August 1, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 26315 the standing order on tomorrow, the dis­ the military procurement bill. There is main the main track item, or the un­ tinguished majority leader, the Senator a time limitation on that bill and on finished business, daily, until it is dis­ from Montana for the purpose of calling up an of the interim agreement, and it will amendment on which there is a 1-hour remain the main track item daily until limitation. There will be a yea-and-nay disposed of. Following its disposition, ORDER FOR CONSIDERATION OF vote on the amendment by Mr. .AIKEN, hopefully, the revenue-sharing bill will S. 945, THE NO-FAULT INSURANCE and undoubtedly there will be yea-and­ become the main track item daily. BILL, TOMORROW nay votes on the amendment by 1\!r. BRooKE and the amendment by Mr. Mr. Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. President, CRANSTON, as amended, if amended; and ADJOURNMENT UNTIL 9:45A.M. I ask unanimous consent that on tomor­ other amendments may then be offered. TOMORROW row, upon the final passage of the mili­ As I recall, following the disposition of Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Mr. President, tary procurement bill, the Senate proceed the amendment by Mr. CRANSTON, the to the consideration of S. 945, the na­ distinguished junior Senator from Cali­ if there be no further business to come tional no-fault motor vehicle insurance fornia

EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS SENATOR ROBERT C. BYRD PRAISED was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, responsibilities and duties of the acting ma­ BY COLLEAGUES AND THE PRESS as follows: jority leader of this great body. I am sure PRAISE FOR BYRD th81t every one of those 1,700,000 of his fellow citizens would be as proud of him as we in West Virginia gets kicked around fre­ the Senate are proud of him." quently by outside critics so we are pleased HON. JENNINGS RANDOLPH Senator Frank E. Moss of Utah joined in OF WEST VIRGINIA when the opportunity presents itself to pass the tribute to Sen. Byrd saying, "He has along favorable comment made about one of IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES maintained his rapport with the Senate. He the state's distinguished citizens and public has gone out of his way to accommodate and Tuesday, August 1, 19'12 servants. work with every Senator. No Senator has United States Senator Robert C. Byrd of Mr. RANDOLPH. Mr. President, Mem­ been denied any of his rights. They have been West Virginia has risen to the high position protected jealously. Yet, the Senator from bers of the Senate are fully aware of the of Majority Whip in the Senate and his dlll­ West Virginia has moved the work along in sklll and diligence with which the able gent work there has not gone unnoticed by a very difficult time:• assistant majority leader carries out his those who serve with him. Sen. Moss continued, "The Senate is now duties. Recently, Senator Harry F. Byrd of Vir­ so burdened with legislative work that with­ Senator RoBERT C. BYRD's talents have ginia offered a tribute to the work of our out that kind of attention and effort and long been recognized by the voters of Senator Byrd as acting majority leader over diplomacy, we could have been so tangled up the past busy weeks when long hours and that we would not have adjourned for the West Virginia, who have placed their controversial legislation often resulted in trust in him, and they are recognized by conventions, much less get through any time tempers becoming frayed. this year. I am hopeful now, because of the the Senators with whom he is associated But as Senator Byrd of Virginia said, ..... great work done by the Senator from West dally. Recently, two of his colleagues, the one member of the Senate has had the re­ Virginia, that we can complete our legislative Senator from Utah and the sponsibility of seeing that the Senate pro­ task this year in time for Senators and oth­ Senator from Virginia , gave public testimony to their Throughout the year, and especially during tion process this fall, with enough time to the past three weeks, he has been the first really be effective." respect for the assistant majority leader. Senator to arrive in the Senate each morn­ Their comments were incorporated in Hopefully some of the national publica­ ing, and he has been the last to leave each tions that are quick to criticize Sen. Byrd an editorial published on July 28, 1972, night." at times for his courageous and outspoken in the Elkins, W. Va., Inter-Mountain. Sen. Byrd of Virginia was referring to views on issues and others who seem to de­ Mr. President, this editorial reflects the Sen. Byrd of West Virginia, "a man whose light in downgrading West Virginia will not feelings for Senator RoBERT C. BYRD that tact and patience and good will were in­ hesitate now to recognize the important job dispensable to the workings of the Senate the Senat or is doing for his country. All West are held both by his colleagues and by the during the past few hectic weeks." citizens of West Virginia. I ask unani­ Virginians have reason to feel proud of the "I Wish, .. he said, "that every one of the tribute offered Sen. Byrd for it is the people mous consent that it be printed in the 1,700,000 West Virginians could come to the of this State that have had the wisdom to RECORD. Capitol and sit in the gallery and watch elect and re-elect this outstanding citizen There being no objection, the editorial Senator Robert C. Byrd as he undertakes the to the office of the United States Senate. 26316 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS August 1, 1972 "AMBASSADORS OF SONG" REACH Austria and Yugoslavia it was announced to­ insights into the role of liberal arts col­ FINANCIAL GOALS, SET FOR day by Principal James A. Killough and leges in our Nation today, offered by Dr. Choirmaster David J. M. King. EUROPEAN TRIP The choir has been granted preliminary W. B. Langsdorf at the inauguration of permission to sing for Pope Paul VI at Cas­ Dr. Donald Kleckner as president of tel Gandolpho. Final arrangements will be Chapman College this past April. I be­ HON. JOSHUA EILBERG made when the choir arrives in Italy. lieve they will find these remarks to be OF PENNSYLVANIA Other important concerts will be given quite thought provoking. at the Official Church Music Festival in Ven­ I ask unanimous consent that they be IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ice, the Church of Santa Suzanna (the Amer­ Tuesday, August 1, 1972 ican Roman Catholic Church) in Rome, the printed in the RECORD. Bas111ca of St. Francis of Assist in Bologna, There being no objection, the material Mr. En..BERG. Mr. Speaker, it is my Italy, and the Tyrolean Festival at Innes­ was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, pleasure to announce that the Frankford bruck, Austria. Arrangements for appearances as follows: High School A Cappella Choir, the in Yugoslavia are still being made. Frank­ CHALLENGE TO THE LmER.AL ARTS COLLEGE Ambassadors of Song, will start its fifth ford's ensemble will be the first choir from (By Dr. W. B. Langsdorf) goodwill people-to-people tour on August this area to perform in Yugoslavia. Included in the concerts will be music by The genius and strength of American high­ ·7. Frankford High School is located in Bach, Brahms, Nehlybel and Pergolesi plus er education lies in its diversity, in the great my northeast Philadelphia congressional selected spirituals, folk songs, Gospel songs, number and many types of institutions which district. madrigals and motets. provide it. Public colleges and public and Those who have heard the Ambassa­ Funds for the trip, about $44,000 to cover private universities profess a dedication to dors' repertoire agree that no organiza­ expenses for 63 singers and 13 adults, were liberal education, but concentrate a major tion better represents this Nation's raised almost entirely by choir members share of their resources and energies on prep­ efforts toward international harmony. under the direction of the Ambassadors of aration for entry into occupations and pro­ Song Parents Association. Only about $3,000 fessions. The true liberal arts college, on the On this 22-day tour, the choir will per­ came in as donations while the rest was other hand, concentrates its attention on lib­ form in Italy, Australia, and Yugoslavia earned through stamp drives, car washes, eral education. It cannot compete efficiently under the inspirational direction of Mr. cake sales and a fair held during the week in professional education with the large uni­ David J. M. King. Moreover, the Am­ of July 3 at Francis Hopkinson Elementary versity, public or private. If it abandons lib­ bassadors have been granted preliminary School, "L" and Luzerne sts., Philadelphia. eral education as its chief purpose, it loses permission to perform before Pope Paul No public funds of any kind are being used. its reason for being. VI during their stay in Italy. This will be the choir's fifth international THE EDUCATION OF A FREE MAN tour since 1964. The Scandinavian countries It 1s not my intent here to subject you It should be noted that these young were visited in 1964, South America in 1966, to men and women have worked diligently Canada for Expo '67 in 1967 and Japan in a scholarly discourse on liberal arts. I think for this opportunity. Of the S44,000 1969. Future plans, according to Choirmas­ we can all agree that a Uberal education iS needed for the trip, $41,000 was raised ter King, include a proposed trip to Israel the education of a free man. Its function iS through car washes, stamp drives, cake in 1973 to perform during that country's to Uberate man !rom both the dogmatiSm 25th Anniversary. of accepted fact and the gulllbllity to which sales and a fair. The remaining $3,000 he iS prey because of the ever more efficient was privately donated and no public Sixty-three singers of the 80 member choir will be able to take the trip, including stu­ arts of persuasion, to give him breadth of funds of any kind are being used. dent officers Gary Green, President; Scott understanding, and perspective, a sense of In 1964, the Ambassadors of Song, a Landis, Vice President; Cindy Ferguson, Sec­ values, and above all, a commitment to the title bestowed upon the choir by the State retary and Edna St. Sauveur, Secretary­ common good. .Department, toured Scandinavia and Treasurer. Eight parents will travel as chap­ I submit that none of these are essential ·performed before the Swedish Royal erons. In addition to Choirmaster King, other objectives o! professional or vocational edu­ adults include Dr. Michael Glamo, Assistant cation, or, to use the present national admin­ Family. In 1966, the Ambassadors istration's term, "career education." traveled 27,000 miles through the South · Director of Music for the Philadelphia Pub­ lic Schools, Mrs. Glamo, Mr. Wesley A. Day, Liberal education lias been a cornerstone of American continent performing in the accompanist and the past dean of the Ameri­ democratic institutions in this nation from .capitals of Peru, Chile, Argentina, and can Guild of Organists, and Sister Mary its inception. While it had its European oct­ Brazil, as well as in the great Opera Seraphim, music teacher at the St. Plus X gins in Renaissance education for the elite House in Rio de Janeiro before an School in Broomall, Pa. and in medieval clerical education, it has audience of 4,000 persons. In 1967, the David King, who holds B.S. and M.E.D. de­ never in this nation properly been a finishing choir toured the Montreal Expo and sang grees in music from West Chester State school for the few. Quite in contrast, liberal at the Canadian Folk Festival. Two years Teachers College and has done graduate education for the many was denounced in work in music at Temple University, has been England in 1678 as "diverting those whom later, there was a journey to Japan. The in the Philadelphia School System 11 years, Nature or Fortune had determin'd to the most exciting performance of this tour the past two at Frankford. He is a graduate Plough, the Oar, or other lJandicra.fts, from was a concert for the wounded American of Northeast High School (now Thomas Edi­ their proper design, to the study of Liberal servicemen at a military hospital. Dur­ son). Arts, and even of Divinity itself." ing the singing of the choir's theme, King, leading his first international trip Liberal education has always !aced a chal­ ·'Medley America," both those in the with the choir, is pleased with the progress lenge from those who measure the value of an audience and members of the choir were of his young people. He says that during the education solely in terms of material results, moved to tears by the experience. school year, and this summer in preparation immediate entry into a profession, or dollar for the trip, the teenagers have practiced value. De Tocquevme, in his perceptive Mr. Speaker, through their music, the about three hours every day on their own Democracy in America written almost a cen­ Ambassadors of Song have achieved that time. He is also pleased that 25 of the choir's tury and a half ago. said that in this age "the for which men through the centuries 27 black members, including June graduate American mind must be coerced into theo­ have strived-the communication of a and Choir President Green, are making retical studies--it runs of its own accord to spirit of friendship and enthusiasm for the trip. practical applications." As education became their fellowmen. In its travels around the The choir was formed in 1936 under Miss the chief avenue for upward mobllity of mid­ globe, the Frankford A. Cappella Choir Frances Snyder. Subsequent directors have dle and lower socla.l and economle classes, and been Mr. Forrest Newmyer, Mr. Walter La­ the road to recognition for the sons of immi­ has truly proven music to be our inter­ mont, Mr. Robert Hamilton and Mr. Jerome grants, assurance of immediate entry into a national language. Wright. Travel arrangements are by Meridian profession took on the greatest importance. I insert into the REcORD an ru·ticle Travel Group, Wynnewood, Pa. Today it appears that the great majority of which appeared in the Mayfair-North­ middle class Americans, and now also those east News on Thursday, July 27, 1972. I previously disadvantaged, want a college edu­ cation for their children, not because it will wish these talented young men and make them educated men and women, but women good music and Godspeed on PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION OF because they believe it will guarantee to their their tour. CHAPMAN COLLEGE children· per5ona.I economic opportunity and The article follows: security, a.nd the status of a profession or "AMBASSADORS OF SONG" REACH FINANCIAL white collar job. GOALS, SET FOR EuROPEAN TRIP HON. JOHN V. TUNNEY The diversification of knowledge, the mul­ Choir has preliminary approval to sing for OF CALIFORNIA tiplication of specialized jobs requiring a col­ . Pope Paul VI. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED ~TATES lege education, and the prc,ll!eration of Frankford High School's A Cappella Choir, Tuesday, August 1, 1'972 courses to provide preparation for them. called "~e Ambassadors o! Song" by the h&ve eroded the. core of liberal education to United States State Department, will depart Mr. TUNNEY. Mr. President, I thought which every college and university Is sup­ on August 7 for a 22-day concert tour of Italy, Senators would be interested in the keen posedly committed.· Some professional pro- August 1, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 26317 grams a.nd institutiolis, recognizing the dan­ The United States Commissioner of Edu­ live lives of sated boredom, ever seeking r;er. have sought to mandate a substantial cation, Sidney Marland, has only recently thrills in new pleasure spas. amount of liberal arts. Some national pro­ announced the slogan, "career education," It cannot rely on the traditional academic fessional organizations recommend that pro­ as the theme for all students from first grade curriculum which at its inception had mean­ fessional courses shall comprise not more through college. He has designated "career ing and relevance long since lost. It has than one half of undergraduate work. Great education" as the "major objective of the been said that the only thing harder to move science and engineering institutions like the U.S. Office of Education at this moment and than a cemetery is a college curriculum, and California Institute of Technology require for the foreseeable future." We can readily now even cemeteries dip their flags to free­ a humanities and social science base. Yet guess what direction federal funding and ways. Much of the frozen curriculum has from my own experience, it appears that support will take. been called liberal arts. It took a student up­ while a profession of a.n institution primari­ Nearer at hand, the Los Angeles Public rising at Harvard in 1823 to bring change ly preparing for the professions may be com­ Schools have announced a plan which, by there. Only after one third of the students. mitted to liberal education, the motivation 1973, will sharply curtail academic subjects including the son of John Quincy Adams. of their students often seems concerned and assure each and every student a mar­ had been expelled without hope of reprieve solely with the professional training aspects ketable job skill on high school graduation. did the faculty conclude something must o:r the collegiate education provided them. Last month, Clark Kerr, in connection be amiss. One result of their soul searching EDUCATION FOR LEADERSHIP with testimony before the Select Committee was the introduction of the elective system, which at least gave the student opportunity Liberal education has always faced chal­ on the Master Plan, is reported to have pre­ lenges; yet it has continued, chiefly through dicted disastrous consequences if more stu­ to escape from some of the crystallized dents receive college degrees than required courses. Some years ago, a survey of Harvard liberal arts colleges like Chapman, to turn graduates twenty-five years after commence­ out a great portion of the leaders in all walks by the job market-on the assumption that, of life. Now it faces a greater challenge than as in pre-Hitler Germany, mass discontent ment seemed to indicate change was again ever. It is being questioned at many levels would result. One could respond that many due. One-third of the respondents said no or government and educational leadership woman college graduates never enter the job course taken at Harvard was of any value from which should come the greatest com­ market, that earlier predictions of oversup­ later. In answer to the question "Which pro­ mitment to human values as opposed to the ply have all proven wrong, and that many fessor influenced you most?", the answer of accelerating momentum of a production college graduates may well be satisfied with 41 % appeared to be "not a doggone one." a job which does not require a college de­ Fortunately and wisely, in the intervening orJented technology. years, Harvard had made dramatic changes Just a little over a month ago. Governor gree, particularly when it may pay more, and James Rhodes of Ohio was installed (in provide more leisure than many a profes­ in its general studies. San Diego) as Vice Chairman of the Na­ sional position. Once, over a campfire, I be­ In the past few years, students in many tional Advisory Council on Vocational Ed­ came acquainted with one of the better-edu­ colleges and universities, often because of ucation. Speaking at that meeting, Gover­ cated men I have known. He was a college inflexible and unimaginative curriculum and nor Rhodes said, "Today we're teaching a graduate, but a cross-country truck driver faculty, have demanded relevancy. On occa­ general course in high schools and colleges­ by occupation and by choice. He said his job sion, determination of courses and course and that means we're teaching general un­ gave him a feeling of freedom, the opportu­ content has been abdicated to them. As one nity to exchange ideas with a wide cross sec­ might expect, this has eventually proved un­ employment." productive. Even the most highly motivated The California Legislature in September tion of people, time to think, and far more leisure and pay than most professions he exchange of ignorance eventually becomes 1971, apparently out of concern for unem­ boring, as the students of at least one Cali­ ployment passed Assembly Concurrent Res­ might have followed. He did not feel his col­ lege education was wasted. fornia liberal arts college have discovered olution No. 62, which reads in part: for themselves. "Whereas it is important that sound plan­ I would be remiss if I did not add that ning for educational output be a continuing some of even the strongest advocates of ca­ NEEDED: REDEDICATION TO BASIC COMMITMENTS part of educational administration to in­ reer education at times qualify their insist­ If liberal education is to meet the chal­ sure that the skills taught are truly useful ence that it be the sole objective of higher lenge it 'faces, it must clean its own house, and marketable-- education. For example, Willard Wertz, after rethink its basic purposes and then con­ Be it resolved that the governing boards alleging that liberal arts education is a mis­ sciously plan ea-ch course and program to of (public) higher education report to the taken ideal since, according to him, only a achieve these objectives. 1972 session on their efforts to develop and few will ever be able to use it, adds that it I believe if we are to a-chieve success in maintain academic programs that are rele­ would be equally a mistake to concentrate defending liberal education and the liberal vant to the manpower needs of society." To education "too much now on a single set of arts college, there must be a massive rededi­ cite this resolution here is :1ot to deny the fa-ctors-job opportunities-in what is a rap­ idly changing concept of what people want cation to certain basic commitments. necessity for approprlatd occupations prep­ 1. The first of these is commitment to the aration, but to note the apparent absence their lives to be-and what those lives are probably going to be." perfectibility or at least improvability ~f of legislative concern for anything but career man. This is a fundamental tenent of our education. Perhaps he intended by his qualification to nation's heritage, taken by our founding In March, 1971, Chief Justice Burger de­ make allowances for the rapidity of change fathers from Condorcet's thesis of human Fu­ livered the Supreme .Court opinion in the which Alvin Toffier so well describes in progress through man's own efforts. It is case of Willie Griggs vs. the Duke Power ture Shock. What could be more frustrating basic to a republic, and to democratic in­ Company. The judgment held that under the to a college graduate, upon first entering the stitutions, and sets them apart from those Civil Rights Act of 1964, an employer may job market-or for that matter even later­ of other ideologies. There is no liberal edu­ not require a high school education or pass­ than to find his specialized skill no longer cation behind the iron or bamboo curtains. ing of a general intelligence test as a con­ needed, the job for which he prepared obso­ The liberal arts college must be committed to dition of employment in, or transfer to, jobs lete or better handled by a machine, and to the value and inherent goodness and im­ where (a) neither standard is shown to be realize that he is not prepared to adapt to provability of every human being. No one significantly related to successful job per­ different needs. Concentration solely on nar­ who lacks this faith belongs on the faculty. formance; (b) both requirements operate to row career education may bring far more 2. The second is commitment to make all disqualify Negroes at a substantially higher hazards and pitfalls than have yet been learning exciting. I wonder what we do to rate than white applicants; and (c) the jobs officially recognized. children that changes the eager enthusiasm in question formerly had been filled only by While I hope and believe that public high­ of the first grader into the bored indifference white employees as part of a long-standing er education and the private university will of the high school senior. Effective liberal practice of giving preference to whites. Now, be able to resist the mounting pressures to education always seems fresh and new. Al­ surely, none of us would defend race discrim­ emphasize professional and occupational fred North Whitehead in an address in 1927 ination in employment. However, the lower training to the exclusion of liberal educa­ said, to have impact, education must be Federal Court had held, and the Supreme tion, it is certain that much of the leader­ "either new in itself or invested with some Court agreed, though reversing the Circuit ship in the defense of liberal studies must novelty of application to the· new world or Court, that the Duke Power Company had come from the private liberal arts College. new times." He went on to say, "Knowledge clearly not been motivated by reasons of This can come both by its support of liberal does not keep any better than flsil." At an­ racial discrimination. While the decision ap­ education generally, through a common front other point, he emphasized the importance pears to relate chiefly to civil rights, I believe with academic leaders of public education in of !ma.gination. "Imagination is a contagious a careful reading of the opinion can only the accreditation process, and by serving as lead to the conclusion that in the future, un­ disease. It cannot be measured by the year less an employer can demonstrate that a a model of excellence and living proof, or weighed by the pound. It can only be com­ diplomar-high school or college-is clear evi­ through its students and graduates, of the municated by a faculty whose members dence of vocational or professional prepara­ value and significance of a. liberal education. themselves wear their learining with imagi­ tion for a. specific Job, it cannot be a.. pre­ If the liberal arts college is to serve this nation." requisite for employment. The implications function, it cannot be content with much of Because liberal education must be exciting are ominous for liberal education, and for the so-called liberal education of the past. and challenging, the student himself is often those employers who in the future seek Liberal education cannot be education purely the best judge of faculty effectiveness. I was broadly educated and adaptable persons leisure, or for the dilettante, education for aware several years ago that Chapman was rather than those with narrow occupational "gentle folk," the finishing school for the so­ one of the leaders in instit uting st udent training. called "beautiful people," the idle rich who evaluation of all faculty. 26318 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS August 1, 1972 3. A third commitment 1s to develop self­ tnankind. It a liberal education can have mounds of "opium" before they soaked lt motivated and self-disciplined stJ,ldents. . only this· one result, is it not worthwhlle? with gasoline and put it to the torch. Only · One of our leading educational philoso­ Of all the characteristics of liberal education, as the smell of burning molasses wafted phers once said th$t a teacher hasn't taught perhaps the most signlficant is that it in- through ·Chiang Mal did the Thais suspect if the students haven't learned. A major spires commitment to the future. · they had been had. Then. It was too late to function of the teacher is to provide motiva­ A college that is dedicated to the improv­ do anything but cover up their goof. tion. When students fall, more often than ability of man, creates joy in learning, not the failure is not theirs, but that of the teaches students self-motivation which will The Bangkok propaganda campaign teacher. continue their learning life long, and which was successful and America's mass me­ . Effective liberal education provides the both prepares them for future changes and dia graphically described the burning of student with a multitude of learning re­ inspires them to commitment to mankind, the opium. No mention was made of the sourceS and encourages him to use them on is a liberal arts college in the highest and filler materials, however. In fact, it was his own time and at his own pace. The lec­ best sense. I feel certain this is the kind ture, except for occasional challenge or syn­ of college Chapman will be, and that as not until early this summer that Amer­ thesis, or for dramatic excitement of which the years pass its graduates will be men and ican agencies first learned of the decep­ not many faculty are capable, became obso­ women adequate to the great challenges tion. lete as an efficient learning tool with the in­ of the twenty-first century. Our country is still being taken for vention of printing. The faculty in liberal a ride by the Thai G<>vernment and arts should be constantly seeking new and American economic and military assist­ different learning resources and methods of ance continues to fiow unhampered to education. Chapman's World Campus Afloat THAI DRUG HOAX: ARE WE BEING Bangkok. is one most imaginative answer. TAKEN FOR A RIDE? Self-motivated learning, and familiarity with a wide variety of learning tools and resources are of special significance to lib­ HON. CHARLES B. RANGEL BUN BENTON BRAY RETIRES eral education. If its goals are fully realized, AFTER 30 YEARS the most important aspect of a college edu­ OF NEW YORK cation will be its introduction of the stu­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HON. DAVID N. HENDERSON dent to a lifetime of learning. The college Tuesday, August 1, 1972 degree should be in fact as well as in name OF NORTH CAROLLNA just the commencement. Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, the :flood IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES . 4. The fourth commitment is to a design of heroin from Southeast Asia continues of education as preparation for the future. to endanger the life of every American. Tuesday, August 1, 1972 Too often liberal arts have been thought At a time when there are an estimated Mr. HENDERSON. Mr. Speaker, Mr. of only 1n terms of understanding our past 560,000 addicts in this country, I fail Bun Benton Bray, staff director of the heritage. If this is all they mean, then they are sterile. Knowledge of the past should be to understand how the administration Subcommittee on Manpower and Civil useful for understanding the present and can refuse to carry out the mandate of Service since its formation in 1957 is re­ preparing for the future, and this should be Congress and to cut off foreign assistance tiring from Federal service after 30 years. a clear purpose of every course. Jefferson, to those nations which are partners in Mr. Bray, who came to be known to Franklin, Madison and the others who laid the drug trade. Federal employees all over the world as the basis for our nation were profound stu­ Sectioi 109 of the Foreign Assistance "Mr. Manpower," originally came to the dents of the past. They used that knowledge Act of 1971, signed into law earlier this subcommittee because .of his background to build this nation and plan for its future. in personnel work in the Navy Depart­ How great is our need now for men and year, requires the President to suspend women with similar understanding and fore­ economic and military assistance to any ment, and it was assumed that a good sight. When one reads Alvin Tofiler's Future country when the President determines percentage of the work of the subcom­ Shock one can only wonder whether man­ that the government involved has failed mittee would involve oversight in the kind has created a Frankenstein which he to take adequate steps to stop the produc­ field of personnel practices and proce­ can neither understand nor control, and tion, processing, and trafficking of nar­ dures in the Department of Defense which will inevitably destroy him. cotics. Related provisions in the laws au­ since it is by far the largest employer of THE CONCERNS OF FREE MEN thorizing U.S. contributions to the In­ civil personnel in the Federal establish­ When man can reach the planets or destroy ternational Development Association. ment. the earth with his power, use chemistry to the Asia~ Development Bank, and the Not content to sit in an office and change personality and intelligence, remodel Inter-American Development Bank­ accept reports on blirid faith, Bray heredity, and create life itself, the need for provisions which I authored-require traveled all over the world and made on­ men of wisdom, conscience and commitment the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the-scene investigations, talking with becomes imperative. With invention and change so dramatic and traumatic, educa­ our executive directors of these organiza­ both rank and file employees and man­ tion must prepare men and women to live tions to vote against any :oan for a agement at the ground level. with change, to speculate continually about country when the President has made As a result of his personal investiga­ it, to anticipate it, and to choose wisely such a determination of noncooperation tions and staff-instigated studies, we among alternate courses of action. To achieve in the :fight against drugs. have been able to bring about some sub­ this, Tofiler suggests even science fiction Despite the clear language of these stantial changes in both local and na­ might play a significant part in liberal stud­ laws, the President has not taken his re­ tional manpower policies and procedures. ies. Imaginative guesses can be proven right by history. In any case, examination of even sponsibility seriously enough to cut off Bray's background as a World War II seemingly impossible alternatives can serve funds to such nations. In fact, the ad­ naval officer and high-level civilian of­ to expand flexibility of mind. We need to ministration has allowed itself to be ficial in the Navy Department did not find new ways to develop imaginative fore­ duped by public relations stunts into make of him a promanagement :figure­ sight, in effect, to study the future. This may thinking t:1.at, all of a sudden, corrupt head as might have been expected, but be one of them. governments, uhich have long prospered instead he came to be known as an om­ There are today hopeful signs that liberal because of opium traffic, have turned budsman for the rank and file. education has had productive meaning to around 180 degrees. many. Widespread concern for our polluted Although he often clashed with both lakes, streams, and oceans, for the exhaus­ Columnist Jack Anderson has reported military and civilian brass in the Penta­ tion of our resources, for overpopulation, for how the Thai G<>vernment, hoping to put gon, he was highly respected there and the destruction of rare species, for the pro­ a lid on angry American public opinion, achieved a reputation for toughness and tection of wilderness areas, for use of the set out to purchase opium from the KMT fairness. oceans to benefit future generations are not forces still in Thailand in order to He has left a personal imprint on concerns which would normally result from "prove" that it is cracking down on the civilian manpower in the Federal serv­ professional or vocational studies. These are opium trade. The Thai Government did ice which can be matched by few, if any. the concerns of free men, liberally educated. While the Harvard study of 25 years after in fact buy what it thought to be 26 tons public officials in either the executive znust ha.ve been dlsco1.rra.ging to ma.ny, one of opium, but what was in reality on.Iy or legislative branch of the Government. reassuring note was that the graduates who 5 tons of opium and 21 tons of fodder Naval officer, civil service employee, and believed they had lived a happy life felt this and chemicals. As Anderson wrote: legislative conlmittee staffer, Bun Bray was due not to wealth or power, but because Either through corruption or stupidity, did an outstanding job and his absence they felt they ha.d achieved something for the Tha.i officials fa.Ued to test the huge from the active scene will be keen1y felt. August 1, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 26319 THE GREEK CONTRmUTION tary defense posture is like that of the apply American military strength whenever late President. and wherever he felt it to his advantage. As I believe the article deserves careful Witness the swiftness with which he moved HON. FRANK J. BRASCO consideration by an who read this REc­ 13,000 troops-both Army and Marine-to OP NEW TOJtX Lebanon on July 16, 1958. Could Senator ORD, I insert it at this point: McGovern's proposed force structure sup­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (From the Washington Post, July 2, 1972] port such s.n operation? Tuesday, August 1, 1972 MCGoVERN, AN EISENHOWER "DISCIPLE"? It is true, as Senator McGovern says, that (By John Eisenhower) on the part of the Communist world, Sena­ Mr. BRASCO. Mr. Speaker, July tor McGovern, from what I read, feels dif­ marked the golden anniversary of the If Senator George McGovern 1s indeed a ferently. He cites the unilateral suspension founding of the Order of Ahepa in this disciple of my father's in his military opin­ of nuclear testing during 1958-1959; but I Nation. This fraternal organization for ions, then the Boss must be rotating in his can assure the reader tha+. this action was grave at the failure of his pupil to learn his the Aemrican-Greek community has per­ taken with great discomfiture-and in the lessons. realization of the gigantic lead the United formed outstandingly on behalf of its No matter how much Senator McGovern members and the Nation during the past States then enjoyed in the quality of its may claim to have learned from President nuclear weaponry. The actual philosophy half century. A broad range of accom­ Eisenhower's defense policies, he seems to Eisenhower expressed succinctly: plishments may be listed to its credit. have grasped everything except the funda­ "Since an acceptable treaty for controlled It is worth noting, however, that mentals. For a basic premise that the Eisen­ disarmament was not realized, we con­ rather than just list its accomplish­ hower Administration worked on, was that tinued to build an overpowering military ments we should place this organization strong military defense-a posture consist­ establishment as the only feasible defense ent with moral and economic sources of na­ against the menace and probings of interna­ in co~text within the American frame tional strength-was of paramount impor­ of reference. Here is an organization that tance. tional Communism and as the indispensable is uniquely American while remaining platform from which to continue negotia­ That single leg of national strength-mili­ tions for a peaceful world."-Waging Peace, very much a representative organ of tary strength-could never afford to become p.483. what began as an immigrant commu­ the weak leg of the stool. I well remember This line of thinking has been followed nity. All the ethnic communities have that statement that the then General Eisen­ faithfully by the Nixon Administrati.)n and responded to the American challenge by hower made in New York City in June of has begun to bear fruit. 1945: "Weakness cannot cooperate with any­ btinging forth such organizations. Perhaps the most dramatic difference in body; it ca.n only surrender." This was a viewpoint between President Eisenhower Few, however, have met with the suc­ fundamental precept with him, much as it cess encountered by the Order of Ahepa. and Senator McGovern lies in the matter of pained him to see blllions of dollars spent our worldwide alliances, many of which are Over its long and illustrious history, it on troops and weaponry that could, under maintained by a program of Mutual Security has not only fostered understanding of happier conditions, be used for the better- (Foreign Aid). In Fiscal 1960, the adminis­ and loyalty for· America, but has also . ment of mankind. tration asked Congress for funds in the made clear to its members what Ameri­ I would be foolish, moreover, to try to amount of approximately $4 billion ( 1975 can citizenship really means. adapt the exact policies that worked for the value). Senator McGovern would cut this Eisenhower Administration 12 years ago with back to $1.4 billion. Even while the Presi­ Without such organizations, the tran­ the conditions of today. The 34th President sition from immigrant to American citi­ dent was fighting to obtain this sum-which was the epitome o! flexibility in military he himself considered inadequate--one of his zen would have been much more diffi­ thinking. As a young officer, only 5 years big opponents was the then Congressman cult, both for the individual and for the out of West Point, he and his friend, George George McGovern. By what stretch of the Nation. S. Patton, Jr., both ca.me to loggerheads with imagination, in examining this set of facts, the Chiefs of their respective branches-In­ Such an organization deserves recog­ can one consider McGovern as a "disciple" fantry and Cavalry-on the principle of of Eisenhower? nition nationally for its worth and com­ massing of tanks. From those early days, his passion as well. For previous crises have These then are the differences. The only mllltary thinking evolved with comparative similarity in the military philosophy of Mc­ witnessed that compassion for those in ease to include vast armadas of land, sea and Govern and Eisenhower lay in the desire, need or travail transcends ethnic con­ air-and eventually to hitherto-unknown shared by all, to keep military expenditures siderations. This organization has con­ weapons of mass destruction. President Ei­ to the lowest level possible so that those stantly reached out to aid those in dis­ senhower would be the last one to say that funds can be used along more constructive tress, whether here or abroad. Without the policies he followed during the 1950s channels. But the order of priorities places should be taken line-by-line and followed in the two men poles apart. their aid, the misery of this world would the 1970s. be that much worse. Senator McGovern has courageously put And yet, even considering the vast superi­ forward his own views. He is entitled to do So it is fitting for Members of this ority that the United States held over the so and we should all be grateful that he has. House to recognize their contribution Communist world in his time, the figures But in listening to these views, let none of and wish them long life and success in regarding his force structure for Fiscal Year us be fooled by any self-serving association the years to come. The spirit of Greek 1960 were dramatically higher than those in between George McGovern and Dwight D. ideals transcends all recorded instances the McGovern proposals for Fiscal Year 1975: Eisenhower. of attempts to snuff it out. All the more reason to pay tribute to those sons of McGovern Eisenhower budget proposals that land who are so devoted to those fiscal year 1960 fiscal year 1975 U.S. POSTAL SERVICE IS GOING concepts here in America. MODERN Total outlays (billions)_ 75 (approximate 54. 8 (1975 1975 dollars) dollars). Total active forces ____ 2. 5 millions ______1. 7 millions. HON. WILLIAM J. KEATING Army divisions ______14 ______10. AN OF OHIO McGOVERN EISENHOWER Marine divisions______3------2. "DISCIPLE"? Troops in Europe _____ 379,000 ______130,000.. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AF fighter{attack 61______54 (approXJ- Tuesday, August 1, 1972 squadrons. mate). . Navy fighter/attack 80 ______20 (approxt- HON. JOEL T. BROYHILL squadrons. mate). Mr. KEATING. Mr. Speaker, the Pres­ OF VIRGINIA Aircraft carriers ______23 (14 attack 6 (1). ident's Commission on Postal Reorga­ carriers). nization found in 1968 that the postal IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CONUS air defense: SAMS ______4,400 ______8 batteries. system: Tuesday, August 1, 1972 Air Force fighter{ 65 ______5. Was not capable of meeting the-service­ interceptor Mr. BROYHILL of Virginia. Mr. squadrons. demands placed on it because of decades of Speaker, a friend and constituent of mine Economic and 4. 0 (approximate .4 (1975 dollars). low priorities assigned to modernization and recently asked that I insert in the REc­ military aid. 1975 dollars). management needs. ORD a most timely article printed in the Congress responded to the crisis, in Washington Post on Sunday, July 2, President Eisenhower was, to be sure, leery of committing ground forces on a large 1970, by creating the independent U.S. 1972, in which John Eisenhower, son of Postal CorporatiolA and giving it the our late President, responds to allega­ scale in SE Asia. What he would have done 1f faced with the situation that confronted mandate to "improve and modernize" tions that the position of the new Demo­ President Kennedy in 1963 can be only a the system. cratic nominee for President of the matter of conjecture for anyone. But the The Postal Service is taking that man­ United States with regard to our mill- point is that he retained the flexlbllity to date seriously. It has embarked on an 26320 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS August 1, 1972 ambitious research anc: development pro­ 2.235 million persons living in a 7277-mile­ are constant, these rules could be retained gram to computerize the crucial job of square area. in a computer program which generates the Manual sorting precludes efilclency at that binary code whenever an address is printed. processing the :nails. level. Depending upon the individual mailer's soft­ Machines are being perfected that can Coding the items so that a machine can ware-hardware configuration, bar code gen­ process 43,200 letters an hour-a rate sort them speedily and correctly promises eration could be repeated each time an ad­ 43 times faster than conventional manual efil.ciency. dress is to be printed, or on a one-time basis methods. And, of course, speed is of the At the annex, letters to be processed for with the codes developed and stored on tape essence: Our post offices must process the system are stacked in a storage and dis­ with the addresses. some 250,000,000 pieces a day, or about patch unit. In response to an automatic sig- Scanlon points out that 80% of the mail 113.1 from a coding machine, letters are fed in is generated by bUSiness and more and more 90 billion a year. Obviously, old methods batches via conveyor to one of 24 coding mailers are using computers in the prepara­ cannot cope with such a tidal wave of machines where a coding operator applies a tion of mail. It is estimated that more than mail. special code to the address and keys the ex­ 50% of the total letter ma.1l may eventually I am especially pleased that Cincin­ tracted code to the computer. The computer be a. candidate for precoding by the customer. nati, my hometown, was selected as the translates the extraction code to a pattern The postal service has allocated a budget site of the prototype electronic post of­ object code and causes that code to be of approximately $80 million for fiscal 1973 printed on the envelope. for developmental and engineering activities fice. I have toured the facility and am Coded letters are then dropped into pre­ to fund programs designed to improve mech­ encouraged by the great progress that is sort channels whiC!rC$l.rry the mail into an­ anized postal operations and further develop being made to develop new and better other unit. Depending on the letter destina­ the LMCSS. ways to move t3e Nation's mail. tion, the mall piece will be fed directly to a Troops of congressmen and scores of gov­ I commend to you an article from the secondary distribution conveyor or to a ernment officials from other countries have Cincinnati Enquirer which describes the stacker and sack rack. visited the annex to check the brightest light program in accurate detail. The mail which goes to a secondary dis­ in the new business called the U.S. Postal tribution conveyor is carried to a. code reader. Service. The article follows: The reader scans the pattern code on the en­ Scanlon doesn't pretend to understand the POSTAL ANNEX "CANCELS" BAG OF PROBLEMS velope and sends a signal to the computer. technology of the system. "But I understand (By Dennis Doherty) The computer translates the signal into a bin the value of the system and I can see the The U.S. Postal Service has just celebrated destination and causes the letter to be de­ results," he says. "The best is yet to come its first birthday, but there wasn't much of posited into a. particular pocket of the Letter and that should not be too far away." a party. Sorting Machine (LSM). The LSM can oper­ Irate postal customers skipped the tradi­ ate at a rate of 43,200 letters per hour. tional congratulatory card, and during its Manual sorting is rated at 1000 letters per first year initiated 30,000 congressional in­ hour. LEAD-BASED PAINT POISONING quiries wondering why a miracle had not oc­ Another device, an optical character reader, curred with the advent of the new system. reads the bottom two address lines and en­ But if there was any celebrating in order, codes the mall. Coded letters are fed into a it should have been in Cincinnati where a 30-channel diverter for presorting and those HON. SEYMOUR HALPERN new automated system, unique throughout pieces requiring further sorting will be trans­ OF NEW YORK the world, each day promises quicker and ported to the LSM. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES more accurate deliveries of love letters, legal The code placed on each letter represents contracts, valentines, and, of course, bills. the complete address information required Tuesday, August 1, 1972 to perform all subsequent sorting operations Two years ago Rep. Morris K. Udall (D­ Mr. HALPERN. Mr. Speaker, in the Ariz.) , chairman of the House Postal Service within the post ofil.ce and in other ofil.ces. This means that a letter encoded in one city can near future, this body will act on legis­ Subcommittee, steered postal reform through lation which substantially increases our the House. A new law permitted the service be sorted in another city by the use of simple to do what the old Post Office could not do: code readers. Nation's commitment to ending the borrow for modern faclllties and equipment, The ultimate goal of the system is to pro­ tragedy of lead-based paint poisoning. improve management-employee relations, vide a. carrier sequencer operation. This Passage of this legislation is of the ut­ adjust postal rates and appoint local post equipment receives mall for local delivery most importance, for it extends and office officials. that has been decoded and sorted by the broadens the provisions of Public Law With these new advantages, even Udall letter sorting machine for the carrier. The sequencer sorts each carrier's man in the 91-695, the Lead-based Paint Poisoning did not expect results delivered the same Prevention Act. day. Postal customers expected an imme­ order that he delivers his route. diate, business-like postal system, and gave Despite the preponderance of machinery Countless statistical reports have little thought to the fact that restructuring zipping letters through channels like slot pointed out the cold, hard facts witness­ car be such a mammoth enterprise would be a suc­ racers, the system can speeded up with ing to the lethal presence of this silent customer participation. Pre-printing the bar killer: over 2,000,000 children are pres­ cess if it could show signs of progress within code on envelopes by companies with a large two or three years. mall volume is one way, according to Joseph ently living as "risks" in houses whose Cincinnati's contribution to that goal is Scanlon, Cincinnati Postmaster. construction has deteriorated to the running ahead of schedule. "We have more than 50 Cincinnati firms point where it is regarded as a threat to That contribution functions 24 hours a day preprinting their bar code (the small 1m­ those children's health; approximately at the Postal Service's annex at Liberty and print) resembling a pocket comb with broken 400,000 of these children have abnormal­ Dalton Sts. and sports the innocuous title, teeth appearing in the lower right hand ly high lead blood contents. A mere frac­ Letter Mall Code Sort System (LMCSS). And corner of the envelope) on the mail, and the the system, which appears as complex as the tion of these will be reached in time to results have been gratifying." receive medical attention, yet thousands Space Center during a Moon shot, pivots on Automation of the Cincinnati district's one basic principle: the application of a postal facilities started about five years ago will still be left mentally retarded. Of the machine-readable code upon the mail piece and the savings have been great, said Scan­ original sample, 200 will die. prior to or during insertion into the mail lon. Annual labor savings amount to approxi­ This situation points to the need for processing system so that all sorting opera­ mately $5 million under 1967 costs without unequivocal action. While the House has tions can be performed with automated counting the volume increase which has aver­ passed appropriations under Public Law equipment. aged 2 % a year. 91-695 for fiscal year 1973 totalling $12 In other words, your mailman can do a Scanlon said the department has not been million, the Senate Appropriations Com­ better job if he doesn't have to stand in front able to realize the actual $5 million annual savings because there have been salary in­ mittee has reported out a figure of $16 of those wooden pigeon holes and toss in million. Even so, on June 14, the Senate each piece of mall before he delivers it. creases during the five-year period. Five The value of LMCSS is apparent when un­ years ago there were slightly more than 6000 passed S. 3080, which authorizes $100 postal employees in the district and this million annually for this measure, and derstood in the context of one of the Postal number has been reduced to about 4800. the House Committee on Banking and Service's primary goal--cost reduction.. The sophisticated machinery pays for itself Manual distribution is one of the most cost­ Currency is considering an authorization in short order, he said, the larger machines of $50 million per year. All the while, ly factors in mailing a letter. In the Cin­ in 1¥2 to two years and the smaller ones in cinnati metropolitan area, more than one a year. New York City's Lead-Poisoning Control billion letters, 129 million flat pieces of mail, Another method of precoding uses a com­ Bureau ha-s had to attack lead poisoning 40 milllon parcels and 119 million assorted puter and computer-driven printers to pre­ without any Federal assistance. The other pieces were handled for a total of 1.346 pare addresses. Since the rules employed in city's 2-year-old program represents a billion pieces of mall. That mail was for determining the code _for a particular address courageous start, but we mus also do August 1, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 26321 our part. Congress enacted legislation to POSTAL SERVICE CAMPAIGNS FOR ing service and emciency will be posted fre­ deal with this problem, but the program IMPROVEMENT quently at many post offices. threatens to serve as nothing more than In addition, the service's 58,000 windows clerks--renamed "customer representa­ an empty promise in the absence of ade­ tives"-are completing a special two-day quate funding. HON. BILL CHAPPELL, JR. training session to help them better handle Mr. Speaker, the task we have before OF FLORIDA inquiries. complaints and telephone requests. us is not as easy to toying with dollar IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The window clerks have been given individual signs. The complexity of the lead-based name tags for their uniforms. And their paint poisoning problem necessitates a Tuesday, August 1, 1972 famlliar military-type uniforms are expected close working relationship between the Mr. CHAPPELL. Mr. Speaker, the U.S. to be replaced soon with sportier outfits. Departments of Health, Education, and Postal Service is undertaking a campaign SERVICE IS OUR ONLY BUSINESS Welfare and Housing and Urban Devel­ of its own in this election year. After 1 The Postal Service, which also has begun opment. Prevention of this disease is a year under new, nonpolitical manage­ a $500 million cost-reduction program in necessary adjunct to any program aimed ment the U.S. Postal Service is striving hopes of avoiding another round of postage increases, "wants to make damn sure that merely at treating poisoned victims. to improve service levels. In its "Serving service doesn't deteriorate as our cost-par­ Consequently, we must dedicate our­ America" campaign, the Postal Service ing drive continues," asserts Mr. Ellington. selves to eliminating the housing condi­ is asking its customers for suggestions, "This campaign simply will make the mes­ tions which have allowed this epidemic training clerks to better handle inquiries sage clear: Service is our only business," he to spread. and establishing new service and delivery adds. Mr. Speaker, this Nation's role in con­ standards. Early in August, the service will mall to quering polio stands out as a landmark The new program has been outlined in more than 50 million families a pamphlet a recent article appearing in the Wall telling them how to get faster mail service. achievement in the field of medical sci­ The brochure, for example, indicates that ence. As indicated in medical records, Street Journal. I call this to the atten­ letters traveling more than 150 miles will be however, the incidence of childhood lead tion of my colleagues and wish the Postal delivered faster if they're sent air mail. (Sep­ poisoning is now far more widespread Service well in its endeavors to improve tember is being designated "Air Mall Month" than was polio, even at its peak. What this country's mail service. Included as with the service joining with several airlines we, as a Nation, did at that time to ar­ a part of my remarks is the article from to promote mailing by air.) rest the spread of a rampaging child­ the July 31, 1972, Wall Street Journal: The pamphlet indirectly admits to mall hood disease, we must now do once POSTAL SERVICE ArMS TO CONVINCE AMERICANS users that the Postal Service has sharply re­ again. SERVICE HAs IMPROVED duced mail collection service in recent years. It discloses that new mailboxes. labeled "one­ (By Timothy D. Schellhardt) star" and "two-star," have been designated WASHINGTON.-The Postal Service is since July 1 in most communities. The "one­ PREPAREDNESS launching its own election-year campaign, star" mailbox has a last collection pickup complete with catchy slogan, buttons and generally at 5 p.m. dally, while the "two­ snappy campaign literature. star" boxes have later pickups between 6:30 HON. LAWRENCEJ. HOGAN Its aim: To win the vote of more than 50 p.m. and 8 p.m. Only two or three years ago OF MARYLAND million U.S. families, convincing them that most mailboxes promised such late-night IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES mall service provided by the year-old semi­ pickups. independent agency has improved from that Mr. Ell1ngton says the designated star mail­ Tuesday, August 1, 1972 of its predecessor, the Cabinet-level Post Of­ boxes wlll practically assure that local letters Mr. HOGAN. Mr. Speaker, dw·ing last fice Department. mailed by the last pickup will be delivered month's :floods, there were many coura­ Postal officials concede that their first year the next day. The star boxes also will assure in office, which ended June 30, didn't attract mail pickups on Sunday and holidays, a serv­ geous individuals who risked their lives many endorsements of the service's claim ice that has been curtailed at many non­ to save the lives and property of others, that mall deliveries are speedier. Indeed, star boxes. and I · believe everyone living in the mall pickup and delivery services have de­ The service will announce other improve­ Washington, D.C., area owes these peo­ teriorated in several parts of the country. ment programs in the coming months, Mr. ple a vote of thanks. But that was last year, "It's a new ball Ellington promises. Included will be service In a recent WMAL editorial, that sta­ game," asserted J. T. Ellington Jr., assistant standards for various types of mall, includ­ tion paid tribute to these valiant police­ postmaster general for planning and the ing parcel post. men, firemen, rescue workers, and public chief lieutenant behind the current public relations campaign. Those of us who have supported the works employees, and I now insert that Its theme is "Serving America," a slogan aims of the Postal Service Corporation editorial in the RECORD: mall users will see a lot of in the coming are encouraged with this campaign. Mr. PREPAREDNESS months. Already it's emblazoned in red, Speaker, we applaud their efforts; we WMAL reporters who covered the chaotic white and blue on thousands of black but­ champion their endeavors; and we wish predawn hours of June 22 can attest to the tons worn by postal employes. "Serving to cooperate with them in every pos­ skill, stamina, and frequent bravery with America" posters are appearing in most of sible way to improve the activities of the which police, fire-and-rescue crews, and the nation's 32,000 Post Offices and the slogan Postal Service. public-works employees battled the pitch­ may even become a central theme for an ad­ dark swelling of area streams. Police sloshed vertising drive the service is considering. through the vortex of trouble spots, warn­ NO SHORTAGE OF PROMISES ing and evacuating slumbering residents. Fire-and-rescue missions saved dozens of The campaign isn't short of promises, HON. BllL FRENZEL'S VOTING people from drowning and electrocution. either. Mr. Ellington declares the services RECORD Public-works crews raced floodwaters to will (and alreany has begun to) : plant life-saving barricade.3 and rescued their Expand evening mailbox collection serv­ share of trapped people themselves. At emer­ ices. HON. BILL FRENZEL gency-operations headquarters, rank-and-file Improve air mall delivery performances. OF MINNESOTA Listen to mall user comments about serv­ officers calmed a populace that was stlll shud­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES dering at reports from Rapid City. Command ice through questionnaires and comment officials--captains and lieutenants at first-­ cards placed in lobbies and through periodic Tuesday, August 1, 1972 risked second-guessing and took a firm stand, consumer surveys. advising the evacuation of residents living Renovate 6,000 post omce lobbies by paint­ Mr. FRENZEL. Mr. Speaker, I have near threatened dams. ing them in bright green, blue or orange received a number of requests from my Only one flaw crept into this outstanding colors, and installing central kiosk-type in­ constituents concerning my voting record preparedness: Little forethought had been formation centers in the larger post offices. in the second session of the 92d Congress. given flood-evacuation sites, particularly in The service also is taking its campaign to In order to make this information read­ lower Montgomery County, where some low­ its 700,000 employes. A documentary film, ily available for my constituents, I am lying schools were at first selected and other currently in preparation, will depict the role submitting for the RECORD my votes in locations hustled up with frantic phone calls. employes play in getting mail delivered on A flooded school packed with 1,000 famllies time. A special magazine, underscoring the the second session of the 92d Congress. woUld have been a tragedy indeed. "Serving America" theme, wUI be sent to each A voting record does not tell the entire That single :flaw aside, the men who fought employes home, and merit awards honoring story of a Congressman's activities 1n Agnes' drenching rains deserve our undying employes achieving speclflc performance goals Congress, but, it is a useful guide. I hope gratitude. w1ll be increased. Performance records show- it wlll be of help to interested parties: CXVIII--1658-Part 20 26322 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS August 1, 1972 MEMBER'S INDIVIDUAL VOTING RECORD-92D CONGRESS, 2D SESSION HON. BILL FRENZEL

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104 •• ..: •• do ______--;- H 2942 H.R. 13324 (on passage) ______Yea. 1 Jan. 18, 1972 H 1 Call of the House ••••••••••••••••..: ••••• Present. 105 _____ do ______2 _____ do ______H 24 H.R. 8787 (on passage)------Yea. H 2950 H.R. 13188 (on passage>------Yea. 3 Jan. 19, 1972 H 85 Call of the House ______Present, 106 Apr. 12, 1972 H 2991 H.R. 13336 (on passage>------Yea. 4 _____ do ______H 99 S. 382 (agree to conference report) ______Yea. 107 Apr. 17, 1972 H 3057 Call of the House ______Present. 5 Jan. 25, 1972 H 246 H. Res. 765 (on agree to res.) ______Yea. 108 _____ do •••••• ..: H 3086 H. Con. Res. 471 (motion to suspend) ____ Yea 6 _____ do ______H 251 S. 2819 (agree to conference report) _____ Yea. 109 _____ do ______H 3100 H.R. 13752 (motion suspend) •• ------Nay. H 323 Call of the House ______Present. 110 _____ do ______to 7 Jan. 26,1972 H 3105 Call of the House ______Present 8 _____ do ______111 Apr. 18, 1972 H 3196 _____ do______Do. H 372338 H.R.Call of6957 the (on House passage>------______Yea.Present, 112 _____ do ______. 9 Jan. 27, 1972 H 3220 H.R. 45 (motion to recommit) ______Nay. 10 _____ do ______H 380 H.R. 8085 (on passage) ______Nay. 113 Apr. 19, 1972 H 3272 Call of the House ______Present. H 411 Call of the House ______Present. 1 114 _____ do ______H 3294 H.R. 10488 {on amendment)_------Yea. 1211 _____Jan. do31, ______1972 _ H 420 H.R. 10086 (on passage) ______Yea. 115 _____ do. ______H 3300 H.R. 10488 (on passage) ______Yea. H 3354 H.R. 14070 (resolve to committee) ______Yea. 13 Feb. 1, 1972 H 459 H. Res. 786 (on agree to res.>------Yea. 117116 _____Apr. do20, ______1972 _ 14 ____ _do •••••• ..: H 474 S. 748 ~on passage>------Yea. H 3355 Call in committee ______Present. 15 _____ do ______118 _____ do ______H 3377 _____ do______Do. H 480 S. 749 on passaRe>------Yea. 119 _____ do ______t 16 _____ do ______H 487 S. 210 on amendment>------Not voting. H 3388 H.R. 14070 (on passage) ______Yea. 17 _____ do ______H 3490 Call of the House ______Present. H 489 S. 2010 (on passage>------Yea. 120121 _____Apr. do25, ______1972 _ 18 Feb. 2, 1972 H 571 H.R. 7987 (on passage>------Yea. H 3507 H.R. 14108 (on passage) ______Yea. 19 _____ do ______H 580 Call in committee ______Present. 122 Apr. 26, 1972 H 3542 Call of the House ______Present. 1 20 _____ do ______H 584 H.R. 11394 (on amendment) ______Nay. 123 _____ do ______H 3628 H. Res. 918 (motion to table) ______Yea. 124 _____ do ______21 Feb. 3, 1972 H 676 Call of the House ______Present. H 3656 H.R. 14582 (on passage) ______Yea. 22 _____ do ______..: H 678 _____ do ••• ------Do. 125 Apr. 27, 1972 H 3702 Call in committee ______Absent. 123 _____ do ______..: H 709 H.R. 12089 (on amendment>------Nay. 126 _____ do ______H 3707 _____ do.______Do. 24 _____ do •••••• ..: H 711 H.R. 12089 (on passage) ______Yea. 1121 _____ do ______H 3723 H.R. 12202 (on amendment) ______Nay. H 751 Call ofthe House ______Present. 1128 _____ do ______H 3724 ___ __ do ______Yea. 25 Feb. 7, 1972 26 _____ do •••••• ..: H 756 S. 1857 (motion to suspend) ______Yea. 129 _____ do ______H 3725 H.R. 12202 (on passage>------Nay. 27 _____ do •••••• ..: H 784 S. 1163 (motion to suspend).------Yea. 130 May 1, 1972 H 3775 S. 2713 (motion to suspend) ______Yea. 28 _____ do ______..: H 790 H.R. 7088 (motion to suspend) ______Yea. 131 _____ do ______H 3784 H.R. 12652 (motion to suspend) ______Yea. 29 _____ do ______H 797 H.R.12186{motion to suspend>------Yea. 132 _____ do ______H 3786 H.R. 9676 (motion to suspend) ______Yea. 30 _____ do ______H 807 H.R. 12741 {motion to suspend) ______Yea. 133 _____ do. ______H 3790 H.R. 13334 (motion to suspend) ______Yea. H 839 Call of the House ______Present. 31 Feb. 8, 1972 134 May 3, 1972 H 4013 H.R. 13591 (on passage) ______Yea. 32 _____ do ______H 855 _____ do______Do. 135 _____ do ______H 4023 H.R. 13089 (on passage) ______Yea. 33 _____ do ______..: H 864 H. Res. 164 {on agree to res.) __ ------Yea. 136 May 4, 1972 H 4118 H.J. Res. 1174 (on passage) ______Yea. 34 _____ do ______H 886 H.R. 10243 {on passage) ______Nay. H 4194 Call of the House ______Present. H 955 Call of the House ______Present. 137 May 8, 1972 35 Feb. 9, 1972 138 _____ do ______H 4211 H.R. 14718 (on passage) ______Nay. 36 _____ do ______..: H 969 Call in committee______Do. 139 May 9, 1972 H 4274 H.J. Res. 55 (on passage) ______'Yea. 37 _____ do ______H 986 H.R. 12910 {on passage) ______Yea. 140 _____ do ______H 4285 H.R. 4383 (on passage) ______Yea. 38 _____ do ______H 990 Call of the House ______Present. 141 May 10, 1972 H 4340 H.R. 9ll2 (agree to conference report) ___ Nay. 39 _____ do ______H 994 H. Res. 796 (on agree to res.) ______Yea. 142 _____ do ______H 4354 H. Res. 968 (agree to resolution) ______Yea. 40 --~--do ______H 1010 H. J. Res. 1925 (on passage) ______Yea. 143 May 11, 1972 H 4424 S. 659. (motion to table) ______Yea. 41 Feb. 16, 1972 H 1057 Call of the House ______Present. 144 _____ do ______H 4425 S. 659 (motion to instruct) ______Nay. 42 _____ do ______H 1066 Call in committee______Do. t145 _____ do ______t146 _____ do ______H 44354441 _____H.R. do7130 ______(on amendment>------Nay. 43 Feb. 17,1972 H 1205 Call of the House______Do. 44 _____ do ______H 1207 Call in committee______Do. 1147 _____ do. ______H 4444 _____ do ______Nay. 145 _____ do ______H 1221 H.R. 12350 (on amendment) ______Nay. 1148 _____ do ______H 4454 ___ __ do·------Yea. 46 _____ do ______H 1233 H.R. 12350 (on passage>------Yea. 149 _____ do ______H 4455 H.R. 7130 (on passage) ______Yea. H 1296 Call of the House ______Present. H 4490 Call ot the House ______Present. 47 Feb. 22, 1972 151150 _____May do15, ______1972 _ 48 Feb. 23, 1972 H 1330 _____ do •••• ------Do. H 4497 H.R. 7378 (motion to suspend) ______Yea. 149 _____ do ______H 1353 H.R.12931 (on amendment>------Yea. 152 _____ do. ______H 4499 H.l. Res. 812 (motion to suspend) ______Yea. 50 Feb. 24, 1972 H 1430 Call of the House ______Present. 153 May 16, 1972 H 4563 Call of the House ______Present. 51 _____ do ______H 1437 H.R. 12067. (agree to conference report) •• Yea. 154 _____ do ______H 4579 Call in committee______Do. 52 _____ do ______H 1440 H.R. 12067 (on amendment) ______Yea. H 4643 H.R. 14582 Aagree to conference report) __ Yea. H 1499 Call of the House ______Present. 155 May 17, 1972 53 Feb. 29, 1972 156 _____ do ______H 4645 H.R. 14582 (motion to concur) ______Yea. 54 _____ do ______H 1527 Call in committee______Do. 157 _____ do ______H 4654 H.R. 14734 (on passage) ______Yea. 55 _____ do ______H 1539 H.R. 11021 (on passage) ______Yea. 158 May 18, 1972 H 4685 Call of the House ______Present. 56 Mar. 1, 1972 H 1610 Call of the House ______Present. '159 _____ do ______H 4695 H.R. 14989 (on amendment>------Yea. . 57 _____ do ______H 1619 H. Res. 849 (on agree to res.) ______Yea. 1160 _____ do ______H 4701 _____ do ______Not vottng. 58 _____ do ______H 1627 H. Res. 847 (on agree to res.) ______Yea. 1161 _____ do ______H 4708 _____ do______Do. 59 Mar. 2, 1972 H 1684 Call of the House ______Present. t162 _____ do ______H 4117 H.R.14989 (on amendment) ______Yea. 60 _____ do ______H 1692 H.R. 11384 (on passage) ______Yea. t163 _____ do ______H 4721 _____ do ______Nay. H 1755 Call of the House ______Present. 1164 _____ do ______H 4722 _____ do ______Nay. 6162 _____Mar. do6, ______1972 _ H 1760 H.R. 2589 (motion to suspend) ______Yea. 165 May 22, 1972 H 4750 Call of the House ______Present. 63 _____ do ______H 1779 H.R. 12828 (motion to suspend)______Do. 166 _____ do ______H 4771 H.R. 6788 (on passage) ______Yea. . H 1838 Call of the House ______Present. 64 Mar. 8,1972 167 _____ do ______H 4788 H.R.l1627 (on passage) ______Not votmg. 65 _____ do ______H 1851 S. 659 (motion to table) ______Yea. 168 May 23, 1972 H 4831 Call ofthe House ______Present. 66 _____ do ______H 1860 S. 659 (motion to recommit) ______Nay. 169 __ __ _do ______H 4924 H.R.15093 (on passage) ______Yea. 67 _____ do ______H 1870 H.R. 1746 (agree to conference report,._. Yea. H 4954 H. Res. 991 (on agree to res.) ______Yea. 68 _____ do ______170 May 24, 1972 H 1875 H.R. 11624 (on passage)______Do. 171 _____ do ______5 69 Mar. 9, 1972 H 1899 Cdll of the House ______Present. 172 IViay 30, 1972 ~ ~g~: ~a~·;f f~Z ~~~fe~~s_a_g_e?~::::::::::::::: Xg~ent. 70 _____ do ______H 1931 H.R.10420 (on passage) ______Yea. 173 _____ do ______H 5084 H.R. 9669 (on passage) ______Nay. H 1961 Call of the House ______Absent. 71 Mar. 13, 1972 174 May 31, 1972 H 5103 Call of the House ______Present. 72 _____ do ______H 1968 H.R.12410 (on passage). ______Not voting. 175 _____ do ______H 5112 _____ do______Do. H 2007 H.J. Res. 1097 (on passage) ______Yea. H 5141 Call in committee______Do. 73 Mar. 14, 1972 H 2033 Call ofthe House ______Present. 176 June 1,1972 74 Mar. 15, 1972 1177 _____ do ______H 5152 H.R.13918 (on amendment) ______Nay. 75 _____ do ______H 2035 _____ do ••• ------Do. 1178 _____ do ______H 5159 _____ do ______Nay. 76 _____ do ______H 2038 H.R. 12910 (agree to conference report) __ Yea. 1179 _____ do ______H 5162 __ ___ do ______Nay, 177 _____ do ______H 2064 H.R.11417 (on amendment>------Nay. t180 _____ do ______H 5165 _____ do ______Yea. 78 _____ do ______H 2065 H.R.11417 (on passage) ______Yea. 181 _____ do ______H 5168 _____ do------Yea. 79 Mar. 16, 1972 H 2112 S. 2097 (agree to conference report)_____ Do. 182 ____ _do. ______H 5169 H.R. 13918 (on passage) ______Yea. 80 Mar. 20,1972 H 2238 H.R. 8395 (motion to suspend).------Do, 183 _____ do ______H 5173 H. Res. 965 (on agree to res.) ______Yea. 81 _____ do ______H 2240 H.R. 11948 (motion to suspend) ______Yea. H 5214 Call of the House ______Present. H 2245 H.R. 4174 (motion to suspend) ______Yea. 184 June 5,1972 82 Mar. 20, 1972 H 2273 Call of the House ______Present. 185 _____ do •••••• ..: H 5219 S. 1736 (agree to conference Yea. 83 Mar. 21, 1972 representative.) 84 _____ do ______H 2295 H.R. 13120 (on passage)------Yea. 186 _____ do ______;; H 2325 Call of the House ______Present. H 5242 H.R. 12674 (mction to suspend) ______Yea. 85 Mar. 22, 1972 187 _____ do ______H 5248 H.R. 10310 (motion to suspend) ______Yea. 86 _____ do ______H 2348 Call in committee______Do. 188 _____ do ______H 5250 H.R. 14731 {motion to suspend) ______Yea. 87 _____ do ______H 2349 H.R. 13592 (on passage) ______Yea. 189 _____ do ______H 2423 Call of the House ______Present. H 5253 H.R. 14106 (motion to suspend) ______Yea. 88 Mar. 23, 1972 H 5276 Call of the House. ______Present. 89 _____ do ______H 2442 H.R. 13955 (on passage) ______Yea. 190 June 6, 1972 H 2475 Call of the House ______Present. 191 June 7,1972 H 5316 Call in committee ______Do. 90 Mar. 27, 1972 192 _____ do. ______. H 5324 H.R. 15259 (on passage) ______Yea. 91 Mar. 28, 1972 H 2583 _____ do ••• ------Do. 193 _____ do. ______H 5349 H.R. 14990 (on passage) ______Yea. 1 92 _____ do ______H 2616 H.R. 11896 (on amendment) ______Yea. H 5393 Call of the House ______Present. 1 93 _____ do ______194 June 8, 1972 195 __ ___ do ______H 5446 S.659(agreetoconterencerepresentative). Yea. 1 94 _____ do ______H 5463 H. Res. 995 (on agree to res.) ______Yea. 1 95 _____ do ______196 June 12, 1972 197 _____ do •••••• .: H 5470 H.R. 10792 (on passage>------Yea. 96 Mar. 29, 1972 H 2718 Call of the House ______Present. 198 _____ do ______H 5491 H.R. 12846 (on passage) ______Yea. 1 97 _____ do ______H 2731 =====!t======H.R. 11896 {on amendment) ______Nay. H 5537 Call in committee ______Present. 1 98 _____ do ______~ ~~n ~=~: 199 June 13, 1972 200 _____ do ______:; 1 99 _____ do ______201 June 14, 1972 ~ ~~~l ~llm~ ~~~sgr;~~elommiftiiii)::::::: ~:~: 1 100 _____ do ••••••• ~ ~~u :::::!~======::::::::::::::: ~=:: 202 _____ do •••••• :: H 5605 Call in committee ______Present. 101 •••••do ••••••.: H 29272773 CallH.R. of11896 the House(on passage>------______Yea.Present, 1 203 _____ do ______;: H 5667 H.R. 15417 (on amendment>------Nay. 102 Apr. 11,1972 H 5669 _____ do ______Yea. 103 •••••do ••••••.; H 2936 H.R. 9552 (on passage>------·-- Vee. 1 204 June 15, 1972 August 1, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 26323 . HON. BILL FRENZEL

Roll Page in Member's Roll Page in Member's No. Date daily record Description response No. Date daily record Description response

1 205 _____ do ______213 June 21, 1972 H 5864 _____ do ______Present H 5681 H.R. 15417 (on amendment)------Nay. . 214 _____ do ______1206 _____ do ______H 5693 _____ do------.------Not votmg. H 5876 H. Res. 996 (on previous question) ______Yea. 207 _____ do ______H 5712 H.R. 15417 (motion to recommit)______Do. 215 _____ do ______H 5881 Call in committee ______Present 216 _____ do ______208 _____ do ------H 5713 H.R. 15417 (on passage)---~------NVF.2 209 June 19, 1972 H 5743 Call of the House ______Presenl 217 June 21 , 1972 210 _____ do ______H 5752 H.R. 13694 (motion to suspend) ______Yea. 218 June 22, 1972 H 5986 Call of the House______Do. 211 _____ do ______219 _____ do ______~ ~~~: =====~~======&~: H 5767 S. 3343 (motion to suspend)______Do. 220 _____ do ______H 5987 H.R. 14370 (motion to recommit) ______Nay. 212 June 20, 1972 H 5782 Call of the House ______Absenl H 5988 H.R. 14370 (on passage) ______Yea.

1 1ndicates recorded teller vote. 2 NVF-Present not voting (paired tor).

ORDER OF AHEPA CELEBRATES ITS other perfectly proportioned structures grams and the regulation of the bank­ GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY of ancient Greece. ing industry. For 41 years AHEPA has awarded lo­ Red was quick to grasp the problems cal, district, and national scholarships which were presented and responded HON. MANUEL LUJAN, JR. to worthy students. At St. Basil's Acad­ clearly with a feasible solution. He ren­ OF NEW KEXICO emy in Garrison, N.Y., stand the AHEPA dered valuable service to Representative IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Hall for Boys and the Ahepa School, both Rains, the people of Alabama, and the Tuesday, August 1, 1972 donated by the order. The seven-volume Nation. set of the Greek classics is donated by Mr. LUJAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise to His intimate knowledge of the laws AHEPA chapters to high school and col­ relating to banks, the soundness of their salute the Order of Ahepa on the occa­ lege libraries. More than 40,000 American sion of its 50th anniversary and to call management and financial condition has books have been donated to schools and been engaged in the public interest in to the attention of my colleagues the libraries in Greece by AHEPA, and every many contributions this order and its recent years in his work as special assist­ year the order offers summer studies 1il ant to the Comptroller of the Currency, members have made to the betterment of Greece to American students through American life. the position from which he is retiring. the Ahepa educational journey to Greece Before his service with Congressman The word "AHEPA," Ml·. Speaker, programs. stands for "American Hellt:nic Educa­ Rains, Red Cox had been associated with Mr. James Pavlakos, president of the the Government in the Office of the tional Progressive Association." It was Albuquerque chapter of AHEPA, informs founded July 26, 1922, in Atlanta, Ga. It Comptroller of the Currency from 1933 is composed of four separate organiza­ me that it was the Order of Ahepa that to 1937 and in the Federal Housing Ad­ tions, each with its separate function but purchased the land in 1944 on which the ministration from 1937 until 1945. all working in :Carmony toward the Greek Community Center now stands­ In all of his work, he has demonstrated order's goals. These four organizations a lasting monument to the work of New both industry and excellence. He has are: The Order of Ahepa, the Daughters Mexico members of the order. AHEPA dedicated himself to the highest stand­ of Penelope-senior women's auxiliary, has been in existence for 43 years in our ards of public service. the Sons of Pericles-junior young men's State, Mr. Speaker, and its members in­ As he retires, he has my commendation auxiliary, and the Maids of Athena­ clude some of New Mexico's most out­ for a job well done and my best wishes junior young women's auxiliary. standing and public-spirited citizens. for every success in the years ahead. I take great personal pride in b1inging The local chapters of AHEPA are al­ to your attention the record of accom­ ways active in civic affairs and projects, plishments of this organization. following the order's program of urging During World War II, AHEPA mem­ its members to be model citizens through COLORADO'S POET LAUREATE bers sold $500 million in U.S. war bonds, planned civic activity. And, while I am certain that all members of the order are demonstrating ~heir faith and trust in proud of the fact that our great Vice HON. FRANK E. EVANS the wartime caue of thi..J Nation. OF COLORADO When hurricanes struck the Florida President SPIRO AGNEW is a member of AHEPA, I think all Americans should be IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES coast, destroying ~1omes and devastating whole communities, AHEPA raised proud to have this outstanding organiza­ Tuesday, August 1, 1972 money, food, and clothes which were tion in our midst, working for all that is fine and good in this great democracy. Mr. EVANS of Colorado. Mr. Speaker, rushed to the victims. And this action the State of Colorado has the distinction was not unique for AHEPA. Wherever Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues and all Americans 4-.o rise in salute to this fine of celebrating the centennial of its ad­ natural disaster strikes at home or mission to the Union in the same year abroad, AHEPA is there with help: Kan­ order and to congratulate its members on the golden anniversary of AHEPA. that all Americans will be celebrating the sas City flood, Corinth earthquake, Ecua­ 200th anniversary of the United States dorian relief, Mississippi flood, Greek war of America. orphans-the list goes on and on, from When Colorado became a State on one humanitarian effort to another E. E. "RED" COX RETffiES August 1, 1876, it was known as the Cen­ throughout the world. tennial State in commemoration of the But, while aid to natural and man­ 100th anniversary of the United States. made disaster victims is probably the HON. ROBERT E. JONES Now as Colorado nears its own 100th most visible of AHEPA's work, by far the OF ALABAMA anniversary, the State's Poet Laureate, more important effort made by the order IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. Milford E. Shields of Durango, has is in the field of education. Tuesday, August 1, 1972 written two poems, one to mark the U.S. One of AHEPA's goals is "To cham­ Bicentennial and the other to mark the pion the cause of education, and to main­ Mr. JONES of Alabama. Mr. Speaker, a State's centennial. tain new chanels for facilitating the dis­ dedicated and able friend, E. E. "Red" The poems follow: semination of culture and learning." How Cox, ha.s retired following an exceptional fitting a goal for the race of people who career in the Federal service. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BICENTENNIAL gave us Pericles, Demosthenes, Aristotle, For 20 years, Red Cox was the chief July 4, 1976 the golden age of poetry, art, music, and aide to Hon. Albert Rains of Gadsden, The Jamestown start, the onward years of sculpture, ·the wonderful myths, legends, time, Ala., and was involved in many details The virile rhythm and the holy rhyme; and heroic epics, to say nothing of the· that went into the planning and enact­ The land of liberty, the country just, lasting architectural beauty of the ment of much of the legislation which The destiny of peoples and the trust. Acropolis, the Parthenon, and all the has advanced this Nation's housing pro- The group assembled of the sons of faith, 26324 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS August 1, 1972

The issue joined, the pledg~ upto death can Heritage. The contents of this arti­ With large numbers of people calling all the Of lives and fortunes, sacred honor all, cle, which follow. could easily have been time, the telephone ringing incessantly, and The fields of blood, the country's bugle call. authored by any of us here today: work to be done, the physical part of t he task, The symbol of the flag to lead them through, the simple administrative duties, simply The spirit of the Red, the White, the Blue WHAT MADE MAURY RUN weight the Congressman down. It is perfectly Was written in our Constitution's light, (By Barbara S. Kraft) natural, therefore, for Congressmen to break our witness and our covenant of right. (NoTE.-In December, 1936, Oswald Garri­ under the impact and give up entirely using The decades that are history are ours, son Villard, longtime liberal editor of The their own brains. Dimensions, depths and properties and Nation, wrote his friend Representative Second point: Democracy is likely to break pow'rs: Maury Maverick (1895-1954), of San Antonio, down of its own weight. After great hullaba­ In time's full tide we have progressed and Texas, that he wanted to inform the public loo, accusations and counter-accusations, a won of the congressional burdens caused by the man is elected to office. Then the people pre­ A brighter place in all the nation's sun. New Deal's economic emphasis. He asked that vent him from doing his duty. Strangely Now we have walked upon the heaven's moon Maverick's secretary send him a statistical enough, in reference to Congressmen, the In full technocracy and moral tune; breakdown of a week in the life of a con­ people have no respect at all for each other. Two centuries of God's expanding time gressman. Attempting to talk to one constituent means Have made our flag, our nation glow sublime. (Deeply devoted to his job, the brash and nothing to another-he wlll break in and boisterous Maverick had already, in the first start talking about his own affairs. I know that this is not the plight of the lawyer, COLORADO CENTENNIAL of the two terms he would serve, won a na­ tional reputation by ignoring the protocol of businessman, or average citizen who is August 1, 1976 silence observed by freshmen in the House. "prominent"-because before I was in Con­ One hundred years ago our mountain gold He had no patience with hypocrisy or with gress people talked to me one at a time. Was coined into our State bright to behold; official language that obfuscated issues, for Historical psychological background (in We were Centennial's true otfering which he coined the word gobbledygook. deep confidence) : In times past, the royalty To our United States, our golden thing. He was intensely proud of his colonial herit­ had a touch of magic. There is no royalty Our decades and our issues and our men age, of his grandfather who had signed the now, and no one to settle a man's problems. Had forged and fashioned solid times again; Texas Declaration of Independence; and he If he is a Catholic, he can go to a priest Our mountains and our plains formed bul- saw, as his historic mission, the safeguarding for confession and, I understand, get some warks great of individuals' rights and the nation's nat­ consolation. But if he wants a pension, 1s And they were forged into our Four Square ural resources. This same grandfather, Sam­ out of a job, has been fired, has been given State. uel Maverick, according to a frequently re­ a dishonorable discharge from the Army and For ten decades we have moved surely on, peated legend, added a word to the English wants to get back in, is going to lose his Each day has been an even brighter dawn; language when, probably through an over­ home because he hasn't paid anything on We've played our part in honor and in pride, sight of his slaves, he failed to brand a small his HOLC loan since he made it some 12 to Our Trust of Statehood has been justified. herd of cattle in his possession. Thereafter, 16 months before, or wants a job for a "maverick" was the common name for an un­ "friend," or has anything the matter with One hundred years of dedicated time branded animal, and in time the word stood him at all, the only person who will even Have made our star upon the fia.g sublime; for a politician independent of party control. speak to him, or whom he can speak to, Look at our Capitol and there behold Maury Maverick, both in Congress and in a is the degraded renmant of royalty-the Its dome, our witness, sealed in purest gold. term as mayor of San Antonio, from 1939 to Congressman. Hence, no Congressman can 1941, lived up to the name. walk down the streets of his home town (The secretary's report indicated that Con­ naturally. He cannot stop at a shop window, gressman Maverick received 150 letters and because he will be pinched, slapped on the SUPPORTING MEMBERS OF forty callers dally, attended up to six weekly back, or jerked a.way and asked questions CONGRESS committee meetings, and was often at his and told views until he gives up in disgust, desk late into the night. During adjourn­ calls a taxicab and hides his head so he can ment, there was some surcease, though the get home and get away from it all. HON. JOHN P. SAYLOR office seekers increased and the phone never As for Washington, the situation is not stopped ringing. But the secretary's simple quite as bad, but there comes all day long OF PENNSYLVANIA listing of statistics didn't tell of the "pangs cranks of all kinds who have a "plan" to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and pains" or the "emotional strain" the solve the depression, or a fool-proof "pen­ Tuesday, August 1, 1972 congressman endures, so Maverick took pen sion system," and most of them are good to paper and did the job himself.) people who have some hold on you and you Mr. SAYLOR. Mr. Speaker, I feel the In the first place, no one ever talks to a have to speak to them. I have an additional time has come for a statement to be Congressman unless they are either unem­ burden, and this is true of all Congressmen made supportiLg Members of Congress ployed, angry, or in a state of defeat. The who are unfortunate enough to have Revo­ who, as elections draw closer, are once "successful" men have no time to talk to a lutionary, 1812, Mexican War, and Civil War Congressman, and you receive no visits from relatives. Thank God there are no Abolition­ again feeling the piercing edge of the your friends, because your office is always ists in my family, or I would break under public sword wielded by those citizens packed and jammed with unfortunate peo­ the strain. But there are plenty of others­ we so diligently serve. This battle casts ple demanding immediate attention. You are ! think I have you beat by several genera­ us as flamboyant ne'er-do-wells who are constantly besieged to make speeches, a~d tions of them. unreceptive to constituents, too difficult you are supposed to make facetious remarks Then in Washington life, it has a. feature to see, too liberal, too conservative, too and tell two or three jokes-generally jokes which is disgusting. You are invited to a stupid, or too smart. As the public eye which are wholly outside of the realm of supper, and frequently an important one. It thought-and then to make a very grave is supposed to start at seven, and it starts changes focus, so does our image in that speech, complimenting the group you ad­ at eight. It's supposed to close at nine, but vision. dress. then everyone makes a speech, it is impossible If the average citizen could spend just It is impossible for a Congressman to walk to get away, and sometimes they last until 1 week performing the duties of a Con­ down the street, even with his wife and chil­ eleven or twelve o'clock. You go home, hav­ gressman, he would be truly amazed. As dren, or with his best friends or associates. ing eaten too much, smoked too much, and he attends the never-ending meetings, Leaving the Maverick Building and going to listened too much tiresome bull; you sleep meets the onslaught of invitations for the St. Anthony Hotel, which is only two too late; get to your office late. You can't get personal appearance, keeps informed on short blocks, I am frequently stopped as in on account of the people blocking the door many as ten or twenty times. Each person waiting to see you, and you have a mass of current legislatio"' and events, and re­ starts out by saying: "Congressman. Can I correspondence which you probably don't an­ ceives the criticism and rare plaudits of see you just a minute?" or "You're the swer in the morning and which is deferred his constituency, he would be overjoyed hardest man to find in town. I've been trying until that night. You get behind further and at the prospect of returning to his 5- to get you for six weeks." Or similar ap­ further. day 40-hour week. For he would soon proaches. In biting cold weather, and al­ When any man makes a speech who has learn that once a person accepts the re­ ready late, it is necessary to listen to a long some self-respect, he has to make research. sponsibilities of a Member of Congress story which has no point, with a great mass of This is almost impossible, and so you send he is on call from the public 24 how·s irrelevant data,-all of which could have to the Library to get your books. You, of been handled as a routine matter by my course, cannot read a speech, because. CQn­ per day, 7 days a week. secretary in the first place. gressmen don't listen, anyway, which neces­ In 1936, Congressman Maury Maverick Point: There is absolutely no time for the sitates an extreme familiarity with your sub­ authored a time].y description of the life average Congressman to study, make re­ ject if you talk witb.out manuscript. The re­ of a Congressman, the text of which search, and_~mprove his mind. His secretarial sult is frequently slipshOd speeches. · appeared in the August issue of Amerl- sta-1f is insufficient for the amount of work. I h and you herewith ·a. typical example of August 1, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 26325 correspondence which I received this moni­ CHARLES L. SNYDER HONORED BY great need for snelters for travelers stranded )J:lg--one of my firends, whom I have known . RED CROSS . in heavy snows. He established a close rap­ for twenty-five years, suggests that I lack port with the State Police and Civil Defense. sincerity because I disagree with him on the He talked with the Board of Education about ·supreme Court. I have Written him a. very the need for schools for mass sheltering. sharp letter and have told him to mind his HON. GOODLOE E. BYRON Then he put it all together and published the own business--but the customary thing for OF IIARYLAND First Disaster Preparedness Handbook for the most Congressmen is to write a. letter and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Frederick Chapter. say they appreciate the suggestion, and so on. "Could he have been clairvoyant? Several I can truthfully state the following, of Tuesday, August 1, 1972 weeks later Tropical Storm Agnes struck. every congre~sman: Mr. BYRON. Mr. Speaker, last week Maryland and Frederick County experienced Republican, or Democrat, he works harder its worst disaster in 40 years. The plan was tba.n any two businesmen. the Frederick County Chapter of the there and after the first few hours of panic He is above average, and I do not believe American Red Cross presented Charles and confusion, everything fell into place. there is a single Member of Congress who L. Snyder 1ts award of Volunteer of the "This volunteer worked around the clock, would accept a bribe in money in any sum. Year. Immediately afterward, the chap­ gathering up the stranded, bringing them · He is generally a better representative than ter elected him chairman for the next into shelters, transporting food supplies, col­ his constituents deserve. year. ThesE' double honors were richly de­ lecting cleaning kits and working closely with His health is bad because of his constant served. During the recent fioods caused the National Staff. When the central Disaster application to work, and statistics show tba.t by Hurricane Agnes. Mr. Synder worked Assistance Center was created, he supplied Congressmen die of acute indigestion, heart certain office equipment for their needs. He trouble of various kinds, such as coronary diligently to aid victims of the disaster. assisted the building specialist from the Na­ thrombosis, also arterio-sclerosis, and dis­ The Frederick News published an edi­ tional Red Cross complete an accurate sur­ eases due to improper diet. torial on July 31 praising Mr. Snyder's vey of the storm damage in the area. This He really wants to learn, study and apply efforts. I would like to add my own per­ information was requested not only by R~ himself, but conditions of being a modern sonal note of congratulations and to Cross but the Governor's Office. messenger boy simply make it impossible. share the editorial with my colleagues. "Prior to Agnes, this volunteer compllf;ed Very truly yours, The editorial follows: an inventory of all Chapter equipment which MAURY MAVERICK, had been recommended by the Department Member of Congress. FOR SERVICE ABOVE SELF of Defense auditors. He has helped Public It was a fitting honor that the venerable Information by publishing programs for spe­ Frederick County Chapter, American Red cial events. In every task this volunteer has Cross bestowed upon a relative newcomer accepted, he has seen it through to comple­ THE AMERICAN CREED at its annual meeting last week in first tion with no procrastination and always selecting Charles L. Snyder as its volunteer leaves a record of his procedures for the next for the year 1972, and a few moments later man who might follow. HON. JAMES M. COLLINS electing him to chapter chairmanship. "The Chapter is fortunate not only in hav­ It was under his direction that the Disas­ ing this nominee, but in knowing that he has OF TEXAS ter Services of the Chapter were revitalized the support of his wife who is a Red Cross IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES during the past year--and just in time to care Nurse who volunteers at the Blood visitations for the hundreds who were stranded, home­ and in the Disaster Shelters. This is truly a Tuesday, August 1, 1972 floods less and helpless from the of Tropical Red Cross team and the Chapter appreciates storm Agnes. her patience and understanding. Mr. COLLINS of Texas. Mr. Speaker, · A brief review of the chapter activities dur­ I was proud to read in my Park Cities ing the Agnes disaster showed that the three "The Frederick County Chapter is proud News that they included the American shelters set up--at Carroll Manor School, to present Mr. Charles L. Snyder as its Volun­ Creed as a special news item. At the top Coblentz Hall at Hood College and the Na­ teer for the Year of 1972." of page 3 they quoted the American tional Guard Armory--served a total of 185 We add our congratulations. Creed just as it is written. · · persons. ·' ~ Ed Wilson, the editor of the Park Five disaster specialists were sent from the Cities News, believes the American Creed National Red Cross to assist the chapter in news and a story we should reread. its rehabilitation work, and assistance centers THE LATE WILLIAM GARRETT ~ were established at Point of Rocks, Sagr:er The publishers, Clarence Stark and Court recreation hall, and West Frederick Mike Anderson, have built the Park Cities Junior High SChool. HON. ELLA T. GRASSO News based on sound American The Red Crt}SS expended a. total of $17,436 fundamentals. for disaster relief here during the emergency OF CONNEC'DCUT Today we have many Americans who to the 350 families who suffered loss of some IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES do not pause to appreciate how fortu­ type· or other. Tuesday, August 1, 1972 nate they are to be Americans. America Assisting the Red Cross were the Clorox Co. has a challenge from within, as the and Frederick Trading Co. for donations of Mrs. GRASSO. Mr. Speaker, on July people themselves give up more and cleaning supplies. Assisting with food for 19, a distinguished newsman and dear shelters were McDonald's and A&P. friend passed away. William Garrett, the more of their liberty as they vest more The Red Cross assistance in time of emer­ centralized power in Washington. gency is an outright gift, and $3,769 was dean of Connecticut reporters in Wash­ It is great to have editors like Ed raised locally for the Agnes disaster and the ington, was a sparkling, remarkable Wilson of the Park Cities News down Black Hills flood. journalist whose trademark was excel­ in Dallas, Tex. We still believe in prayer The tribute t~ newly elected Chairman lence, whose fairness was consistent, and in schools, and the American Creed in Snyder i.Ji the report of the Chapter reads: whose interest in people, sense of com­ every home. "This nominee for the Volunteer of the passion and touch of humor were endur­ Here is the American Creed as Year· Award came to the Frederick County ing. Chapter, experienced in Red Cross procedures Bill was an inspiration and comfort to presented in the Park Cities News: and philosopohy. He had previously held the THE AMERICAN CREED office of · Chapter chairman and Disaster all who knew him and to all his avid ad­ I believe in the United States of America chairman in Ohio. Once the Chapter learned mirers and readers during his more than as a government of the people, by the people, of this 'find', he was invited to become a 35 years in newspaperwork. His fasci­ for the people, whose just powers are derived member of the Board of Directors and in the natipg, informative columns of life and 'from the consent of the governed; a democ­ course of a short time his capabilities were politics in the Nation's Capital were a racy in a republic; a sovereign nation of recognized. He was appointed Disaster chair­ special pleasure to read and will be sorely many sovereign states; a perfect nation, and man and vice chairman of the Board. missed by the devoted readership of the one inseparable established upon those "He was aware that the Disaster Services Bristol Press and the Hartford Times. principles of freedom, equality, justice, and in the Chapter were obsolete and no recent humanity for which American patriots planning had been done. His job was to re­ While Bill is no longer with us, we will sacrificed their lives and fortunes. vitalize the plan if Red Cross was to function not forget this splendid human being I therefore believe lt 1s m.y duty to m.y according to its Congressional Charter. He who touched so many lives with warmth country to love lt; support its Constitution; traveled over the highways and back roads o:f and grace. For the .interest of my col­ to obey its laws, to respect its flag; and to the County, canvassing motels, small and leagues, a recent editorial and article in defend it against all enemies. large, churches and fire halls, explaining the the Bristol Press and an article in the 26326 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS . August 1, 1972 Hartford Times about Bill Garrett entitle him to be ranked tops in this. field Garrett was born in Troy, N.Y. Sept. 23, follow: of endeavor. 1910, son of Adelor and Delia (Fassett) Gar­ Bill Garrett was just such a newspaperman rett and came to Bristol when he was a year WILLIAK P. GARB.E'ri', TIMEs COLUMNIST and that is why so many in Bristol were old. He attended St. Ann's School here and SILVER SPRXNG, Mn.-William F. Gar­ shocked Thursday to learn of his passing Trinity College. His first journalistic assign­ rett, a former Hartford Times reporter and though it was generally known that his was ment here was as local correspondent for The 20-year veteran of the Gannett News Service far from the best of health and even though New Britain Herald. In 1934 he succeeded Washington Bureau, died last night at Holy it had been 22 years since he left this commu­ Rolfe E. Rowe as Bristol correspondent for Cross Hospital here after an apparent heart nity to become a Washington staffer for the the Hartford Times after Rowe had been attack. He was 61. Gannett News Service. elected town and city clerk. A veteran of more than 35 years in the This unusual man apparently kept busy During World War II, he was in the Public newspaper business, Garrett is a former right up to the end because his columns still Relations Department of the New Departure Bristol resident. He worked earlier for the are appearing in The Press just as they have Division of General Motors Corporation. After New Britain Herald and covered the Bristol for the past three years while he was the the war, he rejoined The Hartford Times as area for five years for The Times. After serv­ newspaper's Washington correspondent. a roving correspondent and won several ing on the city staff of The Times, Garrett Bill probably spent more hours at a Lype­ awards for his brilliant coverage of two sen­ went to Washington in 1950. He authored a writer than any newsman we can recall. He sational "mercy killing" cases, the Carol column on the Washington scene, highlight­ wrote swiftly, using just one finger, a re­ Paight trial in Stamford and the Doctor ing persons and happenings of particular markably rapid and agUe digit which was the Sanders trial in New Haven. Connecticut interest. instrument he turned to turn out volumi­ In 1950, Gannett News Service, of which After retlrlng from the Gannett News nous, lucid and clean copy. It was always a The Hartford Times is a subsidiary, trans­ Service bureau in 1970, Garrett still kept ac­ pleasure to edit a Garrett column because it ferred him to its bureau in Washington, D.C. tive, free-lancing for the bureau and writing required a minimum of editing. Although and he served there until his retirement three periodic columns for The Times. he had little formal education, he wrote with years ago. He had since been turning out his Born in Troy, N.Y., he lived in Bristol un­ the facUlty of an English major and told his Washington Beat pieces for The Press at his til moving to the Washington area in 1950. story with amazing incisiveness. Connecticut home at the rate of three or four a week. He and his wife lived at 11310 Galt Ave., has seen few writers like him. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and Wheaton. Md., a northerly suburb of Wash_. Garrett was also one of Bristol's finest it is expected that final rites will be in Mary­ ington. citizens during the many years he lived land. He is survived by his wife, Calista McEnany here. He served in many civic capacities and Garrett's survivors include his wife, Mrs. Garrett, originally of Terryville. at one time was one of the most distinguished Calista (McEnany) Garrett, formerly of Ter­ Once a weekly newspaper editor and for members of the Board of Education. He also ryville; a son, William J. Garrett of Hyatts­ a time an assistant public relations director participated in many social and fraternal ville, Md.; three daughters, Mrs. Mary Zolly for General Motors New Departure division activities and was in the forefront of the pro­ of Rockville, Md., Mrs. Margaret King of in Connecticut, he favored reporting and motion of a host of sports undertakings. Gar­ Mount Holly, N.J., and Mrs. Evelyn Long of writing over other areas of the newspaper rett spent a good part of his life in the cause Ellicott, Md.; a sister, Mrs. Michael Krampitz business. of clean athletics even though it meant little of Bristol; 11 grandchildren and a nephew "Most of my working life has been given to him in the way of financial reward. and two nieces. to newspaper reporting," Garrett once wrote, Despite being the busiest of men, Bill Gar­ when he provided background for a column rett always maintain.ed a friendly attitude PROMXNENT rN SPORTS he started at The Times. "I've done little for all. We cannot remember a single person Garrett's illustrious career started at a editing because I've never wanted to be glued who might have had occasion to consider him tender age when he managed the old Blue to a desk." an enemy. He was above the petty grudge sit­ Jays baseball team. The club was highly suc­ When he left The Times for Gannett (The uations in which some newsmen indulge. His cessful in the won-lost column and attracted Times is a member of the Gannett group) , policy was to write facts and let them speak considerable attention throughout the State he took on a new role. During his 20 years' for themselves without letting personal feel­ because of the favorable publicity it had re­ tenure at the news service bureau he became ings color a story in any vein or direction. ceived. Bill was the manager and public rela­ the bureau's resident "expert" on such mat­ Bill was devoted to his wife ana four tions director. ters as radio-television, the Federal Com­ children and to his hundreds of friends both It was with Ray Casey's Maple End athletic munications Commission, federal-state re­ here and in the Washington area. The friend teams that Garrett enjoyed himself im­ lations and a variety of related subjects such of the great and the near-great, he had t.he mensely. In later years, he would mention the as housing. highways, urban renewal and humble nature that dictated his being nice Maple End teams whenever Bristol sports airport programs. to any person whether he be a Vice President came up for discussion. For a time Garrett was a contributor to of the United States or some ordinary private He took great pride in the accomplish­ the Gannett News Service's "Capitol Memo," citizen. ments of the late George (Big Wrinkle) a radio program carried by six stations owned Our sympathy goes to his family in this Alexander and his brother Phllip, who was by Gannett. dark hour. We at The Press will miss not recently honored at a citywide sports testi­ Garrett was active in public life in Con­ only his wonderful journalistic contributions monial. necticut, serving at varying times as Bristol's to our editorial page but also those triendly Another of Garrett's favorites was Joseph justice of the peace, as a member of the visits he would make to our offices whenever (Sugar) Hugret, one of Bristol's all-time school board and of the housing authority. he made the long trip back home to Bristol great football players. Hugret played briefiy A graduate of Trinity College, Garrett was from Maryland. for the Maple Ends after gaining All-America a former president and a founder of the East­ Although ..30" factually has been applied recognition before an injury shortened his ern Professional Basketball League, a past to the Garrett career, the memory of his promising career. president of the Southern New England In­ cheery presence will be with us for a long Another team that was well-publicized, dustrial Editors Association, and former dis­ time to come. thanks to Garrett's e1Iorts, was the Farmer's trict governor of the Exchange Club. Feed & Supply basketball team which won Garrett was also a member of the National WILLIAM A. GARRET'l', 61, VETERAN NEWSMAN, several championships in the City Basket­ Press Club, Sigma Delta Chi, professional DIEs ball League in the late '20s and early '30s. journalism fraternity, and the White House William A. Garrett, 61, of Wheaton, Md., In addition to his sportswriting activities, Correspondents Association. Washington, D.C. correspondent for The Garrett also found time to manage several Besides his wife, he leaves three daughters, Bristol Press for the past several years and outstanding Maple End baseball and basket­ Mrs. Margaret King Jr, of Mt. Holly, N.J., one of Connecticut's best known and most re­ ball teams, as well as Jack's Captains, a team Mrs. Mary Zolly of Rockville, Md., and Mrs. spected newspapermen, died at 4 a.m. today that brought a great deal of recognition to Evelyn Long Jr., of Ellicott City, Md.; a son, at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Springs, Md. the city because of its many traveling en­ William J. of Hyattsville, Md.; a sister, .Mrs. after suffering a heart attack at his home. He gagements. Michael Krampitz of Bristol, and seven died in the same hospital where Alabama LEAGUE SECRETARY grandchildren. Gov. George Wallace was a patient after the After World War II, he served as the pe­ Funeral arrangements are incomplete. They attempt on his life. rennial secretary of the state Basketball are being handled by Collins Funeral Home, Just yesterday two of Garrett's widely read League. President of the league was Louis G . Silver Spring, Md. Washington Beat features arrived at The Black, veteran Associated Press sportswriter. Press. One is being used on the editorial page Garrett was wrapped up in the league be­ WILLIAM A. GARRET!' today and another tomorrow. cause Bristol was represented by the Bristol Like any profession, journalism includes Until 22 years ago Garrett made his home Tramps, owned and coached by Julie Larese. among its members all manner of men and in Bristol and was one of the community's Asked once to compare the old City League women with assorted skllls, background, ded­ most active citizens. At various times he and the State League, Garrett said: "That ication and character. But, they do have one served on the Board of Education and the would be too tough. They both were loaded thing in common, a ready ability to recog­ Housing Authority and was prominent in with outstanding players." nize among their own a true craftsman whose many sports, civic, church and fraternal Bill also helped publicize world's archery nose for news, writing ability and character activities. champion Russ Hoogerhyde. As a matter of August 1, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 26327 fact, he was responsible In featuring the arch­ I sincerely hope that the Supreme Immediately after entering the White ery kind prior to Jack's Captains games. Court will overturn the lower court's de­ House, President Nixon directed that this The Bristol newspaperman would publicize country re-evaluate its role In world affairs. A anything with a Bristol label attached to it. cision in this case when it is appealed. It is unfortunate, of course, that Con­ new Vietnam policy was put into effect, a pol­ He loved the Maple End-West End Athletic icy which will fulfill our responsib111ties with­ Club football rivalry and often submitted gress has done so little relative to the out seeming to threaten other nations with glittering accounts of the Thanksgiving Day clarification of the Hatch Act. While I am whom we must negotiate other crucial issues battles. not a member of the committee with re­ in the International community. Steps were Bill had a fond liking for Rebelle 8. Car­ sponsibility in this area, the court de­ taken to enter Into a new China policy. The pener and Raymond J. Casey, former West cision does renew the focus on the need Soviet Union was approached with a new End and Maple End club presidents respec­ for revisions and improvements in this openness and a new sense of realism on tively. important law. the issues of Berlin, the Middle East and When he left Bristol to become associated nuclear weapons. Our European allies were with the Gannett News Service, Garrett reassured of our commitment to them. didn't leave Bristol In back of him. Whenever President Nixon said, "Listen more and he came upon a Bristol story In the nation's SALUTE TO AMBASSADOR GEORGE lectl.rre less." Now, three years later, after one capital, he would send it along for publica­ BUSH of the most Intensive periods of Interna­ tion in the Bristol Press sports pages. tional negotiations in t:t.is century, the re­ Garrett was also a charter member of the sults are beginning to pour forth. Already Bristol Exchange Club and a past grand HON. WILLIAM A. STEIGER they can be termed truly extraordinary. knight of Palos Council, Knights of Colum­ OF WISCONSIN bus. The United States is ending its role in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Vietnam without sacrifice of its honor and responsibility. The People's Republic of Tuesday, August 1, 1972 China has been brought Into its proper role THE PERILS OF "UNHATCHING" Mr. STEIGER of Wisconsin. Mr. in the world community. A cease-fire 1s in Speaker, I would like to take this op­ existence in the Middle East. A Berlin agree­ ment has been reached. Negotiations with the portunity to commend our former col­ Soviet Union have been concluded on such HON. ANCHER NELSEN league, Ambassador George Bush, for the OF MINNESOTA issues as the environment, health, inter­ exceptional job he is producing as U.S. national disputes at sea, trade and, most IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES .Ambassador to the United Nations. important, the limitation of strategic nu­ Tuesday, August 1, 1972 Through his consistent efforts in his role clear weapons, both offensive and defensive. as America's chief diplomat and strate­ I am not about to suggest that all ::;he NELSEN. Speaker, in 1966-67, Mr. Mr. gist in the U.N., he has been able to carry steps the President has taken have met with I was privileged to serve as a member of out our Nation's policy effectively. I the approval of all the countries at the the Commission on Political Activity of know that all of us join in in extending United Nations. I think it is fair to say that Government Personnel which reviewed most of the countries at the United Nations heartfelt wishes for the continued suc­ the Hatch Act and subsequently recom­ recognize in our foreign policy under Pres­ cess of his work as our representative in mended a number of changes to Con­ ident Nixon a willingness to innovate. They gress. In an earlier Congress, I also the world body. are apt to give credit to the President for his chaired a Republical' task force on the As part of my remarks today, I include creed of "negotiation over confrontation." an article written by Ambassador Bush Some home-front critics haVI'! suggested Federal civil service merit system. that our nation's security has been under­ Accordingly, I have had particular in­ which appeared in the July 9, 1972, issue of the New York Times: mined by the steps the President has taken. terest in yesterday's majority opinion au­ T!lough there 1s undoubtedly some risk In­ thored by U.S. District Court Judge VIEW FROM THE U.N.: MOST OF THE COUN­ TRIES AT THE U.N. RECOGNIZE IN Oua Foa­ volved In any such agreemei'ts, there would Gerhard A. Gesell that a Gection of the have been a far greater risk to us and to EXGN PoLICY UNDER PREslDENT NIXON A Hatch Act barring Federal workers from much of the world In continuing to base our Wn.LINGNESS TO INNOVATE foreign policy on obsolete considerations that participating in partisan political cam­ (By George Bush) paigns is unconstitutional. had validity in the past, but had subse­ UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.-From the vantage quently been overtaken by events. It seems to me that the court, in a 2-1 point at the United Nations one gets a rath­ Our most treasured and respected allies split decision, has unwisely opened up a er concentrated dose of world opinion. do not feel threatened by the results of the can of political worms ant.. improperly Right now there are two main points un­ summits at Moscow and Peking. intruded on the lawmaking powers of der constant corridor discussion. First, Can They are almost unanimous In their view Congress. the pa.tterns of war give way to a generation that the trips will lead to a more peaceful I share the court's view that the act is of peace? Second, Do the successful visits world. They are reassured by the President's overly broad and believe that there of President Nixon to Moscow and Peking determination to keep a strong defense, for should be a realistic clarification of pro­ strengthen or detract from the utility of no matter how enthusiastic they are about visions relating t,o political activities per­ the United Nations? the new agreements, they understand that On the first point, it is too early to tell without strength these agreements would mitted and prohibited so that all Federal have been impossible. Further, that without employees may have a clearer under­ whether the patterns of the fifties and six­ ties can now, In the seventies, be changed. strength in the future, future agreements standing of the law. But it is appropriate to say that great prog­ will be impossible. But this is the task of Congress, not the ress toward breaking the patterns has been Lastly, on the United Nations itself, some Federal courts. To throw out by judicial made. President Nixon's landmark journeys have criticized the President for "not using flat main restrictions on political activ­ to Peking and to Moscow-culminating In the United Nations" or for "going around ity is to invite the return of the worst ex­ the historic agreement between the United the United Nations." cesses of the old, discredited spoils sys­ States and the Soviet Union limiting nu­ Arthur Vandenburg talked about "outside tem. This misguided court decision would clear arms for the first time-have estab­ the United Nations, but Inside the Charter." eventually cr'!.lcify the merit system of lished a firm base from which the major This phrase could apply to the President's International powers can move toward a trips. Most of my colleagues recognize that public service. It would subject employees structure of peace. This structure is realistic the U.N. will not be fully effective unless the to greater arm-twisting pressures for and, for the first time, practical. It is a major powers are In agreement. political contributions and other favor:;, structure of peace based on carefully ana­ Thus, any steps that move any of the ma­ irrespective of other provisions of law. lyzed enlightened self-interest on the part jor powers away from age-old d11Ierences and Job protection would become almost of all the major powers. toward agreement, will in the long run ben­ impossible for those Federal employees When President Nixon first took office, he efit the U.N. itself. who become deeply embroiled in heated correctly perceived that the way the United The United Nations ha£ never come to grips political campaigns, thereby compromis­ States was carrying out its commitment to with the Vietnam question-principally be­ ing their impartiality. South Vietnam had made both the Soviet cause Peking and Moscow, reflecting North In order to maintain a completely im­ Union and the People's Republic of China Vietnam's strongly held view, have opposed partial and effective public service, those suspicious of our motives and dubious of United Nations action. our intentions. The United Nations was unable to stop the involved in such service must owe pri­ Meanwhile, America's traditional allies suf­ killing 1n the India-Pakistan war because mary loyalty to the Government by fered an erosion of confidence In the United the major powers were 1n disagreement. which they are employed and not to a States' long-run desire, or even ability, to It follows that the more agreement and particular individual, party or faction. help defend their interest. understanding that exists between the major 26328 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS August 1, 1972 powers, the better the chance for effective Counties was little more than the present of the United States Government, the Army­ United Nations action. number of visitors to the park on a single Navy War Production Board, to many metro­ It is fair to state tha.t the President's visits busy day. What was then an inaccessible, un­ politan communities including New Orleans, had strong support at the United Nations. inhabited virtually unheard of barrier reef, Pittsburgh. Baltimore, San Francisco, San The members there, with all the diverse Inundated constantly by high water of the Diego, Portland, Oregon and to cities in ideologies the world possesses, recognized Atlantic, now provides parking space for Brazil, Venezuela and others. that our President was reaching out as peace­ 50,000 cars a day. mostly on filled-in land, Shapiro served under seven Governors of maker to both the U.S.S.R. and Peking. contains attractive bathhouses. swimming New York State: AI Smith, Franklin Roose­ Di1Ierences will continue to divide the pools, boat basins, fishing piers, a Marine velt. Lehman. Poletti, Dewey, Harriman and states at the United Nations, but when it Boardwalk, restaurants, cafeterias and snack Nelson Rockfeller; all three Presidents of the came to success for the Peking or Moscow bars, four 1000-foot deep water wells, a mon­ Long Island State Park Commission; Bob meetings, the world was almost as one :n umental Water Tower, an 8200-seat Marine Moses, Perry Duryea and Holly Patterson; its aspirations; for the nations represented Theatre and many other diversified recrea­ and under Laurance Rockefeller, Chairman there saw a chance for peace and a chance tional facilities. Last year 15,000,000 people of the State Council of Parks. for a stronger United Nations itself. visited the famous park, up from one-half When Shapiro won the coveted Long Island million the year it opened in 1929. Since then Press Distinguished Service Award in 1968, some 400,000,000 visits have been paid to this Governor Rockefeller commented: "This is greatest of all state-owned and operated an eminently suitable recognition of your HE LEAVES A MONUMENT oceanfront resort. Yet, Jones Beach was re­ splendid services to the State as General jected by the voters when first presented by Ma.na.ger and Chief Engineer of the Long Robert Moses in 1925, then given a second Island State Park Commission, as well as your HON. JAMES R. GROVER, JR. chance the following year when it squeaked activities for the public good in your com­ through In a referendum. munity. Your work surely merits apprecia­ OF NEW YORK ONE SMALL PARK tion, to which I am happy to add my voice." IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES When he won the Huttleston Award for In the beginning, there was only one state Tuesday, August 1, 1972 State Park Service in 1970, Laurance Rocke­ park on Long Island, an isolated 200 acres on feller said: "This award is in recognition of Fire Island approachable by a small ferry. many years of public service, the highest Mr. GROVER. Mr. Speaker, my home Today there are 20 state parks in the system community, New York State, and our standard ot professionalism, concern for peo­ extending from the New York City line to ple and preservation of public lands." country have lost a great man. Sid Montauk Point with a combined area of Shapiro as a close personal friend or a 35,000 acres visited annually by 22,000,000 ENGINEER AWARD dynamic engineer can only be described people. The little park on Fire Island has been When he won the Metropolitan Civil En­ in superl&.+-Jves. The Thursday, July 27, transformed into magnificent Robert Moses gineer Award last year, Robert Moses said: 1972 editorial and article in the Islip State Park, 600 acres in size, visited by 3,000,- "Sid was one of our top men in all the sub­ Town Bulletin help me to do just that: 000 people a year. sequent Long Island and State developments In the beginning, one causeway was built and made side trips abroad as a consultant HE LEAVEs A MoNUMENT to Jones Beach, four lanes wide. Today the to Brazil a.nd other distant parts, helped put On any given day you can ride Long Is­ park is reaci'.ed by four causeways with a on two World's Fairs and otherwise played a land Parkways and look with awe at his total of 21 lanes. These are the Meadow­ distinguished ~art in the engineering of the handiwork-his monument, so to speak. brook, Long Beach Loop, Wantagh and Rob­ metropolis." Holly Patterson said: "In his We refer, of course to Sidney M. Shapiro, ert Moses causeways. many years of service to the State of New who died last Thursday. In the beginning, there were no parkways. York and the Long Island community. Sid Mr. Shapiro was for many years the good. The Southern State Parkway was a dream Shapiro has consistently worked for the pub­ right-arm of masterbullder Robert Moses. on paper. Last year It carried 43,000,000 cars, lic good, exemplified the finest in engineer­ Together they fashioned the world's most highest in the nation for a passenger-car ing aspiration and achievement and helped outstanding park and recreation system. artery. Nor did the Northern exist, with the bring national renown to the fine system of Along with Mr. Moses, he was sometimes network of connecting parkways !n Nassau parks and parkways on Long Island." called a dreamer. But the world must have and Suffolk Counties. Today this entire com­ When he won the Suffolk County Engineer dreamers if we are to survive. We shall sure­ prehensive system of landscaped state park­ Award in 1964, Perry Duryea, then President ly miss him. ways is traversed by over 100,000,000 cars a ot the Long Island State Park Commission, year. said: "In no sector of our recreation and SIDNEY M. SHAPmo, LONG-TIME MoSES In the beginning, there was no Bethpage transportation world-public or private-is AIDE, DIES state Park. Today Bethpage, with its five there a man who has given so much of him­ Largely attended funeral services were 18-hole golf courses, I-s the largest enterprise self in such an effective way to so many held from Christ Episcopal Church in Baby­ of its kind in the United States. people." lon Monday afternoon for Sidney M. Shapiro, In the beginning, there was no land bank On the educational front, Mr. Shapiro has 68, of Babylon. who retired last April as or greenbelt. Today Caumsett State Park, the been a visiting lecturer at Harvard, Yale, Chief engineer and general manager of the Nissequoque and Connetquot Reservations Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New Long Island State Park Commission. He died with parts of Sunken Meadow State Park on York University and other institutions. He last Thursday at Columbia-Presbyterian the north and Heckscher state Park on the is a member of various national and interna­ Medical Center. south, form a 9000-acre greenbelt to be used tional professional organizations and has The Rev. Charles T. Knapp officiated at the for conservation. ecology studies, nature had a number of articles published in tech­ rites and burial followed in Pinelawn Me­ trails, hiking, fishing, and bird and wildlife nical journals. He was educated at the Col­ morial Park under direction of the Boyd Fu­ sanctuaries, representin.g one of the largest lege of the City of New York. lives with his neral Home. open-space programs of any metropolitan wife Undine, at Belmont Lake State Park, Mr. Shapiro is survived by his widow, Un­ area In the nation. north of Babylon, and has a son Robert, a dine; a son, Robert; a daughter, Mrs. Helen As a follower of the prophet Moses, Shapiro daughter Helen, and four grandchildren. He Totom; a brother, Theodore; a sister, Mrs. saw the whole system, valued today at 550 has purchased a new home In Babylon bor­ Sylvia Edelstein and four grandchildren. million dcllars, emerge from birth to matu­ dering the Great South Bay. It faces an en­ At the time of his retirement The Bulletin rity and world-wide fame, second to none in gineering handiwork of his, the Robert Moses carried the following story on his life and the park and parkway field. Shapiro himself Bridge over Fire Island Inlet. and w111 be his achievements. is a nationally recognized expert on beach, headquarters for engagements for consult­ When Sidney M. Shapiro, 68, Chief En­ park and parkway development. His advice Is Ing work, lecturing and writing, but prin­ gineer and General Manager of the Long Is­ frequently sought by municipal authorities cipally, he says, "for the piscatorial pursUit land State Park Commission, last of a small both in tWs nation and abroad. of the elusive bluefish and striped bass." group of dedicated men who in the year 1925 HELD TOP POSTS launched the Long Island State Park and In addition to holding the top executive Parkway Program under the leadership of position with the Commission, Mr. Shapiro is the then 37-year-old Master Builder, Rob­ also Chief Engineer and General Manager of RELIEF FOR OUR WORLD WAR I ert Moses, retires next month, he will have the Jones Beach State Parkway Authority VETERANS completed 46 years of service with the Com­ and the Bethpage Park Authority. He has mission. One by one the members of the orig­ served as consultant to the Triborough inal group of almost half a century ago Bridge and Tunnel Authority, to Kennedy HON. C. W. BILL YOUNG have gone their way. Bob Moses himself, International Airport, to Nassau County in now 83, retired from the Commission 10 its early program of acquisition and develop­ OF FLORIDA years~o. ment of Mitchell Field. He has been con­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES In the beginning when Shapiro began en­ sultant to the New York State Power Au­ Tuesday, August 1, 1972 gineering surveys for what was to become thority. the New York World's Fair Corpora­ world renowned Jones Beach State Park. the tion, the Federal Bureau of Public Roads, the Mr. YOUNG of Florida.. Mr. Speaker. I combined population of Nassau and Suffolk Hoover Commission for the Reorganization would like to submit for my colleagu.es• August 1, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 26329 attention this copy of my testimony be­ in these cases and communities frequent­ hunted and fished-and fought. The squaws fore the House Veterans' Affairs Com­ ly have found insurance costs to cover and the girls did all the work, inside the mittee in favor of my bill, H.R. 14364, their law enforcement officers too costly tent and outside. So let's be fair to history. Let us say, be­ which is identical to H.R. 12504, the for the community to bear. yond and serious argument, that Yonkers is World War I Pension Act. I sincerely This same bill has had other sponsors not just 100 years old, but that it is at least hope that Congress will expeditiously and congressional support, however so 30 times that old. Which lifts my spirits, be­ act on this desperately needed legisla­ far no action has taken place. I believe cause I now realize I'm not really nearly as tion: one reason for the delay is the Depart­ old as Yonkers. TESTIMONY OF THE HONORABLE C. W. :3ILL ment of Justice's failure to respond to Despite these various dates and years, It is YOUNG, OF FLORIDA, BEFORE THE HOUSE CoM­ the House Judiciary Committee's request highly proper that we mark our Centennial, MITTEE ON VETERANS' AFFAIRS IN SUPPORT OF for a comment on this proposal. I urge and that we celebrate our birthday as a city, HIS Bn.L, H.R. 14364, JULY 28, 1972 both the Department of Justice and the as we have been doing since that Chamber Mr. Chairman, I appreciate this opportu­ of Commerce breakfast on June 1, at which House Judiciary Committee to move for­ our Yonkers lieutenant governor, Malcolm nity to express my strong support of my bill, ward on this legislation and I hope the H.R. 14364, which is identical to H.R. 12504, Wilson, brought us the welcome tidings that the World War I Pension Act. These bills will other Members of Congress supporting the State Arterial at last will be funded provide a long over-due expansion of benefits this bill will further encourage these again, so Yonkers can grow as it should, espe­ to all veterans of World War I. efforts. cially in the Downtown Yonkers sector. As the Congressman from Florida's Eighth How should we be celebrating our cen­ Congressional District, I am honored to rep­ tennial? It is appropriate, of course, that we resent over 90,000 veterans and, as a re­ YONKERS, N.Y. are having an assortment of municipal cere­ sult of my close work with these men and monies, formal and informal; flag-raisings, women, I have become painfully aware of dedications, concerts and various other the many hardships they are facing daily events planned or to be planned. These are while forced to live on meager incomes in HON. PETER A. PEYSER all to the good. But are thev enough? our infiationary economy. The World War I OF NEW YORK I hope you will agree with me that our Pension Act would go a long way in reliev­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Centennial offers each of us opportunities ing these veterans of many of their appre­ to do something for Yonkers-a little or a hensions and anxieties. Tuesday, August 1, 1972 lot--and to do it without fancy ceremonials Mr. Chairman, in a day and time when Mr. PEYSER. Mr. Speaker, on June 15, and at little or no cost. those who defend our country face so many Oxie Reichler, the very distinguished All we need is a little bit of civic patriot­ challenges on the home front, it is indeed former editor of the Yonkers Herald ism-and that includes some civic pride. I heartening to reflect upon the selfless serv­ would suggest that each of us in Yonkers­ ice offered by these brave men and women Statesman delivered a very interesting all the nearly 100,000 men and women and who fought for freedom and liberty for us and well done speech about the city of all the children and grandchildren, too-­ and the future of our country. They were Yonkers, N.Y. I would like to call it to Can do something for Yonkers from now till there when their country needed them-now the attention of my colleagues and have the end of next May, when our Centennial they need help from their country. Lets not inserted in the RECORD at this point so year runs out. If we do that, we may have turn our backs on them in their hour of that people throughout the country will established a good habit that will continue need. I strongly urge the Committee to act for a lifetime. favorably on this legislation so that these have an opportunity to see it: What can all of us undertake to do? men and women may receive the relief they [From the Herald Statesman, Yonkers (N.Y.), That's easy. We can recognize and believe deserve and need. July 18, 19721 that Yonkers is a wonderful city of more HisTORY OF YONKERS-COLORFUL AND than 200,000 souls, with tremendous assets DRAMATIC that we should know and appreciate, with (By Oxie Reichler) a proud history that should cause us to lift HELP FOR THE POLICE OFFICER Whenever I pick up a copy of the Herald our heads, and the prospect of a future that Statesman, and see one of those bold head­ should win our earnest application and sup­ lines scattered through the paper-reading port. We should realize further that many HON. J. EDWARD ROUSH Yonkers, 100 Years Old-I say to myself, "Big another city, town and vlllage would envy Yonkers 1f they but knew about us. There­ OF INDIANA Deal! I'm nearly as old as that myself!" fore, let each of us undertake three simple IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Then I realize that Yonkers is not really projects: a century old, but much older-and much Tuesday, August 1, 1972 younger, too. First, say something nice about Yonkers every day-better yet, several times a day­ Mr. ROUSH. Mr. Speaker, I rise today For example, Yonkers is only 64 years old as a second-class city (which we became in at home and away from home. to introduce a bill to provide a kind of 1908). How long wlll it be before we become Second, write something nice about protection to law enforcement officers a first-class city_, with a million population? Yonkers every day-better yet, several times who are sued in Federal court. Yes, Yonkers became a third class city on a day-at home and away from home-­ I believe the reason for this legislation June 1, 1872, just a century ago. to as many people, busines~es, institutions 1s obvious; namely, the increasing num­ Is Yonkers really older? Yes, it is. Yonkers and organizations as you can. ber of suits filed against law enforce­ was chartered as a vlllage 117 years ago--in And third, do something nice for Yonkers, ment officers in which damages are 1855. And it's nearly two century ago that even though it is something for yourself­ Yonkers became a town-on March 7, 1788-­ like keeping your lawn neat, like growing claimed resulting from the performance when our Country was only 12 years old. some :flowers, planting a tree, sweeping the of the officer's duties. Certainly there is And, as you an know, we were three cen­ sidewalk, painting the house, making your no purpose in this proposal to reduce the turies old in 1946-when our Tercentennial business attractive inside and out, stimulat­ incidence of legitimate suits. It does pro­ celebration marked the arrival of the White ing courtesy and thoughtfulness among as­ pose to reduce harassment suits or those Man in this community. That makes us 326 sociates and staffs-by personal example. Be aimed at delaying criminal prosecutions. years old in 1972. a volunteer in any good cause. Serve in public This is to be accomplished by requiring But Yonkers was here for perhaps millions office. that the plaintiff file a bond with the of years before that--and we are told that it It doesn't sound like much, does it? Say, court conditioned on the payment of was actually occupied by some fine human write and do something nice for Yonkers. beings about the time, King Solomon was Give Yonkers the best possible image--and reasonable costs of investigation and taking over in ancient Israel from his father, polish that image a little, personally. legal fees if the defendant law enforce­ King David. That was 3,000 years ago. Sounds corny? Sure! But it works. ment officer prevails. In what is now Yonkers, clusters of Red Civic service, kindness and thoughtfulness As one law enforcement official from Men-at least two tribes of Indians-were may be square, but they are a continuing the Fourth Congressional District of In­ having a jolly old time. Their community was foundation for business, Industry and the diana wrote me: called Nappeckamack, which means rapid professions, for society, religion, government, This kind of legislation is necessary to de­ waters. On the west side were the Mohiclans, leisure activity and what have you. And these crease the number of harassment suits filed in tents along the Hudson, which they called always will be foundation stones. against law enforcement personnel. These are the Shatemuc. On the east side of what is Experimenting with civic service won't al­ nuisance suits that serve only to delay hon­ now Yonkers, along the Saw Mill and the ways work, but lt w1l1 most of the time. Let est and necessary pollee work. Bronx Rivers, were the Weckquaeskecks. me give you a recent example--which was I say they had a jolly old time here, be­ not successful. Indeed many law enforcement officials cause they were free of many worries and Miss Norma Quarles of WNBC-TV (that's must use their own financial resources there was no women's lib. The men and boys Channel 4) phoned me one afternoon_from. 26330 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS August 1, 1972 the Hudson River Museum to tell me she such positive evidence on the part of the fi· Canoe-Racing-steve Macknowskl and was preparing a short series of broadcasts nancial giants of America? Steve Lysak, the first Americans to win an about Yonkers for the Six O'Clock News. Next morning I deposited the bundle on Olympics canoe championship. Would I participate? I told her I would be Miss Quarles' desk-the short history, the To celebrate the Centennial, take your glad to help her in any way I could. data on what a nice town Yonkers is and the family and friends to the Hudson River "You do believe that Yonkers is deterio­ covering letter. But what happened? Museum in Trevor Park and enjoy an excit­ rating badly, don't you?" she asked. How many here saw these three broad­ ing visit to the Planetarium, which is one of "No, no," I answered. "Don't get off on casts--or any one of them? Were you im­ the finest in the East. Mention the museum that kick! Yonkers is a wonderful community, pressed? I found them sickening. The viewer in conversations, in letters-even in business with plenty of progress." got the impression Yonkers was dying, that letters-and spread the good tidings of this She mentioned the troubles police, fire­ Yonkers is a cluster of slums, that public em­ unusual place, with a view of the lordly Pali­ men and teachers were having in getting ploye strikes were imminent. While the ac­ sades worth traveling hours to see. their salaries pushed higher, and she said tual words were not used-that Yonkers was Mention our colleges--Sarah Lawrence, she felt str!kes were coming. Somebody ob­ headed for hell in a basket--the pictures Elizabeth Seton, Dunwoodie Seminary and viously had been filling her mind with tried hard to prove such was the case. Mount St. Vincent. And also our Westchester doomsday stuff, intimating to her that So I failed on that one. But I can tell you Community College, for which Yonkers foots Yonkers was going to hell in a basket. that most of my efforts over the years-to a good share of the bill. Mention also our Would I go on camera for her? No, I say or do something nice about Yonkers­ world-famous Boyce Thompson Institute for wouldn't. (She already had scared the life worked out much better. Yet it was worth Plant Research, which helps many nations out of me with her pessimistic approach.) trying. I do not regret my efforts. Who to feed their people better. But, I told her, I would be glad to help her knows but tha-t something I said or supplied If you're watching television anywhere­ get information, or participants, or anything may yet lead WNBc-TV News to present a at home, around the country or anywhere in at all that might help the City of Yonkers. more accurate picture of our city. the world-remind those with you that the I suggested som~ names, officials and civic An so I urge you Rotarians, and you guests, voice on the TV set is FM, frequency modula­ leaders. Then I told her I could supply her and all with whom you come in contact: Do tion, that comes over static-free-and that with some optimistic data about Yonkers­ say, write and do something nice for Yonkers this was invented and developed in his North would she look at it, if I mailed it to her? every day. Try it, you'll like ttl Broadway laboratory by Maj. Edwin H. She said she would. I do not suggest that you become an utter Armstrong. I mentioned a brochure on Yonkers his­ bore with your civic pride, but you can be And if it's radio you're listening to, don't tory that a group of Yonkers teachers had graceful about sharing information about hesitate to point out that many of the basic prepared fm publication in The Herald Yonkers with those you know, those you patents for radio were developed here in State3man, which the Peoples Saving Bank meet, those you correspond with. Yonkers by Lee DeForest. later had republished for distribution. It had When you're having a conversation about Take cognizance of our dependable city illustrations that might help her. Would she Yonkers, cite the fact that our growth in water supply. Mention our effective and pro­ rlfie through this if I supplied her a copy? population is in almost exactly the ratio of gressive organizations, especially our service She said she would. America the Beautiful. Take the latest figures clubs. I was about to mail these, when I had for the population of the U.S. and you knock When good government comes up for dis­ qualms about how long it would take the off the last three zeros-and you have pretty cussion, recall the good fights carried on by Postal Service to deliver a Yonkers package accurate figures for Yonkers. You cannot do former Mayor Edith P. Welty and her thou­ to Rockefeller Center, so I took them down that for many other cities, and I'll tell you sands of women cohorts; by James H. Mose­ myself. why. Yonkers alone, among the larger cities ley, Col. Oliver J. Troster and John J. Rust, I attended a one-sheet letter, exhorting in the Empire State, has been increasing in who urganized the Committee of 100 that her to get off the negative kick about Yon­ people during the last quarter century, while saved Yonkers taxpayers m111ions of dollars kers, to realize we have a lively thriving city. most other larger cities have been declining. by research, well assisted by many in this I mentioned how, a few days before, our city Yonkers therefore has pushed Syracuse out of room. Remember the battles for decent gov­ manager :Oad been pressured by the City fourth place in the state, making the present ernment when the patronage-hungry party Council to the point of resignation, where­ standing: New York, Buffalo, Rochester, machines tried to destroy Council-Manager upon our Chamber of Commerce, taxpayer Yonkers. government and return to the lush pickings groups and the League of Women Voters­ Does someone mention the trouble New of what went before. acting wtih a quick clout in less than 48 York City is having when it comes to borrow­ If the subject is parochial schools, mention hours-got the Council to reverse itself, ing money at reasonable interest rates? Point that one-third of our children attend such and the chief executive has remained at the out that last week the Yonkers Urban Re­ schools in Yonkers, and that from Yonkers­ helm. newal Agency borrowed $8 milllon and got a from atop Dunwoodie Seminary on Valen­ And then I told her something else-all on low rate of 2.84 per cent--with a dozen big tine Hill-emanate the television broadcasts that single sheet--in an effort to convince banks competing for this investment in by which all the Catholic schools in the Arch­ her that Yonkers was NOT going to hell in Yonkers. diocese of New York are educated. a basket. I suggested to Miss Quarles that Maybe the cost of Westchester government Civic pride is something wonderful, even she pick the president of any New York City comes up. Which, among the cities, towns more than personal pride, because it is bank, the bigger the better, and ask him and villages, pays the biggest county tax shared so readily and effectively and bene­ about Yonkers and its future. and gets the least for each -tax dollar. You ficially. I enumerated for her the kinds and quality know the answer, of course, it's Yonker.;, the In any conversation or letter, bring up the of banks we have in Yonkers-the National county's step-child. millions of dollars about to be invested in Bank of North America, 23rd largest metro­ Maybe the conversation-at home or else­ Downtown Yonkers-in the merchantile sec­ politan bank with 11 units here and building where-turns to sports. Remember to recall tor and also in the industrial area along the a 12th; County Trust, with half a dozen that the first golf game in America was Hudson. Mention Phllipse Manor Hall in Lar­ units, and the Bank of Commerce. I men­ played here in 1888, at North Broadway and kin Plaza and its priceless collection of paint­ tioned Yonkers Savings with four banks, Shonnard Place, where St. Andrew's Golf ings. That's the oldest building in Westches­ Peoples Savings with four. Yonkers Savings Club then was located. ter still standing-and it was once our City and Loan, Westchester Federal Savings and If it's sports, celebrate the Centennial by Hall. Now it's a state museum. And mention Loan, and Fourth Federal Savings and Loan. weaving in a reference to the Yonkers Sports also our historic churches, like St. John's in And I explained how, in recent months, Hall of Fame at 285 Nepperhan Ave. Share Getty SQIUare, where George Washington many of the most prestigious financial in­ your civic pride in the eminent sports fig­ often knelt. stitutions in the world have been battling ures Yonkers has enthroned there, with suit­ Whenever you're riding an elevator or es­ for locations in Yonkers. able memorabllia. Oh, you know who they calator-in Chicago or San Francisco or any­ I told her we now have Chemical Bank are: where else-civic pride will lead you to look in Getty Square and building another in Football-Coach Charlie Caldwell and all­ for that four letter word meaning Yonkers­ South Yonkers Manufacturers Hanover in American Irwin (King Kong) Klein. Otis-and you can point out to friends or Getty Square and South Yonkers, and pre­ Basketball-Coach Joe Lapchick. even strangers that the first safe elevator was paring a third unit on upper North Broad­ Baseball-Swatter Walter Simpson, the invented and built in this city. way. And I added that we also have Chase Babe Ruth of the minor leagues. If you're enjoying a dish of ice cream (any Manhattan, First National City and Marine Tennis-World Champion Vinnie Richards. fiavor) or sipping a soda-in New Orleans, Midland, with probably more such branches Boxing-Junior Lightweight Champion or Cincinnati, or at home-be sure to remark on the way. Jack Bernstein. that probably there's a bit of Yonkers in the Reasoning with her, I observed that these Swimm!.ng-Olympic Whiz Doris O'Ma.ra. delicacy-Flo-Sweet liquid sugar, produced New York institutions sure regard their units Ice Skating-Champions Lillian and Ruth by Refined Syrups and Sugars. as valuable investments in a growing Yon­ Corke, sisters. Whenever and wherever you stop to buy kers, confident that they will profit highly Track-Saul Mellor, father of our L.&tional­ gas or oil, look for the Octane sign, and point from them in the coming years. ly known Yonkers Marathon; Thomas Bar­ out that the Octane Scale, which measures How can one doubt the glowing prospects den, long-distance runner, and Eulace Pea­ the anti-knock quality of gasoline, was in­ for the tomorrows in Yonkers, when you see cock, Olympic sprinter. vented on Nepperhan Avenue in Yonkers by August 1, 1972 EXTENSIONS oF· REMARKS 26331 Dr. Graham Edgar of the Ethyl Corp. and well of World War II, Ambassador Ellsworth man ANDERSON, of Dlinois, placed in the that the scale is now used everywhere in the Bunker, former Congressman John E. An­ CONGRESSIONAL RECORD on July 28, 1972. world, including the Soviet Union and the drus, the philanthropist. As I read the summary of "The Effects People's Republic of China. Well~ you get the idea. I'm trying·to show If the conversation turns to the SALT you how easy it is to say something nice of Minimum Wages on the Distribution talks, and missiles, refer to 3,000 miles of about Yonkers, and to write something nice of Changes in Aggregate Employment" Yonkers-made cable-Strung from Alaska to about our community. It's just a little harder by Marvin Kosters and F'ini:; Welch it Hudson's Bay-to make up the Distaht Early to do something for Yonkers, but not if makes the case that only through the im­ Warning·Line in case any missiles are headed you're looking for things to do. position of a sub~um wage for teen­ this way. Hablrshaw Division of Phelps Dodge By the exercise of civic power, you can agers can you bring about the substitu­ made it. best celebrate our Centennial-and enhance And if you get chatting about World War your citizenship for a lifetime. How do you tion of teenagers for adult workers. II, you can bring up how Habirshaw also pro­ exercise civic power? This article furnishes additional eco­ duced (in great secrecy over- months) that After reading the paper, retell one of the nomic support for those who have testi­ 65-mlle hollow cable, which was strung across more interesting and constructive news fied in the Congress against a youth the English Channel and fed a million gal­ items, reflecting some constructive experience wage. Opponents of a lower minimum lons of gasoline a day to General Eisenhower or idea or suggestion. Write letters to your wage for youth have repeatedly charged on D-Day for the invasion of France. And you mayor, city manager, councilman, county that a youth wage will not generate addi­ can mention the miles upon miles of khaki legislator, to County Executive Michaellan, to wil1 cloth produced by the Alexander Smith Mills, Lt. Gov. Malcolm Wilson and to Gov. Nelson tional jobs but rather it result in the the bomb sights and other instruments fash­ A. Rockefeller. Write your ldea&--especially replacement of adult workers by teen­ ioned by Otis and the many other products about Yonkers and its needs and merit&--to agers. The paper in the American Eco­ m:ade here, including medicines and K-ra­ President Nixon, Vice President A~:1ew, Sen­ nomic Review by Kosters and Welch at­ tions. ators Javits and Buckley, Congressman Bl­ tributes increased stability in adult em­ If newspapers are being discussed wherever agg! or Peyser. ployment to minimum wage increases. I you are, never hesitate to celebrate the Cen­ There's power in them-thar letters. You would not want to quarrel with this con­ tennial by mentioning The Herald States­ think such a letter carries little or no weight? clusion nor would I want to support legis­ man-praising it, naturally-for you will find You're wrong. I remember sitting alongside that it is one of the few hometown papers a powen..tl legislator as he glanced at his lation which would undercut job security that is widely known, even overseas. mail. He picked up one letter and remarked: for adult workers. Nor should you hesitate, in such conversa­ "This is interesting. A constituent wants So, I say again, let us get about the tions about Yonkers' assets, to speak well of me to vote for a bill that's coming up today. business of creating more jobs for all and your own business-and also being your com­ I Intended to vote against it. Now I'll vote vote against job substitution as a device petitor's operation&--favorably, of course. for it." That letter-writer may never know to make the unemployment statistics pic­ As in the Biblical injunction about bread how his single letter changed a vote in ture look better. cast upon the waters, you're likely to benefit Oongress. from the backwash of good will from what I ask each of you to observe the Centen­ you'll be saying about Yonkers. Say some­ nial in the civic service way--speak, write thing nice, too, about our municipal govern­ and d~ach intended to make Yonkers' im­ ment. age here and elsewhere more attractive. By CONSERVATION AND PRESERVA­ Don't hang up on your next telephone call whatever we do or don't do we affect the vital TION OF ATLANTIC SALMON without deliberately saying something nice community image. Our image is polished or about Yonkers and its people--even if the splattered by citizens generally, by public person on the other end of the line is sur­ employes, by merchants and industrialists HON. CLIFFARD D. CARLSON prised enough to ask why you mentioned and professional people, even by school chil­ OF ILLINOIS that? Tell him or her about the Centennial, dren-even by thoughtless dog owners! IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and how you're observing it for a year. So it is my opinion and suggestion that Maybe you '11 be discussing the news-last ea.ch of us can celebrate the Yonkers Cen­ Tuesday, August 1, 1972 week's important treaty between West Ger­ tennial well-and do so proudly, eagerly and Mr. CAR~~ON Mr. Speaker, over the many and East Germany. Celebrate the Cen­ effectively. terullal by remarking casually that a Yonkers We can say something nice about Yonkers past few years I have been fortunate to educator, Hans Simons, wrote the Bonn Con­ at every opportunity, even making opportu­ have the oppc.rtunity to spend some time stitution for West Germany. nities. We can write favorably about our experiencing the great joy of fishing for Maylbe the conversation includes some ref­ Yonkers whenever it is feasible. And we can salmon on the Miramichi River, New erence to Judge Tony Cerrato, past president do many things to advance our city's wel­ Brunswick, Canada. The Atlantic salmon of this club. Mention his :fine Park Hill home, fare-tiny things, medium things and huge is one of the world's most prized trophies once occupied by the actor Richard Bennett and important contributions of all kinds. among freshwater anglers. This spectac­ and his charming and talented daughters, Like doing volunteer service. Constance, Barbara and Joan. Such procedures :fit right in snugly with ular game fish ma:r reach a size of 50 Catch on? It's a sort of Centennial Game Rotary's Four Objects. By applying these, pounds. The preferred angling techniq· e you will be playing. Somebody mentions each of us has the personal privilege to be is fly fishing and when hooked no other President Nixon's wife Patricia-and you say a Yonkers Builder-and to impress children fish can match its tenacity and aerial she has Yonkers cousins, among them Ed­ and g:l'andchildren with the need for them to aerobatics. ward 0 . Sulltvan Jr. Or you're at a Rotary become Yonkers Builders, too. These salmon spawn in the clear, un­ assembly or convention and someone men­ We need to build well for the tomorrows, polluted, fast flowing streams of Norway, tions the recent world president of Rotary In­ and the Centennial provides an excellent Sweden, the British Isles, Spain, France, ternational, Luther H. Hodge&--the former time to do this. I am confident that for Yon­ U.S. Secretary of Commerce. You break in to kers, in this Centennial year, the future is Ireland, Greeland, eastern Canada, and say he used to live in Yonkers. If your con­ brighter and promising. The best is yet to Maine. Like most salmon, the Atlantic versation runs to the opera, you will mention be. I hope all of you share my optimism, salmon is anadromous, spending much of that the golden-voiced Madam Schumann­ and will act that way. its life in salt water often hundreds of Heink lived on Sunnyside Drive here and miles from shore, and then in some mys­ used to give "free concerts" for the pupils at terious manner returning several times in School 3 where her children studied. Almost any :field that is being talked its life to spav.n in the stream of its about--music, science, the stage, politics, THE EFFECTS OF MINIMUM WAGES origin. anything-opens an opportunity for you ON THE DISTRIDUTION OF Unfortunately today's Atlantic salmon to mention some of our eminent residents, CHANGES IN AGGREGATE EM­ are but remnants of the vast population living or dead. PLOYMENT which existe~ before the combination of People like Sid Caesar, Art Carney and polluted waters and excessive commercial Morey Amsterdam the comedians; Ann Ban­ fishing decimated their numbers and de­ croft the actress; Ella Fitzgerald the singer; HON. JOHN H. DENT stroyed many of their historic spawning , Wllllam C. Handy, the father of the blues; OF PENNSYLVANIA Gene Krupa, the drummer; Jerome Kern and streams. Nearly two decades ago, the Geoffrey O'Hara, the song-writers; Samuel T. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Atlantic salmon ocean feeding grounds Clemens, better known as Mark Twain; Tuesday, August 1, 1972 were accidentally discovered oti the coast Charles P. Steinmetz, the electrical Wizard; of Greenland. These grounds were found Leo Baekeland, the inventor of bakelite, the Mr. DENT. Mr. Speaker, I read witb to contain fish from European as well as first plastic; Samuel Tildf'n who ran for concern the summary of an article on U.S. rivers. The concentration of fish in J;>resident In 1876, General "Vinegar Joe" StU- minimum wage etfects which Congress- this area made them highly vulnerable 26332 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS August 1, 1972 to the commercial fisherman of e-very Salmon Symposium will be held at St. of a crime are given the option of re­ country with the result that their num­ Andrews, New Brunswick. This sympo­ signing or retiring rather than face a bers were even further reduced. Along sium will provide a forum for the ex­ court-martial. These high-ranking mili­ with other American sports fishermen change of all available scientific in­ tary officers know only too well that when and conservationists, I am greatly con­ formation concerning this great game they leave the military, there are usually cerned about the protection anc:i con­ fish species. Our U.S. Ambassador to high-paying positions waiting for them servation of the Atlantic salmon. Canada, the Honorable Adolph W. in defense-related industries. The sad plight of this great game fish Schmidt, will address this session as well When asked to comment on the Lavelle was first brought to world attention as Environment Minister Davis of Can­ incident at his press conference last through the International Conference on ada. As an active sports fisherman con­ month, President Nixon said the follow­ Atlantic Salmon held in London in April cerned about our environment, I would ing with regard to the punishment meted 1969. This conference was attended by like to congratulate the organizers of out against Lavelle: delegates from 14 countries. Richard this symposium and wish them every But since it did exceed authorization, it Stroud, executive vice president of the possible success. I will be following their was proper for him to be relie~ed and re­ Sport Fishing Institute of the United progress with great interest. tired. And I think that it was the proper ac­ States was active in the affairs of that In closing, once again I would like to tion to take, and I believe that that will as­ conference. A further significant devel­ commend Canada's Environment Minis­ sure that kind of activity may not occur in opment in the Atlantic salmon story was ter, Jack Davis, for his inspirational the future. the drafting of a North Atlantic salmon leadership in saving the Atlantic salmon I find it difticult to believe that the policy by a number of prominent con­ and to urge support for all necessary prospect of retiring from the military servation organizations of national and steps to restore the species in our own with a monthly pension of $2,500 and a international standing at a meeting held New England rivers. In this connection, high-salaried position with a firm doing last September in New York. The resolu­ I am pleased to note that an item of business with the Pentagon is much of a tion adopted at this meeting urged that $125,000 has been included in the De­ deterrent. Only when generals who dis­ the Governments of the United States partment of Interior appropriation bill, obey orders are made subject to the dis­ and Canada join in an agreement to con­ through the efforts of the distinguished cipline of military tribunals like all other sult, plan, and cooperate in research, gentleman from Massachusetts avis, took courageous the program to restore the Atlantic sal­ an article from the July 29 Washington steps to restore the Atlantic salmon fish­ mon in New England waters--and I shall Star which describes General Lavelle's eries. In the face of great pressure from certainly give it my wholehearted sup­ new job with the Battelle Institute. commercial interests, Minister Davis im­ port. The article follows: posed a series of stringent commercial LAVELLE JOINS ADVISORY FmM TO PENTAGON fishery restrictions aimed at protecting GENERAL LAVELLE REVISITED (By Ned Scharff) the spawning population. He also initi­ Gen. John D. Lavelle, former commander ated stronger efforts to reduce pollution of the Seventh Air Force who was forced . to in Canadian salmon rivers and pointed HON. MICHAEL HARRINGTON retire after ordering unauthorized attacks on to the importance of negotiating with North Vietnam, has landed a job with a pri­ OF ~IASSACF.nJSETTS vate think-tank organization which does ex­ Denmark for the reduction or elimina­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tion of their commercial fishery off tensive work for the Defense Department. Tuesday, August 1, 1972 Lavelle, relieved of his command on April Greenland. The efforts of Mr. Davis to 7, now is a part-time consultant to Battelle conserve the salmon are already showing Mr. HARRINGTON. Mr. Speaker, the Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio. signs of success and American sportsmen flight of high-ranking military officers to Lavelle last night said he only spends ·"a who go to New Brunswick can often be executive positions or high-paying ad­ few hours a week" working for Battelle. He assured of catching their daily quota. Let visory posts with firms doing business said his work there was in the field of science me say that during the recent congres­ with the Pentagon after they leave the and technology and that some of it involved sional recess I had an occasion to fish on defense contracts, but he refused to define Armed Forces has become so common the projects he is working on more specifi­ the Miramichi River and found the fish­ that it is no longer newsworthy. How­ cally. ing to be much better this year than last. ever, the recent appointment of retired A spokesman for the institute would not We were especialy pleased to see so many Gen. John Lavelle as part-time con­ say what kind of work Lavelle is doing ex­ adult salmon going up the river to spawn. sultant to Battelle Memorial Institute in cept that "he is drawing on his research and This is particularly significant because in Columbus, Ohio, a firm which relies development-related experience in the Air previous years they have apparently been heavily on defense contracts, once again Force." prevented from going in great numbers draws attention to the question of wheth­ Before assuming command in Vietnam, the because of the commercial nets and other general was director of the Defense Com­ er the punishment that General Lavelle munications Planning Group in the Pentagon fa.ctors. received for carrying out his unauthor­ and earlier he had directed several aerospace When the hoped for negotiations with ized private war with North Vietnam was programs. Denmark failed to materialize in 1971, proper. The Defense Department said Battelle ranks our colleague, the distinguished gentle­ I, for one, believe that the token dis­ 67th among the top 500 defense research and man from Washington ss the system because lar among many in our country, as well attention of all Members in the House they are the least likely to be filled, having as abroad, to criticize the United States . of Representatives: a load factor of 30 per cent or lower. as a world power which has become " ag­ EAL HOPES GROUP 40 CHARTERS WILL FILL Raupe insists, however, this doesn't mean gressive" and "imperialistic." PLANES IN SLACK SEASON Group 40 passengers will be asked to fly in This has been the approach taken by Business in the trunk airline industry, as the middle of the night or anything like that. the new left, and a number of public any knowledgeable source will tell you, is (figures outside of the new left have very cyclical. When it's good, it's generally "Obviously, we're not going to put our very good; but when it's bad, it's really sad. Group 40 people on our busiest flights, but echoed this view. Basically, it's a business of peaks and val- we're not going to ask them to travel as Such criticism overlooks totally the . leys. International carriers like .Pan Ameri­ second-class citizens either," he says. role which America has played in the can Airways and Trans World Airlines enjoy There's no assurance of instant success, world since the end of World Warn. If their peak traffic in the summer, when travel and Raupe and Thomas B. McFadden, senior we were, in fact, "aggressive" and "im­ to Europe and other vacation spots is at its vice president-marketing, realize the Group perialistic" we woulQ. have proceeded in height. But then in winter, traffic drops off 40 scheme could fall flat on its ear. One of the problems, at least for this fall, a far different way. We would, for exam­ - drastically and the red ink flows in buckets. ple, not have restored freedom and in­ . A d-omestic carrier like Eastern Air Lines is that affinity groups usually make their does best in winter, when people rush to Flor­ travel plans well ln advance-six months to a dependence to Germany and Japan, the ida or to the Caribbean to escape the snowy year and even more. So it may be difficult to nations we had just defeated in war. An North, and in summertime when vacationers persuade a large number of organizations to "aggressive" and "imperialistic" coun­ . seek bargains in Miami Beach, :the Caribbean take the step between Sept. 7 and Dec. 11 . try would have occupied and controlled or Mexico. As Raupe is quick to admit, "We're plow­ such former enemies for its own gain. But then, in fall or spring, traffic slows to a ing new ground so we don't know whether Compare how Germany and Japan were snail's pace by EAL's standards and the air­ we can cut it this fall or not. We've only just treated by the United States with the line's execs beat their heads against the received our fall schedules." wall trying to figure ways to drum up busi­ But he does feel, based on the initial re­ manner in which the Soviet Union has ness. sponse from his own sales personnel and treated East Germany, not to mention To put it bluntly, it's feast or famine. from travel agencies who book tour groups, Czechoslovakia and Hungary. And that's the reason why the industry that the airline will sell at least $2 ~ million It has often been said that if you has come up with a multitude of discount in Group 40 fares during the fall period. wish to learn the truth about a country fares and other promotions like the weekend That may seem like an insignificant the best way to do so is to talk with its e~cursion from Florida to northern cities to amount of new business, but Raupe says the former enemies. It is fair to point out entice the flying public to fill their empty sum would at least take up the slack in full that no place in the world do people · seats. planeload charters, based on what Eastern The latest ploy, just initiated by EAL and sold last fall but can't this fall because of a think more highly of the United States approved by the Civil Aeronautics Board on shortage of equipment. than in Germany and Japan. an experimental basis, is one that appears He's looking down the road to a time when, An editorial in the important German · to have more merit than most. through proper promotion and, of course, newspaper, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Starting Sept. 7 and running through Dec. further approval from the CAB, Group 40 Zeitung recently noted that: 11, the airline will offer what it terms "a rev­ business can be generated by working months People have Completely forgotten the un­ olutionary air fare" which permits groups of ahead with potential cutomers. paralleled generosity and helpfulness of the ·· 40 ·or ·more travelers to fly at charter rates As he says, "We think it will work because, Americans. British sociologist G. "Gorer once on 600 of its daily flights. of all the plethora of discount fares, rates wrote that in no other country in the world In other words, lf you're a member of an and tariffs, this is the first time that an air­ did the majority of inhabitants give so easily affinity group like the Kiwanis Club or B'nai line has come up with something that, if and so willingly, almost without considering · B'rith, or a union member or an employee of properly utilized, can be applicable to con­ the cost. a company, you can fly at discounts of up to vention planners or businessmen who want 47 per cent of the basic coach fare. to set up sales meetings." The edito1ial continues to point out The only restriction is that you must travel That's because, as one of the virtues of that: in a group of 40 or more, hence the "Group the "charter" fare, a convention group of, Americans .. ·. of all Industrial nations . .. 40" nomenclature. Group travel means you say, 800 members, could fiy to a destination take up first place in the amount of ald they fly at nearly half the cost of a regularly- from 20 different locations in groups of 40. offer to developing countries. They also pro­ scheduled flight between two cities. . "We think we've come up with the perfect vide much money tor the military protection For example, the basic coach fare between plan for groups, large and small, to fly regu­ of Europe. It was also the Americans with New York and Miami is $102, but the Group larly-scheduled flights at charter rates to their Marshall Plan who helped Europe to 40 price wm be f65; 1f you're fly.tng between fill our ~~P.ty ~ats ra~her th~ ~ charter her feet again after the destruction. famine, 26334 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS August 1, 1972 and ravages of the Second World War. Even Europe, he stated, "It is logical that the day but we should always remember how former enemies-the Germans and Italians­ United States should do whatever it is able much the Americans have done for Europe were included in this generous aid pro­ to do to assist in the return of normal eco­ since the Second World War. gramme while the Russians mercilessly nomic health 1n the world without which Today's grumblers and fault-finders who plundered the countries they occupied and there can be no political stability and no make out America to be the big bogey-man annex:ed and tore up whole stretches of rail­ assured peace. Our policy is directed not appear shabby in face of such generosity and way line in East Germany. against any country or doctrine but against willingness to help. The generous American hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. It must not be forgotten. At a time when "young Socialist would be neither fitting nor efficacious for fanatics refer to the Americans only in this government to draw up unilaterally a terms of abuse and laud the Soviet programme designed to place Europe on its Union to the skies," states the Frank­ feet economiCally. That is the business of further Allgemeine Zeitung: the Europeans. The initiative, I think, must ''THE GODFATHER'' Fairness and gratitude call for a reminder come from Europe." of tbe true state of affairs . . . Today's The Americans thus laid the foundation grumblers and fault-finders who make Amer­ stone for unity, economic cooperation and HON. JOSEPH G. MINISH ica to be the big bogey-man appear shabby lastly the Common Market. Delegates from OF NEW JERSEY sixteen European countries met in Paris on in face {)f such generosity and willingness IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to help. The generous American must not be .12 July 1947 and formed the Committee on forgotten. European Economic Cooperation which later Tuesday, August 1~ 1972 became the Organization for European Eco­ It is important, as well, that Ameri­ nomic Cooperation that finally grew into Mr. MINISH. Mr. Speaker, in a democ­ cans not forget their own recent history. today's Organization for Economic Coopera­ racy founded on the worth and dignity I wish to share this article by Hans tion and Development. of the individu3.1, every citizen has the Roeper from the June 5, 1972 edition of The Soviet Union had also been called right to be judged solely on the basis of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung fur upon to attend the conference but Moscow his own character and ability irrespective declined and forced other Eastern Bloc of such extraneous consideration as race, Deutscbland with my colleagues, and countries to refuse American aid they would insert it into the RECORD at this time: have liked to have and prevailed on them religion, color, or sex. The proud title of CRITICS OF AMERICA SHOULD BEAR IN MIND to stay away from the conference. American can be claimed equally by all AMERICA'S POSTWAR AID The sixteen Western European countries citizens, first generation or lOth, from all There is a widespread tendency in all coun­ handed the American Foreign Minister their the corners of the earth, who make up tries to criticise the Americans. Young people first extensive report on the most urgent the rich fabric of our Nation. above aU see the United States as an incar­ measures requiring American aid in Septem­ Every thoughtful American must ac­ nation <>f imperialism and as a nation wal­ ber 1947. cordingly resent and deplore mindless lowin-g in brutality, suppressing its coloured Between 1948 and 1952 the Americans characte:·izations as villians, knaves, or population, recklessly chasing after money raised thirteen thousand million dollars to dolts of ethnic or racial groups in our and exploiting other countries. be used within the framework of the Mar­ The war in Vietnam doubtlessly done a lot shall Plan. Seventy per cent, or over nine polyglot society. The most striking cur­ to worsen America's reputation but Ameri­ thousand million dollars, were written off rent example of this despicable trend is cans abroad were anything but popular even from the very outset. the motion picture "The Godfather" before this. "Yanks, go home" was always a This was a real sacrifice even !or an af­ which stereotypes Italian Americans as frequent cry. fluent country like the United States, Thir­ gangsters and murderers. In this time of Americans themselves may not be com­ teen thousand million dollars made up an alienation and divisiveness in our land, pletely blameless as regards this aversion but average eight per cent of the taxes paid to when reconciliation and understanding another motive is no less potent--the envy the American government at that time. and spite of smaller and weaker nations. Even before Marshall Aid had begun, the are so imperative "The Godfather" does Like all other nations the Americans have United States granted loans and gifts to­ a grave injustice not only to Americans their faults and their virtues. Today their talling almost twenty thousand million dol­ of Italian ancestry but to our whole citi­ weaknesses are attacked though nothing is lars to other countries between 1945 and zenry. Speaking as one whose mother was said about their good points. 1948. born in the Province of Avellino, Italy, People have completely forgotten the un­ These included the GARIOA supplies and whose maternal and paternal grand­ paralleled generosity and helpfulness of the (Government Appropriation for Relief in Oc­ parents came from that beautiful land, Am.erlcans. British sociologist G. Gorer once cupied Areas), mainly food, seed-corn, medi­ I can vouch for the fact that the charac­ wrote that in no other country in the world caments and fuel, that Washington sent to did the majority of inhabitants give so easily those areas occupied by American troops. ters in "The 3ndfather" are as alien to and so willingly, almost without considering West Germany received GARIOA supplies the vast majority of Italian Americans as the cost. worth about 1,700 million dollars plus to any other groups. The hard-working, Americans generously donate money to any another 1,300 million dollars under Marshall God-fearing, warm-hearted people cause they consider worthy, Gorer stated, and Aid. Altogether this adds up to three thou­ among whom I was reared bear no re­ this is not due to affluence alone. In many sand million dollars. semblance whatsoever to the Italian cases donation. involved great personal sac­ Only one thousand million dollars needed American portrayed in this infamous rifice. to be repaid an.d this was done In 1961 in ad­ motion picture. Americans have indeed done a lot to coun­ vance of the agreed date. The Mark equiva­ ter hardship and misery throughout the lent of the remaining two thousand million The damage done to our fine Ameri­ world. 0! all industrial nations, they take up dollars form~ the West German govern­ cans of Italian ancestry and to the values first place in the amount of aid they o1fer to ment's special European Recovery Program­ of our Nation is perceptively described by developing countries. me fund. William V. Shannon in his article in to­ They also provide much money for the This is still used today to provide credits day's New York Times. I hoPe that the military protection of Europe. It was also for measures calculated to aid the West Ger­ producers will ponder Mr. Shannon's ad­ the American with their Marshall plan who man economy. Part of West Germany's devel­ monition as to the consequences of this helped Europe to her feet again after the opment aid programme is paid from it and destruction. famine and ravages of the Sec­ the fund has been a constant source of help revolting film and will abandon their ond World War. to West Berlin's industry. The beneficial ef­ plans for a sequel. I urge all Americans, Even former enemies-the Germans and fects of the Marshall Plan can still be felt to­ first generation or lOth, who cherish our Italians-were included in this generous aid day, twenty-five years after it was first an­ principles and our values, to let the film programme while the Russians mercilessly nounced. makers know that they agree with Mr. plundered the countries they occupied and But the Americans have not only given us Shannon's estimate of "The Godfather." annexed and tore up whole stretches of rail­ the Marshall Plan. They have, as has already The article follows: way line in East Germany. been mentioned, contributed to the eco­ Now that young Socialist fanatics refer to nomic and political unification of Europe. "THE GODFATHER" the Americans only in terms of abuse and By actively supporting the European (By William V. Shannon) laud the Soviet Union to the skies, fairness currencies become freely convertible. It was WASHINGTON, July 31.-The announcement and gratitude call for a reminder of the true America that provided the main initiative that production will soon begin on a movie state of affairs. for the establishment of the International called .. The Godfather-Part Two" must Speaking at Harvard University twenty­ Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the surely rank as the most depressing cultural five years ago on 5 June 1947, American Sec­ General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. All event of 1972. retary of State George C. Marshall first an­ this created the basis .for a .mighty upsurge This l"eVolting fi1l:n, already a. box office suc­ nounced the aid programme that was later in world trade. cess, is apparently to be lll.ined for another named after him. America's high balance of payment deficits thick profit. I can imagine the series now­ Pointing to the disastrous situation in cause us much annoyance and difficulty to- "Return of the Godfather," ''Son of the God- August 1, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 26335 father," "The Godfather in Las Vegas," "The mobs by hungrier, more ruthless competitors. lng station while walking around; and there Godfather in Miami Beach," and so stretch­ Otherwise, some Irish-American stockbrokers is a sleep analyzer that monitors the brain ing on into profitable infinity. and advertising men who now sedately ride and eyes of a sleeping patient-potentially In one of its aspects, "The Godfather" is the commuter trains and shake their heads valuat:?le for diagnosis in rehabilitation of part of the growing pornography in violence. over the morning newspaper at the latest drug addicts. Having done about all they can to make misdeeds of the Mafia might themselves be NASA's acknowledged leadership in com­ sexual intercourse explicit and boring on the Gaelic version of Michael Corleone. puter technology has produced a computer widescreen, the movie makers are now in the No one denies that a few Italian-Americans motion picture of a beating heart in a three process of acquainting everyone with the are gangsters. To that extent, "The God­ dimensional image-an obvious aid in lo­ many varieties of violence. Murder by sub­ father" rests on a substratum of fact. But cating heart injuries, aneurisms, and other machine gun is stlll a hardy favorite. "The for the millions of Italian-Americans who are cardiac problems. Godfather" teaches some new lessons in mur­ not gangsters, the success of this film raises The NASA computers have also produced der such as..How to Garrot Your Brother-in­ an enormous cultural obstacle. It retards a program to help industrial firms, universi­ Law. These are in addition to examples of their efforts to overcome this dark legacy ties, laboratories, and government agencies persons being murdered while starting a car, from the past and to establish positive heroes solve structural engineering problems of having a massage, paying a causeway toll, for their children to emulate. stress in designing bridges, power plants, going through a revolving door and eating Events have consequences, and the conse­ buildings, and aircraft. spaghetti. quences of "The Godfather" cannot be good Industrially, the development of battery With startling close-up, vivid death agony for Americans of Italian or non-Italian an­ technology for the space program has led to sequences and technicolor blood spurting cestry. a line of high energy commercial products everywhere, these new-style movie murders for powering chain saws, golf and baggage do manage to hold audience attention. By carts, outboard motor starters, portable elec­ the end of movie, however, when the new trocardiogram units, toys, and other appli­ Godfather presides over the murders of the OUR SPACE PROGRAM ances. heads of the New York underworld's "Five Electrical digital clocks are being pro­ Families" as well as two or three miscella­ duced by a .firm at reduced cost because of neous enemies (I lost count), these deaths HON. WM. JENNINGS BRYAN DORN NASA-developed stepping drive that keeps are becoming mechanical and meaningless. OF SOUTH CAROLINA the clock accurate within a fraction of a. A few years of such pictures will succeed second. Fifty companies here and abroad in making the most gruesome and vivid mur­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES have been licensed to make and market a ders as tedious as a nudist film. In reaching Tuesday, August 1, 1972 compound preventing the fogging of lenses that impasse, the movie industry will have and other optic and visual equipment. further degraded the taste and coarsened the Mr. DORN. Mr. Speaker, the United The list can go on and on, including .fire sensitivity of millions of people, including States is No. 1 in space. We are the only resistant clothing, paints, fabrics, and at the vulnerable young. Nation to land men on the moon. This least two new uses for laser beams (survey­ Any person of religious sensibllity can only superb national achievement is in the in­ ing terrain despite obstructions and measur­ find the film's exploitation of a child's Bap­ terest of peace, the good health, prosper­ ing the presence of plankton, that essential tism profoundly offensive. To juxtapose the of marine animal life a.nd of oxygen pro­ preparation for multiple murders against ity, and happines-: of ali mankind. duction). the words of the Priest claiming the child Mr. Speaker, the following editorial The technology of NASA's programs is not for Christ is to trivialize the most important appeared this morning in the State, one at all lost in space. The quality of life here of the Christian sacraments. · of the Nation's leading newspapers. I on Earth will be steadily improved because It is as offensive as the scene in that much colll.mend this outstanding editorial to of it. overpraised film, "':"he. Graduate," in which the attention of my colleagues in the the hero uses a crucifix to jam the church Congress and to the American people. door. And in both films, these crude gestures are used to make an artistic point which is [From the State (Columbia, S.C.), Aug. 1, WASHINGTON NEWS NOTES already abundantly clear. 1972] In "The Godfather," the exploitation of ALL MANKIND BENEFITS FROM SPACE SPIN­ Catholic rituals and Italian customs--in the OFF wedding and funeral scenes as well as the Critics of the United States space program HON. CRAIG HOSMER Baptism-is part of the biggest cultural rip­ who advocate other uses for money budgeted OF CALIFORNIA off that any commercial promoters have got­ for the National Aeronautics and Space Ad­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ten away with in years. "The Godfather" ministration (NASA) would have us believe stereotypes Italian-Americans as gangsters the taxpayers' dollars are burned up waste­ Tuesday, August 1, 1972 or as the half-admiring, half-fearful pawns fully in probing the heavens. of gangsters. The authentic details of how a Mr. HOSMER. Mr. Speaker, the for­ Not so. The spin-off benefits of the costly my bride receives money gifts at a wedding or research to explore the Moon, orbit working shortened August version of monthly how spaghetti is cooked only give credibility satellites around our Earth, and investigate Washington News Notes sent to persons to that central lie about Italian-Americans. the outer planets will ultimately pay divi­ residing in the congressional district I am The film flatters Italian males by stressing dends beyond belief. honored to represent is reproduced be­ their toughness and sexual prowess. But to And those dividends will benefit all man­ low. Its obverse side contains U.S. Gov­ what purpose? To end with a hero, the young kind-in knowledge, well-being, health, and ernment Printing Office Form 1972-0- Godfather, who is--by any decent human comfort. 459-931 bearing the intriguing title: standard-a monster. Some flattery. The impact of space technology in minia­ As an American of Irish ancestry, it seems turization of sophisticated electronic cir­ "Publications Available for Distribution to me that Italian-Americans ought to dislike cuitry is profound, especially in the field of by Members of Congresss to Homemak­ the picture intensely. There was a time much medicine. If Houston can monitor the pulse ers and Residents of Cities and Towns": earlier in this century when the Irish domi­ and temperature of a ma.n on the Moon, CONGRESSMAN CRAIG HOSMER'S WASHINGTON nated the underworld. In 1931, Warner what are the potentials for the sick on NEWS NOTES Brothers started the modern genre of gang­ Earth? WILDLIFE REFUGE NEARS REALITY ster films with "Public Enemy" starring As a result of NASA's work, there is now Ja.mes Cagney as an Irish-American gang­ commercially produced a gas analyzer to Congressman Craig Hosmer is predicting ster. The Hays Ofiice censorship of those days measure the composition of air breathed by that the Senate wm act "within the next few did not permit murders to be depicted in patients. It gives prompt information on weeks" on his bill to create the Seal Beach morbid detail, but Cagney came through respiration and metabolism that has been National Wildlife Refuge. The blli passed quite as tough and nasty as the Corleone unavailable or too time consuming to ob­ the House in June by a 314-o vote. Once the Brothers. In one famous scene he slammed a tain. Senate acts and the bill is signed into law grapefruit into his wife's face at the break­ Used in intensive care units, it immedi­ by the President, the fish and wildlife re­ fast table. ately signals changes in breathing of acute­ sources of the Anaheim Bay area-including When John O'Hara wrote "Butterfield 8" ly ill patients. There is now an alarm de­ many endangered species--will be protected in 1935 he had the hero complain bitterly vice which sounds a.t a nurse's station when for all time by Federal law. that Hollywood cast actors like Cagney as an infant stops breathing in another room. BRINGING ORDER TO ELECTORAL CHAOS the perfect gangster type because the tough A "sight switch" developed by NASA re­ Remember the big push four years ago to young Irishman fit Protestant America's search allows an armless and legless patient, reform the Electoral College and other facets stereotype of an outlaw. by the motion of his eye, to activate a nurse's of our Presidential election process? That But by that time the Irish were already a alarm, turn pages of a book, operate radio was quietly forgotten once the election was dwtnding force in organized crime, and the and TV sets, and control powered wheel­ passed. This year, attention is focusing on stereotype faded. Indeed, one of the best chairs. the primary elections. things that ever happened to the American Ambulatory heart patients can broadcast A single national primary election has been Irish was that they were muscled out of the their own heart signals to a central monitor- suggested, but Congressman Hosmer doesn't 26336 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS August 1, 1972

think much of the idea. It would pretty much NAPERVILLE, ILL., much that it will be passed. Thank you restrict consideration to those candidates July 19, 1972. for trying to get some relief for us from with enough money to wage .a national .HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING, the nuisance telephone calls we are plagued campaign. Dark horse candidates couldn't Washington, D.C. with. afford it. Craig says he would prefer the Con­ DEAR REP. AsPIN: This letter concerns H.R. If here is any way we can help to get this gress to take a hard look at the entire elec­ 14884, the bill to prevent nuisance telephone bill through, please let us know. toral process not just bits and pieces. calls. I've been waiting a long time for such Sincerely yours• PEACE THROUGH OUTER SPACE? .a bill to be adopted. Thank you for your past efforts in writing the bill. I encourage NASA Administrator James Fletcher says you to continue working to see that it is that the planned U.S.-Soviet space venture OAK PARK, ILL., passed. I think I sharP. the opinion of most July25. 1972. is more than just a gesture of cooperation. It people when I say that we don't want such will help the push for peace. Cooperation in Hon. LEs AsPIN: calls and would really appreciate the efforts Please count me and my family as very space-a Sovlet-Alnerican earth orbital lab, of those who could make it possible to pre­ a joint manned Moon station and eventually much in favor of the passage of bill HR vent any such further cans. 14884. a joint expedition to Mars-hopefully wll1 Thank you. lead to :nore cooperation here on Earth. Sincerely, ABOUT THAT SOCIAL SECURITY INCREASE NORTHLAKE, IL"L., Congressional action boost Social Se­ to .fulg19, 197Z. LAKE FOREST, ILL., curity benefits by 20% is good news for to­ U.S. Representative LEs AsPIN, July 14, 1972. day's retired persons. Further improvements House Office Building, Re. H.R. 14884. in the system are contained in the Welfare Washington, D.C. Hon. LEs ASPIN, Reform bill (H.R. 1), now stalled in the Sen­ DEAR REPRESENTATIVE ASPIN; We WOuld House Office Building, ate. The challenge facing Congress is to like to go on record as being very much in Washington, D.C. bring the program into line with today's support of the b111 HR-14884 to regulate DEAR REPRESENTATIVE AsPIN: I, too, am needs without overburdening it a few years telephone solicitors. tired of telephone solicitations. from now. We appreciate your introduction and sup­ Please continue your good work on HR FREE CONSUMER BOOKLETS AVAILABLE port of this bill. Personal privacy is becoming 14884. Congressman Hosmer is offering consumer­ a scarce commodity, and what few vestiges Respectfully yours, oriented booklets without charge to residents of it remain must be jealously protected. of the 32nd District. If you find some mate­ Thank you for whatever you can do to rials of interest, please check the numbered encourage passage of this bill. boxes on the back of this letter, print your Very truly yours, name and address on the form below and re­ NATIONAL LEGAL SECRETARIES' turn this entire page to Craig. Please limit ROLLING MEADOWS, ILL., your .order to a maximum of jive booklets so July zt., 1972. COURT OBSERVANCE WEEK that the available supply may accommodate Re: Bill HR-14884. as many residents as possible. Mail to: Con­ U.S. Representative LEs ASPIN, gressman Craig Hosmer, House of Repre­ House Office Building, RON. TOM RAJLSBACK sentatives, Washington, D.C. 20515. Washington, D.C. OF ILLINOIS DEAR Sm: Through the Chicago Tribune I IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES learned that there is a bill pending that would "keep nuisances off my phone". This Tuesday, August 1, 1972 TELEPHONE PRIVACY-XXIX would certainly be a blessing, since there are Mr. RAILSBACK. Mr. Speaker. since an unbelievable number of people soliciting 1946, when the National Association of in this manner. Yesterday I had two cans Legal Secretaries was founded, this fine HON. LES ASPIN regarding land sales. It isn't even 10:30 a.m. organization has been dedicated to rais­ OF WISCONSIN and I have just had two more. They are worse than leeches to get rid of. I tell them ing the professional standards of secre­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES immediately that I am not interested, but taries dealing with all aspects of the law. Tuesda:g, August 1, 1972 they are most persistent. The time has come The association discovered that a fre­ for me to stop being polite! quent gap in their members' education Mr. ASPIN. Mr. Speaker, I reintro­ We would certainly appreciate the kind was the opportunity to observe first-hand duced the telephone privacy bill on May of protection your bill would afford. It isn't the type of court proceedings which fol­ 10, 1972, with a total of 48 cosponsors. fair to have to .obtain an unlisted number to avoid these nuisances as I have threat­ lowed from the efforts they had made in This bill would give individuals the their respective offices. So in 1956 a Day­ right to indicate to the telephone com­ ened to do, which would deprive me of hear­ ing from friends who do not have my num­ in-Court program was instituted to pany if they do not wish to be commer­ ber. satisfy this need, and its effects have cially solicited over the telephone. Com­ Thank you for your consideration, and I proved widely beneficial. mercial firms wanting to solicit business shall be looking forward to hearing of the Mrs. Roberta L. Moens. president of over the phone would then be required passage of your bill. the Rock Island County Legal Secre­ to obtain from the phone company a list Yours very truly, taries Association explained the program of customers who opted for the commer­ to me in this way: cial prohibition. The FCC would also be MOUNT PROSPECT, ILL., Each October, we observe said program by given the option of requiring the phone July 23, 1972. sponsoring courthouse tours, presenting company, instead of supplying a list, to Sm: The Chicago Tribune states that you mock trials, attending special events and <>b­ put an asterisk by the name of those in­ have introduced a bill, HR 14884, to keep servlng court procedures to gain a working dividuals in the phone book who have nuisances off the telephone. we are in total knowledge of our judicial system. At every chosen to invoke the commercial solicita­ agreement with this measure. We have even available opportunity, we -extend invitations been insulted by phone solicitors and have to high school and business school students tion ban. gone so far as to have our number removed to join o1.tr association in its activities. Those not covered by the legislation from the phone book. We still receive nil would be charities and other nonprofit sorts of calls soliciting for numerous busi­ Mrs. Moens went on to say: groups, political candidates or organiza­ ness offers as well as for donations. The we sincerely believe that through ou:r tions.. and opinion polltakers. Also not worst offenders are the ones who make the Annual Day-in-Court program we have can sound like long distance. These alarm created .a better understandlng of our eovered. would be debt collection agen­ court system and in some small way, raised cies or any other individual or companies us because we have a family member in New York who is quite 111. the standard of our profession. We further with whom the individual has an exist­ Please continue to push this measure to believe that a National Legal Secretaries ing contract or debt. inhibit this invasion of our privacy. Co:xrt Observance Week would further our I have received an enormous amount Thank you, cause and help to educate not only legal of correspondence on this legislation secretaries and students but the general pub­ from all over the country. Today, I am lic as well. placing a 2"lth sampling of these letters MoUNT P.B.OSPECT, ILL .. Mr. Speaker, I feel that this fin-e pro­ July 1.8, 1972. gram should be highly commended and into the RECORD, since they describe far Mr.LEs AsPIN. more vividly than I possibly could. the House Office Building, encouraged. As a lawyer I can testify to need for this legislation.. Wash4ngton, D.C. the gres.t responsibility that ls placed on These letters .follow--the- names have DEAR M.a. AsPIN: We are so glad you are many of these 1ndlv1duals 1n the day­ been omitted: sponsoring bill HR 14884 and hope very to-day operation of our courts and law August 1, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 26337 offices. Without their efficient and the world, or do we abandon those por­ And the Soviet Defense Minister, Andrei tions of this globe to the supremacy of A. Grechko, indicated that the current build­ knowledgeable assistance the wheels of up of nuclear submarines and other ships justice would be greatly slowed. the Soviet Union? would continue at its present pace. His Or­ Further. as Mrs. Moens indicated, the I am including the Times article in der of the Day, published in the Defense Min­ National Association of Legal Secretar­ the RECORD, so that my colleagues can istry paper, Krasnaya Zvezda, voiced the need ies is interested not only in gaining examine the express intentions of the for "new successes in creating ships equipped knowledge for themselves, but also in other side, quite clearly stated, and with the most up-to-date equipment and sharing that knowledge with others. This decide on the policy issue of strength armaments for our navy." I feel, is most important. Regret­ or weakness for our naval forces in ac­ tably, I have found that Americans know cordance with their individual judg­ less about our judicial system tha:& any ment: other branch of government, even CHn:F or SoVXET NAVY SAYS FLEETS CAN REACH M. LARRY LAWRENCE though their most direct-and often ANY FOE dismaying--experience with our Govern­ Moscow, JULY 30.-The commander of the ment come through it. Also, with crlti­ Soviet Union's Navy said today that his fleets, HON. LIONEL VAN DEERLIN cism of our judicial system, and our Na­ led by a growing number of nuclear subma­ or CALIFORNU. rines, could detect and destroy an enemy ves­ tion, continuing to mount, I believe that IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES an expanded Day-in-Court program sel anywhere in the world. Admiral of the Fleet Sergei G. Gorshkov Tuesday, August 1, 1!172 would provide an important opportunity took the occasion of Soviet Navy Day to for Americans to gain an increased un­ write in Pravda. the Soviet Communist party Mr. VAN DEERLIN. Mr. Speaker, the derstanding of their rights and privileges newspaper, that the Soviet Navy was a world­ Democratic Party has been enjoying a as American citizens, as well as their wide strlld.ng force and "an impressive fac­ spectacular renaissance in San Diego obligations to others. tor deterring any attempts at sudden aggres­ County, thanks in large measure to the For these reasons, I joined my dis­ sion against the Soviet Union." efforts of one man, my old friend and tinguished colleague from South Caro­ He also stated that the "imperialists have confident, M. LaiTy Lawrence. unleashed more than 30 wars and armed con­ lina (FLOYD SPENCE) in sponsoring a flicts in the postwar years:• and, citing Viet.­ Since Larry took over as southern Cal­ joint resolution authorizing and request­ nam and the Middle East as current dangers ifornia chairman of our party, we have ing the President to proclaim the second to world peace, he declared: taken a sizable lead in registrations in full week in October of each year as "Na­ "It is quite natural that under such con­ the county and elected one of our own tional Legal Secretaries' Court Observ­ ditions our peaceful policy must be substan­ to a state assembly seat previously re­ ance Week" and call upon the people of tiated by defensive might.'' garded as the permanent possession of the United States to observe such week The admiral added that the Soviet Union's the GOP. with appropriate cere:monies and activi­ nuclear submarines, "armed with ballistic Larry is one of the most quotable. ties. I would like to commend the House missiles and long-range torpedoes, and colorful personalities now in political backed by missile-carrying planes and ships, for its passage of this resolution on July are capable of destroying an enemy in any practice anyWhere. With his energy and 28, 1972. region of the world's oceans." way with words, and his willingness to Foreign submarines, he said, would fall wither a fellow partisan when he thinks to withstand a Soviet attack if war broke out. such criticism merited, he has attracted "Submarine, surface and air antisub forces a good deal of attention in the news ISNAVALPARITYWITHTHEU.S.S.R. can detect and utterly destroy any subma­ media in San Diego and throughout Cal­ ENOUGH? rine in all weather conditions." the admiral ifornia. In this fashion, he has helped wrote. stimulate public interest not only in the He did not refer directly to the United revival of our party, but in the political HON. LOUIS C. WYMAN States, but his statements were clearly di­ rected at his navy's No. 1 competitor for su­ process generally. OF NEW HAMPSHIRE premacy on the seas. All our colleagues might not agree with IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The agreements on limitation of strategic everything Larry says. But an, I am sure, Tuesday, August 1, 1972 arms, signed in Moscow last May by Presi­ would find his remarks of interest. With dent Nixon and the Communist party leader that in mind, I include at this point ex­ Mr. WYMAN. Mr. Speaker, for the Leonid I. Brezhnev, indicated that the Rus­ cerpts from a speech delivered by Larry past several days this Congress has been sians had reached a state of nuclear equality to the San Diego Rotary Club shortly engaged in debate over the military pro­ with the United States and Moscow now has after he returned from service as a dele­ curement autholization bill for fiscal every intention of gaining naval parity, if not supremacy. gate at the Democratic National Conven­ year 1973. At issue in the past and still Since Admiral Gorshkov took command or tion: at issue is whether administration pro­ the navy. 16 years ago, he has trans!orm.ed SPEECH BY M. LARRY LAWRENCE posals for modernizing the U.S. Navy are an insignificant coastal defense rorce into Machiavelli once said, "There Is nothing sufficient to meet the Soviet threat. four blue-water :fleets that patrol from the more difficult to take in hand, more perilous The New York Times has now pro­ Arctic to the Antarctic. to conduct, C'r more uncertain in its success, vided an answer of sorts ;n the state­ Admiral Gorshkov noted today that his than to take the lead In the introduction of ments of the commander of the Soviet ships had called at more than 60 ports in a new order vf things. •• This Is a day of new Union's Navy on the occasion of Soviet Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America in ideas that bear on your and my lives, in Navy Day. the last three years. business and the professions as well as poli­ The Pacific, Baltic, Arctic and Black Sea tics, and only the mo.st dogmatic will reject Admiral of the Fleet Sergei G. Gorsh­ :fleets have about 408 submarines, 95 of them its reality! kov alleged in the Soviet Communist nuclear-powered; 27 cruisers, two helicopter I have just returned from a convention Party Newspaper Pravda that the Soviet carriers. 101 destroyers and more than 1,000 where everyone was serious and concerned, fleets could detect and destroy an enemy smaller but heavily armed craft. where everyone worked without sleep for vessel anyWhere in the world. The United States stlll has superiority in days on end. where even in victory there The Times goes on to state in an ar­ aircraft carriers and destroyers, though it is was little exuberance. and where until the ticle datelined Moscow, July 30 that outnumbered in cruisers and conventional convention was over almost no one I saw submarines. Western specialists, however, are took an alcoholi~ drink. Communist Party leader Leonid J. WOI'ried about the rate at which Soviet ship­ The delegates--many, but certalnly by no Brezhnev had indicated that the Rus­ yards are producing nuclear submarines-an means all, young-were exemplary in their sians had reached a state of nuclear average of one every five weeks. manner and dedication, belying an predic­ equality with the United States and now The United States has 101 nuclear subma­ tions including my own. They wen\ for val­ has every intention of gaining naval par­ rines and is scheduled to produce only 11 in ues and ideals. and if there was one ideal ity if not supremacy. the 1972-73 programs. they went for b. the most part it was· trust! Mr. Speaker, I submit that our poten­ Writing in the latest issue of the authorita­ They trust a hard headed. conservative in tial adversary, the Soviet Union has tive Jane's Fighting Ships, the editor, Ray­ many ways, Dakota. farmer-minister named mond V. B. Black:man, said: "It 1s a sobering George McGovern. stripped some af the clouds of rhetoric thought that no other country in the orld Many of the delegates represent the under­ from our debate and has laid the issue 1n this day and age of sophistication a.nd in­ dogs 1n this countcy, and I doubted they squarely before us. Do we have the will flation can possibly build as many subma­ trusted anyone much anylllDre. And as a to maintain a naval force su:mcient to in­ rines as the Soviet Navy has at the present result, the oriler of things became ·turned sure our freedom to use the oceans of time.'' about. · CXVIII--1659-Part 20 26338 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS August 1, 1972 These delegates have rejected the big "YOUNG EXECUTIVES REPORT" and Finance. Entered Government in union bosses with the same fervor as the 1953 at $4,725. Present salary, $36,000. big polltica: bosses. They give to Nixon the teamsters, whose recent president was re­ Gerald C. Puppe, Director of Person­ HON. JOHN M. ZWACH nel. Started with Government in 1962 leased by NiXon after being jailed by Bobby OF MINNESOTA Kennedy. at $4,690. Present salary, $25,583. They believe of you and I, the biblical IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES William L. Ruble, Assistant to Admin­ quotation, "Who can protest and does not, Tuesday, August 1, 1972 istrator, Agricultural Stabilization and 1s an accomplice to the act." Mr. ZWACH. Mr. Speaker, recently 15 Conservation Service. Started in 1968 at No one who observes the American scene $25,708. Present salary, $32,645. gives George McGovern much chance as of young executives of the Department of Robert P. Shiner, Agricultural Market­ today. Agriculture received a great deal of no­ But then again a few months back how toriety for recommending the elimina­ ing Specialist. Entered service in 1962 at many gave him much chance for the tion of farm price support programs, even $4,565. Present salary, $19,987. nomination? though the Department disclaimed re­ This is the kind of entrenched bu­ Clearly h1s will be a people's campaign. sponsibility for the contents of their reaucracy we must deal with in our ef­ The money, power, and most of the press, forts to better the economic conditions of is on the side of the administration, and I report. our rural people. Thank God, the Con­ am not so naive to believe that victory will I have made a careful analysis of the gress, the elected representatives of the be easy, though it is possible. records of the people making the report; people, write our laws. But I saw the rank amateurs of 1968 when they entered Government service, become better pro's than the pro's in 1972. what their salary was when they were If they don't pull it otr In 1972 there 1s no hired, how much they are paid now, and way possible for the~ to lose in 1976. This their length of Go'7ernment service. year is the last year of an establishment THE LAW OF THE SEA CONFER­ presidential possibility. If you look at the It is interesting to see how these peo­ ENCE-GENESIS AND PROSPECT figures of votln3 age requirements, you will ple have had their parity pay increases FOR AGREEMENT IN 1973 note that by 1976 voters over 50 wlll be out­ working under ~he shelter of the Federal numbered 1o-to-1 by voters under 30. In Government, while condemning parity 1976 this same group will outnumber the for our countryside residents. HON. DON H. CLAUSEN voters from 3G-50 almost 3-to-1. And that I think it is noteworthy to point out OF CALIFORNIA 1s the same ratio they are registering demo­ that these individuals were appointed to IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cratic, even in staid old San Diego. The this study because of the positions they old democratic coalition is gone, and Tuesday, August 1, 1972 strangely en.:>ugh with it will be the old held. republic coa:!.ition. I think it is worthy to note that they Mr. DON H. CLAUSEN. Mr. Speaker, If the Democratic party had one theme entered Government service under four as one who believes strongly in, and has out of MiallL. it 1s that Nixon and the different Presidents, but only one of them long fought for, meaningful legislation Republican party will overkill, in hate and under the present administration. and programs to protect and enhance our attack on McGovern's positions, and in the Seven of them started to work for the fishery and ocean resources and the es­ extravagant use of money. Government under President Kennedy, tablishment of ar.. offshore marine re­ They beg the Republicans to get bitter four under President Johnson, three un­ sources conservation zone, I am taking and mea.n and nasty. They believe they have der President Eisenhower, and one un­ this opportunity to bring to the attention met the test of devotion by behaving when things have gone against them. der President Nixon. of my colleagues a very timely and in­ They are counting on Nixon and h1s I think the public should know these depth address which my good friend and friends to create the climate of hate that facts. Here is the record: colleague, Congressman ToM PELL Y of will bring about Democratic victory. And you Gene S. Bergoffen, Forester. Entered Washington, gave recently before the may be surprised to know that George Mc­ Federal service in 1960 at $4,980. Present Lake City Rotary Club in his home com­ Govern is just one element of that victory, salary, $23,424. munity of Seattle. and some believe not the most important. Allan S. Johnson, Assistant to the Ad­ In his address, Mr. PELLY provides a If there 1s an elaboration of the theme ministrator, Economic Research Service. straightforward and very practical as­ that binds the new coalition it was stated 1965 $15,866. almost 20 years ago-and it is the policy Started in at Present salary sessment of the overwhelming impor­ that is the guiding inspiration to George $26,436. tance of the upcoming International Law McGovern. Carol J. Alexander, Administrative of the Sea ~onference to be held in I quote: Librarian. Started with the Government Geneva next year as it relates to our fu­ "Every gun that 1s made, every warship in 1961 at $2,950. Present salary, $21,960. ture fishery and ocean resources within launched, every rocket fired signifies, an the Karen L. Berke, Public Information the overall context of an international final sense, a theft from those who are hun­ Specialist. Entered service in 1963 at agreement. Having read and analyzed his gry and are not fed, those who are cold and $4,440. Present salary, $16,395. very timely and important speech, I want are not clothed. John S. Bottum, Deputy Administra­ to commend ::.\ir. PELLY personally for "This world in arms is not spending money tor, Rural Development. Sta1·ted in 1957 having made it and, at the same time, alone. at $3,415. Present salary, $30,667. "It 1s spending the sweat of its laborers, recommend it highly to my colleagues. the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its John E. Carson, Deputy Administrator, I do so because both the President and children. Administrative Management. Entered many Members of Congress have placed "The cost of one modern heavy bomber is Government service in 1961 at $5,355. a high priority on this !)articular inter­ this: a modern brick school in more than Present salary, $35,583. national conference. 80 cities. Betty L. Dotson, Assistant to the Ad­ Several of us in the Congress have re­ "It 1s two electric power plants, each serv- ministrator, Food and Nutrition Serv­ cently written the President urging him ing a town of 60,000 population. ice. Started in 1960 at $4,525. Present to name Mr. rELLY as one of our chief "It 1s two fine, fully equipped hospitals. salary, $25,583. negotiators and a member of the U.S. "It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. Avram E. Guroff, international econ­ "We pay for a single fighter plane with a delegation to the International Law of half million bushels of wheat. omist. Started with Government in 1965 the Sea Conference. Certainly, ToM "We pay for a single destroyer with new at $11,782. Present salary, $21,960. PELL Y is eminently well qualified for this homes that could have housed more than Clarence R. Hanna, Management high honor. As the ranking minority 8,000 people. Analyst. Started in 1964 at $5,540. Pres­ member of our Merchant Marine and "This, I repeat, is the best way of life to ent salary, $23,424. Fisheries Committee and in view of his be found on the road the world has been James E. Haskell, agricultural econ­ outstanding leadership in the marine re­ taking. omist. Entered Government service in sources field, he has the unqualified re­ "This 1s not a way of life a.t all, in any true 1966 at $2.40 per hour. Present salary, spect and support of the American Fed­ sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron." $19,362. eration of Fishermen as well as all the The quotation is from President Dwight Homer R. Hilner, Soil Conservationist. fishermen and fishermen's wives groups D. Eisenhower, April 16, 1953, to the Ameri­ Started in 1963 at $3,175. Present salary, in my coasta: congressional district of can Society of Newspaper Editors, in Wash­ $23,424. California.. Having announced his retire­ lngton, D.O. Jerome A. Miles, Director of Budget ment from the Congress, ToM PELL Y will August 1, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 26339 be in a position to devote all of his time Uses of the Sea-bed and Ocean Floor Beyond United Nations 1s quite that simple. Hair and attention to :Jlis most important the Limits of National Jurisdiction". During splitting is the order of the day. The privi­ task. 1968, this Committee began to consider the lege ot drafting a provisional agenda was scientific, economic and legal aspects of sea­ Informally delegated to a working group of The address follows: bed exploration and exploitation. In the fall Latin American, African and Asian coun­ THE LAW OP THE SBA CONPERENCE-GENESDJ of 1968, the General Assembly established a tries. Even they could not agree among them­ AND PRosPECT FOR AGltE:ElloiENT IN 1973 permanent Committee composed of 42 mem­ selves however until the remaining members The International Law of the Sea 1s a ber states on the Peaceful Uses of the Sea­ of the Committee appeared on the verge of highly complex subject--a nightmare ot bed. The Committee's mandate was directed revolt against this take-over by a handful of vague, deliberately lll-defined concepts. Un­ exclusively toward promotion of interna­ have-nots. Finally a. draft agenda was tabled like, however, most other aspects of Inter­ tional cooperation for the development of the as the sess1.on closed. national law, the Law of the Sea has pro­ sea-bed for the benefit of mankind. During Debate on this agenda covering over 20 found day-to-day impact upon our lives. 1969, the Committee gradually defined the major topics will be the first order of bust­ It 1s a pleasure to be with you today to issues inherent in the establishment of such ness when the Committee meets in Geneva discuss the current efforts to overhaul the an international regime. These issues were on July 17th for a one-month stand. existing Law of the Sea structure, with par­ the nature and geographic extent of national Assuming that an agenda can be agreed ticular emphasis upon the need for a new jurisdiction over the Continental Shelf, the upon promptly, the work of preparing draft Fisheries Convention. deep sea-bed and super-adj-acent waters, and treaty articles for consideration a.t the Law Over fifteen years ago, I Introduced In Con­ the politleal feasibll1ty of establishing an of the Sea Conference will~ gress a bill to compensate- the engineer of international regime to regulate sea-bed ac­ With respect to a sea-bed regime, some the tuna clipper, ARCTIC MAID, for his tivities beyond the limit of national juris­ progress has been made. In addition to the injuries following an attack by an Ecua­ diction. U.S. draft treaty, ten proposals have been dorian gun boat on the high seas, 23 miles At this point, in the fall of 1969, It became submitted of varying complexity. These off the coast of Ecuador. At that time, the apparent that the Malta Resolution-the papers reftect the views of such countries as United States whiTe not recognizing the concept of an International sea-bed regime­ Russia, the United Kingdom. Japan and a various territorial claims of Ecuador and was inextricably bound to the continuing variety of developing natl

tive construction" at the time of signing- The ABM treaty bans the kind of ABM Criticisms: 1,054 for the United States, and about 1,618 system which could be most de-stablllzing­ On the surface, a number of criticisms of for the Soviet Union. a nation-wide or major regional defense of the treaty can be made: Launchers for so-called "light" ICBMs (the population and industry. Such a system, un­ "The accords allow the Soviet Union more U.S. Minuteman and Soviet SSll and 13) and dertaken by either country, could threaten ICBM launchers, SLBMs and ballistic missile "older" LCBMs (the U.S. Titan and Soviet the other's deterrent and cause it to respond submarines the the United States. SS7 and 8) may not be replaced by "modern With additional offensive buildup. The com­ "Only the Soviet Union can have "modern heavy ICBMs" (the Soviet SS9). The SS9 class plex restrictions on ABM sites should con­ heavy" ICBMs, with capacity to carry more missiles may, however, be made heavier. Rus­ vince each side the other is not developing an megatons than U.S. missiles. (Also more sia has 288 SS9s now and 25 apparently larger ABM for defense of large P.!"eas. The treaty MIRVs than U.S. missiles if the Soviets de­ silos dug. It could therefore end up with 313 r~les out a US ABM for population defense velop a MIRV.) "modern heavy" ICBMs of SS9 size or larger. against China, which this country once "The Soviet Union retains more megaton­ The United States has no "modern heavy" planned but later abandoned. age and more throw weight than the United ICBMs and plans none. Freezing ICBMs, SLBMs, and ballistic mis­ States." Within these restrictions, ICBMs may be sile submarines at levels deployel'. and under On the other :!land, the SALT accords pro­ replaced with more modern ones--for ex­ construction is a first step in limiting of­ vide several effective limitations on Soviet ample with MIRV. But in the process of fensive nuclear weapons, a step on which weapons. Assuming recent Soviet construc­ modernization, launchers may not be in­ future SALT talks can build. Broadly speak­ tion rates were to continue until 1977, the creased in size more than 10-15%. ing, the accords accommodate themselves to Soviets could have built 200 ICBMs but now The number of launchers for submarine­ the different kinds of offensive weapons are limited to 1618. The Soviets could have launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) each buildup which each side now has underway­ built 1200 SLBMs, but are now limited to side presently has deployed or under con­ Soviet construction of more and bigger mis­ 950; and they could have built 80-90 modern struction was stipulated to be 656 U.S. and siles and US MIRV. They allow each side to ballistic missile subs but now are limited to 740 USSR. These numbers can be increased substantially complete the round it now has 62. subject to two provisions: in progress. The new levels become the start­ While ICBM numbers are frozen at levels "Additional SLBM launchers may become Ing point for attempting to freeze the arms deployed and under active construction, the operational only as replacements for an race. Russians did not say exactly how many they equal number of "older" ICBM launchers Among the debits from an arms control have under construction. The United States (first deployed prior to 1964) or for launch­ viewpoint: considers the freeze level to be 1618 for the ers on older nuclear-powered submarines or Except for ABMs the accords do not stop Soviet Union. Dr. Henry Kissinger said on for modern SLBM launchers on any type of any of the major weapons programs now in June 15 that the Russians could not exceed submarines. progress. This is because numerical limits are the freeze level to any significant degree "During the five year freeze the U.S. is set high, qualitative improvements are al­ without the United States detecting it, and limited to 44 modern ballistic missile sub­ lowed, and many weapons systems-includ­ if this happened the whole agreement would marines and 710 SLBM launchers. The So­ ing bombers, air-defense, anti-submarine be in question. viet Union is limited to 62 modern ballistic warfare, air-breathing strategic missiles and An important factor in the defense con­ missile submarines and 950 SLBM launchers-" tactical nuclear weapons-are not covered. troversy is MIRV. If the Soviet Union does As in the case of ICBMs, submarine missile Under SALT the United States can continue not develop MIRV, It will stm have little systems can be modernized. Single-warhead conversion of Minuteman and Polaris to more than 2500 warheads five years from missiles can be replaced by MIRVed missiles. MIRV, development of Trident submarines now when the United States will, under pres­ New submarines can be substituted for old. with new missiles, the B-1 bomber, research ently planned pro.,arams, have more than Destruction or dismantling of old ICBMs on "site defense" for ICBMs, submarine­ 10,000. launched cruise (air breathing) missiles and or submarine missiles must begin by the start If the Soviet do develop MIRV, two key new submarines in which to carry them. The of sea trials of a replacement ballistic missile questions will be: How fast? And how much? submarine. Soviet Union can continue, up to a point, The Soviet Union appears to be years be­ Each side agrees not to significantly in­ building additional land and sea-based mis­ hind this country in MIRV. The United crease its number of test and training sile launchers, and could develop and deploy MIRV. States began MIRV tests in August, 1968. launchers for ICB.Ms or SLBMs. The first squadron of Minuteman ill missiles There were several unresolved points of Because all these programs are allowed, and became operational Jan. 8, 1971; the first disagreement in the accords: because numerical limits are set so high, wing of 150, on Dec. 13, 1971. The Soviet "The Soviet Union stated unilaterally that military planners on each side will stlll point Union has also been working on multiple if US allies in NATO should increase their to future possibilities rather than existing or warhead technology since about August, 1968, numbers of ballistic missile submarines be­ likely forces to Justify their own building programs. but it has yet to test a MIRV system as the yond those presently in operation or under United States knows the term. The Rus­ construction, the Soviet Union would have From a US Defense View sians tested a triple-warhead system in which the right to make a corresponding increase in The accords can also be looked at from a the warheads may or may not hav., been its number of submarines. much narrower view of US military defense. Independently targetable. (US analysts dif­ "The United States was unable to get Ad-z:-antages: fered on this point.) But these tests stopped agreement on a common definition of in late 1970, suggesting that the Russians "heavy" ICB.Ms. The US considers it to be any Since only the Soviet Union is presently might have decided to start over on a new missile bigger than the largest existing building up its number of offensive weapons tack. "light" ICBM, which is the Soviet SSll. launchers, it is to the advantage of the United Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird said "The United States was unable to get States to put ceilings on these numbers. June 5 that Russia .. could have a MIRV agreement to include mobile ICBMs in the Within the totals the number of "heavy" capab111ty in 24 months." But he did not say freeze. (Mobile ABMs are banned). The ICBMs Russia can have is limited to 313. how many they might have by then. Without SALT, the Soviet Union could, at United States declared unilaterally that de­ Senator Henry Jackson (D-Wash.) has said ployment of mobile ICBMs during the freeze present rates of construction, exceed the freeze celllng Instead of 62 modern ballistic that when the Soviets achieve MIRV would be considered 'inconsistent with the " ... the combination of their vastly su­ objectives' of the agreement." missile submarines it could have 80 or 90. The to perior payload and modern MIRV technology WHAT THE ACCORDS MEAN US has no plans to add it numbers of ICBMs or build "heavy" ones. It could, under will give them superiority in warheads." From an Arms Control View the freeze, bulld 13 Trident submarines. De­ There have been published reports that So­ The SALT accords can be examined from fense Secretary Laird has said only ten are viet missiles larger than SS9s could hold up several viewpoints. One of these is the view­ planned. Actually the first Tridents would to 20 MIRVs each. (A US Minuteman holds point of international arms control-that is, not become operational until after the 5-year up to 3; a Poseidon, 10 to 14). But other in terms of what effect the accords wlll have freeze, and are therefore more related to fu­ defense analysts believe this overstates what on the arms race. ture rounds of SALT than the first. Russia could realistically achieve in MIRV during the next five years. Among the achievements in this regard: Freezing the number of ICBM launchers, The SALT accords represent the first-even especially "heavy" ones, will leave only one Table IV shows the Center for Defense though partial-limitations by the United route for the Soviet Union to develop in­ Information's calculation of what the So­ States and Soviet Union dealing with the creased "counterforce" capability to knock viet Union probably could achieve in MIRV fundamentals of their arms race. Previously, out US ICBMs-qualitative improvements during the five years of the Interim Agree­ the two countries had agreed to bar nuclear such as increased accuracy, MIRVing, and ment, if it develops MIRV. At the end of five weapons from the Antarctic, from outer throw weight. years it would have some 3800 warheads space, and from the sea bed. They had agreed The ABM limit plus the limits on ICBM compared to more than 10,000 for the United not to test them in the atmosphere, under­ numbers lessen the chance that the Soviet States under programs now planned. (Table water or in space and not to give them to Union could develop the capability for a suc­ ID) other countries. But never had the two su­ cessful "first strike"-that is, the ability to If the Soviet Union were to embark on perpowers reached agreement on the nuclear knock out enough US misslles to suffer no or an extensive program to MIRV its missiles, weapons targeted at each other. substantially less damage in return. lt could have some 14,000 warheads. This 26346 · EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS August 1, 1972 would involve installing 20 :MIRVs in its Laird told the House Subcommittee on to the attention of the House of Repre­ bigger missiles and :MIRVing its smaller Defense Appropriations June 5 that "Just as sentatives a poem written by a lovely missiles by the same factors as the United the Moscow agreements were made possible young lady who, to me, represents the States. But it is doubtful that Russia could by our successful action in such programs achieve this level in five years. The United as Safeguard, Poseidon and Minuteman lli, very finest qualities of America's youth. States could have more than 16,000 warheads these future negotiations to which we are She is Kathleen Ann Covey of Lake­ in the 1980s by exceeding present plans. This pledged can only succeed if we are equally port, Calif., in the First Congressional would include :MIRVing all Minuteman mis­ successful in implementing such programs District. Miss Covey is serving as Miss siles instead of only 550 of them, plus build­ as the Trident system, the B-1 bomber, NCA Lake County and was present at a recent ing ten Trident subma.rines and a fleet of defense, Site Defense, SLCM, and accelerated ceremony I attended in California. B-1 bombers. (See Table V) · satellite basing of strategic bombers. We At that time she read the poem she However, such calculations of marginal ad­ must also initiate certain other measures in composed for the occasion and I was vantages for the United States or Soviet areas such as intelligence, verification, and Union-whether they be in warheads, command, control, and communications." touched by the depth of feeling she ex­ launchers or megatons-overlook one im­ Transmitting the SALT a.greeemnts to hibited for her home area. Those of us portant point: Both countries have the Congress, President Nixon said: "Just as who live in northern California share a power to destroy each other several times the maintenance of a strong strategic pos­ great pride in the bounty nature has over, and this will remain the case during ture was an essential element in the success given us--a pride that is reflected in the five years of the Interim Agreement. of these negotiations, it is now equally es­ Miss Covey's composition. Gerard Smith, director of the Arms con­ sential that we carry forward a sound stra­ I proudly submit her work for publi­ trol and Disarmament Agency, when asked tegic modernization program to maintain cation in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD and during hearings of the Senate Foreign Re­ our security and to ensure that more perma­ lE..tions Committee June 19 whether Russia nent and comprehensive arms limitation for the attention of all Members of would get ahead of the United States during agreements can be reached." Congress: the five year agreement, replied: "Nothing The Administration's position 1s that if POEM the Soviets can do within the five year agree­ the United States had not been deploying (By Kathleen Ann Covey) ment will offset the present strategic balance MIRVs and going forward with other pro­ I stood upon a. hill, looking out to the world between the US and USSR." grams it would have lacked the bargaining Seeing life in its stillness. power to obtain a cei11ng on Soviet building COST A peace of country living seen in the dis- of SS9s and other systems. tance, The immediate cost impact of the SALT CONCLUSIONS Where nestled among the trees acocrds on the fiscal 1973 defense budget has Arms Control Proud and tall stands a church steeple, been listed by the Defense Department as Weathered with the years. follows: · The ABM treaty limits ABM systems and (In millions) therefore is a significant and stabilizing step Reflected in the lake below, Mt. Konocti, a in limiting the arms race. legend in itself. Reducing ABM program to two sites_ -$711 A valley filled with history seen from every INCREASES IN OTHER STRATEGIC PROGRAMS The five-year agreement on offensive weap­ view. · ons allows the United States and Soviet Accelerate and complete development An ancient Indian mountain, a hundred of Site Defense______+60 Union each to continue its present round of year old church, nuclear buildup, and then establishes a par­ Develop submarine-based cruise Yet a youngness is seen here too. tial, quantitative freeze at the resulting new Towering among the trees, the courthouse missile ------+20 levels. This is a start which can be followed built not so long ago. Accelerate bomber rebasing______+45 up in future SALT negotiations. Augment verification capabilities____ +13 Here, we stand looking out at the babe of Develop improved reentry vehicles US Security history for ICBMs and SLBMs______+20 The accords place ceilings on numbers of The freeway now complete. Improved command, control and offensive weapon launchers at a time when A playground for the young, a fountain for communications ------+10 only the Soviet Union is increasing these us all numbers. Without the accords. Soviet con­ A storehouse of information, Net change______-543 struction could be greater. The offensive But BEST of all, our county in all its splen­ freeze plus the ABM limitation lessen the dor. Secretary Laird has testified that the total chances of Russia ever becoming able to ABM saving through 1981 as a result of I stand upon a. hilltop, looking out to the launch a preemptive nuclear strike against world. SALT would be $9.9 billion, figured in 1968 this country without being destroyed in re­ prices. An outstretched hand, a friendly "hi", warm turn. The accords thus tend to make nu­ smile Further savings could come from the first clear war less likely. round of SALT if the United States decided To greet a passerby. While Russia under the accords will con­ But BEST of all, a moment of beauty, renewal that, as a result of the recent accords, it tinue to lead the United States 1n numbers could safely stop or slow down some of its of life, of launchers and total megatonnage, the As they too may now stand upon a hilltop, other Ina.jor nuclear weapons programs, such United States will retain its lead in numbers as Trident, the B-1, or air defense. The Ad­ And see life capturing history and helping to of warheads. These differences, however, are write another page. ministration wants to go ahead with these less important than the fact that each coun­ programs. The question of what this coun­ A gift we give to all who come try retains the power to destroy the other Whether from near or from far try's pace in nuclear weapons building several times over. should be following the first round of SALT The beauty of God's creation seen from a has become a major issue. Weapons Policy hilltop. It the objective of SALT is to limit weap­ POLICY FOLLOWING SALT ons proliferation and thereby reduce ten­ Secretary Laird told newsmen June 6: "I sions, the open end "bargaining chip" game could not support the (SALT) agreements if has severe deficiencies. For so long as the Congress falls to act on the movement for­ MAN'S INHUMANITY TO MAN-HOW United States and Russia. are free to develop LONG? ward of the Trident system, on the B-1 and build larger and better "chips", real lim­ bomber, and the other programs that we its will not be imposed. The goal of future have outlined to improve our strategic of­ SALTs should be to reduce and ultimately fensive systems during this five year period." eliminate strategic weapon systems. HON. WILLIAM J. SCHERLE Admiral Moorer said the Joint Chiefs were OF IOWA in accord with the SALT agreements pro­ vided the older programs went ahead. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES In a briefing for Senators and Congress­ Tuesday, August 1, 1972 men June 15, Dr. Henry Kissinger, assistant MISS LAKE COUNTY OF CALIFORNIA to the President for national security, con­ Mr. SCHERLE. Mr. Speaker, a child siderably moderated this stand. He said the asks: "Where is daddy?" A mother asks: Administration wants Congressional approval HON. DON H. CLAUSEN "How is my son?" A wife asks: "Is my of both SALT and the new weapons pro­ OF CALIFORNIA husband alive or dead?" grams but: "We are not making them condi­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Communist North Vietnam is sadisti­ tional. We are saying that the treaty is cally practicing spiritual and mental justified on its merits, but we are also say­ Tuesday, August 1, 1972 genocide on over 1,757 American prison­ ing that the requirements of national secu­ rity impel us in the direction of the strategic Mr. DON H. CLAUSEN. Mr. Speaker, ers of war and their families. programs •• :• I wish to take this opportunity to bring How long? August 1, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 26347 TIGHTENING UP THE LAW ON carried out at the source-on new vehi­ Norman Shutler, director of the Mo· AUTO EMISSION DEVICES cles. Third, that since automobiles are bile Source Division of the Federal En­ sold nationwide. control should be at the vironmental Protection Agency, told the Federal and not the State level. Wall Street Journal. · HON. ROBERT H.. STEELE Regulations issued under the law have OF CONNECTICUT It's kind of frightening that we don't know already had some effect. The amount of the extent to which this is going on. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES carbon monoxide emitted by vehicles Tuesday, August 1, 1972 under present controls is 62 percent If this practice is widespread, the ef­ lower than that emitted by uncontrolled fort to reduce auto emissions is in severe Mr. STEELE. Mr. Speaker, I have in­ vehicles. Hydrocarbons have been re­ jeopardy. And there are facts which troduced legislation which would make duced by 73 percent in controlled cars. point to the prevalence of this practice. an important contribution to cleaning The Clean Air Amendments of 1970 For example, the Wall Street Journal up air pollution in America. The legis­ and the regulations issued under the act reports that sales by Detroit high per­ lation would prohibit tampering with require auto manufacturers to produce formance warehouse of a kit to modify antipollution devices which have been 1975 models which will emit no more than a car's distributor have increased from installed in automobiles in compliance .41 grams of hydrocarbons per mile, or 15 to 20 percent in the last year. Dis­ with regulations under the Clean Air a reduction of 90 percent from 1970 levels tributors have been readjusted to con­ Amendments of 1970. of 4.1 grams per mile. The 1975 cars trol emissions. Mr. Gasket Co., a Cleve­ Automobile emissions are one of the must emit no more than 3.4 grams per land firm that manufactures the kits, leading sources of air pollution in this mile of carbon monoxide, also a 90 per­ says sales have increased by 25 per­ country today. Autos emit 64.7 percent cent reduction from the 1970 level of cent. Larry Pipes, manager of the auto of the carbon monoxide, 45.7 percent of 34 grams per mile. diagnostic clinic of the Auto Club of Mis­ the hydrocarbons, and 36.6 percent of The 1973 cars are restricted to nitrogen souri, says that about 25 percent of the the nitrogen oxides. In many cities, they oxides emissions of 3 grams per mile, the late-model cars passing through the account for more than 90 percent of first restrictions imposed on those pollut­ clinic show that the emission controls carbon monoxide, more than 80 percent ants. By 1976 nitrogen oxides must be have been tampered with. · of hydrocarbons, and more than 70 per­ reduced to 0.4 grams per mile. Uncon­ But under Federal law tampering with cent of nitrogen oxide3. trolled cars emit 6 grams per mile of the antipollution devices is illegal only if These pollutants constitute a serious those pollutants. The table in the ap­ it is done before the sale and delivery of threat to the health and well-being of pendix shows the amounts of pollutants the vehicle to the ultimate purchaser or all our people. Hydrocarbons and nitro­ emitted under controlled and uncon­ if it is done by the manufacturer or deal­ gen oxides form oxidants, which cause trolled conditions. er. Only a few States, including New respiratory and eye irritation and pos­ In May 1972, William D. Ruckels­ York and California, have laws against sible changes in lung function. They haus, Administrator of the Environmen­ such tampering by anyone. Thus, in most are extremely toxic to many plants a!'ld tal Protection Agency, rejected requests States, owners, independent mechanics, can physically 7/eaken such materials by auto manufacturers for a 1-year ex­ or tuneup specialists can tamper with the as rubber and fabrics. And the aero.sols tension of the 1975 emission deadline. devices. formed in the production of these oxi-: Mr. Ruckelshaus recommended the use At the present time the tampering in­ dants contribute significantly to white of noble-metal catalysts to meet the new volves adjusting various parts of the en­ smog, which reduces visibility. requirements. He promised to allow the gine or sometimes removing or replacing Carbon monoxide can be fatal in large replacement of catalysts at least once certain parts. But removing the devices amounts. Smaller concentrations place during 50,000 miles of vehicle operation can be difficult and detrimental to the greater strain on persons with heart dis­ if that is necessary to keep the emission car. Because many controls now are de­ ease. Exposure for several hours to cer­ controls effective. signed right into different parts, there tain carbon monoxide levels can affect But, it has been charged, emission con­ is not usually an easily identifiable brain function, changing, for example, trols impair the performance of the ve­ mechanism or even a series of such time-interval discrimination. In this hicle. Auto manufacturers and others mechanisms that can be eliminated. If way, it is feared, high carbon monoxide claim that the antipollution devices re­ all the emission controls were discon­ levels could contribute to traffic acci­ duce gas mileage and contribute to hesi­ nected, the engine would be harmed. dents. tations. However, V. W. Makin, presi­ In the Wall Street Journal article The 100 million motor vehicles on the dent of Matthey-Bishop, Inc., the world's Charles Heinen, Chrysler's top emissions road today are the source of about 60 largest refiner of platinum and an ex­ expert, reports that tampering with the million tons of carbon monoxide, 16 mil­ perimenter with catalytic converters, engine's timing could cause a knock that lion tons of hydrocarbons, and 7 million said that his firm's own tests showed the could harm the pistons. Disconnecting tons of nitrogen oxides annually-1,200 fuel penalty under the 1974 emissions the positive crankcase ventilation valve, pounds of carbon monoxide, 320 pounds requirements would !>e r.. o greater than the valve that keeps crankcase gases from of hydrocarbons, and 140 pounds of ni­ 5 percent and that the reduction in per­ leaking into the air, could lead to bad tor~en oxides per car. In an uncontrolled formance would be negligible. Further­ sludging and thus to sticking parts. vehicle-that is, a car sold before any more, New York City has shown that its Tampering with the carburetor can re­ pollution-control devices were required­ antipollution controls in police cruisers sult in even poorer gas mileage, says these emissions come from the engine have not cut down d1iveability. Neither Mr. Heinen. crankcase, from fuel evaporation ir.l the have they increased fuel consumption fuel tank and carburetor, and from the A General Motors emissions engineer nor breakdowns. Fred C. Hart, director also reports in that article that a care­ exhaust pipe. of the clean air program in the city, To stop motor vehicles from spewing told the St. Louis Post Dispatch: less job of removing the antipollution de­ vices could result in the leakage of poi­ these large quantities of pollutants into The obvious conclusion is that it New the air, Congress enacted the Clean Air York City can accomplish as much as it has, sonous carbon monoxide into the Act and the Clean Air Amendments of the auto manufacturers, with much grea'.:er passenger compartment. Owners have 1970. These acts provided for a vehicle resources, should be able to do much better. been known to ruin their cars by tam­ emission control program based on the Nevertheless, many car owners have pering with the emission controls by following premises. First, that ambient been removing the antipollution devices themselves. Finally, tampering with concentrations of carbon monoxide, hy­ from their automobiles. When they go to these controls could result in voiding the drocarbons, nitrogen oxides, and oxi­ mechanics, these owners usually do not warranty on the emissions devices and dants in our large urban areas are much specify that they want the emission con­ the warranty on all parts. too high and must be greatly reduced; trols unfixed, although some do. Most In the future tampering may be more damage to health and to the environment of them only say that they want improved difficult. The controls are becoming in­ have been shown. Second, that since performance. But they realize, and do not creasingly more complex. Eventually it there are only a few major manufac­ care, that the tuneup may involve an un­ might be almost impossible to tamper turers of automobiles. control is best :fixing. with the controls without almost ripping 26348 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS August 1, 1972 the car to pieces. With respect to legal when car owners bring their cars in for trois after the sale of the car is needed impediments to tampering it should annual safety inspections. now if national air quality policy is to be be noted that a New Jersey law, begin­ Federal action to prohibit all persons implemented. Thus, I am introducing ning July 5, will require emission tests from tampering with auto emission con- the following legislation:

APPENDIX

Carbon monoxide Hydrocarbons Oxides of nitrcgen Particulates

g./mi. Percentt g./mi. Pe~cent t gJmi. Percent' g.tmi. Percen: l

Uncontrolled vehicles------125 ------16.8 ------6 ------0. 3 ------Present degree of controL------47 62 4. 6 73 ------1972 standards------39 69 3. 4 80 ------_------1973 standards _____ ------___ ------______---- ______----______.______3 50 ------1975 standards------4. 7 96 • 45 97 ------.1 67 1976 standards ______---- ______------____ ------______------______• 4 93 ------

1 Reduction from uncontrolled vehicle.

TRmUTE TO THE ORDER OF AHEPA with which AHEPA has endowed its are leaving the state. The national average is just under 6 per cent. members that has made possible its out­ New England is traditionally a difficult standing contributions to its fellow men. place to make a living; expenses are high HON. CHARLES S. GUBSER As an American, I am grateful to OF CALIFORNIA and wages are low. AHEPA and most pleased to have the The cost of living, mainly food and hous­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Garden City Chapter of San Jose, Calif., ing, is high because of New England's loca­ Tuesday, August 1, 1972 located in my congressional district. tion. It dangles off the northeastern corner of the map, away from where most of the Mr. GUBSER. Mr. Speaker, in this year nation's goods are produced. It's cold, and of 1972 as the Order of Ahepa celebrates there's not much agriculture. its golden anniversary of 50 years dedi­ NEW ENGLAND ECONOMY As a result, building materials, heating cation to the promotion and encourage­ oil and food have to be shipped in, and that ment of loyalty to the United States of makes them more expensive. Because of the climate, houses are ex­ America, it is, indeed, an honor for me HON. MICHAEL HARRINGTON pensive to build. They require central heat­ to join my colleagues and fellow Ameri­ OF MASSACHUSETTS ing, insulation and full cellars. And in the cans throughout the Nation in paying winter it takes a lot of fuel to heat them. tribute to this organization which has IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES In Boston, for example, the oost of living contributed so much to the improvement Tuesday, August 1, 1972 for a family of four is 17 per cent above the national average. That makes it the most of education and civic affairs in our coun­ Mr. HARRINGTON. Mr. Speaker, the try. expensive city in the continental United Associated Press in New England has States in which we llve--2 per cent above History tells us that democracy was recently undertaken an indepth analysis New York. born in ancient Greece on a hill in Athens of the state of the New England economy Wages are lower in New England. The called the Pnyx. Here three or four times and its hope for the future. average weekly salary of an American factory a month an assembly composed of the The first article of the four-part series, worker is $152. Connecticut is a bit higher Athenian citizens met to vote. It can be at $157, but it's followed by Massachusetts examines the problem of unemployment. at $144; New Hampshire, $135; Vermont, $134; no coincidence that the members of With 8 percent of the work force in New AHEPA, promoting as they do the at­ Rhode Island, $122, a.nd Maine, $120. England unable to find jobs, unemploy­ To keep family incomes up, many women tributes of Hellenic culture, have done so ment ranks as the region's most serious in New England have jobs. · much to emulate and foster in America problem. "In New England, we have high living the high ideals which are the foundation This informative article, by Daniel Q. costs and low wages--a tough squeeze," says of our democracy. Haney, deals with the grim personal re­ Wendall D. McDonald, regional director of the The Order of Ahepa-The American alities behind the unemployment statis­ U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Hellenic Educational Progressive Associ­ "Part of the reason for our high unem­ ation-can be justly proud of its 430 tics. I commend it to the attention of my ployment is the declining Industries," says chapters throughout the United States fellow Members: McDonald, pointing to textiles, shoes and UNEMPLOYMENT GRIPS NEW ENGLAND AND other business which make bulky low-priced composed of men of high moral character SWEET LIFE GoES Soua products that have been hurt by high ship· whose vigorous activities include not only ping costs and foreign competition. those of local community projects and (By Daniel Q. Haney) (EDITOR's NoTE.-Thls begins a series on Added to that are layoffs from defense and services but also undertakings on a na­ the status and future hopes for the New aerospace cutbacks and large numbers of tional and international scale. While the England economy, compiled by the Associ­ women and teenagers entering the labor organization is first and foremost in its ated Press across the 6-state region. Today's market. service to America, the fruits of its en­ But for people like Edgar Lane, the un­ article: the human problem of unemploy­ employed computer engineer, the reasons deavors have reached far corners of the ment.) for New England's tight working picture world in relief to earthquake and ftood BosToN.-Edgar Lane is a little part of a aren't much comfort. victims and numerous causes which have statistic-the 8 per cent of the work force "We're dipping into our reserves," Lane alleviated much suffering and hardship in New England that doesn't have a job. says, "and we're trying to pare our expenses · of mankind. But for Lane and 435,900 like him, his to the bone. Few organizations have championed problems are catastrophic and have the ring "We told the kids they'd have to buy their the cause of education as has AHEPA of the sweet life gone sour. own clothes. We're making do with our old Four months ago, the 44-year-old father car, and we've cut down on the amount of with such projects as national scholar­ of six was pulling in an annual salary of freedom the children have with it. We've put ships, the AHEPA Agricultural College in $25,000-plus as an engineering manager at our cottage up for sale, and we're not going Greece, the AHEPA School at St. Basil's RCA's computer plant in Marlboro. That was out to eat once a week like we used to." Academy in Garrison, N.Y., and the Jour­ just after RCA announced that it was getting Lane is one of the lucky ones who had ney to Greece Student Program. rid of its computer business. some savings. For people who were living to One of the many worthwhile objectives Lane lost his job, and now he geU; $110 the hilt of their pay checks before they got of AHEPA is to instill in its membership a week in state unemployment money. laid off, the shock of being without enough Unemployment is the economic problem money is harsh, says David Jacoboon, a a due appreciation of the privileges of that touches most New Englanders the Brandeis University anthropologist who is citizenship. Truly, the Order of Ahepa closest. studying the efi'ects of unemployment on is a group of citizens who recognize that It ranges from about 9 per cent in Con­ people. with the privilege of citizenship also necticut, hard hit by defense spending cut­ "People who have money cut back on some comes the civic responsibility and it is backs, to under 5 per cent in New Hampshire, material things," says Jacobson, "but they undoubtedly that sense of responsibility where many hard-to-employ young people try not to isolate themselves socially. August 1, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 26349 "But people who don't have money are in swam to Hartshorn and Niedhammer, sion to investigate and study the practices of tough shape. They cut off almost all their 1·eaching them 100 feet from the shore. clearcutting timber resources of the United relationships. They're embarrassed that they States on Federal land. May 10, 1972. can't afford the social amenities. For in• David Hartshorn, and the two young THE ECONOMY /TAXES stance, they can't go out 1?<> dinner at other men who helped him, are to be deeply people's houses, because they can't afford to congratulated for their heroism. On be­ H.J. Res. 1040. A joint resolution to create invite them back." half of all the citizens of this area, we a joint committee to conduct an investiga­ Alice Ferreira, a 54-year-old single woman salute them. tion and study into methods of significantly of Bristol, R .I., had to move in with her par­ simplifying Federal income tax forms. Feb. 1, ents when she lost her job at a Providence 1972. department store last fall. BILLS INTRODUCED OR COSPON­ H.R. 12848. A bill to amend the Railroad She had worked for the store for 22 years, and Labor Act and the Labor Management part of that time as a payroll supervisor, and SORED BY THE HON. BILL FRENZEL relations Act, 1947, to provide more effectively when it merged wtih another department means for protecting public interest in na­ store, there was a general layoff. tional emergency disputes, and for other pur­ Miss Ferreira was making $97 a week at HON. BILL FRENZEL poses. Feb. 2, 1972. the store, and now she gets $54 unemploy­ OF MiNNESOTA H. Con. Res. 516. A concurrent resolution ment compensation. The store employes IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES expressing the sense of the Congress with re­ spect to motor vehicle insurance and an ac­ weren't unionized, and there are no pension Tuesday, August 1, 1972 benefits. cident compensation system. Feb. 2, 1972. "I go out every week (looking for work) Mr. FRENZEL. Mr. Speaker, a num­ H.R. 13668. A bill to provide for paper and see what they have to offer me," she says. ber of constituents have requested a list money of the United States to carry a desig­ "But they prefer to give it to the young. I of bills I have either introduced or co­ nation in BRAILLE indicating denomination. know I was discriminated against." March 8, 1972. Prejudice against older, experienced work­ sponsored. In order to make this list H.R. 14417. A bill to provide additional ers appears common. more easily accessible for them, I am sub­ protection for the rights of participants in Philip N. Hambleton, 62, of Bedford, mitting for the RECORD a list of such employee pension and profits sharing retire­ worked on the invention of color television legislation. ment plans to establish minimum standards in the 1950s. He's l'een out of a job for Bill introductions and cosponsorship for pension and profit sharing retirement more than a year. are but a small part of a Congressman's plan vesting and funding, to establish a pen­ Hambleton, a Ph.D.-holding physicist, activities. A voting record, committee sion plan reinsurance program and to pro­ says, "I'm one of the hard-core unemployed­ vide for regulation of the administration of overtrained, overaged, overexperienced and work, constituent relations, and much pension and other employee benefit plans, oversalaried." more project a better profile of a Con­ to establish a United States Pension and He's sent about 300 resumes and appli­ gressman. However, it is helpful for in­ Employee Benefit Commission, to amend the cations to possible employers, "but most of terested parties to have a bill introduc­ Welfare and Pension Plans Disclosure Act and them never bother to write back. tion record readily available. I hope that for other purposes. April17, 1972. "Their philosophy is, 'If we hire you and this list will help to provide the informa­ H.R. 14551. A bill to extend to all unmar­ things get better, you'll leave us." They can tion: ried individuals the same tax benefits of in­ hire younger fellows for less. LIST OF BILLS come splitting now enjoyed by married indi­ "Maybe I'm retired and don't know it," viduals filing joint returns; and to remove he says. The following is a complete listing of all rate inequities for married persons where But also in difficult straits are the young the bills which Congressman Bill Frenzel both are employed. April 20, 1972. whose talents are not in demand. has cosponsored or introduced thus far in H.R. 14665. A bill to amend the Internal George D. Moore, 27, of Arrowsic, Maine, the second session of the 92d Congress: Revenue Code of 1954 to provide that em­ last worked a year ago as an inspector in a VIETNAM/DEFENSE ployees receiving lump sums from tax free South Portland plant that makes jet engine H.R. 13155. A bill to provide for a study pension or annuity plans on account of sepa­ parts. and investigation to asses the extent of dam­ ration from employment shall not be taxed at "It's impossible to find anything in my age done to the environment in South Viet­ the time of distribution to the extent that line of work around here," he says. nam, Laos and Cambodia as a result of the an equivalent amount is reinvested in an­ The state employment office told him that operations of the United States Armed Forces other plan. April 27, 1972. the companies where he might find openings in such countries and to consider plans for H.R. 15346. A bill to provide that existing are in Massachusetts and Connecticut. effectively rectifying said damage. February Federal tax subsidies will terminate on Jan­ "But I like living in Maine," he said. 16,1972. uary 1, 1974, and to provide for a maximum H.R. 14710. A bill to amend chapter 5, duration of two years for federal tax subsi­ title 37 of the United States Code to revise dies hereafter enacted. June 6, 1972. the pay structure relating to members of the TRANSPORTATION ANOTHER HERO IN FLORIDA Armed Forces and for other purposes. May 1, H.R. 15492. A bill to authorize construction 1972. of certain highways and public mass trans­ H. Res. 1189. A joint resolution declaring portation facilities in accordance with title HON. BILL CHAPPELL, JR. the policy of the United States with respect 23 of the United States Code and to estab­ to the termination of hostilities in Indo­ lish an urban transportation program. June OF FLORIDA china. May 4, 1972. 15, 1972. H. Res. 1200. A joint resolution providing FOREIGN AFFAIRS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES for an end to the hostilities in Indochina. Tuesday, August 1, 1972 May 15, 1972. H.J. Res. 1143. A joint resolution to estab­ H.R. 15383. A bill to provide for an end lish a commission on United States• Par­ Mr. CHAPPELL. Mr. Speaker, I rise to to the hostilities in Indochina and to secure ticipation in the United Nations. March 29, praise the heroic act of three young men. the withdrawal of all United States forces 1972. David L. Hartshorn, a 19-year-old col­ therefrom and to express the sense of the H.R. 14329. A bill to authorize the Secre­ lege student, rescued a man who was Congress for a cease fire and an arms em­ tary of State to furnish assistance for the bargo therein. June 7, 1972. resettlement of Soviet Jewish refugees in drowning off the beach at Ponte Vedra, Israel. April 12, 1972. and he, then, was aided by two others. ECOLOGY H. Res. 973. A bill calling for the ban of H.R. 13025. A bill to amend the act of 1945 all nuclear underground testing. May 9, 1972. On December 28, 1971, Mr. Donald with respect to the use of real property for Niedhammer, swimming out a distance wildlife conservation purposes. Feb. 8, 1972. CIVU. RIGHTS from the shore, encountered a strong H.R. 14155. A bill to amend the Soil Con­ H.R. 13515. A bill to restore the right to undercunent as he attempted to retwn servation and domestic Allotment Act, as vote in federal elections to certain disen­ to shore. He became exhausted and semi­ amended, to establish an upland game reser­ franchised citizens. March 1, 1972. conscious and began to drift seaward. vation and conservation program. March 28 HUMAN RESOURCES 1972. , H. Res. 830. Resolution to authorize each Young Hartshorn noticed the situation H.J. Res. 1164. A joint resolution declaring member, resident commissioner, and dele­ and swam out to Niedhammer, reaching the third week in April as "Earth Week." gate to hire within the monetary limits of him 390 feet from shore in water 10 feet April17, 1972. the existing clerk hire allowance two addi­ deep. Towing Mr. Niedhammer, aged 36 H.R. 14809. A bill to amend the Wild and tional clerks who are physically handicapped. and outweighing him greatly, Hartshorn Scenic rivers Act by designating a segment of Feb. 22, 1972. fought against the undercw·rent which the Saint Croix River, Minnesota and Wis­ H.R. 13835. A bill to provide for the es­ consin, as a component of the national wlld tablishment of an office for the aged in the had caused Mr. Niedhammer to falter. and scenic rivers system.. May 4, 1972. executive office of the president, for the fUl­ Two young men with an air ·mattress H.R. 14888. A bill to establish a commis- fillment of the purposes of the Older Amer- 26350 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE August 2, 1972 leans Act, for enlarging the scope of that cies and bureaus it was designed to serve. UNION CARBIDE CORP. ADVANCES Act and for other purposes. March 15, 1972. The Nixon administration immediately EDUCATION OF TODAY'S YOUTH H.R. 14626. A bill to provide the secretary of Health, Education and Welfare with the recognized the detrimental implications authority to make grants to States and local of such a proposal. By offering its pro­ communities to pay for the costs of eye ex­ curement and supply services to non­ HON. ROBERT E. JONES aminations programs to detect glaucoma for government institutions, GSA would be OF ALABAMA the elderly. April 26, 1972. using taxpayers money to the disadvan­ H.R. 14880. A bill to provide for the com­ tage of small businesses. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES prehensive development of correctional man­ Under the "grantee program" GSA is Tuesday, August 1, 1972 power training and employment and for other able to sell directly through its self­ purposes. May 10, 1972. Mr. JONES of Alabama. Mr. Speaker, H. Res. 1033. A bill authorizing senior citi­ service stores and indirectly through its throughout the year Washington is zens as interns for members of the house of procurement and supply schedules. visited by thousands upon thousands of representatives. June 29, 1972. With the recognition that government our Nation's young people. It is heart­ H.R. 12708. A bill to establish a commission marketing is contrary to our free enter­ ening indeed to see these young Amer­ on penal reform. January 27, 1972. prise system, the administration ordered icans visiting their halls of National H.R. 12842. A blll to amend the Commu­ GSA to discontinue its plans, and to re­ Government and gaining a better under­ nity Mental Health Centers Act to reorgan­ serve its services exclusively for the giant standing of the processes of government ·tze certain grant programs and for other pur­ Federal system. poses.Feb.22, 1972. and the men and women who are their H.J. Res. 1242. A blll designating the However, GSA decided to recreate the representatives in this Nation's Capitol. month of September, 1972 as "National same program under the assumed au­ One such unique group of students from Voter Registration Month". June 28, 1972. thority of the Federal Property and Ad­ the Washington Workshops Foundation ministrative Services Act of 1949, as has been with us again recently. During amended. the seminar they attended, these young After further expression of public and people visited with many Senators, Con­ AN ARGUMENT AGAINST THE governmental objection to this provision, gressmen, members of the press, and ex­ GSA GRANTEE PROGRAM GSA has begun the process by which it ecutive department officials. may withdraw the program. It is my sincere pleasure to note that To insure this recent step taken by Mark Caudill, who is a constituent of HON. WILLIAM J. KEATING GSA is followed through, and to prohibit OF OHIO mine and lives in Sheffield, Ala., was its occurance in the future, I believe that among those attending. Mark's presence IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES legislation placing a permanent prohibi­ here in the District was made possible Tuesday, August 1, 1972 tion on this types of program is in order. through the citizenship education award Mr. KEATING. Mr. Speaker, today I The express PUrPose of the bill is to by the civic-minded Union Carbide joined Congressman WYMAN in cospon­ amend the Federal Property and Admin­ Corp. Every year Union Carbide grants soring legislation to limit Govtrnment istrative Services Act of 1949 to prohibit numerous scholarships of this nature to competition with small business. The en­ the making available of Government pro­ students of their plant communities actment of this bill is a step which must curement sources to Federal grantees across th~ Nation, who have displayed be taken to insure the permanent pro­ and contractors. outstanding merit and ability in their hibition of unnecessary and unwarranted It is the Government's job to protect search for knowledge and creativity. Federal competition with small firms. the rights of small business in the pres­ Mr. Speaker, may I commend whole­ The problem precipitating this legis­ ervation of free competitive enterprise-­ heartedly the Union Carbide Corp. for lation surfaced in 1969, when the General not to jeopardize its success as a con­ the faith they have displayed in the Services Administration proposed to use tributor to the community, the people of leaders of tomorrow. In this world of the newly enacted Intergovernmental that community, and our Nation as a mistrust and strife, it is extremely re­ Cooperation Act of 1968 as a basis for whole. freshing to observe the willingness of extending its services to all State and This is a job we must recognize and Union Carbide to preserve the spirit of local governments. This was the first take the responsibility for. I urge my col­ young citizenship manifested in the time GSA openly extended its services leagues to give careful consideration to Washington Workshops and displayed so beyond the scope of the Federal agen- this legislation. readily by Mark Caudill.

SENATE-Wednesday, August 2, 1972 The Senate met at 9:45 a.m. and was that we may ever remain Thy faithful ATOMIC E~ERGY COMMISSION called to order by the President protem­ servants and finally know the peace of The second assistant legislative clerk pore (Mr. EASTLAND). those whose minds are stayed on Thee. read the nomination of Dixy Lee Ray, of Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Washington, to be a member of the PRAYER Atomic Energy Commission for a term of 5 years. The Chaplain, the Reverend Edward The PRESIDENT pro tempore. With­ L. R. Elson, DD., offered the following THE JOURNAL out objection, the nomination is con­ prayer: Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I ask firmed. Almighty God, from whom every good unanimous consent that the reading of prayer cometh, and who pourest out on the Journal of the proceedings of Tues­ U.S. DISTRICT COURTS all who desire it, the spirit of grace and day, August 1, 1972, be dispensed with. supplication, deliver us as we draw nigh The PRESIDENT pro tempore. With­ The second assistant legislative clerk to Thee, from all coldness of heart and out objection, it is so ordered. read the nomination of Marshall A. Neill, wanderings of mind, that with stead­ of Washington, to be a U.S. district judge fast thoughts and kindled affection we for the Eastern District of Washington. may commit our ways to Thee. Look The PRESIDENT pro tempore. With­ upon our inmost longings and our deep­ EXECUTIVE SESSION out objection, the nomination is con­ est needs and hear our prayers both ut­ firmed. tered and unexpressed. Grant that we Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate go may sincerely, faithfully, and honestly LEGISLATivE SESSION serve Thee this day, in obedience to Thy into executive session to consider nomi­ law and in love and fellowship with nations on the Executive Calendar. Mr. MANSFIELD. I ask unanimous our colleagues. In our speaking and in The PRESIDENT pro tempor.e. With­ consent that the Senate resume the con­ our silence so guide us by Thy spirit out objection, it is so ordered. sideration of legislative business.