September 23, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 33515 of. general sessions, for the term of 15 years, Eugene N. Hamilton, of Maryland, to be an ate judge, District of Columbia court of gen­ as prescribed by Public Law 91-358, approved associate judge, District of Columbia court eral sessions, for the term of 15 years vice a July 29, 1970, vice Milton S. Kronheim, term of general sessions, for the term of 15 years new position created by Public Law 91-358 expired. vice a new position created by Public Law approved July 29, 1970. Paul F. McArdle, of Maryland, to be an as­ 91-358, approved July 29, 1970. George H. Revercomb, of Virginia, to be sociate judge of the District of Colwnbia Stanley S. Harris, of Maryland, to be an associate judge, District of Columbia court of court of general sessions, for the term of 15 associate judge, District of Columbia court general sessions for the term of 15 yea.rs years as prescribed by Public Law 91-358, ap­ of general sessions, for the term of 15 years vice a new position created by Public Law proved July 29, 1970, vice Thomas C. Scalley, vice a new position created by Publlc Law 91-358, approved July 29, 1970. term expired. 91-358 approved July 29, 1970. William E. Stewart, Jr., of Maryland, to be Sylvia A. Bacon, of the District of Colum­ Theodore R. Newman, Jr., of the District of an associate judge, District of Columbia bia, to be an associate judge, District of Columbia, to be an associate judge, District court of general sessions for the term of 15 Columbia court of general sessions, for the of Columbia court of general sessions, for the years vice a new position created by Public term of 15 years, vice a new position created term of 15 years vice a new position created Law 91-358, approved July 29, 1970. by Public Law 91-358, approved July 29, by Public Law 91-358, approved July 29, 1970. James A. Washington, Jr., of Maryland, to 1970. Nicholas s. Nunzio, of Maryland, to be an John F. Doyle, of Maryland, to be an as­ associate judge, District of Columbia court be an associate judge, District of Columbia sociate judge, District of Columbia court of of general sessions, for the term of 15 years court of general sessions for the term of general sessions, for the term of 15 years vice a new position created by Public Law years prescribed by Public Law 91-358, ap­ vice a new position created by Public Law 91- 91-358 approved July 29, 1970. proved July 29, 1970, and vice a new posi­ 358, approved July 29, 1970. John G. Penn, of Maryland, to be an assoc!- tion created by said Public Law 91-358.

EX·TE·N.SIONS OF REMARKS CHIBF JUSTICE SCORES "POT" public defender office, who argued Ward's renew our faith and confidence in our­ SAFETY REPORTS case, said the sentence was cruel and exces­ selves as individuals and as a nation. A sive for a first offender. Russian must work 2,950 minutes for a He urged the court to overturn the sen­ tence and establish a policy of probation for pair of men's shoes while an American HON. HENRY HELSTOSKI works 275 minutes. For a business suit, a OF NEW JERSEY first offenders in marijuana cases. Ward, who was 19-years-old when he was Russian must work 11,800 minutes com­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sentenced to state prison in 1969 by Cum­ pared to 802 minutes by an American Tuesday, September 22, 1970 berland County Judge Harry Adler, ls free on worker. parole after being confined for nearly one Mr. HELSTOSKI. Mr. Speaker, many year. in legislative and Government executive Weintraub said the prison term for Ward RESULTS OF POLL CONDUCTED BY positions today are being pressured to would appear "wildly excessive" were it not THE AMERICAN SECURITY COUN­ legalize the use and possession of mari­ for other factors outlined in a probation re­ Cll.J port submitted to Adler before sentencing. huana. The chief justice said the pre-sentence re­ May I suggest that any who lean fa­ port indicated that Ward had "sponsored HON. JOHN G. SCHMITZ vorably toward such a proposal read the marijuana parties" which on one occasion OF CALIFORNIA following Associated Press article carry­ had led to a search of his home by police ing the views of Chief Justice Joseph which failed to turn up any evidence. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Weintraub of the Supreme Court of New However, Assistant Cumberland County Tuesday, September 22, 1970 Prosecutor Samuel J. Serata told the high Jersey on the subject. Mr. SCHMITZ. Mr. Speaker, at this Chief Justice Weintraub counsels ex­ court that the pre-sentence report probably played a minor role in the harsh sentence. time I would like to introduce the find­ treme caution and I share that view­ Serata said the sentence was the product ings of a poll just completed by the re­ point. At the very, very least all should of an "almost hysterical" attitude in the spected American Security Council. I wait until appropriate and needed county which has since changed. would like to call special attention of studies of marihuana and its eifects are Sera.ta, who joined the prosecutor's staff my colleagues to question No. 8 which, made as called for in my bill H.R. 14354. this year, said that people in rural Cumber­ land County regarded "marijuana. as a hor­ according to this survey, it seems that a I also share the doubts of the Chief substantial number of Americans favor Justice that full scale and complete re­ rendous thing that comes from the cities ..• an epidemic that must be stamped out." He an objective of victory in Vietnam. search will prove that marihuana is said he represented marijuana defendants There are obviously a number of harmless. Is there any doubt that many before joining the prosecutor's staff. Americans who continue to reflect the times the use of marihuana leads to the Weintraub, who said he recognized that wisdom set down by Mommsen: taking of hard-core drugs and dopes for there has "been quite a change in public attitude" toward marijuana in the past year, History has a nemisis for every sin: for lifts, trips, and crutches? Then often the wm to freedom that falls in force, as minds and bodies. said he thought it was "nonsense" to equate the laws against marijuana with prohibition wen as for the pride of mind that falls In It will be a sad day in this Nation if understanding. those with the allout permissive philoso­ on liquor during the 1920's. "One day it may be proven that it's no more harmful than The poll follows: phy should prevail and force legalization Scotch," Weintraub said. "But I doubt it." of the use and possession of marihuana He added, "everyone agrees it's not as dan­ NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUES POLL before all of the facts are before those gerous as heroin. But that doesn't mean it's In a true democracy, decisions on such vital who must make the decision. just a drink of water. matters as military preparedness should re­ The Associated Press article follows: "More harm ls being done by these silly flect the will of the people. reports that it is not proven harmful and Therefore, we must ask, "does the trend CHIEF JUSTICE SCORES "POT" SAFETY REPORTS therefore it's (like) prohibition. That's non­ toward unilateral disarmament represent the TRENTON.-Chief Justice Joseph Weintraub sense. It's encouraging kids to try it." will of most Americans, or the will of special of the New Jersey Supreme Court said yes­ interest pressure groups?" terday that marijuana should not be legal­ In seeking the answer to this question, the ized "until we are darn sure it's harmless." TAKE PRIDE IN AMERICA American Security Council conducted a Na­ The chief justice also criticized medical tional Security Issues Poll with a final total and research reports which said that smoking of 115,559 participants. marijuana has not been proven to be harm­ HON. CLARENCE E. MILLER From March 1 to August 31, 1970, the Coun­ ful. Weintraub said the reports, like "the OF OHIO cil invited opinion leaders representing the pied piper," were enticing youngsters to try full range of domestic political viewpoint to the drug. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES serve on its National Voter Advisory Board He made the remarks during a hearing on Wednesday, September 23, 1970 and to participate in the National Security an appeal by 21-year-old Steven Ward who Issues Poll. The response of the 42,946 who was sentenced to 2-3 years in prison for Mr. MILLER of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, to­ did both 1s shown under "A" below. possessing marijuana valued at about $2.50. day we should take note of America's The response of the 45,456 who partici­ Stanley C. Van Ness, head of New Jersey's greap accomplishments and in so doing pated in the Poll, but did not become mem- 33516 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 23, 1970 bers of the Advisory Board is listed under newspapers ranged in size from the St. Louis It is clear from the results of this Poll and "B" below. Globe Democrat and the San Francisco Exam- the results of other polls that most of the From July 1 to August 31, 1970, 203 news­ iner to small town newspapers. The response American people want the security of mlli­ papers in 44 states published the Poll. These of 27,197 readers is shown under "C" below. tary superiority and oppose isolationism.

NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUES POLL RESULTS

Agree, percent Disagree, percent Undecided, percent IA 28 ac IA 28 ac IA 28 ac

1 The Safeguard anti-ballistic missile defense system (ABM) is necessary · for the defense of the United S~ates, , ------93.19 78. 53 80.39 1. 26 11. 47 10.58 5. 55 10. 00 9.03 2. The United States . should mainta1_n military strength greater than that of the Soviet Union and Red China ______------:-- 93.53 82. 07 84. 75 2.07 10. 73 9.85 4.40 7.20 5.40 3. Communists and other revol~tio~ari~s should be permitted to teach in tax-supported educational institutions_ ------.------1. 20 9.69 4. 79 97. 77 88. 28 92.66 1. 03 2. 03 2. 55 4. Communists and other revolution_ari~s should be permitted to hold sensitive positions in defense fac1llties __ _:- --,-- ---:-----.------• 58 4. 78 1. 32 99. 00 93.05 96.04 .42 2.17 2. 64 5. The United States should have a national obJective of victory In the cold 93.46 80.64 80.04 2.47 11. 09 11. 53 4.07 8.27 8.43 Th~ai-nite-ci°~frates-needs a "Freedom Academy''-to-train-leaders-for - new forms of nonmilitar~ conflicL------: ------73. 09 56. 91 47. 25 6. 61 16.46 26.40 20.30 26. 63 26.35 7 The United States should elp the peop!e of Czechoslovakia, Hungary, • Cuba and other captive nations in their s~ru~gle for_freed~m - ;------71. 95 57.10 52.97 9.85 20.80 28.48 18. 20 22.10 18.55 8. The United States should have a national _obJ~ct1ve of V!ctory in Vietnam_ 89. 85 76. 77 78.16 3.18 13. 70 14. 09 6. 97 9. 53 7. 75 9. The United States should ~ive economic aid _to foreign governments even if they are Communist or pro-Comi:i,unisL __ -;------.----- 2.07 8.87 5.41 93.05 85. 57 89. 99 4.88 5. 56 4.60 10. The United States should extend diplomatic recognition to Red China ___ 10.27 20.85 21. 74 76. 35 66.55 66.88 13.38 12. 60 11. 38

1 National Voter Advisory Board-42,946 members. aNewspaper poll-27,197 readers. 2 Mail poll-45,456 participants.

NATIONAL VOTER ADVISORY BOARD Elisha Gray, Chairman of the Board, of the South Dakota House of Representa­ (PartiaZ Zisting of 42,946 members) Whirlpool Corporation. tives. The Honorable Durwood Hall, U.S. Con­ Frank 0. Sherrill, President, S & W Walter R. Beardsley, Chairman, Miles Lab­ gressman. Cafeterias, Inc. oratories, Inc. Robert P. Hanrahan, Superintendent of Sister Irene Socquet, S.S.A., President, Dr. H. Russell Beatty, President, Went­ Schools, Cook County, Illinois. Anna Maria College for Women. worth Institute. Z. C.R. Hansen, Chairman and President, Robert c. Sprague, Chairman, Sprague Arch N. Booth, Executive Vice President, Mack Trucks, Inc. Electric Company. Chamber of Commerce of U.S. Dr. Charles P. Hogarth, President, Missis­ Ezra J. Stone, Actor, Writer, Director. The Honorable Spruille Braden, Former sippi State College for Women. Jerome A. Straka, Chairman, Chesebrough­ Ambassador. John M. Houchin, President, Phillips Pe­ Ponds, Inc. Dr. Frank R. Brown, Dean, Hood Theologi­ troleum Company. Dwight H. Swanson, President, Iowa Power cal Seminary. Dr. John A. Howard, President, Rockford & Light Company. The Honorable Joel Broyhill, U.S. Con­ College. The Honorable Strom Thurmond, U.S. gressman. Claude A. Jessup, Chairman, Continental L.B. Burger, Chairman, Westinghouse Air Senator. Trailways Bus System. William K. Todd, President, Rockford Brake. Speaker Ernest N. Johnson, Speaker of Dr. Cordas c. Burnett, President, Bethany Morning Star. North Dakota House of Representatives. Dr. A. P. Torrence, President, Tennessee A Bible College. Robert L. Jones, President, The Copley & I State University. Henri G. Busignies, Senior Vice President, Press. International Telephone & Telegraph Corp· George W. Waters, Executive Vice Presi­ Dr. Walter H. Judd, former member of dent, American Express Company. omtion. Congress. James Cagney, Actor. John Wayne, Actor, Producer Charles H. Kellsta.dt, Chairman, General Monsignor Nicholas H. Wegner, Director, Colonel John T. Carlton, USAR, Executive Development Corp. Director, Reserve Officers Association of the Boys Town. Donald B. Lourie, Chairman of the Boa.rd, William H. Weldon, Publisher, News U.S. Quaker oats Company. Joseph A. Carrera, Senior Vice President, Tribune Corporation. Dr. Charles W. Lowry, President, Founda­ Colonel T. R. Wert, USMCR (Ret.), Execu­ Bank of America. tion for Religious Action in the Social & Sylvan C. Coleman, Chairman, E. F. Hut­ tive Secretary, Marine Corps Reserve Officers Civil Order. Association. ton & Company, Inc. Edgar F. Luckenbach, Jr., President, Luck­ Dr. Davi~ s. Collier, Director, Foundation George S. Wheaton, Chairman, Dlllingha.m enbach Steamship Company. Corporation. for Foreign Affairs, Inc. Dr. John P. Maurer, President, Southeast­ Bing Crosby, Actor, Singer. Dr. Ernest L. Wilkinson, President, Brig­ ern University. ham Young University. The Honorable Peter Dominick, U.S. Sen· Daniel D. McCracken, Chairman, Com­ ator. Dr. Benjamin C. W111is, Retired Superin­ puter Professionals Against ABM. tendent of Schools, Chicago, Il11nols. William L. Davis, Jr., President, Emerson H. c. McDonald, President, Eugene, Ore• Electric Company. The Reverend Victor R. Yanitem, Sn., gon City Council. President, Saint Peter's College. The Honorable Thomas Dodd, U.S. Senator. Roger Milliken, President, Deering-Milli· Gaylord Donnelley, Chairma.n of the Board, The Honorable Sam Yorty, Mayor, Los ken Inc. Angeles. R. R. Donnelley & Sons. Dr. John D. Millett, Chancellor, Ohio Mrs. Cathryn L. K. Dorney, Executive Di· (Affiliations shown for purposes of identi­ Board of Regents. fication only.) rector, American Education Association. The Honorable John M. Murphy, U.S. Con­ James c. Ellsworth, Senior Vice President, gressman. United California Bank. Reverend David Nettleton, Sr., President, The Honorable Paul J. F'annin, U.S. Sena­ First Baptist Bible College. tor. Arthur C. Nielsen, Sr., Chairman, A. C. MAN'S INHUMANITY TO MAN­ Shelton Fisher, President, McGraw-Hill, Nielsen Company. HOW LONG? Inc. Sister Natalie Palagyi, Superior General, Bishop A. L. Fletcher, Little Rock Diocese. Sisters of Social Service. MotheT Jane Frances, Motherhouse of the J. Milton Patrick, Immediate Past National HON. WILLIAM J. SCHERLE Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart. Commander, American Legion. Dr. Carl A. Frische, President, Sperry Gyro­ OF :IOWA The Honorable William D. Pawley, former scope Company. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Roland E. Fulton, President, Employers' Ambassador. Association of Greater Chicago. Admiral Arthur W. Radford, USN (Ret.). Wednesday, September 23, 1970 Dr. Vernon F. Ga.lllano, President, Nicholls former Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff. Mr. SCHERLE. Mr. Speaker, a child State College. Dr. Robert G. Rayburn, President, Cove, asks: "Where is daddy?" A mother asks: Richard A. Goodson, President, South­ nant Theological Seminary. western Bell Telephone Company. Archbishop Nikon Rklitzky, Russian "How is my son?" A wife asks: "Is my J. Peter Grace, President, W.R. Grace and Orthodox Church. husband alive or dead?" co. The Hon. James Rothstein, Majority Leader Communist North Vietnam is sadist!- September 23, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 33517 cally practicing spiritual and mental lepsy, a rare sleeping sickness, and a small my remarks in the RECORD, I would like number ot hyperactive children. to present the centennial program as a genocide on over 1,500 American prison­ An official of the National Institute of ers of war and their families. tribute to this remarkable man and all Mental Health says this would add up to an the wonderful people who have helped annual need for mere thousands ot doses. Yet four major U.S. companies legally syn­ each child develop their capacities in a QUOTAS NEEDED ON PEP PILLS thesize some 8 billion doses of ampheta­ good, holy, and happy life: mine products a year-an average ot 40 CENTENNIAL PROGRAM HON. LIONEL VAN DEERLIN doses for every man, woman and child in Twelve centennial events and programs are this country. And even more is imported, scheduled, starting with a Concelebrated OF CALIFORNIA also lllegally. Mass, Wednesday, October 7, 1970, in the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES And what happens to this overabundance Mission's Church of St. Joachim and St. of "speed," the substances which cause eu­ Tuesday, September 22, 1970 Anne, and ending with an Alumni Associa­ phoria and hyperactivity, generally followed tion Reunion, Sunday, September 19, 1971, Mr. VAN DEERLIN. Mr. Speaker, the by prolonged paranoid psychosis or accentu­ at Mount Loretto. House is scheduled to act later this week ation of personality disorder? Over 60 percent His Eminence, Terence Cardinal Cooke, ot the legally manufactured pills are diverted Archbishop of New York and President ot on H.R. 18583, the Comprehensive Drug into illegal channels. Moreover, some 80 per­ Abuse Prevention and Control Act of the Mission's Board of Trustees, wm preside cent of amphetamines seized in 1968 by the at the Centennial Concelebrated Mass, said 1970. Federal Bureau ot Narcotics and Dangerous Monsignor Edmund F. Fogarty, the Mission's Along with many of our colleagues, I Drugs originally was legally manufactured executive director. feel strongly that quotas should be set domestically. Other major events planned are St. on the production of amphetamines, and The situation would be ludicrous if it were Joseph's Union Day, November 8, 1970; Card­ an amendment will be offered to accom­ not so serious. It has prompted the U.S. inal Cooke's Day, December 1, 1970; Sym­ House's Select Committee on Crime in a posium on Child Care, January 20, 1971; plish this. "Dear Colleague" letter to ask congressional For the information of the House I Symposium on the Education of the Excep­ support for a measure which would impose tional Child, February 11-14, 1971; Rev­ at this point in the RECORD per­ insert quotas on the domestic production of am­ erend John Christopher Drumgoole Day, tinent editorials from the Washington phetamines. The measure would amend the March 28, 1971; staff Appreciation Day, April Post and the Houston Chronicle: Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and 16, 1971; Sports Night, May 19, 1971; Open [From the Washington Post, Sept. 18, 1970) Control Act, due to reach the House floor by House, June 13, 1971; and Fun Day for the the end of the week. SLOWING DOWN SPEED Children, August 18, 1971. Most every American of junior high school Tracing its origin to the year 1871 when By now, everyone concerned about the age or older ls familiar with one of the basic Father Drumgoole was appointed director spreading drug problem has heard the grim tenets of this nation's drug-taking sub­ and resident chaplain of the St. Vincent's stories on speed and the speed-freaks. The culture: "Speed kills." If it doesn't do that, Newboys' Lodging House, then located at 53 terms refer to amphetamines and metham­ it can make a user wish he were dead. It can Warren Street, New York City, N.Y., the phetamines, the stimulant drugs which ac­ contribute to hepatitis, malnutrition and home was formally incorporated in May, count for 8 per cent of all prescriptions writ­ the general undermining of health due to ir­ 1877, under the laws of the State of New ten in this country. Their abuse ranges from regular eating and sleeping patterns. Perma­ York as the "Mission of the Immaculate the trivial (the athlete who takes it before nent brain damage can result. There is some Virgin for the Protection ot Homeless and the big game) to the disastrous (the person medical opinion that use by pregnant women Destitute Children." seeking a high who ends up dead, brain may increase the risk of congenital abnor­ Today, the facilities and services of the damaged, malnourished, violent or otherwise malities in their offspring. Mission, providing care for approximately impaired). Few American communities are It does not take a doctor of medicine or 700 resident boys and girls between the ages without its victims. · an expert on drugs to realize that the indis­ of 6 and 18 years, are centered in the Pleas­ According to the National Institute of criminate taking of amphetamines can in­ ant Plains area of Staten Island, border­ Mental Health over 8 bllllon amphetamine jure a person's health. When a licensed phy­ ing Raritan Bay. pllls are legally produced annually by Amer­ sician prescribes amphetamines for a pa­ The initial purchase of this property was ican drug firms. This ls 40 doses per citizen; tient, they should be available. But we don't made in June 1882, and the name Mount the .legitimate medical need, reports the buy the drug companies' argument that we Loretto was given to the site by Father NIMH, is not in the billions but in the thou­ need the manufacturing of relatively unlim­ Drumgoole. sands. As for where the 8 bllllon legal pills ited numbers of doses of amphetamines. A pioneer of organized child care and are eventually consumed, it is estimated that social service, Father Drumgoole came to over 50 per cent are diverted into lllegal and New York City in 1824, and was ordained a unsupervised use. While the government and MOUNT LORETT0-100 YEARS OF priest in 1869 at the advanced age of 53. media have foc.'USed on other drugs, evidence ACCOMPLISHMENT As the result of exposure in the blizzard exists that amphetamines-used largely by of 1888, he developed pneumonia and died adolescents and young adults-are Just as March 28 that year. addictive and hard to overcome as heroin. HON. JOHN M. MURPHY An affiliate of Catholic Charities of the What is needed clearly is some kind of OF NEW YORK Archdiocese of New York, the Mission has production control. It ls unfair to put the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES accommodations for 200 in its girls' division, entire blame on the drug firms for the over­ called St. Elizabeth's; 288 in its Junior boys' supply; abuse ls encouraged because the law Tuesday, September 22, 1970 division, ages 6 through 13; and 184 in its is 1ax, many doctors prescribe the drug care­ Mr. MURPHY of New York. Mr. senior boys' division ages 14 through 18. lessly and because t.he power of the black Three schools, owned by the Mission and market is increasing. Speaker, I would like to pay tribute to located on the grounds, provide four educa­ Recently, a bipartisan majority of the one of the most dynamic and compas­ tional programs for the children. St. Aloysius, House select committee on crime offered an sionate personalities of his or any age, staffed by the Sisters of St. Francis, is a reg­ amendment to the Comprehensive Drug the late Father John Drumgoole and to ular parochial elementary school with grades Abuse Prevention and Control Act now be­ those dedicated men and women who one through eight for boys and girls and in­ fore the House. It calls for a manufacturing an worked with him and who followed him cludes a reading school for levels one through quota on amphetamine production. This is five. perhaps a strong move, but unless all the in selfless work through the last 100 years. On October 7, the start of a year­ The New York City Board of Education drug firms suddenly Umit production and operates the two other schools-St. Jo.seph's doctors suddenly prescribe with extreme long celebration marking the lOOth an­ School for boys, grades six through 12, as care, it is a necessary move. Why should the niversary of the founding of the Mis­ Public School 25, and St. Elizabeth's School country be flooded with 8 billion pep pills sion of the Immaculate Virgin, Catholic for girls, grades six through 12, as Public when only a few thousand are medically child-caring institution, at Mount Lo­ School 10. needed? If amphetamines are as dangerous retto, Staten Island, N.Y., will com­ The Sisters of St. Francis have been iden­ as heroin why shouldn't they be put under tified with the Mission and its work since the enforcement authority of the Justice De­ mence. The Mission of the Immaculate Virgin is not just another children's in­ July 2, 1882, when six Sisters from the Buf­ partment? These are some of the questions falo, N.Y., foundation arrived in New York that should be consideerd when the quota stitution. For Father Drumgoole, born City to assist Father Drumgoole. amendment is debated. the son of John and Bridget Drumgoole In July 1893, the Sisters formed a separate in Coolecroft, Abbeylara, County Long­ community and adopted the title "Sisters [From the Houston Chronicle, Sept. 16, 19701 ford Ireland, on the Feast of the As­ o! St. Francis o! the Mission o! the Immacu­ PU'r A QUOTA ON PEP Pll.LS sumption, August 15, 1816, made it a late Virgin, Conventual of the Third Order." One medical judgment is that ampheta­ home. They elected Mother Mary Catherine, O.S.F., mines should be used only to treat narco- Mr. Speaker, under leave to extend their first Mother General. 33518 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 23, 1970

Today, 44 Sisters--17 in the girls' division enough without them-it was one of the opinion and begin to act more humanely. and 27 in the boys• division-are assigned to first to stump for allowing brokers to incor­ Following is the statement issued by the the Mission from their Motherhouse in Hast­ porate and it has been a strong advocate of ings-on-Hudson, N.Y. Reverend Mother Anne public ownership of brokerage firms. American Medical Association House of Morgan, O.S.F., present Mother General, is a Regan can afford to speak out because, Delegates which could serve as a model member of the Mission's Board of Trustees. with the Street still in a financial vise, the for other concerned Americans: Recreational facilities for the children at profitable and still-expanding Merrill Lynch PRISONERS OF WAR Mount Loretto include three gymnasiums, an stands head and shoulders over much of the In view of North Viet Nam's failure to live athletic field, and an outdoor swimming pool. competition. The chances are that Regan up to the terms of the Geneva Convention, The pool is named after Angel Mendez, Mis­ and other non-establishment types will be t~e House resolved, "As a professional medi­ sion alumnus and U.S. Marine, killed in Viet­ talking even louder in the days ahead. The cal organization, recommend that, in the nam, March 16, 1967, and buried in the Mis­ Street's stumbling, bumbling approach to best medical interests of both servicemen and sion's cemetery. its problems is making minlmal progress and their families, the World Medical Association Facing the Mission's Church of St. Joa­ the people who stlll have something to lose and/or other appropriate international or­ chim and St. Anne with its steeple rising are getting restless. ganlzations be requested to use their influ­ 255 feet from ground level is the heroic Operation rescue at the New York Stock ence with those countries which do not sub­ bronze statue of Father Drumgoole, ten feet Exchange has ta.ken a. new turn, bringing scribe to the Geneva Convention to the ef­ in height and weighing seven and one-half up the question of whether the lifeguard fect that (a) a list of prisoners names be tons. needs a lifeguard. furnished, (b) inspection of prisoner com­ Since its founding, the Mission has cared The parceling of Hayden, Stone into Cogan, pounds by neutrals be carried out, and ( c) for more than 50,000 children. Today, there Berlind, Weill & Levitt and Walston & Co. medical supplies and food parcels, as well as is an active Father Drumgoole Alumnl As­ and the shareholders' management takeover mail, be distributed to prisoners." sociation that meets regularly and maintains of Goodbody & Co., both within the last two contact with Mount Loretto graduates. weeks, are a. distinct departure from the Appointed August 2, 1969, Monsignor Fo­ former approach, when failing brokers were garty ls the eighth executive director of the picked apart and the diseased torso was Mission. His Eminence, Patrick Cardinal cremated, with the Exchange watching over PHONE RATE PLEA O'Boyle, Ar~hbishop of Washington, served as it all like a public ombudsman. Likewise, the Mission director from 1936 to 1943. suspensions of Charles Plohn & Co. and Mission chaplains are Reverend Eugene V. First Devonshire, chasing both of them-and HON. HENRY HELSTOSKI Mangan and Reverend Robert P. Hickey. their customers--from the promised land without so much as a final blessing from OF NEW JERSEY the Exchange. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES What seems clear is that the NYSE can Tuesday, September 22, 1970 WALL STREETERS DO NOT LIKE no longer be the guardian of the public in­ terest. The $55 million slush fund is used up Mr. HELSTOSK.I. Mr. Speaker, I call PRESENT SITUATION and the Big Board apparently doesn't want attention to a very pertinent editorial to hit its members again-possibly as a lever from the September 16, 1970, edition of to prod Congress into passing the investor the Evening News of Newark, N.J. HON. WILLIAM L. HUNGATE insurance bill. OF MISSOURI On Capitol Hill, where understanding of The editorial cites another example of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the securities industry is about as rare as the ravages of the wild inflation we have votes against highway construction, that will under the present national administra­ Tuesday, September 22, 1970 probably be enough to make the legislators tion. While the President twiddles his Mr. HUNGATE. Mr. Speaker, the fol­ pass the blll, thus putting the government thumbs and assures one and all that the lowing article by Philip Greer, has an on the hook right alongside the Exchange. Nation's economy is straightening itself interesting comment on our current eco­ In the meanwhile, the Street's financial out, the wage earners and housewives nomic problems: fever has reached the crisis stage. The ques­ get hit again and again with increased tion now is where does that leave the securi­ priees of goods and services. WALL STREETERS Do NOT LIKE PRESENT ties industry and its more than 30 million SITUATION customers? The policies of the present admin­ (By Phlllp Greer) The only thing that seems brighter is the istration forces businesses of all kinds NEW YoRK.-Notes on a random walk outlook for the market itself. Analysts gen­ against the wall, and they turn for re­ through Wall Street: erally feel the list has turned into a kind ot lief to their only source--the consumer. Spiro Agnew came ·to the Street last week baby bull stage. Nobody is ready to pour It is about time President Nixon took to explain to the financial nabobs why it is money in just yet--the negative contingen·t another look at the legislation passed by important to them that the Republicans take is still sizable--but there is a growing feeling the Congress this year giving him the that the traders have absorbed the worst control of Congress this year. A GOP-con­ authority place controls on the fac­ trolled Congress would help President Nixon that Washington has to give. The fall could to finlsh his programs, Agnew said. turn out to be a fairly pleasant time in Wall tors that are continuing and expanding So far, in the 21-months the Republicans Street--except, maybe, for the people who inflation. His failure to take affirmative have been in the White House, the Dow Jones live there. action can well drive this Nation into the industrial average is down about 200 points, bankruptcy that struck the Roman Em­ more than 120 brokerage firms have disap­ pire and brought about its fall. peared through merger, takeover or just plain PRISONERS OF WAR The editorial follows: failure, incomes in the street are maybe a PHONE RATE PLEA third to a half of what they were in pre-Re­ publican 1968 and the entire structure of the HON. WILLIAM J. SCHERLE For consumers struggling to stretch in­ markets is threatened by do-nothingism at elastic dollars, there's more bad news. New OF IOWA the Securities & Exchange Commission. Jersey Bell Telephone Co. has filed an appli­ Agnew is right. The Wall Streeters must IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cation for higher rates at a time when state help Nixon finish his programs. They cer­ Tuesday, September 22, 1970 regulatory authorities already have under tainly don't want things to stay as they are. study pleas for higher tariffs on gas and Its a rare time when the National Press Mr. SCHERLE. Mr. Speaker, the house electricity and for increased fares on buses Club invites a brokerage firm president to of delegates, the governing body of the and railroads. be a guest speaker. The fourth estate got its American Medical Association, met in Any .assessment of whether New Jersey money's worth from Don Regan, who heads Bell's rate request is justified must await Chicago this summer and adopted a res­ examination by the Public Utilities Commis­ Merrill Lynch, Pieroe, Fenner & Smith, Inc., olution urging the World Medical Asso­ but, being 200 miles from the Street, its sion of the company's data, particularly fig- doubtful that the reporters digested all the ciation and other appropriate interna­ ures on total plant investment and projected morsels Regan fed them. tional organizations to use their influ­ rate of return. In 1951 the company asked Poos1bly the most revealing line was his ence to improve the lot of the American for a $10-million rise and got nothing. In statement that Merrill Lynch "is on Wall prisoners of war in Vietnam. The Ameri­ 1954, it wa.s given about $2 mHlion of the Street but not of Wall Street." Despite its can Medical Association is to be com­ additional $19 million sought. In 1958, it was over-shadowing presence, "the thundering awarded $11 million of the $14 million re­ mended for its firm stand. If more re­ quested. In all the cases, the Supreme Court herd" has never been a part of the Street sponsible citizens banded together to establishment. In fact, it bas a history of had to decide some of the issues. fighting the roll-top desk mentality that con­ voice their indignation at the terrible In addition to deciding on a rate base and trolled the financial communlty for genera­ treatment our servicemen receive at the a fair rate of return, both questions on which tions. Merrill, for instance, ha.s fought all in­ hands of our enemies, Hanoi, might be it has differed widely with the company be­ creases in commission rates--it does well induced to yield to the pressure of world fore, the PUC must consider whether the September 23, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 33519 spec11lc and comp1ex rate revl.Sions pro­ CONSUMER INTEREST IN LOW­ market and based on the lowest cost of posed are equitable, whether New Jersey COST AIR TRAVEL operating an efficient air transportation sys­ Bell's profits ($91 mlllion last year) are su:ffi­ tem ... We expect both scheduled services cien t to cover the costs of providing ex­ and charter services to have important roles panded and more efficient service, and HON. JOHN V. TUNNEY throughout the coming decade. It is whether the burden is fairly distributed OF CALIFORNIA apparent to me that the adminis­ between interstate and intrastate service tration has a slight case of schizophrenia IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES charges. which can be cleared up with effective, Beyond question, New Jersey Bell's op­ Wednesday, September 23, 1970 low-cost therapy. I would strongly pre­ erating costs have jumped. From 1958, when scribe the pursuit of the ideas in the it won its last general rate boost, to last Mr. TUNNEY. Mr. Speaker, at this year, construction expenditures climbed 132 time, with hundreds of thousands of statement of policy and I would just as per cent, operating taxes rose 125 per cent, Americans trying to enjoy a well-earned strongly urge that the Civil Aeronautics the original value of its total plant 1n serv­ vacation. we ought to examine very care­ Board once again rejoin the Government, ice went up 141 per cent, and operating ex­ fully the manner in which our Govern­ adjust its policies to the needs of the penses 103 per cent. At the same time, its ment is protecting its vacationing citi­ traveling public, and withdraw the pro­ operating revenues rose 112 per cent and zens, particularly in the field of air posed arbitrary, restrictive, punitive, and its net income 116 per cent. demeaning regulations. It is exactly this Money to expand further must be raised. travel. It appears to me that the Federal The company estimates it will spend $285 Government cannot make up its mind on kind of fuzzy, contradictory thinking million next year on new plant and equip­ this important matter, a situation I that has produced chaos in rail transpor­ ment and more than $1 billion by 1975 to would bring to the attention of my col­ tation and has worked against the wel­ keep pace with demand. Borrowing capital to leagues. fare of passengers and shippers. Surely finance that constru<:tion cost the company Many will recall that on May 8 of this we can and we must avoid the same chaos 9.35 per cent las,t June, compared with 4.6 year, the Civil Aeronautics Board pub­ from occurring in air transportation. per cent only five years ago. lished proposed revised regulations gov­ I am pleased to see that the Subcom­ Still, New Jersey Bell's request for higher mittee on Transportation and Aeronau­ rates can be greeted by consumers only as erning air travel. As a person deeply con­ dismaying news. The company has been in cerned about the consumer and his abil­ tics of the Interstate Foreign Commerce the vanguard of those providing better and ity to gain equity in the marketplace, I Committee has held hearings on this more efficient service through automation was genuinely surprised to see that matter and I am positive that that com­ and new technology, a factor which per­ agency propose a series of regulations mittee will issue a very strong report mitted at least half .a dozen selective reduc­ setting guidelines for the Civil Aeronau­ tions in rate schedules during the last that would regulate not the air trans­ portation industry but the traveling pub­ tics Board to follow if not regarding decade. specific legislation to correct this situa­ What the company implies by yesterday's lic. The CAB had a lot to s 9,y about the rate application is that even its technologi­ limitations of the number of American tion. Mr. FRIEDEL and tlie members of his cal and operating improvements can't pro­ citizens that could belong to a traveling committee ought to be congratulated for vide enough savings to keep pace with the group, about how that group elects its stepping into the breach to contain such skyrocketing rise in business costs caused by officers and keeps membership records, gross abuse of administration discretion the ravages of inflation. If the telephone and about the way it affiliates with other as has been evidenced by the Civil Aero­ company can't keep up, how can the house­ nautics Board. wife? groups. The CAB attacked the travel agents and the operators of vacation, study, and travel tours, as if the con­ DECLINE IN CONSUMER PRICE sumer's rlght to travel and the right of LAW AND ORDER INDEX others to ald him were inherently some kind of suspicious if not outright illegal HON. DONALD D. CLANCY activity. HON. JOHN J. RHODES Following the publication of those pro­ OF omo OF ARIZONA posals, the CAB received harsh but just IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES criticism from many distinguished Mem­ Wednesday, September 23, 1970 Wednesday, September 23, 1970 bers of this Congress, as well as from or­ Mr. CLANCY. Mr. Speaker, the chair­ ganizations that would no longer be able man of the Hamilton County Police AB­ Mr. RHODES. Mr. Speaker, the an­ to charter a plane as a group and fly to a nouncement today of the dramatic de­ sociation College Scholarship Fund, Lin­ convention or for study or simply for coln J. Stokes, recently announced the cline in the Consumer Price Index is one relief. of the best pieces of economic news we first awards made by the association. Messages condemning the proposals These cash award scholarships were have had in months. Combined with the have been sent to the CAB by the United spreading trend in banks to lower the based upon academic achievement, fi­ Steelworkers of America-AFL-CIO-­ nancial assistance, and essays. Each ap­ prime interest rate to 7~ percent, there the Cooperative League of the U.S.A., the can no longer be any doubt that the plicant was requested to submit a short National Grange, and the Group Health essay concerning his personal under­ Nixon administration has succeeded in Association of America, to name just a halting inflation. standing of the term "law and order." few. Mr. President, groups with such very Awards were made to Geoffrey A. Paul, The administration has come in for different interests rarely get together on much criticism in recent months for its 797 East Columbia Avenue, Reading, an issue unless the offending agency is Ohio, son of Col. and Mrs. Artice Paul, economic policies, but I hope its critics grossly unjust or very stupid. It is just have now seen the light. The President's chief of police at Reading, Ohio; Bar­ passible that both reasons prevail in this bara Ann Belbot, 5338 Rawhide Court, policies evidently are working and have instance. However, I would point out that slowed inflation without plunging the Cincinnati, daughter of Detective and just last month, on June 22, the Presi­ Mrs. William A. Belbot, Hamilton County country into another recession. dent issued the Government's revised Noted economists, such as John Ken­ sheriff's office. Statement of International Air Trans­ Geoffrey A. Paul graduated from neth Galbraith, who saw the worst pos­ portation Policy. That statement is not sible outlook for the economy and im­ Reading High School in June 1970, and only a document representing many is entering David Lipscomb College in plied that inflation could not be cured forward-looking approaches to the im­ without resorting to wage and prlce con­ Nashville, Tenn. provement of America's position in the He plans to study speech and drama trols have now once again, been proved air, it is also a sharp rebuke to the CAB. dead wrong. in preparing for a career in the enter­ Once again, the Nixon administration The statement reads: tainment and theatrical field. During his The economic and technological benefits senior year at Reading High School, he has achieved its goal by hewing care- we seek can best be achieved by encouraging fully to a predetermined course and re­ was president of the Thespian group and competition and by a relative freedom from participated in all productions and plays jecting the extremist options offered by government restriction." It goes on to specif­ discredited economic soothsayers. It ts ically note that the "U.S. should work for at the school. the type of performance we expect from the broadest range of profitable services, de­ Barbara Ann Belbot graduated in the this administration. signed to appeal to the broadest consumer upper 1 percent of her class from Seton 33520 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 23, 1970 High School in June 1970. She is enter­ Index meant higher prices across the been bitten by a dog and was seriously 1ll ing Xavier University for extended board for the wage earner. with rabies. The doctor knew that she would studies in the political science field and The double tragedy of this inflation need medicine that night or she would die. A request was made for vaccine. Soon the hopes to become a lawyer in the field of was that it was caused by escalation of sound of a MAG-16 helicopter was heard governmental law. the war in Vietnam. There are still those overhead. VC tracer rounds streaked toward I am very pleased to bring to the at­ of us in this chamber who remember the chopper as it neared the LZ. In spite of tention of my colleagues these excellent former President Johnson's promise that hostile fire, the pilot completed his mission essays on this important issue facing our this country could have both "guns and of mercy. The crew chief handed the v~clne Nation today-"Law and Order." It is butter." to the doctor and the chopper lifted into the most gratifying to read that these fine There are also those who will recall darkness, drawing more tracers as it disap­ young citizens and more like them are how the "guns and butter" account went peared. The little girl lived. An entire village watched what took place. aware of the meaning of law and order, bankrupt in 1968 when this country ran All at once the American Fighting Man and its effect upon society. $25 billion deficit which touched off an ceased to be a stranger from a distant land. Miss Belbot's essay reads as follows: even wilder round of inflation. East and West became partners in a mutual "Law and Order" is a product of our times President Nixon has completely struggle for survival and freedom. Differ­ that the meanings of formerly familiar words changed this situation. He has reversed ences of language and customs no longer and expressions have been dlist orted and new our budget priorities so that for the first formed a gap. These are the deeds that com­ meanings added-sometimes radically alter­ time in 20 years this country will spend municate to the people of Vietnam our na­ ing the original definitions. "Law and Order" more on domestic needs than on defense; tion's concern for the freedom, well being 1s such an expression. Law is not a confine­ and dignity of all men. I know of no more and he has brought the runaway infla­ effective means to destroy the "cultural gap." ment of man's natural freedoms, but rather tion to a halt. an opportunity for man to express himself I suspect that none of us can understand freely and maturely without infringing on all the strange sights, customs and behavior other•s rights or vice versa. But laws must patterns of the Orient. At times we even be just or t-hey no longer are able to command SOUTHEAST ASIA POLICY have trouble understanding our fellow Ma­ respect. Order 1s not the enforcement of a rines. But when two people stand face to poli~e state, but rather the enforcement of face, and by their actions communicate their each individual's right to live peacefully and HON. PAUL N. McCLOSKEY, JR. understanding and respect for each others securely. But order must never become the OF CALIFORNIA dignity and worth, the differences cease to tool of fear. "La.wand Order" reflects man as IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES create a barrier of separation. We can never learn all their ls to know the social animal that he is. Wednesday, September 23, 1970 There is nothing evil about "Law and Or­ about anyone. Studying customs and culture der". At the same time the expression should Mr. MCCLOSKEY. Mr. Speaker, if we can help, and I recommend it, but the real not be used as a reactionary response to our clue to bridging the "cultural gap" is simply have been mistaken in our policies in the magic of one man treating the other as troubled times. Both uses are irresponsible. Southeast Asia since adoption of the Perhaps the best solution ls to abstain from a human being. usln,g the expression at all until we are ready Gulf of Tonkin resolution on August 7, I think it is interesting that Kipling recog­ to use it in its proper light. Any false use of 1964, it has not been the fault of the nized this. Remember how he concluded his its meaning can only serve to undermine its armed services of the United States. well-known ballad by declaring: true concept. The armed services are an instrument "But there ls neither East nor West Geoffrey Paul felt that-- of national policy; they do not make it. Border, nor Breed nor Birth The services have unhesitatingly and un­ When two strong men stand face to face Without the law, the weak would have no complainingly carried out their obliga­ Tho' they come from the ends of the Earth." security, they would slowly become engulfed tions to the Commander in Chief and by the strong. To have a Utopian soolety where it would be true that all men are cre­ to the Nation, and it is we in the Con­ ated equal is the ultimate goal of our hopes gress who have both authorized and NATIONAL EMPLOY THE HANDI­ and drea.m.s. However, we must be realists, we funded the vast expenditure of lives and CAPPED WEEK-1970 still have the rich and the poor and the money which an increasing number of strong and the weak. our people now feel to have been a mis­ We must be careful not to confuse freedom tai:e. HON. CHARLES E. BENNETT with permissiveness. This freedom can be For our bitter experiences of the past OF FLORmA abused in many ways, not the least being apathy and indifference toward their elected 6 years, however, many examples of hu­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES offiolals, which tends to breed corruption and manity, kindness, and courage have Wednesday, September 23, 1970 the general breaking down of moral values. served to retain the faith of Americans When this happens, we are all losers and that our national instincts are those of Mr. BENNET!'. Mr. Speaker, the Pres­ erode our glft of freedom. peace rather than destruction. A num­ ident has proclaimed the week beginning The law ls what we make of it, if it 1s ber of such examples are set forth in October 4, 1970 as "National Employ the strong our nation wm grow, if it ls wea.k we Gen. Lewis Walt's recently published Physically Handicapped Week." This is a will regress. Of this we must always be mind­ very meritorius and good proposal, and I ful, for what ls law? "La.w Is Order." book, "Strange War, Strange Strategy," A single such example was recently de­ join with the President in promoting and scribed by Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Keith encouraging this week set aside for those B. McCutcheon, commanding the Third millions of Americans who are handi­ capped. STABILIZATION OF THE ECONOMY Marine Amphibious Forces in Danang, The President said in his proclamation UNDER THIS ADMINISTRATION and appearing in the Marine Corps "Sea Tiger," dated August 14, 1970. That arti­ of September 8, 1970: cle is set forth as follows: Isolated from regular contact with society. HON. JOHN E. HUNT CG's OP many of our handicapped citizens lead lives OF NEW JERSEY of lonely frustration. Working together, on We hear a lot of talk these days about both public and private levels, we can-and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES "gaps" or areas of misunderstanding between must-insure full lives for them. people. There is the "generation gap" between Wednesday, September 23, 1970. young people and parents, the "credibility It is my feeling that this resolution. Mr. HUNT. Mr. Speaker, today's an­ gap" between government and citizens. Back declaring the first week of October of nouncement that the rise in the Con­ in 1889 Rudyard Kipling spoke of a similar each year as "National Employ the gap. He wrote, "Oh, East is East and West sumer Price Index was a 20-month low is West, and never the twain shall meet." Physically Handicapped Week," should of 0.2 percerit for the month of August This is sometimes called the "cultural gap." be broadened, making the resolution ap­ is the strongest indication we have had S_ervlng here in Vietnam we are very much plicable to all handicapped workers. to date of the stabilization of the econ­ aware of the differences between the cultures My bill, House Joint Resolution 1379, omy under the Nixon administration. of East and West. A huge jet airliner can would accomplish this, providing for a This new low actually signals the end bridge the "geographic gap" between the "National Employ the Handicapped of the fantastic acceleration in the rate shores of California and the coast of Viet­ Week." nam in a matter of hours. But only the of increase for the Consumer Price In­ actions and efforts of each individual Ma­ We want to bring all of our handi­ dex which started in late 1965. Unfor­ rine can bridge the "cultural gap." capped persons into the mainstream of tunately, the American consumer was I think this can best be lllustrated by a American life, to utilize their vast talents taken along on this joyride and each new dramatic incident that took place in a bat­ and energies. monthly increase in the Consumer Price talion TAOR. A little Vietnamese girl had The 42 million handicapped persons September 23, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 33521 and their families in America today face mands absolute concentration of power Lee Hills, Detroit Free-Press, Past Presi­ not only the burdens that their handi­ in the hands of the party. To allow any dent. caps present, but also a worse fate-little meaningful opposition to remain is knowledge of how they can help them­ absolutely against the basic tenents of THE IMPENDING DISASTER IN CHILE selves. Marxism-Leninism. To think that a (By William F. Buckley, Jr.) As a handicapped person myself, I Communist government might do so is Concerning the situation in Ohile, a few know of the problems faced by people observations: to :fly in the face of the entire history It ls not true in the formal sense that who become disabled. The lack of readily of the Communist movement. It has for the first time in history a nation has available information on how they can been suggested that if Allende signs voted itself into communism. In order to do develop and live normal lives is a detri­ some type of agreement promising not to that, it requires that a majority of the people ment to them as they go about their daily do certain things then all will be well and vote for the Communist candidate. tasks. 6 years hence there will be another fair Far from getting a majority, Dr. Salvador While we have many public and non­ and free election. This would seem to me Allende received this time around an even in­ smaller percentage of the votes than he re­ public organizations and agencies to be the most wishful thinking ceived in 1964, and less than Barry Gold­ volved in helping the handicapped, there imaginable. water in 1964. To conclude that because the is no real centralized and consolidated At this point, I would like to insert the Chilean Congress is likely to respect prece­ center to help the handicapped in their statement made by the Inter-American dent by voting in as president the man who problems of employment, education, Press Association and an article by Wil­ won the plurality of the votes. therefore it transportation, recreation, and other ac­ liam F. Buckley which makes the point follows that a free nation will have voted it­ tivities. that a leftist government is not so much self int.o communism, ls disjointed. The proper way to put it ls that democratic mech­ I have introduced another bill to pro­ the answer of communism as the answer anisms abound which make it possible for vide for a National Information and Re­ to the Communists' dreams. Some of Mr. someone who has won even a Sinall minority source Center for the Handicapped in the Buckley's readers of years ago will be of the vote to take power. Department of Health, Education, and happy to see him returning, in this Although it ls certainly true that the Welfare. I joined Senator ROBERT DOLE, article, to the hard-hitting anti­ strength Of Allende is a tribute in part t.o of Kansas, in the introduction of this leg­ communist journalism which originally Communist propaganda, in part to the short­ islation, which I believe will go a long way made his reputation. ness of the historical memory, in part to the in helping the handicapped to help them­ The material follows: collapsing strength of the Catholic Church, it ls also testimony to the substantial super­ selves. STATEMENT BY THE INTER-AMERICAN stition that the Social Democrats (in Chile This bill has been added as an amend­ PRESS ASSOCIATION they oall them Christian Democrats) are the ment in the Senate to S. 3418 as title m, Freedom of the press in Chile is being worst enemies of the Communists. the family practice medicine legislation, strangled by Communist and Marxist forces On that myth we have been brought up, and I am hopeful it will be approved and their allies. and over and over and over again, our post­ by the House, and I am working toward The Inter-American Press A.ssocia.tlon has war thought-leaders have urged us to deal that end. received information from Chile thait threaits with the "progressive" governments of Latin of violence and intimid&tlon are causing the America, Italy and Germany. Over the last two decades I have spon­ resignation of news officials, the sale of news­ In Italy, a few years ago, the progressive sored and supported bills to assist the papers and radio sta.tions, the dism.l.ssal of government made a deal with the hard So­ handicapped of America. In the last Con­ anti-Marxist editors and reporters from news­ cialists who in turn ·made a deal with the gress, a bill sponsored by myself and the papers, radio and television staltlons and up­ Communists. In Germany. the fighting So­ late Senator from Alaska, E. L. Bartlett, heav·al within press-rela.ted trades unions. cia.list anti-Communist mayor of Berlin be­ was enacted into law, and it provides Those pmotlcin,g intimidation have already came the head of the Social Democratic par­ that public buildings shall be constructed gained control over all of Chile's non-govern­ ty, and then the prime minister, where­ men,t television channels. upon he made a treaty with the Soviet Union, to be accessible to handicapped persons. IAPA has learned that emissaries from one the consequences of which may make Mu­ In this Congress, I have sponsored bills political faction offered a "deal" to represenrt­ nich look like Custer's Last Stand. enacted into law which provide for a atives of Augustin Edwards, publisher of El The critical date ls Oct. 23. We should bear National Center on Educational Media Mercurdo, one of Chile's and the hemisphere's in mind that Chile's Congress ls under no and Materials for the Handicapped and most distinguished newspapers-the oldest constitutional compulsion to name Allende. to insure that the proposed Washington Spanish language newspaper in conrtlnuous He needs about 20 votes, and they would metro system is designed and constructed publica.tlon. It was founded Sept. 12, 1827. only come from the Social Democrats. Un­ If El Mercurio would ckop l•ts opposition fortunately, the vote ls by secret ballot, and to be accessible to the physically handi­ to the seating of Salvador Allende as pres­ the party will not therefore accept official capped. ident of Ohlle, the emissaries said, the new responsib111ty for the impending act of Mr. Speaker, this legislation will help government would nationalize the newspaper treachery. But the world will know that it the 42 million handicapped persons and properties of Edwards, but would permit him was Social Democrats who made possible the their families to achieve useful and pro­ to retain some other business holdings in Communists taking power, and the world will ductive lives. The Congress should and Chile. be sorely vexed. must do all possible for this large seg­ Mr. Edwards and his representatives flatly In Chile there are three television net­ rejected the offer. works. One ls controlled by the Communists, ment of our population. It is evident in reports from Chile that one by .an unholy combination of left. certain political forces are attempting to Marxists and Catholics, and one by the state. smother free speech in that country and to So that when Allende takes power, he would IMPENDING DISASTER IN CHILE thwart free political dialogue. automatically take control of the only im­ The Inter-American Press Association must portant broadcasting facllity not already ded­ protest these activities in the strongest pos­ icated to revolutionary communism. HON. JOHN G. SCHMITZ sible terms. IAPA does not presume to inter­ It ls amusing to hear a few liberals vest­ OF CALIFORNIA fere in Chilean partisan politics. The choice ing their hopes in the army. Surely-they IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of leaders is a responslblllty only of the are saying, having for generations scorned Chilean people and the Chilean Congress. the uses of .an army in Latin Amerlca--surely Wednesday, September 23, 1970 But the IAPA must raise its voice against the army will stage a coup, and prevent the Mr. SCHMITZ. Mr. Speaker, the mailed this attempt to intimidate, coerce and muzzle Castrolzatlon of Chile? fist is already beginning to show through a large section of the established press in an It ls not certain by any means that the the velvet glove of the Communist coali­ American nation. army will come to the aAd of the country. To Signed by: do so now would alienate .a great number of tion which recently won a plurality in James S. Copley, Copley Newspapers, Pres­ people who harbor 1lluslons about what com­ the Chilean elections. According to a ident of IAPA. munism will bring. statement recently issued by the Inter­ Manoel F. do Nascimento Brito, Jornal do Under Chilean law, the president has al­ American Press Association "Freedom of Brasil, 1st Vice President. most tote.I powers to advance whomsoever the press in Chile is being strangled by John C. A. Watkins, Providence, R.I., Jour­ he wants to head the various branches of Communist and Marxist forces and their nal-Bulletin, 2nd Vice President. the military. Now hear this. Under Chilean allies." This is in all probability simply George H. Beebe, Knight Newspapers, practice, every officer who is senior to the a preview of what is to come when and if Chairman of the !APA executive committee. man who is advanced, is compulsorily re­ Andrew Heiskell, New York Times, Past tired. That means that by elevating the Mr. Allende takes the reigns of power in President. right captadn, say, Allende could retire the his hands. Alberto Galnza Paz (La. Prensa of Buenos whole senior military, and thus dlm1n1Bh The logic of the Communist system de­ Aires, Past President. the threa,t to his regime. CXVI--2111-Part 26 33522 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 23, 1970 Do the Chileans (just over one-third of tially dismantled and tbat the President through the Soviet delegates to appro­ them) have the right to impose a. Castro­ be given new weapons for settling major priate authorities in the Soviet Union. style dictatorship on the rest of the coun­ strikes by amending the Taft-Hartley Act try? Such an absolutiza.tion of democracy is of 1947. Both laws operate on the principle WELCOME TO ALL PARTICIPANTS IN THE 20TH for children. It recalls the wry comment on ths>t if a strike by labor or a lockout by man­ PuGWASH CONFERENCE-AND ESPECIALLY TO Afrtc.an democracy, "One Man, One Vote, agement can be delayed for a specific period THE SOVIET PARTICIPANTS Once," because the prospects are, under Al­ of time ( cooling-off period) then there is a We welcome all participants in the 20th lende, for dictatorship, and for the end of good chance of working out a solution. But Pugwash Conference on Science and Inter­ the rights of the dissenter. when the time expires and no agreement has national Affairs to our country. We wish you The humane, liberal, obligation of the been reached, the strike or lockout is legal. well in your deliberations on your theme of Chilean Congress is to spare the Chilean peo­ A number of such work stoppages have oc­ "Peace and International Co-operation: A ple rule by Allende: That is the true demo­ curred. Program for the Seventies." cr_atic imperative. President Nixon asked Congress to approve This appeal is directly pertinent to your a plan which contains an optional provision theme. Your work towards the establishment for a. 30-day extension in the "cooling-off" of a just and secure peace is of great im­ period in those instances when real progress portance, and we shall pray for your success. CONGRESS SHARES STRIKE BLAME toward settlP.ment is being made. The plan If the goal of universal peace is not in sight, also provides for partial operation of an es­ perhaps you can assist the world community sential industry during a strike and presi­ in t'ealizing more attainable object ives, such dential authority to invoke a "final offer as assuring that governments honor com­ HON. SHERMAN P. LLOYD selection procedure" under which a neutral mitments made to secure peace, that crim­ OF UTAH third party would select one of the "final" inal attacks on civilian aircraft be ended, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES offers made by either side in a labor dispute and that basic human rights be respected as the binding settlement. throughout the world. Wednesday, September 23, 1970 Mr. Nixon's plan has now gathered dust for We extend a special welcome to the dis­ Mr. LLOYD. Mr. Speaker, the current six months and another r,ailroad strike threat tinguished participants from the Soviet is upon the nation. This third strike threat Union. We bear no rancor toward them. We situation with respect to the threatened didn't just happen, everyone knew it was urge them to see not only the beautiful railroad strike once again underscores coming. But Congress, perhaps because this Wisconsin countryside but also to visit with the need for a permanent legislative is an election year, has refused to act to pre­ the American people and observe the many solution dealing with national emer­ vent it. As a result every citizen faces the facets of our society. We invite the Soviet gency strikes in the transportation in­ possibility of personal inconvenience, per­ delegates to visit our homes, to share with dustry. haps financial loss, that a :railroad strike us our bread and our thoughts, and espe­ Four railroad unions are under a poses. cially to visit our houses of worship and temporary restraining order barring Mr. Nixon's plan may not be the best one religious schools. imaginable. But it was a starting point in We assemble this afternoon not to inter­ them from striking until September 23. solving a problem that returns year after fere with the Pugwash conference but solely Meanwhile, talks with the three rail­ year to haunt us all. Congress had an obliga­ because our consciences forbid us to remain roads involved are continuing. This is tion to seriously consider the Nixon plan or silent in the face of continuing oppression the third time in a year that the Na­ present one of Its own. It did neither. We of three million Jews in the USSR. We hope tion has been faced with the prospect think it ha.s defaulted on a basic obligation that in the spirit of the Pugwash conference of a crippling railroad strike. to the people It is supposed to represent. you will attempt to understand our concern just as we are sympathetic towards your The House Republican Task Force on work. It has been suggested by well meaning Labor Law Reform, which I have the persons that Pugwash is an inappropriate privilege of chairing, has distributed a place for us to express our concern. But factual analysis of legislative proposals OPERATION EXODUS you would be receiving a very false impres­ introduced during this Congress to deal sion of our country and of the force of our with national emergency strikes in the concern if we did remain silent. transportation industry. HON. SIDNEY R. YATES We assemble to remind you and the world Last February the administration OF Il.LINOIS of the plight of the Jewish minority in the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES USSR. Our program includes prayer, music proposed the Emergency Public Inter­ from many nations, Including Russia, infor­ est Protection Act of 1970 to update and Wednesday, September 23, 1970 mative reports about the plight of the Soviet improve the Government's weapons for Mr. YATES. Mr. Speaker, Sunday, Jews, a speech by the Lieutenant Governor dealing with transportation strikes ef­ September 13, was the :final day of the of Illinois, and the reading of Jewish freedom fecting the national health and safety. letters smuggled out of the USSR. 20th Pugwash Conference which took We appreciate that the Soviet participants However, Congress has failed to act on place at the Abbey Hotel in Fontana, the legislation, and as we draw near the may not be accustomed to seeing public Wis., a conference devoted to discus­ prayer and the assembling of private citizens closing hour of ~he 91st Congress, the sion of scientific and world affairs. to express their grievances. But prayer and country is &.gain threatened with a strike Among the delegates to the conference peaceful assembly are among the most cher­ while reasonable and effective proposals were representatives from the Soviet ished rights of a free people. We will not sus­ for permanent solution to these prob­ Union and it was to these that a hope­ pend our exercise of these rights just because lems remain on the shelf. ful, peaceful assembly was addressed out­ public prayer and protest are lllegal in the Mr. Speaker, the Salt Lake Tribune side the doors of the conference. The USSR. We will even pray that outside a fu­ in an editorial September 13, 1970, made assembly, which was known as Operation ture Pugwash conference in the USSR the some particularly pertinent comments Soviet people may be allowed to pray and Exodus, was convened by the Commu­ to express peacefully what is in their hearts. on this situation, and I include the nity Council of Jewish Organizations of Even in the USSR, there are courageous Jews editorial at this point in the RECORD. Chicago and the Milwaukee Conference who at fearful risk to themselves are speak­ CONGRESS SHARES STRIKE BLAME on Soviet Jewry. Approximately 1,200 ing out. As the group of 28 Jewish intellec­ For the third time in a year the nation people were gathered in an open :field for tuals and professionals of Riga stated in f.aces the pr-::>spect of a crippling railroad an hour and a half participating in a their petition dellvered to the Seventh In­ strike. And for the third time in a year the program of prayer, music, speeches, and ternational Symposium on the Chemistry of nation has nothing but outmoded proce­ the reading of Jewish freedom letters Natural Combinations in June of this year: dures and laws to deal with the threat. "We beg for your help. We beg you to raise Most of the blame must be placed squarely smuggled out of Russia. your voice in the defence of our rights. We on Congress which has steadfastly refused The purpose of the assembly was to beg you to render us assistance in our age­ to enact, indeed to even seriously consider, let the delegates from the Soviet Union long dream to unite with our relations in remedial legislation. know the concern of Americans of Jew­ Israel, to unite with our Jewish people in the It is true that no law can prevent a strike ish faith to the discriminatory treatment land of our ancestors . . . if enough workers are willing to defy the being accorded to Soviet citizens of Jew­ "We also beg you to acquaint to other sci­ law and leave their jobs. But it is also true ish faith and to express the hope that entists and representatives of scientific or­ that if reasonable laws designed to fit mod­ ganizations with this problem of ours, so ern problems were now on the books the Soviet Jews would be permitted to leave that in accordance with the spirit of the possibility of strikes in critical industries Russia if they so desired for other lands. General Declaration of the Rights of Man would be greatly reduced. The written appeal of participants in they should be able to speak in the defense of Reasonable new labor laws were proposed the assembly was delivered to members our Inherent inalienable human right to by President Nixon last February. He asked of the Pugwash Conference and that ap­ unite with our people on our ancient land that the Railway Labor Act of 1926 be par- peal, which I hope will be conveyed and to live a wor,thy national 'life." September 23, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 33523 The appeal we place before you is thus the demand to "Let My People Go" has been horsemen of New Mexico and perhaps help­ same as that addressed to your scientific col­ heard by God. It must now be heard by gov­ ful if we asked the New Mexico Racing Com­ leagues at Riga on behalf of millions of So­ ernments and men. mission itself to tell the story as it appeared viet Jews. No reasonable person can expect COMMUNITY COUNCil. OF JEWISH to them. We, therefore, went to the head of us to hide our concern when the Jews of Riga ORGANIZATIONS Oi' CmcAGO, the Commission and asked Mr. Robert Lee of risked their lives to express theirs. MILWAUKEE CONFERENCE ON SOVIET JEWRY. Belen if we could publish his answers to a The specific aspects of Soviet oppression of few questions we had heard posed. He was Jews which deeply concern us include the very cooperative. following: NEW MEXICO'S EXPERIENCE WITH This-in his words-is what took place. 1. Refusal to allow Jews who desire to emi­ SPORTS SERVICE "The first question I would like to ask ls grate to do so. This is in violation of Ar­ what got the commission going on this mat­ ticle 13 of the United Nations Universal Dec­ ter-what happened?" laration of Human Rights and Premier HON. SAM STEIGER "The first thing we knew about this mat­ Kosygin's promise in Paris on December 8, OF ARIZONA ter was that an outfit called Newoo had taken over Ruidoso and that the track had 1966. Can a government which denies this IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES basic right be considered civUized? been sold. There was a rumor that went 2. Imprisonment of Jews whose only "of­ Wednesday, September 23, 1970 around fast. fense" is that they want to emigrate. A large "Before we knew it, there was a race pro­ number of soviet Jews have been imprisoned Mr. STEIGER of Arizona. Mr. Speaker, gram from Ruidoso Downs in our hands with in Leningrad since June 15 without formal the following description of the activities a new Board of Directors and a new president charges being placed against them, and there of Emprise, a Buffalo, N.Y., firm that of the Ruidoso Racing Association. is reason to fear they wm be executed after does business with organized crime, "Well, that was almost the first we knew. secret trials and without trials. We hope you should be of special interest to all the "The thing that got me looking at this wlll agree that the saving of human lives Members of Congress. matter personally was that we were issued under these circumstances is of transcendent some statements, a little later to be found Note that the attempt by Emprise to completely false or at least mlsleading." importance. conceal its real position of interest in an 3. Prohibition of the operation of Jewish "What were these statements?" religious schools and the teaching of He­ applicant for a racing permit led to the "These statements involved-first-that brew and Yiddish, as well as the unavail­ New Mexico Racing Commission requir­ Sports Service, a catering company, was Jn ability of Jewish books and cultural and ing that Emprise could have no more no way connected wtth the new ownership religious articles. Most of the synagogues in than a 5-percent interest in any racing of the track. the USSR have been closed. The Jews a.re permit in the State. This pattern of "Then later that Sports Service was con­ singled out among the many Soviet minority Emprise concealing its true interest in nected only as concessionaires. And then la­ groups for such deprivation. ter came the word that they were conces­ various enterprises is not new. On Sep­ sionaires and also had a loan out, but that 4. An anti-Jewish propaganda campaign in tember 2 of this year the Security and the Soviet press and in books published by there was no connection between Newco and the government, reminiscent of the libels Exchange Commission forced a suspen­ Sports Service. disseminated by the Czars and the Nams. sion of trading in the stock of Tucson "This was stated to the commission under The facts documenting the anti-Jewish Turf Club because the SEC, as a :finding oath in a hearing that there was no connec­ policies of the Soviet government are readily of fact, determined that Emprise had tion between Sports Service, their loan, and available and undisputed. If any of you lied about its true ownership of Tucson their con.cession contract. care to examine further into the pertinent "As things turned out later, the conces­ Turf Club. sion contract and all of the financing agree­ documents, we shall be pleased to swpply The New Mexico Racing Commission you with copies. We call upon the partici­ ments and everything else were completely pants in the Pugwash conference to familiar­ is to be commended for a courageous tied together. The only way you could di· ize yourselves with these facts and to ask stand taken in the face of tremendous vorce one from the other was to take Sports the Soviet participants about their knowl­ pressure from Emprise whose finances Service completely out of the financing; and edge of these inhumane practices. We par­ and expertise in legislative and admin­ as tt turned out, the concession contract was ticularly suggest that you ask them why in istrative seduction has been so over­ for twenty yea.rs which would probably make the year 1970 a person who desires only to whelmingly successful in my own State it difficult to do. So, I don't know what de­ leave a country in peace should be forcibly cided the other members of the commission of Arizona. later on to go the way they did, but this ls prevented from doing so. The prohibition An article from the August 1970 edi­ of emigration resembles the very serfdom one of the things that started me looking at supposedly abolished in 1861. We submit that tion of the New Mexican Horse Bulletin the whole operation." you wm not be doing justice to yourselves or follows: "Isn't it the law of New Mexico that when to your theme of "Peace and International THE N.M. RACING COMMISSION-WHAT IT a major track is sold, a full disclosure of the Cooperation" if you fail to consider these TRIED To Do FOR THE NEW MExico HORSE­ ownership as to who is buying it and how it facts. MAN AT RUIDOSO DOWNS is going to be run has to be made to the Some Soviet Jews, such as those whom The members of the New Mexico Racing racing commission before the deal can be the soviet government presents in press con­ Commission do not get paid. During the past consummated?" ferences, have adjusted themselves to these months these members have put in hun­ "That's right. The Commission has the inhumane practices, and they too have our dreds of hours of their own time, taking it right, and I think the obligation, that all of good wishes. But millions of others feel the away from their businesses, their personal the financing and the complete planned op­ yoke of oppression, including those who interests, and their home life. Time on a eration must be disclosed any time one of ask for press conferences but are n<>t al­ problem caused by a company of Raton, New these tracks is taken over. lowed to hold them. It is for their sake that Mexico, which bought Ruidoso Downs in the "And, in this case of course, the whole deal we cry out. summer of 1969. was completed before the Commission knew We ask the Soviet pa.rticipanta to exam­ The Commission started an investigation anything about it. The contracts were all ine the causes of our concern to your gov­ in August, 1969, and ended it in April, 1970, signed with no provision in them based upon ernment, your academic colleagues and your after six hearings which averaged some ten the Racing Commission approval. fellow citizens, Jewish and Non-Jewish. For hours apiece. These were the longest hear­ "The next thing we knew they just brought the time has come when no Soviet repre­ ings on any one subject in the history of this thing in and dropped it on the table sentative can show his face in the free world the Commission. The Commission ended by and here it is. without being reminded of our indignation refusing racing dates in 1970 to Ruidoso "And, at the time, they didn't bring us over oppression of Soviet Jews. Downs Racing Association, knowing full well any of their contracts and getting the total Once before in our time the world re­ that this decision would have a most un­ number of their contracts was kind of like mained silent in the face of evil, and mil­ fortunate economic impact on the Ruidoso pulling teeth. We didn't wind up with some­ lions of our brothers perished. We respect Community should the end result be no thing like this management agreement be­ and appreciate the heroic sacrifices of the racing in Ruidoso in 1970. tween Newco and Ruidoso Racing until this Soviet people in the Second world War, That this result would occur was never last hearing we had in Albuquerque." after Hitler shattered the Nazi-Soviet al­ seriously believed, but we have never known "What was the manga.ment contract?" liance, but the mutual suffering of our peo­ a. decision of this kind to be made without "The management contract was set up to ples in the war provides all the more rea­ deep feeling and profound investigation of be a percentage of the handle or $800,000 a son for granting freedom to the survivors the ascertainable facts. So, there must have year, whichever was greater. This would be of the Holocaust. been some good reason why four unpaid, un­ paid from Ruidoso Racing Association to President Nixon said last week in his New biased New Mexican horsemen and ranch Newco. In 1969 at the rate of last year's Year Message to American Jews: owners entrusted with the protection of the handle it would have a.mounted to $960,000. "Jewish tradition teaches that the power horse racing interests of New Mexico took the We couldn't see from any reported income to do good or evil ts in our own hands." time and trouble and made this decision in the Ruidoso track had ever had, how it could We appeal to you to take into your own what they thought was in the best interests meet these obligations to Newco year by year; hands and hearts the oppression of the So­ of the New MexiCXJ Horse Racing Industry. and if it didn't, everything ended up in the viet Jews and to hear their groaning. The We thought it would be interesting to the hands of Sports Service or the owners of 33524 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 23, 1970

Sports Service. There just didn't appear any people testifying to this over there and, like This ls the point I want to emphasize-these way that they could do it and save Ruidoso I say, there are arguments that while Sports concession contracts are reviewed annually racing. Service is not the management over there, by the State Racing Commission. "So, we got to studying this and in a full they own 50% of the track but they still "It would have been extremely hard for hearing of the Commission which is on are not the management. Well, whatever it the trustees to get a sale on the race track record, a member of the Board of Ruidoso is, the main thing this proves to me is that with things still up in the air, and an old Racing Association stated that they couldn't we certainly don't want the dog racing and boy not knowing which he was buying, meet their obligations. They were going to we don't want any set up like this in New Sports Service for twenty years or just what have to have outside help. With the con­ Mexico where a concessionaire would con­ he was doing. At the hearing Judge SpeisS tracts set up the way they were, it looked trol who runs and who doesn't. In stables widened the power of these trustees by his like a take over of Ruidoso Downs. protected by state controlled pa.ri-mutuel written order so that we and everybody else "We had only received a part of the con­ law, any citizen in that state who is quali­ understands that these are true receivers in tracts by then. Ten out of the seventy or fied would be able to raise his livestock and every sense of the word. eighty or whatever it turned out to be after get it tried out on the State's tracks. Boy, "And again they are obliga,ted to take care it was all over. And so, we became even more they can't get them in over in Arizona. They of all financing, obligated to gelt a sale as concerned for it looked like it, as I said, has have to get them into one of these contract soon as possible and to act as true receivers Just been set up for Sports Service to take stables or kennels, I believe they are called. in every way. This was one thing we were over Ruidoso Downs. So many dogs, 25 or so many approved dogs, vitally concerned with and one of lthe rea­ "And so we called another hearing on the I mean, ran with records and then they can sons we turned them down. findings. We had this hearing back in Al­ have two or three maidens, and you've got to "The first time these trustees asked for buquerque. They brought in additional in­ get them in that. And most of these guys dates they were not true receivers and did formation and everything. It didn' look travel from one track to another, which not have the authority. Judge SpeisS changed right to us and didn't look too good. means that a guy sitting there in Arizona. all that and made them true receivers, gave "In the meantime, of course, you hear a can't run his dogs and take them to a track them by court order full authority to run lot of these things as rumors and everything, and run them unless he can make a connec­ the ctrack, so the next time they asked we but we got to hearing a.bout other provisions tion with these people. It's a bad set up. It gave them dates. in some contracts that we didn't know any would be bad to have it here for the horses." thing about even then. So, we ma.de de­ "Have you had any trouble in getting wit­ mands for these. nesses to help you in this situation from the "I can't remember just the sequence of horsemen?" CREATION OF WORLD ENVIRON­ all the events and we got some more con­ "We have had a lot of trouble. All the time MENTAL INSTITUTE tracts in but stlll didn't have them all. throughout this investigation we have had "Along about this time, it got to looking so many complaints from horsemen. serious enough so that we requested a special "But when it came time for people to get HON. EMILIO Q. DADDARIO investi~ation from the Attorney General's up and testify in an open hearing, our attor­ OF CONNECTICUT neys called numerous New Mexico horsemen Office and that's where Mr. Baiamonte and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Jack Love ca.me in. He took over handling and we couldn't get one to get up and testify the investigation from this point on. just as to their honest opinion. The horse­ Wednesday, September 23, 1970 "We found then there were some 50 more men of the state are going to have to help if they want help and protection. They are Mr. DADDARIO. Mr. Speaker, today I documents we hadn't received. We demanded am introducing a House resolution call­ these. We finally got most of them, includ­ going to have to come forward and do some­ ing a letter that covered some of the financ­ thing to help us out." ing for the creation of a world environ­ ing contracts to Sports Service. The letter "What was the final agreement?" mental institute and the support of this was the same date and the same time and "The final agreement was that the con­ concept by the U.S. delegation to the in addition to all the really obnoxious pro­ cession contract be dropped from 20 years to U.S. Conference on the Human Environ­ visions that had been counted out in the 6 years. That Sports Service can own no more ment in 1972. contracts themselves. than 5 % in any New Mexico race track. That they will loan no further money to race track The phrase "one world" has taken on "The provisions in this letter would have operators in New Mexico. This is not only for a new meaning as our perception of allowed Sports Service to take over and all Sports Service-this goes for any conces, ecology increases. We are still struggling their options were in this letter that was sionaires too. We are writing a rule to this· written on the side and was just as bind­ for peace and political agreement but the ing a. contract as one of the contracts them­ effect. The quality of Sports Service conces­ one world which every citizen shares is sion is based not on their services in New that of the environment and natural re­ selves. Mexico, Texas, and Colorado but it was based "But it was there, and all this time we on a comparison of concessions other than sources. Barbara Ward, who appeared were having the hearings and hadn't come Sports Service operation in New Mexico, and before our Science and Astronautics to a. decision. Eventually when we had got­ the terms of this agreement would start at Committee in 1968 coined the term ten all Of this and had come to look at what the time Sports Service gets paid the $600,000 "space ship earth." And we are no less Baiamonte had turned up in his investiga­ that they put into the financing of Ruidoso dependent than the astronauts on the tion, what Congressman Steiger had testi­ Racing Association." fied, and a few Arizona commissioners had wise usage of the finite supplies we carry "What is the connection between Emprlse on our journey around the sun. come over and testified on how Sports Service and the Trustees and why did you grant them had operated in in Arizona., we turned down dates?" The management of this common en­ the application. It looked like a take over, "There is no connnection between Emprise vironment cannot be successful without and we didn't like the operation in other and the Trustees. I don't know about their international agreement because in­ states and didn't think it would be good for personal friendship and things like that. But creasing evidence shows the consequences New Mexico." as far as their operation of that race track, of actions taken in one area on the land­ "What a.bout this Arizona operation?" the three trustees are true receivers by order scape in another. We have already "We had some people from Arizona testi­ of the Court. They operate this race track learned this lesson in America. Connec­ fying-the little dog breeders groups--they under the direction of Judge Waldo Speiss had personal problems with Sports Services. and the New Mexico State Racing Commis­ ticut counties are a part of an air shed Their testimony may not have had too much sion, and this is all. shared with New York &nd New Jersey value in court; but what it did to me-it "They have no obligation to any one else jurisdictions. And Connecticut's shores proved, first, we didn't want any dog racing as far as the operation of that race track are linked by the Long Island Sound and in the State of New Mexico. Second, we don't goes. They report to the judge, and they re­ the ocean to pollution out-falls far away. want these people ta.king over because they port to the Racing Commission. They are I was particularly impressed by the have a. set-up over there in Arizona so that obligated to sell the race track. They are their dog track management absolutely con­ obligated to get Sports Service out of the results this summer of a study organized trols who can race a dog on that track, who financing as soon as possible. They are obli­ by the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- can get on there and there is not much re­ gated to run this track as well as they can nology. Incidentally, it was the very course from it. An old boy can't set over run it during the time they are in there, but first project sponsored by the National there in Arizona. and raise a couple or three under the court's order, they've got to get Science Foundation-along with other dogs himself and take them to the track a sale on this thing if there is any sale to funding sources-under the Interdisci­ and try them out. He's got to go under one be made. plinary Research Related to the Prob­ Of these full stable deals of 25 dogs and be "Another reason we went ahead and made lems of Society-ffiRPOS--program approved by the management and everything our decision on this concession deal at the before he can even get on the track. Sports time we did was that anybody coming up which the Congress stimulated by the Service had a tendency under the testimony interested in buying this race track knows 1968 amendments to the NSF Act. of these people to keep the Arizona Breds exactly what they have got to do. He's got a The study focused on environmental out, because they have to pay 10% breeders' five year concession cont_ract with Sports problems whose cumulative effects on a.ward to go along with it and costs them Service, but this concession contract is up ecological systems are so large and prev­ some more money. We got several of these before the Commission for annual review. alent that they have worldwide signifi- September 23, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 33525 cance. Here are the specific topics con­ tific Unions has formed a Scientific Com­ CANNOT AFFORD TO ABANDON sidered: mittee on Problems of the Environ­ SST Climatic effects of increasing carbon ment---SCOPE--which is developing an dioxide content of the atmosphere. International Center for the Environ­ HON. BOB WILSON Climatic effects of the particle load of ment. This organization may be very the atmosphere. much what is needed by international OF CALIFORNIA Climatic effects of contamination of management. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the troposphere and stratosphere by The National Academy of Sciences has Wednesday, September 23, 1970 subsonic and supersonic transport air­ formed a Committee for International Environmental Problems with Dr. Mr. BOB WILSON. Mr. Speaker, in the craft. past few months the supersonic trans­ Ecological effects of DDT and other Thomas Malone of the University of Connecticut as chairman. I will look for­ port has become so clouded in dissention toxic persistent pesticides. and controversy that we have lost our Ecological effects of petroleum oil in ward to their development of a pattern for a world environmental institution. sense of perspective on this issue. The the oceans. following editorial from the San Diego Ecological effects of nutrients in estu­ Senator MAGNUSON has introduced a similar resolution (S. Res. 399) in the Union analyzes the pro and con issues aries, lakes, and rivers. emphasizing the uncertainties still in~ This study and others have established other body and has called attention to the need for world accord on actions the varying proposals made by George valved as well as the economic conse­ Kennan, Secretary General U Thant and quences if we fail to proceed now with affecting the shared environment. For the funding on the SST. I know my example, even if the United States bans others. DDT, fish caught off our shores may The need is recognized, the capabilities House colleagues will find this editorial contain this persistent chemical washed are at hand. My resolution can add the both interesting and informative. in from continuing foreign applications. push of congressional concern to the de­ [From the San Diego Union, Aug. 24, 1970} Radionuclides from atomic power­ velopmental efforts now going forward TECHNOLOGICAL F'uTuRE AT STAKE: UNITED plants can circle the globe and enter so that environmental science can be STATES CANNOT AFFORD TO DROP SST food chains far from the point of origin. focused on those critical problems which The American supersonic transport is ap­ The carbon dioxide from fossil fuel com­ will demand international political proaching another hurdle in Its difficult jour­ bustion in the highly industrialized coun­ agreement in the next few years. I ask ney from the drawing board to the :flight line. tries may eventually alter the worldwide early consideration of the resolution in The Senate must decide soon whether an order that the organizational work which additional $290 million in federal funds shall climate and weather patterns. Oil in the be invested in development of an aircraft oceans originates from defective off­ it will stimulate can move ahead rapidly. designed to carry passengers between con­ shore rigs and from the tankers of vari­ tinents faster than the speed of sound. ous nations to pollute the shorelines of COST OF LIVING SLOWED Only by a narrow margin did this item in the world. the budget clear the House of Representatives Thus the requirement for interna­ last May. The SST has become a cause for en­ vironmentalists, a bone of contention among tional control of critical environmental HON. GERALD R. FORD economists, a subject of gee-whiz statistics problems is established. Rational de­ OF MICHIGAN about future world travel. cisions can be reached only with a strong IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The welter of con:flicting views about the information base, as we have learned so Wednesday, September 23, 1970 SST make one thing clear. If the program well in the United St.ates. World environ­ 1s to proceed at aJI, it must do so In the face mental management will also rest on Mr. GERALD R. FORD. Mr. Speaker, of many unknowns-ranging from a contro­ accurate and timely scientific data, there is good news today for the workers versial theory about the effect of high-alti­ analyzed and validated for use in ap­ and housewives of America. tude jet exhaust on the world's climate, to The news is that the increase in the whether airlines will buy as many of our praising the consequences of ongoing ac­ SSTs as the proponents foresee. tions and options for change. cost of living has slowed to the lowest It would take rose-colored glasses to ob­ The time for attention to an adequate pace in nearly 2 years. scure these uncertainties and to deny that information source is now. The experi­ This is conclusive evidence that the the American taxpayer 1s taking an economic ence of my Subcommittee on Science, Nixon administration policies of fiscal risk in underwriting the SST program. No Research and Development suggests that and monetary restraint are working in one can assure us that supersonic travel will many valuable laboratories and reseairch the fight against inflation. This is solid be commonplace in the future. It 1s equally centers for environmental science al­ evidence that all of the scare talk about true that no one can assure us that it wlll the need for wage and price controls not be. ready exist and are located in various The problems and uncertainties of th1s nations. But no central function is avail­ was exactly that-wild talk which flowed great undertaking have not deterred Britain, able to gather, analyze, evaluat;e, and from a desire to reap political advan­ France and the Soviet Union from pressing interpret the myriad facts and :fig­ tage. ahead with development of their own super­ ures. Measurements must be systemati­ We have now not just turned the cor­ sonic transports. They are creating the tech­ cally filled; and unnecessary replication ner on inflation. We are on the road to nology and production capacity for a.n era of expensive experimentation and moni­ relative price stability. of supersonic travel, bidding for an historic toring must be avoided. I have predicted that the administra­ brealtthrough in the world aviation industry. In our own country we see scientific and Science has shown itself to be an in­ tion's policies will slow in:fla tion down technical teams breaking up in our aerospace ternational discipline which, in its prac­ to a 3-percent rate. I renew that predic­ industry with the lull 1n our space program tice, transcends ideologies and geograph­ tion today. As I see it, the annual rate and as a consequence of drastic cutbacks in ical boundaries. The careful study of of consumer price advance will fall from the defense budget. Federal funds for ba­ cause-and-effect !"elationships in envi­ the recent level of 6 percent to about sic research are being curtailed. ronmental matt;ers should be susceptible 3 ¥2 percent by the end of this year and An industry that now stands a.s the fore­ to worldwide participation with great to 3 percent by the summer or fall · of most supplier of multi-engine jet transports benefits to the political decisionmaking 1971. to the airlines of the world, and which only process. recently was celebrating the triumph of pro­ I firmly believe that the administra­ viding the hardware to send the first men to I do not propose further to define my tion's policies of fl.seal and monetary re­ the moon, is facing a clouded future. concept of a world environmental in­ straint are producing a victory over in­ Members of congress aire asking whether stitute. It would be inappropriate for me flation. This has been the administra­ we can afford the SST program. A better to do so. Several capable efforts are now tion's game all along. It is a game which question is whether we can afford to continue underway and the intent of my resolu­ is going to push the ball over the goal dlsma,n.tllng a part of the network or crea­ tion is to put the House on record as line. tive technology which has contributed so urging that the creation of such an en­ And now that we have started down much to raising the United States of America to a pinnacle of economic and industrtal suc­ tity be pursued vigorously. the road to relative price stability, it is cess In the 2oth Century. I am aware of the plans for the exten­ all the more important that Congress The misnam.ed "m111tary-1ndustrial com­ sion of the international biological pro­ refrain from mandatory overspending­ plex'' 1s in reality a wedding of technology gram, an ongoing activity relevant to the refrain from jeopardizing the economic and industry which gives us much more than information needs I have described. gains we have made in our transition the weapons on which our security rests. It ls The International Congress of Scien- from a wartime to a peacetime economy. the means of translating the inventive genius 33526 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 23, 1970 of our scientists a.nd engineers into the mate­ who have been sadly eclipsed by the destruc­ mentals take half the military contracts, this rial goods that fulfill dreams of progress and tive posturing of a.n exhibitionist minority. ls a market the scheduled carriers entered become the basis for our prosperity in the With students like The Third Alternative, only recently and it isn't easily manipulated future. Duquesne promises to make in the future in favor of one class of carrier or the other. It ls a. natlona.J. resource in the fullest sense the same valuable contributions if has made Commercial air charters are, in the mod­ of the word, a.nd it would be even more to this area. for more than 90 years. ern idiom, where it's at for the supplemental gravely damaged if we allow the SST pro­ air carriers. And in this recession year the gram to die. charter passenger business ls where the fight ls, between scheduled carriers demanding ~~------~--- THE BATI'LE FOR THE AIR FARE more restriction of the supplementals, and MOORHEAD CHEERS COLLEGIATE DOLLAR the supplementals fighting the U.S. Civil FUNDRAISING EFFORT Aeronautics Boai:d's attempts to regulate them more or at all.· HON. GEORGE P. MILLER The dispute is not new. Hard times have HON. WILLIAM S. MOORHEAD OF CALIFORNIA made it more serious, so serious that the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTA~VES fight ls moving into the Congress in the full OF PENNSYLVANIA belief that if something isn't resolved some IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wednesday, September 23, 1970 airline presidents will be reading the bank­ Wednesday, September 23, 1970 Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speak­ ruptcy statutes. It ls not merely a matter of which class Mr. MOORHEAD. Mr. Speaker, I er, Bill ~aton, a staff writer for the Oak­ of carriers gets the charter business, because would like to introduce into the RECORD land Tribune that is now published by the supplementals are saying quite plainly an editorial from the September 14 former Senator William F. Knowland, that if they are given the unlimited charter Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. has written a very interesting article authority they feel they deserve, then some It details the efforts of a group of entitled "The Battle for the Air Fare truly low-cost air travel will result. They Duquesne University students who have Dollar." can do it for half, they say, for that little In this he outlines some of the prob­ guy who will never see a far-away place responded to the financial plight of their unless he goes as a member of a group to school by organizing a fundraising pro­ lems that are materially affecting the spread the cost. gram of their own. supplemental or nonscheduled airlines. Glenn Cmmer ls saying that little guy has I think it is often forgotten in this day, Mr. Eaton points up the problem that a right to that trip, but he's saying some­ when few people use anything but ex­ confronts Trans International Airlines, thing else a.bout what could happen if the pletives to describe our young people, one of the supplementals that is based government regulates the supplementals out at the Oakland airport in California. of the charter business. that today's group of students is truly "The consumer loses. If we're knocked out, an outstanding aggregation. Events like The article is based on an interview with Mr. Glenn A. Cramer, chairman of you '11 see all the prices go up" in the airline those at Duquesne reinforce this positive industry. image. TIA and one of the imaginative opera­ Cramer ls saying this in a year when the I hope their effort to save their school tors in the air business. I com.mend the supplemental airline industry's total first is successful. Duquesne University has article of Mr. Eaton for your considera­ quarter loss ls $8 million, after 1969 when contributed much to Pittsburgh and the tion: the total loss was $7.7 million, and in com­ Nation, and its students and academic [From the Oakland-Tribune, Sun., Aug. 80, parison with 1968 when the supplementals 1970) ran in the black to the extent of $17.7 ro1llion family deserve a much better fate. And in profits. with the kind of spirit ''The Third THE BATTLE FOR THE Am FARE DoLLAR "The answer ls more income, not restrict­ Alternative" has manifested, the long (By Bill Eaton) ing people from doing more charter flying," path the school has to travel toward "The airlines are beginning to cut down he said. "Take off the restrictions and we'll financial solvency seems a bit shorter. on the frills. flll the airplanes." The editorial follows: "Last week I was flying on one of the The CAB has always authorized "single scheduled carriers, in first class, and they entt,ty charters" to a person for his own use, A "THIRD ALTERNATIVE'' AT DUQUESNE sold roe a drink." a.nd this included both passengers a.nd cargo. In view of the adverse publicity which a Glenn A. Cramer wasn't laughing when he The people hauled, or the people interested radical minority has inflicted upon the na­ said it. There ls little to laugh at in a year in cargo hauled, make no contribution toward tion's campuses, it ls most reassuring to of recession in the airlines industry. payment of the charter price and most watch developments a.t Duquesne Univer­ He smiled when it was suggested the freight forwarders work under this category. sity, where student volunteers are coming scheduled carrier might have handed him a There are few regulatory problems. to the institution's flna.ncia.l rescue. Hun­ free highball had it known who he was. Another charter classification called "pro dreds of students are demonstrating the They know who he ls. rata" is used almost exclusively for passen­ loyalty, the appreciation a.nd the sense CJ! Cramer ls chairman a.nd chief executive ger carrying a.nd it has long stirred conflict responsib11ity traditionally associated with officer of Trans International Airlines, a. sup­ in the determination of what constitutes a a.n American campus. plemental air carrier. There are 18 of these qualified pro rata. charter. At first the CAB Like roost of the nation's 1,500 private in the United States. They have existed as prohibited any solicitation of the general colleges, Duquesne has serious financial such since 1968, survivors of more than 100 public for such charters, and that wa.s the troubles. These lnstltutlons are caught be­ small "non-skeds" that sprang into the air ma.in rule. tween steadily rising costs, tight credit and after World War II with ex-GI pilots and In the last decade, when powerful Jetliners diminishing resources. Campus disorders equipment. They became "supplementals" by made it possible to whisk charter loads a.11 have tended to slow down once generous federal edict seven years ago and have pros­ over the world, the supplemental airline giving. Tuitions a.re rising and some of the pered in military contra.ct airlift and com­ prospered in the pro rata. charter business, country's seven million college students mercial charter flying until lately. and regulation grew apace. have found it difficult to return to school Now the Vietnam Wa.r and the nation's A restriction evolved as the "affinity group" this fa.11. economic boom, if these can be thought of charter, a classification conceived by the In­ Due to such obstacles, Duquesne faces separately, are winding down in a severe ternational Air Transport Association of tough alternatives. It can curtail program recession. scheduled air carrlers--whlch ls called "their or even close its doors, it can subject stu­ The supplemental airlines and the sched­ international price-fixing cartel" by the Na­ dents to yet another tuition increase (it uled airlines alike are seeing their mllitary tional A1r Carrier Association of supplement­ went up $200 this year) or it can raise some contracts halved. al air carriers (NACA). $6 million needed to keep the institution's In the troubled civil market passenger The affinity group concept grew into a be­ head above water. loads consistently average below 50 per cent. wlldering series of CAB regulations intended University officials will undertake to raise The scheduled carriers, trying to fulfill the to set the contributory-type charter a.part $4 million through loans a.nd gifts. Student somewhat unwanted promise bf new trans­ from the general public, an affinity group volunteers, calling themselves The Third pacific routes and the outsized Boeing 747 being essentially one which ha.s aims and ob­ Alternative, started la.st April to raise $1 jetliner in the same bad year, have reduced jectives other than travel, a.nd its members million. During a spring telephone solicita­ service on intercontinental routes a.nd will having their required affinity as a group be­ tion they raised $61,000. Starting next week cut back flight frequencies on transconti­ fore any application ls ma.de for a charter they will make a house-to-house canvass nental runs this year. flight. Fraternal, social, religious or educa­ ·seeking contributions. It ls the kind of a. year when the scheduled tional groups, and employee a.ssocla.tlons, fit We hope these student visitors will be carriers can't help but notice Glenn A. this category. received generously. Their cause is good Cramer. He ls no direct threat to them when A third classification of charter regulation and their motivation ls commendable. They it comes to their mainstay, the single-ticket grew up as the "inclusive tour" charter restore !faith In the constructive majority passenger. And while he a.nd other supple- which allows a full or splitload charter to a September 23, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 33527 tour operator or trave1 agent who organizes necessary. "In my judgment we need to take of the troubled charter situation and the and promotes it, and arranges the flight. the five or six regulations now in existence proposed restrictions. Clients pay the tour operator who hires the and clarify them." TIA plans to take a 330-passenger McDon­ airplane, and the CAB approves the tour, Cramer: "We don't think the affinity group nell-Douglas DC-10 in 1973 but Oram.er says, which must have three stopping points and is necessary. It will always be a big source "We presently don't want to face the big at least seven days. The cost includes hotel, of passengers but why should a man have ones. We look at the 747 and it's too big. It and surface transport, and the cost must be to join a group just to make a trip at low doesn't flt the transportation market at all." at lea.st 110 per cent of the lowest available cost?" A man ought to be able to form his The sched,uled carriers are carrying aver­ single-ticket scheduled airline fare over the own group for the purpose of a charter trip. age loads of 250 to 300 in their 400-passenger route. TIA can take a group at 50 per cent of the 747s, but ln these hard times they're doing Amid t his welter of rules and rule-making, cost the members would pay for single-ticket it by literally robbing their older jetliners of travel agents and supplemental airlines in­ airline service. This is because the scheduled passengers. The scheduled airlines, in a year creasingly ran afoul of restrictions at some carrier must maintain the service on its of 40 per cent load factors, "have got to re­ point or another in the process of making routes even when its airplanes go at less duce their promotional fa.res," Cramer said. arrangements and scrambling for business. than 50 per cent load factor as they have "There's no point in advertising that 'My A scheduled airline couldn't scramble for most of this year. TIA, however, has what 747 is better than your 747' when it's just so much as a supplemental carrier, being amounts to a guaranteed load factor of 95 a big bus." bound by law not to make up more than two per cent, in characters booked before an air­ No frills are advertised for TIA charter per cent of its business in the form of "off­ plane is scheduled to fly. flights. route charters" not flown along their regu­ Cramer: "To Paris our passengers pay un­ There are no movies. Dinner is a one-course larly scheduled routes. But groups of people der $300, but it's $700 (single-ticket) on a meal which Cramer says is "good, wholesome, don't ordinarily fly to jungles and deserts, scheduled carrier. If he belongs to a group hot." and as the scheduled carriers expanded their that can qualify under the regulations then He believes the business traveler cares routes to all the best-known civilized places he goes, and if he doesn't qualify then he little for lobster-in-the-sky, and the tourist on earth they cut deeper into the formerly doesn't go, and he doesn't pay the $700." would as soon wait to eat his exotic meals off-route markets which the supplementals In 1969, 57 per cent of TIA's revenues came in that exotic place he's bound for. pioneered and claimed as their own. from commercial flying--charter passengers "Our liquor service isn't as extensive as The NACA now is asking the government and some cargo. That figure will pass 60 per the scheduled carrier's," Cramer added. to switch that two-per-cent-of-business re­ cent this year, Cramer said. He was a business traveler last week when strlction from the off-route to the on-route TIA had $15.7 million worth of so-called that scheduled airliner sold him a drink in charters flown by the scheduled carriers. The "fixed buy" military contracts in the final a first class seat, and he was delighted. supplementals ought then to be given a right­ three quarters of fiscal year 1970, but has of-first-refusal on all off-route charters, only $9.3 mlllion in the same period of fiscal NACA says. (Some foreign nations now im­ 1971 (and the supplementsls together pose such a right-of-first-refusal on the U.S. watched the figures drop from $63.1 to $38.9 supplementals which can't, for example, fly a million), whlle among their scheduled air VA DOES GOOD JOB IN VIETNAM charter tour to Australia until Australia's carriers competition American Airlines is own Quant.as airline has been solicited for looking at $21.3 million that sank to $11.4 the job and rejected it.) milllon, and Trans World Airlines as $18.6 Hon. G. V. (SONNY) MONTGOMERY The CAB, in this year of airline difficulty, million that went to $9 mllllon across those OF MISSISSIPPI proposes more stringent regulations of the same fiscal periods. supplementals. One proposal would H.mit Cramer: "In the last three years the sched­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES charter a group with membership of more uled carriers have gotten into the MAC (Mill­ Wednesday, September 23, 1970 than 20,000 to 2,000 airplane seats in a calen­ tary Airlift Command) work and caused dilu­ dar year--eight trips on a TIA Stretched tion of that market. We pioneered it, and Mr. MONTGOMERY. Mr. Speaker, Eight. now everybody's got a piece, but we were last week each one of us received a letter The CAB says it will allow the seeking of there when the need first developed. from Mr. Donald E. Johnson, Admin­ waivers of any rules, but this will mean a "We've worked the last six years to develop istrator of the Veterans' Administration, waiver for virtually every charter, NACA says, and explore our commercial markets to in which he outlined the steps that have and the CAB has no regulatory standards where, when we have a choice between a mili­ been taken by the Veterans' Administra­ now for guidance of its own officials in de­ tary and a commercial job, we'll take the ciding for or against a waiver request. The commercial one." tion to acquaint Vietnam-duty service­ criteria would have to develop in the way For a long while in Vietnam War related men with the VA benefits available to legal precedent does, through time and trial, flying, the mllitary operated its own aircraft them as veterans. I think the VA has in a field where everyone wants a piece of at 4.5 hours a day, leaving the balance of done a very commendable job in appris­ the action now. the work to commercial airlines. But then ing these men and women of the pro­ The scheduled air carriers say they need MAC began working its airplanes eight hours grams we have voted for their benefit. more business or higher fares or both; the a day, and stlll works them 6.5 hours a day When the House Select Committee on supplementals insist they can't exit with less this year, and that reduces the need for civil business and more retriction, and the general aircraft, Cramer said. U.S. Involvement in Southeast Asia went public mut be assumed to want more low­ But in competing for whatever mllitary to Vietnam, we looked into the work being cost travel. business ls available the supplemental car­ done by the Veterans' Administration. Congress is in the game, in hearings before riers rure clearly in a better position insofar Our investigation substantiates the facts the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce as equipment ls concerned. They don't have related in Mr. Johnson's letter. Our com­ Committee's subcommittee on tra.nsporta.tion the 747. mittee found that 80 percent of the serv­ and aeronautics. The supplementals hope the The mllltary has shown a eBulgaria, he was an underground leader the total federal budget. In per ca.pita terms, and two of the major oil producing nations, national defense cost each American $273 Libya. and Iraq. Both of these countries ap­ and was imprisoned several times. When that year. pear to be in sympathy with the guerrillas. A the Nazis were driven out of Bulgaria, Although Vietnam costs are not easy to U.S. intervention would tend to harden their Nikola Petkov and three other repre­ isolate from. other military expenditures, positions and make them more likely to take sentatives of the Bulgarian National Congress has insisted each year that federal rash actions, even to their own detriment, Agrarian Union-the largest political or­ officials make some sort of breakdown. For such as cutting off oil supplies. ganization in Bulgaria--took part in the the first Nixon budget, the figure ca.me to 33530 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 23, 1970 $88 per American for the Vietnam war, by Computer Audit Systems. In 1966, as a mem­ rooms and computer systems to theft or at­ the admittedly rather arbitrary breakdown ber of the Special Subcommittee on Invasion tack. established several years earlier. All other of Privacy of the Committee on Government Let me point out two brief examples: defense costs combined, however, had Operations, I participated with Representa­ 1. When one company wishes to expand dropped to $268. tive Cornelius E. Gallagher in pioneering quickly, one of the easier ways ls to know During the same period of time, non­ hearings on the computer. At that time, we the salaries of executives in another similar defense federal spending rose from $251 per considered a proposal advanced by the Bu­ fl.rm and to raid that company. If the payroll person in 1964 to $624 per person in fiscal reau of the Budget to establish a National information system is not protected, it is 1971. Data. Bank. The Bank would have contained a. simple matter for a rival to know the While this shift of emphasis was taking almost all of the records of citizen contact salary levels of executives and to offer op­ place in this country, another kind of change with Federal Agencies: tax returns, census portunities just a little better tha.n the ex­ was occurring in the Soviet Union. Spending data., military records, educational histories, ecutives now are enjoying. on military projects in the U.S.S.R. increased a.11 of the vast trail of data. left by the citizen 2. When you undertake to bid upon a by 50 per cent in the six years beginning as he dealt with the Federal Government. project, your bid must remain secret. But with 1964. Funds allocated to Soviet stra­ At that time, little was really known in computerized information systems, which tegic forces grew even faster, by over 60 per Washington, or at least in the Congress, contain all the justifying data, may be vul­ cent. Our own spending for strategic forces­ about the miracle of electronic data process­ nerable to access by a oompetitor and thus on which we rely to discourage potential ing. We were assured by statisticians and ex­ the very concept of free enterprise and open warmakers--dropped from $46 billion in fiiocal perts in Federal programs that such a com­ bidding will become a. farce. 1964 to $39 billion in fiscal 1971. bination and centralization of records was What can you do to protect your own sys­ From any angle, it ls clear that national essential to evaluate and guide ongoing so­ tems: I would offer three methods which security does not now have first pla.ce in the cial action programs. That may well be true, may slightly increase the cost of the system, federal budgets, and has not occupied that for certainly none then or now would suggest but which can offer an acceptable level of spot for several years. Perhaps the politicians that vast expenditures of Federal tax dollars security for the data. who keep demanding that our defense spend­ should be undertaken without the most 1. Encoding. Simple cryptographic pro­ ing be reduced have other, and valid, reasons sophisticated review and analysis. Our con­ cedures are available which would prevent a for that demand. But they should stop im­ cern then, and our concern now, is that a memory dump of all your information. It ap­ puting to nationa,l defense a share of the massive compilation of citizen records would pears that many casual browsings among tax burden it no longer represenui. present an unacceptable threat to the con­ files in a. time shared environment can be tinuation of individual privacy and demo­ thwarted by encoding of data, for individuals cratic safeguards. often will not take the trouble to decode After a careful analysis by our subcommit­ them if they are inadvertently dumped a.t tee, it was determined that a National Data. his terminal or if he accidentally gains access PERSONAL PRIVACY, DATA SECU­ Bank was not in the best interests of the to files which he ls not entitled to see. RITY, AND A FREE AMERICA American people and the formal proposal has 2. Password a.t each terminal in a. time been effectively buried. Whether this was shared system is vitally essential in my truly a. victory or merely a. holding action is judgment. This permits the executive pro­ HON. CORNELIUS E. GALLAGHER now under quite valid dispute, as I will dis, gram in a. system to assure that unauthor­ cuss later. However, certain basic points were OF NEW JERSEY ized access does not occur and that the made which were quite legitimate and it is terminal identifying itself really ls one which IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES my judgment that our hearings and sub­ has the proper purpose for entry into the Wednesday, September 23, 1970 sequent actions sparked a. re-evaluation of data. the role of data. processing and data. proces­ 3. Perhaps the most meaningful technical Mr. GALLAGHER. Mr. Speaker, dur­ sors in our evolving free society. device to assist in maintaining security of ing the years the Privacy Subcommittee This ls a. major reason why I am so pleased data and preventing invasion of persona.I of the Committee on Government Opera­ to be able to share my experiences in Wash­ privacy ls an AUDIT TRAIL. This keeps a. rec­ tions has been carrying on its work of ington with you today. Your organizations ord of every access to the data. and can flag have the fundamental responsibility to as­ any unusual activity. American Express preserving constitutional rights, I have sure that your own systems do not invade had the steady support and intelligent Company, for example, uses this to deter­ privacy and one of the major ways in which mine when a credit card is much more active encouragement of Congressman FRANK data processors can take that civilized step than usual and has been effective in stopping HORTON. He made especially important is to build in mechanisms to guarantee the credit card abuse. In addition, this will show contributions to the hearings we held in security and integrity of the data. bases. The who has received what information and will 1966 on the proposed National Data president of Computer Audit systems has facilitate the sending of corrected records to Bank and he has continued his informed been one of the leaders~ establishing secu­ those who may have received erroneous in­ rity mechanisms which are a vital pa.rt of in­ formation. interest in the problem of computer suring a. continu.a,tlon of free America. privacy. And that feature, of course, is a major as­ I would like to point out what I regard as pect of privacy. When the Special Subcom­ On TUesday, September 15, 1970, Con­ a fundamental difference between security mittee on Invasion of Privacy initiated Con­ gressman HORTON spoke at a symposium of data and privacy of data. Security means gressional consideration of the credit bureau sponsored by Computer Audit Systems. thwarting unauthorized access to the infor­ and credit reporting industry in 1968, we He spoke to the issues of personal pri­ mation and privacy means assuring the found that while these files were data. rich, vacy, the security of data within auto­ individual to whom the data refers the op­ the individuals to whom thy referred were portunity to have access himself. This is, privacy poor. At the invitation of Chairman mated information systems, and he high­ probably, a. major oversimplification, but I lighted the ultimate threat to our system Gallagher I participated in the first three think both parts of that equation are vital days of the subcommittee's hearings, al­ of government in these terms: to our society and I would like to expand on though I was not a member of the subcom­ In such a situation of social upheaval we it as the focus of my speech. mittee at that time. What we heard was truly must soberly confront the possiblllty of the Many of you are executives in firms which appalling and I am pleased to report to you Federal Government overreacting or the even have computerized information systems or that legislation, The Fair Credit Reporting more frightening possibll1ty of the people which a.re seriously considering shifting from Act, passed the Senate in November 1969 and losing faith in our institutions and voting a. manual mode to an automated one. It is ls now being considered by the House Bank­ into power a Government without any essential, in my view, that you understand ing and Currency Committee. The body of awareness of the diversity which is our the necessity for security of your data, and evidence which was unearthed by the Pri­ strength as a free society. Spearheaded by I am sure many of you have already put into vacy Subcommittee, specifically as it refer­ an information handling technology utilized practice the methods which I am about to red to the growing use of the computer by without safeguards, without conscience and discuss. For you must gauge the level of the an industry which knew so much a.bout with malice, dictatorship is now an opera­ threat to the data which you possess if you every American who had ever applied for tional possib111ty. For technological totali­ are to build a system secure enough to resist credit, insurance, or employment, disclosed tarianism can become political totalitarian­ intruders. that a National Data Bank was in fact in ism. Just as automated data systems make in­ existence and controlled by firms which formation more easily and quickly available were under absolutely no legal restrictions. Mr. Speaker, my friend FRANK HORTON to your organization, they offer similar ad­ While we had some sense of accomplish­ said very sensible things in his speech vantages to potential pilferers and data­ ment in the name of privacy in defeating and I commend it to the attention of thieves. It is both easier and more fruitful the Budget Bureau's National Data Bank readers of the RECORD and my colleagues to raid a computer than to raid a roomful proposal, I have even greater concerns about in the House: of file drawers. a. totally non-regulated web of data systems It is obvious that threats to your data. do growing between private credit firms and PRIVACY, SECURITY, AND A FREE AMERICA exist, and I am not engaging in the cur­ credit bureaus. At the time credit firm prac­ I am very pleased to have this opportunity rently popular art of doomsdaymanship by tices were first investigated, the a.buses of to address this symposium conducted by pointing out the vulnerab111ty of computer privacy were staggering. There were almost September 23, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 33531 no provisions for an individual's access to soon be able to be merged into a de facto bility. For technological totalitarianism can credit data that refers to him, and no pro­ National Data Bank. become political totalitarianism. visions for deleting or correcting false re­ I have been wrestling with Federal agen­ That is why I believe that the actions ports, or for dropping bad credit reports cies to stop one seemingly simple form of taken in t.he congress in the area of privacy which are more than one or two decades old. privacy invasion which this de facto Fed­ are so important and it is another reason Fortunately, the situation is not as bad as eral data bank has made possible. why I am delighted to have the opportunity it was in 1968. The majority of firms in the With computers at their disposal, Federal to address this distinguished group of data credit industry have taken steps to im­ agencies now can compile and reproduce processing professionals. You know, far more prove the fairness of their operations, and with ease, the names and addresses of citi­ than I or any other Member of the Congress, at least some of the regulations contained zens having dealings With them. Under what the incredible advances in the state of your in the Fair Credit Reporting Act seem to I consider to be a poor interpretation of art and you know the disastrous as well as offer guarantees of fair treatment to the in­ the Freedom of Information Act, which guar­ the promising long range implications of dividual consumer. antees public access to non-classified gov­ your day to day work. But the Congress does An example is the provision of the Act ernment data, several agencies have been not yet fully grasp these implications, I re­ which limits the period that credit data can selling huge lists of licensees to commercial gret to inform you. be held to seven years, except for a bank­ and other buyers at about a tenth of a cent The cover story of Newsweek of July 27 was ruptcy report which may be held for 14 per name-generating much unsolicited on the subject of privacy and I commend it years. Hopefully, this kind of safeguard can mail, and in some cases, some potential dan­ to each of you. It stated what has always soon be enacted into law. gers to persons named on these lists. seemed to me to be an indication of the Consider that a man cannot be compelled One example which I uncnvered was that failure of the Congress to rationally assess to give up his home to quarter troops, a man the Internal Revenue Service was selling, the priorities of its own operations. Congress­ cannot be compelled to testify against him­ at cost, a list of all gun collect ors in the man Gallagher, the leader in the privacy self, and he has the right to face his accuser United States to direct mail firms. This struggle in the House and a man who I am in an adversary proceeding. Most important would not have been possible before the com­ proud to have had the oppc;rtunity to work to a constitutional basis for the right to pri­ puter, let me add, because of the great ex­ With, has been granted by our Committee on vacy is the beautifully clear concept of the pense. Such a dangerous practice placed a Government Operations the staggering sum Fourth Amendment. I would like to repeat constituent of mine in a position where he of $65,000 in the five years he has been lead­ some of the Fourth Amendment's language felt it necessary to erect an expensive elec­ ing the Privacy Subcommittee. As a means to because it can never be repeated often tronic warning system around his valuable correct this striking imbalance, I have joined enough as we move into the Age of the Com­ collection of guns. With Mr. Gallagher in coi;ponsoring H. Res. puter: He felt that Wide distribution of a list of 717, to establish a Select Committee on Tech­ "The right of the people to be secure in 140,000 licensed gun collectors to virtually nology, Human Values, and Democratic In­ their persons, houses, papers, and effects, anyone able to pay the $140 fee would be stitutions. I am proud to have had a part against unreasonable searches and seizures, tantamount to the IRS selling a "national in what the Congress has been able to do shall not be violated and no warrants shall guide for gun thieves"-a list pinpointing thus far in this area, but I am convinced issue, but upon probable cause •.." private homes around the country which that much more must be done, and done Methods to breach these guarantees existed were likely to contain valuable or extensive soon. long before the computer and other advanced collections of firearms. A Select Committee focusing exclusively on technologies and certainly some men in our After learning of this abuse, I surveyed the toxic elements in the obvious tonic of history have occasionally had little respect fifty Federal agencies to learn their policies technology is vitally necessary for at least two for the rights of our citizens. But the com­ on maillng list distribution. This led to my reasons: puter puts a wild card into record keeping introduction last June of legislation to stop 1. The institutions of representative gov­ and allows the invasion of privacy on a scale the sale of malling lists by Uncle Sam, while ernment are now under massive attack by never even envisioned by Adolph Hitler. One still preserving safeguards of the public's virtually every element of society. The young reel of magnetic tape can contain the per­ right to have access to government data. call democracy irrelevant, the "over 30 crowd" sonal histories of thousands, even millions Over eighty Members of Congress joined me calls it destruction of valid traditions, the of Americans which can be taken from a in sponsoring this bill, which is some indi­ disadvantaged say it has ignored their needs computer in one jurisdiction and run on a cation of the sensitivity now existing in while the "experts" contend that it cannot computer in another. Thus, all the protective Congress to the need for protection of indi­ react quickly enough to immediately imple­ legislation adopted in past technological eras vidual privacy. ment the solution to our social ills. The can be circumvented. So we see that data flows into the Federal House of Representatives, that branch of the In addition, the very fact that so much establishment With little control and that Government, most closely connected With the data ts now embedded within computerized data also flows out of the Federal establish­ people, is particularly vulnerable to such at­ data banks poses an almost insurmountable ment, due largely to our failure to provide tacks for we must go to the people every obstacle to the technologically unsophisti­ an effective means to assess the new informa­ two years. cated individual. How does he make sure tion handling technology in all its ramifica­ We have long been threatened by massive his records are correct when they are em­ tions. We have witnessed the rapid blurring power in the Executive Branch and one of our bedded in an automated system which he of the distinction between Federal, State disagreements With the concept of the Na­ scarcely knows exists much less has the tech­ and local information files and as a Member tional Data Bank was that it would enlarge nical means to question? Here again, we see of Congress I am becoming increasingly aware that power by several orders of magnitude. the necessity for new legal actions. that the concept of our Federal system With One of the main points made in the Report Not only can private credit reporting agen­ States having separate sovereignty and jur­ of the Committee on Government Operations cies wield almost absolute power over those isdiction is suffering severe technological on the Privacy Subcommittee hearings was who seek credit, employment, or insurance, incursions. that standing committees of the Congress but Federal Agents even now have uncon­ By collecting all information from all files, must have equal access to such a vast data trolled access to these records. A truly appal­ private and public, Federal and State, in a system, or de facto data system, should it be ling fact disclosed in the recent hearings central repository or in a unified information established. Today, the Executive Branch has held by my colleague, Mrs. Lenore Sullivan system we give the Federal Government im­ over 10,000 computers; the Congress has but on the Fair Credit Reporting Bill is that mensely increased a-0cess to information three. This imbalance must be corrected. A 50,000 visits took place by IRS and FBI about each American. And the old Cliche Select Committee such as we propose could agents in 1969 to these repositories of credit about knowledge being power must now be assemble the sophisticated expertise and the and personal information and that sub­ expanded to say that absolute knowledge is data to challenge and alter Executive Branch poneas were seldom required. While the ma­ absolute power. proposals. It could help restore the Congress jority of the firms in the credit reporting I believe that here is the ultimate threat to a coequal role; where as now we frequently field are not computerized, those which are of the computer and allied technologies to act as merely a supine ceremonial confirming can assemble all the information in any part the future of a free America. Our Nation ls body in passing legislation devised by a bet­ of the Nation to be turned over to the Fed­ in turmoil at the moment and the conflict; ter informed Executive Branch. eral Government. between right and left young and old, liberal No matter which party controls the Execu­ As I said earlier, actions taken by our and cnnservative, is threatening to rip apart tive Branch, the hot voice of humanity is Special Subcommittee on Invasion of Pri­ the very fabric of our society. In such a sit­ often unheard in the chilly corridors of vacy were able to stop a formal National uation of social upheaval we must soberly power. The experts who create innovative Data Bank, but advances in the state of the confront the possibility of the Federal Gov­ plans are never called to public accounta­ electronic data processing art make me ernment overreacting or the even more bility, as are those of us in the Congress who strongly suspect that such a nationwide sys­ frightening possibility of the people losing must appropriate the funds to put them into tem really is in effect. In addition to the faith in the institutions and voting into operation. Adverse social or Constitutional credit reporting industry, computers in Fed­ power a Government without any awareness side effects of Federal programs are often ig­ eral Agencies now have the ability to "talk of the diversity which is our strength as a nored if they seem to offer a short term in­ to each other." Executive Orders have been free society. Spearheaded by an information crease in efficiency and economy and the op­ issued to upgrade the compatibility of vari­ handling technology utilized Without safe­ erating role of the Agency. ous Executive Branch systems and thus all guards, Without conscience and With malice, A Select Committee on Technology, Hu­ files held in the Federal Establishment will dictatorship is now an operational poss!- man Values and Democratic Institutions 33532 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 23, 1970 could enable us to compete effectively and have seen the computer taken hostage and Are the leaders too politically oriented, too could truly make us effective spokesmen for the work of yea.rs of research destroyed. The concerned with their personal ambitions to the human values of our citizens. computer industry is going to have to assert stand up and be counted? Even before the establishment of the se­ its informed conscience and its moral lead­ Have the educators become so supine, so lect Committee, I think Congress, now in a ership. Yours is the fastest growing industry dependent upon government grants or so self-reforming mood for a change, should in the world and to protect the environment cowardly that they stand meekly by while very seriously consider equipping itself with of that growth, it is essential that yc..u sup­ thek institutions of learning are defiled and the computer facilities and staff necessary to port sound suggestions at the local, State brought to heel by roving bands of pro­ keep up with the Executive's data. handling and National levels. You must help us in fessional anarchists? and data. maneuvering capabilities. I do not Congress to insure that the beneficial appli­ Must we yield to the sophistry that the propose that we create a duplicate of agency cations of your trade are permitted to right of dissent-as stated so forthrightly in staffs and computers on capitol Hill. I do flourish, while those which threaten to Article I of the Bill of Rights-can be ta.ken propose that computers sufficient to borrow stifle the freedom and innovation which fos­ 818 license by those willful violators of the data. held by the agencies, and to analyze it tered your industry will be firmly leashed. law who cannot distinguish between dissent for legislative implications be ma.de available We are past the time when any industry and disobedience? to Congress. Without the equipment and the can operate in a vacuum, particularly an in­ Ironically, the destroyers who abuse our staff necessary to do this job, the right of dustry which is as future-oriented as yours. Constitutional liberties would find them­ Congress to access to all government infor­ We in the Congress need your help to selves prisoners of the Marxist police state mation, and the right of Congress to probe, assess particular problems presented by in­ of the authoritarian world to which they to oversee and to change Executive policies formation handling and we need your help give such frenetic devotion. will rapidly lose all meaning in this com­ to establish an atmosphere of trust in which The greatest of all government docu­ puter age. And as these cherished legislative we may go forward together to assure the ments-the United States Constitution­ prerogatives a.re dissipated, so will the demo­ freedom, which has allowed us to prosper, provides ample safeguards against tyranny cratic protections upon which our free na­ will be the birthright of our children. I hope and injustice. tion is founded. you will join with us or else I am deeply Yet the Center for the Study of Demo­ 2. The second reason why we need a new afraid that it will be our common destiny cratic Institutions has drafted a new consti­ structure within the House is that the role to be folded, mutilated, and spindled by tution for the United States that would con­ of the Privacy Subcommittee is not consis­ events we let slip from our grasp. centrate all authority in the national gov­ tent with the goals and jurisdiction of its ernment, strengthen the Presidency, weaken pa.rent Committee-the Government Opera­ the national judiciary and create new tions Committee. The sole jurisdiction of branches of government to oversee planning, our Committee on Government Operations is elections and economic regulations. to investigtae the efficiency and economy of A CALL FOR REASON-AMERICA IN Dr. Rexford G. Tugwell, 79-year-old former Federal Agencies. Yet, it is regrettable that PERIL member of Franklin D. Roosevelt's "brain sometimes the greatest enemies of the indi­ trust" and author of the document, observes vidual's right to privacy a.re efficiency and that cherished traditions and institutions economy-the achievement of short range HON. WILLIAM H. AYRES which no longer serve the needs of modern success of missions with little attention to OF OHIO society must be pulled down as "impedi­ long range impacts. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ments to progress." In order to be effective, the struggle to Along with the Black Panthers, who have preserve human values in a. world of sky­ Wednesday, September 23, 1970 also put together a new constitution, Dr. rocketing automation and technology must Mr. AYRES. Mr. Speaker, for many Tugwell typifies the fuzzy and radical left be freed from its contradictory role within who would tear apart our system of govern­ the Government Operations Committee. years those in Government and I do in­ ment while offering the absolute authority Frankly, I can think of few legislative re­ clude our Presidents, have turned to the of statism in its place. forms which would be more important bOth weekly column of John S. Knight for These are the true revolutionaries-along to the House of Representatives and to the guidance on national and international with socialists in the teaching profession­ American people. affairs. who a.re more to be feared than college youths For when we talk about privacy, we really The veteran publisher of the Knight expressing their frustrations on the campus. discuss a whole series of shared values and newspaper chain has the faculty of Yes, our young people a.re being taught traditions which have made the American evaluating our Nation's problems and that there is something inherently evil about dream a reality for the vast majority of our the capitalistic system, that its rewards for citizens. We a.re talking about what is unique then presenting constructive solutions. the industrious and thrifty segments of our in the American experience and what has I believe that his column of Septem­ society a.re unfair, that a "people's capi­ vitalized the American experiment-that is ber 13 is of such importance that it talism" would somehow solve all of our our supreme value on human life, on the should be read by all of my colleagues. problems. individual and on affording the individual The column follows: Why is it, Americans, that we of the an ideal blend of freedom, opportunity and A CALL FOR REASON-AMERICA IN PERIL world's most affluent society now wish to em­ security. brace the fatuous economic doctrines which I want to conclude this afternoon with (By John S. Knight) have failed so miserably wherever they have several direct appeals to ea.ch member of my What ht1.s happened to America? been tried? audience. First, make sure that your own Why, in our madness, do we turn to riots Are we like the lemmings who migrate at information systems respect the security of and destruction, to contempt for revered in­ intervals to their own destruction? the data and protect the privacy of those stitutions which made the American dream Where were our statesmen when Congress whose data make up your systems. You can possible, to nostrums instead of cures for fueled the fl.res of inflation by passing a help us implement a modern interpretation our economic ills, to sleazy, cheap political "tax reform measure" which insured a huge of the Fourth Amendment's guarantees if devices rather than exercising at least a deficit? your own organizations allow the individual modicum of statesmanship? Can you tell us, please, why such respon­ to have access to his own records and if you Are Wf' indeed a part of the world revolu­ sible Negro leaders as Whitney Young and deny access to those who can illegally ha.rm tion which seeks only to destroy while parad­ Roy Wilkins constantly criticize the total the individual. ing under the banners of democracy, Marxist comm.unity for the excesses of young blacks Second, I want to ask you to write to your style? while making no substantial contribution of own Congressman and ask him to support H. Why a.re Americans, who enjoy greater their own in the direction of restraint? Res. 717, to establish a Select Committee on freedoms under our Constitution than a.re Does it ·bug you that elementary school Technology, Human Values, and Democratic permitted anywhere else in the world, berat­ teachers once dedicated to character build­ Institutions. As we enter the twilight of the ing "the system" which makes these precious ing are now setting a sorry example for our 20th Century we may very well be entering liberties possible? youth with their union-directed strikes on the blackness of totalitarianism unless we How long must we permit a small band of the eve of a new school year? establish a formal mechanism to turn back revolutionaries to disrupt our colleges and Or that labor's power monopoly ls able to the tide of uneva.luated technolo~es. universities, to bomb government research cripple the economy by ma.king a farce of In my judgment, it would be especially centers, kill innocent people and ruin the collective bargaining? influential for those of you who are profes­ careers of devoted scientists? Can these distortions of an orderly so­ sional in the computer business to offer your What kind of a country do we live in ciety be attributed solely to the war in support for a Select Committee. Not only where the flouting of law has become a na­ Indochina.? Or is the current unrest sympto­ would your words carry special weight be­ tional pastime, where a law officer auto­ matic of a world society in revolution? cause of your knowledge and expertise, but matically becomes a "pig," an object of deri­ Whatever the cause, this is a time for the I believe that it would be in your own best sion and attack by an untutored, undisci­ rededication of all Americans to the propo­ interests. All around us we see computer plined and unprincipled rabble? sition, as stated in the preamble of the Con­ rooms and computer complexes being at­ Where indeed, are our leaders, the parents stitution, that this nation was conceived to tacked as a. tool of repression. I hardly need of our youth, the educators and the great "form a more perfect union, establish jus­ to point out the number of colleges which body of law abiding, responsible citizens? tice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for September 23, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 33533 the common defense, promote the general official decisions. With time and different votes in 1832. We were only 138 years welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty circumstances, the needs of Congress and behind. to ourselves and our posterity." These were the wise and profound thoughts the Nation have changed. Institutions Hopefully, this amendment will accom­ of our Founding Fathers. must be adapted accordingly. plish a twofold purpose. It will first of all That we have strayed so far from the My constituents in Missouri's Second make Representatives more accountable paths of righteousness is a serious indict­ District have traditionally been inter­ to their constituents for their votes on ment of the weaknesses of man who in the ested supporters of reform and for that crucial matters. In addition, the knowl­ almost 200 years of our Republic now finds reason I introduced in July 1969 a bill edge that voters will be aware of their hi.mself for the first time seemingly incap­ very similar to the one which passed the votes should encourage Members to be able of constructive self-government. For our enemies within would destroy the House. We should feel heartened by the present and participate on the House Union make a. mockery of justice, insure do­ action taken here today-and proud that floor with greater regularity. mestic anarchy, gut the national defense, our efforts have produced results. The volume of information with which disregard the general welfare and repress Not only the relevance but also the a Congressman must deal if he hopes to the blessings of liberty. credibility of the current congressional be an effective legislator is tremendous. This is what is happening to America, structure have been called into question. In addition to the provision increasing known in happier days as the land of the There is indeed something of a contra­ the size of committee staffs, I welcome free and the home of the brave. diction when those of us in political life the other moves to provide greater ac­ call upon young people and others to cess to information. Making the Legisla­ take the responsibility for and accept the tive Reference Service a more compre­ consequences of their actions, while we hensive Congressional Research Service, LEGISLATIVE REORGANIZATION in Congress too often transact our busi­ increasing the budgetary information re­ ACT OF 1970 ness hidden beyond a cloak of anonym­ quired from executive departments, and ity. It is not remarkable then that the developing an automatic data processing HON. JAMES W. SYMINGTON most fundam1;ntal issue dealt with in the system will assist all of us in making OF MISSOURI Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 more intelligent legislative decisions. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES is the matter· of secrecy within the Reform in the Congress is long over­ House. due, and with the passage of this act we Wednesday, September 23, 1970 We have attacked secrecy on three cannot sit back and congratulate our­ Mr. SYMINGTON. Mr. Speaker, what fronts in this legislation: in the standing selves on our accomplishment. Much re­ the House has done in passing the Legis­ committees, in the Committee of the mains to be done and reform to be truly lative Reorganization Act of 1970 is to Whole, and in the attempt to make more meaningful must be an ongoing process. realize that-at least in this case-re­ information available to the Members. Other institutional practices need updat­ form, even more than charity must be­ Such a large proportion of the House's ing, and some must be discarded entirely. gin at home. It is incredible, but true, significant action takes place in commit­ We must also continue to search for new that for the first time in 25 years we have tee that it is incumbent upon us to make and more appropriate mechanisms to aid examined our own consciences and come serious efforts to achieve greater public in our legislative efforts. In the mean­ to the conclusion that it was time to accountability at that level. The provi­ time, the 91st Congress should be remem­ take action to make the Congress a more sion in the bill which requires the re­ bered for its contribution to an. open responsive body. cording of names and numbers on record House policy. It is time that we achieved this reali­ committee votes is a step toward this zation. Citizens have frequently leveled end. Likewise, larger investigatory staffs the justifiable criticism that Congress, for minority committee members and a and particularly the House of Repre­ longer time for minority Members to file WBBM EDITORIAL sentatives, is an anachronism-that it supplementary views will work to make does not serve, and indeed often defies, the committees more representative. HON. EDWARD DERWINSKI the wishes of the people supposedly rep­ J. It would be a great step toward an OF ILLINOIS resented. The desire to achieve a more open House if the bulk of committee responsive Congress is in the best Amer­ meetings were open to the press and the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ican tradition. public. Unfortunately, the provision of Wednesday, September 23, 1970 The framers of the Constitution, in the bill which allows a committee to vote Mr. DERWINSKI. Mr. Speaker, providing for a two-house legislature, at the beginning of a Congress to close Christmas will soon be upon us and one consciously chose to make the House of all their meetings will probably perpetu­ of the organizations which deserves Representatives the more directly re­ ate the current practice of several influ­ support is the USO with its program sponsible to the people. Thus, Members ential committees who hold all but the to serve GI's scattered throughout the of the House have always been elected most innocuous of their sessions behind globe. A very timely editorial carried over directly, and have stood for reelection closed doors. This practice not only WBBM Radio-Chicago-urged Chicago more frequently to insure a more ac­ thwarts the public's accessibility to vital area listeners to support the USO. curate reflection of the voters' wishes. information, it also effectively prevents The editorial follows: Unfortunately, however, the House has Members of Congress themselves from too often failed to live up to this intent knowing what occurred during the com­ USO WBBM has for some time been running because tradition-bound procedures mittees' debates. The provision to allow public service announcements urging sup­ within the House actually operate to radio and television coverage of some port of the USO, which works to ease the frustrate it. committee hearings will increase public loneliness of Gls in Vietnam and other posts Recognizing the disparity between understanding of committee procedure far from the comforts of home. theory and practice, the House acted de­ providing the medb are allowed to cover I'm sure you've heard these announce­ cisively in 1910 to limit the power of sessions of some significance. ments by people such 'aS Bob Hope, and also Speaker Joe Cannon. At that time the As Representative SCHWENGEL de­ seen television spots and print ads urging donations to the USO. But it seems a lot of objective was to take arbitrary control scribed, we escalated our attack on sec­ people are now taking the USO for granted, from the Speaker and disperse the power recy from the committees to the Commit­ and others unfortunately feel that assisting to the committees and the whole House, tee of the Whole. On July 27, the House the USO ls tantamount to endorsing the and ultimately to respond to the Na­ passed an amendment which I cospon­ American Involvement in Southeast Asia. tion's demand for widespread progres­ sored, aimed at one of the most flagrant According to one official, the Christmas sive change. manifestations of secrecy-the unre­ Gift program in Vietnam was 30 to 40 per But now many of these earlier struc­ corded teller vote. Although the members cent off the level of previous years. Home­ tures have become objects of criticism of the British Parliament were fully jus­ front participating in the Vietnam pen pal tified in instituting this procedure to program is off by about 40 per cent. And and attempts at reform. They developed fewer show business stars are touring Viet­ in a 1ess complex age when Congress was protect themselves from reprisals from nam to provide entertainment and boost a smaller body, dealing with simpler is- the Stuart monarch, it has long outlived morale. sues; before modern communications al­ its usefulness. The British Parliament The American GI doesn't make foreign or lowed the public immediate access to ended the practice of unrecorded teller military policy. He has been assigned to Viet- 33534 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS September 23, 1970 nam, to a difficult job, and he needs help. of continued availab111ty of foreign textiles attention of my colleagues in the House Whether we support the war or not, we have is built into several provisions. The Presi­ of Representatives. The author is a fel­ an obligation to assist the GI who is in dent is given authority to exempt any tex­ tile product if he deems this in the national low Kiwanian and Californian, Herb Vietnam. It's not the place he would prefer Klein. The editorial entitled "Frame­ to be. interest, if the product does not threaten dis­ A lot of people these days look at the ruption of our market, or if supplies a.re in­ works of Freedom" follows: radicals and then say how proud they are of adequate. Any nations which negotiait.e FRAMEWORKS OF FREEDOM the Gis willingly doing their duty in Viet­ voluntary agreements with the United (By Herbert G. Klein) nam. It's time we did our duty. It's time we States--either now or after passage-are ex­ assisted the USO in making life better for a empt from the bill's restrictions. The net ef­ The United States will soon celebrate its kid under fire halfway around the world. fect of all this will be to assure a continuing 200th anniversary, marking a history which flow of foreign textiles generally available in has brought greatness and high responsibility It has nothing to do with politics. It's a to a nation. matter of compassion. the quantities and at the prices now pre­ vailing. The Constitution which has served the na­ The restraints suggested do not call for tion so well has been challenged often. It taxes but again only restraints on growth. ts challenged today. But as we mark Con­ Mr. Pope need have no fear that he Will have stitution Week, we do so in the knowledge FAffi TRADE to choose between a $6 American shirt or a that it stands as a strong framework of free­ $2 foreign shirt carrying a $5 tax. He will still dom. be able to buy his $2 foreign shirt--if he It is true that today, some of those who HON. WM. JENNINGS BRYAN DORN wants it-for $2. cling closest to its provisions of freedom, try OF SOUTH CAROLINA Also, if history is any criteria, Mr. Pope hardest to destroy it. A strong nation and a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES should know when he speaks of "inflationary strong people, who recognize such enemies of forces" that our textile industry is tlie most liberty for wha.t they are, will survive such Wednesday, September 23, 1970 inflation-proof in the country. This is a fact attack without endangering their constitu­ Mr. DORN. Mr. Speaker, the textile in­ that any one can check and by checking it tion or the rights it offers. dustry asks only for fairness and equity, will be found that textile prices on the whole­ The United States Constitution is now 183 sale index have risen only 1 per cent since years old and the equally strong Canadian not for protection. The Honorable R. the inception of the index in 1957-59. By con­ Constitution was born 80 years later--July 1, Cooper White, Jr., mayor of Greenville, trast, all commodities ha.ve jumped 17 per 1867. Both have served remarkably well. S.C., the "textile center of the world," in cent. If one sees the current play "1776" (inci­ a recent letter to the editor of the Green­ I feel that with over 700 companies com­ dentally, it recently was presented at the ville News made this Point crystal clear. peting bitterly for the sale of every yard White House) one regains the sense that The Mills Trade Act of 1970 promotes of goods that textiles need no additional pres­ Constitutions, like other documents, were fair trade and should be passed without sures to keep pri~s low. written by individuals with both human fail­ further delay. I com.mend to the atten­ There are many basic and compelling rea­ ings and extraordinary strength and vision. sons why our government should put some There are wide differences between the tion of Congress and to the American restraint on the growth of textile imports. I United states Constitution, which is in legal people the Honorable R. Cooper White's would recite some of th~e. not just because theory at least contained in one instrument splendid and timely letter. the textile business is so very vital to our with later amendments, and the Canadian [From the Greenville (S.C.) News, area but I feel that as an American first, a Constitution, which consists of the several Sept. 13, 1970] South Carolinian second, and a Greenvillian British North America Acts and also includes of TEX INDUSTRY ASKS FAm TRADE third, this is in the best interest all and unwritten conventions and historical usages. in the order in which I have mentioned. Different as the Constitutions of these two In his letter of September 1, 1970 entitled, These imports are destroying American great nations are, they share with that of "Protectionism In Trade Scored" Mr. R. M. jobs; some 300,000 in the last five years, their common mother country the common Pope Jr. of Clemson seems to feel that the 87,000 in the last year alone. People without purpose of assuring the right of the majority textile industry, in their endeavor to seek jobs cannot buy anything or pay taxes, but to rule, the right of the minority to be heard, restraints on textile imports, is returning to more importantly they cannot enjoy the and the safeguarding of the rights of individ­ the protectionism of the '30's. I can in no way finer things of life that every American has ual citizens as against the claims of the agree with Mr. Pope. the right to expect. The textile-apparel com­ state. As mayor of "The Textile Center of the plex is one of the nation's largest employers. Standing above the contention of rival World" I have obtained answers to the ques­ 2.4 m111ion people, plus another million in political parties and differing governmental tions he raised and feel as if, with help from cotton, wool, man-made fibers and machinery philosophies, the constitutions establish a many people, I can shed a different view. The depend upon it directly for their livelihood. structure of government designed to outlast people of this area need to know the theory Another important factor to me is that the tenure in office of any political party or of free trade and the facts as they exist today. minority employment in textiles is 14 per philosophical creed. The fact is that what the textile industry cent and in apparel 13.5 per cent which is is seeking ls fair trade; there is no such thing In these times, during which nations considerably higher than the 10 per cent throughout the world have seen a sharp in­ as free trade in the world today. Actually our average for all manufacturing. nation ls, as has been said by Secretary of crease in civil turmoil and acerbic protest, Our nation's balance of payments is in it is worth harking back to fundamental con­ Commerce Stans, "the only virtually free a serious deficit condition and the importa­ market in the world". other nations have stitutional provisions in order that we may tion of textiles is the biggest contributor to not lose sight of the ground rules which they raised a multitude of non-tariff barriers to this situation. To set the record straight, Mr. American goods as for example, Japan, the establish. Pope should know, contrary to his letter, that Under constitutional systems such as biggest textile importer to the United States American Industry does not sell more goods has 98 import quotas against our commodi­ these, the majority, within limits, is given to Japan than Japan sells to America. In the right to govern; the minority is given ties and 16 other types of restrictions includ­ 1969 Japan exported $4.9 bi111on in goods to ing custom practices, financing arrange­ the United States while we sold $3.5 billion the right to freely criticize, and to be af­ ments, etc. to her. The difference is $1.4 billion-in forded regular opportunities to persuade a As for our textile industry, they have not citizen electorate that the reins of govern­ Japan's favor. ment should be turned over to it. sought to shut off the flow of foreign textile R. COOPER WHITE, Jr., imports but rather to slow the rate of growth. Mayor of Greenville. Reminders to the majority of its covenant They are asking through a. bill now before to respect the minority's right to dissent, to Congress that this growth rate be 5 per cent criticize, and to seek to become the majority per year while still permitting foreign tex­ are commonplace. They should not for that tiles to come in at a very high level. Theim­ reason be thought trite. Less commonplace, portant growth rate in the past few yea.rs has FRAMEWORKS OF FREEDOM but fully as important, is the reciprocal co­ been beyond belief. For instance, wool im­ venant which minorities must be regarded ports now account for one out of every four as making with the majority under any con­ yards of goods sold in the United States. HON. DEL CLAWSON stitutional system. The minority covenants Man-made fiber imports of textiles and ap­ OF CALIFORNIA to obey any enactment of the majority which parel doubled between 1963 and 1965 dou­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES is the "law of the land"-a.n enactment regu­ bled a.gain from 1965 to 1967 and doubled larly passed and consistent wit h the provi­ again to 1.8 billion square yards in 1969. Wednesday, September 23, 1970 sions of the constitution. With such rapid growth as this the domestic Mr. DEL CLAWSON. Mr. Speaker, the Only if the majority keeps its covenant industry cannot plan intelligently its own with the minority to both permit dissent investments in production, new plants and lead editorial in the current Kiwanis and to afford a regular opportunity to chal­ equipment, research or jobs. With a reason­ magazine is of such quality of thought lenge its electoral mandate, can there be able predictable rate of growth the textile and on a topic of such wide general in­ guaranteed the freedom of expression and industry will know where it stands. terest at this point in our national history popularly representative government which Further, regarding the trade b111, assurance that I would like to commend it to the have so long been prized by both of these September 23, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 33535 great nations. Only if the minority keeps its interested in bringing labor-manage­ tee" to decide which of the final offers would covenant to obey the laws enacted by the ment relations into a new era for the become binding on both sides. majority can there be civil order, a condition benefit of all involved. Unfortunately, there has been very little every bit as indispensable to constitutional administration follow-up, so there has been government as ls freedom of expression. I include Mr. Fritchey's column at this no action on Capitol Hill, where the !aw­ The great virtue of the Constitutions of place in the RECORD: makers are notoriously wary of new labor our two great North American nations ls MEANY'S ATTITUDE ON ARBITRATION legislation. Their timidity may be tempered that, greatly differing as they do in specific ENCOURAGING by the Meany statement, but there also provision, each provides the machinery for (By Clayton Fritchey) needs to be a show of interest on the part a. system of government which tolerably bal­ of management. ances the claims of freedom and order. Free­ With Genera.I Motors struck by the United Actualy, there is more management sup­ dom without order ls anarchy; order without Auto Workers, the railroad unions also ready port for arbitration than is generally sur­ freedom is tyranny. Order with freedom­ to go out, and organized teachers closing mised, and it is groWing. Many business freedom with order-is the hallmark of con­ many schools around the country, this may leaders now share the view of John H. stltu tlonalism. be a good moment to pause for a brief an­ Kauffmann, president of The Star, who nouncment from George Meany, president of recently told the Economic Forum that the AFL-CIO. arbitration "would benefit management and It's not easy these days to get Meany labor and the public at large." For the off his pet current hates-Vlletnam doves, practicality of this solution, he said, "we MEANY'S ATTITUDE student rebels, and Democratic "extrem­ need only look to Sweden where for 31 ENCOURAGING lsts"-but when he does get back to what he years newspaper labor and management knows the most about (labor-management have had an arbitration agreement which relations) he ls surprisingly open-minded. works." HON. BURT L. TALCOTT In a pre-Labor Day session with the press, OF CALIFORNIA for instance, he had the courage to talk IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES openly and hopefully about a fromula which, if adopted, would have prevented the present ARMS FOR THE GREEK COLONELS Wednesday, September 23, 1970 big strikes by resolving them through peace­ ful, orderly means, in short, by binding ar­ HON. DON EDWARDS Mr. TALCOTT. Mr. Speaker, we must bitration. eliminate the strike and lockout as out­ For many decades, opposition to the arbi­ OF CALIFORNIA moded and barbaric techniques for set­ tration process (like opposition to wage and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tling labor-management disputes. price controls) has been as dogma.tic With Wednesday, September 23, 1970 If a strike or lockout involved only the labor a.s it has been With management. disputants perhaps it could be tolerated. Meany ls the first national labor leader to Mr. EDWARDS of California. Mr. But a strike or lockout that wastes re­ show any flexibility on either lssue--and he Speaker, in spite of the embargo placed sources or products, that injures or pe­ ls now flexible on both. on arms shipments to Greece, the repres­ nalizes innocent third parties, that bank­ This ls certainly an advanced and r,,Jn­ sive military regime in Athens manages rupts employers, that cripples and troverslal position for the head of the AFL­ to maintain its weapons stockpile CIO to take. But Meany, now 76, ls so secure through the generosity of the United wrongs the employees and their helpless in his position that he ls virtually immune families should not be tolerated in a civi­ to serious challenge by other union leaders. States. The following editorial from the lized society whose woof ought to be good Even before Lyndon Johnson retired as September 22 issue of the New York will and whose warp ought to be justice president, Meany was so alert to the danger Times is, I believe, a frank and timely and order under law. of inflation that he began hinting !abor indictment of U.S. support for the Greek Mutual cooperation is necessary. Good would accept economic controls if employers junta: would. will between employer and employee ARMS FOR THE GREEK COLONELS Meany's Labor Day political opinions made must be expanded. Coercion is detri­ so many headlines that his strike views got Ambivalence and tlmldlty have marked mental to everyone. Work stoppages little or no attention. And yet, he said that American policy toward Greece'S military rul­ cause injury and losses to both sides. Af­ some of his federation's "real solid unions," ers sinoe their seizure of power in April 1967. ter the strike has wreaked its damage, including the United Steel Workers, were The declslon to resume full-scale arms ship­ there still must be negotiation. So why thinking about voluntary arbitration in con­ ments to the Athens regime symbolizes the not negotiate and arbitrate first and tract disputes. In fact, the federation has bankruptcy of that policy. already agreed to establish a committee to The timing of the decision doubtless owes a void the losses. much to the Middle East crisis and the need This no-strike concept has been long meet with the American Arbitration Associa­ tion to explore the idea. that might arise for emergency American use recommended by the independent schol­ of Greek naval and air bases. Such Mediter­ ars and experts in the field of labor­ "Actually," Meany says, "what it adds up ranean facilltles have become steadily less to is that while strikes have their part and available with the rise of nat'ionallsm in management relations. But few oldtime all that, we certainly have advocated for labor leaders have had the courage or many lands and a lessening of cold-war years that you have got to have the right tensions. foresight to seriously advocate the con­ to strike, we find more and more that strikes It made little sense at the outset to em­ cept. really don't settle a thing. Where you have bargo shipments to Greece of the heavy For too long, the new groping insecure a well established industry and a well estab­ weapons, artlllery, ships and planes ls sup­ labor leaders have insisted and preached lished union, you are getting more and more posedly needed to carry out assigned NATO that the strike, with all the strife of pick­ to the point where a strike doesn't make functions, while continuing to send the small eting, intimidation and threats of vio­ sense." arms, jeeps and other equipment the colonels The head of the AFL-CIO has chosen a could use to enforce repression at home. In lence, was their ultimate weapon. Un­ propitious moment to launch this trial bal­ true; a false shibboleth. any event, over the last three years the Pen­ loon, if that is what it ls, for the Nixon ta,gon has breached the spirit of the embargo Labor is making, and can expect in the administration, which has been unexpected­ by sending $162 million worth of arms to future to achieve greater advances ly benign toward labor, has also been show­ Greece. through negotiation than by striking. ing some interest in the idea. Whatever the wisdom or demerits of the George Meany is the patriarch, the The previous administration promised embargo, to Uft it at this time represents seer, of the labor movement. None can to draft and send to Congress legislation success for diploma.tic blackmail long prac­ dispute his sincere and aggressive com­ "which wlll enable us to deal with strikes ticed by Colonel Papadopoulos and his agents. mitment to the betterment of the work­ which threaten irreparable damage to the Their argument--that the United States national interest," but it never did. The needs Greece more than Greece needs this ingman. Mr. Meany's developing attitude issue was too touchy. It ls all the more re­ country-is aooepted by Americans who toward arbitration is encouraging. He is markable, therefore, that Nixon earlier this should know better. demonstrating great foresight and year did walk in where Johnson feared to While giving the colonels a badly needed breaking ground for important advance­ tread. prestige boost, the decision leaves the United ment in labor-management relations. Nixon's bill would bring the railroad, air­ States more of an odd-man-out than ever Clayton Fritchey, an astute columnist line, maritime, longshore, and trucking in­ with its European partners, some of whom writing in the Washington Evening Star, dustries under the same rule. To prevent led the fight to oust Greece from the Coun­ strikes, the blll, as a last resort calls for a cil of Europe and to condemn the Athens grasps this breakthrough in the difficult, form of arbitration under which the Presi­ regime for its systematic use of torture on rough-and-tumble business of labor­ dent could give the rival parties three days political prisoners. management relations. His column of to submit one or two final offers. Then, tf Concern for adequate air and naval facil­ September 21, 1970, should be read and there ls no agreement, the parties, or the ities ls understandable in this time of ex­ contemplated by all Members who are President, would name a "selector commit- panding Russian naval presence in the Medi- 33536 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE September 24, 1-970 terranean and outright Soviet military in­ Picture the plight of the wife or sweet­ Mr. Speaker, I include a newsclipping volvement in Egypt. But the Pentagon always heart whose husband or fiance has been from the August 26 Times Picayune of seems unable or unwilling to find alterna­ missing for years. Is he dead or alive? tives that would save the United States the New Orleans, as follows: embarrassment of bolstering a repressive re­ Should she start to rebuild her shattered BLACKS To FILL ALL VACANCIES--JUDGE SETS gime in the avowed interest of defending life or should she continue to wait? REFORM ScHOOL HIRING GUIDELINES freedom. Never before has America been treated Federal Judge Alvin B. Rubin Tuesday or­ so contemptuously. Never before have dered that any staff vacancies occurring in the tenets of civilization been so com­ the state's three main reform schools must POW IS NO CLOSER TO HUMANE pletely ignored. be filled by Negroes. TREATMENT We have waited in vain for Hanoi to In addition, he approved a plan presented warm to our suggestion for humane by the Department of Corrections which treatment of these prisoners. would give special placement to boys tested HON. JOHN M. ZWACH We have pursued the philosophy that at a new diagnostic center, for which the OF MINNESOTA an outpouring of indignation by our citi­ 1970 Legislature allocated funds. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES After testing at the center, and rated ac­ zens would move Hanoi to soften its pol­ cording to mental and physical age, the low­ Wednesday, September 23, 1970 icies, but the only outpouring of indig­ est and highest would be sent to the Loui­ nation that we had was directed at po­ siana Training Institute in Monroe, with Mr. ZWACH. Mr. Speaker, on Septem­ litical prisons in South Vietnam. those in the middle bracket remaining in ber 17, 1969, I joined with a number of Mr. Speaker, I believe that the United Scotlandville. Girls below 15 years of age my colleagues in sponsoring House Con­ States should take whatever steps now would be placed in the LTI in Pinevllle and current Resolution 362, which called up­ considered necessary to obtain informa­ others will be located in Scotlandville. on North Vietnam and the National Lib­ tion on these prisoners of war and to Judge Rubin stressed that staffing of the eration Front of South Vietnam to com­ convince Hanoi of the necessity to treat diagnostic center must be done on an equal ply with the requirements of the Geneva them in a civilized manner. racla.l balance, and he ordered that the ad­ Convention relative to the treatment of ministration of the schools follow guidelines which he established for equalizing staffs in prisoners of war. . regard to Negro and white personnel. His These provisions, which North Viet­ JUDICIAL INTERPRETATION OF quotas for the various departments called for nam signed in 1957, include making pub­ EQUAL EMPLOYMENT virtually 50-50 ratio of blacks to white. lic the identification of prisoners, free "I am aware of the employment problem, exchange of mail between prisoners and however," Judge Rubin said. "And I a.m. not families, impartial inspection of prisoner HON. JOHN R. RARICK requiring that persons be hired who are in­ camps, and release of seriously ill or in­ OF LOUISIANA competent. Rather, in order to achieve a jured prisoners. racial balance, I am saying that it may be IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES necessary to hire the second best. Neverthe­ A year has passed since that resolu­ Wednesday, September 23, 1970 less, if it seems impossible to fill vacancies tion was introduced but we are no closer for this purpose, I will consider other sugges­ to humane treatment of our prisoners Mr. RARICK. Mr. Speaker, in Loui­ tions. Any deviation from the guidelines, now than we were then. siana we now have a judicial interpreta­ however, must be done by court consent." My heart bleeds for these men, for tion by a Federal judge of equal employ­ The judge said he believes the action will their families, and their wives and sweet­ ment opportunity in State jobs. create motivations to seek out personnel hearts. "Blacks to fill all vacancies." from minority groups.

SE.NATE-Thursday, September 24, 1970

The Senate met at 12 noon and was EXECUTIVE MESSAGES REFERRED of the act of September 21, 1944 (58 Stat. 736), as amended; called to order by the President pro tem­ As in executive session, the President H.R. 18127. An act making appropriations pore (Mr. RUSSELL). pro tempore laid before the Senate mes­ for public works for water, pollution control, The Chaplain, the Reverend Edward sages from the President of the United and power development, including the Corps L. R. Elson, D.D., offered the following States submitting sundry nominations, of Engineers-Civil, the Panama Canal, the prayer: which were referred to the appropriate Federal Water Quality Administration, the Bureau of Reclama.tion, power agencies of Eternal God, Lord of this world and committees. the Department of the Interior, the Tennes­ the worlds beyond, we pray for Thy whole (For nominations received today, see see Valley Authority, the Atomic Energy creation. Order unruly powers, crush the end of Senate proceedings.) Commission, and related independent agen­ every tyranny, rebuke injustice, and sat­ cies and commissions for the fiscal year end­ isfy the longing peoples. Send peace on ing June 30, 1971, and for other purposes; earth, and by Thy grace put down the MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE S.J. Res. 218. Joint resolution providin~ pride, greed, and anger that turn man for the designation of a "Day of Bread" and A message from the House of Repre­ "Harvest Festival Week"; against man and nation against nation. sentatives, by Mr. Berry, one of its read­ S.J. Res. 228. Joint resolution to authorize o Thou whom we cannot love unless ing clerks, announced that the House the President to designate the period begin­ we love our brother, remove from us and had agreed to the amendment of the ning October 5, 1970, and ending October 9, from all men all hate and prejudice, that Senate to House Joint Resolution 589, 1970, as "National PTA Week"; Thy children may be reconciled with expressing the support of the Congress, H.J. Res. 589. Joint resolution expressing those whom they fear, resent, or threaten, the support of the Congress, and urging the and urging the support of Federal de­ support of Federal departments and agencies and thereafter live in peace. partments and agencies as well as other Regard Thy servants in this Chamber, as well as other persons and organizations, persons and organizations, both public both public and private, for the international O Lord. Direct them in all their efforts by and private, for the international bio­ biological pro~am; and Thy most gracious favor, and strengthen logical program. H.J. Res. 1178. Joint resolution authorizing them with Thy continual help, that in all the President to proclaim the month of Oc­ their works begun, continued, and ended tober 1970 as "Project Concern Month." in Thee, they may glorify Thy holy name, ENROLLED Bll..LS AND JOINT and finally by Thy mercy obtain ever­ RESOLUTIONS SIGNED lasting life. THE JOURNAL In the Redeemer's name. Amen. The message also announced that the Speaker had affixed his signature to the Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the reading of MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT following enrolled bills and joint reso­ lutions: the Journal of the proceedings of Messages in writing from the President S. 3637. An act to revise the provisions of Wednesday, September 23, 1970, be of the United States submitting nomina­ the Com.munications Act of 1934 which re­ dispensed with. tions were communicated to the Senate late to political broadcasting; The PRESIDENT pro tempore. With­ by Mr. Leonard, one of his secretaries. H.R. 11953. An a.ct to amend section 205 out objection, it is so ordered.