40244 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 7, 1970 31, 1970, and the average monthly flight pay Mr. HOLIFIELD: Joint Committee on sergeant and one additional position of authorized by law to be paid to such omcers Atomic Energy. H.R. 19908. A bill to lieutenant on the U.S. Capitol Pollee force during the 12-month period ended that amend Public Law 91-273 to increase the for duty under the House of Representatives, date. Pursuant to 37 U.S.C. 301(g) to the authorization for appropriations to the and for other purposes; to the Committee on Committee on Armed Services. Atomic Energy Commission in accordance House Administration. with section 261 of the Atomic Energy Act By Mr. HARRINGTON: of 1954, as amended, and for other purposes H. Res. 1294. Resolution to provide for the REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON PUB­ (Rept. No. 91-1677). Referred to the Com­ consideration of the bill (H.R. 18214) the LIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS mitt~e of the Whole House on the State of Consumer Protection Act of 1970; to the the Union. Committee on Rules. Under clause 2 of ru1e XIII, reports of Mr. MORGAN: Committee on Foreign Af­ committees were delivered to the Clerk fairs: H.R. 19911. A bill to amend the For­ eign Assistance Act of 1961, and for other for printing and reference to the proper purposes (Rept. No. 91-1678). Referred to PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS calendar, as follows: the Committee of the Whole Rouse on the [Submitted December 4, 1970] State of the Union. . Under c~ause 1 of rule XXII, private Mr. RIVERS: Committee on Armed Serv­ Mr. MdM.ILLAN: Committee on the Dis­ bills and resolutions were introduced and ices. House Resolution 1282. Resolution trict Qf Columbia. Investigation and study severally referred as follows: to support for efforts to rescue American of the Clifton Terrace project in the District By Mr. BROWN of California: prisoners of war incarcerated in North Viet­ of Columbia; with amendment (Rept. No. H.R. 19919. A b111 for the relief of Long nam; with an amendment (Rept. No. 91- 91-1679) . · Referred to the Committee of' the Whole House on the State of the Union. Chinh Le; to the Committee on the Judiciary. 1671). Referred to the House Calendar. By Mrs. MINK: Mr. WHlTl'EN: Committee of Conference. [Submitted December 5, 1970] Conference report on H.R. 17923 (Rept. No. lLR. 19920. A bill for the relief of James L. Mr. McMILLAN: Committee on the Dis­ 91-1680). Ordered to be printed. _ Gerard, James W. Summers, and Wllliam D. Cissel; to the Committee on the Judiciary. trict of Columbia. H.R. 19885. A bill to provide additional revenue for the District H.R. 19921. A b1ll for the relief of Mau Due of Columbia, and for other purposes; with PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS - Nguyen; to the Committe: on the Judiciary. an amendment (Rept. No. 91-1672). Referred to the Committee of the Whole House on Under clause 4 of rule XXII, public ,, r ' · the State of the Union. bills and resolutions were introduced and PETITIONS, ETC. [·Submitted December 7, 1970] severally referred as follows: Under clause 1 of rule XXII, petitions Mr. M.ILLlllR of California: Committee on By Mr. BURTON of California: and papers were laid on the Clerk's desk Science and Astronautics. For the benefit H.R. 19915. A bill to make permanent the and referred as follows: existing temporary provision for disregarding of all mankind. A survey of the practical 644. By Mr. ZABLOCKI: Petition of Civic returns from space investment (Rept. No. income of OASDI and railroad retirement recipients in determining their need for pub­ Awareness of America, 1\.frs. Alvin J. Emmons 91-1673). Referred to the Committee of the and Mrs. Ray Kuffel; Reverence for Life of Whole House on the State of the Union. lic assistance; to the Committee on Ways and Means. America, Mrs. David R. Mogilka. In regard ·- Mr. WATI'S: Committee on Ways and to the billion-dollar-population control blll, Means. H.R. 7626. A bill to amend the By Mr. FOLEY (for himself, Mr. QUIE, Mr. · ADAMS, Mr. BINGHAM, Mr. Bo­ S. 2108 .and H.R. 15159, along with the more Tariff Schedules of the United States with than 40 bills and resolutions now pending in respect to the tariff classification of certain LAND, Mr. BROWN Of California, Mr. CONTE, Mr. GREEN of Pennsylvania, Congress. Signed by approximately 10,000 sugars, sirups, and molasses, and for other signators nationwide opposing S. 2108 and purposes; with an amendment (Rept. No. Mrs. HANSEN of Washington, Mr. HARRINGTON, Mr. LOWENSTEIN, Mr. H.R. 15159 and any similar population con­ 91-1674). Referred to the Committee of the trol legisla.tion. "We object to the use of our Whole House on the State of the Union. McCLOSKEY, Mr. MATSUNAGA, Mr. MEEDS, Mr. MOORHEAD, Mr. MORSE, tax dollars for immoral programs of contra­ Mr. FULTON of Tennessee: Committeeon ception, selective breeding, sterilization, Ways and Means. H.R. 19670. A bill to Mr. OBEY, Mr. OTI'INGER, Mr. PEPPER, Mr. RoSTENKOWSKI, Mr. RYAN, Mr. abortion, euthanasia and infanticide. We ob­ suspend the duties on certain bicycle parts ject to Federal laws as well as opinions by and accessories until the close of Decem­ ST GERMAIN, and Mr. TIERNAN} : H.R. 19916. A bill to amend the Food Stamp appointed Federal judges which supersede ber 31. 1973; with no amendments (Rept. State laws whereby depriving the individual No. 91-1675). Referred to the Committee of Act of 1964, as amended; to the Committee on Agriculture. State of the right of self-determination. We the Whols House on the State of the Union. hereby petition our Congressmen and U.S. Mr. BURLESON of Texas: Committee on By Mr. FRASER: H.R. 19917. A bill to amend the District Senators to vote against any and all fed­ Ways and Means. H.R. 19470. A blll to erally financed programs of population con­ amend title XVIII of thn Social Security Act of Columbia Election Act, and for other pur­ poses; to the Committee on the District of trols."; to the Committee on Interstate and to modify the nursing service requirement Foreign Commerce. and certain other requirements which an in­ Columbia. By Mr. PEPPER: 645. By the SPEAKER: Petition of the city stitution must meet in order to qualify as a commission, Kalamazoo, Mich., relative to hospital thereunder so as to make such re­ H.R. 19918. A bill conquest of cancer act; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Operation Headstart; to the Committee on quirements more realistic insofar as they Appropriations. apply to smaller institutions; with an Commerce. amendment (Rept. No. 91-1676). Referred to By Mr. FRIEDEL: 646. Also, petition of Arthur Baker, Hunts­ the Committee of the Whole House on the H. Res. 1293. Resolution authorizing the ville, Tex., relative to redress of grievances; to the Committee on the Judiciary. State of the Union. establishment of six additional positions of

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A FRIEND, A GOOD CITIZEN, LOST IN 1970, just 19 days before his 75th birth­ me in a joint effort to bring effective rep­ THE DEATH OF NORMAN FULTON day. He was a farmer for 32 years in the resentation in Government for the farm­ CLEAVINGER, OF DIMMITT, TEX. Springlake community of Texas, then, ers and small businessmen. instead of taking his well-earned retire­ Too frequently the Norman Cleav­ ment, he moved to Dimmitt, Castro ingers of this world do not receive the County, and began a new career. He be­ credit they deserve. But I believe that - HON. RALPH YARBOROUGH what made this country great was em­ OF TEXAS came a businessman and a developer and made great contributions to the growth of bodied in the life of Norman Cleavinger. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES Dimmitt and Castro County. Mr. President, I ask unanimous con­ Monday, December 7, 1970 In addition to being an industrious sent that the article "Cleavinger Rites Mr. YARBOROUGH. Mr. President, man, Norman Cleavinger was a good Held" from the Castro County News and my life has been enriched many times the memorial service of worship for Nor­ family man, raising three daughters and man Cleavinger at the First United through the friendships I have made dur­ three sons. He was also a religious man, ing my travels around my home State of Methodist Church of Dimmitt be printed an active member of the First United in the Extensions of Remarks. Texas. One friend, Norman F. Cleav­ Methodist Church in Dimmitt. inger, a man who was a great inspiration There being no objection, the items to all who knew him, recently died. For me, Norman Cleavinger was a were ordered to be printed in the RECORD, Norman Cleavinger died October 4, friend. He helped me; he worked with as follows: December 1, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF-REMARKS 40245 CLEAVINGER RITES HELD Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; including all of us. This pastor and others Norman Fulton Cleavinger, one of the Praise Him, all creatures here below; of us who were close to him appreciated his area's best-known business men, died at 9: 15 Praise Him above, ye heavenly hosts; witness in the world and the life he lived p.m. Sunday in Lubbock's Methodist Hospi­ Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost! Amen. among us. So we come today in his memory. tal. He would have been 75 years old Oct. 23. Postlude and Recessional. MEMORIAL SERMON: "LIVING THE 'WHY Mr. Cleavinger had been hospitalized for a OBITUARY AND SERMON, MEMORIAL SERVICE, NOT?'" week in Dimmitt and Lubbock, following a NORMAN F. CLEAVINGER, FIRST UNITED The writer of the Book of Acts records the hea.rt attack. METHODIST CHURCH, OCTOBER 6, 1970 occasion in which the disciple known as Peter Funeral services were conducted at 4 p.m. Jim T. Pickens, pastor, officiating. was preaching at the day of Pentecost when Tuesday in the First United Methodist the Holy Spirit had come to Christ's follow­ Church of Dimmitt. Officiating were Rev. Jim Assisted by Darris L. Egger, Abilene, and Hugh F. Blaylock, Lubbock. ers in a new and refreshing way. Peter, on T. Pickens, pastor, and Rev. Hugh Blaylock that day of Pentecost, spoke this verse quot­ and Rev. Daris Egger, ·former pastors of the Reading from J. B. Phillips translations, New Testament Lessons: ing from the Prophet Joel, the little book of local church. the Old Testament wnich bears his name. Burial was in Castro Memorial Gardens, un­ Romans 1:14-17-"For I am not ashamed Peter, quoting Joel, said: der the direction of Dennis Funeral Home. of the gospel. I see it as the very power of Mr. Cleavinger was born Oct. 23, 1895, in God working for the salvation of everyone · "God says, 'This will happen in the last Leavenworth, Kan. His family settled in the who believes it, both Jew and Greek. I see days; I will pour out upon everyone a por­ Springlake area in 1910. After attending West in it God's plan for imparting righteousness tion of my spirit; and your sons and daugh­ Texas State and the University of Texas, he to men, a process begun and continued by ters shall prophesy; your. young men shall enlisted 'in the Army and served as medical their faith. For, as the scripture says: The see vis~ons and your olq men shall dream corpsman in France. After his discharge in righteous shall live by faith." dreams.' " (Acts 2: 17 .NEB.) 1920, he returned home and bought a farm I John 3: 1-"Consider· the incredible ldve What tne Prophet Joel had foreseen in Old near Springlake. that the Father has shown us in allowing us Testament times was that in the fullness of He farmed for 32 years, then moved to Dim­ to be called 'children of God'-and that is time God would make Himself known among mitt in 1952 and opened C&S Equipment Co., not just what we are called, but what we His people in a new and creative manner. In­ dealership for John Deere farm equipment, are. Our heredity on the Godward side is no terestingiy enough, Joel's word came alive! Pontiac automobiles and GMC trucks. mere figure of speech-which explains why His dreams and his visions centuries later be­ He also was an active real-estate developer the world will no more recognize us than lt came a reality on that day we know as Pente­ and builder in Dimmitt. A large residential recognized Christ. cost-which some of us observe as the birth­ addition in Southwest Dimmitt bears his "Oh, dear children of mine, have you real­ day of the church. name, and he built or purchased many of the ized it? Here and now we are God's chil­ Peter stood up and addressed the people city's present commercial buildings. dren." who had been blessed by the presence of the He was well-known in the state's Demo­ John 14::15-18-"If you really love me, you Holy Spirit. He also spoke to other people in cratic Party circles, and was a county dele­ will keep the commandments I have given Jerusalem who had gathered around those gate to several Democratic state conventions. you and I shall ask the Father to give you oddly acting people known as disciples of the He also was active in the First United someone else to stand by you, to be with you resurr~cted Lord. His own address was in­ Methodist Church. always. I mean the Spirit of truth whom fused with the out-pouring of the Spirit. His survivors include his wife, Gladys; the world cannot accept, for it can neither When the Holy Spirit came upon the Church, three daughters, Mrs. Carol Dyer of Dimmitt, see nor recognize that Spirit. But you rec­ he professed that a . new day had begun. Mrs. Norma Dawson of Springlake and Mrs. ognize him, for he is with you now and God's work in history was now being fulfilled Lois Wales of Dimmitt; three sons, Ronald will be in your hearts. I am not going to in a new way, and Peter testified to that. A. of Springlake, Jim of Dimmitt and Orville leave you alone in the World-! am coming Pentecost was the beginning of the new age. of Springlake; a sister, Mrs. Beulah Miller of to you." Now we in the Church are the continuation Canyon; four brothers, Jess of Alhambra, Matthew 25 :37-40-"Then the true men and part of that same new age that was Calif., Eugene of Laguna H111, Calif., Dutch will answer him: "Lord, when did we see you born on the day to which Joel had prophe­ of Canyon and M. E. of Dimmitt. hungry and give you food? When did we see sied. Active pallbearers were Tommy Cleavinger, you thirsty and give you something to drink? That work which was begun at Pentecost Ken Dawsan, Bobby Cleavinger, Mike Cleav­ When did we see you lonely and make you is still our work as the Holy Spirit moves us inger, Dick Dye_r, Joe Andrews, Ray Joe Riley welcome, or see you naked and cloth you, to ·be God's disciples, His spokesmen, and and Kurt Wales. or see you ill or in prison and go to see you?" His instruments in this world. "God so loved Honorary pall~arers were J. L. Hinson, H. And the king will reply, 'I assure you that the world that He gave His only begotten M. Baggarly, Andy Behrends, Bob McLean, whatever you did for the humblest of my Son ...",and you know the rest. So faith in E. C. Hudson, Ed Bennett, Troy Kirby, Stan­ brothers you did for me.' " the God of Jesus Christ who transforms and ley Scha~ffer, Allan Webb, Tom Jones, J. J. Old Testament Lesson, Palm 103 (read illumines the faith of Israel calls you and me Coker, W. C. White, George Bagwell, Raymony from the Revised Standard Version). not only to be believers in the Spirit, but Wilson, F. Lee Stanford, Ray Riley, Jimmy BRIEF OBITUARY we're called to give ourselves as the imple­ Cluck and Sam Gilbreath. Dearly Beloved, we have come today in ments of the Spirit. memory of our friend and loved one, and a No farmer, no one among us, in this en­ lightened age of technical developments and MEMORIAL SERVICE OF WORSHIP, NORMAN F. servant of God, Norman Fulton Cleavinger. He was the son of M. E. and Ellen Ruth Hall chemical farming, would go to the field CLEAVINGER, FIRST UNITED METHODIST without good equipment. We would not be­ CHURCH, DIMMITT, TEX., OCTOBER 6, 1970 Cleavinger, born October 23, 1895, in Leaven­ worth, Kansas. He departed this physical life gin a job without the appropriate machinery The body will lie in state in the sanctuary in Lubbock October 4, 1970, just a little short to do the task. Not any of us of intelligence for an hour preceding the service. The casket of 75 years. He was not a retired farmer; he will begin a task without good equipment for will not be opened after the service begins. was an active man interested in business and we know we cannot get the job well done · Prelude, Mrs. Dale Winders, organist. farming, this church, and a wide range of without it. But we, being led by the Holy The congregation will stand as the family activities and concerns that relate to all of Spirit, are the sons of God and we are the enters.1 us. He came to this country with his parents instruments of His work! Every Christian Scripture Sentences and Invocation, Rev­ and settled at Springlake in 1910. Gladys then, in the light of our instrumentality, is erend Hugh Blaylock. Axtell became his bride on August 29, 1923. called to dream dreams and see visions. We They remained in the Springlake community are not called to be content with things as Anthem "Praise to the Lord, the Almighty," they are. We see them as they are, but we Choir. Nolan Froehner, Director. where they farmed and reared their family. Mr. and Mrs. Cleavinger moved to Dimmitt move from there to see things as they could Old and New Testament Lessons, Reverend in 1952. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. and they should be in this world that God Daris Egger. Gladys Cleavinger, three daughters and their has loved. Pastoral Prayer: The Lord's Prayer {the fam111es: Mrs. Goldman Dyer of Dimmitt, George Bernard Shaw wrote these lines: people praying together) . Mrs. Ed Dawson of Springlake, and Mrs. You see things as they are; and you ask Solo "Lead Kindly Light," Nolan Froehner. Charles Wales of Dimmitt; three sons and "Why?". But I dream things that never Sermon "Living the 'Why Not?,'" Rev. Jim their families: Ronald Cleavinger of Spring­ were; and I ask "Why not?". Pickens. lake, Jim Cleavinger of Dimmitt, and Orville Living the "Why not?" is to translate Quartet "For All the Blessings of the Cleavinger of Springlake. His life was also dreams and visions into realities. Norman Years," Mr. and Mrs. Dwayne Jones, Mrs. blessed with his sisters and brothers who Cleavinger was that kind of man. There was Marie Slover, W. L. Jones, Jr. survive him: Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Miller of a dynamic power in his life that permiated Canyon; and four brothers: Jess Cleavinger Benediction, Rev. Jim Pickens. his whole personality which caused him to 1 and his Wife of Alhambra, Calif., Eugene move and earnestly desire to change things The Doxology, The Congregation Singing. Cleavinger and his wife of Laguna Hills, from what they were to what they ought to Calif., Dutch Cleavinger of Canyon, and M. E. be--for the good. He was a man of versatile 1 The congrega.tlon will be standing during Cleavinger, Jr., and his wife of Dimmitt; and skills and many interests which we all know. the recessional. 23 grandchildren, and a host of other friends, His loves and ibis hobbies rnnged a.ll the way 40246 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 7, 1970 from his family, his faith, his church, to the St. Paul Pioneer Press about Dr. Henry In those regions of the state where no latest baseball and football games of his and his study. acknowledge mother-city has emerged, the favorite teams. He was a man at home in the competing hamlets should be careful to get world of ideas. New ideas did not threaten RURAL MICROCITY POLICY Is URGED together and decide on one, lest the whole him or discourage him; they tan tilized him, (By John Kelly, staff writer) area go down the drain, Henry said. and he in turn would stick needles in the The next dynamic people movement wlll The three main forces which influence preacher, his family, and the rest of us to be from the suburbs to the countryside, just the growth of rural Minnesota are the Higher respond to new ideas and new ways of doing as the last one was from the cities to the sub­ Education Coordinating Commission, which things. He was not content to give time and urbs, according to Dr. Edward L. Henry, pro­ plans college development, the Highway De­ energy just to abstract speculations, but he fessor of government at St. John's Univer­ partment and the private utilities--light and translated the world ot ideas in which he sity and former mayor of St. Cloud. power, Henry said. was at home into the dreams and visions and "Most of the people in the city want out," (However, should the utilities be taxed at realities of providing for his family, in work­ Henry said in an interview on the peaceful the state level, rather than at the local level, ing in the church, in concern about political Collegeville campus. A number of polls indi­ this influence would dim somewhat, Henry life, and deeply dedicated to whatever would cate this, he said. co:...ceded.) make our community and our nation greater. "We must create conditions and jobs in Henry said it was probably impossible to He dreamed dreams and worked to translate the countryside to enable people to move," define a model micro-city, but that the ex­ those dreams into realities. he said. isting successful ones have definite char­ Although he was nearly 75, his dreams A positive public policy for development acteristics. were not dreams of the past, the Prophet of the countryside must evolve, he said. The For instance, it is good to have (a) a Joel didn't know Norman. He was not dream­ last such policy was embodied in the Home­ medical center, hospital and mental health ing about past occasions, but he was dream­ stead Act of 1862. complex. (b) a junior or senior college or ing and had visions of new realities that af­ People want the open space that the coun­ two, a consolidated high school and a voca­ fect all of us and called us to the new pos­ tryside can offer, but they also want the tional school; a center for state and federal sib111ties of the fulfillment and the realiza­ comforts and amenities of the cities, he agencies (d) a transportation complex, with tion of our personalities. He was keenly alert noted. several highways; (e) lack of an equal city to the tunes and the moods of the present. The only way that both aspects o'f this de­ in close range; (f) local leadership, which is He yearned for peace in our time. He longed sire can be met is through the development essential. for understanding between generations, and of the "micro-cities" of the countryside, or Public investment in the micro-cities of no long-haired hippie bothered him-he those between 10,000 and 50,000 persons, he the future can be justified, because "people loved him, too, as anybody else--like he said. have a moral right i;o live where they want loved justice and equality for all persons no To investigate the future of such cities the to," Henry said. matter what their color or their ethnic Center for the Study of Local Government If this means the building of parks and origin. has come about at St. John's with Dr. Henry other amenities, then it should be done So we come now thanking God for so many as its director. from the public purse, he said. things that were revealed to us in the life These limits of population were chosen "With proper planning, we can make a of God's servant and our brother and neigh­ because there are economies of scale to be new Athens out of an old Podunk," Henry bor. He was a man who was unafraid to live reaped when cities are large enough and dis­ said. the "Why not?". He gave himself and his economies of scale when they are too large, energies to translating the dreams and Dr. Henry explained. visions of both the old and the young into A recent round of seminars on the future THE HONORABLE RICHARD F. present reality. He would say to you and to of a dozen cities of this size in Minnesota was HARLESS, 1905-70 me this afternoon-say "yes" to life all of undertaken with "report cards" submitted you, no matter what your age. Say "yea" to to each on how it was prepared to acc·ept the life and don't be afraid of death. Even in new role of the rural micro-city. the last days he was unafraid of that reality "It had quite a catalytic effect," said Dr. HDN. MORRIS K. UDALL but he would say life is involved in another Henry, with most of the cities becoming con­ OF ARIZONA realm of quality of existence. cerned about how they were preparing for IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES He would say with the poet, James Bailey: th:s new role. "We live in deeds not years; in thoughts, The cities which are under the scope of Monday, December 7, 1970 not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a the micro-city project are Albert Lea, Austin, Mr. UDALL. Mr. Speaker, my State of dial. We should count time by heart throbs. Bemidji, Fergus Falls, Hibbing, Mankato, He most lives Who thinks mos1r-feels the Moorhead, New Ulm, Red Wing, St Cloud, Arizona lost one of its leading citizens nobliest--acts the best." Willmar and Winona. a few days ago in the passing of the May God bless his witness and example to The reason that these micro-cities are Honorable Richard F. Harless, a for­ our "Living the 'Why Not?'" In the name becoming attractive to metropolitans is that mer Member of Congress who served of the Father, and of the Son, and the Holy they have maintained some of the spirit that from 1943 through 1948. Spirit. Amen. the larger ones inevitably lose. "Call it com­ I knew Dick Harless well. He was a munity pride," Henry said. "Their future is still ahead of them and member of my party. About the time I can still be controlled. At this point they was getting out of law school he decided need good data, expertise and bureaucracy­ to leave Congress and run for Governor. RURAL MICROCITY POLICY IS the infra-structure that cannot be supported I gave him some small assistance in that URGED below the micro-city level." campaign, but it obviously was not A lot of things are in motion which will enough because he lost out in the pri­ enable the 10,000 to 50,000-person city to mary. That marked the end of his public HON. JOHN M. ZWACH offer much of what the metropolitan has service but not the end of his service come to expect, Henry said. OF MINNESOTA For instance, welfare programs, which out­ to the people of Arizona in his capacity IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES state dwellers had long resisted supporting, as lawyer and private citizen. Monday, December 7, 1970 are becoming standardized by state and fed­ Looking back on one of the longest eral action, he noted. legislative battles in history, it is inter­ Mr. ZWACH. Mr. Speaker, countryside Bathroom plumbing, highway mainte­ esting to recall that the first bill to create America is close to my heart. It is where nance and snow removal are probably on a the central Arizona project was intro­ I was born and raised; it is what I repre­ par with the Twin City area, he said. "In duced during Mr. Harless' last term in sent in Congress. 15 years of commuting to St. John's from the House. That project was finally au­ St. Cloud, I was snowed out only twice. You I have long asserted that to cure the don't get isolated any more." thorized 20 years later. ills of the cities, we must develop the Additional programs which will aid the In his first term Mr. Harless played an potential of the countryside so that we growth of micro-cities include continued im­ important part in passage of the Well­ can reverse the migration from the coun­ provements in the transportation network, ton-Mohawk irrigation project in Yuma try to the city. an educational subsidy to outstate school County. This seems to be the same conclusion districts to equalize the quality of educa­ While a Member of Congress, Mr. Har­ reached by Dr. Edward L. Henry, profes­ tion and decentralization of the state col­ lege system and the University of Minnesota, less argued a case before the Supreme sor of government at St. John's Uni­ Henry said. Court of Arizona on behalf of the rights versity at Collegeville in our Minnesota Hopefully, the legislature will move this of Arizona Indians. Through his effec­ Sixth Congressional District. process along, he said. tive advocacy the Indian citizens of Ari­ Mr. Speaker, I insert in the CONGRES­ In order to be a proper "mother-city,•• each zona won the right to vote-an historic SIONAL RECORD a news story by staff micro-city must have hinterlands for 40 or victory for that body of Americans known writer John Kelly which appeared in the 50 miles around, he said. as "Indians not taxed." December 7, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 40247 Richard Harless was born in Kelsey, in Columbus, Ohio. We join our Ohio Force attempted, the rescue of our POWs Tex., on August 6, 1905. He moved with constituents and add oui· tribute to the deep in enemy territory gave me a feeling his family to Thatcher, Ariz., in 1917, many others. pride. and attended the grade and high schools The poet, Edwin Markham, wrote these LLOYD E. KELLY. there. He was graduated from the Uni­ words: SIR: You expressed what I expect and hope versity of Arizona in 1928, taught school "MAN MAKING most of us thought and feel concerning the at Marana, Ariz., from 1928 to 1930, "We all are blind until we see POW raid. and received his law degree from the That in the human plan I was sickened by the sight and sound on University of Arizona in 1933. He was Nothing is worth the making if TV of Senator Fulbright, almost before the admitted to the Arizona bar the same It does not make the man. 'copters were back, "chewing out" Secretary year and began practicing in Phoenix. "Why build these cities glorious Laird. Right or wrong, something was done. If a man unbuilded goes? MARSHALL GRINDER. Mr. Harless served as assistant city In vain we build the world, unless attorney of Phoenix in 1935 and was The builder also grows." SIR: Since news of the raid was released, named assistant attorney general of I have heard nothing but the screams of the State in 1936. He served as county Bob Kloss is one of the great builders narrow-minded politicians twisting the in­ attorney of Maricopa County from 1938 of the great State of Ohio. cident to their own political advantage. to 1942, when he was elected tb the 78th I applaud your treating the incident the Congress. way all Americans should treat it, regardless Following his retirement from Con­ of their political view. It was nothing but COMMENTS ON THE RECENT POW gress in 1948 Mr. Harless resumed prac­ the tremendous courageous attempt of brave RAID Americans to rescue fellow Americans who tice in Phoenix. are suffering and dying in prison. I shall miss Dick Harless, as I know T. MICHAEL DYER. will all those of my colleagues who served HON. JOHN G. SCHMITZ with him during the 1940's. I know they OF CALIFORNIA SILVER SPRING, MD. join me in expressing deepest sympathy IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SIR: Let me commend you for stating there to his widow, Meredith, and their son, is not a scintilla of evidence to suggest that G~. - Monday, December 7, 1970 Hanoi has any interest in the Paris peace talks. But you neglected to reprimand the Mr. SCHMITZ. Mr. Speaker, last Fri­ far left Liberals for labeling the attempted day the Letters to the Editor column in A TRffiUTE TO ROBERT A. KLOSS, rescue "escalation." the Washington Evening Star dealt solely PAUL CHIERA. COLUMBUS, OHIO with reader reaction to the recent at­ tempt to free the American soldiers being WASHINGTON AREA held in captivity by the North Vi€tnam• PEACE ACTION COALITION. HON. ROBERT TAFT, JR. ese Communists. SIR: The massive U.S. bombings of North Vietnam expose once again the basic in­ OF OHIO These letters are a striking example of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tent of the Nixon administration of a mili­ the feelings of the American people to­ tary victory in Indochina. The POW raid, Monday, December 7, 1970 ward this gallant effort. Out of 17 letters with its initiator's invocations of honor, duty, Mr. TAFT. Mr. Speaker, it is my privi­ only one is critical of the operation. This pride, morality, was clearly a diversionary one disparaging letter is written by one tactic to cover a major escalation of the lege to publicly recognize Robert A. war. Kloss upon his completion of 25 years Marilyn Lerch, a member of the Wash­ ington Peace Action Coalition. Miss The North Vietnamese have been warned as executive secretary of the Ohio Credit that if they defend themselves, the NiXon Union League. By most measurements of Lerch was formerly involved with the administration will respond with stern and time 25 years is a modest period, how­ Washington Mobilization Committee, the unusual measures. Not only does Nixon in­ ever, when one recognizes that the first local detachment of the National Mo­ sist on destroying a people, he also insists credit union in the State of Ohio :was bilization Committee, whom we all re­ they not defend themselves. not organized until 1931, 25 years of member for its leading role in the assault MARILYN LERCH. outstanding leadership represents a sig­ on the Democratic National Convention. Miss Lerch attended the August 4, 1968, SIR: Once again we are obliged to be a nificant period of time. little proud of our President. He is able, once When the board of directors of the administrative committee meeting of the in a while, to show some backbone. Ohio Credit Union League employed Bob National Mobilization Committee in Chi­ I could not say what I feel toward the Kloss in 1945, our Ohio credit unions cago where plans for the assault were Senators Fulbright, Kennedy and McGov­ were just emerging from the World War firmed up. ern. These men are traitors in every sense II era. The fortunes of a struggling On the whole I think these letters are of the word. Lord bless the President. He should put that word "victory" in his vo­ Ohio Credit Union League were at their representative of several groups we find in America today. The first and by far cabulary. lowest level. SHARON BRUNK. The growth f.gures of credit unions in the largest, by more than 16 to 1, are Ohio provide the best measure of the ca­ those Americans who are not committed Vienna, Va. pacity of Bob Kl'oss to provide leader­ to North Vietnamese Communist victory Sm: The rescue attempt to free American ship which has propelled the Ohio league and have the critical judgment necessary POW's in North Vietnam was a faint but wel­ into one of the outstanding credit union to recognize an action consistent with co~e beam of light in the dark cave of the finest principles of our country. The progressive withdrawal from U.S. responsi­ leagues in our country. In 1945 all credit bilities toward these prisoners. unions in Ohio reported a total of 188,- other is the minority of freaks actively working to assure a Communist victory Our POWs have been fully exposed by their 000 members. In 1945 all credit unions in captors to the pronouncements of the Pells, Ohio reported a total of $24,225,000 in in Southeast Asia. the Javlts, the Kennedys and the Fulbrights. assets. One needs only to compare these The letters follow: These pronouncements dismay me, and I'm figures with today's figures when all Ohio LETTERS TO THE EDITOR nQt even a POW. credit unions report a total of approxi­ (Published letters are subject to condensa­ Ross F. ROGERS. mately 800,000 members and all Ohio tion, and those not selected for publication will be returned only when accompanied by SIR: I resent Secretary of Defense Laird credit unions report a total of approxi­ being called on the carpet, so to speak, to mately $800,000,000 in assets. stamped, self-addressed envelopes. The use of pen names is limited to correspondents whose explain or atone for his actions in his brave Those of us who have had an oppor­ identity is known to The Star.) and daring rescue operations for our soldiers tunity to watch the development of that are held prisoner in war camps. I be­ credit unions in Ohio fully recognize that THE POW RAID lieve we would settle the war much quicker thousands of credit union volunteers and ARLINGTON, VA. if our "senators" would stop playing politics professionals have had a hand in build­ SIR: Thanks for your editorial, "The POW and leave the administration alone. Raid." At a time when so many seem to de­ Who am I? The wife of a soldier stationed ing the organization which these impres­ light in venting their spleen against any­ in Vietnam. sive statistics represent. It was those vol­ thing and everything military, your editorial Mrs. ROBERT H. WATSON. unteers and professionals who paid trib­ was most heartening. Although unsuccess­ ute to Bob Kloss on Saturday, Novem- ful, the fact that our government authorized SiR: I approved of the commando raid on ber 14, 1970, at a testimonial dinner held and the brave volunteers of the Army and Air the American POW camp and am sorry it was CXVI--2535-Part 30 40248 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 7, 1970 not more successful. The raid W8.1> an act of ~AGTS, NOT SENTIMENT, SHOULD Congress, not on the expert agencies courage and heroism and all involved should DECIDE "DELTA QUEEN'S" FATE which told us to stop the operation. I be commended. do not see how any Member in good con­ In our times one has come to expect much science can ;vote on this issue on the basis controversy on any action involving our mili­ HON. EDWARD A. GARMATZ of sentiment instead of facts. Too many tary and/or our government. The thing I find OF MARYLAND lives are at stake. incredible 1s that Senator Kennedy's opinion IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES is sought by the press or that it 1s even news­ There is another aspect of this Delta worthy. Monday, December 7, 1970 Queen issue which disturbs me. By a vote MAY Lou PRINGLE. Mr. GARMATZ. Mr. Speaker, I under­ of 307 to 1, the House passed the bill stand that another attempt will be made leading to the Merchant Marine Act of GAYS MILLs, WIS. 1970. By a vote' of 343 to 4, the House SIR: One might take Senator Fulbright's this week on the floor of the House to constant whining about our nation's "breach­ obtain an exemption for the Delta Queen. accepted the conference report and the ing accepted international understandings" Although I have given my views to statement of the managers on the part if, when he cited our country's violations, he the Members of the House previously, I of the House following the conference occasionally mentioned a few of the numer­ would like to summarize the reasons why with the Senate on this legislation. Dur­ ous infractions of hostile nations. ing that conference with the Senate, it IMOGENE CASHMORE. the Members of this House should not permit the Delta Queen to continue oper­ was agreed by all Members, House and Senate, not to permit the Delta Queen to SEABROOK, MD. ations as an inland river overnight pas- senger boat. · · continue to operate. Now if the confer­ SIR: Nothing could jeopardize the three ence system of the· Congress is to have ring circus performing in Parts. I recognize that there is considerable Bombing of North Vietnam might prove sentiment supporting the continued op­ validity, I think the House should vote that the conventional mmtary just might eration of this wooden riverboat. The down the Senate's attempt to make an provide the total victory needed to end the sentiment seems to be that the Delta end-run around that conference agree­ war, without the ever mounting peacefully Queen is a link with our past and we ment. negotiated casualty lists. should preserve this link to remind us of It also seems appropriate to point out Would Sens. Kennedy and Fulbright care to the good old days. The House, however, at this time that even the owners of the try and swap places with some of our cap­ Delta Queen have admitted this vessel tured servicemen. should vote on the facts and not on A. WILLIAMS. sentiment. The facts are, as I have re­ has limited safety capabilities. peatedly stated in the past, that- On October 4, .1970, William Muster, Sm: All Americans must have thrilled with The boat is a firetrap; president of Greene Line Steamers, Inc., pride in learning of the daring raid near It is made largely of wood; and operators of the Delta Queen, wrote me Hanoi to rescue prisoners of war. President Wood burns. a letter which included the following two Nixon is to be commended for authorizing The S.S. Yarmouth Castle, made paragraphs: the operation. Although we were deeply disappointed RoBERT C. THOMPSON. largely of wood, burned recently with a loss of 90 lives. that the Delta Queen amendment was re­ The S.S. Morro Castle, made largely of jected in conference, we were most pleased by FAIRFAX, VA. the unanimous decision of the Committee SIR: If the critics had friends or family dy­ wood, burned with a loss of 134 lives. to recommend to the Congress that a con­ ing in one of those camps what song would The Canadian passenger boat Noronic struction differential subsidy be author­ they sing then? More important, what if the made largely of wood, burned while tied ized for a vessel to replace the Delta Queen. rescue had been successful and a number of to a dock in Toronto, with a loss of 118 As operators of the Delta Queen, we are POW's were saved? Would the strategy be lives. only too well aware of the operational and labeled heroic or would our spineless critics The General Slocum, made largely of safety limitations of our 44-year-old paddle­ ftnd yet another excuse to condemn? wheeler. It has always been our intention JOHN H. MCCLURE. wood, burned in New York Hartor, with the bow on the beach but the stem in to retire her into active, but less demanding deep water, with a loss of more than service as soon as we could build a new SIR: It was shocking and disgusting to vessel. hear some of our "cry-baby" Senators whin­ 1,000 lives. ing and complaining about the administra­ In earlier years, the river steamboat Mr. Speaker, I remain convinced the tion's efforts to free prisoners of war held Stonewall on the Mississippi River, made Delta Queen should not be permitted to captive by the North Vietnamese. largely of wood, burned with a loss of operate further as an overnight passen­ LEIDA M. HoRWEDEL. 209 lives, in an accident in the Mississippi ger boat. I hope the Members of this River-where the Delta Queen oper­ House will agree with me and vote to SIR: Moral support is being provided the ates-where the pilot could not reach support existing law, expert advice, and North Vietnamese by, of all people, the the banks as the boat went aground on politicans on the Hill. Every effort by PTesi­ previous action by the Congress-all of dent Nixon is blasted and thwarted by a a shoal 150 yards from the bank. which are against continued operation of certain ra.dioo.l group entrenched in the It is against the law of the land to the Delta Queen. Senate and House. operate such a wooden passenger boat. I also feel the official Coast Guard po­ L. B. BEALL. The Department of Commerce, which sition on the Delta Queen should be made houses the Maritime Administration, op­ public, and at this point I insert in the Sm: In relation to the "expression of opin­ poses continued operation of the boat, in RECORD a copy of a letter from that ion" by Mary McGrory-perhaps she would the interests of safety. agency: like to know some Virginia famllies whose The Department of State opposes con­ sons and husbands are POWs or missing in DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, action in North Vietnam. To her shock she tinued operation of the boat, in the in­ U.S. CoAST GuARD, might find they were ftlled with a feeling that terest of safety. Washington, D.C., September 2, 1970. our President and our leading civillan and The Coast Guard, which has responsi­ Hon. EDWARD A. GARMATZ, military officials do care I bility for maritime safety, opposes the Chairman, Committe on Merchant Marine MARY A. BAKER. continued operation of the boat, in the and Fisheries, House of Representatives, interest of safety. Washington, D.C. ROCKVILLE, MD. DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: The following infor­ Sentiment has its place, but the facts mation concerning the river passenger SIR: With the exception of the shape of the concerning the Delta Queen make clear steamer DELTA QUEEN, including our latest table not one positive item has been agreed that the Congress should not gamble thinking on proposed legislation affecting upon in the more than two years of the "Paris her operation, is furnished in accordance Peace Talks." In spite of this total lack of with the lives of passengers. We have progress the Nixon critics continue to gnaw charged the executive departments with with your telephone call to Captain Kesler away at any etfort on the part of the admin­ certain public safety. The agencies con­ on 22 June 1970. istration to bring reasonable pressure on our cerned with the Delta Queen say it is not The current Coast Guard position on pro- enemies, the latest being directed at the un­ safe to operate her further. The Congress posed legislation to extend for two years the existing operation of the DELTA QUEEN ~s successful attempt to rescue U.S. prisoners should not substitute its judgment for the reflected in the enclosed copy of Department held in North Vietnam. technical agencies on whom we rely for of Transportation letter dated 15 May 1g70 I wonder how much longer these gentle­ guidance concerning public safety. to your Committee commenting on H.R. me_n intend our country "negotiate" away the lives of U.S. prisoners and their families. I hope the Delta Queen never burns, 14002; I.e., we are opposed to enactment of BERT KURLAND. but if it does, the blood will be on the such legislation. December 7, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARK'S 40249 H.R. 14002 was introduced by_Mr: COl"bett taken. The most recent example came doubt it. I'.IIJ, a knife man myself. But let in September of 1969 and, if enacted, would from those who opposed the raid on ijhe me take a look at it anyway'. . . provide a second two-year extension: (Pub He Son Tay prison camp. Instead of offer­ "So I handed it to him and he was looking Law 90--435, e.nacted 27 July 1968 provided lt over and, at one point, sighted down the ing any constr~ctive suggestions to help the first) during which tlle DELTA QUEEN barrel wtth the gun pointing toward him. our prisoners of war, they offered would be permitted to operate in her pr~s­ ne­ You know Jedge, that thing went off with ent mode without compliance with the \n­ gotiation-which is really a nonanswer ~ hell of a bang and my wtfe came running combustible construction requirements set to a real problem. down the stairs hollering at me to get that forth in the Act of 6 November 1966 (Public I would suggest that critics of the war thing off her new rug because it was bleeding . Law 89-777). devote their energies to bringing forth all over it. Our position today has not changed from ·constructive alternatives that can ·help "Well, sir, ! ·called the police and told them that expressed two years ago, both during to bring a basket with them to remove some Coast Guard testimony before your Com­ get us out of this war. But the idea that more negotiation is the answer, when in pollutlon from my living room." mittee on proposed legislation resulting The Jedge will probably say, "that's a in the aforementioned Public Law 90- fact the Communists refuse to negotiate, ridlculous story. It is quite obvious that you 435, and in Department of Transportation should be identified for what it is-sim­ shot the man yourself". letters dated 23 and 27. May 1968 com­ ply wishful thinking. My only answer will be: "well, you know menting on two proposed bills under con­ Jedge, the only way you can find out is to sideration at that time. In this reg~rd, I ask the guy wlth the hole in his head-or have attached a copy of Rear Admiral Mur­ EVERY MANS' H01\1E IS HIS CASTLE maybe some of the other people who were phy's comprehensive statement of 13 June waiting for the trolley car." 1968 before your Committee, as well as a Obviously, I will be·. sent to the electric copy of Department of Transportation ,let­ chair. ter dated 23 May 1968 commenting on Mr. · HON. GEORGE A. GOODLING- , But, so long as I have a choice (and I Williams' H.R. 15580. The Department's let­ . OF PENNSYLVANIA still do) , I 'd ·rather be murdered by justice ter of 27 May 1968 in reference to Mrs. Sulli­ than some coked-up criminal who would van's companion bill H.R. 15714 contained IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES certainly be released by the courts (or by the same comments and, therefore, has not Monday, December 7, 1970 probation) to continue hls mayhem. been included. It's a hell of an era- where law-abi<;ling As you know, in addition to H.R. 14002, Mr. GOODLING. Mr. Speaker, under citizens are considered to be guilty until intended to grant the DELTA QUEEN an ad­ our system of government we bend over they prove their innocence and where dltlonal two-year postponement until No­ backward to protect the rights of those criminals are considered to be innocent until vember 1972, several other b1lls have been charged with ·committing crimes and, in proven guilty. They get the financial and recently introduced which, if enacted, would completely exempt the vessel from compli­ the process, we sometimes soft-pedal moral support of governlr\ent; we can go to the rights of good-living and innocent see our chaplain (and don't be too sure which ance with Public Law 89-777. Our position side he's on either). wtth respect to these bills remains the same citizens. as that expressed on the proposed two-year A rather unique reference is made to postponement legislation. In the interest of this paradox in an article written by maritime safety, we are opposed to such Mr. Jake E. Teller and appearing in a SUBVERSIVES EMPLOYING "REVO­ legislation. recent issue of the Real Property News, In addltion to copies of Rear Admiral LUTIONARY RHETORIC" TO FUR­ · Murphy's statement on the subject and which is published in Philadelphia, Pa. THER THEIR ENDS other related correspondence, I have also en­ Mr. Teller takes off on the common-law closed for your use a brlef fact sheet on the theme that "every man's home is his DELTA QUEEN containing, among other castle," and because the article is timely HON. RICHARD H. ICHORD · things, her tonnage, length, date of build, and cleverly presented, I insert it in the OF MISSOURI etc. RECORD and commend it to the attention IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES It is a pleasure to furnish you this in­ of my colleagues: formation. If the Coast Guard can be of - Monday, December 7, 1970 further assistance in this matter, please do EVERY MAN's HoME Is His CASTLE not hesitate to let me know. (By Jack E. Teller) Mr. !CHORD. Mr. Speaker, in this era Sincerely, You may not agree with me ... but, ... when we hear of academicians who T. R. SARGENT, I disagree with any law which is designed to preach revolutionary violence along with Vice Admiral, U.S. Coast Guard, Assist- protect criminals. teaching literature, history, and other ant Commandant. Yesterday I read another · legal opinion, traditional classroom subjects, it is re­ which, in effect, says that you cannot shoot freshing to discover one who is aware of anyone who breaks into your house unless he and concerned about the danger that shoots you first. confronts this country from within. COMMUNISTS REFUSE TO Not me pall I ain't about to hold a dialog I refer to Roy Colby, professor of Span­ NEGOTIATE IN PARIS with anyone who breaks into my house. I'm ready. My house has a very interesting ish at the University of Northern Colo­ electronic system, and my four rifles and two rado, who is also president of that insti­ HON. JOHN J. RHODES revolvers are loaded. Any midnight strangers tution's chapter of University Professors oF ARIZONA in my house would be wise to visit the con- for Academic Order. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES fessional before entering. Professor Colby· has worldly experi­ My friends and legal advisers all tell me I ence not enjoyed by some other teachers. Monday, December 7, 1970 will be guilty of murder if this unfortunate He is a former Foreign Service officer Mr. RHODES. Mr. Speaker, it should confrontation should occur. So, I have with service in Brazil, Mexico, and Cuba. be clear from the recent statements of figured out a story for the judge. It will go He has had the opportunity to witness approximately as follows: David E. K. Bruce, our chief negotiator "You see, yer honor, I woke up about Communists at ·their work of subverting at the Paris peace talks, that negotiation three am one morning, and, for some reason, governments. He witnessed firsthand with the North Vietnamese and Vietcong it occurred to me that I had not oiled my Fidel Castro's communization of a nation holds no real promise either for decent revolver recently. So I took it from the only 90 miles from our shores. treatment for our POW's or for an end to drawer of my bedside table intending to take Professor Colby is the author of a book the war. it down to my shop and oillt while it was on entitled "Conquest With Words" and is Earlier this week Ambassador Bruce my mind. presently compiling a dictionary of com­ said that "there. have never been any true "As I entered by living room, there stood munese-English terms that depict how negotiations'' at the Paris talks in the al- a man. You know how lt ls these days. Jedge, perversion of language promotes the it ls not uncommon to ftnd a stranger strol­ most 2 years of their existence. He also ling around your home-particularly at three cause of international communism. noted that the Communists had given no a.m. In a speech to the University Professors - indication whatever that they are ready "Well, slr, I asked the guy if I could be for Academic Order on his campus in to begin meaningful negotiations. This of assistance. He answered, 'no, I'm just mid-October, Professor Colby explained is a very frank appraisal of the situation, waiting for a trolley car'. So I said, 'wen. how the subversives in this country are and it appears to be absolutely correct. they don't run too often around here but employing what he calls revolutionary Yet we still have;critics of the war who maybe, while you're waiting, you could help rhetoric to further their ends. propose negotiation as their only alter- ~ me oil my revolver because I don't know very This speech is most interesting and native to the actions the President has much about revolvers'. 'Well.' he said,p 'I informative and therefore ~ i.nserti it in 40250 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 7, 1970 the RECORD for the benefit of my col­ "The way the University complex best the Nazis, the arch-reactionaries, the mo:ronic serves imperialism is exemplified in ROTC. conservatives, the clique of racists, warmon­ leagues: The chief confrontation taking place is be­ gers and traitors, the extremists in the mili­ SUBVERSIVES EMPLOYING " REVOLUTIONARY tween a world in revolution and amerikkkan tary-industrial complex, the amerikkkan RHETORIC" To FuRTHER THEIR ENDS imperialism. People are rising up to free monopolists, the ROTC and the pigs, to name (By Roy Colby) themselves from amerikkkan corporate ex­ just a few. The widespread bombings throughout the ploitation. They will no longer passively You have tried to communicate with the nation, the sniping, the guerrilla warfare, watch their human and natural resources ex­ Establishment but they wouldn't listen. They the murder of policemen, the threatened ploited, their country's chance for economic fail to see what is relevant and what is ir­ kidnappings, the violence, the polticization growth stiffi.ed (sic) by amerikkkan economic relevant. They still cling to obsolete middle­ of universities and the rest. You read about domination and be pacified with care (sic) class values. They don't understand the New packages. Morality, new politics, participatory democ­ them every day. "Amerikkkan imperialism is the main What is happening to America, the land racy. You have tried non-violence but it did structure standing in the way of our broth­ not work. You have no other choice-make of the free and .the home of the brave? er's (sic) liberation. ROTC supplies over half Revolution. Do you doubt it? Then read revolution. Make demands. Arrange confron­ of the officers for fragmentation bombs, de­ tations. Strive by any means available for this. foileges (sic) and fires the guns all under On Oct. 14, 1970, thousands of policemen liberation from all the bad things. Resist. the guise of fighting for democracy. It trains And if the pigs try to stop you, defend your­ from all parts of the country assembled on men in the tactics of counter-insurgency and the steps of the U.S. Capital in Washington, self! gives them the manpower to protect and This is revolutionary rhetoric in operation. D.C., calling for stiffer laws against attacks foster the goals of a dehumanizing corporate on law enforcement officers. John J. Har­ Revolutionary rhetoric 1s remarkable for imperialism. We demand an immediate end the ideas it does not express. Nothing about rington, national president of the Fraternal to ROTC.'' Order of Police, told some 3,500 officers and the rights of the majority. Nothing about Read that over again and note well cer­ whether actions proposed lead to the greater members of Congress, "It's time the people tain words. Never mind the spelling-What of this country face up to it----there is a freedom of the individual-not of a class or do you want, good spelling or revolution? group of people, but of the individual citi­ revolution taking place." Look at them: University complex, imperial­ On August 24, 1970, State Attorney Gen­ zen. Nothing about America's great social ism, confrontation, revolution, amerikkkan progress in the last two decades. Nothing eral Robert Warren said, "The bombings of imperialism, people, exploitation, exploited, the University of Wisconsin mark the be­ about the responsibilities connected with the economic domination, liberation, under the exercise of constitutional rights. Nothing ginning of an outright revolution ...." guise of, and corporate imperialism. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover recently good about any non-Communist country. These words and others similar to them Nothing bad about any Socialist or Com­ noted, "There exists a strong Marxist revolu­ constitute revolutionary rhetoric, the vo­ munist country. tionary youth movement." cabulary of revolution. They are all logical Please note this point. In revolutionary If it is indeed, revolution then Communists parts of a verbal pattern which is invariable everywhere are all for it and are doing their rhetoric, the government is held responsible in its make-up. Here are the elements which for the welfare of the citizens and hence for utmost to promote it. For according to the constitute the pattern. theories of Marxism-Leninism there is, and A revolution is a violent overthrow of a all the nation's ills. The individuals who should be, a revolution taking place on all government and is usually abhorred by a comprise our people-run society somehow non-Communist countries of the world­ majority of the people. How then do you are held blameless--except the President of including the United States. The revolution arouse people, convince them the government the United States. Since the government is will last until Communists take over the not attending to the country's needs, or not should be overthrown? doing it fast enough, the government should government and seize power. Very simply. You say it is all bad. be destroyed. · How is a revolution promoted? First and Therefore, all the things you do and stand foremost of all, by words. By assigning for are good. Simplistic reasoning? Perhaps so, but too Marxist values to ordinary ideas. By revolu­ What do you attack?-the sources of many of our students are falling for it. We, tionary rhetoric designed to win the sup­ powel;' ... The University. The courts. The the educators, ought to have some responsi­ port of persons who are gullible, superficial, police. The armed forces, ROTC, industrial bility for the views of our students. What idealistic, inexperienced and unwise. firms, especially those connected with de­ has gone wrong in education when twice as The Marxist word-system for revolution, fense projects. And obviously those who try many students believe the government is to stop you from carrying out your objec­ doing a bad job as those believing it is doing then, may be called "revolutionary rhetor­ well? ic.'• How do you recognize revolutionary tives. rhetoric when you hear it or see it in print? Now let us see how good words are em­ We must come up with ways and means to The following is taken from an anti-ROTC ployed to describe revolutionary activities cope with revolutionary rhetoric and the leaflet coming from a booth in the University and bad ones represent the government under superficial ideas that lie behind it. If we Center of the University of Northern Colo­ attack, its institutions, culture and policies, don't----let each draw his own conclusion. rado. The sign above the booth read. "Rocky and its efforts to defend itself. Mountain Revolutionary Union," and be­ Please keep in mind the following labels do hind the long table filled with anti-U.S. not necessarily have to bear any resemblance literature-revolutionary literature, if you to the facts. Words are cheap. The truth is STRENGTHENING SMALL BUSINESS please-sat five hippie-style students, or at anything that helps the revolution. In revo­ least they were of student age. It was a poorly lutionary rhetoric, words are power tools to reproduced mimeograph sheet showing, or persuade, not means to seek and set forth HON. ROBERT PRICE purporting to show, the badly burned face the truth. OF TEXAS of what was described as "after early surgery" Let us suppose you are a revolutionary. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to an eight-year-old Vietnamese boy. You want to overthrow the United States "Does not your stomach rebel?" the leaflet government. What are you opposed to? These Monday, December 7, 1970 asks. "Does not your mind revolt? The na­ things, and you hear them over and over: pal~ed ruins of his body and his revaged exploitation, monopoly, imp.erialism, ·coloni­ Mr. PRICE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I mind are inflicted by the 'honorable' offi­ alism, repression, oppression, aggression, urge my colleagues to approve S. 336 as cers of American military might. Yes you racism, criminal discrimination, police bru­ reported out by the Committee on Inter­ should rebel when you join ROTC, when you tality, and so on. state and Foreign Commerce. This bill sanctify the existence of ROTC. You are What are you in favor of-besides an im­ would enable small businessmen to sell guilty of the most criminal violence, an ac­ mediate end to all the things you are opposed securities in an offering up to $500,000 complice to a degeneratedly twisted strong­ to? Well, you want equality, peace, justice, hold of legitimized murder. Yes ROTC is a without having to fully comply with the li beration, participatory democracy, a fai r registration requirements of the Securi­ lecherous arm of American imperialism se­ share for all and anything else that sounds ducing, subverting and corrupting the purity good and noble. ties Act of 1933. of youth from universal brotherhood. There Who are you, anyhow? You are the stu­ At the present time this offering level is no place in a University of Life for ROTC." dents, the people, the workers, the minority is set at $300,000. This limit was estab­ Beside the Vietnamese boy's scarred. face groups-not just some of them, all of them. lished in 1945 because it was felt at were printed these words in large letters: What are you like? You are progressive, lib­ that time that this reasonably met the ~'ROTC plus U.S. Imperialism dld this." eral, freedom-loving, tustice-loving, peace­ of This is revolutionary rhetoric. This is needs our Nation's small businessmen. loving, but at the same time you are also As we well know today though, infla­ Marxist rhetoric. Right here. Right here in oppressed, repressed, discriminated against our own university. and exploi ted. tion has plagued the small businessman But there's more. At the bottom of the Who does this to you?-The Establishment, just as it has harmed other areas of our 1eaftet we read: the power structure and their puppets. economy. Capital costs have risen dra­ "Excerpt From the Program of the Rocky Who are the people that make up the Es­ matically in the last two decades; oper­ :M~untain Revolutionary Union. tablishment, the power structure and their ating costs, maintenance costs, and labor "An End to ROTC. puppets? Why, the imperialists, the Fascists, costs have done likewise. December 7, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 40251 Increasing the regulation A exemp­ tion of the Geneva Protocol governing 1968, unequivocally prohibits the expul­ tion to $500,000 opens new commercial the status of refugees, and furthermore, sion or return of refugees to territories vistas to small businessmen across the actually assisted a Russian goon squad where their life or freedom would be country. It will help them revitalize their in forcibly subduing and returning him threatened. An American ship in Ameri­ efforts at precisely the right time to give to captivity and probable death is a sad can waters is clearly considered Ameri­ the general economy a needed forward and shameful tale of bureaucratic bun­ can territory, and we must bear there­ momentum. gling, indecision, and cowardice. · sponsibility for the outrage against hu­ Mr. Speaker, America's small business­ After the sailor, a radio opera tor man decency and justice which took men have been the backbone and the known to us only as Simas, hurled him­ place aboard the Vigilant. For the sake fiber of the free enterprise system. Their self to the deck of the Vigilant at 2 p.m., of a few fish, we sacrificed a human efforts and their successes have been on November 23, Captain Eustis tele­ life. monuments to individual initiative and phoned the Coast Guard's First District Public indignation in the United States ingenuity. Congress must help small Commander in Boston, Rear Admiral has risen in spontaneous protest against businessmen keep pace with the chang­ W. B. Ellis. Ellis contacted his Washing­ this disgraceful action. Americans of East ing nature of the money market. Con­ ton headquarters which in tum put in a European descent demonstrated angrily gress has the obligation to approve call to the State Department's Soviet ·af­ against the decision in many cities. The s. 336. fairs desk. The desk officer, a man named President, who only learned of the inci­ In conclusion, I urge my colleagues not Kilham, was ·told only that the Coast dent from weekend news reports, has to turn their heads away from the needs Guard had a potential defector on its called for a full investigation. None of of the small businessman once this legis­ hands. Kilham urged caution and advised this, however, will help Simas. Nor will lation is approved. There is other legisla­ the Coast Guard not to "encourage" the it reassure millions in captive nations tion pending before this Congress which defector, as it might be viewed as a "prov­ throughout the world who, like Simas, also should be enacted into law. The in­ ocation" in view of the delicate nego­ cherished some hope in the American vestment tax credit should be reinstated tiations taking place aboard the two dream. By this dastardly action, we have for the small businessman. This woUld ships. However, he instructed the Coast forfeited something of America's good enable him to expand profitable opera­ Guard to keep the State Department in­ name and of her proud claim to be moth­ tions, better serve consumer needs, and formed of any further developments. er of exiles and defender of liberty. better fulfill his historic role as the cor­ The Russian trawler, mother ship of This tragic affair must not become one nerstone of the capitalist system. The a Soviet fishing fleet, and the cutter more unfortunate mistake from which present inheritance laws should be re­ Vigilant, were anchored together to dis­ nothing was learned. We have seen this ·vised so that Federal estate taxes will cuss the overharvesting of yellow­ scenario played, in different circum­ have a less devastating impact on the tailed flounder. The meeting, arranged stances with different players in different families of farmers, ranchers, and small at the request of the Russians, was au­ costumes, so many times before. The re­ businessmen. thorized by the State Department pri­ sult is always the same. At Pearl Harbor, There are but two major bills that marily for the benefit of American fish­ during the piracy of the Pueblo, and in focus directly on the needs of the small ing interests in New England. numerous other fateful incidents in our businessman. There are many others Two further calls to the State Depart­ history, communications faltered, the eminently worthy of congressional at­ ment ensued at intervals, the second de­ chain of command broke down, and ca­ tention. claring that it was a false alarm and lamity befell the hapless victims. Why? the third, at 7:45 in the evening, report­ How many more times must we witness ing that the seaman had already been the failure of those in authority, who THE TARNISHED DOOR returned. In fact, Simas was not finally should have learned from experience but dragged off the Vigilant until almost never have? midnight. Adm. Chester Bender, Com­ If the officially expressed regrets of HON. WILLIAM J. SCHERLE mandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, the State Department and others have OF IOWA confirmed that the decision had been any sincerity, it should be provided by IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES made by the Coast Guard First District their concerted efforts to insure that no Monday, December 7, 1970 Commander in Boston on his own au­ such shameful incident occurs again. thority. Under the circumstances, ac­ Proper channels of communication Mr. SCHERLE. Mr. Speaker, the fa­ cording to Admiral Bender, "the com­ should be maintained and adequate pro­ mous inscription on the Statue of Liberty mander • * * felt that it was reasonable cedures for dealing with similar even­ in New York harbor reads: and proper that we not permit our ship Give me your tired, your poor, tualities should be established. Lower Your huddled masses, yearning to breathe to be used as a means of defection and echelon officials should know just free, that the man should be returned." where to turn for instructions and The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. No one in the Coast Guard or the State higher functionaries should have clear Send these, the homeless, the tempest-tost Department can explain the discrepancy policies to guide them. Unless and un­ to me, between the 7:45 call and the forcible re­ til these administrative reforms are im­ I lift my lamp beside the golden door. turn of Simas at midnight. Nor has the plemented, there will be other Simases, The luster of that promise is dimmed Coast Guard been able to justify mak­ other victims of ignorance and indecision, somewhat and the gleaming golden door ing the decision on that basis and at of cowardly caution and incompetence. tarnished by an event that recently that level without seeking instruction "The only thing necessary for the tri­ took place on an American ship in from higher officials in the State De- umph of evil," Edmund Burke warned in American territorial waters some 250 partment. · 1795, "is for good men to do nothing." It miles north of where the "Mother of The crux of the problem seems to be is still true. Exiles" stands. A Lithuanian sailor on a the usual bureaucratic bugaboos of Russian ship took us at our word and bungled communications and misplaced flung himself across the 10 feet of water priorities. A State Department spokes­ which separated him from an American man later maintained that, had they TRIBUTE TO THE LATE ROSE Coast Guard cutter to safety and free­ been informed that Simas had actually McCONNELL LONG dom-or so he thought. He was wrong. defected, the situation would have been Hours later, with the permission of the handled differently. That may well be, American captain, Russian seamen but the fact remains that there should . HON. HALE BOGGS boarded the ship, beat and kicked him be clear procedures laid down for deal­ OF LOUISIANA into a bloody unconscious hulk and ing with defectors. The rules governing IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES hauled him back roped in a blanket in an cooperation among government agencies American lifeboat, to their own vessel. in such cases are inexcusably vague. Monday, December 7, 1970 His prayers for help and cries for mercy What is absolutely certain, however, is Mr. BOGGS. Mr. Speaker, I rise in still hang in the air unanswered. the duty of the United States to grant remembrance of a great and beloved lady The story of how and why official rep­ political asylum to refugees who man­ of Louisiana, Rose McConnell Long, the resentatives of the United States refused age to reach American territory. The mother of Senator RUSSELL B. LONG, who asylum to a refugee, in direct contraven- Geneva Protocol, which we signed in recently passed away at the age of 78. 40252 &"'CTENSIONS Q,F REMARK~ December 7, 1970

" The. new~ 'Of ber P.a.ssipg leaves me to party war-chel)ts. Angelos is said to have explusion to the United states, where he saddened; for it was my great privilege been generous to the Republican Party in the would go on fighting the regime. 1968 campaign but he declined to say .. 'John Kapsis is not · a Communist, and to be her frie-nd for more tllan three whether or how much he' had given. th,ey know he•s not," Angelos told the Post­ decades. He did say that Attorney General Mitchell, Dispatch. He found-the wardens and captains . Rose Long was, in many ways, the whom he had known for about three year-s, of tbe guard apologetic about what is hap­ most rematkable member of one of the espoused his o.ause, and that he had the sup­ pening ln Greece to people like Kapsls. Even most. remarkable political families in port of Illinois Senators and of W. Clement the junta's leaders, he said, wanted to help. modern history. Stone, the rich Chicago insurance man who, Angelqs credited Papadopoulos and his She was a gentle woman, but she pos­ ]Jke Mitchell, is a member of the Richard deputies With being dedicated men and de­ Nt~,on Foundation. ~out Christia.ns who are trying to do their sessed a quiet strength and resolve which ·'Angelos has not allowed his failure to get best for Greeks and Greece. lie said they had brought out the best in others and which the Athens job to subdue him or cramp h1s made it safe for people to walk the streets at sustained her family through adversity ebullient style. · . night, but they are not diplomats. They will and personal tragedy. Last January, before he sought to assist never tolerate a COmmunist Party. Throughout her long life, she was editor Kapsis, he made a trip to Athens and "I told them, what y.ou need is a good-pub­ loved and . admired by the people of i11ter eped on behalf of a beautiful American lic relBI~ions man," Angelos said. girl, Gloria Root, 21 years old. She had been By hi1> own estimate, Angelp~ has brought Louisiana. She was their 'friend, their featured as "Playmate" in last December's to the United States at least 40 persons from first lady, Rnd, later, their U.S. Sena Playboy magazine. around his father's village of Vrina, in the tor. It is with the people of Louisiana MiS"s Root had been sentenced to 18 months Peloponnesus. He has brought tractors for that her memory will forever reside. for smuggling hashish. Angelos went to the farmers ~round Vrina, helped equip a school, jail where she was confined on the island of raised money for a. $60,000 church, and Corfu and talked to the girl for an hour. Her wrought. other benefactions. sentence was comn1uted to six months. She He had a Horatio Alger car.eer in Chicago. MISSION POSSIBLE: OPENING should be out, .he said, in a week or so. He was an altar boy in the Greek Orthodox GREEK JAILS '-' Angelos was unacquainted with Miss Root Church, went to work when he was 10, selling at the time he undertook that mission. He newspapers, delivering groceries, ushering in did so at the request of her parents, for whom a theatre, delivering messages for Western ' HON. DAN ROSTENKOWSKI he brought back a photograph. He borrowed Union, and finally, at 16, making $30 a week an airplane from Greek magnate Aristotle at a Carnegie Steel blast furnace. OF ILLINOIS Onassis for the-journey to Corfu, taking with Enlisting In the Navy at 17, Angelos served IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES him a Chicago reporter and a Greek intel­ on the battleship Texas as a radioman on the Monday, December 7, 1970 ligence ofiicer. Murmansk run and then was assigned to the "I had I;tever met the girl and I knew U.S.S. Pasadena in the Pacific. He got seven Mr. ROSTENKOWSKI. Mr. Speaker, I nothing about her. I felt it could have been battle stars and the Purple Heart. He then would like to insert in the RECORD, al) ar­ my daughter," Angelos said. worked his way through Drake University ticle about one of Chicago's outstanding l\.llgelos threw himself into the John Kap­ with the help of the GI Bill and graduated in leaders, and his continuing fight for the s1s case at the urging of another Chicagoan 1951. people of Greece. This article outlines and business associate of Greek descent, Out of college, Angelos started a company Christopher G. Janus, a Harvard and Oxford called World Wide Services, selling tempo­ some of the recent activities of this dedi­ man who has harshly criticized the junta of rary labor to factories. With money from cated man. I am sure that my colleagues military· omcers in Greece. that, he bought slum property which he sold will find it of considerable interest: Janus, 59, is a special situations ofiicer for for $1,500,000 in the early 1960s. He bought MISSION PossmLE: OPENING GREEK JAILS Bache & Co., investment brokers. He is a stock in the Merchantile National Bank, (By William K. Wyant Jr.) liberal politically. When his friend, Kapsis, became board chairman of Guaranty Bank editor of the leading Athens newspaper Eth­ & Trust Co-., and finally disposed of his CHICAGO, June 30.-Anthony G. Angelos, nos. was put behind bars with a five-year shares, at what he· said was triple value, after Attorney General John N. Mitchell's candi­ sentence, Janus organized a National Com­ a proxy fight in 1967. date for ambassador to Greece, did not get mittee to Free John Kapsis. When Angelos was under consideration the job. But he is pushing on as a one-man Angelos readily agreed to do what he could to be ambassador to Greece, the Chicago rescue squad for persons detained in Greek to help. He was the ideal emissary, because Sun-Times reported that in the 1940s and prisons. he knew the former Greek -Premier George 1950s he had been in trouble with the law Angelos, a Chicago banker and phllan­ Papandreou, who ·died in 1968, and his son, over skid-row flop-houses he owned. His thropist, flew to Athens last month and in­ Andreas, now in exile. Also he had rapport slum property experience gave Angelos an terceded With Greek officials on behalf of with the milltary leaders who seized power in interest in derelicts whom he arranged to John Kapsis. Kapsis is a liberal Greek editor a coup three years ago. feed and house. jailed by the military dictatorship that runs He could and did take up the cudgels for He told the Post-Dispatch that he once the country. Kapsis with Prime Minister George Papado­ started to write a book about derelicts, to be ..I wouldn't be surprised i! they sprang him poulos, a retired brigadier general, with First called "Roadway to the River." any day. If I were ambassador, he'd be out of Deputy Premler Styl~anos Pattakos, also are­ "I felt sorry for a lot of them," he said. jail," Angelos told the Post-Dispatch in an tired gen eral, and With other Greek leaders "It's a sickness. They are the loneliest people interview at Chicago's Tavern Club. who might temper the wind for the im­ in the world." Angelos, a Greek-American, grew up a poor prisoned editor. Angelos first went to Greece in 1950 with boy on the wrong side of the tracks in Chi­ ··rve talked to Pa,padopoulos and Patta­ about $100 in his pocket. He tried later to cago. He made it big in real estate and bank­ get a job with the American aid mission, ing. and now he spends his time and money lros," Angelos told rthe Post-Dispatch. "We ~an close the doors and talk in the same lan­ which was pouring money into Greece. He generously in causes he considers good. He is guage." failed, but looked around and saw a lot. a dynamic man. Angelos said his sessions with Greek lead­ "The one thing that bothered me most at He is very disappointed about not receiving ers sometimes develop into shouting match­ that time," he said, "was that most of the the appointment as envoy to Greece. He es at which he says what he thinks very money wasn't going to the aid of the people, thought he had the post sewn up, but it went bluntly, a chaJraCteristic of his, e.nd gets but was going into the pockets of the rich­ last Sept ember to Henry J. Tasca, a career some frank language in return. American and Greek. I would say 70 per foreign service officer in the Department of cent of it reached the wrong hands." State. Angelos interviewed Ka,psis in Koredaros jail on two successive days. He sneaked a Angelos said that Tasca was an excellent Angelos married the former Barbara Ge­ photographer into the jail, and the man took want of New York City, an attractive red­ choice. But he felt, he himself had extraordi­ a picture, with Angelos crouching down so head, 12 years ago, and they have two chil­ nary qualifications as a person who speaks he could not be seen through the window. dren. He is very proud of his family and his the language, knows the Greek people and is They talked in English. This was on May 10 lather and mother, still living in Chicago. aware of what is going on over there. He feels and 11. the State Depart ment snubbed him. The Chicago candidate, backed by Mitchell, "He told me he is being treated well," unquestionably was a serious contender for If the United States resumes full military Angelos recalled. "No one ever touched him the job of envoy to Greece last year. Count­ assistance to Greece, or if President Richard or gave him any mental anguish. He believed ing against him was the tradition that am- M. Nixon names a commission to look into there was torture in the Communist section bassadors are not often sent to a country of Greek-American relations, Angelos is still of the prison, but he had not seen it." their own ethnic origin. hopeful that he could be of service as an Kapsis was writing a book called "Pit of "I knew the State Department was against American who loves this country and under­ Snakes," for which his Jailers had furnished me," Angelos said. He also felt, he said, that stands Greece. him a typewriter. He told Angelos that it there was discrimination against a man who Non-career people, who receive high dip­ would be an insult to his two teen-age sons came from the wrong side of the tracks and lomatic posts, frequently are wealthy citizens if he signed soanet~ that in. Setting the manned lunar land­ Nicholas Longworth and Speaker Champ point of view is articulated in an excel­ ing as its major goal, the U.S. space program Clark, among others-men of destiny lent editorial by Mr. Robert Hotz. in the of the 1960s probably will go down in history November 23, 1970, issue of Aviation as man's greatest constructive expansion of who guided the House through chal­ his capabil1ties in his long sojourn on this lenging and momentous times. Week and Space Technology. Mr. Hotz probably is as ~ well versed on our Na­ planet. The successful lunar landings of 1969 Speaker McCoRMACK, like all great left the world bres.thless and the Soviets far Speakers, is a fighter and he climaxed tion's space achievements and capabili­ behind. his glorious career in the House with ties as anyone else not directly involved No' sooner had the tremendous exhilaration effective leadership during this, the 91st with either NASA or the Department of of this stunning achievement subsided, than Congress. Although senior in years of Defense. His editorial follows: the fleet U.S. space rabbit ambled to the service and wisdom, he was young in his THE HARE AND THE TORTOISE roadside and took a nap under a shady econ­ The Soviet Union has dramatically demon­ omy tree, confident that the Soviet tortoise outlook as he fought for the voting rights could never overtake him. The great science bill for 18-year-olds and secured its pas­ strated this fall that it is pursuing a broad and engineering teams that conceived, built sage. During the recent national elec­ program of space exploration at as fast a pace and operated the Apollo system and the tions, it was Speaker McCoRMACK who a.s its technical base permits. In a recent 60- other marvelous facets of the U.S. space pro­ sounded a national rallying cry for our day period, the USSR launched 22 spacecraft gram were broken up, the facilities moth­ from its three space centers while only three balled and support of the national leadership party and who delivered on this fioor a gantries in a forest of empty steel towers at major address summarizing the great ac­ dwindled. This rabbit nap at the roadside Cape Kennedy had U.S. spacecraft on launch will also go down in history as an incredible complishments of the 9lst Congress-a pads. The Soviets also demonstrated that blunder of national leadership and an un­ campaign document that proved invalu­ their space program still has the moon as a necessary diss-ipation of a unique national able to Democratic candidates through­ major goal by launching three lunar-directed resource. out the Nation. spacecraft that photographed, return-ed sur­ The National Aeronautics and Space Ad­ Speaker McCoRMACK always rises to face samples and explored the lunar topog­ ministration is fiounde.ring along leaderless. the occasion-and the challenge. He has raphy. The President ha.s deliberately shrunk the served ably, courageously and effectively The Soviet achievements on the moon are space program as a deflationary economic during one of the most trying periods in indeed formidable. But their technology still tool. Congress has become indifferent. After falls far short of the Apollo system that $24 billion has been spent to develop the American history-a period of trial, tur­ landed four U.S. astronauts on the moon system and operational base for manned moil and upheaval like those which, as last year and returned them safely to earth. exploration of the moon, the Apollo fiights the great patriot Thomas Paine said, The Soviet unmanned vehicles are engaged have been drastically ,reduced. To save a "try men's souls." in the same type of preliminary exploration few million dollars, the bulk of the scientific Speaker McCoRMACK, in addition to his of the lunar environment that the U.S. did dividends Apollo could return on this invest­ great abilities and capacity for leader­ in preparation for its manned lunar landings. ment are sacrificed. ship, is a grand gentleman-a man of Zond 8, which photographed the surface on a Meanwhile, the Soviet tortoise plods along unfailing compassion - a kind and circumlunar mission is roughly comparable the lunar road, S'UrViving technical disasters, thoughtful man whose acts of kindness in function to the U.S. Lunar Orbiters of changing political winds, international de­ 1966-67. The Luna 16 and 17 spacecraft are f~ats and many other hazards unknown to and consideration are countless. similar in function, despite increased capa­ foreign observers. The Soviets are now work­ He is a great leader-a great Ameri­ bilities, to the Surveyors the U.S. used for ing on the moon With t-heir remotely con­ can-a wonderful human being-and preliminary surface reconnaissance of poten­ trolled robots. They are developing a sub­ the House will sorely miss his inspired tial Apollo landing sites. Thus it appears that stantial military sp·ace program of recon­ leadership and guidance. the Soviets are still pursuing their long-es- naissance satellites, orbiting bombs and 40254 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 7, 1970 satellite interceptors. They are developing sible to do so that no other such horrible COMPANY K, 1ST WISCONSIN VOLUNTEERS, multi-manned earth-orbital space stations, instance will ever again be repeated. INFANTRY communications satellites, deep space scien­ On this score I would like to include Captain, Thaddeus Wild. tific probes and at regular intervals affirm 1st Lieut. John Budnik. that their sights are still firmly set on Mars a pertinent editorial in the December 2, 2nd Lieut., Peter Piasecki. and interplanetary voyaging. The Soviet 1970, issue of the Worcester, Mass., Tele­ 1st Sergt, Stan Polewezynskl. tortoise is still some years behind the snooz­ gram and the article follows: Q'Master Sergt., Clemens Borucki. ing U.S. space rabbit. But it is moving in­ EDITORIALS: SHAME AT SEA Sergeants: Ladislaus C1eslaus, Leon Dren- exorably ahead, albeit at a slower but stead­ There is something nightmarish in the ski, Jacob Inda, Stan Polski. ier pace than its principal international rival. horror story about a Lithuanian sailor who Corporals: Jos. Ciskowski, John Czechow­ Whether the Soviets will ever again overtake sought political sanctuary aboard a U.S. ski, Frank Domachowski, Lad Galdynski, and regain world leadership in space tech­ Coast Guard cutter, who was denied that Frank J. Golla, Ludvik Kanezewski, Felex nology depends in large measure on how sanctuary, and who was beaten senseless by Michalak, Frank Makowski, Stanley E. Pia­ much longer American political leaders and Soviet sailors and dragged back to a Russian secki, Bern Sliga, Thomas Wetzel, J. Zar­ the American people let their somnolent fishing boat. kowski. space rabbit languish in idle dreaming. Artificer, John Antoszak. ROBERT HOTZ. The atrocity was compounded by Coast Guard officials who allowed the hapless man Musician, Michael Komorowski. to be transported back to the Soviet ship in Wagoner, J. Zarkowski. a Coast Guard lifeboat. Privates: Andrejewski, Anthony; Andre­ All this happened with the Stars and szeyk, Frank; Bacus, Charles; Biedrzycki, THE RECENT TRAGIC STORY OF RE­ Stripes rippling proudly in the breeze over­ Valentine; Blaszynski, Valentine; Buda, An­ head. thony; Barezykowski, Max; Brezezinski, QUESTED AMERICAN ASYLUM BE­ Frank; Boncel, John; Betanski, Ladislas; ING DENIED TO A LITHUANIAN President Nixon, who first learned of the tragic miscarriage of justice in the news­ Bem.ka, Frank; Brzonkala, Apolinta.ry; Bor­ SAILOR MUST NEVER BE RE­ papers, properly has called for a "very full uch, John; Czarnecki, Andrew; Cegielski, PEATED and immediate investigation." Steven; Cichocki, Frank; Czarnecki, Jos.; He and the American people want to know Czechorski; Roman; Data, John; Duszynski; the answers to a number of questions. Felix; Dentkusz, Andrew; Duszynski, John; HON. HAROLD D. DONOHUE During the tragic 10 hours when the fugi­ Ewald, August; Frankowski; F'Mnk; F'Ertlski, Valentine; Fennig, John; Galwas, Slanislaus. OF MASSACHUSETTS tive's freedom and possibly his life hung in Gajewski, Ignace; Glowianka, Bern; Golat­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the balance, why wasn't President Nixon con­ sulted? Why didn't the State Department, ka, Adam; Horka, Ignace; Kobe, Jos.; King, Monday, December 7, 1970 when consulted, show more awareness? Do G. S.; Knutowski, Barney; Koceja, Joe; Ko­ not the high officers of the Coast Guard and zolowski, Michael; Kronhelm, Max. Mr. DONOHUE. Mr. Speaker I, and State Department understand that this na­ Krzowicki, Adam; Kubacki, Frank; Krolek­ most every other American, I am sure, tion spends and has spent millions o! dollars owski, John; Krolekowski, Stan.; Knitter, was shocked and stunned when I learned to counter Communist propaganda and pre­ Frank; Kucharski, Lad; Kuezynski, Frank; of the recent shameful and unfortunate sent America as a ready haven for freedom­ Luezynski, John; Lisiecki, John. incident of the Lithuanian sailor who at­ loving oppressed? Don't they know the Ge­ Litza, Jacob; Mchajewski, John; Michalak, tempted defection to this country from a neva convention on refugees, which prohibits Leo; Mickl'as, Fr,ank; Miller, Lucius; Nowak, Russian fishing vessel but whose asylum nations from returning refugees to territories Frank A.; Nowalski, Jas.; Joseph Kobs, was not only rejected by U. S. Coast or nations where their life or freedom is (transferred to Hospital Corps). threatened? What sort of person could just Olbinski, Albert; Pilarski, Ignace; Pasz­ Guard authorities but they apparently stand by while the man was beaten before kiewicz, Alex.; Platta, Paul; Patyk, Valentine; also permitted him to be beaten uncon­ their eyes? Prokop, Michael; Piotrowski, Edward; Ry­ scious on the deck of their ship by Rus­ The affair on the cutter Vigilant, in Ameri­ backi, Frank; Rostankowski, John. sian sailors and then dragged back to can waters just off Martha's Vineyard, needs Sliga, Frank; Sobieszozyk, Bol.; Stach­ the vessel from which he had jumped, to a thorough airing so that no such miscon­ owsi, Stephen; Strenka, Stan; Sass, Stephen; undergo a fate that will very probably be ception of American policy and intent can Swosinki, Stanley; Tobiewicz, Casimir; Tro­ worse than death itself. be repeated. Those were unworthy rationali­ janowski, Thos.; Wetzel, John. A more grievous error in judgment and zations that balanced this seaman's hopes Westtphal, Frank; Waszkiewiez, John; and life against a conference on fishing prob­ Woida, Chas. E.; Wojtysiak, Jos.; Warszyski, departure from our American tradition lems, that gave credence to Soviet charges of M.; Zoltak, John; Zbylicki, John; Zachowski, of asylum to the persecuted and un­ theft, that quibbled about whether the fugi­ Julius. fortunate can hardly be imagined. tive should have first jumped into the sea. Company K reorganized for State Service Upon the revelation of this most tragic The President must find the answers, re­ Dec. 12, 1898; blemish upon our American historical port them to our people and to the world, Several Members of Co. K, joined the new character and prestige I urged the Presi­ and make clear just how far the actions Volunteers !or service in the Philippines. dent of the United States to initiate an swerved from true policies of the United The a~bove "Roster" was obtained from The immediate investigation to insure ap­ States. Evening Wisconsin-National Guard Supple­ propriate reprimand of any persons ment, dated Jan. 8th, 1900. found derelict in their duties and that Captain; Thaddeus Wild, is a Native of Lemburg, Austria. He came to America in such a shameful incident would never 1881; he graduated from a "Continental Mil­ again occur. HISTORY OF COMPANY K, 1ST WIS­ CONSIN VOLUNTEERS INFANTRY itary School," before leaving his native land, All of us were gratified when the Presi­ and served some time in the Regular Army dent did announce his initiation of a full of the United States, dating from his arrival investigation and extensive study of the in Chicago, Illinois. He possesses a thorough whole matter and his preliminary state­ HON. CLEMENT J. ZABLOCKI Military Training, acquired largely at ad­ ment that "under no circumstances" OF WISCONSIN ministrative work. He came to Milwaukee, Wis., in the spring of 1884; and engaged in should anyone seeking asylum in the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the profession of Journalism, joining the United States be "arbitrarily or summar­ Monday, December 7, 197 0 "Kosiuszko Guards," in the same year. He ily returned" to the representatives of was commissioned Captain, Nov. 16th, 1894; the country from which he was fleeing Mr. ZABLOCKI. Mr. Speaker, Mr. among the line of Captains in the National until every opportunity had been granted Morris Oesterreich, past commander in Guard he ranks 3rd, mustered out of the to the individual to have his asylum re­ chief of the United Spanish War Vet­ State Service May 14th, 1898 at Oamp Har­ quest considered on its merits, deserves erans, has recently brought to my atten­ vey, Wis. (W.N.G.) our unanimous praise. tion an interesting historical roster of With his Company May 14th, 1898, he re­ Irrespective of party affiliation, all of sponded to the President's call for Vol1m­ Company K, 1st Wisconsin Volunteers ~eers in the Spanish-American War at Camp us vigorously support •the President of Infantry. Harvey, Wis. He was commissioned a Cap, the United States in this grave matter In order that the names of these dedi­ ta.ln, assigned to Co-K-1st-Wis-Vol-Inf., go• and we eamestly pray that his stern ad­ .. ng south with his Company to JackSon­ monition and rigid instructions, regard­ cated volunteers be further preserved in ville, Fla., where his Company was distin­ ing any similar incidents, to every rep­ the historical record, I submit them for guished for its splendid discipline and effi­ resentative of the United States, will inclusion in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD ciency; upon returning he was mustered out make it as certain as it is humanly pos- at this time:· as a Captain, Oct. 19th, 1898. . . December 7, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 40255 1st Lieut. John Budnik, enlisted in Co. BUSINESSMEN: NEW PEACENIKS previously kept their silence have begun to "B," 4th, Wis. Inf., May 19th, 1890, to May put themselves squarely on the record as op­ 14th, 1898; mustered out of the State Serv­ posed to allowing Laos or any other Asian ice, as a 1st Lieut., at Camp Harvey, Wis. HON. GEORGE E. BROWN, JR. country to become another Vietnam. is (W.N.G.) OF CALIFORNIA To me it especially gratifying to see Enlisting in the U.S. Volunteer Servi~e in more and more businessmen come forward the war with Spain, May 14th, 1898, at Camp IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and become visibly involved in debating na­ Harvey, Wis.; commissioned a 1st Lieut.; as­ Monday, December 7, 1970 tional policy, for I clearly recal·l how deafen­ signed to Co-K-1st-Wis-Vol-Inf., going ing was the silence in the business commu­ South with the Company to Jacksonville, Mr. BROWN of California. Mr. Speak­ nity only a few short years ago. Businessmen Fla. He served in that rank until Oct. 19th, er, for a long time--and, to a certain e~­ were firmly convinced thalt foreign policy 1898; mustered out as a 1st Lieut. tent, continuing to the present time­ was the ex~lusive domain of politicians and 2nd Lieut. Peter Pias~ki, was born at Mil­ the antiwar or peace movement was soldiers. As I tried to persuade businessmen waukee, Wis., May 30th, 1876. He enlisted in looked upon by many as being made up of that a mistaken war whi~h was killing their Dec. 1894, as a Private and served one year sons, dividing their country, and damaging kooks, nuts, and impractical little old their economy was in fact very much their in the ranks when he was appointed a Cor­ ladies. poral; seven months later attaining the rank business, I discovered almost immediately of Sergeant in 1896; he was commissioned I am not sure which of those categories that news media people seemed to regard 2nd Lieut.; later served in that rank until I fell into, myself, but it has been grati­ anti-war businessmen as a man-bites-dog May 14th 1898; when he was mustered out fying to see, over the years, recognition story. Whether the press conference occurred of the State Service at Camp Harvey, Wis., of the fact that opposition to our for­ in Honolulu, st. Louis, Boston, or Washing­ as a 2nd Lieut. (W.N.G.) eign policy in Southeast· Asia was rooted ton, it was always well attended. Soon there Enlisting in the U.S. Volunteer Service, in broadly throughout just about every were invitations to debate or be interViewed the War with Spain, May 14th, 1898; at, facet of our population. on nationwide television and radio programs. "Camp Harvey" Wis, commissioned a 2nd, In various parts of the country, people Harold Willens, a southern California read and heard the well-documented and Lieut; assigned to, Co-K-1st-Wis-Vol-Inf, businessman who has served as national served in that rank throughout the Cam­ well-reasoned public statements of business­ . paign, returning He was mustered out, as a cochairman of Business Executives Move men, many CYf them company presidents or 2nd, Lieut; Oct, 19th, 1898; for Vietnam Peace and who is now board chairmen speaking ourt against the war. In astonishingly little time the country 2nd, Lieut; Peter Piasecki, saw Service in chairman of the Businessmen's Educa­ tion Fund, documents the development ~ame aware that there were at least some the World War. businessmen at stature who were publicly At the call to, Arms, April 26th, 1898; of a strong support in the organized opposing their country's involvement in the the, "Kosciuszko Guards" heretofore desig­ peace movement from the business com­ Southeast Asian war. Antiwar businessmen nated (As Co, "B" 4th, Wis, Inf,) Volunteered munity in a recent article published in appeared before Congressional committees. in a body and was attached to, the, 1st, Wis, the Progressive, December 1970. The Mail bearing corporation letterheads landed Vol, Inf, as, Co-K-, The Company was mo­ article is adapted from his forthcoming on White House and Pentagon desks. "Let­ bilized at, "Camp Harvey" Wis, on May 20th, book, "Laos: War and Revolution." ters to the Editor" cited facts and tore apart 1898; went to, Jacksonville, Fla., where it Pentagon double-talk. remained, until, Sept, 6th, 1898; during its I feel sure that my colleagues will find the following article to be of great inter­ With groWing rapidity in the late 1960s, stay at, "Camp Cuba Libre" the Company Vietnam became known as the nation's most distinguished itself by its splendid disci­ est: unpopular war. Administration boasts of pline, excellent drilling, cleanliness and or­ BUSINESSMEN: NEW PEACENIKS victory diminished, followed soon by apolo­ derly behavior. As a reward the Company (By Harold Wlllens) gies and promises to do better and, ulti­ suffered less from disease, than any other Try to imagine the reaction if several years mately, by President Johnson's decision not Company, in the Regiment, with only one after public rejection of the Edsel car the to seek a s~nd term. This Is not to suggest death. Fiord Motor Company had attempted to bring that the appearance CYf businessmen in the DECEASED it back without as much as modifying a debate made the difference. But that we Private; Ignace Pilarski, of Milwaukee, Wis, bumper. It would have justified a stockhold­ made a difference is not in doubt. Protesting aged 26 years, died at, Jacksonville, Fla., ers' revolt, With fortunate board members business authority helped to tip the balance Sept, 8th, 1898; of typhoid fever. hanged in effigy, unfortunate ones in Detroit. and turn the question from: "How soon will Buried in the Polish Cemetery, at Milwau­ The foreign policy engineers who American­ we win this holy war?" to "How soon can kee, Wisconsin. ized the Vietnam war saddled the country we extricate ourselves from this unholy w. E. Calkins, Dept, of Wisconsin, with a national Edsel. And now, military mess?" (U.S.W.V.) Historian, 1936-37-38-39-40-41-. involvement in Laos could make the Viet­ But the job is far from done. Republicans nam tragedy seem small by comparison. The replaced Democrats on a vow Of peace, and Capt. Wilde's Funeral Set Ex-Leader of Co­ chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations the war goes on. Staggering Pentagon budgets K-1st-Wis-Vol-Inf. Committee has called Laos "one of the few and the persisting death count in Southeast Masonic Rites, will be held for, Capt. Thad­ places worse than Vietnam to ftght a war." Asia contradict mellifluous vows to end the deus M. Wilde, former Commander of, Co­ Apparently adhering to the theory that war. It is plain that additional and longer­ K-lst-Wis-Vol-Inf, at 2-P.M. Wednesday, even an Edsel can be successfully mer­ range programs to arrest American milltarism Mar. 24th, 1943; at the Niemann Chapel, 2846 chandised 1! sold with the covering canvas are needed; that we are rapidly approaching s. Kinnikinnic Ave. Cremation will be at still on, the Nixon Administration, like its the finish line in a race between education Forest Home Cemetery. predecessors, has tried to keep the war in and catastrophe; that to avert ultimate dis­ Capt. Wilde died Sunday, Mar, 21st, 1943; Laos a secret. As a businessman who began to aster new international reallties must replace at the Soldiers Home, Wood, Wis, where he speak out publicly and on a full-time basis the fears, fables, and fallacies upon which had lived for 12 years. Excelsior Lodge, F. and against the Vietnam war early in 1967, I hope our foreign policy is based. A.M. will conduct the Services. to describe the changing public attitude to­ It is also plain that businessmen/citizens Coming to Milwaukee, Wis., in 1892 after ward the Indochina war and the part played represent a force of vast potential in the retiring as a Regimental Sergeant Major in in that change by American businessmen. effort to turn the country around before time the United States Army, he became a mem­ After what we have already experienced runs but. The Vietnam war shows that our ber of the editorial staff of the Kuryer Polski, in Southeast Asia, it seems inconceivable country pursues a foreign policy dominated Polish language newspaper. Capt. Wilde was that the public Will permit Laos to become by military thinking in which weapons as­ in Command of the Kosciuszko Guards, another Vietnam. The outcry in reaction to sume greater importance than ideas. It is this which later became-Co-K-1st-Wis-Vol-Inf-, our Cambodian invasion supports this as­ type of thinking that wastes money on weap­ . when it was mustered into service in the sumption, as does the clear probablllty that one which don't work and on nuclear weap­ Spanish-American War. The Company was three years ago Senator Stuart Symington ons which work only too well. And it is the honored in 1912 for its service. It also served would have found it difficult 1f not impos­ military mentality which inched us into Viet­ in the Mexican border incident and in the sible to release the transcript of his commit­ nam, sent us rushing into Cambodia, and last War. tee's closed hearings on Laos. now Seeks to sink us further in the quagmire Capt. Wilde was appointed an assistant Congress, which passively rubber-stamped of Laos. State Bank examiner by Gov. Schofield, re­ escalating American involvement in Viet­ The Businessmen's Educational Fund tiring in 1913. Later he was a sales represent­ nam with the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, has (BEF) came into being in 1969 expressly to ative. He had made his home in Chicago, at last begun to reassert its constitutional bring to the attention of the industrial com­ ,. Madison and Milwaukee, Wis., in later years. responsibilities. The "expertise" of Lyndon munity, the public, and their representatives Born in Poland, he was a descendant of a Johnson, Dean Rusk, and Walt Rostow-the the excessive militalrization of American for­ family that had operated a publishing and men most responsible for depleting a nation­ eign policy and the l}ppalllng drl!t to a mili­ printing establishment as early as 1776. al blunder as a national crusade--appears tarized state. BEF's essential objective is to Surviving are his wife, Alma, and a Daugh­ now as nakedly nonexistent as the mythical widen and deepen the idea of corporate re­ ter, Mrs. Ralph Ramsey of Madison. emperor's clothes. And businessmen who had sponsiblllty by establishing a channel CXVI--2536-Part 30

,. 40256 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 7, 1970 through which businessmen can strive for eral budget went to military-related expendi­ CUba, as totally evil. Therefore those who more relevant national priorities and policies. tures. oppose h1m must be good. We have thus To extricate ourselves from Indochina is im­ To compound the problem, the Pentagon found ourselves embracing, as though they perative. But the Indochina trauma must be and its industrial partners, having been left were Jeffersoruan models of democracy, the recognized for what it is: a symptom refiect­ virtually free of meaningful accountability regimes of such hated despots as Batista, ing the underlying misdirection of American have become accustomed to spending tax­ Chiang Kai-shek, Diem, Thieu, and Ky. One policies and priorities. payers' money with irresponsible abandon. wonders how we would respond today to Taking up Fortune's editorial appeal !or a Air Force officials, for example, called the Hitler, that most fervent of all anti-Com­ "fresh audit of miUtary spending, BEF has procurement for the C-5A cargo plane "the munist crusaders. In our own self-interest been hammering away at the disproportion best contract ever entered into by the Air it is time to look around; time to admit that between legitimate defense needs and the Force." Perhaps it was. But the cost over­ there is both good and evil in all political apparent uncontrollable proclivity of mili­ runs of this plane are already substantially ideologies. Seeing our adversaries as human tary leaders to seize everything in sight for in excess of $2 billion. The MBT tank was to beings is a necessary first step to avoiding themselves. What ultimately happens in Laos have cost $250,000 per unit and to have been large-scale war anywhere in Indochina, as and the rest of Southeast Asia wlll be deter­ ready in 1970. The Army has already spent $2 well as preventing our own nuclear inciner­ mined by the degree to which Americans blllion on just one prototype, and present ation. succeed or fail in curbing the excessive mili­ estimates are that production wlll not begin Some time ago, addressing himself to the tary infiuence which brought our country for another four years. Naval experts told problem of fanaticism, U.N. Secretary-Gen­ into the Indochina war. Congress that the Mark 48 torpedo would cost eral U Thant spoke words whioh are not a Here and there one notes encouraging con­ $65,000 each. !4ter it was revealed that the utopian vision but a pragmatic prescription firmation of BEF's essential arguments in price per torpedo wlll be at least $1.2 million. for self-preservation: "We have seen how the publlcations including Fortune and The WalZ These are just a few examples of the reck­ great rellgions of the world, after lamentable Street Journal. Fortune: "The United States lessness with which the military spends periods of bigotry and violence, have be­ is in the grip of a costly, escalating pattern our money. It is an unfortunate fact that come accommodated to each other." While of military expenditures.... At staggering we have now so often heard expendLtures the mutual slaughter went on, theological costs the military has repeatedly bought described in terms of bllllons that the vast­ zealots of old were undoubtedly certain weapons and deployed forces that add only ness of this figure has lost its meaning. It th81t such accommodation could never occur. marginally to national security." ls useful to remind ourselves that a billlon They were proved wrong. Practical persons From the beginning we have stressed the (one thousand milllon) dollar::: can provide must perceive that peace is not a heaven-sent relationship of costs and risks to possible vocational schoollng full time for 540,000 gift but ·a structure to be created step by gains in our criticism of the Southeast Asian youngsters, or send over 100,000 indigent step. In milltary intervention and arms es­ war. But it is no easy task to begin dislodg­ students to a publlc college or university for calation, each step has been matched by the ing the firmly implanted myth that war is four years, including full-.time tuition, room, adversary. Is it not then possible that de­ good for business. The fact is that during and board. With this in mind we can better escalatory steps will also be ma.tched by ad· the four years prior to escalation o! the appreciate the true cost of the $23 billion we versaries quite well aware that they too Vietnam conflict, corporate profits after have wasted on missiles and weapons that are running out of time-and resources? ta'Xes rose seventy-one per cent, while from were built to be abandoned. It is worth a try. For by perpetuating a 1966 through 1969 corporate profits after It is now estimated that the B-1 bomber foreign pollcy based upon ideological fana­ taxes rose only 9.2 per cent. The war has which the Air Force wants would eventually ticism we have much to lose at home as well weakened the competitive position of the cost between $15 and $20 billion. In his role as Slbroad. Fanaticism inevitably turns its ll).­ United States in the world market. In 1964, as chairman of tho joint chiefs of staff, Gen­ tolerance inward. An overly large, overly merchandise exports exceeded imports by eral Earle Wheeler argued for this plane rich, and overly powerful m1litary establish­ nearly $7 blllion. By 1968, the excess of ex­ against many experts who regard it as un­ ment was feared by our Founding Fathers ports over imports had declined to less than necessary in an age of- missiles. General and warned against by Dwight Eisenhower. one-half billlon dollars. Wheeler said: "The main reason for this gen­ Such a military bureaucracy could become Since 1964, the Consumer Price Index has eration of bomber was to force the Russians the most serious threat to the very democracy it is supposed to be protecting. Recently it increased sixteen per cent. Professor James to spend more, spending themselves into was revealed that at Fort Holabird in Mary­ Clayton of the University o! Utah has pre­ bankruptcy." land, the Army wa.s filing and computerizing dicted that "the inflationary effect o! Viet­ General Wheeler's words illustrate that in infonn.ation on the personalities, bellefs, and nam will probably result ultimately in a ten foreign pollcy we have fallen into what busi­ lawful community activities of American .per cent reduction in the standard of Uving nessmen -recognize as the deadly trap of citizens. Such 1984-type tactics are direct at­ of the average American." High interest rates competitor-obsession. Fear of underestimat­ and tight money have sharply cut the rate tacks on the Constitution of the United ing our competition drives us to overestimate States, ~e sam~ Constitution every m1litary of residential construction, while the credit the intentions. and capabillties of others; officer has taken an 6ath to defend. crunch has cut back spending on automo, what "they" might do becomes more im­ Perhaps we have already gone too far to biles and consumer durable goods. portant than what 'we should do. The fan­ prevent expansion of hostililties to war in It has been estimated that by 1990 the tasies of our military ~ planners induce es­ Laos, repressive erosion of Americll.n freedom interest cost on the Vietnam war debt may calation of arms which the other side's fan­ or .massive nuclear destruction. On all counu; -reach $35 blllion, with the entire principal tasizers are then compelled to match. Mean­ a case can. be made for giving up the game still outstanding. Perhaps this latter statistic while, to use a business analogy, our own as lost. But games which were seemingly 1s the most compelling way for a business­ plant (the environment, the cities, and so lost have been won. At all levels of the. hu­ man--or any American-to place in proper on) disintegrates, ,and our product (free-en­ man enterprise there are moments of balance perspective the economic consequences of a terprise democracy) detetiorates. when a seemingly irreversible tide can still pointless millta.ry folly. 'The only way to To a ~usinessman, who most live with be turned. Left alone, the tide of present hold down the cost of an Edsel is to scrap it !eallty and review both sid,es· of a ledger, events Will sweep away everything we value. quickly. however distasteful, it seems clear that this Etfootlvely challenged, that tide can be re­ Even apart from the war, it becomes in­ aspect of our foreign policy is' self.:destruc­ strained and. reversed. creasingly clear that milltary spending bene­ tive. In this instance, .the other side of the In looking at Southeast Asia and beyond, fits relatively few firms while adversely affect­ national ledger reveals that compulsive com­ it strikes me that American businessmen are ing most. A majority of economists today petitor-obsession keeps us from the most uniquely equipped to help avert interna­ would prooobly agree with these words of important business of all: preserving and tional, national, and personal disaster. I base ·John Kenneth Galbraith: "For the vast ma­ improving our own national plant and prod­ this statement upon three and one-half jority of businessmen the only visible as­ _uct. It makes little sense to surround our years of personal experience in antiwar work sociation with the defense industry is cities with missiles while they are crumbling as well as two additional considerations. through taxes they pay. Not even a stray from within. First, sin~e most political leaders follow sub- or sub-subcontract comes their way, We are haunted by Cold War visions of a rather than lead, a relatively small number and among the important indirect effects of enllghtened businessmen-to whom peo­ are the starved communities in which they unified Communist monolith, even though cllnging to that illusion means shutting our ple in government are apt to listen--could ·must operate and to whose disorders and vio­ help bring about constructive change before lence they are exposed, the manpower and eyes to a world vastly different from that of twenty-five years ago. Our foreign policy time runs out. Second, new directions de.­ the materials they are denied and the regu­ pend upon discarding old orthodoxies, such lations on overseas investments which they rests more on demonology than on current international t;ealities. We remain blind to as fanatical anti_-Communism. In exposing 'suffer because of balance of payment dif- the significanc_e of- a break between Yugo­ these to the light of truth, businessmen can ficulties which in turn are the result of m11l­ slavia and Russia, to the Sino-SOviet split, best withstand the attacks to which all her­ tary spending." to Rumania's enthusiastic reception of Pres­ etics have at all times been subjected. The slgnt:ficance of Galbraith's statement ident Nix.on, anct to the .obvious nattonalistic Here, then, is the greatest crisis and the is heightened by a statistic which surprises asptrations and enmities among Communist greatest challenge ever !aced by American many: during the fiscal year 1970, seventy •countries. We have depicted our competitor, businessmen: the rigor of business judg­ per cent of the nonflxed portion of our Fed- whether in Laos, Russia, China, Vietnam, or ment--pragmatic CC!mmon sense:-must re-

- December 7, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 40257 place unthinking orthodoxy. Our children Communist North Vietnam is sadisti­ rail passenger serv,ice wlll survive only if have the courage to challenge that ortho­ cally practicing spiritual and mental the demand for I.t increases sufficiently to doxy. But they lack e:Kperience and influence. genocide on over 1,500 American prison­ reverse the decline in ridership and the re­ And they are increasingly isolated by the sultant mounting losses experienced to elate viciousness of certain demagogues in high ers of war and their families. in providing such service." office. Yet our children are essentially right, How long? From this assumption, they further ra­ as were other powerless heretics, such as tionalize that available money has to be Galileo. We cannot blame our best young concentrated on "a limited number of routes people for not deferring to the experts who which show some promise of profltab111ty." took us into the Southeast Asian war and WHAT IS IN STORE FOR RAIL They speak blandly of selecting routes based kept seeing light at the end of the tunnel; PASSENGER SERVICE? on "realistic projection of further demand experts who invaded cambodia in search of and costs." a nonexistent Communist Pentagon; experts These assumptions foredoom the whole ef­ clamoring for many more bUlions to buUd fort to failure. Has Congress appropriated $70 ABM's considered useless by the nation's HON. RICHARD L. OTTINGER billion for the interstate highway system be­ best scientists; experts who are quite lit­ OF NEW YORK cause it shows "promise of profitability"? erally preparing to MIRV us all to death; ex­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES What "realistic projections of future costs" perts who gobble· up the nation's substance did the natioL follow when for decades it by scaring us into believing tha"t Russia is Monday, December 7, 1970 spent billions developing a network of air­ about to roll over Western Europe and that Mr. OTTINGER. Mr. Speaker, in the ports and providing mail subsidies to money­ a China barely able to feed itself is about to losing airlines? conquer the world. weeks since COngress passed legislation The answer, of course, is that the nation As businessmen, as fathers, and as Ameri­ creating a national rail passenger net­ decided it wanted superhighways and air­ cans we are con,fronted by an inescapable work, too little attention has been de­ ports. In each case, it built the best, most choice: our children--or our experts and voted to the means by which the Nixon modern system that money could buy. Natu­ their myths. How we choose can help deter­ administration intends to carry out that rally, once these facilities were available peo­ mine how the nation makes this fateful project. Over the past 30 years, rail ple used them. choice. That is the great challenge and op­ passenger service in the United States The same would be true of railroad pas­ portunity confronting American businessmen has deteriorated to dangerous propor­ senger service. The assumption Secretary today. The following words are almost exactly Volpe and his colleagues should have pro­ those used over and over again by some of tions. Whether there is time, even with ceeded upon is the following: "Intercity rail us since early 1967: this new authority, to revitalize what passenger service is essential in a civilized, "An end to the war would be good, not bad, once was a vital force in the Nation's urbanized society. Its operating deficit, if for American business.... We have more economy, remains to be seen. So far, any, w1ll be supportable if riders are pro­ than adequate data to demonstrate that the machinations by both the White House vided with clean, comfortable, conveniently escalation of the [Vietnam] war has seriously and the Department of Transportation scheduled, dependable service. As with high­ distorted the American economy, has in­ cast some doubt on the success of the ways and airports, the capital investment in flamed inflationary pressures, has drained re­ new venture. New York Times Columnist roadbed and rolling stock wlll be written sources that are desperately needed ... and off by the G{)vernment." has dampened the rate of growth in profits." Tom Wicker has written a pertinent It may be that the Nixon Administration, . The speaker was Louis B. Lundborg, chair­ and keen analysis of what is at ~stake. I rather than believing in an illusion, knows man of the board of the Bank of America. commend it to the attention of my col­ perfectly well that the present approach the world's largest private bank, and his leagues and present it for inclusion in the will not work. There are cynics who called audience was the Senate Foreign Relations RECORD, along with a December 6 Times the Rail Passenger Service Act of 1970 the Committee. We have been waiting a long editorial on this urgent matter: "railroad euthanasia bill." If this cynicism is time for Mr. Lundborg and his colleagues in RAILROAD MERCY Kn.LING not to be proved valid, Mr. Nixon and Mr. the top tier of the corporate hierarchy to Volpe will have to stop approaching the prob­ speak out. Mr. Lundborg said that, regard­ There is an illusion, particularly prevalent lem in terms of phony public relations ges­ less . of who is responsible for the war, "the among bureaucrats and businessmen who tures. They will have to stop mouthing sup­ rest of us have gone along pretty supinely. If always take airplanes anyway, that the way port for a "balanced transportation policy" anyone is to blame, it is people like me for not to improve railroad passenger services is to and begin fighting for one. speaking up and not speaking out sooner­ cut off its hands and feet. In the name of for not asking, 'What goes on here?'" efficiency and cost-cutting, lines are lopped The president of Formica Corporation, off the dining, parlor, and sleeping cars are Wallace G. Taylor, told a Honolulu audience eliminated, and schedules are trimmed. that the nation's businessmen are "deaf, When the number of passengers then de­ dumb, and blind to a hydra-headed new clines still further, these same "experts" American revolution that is tearing this announce that the public just wm not country asunder, value by value." How, he patronize the railroads. asked, "can a country whose business is busi:.. These useless experts and this harmful ness continue-to be deaf to its own youth illusion still prevail in the Department of and blind to a' war that is rapfdly 'turning Transportation. The network of pa-ssenger this country into one of the poor nations?" train routes made public by Secretary Volpe Messrs. Lundborg and Taylor have said it is patently defective. all. They are now involved. Let us hope the On the entire Pacific Coast-, there is to be contagion of intelligent involvement spreads no North-South--service between the great on the wings of their words to others in the cities of San Diego, Los Angeles, San Fran­ nobility of American commerce. If enough cisco, Portland, and Seattle. There is no serv­ business leaders lead, we may still find our ice planned throughout the Southwest since way safely through the most hazardous pe­ the Sunset Route between New Orleans and riod in our nation's history-jn Vietnam, Los Angeles is to be aband,oned. Yet the fast­ Laos, and beyond. growing sunbelt states-Texas, Arizona, and Southern California--have increasing num­ bers of older, retired people who have the leisure and the prefere~ce for quality serv­ ice. MAN'S INHUMANITY TO MAN-H0W Similarly, central and northern New Eng­ LONG? . land, already almost unreachable by train, are now to be abandoned altogether. The surviving trains between New York, Albany HON. WILLIAM J. SCHERLE and Montreal, and between Boston and Al­ OF IOWA bany are to be killed. Do President Nixon and Secr~tary Volpe expect the traveling IN THE HOUSE OF ~EPRESENTATIVES public to stand and cheer this miserable plan Monday, December 7, 1970''• which cuts serwce by nearly two-thirds? Even worse than the deficiencies .of the Mr. SCHERLE. Mr. Speaker, a child proposed networ~ ' are the false premises asks: "Where is daddy?'t A mother asks: which underlie lt. According to Secretary "How is my son?" A wife asks: "Is my Volpe's report, the :first a.ssumptlon which husband alive or dead'?" · ~uided hixp and' his' associates is: "Intercity ·. • c: : • - - 40258 . EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 7, 1970 although it will guarantee $100 million in GENERAL WESTMORELAND BACKS WOULD DOUBLE THE PAY loans for equipment and roadbeds and an­ ALL VOLUNTEER ARMY The money would be paid whether the men other $200 million in loans to enable rail­ served in combat or not, he said, just as roads to invest in the corporation. It is at proficiency pay now goes to people with cer­ best uncertain whether, under these limita­ HON. WILLIAM A. STEIGER tain skills that are in short supply, such as tions, and after decades of neglect of the OF WISCONSIN helicopter mechanics. It is not to be con­ passenger by the railroad companies, the new fused with "hostile fire pay," which is cur­ corporation can approach a profit by July 1, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES rently paid to soldiers in a combat zone, 1973. After that date, if it does not, it will Monday, December 7, 1970 whether infantrymen or truck drivers. be empowered to reduce the basic network A bonus of $150 a month would virtually now designated. Mr. STEIGER of Wisconsin. Mr. double the pay of a young private and could This niggardly approach stands in stark Speaker, the day before we adjourned for be quite an inducement, Mr. Kelley said. I! and utterly senseless contrast to the $290- the election recess, General Westmore­ such bonuses were decided upon for the 215,- million further investment Congress even land gave an excellent address at the 000 soldiers and 59,000 Marines now serving now is being asked to make in that unneces­ in the combat arms, this would cost about sary and uneconomic monument to pollution Annual Meeting of the Association of the United States Army. $493-million a year. and technological chauvinism, the SST. Mr. Kelley cited a long list of steps that The small attention and sparse invest­ What makes this particular address so the s~rvices were studying in their quest for ment accorded passenger trains make even important is the commitment made by an all-volunteer force. less sense judged against the action by the the Chief of Staff to the establishment of He recalled that last April President Nixon House last week in authorizing $17.3 billion an all volunteer army. said that the defense budget for the fiscal more to complete the 42,500-mile Interstate The steps already underway and those year 1972, beginning next July 1, would in­ Highway System by 1978. This not only re­ outlined by General Westmoreland for clude $2-billion to move toward elimination presents a staggering level of investment for of the draft. But he said that budgetary and paving a great deal of the countryside, bull­ the future are vitally important for the police uncertainties left in doubt the amount . dozing much of our cities, and turning a high successful achievement of the volunteer to be requested in the budget due to go to proportion of the American air blue and army. Congress in January. noxious; it is also an investment stupen­ As General Westmoreland points out, Other officials said that the total would, in dously out of proportion to the low efficiency however, Congress has an important re­ all likelihood, be from $1-bil.Uon to $2-billion. and poor cost-effectiveness of automobile sponsibility too. We must provide ade­ Other steps that are being seriously con­ transportation. quate funds to make the volunteer army sidered, Mr. Kelley said, include the fol­ Since it takes only a fourth as much thrust lowing: to move a railway car on steel rails as it successful. With a commitment from the Substantial pay increases to bring military does to move a rubber-tired vehicle on con­ President and the Chief of Staff, Con­ pay more in line with rates paid to civilians. crete, a modern train requires only about gress must not be the stumbling block. The 20 per cent rise requested in the present fifteen relatively pollution-free horsepower The distinguished chairman of the spe­ defense budget for servicemen on their first per passenger to perhaps ten times that for a cial subcommittee on the draft has held tour of duty is only a modest step in the right pollution-belching auto. One highway lane hearings on all aspects of selective serv­ direction, Mr. Kelley said. can handle 1,200 cars, or perhaps 2,000 pas­ ice and the draft. In the next Congress An increase of perhaps 3,000 in the 16,000 sengers, an hour-compared to 40,000 pas­ scholarships currently awarded to college stu­ sengers an hour on a single railroad track. we have an opportunity to move forward dents enrolled in the Reserve Officers Train­ Former Assistant Secretary of the Air Force on the volunteer army. ing Corps. Robert Charles, who now is working with I would like to include the full text of Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of the Geo-Transport Foundation of New Eng­ General Westmoreland's address at the new housing for married and unmarried serv­ land, has pointed out that with an invest­ cone! us ion of my remarks. I should also icemen. ment of several hundred million dollars in Special cost-of-living adjustments for serv­ new roadbed, present train technology could like to include an article from the Oc­ tober 15 New York Times which quotes icemen living in high cost areas, such as provide a Boston-New York rail schedule of Washington, D.C., and New York City. two hours fifteen minutes. That would be Assistant Secretary of Defense for Man­ A substantial Increase in the number of competitive with the airlines and beat the power Roger Kelly as saying that with military recruiters and in the advertising automobile on a time basis, and leave both the active cooperation of the armed serv­ budgets for recruiting. far behind in passenger capacity. ices. Congress and the country at large ADMIRAL'S ORDER CITED At present, Mr. Charles recently told the we could beat Secretary Laird's mid-1973 New England Council, one-fifth of all planes Mr. Kelley said that numerous chats with landing at New York's three airports are from target for an all-volunteer army "by a servicemen had convinced him that correc­ Boston and Washington. New York has long significant margin.'' · tion of a lot of minor irritations could go contemplated another airport; Boston is now Congress must do its part: a long way toward retaining good men in discussing the expansion of its Logan Airport. LAIRD AIDE HOPES To BEAT DEADLINE the service. But the new airport now being built for Los He cited approvingly a. recent message from SEES ALL-VOLUNTEER FORCES BEFORE MID-1973 Angeles will cost an estimated $900 million, TARGET Adm. Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr., Chief of Naval while one for Montreal may reach $1 billion. Operations, to all Navy commands directing The provisions of high-speed, comfortable, (By William Beecher) that enlisted men never be required to stand frequent rail transit between New York and WAsHINGTON, Oct. 14.-A top Pentagon in line for more than 15 minutes "no matter Boston might spare both cities that kind of official estimated today that it might be what." airport costs and at the same time provide possible to achieve an all-volunteer armed better and more efficient service. force well ahead of mid-1973, the target ADDRESS BY GENERAL W. C. WESTMORELAND By every such measure, the case for mod­ established by Defense Secretary Melvin R. CHIEF OF STAFF, UNITED STATES ARMY: ern rail passenger service in America is over­ Laird. ANNUAL LUNCHEON, ASSOCIATION OF THE whelming-if largely unrecognized. Designa­ Roger T. Kelley, Assistant Secretary of U.S. ARMY, SHERATON-PARK HOTEL, WASH• tion of a basic system, even under existing Defense for Manpower, told reporters that, INGTON, D.C., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1970 handicaps, was a beginning. The more impor­ with the active cooperation of the armed I take special pride in addressing the mem­ tant step comes next, when President Nixon services, Congress and the country at large bers and friends of this Association today. I appoints three or more incorporators to set "we may indeed beat this goal by a signifi~ welcome the opportunity to be among those up the single operating corporation; the in­ cant margin." who acknowledge the vital role of the Armed corporators, in turn, must choose the execu­ On Monday, Secretary Laird promised an Forces in our society . . . who are concerned tive management of the corporation. "all-out effort" to do away with the need for about the spirit and strength of this Na­ Those Mr. Nixon appoints, therefore, must the draft by July 1, 1973. tion's military power ... and who demon­ meet one overriding standard. They must Mr. Kelley said that the Army was con­ strate their active support for the United genuinely believe in the necessity for, and States Army. the good prospects of, modern rail passenger sidering doubling the basic pay of certain service-speedy, clean, convenient, with recruits to get them to choose training in Today, I want to discuss what I believe courteous service, computer-managed ticket­ the combat branches-infantry, armor and is crucial to the security of our Nation and ing and effl.clent scheduling. The defeatist artillery. This would be one of many steps vital to the future of the Army. This issue attitude that descended on the railroads in to achieve and m-aintain an all-volunteer is the volunteer Army. force, he said. recent years will be just as fatal as dirty I am announcing today that the Army is coaches and slow trains; indeed, it will in­ He noted that only 4 per cent of those committed to an all-out effort in working evitably produce them. needed to train for the combat forces were toward a zero draft-a volunteer force. In ac­ As for Congress and the Administration, if volunteers; the rest are assigned. cepting this challenge, we in the Army will they continue to give outsize preference to The Army is seriously considering "pro­ bend every effort to achieve our goal. But we the highways and the airlines, nothing any­ ficiency pay" bonuses of from $50 to $150 a need support and understanding from the one else can do will redeem the passenger month to induce recruits to choose this Administration, the Congress, and our citi­ train from the fate of the passenger pigeon. training, he said. zenry. This Association can help. December 7, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 40259 As you know, the Army is in a period of If we decrease our Active forces in such a category of "make work." Specifically, they sweeping transition. We are redeploying way that we are required to force out of the have been alerted to such things as: forces from Vietnam, inactivating units, and Army a significant number of volunteer of­ Reducing inspections so that more time reducing the size of our support base in the ficers and men who have already established can be devoted to training. United States in order to come within re­ their professional commitment and ability­ Increasing their sensitivity to unrealistic duced budgets. And we are still fighting a some with two or more years of active com­ training schedules that do not produce tan­ war. We currently have 300,000 Army troops bat--we will hardly be in a good position to gible results for the time expended. in Vietnam. By next summer, after the with­ attract new men into our ranks. And insuring that Saturday morning ac­ drawal of those troops announced by the Conversely, if we confront our young tivity is not scheduled when that same ac­ President, about 200,000 soldiers will remain. sergeants and junior officers with no chance tivity could be accomplished just as effec­ This is a large force executing an important for promotion for many years, we fa.ce the tively during the week. and difficult mission. These forces must be prospect of losing many of our most capable We have achieved tangible results: supported for as long as the President chooses young leaders. At the same time, we present We have identified successful recruiters to keep them in action. a dismal picture of career attractiveness for and stabilized their tours. At the same time, this country is reorder­ those we wish to recruit. If we are to attract We have improved our training by imple­ ing its priorities and reallocating its re­ and, more importantly, retain young talent, menting individually oriented, self-paced in­ sources. Department of Defense expendi­ reasonable opportunities for advancement struction in some military skills. tures have declined sharply. The military must exist. We have implemented a generous student share of the federal budget is smaller now We cannot have the Army our Nation needs loan program for dependents. than it has been at any time since 1950- without good people. We need quality as_well And we have begun to improve services for just before the Korean War. The percentage as quantity-and in the appropriate skills to our men and their families--items such as of our Gross National Product devoted to de­ meet our needs. This is our primary task­ improved laundry and commissary services. fense in the next few years will be smaller we accept it as a matter of the highest pri· A final point, and one in which I have great than at any time in the past two decades, ority and utmost importance. personal interest, is the broad opportunities even though we are still at war. In this fiscal Success can only be achieved by a con­ for the men and women in the Army to im­ year alone, the strength of the Army is being certed effort in four areas simultaneously: prove themselves. Education means a great very substantially reduced. First, those of us in uniform in positions of deal to the soldier, the Army, and the Na­ During the remainder of this fiscal year, tion. What the Army is doing to provide ad­ we must send to Vietna.m ea.ch month over high responsibility in the Army must attack ditional educational opportunities for its 20,000 repla.cements even to meet our de­ this problem with all of the vigor, imagina­ people is not well known. But it is substan­ creasing requirements. About 40 percent of tion, and dedication we can muster, and we tial. Listen to this: these men must be trained in the basic com­ must apply ourselves intensively to the task. In the Army school system of two colleges, bat arms of infantry, artillery, and armor. Second, we must eliminate unnecessary 20 branch schools, and 11 specialist schools, Unfortunately, few of our volunteers elect irritants and unattractive features of Army we offer over 900 different coures of instruc­ the infantry in Vietnam as their choice. life where they exist. tion on a campus that is located in 17 dif­ When we give a volunteer his choice, he is But we will hold to those immutable prin­ ferent states. By the end of this fiscal year, more likely to select some other job. Ac­ ciples of dedicated professionalism, loyalty, we will have had 67,000 in the classroom each cordingly, for the near future we will con­ integrity of character and sacrifice. They are day of the year and will have enrolled over tinue to depend on the draft for most of our the hailmarks of a disciplined, responsible 350,000 servicemen in our Army school sys­ repla.cements. Army. All else is secondary. Young Americans tem. These courses cover a wide spectrum If this Nation supports the President's thrive on challenges and high standards. We of academic subjects as well as skills, trades chosen course in ending the Vietnam War, I must insure that all activities have a per­ and crafts. And most of these are readily believe the draft must be extended beyond ceivable need ... understandably, exercises transferable to civilian pursuits. its expiration date of June 30, 1971. Addi­ without a justifiable purpose "turn them During FY 70, 55,000 soldiers completed tionally, we must appreciate that movement off." high school or received equivalency certif­ toward a volunteer force will take time ... Third, we will not achieve our goal with­ icates and over 500 received baccalaureate or and continuation o'f selective service will out the application of resources, and I mean advanced degrees through the Army's Gen­ guarantee a transition period without jeop­ money. We will need to increase pay. And we eral Education Development Program. ardizing this Nation's defenses. And finally, will probably find that we must put our These were part of the 200,000 soldiers and most important, even though we reach money primarily in those jobs which are most who took advantage of Army sponsored edu­ a zero draft, selective service legislation arduous and have the least application to cational opportunities-from the elementary should remain in force as national insurance. civilian pursuits ... the infantry, artillery, through the university level-during the I am well aware of arguments both for and and armor. past fiscal year. against selective service. Furthermore, I rec­ We will need money for housing our peo­ Additionally, in this period, over 38,000 ognize that the Administration has com­ ple--an item for which we have deferred who did nat possess the necessary mental mitted itself to reducing the draft to Ze!"o, needed expenditures throughout the Vietnam prerequisites entered the Army and have But l am also aware of the problems that War. We will need money to maintain those been given the opportunity to improve their confront the Army as we move toward a zero houses. We will need modern barracks. We basic educa-tion level to meet our minimum draft. will need modern barracks. We will need standards. To achieve our goal, we must double or money for civilian labor contracts so that This wide participation in educational triple our enlistments and reenlistments. I our helicopter mechanics are not cutting betterment is in addition to the more than assure you that we will muster our best ef­ grass and our radar technicians are not wash­ 2,000 officers who are currently enrolled in forts to a.chieve that goal. ing dishes. the Army's advanced civil school and degree The Army's strength is a function of the Fourth, we will need the support of the completion programs. combined capabilities of both its Active and American people and their leaders in busi­ As we look to the future we must, and Reserve Components--the One Army con• ness, industry, the church, education, and will, do more to improve opportunities for cept. the news media. We cannot attra.ct the kind the men and women in the Army to upgrade Therefore, as our Active forces decrease of soldier we need into an organization den­ their education and to become better in size, the Reserve Components take on in­ igrated by some, directly attacked by others, citizens. creased importance. Both are vital to this and halfheartedly supported by many. This These-and other measures already Nation's military capability ... and both will country cannot have it both ways. If the adopted-are only a beginning. We will do be affected as we move toward a zero draft. Army is portrayed and believed as a Sei'Vice more--we will ooncentrate our efforts--s.nd A significant part of this country's military to be avoided at all costs, a Service in which we will put maximum impetus behind them. potential and one frequently ignored is the only those with the least qualifications need Accordingly, I am appointing a senior gen­ Individual Ready Reserve--a manpower pool be recruited, and if we do not have the active eral officer as Project Manager, reporting di­ of almost one million trained Reservists who help of community and national leaders in rectly to me and to Secretary Resor. His could be used in national emergency to fill every field, even money will not do the job. mission is to Mise to th~ maximum extent Reserve as well as Active units. This neces­ Success is required in these four areas if possible the number of enlistments and re­ sary adjunct of the Army Reserve is sus­ we are to a.chieve our goal. But the Army has enlistments in both the Active Army and tained by current selective service legislation. sufficient control to produce what is required Reserve Components. This officer will have We know that many in Army Reserve Com­ only in the first two. We can attack the prob­ authority similar to that of the Project ponents are motivated to enlist as an al­ lem immediately and energetically. And we Managers of major weapon systems currently ternative to being inducted. In view of this, can work toward making life in the Army in the Office of the Chief of Staff. a large part of our problem is to increase the more attra.ctive for those young men we want Second, we are immediately increasing the number of volunteers in the Army Reserve to volunteer. But in the other two areas, we size and quality of our recruiting effort. and National Guard at the same time we in­ . need help . . . from the Administration, the And third, at all levels throughout the crease volunteers in the Active Army. Congress, and the citizenry of our Nation. Army, senior officers will be charged per­ How we manage the transition from an I hereby commit the Army to the achieve­ sonally with the responsibility for increas­ Army ·of over a million and a half men to ment of the first two objectives. ing the retention of good people, both by one very substantially smaller is crucial in We have instructed commanders to avoid improving the living standards of their men our movement toward attracting more men. any pra.ctice that could be considered in the and families and by an intensive effort to 40260 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 7, 1970 capitalize on the many attractive features "They call it 'traveling,'" she said. "He'll with a finger and vibrate his knees like a of Army service. be traveling in our class." jack-hammer under the table. our Army is an organization of young The aim of this unusual arrangement was PERFORMANCE VARIES people. Today the average age of those in to enable Miss Boroughs to continue working Sometimes he will go to the blackboard the Army is less than 23 years. Over three­ with Shaun, who had made good progress and write "tor" as the first three letters of fourths of our enlisted strength has less with her help the previous two years but "taught" or subtract 678 from 1,000 and than three years of service. The young men still had a. long way to go if he was not to be come up with the answer 789. But when he who are and will become our soldiers and hopelessly stranded in school. concentrates, he often works well and, on junior officers have attitudes that differ from Shaun could not be formally enrolled in occasion, manages to express himself not just those of our older group of officers and non­ Miss Borough's fourth-grade class because he well but elegantly. commissioned officers. To ignore the social had already been left back once and that was For instance, the other day Miss Bor­ mores of this younger group is to blind our­ the limit, according to school regulations. oughs was trying to get the class to tell her selves to reality. Their values and attitudes Besides, though he was thought to be more that she should use multiplication to solve need not necessarily be endorsed by Army than two years behind in reading, there a problem she had put on the blackboard. leadership . . . yet we must recognize that were other fifth graders who were much "Well, what should I do with these numbers? they do exist. We must make Service life worse off. Should I cook them?" she asked., baiting better understood by those who fill our A RULE IS BENT the class. "What would I get if I cooked ranks. What made him different was Miss Bor­ them?" we will leave no stone unturned. We are ough's belief that she could make a. difference It was Shaun who called out, "A numbers willing to part from past practices where in his life and the willlngness of her superiors soutHe." such practices no longer serve a productive to ease the rigidities of the system so she Similarly, when Class 4-4 wrote letters to and useful end. We are reviewing all our could try. But if schools had analysts to cal­ Blanche Goldberg, a student teacher who policies and administrative procedures .. • · culate risks and probabilities the way insur­ was moving to another class, it was Shaun Nothing is considered sacrosa_nct except ance companies have actuaries, then Shaun who wrote, "Your times table work in Class where military order and disciplme ... the Sheppard would probably be recorded on a 4-4 was very good and I may add superb, Miss soul of the Army that insures success on computer printout as the student in Class Goldberg." Urging her to keep up the good the battlefield ... are jeopardized. ~ this, 4-4 with the lowest educational expectancy. work, he also advised, "Sock it to the facts, we cannot and will not yield. We will con­ This would fly in the face of everything Miss Goldberg." tinue to hold to the principles that have that is most obvious about Shaun himself­ Miss Boroughs cautiously broached the traditionally guaranteed this Nation a loyal his lively intelligence, his feeling for stories idea. of switching from Class 5-2 to· 4-4 Army. and language, his gift for sketching and to Shaun when he visited her classroom early Those of you who have worn the uniform painting, and his self-sufficient emotional in the semester to give her a tiny bottle of of our country look back on your service sturdiness, none of which could be easily dime-store perfume for her birthday. At first with satisfaction and pride. After the dust missed or overlooked in a. classroom. he said, '"Maybe." A week later he said ''Yes." has settled, I am sure such . wlll be the But a computer would not have to assume She then promised him that he could re­ case with our younger generatiOn. The im­ equality of opportunity as the schools do turn to 5-2 whenever he liked and, whatever portant thing is that the Army not only when they demand that learning take place happens, that he would be promoted to the provides an opportunity for the young peo­ at a uniform rate. It would know, without sixth grade in June. ple of our country to serve proudly but also asking why, that not many students catch provides them an opportunity to prepare up in school after falling two years behind, SUNLESS APARTMENT themselves to be better and more effective and that students coming from families that Sliaun lives with his mother and infant citizens. have been on welfare for two generations, as sister in a small, well-scrubbed but roach­ Today the Army of the United States Shaun's has, tend to fall behind first. infested tenement apartment that is below has committed itself to moving toward a street level and gets so little natural light it volunteer force with imagination and full ONE LIFE 'MESSED UP' might almost be under water. Heroin addicts energy, But our success wm require the as- Shaun's mother, Josephine Sheppard, sometimes pass the apartment on their way . sistance and support of the Administration, knows this better than any computer. Her to the basement to shoot up. Because of the Congress, and the public. own life, she says, was ''messed up because them, the Sheppards keep gates on all the our efforts, alone, will not be enough. I never learned what I was supposed to windows and a large dog. All citizens must do their part. We will need know." He has a room and television set to him­ as,sistance from many quarters. We invite As she bitterly recalls it, she was assigned. self. Televisl_on, he says, is "where I learn." your help. to a class for retarded children in school, It also· may be where he picks up words like though it was and is obvious that she didn't "soutHe and "superb." belong there. Then she dropped out alto­ Plaster ~ crumbling from the wall above GOOD NEWS FE,OM CL.ASS 4-4 gether from Mabel Dean Bacon Vocational his bed and his landlord only invites his High School here after givfng birth to Shaun mother to move out when she complains. But at the .age of 17, which Wa/S 11% years ago. Shaun has handsomely decorated the wall With her own ex:perience in mind, she says with his own painting of Mickey Mouse. HON. JONATHAN B. BINGHAM learning is what wiil save Sha.un, "the only Usually he is late when he comes swinging OF NEW YORK son I have." Three years ago she approved out of the building every morning, passing IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Shaun's being left back to repeat the third through the front door, which is missing Its grade. She says she approves his studying Monday, Deoember 7, 1970 glass pane. From there it Is a block and a hal! with a fourth-grade class now, for it means to school. he still has a fighting chance to move ahead Mr. BINGHAM, Mr. Speaker, I insert with the skills he needs and not be pushed the following article from the New York on to oblivion, which is what high school · ORDER ·, OF LAFAYETI'E RESOLU­ Times for 3 reasons: became for her. First, Mr. Lelyveld's story illustrates Miss Boroughs first met Shaun when he TION REGARDING THE CASE OF the fact that New Yorkers-contrary to was going through the third grade the sec- SIMAS KUDIRKA the general impression-tend to be warm ond time. In those days he was regarded as and kindly people. a discipline problem and could hardly read. HON. HAMILTON FISH, JR. Second, the prominent placement of But when she came into his class as a "cluster teacher" to read stories and poems, OF NEW YORK this article, complete with picture, shows with the aim of showing that reading has a IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that a great newspaper will feature good purpose, Shaun quickly won her over with news as well as bad. the radiance and gentleness of his smiles, Monday, December 7, 1970 Third RECORD readers should know his eagerness to sit next to her as she read, Mr. FISH. Mr. Speaker, Americans his complete absorption in the stories, and that wo~derful things are happenings in are sickened, puzzled and angered by the New York City all the time in spite of the his quickness in committing to memory verses by poets such as Robert Louis Steven­ return of a would be Soviet defector to city's job-like amictions. son on subjects such as rain and snow. his uncertain fate. The President has CLASS 4-4: A RULE Is BENT TO GIVE SHAUN A That year and last, Sha.un's reading 1m­ called the incident outrageous. The State CHANCE proved to the point that he was nearly able Department is reported as agonizing (By Joseph Lelyveld) to handle material designed for the third over its role in the event. The unfolding At the start of the third week of school this grade; with the progress he has made this story is one of confusion, with poor judg­ fall t-he children of Class 4-4 were told by fall he is now almost up to the fourth grade. ment the most charitable if unsatisfac­ Miss Dor-othy Boroughs, their teacher, that a But he still has a strained and erratic rela­ tion with words and numbers on paper. Hav­ tory explanation offered. We have wit­ new student was about to join them. His nessed the sacrificing of a man's free­ name was Shaun Sheppard and, as the ing to read aloud to his teacher or his class teacher explained. it, he was 'really in -the fifth still seems to embarrass him slightly, caus­ dom when the question at issue was as grade but was going to remain 1n their class. ing htm·to sit tensely, curl his hair nervously basic as ireedom itself. December 7, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 40261 New Presidential guidelines on de­ STATE ANTIPOLLUTION BOARDS Only seven states were found in The Times fections should prevent a recurrenc_e, but HAVE POLLUTERS FOR MEMBERS inquiry to have boards without members for now the shame, the stain is with us. whose business or professional ties posed pos­ .sible conflicts of interest. Mr. Speaker, the following resolution Eight other states--among them New York was adopted unanimously by the board HON. LEE H. HAMILTON OF INDIANA and New Jersey_.get along wi-thout .such of directors of the-Order of Lafayette, boards, dealing with pollution entirely Inc., and by the annual dinner held at IN THE HOUS~ OF REPRESENTATIVES through full-time state agencies. the Plaza Hotel in New York City on Monday, December 7, 1970 Conservation organizations and citizen December 7, 1970: groups in many states are campaigning Mr. HAMILTON. Mr, Speaker, a New against what they call "stacked" boards, and LET No ONE GUILTY ESCAPE York Times article by Gladwin Hill on a number of states are contemplating re­ (By former Congressman Hamilton Fish, Sr.) State antipollution boards documents forms. But boards weighted with represent­ Whereas we are today celebrating the 29th cases in 35 'States where the foxes have atives from the pollution sector stm domi­ Anniversary of Pearl Harbor once known as been set to guard the chickens. In this nate the national picture. the Day of Infamy, we are confronted with analogy, unfortunately, State residents The controversial composition of most another infamous act in violation of our have become the chickens. I recommend state pollution boards can be traced to their sacred honor as the sanctuary of Freedom. the following article to my colleagues: origins in state legislatures. Wherea-s there is an old saying that Free­ Many water pollution boards were created dom shrieked when Kosciuszko fell, and now POLLUTERS SIT ON ANTIF OLLUTION BOARDS in the ninteen-fifties when water pollution American freedom was sabotaged when Ku­ (By Gladwin Hill) first emerged as a nationwide problem and dirka was seized on board· an American ship, Most of the state boards primarily re­ Congress passed laws giving Federal officials Whereas this Lithuanian radio operator sponsible for cleaning up the nation's air authority in interstate abatement. Air pol­ who jumped from a Russian trawler onto an and water are markedly weighted with rep­ lution boards were mainly formed in the last American Coast Guard cutter on November resentatives of the principal sources of pollu­ three years in response to analogous Federal 23 despite his plea-s for protection and sanc­ tion. legislation. tuary and while praying to God to be saved, This ha-s been est-ablished in a nationwide _ Familiar interest-group pressures in legis­ was beaten by a number of Russian sailors investigation by The New York Times into latures resulted in board seats in many cases who boarded our Coast Guard ship, tied him the composition and opera.tiotl of the'Se being allocated by statute to such categories into a blanket and carried him off in triumph boards and their r-ole in environmental im­ as industry, agriculture and municipalities. on board the Russian trawler to slavery or 'provement. Agriculture is a major source of pollution, death, _ The inquiry revealed that the membership from field burning and the drainage of ani­ And Whereas the tragic surrender of the of air and water pollution boards in 35 states mal wastes and farm chemicals. Counties and Lithuanian defector shocked all freedom­ is dotted with industrial, agricultural, mu­ municipalities by t)le thousands have inade­ loving Americans and all people everywhere nicipal and county representatives whose own quate sewage fac111ties and noisome dumps who love freedom and loathe tyranny, organizations or spheres of activity are in and incinerators, and they are often as slow And Whereas all loyal Americans are many cases in the forefront of pollution. about remedying them as other polluters. deeply ashamed of our part in the martyr­ The roster of big corporations with em­ Some states even viewed pollution abate­ dom of a brave Lithuanian defector who ployes on such boards reads like an abbre­ ment as having a partisan aspect. The laws of risked his life seeking freedom from Com­ viated blue book of American industry, par­ Missouri, Utah and Ohio require that certain munist slavery, ticularly the most pollution-troubled seg­ pollution board seats be split between Re­ And Whereas the United States has always ments of industry. publicans and Democrats. hitherto been recognized thro-qghout the The state _boards--statutory part-time cit"t­ STATE OFFICIALS' ROLE world as the fortress of freedom and the hope zen panels of gubernatorial appointees and state officials-are in most states the entities The pr-eSence of state ·officials on pollution and aspiration of all those who want to be boards does not always guarantee objectivity. free, that set policies and standards for pOllution abatement and that then oversee enforce­ Often they are from state Departments of And Whereas we_ will steadfastly uphold Agriculture, Industrial Development or other the torch of freedom and openly and fear- ment. They are the agencies that the Federal Government usually has to deal with. agencies functionally allied with pollution - lessly send the word throughout the world sources. that such shameful appeasement will never The possibility that board members' per­ happen again and that this Lithuanian refu­ sonal connections could prejudice objective Rarely. in the creation of the boards, were handl,i~g of pollution problems is deplored there any lobbyists for the general public. So gee shall not have suffered imprisonment or it is unusual for more than one or two seats - death in vain. As the Honorable Clare Booth by Federal otficials. They saJ privately that the composition of such boards is perhaps a on a board to be earmarked for representa­ Luce warned "wlll mankind eventually stand tives of the publi_g at large-if there are in the light of Freedom or crawl in the dark­ major reason why abatement has not pro­ ness of slavery?". gressed faster. any at all-even though pollution is a prob­ These officials have no objection to spokes­ lem distinctlvely affecting the entire public. Therefore Be It Resolved by the Board of Directors of the Order of Lafayette at a meet­ men for special interests se!'Vlng on boards The arg).lments for composing boards large­ ing held in New York on December 7, 1970 that are purely advisory. In fact, most of ly of special-interest representatives are em­ them welcome it. But they point out that the phaticallJ contraqtcted by the top Federal that we denounce the servile appeasement in officials. surrendering from an American Coast Guard state pollution boards have policing powers ship Simas Kudirka, the Lithuanian defector and they think that lt 1s wrong for members The Federal )Vater Quality Commissioner, to be responsible for policing their own areas David Dominick, said in an interview: by force and violence into Communist of activity. slavery and martyrdom. "Where a statutort board has responsibil­ The widespread practice of putting individ­ ity as part of state government to establish .And Further Resolved, we urge the Admin­ uals linked directly or lndirectly with pol­ istration to publicly proclaim throughout the standards for pollution abatement, the pub­ luting on state pollUtion boards is defended lic !sill-served to have representatives of pri­ world that all refugees from tyranny and by those involved on two grounds. slavery will be protected wherever the Amer­ vate vested interests passing judgment on ican flag flies on sea or land, within our One is that such individuals bring to bear such regulations. -- · jurisdiction. needed expertise and famll1arity with pollu­ "I think there's enough e~pertise in the tion problems. The other is that such entities public sector where no confltcts of interests And Further Resolved that we deplore this as industry, agriculture and local govern­ unnecessary sacrifice in the cause of freedom · would occur. The whole board should repre­ ment, because of their civic importance, rate sent the public." and respectfully urge and insist that any offi­ special consideration in the councils of gov­ cer or government official no matter how ernment. OpPOSES PRESENT SYSTEM high who was responsible for abjectly sur­ Although there 1s no precise way to meas­ Dr. John Middleton, director of th~ Na­ rendering this seeker of freedom back to ure the impact of such boards on pollution tional Air Pollution Control Administration, slavery shall be court-martialed or tried as problems because conditions vary so widely said: the case may be and that no one guilty of from state to state, there is abundant cfr­ "I think boards should :r:epresent disciplines this atrocious action shall escape proper pun­ cumstantial evidence ·that they do not ex- that bear on air pollution rather than eco­ Ishment within the law and the Constitution. pedite pollution abatement. . nomic interests. Industry can provide any And Further Resolved that a copy of thts One Colorado state hea1ring on stream pol­ helpfl.ll information on a nonmembership basis. - resolution be sent to the President of the lution by a brewery was presided over by the ' ' United States, to the Vice President, to the pollution control director of the brewery. For "The pattern of one or two seats on a board Secretary of State, to the Secretary of Trans­ ~ears a bOal!d men1ber dealing with pollution earmarked for representatives of the public of Los Angeles harbor- has been an executive doesn't m~ke any sense. All the members of portation, to the Speaker of the House of of an oil company that was a major harbor a board-should represent the public." Representatives, and to all members of the polluter. The Governor of Indiana recently In many lns'tances, industry is demon­ House and Senate committees investigating had to dismiss a state pollution board mem­ strably "SU.b&ldizing In S'ome degree the opera­ this disgraceful episode affecting the honor ber because both he and 'his company were tion of state pollution boards. Typically, they of the United States." indicted as water polluters. meet monthly for a day or two. Members get

. - . 40262 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 7, 1970 only nominal compensation-$6.30 an hour in and a National Lead executive is on the Mis­ But correlating general evidence of this Ohio-or sometimes only travel expenses. souri water board. kind with a particular "weighted" board in a That means they are serving on their em­ The next most active industry in providing given state will almost always be open to ployers' time, and even if they forego their expertise for state pollution boards is the argument until more exact pollution measur­ regular pay they are beholden to their em­ chemical manufacturers--also a widespread ing techniques are worked out. ployers for leaves of absence. pollution source. What remains is circumstantial evidence. Critics of the "weighted" state boards do Monsanto has men on the Arkansas Pol­ There is a wealth of it at hand and it clearly not contend that such boards are entirely lution Board and on the air boards in Ten­ indicates the "drag effect" that such boards unproductive. It is generally conceded that nessee and Idaho. Union Carbide which has may have on attempts to get pollution pro­ they have been the spearhead, however blunt, temporized for more than a decade in con­ grams moving. Here are some samples: of much of the progress that has been made trolling noxious fumes from its Alloy, W.Va., The Nebraska. Water Pollution Control in pollution abatement. This applies par­ metallurgical plant, has an executive on the Council, notwithstanding, widespread water ticularly to air pollution, in which Federal state air pollution board in Colorado. pollution from cattle feed lots, went 14 years regulatory steps to date have had Uttle effect The DuPont company, a recurrent water without issuing a citation to such offenders outside the field of automobiles. polluter in its headquarters state of Dela­ until last May, when Federal officials threat­ The critics' contention is simply that with ware, has abstained from pollution board ened to move against a.n aggravated case of disinterested boards, action would have been participation there-e.lthough another chem­ pollution. more decisive and progress faster. This ap­ ical company, Hercules Inc., is represented. In Minnesota, where one statutory require­ plies particularly to water pollution, an area But in Tennessee, a DuPont man is chair­ ment on the composition of the nine-member in which Federal authorities in the last two man of the air pollution control board and State Pollution Control Agency is that it years have been impelled repeatedly to go another DuPont man is on the state water shall contain a. farmer, air pollution regula­ around state machinery and bring actions board. tions for cattle feed lots were proposed two directly against polluters. The Stauffer Chemical Company, whose years ago but have not been enacted yet. The Times investigation, conducted over fumes periodically tincture the air around Since May, 1967, the Connecticut Water the last two months, disclosed no instances Las Vegas, has o. man on Nevada's Air Pol­ Resources Commission has issued 863 orders of corruption. Indeed, a Federal official com­ lution Advisory Council, the source of panels regarding pollution abatement. Official rec­ mented: "As far as we know these are all that consider appeals from citations. The ords indicate that compliance has been ob­ upright people. Many undoubtedly strive to company also has an executive on Nebraska's tained in less than haU of these cases. be objective. But if you were trying a case Air Pollution Control Board. Wisconsin's Attorney General, Robert War­ against the X.Y.Z. Paper Clip COmpany, would The paper industry, another big pollution ren, has publicly chided the state Natural Re­ you want an official of the company on the source nationally, is also well represented in source Board's enforcement arm for occupy­ jury?" pollution control agencies. ing itself with "small cheese factories and No two of these state panels are exactly A Scott Paper Company man is on Ala­ small fry polluters" rather than big offenders. alike in composition. They range from five to bama's water commission. A West Virginia Ohicr-where four of the five members on 15 persons. A typical pattern is a nine-mem­ Pulp and Paper Company man is o:r: Ken­ the Air Pollution Control Board have ties ber board composed of several state officials, tucky's water board. An International Paper with the pollution sector (with industry rep­ one or more representatives of industry, a Company executive is on the Alabama air resented by Procter & Gamble, a soap com­ representative of agriculture, representatives board. pany with an acknowledged pollution rec­ of municipalities and counties, and perhaps The Brown Paper Company long criticized ord) -has the smokiest city in the country, representatives of "conservation" and of "the by conservationists for pollution, is on New Steubenville. public." Hampshire's air board. The Weyerhauser Colorado's Air Pollution Control Commis­ Industry is the most ubiquitous presence Company is on North Carolina's pollution sion recently went along with industry sug­ on such boards, with the steel industry, a big board. The Bowaters Southern Paper Com­ gestions that preliminary enforcement of source of both air and water pollution, the pany is on the Tennessee air board. clean-air standards not be started until 1973, although disinterested citizens have con­ most heavily represented. On Wisconsin's pollution control board tended that the standards could be met by The United States Steel Company, which are two lawyers whose clients have included mid-1971. Full-scale enforcement is not has been cited as a polluter by Federal, state the St. Regis Paper Company and Con­ scheduled until 1980. or local authorities in Ohio, Pennsylvania, solidated Papers, Inc. · On Alabama's 14-member Water Improve­ Alabama and elsewhere, has executives on On the Water Pollution Control Commis­ ment Commission, all six "industry" seats the air pollution boards of Alabama and sion in Kentucky, where acid drainage from are occupied by executives of companies now Utah. coal mines is a big water pollution problem, involved 'in pollution proceedings. Alabama The company also had a man on Indiana's is the president of the Kentucky Coal Op­ recently was denied a. $600,000 Federal pollu­ air board until a few months ago, when he erators Association. tion control assistance grant because its was removed by Gov. Edgar Whitcomb be­ These are only some of the bigger cor­ laws were adjudged so weak. cause both he and his company had been in­ porations from major pollution fields with Louisiana's air and stream control com­ dicted by a Federal grand jury for alleged representatives on the state boards. A com­ missions--<:omposed of state offiolals and rep­ violations of Illinois air pollution regula­ plete list would run well over a hundred. resentatives of such groups as the Louisiana tions. What are the effects of pollution influence Manufacturers Association and the Louisi­ Bethlehem Steel and National Steel have within pollution boards? ana Municipal Association-have never im­ employes, respectively, on Indiana's air and Direct evidence that it is retarding pol­ posed a fine on anyone, and the air commis­ water pollution boards. Bethlehem is also on lution abatement is he.rd to find. No precise sion has b·rought only one corporate polluter the air board of Erie County, (N.Y. (Buf­ scales have yet been developed to gauge the into court in five years. falo) ) , where it has been cited as an air degree of pollution in any particular state. On Pennsylvania's 11-member Air Pollu­ polluter. Thus there is no way of comparing the rela­ tion Control Board the lone "public" mem­ Other metal concerns also have a prominent tive progress of states with and without ber is a former vice president of a steel com­ part in pollution pollcymaking and enforce­ "weighted" boards. pany. Another steel executive left the board ment among the states. There is no way of telling, moreover, how only recently. An executive of a third steel The Anaconda Company-recently sued in biased one board may be without prolonged company is on the state's water board. Scran­ Montana for damages attributed to its fluo­ observation and the effects of bias may be ton, Johnstown and Pittsburgh are among ride emissions--has an executive on the air mingled with the effects of weak laws and the top 10 on the Federal list of smokey pollution board in Kentucky. regulations. cities. An Anaconda lawyer is on the water board Evidence is available on all sides that from A confidential vignette of one board's ac­ in Utah. And the former head of an Ana­ a national point of view efforts to reduce air tivities was provided by a recent official in conda subsidiary is chairman of Montana's and water pollution are making little head­ a Midwestern state where pollution prob­ Water Pollution Control Council. way under the preva111ng system. lems are conspicuous. A Reynolds Metals man is on the Alabama In four years, for example, air pollution has "The chief problem," he said, "was a gen­ Water Commission. An Aluminum Company increased from an annual total of 142 million eral atmosphere of timidity [on the board] of America lawyer is an industry representa­ tons of conta.mlnants to well over 200 million due to a hostile, lobby-ridden legislature and tive on North Carolina's Pollution Board and tons. an apathetic Governor. a staff doctor of the company is chairman of More than three years after the statutory "VIe had money troubles constantly, so we Iowa's Air Pollution Control Commission. deadline, as another example, only 18 .states didn't get much done. Some members would have adopted water quality standards satis­ knuckle under if industry seemed to be ROLE OF CHEMICAL MAKERS factory to the Federal Government. getting to the Governor. The Governor had The lead industry ls well represented in What is more, Federal ofilcials have infor­ some ties with the power industry, which Missouri pollution control. A former execu­ mation indicating that 32 states have ex­ restrained us from adopting tough emission tive of the Eagle Pitcher Company (defend­ tended various abatement deadlines without restrictions." ant in a recent Federal water pollution ac­ the approval of the Secretary Of the In­ Virginia has been so conscious of the pos­ tion in Kansas) is on the Missouri air board, terior-technically a. violation of Federal law. sible conflicts of interest that it has adopted December 7, 1970 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 40263 a law to eliminate it: Even members of the I will point out. But suppose they were Legislature are ineligible to be on pollution Combina­ polit ical brokers? No one stopped the rich tion air- boards. Air Water water Republican financiers from doing the same The few states that have panels composed board board board thing, What is more, as their political "bro­ of engineers, professors, pharmacists, house­ kers," the Bosses got at least a show of hu­ wives and other disinterested citizens n.ud Tennessee ______• manity from the city governments, the first that obtain expertise from outside sources Texas ____ ------_____ • of its kind. give every evidence of getting along just as Utah ______• Vermont______••• The Germans came first, starting around well as boards with members from the pollu­ Virginia5______••• 1840 until 1848 when there was a German tion sector. Washington ______•• rush. They were better educated and more This is also true of the states that have West Virginia e______• - -" ------propertied than the later waves of immi­ Wisconsin ______• no citizen pollution boards. Several of these, Wyoming 7______• grants, and they established themselves with such as New Jersey and Illinois, established distinction even before the Civil War. New professional environmental control agencies York, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Milwaukee and in the last year or two to supercede polluter­ • Means state pollution board contains representatives of Indianapolis were among their principal basic pollution sources (industry, agriculture, county and ci ty connected boards. governments). ;sites of settlement, and there was no place The Indiana Legislat ure next year will •• " No Boards" means air and water pollution regulation they went to which they didn't add their consider a proposal to supercede its present statewide is handled by a full-time State agency. tremendous industry and great civic sense. industry-oriented, pollution boards with a ••• Means State board is free of such rep resentation. The Great Irish wave started with t he ' Pollution sources represented in regional branches of State full-time state agency like that in Illinois, water board. Potato Famine of 1846. I don't want to go which pays its five professional pollution 2 Air pollution handled by State board of health. :into this; the history of that Famine and control boa.rd members from $30,000 to $35,- a Water under State board of health. the great plagues it brought are one of the 000 a year. Iowa and North Darolina are • State environmental board is advisory. blackest blots upon Christian history. ~ Interest conflicts banned by law. among other states considering structural e Water under State division of water resources. I hope, in your study, you will devote a revisions. 1 Water pollution control council is ad visory. few pages to an objective account of what In Ohio, a "Breathers Lobby" of health, Note: This table is not a classification of States air and water the Irish suffered, not only at home, but in labor, church and conservation organizations pollu tion condi ti ons. these United States, and for decades. Their has been pushing btlls that would orient the labor was sometimes used when it was t oo state air pollution board more toward public dangerous to their health to send valuable interests by including an ecologist and an slaves. This lasted for years. There was a engineer among its members. HON. JAMES A. FARLEY saying that there was a dead Irishman lying Short of statutory changes, one remedial under every tie of the Trancontinental Rail­ strategy is the "end run" around slow-mov­ roads. This, of course, is an exaggeration, ing boards. Pennsylvania's Department of but it is not an exaggeration to say that Justice three months ago established an "En­ HON. JAMES J. DELANEY their pitiful wages gave them a standard of vironmental Pollution Strike Force" of six OF NEW YORK living which makes today's welfare stand­ young lawyers, who have filed 17 actions IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ards look like a Roman feast. against polluters and already won nine. Monday, December 7, 197 0 Nor can I refrain from saying that in ad­ Finally there is the power of citizen pres­ dition to winning their standing with their sure. State pollution boards generally are Mr. DELANEY. Mr. Speaker, the Hon­ sweat and t heir tears, they more than required by law to hold public sessions, and orable James A. Farley, distinguished earned their American citizenship with their citizens in some states are finding that a former Postmaster General and legend­ blood. As Al Smith said, "Look at the Rec­ sedulous gallery of observers may change the ary chairman of the Democratic Na­ ord." From the Revolution to the Fighting tenor of boards, deliberations. tional Committee, rightly has been ac­ 69th, the Irish descended Americans are sec­ At a recent stormy meeting of Alabama's ond to none. Nearly one half of the winners water commission, an irate woman conserva­ claimed as one of America's most illustri­ of the Congressional Medal of Honor are tionist hauled off and slapped a member of ous political leaders. Presently chair­ Irish-descended. 17 Kellys and 16 Murphys the board. man of the Board of the Coca-Cola Ex­ alone won the nation's highest decoration; port Corp., he also is recognized as a pre­ check it. COMPOSITION OF STATE POLLUTION BOARDS eminent expert on the subject of Ameri­ What kept the Irish together was the can politics. Roman Catholic Church; it was their shield. Combina­ What turned out to be their political sword tion air- In this connection, a newspaperman was the Democratic Party. And what was Air Water water friend, Mr. Paul Corcoran, recently asked board board board their principal means was that they spoke him to prepare an article presenting his the English language. They are a warm­ Alabama ______• views and opinions on so-called political hearted people and their suffering gave them Alaska ______-_ • • bosses who functioned during past years. great understanding. Arizona ______• • Arkansas ______• In replying to his friend, Mr. Farley So they met the boats of immigrants when prepared a most interesting and inform­ they came in; you bet they did. California'--Colorado ______-- __------____ --__ _----___ _- •••• • ative article, in which he vividly recalls They met the people who couldn't speak Connecticut______• the language and they met them as their Delaware ______• an important aspect of American politi­ Florida ______------______• •• friends. They found them jobs, they got cal history often overlooked in textbooks. them placed, they looked after them. These HawaGeorgiaiL 2---__ __------______-_-___------___----____• ______••• With the thought that we today can people had to earn their livings, hard livings. Idaho ______* • well benefit from studying the past, I am But they knew where to go when they were · Illinois ______• • taking this opportunity to share Mr. Indiana ______• • in trouble-the district club house. From Iowa ______• Farley's article with my colleagues by morn to night, but especially after working Kansas ______• •• inserting it at this point in the REcoRD: hours, the district leaders were there, seven Kentucky ______• • nights a week, listening to the poor people Louisiana ______• • DEAR MR. CORCORAN: I am glad to give you Maine ______• my views. Yes, the so-called "Big Bosses" of and their complaints. Ma ryland ______•• •• •• the Big Cities have passed. As they pass into The had little books where they listed Massachusetts ______------__ _ ••• history, however, it seems to me that their every complaint. The next day, they would Michigan ______• • Minnesota ______----- ______------_ • vital, and from some standpoints, their mag­ go to the various city departments them­ Mississipp i______• • nificent part in American history is over­ selves, to get the things straightened out: Mjssourj______• looked. These factors were called "contra.cts." As a Montana ______••• Nebraska ______• ' In my opinion, merely "dating back to the matter of course, the city officials would do mass immigrations" would not explain their the best they could to help the Bosses who Nevada •------• New Hampshire ______• place in history. The old political bosses were had gotten them their appointments. New Jersey ______: ------•• American institutions; extra legal institu­ They had very little money for relief. In New Mex!co ______••• tions, to •be sure, but supplying a basic ne­ New York4 ______•• •• •• extreme cases, they would find a ton of coal North Carolina ______• cessity of the growing American Republic. for a freezing family, an undertaker who North Dakota ______: ___ • • The Big Bosses performed many of the would bury as a favor, and doctors who for­ Ohio ______• . functions for the new immigrant which got to send bills. They also created jobs­ Oklahoma ______------• Oregon ______------___ • are now performed by the huge H.E.W. gov­ watchmen, for example-far and beyond Pennsylvania ______• • ernment bureaus. It has been said by those what was needed. Today it's called relief. Rhode Island ______•• • • who would diminutize their importance that Then it was called municipal waste and cor­ South Carolina ______• they were the "political brokers" of the newly ruption-but it served the same purpose­ South Dakota ______• • arrived, and that they ensnared their votes to save a poor family. See Lincoln Stephens Footnotes at end of table. in return. Actually, they did much more as on this-his autobiography really shows the 40264 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE December 8, 1970 ·" humanitarian picture behind the "corrup­ work, was given a chance. That's where the carriers, World Airways, recently an­ tion." This is the point I want to make to Democratic Party came in. Al Smith, Senator nounced the filing of a new low tariff you, that the- word "corrupt" is supposed to Bob Wagner, President Harry S. Truman, with the CAB that will allow U.S. service-­ describe the Big . Boss system underneath. President Lyndon B. Johnson, were all poor men to fly roundtrip from South Viet­ Well, this is in part true, I suppose. But the lads. So was I; and I've never stopped saying Big Boss "corruption" was really humani­ that if it was not for the Democratic Party, nam to California for $350. The exten­ tarian underneath as far as the poor work­ I would never have been its Chairman or a sion of low-cost fares for home visits ing immigrant family was concerned. The Cabinet officer, and these honors came to to the United States for U.S. servicemen Big Boss certainly made deals with the Pub­ me for personal service. stationed in Vietnam is long overdue and lic Utilities companies-but part of that deal I deplore the vast sums of money spent an extremely worthwhile undertaking. was for more jobs for his working people. in campaigns today, because it is shutting I want to take this occasion to con­ The Irish were very good at looking out poor boys out. The T.V. cameras will focus on gratulate World Airways on receiving for poor people because as no other people a student riot, but I defy anyone to come up with any coverage of the Young Demo­ this year's USO Gold Medal for safely they knew what unemployment, in all its transporting over 500,000 servicemen and horror, means. This is much more than hun­ crats or Young Republicans, giving them the I ger and other privations. It is a humiliation same attention the old Bosses did. The high women. also commend the company's of spirit. What the Big Bosses organization cost of campaigning is driving talent out initiative in seeking the lower service­ offered, therefore, was understanding and of both parties, closing the old doors, and to men's fares and the press release an­ affection-believe it or not--affection and the immense disadvantage of the Republic. nouncing this new plan be included at sympathy for a family in trouble. There were I strongly suggest to you that you com­ the conclusion of my remarks: pare the "subsidies" given in the name of no forms to fill out; they just helped. There LoWER FARES FOR U.S. SERVICEMEN was no nonsense about lack of character public policy, the franchises given Jn the requiring affidavits of necessity. In short, the name of public necessity, and the tariffs ex­ Edward J. Daly, Chairman of the Board Big Bosses knew the people because they acted by the Republican Party at the time and President of World Airways, Inc., an­ were of the people and this is what kept the Big City Bosses got the name of being nounced his Company had filed a new charter them going. What finished the Big Bosses is corrupt for giving a portion of these sums tariff with the Civil Aeronautics Board which primarily that they did their job so well to the poor. Mind you, I do not condone the would enable military personnel to fly round that the immigrant peoples didn't need corruption; but I do object to that term trip from Vietnam to California for $350.00. them after the first generation. The blast being applied to the Big Boss at the Bottom World, which operates a fleet of Boeing furnace of the American Melting Pot is the if it is to be condoned in the Republican 707-320C Fan Jet Aircraft, is the largest public school. Today, just short of half of Barn at the top. charter carrier; it is based in Oakland, Cali­ the American people are the children of One more thing; if it hadn:t been for the fornia and has operated scheduled air service these illiterate immigrants. And where are Big Bosses, believe me, the basic legislation in and to Southeast Asia for the military they-at the top of their professions. of F.D.R., which put the Liberals in the po­ since 1956. Last year World flew almost 20 litical business and put the Big Bosses out of million miles for the Military Airlift Com­ Now the Wellare Departments do all of it, couldn't have been passed without the mand and recently received the USO Gold the things the Big Boss used to do, but its Big Bosses themselves. I handled that legis­ Medal Award for having safely transported institutionalized. This is called public con­ lation for the President and I know this as more than 500,000 servicemen and women. science now; but if we want to call them no man other than he knew better. World's plan will include (A) frequent fairly, it was public conscience when the flights from Vietnam to California (B) sched­ Big Boss performed the same acts, though t u1ed connections to all parts of the United was called corruption then and now. But, at States; and (C) financing arrangements so least, it indicates that the Big Boss was something of a Gunga Din-he got belted LOWER FARES FOR U.S. SERVICE­ that all eligible ptilitary personnel will be MEN able to take advantage of the new Vietnam and fiogged for doing what was 'as necessary policy. Mr. Daly announced that he is per­ then as it is now. But the new wellare in­ sonally prepared to guarantee loans to serv­ stitutions and general education which, in­ HON. SAMUEL N. FRIEDEL J icemen who wou1d otherwise be unable to cidentally, he helped establish, have put him pay for the trip or to borrow the necessary on the shell. OF MARYLAND funds. These financial arrangements will be I There's one thing more want to say. The - IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES handled through the First Western Bank, Los word of the Big Boss was good. It may only Monday, December 7, 1970 Angeles, California, a subsidiary of World be because it was his st_ock in trade, so to with assets in excess of one billion dollars. speak. But whatever the reason, his word was Mr. FRIEDEL. Mr. Speaker, as many This is clearly one of the most effective good. Another thing: The Big Boss often in this House know, I have, as chairman means of boosting morale of the serviceman, "went to bat" in criminal cases, especially and General Creighton w. Abrams, Com­ when there was a bad boy in a working fam- of the Subcommittee on Transportation and Aeronautics of the Committee on mander, U.S. Military Assistance Command, 11y; but he never, never tinkered around Vietnam, and the Department of Defense, are suits between citizens and he never took Interstate and Foreign Commerce, been to be congratulated for originating this pro­ money for helping a poor family in trouble. · a constant advocate over the years for gram. Mr. Daly expresses the hope that a There are .a couple of more points I'd like to lower fares for our air travel consumers. similar plan would be made available to mili­ make. The Big Boss was on the keen look­ In this regard, I am most pleased that tary personnel serving in other overseas sta­ out for talent. A poor boy, if he wanted to one of our large progressive supplemental tions.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE~S-Tuesday, December 8, 1970

The ~ouse met at 12 o'clock noon. Grant Thy blessings, 0 G-d, upon this H.R. 12958. An act for the relief of Cen­ Rabb1 Seymour E. Freedman, Concord Nation. May these United States ever be tral Gulf Steamship Corp.; Hotel Synagogue•. Kiamesha Lake, N.Y., . an international force guiding all the H.R. 15770. An act to provide for conserving surface waters; to preserve and improve habi­ offered the folloWing prayer: world to prosperity amid peace. Amen. tat for migratory waterfowl and other wild­ 'Almighty G-d: As this day begins, we life resources; to reduce runo1f, soil and wind lift our thoughts to praise Thee for THE JOURNAL erosion, and contribute to fiood control; and granting us life. Implant within us now, for other purposes; and the radiance of Thy spirit so that our The Journal of the proceedings of yes- H.R. 19830. An act making appropriations for sundry independent executive bureaus, deeds shall reflect the nobility of our as- terday was read and approved. boards, commissions, corporations, agencies, pirations. Help us to feel Thy divine offices, and the Department of Housing and presence, challenging us to become Thy Urban Development for the fiscal year ending messengers on earth bringing equity and MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE June 30, 1971, and for other purposes. compassion to all. A message from the Senate, by Mr. The message also announced that the Unto the Members of this House of Arrington, one of its clerks, announced Senate had passed with amendment in Representatives, who have assumed the that the Senate had passed without which the concurrence of the House is burdens of leadership, grant inner amendment bills of the House 'or the fol­ requested, a bill of the House of the fol- strength, be their shield and refuge in lowing titles: lowing title: times of difficult decision. May the H.R. 2876. An act for the relief of the Beas­ H.R. 19504. An act to authorize appropria­ knowledge that they labor to build a ley Engineering Co., Inc.; tions far the construction of certain high­ better America be their constant inspi­ H.R. 8573. An act for the relief of Mrs. ways in accordance with title 23 of the ration. Margaret M. McNellls; United States Code, and for other purposes.