[21256 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 25, 1973 f H.R. A bill to confer U.S. citizenship on By Mr. COLLINS of Texas: MEMORIALS certain Vietnamese children and to provide H.J. Res. 637. Joint resolution proposing for the adoption of such children by Ameri an amendment to the Constitution of the Under clause 4 of rule XXII, memorials can families; to the Committee on the Judi United States to prevent forced busing and were presented and referred as follows: ciary. to prevent federally required job quotas; to 264. By the SPEAKER: Memorial of the By Mr. STEIGER of Wisconsin (for the Committee on the Judiciary. Legislature of the State of Utah, relative to himself, Mr. ROBISON of New York, By Mr. FISH: Federal assistance to aid the low- and mod Mr. ANDERSON of Illinois, Mr. AD H.J. Res. 638. Joint resolution to authorize erate-income people to obtain adequate DABBO, Mr. BROWN of California, Mr. and request the President of the United housing; to the Committee on Banking and DELLUMS, Mr. DENT, Mr. FAUNTROY, States to issue a proclamation designating Currency. Mr. FRENZEL, Mr. HARRINGTON, Mr. October 14, 1973, as "German Day"; to the 265. Also, memorial of the Legislature of HASTINGS, Mr. MOSHER, Mr. REES, Committee on tlle Judiciary. the State of Florida relative to accounting Mr. SMITH of New York, Mr. STARK, By Mr. STARK (for himself, Mr. for servicemen missing in Southeast Asia; Mr. WoN PAT) : HEcHLER of West Virginia, Mr. to the Committee on Foreign Mairs. H.R. 8964. A bill to confer U.S. citizenship MITCHELL of Maryland, Mr. BROWN on certain Vietnamese children and to pro of California, Mr. KocH, Mr. RANGEL, vide for the adoption of such children by Mr. BINGHAM, Mr. HARRINGTON, Mr. American families; to the Committee on the McCLOSKEY, Mr. MOAKLEY, Mr. PETITIONS, ETC. Judiciary. RoSENTHAL, Mr. BADILLO, Mr. DEL By Mr. WYATT: LUMS, Mr. WALDIE, Mr. REES, Mr. Under clause 1 of rule XXII, petitions H.R. 8966. A bill to amend the Internal STOKES, and Mr. ROYBAL) : and papers were laid on the Clerk's desk Revenue Code of 1954 to allow an itemized H. Res. 465. Resolution to provide the and referred as follows: deduction for amounts paid for planting, House of Representatives with pertinent in 244. By the SPEAKER: Petition of the raising, and harvesting a vegetable garden; formation with respect to the possible 24th Saipan Legislature, Saipan, Mariana to the Committee on Ways and Means. grounds for impeachment of the President Islands, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, By Mr. YATRON (for himself and Mr. of, the United States; to the Committee on relative to amending the Micronesian Claims MOAKLEY): the Judiciary. Act; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. H.R. 8967. A bill to amend title 32, United 245. Also, petition of Frank T. Richardson, States Code, to provide that Army and Air chairman, Research and Development Com Force National Guard technicians shall not PRIVATE BILLS AND ~ESOLUTIONS be required to wear the military uniform mittee, Board of Public Transportation of while performing their duties in a civilian Under clause 1 of rule XXII, private Morris County, N.J., relative to recommenda status; to the Committee on Armed Services. bills and resolutions were introduced and tions for the railroad passenger service; to By Mr. RANGEL (for himself, Ms. severally referred as follows: the Committee on Interstate and Foreign ABzuG, Mr. CONYERS, and Mr. RoY By Mr. SHOUP: Commerce. BAL): H.R. 8969. A bill for the relief of Jung Sup 246. Also, petition of Girard Luck and oth H.R. 8968. A bill making appropriations for Shin; to the Committee on the Judiciary. ers, San Francisco, Calif., relative to protec the Office of Economic Opportunity for the By Mr. SNYDER (by request) : tion for law enforcement officers against fiscal year ending June 30, 1974; to the Com H.R. 8970. A bill for the relief of William nuisance suits; to the Committee on the mittee on Appropriations. T. Owens; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Judiciary.
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11 ENERGY SAVING TIPS consume more fuel than small ones. For ex 6" ceiling and 3 Y2 wall insulation for gas ample, a car weighing 5,000 lbs. uses over heat. twice as much fuel as one weighing 2,000 lbs. 9" ceiling and 3%" wall insulation for HON. JACOB K. JAVITS Other features such as air conditioning and electric heat. OF NEW YORK automatic transmission contribute to fuel 3. Check attic floor insulation. 6" is ade consumption. quate. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES Buy a car no larger or more powerful than Weatherstrip and caulk windows and doors. Monday, June 25, 1973 you need, without unnecessary features. Install storm windows and doors. Check for Walk and ride bikes. Half of all automo- other air leakage, particularly in the attic. Mr. JAVITS. Mr. President, the de bile trips now cover less than 5 miles. Where glass area is large, install double veloping shortage of gasoline, heating Ride public transportation where available. pane or insulating glass. oil, and electricity poses a serious prob Organize car pools. Have furnace checked once a year and lem to the constituents of New York and Encourage the building of better public change filters frequently. to the citizens of the United States as a transportation systems in your community. To cut Use of Energy in Heating: Have your car periodically maintained and Close damper in fireplace when not in use. whole. The possibility that the supply of keep it tuned up. Lower thermostat for sleeping. We suggest energy may be curtailed has created a Good driving habits can cut your fuel con 60". deep feeling of anxiety among the Amer sumption in half. By lowering the daytinfe setting of your ican people. As an individual, the citizen Speeding is a costly consumer of fuel. The thermostat by 1" you use 3% to 4% less fuel. believes there is little he can do to al average car driven between 75 and 80 miles By lowering it 5" you use 15% to 20% less leviate the energy crisis. per hour will consume almost twice as much fuel. I do not believe that the American fuel per mile as the same car driven at 50 Insulate your body-wear a sweater. miles per hour. Discourage over-heating of public build citizen is powerless. If we make a con On the road, accelerate smoothly and ease ings, particularly schools and libraries. Pres certed effort--as individuals and as a into stops. sure managers of public buildings to con society-! believe we can have a positive Do not race the engine. serve energy. effect on the effort to conserve energy. Instead of idling the engine to warm it up To conserve energy in cooling in winter, drive slowly for the first quarter With this goal in mind, Concern Inc., Insistence on good architectural design in a public service organization, has pub .m.ile. Do not leave your engine running longer your own community can substantially re lished a pamphlet containing energy sav duce energy needs for cooling. ing tips for the consumer. I ask unani than 3 minutes while waiting. All buildings should have windows that mous consent that excerpts from this HEATING AND COOLING open. pamphlet be printed in the RECORD. To conserve energy in heating Encourage the design of buildings with There being no objection, the excerpts Consider making changes and improve less glass. ments in your own home. If you follow these Shade windows from direct sunlight. Pref were ordered·to be printed in the RECORD, erably shade them from the outside with follows: recommendations you can save 50% on your as fuel bill. trees, window vines, shutters that close, awn WAYS To CONSERVE ENERGY Install or increase insulation. ings or roof overhangs. TRANSPORTATION 1. Where winters are moderate use: Close light-colored draperies to the sun Moving people and freight accounts for 3% II ceiling and wall insulation for gas light. This can reduce heat gain by 50%. ·about 25% of the energy consumed in the heat. Follow tips in Heating Sections on insula· United States. Half of this amount is used by t>" ceiling and 3%" wall Insulation for tion and air leakage. automobiles. electric heat. To Cut Use of Energy in Cooling: Larger caJ,'s with more powerful engines 2. Where winters are severe use: Illuminate less. June 25, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 21257
1. Light fixtures give off most of their con· electricity received by a fluorescent tube 1s Parents who are concerned that their sumed energy in heat. This pushes the need converted to light, whereas 5% 1s converted child may be autistic should contact the for aid conditioning sales. The main func· to light when •the incandescent bulb 1s used. Information and Referral Service of the tion of office air conditioning is to remove Use lights in specific work areas, instead National Society for Autistic Children. beat from excessive interior lighting. of lighting the entire room. Turn off lights when room 1s not in use. This agency, which is headed by the past 2. Cut out all non-essential night lighting president of NSAC, Mrs. Ruth C. Sulli at home and encourage less nlghttime illu· Television mination of public buildings. van, provides more than 20 services for Color television sets consume more energy parents and other interested persons in 3. Large areas should be served by more than the same type black and white model. than one switch. Solid state sets (both color and black and the care and treatment of mentally ill Discourage open refrigerator units in su· white) consume less energy than filament children. These services include: permarkets to display frozen vegetables and (tube) sets. Larger screens consume more First. Names and addresses and other dairy products. energy than smaller screens. information about day and residential Complain about over-cooling in public Sets that have the instant turn-on feature schools, private, and public. places; particularly theatres, restaurants and are consuming electricity 24 hours a day. Second. Names and addresses and oth supermarkets. This feature costs more for the initial pur Avoid using air conditioner unless whether er information about camps which take chase and more to operate and maintain. ill is intolerable. If you have a television set with the in mentally children. HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES stant turn-on feature, unplug set when not Third. Names of cities and States Currently 20% of our total energy and in use. where mentally ill children are educated 30% of our electric energy output is con· Small appliances in the public school system. sumed in the home. Efficiency of our ap· Electric energy consumed by small appli Fourth. Names of public mental hospi pliances is the key to saving in this ances constitutes nearly 10% of all residen tals with good children's unit--almost area. tial demand which is more than 3% of our nonexistent. The process used to generate electricity total electric energy demand. This 3% be Fifth. Names of other parents in gen is very inefficient now. For every three units comes significant when compared to the eral geographical area with same prob of energy produced two are discharged into AEC's use of 5%, the aluminum industry's the atmosphere as waste heat and one is. use of 7% and the steel industry's use of lems. changed into electricity. Up to 10% of tbe 5% of our electric output. Sixth. How to effectively organize to electricity generated at the plant may be lost Eliminate use of unnecessary applicances. get community services for mentally ill during its transmission to your home. Gas General tips for household appliances children. appliances are 2 to 3 Y:z times more efficient Seventh. Diagnostic and evaluation than electric ones in their overall energy use. For all gas appliances a switch-operated electric starter can be substituted for con centers. Water Heating tinuous burning pilot lights. (At least 10% Eighth. Legislative news and informa.. Heating water for your home can, literal· of the natural gas consumed goes to keep tion at national and State levels. ly get you into hot water-financially! Your pilot lights burning.) Ninth. Legal rights of mentally ill chil .. water heater, be it electric, gas or oil fed, Optional extras on all appliances use ex dren. 1s the most expensive appliance to operate tra energy. Remember that you have the Tenth. Up-to-date news of new pro after the furnace and the air-conditioning option not to buy them. unit. It accounts for about 15% of your Demand improved appliance design. In grams. utility bill. It feeds the ever-active washing creased insulation would lower energy re Eleventh. Sources of funds for mental .. machine and dishwasher. Therefore .•• quirements. ly ill children, public and private. Whenever possible run washing machine Try to avoid using your appliances during Twelfth. News and information of new on cold water. peak periods of energy use. treatment, education, methods, research, Do not wash dishes under hot running and other data. water. Thirteenth. List of colleges and uni Air Conditioner Units versities which offer training in field of Installing the correct size and most ef· INFORMATION AND REFERRAL childhood mental illness. ficiently designed unit can cut your power SERVICE FOR AUTISTIC CHIL Fourteenth. List of sources of funds consumption for this appliance in half. DREN To determine the efficiency, check the for teacher training. numbers on the back of the machine. Fifteenth. Library service dissemina Divide the BTU per hour rating by the num. tion of selected articles, reprints, books, ber of Watts input. You will get a number HON. MICHAEL HARRINGTON and so forth, including bibliographies, ranging from 4.7 to 12.2. The higher the num. OF MASSACHUSETTS and book reviews. ber the more efficient the machine. This ef IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Sixteenth. Health insurance informa- ficiency check can also be made for clothes Monday, June 25, 1973 tion. dryers. Seventeenth. Trust fund information. The most efficient unit of the correct size Mr. HARRINGTON. Mr. Speaker, last will guarantee the lowest overall cost and Eighteenth. Income tax information. least pollution. Friday I indicated that during this Nineteenth. Recreational facilities, week-National Autistic Children's plans, news. Refrigeration Week-I would be including in the REc The frost-free refrigerator requires 50% Twentieth. News on international more energy to operate than a standard ORD pertinent articles and information scene. model. The standard model costs between $2 regarding autism and the effect on its Twenty-first. Lists of contracts with and $4 per month to operate, the frost-free victims. Today, I would like to discuss the societies for autistic children in other model costs $3 to $6. Information and Referral Service for the countries. The side-by-side refrigerator freezer uses Mentally Dl of the National Society for up to 45% more energy than the conven· Autistic Children. This service is an in The Information and Referral Service tional model. valuable aid for parents of children who not only supplies information, but in the The average size foOd freezer costs approxi show the signs of autism. interest of having the complete list of mately $4 per month for energy. Although I described the symptoms last services available, also accepts any fur If you really need one (most families do Friday, it would be helpful to briefly ther information from interested indi not), be aware that a well-stocked freezer viduals and organizations. requires less energy to operate than a par describe them here. The first symptom tially full one. of childhood autism is a severely handi This agency provides invaluable as Cooking capped speech. This can be coupled with sistance to those agencies and people The stove accounts for 5% to 7% of your an impaired lack of social relatedness who need to know more about autism. utility bill. Self-cleaning ovens are large and/or an extreme distress for no dis Mrs. Sullivan may be contacted by writ consumers of energy. · cernable reason due to minor changes in ing to her at 101 Richmond Street, Hunt Use self-cleaning feature sparingly. environment. Other symptoms include: ington, W.va. 25702. I hope that my col Use proper size pans for burners to avoid waste heat. An unusual reaction to perceptual stimuli leagues and other interested persons who Lighting such as "looking through" objects or poor wish to know more about this disease Fluorescent lights are about 4 times as eye contact; hyperactivity; an insensi and possible forms of care for autistic efficient as incandescent lights, and last 7 tivity to pain; and a deterioration in or mentally ill children will contact this to 10 times as long. Twenty percent of the functioning after normal development. agency. CXIX--1341-Part 17 21258 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 25, 1973
TRADE WON'T INSURE PEACE Trade alone will not ensure peace. It's the TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE terms of the trade that count and whether In my opinion, the ultimate goal of all this country can win political concessions research on aging is to improve the perform HON. ROBERT J. HUBER in return. ance and well-being of older people. The goal OF :MICHIGAN It would be a tragedy of diplomacy if trade is to improve the quality of life in the later with the Soviet Union, with all its potential IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES years by reducing the incidence of disabili as a discreet lever on Soviet policy, were in ties which now afflict many elderly people. Monday, June 25, 1973 stead to become the sole goal of American Although we will undoubtedly have an im negotiators. pact on average life span, the extension of Mr. HUBER. Mr. Speaker, Paul Green In that case the trade that could have life in itself is not a worthy goal for geron berg, whose column appears from time softened the Soviets' policies will only allow tologic research. to time in the Detroit News recently them to continue devoting a huge portion of · It is obvious that improvement of the wrote a very perceptive column in my their budget to weaponry and repression. quality of life involves a broad spectrum of view entitled "Trade Won't Insure And the mistakes of the wheat deal would be conditions which includes not only health Peace," which I thought was very worth repeated on a calamitous scale. and vigor but also the general social climate, while. Therefore, I would like to share such as a definition of the role of elderly peo ple in our society, and many conditions of it with my colleagues in the House. The living such as income level, housing, and article follows: DEDICATION OF ETHEL ANDRUS the availability of community resources to [From the Detroit News, June 20, 1973] GERONTOLOGY CENTER elderly people. However, health and physical TRADE WoN'T INSURE PEACE capabilities serve as a cornerstone to the (By Paul Greenberg) good life. It is to these aspects of the prob lem that I shall address my remarks. As Leonid Brezhnev negotiates with Presi HON. J. GLENN BEALL, JR. dent Nixon it might be prudent to take a OF :MARYLAND QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT closer look at the advantages of trading with IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES In order to achieve our goal of maintain the USSR. Doing business with the Russians ing health and vigor to advanced old age, we hasn't always insured either peace or profit. Monday, June 25, 1973 must first of all assess in quantitative terms The last grain deal with the Soviets is still Mr. BEALL. Mr. President, Febru the differences between young and old mem reflected in the price of meat to the Amer ary 15, 1973, ceremonies were held to bers of the population. These descriptive ican consumer. Nor is trade invariably a force studies must begin with a detailed evalua for peace, as anyone will testify who remem mark the dedication of the Ethel Andrus tiQn of the functional capacities of indi bers all the scrap iron that Americans sold Gerontology Center. Dr. Nathan Shock, vidual organ systems, both under resting con to Japan before the Second World War-and the Director of the National Institutes of ditions and, more importantly, to evaluate the form in which much of it came back. Child Health and Human Development's the capacity of an organ system to adjust to The military emphasis of the Soviet econ Gerontology Research Center addressed demands imposed by the stresses of daily omy already allows the Soviet bloc a general himself to a thoughtful analysis of the living. Such descriptive studies will range 3-1 superiority over NATO countries in Eu role of biomedical science in improving from the performance of the total animal to rope. The most effective pressure on the So the well-being of tlie aging. :the changes that occur in biochemical proc viet Union's military priorities comes from Last December; I visited Dr. Shock and esses that take place within tissues, cells, within: the increasing demand for more con -and their subunt~s such as mitocho~dria and sumer goods. If the West supplies those needs toured the facilities of the Gerontology ·other subcellular elements. Although .such on bargain terms, without demanding some Research Center which is located in Bal studies may not be very exciting, · they are relaxation in Soviet attitudes, what incentive timore, Md. I was impressed by the work essep.tial as a first s.tep· in the study of aging. will Soviet leaders have to cut back on mili being done by the National Institutes of :UNDERLYING -MECHANISMS • tary expenditures? Health in the field of aging. Dr. Shock is Once the range of differences attributable Get set for a lot of high-toned generaliza_ recognized as one of our Nation's lead to age have been defined the next step in tions about how increased trade with the ing experts in gerontological research research is to define the underlying mecha Russians is bound to make them more recep nisms which induce these changes. Such tive to the free exchange of ideas, too. But and I believe his remarks will be of in terest to my colleagues. information on the basic biological mecha the Soviet leadership already is taking steps nisms of aging is essential for the develop to counteract such dangerous tendencies. Mr. President, I ask unanimous con ment . of rational methods which can The latest shake-up put representatives of sent that the tex·t of Dr. Shock's state ultimately be applied to improve the lot of the military and internal security in the ment be printed in the RECORD at the humans; These exp·eriments on the basic Politburo for the first time in years. conclusion of my remarks. -biological mechanisms· of aging require This won't be the first time that American There being no objection, the state studies on animal models. The specific animal capitalism has been given a crack at the So ment was ordered to be printed in the chosen will depend upon the questions which viet mar~et. Immense projects, from auto RECORD, as follows: are being posed by the investigator. For ex mobile assembly lines to steel factories, were periments designed to test hypotheses about organized and financed in the Soviet Union "BIO-MEDICAL SCIENCE: PROSPECTS IN AGING" the effects of nutrition on aging, the rat or by Americans in the 1920's and 1930's, which (By Dr. Nathan W. Shock) mouse may be the animal of choice. In other was just when Joseph Stalin was tightening It is indeed an honor and privilege for me experiments designed to test the effects of his grip on the country. to participate in the dedication of the Ethel temperature on aging a cold blooded animal Assurances that the Soviet Union is chang Percy Andrus Gerontology Center. This is such as the rotifer or fruit fly may be more Jng slowly for the better are as old as the an important occasion since it marks the appropriate. Other studies designed to test Soviet Union. Ask Solzhenitsyn. Or Mehdve culmination of the joint efforts of a great };lypotheses about the transfer of information dev. Or any uncensored, unbeholden, writer. university, an organization of retired people, in a cellular system will abandon the whole The news from the Soviet Union certainly and governmental agencies in providing a re animal and will utilize cells and tissues seems as Soviet as ever. source to increase our understanding of aging which are cultured in isolation. All of these Brezhnev, modest leader of the Soviet and to improve the status of aging people. models and approaches wm derive bits of Communist Party, has just awarded himself The American Association of Retired Persons information and test specific hypotheses the Lenin Peace Prize. This year Comrade is to be congratulated on their foresight in which will ultimately lead to an understand Brezhnev also prevailed on Comrade Brezhnev supporting both training and research and ing of what aging is all about: to give the May Day speech from atop Lenin's in recognizing that research represents an RESEARCH RELEVANCE Tomb; the television cameras scarcely had investment in the future. This Center has a time for any other member of the formerly unique opportunity. Located within and in With today's emphasis on relevance we collective leadership. tegrated into the university community, it may well ask what research is relevant to Isn't it reassuring to be told about the has available great resources for both train aging. Obviously the descriptive studies of great changes in Russia and the disappear ing and research. Past performance has dem age differences, both in humans and in other ance of the cult of personality? onstrated that these functions can be ade animal species, is relevant to our questions The lure of the Soviet market is strong quately carried out under the able leader- about aging. However, as pointed out pre ·but there ought to be some more thought ship of Dr. Birren. · viously, such studies are not apt to identify given the strategic consequences of trading I have been asked to review with you some the basic mechanisms of aging. Simllarly, with the Soviets on their terms and with our of the prospects for advances in biomedical studies which attempt to show the effect of ·credits. For a President fully aware of the research which will have an impact on aging. some ·treatment or alteration in living con need for some hard bargaining with friends, In order to do this I shall outline what Ire ditions on life span of animals may be re Mr. Nixon has yet to prove himself a Yankee gard as appropriate goals for research on garded as relevant. However, unless the trader in dealing with the Russians. The re aging and where we stand with respect to experimental intervention is based on valid sults of that last wheat deal alone were a number of aspects of aging research, with assumptions about the nature of aging enough to defend the President against the an indication of where I think significant chances of success are small. Even if success old epithet, "Tricky Dick." · advances will be made. ful on an empirical basis, generalization of June 25, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 21259 the findings to other species arid other popu stitutes and centers on aging have been es there has been no substantial change in the lations may fail. tablished in Switzerland, France, Soviet average age of death in males in the United Some may demand that studies relevant Union, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary, States since 1960, although the average age to gerontology should always compare meas Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, and of death of females continues to increase. urements made at, at least two points in time Norway. Increased support for aging re It has been estimated that the total elimina over the adult life span. However, in my search through the programs of the National tion o.f cancer and heart disease as a cause opinion, strict application of any of these Institutes of Health, National Science Foun of death would add only 5-6 years to the criteria would seriously limit the future of dation, Veterans Administration, and others average life span. Thus continued research research in gerontology because relevance have led to the establishment of centers for on diseases which are currently the primary changes with time and circumstances. Often, aging research at Duke University, the Uni cause of death among older people can be basic research done at an earlier time with versity of Chicago, Case Western Reserve, expected to increase average life span by only no thought of solving a practical problem Syracuse University, Pennsylvania State Uni a few years. Any doubling of the human life has become highly relevant to a practical versity, Philadelphia Geriatric Center, span would certainly require alterations at problem at a later date. For example, the Yeshiva University, the Masonic Research the genetic level. Although genetic engineer many man hours that went into the detailed Laboratory in Utica, University of Louisville, ing is regarded as a potential goal for the classification of various species and strains West Virginia University, Washington Uni future, it is improbable that alterations in of mosquitoes had little relevance to any versity (St. Louis), the Boston V.A. Hospital, the genetic pattern of aging will be achieved practical problem at the time the work was Bay Pines V.A. Hospital (Florida), the Uni in the foreseeable future. being done. However, years later this detailed versity of Miami, the Gerontology Research DISEASE AND ANXIETY information was of critical importance in Center (Baltimore), and, of course, the Uni Currently, one of the major problems of showing that one specific strain of mosquito versity of Southern California. older people is the disability associated with was responsible for the transmission of The number of investigators working on disease and the anxiety generated about the malaria. problems of aging has greatly increased over loss of freedom and function as well as the Similarly, the extensive work devoted to the past 10 years. During this relatively short economic costs. Research on cardiovascular working out the detailed chemical structure period of time there has also been a signifi diseases, especially arteriosclerosis, will have of hemoglobin proved to be of basic impor cant shift in the direction of research. Up direct effects in improving the quality of life. tance in explaining the etiology of sickle to now, emphasis has been placed on identi Reduction of the disability involved in can cell anemia, which is due simply to the mis fying age differences. It is now clear that we cer, stroke, and hypertension will undoubt placement of one amino acid in the very must turn to the definition of age changes. edly result from advances in bio-medical re large hemoglobin molecule. I am sure that This can be done only by making repeated search. the organic chemists studying the formation observations on the same individual as he Although the advances in surgery which of polymers were completely unaware that ages. It is now recognized that aging is a have made possible transplantation of or their work would be so important to cardio process which involves the total develop gans, such as kidneys and hearts, have been vascular surgeons in the repair of blood ves mental sequence including events and con spectacular, the associated costs and other sels in the human. The development of the ditions occurring early in the lifespan that problems will severely limit the application oral contraceptives was possible only because may have profound effects later on. of these tecniques to elderly people. None of of the long history of basic research begin Another marked change in the nature of them can be thought of as available to large ning in 1849 when Berthold first identified gerontological research which has occurred numbers of the population and hence can the male sex hormone. over the past 4 or 5 years is the shift from hardly have any significant impact on an Many streams of basic science research descriptive studies to investigations on the aging population as such. ranging from the discovery of the physiologi mechanisms which produce age changes or A1 though biomedical research directed to cal mechanisms of ovulation to the deter age differences. Recent advances in knowl ward preventing or curing diseases which mination of the synthesis of estrogens and edge about cell biology and the development kill will have an impact on life span, there progesterone finally culminated in the solu of new methods and techniques now make are other diseases which produce widespread tion of a very practical problem. In view of it possible to investigate the biological mech disability among elderly people. Arthritis and the current emphasis on cellular theories of anisms of aging. Although I do not regard emphysema are diseases which head this list. aging, it is apparent that gerontologists must extension of life span as a worthy goal for Research which will lead to a reduction in be in ·the front line of current research on gerontological research, many do. Some ger the incidence of these diseases may have how cells work, repair themselves, and die. ontologists are of the opinion that dietary more impact on improving the quality of life GERONTOLOGY: AN INFANT SCIENCE and other manipulations of the environment of more people than would a cure for can could readily add 10 to 15 years to the average cer. Expanded and intensified reesarch on As a science, gerontology is still in its in these crippling diseases will have a major fancy. Although sporadic studies of aging life span while others have predicted that by the year 2000 it may be possible to double impact on the quality of life for many elder appeared in the scientific literature from ly people. time to time, it was not until 1939 that any the average human life . span. SuG:P. predic systematic presentation of the field of geron tions have precipitated extensive discussions THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTION tology was- available in the literature. Cow about the social and economic effects of such Other biomedical research will undoubted dry's book, "Problems of Aging", prepared a radical change in the c.omposition of the ly be directed toward the development of under the sponsorship of the Macy Founda population. I should like to take a moment to therapeutic interventions to reduce the im tion, presented for the first tinie a summary present my assessment of the probability that pact of aging. At present, few of these inter of the literature on all aspects of aging. It marked changes in the average life span will ventions are based on sound knowledge made _gerontology visible as a field of scien take place in the foreseeable future. about the basic biology of aging. The inclu tific study. Formation of the American Geri DEATH AND AGE sion of antioxidants in the diet as proposed atrics Society (1942) and the Gerontological One of the basic biological facts of aging by Harman is based on the assumption that Society (1945) gave further visibility to the is that the probability of death increases aging is related to the formation of free radi field and offered opportunities for discus logarithmically with age. In humans, after cals which may have a deleterious infiuence sions among investigators interested in spe the age of 30 to 40 years death rates double on cellular function. Harman has reported cific aspects of aging. Another milestone in every 8 years. The general relationship be experiments in which the average age of advancing gerontology was the publication tween the logarithm of death rate and age death of rats fed an antioxidant was in of the "Classified Bibliography of Geron is a straight line plot with many different creased by 25-30%, although the maximum tology and Geriatrics" in 1951. This bibliog species of animals. In short lived strains such life span of the treated animals was no great raphy, with supplements in 1957 and 1963 as the rat where the average age of death is er than that of the controls. The results in and with quarterly supplements in the Jour about 2 years the slope of this plot is very the animal experiments are promising but nal of Gerontology since then, has made the steep. In the dog, with an average age of more work will need to be done before the widley scattered literature on aging acces death at 12 years, the slope is less steep and method can be applied to human popula- sible to students and investigators. in the human, with an average age of death tions. The establishment of the International As of 69-70 years, the slope is even less. Thus REJUVENATION sociation of Gerontology in 1950 has ·also the slope of the Gompertz plot is determined Since 1960 reports have appeared in the played a key role in the development of primarily by genetic factors. literature which claim rejuvenating effects gerontology. The first meeting of the lAG, When improved social and medical condi from the administration of procaine. This stimulated by Dr. V. Korenchevsky of Great tions result in a lengthening of life span the procedure, first evolved by Dr. Anna Asian, Britain, was held in Liege, Belgium under the curve relating log mortality rate to age sim has a long list of world famous people who leadership of Prof. L. Brull. · ply shifts to the right but the slope is not claim to have obtained beneficial results. The meeting drew only 95 participants changed. For example, the curve for mor However, no carefully controlled experiments from 14 countries. In contra_st, the 9th Inter-: tality in the United States in 1900, when the have been carried out which would make it national Congress of . Gerontology, held in average life span was approximately 40 years, possible to judge the merits of the procedure. is some 5 years to the left of tl!_e cun-ent Cellular therapy has also been reported as Kiev, U.S.S.R., in July 1972 under the lead curve where average age of death in the ership of Prof. Chebotarev, brought together having beneficial effects. This procedure, United S~ates is approximately 69 years. We publicized primarily through the clinic of the over _2,000 professionals from 45 different cim expect some further shift in the inter late Dr. Paul Niehaus, involves the injection countries. With this rising tide of interest cept of the Gompertz plot over the next 10 to_ of suspensions of fetal cells. Here again the in the problems of gerontology, research in- 20 years as has occurred in the past. Actually, procedure, which is potentially dangerous, 21260 EXTENSIONS OF ·REMARKS June 25, 1973 has not been adequately evaluated. The in It is also clear that there are very marked all, because of the current trend in geronto jection of crude preparations of DNA or differences ifl the average rate of aging logical research to emphasize investigations RNA has been offered as a means to improve among different organ systems. For example, on the mechanisms of age changes and from memory and mental function in aging peo the decrement in nerve conduction velocity the rapid strides that have been made in the ple. This procedure, like the others men between 30-year-olds and 80-year-old~ is only understanding of basic mechanisms of ge tioned above, has little or no scientific ra about 5-10%, whereas the difference in kid netic control of cellular processes. During tionale and, in fact, there are cogent rea ney function is about 50% and the ability to this period some theories of aging highly sons to believe that they would not be ef perform manual work is almost 60%. popular 10 years ago have all but been aban fective. Although we will undoubtedly see It is also clear that age differences are most doned. For example, in the 1950s a great deal additional nostrums proposed to reduce the apparent in tests which involve a response of effort in the field of aging was based on a effects of age, until we have a clear under to some stressful situation. For example, presumption that since exposure to radiation standing of the cellular mechanisms involved resting blood sugar levels show no differ reduces life span, radiation mimics aging. We in aging, chances that any of these proce ences between young and old. However, when now know that this is not necessarily the dures will be effective are exceedingly slim. the blood sugar is increased by the oral ad case and investigators have turned to other The future for gerontology seems to me to lie ministration of glucose or by its intravenous areas. more in pursuing fundamental questions injection the rate at which the blood sugar In 1956 Comfort identified some 30 different rather than testing unknown nostrums. level returns to normal is much slower in theories of aging, few of which were stated PHYSIOLOGY AND AGING the old than in the young. The amount of in terms appropriate for experimental test As a result of descriptive studies carried physical work and the maximum oxygen up ing. Today there are only 3 or 4 biological out over the past 10-15 years we have learned take is substantially less in the old than theories of aging which seem to be worthy a good deal about the physiological aspects in the young. of consideration. Thanks to advances in mod of aging. Time will not permit a detailed re Furthermore, the rate of recovery of blood ern technology, many of these hypotheses view of specific experimental results obtained pressure, respiration, and heart rate after a can now be stated in terms which can be from tests on normal men aged 20-95. standard amount of physical exercise is tested in the laboratory. It is- here that I Instead, I shall try to give you a few gen slower in the old than in the young. This believe major advances will be made in the eralizations which I believe are valid. First slowing of response seems to be a general foreseeable future. of all, not all physiological functions show characteristic which extends from many be GENETIC CODE changes with age, especially when the meas havioral and psychological characteristics to The observation that each animal species urements are made under basal or resting responses at a cellular level. For example, re has its own finite life span suggests that the conditions. Many of the constituents of the action time is slower in the aged and the genetic code of any organism carries within blood show little or no change with age. age decrement is greater in choice and com it not only a program for developmental Characteristics such as blood sugar, blood plex reaction tasks than in simple responses. sequences of on-going life processes but also acidity, osmotic pressure, etc. do not change At a cellular level is has been shown that for aging and death. Support for theories of significantly with advancing age. These are, the primary age difference is the rate at pre-programmed aging has been provided by in general, characteristics which must be which enzymes are formed rather than the tissue culture studies which indicate that closely regulated in order to provide the total amount. It takes the old cell more time cells are capable of only a limited number proper environment for the cells of the body to get started in producing the enzyme after of divisions after which they age and die to function. an adequate stimulus, although the :final and thwt cells from young animals can divide On the other hand, there are many physi amount of enzyme produced may be the same more often than those from old ones. The ological characteristics which show gradual in the old as in the young. mechanism for this apparent turning off of decrements over the entire age span. Charac BREAKDOWN OF CONTROL MECHANISMS cell division at a certain point in time is teristics such as the amount of blood pumped In my opinion, aging in the total animal unknown. Research in molecular genetics has by the hea-rt, kidney function, lung function, may be primarily a reflection of the break shown that in bacteria one por•tion of tl;le etc. show a small but continuing decrement down in control mechanisms. For example, DNA genetic code can turn off the expression over the entire life span. Since measurements the reduced ability of the older individual to of another portion. If similar events occur made at each decade represent different sub remove excess glucose from his blood cannot in higher animals they could constitute an jects, these results indicate only age differ be ascribed to the inability of the pancreas aging mechanism and identification of fac ences or, perhaps better expressed, represent to produce insulin or a reduced utilization tors involved at a certain point of the process differences between people of different ages. of glucose in the tissues. The delay in glu could lead to the modification of aging at this It is obvious that age changes can be re cose removal is due primarily to a reduc basic level. corded only if repeated obsr:.-va,tions are made tion in the sensitivity of the cells of the In any cell the information stored in the on the same subject as he ages. Such longitu pancreas to the rise in blood sugar. In oth genetic code as determined by the structure dinal studies are extremely difficult to orga er words, the blood sugar must rise to a high of the DNA molecules must be transcribed nize and to operate. However, one such longi er level in the old subject than in the young and translated in various steps until the :final tudinal study has been in operation at the before insulin is released. Similarly, the de protein or enzyme molecule required or man Gerontology Research Center since about crease in heart rate in response to a rise in ufactured by the cell is produced. There are 1958. A total of some 650 active males living blood pressure is significantly greater in the many steps in this process and one of the in the community have been tested at 18- young than in the old. The sensing cells in popular theories of aging is that errors occur month intervals over the intervening years. cartoid tissue of the old animal are less sen which result in slight deviations in the form The subjects range in age from 20 to 96 years. sitive to the rise in blood pressure. Other ev or structure of the protein molecule which Preliminary analysis of these observations idence of the effect of impairment in con renders it incapable of performing its usual indicate that age changes, at least over the trol mechanisms is shown by the fact that function. Errors may occur in the transcrip age span of 20 to 60 years, are not as marked the age decrement in performance of work tion and formation of messenger and other in individual subjects as would be predicted tested on the bicycle ergometer is substan types of RNA or errors may be introduced in from the average cross-sectional curve. In tially greater than the decrement in strength translation of the code with the incorpora some physiological characteristics, deere-' of the muscles which carry out the work. tion of a specific amino acid into a protein ments in function proceed at an accelerating Performance of the coordinated movements chain. Studies on the DNA-protein complex rate after age 70. However, it must be remem involve control mechanisms that are not re represent an area of research which seems bered that, although 14 years is a long time quired in measuring the strength of individ to have a high probability of defining casual in the life of the investigator, it is but a short ual muscles. These are but a few of the ex relationships in aging. Although great ad part of the entire life span of the individual. amples of the breakdown in control mecha vances in technology have been made, the This study is continuing and when data for nisms with advancing age. The same general solution of these difficult problems will re the next 10 or more years are available on concept also applies to cellular mechanisms quire further advances. For example, one of these subjects a more definitive picture of and represents a fruitful area for future the key stumbling bloc~s to research in this aging and the precursors of disability can be research. area is the lack of methods to obtain homo identified. The age decrement in reserve capacities of geneous cell populations from specific tis sues. This is because a tissue or organ con INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES a number of organ systems results from the loss of cells or functioning units. The loss of tains a variety of cell types. For example, All of the observations on physiological nephrons from the kidney, of muscle :fibers, the brain contains not only neurons but a characteristics emphasize the marked indi and even neurons can be demonstrated by great many glial cells and other supporting vidual differences in the way people age. For both physiological and histological tech structures. It has already been shown that example, some 80-year-old subjects have rest niques. It is therefore apparent that the im the metabolic processes of the glial cells are ing cardiac outputs that are as good as the portant problem for gerontologists is the quite different from those of neurons. It is average 50-year-old. The critical question is question of what factors determine cell loss obviously inappropriate to study biochemi whether such individuals were superior to and cell death. These questions lead to stud cal or enzymatic characteristics of homog the average person when they were 40 years ies related to biological theories of aging. enates or even mitochondrial preparations' old or whether they have simply been able which will arise from an unknown proportion to maintain the performance of the average BIOLOGICAL THEORIES of glial vs. neuronal cells. 40-year-old for a much longer period of time. Over the past 5 to 10 years, great progress Final substantiation of the error hypothesis This is a question which can be answered has been made in formulating biological the will require the identification of misformed only by the long-term longitudinal study. ories of aging. This has come about, first of molecules. At the moment we do not have June 25, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 21261 technology which w111 permit identification The immune system also protects the ani teachers, railroac;l conductors, reGeption of small aberrations which may appear in mal against the introduction of foreign pro ists, State police officers, and plumbers. only 5 or less per cent of the total molecular tein or cells into the body. This is the basis species. In addition, techniques for label for the rejection phenomenon which occurs Over 250 occupations are listed. ing nucleic acids in vivo in non-dividing cells when organs or tissues are transplanted from The handbook also contains projec must be devised. With the rapid expansion one animal to another. In young animals tions of changes that are expected to oc of new information provided by basically the inunune system is extremely sensitive in cur between 1970 and 1980. For exam oriented scientists in biology, biochemistry, dist1nguishing between cells that are a nor ple, during the 1970's professional and immunology, and physics, I am confident that mal part of the animal and those that are technical jobs, which usually require col these technical problems can be overcome slightly different because they grew in a dif lege level training, are expected to in and ultimately we will be able to describe in ferent animal. Even slight genetic differences crease faster than those in any other oc detail the basic mechanisms of cellular aging. can be detected. It is beileved that with ad cupational group. Nonetheless, 8 out of CROSS-LINKING THEORY vancing age some cells of the body may un dergo genetic changes or mutations. Under every 10 jobs open will not require a col Among the non-genetic hypotheses about lege degree. the basic biological mechanisms of aging, the normal circumstances, these mutated cells are recognized as different by the immune The Bureau of Labor Statistics is to be cross-linking theory remains viable. It has been shown that with advancing age cross system and are destroyed by specific anti commended for its efforts in compiling links form within the molecular structure of bodies. With advancing age the immune sys the employment information contained connective tissue fibers which results in a loss tem may make mistakes in the formation in the handbook. of elasticity of many tissues, such as the skin, of antibodies so that they destroy some of which is characteristic of aging. Although the the normal cells of the body as well as the loss of elasticity of many tissues with age aberrant ones. This results in the develop may not be the basic cause 6f aging, the ment of so-called auto-immune diseases as LABOR-HEW APPROPRIATIONS ability to inhibit or to reverse the formation well as the loss of normal cells which may of cross-links in connective tissue would cer contribute to aging. Modern techniques of tainly increase the quality of life for many immunology have opened the door for inten elderly people. Investigations on this prob sified research on ways of rejuvenating the HON. ROBERT H. MICHEL immune system and maintaining its sensi lem have taken two directions: ( 1) Attempts OF ILLINOIS to inhibit the formation of cross-links, and tivity and ability to generate specific anti (2) to break down cross-links once they have bodies. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES formed. Thus far, neither approach has been IMPORTANT NEW DISCOVERIES Monday, June 25, 1973 successful but with the knowledge of the In summary, it seems to me that aging chemical process which needs to be inhibited research is on the threshold of important Mr. MICHEL. Mr. Speaker, tomorrow or reversed success may ultimately be new discoveries that can ultimately lead to when we consider the Labor-HEW appro achieved. In fact, it has recently been claimed an improvement in the quality of life of pliation bill I expect to offer a package of that low molecular weight enzymes capable older people. Rapid advances in the technol amendments that would have the effect of breaking down the cross-links in old col ogy of molecular biology offer opportunities of reducing the overall expenditure level lagen have been derived from soil bacteria. for investigating basic biological mechanisms in the bill by some $631 million. The over The claim that similar cross-linking occurs that have never been available before. In in intracellular proteins and thus explains creased interest among young scientists gives all bill covers approximately 370 indi decrements in cell function requires exten promise that many of these well trained vidualline items, but my amendment will sive exploration. younger people wm see the challenge of re touch only 26. CELLULAR AGING search in aging and make valuable contribu For those unfamiliar with the bill it Investigations on regulatory processes in tions. The current trend in research is more would be rather difficult to determine cells will undoubtedly tell us a great deal and more toward the investigation of mech precisely what effect our amendment about aging at a cellular level. Slight changes anisms, although a great deal stlll remains would have by a simpie printing of the in the chemical composition of cells and the to be done at the descriptive level. With its text of the amendment, so I shall include interaction between cellular elements may commitment to teaching and research in ag be of great importance in maintaining the ing the Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Cen prepared setting forth the specific items life of a cell. Slight changes in ionic strength ter wlll, I am sure, play a major role in bring with figures showing the level of expend or in calcium concentration may be the im ing to the attention of all scientists in the iture in the current fiscal year 1973, the portant point of regulation which slows down university community the challenges of ag President's budget figure for the item in the response of the cell to a stimulus. Cur ing research. It will, I am sure, serve as an fiscal year 1974, what was recommended rent work on binding sites, on cell mem effective catalyst to advance the cause of by the full committee in the bill, the branes, and the mechanism of the action of gerontology. amount of my proposed amendment, and hormones on intracellular processes may yield important information about aging. finally what the figure for the item The role of cyclic AMP in regulating cel would be if my package of amendments lular metabolism has been identified only re JOB OUTLOOKS FOR 1970'S should be adopted. The explanation in cently. What its role may be in aging is still the table for each reduction will be unexplored. Similarly the discovery of the reduced to its briefest form, but we will regulatory effects of prostaglandins offers a HON. JACOB K. JAVITS of course have extensive arguments and new approach to studies of aging at the cel explanations in support of our position lular level. The synthesis of new polymers OF NEW YORK during general debate and when the bill which are capable of penetrating cell walls IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES offers a potentially exciting method of intro is read for amendment. ducing large molecules into cells for experi Monday, June 25, 1973 I should say further, Mr. Speaker, that mental purposes. All of these new develop Mr. JAVITS. Mr. President, every 2 the manner in which I shall offer the ments place new methods and approaches in amendment will be similar to that used the hands of experimental gerontologists. years the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor publishes by Mr. Joelson and Mr. HATHAWAY in IMMUNOLOGY a handbook detailing occupational per years past when they offered packages of Modern advances in immu:nology offer a spectives. amendments to increase our bill. Mem.. fertile field for studies on aging. The impor bers will have an opportunity to accept or tance of maintaining an effective defense The Occupational Outlook Handbook against infectious agents is well known. An has proven to be a valuable tool for coun reject the package of amendments with a effective defense depends on the formation selors and teachers in assisting students single vote. This does not foreclose Mem of antibodies by the immune system. Produc in making career choices. In addition, the bers from offering amendments to my tion of antibodies reaches a peak during ado handbook may be particularly helpful to amendment or from offering amend lescence and then declines. In some animals ments to any of the other items in the this decline is so dramatic that senescent Vietnam era veterans who are unfamiliar animals retain only one-tenth the immune with the current employment market. For bill as they see fit when the bill is read capabilities of younger ones. Studies on this the veteran who wishes to further his for amendment. decrease in immune competence show that education, the handbook can prove ex Finally, Mr. Speaker, there is no ques the defect lies primarily in the cells which tremely helpful in selecting courses of tion in my mind but that in its precent produce the antibodies and that this defect study. form the Labor-HEW bill will surely have is related to the reduced ability to divide. If the senescent animal could be provided with The Occupational Outlook Handbook to be vetoed, and we went through that a new supply of young cells of a thymus or offers an overview of employment pros exercise two times during fiscal year 1973 spleen this defect might be rectified. This pects in a wide range of occupations in and ended up operating the entire year will certainly be a fruitful area for research. cluding foresters, aerospace engineers, under a continuing resolution. I am sure 21262 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 25, 1973 the vast majority of Members would tunity here to make a significant reduc give serious consideration to what I am agree that we do not want to go that tion, and moreover it can be defended m proposing and support my amendment. route again this year. We have an oppor- good conscience. I do hope Members wlll I include the following:
PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO FISCAL YEAR 1974 LABOR-HEW APPROPRIATION BILL
Fiscal year 1974 Fiscal year 1973 ------Fiscal year 1974 opera1etvineg President's Recommended revised Appropriation/activity 11 budget in bill bill
Mental health: General mental health: Research- Reduce 71! of the increase over the budgeL·------.: $79,349,000 $80,489,000 $89, 289, 000 -$4, 400, 000 $84, 889, 000 Training-Maintain faculty support ; eliminate increased student support •• ·------81, 841, 000 71, 876, 000 110, 000, 000 -19, 540,000 90, 460, 000 Construction of Centers-Eliminate new construction ______•• ___ ._ •• ------. ____ ------__ • ______15,000,900 -15, 000,000 ------Staffing of centers-Reduce 71! of the increase over the budget.______125, 100, 000 1 125,250,000 163,698,000 -19, 224,000 144,474,000 Alcoholism: Research-Reduce~ of the increase over the budget ------; 6, 882, 000 6, 901,000 8, 901,000 -1,000,000 7, 901,000 Training-Maintain institutional support; eliminate increased student support._------3, 546,000 3, 763,000 4, 763,000 -1,000,000 3, 763,000 Community programs-Retain project grants; eliminate increase in formula grants.------30, 000, 000 30, 000, 000 40,000,000 -10, 000, 000 30,000,000 Health services planning and development: • Medical facilities construction- Reta in funds for ambulatory care facilities and modernization ______; 2, 000,000 ••..•. .: •••••.•. • 197, 200, 000 -87,200,000 110, 000, 000 National Institutes of Health: Research grants-Reduce 71! of the increase over the budgeL =------~------~ 587,004, 000 582,882, 000 700, 079, 000 -58, 597,000 641 , 482, 000 Research training-Hold program to 1973 operating level (excludes amendment for cancer, heart and lung) ____ • ______------______------______------. 149, 842, 000 125, 994, 000 180, 292, 000 -26, 281 , 000 154, 011 , 000 General research support grants- Reduce 7Ji of the increase over the budget.______26, 124,000 17, 000,000 55,000, 000 -19, 000, 000 36, 000, 000 Health manpower: Health professions: Capitation grants- Reduce 71! of the increase over the budgeL .------~ 152,200, 000 152, 500,000 187, 277, 000 -17, 389,000 169, 888, 000 Special projects-Reduce 7'2 of the increase over the budget.______34, 400,000 34,000,000 53,000,000 -9,500,000 43, 500, 000 Construction-Reduce 71! of the increase over the budgeL·------100, 000, 000 -50, 000, 000 50,000, 000 Dental health activities- Eliminate the increase ••. ------12, 979, 000 12, 991,000 14,979,000 -1,988,000 12,991,000 Educational assistance-Eliminate the increase; adequately covered by the educational initiative Nursin=~~~~-rt:··------8, 905,000 5, 000, 000 9, 320, 000 -4,320,000 5, 000,000 Construction grants- Reduce ~ of the increase over the budget ------~--;. ••••• .: 20, 000,000 -10, 000, 000 10,000, 000. Schools of public health-Reduce to operating level for fiscal year 1973 ... ------15,571,000 ------22,231,000 -6,660,000 15,571,000 Education~llied health support- Reduce to operating level for fiscal year 1973 ------22,705,000 ------38,705,000 -16, 000, 000 22,705,000 Elementary and secondary education : Title l- Ap ply "hold harmless" at both 1972 and 1973 operating level using 1970 census data ••• ..: 1, 585, 185, 000 2 1, 585, 185, 000 1, 810, 000, 000 -97, 000, 000 1, 713, 000, 00() Bilingual education- Reduce Y2 of the increase over the budget ------35,080,000 35,000,000 45,000,000 -5,000,000 4(), 000,000 Occupational, vocational and adult education- Basic vocational education programs-Reduce 7'2 of the increase over the budget ------..: 450,827,000 2 450,827,000 501, 341, 000 -25,000,000 476, 341, 000 Higher education: Language training and area studies- Reduce Y2 of the increase over the budget. -=----- _____ :. ••• ..::; 2, 360, 000 1, 360, 000 12, 360,000 -5, 000,000 7, 360, 000 Library resources- Reduce to M of increase over the operating level for fiscal year 1973______137,730,000 ------.: 176, 209, 000 -19,240,000 156, 970, 000 Social and rehabilitation services: Developmental disabilities- Reduce to 1973 operating level (the States currently have $20,000,000 -$10,785,000 $21, 715, 000 in unexpended formula funds> ------.: $21,715,000------$21,715,000 $32, 500, 000 Subtotal, amendments for HEW ____ ------_------•• .: •• ___ ------____ ------___ ------·-=.:.: .... _------.---.---- ..: -539, 124, 000 -.------Office of Economic Opportunity ------790,200,000 143,800,000 333, 800, 000 -92,500,000 241,300,000 Total amendments :. ••••••• ------.------::•• ------____ ------_.:;; ______------• ..: -631, 624, 000 -----.------
1 Excludes out-year costs of $346,750,000. 2 Level proposed for inclusion in Better Schools Act. Budget authority Amount subcommittee over budget_ __ _------______• ___ =-=---==----_ •• _.;; ___ ------___ ·______----- ___ -----.;;-;..:..::. ______------__ $1 , 264, 352, 000 Proposed amendments ______-----______.------____ ------______----- __ ------.______-631, 624, 000
Total amount still over budget request. ______------~ ______------___ ------______:;_;;..;;; __ ------______• __ ------+632, 728, 000
A. TERRY WEATHERS, LEADER IN CONGRESS OF . of the House of Representatives does not per EDUCATION, RETIRES FROM THE UNITED STATES, mit me to join with your other friends and HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, well-wishers at the testimonial dinner in FARMINGDALE SCHOOL BOARD Washington, D.C., June 25, 1973. your honor on June 27. I sincerely wish I Mr. A. TERRY WEATHERS, could be present to congratulate you in per Farmingdale, N.Y. son. Although you are taking leave of your HON. ANGELO D. RONCALLO DEAR TERRY: It was with considerable dis active role on the Board. I am confident that OF NEW YORK may that I learned you were retiring at the your retirement years will be as full and IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES end of this month after 15 years on the creative as the ones you have devoted to the Farmingdale School Board. Your presence service of your community. Monday, June 25, 1973 will be sadly missed. Sincerely, During your long and distinguished career ANGELO D. RoNCALLO, Mr. RONCALLO of New York. Mr. you have earned the respect and admira Member of congress. Speaker, in a few days Mr. A. Terry tion 'or your colleagues and the entire com Weathers will retire after 15 years of munity as a real gentleman. As Board Presi service as a trustee of the Farmingdale, dent and as Finance Chairman, you have DEDICATION CEREMONY OF THE N.Y., School Board. This Wednesday, been ever-mindful of the individual home ETHEL PERCY ANDRUS GERON New Yorkers will recognize his contribu owner, fighting to keep taxes in line and TOLOGY CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF tions to education at a testimonal din pressing for a raise in the state-aid ceiling. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, LOS AN ner at the Four Seasons Country Club in Through all this, however, you have always GELES, CALIF., FEBRUARY 12, 1973 Woodbury, L.I. insisted that quality education for the chil dren of Farmingdale not be sacrificed. I am confident that this dinner will All of Long Island owes you an even larger not indicate an end to Mr. Weathers' HON. JOHN BRADEMAS debt, for your interests have not been con OF INDIANA service to his community, but rather like fined to a single community. You were the a graduation, will serve as the commence guiding light in the founding of the Nas IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ment of a full and rich retirement. sau-Suffolk School Boards Association and Monday, June 25, 1973 So that my colleagues will know of the its first President. Your expertise as a state Mr. BRADEMAS. Mr. Speaker, in Feb outstanding efforts A. Terry Weathers wide leader in education was recognized to has undertaken on behalf of our youth, when you were chosen to serve a.s President ruary of this year, I was privileged I include at this point in the RECORD of the New York State School Boards Asso participate in the dedication of magnifi my letter to him on the occasion of his ciation. cent new facilities for the Ethel Percy retirement. I regret that the heavy legislative schedule Andrus Gerontology Center, at the Uni- June 25, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS- 21263 versity of Southern California in Los both freeing our concept about the nature The Stones, my family, have always lived Angeles. of our lives and dedicating our energies to much longer than anybody ever thought they The Andrus Center, Mr. Speaker, is one enlarging our prospects for fuller lives should and that is likely to be the case with through research. me. But it is ensured now that we have a of the largest gerontological institutions I think those of you that are facing the facility of this sort, and I am very happy in the world, and it is dedicated to im building and have had the opportunity of about it, personally. proving our understanding of the proc going through it, and I hope that many of In other words. I hope that people who esses of aging, and the problems of the you will, are pleased with the beauty of this look at this building find it palatable to the elderly, through support of research in building. A building such as this doesn't eye. I do. And I have to be honestly arrogant the biological and social sciences as well happen quickly or casually. It requires tal and admit that I think it is very beautiful, as graduate training and community ent and experience. The Board of Trustees and I hope serves the University of Southern of the University selected very well when California and the people of this part of the service programs. they chose Edward Durrell Stone as the state well. It seems to me that some words spoken architect for this project. Many of you know I think this attendance here is incredible. at the dedication ceremony by Dr. John him for his design of the Kennedy Center You know, I was here at nine this morning Hubbard, president of the University of for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. and everybody was already in their seats. Southern California, are of great signifi On this campus he is known also for two That speaks well for what happens in South cance to those of us interested in the other structures of note: the Waite Phlllips ern California and what will happen more so elderly and research on their problems. Hall and the Von Kleinschmidt Center and when this building functions. Said Dr. Hubbard: related facilities. Thank you very much. May I present to you Mr. Stone. The University of Southern California sees DR. JAMES BIRREN the study of aging as an area rich with in EDWARD DURRELL STONE Thank you, Mr. Stone, and for what you formation for the scientists and laden with Well, it's a groot honor for me to be here have done for us here. Mr. Stone mentioned promise for his fellow human being. We at and it would be less than fair if I didn't rate that the construction firm was the Meyer USC share with you a particular view of age. the University of Southern California as my Brothers, and they were responsible for this Far from being the end of the line, it is a favorite client since, as has already been beautiful brickwork. I was hoping that Mr. beckoning of opportunity-a time for the pointed out, we have had an opportunity to Ray Meyer would be here this morning. If fulfillment of great potential. work here before. he is here this morning, I would like to In designing a building for a campus, of recognize him. Would you come forward a Mr. Speaker, I include the proceedings course doing eclectic architecture is a dirty moment? of the official dedication ceremony at this word, but this campus does have time hon MR. RAY MEYER point in the RECORD. ored traditions in the Romanesqu '1 style and Well, I don't think after those words by ETHEL PERCY ANDRUS GERONTOLOGY CENTER I guess this building takes a bow to that Mr. Stone that I need to say anything about DEDICATION CEREMONY, FEBRUARY 12, 1973 heritage, as does Von Kleinschmidt and the this building, but we are very proud, Meyers other building we have done. JAMES BmREN Brothers Construction Co., to have built It has been said that great buildings, if many structures that we have built on the I am James Birren, the Director of the Cen they become great, are the result of great campus. It has been a real pleasure to work ter that we are going to dedicate this morn clients and that has certainly been my happy ing and it is my pleasure to call upon the with all of the men here. They are a great experience here. Mr. Firestone, of the Trus ~unch of fellows. Thank you. Rev. Alvin Rudisill, Chaplain of the Univer tees, and Norman Topping I fancy are my sity, to pronounce the invocation for the friends and it is nice to greet President Hub DR. JAMES BIRREN dedication of the Ethel Percy Andrus Geron bard and WO!rk for him. The Center, a~d the building of course, fits tology Center. The Reverend Rudislll. Architecture is not like the work of paint into the total campus and the man that is REVEREND RUDISILL ers or sculptors-who are one man working in J:esponsible for the big and little things about Let us pray. Glorious and mighty and ma a garret-as we have the client participate as the expanding University of Southern Cali jestic is the name of the Lord. ·His praise is you might suspect, since architecture in,. fornia is the President, Dr. John Hubbard. I volves an element of cost. It might be said would like to introduce him and present him to be proclaimed by all the peoples. Bless and to you at this time. dedicate thee this Ethel Percy Andrus Geron that architect's work really is reconciling tology Center. Here may learning and re dreams with dollars. Here on the campus is DR. JOHN HUBBARD, PRESIDENT search flourish so that the well-being and an old friend of mine, Tony Lazzaro. He is in Thank you, Jim, ladies and gentlemen. comfort of older men and women may be charge of campus development and planning. This certainly is is a most welcome day for us provided for. He, fortunately, makes the architect look all. Andrus Center means so much to so Help us all to recognize that our steps good which is very hard for anybody. How many that I can only characterize its signifi are guided constantly by the paths they ever, he describes what goes in the buildings cance as universal. ' have already walked and our future bright and he also knows what they should cost, so Even to describe the Center's significance ened by the dreams they have dreamed. we are in a happy position of reconciling to USC alone would certainly take up the Inspire us this day to live in faith, hope dreams to dollars largely thanks to Tony. rest of this morning. So let me just say and love in a world at peace. Amen. I can't help but speak with some pride that we are enormously pleased and grateful that this is $80,000 below the budget. Clients to the thoughtful donors who made this DR. JAMES BIRREN always like to hear that and like for that Thank you. building possible. to happen and that has been the history of The University of Southern California sees We of the Center are very thrilled that so past work we have done here. We have al- many distinguished friends and guests are the study of aging as an area rich with in . ways met the budget. I'm not up here putting formation for the scientists and laden with with us this morning, and I would like to in a commercial, though it sounds like it. welcome old friends and about-to-be friends promise for his fellow human being. We at These are the facts though and I am largely USC share with you a particular view of to participate in this dedication that we have attributing this to Tony and his Department. been looking forward to so long. age. Far from being the end of the line, Some of the money which we spent, I hope it is a beckoning of opportunity-a time for From 50 states have come representatives judiciously, came from the efforts of many of the Association of Retired Persons and the fulfillment of great potential. people. The American Association of Retired With these splendid new fac111tles and the the National Retired Teachers Association to Persons and the National Retired Teachers be with us. dedicated men and women who will use Association combined their energies to raise them, we have the greatest hope for what There are also among you many individual the funds for the building. We have had donors that have made this event possible. can be accomplished in the Andrus Center. marvelous help from Meyers Brothers, the For the aging, and for men and women of There are students, faculty, alumni and contractor, who had a Mr. McGalllard and interested persons from the community. every age. Sons who performed this beautiful brick This magnificent Center precisely exempli I feel at the moment that we are really work. just at the beginning of a new era in our fies the future development of the entire Incidentally, Norman Topping and I picked University of Southern California. We of the concepts about the nature of the human life this brick out for the Von Kleinschmidt Cen span. It is interesting that it developed that University will be devoting more of our in ter, so I hope you recognize it, Norman. tellectual resources and academic fac111ties to this is Lincoln's Birthday, and I think it is In short, this is a very, very happy occa so appropriate a choice because on this day the challenges confronting society and its sion for the architect, especially when it is individual members. This is the approach of that we dedicate the building we are re shared by friends. To build a building of minded of the fact that Ethel Percy Andrus the Gerontology Center. With its challenge this importance and purpose is a very inspired oriented programs, the possibilities for mean was also the principal of the Abraham Lin opportunity. And I might say it is very timely coln High School. I understand that she had ingful research and teaching are limitless. the name changed because she admired him as far as far as I am concerned because I There is no question, of course, about the so much. made my debut along the turn of the cen field of Gerontology. We are proud that USC Just as she put her energies into the free tury, and as I reckon that is about 70 years can lead in this development, thanks to the ing of retired persons from the limitations ago but I have a young wife who thinks there existence of the Andrus Center. that are arbitrarily placed on them, I feel is hope for me. I always have to boast about Our deepest appreciation goes to all of you today that in dedicating this building we are that. who put the vital bricks of this building 21264 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 25, 1973 together with your enlightened concern and the interests of retired persons in this coun MR. RAYMOND AST, PRESIDENT-ELECT, NRTA superb effort. try. Mr. Bernard Nash is the executive di Dr. Hubbard, ladies and gentlemen, thank Thank you. rector of the American As ociation of Retired you, thank you very much. DR. JAMES BIRREN Persons, and the National Retired Teachers We who are old are supposed to dream At the time the Center was approved by Association. dreams, and you who are young are sup the Board of Trustees, and Dr. Topping was As was mentioned earlier, the member posed to have visions. As I and Foster pre President, Mr. Leonard K. Firestone was ship of these associations now numbers over sent to you, on behalf of our members, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees. I would 5,000,000. That's many more people than keys of this marvelous Center it is our hope like now to invite his comments as we are in some states have in their population. It's that our dreams and your visions will merge front of this bullding that he approved. Mr. over one-quarter of persons over the age of so that in the work that we do here together Firestone. 65. An impressive growth. we can make real the vision of Isaiah for LEONARD K. FIRESTONE Before he assumed this position, Mr. Nash future generations; enabling them to renew was a deputy commissioner of the Admin Thank you. Honored guest, ladies and gen their strength, to run and not be weary, to istration on Aging where, among other things, walk and faint not. tlemen. I had not intended to include in my he promoted the Foster Grandparent Pro short remarks what I am about to say about gram. DR. JAMES BIRREN Mr. Stone. Having been associated with him As a young man, we feel he is one of our Also to participate with us is the immedi for 10 or 12 years, and hearing him this morn Grandparents. I would like to invite our ate Past President of the Retired Teachers ing make his remarks to you, it occurred to Grandparent to speak to us. Association, Mrs. Katherine Pearce, and Mr. me that how anybody as soft-spoken and as Fred Faassen, the immediate Past President low key as he is can develop and create such MR. BERNARD NASH Now I have a new identity. Thank you, of the American Association of Retired majestic and beautiful buildings and archi Persons. tecture as he does. Dr. Birren. You heard Mr. Davis describe to you the I would like them to rise and participate Then I heard just a short time ago that in in cutting the ribbon that binds the building. June he married a very young lady, and when "early family" that worked with Dr. Andrus in identifying the dreams and the goals ot In thi-s process we are going to have a pair I add to that the dramatic things that he our Association. More than 500 leaders as of ceremonial scissors first, but then we are has done architecturally I have just got to sembled here today, of the two associations, to have a more cutting pair, as well, but the come to the conclusion that he has got a lot photographers want the ceremony. more on the ball than you just think he has, represent the extended family of Dr. Andrus. casually meeting him. A fa.mlly that now numbers over 5,000,000. MRS. KATHERINE PEARCE And I wanted to take this opportunity, too, we achieved that mark about two and one~ Dr. Birren, Dr. Hubbard, honored guests halt weeks ago. and friends. to thank Mr. Stone for all he has done for While only a few of them knew Dr. Andrus me and done for this University. He probably Many of you will recall that less than two personally, they know well her philosophy years ago we gathered at this site to partici exemplifies some of the things that Mr. Davis of service to others. A knowledge that has was talking about just a few moments ago. pate in the groundbreaking ceremony that been confirmed by countless acts of kindness marked the beginning of the construction It is a particular pleasure for me to be and self-denial in communities throughout asked to speak on this occasion. When the of this Center. our nation. And confirmed it ~n a very mean As we cut the ribbon today, symbolizing Gerontology Center was established at USC ingful way through the role in helping to in the sixties, it was my honor to serve as the formal opening of the completed struc make possible this Center. ture, it provides ample evidence of what Chairman of the University's Board of Trus More than 400,000 individual members tees. We were very proud of the beginning talented people can accomplish in a short contributed funds to this memorial to our period of time. the Center was making then. Today everyone founder. Mlllions more contributed their associated with the Center has good reason As the artist, the craftsmen and the la time and their prayers over the past five borers pooled their energies and talents to for continuing pride. The work done by Ger years since her passing to this great gift for ontology faculty and staff over the years has create this beautiful building, so may those humanity. from the disciplines who labor from within been of the highest quality. They certainly A beginning deserve this excellent new building. the building likewise prove their talents and It is my privilege to convey, on behalf of Dedication of the Center today represents energies to create a beautiful structure for the Board of Trustees, the thanks of the Uni for our Association not an end but a begin the human spirit. versity to all those who made possible the ning. We shall continue to work with the MR. FRED FAASSEN Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center. dedicated staff of the Center, and of thJs University in pursuit of our mutual goals Well Mrs. Pierce, using scissors to cut this As you know, this beautiful structure is ribbon is much easier than breaking ground the product of many, many thousands of in to change for all time the very meaning or growing old. To destroy forever the myth and with a shovel, and it is far more rewarding. dividuals-dedicated people who worked to For it is evidence that our Associations not fulfill the dreams of a distinguished alumna the stereotypes and the prejudices that downgrade and ignore the ability and the only set goals but see them through to com of the University of Southern California. potential of older persons as individuals and pletion. My associates and I are confident that her as members of our society. More importantly, it means that Dr. Bir dreams will be fulfilled by those who use the Just as this magnificent structure will ren and his staff can now unify and expand Center. We are confident that there will be commemorate, for as long as it stands, the their work to achieve more fully the goal of new light on human life-that living will be noble goals of dignity. purpose and inde Dr. Andrus which she set of insuring for all made brighter for all. pendence which Dr. Andrus espoused for older Americans-lives of dignity, independ~ For the Board and for myself, please let older citizens, so will our continuing associ ence and purpose. Mr. me specifically thank Davis, the members ation with the work done here symbolize the DR. JAMES BIRREN of the American Association of Retired Per validity of that philosophy as we work to I don't think you knew that your two sons and the National Retired Teachers As gether to achieve those goals. sociation, and all the loyal Trojans who con presidents were such cut-ups. tributed to the Center through the USC DR. JAMES BIRREN Now you have evidence that those two Alumni Fund. Thank you, Grandfather Nash. presidents are sharp as well. My fellow trustees and I are proud to I would hardly need to introduce the next We now have an innovative event for the 'be associated with the Andrus Center and two persons to the Associations themselves dedication of the building. The concept de that it is a part of USC. We are proud that for they are their Presidents. And I hope in veloped that we should have a time capsule all of us together are taking part in a deed, they will become equally well-known that would be opened in the year 2000, in great pioneering effort on behalf of hu on this campus. I will perhaps present them which might be placed our predictions about manity. to you one at a time. the future of retirement and aging. Together, we are involved in a noble pur First of all we have Mr. Foster Pratt, the To assist us in this event are Miss Cecilia pose. current President of the American Associ O'N-eil, who was President of the National It is a purpose which we see greatly ad ation of Retired Persons. Retired Teachers Association at the time the concept of this Center developed, and join vanced this day. MR. FOSTER PRATT, PRESIDENT AARP ing her will be Mr. George Schluderberg who Thanks to all of you for your help. Dr. Hubbard, thiS key we know will unlock was President of the American Association DR. JAMES BIRREN the doors to this magnificent Center. It is of Retired Persons at the onset of the project. Thank you, Mr. Firestone. our prayer that this Center will become a I would be pleased to say that we have two The success of a contemporary University key to unlock the secrets of aging and hu student fellowships named after them the no longer just depends upon the quality of man development. following year, as well for which we are 1·esearch, its scholarship and its educational Accept it with our assurance of continued deeply grateful. To receive the time capsule programs, but the extent to which it main support and our admonition to the dedicated will be Lisa Pomeroy who is the President of tains a. two-way channel with the com staff already a.t work here to carry on. the Student Council of the Gerontology munity of people that nourish it. You. DR. JAMES BIRREN Center. It is worthwhile to note that she Facilitating this communication from the To represent the National Retired Teach was one of the recipients of this scholarship point of view of the retired persons them ers Association is the President-Elect, Mr. that enabled her to continue in her graduate selves, is a man who effectively represents Raymond Ast. st udies. June 25, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 21265 MISS CECll.IA O'NEn.L In the city of Los Angeles, there are tion of housing for low-income and the Dr. Hubbard, Dr. Birren, distinguished only 14,000 units avalable for low-income elderly has come to a standstill." guests and fellow members of the American families and the elderly compared with Within the jurisdictions of the Im Association of Retired Persons and of the an estimated minimum need of 88,500 perial Valley Coordinated Housing Au National Retired Teachers Association and friends. units-despite this fact, HUD has can thorities, there are 626 units of public For those of us who knew Dr. Andrus per celled the housing authority's application housing currently available and there are sonally, who loved her and worked with her, for new construction. 448 families on waiting lists for hous this dedication event has prompted emotions San Francisco officials have written ing-all additional production has been of cherished and treasured memories. that the President's "freeze" on public brought to a halt due to the funding Every remembrance of the very special joy housing funds has hal ted the planned freeze. that Dr. Andrus brought to every human en construction of over 11,000 units in the In Kern County, the administration counter. has stopped the expenditure of $6,630,- But we have also been looking ahead and Bay Area-while there are over 6,000 25 years from now when the time capsule we applicants waiting for available units in 000-$3,250,000 for new housing con place w~thin this Center today is opened, that San Francisco alone. struction and $4,764,000 for moderniza generation of Americans will read with spe In Sacramento, officials estimate that tion of housing built prior to 1954. cial appreciation, we trust, of our generations roughly $87 million will be lost to the The housing authority of Yolo County hopes and dreams for the quality of life that Sacramento economy as a result of the has had to reduce its operating reserves will then exist for all Amercians. PI:esident's actions, and that, further, this to what they consider to be a critical To describe the contents of the time cap ~Ill represent the loss of nearly 19,000 level_ of only $31,920. Additionally, HUD sule, I have the pleasure of calling upon has mformed them that they will not be my former associate, Past President of the Jobs. American Association of Retired Persons, Mr. In the city of San Diego, HUD has allowed to exceed operating subsidies of George E. Schluderberg. Mr. Schluderberg. held up approval of an application for $25,608 in the next fiscal year, while the 1,000 leased housing units under secton authority has determined that an op MR. GEORGE SCHLUDERBERG erating subsidy of $103,000 is needed. Fellow retirees, members of the Staff of 23 and an application for 500 units of the University of Southern California. housing for the elderly under the Tum The housing authority of the city of Certainly we don't want the future to for key development program. Eureka has applied for $451 ,500 to build get what we have done here today. When this . In the city of Santa Barbara, applica 250 units which are urgently needed to time capsule is opened in the year 2000, of tions for 600 units of Section 23 leased replace a part of the 430 housing units ficials of this Center then-with interest and housing have been on file with HUD since deleted by the construction of a free with curiosity-will greatly enjoy the con 1970. To date, the local housing author way through Eurek~their application tents therein. ity has been successful in obtaining only has been denied by HUD. This author 250 units of Turnkey conventional bid ity, which also operates housing projects housing and 330 units of section 23 leased for Humboldt County, has been denied housing. $271,500 for the construction of 150 THE NATIONAL HOUSING ACT OF The Oakland Housing Authority has units in the county. To put these 1968 been unable to initiate planning for 800 funding denials in perspective, there are units for which construction was ex 500 applications for public housing on HON. JEROME R. WALDIE pected to begin in 1975. file with the Eureka Housing Author In Alameda, 2,886 families are on wait ity. OF CALIFORNIA ing lists for housing and there are only Officials in the housing authority of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 650 units now under contract to be built. Ventura County have written me that Monday, June 25, 1973 In Berkeley, the housing authority has their application for 400 units of leased been tapping its reserves at the rate of housing has been turned down and that Mr. WALDIE. Mr. Speaker, in the Na there are over 350 people on lists wait tional Housing Act of 1968, Congress approximately $10,000 per month, due to administration's failure to provide an ing for housing to become available. committed the Federal Government to a In Inglewood, insufficient operating schedule of housing construction that adequate operating subsidy. The housing authority of the city of subsidies and the lack of special subsidy would adequately provide for projected funding have, according to officials, housing needs. The national housing Long Beach writes that they have faced great financial difficulty due to the cuts completely undermined the fiscal integ goals production schedule adopted by rity of the local housing authority. the administration in 1970 called for the in their operating subsidies and this situation has threatened thei~ ability to In Santa Paula, with 580 families and production of approximately 600,000 elderly applicants on the waiting list low- and moderate-income housing properly operate existing units as well as plan for new construction. for housing, HUD has disapproved an units in each year from 1973 through application for 50 more units under the 1980. In San Bernardino, officials state that the current levels and methods of fund section 23 leased housing program. After the careful calculation of what In San Luis Obispo, voters approved our housing needs will be and the es ing have prohibited their operating a program that even begins to provide ade the construction of 150 additional units tablishment of programs to administer but HUD has failed to make the funds funding, the Nixon administration an quate housing for low-income families. The housing authority of Contra Costa available. nounced in January of this year that it In Pleasanton, the housing authority was cutting off funds for all newly ap County is having "to trade off units now under contract for assistance because of had actually signed a preliminary loan prond projects for subsidized housing, the administration's continuing refusal contract for the construction of 150 water and sewer grants, open space to consider any increase in subsidy to units-since January 5, this contract has grants and public facility loans. cover the increase of rentals in the pri been rescinded. Mr. Speaker, I have become greatly vate market." In Napa, the authority has had to concerned with not only the dismantling In Kings County, the housing author place tenants in substandard units due of the present Federal public housing ity reports that the President's im to the great disparity between offered programs, but with the lack of commit poundments have "stopped all proposed rental payments and market value. ment to tr_e goal of providing adequate plans for additional housing." The local authority in Fairfield says housing for all citizens that this action The director of the housing authority that they may have to lease substandard signifies. I have written all the directors of the city of Madera expressed his frus homes to meet the needs of the commu of housing authorities in California re tration well: nity. questing information as to how the As I am sure you are well aware, many ef In Cedarville, the Modoc-Lassen In freezing of funds has specifically affected forts h~~e been made on the part of housing dian Housing Authority made a request their programs. Their response was one authorities and redevelopment agencies to for additional funding after having of deep disappointment over the admin ward the release of these impounded funds. made a mistake in their original fund All their efforts have been to no avail We istration's actions and of unanimous ing ap?lication du~ to HUD's invoking support for actions of Congress that don't know yet from one day to the "next where we stand in this particular situation. an arbitrary deadlme for submission of wowd reinstate . these appropriations. the application. Statements from some of the letters I From the San Joaquin County Housing In San Buenaventura, applications have received follow: Authority, I have learned that "produc- for nearly $2.5 million in housing funds 21266 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 25, 1973 have been denied and returned as of and slightly over 2 percent a year in San poor and the inadequately housed of our May this year. Diego. Nation. The same authority we used to Mr. Speaker, the widespread ramifica Mr. Speaker, in view of the obvious originally fund the Federal housing as tions of these actions by the adminis need for the funding of programs to keep sistance programs must be exercised to tration are self-evident when we con housing construction at a level that will enact "anti-impoundment" legislation sider that fully 30 million Americans produce enough units for the Nation's which will require t~1e President to spend are inadequately housed in unsafe, un future needs, what possibly could be the the appropriations Congress makes. healthy, overcrowded quarters. The ad reasons for the administration's reasons I urge all Members of Congress to fully ministration's actions will make tt for cutting o:tf funds for Federal housing. weigh the harmful effects of the admin nearly impossible for many low- and When former Secretary Romney an istration's actions on communities middle-income Americans to find rea nounced the administration's actions, he throughout the Nation, when Congress sonably priced housing in the foreseeable noted that budgetary considerations had considers anti-impoundment legislation. future. contributed to the decision to cut housing For example, in some metropo-litan funds, but then, most disturbingly, here areas construction costs -are so high ferred to fraudulence connected with the that it is impossible to build multifam administration of the program and to the LABOR-HEW APPROPRIATION BILL, ily housing at a cost that would permit rapes, thefts, and muggings .that seem to TITLE I, ESEA rents to be held under $125 a room per plague subsidized housing projects as month without Government assistance. having also contributed to this decision. But, when Federal subsidies are com In reference to the issue of fraudu HON. ALBERT H. QUIE bined with State and local subsidies, lence, the Secretary was clearly using an OF MINNESOTA rents can be reduced to approximately administrative problem, arising from in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES $45 a room per month. adequate quality standards and regula Monday, June 25, 1973 The elimination of these programs tion, as a basis for dismissing the value of will, therefore, retard greatly the level the entire concept of federally funded Mr. QUIE. Mr. Speaker, the Education of construction that can be maintained and administered subsidized housing and Labor Committee has been studying in the future. In HUD's Regional Area programs. Second, with respect to the title I of the Elementary and Secondary No. 9, including Nevada, Arizona, and crime problem, this unfortunate circum Education Act throughout these first 6 California, the number of funded appli stance cannot in any way be logically months of 1973. cations as of January 5, 1973, the cut considered to have resulted from the The appropriations for this title in the o:tf date, was 38,129 units, while un Federal Government's construction of appropriations bill to be considered to funded applications numbered 31,887 multifamily housing for such housing morrow will cause our committee and units--nearly 46 percent. will have to be built to meet future needs this Congress and the States involved Nationally, the estimated reduction in whether it is built by the Federal, State, some serious difficulties. The problems total new subsidized housing starts in or local governments. Instead, our fail are these-the bill carries a "hold-harm calendar year 1973 would be about ure to adequately provide community de less" feature that no State shall receive 72,000 from 1972. In the first half of velopment and supportive social pro less than it received in fiscal year 1972, ·1974 an estimated 129,000 units might be grams for those citizens for which we but without substantial increases in ap started and in the second half of 1974 construct new housing has allowed crimi propriations some States are just not en perhaps enough additional starts might nal activity to focus in these housing titled to that appropriation and should be made to ·•roduce an annual total of projects. begin the transition to lesser amounts. In fiscal year 1972, the allocation for roughly 200,00C starts_making for an Under examination the reasons appear title I, ESEA, was based on the 1960 cen other 72,000 decline between 1973 and incredibly weak, and yet it is for these -sus. The 1970 census has shown that in 1974, or a decline of 144,000 from 1972 reasons that the administration has cur 'the Nation as a whole, there are 46-per to . 1974. Most significantly, this policy -tailed housing funding and has so ad cent fewer children from families with leads to the expectation of practically versely affected the total economy. It is incomes of $2,000 or less as there were no subsidized starts in the latter part 'estimated that these actions will cost the in 1960. Many States lost 15 to 25 per of 1974 and in 1975. economy $8 billion over the 18-month ·cent more than that--the largest drop The cutback in the Federal Govern period. However, just as importantly, it \vas practically 70 percent--while others ment's funding of housing construction is estimated that 230,000 jobs will be lost 'either stayed relatively steady or had net is unfortunately taking place at a time over the next 2 years due to the cutoff gains-the highest was 23 percent. · of high prices and low production in the of funds. With unemployment running · To continue to pay those States which nonsubsidized housing market. My State at extremely high levels and interest -have lost 60 and 70 percent of their low of California accounts for more than ·rates and building costs ever increasing, income population the same amount as one-half of the new units built in the the administration's insensitivity to the ·if they still had those children in atten western region of the country. During -problems of the citizens and local com dance is simply ridiculous. The commit the last quarter of 1972, the median munities of this country is revealed in a tee bill by holding every State harmless price of a house sold in the West was most disturbing light. -to 1972, when the 1960 census was still $28,900, about 13 percent higher than To this point I have been limiting my ·being used, continues to pay States on a year previously. remarks to the termination of Federal -the basis of information that was 14 At the same time, mortgage interest funding for subsidized housing, but the years old. I think it would be better if rates have been increasing. In San Diego, Administration has also cut off funds for we let those States phase into reality. San Francisco, and San Jose the effective sewer and water grants and public facil I would suggest that they receive only interest rates on-FHA-insured and VA ity loans. As long as no new approvals three-fourths of the difference between guaranteed home loans closed in Febru are permitted under these programs, the amount they would have received in ary of this year averaging close to 7% nonsubsidized housing will also be slowed 1974 without the committee floor and the percent. As a result, the inventory of un ·down. In a number of metropolitan areas, amount provided for in the committee sold homes has been building up, and a shortage of adequate sewage facilities bill. Since the committee bill is based on has caused State and county authorities 1972 and most of these States did have the rate of building permit issuances has to place a moratorium on new building been dropping off. In the early part of their grant levels reduced some in fiscal permits. Restrictions on the issuance of -1973, the effect would still provide most this year, the units in structures for these funds is expected to reduce non of these States with more money than which building permits were issued, the subsidized housing production by 11 per they had in 1973. For these States it units in structures for which building cent from 1972 to 1973, 10 percent from would prevent them from going back up permits were issued in the West were at 1973 to 1974, and 20 percent between 1972 to the 1972 level. In four States it would ·a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 507, and 1974. reduce grants slightly below 1973, repre ooo, compared with 609,000 a year earlier. Mr. Speaker, we cannot allow the senting about a 3-percent aggregate loss The alternative of renting also has be President through his totally arbitrary for those four States. come more expensive as rents have risen exercise of power to frustrate the will of The General Education Subcommittee about 2.7 percent a year in San Francisco Congress and disregard the needs of the of the Education and Labor Committee J'une 25, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 21267 . seems inclined, at this time, to raise the Capt. PETE CoNRAD, Skylab commander: the largest United States ICBMs and can income level from $2,oo-o to at least'. "The waste management and hygiene equip carry a payload four times as heavy as our ment turned out to be a fantastically pleas xnissiles. $3,000, and some want to go to $4,000. ant surprise. I probably was the most SALT I also limited the United States to This would substantially reduce the adamant against the fact that the collection 44 nuclear submarines while permitting the weighting of AFDC in the formula. Un equipment would work and we have all dis Soviet Union to have 62-a superiority of 18. der these circumstances it is foolish to covered pleasantly that it works in an ab The current question now is whether the allow those States which benefit greatly solutely outstanding manner and I have to United States will also compromise its cur from the current formula, but which rate it as excellent." rent lead in multiple warhead weapons sys would not gain as much under various PAUL J . WEITz, Skylab pilot: "I ... have tems. A multiple warhead, as the name indi revisions being considered by our com been deliriously happy and surprised with cates, can include a number of nuclear bombs the operation of the . . . waste equipment." in a single warhead that can be directed to mittee, from receiving an artificially in Dr. JosEPH P. KERWIN , Skylab scientist separate targets from a single missile firing. flated amount for this 1 year. pilot : "Incidentally, I do not know whether The crucial importance of these weapons is When title I was first enacted, AFDC we stated before, but we owe our greatest two-fold: The first is that this is the one area was conceived of as a minor adjustment appreciation in part to the people who de in which the United States has a clear su to the formula. Today in at least signed the wast e management system. It has periority, and secondly, multiple warheads two States 70 percent of the children worked much better than anticipated and (or MIRVs) by their very nature to some counted for the formula are those on has been essentially trouble free and not extent compensate for the United States in AFDC. This is an incredible story of a t err ibly time consuming." feriority in the number of missiles. tail that has learned to wag the dog. It is reported that those who play deadly theoretical war games in the Department of Further, AFDC is not a good indicator of Defense can conceive of a situation where educational need. As witnesses from HISTORY OF BROKEN TREATIES an overpowering Soviet superiority in nu HEW's Social and Rehabilitation Serv RAISES WARNING FLAG OVER clear weapons could result in a surprise first ice pointed out in a hearing before our CURRENT SOVIET NEGOTIATIONS strike that would knock out this Nation's committee 2 weeks ago, AFDC is a pro land-based missile sites in the United States gram that is distinctly antirural and and Europe. This is all speculation, of course, there is good evidence that there are HON. JOE L. EVINS but this demonstrates the sensitive, crucial certain racial and ethnic groups who and momentous nature of further nuclear OF TENNESSEE arms limitations. simply refuse to go on welfare. In half IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the States, a family cannot receive aid Another important point is that assuming Monday, June 25, 1973 Chairman Brezhnev is sincere and intends if the father is present in the home. To to keep agreements which he makes, he will base aid to education on such factors, Mr. EVINS of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, not always be the Chairman. As a matter of including an incentive in the form of certainly we all wish President Nixon fact, the Washington press is speculating money for the schools if the father is success in the recent negotiations with that the success or failure of the current absent from the family, is the height of Soviet Chairman Leonid Brezhnev just talks may have some bearing on how long he folly in our social policy. Generally holds power because the militaristic group in concluded. the Kremlin is known to oppose his efforts to speaking, those States which would gairi However, the lessons of history clearly achieve a reconciliation with the United because their AFDC rolls have increased teach that the record of Russia with re States. This, of course, places further pres from 400 to 600 percent in a 10-year pe spect to keeping its word with the United sure on the President to reach agreements riod should not receive that amount until States and others is a negative record that Brezhnev can point to at home as ex our committee determines the future of broken treaties and agreements in amples of the success of his policy of detente formula later this year. many areas. and reconciliation with the United States. I think any State should be permitted In this connection, because of the in Premier Stalin once said: "Good words are a to ·receive at least 10 percent more than terest of my colleagues and the American mask for the concealment of bad deeds. it did in 1972. Any State gaining more Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than people, I place in the RECORD my recent dry water or iron wood." than 10 percent should be held to one newsletter, Capitol Comments: In line with this Stalinist philosophy, the half the gain over the 10-percent HISTORY OF BROKEN SOVIET TREATIES AND House Foreign Affairs Committee, in a re ,growth. In almost all States these ad AGREEMENTS RAISES RED WARNING FLAG port dated September 27, 1961, cited 45 spe justments would be rather minor. In OVER CURRENT NEGOTIATIONS cific Soviet violations of international treat four States they would be $300,000 or This week, President Nixon and Soviet Po ties and agreements-a history of flagrant vi less. In only one State would the figure litical Boss Leonid Brezhnev have been en olations and breaches of faith by the country exceed $2.5 million. gaging in a series of conferences, hopefully with which we are currently negotiating. In sum, we should free the authoriza towards promoting peace and better under Someone has said that the United States standing. has never lost a war or won a conference. Our tion committee to come up with a good Certainly all of us wish the President suc record in the last category makes many ob formula while at the same time permit cess in his negotiations with the Russian servers skeptical. The Russians are such hard ting the 1970 census to come into effect. leader-but a word of caution is in order. bargainers that the United States usually Based on Russia's long record of broken winds up on the short end of the deal treaties and agreements, an~ proposed agree whether in nuclear weapons or commercial ment should be viewed with reservation items. LONG ISLAND AEROSPACE KNOW especially those relating to disarmament The grain deal, for example, was extremely HOW PERFORMS FLAWLESSLY IN which concern the national security of the favorable to the Soviet Union. This $1.2 SKYLAB United States. billion deal with the Soviet Union depleted There is speculation that the United States American wheat and grain reserves, contrib and Russia may make further commitments uted to inflation in the United States, i~ limiting the amount and type of nuclear creased the price of food to American con HON. ANGELO D. RONCALLO weapons each Nation may have in its posses sumers and feed to farmers, and resulted in OF NEW YORK sion. It is known that the President and the major dislocations of our rail freight system. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Russian Chairman discussed a new arms On top of this, the Russians, which have cont rol formula as the basis for a further the second largest gold reserve in the world, Monday, June 25, 1973 agreement as a part of the Strategic Arms bought the grain on this basis-$700 million Mr. RONCALLO of New York. Mr. Limitation Talks (SALT)-concerning mul with depreciated dollars which they bought Speaker, when nearly everything else was tiple warhead delivery systems and other with their gold from Swiss bankers and $500 complex military issues. million on low interest credit. In other words, going wrong with the Skylab, one thing The President during his earlier visit to if the United States had insisted on payment was going right. That was the experi Russia signed an arms control agreement in gold rather than in devalued dollars, it mental waste management system devel SALT I-which many interpret as giving the would have been to our distinct advantage. oped by Fairchild Republic Co. of Farm Soviet Union a clear superiority in Intercon In the first place, the United States obviously ingdale, Long Island. The following ex tinental ballistics missiles-the delivery sys needs to bolster its gold reserves to strength cerpts from Skylab radio transmissions tems for nuclear bombs. Under this agree en the dollar which has now been twice de will give you some idea of the high regard ment, the United States is limited to 1,054 valued and depleted. As the price of gold is the astronauts themselves had for the missiles while the Russians can have 1,618- rising steadily while the dollar declines in a sup~riority of 564 ICBMs for the Russians. value abroad, payment in gold would have high quality work turned out in the 3d According to respect ed and reliable au strengthened the dollar and our gold re Congressional District of New York: thorities, the Russian missiles are larger than serve. 21268 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 2·5, 1973. And the Russians desperately wanted the and implementation of programs to train cation, psychology, public administration and wheat because of a poor harvest so this Na the trainers. urban and regional planning. It is with the tion was bargaining from strength, and yet, We agree then-a critical shortage exists insights, information and energies from all the United States subsidized the deal by of trained personnel in the field of aging. A these disciplines focusing on aging and the guaranteeing Russia a certain price for wheat little more than Yard of a million people are aged that we may better understand the -$1.63 per bushel. However, when the in working today with and for 21 million older inter-dependence of the emotions and the ternational grain brokers began purchasing Americans. In 1968 the then-retiring Secre body in any one individual, the transactions gold to fulfill the United States commit tary of Health, Education, and Welfare, Wil among individuals, and the significant inter ment, the price of wheat rose and the United bur Cohen, predicted that more than a mil action between the individual and the en St ates paid the difference to these brokers lion workers will be needed in 1980-only 7 vironment. Our instruction philosophy is between the guaranteed price and the in short years away. also expressed in the concept that education creased price to the tune of hundreds of Not very much has 'changed that picture and training of future personnel in aging millions of dollars. since the White House Conference on Aging needs to take place through the Center's With further arms and commercial agree in December, 1971. On the contrary these are act ivities of research and community proj ments pending, let us hope that history will days of great concern indeed-the future of ects as well as in the classroom. not repeat itself in the current negotiations training programs all over the country are WHAT GOES INTO THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING for-on the record-it is difficult to have faced with uncertainty. The definitive pledge FOR GERONTOLOGY AT THE CENTER? of the Administration at the White House faith in any agreement with Russia. Incoming graduate students must first be Beware of the Bear, Mr. President. Conference on Aging is in jeopardy by virtue of the Presidential veto of monies and pro accepted into the department of their choice. grams. If much of training is set aside as a After identifying gerontology as their in wasteful frill, services to the elderly, today terest, they are considered for traineeships ANDRUS GERONTOLOGY CENTER and tomorrow, will be left to the unknowing, by a committee of Preceptors and students. unskilled-undone by what may be classified As students in the aging program they ful in the fut ure as the shortsightedness of a fill the requirements of their discipline, and HON. ORVAL HANSEN budget. of the Center with a variety of courses and OF IDAHO seminars. Colloquia bring visiting lecturers WHAT AND WHOM DO WE NEED? who provide different perspectives in geron IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Specifically, teachers and research in col tology for faculty, staff and students. Another Friday, June 22, 1973 leges, universities and professional schools major source of information and stimulation with programs in aging and for the aged; is the Center's unique Summer Institute Mr. HANSEN of Idaho. Mr. Speaker, I federal, state and community personnel in program, offered for the first time in 1967 want to bring to the attention of my col planning and administration; workers in with eight courses. This summer, six years leagues an address, delivered by Dr. Ruth senior centers; management personnel in re later, there will be a greatly expanded Insti B. Weg, associate director for training of tirement housing; personnel for convales tute otyerlng thirty different classes from the Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology cent, nursing homes and hospitals; person architecture to philosophy, and a. number Center, which describes the need for nel in other direct services to the elderly, as of newly organized undergraduate and grad.: in community and home delivered services; uate courses. This is indeed a multidiscipli trained specialists in aging if we are to recreation personnel; social workers in one nary/ interdisciplinary educational experi be successful in oor efforts to improve to-one relationships and finally there are ence. Faculty, students and professionals the lives of America's 20 million older those that are now more than ever desper with different interests are brought from all Americans. ately needed for act ion and advocacy. The over the country for an exchange of ideas Dr. Weg's remarks, Mr. Speaker, were longer I st ay with the concerns of aging and in research and practice. Our students are delivered during the week of February the aged, the more I learn-and our train encouraged to incorporate a field work as 12, when the University of Southern ing program is now in its 7th year-the signment, in some community or institu longer grows my list of essen t ial personnel tionalized setting with the elderly, to add a California dedicated impressive new fa for the field. real life situation to the books and papers cilities for the Andrus Center. of academy. Said Dr. Weg with regard to training LET US LOOK AT HOW WE HAVE TRIED TO FILL THE NEED Many of the trainees act as discussion in the field of aging: leaders and teaching assistants in semester The Andrus Center's overall training pro courses, continuing education institutes and The decade of the 1970's is the decade in gram has grown from 23 students in 1966 to the Summer Institute. They also make pr~s which major plans for training must be put 56 today-·from a doctoral degree program into effect. Crucial to the national effort to entations to a variety of community orga to three different degree awarding patterns nizations such as the United Automobile provide training at all levels is the develop today. 1) In environmental studies, which ment and implementation of programs to Workers Retirement Group. Part time and includes architecture and urban and re summer work projects of great practical im train the trainers. gional planning, the students work toward a A little more than one-t hird of a million portance to the aging population have in master's degree. 2) A doctorate is t he ulti volved some of our students. This past sum people are working t oday, with and for, 21 mate objective of the trainees in biology, million older Americans. In 1968 the then mer two students were employed by the psychology, social work and sociology. 3) The California Commission on Aging charged retiring Secretary of Health, Education, and Fall of 1973 will find some students enrolled Welfare, Wilbur Cohen, predicted that more with preparing Los Angeles and San Ber in a new, unique joint degree program nardino Counties administratively for the than a million workers will be needed in masters in social work and masters in pub 1980-only 7 short years away. federally funded nutrition program for the lic administration with a specializat ion in elderly. Trainees also learn to tackle some Mr. Speater, I insert in the RECORD Dr. aging. The graduates of this program will basic quest ions in the study of aging. They Weg's cogent analysis of the training move into the field as middle level adminis are part of ongoing research in the labora trators and planners, so crucial to the pur tories of the Center; in environmental needs with reference to the elderly, and poses of agencies and local programs dealing the efforts of the Andrus Center to help studies (planning, housing and environmen directly with older persons. tal sociology); in biology, as in the biology meet those needs: Alt hough our major educational efforts to of behavior (in the neuro-chemistry of EDUCATION AND TRAINING AT THE ETHEL dat e have been with the graduate, since 1970 learning) ; and in the molecular aspects of PERCY ANDRUS GERONTOLOGY CENTER we h ave developed courses to interest and development and aging, in social gerontology A couple of months ago I received the 1971 serve increasing numbers of undergraduate and in psychology. An exciting intercourse Whit e House Conference on Aging Section students. The positive response of hundreds with older persons has been developed with Recommendations on Training. I commend of students to these interdisciplinary classes the membership of the American Associa it to your careful study. Let me read a brief in introductory gerontology and human de tion of Retired Persons and the National excerpt from the preamble: "The resolution velopment gives witness to student concern Retired Teachers Association, at times of these significant human problems re for the human condition. What we do has through locally based chapter meetings and quires a large cadre of personnel trained in been in terms of a particular view of the also through camperships during vacation and committed to the field of aging. What questions in aging that require answers, in holidays. We all perceive these as marvelous is necessary is the development of innovative terms of the changing needs of older indi opportunities to bridge any generation gap and creative programs to provide training viduals and society. against the inviting baclt-drop of a holiday for the total range of occupations providing The Ethel Percy Andrus Center is com perspective and the beauty of nature. services to older persons, and specifically for mitted to an educational philosophy which Yet another happy connection from these professional and scholarly programs prepar recognizes the complexity of human develop two organizations to the training program ing people to work in the field of aging. The ment. And since there are many dimensions relates to the scholarships already provided decade of the 1970's is the decade in which to "being and growing human" this multi in the name of Cecilia O'Neil and George major plans for training must be put into disciplinary training program in adult de Schluderberg to six of our students, three effect. Crucial to the national effort to pro velopment and aging includes architecture, of whom might not otherwise have been able vide training at all levels is the development biology, social work, sociology, physical edu- to continue their studies without this help. .June 25, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 21269 Attendance at scientific meetings for ex at Oak Ridge National Labs in Tennessee. TRh.DE WITH THE SOVIETS change of information and ideas and the de Still another is at work as Field Instructor CREATES A NEW BREED OF U.S. fense of research findings are viewed as im in the Gerontology Training program at the BUSINESSMAN, THE "CAP-COM" portant steps for students and faculty in the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. A development of critical thinking and the recent graduate in Urban and Regional Plan professionalization from student to worker ning is Project Coordinator for the Model in the field of aging. At the 9th Interna Cities Program in Compton, California. The HON. JOHN R. RARICK tional Congress of Gerontology at Kiev in Executive -Director of the Governor's Com OF LOUISIANA the Soviet Union, sixteen students and mission on Nursing Homes for the state of faculty presented their work. This past Maryland is one of our graduates. An Asso IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December at the Gerontological Society ciate Professor of Sociology in the Aging Monday, June 25, 1973 Meetings in San Juan, Puerto Rico, nineteen Studies Program at the University of South of our students participated. ern Florida is one of our recent ':ioctoral Mr. RARICK. Mr. Speaker, it is be In October Andrus Center students and graduates in sociology. A June '72 graduate coming increasingly difficult in the Na faculty hosted a National Conference on in psychology is at work at the newly orga tion's Capital these days to tell the play "Role of Institutions of Higher Learning in nized All University Gerontology Center at ers without a program. An observer may the Study of Aging" which brought together Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York. find it perplexing to decide whether the students, faculty and administrators from Yet another graduate in psychology is at Communists are becoming more capital all levels of higher education, community work with David Arenberg, the Chief of the colleges, four year colleges and universities; Section on Human Learning and Problem istic or the capitalists are becoming more regional, state and local commissions on Solving at the National Institute of Health communistic. Perhaps we have discovered aging, governmental support agencies, con Gerontology Research Center in Baltimore. a new multinational breed more prop gressional leaders and representatives of or A social work graduate is Acting Chief of the erly labeled as "CAP-COMS"-that is ganizations of older persons and the com Education Section, Office of Long Term Care those corporate giants who seek to make munity. In this effort we had the financial Services and Mental Health Administration a respectable capitalist profit by exploit support of the National Institute of Child at the office of Health, Education and Wel ing the work of Communist laborers. Health and Human Development, the Ad fare. ministration on Aging, the National Insti WHAT'S AHEAD FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING A large contingent of American bus:. tute of Mental Health and again A.A.R.P./ FOR GERONTOLOGY? nessmen, with ruble signs in their eyes, N.R.T.A., a unique cooperative undertaking. What tasks are we committed to? Energy this week met with Russian Communist There was a sense of a 'first' about this meet will be needed to maintain and use our lead Party boss Brezhnev, ..1.nd found him ing as individuals from many levels of gov ership role in education for Gerontology so much to their liking. With 52 of the Na ernment, community and educational insti that maximum activity can be achieved in tion's top business leaders looking on, tutions came to confront their concerns about the growth of knowledge, in the translation officials from the United States and the a common focus-aging and the aged. of that knowledge through the ever-larger Communist Party of the Soviet Union Yet another aspect of trainee life is im numbers of students, in the sharing of in portant to student professional growth in formation and skills among programs, and signed agreements which tightened the aging and the heal:thy development of Cen in the extension of the educational institu trading tie that binds the two govern ter activities-the trainee organization. The tion into the community for an exchange of ments. The groundwork was cemented students have formalized their involvement expertise. for a United States-Soviet "chamber of with a Graduate Student Council that meets A variety of approaches will be identified to commerce" in the near future. regularly to deal with matters of concern. provide materials, methods and personnel so Ten U.S. corporations were formally For example, planning semester student that learning becomes a life-long available activities, promotion of inter-disciplinary "accredited" to do business in the Soviet pursuit of one or a number of careers. Union. The CAP-COM Etatus was ex interactions and student grievances. Train It will be neces~ary to continue to so spread ees from each disciplinary area are rep the word without myths and stereotypes tended to the following: Pullman, Inc., resented on the Preceptor-Studen:t Commit about aging and the aged, that people at all Occidental Petroleum Corp., Chase Man tee so that decision and policy making re levels from kindergarten through the older hattan Bank, General Electric Co., In lated to trainees, curriculum, colloquia and years will see human development as a con ternational Harvester Co., Caterpillar personnel are in fact joint faculty-student tinum-each age and stage an integrative Tractor Co., Hewlett-Packard Co., Engel enterprises. We seek out student participa step to the next. Growth of the human per hard Minerals & Chemicals Corp., Bank tion in the evaluation of the Center program sonality and adaptive characteristics can then and purposes. be anticipated to continue from birth to of America, and the First National City death. Eric Hoffer's "we can learn" still rings Bank. Several other U.S. firms are re Finally-where have all our graduates gone? ported vYing for the CAP-COM title in They are some measure of our success as happily in my ears. an educating force for aging. In the period Efforts will include programs and support their pursuits of the almighty ruble. since 1967 (and not including the many to enlarge the faculty and student numbers Undoubtedly, these companies in hundreds who have attended the Summer in each discipline. tended to follow the lead already set by Institutes and the thousands who have par We are committed to extend our multidis other U.S.-based multinational com ticipated in the continuing education insti ciplinary philosophy more actively to those panies doing business with the Soviets. tutes) 129 people have received education departments and schools that have given evi dence of interest. For example, a committee The giant American firms do not risk and training in aging through the Andrus their capital in risky Russian ventures; Center. Forty-four degrees, both masters and of University departments set up a task force doctorate, have been granted. To enumerate on Humanities and Gerontology. Out of this they prefer to use the American taxpay each one would be impossible and not very past year's discussion came the participation er's dollars to :finance and insure their profitable with the time constraints. Per of their faculty in classes at the 1972 Summer investments abroad. Institute, attendance at the International Through the Export-Import Bank of haps it would sum up the impact of the pro Congress of Gerontology in Kiev, and the de gram to note that there is great demand for sign and departmental acceptance of three the United States, the CAP-COM busi our trainees from all over the country. The nessman can get large sums of tax money demand exceeds the rate at which we are new courses for the 1973 Summer Institute for Study in Gerontology. We are committed in the form of low-interest, decade-long able to graduate our trainees with an appro to an increase in the variety and depth of priate exposure in research, education, train payback period loans that are backed by ing and community projects. activities in curriculum, institutes, colloquia, the full faith and credit of the U.S. research opportunities and community ex Government. SOME OF THE PLACEMENTS periences for the graduate students. And we One of the graduates functions as Direc plan to increase the number of under Through the Commodity Credit Cor tor of Architecture and Environment for the graduates whose concern for human values poration of the U.S. Department of Gerontological Society. He is responsible for we seek to satisfy. We hope to create an at Agriculture-taxpayer supported-CAP special symposia at the Society's meetings mosphere conducive to the optimum inter COM internationalists are able to finance and also serves as a resource in environment action among students, faculty and com almost unlimited exports of U.S. agri and aging for those people across the coun munity so that education and training at the cultural products to the Russian dinner try who call on him. Another is Assistant Andrus Center may contribute most effi tables. It should be remembered that the ciently to the ultimate concern-a better Professor at the University of Arizona at quality of life for the last half of life. All of massive "sale" of 400 million bushels of Tucson in the program for training retire this is possible only if more faculty &nd stu grain last fall that cost the taxpayers ment housing administrators. A graduate in dents in the nation can be supported to carry some $300 million in subsidized arrange biology is now a second-year post-doctoral forward education, training, research and ments with large U.S. grain trading cor investigator in the Aging Studle_s Laboratory community service: •.• porations, and sent the price of meat and 21270 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 25, 1973 livestock byproducts soaring in this Nelson W. Freeman, chairman, Tenneco. to-which includes doctors. Yet the problem country was financed through the CCC. Michel P. Fribourgh, president, Continen does exist in rural America, as people such Even if the CAP-COM wheeler-deal tal Grain Co. as our neighbors in Pennsboro, who built at ers should decide to invest some of their Emilio G. Collado, executive vice president, their own expense a modern medical clinic Exxon Gorp. building, which has stood empty for two stockholder's money in Soviet specula Brooks McCormick, president International years because no doctor wants to live in tion, they have no real fear of possible Harvester Co. Ritchie County community, can well attest. loss through Russian takeover of the Charles B. McCoy, chairman and president, The Star News has a practical program facilities once they are constructed. The E. I. duPont de Nemours and Co. Which WOUld help solve the problem of dis taxpayers in this country pick up the tab Robert MCClellan, vice president, FMC tribution of physicians in the United States, for insuring losses for companies that in Corp. particularly in rural areas. vest in shaky ventures overseas. The full D. J. Morfee, president; Swindell Dressler. There are (in round numbers) 8,500 M.D.'s faith and credit of the Federal Govern James J. Needham, chairman and chief graduating each year. It is the consensus with executive officer, The New York Stock Ex respect to the delivery of medical services in ment is used to back the full payment change. the United States that there are enough and performance of the Overseas Private Wllliam C. Norris, chairman and president, physicians-but they are concentrated in the Investment Corporation-OPIC. So, if a Control Data Corp. more populous areas. company's holdings in the Soviet Union Ara Oztemel, president, Satra Corp. With these figures in mind, the following is are seized or nationalized, the American Peter G. Peterson, vice chairman, Lehman presented for study, evaluation and possible firm is guaranteed that their investment Brothers, Inc. implementation: will be repaid by OPIC with taxpayers' Wlllard C. Butcher, president, Chase Man Medical education and training during the hattan Bank. past 10-15 years has improved and progressed money. Edward B. Rust, president, Chamber of to the extent that serious consideration now The CAP-COM business leaders who Commerce of the U.S.A. is being given to the elimination of the one-. gathered in Washington this week to hail William Seawell, chairman of the board, year internship regulation. the Russian chief were all smiles at the Pan America.n World Airways, Inc. A program which would assure continuity possibility of East-West trade arrange Fred M. Seed, president, C.arglll, Inc. of medical services to each county in the ments, and for good reason. They have R. Heath Larry, vice chairman of the board, United States each year would be simply to nothing to lose and everything to gain. U.S. Steel Co. substitute one year of Community Health It is the American taxpayer and worker W. P. Tavoulareas, president, Mobil Oil. Practice for the one-year internship require Maurice Templesman, president, Leon Tem ment. There are 3,072 counties in the United who stands to lose through extended plesman and Co, Inc. States. This would mean that under such a heavy trade with the Soviets. It is he who C. William Verity, chairman of the board, program there would be 2.7 physicians avail is expected to pick up the tab with his Armco Steel Corp. able per county. tax money, after the internationalist Thornton A. Wilson, chairman of the board It should be compulsory to have a year of politicians and CAP-COM businessmen The Boeing Co. Gommunity Health Practice in order to re entangle us further in the Soviet trade W. B. Wriston, chairman of the board, First ceive a license or to receive the MD degree. web. National City Bank. Work could be evaluated, and students pass, I include the related newsclipping at 0. P. Thomas, chief executive officer, chaJr as if they were interning in hospitals. Stu man of the board of directors, B F. Goodrich dents should be under proctorship of assigned this point in the RECORD: Co. professors of nearby medical school faculties [From the Washington Post, June 23, 1973] Jack Valenti, president, Motion Picture As or board members of family practice-and BUSINESSMEN WHO MET BREZHNEV sociation of America. medical school courses should be realigned Following are the U.S. businessmen who Charles Weaver, president, world regions, too, as to enhance the practical execution of met with Soviet leader Brezhnev: Westinghouse Electric Corp. the proctorship. . Jerome Komes, president, Bechtel Corp. Sydney Scheuer, Intertex International. Under this plan, a small Community James Bere, president, Borg-Warner Corp. Milton Rosenthal, president, Engelhard Health Center should be established in each Stephen Keating, president, Honeywell, Minerals and Chemicals. county-to be financed entirely by some fed Inc. eral agency, similar to Hill-Burton funding Howard Boyd, chairman of the board, El for presently established hospitals. Paso Natural Gas Co. The compulsory aspect of assigning doctors D. Brown, chairman of the board, Brown A SUGGESTION FOR GETTING DOC is justified. Medical schools receive federal & Root, Inc. TORS INTO RURAL AREAS aid. Students receive federal loans and schol Howard F. Carver, president and chief ex arships. Tax dollars support medical schools. ecutive officer, Gleason Works. Besides, and perhaps of greatest importance, Frank Cary, chairman of the board, IBM HON. ROBERT H. MOLLOHAN is the stark fact that the present voluntary Corp. OF WEST VIRGINIA program is not working. Samuel B. Casey Jr., chairman of the board, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Under the plan, three doctors of the 8,500 Pullman, Inc. graduating would be assigned to each county Richard Gerstenberg, chairman of the Monday, June 25, 1973 in the country (with the exception of metro board, General Motors Corp. Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Speaker, many politan areas and counties where there are Arma.nd Hammer, chairman of the board, medical schools.) Assignment could be by of my colleagues, I am certain, are aware computer, with each student listed indicat Occidental Petroleum Corp. that the rural areas of our Nation are Harry Heltzer, chairman, 3 M Co. ing three choices-which would mean his William A. Hewitt, chairman of the board, experiencing great difficulty in securing ultimate assignment may or may not be in Deere and Co. medical services. In particular, they are his home territory. E. E. Hood, vice president, General Electric finding it nearly impossible to attract Another requirement should be that such Co. and retain doctors. A newspaper editor in doctors take an active part in community af fairs, and evaluation of such participation be Donald M. Kendall, chairman of the board, my district, Mr. A. R. Kelly, has come up taken into consideration for obtaining a li Pepisco, Inc. with a suggestion for dealing with this cense. Edgar Kaiser, chairman of the board, prob1em that merits the attention of all The Community Health Centers would have Kaiser Industries Corp. Members of Congress and everyone else all three doctors in attendance-which E. Douglas Kenna, National Association of who has concern about this serious prob would mean each doctor could have every Manufacturers. lem. His observations, reproduced below, third weekend off. This also would give each George F . Kirby, president, Tex'8tS Eastern doctor an opportunity to attend medical Transmission C~rp . were printed in the Tyler Star News, Sistersville, W.Va. seminars, have a vacation, etc. Donald P. Kircher, chairman, The Singer Naturally, the program could not begin Co. The article follows: nation-wide immediately. Pilot programs William Morton, president, American Ex- PLAN FOR MEDICINE should be tried. West Virginia would serve press Co. Americans who reside in rural areas, such as a wonderful testing area for the plan. A. W. Clausen, president, Bank of Americ·a. as Tyler and Wetzel counties, have long been The Star News believes the program would R alph E. Cross, president, The Cross Co. made aware of· a problem which currently is improve medical education for the fiedgling Cyrus S. Eaton Jr., chairman of the board, receiving much attention in the daily press M.D.'s participating, would aid the older lo Tower International Corp. and national news media: the alarming cal doctors, would help the medical school Cyrus S. Eaton Sr., chairman of the board, shortage of physicians where they live. ·preceptors by enabling them to leave the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. It is more than a matter of cranking up ivory towers and get down to where medicine Dwight Eckerman, executive vice president, medical schools and ordering them to pro' is practiced. The Economic Club of New York. duce a large number of M.D.'s overnight. It There are, in West Virginia, 11 members of E. C. Chapman, vice president, market ing, is not the way to do things in America to the Medical Licensing Board. Accordingly, six Catepillar Tractor Co. force people t o live where they don't want members can vote favorably on the imple- June 25, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 21271 mentation of such a plan. If other states "Listen, Rip, I think I better clue you in mony given by Dr. Tinker before the Labor have 11 members on each licensing board on a few things. There is no such thing as HEW Subcommittee of the House Appropria (and the chances are that most have less a 'Red Menace' anymore. The President o! tions Committee on May 21, 1973. than 11 !) this means that some 300 men and the United States has made his peace with In her statement, Dr. Tinker accuses "The women control the future of medicine in this the two major Communist powers in the Brookings Institution, surely one of the most country. world. Communism is no longer a threat prestigious research bodies in Washington This newspaper believes that these 300 to the security of the Free World except in and ·an outspoken supporter of equal rights people can make a significant contribution to Indochina." in the abstract", of practicing discrimination rural America by studying testing and adopt "Indochina?" against women. ing the Community Health Practice plan. "Yes, we've been fighting a war in Indo Dr. Tinker asserts that Brookings is in vio china for 10 years to keep the North Viet lation of the law (Executive Order 11246, namese Communist's from spreading their as amended) for having failed (1) "to ap insidious ideology over the globe. The Pres point an Affirmative Action Officer within its BUCHWALD ON BREZHNEV'S VISIT ident is committed to keeping them from organization", (2) for having failed "to de achieving their goals." velop a written Affirmative Action Program", Rip seemed confused. "That's the only and (3) for having failed "to publicize these HON. JONATHAN B. BINGHAM threat of communism there is in the world?" measures for the benefit of employees and "Exactly. All other forms of communism, OF NEW YORK potential employees." These are serious as far as President Nixon is concerned, are charges. Yet, ·so far as I can ascertain from IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES inoperative." extensive inquiries neither Dr. Tinker nor any Monday, June 25, 1973 "Can my ears deceive me?" Rip said. "Is representative of her organization has ever that the 'Internationale' being played by the sought to confirm the truth of these charges Mr. BINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, Soviet U.S. Marine Band on the White House lawn?" by inquiring of any member of our staff witb Communist Party leader Leonid Brezh "Yup,'' I replied. "They're playing our employment responsibilities. nev's visit to the United States was an song." The facts are as follows: (1) Brooking8 historic one. It demonstrates, among "Oh my God,'' Rip sa~d. Why did I ever designated an Affirmative Action Officer on other things, the incredible change in wake up?" , April 10, 1970, and so notified the federal "Don't worry, Rip, the detente with the government. (2) Brookings submitted its attitudes that has occurred with respect Communist countries has been the greatest first Affirmative Action Program to the fed to international communism in the past thing to happen in the last 20 years. It could eral government on the same date. In ac 20 years-particularly the about-face of mean a generation of peace for all mankind, cordance with regulations, it has been re one Richard Nixon. The irony of it all is except for those rotten Commies in Cam vised and resubmitted in 1971, 1972, and exquisitely expressed in a column by Art bodia. If it hadn't been for Watergate, Pres 1973. (3) Far from having failed to publicize Buchwald which appeared in the June 21 ident Nixon might have gone down as one our nondiscrimination policy, we have since issue of the, New York Post. That col of the greatest Presidents in the history of 1962 incorporated an equal employment op·· umn, entitled "They're Playing Our our country." portunity declarati_on in our statement of "What's Watergate?" staff employment policies (a copy of which Song," follows: "Rip, I think you better sit down. It's a is given to every employee); the policy has THEY'RE PLAYING OUR SONG very long story.... " been reaffirmed in memoranda to staff mem (By Art Bucllwald) bers; equal employment _opportunity posters WASHINGTON.-! was walking down Penn are prominently displayed in our building; sylvania Av. the other day when I ran into recruiting sources such as employment an old man. His hair was white and his RESPONSE TO DISCRIMINATION agencies, newspapers and universities are beard was gray and he was muttering to CHARGE regularly notified of these policies; and an himself. · equal employment opportunity clause is "Oh my God. Oh my God." printed on all of the Institution's purchase '·'What's the trouble, sir?" I asked. HON. JOHN BRADEMAS orders. "I never thought I'd see the day when the OF INDIANA Dr. Tinker then presents a statistical table hammer and sickle would be flying from the showing that a large proportion of our re Executive Office Building next to the White IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES search assistants (the first professional House." Monday, June 25, 1973 rank) are women, but only a small propor "Don't get upset," I said. "It's just to tion of the senior fellows and research as honor Leonid Brezhnev's visit to the United Mr. BRADEMAS. Mr. Speaker, on June sociates are women. From these simple states. He's the Secretary of the Communist 19, 1973, I inserted in the RECORD a state statistics, she infers a policy of sex dis Party in the Soviet Union and he's visiting ment submitted earlier this year by Dr. crimination. the President. Don't you read the news Irene Tinker of the Federation of Orga In fact, the proportion of women in our papers?" nizations for Professional Women before senior ranks is about twice the proportion "I've been asleep for 20 years,'' the old man the Labor-HEW Subcommittee of the of women in the eligible employment pool. said. "Oh my God, Richard Nixon warned To understand the composition of our re us this would happen." House Committee on Appropriations. search staff in the two senior ranks, it is "You don't understand, old man. Nixon is Dr. Tinker addressed herself to the necessary to know something about the na the President and he's the one who is enter need for stronger enforcement of a va ture of their duties. A senior fellow is de taining Leonid Brezhnev ." riety of Federal laws and regulations con fined as a staff member who "shall have dem "It couldn't be the same Nixon," the old cerr..ing sex discrimination in educational onstrated ability to carry out major in man said adamantly. "The Nixon I knew sent institutions, and made specific refer dependent studies or to direct major research Alger Hiss to jail for playing footsy with ences to what she regards as an unsatis or educational projects, and who has shown the Communists. In every political campaign ability to cooperate in organized research or lle warned of the Red Menace. He fought factory situation at the Brookings In educational activities-equivalent to the the Communists while everyone was being stitution here in Washington. rank of full professor in major universities." duped by them. Nixon would never enter Mr. Speaker, I have subsequently re A research associate is defined as a staff tain one in his home." ceived a letter from Kermit Gordon, di member who "shall have demonstrated "Times have changed, sir." rector of the Brookings Institution re ability to carry out independent research as "The name's Rip,'' the old man said. sponding to Dr. Tinker's allegations con signments or comparable educational as "Well, since you've been asleep a lot ot cerning this organization, and think it signments with limited supervision-equiv things have happened. The President has only fair that I also insert in the RECORD alent to the rank of associate or assistant even visited the People's Republic o! China." professor in major universities." "Oh? How's Chiang Kai-shek?" Dr. Gordon's letter in order that the These definitions of rank make clear why "Not that China, Rip, The other one views of both sides be given a fair hear senior fellows and research associates in our mainland Communist China." ing: research programs are typically recruited "The President of the United States went THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION, from among those who hold a doctoral de to Communist China?" Washington, D.C., June 22,1973. gree in economics or political science (in "Yes, and then he went to Moscow. And Hon. JOHN BRADEMAS, cluding international relations). In !fact, vir he's sworn friendship to the Socialist Peo U.S. House of Representatives, tually all of the senior fellows and research ple's Republic of the Soviet Union on Rus Washington, D.C. associates in our Econoinic Studies Program sian television." DEAR CONGRESSMAN BRADEMAS: On June 19, and our Governmental Studies Program hold "Oh my God,'' Rip said. "Didn't Senator 1973; you introduced into the Congressional doctoral degrees, as do the majority of staff Joe McCarthy try to stop him?" Record (page E4223) a statement by Dr. members at these levels in our Foreign Policy "McCarthy is dead." Irene Tinker, Presiding 01ficer of the Fed Studies Program. "No wonder Nixon could get away with eration of Organizations for Professional Information available in the .Statistical Ab it," Rip said. Women. The statement constituted testl- stract of the United States reveals that of 21272 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 25, 1973 7610 persons who received doctorates in po· common problems. You're here to concern little opportunity to be corrupted by power. 1itical science and economics from 1962 to yourselves with the school lunch program. So give us a little opportunity, and we'll see 1970, 554-or about 7 percent of the total the school milk program, food stamps, con• how we will do. were women. The proportion of women among sumE;r concerns and the programs that con Seriously, I think that the greatness of all persons holding doctorates in these fields cern farm families all over this country. America is its diversity; not only the fact is probably somewhat lower than this, since There is a tendency on the part of this Ad that we are women and men, but that we the percentage has been rising in recent ministration to divide and conquer, to pit are farmer and city-dweller, many different years. the rural against the urban areas. We can't national groups and religions and races. A Of the 65 senior fellows and research as· allow th.at. We must use every opportunity we lot more of that has to be refiected in Con sociates at Brookings, 9, or 14 percent, are have to find a common ground. We are not 1r. gress, in all institutions, in the trade unions, women. Thus, to repeat, the proportion of reconcilably at odds. Certainly on the issue in oorporations, in our community organi women in our senior ranks is just about twice of inflated prices there's been an effort to zations and our farm organizations. Be the proportion of women in the eligible em· pit the farmer against the consumer. But in cause that has not happened, particularly 1n ployment pool. Having regard to the fact that fact we're all consumers. We're all victims o! the power structure where decisions are we are in competition in this employment inflation. The average farm family doesn't made, like the White House and Congress market wtih more than 2500 institutions of benefit from the large profits that consum and State Legislatures, we've gone off the higher learning, many business corporations, ers feel have been gained from the lack of track a bit. There's nothing so levelling as and governments at every level, I am reas· control on the economy. The top of the cor the diversity of America, whether it's the eco· sured by our success in attracting well more porate ladder gets most of the profit. nomic levels or the farming and rural levels, than our share of qualified women. It's the agribusiness ami 17he corporate or the sexes, or the young people and older Brookings is committed to the policy of domination that is the problem for us all. On people, the different races-if we had more equal employment opportunity for women. transportation, on water resources and other of that going in the political arena, I think I am confident that any fair-minded review issues, very often city people are made to we'd have much more of the realization of of our performance would conclude that we feel that rural water supplies and sew~ge what this American democracy and oountry have sought in good faith and with consider .problems are of no concern to them. It is said and its original revolution are all about. able success to honor this commitment. at times that people on the farms and rural So I am suggesting that if we could put Sincerely, areas are not concerned about whether the together urban members with rural mem• KERMIT GORDON. cities stifle in their own smog. I think that's hers in the Congress on a common program President. nonsense. In today's country as well as in to of support, we would be able to have a shift day's world all people are interdependent ing situation in the Congress where people upon each other. People and supplies move were being represented and not special inter- back and forth rapidly. What happens in San . ests. People. And unfortunately, we have Francisco or in Iowa concerns us in New been the victim of special interests. Not only NATIONAL FARMERS UNION WOMEN York; what happens in New York is of direct the White House, but the Congress and mem "FLY-IN" concern to you 1n Idaho or in Minnesota. And bers of Congress are the subjects of vicious therefore I'm concerned when there are -lobbies from .an kinds of special interests. vetoes of bills which affect you directly. I Therefore I view with a great deal of en. HON. BELLA S. ABZUG think you deserve help from Congress just couragement a shifting mood of the · Con OP NEW YORK as New York City deserves ·help in securing gress. Whether you agree with it or not, you IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES mass transit. I voted for a lot of programs must recognize that our continual involve which affect your areas such as rural electri· ·ment in Indochina and certainly 'in Cam Monday, June 25, 1973 fication. After all, it was rural electrifi.ca bodia is totally unauthoriZed, · unconstitu' tlon that gave women on and off the farms tional and without basis-without any Ms. ABZUG. Mr. Speaker, I had the the dishwasher which liberated them a little. authorization from the people or their rep· pleasure recently of meeting with I'm not only interested in working women resentatives in Congress. At long last the Women of the National Farmers' Union or professional women or women who seek Congress of the United States, represented when they came on a ".fly-in" to Wash political office, I'm interested in all women. first by the House and now by some senate ington. Although my remarks at that I'm interested in women who work in the 'committees, and hopefully the Senate itself, time were o:ff-the-cuff, they contain some home, women who work in the factories and 'said to the President and to the secretary of thoughts I would like to share, especially women who work on the farms and in public ·Defense and to the Defense Department and If office. Their history of participation has been to the Appropriations Committee, "We wUl with the Members from rural areas. a living documentary to change in this not have this. We do not belong there, .and you will pardon the informality of style, country: in the early days, fighting for re we the Congress are going to stand up and I would like to insert this in the RECORD. ligious freedom When we first founded this ·we're going to put together the power of REMARKS BY Ms. ABZUG great nation of ours, in the effort to secure people through our votes." And they voted I am very pleased to meet with women who decent working conditions after the suffra ·against continuing to use funds illegally to are battlers from the Middle West. I'm a gists got the vote; or to try to eliminate child conduct the war in Cambodia. The mood was mother and a family person myself. I have Ja.bor: in the factories, or to lead the peace reflective of change and it was a coalition of • two lovely daughters, aged 21 and 24. Martin movement, to see that we create a society -urban and rural people who voted against Abzug, my husband, has been married to me that ls not sending our young men to kill or continued bombing. It's important to rec for 29 years, and I to him. Much of what I to be k111ed in an immoral war; or whether ognize the meaning of that, because it brings ·stand for, essentially, is what we can get 'it ls In a big consumer movement, or ln this us together not only on our local concerns, together for our kids and our famUles and lobby movement. Women have been leaderS but on the concerns that affect every single our generations to come. 'tn these movements throughout history. human being 1n this country. It was the ·as I am pleased to welcome your ":fly-in" to The problem is we've always allowed the sertion of Congressional authority that has Washington. It reminds me of the myth that men to run the movements. I hope that some long not been asserted. Obviously the Water- women can't be pilots. So they say-but on .women who will be involved in the leadership ·gate scandals had much to do with this. The some suggestive commercials, they can pre: of this group will soon be up here on the House and the Senate are beginning to come tend to be airplanes and invite men to :fly dais. To our men friends, let me say that to their senses as a nation, and I think the them. This is the kind of thing we. have to ·we're not seeking to repl~e you. We just people had a great deal to do with that. So get rid of, in portraying women, just as the think a little addition would represent more your being here is very important. way I've been portrayed is not e;cactly accu· realistically the diversity that is America. There is enough money to go around rate, but at least it makes good press. For Women represent 53% of the population. We we can find it. There is plenty to care ·for readers, not for me. So I'm very pleased with represent, I think, the bulk of activism in the needs of our people. This is one of the the opportunity to speak with you directly. most areas. Now don't get nervous-! feel wealthiest countries in the world. It's not I have been in the Mid-West and have met that I ought to make the point because it's a 'true that we don't have enough money to a number of people in your union over the point worth making. We should have more pay for the programs that you'r(; interested years. Furthermore, I am happy that you are ·women in the Congress. You know we only ·in and the programs that I'm interested here because I am very interested in building have 15 out of 435 in the House, and no in: education, the school lunch program, a rural-urban coalition. Not only among women in the senate. I have the feeling that food stamps, electricity, small loans to women, but among men and women. if we had had more women all of these years farmers, child care and all the· things that As you know, I represent New York City, in the Congress we wouldn't have gotten you and I are all interested in together. We which 1s hardly a farm. When I was growing into the mess we're In right now. You don't ·do have the money. If we were to have some up in the Bronx, which is right outside New see any of us around there in those Wat.er· ·tax reform which would benefit the major· York City, there were some cows and some gate hearings. You can read the Pentagop. ity of tl;le ~erican people and plug-up chickens right next door to me. Most people Papers from cover to cover, but you won't ·some of -the . tax· loopholes, ·there would be don't believe that, but my father liked to live ·find the mention of one woman that ever billions of dollars av~ilable to us. Vfe h~ve in sort of deserted areas. did anything wrong against the interests of not been able to get ·a tax program ade In this electronic age, I feel our country is the American people. It's not that I feel that rquately put across in the Congress of the really too small to have one area of the coun:. women are innately superior, I want· to reas United States. Therefore when the Presi try pitted against another. We have many sure you about that, only that we've had so dent, or Members of Congress say you can't June 25, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 21273 have these programs because it would re all of us to realize democracy in its true single-family homes under· Section 235. quire a tax increase, it's not true. There has sense and complete our American Revolu· . Other programs previously accepted are been testimony from members of unions tion before the 200th anniversary in 1976. .continuing. and leading economists, and Members of The 200 units of public housing for the Congress who poined out that we can save elderly that Richmond citizens voted for in as much as $27 billion, if we were to elim 1969 are being build. The city had hoped inate these tax loopholes and various other IMPACT ON NINE BAY AREA for modernization of 200 units in Nystron allowances which benefit the very top of COUNTIES Village and Triangle Court by using annual the economic ladder and not the majority arrangements. It was believed it would be of the people. Furthermore, we do have a ·more feasible to rebuild these units (that bloated military budget, and many cost .are nearly paid for) than to rehabilitate; overruns. We have twice as much hardware HON. JEROME R. WALDIE .the legal steps had not been worked out. as we need to defend this great country of OF CALIFORNIA Now no funds are available. Both the Rich ours. We've got to take the money from the IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES .mond and Contra Costa Housing Authorities area it can be taken from. Not from the were adversely affected by the impoundment hearts and souls and hopes of young kids Monday, June 25, 1973 of funds. There is not sufficient money for and their need for milk, their need for maintenance, services, modernization, or re education; not from elderly people and their Mr. w ALDIE. Mr. Speaker, I have habilitation. need for proper social security and full med recently received information from the In San Pablo, the moratorium has not icare. Not from the programs of mental League of Women Voters in the Rich affected the Public Housing Authority. In th~ health and research, not from the programS ·mond, Calif., area identifying the eco city of San Pablo a plan for 72 units of Sec; of loans and electrification of farms, not nomic impact of the President's mora tion 236 housing for senior citizens, includ from the programs of mass transit that we torium on housing funds in nine bay ing some for low income, was "held up". In need in the city. The funding must be area counties. - the redevelopment area a single family sub more equitable in this democracy so that · According to their information, a total division of 30 units, of which 2-5 units all people share appropriately. were to be 235 housing was "held up." The We must stop giving tax benefits to those of 26,557 jobs will be lost over a 12- community needs quality housing and the who happen to be at the top of the corpo month period in this area alone. In view moratorium has stopped any proposals for rate ladder. You and I as worn Jn, as consum of the current high unemployement rate building or development. ers, as family people, and others like us all the loss of these jobs is extremely crit El Cerrito and Pinole are not effected by over this country have really the hidden mis ical. the housing moratorium as neither city has sile. We really have the major strength if we · As legislators, who have the respon any subsidized housing. (William T. Leonard, do what you are here doing: bringing pres sibility for ·determining appropriation executive vice president of the Associated sure to bear on Congressmen and Senators, Home builders of the Greater East Bay, Inc., making the conditions for continuance in levels, we must now enact "Anti-Im ,filed suit against El Cerrito charging a "no office a commitment to the programs that poundment" legislation which would growth" policy in low-oost housing, devel wlll heal this country. We must see that all allow us to restore these funds. opment that adversely affects modest and of the people can participate politically, but Mr. Speaker, the full statement of the , low-income residents. El Cerri-to is a resi also can participate economically, and can League of Women Voters follows: dential community. of little vacant land and deal with the various crises that we have on ECONOMIC IMPACT OF HOUSING MORATORIUM residents have objected to high density de the farm and in the city, in a meaningful AND OTHER HOUSING INFORMATION -Velopment that was not designed to meet the way. Our role is changing a little, but we are .needs of low income families.) · .still concerned with the fabric of society, the IMPACT ON NINE BAY AREA COUNTIES Among the officers of the banks and sav fabric of homes. the new generations. After The moratorium· on federally subsidized ing and loan institutions of the area, four all, we have created the children of this 'low and middle income housing, public expressed concern as to the detrimental society. We have produced the sons, we have ·housing, college housing, open space grants, effect the moratorium would have on the cemented the homes, we have serviced the and basic water and se:wer grants, represents community and its economy; one noted the men essentially. It ·seems to me that we have :a loss of over $355 million dollars to the Bay ·need for attractive moderate-priced housing a. responsibility now to move on, ahead, be_ ·Area economy within the next twelve near the downtown. The downtown has been yond that, and make our commitment to life 'months. (Locality Status Report-HUD S.F. cleared by redevelopment and no. longer and human concerns the agenda of America. office 12/31/72.) . serves as a shopping communi-ty. ·Financing We are in a stage of great confrontation. It is _estimated that, for federally sub for Section 236 housing has come from the There is a question as to whether Constitu -sidized housing, the loss in employment big insurance companies and not from banks tional Democracy even exists ill. this coun fro_q1 1;he · moratorium within a 12-month and saving and loan companies. try. I say it does. It does because· we are ·period in the Bay Area will be: Richmond's problem is not only the mora: seeing it.challenged now. We are saying that torium and impoundment of funds. There is we will not have an utter abuse of power by Man Man ·years hours need for much rehabilitation a.nd d11Ierent anybody, whoever it may be; that we insist Onsite construction procedures, better management procedures that in our democracy, the people are and controls in housing. labor ------13,509 18,230,734 sovereign. And that they are to be repre Offsite labor ______13,048 27,760,424 sented in the Congresses and the State Legis latures and the City Councils by people they Unemployment freely choose. And we have a right to be -ADVICE FOR AMERICAN BUSINESS heard in the press and other places as to impact ------26, 557 45, 991, 158 what we stand for and what we believe ln. (This estimate is ·based on U.S. Dept. of When there has been a tampering with this Labor studies.) · great democratic process we have to remedy IMPACT ON CONTRA COSTA COUNTY HON. MICHAEL HARRINGTON it. And we are remedying it. Mortgage value (D of A) • $787,350. OF MASSACHUSETTS Your being here at this time is most criti Market value (D of A) • $905,452. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cal, because it shows that you're not c;:ynicai, Mortgage val,ue (HUD), $75,420,000. Monday, June 25, 1973 not saddened, not set back, but that you are Market value (HUD), $86,733,000. determined to fight for economic well-being, (Dollar figures are from "Federal Outlays Mr. HARRINGTON. Mr. Speaker, Mr. and in so doing you're fighting for yourselves in Calffornia 19'12".) Akio Morita, president of the Sony Corp., and for others. As we approach the 20oth Housing units, 3,894. anniversary of this great nation of ours, recently delivered a speech at the Fore!gn women can really be the pivot and the lead Consumers affected, 13,879·: Correspondents ciub of Japan in which ers of the Renaissance of Democracy on every Man-years of labor (jobs), 5,772. ·he offered some timely advice for Ameri level. Speaking to you from the farms, I am IMPACT ON WEST CONTRA COSTA COUNTY _can businessmen trying to do business reminded that it was farmers that put our (As represented in the League of Women overseas. great country together. Now many of us are Voters of the Richmond Area) Mr. Morita criticized Americans for living in urban areas but we know that we , In Richmond some of the housing pro .. .being too arrogant, impatient, ill-pre want to be nurtured from your areas as well grams under Model Cities are continuing. e.s our own. We know that we want to nurture pared and parochial to succeed in com 'The Greater Richmond Community Devel petition with-Japanese firms. Basically, those who hunger, those who are confronted opment Corporation is building 179 units by disease and by pollution. Disease and ·(down from a planned 199) under Section he feels that American businessmen too hunger and the desire for a decent life know 236 for moderate-income families. (These often fail to offer products designed to no boundaries. The consumer movement and will have a 20 % rent supplement.) The Home satisfy the demands of consumers in th~ the women's movement really have a great ·and Neighborhood Improvement Center was _foreign markets, tl:].at they are too pron~ opportunity to repair and renew our society, _denied one demonstration progra-m .of 12-15 to complain about unfair trade rather and no longer allow it to be divided or con than working to sell their products de quered or dominated. This is the chance for •Dept. of Agriculture. spite the discriminatory policies, and that CXIX--1342-Part 17 21274 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 25, 1973 they are too impatient about their profit accustomed to this condition that they have cept the reunification of Germany they position. In short, their attitude is nega forgotten how to find out what really satis can expect the East to nullify the West tive as far as the greatest export oppor fies the customer." "American companies are constantly con or the West to cancel the East's vote, but tunities are concerned, and Mr. Morita cerned with figures, and if rapid returns are the interesting aspect of the German ad suggests that the challenge before them not produced, the rating of the company mission is that West Germany will have is to go out and take advantage of the drops. Except for very large corporations, I to pay 6 percent of the U.N. budget while very real opportunities that exist. wonder whether American companies a.re East or Communist Germany will only In light of our continuing balance of willing to embark on world-wide marketing be asked to pay 2 percent. payments and balance of trade difli·cul ventures that require long-term invest The two Germanys must be considered ties, and in light of the continued weak ments." as a classic example of the inadequacies "Americans often assume their philosophy ness of the dollar in European money ex is always right any place in the world and of a people denied their individual initia changes, such advice bears close exami that anyone who does not understand their tives under communism. Both East and nation. Mr. Morita's remarks were re philosophy is wrong. Sometimes Americans West Germany are completely occupied ported in the Boston Globe on June 18 assume their laws should be valid throughout by Germanic peoples with a similar in an article by Crocker Snow, Jr., en the world ... we must not assume that all background and in a land area almost titled, "Sony President Says U.S. Busi peoples in the world are the same as Amer uniformly destroyed during World War nessmen Complain Too Much." I would icans." II. Yet, as the U.N. assessment based on "We always hear Americans telling us to like to insert that article in the REcoRD be fair. Of course, fair play is absolutely production would indicate, no one can at this time: necessary. But being fair does not mean all say in the 29 years following World War SONY PRESIDENT SAYS U.S. BUSINESSMEN nations should do things the American way. II were East German standards on an COMPLAIN Too MUCH Being fair means that if I go to another equal footing of prosperity and progress (By Crocker Snow, Jr.) country, I must understand the way things for its people with those of West Ger TOKYO.-One of Japan's most prominent, are done in that country and abide by the many. The difference can only be attrib most successful and most individual busi pattern of local behavior." uted to communist economic failure. nessmen has criticized Americans for being Morita issued these statements in support The West Germans under a profit-free too arrogant, impatient, ill-prepared and of his general thesis that Americans have been complaining too much about Japan's enterprise system of economy and great parochial to succeed in competition with er self-determination and individual Japanese firms. trading successes, and not working hard Akio Morita, president of the Sony Corp., enough or adapting their own products suffi liberty under a constitutional republic in a blunt and well received speech at the ciently to meet the challenge. form of government have far excelled Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan de He denied the still widely held contention their cousins behind the Iron Curtain. clared: "American enterprises need to take in the West that low wages remains a key The United Nations unequal assessment to Japanese success, pointing out that the confirms this fact. more time to study the market situation wage level is rising at a rate of 15 percent in Japan and manufacture proudcts the I include related newsclippings: Japanese people will want to buy, instead of a year and that Sony now pays its Japanese expecting too quick results." workers as much as it will pay British work [From the Washington Post, June 19, 1973] ers in its new plant. THE GERMANS APPLY AT THE U.N. Morita said U.S. businessmen complain too "We have a people of one race, speaking much about their trade problems and do one language, accustomed to working hard, Groucho Marx once said he wouldn't want ing business in Japan, and don't work at it and having the management ability to co to join any club that would have him for a hard enough. ordinate these qualities," he said. "Through member but fewer and fewer nations take A trim and dashingly successful figure in these factors, we thoroughly revised our in that approach to membership in interna Japan's business meritocracy, the 52-year-old dustrial structure to build Japan as she is tional organizations. On the contrary, !rom Morita has shown great courage and adapt today." the general organization, the United Nations, ability himself since he helped found Japan's Sony's ocean-hopping president, who has to the smaller specialized agencies dealing tape recorder and television manufacturing traveled to the United States seven times in health, weather and the like, the tendency firm as Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo on a shoestring already this year, credited several specific is to make membership representative of all in 1946. factors for Japan's recent trading success, political elements on the world scene. The Recognizing the vital importance of for including internal competition, a lifetime United States contributes to some 70-odd eign sales, the company changes its name system, reliance on trading companies and a groups, down to (up to?) the "International to Sony (after the Latin sonus for sound) as tendency to work with the rules. Agreement Regarding the Maintenance of a concession to the Western tongue and ear "The Japanese export trader, when he faces Certain Lights in the Red Sea." Membership a decade later. restrictions in a country, will first exert ef in this and better known organizations is Sony is now one of the world's leading forts to sell his products in accordance with generally deemed essential to the prestige producers of high quality sound and video those restrictions, instead of complaining and other specific interests of their mem equipment with gross sales for its last fiscal and trying to get them changed," Morita said, bers-to the limit of their budgetary and year of $778 million. apparently in reference to recent heavy bureaucratic capacities. The company opened a 300-man assembly handed pressure from US businessmen and The United Nations, of course, has been plant in San Diego last year, and is building government officials on Japan to lift some of the chief beneficiary, if that is the correct one in Britain. her 33 remaining restrictions on the sale of word, of the urge for "universality." For 25 "When we announced we would start pro such American products as computers, inte years the United States enforced the arbitrary duction of Sony products in California, the grated circuits, leather goods and agricul st&ndard that good behavior, as defined by response from our American dealers was the tural products here. the United States, was a requisite for mem question whether Sony products made in bership, but that standard went by the boards California would have the same quality as when the People's Republic of China was products made in Japan," he confided. admitted two autumns ago. It then became In blunt words which strike at the heart of only a matter of time and maneuver to bring the economic dynamism and paternal busi U.N. VOTES TO ADMIT TWO in governments of the three other states left ness practices which helped Japan build a GERMANYS divided by World War II. One such pair, West $4-billion-plus trade surplus with the United and East Germany, filed their formal applica States last year, Morita added: tions last week, having composed their sharp "Of course, Sony products must be of the HON. JOHN R. RARICK est differences to their own satisfaction. If same high quality regardless of where they OF LOUISIANA only because they will pay about eight per are manufactured. To maintain this stand IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cent of the U.N.'s budget when they are ard, our worker, regardless of his nationality, voted in next fall, they are especially wel must use our know-how with the same at Monday, June 25, 1973 come. The two Koreas and the two Vietnams tention to quality that our Japanese worker Mr. RARICK. Mr. Speaker, the United offer special problems but not insoluble ones. Of the four, only North Vietnam does not devotes to the product." And Morita adds Nations General Assembly has now voted that he is pleased with the California results. yet belong to at least one of the U.N. halfway unanimously to admit to membership houses, the specialized agencies. U.N. mem Commenting on American business prac two Germanys. Many will recall that tices and aspirations, Morita had this to say: bership remains the best available access the two-China policy was fully unac to the benefits of belonging to the inter "I get the impression that there have been national community, and sooner or later, one so many things to do and demands to be met ceptable to U.N. members. The two-Ger many policy unanimously approved is an can confidently predict, the Koreans and the inside the broad expanse of the United States, Vietnamese will be there. that American manufacturers have assumed apparent attempt to increase the tax Over the last quarter century, many-per all they had to do was to make something revenues to the one-world body. haps too many--of the energies of inter new, and it would be bought up by the After all, no one in the U.N. can fear national organizations have been spent on customers. It seems they have become so a two-Germany policy. On all issues ex- issues of membership. What with the pro- June 25, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 21275 liferation of nations and organizations since manys are admitted to the world organiza States, to call a constitutional convention World War II, the trade has been very brisk. tion. The two German states asked for U.N. for the purpose of proposing the following At the beginning of that period, there was a membership last week and it is expected to amendment to the constitution of the United certain tendency to hope that mere member be granted this fall. States: ship would answer or ease the questions that The 13-member committee also is under No student shall be assigned to nor com had led the organization to be formed in stood to have agreed that China's assessment pelled to attend any particular public school the first place. It would be difficult to prove should rise from 4 to 5% per cent.•.• on account of race, religion, color or national this is so but lt would be more difficult to origin; and be it further prove that things would be made better by Resolved (if the Senate concur), That this disbanding the organization. As it is, the application constitutes a continuing appli simple existence of an organization like the NEW YORK LEGISLATURE ASKS cation in accordance with Article V of the U.N. creates pressures on nations to justify Constitution of the United States until at their national policies in terms of their pro ANTIBUSING AMENDMENT least two-thirds of the legislatures of the sev fessed ideals. The United States, for instance, eral states have made similar applications is regularly called on to demonstrate that it pursuant to Article V. If Congress proposes an is not abandoning the goals or the proce HON. ANGELO D. RONCALLO amendment to the constitution identical dures of the U.N. No one pretends that such OF NEW YORK with that contained in this resolution before pressures are stronger than other factors January first, nineteen hundred seventy-four, which feed national policy or that they uni IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES this application for a state application shall formly should be, but on balance it is good Monday, June 25, 1973 no longer be of any force or effect; and be it to have· those pressures applied. If the U.N. further did not exist, it would have to be invented. Mr. RONCALLO of New York. Mr. Resolved {if the Senate concur), That since West Germany's and East Germany's eager Speaker, the New York State senate and this method of proposing amendments to ness to join proves the point again. assembly have concurred in a resolution the constitution has never been completed memorializing Congress to call a Consti to the point 'Of calling a con7ention an · figures in the World Almanac I had dis~ JACK LUSKIN GUEST OF HONOR AT Charities and Welfare Fund Leadership Mis covered that if the population of Allegheny ISRAEL BOND TRIDUTE sion to Israel. County could be counted as one municipality, The Maryland Committee for Isr·ael Bonds it would be the fifth in the country. deems it most fitting to honor Jack Luskin There would be New York with a whopping HON. CLARENCE D. LONG because by a happy coincidence both his firm 7,894,862 residents ... Chicago with 3,369,359 OF MARYLAND and the State of Israel are celebrating their . . . Los Angeles with 2,809,596 ... Philadel~ silver anniversary in 1973 . phia with 1,950,098 ... then Pittsburgh with IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Allegheny County's 1,605,133 population. Monday, June 25, 1973 CONSOLIDATION REVIEWED Mr. LONG of Maryland. Mr. Speaker, VETERANS' PENSION RIGHTS MUST At the time I dismissed the idea with the Baltimoreans and distinguished visitors remark that local pride and the natural in~ BE PROTECTED: A MA'ITER OF terest of local officials in their jobs would will gather on June 26 to honor Mr. JUSTICE AND NATIONAL HONOR make consolidation virtually impossible, at Jack Luskin for his contributions to the least for the present. State of Israel bonds program and to I've been thinking, however, and I'm now witness the presentation of the Israel HON. ROBERT A. ROE wondering if total consolidation is necessary Prime Minister's Medal to Mr. Luskin in OF NEW JERSEY or even desirable. tribute to his service in the cause of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Toronto, Canada, has an extra level of gov~ Israel's development. ernment, called metro, that has attracted Monday, June 25, t973 worldwide interest. I can see no reason why The Israel bonds program has received it wouldn't work here. widespread support in the United States, Mr. ROE. Mr. Speaker, I know that This upper level government takes care of due to efforts of citizens like Mr. Luskin. you and our colleagues here in the Con services that can be done best on a com~ His interest in the continued growth and gress are aware of the tragic miscar munitywide basis-police, water, waste dis development of Israel is only one of his riage of justice that has been perpe posal, major roads and parks. many community activities. He is a trated on our veterans by the social se (Actually, through force of circumstances, worthy recipient of the Prime Minister's curity and railroad retirement increases Allegheny County has had to get into many Medal, which will be presented on such activities, or form authority boards to that were approved during the 92d Con run them.) June 26 by Israel's consul in New York, gress because of the ceiling placed on Under the Toronto plan the suburbs main Ziedan Atashi, on behalf of Prime Minis veterans' pension rights against in tain their own town halls and councils and ter Meir. I include a statement which creased earnings or retirement annuities continue to be responsible for such local details Mr. Luskin's numerous contri from other sources. This inequity, I am activities as zoning, fire protection, garbage butions to the welfare of his community sure, is not the intent of Congress and collection, local roads and streets. and of the State of Israel. does indeed require priority attention. I CONFEDERATION COUNT The statement follows: was particularly pleased to have the op The suburbs send representatives to the JACK LUSKIN GUEST OF HONOR AT ISRAEL BOND portunity to submit a statement of need big city hall in downtown Toronto, so it's TRmUTE To BE HELD JUNE 26 IN BALTIMORE to the Subcommittee on Compensation more a confederation of communities than Jack Luskin, president o::: Luskin's, Inc., and Pension of our Committee on Vet a single big municipality, but it's recognized a chain of six discount appliance stores in erans Affairs in support of legislation I as such for census purposes. metropolitan Baltimore, will be the guest r-f It gives Toronto an official population of have sponsored with some of my col honor at a State of Israel Tribute Dinner to leagues remedy this serious situa 2,086,017 instead of 712,786, which is the be held Tuesday, June 26 commencing at six to population of the core city alone. thirty p.m. in Blue Crest North, Baltimore, tion that has been placing severe hard Size isn't everything, but I would guess Maryland. ships on many of our veterans, their the mere suggestion of great size and power This black-tie" event will be the first cor widows, and their families-not only re has had something to do with Toronto's ducing their veteran's pension and com economic boom. porate dinner ever to be held in Baltimore Those who locate plants and businesses under the auspices of the Maryland Commit pensation benefits but in some instances in a community are human beings, and they te} for Israel Bonds. halting these benefits entirely. like to be associated with a winner. Hon. Ziedan Atashi, Consul of Israel in New Mr. Speaker, I hereby present to you I would also be willing to bet that Pitts York. will formally pr.esent the Israel Prime and our colleagues a copy of my state burgh's elevation to fifth place in the popu Minister's Medal to Mr. Luskin. The inscription on the medal to be awarded ment in support of veterans' pension lation list could kick off a renewal of the legislation which reads as follows: renaissance which attracted so much atten to Mr. Luskin reads as follows: "State of Israel Bonds, Presented to Jack STATEMENT SUBMITTED BY CONGRESSMAN tion in the 1950s and '60s. RoBERT A. RoE oF NEw JERSEY There could be a fine renewal of civic Luskin, For service in the Cause of Israel's pride, not only in present Pittsburgh but development, Golda Meir, Prime Minister." I, Robert A. Roe, Member of the House throughout the county. The name Jack Luskin is synonymous with of Representatives, Eighth District of the After all, Allegheny County comes close leadership in the field of retail appliance State of New Jersey, am privileged and to being one community now. Almost the sales. For twenty-five years, Luskin's has been honored to have the opportunity to submit entire county is urban, with municipalities an integral part and, today, is a front-runner this statement of need in support of the so close together that you can hardly tell in the business world of Maryland. legislation I have sponsored with many of when you leave one and enter another. Mr. Luskin, a native of Baltimore, is a my colleagues here in The Congress to pro When folks from Upper St. Clair and Lower graduate of Baltim_ore City College t.nd the tect the compensation and pensions of. vet Burrell are away from home they SAY they're University of Baltimore. He served in the erans and their families from being deni from Pittsburgh. U.S. Army during World War II. Three years grated and curtailed by other increased com after the war's conclusion, the first Luskin's pensation benefits that have or may accrue FIGURES UNFAIR opened in Baltimore. to them from earnings and investments they The present population figures are unfair. As president and owner of Luskin's, Inc., have made throughout their lifetime in other The City of Pittsburgh is 24th in the nation Mr. Luskin has been the recipient of many retirement programs, and particularly the but its metropolitan area, as set up by the business awards, twice winner of the National veterans' pensions that have been eliminated Census Bureau, ranks ninth. · Brand Names Foundation Award, and many or reduced by increased Social Security and A population of 1,605,133 would more others for distinguished merchandising. Railroad Retirement annuities that Congress nearly reflect the size of the community. Very active in civic endeavors, most notably authorized in 1972 for our senior citizens and It can't be achieved by the County Govern as Chairman of the Maryland Division, Ameri retirees to help them to meet today's in ment Study Commission, which is now pre can Cancer Society, he is a member of the flationary pressures and ever-spiralling cost paring to write a new home-rule charter for Mayor's Committee for the restoration of of-living. Allegheny County. Babe Ruth's birthplace. He was named by There are approximately 29 million men Because metropolitan is a dirty word in Channel 67, Baltimore's educational tele and women in our country who served in our political circles, the legislation setting up vision station, as a member of the Maryland nation's armed forces during periods of na the commission specifically says it can't com Public Broadcasting Commission. Recently, tional emergency. Among them, there are bine municipalities. Mr. Luskin was appointed to the Board of approximately 1,075,171 veterans and 1,284,- It can be done in other ways, however. Directors of the Chesapeake National Bank. 065 survivors who receive pension income. Years ago Philadelphia went all the way in Mr. Luskin is a member of the Board of We are, therefore, not talking about a limited combining city and county. Governors, Maryland Committee for Israel number of dedicated people but a significant Surely, with enough civic spirit, we could Bonds. He has participated in several fact and substa:tltial number of our country's go part-way and get into the municipal big finding tours of Israel. Earlier this year, he finest citizens who are in need of the support league, where we belong. was a member of the Associated Jewish we are discussing here today. Millions of 21282 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 25, 1973 veterans and their dependents have had their through Public Law 92-336 but, in fact, have critically important veterans' pension V.A. pension checks reduced or stopped be lost income. Now, with inflation squeezing legislation last week and I sincerely trust cause of the 20% Social Security increase the dollar tighter every month, further cut approved by the Congress for 1972 and for backs and budgetary obstacles have been that they will move with dispatch in similar increases in other retirement income proposed for the same group of pensioners. promulgating remedial legislation for sources. I would like to call your attention to the presentation to the Congress for action What has happened to America's dream for following excerpt from one of many letters and vote as quickly as possible. each and every member of our society where that I have received from our veterans and May I also add that I am pleased to the .door of opportunity should always be their families who have suffered hardships note the quickening of the pace here in wide open for our people to continue to instead of benefits from the increased So the House and the Senate on the priority achieve increased earnings and improved cial Security !benefits program, which, as you lssue of protecting, strengthening and standards of living for themselves and their can readily see, reaches right into the heart families. of the problem: improving our Nation's pension sys Yes, fulfilling our country's obligation to "I am a veteran's widow with three minor tems-both public and private-to safe our veterans is a matter of justice and na children living on Social Security and a guard the valuable investment retirement tional honor and what a tragedy and fraud veteran's widow pension. Recently, as you funds of our people. The time is long on the people of America-to serve our na know, an increase in the Social Security re overdue for a substantive priority com tion, all the while believing that one has sulted in the loss of some of the veteran's mitment of our Nation to insure oppor certain pension rights to help you live com pension. In my opinion Social Secu,rity tunity to our senior citizens and retirees fortably in your retirement years-to work should be excluded in computing income for a lifetime continuously investing your earn the purpose of determining eligibility for a to achieve increased earnings and im ings in Social Security or the Railroad Re veteran's or widow's pension. To give more proved standards of living without jeop tirement Fund--only to find at the end of money with one hand and to take away ardizing their earned retirement income the rainbow when your life's work is done with the other does not make sense." that they have spent a lifetime of invest that the rules have been switched on you In view of the Congressionally mandated ment in accumulating for themselves and at the last minute in such a legislative sur cost-of-living increase, this widow is cor their families. reptitious manner that you cannot receive rect--"it does not make sense." And as the the benefits from all of your retirement in cost-of-living continues to rise, the situation vestment sources that you paid for because will and, in fact, has become even more criti someone decided to change the law. This cal for those persons who receive pension miserable treatment of our retirees and senior income that unnecessarily fluctuates down ON BEING OLD citizens surely shatters the fulfillment of ward at any point when outside income in promise of full pension-retirement security creases. Mr. Chairman, without remedial leg from these self-help retirement investment islation, we are locking these people in a HON. ALBERT H. QUIE programs. vicious, unfair and arbitrary economic trap We should never tolerate a straitjacket that has no rational purpose or reason given OF :MINNESOTA being placed on our veteran's income sources. the present economic exigencies of this IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Not in America where the wealth and des country. Monday, June 25, 1973 tiny of our nation are reflected in the stand Mr. Chairman. Today your committee is ards of living of our society. Retirees or pen particularly concerned with the effect that Mr. QUIE. Mr. Speaker, during the sioners who are on fixed incomes should n.ot the Social Security and Retirement Annuity dedication ceremonies, in the week of be relegated to having ceilings placed on increases authorized by the 92nd Congress February 12, of the Ethel Percy Andrus their income sources through limitations on are having on the veteran's and widow's Gerontology Center at the University of their pension or annuity rights by making pensions and I wholeheartedly endorse and one dependent upon the other instead of commend to you the following legislation Southern California, a most provocative maximum benefits to which they would be that I have cosponsored for remedial action address was presented by the distin entitled based on their investment in each in this area of concern: guished longshoreman-turned-philoso of the benefits programs in which they are H.R. 1038: To provide that monthly so pher, Eric Hoffer. enrolled. cial security benefits and annuity and pen I should like to share Mr. Hoffer's re In 1972 Congress initiated and passed a sion payments under the Railroad Retire marks, "On Being Old," with my col 20 % increase' in Social Security benefits to ment Act of 1937 shall not be included as leagues. help bring Social Security pension payments income for the purpose of determining eligi more in line with the cost of living and help, bility for a veteran's or widow's pension. For, .as he reminds those of us con at least in part, to begin alleviating the H .R. 1493: To amend Title 38 of the U.S. cerned wit:P the problems of the elderly, severe inflationary pressures on our senior Code to make certain that recipients of vet older Americans have a great store of citizens and retirees. For some of our vet eran's pension and compensation will not expertise and knowledge to offer our erans and their widows, however, these have the amount of such pension or com society. benefits meant nothing; in some cases they pensation reduced !because of increases in Indeed, says Mr. Hoffer: resulted in a loss of income; and for approxi monthly Social Security benefits. • • • it seems that a great man's greatest mately 70,000 pensioners these increased H.R. 2688: To amend Title 38 of the U.S. good luck is to live past seventy to get a benefits resulted in the termination of their Code to liberalize the provisions relating to chance. Had Churchill and de Gaulle died at veteran's pension income because of the in payment of disability and death pensions. 65 they would have figured as picturesque come limitations established by the Veterans The bill will increase the pension base for failures. Administration; whereas, as we all know, the all veterans and increase maximum income purpose of Public Law 92-336, which pro limits in all earnings categories by $600. This Mr. Speaker, I insert Mr. Hoffer's ad vided the 20 % increase in Social Security means that veterans who were either forced dress in the RECORD at this time: benefits, was to effect a necessary and es off the end of the earnings scale or were sential across-the-board cost-of-living in placed in a lower benefit category will be ON BEING OLD crease for all recipients. able to continue receiving the level of pension (By Eric Hoffer) Today, as your committee meets to seek benefits received prior to the 1972 Social It seems to be generally assumed that the out remedial legislation to erase this dis Security increase. old feel out of place in the present world crimination against the veteran's pension Mr. Chairman. In view of the fact that the a world of ceaseless change, dominated by program, administrative measures are being cutback in pension rights to the veterans was the fashions and fantasies of the young. proposed that threaten to place additional effective in January 1973, I sincerely trust Least of all would one expect such a world to hardships on the veteran's pension program. that you will move with dispatch in correct offer the old opportunities for greatness, a In submitting this year's budget, the ad ing this inequity to our veterans. It is most chance for the full unfolding of their des ministration has made a formal legislative important that they be permitted to benefit tinies. Yet at no time in history have peo - recommendation that the provision of law fully from the 20 % increase in Social Security ple in their seventies and eighties played exempting $1200 of the wife's income and payments and increased Railroad Retirement such fateful roles as they did in recent exempting earned income by working wives annuities and maintain their standards of decades. Everybody knows their names: Mao be repealed. Based on this recommendation, living at least commensurate with other Tse Tung, Ho Chi Min, Gandhi, Stalin, the administration has projected an annual members of our society. Our veterans have Adenauer, de Gaulle, Churchill, Dulles, Pope savings of $223 million-but in view of pro offered life itself to our country when our John XXIII, Ben Gurian, Golda Meir. I used jected savings, the budget, regrettably, con nation needed them. We cannot and must not to think that a great man's greatest good tained no request for a cost-of-living increa.se let our veterans down now when they need luck is to die at the right time-not to live for this group of low-income veterans and us to help them to achieve the respect, widows. too long. Now it seems that a great man's It is disturbing that unlike Social Se dignity and security in their golden years greatest good luck is to live past seventy to curity recipients, veteran pensioners have that they so richly deserve. get a chance. Had Churchill and de Gaulle not, as yet, received the full 20 % cost-of Mr. Speaker, the committee on Vet died at 65 they would have figured as pic living increase mandated by the Congress erans' Affairs held public hearings on this turesque failures. Even a fraud like Herbert June 25, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 21283 :Marcuse had to live past seventy to come into through several decades. What has changed to turn every retlre·d person into a teacher. his own. is the percentage of teenagers. We used to Teachers, on the whole, are not a happy lot. The question is whether these aged history count as teenagers those between the ages It is remarkable how inany teachers there makers were really old. They all had a juve of thirteen and nineteen. Now the teenr.g~ were among the early recruits of the Com nile element in their make up. The zest and group includes those between the ages of ten munist and, even more so, of the Nazi Revo grandeur of history making stretched. their and thirty, Television is giving ten year olds lution. One must have a special talent for souls, but more so the formatical dedication the style of life of juveniles, while the post teaching to find it satisfactory. And even if to a cause which was at the center of their Sputnik education explosion has been keep teaching could give the retired a sense of existence. ing students in their late twenties on cam usefulness, it is not enough. What the re HOW LITTLE WE LEARN puses in a state of delayed manhood. There tired old need above all is a feeling of growth, The surprising thing is how little we can are no children any more. Our public schools and this they can acquire not by teaching learn from these great old men. Is there any are packed with minimen hungering for the but by learning. thing in their lives to show us how to grow prerogatives and probably the responsibilities A tree needs roots in order to grow, but old zestfully? It would be nonsensical to of adults. The poet Auden said that what with man it is the other way around: only think of history making as a mass cure of America needs is puberty rites and a council when he grows does he have roots and feels aging, and to recommend fanaticism as an of elders-which are probably beyond our at home in the world. And we grow not by antidote would be to prescribe a cure that is reach. What this country needs and can hava teaching but by learning. The moment we worse than the disease. We must look for is child labor. The minimen, bored by mean stop learning we are as good as dead. Learn other ways of stretching souls. ingless book learning, are hungry for action, ing is a more mature activity than teach It seems to be true that people who are hungry to acquire all kinds of skills, and I ing. It always struck me how eager children occupied in doing what their society values cannot think of anything more fitting than are to teach, and how reluctant to learn. It highly are likely to retain their vigor in old that the old in r.,tirement should transmit is part of our present trouble that the young age. In this country it is still true that busi their skills and know-how to the young. are so busy teaching us that they have no nessmen, technologists, and politicians do BOOK LEARNING AND THE ILLITERATE time left to learn. not markedly decline with age. In pre-Hitler Book learning in public schools should take THE LEARNING SOCIETY ian Germany generals and professors re up half a day, and should consist of reading To me the good society is a learning so mained active and brilliant to the end. In and writing, elementary mathematics, a fa ciety. It is a society in which most people classical Greece, where writers were at the miliarization with the geography of the have elbowroom and the desire to learn and top of the social ladder, Aeschylus produced planet, and a bird's eye view of history. There grow. It is a society in which people have his Orestia at 67, Sophocles his Oedipus is evidence that a student in his early twen neither the time nor the inclination to Colonus at near 90, and Euripides his Bac ties, when he is eager to learn, can master in exploit and oppress, and cannot be tempted chae at near 80. So, too, in France where less than a year all the book learning that to pursue substitutes for growth such as noted writers rank above leading business teachers try to force into unwilling, bored wealth and power. It is a society in which men and politicians, writers go on creating to minds all through grammar and high school. people learn not only from books but also the end. In neither classical Greece nor in There is also evidence that forced book learn from each other, and no human relation France is there anything to match the tragic ing in public school rather than prepare stu ship is so wholesome as the cam~raderie of decay of first-rank writers like Fitzgerald, dents for a fuller mastery of subjects later in people who learn from each other. In such Sinclair Lewis, Faulkner and Hemingway. college often makes them unfit for it. When a society the schools produce not learned but OLD AGE AND DEFERENCE the English physicist Sir Joseph Thompson learning people. What these examples suggest is that the old was asked why England produced great scien The first instance of a learning society are likely to retain their vigor when they are tists be answered: "Because we hardly teach that comes to mind is the Agora in Periclean treated with deference. The predicament of science at all in our schools. Over here the Athens. But your enthusiasm is dampened the old is that in order to go on functioning minds that come to physics arrive in the lab when you remember that in that society only well they need the kind of treatment the oratory with a freshness untarnisl:ed by any ten percent of the people could avail them creative person needs to go on creating. It routine." Reading and writing is a different selves of learning opportunities, the other is well to keep in mind that to grow old is matter-if not thoroughly mastered early in ninety percent were slaves. to grow common. Old age equalizes-we are life you'll have what we have now, a mass of The other learning society I can think of aware that what is happening to us has hap illiterati; college students who can neither !s that of Rabbinical Judaism. It flourished pened to untold numbers from the begin read nor write. through many centuries in various countries, ning of time. When we are young we act as THE ELDERLY AND SKILLS and its last example, in Eastern Europe, was if we were the first young people in the world. eration of Jews, young and old, rich and poor, Half of the r;chool day, then, will be given pored over the pages of the Talmud in Syna Hence a feeling of distinction must in some to limited book learning, and the other half degree counteract aging. gogues and Jeshiva, swaying, chanting, de to the mastery of skills. Retired skilled car bating and hair splitting. It is worth noting There are of course societies in which old penters, bricklayers, stonemasons, electri age confers distinction-where the old are that quite a number of the scientists cians, plumbers, mechanics, gardeners, ar• involved in splitting the atom were the de treated as elders. I am thinking of Japan, chitects, city planners etc. will teach the pre-Communist China, India, the Arab world, scendants of generations of Talmudir hair young how to build houses, roads, small splitters. and Rabbinical Judaism. In such societies bridges; how to landscape, plan, garden; how the old are beautiful. We are told that among THE CENTRAL BOOK the several thousand Hindus residing in to operate all sorts of machines. Retired bankers, manufacturers, inventors, mer The Jews of course had a book-the Tal New York there is a tendency to return to _mud. I wonde-r whether you can have a India in late middle age. They dread living chants, politicians will familiarize the ycung with finance and management. learning society without a central book. The in this country as old people. They will be Athenians had such a book in Homer's neglected and forgotten, whereas in India The small towns, where there is only one school it would be easy to have a hundred Iliad and Odyssey. Could we create such age is venerated. a book? A vast book composed by a synod of There is little chance in this country for acres or so on which generations of students would build a model neighborhood, plant the most brilliant minds and the most lucid a cult of the old. There is st111 a widespread writers. A book on man from his earliest be feeling that to retire is to become, in the gardens, raise crops. In large cities the work will have to be done in the outskirts or, ginning-his struggles, achievements and words of Herbert Hoover, "a nuisance to all failures; his sublime gestures and mon mankind." In labor unions at present young better still, on land made available by slum clearance. By the time they graduate from strous follies; his hopes and fears, his gods workers resent seniority and fat pensions for and devils. The pages would be like the the old-they seem to think that the decent high school the young should be well equipped not only to earn a living but to run pages of the Talmud: a square of text in thing for the old is to curl up and die. large print in the center, and around it, in Clearly, in this country, the problem of the world. The difficulty is of course that not all the smaller print, a sea of commentaries, con aging cannot be solved by changing the at troversies, guesses and gossip. A vast book tuqes of the non-old. If the retired old are retired are skilled craftsmen. Nevertheless, most people acquire some special knowledge in many volumes that would need a lifetime to live satisfactory lives, they must acquire to study. It all sounds farfetched, but it is a sense of worth by their own efforts. during a long life which they could transmit to the young. My experience has been that, beyond dispute that an afiluent, leisure THE YOUTH CRISIR .in this country, almost every person is good society can remain stable and orderly only It would be most fitting if in solving their at something. Moreover, considering the when its people feel that they are growing, problems the old also helped solve problems negligence and poor workmanship which are and with the discipline induced by scarcity which face other segments of the popula just now becoming widespread in this coun and hard work. We have to become a learning tion-particularly the young. Tv show how try, it would be of great benefit for the society in order to survive. this may come to pass I have to say a few young to work side by side with people who THE OLD AND LEARNING words about the youth crisis. . .take pride in their work and strive for The question is: Do the old have a capacity Some time ago, while writing a chapter on excellence. Thus any ar.ro.ngement which fo~ learning? We go on associating learning the young, I was surprised by th£ L.iscovery brings the old and the young together in a with youth despite the evidence of our eyes that the young at present do not constitute common task is bound to be fruitful. that the young nowadays resist learning and a higher percentage of the population than TEACHING NOT WHOLLY SATISFACTORY are hostile towards those who want to teach they did in the past. Tl:e percentage of the Still, I have misgivings about teaching as them, and we naturally assume that an old young has remained remarkably constant an antidote to aging, even if it were possible man's mind is too flabby to hold on to a 21284 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June .25, 1973 subject, and that the old find it hard to con conference committee on the highway OEO regional director Robert E. Fulton .oe:J;ltrate and remember. Actua.lly there are bill. said the Providence anti-poverty agency had many instances of old men who, after a life "no apparent planning capacity." It was time of achievement, keep on learning. A day Mr. Wright's transit statement follows. .shaken up, its budget slashed in half by re before his death, at 76, Renoir painted It is my understanding that his fine gional headquarters. anemones with a brush stra-pped .to his speech has been sent to each Member. Afterward, Fulton reported: "The agency stiffened finger. In the evening he said as he EXCERPT FROM· MR. WRIGHT'S SPEECH there is doing a lot more with $800,000 than looked at what was to be his last painting: New means of mass transportation, includ it had been able to do with $1.8 million." "I think I am beginning to understand some ing mass transit, may be needed to supple The bigness of the poverty program is fan thing about it." Pablo Casals when asked why ment our existing systems. tastic. he still practices so many hours a day play The petroleum industry has long been When many Americans think of industrial ing the cello answered: "Because I think I known for its commitment to highways as a or financial giants, they think of General am making progress." Theaphrastus com primary means of transportation, and an ex Motors, Howard Hughes or the DuPonts. plained at 85 that one came to the end of cellent highway system should continue to Yet poverty is one of the biggest domestic existence just as one was at last gaining in be a major national goal. But my company financial complexes--a $31.5 billion, tax-sup sights into it. We also come across a re supports the view that the time has come ported industry headquartered in Wash curring lamentation of people past seventy for changes at both the federal and state ington. that, in the words of Louis XIV, "One must levels in tranSportation funding. Specifically, It's a booming industry of 166 different leave life just as one begins to learn how to we support the creation of transportation programs, administered by 12 different fed live." trust funds rather than the existing highway eral agencies, paying salaries to thousands No one will maintain that teaching the trust funds, with monies from these funds of employes and providing profits to dozens old will be more difficult than teaching the being used for the travel systems-including of outside contractors. present day young. It is becoming more and mass transit-that state or local govern It is, in essence, a service industry. more dangerous to keep the young cooped ments choose to install as best meeting their Yet, although spending on the progra-m has up in schools. We are also discovering that needs. We believe this policy would lead even doubled since the last full year of the John a student's learning capacity depends more tually toward a more efficient use of energy son administration, its critics insist that it on what he brings with him than on what and a better transportation balance. still is plagued by poor management, inade the school has to offer. By this test, the old, quate coordination and overlapping services. charged with the experience of a lifetime And, as the old saying goes, "the poor are should make ideal learners. Finally, there is still with us." the forecast that, due to a declining birth Lyndon Johnson, during his five years in rate, the student population is likely to OEO HAS SPENT MORE THAN the White House, wanted nothing to suc shrink considerably in coming decades so $35,000,000 TO EVALUATE ITS PRO ceed more than his plams for a Gre.at Society, that there will be plenty of room for the GRAMS AND WORK highlighted by a "war on poverty." new type of student. Thus four hours a day The Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) of schooling for the old is an attainable was set up late in 1964 as the antipoverty goal. HON. ROBERT J. HUBER agency and Mr. Johnson picked as its direc TO IMPROVE THE SORRY LOT OF THE OLD OF MICHIGAN tor E. Sargent Shriver, former head of the Peace Corps. To sum up, a chief stain on the quality IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The OEO, thus, became oorporate head of life in America has been the sorry lot of Monday, June 25, 1973 quarters for the poverty industry while the the old. All cannot be well with a society in Department of Health, Education and Wel which lives do not end well. And we cannot Mr. HUBER. Mr. Speaker, as we near fare (HEW) served as its chief factory outle.t. remove this stain by cherishing and pam the moment of truth for OEO-the time Shriver generated experiments and studies pering the old. There is little chance for for deciding what to do about the pro at the rate of nearly $2 billion a year in his a cult of the old to develop in this country. shop. Some were packaged as programs to be It is my conviction that by returning to grams now under OEO-my colleagues may find this January 1973 article from distributed through HEW, which already school the old will not only acquire a sense was top-heavy with programs. of worth and a feeling of growth, but will the Detroit Sunday News of special value "I am the first to admit that I placed too also take a hand in shaping a desirable future since it critiques the whole operation of much emphasis on poverty programs when I for the whole society. The post-industrial the agency, providing a long-range re was HEW secretary under President Ken socielty with its increased afiluence and lei view coupled with a look at its modus nedy,'' said Sen. Abraham A. Ribicoff, D sure must become a learning society if it is operandi. The article particularly looks Conn. to survive. Count the retired, the temporary Ribicoff believes that many of the present unemployed, and the unemployable. We al into the use of OEO funds for outside consultants, evaluators, and technical 166 poverty programs could be dropped and ready have a large non-working population. that "the only complaints voiced would oome If the age of retirement is lowered we shall advisors. According to the article, the not from the poor but from bureaucrats soon have a good third of the people sitting agency has doled out more than $35 mil runni:ng the programs." around doing nothing. It wlll seem more and lion of the taxpayers' dollars for study Today's OEO Director Phillip V. Sanchez, more absurd to go on seeing retirement as an of its programs-including 35 different, who is on his way out, estimates there is an end rather than a beginning. Moreover the army of nearly 200,000 anti-pove.rty work rising restlessness of the young will force us costly, and often-repetitious evaluations of the program for pre-school children. ers-not federal employes but hired through to reverse the accepted sequence of learn OEO funds. This army conducts programs ing years followed by years or action. In the The full text of the article follows: for the poor, who despite the effort to elimi post-industrial society the first half of a per CRITICS LABEL U.S. Am A COSTLY FAILURE nate poverty, number 25 million for this son's life will be dedicated to strenuous, use THE POVERTY INDUSTRY-IT COSTS $31.5 sixth year in a row. ful action, and the second half to book learn BILLION In addition to the thousands of workers, ing and reflection. Old age will be something (By Seth Kantor) there are the outside merchants. to look forward to. It wm be a time for WASHINGTON.-It's called the poverty pro "I have no illusions," one of these mer leisurely study, for good conversation, for gram, and it does everything from hunting chants hired to evaluate OEO programs con savoring and cultivating friendship; a time rats to paying pensions. fided to Ribicoff. "I'm in poverty for the for the discovery of new interests, and for Poverty programs administered by the fed money." the transmutation of experience and knowl eral government will total $31.5 billion this The money OEO is paying in contracts to edge into wisdom. year, making this governmental activity a outside consultalnts, evaluators and techni major industry. cal advisers is on the increase. Its critics accuse it of failing to reduce the At midpoint in the first Nixon administra number of "poor" and failing to give the tion there were 126 of these contracts. They MASS TRANSIT taxpayer his dollar's worth. were worth $56.7 million. Now, at the start Example: At the end of the Johnson ad of the second Nixon administration there ministration four years ago, there were 25.4 are 136 contracts, valued at $62.1 million. HON. BILL FRENZEL million people classified by the federal gov New England, where the OEO is doing OF MINNESOTA ernment as "poor." At present there are 25.5 away with big, costly contracts to outside million "poor"-an increase of 100,000. (A technical experts, is an example. The last IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES "poor" person, according to federal guide of these contract~126,000 to Technicail Monday, June 25, 1973 lines has an income of no more than $4,000 Data Systems--runs out next month. Re in a family of four.) placing the big contracts are 45 small grants Mr. FRENZEL. Mr. Speaker, Mr. M. A. Example: In Providence, R.I., it was found to aid 37 different OEO community action Wright, chairman of Exxon, in a that a hoodlum with a 20-year record of ar and legal services programs in the six-state ; speech at Los Angeles on May 7, made rests had been given a job at $3 an hour as area. But these diversified grants total $550,• ; some interesting remarks on mass tran a youth counselor in a neighborhood Office 000. .~ sit. Perhaps his ideas might inspire our of Economic Opportunity (OEO) program. Since the OEO was begun, the agencr h~ ! c~ June 25, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 21285 doled out $35.5 million to outside contrac · live, while ignoring the surrounding black Raymond J. McHugh, the former chief tors for evaluations of its programs-includ community. · c;>f the Washington Bureau ·of Copley ing 35 costly, often-repetitious evaluations But one of the OEO's most flagrant man News Service, which appeared in the of the Headstart program for preschool agerial blunders in 1972 involved a relatively June 3 San Diego Union. He has pre children. small amount of money-an outlay of $60,000 "It has been so bad that before a new in Monmouth County, N.J.-which, as un pared an incisive study of the "loneliness program got going there would be evalua used funds, was suppposed to be returned to of power" with particular reference to tions of it," said William W. Allison, execu washington. . national security. This is not a white tive administrator of the OEO's community It was there that anti-poverty officials de wash of malfeasance on the part of action program in Atlanta. cided to send 67 teen-agers on trips to Eu overzealous executors, but a thoughtful "One of the things about evaluations is rope, South America and Africa, to give them analysis of the implications of security timeliness," commented Orville J. Anderson, "cultural enrichment" for two months last breaches on the full spectrum of U.S. a regional chief for plans, budget and evalu summer. at ion. "Too often, they come out too late to When OEO authorities in Washington foreign and domestic policy. I commend do any good." learned of the trips (arranged through Mr. McHugh's comments to the atten Many outside contractors are former OEO Youth for Understanding, an international tion of my colleagues and include his officials who have quit the government and exchange group with national offices in Ann article at the conclusion of my remarks: are now with firms getting fat OEO con Arbor), an investigation was begun. NATIONAL SECURrrY Is AN ISSUE OF THE tracts. It was learned that 23 of the youngsters TIMES came from homes that did not even meet Leo Kramer was an associate director of an WASHINGTON.-"National security." OEO program. A year after he resigned from poverty guidelines. The trips already were under way when the OEO decided not to What does it mean? the agency, he opened an operations re Is it a convenient cover-all phrase under search firm. OEO records show that Kramer pay for them. Quietly, the OEO has referred the mat which presidents hide sins and mistakes? collected $1.8 million in eight anti-poverty Or is it a grim fact of life that comes hand c.ontracts over the ensuing four years. ter to the Justice Department for further investigations, and federal probers are look in hand with the oath of office, a fact that Six of those eight contracts involved the .only a president can fully appreciate because program that Kramer had helped to control ing into criminal fraud charges at this point. What happened in Monmouth County was in final analysis only he can interpret it? at OEO. · In the shambles of the Watergate affair, Late in the Johnson administration, when that local OEO board members closed their eyes to a managerial decision to send the only President Richard Nixon can really Kramer was setting up his flourishing busi answer. If he believes national security as he ness two blocks from OEO headquarters, high-school students on an international joy ride at tax-payer expense. saw it was lnvolved he faces a cruel dilemma. Bertrand Harding came into the OEO as His lonely position is emphasized by the deputy director. "This kind of thing is the chink in our armor," said OEO Director Sanchez. "This deaths earlier this year of Harry S. Truman "I was immediately struck by the number and Lyndon B. Johnson, the last two living of OEO contracts going to private companies kind of thing could happen to us again." Monday: Overlapping and duplication of former presidents who might have stepped which employed former OEO staff people," forward and tried to explain the loneliness said Harding, who remembers this as having services plague the poverty industry. How funds are spent on poor: and responsibilit-y of the White House. "the appearance of impropriety." The partisan taunts of erstwhile Demo William P. Kelly was in charge of the ad Here's a breakdown on the leading spenders in Washington in the poverty industry and cratic presidential hopefuls and the acid ministration of contracts at OEO a few years words of some columnists and commentators ago. Now he is a top executive with Volt what they're spending in 1973: [Amount in billions) do not answer the question. Information Sciences Inc., which has offices It is attempting to sweep aside the unrest a block from the OEO. Department: and assassinations of a decade, to ignore Kelly can ·recall "a number of contracts Health, Education, and Welfare ____ _ $22.1 the now-muted threats of radical anti-Viet with OEO" for Volt since he has made the Agriculture ------3.1 nam groups and to conclude that President one-block move. 2.5 LaborVeterans' --- Administration------______------_ Nixon injected national security into the · Kramer and Kelly insist that .their inside 1.6 Watergate atmosphere only to confuse the knowledge of OEO had nothing to do with Housing and Urban·Development_ __ 0.8 issue and defend himself. the contracts.their firms have won, since the 0.8 OEOAll others ------______------:_ _ But Nixon was not the first president to bidding was "done in open competition. · 0.6 worry about the antiwar movement, its Nonetheless, nearly three years ago OEO origins, some of its leaders and their possi toughened its contract-awarding rules, Total------31.5 ble effect on national policy. Nor was he guarding against deals with firms that hire the first president to worry about security former OEO officials--leading Kramer to . And here's what the poverty industry was spending in 1968, in the last full year of leaks from dissident or frustrated bureau c~mpl~in that OEO is operating these days the Johnson administration: crats. w1th a rather outmoded view of govern~ The late John F. Kennedy ordered his ment." (Amount in billions) brother, Attorney General Robert F. Ken Still, during the past three years, OEO has Department: nedy, to undertake a sweeping wiretap cam continued to spend heavy amounts of its Health, Education, and Welfare ____ $11. 7 paign to plug lea-ks about U.S. intentions budget on outside advisers and experts. At Agriculture ------0. 3 toward Castro Cuba, about U.S. views of the the start of 1973 there were 65 outside firms Labor------0.6 Cuban missile problem and about U.S. policy holding contracts that range in value from Veterans' Administration______1. 0 toward the Soviet Union and France. $100,000 to more than $1 million each. Many Housing and Urban Development__ 0. 2 One of Robert Kennedy's wiretap targets of these firms have working offices in the OEO ------0. 8 was even the late Dr. Martin Luther King Washington metropolitan area, within walk All others------0.3 and there were men in the Kennedy camp ing distance of OEO headquarters. seriously concerned about allegations that The poverty business is "still seen as a Total ------15.9 King might have secret contacts with for growth industry," said Roy Littlejohn, who eign sources. These allegations were never started out as a contractor almost five years substantiated, but they were investigated by ago when he said, "there still was a great the Justice Department. deal of confidence in social programs." It was President Johnson who set up a Contractors who don't diversify enough NATIONAL SECURITY IS AN ISSUE OF THE TIMES small unit known as the Interdivisional In drop out of business as the moods of gov telligence Unit in 1965 to coordinate investi ernment change. Littlejohn has spread his gations of radical domestic groups. expertise from the CEO to the Defense De The unit was technically headed by At partment, for instance. But even when one HON. BOB WILSON torney General Ramsey Clark, but it in contractor goes out of business here, two OF CALIFORNIA cluded the FBI, the CIA, the various Defense more seem to spring up. Department intelligence operations, the Meanwhile, the CEC continues to struggle IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Treasury Department's Internal Revenue for control over programs it· is operating on Monday, June 25, 1973 Service and the Secret Service. a $790.2 million budget for 1973. It is often One could hardly fault President John dogged with sloppy management problems Mr. BOB WILSON. Mr. Speaker, in son. He had come to office on the assassina that keep it from getting what it's paying these days of national trauma over the tion of President Kennedy. He had seen Dr. for. Watergate, it is important that we not King and then Sen. Robert Kennedy assassi For instance, local investigators discovered nated. He had seen the radical riots in De recently in Atlanta that an outside contrac lose sight of the President's responsibili troit, Newark, Los Angeles, and dozens of t or-being paid $80,995 to supply CEC serv ties in the area of national security. I other cities. ices to the elderly in poor neighborhoods would like to share with my House col As the 1968 presidential campaign neared, was running a "pilot project" in two high leagues an article entitled "National Johnson ordered this unit to redouble its r ise apartment houses where white people Security Is an Issue of the Times," by efforts. He also ordered that all would-be \•. 21286 ·EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 25, 1973 presidential candidates get Secret Service The disclosure of the Pentagon Papers by they become so involved in the "game" that protection. Dr. Daniel Ellsberg could only confirm sus they lose sight of its purpose. (Sen. Kennedy refused such protection and picions for some in high places that there An old Revolutionary War tale recalls the security men still argue whether a routine was a group in the bureaucracy, allied with day Gen. George Washington and his staff Secret Service check of the Ambassador Hotel political and media elements, who were dedi rode into a New Jersey crossroads hamlet. kitchen in Los Angeles would not have un cated not only to frustrate the Nixon presi A woman rushed up to Gen. Washington covered Sirhan Sirhan before he could kill dency, but to frustrate what Nixon held to and volunteered to tell him everything she Kennedy. The situation was not the same in be the legitimate and essential goals of the knew of British troops. 1972 when Alabama Gov. George Wallace was nation. "Can you keep a secret?" Washington shot at a Maryland parking lot rally. Wallace Richard Holbrooke, managing editor of the asked. did have Secret Service protection, but prestigious magazine Foreign Affairs, draws "Oh yes," promised the woman. agents had no chance to check everyone in this picture of Nixon's state of mind: "Well so can 1," laughed the general and the parking lot. They would have been able 1969: the world we live in, he believes, is he rode away. to check everyone in a hotel kitchen that threatened by a subversive conspiracy at ev Kennedy planned to use as a departure ery level. In the words of columnist Stewart route.) Alsop, summarizing the views of the inner The Johnson unit had grown to major pro Nixon team, the administration believed that POMPEY, N.Y., CHURCH CELE portions by the time of the Democratic na "the left-wing opposition had infiltrated the tional convention in 1968. Clark has claimed secret vitals of the Nixon foreign policy." BRATES 100TH ANNIVERSARY that he was not aware of how widespread 1970: then a sudden threat "of critical the military intelligence operations had be proportions": a wave of violence sweeping HON. JAMES M. HANLEY come, but he technically was in charge. across the nation, with "some of the dis Those over-ambitious military activities in ruptive activities receiving foreign support." OF NEW YORK domestic political areas eventually exploded 1971: a theft of 47 volumes of studies and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES into scandal proportions early in the first comments "from the most sensitive files," Monday, June 25, 1973 Nixon administration. a "security leak of unprecedented propor This was the climate in which Richard M. tions," creating "a threat so grave as to re Mr. HANLEY. Mr. Speaker, 1n my Nixon campaigned for the presidency in quire extraordinary actions." judgment, certainly any institution 1968. He was under constant guard. This re "And so, viewing the world outside the which has served our society for 100 porter can attest to the tight security and oval office as hostile, the president took in years is indeed worthy of whatever rec the personal searches one endured before ternal security measures. . ." reaching Nixon at his Broad Street law office Add this possible factor-and only the ognition that may be provided and espe or his Fifth Avenue apartment. president could confirm or deny it: cially when the institution is a house of President Nixon also is peculiarly a prod That both Peking and Moscow were being worship. uct of other domestic unrest and dissidence stymied in attempts to turn Vietnam into At this time in my home community, that was always linked to basic national se an American revolution; that the intensive that is Onondaga County, in New York curity issues-the Cold War, Korea, Red American counter-intelligence efforts were State, the Church of the Immaculate China, Cuba, Vietnam, etc. bearing fruit, but most important the aver Conception, in Pompey, N.Y., along with It was Nixon who sent Alger Hiss to jail for age American citizen and the establishment his role in a Soviet espionage case that Pres were riding out the storm. Saint Paul's Mission in Fabius, N.Y., have ident Truman had dismissed as a red herring. That confronted with this reality, both completed a century of service to the Nixon matured politically during the years of major Communist capitals-first Peking, community. This milestone was noted the Rosenberg trial that ended in the execu then Moscow-recognized that they had lost, with a concelebrated mass at the Church tion of the couple accused of giving the recognized that under Nixon the United of the Immaculate Conception on June secret of the atomic bomb to the Soviets. He States would persevere in Southeast Asia; 17, 1973. The mass was arranged for by also well remembers the passionate outcry and worse, it was likely to persevere in other the pastor, Rev. William P. Reagan. A of left-wing protesters who demanded that world trouble areas; that it was time for a capacity attendance was rewarded with a the Rosenbergs be spared. cease-fire in Indochina. President Nixon was aware of the four That faced with this, both decided they beautiful homily enunciated by the Most tense years in which U-2 spy planes criss had to compromise, because only through Rev. David F. Cunningham, Bishop of crossed the Soviet Union, bringing back compromise with the strongest nation in the Syracuse. Much of that homily is con photo evidence on Russian military progress. world could they hope to gain the agree tained in an editorial which I attach. This was a national security secret of the ments, the trade concessions, and the credits I cc;>mmend this reading to my col highest order. that would permit their regimes to survive. leagues and offer my congratulations to He was aware, too, of the surreptitious In this thesis, what followed were the in Father Reagan and the parishioners o! buildup in 196Q-61 for a Cuban exile invasion vitations for Nixon to visit Peking and the church and mission. of their homeland. When John F. Kennedy Moscow. ordered the invasion, but withheld vitally If one accepts that there were elements in CHURCH MARKS FIRST CENTURY WITH SERVICE needed U.S. air cover, Nixon railed privately the anti-Vietnam movement over 10 years (By Ramona :B: Bowden) at friends, but he did not attack President that represented a direct threat to American For the past century the Roman Catholic Kennedy publicly. Again in 1962, Nixon be institutions, there can be no question that Church of the Immaculate Conception in lieved Kennedy should have taken direct the government's defense and counter-attack Pompey and St. Paul's Mission in Fabius military action against Russian missile sites had national security overtones. have served the parish. Yesterday's con in Cuba and against the Castro regime, but This in no way suggests an alibi for the celebrated Mass marked 100 years of devoted again he did not attack Kennedy's com Watergate affair itself, or for other acts of mutual service of priests and people. promise solution. political espionage that we approved. But That five outstanding priests of the diocese Today critics who ridicule his national se counter-attacks, particularly successful with the Most Rev. David F. Cunningham, curity arguments ignore not only the Nixon counter-attacks, are sometimes not easy to bishop of Syracuse; with the pe.stor, the Rev. career, but the day-to-today facts 'that domi stop. William P. Regan, offered the Mass, marked nated his first term in office. At this writing it appears that President the significance of the high regard in which It would have been shocking if Nixon had Nixon made serious mistakes in delegating the parish is held. not studied and approached the anti-Viet authority. There is evidence that some of the In his homily the bishop said, "The theme nam movement from a national security people he entrusted with the counter-attack for the day is thanksgiving; for at a time standpoint. Although pious politicians and were carried away, that they lost sight of the like this the heart is overflowing with grati cynical writers chose to see the movement fact that they were fighting for a govern tude for all that God has given and will con as a clean-cut revulsion by idealistic Amer ment, not an individual or his party; worst, tinue to give." icans against an ill-defined conflict 10,000 they did not always differentiate between "What shall I render to God for all His miles away, any president had also to guard targets. benefits and blessings? This is the feeling of against the possibility that honest idealists If this 1s true, they will have to answer. At the people of Pompey and Fabius on this were being deliberately misled against the best, Nixon will have to answer for mis joyous day," said the bishop as he paid trib national interest. placed judgment. ute to Father Regan for the splendid way From 1969 to :i972 Washington was the Much has been written in recent weeks he had readied the beautiful little white scene of a bitter below-the-surface intelli about secrecy in government. The overwhelm· church for the occasion. gence battle. Intercepted messages from Com 1ng consensus is that it is inherently bad. The bishop went on to outline the early munist China to some antiwar personalities Criticism will not eliminate secrecy. For cen history of the parish, noting that Ulysses S. heightened White House apprehensions. turies the affairs of nations have demanded Grant was president at that time, and tlle Leaks of classified information to the press it, . country was recovering from the Civll War. added to an administration conviction that · What 1s bad is when men do not properly First served by nonresident priests, the peo there were men in government who did not assess the reasons for~A>ecrecy, when they do ple wanted their own pastor. :want Nixon to achieve "peace with honor." not properly evaluate intelligence data, when They knew their faith would be preserved June 2.5, 1973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 21287 only by an anointed priest of God, assigned The director of the Louisiana .State term debt of $64,020, which puts the total. by the bishop. University Cooperative Extension Serv loss and obligations at about $135,084. Even "They petitioned Bishop Conroy of the ice, Mr. John A. Cox,· has announced the with good yields and a strong market, it diocese of Albany, which included Syracuse will be four or five years before he is clear and Onondaga County at that time, He gave results of a study done by his organiza of the financial effects of a single year's loss the church its first president, and since tion to determine the cost to Louisiana of income. that time 17 pastors have served the parish," farmers who are prevented from plant he said. ing this year. Mr. Cox has found that the . "While they differed in various ways, yet all farmers of Catahoula Parish, La., who OPEN LETTER TO MR. LEONID I. were alike in their priesthood of Christ. All did not plant crops this spring will have preached the gospel, all celebrated the sacri BREZHNEV fice of the Mass in which the worshipper re suffered an average loss of $71,064 by the ceived new life through forgiveness of sin, ·• time they complete their harvest in 1974. he said. Mr. Cox' conclusions were published in HON. EDWARD J. DERWINSKI "The parish church established as a house the Opelousas Daily World of Opelousas, OF ILLINOIS of God signified that 'someone lives here' La. Since the House of Representatives IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES with the altar the focal point where the will soon consider the omnibus farm bill Monday, June 25, 1973 Mass was offered. 'I have placed my taberna I include the article for the information cle among you-you shall be My people and of my colleagues: Mr. DERWINSKI. Mr. Speaker, a great I will be your God,' said the Lord of Hosts," LOUISIANA FARMER'S FINANCIAL PLIGHT deal of interest has been _shown by let- he declared. ters of numerous organizations that rep "This house is a house of prayer so that BATON RouGE.-Farming can be a reason the people can come closer to God, and even ably profitable business, but circumstances resent Americans of various nationality after 100 years and after 2,000 years we have ~~eyond a farmer's control in a single year 'ba AWAKENED OLDER GENERATION one of the most devastating things that can bols, and I think this generation of older And now we come forward to those who happen to them is to see everything about Americans can be the one that makes it honor her. Let me point out that when we aging; the facts, the mysteries, the deep ques genuinely accepted that older people use started this project 4 years ago, the member tions, the changes, the processes and the 111- their accumulated experience and wisdom, ship of AARP and NRTA at that time was nesses-even the new options and opportu not to cultivate hobbies but for the better 2,000,000 members. By the time of the nities all lumped together in one dismal cate ment of mankind. groundbreaking we had reached a total of gory called "The Problem of Aging". They We will see more and more people enter 3,000,000 members, and now as we hold these are not prepared to accept this. ing retirement with the explicit purpose of opening ceremonies our membership stands The people we are talking about are used using leisure for something more constructive at 5,000,000 members. All of which proves the to thinking of problems as opportunities and than most ordinary work, and as they do re very thing. that Dr. Andrus staunchly main acting on them accordingly. They are un tirees may well become the real revolution tained that this is an awakened older genera daunted by the fact that many major ques aries--or evolutionaries-dedicated to find tion. An older generation taking its own tions about aging remain unanswered. Just ing ways to improve life in the world as a destiny back in its own hands. as many questions about other phases of life whole. How to be humane, how to be in I ask you that will work at the Center to remain to be unanswered. To them aging is volved, how to live at peace, how to solve pause and consider that the subjects of your just that. Another phase. A new aspect of life the nation's complex racial pl."oblems, how to research and study wlll be the people who to be dealt with as they have dealt in turn get at the root causes of crime and violence, formed the 20th century. They were born with all the other aspects, all other ph~ses. how to restore harmony between man and with it. They matured with it, and now they And they enter retirement as they would em his environment, how to make government grow old with it. Many of these people were bark on any other endeavor. It is a new field more responsive to the people, and how to born by lamplight with the help of a doctor to conquer and we are determined to conquer start this revolution in individual lives in who arrived by horse and buggy. But they it. relationships people form with each other. have broken most of the ground rules of past And as they do, the center with its diversity These have proved to be elusive questions for generations and they have challenged most of studies touching on all the areas of life people caught in the stresses and pressures of the values, and their achievements are as will be a tremendous source of help and en of competitive living. So who is better qual- diverse as harnassing atomic energy break lightenment. The time is at hand to find a 1fied to search in depth for the answers than ing the genetic code of human life and land new and better way to live old age. That is people who have graduated out of the com ing man on the moon. what those growing old and those studying petitive hassle, and people with a lifetime of aging must do together, and we take the very CREATIVE RICHNESS experience behind them. They come forward first step here today. They have moved through the industrial with the mature insight to do great things. age and the age of technology, making their IMPOSSIBLE DREAM? Insight that time alone can bestow. And freed contribution and watohing everything about You may feel that what I am saying is from the pressing duties of middle years they American life change in the process. Their too optimistic. We look around us and see are prepared at last into all the special levels knowledge and understanding are awesome. many older people whose lives are precarious of leadership that they alone can fill. So what is the predominant message these and bleak. We constantly are confronted by OUR CONTRIBUTIONS the shameful statistics about the number of people would like to convey to those who And so the real challenge facing us at this are committed to the study of aging. older people who live in poverty, who are 111 and dependent and have no place to turn. moment is how all of us together can con First, I think, they would like it under• tribute to this new pattern of aging. You, in stood that old age cannot be treated as a fact Does this mean that what I have been de scribing is an impossible dream? I don't the biological and medical sciences, will find apart from life. People do not grow old in a additional ways to enhance the body's own vacuum. They were not born old. Nor are think so. These conditions represent not so much a miraculous ability to compensate for its they, through the circumstance of age, cut gradual losses • • • so that strength and off from all that formed them and which they picture of aging as much as a reflection of social failure which we, as a nation as a vitality will continue much later in life. You, iformed. in the social sciences, will discover what cir Actually a major barrier to the und~r whole, must rectify. On the other hand, we standing of old age is the tendency of so know realistically, that even as we make cumstances and what social equations best many people to talk about the elderly as 1f progress that even under optimum conditions free the aging capacity for service and par lthey h:ad no prior history. As if they had it will not be possible to rescue all the people ticipation. And we of AARP and NRTA will come into existence old. But how far from from all of the dehabilitating effects of aging. continue to do the very things that Dr. An true this is. People now old are the archi However there is a crucially important fact drus so vigorously advocated. tects of what is current. Deep sociological to bear in mind. That is that even now with We will work to destroy those stereotypes changes do not happen quickly enough to so much still to be done, people suffering of aging that imprison people in narrow, be offered to the people who seem to be mak· these effects are just a small minority of the frustrating roles. We will persist in our as ing them happen. old people. The elderly, themselves, are acute sault on chronological age, which is in no way They had their inception quite a while ago ly aware of all this. The good and the bad ever a reliable measure of either reliability or :With the old, thus it is the results, not of and given half a chance they prefer to con capability. We will, in our work together, en abstract historical process but of their own centrate on the good. able this new image of aging to be strength lives with which the aging have to cope. And For instance, they know of the diseases ened and to grow. so we see that the traditional lament for that are associated especially with old age. As all of you know, during the year that the old man that the world has changed But they do not consider these their special the Center was being built, the White House and passed him by is no longer valid. blight. They prefer to regard them as diseases Conference on Aging was held in Washington More than at any other time or place, like other diseases, like polio and tubercu D.C. The conferees at that time called fo; America's 20th century man has participated losis--and soon, we hope, cancer which wm the immediate establishment of a National in his own history. To an unprecedented de yield to the onslaught of modern medicine. Institute of Gerontology, and for the en gree, he was not done to-he did. And the Actually they are convinced, and they have couragement of other centers of learning to same creative richness that was capable of the strong evidence of science on their side, study human aging. Though legislation was shaping an age is capable of shaping a new that most older people can have a good and enacted in those areas by the Congress, I old age. And I think here we begin to see satisfying life. And therefore perhaps the regret to note that unfortunately it has yet quite clearly the second overwhelmingly im greatest contribution of this generation of to be put into law due to the Presidential portant thing, that older people would like older people will be to conquer the fear of veto. However I take real pride in pointing those who work in their behalf to under aging. Old age has been feared because, in a out that we anticipated this mandate at the stand. It is that they do not consider aging sense, it has been unknown. As it is made White House Conference by at least four in itself to be a problem and most certainly known, the great pleasures and achievements years. they do not consider themselves to be prob that are possible in this time of life will be Long before the White House Conference lem people. Not any more than the child, or gin to emerge. called for making Gerontology a separate en the adolescent, or the young adult or the THE NEW AGING tity within our National Institutes of Health, middle-aged person could be classifled a the University of Southern California and So let's conjecture for a moment what this NRTA/AARP had joined to create a multi problem because of the special characteristics new aging will be like. I believe that within of his stage of development. disciplined Gerontology Center which would a relatively short period we can make it the bring together specialists from every field SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS expected thing that retired men and women from all over the world, to apply their exper Certainly this does not mean that today's devote their major efforts to the major prob tise for enlarging the options and opportuni older people are not realistically aware of the lems that are facing them at that time of ties of those growing old. problems that they do face. Their drive to their life. Further, the Center would serve as a model create the center for the study of aging at Not long ago I read an article by James to encourage other great Universities to de tests to that a thousandfold. They know the Michener in which he told of the Japanese velop gerontology programs until the poten problems are many and complex. But these tradition which entitles a man after the age tials of aging can be fully realized. are the peoples who are used to problems. of 60 to lie in his kimono and rest as a sym THE DAWNING OF A NEW ERA Seeing solutions has been an integral part of bol of authority and wisdom. In the United And now I thlrik we will see a new era their whole lives. Yet only a small part. Now States we deal more in action than in sym- dawning. The private sector, the universities, CXIX--1343-Part 17 21290 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 25, 1973. the federal government, all the people, all were fortunate to be part of her very spe WHTC deduction is computed for a cor will be joining their efforts to seek the knowl cial family. poration with $100,000 net income. edge and understanding that will preserve Thank you very much. the last fourth of human life from the limbo First, $100,000 net income HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES-Tuesday, June 26, 1973 The House met at 12 o'clock noon. are a shield to those who walk in in and justice and equity for those whom Dr. John T. Ramsey, pastor, Pennsyl tegrity, guarding the paths of justice and they represent. vania Avenue Baptist Church, Washing preserving the way of Thy saints. Grant them, in turn, fearlessness in ton, D.C., offered the following prayer: Grant the Members of this august the face of evil, that by their example Heavenly Father, Thou who stores up body fear of Thee, for thereby shall come righteousness may be exalted in our land. sound wisdom for the upright, Thou who wisdom and discretion for their work, Grant them, above all, increased faith