JUAN BOSCH'S DEMAND FOR U.S. DAMAGES IS ARROGANT

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September 27, 1965 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE
Albert S. Nemir, representing Brazilian
Sugar and Alcohol Institute, was to get a
minimum fee of $35,100 per year for 1962
and 1963. The agreement also provided
a commission Of 25 cents per metric ton
of Brazilian sugar effectively shipped
from Brazil to the U.S. consumers mar-
ket. The compensation agreement filed
with Justice Department said:
The commission referred to in the present
clause, plus the minimum fee for 1 year as
established under clause 2, cannot under any
condition exceed yearly the sum of $95,200.
A memo filed March 9, 1963, indicated
the agreement covered a period to De-
cember 31, 1963, and provided a minimum
fee of $25,000 a year. No fee income has
been reported since December 31, 1962.
The most recent income reported was
$31,511.06 received December 31, 1962.
This was for the 6-month period which
ended March 9, 1963.
The SPEAKER. Under previous order
of the House, the gentleman from Ohio
[Mr. FEIGHANI is recognized for 30
minutes.
[Mr. FEIGHAN addressed House.
His remarks will appear here er in the
JUAN BOSCH'S DEMAND FOR U.S.
DAMAGES IS ARROGANT
(Mr. ROGERS of Florida (at the re-
quest of Mr. VIGORITO) was granted per-
mission' to extend his remarks at this
point in the RECORD and to include ex-
traneous matter.)
Mr. ROGERS of Florida. Mr. Speak-
er, former Dominican President Juan
Bosch's demand that the United States
pay $1 billion in damages for its role
in preventing the Red takeover of Santo
Domingo is arrogant.
This demand is nothing but an attempt
to boost Bosch. While other Dominicans
are trying to be constructive in their
country, Bosch is adding to chaos by
acting in his own self-interest. If he
is such a Dominican patriot why did he
wait until the shooting stopped to return
to his country.
A total of over $15 million in U.S. aid
was extended to the Dominican Repub-
lic last year.
That country still owes us over $100
million in loans. While they are being
repaid according to schedule, Bosch is
doing little to further cooperation be-
tween the United States and the Domini-
can Republic.
RETIREMENT OF DR.
TERRY
(Mr. JONES of Alabama (at the re-
quest of Mr. VIGORITO). was granted per-
mission to extend his remarks at this-
point in the RECORD and to include ex-
traneous matter.)
Mr. JONES of Alabama. Mr. Speaker,
I wish to pay tribute today to an emi-
nent Alabamian, who has achieved a re-
markable and enviable record in the field
of health and medicine. I refer to Dr.
Luther L. Terry, who retires as Surgeon
General of the U.S. Public Health Serv-
ice on September 30.
Dr. Terry leaves his post to take up
new duties as vice president in charge
of medical affairs of the University of
Pennsylvania, where he will continue to
contribute effectively to the strength and
skills of the medical profession. He will
administer the affairs of the schools of
medicine, dental medicine, veterinary
medicine, nursing, and allied professions
as well as the activities of the university
hospital and` the graduate hospital.
Each year he will be responsible for the
professional training of some 2,000 men
and women.
In recent years, Mr. Speaker, the Con-
gress has recognized through legislation
the critical need for expanded training
opportunities in the medical profession.
It is indeed gratifying to know that a
leader of the caliber of Dr. Terry is en-
listing in this tremendously vital drive
to bring the American people improved
and advanced medical services.
Dr. Terry is a native of Red Level, Ala.,
where his father was a general practi-
tioner of medicine. Much of his earlier
instruction in medicine and medical
training was received in Alabama schools
and hospitals. Alabama is justifiably
proud of this.
Dr. Terry made his mark at the Na-
tional Institutes of Health where after
8 years of distinguished service he was
named Assistant Director of the National
Heart Institute. President Kennedy ap-
pointed him Surgeon General in 1961.
I have worked with Dr. Terry on legis-
lation but more importantly I know him
as a friend. He has given much to the
medical profession, to his State, and to
his Nation.
He has been a dedicated and conscien-
tious public servant, Mr. Speaker, and.
the Public Health Service will miss his
leadership.
But knowing the man, I know he will
continue to serve his country and his pro-
fession. I salute Dr. Terry and wish him
Godspeed.
AN ANALYSIS OF THE ANTI-
POVERTY PROGRAM
(Mr. DENT (at the request of Mr.
VIGORITO) was granted permission to ex-
tend his remarks at this point in the
RECORD and to include extraneous
matter.)
Mr. DENT. Mr. Speaker, one of the
,most important achievements of this
Congress, in my humble opinion, was the
passage of the antipoverty legislation.
The commitment of this administration
to fight to end poverty in our midst-a
new idea in organized government-was
met, as are all new ideas, with contro-
versy, and. criticism. Criticism of the
program is ofttimes based upon a com-
plete ignorance of the concept of
poverty.
When I was a small boy in a coal min-
ing camp, many of our citizens con-
sidered poverty a way of life and not a
blight upon the body politic or a serious
concern of the Nation as it really was
and is now. It is refreshing, therefore,
to read a series of articles not specifically
an out and out endorsement of the pro-
gram as it is in being, but at least an
analysis to be absorbed in the evaluation
the articles undertake.
Petty political bickering and expansive.
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publicity that appeared early in the ad-
ministration of the program have acted
as a deterrent in getting it on its way
to achieving the goals intended.
I believe every Member of Congress
should read these articles from the Na-
tional Observer, a national newspaper
covering the subject not on a local or re-
gional basis, but from a view of national
impact. These articles should be read
so that blind criticism may be tempered
with a better understanding of the
problems involved.
I myself have been critical of some
of the specifics in the administration,
particularly under Head Start where we
are attempting to teach fundamental
language, reading, and writing in a vast
area of need. This criticism, however,
is only because of my impatience as well
as that of many others to get on with
the job and to get the program in full
swing, and is not aimed at the persons
charged with the responsibility of
administration.
I pray that Members will read these
articles and then take a firm look at the
antipoverty war and take a little pride
in the knowledge that they have been
a part of the first drive made in human
history to relegate poverty as such to the
dark days of the past, a part of the drive
to move forward with hope and desire
to eliminate want and need so that igno-
rance and hunger may no longer be a
part of the American scene.
Mr. Speaker, the articles from the Na-
tional Observer follow:
[From the National Observer, Aug. 16, 1965]
LEARNING ABOUT SLUM LIFE: EYE-OPENING
TRAINING FOR VISTA's VOLUNTEERS
BALTIMORE.-"A bunch of us went down-
town to a movie. We saw people nicely
dressed; and, in a way, it was a nice feeling
to be back with this kind of people. But
then, after the movie, here we were walking
down Pratt Street back to the slum. It made
us realize how blind we were in the past-
bypassing everything by taking the express-
way back to the suburbs."
These comments come from 20-year-old
Wayne Dorris of Boston, who recently gradu-
ated from an intensive 6-week training
course conducted here by the University of
Maryland School of Social Work. Mr. Dorris
and his 26 fellowgraduates are now at work
in a variety of assignments: Employment
counseling in Atlanta, youth work in Detroit,
legal counseling in San Francisco, or neigh-
borhood-center work in Durham, N.C. They
are among the more than 1,000 VISTA (Vol-
unteers in Service to America) volunteers
now in the field as part of the Office of Eco-
nomic Opportunity's war on poverty.
All of the VISTA volunteers have received
instruction at one of 20 training centers over
the country. The Baltimore center was one
of the first established and has influenced
the pattern of the other centers, which are
aimed at preparing volunteers to face the
problems of urban poverty.
THE MOST LASTING LESSON
Mr. Dorris' recognition that his eyes were
previously closed to the poverty around him
is perhaps the most lasting lesson the volun-
teers can be taught at these centers. "We
are dealing with middle-class people coming
out of the middle-class background," says
Ernest M. Kahn, the 39-year-old social work-
er who heads the training center. "They
must face the question: 'How do I really feel
when I get involved with the dirt and grime
of poverty?' "
Adds Mrs. Patricia M. Keith, assistant di-
rector: "A good part of the purpose of the
assignments is to get the trainees used to
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observing and seeing. We are trying to help
them learn how to see what's happening
around them."
The assignments Mrs. Keith alludes to in-
elude fieldwork 3 days a week in which
the trainees are placed with a number of
social or welfare agencies to work on actual
cases under direction of agency staff mem-
bers. The assignment might be to a boys'
club, city hospital, family and children's
society office, or neighborhood community
center.
OBSERVE, TALK, AND REPORT
Then there are the weekly observation
assignments in which the trainees in small
groups take the bus to places where they
can learn how,the poor live-public-housing
projects, public markets, health clinics, pool
halls, or flophouses. The trainees are asked
to observe and talk to people and write a,
report on what they have seen.
"We want these people to develop some
ability and some skill at visiting with the
poor," says Mr. Kahn. "They get so they're
not shocked at the stench of urine, for ex-?
ample. And they begin to deal with these
people as people; after a while they are able
to offer some specific help. Often, they have
the time to do thins that the harassed regu-
lar social worker for, the agency just doesn't
have time to do."
Mr. Kahn cites the case of a girl assigned.
to Hopkins Hospital, who was told to follow
up a case of a mother who failed to give her
child medicine prescribed by the hospital..
The trainee found that the mother wasn't
following instructions because she didn't
know how to tell time. In half an hour, the
trainee. was able to teach her and straighten
out the problem.
The training program also includes lec-
tures by social work professors and welfare-
agency executives on various aspects of the
poverty problem: Mental health and poverty,
family life in the slums, health services for
the poor, and the like. There are also Satur-
day morning workshops at which specific
skills are taught, such as tutoring, home-
making, group leadership, community orga-
nization, folk dancing, and creative arts.
Each week in three 2-hour seminars, led by
experienced social workers, the trainees dis-
cuss questions raised in their fieldwork, ob-
servation, and lecture assignments, and also
talk about their own attitudes about poverty
and the training program.
These sessions not only enable the volun-
teers to crystallize their impressions, but
allow VISTA officials to evaluate the volun
teers preparatory to the inevitable screen-
ing-out process, which includes several inter-
views with a clinical psychologist. Out of
the 34 candidates who started this particular
6-week cycle, 4 were dropped and 3 others
quit. The final decision on dropping a vol-
unteer is made by a. six-man board of three
training-center staff members and three
VISTA staffers from Washington. The ses-
Sions also help the volunteers gain an in-
sight into their own motives' for joining
VISTA.
Says Oscar Carter, the training placement
officer: "I'or one thing, they're getting away
from parental domination, For a lot of
them it's their first time away from home on
their own. Secondarily, there's an altruistic
motive; they want to help people less fortu-
nate, than themselves. And there are quite
a few who are trying to determine their pro-
fessional direction, They are using this as
a practical test of whether they want to work
for a public service agency."
A CLEAN SHEET OVER THE BEDBUGS
"I haven't been as excited about anything
In my life," says Ann Welnhold, 22, of Ithaca,
N.Y. Miss Weinhold describes one 3-week
effort, to Clean up a three-story house where
an 81-year-old woman, crippled by arthritis,
and her ,69-year-old diabetic husband lived.
'There were ratholes in the kitchen. And
wh, m we Came to change the bed linen, there
wef a literally thousands of bedbugs crawl-
ing on the beds. To get rid of them, you'd
hale had to destroy the mattress and burn
the ?sheets. We didn't have the authority
to 1o that; so we put clean sheets on top
of 1,he bedbugs and at that point, it was up
to t be sanitation department and the public
health nurse."
Says another of this crop of trainees, 20-
yea'-old Marilou Hunt of Lehman, Pa., "I
hoc never seen a slum until I came to Balti-
m,o: e, The first time I walked in that kind
of nieighborhood, I got called nasty names,
anc it really shocked me."
The problem of developing meaningful
concmunication with the poor struck home to
a number of the trainees. Eric Metzner, 24,
of Tucson, did his field work in a Negro
boys' club. "There was a tremendous prob-
lem in trying to talk to the boys on a level
of other than 'Let's play Ping-pong,' " Mr.
Mel sner says. "They were all colored kids-
and you're white. So they assume you're
a s.DCial worker; and why talk to a social
worker?"
THEY WERE WORLDS APART
Twenty-year-old Henry Garland of Ber-
genfield, N.J., who developed a tutoring pro.
grail h at the same boys' club, reported a sim-
ilar experience. "The kids were very reluc-
tan' to talk to a white person," Mr. Garland
say;" "It was their world and our world;
the;t had a way of communicating among
the: nselves that set them apart. Many of
the, n had a sense of being satisfied with
whf t they had; they knew they would grow
up to be the useless black males you'd see
around that area, and that was that."
But with a few of the youngsters, Mr. Gar-
land was able to make real headway as a
tutor. And this gives him hope, "If you can
establish ties like that in only 6 weeks, in
the year we're going to be working, well,
povorty won't be unheard of after the
Yea]'," he says, "but some few people might
have been helped."
GETTING NEW PERSPECTIVES
P:ueoonceptions about theDoor were altered
for many of the trainees by the 6-Week
oou'se. Says David Meador, 21, of San An-
tonio, who joined VISTA after 2 years of
coil ege:
?'I had read all these books, and I thought
I hid these people pegged. But I found the
peol i1e r met to be intelligent and sensitive
to a. tremendous degree, to have great con-
cerr: for their families, and to want to better
themselves--characteristics which I didn't
expect to find. There were those who were
unintelligent and lazy, but not to the de-
gree I anticipated. Many were people who
realty wanted to do something for them-
sely s3 and their kids, and were just not able
to d) it.''
Aids 19-year-old Marilyn Watts of Den-
ver, a former Colorado University freshman,
"T doubt very much that I'll ever be able to
go rack and think like my friends again."
Tie trainees had indeed changed over the
6-week period. And, if most of them would
oarrr little in the way of skills or work ex-
peri once to their VISTA assignments, they
mig:bt well make up for that deficiency in
the enthusiasm and dedication of youth.
Ir:_hls final talk to them, the day before
they left for their permanent VISTA assign-
men is in the field, Mr. Kahn warned them
not to expect Utopia: "All kinds of things
can happen. Don't expect the fire depart-
ment band to be on hand, and everything
laid Out for you when you arrive."
JAMES R. CONANT.
[Frcm the National Observer, Aug. 16, 19651
Hom PROJECT HEAD START IS WORKING: YELL
COUNTY GETS A HANDLE ON POVERTY PROBLEM
Ora, ARK.-Cindy is a 5-year-old
girl with
delicate features and flowing black hair who
had never seen an elephant. But last month
she and her 39 classmates at a local school
in Yell County,here boarded a bus, clutch-
ing their picnic lunches, and drove to Little
Rock, 90 :miles to the east. There, at the
zoo, she saw an elephant. "It had a long
nose," she exclaimed last week. "It was
bigger than a turtle. Bigger than my
daddy." Now she draws pictures of ele-
phants in watercolors, and pictures of her-
self, which show a girl with spindly legs, a
round stomach, and a grin on her face.
Cindy doesn't know it, but the trip to
the zoo, the watercolors, the songs she's
taught to' sing, the nourishing lunch she's
served in school, the games she's taught to
play-even the contests to see who can wash
his hands the cleanest-all are designed to
prepare her for entering first grade next
month. For Cindy is one of those 500,000.
children who are enrolled in the Federal
antiprovery program's Project Head Start,
the program aimed at bringing youngsters
from what sociologists call "culturally de-
prived" homes closer to the level of the class-
mates they will soon meet.. The program
originally was planned as an 8-week sum-
mer project, but the response has been so
good, said Federal Antipoverty Director R.
Sargent Shriver last week, that the Govern-
ment will make Head Start a year-round
project.
Rural Yell County, where a steadily de-
clining pdpulation (now 12,000) exists on
an average family income of $2,600 a year,
is a good place to see Project Head Start in
operation. It is a county where girls and
boys from homes like Cindy's have tradi-
tionally quit school long before graduation,
There are as many adults here with less
than an eighth-grade education as there are
with more,
SCANT SCHOOLING :[S NO BAR
One reason for the high dropout rate is
that a limited education has never served
as much of a handicap. Yell county resi-
dents could make a living on family farms
growing row crops like corn and cotton, or
find employment in one of the sawmills
and woodpulp factories that process tim-
ber from the area's deep forests.
But things are changing, here as in other
rural areas. Increasingly, larger farms are
squeezing out the small producer, and cut-
backs in the timber industry have idled
many. To provide steady employment and
curb the steady population[ loss to the cities
(15 percent since 1950), county leaders are
seeking to attract new industry and develop
the area's lakes and woods for recreation.
Industry's demands for a skilled labor sup-
ply have spured the county to establish
an antipoverty program, with the emphasis
on education, Project Head Start is part
of the effort.
Explains Mrs. Hazel Marcum, a fourth
grade teacher, who directs the local Head
Start project: "A lot of kids show up for
the first day of school showing serious effects
from neglect. They don't have shoes, or
they're not clean. Some from large fami-
lies can't say more than a few words. They
can't keep up in class, and they're laughed
at. It doesn't take long before they lose
interest."
WHAT THE CHILDREN ARE TAUGHT
To prevent this year's crop of first graders
from being laughed at, the Federal Govern-
ment is pouring $84 million in antipoverty
funds into :Head Start projects in 2,300 com-
munities, Yell County's program Cost
$49,000, 90 percent of it to be paid by the
Federal Government. The county will pay
the rest. At half-day sessions in the coun-
ty's 7 schools, 233 pupils learn to recognize
colors and 'shapes, to use scissors, listen to
music, recite, nursery rhymes, and identify
simple household objects like a toothbrush
and a bar of soap.
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September 27, 1965 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - APPENDIX
I submit the results of the Harris sur-
vey as they appeared in the Washington
Post, Thursday, September 23, 1965, and
commend them _to the attention of our
colleagues.
[From the Washington Post, Sept. 23, 1965]
AMERICANS FAVOR HOME RULE FOR WASHING-
TON BY 6 TO I
(By Louis Harris)
By better than 6 to 1, Americans support
home rule for the city of Washington.
Sizable majorities of voters in all parties,
people who voted for Goldwater or for John-
son in 1964, people from all regions, voters
from big cities and small towns all favor
home rule for residents of Washington.
The main reasons people give for backing
home rule are three: that people in any
area should have the right to govern them-
selves, that a city should determine its own
destiny, and that Congress has not done a
good job in running the city of Washington.
The opposition centers on one major con-
cern over home rule-that with its large
Negro population, a newly elected local Dis-
trict government would be dominated by that
minority group.
A special cross section of the national
electorate was reminded that Congress is
soon going to vote on whether to give Wash-
ington home rule. Each person interviewed
was then asked, "Would you favor or oppose
home rule for Washington, D.C.?"
A total of 66 percent of the Nation's
voters said they favor home rule, 10 percent
said they oppose it and 24 percent said they
were not sure how they felt about the issue.
Sentiment in favor of home rule for the
city of Washington tends to run higher
among the more affluent sectors of the popu-
lation-those who have attended college and
those earning over $10,000 'a year. Negroes
also are overwhelmingly in favor of estab-
lishing local elective government in the Na-
tion's Capital.
Support for home rule clearly is not a
partisan political issue among the people, as
evidenced by the fact that 1964 Goldwater
and Johnson voters are almost equally in
favor of passage of a harm rule bill.
While support of home rule is highest in
the West and Midwest, the ratio of backing
is generally uniform across the Nation. The
6-to-1 majorities remain intact in the big
cities, suburbs, small towns, and farms of the
country.
Voters were probed in depth for what lay
behind their stated views.
Typical of the comments volunteered in
favor of home rule was that of a 68-year-old
retired man in Los Angeles who said, "They
are people like us and should have their own
officials and their own government. Why
should they be an exception?" A 40-year-old
housewife in Stroud, Okla., added, "They
have a right to their own government. Amer-
ica stands for what is right for one is right
for all." A 39-year-old executive from Ann
Arbor, Mich., said, "Congress has neither the
time nor inclination to, deal with the city's
problems."
Opposing home rule was the wife of the
store manager in Lancaster, N.Y., who said,
"Because of the racial imbalance, every city
office will be held by a Negro." A 31-year-old
Okron, Ohio, rubber worker added, "The
colored would just take over."
While the issue of, home rule has stirred a
division of opinion generating considerable
heat, when all of the opinions are added, the
prevailing view is a landslide in favor of home
rule for the Capital City.
A cross section of Americans was asked:
"As you know, the city of Washington,
D.C., can vote in presidential elections, but
does not elect its own city government. Con-
gress is soon going to vote on whether or not
to give the city of 'Washington home rule.
Would you favor or oppose home rule for
Washington, D.C."
Nationwide__________________
By political party:
Republicans______________
Democrats---------------
Independents_____________
By region:
East ----------------------
Midwest__________________
South--------------------
West----------------------
By size of place:
City ----------------------
Suburbs__________________
Towns-------------------
Rural--------------------
By 1964 vote:
Goldwater voters---------
Johnson voters --_________
By education:
8th grade or less----------
High school--------------
College -------------------
By race:
White--------------------
Negro--------------------
By religion:
Protestant________________
Catholic------------------
Jewish--------------------
By Income:
Under $5,000______________
$5,000 to $9,999____________
Over $10,000______________
Oppose
8
10
10
10
11
5
11
12
14
7
9
8
15
12
5
9
9
11
12
7
15
Not
sure
Each voter who said he either favored or
opposed home rule for Washington was
asked:
"Why do you feel that way? Any other
reason?"
Reasons favor or oppose home rule
Total
Nation
Why favor:
Every city should
determine own
destiny------
_
Every community
has right to
self-government--
Can do better job
than Congress---
Total favoring_
Why oppose:
Too many Ne-
groes, would
take over--------
Seat of Federal
Government
should be run
by Federal
Government-----
Population is
transient_______
Repub-
licans
Demo.
crats
.28
6
Inde-
pend-
ent
Total opposing---
Total not sure- __
A5455
businessman quicker than anything.
Needless to say, many of the Pekin down-
town group are small businessmen.
Under unanimous consent, I include
the resolution at this point:
RESOLUTION BY THE PEKIN DOWNTOWN
BUSINESSMEN'S ASSOCIATION
Whereas wages is a problem between em-
ployer and employee, based on type of busi-
ness and location, and therefore impossible
and impractical to legislate; and
Whereas the proposed increase in the Fed-
eral minimum wage will work a hardship on
small business whether it is or is not covered
by H.R. 10518; and
Whereas necessitated increases to retain
present personnel in the face of competition
for employees and the resultant wage dif-
ferentials; and
Whereas the decrease in the margin of
profit which is already in a dangerous posi-
tion;. and
Whereas the increase of wage cost will
necessarily be passed on to the consumer in
higher prices; and
Whereas passage of the bill will, of neces-
sity, eliminate jobs for the teenager and the
unskilled; and
Whereas millions of second wage earners
in a household with no skills and a willing-
ness to work, will no longer have employ-
ment: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Pekin Downtown Business-
men's Association, That all legislators care-
fully study the results of such legislation in
the light of employment and taxes derived
from business and individual profit; and
be it further
Resolved, That the Downtown Business-
men's Association, realizing the costly con-
sequences of an increase in the minimum
wage law, strongly recommends the defeat of
H.R. 10518; and be it further
Resolved, That a copy of this resolution
be sent to our Representatives in Congress.
Adopted in Pekin, Ill., this 13th day of
September, A.D. 1965.
RUSSELL STRAUMANN,
Chairman.
A Question of Power
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. DONALD RUMSFELD
OF ILLINOIS
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Monday, September 27, 1965
Mr. RUMSFELD. Mr. Speaker, the
ruthlessness with which the majority
party has steamrollered through the
Congress legislation demanded by the
President has brought the charge from
many quarters that the 89th Congress is
a rubberstamp body doing the bidding of
the President without adequate delibera-
tion and the honest consideration of di-
verse views. There is no denying that
there is substance to this charge. An
editorial which appeared in the Septem-
ber 22, 1965, issue of the Chicago Ameri-
can discusses an example of the abuse of
the legislative process and points out the
danger to representative government in
the application of such tactics.
The editorial follows:
A QUESTION OF POWER
The congressional debate over doing away
with right-to-work laws is a debate by
courtesy only. Normally the word means an
exchange of differing viewpoints in an effort
to settle an issue, or at least to clarify it,
14
12
Proposed Wage-Hour Bill Undermining
Economics
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. ROBERT H. MICHEL
OF ILLINOIS
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Monday, September 27, 1965
Mr. MICHEL. Mr. Speaker, the Pekin,
Ill., downtown businessmen got together
and passed a resolution indicating their
strong feelings on H.R. 10518. It is ob-
vious these men and women feel the bill
embodies simon-pure inflation and the
payment of money not justified for the
services rendered. The two aforemen-
tioned economic evils can kill a small
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but very little of that has been going on' In ' to communism he did was get mad at us and throw in his
meat surrender through-
Washington. 'The decisive question is how (,ut the world without a violent protest lot with Red China.
much steam there is In the Democratic i n the part of the American people. There are many other instances of the
steamroller. America seems to be like a person on the United States throwing its weight behind
i'r ident Johnson and the Democratic: ma- men who became our drastic enemies shortly
jority want to iepeal section 14(b) of the Operating table, completely under anes- afterward.
Taft-Hartley law, which permits States to ihetics which have been applied in large When, oh_whenare we going to clean out
enact laws banning the union shop if. they (uses by the administration, A thorough the State Department and get rid of the men
choose. A largely Republican minority led l evamping of our State Department is who always pick the wrong horse.
by Senator vEAEErT DraxsEN, of Illinois, IDng overdue, and, as George Washington
wants, 14(b) maintained, and is "planning aid "Put only Americans on guard to-
-~`
a filibuster to prevent its removal. The whole night."
issue apparently is to be settled by a test The editorial follows:
of lung power versus sheer weight of num-
bers. l vsw REPEATS HIS MISTAKES IN
And that prospect is not encouraging. To REPUBLIC
our mind, the central issue here is not wheth- The Dominican situation is deteriorating
er 14(b) is repealed, but whether this same ]Ike everything else deteriorates that our
method of indifferently squashing opposition ;Secretary of State Rusk has anything to do
is to become normal procedure with the Fed- irith. He has a 25-year record of either
Government. If the congressional Ina- c eliberately messing up everything or making
eral as o Governmren
Jorlty Its opposition, the Justice De- the wrong guess. It started when he gave
partment will then roll over the 19 States 1he go ahead to the Chinese Communists as
that no* have right-to-work laws; and in being nothing but simple agrarians seeking
neither case will. a question have been net- ustice.
tied on its merits,. but only by exercise of The Dominican Republic had a record of
power, i fOthing but strife except during the time
We do not think right-to-work laws are Ijiat the Dictator Trujillo was in charge
an unmixed blessing, and we certainly would After he was murdered there was nothing
not like to see Illinois adopt one. What they I tut trouble, then a President named Juan
generally confer is the right to work cheap. Bosch was elected. He had strong leftwing
It can even be argued that the States that bndencies and pulled into the Government
have these laws are following a short-sighted numerous Communist sympathizers.
policy. They can bokist an Immediate ad- - The rightwing party, which included the
vantage, In that the relatively low wage army and the air service in the Dominican
scales in these States tend to attract more 7epublic, executed a coup and forced Bosch
industries; but once the Industries have been "D flee the country. They appointed a pro-
attracted, the lower wages and consequently 'risional government. The friends of Bosch
smaller buying power works against tem. ;hen staged a counterrevolution and as the
The point is that the question of enact- ;fighting became more and more pronounced,
tag these laws '.s one for individual States he counterrevolutionists welcomed more
to decide. The value of laws against the ivid more Communists and Communist
union shop depends on a State's own circum- sympathizers.
stances, and should be Judged by the State's one of those reportedly killed on their side
Voters, This exen}plifles what the late Jus- 'pas Che Guevera, who for a number of years
tine Frankfurter meant with his remark that was Castro's right-hand man and a more rod-
the States serve as "laboratories for social 'Cal Communist than Castro. There were 57
experiment." There is no guarantee that an tither pro-Communists in the high command
experiment will work, but the right to try +rf the rebel army according to the CIA.
It must be'protected. Now the new deal has been set up by the
For the Federal Government to tell States organization of American States with the
that they may not have such laws is a fright- Joirsent and assistance of the. U.S. State De-
ening intrusion of Federal power into a State bartment They have picked a president,
matter. And this time, there would be no tow in office, who was one of the assistants
question of Washington moving perforce into 3f Bosch when Bosch was President,
a vacuum left by a State's unwillingness to The next headline we find is that General
act Wessin y Wessin, brigadier general in com-
The Johnson administration would be nand of the Dominican Air Corps was ar-
frankly using its power over Congress to fiat- seated and at bayonet point was put on a
ten State opposition. It would be operating plane bound for Miami. He was appointed
under a new and -dangerous rule of thumb: Dominican consul general to that city after
If a State government doesn't share the offi- he was deported but has refused the ap-
cial Federal view, that proves it isn't com- pointment.
petent to enact Its own laws. , We_-sin y Wessin was not only a capable
And aaoe that philosophy gains ground, officer, he was a friend of the United States
State governments will be little more than and completely free of Communist influences.
lower echelon desks in a Federal bureaucracy. The same thing has now happened to him
that has happened to many of the other
darts of the world. We have turned on our
riends and backed such people as Castro in
The Situation in the Dominican Republic Cuba. The so-callcd dictator, Batista, that
f 1 d f
l
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. JAMES B. UTT
OF CALIF'CRNIA
IN TILE HOU`"E OF REPRESENTATIVES
r en o
we threw" out of Cuba, was a rea
Ike United States. Our State Department in-
sisted that Castro was the man we wanted
to govern Cuba. They neglected to tell the
people that he was a graduate of a Com-
munist school. Everyone knows what hap-
iened after he took command in Cuba.
We forced the Indies chief, Sukarno, on
com-
Monday, September 27, 1965 the Dutch, and assisted him to take com-
P~tand of Indonesia.
Mr. UTT. Mr. Speaker, under unani- The State Department handpicked Nasser
mous consent to extend my, remarks in to be the head man In Egypt. The State De-
the Appendix of the RECORD, I include an partment forced England, France, and Israel
editorial appearing in the Herald-Ameri- to pull back their armies when they were
can newspapers, Los Angeles, Calif., pub- within 24 hours of capturing Cairo and Nas-
lished by Mr. Cliff Smith, set.
} Ayub Khan of Pakistan was our hand-
I .cannot conceive ' of how the State picked little boy and we spent a number of
Department can continue on its piece- billion dollars on him and the next thing
L.B1.J.'s Pedernales Press Service
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
HON. J. ARTHUR YOUNGER
OF CALIFORNIA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Monday, September 27, 1965
Mr. YOUNGER. ]VIr. Speaker, much
has been written about L,B.J.'s Peder-
nales Press Service but two of the best
articles; :r have read appeared in the San
Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chron-
icle of September 26. The first article
Is by Douglas Kiker, correspondent from
Washington, and the second is an article
by Art Hoppe on the same subject. Both
of these articles follow:
[From the San Francisco Sunday Examiner &
Chronicle, Sept. 26, 1965]
L.B.J.'s: PEDERNALES PRESS SERVICE: HE WANTS
Goon NEWS
(By Douglas Kiker)
WAsnsuoTON.-President Johnson told a
gathering of Government information officers
last month that he expects them to spend
More time producing favorable news about
his administration and less time cooperating
with reporters in search of stories which dis-
please him.
The 62-minute meeting was held in the
Fish Room at the White House on August
27 and-the President delayed three appoint-
ments while he delivered his lecture.
At one point, sources said recently, he re-
ferred to a recent story which had angered
him and pointed out that the reporter could
not have gotten the facts without the co-
operation of some of the men present in the
room.
He then warned the group that if they
could not produce the sort of good news he
wanted, he would hire some high school sen-
iors from Johnson City, Tex. and count on
them to do the job.
At the same meeting, Presidential Press
Secretary Bill Moyers told the group that the
White House expects to have first choice on
all the favorable news from all Federal agen-
cies and departments.
Sources said that Johnson himself gave
some specific examples of the sort of thing he
had in mind. For example, he said, the Ag-
ricultgre Department recently installed a
new calculating machine which was serving
to increase departmental efficiency. News of
this should have been released by the White
House, he maintained.
As a result of the m=eting, the public rela-
tions men in the administration have been.
working overtime to supply the White House
with the sort of r,4ws releases they, want.
On September 6, for example, during a
weekend. in Aust'n, the White House released
42 stories, which ranged from the increase in
national park visitors to the increase in
homes for Indians financed by the Public
Housing Administration.
White House reporters junked most of the
releases, and joked about them to the extent
that Moyers now reportedly has decided that
the project was overdone and needs curtail-
ing somewhat.
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