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1711i0528 . CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE
tacked the election to elect delegates to
the Constitutional Convention and then
attacked the validity of the Constitution
itself.
I am certain that the thousands of
American boys slugging their way
through the treacherous jungles. and
swamps of South Vietnam want to get
this election over with as quickly as pos-
sible and start seriously thinking about
getting home instead of nit picking ev-
ery single detail of the election ma-
chinery.
The American people want us to get
out of Vietnam as quickly as possible
and I am certain they will denounce
these efforts by a small group of Ameri-
cans to undermine the validity of the
forthcoming election.
The untold problems facing us at home
require us to bring this war to a conclu-
sion as quickly as possible. It is my firm
conviction that those who would assail
the validity of these elections will in fact
prolong our involvement in Vietnam.
PRESIDENT'S VETO AFFORDS
SECOND CHANCE
(Mr. PICKLE asked and was given per-
mission to address the House for 1 min-
ute and to revise and extend his re-
marks.
Mr. PICKLE. Mr. Speaker, I hope that
President Johnson's veto of the Govern-
ment Employees' Life Insurance bill will
be the occasion for action on a fair and
responsible bill, which both the House
will pass, and the President will sign.
This bill-H.R. 11089-would have
added at least $60 million to the taxpay-
er's already great burden. At the time the
bill passed the House, the full import of
our national financial situation was not
realized by the Congress, or advanced by
the administration. We had not been sub-
mitted the prospect of a $29 billion defi-
cit; we had not been given the proposed
increase in social security; we had not
been given the bill for a 10 percent sur-
tax increase on private and corporate in-
comes. With all these evident increases
and costs, the President really had no
choice, given the implications of this bill.
Had the President signed this bill into
law, we would have, in effect, added a
substantial burden on the taxpayer for
a measure which provided its maximum
benefits to those members of the Federal
Government who need them least. The
average employee would have been given
a one-third increase in his insurance
coverage at the taxpayer's expense. A se-
lected few, including the President and
Vice President, the Cabinet and sub-
Cabinet officials, and the members of
Congress would have received a 100 per-
cent increase in our coverage. I do not
think that such an increase could pos-
sibly be justified at a time when the ex-
pense of Vietnam is steadily increasing
our Federal deficit.
I suggest that the Members return to
the administration's original proposals
for a $13 million program or something
in this area, to improve the system and
eliminate some of the obvious inequities
of providing additional coverage, This is
a bill we could pass, and I would be happy
to vote for it.
I recommend, further, that we accept
the President's offer to, as he says, ex-
plore ways to permit direct purchase by
Federal employees from their private
funds under current group plans. This is
what is commonly done in industry, and
I believe that it would be beneficial to
Government employees who are quite
capable of bearing the small additional
cost themselves without asking the tax-
payers to do so.
The President has asked the Chairman
of the Civil Service Commission and the
Director of the Bureau of the Budget to
begin working immediately with the ap-
propriate committees of Congress toward
finding an acceptable and fair insurance
system. I would like to assure the mem-
bers and the committee chairman of my
own wholehearted support of their ef-
forts.
Mr. Speaker, it is tough not to vote for
all the pay raises possible for Federal and
civil service employees. No one wants to
cut them back; indeed we all want them
to get the best possible pay comparable
to private industry. But this cannot al-
ways be, particularly in times of a great
national deficit. We must be cautious and
careful. As much as it hurts to veto a
pay measure, the President did what he
thought was a sound fiscal approach. I
am sure the majority of Congress would
now agree-and that we can still find an
equitable answer before this session of
Congress expires. And, Mr. Speaker, I
imagine the President will also be watch-
ing other measures of this nature-
among other major appropriations-to be
certain that we stay within bounds of a
reasonable budget, and mainly, at this
critical hour, that we cut down on our
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(Mr. STEIGER of Arizona asked and
was given permission to address the
House for 1 minute and to revise and ex-
tend his remarks and include extraneous
matter.)
Mr. STEIGER of Arizona. Mr. Speaker,
while American Armed Forces are striv-
ing to close a door against the Commu-
nist onslaught on South Vietnam, it ap-
pears that we have left another door
wide open in the Middle East.
In the confusion that has ensued from
the recent Arab-Israel war, it is now ap-
parent that the Russians have exploited
the situation by establishing naval bases
on a de facto premise of allegedly de-
fending the Arabs. Soviet naval craft,
including missile cruisers as well as sub-
marines, are now based in the Egyptian
ports of Alexandria and Port Said. Soviet
military advisers and technicians ac-
companied the recent massive resupply
of Russian weapons to the armed forces
of Egypt.
Meanwhile, Mr. Speaker, we learn
that the Soviet Union is seeking an air-
base in-Yemen. This would he the first
Russian airbase on territory not contigu-
ous to the Soviet Union or its satellites.
Yemen is the strategic land that Egypt's
Nasser has sought to dominate in sev-
eral years of Communist-backed war-
fare against the Yemeni people.
Russia already is known to have per-
August 15, 1967
sonnel and equipment at Hudaydah,
Yemen. Soviet submarines and torpedo
boats are based in Yemen, in a position
to control the narrow channel between
the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden-in
other words, the passage between the
Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean.
A Soviet base in Egyptian-controlled
Yemen would control the sea route from
Europe to Asia and east Africa even if
the Suez Canal is reopened with access
available to all nations. The Russians
could control not only the sea route from
the Mediterranean to the Far East but
would be in a, position to dominate the
Persian Gulf- and the oil-rich lands of
the Arabian Peninsula.
I regret, Mr. Speaker, that instead of
telling Egypt's Nasser that he will not
get another cent of American aid as long
as Russian military personnel are on
Egyptian soil or Egyptian-controlled
portions of Yemen, American diplomats
are currently beseeching Nasser to accept
renewed American aid. All Nasser has to
do, apparently, is resume diplomatic
relations with us.
Mr. Speaker, I have asked the Depart-
ment of State for an immediate report
on the secret talks now in progress in
Cairo. If the American taxpayers are to
pay for a new handout, they have a right
to know what is being promised. I will
certainly appose any aid to Egypt unless
that country takes positive steps to oust
the Russians and identify herself with
policies consistent with free world in-
terests. This includes a peace settlement
with Israel and free access through inter-
national waterways for all nations.
Mr. Speaker, I am also asking for an-
other explanation. This one is directed
to the Department of Defense, It is even
more serious than the first issue raised.
Instead of opposing the takeover in
Yemen by pro-Communist forces of
Egypt, the administration granted diplo-
matic recognition to the puppet regime
in Sanaa, Yemen. Under our very eyes,
the-Russians entered Yemen, their sub-
marines docked there, and their aircraft
flew in support of Egyptian forces.
Nasserite forces, backed by Moscow,
sought to expel the British from nearby
Aden. The squeeze was aimed at taking
over all the oil of the Arabian Peninsula,
including the Aramco interests in Saudi
Arabia.
The closure of the Gulf of Aqaba to
Israel shipping was a phase of the plan
to take over the Arabian Peninsula. Even
if the administration had sought to use
force in the Straits of Tiran, we did not
have the available force in that region.
Mr. Speaker, I want to know why the
United States today has no facet worthy
of the name operating in the Red Sea
and Indian Ocean. There is a vacuum in
the Red Sea, the waters of the Persian
Gulf, the wider reaches of the Indian
Ocean. Why are we so naked in this vital
area? Are the Russians to take over by
default?
The closure of the Suez Canal prevents
reinforcement from the U.S. 6th Fleet
in the Mediterranean. The war in Viet-
nam prevents reinforcement from the
naval elements engaged in that area.
I want the Defense Department to
frankly explain why we are so weak in
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sive action. Air pollution is hardly new. As dustries which do the most polluting, re- of Health, Education & Welfare, and would
early as 61 A.D. Seneca complained of "the gional air quality and emission standards, include representatives of all the involved
heavy air of Rome," caused by the smokey and strong enforcement provisions through states, and would be charged with setting
chimneys "with their pestilent vapors and the use of court enforceable cease and de- up air quality standards for the region, as
soot." sist orders. well as source emission standards In order
As industry grew in the United States, en- We must have nation-wide maximum to achieve or preserve the requisite air
vironmental pollution inexorably grew with emission standards so that major industries quality. It would consider the concentration
it. As the population went West, environmen- are treated similarly and know just how of industry, other commercial establish-
tal pollution went with it. As the number of much they must do in air pollution control. ments, population, and the technical and
motor vehicles grew, environmental pollu- We must have inter-state regional ambi- economic feasibility of achieving the desired
tion grew. The process is inevitable. ent air quality standards and controls-not air quality level. Where national standards
Perhaps there was no major effort to halt state-wide standards-simply because air exist, a regional commission's standards
it because the harmful effects of air pollution pollution' Is not confined to States. In New would have to be either identical or more
were once unclear. One could see that the air York City, for instance,. much of the air stringent.
was dirty; one could smell. the poisons in the pollution comes from New Jersey. Only a - A maze of state standards simply will not
air. Today the evidence is crystal-clear, the regional commission can solve the regional meet the problem.
nation now recognizes that air pollution kills. problem. What would happen under the Senate bill
The hazard to human health is well-known. Finally, we must have real enforegnient when two neighboring states submit different
The functioning of the respiratory system is by the Federal government because-like air quality standards?
dependent on clean air. As the exposure to taxes, nobody is going to pay to, end their Air and the poisons in it do not respect
contaminated air increases, the individual own profitable pollution unless they have to. state lines. The poisons which enter it in
breathing capacity is impaired; the amount States have long ago shown they will not New Jersey drift easily into New York. There-
of oxygen readily available to the blood set up effective air pollution standards or fore, standards are best set regionally by the
stream is gradually reduced; and the total controls. use of air flow charts.
health of the individual declines. Then, when The present Federal three-step approach, Of course, air quality standards will be
other stresses appear-such as the common with conferences and,hearings and injunc- ineffective unless they are translated into
cold, diseases, heart trouble or aging-the tions, too, has been pfoven effective. enforceable emission standards. As I noted
respiratory system has less capability to To begin to end,air pollution, the Secre- before, the Senate Public Works Committee
maintain its function. Health declines fur- tary of HEW musk have the power to issue has recognized this basic truth. But it stops
ther from the strain of trying to make use of cease-and-desist , orders to anyone who right there. Although there is a Federal veto
dirty air with a physiological system de- violates air quaLfity standards. over states' proposed air quality standards,
signed only for clean air. Finally, in a great These are mi)iimum requirements for effec- the Senate provisions give no opportunity
many instances, death is hastened. The cer- tive anti-poll tion action. for the Federal government to approve or
tificate may ascribe the cause'to any one of Under my ill, H.R. 8467, the Secretary of disapprove the emission standards upon
a number of specific failures. However, a Health, Edu ation and Welfare would set which the achievement of ambient air quality
growing list of competent medical studies national em ssion standards, which would standards is contingent. This is a grievous
show that polluted air is often a significant be reviewed ~ach year, for those industries error. We must assure that emission stand-
contributing factor. Many of the gains of now contrib ing the greatest amount of ards are suitable to the air quality level
medical science are offset by the continued pollution to oair. Individual state stand- they are designed to produce-and this
degredation of the air we breathe. ards would supe ede the national standards should not be left to the states. In-
The nation also now recognizes the great if they were eq alent or more stringent dividual states are faced by pressures which
economic loss due to air pollution. It has and accompanied b an adequate enforce- are both natural and yet beyond their
been estimated that, without even counting ment plan. The Secretary would review state ability to resist. Faced with ordinary eco-
possible damage to crops, the total loss equals standards every six morii,hs to determine if nomic considerations such as the fear of
$11 to $12 billion per year or about $65.00 the standards and their 'enforcement were losing business and industry to neighboring
for each man, woman and child in America. adequate. states, a state is less likely to set the strict
In the New York Metropolitan area the loss' In addition, H.R. 8467 wouha set up Re- emission standards required by a serious air
from pollution is probably $200 per capital gional Air Quality Commissions.,to promul- pollution problem.
and in Manhattan it may be as high as -gate regional air quality and pollutant emis- Also, experience with the present Clean Air
$350 per capita. Increased laundering and sion standards which would haveto be at Act shows that state action generally tends
lighting alone costs $20 per capita nationally. least as strict as national standards, al- to be slow and weak. Only fourteen states
Moreover, some experts consider even these though in many areas they would obably have acted on their own to adopt air quality
figures too low, as all the possible damage be stronger. ' and emission standards. Fewer than 100 local
that air pollution causes is not yet known. For violations of either national or region- governments have air pollution control pro-
Above all, the nation overwhelmingly re- al emission standards, the Secretary would grams in operation. In the field of air pot-
jects the specter, raised by Secretary of be empowered to issue cease and lesist lution the states have already had their test-
Health, Education, and Welfare, Gardner, of orders. and they have flunked dismally.
individual gas masks to be worn in urban In my judgment the Senate bill falls to H.R. 8467 recommends a two-part ap-
areas or "clean air shelters" where those, who meet the air pollution problem becgrtse it proach. First, regional air quality standards
are allergic, ill with respiratory diseases or - does not adopt a true regional appro?h. In- and regional source emission standards. Sec-
simpply very young or very old, could huddle stead, it is a hybrid, the product nder- and, in areas where Regional Air Quality
during a pollution alert, breathing specially standable compromises, but one w iuch will Commissions are not set up, national emis-
treated air supplies. be Inefficient and unduly difficult o enforce. sion standards would prevail for certain in-
The pending legislation should be examined instead of cutting across state jurisdictions, dustries, which immediately would force
with the foregoing basic considerations in it Insists upon dealing with a /multiplicity them to reduce their pollution to a maximum
mind. of state jurisdictions in an aJt empt to link level.
All of the major bills proposed this year them together through the/designation of T would like to point out an important
involve some type of national, regional, or air quality control regions /nd interstate air difference in my bill from the Administra-
state standards-source emission standards, quality planning agencie tion's bill in the last two sof Sec-
provides sentences ee for frequent
air quality standards, or a combination of In addition, the pro edure for adopting tion 107(a). th last
both-in recognition of the fact that pollut- state standards is lpfig, drawn out, and review and evaluation ro the Secretary t by -
err will not regulate themselves. The im- complicated, permitting the states fifteen least once each year-of all national indus-
position of standards would destroy the months to adopt,4tandards after receiving trial emission standards to determine
argument often espoused by industries that criteria and recommended control tech- uld be changed.
standards s shohoing of national
large sums of money for pollution abate- niques from the Secretary. In all probability, whether I envision a those gradual stiffen
ment equipment should not be invested- this process would take several years. standards as technaloimproves until in-
without assurances that they will be ade- Since the next air pollution disaster, standar s asutech has been reduced until
Let us make clear what is adequate, which is bound to come, obviously will not
and let us do it promptly. be contained by state lines, I disagree with levels As arour, d hopefully, ed elimiinated.
nated from Michi-
tion combating air pollution, the key ques- the Senate bill over the question of who A levels
ist said Last December at hition is what type of standards, who sets shall set ambient air quality. standards and gan (Mr. Dingele11l s on tr Pollution: the
.
them and how they are to be enforced. If how they shall be enforced. need air qcriteria, national ..
am-
we are to stop the polluters, we must do The Regional Air Quality Commission un- Na we n n air Bair quality ua yn appropriate emission
it firmly by setting a clear level and requir- der section 108 of H.R. 8467 would be set bientairs. nd mus dthese the
ing them to meet it. Let me address myself up by the Secretary of Health, Education and We establish at
., +~.. .. +hc hssis of his own sur- national level. Without such guidelines we
I believe that both my own bill, M.P.. tseo'r, Vey* - uF -+-~ - ,> air pollution."
and the Administration's original proposal of two or more contiguous states. take the only adequate approach-nation- A Regional Air Quality Commission would Let me stress the importance of enforce-
wide maximum emission standards for in- be chaired by an official of the Department ment, for without adequate enforcement,
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the vital regions mentioned. The Rus-
sians are consolidating bases there, build-
ing up power. We are aparently doing
nothing.
What will the sacrifices of the Viet-
nam conflict avail us if communism takes
over in the Middle East? The Commu-
nists will then dominate the strategic
gateway linking Africa and Asia with
Europe, the former lifeline of the Brit-
ish Empire. Oil resources required by
NATO countries will be controlled by
Moscow.
The implications of Russian power will
be felt from Morocco to India. Every Mos-
lem land will see Russian strength and
American weakness.
Therefore, Mr. Speaker, I have asked
the Department of Defense to explain
why we have no real strength in the Red
Sea or Indian Ocean while the Russians
are moving in.
NEED FOR RECONSTRUCTION OF
METHODS IN EDUCATION AND
INSTRUCTION
(Mr. JACOBS asked and was given
permission to extend his remarks at this
point in the RECORD and to include ex-
traneous matter.)
Mr. JACOBS. Mr. Speaker, I received
recently an interesting letter from a pre-
sumably shadowy and anonymous person
at Indiana University in Bloomington.
DEAR MR. JACOBS: I'm mad! At this mo-
ment, I'm sitting among 50 students not
listening to a Professor stumble around a
chapter on inferential statistics.
There are about 5 math majors in the class.
It's greek to the rest of us. I surmise that
most of these persons are elementary teach-
ers, but even those who teach on a secondary
level could never in a billion years help any
youngster with the information in this
course.
As a matter of fact, further education
would be a good thing for all of us-but
would it be too much to ask them to teach
us something relevant to what we are sup-
posed to teach??
These courses, you understand, are re-
quired by Indiana State Law.
Concurrently, the Indianapolis Public
School System is searching for 150 more
teachers for the Fall semester.
Presumably those whoare here have jobs,
but they have no time to prepare for their
teaching assignments because they must
memorize inferential statistics. -
There are teachers In Indianapolis who are
not here, but they are not- eligible for teach-
ing positions because:
1. They can't afford (money) to study in-
ferential statistics.
2. Or they can't learn inferential statistics.
3. Or they think the stupidityof it all is
not worth the job they seek.
And everybody who knows what the real
scoop is keeps still because he doesn't want
to lose the degree he needs to get a job.
Neither do I. Don't quote me.
Indignantly yours,
P.S.-No kidding-can't you investigate?
And don't go by the Professors. Its their
bread and butter. -
Mr. Speaker, over a half a century
ago Maria Montessori wrote:
Today we hold the pupils in school, re-
stricted by those instruments so degrading
to the body and spirit, the desk-and, mate-
rial prizes and punishments. Our aim in all
this is to reduce them to the discipline of
immobility and science,-to lead them,-
where? Far too often toward no definite end.
Often the education of children consists
in pouring nto their intelligence the Intel-
lectual contents of school programmes. And
often these programmes have been compiled
in the offlcied Department of Education, and
their use Is :imposed by law upon the teacher
and the child.
Ah, before such dense and willful dis-
regard of the life which is growing within
these children, we should hide our heads in
shame and cover our guilty faces with our
hands
Sergi sayE truly: "today an urgent need
imposes itself upon society: the reconstruc-
tion of methods in education and instruc-
tion, and he who fights for this cause, fights
for human regeneration."
Mr. Speaker, the today that Sergi
spoke about was more than a half century
ago. Is it p )ssible, Mr. Speaker, that the
more things change the more they re-
main the same? -
AIR POLLUTION
(Mr. RYAN asked and was given per-
mission to extend his remarks at this
point in the RECORD and to include extra-
neous mattes.)
Mr. RYP.N. Mr. Speaker, today the
distinguished Committee on Interstate
and Foreign Commerce opened hearings
on proposed legislation to deal with the
air pollution menace which threatens all
of us. After what I know will be careful
consideration of all the testimony, I hope
the committee will report out a strong
and effectiv ~ bill.
The problem of air pollution is well
known; the Federal Government and the
Congress rr ust take all necessary steps
to eliminate it.
I include at this point in the RECORD
the statement which I made this morn-
ing before the Interstate and Foreign
Commerce Committee:
STATEMENT )F CONGRESSMAN WILLIAM F.
RYAN BEDJRE COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE
AND FOREIG s COMMEP CE IN SUPPORT OF H.R.
8467. THE 2.IR QUALITY Aar OF 1967, AUGUST
15, 1967
Mr. Chairman, I appreciate the opportu-
nity to appear before you as the great Com-
mittee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
begins consiieration of the proposed Air
Quality Act o' 1967.
The problems of environmental pollution
have long been of great concern to me. I
strongly supported passage of the Clean Air
Act of 1963 (YL 88-206 j and the strengthen-
ing amendments contained In the 1965 and
1966 bills (PI 89--272 and PL 89-675). In this
Congress I have introduced H.R. 8467 to
amend the Clean Air Act and H.R. 9477 to
amend the :solid Waste Disposal Act. My
testimony to lay will deal with the former
although I he pe that, before this session con-
cludes, the Committee will hold hearings on
H.R. 9477. areas of persistent air pollution. In Florida,
Since ce the E Ouse last considered legislation Connecticut, and other areas, agricultural
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in this area, :cew York City experienced the products have been seriously damaged by the
Thanksgiving Day inversion of November 24, poisons in the air. The problem is now criti-
natio areas-urban and rural-i;hrough-
1966. In the midst of that emergency I called out cal in all
upon the Sew etary of Health, Education and o our nn.
Welfare to Schedule an abatement confer- Recognizing the danger, our constituents
ence for the hew York-New Jersey Metro ol- are asking for immediate and meaningful
Stan region. p federal action to deal with air pollution.
When the I ew York- New Jersey Air Pollu- Thus, a Harris Poll has found that there is
more public support tion Abateme; Conference convened on Jan- lution control l than than for for expanded s pole
uary 3, 1967, [Warned: any other her single ?
domestic program. Every housewife who must
"Immediate steps must be taken to pre- clean and wash clothes more frequently,
vent the pollution disaster which may come every homeowner who must paint more fre-
tomorrow or the day after to kill thousands quently, every citizen who sees his area en-
of New Yorkers." shrouded in a black mass of poisons cries out
I went on to say, "In New York City, our for action.
citizens suffer what may be the most polluted To the thoughtful citizen, it must be sur-
air in America." prising that we have not already taken mas-
Last Friday, August 4, 1967, Dr. John T.
Middleton, Director of the Public Health
Services' National Center for Air Pollution
Control released a study confirming my
charge and showing that New York indeed
has the most polluted air. In a comparison
of the air pollution problem among the sixty-
five largest metropolitan areas in the coun-
try, the New York Metropolitan Area ranked
first, followed by Chicago, Philadelphia, Los
Angeles and Cleveland.
The report stated, "But in all the large
urban areas covered in our report the pub-
lic health and welfare are threatened by air
pollution."
Air pollution Is a national problem made up
of many regional problems. For instance, in
the New York-New Jersey area many local
jurisdictions pollute each other. The problem
is interstate in nature. The need for effective
federal action is clear. State and :local gov-
ernments have failed- to cope with it.
Last December 30th I observed at first
hand from a helicopter the major sources
of pollution in the New York metropolitan
area. As I said in reporting-with words and
photographs-to the January 3rd Abatement
Conference.
"You could see the pollutants pouring out
of smoke-stacks, incinerators, powerplants,
petrochemical plants, open burning. A pall
of smoke was hanging everywhere, and parti-
cularly enveloped Manhattan. -
"in New York City we saw the pollution
pouring out of the city's own incinerators
overloaded and unregulated. We saw it com-
ing out of Con Ed's eleven huge plants-the
major sulfur dioxide polluters. We saw smoke
coming up-strange as it - may seen-from
open burning in the harbor by the Army
Corps of Engineers.
"We saw the pollutants pouring out of
Jersey, and beginning their usual drift to-
ward New York."
It was this cesspool in the sky that made
last Thankgiving's weather situation so
dangerous. Because of an air inversion poi-
sons in the air were trapped, and the lives
of 15 million people caught in this perilous
air mass were endangered. Only the fact
that it was a holiday weekend-with busi-
nesses shut down and less commuter traffic
pouring into the City-prevented a major
catastrophe. -
Of course, these episodes are not peculiar
to New York. During the London smog of
1952, 4,000 more deaths occurred in that city -
than would normally have happened dur- .
ing a similar period of time. In Donora,
Pennsylvania, a comparatively small indus-
trial town which in 1948 normally recorded
about one death every three days, seventeen
people died in a single 24-hour period during
a four day smog. We will never know- of all
the grievous effects of last Thanksgiving
Day's inversion.
Although it is now confirmed that air pol-
lution is most severe in the New York area,
the problem is not New York's alone. nor is
it even an urban problem alone. The Depart-
ment of Health, Education and Welfare has
estimated that 60% of all Americans live in
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House of Representatives
TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1967
The House met at 12 o'clock noon.
Rev. James D. Foy, Asbury Methodist
Church, Washington, D.C., offered the
following prayer:
Our Heavenly Father, we thank Thee
for our national heritage of freedom,
justice, and equality. May we, of this gen-
eration and day, so live, and serve that
the high ideals and noble principles upon
which our Nation was founded shall be-
come a living reality for all who live in
this land of liberty. Touch and raise up,
0 Lord, in the Legislative Halls of our
homeland, a glorious company of apos-
tles of truth, justice, and equity. Give
Thy servants the prophet's scorn of
tyranny, and a Christlike tenderness for
the downtrodden and heavy laden.
Grant us the vision, the integrity of soul,
and the strength of will which enable
men to place the welfare of others and
the security of their country above selfish
ambition. Amen.
THE JOURNAL
The Journal of the proceedings of yes-
terday was read and approved.
MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE
A message from the Senate by Mr. Ar-
rington, one of its clerks, announced that
the Senate agrees to the amendment of
the House to a bill of the Senate of the
following title:
S. 95. An act for the relief of Capt. Rey D.
Baldwin.
PERMISSION FOR SUBCOMMITTEE
ON IRRIGATION AND RECLAMA-
TION, COMMITTEE ON INTERIOR
AND INSULAR AFFAIRS, TO SIT
DURING GENERAL DEBATE TODAY
Mr. ASPINALL. Mr. Speaker, I ask
unanimous consent that the Subcom-
mittee on Irrigation and Reclamation of
the House Committee on Interior and
Insular Affairs may be permitted to sit
during general debate this afternoon,
and in making that request may I state,
Mr. Speaker, that this has been cleared
with the minority side.
The SPEAKER. Is there objection to
the request of the gentleman from
Colorado?
There was no objection.
COMMITTEE ON STANDARDS OF
OFFICIAL CONDUCT
(Mr. PRICE of Illinois asked and was
given permission to address the House
for 1 minute and to, revise and extend his
remarks and include extraneous matter.)
Mr. PRICE of Illinois. Mr. Speaker,
more than 100 years ago Henry David
Thoreau wrote, and I quote:
Let every man make known what kind of
government would command his respect, and
that will be one step toward obtaining it.
In recent weeks, your Committee on
Standards of Official Conduct has been
making every effort to get representatives
of nationally known professional and
civic organizations to come forward with
their ideas for a code of standards for
the conduct of Members of the House
and House employees. The response has
been disappointing.
Fortunately, the response has not been
all negative. A few such organizations
have accepted our invitations to offer
testimony, and. the committee believes it
has some meritorious witnesses sched-
uled for open hearings August 16 and 17.
The committee invites all Members of
Congress to hear them.
My real purpose in addressing you,
however, is to alert the membership to
hearings which the committee has sched-
uled for August 23 and 24 to receive
testimony and statements from Members
of the House. A letter of invitation has
gone out to each Member. I respectfully
ask Members to let me or the committee
staff know of their desires in this
connection.
Further, I should like to assure this
body that the committee is moving with
all reasonable speed. It has met at least
once a week since it was constituted,
with the exception of the week of the
Fourth of July recess, and is determined
to have its recommendations ready for
the House later this session.
PERMISSION FOR SUBCOMMITTEE
NO. 5, COMMITTEE ON THE DIS-
TRICT OF COLUMBIA, TO SIT DUR-
ING GENERAL DEBATE TODAY
Mr. SISK. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani-
mous consent that Subcommittee No. 5
of the Committee on the District of Co-
lumbia may be permitted to sit during
general debate this afternoon,
The SPEAKER. Is there objection to
the request of the gentleman from
California?
Mr. HALL. Mr. Speaker, reserving the
right to object, and I hope I shall not
have to object, I presume that this has
been cleared with the minority side?
Mr. SISK. I have cleared this with the
gentleman from New York [Mr. Hox-
TON], who is the ranking minority mem-
ber of the subcommittee.
Mr. HALL. And he is the ranking
minority member?
Mr. SISK. That is right.
Mr. HALL. Mr. Speaker, I withdraw
my reservation of objection.
The SPEAKER. Is there objection to
the request of the gentleman from Cali-
fornia [Mr. SISK] ?
There was no objection.
PERMISSION FOR COMMITTEE ON
INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COM-
MERCE TO SIT DURING GENERAL
DEBATE TODAY
Mr. ALBERT. Mr. Speaker, I ask
unanimous consent that the Committee
on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
may be permitted to sit during general
debate today.
The SPEAKER. Is there objection to
the request of the gentleman from Okla-
homa?
There was no objection.
PERMISSION FOR SUBCOMMITTEE
ON ELECTIONS OF COMMITTEE ON
HOUSE ADMINISTRATION TO SIT
DURING GENERAL DEBATE TO-
DAY
Mr. ALBERT. Mr. Speaker, I ask
unanimous consent that the Subcommit-
tee on Elections of the Committee on
House Administration may be permitted
to sit during general debate today.
The SPEAKER. Is there objection to
the request of the gentleman from
Oklahoma?
There was no objection.
PERMISSION FOR SUBCOMMITTEE
ON BANK SUPERVISION AND IN-
SURANCE, COMMITTEE ON BANK-
ING AND CURRENCY, TO SIT DUR-
ING GENERAL DEBATE TODAY
Mr. ALBERT. Mr. Speaker, I ask
unanimous consent that the Subcom-
mittee on Bank Supervision and Insur-
ance of the Committee on Banking and
Currency may be permitted to sit dur-
ing general debate today, August 15, and
also August 16.
The SPEAKER. Is there objection to
the request of the gentleman from
Oklahoma?
Mr. HALL. Mr. Speaker, reserving the
right to object, would the gentleman
amend his unanimous-consent request
so that we do not yield, depending the
calendar on this, iA advance of today?
I have no objection, because I know the
distinguished majority leader-
Mr. ALBERT. Mr. Speaker, I with-
draw my request for permission to sit
after today. I limit the request to today
only.
Mr. HALL. I thank the gentleman, and
withdraw my reservation of objection.
The SPEAKER. Is there objection to
the request of the gentleman from Okla-
homa?
There was no ' objection:
ALLEGED ATROCITIES BY ISRAEL
(Mrs. KELLY asked and was given
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minute and to revise and extend her re-
marks.)
Mrs. KELLY. Mr. Speaker, it has been
reported that the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee in its newslet-
ter accused Jews of committing atroci-
ties against the Arabs. The attack re-
portedly utilizes a blurred photograph
and alleges that the photograph repre-
sents Arabs lined up by Zionists and shot
in cold blood.
A cartoon in the newsletter reportedly
depicts Defense Minister Dayan with
dollar signs on his shoulders. Other vi-
cious anti-Semitic cartoons were also re-
portedly published.
The newsletter reportedly, charged
that Israel segregates Arabs within Is-
rael; that dark-skinned Jews! from the
Middle East are discriminated against in
Israel and that Israel is an illegal state.
Our State Department has indicated
that there have been no massacres; that,
on the contrary, there have been attacks
against peaceful Israel citizens by Arab
infiltrators; that Israel actions during
the recent hostilities resulted in the loss
of few Arab civilian lives; that the Arab
population of Israel has freedom of
movement; that Arabs may join pri-
marily Jewish organizations, such as the
Histadrut Labor Federation; ! and that
the SNCC statement is not focused on
recent events but drags its misrepresent-
ations back to the period before Israel
attained independence.
It is clear that SNCC has adopted the
pro-Arab Soviet lines in making this
anti-Semitic attack.
Soviet anti-Semitism needs; no docu-
mentation. Reports of its recent resur-
gence are overwhelming. In this connec-
tion, it is noteworthy to point up the co-
incidence of the presence of Stokely Car-
michael, the past chairman of SNCC, in
Communist Cuba just prior to the publi-
cation of this anti-Semitic tome by
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his
remarks.: -
Mr. R ?UDEBUSH. Mr. Speaker, in
time of war the paramount aim of our
Government should be total, unmistak-
able, and demonstrative support for the
American fighting man in the field.
I regret to report to the Congress to-
day that I have tragic proof that our
soldiers, sailors, and airmen are not re-
ceiving this support.
And, furthermore, the war policy of
this Government is concerned with the
political considerations rather than un-
qualified concern for the morale of our
men in the field.
I have obtained a copy of a Navy order
to all naval distract commanders order-
ing them to refuse participation in patri-
otic demonstrations in support of our
troops in Vietnam.
This is an incredible document and I
wish the Members of Congress to hear
the pertinent section of this order, which
follows:
The regent anti-Vietnam policy demon-
strations :onductee, throughout the country
have pro-iuced reactions by veterans and
patriotic groups in several areas. Rallies and
parades are being- staged by these organiza-
tions for the specific purpose of off-setting
the peace rallies. Navy participation, such as
speakers, (ands and marching units, has been
requested in a number of instances and can
be expected to be requested in any future
counter-demonstrations organized by these
well-meaning groups. In view of the political
implications of this particular category of
demonstrations, Navy support would be
inappropilate.
I hope very much that immediate con-
sideration be taken to rescind this order.
I think twat refusal of naval groups from
participating in parades held by the Vet-
erans of Foreign Wars, the American
Legion, laid other veterans groups is not
in the best interest of this Nation.
WOEZDWIDE FACILITIES FOR
SPREAD OF ANARCHY?
(Mr. BALL asked and was given per-
mission ;o address the House for 1 min-
ute and - to revise and extend his re-
marks.)
Mr. H.U.L. Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the
President submitted to the Congress a
world communications message placing
upon the Great Society the responsi-
bility to provide, not a chicken in every
pot, or a car in every garage, but rather
a television set in every home from the
darkest regions of the Congo to the bar-
ren wastes of the Antarctic.
This latest message seems incongruous
in view of the President's request for a
tax incroase. I recall he asked Congress
not to sr end more money while the exec-
utive branch is trying so hard to cut ex-
penses.
I cannot help but wonder what kind
of programing will go out over the new
global i Ammunications system-Intel-
sat-refolrred to in the President's mes-
sage. The Rap Browns and the Stokely
Carmichaels have been exposed to mil-
lions of TV viewers in our own country
with their message of hate and insurrec-
tion. Does the President believe it would
be a put lie service to provide them with
worldwide facilities to preach their
brand of anarchy?
PRESS ATTACKS UPON THE CON-
GRESS OF THE UNITED STATES
(Mr. CAHILL asked and was given
permission to address the House for 1
minute and to revise and extend his re-
marks.)
Mr. CAHILL. Mr. Speaker, I have al-
ways hesitated to criticize the press of
this country, recognizing that if one is
in politics, one usually Cannot win. But
I see each year more irresponsibility evi-
denced in the press of our country. I
think that when there is an attack made
upon the Congress of the United States,
it is up to us to refute it and to have
something to say about it.
I have asked for this time to comment
upon a statement in an editorial in the
Washington Post this morning in rela-
tion to the anticrime bill. Ii recognize
that the Post has differing views than I
do as far as the bill, and that is per-
fectly proper. I recognize their right to
disagree with what -I think is right and
what the House thinks is right. I recog-
nize they have a right to comment as
vigorously as possible, but when they
make irresponsible statements I think
it is about time for Members of the House
to take issue with the Washington Post
and any other newspaper that might
make similar statements. The statement
is this:
Underlying the action of the House was a
feeling that its Members 'are afraid of Attor-
ney General Clark, afraid that if he has con-
trol of the funds, he will force local police
forces to obey the Constitution in fighting
crime.
I believe inherent in that statement
are two grave misconceptions. One is that
local police forces are, in fact, violating
the Constitution; and, second, that the
Congress of the United States not only
approves the violation of - the Constitu-
tion by local police forces but refused to
pass the crime bill as it was put before
the House by the administration because
we do not want the Constitution en-
forced.
I can only say that whoever wrote this
editorial wrote it as a result of a com-
plete lack of knowledge of what was- in
the crime bill and what was in the
amendment, or with a direct intent to -
harm the prestige and image and char-
acter of the Congress of the United
States.
An overwhelming majority of the
House of both parties supported the
legislation.
The Post has done a disservice to the
House in suggesting such base and un-
founded motivations.
Mr. Speaker, this article is nothing
more than an attempt to apply the blame
for the problems facing the Negro to the
shoulders of the Jewish people. Thus, the
civil rights movement is coinpromised
and the Jewish people are blamed for
the conditions that so many of them
have sought to alleviate.
CORRECTION OF THE RECORD
Mr. RYAN. Mr. Speaker, there were
two typographical errors in my speech on
my proposed amendment to the Immi-
gration and Nationality Act. of 1965,
found in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, daily
edition, August 10, 1967, on page H10356.
In line 14 from the top of! the third
column of page H10356, "section 203(d)"
should read "section 203 (c) ". -
In line 32 from the top of the third
column of page H10356, "8 U.S.C. 1115
(b)" should read "8 U.S.C. 1151(b)".
I ask unanimous consent that the per-
manent RECORD be corrected accord-
ingly.
PATRIOTIC DEMONSTRATIONS IN
SUPPORT OF OUR WAR EFFORT
(Mr. ROUDEBUSH asked: and was
given permission to address the House
(Mr. BROWN of Ohio asked and was
given permission to address the House
for 1 minute, to revise and extend his re-
marks, and to include extraneous mat-
ter.)
Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Mr.. Speaker, I
have received, and would like to share
with the House, a poignant letter from a
young constituent who presents an un-
usual personal problem for my consid-
eration. I should like to ask: the advice
and assistance of A he House in dealing
with this matter.
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