May 10, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 15349 of the park in any county which has in By Mr. MYERS (for himself, Mr. of 1964-, and submit a revised budget re­ force a valid zoning bylaw, and for other ESCH, Mr. FINDLEY, Mr. FLOWERS, Mr. quest for such activities for fiscal year 1974; purposes; to the Committee on Interior and F'UQUA, Mrs. GRASSO, Mrs. GREEN of to the Committee on Education and Labor. Insular Affairs. Oregon, Mr. HELSTOSKI, Mr. HIN­ By Mr. RANGEL: H.R. 7764. A bill to amend the Internal SHAW, Mr. HORTON, Mr. HUBER, Mr. H. Con. Res. 216. Concurrent resolution Revenue Code of 1954 to provide that con­ HUDNUT, Mr. HUNT, Mr. KEMP, Mr. expressing the sense of Congress that certain tributions to the Indoor Sports and Outdoor LANDGREBE, Mr. McKAY, Mr. MANN, economizing and tax reform measures shall Athletic Recreation Foundation shall be de­ Mr. MIZELL, Mr. MONTGOMERY, Mr. be taken to assure through a fiscally re­ ductible for purposes of the Federal income MOORHEAD of California, Mr. MURPHY sponsible Federal budget for fl.scal1974 effec­ and estate and gift taxes, and to create a of New York, Mr. O'BRIEN, Mr. tive action to promote national security, trust fund to receive contributions to such PARRIS, Mr. RARICK, and Mr. stable prices, tax justice, full employment, foundation which may be used to improve RHODES): quality education and health care, environ­ sports and recreational facilities; to the H.J. Res. 551. Joint resolution to author­ mental protection, safe and improved living Committee on Ways and Means. ize the President to issue a proclamation conditions in urban and rural areas, and By Mr. NELSEN (for himself, Mr. designating the week in November which in­ equal opportunity for all Americans; to the BROYHILL of Virginia, Mr. SMITH of cludes Thanksgiving Day in each year as Committee on Government Operations. New York, Mr. HOGAN, and Mr. "National Family Week"; to the Committee By Mr. DENHOLM: LANDGREBE) : on the Judiciary. H. Con. Res. 217. Concurrent resolution H.R. 7765. A bill to protect the health and By Mr. MYERS (for himself, Mr. RoB­ expressing the sense of Congress regarding welfare of the people of the District of Col­ INSON of Virginia, Mr. RoE, Mr. a Member's right to hold office if he or she umbia by providing a method of control of RoNCALIO of , Mr. SARASIN, fails to be recorded on 75 percent of 300 con­ drugs, to strengthen existing law enforce­ Mr. SEBELIUS, Mr. SHRIVER, Mr. secutive votes; to the Committee on the ment authority in the field of drug abuse in SHOUP, Mr. J. WILLIAM STANTON, Mr. Judiciary. the District of Columbia, and for other STEIGER Of Wisconsin, Mr. THONE, purposes; to the Committee on the District Mr. VANDER JAGT, Mr. WALSH, Mr. of Columbia. WARE, Mr. WHITEHURST, Mr. WINN, MEMORIALS By Mr. CRONIN (for himself, Mr. GIL­ Mr. WoN PAT, Mr. YATRON, and .Mr. MAN, and Mr. MoAKLEY) : YoUNG of South Carolina): Under clause 4 of !'Ule XXII, H.J. Res. 548. Joint resolution providing for H.J. Res. 552. Joint resolution to author­ 202. The SPEAKER presented a memorial the orderly review of fee-paid oil import ize the President to issue a proclamation of the Legislature of the State of Oklahoma, licenses; to the Committee on Ways and designating the week in November which relative to a constitutional amendment relat­ Means. includes Thanksgiving Day in each year as ing to abortion; to the Committee on the By Mr. LONG of Maryland (for him­ "National Family Week"; to the Committee Judiciary. self, Mr. BYRON, Mr. GUDE, Mrs. HoLT, on the Judiciary. Mr. MILLS of Maryland, Mr. MITCH­ By Mr. PATMAN (for himself, Mr. ELL of Maryland, and Mr. SARBANES) : WIDNALL, Mr. BARRETT, Mr. ST GER­ H .J. Res 549. Joint resolution to authorize MAIN, Mrs. BOGGS, Mr. JOHNSON of PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS and request the President to designate the Pennsylvania, Mr. BRoWN of Michi­ Under clause 1 of rule XXII, private week beginning August 19, 1973, ending Au­ gan, Mr. J. WILLIAM STANTON, and Mrs. HECKLER of Massachusetts): bills and resolutions were introduced and gust 25, 1973, as "National Logistics Week"; severally referred as follows: to the Committee on the Judiciary. H.J. Res. 553. Joint resolution to amend section 1319 of the Housing and Urban De­ By Mr. BROYHILL of Virginia (by re­ By Mr. MYERS (for himself, Mr. AN­ velopment Act of 1968 to increase the lim­ quest): DERSON Of Illinois, Mr. ARENDS, Mr. itation on the face amount of flood insur­ H.R. 7766. A bill for the relief of Albert BAFALIS, Mr. BEVILL, Mr. BoLAND, ance coverage authorized to be outstanding; Fleischhaker; to the Committee on the Judi­ Mr. BRAY, Mr. BUCHANAN, Mr. BuR­ to the Committee on Banking and Currency. ciary. GENER, Mr. CARNEY of Ohio, Mr. DEL ByMr.ZWACH: By Mr. BURTON: CLAWSON, Mr. COLLINS, Mr. CONLAN, H.J. Res. 554. Joint resolution relating to H.R. 7767. A bill for the relief of Samuel Mr. CONTE, Mr. COUGHLIN, Mr. DAVIS the taking of the 1974 Census of Agriculture; Cabildo Jose; to the Committee on the Judi­ of Wisconsin, Mr. DAvis of Georgia, to the Committee on Post Office and Civil ciary. Mr. DENHOLM, Mr. DENNIS, Mr. DER­ Service. By Mr. MOORHEAD of California.: WINSKI, Mr. DUNCAN, Mr. EILBERG, By Mr. MATSUNAGA: H.R. 7768. A bill for the relief of Nolan and Mr. ERLENBORN): H. Con. Res. 215. Concurrent resolution; Sharp; to the Committee on the Judiciary. H .J. Res. 550. Joint resolution to authorize it is the sense of the Congress that the By Mr. BOB WILSON: the President to issue a proclamation desig­ President, in accordance with the policy of H.R. 7769. A bill for the relief of Dr. Peter nating the week in November which includes the United States established by law, should P. Toma; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Thanksgiving Day in each year as "National continue the Office of Economic Opportunity, By Mr. WRIGHT: administering and supervising the important H.R. 7770. A blll for the relief of Ramak­ Family Week"; to the Committee on the activities entrusted to that Office under the Judiciary. rishna Rao Palepu; to the Committee on the provisions of the Economic Opportunity Act Judiciary. EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS THE CHARLESTON GAZETTE, WEST the largest in our State, has been a VIRGINIA'S LARGEST NEWSPA­ cerpts were ordered to be printed in the strong, vigorous, and independent ad­ RECORD, as follows: PER, OBSERVES ITS lOOTH BIRTH­ vocate. DAY CHARLESTON (W. VA.) GAZETTE GAINS FmsT The Charleston Gazette is observing CENTURY MILESTONE its lOOth birthday. Life in West Virginia (By John G. Morgan) has changed in the past century, but the HON. JENNINGS RANDOLPH The Charleston Gazette, The State News­ OF WEST VIRGINIA principles which have guided publica­ paper, is 100 years old this month. tion of the Gazette remain strongly IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES The history of the newspaper began with anchored. Under Publisher W. E. Chilton establishment of the weekly Kanawha Chron­ Thursday, May 10, 1973 III, the third generation of his family to icle by Charles B. Webb in April of 1873. Mr. RANDOLPH. Mr. President, when hold that position, the Gazette retains a Publication was started at Kanawha our country was founded nearly two cen-­ position of journalistic leadership. Street (now Kanawha Boulevard) and Sum­ Mr. President, as part of its centen­ mers Street just three months after the first turies ago, the v.1lu~ of the free press train rattled through the city. was recognized. So critical was a free nial observance, the Charleston Gazette The so-called great fire of 1874, which press to our form of Government that published a comprehensive history of the consumed most of a city block, threatened strong provisions for the protection were newspaper, written by John G. Morgan, destruction of the newspaper when it was ir.cluded in our Constitution. The press a member of the staff who is widely less than a year old. today remains in the front line of the known for his articles and books on West • • • battle for American liberty and justice. Virginia history. The earliest available original copy of the Mr. President, for the past century I ask unanimous consent that excerpts Chronicle, found deep in the files of West the Charleston Gazette, published in of this unique and challenging history of Virginia University Library, is a seven­ column, four-page edition, dated May 12, the capital city of West Virginia, has the Charleston Gazette be printed in 1875. Page one items include a long letter been a diligent practitioner of the prin- the RECORD. from Gov. John Jeremiah Jacob, explaining ciples of a free press. This newspaper, There being no objection, the ex- why he was compelled to comply with the 15350 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 10, 1973 law requiring that the state capital be moved Uncle Joe was Joseph E. Chilton, a lawyer Capitol annex on the present site of the Na­ from Charleston to Wheeling that year. who pioneered in development of the Kana­ tional Bank of Commerce. • • wha Valley railroads and coal resources. • A full column advertisement on the back Joseph Chilton served as prosecuting attor­ The newspaper grew in prestige and in­ page states the central purpose of the news­ ney of Lincoln and Logan counties and was fluence for more than 42 years at 227 Hale paper in wordS that still could stand for the a lawyer for the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail­ St. The Gazette spirit ma ured and flour­ Gazette today. It says the Chronicle "will be way. In 1897, he joined his brother, W. E. ished there. devoted to news, politics and d.i.tfusions of Chilton (later a U.S. senator) a:nd William general intelligence. In politics it will be A. MacCorkle (who had just completed a William E. "Ned" Chilton Jr., born in 18:33, Democratic, liberal and progressive." term as governor) in the establishment of a son of the senator and graduate of Yale the law firm of Chilt.on, MacCorkle and University, became president of the Datry Chilton. Gazette Co. in 1922 and managing editor in On Nov. 1, 1876, the Chronicle showed its On .Jan. 29. 1907, the newspaper's name political colors by supperti.ng Democrat 1924. The old senator continued in the ro4e was formally changed to The Charleston of vice president and associate editor. Samuel J. Tilden, the loser in the famous Gnzet e. Hayes-Tilden campaign for the presidency. The younger Chilton wrote editorials in In an editorial, expressions of political pref­ a. straightforward, hard-hitting style. Un­ erence were combined with a suggestion that Edward B. Kenna was editor in 1911, with der his leadership, the Gazette firmly es­ more people should subscribe to the George W. Summers as the correspondent in tablished itself as a newspaper that read­ Chronicle. the Washi:ngton bureau of the Gazette. C. A. ily took the side of the underprivileged and In February of 1877, the Chronicle was Ashcraft became the newspaper's manager the needy. sold to James B. Pemberton, later mayor of in 1912. Charleston, and John W. Jarrett, a printer. Principal ownership of the newspaper by General growth of the Gazette at 227 Hale Pemberton, a native of Staunton, Va., was the Chilton family was formalized by the St. continued through the depression years. issuance of a state charter to Daily Gazette 27 years old at the time of the purchase. He Circulation climbed past the 50,000 mark in became a writer of wide reputation and in­ Co. on Sept. 25, 1912. Incorporators were 1937 as an expanding fleet of trucks delivered fluence. He served as mayor of Charleston Ashcraft, T. S. Cla:rk, W. A. MacCorkle, J. E. the newspapers in cities, towns and hinter­ from 1891 to 1893 and several terms as a Chilton and S. B. Chilton. lands of southern and center West Virginia. member of city council. In 1917, Chilton returned to Charleston From 1932 to 1956, with the newspaper in Under the ownership of Pemberton and as the publisher and active participant in the mainstream of state and national events, Jarrett, the name of the paper was changed the life of the newspaper. the Gazette published 51 extra editions. to Kanawha Gazette. Publication eontinued Early in the 19005, stabilizing influence Many carried big news about World War n at Kanawha and Summers Streets. entered the life of the newspaper in the form developments. of Robert L. Smith, who began his career For a long span of years~ the Gazette was as an errand boy of 10. rigidly Democratic in its support of major In 1884, Moses W. Donnally, a publisher He was made circulation manager by the and oil well producer, acquired an interest candidates for office. This policy was severely time he was 24 and later advertising manager tested in 1940 when Sen. M. M. Neely was 1n the paper and later purchased it from and business manager. Wben the newspaper Pemberton. the Democratic candidate for governor. was reorganized in the 1920s, he became The Gazette was bitterly opposed to the On July 23, 1884, with Donnally and Pem­ general manager, stoekholder and a member berton in the masthead as proprietors, the election of Neely. It chose to manifest its of the board of directors. position by remaining silent on the gover­ newspaper again showed its political colors Smith's tight control on the business end by supporting Grover for presi­ nor's raee while supporting Roosevelt for a of the newspaper was real and legendary. third term. dent. It is said that some creditors wouldn't loan In 1956, the newspaper supported Cecil H. Unde1!' the Donnally ownership, the news­ the company money unless they could be Underwood i:n his successful run for governor. paper plant was moved to 15 Summers st. assured that Smith would take the respon­ and eventually to 79 Capitol St. Conversion This marked the first time in its history that sibility for repayment. the Gazette supported a Republican for to a daily publication, attempted briefly and In November, 1912, the newspaper plant high state office. discontinued in 1884, was effected alrout was moved from 22 Summers St. to 909 Vir­ 1888. In February, 1890, the name was ginia St. on property adjoining the South The Underwood breakthrough set a pat­ changed to the Daily Gazette. Side Bl'idge at its west or lower side. tern for the newspaper to take a close look The first available issue under the new A change in management was revealed at an candidates and to support them on name-, dated Feb. 27, 1890, shows Donnally their merits. With an things equal in a given Dec. 5, 1914, with this page one announce­ race, however, the endorsement would go to as publisher and proprietor, and Joseph Ruff­ ment.: ner as editor and George W. Summers as city "Beginning today _ .. Mr. Da:vid A. Jayne the Democrat. Thus, the Gazette held firmly editor. to the policy of an independent De-mocratic assumes general supervision and will assign newspaper. On Oct. 4, 1891, the Gazette declared itself a capable man to do local active manage­ to be the "only newspaper in the state out­ ment. Mr. (Leslie) Bayliss is retained at the • side of Wheeling that owns the Associated helm in the editorial rooms, with Mr. A. V. W. E. "Ned .. Chilton Jr., president of the Press franchise." Evans as city editor. Daily Gazette Co. for 28 years and ma:naging "Robert L. Smith continues as manager of editor of the newspaper for 26 years, died In the 1890s and early 1900s, the Gazette the circulation department and has charge unexpectedly on Sept. 21, 1950, at the age was published as a daily and weekly. The of ail foreign advertising, with Charles An­ of 56. 1899 city directory lists the Gazette Publish­ derson as the guardian of the local adver­ The younger Chilton, who did most of his ing Co. for both newspapers, with Lewis tising field . . . work at his South Hills home and preferred Baker, editor, at Quarrier Street, northwest On the following day, the Gazette said in to remain in the background during his later corner of Hale Street. a s~atement of dedication: years, was nevertheless a forceful personality Early in 1901, the newspaper again moved "To the earnes.t and consistent advocacy in the making of Gazette policy and tradi­ into the physical facilities of Donnally Pub­ of the principles of popular government as tions. lishing Co., this time in the 300 block of enunciated by the democracy oi Jefferson, The death of the editor-president brought Kanawha Street, with Donnany as manager. Jackson and Wilson. the Gazette, under its a significant change in the newspaper's power new management, dedicates itself anew. structure. It meant that, for the first time in For a time, under the roof of the Donnally "It pledges its unremitting efforts to fight about 40 years, the top position would be held company, the Gazette was offered as an after­ the battles of faith in the commonwealth of by someone other than a member of the Chil­ noon newspaper and the Charleston Mail as West Virginia and to lend its influence to ton Family. 2.. morning publication. the bringing about o1 social, political and In the reorganization, Robert L. Smith About 1902, the newspaper moved to a industrial eq1:1ality of opportunity for all the reached the top of his Horatio- Alger career location on the Kanawha River bank below citizenship of our atate and nation . ... by becoming publisher ru the newspaper and the old Ruffner HeteL Frequent floods in the president of its board of directors. basement forced a return to Summers street_ Fil•e reduced the Gazette plant by the At the same time, the colorful Frank A. The Chilton family acquired the newspaper South Side Bridge to a. mass of ruins on Knight, promotion manager by appointment in 19Q7. The story of the initial takeover by May 18, 1918. Walter Eli Clark, publisher of and instinct, became managing editor. the family is best told by Sam B. Chilton, the Charleston Daily Mall, immediately made Knight, a. former sports editor, involved the 87-year-old modern day ra.conteur. "One day Uncle Joe came into the living the resources of his newspaper available for paper In many crusades and public enter­ room and announced: continued publication of the Gazette. prises and found outlet for topical com­ " 'I have stopped the Gazette from talking For approximately three months in the mentary in a weekly corumn called "Today." about us.' summer of 1918, the Gazette was published Harry G. Hoffman became editor a.fter " 'Oh, you couldn't do that,' somebody with Man presses at 1000 Virginia. st. E., Knight died unexpectedly at the age of 48 said. just across the street from the present loca­ on Jnly 6, 1956, Hotfznan, with more than 44 •· 'Oh. yes I would; r bought it,' Uncle Joe­ tion of the Gazette and Mail. years of newspaper experience, continues as said.'• For its new home in 1918, the Gazette :pur­ edit

o ::: failure; a failure to enforce existing or­ under the chairmanship of my able and is "an inalienable part" of Panama's territory ders and regulations which have validity; it distinguished colleague from New York does not square with history. If the land is means a failure to require that existing (Mr. MURPHY) on January 2, 1973, re­ intrinsically anybody's, a case could be made standards be met, and a sufferance of the ported upon its activities during the 92d that it is Colombia's. When the Colombian questioning of valid orders. Unhappily, close senate began to hedge in 1903 on a treaty on the heels of permissiveness, we often find Congress. to grant the U.S. the right to acquire a canal appeasement when trouble arises." Since that time-.and as a result of zone in Colombia's Panama province, U.S. If this isn't a capsule exposition of how to related developments here and else­ naval vessels helped Panamanian rebels win wreck any organization, military or other­ where--the canal question has been a independence by blocking Colombian troops wise, I never saw one. subject of considerable discussion in the from reaching the uprising. Without U.S. In­ A flagrant instance of appeasement, and news media, and the interest of the press tervention, it is probable there would be no on which the subcommittee expressed its Republic of Panama.. And Panama came to strong objection, was "the procedure used by in some of our coastal States has been existence simultaneously with the assertion higher authority to negotiate with the Con­ aroused. of a U.S. presence there. stellation's dissidents and, eventually, to As one example, in an editorial on Call this an ugly h an gover from the era appease them by acquiescing to their de­ March 25 of this year, entitled "Keep the of gunboat diplomacy if you will, but the fact mands and by meting out minor non-judicial Canal," the Richmond

- 15384 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 10, 1973 ment and use entail. As the environmental to supply the new "commodities" of cleanli­ where 70 per cent of the world's people con­ movement demonstrated, how fast and effec­ ness and safety for people. gregate. (53% of the people in the U.S. live tively the nation faces up to those problems But we cannot do this by naively overstated within 50 miles of the coast; projections say depends largely on public awareness that an goals of "zero risk" which may stlfie in­ by the year 2000 80% of the U.S. population energy crisis exists; it was only after the air ventiveness, initiative and the production Will live in the same area.) and waters had become dangerously polluted of new things for people's health, mobility, The land use battle that is going on all that the public awoke and demanded the improved shelter and food. Some people are over the United States is being fought in steps that are now gradually beginning to already inhibiting innovations by naive the context of the current environmental turn the tide of pollution. The U.S. may have overstatements of possible side effects and concern-it is most intensely fought over even less time to make important decisions risks that these might present. the use of the coasts and it is a perfectly about energy. When the gas tanks run dry Similarly, the naively overstated goal of proper concern to view one of the most im­ and the light.B begin to blink out, it will be "zero effluents" prevents our developing pro­ portant and unique uses of the immediate too late. ductivity-especially the productivity that coast and beach as being for people's recrea­ we need to enhance our environment. No tion. one will argue that great, planned, prac~ical I endorse the validity of land use and en­ BOUNTIFUL GRANTS OF THE SEA efforts must be znade to prevent the further vironmental concerns. Should we not then pollution of our land, air and water. have a vigorous national program of sea use We need to move toward a better public to move such activities as we can, that are understanding of what I've called an "eco­ presently cluttering up the shoreline, out to HON. GERALD R. FORD librium" position-balancing the desired sea? OF MICHIGAN ecology (an harmonious pattern between or­ The bounds of land are only the bounds IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ganisms and their environment) with the of men's minds limiting their imagination. Tuesday, May 8, 1973 necessary economy (the management of af­ If what I am going to say seems like dreams fairs with a view to maintaining productiv­ to some of you, I remind you that you and Mr. GERALD R. FORD. Mr. Speaker, ness). I have had dreams and seen them rapidly in connection with our approval of H.R. "Zero risk." Nonsense! There must be more become reality. If some of the components 5452, the sea grant college and program realistic awareness in all activities that there of what I suggest seem like stunts, I would is an acceptable risk and that it is not zero. remind you that you and I have seen stunts authorization, I wish to insert excerpts "Zero effluents." Also nonsense! There must becomo routine. from a fasCinating address on the future be more awareness that in the use of the Indeed, dreams are stuff that practical utilization of oceanic resources by one components of our environment-air, land progress is made on. of the foremost authorities on this sub­ and water-there is an acceptable burden of Non-en gineering or status quo practices ject, Dr. Athelstan Spilhaus, board man's wastes of the proper kind that these are the material for nightmares. Dreams go chairman of the Oceanic Education components can carry and that this is not beyond the state of the art and challenge the Foundation: zero. state of the heart of innovators. Stout hearts There must be more awareness of the fact can take us beyond present art. BOUNTIFUL GRANTS OF THE SEA that one proper use of air and water is to Fifteen years ago in a little pamphlet (By Athelstan Spihaus) dirty it-whether we use it in the organisms called "Turn to the Sea," I dreamt about I am very pleased to be afforded the op­ that are our bodies or in the organisms we man's return to the sea. I compiled dreams portunity to address this stimulating forum call industry. We should be aware that cer­ of the study and use of the sea into a little at which the University of Virginia is evi­ tainly both our own body organisms and story. Almost all of those dreams have come dencing its commitment to oceanic educa­ the organisms we call industry would die to pass today-have become reality. tion in a effort to help man turn again, to the under a policy of zero effluents. Man has indeed been turning to the sea sea. There must be awareness that water and and returning to the sea for thousands upon This is the right time to turn more to air are commodities that we must use, clean thousands of years. the sea. We are seeing a burgeoning of aspira­ and reuse, just as the commodity food is The first light that warned sailors of dan­ tion and concern of people with regard to grown, used and regrown. We must think gerous shoals and rocks or guided them into the quality of their environment. Such as­ of the culture of our air and water-atmo­ protective harbors safe from storms was prob­ pirations and concern are excellent. But culture and hydroculture, if you like-as we ably a fire on a cape. The first lighthouses what is not excellent is some of these peo­ think of agriculture today. were built on shores, but the lighthouse ple's over-simple attacks on industry and We must realize that there is a cost for then tiptoed out to sea--at first onto a shoal technology, attacks often without alterna­ these new commodities-air and water-that and for their day, what daring and imagina­ tive positive proposals. What is not excel­ cleaning up is not a one-shot proposition, but tive structures these lighthouses seemed that lent is the uninformed concern leading to a continual added cost to the commodities were built so far at sea! But then the lights unrealistic stringent controls, often with im­ which we borrow from our environment. stepped further out on fioating houses-the possibly short time scales of accomplishment. Above all, there must be awareness that light ships. These, I believe, can inhibit the very in­ to continue to give people the things they Harbors have traditionally been at the dustry, technology and productivity that we need to ease their lives and at the same time meeting point of sea, air and land-the worst need to use to give us the quality environ­ preserve a clean environment and a clean point where tides, waves, winds and shoals ment to which we aspire. world will take more energy per capita, not combine to make the harbor a potentially Doom forecasts are 111ostly based on what less, Starting with a given population to dangerous entity as well as a refuge. As ships will happen if we don't do some things dif­ achieve the intermediate steps involving food, grow larger and larger they cannot come into ferently. We see the problems and as en­ cleanliness of the environment, better in­ these dangerous harbors and so they dis­ gineers we tackle them. We do, indeed, need door environment quality, housing, to reduce charge their cargoes often to smaller ships­ to do some things differently and on a very d epletion of resources, we need to increase an uneconomical process. Now we fill tankers large scale in regard to our environmental the basic currency of civilization for each in­ from buoys out to sea, and in the North Sea problems. dividual-namely the energy at his com­ companies are building artificial islands as An engineer's analysis of the future should mand. h arbors for large vesselS. Harbors too are start from where we are and predict what This is where we come to the sea and to striding out to sea. must be done. An engineer should not mere­ the tit le of my talk Bountiful Grants of the But now they must stride more quickly ly sit back and pzedict the inevitable result Sea which relates to the Sea Grant Pro­ because they have the gun of environmental of carrying on present practices. He should gram's purpose to make available to people restrictions on land at their backs. And the design the future-not just let it happen. the Grants of the Sea. moral duty of meeting the impending energy Our people, on the average, I believe, are A grant is a gift for a particular purpose shortage which is beckoning them to sea. living in the most bountiful age-healt hier, and in this way the principal potential grant Land use restrictions and the envir on­ cleaner, better educated, bett er nourished, of the sea to man is the space it offers him mental concerns, thus, if too extreme and better than they have ever lived before. to extend his living to the other three-quar­ too hasty in their implementat ion, will cause In fact, so good is the living, they they can ters of the earth. The most bountiful grant companies to export plants, refineries, and now afford these newer aspirations. There is of the sea is space-space to offer znan for jobs that go with them. And in addition, this nothing wrong with these aspirations. 'They're his activities; space close to the coasts where exporting will merely move the pollution as­ great. people crowd; space close to the majority sociated with them to someone else's back­ These aspirations deal, on the one hand, of the cities of the world; space close to the yard. Would it not be better by good imag­ with an increasing protective attitude to principal terminals of world trade. Coast­ inative engineering and the provision of a people, and on the other hand, with the lines, after all are a constant length. They sufficient time scale, to retain these plants, overconcern for an over-clean en"<'ironment. are lines-one dimensional yet man and his refineries, and the jobs and wealth that go In both of these worthwhile objectives, there activities are three-dimensional. with them and to contain the pollution as­ lurks the danger of ignorant, overemphasis So far, man has broadened his coastline sociated with them? We can do this by con­ to the extent of inhibiting national produc­ by extending it inland. He has so far not sidering imaginatively the proper use of the tiveness. broadened his coastline by extending it much sea. On the other hand, if we plan properly and out to sea. We come inescapably to the fact We must completely reverse the current imaginatively to move toward these new as­ that any land use plan must also be a sea popular doom-saying attitude towards en­ pirations, we can both stimulate produc­ use plan. But the sea has space to offer us ergy. Far from curtailing our energy pro­ tiveness and initiate new kinds of industries and particularly space near to the shores duction, we must vigorously increase the May 10, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 15385 amount of energy we produce so that we as mined phosphate rock or the production complexes we will put together in the future. may invest some of this energy in producing of such things as magnesium from seawater. But the question is: new energy sources. One of the great costs of extracting things How can we in the U.S. take a step jump Nuclear power is the most important in­ from seawater is that you have to pump an and put the whole system together instead vestment we can make. Yet it, too, has a gun awful lot of water, but if you pump this of whittling ~ecemeal and having to solve behind its back. People live on the coastline. water, you may be able to use the same all the public policy questions and the Power plants are necessary where the people pumps and use the water for several pur­ endless national and international debates are. Power plants choose sites on capes or poses-extracting minerals, deriving fresh over and over again for each step we take seashores where they're close to the people water, using cool water for air conditioning. seaward? and to the huge amounts of water required Airports are somewhat in the same plight It is probably not economical for an in­ for their cooling. Yet, environmental pres­ as power plants. They need to be near where dividual activity by itself-for example, oil surists delay and prevent these plants from the people are. Yet they can occupy huge refining-to move out to sea as a single ac­ being built. By putting these plants at sea, tracts of land near the cities that people tivity and in the short time scale available can we have our cape, and heat it too? constantly need for other purposes. Traffic to meet the urgent energy demands. But, if Harbors are urgently needed and in con­ congestion on the ground to and from the we join uses in a systems concept that has a. nection with the same problem-energy, the center of the city reduces the airports' use­ common kind of underpinning, moving out fundamental currency of civilization. Yet fulness. Airports are also under fire for in­ to sea is feasible. The total cost of such a the kinds of harbors that we need for the creasing noise, and the planes are under re­ sea complex would be less than the sum of ships of the future-the huge safe ships of strictions relating to the reduction of power the individual costs of the components and the future-are ones which, if we build them on take-off and land that either increases the total system will add more in social in the existing way on the shoreline, will the hazard of flying or increases the cost of value, environmental and economic gains take this shoreline away from the use of the aircraft by having to over-power them. for society than the sum of the individual people for their recreation. Couldn't airports move out and join the com­ social goods of the components of the system. The cheapest way of transporting oil is by plex at sea? But how to do it? First of all, public tanker over the sea. The larger the tanker, A city anywhere must start with a purpose. policy-that is, new policies and new think­ the more economical it is. And the more Then people come to work toward that pur­ ings in government, industry and the uni­ safe it should be made from spillage and pose and build houses to house the workers, versities. The policy dimensions are so great from collision. and thus the city grows. This is the proper that government's initiative must be compar­ We do not have a single harbor in the way for a city to grow; otherwise, if one able to former national goals that we have United States that can accept the half-mil­ builds a city at sea, you will have merely a achieved in space and in atomic energy. But lion ton tankers that the Japanese, for one, bedroom city or a city in search of a pur­ industry's effort is probably larger than even are building to use tomorrow. To adopt the pose. But the multiple uses I've described the largest of our industries would undertake expedient of o1Iloading these tankers into here constitute the real purpose of what we alone. We must recognize that the basic un­ small barges is the wrong way to go. This might call a sea city. With airports and har­ derpinning of science and technology that increases the possibility of spills and pollu­ bors, hotels for travelers would be necessary, we will need and that our universities can tion. Can we not take the harbor out to sea as would housing for the freight handlers, contribute is greater than that any single and contain the oil spills? the airport workers, and harbor workers. university can provide. The size of the engi­ I believe that proper engineering can com­ Hotels at airports on land have to be insu­ neering and management job to be done re­ pletely protect shore and adjacent waters lated from the aircraft noise. What better quires new crossings, new meetings and new from pollution and spills near the coast. A insulator could there be than seawater with agglomerations in government departments, harbor out to sea would be the garage, the hotel accommodations within the huge floats among industries, and among universities. marina of highly sophisticated spill equip­ or pylons beneath the sea surface. Travelers For government, we know that already ment. A harbor to sea would have the spill would truly have an "ocean view"-from there are positive discussions going on in emergency equipment, an environmental below! Washington on inter-agency cooperation in control brigade, just as a city on land has a. Recreational facilties-marinas and sub­ the new uses of the sea so that the Maritime fire brigade-for emergencies. marinas, underwater parks, things that are Administration with its harbor problems, the Submarine tankers are an imaginative all in their embryo stages, would join the AEC with its nuclear plants, the EPA with idea, but they have been ruled out in the past complex away from the shore. its waste disposal and NOAA with 1ts ex­ because of the complications of offloading You will all recognize, I'm sure, this com­ perimental platforms can join with FAA them on the surface. However, if they can plex is just the putting together of many and its airports to plan a synergistic sea sys­ offload underwater into submerged pipelines, well known suggestions. tem. I wonder, however, whether inter-agen­ they may someday become feasible. In fact, many parts of this complex are cy cooperation is sufficient. We will need to Fishing, for the U.S. fishing vessels, has being worked on already, either in Sea Grant jump that barrier that defines the tradi­ only one hope-to take a technological over­ Programs or in related programs. tional missions of government departments. leap in automation and sophistication. To Work is going on on the sea environment, We have a sea agency in NOAA, but if NOAA justify this cost, fishing vessels must spend marine resources, aquaculture, the better use and its parent department, Commerce, are more time at sea and less in port. They of foods from the sea such as squid, the dis­ to embark on this massive program, they must be coupled to fish factories. One can position of food wastes, offshore petroleum, too must have the support, clout and muscle imagine these fish factories and processing ocean borne commerce, port design, commod­ commensurate to do the job. plants associated with a complex out at sea. ity transport, liquefied natural gas, harbor This cannot be done unless the govern­ separating the seafood wastes from the food traffic control, navigation, oil pollution and ment sets up, as they did in atomic energy parts and piping the food parts into shore preventing its spread at sea, and aquaculture. and in space, the sea-use project as a na­ through pipelines. Also, people have been making sophisticated tional goal on a time scale that is both real­ The catching vessels could discharge rapid­ analyses of complex ocean structures neces­ istically long enough to achieve its aims, ly to the harbors at sea. directly to the fish sary to support various sealoads. And most yet realistically short enough to meet the processing plants there. The wastes of the important there are people in public policy urgency. fishes themselves could be treated and used working on the development of public ac­ Perhaps in addition to the watchdog En­ as nutrients for beneath the sea portions of ceptance of the proper uses of the sea-ac­ vironmental Protection Agency, we need an these complexes which would be used for ceptance not only naturally by the public but Environmental Promotion Agency! fish farming. Thus, aquaculture would grow also acceptance within what will have to be On the international governmental side, if around the sea city just as agriculture sur­ a new structure of national and international we are to move complexes out to sea we get rounds our land cities. law and policy. involved with the knotty problems of the Organic wa-stes from the land could be Actual engineering works are going on in internat ional law of the sea. Practical con­ piped out to waste treatment plants at sea, some of these directions. Recently we read siderations are dictated by nature-how there to be used for aquaculture purposes. of the offshore nuclear plant which is to be steeply does the seabottom shelve into deep I was recently fascinated to learn of a most floated three miles off the Jersey coast. Some enough water-we will often be in con.fiict exciting project being conducted at MIT to of us know of John Craven's imaginative with the arbitrary man-made limits of three, irradiate sewage with electron beams and model of a floating city to be associated with twelve or X miles. Where water is shallow, destroy viruses, bacteria, and deactivate de­ the bicentennial celebrations in Hawaii. And as in the Gulf of Mexico, we may need to go tergents, so that the sewage can be returned again in Hawaii, Honolulu's airport is to far out; where water is deeper, not so far. either to the land or to the ocean with be multiplied in capacity by extending a. It seems that we can resolve these problems fertilizing instead of polluting effects. This runway on a reef offshore, and others axe better by multilateral or bilateral agree­ is a tremendously important project. I hope planning a port offshore to serve Texas. These ments of the states and nations affected with the MIT project will find economical ways things are going on in our country. due regard to particular geographical situa­ to make the sewage safe to put back on the But other nations are ahead of us. The tions, rather than by any blanket interna­ land or in the sea. Japanese already have great plans for a float­ tional agreements that would tend to pre­ Low-grade heat (so-called "waste heat") ing city. European nations around the North sume a geographical sameness of all situa­ could be used also in aquaculture to regulate Sea are planning-some even building-a. tions. t he temperature of the water to the opti­ considerable number of offshore harbor and In industry, the size of the effort necessary mum conditions for fish farming. industrial islands in the North Sea. All of to accomplish this task is such that we will The extraction of minerals from the sea these steps are good ones, and they can con­ need to abandon old or social assumptions could also be done in these complexes, such tribute the experience they represent to the of the badness of size, of monopolies, and 15386 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 10, 1973 of cartels. In industry, we will need to see Commenting on President Nixon's order, At the end of January, the VA's proposed associations of a number of our very larger Carr said: slashes in compensation for disabled Viet­ industrial concerns to achieve the building "The President is to be commended for nam veterans were detected by the V.F.W. of the complex. Far from discouraging part­ his speedy decision on this, once he was thor­ Washington staff in a footnote to a chart nerships among our largest industries, we oughly informed of the implications for the included with the VA's figures. Carr said: will need to encourage new kinds of combina­ Vietnam veterans of these new rating sched­ "They appeared under the guise of 'certain tions, new kinds of consortiums of indus­ ules. He has shown that he has compassion refinements' in the amount of compensa­ tries, perhaps in the manner of the space for the men who fought for our country in tion to be paid for disabilities." p rogram. Vietnam. Our disabled Vietnam veteran is not On Jan. 30 Carr called the proposed budg­ Universities which must supply much of a second-class citizen now that he has re­ et "inadequate and insulting" and said "at the scientific and technological underpinning turned from the fight." a time when additional staff and funding of enterprises in the sea will likewise need After thoroughly analyzing the implica­ are desperately needed for medical care for to int egrate the separate pieces that are go­ tions of the proposed VA budget, Com­ this country's veterans, VA budget slashers ing on, both under the Sea Grant Program mander-in-Chief Carr and the V.F.W. Wash­ have ignored the men and women who gave and in related programs in many institutions ington staff mobilized opinion on Capitol Hill so much for their nation." in the United States. Here we need, to give and the White House against the discrimina­ It was compensation and pensions that a contract to some institution to bring to­ tory rating schedules. Carr found "most disturbing" because they gether, to colTelate, and to aim all the devel­ Because of a statutory provision, World would "take money out of the pocket of the opments in sea use toward the synergism War I, World War II and most Korean vet-er­ veteran." He commented: "We cannot turn and economy that could be gained in a com­ ans who have been receiving compensation our backs on the veteran now that the guns bined complex. for more than 20 years for service-connected of war no longer sound. This country has al­ We don't need to invent how to do this. disabilities are protected by law against ways realized its obligation to those who We have many examples where national slashes. have served her well. False economy will not scientific and technological talents is or has Feb. 9 Carr urged V.F.W. leadership to buy real savings. America may need her sons been coordinated for special tasks. notify congressmen that the V.F.W. "does and daughters again." · Jefferson, in 1801, wrote about the ocean, not tolerate this kind of treatment of our Jan. 29, the day the VA budget proposals "Nature .. . has made it common to all for comrades who have been seriously wounded were sent to Congress, came to be known as the purposes to which it is fitted." How and disabled during the Vietnam War and "black Monday." about a Jefferson Center perhaps under the that the proposed reduction in compensation fitting aegis University of Virginia dedicated payment be canceled." In the V.F.W. publication Veterans Ben­ to the development of these purposes for The 1974 VA budget, Carr said, "shows a efits News issued in Washington, the or­ which the ocean is fitted? complete disregard for the needs of America's ganization attributed the VA budget to This project viewed in its holistic sense former fighting men, particularly the Viet­ budget slashers "notwithstanding favorable and not in fragmented components is the nam veterans." Commenting in his letter on Presidential statements." challenge I see for all of us as, more and the proposed new disability rating schedule, Carr's reaction to the 1974 budget dis­ more, we turn to the sea. claimed to be aimed at saving $160 million a tributed on Jan. 30 was placed in the Senate year, Carr said "this is most astounding and record Jan. 31 during testimony of Francis incredible. At a time when the Administra­ W. Stover, V.F.W. National Legislative Serv­ VFW ACTS TO SAVE VET'S tion is trying to negotiate peace in Vietnam ice Director, before a Subcommittee on PENSIONS and bring the POWs home, the budget Health and Hospitals of the Senate Veterans makers are recommending that $160 mil­ Affairs Committee conducting hearings on lion be saved at the expense of wounded the Veterans Health Care Bill. HON. WILLIAM S. MOORHEAD and disabled Vietnam veterans, who have Events moved rapidly after Feb. 10 when OF PENNSYLVANIA been doing the fighting in Southeast Asia. Carr's views were made known to President IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES "Even more incredible and shocking, it Nixon, who, Sen. Vance Hartke (Ind.), Chair­ comes at a time when there are indications man of the Senate Veterans Affairs Commit­ Thursday, May 10, 1973 that more than $1 billion in aid is being tee, said, was misled on the issue by the bu­ Mr. MOORHEAD of Pennsylvania. considered for North Vietnam and the Viet reaucrats, and added that "the mere threat Mr. Speaker, several weeks ago the Cong. of doing this to people who have given their "The helicopter and outstanding medical all" increases the need for remedial action. Nixon administration announced a pro­ attention in the Vietnam War permitted Rep. John Paul Hammerschmidt (Ark.) , posal to cut the disability compensation much better care of the wounded than ever ·a member of the House Veterans Affairs of many veterans, including a large before and it returned more permanently Committee, said, "I suppose the OMB was number of Vietnam-era soldiers. disabled and wounded," he added. "These looking for places to cut and not looking on This action was immediately de­ Vietnam veterans need at least as much com­ beyond the humanitarian side." nounced in the Halls of Congress by pensation as their comrades of other wars." Rep. William Jennings Bryan Dorn (S.C.), many of us and by groups all over the Here are some examples of Vietnam vet­ Chairman of the House Veterans Affairs country. eran compensation slashes that would have Committee, and Hartke prepared two bills gone into effect if the V.F.W. had not acted: to stop the proposed rating schedule from The Veterans of Foreign Wars Amputation of a leg from the hip socket, taking effect and to freeze compensation for planned a significant role in turning currently carrying a 90% rating and $275 Vietnam Veterans as it is for veterans of back this "cost saving" plan, not because a month, would have plummeted to 40% and previous wars. they believe in excessive Government $106. Again the Washington Post noted that spending, but because they, like I, know Loss of a hand, now a 70 % disability and "No one caught the trend until the V.F.W." that there is plenty of fat in the Fed­ $212 a month, would have been slashed to called it to the attention of Congressional eral budget which should be trimmed 40% and $106. and White House leaders. before the OMB bureacrats cast their Loss of an arm at the shoulder, a 90 % The final act in this drama of discrimina­ hungry eyes on veterans' pensions. disability now compensated at $275, would tion against the Vietnam veteran came on A constituent of mine, Mr. John have been reduced to 60 % and $179. Feb. 14 when President Nixon ordered the A complete hearing loss, currently an 80 % VA to withdraw its proposed rating schedule. Krostyne, gave me a copy of an article disability with $275 a month, would have Its successful outcome is clearly a victory which appeared recently in the VFW been lowered to 30% and $77. for the V.F.W. magazine about the battle to save vet­ Loss of speech, now a 100 % disability and However, continued alertness, backed by erans' pensions. $495 a month, would have dropped to 70% a membership greater than the V.F.W.'s pres­ I include this article in the RECORD at and $212. ent 1.8 million, will be needed to prevent this time: Cert ain internal injuries now rated at further moves by the budget slashers to im­ VFW BLOCKS VIETN AM DISABILITY CUT 100 % and $495 would have been cut in half peril veterans benefits, for as Dorn and Immediate action by the Veterans of For­ to 50 % and $149, while another one that is Hartke contend, this recent incident "is the eign Wars has halted an attempt by the now 100% would have been slashed to 40% tip of the iceberg.'' Veterans Administration to slash disability and $106. Cuts in payments to dependents compensation for Vietnam veterans. also were planned. The success of the V :F.W. in gaining Presi­ The speed and effectiveness of the V :F.W. HONORING KIMIKO "KIMI" FUJII den t Nixon's intervention to force the VA drew this comment from an unnamed Con­ to withdraw its proposed revised rating gressional source quot ed in the Washington HON. DON EDWARDS schedule is another reason American veterans Post: "The V .F .W. came on strong against OF CALIFORNIA need the V.F.W. and the V.F.W. needs a the cuts." vast ly increased membership. The same newspaper, which devoted ex­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES "Membership is the answer to attacks such as this one," said V.F .W. Commander-in­ tensive coverage to the proposed rating Thursday, May 10, 1973 Chief Patrick E. Carr. "Everyone in govern­ ganizations, "the V.F.W. takes the lead, some schedule, implied thet among veterans or­ Mr. EDWARDS of California. M'l". ment understands large membership. If we Speaker, Kimiko "Kimi" Fujii of Hay- have more we can do more." follow and others do nothing." May 10, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 15387 • ward, Calif. was recently selected Hay­ are removed from consideration, it ap­ on the steps of the OEO building. The only pears the members of the press are most things burning these days are half-finished ward's distinguished citizen for 1972 by condominiums (which is white-collar crime­ the Hayward Lions Club. Chosen because concerned. The reason for this is, of hence scarely news at all). Only the Indians of her tireless effort to make our com­ course, that when Howard Phillips took are stimulating the media these days--but munity a better place and her willing­ over the reins as Acting Director of OEO, there just aren't enough Indians to go around ness to serve mankind by involvement. the war in Vietnam was ending and the to satiate the media's voracious appetite for Miss Fujii is the fourth woman to receive press needed some issue to take its place. violence and misery. this award since its inception in 1932 and The time has come again to put the re­ Let's look at the reasons why the disman­ the first woman to receive it since 1949. structuring of OEO in its proper per­ tling of the war on poverty isn't news-at least not big news. It's very simple; it doesn't A personal friend for many years, I have spective. For those who have had the concern a hell of a lot of people. For sure seen first-hand the inspired and dedi­ opportunity to study what Mr. Phillips is it doesn't concern the poor. Whatever benefits cated efforts she has devoted to all her doing at OEO, they will realize that he is the poor derived from OEO, if any, are so activities. I certainly consider her one revitalizing aid to the poor by redirect­ small as to defy measurement. It wasn't food; of Hayward's most outstanding people. ing programs which have had a miser­ that came from the Department of Agricul­ An article follows: able history of failure. ture. Certainly not education, or health care; Actually then, it would appear that those dollars came from HEW. Jobs? Accord­ DISTINGUISHED CITIZEN FOR 1972 ing to one authoritative source, 25 per cent Born and raised in Hayward, Miss Fujii Mr. Phillips is creating good news. of the nation's Blacks still live at Roosevelt­ is involved in the family wholesale nursery I submit the following article from the era depression levels. business, Fujii Co., Inc., and its retail outlet, April issue of the Colorado Monthly Re­ You can't stage a play without players. The Fujii's Florist, at 24949 Soto Road. view for the RECORD: would-be actors in this latest, Fourth Estate, During World War II, she and most of her FAT CATS SKINNED--SO \VHO CARES? Ltd., production are just too hip to go for family were placed in a concentration camp (By Clarke Watson) it. They're not going to march so some pov­ in Utah. After a year there, she gained ad­ erty chieftain can continue to draw down mission to the University of Wisconsin, from The OEO brouhaha is being fed and fanned $30,000 annually while they can't get up which she graduated with majors in botany by the press. Both national and local media thirty bucks to fend off the landlord. Pe::J­ and art history. Miss Fujii's interests are have embarked upon a course whereby they ple aren't going to mobilize so some jive varied. In private life they include cooking, alone are generating, indeed fomenting dis­ talkin' pre-OEO hustler can maintain writing Haiku poetry, attending art shows, content. In the tradition of Hollywood they blondes, Cadillacs and plastic high-rise apart­ concerts and plays, hiking and travel. She are writing the script, setting the stage and ments on poverty payroll checks. No way, takes great pride and interest in her Japa­ casting the roles of good guys and bad guys. since the homes of the poor are not safely nese heritage. But unlike Hollywood, whose audiences are ensconsed behind chandeliered lobbies and As for her public life, she's been quoted generally apathetic fantasy-seekers, the au­ braided doormen, and love, not blondes is im­ as saying: "You can either sit at home and dience of the press is stimulated to action by portant--indeed a factor of survival in the rot or you can get involved. And you'd better what it sees and reads. Accusations and cold, impersonal world of the ghetto. get involved." counteraccusations are lodged. Name calling And that, fellow journalists, is the breaks. She has. Like the 16 years she's spent as and threats occur. You can't have drama without dramatis per­ a member of the Hayward branch of the The Selling of the Pentagon was a prime sonae. You're dealing with a tempest in a American Association of University Women. example of how so-called innocent public teapot which, in retrospect, is quite unfortu­ Or having been president of the District rela,tions was in fact a deliberate Def3nse nate since so many real, significant, heart­ Agricultural Association, which puts on the Department mass communications effort to rendering problems still confront the nation. annual California Spring Garden Show. influence the American public. Yet the But apparently these problems are too sensi­ Or becoming the first woman director on American press indulges in its own brand of tive for an "enlightened" press to perceive. the AC Transit District board. Pentagonism every day in order to urge peo­ She is a board member of the Oakland­ ple to buy its products and accept its legiti­ Southern Alameda County branch of the macy. American Red Cross, a member of the Ala­ The press role in interpreting-or more SHORTAGE OF FOOD meda County Commission for the Prevention accurately misinterpreting-facts and events of Juvenile Delinquency, a charter member concerning OEO is shocking, and its underly­ of the Hayward Area Historical Society, a ing motives appalling. Before we get into HON. WM. JENNINGS BRYAN DORN 10-year member and past president of the specifics let's look more closely at the mo­ OF SOUTH CAROLINA Hayward Human Relations Commission, a tives: The war (Vietnam) has wound down IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES member of the St. Rose Hospital advisory and all the romanticism of apple-pie-faced board and an executive board member of the POW's kissing God, the soil, and Nixon is Thursday, May 10, 1973 Democratic State Central Committee. still not enough to fill the void. Indeed it In addition, she has been a member for 26 can't. The simple reason being you can't re­ Mr. DORN. Mr. Speaker, it is not too years of the Eden Township chapter of the place bad news with good news. Media mo­ late to plant a garden and fight inflation Japanese-American Citizens League and is guls are starving for bad news, need it in the and the high cost of food. I commend to active in the East Bay chapter of the San quantity it was being cranked out of South­ the attention of my colleagues and to Francisco Ballet Guild. She is also a member east Asia. Unfortunately downed airliners, the American people my newsletter urg­ of the American Carnation Society and the the covert war in Laos and Cambodia, the ing the planting of vegetables and Northern California Carnation Growers Soci­ money crisis and the usual glut of murder flowers: ety. and mayhem just don't quite fill the pages left empty by the war's cessation. MAY 7, 1973. Now for the specifics: OEO, given the press' FOOD SHORTAGE? way, is a godsend. The fire and brimstone of You can fight high food prices by planting NEW DffiECTIONS OF OEO ARE domestic discord, which sold so much copy a garden. We have had a cold, wet, late spring GOODNEWS in the '60s, just possibly could be fanned so now is a good time to plant beans, peas, anew. (Perhaps should be-but that's an­ corn, tomatoes, and other home-grown vege­ other subject.) So in its desperation the tables. Try some okra. There are over 300 HON. JOHN E. HUNT press has seized upon OEO with all the fer­ known recipes for preparing okra. Clemson OF NEW JERSEY vor of a cheap Hollywood thriller. Howard University has developed over 90 varieties of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Phillips is portrayed in the March 5 issue okra. It is not too late to set out onions. of Newsweek as "OEO chief and executioner" Two years ago we could buy onions for 12c Thursday, May 10, 1973 because of his role in phasing out OEO. On a lb.-now onions are 39c a lb. and may not Mr. HUNT. Mr. Speaker, one of the March 2 the Denver Post ran two pieces criti­ be available at all later this year due to a major questions concerning the restruc­ cizing the OEO cutback, and one that sup­ blight on onions in some sections of the ported it. And shame on Straight Creek Jour­ country. turing of OEO is to how best define those nal, the local "alternative" newspaper. They Tomatoes can be grown almost anywhere­ individuals who are upset by such ac­ should know better. Nevertheless they ran even on the 39th fioor of apartment build­ tivities. The poor are certainly not dis­ two tear-jerking articles in successive Feb­ ings, next to sidewalks, vacant lots and near turbed because the poor never re­ ruary issues which, if anything, simply re­ your shrubbery. Congressman Tom Steed of ceived any substantive benefits from flect their gross misunderstanding of poverty Oklahoma once grew 3¥2 bushels of tomatoes OEO. The poverty bureaucrats are con­ and what it's all about. on one vine during one summer and fall­ But alas, the actors are refusing to coop- branches from this plant extended for 18 ft. cerned but they are a very small groUP. erate. A mere 20,000 people (OEO employees on a trellis. Surplus tomatoes, beans, cucum­ Yet someone must be concerned because and relatives) descended on Washington to bers, peas, butterbeans, etc., can be canned OEO has received a great deal of pub­ protest the poverty cuts as compared to the at home or frozen for winter consumption. licity in the past few months. 400,000 (poor) of the good ol' Martin Luther Butterbeans, peas can be dried for winter In the final analysis, after the above King days. No one has shot Howard Phillips food supply. My mother in depression days 15388 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 10, 1973 w~uld soak dried peas overnight and cook taxpaying citizens from handicapped throughout my district in a mobile con­ slowly over fire in woodstove with hambone­ people too often neglected by our so­ nothing better on cold winter days with gressional office. "crackling cornbread." ciety. As you can imagine nearly everyone Dr. T. L. Senn, of Clemson University, re­ Job training, rehabilitation services, of the more than 500 people I personally cently said: "Everyone needs something to and full-and part-time employment are talked with was upset and worried over do, something to love and something to hope offered to those suffering from a wide high prices. for." Clemson's "Garden for the Blind" is range of physical, mental, and emotional Two constituents of mine, Mr. and an inspiration to the handicapped, the lone­ handicaps. Mrs. Joseph Price, stopped by my office ly, the mentally ill, as well as to the elderly Used, reparable items, donated to and during our discussion gave me an and the young. Blind children are employed Goodwill instead of being added to our to work in this garden-a blind man con­ editorial which appeared in the April is­ ducts tours of sightless people through the overloaded trash heaps, are refurbished sue of the American Association of Re­ garden "showing" the sights through his own and sold by the handicapped workers. tired Persons Bulletin. blind eyes. I was once thrilled to have blind The sales provide most of the working I found the article's logic and sly hu­ children show me flowers and vegetables capital for Goodwill, with the Goodwill mor impeccable and I would like to in­ they had raised. If you are concerned about Industrial Shop and other contributions troduce it to the RECORD for the informa­ your health, plant a garden. If you are tense, making up the rest. tion of my colleagues. plant a garden. Plant a garden of vegetables Mr. Speaker, I know from first-hand and flowers. It is the b-est ment al and physi­ FOOD PRICES: WHO SHOULD Do WHAT? cal therapy known. observation that the Buffalo Goodwill Somebody should be doing something Last spring a friend from Alabama brought Industries, Inc., performs a tremendous­ about skyrocketing food prices. The p1·oblem by truck thousands of tomato plants to ly fine job in our community. At this is who should do what. Washington and gave them to city "folks." time, 425 men and women are employed- The President says the greatest and most It was a thrill to stand with Mr. Jim Paulk 425 men and women doing an honest powerful weapon against high prices is the and hear teenagers ask what the plants were day's work for an honest day's wages, American housewife. She should not buy ex­ and how to make them grow. One boy about rather than being hopelessly consigned pensive foods. 14 couldn't believe that these little green to public relief. The agriculture secretary says we should plants would grow and bear fruit like the eat cheese, not meat. red tomatoes in the supermarkets. It is estimated that if only half of The chairman of the House Ways and Demonstrations, boycotts and roll-back by these people were unemployed, the tax­ Means Committee says that the way people government decree of meat prices is not the payers' cost would be $148,400 every week. with limited means might handle the prob­ answer to high prices. Many farmers could be Instead, they are not only putting their lem is to eat more fish. forced out of business (50,000 farms closed money into the area economy, but also And the President's consumer affairs ad­ last year), and the consumer confronted paying an average $6,025 in combined visor suggests we vary our diets and not over­ with food rationing. The answer is increased look organ meats . . . liver, kidneys, hearts taxes each week. and brains. "The cheaper cuts," says Virginia production of food and fiber. I urge South The Buffalo Goodwill Industries can be Carolina farmers to plant more corn, silage, Knauer, "can be turned into gourmet meals hay and grain to fight high costs and short­ justly proud of the fine work they are with spices." ages of feed grains for cattle, poultry and doing. They have recently received a One national columnist predict s the Presi­ hogs. I inspected flood damage yesterday in letter from the President, congratulating dent will soon have to impose "a hard freeze Mississippi Valley-10 million acres are still them, and I am inserting the text of that on all food prices." Another says he better flooded. Even with the best of weather in letter as part of my remarks. not do that, since that tactic has always pro­ May and June this will affect feed grain and The theme "A Matter of Goodwill ... duced more problems than solutions. food prices. We could be faced with a meat Farmers and cattle raisers say it's not Helping the Handicapped Help Them­ their fault. Processors and retailers disclaim shortage, rationing and black market. selves," is a commendable one. I com­ Mark on your calendar the annual South responsibilit y. Carolina Festival of Flowers to be held in mend the Goodwill Industries for living It's apparently nobody's fault and every­ Greenwood July 26 through 29. This fantas­ up to their theme: body's problem. But as is always the case tic festival was attended last year by thou­ THE WHITE HOUSE, with inflation, it is peculiarly a problem for sands from throughout America. This year's Washington, D .O., April12, 1973. older Americans living in limited, fixed in­ program featuring garden displays and flower National Goodwill Week, May 6-12, cele­ comes. arrangements, concerts, art and the Army's brat es the remarkable achievements of a Too many of them can't even afford the world famous Golden Knights will be one of superb American instit ution dedicated to cheaper cuts. Much less the spices. the outstanding :flower fest ivals in the coun­ creating greater opportunities for the dis­ try. Plant :flowers for the festival and en­ abled citizens of our nation. hance our environment and beautification "A Matter of Goodwill ... Helping the program. Handicapped Help Themselves" the 1973 THE BILL OF RIGHTS PROTECTS For information, bulletins, etc. about gar­ theme chosen by Goodwill Industries of YOU dening contact the County Farm Agent and America is upheld in a successful history of Home Demonstration Agent in your County humanitarian work. Court House, or write me at Greenwood or Training handicapped people for useful HON. GEORGE E. BROWN, JR. Washington, D.C. office. Your High School work, and helping them to overcome the ef­ OF CALIFORNIA fects of their disabilities are services for agriculture teacher will also be happy to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES advise you. which Goodwill is recognized throughout the Growing flowers and vegetables is the best nation. Its contributions to the development Thursday, May 10, 1973 medicine and fights in:fiation too. Plant now. of new knowledge in this important area are equally significant. Mr. BROWN of California. Mr. Speak­ On this traditional occasion, I commend er, I occasionally am asked by a con­ the disinguished reputation of Goodwill In­ stituent why I take such a strong posi­ dustries of America, and I ask my fellow citi­ tion in defense of the Bill of Rights when A SALUTE TO BUFFALO GOODWILL zens to support the voluntary efforts em­ the administration and many Members INDUSTRIES, INC. braced by this special week. of Congress seem to consider it little RICHARD NIXON. more than an obstacle in the path of law HON. THADDEUS J. DULSKI and order. People wonder if such formal­ OF NEW YORK ities as the need for search warrants do not, in fact, merely protect criminals IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SPICES MAKE CHEAPER MEAT CUTS from the police. After all, I am asked, Thursday, May 10, 1973 TASTE BETTER: BUT WHO CAN what would anyone have to hide or what AFFORD SPICES Mr. DULSKI. Mr. Speaker, the week of are they afraid of, if they did not do any­ May 6-12 has been proclaimed National thing wrong? Goodwill Week, and it is a pleasure for HON. WILLIAM S. MOORHEAD Well, Mr. Speaker, I think I could make me to take this opportunity to salute the OF PENNSYLVANIA a pretty good speech in favor of the Bill Goodwill Industries of America. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of Rights if it were necessary, but I think Goodwill Industries is one of our coun­ I can better answer those questions with try's most outstanding examples of com­ Thursday, May 10, 1973 a newspaper article-an article which aP­ bining humanity and compassion with Mr. MOORHEAD of Pennsylvania. Mr. peared in the Sun-Telegram of San the American free-enterprise system­ Speaker, during the Eastern congres­ Bernardino on April 21 of this year. 1 and making productive, self-sufficient, sional recess I visited 22 locations This is not a particularly unusual May 10, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 15389 ·article; I have seen many similar to it and my wife. They had our hands behind our ignored, as it was in these cases. The and I am sure that I will see more of backs. I was in my underwear and she was in her negligee." next time that I am asked, "What's so them in the future. But I am also sure "One agent," Giglotto said, held a cocked important about the Bill of Rights?" I that the incidents described in this pistol to his head and said, "You're a dead think I will merely show my questioner a article would be far more common if we man. I'm going to kill you, you son of a copy of this newspaper article, and re­ did not have our American Bill of Rights. bitch." The man, Giglotto said, called his wife mind him: Next time it could be your The article reads as follows: a bitch and, not knowing they were married, home, and yom· family, and perhaps even "MISTAKE" DRUG RAIDS SPREAD '!'ERROR suggested she was an adulteress. your life, that may be endangered by IN TWO HOMES "Just shut your mouth or I'll kill you," authorities who ignore our Bill of Rights. (By Dennis Montgomery) Giglotto quoted the man as saying after he was asked to identify himself. The man re­ COLLINSVILLE, IlL-Herbert Giglotto, 29, portedly told Mrs. Giglotto he would kill her and his wife, Louise, 28, had gone to bed at husband if he did not tell her where the about 8 p.m. drugs they sought were hidden. PROTECTION OF CIVILIAN "At about 9:30 we hear this crash. We hear With 15 raiders in the room and more EMPLOYEES this screaming. I take about three steps out downstairs, Giglotto said his wife was plead­ of my bed and I see these hippies with guns," ing for his life. Giglotto asked, "Please look Giglotto recalled yesterday. "I told my wife, at my identification before you kill me." HON. BILL FRENZEL 'My God, we're dead'." None did, he said. He added the only identi­ OF MINNESOTA Across town at another home, Donald fication the Giglottos were shown was a gold IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Askew, 40, had just sat down to dinner with badge flashed by one of the intruders. Only his wife, Virginia, 37, and their 16-year-old Mrs. Giglotto caught a glimpe of it. Thursday, May 10, 1973 son, Michael. He looked out the window, he As they lay trussed across the bed, Gig­ Mr. FRENZEL. Mr. Speaker, yesterday remembered, and saw several armed men in lotto said, another raider walked up the the yard. stairs and announced, "Oh, I think we made I introduced H.R. 7677, a bill designed to Seconds later, he said, the men were at the a mistake." protect civilian employees of our execu­ door, trying to kick it in. Askew called to They had torn the house apart and found tive branch in the enjoyment of their his wife to phone the police. She fainted. nothing. The front room was a. shambles, constitutional rights and to prohibit un­ Askew told his son to run for his life. littered with books, overturned furniture warranted invasions of their privacy. It The armed men who forced their nay into and a. smashed television set. Released from is the same bill as S. 1688 which has been the Askew and Giglotto homes last Monday his handcuffs, Giglotto tried to put on his introduced and championed by Senator were conducting narcotics raids. They came pants, he said, but a. raider ripped them out on the raids with no warning and apparently of his hands. ERVIN. no warrant. They left when the raids turned "They were as rude leaving as they were In introducing this bill, I wish to ex­ out to be a mistake. coming," Giglotto said. He said he followed press my thanks to the distinguished Myles J. Ambrose, director of the federal them downstairs, demanding an explanation, Senator from North Carolina, Mr. ERVIN. Drug Abuse Enforcement Program and a shouting: "My God, you just kicked in my His leadership and dedicated efforts have special assistant attorney general, said yes­ door, threatened to kill me and my wife, produced this bill, which is designed to terday it is his "understanding" that the can you tell me what's happening?" protect the rights of our Federal civilian men were agents from the program's St. Giglotto said one of the armed men turned Louis office. and replied, "Shut your mouth, boy." employees. Paul Cigliana, Collinsville police chief, con­ Askew said the raid on his home began Senator ERVIN has managed to pass his firmed that the raids were conducted by a as they were beginning a late dinner after proposal in the Senate on four separate "strike force" of federal narcotics agents he had stayed overtime at the service station occasions. In each case the bill has died, from the St. Louis office. he runs in East St. Louis. as it did in the 92d Congress, here in the Cigliana said he believed that policemen Askew thought his son had been in a. fight from some municipal police forces in the area House. It is my understanding that hear­ with some other teenagers and the men he ings will b.:: conducted soon in the Post also participated, but he added, "I don't saw in the yard were coming to kill him. think there were too many of them." As he held the front door, Askew said yes­ Office and Civil Service Committee. This Cigliana said no policemen from his de­ terday, two men knocked down the back year, I hope that a thorough study of this partment were involved. A spokesman from door and leveled two riot guns at him. A bill in that committee will demonstrate the Madison County sheriff's office said, "As man at the front door flashed a gold badge to the committee members the need for far as I know there was no cooperation from and Askew let them in. legislation of this kind and that the bill this department." Five men, all dressed as hippies, searched will become law this year. No remarks Federal narcotics offi-cials from the St. the house, looking for a suspect, Askew said. that I could make about this bill would Louis office could not be reached yesterday, Askew said they showed no warrant. As­ but had declined comment earlier. Askew kew asked to see a badge again. A man who be more clear or more persuasive than said the men gave him the telephone num­ gave his name as Ted Williams flashed his, those used by Senator ERVIN on page ber of the office to verify their identities. Askew said, but all he could read was "spe­ 13987 Of the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD on Two days after the raids, Ambrose issued cial agent" before the badge was put away. May 2 when he introduced the bill. a statement: "I have directed an inspection Mrs. Askew, lying on the couch, revived. It is time to give better legislative pro­ team to thoroughly investigate this matter. She saw the men with the guns and fainted tection to our concept of a free society. If any federal agents have acted improperly, again. When she revived again one of the I believe that we should guarantee our appropriate action will be taken. Under no raiders told her "Take it easy, lady. We're circumstances will I permit my agents to vio­ really federal officers." employees, regardless of grade or status, late anyone's constitutional rights." Askew said the men were polite. "Outside a full respect for their liberties and free­ Contacted at his Chevy Chase, Md., home, of kicking the door and scaring the hell out doms. I m·ge that H.R. 7677 receive the Ambrose said yesterday. "The investigation is of us, they were all right." serious consideration that it deserves in being conducted. When I have all the facts I Satisfied the man they sought was not this House. will take appropriate action." in the Askew home, one of the intruders Ambrose, asked whether the investigation said, "We just got a wrong tip." The men is top priority, said, "You bet your sweet life refused, however, to let Mrs. Askew call the it is." police, and showed no other identification. Before the raiders left without apologies, Askew said he asked the men to remain SOVIETS USE REGIONAL GOVERN­ Giglotto said he and his wife had been at the house while he tried to learn if they MENT TO OPPRESS MINORITY threatened, bound, insulted and their apart­ really were federal agents. He said the leader OPPOSITION ment left in shambles. of the group told him, "No, I can't. I got Three weeks before, his complaints about four other places to go." two young men in the next apartment had Askew said none of his family has ever HON. JOHN R· RARICK caused their eviction. The two men were had anything to do with narcotics. "The OF LOUISIANA suspected of dealing in drugs and Giglotto only way I knew to get drugs is at the drug IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES said he was outraged. store,'' he said. His first thought, he said in an interview The Askews have filed a $lOO,OOO damage Thursday, May 10, 1973 yesterday, was that the young men had come suit in U.S. District Court at Springfield. Mr. RARICK. Mr. Speaker. reports back to settle the score. The Giglottos were to meet with their lawyer "I've never had anything to do with nar­ this morning to determine what course to of persecution of Soviet Je"s by the cotics," Giglotto, a boilermaker, said. "I hate take. Communist regime in Moscow have it. I've never had anything to do with drugs rraised outraged condemnation of the and my wife never has." Mr. Speaker, what happened to the actions in the United States. And rightly The men did not identify themselves, he Giglottos and the Askews could happen so. said, and showed no warrant. "They knocked to any one of us, or to any one of my Amendments prohibiting granting me down across the bed and handcuffed me constituents, if the Bill of Rights were "most favored nation" trade treatment 15390 'EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 'May 10, 1973 to any Communist country that denies party boss Leonid Brezhnev and replaced might be modified if they were not in keep­ its citizens the right to emigrate, have Pyotr Shelest late last year as Ukrainian ing with efficient economic regions. overseer. In an effort to shift the focus from the been offered to the administration's trade At the Kiev meeting, Shcherbitsky ordered political sensibilities of the various ethnic bill by both Houses of Congress. Indica­ party activists to work in the "spirit of mer­ areas to one of national efficiency, Soviet in­ tions are that the Soviet Union may have cilessness" toward any "xnanifestations of forxnation media have also been working relaxed its restrictive policies against bourgeois nationalism" in the Ukraine. hard to generate an over-all "Soviet" na­ the Jewish minority to a small degree. Like Brezhnev, he fears that dissidents in tionalism and a national pride in economic However, systematic discrimination the Ukraine and other republics will form an achievements to replace the fragmented eth­ and persecution directed against other active alliance with the persecuted Human nic loyalties among the country's hundred­ ethnic, religious, and national minorities Rights movement. odd nationalities. continues not only as a governmental The Ukrainians, forming the largest non­ REPUBLICS JEALOUS OF RIGHTS Russian population in the Soviet Union, have The new regional planning pTogram is an policy, but as a daily fact of life in the long struggled for more political and cultural Soviet Union. For some reason, the plight attempt to depart from existing republic freedom. In the late fifties many Ukrainians boundaries in allocating capital investment of these captive people has largely were alarmed by Soviet Premier Nikita to the development of the Soviet economy. gone unreported in the national press. Khrushchev's plans for a gradual "coming to­ In the past the various republics have voye Yet stories of the merciless "Russifica­ gether" and even "merging" of the Soviet Khozyaistvo (Planned Economy). tion" of such formerly autonomous na­ nations. A progress report on the drafting of the tions as the Ukraine and the imprison­ They now fear that Brezhnev will attempt 15-year plan said that the existing system to systematically destroy all national feeling * * * been jealous of their prerogatives as ment and death of those who resist, con­ in the Ukraine through extremely repressive tinue to trickle out from behind the Iron integral economic regions within the Soviet police measures. The series of so-called trials Union. Curtain. in Ukrainian cities recently point up their The potentially far-reaching decision to A recent report from Vienna tells of fears. Late last year a Ukrainian art teacher, establish the new consolidated national more than 200 intellectuals, critical of Alexander Sergienko, was jailed for seven planning regions was disclosed in the April Russian ru1e of the Ukraine, who were years at hard labor to be followed by a fur­ issue of the Government's planning journal, sent to prison camps. The repressive ac­ ther three years in exile for demanding self­ Plan o, of 18 planning regions, which followed determination in the Ukraine. republic boundaries, had been revised into a tion was taken by the Kremlin in an ef­ Other defendants in the trial received sen­ fort to stamp out all nationalistic feel­ set of seven consolidated regions----three in tences ranging from 3 to 15 years. the European part of the Soviet Union and ing being expressed by historians, Several Jews have been arrested in the cur­ four in the Asian part. archeologists, artists, and writers. rent clampdown. The trial opened at the The three European regions that figure in In other efforts to "u1timately erode beginning of April of Isaak Shkolnik, who the 1975-90 plan are a combined UDrth­ the significance of Soviet ethnic repub­ was originally accused of being a. "British central region, a southern region, and a. lics," a regional government system, spy." Part of the "evidence" introduced at combined Volga-Urals region. The four Asian the trial, held in the social club of a brick­ regions are Siberia, the Far East, Kazakhstan which reduces the 15 former republics works in Vinnitsa, was a radio "tuned to the into 7 "planning regions," has quiet­ and Central Asia. frequency of a hostile station" and a five­ In reducing the existing 18 planning re­ ly begun. The plan, put forth by Com­ dollar bill. gions to seven, Soviet planners were evi­ munist Party boss Leonid I. Brezhnev, Dissident sources say scores of intellectuals dently concerned with producing a system or wou1d liquidate any trace of old ethnic have been sentenced to lengthy jail terms for planning areas that would be of roughly boundaries within 15 years and eliminate far slighter evidence. similar economic potential and area. The all minority opposition. existing system includes both small, densely I :find the possibility of extending U.S. [From the New York Times, May 4, 1973] settled regions of European Russia and the taxpayer's money to the Soviet Union SOVIET lS REGROUPING ITS 15 REPUBLICS INTO vast, virtuaJly undeveloped expanses or in the form of subsidized food sales, low­ 7 BIG PLANNING REGIONS Siberia. (By Theodore Shabad) In allocating four regions to the Asian part interest loans or outright gifts totally of the Soviet Union and only three regions incompatible with cherished American Moscow, May 3.-The Soviet Union has quietly begun a controversial consolidation to the developed European portion, the eco­ ideals of freedom and justice. of its national planning regions that may nomic planners appeared to focus on the fu­ Extending to the Soviets preferential ultixnately erode the significance of individ­ ture development of the Asian potential. trade treatment, amounts little more ual Soviet ethnic republics as economic The consolidation of planning regions has than approval of the represslve policies affected the interests of individual republics, planning and management areas. especially in the European west. For example, against minority dissent in that country. A new seven-region system grouping re­ the Baltic republics and the Byelorussian I insert the following related news­ publics into larger planning units has been Republic have been combined with the ad­ clippings at this point: adopted in connection with the drafting of joining Leningrad and Moscow regions of [From the Houston Tribune, May 3, 1973] an ambitious 15-year plan that will outline the Russian Republic in the new north­ basic investment and development policies central region. RUSSIAN SECRET PoLICE STRIKE IN UKRAINE for the Soviet Union until 1990. (By Alan Dean) Similarly the new southern region com­ The consolidated regional system, which is bines five republics----Moldavia, the Ukraine, VIENNA.-More than 200 intellectuals have being introduced in the face of persistent Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan-with the been reported sent to prison camps from the nationalistic sensibilities, is part of a grow­ northern Caucasus portion of the Russian Ukraine this year as the Soviet KGB, secret ing trend to ignore particular interests of the Republic. police, carry out Kremlin orders to stamp out republics in an effort to achieve more effi­ The now separate Volga and Urals regions a growing struggle for national rights in the cient coordination and long-term planning are being combined into a Volga-Urals region vast Soviet republic. of the complex Government-run economy. to point up common problems of develop­ One of the leading critics of Russian rule The detailed local planning of economic ment. The Volga-Urals has been one of the in the Ukraine, Vyacheslav Chornovil, ar­ development will, at least for the immediate most rapidly growing sections of the Soviet rested during the present police campaign, future, continue at the republic level. But Union in recent decades. has been sentenced to 12 years' jail. Chornovil the basic, over-all national development pol­ had an exemplary record as a dedicated Com­ icies will in future be based on the new re­ munist until 1967, when he was jailed for gional planning units. [From the New York Times, Apr. 13, 1973] The regional reform was foreshadowed last three years for compiling and sending to the 105 JEWS, REFUSED Exrr VISAS BY SOVIET, authorities an expose of judicial violations December by Leonid I. Brezhnev, the Soviet APPEAL TO CONGRESS party leader, in a keynote speech marking perpetrated by the KGB in the Ukraine in (By Theodore Sha.bad) 1965-66. the 50th anniversary of the formation of the Dissident sources say anybody vaguely sus­ Soviet Union as a nominal federation of re­ Moscow, April 12.-More than 100 Soviet pected of resisting forcible Russification and publics. Jews who have been refused exit visas to demanding more cultural and political au­ Now that a relatively common level of de­ Israel appealed to the United States Congress tonomy for the Soviet Union's 40 million velopment has been reached by the various in an open letter today not to be misled by Ukrainians has been interrogated. Many have republics, Mr. Brezhnev said, future eco­ a.n apparent lifting of high emigration taxes. been sent to the infamous "psychiatric" hos­ nomic decision-making in the 15-year plan Ten Jewish activists, in making public the pitals to be drugged into subinission. should be for the good of the country as a appeal at a news conference, contended that At a recent Communist Party meeting in whole rather than focus on the interests of Soviet emigration curbs remained unchanged Kiev, the new Ukrainian party boss, Vladimir individual republics. and that exit permits were being granted Shcherbitsky, accused historians, archaeolo­ Mr. Brezhnev's broad policy statement was on a highly selective basis. gists, artists and writers in the republic of amplified by more detailed proposals in eco­ The activists, who included some promi­ stressing Ukrainian history and "national nomic and technical journals, some of which nent figures in science and the arts, also ex­ exclusiveness." went so far as to suggest that the boundaries pressed concern over what they described as Shcherbitsky is a close associate of Soviet of some of the Soviet Union's 15 republics a new series of trials, searches and interro- May 10, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS '15391 gations of Jews in various parts of the Leonid Tasassuk, former museum curator, awareness of the necessity for control of the country. and their families be permitted to leave. Federal Budget. I am enclosing a copy for The news conference today, which illus­ your information. trated the plight of the hard core of would­ The Committee was recently formed for be Jewish emigrants, came two days after the purpose of conducting an educational President Nixon sent his long-awaited trade BUDGET CONTROL YES, CRUCIFIX­ campaign to acquaint the public with the bill to Congress. The bill would give the Presi­ ION OF DOMESTIC PROGRAMS implication of excessive federal spending, and dent authority to grant lower tariffs to Com­ to generate public support for fiscal restraint. munist countries, including the Soviet NO-JOHN MOSS TELLS 'EM As you can see from the partial list in the Union. advertisement, our membership includes rep­ NIXON-CONGRESS DISPUTE HON. ROBERT L. LEGGETT resentatives of business, labor, professional However, majorities in bot h houses of Con­ and civic organizations from all parts of the gress, evidently aroused over reported curbs OF CALIFORNIA country. We believe that our country cannot on free movement of Soviet citizens, have IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES afford to continue overspending its revenues offered amendments barring preferential Thursday, May 10, 1973 as it h as done in the past. The crucial matters trade treatment or credits to any Communist now before the Congress-the proposed budg­ nation that denies its citizens the right to Mr. LEGGETT. Mr. Speaker, recently et for fiscal 1973 through 1975-deserve the emigrate. The Nixon Administration has my good friend and distinguished col­ most careful consideration, because what is asked Congress not to link the trade bill to league, the Honorable JOHN Moss, en­ at stake is the health of the country's econ­ other issues. gaged in a revealing dialog with the omy. As President Nixon pointed out in his It was in the context of this controversy recent address, excessive Federal spending that the Jewish activists today summoned Citizens for the Control of Federal over the next three years will present us with Western newsmen to the home of Kirill Hen­ Spending. the unacceptable condition of rising t axes kine, prominent journalist and translator, Mr. Moss pointed out to Mr. David accompanied at the same time with in­ who lives in a prestigious complex on the Packard of the citizens group that while creasing inflation. Moscow River. a majority of Americans believe that A large majority of the American people­ The meeting had been quietly arranged Federal spending is the greatest single more than seventy percent, according t o re­ through private contacts because the Soviet cause of inflation, that same majority cent polls by Sindlinger and Market Opinion Research-are in favor of Federal budget authorities generally frown on the holding also believes that Federal spending of unauthorized news conferences and might restraint and opposed to a tax increase. Ac­ have broken up the gathering if aware of should be increased for programs to curb cording to a Harris poll, seventy-four per­ it. The Soviet Constitution grants freedom air and water pollution and decreased for cent believe that Federal spending is the of assembly provided it is judged in the Defense Department programs. The greatest single cause of inflation. Public interest of the Soviet state, and the criminal President has not done this. Instead of opinion, then, is clearly on the side of re­ code makes it a crime to circulate informa­ spending money on the domestic pro­ straining Federal spending to avert higher tion that is considered to defame the Soviet grams demanded by the people of this taxes and inflation. state and social system. Nation, the President has chosen to veto We believe that economy can be achieved In presenting the open letter to Congress, wit hout sacrificing programs which benefit signed by 105 Moscow Jews, Mr. Henkine one social need after another. At the the American people. We should continue to recalled another appeal last month by more same time his proposed budget includes a fund programs that are effective. However, than 300 persons from several cities asking $4 billion increase for the Pentagon. This we cannot allow increased spending on for Congressional help. increase comes at the end of the longest wasteful programs that do little more than "The decline in numbers reflects our de­ and costliest war in our history and at provide jobs for bureaucrats. Cuts must be teriorating situation," he said. "Because of the beginning of what Mr. Nixon has made in Federal programs which devote as intimidation and surveillance, it has become termed a "generation of peace." much as eighty percent of their resources to increasingly difficult to collect signatures salaries and expenses and only twenty per­ outside Moscow." I do believe that we are going to have cent to the work for which they were de­ The latest open letter said some people in to learn to live within the President's signed. In other words, the need for economy the West had apparently been impressed by $268 billion budget ceiling, and to do does not mean we must desert those in need. recent suspension of education taxes in an that, the Congress is going to have to In addition to reducing federal waste, con­ avowed Soviet Government move to appease reform its budgetary review procedures. trol of Federal spending will reduce inflation Congressional opposition to trade legislation. The Federal deficit this year alone is and stabilize taxes. These effects, in our opin­ "We would like to state," the four-page some $36 billion, and the total national ion, are not merely fringe benefits but neces­ letter said, "that there is nothing like free sities which we must achieve for all Amer­ emigration from this country. Just as before, debt will grow to a whopping $505 bil­ icans. Citizens for Control of Federal Spend­ the fate of all applicants for exit visas is not lion. Thankfully, the Joint Study Com­ ing believes that the Legislative and Execu­ determined by any law or even any pub­ mittee on Budget Control has produced tive Branches should cooperate in trimming lished regulations governing emigration. an excellent proposal that should suc­ Federal spending, eliminating ineffectual Everyone's fate is determined by unknown ceed in closing up the loopholes in the programs and designing a budget for the next people acting on unknown considerations current appropriation process. three years which stays within common­ in a totally arbitrary way. As Mr. Moss states- sense limits. By restraint now, we can achieve "It is not the education tax, but this a healthier economy for America in the fu­ arbitrariness that remains the chief method The issue is not simply to control Federal ture. used by the Soviet authorities in their selec­ spending, but to allocate public dollars more In line with his economy drive, President tive emigration policy." effectively, sagaciously and in a manner that Nixon recently vetoed the Vocational Reha­ An analysis of the social structure of Jew­ will most productively contribute to im­ bilitation Bill. This veto has been upheld by ish emigrants has shown, the letter to Con­ provement of the general welfare. the Senate. We believe that the decision to gress said, that many of the 2,000 or so per­ sustain this veto indicates an increasing sons leaving the Soviet Union each month We know where the President's priori­ awareness of the propriety of limiting Fed­ are people with little education or low pro­ ties lie-in the bombing of Cambodia, eral spending. fessional skills from such areas as Georgia, and the appropriation of billions of dol­ More recently the President also vetoed central Asia and Moldavia. lars for unnecessary, cost-ineffective H.R. 3298-an Act to restore the rural water On the other hand, the letter said, visas weapons programs. It is up to the Con­ and sewer grant program. We hope that you, were often :refused to skilled professionals, gress to reorder the President's topsy­ as a Member of Congress, will continue to in­ especially in the pure sciences and in engi­ turvy set of national priorities, and al­ sist on careful and responsible budgeting. As neering, which are viewed as prestigious locate Federal money in those areas the Congress proceeds with its consideration occupations in the Soviet Union. of the budget, our group intends to continue Among those present at the news confer­ where the people of this Nation need to promote public awareness of the issue. ence were Veniamin G. Levich, an electro­ and want it most. and to give our support through testimony chemist who is corresponding member of At this point in the RECORD I WOUld and through the media to measures designed the Academy of Sciences, Aleksandr Y. like to insert the full text of the cor­ to keep the Federal budget under control. Lerner, a computer specialist, and Veniamin respondence between Mr. Moss and Mr. We look forward to working with you, and P . Gorokhov, a screen writer. Packard for the benefit of my colleagues: would like to hea-r yom· views on this issue. Sincerely, CITIZENS FOR CONTROL OF FEDERAL SPENDING, DAVID PACKARD, JACKSON APPEALS FOR 2 Washington, D.C., April 9, 1973. Hon. JOHN E. Moss, Chairman. WASHINGTON, April 12.-Senator Henry M. U.S. House ot Representatives, [Advertisement in the Washington Post] Jackson has appealed to Leonid I. Brezhnev, Washington, D.C. the Soviet leader, to allow two prominent DEAR CONGRESSMAN Moss: Citizens for Con­ KEEP THE LID ON TAXES AND PRICES Soviet Jews to emigrate to Israel. trol of Federal Spending sponsored an ad­ WE SUPPORT PRESIDENTIAL AND CONGRESSIONAL In a letter to Mr. Brezhnev, Mr. Jackson vertisement in the Tuesday, April 3, Wash­ EFFORTS TO CONTROL FEDERAL SPENDING asked that Valery Panov, the dancer, and ington Post in an effort to increase public Americans have always had the ability to 15392 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 10, 1973 unite in order to accomplish great goals. As Dr. Martin Anderson, Senior Fellow-Hoover Henry Lucas, Jr., D.D.S., San Francisco, we now move to a peacetime economy, our Institution, Stanford University. California. nation needs a strong, viable government free R. Anderson, President, Rockwell Interna­ Winston W. Marsh, President, American of irresponsible spending and rising taxes tional Corp. Society of Association Executives, Executive and infiation. We can achieve this goal if E. M. Black, Chairman of the Board, United Vice President, Natl. Tire Dealers & Retread­ Americans unite-if we let our representa­ Brands Company. era Assoc. tives in Washington know that this is what Roger M. Blough, White & Case. S. M. McAshan, Jr., chairman, Anderson we want. Fred J. Borch, Retired Chairman, General Clayton & Co. Your elected representatives-your Sena­ Electric Company. Sanford N. McDonnell, President & Chief tors and Congressmen in Washington--de­ Gene E. Bradley, President, Int'l. Manage­ Executive Officer, McDonald Douglas Cor­ pend on you for guidance. They know how ment & Development Institute. poration. you feel only if you tell them. All too often, Leonard Briscoe, City Councilman, Ft. Gordon M. Metcalf, Former Chairman n1any of us take the democratic process for Worth., Texas. Sears, Roebuck and Company. ' granted-we assume that our representatives Robert J. Brown, Chairman of the Board, Paul I. Miller, President, The First Boston already know what we think, even though we B & C Associates, Inc. Corporation. haven't told them. And when this happens, Yale Brozen, Professor, University of Chi­ Howard Morgens, Chairman, Procter & the voices of a few special interests can have cago. Gamble. more effect than the will of millions of citi­ Louis W. Cabot, Chairman, Cabot Corpora­ Raymond J. Saulnier, Professor of Eco­ zens. tion. nomics, Bernard College. The issue of taxes and infiation affects each Norman Cahners, Chairman, Cahners Pub­ Franklin D. Schurz, Sr., President, South of us personally. Uncontrolled federal spend­ lishing Company. Bend Newspapers. ing over the next three fiscal years could force Dr. W. Glenn Campbell, Director, Hoover C. A. Scott, Publisher, Atlanta Daily World. a tax increase of as much as fifteen percent, Institution, Stanford University. Dr. Frederick Seitz, President, Rockefeller or cause a new wave of crippling inflation. Patrick Carr, Commander in Chief, Vet­ University. Yet we can have a budget which avoids ex­ era-ns of Foreign Wars. Theodore A. Serrill, Executive Vice Presi­ cessive spending, requires no new taxes, and George Champion, Chairman and Presi­ dent, National Newspaper Association. still provides sufficient funding for necessary dent, Economic Development Council of New Louise Shadduck, President, National Fed­ programs. The President has proposed one York City. eration of Press Women. such budget. Supported by responsible mem­ Albert L. Cole, Vice President and Director, C. D. Siverd, Chairman, American Cyana­ bers of Congress, it would limit federal Reader's Digest. mid Co. spending to $250 billion in fiscal year 1973, John Collins, Former Mayor of Boston. John F. Small, President, John F. Small, $268.7 billion fiscal 1974 and $288 billion in John T. Connor, Chairman of the Board, Inc. fiscal 1975. These limits, unless breached by Allied Chemical Corporation. Reverend Roland Smith, Citizens Trust irresponsible spending, will prevent tax in­ C. W. Cook, Chairman, General Foods Cor­ Bank of Atlanta. creases, curb infiation and pay for federal poration. Cha.rles H. Sommer, Jr., Chairman, Mon­ programs which have proved to be effective. Edward W. Cook, President, Cook Indus­ santo Company. A responsible spending program does not tries, Inc. Paul Thayer, Chairman, The LTV Cor­ involve any turning back of the clock. The Stewart S. Cort, Chairman, Bethlehem Steel poration. President's budget, for one example, pro­ Corporation. Charles C. Tillinghast, Jr., Chairman, vides the greatest sum ever committed for Ellwood F. Curtis, President, Deere & Com­ Trans World Airlines, Inc. human resources. Compared to four years pany. Joseph P. Tonelli, President, United Paper­ ago, it would spend 71 percent more to assist Dr. Maurice A. Dawkins, Executive Vice workers, International Union. older Americans, 67 percent more to help the Chairman, Opportunities Industrialization, Murray L. Weidenbaum, Former Assistant sick, 66 percent more for the poor, and more Centers of America. Secretary of the Treasury. than twice as much to feed the hungry and Russell DeYoung, Chairman of the Board, Louie Welch, Mayor, City of Houston, undernourished. Four years ago, 41 % of the The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Texas. federal budget was spent on Defense, and only c. Douglas Dillon, Former Secretary of the Samuel D. Winer, President, Jaycees. 37% for Human Resources. Today the priori­ Treasury. R. G. Wingerter, President, Libbey-Owens­ ties have been reversed: 47% goes to Human Roy V. Edwards, Chairman, Wilson & Co., Ford Company. Resources and only 30 percent for Defense. Inc. Bryce N. Harlow, Legislative Consultant. The goal of no new taxes can be reached­ Walter A. Fallon, President, Eastman H. Lee Choate, Executive Director. without infiation-only if Congress and the Kodak Company. Executive cooperate by trimming unneces­ Edmund B. Fitzgerald, Chairman, Cutler­ HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, sary spending and by terminating programs Hammer, Inc. Washington, D.C., April 27, 1973. which either aren't working at all or haven't Frank E. Fitzsimmons, General President, Mr. DAVID PACKARD, justified their expense. Tax money should Int'l. Brotherhood of Teamsters. Chairman, Citizens jor Control of Federal only be used for responsible programs that Johnny Ford, Mayor, City of Tuskegee, Spending, Washington, D.C. do work. Alabama. DEAR MR. PACKARD: Having carefully read we can't afford to take the democratic Henry Fowler, Former Secretary of the the advertisement in the Washington Post process for granted in this crucial matter. Treasury. (Tuesday, April 3rd) I was impressed with Take a few minutes to let your Congressman w. H. Franklin, Chairman, Caterpillar how much greater service might have been and your Senator know how you feel about Tractor Co. rendered in an effort to better inform the spending and taxes; ask your friends to help Henry Gadsden, Chairman, Merck & Co., citizenry of the budget precess if you would by communicating their views. U you would Inc. have been more candid, and indeed more like more information, write to Citizens for A. H. Galloway, Chairman, R. J. Reynolds truthful, in your attempt at public rela­ Control of Federal Spending. You owe it to Industries, Inc. tions. Indeed, a closer analysis of some of the yourself to join the fight-to control spend­ c. c. Garvin, Jr., President, Exxon Corpo­ "facts" you presented indicates that you ing, taxes and inflation. ration. and your committee have deliberately at­ Patrick E. Haggerty, Chairman, Texas In­ CITIZENS FOR CONTROL OF FEDERAL SPENDING tempted to muddy your waters to make them struments Incorporated. appear deep. Chairman Floyd D. Hall, Chairman & Chief Executive You state in your letter, for example, that David Packard, Chairman, Hewlett- Officer, Eastern Airlines. John D. Harper, Chairman, Aluminum "According to a Harris poll, 74 % (of the Packard. American people) believe that Federal spend­ Co-Chairmen Company of America. H. s. Houthakker, Harvard University. ing is the greatest single cause of inflation. John W. Byrnes, former Member of Con­ Public opinion, then, is clearly on the side Frederick G. Jaicka, Chairman, Inland of restraining Federal spending to avert gress. Steel Company. James Roosevelt, former Member of Con­ Elaine Jenkins, President, One America, higher taxes and inflation." gress. What you fail to mention is that in that Inc. same Harris poll, conducted between Decem­ Vice-Chairman Howard Johnson, Chairman of the Corpo­ ber 17th and 21st, 1972, 66 % of those inter­ Max Fisher, Chairman, Fisher-New Center ration, Massachusetts Institute of Tech­ viewed believed that Federal spending should Company. nology. be increased for programs to curb air and Mrs. Kermit V. Haugan, President, General Erik Johnson, Former Mayor of Dallas, water pollution and for aid to education. In Federation of Women's Clubs. Texas answer to such public opinion the President Donald M. Kendall, Chairman, PepsiCo Inc. Thomas V. Jones, Chairman of the Board vetoed H .R. 3298-an act to restore the rural Paul w. McCracken, Former Chairman, and President, Northrop Corporation. water and sewer grant program and plans to President's Council of Economic Advisers. Edgar F. Kaiser spend this year $515 million less for educa­ w. Allen Wallis, Economist, Rochester, New Dr. Asa S. Knowles, President, Northeast­ tion than in fiscal 1973. Indeed, the Presi­ York. ern University. dent's 1974 budget proposals include a $10 MEMBERS Franklin A. Lindsay, President, ITEK Cor­ billion cut in key domestic programs. T. M. Alexander, Sr., President, Alexander poration. The Harris poll also indicated that a ma­ jority of Americans (55%) opposes any in- & Associates. Hobart Lewis, President, Reader's Digest. May 10J 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 15393 crease in Federal spending for research and Nixon nor the Citizens for Control of Federal be going back but not to live there. He'll development of the nation's defense system. Spending seem to understand. try to salvage what's left of his personal Yet, Mr. Nixon's military budget calls for an You asked, Mr. Packard, to hear my views belongings. increase of $8 billion over the next two fiscal on the issue of controlling Federal spend­ He left Wounded Knee that night in Feb­ years. As a result, for the first time in our ing. Unfortunately, time does not permit ruary when AIM militants took over the tiny history, a "peacetime" military budget is further elaboration of other obvious problems reservation community. Along with his Wife higher than our wartime military budget. concerning the logic of your proposals. and a Indian lady, he hid in the dark­ I applauded our President's trips to China I would suggest, however, that you send ness as militants banged on the door and and to the Soviet Union. But in spite of a copies of this letter, not just to Representa­ threatened to shoot if they didn't open up. growing detente between Russia, China and tives in the Congress, but to individuals and They later escaped from the village under the the United States; in spite of the signing of groups most affected by such questionable cover of darkness. "the Nuclear Arms Agreement; and in spite policies. Send a copy of this letter to mayors Meanwhile, their church has been used as of a pe.ace settlement in Vietnam; President of bankrupt cities and towns who will re­ a camping place for visiting national news­ Nixon insists on spending more than $80 bil­ ceive no assistance for their needed water and men and their home has been used as a meet­ lion a year for guns that cannot heal and sewer programs and to the principals of our ing hall for AIM Indians. They have lost most bombs that cannot teach. schools who are now being forced to educate of their personal possessions including a jeep There are other problems with your "edu­ more children with less federal assistance. which he says has been burned and a gar­ cational campaign." Send a copy of this letter to the doctors den tractor. Controlling Federal expenditures over the and nurses in the community health centers He told the Scene the AIM group has only next three fiscal years, in the context of your that are now being closed, and to the 30 a small minority of the Ogalala Sioux people advertisement, would not insure that the million underprivileged Americans who have on their side. average taxpayer would not face a significant not seen a doctor in the past two years. Send "I would say the average Indian wants to increase in taxes at the federal, state or local a copy of this letter to the welfare mothers live in peace," he said. "They want the lead­ levels. Indeed, within less than two weeks who can no longer afford day care services ers to sit down and work this thing out." after the date of your initial letter, Mr. Her­ and to the needy families who cannot now He believes it is a power struggle between bert Stein announced that in order to cool benefit from subsidized housing. Send a copy Ogalala Sioux leader Richard Wilson and AIM off the booming economy and reduce inila­ of this letter to the thousands of fatherless leader Russell Means. In addition, it is his tionary pressures, a tax increase may be boys who can no longer enjoy the com­ opinion the occupation of Wounded Knee forthcoming. panionship and guidance of local Big Brothers was in the works for a long time because of We do have pressing domestic financial programs and to the forty million handi­ the historical significance of the village. problems and I can assure you President capped Americans crippled by governmental "I am especially upset With the misinfor­ Nixon is not alone in wanting to hold the callousness and indifference. mation that is coming out through the line on Federal taxes, to trim government In summary, send a copy of this letter to press," he said. "They get only the informa­ spending and increase the efficiency of gov­ the millions of Americans that President tion that is given them by the AIM's and ernmental programs. But the issue here is Nixon and the Citizens for Control of Fed­ then they write their stories." not simply, as you suggest, to control Federal eral Spending have chosen to forget, negl~ct "The AIM people in my opinion may be spending, but to allocate public dollars more and ignore. idealists but I think they are more concerned effectively, sagaciously and in a manner that Sincerely, with their own personal gains than they are will most productively contribute to im­ JoHN E. Moss, With the tears they claim to be weeping for provement of the general welfare. Current Member of Congress. the Sioux Indian people." differences between the President and the "The night they (AIM) came, Sioux Indian Congress stem not so much to the size of people had to run," he said. "They took over the $268.7 billion budget, as to the priorities their homes and their belongings and today, and allocation of the taxpayers funds. those poor people have nothing to go back You state in your letter that, "Citizens for WHO WILL PAY? to. Does that sound like they want to help Control of Federal Spending believes that the the Sioux people?" Legislative and Executive Branches should The federal government is as much to cooperate in trimming Federal spending, HON. JAMES ABDNOR blame as anyone according to Rev. Lans­ eliminating ineffectual programs, and de­ OF SOUTH DAK OTA berry. signing a budget for the next three years IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES "They failed to provide the residents of which stays Within common-sense limits." Wounded Knee w1th protection and now I You then cite as an example of this "economy Thursday, May 10, 1973 think that they should shoulder the respon­ drive", the President's recent veto of the Mr. ABDNOR. Mr. Speaker, the real sibility for the losses." Vocational Rehabilitation b111. story of what really happened during the "Remember that Mr. Wilson and his people What you fall to mention, however, is that long seige at Wounded Knee by the mili­ were set aside and the federal government took charge. They should now bear the re­ since 1920 Federal Vocational Rehabilitation tant members of the American Indian programs have produced, in the form of posi­ sponsioility ." tive tax dollars, far more than what they Movement is now only beginning to come As to the role of the Council of Churches, originally coot the American taxpayer. In to light. Since the beginning of this tragic Rev. Lansberry shrugged and said, "I won­ 1971 alone, for example, nearly % of a bil­ episode last February, the American peo­ der ... there's an old saying that too many lion dollars was added to the national econ­ ple have heard only the side of the in­ cooks spoil the broth. It seems to me that omy as the result of the rehabilitation of a surgents. neither the Council of Churches or the Fed­ record number of disabled Americans to pro­ But, what of the victims of Wounded eral Government have been able to solve any ductive employment. Knee--the residents who have lost their problems. The AIMs are still there." "I don't know how many people I've talked I question the distorted priorities enhanced homes, their ranches, their cattle, their by this veto. It is difficult to understand why with since, who have discovered that money the President in the name of "economy" businesses? Who is going to pay their they contributed to their churches went to would veto a bill that would aid m111ions of damages? And, who is going to replace aid AIM," he said, "and now they are bitterly handicapped Americans, return to the those who have given of their services disappointed." Treasury Department $3 to $5 for every $1 for many years to the people on the Pine "I think of the Sioux lady who lived in spent and cost (annually) less than 1/80th Ridge reservation, and who because of Wounded Knee who came up to me crying of our military budget. Such actions demon­ the reluctance of the Federal Govern­ and saying that AIM took everything she strate neither good economic policy nor ment to put an end to this travesty, have owned," he added. "We got out with a couple sound moral committment. I am reminded become discouraged and feel they must of blankets and I gave her one of them." of what George Bernard Shaw once said: leave. "other Sioux Indians have lost cattle, one "The worst sin towards our fellow creatures of them, a man who is part Sioux and part One such victim is Rev. Orville Lans­ is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to white, lost over 40 cattle that went to feed them; that's the essence of inhumanity." berry. He and his wife, Emma, have an­ the militants," he said. I have only served as an elected official of nounced their plans to relocate after "There are others too ... people who have the people for a quarter of a century, so they find what is left of their possessions. lost everything they owned ... and who's go­ perhaps I am out of touch with the desires Their story is told in the following ar­ ing to take care of them?" of my constituents. But I believe with ticle printed in a Pierre, S. Dak., news­ Rev. Lansberry admits the incident has Thomas Jefferson, that "The care of human paper. shaken his confidence in some people. He's life and happiness, and not their destruc­ WOUNDED KNEE CLERGYMAN SAYS HE WoN'T going back, but just to salvage what he can tion, is the first and only legitimate object GO BACK of his personal belongings. of good government." For our democracy The Rev. Orville Lansberry and his wife "We can't live there anymore t hough," he exists, not to wage war, or serve only the Emma lived in Wounded Knee, S.D. for a confesses. "We're too old. I'm 67 and my wife wealthy; but to serve the people, especially little niore than four years. He had a church Is 69." those in need, especially those who suffer. there and his congregation was comprised of It is apparent he feels badly for the Indian But these are ideas that neither President about 95 percent Sioux Indian people. He'll people who lived in Wounded Knee though. CXIX--971-Part 12 15394 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS. May 10, 1973 "Some are afraid ... some are mad ..• for the second time, we had a deficit again­ nine percent; in the U.S. in 1971, it was some are confused ... but they're all hurt." up to $6.4 billion. more than 13 percent. Those billions may not mean very much to Also, if Ford, GM or Chrysler exported cars most folks who don't buy or sell abroad, who from the U.S. to Europe, they'd be competing UNITED STATES FUMBLING IN just work for a. living. with themselves. EXPORT FIELD But it can and does mean a great deal to Ford of Europe's man in charge of increas­ people who want to work but can't because ing imports from the U.S. acknowledged he prospective employers are buying or build­ has an uphill battle getting his share of HON· ROBERT J. HUBER ing in Europe or Taiwan rather than in the high-level attention to his problems. And. OF MICHIGAN United States. another executive criticized Ford's manage­ In the longer run, American trade troubles ment in Dearborn for spending much less on IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES can mean deeper disaster in whole industries research in the U.S. than in Eprope. Thursday, May 10, 1973 where people are still working, for with each The U.S. economy has adapted to imports, new production method introduced in an in­ and new industries have replaced those the Mr. HUBER. Mr. Speaker, as a long­ dustry, in Japan or Europe (some by Amer­ Europeans and Japanese have vanquished. time advocate of a more forceful U.S. ef­ ican-owned companies), that industry in the The U.S. leads in space and communica­ fort to export the products of its indus­ U.S. suffers. tions technology, advar.ced computers, elec­ try, it is sobering to contemplate that That's what happened to the American tronics and the manufacture of airplanes. the only manufactured items most coun­ steel industry, which once led the world be­ Although Europe is self-sufficient in al­ tries really seek from us are those few cause of early U.S. innovations. Now Ameri­ most everything else, it will depend on U.S. can steel production is virtually the laugh­ feed grains for many years. in which we still hold a technological ingstock of the world because new methods But slowly and surely, the U.S. is becoming edge, such as advanced computers, elec­ developed elsewhere were not used in U.S. a service country as exports of traditional, tronics and some aircraft. In most other plants. manufactured goods, chemicals, fuels and fields, we no longer offer superior qual­ The lack of innovation by tradit ional minerals fall off. Already the service indus­ ity or more desirable product features, American industries is one of the reasons tries--distributing, selling, fitting goods, and our products are rather consistently the United States doesn't export more than more and more of them imported-account overpriced and underserviced by com­ it does. for nearly half of the nation's output. West Germans enjoy reminding Americans Protectionism has been offered as an an­ parison with those offered by other in­ that the U.S., as the victorious nation, could swer, but nobody wants the consequences of dustrial nations. have had the Volkswagen design after World a trade war. The hard facts concerning our posi­ War II to build in the U.S. and ship abroad. A ranking expert with the Common Mar­ tion in international trade are clearly But American manufacturers chose to stay ket warned: "Either you innovate, and find summarized in an article by Saul Fried­ with big cars. areas in which you compete, or you will end man of the Detroit News Washington However, there are other reasons why the up second rate in world trade, sending us staff. My colleagues will find this valu­ United States is not much good at exporting. grain and servicing what we sell." able if frightening reading. Especially And the most important seems to be that we Those remarks were in stark contrast to disturbing is the conclusion reached by never really had to depend on exports. the words of an Englishman, F. A. McKenzie, In the past only the South, with its cotton, in 1902: a Common Market expert who said that tobacco and other agricultural products, was "America. has invaded Europe not wit h the United States must "innovate and export-minded. American manufacturers en­ armed men, but with manufactured goods .. . find areas in which you compete or you joyed such a. huge and rapidly growing mar­ Our aristocracy marry American wives, and will end up second rate in world trade." ket at home, they concentrated on it. Only their coachmen are giving place to American­ The article follows: if they had anything left over, they exported trained drivers of American-built automo­ [From the Detroit Free Press, April 5, 1973] it. biles. . . . Our babies are fed on American For Japan and most of the nations of foods, and our dead are buried in American UNITED STATES FUMBLING IN EXPORT FIELD Europe, the ability to export has meant life coffins." (By Saul Friedman) or death for their economies. And today their BRUSSELS.-American scientist, William B. exports account for 20 to 30 percent of their Shockley, won the Nobel Prize for inventing annual wealth. AMENDING THE MERCHANT the transistor. Even today, U.S. exports amount to only MARINE ACT OF 1970 But there are no transistors made in six percent of the $1.3 trillion in goods and America. services the country produces. And although Chemical engineers working for an Amer­ there are increasing complaints about grow­ ing imports, the U.S. has lost relatively few HON. FRANKM. CLARK ican company devised a. revolutionary new OF PENNSYLVANIA plant to turn out industrial chemicals jobs and industries to foreign products. cheaply and fast. Instead of exporting goods, the U.S. has IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES But the first such new plant was built 1n chosen to export money to take over foreign Thursday, May 10, 1973 Belgium. companies, invest 1n them, or build Ameri­ And although U.S. oil refineries can't keep can-owned plants abroad. Mr. CLARK. Mr. Speaker, as chair­ up with the demand, the biggest and newest This has accounted not only for an increase man of the Subcommittee on Merchant refineries-bunt by American companies­ in imports, but also for a decrease in the de­ Marine of the Committee on Merchant are going up in Europe. sire to export. For example, Ford of Europe will export Marine and Fisheries, I am today intro­ These are some of the reasons Europeans ducing, with other members of the com­ say that the United States, the greatest in­ 100,000 European-built Capris to the U.S. dustrial nation on earth, is on the way to this years. And General Motors will send to mittee, a bill to amend the Merchant Ma­ becoming the "bread basket of the world." the States about 60,000 Opels. rine Act of 1970. The legislation will pro­ Which is where we began. Last year only 9,150 Ford, Chrysler and GM vide merchant nuclear-powered vessels, Even such Americans as former Secretary cars were exported to Europe, compared with contracted before July 1, 1978, with in­ of Commerce Maurice Sta.ns have acknowl­ a. high of 35,000 in 1965. Ford's officials in England explain that centive support payments to cover such edged that in addition to agricultural prod­ portion of the contracting cost differ­ ucts, such as soybeans and feed grain for Europe's roads are not suited to big American livestock, about the only thing the U.S. has cars, and higher taxes and gasoline prices ences arising from the use of nuclear that other big countries want are our prod­ put them at a disadvantage. propulsion units, as the Secretary of ucts of super technology-computers and air So why doesn't Ford export the Pinto to Commerce may determine is necessary frames. Europe? for the purpose of fostering the advance­ And even in several high-technology areas, Because shipping costs and local taxes, and ment of U.S.-fiag maritime technology. the Japanese and the Europeans (with the the cost of building them in the U.S., would make their price prohibitive in Europe, they The recipients of the incentive support help of American plants etsa.blished here}_ would, under the proposed legislation, re­ are beginning to catch up. replied. The President's International Economic But automobile industry wage rates in pay the sums received subject to govern­ Report said: "Although we fared better in England are drawing even with American mental recapture of 20 percent of each the case of more sophisticated manufacturers, rates; the Japanese are successful selling nuclear powered vessel's annual net op­ our gains (in trade) were relatively small, their cars to Europe by shipping them over erating income, as defined in the Mari­ except for aircraft. two oceans, and the local taxes are about the time Administration's uniform vessel "We are losing our competitive position same for Pintos (or GM's Vega.) and Euro­ accounting system, until the entire in traditional products with large markets," pean-built cars. The discussion came down to this: amount of incentive support payments and "agricultural trade has been our bright­ for each such vessel shall have been re­ est spot.'' Most European-based manufacturers, in­ In 1971, for the first time in 100 years, the cluding Ford and GM, are satisfied with a covered by the Government. U.S. imported more in goods-$2 billion lower rate of profit than the U.S., 1n order I have stated many times, both in com­ worth-than it sold abroad. And last year, to compete. The rate of profit here is around mittee hearings and on the floor of the May 10, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 15395 House, that the United States must have torneys and other professionals; and the Venture to Deal in Land; Clearing Clouds on a modern, productive, and efficient mer­ Commission would be authorized to employ Title Resulting from Violation of Building­ consultants and regular sta.ft' members to in­ line Restrictions; and E1Iort of Contract Term chant marine in order to compete in the vestigate and prepa.re studies under its su­ Disclaiming Parole Representations to Bar world markets. Nuclear power merchant pervision and direction. Action for Fraud in Inducement of Agree­ ships is one of the answers. The Law Revision Commission established ment. Each study and report represent s a de­ Today's high productivity ships such in the State of New York in 1934, has served tailed review of the problem in question, and as the VLCC's and container ships re­ as the prototype for others created since that is replete with legislative references and cita­ quire a g1·eat deal of horsepower to move date. (L. 1934, c.597, effective May 16, 1934: tions to relevant judicial precedents. ever increasing tonnage at high speeds. 5 McKinney's Consol, Laws of New York. Book A considerable number of States have es­ 31, Legislative Law, Art 4A, Law Revision tablished Law Revision Commissions as a This, coupled with the escalating bunker Commission, sees. 70 to 72.) It is composed permanent, continuing part of their legisla­ C fuel prices, make nuclear power a very of seven members; five appointed by the tive and governmental structures. They in­ competitive propulsion system candidate. Governor for five years, plus the respective clude, for example, Michigan (Mich. Com­ Also, as a side benefit, economic studies chairman of the Committees on the Judiciary p i led Laws, 1967, 4.311, at 4.322-4.324); Cali­ have shown that nuclear ships can result and on Codes of the State Senate and Assem­ fornia. (West's Anno, Cali f. Codes. vol. 32A, in a favorable balance of payments. For bly. The stat ute provides that at least two sees. 10300-10340) ; Louisiana (West 's L a . example, to import the projected needs appointed members shall be members of law Stat s. Anno., 1969, vol. 17, Title 24, Ch. 4, sec. of oil from the Persian Gulf in 1980 by facult ies of universities or law schools within 201); Pennsylvania (46 Purdon's Penn. Stat s. the State and that four appointed members Anno., Title 46, sees. 65 and 431.1); Maryla nd fossil fired tankers the balance-of-pay­ shall be members of the New York bar. (Maryl and Anno. Code, Art. 40, sees. 48 to ment deficit on bunker C for propulsion The Commission is charged by statute 53) ; and Virginia (Virginia Code Anno., sees. could be as high as $650 million per year. with the following duties: 30-29 to 30-34). See also Minn. Stats. Anno., For nuclear it would be zero because all 1. To examine the common law and sees 3.31 to 3.38, 3.42; and sees. 3.301 to 3.302. the fuel would be obtained from U.S. statutes of the state and current judicial Helpful background information concern­ som·ces. decisions for the purpose of discovering de­ ing the functions of Law Revision govern­ After 20 years of extensive research fects and anachronisms in the law a..nd rec­ mental units was made available to Commis­ ommending needed reforms. sion representatives by members of the bar and development, the time has arrived 2. To receive and consider proposed in the Dist rict of Columbia, Philadelphia, and for nuclear merchant ships to take their changes in the law recommended by the New York.1 place on the high seas in pursuit of in­ American Law Institute, the commissioners In the District of Columbia Government, ternational commerce. I feel that this for the promotion of uniformity of legisla­ the Corporation Counsel serves as the chief legislation will help provide the proper tion in the United States, any bar associa­ legal officer (West's D.C. Code Encycl. Sees 1- stimulus for the American merchant tion or other lea.rned bodies. 301 to 1-303, and Reorg. Order No. 50, as marine industry's efforts to modernize 3. To receive and consider suggestions from amended, West's D.C. Code Encycl., Vol. 2, and rebuild the U.S. fleets into a com­ judges, just ices, public officials, lawyers and pp. 202-207, and 1970-1971 Ann. Cum. Pocket the public generally as to defects and ana­ Part, (p. 111)), much as the Attorney Gen­ petitive position. chronisms in the law. eral and Corporation Counsel, or City Solic­ 4. To recommend, from time to time, such it or serve the States of New York and Penn­ changes in the law as it deems necessary to sylvan ia, and the cities of New York and DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA LAW modify or eliminate antiquated and inequi­ Philadelphia, i.e., jurisdictions where law­ REVISION COMMISSION table rules of law, and to bring the law of this revision commissions have been established state, civil and criminal, into harmony with for some years. modern conditions. Experience demonstrates that an active HON. ANCHER NELSEN 5. To report its proceedin gs annually to Corporation Counsel's office, burdened with OF MINHESOXA the legislature ... and, if it deems advisable, the day-to-day workload of litigation and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to accompany its report with proposed bills accumulated administrative responsibilities, to carry out any of its recommendations. (5 has little time or adequate facilities to un­ Thursday, May 10, 1973 McKinney's ConsoZ. Laws of New York, Book dertake studies into legislative shortcomings, Mr. NELSEN. Mr. Speaker, I have in­ 31 Art. 4A, sec. 72.) or to exercise initiative in formulating rec­ troduced, along with Congressman DoN The report of the New York Law Revision ommendations for specific legislative im­ FuQuA of Florida, a bill that would pro­ Commission for 1962 (Legislative Document provement. The work of law-revision com­ (1962), No. 65) is illustrative of the type and missions serves to supplement and assist, as vide for a Law Revision Commission for quality of work performed by the Commis­ well as ultimately to strengthen, the re­ the District of Columbia. The bill that sion during a relatively active year. The re­ sources available to the chief law-enforce­ we introduce is consistent with the rec­ port consists of 810 printed pages. It in­ ment officials. There need be no confiict be­ ommendation contained in the report cludes fourteen current reports and recom­ tween the two; in fact, there has been no oc­ filed with the Speaker of the House on mendations; studies directed by the legisla­ casion for incongruity but rather an oppor­ August 17, 1972, by the Commission on ture; recommendations presented in 1962; tunity for meaningful cooperation between the Organization of the Government of three studies and communications to the leg­ them. The District Corporation Counsel is in­ the District of Columbia. Both Congress­ islature without recommenda~ion of legis­ cluded among those that would be given a lation; legislative history of twelve recom­ voice in the selection of members of the man FuQuA and I served on that Com­ mendations submitted in 1961 which were Commission proposed for the District of mission, and we welcome this opportu­ enacted into law, and four others whose im­ Columbia. nity to put into legislative language the plementing bills did not become law; calen­ The statement of basic purposes and re­ recommendation contained in that re­ dar of eight topics representing work in sponsibilities for the District Law Revision port. progress, nine topics on calendar for further Commission could be patterned after that For the information of those who may study, and twenty-five proposals for future governing the New York Law Revision Com­ not have had an opportunity to read consideration. Representative recommenda­ mission. (Legislative Law, Art. 4A, 5 McKin­ tions enacted into law included: Appoint­ ney's ConsoZ. Laws of New York, Book 31, the statement contained in that report as ment of Temporary Administrator for the sees. 70-72.) it relates to that matter, it appears be­ Protection of the Property of a Missing Per­ The proposed Commission would provide low: son; Power of Surrogate to Authorize Tempo­ a systematic method of collecting, coordinat­ LAW REVISION COMMISSION AND UNIFORM rary Administrator of Estate of Missing Per­ ing, and making available to the pertinent RULES OF PRACTICE son to Join with Co-Tenants of Missing Per­ 1 The Commission believes that the estab­ son in Disposition of Real Property; Extin­ They included Mr. Frank J. Whalen, Jr. guishment of Estate of Missing Person as (Spence, Whalen & Graham), Washington, lishment of a Law Revision CollliDission for Joint Tenant Upon Deposit of its Value in the District of Columbia would supply a D.C.; Mr. William E. Zeiter (Morgan, Lewis & Court; Agreements Extending the Statutes Bockius), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and much-needed service now lacking in the leg­ of Limitation; E1Iect of Part Payment on islative and administrative machinery of the Mr. William B. Lawless (Mudge, Rose, Guth­ District Government. Time Limited for Foreclosure of a Mortgage; rie & Alexander), New York City. Their co­ Effect of Recording Executory Contract for operation and support of the modern trend A La.w Revision Commission, as contem­ Sale of Land and Priority of Vendee's Lien plated in this report, would be a permanent toward law-revision commissions could be arising from Payments Made Pursuant to characterized as enthusiastic. Valuable as­ body authorized by statute to conduct con­ [such] Executory Contract; and Accumula­ tinuing studies into the anachronisms and sistance was also provided by Mr. Arthur tion of Income of Trusts for Religious, Educa­ John Keeffe, Professor of Law at Catholic t:1equities in th& oommon law as well as tional, Charitable or Benevolent purposes. University, Washington, D.C., formerly a st at utory and case law, for the purpose of The current calendar of topics under study member of the law faculty at Cornell Univer­ developing recommendations and reports to included: Revision of Consolidated Laws to sity, where he was actively associated with the governing legislative body for its con­ Transfer Provisions to more Appropriate various studies and related projects under­ s ideration and adoption into law. Members Chapter or New Chapter; Application of taken by the New York Law Revision Com­ of the Commission would include local at- Statute of Frauds to Agreements for Joint mission. 15!l96 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS- May 10, 1973 legislative bodies suggestions for law reform the Speaker of the House of Representatives, those noble Communists, so different from emanating from administrative and other majority leader of the Senate, the respective the corrupt Thieu, the corrupt Marcos, etc. public officials, judges, lawyers, bar associa· minority leaders of the House of Representa­ The most recent issue includes some rather tions, universities, and other organzations tives and Senate, and the Chief Judge of the sentimental Communist poems, one by old as well as the general public. Suggestions District of Columbia Court of Appeals and Ho himself. would be transmitted, after study, in the District of Columbia Superior Court; and As a matter of fact, even in the context of form of a comprehensive report and, wher­ (3) the Chairman by the President of the the history of torture, the North Vietnamese ever appropriate, a draft bill. United States, subject to Senate confirma­ approach seems rather far out. Col. Risner The proposed Commission should be au­ tion. spent four years in solitary confinement. Col. thorized to prepare pamphlets on the Dis­ Cherry, a black, was tortured for three trict of Columbia Administrative Procedure months, was beaten five times a day, and Act (D.C. Code sees. 1-1501-1510) for the WHO SAID THEY WERE NOT spent 92 days in ropes and irons. We hear information and guidance of District Gov­ TORTURED? the grisly details of the rope-torture and ernment departments and agencies as well the "jumbo irons," which caused feet to swell as the general public. It is contemplated that up like "elephant feet with little knobs as such studies and pamphlets would contain HON. BOB WILSON toes." Prisoners were tied on anthills. A pertinent extracts from legislative history, broken arm was worked up and down "like selected citations to court decisions, etc., OF CALIFORNIA a pump." along the lines of the manuals issued by IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Compared with the North Vietnamese, the the Attorney General of the TJnited States Thursday, May 10, 1973 Greek colonels look like YMCA desk clerks. with respect to the Federal Administrative "No American" writes liberal columnist Har­ Procedure Act (5 U.S.C. 551-559, 701-706, Mr. BOB WILSON. Mr. Speaker, when riet Van Horne, "can read Major Floyd 1305, 3105, 3344, 5362, and 7521), including Jane Fonda, Ramsey Clark, Tom Hay­ Kushner's account of life in a Viet Cong its Freedom of Information provisions, in den, and company returned from Hanoi prison camp and not be choked with pity­ 1947 and June 1967, respectively. to annonnce that our prisoners of war and rage. Dachau, Auschwitz, and the foulest It is also recommended that the proposed were being treated with consummate prisons of our Civil War were not as vile­ Commission be authorized to prepare and incredible as it seems-as the V.C. camps." issue uniform rules of practice, including kindness by their captors, most Ameri­ Tell us more, Ramsey. Let's hear from you, hearing rules, to govern all District of Co­ cans were incredulous. Now that our Dan and Phil and Susan 9-nd Mary, and you, lumbia agencies conductiong on-the-record prisoners of war have returned to relate you Concerned Asian Scholars. hearings to determine legal rights, etc., pur­ their tortures and deprivations, we know suant to statutory procedural requirement, that our distrust was not misplaced. The constitutional right, or otherwise afforded allegedly saintly North Vietnamese keep­ MEDICAL EDUCATION NEEDS by the agency. The uniform rules of practice ers of our men, about whom we heard so FEDERAL FUNDS would apply to on-the-record evidentiary proceedings of all District Government agen­ much from Miss Fonda and crew, have cies, unless an agency ( 1) determined that now been exposed in their true colors. I would like to share with my House col­ HON. ROBERT F. DRINAN a different procedural rule of its own, with OF MASSACHUSETTS respect to a particular area or matter, would leagues the following commentary by better serve the public interest, and (2) dem­ Jeffrey Hart, which appeared in the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES onstrated that fact to the satisfaction of April 24 Daily Californian: Thursday, May 10, 1973 the Commission. Uniform rules of practice FONDA, CLARK AND Co.-FLACKS FOR TORTURERS for all departments and agencies of the Com­ Mr. DRINAN. Mr. Speaker, although monwealth of Pennsylvania were promul­ (By Jeffrey Hart) virtually every medical school in the gated by the Committee on Documents (a Why anyone should actually be surprised country will be financially harmed by the permanent seven-member body appointed that our POWs were tortured by the North budget cuts in Federal medical programs by the Governor) pursuant to section 1403 Vietnamese and the Viet Cong is a little that the President proposes for fiscal year of the Commonwealth Documents Law, en­ hard to understand. Torture is absolutely acted July 31, 1968 (Law No. 240, July 31, commonplace for prisoners in the hands of 1974, I have recently learned of one 1968, 45 Purdon's Penn. Stats. Anno., Title Asian military, and it has nothing to do with medical institution that offers a unique 45, sees. 1101-1611). The Committee on Docu­ communism. program that will be particularly threat­ ments is authorized to codify and revise the The imperial Japanese-could anyone for­ ened if these proposed reductions areal­ regulations (including procedural rules) ap­ get?-behaved despicably to our POWs. The lowed to take effect. plicable to all departments and agencies of Kuomintang and the Communist Chinese The Tufts University School of Medi­ the State government, having in mind uni­ were equally brutal. Nor need anyone have cine is unusual in that while it has one formity of style and expression. The uniform any illusions about the South Vietnamese. On of the smallest operating budgets of any rules of practice for Commonwealth of Penn­ strategic grounds, I consider that the com­ sylvania agencies have been published, in munization of Southeast Asia would be a medical school, it has an unusually high printed looseleaf form, as Part II of the disaster, but this does not mean that I am enrollment. The Tufts Medical School re­ Pennsylvania Code, Chapters 31, 33 and 35 under any illusions about life in Saigon's lies heavily on Federal funds for its con­ [Preliminary Provisions, Documentary Fil­ jails and nrison camps. tinued growth; if these funds are taken ings and Formal Proceedings, respectively], The torture revelations do, however, shed away this demonstrated program will pp. 80.1 to 90.11, inclusive.2 a good deal of light on those who have been necessarily be stifled. Recommendation No. VIII-3.-The Com­ presenting themselves as the keepers of our Dr. Lauro F. Cavazos, the associate mission recommends that the District Gov­ conscience, zooming off on "night-flights to ernment initiate legislation that would au­ Hanoi" and returning with hums of praise dean of the Tufts University Medical thorize the establishment of a Law Revision to the courteous little brown men they met School, has submitted to me a statement Commission for the District of Col·umbia, in there and in the rice-paddies, so gentle, so outlining the program of Tufts and the the form of a permanent body as suggested wise. To put it bluntly, these people have tragic effect that the administration's in the preceding discussion, to be composed been flacking for torturers: the Berrigan budget cuts will have upon this program of fifteen members appointed as follows: (1) brothers, Ramsey Clark, Jane Fonda, Tom if enacted. I hope that my fellow Mem­ two each appointed by the Mayor-Commis­ Hayden, Mary McCarthy, Cora Weiss, Susan bers of Congress will give close attention sioner, Chairman of the District of Columbia Sontag and Dave Dellinger. to the views of Dr. Cavazos: Council, District of Columbia Corporation Ramsey Clark is typical. He took a quick Counsel, and the United States Attorney tor trip to Hanoi visited the "Hanoi Hilton" SPEECH OF DR. LAURO F. CAVAZOS the District of Columbia; (2) one each by POW camp-though not its notorious "Room It is indeed a privilege to be here this 18"-and saw a few carefully selected and morning to share with you some of the prob­ ~ According to Mr. William E. Zeiter of the supervised POWS. Whereupon he burst into lems which Tufts University School of Medi­ Philadelphia bar and a member of the Com­ song. The treatment the POWs were receiving cine is facing in the coming year. These mittee on Documents, steps are underway to was humane and civilized, they were in mar­ problems will revolve around three areas: ( 1) amend section 1403 of the Commnwealth velous shape, etc. And Clark is only one of a medical education, (2) research, and (3) Documents Law so that the uniform rules long parade of such flacks-visiting Hanoi, service. Tufts has an outstanding a n d distin­ of practice shall be governing except where rushing home and into print with articles guished faculty. Complementing this is an a particular department or agency demon­ and books, cashing-in in a big way, hitting excellent student body-promising young strates, to the Committee's satisfaction, that the campus lecture circuit and salting away people with keen minds and enthusiasm who a different procedural rule of its own would top fees, bringing the news of the noble are seeking a quality education in their better serve the public interest with respect North to agog student audiences. Uncle Ho, chosen field of medicine. It is somewhat dis­ to a particular area or matter. Mr. Zeiter the George Washington of his country, as tressing for me to report that this combina­ stated that the comprehensive uniform rules George McGovern used to call him. tion of faculty and students is in jeopardy of practice were adapted from those cur­ If you want a laugh, take a look at the and may be unable to function maximally rently used by the Federal Power Commis­ Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, a because of the potential loss of federal funds llion and the Securities and Exchange Com­ Maoist organ which is the academic version for a number of health and medical pro­ mission. of the flacking operation noted above. All grams. May 10, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 15397 Most medical schools have several sources abandoned. One readily can imagine these One of the truly revolutionary new direc­ of funds available for education and research. effects. Let us consider some of the problems tions in the delivery of health care 1n the These include tuition, direct financial sup­ faced by a young medical student coming past decade had its origin at Tufts in the port from the University system itself, state into a medical school of today. He arrives development of neighborhood health centers. funds, federal funding, money from hospitals with a dedication to serve his fellowman From this there resulted a new era of rela­ or patient care, and endowment and gifts. through medicine. The one point that is tionship to the medical schools to direct care Unfortunately Tufts University School of constantly before him, as well as the faculty in the community as well as the solution of Medicine can rely only upon tuition, fed­ of the medical school, is the question of qual­ problems of providing health services out­ eral funds and gifts. In terms of an operat­ ity-how one retains quality in order to side the teaching hospital. This brought ing budget, Tufts has one of the smallest better serve his patients. All of us are aware about a re-evaluation of the delivery of in the country; yet we are in the first quartile of the cost of medical education. Although primary and comprehensive health care in terms of enrollment. There is no question graduates can expect to earn a good living throughout the country and because of this that the quality of the medical student grad­ by American standards, it is too much to there has grown a new emphasis on the edu­ uating from Tufts University is superior by expect that a young person will have to add cation of young people as physicians who any standards applied. debts of somewhere between $30,000 and will be delivering family care. Our students draw internships and enter $60,000 before he can begin the practice of The record of Tufts in this area has been residencies in the best hospitals in the medicine. Thus the administration's inten­ outstanding. Hardly a day passes that I do United States. Most of them go into direct tion to discontinue scholarship assistance not see a young medical student who will patient care and offer superb service to their means that the opportunity to study medi­ come to my office to ask about the possibili­ patients throughout the country. Others cine at Tufts will increasingly be denied to ties of learning family care medicine. Their enter academic medicine and become excel­ all of those but the sons and daughters of interest in programs which TUfts has lent teachers and investigators. the weal thy. pioneered has attracted them to our school. If the federal funds that are being reduced As you know, Tufts has been among the Now we are concerned about our ability to continue to be cut at the rate they are going national leaders in the recruitment of mi­ maintain some of these programs and prom­ or are acelerated, the Tufts University School nority and disadvantaged students into ises we have made to our students. The of Medicine will be in dire financial straits. medical educational programs. Now this pro­ existence of all of these programs on the We will be forced to alter or reduce teaching gram is jeopardized. Under a laudable fed­ delivery of health care are threatened by the and research programs; we will have to let eral grant, steps were taken to see that these withdrawal of funds. Funds for the neigh­ faculty go, and if this occurs we may have to students also had an equal educational op­ borhood health care center itself, funds for reduce our enrollment in the School of Medi­ portunity to prepare themselves to enter the medical school clinical centers that pro­ cine. Thus if the federal funding situation the health professions. At a time when these vided the medical services, and funds for the does not improve, all of this will be necessary programs are getting underway we fear dras­ medical schools cooperating in education in order to keep our doors open. At the pres­ tic cutbacks in these directions. Thus may and service programs. Our future physicians ent time there do not appear to be funds be lost the science education, reinforcement cannot be adequately prepared to give pri­ available from other sources that can take and enrichment at college and medical school mary family care and to be of help with up the slack in order to continue to be a. levels. Lost also is the recruitment of those community health problems if they cannot productive medical school. young students· from the local community learn from and in conjunction with the peo­ There is no question in anyone's mind that who might be more likely to return to help ple of the community, the quaility and cost of health care are de­ with problems of health in their own com­ Support of research, as I have already pendent upon three factors. These are: ( 1) munity. With these changes there will dis­ mentioned, is one of the oldest of the Gov­ the education of the physician, (2) research appear the potential to help some of the best ernment's achievements in the health care or the acquisition of"new knowledge and in­ minds of our young people in the solving of field. As a result, the United States has formation, and (3) the provision of the our problems of human disease. literally given the people of America as well clinical care itself. I would like to discuss The Medical School at Tufts University has as the world marked advances so that polio now, in a rather specific manner, some of the made great strides in increasing the number no longer cripples or kills thousands, so that problems we are facing because of these fi­ of students enrolled. Our programs were tuberculosis is no longer the tragic killer nancial cutbacks which will have major and planned, faculty recruited, facilities ex­ that it once was, so that a whole gen­ serious impact upon the quality of education panded, and students attracted. All of eration of anti-biotics has resulted in con­ and the remarkable products of our research this was dependent upon federal funding trol of rheumatic fever, pneumonia and laboratories. First let me deal with the ques­ and most importantly continued federal other infections, and so that the artificial tion of research. We must bear in mind that funding. Now, suddenly when increased num­ kidneys keep people alive until new organs because of biomedical investigation, there has bers of students are on board, the admin­ can be transplanted. All of these benefits, occurred reduction of many diseases, and, in istration, it appears, plans to cut off the and countless more, have come about be­ fact, elimination of others. These results were funds which brought the students to Tufts. cause of the contributions from the bio­ greatly accelerated because of the funding Also reduced perhaps is the money essential medical research laboratory. Now some of of research by the Federal Government. There to the School's ability to employ the teachers the laboratory doors at Tufts may have to be is little doubt, I submit, that strides we have and to otherwise operate the institution just closed. Research teams that took a genera­ made over the past two decades in the area on a day-to-day basis. tion to gather wlll be scattered and will not of research have come to fruition because of The quality of the physician depends upon easily be brought together even if the funds Federal funding. It now appears that these the excellence of mind of the student who were made available in the near future. This will be cut so drastically that we will be applies and is accepted. Further, quality also is truly a rather bitter harvest for us to ac­ unable to continue our current level of re­ depends critically upon the need and kind cept. search activity at Tufts. The reduction of of education received in the medical school. At Tufts we will now have to plan almost funding for research and for the support of I must continue to remind you that the as for a disaster situation; we must ask how our scientists could bring our continued quality of education at Tufts University do we maintain the quality of our faculty advance over major illness and afllictions of School of Medicine may be endangered by and their numbers, how do we maintain an man to a tragic halt. There are programs, of the administration's cutback. educational program of quallty and how do course, which are concentrating on cancer Now let me recite the litany of what will we do our research? and heart diseases. But the solution to all happen if the federal funds are withdrawn So, to summarize, for right or for wrong, disease problems including these mentioned at the Tufts University School of Medicine. for better or for worse, the federal funds has its discovery in the basic laws of the bio­ First of all we will probably have to reduce have become vital to the existence of Tufts logical sciences. Such advances are likely to the number of students that we educate in University School of Medicine and we feel come about more rapidly from the efforts of order to maintain quality. Secondly, the fail­ that in turn Tufts is making an essential many who are doing research on a variety ure to support the special projects grant will contribution which is significant to the of disease problems rather than upon con­ mean that money to pay the additional fac­ health care of the American people. Our al­ centration on two or three diseases. ulty to educate additional numbers of phy­ ternatives are few and so we must look to Now let us turn to numbers of students sicians will be lost and we will have to the federal funding programs. enrolled. Within the past few years the terminate the appointments of some of our There is no question, I submit, that shortage of medical manpower has emerged faculty. Thirdly, the abandonment of the periodic review of all federal support pro­ as one of national concern. The medical training grant programs will also eliminate grams is necessary and essential if we are to schools have responded to this problem and support of other faculty and some of these maintain direction and priority of programs have been able to increase the number of trainees, themselves in advanced learning identified as vital by the American public, physicians being educated by about 50%. programs, have been teaching medical stu­ voted by the Congress and administered by This program and progress is just beginning dents of the health sciences. The training the President. Thus, through their orderly to bear fruit and was possible only because grant program was directed to producing process, maximum effectiveness and efficien­ of the massive assistance through federal teachers for future physicians as well as cy of federal funds can be assured. In funds-money for construction of educa­ other members of the health team and the closing I would like to emphasize that ab­ tional facilities, training grants and special reduction of the training grant program will rupt and wholesale abandonment of federal projects, to help gather about us faculty and have serious consequences upon our ability funds in the health care field will have in­ funds to help support and give scholarship to educate students and future teachers of evitable tragic effects on Tufts University aid to our students. It now appears that all medicine. Finally, research will suffer and we School of Medicine and on the health care of these vital programs will soon have to be are all aware of this consequence. provided for many of our citizens.