DECREASE OF FREE WORLD SHIPPING TO CUBA

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picion that the White House had a political
interest in the jobs.
The following week Mrs. Davies had an-
other meeting at which no CSC people
were invited. Significantly many of those
attending handled patronage for their agen-
cies along with a few career personnel di-
reetors. Summer jobs were discussed and
the suspicion deepened that the White House
planned to use the jobs for political pur-
poses. But Mrs. Davies and others promptly
denied the reports.
It was at this juncture that Civil Service
officials explained' to White House staffers
that a political test for summer jobs would
be illegal. They suggested issuance of a
clear-cut statement to explain in effect that
the summer jobs would be filled largely from
civil service and agency tests as has been
past practice. Several staff members liked
the idea.
But in the end the White House decided
not to go along with any such statement on
the. ground that none was necessary since
no change was planned in summer hirings.
It was argued that the statement implied
guilt on the part of the White House. The
White House action added to the suspicions
but at least CSC was partially satisfied with
its denials of political interference.
The job issue was down to a simmer 2
weeks ago today when CSC Chairman John
W. Macy confidently assured the House Civil
Service Committee that the White House
interest in summer jobs was confined to
planning seminars for students.
But a few hours afterward the Commis-
sion was jolted when it was shown a copy
of personnel data sheet sent to a few agen-
cies by the White House. The document re-
quested the name, address, and other back-
ground information on. summer job appli-
cants and appointees. The crucial question,
in the eyes of the Commission was "By whom
recommended?"
CSC went into a hurried special session
and issued an extraordinary warning to
agency heads that it would be illegal to sub-
mit names of student applicants to the
White House for political clearances. It
hinted punitive actions against those who
might indulge in it. That should have set-
tled the issue and it gave the^ White House
another opportunity, also ignored, to re-
treat gracefully.
Next came reports that regular agency
personnel offices, staffed with career people,
were being bypassed and that those who
handle patronage in the agencies and dubbed
"political commissars," were making commit-
ments to hire students. It was assumed
their actions were motivated by political con-
siderations and pressures.
Student Democrats were advised to send
their form 57's, the Government job appli-
cation form, to their Members of Congress
and to have them relay the forms, with
recommendations, to Mrs. Davies. James
Hunt of the Democratic National Committee
was the contact man for the students.
Finally, the White House ignored a friendly
letter written to the President by the Na-
tional Civil Service League, a good-govern-
ment group, which urged him to disavow any
plan to have the White House set up a po-
litical clearance system for student Job-
1963, the lead editorial entitled "Will
Kennedy Back Agriculture?" merits at-
tention. The editorial points out the
present deplorable situation arising from
the discriminatory variable import duties
imposed by the Common Market on some
of our agricultural exports. U.S. sales
of poultry and eggs dropped 40 percent
during the first 4 months these duties
were in effect; flour exports dropped 65
percent, and wheat sales dropped 77 per-
cent. With negotiations scheduled in
May in Geneva under the General Agree-
ment on Tariffs and Trade, the editorial
wisely advises that if our Government is
devoted to the best interests of American
agriculture, it must refuse to bargain on
lowering of tariffs on industrial products
if the Common Market countries refuse
to bargain on lowering these variable
import duties affecting our agricultural
exports.
I ask unanimous consent that the edi-
torial be printed in the RECORD.
There being no objection, the editorial
was ordered to be printed in the RECORD,
as follows:
WLLL KENNEDY BACK AGRICULTURE?
The Common Market countries last August
imposed variable import fees on most imports
of agricultural commodities. Effect of the
fees is to prevent any imports of commodi-
ties produced in these countries from selling
below the Common Market support price.
Effect of the program was instantaneous.
During the first 4 months, according to
U.S. News & World Report, U.S. sales of
poultry and eggs in Common Market coun-
tries had dropped 40 percent below the year's
earlier figures. Flour exports dropped 65
percent and wheat sales slumped 77 percent.
rrhese declines were greater than had been
anticipated since it was not considered pos-
sible for the Common Market countries to
replace American supplies that rapidly. But
the result has been a serious blow to Ameri-
can farms.
Spokesmen for American agriculture,
therefore, must watch closely the tariff nego-
tiations in May in Geneva. This is the
meeting of the 41 nations involved in the
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
(GATT). The American Government, if de-
voted to the welfare of American agriculture,
must refuse to bargain on the lowering of
tariffs on industrial products if the Common
Market countries refuse to bargain on_lower-
ing of the variable fees on American farm
imports.
The ideal of world trade is that each nation
produces what it does most efficiently and
trades for the products in which it is ineffi-
cient. But the Common Market countries
have abandoned this concept on agricultural
products and are returning to the old protec-
tionist concepts. The result can only be a
gradual return to high tariffs on both sides.
Because the Kennedy administration is so
committed to the concept of an expansion in
free world trade, however, it will be tempted
to sacrifice American agricultural trade. The
spokesmen for American agriculture must
11 ships, including 2 tankers, whose
gross tonnages total 51,694. Great Brit-
ain appears to have gained the lead
again, in shipping 35,384 tons. I state
the gross tonnage, because it is in direct
ratio with the amount of cargo which
can be transported.
Tankers under British and Greek flags
totaled 27,390 tons. It is heartening to
note that total free world tonnage has
,dropped off 33,216 tons, as compared
with that for the preceding 2-week pe-
riod, and that tanker tonnage was re-
duced by 13,292 tons over the same pe-
riod. A new arrival on the scene is the
Moroccan ship Toubkal, of 8,748 tons.
Reliable sources. indicate that the So-
viet Union, in a move said to be designed
to strengthen the availability of dry-
cargo ship tonnage under direct Rus-
sian control for trade with Cuba, has
purchased a dozen Liberty ships, in ex-
cellent conditions, from European own-
ers. The 10,000-ton, 10-knot ships were
purchased in Great Britain, Belgium, and
Italy, at prices reported to be considera-
bly above the present market level for
such tonnage. The average price- in-
volved was said to be $180,000, which
would be some, $25,000 above the cur-
rent price level for free-transferable
Liberty vessels. This circumstance inc.
dicates to me that the Russians are be-
ginning to feel the pinch occasioned by
the reduction of free world shipping to
Cuba.
The tonnage of free world shipping
which continues to go to Cuba is still
too great and our allies still are not co-
operating to the extent to which I be-
lieve they should.
The list of free world ships going to
Cuba, their flag of registry, and their
tonnage during the period of March 22,
1963, through April 5, 1963, is as follows:
Ardmore, British, 4,664 tons.
Atheicrown (tanker), British, _11,149
tons.
Linlcmoor, British, 8,236 tons.
Sierra Madre, Spanish, 999 tons.
Lord Gladstone, British, 11,299 tons.
Penelope, Greek, 6,712 tons.
Sirius (tanker), Greek, 16,241 tons.
Toubkal, Moroccan, 8,748 tons.
Tine, Norwegian, 4,750 tons.
Dugi Otok, Yugoslav, 6,997 tons.
Olga, Lebanese, 7,199 tons.
So the free world is still giving the
Russians this advantage, in connection
with the shipment of supplies to Cuba, by
helping them with the shipping and by
selling them some of the old Liberty
ships.
Mr. President, the last list of freight-
ers serving the Cuban trade is particu-
larly interesting, in that it shows the
British to be far out in front in terms
of total tonnage.
During a 51/2-week period from Janu-
ary 31 through March 8, six British ships
totalling 76,066 gross tons, were listed-
including two ships in the 16,000- to
22,000-ton class. Greece was the only -
,other country whose combined tonnage
was significant. Six vessels in this pe-
riod accounted for 47,442 tons.
The combined tanker tonnage ' of
93,555 tons shipped much needed petro-
leum products in vessels under British,
Greek, and Norwegian flags.
I wish to add that In all the weeks
I have been putting into the RECORD
The situation called for decisive action to happen.
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terference order. The Commission means to - Mr. MAGNUSON 2r, President,
enforce the law and its rules. Only time from time to time I have placed in the
will tell whether it will be allowed to succeed. RECORD reports on free world shipping to
Cuba. Sometimes I have been able to
WILL KENNEDY BACK AGRI- obtain the figures for monthly periods.
CULTURE? Recently, I have been obtaining them
for 2-week periods.
Mr. MILLER. Mr, President, in the During the period from March 22
Waterloo Daily Courier for March 27, through April 5, our allies sent to Cuba
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These examinations, the Commissioh said, will amply justify the protection of merit Agency officials also advised CSC that they
will eliminate both political patronage and system principles. were being told that the jobs were to be
nepotism from summer job dispensing. It About 6,000 Government summer jobs for filled on a political basis despite CSC and
has been charged by the Republicans, and students are available in the Washington the laws.
denied by the Democratic administration, area, and another 6,000 or 0,000 elsewhere The hard-hitting CSC directive will have
that summer replacement jobs are being in the country, the effect of canceling commitments made
handed out as political favors. - to hundreds of students who were promised
The actions resulted from the Star's die- [From the Washington Post, Apr. 9. 19631 jobs here this summer. CSC stressed that
closures that the Kennedy administration agencies must use appropriate competitive
was requiring White House clearance of all cvII' SzRvUM MovEs To BAR Porsrles FROM registers to fill their summer jobs unless
summer students jobs In Government. SUlrIaIER Joss roe STUDENTS their hiring authority Is restored.
Criticism from Republican Members of Con- (By Jerry Kiuttz) Incidentally, the order will have the ef-
gress as well as the press caused the admire- The Civil Service Commission yesterday feet of improving job prospects of students
sstuation to reassess its position. acted to prevent the White House and Fed- who have passed the student aid, trainee,
other
AUTisoRITY SUSPENDED eral agencies from appointing students to Federal service entrance, typing and In order to bar political patronage this summer Federal jobs here on the basis of po- competitive teats. Most of the summer hir-
litical pull. Ing will be from these registers.
all F the CSC has suspended the ciees to s to hire e It withdrew from all agencies authority to Federal agencies last year hired nearly
all these jobs, exn the agenc e i- make the temporary appointments. and the 10,000 studentsfor temporary summer jobs
for these jabs, except case of ompl power won't be restored unless the Commis- and a recent CSC survey Indicates they plan
jive registers for r college llegthe y interne and trainee Sion is convinced that the appointments are to hire about 6.000 this summer.
Jobs, as well as some typist positions. made without political clearances and In full But the controversy over summer jobs and
The CSC suspended an-civil- oof agencies compliance with the law and its rules. cuts by Congress in agency budgets have
to make schedule A ns, as well as au- The tough antipolitical interference order combined to lower estimates to around 3,000. au- p ointments to a for these ]den to summer Jobs welt as the obs was a departure for the agency, which gener- -
not to t exceed o appoint n total of 700 hours other r allcontents itself with issuing warnings to [From the Washington Post, Apr. 10, 1963]
not to which direct of hiring been all prevent undermining of the merit system WHrrE HousE INvrrED CSC CRACKDOWN ON
lo for whidirect has been - and its laws and rules by either agencies or STUDENT JOB POLITICS
lowsed
w.
This suspension will be In effect between individuals. . must make sure," CSC announced, (By Jerry Kluttz)
the period of "that no steps are taken to defeat the Presi- The White House invited the black eye
May 1 and employment 1963,
vummer eloymeunless less an agency ncy con- dent's expressed intention to protect fully administered to it by the Civil Service Com-
inces the CSC that no politics will be in- the civil service merit system." It further mission which has cracked down hard on
vowed. explained: political Interference in summer jobs.
In order to have the suspensions lifted, Recent press reports alleging that politi- Its behavior on the job Issue was strange
each agency head must s d the CSC In cal clearance Is necessary for summer em- and contradictory. Although it denied any
writing that no o p p olitical cosonsiderations will ployment in civil service positions to the Intention to give political clearances to sum-
be given. metropolitan area indicate sari- mar job appointees, Its actions aroused deep
to documentation ice the Washington ous misunderstandings about this program. suspicions of political Involvements.
Furthermore, specific
the agency's hiring program. to convince the The Image of the Federal service can be The Commission bad cautioned the White
CSC that political factors will not be applied, gravely damaged, and future quality staffing House staff several weeks ago that a political
will be'requlred. can be jeopardized unless all doubt as to the clearance system lvould be illegal and that
NAMES To WHITE HOUSE integrity of merit system operations is die- it would be forced to take actions to prevent
This also means that agencies must refrain pelled." its use.
After all. Civil Service officials are realists.
from sending li the White House the names ~C then Informed agency heads In a spa- They know only too well that the President
of any job ob applicants, the CSC said. Once ce a clal bulletin that political cleaxance ga In nd it and White House staff members, in both
would uce is hired and is the rolls, to it then competitive etitive jobs ri clearly Illegal,
and it Domocatrlc and Republican administra-
d be all right for an n agency to furnish quoted the appropriate rule and the sweep- bona, have been Instrumental in getting
the White House with the name of the em- trig authority It has to enforce it. To assure summer jobs for
friends and friends of
ployee for the purpose of planning student compliance with the rules, CSC concluded, friends.
seminars, the CSC said. It was necessary for it to suspend all agency CSC or the most partisan Republican in
Commission officials said its action was authorizations to make temporary appoint- Cwouldn't have dreamed of making
taken without clearance from the White meats in the Washington area between next Congress o issue If Hausa reamed of making
couple
House and that the White House was noti- May I and October 1. an issu mal agenc tied of the action at the same time as the The Commission also directed its staff to re endehundredd d and oust and students fist emh hired d a summer
press. make special inspections during the summer jobs. In fast, most for o them would defend
Since the Star first disclosed the White months to make sure that summer appoint- Job practice.
House clearance situation, the adminlatra- merits comply with its rules and the law. Is so different about tjob
tion has been sharply criticized, with the CSC will restore the hiring authority on an What, then,
picture year? What brought the the
result that many administration officials felt agency-by-agency basis but only after the CSC directive that canceled the the
that greater political liability than good agency head certifies that he and his staff tough of agencies to make temporary ap-
would accrue from the policy. Tully understand the civil service laws and phfntments until it IS satisfied that no poi-
CSC officials said the situation reached the rules and will carry them out. files is involved In them and to move
breaking point when the Star a week ago Chairman John W. Macy also announced toward filling summer jobs on the basis of
Sunday in a followup to its original story that CSC is developing plans for a nation- competitive merit tests?
disclosed that the National College Demo- wide competitive exam that would be used The answer Is: at least two new elements.
crat, the official publication of the National to fill summer Jobe In 1964. This would be First. Dorothy Davies and her superiors on
Federationof College YoungDemocrate, gave the first time for such a test and it would the White House staff sought to formalize
its members specific instructions on how to discourage both nepotism and partisan polit- Spence hirings through her office, and sec-
get political clearance from the White House. Ical considerations. ond, CSC was placed in the intolerable
The Young Democrats also were told to A CSC official commented: "We were sorry position of not knowing what it was talking
contact the college director of the Demo- to have to do it but we were placed in an about In its own jurisdiction-the Federal
cratic National Committee in connection Impossible situation where our honor and personnel field.
with the jobs. virtue and the Integrity of the system was Several weeks ago Mrs. Davies discussed
INTEGRITY AT STAKE. at stake." summer job problems with two top Civil
A top CSC official declared, "We couldn't The White House repeatedly assured CSC Service officials at her White House office.
allow the situation to continue. The repu- that it had no plans to require a political She had set up last summer's seminars for
tation and Integrity of the Government's test for summer Federal jobholders. But students which were generally rated a suc-
civil service merit system was at stake." Dorothy Davies of the White House sent cess. The president and others took time
The entire situation has also made the agencies data sheets that asked for the out to give the students an insight of Gov-
CSC decide to hold nationwide competitive names, addresses and other Information on crnment and to encourage them to make
exams for all student summer jobs starting applicants. The significant question on the careers in it.
next year. This not only would eliminate form in CSC's eyes was "By Whom Recom- The CSC was sympathetic to Mrs. Davies'
political patronage but also the nepotism in mended?" concern over improving the seminars but
which agency officials hire their sons and College Democrats were advised to have they failed to understand clearly what she
daughters and the children of friends. Members of Congress send their completed had in mind in the matter of appointments.
The CSC heretofore had been opposed to Forms 57s, job application forms, to Mrs. At the time the Commission was con-
nationwide competitive exams because of the Davies along with recommendations from sidering a nationwide competitive test to
cost involved. But recent events caused the Members. James Hunt was assigned select students for summer jobs. Mrs.
the CSC to change its mind. It now feels by the Democratic National Committee to ad- Davies showed little sympathy for the idea.
that whatever extra cost and time is involved vise student applicants on bow to get jobs. Anyway, the session ended with the first sus-
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from week to week the list of vessels
sailing in the Cuban Trade, there has
been a very conspicuous absence of ships
from Central or South America, which
shows a fine degree of cooperation of the
so-called free nations in the Latin Alli-
ance, which are helping us with the eco-
nomic problem of quarantining Cuba.
WASHINGTON TO BOSTON RAIL-
ROAD PASSENGER SERVICE
Mr. BOGGS. Mr. President, the dis-
tinguished Senator from Rhode Island,
Mr. CLAIBORNE PELL, has proposed a reso-
lution for congressional consent for a
multistate authority to help modernize
and operate railroad passenger service
along the eastern seaboard, Boston to
Washington. The number of people
traveling in this megalopolitan area in-
creases from year to year. Yet the exist-
ing railroad facilities seem to have less
and less attraction for meeting the pas-
senger service requirements.
This multistate area's importance is
well known. It accounts for the payment
of about 27 percent of our Federal in-
come taxes and approximately 30 per-
cent of our annual industrial production.
There is really a great problem with
intercity passenger transportation be-
tween Boston and Washington. Senator
PELL's proposal for a multistate authority
is indeed a positive suggestion to meet
this great need for modernized and better
intercity passenger transportation serv-
ice. His proposal is attracting increas-
ing interest and support. I think it is
worthy of the greatest consideration.
On April 6, 1963, an editorial appeared
in the Washington Post endorsing this
proposal, and I ask unanimous consent to
have it printed in the RECORD at this
point.
There being no objection, the editorial
was ordered to be printed in the RECORD,
as follows:
OFF THE TRACK-II
The steady deterioration of railroad service
is evident to anybody who passes through
Union Station, where a shroud of gloom
hovers over splendors past. It is the convic-
tion of at least one Senator, however, that
the afflictions of the passenger lines are cur-
able in the populous Northeast. CLAIBORNE
PELL, Democrat from Rhode Island, is offer-
ing a plan that could lead to a rebirth of rail
service and make it possible for travelers to
speed from Washington to Boston in 4 hours.
Mr. PELL is sponsoring a joint resolution
that would give congressional consent to the
establishment of a multi-State authority to
modernize and operate passenger service be-
tween Boston and this city. In addition
to the District, the eight States included in
the Pell plan are Massachusetts, Rhode Is-
land, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland.
The first point the Senator makes is that
these Atlantic States are rapidly becoming a
megalopolis. The Northeast now has a
population of over 37 million and contains
30 percent of the country's manufacturing
and 21 percent of the retail establishments.
Intercity transportation is vital to the sea-
board, and the railroads in theory should be
able to provide reliable, swift, and profitable
service. Yet though the railroads have the
track and right-of-way, they lack the cap-
ital necessary to install high-speed service.
As the Senator sees it, a multi-State public
authority-could raise $500 million under tax-
exempt bonds; the money would be used to
modernize the rails and install high-speed
service that would take a passenger from
Washington to Boston in 4 hours. Precisely
the same technique of multi-State compacts
is already employed for the building of port
facilities, bridges, and highway. Why not
extend the concept, Mr. PELL asks, to the
railroad business?
Why not, indeed. The seaboard mega-
lopolis is sure to become more densely pop-
ulated and more intricately interwoven.
Highways and airways will not be sufficient
to meet staggering demands on interurban
facilities. One rail line, Senator PELL points
out, can carry as many passengers as 32
highway lanes.
As a first step, Congress is being asked to
appropriate $1 million for a full-scale study.
The request has White House approval, and
Richardson Dilworth, former mayor of Phil-
adelphia, is being mentioned as a possible
director of the study. Prompt approval of
the appropriation would be an investment in
the future.
Such a study need not be-and should not
be-carried out in a hostile spirit. - The
railroads have been badly hurt by competi-
tion from airlines, which enjoy a Federal
subsidy, and trucks, which use a publicly
maintained right-of-way. Within their
limited capital resources, some effort is
being made to improve passenger service.
The Pennsylvania Railroad, for example, an-
nounced the other day that 50 modern
coaches will be added to the fleet operating
between New York and Washington. The
aim should be to make this affirmative at-
titude contagious.
COTTON EXPORT PROGRAM
Mr. EASTLAND. Mr. President, the
Department of Agriculture has just made
the third substantial downward revision
in its estimate of cotton exports for the
current season. Until just 6 months ago,
the outlook for exports was 5.2 million
bales. Its latest estimate is about 4 mil-
lion bales. Trade sources indicate ex-
ports will$robably not even be this high.
During the first 6 months of the season
only 1.3 million bales were exported as
compared with 2.6 million for last sea-
son-just one-half as much. What
caused such a rapid deterioration in for-
eign markets for U.S. cotton? The an-
swer is simple. U.S. cotton has not been
priced competitively in foreign markets
as required by section 203 of the Agri-
cultural Act of 1956.
Let me review why we have a manda-
tory cotton export program and how it
operated for the first few years. As a
result of the umbrella which our price
support held over prices in foreign cot-
ton producing countries, foreign acreage
expanded by leaps and bounds in the
late 1940's and early 1950's.. As a result,
we built up an all-time record carry-
over of 141/2 million bales on August
1, 1956. Our exports dwindled to 21/4
million bales-the lowest in peacetime
since 1871.
To combat this situation, Secretary
Benson announced a cotton export sales
program under general authority
accorded him in the CCC Charter Act
and the Agricultural Act of 1949. But
he failed to offer U.S. cotton at prices
which were competitive with foreign
growths. After a series of conferences
and an exchange of letters, it was clear
he would not change the price to a com-
petitive level. There was no alternative
but for Congress to take action. This
was done and section 203 of the Agricul-
tural Act of 1956 was enacted. This
requires that U.S. cotton be made avail-
able in foreign markets at. prices which
are competitive with foreign grown cot-
ton. It also requires that our fair share
of the export market be reestablished
and maintained.
This,forced the Secretary of Agricul-
ture to lower the price at which he was
selling U.S. cotton abroad to a competi-
tive level. As a result, export sales shot
up dramatically. During the short
period of 4 weeks CCC sold as many bales
for export as had been exported during
the entire 1955-56 season. For that
year, we exported a total of 7.fj million
bales, which was three times the level
of the previous year and the highest
since 1932.
During the following marketing year,
our export price was raised over 2
cents a pound and exports fell off. In
1958, the higher export price was main-
tained and exports dwindled to 2%
million bales. As a result of demands
from the cotton industry and insistence
by the Congress, the export subsidy was
increased from 6 to 81/2 cents per pound
in 1959 and our export price was made
competitive. Again our exports shot
up to 71/4 million bales. In 1960, it was
possible to reduce the subsidy, as the
market ' price was lowered during that
year. Our prices were competitive and
we had a good export year.
Once we got our prices for U.S. cotton
competitive in foreign markets through
the passage of section 203, we had a very
successful export program, except for 1
year. That was 1958-59. Exports for the
other 4 years averaged 6% million bales.
Even including that year, we averaged
shipping 6 million bales abroad. This
contrasted with an average of only 3.6
million bales for the 5 years preceding
the establishment of the export program.
We were able to achieve these greatly
increased exports largely because the
expansion in foreign cotton acreage was
brought abruptly to a halt when U.S.
prices became competitive. Likewise the
expansion in foreign rayon production
slowed down appreciably. The U.S.
carryover had dropped from an all-time
high of 14.5 million bales in 1956 to a
manageable 7.2 million bales in 1961.
Government stocks had dropped from
over 14 million bales to 11/2 million bales
during this same period. Largely as a
result of our increased exports we were
able to realize a modest increase in our
acreage.
Secretary Benson's able administration
of the cotton export program under sec-
tion 203 is responsible for this remark-
able record of building back our'export
markets and getting cotton on a sound
A few weeks after the present admin-
istration took office, I had occasion to
discuss the export program personally
with the present Secretary of Agricul-
ture. I told him of the good results gen-
erally experienced under this program,
and pointed out the importance of keep-
ing our cotton competitive in world mar-
kets. I cited the splendid record when
we were competitive and the miserable
failure the year we got our price out of
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though our prices have been 1 to 2 cents
higher than the price of foreign cotton
in the foreign market during the current
season. The announcement stated, how-
ever, that the 81V2 cents would be the Ini-
tial subsidy rate. The announcement
further stated that the rate would be pe-
riodically adjusted. At the same time
the Department announced a new cotton
sales for export program under which
stocks of CCC cotton in inventory will be
offered for sale periodically on a bid
basis. The sales for export program is
intended to supplement the subsidy
programs.
I am pleased that the Department has
decided to use both these techniques. I
hope these programs will result in U.S.
cotton again becoming competitive in the
world markets In accordance with the
purpose and intent of the law. This is
long overdue. U.S. cotton has been non-
competitive too long.
But this program cannot be fully ef-
fective unless the price of U.S. cotton for
the next season is made competitive with
foreign growths in foreign markets im-
mediately. In order for this to be done
an announcement should be made im-
mediately that the export subsidy rate
will be increased so that our cotton can
move at competitive prices. Further-
more, the minimum price at which CCC
sells for export must be set at the level
to meet foreign competition. The an-
nouncement should be so worded and
the program must be so administered as
to reduce uncertainty to a minimum and
to provide price stability.
If the CCC minimum price changes
with every sale, the uncertainty In the
market will increase to the point of
chaos.
One of the great needs is to replenish
the cotton pipelines around the world,
which have been reduced to the lowest
levels of record in relation to consump-
tion, This has been due primarily to the
uncertainty of U.S. cotton price policy.
These pipeline stocks should be 2 million
bales larger than they are presently.
This will not happen without a reason-
able amount of price stability. No mer-
chant, no mill, no finisher, no converter,
no wholesaler will dare make any com-
mitments except for Immediate turnover
purposes in the face of the uncertainty
of an ever-changing Government mini-
mum selling price. They cannot risk the
loss that will be Imposed upon them by
further price reduction. The longer for-
eign mills hold off buying the more des-
perate the foreign sellers will become.
They will certainly drop their prices.
They will force U.S. exporters to con-
stantly reduce the price at which they
bid for CCC cotton in order to compete.
This means that many bids will be below
the price which the Department of Agri-
culture officials will be willing to accept.
A minimum should be determined ini-
tially by the Department of Agriculture
at a level designed to make U.S. cotton
generally competitive in world markets
during the season, In the light of current
conditions and previous experience.
I have repeatedly pointed out to the
Department of Agriculture that the com-
petitive position must be considered
broadly and over a reasonable period of
time. Section 203 certainly does not
require the CCC to fix the price of U.S.
cotton equal to the price at which every
foreign bale Is sold every day by every
competitor. This obviously is impossible.
The other provisionof the law requires
the Department to operate the program
so as to maintain our fair historic share.
I have urged the Department to exercise
judgment in carrying out this provision.
I have stated that I do not feel it is
necessary that they announce a figure
because exports will naturally fluctuate
depending upon the textile cycle abroad
and the relationship of foreign produc-
tion to foreign consumption.
But I Insist that we have not main-
tained our fair historical share of the
export markets during the past 2 years.
U.S. cotton exports were 33 percent of
the amount of cotton consumed in for-
eign countries in the 1930-39 period,
and about 20 percent in the 1948-52
period. Foreign consumption - has risen
from an average of 24 million bales in
1948-52 to an estimated 40 million bales
in 1962-63. If we had the same share
today as we had in the 1930's, we would
be exporting 13 million bales a year.
Even if we took the lower 20-percent
figure which prevailed during 1948-52,
our fair share of the export market
would be B million bales. It Is obvious
that 41; million bales is way below our
fair share.
The administration must act promptly
and decisively to carry out the cotton
export law as intended. This Is essen-
tial If we are to have a sound and pros-
perous cotton economy. But that is not
all. By carrying out the intent and pur-
pose of the cotton export law, cotton can
make a greater contribution to the
Nations economic well-being and to
the all-important balance-of-payments
problem which is plaguing the adminis-
tration.
line. During this time, there was talk
that the price support would be set at a
level which would substantially raise the
market price for U.S. cotton In this coun-
try. I also told the Secretary that any
increase in the price of cotton In the
United States must be accompanied by
an increase in the export subsidy so that
the price at which our cotton is sold in .
foreign markets would not get out of line.
In a letter which I addressed to him on
this subject dated February 13, 1961, I
stated as follows:
Therefore. If the 1961 price support is at a
level which Increases the U.S. market price
of cotton, the export subsidy must be in-
creased by a corresponding amount in order
to maintain this competitive relationship as
required by the cotton export law.
On February 21, 1981, the price sup-
port was set at a level which increased
the domestic price by about 31`'1 cents per
pound. In January 1961, the average
price for Middling 1-inch cotton in the
official spot markets was 30.14 cents per
pound. By October, it was up to 33.59
cents per pound.
In spite of the warnings that any in-
crease in the domestic price of cotton
must be accompanied by a correspond-
ing increase in the export subsidy, the
subsidy was increased by only 2V2 cents
per pound, whereas the price was in-
creased 31/2 cents. This raised the price
of U.S. cotton in foreign markets and put
the price out of line with competitive
growths. As a result, our exports fell
from 6.6 million bales to 4.9 million bales.
Our export prices have continued to
be out of line. For the current market-
ing year, which is the second full year
this administration has been in office,
exports will likely go below 4 million
bales. So for the 2 years of the present
administration, we will export an aver-
age of something less than 4.5 million
bales. This contrasts with an average
of 6 million bales exported for the first
5 years In which the export policy -was
set under the 1956 law. This is Secretary
Benson's record.
During these last 2 years, foreign cot-
ton acreage made its first significant
expansion since 1956. During this time
it increased by 3 million acres, and for-
eign production jumped 41/2 million
bales. The output of synthetic fibers
abroad also climbed sharply. In addition
our carryover has jumped from 7.2 mil-
lion bales to an estimated 10.6 million
bales. Government stocks increased
from 11/2 million bales to over 10 million.
CCC's investment went up from $300
million to $13/4 billion. U.S. cotton acre-
age has been cut from 18.5 million to 16.3
million acres, the minimum permitted
under law.
It is obvious that if we continue to go
in the direction we have been going dur-
ing the past 2 years, we will pile up more
surpluses and force more restrictions on
U.S. cottongrowers. The outlook is that
we will produce more cotton under the
minimum allotment provided by law
than we are consuming and exporting
this year.
In the face of this condition, the De-
partment announed a continuation of
the current export subsidy rate of 8/
cents per pound. They did this even
SENATORS AND CITIZENS JOIN TO
SUPPORT GI BILL
Mr. YARBOROUGH. Mr. President,
at the hearing before the Senate Sub-
committee on Veterans' Affairs yester-
day, Senator BIRCH BAYH, the dynamic
junior Senator from Indiana testified on
a major bill for the first time since be-
coming a U.S. Senator.
His testimony was forceful, cogent
compelling. It was- for the GI bill, to
provide readjustment assistance to the
cold war GI veterans. Senator BAYH'S
facts were so clear and his reasoning so
just and logical that I ask unanimous
consent to print his testimony at this
point In the RECORD.
There being no objection, the state-
ment was ordered to be printed In the
RECORD, as follows :
STATEMHNT OF SENAToa BIRCH E. BATH BEFORE
SUBCOMMITTEE ON VSrxRANs' AFFAIRS ON
S. 5. TUESDAY. APRIL 9, 1983
Mr. Chairman and members of the com-
mittee, it is a pleasure for me to appear
before you today In support of S. 5 which I
am cosponsoring. As one who was person-
ally enabled to gain a college education
through the GI bill of rights, I know the
value of such aid to a young person just mus-
tered out of the service.
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AUTHORIZATION FOR MILITARY
PROCUREMENT
Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I
move that the Senate proceed to the con-
sideration of. Calendar No. 105, House bill.
2440, the military procurement bill.
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem.-
pore. The bill will be stated by title.
The LEGISLATIVE CLERK. A bill (H.R.
2440) to authorize appropriations, dur-
ing fiscal year 1964 for procurement, re-
search, development, test and evaluation
of aircraft, missiles, and'naval vessels for
the Armed Forces, and for other pur-
poses.
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem-
pore. The question is on agreeing to the
motion of the Senator from Montana.
The motion was agreed to; and the
Senate proceeded to consider the bill,
which had been reported from the Com-
mittee on Armed Services with an
amendment.
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reversionary interest than to get rid of of Eugene, Oreg., contained a very useful
it. and favorable editorial about the speech
Therefore, I see no objection to the given recently by our colleague from
bill. South Dakota [Mr. MCGOVERN] on
Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, I American attitudes toward Cuba.
thank the distinguished, Senator from I ask unanimous consent that the edi-
Oregon and to compliment him on his torial be printed in the RECORD.
memory, because he had to do a bit of There being no objection, the editorial
back thinking in a hurry. As he ex- was ar'ered to be printed in the RECORD,
plained what happened last year, my as follows:
mind went back to the arguments which EXAMINING AN UNWORTHY FIXATION
he brought forth at that time. . GEORGE MCGOVERN, the new Senator from
I am delighted that he is once again South Dakota, arose in the Senate the other
in support of this bill, after giving it his day and said he felt "constrained to speak
most serious consideration. out against what seems to me to be a dan-
So, Mr. President, on the basis of the gerous fixation that is not worthy of this
remarks made and the approval given great Nation." The fixation, he said, is this
by the senior Senator from Oregon, I country's apparent preoccupation over Castro
ask unanimous consent that the Pend- as such. A greater problem, he suggested,
is the long-range interest of this country
ing business be laid aside temporarily, as it relates to all of Latin America. He
and that the Senate proceed to the con- is afraid that the combing of old ashes as
sideration of Calendar No. 96, Senate we rgview such events as those at the Bay
bill 22. of Pigs will focus attention on the wrong
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- thing-on the man Castro instead of the
meaning of Castro.
pore. The bill will be stated by title
.
CERTAIN STREETS IN VILLAGE OF The CHIEF CLERK. A bill (S. 22) to re- The "real bombshells" in Latin America,
lease the right, title, or interest, if any, argued, are these: 1, 2 percent of the peo-
HEYBURN, IDAHO Y, le own wn more than half lf the wealth; 2, , 80
Mr. MORSE. Mr. President, the ma- of the United States in certain streets in percent dwell in squalor; 3, more than half
jority leader asked m , a few the ma the village of Hayburn, Idaho, and to are illiterate; 4, one-crop economies are so
ago, leader asked had had an minutes repeal the reverter in patent for public subject to ruin in case of price fluctuation;
ago, y to hstudy er Or not I had ha. a Soppor- enate reserve. 5, archaic tax structures coupled with heavy
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem military budgets; 6, a rate of population
bill 22, to release the right, title, or in- pore. Is there objection? growth that is fastest in the world. (At
terest; if any, of the United States in There being no objection, the Senate the present growth rate, the 12 million who
live n
ou toes in the sre se Central llion ay
certain streets in the village of Heyburn, proceeded to consider the bill, which had c
Idaho, and to repeal the reverter in been reported from the Committee on 2063) ries will increase to 416 million u
patent for public reserve. Interior and Insular Affairs, with amend- Senator McGovERN speaks from a special
Since then I have studied the commit- ments, on page 1, line 7, after.the word background. Early in the Kennedy years
tee report on S. 22. I am satisfied it "that", to strike out "adjoint" and in- he was Director of the food for peace pro-
does not in any way violate the Morse Bert "adjoin"; on page 2, line 1, after gram. In this; his major concern was hun-
formula. the word "hereby", to strike out "released gry people, most of whom have never known
what want to desay d by the good-naturedly t that
at and quitclaimed to the adjoining owners p op ei,lhebkn whunger all their lives. s, are likely desperate, will--
the Iwnsior weeded the Department by the United States" and insert "re- ing to try the strongest medicine in the
tranfer, was a little better s legal made this f k, leased"; and in line 6, after the word chest. In Cuba that medicine was Castro.
"hereby", to strike out "repealed, and But back to this country's fixation. Too
because if there ever was a transfer of any right, title, or interest of the United many people who ought to know better speak
property that was confused legally, it States in and to Lincoln Boulevard or as if Castro sprang fully armed from Mos-
was this transfer in Heyburn, Idaho. any street hereafter to be vacated with- cow, like Minerva from the head of Jupiter,
What is involved is a transfer by the in said townsite adjoining the lands de- ently "Cuba He and his d his backers were pre-
Department of a dedicated townsite scribed in said patent is hereby released" fully fnurtured the backers were cawhich at one time was really a reclama- fully poisoned soil Cuba.
and insert "repealed"; so as to make the They were e nurtured not by by Moscow, but but by
y
tion project. The streets were all balled bill read: Batista and what he represented.
up. The Department kept the reversion- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Cuba is far worse off today than It was
ary right to the streets and sought to Representatives of the United States of 5 years ago. But such Is often the case with
transfer the lots, and then seemed to be America in Congress assembled, That any those who -take the strongest medicine on
a little surprised when the title insur- right, title, or interest of the United States the shelf. The symptoms, some of which
ance company found it impossible, or in and to streets that were dedicated upon might. be eventually fatal to the Castro re-
refused, to give title insurance to the the filing of the townsite plat for Heyburn, gime, include food consumption that is down
lots. Who could blame them for thate Idaho, a reclamation townsite established 15 percent, a gross national product down
uld not Who very well give eaf'tth pursuant to the Act of April 16, 1906 (34 25 percent, the loss of a quarter-million
Its
Stat. 116), as amended, and that adjoin lands people, most of them skilled or professional
I am satisfied there is no oil or gold which have been sold, which streets have people, and the second smallest sugar crop
or silver or copper or other precious been vacated, or any street that may here- since theend of~World War II.
metal under these streets. In fact, there after be vacated within the original town- There is nothing short of war (which a
was no good reason for keeping the re- site of Heyburn, Idaho, is hereby released. decreasing number of Americans, even
versionary interest in a dedicated town- SEC 2. The clause included in patent num- among the war-whoppers, seem to want)
site that was a part of a reclamation bered 1048499 issued by the United States. to that Ca astrocon can, o at this point to
. the village of Heyburn on July 27, 1931, trying to isolate oust C. W We can, f ly, and polit-
providing for reversion of title to the United ically. whim economically done with and sac-
Ordinarily
projectOrdinarily the street would be trans- States is hereby repealed. cess, This have t at iwo some suc-
to the municipality, and it would less, to the point that it now costs the
have the right to the streets in that mu- The amendments were agreed to. Russians $1 million a day to keep the Cuban
prac-
nicipality if there was to be a dedicated The bill was ordered to be engrossed economy breathing at all. Our only prac-ti of townsite. for a third reading, was read the third heal ope that hope he will getting fall rid victim i t Castro ostro the
is our
power
I see no violation of the Morse formula time, and passed. struggle r
in this transfer, because there was con- within his own country.
fusion, and there was bound to be con- L~ Meale nwhile; howevee we must not let the
pp Castro "fixation" divert us from the more
fusion in an attempt to hold the rever- j AMERICAN ATT S TOWARD important goal of seeing to it that the soil
sioriary interest in the streets. I UBA in other Latin American countries is not
Furthermore, it would be more costly Mr. MORSE. r, President, the anguished screaming,ris the long-range an--
to the Federal Government to hold the March 31 issue of the Register-Guard ewer to the Castro problem.
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tial expansion or agricultural production at
home, in Asia alone (excluding Red China)
Mr. MORSE. Mr. President, a very the projected need Is for an Increase of some
sobering article appeared In the March- 90 million tons of food grains by 1980. Com-
April, 1963, edition of Corn, published mercial or noncommercial trade is simply
by the Corn Industries Research Foun- not feasible to supply grains of such magni-
dation, Inc., of Washington, D.C. The tude. Today only 10 percent of world food
production short article previews the proceedings of our country's agr culturalrexports through
the World Food Congress which will be the food-for-peace program has been to
held here on June 4 to 18.
The purpose of the World Food Con-
gress is, in effect, to bring to public at-
tention the magnitude of the problem of
bridging the gap between available food
supplies and those needed for the nour-
ishment of the world's peoples.
One paragraph alone in this article
contains statistics which are shocking in
their implications. The paragraph reads:
Between one-third and one-half of the
world's 3 billion people suffer from hunger
and/or malnutrition. On top of this the
population is expected to double in thAIext
35 years. To bring about a moderate Im-
provement In the level of nutrition It has
been estimated that the world's food supply
will have to be doubled by 1980 and tripled
by the turn of the century.
Because of the magnitude and import-
ance of the problem portrayed. I ask
unanimous consent that the article be
printed at this point in my remarks.
There being no objection, the article
was ordered to be printed in the RECORD,
as follows:
WORLD FOOD CONGRESS
An estimated 1,200 delegates from more
than 100 countries will attend a World Food
Congress to be held in Washington, D.C.,
June 4-18. The event comes at the midway
point of the International Freedom from
Hunger Campaign, a 6-year program launch-
ed in 1960 by the Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.
The World Food Congress is an effort to
make the world conscious of the related
population and hunger problem and Its mag-
nitude. Primary emphasis will be placed up-
on helping the countries In need to help
themselves in bridging the gap between
available and adequate food supplies. The
Congress is not the kind of event where a
once-and-for-all solution will be found, but
it may make a substantial contribution to-
ward a world of self-reliant nations no longer
plagued by such things as hunger. 111 health.
and poverty.
FOOD AND POPULATION
"Between one-third and one-half of the
world's 3 billion people suffer from hunger
and/or malnutrition. On top of this, the
population is expected to double in the next
35 years. To bring about a moderate Im-
provement In the level of nutrition It has
been estimated that the world's food supply
will have to be doubled by 1980 and tripled
by the turn of the century.
Behind the rapid population increase are
certain arresting features. In the first place.
the rate of increase in the less developed
regions, where hunger is most prevalent, Is
greater than in the more developed ones.
Secondly, because of advances in medical
science people are now able to live longer
under worse conditions or without a rise In
their standard of living. The result of these
two features is that the population of the
less developed areas is becoming an ever-
larger proportion of the world population.
Participants at last year's World Food
Forum, which was also held in Washington,
dispelled the notion that agricultural sur-
pluses in one part of the world can alleviate
hunger In any substantive, lasting way in
another part. A repeated theme was that
the developing nations must, for a variety
of reasons, depend primarily on a substan-
relieve hunger In emergency situations.
MEANS ARE AVAILABLE
There seems to be general agreement that
science today has the solution to abundant
food supplies in terms of modern tech-
nology-increased use of fertilizer, the kill-
ing of pests, irrigation and drainage, genet-
ics of plant improvement, the cultivation
of more arable land, and so on. But effec-
tuating such changes requires the resolu-
tion of a host of politico -socio-economle
questions for the countries Involved. Social
values and public opinion must be changed
to overcome certain static situations and
create climates conducive to the acceptance
of modern technology. Dissemination of
agricultural know-how requires that people
educated enough to receive the help of-
All reports indicate that the response of
the American people to the coming World
Food Congress has been especially warm. A
Subcommittee charged with arranging tours
of various area farms and food Industries re-
ports that firma and Individuals are gener-
ously offering their help. These tours will
provide the visitors a means of seeing first-
hand how our food is produced and
processed.
Designed to be a "people-to-people" rather
than a "government-to-government" event,
the World Food Congress will include par-
ticipants from all walks of life. Some 300 to
400 persons from the United States are ex-
pected to attend. The June 4 opening date
was designed to coincide with the 20th anni-
versary of the Hot Springs, Va., conference
called by President Roosevelt. This confer-
ence laid the foundations for the FAO, which
became a part of the United Nations 2 years
later In 1945. Common to both the confer-
ence 20 years ago and the coming World Food
Congress is a recognition that food and agri-
culture transcend national boundaries, that
only a joint effort-can solve the problems of
world hunger.
fered; thus the pervasive problem of illit- NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR SUP-
eracy is directly caught up in the agricul- PORT OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
tural struggle. One educational institution
the United States is fostering Is the orga- Mr. MORSE. Mr. President, I have
nization of rural youth clubs patterned on previous occasions brought to the at-
after the 4-H Clubs. tendon of the Senate the helpful infor-
Of particular interest to the visiting dele- mation contained In the publication of
gates will be the successful example of a the National Committee for Support of
of that increahandasl sing g caun agricultcultur ralal have production succeeded sub- the Public Schools entitled "Changing
stantially above the population growth rate. Demands on Education and Their Fiscal
This has been true in the past 10 years of Implications." There remains but one
such countries as Israel, Mexico, Yugoslavia, chapter of the study to which this morn-
Greece. Japan, and Austria. From these ex- ing I wish to devote my attention. This
periences the developing nations should is the chapter entitled "Findings and
learn much that will enable them to become ?
cl ""` `5.
more self-reliant. In addition, of course,
the United States, a land where agricultural
abundance is consistently attained, will be
the center of much attention.
The visiting participants will be asking
why it is that American farmers are, say,
about five times as emcient as Russian
chapter be printed in the RECORD.
There being no objection, the chapter
was ordered to be printed in the RECORD,
as follows:
FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS -
farmers. In other words, what are the con- Basic research, application of new knowl-
ditions that lead to agricultural abundance. edge to industrial processes, and automa-
if any conclusion is reached on this question tiara are remaking the economy of the United
it kely be will most il to co tbn ton of can only States. The depth and speed of economic
e attributed to a combination of factors- change are having heavy Impacts on the
good climate, adequate capital, free Incen- labor force and on education.
tlve, sound technological background, and IMPACTS ON THE LABOR FORCE
an effective farm communications system,
among others. In Its development, however, Our population as a whole must have more
the American experience did not have to cope and better general education. This is essen-
with an Impatient population. Today people tial if the labor force is to have the educa-
of the developing countries know there is a tlonal background and flexibility of mind
better life and are determined to achieve it required to respond to rapid occupational
in their own lifetime. change. Some old occupations decline in
Efforts to increase food production have numbers, and some disappear. New ones
been concerned traditionally with agrarian arise. Retraining and even lifetime learning
reform, or who shall own the land. It is here .,are becoming the price of employment.
that American agriculture may convincingly A larger percentage of the labor force must
cite Its own experience in calling for Individ- have advanced technical and professional
ual ownership of the land by those who education. There is also a rising demand for
cultivate it: no method of ownership-col- skilled and semiskilled workers. But the
lective, plantation, feudal, or state-owned- opportunities for employment of unskilled
has ever achieved the emcient productivity of workers and laborers are declining and will
the American family farm, continue to do so.
ROLE OF UNITED STATES The insistent calls for more and more
Last fall Congress authorized the United highly trained and skilled workers and the
States tO serve as host country for the World declining demand for unskilled workers are
Food Congress. Leadership for our partici- bringing about major changes in the compo-
pation Is being furnished by the American sition of the labor force of the United States.
Freedom From Hunger Foundation through In 1956, for the first time In our history, the
designation of Its trustees as Citizens' Host majority of the employed population were
Committee for the World Food Congress. In classified as white-collar workers. It is
addition. President Kennedy appointed a estimated that by 1970 white-collar workers
Government Committee to work In assocla- will far outnumber blue-collar-workers.
Lion with the freedom-from-hunger cam- IMPACTS ON EDUCATION
paign. Freedom From Hunger Week, ob- Occupational changes hold many implica-
served this March 17-23 in this and many tions for public education. The schools
other countries, is one of the events of the and colleges must Ie general provide omor and better
campaign. basic and
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This simply Is not realistic. The new
tools were provided because the people
want them and because they are needed.
But these tools are no good whatever
unless we use them. If we are to use
them we must have increased funds that
will make such use possible.
I hope my colleagues on the Appropri-
ations Committee will give full consid-
eration to this real 'need for additional
funds to implement additional authori-
ties in multipurpose watershed projects.
I urge them to consider also the acute
problem of providing additional tech-
nical help in soil conservation districts.
RECREATION IN THE NATIONAL FORESTS
We take great pride in Michigan in
making all outdoors our classrooms
where our young people and their par-
ents can study science, conservation,
arts, and crafts, and where they can en-
joy recreation. The classrooms are the
camp and picnic sites, the wildlife habi-
tat, the boating docks, and the trails of
our forests.
There are now nearly a thousand-
family units in campsites in the four na-
tional forests in Michigan. The de-
mands on them are heavy.
There is special interest in seven areas
in these forests. These are the areas
that the U.S. Forest Service has desig-
nated to demonstrate multiple-use man-
agement of public and private lands.
Private capital has financed the de-
velopment of our popular winter sports
sites-Silver Valley, Caberfae, and the
Manistee winter sports area on the Hu-
ron and Manistee National Forests, and
Thunder Bowl, Mission Hill, and Indi-
anahead Mountain on the Hiawatha and
Ottawa National Forests.
The resort complex in each instance
is enhanced by the winter sports, organ-
ization camps and other public facilities
which are provided by the U.S. Forest
Service.
We are strengthening our recreational
facilities in many ways. This past year
the Congress at my urging enabled the
Forest Service to add a 1,00-acre-shore-
line tract to the Manistee National For-
est, on Lake Michigan.
The Accelerated Public Works Act
made it possible to speed up work that
has been underway in the national for-
ests for several years. One thousand
two hundred men have been employed
-in 43 recreation areas of the national
forests in Michigan-building tent and
picnic sites, fireplaces, boat docks, and
parking areas, and roads.
All of these improvements are neces-
sary if the national forests are to serve
the increasing number of visitors from
our cities and from out of State.
What is being done now will help us
meet the demands on forestry for rec-
reation in the next 2 or 3 years. Our
people are making long-range plans to
draw more fully on Michigan's superb
forest resources for recreation. They
have formed more than 50 committees
on rural area development in the heavily
wooded counties. Within the past year
the committees in more than half of
these counties have drawn up inventories
of their resources and long-range plans
for using them.
WHAT IS THE TASK AHEAD?
in these and other ways, a beginning
has been made. What we must do now
is:
-. Recognize the recreation needs of our
rapidly growing population in consider-
ing all legislation affecting both public
and private recreation facilities;
Recognize the fact that more income
must be provided for more people and
that, in this era of automation, many of
these must be the service-type jobs cre-
ated by recreation; and
Recognize that fewer acres of land will
be needed to produce food and fiber and
that the creation of nonfarm income is
the most humane, economical solution
to many of the resulting problems.
Recognizing these things, the Congress
should consider greater expenditures to
divert more acres to publicly owned rec-
reation, whether that acreage is con-
trolled by the Federal Government, State
government or local governments. The
Congress should appropriate the necess-
ary funds to accelerate the various Fed-
eral programs operating under existing
legislation. Then the Congress should
design additional legislation to fill the
gaps.
One of the gaps we know exists in
financing a large recreation complex in
an- area which cannot get an ARA loan.
The needs- are too great to be met by the
Small Business Administration. The
complex is not being started by an as-
sociation of farmers, so it is ineligible for
a Farmers Home Administration loan.
It cannot get private financing which
finds more attractive opportunities else-
where. Despite all the benefits it might
bring to the area and to the Nation, a
project conceived in such a situation will
not be. built. - -
During this session, we should devise
ways to provide the help that is needed
for the develpment of adequate recrea-
tion facilities in the public interest. We
must recognize the contributions of pro-
grams like the Farmers Home Adminis-
tration, the Rural Electrification Admin-
istration, the Soil Conservation Service,
the Area Redevelopment Administration,
and the Small Business Administration
to the development of recreation enter-
prises, and we must supply them - both
the tools to do the job and the direction
to assure their appropriate- attention to
the problem.
. We must stretch Federal ? dollars by
participating in matching programs with
the -State and local governments to the
maximum extent possible. In encourag-
ing commercial recreation, we must con-
centrate, to the extent possible, on low
interest, - longterm loans rather than
grants, although there may be instances
where even grants will be justified in
order to serve the greatest public need.
. If we do these things, we will be mak-
ing investments, not expenditures. The
way the books are now kept, these may
appear as red ink, but we and our chil-
dren will be reaping the benefits. While
the loans are being repaid, we and they
will be enjoying happier, fuller lives.
Rural people will have better incomes,
and surplus farmland will be in more
productive, profitable uses. - -
We often. hear about bequeathing our
children a public debt. None of us wants
to do this, but if we do not begin develop-
ing, now our recreation resources, we will
bequeath them a still greater debt plus
a life confined to the asphalt and con-
crete of crowded cities, miles from any
open field on which they can step, any
woodland in which they can walk, or any
the Senate debate for the insertion in
the RECORD of an article published in this
morning's -Washington Post entitled
"U.S. Rejects Terms Set by Cuban
Exile." However, I thought I would wait
until the Senate had disposed of the
Youth Corps- bill.. - This is the first op-
portunity I-have had to make these very
brief remarks on the article.
I. ask unanimous consent that the
article be printed in the RECORD at this
point in my -remarks.
The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem-
pore. Is there objection?
There being no objection, the article
was ordered to be printed in the RECORD,
as follows: -
UNITED STATES REJECTS TERMS SET BY CUBAN
EXILE-DEMAND MADE FOR $50 MILLION IN-
VASION FUND -
(By Chalmers M. Roberts)
The row over American policy toward Fidel
Castro's Cuba blew up again yesterday with
an administration charge that -a Cuban exile
leader had tried to serve a $50 million ulti-
matum on the U.S. Government.
Earlier yesterday news dispatches from
Miami reported that Jose Miro Cardona was
offering his resignation as president of the
Cuban .Revolutionary Council in token of - a
clash with the Kennedy administration over
Cuban policy. -
A few hours later the State Department
said publicly that while the administration
and Miro Cardona had seen eye to eye on the
goal of a free Cuba they were not in accord
on steps to attain that goal.
EXILE LEADER'S DEMAND
Almost simultaneously U.S. Government
officials reported that Miro Cardona had made
what they said amounted to an ultimatum
to the United States: either give him $50
million to train and equip an exile army to
invade Cuba or give him an intimate role in
the preparation and implementation of an
early invasion of -Cuba by U.S. forces.
Both parts of the ultimatum, these officials
said, were unacceptable to the adminis-
tration. -
The Cuban exile leader was in Washington
last week to confer with American officials
responsible for Cuban affairs. He returned
to Miami last Saturday. He was reported to
have spent last weekend preparing a 13-page
statement charging the United States with
going back on promises to encourage action
against the Castro regime.
Many Cuban exile leaders now in the
United States were dismayed at President
Kennedy's recent firm crackdown on any
more hit-and-run attacks on Cuba, including
attacks on Soviet ships in Cuban ports.
However, there have been differences of
opinion among the exiles on how best to
harass Castro.
The Presidential crackdown on hit-and-run
raids created less of a political reaction
within the United States than some adminis-
tration officials - had feared. - Yesterday's
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prompt revelation of Miro Cardona's reported
ultimatum may have been designed to cut
off further criticism which almost certainly
would have followed news of his resignation.
Whether the reported ultimatum will
squash a new round of calls for action
against Castro, especially from critical Re-
publican Members of Congress, remains to
be seen, however.
A spokesman for the Cuban Revolutionary
Council in Miami was quoted yesterday by
the Associated Press as saying the group will
reject Mlro Cardona's resignation.
The spokesman said that a four-man
delegation from Washington, headed by
Robert Hurwitch of the State Department's
Cuban Desk, met with Miro Cardona yester-
day in an attempt to dissuade him from
resigning.
He said the Kennedy crackdown meant
that anti-Castro forces now have no more
bases in the Bahamas. British islands near
Cuba, and he commented that this could
have disastrous results for the Cuban under-
ground movement. Britain has cooperated
with the United States in the crackdown,
Miro Cardona was the American-picked
leader of the combined Cuban exile groups
at the time of the April 1981. Bay of Pigs
invasion fiasco. He was supposed to go to
Cuba and proclaim a free government once
the troops won a beachhead. He never got
there; instead he was kept incommunicado
during the invasion by a Central Intelli-
gence Agency team in a Miami area house.
He has been criticized for being too close
to the United States. His resignation ap-
parently was intended to show both his In-
dependence and the frustration of many
Cuban exiles at the Kennedy crackdown.
The President's position is that the hit-
and-run raids cause no real harm to the
Castro regime and indeed have a contrary
effect by making It more difficult to get So-
viet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev to remove
the 12,OOD to 13,000 Soviet troops still In
Cuba.
Mr. Kennedy's critics have Implied that
he must have made some secret deal with
Khrushchev, a charge flatly denied. The
new disclosures may add a new round of
accusations.
Mr. MORSE. Mr. President, the ar-
ticle points out that Jose Miro Cardona,
chairman of the Cuban Revolutionary
Council, is reported to have made a $50
million ultimatum on the U.S. Govern-
ment for the financing of another at-
tempt on the part of Cuban exiles to
invade Cuba, and thereby at least
through the back door-although I
think most of us agree It would be
through the front door-seek to involve
the United States of America in war.
Mr. Cardona happens to be the reci-
pient of a privilege, the recipient of the
privilege of being a refugee in this coun-
try, an exile, entitled, through the suf-
ferance of the United States, to sanctu-
ary in the United States.
Several days ago on the floor of the
Senate I spoke on the subject of Cuban
exile attempts to involve us In war. I
shall continue to speak about It, as long
as there is a group of Cuban exiles in
this country who are violating the priv-
vilege that we have granted to them,
and until all the necessary steps have
been taken to hold them responsible and
restrict them to their rights of sanctuary
in this country.
There is no doubt about what Cardona
Is up to. He will be satisfied with noth-
ing less than wgr with Cuba. He will
be satisfied with nothing less than Amer-
ican intervention In Cuba, and the sac-
rifice not only of American boys in that
Intervention, but also the sacrifice of
many thousands of civilians in this
country if even a limited war with Cuba
comes about, It will not be a limited
war.
I repeat what I said the other day,
that the decisions on American foreign
policy should be made by the United
States, not by Mr. Cardona. He has not
even been able to unite the Cuban exiles
in this country in any united program.
They are composed of a host of factions.
He has not been able to give them united
leadership, although the Cuban Revolu-
tionary Council is reported by the Wash-
ington Post as having refused to accept
his resignation from the chairmanship
of the Cuban Revolutionary Council. It
is their privilege to do so If they want to
follow that course of action.
Let us take a look at what the article
goes on to say:
The Cuban exile leader was In Washing-
ton last week to confer with American of-
ficials responsible for Cuban affairs. He re-
turned to Miami last Saturday. He was re-
ported to have spent last weekend prepar-
ing a 13-page statement charging the United
States with going back on promises to en-
courage action against the Castro regime.
Many Cuban exile leaders now in the
United States were dismayed at President
Kennedy's recent firm crackdown on any
more hit-and-run attacks on Cuba, Includ-
ing attacks on Soviet ships in Cuban ports.
However, there have been differences of opin-
ton among the exiles and how best to harass
Castro.
Mr. President, as one American, I am
fed up with Cuban exiles attacking
American foreign policy while they are
here in our country by our sufranca
I am sick and tired of hotheaded Cuban
exiles, many of whom are Batistaites.
Let us look at the cold, ugly truth.
If a great many of these exiles were
put in power in Cuba they would attempt
to reestablish a Facist order such as
existed under Batista, just as harmful to
human rights as the Communist order of
Castro. They both are intolerable.
The American people ought to be told
that a surprising number of these Cuban
exiles are Cuban oligarchs.
In my judgment they were as serious
enemies to Cuban democracy while they
were there as are the Castroites now.
The senior Senator from Oregon has
been heard to say before, as far as hu-
man rights and human liberties and civil
liberties are concerned, that there is no
difference between a Fascist and a Com-
munist.
Be that as it may, I say the time has
came to make clear to the Cardonas that
If they do not like it here, they should
get out. It is time to lay down the
American policy that if they continue to
attempt to interfere with and Intervene
in American foreign policy, they must be
deported. The sooner the Cardonas are
deported, the better, If they are going to
take the position that they will violate
their so-called sanctuary in this country
by preparing a 13-page attack on the
President of the United States. It is
about time that we make clear to them
who is the Commander in Chief of Amer-
ican foreign policy. It is about time
that Members of Congress, on both sides
of the aisle, make clear to the President
that we are united when it comes to the
matter of Interference and intervention
on the part of a group of foreigners, to
whom we have given sanctuary on our
soil In order to save their very lives from
Castro assassination, If they were still in
Cuba.
As one member of the Committee on
Foreign Relations and as chairman of
the Subcommittee on Latin American
Affairs, I once again serve notice on the
Cuban exiles that I will not hesitate to
speak out against what I consider to be
their illegal course of action in this
country in violation of their sanctuary
and their rights of refuge, when they
persist in attacking the foreign policy
of the United States.
It is about time to tell them that while
they are in this country they must keep
their mouths shut, and stop their efforts
to get us into war, or they must get out
of this country.
I say to my President again, as I said
the the other day, when these exiles
hold some of their press conference, as
they did when some of these exiles came
back from an attack on a Russian ship
the other day, that they ought to be met
by U.S. marshals and thrown into jail
until they can be deported. They have
no right under international law while
they are in this country to seek to inter-
vene in American foreign policy.
That Is for Americans to determine,
not for the Cuban exiles. That goes for
Mr. Cardona and for all the rest of the
Cuban exiles, as well,
TRANSACTION OF ADDITIONAL
ROUTINE BUSINESS
By unanimous consent, the following
additional routine business was trans-
acted:
JOINT RESOLUTION OF MAINE
LEGISLATURE
Mrs. SMITH. Mr. President, on be-
half of myself, and my colleague, the
junior Senator from Maine [Mr.
MusicnEl, I present, for appropriate ref-
erence, a joint resolution of the Legisla-
ture of the State of Maine memorializ-
ing Congress to extend the northern ter-
minus of the Interstate and Defense
Highway System in Maine from Houlton
to some point located on the northern
boundary of the State of Maine.
There being no objection, the joint
resolution was referred to the Committee
on Public Works; and, under the rule,
the joint resolution was ordered to be
printed in the RECORD, as follows:
REsoLUTrON OF THE STATE OF MAINE
Joint resolution memorializing Congress to
extend the northern terminus of the Inter-
state and Defense Highway System in
Maine from Houlton to some point located
on the northern boundary of the State of
Maine
We, your memorialists. the Senate and
House or Representatives of the State of
Maine to the 101st legislative session as-
sembled, most respectfully present and peti-
tion your honorable body as foi]ows:
Whereas it has been recognized that the
Nation's economy and the Nation's secur-
ity require the construction of a National
System of Intertsate and Defense Highways;
and
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Despite the violence, harassment, and in-
timidation, the campaign has picked up
momentum. Hundreds of persons packed
the mass meetings in the city's Negro
churches to cheer top leaders in the civil
rights movement.
If local whites.could hear the statements
being made they might question the accuracy
of the Commonwealth's recent observation
that "nothing will be changed after democ-
racy has been tested here."
"The white folks are scared," asserted the
Rev. James Bevel at one such session.
"That's why they turned the dog loose."
BLAME MANY FACTORS
Leflore County's whites have blamed the
voter registration workers, the Kennedy ad-
ministration and the Communists, in about
that order, for the racial crisis.
"It's outsiders that's causing it," said'
Mayor Sampson recently. "We give them
everything. We're building them a new
swimming pool. We work very close with
the nigger civic league. They're very satis-
fled."
However, some whites conceded readily in
private that it would take more than a new
swimming pool to resolve the controversy.
Sooner or later, they said, the county will be
forced to administer reasonable voting tests
and to place all qualified persons orthe rolls.
EXTENSION OF R1 MARKS
OF
HON. WILLIAM C. CRAMER
OF FLORIDA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Wednesday, April 10, 1963
Mr. CRAMER. Mr. Speaker, John
Chamberlain has written an illuminating
comparison of Fidel Castro and a true
hero in Cuban history, Jose Marti, and
from this relative estimate is prompted
to ask of the present administration,
"Who's side are we "on?" when we de-
nounce the efforts of some courageous
Cuban patriots who are trying bravely to
regain their homeland.
Under leave to extend my remarks, I
include the following complete text of
Mr. Chamberlain's column as it appeared
in the Charleston Daily Mail on March
27.
The article follows:
[From the Charleston (W. Va.) Daily Mall,
. Mar. 27, 1963]
WHOSE SIDE ARE WE ON IN THE CUBAN
CONTROVERSY?
(By John Chamberlain)
It was an old, musty, dogeared volume,
the sort of thing you pick up on the re-
mainder shelves of secondhand book shops
for a nickel. It's title, a longwinded one,
was "The War in Cuba, Being a Full Account
of Her Great Struggle For Freedom, Contain-
ing a Complete Record of Spanish Tyranny
and Oppression; Scenes of Violence and
Bloodshed; Frequent Uprisings of a Gallant
and Long Suffering People." The date of
publication was 1896, 2 years before the
Spanish-American War.
I brought it home from Miami, and have
been trying, at odd moments, to penetrate
the dense jungle of its florid 19th cen-
tury prose. What keeps you going through
the worst of the purple passages is the
odd sincerity that dwells just below the
surface of the cliche-ridden text. Jose
Marti, the Cuban patriot, is decked out in
all sorts of angelic colors-but, discounting
the tropical flowers of oratory (the work of
Gonzalo de Quesada, the Cuban republicans'
representative in Washington during the
1890's), he comes through as a warm, sen-
tient human being, idealist and realist in
one.
I had never known much about Marti
before. Like the young Fidel Castro who
staged an impossible attack on a Batista
strongpoint for its symbolic value, knowing
that it must fail, Marti took his chances at
the age of 16 when he claimed the author-
ship of an anti-Spanish article which he
had not himself written. But Marti's moti-
vation was different from Castro's; he per-
formed his Quixotic act to save a friend. He
was jailed, then exiled to Spain, from which
he escaped. For 25 years thereafter Marti
worked for a free Cuba supporting guerrilla
activity from New York City. It was Marti
who created the Cuban Home Rule Party,
who arranged for arms shipments to the
insurgents, and who took the field eventu-
ally as a Cuban rebel general despite the fact
that he had had no experience in soldiering.
Gonzalo de Quesada describes the death
and martyrdom of Marti on the soil of Cuba
in words that sound like an excerpt from an
old melodrama: "Under the palms, on a
white steed * * * he fell. There, where our
only majestic river, the Canto, opens its arms,
where from the rising grounds, the valleys,
like a motherly bosom, invite the eternal
rest, canopied by a gray firmament, there,
where the world seems to dilate, Jose Marti
battled for the last time against Spanish
tyranny * * * he charges; his spirited horse
carries him ahead of his men; it is his first
engagement, it is his last victory; he rolls
from his horse, fallen, wounded; his breast is
riddled with bullets; the murderous lead en-
tering under his chin has disfigured the firm
mouth; the heavy mustache is burnt; his
golden tongue is forever silent."
Reading de Quesada's perfervid words, you
squirm. But you can't quite laugh, for the
veneration so flamboyantly expressed still
carries a ring of truth after 67 years.
If Marti had lived to become the first
President of a free Cuban Republic, he would
have scorned to go back on his word. Castro
promised the Cubans that the Constitution
of 1940. would be restored after the defeat
of Batista; he promised a free press; he
promised free scope for any and all business-
men who had not collaborated with the Ba-
tista government. Every single promise has
been betrayed. Marti would have scorned
to put a single Cuban under the yoke of an
alien Old World power. Castro has delivered
all the Cubans in Cuba to Moscow.
Reading the old dogeared book of 1896, I
kept thinking about an article I wrote back
in the 1930's, about Venezuela, when that
South American country was trying to pick
up the pieces after the death of the tyrant
Juan Vicente Gomez, who had ruled it from
1908 to 1935. Gomez was a Caudillo, a Petty.
general, who pretended to have the good of
his country at heart. Called "el bagre," the
catfish, and "el brujo," the witch doctor,
Gomez was feared by everybody-and he
ended by being loved by. nobody. 0
Castro pretends to wear the mantle of
Marti. But underneath the "buche y
.pluma," or wind and feathers, he is the
contemporary version of Gomez, When
Marti was carrying on his struggle against
"Butcher" Weyler, the Spanish general sent
from Madrid to hold Cuba in thrall, the
United States accorded him the rights of. a
belligerent. But our State Department de-
nounces the modern disciples of Marti, the
Cubans who are banded together in Alpha
66, for hitting some Russians while raiding
the Cuban coast. Is the State Department
on the side. of the shade of Jose Marti? Or
does it prefer the shade of "Catfish" Gomez?
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Deily Diges.
HIGHLIGHTS
Senate passed Youth Conservation Corps bill and took up military procure-
ment authorization bill.
House passed bills making supplemental appropriations and repealing silver
purchase legislation.
House committee approved military pay increase bill.
Senate
Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages 5857-5885, 5998
Bills Introduced: Nine bills and five resolutions were
introduced, as follows: S. 1302-1310; S.J. Res. 69; and
S. Res. 122-125. X870,5999
Bills Reported: Reports were made as follows:
S. Res. 113, to print as a Senate document a report on
the Alliance for Progress (S. Rept. 129);
S. Res. 117, to print as a Senate document a report
entitled "Study Mission to Southeast Asia" (S. Rept.
130);
S. Con. Res. 9, authorizing temporary placement in
the rotunda of the Capitol of a statue of the late Joseph
Ward, of South Dakota; S. Con. Res. 1o, to tender
thanks of Congress to South Dakota for the statue of
the late Joseph Ward; and S. Con. Res. 11, to print as a
Senate document the proceedings at the acceptance of
the statue of the late Joseph Ward (S. Rept. 131) ;
S. Con. Res. 30, to reprint copies of a committee print
of the 87th Congress entitled "Part r of Concentration
Ratios in Manufacturing Industry, 1958" (S. Rept. 132) ;
S. Con. Res. 32, authorizing printing of hearings in
the 87th Congress by the Select Committee on Small
Business on "Space Satellite Communications" (S. Rcpt.
133);
S. Con. Res. 35, to print additional copies of part r
of the hearings of the Joint Economic Committee on
the 1963 Economic Report of the President (S. Rcpt.
134); s.
H. Con. Res. 86, to print as a House document the
pamphlet "Our Flag" (S. Rept. 135);
H. Con. Res. 98, to authorize the printing of a wall
map of the U.S. (S. Rcpt. 136) ;
H. Con. Res. 1o8, to print as a House document
"How Our Laws Are Made" (S. Rept.137)
H. Con. Res. 119, to print as a House document the
Constitution of the U.S. (S. Rept. 138) ;
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S. Con. Res. 6, accepting the statue of the late John
Burke, of North Dakota, and tendering thanks of Con-
gress therefor, with amendment; S. Con. Res. 7, author-
izing temporary placement in the rotunda of the Capi-
tol of the statue of the late John Burke; and S. Con. Res.
8, to print the proceedings in connection with the ac-
ceptance of the statue of the late John Burke (S. Rept.
139);
S. Res. 119, providing an additional $300 for expenses
for Committee on the judiciary (no written report);
and
S. Res. 122-125, authorizing payment of gratuities to
survivors of deceased Senate employees (no written
report). Page 5858
Bill Referred: One House-passed bill was referred to
appropriate committee. Page 5908
President's Communication-Supplemental Appro-
priations: Communication from President transmitting
proposed supplemental appropriations for fiscal year
1963 for Department of the Interior in the amount of
$6 million and a proposed provision for Department of
Defense, was referred to Committee on Appropriations
and ordered to be printed as S. Doc. i i. Page 5857
Youth Conservation Corps: By So yeas to 34 nays
(motion to reconsider tabled), Senate passed with
amendment S. 1, to establish a Youth Conservation
Corps within the Department of Labor, after adopting
committee amendment (in nature of a substitute), as
amended. This committee amendment was consid-
ered as original text for purpose of amendment, and the
following actions were taken on amendments and mo-
tions offered to it:
Adopted: Inouye amendment respecting definition
of terns. "State" in the bill and providing that each State
shall be entitled to not less than 50 enrollees under title
I (Youth Conservation Corps), and 50 under title II
(State and Community Youth Employment Program) ;
Williams (Delaware) amendment (to title II) establish-
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