14566 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE June 3, 1969 The members of the debate team supporting Robert Goralski of NBC News will be the Meetings, New Democratic Coalition of No. the ABM are: moderator of this debate. Va., Northern Virginia Action Committee, Charles Lerch, Institute of Defense We deeply regret the silence of our elected Northern Virginia Clergy and Laymen Con Analysis. and appointed Virginia leaders. Although the cerned About Vietnam; Park!airfax Citizens Association; Richard Fryklund, Special Advisor to the ABM vote is scheduled for mid-June, we sin Deputy Secretary of Defense. Support Christian Action House Church Members of the opposing view are: cerely hope that the Town Meeting wm be of the Little Falls Presbyterian Church; Dr. George Rathjens, Professor of Political the beginning of an 11th hour intense Spectrum, George Mason College; Science, M.I.T. round of discussions and hearings on this Virginia United Methodist Board of Chris Dr. Jeremy Stone, author, member of Coun most controversl..al and critical of issues. tian Social Concerns, and Washington Area cil, Federation of American Scientists. Sponsoring Groups: Langley Hills Friends SANE.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES-Tuesday, June 3, 1969 The House met at 12 o'clock noon. H.R. 10016. An act to continue until the TRIBUTE TO THE LATE TRUMAN close of June 30, 1971, the existing suspen WARD, MAJORITY CLERK Rabbi Louis Kaplan, Congregation sion of duties for metal scrap. Ohev Shalom, Nether Providence, Pa., (Mr. MONTGOMERY asked and was offered the following prayer: The message also announced that the given permission to address the House Senate had passed bills and a joint reso for 1 minute and to revise and extend Lord: lution of the following titles, in which In commencing this session of the House his remarks.) of Representatives, the concurrence of the House is re Mr. MONTGOMERY. Mr. Speaker, I Begin we must by expressing gratitude quested. join with other Members of Congress and for being alive. s. 83. An act for the relief of certain civil congressional employees in mourning the Even as we have risen from sleep, ian employees and former civilian employees passing of the majority clerk of the of the Bureau of Reclamation; House of Representatives, Mr. Truman Rouse us, too, we pray from our shackles S. 275. An act for the relief of the village of yesterday- of Orleans, Vt.; Ward. Mr. Ward passed away this past The fetters of ignorance, resistance to S. 499. An act for the relief of Ludger J. Sunday. This fine gentleman was born worthwhile change, Cossette; and raised in Clarke County, Miss., the Yielding complacency, inertia, and other S. 728. An act for the relief of Capt. Rich district which I represent. He served the shortcomings. ard L. Schumaker, U.S. Army; Members of Congress with great devo s. 901. An act for the relief of William D. tion and loyalty. He held the position Aid us to attain a healthy discontent Pender; of either majority or minority clerk for Now concerning what we have done, as s. 1010. An act for the relief of Mrs. Aill some 48 years. Mr. Truman Ward as well asa Kallio; sumed his duties in 1921 at the age of 29. Determined and renewed enthusiasm for S. 1193. An act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to prevent terminations of In talking of his work on Capitol Hill. what we can do. oil and gas leases in cases where there is Mr. Ward recently pointed out there Joining high resolve with noble goals, a nominal deficiency in the rental payment, were no longer any Members of Congress Understanding with genuine compassion. and to authorize him to reinstate under still serving that were here when he first Spur these leaders, especially to translate some conditions oil and gas leases terminated came to work. We will all certainly miss by operation of law for failure to pay rental The Biblical challenge "to do righteous- timely; his warmness to people, his professional ness and justice" S. 1236. An act for the relief of Homer T. ability, and the outstanding service he Into legislation enabling more Williamson, Sr.; and rendered to his country. Children and adults, in this Nation and S.J. Res. 112. Joint resolution to amend sec I am sure all Members of Congress elsewhere, to tion 19 ( e) of the Securities Exchange Act of join with me in sending our sincere con Enjoy their "unalienable rights" in the 1934. dolances to Mr. Ward's wife, daughter. human family. three sons, and 12 grandchildren. Mem ELECTION TO COMMITTEE bers of Congress may pay their respects to Mr. Truman Ward's family at the THE JOURNAL Mr. GERALD R. FORD. Mr. Speaker, Joseph Gawler's Sons Funeral Home The Journal of the proceedings of I offer a privileged resolution (H. Res. from 2 this afternoon until 9 tonight. yesterday was read and approved. 431) and ask for its immediate consid The funeral will be held at 11 tomorrow eration. morning in the sanctuary of the Capitol The Clerk read the resolution as Hill Metropolitan Baptist Church. MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT follows: Mr. ABERNETHY. Mr. Speaker, will H. RES. 431 A message in writing from the Presi the gentleman yield? Resolved, That Barry M. Goldwater, Jr., Mr. MONTGOMERY. I yield to my dent of the United States was communi of California., be and he is hereby elected a cated to the House by Mr. Leonard, one member of the standing committee of the ~olleague from Mississippi. · of his secretaries. House of Representatives on Science a.a.d Mr. ABERNETHY. Mr. Speaker, we Astronautics. were all saddened on learning that our good friend and valuable employee, Tru MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE The resolution was agreed to. man Ward, had passed away. A motion to reconsider was laid on A message from the Senate by Mr. Ar I had not been a Member of this body rington, one of its clerks, announced that the table. but for a day or so when I first became the Senate had passed without amend acquainted with Truman. In fact, he ment bills of the House of the following PERMISSION FOR SUBCOMMITTEE went to the trouble of making a personal titles: ON URBAN GROWTH, COMMITTEE visit to my office that we might get ac H.R. 684. An act to amend title 38 of the ON BANKING AND CURRENCY TO quainted. Then and there he made sug United States Code 1n order to make certain SIT TODAY DURING GENERAL gestions and g·ave me the benefit of coun technical corrections therein, and for other DEBATE sel which I as a new Member found most purposes; helpful. This was typical of Truman H.R. 2718. An act to extend for an addi Mr. ASHLEY. Mr. Speaker, I ask Ward. He was unselfish. He was tender tionaJ temporary period the existing sus unanimous consent that the Subcom and kind. He was never too busy to ad pension of duties on certain classifications mittee on Urban Growth of the Com vise with me or other Members about the of yarn of silk; mittee on Banking and Currency may H.R. 2940. An act for the relief of Henry printing needs of our omces. He did a E. Dooley; have permission to sit during the session good job for all of us. H.R. 10015. An act to extend through De this afternoon during general debate. Truman was good to the employees, too. cember 31, 1970, the suspension of duty on The SPEAKER. Without objection, it Scores of them found their way to and electrodes for use in producing aluminum; is so ordered. secured employment on Capitol Hill and There was no objection. through his personal efforts. For all who June 3, 1969 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 14567 called on him he gladly and happily spent in the service of the House of Rep who greeted everyone with ''Good morn rendered favors and services to the full resentatives. Last rites are to be held to ing, Judge." extent of his capacity. morrow, Wednesday, at the Capitol Hill More than a printer, Truman Ward We will miss Truman. Yes, we will miss Metropolitan Baptist Church, Sixth and was a person who cared about his fellow him greatly. And as time moves by we A Streets NE., at 11 a.m., and interment man. He was one of our living traditions. shall never forget him or the service he will take place at National Memorial For the 76 years of his life, Truman Ward rendered as a faithful employee on Capi Park. was an example to all of us. We shall tol Hill. He was born 76 years ago in Enter miss him. His family has our sympathy. prise, Miss., and, after spending his Mr. CHARLES H. WILSON. Mr. Mr. ALBERT. Mr. Speaker, will the early years and young manhood there, Speaker, I am deeply saddened to learn gentleman yield? he came to Washington to serve the of the recent passing of our good friend Mr. MONTGOMERY. I yield to the House of Representatives in 1921. What and invaluable aide, Truman Ward. Over majority leader, the gentleman from a record of dedicated, devoted, and en the years he smoothed the road in many Oklahoma. thusiastic service he set during his ways by helping Members to effectively Mr. ALBERT. Mr. Speaker, I am sure lengthy career as a faithful steward of communicate thoughts, ideas, and a-c all of my colleagues were saddened as I the interests of the Members of this tivities to millions of constituents across was, to learn of the death on Sunday of Chamber. the country. At a time when lack of com Mr. Truman Ward, clerk of the majority Equal to his dedication to the House, munication is being blamed for all sorts room in the House of Representatives. however, was his devotion to his religion. of problems, Truman's friendly and A familiar figure among Members and He joined the Capitol Hill Metropolitan helpful office certainly did a great deal employees of the House of Representa Baptist Church in 1922 and was a mem to assure that we could effectively com tives, Truman Ward joined the House ber of its board of deacons from 1943 un municate with voters on vital issues. staff in 1921, shortly after coming to til his death. His fellow church members, For 48 years, as clerk of the majority Washington. As clerk of the majority like his fellow employees of ·the House, room, Truman Ward's good humor and room, he performed countless services and like the Members of the House, la generous assistance made him an ex for Members and staffs. As many know, ment his loss for myriad reasons. They tremely popular Capitol Hill :figure. We not only did he serve the printing needs will miss his friendly presence among shall miss him. A native of Enterprise, of Democratic Members but he also them. They will have lost his desire to Miss., he began his remarkable Wash functioned as an unofficial placement be helpful which was combined with the ington career in 1921 and served con officer for Capitol Hill employees. practical ability needed to be very help tinually the needs of Congress until his All of his friends on Capitol Hill and ful indeed. They will have been deprived death. In addition to his work as major in the House of Representatives will miss of his unfailing cheerfulness, his abun ity printer, Truman was an able and Truman. Mrs. Albert joins me in extend dant energy, his understanding of his wllllng helper to dozens of staff members, ing to Mrs. Ward and his family our fellow man, his scrupulous integrity, and newcomers, and friends seeking jobs and deepest sympathy. his profound religious belief. guidance in Washington. He was always Mr. GERALD R. FORD. Mr. Speaker, Those of us who have, over the years, a welcome and needed port in a storm will the gentleman yield? sought his assistance, can testify to these during the political turmoil that is so Mr. MONTGOMERY. I yield to the qualities which made him universally much a part of life in Washington; above minority leader, the gentleman from popular. He had an intuitive understand all, he was a good friend. To Gladys Michigan. ing of the needs of Members in the pro Ward and the other members of his Mr. GERALD R. FORD. I share the duction of their newsletters and other family, I extend my sympathies at the expression of the gentleman from Mis printed communications with the constit loss of this fine and well respected man, sissippi and others concerning Truman uents of their districts. To that intuitive Truman Ward. Ward. Although I did not know Mr. Ward understanding was coupled the distilled intimately, I am very familiar with his wisdom of almost a half century of ex GENERAL LEAVE TO EXTEND loyalty, his ability, and his total devo perience in the legislative process at the tion to the legislative branch and, more national level. Mr. MONTGOMERY. Mr. Speaker, I particularly, the House of Representa There was very little about the Con ask unanimous consent that all Members tives. I join with others in expressing to gress of the United States that Truman may have 5 legislative days in which to his family our deepest sympathy in this Ward did not know, and it speaks well for revise and extend their remarks on the hour of sadness. this institution to which we are all de life, character, and public service of the Mr. BOGGS. Mr. Speaker, will the gen voted that this knowledge induced in him late Truman Ward. tleman yield? an incontestably high regard for the The SPEAKER. Is there objection to Mr. MONTGOMERY. I yield to the House of Representatives and for its the request of the gentleman from majority whip, the gentleman from Members and employees. Mississippi? Louisiana. Truman Ward was truly a man whom There was no objection. Mr. BOGGS. Mr. Speaker, I would like we shall greatly miss in our dally tasks, to associate myself with the remarks both as a friend and as an utterly com PERSONAL EXPLANATION that have been made about Mr. Ward. petent and thoroughly obliging employee I can think of no one who has served of the House. To his widow, Gladys, and Mr. FISH. Mr. Speaker, on June 2, the Members of the House who could to his three sons, we offer the assurance, 1969, while I was unavoidably detained be better de.scribed as almost irreplace in these hours of grief, that we are well at an important meeting in my district able. Truman Ward, in his quiet, efficient aware that this House will not be served the House took two rollcall votes on H.R. way, was tremendously helpful to all of by his like again. We say to him, from the 763 to provide for a study of State laws us in the operation of our offices, the very depths of our hearts, "Well done, concerning the governing operations of preparation of printed material, these thou good and faithful servant." youth camps, and on H.R. 693 to provide curing of office help, guiding new em Mr. PICKLE. Mr. Speaker, regardless that veterans 72 years of age shall be ployees, and in many other ways, too of which side of the isle we occupy, all of deemed unable to defray hospital ex numerous to recount. I join with all the us have lost a friend. Truman Ward, penses. others in expressing condolences to his clerk of the majority room, died Sunday. I request that it be made a matter of family, and I trust that we will be for For nearly 48 years, Mr. Ward served record that had I been present, I would tunate enough somewhere within that the Hill. Somehow, the press room will have voted in the affirmative on both family to :find a successor. bills. Mr. MONTGOMERY. I thank the gen continue-but it will not be the same. All tleman from Louisiana, and all others of us can remember the times that Tru who have spoken, for their remarks. man Ward pulled out a print job under PERMISSION FOR SUBCOMMITI'EE impossible deadlines. ON HOME FINANCING, COMMIT Mr. McCORMACK. Mr. Speaker, I am TEE ON BANKING AND CURRENCY, sure that the fact of the tragic passing Most of us owe him a great deal. I can not recall how many of my assistants TO SIT DURING GENERAL DEBATE of Truman Ward has already come to TODAY the attention of his legion of friends that Truman Ward has "trained." I won among the Members of this House. He der how many people on the Hill owe Mr. ALBERT. Mr. Speaker, on behalf died on Sunday, June 1, after a lifetime their jobs to this white-haired gentleman of the gentlewoman from Missouri United States Army, resulting from admin istrative error on the pa.rt of Army personnel. With the following committee amend read the bill, as follows: SEC. 2. The Comptroller Genera.I Of the ments: H.R. 2224 United States or his designee shall relieve On page 1, line 6, after "base pay" insert Be it enacted by the Senate and House of disbursing agents Of the Army, Navy, and Air "and filght pay". Representatives of the UnttecL States of Force from accountability or responsibility On page 1, line 7, strike "April 1, 1953" America in Congress assembled, That, in the for any payments described in section 1 of and insert "December 18, 1954". administration of the Immigration and Na this Aot, and sh&ll allow credits in the settle On page 2, line 13, strike "ln excess of 10 tionality A.ct, Franklin Jacinto Antonio may ments of the accounts of those officers or per centum thereof". be cla.ssi:tled as a child within the meaning a.gents for payments which are found to be of section lOl(b) (1) (F) of the Act, upon free from fraud or collusion. The committee amendments were approval of a petition flled in his behalf by SEC. 3. The Secretary of the Treasury ls agreed to. Mr. and Mrs. Ca.I Carinio Jacinto, citizens a.uthoriz.ed and directed to pay, out of any The bill was ordered to be engrossed of the United States, pursuant to section 204 money in the Treasury, not otherwise a.ppro ot the Act. pria.ted, to the said Earl Spofford Brown, the and read a third time, was read the third sum Of any a.mounts received or withheld time, and passed, and a motion to recon With the following committee amend from him on account Of the overpayments sider was laid on the table. ment: re!erred to in section 1 of this Act. No pert On page 1, line 8, strike out the word of the amount appropriated in this Act in "Act." and insert ln lieu thereof the fol excess Of 10 per centum thereof shall be paid MRS. VITA CUSUMANO lowing: "Act: Provtded, That the natural or delivered to or received by any agent or brothers or sisters of the beneficiary sha.11 attorney on account of services rendered in The Clerk called the bill (H.R. 1462) for the relief of Mrs. Vita Cusumano. not, by virtue of such relationship, be ac connection with this claim, and the sa.me corded any right, privilege, or status under shall be unlawful, any contract to the con Mr. DUNCAN. Mr. Speaker, I ask the Immigration a.nd Nationality Act." trary notwithstanding. Any person, violating unanimous consent that this bill be the provisions of this Act shall be deemed passed over without prejudice. The committee amendment was agreed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon convic The SPEAKER. Is there objection to to. tion thereof shall be fined in any sum not the request of the gentleman from Ten The bill was ordered to be engrossed exceeding $1,000. nessee? and read a third time, was read the third With the following committee amend There was no objection. time, and passed, and a motion to re ment: consider was laid on the table. On page 2, lines 12 and 13, strike "ln excess of 10 per centum thereof". MISS JALILEH FARAH SALAMETH EL AHWAL FRANCESCA ADRIANA FATTA The committee amendment was agreed Illinois New York fiscal 1968 a frequency rate of only 4.61, sents, with fully one-third of the labor State, for example, the mean average for and the average for the entire construc force of this country either directly in the 41 districts under the 1960 decennial tion industry, I am informed, was 13.21. construction or dependent upon the con census was 409,324. So it is true that the Corps of Engineers struction industry-we are talking about As the court decisions stand today, does have--and these figures make it very a very significant segment in the econ new congressional districts must have clear-a very excellent program at the omy. We certainly do not want to create zero variance from the mean average. present time, and I do want to take this any great, gigantic, ever-burgeoning bu This is ridiculous and completely un time to express the hope, and indeed to reaucracy in Washington to oversee the realistic---yet this is the way the court try to have this as a part of the legisla whole construction industry. We do not decisions have left the situation in the tive record surrounding the passage of want hundreds of people on the payroll if absence of legislative directive. this bill, which I support, that in we can avoid it. Therefore, I was pleased If the States are to avoid endless promulgating standards, the Advisory to note the committee's concern with this harassment after the redistricting upon Committee will certainly take into con problem and the suggestion that the Sec the basis of the 1970 decennial census, it sideration the very fine record of safe retary in carrying out the standards, in is mandatory that Congress enact legis ty that the Corps of Engineers, the Bu implementing the provisions of this act, lation to install reasonable guidelines reau of Reclamation, and some of these will utilize the services of State and local in law. other Government agencies have already personnel that are qualified to police It is not the job of the court to set established, and that they will do noth safety standards. It pleases me, because the guidelines, it is the job of Congress. ing, either by inadvertence or design to I think it will help avoid setting up, as The endless court challenges which have int~rfere with or to compromise the exist I have said, what otherwise would be a faced New York and other States in the ing standards of safety which we feel very top-heavy bureaucracy in Washing past several years make indelibly clear are very good and very high. ton trying to oversee the entire construc the necessity for putting specific guide Mr. PERKINS. Mr. Speaker, will the tion industry. lines into law. gentleman yield? So, Mr. Speaker, I support the adoption It should be noted that the courts Mr. ANDERSON of Illinois. I am glad of the rule that would make considera seem to be attributing greater validity to yield to the chairman of the com tion of H.R. 10946 in order, and with the mittee. to census data than is the Census Bu acceptance of the amendments which I reau itself. Mr. PERKINS. I think the Members have detailed here for the House, and The census Bureau itself acknowledges of this body recognize the great safe which the chairman has indicated he ac that its population headcount in 1950 ty record of the Corps of Engineers. cepts, and likewise the chairman of the and 1960 was only 97 percent accurate. The Department of Labor certainly subcommittee has indicated he accepts, I would be derelict if it failed to consider What is more, today's extremely mo feel this is a good bill and one which bile population makes census figures out and benefit from the experience of the I can and will support. Corps of Engineers and the standards dated before they are compiled officially. Mr. PERKINS. Mr. Speaker, will the Thus the Court's zero-target-or as the developed by the Corps that have worked gentleman yield further? out so well. Court says: "absolute equality"-is actu Mr. ANDERSON of Illinois. I yield to ally unattainable across the board. I agree with the gentleman from Illi the distinguished chairman of the nois that it is the intent of the commit Setting a 2%-percent variation allow committee. ance is within the range of census data tee that those safety standards be seri Mr. PERKINS. Mr. Speaker, I think ously considered. Most contractors are accuracy and will permit the States to I have made it clear that, as far as my have slight leeway that can avoid much already familiar with the standards and committee is concerned, we do accept the there need be no radical changes in disruption to normal geographic lines. amendments mentioned by the gentle The Supreme Court's ruling in April volved. man from Illinois. Mr. ANDERSON of Illinois. Mr. this year forced the State to begin prepa Speaker, I am very pleased that the dis There is one further amendment I rations for another million dollar con tinguished chairman of the committee would like to ask the gentleman from gressional reapportionment of the State agrees with me in that regard and that Illinois about. On page 3 of the bill, for the 1970 election. we have this as a definite part of the there is a minor technical amendment The Court ruled that the State's 1968 record we are making on this legislation. in line 7. After the word ":financial'', we redistricting did not meet the Court's Because of the changes which have see a comma. That comma should be izero-variance interpretation, although been made, many of the people who deleted. The words "financial guarantee" the redistricting plan was approved at talked to me last year were deeply con should not be separated by a comma. the time by a lower Federal court. cerned that there were not adequate I think the gentleman will agree to Our bill also includes a section aimed safeguards in the legislation for admin that deletion. at avoiding the necessity for another re istrative and judicial review. Mr. ANDERSON of Illinois. The gen districting in New York in advance of I think people like the Association of tleman from Kentucky has previously the 1970 decennial census. Plumbing and Heating and Cooling Con discussed that technical amendment. I It provides that any State whose pres tractors and some others have said to me would certainly agree that the amend ent districts· in Congress are within 10 they are in favor of this bill, in favor of ment should be accepted. percent of the average shall be consid this legislation. I think it important to Mr. MADDEN. Mr. Speaker~ I yield 2 ered the district for the November 1970 note that at this time as well. minutes to the gentleman from New election. New York meets this criteria, I have one other point I want to make, York (Mr. DULSKI). with a variance of about 6 percent each and then I will be pleased to yield to the (By unanimous consent, Mr. DuLSKI way based on the 1960 census-the only gentleman. was allowed to speak out of order.) basis for statewide redistricting. I note on page 4 of the report, I believe CONGRESS MUST SET GUIDELINES roa ~ I recognize that for New York to in the fourth paragraph down from the REDISTRICTING avoid the new redistricting for the 1970 top of the page, the committee has Mr. DULSKI. Mr. Speaker, a biparti election, even under the provision of this stated: san group of New York Members of the bill, New York would have to ask the A provision of the Walsh-Healey Act pro House are joining me today in sponsor Supreme Court to set aside its earlier vides for the use of such State and local om ing legislation to establish guidelines for ruling in the light of the legislation. cers and employees as the Secretary of Labor future congressional redistricting. Whether the Court would agree re find possible to assist in the adm.1nistration .of this act. The committee deems it wise for No guidelines exist in law now and it mains to be seen, but I believe the effort the Secretary to utilize such assistance where has become essential that Congress act should be made since the special redis he -finds competent, trained, and qualified in the light of the many harassing court tricting will cost the State about a mil State personnel to exist. challenges which have resulted from the lion dollars and will be done on the 14574 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE June 3, 1969 ridiculous basis of census data that is 1936. It provided that employees of sup sponsibility and obligation to protect nearly 10 years old. ply contractors doing contract work for since they were doing work under Fed New York State will need to redistrict the Federal Government would be pro eral or federally assisted contracts. We again on the basis of the 1970 census be vided safe and healthful working condi have a similar obligation to construction cause the State is expected to lose one tions. In 1966 we enacted the McNam workers. When I think of the thousands or more districts under national reap ara-O'Hara Service Contracts Act to of men who have been killed or disabled portionment. provide similar protection to employees on Federal jobs because we did not act The most important job for Congress- of service contractors doing Federal con 36 years ago to protect them, I become and the sooner the better-is to put tract work. But in the case of construc all the more determined to act now to specific guidelines in law so that New tion workers the law is silent on the do what we should have done long ago. York and other States will know exact question of the safety of their working I want to emphasize that this legisla ly in their 1971 redistricting what is the conditions while doing similar work un tion is only related to the protection of maximum variance from the State aver der Federal or federally assisted con construction workers on Federal or fed age. tracts. This is a serious oversight, and erally assisted projects. The bill is not a Cosponsors of the bill with me--all the time has come to correct it. comprehensive bill for the entire con New York Members--include: Mr. An The matter of construction safety is struction industry, but only that seg DABBo, Mr. BIAGGI, Mr. BINGHAM, Mr. not new to the Congress. Hearings were ment of the industry engaged in con BUTTON, Mr. FARBSTEIN, Mr. HALPERN, Mr. held by our committee during the 90th tra~t work for, or assisted by, the Fed HASTINGS, Mr. HORTON, Mr. KING, Mr. Congress on legislation similar to that eral Government. McEWEN, Mr. OTTINGER, Mr. PIKE, Mr. before us today, and a construction There has been concern in some quar POWELL, Mr. STRATTON, and Mr. WOLFF. safety bill was reported out late in the ters over how the Secretary will go about Mr. MADDEN. Mr. Speaker, I move 90th Congress. Unfortunately, it was re setting up the safety and health stand that previous question on the resolution. ported too late in the second session to ards required by H.R. 10946. As my col The previous question was ordered. be granted a rule, and it was brought up leagues are aware, Mr. Speaker, the Sec The resolution was agreed to. on the suspension calendar. Because of retary of Labor already has similar A motion to reconsider was laid on the certain technicalities and questions authority under the Walsh-Healey Act table. which were raised during the House de and other safety laws. This legislation Mr. PERKINS. Mr. Speaker, I move bate, the bill failed to get the required provides however that he will be required that the House resolve itself into the two-thirds vote to pass under suspension to consult with an advisory committee Committee of the Whole House on the of the rules. But the bill did receive a made up of representatives of the con State of the Union for the consideration solid majority vote. struction industry, representatives of of the bill (H.R. 10946) to promote The Select Subcommittee on Labor of workers primarily engaged 1n the con health and safety in the building trades our committee, however, did not base its struction industry, and the public. This and construction industry in all Fed action this year on the hearings during advisory committee will advise the Secre eral and federally financed or federally the 90th Congress. Under the leadership tary in his formulation of the safety and assisted construction projects. of my able friend and colleague, the gen health standards. The bill also provides The SPEAKER. The question is on the tleman from New Jersey (Mr. DANIELS), that the Secretary can appoint special motion o:ff ered by the gentleman from the subcommittee again explored the advisory and technical experts or con Kentucky. need for this legislation and it held 3 sultants to aid him in carrying out the The motion was agreed to. days of hearings on the original con functions of the committee. IN THE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE struction safety bill, H.R. 3290, which In writing this construction safety Accordingly the House resolved itself was introduced at the beginning of this legislation, our committee endeavored to into the Committee of the Whole House Congress. All interested parties were be fair to all parties concerned. We did on the State of the Union for the con given an opportunity to testify or submit our best to give everyone the opportunity sideration of the bill H.R. 10946, with Mr. statements. Testimony was also taken to be heard on the matter, and we care HANLEY in the chair. from the Secretary of Labor, Mr. Shultz, fully considered each suggestion from The Clerk read the title of the bill. and the Under Secretary of Labor, James industry, labor, and committee members, By unanimous consent, the first read Hodgson. as to exactly how the problem should be ing of the bill was dispensed with. The legislation received the support of approached and what language should be The CHAmMAN. Under the rule, the the Department of Labor and the unani used. gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. PERKINS) mous bipartisan support of the Select My colleagues on the committee on will be recognized for 30 minutes, and Labor Subcommittee and the full House both sides of the aisle have agreed with the gentleman from Illinois ,OOO ing posture rather than a punitive en ers. The cost of administering the safety were disabled. Hopefully a good safety and health aspects of this bill are esti program can be established and those forcement approach. To be -:t1ore spe mated to be approximately $2 per per cific it directs the Secreta~· to: statistics will decrease in the future. Educate and train in accident preven son, so that this would come to a total of This legislation limits the Federal tion techniques; approximately $2 million per year. Government's major area of responsi Esta.bllsh Federal safety and health Mr. GROSS. Mr. Chairman, will the bility to its own contract work. It does standard.s after full consultation with gentleman yield further? not provide for an overall construction those involved with the mdustry; Mr. ERLENBORN. I yield to the gen safety program. Instead, it relates only Establish an Advisory Board to con tleman from Iowa. to Federal, federally assisted, or fed sult with and assist the Secretary in ad Mr. GROSS. The gentleman from New erally financed construction projects, ministering the construction safety and Jersey stated that it will cost approxi and the States are still free to run their health program; mately $2 million per year from the Fed own safety programs without any inter Collect, analyz.e, and publish accident eraf Treasury for the administration of ference from the Federal Government. data for program guidance and industry this law. Am I correct that that is what The Nixon administration realizes the use; the gentleman states; tha·t it will cost value of the construction industry to this Requires the us" of the Administrative $2 million from the Federal Treasury for country, and it is aware of thousands of Procedures Act and public hearings in the administration of this law? injuries and deaths each year in this the development of standards of safety Mr. DANIELS of New Jersey. The gen industry which might be avoided with a and health; and tleman is correct, it will cost the Federal safety program. Secretary of Labor Provides in those instances where for Government $2 million to properly ad Shultz and Under Secretary Hodson ap mal compliance action is found neces minister the law. peared before our subcommittee, and sary, full administrative and judicial re Mr. GROSS. I thank the gentleman they endorsed construction safety legis view to the contractor involved. for yielding. lation. 14576 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE June 3, 1969 I hope the House will act favorably on which the work was being done, is au working conditi-ons. This bill recognizes H.R. 10946. thorized to cancel the contract of any that the Federal Government does have Mr. PERKINS. Mr. Chairman, I yield contractor of subcontractor, and to enter a special obligation to protect this one 15 minutes to the gentleman from New into other contracts while charging any remaining class of workers when work Jersey Japan, man from Kentucky. manufacturing workers on Federal sup Spain, Norway, Israel, Afrikaans- Mr. PERKINS. I wish to take this op ply contracts have long been given this Netherlands-plus those nations com portunity to compliment the distin basic protection by the Walsh-Healey prising the Inter-American Construction guished gentleman from Pennsylvania Act. More recently the McNamara Association where the translation has Baseball is a Funny Game. King, John T. & King, Marcel H. Stories Bontemps, Arna. 100 Years of Negro Free- Lippincott. of Twenty-three Famous Negro Americans. dom. Dodd, Mead. Gibson, Althea. I Always Wanted to be Steck-Vaughn Co. Braitwaite, Edward R. To Sir With Love. Somebody. Harper. King, Martin L. Where Do We Go From Prentice-Hall. Golden, Harry. Mr. Kennedy & the Negroes. Here? Harper. Brown, Jim. Off My Chest. Doubleday. World. (Fawcett pap. ed.). Knebel, Fletcher & Bailey, C. Seven Daya Buckley, Peter. Okolo of Nigeria. Sim.on & Graham, Lorenz. South Town. Follett. in May. Harper. Schuster. Graham, Lorenz. North Town. Crowell. Kugelmass, J. Alvin. Ralph J. Bunche, Burden, Shirley. I Wonder Why ••• Graham, Shirley. Brooker T. Washington. Fighter for Peace. Julian Messner Doubleday. Messner. Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. Lip Burgess, Leonard. Rebound Man. Franklin Graham, Shirley. The Story of Phillis pincott. Watts. Wheatley. Julian Messner. Lee, Irvin H. Negro Medal of Honor Men. Caldwell, Erskine. In Search of Bisco. Graham, Shirley. There Was Once a Slave Dodd, Mead . Farrar, Strauss & Giroux. • • • the Heroic Story of Frederick Douglass. Letta.u, Edward & Wakin, Edward. At the Canaway, W. H. A Boy Ten Feet Tall. (Bal Julian Messner. Edge of Harlem. Wm. Morrow. lantine pap. ed.). Graham, Shirley. Your Most Humble Serv Levy, Bill. Return to Glory. World. Carawan, Guy. Ain•t You Got a Right to ant. Julian Messner. Lewis, Claude. Cassius Clay. (Macfa.dden the Tree of Life? Sim.on & Schuster. Graham, Shirley & Lipscomb, George D. pap. ed.). Carlsen, Ruth C. & Carlsen, Robert G. eds. Dr. George Washington Carver, Scientist. Lord, Walter. A Night to Remember. Holt. The Great Auto Race & Other Stories of Men Julian Messner. (Bantam pap.). and Cars. Scholastic Book Services. Greene, Mary Frances & Ran, Orletta. The •Lythom, David. The Godclam White Man. Carmichael, Stokely & Hamilton, Charles School Children Growing Up in the Slums. Simon & Schuster. V. Black Power. Random House. Pantheon Books. Mailer, Norman. Short Fiction of Norman Carruth, Ella Kaiser. She Wanted to Read. .Gregory, Dick. From the Back of the Bus. Mailer. Dell (pap. ed.) Abingdon Press. Dutton. Mather, Melissa. One Summer In Between. Chandler, David. The Ramsden Case. Simon Gregory, Dick. Nigger. Dutton (Pocket Harper & Row. & Schuster. book, pap. ed.) . Ma.yerson, Charlotte Leon, ed. Two Blocka Chesnutt, Helen M. Charles Waddel Ches Grey, Zane. The Arizona Clan. Watts (Lairge Apart: Juan Gonzales & Peter Quinn. Holt, nutt. Chapel Hill. type ed.). Rinehart & Winston. Clark, Walter V. T. The Oxbow Incident. Griffin, John H. Black Like Me. Houghton. Mays, Willle. Willie Mays: My Life in and Gilberton. (New Am. Lib. Pap. ed.). Out of Baseball. Dutton. Clarke, John Henrick ed. American Negro Guy, Rosa. Bird at My Window. Lippin Ma.cLean, A. Guns of Navarone. Doubleday Short Stories. Hill & Wang (Amer. Century cott. (Washington Sq. pap. ed.) Series). Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun. McCarthy, Agnes & Reddick, Lawrence. Clayton, Edward T. Martin Luther King: (play). Random House. Worth Fighting For. Doubleday. The Peaceful Warrior. Prentice Hall. Hansberry, Lorraine. The Sign in Sidney McLean, Allan C. Ribbon of Fire. Harcourt. Cleaver, Eldridge. Soul on Ice. McGraw Bruestein's Window, (play). Random House. Meltzer, Milton & Meler, August. Time of HUl. Harte, Bret. The Outcasts of Poker Flat & Trial, Time of Hope; the Negro in Americe1. Cole, Ernest. House of Bondage. Random The Luck of Roaring Camp. Regents Publish Doubleday (Zeni·th Books.). House (A Ridge Press Book) . ing. Melv1lle, Herman. Moby Dick. Adapted from Daley, Arthur. Kings of the Home Run. Haycra.fi', Howard ed. The Boys' Book of Four American Novels. (abridged text). Great Detective Stories. Harper. Miers, Earn Schenck. The Stor11 of John Putnam. Heinlein, Robert. The Man Who Sold the Davis, Sammy Jr. Yes I Can. Farrar, Straus F. Kennedy. Wonder Books. Moon. New Am. Lib. (pap. ed.). Miller, Floyd. Ahdoo'lot Dutton. & Giroux. Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. Davis, V. T. The Devil cat Screamed. Wil · Nathanson, E. M. The Dirty Dozen. Ran Scribner. dom (Dell pap.). liam Morrow. Hemingway, Ernest. Hemingway Reader. Davidson, Basil. A Guide to African His New York City Bd. of Ed. Call Them Heroes. Scribner. (Bks. 1-4) Silver Burdett Co. (subsld. of tory. Doubleday (Zenith Books). Hemingway, Ernest. Short Stories. Scrib Time, Inc.). Davidson, Basil. Black Mother. Little, ner. Oliver, Paul. Conversation toith the Blues. Brown & Co. Hentoft', Nat. I'm Really Dragged but Noth Horizon Press. Davis, Russell & Ashabranner, Brent. ing Gets Me Down. Simon & Schuster. O'Neill, Eugene. Emperor Jones. ed. by M. Strangers in Africa. McGraw. Hento1f, Nat. Jazz Country. Harper (Dell Herzberg. Appleton. Davis, Russell G. & Ashabranner, Brent K. pa.per). ottley, Roi & Weatherby, Wm. J. ed. The The Choctaw Code. Whittlesey House (div. Hershey, John. The Algiers Motel Incident. Negro in New York. Oceano Publications. of McGraw Hill). Knopf. Bantam Books. (paper ed.). Patterson, Floyd. Victory Over Myself. Ber Dobler, Lavinia & Brown, William A. Great Huie, William Bradford. Three Lives for nard Geis. Rulers of the African Past. Doubleday Mississippi. wee Books. Parks, Gordon. A Choice of Weapons. Har (Zenith Books). Hughes, Langston. Famous Negro Heroes per & Row. Donovan, Robert J. P.T. 109. (Fawcett pap. of America. Dodd, Mead. Ptosk.1, H. A. & Brown, Roscoe O. Jr. The ed.). Hughes, Langston. The Best Short Stories Negro Almanac. Bellwetler. Doyle, Arthur Conan. Adventures of Sher by Negro Writers. Little, Brown. Poe, Edgar Allan. The Gold Bug & Other lock Holmes. Globe Book (expressly written Hughes Langston. The Best of Simple. Stories. McGraw. for 7-8 gr. reading level). Hill & Wang. (Amer. Century Serles). Robinson, Jackie. Baseball Has Done It. Duberman, Martin B. In White America. Hughes, Langston. The Book of Negro Lippincott. Houghton. (New Amer. Lib. pap.). Humor. Dodd, Mead. Robinson, Jackie & Duckett, Alfred. Break DuBois, W. E. The Souls of Black Folk. Hughes, Langston. The Dream Keeper & through to the Big League. Harper & Row. Smith, Peter (Fawcett pap. ed.). Other Poems. Knopf. Rodman, Bella. Lions in the Way. Follett. June 3, 1969 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 14583 Rollins, Charlemae Hill. They Showed the was an adviser on the arts to President newly authorized Public Broadcasting Cor Way. Crowell. Eisenhower, who expressed his high re poration produce cultural programs. Even Russell, Bill. Go Up for Glory. Coward- the proverbially penurious District of Colum McOann. gard in writing on several occasions. In bia has a modest budget for artistic activi Schaefer, Jack. Shane. Houghton. recent years he has guided the privately ties. And, believe it or not, Congress itself Schoor, Gene. Jackie Robinson. Putnams. organized National Symphony into be has for some time been firmly in the per Schulberg, Budd, ed. Fr om the Ashes: coming the best attended in the United forming arts by way of the celebrated con Voices of Watts. New Amer. Lib. States at its subscription concerts. If I certs produced by the Music Division of the Scoggin, Margaret c. Escapes & Rescues. may be permitted a prideful aside, I note Library of Congress. Knopf. that he is bringing his fine orchestra to I suspect that it all adds up to considerably Berling, R. Stories from the Twilight Zone, my home State of New Jersey this sum more than Canada's $25-million. However, I Bantam {pap. ed.) cite the facts-as opposed to the slogans of Shapiro, Milton. The Roy Campanella mer, for three performances at the Gar some promoters of the arts-not to suggest Story. Julian Messner. den State Center and one at the new that the United States should stand still in Shapiro, Milton. The Willie Mays Story. Waterloo Village Festival of Music. the matter of Federal attention to the arts. Julian Messner. Our distinguished colleague across the Rather, I think it ls important that Congress Shute, Nevil. On the Beach. Harper (pap. Capitol, Senator DIRKSEN, called atten men, as the elected representatives of the ed.). tion last Monday-Page 13601 of the people, should have before them the most Silverberg, Robert. Planet of Death. Holt, RECORD for May 26, 1969-to a provoca reliable information available when they con Rinehart & Winston (Pace Setter Books). sider proposals for extensions of the Fed Spellman, A. B. Four Lives in the Bebop tive and cogent article by Mr. Rogers, eral role in support of the arts. Business. (Pantheon Books). "The Congress and the Arts," published Hard facts in this field are not easy to Sterling, Dorothy & Quarbs, B. Lift Every in the Washington Post of May 25. I come by, as the National Endowment of Voice, Doubleday (Zenith Books) . would like to commend to Congress a ficials recently admitted in testimony before Sterne, Emma Gelders. I Have a Dream. commentary broadcast by Mr. Rogers Congress on March 27. They said, in part: Knopf. yesterday, June 2, over radio station "Research should be given the highest Stevens, Shane. Go Down Dead. Wm. priority due to an appalling lack of concrete Morrow. WGMS AM-FM, Washington, D.C.: information in and about the arts." Stratton, Madeline R . Negroes Who Helped A FORTHRIGHT NATIONAL POLICY ON THE It follows that the immediate priority for Build America. Ginn. ARTS the Arts Endowment should be methodical Swift, Hildegarde H. North Star Shining. (By M. Robert Rogers) and objective research that will lead to the William Morrow. Yesterday there was a commentary broad basic information Congress needs in order to Terkel, Louis. Giants of Jazz. Crowell. cast by Radio Station WGMS on the subject legislate intelligently. While the facts are Thomas, Piri. Down These Mean Streets. of Government subsidy of the arts. By im being developed, it might be advisable for Knopf. plication, if not directly, the commentator artists and arts executives with axes to grind Tregaskis, Richard W. Vietnam Diary. Holt. called for the United States to spend $300- for themselves and their organizations to Trevor, E. The Flight of the Phoenix. Har million a year on the arts so that our nation keep their cool. Especially they should for per. (Avon pap. ed.). might keep pace with Canada in cultural bear from contributing further to the "ex Tunis, John. All-American. Harcourt. development. This ambitious financial figure plosion of words" that the Ford Founda Tunis, John R. The Kid Comes Back. is attributed to Nancy Hanks, the president tion says ls the only demonstration of a so Morrow. of the Associated Arts Councils which re called cultural explosion in our land. Tunis, John. Yea/ Wildcats. Harcourt. cently held its annual convention in Canada. Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy and John Uris, L. Battle Ory. Putnam. She was quoted from The New York Times as son have all agreed that the appropriate role Ward, B. H. ed. Year's Pictorial History oj saying, when it somes to Government in in the arts for the Federal Government is the American Negro. volvement in the arts, "Canada is light years to help create a national atmosphere in Washington, Booker T. Up From Slavery. ahead of the United States." which the arts may become more accessible Doubleday. to all Americans. Watson, Willie Mae. We Honor Them. (2 v.) These comments come on the eve of Con gressional consideration of appropriations for One fact that needs no research is the high New Readers Press, Box 131, Syracuse, N.Y. quality that major American art.6 organiza 13210. the Kennedy Cultural Center and the Na tional Endowment for the Arts. Thus, they tions have achieved mainly through private Westheimer, D. Von Ryan's Express. Dou means. In passing, it is pertinent to mention bleday (New Am. Lib. pap. ed.) appear to be directed at Congress. Since it ls possible to be a champion of the arts and the high level of music programs originated Woodson, Carter F. & Wesley, Charles H. yet have opinions different from those heard day-in and day-out by WGMS, which is pri Negro Makers of History. 5th ed. rev. The As vately owned and operated by an American sociated Publishers. yesterday, I have been invited to make some relevant remarks. corporation, RKO-General. No publicly-oper Wright, Richard. Black Boy. (Harper pap. ated Canadian radio station can touch it in ed.) First, let us see how the figure of $300- its self-chosen, specialized field. X, Malcolm. The Autobiography of Mal million for the arts was derived. It is a sim If Canada is indeed "light years ahead" of colm X. Grove Press. ple projection, in ratio to population, of the the United States in the matter of govern X, Malcolm, Malcolm X Speaks, Merit. $25-milllon that the Canadian government is ment subsidy, our northern neighbors are Young, Desmond. Rommel: The Desert Fox. said to allot annually for culture. The com light years behind us when it comes to or Harper. plaint is then made that our Congress last ganized artistic endeavors like our estab year authorized only $6-million for the arts. lished museums, symphony orchestras, and This happens to be the 1969 budget of the opera and ballet companies. With due re A NATIONAL POLICY ON THE ARTS National Endowment for the Arts. spects, they have not yet produced a Winslow However, there is a lot more Federal fund Homer, nor a George Gershwin, nor a Eugene (Mr. WIDNALL asked and was given ing of culture than is to be found in the O'Neill. Nor, either, a Van Cliburn, a Leon permission to address the House for 1 Arts Endowment. Offhand I can think of at tyne Price, a Duke Ellington. Neither canada minute, to revise and extend his remarks least ten executive departments or agencies nor the United States, nor any other nation, and include extraneous matter.) which maintain arts activities. For example, can legislate genius into existence. the largest employer of musicians in Wash For us, a fitting national objective at this Mr. WIDNALL. Mr. Speaker, soon the ington is not the privately supported Na House will be considering amendments time is to air not so much for more artistic tional Symphony Orchestra. It is the De activity, but for the preservation and wider to legislation and appropriations con partment of Defense, which pays for and op distribution of what we have. This requires cerning Federal participation in the arts. erates the splendid bands and orchestras of a forthright, uncomplicated national policy Coming before us once again will be the the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, and the on the arts-something we do not have. Per issues of the John F. Kennedy Center United States Marines. haps the Nixon Adm.ln1stratlon will apply 1t.s for the Performing Arts and the National The Departments of State, Interior, and talents to bringing sense and order into this Endowment for the Arts. In the past HEW all have cultural budgets adding up highly variegated field. there have usually been severe limitations into the millions. The Smithsonian Insti on debate and a lamentable absence of tution has plenty going in the arts, includ ing a new Division of the Performing Arts. LET US CARE FOR HIM WHO SHALL probative information when arts pro Under the Smithsonian banner is the vir posals are brought before us. It is oppor tually autonomous National Gallery of Art, HAVE BORNE THE BA'ITLE tune for us to start to gather some of the and .coming along is the Hirshhorn Gallery (Mr. DENNIS asked and was given newly developing facts right now. of Modern Art. Also vaguely under the permission to address the House for 1 A highly qualified private citizen whose Smithsonian is the increasingly expensive minute, to revise and extend his remarks John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing views on the arts deserve our thoughtful 'Arts, which now has a price tag of more and include extraneous matter.> attention is M. Robert Rogers, the man than $66-million and last week revealed that Mr. DENNIS. Mr. Speaker, yesterday aging director of the Washington Na it is $20-milllon short of completion money. I voted against H.R. 693, a bill to amend tional Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Rogers In the TV-radio field, the USIA and the title 38 of the United States Code to CXV-918-Part 11 14584 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE June 3, 1969 provide that veterans 72 years of age or The Veterans' Administrator estimates acquisitions do involve the so-called older shall be deemed to be unable to a first year cost, as a result of this pro conglomerate companies. defray the expenses of necessary hos vision, of $1,825,000, and $3,650,000 per As a result, Congress plans to investi pital and medical care, and for other year by the third year, and thereafter. gate the growth of these companies to purposes. I see no justification for this provision. explore whether legislation ls needed to I wish to state my reasons for that As the Administrator says: limit such growth while the Antitrust vote· and in doing so I shall lay down If a veteran ls well able to pay, there would Division of the Justice Department has cert~in general principles which guided seem to be no reason for distinguishing his brought suit to test whether existing law my thinking in this matter and shall case on the ground that he ls older than covers such acquisitions. then apply those principles to the pro some other veteran. Conglomerates have been criticized. on visions of this particular bill. Second. Section 2 provides unlimited the grounds that they concentrate too Abraham Lincoln said in his second outpatient treatment for a group of much economic power in a single eco inaugural address: about 144,000 veterans, at an estimated nomic enterprise. It is also stated that Let us ... care for him who shall have expense of $9,503,000 to $12,490,000 per the individual compcnents of these borne the battle and for his widow and his year, which the Veterans' Administrator companies, suppcrted as they are by the orphan. criticizes, in his same letter to the chair capital of the entire enterprise, gain an I certainly subscribe to that doctrine. man of the committee, in the following advantage over those of their competi On the other hand I am not convinced language: tors who are not parts of larger cor that every one of us who ever served in The majority of this group are receiving porate entities. Further, it is said that the Armed Forces is thereby forever increased monetary benefits because of non when a company ls taken over by a con after entitled to liberal public assistance service-connected disabilities. The proposed glomerate its management and control legislation would authorize unlimited out is moved from the local community to a in respect to his non-service-connected patient treatment for this group but would large financial center such as New York disabilities. not provide a similar benefit to seriously as a result of which local needs and At the same time we are now in a disabled service-connected veterans who are interests come to be overlooked. severe governmental fiscal and budget not entitled to the increased monetary bene ary crisis, coupled with spiraling infla fit. Such preferential treatment of the non However, the conglomerates them tion, ever-higher taxes, and most recent servlce-connected veteran would represent ·an selves make quite the opposite argument. anomalistlc departure from the traditlonal They say that size alone does not make congressional action designed to keep priority accorded service-connected veterans them bad, and that frequently large size and hold a $193 billion budgetary ceil in matters of medical care. The Veterans' makes for greater efficiency which ing. This effort must obviously fail if we Adlninistration does not favor this change in through loss savings and lower consumer continue to increase expenditures even emphasis. prices benefits the economy as a whole. beyond those favored and requested by Prof. Donald Turner, of Harvard, a the executive departments. Third. Section 3 provides for increased outpatient furnishing of drugs and medi former head of the Antitrust Division, I now apply these general principles cines at an estimated additional cost has himself taken the view that size alone to H.R. 693, and note the following: through fiscal year 1974 of $19,000,000, is not grounds to condemn an industrial First. Under H.R. 693 the previous re and is likewise opposed by the Adminis company even if it has grown by merger. quirement of inability to pay in order to trator of the Veterans' Administration They further say that the companies they obtain free Veterans' Administration because it ''poses a question as to how acquire tend to be those in need of mod hospital and domiciliary care for a non far the Government is prepared to go in ern management and financing-which service-connected disability is removed granting medical services on a perma is why the acquired companys' stock in the case of persons 72 years of age or nent basis for those whose disabilities holders are willing to accept the con older, by means of a conclusive legal pre originated in civilian life." glomerate's offer-and that in provid sumption that all such persons are un In view of the foregoing it is my judg ing such needed services they are actu able to pay. ment that H.R. 693 fails to meet or to ally made better able to compete. Thus In other words a millionaire veteran satisfy the general principles I expressed competition is actually enhanced rather 72 years of age or older ls now to be en at the beginning of these remarks, and than restricted. They further contend titled to hospital care for a non-service I therefore voted "no." that rather than harming the local com connected disability, at public expense. munities in which acquired companies He may thereby deny a bed to a young are located, ownership by a conglomerate er veteran who ls in fact unable to pay. THE NEED FOR AN OPEN MIND ON actually helps them since the local busi The objection to this is very well put CONGLO MERATES ness is strengthened by infusions of new in the letter to the chairman of the capital and more efficient management. House Committee on Veterans' Affairs The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under Indeed, many of the more successful con written by the Administrator of the Vet previous order of the House, the gentle glomerates appear to have retained local erans' Administration and reproduced on man from California San Francisco, an Joaquin Valleys. I couldn't help being im Thirty-nine of these are north of Fresno. excellent presentation on the California pressed that our own Oroville Dam, during This is the way the original score was water plan was made by William R. the peak floodflow in January, was able to written and the way it was intended to be Gianelli, the director of the California hold back some 143,000 cfs while discharging played when enacted by the Legislature in State Department of Water Resources. only 20,000 cfs. The flow past Oroville during 1959 and ratified by the people in 1960. Many Although I do not wish to convey the the height of the high waiter was reduced to years of debate in the Legislature resulted in one-seventh of what it would have been if the design of a project which will benefit all impression that I am personally in agree Californians and which will deprive no area. ment with every statement made by Mr. the Dam had not been there. The citizens of Yuba City and Marysville, many of whom of the State to benefit another. Though the Gianelli, I find that the speech gives us were flooded out in 19&5, had been protected composition is clear, some critics have been an outstanding overview of the basic con from possible caitastrophe this year. introducing false notes. Propaganda has been cept of the California water plan and of Farther south. I flew over the site of New widely disseminated in some areas of the the underlying philosophy behind it. Melones Dam which has been authorized for State, including the San Francisco Bay area, In view of the fact that all of the Mem construction by the U.S. Army Corps of En that the State Water Project is a gigantic. gineers, but upon which construction has scheme to steal the water of Northern Cali-· bers of Congress occasionally find them fornia for the benefit of Southern California. selves involved in California's water not been started. I also flew over the site of New Don Pedro Dam on the Tuolumne and to leave the area north of the Tehachapt problems, I believe Mr. Gianelli's re River, which has just begun its preliminary mountains a barren desert. marks would be helpful to all of the oonstruction phases under a joint agreement This untruth has been resurrected, dusted Members. between the City and County of San Fran off, propped up, and masqueraded as if it. The full text of Mr. Gianelll's speech cisco and the Turlock and Modesto Irriga were part of today's picture. Times have is as follows: tion Districts. If New Melones and New Don changed; no longer can we afford to look Pedro had been completed, the flood prob into a rear-view mirror. No longer can any• CALIFORNIA WATER PROBLEMS-PERSPECTIVES lems on the lower San Joaquin River would op.e stand before an intelligent audience and AND PROSPECTS have been alleviated. We would not have say that Northern California currently lacks (By William R. Gianelll) had a levee failure at the junction of the surplus water. No longer can flood protec Mr. Chairman, I appreciate your kind words Stanislaus and San Joaquin Rivers which tion be denied. But, in the present realm o! of introduction. I realize that my appearance resulted in the flooding of many hundreds economics we must join water supply fea this noon has received a considerable share of acres. tures with flood control features. We have of what the advertising experts call "advance You may not realize that the big reser arranged for federal funds to pay for the billing". In fact, so vivid an image seems to voirs which provide much needed flood con flood control features, and we have arranged have been built up that when your recep trol in the Sacramento and San Joaquin for the water users to pay for the water sup tion committee met me at the door they Valleys are multi-purpose reservoirs. They ply. We have taken a statewide perspective asked me where I had left my red costume would not be in existence unless distant wa because we are no.t divided by geography or and horns. ter users gUM'anteed the repayment of the commerce, or communication, and certainly Since I have no desire to contribute to a water supply features. This is true on the Mo not by problems. masquerade, I came as I am. I intend to speak kelumne River where Comanche Dam, built The health, safety, and welfare of all Cali frankly and fully. I do so in the sure knowl by the East Bay Municipal Water District, fornians is our concern-from the Klamath edge thait the Commonwealth Club ls inter stopped the flood-waters of the Mokelumne Basin to the Imperial Valley. It should be a ested in facts rather than fear, in firm ac River in the vicinity of Lodi this year. Co matter of pride that California leads the complishment rather than fancy, and in real manche Dam exists because people in the nation in making a statewide attack upon ity rather than emotion. East Bay Municipal Water District guru- the problems of water resources and their As one of your members for many years, anteed and are paying for the water supply developments. In the State of New York, four I have learned that your interest in public features of both the dam and reservoir. major departments and seven different divi problems extends beyond personal prefer In the vicinity of Modesto, downstream ar sions within departments have responsib111- ence, beyond narrow partisanship, sectional eas will be provided with flood control pro ties for water supply. In New Jersey, the re ism, or ideology. Therefore, I appreciate your tection when New Don Pedro is completed, sponsibility is spread over four departments invitation to be the speaker at the Friday again primarily because the people of San and six divisions. In the region of which luncheon. While it is an honor I share with Francisco are guaranteeing to defray the cost New York is a part, 13 federal agencies have all Of the people in our Department of Wa of the water supply features of New Don planning responsib111ties. ter Resources, the role I play is somewhait Pedro. In the West, the trend is in the California different than theirs. This is because the defi And so it is with the State Water Project's direction, toward responsibllity on a state nition of a "Director"-whether of a public Oroville Dam. The people in the vicinity of wide basis and in a single department. It agency or a symphony orchestrar--is the fel Marysville and Yuba City are afforded flood only confuses the picture to call for a return low who stands up and faces the music. control primarily because the State Water to the fractured pattern of the past. The I find, however, these days that the music Project users in the north San Francisco clarity and simplicity of the California ar ls not being played as it was written. The Bay, the south San Francisco Bay, the San rangement is being copied by Texas and notes are not ringing true. It is time we re Joaquin Valley, and Southern California Arizona, among other states. turn to the original score and, as AI Smith have guaranteed to pay the major share of In addition to our Department with ma used to say, take a good "look at the record". the cost of Oroville Dam and Reservoir. jor responsib1llties in statewide planning and A little over a month ago I stood on one It is upon these concepts that the Cali development of the State Water Project, of the levees on Sherman Island located in fornia Water Plan and the State Water Proj the 1967 Legislature created the State Water the Sacramento-San Joaquin River stream. ect have been conceived. Our job is to solve Resources Control Board, combining the and watched floodwaters cover that island Of the imbalance in supply and, at the same quasi-judici·al functions of water rights and the Sacramento-San Joaquin River stream time, to help meet flood control needs in the water quality. This Board is completely in system. It was one of those sights which left North and provide fishery enhancement and dependent of our Department, its five mem· me with a most depressed feeLing: to watch recreation generally as part of water projects. bers serving staggered four-year terms under 10,000 acres of some of the finest agricultural The first beneficiaries of the State Water appointments by the Governor. Last week land in the United States be flooded by 10 to Project were Northern Californians, a fact your speaker made reference to these Board 20 feet of water. which ls often forgotten. Since 1962, water members particularly those from Northem At the same time, I recalled some 35 years has been delivered to local contracting agen California, stating that two of them were back when, as a teenage Sea Scout living in cies in Alameda and Plumas Counties and, former members of our Department. This ls 14586 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE June 3, 1969 not true. The Chairman was a successful So, in evaluating the words of the fright oriented in the best technical sense. They are businesman and Mayor of St. Helena before peddlers, one cannot be too cautious. Sin professionals of broad perspectives. he joined the Board; the Engineer is from cerity can always be admired, but a narrow The prospects facing California are Porterville having practiced as a successful perspective is deplorable. Progress only exists strongly linked to the breadth of perspective consulting engineer in the San Joaquin in a rational atmosphere. Criticism that we adopt. This is not a time for anyone or Valley for over 25 years, and the third is a merely muddies the waters and makes a big any group to become an emotional dropout successful attorney from Placerville-none of splash, only exposes how wet the critics are from California's promising future. Califor these three has been associated with my De behind the ears. nia has been described by one promising partment as employees. Along with the other Now, let's take a look at facts about water writer as "America tomorrow'', "the direction two members from Southern California, these quality in the Delia. in which America ls heading", and a "proto three are most capable of protecting the A preliminary water quality agreement has type for the rest of the Nation". As a State, State's interests in water quality and water been reached by those most concerned: The California contains 1 out of every 11 Ameri rights in a completely objective manner. It is Department, the Bureau of Reclamation, the cans. Californians enjoy the highest incomes interesting to note the attacks on these peo Sacramento River and Delta Water Associa and the most leisure, drive the most auto ple by those who have received or antici tion, the San Joaquin Water Rights Commit mobiles, and have the most color television pated decisions not to their liking. tee, and the Delta Water Users Association. sets, color telephones, swimming pools, back The Department's constituency embraces Their standards provide for water quality yard patios, and pleasure boats. all Californians. Full "area of origin" safe conditions throughout the Delta area which But we are also first in the serious things: guards are expressed in the California Water constitute a vast improvement over historic our agriculture leads the nation; our econ Code. This Code also includes the Burns natural salinity conditions. The standards omy is larger than any foreign country ex Porter Act. Under these safeguards, priority have been agreed to by groups that represent cept Russia, West Germany, Great Britain, for its own water requirements is granted to 90 percent of the agricultural interests in and France. California has 21 Nobel Prize an area of origin before supplies or ex the Delta. winners in the sciences, a third of all living changes can be made with regard to another In addition, the Department has signed American Nobel Laureates in the Arts and area. agreements with the City of Antioch and Peace Prizes, and a quarter of the member Similar safeguards for Delta water are also with the Contra Oosta County Water District ship in the National Academy of Sciences. part of the law of this State. With respect to concerning the purchase of substitute sup We have done more for ourselves in the field the Delta, the Legislature determined that plies. The County interests represent over of water development than any other state a water supply sufficient to maintain and ex one-half of the assessed valuation within the and we're doing it in a way in which I be pand agriculture, industry, urban, and rec County. Just last year, the Legislature created lieve our citizens can be proud. reational development in the Delta was nec a Delta Water Agency with authority to nego We rejoice in these superlatives but, at essary. This determination controls policy tiate with the U.S. and the State of Cali the same time, we recognize the heavy re for releases into the Delta and for export fornia in order to assure an adequate water sponsibility that ls implied. One of these from the Delta. supply and suitable water quality and to responsibilities ls that of carrying on intelli The important point is that many Califor implement the preliminary agreements gent discussions of public problems and nians, including those from San Franicsco reached. issues including water at a high level and and the East Bay as well as Southern Cali I might add that, before I became Director with full regard for the facts. fornia, have exported water away from areas of the Department, I was directly involved, as The problems of nature are the same of origin. With nearly everyone dipping into a private consulting engineer on behalf of everywhere, whether they involve battling the sources of water and exporting it, a Delta interests, in negotiations that led to disease, irrigating farmland or desert, explor statewide policy had to be nailed down in the preliminary agreement on these water ing outer space or the inside of the atom. the law, and it was. Some critics cry that quality standards. These criteria, I firmly be We expect differences. We know that what they lack legal protection, but this protec lieve, are fair and equitable to all concerned. seems impossible-especially in controlling tion is clearly expressed in the law. Their real They give protection to the Delta water sup nature for man's benefl.t--is impossible only objection appears to be that we are carry ply and guarantee adequate salinity control. until somebody does it. Because California is ing out a law which they do not like. I supported the proposal then, while on the a "somebody" state, and because we believe Those who criticize plans for the Periph other side of the fence, and I support it the direction of our efforts is uphlll, we eral Canal fail to discuss the whole story. fully now as Director of Water Resources. strive to be problem-oriented in our ap There are many references to "taking our We feel that the Delta problem can most proaches. We will continue to do this-to water" or "tapping the Sacramento's fresh intelligently be dealt with from the stand seek healthful, coIU3tructive, and thoughtful water" at Hood and bringing it around the point of hydraulics rather than politics. Hy public participation. outside of the Delta. But, I fail to hear an draulics involves theories of liquid motion. We appeal most of all for a broad perspec honest discussion on how the Canal will Politics involves the practice of perpetual tive on the part of all Californians. actually be operated. It should be clearly emotion. The statewide view must continue to guide pointed out that the Canal will be engineered Our perspectives a.re statewide and our us in California water development. We can to release fresh water directly into Delta prospects are bright. We look beyond the not afford to let narrow self-interest upset streams and channels at eight.different points flood control, the recreational, and the Delta the plans made for all of the people. on a regulated basis. We must recognize that environmental problems to future sources of We must move ahead under the concept merely increasing the flow of the Sacramento water supply. Planning for future develop tha.t is pioneered in California law-a state at the Delta's northern edge would fall to ment of our North Coastal resources ls a co water project which will benefit all Califor solve the whole problem of the Delta. To operative effort involving local, state, and nians and which will deprive no area or freshen water in the Delta's interior chan federal efforts. interest to benefit another. nels and streams, a westerly outflow is need As part of our perspective, investigations Viewed in the broad perspective that is ed. Direct releases from the Peripheral Canal Of future wa.ter resources extend beyond con proper, our prospects are bright for con would provide this. ventional drum and reservoir. We are studying tinuing water developments for water con Peripheral Canal planning goes back many the possibilities of obtaining new w!liter sup servation and distribution, flood control, plies through desalting sea waiter, waste recreation and enjoyment of fl.sh and wild years. It was even part of the California life. Water Plan of 1957. Between 1961 and 1965, water reclamation, improved watershed man four plans were considered by an Interagen agement, weather modification, and regional cy Delta Committee which included the De developments in the 11 western states. WOUNDS INFLICTED BY LAW EN partment, the Bureau of Reclamation, and Attention to local needs and cooperation FORCEMENT IN BERKELEY the Corps of Engineers. Each plan was with local and state agencies and the Fed judged, not for how much water it would eral Government a.re characteristic of our (Mr. EDWARDS of California asked bring to the pumping plants on the south moves in these areas. and was given permission to extend his ern edge of the Delta, but from those bene The Department's activity ls carried on by remarks at this paint in the RECORD and fits which the Water Code says must be con a staff which consists of more tha.n 1,000 to include extraneous matter.) sidered: water quality and supply in the graduate engineers, 1,000 technic>ians, and Delta, flood control and drainage, the main almost half a.s many administrative profes Mr. EDWARDS of California. Mr. tenance of fish and wildlife, and recreation. sionals. We have more than 400 construction Speaker, on Friday, Memorial Day 1969, The only plan which met all the objectives inspectors and supervisors, an equal number an estimated 25,000 persons marched was the one providing for a Peripheral Canal of trades and maintenance Cl'aft.Bmen, and peacefully in Berkeley without serious skirting the Delta's eastern edge, but con more than 770 office personnel. incident. The peaceful march, I believe, taining-as critics ignore-eight release Only myself and my 3 deputies are ap was a return to sanity in that troubled gates for fresh water to be poured directly pointed by the Governor. We 4 are engineers city. into the Delta's streams and channels. and have had public service experience in However, the wounds of Berkeley, At a public hearing before the California state or federal water resource agencies to Water Commission, the Peripheral Canal was taling approximately 100 man-years. The De wounds which have national implica enthusiastically supported by commercial partment's employees are all career public tions, are deep. There has been a further fishing and sportsmen's groups, by the De servants; they come from many areas Of the division among the American public. partment of Fish and Game, and the Depart- State; they represent thousands of man As illustrations of these divisions, I _ment of Parks and Recreation. years of experience; and, they are problem- will include three recent newspaper ar- June 3, 1969 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 14587 ticles in this RECORD at the close of my SOLD TO KD..L It will be 10 days or more before doctors remarks. The first is by Bob Gillette, Another X-Ray specialist at Herrick Hos know the extent of Blanchard's blindness. science writer for the San Francisco pital, Dr. Klaus Dehlinger, observed that Physicians at Herrick Hospital are fairly cer Examiner. In an article published May "Buckshot is sold to kill deer. That fact tain that it will be total. 29, he discusses the wounds inflicted by speaks for itself." Brean and Dehlinger, who helped diagnose [From The Washington (D.C.) Post, June 2, law enforcement on May 15 in Berkeley. nearly all of the 40 to 50 wounded persons 1969] The second is by Nicholas von Hoffman at Herrick and Cowell hospitals, emphasize BREEDING COP HATERS and in the June 2 Washington Post he that doctors are "not the organizing kind, (By Nicholas von Hoffman) discusses the wounds and bitterness in not the protesting kind." "A society that hates it.s young people has flicted on a generation by 1the events in Nonetheless, half a dozen of the angry doctors have volunteered an eloquent pro no future," says Fred Dutton, the only mem Berkeley. Mr. von Hoffman outlines ber of the University of California's Board of the wise compassionate views of Fred test: an inventory of major wounds. The victims include five persons struck Regents to be with the students, the street Dutton, a member of the University of with double-? gauge buckshot pellets, a third people and the park. As such, he has a hard California Board of Regents and the for of an inch in diameter. Only one victim of time on a board made up mostly by Ronald mer distinguished Assistant Secretary of buckshot, James Rector, has been previ Reagan and a lot of multi-millionaires who, State under President John F. Kennedy. ously reported. he says, "live in another world like the outer In addition I would like to include in the (Birdshot, a sixteenth of an inch in diam Patagonians." eter, was the only ammunition authorized "I'm basically a 'cop-out,' a conformist RECORD an account of the gassing at who wants to make the system work but I Berkeley written by A. V. Krebs and pub for use by Alameda County Sheriff Frank Madigan. see the kids coming to us on the board and lished in the National Catholic Repcrter they can't get through to us. They get si on May 28, 1969. Finally, a young con THE DAMAGE lence so I've been getting an education my stituent of mine, a young man I know Of the five buckshot victims: self-the popular word is radicalization One young man suffered a commutated, or beoause I see the older society beating up personally, wrote me an account of the shattering, fracture of the main bone in his actions of the police and National Guard kids for no reason at all," says Dutton, a left leg below the knee. 45-year-old lawyer and straight politician in Berkeley. His remarks are significant Four persons suffered wounds of the soft who was appointed to the Board by former as he had been called to active duty tissues. Among them was James Rector and California Gov. Pat Brown. there. I am not revealing his name for a young man who sustained a ruptured bowel. When Fred Dutton says he's seen the older obvious reasons, but the full letter is on Ten persons admitted to Herrick Hospital society beating up its kids, he's not using a file in my office and I am acquainted had been wounded in the legs, arms, trunk figure of speech. He was at the Chicago with him. I include his letter, changed and face with birdshot. One victim carried Democratic Convention last summer and 125 pellets in his body, "and there may have physically intervened to save some of them. only to protect him, in this RECORD. been more," Dr. Dehlinger said, "That was It Likewise a few weeks ago it was Dutton who is my belief that it is time for us to all we could see in the X-rays." raised a rumpus at a Regents' meeting, when seek new solutions to the campus crisis. Birdshot accounted for severe damage to he saw a policeman walk over to a white stu It is time to realize we cannot govern the eyes of two persons. Some 130 persons dent who was talking to a black girl on a our colleges by force. We cannot allow were reported injured by gunfire, rocks, bot Berkeley lawn and clubbed him over the war to be declared between the genera tles. One policeman sustained a minor stab head. Neither the sergeant, nor the captain tions. wound. commanding the police detachment could AN ACCOUNT give Dutton the name of the officer who There are answers, instead of violence. A surgeon at Herrick hospital, who asked Let us address ourselves to those an did it. not to be identified, gave this account of his Dutton is rare because he is an older per swers, instead of to recriminations. view of the violence: son who has taken time to see how younger The above-mentioned articles follow: "I had just finished in surgery when it all people are frequently treated. Few people happened, when the wounded, began coming [From the San Francisco (Calif.) Examiner, have seen the photograph in the Bla~k Pan May 29, 1969) in. ther Party newspaper of a California lawman "It was Thursday, and we were supposed drawing a bead with a shotgun on a single, DOCTORS PROTEST BERKELEY SHOTGUNS to have an earthquake disaster drill Sat (By Bob Gillette) fleeing, white, bearded youth. The student urday. But a girl said on the public address who took the picture is quoted as saying, Doctors who worked long hours tending system that the drill would go into effect "I was looking out the window Thursday the wounded in Berkeley after a bloody clash immediately-and that this was not an afternoon and I saw some 50 people stand with police on May 15 are expressing anger exercise." ing on the corner. Then they all started to and dismay at the use of shotguns to quell One of the arrivals was James Rector, shot run. The pigs came around the corner and civil disorder. at close range on Telegraph Avenue. one stood there like he was going to shoot. The doctors believe the public does not "This young boy had picked up three I never dreamed he would. The pig took his fully appreciate the maiming power of fine slugs-the sort of thing you'd expect from time aiming. The guy fell down in the street birdshot and marble-sized buckshot. a machine gun. howling. The pig took off, and someone And they fear that the debacle of two "But it wasn't. It was buckshot from 30 dragged the guy into the house. His right weeks ago may be repeated-tragically and feet. His belly was ripped apart." buttock and hip were bloodied from bird unnecessarily-in response to a mass march WAYWARD SLUG shot wounds." planned in Berkeley tomorrow. His spleen, part of his pancreas, and his The letters, pamphlets, pleas, cries and So far, the doctors say, the shotgun toll left kidney were removed. He died four days strangled gurgles coming in here from infuri includes: later from a hemorrhage of the aorta, the ated, impotent, "occupied Berkeley," are in One death, three punctured lungs, two main artery leading from the heart. Doctors credible and sad. Here's one from a young eyes blinded and a third damaged, a shatter later found that a wayward slug had nicked math instructor who was arrested after he fracture of the lower leg and a ruptured and weakened the great vessel. told the National Guardsman to go love-off bowel complicated by a massive internal in The most seriously wounded survivor is somewhere because they were bothering his fection. now Alan Blanchard, a carpenter at the Tele girl while the two were walking to work: INSANITY graph Repertory Cinema in Berkeley. " ... I soon discovered in conversation with Dr. Henry Brean, the chief radiologist at Blanchard, the father of a five week old fellow criminals that what I had done was Herrick Hospital in Berkeley, and at Cowell child, is under care at the University of far more serious than their crimes: two un Hospital on the university campus, said he is California Medical Center. dergraduates had been arrested for giving "one of many" physicians anguished by the Both his eyesockets were heavily damaged the finger to a helicopter--one of them was human damage they have witnessed. by birdshot, fired as he watched the melee riding on a bicycle while he was committing "I've got no brief for violence the kids from an apartment house sundeck. this criminal act, and his bicycle was ar committed," he said in an interview. rested with him. It was in the paddy-wagon George Pauley, his employer and co-owner on the way to jail, too. Another undergrad "But the indiscriminate use of shotguns is of the cinema, said Blanchard is not an ac uate had picked up a used tear gas cannister sheer insanity." tivist and has never been associated with for a souvenir. He was seen carrying it by a He asked rhetorically, "Hasn't anyone ever street protests. cop and was arrested. Another fellow was heard of firehoses?" BENEFIT arrested for watching the arrest." Another doctor, three surgeons who tried To help defray Blanchard's medical ex There's nothing especially unique about and ultimately failed-to save the life of penses, Pauley plans to give him the box Berkeley except the use of guns by the po 25 year old James Rector, told The Examiner: office receipts from four shows a week-Fri lice who heretofore have saved firearms for "Anyone here who has any sense of hu day and Saturday at midnight, and Saturday blacks. The hassling and hazing of kids, manity has been horrified by what happened. and Sunday matinees. especially the more flamboyant middle and As a resident of Berkeley and as a physician, To augment the theater money, contribu upper class kids, goes on all over the nation I never expected to see these kinds of injuries tions to a trust fund for Blanchard and his with the results that we're breeding 5 million in civilian life." family are also being sought. cop haters. Pig is no longer a three letter 14588 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE June 3, 1969 word :ror a four-footed animal and "oink" 1s perimeter, and campus police took positions The battle raged for much of the afternoon. becoming the real slogan of the Pepsi gen on the balcony of the nearby student union Pollce said bottles, bricks and pieces of con eration. building. crete reinforcing rods were thrown at them. Many of us who're older are suffering from Suddenly, a national guard helicopter They responded, first with tea.r gas and then a King Lear complex. We're becoming ob swooped in over the tops Of buildings and shotguns. There also were cla.ims they used sessed with the notion that our sons and past the Campanile, the huge campus tower, .SO-caliber rifles in a few instances. daughters are plotting to strip us of our and started billowing tear gas which was By nightfall, more than 400 outside police gerontologically derived power and position quickly blown to the ground by the 'copter's officers were in the city, including San and throw us out into the streets. So Fred overhead rotor blades. Francisco's tactical squad, which lent the Dutton remarks, "Joe Alsop says people like The campus police on the student union law enforcement during the violence at San me are traitors to our own age group, but I building joined in the tear gas attack, throw Francisco State. That evening Governor Rea think there's a whole bunch of people in ing large grenades of it at the students, who gan ordered the national guard in, and a their later 30's and early 40's who're being started fleeing. curfew was imposed. radicalized-people who were obedient and Girls fell on the grass. Some screamed. The Berkeley city councll, meeting while went off to Korea without asking themselves Some threw up. Other students were chased national guardsmen stood guard in a circle any questions." into a nearby building and lawmen lobbed around the city hall, called for a grand jury There are some like that who're perking up tear gas grenades in after them. investigation of the controversy and the and coming to life but there appears to be The tear gas drifted beyond the plaza. At violence. a stronger tendency in older people to infiict the campus hospital, some patients had to be Ron Dellums, a black councilman, drew ap on the young what was once inflicted on removed from their rooms, and one was plause as he condemned "violence and brute them. Instead of remembering the miserable placed in an iron lung after having some force" and that "because of inaibillties to high schools, the sadness of their own con dlfHculty breathing. And, a group of small solve problems a young man ls dead." He scription, the social arrangements that children in a university building received a said the city should "tell Governor Reagan thwarted their own youthful sexuality, older strong enough dose to make them sick. that we are tired Of Sacramenrto controlling people often say, "Well, I went through it, so By the time the May 20 incident ended, us." why can't they?" What that statement really 85 persons had been arrested. The governor, meanwhile, was telling news means is "I can't tolerate the idea o:r these The controversy and bloodshed at Berkeley men in S.acramento that "the issues (in young ones not suffering what I suffered. are over a piece of land, about 150 yards Berkeley) have become clouded and some Make them go through it too." long and 90 yards wide, located in a largely may be misinformed or misled into belief in The "it" they went through was a social residential area. On one side are university a so-called 'cause' which in reallty 1s nothing processing that produced Richard Nixon and dormitories and the school's long-range plans more than a deliberate and planned attempt his silent majority, that docile, uncreative, are to build student housing on it. at confrontation." tight-11.sted mass who assent to anything any The university bought the land more than The governor's office declined to say how short-haired man in a business suit tells a year ago, paying Just ovex: a million dollars many national guardsmen were called to them to do. This ls the ungenerous life of for it. At the time, it had a few old build Berkeley. One spokesman said revealing the mildly paranoid home-ownership, and it 1s ings on it, and some of Berkeley's hippy-type number "might be advantageous to the what the sons and daughters of the rich and "street people" lived in them until the uni enemy." Other estimates placed the total at near rich are objecting to, with the people's versity tore them down. The lot was an eye about 2,000, and many of them were staying parks and their clothes and their sexiness. sore. in People's Park. Fellows like the Attorney General pick this Then about six weeks ago some students The state's board of regents, who were fact up and that's what makes him carp and some of the city's street people began meeting in Los Angeles during the Thursday about permissiveness, but what's the point cleaning the lot up, and clearing off the gun battle, later afflrmed that "we have full of having an affiuent society if you can't foundations left from the old buildings, and confidence in the Berkeley admlni&tration loosen up and enjoy and enjoy some more. making it into a park. and the law enforcement agencies." Puritanical social discipline is for times o:r They went out and panhandled about One regent, Fred Dutton, however, said he scarcity and national emergency. $700 from business places to buy things. They felt that "if the student.s developed the land The kids in effect are saying, "Hey, there's put down some sod, built play apparatus !or with their own resources, then they should plenty of money so let's pass the wealth children, put up a platform that can be used have their park." around to everybody (blacks, Mexicans, old as a stage, and planted flowers, vegetables, During the helicopter tear gas raid, Father people) and have a good time. Man, don't and even a small corn field. James Conway, a Paulist at the university give us this jive about national security, we Some people, including Gov. Ronald Rea Newman center, was standing in front of the know Ho Chi Minh isn't going to paddle over gan, have charged the project was politically center watching the fleeing students. here in a rowboat. Relax, hang loose and dig motivated, and that some of the students and "I prayed a blessing two weeks ago in the your head and your body." street people undertook it to bring on a con People's Park that it would be a source of Fred Dutton knows this and that's why he frontation with the university. peace and brotherhood, not of bloodshed and says, "The park is cultural escalation. It's But the students and street people say violence," the priest said. the kids telling us to keep our hands off their they really wanted a park. After completing "Seeing now how the university adminis private lives, their shacking-up arrange some of the work, most of which they did tration and the city has reaoted to the stu ments, their games. Harvard will have a park on week ends, they held a dedication service, dents and street people's simple desire for in eight months. This will be as important and named it People's Park. their own park, I should instead have asked as the Free Speech Movement was. The park "This is the first meaningful work experi for the surrounding commUnity to be a is symbolically very important." ence of our lives," one of the park builders source of peace and brotherhood." But Fred Dutton can't get the message said. across to the Patagonian m1llionaires on the But about a week after the clean-up cam DEAR DoN: I was activated to serve in board of regents so there will be more fight paign began, the university warned that it Berkeley Callfornia. as a member of the Na ing between the kids and the blue meanies. would soon be using the land for its intra tional Guard. The situation that exists there mural sports program. On May 14, it put up can only be described as intolerable for the (From the National Catholic Reporter, May "No Trespassing" signs, and the morning of people of Berkeley. Upon returning to the 28, 1969] May 15 it installed an eight-foot-high cha.in Ninth District I became aware of your efforts link fence around the property. to investigate the situation. I hope that WHY TEARS AND BLOOD OVER BERKELEY'S Later, on May 15, the students and stree1. PEOPLE'S PARK? what I observed may be of some help in people held a protest rally at Sproul plaza, your investigation or in obtaining one. (By A. V. Krebs) and started a march on the park. This led to It became evident from the first day of BERKELEY, CALIF.-About 3,000 persons the violent clash with lawmen during which arrival that the perpetrators of violence most of them University of California stu the young man, James B. Rector, was fatally were the police and especially the Alameda dents-had just finished a silent vigil for a wounded. More than 100 other persons were Sheriff's department. They seemed to display young man who died after being shot by hurt. a degree of vengeance and reprisal against police in a Berkeley street battle. Rector, who was from San Jose, had come the youth while performing their duty. The The mourners decided to march the four to Berkeley to visit some friends. He was first day I was on guard duty on the street blocks from where they were-Sproul plaza, standing on top of a building watching the corner of a main intersection a long haired the site of Berkeley campus protests-to a battle when he was hit. youth was passing. One of the Alameda disputed piece of land called "People's Park," Before he died, he told the doctor who Sheriffs tripped him then hit him across the located in the university's south campus treated him that he looked d-0wn from the back with his club. The youth did nothing area. rooftop and saw a policeman aiming a shot wrong (other than walking down the side But Berkeley police and California na gun at him. He said he turned to run, and walk) to bring about the attack and the tional guardsmen drove the students back then was shot in the left side. sher11f just laughed and walked away. When onto the campus with volleys of tear gas, just An autopsy revealed that Rector died from questioned the cop could give no rational as they had on the previous four days when "shock and hemorrhage due to multiple gun explanation; he wore no badge number. the students tried to make the same march. shot wounds which perforated the aorta" The next day I witnessed the Alameda As the students returned to Sproul plaza, the main artery carrying blood from the sheriffs handcuff a youth (his hands to his more lawmen formed a tight circle around its heart. ankles) rolled up the windows of a car, threw June 3, 1969 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 14589 him inside and then tossed in a tear gas is not mine to "take over," and here again the Ingalls Shipbuilding Co., of Pasca grenade, and slammed the door. They kept I know I speak for the majority. him in there for ten minutes. The over goula, Miss., in violation of the Depart reaction of the police was slekening to MAIN CONCERN ment's own regulations with respect to watch, on at least two occasions I observed What is the main concern now is the enforcement of title VI of the Civil gangs of offi.cers beat a demonstrator or by way the situation is being handled by our Rights Act of 1964. The Department of stander. At one point an offi.cer drew his so-called "keeper of the peace." the Navy awarded the contract even shotgun and pointed it at a crowd of stu I for one cannot attend the University though equal employment opportunity dents by a building because one student that I love feeling like I'm part of "the deficiencies had been documented and no had thrown a rock, he intended to shoot enemy" in an occupied city. I have lived for everyone in the crowd. Fortunately he was the past while in fear, not of the student affirmative action plan existed which restrained by the Berkeley Police who seemed dissidents and demonstrators, but of our would correct the situation. On May 19, to be more restrained. On Monday night I offi.cers of the law. in telegrams to Secretary of Defense was in the Berkeley Police Department Head For awhile now I've been afraid to go on Laird and Secretary of Labor Shultz, quarters and overheard the following. The campus, because I know that at any time I who has responsibility for the Office of captain of police, "Tomorrow the quota ls could be choked in a cloud of gas or pelted Federal Contract Compliance, I protested one hundred arrests you are to drive up in by gunshot, just on the way to or from the award of the contract and urged that your squad car jump out and grab the near school. est individual, and place him under arrest I'm not speaking from what I have heard, no further contracts be let until title VI for failing to disperse. The arrest forms are but rather from what I myself have ex regulations were complied with. already made out--just fill in the names." perienced. I've seen some of the injuries As a result of congressional protests, This plan was carried out by the police on done to people who've just happened to be Department of Defense and Department Tuesday one of my friends was arrested in the right places at the wrong times. of Labor representatives met with the while coming home from school two blocks A LIE Ingalls Co. on May 22 and Ingalls filed from his residence. On Thursday the p1an was repeated. We were told by our command And I can tell you now that Alameda an affirmative action plan as required by ing offi.cers to let straight individuals through County Police Chief Madigan was lying law. our lines but to herd everyone with long when he said that only birdshot the size of I consider this series of events very hair into the Bank America parking lot. I BBs was used. I have· helped dress the serious. It indicates that Federal agen feel that both these are adequate examples wounds of people who've been hurt, and I cies are not meeting their responsib111ties of violation of civil rights, by the police. We know. I haven't been outside in the middle of anything, but when someone comes to to administer title VI evenhandedly and were also told by our company commander effectively. The Members of this Congress that the police were justified in their indis your "inside" gushing blood you just can't crlmlnate beatings and gassings because of ignore it. cannot assume responsib111ty for polic the obtrusive language they had been sub Daddy, I've breathed so much tear-gas I'm ing each contract awarded by the De jected to. But our commander felt they were becoming immune to it. As casually as one partment of Defense or any other guilty of over reaction. I hope that you are would say "shut the window, please, it's Department to assure that there was enabled to get a federal investigation and cold," we say "shut the window, please, the compliance with Federal civil rights it ls able to come up with some findings gas is coming in." regulations. Surely, we have a right to that wm put a cease to the violence per TRAPPED expect that an agency of the Federal petuated by the police. I am not alone many I've seen "crowds" of two people gassed in of my fellow guardsmen hold the same feel Government can and will enforce Fed side of the quad of our dorm unit by police eral laws against discrimination and its ings of disgust. Any e1Iort you make will be on the other side of the fence by the parking thoroughly appreciated. If you wish more lot. I've also seen gas thrown and shots fired own implementing regulations fully and detailed statements of what I observed at people who are running away-in other effectively. please contact me. words, already dispersed. Mr. Speaker, I insert at this point in Respectfully yours, I've also seen police march and drive peo the RECORD copies of my telegrams to ple up the street one way only to be met by Secretaries Laird and Shultz and the re [From the San Francisco (Calif.) Examiner, another battalion of police at the other end May 29, 1969) sponses of their Departments which and the people, who now can't possibly dis indicate that the original contract was COED'S VIEW OF UC RIOTING perse, are gassed and-or-arrested en masse. (NoTE.-The following letter was written I have a friend who was shopping on Shat let with total disregard for the law of the to V. M. Hanks, a San Francisco profession·al tuck Avenue the other day (this boy is no land: photographer, by his daughter, Penny, a more likely to be out provoking police than Hon. MELVIN R. LAIRD, sophomore at UC, Berkeley, expressing her I am) and when he saw trouble ahead he Secretary of Defense, views and opinions of problems in Berkeley. asked an offi.cer which way he should go to The Pentagon, Penny's dormitory ls near Sproul Plaza.) avoid it. The offi.cer pointed him in the di Washington, D.C.: MAY 25, 1969. rection of a parking lot and when he neared I have been informed that the Department DEAR DADDY: It was so good talking to you it he was arrested along with hundreds of of Defense recently awarded contracts total the other night--.sometimes wish we could others. ling $128 Inilllon to the Ingalls Shipbuilding talk more often, especially now with so HER FEAR Company of Pascagoula, Mississippi. Further, much going on around me over here. This kind of thing just can't go on. You've I understand that the contracts are expected I wish also that you could actually be always taught us respect for law and order, to be part of a series of negotiated contracts here to see the kind of things that are hap but I :feel that what's going on with the po with the Ingalls Company. I am extremely pemng all around me. The whole thing is so lice here now is unlawful and certainly dis concerned about this report because of the confusing and so terrifying. orderly. extremely poor record of this company in the I feel that my own thoughts on the situa This is not to say I don't feel that there are area of compliance with Federal laws ban tion are the same basically as those of the certain violent demonstrators who should be ning discrimination in employment. This rec majority of students at Berkeley. I'm young arrested, but when someone like me who's ord would ordinarily make Ingalls ineligible and idealistic I guess, as are most people been brought up as I have has to be afraid, for Federal contracts by reason of Executive here. not of student demonstrators, but of the po Order 11246. I therefore ask that you inform On the one hand I feel like my idealism llce--then somewhere there's something me whether the Ingalls Shipbuilding Com (and that Of most of my peers) ls being wrong. pany filed a written affirmative action plan exploited and twisted by radical student I only hope that people outside wake up spelling out in specific terms the steps it groups such as the SDS, and it makes me so in time to do something about it, before it's would take to comply with Federal laws re angry. It seems you can't believe in a legit too late. garding nondiscrlmlnation by Federal con imate cause without someone using it as Love and confusion, tractors. If such a plan was filed, I would ap a.n excuse to try a.nd rip down the structure preciate you forwarding it to me. In addition, of our society. PENNY. please keep me informed as to whether the But what I've seen around here lately Department of Defense intends to award fur shows me there are changes which must ther contracts to this company and as to be made--and soon. TITLE VI ENFORCEMENT the safeguards that will be required. This People's Park issue 1s not as I see Hon. GEORGE P. SCHULTZ, to claim property which just Isn't theirs. Secreta.ry of Labor, Perhaps I would rather see a park there Mr. EDWARDS of California. Mr. Department of Labor, than a playingfteld or whatever, but all I can Speaker, several weeks ago, I was dis Washington, D.C.: do 1s voice my preference and hope to be mayed to discover that the Department I have been Informed that the Department heard. I understand fully that the property of Defense had awarded a contract to of De!tm.1e has recently awarded contracts 14590 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE June 3, 1969
totall1ng $128 million to the Ingalls Ship U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, Best man for the Union Pacific was its vice building Company of Pascagoula., Mississippi Washington, D.C., May 23, 1969. president, Thomas Clark Durant, a native of and that this company is in violation of Hon. DoN EDWARDS, Lee; and representing the Central Pacific Federal laws banning discrimination in em House of Representatives, along with its president, Leland Stanford, ployment by Federal contractors. I also un Washington, D.C. was its vice president, Mark Hopkins of Cali derstand that further contract awards for DEAR CONGRESSMAN EnwARDS: This is in fornia, whose wife later retired to the an the Ingalls Company are expected. Please response to your telegiram regarding the In cestral home in Great Barrington as advise me as to whether the letting of the galls Shipbuilding Company contract. "America's richest widow and mistress of 60 original contracts was cleared by the Office of It is our understanding that the Navy millions." Federal Contract Compliance. If such a re as the contr81Cting agency in this case, erred The Great Day of May 10, 1869, ... saw view was not undertaken, please advise me as in not following the established procedure of the fruition of an almost impossible dream: to what action you now intend to take with consulting with the Ma.ritime Administra the joining of the Atlantic and the Pacific by respect to the contracts already awarded. In tion before issuing the contract in question. railway. The obstacles had seemed insur addition, please advise me as to what ac The Maritime Agency is the Government's mountable. They include the quite probable tion you intend to take with respect to the compliance agency for the shipbuilding in risk of failure, post-Civil War uncertainties, additional contracts for Ingalls which are dustry. Had the Navy done this, it would currency i.nfliation leading to exorbitant now in the pipeline. have learned that the Ingalls Company did prices for Labor and material which has to DON EDWARDS, not at the time of contract issuance have. be transported to remote frontiers, Indla.n Member of Congress. an approved Equal Employment Opportunity perils, the Rocky Mountains, legal and con affirmative action program to correct defi gressional battles and investigations, com AsSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE, ciencies on record. Such a. program had pany dissenitions and astronomical financing Washington, D.C., May 27, 1969. earlier been submitted by the Ingalls Com problems. Hon. DON EDWARDS, pany to the Maritime Administration but it For the Rev. Dr. John Todd, it was the House of Representatives, was still under review and discussion at the 315th wedding he had performed since he Washington, D.C. time the contract was let. came to Pittsfield Jan. 1, 1842, as minister to DEAR MR. EDWARDS: Secretary Laird has On learning of this circumstance, the the First Oongregational Church. He had asked that I respond to your telegram of May Company was advised that its contract was come his own hard way since borrowing a 19, 1969 regarding a recent contract award by subject to cancellation and action was im pa.tr of shoes at age 6 to attend his father's the Department of the Navy by the Inga.Us mediately taken to reach a compliance un funeml. He graduated from Yale in 1818 and, Shipbuilding Gorp. of Pascagoula, Missis derstanding. Following a series of confer after Andover Theological Seminary, served sippi. As indicated in your telegram, this ences between Government and Ingalls Com as pastor in Gro1ion, Northampton anct Phila contract was awarded by the Navy without pany officials an affirmative action program delphia. completing our required pre-award compli meeting Government standards and require One news dispatch from Promontory Point ance check on equal employment opportunity ments has now been approved and agreed to. bemoaned his long prayer over the golden matters. Our inquiry into this matter has Maritime Administration, DOD and OFCC spike and described him as "a distinguished revealed that the award was made on May 1, officials participated in these meetings. but unspectacular country parson from the 1969 and our new requirement for complet Inasmuch as the Ingalls Company now ha& East." The reporter did not know Dr. Todd's ing pre-award checks for negotiated con an approved affirmative action program to long story and ·must not have heard his short tracts became effective on January 31, 1969. correct deficiencies, no further action at this prayer. Prior to that time we required such checks time is necessary with respect to additional His biographer says: "The oounty of Berk only on formally advertised contracts in ac contracts for which the Ingalls Company shire was to him the most beautiful region cordance with Department of Labor regula may be considered. However, the compliance in the world. In all this region he was rec tions. This company was selected as a source agency will be conducting periodic checks of ognized as a kind of bishop, taking the lead for negotiation of the contract in question in the Ingalls Company to see to it that it re from sheer weight and energy Of character." May, 1968 and negotiations on the final form mains in a compliance posture. Shortly after his pastorate of 31 years began, of agreement had been in progress for almost Sincerely, he confessed: "I actually had my toes one year. During final stages of these nego J. D. HODGSON, toucihed with frost in the pulpit." But later tiations the Navy Department neglected to Under Secretary of Labor. the Lord evened things up by burning the apply our new pre-award regulations to this Bulfinch Church, and his house to boot. He contract. found his Pittsfield neighbors "a great, rich, At the time of this award, the company had "WEDDING" OF UNION PACIFIC AND proud, enlightened, powerful people. They submitted an extensive written affirmative CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROADS move slowly but tread like the elephant . . . action plan to the Contracts Compliance Of ROLE OF REV. DR. JOHN TODD are a very critical audience ... have 10 fice of the Federal Maritime Administration times more intellect than all my other and discussions were in progress to develop a (Mr. CONTE asked and was given per- places." supplement to this plan. We are pleased to mission to extend his remarks at this Dr. Todd was the noted author Of the best report that on May 22, 1969 representatives point in the RECORD and to include ex selling "Student's Manual" of his day and of of Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp., The Maritime traneous matter.) other books including "Serpents in the Dove's Administration, the Department of Labor and Mr. CONTE. Mr. Speaker, last month Nest." He was a fanatical temperance leader the Department of Defense met and com marked the lOOth anniversary of the who vowed he w-0uld never again lecture in pleted an acceptable written supplement to the old Union Church after a theatrical com the original copy of the company's affirmative "wedding" of the Union Pacific and the pany played "The Reformed Drunkard" action plan. Accordingly, the Ingalls Ship Central Pacific Railroads at Promontory there. Yet, cryptically, he is purported to building Corp. has now been formally deter Point, Utah, which signified the comple have thanked a friend for a jar of brandied mined eligible for this award. tion of the transcontinental railroad. peaches: "I don't care much for the fruit This Department cooperated closely with One of the more interesting highlights but enjoyed the spirit in which it was given." other agencies in communicating to the com of this unique event in American history At the time of the great railroad comple pany the urgent necessity for immediate res is the role which Rev. Dr. John Todd, of tion, the 69-year-old Dr. Todd was retired, olution Of this problem. We believe that this Pittsfield, Mass., played on this momen and his many friends and parishioners had action is consistent with our obligation to sent him "with quite a party from Pitts fully carry out the equal employment oppor tous occasion. field" on a trip to the West Coast where he tunity program provided in Executive Ord.er The Berkshire Eagle, in a special re was received "as a kind of holy fossil to be 11246 and related Department of La.bor port on May 10, detailed this fascinating handled with care." It was entirely happen regulations. story. Under permission to extend my re stance that he made the first transcontinen Please accept our assurance that steps marks, I would like to insert the follow tal train trip and discovered the section from have been ta.ken within the Department of ing excerpts from that story into the Omaha to San Francisco surprisingly short Defense to reiterate and emphasize to all RECORD: ened from three months by way Of wagon to procurement contracting officers their obliga one week. tion to complete pre-award checks on all con REV. DR. TODD'S 315TH WEDDING It was lucky circumstance for all those tracts in excess of one million dollars in (NoTE.-Just 100 years ago today the pastor present at Promontory Point on May 10, 1869, value. of the First Church put the brakes on a that the Pittsfield pastor happened along. A similar response ha.s been transmitted on brawl.) For virtually alone he gave dignity to an oc May 24, 1969 to Senator Edward M. Kennedy. (By Morgan Bulkeley) casion that might otherwise have been a We hope that this is fully responsive to your One hundred years ago today the pic champagne fiasco in the national eye. inquiry and are pleased to report on the turesque wedding of the Union Pacific and The date had been set for Sa.turday, May 8, resolution Of this ma.tter. the Central Pacific railroads was performed but tw-0 days before that, 400 disgruntled Sincerely, on a bleak, sage-brush plateau at Promontory workers had shunted the luxurious car of L. HOWARD BENNETT, Point, Utah, with the Rev. Dr. John Todd of Dr. Durant onto a Piedmont siding where Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, Civil Pittsfield officiating, In a real sense, a divided they threatened his life if he wired for sol Rights and Industrial Relations. nation became one. diers rather than for their $80,000 in back June 3, 1969 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 14591 pay. The money arrived next day, and he was think the article ought to be reprinted in vasive conviction that nothing can be put released, but the ceremony had to be post the RECORD and wish to insert it at this right because so much is wrong. poned until Monday. This gave more time for This is why it is so vital to see how this time: false image is being spread. celebration and carousal. How RELIABLE Is OUR NEWS? About 20 tents and some wooden shacks It is being spread by many commentators comprised the ephemeral little junction that (By Roscoe and Geoffrey Drummond) willing to distort and slyly conceal in order mushroomed from grass and sagebrush. (NoTE.-A famous columnist and his son to manipulate our opinions. There was no water nearer than eight miles, wrestle with false images of America and It is being spread by mucih of the mass but no one cared. In the night the muddy distortions of issues put before the people media which make trouble their favored street at 5,000 feet above sea level had turned by the press, TV and political and intellectual client. They have so long accepted the prem to ice. The cold kept visitors shuttling be leaders-and wonder where it will take us.) ise that bad news produces readers and view tween the town's five saloons and the pot The peaceful processes of democratic gov ers and good news produces only boredom bellied stoves in their railroad cars. The ernment are in serious jeopardy in the Unit that they have neglected to ex.amine whether "Hell-on-Wheels town" began to roll with ed States today. We'd better look long and this premise isn't out of date and whether it its confusion of law and lawlessness, officials carefully at what's happening-and do some is adequate to enable today's democracy to and ruffians, mlllionaires and penniless coo thing about lt--before it's too late. function as it must function to survive. lies, wives and camp followers. A lynching was It was about a year ago that Life maga And, finally, these false images in which, narrowly averted. zine put this caption on a somber and fore wherever you look, nearly everything is Monday dawned clear and sunny. The boding editorial: "Wherever We Look, Some wrong-because what is right is too widely many conflicting accounts seem to agree on thing's Wrong." ignored--e.re promoted by a range of pur little else but that on the abiding presence That's fair comment. There's much that's poseful destruotionists who think 1lhait the of the Wasatch Mountains. Old glass-plate wrong and much that needs to be corrected. Bill of Rights is for burning for everybody photos show two railroad grades with tracks, But what is most wrong and most needs but themselves and whose goal is to tear the sidings and switches, a telegraph line, and to be corrected ls a false image of America nation apart without offering any idea of an anachronistic 20-star flag flying from a which ls being imposed upon the American how they want to put it together again-if it telegraph pole. (There were 37 states at the people by much of its mass media-the could be put together again. time.) More than 20 newspapers had one or image that wherever you look, nothing's In watching for distortions in the press, it more reporters present, and these variously right. is a fair question to ask why relevant mate concluded that between 500 and 3,000 at This distorted image is a perilous disservice rial was omitted in two recent book reviews tended the shotgun wedding. The only fore to the nation. Of the late Robert F. Kennedy's recently pub sight was shown by Dr. Todd, who left a Have no doubt about it, such a continu lished "Thirteen Days," dealing with the copy of his two-minute prayer at Ogden for ously projected image leads to national im Cuban missile crisis. In each case the same telegraph to President Grant and the nation. potence. omission permitted conclusions which the Finally Dr. Durant's shining Pullman It tends to produce such a sense of help full facts could not support. chugged in, and the velvet-frocked VP lessness and hopelessness that public sup One review was by David Schoenbrun in stepped into the mud to shake hands with port for what needs to be done weakens and the New York Times Book Review. The other Stanford and Hopkins leading the Central wanes. was by Prof. John Kenneth Galbraith in Pacific's delegation. Several unexpected com If we are to succeed in freeing the ag Book World. In the first case the late Adlai panies of the 21st Infantry Regiment en grieved, the frustrated and the impatient stevenson is made to appea.r to be a mar route to California also disentrainect just in from the temptation to yield to violence, tyred dove, wrongly abused in the highes·t time to partly oon trol the pressing crowd, they must be able to see that the demo councils of President Kennedy's Adminstra and their band struck up a lively tune. The cratic process in America has worked, is tion. In the second case a similar conclusion white-haired Dr. Todd was seen descending working and can be made to work even is implicit, though not so clearly stated. with a delegation of Mormon saints just as better. Read normally, by the normally informed the coolies from the West and the paddies But much of the media is undermining reader, these reviews would seem pretty in from the East laid the last ceremonial laurel confidence in democratic institutions by nocent and persuasive. But when read closely tie, predrllled to receive the four commemo making government almost always look as by one whose work brought him in contact rative gold and silver spikes. Wires were so bad as it sometimes is. by most of the facts, then their tactic connected that each blow of the sledge would We are not appealing for a Pollyanna to emerges. be reported in most of the larger cities coast guide television or radio or the press. We are Here is the subtle paragraph from Mr. to coast. not appealing for counter distortion. We are Schoenbrun, former CBS radio and TV cor The crowd pushed in so that very few not advocating government censorship. We respondent in Paris and Washington and now could actually see and hear what happened. are not proposing to break the mirror of a a free-lance newspaper ad magazine writer: Two Wells Fargo stages on their last run ar free press because so much of the image "Stevenson . . . alone suggested we accept rived just in time to mark the passing of one it is presently reflecting ls out of focus. Khrushchev's offer of a trade-withdrawal, our era and the beginning of another. At 12 :25 We are appealing for perspective and bal missiles in Turkey against their missiles in p.m., the majestic Dr. Todd intoned his two ance and for a wider awareness by the media Cuba, for which he was soundly chas minute invocation: "Now on this beautiful that they have a responsibility to do more tised ... Why are the doves always consid day, in the presence of these lonely hllls and than sell bad news because it is more excit ered less patriotic, less courageous than the golden summits, we render thanks that Thou ing. They have a responsibility to use that hawks?" hast by this means brought together the East precious guarantee of the Bill of Rights- Who would say that is not a reasonable and the West, and bound them together by freedom of the press-to help democracy question-at least from the facts as Schoen this strong band of union. . . . Bless the work better at a time when it must be near brun stated them? waters that wash the shores of our land, the its best to survive. Without it there will be To the same point, here is the way Harvard Atlantic of thy strength and the Pacific of no freedom of the press for anybody. Professor Galbriath, economist and National thy love ..." The telegraph tapped out: "At Ponder these bleak words from John W. Chairman of Americans for Democratic Ac last we have done praying; the spike is about Gardner, former Secretary of Health, Edu tion, wrote it in his Washington Post Book to be presented." cation and Welfare and one of the most World review: thoughtful commentators on the state of the "In contrast, the man who calls for cau nation: tion, a close assesment of consequences . . . HOW RELIABLE IS OUR NEWS? "Our honored tradition of dissent has must have great courage. He is a real hero undergone an unprecedented debasement. and rare.... In particular, it was Adlai (Mr. WHITEHURST asked and was Protest has become a disorderly game for Stevenson who was willing to trade some given permission to extend his remarks 12-year-olds. Reasoned debate has given way obsolete nuclear weapons in Turkey . . . for at this point in the RECORD and to include to bullhorn obscenities. The loudmouth and similar action by the Russians in Cuba." extraneous matter.) the hothead reign unchallenged. But the facts are not as stated and the Mr. WHITEHURST. Mr. Speaker, all "Among the dissenters today we hear a facts Schoenbrun and Galbraith should have few with a special message. They say, 'we stated, to be honest with their readers, were too often in recent years the reporting don't need reform, we need revolution. The explicitly set out in the Kennedy book they by members of the news media has been whole system is rotten and should be were reviewing. filled with inaccuracies which have been destroyed.' " Here they are verbatim, and the italicized either embarrassing or positive harm has They are a minority, a minute minority, words show what was omitted by the two re occurred. A particularly poignant article and some of them don't really believe what viewers: was recently published in the American they say. But don't let this be reassuring. "(Stevenson) at the Saturday meeting Legion magazine entitled "How Reliable There is a deadly peril imbedded in it. The strongly advocated ... that we make it clear peril is that 1f any large number of Ameri to the Soviet Union that if it withdrew its Is Our News." The authors, Roscoe and cans are induced to accept the false image missiles from Cuba, we would be willing to G<>effrey Drummond, themselves re of their nation-the image that wherever withdraw our missiles from Turkey and Italy spected members of the press, have ex you look, virtually nothing is right--then and give up our naval base at Guantanamo posed several cases of false reporting or we will be standing at the brink of national Bay." distorted news writing. Mr. Speaker, I impotence, political lethargy and the per- Obviously there is a considerable difference CXV-919-Part 11 14592 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE June 3, 1969 between proposing that "we trade some ob to the peace talks and thus sought to show to demorcratic government, any wide and solete nuclear weapons in Turkey" and the that Johnson (together with Nixon) had continuing credibllity gap between press and actual proposal Stevenson advanced, that we wasted a year by not "putting Humphrey's public cannot fail to impair the functioning also abandon nuclear weapons in Italy and fox in the chicken coop" much earlier. of our free society. give up the base at Guantanamo Bay. No reader of Look, a year later, should be This is why· it is vital to look at what's President Kennedy rejected this proposal, required to spot the switch. happening. not with any implication that Stevenson was Here's another example. At a Oongressional Something dangerous is happening a.nd no considered "less patriotic," as Schoenbrun hearing before the Joint Economic Oommit one has put his finger on it more earnestly wrote, but on the ground that the United tee, a well-known professor of economics was than W. W111ard Wirtz, former Secretary of States "could not abandon Guantanamo Bay testifying on the annual report of the Presi Labor, who during his yea.rs in public life under threat from the Russians." dent's Council of Economic Advisers. He tore became deeply concerned by the gap between Stewart Alsop of Newsweek was the first to it apart. He could find nothing good to say what he saw as reality in American life and spot the revealing omissions in these two re about any of it. He would summarize state the image of American mirrored in the media. views and he offered this warning to future ments he attributed to the Council and then The Overseas Press Club of America, made unwary readers: proceed to show how utterly untenable they up mostly of U.S. correspondents who have "The reasonably sharp-eyed reader will note were. served abroad, asked Mr. Wirtz to lay it on how in both reviews the suppression of a When the President's chief economic ad the line-and he did. Here is the way he sees vitally important fact makes it possible to viser re.ad this testimony later, he scratched it: suggest a false conclusion. This is sympto his head in disbelief. He couldn't recall any "First, if the idea of democracy should ever matic of a larger phenomenon-the tendency of the views which this very quotable profes be invalidated, it would be because it came of liberal-intellectuals to transform into non sor so easily tore apart as ever having been about that more and more people knew less facts all facts that do not fit neatly into the put into the report in the first place. So he and less that was true about more and more current fashionable liberal-intellectual dog wrote the witness a letter asking him lf he that was important. ma . . . Adlai Stevenson, in the Pavlovian would cite the passages from which he had "Second, this is the direction of things world of the liberal-intellectual, was a cer so vigorously dissented. He got his answer today. tified Good Guy. Therefore it is not necessary right back. It said in effect: "My Dear "Third, the responsibility for this lies sig to examine what he actually proposed-it Friend . . . Surely you've been a.round nifl.cantly, though not by any means entirely, must have been good. Washington long enough not to be naive. with the mentors of the mass media." "The Pavlovian tendencies of the liberal You know I can't cite the reference which This kind of indictment has been made intellectuals constitute a serious political you request. I was only having a little fun." before and neither the press nor the natl.on phenomenon. They are politically influential, It may have been fun for the professor. has fallen apart. especially in New York where most American It may not have hurt the standing of the Is it any different today than before? opinion ls manufactured. . . . It could turn Chairman of the Council of Economic Ad It ls. It is so different that the survival ot out to be a very serious matter for President visers. But do you think many of the nation's a free press and the survival of democratic Nixon who is, in the Pavlovian liberal world, Lawmakers knew that their witness was toss government in America is at stake. a certified Bad Guy." ing imaginary balls in the air to see how they Why? Why are the stakes so great today? Take another example of the a.rt of would bounce? How many TV viewers and Because in the past most of the criticism switching facts. Early in his campaign for newspaper readers, when they got a headline of the media came from extremist minorities the 1968 Democratic Presidential nomina like, "Professor Deprecates Economic Re or from those who had a grudge or a special tion, Sen. Eugene McCarthy advocated that port," realized that he was making things bias of their own. But today, as the Wall the best way to end the Vietnam War was for up in order to tear them down-and that it Street Journal article pointed out, "more the United States to pressure the elected was just fun and games? and more ordinary middle-of-the-roaders South Vietnamese government to accept, It ls not a.musing. It is evil. One antidote seem to be joining with the extremists in without any elections, members of the Viet is: Readers, be aware. proclaiming 'you can't believe a word of it.' " Cong into a coalition as a pre-condition to The mass media are beginning to exam What Otten is saying here is that there is peace. ine themselves with more than ordinary developing a mass distrust of the mass media Vice President Hubert Humphrey retorted critical detatchment. Usually the press goes on the part of rank-and-file viewers, readers sharply. He said that's like "putting a fox after everything and everybody but itself. and listeners. This ls why the media must in the chicken coop"-putting unelected There ls a new mood, at least a beginning stop, look and listen. Communists into a coalition government so mood, of self-examination and self-question The situation ls different today because they could later stand for election as part ing. That's good. we are confronted with such very acute and of the government. Alan L. Otten, one of the knowledgeable lacerating national problems--racial tension, Now, a year later, Senator McCarthy is and perceptive writers for the Wall Street rising crime, poverty in the midst of plenty, musing in a conversation with Look Senior Journal, put some facts forthrightly in an unlivable and almost ungovernable citles Editor Joseph Roddy, and Roddy records it article on the pervasive public dissatisfaction that unless the media reflect a true and as follows: " ... (Senator McCarthy) knew with much reporting. balanced picture of the na.tion, democratic he had had some effect on the stand the U.S. "Almost everyone these days," he wrote, government will falter and we wm have took now in Paris. 'I didn't ever ask them to "has his favorite story about inaccurate or neither the unity nor the spirit to do what do what I said they should do,' he insisted. distorted reporting in newspapers and maga is needed. When "more and more middle• 'I only asked them to do what they would zines, on TV and radio." of-the-roaders proclaim that 'you can't be have to do.' He knew the National Liberation Then he listed a wide range of complaints. lle't'e a word of it,' " then a confused and dis Front would have to be represented in peace He told of a neighbor who taxed him with trustful public opinion is the easiest prey talks, and he had said so a year back. 'Now, the fact that so many reporters showed sur to the extremists and the dlstructionlsts. we've agreed to put Humphrey's fox in the prise that President Nixon was handling his What's wrong? We wonder lf too much of chicken coop. But a year ago, we all knew job so well. "Why should they be surprised," the media isn't continuing to practice an that would have to be done. Why did they he asked, "except that they have been wrong outdated and, in today's world, a dangerous wait the year?' " about him for years?" Wallace supporters felt and self-defeating journalistic theory-the Sounds pretty farseeing, doesn't it? Mc most of the press wholly unfair. Humphrey theory that bad news gets readers and view Carthy showing how right he was all along often found his campaign speeches buried ers and good news turns them off, that con and now proved so by events-with Humph at the bottom of the accounts of militant fl.ict sells and news of things going rather rey's phrase thrown back at him with a.P protesters who were heckling him. The critics well bores? parently telling effect. went on and on. At any rate, the mirror which much of the But is it true? Is there something missing, "Skepticism about news stories is, of media holds up to the nation has so many a misplaced fact, which makes McCarthy's course, nothing new," Otten continued. "For built-in distortions that the reflection is al· words seem devastatingly conclusiva because decades, the far left decried the Capitalist most constantly out of focus, a false image of a crucial omission? press, and more recently, the far right of America in which, wherever you look. There is a tilstortion; there is an omission. weighed in with attacks on major news nearly everything ls wrong. Probably you have already noticed it. papers and magazines and broadcasters as This isn't telling it like it ls; it ls telling Humphrey did not say that having the Na corrupt cohorts of 'the Eastern liberal Estab it like it isn't. The worst is magnified; the tional Ltberation Front (political arm of the lishment.' best comes into vtew like what you see Viet Cong) represented in the Paris peace "Now, however, more and more ordinary through the wrong end of a telescope. talks would be like putting a fox in the middle-of-the-roaders seem to be joining the Isn't this what ls ca.using many to wonder chicken coop. Humphrey, as did President extremists in proclaiming 'you can't believe lf the media aren't greatly overplaying the Johnson, always said the Viet Cong could a word of it.' " draft-ca.rd burners, the drug addicts and be represented at the conference table, but This is a serious credibllity gap, a widen the lovers of four-letter words, and under what Humphrey opposed was putting un ing credibility gap between the media and playing the generation of students now elected VC into the government of South the public. It should give the media concern. harder at work than ever before and demon Vietnam as a condition for settling the war. This lack of credibil1ty grievously impaired strating it by manning the Peace Corps to But, as reported in Look, McCarthy took the effectiveness of President Johnson. Since the brim? Humphrey's opposition to an enforced, un a credible, fair-minded, responsible, fair Isn't this what is causing many to ask why elected Communist coalition and applied it reporting press in all its forms is essential the media give such alert attention to every J,une 3, 1969 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 14593
incident of isolated indecency and immoral He didn't say i~ither to the Committee Rights are neglecting to speak out. They ity at a Job Corps camp. And did it without or to anyone else. It doesn't appear in the even condone its callous violation. putting it ln the context of tens of thou transcript of the testimony. The New York Example: At the University of Wisconsin, sands of inherently decent but previously Times wasn't even present during the period two members of the Johnson Cabinet were dead-end kids-many of whom are being of Hartley's testimony when he was supposed hooted and heckled so raucously and so vio pulled back at these camps from what would to have said it. Another reporter filled him lently that the civil right of free assembly otherwise have been lifetime commitments in--on what wasn't said. was turned into a civil wrong of a free-for to indecency and immorality? The Times reporter didn't check. all and they couldn't finish their speeches to Isn't this part of what is causing two dan The same misquotation--or imagined quo students who wanted to listen. gerous trends ln the United States-more and tation-appeared later in the Wall Street And what was the odd and disheartening more middle-of-the-roaders proclaiming they Journal. It wasn't checked. response of such a supposedly civil libertar can't believe a word they read and many oth It appeared in Time magazine. It wasn't ian as Senator McCarthy? Did he condemn ers tending to accept as true what is sub checked. this civil wrong? Did he say that now is the stantially distorted. David Brinkley picked it up--without time for every man to come to the aid of These effects, ominous unless checked soon, checking it. the Bill of Rights? What he said was that imperil the media themselves and impair the Finally, the Washington Post wrote an spokesmen for the President of the United functioning of democratic government. editorial using the non-quote as a real quote States ought to be able to find places other Whose side is the press on in the cause of with a title which read: "The Loss of a Few than college campuses to expound their racial justice, Willard Wirtz asked the re Birds." (It said, in part, "for sheer insensi views! porters, and his answer was: tivity, blind and arrogant, this seemed What better place for the exposition of "Any self-righteous answer about neu unbeatable."] · controversial opinion than the college cam trality on the side of truth leaves the ques Hartley wrote quite a few letters to the pus? What more appropriate place to prac tion of what ethic there is~xcept selling editors protesting being "maligned by a tice free speech than the home of free more papers-rfor giving daily front-page ad grossly inaccurate quotation." In the end, inquiry? vertising to any white supremist or non Union Oil bought ad space in about 100 On another occasion, an undergraduate at white racist who coins an ugly phrase-while papers to tell the truth. Let it b~ said that Columbia University maneuvered his way to there is only occa.sional notice on the in the Post, the N.Y. Times, The Wall Street a middle-row, front seat in the college hall side page of the rest of a nation's throwing Journal and Mr. Brinkley all publicly apol where the Selective Service Director of New off the shackles of centuries' bondage of big ogized after Mr. Hartley and his company York State was--at the request of the stu otry. started their war of protest. dents-to discuss the draft and its applica "This overstates it. But not much. It certainly seems to many that too much tion to them. After the introduction and "Nobody wants the press to play Pollyanna. of the media give more than due attention opening remarks, this young man rose to his But why shouldn't the ca.uses of riots, be to the militant and violent destructionists, feet, reared back and hurled a big, fat, covered as fully as their consequences?" particularly those non-student leaders who mushy pie into the fa.ce of the speaker. A Duke University student wrote his par go under the deceptive title of "Students for Some may have been disposed to laugh. ents that he had pleaded with a national a Democratic Society" who want to demolish We weep--and we hope others will join in TV network to cover a significant, campus our democratic society to see if something crying, at least when we pause to realize wide student protest which turned out to be else wouldn't be nice to have. that this act did not just smear the face of highly successful. The network said no. It But all responsibility for the out-of-focus one individual; it stained the face of the Bill looked to be too peaceful. It was-and hardly image of America doei:: not belong to the o! Rights. anybody knows about it. media. The heart of the matter is that in a free It seems evident that the character of oral There are other causes and they, too, bear society, with free speech, peaceful assembly and printed journalism is changing and the upon whether democratic government is and the secret ballot, anyone who tries to talent is not equal to the change. The trend going to survive in the United States or be hinder others from using these rights is un is away from old-style, straight reporting stifled by national confusion and impotence. dermining everyone's freedom, including his and toward much more interpretive and ana Too few people are drawing the necessary own. lytical reporting. This can be valuable if line between civil rights and civil wrongs and If we are going to continue to turn peace there is no other purpose than to bring out too few leaders either among the political ful assembly into a free-for-all, there will the meaning of the news, but it needs great liberals or the academic community are be more than pies thrown and the end of skill and maturity on the part of the re speaking out against those who want to use that road will be the assassination of the porter and a degree of objectivity which freedom of assembly for themselves only and Bill of Rights itself. many of today's ideologically oriented re deny it to others. Liberal columnist Max Lerner, who gives porters disdain. The Christian Science Monitor said in an no comfort to the destructionists, wisely During the past year it was frequent that editorial more than a year ago: notes: a major speech by the Secretary of State or "To date the forewarners of possible Mc "The same college instructors who are the Secretary of Defense or some other pub Carthyism (Joe McCarthyism) have been shocked by the ax-handling minorities lic official, dealing with the complex prob shown to be largely wrong. Free speech, free blocking Federal marshals from entering lems of peace and security, was dominated disagreement, free protest are strong and school buildings in Georgia and Alabama, by a.n account of a few student milltants open in the United States. This is no small will find themselves on the side of the bat with pictures of the pickets in an adjoining victory in times of such tension and disagree wielding minorities trying to close down a front-page column and the speaker's main ment. Let nothing come along to spoil it." university building in San Francisco." point buried in the "continued" part of the But something has come along to spoil it. Now, if the central theme of this article story. We refer to the mounting instances in which is to be fully proved, it must be demon This is coverage which distorts and hurt the most extreme anti-Vietnam, anti-draft, strated with evidence that the image of fully fails to inform. anti-university, anti-almost-everything pro America, which flashes so constantly before Recently several hundred editors and cor testers resort to harassment and violence to the mind:;; of Americans, is, in fact, dis respondents were guests of the Department prevent others from peacefully using the torted-the image that wherever you look, of State at a wide-ranging, two-day back rights of free speech and assembly. hardly anything is right---and that what's ground briefing at which the new top offi The Bill of Rights is a single garment. It right with America usually comes out muted cials of the Department spoke. Toward the can't be divided. Unless the right of the ma and murky. end of the first day two or three of the jority to expound its views and to assemble Has the democratic process in America guests, well-known for their opposition to freely is protected from those who resort to been working and can it be made to work much of U.S. foreign policy, got up during force and disorder to suffocate public debate, even better if we don't lose sight of what's the question period and attacked the speak we are undermining everybody's right to free right with it? ers as "banal" and "untruthful." This was speech and assembly-minority and majority It can, but only if we get a truer image a minor incident in the proceedings but it alike. so that what's right can be seen in per dominated news stories the next day. It's happening. spective. Following is a shocking case of inaccurate, Last year the Vice President of the United The evidence of what's right with America in absentia, unverified reporting and edi States, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of is impressive and heartening. Here are salient torial writing which explains why "more and Staff, the Secretary of State, the Secretary samples; many more could be cited. more middle-of-the-roaders proclaim that of Defense, the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Racial Justice: More wrongs have been 'you can't believe a word of it.'" and the Secretary of Agriculture were all righted and more things which are just have Mr. Fred L. Hartley, president of the Un targets of violent, anti-free-speech demon been achieved in the past decade and a half ion 011 Co., whose firm's drilling produced strators who either attempted to rough than were accomplished over the 90 years the oil leak off the Santa Barbara coast, was them up, overturn their automobiles, prevent from the end of the Civil War to the mile testifying before a Senate subcommittee. them from entering an auditorium or stir up stone decision of the Supreme Court in 1954, He was quoted the next day in The New such jeering that they could hardly be heard. which laid the legal basis for complete racial York Times, which reported he had said: The worst thing is that the nation has justice and equality of opportunity. "I'm amazed at the publicity for the loss of seen so much harassment and disdain for Except for hard pockets of delay, public a few birds." This made Mr. Hartley seem peaceful assembly that we have gotten used places are open on an equal basis, the right to complete calloused. to it. Those who understand the Bill of vote is assured and black and white voter'" 14594 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE June 3, 1969 are joining to elect Negroes to posts of high use democratic institutions, not erode them ing of tax burdens; the Congress must governing authority. through despair. meet that demand in all of its restruc Human Welfare: In the last four years the Consider these words from Washington Star turing of finances. federal government has invested twice as writer Crosby S. Noyes: I have proposed a method of lowering much in education as it invested in the "Where is that old fighting spirit that previous century. It is now investing three Americans were supposed to ingest with their the cost of municipal facilities, while times as much in health programs as it in breakfast cereal? As things are now going, we making the Federal tax structure more vested five years ago. Government and private are well on our way to becoming a race of equitable. My bill, H.R. 10035, would enterprise jointly accept the proposition that Pavlovian pessimists in which anyone who guarantee the payment of interest and "poverty has become intolerable in this coun tries to sound the faintest note of encour principal on new bonds issued by mu try because it is unnecessary" (from a re agement is booted out of the hall. nicipal governments, to assure that they port by the National Association of Manu "Somewhere in this large land, there are will be issued at the most favorable pos facturers), and are beginning to do more surely plenty of holdouts who still believe about it. Not enough? Of course not, but that we are capable of facing up to our prob sible interest rates for such sizes and enough to provide the evidence of things to blems and who are willing to come up with maturities of bonds. Then my bill H.R. come. the resources, the talent and-yes--even the 10035, would finance that guarantee, plus American Youth: We should reject the idea optimism to try." an interest subsidy to the municipality that most young people and students have There surely are-and let's make way for from tax revenues; Federal tax revenues lost their way smelling flowers, smoking mari them. would be increased, equitably, by taxing juana and storming around the campus. the interest received on new issues of Alienated over politics? It only seems so. municipal securities. College students used the political process by TAXATION OF INTEREST ON Most investors in new local bond is springing to the aid of Senators Kennedy and MUNICIPAL BONDS McCarthy. Gravely aliented over the Vietnam sues are obtaining a higher net yield war? Nobody likes war. Nobody wants to be (Mr. SCHWENGEL asked and was than could be obtained from taxable drafted. But the desertion rate of Gis in given permission to extend his remarks bonds of any sort. Municipal bonds al South Vietnam ls lower than it was in Korea at this point in the RECORD and to in ways have subsidized the bank, the and 50% lower than in WW2. We have, for clude extraneous matter.) wealthy individual, or the corporation, the most part, a committed and compassion Mr. SCHWENGEL. Mr. Speaker, the which sought the highest net return with ate younger generation. More than 300,000 financial press on Tuesday, May 20, re minimum risk from a long-term invest college students are voluntarily helping the disadvantaged. ported that Monday's markets had been ment. State of the Economy: The United States, a "shambles," bringing renewed price When new municipal bond issues be including the government, has been man reductions on recent municipal bonds. come taxable, at the same time that the aging in economic affairs with increasing That is almost "run of the mill news" guarantee fund in my bill makes them wisdom. Not one of the bleak predictions that now. A nearby county of considerable even more safe than they have been in large-scale unemployment would follow the wealth, and experiencing continuing recent decades, the bonds will continue end of WW2 and that another depression boom rates of development, has recently to attract investors among corporations would be upon us in the 1940's, in the 1950's, paid interest rates on new tax exempt and in the upper tax brackets among in in the 1960's has come true; all have been proven wrong. Today, the U.S. economy is the bond issues that are higher than the dividuals. The taxes on interest income most productive in the world. Khrushchev's rates paid 3 years ago on 10-percent from municipal securities may well be boast that "we'll bury you" is ashes. Nixon down home mortgages in that county. close to 50 percent of that income. Tax ls taking the hard decisions necessary to re The neighboring metropolis, Baltimore, paying investors, of course, will demand duce inflation and there is evidence he wlll has bumped against a legal rate ceiling higher gross yields-higher interest stay with them to the benefit of everybody. in issuing bonds for an essential addi rates-from municipal bonds. But if the F'oreign Policy: There ls a tendency among tion to its water supply. The instances rates paid by the local government many to believe that the United States bun of high rates and thwarted community should increase by 2 or 2% percentage gles just about every enterprise to which it puts its hand in foreign policy. False. All development could be multiplied by the points, bringing them above Federal is not well in this turbulent world but every hundreds, in a time period that goes bond levels and into the range of cor thing has not gone wrong for this democracy back almost disastrously far. If the in porate bonds, the additional Federal of ours by any means; and we ought not to stances of high interest rates and revenues obtained from taxing that in forget how much has gone right during all thwarted development are not quickly terest-revenues equal to 3 or 4 percent the postwar years when we've been acting made matters of history only-if they age points on the interest paid by the to protect our own freedom by helping other are allowed to continue into the fu city-would provide an adequate fund nations protect theirs. There is no reason ture-then they will become disastrous for defeatism or apology in a record like this: for paying the local government more ( 1) saved Greece and Turkey from being indeed. New shopping centers, new than the increase in interest charges. dragged behind the Iron Curtain; (2) rescued apartment houses, new manufacturing My bill, in short, proposes to make the Western Europe by means of the Marshall plants will be built in many areas of the Federal tax system more equitable, and Plan from the overhanging threat of Com Nation. But the communities with in to apply the revenues obtained from a munist take-over; (3) saved West Berlin from adequate water, sewers, roads, schools, more equitable tax system, to lowering the Soviet attempt to starve its two and a libraries, hospitals, playgrounds, and the net cost of essential improvements half million people into submission; (4) other public buildings, will find life very in community facilities. turned back the armed Communist aggres unsatisfactory, and, of course, the com sion against South Korea; (5) acted to pro mercial and industrial facilities will lose tect the independence of Lebanon and Tai ANOTHER "PRO" FOR SAFEGUARD wan, (6) struck from the hands of Nikita their value because they will not get the Khrushchev the instrument of nuclear black quality of employees they need, nor the r President Nixon exercised while serving as Secretary of EXTENSIONS OF R.EMARKS PRIZE LETTERS CALL FOR RETEN County sponsors a letterwriting contest the letters express very clearly my own TION OF NATIONAL ANTHEM for the sixth-grade class of the Parkview feeling that it would be a terrible mistake Elementary School. Dorothy J. Nelson is for Congress to change our naitional the postmistress at the Anita facility. HON. JOHN P. SAYLOR With the assistance of the smh-grade anthem. I am sure that after reading the prize letters, Members of Congress will OF PENNSYLVANIA English teacher, Mrs. Zimmerman, the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES children choose a topic they wish to write be as impressed as I am that these rep on, do their own research, and submit resentatives of the younger generation Tuesday, June 3, 1969 letters for judging. are concerned with saving the valuable Mr. SAYLOR. Mr. Speaker, each year This year 29 letters were submitted on traditions of our coun1try. the Anita., Pa., Post omce in Jefferson the subject of the national anthem. All I have appended to my remarks. the