ganizations. These people have few roots in the communities they serve.

Allied with them are some theoretical people who never met a payroll or personally tested an economic theory, but who believe they know how business and competition should work. They are supported by some editors who read too quickly.

Because consumers have seen for themselves that competition helps them, the opponents have chosen to fight by trying to label quality stabilization the opposite of competition: price fixing. It is no more price fixing than the setting of prices on house or private brands by many of America's reliable chains. But some economists and editors are unwilling to admit that a house brand which can only be bought at the same price in every store selling it is sheltered from price competition.

Quality stabilization would not prohibit any of these stores, or even the discounters, from obtaining and selling goods at whatever prices they can obtain. What it would do is prevent unethical merchants from using quality brands as "bait" or "switch" merchandise to entice customers into their stores to sell them high-profit goods of questionable value.

Surely quality stabilization is in the interest of consumers, because it protects the household budget from inferior products.

See America Year

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HON. F. BRADFORD MORSE

OF MASSACHUSETTS

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Wednesday, March 4, 1964

Mr. MORSE. Mr. Speaker, shortly after the House adopted a resolution proclaiming 1964 as See America Year, I wrote to the officials of each of the 20 cities and towns in the Fifth Massachusetts District urging them to use this occasion to stimulate interest in the tremendous treasure of historical and recreational facilities in our area. The response to my letter has been most exciting. Recently I received a letter from Mrs. Louise K. Brown, the town historian for Bedford, Mass., outlining the historical points of interest in this lovely old New England town. Under unanimous consent I include Mrs. Brown's letter and the resolution of the Bedford Board of Selectmen endorsing See America Year in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD:

A PROCLAMATION

Bedford is one of the oldest towns in New England, having been established as early as 1635, and incorporated in 1729. We have standing in different parts of the town many old houses which were built by the settlers of the wilderness just a few years after the founding of Plymouth and Cambridge. All these ancient dwellings are in excellent condition. At least four of them were the original garrison houses maintained as defenses against the Indians in King Phillip's war. The main roads which lead across the town are substantially the same roads which were laid out by the mother towns of Concord and Billerica, and after the incorporation, by the new town of Bedford.

The beautiful Common in the center of town is part of the original common lands given by the Founding Fathers toward the incouragement of the town. The white church on the Common is the ancient meet

ing house built after the style of Asher Benjamin. Surrounding the Common, and making a square, are old homes which date back to over 150 years, maintaining the original architecture inside and out, and proudly kept by their owners. Close by the Common are the Fitch Tavern, where the minutemen of our own town gathered on April 19, 1775, and where the minutemen of Reading, Woburn, Billerica, and other towns met before marching on to the battle at the north

of the first minister of Bedford, built in 1730. This house was to become, in the early days of the Revolution, the gathering place for the minutemen of this area. Still called the Domine Manse, it is much as it was almost 250 years ago.

All along the Great Road, and close by the Common, are interesting and well-kept homes which date back to the day of the stagecoach, the little carriage shops, the first stores, the first post office and library. Several houses have painted or stencilled walls, possibly done by Rufus Porter. Facing the Common is the old town hall, built in 1856, with a curving stairway built after the manner of the Bullfinch churches and halls. The town hall has been remarkably well kept, and although built to house the center school as well as the hall, it still serves the town well as Bedford's administrative building.

The town's proudest possession is the old Bedford flag, carried to Concord on April 19, 1775, by Bedford Minuteman Nathaniel Page, and now the oldest flag in the United States. It is kept in a specially constructed vault in the historical society's wing of the public library. The Bedford flag was almost 100 years old on the day of the Battles of Concord and Lexington, and, strangely enough, it seems better known in the distant parts of the country than in our own New England.

We may not have a battlefield in Bedford, nor the home of a famous general, but we do have a New England town such as other communities are spending millions to reconstruct. In Bedford, we do not need to rebuild or to restore, but to keep the precious colonial town we have.

Now, therefore, we the Board of Selectmen of the Town of Bedford, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do hereby proclaim Bedford's endorsement of See America Year, 1964, and welcome visitors from around the world to Bedford.

ALAN D. MAIER,
Chairman.
CHANDLER H. STEVENS,

WARREN K. LEWELLEN, JOHN F. PERKINS, Jr., NICHOLAS J. GENETTI.

Save Your Vision Week

Clerk.

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HON. FRANK T. BOW

OF OHIO

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wednesday, March 4, 1964

Mr. BOW. Mr. Speaker, by act of Congress, this is national Save Your Vision Week, a period in which Amerihaps our most precious natural asset. cans are urged to protect what is per

Much has been learned about the protection of our vision in recent years, and with reasonable precautions, most Americans can avoid the disaster of losing sight.

13 Years in Post in United States

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HON. WILLIAM S. MOORHEAD

OF PENNSYLVANIA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Wednesday, March 4, 1964

Mr. MOORHEAD. Mr. Speaker, those of us who have had the good fortune of knowing Dr. and Mrs. Jan Herman van Roijen are indeed sorry that they are to soon leave Washington. For 13 years, Dr. Roijen fought for Dutch interests as their Ambassador and he was one of the most respected Washington diplomatic personalities.

Max Frankel of the New York Times interview Dr. van Roijen before he left and the resulting column is one which all of those who have known the Ambassador's warmth and frankness will want to read. I am sure that we who deal in government policy regret his departure and hope that both he and Mrs. van Roijen will not stay away long.

The interesting comments follow: DUTCH ENVOY GETS WARM GOODBY AFTER 13 YEARS IN POST IN THE UNITED STATES (By Max Frankel)

WASHINGTON, March 1.-This capital has been bidding an especially bubbly farewell to Dr. Jan Herman van Roijen, who taught it again that big men come from little countries.

Slight and precise, polite and correct, diplomatically dressed but often undiplomatically frank, Dr. van Roijen has served here for more than 13 years as Ambassador of the Netherlands. He has fought for Dutch interests with the administration of four Presidents, but in each era he has been among the most admired foreign officials here and one of the most respected Washington analysts of any nationality.

His admirers believe they pay him the highest compliment by saying he is a superb diplomat and still an honest man.

Intellectual honesty, more than gregariousness or other cocktail-party talents, is the Ambassador's own standard of excellence. He believes that the diplomat, like any advocate, must recognize and contain the prejudices of his position.

DEALT WITH INDONESIANS

The practice of what he preaches has appeared time and again in his defense of Dutch objectives against Indonesia. Dr. van Roijen was a principal negotiator in paving the way for Indonesian independence and in arranging for the transfer of Netherlands New Guinea to Indonesian control.

Despite these long and exasperating diplomatic bouts, he has retained the confidence of the Indonesian anticolonials. And, although his Government resented U.S. pressure in the New Guinea affair-a pressure that left most of the Dutch with a bitter

taste, he says the Ambassador has understood Washington's self-interest. He has

even conceded that in an American's place, he might have felt the same.

In surveying his years here, he says that America's friends wish that Washington would not preach quite so much to others about freedom, self-determination and morality in general.

Ambassador Van Roijen, who is 58 years old, will leave Tuesday on his way to duty in London. He says he will take with him a great confidence in United States diplomacy. He does not subscribe to the view that Americans are only slowly maturing and learning their responsibilities in the world.

SAYS UNITED STATES HAS BEEN WISE In constitutional and other respects, he points out, the United States is not so young and its performance since World War II has been wise and moderate and usually gen

erous.

Perhaps some of this sympathy is inherited. The Ambassador's mother was Albertina Winthrop, a direct descendant of John Winthrop, one of the early Governors of Masachusetts. His father, also a diplomat, was the Dutch Minister here from 1927 to 1933.

The Van Roijens are selling their 300-acre farm retreat in Warrenton, Va. They have been unable to persuade any of their four children to remain in the United States as hostages to assure a regular parental visit.

But the Ambassador still has a brother living in this country and even without an excuse, he remarks, he would not be able to stay away for long.

The Challenge of Citizenship

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HON. CLARENCE E. KILBURN

OF NEW YORK

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Wednesday, March 4, 1964

Mr. KILBURN. Mr. Speaker, each year the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States conducts a Voice of over Democracy Contest. This year 250,000 high school students participated in the contest competing for the four scholarships that are awarded as the top prize.

The winning contestant from each State is brought to Washington, D.C., for the final judging as guest of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Following is a copy of the winning essay of Miss Jo Anne E. Hubbard, R.D. 1, Pulaski, N.Y., who is a resident of my district. We are all proud of her and I congratulate this outstanding young lady whose essay follows:

THE CHALLENGE OF CITIZENSHIP Through the ages man has conceived many aspirations, hopes, and ideals. He has strived for numerous goals, projects have been commenced and finished, battles have been fought and won. And throughout all this, one intangible quantity remains the most sought after, the most difficult to obtain, the soonest lost. That almost indefinable quantity is freedom.

We, as citizens of the United States, have achieved a state of freedom. But this accomplishment can not be accredited to the present generation of youths. Our ancestors won our liberty in the American Revolution, established our liberty in the Constitution, and have preserved our liberty through the furious War Between the States, and the Great World Wars.

The American youth of today is allowed citizenship in a Government of freedom because his forefathers responded to liberty's cry for help. Today, however, her anguished cry is not as easily heard. The young citizen's ears are plugged by indolence and indifference. He becomes mentally fat and complacent, feeds on the blood and tears of his forefathers, and therefore draws the lifeblood from liberty.

This situation can be cured by the realization that citizenship is a challenge. Though there are no visible traces of smoke and no distant booms of cannon, our liberty is slowly being pierced by the bayonets of hate. Perhaps the cruelest stab was that which pierced through the life of one man and into the heart of every responsible American citizen. As the body of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy lay in state, thousands of Americans slowly passed the coffin. Some knelt in prayer *** many wept *** and the tears were not only for the dead President and his grieving family, but for themselves, and for a nation suddenly aware of its apathy.

The death of President Kennedy was a tragic blow rendered by chance. But the tragedy could become much more hopeless if we as citizens do not learn from the example of President Kennedy's life. He was himself a "profile in courage," a citizen who responded to freedom's challenging cry. He was loved and respected not only in the United States but in democratic nations around the world. He created an image in the mind of the rest of the world representative of every American-an image of youth, lightheartedness, gaiety, but also strength, intelligence, and responsibility.

As the American youth grows older he must maintain the image of our dead President. He must keep the Nation strong and honorable. He must never fail liberty when she calls, no matter how dark the night, or how desolate the corner of the world in which she is threatened. He must make citizenship a new-found challenge, rather than an inherited drudgery. Only then, regardless of where he may be, can he hold his head high and state, "Civis Americanus sum." I am an American citizen.

JOANNE HUBBARD,

R.D. 1, Pulaski, N.Y.

Another Administration Goof

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HON. STEVEN B. DEROUNIAN

OF NEW YORK

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Wednesday, March 4, 1964

Mr. DEROUNIAN. Mr. Speaker, recently we recognized the Communist regime of Zanzibar, after the Zanzibar Government had tossed our representatives out of its country because of our delay in recognizing it. In other words, we were blackjacked. This, in spite of the fact that the new Dictator of that country had just finished murdering several hundred of his former political opponents.

Last Friday's Washington Star had some apt editorial comments on this: ZANZIBAR TIMING

So now we have recognized Zanzibar's revolutionary regime and established diplomatic relations with it. This we have done, along with Britain and several Commonwealth nations, just after having had our representatives kicked out of the place be

People frequently ask, "where do you get your information?" "Where do you get all these facts and figures?" And the answer is simple. Reading material by the bushelful crosses the desk of any editorial writer every day of the week. Reports from all over the world, reams of propaganda, bales of statistices, and bundles of political speeches all find their way to our desk. The job of editorializing is simply one of putting opposing points of view side by side, looking for the prejudiced and the omitted and forming an opinion somewhere in between.

Now, in all of these hundreds upon hundreds of mailing lists, in all of this research material, we believe there are three books which have never received the attention which is properly due them. They are not small books by any means. The largest runs to 1,714 pages and weighs a heftly 5 pounds. The next largest is 1,342 pages in length, and the smallest consists of 551 pages but they are larger pages than either of the others. Certainly these three colorful books would rank high on the best-seller list if they were sold. Instead, they are given away. Free for the asking.

What we are talking about is the big three of the mail order world. The Sears, Wards, and Spiegel catalogs. And, of all the political, business, and labor propaganda which comes by mail, these three are certainly the most interesting.

They are an endless source for browsing on a cold winter evening and from the three you can find things to buy ranging all the way from a 9-cent box of tacks to a $6,500 diamond ring. One of them even offers a choice of 53 breeds of pedigreed puppies all the way up to a Sealyham Terrier or Afghan Hound at a mere $200 each.

But we believe the greatest value of these books has never been realized. Now, even a casual observer must realize that the United States and Soviet Russia are engaged in a contest. It isn't really a race for the moon The or a battle for Olympic gold medals. real race is to see which nation can swap places with the other the fastest.

While the Soviets lean a little toward free enterprise every day, we are rushing pell

mell toward socialism. While the Soviets are acquiring real estate all over the world in the best imperialist fashion, we are working overtime to give ours back. And this is where the three books come in.

As a cold war weapon we believe the Sears, Wards, and Spiegel catalogs would be devastating if they were to be distributed to Russia. They have everything in them that Russia lacks-from seat belts to pony saddles, from hair bows to hats by Lily Dache and Mr. John, from padded brassieres to reducing pills, even fertilizer and farm tools.

Now if the Russians were given a look at these wonderful wish books, we know they would want some of those goodies for themselves. They would either buy like crazy and thus help our dwindling gold supply, or they would try to mimic the society which can produce so much affluence. Socialism would be out, free enterprise would be in, and we might then find that our own liberal, socialist-oriented planners who constantly want to ape the Soviets would have to plug for free enterprise once again in the United States.

We think it's worth a try. Sears alone, prints 10 million of those books and we believe a few million scattered around the Soviets and their satellites would be far more effective than Presidential coloring books. Or even the Voice of America. For these three are the free, enterprising, Voice of

America.

Trouble for Israel

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HON. GEORGE A. GOODLING

OF PENNSYLVANIA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Wednesday, March 4, 1964

Mr. GOODLING. Mr. Speaker, countless numbers today are attempting to promote international amity and good will through our people-to-people programs. Progress is being made, but too slowly. It becomes increasingly difficult for those in this movement to understand a foreign policy that tolerates aid to those nations who brazenly state that they will bury us.

Israel today is in serious trouble. It has repeatedly attempted to negotiate its differences, live at peace and share its scientific and practical knowledge of development with its Arab neighbors.

Arab leaders apparently have no desire for friendly cooperation and give no indication they are interested in improving the lot of the great masses of underprivileged. They do appear intent on preparing for an all-out war on Israel.

In the light of their undisguised hostility toward Israel, the Arabs' pose of neutrality which is contrived to indicate some sort of a broadminded, peacemaking spirit-is a pure sham.

The Arabs stand convicted by their own words: They are not peacemakers, or neutralists; they are opportunists.

The Right To Pray

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HON. STEVEN B. DEROUNIAN

OF NEW YORK

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Wednesday, March 4, 1964

Mr. DEROUNIAN. Mr. Speaker, there are those elements in our country who want to deny the right to pray to the majority of Americans.

One of the bulwarks of our Republic is the belief of the majority in God. It is interesting to note that, contrary to some of our fuzzy-minded appeasers, Communists have ordered a campaign to end religion, as reported in last Monday's Baltimore Sun.

It is, therefore, most refreshing to submit also an editorial by David Lawrence from the U.S. News & World Report of March 2, on the right to pray.

The articles follow:

It outlined an attack that would place atheistic specialists in schools and universities, farm and industrial organizations, party cadres virtually into every waking hour of the Soviet citizen's day.

The program is a followup on a recent session of the ideological section of the party Central Committee, headed by Secretary Leonid F. Ilyichev.

A scientific institute of atheism will be

TROUBLE FOR ISRAEL

Dozens of meetings were staged throughout Algeria this past weekend for the express purpose of stirring up hostility toward Israel.

The Algerian National Assembly said Algeria must give full support to the Palestine Revolutionary Organization which, it added, will spearhead "an armed liberation struggle against Zionist bands."

Recent Arab activity, capped by the blatant Algerian agitation, bodes an even more difficult future for the Israelis and the whole Mideast.

Yet, many of the Mideastern nations belong to the so-called neutralist-pacifist bloc.

cial Sciences, which in turn is a subsidiary of the Central Committee of the party. It will supervise atheistic work, train experts, organize conferences and seminars and build up contacts with foreign atheists.

ATHEISM TO BE STRESSED

Beginning next school year, part of the student body will specialize in atheism at universities and pedagogical higher schools. Chairs of scientific atheism will be created

in universities and high schools, and teachers' refresher schools in Moscow and Kiev will have new atheistic departments.

The industrial and agricultural branches of the Communist Party will organize individual sections of atheist propaganda at every level.

The Young Communist League, trade unions, cultural officials, and others must be involved. The program must attract more scientists, teachers, physicians, writers, journalists, and humanities students, Pravda went on.

COMPETITION IS PLANNED

A competition for the best works on atheist themes in painting, films, literature, and other arts will be organized.

The party even will attempt to organize new types of family celebrations to challenge the ceremony and holiday togetherness associated with religion.

Antireligion will become an essential part of social life not only at party, union, and school functions, but also within the factory itself, on the farm and on construction sites, the newspaper said.

DRIVE IS NOT NEW

The Soviet antireligious drive is not new, but has always been part of Communist dogma. It has periods of slumps and is often renewed with speeches and widespread press agitation.

The campaign described today is an effort to break this cycle of indifference of party and other leaders. Many of them will now have atheistic propaganda as their principal full-time assignment.

Particularly intense activity is common before and during religious holidays. A special antireligious party conference was called in Moslem Tadzhikistan during the recent fast of Ramadan, and the more widespread drive now begun comes just before Christian Easter and Jewish Passover observances.

ISOLATION FROM SOCIETY

The Central Asian Party session in Tadzhikistan was primarily intended to organize agitation against Moslem believers in that area, but evidence that it has had its effect against other sects there was seen in today's Pravda Vostoka, party paper of the Uzbek Republic.

It told of the conviction and "isolation from society" of three Evangelical Christian Baptists. The defendants were described as being influenced by "hardened loafers" who ran an underground headquarters in the Moscow suburbs.

[From the U.S. News & World Report, Mar. 2, 1964]

THE RIGHT TO PRAY

(By David Lawrence)

Plainly, a constitutional amendment has become absolutely necessary to clear up the confusion that has arisen as a result of decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States banning prayer in the public schools.

For the American people do not know now whether their children can lawfully be given in the classroom the very instruction in morality and righteous living which is so essential to the proper upbringing of American youth.

We may today be equivocating if we try to apply the High Court's ambiguous words in its decisions on prayer in the schools. Some interpretations would appear to permit the reading of parts of the Bible as a "historical" or "literary" study. Public-school principals, in various States, have already indicated a desire to experiment with such devices. But how can we be sure whether the "historical" or "literary" does not invade the area of religious teaching?

It is much more sensible to rely on a clearly written constitutional amendment which emphasizes the difference between voluntary and compulsory prayer in the schools or in ceremonies conducted under Government auspices. The provision in the Constitution that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." should be continued but there should

be a clear definition affirmatively stating the basic principles safeguarding "the free exercise" of religion.

Prayers are offered at the opening of sessions of the Senate and the House and of the Supreme Court itself. These are an official part of the proceedings. Under the Court's decisions, is it at present constitutional for any form of religious exercise to be conducted in buildings financed with Government funds?

Each individual has a right to pray. This right does not vanish when the individual participates in a governmentally supported proceeding.

The argument that has influenced the Supreme Court is that any practice of theismto utter prayers expressing a belief in Godis in itself equivalent to "an establishment of religion," and that to let school children express a belief in God as they pray at the beginning of a school day is to make it a Government-directed or Government-sponsored undertaking which is allegedly prohibited by the Constitution.

But there is a distinct difference between volition and compulsion. The atheist has a right to abstain from participation in any prayer, whether or not God is mentioned. He has no right, however, to interpose his beliefs in a manner that forbids others to worship God as they please "the free exercise" of their religion.

It is no answer to the problem to say that the right to pray can be adequately exercised in the home or at church services. For the value of prayer once a week in a church, where the attendance covers all ages and large numbers, is not as great as the everyday impact of prayer on the minds of children of the same age in a small classroom. Here the teacher can promptly supplement the prayer with lessons explaining morality and integrity, thus inculcating in the minds of boys and girls at an impressionable period in their lives a respect for fellow human beings, a respect for honesty as opposed to cheating, a respect for the rights of others as opposed to intolerance and selfishness.

Indeed, how can our youth be trained in those ways of living which will help to prevent juvenile delinquency and crime unless in some way reverence for the Supreme Being is instilled?

The importance of prayer in the schoolroom is primarily that it is strengthened by group psychology and that it is an everyday, rather than a once-a-week, stimulus to better living.

It is being asked: Is there a right to pray during proceedings held in any Government building? If it is constitutional for certain individuals within the Government itself to organize collectively in trade unions-for private purposes-while others refrain from joining, how can it be persuasively argued that there should be no right of individuals to choose to pray collectively in a school provided by local government? Certainly an individual may pray in silence, but the benefit of articulation by the group is then lost. Let the new constitutional amendment make it clear that prayers can be conducted in the classroom on a voluntary basis and that those who do not wish to attend may be excused or temporarily released.

The problem has too long been neglected. Early action is as vital as the "war on poverFor the right of ty" or the war on crime. young and old to pray together voluntarily in any building or facility provided by Government-Federal, State or local-is essential to the fulfillment of the objectives stated in the preamble of the Constitution: To "promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity."

Atomic Industry Leader

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HON. F. BRADFORD MORSE

OF MASSACHUSETTS

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wednesday, March 4, 1964

Mr. MORSE. Mr. Speaker, a Billerica, Mass., firm, the P. F. Avery Corp., is acquiring an increasingly fine reputation for its work in the atomic energy industry.

This highly specialized, technical, and demanding field is one more area in which the skilled personnel of the Massachusetts area are making an important contribution to space age technology.

Recently, the Boston Sunday Herald carried a fine article on the accomplishments of the Avery Corp. and under unanimous consent I include the January 26, 1964, article in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD:

gency conditions. There is enough power in its output (10,000 kilowatts) to supply the needs of a city of 20,000 inhabitants.

When the first atomic-powered electric station was built at Rowe, Mass., the P. F. Avery Corp. was selected to manufacture the instrumention structures.

The atomic-powered U.S.S. Long Beach also has Avery nuclear reactor internals.

The President That Few Really Knew

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HON. BOB WILSON

OF CALIFORNIA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wednesday, March 4, 1964

Mr. BOB WILSON. Mr. Speaker, one of the great men of our time is recovering from a serious illness. Former President Herbert Hoover, now nearly 90, has

A New England firm is winning wide renown in the atomic industry field. Its specialties cover maximum quality control of welding, engineering, precise manufacturing and complete testing operations in such intricate fields as the nuclear, highvacuum, space, and commercial.

This fast-growing organization that is helping to spread New England's fame for superior quality in its services is the P. F. Avery Corp., of Billerica, Mass.

In the nuclear phase of its activities, Avery concentrates on reactors, cores, demineralizers, spent fuel containers, instrumentation, valves, shielding elements, and end pile loops.

In the high-vacuum part of its business, it provides particle accelerators, vacuum vessels and components.

Avery's space specialties cover launching equipment, centrifuge hydraulic catapult and aerospace simulators.

Commercially as in many other areas Avery has also met with considerable success in autoclaves, stills, and towers.

Avery attributes its accomplishments to its careful designing, close control of welding, engineering, manufacturing, and testing operations. The company size permits flexibility and optimum communications.

This firm has 200-ton capacities for: Heavy. machining, precision welding and complex assemblies. Metals welded include carbon, alloy, stainless, aluminum, inconel, titanium, zirconium and beryllium. Avery's

clean

room provides the opportunity for dust-free, temperature and humidity control as required. Nondestructive testing is provided: Magnetic particle, zyglow, dye penetrant, ultrasonic, X-ray, vacuum testing and hydrostatic up to 5,000 pounds per square inch. The Avery Corp. is currently building a number of nuclear spent fuel shipping containers of 100 tons or better. They will be used at the time of refueling for the safe containerizing and shipment of spent fuel to the reprocessing depots and return to the powerplants for completion of the cycle.

One of their recent awards was the order to design, manufacture, and test to the most exacting standards the reactor vessel and pressurizer for the new MH-IA barge mounted nuclear powerplant. This is the first floating electric powerplant that utilizes a nuclear power reactor as its source. It can be towed to any port in the world to provide or augment electrical power for wartime or emer

the American people for his many services to the Nation and to humanity.

Mr. Hoover has survived a bitter depression, which was not of his making, and has met with equanimity the years which followed.

He has constantly grown in stature in the hearts and minds of his countrymen for the way in which he has met adversity and has continued to do his duty to his country and his fellow man.

Mr. Herbert G. Klein, editor of the San Diego Union, in a column about Mr. Hoover, recently pointed out that "it would be an inspiration for America if leaders on both sides of the aisle in Congress took some time and told the world about the real Herbert Hoover." I would recommend to my colleagues that it would be worthwhile indeed to pay tribuate to the living Herbert Hoover instead of waiting to praise a memory.

Mr. Klein's article follows in full:
THE PRESIDENT THAT FEW REALLY KNEW
(By Herbert G. Klein)

In all its history, this Nation has known few men quite like "The Chief."

Few men have been more defamed. And few men have come back to win more affection.

The Chief is a former President, first and foremost. But he also has picked bugs out of potatoes, mined gold in California's Mother Lode country, been acclaimed as an engineer and an author, led missions to conquer famine in Europe, directed a program to effect economy in Government, and served his country in many other unheralded ways.

The Chief, of course, is Herbert Hoover. Americans have known Hoover has a public figure for a half century. But strangely. few Americans know the really human side of the former President.

Hoover's image is of a stuffy man, stiffly wearing an old-fashioned double-breasted suit. A high, stiff collar was his trademark for years.

But when I last saw The Chief a couple years ago, he was seated on a folding chair working at a card table in a small, rough cabin in the redwoods of his beloved Bohemian Grove, north of San Francisco. He was wearing an old sweater, a beatup straw hat and rough shoes.

This was the Hoover who loved the woods and fishing. There is the story told by a close friend of Hoover's, Richard Berlin, the newspaper executive, about the time his grandson was taken fishing with Hoover in Canada. Berlin cautioned the boy that good manners called for Hoover to be called "Mr. President" or perhaps on better acquaintance, "Mr. Hoover."

Berlin introduced the boy and then had to leave the room. He returned to find his grandson calling the 31st President of the United States "The Chief." "We're now close fishing friends," Hoover explained. "I told him friends call me "The Chief." "

At 89, Hoover has lived longer than any former President except John Adams, who died at 90. He has kept active throughout these years.

"Nobody has any right to retire," he says. "You should take some job that will benefit the community, even if you don't get paid for it. Otherwise a person just sits around talking about his pills and his ills. Naturally he talks to the neighbors who will answer with accounts of their pills and ills. I don't go along with that."

Most recently, Hoover has been working on two volumes about past international conferences. He has had plans for a book on the late Senator Robert Taft.

Hoover was the victim of partisan attack during the Depression of the 1930s. But he shows no partisan remorse. His book on a Democrat, "The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson," was a sympathetic biography. He became perhaps a closer friend of former President Truman than of former President Elsenhower, And one of the men whose friendship he enjoyed most was a former political opponent, James Farley. After leaving the White House in 1932, Hoover did not return until Truman called him in 1946 and invited him "home." He was as delighted as a tourist.

"To me Herbert Hoover is one of the most patriotic and unselfish men I have ever met," Farley says. "He was humble and modest to a fault and never had his real image projected to the American people. I always was amazed he showed no bitterness from our political bouts."

"Fishing is a chance to wash one's soul with pure air, with the rush of the brook, or with the shimmer of the sun on the blue water," he wrote. "And it is discipline in the equality of man-for all men are equal before fish.

"Next to prayer, fishing is the most personal relationship of man."

For Presidents he said, fishing "is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility and of human frailty. It is desirable that the President of the United States should be periodically reminded of this fundamental fact that the forces of nature discriminate for no man."

Hoover has 6 grandchildren and 11 greatgrandchildren. He spends more time personally answering letters from children than any other man in his position. And a letter from a youngster gets his serious consideration. One, for example, asked about the chances of a woman becoming President. "As a generalization, the men have not done too good a job of government in the world * and the chances for women are thereby increased," he answered. "With good wishes to you if you are a candidate for President about 30 years hence."

One of Hoover's greatest prides has been the Boys Clubs of America. During more than 25 years as a director, he has seldom missed a meeting. He regards them as a key weapon against delinquency.

Hoover keeps pace with the times. His most recent public appearance was at a luncheon honoring Astronaut Gordon Cooper. In his informal remarks he linked the astronauts with Lewis and Clark, Perry, Lindberg and Byrd. "Each of these men has added pride, strength of spirit and character, a greater learning to our country and has inspired our youth to greater ambition," he said.

I wired him before Christmas and asked if he had any message for the world. He replied:

"Christmas again reminds us of the message of peace and good will brought to mankind nearly 2,000 years ago.

Again he was current.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Wednesday, March 4, 1964

Mrs. SULLIVAN. Mr. Speaker, on January 28, in a supplemental appropriation bill for the current fiscal year for certain activities of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, we included an appropriation of $11,685,000 to inaugurate a new program of grants to colleges and universities and State educational agencies to train teachers in the specialized skills of teaching all categories of America's handicapped children. There are an estimated 5 or 6 million children of school age in this country who are denied the opportunity to learn at their capacity because the specialized

It would be an inspiration for America teaching skills they require are just not

if leaders on both sides of the aisle in Congress took some time and told the world about the real Herbert Hoover. It is a trib

And

Hoover was delighted. Typically, he named it "Cat."

Friends believe Hoover keeps alert because he loves children and fishing. He wrote a wonderful little book about fishing a year or so ago.

The Late Susan Edwards Wagner

SPEECH OF

HON. JACOB H. GILBERT

OF NEW YORK

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Tuesday, March 3, 1964

Mr. GILBERT. Mr. Speaker, the tragic death of Mrs. Robert F. Wagner, wife of the mayor of the city of New York, has brought great sorrow to us. I know that I express the sentiments of the people of the 22d District of New York, my constituents, when I speak these words.

Susan Wagner was dearly loved, not only by the people of New York City, but by countless persons in countries throughout the world. She was noted for her active work in many charitable organizations; she was selfless in her devotion to her duties as the First Lady of New York City; her concern for others was genuine and sincere. As first lady and hostess of Gracie Mansion, her hospitality and innate kindness earned for

available. These include the retarded, the deaf, the crippled and emotionally disturbed, the blind or visually impaired, those with heart disease, epilepsy or other debilitating conditions, children with speech impediments, and so on.

A comprehensive program to help all of these children receive their educational birthright was first proposed to the Congress in a bill I introduced on August 30, 1957, on the last day of the 1st session of the 85th Congress, as H.R. 9591 of that Congress. The text of the bill-the first general bill on this subject-appears at page 1174 of the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD of January 28, 1964, in connection with the appropriation we passed that day to bring this idea to fruition. The background of this legislation-how I came to introduce the bill and how it was drafted and the facts on which it was based-was presented by me in a 20-page report in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD on the same day I introduced the original bill, August 30, 1957.

HEW ANNOUNCES PROCEDURES FOR OBTAINING GRANTS

I am delighted, Mr. Speaker, to call to the attention of the Congress at this time the announcement of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare of the procedures which are being established to award the grants for the coming school year under the funds we have just appro