21018 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 22, 1973 H. Res. 459. Resolution to create a Select By Mr. HEINZ (for himself, Mr. GREEN MEMORIALS Committee on Aging; to the Committee on of Pennsylvania, Mr. GuDE, Mr. REEs, Rules. and Mr. PRITCHARD): Under clause 4 of rule XXII, By Mr. RANDALL (for himself, Mr. H. Res. 461. Resolution to create a Select 263. The SPEAKER presented a memorial RIEGLE, Mr. ROBISON of New York, Committee on Aging; to the Committee on of the Legislature of the State of Louisiana, Mr. RoDINO, Mr. RoE, Mr. RosENTHAL, Rules. relative to no-fault insurance; to the Com­ Mr. ROYBAL, Mr. SARASIN, Mr. BAR­ By Mr. PEPPER: mittee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. BANES, Mr. SATTERFIELD, Mr. SEBELIUS, H. Res. 462. Resolution providing for the Mr. SEIBERLING, Mr. SKUBITZ, Mr. printing of additional copies of the House S·rEELE, Mr. STUDDS, Mr. TALCOTT, Mr. report entitled "Reform of our Correctional TEAGUE of California, Mr. THONE, Systems"; to the Committee on House PETITIONS, ETC. Mr. TIERNAN, Mr. VEYSEY, Mr. WALSH, Administratlon . Mr. WINN, Mr. WoN PAT, Mr. YATRON, H. Res. 463. Resolution providing for the Under clause 1 of rule XXII, and Mr. YouNG of Illinois): printing of additional copies of the House 243. The SPEAKER presented a petition of H. Res. 460. Resolution to create a Select report entitled "Organized Criminal Influence John H. Leach II, Newport Beach, Calif., rela­ Committee on Aging; to the Committee on in Horse Racing"; to the Committee on House tive to redress of grievance; to the Committee Rules. Administration. on the Judiciary. EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS HOMETOWN, U.S.A., IS BOTH VITAL people occupy only 2 percent of our land. tinguishing qualities of the town and forms AND VIABLE TODAY These mass concentrations have led to an impression. Most outsiders, when they growing crime, delinquency, drug abuse, first arrive in Salem, have a negative impres­ sion. They see one curve-plagued, narrow and escalating welfare. Yet, across Amer­ street edged with ancient buildings, a rail­ HON. JENNINGS RANDOLPH ica, there are thousands of small towns OF WEST VmGINIA road track, and two high hills. "But," said and communities who eagerly seek new one Salemite, "I left in the spring after a IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES industries, new neighbors and ·new job winter's stay never to return and found that Friday, June 22, 1973 opportunities for their young people. by August I could not wait to get back." These are the grassroots which hold the Every town, every institution has a tone, Mr. RANDOLPH. Mr. President, over hope of the future if America is to re­ something that since it is an abstraction, has the past few weeks there have been thou­ nothing to do with streets or walls of build­ main the land of promise. We must, in sands of graduation ceremonies and ings, but is far more important. Maybe I commencement speeches. Most of these our national policies and programs, strive could call this atmosphere the spirit of a speeches have been predictably optimis­ to strengthen the undeveloped regions of place, and as Melville said, "it is not on a tic, designed to inspire young people on to our country so that all Americans can map. True places never are." The Salem I have a f1·ee choice of where they want to bring to you tonight is not on a map; neither greater heights of achievement. In recent can it be photographed. But the Salem which years, however, it has become fashion­ live. We must keep the Salems of our Na­ tion vital and viable if we are to meet the I deliver to you is a real place that although able to downgrade the future, to paint a it cannot be touched, is in the minds of many picture of gloom and doom and to rail at challenge of building a life of quality Of the peop-le in this room. the system and the establishment. As a for all. Salem, settled by Christian people, has al­ result, many young people are impressed The ceremony at Salem High School ways had Christian brotherhood and a moun­ into an attitude that is negative and this month was duplicated hundreds of tain spirit of make do, both helped along by foreboding. They feel that their life times throughout our country. Principal the lack of affi.uence in the town. One philo­ sophic resident expressed the fact thus: "The ahead promises only a dubious exis·tence Haymond Plaugher introduced the guests, including Dr. and Mrs. K. Duane greatest virtue of Salem is its poverty." We . barren of exciting discovery, without are a simple people too, because no one can chance or challenge. Hurley, president of my alma mater, be too uppity with his own family members. Earlier this month I was privileged to Salem College. Mrs. Paul Green played And most of us are really· kin either by in­ deliver the commencement address at the processional, the Honorable Mike heritance or long-time associations. When Salem High School, my native town in Greer of the West Virginia House of the thought of kinship ooourred to me, I West Virginia. I told the graduating Delegates gave the invocation; the bene­ looked at myself, and discovered I was a di­ seniors: diction was delivered by the Reverend rect descendant of the man who originally Robert Wheeler. Class officers were in­ owned all the land in Salem, a name so com­ Over the past half-century, Americans mon in the town that the Senator present have proven they are the masters of tech­ troduced. They are: James Bradley t:onigh11 will recognize me as Atwell's great nology. Our moon walks, satellite communi­ Davis, president; Janet Carol Murphy, grandson sooner than if I would use At­ cations and medical marvels are the envy of vice president; LuAnne Hersman, secre­ well's surname. When I took a survey of the the world. We have shown that we can build tary; Lance Cameron Sulsona, treasurer; class, I learned that of the thirty members, a life of quality unparalleled in history. We Michelle Ann Davis, historian; and Pa­ twenty-five are direct descendants of early have created a society of such super-abun­ residents of the community. We have stayed. dance that we are choking under 12'5 million tricia Ann Martin and Joseph Lynn Johnson, members of the Student put; outsiders have had a. tendency to cir­ tons of air pollutants a year, and a billion. cumvent our rugged terrain. pounds of garbage each year threatens to bury Council. In the 1880's many of the young people us. · The valedictorian address was given by left Salem to attend distant colleges and The challenge you face in the next half Daniel Harris Underwood, and Lillian never returned. To keep youth in the commu­ century is to build a life of quality, a life Allessio gave the salutatorian address. nity, the Salem people started, in 1887, an that offers an opportunity and something of Mr. Underwood, in speaking of his home­ grace for an-a life based, not on just ma­ academy that eventually developed into chines and gadgets, but on human dignity town, gave what I think is a valuable college. So along with friendliness, humil­ and individual woJ.:th. profile of Smalltown, U.S.A. He told of ity born of little wealth, and community kin­ its strengths and weaknesses, its proud ship, a bit of culture found its way to our We know that life on this Earth ts history and u~predictable future. I feel hills. finite, and that the present expenditure some Members of the Senate, in review­ Many artifacts and institutions in exist­ of energy and the consumption of food ing his words, may recall their own ence today attest to the energy and progres­ coupled with a quantum leap in popula­ smalltown origins, and remember the sive. spirit of. Salem people who have never tion every 35 years threatens to turn our tranquil existence of another day. numbered more than 3,000 individuals. planet into a mass of misery. Eviden~es Mr. President, I ask unanimous con­ - A group of businessmen in 1896 bought a of this macabre equation already Are sent that the brief valedictorian address hundred acres of land west of Salem to en­ tice the state to locate in the town the West cropping up: Flooding and starvation in of Daniel Underwood be placed in the India; drought and famine in central Af­ Virginia Industrial Home for Girls, secured RECORD. the institution, and inadvertently founded l'ica; the diminishing fish schools off There being no objection, the address heavily populated continents; blackouts the third ward of the city. was ordered to be printed in the REcORD,_ In 1951 the citizens or Salem raised $10,000 and shortages and revolutionary vio­ as follows: to finance the deepening and widening of the lence--all pieces to the great puzzle of THE SPmrr OF SALEM creeks and thereby attracted federal atten­ the future. When he enters the streets of a town he has· tion. _The Congress appropriated money for In the United States, 85 percent of our not before known, a newcomer- catches dts- several pilot fiood control dam.s. Salem h ad June 22, 1'973 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 21019 . the first watershed program of the ones to be Two second prizes were awarded: one to cause for rebellion. Evidently it is not, since completed. the Miami High Times <Of Miami Senior High­ most Americans seem impervious to the prob­ Today Salem has 10 active churches, six.