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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - APPENDIX
Villiain A Smith managuig editor of
tQ granite State Free Press and a dis-
tixiguished New Hampshire journalist,
le Wri ten an excellent and thought-
provoking editorial on the hazards of
driving, and the need for automobile
safety, including motor vehicle inspec-
tions. I commend my" friend and neigh-
bor's perceptive comments to my col-
. leagues and under leave to extend my
remarks I would like to include in the
RECORD "'Tis a Grim Harvest":
'Tra A GRIM HARVEST
The Travelers Insurance ' Cos report that
more persons have died on the highways
than on our Nation's battleiields; more have
been injured in auto accidents than in all
the world's wars combined. 'Tis a grim har-
vest that we are. reminded of each week.
As we drive along between 50 and 55 miles in
a 50-mile zone the cars whiz by us, the
drivers wondering why other cars clutter up
the highways. Many drivers ignore the solid
lines ,as they speed by-they often appear to
be out-of-State . cars-in an endless hurry
to 'get somewhere a few minutes earlier.
Driving to work Monday morning we heard
the squeal of tires as a car rushed by us
And then within 50 yards it turned right,
ixltp a side street, without the bother of
signals. And each week the death toll in-
creases with old records being broken. Ra-
dio reports'of accidents suggest exciting races
for new high levels as former quotas are met
and surpassed for each month.
The causes, pf the grim records of violence to the laws and convictions of countless mil-
411d death are any and the solutions ap-
parently not discovered. The Travelers fac-
tual report lists excessive speed as the No.`1
Cause-a fact that should be apparent to all
drivers. Other causes frequently mentioned
in the reports of accidents include driving
while drunk,,violating the rules of the road,
failure to dim lights, driving on the wrong
side of the, road, etc.
We are,always annoyed at drivers who pull
but to pass and then while still abreast begin
to pull back, into 'the right lane, forgetting
that we are still moving along at 50 per.
It is true that the big majority of drivers
are careful, skillful, and thoughtful of the
rights of others. It is sad that the minority
o-ause so many deaths, so much damage, and
such high insurance premiums. 11 Somehow we need to realize that the dan-
ger of nuclear warfare is far lest than the
danger from ,a speeding automobile.
.One definitely constructive measure that
helps to restrain the mounting death toll is
the required inspection of motor vehicles
twice a year. This is the month to have your
car inpected. Welcome it as a safety invest-
ment for you and your family.
Interpretation of First Amendment to
Constitution
EXTENSION OF
REMARK
HON. STROM TIUURMQND
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
Thursday, May i4, 1964
Mr. THTJRMOND. Mr.PrQ,5 dent, on
77 April 30, 1964, there was printed in the
5.CONGRESSIOINAL RECORD on pages_A2190-
A2191 ' an editorial from the Religious
Herald, a publication circulated among
Virginia Baptists. The -editorial was
written by Mr, Reuben E. Alley and was
critical of the proposed Becker
amend-
ment to. the U.S. Constitution. This
amendment has been proposed for the
purpose of trying to correct the errone-
ous interpretation of the first amend-
ment by the Supreme Court in its recent
antiprayer decisions.
It has now been called to my attention
that this editorial has been answered
with eloquence and logic by an outstand-
ing young minister in the Southern
Baptist Convention, Rev. Charles B.
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As a Christian no soul sensitive to the
principles of Jesus would seek to infringe
upon human rights because of the Ameri-
can tradition of democratic majority rule
nor would we be true to the heritage of our
faith and fathers if we in defense of human
rights,, surrendered to a small minority the
privilege of taking God out of our national
life and thereby secularizing our beloved
America.
I would not be so naive as to pretend that
there is not always some inherent danger in
seeking to amend the Constitution. But
there is a far greater danger that has been
revealed already in the decisions of the U.S.
Supreme Court. For the Supreme Court has
provided already the easy way to "amend"
the Constitution. Instead of going through
the Congress or the people, certain minority
groups have found it most effective to go
around constitutional processes and win
their way through a court interpretation of
the Constitution.
Thank God we have a democratic system
of checks and balances between the execu-
tive, legislative and judicial branches of
Government which can be exercised If one
branch of Government gets too far afield.
The Becker amendment is congressional re-
sponse from letters, telegrams and petitions
that have been pouring into Washington
from all areas of the country requesting
that the Congress act to stop the secularist
drive and reverse the court decisions.
The only way that this trend of the U.S.
Supreme Court can be checked is for the
Congress to approve and submit to the
States a proposed amendment to the Con-
stitution. Though this is difficult, because
to legally amend the Constitution requires
an affirmative vote in both houses of the
Congress by a two-thirds majority and then
ratification by three-fourths of the States,
such action is necessary and the recent poll
tax amendment has shown that it can be
done.
Who are we to say that many John Le-
lands are not now needed to Influence and
support a 20th century legislator who would
today seek to amend the Constitution be-
cause the original purpose and Intent of
James Madison and others like him, has
been so misinterpreted and circumscribed
by recent actions of the U.S. Supreme Court,
that the first amendment to the U.S. Con-
stitution has become for some an amend-
ment for the "Freedom from religion rather
than freedom of religion."
CHARLES B. NUNN, Jr.,
Pastor.
Nunn, Jr., pastor of the Plymouth
Haven Baptist Church, which is located
between Alexandria and Mount Vernon
in Fairfax County, Va. in view of the
fact, Mr. President, that Mr. Alley's
editorial comments were printed in the
Appendix to the RECORD on April 30, I
ask unanimous consent that Reverend
Nunn's response thereto likewise be
printed in the Appendix to the RECORD.
There being no objection, the letter
was ordered to be printed in the RECORD,
CRITICISM OF COURT DECISION
To the EDITOR: .
I appreciate very much your addressing
yourself in your editorial of April 23 to the
proposed amendment to the Constitution
concerning Bible reading and prayer in pub-
lic schools that is currently before the House
Judiciary Committee in Washington, D.C.
As our people are learning in Training
Union in April and May, our Baptist heri-
lions concerning the principle of separation
of church and state as well as that of re-
ligious liberty embodied in the U.S. Consti-
tution.
Your statement that "'an amendment to
the Constitution would make Ineffective the
first amendment as an instrument for separa-
tion of church and state" is a judgment of
your own not shared by the majority in
Virginia, the entire Southern Baptist Con-
vention or the Nation as a whole. A recent
Gallop poll in the last 6 months showed
that more than 70 percent of Americans
questioned endorsed the idea of prayers in
our schools. The tremendous groundswell
of grassroots opinion on the issue Is evi-
dence itself that spiritual apathy and indif-
ference has not yet frozen shut the lips,
pens, or influence of our Baptist people in
the towns, villages, or metropolitan areas.
Our Baptist heritage is still much a part of
the present and future, when our people
will speak out of their convictions regardless
of whether it agrees with what their pastor,
State editor or for that matter what the
executive secretary of the Baptist Joint Com-
mittee on Public Affairs is saying and ad-
vocating.
The influence of James Madison on the
shaping of the first amendment to the
Constitution you most effectively outlined.
There is obviously room for debate on the
pros and cons of the word "voluntary" in
section 1 of the Becker amendment, but
within a general definition of the word there
is still room for a child to be excused or
an adult teacher not to be compelled. With-
in such liberty, I find little room for cap-
tivity.
In reference to section 2, I would want
to believe, with you that "it seems unlikely
that the Court would rule against" such
practices as references to God in the taking
of an oath of office, swearing witnesses, en-
graving of "In God We Trust" on coins and
currency, but recent decisions of the U.S.
Supreme Court do not give me any degree
of encouragement. For the United States
Supreme Court on two occasions has vetoed
the idea of placing the national motto, "In
God We Trust," in the court chamber as
is presently displayed in each house of the
Congress.
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. FRANK A. STUBBLEFIELD
OF KENTUCKY
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, May 14, 1964
Mr. STUBBLEFIELD. Mr. Speaker, a
distinguished public servant, John B.
Hutson, was laid to rest in Arlington
Cemetery on Monday of this week. The
work of this great American touched the
lives of millions of people during his life-
time of service. His desire to serve his
fellow man accounts for his rise from a
farm boy in my home county of Calloway
in western Kentucky to Under Secre-
tary of Agriculture and Assistant Secre-
tary General of the United Nations.
Dr. Hutson was chief of the section in
the U.S. Department of Agriculture that
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was responsible for developing and ad-
ministering the production adjustment
programs for tobacco, sugar, rice and
peanuts during the crucial early years
of 1933-36. It is more than a coin-
cidence that the production and price
support programs for these commodities
have stood the test of time-that they
have been effective in assuring fair
prices to the farmer producers and to
consumers with equity to all affected
sectors of the commercial community.
And this at a minimum cost to the tax-
payers.
Because I know personally of the in-
fluence his actions and his example have
had and will continue to have on those
who have known him and known about
him. I would like to add to my comments
the following:
First, an editorial from the May 10,
1964, issue of the Paducah Sun-Demo-
crat:
DR. JOHN B. HUTSON, ILLVSTEIOUS SON
If Dr. John B. Hutson had stopped to cal-
culate the odds against the son of a Cal-
loway County dirt farmer becoming Under
Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agri-
culture he might never have started the
climb that took him there.
But it was not for the sake of a career
that Dr. Hutson began that climb. He be-
lieved that life on American farms could be
immeasurably improved by the adoption of
scientific production methods, and be was
far more interested in seeing this done than
In the furtherance of his own career. It was
his dedication to this goal that led him to
become expert in the fields of agricultural
production and marketing and, ultimately.
No. 2 man in the Department of Agriculture.
Dr. Hutson's Illustrious and successful
career should be an inspiration to every west
Kentuckian. He faced all the regional ob-
stacles that keep lesser men from achieving
great things and he overcame them with ac-
quiredknowledge, hard work and persistent
faith in himself and the worthiness of the
cause to which he had dedicated his life.
There is more than personal triumph in
Dr. Hutson's remarkable rise from Calloway
County farm boy to Under Secretary of agri-
culture and president of Tobacco Associates,
Inc., an International tobacco marketing or-
ganization. He rendered invaluable service
to the Nation during World War U. first as
assistant to War Mobilizer Fred Vinson, then
as head of the Food Production Administra-
tion. He previously had served the Nation
as administrator of the Agricultural Adjust-
ment Administration, chief of the Federal
Office of Agricultural Defense Rehabilitation
and president of the Commodity Credit Cor-
poration.
Although Dr. Hutson spent most of his
adult life in Washington and the principal
cities of America and Europe he was still a
Kentuckian, and his death will be mourned
throughout the State as the passing of an
illustrious son.
Second, a biographical resume:
BIOGRAPHICAL R@SUMf OF JOHN B. HUTSON
John B. Hutson, president of Tobacco As-
sociates, Inc., died suddenly of a heart attack
in Brussels, Belgium, May 5. His wife. Isa
bel, was with him at the time of his death.
Mr. Hutson was in Europe meeting with
leading tobacco industry officials concerning
possible tobacco tariff policies to be pre-
sented at the Kennedy round of the GATT
negotiations.
For the past 17 years. Mr. Hutson served as
president of Tobacco Associates, an organi-
zation representing the interests of Flue-
cured tobacco growers from Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Flor-
Ida. As part of his duties. be traveled media on May 7, 1964, under Mr. Sens-
throughout the world furthering the inter- ing's weekly news column Sensing the
national interests of U.S. tobacco. News. I ask unanimous consent that
Prior to coming to Tobacco Associates, Mr. this article be printed in the Appendix
Hutson had a long and distinguished career
in public service Including serving as Under to the RECORD.
Secretary of Agriculture and Assistant fiecre-
tary General of the United Nations.
Mr. Hutson was born on a farm near Mur-
ray. Ky., September 7, 1890. He received his
B.S. degree from the University of Kentucky,
paying his own way through school from
money earned growing tobacco and teach-
ing In rural elementary schools. Mr.
Hutson received his master's and Ph. D. de-
grees from the University of Wisconsin and
Columbia University. respectively. The
University of Kentucky bestowed the hon-
orary degree of LL. D. on him in 1947.
Following World War I. be engaged In ag-
ricultural extension work and became ersist-
ant professor of agricultural econom`cs at
the University of Kentucky. In 1921. he
joined the staff of the U.S. Department of
Agriculture doing field work in farm man-
agement studies.
Mr. Hutson gained prominence In inter-
national agricultural marketing while work-
ing as principal marketing specialist in Eu-
ropean countries for the U.S. Department of
Agriculture from 1980 to 1933. He returned
to the United tSates to become Chief of the
Tobacco Section of the newly formed Agri-
cultural Adjustment Administration and in
1936 became Assistant Administrator of this
agency. He was the chief architect of those
provisions of the Agricultural Acts o' 1933
t-id 1938 upon which the present tobacco
program is based.
From 1940 to 1945, Mr. Hutson asr;umed
numerous duties In agriculture's role In the
war effort. He was Deputy Commissioner
of Agriculture in the Advisory Commission
of the U.S. Council of National Defense;
head of the Office of Agricultural Defense
Relations; director of the Food Production
in the War Food Administration; and Dep-
uty Director for Agriculture in the Gilles of
Mobilization and Reconversion. During
most of this time, Mr. Hutson also served as
president of the Commodity Credit Corpora-
tion.
Rising through career Government service,
he was appointed Under Secretary of Agri-
culture in July 1945. He served in this of-
fice until March of 1946 when he was called
upon by Secretary General Trygve Lie to be-
come Assistant Secretary General it the
United Nations.
In addition to his early work in Europe
and in the United Nations, Mr. Hutson par-
ticipated in numerous international confer-
ences. He was a member of the delegation
to the International Sugar Conference in
London in 1937 and the Second Inter-
Ameri-can Agricultural Conference In Mexico City
in 1943. He was head of the American Dele-
gation to the Third Inter-American Agri-
cultural Conference of Caracas, Venezuela,
in 1945.
Refusal of Students To Fight Against the
Communist Vietcong in South Vietnam
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
of
HON. STROM THURMOND
OF SOUTH CAROLINA
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
There being no objection, the article
was ordered to be printed in the RECORD,
as follows:
SENSING THE NEWS-BEHIND THE SHAME
(By Thurman Sensing, executive vice presi-
dent, Southern States Industrial Council)
Disclosure in New York City that 87 stu-
dents at leading northern colleges have
signed a statement saying that they would
reuse to fight against the Communist Viet-
cong in South Vietnam is a shameful epi-
sode.
While these youths were declaring that
"U.S. participation in that war is for the
suppression of the Vietnamese struggle for
national Independence," other young Ameri-
cans in southeast Asia were the target of
enemy bullets and terrorist attacks. This
outrageous statement, published in the
ultra-leftwing journal the National Guard-
ian, was signed by youths who have had the
advantage of education in some of the big-
gest and best known colleges in the United
States. Yet they have failed to perceive the
difference between our Nation's fight for
freedom and the Communist fight for doml-
nation of the world.
Each student who signed the statement
mutt bear personal guilt for what he has
done. Nevertheless, the public cannot but
wonder what in our national atmosphere
would make it possible for a young American
to arrive at such conclusions.
Those who have studied the intellectual
climate of recent years will readily under-
stand what Iles behind the statement by
the young men who assert that they will
not tight for their country. What's behind
it is a steady, unremitting vilification of
patriotism and national sovereignty. Fur-
thermore, great numbers of youths also have
been told that they must practice revolution
within their own country and against its
laws and institutions. Is it any wonder,
therefore, that these evil teachings should
yield evil fruit?
The word "superpatriot" was coined in the
last few years as a term of reproach. Prom-
inent Government officials declared that they
intend to muzzle the men who devote their
lives to serAce in the Armed Forces of this
Nation. From pulpits, young men have
heard the values of American life subjected
to scorn. Organizations such as the Na-
tional Council of Churches have been in the
vanguard of those who arguethat the United
States should relax its opposition to Com-
munist China. Within recent weeks, in fact.
the World Council of Churches had a spokes-
man in the United States arguing for a soft
policy toward the Communist regimes in
Peiping and East Berlin.
Even where youths have not been exposed
to leftwing political propaganda, there has
been an Insidious current of teaching to the
effect that sophistication requires that one
not view all world problems from an ex-
elusively national standpoint. Young peo-
ple have been told time and again in college,
church, and in books that Americans should
be understanding of other nation's ambi-
tions and not hasten to assume that the
United States Is right.
It is not remarkable, therefore, that some
youths-fortunately, a very small minority-
have come around to taking the enemy's
side Instead of their country's side In the
Thursday, May 14, 1964 worldwide struggle of our era.
)1[1'. THURMOND. Mr. President, I The deep love of country that continues
sup-
have been very impressed with an edi- to permeate our Republic has not been sup-
pressed by the tricky arguments of those
tonal column produced by Mr. Thurman who make a career of running down America.
Sensing, entitled "Behind the Shame." But some young people have been terribly
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Then, too, the current praise being given
by extremists, some of them, sad 'to say,
wearing clerical garb, to insurrectionary
tactics in the streets of the Nation is an
added pressure on young people. What are
college youths to think when their elders,
who should know better and who are sup-
posed to set ari example, take part in mass
marches on the Nation's Capital and actually
incite people to riot? If revolution is
preached at home-and it is well to remem-
ber that such persons as Prof. Arthur Schles-
inger, Jr., the former Presidential adviser,
hailed social revolution in Latin `America
and elsewhere-then some young people who
lack stability will 'come to think that a
Communist revolution in South Vietnam, for
instance, is a good thing.
It is not the 87 misguided college students
that the Nation has to worry about. Each
will have a lifetime to lament 'a terrible
juvenile error of judgment. But the coun-
try should be worried about the institutions
and supposedly learned adults in places of
responsibility who have undermined the
morale of some young people by their
criminally irresponsible preachments. Each
churchman, college alumnus and ordinary
citizen should demand that those in au-
thority honor the values of America so that
larger numbers of young men and women
not go astray in the future.
The Government-Sponsored Prayer
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. SPARK M. MATSUNAGA
OF HAWAII
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, May 14, 1964
Mr. MATSUNAGA. Mr. Speaker, the
most emotional issue of the second term
of the 88th Congress appears to be
whether or not we shall amend the Fed-
eral Constitution to overturn the deci-
sions of the Supreme Court of the United
States and provide for Government spon-
sorship of prayers in our public schools.
The congressional mailbag' is literally
filled with letters from' well-meaning
ministers, churchgoers, educators and
various organizations, both for and
against any such legislation. It Is most
encouraging to find that almost every
national and regional church organiza-
tion supports the school prayer decisions
of the Supreme Court. The majority of
ministers who have written me also sup-
port the Court's decision.
In a thought-provoking editorial,
"Praying in School", published May 2,
1964, George Chaplin, the highly re-
spected editor of the Honolulu Advertiser
has, in my view, correctly analyzed the
issue facing the Congress today. He
points out the infrequently mentioned
facts that the Supreme Court decisions
do not prohibit voluntary and unofficial
religious activity, in school or elsewhere;
that religion in America has tradition-
ally depended upon training in the home
and the church. He concluded that we
cannot, even in the smallest degree, allow
the. Government to prescribe what we
must do in a matter of religion.
The editorial reads as follows:.
PRAYiING IN SCHOOL
The country Is faced with a delicate and
potentially disruptive Issue which, hope-
fully, commonsense and understanding will
hold within bounds.
We refer to the 147 separate resolutions
in the House Judiciary Committee designed
to overturn recent U.S. Supreme Court deci-
sions against officially prescribed religious
exercises in public schools by amending the
Constitution.
In cases arising in New York, Pennsylvania
and Maryland, the Court held it a violation
of the first amendment for any arm of gov-
ernment-in these cases, a school board and
two State legislatures-to prescribe religious
practices.
The Court pointed to the plain truth, that
the amendment forbids government to either
establish a religion or to interfere with "the
free exercise thereof."
Contrary to widespread impression, the
Court did not rule out religious activity, pro-
vided it is voluntary and unofficial.
Two justices have gone out of their way
to underline the true nature of the Court's
decisions. Justice Black said in 1962 that
the Court took the view that "religion is too
hallowed, too personal, too sacred, too holy
to permit its unhallowed perversion by a
civil magistrate."
The following year, Justice Clark said,
"The place of religion in our society is an
exalted one achieved through a long tradi-
tion of reliance on the home, the church and
the inviolable citadel of the individual heart
and rpind, It is not within the power of
Government to invade that citadel."
In other words, the Court was in effect
saying that it is not wholesome for either
Government. or religion to countenance
officially prescribed religious activity in pub-
-lie schools. The Court acted not to banish
religion but to strengthen it.
The extension of the Court's decisions, of
course, is that the proper places for the pre-
scription of religious practices are the home
and in the church-and that Government
has no business Intruding, no matter how
bepevolent the Intent.
But the decisions have been widely mis-
understood and the result Is the 147 resolu-
tions pending in the Judiciary Committee.
The sponsors are well meaning, but if any
one of them succeeded, he would be chang-
ing the first amendment of the Constitu-
tion.
The most notable resolution is that of-
fered by Representative BECKER of New York,
whose recent statement on the issues re-
vealed the depth of his misunderstanding.
Prescribed prayers as a part of the school
day, he said, would be valuable because they
would acquaint children of nonreligious fam-
ilies with the existence of God.
Is this not an argument for Government
intrusion into religion?
The majority of Americans are Protestants.
The country was first settled by Protestants
who were themselves a minority within Prot-
estantism, seeking a haven where they could
live by their beliefs in peace and free from
state coercion.
Since then, the Nation has seen the ar-
rival or the rise of many different beliefs.
In the United States today there is a mini-
mum of 83 sizable denominations. There are
24 Protestant and Orthodox denominations
alone.
There are Presbyterians, Jews, Catholics,
Seventh-day Adventists, Buddhists, Baptists,
Greek Orthodox, Shakers, Quakers, Episco-
palians, agnostics, Unitarians, etc., all living
in one land, all following their own beliefs,
The questions for Representative BECKER
are these: Who is to prescribe what religious
practices in the schools would be suitable
for these and the many other denominations
and faiths?
Would he have prayers from the New Tes-
tament for children of the Jewish faith?
Would he prescribe Christianity for children
of Buddhists or vice versa, which is a per-
tinent question in Hawaii, where there are
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many Buddhists? Would he require the child
of an agnostic to recite any prayer?
We do not question the good faith or the
genial spirit of sponsors or supporters of
any of the pending 147 resolutions. We do,
however, question their understanding of
both the Supreme Court rulings and the
history which produced the first amendment
to the Constitution.
Religion does not and cannot draw its
strength from a prayer or a Bible passage
recited in a schoolroom. It draws its
strength from the church and the home.
Throughout our history, these have been
the traditional seats of religious instruction
for the young. Let it so continue. And let
us reflect on this statement by Ralph B. Ken-
nard, professor emeritus of American Uni-
versity:
"These decisions of the Supreme Court
are essential for the protection of our reli-
gious liberty. For we lose our freedom when
we let the Government tell us, even in the
smallest degree, what we must do in a mat-
ter of religion."
A Tribute to William J. "Bill" Williams
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. AUGUSTUS F. HAWKINS
OF CALIFORNIA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, May 14, 1964
Mr. HAWKINS. Mr. Speaker, I have
just written a letter to my constituents
in praise of my field coordinator and staff
of my district ofHce,..and briefly describ-
ing the numerous programs and activi-
ties through which we are helping our
community to become a better and more
prosperous place. I believe my colleagues
will find the following of interest:
A TRIBUTE TO WILLIAM J. "BILL" WILLIAMS
Everyday in the year I as your Congress-
man, and the people who work in my office,
listen to public views, problems, complaints,
and suggestions that range all the way from
where to get a baby-sitter to how to qualify
for the old age pension.
The man who directs our local Los Angeles
office, supervises the staff, and stands in for
me during my absence attending Congress
3,000 miles away, is William J. "Bill" Wil-
liams. In paying this tribute to him, I want
to involve both you and me in how we bene-
fit from the unselfish devotion of this young
man.
In the first place, Bill is the one who usual-
ly listens to what you have to say when you
consult my office. It is, therefore, Important
that he not only be patient and sympathetic,
which he is but also possess the ability to
get things done.
For this work, Bill is highly qualified. In
his short 33 years he has graduated from two
colleges and is presently completing his work
on a doctorate degree at the University of
Southern California. He has taught school,
served in our Armed Forces overseas, worked
for labor, and acted as my legislative aid
when I was a member of the California Leg-
islature.
So he is more than a college man. He is a
person of practical experience and a great
coordinator of community programs.
Thus, while I have fought to have en-
acted into law a vocational education
law, a new mental health program, more
job-creating agencies, and youth activi-
ties, to mention a few, Bill Williams has
been busy in our community to see that
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these programs are made available to
those who need them.
Under his direction more than 2 years
ago we organized a coordinating coun-
cil on economic development to spear-
head an antipoverty campaign in our
area.
From this council, which started with
only 25 members, we have now involved
over 175 persons in an advisory capa-
city, developed a host of capable com-
munity leaders, set up a mental health
committee which has already obtained
$25,000 to start a clinic In the district to
help depressed persons, held several
small business clinics for businessmen,
provided job counseling and placement
for over 2,000 young people, and obtained
grants totaling over $1 million to under-
take action programs to provide more
jobs, training, schools, and better hous-
ing.
Nor have we neglected cooperation
with private businesses and industry.
For example, Mr. Williams has worked in
conjunction with the Pacific Telephone
Co. to develop a program to train our
youth for jobs in this great industry and
open up new opportunities for advance-
ment.
On the other hand, we have been
equally concerned with helping elderly
people and family heads. Our office has
been their Information center and many
have been assisted in. qualifying for vari-
ous pension, training, and medical pro-
grams. Through private trade schools,
Mr. Williams has obtained numerous
tree scholarships for vocational training
which opened jobs for many who had
been turned down In the past because
they were over 40 years of age. Also,
hundreds of social security benefit claims
have been settled satisfactorily and bet-
ter housing for the elderly located.
Assisting Mr. Williams in the local of-
fice is a capable team of coworkers con-
sisting of Mrs. Mary Higginbotham, Mrs.
Jerrell Hogans, and Was Shirley Reid-
all residents of our community and per-
sons who believe in our creed: All persons
are important.
in my efforts to be "everybody's Con-
gressman," I am pleased to pay this fit-
ting tribute to a great field coordinator
whose help has made possible what prog-
ress we have achieved, whose command-
ing qualities have helped our community
to become a better and more prosperous
place-one 'who is certainly our unsung
hero and faithful friend-William J.
"Bill" Williams.
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EXTENSION OF REMARKS
Or
HON, BRUCE ALGER
IN THE ROUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, May 14, 1964
Mr. ALGER. Mr. Speaker, under
permission to extend my remarks in the
RECORD, I would like to Include the fol-
lowing statement from Don MacLean's
excellent column in the Washington
Daily News of May 13, 1964:
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situation for you. It's simple: we've gone people, and on-job training is available.
from Ngo Dlnb Nbu to No Khan Du. Hotels, motels, and restaurants: Plenty of
Jobs Going Begging
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
of
HON. THOMAS B. CURTIS
or MISSOURI
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, May 14, 1964
Mt. CURTIS. Mr. Speaker, in the
face of the high level of unemployment.
It is important to recognize the many
jobs in our economy that are going beg-
ging for want of skilled and trained peo-
ple to fill them. The irony of unemploy-
ment alongside vacant jobs Is receiving
increasing recognition-as it must if we
are to realize the goal of full employment.
An article in the Washington Post of
April 26 lists a large number of job op-
portunities in the Washington area that
are available for high school graduates
and college-trained Individuals. Because
it illustrates again the large number of
job vacancies in our society, under
unanimous consent I include the article
in the RECORD at this point:
JOBS, COORDINATION BOTH GOING BEGGING
(By William J. Raspberry)
Washington's private businesses have jobs
available for high school graduates-or drop-
outs-as well as for the college trained.
But schools and industry, whose coopera-
tion has been more theoretical than actual,
will have to get together if they are to match
jobless youths--particularly Negroes-with
vacant jobs, a conference of high school
counselors was told here last week.
Some of the job opportunities listed at the
conference at George Washington University
were:'
Auto mechanics: Foreign-car dealers alone
will need 1,100 new mechanics by 1970. Jobs
are also available for youths who can learn
to make routine repairs and assist auto tech-
nicians.
Laundry and dry-cleaning: Starting pay is
low. but opportunities for advancement to
managerial positions are good. Training is
available for youths in cleaning, spotting.
route and office sales, home counseling and
clerical jobs.
Building trades: Fewer opportunities exist
here than generally is believed. Unemploy-
ment is consistently high, and the need for
apprentices Is low. New construction tech-
niques have reduced the need for bricklayers
and other mechanics.
Telephone Company: There is continuing
need for operators and servicemen as well as
for technicians. The company's work-study
program gives high schoolers on-the-job
training while they are still in school. These
jobs usually lead to Immediate full-time em-
ployment after graduation.
Publishing and printing: Apprenticeship
opportunities are practically nonexistent.
Employment standards are high, job vacan-
cies few. Employment on Washington's
three daily newspapers has increased only 10
percent since 1956 while the population was
doubling.
Department stores: Good opportunities,
especially for women. Besides sales, there
are jobs in Office work. counseling, advertis-
ing, services-some 400 job classifications at
Woodward & Lothrop's alone.
Grocery chains: Crying need for butchers
and meat cutters in the area a 250 chain out-
jobs but low pay. Opportunities for ad-
vancement are Increasing. The best oppor-
tunities for those of limited education are
as cooks, bakers, and bartenders.
Hospitals: Some 400 job classifications
here. This is one of the few industries where
automation is not a threat. Every new ma-
chine requires a new technician.
Engineering and automation: Trend of
downgrading jobs is increasing, providing
more opportunities for the nonspecialist.
Technicians are doing jobs formerly reserved
for scientists, and so on down the line. New
efforts are being made to find low-skill jobs
for automation displaced workers after poor
experience with retraining programs.
A Howard University conference yesterday
stressed increasing opportunities for Negroes
in sales jobs and marketing jobs.
Both conferences urged closer cooperation
between public school counselors and per-
sonnel managers in developing more realistic
school curricula and fitting students to jobs.
A Distinguished New Hampshire Citizen
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
or
HON. LOUIS C. LAYMAN
or NEW UAMPS1IIRZ
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, May 14, 1964
Mr. WYMAN. Mr. Speaker, recently
New Hampshire lost an outstanding citi-
zen in the passing of a former member of
the Governor's Council, a great outdoors
enthusiast, and a connoisseur of fine
guns, the Honorable Parker Merrow, of
Ossipee, N.H. Judge of the municipal
court, editor of the local Carroll County
Independent, Parker Merrow over the
years was a tremendous force for good in
my State.
The New Hampshire State Fish and
Game Department commented upon
Parker's passing in its Fish and Game
Newsletter, volume XI, No. 31. This
comment was so well phrased that with
unanimous consent I am Including it in
the CONGRESsIoNAL RECORD at this point.
In his close contact with nature's beau-
ties, his love of woods, wildlife, moun-
tains, lakes, and seashore, Judge Parker
Merrow was able to hold that anchor to
windward that many Americans need in
this unstable and uncertain world of
today.
The New Hampshire Fish and Game
Newsletter's editorial comment is help-
ful, in setting the tone of appreciation
for Judge Merrow's many civic contri-
butions:
A Gassy MAN LEAVxs Us
In the passing of Parker Merrow, of
Ossipee, N.H., sportsmen as well as mem-
bers of the fish and game department
have lost a friendof great stature and broad
talents. Bigness was the quality which best
characterized this extraordinary Individual.
It included not only his capacity to accept
people as they really are and make due
allowances for their behavior, but vision to
place their goals and problems and motiva-
tions in true perspective and to take the
lead in devising worthwhile long-range solu-
tions. Part of the framework in which he
saw all of us so clearly was the natural
world around us-the woods and ponds and
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