July 31, 1974 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 26187 who is deaf or deaf-blind; to the Committee to the Committee on Interior and Insular corrections in the enrollment of H.R. 69; on Ways and Means. Affa.1rs. ordered to be printed. By Mr. RONCALLO of New York: By Mr. PODELL (for htmself, Mr. By Mr. ANDERSON of California: H.R. 16193. A bill to prohibit certain con­ WOUT, Mr. RoSENTHAL, Mr. BIAGGI. H. Con. Res. 571. Concurrent resolution filets of interest between financial institu­ Mrs. CHISHOLM, Mr. CAREY of New for negotiations on the Turkish opium ban; tions and corporations regulated by certain York, Mr. MUBPBY of New York, Mr. to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. agencies of the United States; to the Com­ RANGEL, Mr. BADILLO, Mr. ADDABBO, ByMr.CAMP: mittee on Banking and Currency. Mr. DELANEY, Miss HOLTZ:-4AN, Mr. H. Con. Res. 572. Concurrent resolution By Mr. SHIPLEY: KocH, Ms. ABZUG, Mr. BINGHAM, and calUng for a domestic summit to develop H.R. 16194. A bill to further the purposes Mr. PEYSER) : a unified plan of action to restore stabllity of the Wilderness Act by designating cer­ H.R. 16202. A btll to establish tn the De­ and prosperity to the American economy; to tain lands for inclusion in the National partment of Housing and Urban Develop­ the Committee on Banking and Currency. Wilderness Preservation System, to provide ment a housing enforcement assistance pro­ By Mr. McCOLLISTER: for study of certain additional lands for such gram to aid cities and other municipa.l1ttes H. Con. Res. 573. Concurrent resolution inclusion, and for other purposes; to the in the more effective enforcement of hous­ calling for a domestic summit to develop a Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. ing codes; to the Committee on Banking ana unified plan of action to restore stab111ty By Mr. STEELMAN (for himself, Mr. Currency. and prosperity to the American economy; to KEMP, Mr. HUDNUT, Mr. BROWN of By Mr. ROE (for himself, Mr. BROWN the Committee on Banking and Currency. California, Mr. GuDE, Mr. BENNETT, of Michigan, Mr. CoNLAN, Mr. CoT­ By Mr. HEINZ (for himself, Mr. AD­ Mr. PRITCHARD, Mr. RoNCALLo of New TER, Mr. GRAY, Mr. HUDNUT, Mr. DABBO, Mr. BIESTER, Mr. GILMAN, Mr. York, Mr. HoRTON, and Mr. HEINz) : MCKINNEY, Mr. MAZZOLI, Mr. MINISH, HAWKINS, Mr. STOKES, Mr. TOWELL of H.R. 16195. A b111 to require candidates and Mr. VAN DEERLIN) : Nevada, Mr. WALDIE, and Mr. for Federal office, Members of the Congress, H.R. 16203. A bill to amend the Public WOLFF): and officers and employees of the United Health Service Act to provide assistance H. Res. 1281. Resolution to create a Select States to file statements with the Comptroller for programs for the diagnosis, prevention, Cominittee on Aging; to the Cominittee on General with respect to their income and and treatment of, and research in, Hunting­ Rules. financial transactions; to the Cominittee on ton's disease; to the Committee on Inter­ By Mr. !CHORD: the Judiciary. state and Foreign Commerce. H. Res. 1282. Resolution providing for ad­ By Mr. WOLFF (for himself, Ms. By Mr. ROGERS (for himself, Mr. ditional copies of the committee print, a ABZUG, Mr. BRASCO, Mr. HARRINGTON, STAGGERS, Mr. SATTERFIELD, Mr. staff study entitled "Terrorism"; to the Com­ KYROS, Mr. PREYER, Mr. SYMING­ Mr. LENT, Mr. KYROS, Mr. RONCALLO mittee on House Administration. TON, Mr. ROY, Mr. NELSEN, Mr. By Mr. SYMINGTON (for himself, of New York, and Mr. SToKEs): CARTER, Mr. HASTINGS, Mr. HEINZ, H.R. 16196. A b111 to amend the Internal Mrs. BURKE of California, Mr. EIL­ and Mr. HUDNUT) : BERG, Mr. HEINZ, Mr. MICHEL, Mr. Revenue Code of 1954 to exclude from gross H.R. 16204. A bill to amend the Public REES, Mr. THOMPSON Of New Jersey, income the interest on deposits in certain Health Service Act to assure the develop­ and Mr. WAGGONNER) : savings institutions; to the Committee on ment of a national health policy and of Ways and Means. H. Res. 1283. Resolution requesting that effective area and State health planning and each of the several States, the District of Co­ By Mr. HUBER: resources development programs; to the H.R. 16197. A bill to establish a Commis· lumbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com­ Guam, the Virgin Islands, the Canal Zone, sion on Medical Malpractice Awards; to the merce. Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. SCHERLE: American Samoa, and the Trust Territory of By Mr. KEMP: H.R. 16205. A bill to provide emergency the Pacific Islands conduct a survey or study H.R. 16198. A btll to amend the Federal deficiency assistance to producers of agri­ to determine the views of their citizens with Railroad Safety Act of 1970 to direct the cultural commodities; to the Committee on respect to abortion laws; to the Committee Secretary of Transportation to establish fire Agriculture. on the o!udiciary. safety requirements for locomotives in order By Mr. STOKES (for himself, Mr. to minimize the danger of fires along railroad BIESTER, Mr. MATSUNAGA, Mr. MOSHER, right-of-ways; to the Cominittee on Inter­ Mr. Moss, Mr. OWENS, Mr. RAILS­ state and Foreign Commerce. BACK, and Mr. RIEGLE): PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS H.R. 16199. A bill to amend section 4945 H.R. 16206. A bill to require that discharge Under clause 1 of rule XXII, private (g) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to certificates issued to members of the armed bills and resolutions were introduced and make it clear that nothing tn that provision forces not indicate the conditions or reasons authorizes the limitation of the grants for discharge, to limit the separation of en­ severally referred as follows: awarded by a private foundation to a fixed listed members unde·r conditions other than By Mr. BURLESON of Texas: percentage of the number of applicants for honorable and to improve the procedures H.R. 16208. A bill for the relief of the estate such grants; to the Cominittee on Ways and for the review of discharges and dismissals; of Earnest Nancy Brindley; to the Committee Means. to the Committee on Armed Services. on the Judiciary. By Mr. NIX: By Mr. WYMAN: By Mrs. SULLIVAN: H.R. 16207. A bill to provide for emergency H.R. 16209. A bill for the relief of Chae H.R. 16200. A btll to prohtbit discrimina­ relief for small business concerns in connec­ tion on the basis of sex, marital status, and Won Yang, Myung Jae Yang, Yoo Jung Yang, tion with fixed price Government contracts; Jee Sun Yang, Yoo Sun Yang, and Hong Suk sexual orientation, and for other purposes: to the Committee on the Judiciary. Yang; to the Committee on the Judiciary. to the Committee on the Judtctary. By Mr. PERKINS (for himself and Mr. By Mr. WILLIAMS: By Mr. OWENS: QUIE): H.R. 16210. A bill for the relief of Maria H.R. 16201. A btll to amend the Mineral H. Con. Res. 570. Concurrent resolution Elena San Agustin; to the Committee on the " Leasing Act of February 25, 1920, as amended: authorizing the Clerk of the House to make Judiciary.

EXTEiNSIONS OF REMARKS FEDERAL FOOLISHNESS rially Speaking," for his stations. And, as EDITORIALLY SPEAKING I have said before, when Jack Rider (By Jack Rider) speaks out, the people for miles around Government is by consent of the governed, HON. JESSE A. HELMS listen attentively and, for the most part, and I can only wonder how long the people OF NORTH CAROLINA approvingly. are going to keep consenting to far worse IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES On July 17, Jack Rider presented an invasions against their freedom than King George ever dreamed about in his wildest Wednesday, July 31, 1974 editorial that has come to my attention. As I read it, it was my immediate judg­ fantasies. Consider this: Monday we and Mr. HELMS. Mr. President, on pre­ thousands of other people who have from ment that other Senators would be tim.e to time sold anything to the Du Pont vious occasions I have discussed in the interested in his comment. Company received a form letter, which cost Senate my friend, Jack Rider, who oper­ Therefore, Mr. President, I ask unan­ the DuPont Company about 50 cents to get • ates Stations WFTC and WRNS, in imous consent that Jack Rider's "Edito­ out to every supplier it has all across the Kinston, N.C. rially Speaking" of July 17 be printed in nation. The cost of this red-tape compliance, If there is a more forthright broad­ the Extensions of Remarks. of course, has to be added to all the products -caster in America, it has not been my There being no objection, the editorial DuPont manufacturers ... but the political privilege to listen to him. Jack writes and was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, cost is far, far worse than the fractional in­ presents a daily editorial, called "Edito- as follows: crease it causes in the price of Dacron or 26188 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 31, 1974 any other Du Pont product. This letter says, the various problems of the island and States sovereign rights to Panama both in in part: introduce steps to strengthen our mutual the C&n·al Zone and with respect to t-he "Being subject to the provision of Execu­ Os.nal itself without authorization of the bond. Congress, which will diminish, 1f not abso­ tive Order 11246, as amended, relating to Many of our Puerto Rican brothers and ec;.ual employment opportunity, as well as lutely abrogalte, the p·resent u.s. treaty-based Executive Orders 11265, 11640, 11701 and sisters, who have chosen to settle on the sovereignty and ownership of the Zone; and 11758, E. I. duPont de Nemours, and Com­ mainland, regard July 25 as a day of Whereas, these negotiations are being pany is required to certify that: (1) It is great celebration. The richness of Puerto uttlized by the United States Government in in compliance with the Equal Opportunity Rican culture and traditions had indeed an effort to get Panama to grant an option Clause as set forth in Section 202 of Execu­ become in each succeeding year more for the construction of a "sea-level" canal tive Order 11246; (2) It does not maintain ·and more a part of our communities. eventually to replace the present canal, and segregated facilities for its employees; (3) On Sunday, July 28, in my hometown to authorize the major modernization of the It will file annual reports on Standard Form existing canal, which project is already au­ 100 (EEQ-1); (4) It has developed and main­ of Newark, N.J., the Puerto Rican people thorized under existing treaty provisions; tains a written and signed affirmative action once again joined together to commemo­ and by the Panamanian government in an at­ program at each of its fac111ties." rate this most joyous occasion. The lOth tempt to gain sovereign control and juris­ And the letter continues, "We are required Annual Puerto Rican Parade was cer­ diction over the Canal Zone and effective in turn to obtain a similar certification of tainly a beautiful and marvelous display control over the operation of the Canal itself; fair employment practices fran_ our suppliers, of pride and culture. And, Miguel Rodri­ and under each of these executive orders; and we Whereas, similar concessional negotiations guez, grand marshal, and Jose Rosario, by the United States in 1967 resulted in three have elected to .fulfill this obligation by ob­ parade president, deserve the highest of taining an annual certification from each dra.ft treaties that were frustrated by the will non-exempt supplier rather than obtaining recognition for their leadership in orga­ of the Congress of the United States because individual certification with each contract nizing the days' events. they would have gravely weakened United or purchase order. The necessary certification Gov. Brendan T. Byrne, Mayor Ken­ States control over the Canal and the Canal form is enclosed. Please sign the attached neth A. Gibson, Archbishop Peter L. Zone; and by the people of Panama because form indicating your acceptance of these that country did not obtain full control; and Gerety, members of the State legislature, Whereas, the American people have con­ terms as a part of any purchase order or and other officials were among the 6,000 agreement between us and return ..." sistently opposed further concessions to any Ironically enough on the Du Pont sta­ spectators. Senator Frank Los of Puerto Panamanian government that would further tionery at the bottom there is a slogan which Rico and Rafael Torregrosa, executive weaken United State•s control over either the reads: "There is a world of things we're doing director for Puerto Rican Migration Canal Zone or Canal; and Whereas, many scientists have demon­ something about." Division were also on hand. Operating a radio station under the fed­ Our joy and pride were further elevated strated the probability that the removal of ~ral feral first, we are no stranger to this when we looked at lovely and talented natural ecological barriers between the kind of tyranny. In order to protect our in­ Pacific and Atlantic oceans entailed in the Mary Lou Rivera of Newark, the winner opening of a sea-level canal could lead to vestment and the jobs of our 20 people, we of Miss Puerto Rico of New Jersey. I have to sell our soul to the federal devil, or ecological hazards which the advocates of the our franchise will be taken away. There is know that when our Puerto Rican citizens sea-level canal have ignored in their plans; not a radio or television station owner in celebrate, they rejoice with heart and and this nation who believes that the Federal soul. And, I join them in spirit and pride Whereas, the Sons of the American Revolu­ Government has either a moral or a legal on this most special occasion. tion believes that treaties are solemn obliga­ right to dictate whom it shall hire and whom tions binding on the parties and has con­ it shall not hire; but we, like Du Pont, sign sistently opposed the abrogation, modifica­ sworn statements on a dictated, regular basis tion or weakening of the Treaty of 1903; affirming that we believe what w~ utterly now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the National Society, Sons despise. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE SONS of the American Revolution in its 84th An­ OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION nual Congress assembled, opposes the con­ NEWARK CELEBRATES PUERTO struction of a new sea-level canal and ap­ RICAN DAY PARADE proves Senate Resolution 301 introduced by Senator Strom Thurmond and 34 additional HON. JOHN J. RHODES Senators, to maintain and preserve the OF ARIZONA sovereign control of the United States over HON. PETER W. RODINO, JR. the Canal Zone. OF NEW JERSEY IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES RESOLUTION NO. 2 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wednesday, July 31, 1974 Whereas, the strength and stabil1ty of the Wednesday, July 31, 1974 Mr. RHODES. Mr. Speaker, the Na­ economic and monetary system of the United States is vital to the defense of the country, Mr. RODINO. Mr. Speaker, 22 years tional Society of the Sons of the Ameri­ can Revolution has asked me to insert and ago, a cove-"lant that proclaimed the Whereas, the fiscal and monetary policies creation of a permanent union between into the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD the reso­ of the Congress and Administration, present the people of Puerto Rico and the United lutions adopted at its 84th annual Con­ and past, have led to the devaluation of the States was signed. On July 25, 1952, the gress, June 23 through June 27, 1974, in dollar, double digit inflation, and the cur­ commonwealth of Puerto Rico joined Baltimore, Md., and I am pleased to rent economic crisis in the United States, do so. and h~nds with the mainland on the "basis The resolutions follow: Whereas, double digit inflation within is as of common citizenship, common defense, great a threat, if not a greater threat, to the common currency, a free market, and a RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY THE NATIONAL SoCIETY OF THE SoNS OF THE AMERICAN liberty and freedom and. well-being of this common value of democracy". REVOLUTION country as the thre ~from our enemies with­ For more than two decades this unique out, and RESOLUTION NO. 1 Whereas, the basic cause of the rampant relationship between the 3 million Whereas, under the 1903 Treaty with Pana­ people of Puerto Rico and the American inflation 1s the deficit spending of the United ma, the United States obtained the grant in States Congress, and people has existed. Progress, economic, perpetuity of the use, occupation and con­ Whereas, under the Constitution of the social, and cultural has been vital for trol of the Canal Zone territory with all sov­ United States, Congress is charged with the both the island and the mainland. And, ereign rights, power and authority to the en­ responsibUity for all federal appropriations, today as we look at this progress and the tire exclusion of the exercise by Panama of and many achievements resulting from this any such sove·reign rights, power, or author­ Whereas, it is the urgent duty of the Unit­ ity as well as the ownership of all privately ed States Congress to limit federal spending union, our hearts and spirits are filled held land and property in the Zone by pur­ with pride and joy. to the revenues of the Federal Government, chase from individual owners; and now, therefore, be it Puerto Rican Gov. Rafael Hernan­ Whereas, the United States has an over­ Resolved, That the National Society, Sons dez Colon since his election has intro­ riding national security interest in maintain­ of the American Revolution in its 84th An­ duced dynamic programs that have ing undUuted control over the Canal Zone nual Congress assembled, urges the Congress proven to be extremely beneficial to the and Panama Canal and solemn obllgations to balance the federal budget. under its treaties with Great Britain and • island. And, to further insure continued Colombia for the efficient operation o! the RESOLUTION NO. 3 advancement, a year ago an ad hoc Ca.nal; and Whereas, it was the national policy of the committee consisting of seven members Whereas, the United States Government is United States of America to intervene in from the mainland, including five Mem­ currently engaged. in negotiations with the Vietnam and prevent a Communist takeover bers of Congress was formed to examine Governmelllt of Panama to suttender United of that country, and July 91, 1974 EXTENSIONS OF R£MARKS 26189 Whereas, it is the duty of every American Resolved, That the National Society, Sons Iutton at its 84th Annual Congress as­ citizen to bear arms in support of the na­ of the American Revolution, in its 84th An­ sembled, reiterates and reaffirms that all pre­ tional policies of the United States, and nual Congress assembled, opposes in general vious resolutions adopted at prior Congresses Whereas, a citizen of the United States the sharing of any of our technology with be reaffirmed. is called upon to share the burdens of citi­ unfriendly foreign nations and in particular RESOLUTION NO. 11 zenship in order to insure its benefits for the sharing of our man-in-space capability Whereas, the 84th Annual Congress of the all citizens, and with any foreign power, and recommends National Society, Sons of the American Revo­ Whereas, 40,000 young Americans fled to that all federal agencies should intensify lution has been successful in every respect, foreign countries to evade the m111tary efforts to prevent the dissemination of criti­ and obligations of United States citizenship, now, cal technology to any foreign power. Whereas, that success has been due to the therefore, be it RESOLUTION NO. 7 efforts of those who planned and took part in Resolved, That the National Society, Sons Whereas, the National Society, Sons of the the program, now, therefore, be it of the American Revolution at its 84th An­ American Revolution supports proper com­ Resolved by the National Society, Sons of nual Congress assembled, is opposed to any memoration and celebration of the American the American Revolution, That it hereby ex­ granting of amnesty to those who refused War for Independence which gained the 13 presses its gratitude and deep appreciation: to bear arms for their country and instead, Original Colonies their freedom; and 1. to the President General for his able fled to foreign countries to evade their mili­ Whereas, the Battle of Cowpens, fought in leadership, tary obligations. South Carolina near the present v111age of 2. to the officers, chairmen and members of RESOLUTION NO.4 Cowpens was a major victory for loyal Amer­ their committees, Whereas, this country was founded by icans in their fight for liberty; and 3. to the loyal headquarters staff for their God-fearing men and women and conceived Whereas, the Federal Government has ap­ constant effort in providing an efficient oper­ in liberty, and propriated certain funds for the improvement ation, Whereas, men of all countries have been and enhancement of the Cowpens Battle­ 4. to the speakers, Compatriot (Dr.) Nor­ moved by the eloquence and high spiritual ground site; and man Vincent Peale and the Honorable J. Wil­ qualities of the Declaration of Independence, Whereas, the effect of monies spent wlll be Ham Middendorf, II, Secretary of the Navy, and much more effective and widespread, and of for their inspiring addresses, Whereas, the Bicentennial will be a focal longer duration, if a permanent annual cele­ 5. to the United States Navy; Joint Armed point for a nationwide review, and reafilrma­ bration is held at the Battleground; Now, Forces (Pentagon); Colonial Guard, 175th tion of the values upon which this Nation therefore, be it Infantry; United States Marine Corps and was founded, and Resolved, That the National Society, Sons the Commander-in-Chief's Guard Colors, Whereas, all businesses and private citi­ of the American Revolution in its 84th An­ U.S. Army, for furnishing color guards, zens should display the United States Flag nual Congress assembled, favors allocation 6. to the United States Marine Band, the daily during daylight hours except during of an adequate portion of avallable funds United States Army Soldiers' Chorus, the inclement weather, and for the construction of a suitable amphithea­ Chorus of the Chesapeake, and the U.S. Navy Whereas, it is fitting for patriots to cele­ ter which wlll be made avallable for the Sea Chanters for furnishing music and en­ brate each Fourth of July with prayer, music, production of an annual outdoor drama tertainment, fireworks and other expressions of joy and based upon the Battle of Cowpens and sur­ 7. to the press, radio and television for cheer, and rounding events, so that the people of their coverage of the Congress, Whereas, lt is the duty of every citizen and America w111 have a better opportunity to 8. to the Maryland Society for its contri­ local community to take the ip.ltlative ln become more conversant with the great deeds bution to a successful 84th Annual Congress, planning a suitable commemoration of the of our illustrious ancestors. 9. to all individuals who contributed to the Bicentennial: Now, therefore, be it RESOLUTION NO. 8 success of this Congress. Resolved, That the National Society, Sons Whereas, Professional Standards Review of the American Revolution at its 84th Organization (PSRO) was established as a Annual Congress assembled, urges its mem­ rider attached to the Social Security Law of bers and all citizens to fly flags daily, to ring 1972 without public hearing or proper con­ bells and blow automobiles horns on the sideration; and BINARY NERVE GAS FUNDING-NOT Fourth of July at a time to be set by each Whereas, confidential medical records of IN THE NATION'S INTEREST community as a suitable prelude to the Bi­ every patient under any of the numerous centennial. government-sponsored health care programs RESOLUTION NO. 15 wm be open to PSRO inspectors; and HON. WAYNE OWENS Whereas, we believe the Federal Govern­ Whereas, "nor!lls" set by the Department ment has entered upon a movement to ell­ of Health, Education and Welfare, after ex­ OF UTAH minate baste rights and powers guaranteed amination of all patient records, wm change IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to the states by the lOth Amendment to the the concept of health care, nu111fy doctor­ Wednesday, July 31, 1974 Constitution, ln particular the control of patient privacy preventing full use of the education and public schools, the control of doctor's knowledge, experience and training· Mr. OWENS. Mr. Speaker, the military land, the extension of jursidiction of the fed­ and ' appropriations bill will be before the eral judiciary, the weakening of state crimi­ Whereas, PSRO can overrule a doctor's de­ House Appropriations Committee this nal law enforcement by the imposition of cision in prescribing, hospitalization, or operating under penalty of fine and suspen­ Thursday and the full House next week. untenable federal standards that result ln As far as I now know, one of the items interminable trials and sheer technicalities sion from medical practice· now therefore that often show more concern for the crimi­ be It ' ' ' within this bill is the authorization to nal than for the innocent victim and the Resolved, That the National Society, Sons begin the procurement of the binary long-suffering public, to name a few: Now, of the American Revolution at its 84th An­ chemical weapons system. This request, therefore, be it nual Congress assembled, supports the adop­ for approximately $5.8 million, has been Resolved, That the National Society, Sons tion of H.R. 9375, or slmtlar resolutions, the subject of hearings before the House of the American Revolution at its 84th Which would repeal the provisions of the Armed Services, Foreign Affairs, and the Annual Congress assembled, recommends Social Security Act which violate the confi­ dentiality of the doctor-patient relationship Appropriations Committees. that our state governors and legislators resist The continued justification for this these federal encroachments upon state sov­ which would be contrary to numerous state ereignty and oppose the extension of federal statutes, contrary to professional ethics, and binary chemical weapons appropriation grants and Supreme Court decisions. which would lead to federal control of medi­ is the threat posed by the chemical stock­ cine. piles of the Soviet Union. This is the same RESOLUTION NO. 6 RESOLUTION NO. 9 justification which has been presented Whereas, hostile foreign nations desire to Whereas, there is pending In the United to the Congress since the end of World obtain advanced American technology during States Congress a resolution sponsored by War II. There is no evidence to show that a period of our history entitled "detente," Senator Harry Flood Byrd, Jr. of Virginia and a new round of chemical weapon pro­ in which Senator W111iam Scott of Virginia curements, which may eventually cost Whereas, the sharing of our technology has also joined as a co-sponsor, to restore with unfriendly foreign powers wlll weaken the citizenship of General Robert E. Lee, now, this Nation as much as $2 billion, will in this country's power and protection of the therefore, be it any way alter or improve the capability free world, and Resolved, That the National Socle.ty, Sons of the United States to prevent the use Whereas, the joint exploration of space of the American Revolution at its 84th An­ of chemical weapons by the Soviet Union with any foreign nation will result in the nual Congress assembled, joins ln with the or to strengthen the U.S. retaliatory release of technical information vital to the purpose and spirit of this pending Congres­ threat to any enemy who should be con­ defense of this nation, and sional resolution. templating the use of chemical weapons Whereas no foreign power has been suc­ RESOLUTrON NO. 10 against our forces. It seems to me that cessful in its man-in-space program, Now, Now, therefore, be it resolved, That the the initiation of such a procurement at therefore, be it Na.tional Society, Sons of the American Revo- this time involves more arguments 26190 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 31, 1974 against than can be presented in support ple to seek a calmer, more rewarding way of human welfare-each of these areas of the proposal. life in the smaller communities. presents a unique problem for the We currently have the capability to The assistant secretary for rural develop­ Israelis. ment of the USDA said recently: "I have no To deal with these problems, Israel has produce more nerve agent in existing quarrel· with those who prefer city life. But chemical plants than our Armed Forces for those people who prefer to maintain their one of the highest income taxes any­ can possibly foresee as a requirement. We rural family and community ties, there where in the world. now have vast stockpiles of bulk nerve should be enough local jobs avaUable within Perhaps Israel's greatest problem, agent in storage. We are going through reasonable commuting distance to make this however, is the incredible rate of infla­ a period of adjustment which includes possible. This is a central goal of rural de­ tion it is currently undergoing. Double­ some disposition of deteriorating muni­ velopment. digit inflation is nothing new to the tions and elimination of chemical agents "For many years cities have had most of Israelis. However, the current rate of the jobs. Millions of farm, small town, and no longer considered to be standard other rural people have been forced to move 40 percent a year cannot be permitted to agents in our arsenal. The binary offers there .... Many cities grew excessively, be­ continue. Israel's new government sim­ a limited advantage in safety and han­ came congested and unmanageable. And ply must find a way to bring inflation dling in comparison with existing stock­ small towns often withered as their popula­ under control. piles. It presents many political disad­ tion dwindled. Another enormous problem is Israel's vantages, in addition to possibly being a "Every new job adds to the economic tempo deficit in its balance of payments. This less effective chemical weapon. of the community, bringing additional jobs further weakens its currency and causes and business to it. Small-town and rural peo­ instability in its financial affairs. I urge you to examine the discussion ple are increasingly organizing to hammer presented by Representative FRASER in out a master plan for their community," he Yet, with all of this, Israel is still truly the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD on July 16, said. a phenonemon of the 20th century. That 1974. If you agree with this logical analy­ The USDA and other Federal agencies are one small nation could take unproduc­ sis, I believe that you will also agree that giving assistance in building better commu­ tive land and make it into a home and the procurement of the binary chemical nity fac111ties for small towns. The Appa­ a refuge for so many must be accounted weapon is not in the best interest of this lachian Program, Farmers Home Administra­ an outstanding accomplishment. Hope­ Nation at this time and that to delay this tion, and several other agencies are approv­ fully a way will be found to extend the ing grants and loans for making possible a peace indefinitely so that Arabs and procurement until more thoughtful ex­ better life in the smaller communities of our amination of the issue can be completed nation. Jews can once again live and work in will not jeopardize the security of this LouisvUle and Winston County are taking harmony together in the Middle East. Nation Jn any way. The elimination of advantage of some of this assistance, and we this item from the fiscal year 1975 mili­ think that our city and county omcials tary appropriations bill will provide the should be alert for every possible source of Congress with the time to examine this help to improve our community fac111ties to PLIGHT OF SOVIET JEWS issue with greater care. provide an increasingly better life for those of us who prefer to live in a small town. HON. WILLIAM S. BROOMFIELD OF MICHIGAN THE TIDE IS CHANGING ISRAEL'S REMARKABLE ACCOM­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. DAVID R. BOWEN PLISHMENT Wednesaay, July 31, 1974 OF MISSISSIPPI Mr. BROOMFIELD. Mr. Speaker, the HON. PAUL FINDLEY plight of Soviet Jews was made star­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF ILLINOIS tlingly clear to me recently through a Wednesday, July 31, 1974 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES case involving one of my constitutent's Mr. BOWEN. Mr. Speaker, those of us Wednesday, July 31, 1974 relatives. The tragic story, related to me in Congress who represent predominantly by Rev. Shabtai Ackerman of the Beth rural districts have been very concerned Mr. FINDLEY. Mr. Speaker, for the Abraham-Hillel congregation in Bir­ that rural America's needs, goals, and first time in Israel's brief 26-year his­ mingham, Mich., underlines the cruel great contribution to the stability of this tory, the prospects for peace in the and ruthless tactics the Soviet Union em­ country not be overlooked. I am pleased Middle East are bright and hope is ploys to harass and detain Jews wishing to call to the Congress' attention this strong. Israel now may get on with the to emigrate, and I would like to share very excellent editorial in last week's pressing domestic problems which con­ it with my colleagues. edition of the Winston County Journal at front this dynamic nation. Mr. Yichil Kutchuk and his wife and Louisville, Miss., written by one of the One of the truly monumental accom­ sister-in-law applied for and were many responsible and progressive news­ plishments of Israel has been its un­ granted passports to emigrate to Israel paper editors of our State, Mr. Joe T. ceasing ability to absorb countless thou­ in April. The Kutchuks' son had been Cook. The editorial, entitled, "Tide Is sands of Jewish immigrants over the allowed to emigrate to Israel 18 months Changing," reads as follows: years. People with disparate backgrounds earlier. After being assured that their TIDE Is CHANGING have come to this land, adopted it as visas were in order, the Kutchuks packed their own, and begun to make a produc­ The tide is at last fiowing in the opposite the belongings they would need for the direction. tive contribution to their new society. trip, sold the rest, and made plans for a Following a period of about 30 years dur­ Generally, the assimilation has been re­ joyous reunion with their son. ing which young people, particularly, have markable, not unlike that in the melt­ But 3 hours before their scheduled de­ been leaving their small-town homes and ing pot of New York City and much of parture by train from Kishinev, the po­ seeking their opportunities in the large met­ the United States around the turn of lice informed them they had to go to the ropolitan areas of this country, the trend is the century when waves of immigrants CUstoms Office to have their baggage now reversing itself. came to the United States. checked. When they arrived at the office There has been a sizeable upswing in the nonfarm rural job opportunities. Between In fact, many of Israel's problems are they discovered their bags had already March, 1970, and March, 1973, non metro­ directly attributable to the huge num­ been opened. Officials proceeded to con­ politan areas reported an increase of 7.8 per­ bers of people who have chosen it for fiscate their passports and papers, arrest cent in jobs as compared with 3.6 percent in their new home. Mr. Kutchuk, and send his wife home to metropolitan areas. Housing is crowded in the extreme, an empty apartment. Since that time The large cities have reached the point in with three or mote persons often shar­ over 3 months ago no one has been time when the quality of life they can offer, ing one room. permitted to visit Mr. Kutchuk, and no everything considered, does not compare with Education, which begins with nursery official charges have been made against that of the small community. Urban congestion, spirallng costs of hous­ school, must accommodate the varied him. His relatives have learned he is ill ing and services, the rising crime rate in the backgrounds and languages of all the and being held in the prison hospital. cities, the increasing prevalence of drug children, often within a crowded class­ Mrs. Kutchuk, who suffers from a heart pushing, the chaotic conditions in the room". condition, has been forced to appear at schools--all have combined to influence peo- Income, social services, agriculture, the police station every day for question- July 31, 1974 EXTENSIONS OF R£MARKS 26191 ing, returning in the evening to her bare Why not adopt the philosophy that we production, and its price shot up to $2.55 a apartment. can run our businesses better than you gallon-almost double what it had been in Upon learning of this travesty of jus­ can-you people don't know a single specific 1859. Naturally, there were cries of profiteer­ thing about running any business, except, ing and demands for Congress to "do some­ tice I immediately wrote the Soviet Em­ perhaps, the one or two you actually en­ thing about it." The government, however, bassy asking for an explanation. The gaged in prior to assuming public oftlce, and made no move to ration whale oil or to freeze only reply I have received has been a you are tending to become damn rusty its price, or to put a new tax on the "excess one-line note telling me that my letter there. profits" of the whalers. Instead, prices were has been referred to proper Soviet au­ Very truly yours, permitted to rise. thorities. I am not holding my breath PIATT HULL. The result, then as now, was predictable. waiting for a further reply, although I Enclosures. Consumers began to use less whale on, and urgently hope for a pleasant ending to THE TROUBLE WITH GOVERNMENT REGULATION the whalers invested more money in new ways the Kutchuk's story. (Condensed from a speech by Walter B. to increase their productivity. Meanwhile, Wriston, Chairman, Ci ticorp) men with vision and capital began to develop Mr. Speaker, this episode is an ex­ kerosene and other petroleum products. The ample ·of the outrageous treatment of When bureaucrats try to manipulate the first practical generator for outdoor electric Jews that continues to take place in the marketplace, the result is usually disastrous. lights was built in 1875. By 1896, the price a! Soviet Union on a regular basis. It is It's jar better, says this distinguished banker, whale oil had dropped to 40 cents a gallon. precisely these inhumane actions that to allow the enormous innovative talents of Whale-oil lamps now sit in museums to re­ have prompted many members of Con­ the American people tree play. mind us of the imperma,ence of crisis. Anyone in our society whose eyesight and The whale-on "energy crisis" is one of an gress, myself included, to urge that the hearing are not totally impaired is likely to infinite series demonstrating the ability of Soviet Union not be granted most fa­ believe that we Americans are on a colllsion the free market to solve problems of scarcity. vored nation tliading status. I will con­ course with Doomsday. Certainly, the energy· Shortages, then and now, can often be elimi­ tinue to adamantly oppose any granting shortage has produced no scarcity in the nated when prices are allowed to exercise of such status so long as the cold and rhetoric of crisis. their age-old functions-that is, to motivate calculating persecution of Soviet Jews The compulsion of the medi·a to turn every the consumer to consume less and the pro­ scrap of bad news into a full-blown crisis dis­ ducer to produce more, and to spur someone continues. We in the free world cannot torts our perspective, however. For prophets and must not tolerate the continued op­ on to develop a new product that is better of doom fail to appreciate man's inherent and cheaper. Shortages become a crisis when pression that the Kutchuks and thou­ ability to adjust and innovate. government intervenes to frustrate the sands of others have been subjected to. The British economist Thomas Malthus, ab111ty of the free market to function. for example, predicted in 1798 that the 1m­ But government seems loath to learn from balance between population growth and food experience about intervention. The result is production would bring the world to the non-economic. No one who saw it on televi­ THE TROUBLE WITH GOVERNMENT verge of starvation. The doomsayers called sion last year will soon forget the wholesale REGULATION it the iron law. As time has proved, it was drowning of baby chicks. It was done because neither iron nor law. Like many of our the government froze the price of grown current crop of transient experts, Malthus chickens at a level which made it uneconomic underestimated everyone's intelligence but for farmers to raise and sell them. But this HON. STEVEN D. SYMMS his own; he was incapable of imagining that OF IDAHO drowning was only a rerun of the plowing­ out of the Industrial Revolution would come under of "surplus" cotton and grain, and the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES reapers, threshers, combines and tractors. He slaughter of piglets a generation ago-a Wednesday, July 31, 1974 did not foresee the era of cheap energy. Nor slaughter predicated on the proposition that did he envision chemicals and fertilizers governments are smarter than markets, which Mr. SYMMS. Mr. Speaker, occasion­ creating such abundance that fooUsh govern­ all history refutes. Anyone observing the con­ ally, a philosophical masterpiece arrives ments would pay farmers not to cultivate sequences in our country of price and wage at my oftice. There is not a word I can the soil. controls can have few illusions left about add to the letter and accompanying A second reason why doomsayers are so fre­ the efficiency of government-controlled mar­ quently unable to predict accurately what kets. article sent to me by Mr. Piatt Hull, a will happen is that they cling to the belief distinguished attorney from Wallace, Substituting bureaucratic regulation for that there are accepted absolutes in a rapidly the marketplace has always served first to Idaho. I would like to enter it in the changing world. Examples &bound. A com­ produce a shortage and then to intensify it. RECORD at this point: mission f\rppointed by President Herbert Hoo­ Whenever our system appears to falter by not HULL, HULL, & WHEELER, ver in 1929 later reported to Fra.nklln D. providing our accustomed relative abundance Attorneys at Law, Roosevelt on how to plot our course through at a low price, the people who distrust free­ Wallace, Idaho, June 28, 1974. 1952. The report was in 13 volumes prepared dom stand ready with the simplistic solu­ Hon. FRANK CHURCH. by some 500 researchers. tion: the government should intervene. Hon. JAMEs McCLURE. Yet the two-volume, 1600-page summary Paradoxically, many of those who look to Hon. STEVE SYMMS. contained not a word about the development government to remedy every economic griev­ Hon. ORVAL HANSEN. of atomic energy, jet propulsion, antibiotics, ance in our society also want government to GENTLEMEN: I enclose a copy of an article transistors or other significant advances. The get out of their personal lives. They cannot from the current Reader's Digest "The World's Fair of 1939, which was dedicated to have it both ways; they cannot ask more and Trouble with Government Regulation" by the World of Tomorrow, didn't envision the more government inter~ention in what ought Walter B. Wriston, Chairman of Citicorp. impact of these steps forward. The people to be a free market and stm insist on more This restates a proposition I have urged who have come closest to predicting the and more freedom for themselves as individ­ upon you on past occasions: A problem is future are some of the science-fiction writers, uals. No people have ever preserved political never as bad as the government's solution unencumbered by elaborate research or pres­ liberty for long in an environment of eco­ to the problem. tigious committees, but with the courage to nomic dictatorship. We often learn too late Example: One seemingly minor govern­ dream. that freedom is indivisible. mental action that has done as much as any Our latter-day Malthusians appear ob­ Although in America we have what is de­ other single thing to screw up the energy livious to the fact that man, given the scribed as a free-enterprise economy, our situation--setting well head prices on natu­ proper incentive and freedom to act, has re­ government today regulates more business ural gas at the rate of about $2 or $3 peatedly found substitutes for dwindling ma­ practices than most other democracies. Listen per ton of coal measured in btu's. Ergo, terials. The United States was dented 90 to the roll call: the ut1llties . which produce everyb9<1y tended to convert to gas, nobody percent of its sources of natural rubber dur­ heat, light and power; the railroads {what's drllled for gas and the coal mines tended to ing World War IT, but technological in­ left of them); trucY:ing companies, airlines, go to pot. If the price of gas had been left genuity created synthetic rubber, which is broadcasters, drug firms, dry cleaners, auto alone, use would have declined, supplies now more widely used than the natural prod­ manufacturers, meat packers, film makers, would have been increased, prices would uct. Coal was not even considered a resource farmers, brokers, banks and a host of other have been competitive and the coal industry before the Steam Age, nor was uranium enterprises. Most of these industries are high­ would have tended to thrive. highly valued before the Atomic Age. These ly competitive, but government has decreed Regulation has obviously kllled the ra11· experiences of yesterday are relevant today. that they must serve a variety of objectives road industry. Why should we pay billlons to I do not assert that history repeats itself, but other than selling their products at the lowest the railroads and at the same time let ICC offer a reminder that the human story did price. continue to louse up as it has for genera­ not begin with today's crisis. The government regulator is always ad· tions? Why not abolish the ICC and turn Energy is no exception. Few Americans even jured to serve the public interest. Sooner or the railroad loose to serve the country, sub­ remember that, from the time of the Ameri­ later, however, he usually develops into both ject only to the Sherman Anti Trust Act? can Revolution until the Civil War, a major judge and jury, and often into prosecutor as Things can't get worse, they would neces­ source of artificial lighting was the whale-oil well. Congress should legislate. The Execu­ sarily get better. lamp. The Civil War disrupted whale-oil tive should enforce the law. The courts 26192 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 31, 1974 should interpret the conflict. Instead of this, ing many beneficial programs and secur­ eration of the entire membership of Con­ Congress does its best to bypass the other ing hundreds of jobs for the young peo­ gress so, at this time, I wish to include it branches and create separate institutions ple in his area. He was, and still is, vitally in the RECORD. that combine legislative, executive and judi­ concerned about safety and crime pre­ The article follows: cial functions. The new regulatory body then [From Barron, July 22, 1974) makes rules with the force of law, substitut­ vention in our neighborhoods. Most resi­ ing its opinion for the judgment of the free dents of the area remember the leader­ DAY OF RECKONING?-THERE'S NEVER BEEN A market. As time goes on, the bureaucracy ship that Vic exerted in securing addi­ BETTER TIME To CUT THE BUDGET changes the active verb "to compete" into tional policemen assigned to the neigh­ "Han. WILBUR D. MILLS, the passive "to be regulated." This process borhood precinct to more effectively "Chairman, House Ways and Means Com­ tends to create a rigid, backward-looking serve the community. mittee, Longworth House Office Bldg., system-which is neither business-oriented Vic Tosi has always had a continuing Washington, D.C. nor consumer-oriented. Instead, it is bureac­ "Dear Mr. Chairman: racy -oriented. involvement in community affairs. He As you are well aware, each passing day Many industries continue to be regulated has served as chairman of both the pub­ brings additional news of the tragic effects as though they were monopolies, whereas, in lic safety and community liaison com­ rampant inflation is having on our economy fact, new competitors have long since taken mittees of community planning board and our people. This inflation, of course, is away a good share of their business. The rail­ No. 13, has been a member of the board fueled in large part by continued spending roads were put at a disadvantage when the of directors of the Bronx Council of the by the federal government. truckers began to siphon off revenues; so Arts, was the founder and chairman of "For a number of years I have introduced were the scheduled airlines when the char­ a bill, H.R. 144, which would require the tered flights entered the market. Instead of the New York City Office of Neighbor­ federal government to live within its means, welcoming the competitive challenge, the hood Government Advisory Board in his to limit its spending to its income and to initial regulatory reflex was to reach out and -area, was a PTA president, and served make orderly and systematic payments tore­ regulate the new industries-permitting no as athletic director of one of his local duce the national debt. industry to either win or lose on its merits, schools. "Passage of this legislation would be the but causing the public to pay the check for His achievements in the community first, essential step on the road back to fiscal higher costs. have brought Vic much well-deserved stability for the United States, and I urge Consider the railroads, which, before the you most strongly to hold hearings on H.R. Interstate Commerce Commission clapped recognition. He has additionally received 144 at the earliest possible moment. them into a. regulatory straitjacket, were pio­ the New York City Certificate of Com­ Sincerely, neers in technology--creating the standard mendation, and the General Motors Gold H. R. GROSS." track gauge, new freight cars and safety de­ Medal as the outstanding man in New Like television's Maytag repairman; Rep. vices. After the ICC stepped in, the efforts of York for community service. H. R. Gross (R., Iowa) used to be the loneliest · the railroads to improve efficiency through Victor Tosi is indeed dedicated and a party in town. Since January 1959, when the new technology were time after time ha.m· hard-working, community-minded citi­ 86th Congress convened, he has regularly pered by costly delays in regulatory deci­ zen who deserves the appr~ciation of us dropped into the hopper H.R. 144 (twelve sions. Instead of concerning themselves with dozen, or 144, of anything is a gross). a Bill key issues, the regulators expended their ef­ all for his work. "to provide that Federal expenditures shall forts on such trivia as setting tariffs which not exceed Federal revenues, except in time distinguished between horses for slaughter of war or grave national emergency, and to and horses for draft. Predictably, many ran­ DAY OF RECKONING provide for systematic reduction of the pub­ roads chugged slowly down the road to ruin. lic debt." At each session, the Bill was re­ Our current energy crisis furnishes an­ ferred to the Committee on Ways and Means, other fork in the road. If you look beyond HON. GENE TAYLOR where it invariably died. Despite the eloquent the panic and concentrate on the problem, OF MISSOURI plea to the Chairman (dated July 12, 1974, there are a number of ways we can go. We IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and cited above). H.R. 144 isn't about to can create a new ICC for oil and gas, with become the law of the land; however, in his the absolutely predictable result that the Wednesday, July 31, 1974 perennial quest for federal economy and good current market dislocations will become in­ husbandry, Congressman Gross has finally stitutionalized, and temporary scarcity will Mr. TAYLOR of Missouri. Mr. Speak­ evoked some response. be regulated into permanent shortages. er, as you know, our Nation is, day by Last week GOP Senators Carl T. Curtis Or we can permit the enormous innovative day, slipping increasingly further into (Neb.), Clifford P. Hansen (Wyo.) and James talents of the American people to function. the grips of inflation and, for the most. A. McClure (Idaho) issued a call for "coura­ Just as the invention of kerosene and prac­ part, we have no one else to blame but geous and drastic action," including a 10% tical electric generators took the whale-oil tl:e U.S. Congress. slash in legislators• salaries and a $10 blllion lamps out of the homes of America and put With each passing day Congress ap­ cut in the federal budget. On the same day, them in the museum. our current energy proves spending measures with no real the Honorable Wilbur D. Mllls (D., Ark.). problem will also be solved in myriad ways abruptly awakening to the "very serious in­ that no one now can foresee-if we let the thought to fiscal restraint and as a re­ flationary crisis" for which he and his col­ free market operate. Whether it is whale oil, sult we are busting the budget com­ leagues are partly to blame, sent a wire baby chicks or energy, control by a bureauc­ pletely. There has been, however, one urging the White House to veto excessive racy is no match for the free market in the man in the House of Representatives expenditures, or, if necessary, to impound allocation of human and material resources who has been repeatedly warning each the proceeds. Last month both House and for the good of everybody. of us on the serious predicament in Senate, by overwhelming majorities (75-0 which we have now placed ourselves. in the upper chamber). approved the con· The man, the Honorable H. R. GRoss, gressional Budget and Impoundment Con­ VICTOR B. TOSI trol Act of 1974, whereby the lawmakers, for has been the constant watchdog of the the first time in generations, hope to regain Federal budget during his 26 years of their long-lost power of the purse. HON. PETER A. PEYSER service to the Nation, and now his con­ One can only say, high time. While the OF NEW YORK stant warnings are coming into bleak voters• attention has been focused on Water­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES reality. gate, and Congress on occasion has made As a freshman Member, I am gratified abortive stabs at tax reform, the cost of Wedne.sday, July 31, 1974 to have had the opportunity to serve government has been getting wildly out of hand. Under an allegedly Republican Ad­ Mr. PEYSER. Mr. Speaker, Victor under H. R. GRoss and to have had him ministration, the U.S. in the past five fiscal Tosi, a constituent of mine, an outstand­ as a friend and teacher. It is with this years has gone from a $200 blllion budget ing community leader and a friend of in mind that I wish to present an article . (on the socalled unified basis, which includes mine, has recently stepped down as pres­ written by Mr. Robert M. Blelberg which the operations of various trust funds) to the ident of the 47th Precinct Community appeared in the July 22, 1974, issue of $304 billion which the White House last Council of the North Bronx, N.Y. This Barron's. In this article Mr. Bleiberg winter submitted for the current fiscal year points out Mr. GRoss' repeated attempts During this period, aggregate federal deficit~ is indeed an unfortunate loss to the com­ have topped the $125 b1111on mark, while munity which Vic has served most ably to bring the budget back into restraints the public debt is approaching half a tril­ for many years. Fortunately, the impact and emphasizing that it is time the Mem­ lion dollars. Pending legtslatton, notably of this loss is cushioned by the fact that bers of Congress begin listening to his proposals for national health insurance and he w111 remain on the executive board as warnings. He further stresses that it is subsidized mass transit, would add many an adviser. about time to take action and place the billions more to the spreading sea of red During his tenure in office, Vic was budget back into proper bounds. I feel ink. responsible for initiating and implement- this article warrants the careful consid- Yet by any yardstick, philosophical and July 31, 19 7 4 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 26193 practical alike, the pendulum long since that sum of money. "The people are begin­ ican citizens from the British Sovereign should have swung the other way. On the ning to panic," he went on. "We're in a very Base at Dhekelia in southern Cyprus. first count, while expenditures on welfare, serious crisis." However, other solons--nota­ Evacuees were flown to a five-ship for example., have increased geometrically, bly Senator Humphrey (D., Minn.) and Navy amphibious group composed the number of the nation's poor has de­ Speaker of the House Carl Albert (D., u.s. clined. Even as federal spending continues to Okla.) -are still doing business at the same of the U.S.S. Inchon; the assault ships rise by leaps and bounds, confidence in old doctrinaire stand. Budget deficits and U.S.S. Coronado, U.S.S. Trenton, U.S.S. Washington's ability to solve problems "by federal spending, said the former the other Spiegel Grove and the amphibious tank­ throwing money at them"-and, not inci­ day, have little or nothing to do with infla­ landing ship U.S.S. Saginaw. dentally, in Congress itself-has sunk to tion, which, in his opinion, is caused by By the end of the evacuation cycle, al­ perhaps its lowest ebb since the New Deal. "energy and commodity shortages, our most 500 American citizens and about As to principle, we are inclined to believe changing international financial position, 250 foreign nationals from 24 countries that even in the palmiest days, many lf and the continued existence of monopoly not most federal programs constitute an un­ and oligopoly power in our economy." Not were embarked aboard these 6th Fleet necessary and unwarranted burden on the to mention the economic illiterates who gov­ ships. nation's taxpayers. Today-when even the ern our destinies. Following initial evacuation at Dhe­ well-to-do find it harder and harder to make Wiser heads--especially if pointed the kelia, the U.S.S. Trenton, along with ends meet, and the average breadwinner, right way by an aroused electorate-may yet ships and helicopters from the Royal strive as he may, financially is falling fur­ prevail. If so, at least a start may be made Navy, British, proceeded on July 24 to ther behind month by inflation-ravaged toward economy. In a study released today, Akrotiri Bay, Cyprus. There, some 200 month-the swollen budget adds injury to the Council of State Chambers of Commerce, persons were transported from the Brit­ insult. When everyone is feeling the pinch citing as a precedent the Revenue and Ex­ it's surely no time for government to wax penditure Control Act of 1968, which effec­ ish ship H.M.S. Hermes to the U .S.S. expansive. tively cut both budgeted expenditures and Trenton in landing craft b~ffeted by However, expand it has-and never more new obligational authority by $6-$10 bil­ rough seas and high winds. so under an Administration which ran on lion, urges a re-run. For the longer haul, an Sailors and marines from 6th Fleet a platform pledged to reverse the trend. From· analysis prepared for Treasury Secretary Wil­ ships assisted the arriving evacuees, ar­ $196.6 billion in the 12 months ended June liam Simon shows how Congress, given the ranged sleeping accommodations in the 30, 1970, U.S. outlays have soared to the w111, can slash outlays by upwards of $25 ship's living spaces, and helped acclimate $304.4 billion originally sought for the cur­ billion. For years and years, Congress and its rent fiscal year. Including an estimated $18 "fiscal constituencies" have sought to avoid them to shipboard life during their over­ b111ion for fiscal '75, now four weeks old, the inevitable day of reckoning. They won't night voyage to Beirut. Numerous first the accumulated deficit for the six fiscal succeed forever.-ROBERT M. BLEIBERG. person accounts of the care and hospi­ years, measured by the impact on the public tality extended during the transits to debt. will exceed $130 blllion, roughly one Beirut have appeared in print. quarter of the total put on the books since During evacuation and transit to Leba­ the founding of the Republic. From an non, additional ships of the 6th Fleet annual rate of 7.3% in 1960-65, federal civll­ NAVY RESCUES AMERICANS IN ian outlays per capita in recent years have DANGER stood by in international waters in the been rising at an annual rate of 15.2%. area, should the need for further evacua- Moreover, spending has outpaced population tion have arisen. _ and inflation alike; adjusted for both fac­ HON. G. WILLIAM WHITEHURST Arriving in Beirut, Coronado and tors, the yearly advance has leaped from 4% OF VIRGINIA Trenton were met by diplomatic officials to 9%. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES who processed the disembarked evacuees Some increases are mind-boggling. To il­ and arranged onward transportation. lustrate, the Food Stamp Act, which "aims Wednesday, July 31" 1974 The American Ambassador in Beirut, G. at making more effective use of our abund­ Mr. WHITEHURST. Mr. Speaker, I ance of food and at providing additional nu­ McMurtrie Godley, sent the following trition to those in need," began in 1965 with want to express my pride and my grati­ message to Capt. E. N. Fenno, the com­ an appropriation of $34.3 mlllion. Last fiscal tude to the men and women of the 6th manding officer of the U.S.S. Coronado: year, such outlays ran to an estimated $2.5 Fleet who particicipated in the rescue Hearty well-done to you and officers and blllion, and this year to nearly $4 billion. and evacuation efforts during the recent men of Coronado for evacuation of civilians In the past decade federal welfare spending fighting on Cyprus. I have the honor from Cyprus. Debarkation went off without a as a whole has surged from under $24 billion, of representing the homeport of many hitch, thanks to outstanding cooperation and to an estimated $113 billion. Meanwhile, the of these brave sailors and marines. first rate professional planning. number of needy has fallen sharply. Accord­ I would also state, Mr. Speaker, that I ing to the latest Annual Report of the Presi­ I think that all of my colleagues will dent's Cou;ncll of Economic Advisers, the was absolutely shocked to learn of the join me in extending a "well ~one" to t_he number of poor Americans dropped from 39.5 remarks df a Member of the other body officers and men of these ships and air­ million in 1959 to 24.5 mlllion in 1972. And, who questioned the right of the Presi­ craft as well as the rest of the Defense of course, along with inflation, the U.S. has dent to send a limited number of Amer­ Department. This kind of readiness and experienced· a record-breaking surge in pro­ ican military personnel ashore to direct superb professional ability continues to duction and trade, during which unemploy­ the evacuation effort. To connect these be vital to U.S. interests when peace and ment has remained low and jobs perennially humanitarian efforts with the limita­ have gone begging. humanity are threatened. We should not Such lavish outpouring, it now seems clear, tions on Presidential war powers is not overlook the dedication of these service­ has done more harm than good. Two years only spurious, it is ludicrous. The lives men nor become complacent about their ago the far-from-conservative Brookings In­ of 500 American citizens cannot and availability. stitution concluded that when it comes to must not be placed in jeopardy by such solving social problems in poverty, health, considerations. education and the environment, "the his­ The recent situation in Cyprus has tory of the 'Sixties makes clear that current again emphasized that necessity for hav­ PERSONAL EXPLANATION federal approaches are not effective." Every­ ing our military forces strategically de­ thing that has happened since-the waste of millions of dollars on a useless "people mov­ ployed so that they may respond rapidly er," demolition of the world's largest public to emergencies. The swift and skillful HON. DAVID W. DENNIS housing project, sale of hundreds of millions actions of the U.S. 6th Fleet were instru­ OF INDIANA of subsidized bushels of wheat to the Soviet mental in preventing possible loss of 1N THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Union, unleashing of the worst domestic in­ American life, as well as contributing to flation in a century-only tends to reinforce the stability of a volatile international Wednesday, July 31, 1974 the dim view. situation. Mr. DENNIS. Mr. Speaker, due to a Small wonder that the legislative branch Shortly after the American Ambassa­ longstanding engagement in t~e city .of of government, to judge by a widely quoted Muncie, Ind., in my congressional dis­ survey of public opinion, rates lower than dor requested evacuation of American the Executive with the voters. Or that some civilians, Secretary of Defense Schles­ trict, and to the unpredictably extensive lawmakers belatedly are voicing alarm. In inger directed a Navy task force to speed debate on the Surface Mining and Recla- his telegram last week, Wilbur Mills urged to the area. mation Act, H.R. 11500, I was unavoid­ the White House to demand that Congress On the afternoon of July 22, 1974, ably absent Thursday, July 25, on roll­ cut $10 billion out of the $304 billion budget. Marine helicopters from the U.S. 6th call vote 410, on final passage of H.R. If Congress refuses to cooperate, added the Fleet amphibious helicopter carrier 11500. Had I been present I would have lawmaker, the President should impound u.s.s. Inchon began evacuating Amer- voted "aye," as I did on a previous bill 26194 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 31, 1974 to regulate strip mining which passed the These vo!ces should be heard, but their the Jewish community for Syria's own House a year or two ago. critics also should be heard. It is inexcusable murder of Jewish women. While this measure may not be the and intolerable that only the spokesman of The secret trial of these two Syrian liberal elitism should have a hearing on net­ Jews is now in progress. Regardless of the most desirable, and there was room for work programs. considerable improvement, as witnessed Well, someone may say: who should have trumped up charges which these two by the many amendments offered dur­ been on the program to give balance? It prominent Jews are accused of, it is the ing the 5 days of debate on the measure­ would have been the simplest matter for duty of free men to speak out against we all recognize the urgent need for re­ CBS to include a representative group of this outrage. The need to raise our voices claiming our mined lands, and, on bal­ thinkers and doers who believe in our eco­ against these acts is all the more poign­ ance, I hope and believe this legislation­ nomic system and in the general structure ant in the Tisha B'aV season which as ultimately passed by the House--does and objectives of our society-for example, marks the destruction of ancient Jeru­ economists Milton Friedman and Henry salem. I urge deep censure against these represent a workable compromise be­ Manne, essayist Russell Kirk, columnist tween the economic and environmental Stanton Evans, national legislators such as atrocities. interests, both of which are of very fun­ Rep. Philip Crane and Sen. Jesse Helms, and damental importance. such scholars and commentators as Thomas Molnar, George Roche, Stefan Possony, and OUR VETERANS MUST BE R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. PROTECTED Why didn't CBS include conservatives of NETWORK BIAS this caliber to balance the liberals and radi­ cals? Why are conservatives systematically HON. WILLIAM LEHMAN excluded from major media events? The OF FLORIDA HON. ROBERT J. HUBER answer is that the major media, such as CBS, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF MICHIGAN are determined that the public not receive Wednesday, July 31, 1974 an in-depth, balanced understanding of na­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tional issues. Though fairness is supposed Mr. LEHMAN. Mr. Speaker, today the Wednesday, July 31, 1974 to be built into network programming, the Subcommittee on Compensation and fact is that fairness is almost wholly absent. Mr. HUBER. Mr. Speaker, Mr. Pension of the Veterans' Affairs Com­ One wonders when a really large part of mittee, chaired by our distinguished col­ Anthony Harrigan, executive vice presi­ the public wlll realize that it is being spoon­ dent of the U.S. Industrial Council, re­ fed liberal-left views and denied access to league from Texas, held its first day cently wrote a very penetrating column other significant views and vital facts. The of hearings on legislation in two areas entitled "Network Bias," which I believe networks, for example, have functioned as that is of vital interest to our veterans. hits the nail on the head. In it he points lobbyists for a single point of view-a single The first bill, H.R. 1753, would prevent out that on any national network pro­ conception of America. the loss of veterans' benefits when social Given the fact that the air waves belong security benefits are increased. The sec­ gram that purports to broadly survey to the public, it is outrageous that the elec­ some subject, spokesmen from the ond bill, H.R. 13977, would provide the tronic media should be characterized by such veterans of World War I with a pension liberal to left side of the philosophical sustained, systematic bias in the presenta­ spectrum are always included in abund­ tion of public issues. In allowing this condi­ on the same basis as the veterans of the ant numbers while the conservative side tion to exist year after year, without mak­ Spanish-American War. of the issue is usually not represented ing any attempt to require the networks As a cosponsor of both bills, I was or represented by one person as a to develop balance in news and commentary, pleased to submit to the subcommittee "token" of fairness. This, in spite of the the Federal Communications Commission my statement of full support, and am in­ is betraying its duty to the American peo­ serting below my testimony: fact that more and more persons in the ple. United States consider themselves to be STATEMENT OF THE HoN. WILLIAM LEHMAN conservatives, according to the polls. Mr. Chairman and members of the sub­ The article follows: SYRIA'S OPPRESSED JEWS committee: I am pleased to have this op­ portunity to share with you my thoughts on NETWORK BIAS the issue of non-service-connected pensions The role of the television networks as HON. MARIO BIAGGI for our veterans. instruments of establishment liberalism OF NEW YORK I have co-sponsored H.R. 1753 which would continues to trouble many thoughtful protect our veterans from having their Americans. The networks deny that their IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES pensions reduced because of social security programs are slanted. But all their actions Wednesday, July 31, 1974 increases. As it happens, every time social reveal that they are interested in presenting security benefits are increased, hundreds of only one view-the liberal view--of Amer­ Mr. BiAGGI. Mr. Speaker, the syste­ thousands of veterans stand to have their ican life. matic persecution of the venerable Jew­ pensions reduced, or to even be dropped from A case in point is "The American Chal­ ish community in Syria has been a mat­ the rolls. And every time this occurs, these lenge," a weekend special on CBS Network ter of international concern for some veterans look to the Congress as their only earlier this summer. The program purported years. The timeliness of the Jewish holy source of relief. I realize, as we all do, that to offer listeners insight into where the these pensions are not considered compensa­ country is going and what are our next day of Tisha B'aV, this year marked on July 28, commemorating the destruction tion for military service. Rather, they are an frontiers. In an advertisement placed in income supplement based on need, and every newsmagazines, CBS said it was broadcast­ of both Temples in Jerusalem thousands time a ve,teran exceeds the established in­ ing 39 reports by an "impressive array of of years ago, makes more poignant the come limitation of $2,600 for an individual, thinkers and doers." tragic plight of Syrian Jewry. or $3,800 for a veteran with dependents or It was an impressive array of liberal Most recently, the outrages were high­ family, he stands to lose his VA pension. thinkers and doers. But where were the con­ lighted by the barbaric rape and mur­ Our veterans cannot view our action here servative thinkers and doers? Where was the der of four young Jewish women found in Congress as part of the grand (or not so balance in presentation that should have great scheme) of things that we do; he only been offered by the network? The balance near the Syrian-Lebanese border sev­ eral months ago. As a result of an inter­ sees the laws giving with one hand and tak­ simply wasn't there. Only one well-known ing back with the other. And at a time when conservative thinker-W1lliam F. Buckley national call for action, the Syrian Gov­ rampant infiation threatens even our work­ Jr.-was included in the list, as a form of ernment arrested four people described ing citizens with middle incomes, the effects liberal tokenism. by Syrian Minister of Interior Ali Zaza on our elderly with fixed incomes can truly The listening audience heard about Amer­ as "assassins, robbers, and smugglers" be tragic. ica's future from Profs. John Kenneth Gal- who allegedly confessed to the crime un­ If our veterans living on a fixed, marginal braith and Paul Samuelson of Harvard, der interrogation. It has been since income are to be able to meet their daily fqrmer Johnson administration staffers leamed that two of the accused murder­ living expenses, they must receive the full Richard Goodwin, George Reedy and Bill value of all cost-of-living increases legislatecJ Moyers, former Sen. Eugene McCarthy wom­ ers are prominent leaders of the deci­ by Congress. en's liberationist Gloria Steinem, for~er So­ mated Syrtan Jewish community, one of You can be certain that these veterans cialist Party Chairman Michael Harrington, whom is even a brother-in-law of one never had a wavering thought about de­ and a variety of liberal critics of American of the murdered women. fending our country in times of war. They society, including Margaret Mead, Robert In view of the past record of harass­ were ready to assist in any way, to give every­ Hutchins, Barry Commoner, Nat Hentoff and ment and persecution of Syria's Jews, thing they had to preserve the freedom and Dwight Macdonald. If ever there was a one­ one does not find too surprising Syria's democracy of America. Now when these same sided forum, this was it. condemnation of two major figures of men need our assistance we cannot let them July 31, 1974 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 26195 down. We must preserve the digni.ty and that now face the American people shall not A former aide of Senate Watergate investi­ security of our veterans by our prompt ac­ be .neglected. gator Edward J. Gurney (R-Fla) has testi­ tion on this legislation. The assurance of a fied that ne collected for the senator a secret more secure pension is a small price to pay fund of some $300,000 from Florida builders for the loyalty and courage these men dis­ CAMPAIGN FINANCING REFORM who had contracts with the Federal Housing played when our nation called. Administration. I would also like to reiterate my affirma­ A study of last year's congressional cam­ tive stand on H.R. 13977, legislation I co­ HON. WILLIAM J. GREEN paign funding, released earlier this year, sponsored which would entitle World War I OF PENNSYLVANIA found that incumbents attracted more oam­ veterans and their widows to a pension on paign money than challengers, that the can­ the same basis as veterans of the Spanish­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES didate who spent the most money usually American War. Spanish-American veterans Wednesday, July 31, 1974 won and that large contributions were vital received this reduction-free pension only to candidates' success. twenty-two years after the end of their war. Mr. GREEN of Pennsylvania. Mr. It would seem that the need for a system­ World War II, Korean and Vietnam veterans Speaker, the House Administration Com­ such as public funding of election cam­ were entitled to GI bUl benefits, training mittee yesterday reported a comprehen­ paigns-that would either eliminate or dras­ benefits, employment assistance, educational sive campaign financing reform bill (H.R. tically reduce the necessity as well as the assistance, and home loans. 16090). It is essential t.hat this measure possibility of blatant influence seeking and The Veterans Administration was not even be passed into law during this session of peddling would, by now, have been firmly in existence when our veterans came home established. from World War I, and we have never really Congress. The message appears to be getting across made it up to them. Over 4.8 million men H.R. 16090 provides for strict limits on in the Senate, where nine senators, including served in World War I, but only just over private contributions, spending limits for Sens. Hugh Scott and Richard S. Schweiker one million are alive today. These men know candidates, total public financing of of Pennsylvania, are pushing a compromise how tough life was for them. They had no Presidential elections, a $100 limit on on public funding bills as an amendment to veterans orgnization to help them again re­ cash contributions, and a board of super­ the almost certain-to-be passed debt ceil­ enter the changed society. Many of them had visory officers to oversee and administer ing bill. It would provide public funds for to struggle all their lives to make up for the the law. I strongly urge my colleagues to Senate and House geneml elections and for lost time, money and opportunities that they presidential primaries. missed by serving their country. The Great support this vital legislation when it Delaware's freshman Democratic Senator Depression which followed a few years later comes to the fioor of the House. I also Joseph Biden said the current system "rips made things all that much more dtmcult. urge support for amendments that will off" politicians as well as the public. He For many of them, life has never gotten strengthen the oversight commission, offered the following description: "You know any easier. Many of these veterans are living and provide for public financing of con­ what you've got to do to raise money. And it's in dire poverty, I am sorry to say. We all gressional elections. the most degreding damn thing in the know that our Veteran's pension program !would like to take this opportunity world. . . We know we've got to go out with was devised to recognize our obligation to to commend the Philadelphia Evening our hat in our hand. . . whether it be a the war veteran population. I really think, labor union, or whether it be to big busi­ given what these brave men missed, we owe Bulletin and the Philadelphia Inquirer ness interests." them a reduction-free pension so they may for their frequent editorial calls for cam­ Meanwhile, it seems that public financing live out their later days in a bit more finan­ paign financing reform. These two news­ and other reforms such as limits on cam­ cial comfort. papers have been out front on the issue paign expenditures and contributions, which It is my sincere hope that we pass this of election reform for many months. were approved by the Senate in July, face an legislation as soon as possible. These men The tireless efforts of the news media uphill, perilous road in the House. There, need our assistance while they can st111 use have uncovered many of the abuses of Rep. Wayne Hays (D-Ohio), chairman of the it. It is the least we can do. House Administration Committee and also existing campaign financing laws that chairman of the Democratic Congressional might otherwise never have come to light. Campaign Committee, has no desire to make MIZELL POSn'ION ON The persistent efforts of the Inquirer, the job of getting reelected any tougher. IMPEACHMENT the Bulletin, and newspapers around the The voter turnout in the last local elec­ country on their editorial pages to en­ tions indicates that public confidence in the courage congressional action on cam­ political system hss sunk to new lows. A HON. WILMER MIZELL paign financing reform has helped con­ thorough reform of the campaign financing OF NORTH CAROLINA siderably in bringing the issue to the floor system could do a lot to lessen the public's of the House. doubt about the system and to improve its IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES showing in the polls. Wednesday, July 31, 1974 Following is a sample of some of the editorials that have appeared in the Bul­ Mr. MIZELL. Mr. Speaker, today I have {From the Phlladelphia Inquirer, letin and the Inquirer over the last year: Dec. 6, 1973] issued a statement of position in re­ [From the Philadelphia Sunday Bulletin, gard to the concluded impeachment pro­ CAMPAIGN SPENDING REFORM MUST MoVE Nov. 25, 1973] FORWARD SWIFTLY ceedings of the Committee on Judiciary. NEW "FUEL" FOR CAMPAIGNS I would like to insert my statement at The attempt to make Presidential cam­ Whether or not all the Watergate "bomb­ paign financing a public matter was defeated this time in the RECORD: shells" have exploded, there's no reason why Monday in the Senate. That defeat should STATEMENT Congress can't begin cleaning up some of surprise no one inured to the natural con­ The recommendation by the Committee the debris. servatism of elected officials concerning their on the Judiciary did not come as unex­ An excellent place to concentrate-but un­ own access to power. pected. Another step in our constitutionally derstandably, an unpopular one for many Revolution is not to be undertaken casu­ provided procedure of impeachment is now incumbent legislators-would be campaign ally. It cannot be disputed that the pro­ completed. financing practices. No doubt, legislators posal to finance Presidential campaigning Until I reach a conclusion on the evidence seeking reelection don't want to make that virtually entirely from tax funds is just that: of these recommendations, it is imprudent task any harder; however, since congressional a radical change in one of the most funda­ of me to address the question of impeaching elections are less than a year away, there's mental mechanisms of American politics. the President. I am well aware of my serious no better time for a serious reform effort to But we believe it is a revolution long over­ responsib111ty in these proceedings, and I am begin. due. And we believe that the wisdom and attempting to study all that is relevant to Funding abuses connected with the 1972 necessity of the revolution is the most ob­ the articles as reported by the committee. Presidential election have, naturally, at­ vious and redundant lesson of the scandals At the appropriate time, I will be prepared tracted most of the headline space. The that have been tearing at this nation's polit­ to perform my constitutional duty and re­ problem of unethical or illegal campaign ical heart for a year and more. sponsib111ty in the impeachment procedure. contributions for favors sought or rendered, It was the need for money, in huge quan­ When I make niy decision, it wm not be unfortunately, is far-reaching. tity, that corrupted the 1972 electoral process a political decision, it wm not be a partisan Last year's campaign records show, for beyond the grimmest, most cynical limits of decision, and it wlll not be a politically ex­ instance, that· an independent group called previous imagination. pedient decision. It will be based on the the Builders Action Committee contributed Certainly, that dollar-lust derived from the facts on hand at the time. more than $16,000 to 40 congressional candi­ appetite for power that motivates all politi­ This 1s a grave and serious question that dates, many of whom were members of Sen­ cal hopefuls, for better or worse. But it was is now before the House or. Representatives ate and House Committees involved with the process of raising 60 million dollars for and the American people, and it is my hope housing legislation. The directors of the the re-election of Mr. Nixon that accounted that we work responsibly and expeditiously builder group are members of the powerful for the most despicable crimes, and created ln order that the other serious questions National Association of Home Builders. the mood that led to other violations of both 26196 EXTENSIONS OF R£MARKS July 31, 1974 law and common decency that have driven sanctions, limits on the amounts of money tributions, the most any person could give to the Nixon Administration to its present sad any single contributor could give any and any candidate would be $3,000 per election, and battered state. all candidates, and upon the amount ~at and $25,000 to all candidates for all elections Money flowed in to the Committee to Re­ could be spent by any candidate in pursuit each year. Elect the President from thousands of of any Federal office. To eliminate abuses such as those alleged sources, much of it shoddily, much of it in More important than the limits, perhaps, against the Committee to Reelect the Presi­ outright defiance of the law. Many of the would be the section of the b111 that would dent, every expenditure over $1,000 for Presi­ contributors, practical men in a tough world, make it a crime to give or receive a cash con­ dent would have to be approved by the na­ rightly or not could not distinguish between tribution of more than $50, and to fail to tional committee of the candidate's party. contribution and bribe. As George Spater, disclose all gifts of $100 or more by amount, By far the most needed provision in the board chairman of American Airlines, ex­ name, address and occupation of the donor. Senate bUlls one to create a bipartisan and plained his own firm's illegal contributions, Sen. Howard H. Baker, vice chairman of independent Federal Elections Commission they were made "in fear of what could hap­ the committee that is now laboring over the with power to subpena, prosecute and fine pen if (they) were not given." story of American campaign corruption and violators. There should be no hesitancy in Altogether, an estimated $500 million went criminality in 1972, caused something of a enacting this provision in time to be effective into political campaigns in 1972. Raising and stir on the Senate floor by declining to vote for next year's congressional races. spending, and accounting for the contribu­ either for or against the new campaign The proposed limits on spending and con­ tions of, money in those proportions produces spending b111. His point was that it probably tributions are tied to the question as to pressures on public servants that can only does not go far enough, and that much is be­ whether there should be public (tax) funds worsen unless the public-funding revolution ing learned, and more w111 be, in the course made available to political campaigners. is brought to pass. of the committee's work. Certainly, both spending and contribu­ In failing to cut off the filibuster Monday, His points are valid. But his reservation tions have been getting out of hand. The the Congressional supporters of the first of support for the bill was misplaced. GAO report shows the need for curbing cam­ vital step in that revolution were thwarted, Far off as the 1974 elections may appear, paign excesses, but unless the ceillngs are even though the practical possibility they candidates are raising campaign funds for realtstic, they may do more harm than good. were pressing for would have affected only them at this moment. And every day that Presidential campaigns, with Congressional passes without erecting, staffing and amply [From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, campaign financing st111 to be dealt with. funding an independent campaign policing Apr. 18, 1974] There is considerable wisdom in exposing commission is a day that invites further FORCING CAMPAIG~ REFORM the Congressional campaign funding ques­ finagling. Although reform-minded members of the tion to further examination-not because Those represent immediate and important U.S. Senate managed to push through a the principle is not sound, but because there needs, which should be satisfied with a mini­ wide-ranging campaign spending reform bill are dangers of very substantial and unfair mum of delay-weeks, not months. The Sen­ when the legislation appeared to be doomed, imbalances in any transitional approach. ate Select Committee's report w111 not come final enactment of true reform legislation High among these is the enormous cam­ before next February, and at the present rate this session is doubtful. paign-funding power of labor unions-which of progress may be delayed long after that. The bill, passed by the Senate, which ap­ unlike corporations are now allowed to sup­ In the fullness of that time, even more plies to presidential and congressional elec­ port candidates with little limitation. significant reforms must be considered, in­ tions, would limit contributions and expen­ That labor money is far too potent a force cluding the attractive but radical proposal ditures, establish an election commission to be left unregulated and unlimited. The that campaign funds be taken out of the with prosecutory powers and provide for the reform principle could greatly add to the hands and influences of private donors al­ use of public funds in both primary and power it represents, and thus to the influence together. general elections. of a small group of labor leaders with very Meanwhile, the American political atmos­ In spite of the clear need and increasing specific political interests. phere needs quick cleansing, lest the present public demand for such reform, the issue But that disbalance can be overcome, we public dismay be turned to public cynicism. has languished in the House. Representative are confident, with reasonable accommoda­ Wayne Hays, chairman of the House Admin­ tion within the House and Senate. [From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, istration Committee, which has jurisdiction Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott de­ over campaign reform legislation, is also serves great credit in pressing for the unsuc­ Aug. 27, 1973) ENDING ELECTION ABUSES chairman of the Democratic Congressional cessful reform despite heavy White House Campaign Committee. A staunch opponent of pressure. Working with Majority Leader Mike Both the value and the weaknesses of the public campaign financing, Mr. Hays has kept Mansfield he gained promise that a full cam­ 1971 Federal Election Campaign Act are dra­ reform legislation bottled up in committee paign-spending reform b111 will be reported matically revealed in the General Accounting for nearly sixteen months. out by the Rules Committee within 30 days Office's voluminous report on political con­ While the Democratic congressional lead­ of Congress's reconvening in January. That tributions during 1972. ership has been quick to exploit Watergate promise must be kept, and no time should be That GAO report, published last week, lists to its fullest politlcal advantage, it has been lost in fashioning it into law. over 70,000 persons who gave or lent some noticeably silent on the reform question. $79.1 m1llion to the presidential candidates Cashing in on Watergate is understandable; [From the Philadelphia Inquirer, after April 7, 1972 (when the 1971 law went not to do so would be unlikely. But, missing Aug. 1, 1973) into effect). The estimated total for the full the point of Watergate and permitting the year is about $100 m11lion, of which about same abuses to flourish seems equally cyni­ CAMPAIGN SPENDING REFORM MUST NOT BE two-thirds went to President Nixon's cam­ DELAYED cal and indefensible. paign. The senate bill undoubtedly asks a lot in The United States Senate has passed a Knowing who gave how much, while en­ campaign spending b111 that goes far and the way of reform. In the light of Watergate lightening, is obviously only part of the task and related disclosures, however, arguments commendably beyond all previous restric­ of curbing U.S. campaign excesses. tions on the acquisition, use and accounting that it proposes too much change don't hold. And the problem now is setting a reason­ Public demand for sweeping reform including of money for political purposes. The House able limit on spending, considering inflation, should move swiftly, more swiftly than its some form of public financing is strong. The that won't play into the hands of incum­ mandate cannot be ignored. leaders indicate are present plans, to pass it bents; also to clamp down on individual con­ and send it to President Nixon for signa­ A number of lawmakers such as Mr. Hays, tributions, some of which, as the GAO report who wield considerable power and are com­ ture. reveals, have been astronomical. The nation's attention is on the subject fortable with the present system, are obvi­ Beyond all this is the problem of enforce­ ously determined to have their way. That these days. For although money is not the ment. While the GAO has done yeoman serv­ only root of what John Mitchell calls the powerful minority should not be allowed to ice in detailing all the whos and whats of succeed merely because they are w1lling to White House Horrors, it is a main stem. And 1972 giving, it is forced to rely on the Justice loose, unenforced or unenforceable restraints take the political heat. Department for prosecuting infractions of The House leadership should force the were, it becomes increasingly clear daily, a the law. And the Justice Department is, of major nourishment. reform issue promptly and see to it that the course, always somewhat beholden to the in­ legislation contains the basic provisions 1n The Senate bill is complex and it is strong. cumbent administration. It would, most importantly, establish a seven­ the Senate bill. And House members should With Watergate's abuses in mind, the Sen­ approve the measure by such a wide margin member Federal Election Commission, with ate passed, on July 30, tighter campaign regulatory and prosecutive powers. That role that President Nixon has no justification for financing legislation. Now the questions are: vetoing it. has previously fallen to the U.S. Department Can it pass the House? Does it set the prob­ of Justice, which, under the last three Presi­ er limits on spending and contributions? dents at least, has been the most political of There is no answering the first question [From the Philadelphia Inquirer, July 8, all cabinet agencies. Justice Department zeal until reformers try. 1974] and detachment in the area has been mini­ As for the limits-on spending, the maxi­ CAMPAIGN SPENDING REFORM MUST NoT DIE mal and suspect. mum would be 25 cents per voting age con­ IN THE HOUSE The bill, at the moment it was signed, stituent, or about $35 mlllion each party Congress now is returning from the Fourth would also establish, with stern criminal could spend on a presidential race; on con- of July recess, during which its members July 31, 1974 EXTENSIONS OF R:EMARKS

have almost unanimously celebrated the joys U.S. Senator Len B. Jordan, be present is not a mere coincidence. The planning mor­ and traditions of American democracy. Its to explain the concept he had proposed atorium was inserted in the Colorado River members--or those in the House anyway­ for Middle Snake management back in bill at the insistence of the Members of Con­ will almost immediately face a challenge gress from the Pacific Northwest who had which will draw the line between those 1968. become concerned at talk of diverting the whose conception of democracy is merely, Earlier this month, he submitted a Columbia River or its Snake River tributary clambake oratory and those who want to written statement to Chairman TAYLOR to the water-short Pacific Southwest. make it work democratically. which I believe demonstrates wisdom and "This diversion scare promoted needed in­ The issue that will divide them is campaign responsibility in the management of our terest on the part of my State in its future funding reform. natural resources. I insert it in the REc­ requirements for water and the means to Few things in the public process are ORD at this point: protect the sources of this needed water. As simple, and the financing of politics, its evils a result, the State of Idaho established a and its strengths, is no exception. But it is STATEMENT OF LEN B. JORDAN OF BOISE, water resources board and immediately em­ hard to imagine that two years after the IDAHO barked upon a series of studies which will Watergate break-in there can be many right­ I wish, to be recorded as supporting Con­ result in formulation of our first State water minded people in the United States who are gressman Symms' bill for a four year mora­ plan. These multiple planning studies will not appalled by what lay as its root cause: torium on the construction of dams on the not be completed until the mid-1970's-an­ a political financing system that invites big­ Middle Snake River. other reason for the 7-year moratorium time money perversion. To identify myself for the record, my name span. The Senate has responded well. On April is Len B. Jordan. Except for time away in "Mr. President, I shall conclude with the 11 it passed a bill that offers immensely government service, I have spent my entire observations I made 2 years ago when I in­ constructive therapy for those ills. It would, life in close proximity to the Middle Snake.'! troduced the predecessor bill S. 940 · most importantly, establish an independent grew up at Enterprise, Oregon, attended pub­ "'Idaho is now !lit a wate~ supply. cross­ campaign spending enforcement agency and lic schools there, graduated from the Univer­ roads. The stakes are high. Within 7 years we set up long-overdue public funding of elec­ sity of Oregon in 1923, moved to Idaho in must decide which direction to take, whether tion expenses, including matching grant ar­ 1932. I spent 12 years on the Middle Snake­ it be toward achieving our high reclamation rangements for Congressional candidates. It one year on the Lower Imnaha in Oregon potential by full development of the Middle would set ceilings on the size of individual and 11 years as owner of an Idaho ranch at Snake or to maintain an open river. We do contributions and over-all limits on spending the head of navigation on the Middle Snake not have to make this decision now. Nor do by any candidate. below Hells Canyon. My knowledge of the we wish to be forced into a decision by others The House meanwhile has stood by its area covers a period of more than 50 years. who are motivated by the single purpose, tradition on such reforms--one of delaying Since disposing of our Middle Snake ranch power. Bear in mind, there are many sources when possible and emasculating when delay in 1943, I have spent many years in public of power, including nuclear or fossil fuel fails. The House Administration Committee, service: Idaho State Legislator, Governor of generation, but the one essential element in under the chairmanship of Democratic Rep­ Idaho, 1951-55; Chairman, U. S. Section of making the desert bloom is water. resentative Wayne Hays of Ohio, has pro­ International Joint Commission-1955-58. "'In Idaho we have a double loyalty in our duced a bill which will go to the House floor Working out details with Canada for the great love for our vast forests, mountain this week. It makes mockery of the Senate's joint development of the St. Lawrence Sea­ meadows, open ranges, lakes, and streams. efforts and the national needs. way and Power project and the Columbia We are determined to protect our great wild­ The Hays bill was analyzed by Common Treaty. life and recreation resources and we are Cause, the public interest lobby that has I served in the U.S. Senate from August, equally determined to utilize the natural re­ been a pre-eminent campaign-reform force. 1962 to January 3, 1973 when I retired. Dur­ sources of these areas to help us grow and Its conclusion: ing all of my Senate years I served on the develop fully our industrial and agricultural "The House Committee's bill is a grossly Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. I potential. I believe that these objectives are inadequate response to the money-in-pol­ also served on the Committee on Finance not incompatible and I hope that Congress itics scandals that have been the under­ and the Joint Economic Committee. I served will help us reach these objectives by grant­ pinning of the Watergate story. The loophole­ also on the Public Land Law Review Com­ ing a moratorium against further develop­ ridden proposal virtually ignores the growing mission. ment until our studies have been com­ public demand for true reform of American My support for the Symms moratorium pleted.'" political campaign financing." bill is consistent with my Senate record. To those who are not fam1liar with the Those are strong terms. But they could Two similar bills, S. 940 in the 91st Session area, the name "Hells Canyon" is a vague be stronger. for if the committee's bill should and S. 488 in the 92nd Session both passed but exciting place. Many people confuse be passed under the guise of a real reform, the Senate but were not acted upon in the the ranching area along the navigable por­ it could cripple the chances of any actual House of Representatives. tion of the Middle Snake as Hells canyon. improvement. On February 1, 1971 I said on the floor of Having spent twelve years living in this An impressive number of Congressmen are the Senate: area we speak with some degree of accuracy as appalled by the Hays committee's bill as "Mr. JORDAN of Idaho. Mr. President I in­ In her book "Home Below Hell's canyon'; is Common Cause-and ourselves. A number troduce today, for appropriate referen~e. on Grace Jordan took care to emphasize that of them have promised efforts to amend into behalf of myself and my distinguished col­ the ranching area where we 11 ved was many the bill, on the House floor, the main prin­ league, Senator Church of Idaho, a blll miles below the true Hell's Canyon, described ciples and the teeth that the Senate wisely which will declare a moratorium on the as the deepest canyon in North America. approved. granting of a Federal Power Commission li­ That area lies roughly between the end of Those efforts deserve the support of every­ cense for any dam on the Middle Snake navigation upstream from Lewiston and the one who shares with us the conclusion that River, between the' existing Hells Canyon end of navigation downstream from Weiser American politics is being intolerably cor­ Dam and the authorized Asotin Dam. The This distance of roughly twenty-five rive~ rupted by legislation-through-contribution. moratorium would extend to September 30, miles is indeed spectacular. No trails no Every member of the House this autumn 1978, a date which marks the termination of habitation. walls rising abruptly from' the faces re-election or retirement. How each an existing 10-year statutory moratorium on river to the Seven Devils on the Idaho side Congressman stands on the campaign-re­ reconnaissance studies to augment the sur­ to the Wallowa Mountains on the Oregon form issue could very well decide which it is face water supplies of the Colorado River side. That is Hells Canyon, impenetrable to be for him. Basin from outside that basin. except by downstream floating-remote, in­ "This blll is an updated version of s. 940, accessible. No matter how you label it the also co-sponsored by the Idaho Senators, gorge of the Hells Canyon proper is destined whi~h ¥8 approved without opposition by to remain unchanged unless it becomes the the Senate last May 15. The Senate-approved backwater of a high dam downstream on STATEMENT OF LEN B. JORDAN bill was referred to the House Committee on the Middle Snake. Interstate and Foreign Commerce, where it The ranching area where present interest remained without further action when the is focused is not much different than any HON. STEVEN D. SYMMS 91st Congress ended. number of western ranch areas. It is very OF mAHO "OUr colleague, Representative Orval Han­ similar to the Riggins-Whitebird area of the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sen of Idaho's Second Congressional District, Salmon River. It is accessible by roads, by is introducing a companion bi111n the House. power boats and by many trails. Moreover, Wednesday, July 31, 1974 "Mr. President, this bill is designed purely it provides a continuing economic contribu­ tion to a region where most of the area is Mr. SYMMS. Mr. Speaker, on July 15 and simply to keep open the options for the already publicly owned. I repeat the sug­ the House Parks and Recreation Sub­ development of Idaho's limited future water supplies in the Snake River, the State's ma- gestion I mentioned earlier. Those who committee took testimony on the future jor source of surface water. · would change the regimen of a productive management of an important area of my "The time scope of this bill with the re­ ranch country for all time should fortify State, Idaho's famed Hells Canyon. At their judgment by spending a day or two in mainder of the 10-year moratorium on in­ the area at various seasons of the year. I that time, it was not possible that my terbasin water diversion planning incorpo­ offer my services as a tour guide for such a distinguished friend and adviser, former rated in the Colorado River Basin Act of 1968 trip. 26198 EXTENSIONS OF IrnMARKS July 31, 1974 The first point I wish to emphasize is that determine when or how fast the runoff Citizens of New Hampshire and Rhode more than any other tributary of the mighty comes. From a flood control standpoint, the Island have refused to allow installation of Columbia river system the Snake is a work­ eight power and navigation dams are on the oil refineries within their borders. Delaware ing river. Its waters are the life blood of wrong end of the river system. When the led the parade by not only refusing oil re­ Southern and Eastern Idaho. The 3.5 million floods do come and downtown Lewiston is finerie ~ b\ ~ .; by also prohibiting oil tankers acres presently irrigated represent only about under water, the origin of those flood flows to discharge their cargo off Delaware's shore. half of Idaho's irrigation potential. Back will be the watersheds of the wild and the If the United States is to become self through the years leaders of both political untamed rivers upstream rather than from sufficient energywise, it will become necessary parties have stood shoulder to shoulder to the comparatively docile Snake. for each of the 50 states to make some trade insure that this most precious water resource It is unfortunate that flood control fac111· offs to accommod·ate their energy needs. Are and the land of high potential for reclama­ ties cannot be operated from the vantage the states of Idaho, Oregon and Washington tion should never be alienated. So far this point that hindsight would provide. Instead, willing to lock up a great potential source of bipartisan effort has paid off, but we must they must be operated on a forecast basis. clean renewable energy and demand that be ever vigilant so that future generations Who among us has the wisdom of a Solomon other states or foreign nations bring their will bless us for the prudence and foresight to decree, in a time of energy crisis, that nonrenewable energy to us? of our stewardship. certain generators must be idled in order We speak hopefully of clean new sources, It is no coincidence that here in Idaho to accommodate flood flows which may not solar, geothermal, breeder reactors as if ener­ we speak proudly of the Treasure Valley and come at all this year as nature cooperates gy demand would remain constant for 25 or the Magic Valley. These valleys became and provides another season of orderly runoff. 30 years. Relief is not in sight for the im­ treasures through the magio of applying life A third pain; is that, if given all the facts mediate future. giving water to arid lands. To illustrate the I firmly believe that the majority of Idah~ Compared to energy from nonrenewable importance of water to Idaho's economy I citizens are not ready to surrender control sources, clean hydro takes on new value and have frequently used this illustration. Sup­ of Idaho's working river to federal authority. renewed respect. Hydro is solar energy pro­ pose a major disaster such as a massive tor­ A short time ago I approved the action of vided by natural laws of the hydrologic nado or an earthquake reduced every home, Idaho's political leaders as they spoke with cycle. Before we lock up our remaining hydro every business building, every school, every one voice to urge the Corps of EngineerS' let's have another look. hospital and church to a mass of rubble to keep hands off the management of Lake For example, Idaho's contribution to the and ashes. As long as the Snake River con­ Coeur d 'Alene, a navigable body of water in original National Wild and Scenic Rivers is tinued to flow the towns and the cities North Idaho. 250 miles--44% of the total mileage. These would be rebuilt and revitalized. Like the I would urge the same hands off policy with include the Lochsa, the Selway, the Middle PhoeniX of ancient mythology new struc­ respect to the Middle Snake. It seems most Fork of the Clearwater and the Middle Fork tures would rise from the ashes to house a inconsistent to me to oppose Federal control of the Salmon River. Collectively these rivers new and thriving economy. But let some of a navigable lake and invite Federal con­ have a potential hydroelectric potential of 5 major disaster diminish or divert the flow trol of a navigable river, especially when that billion average annual kilowatt hours. of our Snake River and the towns and cities river is the life blood of Idaho. Presently under study for inclusion in the of the Snake River Valley would wither If we keep the fox away from our chicken same system are Idaho rivers Moyie, Priest, and die. coop on Lake Coeur d'Alene, why should we St. Joe, all of the main stem of the Salmon The earliest emigrants paid Idaho as little invite the same fox to guard our chickens River and the Bruneau-a total of 550 linear attention as possible. Billowing clouds of on the Middle Snake? miles with a hydro potential of 11 b1llion sage-scented dust marked the Oregon Trail Federal designation and control has an ir­ average annual kilowatt hours. as the covered wagons tolled slowly and la­ revocable finality. I cannot recall a single Superimposed on all of these are proposals boriously across the rutted plains of the instance where any area or river once set for a free flowing Middle Snake and tribu­ Snake River Valley on their way to the lush aside and authorized as a National Park taries with a hydro potential of an addi­ meadows and tree clad hills of the Wil­ Natio'nal Wild or Scenic River or a Nation -.i tional 9V2 billion average annual kilowatt liamette Valley. Recreation Area. has ever been withdrawn hours. My second point is the need for flood from the national classification and returned With less than 30% of Idaho's hydro poten­ control in the Lewiston-Clarkston area. Most tial presently developed, this state does not t ~ i-:s prior status. people do not realize that irrigation has Claims by some proponents that such re­ need 1000 miles of National Wild and/or flood control benefits too and they are s-q.b­ sources may be held on a tentative basis Scenic rivers. stantial. This is how it comes about. The as in a soil bank have no historical precedent. Idahoans must have more time to explore Snake River at Weiser contributes about Once committed to a national purpose, that our options! 10% of the normal flow of the Columbia commitment is permanent and irrevocable. AN ALTERNATE PROPOSAL River at The Dalles but, due to the flood And finally I am apprehensive about the retarding effect of reclamation facilities up­ This legislation is too important to be effectiveness of "protective language." Spon­ treated in haste. It involves the permanent stream, at high flood stage the Snake at sors of Recreation Area legislation now being lockup of power from a renewable source Weiser contributes only 5 % to the flood considered for the Middle Snake claim that equivalent to 19,000,000 barrels of oil a flows. Reclamation has tamed the floods by language written into the bill guarantees year. It leaves the Lewiston-Clarkston area stabilizing the flow of the river. On the other rights for future upstream consumptive use vulnerable to frequent and extensive flood hand the Clearwater and the Salmon and when more new lands are reclaimed for ir­ damage. You will recall that the original the Imnaha and the Grand Ronde which rigation. Before officials of Idaho and Oregon Main Control Plan for the Columbia and its join the Snake below Weiser contribute about cooperate in moves to give the Middle Snake tributaries called for storage at Bruces Eddy 14 % of the normal flow of the Columbia at (now Dworshak), Penny Cliffs and High Mt. The Dalles but their contribution increases a federal label whether it be for a National River, a Wild or Scenic River, or even a Na­ Sheep (or Nez Perce). After the treaty with to nearly 30% of the flood flows. These per­ tional Recreation Area in the belief that pro­ Canada was consummated, Canadian stor­ centages are calculated prior to Libby and tective language asserting the supremacy of age was substituted for Snake and Clear­ Canadian storage which will reduce flood State water law, I think they should con­ water projects in the Main Control Plan. tlows at The Dalles to a tolerable level but sider what has happened to such protective Thus the Portland-Vancouver area 1s pro­ will have no effect whatever on flood flows language on other rivers in other Western tected but the Lewiston-Clarkston area is in the Lewiston-Clarkston area. states. I shall not give details here but the not. I would point out to those in that area record is available for examination. Personally I do not favor the applicant's who wan-t all dams below and no dams above In short, the record shows that no pro­ proposal that is now before the Federal Power that they are courting disaster. The hydro­ tective language, however specific it may be, Commission. The only justification for flood­ logic potential for .a major flood disaster has ever survived the challenge in later years ing true Hells Canyon would be to extend is enhanced by present development of 8 barge navigation to the Weiser-Ontario area, dams downstream which ret ard the outflow. by those who sought to disregard i~ That is why I have grave concern about the ultimate and that is technically possible but not The value for power and navigation is un­ economically feasible a.t this time. But it is questioned. In every study made by the effectiveness of any attempt to incorporate protective language for future upstream con­ possible to develop about 85% of the poten­ Corps of Engineers and other Federal agen­ sumptive use under state law in any pro­ tial hydro, preserve the salmon runs on the cies these dams were intended to be oper­ Salmon and Imnaha and Grand Ronde ated with adequate upstream storage to re­ posal that bears a national label and/ or is set aside for a designate<'. national purpose. Rivers, preserve the true Hells Canyon in a tard the runoff for flood protection at the free fiowirig state-all in one coordinated confluence of all these tributaries at Lewis­ A recent Potomac Associates book en­ . titl~ "The Limits to Growth" provides some plan, which would include Asotin, China ton. When the Lower Granite dam is com­ Garden, and Appaloosa (backing the water pleted, downtown Lewiston wUl be protected startling predictions on the limits of certain nonrenewable energy resources. They say: up only to the he·ad of navigation at the by dikes. downstream· entrance to Hells Canyon) . un­ The question is, will the dikes be adequate? 1. Global natural gas reserves will be ex­ . der this plan, diversion of Salmon River I don't think they will. Modern technology hausted in 22 to 49 years. flood flows via tunnel to Appaloosa Reservoir enables us to calculate with great accuracy 2. Global reserves of petroleum will be ls economically feasible without doing vio­ the amount of the runoff from any water­ exhausted in 20 to 50 years. lence to the salmon resource. This would pro­ shed. No one has yet devised a way to pre­ 3.-Gl£bal reserves of coal will be exhausted v.ide needed flood protection for the Lewis­ dict the vagaries of the weather which will in 111 to 150 years. ton-Clarkston area. July 31, 1974 EXTENSIONS OF R·EMARKS 26199 In the late 50's, I was on the IJC working marks, I am including them in the REc­ the task is an extremely Cl>mplex and diffi­ out details of power development at Barn­ ORD for the benefit of our colleagues and cult one. I sometimes get the impression that hardt Island on the St. Lawrence as a joint the general public : scientific information experts are almost venture between U.S. and Canada. That same afraid to push their own eomputer buttons concept, now working so well between neigh­ THE INFORMATION EXPLOSION-A LOGISTICS for fear of being drowned in floods of data, boring nations, surely could work between PROBLEM abstracts, bibliographies, charts, blueprints, the three neighboring northwest states. It is (By Representative OLIN E. TEAGUE} and what have you--with maybe two thirds worth exploring. I believe the northwest It is pretty difficult to say anything on the of it either incompatible with or irrelevant states should retain control of northwest subject of freedom of scientific and tech­ to what is being sought. water. nological information except something nice. THERE'S STILL HOPE If the United States is to become self­ I do not intend that observation to be a I have not intended simply to paint a sufficient energy-wise, it behooves each of the facetious one. It is undeniably true that the gloomy picture or to question the value of several states of the Union to re-examine strength, quality, and durability of our econ­ our national R&D effort. I do not intend to its own potential energy resources before we omy and, in fact, our country depend upon suggest that we have gone so far down the levy demands on other states or turn to the adequate scientific information and its judi­ road of accumulating scientific and tech­ volatile Middle East for oil. cious use. nological information in an inept fashion A dist inguished Supreme Court Justice I have said many times before, and I that it no longer is possible to manage. I am has declared that a river is more than an repeat now, my belief that the relative sure that it is manageable. But I also have amenity-it is a treasure. The Snake River status of all nations within the global com­ the strong impression--given the explosion of is greater than the Colorado River. In multi­ munity will be throughout the foreseeable current technological information--that we purpose potential it is unexcelled by any future in direct proportion to their effective need a lot more research, and soon, to learn river in America. Some of its tributaries are handling of science and technology. how to manage it. Otherwise that nice sound­ already included in the National Wild Rivers It is also axiomatic and, I take it, an ing phrase "freedom of information" is System. article of faith that such information must likely to go down in the books as a pious I wish to re-emphasize the fact that the be freely available, freely exchanged-for platitude generated by a. civilization that Snake is a. working river--one of the most without such freedom, information is worth couldn't keep from stumbling over its own heavily used rivers in the country. Idaho's very little. Those who may seek to delay or technological feet. major industrie&-agriculture and food proc­ tightly cont rol it usually hurt only them­ essing-are directly dependent upon water selves and, in any event, their efforts at from the Snake. best can be only temporary. True scientific In spite of wishful thinking on the part of information, as we should have learned dur­ m any of us, that Idaho should remain un­ ing the past three or four decades, cannot REPRESENTATIVE KEMP INTRO­ changed a.nd unspoiled, our state is destined be monopolized and sooner or later will DUCES THE RAILROAD RIGHT­ to increase in population. We had better pre­ surface everywhere. pare ourselves to manage the inevitable FREE EXCHANGES NOT ENOUGH OF-WAY FIRE PREVENTION ACT growth so as to retain the best of what we Having said this much, however, I none­ have and to accommodate growth and ex­ theless feel constrained to point out that it HON. JACK F. KE.MP pansion of the right kind. is by no means enough to say that we as a. OF NEW YORK Along with our water resources planning nation or a Government should have a we need a comprehensive statewide land use policy of free exchange of scientific and tech­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES plan that is compatible with our long term nological information. Further, we must Wednesday, July 31, 1974 objectives. As I said at the beginning of my have active, dynamic policies and mechan­ remarks, land and water and life are inter­ isms which will guarantee that this in­ Mr. KEMP. Mr. Speaker, on June 14, dependent. formation is appropriately used. I had the pleasure of meeting with the The best way that we in Idaho can im­ I am sure that none of the Spectrum legislative seminar of the Erie County prove the quality of life is to dedicate our­ readership needs to be told how complicated Volunteer Firemen's Association. selves to improving the quality of our stew­ a problem this is. For example, there must ardship over the land and the water re­ In our discussion of measures to pre­ be certain exceptions to the foregoing rule, vent and control fire, it was brought to sources which are our heritage. Some people such as those spelled out in the Freedom of equate non-use with conservation--or con­ Information Act, which protects information my attention that a significant fire haz­ versely, use with exploitation. Neither is that has special significance for national ard exists along railroad rights-of-way, true. Wise and responsible use is the es­ security as well as information of a proprie­ where sparks given off from the exhaust sence of true conservation. By using these tary nature. The latter may be quite as im­ stacks of locomotives threaten adjoin­ resources wisely and well, we not only im­ portant as the former since it impinges on ing residential, commercial, and indus­ prove the quality of our own lives but we our whole industrial system of trade secrets trial property. The high incidence of fires may take pride in passing our heritage on to and patent laws. Certainly we need these as along railroad rights-of-way places a future generations as good or better than it a spur to innovation. Yet anyone who has came to us. looked closely at our patent system in considerable burden upon our communi­ In closing, Mr. Chairman, may I extend an recent years also realizes that here is an area ties in terms of the high cost of fire invitation to you and your committee to of technological information handling which equipment and manpower to control and come to Idaho and talk with our people, in­ needs a general overhaul. extinguish these fires. spect the Middle Snake as a committee proj­ Another problem lies in the fact that the The Firemen's Association of New ect and hold public hearings in Idaho. various systems by which our technical in­ York State, and the Erie County Volun­ Idahoans should not have to journey to formation is stored, retrieved, and trans­ Washington, D.C. to defend our river. mitted are often . incompatible with each teer Firemen's Association under the other--a fact that causes enormous confu­ outstanding leadership of President Wil­ sion and can defeat the very purpose of liam Ziegelhofer, and their able legisla­ scientific research and development. tive chairman, Leon Jacobs, have been THE INFORMATION EXPLOSION- • Still another problem lies simply with the tremendously active in seeking a solution A LOGISTICS PROBLEM surfeit of information, which from time to to this problem. For several years in a time inundates those who would like to use row, they have supported legislation in it. For example, I recently noted a. directory HON. DON FUQUA of Information Analysis Centers supported the New York State Assembly designed OF FLORIDA by the Federal government, and found to curtail and eliminate fires caused by that there were 119 of these scattered about sparks from locomotive smokestacks. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the country. This, of course, is quite aside This past year, legislation to require Wednesday, July 31, 1974 from the various information banks and stor­ spark arresting devices on certain loco­ Mr. FUQUA. Mr. Speaker, the Insti­ age systems maintained by private sources. motives passed both houses of the New Moreover, we have a number of Federal York State Assembly. It was not, how­ tute of Electrical and Electronics Engi­ entities such as the Committee on Sclentific neers, Inc., in their April issue of Spec­ and Technical Information within the Exec­ ever, signed into law, because the Gov­ trum carried a thought-provoking state­ utive Office, the Science Information E,x­ ernor felt this problem was more prop­ ment of the distinguished chairman of change of the Smithsonian Institution, the erly the province of Federal legislators. the Committee on Science and Astronau­ Office of Science Information Service of the Mr. Speaker, today I am introducing. tics, the Honorable OLIN E. TEAGUE. National Science Foundation, the National a bill to establish fire safety require­ Chairman TEAGUE joined several other Technical Information Service of the De­ ments for locomotives. Entitled the Rail­ partment of Commerce, and others--all of road Right-of-Way Fire Preventive Act, Members of Congress in evaluating the whom are spending a lot of time and effort significance of scientific and technical on promulgating up-to-date scientific infor­ my bill directs the Secretary of Trans­ information to our national well-being. mation in the hope of assuring its ut111ty. portation to establish standards of fire Because of the importance of these re- As any of these organizations will tell you, safety for locomotives that will greatly 26200 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 31, 1974 sentence in section 202(a) the following new siderable portion of the chromium used reduce the likelihood of sparks falling sentence: "For the purpose of minimizing in the United States today is primarily from smokestacks and igniting property the danger of fire along railroad right-of­ of decorative value. It would therefore adjacent to railroad rights-of-way. The ways, the Secretary shall prescribe rules, reg­ seem entirely possible to achieve the re­ technology exists for controlling sparks. ulations, orders, and standards establishing placement of chromium by other metals So-called spark arresters have been requirements for controlling spark emissions proven effective. It is, therefore, essen­ from locomotives, including, to the extent he without any significant loss in economic tial that their use be required on those deems necessary, requirements that spark terms. The primary requirement would locomotives which present a constant ar.resters, or other devices, of such type or appear to be a modification of consumer meeting such standards as he may prescribe, demand for certain types of commodities. threat of fire. This body has actively committed it- be used."; and Further in this regard, Dr. Franklin P. (2) in subsection (b) of section 209 by­ Huddle of the Science Policy Research self to the control and prevention of fire. (A) inserting immediately after "under Division of the Library of Congress has In April we passed the Fire Prevention this title" the following: ",other than a rule, and Control Act of 1974-comprehen­ regulation, order, or standard issued pur­ advised me that: sive legislation designed to give our Na­ suant to the second sentence of section It is possible that an alloy containing vari­ 202(a) ,"; and ous amounts of aluminum (ranging from 10 tion's firefighters the credit, recognition, to 16 percent) and molybdenum (3 to 4 per­ and Federal assistance they need to (B) by adding at the end of such subsec­ tion the following new sentence: "The Sec­ cent) the balance being iron, could be de­ tackle the monumental task of reducing retary shall include in, or make applicable veloped as a replacement for some uses of fires. At that time, it was widely recog­ to, any rule, regulation, order, or standard stainless steel alloys. Studies sponsored by nized that many specifics remained to be issued pursuant to the second sentence of the Office of Saline Water have shown that done in our overall efforts to combat section 202(a) a civil penalty for violation the corrosive resistance of some of the alumi­ fire. At that time, it was widely recog­ thereof in such amount, not less than $100 num iron alloys approximates that of cor­ nor more than $250, as he deems reasonable.". rosion-resistant stainless steel in salt spray. nized that we must continue to be re­ E:1.rlier studies of the alloy system at the sponsive to the expressed needs and con­ INrriAL ESTABLISHMENT OF FIRE SAFETY Naval Ordnance Laboratory, White Oaks, cerns of those closest to fire prevention­ REQUIREMENTS Maryland, showed that it had excellent oxi­ our firefighters. SEc. 4. The Secretary of Transportation dation resistance up to 2,000 degrees F., Mr. Speaker, the firefighters of west­ shall initially prescribe rules, regulations, which suggests the possib111ty of some high em New York have worked hard to focus orders, and standards pursuant to the second temperature applications (such as jet en­ attention upon the threat of fire pro­ sentence of section 202(a) of the Federal gine parts, steam turbine superheaters, fur­ Railroad Safety Act of 1970, as added by para­ nace boiler tubes, etc.). duced by the smokestacks of certain graph (1) of section 3 of this Act, not later locomotives. My bill would end this than ninety days after the date of enact­ Amplifying his statement, Dr. Huddle threat by requiring that technology we ment of this Act. asserts that: already possess-spark arresters-be There are admittedly technological prob­ required on locomotives. I hope that my lems to be overcome in the use of aluminum colleagues will join me in support of this irons as an alternative material for stain­ bill, the text of which follows: less steels. However, the most difficult ob­ H.R.- RHODESIAN CHROME stacle is the inertial resistance to the new metallurgical concept for the express pur­ A bill to amend the Federal Railroad Safety pose O'f replacing a well-established and com­ Act of 1970 to direct the Secretary of HON. PATSY T. MINK mercially important product. The vulnerabil­ Transportation to establish fire-safety OF HAWAII ity of U.S. industry to curtailment of chrom­ requirements for locomotives in order to ium imports would need to be recognized minimize the danger of fires along railroad IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES by industry as a serious threat before the rights-of-way Wednesday, July 31, 1974 aluminum irons would be regarded as a use­ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of ful system ... Representatives of the United States of Mrs. MINK. Mr. Speaker, the debate America in Congress assembled, surrounding the reimposition of the ban In light of the total lack of industry SHORT TITLE on imports of Rhodesian chromium, as interest in this promising alternative to SECTION 1. This Act may be cited as the embodied in S. 1868, is beginning to es­ the use of chromium, we can only con­ "Railroad Right-of-way Fire Prevention calate as action on this issue becomes clude that there is no real concern as to Act". imminent. Among the oft heard argu­ the supposed vulnerability to curtailment FINDINGS AND PURPOSES ments against reimposition of this ban of imports. SEc. 2. (a) The Congress finds that-- are the following: THE QUESTION OF SOVIET UNION RELIABILrrY (1) there 1s a continuing problem with First. There is no substitute for This brings us to the second objection fires along railroad rights-of-way; chromium. often raised against a reimposition of the (2) such fires often cause serious damage Second. The U.S.S.R. is not a reliable chromium ban, that is the reliability of to residential, commercial, and industrial source of mineral supplies. supplies of chromium or chromite ore property located adjacent to such right-of­ Third. There are no other major ways, from U.S.S.R. It is significant that the (3) such fires impose a considerable bur­ sources of chromium except for Rhodesia United States imported 32 percent of its den upon local communities and upon State and the U.S.S.R. platinum groups metals from the U.S.S.R. and Federal agencies which must furnish the Fourth. If a ban were reinstituted, the during the period 1969-72. That our de­ firefighting equipment and manpower neces­ price of chromium from the U.S.S.R. pendence on Soviet suppliee is increasing sary to control and extinguish such fires; would skyrocket, having great economic •is demonstrated by the fact that we im­ (4) most such fires are caused by sparks impact on the United States. ported nearly twice as much platinum­ emitted from the exhaust stacks of loco­ However, none of these a.llegations motives; group metals from the U.S.S.R. in 1972 ( 5) the technology exists for controlling will withstand close scrutiny, for they as in 1971. Evidently our platinum indus­ such emissions and thereby greatly reduc­ are based on half-truths at best. I would try is not particularly fearful that sup­ ing the likelihood of such fires; and like to direct some responses toward plies from the U.S.S.R. wtll be cut off. (6) requirements that such technology be these fears. Recent agreements on the part of the utllized by railroads should be nationally THE QUESTION OF SUBSTrruTES U.S. natural gas industry to develop Rus­ uniform to the extent practicable. The Commodity Data Summaries, sian resources indicate that this segment (b) It is the purpose of this Act to amend 1974, appendix I to the Third Annual of industry is also not overly concerned the Federal Railroad Safety Act of 1970 to Report of the Secretary of the Interior with the reliability of Soviet supplies. direct the Secretary of Transportation to Under the Mining and Minerals Policy Why should chromium be any different? establish railroad safety requirements for THE QUESTION OF ALTERNATIVE SOURCES OF controlling spark emissions from locomotives Act of 1970 states that: Nickel, zinc, cobalt, molybdenum, vana­ CHROMIUM · in order that the danger of fires along rail­ dium and titanium are competitive alterna­ road rights-of-way be significantly reduced. Contrary to the popular misconception, tive materials for chromium in varibus end Rhodesia and the U.S.S.R. are not the ESTABLISHMENT OF FIRE SAFETY use api?lications. REQUIREMENTS only world sources of chromium. The SEc. 3. The Federal Railroad Safety Act of This lengthy list of metals demon­ Republic of South Africa possesses al­ 1970 (45 U.S.C. 431-441) is a.mended- strates that there are indeed a number of most two-thirds of total known world (1) by adding immediately after the first substitutes for chrome. Moreover, a con- reserves. Reserves in other areas of the July 31, 1974 EXTENSIONS OF R£MARKS 26201 world-including, among others, the Re­ erals which we now import from black Such a defense can best be raised in the public of the Philippines and Turkey-:­ African nations are: impeachment proceedings in the House constitute twice the known reserves m Cobalt: Zaire, 45 % of U.S. imports. and any trial in the Senate growing out the U.S.S.R. Columbium: Nigeria, 14% of U .S. imports. of the House proceedings. A similar de­ Manganese: fense could be offered by Mr. Nixon in The United States itself possesses do­ (a) Gabon, 35% of U.S. imports. mestic reserves of chromium. They are (b) Zaire, 7 % of U.S. imports. the courts, although such a prospect found in the Stillwater region of Mon­ Tantalum: Zaire, 14% of U.S. imports. seems unlikely at present since the ques­ tana. The U.S. Geological Survey has re­ tion has been raised as to the validity of cently concluded a study of the potential In the long run, do we want to run the taking criminal action against a sitting for development of the minerals located risk of triggering a cutoff of these im­ President, and since there is, therefore, in this region-USGS Circular 684. The portant mineral resources? some reluctance on the part of the Spe­ total reserves of chromite are estimated Mr. Speaker, all of the above argu­ cial Prosecutor to move against Mr. to be 7.9 million short tons. ments in favor of the Rhodesian ban are Nixon on the tax fraud question at this directed at assessing the impact of this time. THE QUESTION OF ECONOMIC IMPACT ban on the domestic economy of the It is obviously impossible to predict United States. To me, the economic evi­ The President's defenders on the com­ what would happen to the price of dence is overwhelming. However, the mittee argued for months that only chromite shipped from the U.S.S.R. if a ethical argument in support of this ban issues of criminality should properly be ban on importation of Rhodesian chrome is even of greater importance. The considered in impeachment proceed­ were to be reinstituted. However, 1972 United States is the only U.N. member ings-yet, on the tax fraud issue, which price figures-as supplied to ~e b~ t~e to officially disavow the U.N. resolution. clearly involves criminality, these same Congressional Research ServiCe-mdl­ As leaders of world opinion, we must take members reversed their stand and cate that Soviet chromite, while higher action to censure the illegal and racist claimed that, while this might be a mat­ in grade than that from other sources, government of Rhodesia. I believe Amer­ ter for the courts, it was not a proper was actually priced considerably lower. ica will not in any way jeopardize her matter for the Congress to consider. Be­ The figures, on a per content ton basis economic well-being as far as chromium yond that, in a regrettable departure were: U.S.S.R., $58; South Africa, $42; supplies are concerned if we move to sup­ from fair play, the President's defenders Rhodesia, $80; and Turkey, $81. These port world leadership by reimposing the gratuitously brought in the names of figures indicate that there could be a Rhodesian ban. former Vice President HUBERT HUMPH­ major rise in the price of chromite from REY and the late President Lyndon the U.S.S.R. before it would equal the Johnson, asserting that they, too, made price now being paid for Rhodesian gifts of official papers for which they chromite. Moreover. the current atmos­ THE PRESIDENT'S TAXES AND claimed tax deductions. But the Presi­ phere of detente with the U.S.S.R. to­ IMPEACHMENT dent's apologists know that there never gether with the considerable broadening has been an assertion against either Mr. of economic ties with this Nation indi­ HUMPHREY, Mr. Johnson, or any other cates that an unreasonable rise in the HON. JAMES G. O'HARA Government official, that tax deductions price of chrome would be unlikely. OF MICHIGAN were claimed on papers donated after FURTHER ARGUMENTS the tax laws had been changed to pre­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES vent such gifts. RECYCLING Wednesday, July 31, 1974 During recent oversight hearings held Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is by the Subcommittee on Mines and Min­ Mr. O'HARA. Mr. Speaker, I deeply that every piece of objective evidence ing on the subject on mineral scarcity, regret the decision of the House Judi­ shows that the President's gift of papers representatives of the specialty steel in­ ciary Committee in rejecting the pro­ to the National Archives occurred after, dustry stated that they are allowing posed article of impeachment relative to not before, the deadline established in themselves to be outbid by foreign pur­ the fraud involved in President Nixon's the bill, which Mr. Nixon, himself, signed chasers of stainless steel scrap. These income tax returns. By their vote, 26 into law-signed into law, that is, only representatives could give no valid rea­ members of the committee have asserted after the President, through White House son for this situation except for the now­ that this matter should not be left to the staff assistants, had lobbied long and defunct price control effects. If the price consideration and collective judgment of unsuccessfully to delay congressional ac­ of chromium were to rise significantly, the 435 Members of the House of Rep­ tion on the bill and to change its effective in response to the reimposition of the resentatives and, potentially, the 100 date. Rhodesian ban, the specialty steel pro­ Members of the Senate. It is spurious to argue, as the Nixon ducers might then see the economic ad­ Most of the Judiciary Committee loyalists do, that the gift was effectively vantage of purchasing domestically members from President Nixon's own made merely because the papers were in available stainless steel scrap, thus con­ party, in the course of debate, conceded the possession of the National Archives serving this valuable resource and re­ the handling of the President's tax re­ prior to the deadline. It has long been ducing our overall dependence on for­ turns was "shabby." I agree, but these the custom of Presidents to send papers eign supplies. defenders of the President contented to the Archives for safe keeping and stor­ IMPORTS OF IMPORTANT METALS FROM OTHER themselves with rendering their personal age. It is a custodial relationship, a cour­ AFRICAN NATIONS moral judgments on the President, and tesy extended to Presidents, nothing One important political implication then voted to deny the full House of Rep­ more. In any event, the claim that the associated with the current U.S. policy resentatives the opportunity to render papers constituted a gift at the time they toward Rhodesian chrome is the effect its constitutional judgment through the were sent to the Archives is effectively which it has upon emergent black Afri­ medium of the impeachment process. destroyed by the President's later ac­ can nations. Although these nations have It seems clear, from the preponder­ tions-because 17 boxes containing the made no threats regarding the imposi­ ance of the evidence, that a tax fraud most valuable of the Nixon correspond­ tion of a ban on the export of minerals was committed. Even the President's de­ ence with national and world leaders to the United States as a result of our fenders agree that Mr. Nixon signed and were retained as the President's per­ policy toward Rhodesia, the potential is filed a grossly incorrect tax return. The sonal property and were not made sub­ there. The recently held Sixth Special President may want to argue that this ject to the deed of gift. was an honest mistake, or an error. as Beyond that, the facts are that the ap­ Session of the U.N. General Assembly on his defenders argued in the Judiciary the problem of raw materials and devel­ praiser was not chosen to evaluate the Committee. But it is wrong for some papers until 4 months after the dead­ opment-April 9 to May 2, 1974-clearly members of the committee simply to as­ indicates a growing awareness on the line for making such gifts; that the ap­ sert such a defense and then dismiss the praiser did not even begin the selecting­ part of these and other mineral export­ matter out of hand. The defense of out process until nearly 5 months after ing nations of the economic power avail­ honest mistake or error can properly be the deadline; that the appraiser did not able through manipulation of mineral asserted only by the person who signed complete this selection process until the resources. Among the important min- and filed the tax return-Mr. Nixon. following taxable year; and that the deed CXX--1652-Part 20 26202 EXTENSIONS OF R£MARKS July 31, 1974 of gift, about which there is clear evi­ DR. RAYMOND L. BISPLINGHOFF fessorship in the department of aeronau­ dence of back-dating, was defective be­ LEAVES THE NATIONAL SCIENCE tics and astronautics, moving on eventu­ cause it gave Mr. Nixon continuing title FOUNDATION ally to department chairman in 1966, and authority over the papers during his and then to the dean of the engineering lifetime-a fact which, all by itself, ren­ school in 1968. The years at MIT were dered the gift not a proper subject for HON. JOHN W. DAVIS interrupted while he served as Director a tax shelter, even if the deadline had OF GEORGIA of NASA's Office of Advanced Research properly been met. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and Technology, Associate Administra­ It is not just the impropriety of the Wednesday, July 31, 1974 tor of NASA for Advanced Research and "gift" of Presidential papers that is in­ Mr. DAVIS of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, Technology, and special assistant to the volved, Mr. Speaker, for there is a whole the House Subcommittee on Science, NASA Administrator, during the period litany of tax abuses-the failure to re­ Research, and Development, which has 1962-66. Upon his return to MIT in 1966, port capital gains on the sale of prop­ oversight responsibilities for the Na­ he continued to serve as consultant to erty in New York, California, and !<"'lor­ tional Science Foundation, has recently the NASA Administrator. ida; the failure to report, as income, the received word that Dr. Raymond L. Bis­ Dr. Bisplinghoff is the author of three taxpayers' dollars that were spent to en­ plinghoff, NSF's Deputy Director since scientific books. He has served as a mem­ hance the value of Mr. Nixon's private 1970, has submitted his letter of resig­ ber of many important committees and vaction resorts at San Clemente and Key nation to the President, effective Sep­ governmental boards, scientific societies, Biscayne; and the failure to report, as tember 30, 1974. Dr. Bisplinghofi will be­ and industry groups, both here and income, other emoluments received from come chancellor of the University of Mis­ abroad, and in numerous consultant the Government, in excess of those pro­ souri at Rolla beginning October 1. Once roles. In 1967 he received NASA's Distin­ vided by statute. In sum, the President's known as the Missouri School of Mines guished Service Medal and in 1973 the tax returns grossly understated his in­ and Metallurgy, Rolla is the university Distinguished Service Award from the come, and grossly overstated his deduc­ member of the University of Missouri National Science Foundation. He is also tions. No other taxpayer could have that is principally oriented toward sci­ the recipient of the Distinguished Alum­ hoped to avoid prosecution for such gross ence and technology. nus Award, University of Cincinnati, and callous disregard of the Internal Ray Bisplinghoff was appointed NSF 1969; NASA Apollo Achievement Award, Revenue Code. Deputy Director in October 1970, follow­ 196~; Carl F. Kayan Medalist, Columbia Mr. Nixon's defenders put the respon­ ing an outstanding earlier career in aero­ University, 1961; and the Godfrey L. sibility for all of these irregularities on nautical engineering and· administration Cabot Award, 1972. the shoulders of members of the White at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech­ On behalf of the House Subcommittee Hottse staff, the President's tax consult­ nology and in Government service with on Science, Research, and Development ant, and the President's tax lawyer. But NASA. He is a member of both the Na­ I express our very deep appreciation to it was Mr. Nixon, himself, who signed the tional Academy of Sciences and the Na­ Ray Bisplinghofi for his extremely valu­ fraudulent tax return, and it is Mr. tional Academy of Engineering; a fellow able contributions to the advancement of Nixon, himself, who should be held ac­ of the American Astronautical Society; science and science administration, both countable under the law. Every lawyer a fellow of the Royal Aeronautical So­ in university and Government circles. on the Judiciary Committee knows this­ ciety; and a member of the International We are sorry he is leaving the Washing­ and so should Mr. Nixon, whose legal Astronautical Federation-to name only ton scene, but we congratulate the Uni­ specialty happened to have been tax law. a few of a long list of distinguished hon­ versity of Missouri at Rolla upon its wise The President's handling of his tax re­ ors and affiliations. selection of a new chancellor. turns, which could have resulted in the He has helped Dr. H. Guyford Stever defrauding of the U.S. Treasury of more NSF's Director and the President's Sci~ than $400,000 in taxes had the irregu­ ence Adviser, administer the National WAR AND IMPEACHMENT larities not been brought to light, war­ Science Foundation during a period of rants consideration by the full House as significant growth in its responsibilities, HON. GEORGE E. BROWN, JR. an impeachable offense. It is one more and has played a key role in guiding the piece of evidence of this President's ut­ Foundation into new areas and expand­ OF CALIFORNIA ter disdain for the laws which govern ing its contribution in traditional ones. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES other citizens; it demonstrates his total Coming to NSF soon after extension of Wednesday, July 31, 1974 the Foundation's authority to support insensitivity to the nature of our income Mr. BROWN of California. Mr. tax laws which rely so heavily on the applied research, Dr. Bisplinghoff made important contributions to the establish­ Speaker, yesterday the House Judiciary integrity of the individual taxpayer; it is, Committee considered, and rejected, an in my opinion, a crime against the State ment of the program of Research Applied to National Needs-RANN. Following article of impeachment that accused and an affront to the law-abiding, tax­ President Richard M. Nixon of violating paying American people. If any action this, he supervised the formation of four additional units-the Programs of Na­ the Constitution in the pursuit of an ille­ of a President cries out for the impeach­ tional R. & D. Assessment and Experi­ gal war. There were other aspects to this ment remedy, this one does. mental R. & D. Incentives, and the Of­ proposed article, but the purpose of it Mr. Speaker, it is my hope that the full fices of Energy R. & D. Policy and Sci­ was to clearly establish that the power to House of Representatives will have an ence and Technology Policy. make war is one reserved to the Con­ opportunity to consider, and pass judg­ A native of Ohio, Ray Bisplinghoff at­ gress, and the actions of President Nixon ment, on the evidence in this case-either tended the University of Cincinnati exceeded his power under the U.S. Con­ as a separate article of impeachment, or where he received the degrees of A.E.~ stitution, and he is therefore impeach­ as an addition to one of the other articles aeronautical engineer-in 1940 and M.S. able. in physics in 1942. His work toward the The debate on this article opened up which are to be transmitted to the House. the ugly wounds that the undeclared Beyond that, at such time as the Special Ph. D. in physics was interrupted by the war. He received the Sc. D. degree from military actions of the United States in Prosecutor deems it proper to take crimi­ Indochina created. I believe that the nal action, it is my hope that this matter the Eidgenossische Technische Hoch­ schule, Zurich, Switzerland, in 1957. debate on this article was a health~· will be brought to the attention of the At the time of his appointment as ventilation of this issue, and the country appropriate grand jury. I believe, that Deputy Director of the National Science was served well by the Representatives both in the Congress and in the courts, Foundation in the fall of 1970, Dr. Bis­ who pressed for this article. This was the issue of President Nixon's tax returns plinghoff was dean of the school of engi­ not a partisan effort, as the accusations must be resolved-and resolved in such a neering at the Massachusetts Institute against President Johnson clearly way that the American people can have of Technology. His career at MIT has showed. Nevertheless, President Nixon the assurance that the laws of our land spanned more than two decades, com­ carried his authority beyond that of are being faithfully executed. mencing in 1946 with an assistant pro- President Johnson, and he deliberately July 31, 1974 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 26203 concealed his illegal acts. Most of us mittee, but in every listing of possible ar­ ident for acts of tyranny against distant, who opposed the war woulC. like to see a ticles if impeachment it appears only briefiy, dusky foreigners. Yet, a minority will pro­ true amnesty result from that war. This always last on the list--included, it seems, test such acts; and no, their protest will not only out of grudging deference to the hand­ change the course of policy. In Viet Nam, article was an attempt, not to relieve the ful of Committee members (Drinan, Waldie, it was not political revisionism or moral re­ war, but to define, for the future, the Holtzman, Mezvinsky) who think it mat­ vulsion that brought about withdrawal. It limits of Presidential power to make war. ters. It wm be surprising indeed if any war was, rather, our costly, bloody failure; and One of the main arguments used crimes count survives the final winnowing the "enemy's" consent to let us call retreat against this article was that the Con­ proc8ss in the committee. Even Nixon's long­ success. gress shared in the responsibilities for sustained, savage bombing of neutral Laos In a sense, this reading of the Judiciary the war. On the contrary, adoption of and Cambodia-wholly unauthorized by Committee's attitude toward war crimes is a the article on illegal warmaking would Congress, wholly unknown to the American playback. It is probable that at least three­ people-will rank, it seems, with the pur­ quarters of the readers of American Report guarantee that future wars would truly chase of earrings for Pat out of campaign agree that Richard Nixon was indeed guilty be the responsibility of the Congress, as funds. of high crimes and misdemeanors for his con· demanded by the Constitution. If we How can this be so? Members of the Com­ duct of the war in Indochina. The reason are to go to war, to kill in the name of mittee surely understand that they are not the Weiss article nevertheless drew so little the United States of America, then the only making history but also creating law, response; it seems likely, is that readers in­ Congress should be willing to accept its since the precedents they are setting w11lin­ stinctively knew this scenario would not play evitably serve as guidelines to future. Presi­ in Peoria. Anyone who has been watching constitutional responsibility and knowl­ American politics or taking part in the 60's edgably vote for or against that course dents, courts and Congresses. It will be a and 70's should understand now the prob­ of action. bitter irony if the process launched to curb lem American poses for the world. After the Mr. Speaker, the American Report the arrogance of the Presidency ends by as­ Bay of Pigs, the invasion of the Dominician suring its unrestricted power in military af­ Republic, Tonkin Gulf, the reaction to My published an article on July 22 that pre­ fairs and foreign policy: freedom to make dicted yesterday's vote in the House Ju­ Lai, the Democratic convention of 1968; the and threaten war at will. endless revelations of duplicity, corruption, diciary Committee. This news article Surely the Committee knows also, as Peter ruthlessness in Saigon, the Christmas bomb­ describes very aptly the seriousness of Weiss suggested that for millions of Ameri­ ing-after a decade and a half of education, the now-rejected article of impeachment cans the excesses and illegalities of the Viet we should know that the American people on illegal warmaking. I commend it to Nam war, the brutalities committed in their can tolerate intolerable things. Such a truth my colleagues: name, were for many years the central is­ is ugly and unwelcome, but hiding from it sues around which their political and moral isn't healthy. [From the American Report, July 22, 1974] consciousness evolved. They were not, ot IMPEACHMENT AND THE WAR: WHY NIXON course, a majority, but they were not a scat­ WILL GET AWAY WITH MURDER tered few, and for them My Lai and its cov­ "I impeach Warren Hastings of high crimes erup were infinitely more seriously than the A U.S. PORTFOLIO IN THE U.S.S.R.? and misdemeanours. I impeach him in the antics of Gordon Liddy and Howard Hunt. name oj the Commons' House of Parliament, If their deep grievance and their doubt about whose trust he has betrayed. I impeach him America were to be healed, they needed a HON. DONALD M. FRASER in the name of the English nation, whose hearing. Why aren't they getting it? By now, OF MINNESOTA ancient honour he has sullied. I impeach him every decision of every player in the cast re­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in the name of the people oj India, whose lating to Watergete and its cover-up has Wednesday, July 31, 1974 rights he has trodden under foot, and whose been rehearsed and re-rehearsed dozens if country he has turned into a desert." not scores of times; we have still to witness Mr. FRASER. Mr. Speaker, Zbigniew That quotation, taken from a speech de­ any close examination of the decisions that Brzezinski, on leave from Colwnbia Uni­ livered by Edmund Burke in the High Court wiped out hundreds of villages, devastated versity, is director of the Trilateral of Parliament in February, 1788, appears on thousands of acres, killed peasants by the Commission, a private American-Euro­ this page of American Report for the second tens of thousands. Again why? time. On the first occasion, in our issue of The answers, we suggest, are not difficult pean-Japanese organization concerned Feb. 4, 1974, it was printed in 30-point type to perceive; for many of us in the peace about world problems. At Columbia, (three times the size of this) and accom­ movement, they are d11ficult to face. Brzezinski is Herbert H. Lehman Profes­ panied by illustrations which suggested that The most obvious reason why the majority sor of Government and Director of the what Burke said in 1788 about Warren Hast­ of the Judiciary Committee, the House and Research Institute on Communist Af­ ings (a former Governor General of colonial the Senate, wish to keep the war out of the fairs. India) needed to be said this year about impeachment process is that they themselves One of our most prolific writers on the Richard Nixon. and a majority of their constitutents share It wasn't a gimmick. The passage from the responsibiUty for Viet Nam. If the House Soviet system, Brzezinski' has contrib­ Burke speech was a key element in an arti­ were to impeach Nixon for war crimes, it uted a thoughtful article to the August 5, cle ("Is There an Edmund Burke in the would impeach itself-and simultaneously 1974 issue of the New Leader, "The Eco­ House?") by attorney Peter Weiss which we accuse the voters who elected them. There nomics of Detente; A U.S. Portfolio in regarded as one of the most significant the is an exception, the secret bombings; ob­ the U.S.S.R.?" paper has ever published. Weiss demon­ viously Congress and the people could not Professor Brzezinski-he also has strated: 1) that the House of Commons im­ be held responsible for actions of which they served in a policymaking position in peached Warren Hastings in 1787 for acts had no knowledge. But no debate linking those bombings with impeachment could in­ the State Department--concludes his es­ against the people of India which were iden­ say with the thought that only a compre­ tical in nature with actions in Indochina or­ sulate the issue; and Congress knows a can dered or sanctioned by Richard Nixon; and of worms without opening it. hensive understanding with the Soviets­ 2) that the framers of the Constitution On a more technical plane, any effort to a political, strategic and social under­ added the phrase "high crimes and mis­ impeach a sitting President for exceeding standing-will provide a solid base for demeanors" to the impeachment clause pre­ his authority in connection with the mak­ enduring agreement. Mr. Speaker, I cisely so that the House of Representatives ing of war, or for sanctioning methods ot share these sentiments. Until we achieve could bring a President to account for crimes warfare contrary to international law, would this broad agreement we must proceed like those of Hastings. instantly encounter a legal-historical tangle. Many Presidents have made war without ask- with detente, but we must proceed cau­ Last February, that kind of argument was - ing the approval of Congress; none has been tiously. highly relevant to the shaping of the Judi­ impeached for doing so. As for barbarity, not THE ECONOMICS OF DETENTE-A U.S. ciary Committee's inquiry into impeachment. even the Christmas bombing of Hanoi ri­ We therefore promoted the article heavily, PORTFOLIO IN THE U.S.S.R? valed in ferocity the dropping of the first By Zbigniew Brzezinski sending copies of the issue to scores of non­ atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and no one cred­ subscribers: Members of Congress, lawyers, ibly urged the impeachment of Harry Tru­ It is rightly said that there is no alterna­ professors of law and political science, col­ man for that act, perhaps the cruelest in the tive to detente. I can assert this in good faith, umnists and editorial writers. This effort history of war. for as far back as 1960 I was directly involved failed. Neither our regular readers nor our The ultimate, unhappy truth of the mat­ in developing the idea of peaceful engage­ one-time guests responded in anything like ter is that the American people, like most ment with the Communists as the only ac­ the volume we expected. other peoples in this and other eras, do not ceptable means of ending the Cold War. Sub­ In light of what has happened since Feb­ greatly care what their leaders do to other sequently, I promoted this concept while ruary, this sequence seems to us to deserve nations in war, and will not closely study serving in the State Department, often over refiection now. True, Nixon's conduct of the why they do it. In contemporary America strong internal opposition. During the 1968 Viet Nam war has never been wholly ruled it is not possible, as it was in Burke's day, Presidential campaign, I suggested to the out of consideration by. the Judiciary Com- to indict a general or a governor or a Pres- Democratic contender, Vice President Hubert 26204 EXTENSIONS OF R£MARKS July 31, 1974 H. Humphrey, that he publicly propose an­ of closer social ties; the expansion of global RECIPROCrrY OF TREATMENT nual summit meetings between U.S. and collaboration to cope with the many new in• U.S. diplomats, businessmen and tourists Soviet leaders-a proposal he did make, and ternational problems; the adoption, both in are subjected to incomparably greater one that President Nixon later implemented. principle and in practice, of true reciprocity restraints in the USSR than are their coun­ Finally, on leaving government service in in our relattons; and the rejection of the terparts in the United States. American news­ 1968 I published a comprehensive plan for harmful and antiquated notion that ideo­ men and scholars have been harassed and ex­ East-West negotiations designed to establish logical and class struggle are properly part cluded from the Soviet Union-in marked a framework for eventual reconciliation. of detente. Unfortunately, in at least five contrast to the welcome extended here to So­ I emphasize these points not out of vanity areas the Soviets' current behavior is not viet specialists. Whereas Soviet citizens are (though I do take pride in them) but because consistent with progress toward these goals: free to lobby and to promote joint U.S.-USSR I believe firmly that a protracted and un­ IDEOLOGICAL HOSTILITY lobbies in this country, American access, even checked Cold War entails risks no sane states­ As noted, Moscow's intensification of to the Soviet elite, is severely restricted. Al­ man can afford to underestimate, and is pro­ Cold War animosities not only contradicts most every day some new example of this hibitively costly as well. President Nixon and the spirit of detente, but poses a potential asymmetrical treatment emerges, such as Party Chairman Leonid I. Brezhnev there­ Moscow police physically barring people from fore deserve credit for resuming the efforts of threa't to it. entering the American embassy. Actions of Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. STRATEGIC SECRECY this kind are a basic violation of the con­ Johnson and of First Secretary Nikita surreptitious military planning, develop­ cept of detente. Khrushchev-initiatives that were inter­ ment and deployment by the Kremlin stim­ (The above list, I might point out, does rupted by the Soviet occupation of Czecho­ ulate legitimate anxiety in Washington about not include any reference to divergent U.S. slovakia in 1968-to counterbalance the com­ the extent and depth of its commitment to and Soviet positions on important regional petitive aspects of our relations with cooper­ peace. Consequently, our policymakers are disputes, as in Europe or the Middle East. It at! ve arrangements. obliged to consider whether detente is not is only natural that the two major powers, Still, if there is no alternative to detente, it seen by at least some Soviet leaders merely in different geopolitical situations, would is also true that the word can mean different as a breathing spell, designed to lull the have diverse and occasionally conflicting es­ things to different people. The Soviets have U.S. into a false sense of security while the timates of their vital interests.) made it quite plain that they have a very USSR attempts to move from strategic par­ These five areas should be borne in mind clear concept of the kind of detente they ity to a position that could be exploited when formulating U.S. policy on business desire and-by and large-they have so far politically. For this reason, an equitable SALT investment in the USSR and U.S. credits for succeeded in shaping U.S.-Soviet relations II agreement is a major litmus test of Soviet economic development. Although it according to it. Moscow's intentions. may be argued that some commitments Moscow openly views detente as a limited For this reason, too, current U.S. research should be made to encourage accommoda­ and expedient policy, in no way aimed at and development aid-and I use the word tion, in my opinion the current level of U.S. terminating the tensions of the Cold War. "aid" advisedly-seems to me difficult to concessionary credits is sufficient under the Indeed, the Soviet rulers have emphasized justify. I am thinking particularly of the present circumstances. Future progress on over and over again that, far from abating, American-Soviet space venture, which has the broader issues would of course justify ideological conflict is to intensify during become a vehicle for the one-sided transfer more extensive American commitments. times of "peaceful coexistence." But this, from the U.S. to the USSR of a technology With regard to the debate over grant­ they feel, should not interfere with economic that has obvious military applications. I ing the USSR most-favored-nation status cooperation. As Professor Marshall Shulman am also troubled by the Department of Com­ (MFN), Congress might consider the follow­ of Columbia University ably stated in his merce's efforts to modernize the Soviet Air ing compromise solution since it is in the testimony before the Senate Banking Com­ Control System-somethillg that will sig­ U.S. interest that a Soviet-American trade mittee last April 25: "Rather than face the nificantly strengthen Moscow's airlift capa­ bill be passed: The Soviet Union could ini­ politically painful choice of instituting bility, especially against the Chinese. Nor tially be given MFN for a two-year trial pe­ fundamental economic reforms, the Soviet can I square our concern for human rights riod. The grant would automatically ter­ leadership has opted for a massive effort to with our apparent willingness to sell the minate at the end of that time and its re­ overcome its shortcomings by increasing the soviets lie detectors and voice-print detection newal would require affirmative Legislative flow of trade, advanced technology, capital, equipment--f.ortunately blocked because of action. This would permit Congress to make and management experience from abroad." Congressional outrage. a fresh determination based on observation From the American perspective, to be of Soviet behavior during the interim. sure, a circumscribed detente is better than INDIFFERENCE TO GLOBAL PROBLEMS In reaching a decision on any of these nothing, and can be regarded as a necessary The USSR appears remarkably insensitive matters, however, we should remember that way station on the road to a fuller accord. to matters that cry out for greater coopera­ U.S.-USSR trade arrangements are politically Yet we must recognize that the present tion among the advanced nations. Though weighted on the Soviet side because its arrangement is potentially quite unstable. one of the key beneficiaries of increased economy is controlled by the state. America's Ideological hostility, artificially kept alive commodity prices throughout the world, it relatively free market system makes it diffi­ by impediments to wider contacts, could be­ remains largely unresponsive to the needs cult to infuse a sense of national purpose come a source of renewed strain. And given of less developed countries now burdened into business transactions, yet unless we at­ its limited scope, the Nixon-Brezhnev un­ with huge food and energy costs. In addi­ tempt to do so, the USSR will derive im­ derstanding could easily be reversed should tion, the Soviet rulers have shown a tactical­ portant political advantages from its eco­ individuals ever come to power, either in the ly cynical nonchalance to the threat of nu­ nomic relations with us. Thus Congress U.S. or the Soviet Union, who were unsym­ clear proliferation triggered by India's atomic should explore the idea of creating a formal pathetic to the present accommodation. explosion. instrument, perhaps a joint Executive-Legis­ Most significantly, were the existing HUMAN RIGHTS lative coordinating organ, to monitor this detente to break down after a period of sus­ The Communist record here leaves much to crucial area and insure that American in­ tained U.S. investment in the Soviet econ­ be desired. While President Nixon and Secre­ terests are not slighted. It simply does not omy, accompanied by heavy Soviet in­ tary of state Henry Kissinger are correct in follow that what is good for U.S. business debtedness, an undesirable state of affairs saying we cannot insist other governments is automatically good for the United States. could develop. Economists must judge alter their systems to please us, to assert In the broadest terms, the U.S. has three whether large-scale trade would in time leave that proposition is to skirt the real issue. It options in its economic relations with the the United States more dependent on Soviet is a political fact that many Americans are USSR: (1) To restrict trade and investment raw materials than the USSR would be on deeply concerned about those Soviet citizens by political means; (2) not to restrict them; American markets. But one can certainly wishing to leave the Soviet Union, and in or (3) to actively promote them by political conceive of a Soviet leadership being tempted that sense the question is not only a do­ means. Unquestionably, detente has ad­ to use its indebtedness to the United States mestic one; it affects adversely and directly vanced sufficiently to warrant the discon­ and American dependence on Soviet raw ma­ Soviet-American relations much in the same tinuation of the first course, and this has terials for political purposes. Paradoxically, manner that any U.S. limitations on the already been done for the most part. But I the very size of the Soviet debts would give right of Americans wishing to leave for the cannot help wondering if we have come far the Kremlin additional leverage. (I might Soviet Union-were such limitation to exist­ enough yet to justify exercising the third op­ add that the availability of American credits would affect American-Soviet relations. (I tion, which would mean providing Moscow to the Soviets would enhance their ability should note as well that the spurious argu­ with credits at concessionary rates and to make similar commercial deals and obtahi ment of domestic nonintervention did not making a determined effort to encourage the same sort of leverage with Western Eu­ prevent--justly-the Soviet leaders from con­ massive U.S. investment in the USSR. In rope and Japan.) demning anti-Semitic practices in Nazi Ger­ my view, Washington's approach ought to Clearly, it is in our national interest, and· many, nor, more recently, from changing be closely calibrated with accommodation that of peace in general, to seek a more in­ their stand on Chile in the wake of Salvador on the larger political-strategic issues, and clusive, more enduring detente, one that 1s Allende's overthrow.) Moreover, in the light should not outrun it. not restricted to economics nor offset by of this country's traditions, adopting a pos­ Here I. can only endorse Henry Kissinger's officially sustained enmity. A comprehensive ture of amorality me·ans sacrificing some­ statement of October 8, 1973, while deplor­ agreement should encompass broad cultural thing very precious, something that should ing the White House's failure fully to apply and political accommodation; the shaping not be sacrificed lightly. it: "This Administration has never had any July 31, 19 7 4 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 26205

illusions about the Soviet system. We have Alabama, James Mann of South Carolina, you even mor~. You already know that Chair­ always insisted that progress in technical and Ray Thornton of Arkansas. Time will man Rodino has for weeks been ruthlessly fields, such as trade, had to follow-and tell whether their loyalty is to their con­ forcing the Democratic members of the Ju­ not reflect-progress toward more stable in­ stituents or to their party chieftains. diciary Committee into line. Frankly, we ternational relations. We have maintained a don't yet know whether he has been able to strong military balance and a flexible de­ I believe, Mr. Speaker, that every dominate Walter Flowers of Alabama, James fense posture as a buttress to stability. We American citizen has a right to his opin­ Mann of South Carolina, and Ray Thornton have insisted that disarmament had to be ion, and a right to express it, but this of Arkansas. Time will tell whether their mutual. We have judged movement in our vicious assertion goes far beyond de­ loyalty is to their constituents or to their relations with the Soviet Union, not by at­ cency. For Rabbi Korff's information, I party chieftains. mospherics, but by how well concrete prob­ know these men, and I know the agony But did you know that 4 or 5 Republican lems are resolved and by whether there is re­ they have undergone in attempting congressmen on the Committee are also the sponsible international conduct." to subject of a heinous-and very skillful­ Unless we apply the Secretary of State's decide how to cast their votes, and I campaign to secure their votes against the injunction very precisely and most deliber­ know them well enough to know that President? Here's the story you won't hear ately, we run the risk of perpetuating the party affiliation had nothing to do with from Cronkite or Chancellor. USSR's existing system and ideological atti­ their decision. The votes cast by WALTER The impeachment gang needs some Re\. tudes. That is, we would reduce internal FLOWERS, JIM MANN, and RAY THORNTON publicans to create an illusion of bipartisan­ pressures for economic modernization and were cast because they were in fact, in ship. They are desperate t<' win over a few political decentralization and political de­ the highest tradition of public service, members of the President's own party, who centralization without really altering the have disagreed with him over various policy external American-Soviet relationship. The representing their constituents, and do­ issues, so they can convince the nation that central point to remember is that a com­ ing so in the manner they deemed best. impeachment is not partisan. To that pur­ prehensive undertaking-political, strategic Rabbi Korff goes on to viciously at­ pose, they have lavished media attention and social-is the only solid base for an en­ tack those Republicans who he feels upon a few congressmen-like freshmen Wil­ during agreement and until we obtain it, we might vote for impeachment and alleges liam Cohen of Maine--flattering them with would be wise to proceed cautiously, not they have been somehow rewarded by laudatory newspaper editorials and, as long allowing the economic association to become the news media for their position. And, as they spoke against the President, reward­ detente's primary blossom. In brief, the time ing them with prime-time television exposure is not yet ripe for a high-risk U.S. portfolio he attacks other members of the com­ so valuable in this election year. Haven't you in the Soviet Union. mittee, many of whom I do not agree noticed how it is always the same members with politically or philosophically, for of the Judiciary Committee who appear on their stand on this issue. the evening news and the talk shows? Mr. Speaker, I have seen many dis­ Legally, this is not bribery, but it is nonethe­ STATEMENT OF RABBI BARUCH torted articles and heard many distorted less shameful. KORFF statements in my lifetime, but I have And now the pressure is being increased. never seen anything more vicious than The radicals don't dare ask the full House of Representatives to vote impeachment this. Rabbi Korff closes his article with along party lines. They already know that HON. DAWSON MATHIS a quote from Tom Paine; dozens of old-line Democrats, patriots in the OF GEORGIA Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; tradition of Sam Rayburn and John McCor­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES yet we have this consolation with us, that mack, will refuse them. They must have the harder the conflict, the more glorious the some Republican votes as window-dressing. Wednesday, July 31, 1974 triumph. So reporters besiege Republican committee Mr. MATHIS of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, members in the corridors of the Capitol. They I submit, Mr. Speaker, that it is tyr­ press them for commitments against the I rise today for the purpose of calling to anny to malign decent men, it is tyr­ President. They urge them to make sensa­ the attention of all Members of this anny to call for laws to be broken, it is tional statements against him. They ask de­ House a full page advertisement that tyranny to demagogue. And, it is shame­ famatory questions, they invite predictions appeared in last Thursday's edition of ful and deceitful for a man who says he of impeachment, and tailor their conclusions the Birmingham News. The advertise­ is for fairness to resort to such unfair to fit their witch hunt. Thus the media lobby ment, and I assume it was an adver­ and unreasonable tactics. for impeachment. As the showdown approaches, this is what tisement even though it was not labeled I regret that many Americans who are as such, contained a statement by Rabbi we face. Bumbling Peter Rodino has become honest, decent citizens, and genuinely a willing tool of his supposed employee, John Baruch Korff, president of the National concerned have apparently been misled Doar. Before being hired by Rodino, he ran Citizens Committee for Fairness to the by this type of individual. an anti-poverty outfit in New York which Presidency. The statement by Rabbi The article follows: was the largest single community develop­ Korff, according to the advertisement, ment grantee in the whole sordid history of STATEMENT BY RABBI BARUCH KORFF was delivered at the second session of the Office of Economic Opportunity? It is no Over the past year, you have read our the Citizens Congress, Sunday, July 21, coincidence that, only a year ago, when Pres­ messages. We have requested FAIRNESS for ident Nixon called O.E.O. a travesty against 1974, at the Shoreham Americana Hotel the Presidency and have condemned the here in Washington. the poor and appointed Howie Phillips to end vicious impeachment campaign of this coun­ it, Doar's welfare empire, subsidized by your Mr. Speaker, I urge each Member of try's entrenched radical elite. taxes, fell apart. Doar hates the President for the House to read this article if for no Now the final crisis is at hand. this as much as he lusts after the federal other reason than to see the words of We are approaching a Constitutional money that 'is now denied him. This is the a demagog. This Rabbi Korff, who ap­ Armageddon, a showdown between our tra­ rogue who has drawn up articles of impeach­ ditional form of government and leftist­ parently holds himself out to be a man ment even before the Committee members radical mobbery. have seen the evidence. Columnist Joseph of the cloth takes the liberty of com­ Do you dislike those words? Do you con­ paring l:limself to Tom Paine, one of the Kraft, no friend to the President, happily sider us extremists for saying them? Would admitted in the Washington Post on July 21 architects of the Revolution in 1776. you rather we offered you pretty phrases and that, obeying Rodino, Doar purposely created Rabbi Korff calls the impeachment reassured you that the partisan lynching in a bland, odorless image of himself and his proceedings "a showdown between our Washington was really a political tea party? work. "The aim was to baffle administration traditional form of government and left­ Not a chance! Like Tom Paine in 1776, we charges of partisan bias. Mr. Doar did the job can no longer equivocate about tyranny. so well that most of the committee were ist-radical mobbery." Like him, we appeal to the common sense of At the time this statement was ap­ stupefied-even anesthetized." What treach­ mankind and tell you plainly: if you value ery! parently made, the Committee on the our system of government, you had better Judiciary had not voted on any article For whom does Doar really work? For the act now to defend it or you won't have it seven members of the Judiciary Committee of impeachment, and the votes of several long. who had demanded the President's impeach­ Members obviously were undecided. If you have been shocked by our previous ment even before Watergate? For Drinan, Listen to these words: revelations about the impeachment lobby­ Holtzman, and Seiberling, who still weep for Chairman Rodino has for weeks been ruth­ how they have had free access to the tax­ the VietCong victory of which the President lessly forcing the Democratic members of supported office facilities of leftist congress­ has cheated them? For Edwards, Kasten­ the Judiciary Committee into line. men, how they have been financed by the meier and Mezvinsky, who are trying des­ forced contributions of millions of patriotic perately through impeachment to divert the The rabbi continues: union members, how they have secretly de­ voters' attention away from issues of forced Frankly, we don't yet know whether he termined to nullify the voters' decision of buslng, abortion, and the subversion of has been able to domina•:e Walter Flowers of 1972-then this latest expose will horrify American values? For Waldie, Rangel, and 26206 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 31, 19 7 4 Conyers, men of no repute a.nd even less reaching epidemic proportions in the drinkers is staggering. The study reports regard? United States. We passed the Compre­ that one out of every seven high school And what will you do about it? Write hensive Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism seniors admitted to getting drunk at Doar a letter? Forget it! One does not rea­ least once a week. At the present con­ son with lynch mobs. But you have a con­ Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilita­ gressman, and he has an office in your dis­ tion Act in 1970 and renewed it again in ference Dr. Morris Chafetz, Director trict. Collect some friends together and go 1974. But passing the law is one thing­ of the National Institute on Alcohol there. Present your demands in writing for getting it implemented is another. That Abuse and Alcoholism, said the increase fairness to the President. Don't be stalled. is why I was so delighted that these in heavy teenage drinking "just blows Don't be jived. Don't take "no" for an an­ leaders from both labor and industry my mind. It worries me greatly." swer. Your congressma.n and his staff are have joined hands on their own initia­ Fourth. Dr. Charles C. Edwards, the paid by your taxes, so make them listen to tive to see that alcoholism treatment and Assistant Secretary for Health, empha­ you. If they walk away, follow them. If they hang up the phone, call again. If they lock prevention programs eventually reach sizing the report's conclusions that alco­ their doors, get their home address and meet into every assembly line and into every holism is an illness that can engender them there. If they treat you with disdain or corporate executive suite. other serious diseases, said, "the time condescension, tell them what you think The very same day this luncheon was has come to bring .the treatment of alco­ of them! And don't delete your expletives! held Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger of holism into the mainstream of our Na­ For too long we have allowed Congress to the U.S. Department of Health, Educa­ tion's health crew systems." listen to a.n elite--privileged, snobbish, con­ temptuous of our values and traditions. We tion, and Welfare sent to Congress the have been too quiet, too polite, too respect­ second special report on developments ful. Now, we have learned their ways, we since the first report was released in know their tactics. We can scream, too. We February of 1972. The 219-page report EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT can fill offices with angry citizens and chase was prepared by a 38-member task force congressional cowards down the halls of the of distinguished alcoholism authorities Capitol. We can interrupt their speeches with from all over the country. HON. PETER A. PEYSER the truth. We c.an boycott their media allies. OF NEW YORK And with our votes this November we can Interestingly enough, the massive re­ whip out of the Congress the rascals who port singled out alcoholism programs in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES have so disgraced that body. business and industry as one of the most Wednesday, July 31, 1974 So watch what happens this week. How effective segments of the work of the Na­ many Democrats on the Judiciary Commit­ tional Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Mr. PEYSER. Mr. Speaker, under the tee will recognize John Doar as the paid Alcoholism and stated that such pro­ leave to extend my remarks in the assassin he is? Will any Republican on the grams report the highest rates of re­ RECORD, I include the following: committee sell our birthright of Constitu­ covery. However, the report in its en­ There are indeed many misconceptions tional liberty for a mess of media pottage? tirety makes for some unhappy reading. today about the effects of the proposed And will you put up with it? Be guided by Equal Rights Amendment. As one who Tom Paine's advice: "Tyranny, like hell, is In its first report to the Congress in not easily conquered; yet we have this con­ 1972, HEW estimated the cost to the worked actively for the passage of this solation with us, that the harder the con­ country from alcoholism at $15 billion. amendment in the Congress I am most flict, the more glorious the triumph." At the press conference on July 10, 1974, concerned about this. The following Secretary Weinberger, referring to al­ article excerpted from the March issue of cohol misuse and alcoholism as "an epi­ Ms. magazine I think clears up some of demic health and social problem," an­ these misconceptions and I would like to ALCOHOLISM: A GROWING HEALTH nounced that the report of the 38 experts insert it in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD at PROBLEM made a conservative estimate of the cost this time for the benefit of my colleagues: of alcoholism of $25 billion annually to EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT our country. (By Lisa Cronin Wahl) HON. PAUL G. ROGERS The largest single area of cost­ Phyllis Schlafiy was in her glory. There amounting to $9.35 billion-was the lost she was on William Buckley's talk show, OF FLORIDA "Firing Line," waging holy war against the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES production of the goods and services Equal Rights Amendment--and doing just which could be attributed to the reduced Wednesday, July 31, 1974 fine. production of alcohol-troubled male "The proponents of the Equal Rights Mr. ROGERS. Mr. Speaker, on July 10 workers. The cost of the lost production Amendment have given up claiming that I had the privilege of addressing the first of women and of alcoholic persons who ERA can do anything for women in the field meeting of the new and largely expanded are institutionalized or living on skid of employment," she asserted, gracefully bal­ Labor-Management Committee of the row is not included in the $9.35 billion ancing the stack of "evidence" she held on her lap. "Even when Dr. Emerson came to National Council on Alcoholism. The co­ estimate. Other highlights of the HEW testify at the Missouri hearing, he conceded chairmen of the NCA Labor-Manage­ report to the Congress can only be briefly that ERA will do nothing for women in the ment Committee are Mr. George Meany, summarized: field of employment which is not already done President of the AFL-CIO, and Mr. First. A Gallup poll of June 9, 1974 by the Equal Employment Opportunity Act James M. Roche, chairman of the Board, reported that the proportion of adults of 1972." General Motors Corp. The expanded who drink is at the highest point re­ ERA won't bring equal pay, she. implies­ committee comprises some of the top corded in 35 years of regular Gallup poll a telling point. Score one for Schlafiy, right? labor union and corporate presidents in audits of America's drinking habits. It Wrong. "Dr. Emerson," who is an attorney, the United States. reported that 18 percent of those 18 years a Yale Law School professor, and calls him­ self Mr. Emerson, conceded nothing of the The National Council on Alcoholism and older-some 25 million Americans­ kind. was founded in 1944 and during the sometimes drink to excess and more than "No, I didn't say that at all," he told me. 1950's and 1960's made the fight against they think they should. "That's ·absolutely incorrect. Obviously ERA alcoholism in industry one of its top pri­ Second. Excessive use of alcohol, as would do a great deal to improve opportuni. orities. However, in those days the stig­ reported in studies from all parts of the ties for women workers." ma of alcoholism still prevailed, and world, is related to certain cancers, par­ But the television audience didn't have a while there were limited successes in chance to hear Thomas I. Emerson's correc­ ticularly those of the mouth, pharynx, tion. Sclnafiy emerged unscathed, still smil­ some industries, there had to be a major larynx, esophagus, and primary cancer ing and one step ahead of the facts. attitudinal change on the part of the of the liver. A heavy drinker who does Carefully choreographed performances like American public before real progress not smoke has approximately the same this have lifted Schlafiy to her current emi· could be made. increased risk of developing cancer of nence as a leader in the fight to prevent rati­ At the luncheon both Mr. Meany and the mouth and throat as a heavy smoker fi.cation of the Equal Rights Amendment. Mr. Roche pledged their full cooperation who does not drink. When heavy drink­ A veteran of right-wing causes, she is the ing and heavy smoking are combined, the author of A Choice Not an Echo, a tract boost­ to developing in the voluntary sector a ing the 1964 Presidential campaign of Barry massive program to detect and treat al­ risk jumps enormously-to 15 times Goldwater. And in 1960 she was termed a coholism in industry. We in the Federal greater than among people who neither "very loyal member of the John Birch So­ Government must do our share, because drink nor smoke. ciety" by its director Robert Welch-a. claim the rising consumption of alcohol is Third. The increase in junvenile she says she denied at the time. July 31, 1974 EXTENSIONS OF R·EMARKS 26207 Now she has surfaced as chairman (yes, uses her discussion of the issues to manipu­ percentage of cases," the Citizens Advisory chairman) of STOP ERA, a national orga- late the emotions of her audience. Council on the Status of Women reports, not­ nization opposing the Amendment. As such, Holding up a fat green copy of American ing that despite the lack of research, a 1965 she has addressed state legislatures across the Jurisprudence 2d, a legal encyclopedia, Schla­ survey of judges by the American Bar Asso­ country, appeared on national and local tele- fly proclaims the book proves that today in ciation showed that temporary alimony is vision programs, and given countless radio every one of the 50 states, a married women awarded in less than 10 percent of cases and and newspaper interviews. "has the legal right to be supported by her permanent alimony in as few as 2 percent of In her wake, she has apparently left husband." cases. Moreover. the council continued, "fa­ thousands of frightened women who fear "This is regardless of her own separate thers by and large are contributing less than ERA will destroy the American family, legal- means," Schlafl.y says. "He can't make her go half the support of the children in divided ize rape, send mothers into combat, require to work if she doesn't want to. She has the families" and "alimony and child-support unisex bathrooms, and force contented legal right, and these are the laws which will awards are very difficult to collect." housewives into jobs they don't want. One be invalidated by the Equal Rights Amend­ apparent victim of acute Schlafl.y-shock ment." You don't have to be a lawyer to figure out why this is true. Most familles barely even thundered that, after ERA, women and Here Schlafl.y addresses a complex and scrape along on one income. Obviously, when men could be "squatting over open la- rapidly changing area of the law with over­ the family divides into two households, extra trines"-as if ERA were a chemical that simplifications that do no service for the would corrode modern American plumbing. women she claims to defend. The issue of income is needed, and that means the wife None of the above is true. Nevertheless, homemakers' rights has given her perhaps usually must work outside the home. Fur­ partly as a result of such scare tactics, the her most successful arguments and it's 1m­ thermore, most judges are reluctant to im­ ratification of ERA, which had seemed a sure portant to examine Schlafl.y's statements poverish a husband, and often award wives thing in 1972, slowed down in 1973. A total of carefully. The law does provide a right of token child-support payments that do not 38 states must ratify ERA before it becomes support to wives, but too often women wake reflect the actual cost in time and money it the 27th Amendment to the Constitution. up to find that this right gives them as takes to bring up children. And one study Last year four states ratified, bringing the much effective protection as the emperor's cited by the Citizens Advisory Council total to 30; 13 failed to ratify (two of them by new clothes. showed that 10 years after the divorce, 87 only a one-vote margin), and one state, Ne- Most families, of course, work out arrange­ percent of ex-husbands had skipped out on braska, attempted to rescind ratification, a ments for sharing financial, child-rearing, even these meager obligations. maneuver of dubious legal effectiveness. and housekeeping responsibilities, and these ERA, Schlafl.y says, "will make a wife "Not too bad a track record for an ama- agreements are enforced by love and cus­ equally responsible to provide a home for her ture," Schlafl.y says as she smiles sweetly to tom-not the law. It a husband becomes a family and to provide 50 percent of the fi­ reporters. gambler, an alcoholic, or simply lazy, a de- nancial support of her family." Her state­ Mare about that "amateur" standing later. pendent wife is in serious trouble. At best, ment can terrify housewives who fear they First, let's note that Schlafl.y can't take all if she can get help from a court, it is likely will be forced to go out and earn half the dol­ the credit. Some state legislators are ada- that she would get only a bare minimum of lars their family spends. This is not the case. mantly opposed to anything that smacks of support. In fact, in many cases wives do not ERA will not interfere with private mari­ women's rights. They would vote against ERA get help at all. tal arrangements. The Amendment will with or without Schlafl.y. Schlafl.y's toting that heavy copy of change support laws to provide a reciprocal More ominously, the Equal Rights Amend- American Jurisprudence doesn't mean that right of support between husbands and ment has become a rallying point for right- she is in fact citing weighty and dlsposi­ wives. Some states, such as Pennsylvania and wlng extremist organizations around the tive evidence. She describes the series as "au­ Schlafl.y's own home, Dlinois, already have country. The John Birch Society, the Ku Klux thoritative" and "the most compr.ehensive reciprocal rights of support. And no one has Klan, the National States Rights Party, and modern text statement of American law." seen a flood of destitute, abandoned house­ other radical right groups have sent their But good lawyers would not rely on American wives going into the unemployment offices. members-some organizationally identified Jurisprudence's statement of the law with­ Furthermore, contrary to Schlafl.y's asser­ and some not--into the fray. They tend to out substantial further research. tions, courts already often consider a wife's mirror Schlafl.y's views, tactics, and argu- But Schlafl.y has other sources. "In Illinois," separate means or earning capacity in set­ ments; and ultraconservative backing has she told William Buckley's "Firing Line" tUng support disputes. The fact is that what­ been a factor in creating her reputation for audi·ence, "the court said the husband had ever effective protection dependent wives now superhuman effectiveness. even to buy [his wife] a fur coat--a beautiful enjoy will not be destroyed by ERA. "The claim that American women are silver mink coat. And he had that obligation Far from depriving the homemaker of her downtrodden and unfairly treated is the to do it because it was his obligation to sup­ rights, ERA probably would enhance her fraud of the century," she avers. "The truth port her, even though she had separate status. At present, the financial value of the is that American women have never had it means-she had a $10,000 income of her homemaker's contributions as housekeeper, so good. Why should we lower ourselves to own-and even though she had four other child-raiser, hostess, chauffeur, and general •equal rights' when we already have the coats." factotum is not legally recognized. status of special privilege?" , A court-ordered mink coat sounds terrific, However, ERA "will require state laws to In Schlafl.y's America, every woman enjoys doesn't it? Where do we sign up? recognize the contribution of the homemaker the "right to care for her own baby in her Unfortunately, according to Professor who takes care of her home and family," ac­ own home while being financially supported Judith Areen, associate professor of law at cording to Common Cause. "The ERA would by her husband." Never mind that 43 per- Georgetown University, Schlafl.y is being entitle the homemaker to financial support cent of American women over the age of 16 "absolutely misleading." Areen explained in compensation for her services as home­ work full time outside the home and that that the case [Lewis Berman & Co. v. Dahl- maker. In this way, the ERA will actually 70 percent of women workers have to work berg, 336 Ill App. 233 (1948)] involved a strengthen the dignity of the homemaker be­ because they are single, widowed, divorced, or wife who had charged a fur coat at a store. cause support laws will be based on the ac­ married to men who earn less than $7,000 a Her husband had to pay the bill because tual earning power and contributions of each year. No matter that 61 percent of poor peo- under the Illinois Family Expense Statute, spouse, instead of being based simply on ple in this country are female. Schlafl.y and it is assumed that he consented to her pur­ sex." the lawmakers are in television-commercial chase. But while ERA backers are mired in the land, where the lady in the high heels and That law, like others in the support cases details and complexities of the reality of $100 skirt delicately mops her vast and al- Schlafl.y cites, is designed to protect erect­ homemaker's rights, Schlafly has lit a new ready spotless kitchen floor. !tors or the state--but certainly not the wife. firecracker. This time it's the draft. Schlafl.y paints ERA as the product of If the wife had not charged the coat, but had The ERA will "positively, absolutely, and "liberationlsts," who are "a bunch of bitter simply gone to court and asked for one, she without the slightest shadow of a doubt women seeking a constitutional cure for their would have lost. And if her husband had can­ make women subject to the military draft personal problems." The "libbers," she celed all her charges (as he probably did) on the same basis with men," she warns the charges, are using ERA to wage "a total as- afterward, that law wouldn't insure her legislators, her eyes flashing a steely glint. sault on the family, on marriage and on chil- rights to another fur coat. "Women will be sent into combat and onto dren." Naturally, she doesn't dwell on ERA's "What Schlafl.y didn't say was that under warships with men and will be required to backing from the League of Women Voters, the same law, if the husband had charged the carry the same forty- or fifty-pound packs. the Homemakers of America, the National coat, the wife would have had to pay," Pro­ Mothers will have to be drafted on the same Coalition of Catholic Nuns, the Women's fessor Areen added. "That law wouldn't basis as fathers." Christian Temperance Union, the General change at all under ERA." Bul doused with facts, this little bomb Federation of Women's Clubs, and dozens of Furthermore, while big alimony and child­ goes off not with a bang but a fizzle. For women's groups that are hardly considered support payments may be a reality in Schlaf­ one thing, we now have a volunteer army. radical. ly's wealthy social circles, the average woman No one, male or female, is being drafted. Schlafl.y plays skillfully on the insecurities facing a separation or divorce soon finds that Yes, we might have another war and rein­ of women who are dependent on their hus- the "absolute" right to support shrinks to a stitute the draft. But in the event of a bands, as well as on the role images of male slim reed indeed. nuclear war (which Schlafl.y in her other legislators out to "protect" womankind. She "Alimony is granted only in a very small writings says is imminent), questions of 26208 EXTENSIONS OF R.£MARKS July 31, 19 7 4 the draft become somewhat academic. No hind [while she was off in search of more ments about her 1960 status have been less one would be safe. conquests] to use their newfound legislative than satisfying, and have led to speculation The argument that ERA backers jokingly know-how to fight some of labor's pet pro­ 'that Schlafiy may have been in fact an early call the "potty problem" is at the same ju­ grams." society member but withdrew later to broad­ en her personal appeal and thus advance her venile level. Schlafly and cohorts warn that (Until recently, Schlafly has made amp~e ERA would outlaw separate bathrooms and use of the fact that the AFL-CIO was di­ political ambitious. sleeping facilities for men and women in vided on ERA to assert that America's work­ When I phoned Schlafiy to ask for an in­ public places. However, nothing in ERA pro­ ingwomen don't want the Amendment. That terview she declined, and refused to answer hibits sex-segregated bathrooms, and pro­ claim evaporated in October when the na­ a speciftc question about her alleged Birch ponents argue that the Supreme Court has tion's largest labor organization unanimously Society membership or to help me check enunciated a constitutional right to privacy endorsed ERA at its tenth convention­ other facts about her career. between the sexes. Anyway, don't these thanks largely to extreme pressure from I asked McManus of the Birch Society people use single-sex bathrooms on airplanes? women in the rank and file and the few whether Welch stood by his 1960 statement women in leadership positions.) calling Schafly a "loyal member." "There is Schlafly's methods are in the best tradi­ The John Birch Society, of course, thinks nothing said in the Bulletin that [Welch] tions of a propagandist preying on the fears ERA is a left-wing plot and admits a full­ doesn't stand by," McManus answered firm­ of the 111-informed. She has a reputation for fledged effort to stop it. "It's safe to say that, ly. where ERA was defeated, the Birch Society However, there can be no doubt that guts-for taking on all comers, which seems was involved," said John F. McManus, direc­ to give her a certain credibility. (However, Schafiy has had a cordial relationship with tor of the society's public relations, in a tele­ the society. she twice refused to be interviewed by me, phone interview. even when I suggested she come armed with For example, unlike Senator Goldwater, According to McManus, the Birch Society's who denounced the John Birch Society and t ape recorder and witnesses.) first mention of ERA came in a November, Her performance relies heavily on an adroit rejected its support in his 1964 Presidential 1972, article in American Opinion by Birch campaign, Schlafly has defended the society combination of facts, half-truths, overstate­ National Council member John G. Schmitz. ment, and misrepresentation. She puts op­ from attack. In 1965, according to newspaper Later, the Society's founder and director, reports, she charged that Republicans who ponents on the defensive and then, with su­ Robert Welch, urged members to "plunge in preme self-confidence, repeats simplistic denounced the John Birch Society were and help relegate this subversive proposal to "guilty of diversionary and divisive tactics." statements over and over. Most of us find it early and complete oblivion." hard to believe that a respectable-looking McManus reported that Birchers responded She herself refused to take such a step in matron might be careless with the truth. To enthusiastically to Welch's call. "Many of our 1967 when her alleged Birch connections be­ cite a few examples: members have formed local groups. and have came an issue in her bitterly fought but un­ In Georgia, Schlafiy warned that ERA tak n on the job of organizing," McManus successful battle for the presidency of the Na­ would eliminate dower rights-a legal pro­ says, "because Birch members know how to tional Federation of Republican Women. vision that allots a man's estate to his widow. organize." Birch telephone networks also After candidate Schlafly denied that she In fact, Georgia had abolished dower rights have called legislators at strategic moments held Birch membership, Elizabeth Fielding, several years earlier. to urge them to vote against ERA, McManus then the federation's director of public rela­ Schlafly threatens that ERA will do away said. The networks are not necessarily identi­ tions, demanded to know why she didn't with so-called protective legislation for fied as Birch-organized. "denounce the Birch Society ... as Barry women workers. In fact, this legislation, al­ Although the society's headquarters pub­ Goldwater has." Fielding offered to call a though often well intentioned, tended to licizes its opposition to ERA, the identity press conference right away so that Schalfly protect women from advancement and bet­ of its state and local organizers is carefully could do so. But Schlafly, who often paints ter-paying jobs. (For example, a law "pro­ concealed. The Birch origins of only a few herself as a Goldwater conservative, declined tecting" women from overtime prevented local groups-such as Utah's HOTDOG (Hu­ to follow Goldwater's lead. women from earning time-and-a-half pay manitarians Opposed To Degrading Our For its part, the Birch Society, while not rates on an equal basis with men.) Such Girls) and Wisconsin's POW (Protect Our always totally in agreement with Schlafly, has laws are already being invalidated under Women)-have been revealed by the society. generously pushed her career. A Choice Not Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. McManus defended the secrecy, saying, an Echo became a best-seller at least in part And under ERA, when a law is truly pro­ "We have a policy of allowing our members due to promotion and distribution by the tective, it can be extended to both sexes; to choose their own techniques. We're anx­ society. Later the society called another book when it is discriminatory, it wlll be elimi­ ious to be identified because we want people "an excellent small volume," while another nated. to know what the John Birch Society is was "recommended for all adult education Yet, for all the error of her words, doing. But if a local citizen wants not to be courses in national survival" in an American Schlafly's arguments are widely promulgated. identified, that's his affair." Opinion review. Robert Wech urged members They have been reprinted--often word for Helping the "local citizens" are 85 full­ to buy yet another Schlafiy tract, saying, word-in various ultraright publications, time paid Birch organizers (called coordi­ "You can order it from us by mall; and it is, from H. L. Hunt's Life Line Freedom Talk; nators) across the country. "We're using their. or soon will be, on sale at practically all our to the Manion Forum, run by Dean Clarence talent and organizational abilities to oppose bookstore units." Manion, a John Birch Society National ERA," McManus said. The Birch connections Recently, of course, Welch's complimentary Council member; to Birch Society publica­ of these coordinators are also kept quiet. mentions of Schlafiy's anti-ERA activity tions. Her arguments also appear in local McManus denied that the national Birch have been frequent. In December, 1972, Welch ~~wspapers. Sometimes the story is attrib­ organization has sent funds to anti-ERA recommended a Schlafly newsletter on the uted to her; sometimes a local by-line is groups. While denying the existence of a used, giving the material grassroots flavor. ERA, calling her statement "another excel­ specific ERA war chest at the national level, lent educational weapon recently added to Some experts believe that Schlafly and her McManus said, "Any money that has been ultraconservative admirers are concerned the anti-Amendment toolbox." In February, spent has been raised at the local level. I 1973, Welch praised the anti-ERA efforts of with far more than the well-being of women. don't know how much the local societies have "The right is always looking for issues of this Schlafly and Jacquie Daviston. (Davison spent but I doubt if it's been very much." heads Happiness of Womanhood, Inc., and kind that have some popular appeal and that He did, however, say that the 85 full-time wlll bring them into contact with segments plans to defeat ERA and then promulgate the organizers spend a substantial part of the doctrine of "Fascinating Womanhood," which of opinion in the mainstream," explains society's $8-mlllion-a-year budget. Presum­ Irwin Suan, director of the domestic fact­ goes something like : "If you make your ably, some of that money could find its way man your king, then you are a queen," etc.) finding department of the Anti-Defamation into anti-ERA work. League of B'nai Brith, which carefully moni­ And significantly, in 1973, Schlafiy and her "Quality is much more important than husband J. Fred Schlafly appeared as fea­ tors extremist groups of all political persua­ quantity." he continued, denying a heavy sions. "Then, within that broad context, they tured speakers at the Birch Society's annual financial commitment. "You don't need a God, Family, and Country Rally. try to press their own personal point of view whole lot of literature, but a few pieces on other issues. mailed to the right people or just sitting Schlafly has repeatedly declared that she "There is no doubt that the John Birch down and talking to the right person can does not receive "one dime" !rom the Birch Society latched onto ERA bete- anti-ERA blitz in action. For one thing, her • July 31, 19 7 4 EXTENSIONS OF R£MARKS 26209 kitchen must be pretty crowded since she CONSUMER ADVOCATE FLORENCE had found that "people in this a.rea"-Upper reportedly has two paid secretaries. RICE Manhattan-were "still having to pay exor­ Who, for example, paid for Schlafly's visit bitant deposits, and there's a lot of estimate to Nebraska last year during that state's billing and people getting dunning letters rescission fight? The most visible anti-ERA HON. CHARLES B. RANGEL saying they've got to pay immediately." group was the Omaha Unit of Pro America, OF NEW YORK Among those attending the opening at Inc., an ultra-conservative national organiza­ 1956 Amsterdam Avenue a.t 157th Street were tion. Schlafly stayed overnight with the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Attorney General Louis J. Lefkowitz, Richard group's president, Mrs. T. A. Bjorge. However, Wednesday, July 31, 1974 Givens, region Federal Trade Commissioner, Mrs. Bjorge told me that Pro America. did and Consumer Affairs Commissioner Elinor not pay Schlafly's plane fare and she was Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, consumer Guggenheimer, both of whom pledged their not aware of anyone passing the hat to raise education is a hot issue these days. In support to Mrs. Rice's efforts. Schlafly's expenses. And although large quan­ minority communities, it has always Also present were representatives of the tities of anti-ERA literature appeared in been an issue. Because they lacked both Public Service Commission, the Telephone Nebraska, Mrs. Bjorge said Pro-America spent information and power, blacks and other Company and Con Edison, which Mrs. Rice less than $100 on the struggle. minorities allowed themselves to be described as "my arch-enemy friends." The National Organization for Women has "We're going to take care of Florence's peo­ charged that the insurance industry was a taken advantage of by companies and ple," said Wayman Dunn, deputy assistant to key funding source in the Nebraska anti­ stores. But things are changing. As in the chairman of Con Edison. ERA fight. (ERA would prohibit many in­ other areas of politics and power, blacks "We're going to take care of all the people, surance-industry practices that discriminate are making headway in the field of con­ honey, because I'm going to send them to against women, and would therefore cut into sumer education. In New York City, the you," Mrs. Rice replied. the companies' profits.) NOW points out that driving force behind this progress is an Mrs. Guggenheimer said, however, that she State Senator Richard Proud, who led the energetic, committed consumer advocate was "worried about consumer offices that are rescission move, is an employee of Mutual of named Florence Rice. not hooked into offices that help them do Omaha and that other anti-ERA leaders had something." insurance-industry connections. Mutual of Ms. Rice has been working to protect "A lot of them are confusing the consumer Chama has denied any participation. Of consumers for more than a decade, and about where you can get governmental ac­ course, Schlafly would not agree to an inter­ has achieved tangible success in increas­ tion, and where you can go and talk to a view, I could not determine for sure who, if ing their awareness of how to protect friend," she said. Florence is education. She anyone, paid for her Nebraska trip. their interests. I commend Ms. Rice's ef­ isn't saying that she's the complaint resolu­ Schlafly also denies using her own Eagle forts, and urge my colleagues to read the tion center." Trust Fund to fight the ERA Eagle members following article about the opening of One such agency, a branch office of the pay $5 a year for dues and a subscription to her second consumer education center: Manhattan District Attorney's office at 55 "The Phyllis Schlafly Report," her newsletter. West 125th Street, was established last Schlafly puts the number of Eagle subscrib­ PRAISE FOR HARLEM "PEOPLE'S ADVOCATE" month, specifically to handle cases involving ers at "under 10,000." MARKS OPENING OF SECOND CONSUMER thefts by deceit and defrauding consumers. Schlafly could end the speculation and OFFICE the charges of right-wing funding with a (By Charlayne Hunter) 122 CASES IN MONTH publicly audited account of STOP ERA and In a small, cramped storefront in Harlem, Figures released by District Attorney Rich­ Eagle Trust Fund finances. NOW is making Federal, state and city officials and a few ard H. Kuh yesterday showed that the agency available such an accounting of its own ERA "arch-enemy friends" joined Florence Rice had handled 122 complaints in its first war chest, but so far Schlafly has failed to yesterday in opening her second consumer­ month, 16 of them involving allegations of do the same. education center uptown. crime. Despite her lack of success in previous bids Mrs. Rice, who organized the Harlem Con­ Of that number, 13 are being investigated for national attention, she has come far sumer Education Council, Inc., in 1963, and further on possible charges of ha.rra.ssment, fighting the ERA. Because she or her follow­ has been active in a range of consumer prob­ fraud, false advertising and la.rcency. The ers demand equal time on each occasion that lems since, was praised as a "pioneer" and a remaining number involving civil problems an ERA proponent makes an appearance on people's advocate" and as someone who "puts were referred to "more appropriate agencies," radio or television, Schlafly has made it out any money she gets back into the commu­ along with WMCA's Call for Action program. of the minor leagues of obscure right-wing nity." "A starting volume of 30 complaints a. week publications and into the national media. In turn, she pledged to continue her bat­ between June 10 and July 9 demonstrates In some ways, she might be called an tles in the consumer arena, particularly her that district attorneys throughout the coun­ artificial creation of the fairness doctrine: long-standing ones with the ut111ty com­ try should take their offices to the people," wherever the pro-ERA views of the vast panies. Mr. Kuh said in a. statement released to the majority of Americans are presented, Before the informal opening ceremonies, press. Schlafly-the only nationally known spokes­ guests who preferred the heat outside to the Mr. Kuh estimated that the figure "will woman against it-is brought out in the heat inside talked about Mrs. Rice and her spring upward," as more people learn about name of objectivity. tireless efforts, often without remuneration, the office, which is on the 11th floor of the Schlafly is using her newfound celebrity on behalf of poor people. Charles A. Vincent Building on 125th Street to promote her conservative views. Recent­ AIDED BY URBAN COALITION near Lenox Avenue. It is open daily from ly, CBS gave her a regular national forum "Any money she gets she puts back into 9:30A.M. to 6 P.M., and on Saturdays until as one of its commentators on "Spectrum," a the community," said Luther Gatling, execu­ lP.M. network radio and television editorial series. tive assistant to Eugene Callendar, president Schlafly can expect stiffer opposition on of the New York Urban Coalition. Both he women's issues in the future. ERA backers LUBBOCK, TEX., JOB TRAINING are now gearing up with an educational cam­ and Mr. Callendar said that the coalition had paign to counter Schlafly-style rhetoric in been helping Mrs. Rice for the last year, and PROGRAM A SUCCESS states that haven't ratified. that they planned to help her draw up a As the proponents look up the cases Sch­ proposal to some foundations. lafly cites and check on her facts, she will "She needs at least $50,000 a year to do HON. GEORGE H. MAHON just the bare-bones work in consumer edu­ doubltless move onward to new cases and OF TEXAS cation," Mr. Gatling said. new facts. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES In fact, Phyllis Schafly's description of "She can't get any money because of what the ERA as a "terminal case" should en­ she's doing" Mr. Callendar said. "She's a. real Wednesday, July 31, 1974 courage ERA backers. In 1971, for instance, people's advocate" before the state Public she urged Nixon to bow out in favor of Service Commission and the Federal Trade Mr. MAHON. Mr. Speaker, Dr. Leon Reagan: she had a poll, she said, proving that Commission. "If you have a. problem with Sullivan has done an outstanding job in Richard Nixon could not win. your phone bill or your gas bill, you don't behalf of the underprivileged youth and So much for the Schlafly instinct and re­ call Con. Edison or the phone company, you citizens otherwise of our country. He search. Once we understand her methods, call Florence." established what is known as the Oppor­ we can cure Schlafly-shock. Women across Others, who asked not to be identified, said tunities Industrialization Center--OIC­ the country have been working hard for that Mrs. Rice had turned down offers of ERA. And this Amendment-the most im­ grants from Consolidated Edison and the back in 1963 from a pilot project in job portant legislation for women since suf­ telephone company. training and placement in Philadelphia. frage-can and will be passed. IRKED BY DUNNINGS OIC has grown to include centers in 6 (Lisa Cronin Wohl is a free-lance writer. Mrs. Rice, who over the years has been out­ foreign countries and boasts some 110 She supports the ERA, but does not plan, spoken at hearings and public forums about centers in 43 States. The job retention as Schlafly fears, "a total assault on the billing practices and complaint procedures rate for graduates is an amazing 85 per­ family, on marriage and on children.") of the major utility companies, said that she cent. CXX--1653-Part 20 26210 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 31, 1974 The July 1974 issue of the Reader's I would commend TRB's column to alone to handle the matter? Really, wouldn't the attention of my colleagues, and the it be simpler to adopt a collectized parlia­ Digest carries an article about Dr. Sul­ mentary government or some partial adapta­ livan and the OIC program. Reference text fallows: tion of it? Half a dozen proposals are now is made in the article to a very successful [From TRB, July 20, 1!}74] in Congress. OIC unit in my home town of Lubbock, TURBULENCE AHEAD The United States would never accept par­ Tex. I quote the following excerpt from With a parliamentary system like Canada's liamentary "instabUity," it is argued, like the article: the United States could have dealt with Wat­ that in Canada; it breeds coalition govern­ Out on the Great Plains, at Lubbock, ergate two months after it was discovered. ments. It is odd to hear the latter argument Texas, I found OIC operating in an aban­ With our rigid government we have instead advance. Prime Minister Trudeau has just doned supermarket converted into a big open reached a point of public helplessness that been reelected with a fresh mandate, and classroom, with a day nursery for small chil­ is demeaning to a great nation. It is not presumably he can govern for the next four dren. Sparked by the Rev. Allen L. Davis, merely demeaning but dangerous. We face years with collective party responsib111ty. the Lubbock OIC serves blacks (48 percent), extraordinary shocks on the economic front Things are different in Washington. I do · Chicanos (36 percent) and whites (16 per­ and the President evidently does not know not mean Watergate. One party controls the cent). About a quarter are on welfare. One what to do, nor is there any quick way of White House, a rival party controls the legis­ ex-student is a 46-year-old father of eight, replacing him. There is impeachment, of lature and the emphasis is on negativism. who is now working his way throu~h col­ course, but that is reserved for high crimes Ah yes, you say, but this is the exception. lege as a printer, after getting his start at and misdemeanors and simple economic Not at all. In the last 46 years the control of OIC. A mother of five, with a tenth-grade muddleheadedness does not meet the for­ Congress and the White House has been split education, trained at OIC to be a sales clerk, mula. There is no lack-of-confidence vote in 16 years, or one-third of the time. and is now earning $320 a month instead our system that can get an election and oust Often you hear it said with smug self­ of drawing $105-a-month welfare. an inept leader, there is no arrangement satisfaction, "So what? Divided government whereby a political part itself can readily is good; one party will watch the other; the I would like to commend Dr. Sullivan, change its spokesman as the Progressive Con­ sound men of business wm be the real rulers; Reverend Davis, and many others who servative party in Canada is now preparing this means less government interference. The have worked long and hard over the to do with the unfortunate Robert Stanfield fewer laws the better." after his defeat in last week's election. No, Business certainly is powerful. But in the years in behalf of those who want to we are helpless, as James Sundquist of Brook­ real pinch can government act? You could help themselves. ings put it, recalling the discredited British find no better example than the terrible Prime Minister who sought to appease Hit­ problem of inflation at the present time. All ler. "Under our system, a Nevtlle Chamber­ around the world today the economic warn­ lain would stay in office for his full term even ing signs are flashing: "Buckle seat belts, REVITALIZING THE SYSTEM if that meant losing a war, and the very turbulence ahead!" It is the most serious in­ freedom of the nation." ternational inflation in history. How badly We need a more fiexible system. For exam­ America needs a leader it can trust! HON. MICHAEL HARRINGTON ple, Sen. William Fulbright, who has headed Last week Herbert Stein, chairman of Mr. OP MASSACHUSETTS the Foreign Relations Committee longer than Nixon's Council of Economic Advisers, called IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES anybody else, is a national asset. But he was the American economy "very strong," but defeated in a local primary and must go. also acted like the watchful airline hostess Wednesday, July 31, 1974 Why should a man like Fulbright-or some who doesn't want to frighten anybody but equivalent senator in the same fix on the wants to be sure everybody is tucked in: Mr. HARRINGTON. Mr. Speaker, I conservative side--be lost under a rigid sys­ "We have no easy way out of this. I think would like to bring to the attention of tem, and not run from some other con­ we have to be prepared to continue for a long my colleagues an article by Richard stituency, from some safe seat, to give Con­ time. I think in terms of years, not months­ Trout, TRB, which appeared in the July gress the benefit of his continuing ex­ three, four years, and more or less indefi­ 20 edition of the New Republic. Mr. perience? nitely, we have to follow a policy of much Trout raises an issue which should be It is stunning to cross the line that sepa­ greater discipline." of central concern to our country-the rates the United States and Canada and find In Herbert Hoover's Great Depression there the idea of transferable legislative constitu­ was a Commerce Department economist absence of governmental responsibility encies unthinkable in the former and taken named Julius Klein. Mr. Hoover would see and accountability. for granted in the latter. Mr. Stanfield has prosperity just around the corner, and Klein The United States is now suffering just run from a district in central Halifax in would explain why. The similarities are from fundamental problems which de­ Nova Scotia-he doesn't live there. Prime rather striking: Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau is elected from mand immediate and effective action. We Said Julius Klein in '29, face a skyrocketing inflation combined the Mount Royal district of Montreal-he doesn't live there either. They are glad to "I'm confident there's no decllne!" with high unemployment, an environ­ have famous men to elect. Said Herbert Stein, "Hew to the line, mental crisis, shortage in energy and There are two dangers of Watergate, one We'll all be fine by '79." food, and an executive branch which has that Mr. Nixon will ride out impeachment, Dr. Stein says the real blame for inflation lost its ability to lead. Our Government in which case the great sword that the is with the American public-they rejected in turn, has proved unable or unwilling Founding Fathers forged for the Constitu­ "tax increases." It 1s an astonishing state­ to deal with these pressing issues. One tion will rust and be forgotten; the other ment for the aide of Mr. Nixon who pledged party controls the executive while an­ that he will be impeached, and the Nation in 1972: "My goal is not only no tax increase other controls the legislature. The result will say, "See, now we have solved the Nixon but no tax increase for the next four years." problem and we can forget Watergate as soon Tighten your seat belts, turbulence ahead. is a mutual check which either leaves as possible!" Of the two, the latter possibility Who's at the controls? legislation at a standstill or waters it could be the more dangerous if it throws down to such a degree that it lacks any away the experience we have gained and authority. what might be the last chance of some per­ Mr. Trout presents a convincing ar­ manent reform. TRffiUTE TO ERNEST AND ROSE gument for establishing a more respon­ The dominance of the presidency over SAMUELS sive governmental system. In every oth­ Congress and courts seems likely to be er democracy in the world, government is checked now for a while whatever happens, because Mr. Nixon has overreached himself held accountable for its actions and for and been too arrogant. But the same proc­ HON. WILLIAM LEHMAN inaction. Thus, if it meets with popular ess is apt to begin again after a while be­ OF FLORIDA disapproval it will quickly and efficiently cause the Nation needs a strong leader, and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES be removed from office and be replaced will achieve it in one way or another. Wednesday, July 31, 1974 by a party which has a public mandate Suppose the future man in the White to act. House had the charisma that Mr. Nixon lacks, Mr. LEHMAN. Mr. Speaker, a recent Mr. Trout poses the question, "Who's the demagoguery of Huey Long, the effron­ event that took place in the State of in control?" This question can only be tery of Joe McCarthy, the racism of George Israel was a most appropriate form of Wallace, and pushed his power in the paths recognition for one of our unique men answered through responsive and ac­ Mr. Nixon has pointed out--impoundment, countable leadership. Until such change executive privilege, national security, war­ in the 13th District of Florida. comes about, we must brace ourselves for rantless wiretaps, sale of ambassadorships, At a time when most see the tran­ more of the same, ineffective leadership falsification of cables, favors for campaign quility of retirement, Ernie Samuels has which is unable to deal with our coun­ funds, burglary, spying and all the rest. Could not sought but has accepted many re­ try's basic problems. we depend on the device of impeachment sponsibilities in our community. As July 31, 1974 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 26211 chairman of the Condominium Executive The President can no longer pick out a Mature, educated, sophisticated peo­ Council of Florida, he was a leader in the program, supported by the Congress that he ple ranted and raved about this need opposes and withhold funds, arbitrarily, from legislative battle for the rights of his that one area of concern. Two full Con­ while Roy stood, nurturing his Prince fellow condominium owners. He has also gressional Committees worked an entire year Valiant hairdo, in the corner. been a leader in the effort to protect our on that legislation also called the Percy/ The campaign leaders never solved the air and water. Ervin/Muskie Bill. There were few public problem of the television set, because In light of his concern for the environ­ hearings or emotional exchanges, little radio suddenly one appeared. ment, it is fit and proper that to honor and television coverage. Private interests "Where did it come from?" we asked. his successful fundraising effort for were well represented at the hearings, but An extensive search turned up Roy. Israel in the October fight for survival, no public hearings. This is legislation im­ When pressed upon just how he solved there now exists in Israel a Point East portant to every citizen, to everyone who pays taxes. the momentous problem of the day, Roy Ernest and Rose Forest. Other Congressional accomplishments in­ said, "Well, I just went down to the The text of the news items as it ap­ clude the War Powers resolution which pro­ Seven/Eleven and rented it.'' peared in the Jewish Floridian of July 12, vides that no United States troops can be Roy's simple and direct approach to 1974, is as follows: committed to foreign wars, by any President, problem-solving flowered and flourished JNF POINT EAST PILGRIMAGE TO ISRAEL for more than a short period, without Con­ and we came to appreciate it. All we had A most impressive pilgrimage, comprised gressional approval. Additionally, Congress to do was tell Roy what we needed, care­ of 47 delegates, traveled to Kfar Hachorshim passed a pension reform bill, insuring private fully avoid specific questions about how to dedicate the Point East Ernest and Rose pension plans, a Social Security increase of he was going to do it, and whatever it Forest in the Governor Askew Park Forest. 11 %, the 55 mph speed limit, the Alaskan was would get done. This memorable event will linger for a long pipeline, unprecedented funds for energy re­ time as a testimonial of love and respect to search and a new agriculture blll that is All this talent, and Roy didn't cost the great leader of Point East, Mr. Ernest sending farm subsidies down from 4 billion anything! All we had to do was feed him. Samuels, who has become a legend in his dollars to 2 billion dollars this year and 460 Now that, Mr. Speaker, was something own time in this great condominium. million next year. What it really says to else again. Roy is stringbean thin, but Attending the ceremony from Miami Beach farmers is-Grow as, much as you can. he has the greatest capacity I have ever was Judge Zev W. Kogan, President, JNF Still on the Congressional agenda, among seen for hamburgers, peanut butter, Southern Region, who came especially to pay pressing concerns undone, remain Election tribute on this great occasion to Mr. & Mrs. Campaign Reform and Internal Congres­ balogna, pie, cake, beans-food, any kind Samuels, and to share with them and with sional Reform, but the Congressional Report of food! the pilgrimage the joy of this great day. Card is not nearly as empty or as poor as All over the 24th District, they looked Representing the Keren Kayemeth was Mr. the American people seem to think. With forward to my appearance at bake Tidhar of the American desk. 254 sub-committees and 37 standing commit­ sales-not for me, or a chance to visit tees, it's sometimes difficult to separate the It is good that Ernie and Rose were legislative wheat from the chaff. Certainly, with a candidate, but because Roy would accompanied by so many of their sup­ a limitation of Presidential war powers, buy them out! If they were serving free porters and workers from Point East, budget control and increased food supply are food, we would get kicked out. who have helped him make that con­ commendable and progressive moves for When the campaign was over and dominium development maintain a lead­ which Congress should receive credit rather done-and successful-Roy received his ership position in south Florida. than criticism. reward. He was assigned to temporary duty in Washington for familiarization and to attend the swearing in ceremony CONGRESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS as I became a Member of this body. ROY EARL MULLIN-GO-FER FIRST CLASS When Roy returned to Texas, it de­ veloped that our office could not function HON. LESTER L. WOLFF without him and his special abilities. OF NEW YORK HON. DALE MILFORD Since he continued to haunt our office IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF TEXAS each day after school and on Saturdays, Wednesday, July 31, 1974 I gave him a part-time position on the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES staff. The position paid very little money Mr. WOLFF. Mr. Speaker, I recently Wednesday, July 31, 1974 but carried an elevated title as "congres­ received a copy of an editorial which was sional go-fer, first class." delivered over WGSM radio on July 20, Mr. MILFORD. Mr. Speaker, it is with 1974. The editorial points out several deep regret that I announce today that There has never been any doubt that major congressional achievements dur­ I am losing the senior member of the he has fulfilled all his responsibilities in ing the last session and helps to docu­ staff team which I have relied upon so an outstanding way-despite the fact ment that we have been diligent and con­ strongly during two campaigns and my that his memos sometimes are a little structive in our work. Editorials like this first term in office. sticky with peanut butter. will help to dispel the post-Watergate I am speaking of Roy Mullin, whom Roy has made another important con­ myth that Congress is not doing any­ few of you know because he works in tribution to my operation. My adminis­ thing positive. I am sure that the follow­ my district office in Grand Prairie. We trative assistant, executive secretary, dis­ ing editorial will be of interest to my are losing Roy through circumstances trict coordinator, legislative assistant, colleagues : none of us could have anticipated, know­ field assistants, case workers, and secre­ CONGRESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS ing him as long and well as we have. taries, have all at one time or another Congress never had it so bad. The public Roy has been accepted for enrollment by been humbled when Roy invoked his seems to have the idea that their Represent­ a major 1,miversity. privilege of seniority. He even wrote me a atives aren't doing anything. Perhaps because We just sort of acquired Roy. Shortly memorandum once, reminding me of his the President keeps talking about getting after I announced as a candidate for senior status on staff. back to the business of the country as though Congress in 1972, he wandered into the I hope you can tell how much we all nothing's happening in the Senate and House campaign office and said he wanted to love and respect Roy Mullin from the and because the nation is leaderless at the help. For a while, because of the braces light nature of these remarks. One has Executive level. on his teeth, his long hair and big glasses, to respect a man to kid him. Worst of all, Watergate, for some unknown reason, seems to have rubbed off more on we wondered whether he really was of To me, Roy is an outstanding example Congress than on the President where it be­ our world. of the kind of young people we have so longs. A recent poll show 72 % of the Amer­ But, by virtue of "just being there," many of, and hear so little about. These ican people thought Congress was doing a Roy ascended to the exalted role of go­ are quiet young people who look at the bad job. The truth probably is mOl'!t people fer. He would go for this and go for that world they live in and decide to get in­ don't know what kind of a job Congress or for anything we needed. It took a volved, to do what they can, and to make does. During this session the Congress passed While for his talent to sink in-you all an opportunity to learn more about the a milestone bill, called the Budget Control and Anti-Impoundment Act, which not only know how hectic campaigns can be. But system which governs, and how it oper­ has a built in spending limitations and pri­ we came to realize that Roy had an un­ ates. orities, but provides that each governmental canny ability to solve problems. Roy was in high school when he de­ program must be cut a pro rata percentage One time we needed a television set, cided to get involved in a political cam­ whenever expenditures exceed revenues. for example. P"\ign. I am eternally grateful that he 26212 EXTENSIONS OF R·EMARKS July 31, 1974 picked mine. I probably learned more tions, other controversies and criminal There are some gruesome sights; others look from Roy than, he has from me. penalties; and like they dropped to rest. But in this fight they undertook they met Mr. Speaker, we now have a vacancy Third. The development and improve­ death in its sternest test. in our Grand Prairie district office for ment of housing codes and related code In the hot blistering sun, the stench of dea,.th one "congressional go-fer." Starting sal­ enforcement programs. is everywhere. ary will be low and the working stand­ The allocation of the distribution of I stand in stunned silence praying to drive ards will be high-Roy Mullin estab­ funds will be 90 percent Federal and this out forever. lished them. I do not really think that it 10 percent State, city, or municipality. All is silent. All is silent. What is there to will stay vacant long because there are The appropriation for this legislation say. many other young deserving youngsters On the field of death, I shiver in this hot is $400 million. summer day. that are also seeking to become involved This legislation is desperately needed I stumble and tumble along like an animal within the system. After proving himself, by cities and municipalities throughout in a trance. he too will be eligible for inservice pro­ the country, more particularly by New All is silent. All is silent. Please God give motion to "Congressional Go-Fer-First York City, more particularly by the them a chance. Class." Borough of Brooklyn. If we are to pre­ They say death is like a thief in the night. serve the neighborhood, we must once But these comrades of mine died in the broad and for all prevent its decay. This legis­ daylight. The wounded have long been taken off the HELP FOR TENANTS AT LONG LAST tion will be the first giant step in that field of battle. direction and I urge my colleagues to The cries of agony I hear like a faint distant join with me in its support. rattle. HON. BERTRAM L. PODELL I walk off the field watching them put the dead in their sacks. OF NEW YORK Away from the field under tarpaulins in a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ALL IS SILENT· triangle the dead are stacked Wednesday, July 31, 1974 My heart grieves, I cannot cry, I cannot stay, I must go on to live another day. Mr. PODELL. Mr. Speaker, a major HON. CLAUDE PEPPER I stumble onto another day; I thank the problem facing the urban dweller has OF FLORIDA Lord for saving me today. All is silent. All is silent. been the inability of municipalities to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES maintain quality housing. In New York Ctiy, by the end of 1968, 18 percent of Wednesday, July 31, 1974 the total stock and 29 percent of the Mr. PEPPER. Mr. Speaker, our coun­ rent controlled stock was classified as try has recently seen the end of our in­ CONGRESSMAN KEMP PRAISES AN substandard. This was unacceptable in volvement in the longest war in the his­ INNOVATIVE NEW YORK STATE 1968 and intolerable today. Many struc­ tory of this country. The cost in lives of EDUCATION PROGRAM turally sound buildings are in disrepair, young and brave men, as well as in the and more are on their way to this un­ money which was so desperately needed fortunate state. New housing cannot for programs to improve the lives of our HON. JACK F. KEMP meet all the needs of housing and is not citizens here at home, is incalculable. Our OF NEW YORK a solution in itself. country has been involved in other bloody IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES One need only drive through the city to conflicts, the memories of which are Wednesday, July 31, 1974 find former beautiful neighborhoods de­ deeply etched in the minds and hearts of caying merely because owners of prop­ all of us, especially our brave men who Mr. KEMP. Mr. Speaker, I would like erty have failed to maintain them. were on the fields of battle. One such in­ to bring to the attention of my colleagues Apartment houses are becoming slums dividual is now a member of our Capitol a new education program, initiated by because landlords have refused to keep Hill Police Force and while he keeps the State of New York on May 24, 1974. them in a state of repair and because the watch at his appointed post here in the This program is called the Regents cities have insufficient funds to enforce Cannon Building, his thoughts sometimes Credit Bank. For a small fee, an indi­ housing codes. take him back to those scenes of horror vidual can have this computer system As a result, neighborhoods are being that he witnessed during World War II. store all college courses, military educa­ torn down and in their place, erector-set He has put some of these memories into tion programs, and special tests. This type projects are being built, which are poems which enable us all to feel as if service is especially beneficial to those slowly becoming the slums of the future. we are walking with him across the bat­ who interrupt their education pro­ If we are to preserve the middle class tlefield. I include, Mr. Speaker, one grams to enter the military or for other neighborhoods of our cities, we must pre­ of the poems of this Capitol Hill police­ reasons. The Regents Credit Bank will vent landlords from milking the prop­ man, who prefers to remain anonymous, make it much easier for these people erty and force them to keep them mod­ in the RECORD following these remarks. It when they decide to return to school. The ern, attractive, and in keeping with the is entitled "All Is Silent." I believe that information contained in the bank will needs of the neighborhood. reading this poem will make each of us be made available to the school or em­ Unless we do this, the Boroughs of more thankful for the peace our country ployer only at the request of the indi­ Brooklyn and Queens will soon look like now enjoys: vidual, thus guaranteeing the individ­ the war torn areas of the Bronx, and this ALL Is SILENT ual's right to privacy. The bank's pri­ must not happen. All is silent. All is silent. mary use will be in the educational sys­ To this end, I, together with every New As I walk over the battlefield after a battle, tems, but this service can be used for job York City member of the congressional I see death all over the field on its last rattle. applications as well. delegation, from both parties, have intro­ They lay in slumber in their Death Mask of I bring this program to the attention deep sleep · of my colleagues, as it is the first pro­ duced a bill which will once and for all Looking around at the bodies I wonder why afford the tenants of our city a place death is so cheap. gram of its kind in this country. For to bring their complaints, provide them Some are lying on their backs, others kneel­ many years now New York State has with a code of uniformity, and laws that ing in their Death Mask of sleep. been a national leader in the advance­ will strictly enforce the preservation of I wonder aloud and ask have they died in ment of new and innovative aids to stu­ existing housing. vain. dents and educators, and I want to take More specifically, the major provisions On some of the faces, a tortured mask of pain. the opportunity to commend the New There are tanks and guns and bodies every­ of this legislation are as follows: where in sight. York State Department of Education for First. The training, employment and I look and ponder, why does my heart feel this its · newest effort on behalf of our compensation of housing inspectors and feel so tight. educational system and its beneficiaries. personnel; Allis silent, allis silent in this desolate place. At this point, Mr. Speaker, I insert Second. The establishment of housing They sleep in peace with a Death Mask etch­ the text of the statement made by the courts for dealing with building viola- ed on their face. department of education: July 31, 1974 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 26213 THE REGENTS CREDIT BANK ALCOHOLISM: A GROWING Alcoholism and stated that such pro­ In our society where a college degree opens PROBLEM grams report the highest rates of recov­ countless occupational doors, the Board of Regents of the University of the State of ery. However, the report in its entirety New York has recognized the need for certi­ makes for some unhappy reading. In its fying the accomplishments of those who HON. PAUL G. ROGERS fir~t report to the Congress in 1972, HEW have obtained knowledge and skills outside OF FLORIDA estimated the cost to the country from the formal classroom. In September 1972, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES alcoholism at $15 billion. At the press therefore, the Board of Regents established conference on July 10, 1974, Secretary the External Degree Program, which so far Wednesday, July 31, 1974 Weinberger, referring to alcohol misuse has enrolled over 5,000 students from all over the country. Emphasizing that what a Mr. ROGERS. Mr. Speaker, for many and alcoholism as "an epidemic health person knows is more important than how years now there has been a growing and social problem," announced that the he learned it, the program allows qualified realization of the direct and indirect report of the 38 experts made a conserv­ persons to earn a college degree without at­ effects which alcoholism has had on this ative estimate of the cost of alcoholism tending classes. Students earn credit toward Nation. We in the Congress have tried of $25 billilon annually to our country. an external degree in various ways, including to do our part in fighting this growing The largest single area of cost­ college equivalency examinations, courses at problem, but obviously, it takes more amounting to $9.35 billion-was the lost accredited colleges, military education pro­ production of the goods and services grams, and special tests. than Federal participation to do the job. To date over 1,200 individuals have re­ That is why I was pleased to meet with which could be attributed to the reduced ceived external degrees in liberal arts, busi­ the new and expanded Labor-Manage­ production of alcohol-troubled male ness administration, and nursing. Many ment Committee of the National Council workers. The cost of the lost production graduates of the associate in arts program on Alcoholism, an organization which of women and of alcoholic persons who have continued their education in 4-year operates in the private sector to supple­ are institutionalized or living on Skid colleges, while others are using their de­ ment what the Government is doing. Row is not included in the $9.35 billion grees to satisfy job requirements. A large estimate. Other highlights of the HEW percent are on active duty in the military, I think the prestige of the men who most of them career service personnel. head this program indicates the concern report to the Congress can only be briefly With the success of its External Degree of the private sector. The cochairmen of summarized: Program already acknowledged, the Board the NCA Labor-Management Committee First. A Gallup poll of June 9, 1974, of Regents has recently expanded services are Mr. George Meany, president of the reported that "the proportion of adults to independent learners by initiating a new AFL-CIO, and Mr. James M. Roche, who drink is at the highest point re­ evaluation and transcript system known as chairman of the board of General corded in 35 years of regular Gallup poll a "Credit Bank." This unique service is de­ Motors. The expanded committee com­ audits of America's drinking habits." It signed to evaluate an individual's educa­ reported that 18 percent of those 18 years tional achievements in terms of college credit, prises some of the top labor and cor­ and record them on a single transcript from porate presidents in the United States. and older-some 25 million Americans­ the University of the State of New York, the The National Council on Alcoholism sometimes drink to excess and more than comprehensive educational system over was founded in 1944 and during the they think they should. which the Regents preside. Originally avail­ 1950's and 1960's made the fight against Second. Excessive use of alcohol, as re­ able only to enrollees in the External De­ alcoholism in industry one of its top ported in studies from all parts of the gree Program, the Credit Bank is now open priorities. However, in those days the world, is related to certain cancers par­ to all interested persons, including members ticularly those of the mouth, ph~rynx, of the armed forces and their dependents, stigma of alcoholism still prevailed, and regardless of age, state of residence, or pre­ while there were limited successes in larynx, esophagus, ·and primary cancer vious educational experience. some industries, there had to be a major of the liver. A heavy drinker who does The Credit Bank will evaluate scores earned attitudinal change on the part of the not smoke has approximately the same on proficiency examinations such as those American public before real progress increased risk of developing cancer of offered by the College Level Examination Pro­ could be made. the mouth and throat as a heavy smoker gram (CLEP) and the College Proficiency At the luncheon both Mr. Meany and who does not drink. When heavy drink­ Examination Program (CPEP), and the Mr. Roche pledged their full coopera­ ing and heavy smoking are combined the United States Armed Forces Institute. The risk jumps enormously-to 15 times Credit Bank will also consider military serv­ tion to developing in the voluntary sector ice school courses and courses taken in resi­ a massive program to detect and treat greater than among people who neither dence o:;: by correspondence from accredited alcoholism in industry. We in the Federal drink nor smoke. colleges and universities. All evaluations will Government must do our share, because Third. . The increase in juvenile drink­ be conduc:ed according to the academic pol­ the rising consumption of alcohol is ers is staggering. The study reports that icies and standards established by the faculty reaching epidemic proportions in the one out of every seven high school seniors of the Regents External Degree Program. admitted to getting drunk at least once In operation since late May, the Credit United States. We passed the Compre­ hensive Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism a week. At the press conference, Dr. Mor­ Bank will open a record for any individual ris Chafetz, Director of the National In­ for a small fee. It will then provide an un­ Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilita­ limited number of evaluations and trans­ tion Act in 1970 and renewed it again in stitute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, cripts for two years. At the request of the 1974. But passing the law is one thing­ said the increase in heavy teen-age Credit Bank member, transcripts will be for­ getting it implemented is another. That drinking "just blows my mind. It worries warded to any agency, person, or educational is why I was so delighted that these me greatly." institution. leaders from both labor and industry Fourth. Dr. Charles C. Edwards the The Regents expect the Credit Bank to Assistant Secretary for Health, empha­ meet the need of employers, agencies, and have joined hands on their own initiative to see that alcoholism treatment and sizing the report's conclusions that alco­ institutions of higher learning for a formal holism is an illness that can engender comprehensive, and academically consistent prevention programs eventually reach transcript. Hopefully it will function like the into every assembly line and into every other serious diseases, said: External Degree in aiding job advancement corporate executive suite. The time has come to bring the treatment and academic placement. of alcoholism into the mainstream of our The very same day this luncheon was Nation's health care system. The Credit Bank should especially help held, Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger, of those people who use their local libraries for independent study. These persons, who are the U.S. Department of Health Educa­ interested in preparing for proficiency exam­ tion, and Welfare, sent to Congress the inations such as CLEP and CPEP, will now be second special report on developments A DAY IN COURT FOR VETERANS able to earn college credit directly and keep since the first report was released in a record of their achievement until they wish February of 1972. The 219-page report to apply it toward a degree program, external was prepared by a 38-member task force HON. CHARLES B. RANGEL or campus-based. If widely used, the Credit of distinguished alcoholism authorities Bank could significantly increase the number from all over the country. OF NEW YORK of independent learners wh ~ devise a pro­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES gram of study centered in the library. The Interestingly enough, the massive re­ Regents Credit Bank could thus have im­ port singled out alcoholism programs in Wednesday, July 31, 1974 portant implcations for libraries as they plan business and industry as one of the most Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, the issue their policies and programs with independent effective segments of the work of the of the reassimilation of veterans has learners in mind. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and been a concern of American governments 26214 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 31 ~ 19 7 4 after each of our major wars. For over ciety is tough enough without this kind o! cult to get a discharge modified or upgraded. a half of a million Vietnam-era veterans handicap. It can cost them important bene­ The need for a route of appeal is particularly fits like a Veterans Administration educa­ great today be::ause the "other than honor­ efforts toward this reassimilation have tionalloan or grant, a VA-approved mortgage, able" discharge may be capricously given; been severely hampered by use of be­ or sorely needed medical care in a veterans grounds for such a discharge range from non­ havioral stigmas by the U.S. Department hospital. payment of debts to alleged drug abuse. of Defense. These stigmas can cost the Furthermore, the administrative discharge The main stumbling blocks to veterans veteran vital educational and medical system-which determines the original dis­ seeking changes in their discharge status benefits as well as preclude the veteran charge status-was characterized as a "cham­ seem to lie in the location of the boards, the from employment in a position with a ber of horrors" by Douglass L. Custis in a extensive preparation required by the lawyer 1971 article in the ABA Journal. In citing representing the veteran, and the long wait secure future. what he called "kangaroo court proceedings," for a hearing. "Dealing with the military in I, like a number of my colleagues, find Mr. Custis (who served in the Judge Advocate legal matters," said one lawyer familiar with it very disturbing that ex-servicemen General's Corps) decried a procedure "in these appeals, "frankly scares a lot of law­ should be haunted by their past "less which the person accused is denied the right yers off a case like this even if they know the than honorable" records. Unquestion­ to subpoena witnesses on his own behalf, con­ procedure." ably employers should be informed as to front and cross-examine the witnesses against Nevertheless, the Air Force Board for Cor­ whether or not a veteran who is apply­ him, require the prosecution to adhere to the rection of MUitary Records recently reported rules of evidence, or expect the prosecution that 16 percent of "punitive" discharges ing for a job with their firm received to sho\llder the burden of proving him guilty ("bad c-onduct" or "dishonorable") have a dishonorable discharge. Perhaps, too, beyond a reasonable doubt." been upgraded as a result of veteran appeals. certain "less than honorable discharges" What makes the situation of these veterans David Addlestone, director of the American should be recorded on a veterans dis­ with "other than honorable" discharges Civil Liberties Union's M111tary Rights Proj­ charge papers. doubly unfortunate is that an established, ect in Washington (address given below), However, the necessity for recording if not always successful avenue of appeal does says more Gis could have their bad dis­ exist--a little-known recourse to have these charges upgraded if there were regional re­ all such "less than honorable" discharges tainted discharges upgraded or modified. The view boards. should be reviewed. Why should a vet­ so-called courts of last resort for veterans, "It is very important for veterans to appear eran's bedwetting problem preclude him located in the ~entagon, are Discharge Re­ in person at these hearings," says Addle­ from a job with a secure future? It seems view Boards or Boards for Correction of Mili­ stone, "and since they must pay their own to me that employers' hiring processes tary Records, one for each branch of the traveling expenses to Washington, many of should be sophisticated enough to deter­ armed services. (Some of those with "general" them simply don't apply due to lack of mine the qualifications of their prospec­ or "undesirable" discharges are further stig­ funds." matized by an "SPN" number on Defense De­ To give interested lawyers the knowledge tive employees without requiring such partment Form 214, which all ex-servicemen necessary to file discharge appeals, the irrelevant behavioral stigmas. are given and which major employers and ACLU's M111tary Rights Project, which has As a product of the efforts of our col­ government agencies know enough to ask for. legal advisers with the various state ACLU leagues, Mr. KocH and Mr. AsPIN, ex­ These members, giving the reason for dis­ chapters, is planning to hold seminars in servicemen and women can now request charge, are keyed to a widely circulated De­ major cities around the country. new discharge papers without the De­ fense Department list; they may show that "There is definitely a growing need for fense Department's code which connotes the serviceman was discharged for "homo­ legal service for Gis With I'Jad discharges," the reason for discharge. Representative sexual tendencies," bedwetting, use of drugs, says Addlestone. "These veterans deserve or mere lassitude, among other reasons. As of their day in court just as much as anyone STOKES has introduced a measure which May 1, the Defense Department, at the else who feels they've suffered an injustice." would prohibit the code from being prodding of Congressman Edward Koch of The review board procedure basically in­ printed on a veteran's discharge papers. New York and Les Aspin of Wisconsin, ad­ volves a written request for a hearing, a This bill would also limit the number of ministratively changed the system to allow statement indicating what the veteran wants "less than honorable discharges," as well veterans to request new discharge papers corrected in his or her record, and the rea­ as improve the discharge and dismissal without the SPN code. Those discharged af­ sons for the correction or modification. At­ review process. ter May 1 will not have SPN numbers on torneys also submit other documents to sup­ their d.ischarge papers. port the veteran's claim. For the benefit of my colleagues I On May 15, Congressman Louis Stokes of Members of the review boards are either would like to present the following arti­ Ohio introduced H.R. 14827 "to require that active duty officers or civllian government cle by Robert S. Stokes, a reporter for discharge certificates issued to members of officials with expert knowledge of m111tary the Asbury Park Press. Mr. Stokes speaks the armed forces not indicate the conditions discharge classification procedures. A board to this issue and informs veterans that or reasons for discharge, to limit the separa­ examiner presents the case to the review there is a Discharge Review Board be­ tion of enlisted members under conditions board and the veteran's attorney is usually other than honorable, and to improve the required to be present to answer questions. fore which hearings on upgrading an The Vietnam War is over for most veterans, assigned discharge are conducted. procedures for the review of discharges and dismissals." The bill is now in the House but those who came home With less than The article follows: Armed Services Committee. honorable discharges wage a never ending A DAY IN COURT FOR VETERANS Few lawyers know about this narrow aspect battle for economic and psychological sur­ (By Robert S. Stokes) of military law, but those who have handled vival, a battle perpetuated by the I'Jlotch on their mllitary records. For veterans who feel In the past decade, more than a half mil­ appeals for upgrading bad discharges for ex­ Gis say it represents a rapidly growing field that they received an unjust discharge, the lion servicemen and women have left the legal profession should attempt to satisfy armed forces stigmatized by official records of legal services. Elliott H. Vernon, who re­ that give them a sort of social leprosy. Some turned to prlvate practice in Monmouth the right to legal counsel by having the County, New Jersey two years ago after serv­ knowledge necessary to represent them. A of these are veterans with "other than honor­ veteran needs and deserves his day in court. able" discharges from the service-"undesir­ ing for more than four years with the U.S. ables," "bad conduct," or "dishonorable." Army's Judge Advocate General's Corps, has Some even have "general" discharges that represented several servicemen before dis­ state they are for service "under honorable charge review boards and has succeeded in GLENN HALSEY, MEMBER OF GRAY­ conditions." having their discharge status modified. "I've SON COUNTY, VA., BOARD OF SU­ A discharge certificate is given to each dis­ found the boards I've appeared before to be PERVISORS, ENDORSES LEGISLA­ charged serviceman with a title that char- eminently fair," says Vernon, "and to have TION TO SAVE THE NEW RIVER • acterizes the moral rectitude of his service. the best interests of the veteran at heart." No such certificate shows special merit. The Vernon recently appealed the discharge of serviceman who keeps his nose clean merely a former Army enlisted man who spent 18 HON. WILMER MIZELL gets a certificate that can't hurt him. Only months in military hospitals for a service­ OF NORTH CAROLINA connected injury and was subsequently re­ those ·whose records were thought by the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES m111tary to be special in a negative way are leased from active duty without any con­ distinguished by this system. sideration of disability compensation. When Wednesday, July 31, 1974 Major employers, at least those with per­ the Army Board for Correction o! Military sonnel departments, usually ask to see the Records ordered another physical examina­ Mr. MIZELL. Mr. Speaker, one of the discharge certificate. They don't have to look tion of the veteran, doctors found the man main reasons that I have worked to see far for such records; all they have to do is physically unfit at the time of his discharge. that the New River be studied for pos­ ask the applicant to show it. For most vet­ The Army Discharge Review Board subse­ sible inclusion in the Wild and Scenic erans with "less than honorable" discharges, quently ruled that the veteran was entitled Rivers System is that through this legis­ and even for some with "general" discharges, to compensation for his injuries. lation the people that are affected will it's generally difficult to secure a decent job In cases where veterans have been dis­ with a secure future. charged fro:m mllltary service as a direct re­ be directly heard. The Department of In­ For these people, many of them drafted to sult of conviction of offenses under the Uni­ terior's regulations provide that public serve in Vietnam, re-entry into American so- form Code of Military Justice, it's more diffi- hearings be conducted in the area, and July 31, 1974 EXTENSIONS OF R:EMARKS 26215 not just in Washington, D.C., or an area tee continues markup on the F"'reign As­ of so-called common crimes. Section 112 which is inaccessible to most of the citi­ sistance Act, I intend to offer an amend­ FAA does not prohibit assistance, pursuant to Sec 502 FAA to units whose sole function zens. ment to clarify the prohibition on police is that aspect of internal security which may A major complaint on the Federal training contained in section 112 of the involve combat operations against insur­ Power Commission when it considered Foreign Assistance Act. This amendment gents or legitimate self-defense of national the proposed Blue Ridge power project would resolve the ambiguities now in territory against foreign invasion, whether was that it had not made itself avail­ the statute, while preserving and or not such units are called police. "Assist­ able to hear testimony in the affected strengthening the intent of Congress as ance is, however, prohibited to units which area. Just one public hearing in the area expressed in 1973. have an on-going civilian law enforcen1ent function as well as a combat function .... was held, and it was in Beckley, W.Va., Currently, section 112 states that no The prohibition does not apply to units some 144 miles from the project area. part of the appropriations made a vail­ which have a. contingency function of sup­ This made it nearly impossible for local able to carry out the act, including porting the police but which do not have any citizen participation due to the difficulty Agency for International Development on-going civilian law enforcement functions. and military assitsance program funds, in travel and location. Thus, according to DOD's interpreta­ Mr. Glenn Halsey, a member of the shall be used to "conduct any police Grayson County, Va., Board of Super­ training or related program in a foreign tion of the law, military forces which visors, made an eloquent plea for such country." However, the term "police serve an unofficial, non-ongoing civilian public hearings in his testimony before training or related program" is not de­ law enforcement function, are not pro­ fined in the section. The imprecision of hibited from receiving U.S. aid or assist­ the House Interior and Insular Affairs ance for police training purposes. Subcommittee on National Parks and this term has left the act open to dif­ Recreation. For the benefit of my col­ fering interpretations, and has allowed In many Latin American nations the leagues, I submit the text of his testi­ for the continuation of programs which military plays a large role in civilian law appear to circumvent the intent of Con­ enforcement practices. Although these mony: duties may not be an official ongoing TESTIMONY OF MR. GLENN HALSEY gress. It seems clear that in section 112 Con­ part of the military's responsibilities, My name is Glenn Halsey. I am a member these civilian police activities are, in fact, of the Grayson County Board of Supervisors gress intended to end the American sub­ serving as Chairman of that Board from sidization of all training programs in often performed by the military forces. 1959 to 1971. The major flow of New River foreign countries which involve instruc­ In May 1970 the Foreign Affairs Com­ is through my district and the most dev­ tion of policemen in the skills and tac­ mittee issued the ''Report of the Special astating destruction of farm lands and tics normally associated with police op­ Study Mission on Military Assistance dislocation of schools, churches and roads erations. The committee report accom­ Training (Latin America) ,'' which con­ will be in my district. panying the Senate version of tae For­ tains information on the civilian law en­ Throughout the years I have had the forcement functions of the military in full support of my constituents in opposing eign Assistance Act of 1973 states plainly the impounding of New River for the pur­ of this section: the four countries they visited. Excerpts poses of flushing out the Kanawha River !or United States participation in the highly from the report, which follow, indicate the relief of the chemical companies around sensitive area of public safety and police the extent to which the military is, in­ Charleston. Now that has been swept under training unavoidably invites criticism from deed, involved in civilian law enforce­ the rug and we are asked to believe that the persons who seek to identify the United ment: project is needed to meet peak demands States with every act of police brutality or Brazil: "Internal security is considered a for electric power. All the time, even now, oppression in any country in which this pro­ prime mission for nearly all armed forces the Power Company says there is no short­ gram operates. It matters little whether the units, particularly the Army. While civilian age in their system, no brown-outs and they charges can be substantiated, they inevitably police forces have the primary responsibility continue to advertise to solicite more use stigmatize the total United States foreign for responding to threats of public disorder, of power. aid effort. they are backed up by military forces as We have appealed to our State and Fed­ In its approval of section 112, Congress required ...." eral officials to help us and are told over ... "traditional role of the Brazilian mili­ and over again that the responsibility for the appears to have expressed the philosophy tary in frontier and interior areas where project lies in the Federal Power Commis­ that interference with the domestic law it has engaged a significant part of its man­ sion and before the Administrative Law enforcement policies of foreign nations power and other re.sOurces on projects from Judge. We beg our State and Federal officials is not a proper aim for American assist­ which civic benefits result." to convene hearings at Wilkesboro Federal ance programs. Although it seems ob­ ". . . the Brazilian military's concept of Courthouse or Abingdon Federal Court­ professionalism does not include staying out house in order that the people may be vious that Congress intended to halt police training programs in foreign of politics." heard rather than the lawyers. One hear­ Peru: "As for internal security, the Peru­ ing was held at Beckley, West Virginia, a countries, the lack of precision in the vian armed forces have proved their capa.bili­ long, hard days travel from Grayson and wording of section 112 has allowed for ties by crushing swiftly and effectively a. Ashe. I attended. the continuation of programs which cir­ Castroite uprising. Most officers have re­ My district joins Ashe and Alleghany; my cumvent this intent. Currently, at the ceived some American training in doctrines of problems are the same as theirs. We are Army School of the Americas, a Defense counterinsurgency. The emphasis which the thankful that we have voices strong and Department training school in the Pana­ United States military missions have given to courageous enough to speak for us in Wash­ civic action has been readily acceptable to ington--even if we are not your constituents, ma Canal Zone, 1,340 military troops from 16 Latin American nations, par­ the Peruvian military. Their own service we are one people trying to save an· eternal schools have constantly stressed the impor­ river. tially supported by MAP funds, are being tance of the military role in the 'social and Mr. Chairman, we urge support of this bill instructed in areas such as "urban economic progress' of the country." to include the New River in the Wild and counterinsurgency," "urban counter­ Colombia: "U.S. civic action doctrine also Scenic Rivers System for study. Maybe while insurgency operations," "internal de­ has been generally accepted by the Colom­ that is being done we can get the support bian military. Top generals are convinced of our representatives in the Congress. velopment civic action,'' and ''internal Mr. Chairman, I ask for leave to file, prior security operations." These courses that if the insurgents are to be kept within seem to be providing the kind of knowl­ manageable bounds, the populace must to June 13, 1974, certain supplemental data know and trust the army as a friend and and documents relating to the statements edge and skills that can be used for protecter. Called "a civic action army" by I have made. police-type operations. members of the milgroup, the Colombian Thank you. The Department of Defense has issued Armed Forces are engaged in a number of a memorandum (unclas 8226) contain­ projects aimed at benefiting rural citizens." ing its interpretation of section 112, Panama: "The internal security capabili­ HARRINGTON AMENDMENT TO ties of the National Guard (which includes CLARIFY POLICE TRAINING PRO­ which indicates how the intent of Con­ gress has been misconstrued to allow for all the services) have been adequate to cope HffiiTION the continuation of these programs: with the small insurgency organized by sup­ porters of deposed President Arias which Assistance in foreign countries under the periodically surfaces near the Costa Rican HON. MICHAEL HARRINGTON Foreign Assistance Act for all phases of OF MASSACHUSETTS border. Our milgroup has promoted in­ civilian law enforcement (other than nar­ creased involvement of the Panamanian IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cotics oontrol) is prohibited. "Law enforce­ forces in civic action.... " Wednesday, July 31, 1974 ment" includes apprehension and control of political offenders and opponents of govern­ Just this week, events in Chile demon­ Mr. HARRINGTON. Mr. Speaker, to­ ment in power (other than prtsoners of war) strated the continuing law enforcement morrow, as the Foreign Affairs Commit- as well as persons suspected of commission role often played by the military in 26216 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS July 31, 1974 Latin American countries. A military CARPOOLING FOR MINORITY SUB­ congestion and other transit problexns well tribunal convicted 60 persons of essen­ URBAN WORKERS URGED beyond our control." tially political crimes--sentencing four of them to death by firing squad-a stark GROWTH PATTERNS SEEN AFFECTING CAR POOLS example of hvw the military can easily HON. ROBERT 0. TIERNAN (By Paul A. Kelly) become heavily involved in domestic OF RHODE ISLAND The two committed employer participants criminal justice affairs. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in a big state-backed car pooling effort are facing the problem from opposite directions. All five of the countries mentioned Wednesday, July 31, 1974 One wants to get its city employes out to his above, whose military forces were in­ plant in the suburbs while the other is con­ volved in civilian law enforcement func­ Mr. TIERNAN. Mr. Speaker, I would cerned about bringing its workers into the tiol'.s, are currently having troops like to commend the Planning Division city from their homes outside. trained at DOD's military training of the Rhode Island Department of The two test participants are BIF Indus­ schools in the Canal Zone. The troops Transportation for their "Plan for the tries, which moved its plant from Providence are being instructed in tactics which are Conservation of Transportation En­ to East Greenwich and Rhode Island Hospi­ easily adaptable, if not identical, to po­ ergy." The program is composed of a tal Trust, which has most of its employes lice functions, and which are of ques­ much heralded employer-based carpool working in metropolitan Providence. program, plans for fringe parking con­ Their viewpoints on what has been labeled tionable relevance to legitimate military a Transportation Assistance Program for em­ defense training. It is clear to me that struction and improvements to mass ployers were explained by company spokes­ the Department of Defense has taken transit. It is financ~d by a $400,000 grant men at a. state house meeting on the car advantage of the vague and imprecise from the Federal Highway Administra­ pooling effort yesterday. wording of section 112 to instruct these tion. Gene Kopf, BIF spokesman, said the com­ military personnel in what are essen­ It must be pointed out that regard­ muting problems of that firm were turned tially police tactics. less of oil company efforts to convince us around when it moved to East Greenwich. otherwise, there is still a compelling need Many of its employes still live in the Provi­ Action needs to be taken to insure dence area. and find themselves commuting that the intent of Congress, with respect to conserve fuel; and there will always out to the suburbs to work while the general to police training, is fully carried out. be a need to improve air quality in urban run of commuters are going the other way. Accordingly, section 112 of the Foreign areas. The plan delineated by the Rhode Kopf said this is a. trend that has been Assistance Act should be refined to ban Island DOT is a necessary and important growing as more industries have located in explicitly the kinds of police training step towards that end. I would recom­ the suburbs. It will grow still more when new activities which are being carried out mend that anyone interested in this pro­ industries develop at former Navy property by the Army School of the Americas in gram contact either Lee Taylor or Fran­ at Quonset Point, he said. cis Dutra of the Department of Trans­ The BIF spokesman said the new em­ the Canal Zone. My amendment would ployer transportation assistance program, add the following paragraph to section portation, Planning Division, State Of­ emphasizing car pooling should help em­ 112, offering a more specific definition fice Building, Providence, Rhode Island ployers with equal employment opportunity of police training programs: 02903. goals. He said a problem with most minority AMENDMENT TO H.R. -, OFFERED BY MR. I include the following articles: groups is that they live in Providence and HARRINGTON CAR POOLING FOR MINORITY SUBURBAN have difficulty getting to jobs in plants in Page 4, after line 22, insert the following WORKERS URGED the suburbs. Carpooling and public transit A state-backed car pooling program could improvements should help them, he said, new section: since it is tailored to improve transportation SEc. 6. Section 112 of the Foreign Assist­ assist large suburban employers in meeting ance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151j) is amended their quotas for hiring minorities, a spokes­ for those leaving their homes in the city to by adding at the end thereof the following man for BIF Industries said yesterday. work outside as well as those commuting to new subsection: Those comments were among the words of city jobs. " (c) For the purposes of this section, the support given the program yesterday by the Ronald Andsa.ger, the Hospital Trust term 'police training or related program' two employers who are already committed spokesman, said his company has taken the shall include any training or instruction of participants in the effort, BIF and Rhode position that it cannot close its eyes to the any individual relating (1) to that individ­ Island Hospital Trust National Bank. real possibility of another energy crisis that ual's performance of any law enforcement The car pooling plan, called a Transpor­ could affect the commuting habits of its function in a. governmental, unofficial, part­ tation Assistance Program for Employers, employes. He said the car pool-transit pro­ time, or full-time capacity, or (2) to that was discussed during a meeting in the state gram can at least provide "an emergency individual's participation in any operation house. back-up transportation system in time of of a pollee, civilian militia, or intelllgence According to Gene Kopl, BIF spokesman, gasoline shortages similar to last winter's nature in support of a. government against most minority persons live in Providence crisis." any insurgent forces operating against such and have difficulty getting to plants in the The new program, he said, will provide government. Notwithstanding the preceding suburbs. Car pooling and public transpor­ Hospital Trust with a complete profile of its sentence, this section shall not apply to any tation improvements, he said should make employes' transportation habits, the kind of program which trains the military police of it easier to work outside the city. transportation they use, public transit op­ any of the armed forces of a foreign country He said the company's commuter trends portunities and other pertinent information. solely for law enforcement activities within reversed when it recently moved its plant He said that while his company has been those armed forces." from Providence to East Greenwich. Most looking for improved transportation services BIF employees live in the city and commute. for its.temployes "it becomes a terribly com­ This paragraph defines police training He said a trend of that sort will continue plicated problem when you are contending to include any training or instruction re­ to grow even further when former Navy with urban traffic and parking congestion lating to an individual's participation in property at Quonset is turned over to in­ and other transit problems well beyond our domestic law enforcement operations or dustry. control." domestic insurgency operations. It would Ronald Andsager, the Hospital Trust deny police-related training to any in­ spokesman, said his company has taken the TRANSIT PLAN dividual who participates in such activi­ position that it cannot close its eyes to the Commuters who drive back and forth to ties in any capacity-o:fficially or uno:ffi­ real possibility of. another energy crisis af­ work-and their employers-should be in­ fecting the commuting habits of its em­ troduced to the Rhode Island Action Plan cially, full time or part time. Adoption of ployers coming into Providence. developed by the state planning division. Its this amendment would insure that the The new state-backed program, he said, purposes are to conserve fuel, and to improve intent of Congress can no longer be cir­ will provide Hospital Trust with a com­ air quality in urban areas. These are familiar cumvented by an interpretation of the plete profile of its employes' transportation goals, true, but their importance has grown law which excludes part-time police of­ habits, the kind of transportation they use, sharply because of the energy crisis and ficers from the ban on police training public transit opportunities and other per­ keener awareness of the importance of clean in foreign countries. tinent information. He said the car pool­ air. My amendment makes no substantive transit effort could provide "an emergency The serious intent o! the plan is under­ backup transportation system in time of lined by substantial financial support--up changes in section 112. Rather, it defines gasoline shortages similar to last winter's to $400,000 from the Federal Highway Ad­ the terms contained therein more pre­ crisis." ministration. The sum is probably the largest cisely in order to avoid further misin­ Facing both companies in trying to solve ever spent in Rhode Island on a transporta­ terpretation and circumvention of con­ their own commuter problems are what tion energy conservation project. gressional intent. Andsa.ger called "urban traffic and parking The plan's first phase-the Transportation July 31, 19 7 4 EXTENSIONS OF R·EMARKS 26217 Assistance Program-begins this week. Par­ with the greatest record for success. The suc­ You and I pay and we're told it's a discount ticipating with the state will be BIF Indus­ cess, of course, depends to a large extent on off our tax bill. But it really is an extra dollar tries and Rhode Island Hospital Trust Corp., business leaders promoting the program at for a contribution, just like the other guy's whose employe commuting "characteristics" their facilities," Mr. McGlennon said. extra dollar for the national budget. will be analyzed by computers on the basis "We can expect that development of an If there has to be a fair way to utilize the of questionnaires. Locations for car-pooling, effective carpool program can be of such income tax return system, why not spell it bus pick-ups, fringe parking facilities, com­ significant value in reducing automobile as­ out as an added dollar, over and above the muter rail service and bus routes also will sociated air pollution that the necessity for income tax payment? Tell it like it is! be studied. Again, most of these transit study strict transportation controls may be mini­ areas are familiar. But there should be some mized for the Providence area. I urge the surprise when findings about transit service full cooperation of Rhode Island industry are related to in-depth analysis of commuter in this program," he concluded. PUBLIC FINANCING'S LAST STAND attitudes. Many commuters would perhaps leave cars at home, if express service mini­ buses were available. HON. ROBERT P. HANRAHAN Some Rhode Island firms do urge that em­ HOODWINKING-COAST TO COAST OF ILLINOIS ployes ride buses. Textron workers received IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES a modest subsidy for bus fare--one firm's attempt to reduce expressway congestion. HON. ROBERT E. BAUMAN Wednesday, July 31, 1974 Possibly BIF and Hospital Trust will add to Mr. HANRAHAN. Mr. Speaker, there knowledge about the auto use habit that has OF MARYLAND IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES is a definite need for campaign reform such an obvious grip on the commuter. in our political system. I have introduced Expressway appearances during rush hours Wednesday, July 31, 1974 suggest that the scene never will change, two pieces of legislation which would that transit programs are destined to fail. Mr. BAUMAN. Mr. Speaker, many of reduce unnecessary campaign spending Fortunately, in this state, the legislative out­ us are being besieged by organized group by linking the ceiling on campaign ex­ look is not bleak. The sense of responsibility pressure to vote in favor of the use of penditures to the salary of the office for for reliable bus service is keener probably taxpayers funds to finance the election which the candidate is running. My bill than in the past; witness the purchase of a. campaigns of candidates for Federal would also propose that all contributions private bus line with state funds. Also, tax­ and the names of all contributors be dis­ payers are awakening to their growing sup­ office. Last week one of the most re­ port of Transit Authority operations. The spected newspapers in Maryland, the closed to the public. The maximum al­ state administration refuses to give up a foot Aegis, of Bel Air, published an editorial lowable single contribution to a candi­ of rail trackage without a fight. And there published. ''Hoodwinkinr:--Coast to date for Federal office would be $5,000, is the specter of further gasoline shortages, Coast" pointing out the fiscal impact of and all cash contributions and in kind and perhaps higher prices. such proposals. A poll conducted by me in services would be prohibited. For my col­ These concerns, with their significance my congressional district earlier this year leagues' interest, I wish to insert the for the environment and transportation, do showed that response to the question following campaign reform article from relate to the Rhode Island Action Plan, and "Do you think that tax dollars should be the Chicago Tribune: the employer transit assistance program. The [From the Chicago Tribune, July 28, 1974] need is to convince employers and workers used by the Government to finance the to participate in transportation programs campaigns of candidates for public PUBLIC FINANCING'S LAST STAND that are designed for more efficient energy office?" showed the following results; The public campaign financing bill that use and for improving air quality·. yes, 26 percent; no, 63 percent; unde­ went sailing thru the Senate has hit a brick cided, 9 percent. wall in the form of Rep. Wayne Hays' House I think it is well for us in the House to Administration Committee. As a substitute, NEWS RELEASE Mr. Hays has produced a "compromise" consider this aspect of Federal financing measure that pleases no one and, as he may BosToN.- The Regional Administrator of of elections as we come to the considera­ of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have calculated, stands little chance of pass­ today commended the State of Rhode Island tion of reform of our election laws. age. for its initiation of a statewide Carpool­ The article follows: It will be subject to amendment on the HOODWINKING--COAST TO COAST House floor, however, and the public fi­ Public Transit Program and urged the co­ nancers, led by John Gardner's Common operation of industry. Millions of Americans put a mark inside Cause, are preparing to restore most of the In a letter to Governor Philip Noel, John of a box on their income tax report this year, public financing provisions that passed the A. S. McGlennon praised the Rhode Island signifying their intent to place one dollar of Senate. Department of Transportation for establish­ their tax payment for the past year into the The expected floor fight will undoubtedly ing the computer carpooling system which campaign treasury for future candidates for be the last battle over public financing for is designed to reduce gasoline consumption, national office. Many more millions did not some time to come. improve air quality through a decrease in choose to do this, meaning that they had to The evils of public financing have been vehicular traffic, ease traffic congestion, and pay a higher income tax than the others. spelled out time and again. provide dollar savings to those participating The idea to raise funds with such a small It would encourage a multiplicity of candi· in the program. sum from many people to help prevent obvi­ dates, cripple party organizations, and weak· Initially, the Carpool Program will be ous abuses which have occurred in past elec­ en a. two-party system already in trouble be­ geared to the 4 largest employers throughout tions when large contributors received cause of Watergate-induced voter hostil1ty the state, or businesses employing at least wholesale favoritism, is praiseworthy, but we toward all politicians. 250 persons. Eventually the program may be still have doubts if the check-off on an in­ It would force the taxpayers to subsidize broadened to smaller employers and come tax return is fair. the waste and extravagance of political cam· individuals. We certainly cannot believe that if, as the paigns and give them no voice in the alloca­ The Rhode Island Department of Trans­ result of ten million individual returns sig­ tion of their money. It would hand gobs of portation at present is testing the program at nifying a desire to make a contribution to a money to candidates who don't need it and BIF Industries in East Greenwich and Rhode political party, there has not been created a intrude the federal burocracy into the entire Island Hospital Trust Corporation in Prov­ ten million dollar deficit in the federal election process. idence. In August, the Department w1ll open budget. And who makes this up-the tax­ According to the polls, American public up the program to the 84 designated em­ payer who didn't wish to make the contri· opinion is turning against public financing. ployers. button, of course. To spark this last-ditch effort, Mr. Gardner The funds for the Carpool Program were A far better way, it would seem, would has produced a voluminous report telling of provided by a U.S. Department of Transpor­ have been for the political parties to spread the millions spent by special interest groups tation, Federal Highway Administration the word about the importance of wholesale in the 1972 elections and the millions they grant of $400,000. While the Carpool Pro­ contributions by individuals and for the have available for use this fall. gram uses less than one-fourth of this parties themselves to do the collecting, rather We don't dispute this. What we do reject amount, the remainder of the grant will be than Uncle Sam. Obviously, this method has is Mr. Gardner's apparent contention that used for construction of fringe parking facil­ long been available but it has not worked public financing is the only alternative to ities and improvements to mass transit. too well. It has usually been easier for a election year influence purchasing and "I am particularly encouraged to see Rhode candidate to line up a few generous support­ peddling and other forms of abuse. Island approaching a computer carpooling ers, rather than scores of small ones. The Senate Watergate Committee, which system through an employer-based incentive And so, people in national office have spent 17 months studying the problem firmly program. Experience from other cities at­ decreed that this new opportunity be ex­ rejects the idea of public financing. In its tempting similar projects has shown this tended so that campaigners for national final report, it said there are other more program to be both efficient and manageable office will have heavier and wider backing. workable and less dangerous alternatives. 26218 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE August 1, 1974 Among them are limitations on campaign do far more to harm than to benefit the and non-governmental organizations to re­ spending, limits on the amount and sources entire situation. port to the concerned bodies reliable infor­ of contributions, tighter reporting require­ Therefore, I am putting aside my per­ mation rege.rding sanctions breaking opera­ ments, and increased tax credits to encourage tions;" small contributions. sonal feelings toward the busing issue On "states with legislation permitting im­ It is far more sensible to try to correct the in the context of this legislation. I am portation of minerals and other products abuses in the present system, while preserv­ instead considering both the immediate from Southern Rhodesia to repeal it imme­ ing its advantages, than to scrap it in favor and long-range educational needs of our diately;" of a dubious alternative. In the meantime, schoolchildren and the fact that a vote Upon "states to enact and enforce imme­ we look to the House members, who in the against the conference report could be a diately legislation providing for imposition past have listened more to their constituents profound setback for the improvement of severe penalties on persons natural or juri­ than to reformers like Mr. Gardner, to show dicial that evade or commit breach of sanc­ the same good sense and defeat this proposi­ that has already occurred in our educa­ tions by: tion. tion system. In voting for the confer­ "1. Importing any goods from Southern ence report on the Elementary and Sec­ Rhodesia. ondary Education Act, I am not condon­ "2. Exporting any goods to Southern CONFERENCE REPORT ON THE ing the compromise of the neighborhood Rhodesia. ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY school concept, but I am strongly sup­ "3. Providing any facilities for transport EDUCATION ACT porting the basic provisions of the meas­ of goods to and from Southern Rhodesia. "4. Conducting or facilitating any transac­ ure we are considering, ones that will tion or trade that may enable Southern continue the constant improvement of Rhodesia to obtain from or send to any coun­ HON. RONALD A. SARASIN our education and will bring us ne.arer try any goods or services. OF CONNECTICUT our educational goals. "5. Continuing to deal with clients in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES South Africa, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea (Bissau) and Namibia after it has become Wednesday, July 31, 1974 U.N. BODY MOVES TO TIGHTEN known that the clients are re-exporting the Mr. SARASIN. Mr. Speaker, today, in SANCTIONS AGAINST SOUTHERN goods in components thereof to Southern RHODESIA Rhodesia, or that goods received from such considertng the conference report on clients are of Southern Rhodesian origin." the Elementary and Secondary Education On "states in the event of their trading Act, our primary responsibility lies in HON. BOB ECKHARDT with South Africa and Portugal, to provide that purchase contracts with these coun­ enacting legislation that will effectively OF TEXAS expand the availability and quality of tries should clearly stipulate, in a manner education for our Nation's youth. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES legally enforceable, prohibition of dealing Wednesday, July 31, 1974 in goods of Southern Rhodesian origin; like­ The House Education and Labor Com­ wise, sales contracts with these countries mittee, on which I serve, worked dili­ Mr. ECKHARDT. Mr. Speaker, should include a prohibition of resale or re­ gently, in order to report legislation throughout the long debate on the Rho­ export of goods to Southern Rhodesia;" which would effectively improve as many desian sanctions, it has been charged Upon "States to pass legislation forbid­ near and far-reaching aspects of our that sanctions have not been effective, ding insurance companies under their juris­ educational system as possible. I could with no one taking them seriously. This, diction from covering air flights into and out not, and did not, support certain spe­ it is said, is an argument for why the of Southern Rhodesia and individuals or air cifics of H.R. 69 because of the disad­ United States should not reimpose its cargo carried on them; " vantages to my State of Connecticut. I sanctions against Rhodesia. Upon "states to undertake appropriate did, however, support the general thrust legislative measures to ensure that all valid We now know that this is not true. In marine insurance contracts contain specific of the legislation because of my interest recent months, nations have taken steps, provisions that no goods of Southern Rhode­ in continuing our efforts to improve ed­ both individually and collectively, to sia shall be covered; " ucation. I also supported the effort in tighten loopholes in the sanctions. Upon "states to inform the committee of the House to insure the protection of This has not been the only activity, the Security Council on their present sources the neighborhood school concept, to end however. Since the Security Council of supply and quantities of chrome. asbes­ the busing which has so badly divided adopted resolutions 232-1966-and 253 tos, nickel, pig iron, tobacco, meat, and our country. -1968-the United Nations has con­ sugar, together with the quantities of these The House antibusing version was tinued to study the problem of strength­ goods they obtained from Southern Rhodesia strong; the Senate version lacked any ening sanctions. In its resolution 333 before the application of sanctions." such provision. Recognizing their re­ passed on May 22, 1973, the Security Thus, Mr. Speaker, since the above sponsibility to expedite the passage of Council called- resolutions steadily tighten the sanc­ sorely needed educational reform, the For the institution of "effective procedures tions, and as more and more countries conferees from each body agreed to at the point of importation to insure that pay stricter attention to enforcement, compromise toward a milder antibusing such goods arriving for importation from the end of the illegal Smith regime is in measure. I was extremely disappointed South Africa, Mozambique and Angola are sight. Therefore, unless my colleagues that the House efforts had been min­ not cleared through customs until they are wish to back a clearly lost cause and risk imized, and I gave much thought toward satisfied that the documentation is ade­ quate and complete and to ensure that such the alienation of black African coun­ voting against the conference report. procedures provide for the recall of cleared tries-upon which we are dependent for However, as I have felt in the past goods to customs custody if subsequently many raw materials-! would urge that on other significant measures, to cast a established to be of Southern Rhodesian ori­ they vote in favor of S. 1868-a bill tore­ vote against a major reform bill because gin;" store full U.S. compliance with the U.N. of opposition to a single provision would On governments to "encourage individuals sanctions against Southern Rhodesia.

SENATE-Thursday, August 1, 1974 The Senate met at 9:30 a.m. and was to empower us for our labors. In the the cost, to the moral and spiritual re­ called to order by Hon. JAMES B. ALLEN, crucial da:rs of soul searching, con­ newal of the Republic. a Senator from the State of Alabama. science testing, and scrutiny of character We pray in His name whose law is help us to be true to truth, true to self, love. Amen. PRAYER true to those we love, and true to Thee. The Chaplain, the Reverend Edward May the stains upon the few never L. R. Elson, D.D., offered the following blemish the virtues of the many. With APPOINTMENT OF ACTING PRESI­ prayer: thanksgiving for all that is good in the DENT PRO TEMPORE Our Father, God, we thank Thee for past, and with forgiveness for all that The PRESIDING OFFICER. The the night of rest and the opportunities is wrong in the present, lead our Nation clerk will please read a communication of this new day. In this hallowed moment to a new commitment to Thy law and to the Senate from the President pro m~y Thy Holy Spirit invade our hearts give us grace to press forward, whatever tempore (Mr. EASTLAND).