August 14, 1972 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 28129 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION SBA also provides Management Assistance furnaces of internment camps. I also rejoiced DISTRICT OFFICE IN FARGO, N. to non-borrowers, conducts business semi­ when finally the State of Israel was estab­ DAK., SELECTED AS REGION VIII nars and training courses for veterans, com­ lished, for among my friends were many mercial businessmen and businesswomen and Cleveland Jews whose compassion for the DISTRICT OFFICE OF THE YEAR provides counsel for existing SBA borrowers. black masses of America had been well-es­ Statistics in all these categories increased by tablished. nearly 50 % in the past 2 Y2 years. Unfortunately, I have not been privileged HON. QUENTIN N. BURDICK "We are pleased with this Award since it to enjoy the acquaintance of many Arabs. OF NORTH DAKOTA stacks up against Salt Lake City, Denver, Nor for that matter any intimate association IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES Billings, Great Falls and the prominent com­ with native Africans, my contacts being Monday, August 14, 1972 munities in Wyoming and South Dakota. limited to brief sessions with visiting jour­ While it's an office achievement, we're most nalists and a handful of African students Mr. BURDICK. Mr. President, I invite aware of the strong leadership of Mr. Thom.as who have come to America. to study in our the attention of Senators to the selec­ S. Kleppe, a North Dakotan and the national universities or business executives here to tion of the Small Business Administra­ SBA Administrator, who has given us abso­ scrutinize our economic system and ad­ tion District Office in Fargo, N. Dak., as lutely superb support for our North Dakota vanced technology. projects and loan guarantees," said Shafer. So, when the Egyptians jumped on little the Small Business Administration Re­ Israel without advance notice and wound gion vm District Office of the Year. This up getting themselves a superquick shel­ is truly an accomplishment of note­ lacking, I found myself applauding on the worthy proportion, as it represents an LEARNING FROM EACH OTHER sidelines . and I guess I'm still applaud­ award actively sought by offices through­ ing. out six States. My sincerest congratula­ Egypt's Sadat looks like a brother, but I tions to District Director E. Maine HON. LOUIS STOKES have grave doubts that he spends much of his time worrying about what's happening Shafer. OF OHIO to some 24 million Black Americans. He Also, I have the honor of reporting IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES seems too busy licking his wounds and try­ that a staff member of the same office, Monday, August 14, 1972 ing to persuade Africa's newly-independent Mr. O. G. Lovette, was awarded the Re­ nation's that Israel presents their greatest gion VIII Public Contact Award. In a Mr. STOKES. Mr. Speaker, I have threat to their growth and prosperity. communication with Mr. Shafer, SBA spoken in this House many times about The name of Julius Rosenwald does con­ Regional Director Robert Sherwood cited the brave editorialist who writes in jure up images of schools and health centers Mr. Lovette for "his superior public im­ for Black Americans, that were instituted Cleveland-Mr. Charles H. Loeb of the long before the U.S. Supreme Court finally age and endless community activities." I Call & Post. Today I would like to bring decided that "separate and equal" was for ask unanimous consent to have printed another one of his outstanding columns the birds. in the RECORD the text of the news re­ to the attention of my colleagues. Even so, Black Americans will probably lease announcing the selection of the Mr. Loeb called his article of July 15 gloat over the election of a Black U.S. Presi­ North Dakota office for these honors. "My Thing About Jews." He shot down, dent before American Jews have that oppor­ There being no objection, the news re­ one at a time, the myths that have pur­ tunity, if ever, such is the long and shadowy lease was ordered to be printed in the sued the Jewish nation since the begin­ corridor of white Anglo-Saxon-Protestant­ RECORD, as follows: ism that rambles through racist America. ning of history. It is almost unbelievable Finally, I constantly find myself admiring DISTRICT OFFICE OF THE YEAR that whole peoples-whether Jewish, the way American Jews have learned to shrug The North Dakota District Office of the black, Polish, or Italian-are still being off discrimination and prejudices, and have Small Business Administration has been victimized by falsehoods that are per­ managed to live-and prosper-within the selected as the District Office of the Year for petuated by what can be a narrowminded system through a combination of the only Region vm, comprising the states of Colo­ and insecure majority. two ingredients that win respect from our rado, Utah, Montana, Wyoming, South Charles Loeb feels that there is much political leaders-money and votes. Dakota and North Dakota. In a communi­ I've no time to drum up anti-Semitism, cation from the Office of Robert G. Sherwood, that American minority groups could either here on my doorstep or a.round the Regional Director, SBA, Denver, to E. Maine learn from one another. As he put it in world. I'm too busy trying to lea.rn how Jews Shafer, District Director of the SBA in North his closing paragraph: have managed to get it all together. Dakota, Mr. Sherwood wrote, "The Commit­ I've no time to drum up anti-Semitism, tee Members a.greed that the Fargo Office either here on my doorstep or a.round the achievements exceeded those of our other world. I'm too busy trying to learn how Jews POLLUTION FROM SURFACE Districts. You are truly to be commended have managed to get it all together. MINING for your outstanding leadership in earning this recognition for yourself and your fellow The complete article follows: workers." MY THING ABOUT JEWS HON. FRED SCHWENGEL In addition to the "outstanding office" (By Charles H. Loeb) OF IOWA award, Mr. Sherwood advised that Mr. O. G. Perhaps I'm old-fashioned, but I have a Lovette was selected for the Region vm thing about Jews. It amounts to a special IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Public Contact Award for his superior work sympatico for Jews and their causes that I Monday, August 14, 1972 in community development credit assistance sometimes find difficult to explain to a grow­ which led the Region in accomplishment. ing number of my black friends who, of late, Mr. SCHWENGEL. Mr. Speaker, the Both Mr. Shafer and Mr. Lovette have have developed their own thing about Pan­ practice of surface mining has been been invited to an Annual Awards Ceremony Africanism-a modern day effort to develop spreading throughout the country for scheduled to be held at the Denver Regional closer ties between American Blacks and well over a century and has now en­ Office August 18, 1972. their cousins (brothers?) of the African con­ gulfed a total of 3.2 million acres of land. In receiving the Award Mr. Shafer an­ tinent. All States have land areas disturbed by nounced that as of June 30, 1972, 1,400 loans Of course rve run across a few "Merchant were outstanding in North Dakota. In the of Venice" types in my days; an almost in­ strip mining and needing restorative Fiscal Year 1972, a 32% increase in all loans escapable experience for those of us who measures. Of the total 3.2 million acres disbursed was achieved with a total of $14,- have not, either through opportunity or disturbed, some 2 million are still in se­ 690,000 disbursed in 245 loans in 42 Counties. choice, moved away from the inner-city ghet­ rious need of conservation treatment. This compares with $11,415,000 and 180 loans toes of America. B,ut, having been generalized These remaining sore spots are subject in Fiscal Year 1971 and $6,800,000 and 146 at all my life, I'm leery of lumping people to uncontrolled erosion, and pose serious loans in 1970. The over-all business loan de­ of any race or religious group together 1n problems in the form of mud slides, wa­ linquency rate was at an all time low of 2 % such a manner. ter pollution, and channel clogging, as while Disaster Loan delinquencies rose Avaricious cheating, conniving Jews are no slight from 2.3% to 2.8%. more numerous in our midst---or our world­ well as being safety hazards in them­ In Mr. LoVette's Community Economic than are primitive, lazy, shiftless Negroes. selves. Over 90 percent of the strip mined Development Division 24 North Dakota com­ With the vast majority of the civilized peo­ land is in private ownership, and obvi­ m.unity projects were financed as compared ple of the world. I recoiled with horror at ously the remaining problems are un­ with 13 in Fiscal Year 1971. This figure rep­ the infamous Hitlerian genocide in Germany solved largely because private landown­ resents the highest accomplishment of any 1n which mllik>ns of innocent Jews were put ers are unable to handle the job single-man office in the United States. to death by torture, starvation and the fiery by themselves. CXVIII--1772-Part 21 28130 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS August 14, 1972 Some erosion is inevitable on fresh Experience with the existing programs problems which have entangled those in strip mine spoil banks, as it is on any has shown that mined areas and the as­ the area of water resource control.