18132 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE August 29 ·concerned about the impact the coal pipe- provisions of the Federal Power Commis­ ADJOURNMENT UNTIL 10 A.M. lines will have on their interests. sion; TOMORROW . The development, however, is one that s. 3327. An act to make eligible for as­ .might someday be of benefit to many of the sistance under the public fac111ty loan Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I States with great coal reserves. Wyoming program certain areas where research or de­ move that the Senate stand in adjourn­ has the third largest tonnage of coal, being velopment installations of the National.Aero­ ment, pursuant to the previous order, one of the three States with reserves above nautics and Space Administration are lo- until10 o'clock tomorrow morning. 100 billion tons. A resource. in such tre­ cated; and . · The motion was agr.eed to; and (at 8 mendous proportions can't be overlooked. S. 3574. An act to extend the International Coal by pipeline may help slake the al­ Wheat Agreement Act of 1949. o'clock and 29 minutes p.m.) the Senate most insatiable energy thirst that the indus­ adjourned, pursuant to the previous trialized world has developed. order, until tomorrow, Thursday, August ENROLLED JOINT RESOLUTION 30, 1962, at 10 o'clock a.m. · PRESENTED ENROLLEP BILLS PRESENTED· The Secretary of the Senate reported The Secretary of the Senate reported that on today, August 29, 1962, he pre­ NOMINATION that on today, August 29, 1962, he pre­ sented to the Administrator of General Executive nomination received· by the sented to the President of the United Services Administration the enrolled Senate August 29, 1962: States the following enrolled bills: joint resolution <S.J. Res. 29) proposing DEPARTMENT OF STATE s. 1606. An act to authorize the Federal an amendment to the Constitution of the · Abba P _. Schwartz, of Maryland, to be Ad­ ' Power Commission to exempt, small hydro­ United States relating to the qualifica­ ministrator, Bureau of Security and Consular electric projects from certain of the licensing tions of electors. Affairs, Department of State. EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS President Kennedy Appoints Consumer tion is not workable and Government regu­ Bros., specializing in retail business lation is substituted, an assurance of sat­ financing. Advisory Council isfactory quality and service at fair prices. Mrs. John G. Lee, of Farmington, 4 . The right to be heard: To be assured that consumer interests will receive full -and Conn., former president of the League EXTENSION OF REM:ARKS sympathetic consideration in the formula­ of Women Voters, 1950-58. OF tion of Government policy, and fair and ex- · Dr. EdwardS. Lewis, of New York City, peditious treatment in its administr'ative executive director of the Urban League HON. MAURINE B. NEUBERGER tribunals. ·of Greater New York. OF OREGON While all sorts of special interest Walter F. Mondale, of St. Paul, Minn., IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES groups maintain organizations and rep­ attorney general of the State and chair­ Wednesday, August 29, 1962 resentatives here in Washington, the man of the Consumers Protection Com­ mittee of the National Association of At..: Mrs. NEUBERGER. Mr. President, consumer does not have those who can torneys General. last month President Kennedy an­ represent his needs and interests. The appointment of the Consumer Advisory Dr. Richard L. D. Morse, of Manhat­ nounced the appointment of a 12-mem­ tan, Kans... head of the department of ber Consumer Advisory Council. For Council will fill this gap. The chal­ lenges before the Council are immense. family economics since 1955 at Kansas . the first time consumers are to have a State University and past president of voice in the White House through the Appointed as Chairman of the Consumer Advisory Council is Dr. Helen G. Ca­ the Council on Consumer Information. newly organized Advisory Council at­ Mrs. Helen E. Nelson, of Sacramento, tached to the President's Council of noyer, dean of the School of Home Eco­ nomics of Cornell University since 1953. Calif., director of the California Office of Economic Advisers. All of us, Mr. Presi­ Consumer Counsel. dent, are consumers, but consumer Mr. President, one of the distinguished· Dr. Caroline Ware, of Vienna, Va., needs and interests are all too frequently members of the Consumer Advisory chairman of the Consumer Clearing­ overlooked in the development of Gov­ Council is Sylvia Porter, the well-known house, 1943-52, and a member of Presi­ ernment policies. Earlier this year tne columnist -and writer on financial mat­ dent Kennedy's Commission on the President sent a historic consumers ters. Recently Sylvia Porter wrote a Status of Women. message to Congress. series of articles on the newly appointed Dr. Colston E. Warne, of Amherst, In the Presidential message of March Consumer Advisory Council, pointing Mass., on the faculty of Amherst College 15, President Kennedy said: out the hopes and problems and tlie and president of the Consumers Union Consumers, by definition, include us all. challenges which face such a program. of the U.S.A., Inc. They are the largest economic group in the I ask unanimous consent to have the five There being ·no objection, the articles economy, affecting and affected by almost columns by Sylvia Porter dealing with were ordered to be printed in the RECORD, every public and private economic decision. the Consumer Advisory Council printed But they are the only important group in in the RECORD . as follows: the economy who are not effectively organ­ Mr. President, as Sylvia Porter points YOUR MO.NEY'S WORTH: CONSUMER COUNCIL ized, whose views are often not heard. out: IN WHITE HousE The Federal Government-by nature the (By Sylvia Porter) highest spokesman for all the people--has a . · The CAC has been born. Now it will begin For the fir-st time, consumers are to have special obligation to be alert to the consum­ to earn its right to become a permanent, a voice in the White House--through the er's needs and ·to advance the consumer's respected, valuable part of the Federal Gov­ ernment. newly organized Consumers'_Advisory Coun­ interests. cil attached to the President's Council of The President set forth a consumers' The other members of the Consumer Economic Advisers. Advisory Council besides Dr. Canoyer and It is a pioneering move, the fulfillment ·bill of rights. These rights include: of a pledge made during the 1960 election 1. The right to safety: To -be protected Sylvia Porter are: campaign. While, as was cynically noted in against the marketing of goods which are David Angevine, of Park Forest, Ill., one editorial entitled "A Bone for Con­ hazardous to health or life. information director of the Cooperative sumers," President Kennedy waited a year 2. The right to be informed: To be pro­ and a half before naming the Council, this tected against fraudulent, deceitful, or League of America and former editor of doesn't seem so long against the background grossly misleading information, advertising, Cooperative News Service. of 186 years that the consumer has been labeling, or other practices, and to be given Dr. Persia Campbell, professor and waiting for this high level of representation. , the facts he needs to make an informed head of Economics Department, Queens It is a Council .composed of six men and choice. College, the City University of New York. six women, a mixture of Democrats and Re­ · 3. The ·right to choose: To be assured, publicans who come from all over the coun­ wherever possible, access to a variety of · Stephen McKenzie du Brul, Jr., of New try and whose backgrounds reveal a llfelong products and services at competitive prices: York City, a director of the May Depart­ dedication to programs to inform the con­ and in those industries in which competi- ment Stores and a partner in Lehman sumer on matters affecting his health, safety, 1962 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 18133 and pocketbook, to safeguard the consumer pendent voice in Washington, put together programs for the safety and protection. of against fraud and deceit, to advance the by Persia Campbell, professor and chairman consumers in the United States. consumer's standard of living. of the economics department of Queens Col­ The message was a catchall. It included REPORT ON POSsiBILITIES -_ lege in New York. an expert long identified many innocuous proposals with which few with consUIIler programs and a member of could quarrel. Who, for instance, is going Helen G. Canoyer, dean of Cornell Uni­ the new CAC. to be against stepping up enforcement of the versity's School of Home Econ_omics, 1s the mail fraud laws except. someone trying to NEW DEAL ~ECALLED Council's chairman. I'm one of the members defraud via the mails? and, in this and the next four columns, I'll 1. In the early 1930's, a New Deal law set It also included some. controversial pro­ report on the Council, its possibll1ties and up the National Recovery Administration to posals. For instance, a request for a law -pitfalls, and the status of consumer legis- establish "codes of fair competition" which that would empower the Federal Trade Com­ lation in the United States today. - would help put floors under profits and mission "to issue temporary cease-and-de­ The Council must write its own rules­ wages. A Consumers Advisory Board to the sist orders against the continuance of ranging from whether a 12-member Coun­ NRA was created along with an Industrial unfair competitive practices while cases con­ cll is too big or too small to what should Advisory Board and a Labor Advisory Board cerned with permanent relief from such prac­ be its relationship with the President and so all three viewpoints could be heard while tices are pending before· the Commission" the various agencies of Government.