A FOOTNOTE ON THE SITUATION IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

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• Publication Date: July 21, 1965
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RESOL17TION OF IIQNTEMANN-HUFF POST No.
110, INC., DEPARTMENT OF MARYLAND,
MOUNT. RAINIER,..; MD.
At the regular meeting of this post held on
July 14, 1965, the following resolution was
Introduced and unanimously voted on and
passed:
"Whereas only 44 percent of our draft-
eligible young men ever serve their country
in uniform; sacrificing 2 to 4 years of their
lives at the crucial age of Peak development;
"Whereas the 56 percent of their coun-
terparts are using this time to further their
careers and develop their education;
"Whereas these 44 percent are men who
are least able to afford an education, who are
least prepared for a civilian occupation, and
who have to struggle the hardest to survive
the competition of the future: Therefore be
it
"Resolved, That luntemann-Huff Post No.
110, Inc., the American Legion, Department
of Maryland, Inc., does endorse' the Cold
War Readjustment Assistance Act of 1965,
Senate bill 9, known as the cold war 01
bill; and that three copies of this resolution
be forwarded to the department adjutant,
the American Legion, Department of Mary-
land, Inc., to be acted on at the 47th annual
convention of the Department of Maryland;
convening on the 21st of July through July
24, 1965, in the city of Baltimore, Md.; and
be it further
"Resolved, If passed by the Department of
Maryland Convention, this resolution will be
forwarded to the national convention of the
American Legion at the next convention to
be held August 20-26 in Portland, Oreg."
Respectfully submitted.
RICHARD S. CALALANO,
Commander.
PERRY A. MARTIN,
Adjutant.
REMOVAL OF RESTRICTIONS QN
FREE FLOW OF MILK IN INTER-
STATE COMMERCE
Mr, NELSON. Mr. President, I re-
cently cosponsored with the junior Sen-
ator from Minnesota [Mr. MONDALE],
Senate bill 1993, designed to eliminate
unreasonable and unnecessary restric-
tions on the free flow of milk products
in interstate commerce.
Since introduction of the bill, I have
received several statements of support.
One is from Pure Milk Products Coopera-
tive of Fond du Lac, Wis., which repre-
sents 15,000 dairy farm families produc-
ing milk for markets in Wisconsin, Mich-
igan, and Illinois.
William C. Eckles, PMC's general man-
ager, has had many years of experience
dealing with the conflicting, duplicating,
and discriminatory milk ordinances
which, are so costly to both consumers
and producers. He Is highly qualified to
describe the problems these ordinances
create and to comment on this proposed
legislation.
I ask unanimous consent that the letter
from Mr. Eckles, written on behalf of
Pure Milk Products Cooperative,, be
printed in the RECORD.
There being no objection, the letter was
ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as
follows:
PYRE MILK PRODUCTS COOPERATIVE,
Fond du Lac, Wis., June 30, 1965.
Hon. GAYLORD A. NELSON,
U.S. Senator,,
Room 404, Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SENATOR NELSON: In behalf of Pure
Milk Products Cooperative, we wish to en-
dorse?bill S. 1993, known as the National Milk
Sanitation Act, which you and several other
Senators have introduced and which now is
in the hands of the Senate Committee on
Labor and Public Welfare.
Conflicting, duplicating, and discrimina-
tory milk ordinances have been costly to both
consumers and producers. They are en-
couraged by local bureaucratic health agen-
cies to perpetuate themselves, and by local
milk distributors and producers to eliminate
competition.
When local supplies are short, it is fre-
quently necessary for distributors to come to
Wisconsin for supplementary supplies, but
shipment of such high quality grade A
milk Is often permitted only at the discre-
tion of the milk inspection agency of the re-
ceiving market. Midwest plants making
such supplementary sales, report having been
subject to numerous local health agency
inspections.
In our own area, we are faced with un-
necessary duplicative inspections. Our mem-
bers who have long met the grade A require-
ments of Milwaukee, find that they must
also accept Chicago inspection if the bottler
of their milk wishes to sell milk in Chicago,
and northeastern Wisconsin farmers supply-
ing the Green Bay grade A market as subject
to the Michigan State Inspection before the
Green Bay handler can extend his dis-
tribution routes across the State line into the
Michigan Upper Peninsula.
We urge that the Senate Committee on
Labor and Public Welfare hold hearings and
encourage passage of S. 1993 at the earliest
possible date.
Sincerely,
W X / ( A
A FOOTNO'T QN-T1fESITUATION Il
THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Mr. GRUENING. Mr. President, a
thoughtful article on the situation in the
Dominican Republic, written by Jaime
Benitez, chancellor of the University of
Puerto Rico, appears in the current issue
of the Saturday Review entitled "The
Leadership Crisis."
Jaime Benitez, in addition to his
standing as an academician, as a long-
"time educational administrator was ac-
tive in the Dominican Republic during
its recent upheaval in trying to secure
a useful settlement consistent with dem-
ocratic practice and purpose. His well-
balanced views are therefore of interest,
and I ask unanimous consent that his
article, "The Leadership Crisis," be
printed in the RECORD.
There being no objection, the article
was ordered to be printed in the RECORD,
as follows:
THE LEADERSHIP CRISIS
(EDITOR'S NOTE.-The author of the follow-
ing guest editorial is chancellor of the Uni-
versity of Puerto Rico. He has recently been
closely involved In official efforts to find a
solution to the Dominican problem.)
Our hemisphere is living through a crucial
hour. The subtle web of concord and under-
standing Is being dangerously torn asunder.
Frequently, what is woven in the daytime is
unwoven at night. And now a second Carib-
bean tragedy is developing, the tragedy of the
Dominican Republic. This tragedy is much
different from the previous one In Cuba, with
which-because of thoughtlessness, or obses-
sion, or faulty information-it was at first
confused. One's sympathy must go out to
the Dominican people in their present plight.
Over the years the Dominican Republic has
suffered a bloody fate. Civil struggles, inter-
ventions, dictatorships, coups d'etat, brief
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and unstable flashes of democracy followed
by more coups d'etat, and more civil strug-
gles and interventions have left a confused
legacy of poverty, uncertainty, suspicion, re-
jection, and, in some Dominicans, a stubborn
will to correct the past.
How canons, help in such a precarious sit-
uation? What can one do without aggra-
vating even more the bitter internal strife
that troubles the Dominican people? None
of the Spanish-speaking countries has been
able to answer these questions effectively.
Latin American solidarity has failed the Do-
minican Republic at a moment of need. Nor
has the United States, with its unilateral
intervention-precipitate at first and later
hesitant and faltering-been able to solve the
immediate problem or reassure the rest of
the hemisphere about implications for the
future of its present course. Nor has the
OAS, with its heterogeneous membership of
diffident democracies, military and semimili-
tary regimes, and shaky civilian governments
(all showing various degrees of fear and sus-
picion of their dominant partner), been able
to act with anything approaching the needed
firmness and cohesion.
Intervention in the Dominican Republic
has aroused animosity throughout Latin
America. No Latin American government de-
pending upon popular support can endorse
it and expect to survive. (President Frei of
Chile and President Leoni of Venezuela, both
struggling against strong Communist opposi-
tion, have made their positions abundantly
clear.) Only governments dependent for
their stability upon the support of the United
States rather than their electorate have been
disposed, and that only after much prodding,
to provide the minimum votes necessary to
permit formal collective action.
In the United States the hard line seems to
command the greater electoral support, and
this fact promises, in the days ahead, to pro-
people of the United States and those of the
rest of Latin America. We face a leadership
crisis in this hemisphere. Basically, the
crisis is traceable to the social revolutions
in ferment throughout Latin America, which
are steadily gaining greater momentum. The
crisis also reflects the inability of the U.S.
Government to define its proper role vis-a-
vls the social upheavals and political convul-
sions at work in Latin America.
As the world's oldest and most powerful
democracy, as well as the closest to Latin
America, the United States is, in the minds
and hearts of the great majority of ill-
housed, ill-clad, and ill-fed Latin Americans,
the nation most able to support the legiti-
mate aspirations of the common man any-
where. Unfortunately, many forces and cir-
cumstances have blocked the understanding
that Is needed. The difference in means, re-
sources, power, thought patterns, and cul-
tural traditions makes confidence and co-
operation extremely difficult. American pol-
icy in the Dominican Republic seems specifi-
cally designed to render life in Latin America
more hazardous and continental relations
more bitter and hostile.
Going through Santo Domingo these days,
one sees many clear-eyed, earnest American
young men. Attired in battle dress, they
man the security zones, patrol the corridors,
control or support the military. In the eyes
of all Dominicans they are invaders. Others,
fewer in number and less visible, work as
Peace Corps volunteers in hospitals, slums,
training centers. All Dominicans regard
them as friends. Yet soldiers and Peace
Corps workers have much in common. Both
groups represent the United States; they
carry out their difficult tasks with integrity
and loyalty; and they embody the ambiv-
alence of U.S. policy. If we must have them
both, could not the ratio of soldiers to Peace
Corps be reversed?
The outlook for the future is not reassur-
ing. The OAS, never a strong instrument of
Latin American policy, is now weaker than
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ever, It, 4 possible, of course, that the pro-
tracted. arnd uaarewardtug stand-still in the
Dominican. Republic may be ended through
the formula of s provisional government fol-
lowed by general elections under OAS super-
vision, $lit at best, this will be only a first
step in a long and difficult road ahead.
eJAIMF, ,$ENITEZ.
THE RQI,,E OF?6,ICAN BUSINESS
IN GUARANTEEING EQUAL EM-
PLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES-FX-
C tp FROM, REMARKS BY VICE
PRESIDENT' ITTMPHREY
Mr. McNAMAR.A. Mr. President, the
important role-indeed the vital role-
that, American business plays in the
guarantee, of equal employment oppor-
tunities,has again been emphasized by
Vice President HUgERT HUMPHREY.
The Vice President made his remarks
at the opening of the "Fair Employment
Is Good lusiness" exhibit at the Depart-
ment of Commerce,
I' ask unanimous consent that excerpts
arum Vice President HUMPHREY's re-
marks be printed intlie RECORD.
There being no objection, the excerpts
were ordered to be printed in the RECORD,
as follows:
rxcml'TS or REMARKS BY VICE PRESIDENT
HtTBERT H.UMPHREY, OPENING OF THE DE-
PARTMSNT OF COMysERCE "FAIR EMPLOY-
MENT 1s GOOD BUBLNSSS" EXHIBIT, WASH-
1$iGTON, D.C., JULY 21, 190.5
I am delighted at this chance to visit the
equal employment opportunity exhibit, and
to pay tribute to the Equal Employment Op-
portitnity Commission. My thanks to Secre-
Connor and the Department of Com-
i lerce, for making this occasion possible.
A lot has been been written and said about
,the nportant task that Chairman Roosevelt
and the oth&r Commissioners will perform.
It is a e1 ellenging job and they will need all
the help we oan.give them.
By "we" I mean all of us in this country.
"There is no such thing as -`the Negro prob-
lem" or "the,minority group problem." We
have an American problem, and all Americans
are 1voi'k .ng today to help solve it.
That is.why, Secretary Connor, I was par-
ti0ltlarly pleased to hear you say that "the
business .of. 4merican business is America."
It has bees my experience that the busi-
ness coiritnuptity, is more than willing to
volunteer its resources to help solve problems
of national Gpncern,, We have seen this re-
ggntly, for to tance, in, the President's sum-
ii er youth employment program and In the
vOluntary steps toward the solution of the
balance-qf-payments situation.
We have also seen it in Equal Employment
OpportpnlI y. In a recent meeting of some
'' the plans-for-progress companies in San
arcisco, I reported the fact that companies
With the highest productivity and profits
have also. provided great leadership in the
ileld of merit employment.
T was also glad, Mr. Secretary, to hear you.
refer to the, need to use education and train-
'irIg programs as a part of equal employment.
Not only must we offer equal job opportu-
nities, but we must be sure that all Americans
have the chance to build a better life through
equal opportunity for education and train-
ing. This is, another great area where labor,
business, and Government work together for
the benefit of all.
. T'he tie' adlines that bring us news of unrest
give us optimism that we will do still more
in the future. Fair employment is good busi-
ness because it is good sense.
USE OF OPTOMETRISTS UNDER
MEDICARE
Mr. WILLIAMS of New Jersey. Mr.
President, I was delighted that the medi-
care bill recently passed by the Senate
made provision for the use of optometric
.services.. Optometrists have long since
established themselves as trained and
skilled professionals in eye care. More
than 70 percent of Americans who wear
glasses rely on the services of the op-
tometric profession. Let me emphasize
that optometrists are not merely me-
chanical lens grinders, but educated,
dedicated professional' men. I think the
so-called freedom of choice amendment
allowing a recipient of medicare benefits
to choose either an ophthalmologist or
an optometrist was a wise proviso, and
gave long-overdue recognition to the op-
tometric profession.
I was particularly concerned that op-
tometric services would be available to
children given medical care under spe-
cial project grants for the low-income
children of school and preschool age.
Therefore, I wrote to Secretary Cele-
brezze requesting that this point be clari-
fied. In his reply to me Secretary Cele-
brezze said:
It does require that projects must be com-
prehensive in nature. This would certainly
Include eye care. There is no doubt that the
recipients of grants under section 532 of
title V would have authority to include the
services of optometrists in providing eye
care.
And it would seem certain that a great
many, probably a substantial majority, of the
eye examinations of children would be made
by optometrists.
I am certain in making this. statement
Secretary Celebrezze is recognizing the
clear intent of Congress, and I am de-
lighted that children will benefit from
the healing skills of the modern optome-
trists. It has too often been tragically
demonstrated that the reason that
Johnny cannot read is because Johnny
cannot see. As a result many optome-
trists are already participating on a vol-
untary basis in medical care programs
associated with Operation Head Start
activities. The medicare bill will make
optometric services more easily available
to young children. I ask unanimous con-
sent that Secretary Celebrezze's letter be
'included in the RECORD.
There being no objection, the letter
was ordered to be printed in the RECORD,
as follows:
THE SECRETARY OF HEALTH,
EDUCATION, AND WELFARE,
Washington, D.C., July 16, 1965.
Hon. HARRISoN A. WILLIAMS, Jr.,
U.S. Senate,
Washington, D.C.
DEAR SENATOR WILLIAMS: This is in re-
sponse to your letter of July 7, 1965, regarding
the provisions in H.R. 6675 relating to the
use of optometrists.
The recognition of optometrists was very
substantially advanced by a provision in the
House-passed bill which requires that under
the new medical assistance programs it a
,State provides eyeglasses the individual shall
have free choice between having an exami-
nation made by a physician skilled in the
diseases of the eye or by an optometrist.
The Senate, before passage of the bill,
adopted general language applicable to all
titles of the Social Security Act which would
accomplish the same result in relation to
any services that optometrists are licensed to
render. What action the conference com-
mittee will take on this amendment I, of
course, cannot forecast, but there is no dif-
ference in the Senate and House-passed bills
in the provision of the medical assistance
programs relating to the use of optometrists.
The section 532 relating to special project
grants for low-income children of school and
preschool age, as you indicate, does not refer
explicitly to either eye care or to optome-
trists. It does require that projects must be
comprehensive in nature. This would cer-
tainly include eye care. There is no doubt
that the recipients of grants under section
502 of title V would have authority to in-
clude the services of optometrists in provid-
ing eye care. And it would seem certain
that a great many, probably a substantial
majority, of the eye examinations of children
would be made by optometrists.
Sincerely,
ANTHONY CELEBREZZE,
Secretary.
THE ACADEMIC COMMUNITY AND
THE PROBLEM OF VIETNAM
Mr. McGEE. Mr. President, I am en-
couraged by the statement of 67 Amer-
ican college and university professors,
political scientists and others, who have
come forth in the past few days to, as
they put it, "dispel the notion that any
small but active and vocal groups of
teachers and students speak for the en-
tire academic community on the prob-
lem of Vietnam."
As one who has spent his share of
time in the academic halls, I spoke here
in April, asking for professors and stu-
dents who agreed with our President
and with our Government's policies to
come forth and be counted. I asked
that they make a true dialog out of
the so-called campus debate over the
course of affairs in southeast Asia. This
group of 67 Americans has. Many
others have done likewise.
These distinguished academics have
made it clear in their statement of sup-
port that they do strongly desire peace
and "a political settlement of the war
achieved through negotiation among re-
sponsible parties." And they make it
ultimately clear that they firmly believe
the President of the United States fully
shares this desire.
Realistically, this group has taken
into account, however, the limited num-
ber of alternatives facing the United
States since it was confronted with the
sharp escalation of Hanoi's aggression
against South Vietnam. They have
stated their belief that President John-
son and his advisers have chosen wisely
from among the choices presented them.
And they have rejected what they call
the "bizarre political doctrine" that the
President of the United States has spe-
cial obligations to the academic com-
munity. I ask unanimous consent that
their document of support, with names,
and addresses be printed in the RECORD,
along with an editorial from the Wash-
ington Evening Star of Tuesday.
There being no objection, the docu-
ment, names, addresses, and editorial
were ordered to be printed in the REC-
ORD, as follows:
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