this has been confirmed ever, the threat which seems to be de­ Idaho Mining Association, a report from by events. Over the past few years speculative veloping and the long leadtime neces­ the Silver Market Annual Review, and or investment stocks have been accumulating sary for deployment of protective an article from the Wall Street Journal at a very rapid rate throughout the world, measures make this first step toward a present an interesting discussion of the and in 1968 alone oome 170,000,000 ounces matter. were added to these stocks. At year-end there Safeguard ABM advisable. were nearly 90,000,000 ounces of silver in New Mr. Speaker, another serious charge The material follows: York CommocUty Exchange warehouses alone, made against the ABM is that it will IDAHO MINING AsSOCIATION, and perhaps another 80,000,000 ounces else­ undermine the possibility for arms con­ Boise, Idaho, October 2, 1969. where within the United States. In addition, trol and will lead to an escalation of the Thanks for your letter of September 26, an estimated 200,000,000 ounces are stored enclosing copy of a letter received from In England and on the Contlnen t. In total, arms race. In response to this I woUld Mary Brooks, Director of the Mint. In her point out that a limited deployment of speculative and investment stocks, world­ letter, Mrs. Brooks states that the shortage wide, must be close to some 370,000,000 antimissiles, having the capability of of silver in the United States for industrial ounces. This is equivalent to about a full protecting only missile silos ls not de­ use has necessitated the request for legisla­ year's demand for world industrial and coin­ tion to remove the silver froni our coinage. stabilizing; it is defensive. age needs combined. And in this respect, we know that the This has already been·done with the excep­ tion of the sm.all a.mount of silver used to These stocks are not the only source over Soviets have over 240 SS-9 missiles, each mint the sandwich-type Kennedy half-dollar. and above new production from which silver of whioo can carry three he~ds of 5 To mint 300 m.llllon Eisenhower sa.n.dwlch­ will be obtained in the year~ to come. During megatons apiec.e. Those warheads, Mr. type dollars containing 40% silver would re­ 1968 some 60,000,000 ounces.. came out of Speaker, would only be used to strike at quire 32 million ounces per year for a period India and Near Eastern countries, and silver our Minuteman missile sites---not at our of three years. is continuing to flow into the market from October 7, 1969 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 28793 that part of the world. Also demonetized Townsend, chairman and president, said in to new acquisitions, he said. He described coin accounted for some 40,000,000 ounces an interview. the clad metal process as "one of the good during 1968, mostly from Australian and He also expects the year's results to reflect growth opportunities in the next decade Canadian coins. More and more countries are the same rate of growth. In the first halt since you can get out of two metals things moving away from silver coinage, and this of 1968, the company, a leading supplier and you can't get out of one." He expects the tends to have a two-fold effect. In the first fabricator of precious and specialty metals, market for clad metals to grow tenfold Within place less silver is used, and secondly the earner $1.7 m1lllon, or 85 cents a shar_e, on the next six to eight years. old coins are a potential future source of sales of $100.2 mllllon. In all 1968 Handy & Mr. Townsend said he expected the price silver. Harman earned $4.1 million, or $2 a share, of silver--currently about $1.65 an ounce-­ The United States silver coins represent on sales of $200.7 million. "to wander somewhat higher than it ls to­ the largest such source, and it ls estimated As a result of the acquisition of Attleboro day" during the next six months to a year, that theoretically some 2,000,000,000 ounces Refining Co., Attleboro, Mass., last year, Mr. barring any international monetarJ crises. of silver are outstanding in these coins. Un­ Townsend said, Handy & Harman ls involved He said speculators in the metal have become doubtedly a substantial part of this silver in its biggest capital expansion program, with "disillusioned as they discovered that the will never be recovered, but even if only half $3.5 million earmarked for this year against price could go down as well as up" and that ultimately finds its way into the market, it $2.5 million for the three previous years. "many people weren't choosing to wait until is a very significant potential supply. It ls Much of the $3.5 million ls being spent to the price went up before selling." estimated that the United States Treasury develop a new plant for Attleboro Refining Currently, he said, there ls an estimated has already Withdrawn enough coins to ac­ near its present site. The plant should be 400 million ounces of contract silver stored count for some 300,000,000 ounces of silver, in operation shortly after Jan. 1. in vaults. "This has nothing to do with min­ and that perhaps as much as 700,000,000 Handy & Harman is hoping to achieve a ing production," he said. "This ls silver that ounces of recoverable silver remain outstand­ product mix that will enable it to derive is immediately available for sale, and its pres­ ing. Government stocks of silver in bullion about half of its earnings from precious ence has been a depressing factor on the and in unmelted coins at the end of 1968 metals and the remainder from nonprecious market." Another factor tending to hold the amounted to about 240,000,000 ounces ac­ metals. But the company still ls in the posi­ price down, he said, was the decision of the cording to our estimates. At the present rate tion of a year earlier, deriving two-thirds of Federal Government to lift the ban on the of sale of 2,000,000 ounces a week these its earnings from precious metals and the private melting of silver coins. "However, stocks will last for over two years, even with­ rest from specialty metals. present price levels haven't brought out any out allowing for future collections. "Last year we made four major acquisi­ coins," he said. "To tap this source there'll have to be a higher price." tions as a step toward this goal," Mr. Town­ On the subject of gold, he said that-­ (From th.e Wall Street Journal, July 25, 1969} send said, "and yet the combination remained barring any international monetary crisis In HANDY & HARMAN SAYS lST HALF NET ROSE 10 about the same. fact it was rather like such as a precipitous change in U.S. mone­ PERCENT-COMPANY ALSO ExPECTS RESULTS walking a treadmill just to maintain the tary policy-"the price will continue to be FOR ALL OF 1969 To REFLECT THE SAME RATE balance we already have." where it ls, like a Yo-Yo." Much of course OF GROWTH The company has made only one acquisi­ depends on South Africa, the source of most NEW YoRK.-Handy & Harman estimates tion this yea.r---'8. small company named of the Free World's gold. "If South Africa's first half earnings increased "in the general American Clad Metal Inc.-''Bu t we expect gold were turned loose," he said, "the price magnitude of 10%" from a year earlier, M. W. to do as well this year as la.st" with regard could only go down and down."

HO·USE OF REPRESENTATIVES-Tuesday, October 7, 1969

The House met at 12 o'clock noon. H.R. 3560. An act for the relief of Arie national chaplain of the Disabled Amer­ Rev. James E. Rogers, chaplain, Vet­ Rudolf Busoh (also known as Harry Bush); ican Veterans. He W84S recently reelected erans' Administration hospital, Colum­ and at the national convention at Miami H.R. 11249. An act to amend the John F. Beach as the national chaplain. He is bia, S.C., and national chaplain, Dis­ Kennedy Center Aot to authorize additional abled American Veterans, offered the funds for such Center. chaplain of the South Carolina Disabled following prayer: American Veterans, chaplain of the The message also announced that the South Carolina Wing of the Civil Air May the God of light, who hast set up Senate had passed bills and a joint reso­ Patrol, State chaplain of the Forty-and­ candlesticks and kindled many lamps in lution of the following titles, in which Eight of the American Legion, and a man from the spark of love from Heaven, the concurrence of the House is re­ distinguished American who served his giveyou- quested: country with honor and distinction dur­ The light of faith to sustain you; s. 476. An act for the relief of Mrs. Mar­ ing World War II as Army chaplain and jorie Zuck; as radio minister for the Armed Forces The light of courage to strengthen you; S. 533. An act for the relief of Barbara The light of hope to embrace you; Rogerson Marmor; in the Pacific area. He is a Methodist. The light of truth to guide you; and S. 981. An act to am.end tttle 28 of the For the past 22 years Chaplain Rogers The light of love to enfold you. United States Code to provide that the U.S. has been active in hospital ministry with Dlstriot Court for the District of Maryland the Veterans' Administration. He now And may the endowments of the fo­ shall sit a.t one additional place; serves the VA hospital in Columbia. He cused light bring a continuing beam of s. 1775. An act for the relief of Oora S. Vil­ has won many honorary degrees and holy concern for justice, mercy, and laruel; awards from various universities, col­ compassion for all mankind. S. 1797. An act for the relief of Dr. Wagulh leges, and organizations. He has received O God, who went before preced1ng Mohamed Abdel Bari; s. 2096. An act for the relief of Dr. George the Distinguished Service Award from generations in a pillar of fire to light the the Spanish-American War Veterans for way for night and day, burn brightly in Alexander Karadimos; S. 2231. An act for the relief of Dr. In Bae long and faithful service; the Distin­ our lives and those near and dear to our Yoon; guished Service Award from the Veterans hearts. Amen. S. 2443. An act for the relief of Dr. Silvio of Foreign Wars of America for long and Mejia Millan; and unselfish service to the veterans of S.J. Res. 143. Joint resolution enending America; commendation from the Gen­ THE JOURNAL the duration of copyright protection in cer­ tain cases. eral Commission on Protestant Chap­ The Journal of the proceedings of lains for meritorious service to God and yesterday was read and approved country during World War II as a chap­ REV. JAMES E. ROGERS lain in the U.S. Army, and received the MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE honorary degree of doctor of laws from (Mr. DORN asked and was given per­ the John Marshall Law School of At­ A message from the Senate by Mr. mission to address the House for 1 lanta, Ga. Arrington, one of its clerks, annormced minute.) He has received degrees from Atlan­ that the Senate had passed without Mr. DORN. Mr. Speaker, and my ool­ tic Christian College and Duke Universi­ amendment bills of the House of the leagues, it is my great privilege this ty Divinity School. He also attended following titles: morning to welcome to the House of Rep­ graduate school at Northwestern Uni­ H.R. 3165. An act for the relief of Martin resentatives our Chaplain for this occa­ versity, Concordia Lutheran Seminary, H. Loeffler; sion, Rev. James E. Rogem, who is the Garrett Theological Seminary, and the CXV--1814--Part 21