9362 - CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE May 28 functions in the public rooms ·on · the I shall await the reply of the Commit the President ·under subsection (a) of sec Senate side of the Capitol and in the tee on Rules and Administration to my tion 3066, in the rank indicated: Senate Office Buildings. I have made letter. If, as a Member of this body who To be lieutenant generals clear that there are some of us who be has demonstrated time and time again Maj. Geil. Theodore William Parker, lieve that this is a horrendous example in his many years of service his complete 018369, Army of the United States (briga to be setting for the youth of this coun parliamentary fairness to all other dier general, U.S. Army). try. Each day literally thousands of Members of the Senate, I cannot obtain 1. The following-named officer to be placed high school and college students, who a hearing on my resolution, if I cannot on the retired list, in the grade indicated, bring before the Committee on Rules and under the provisions of title 10, United represent the greatest wealth we have, States Code, section 3962: come through the corridors of the Capi Administration the witnesses who wish Lt. Gen. John Honeycutt Hinrichs, tol and the corridors of the Senate Office to testify on the resolution, I shall use 017174, Army of the United States (major Buildings. I do not believe it is a very every parliamentary right at my com general, U.S. Army). good thing to have them visiting the mand from now until Congress adjourns, 2. The following-named officer, under the Capitol and the Senate Office Buildings no matter when that is, even if it is not provisions of title 10, United States Code, and receiving information that at official until Christmastime, to focus attention section 3066, to be assigned to a position of Senate functions and parties in the Cap on the great moral issue that has been importance and responsibility designated by itol and in the Senate Office Buildings raised by my resolution. the President under subsection (a) of sec hard liquor is served. If anyone thought the senior Senator tion 3066, in the rank indicated: Maj. Gen. August Schomburg, 018422. I know that when one takes the posi from Oregon was treating his resolution U.S.Army. tion I take, he must expect to receive a in a light vein when he submitted it, he good many criticisms, and to be accused could not have been more mistaken, be •• ..... •• of being a prude or a bluenose or one cause, so far as the Senator from Oregon who wants to regulate the lives of others. is concerned, the policy which the Senate HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I have no desire to regulate the lives of is following in serving hard liquor in the others. I have said before, and repeat Capitol and the Senate Office Buildings MONDAY, MAY 28, 1962 tonight, that if Senators want to give a cannot be justified in the public interest. party at which booze is served, they The taxpayers are entitled to have the The House met at 12 o'clock noon. should go downtown and rent a reception practice stopped, and I shall use every Rabbi Meir Felman, Judea Center Syn room at a hotel. power at my command to try to stop it. agogue, Brooklyn, N.Y., offered the fol But I have said also, and repeat to If I fail, it will not be because I did lowing prayer: not try. night, that the taxpayers of the Nation Almighty God, we lift our hearts in have a right to a voice on this subject. praise and gratitude for the spiritual They will have no voice in it unless the RECESS UNTIL MONDAY NEXT heritage of America; for freedom of representatives of the taxpayers stand altar, home, and school; for patriot on the floor of the Senate and are Mr. MORSE. Mr. President, I move, under the order previously entered, that souls, heroes of the spirit, loyal to Thy counted on the question whether they living word, who offered full measure of wish to endorse a policy of serving hard the Senate take a recess until 10: 30 o'clock a.m. on Monday, next. selfless devotion that this precious legacy liquor in the public rooms of the Capi might be preserved to us and to our tol and the Senate Office Buildings. The motion was agreed to; and (at 6 o'clock and 53 minutes p.m.) the Senate children. I have written a letter to each member took a recess, under the order previously As we enjoy the rewards earned by the of the Committee on Rules and Admin labors of our Founding Fathers, may we istration, in which I have· respectfully entered, until Monday, May 28, 1962, at 10: 30 o'clock a.m. fully comprehend that the tasks they so asked whether the article published in nobly advanced are never finished; that the Washington Post is accurate, and in freedom is not inherited, it must be which I have said that if it is accurate, CONFIRMATIONS merited; that liberty is not bought, it I should like to have the committee at must be taught; that brotherhood and least reconsider its action long enough Executive nominations confirmed by the Senate May 25, 1962: peace are not possessions but goals to be to accord me a hearing before the Com reached and ideals to be attained. mittee on Rules and Administration in ENVOY Merciful God, bless our glorious land support of my resolution, and give me an Mrs. Eugenie Anderson, of Minnesota, to and the eminent men and women who opportunity to present to the committee be Envoy Extraordinary and .Minister Pleni direct its destiny so that peace and se a list of witnesses from across America potentiary of the United States of America to Bulgaria. curity, happiness and prosperity, right who, my correspondence shows, are de and freedom may forever abide in our sirous of coming to Washington to testify DEPARTMENT OF STATE midst. Amen. concerning this question. · Lucius D. Battle, of Florida, to be an As Representatives of various church or sistant Secretary of State. ganizations, of various civic organiza AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT THE JOURNAL tions, and of various business organiza Seymour M. Peyser, of New York, to be tions are entitled. to an opportunity to Assistant Administrator for Development The Journal of the proceedings of be heard on this issue. They want to Financing, Agency for International Devel Thursday, May 24, 1962, was read and come and testify on the issue because opment. approved. in my judgment, they recognize that it is U.S. ATTORNEYS a much more serious issue than the Louis C. Lacour, of Louisiana, to be U.S. members of the Committee on Rules and attorney for the eastern district of Louisiana MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE Administration apparently realize. The for the term of 4 years. A message from the Senate by Mr. representatives of these organizations Ben Hardeman, of Alabama, to be U.S. McGown, one of its clerks, announced recognize that the people of the country attorney for the middle district of Alabama for the term of 4 years. that the Senate had passed a bill of the have the right to be heard, the right to following title, in which the concurrence petition, and the right to testify before U.S. MARSHALS of the House is requested: their Government with respect to a Roland S. Mosher, of Arizona, to be U.S. S. 3225. An act to improve and protect policy which involves an issue of such marshal for the district of Arizona for the farm income, to reduce costs of farm pro term of 4 years. vital concern to so many millions of peo grams to the Federal Government, to reduce ple as is this one. . Edward Hussey, Jr., of Delaware, to be U.S. the Federal Government's excessive stocks marshal for the district of Delaware for the of agricultural commodities, to maintain Mr. President, this question cannot be term of 4 years. laughed off; it cannot be minimized. In reasonable and stable prices of agricultural U.S. ARMY commodities and products to consumers, to it my judgment, is a problem which deals The following-named officer, under the provide adequate supplies of agricultural with the social fabric, and the policies of provisions of title 10, United States Code, commodities for domestic and foreign needs, the American people in relation to the section 3066, to be assigned to a position of to conserve natural resources, and for other social fabric of the Nation. importance and responsibllity designated by purposes. 1962 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 9363 The message also announced that the ADJOURNMENT TO THURSDAY, financed that agency's programs of :fi Senate agrees to the amendments of the MAY 31, 1962 nancial assistance. The bill would House to a bill and a joint resolution of place the fund on a more permanent the Senate of the following titles: Mr. MOSS. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani basis by removing the statutory limita mous consent that when the House ad s. 2132. An act to approve the revised journs today it adjourn to meet on tion on authorizations to appropriate June 1957 reclassification of land of the Fort to the fund and the separate limitations Shaw division of the Sun River project, Mon Thursday next. on the amounts of appropriated funds tana, and to authorize the modification of Mr. GROSS. Mr. Speaker, reserving which may be utilized for each of the the repayment contract with Fort Shaw Ir the right to object, I do not know whether Small Business Administration's :finan rigation District; and the gentleman from California who is cial assistance programs. The proposed S.J. Res. 151. Joint resolution permitting acting today as the majority :floor leader the Secretary of the Interior to continue to should be asked the question or not, but legislation would also simplify the meth deliver water to lands in the Third Division, I am becoming more and more disturbed od of computing the interest payable Riverton Federal reclamation project, Wyo from the revolving fund to the Treasury ming. over the failure of the House to get down to work. I wonder when the House is and would effect a number of clarifica going to begin to show some signs of tions in the language of the act. tackling the legislation that apparently Mr. Speaker, the President has asked SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS, that the bill be considered promptly and FISCAL YEAR 1962 is going to have to be considered; in other words, I am fearful that we are enacted into law at the earliest possible Mr. THOMAS. Mr. Speaker, I ask going to run into the same situation we date. The hearing will begin at 10 a.m., unanimous consent to take from the have in other years. I would say that in room 1301, New House Office Build Speaker's desk the bill H.R. 11038 mak up to this point, this is just about the ing, on June 7, 1962. ing supplemental appropriations for the most do-nothing session I have seen in All persons who wish to appear and fiscal year ending June 30, 1962, and for my 14 years here. testify on this bill are requested to no other purposes, with Senate amend Is it deliberately planned to pile up tify the counsel of the House Banking ments thereto, disagree to the amend legislative business into July and August, and Currency Committee, room 1301, ments of the Senate, and agree to the and perhaps even into September, and New House Office Building, telephone conference asked by the Senate. then the House be confronted with the Capitol 4-3121, extension 4.248. The Clerk read the title of the bill. situation of having legislation rammed The SPEAKER. Is there objection to down its collective and individual throats the request of the gentleman from with early and late sessions, with Mem ANNOUNCEMENT CONCERNING RE Texas? bers unable to know what is in some of PRINTING OF LITHUANIAN DAY Mr. GROSS. Mr. Speaker, reserving the conference reports that come wheel PROGRAM HELD IN HOUSE AND the right to object, can the gentle~an ing through in the dead of night? I SENATE ON THURSDAY, FEBRU tell us how much the other body m would hope that we would get down to ARY 15, 1962 creased this bill? work and not permit that situation to Mr. THOMAS. I will say to the dis Mr. WALTER. Mr. Speaker, I ask tinguished gentleman from Iowa, they develop again_ unanimous consent that the gentleman Mr. MOSS. While not agreeing with from Pennsylvania [Mr. FLOOD] may ex put in some 15 or 20 new items to which the gentleman as to the accomplishments our colleague, the gentleman from Iowa tend his remarks at this point in the [Mr. JENSEN], and I have not agreed. during this session of the House I can RECORD. say that he has expressed a thought that The SPEAKER. Is there objection But there is not too much serious ob is in the minds of many. I am confident jection so far as the dollar amount is to the request of the gentleman from that the House, with the great majority Pennsylvania? concerned-I think it amounts to some of the primaries and Memorial Day out $12 to $15 million. There was no objection. of the way, will undertake a more vigor Mr. FLOOD. Mr. Speaker, the Lithu Mr. GROSS. Will the gentleman ous schedule. from Texas do his utmost, together with anian Day program that was held in the Mr. GROSS. Of course, I cannot agree House and Senate on Thursday, Febru the gentleman from Iowa [Mr. JENSEN], with the gentleman that State primaries to hold down this deficit spending in ary 15, 1962, will be reprinted in pam ought to have precedence over the busi phlet form by the Lithuanian American view of the fiscal situation in which the ness of the House of Representatives. I country :finds itself? Information Center in New York City, think this has been canied much too far, Related material thereto will also be re Mr. THOMAS. The gentleman from but I reserve further questions on this printed in this pamphlet. Iowa [Mr. JENSEN] and I, along with my subject for the leadership at a later date. If there are any Members who do not distinguished friend from Iowa [Mr. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to GRoss] will work at it. wish to have their remarks and state the request of the gentleman from Cali ments reprinted, they should so advise Mr. GROSS. I will say to the gentle fornia? the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD Clerk. man, I am going to be very much in There was no objection. terested when this bill comes back to Otherwise, such remarks and state the House and I hope that it will be held ments will be reprinted in the aforemen NOTICE OF HEARING OF H.R. 11020, tioned pamphlet in accordance with the down. rules on printing as administered by the Mr. THOMAS. We will try. TO AMEND THE SMALL BUSINESS Joint Committee on Printing. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to ACT the request of the gentleman from Tex Mr. PATMAN. Mr. Speaker, I ask as? The Chair hears none, and appoints unanimous consent to address the House RED CHINA REFUGEES the following conferees: Messrs. THOM for 1 minute and to revise and extend AS, KIRWAN, CANNON, JENSEN, and TABER. Mr. DORN. Mr. Speaker, I ask unan my remarks. imous consent to address the House for The SPEAKER. Is there objection 1 minute and to revise and extend my to the request of the gentleman from remarks. PERMISSION TO FILE REPORT Texas? The SPEAKER. Is there objec_tion Mr. THOMAS. Mr. Speaker, I ask There was no objection. to the request of the gentleman from unanimous consent that the managers Mr. PATMAN. Mr. Speaker, as chair South Carolina? on the part of the House may have until man of Subcommittee No. 2 of the Com There was no objection. midnight tonight to :file a conference re mittee on Banking and Currency, I wish Mr. DORN. Mr. Speaker, human port on the Second Supplemental Ap to announce that a hearing of the bill itarianism and idealism should be tem propriations Act of 1962, H.R. 11038. H.R. 11020 will be held on June 7, 1962. pered with realism and the facts. We The SPEAKER. Is there objection to The bill amends section 4(c) of the Small are all in sympathy with the hungry vic the request of the gentleman from Business Act, as amended, which deals tims of ruthless Chinese Communist op Texas? with the Small Business Administra pression. These unfortunate people There was no objection. tion's revolving fund out of _which are should be helped by t~e people of the 9364 -CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-_ HOUSE May 28 United States and the peoples of the is no secret that, from time to time, a ful utilization of outer space that will free world. We can help them through number of my colleagues have joined me benefit all mankind. our long-established organizations , in criticizing various executive agencies To Scott Oarp~nter, to Alan Shepard, trained and equipped to do the job; when we discovered they were purchas to Gus Grissom, and to John Glenn, this namely, the Red Cross, Salvation Army, . ing imported items when we felt the House and the American people owe a CARE, the International Relief Organ Government should make these pur- great' debt of gratitude. From a scientific ization, and others. chases from domestic producers. standpoint, I am happy to announce to The U.S. Government can and should It now appears, Mr. Speaker, that we you today the great success of this or work out plans with our undeveloped should clean our own house.· Regret bital flight. and sparsely settled friends to admit tably, Mr. Speaker, I hold in my hand a these refugees from China. Under no table napkin from the House Restaurant, circumstances, Mr. Speaker, should we which bears a label proudly proclaim GOVERNMENT AIR TRAVEL BILL admit great numbers of refugees into ing it was made in West Germany. COULD SAVE MILLIONS OF DOL the United States as long as w·e have over Mr. Speaker, when Members have had LARS 4 million unemployed. This would not the opportunity to examine this napkin Mr. McINTIRE. Mr. Speaker, I ask . be fair to the incoming refugees nor ' to and its label, I shall return it to the unanimous consent that the gentleman our own unemployed who are seeking restaurant. from Illinois [Mr. FINDLEY] may extend employment. Sufficient unto the day is the evil his remarks at this point in the RECORD we have gone to extremes since World thereof. and include extraneous matter. War II in admitting foreign nationals The SPEAKER. Is there objection and we are suffering the consequences COMDR. M. SCOTT CARPENTER to the request of the gentleman from today. I might point out that Germany Maine? has no unemployment and is now im Mr. GEORGE P. MILLER. Mr. porting workers from Italy. Japan has Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to There was no objection. virtually no unemployment. I am not address the House for 1 minute and to J\1r. FINDLEY. Mr. Speaker, I have suggesting these people go to Germany revise and extend my remarks. today introduced a bill providing that all or Japan. but I do think it wise that the The SPEAKER. Is there objection Government commercial air travel be at United States assist them in locating in to the request of the gentleman from lowest fare rates except in circumstances South America, Africa, Australia, and California? of official necessity. In view of the con Canada where they could help develop There was no objection. siderable use of airlines by Government undeveloped areas. Mr. GEORGE P. MILLER. Mr. officials, this bill would result in a tre Mr. Speaker, it is not fair to our un · Speaker, yesterday it was niy privilege mendous :financial saving-possibly $10 to fly to Cape Canaveral to be present million a year-with little or no sacrifice employed nor to our taxpayers who will in convenience or service to the Govern foot the ·bill for still more unemploy at the press conference of Comdr. M. menttraveler. ment. Scott Carpenter, our fourth astronaut to successfully go into space, and to wit The Government. traveler would often ness the presentation of the NASA Dis get to his destination at the same time INSPECTION OF AIRPLANE LUG tinguished Service Medal to Astronaut in the same airplane. The difference in GAGE FOR EXPLOSIVES Carpenter and to Mr. Walter Williams, accommodations is little between econ Mr. O'HARA . of Michigan. Mr. flight director of the Project Mercury. omy and first class, but there is a big dif Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to I know those of you who had an op ference in cost. address the House for 1 minute and to portunity to hear Commander Carpen For example, the following shows the revise and extend my remarks. ter on television during his press con great cost difference between first class The SPEAKER. Is there objection ference were struck with the forthright and economy roundtrip fares: to the request of I the gentleman from -way in which he answered questions Michigan? asked of him by the press, and the sin Percent Econ sav There was no objection. cerity of his opening statements. lst-class omy ings in Mr. O'HARA of Michigan. Mr. Speak Contrary to some of the impressions City-to-city fare fare Differ- econ- er, in January of 1960, over 2 years ago, given, at no time was Commander Car (round (round ence omy trip) trip) fare I introduced in this House a bill H.R. penter not in complete command of the over 9777 of the 86th Congress, which would capsule. He had a number of things , ------1st-class amend the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to do. He was not confused. He was ______to require domestic and foreign-aid car a very busy astronaut. As a result of Washington to riers to inspect luggage and cargo taken his third orbit of the earth he has Cbicago:Jet ______Prop ______$93. 60 $75. 40 $18. 20 19 aboard their flights for bombs and other brought back more information than at 87. 40 67. 90 19. 50 22 destructive materials. any time since the project was started. NJeewt _York:______34.60 30. 80 3.80 11 My bill also specifies that airlines Science is the beneficiary of his op Prop ______35. 90 30. 70 5. 20 14 Los Angeles: would be liable to those passengers or eration. Above all else, we now have Jet______------Prop ______352. 90 274. 50 78. 40 22 others suffering damages as a result of increased our knowledge of weightless- · 322. 30 222. 70 99. 60 31 · an explosion aboard one of their aircraft ness in outer space. Heretofore we had London:Jet ______about 4 hours and 40 minutes of weight Prop ______935. 90 516. 70 419. 20 45 if preflight inspection was not carried 822. 40 476. 60 345. 80 42 , out. The need for this bill has been lessness. Commander Carpenter was demonstrated again within the last weightless for approximately the same week. length of time. There are still many What is the total cost to the Govern- I am introducing this bill today and unknowns in this area and, until we ment? · ask that it be given the serious con solve this great problem, outer space is According to figures prepared by U.S. . sideration of the Members of this House. stm a long way off. General Accounting Office, Transporta- Commander Carpenter's success is a tion Division, May 15, 1962, payments compliment to the program; it is a trib- made to commercial air carriers for pas THE PURCHASE. OF IMPORTED ute to American ingenuity and Amer- senger transportation by departments ITEMS ican ability to solve the mysteries of and agencies of the Government-other outer space. It is interesting to note than Department of Defense-during Mr. BAILEY. Mr. Speaker, ·1 ask that even Mr. Khrushchev admits that · December 1961 totaled $4,981,198 of unanimous consent to address the House we are gradually overtaking the edge which 46.7 percent or $2,327,456, was first for 1 minute. that the Russians gained on us by rea- class and $2,653,742 or 53.3 percent was The SPEAKER. Is there objection to . son of their ' big booster.' These flights other than first class. This total was for the request of the gentleman from West . tQa_t are l;>eing _µndertaken are serious .. both domestic and international. Virginia? · scientific investigations. · They are not Total transportation requests, how- There was no objection. shows put on for the entertainment of ever, by Government officials were 58.6 ~r. BAI~EY_. Mr. Speaker, I have a · the people but are serious ·scientific ex- percent for first class and 41.4 percent pamful obllgat1on to perform today. It periments to lead the way to the peace- for other than first class. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 9365 From figures· supplied by GAO for a Considering the big difference in cost history. It became at- once a major con representative month, we can reasonably and the little difference in accommoda . versation piece in the country. assume that the total paid by the Federal tions, I believe that this bill should be Another illustration of his progressive passec.;i and thus save American tax thinking ( and one which earned him the Government for first class air fares is title of "King of Small Radio") occurred in nearly $28 million a year. This does not payers millions of dollars. 1932, the depth of the country's worst de include the Department of Defense first pression. The smallest midget radio, until class commercial air transportation then, weighed 25 pounds. costs. HON. BENJAMIN ABRAMS: OUT Despite warnings from business associates, Regarding domestic air travel by STANDING AMERICAN CITIZEN Emerson's president introduced the famous military and civilian personnel of the Mr. McINTIRE. Mr. Speaker, I ask model 25-A, weighing only 6 pounds, for Department of Defense in first class unanimous consent that the gentleman only $25. More than 200,000 of these sets were sold within a year. The model 25-A accommodations, Joseph Campbell, from New York [Mr. DEROUNIAN] may revolutionized the industry by bringing Comptroller General of the United extend his remarks at this point in the radio within reach of the masses. Emer States, stated-report to Congress March RECORD and include extraneous matter. son soon became known as the "world •s · 30, 1962: The SPEAKER. Is there objection largest maker of small radios.'• In 1936, he At the transportation offices visited by us, to the request of the gentleman from astounded the world with the introduction we found that over 90 percent of all trips Maine? of models that sold for $9.95 and even as were made in first class accommodations. There was no objection. low as $6.95. The relatively few trips in coach accommoda Mr. DEROUNIAN. Mr. Speaker, on Mr. Abrams continued to pile up greater tions were preponderantly on_ jet flights. Wednesday, May 23, 1962, I was privi records of production and sales each suc Coach accommodations on nonjet flights ceeding year. He installed modern factories were seldom used. An indeterminate but leged to address the fifth annual awards and laboratories and employed the best substantial proportion of the first class ac dinner of the Society for the Advance technical brains in the country. Business commodations could have been undertaken ment of'Management, at C. W. Post Col expanded and he achieved distribution of in lower than first-class accommodations so lege, in my congressional district. Emerson products in virtually every country as to satisfy the legitimate requirements of That evening, Mr. Benjamin Abrams, in the world. the travelers and conserve travel funds. president of Emerson Radio & Phono In 1938, Emerson became one of the first Many of the first class jet flights could have graph Corp., was honored for his out to design and produce commercial televi been in jet tourist accommodations without standing contributions to government, sion. Extensive research had begun years affecting the missions of the travelers, since . before. As TV development broadened, both types of accommodations were usually business, and the community. Emerson expanded its laboratory, manu provided on the same flights. However, gen The life of Mr. Abrams is truly a suc facturing, field testing, and promotional erally no attempt was made to secure the cess story that should inspire anyone who facilities and, today, the company is one of lower priced accommodations. lives in the United States of America. . the five top factors in the industry with an These findings indicate that unnecessary Mr. Abrams is made of this "sterner nual sales approaching the $100 million expense is being incurred, to a significant stuff" which is so needed today if we are mark. extent, as a result of the failure of many to grow economically here in the United In 1953, Mr. Abrams led Emerson into the installations in the military departments to States and prestigewise throughout the air-conditioner business and soon left an effectively encourage the use of less costly indelible mark in that field. After one year, accommodations. world. Mr. Abrams did not go to the he revolutionized the industry by intro The Assistant Secretary of Defense (In Federal Government for help when he ducing the world's first portable room air stallations and Logistics) in commenting on started and when he acquired the name conditioner. The following year, he intro our findings agreed that more savings can and assets of Emerson Phonograph Co. duced the world's first room air condi be effected and advised us that the Depart in 1922. He has shown us what private tioner with an electronic germ killer. ment intends to curtail the use of travel enterprise, unshackled by Federal Gov Always a staunch advocate of research and funds by substantially reducing its request development, he established late in 1953 the for funds for temporary duty travel-the ernment domination can do. His is a story which all of the coun Emerson Research Laboratories in Washing area, in his opinion, where policy violations ton, D.C., for research and advance develop have been most frequent-in its budget for try should read and accordingly I sub ment work in electronics. Many important the fiscal year 1963. Also the Department's mit herewith a brief biographical sketch projects have been instituted since the in · policy as to first class jet travel is being of Benjamin Abrams: ception of the research center, which was revised to restrict such travel to unusual Benjamin Abrams was born in Rumania in designed to supplement the research and situations. In addition, internal audit guid 1893. His father died when he was 8 years development activities engaged in by the ance covering all travel will be strengthened company for many years. in order to identify those organizations that old. are not complying with policy objectives. At the age of 12, he immigrated to the Mr. Abrams and Emerson have concen While the corrective actions proposed by United States. He entered public school in trated since the early 1930's on making their the Assistant Secretary are laudable, the only New York City but left after 1 year to help products more and more compact and also in the support of his family. · have devoted considerable time to · the proposed policy ·change is restricted to first Mr. Abrams' first job was as a piano tuner · class jet travel. This is not in consonance problem of portability. Under his guidance, with the views of the Senate Committee on for which he was paid $3 a week. After the company has assumed leadership in the Appropriations, applicable to both jet travel this, he decided to test his promotional field of portable electronics, having intro and nonjet travel, that "The Department of ideas and entered what was one of the duced the world's first portable radio, first Defense should immediately institute the toughest occupations of that period-so portable TV receiver, first portable pocket policy of utilizing economy class or charter liciting magazine subscriptions house to radio, first portable room air conditioner, service for all personnel, with exceptions house and office to office. and, most recently, the Emerson Port-0- only where justified." Consequently, we are Convinced that these promotional theories Rama, the world's first portable TV - recommending that the Secretary of Defense could be applied to other fields, he went into phonoradio, as well as a host of other firsts. take steps to issue a policy directive that business for himself in 1915, at the age of 22, As the active head of the Emerson enter meets the views of the Senate Committee on assembling and manufacturing phonographs. prise, the ownership of which is now shared Appropriations. The following year, he applied for an avail by thousands of stockholders, Benjamin able distributor franchise for the Brooklyn Abrams personally supervises all major op Figures have not been recorded for territory of Emerson Phonograph Co., the erations at the huge Emerson plants in Jer international Department of Defense third largest record manufacturing firm in sey City, New York City, Brooklyn, and Attle commercial air fare costs and are not the country. boro, Mass., where he maintains modern and Despite his youth, relative lack of ex progressive management and employee available. perience in business and lack of capital, Actually the main difference between policies. Mr. Abrams was awarded the distributorship Mr. Abrams has devoted considerable time economy-tourist and first class fare is with a $200 credit arrangement. On July to his posts as chairman of the Greater the free bar service often available to 28, 1922, he acquired the name and assets New York Committee for Israel Bonds, as first class customers. Seats and arm of Emerson Phonograph Co. and assumed its presidency. member of the board of trustees of a score rests are slightly narrower on economy of philanthropic organizations, to the United tourist, but any slight discomfort to the This was a red letter day because it was the beginning of new thinking, new ideas, new Nations Genocide Committee, National Tele person traveling at Government expense vigor, and new leadership in the phonograph vi-: ion Systems Committee, Industry Advisory is trivial compared with pain felt by the and radio industry ( as well as in television Committee Munitions Board, as a member of taxpayer. when he looks at his paycheck and air conditioning, years later). An the board of directors of the Better Business . tax deductions. early illustration was the Emerson Phono Bureau of New York and the Radio Elec Are the champagne flights necessary? radio of 1924,. the first radiophonograph in tronics Television Manufacturers Associ- .9366 CONGRESSIONAL R~CORD - HOUSE May 28 atlon, trustee of Long Island University, and That the Government of Japan place4 the articles in the special section of the many other extracurricular activities too significance on the publication in a lead Washington Post of May 20. 1962, as fol numerous to mention. ing American newspaper of a section of Mr. Abrams received many citations and lows: commendations for his magnificent contri 36 pages devoted exclusively to Japan is BEHIND HI-FI'S AND AUTOS, NIPPON STILL butions to the World War II effort from the attested by messages from Hayato CHANGELESS War Production Board, Treasury Depart Ikeda, Prime Minister of Japan, and (By Hessell Tiltman) ment, Bureau of Ordnance of the U.S. Navy, Koichiro Asakal, Ambassador of Japan TOKYo.-It has been said that the more Bureau of Ships of the U.S. Navy, Office of to the United States. Japan changes, the more it remains basically Scientific Research and Development, Gen Prime Minister Ikeda writes: the same. eral Eisenhower, General MacArthur, Gen In the two decades since Pearl Harbor, and eral Somervell, Army service forces, etc. We in Japan view with pride the close bonds of friendship that exist with our even in the 10 years since the nation re On June 12, 1952, at a function celebrating gained its independence following the Pacific his 30th year as Emerson's president, Mr. American neighbors. The unity of purpose which our two nations hold in securing a war, Japan has changed drastically--on Abrams announced the establishment of the paper. Politically, the Emperor has been Emerson $100,000 educational television free and peaceful world, desire to understand each other more thoroughly, to appreciate transformed from an official divine being grant, which was widely applauded in into a constitutional monarch and sover newspapers and magazines throughout the the institutions and traditions of each coun try more fully, is, I believe, a positive indi eignty has been vested in the people through country. Under the terms of this grant, the the National Diet, elected under universal first 10 noncommercial educational tele cation that our relations will continue to grow and mature in the decades ahead. suffrage. vision stations to start operating would re In the Japan of the late 1930's, the only ceive $10,000 each from Emerson. Ambassador Asakal, commenting on public opinion officially tolerated was the In April 1953 he flew to Houston, Tex., to the fact that relations between Japan xenophobic nationalism preached by the present the first award to the University of noisy "double patriots" and expressed more Houston's station, KUHT. At that time, he and the United States never in the 102 persuasively and quietly by the Japanese delivered a fighting speech excoriating self years of the Embassy's history have Foreign Office. The prevailing psychology ish poll ticians who are retarding the prog been on such a high level as now, points of the Japanese people at that time was com ress of educational television and received out that even among the closest of pounded of Emperor worship, reverence for many commendations from the press, the friends, relations sometimes need ad the nation's past, and pride in its achieve public, and educators for his stand. Educa justment to new conditions. ments. tional television has become almost a re Before that mllitaristic era, Japan had a ligion with him and he spends as much time In the field of trade- government modeled on democratic lines, helping to further it as his manifold busi He continues- including a parliament, political parties, and ness responsibilities will permit. popular elections for the lower house. But occasional differences may ·arise, but I Mr. Abrams has always been interested in it was democracy with a difference-one am certain that these differences, thanks to that believed the Emperor to be all-wise and scientific advances and, in December 1954, the friendly relations we enjoy, can be set the Benjamin Abrams Electronics Labora all-virtuous; a democracy with a purpose tled without impairing either of our in to achieve the national destiny ordained by tories in the Weizmann Institute of Science terests. in Israel were officially dedicated. Made the gods for the Yamato race. available by a contribution by Mr. Abrams, The Ambassador welcomes the publi From the late 1930's until the end of the the laboratories were officially dedicated in a cation in the Washington Post, with its Pacific war, Japan also had an elaborate of joint ceremony via a two-way electronic ficial machinery to regiment the nation and hookup between Rehovoth, Israel, the all inclusive coverage, since understand suppress "dangerous thoughts." locale of the institute, and New York at ing is the root of a true and enduring The termination of the Pacific war brought the annual dinner of the Weizmann Insti state of amity and this special section the end of repression and the dawn of a new tute of Science. The doors of the new labo on Japan surely will broaden the under ultrademocratic era. Since the shock of de ratories were opened in Israel as a result standing of Japan, particularly in areas feat wore off, public opinion has been unin of an electronic impulse propelled in New where illumination is most needed. hibited and strident and has become a major York by Mr. Abrams. Mr. Speaker, truly, understanding of force in determining public policy. Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Abrams live in Economically, the nation has made spec New York City, and have a summer home in another's work and purpose and their in tacular progress. In the 6 years from 1953 Westchester. They have three daughters and terrelationship with one's own work to 1958, industrial production increased 100 four grandchildren. He is a member of the and purpose is the bridge to friendship. percent; in the 3 years that followed, out Harmony and Beach Point Clubs. I congratulate the Washington Post and put doubled again. With industrial expan its managing editor, Alfred Friendly, on sion ,and an increasing switch from the this exceptionally fine and valuable con production of consumer goods to heavy industrial products and "quality" items JAPAN-PACIFIC PARTNER tribution to understanding. No one can exported to the West, the nation's trade read this special section without gaining The SPEAKER. Under previous order pattern is very different from that of prewar a clearer grasp of what is transpiring in times. of the House, the gentleman from Illi modern Japan. In the 1934-36 period, when I was first nois [Mr. O'HARA] is recognized for 20 I would digress for a moment or so, assigned to Tokyo, 63 percent of J apan's ex minutes. Mr. Speaker, to remark that in the dis ports went to Asia and 52 percent of its im Mr. O'HARA of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, trict of Illinois that I have the honor to ports came from nearby Asian sources. In I ask unanimous consent to revise and represent, are many men and women of 1960, Asian countries took only 37 percent extend my remarks and include extrane Japanese descent. At one time, before of J apan's exports and supplied 31 percent ous matter. of its imports. Over the same p eriod, the the admission of Hawaii, the Second Dis proportion of Japanese exports going to The SPEAKER. Is there objection trict of Illinois was credited with more North American markets-mainly the United to the request of the gentleman from Japanese-American electors than any States--doubled, from 18 percent to 33 per Illinois? other district in the Nation. I was happy cent today. There was no objection. and proud to have interwoven in my In prewar days, half of the cultivated land Mr. O'HARA of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, constituency those whose ancestral roots in Japan was tilled by tenant farmers and as a member of the Committee on For were in Japan and who as our fellow was burdened by long-accumulated debts. eign Affairs, I wish commend the With a growing discrepancy between the to Americans were adding fresh glory to the market prices of agricultural and industrial Washington Post for a notable contri finest traditions of American citizenry. products and an excessive tax load, the na bution to international understanding. Mrs. Mary Ono, a member of my staff tion's agrarian community was in a serious In its issue of May 20, 1962, the Post de since the commencement of my service plight. voted an entire section of 36 pages to here, had the distinction of being the Since 1945, conditions for Japan's farmers _ "Japan-Pacific Partner." Every phase first Japanese-American congressional h ave been transformed by three factors: land is presented of the miraculous develop secretary. Her husband, Harry Ono, reform, which turned most tenant farmers ment of modern Japan from the wreck served overseas in World War II with our into landowners; technological improve age of war to full partnership with the beloved colleague from Hawaii, the Hon ments, including the increased u se of fertiliz ers and mechanization, and large govern United States in the rebuilding of a orable DANIEL KEN INOUYE. ment investments in land improvement proj world of economic strength on demo Mr. Speaker, as an index to the qual ects. The result has been an increased cratic principles and under the profit ity of the editorial content, I am ex average rice yield per hectare from 2.696 system. tending my remarks to include one of metric tons in 1941 to 3.916 metric tons in 1962 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE 9367 1959. For the first time since Japan de ashi" by the young, but the trends them tive program and any special orders here• veloped an industrial economy, it is now selves are not new. In prewar Japan, ·women tofore entered, was granted to: virtually self-sufficient in its main staple enjoyed a considerable degree of democracy Mr. O'HARA of Illinois, for 1 hour, on food. within the family circle, and "mogas" (mod June 12, and to revise and extend his NEW NATIONAL GOAL ern girls) and "mobos" (modern boys), who copied Western ways and habits, made remarks. Most significant of all has been the change newspaper headlines. Mr. O'HARA of Illinois, for 20 minutes. in the climate of opinion. Ten years after Today, foreign influences are more in evi today, and to revise and extend his re independence, the average Japanese is again dence, but the force of tradition is still marks. convinced that the country can achieve its strong. Two-thirds of the nation, including manifest destiny, but that conviction is no the "three F's"-the farmers, fishermen, and longer based upon the mythology and regi feudalists-is still stanchly conservative. EXTENSION OF REMARKS mented discipline of prewar days. It now The left continues to base its philosophy on stems from pride of race and from free Marxist dogma. And at the extremes of left By unanimous consent, permission to opinion freely expressed. and right are the Communist and ultrana extend remarks in the CONGRESSIONAL The national aim has changed. Told in tionalist fringes, as in prewar days. RECORD, or to revise and extend remarks, 1945 that the ways of peace would pay larger In industry, prewar paternalism persists, was granted to: dividends than militaristic adventures, the with workers rarely changing employers and Mr. ALGER. Japanese accepted the fact. With their char masters obligated to take care of employees (The following Members
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