Whereas it appears that these persons should be counted at their place of voting residence in order to fairly apportion leg

islatures and Members of Congress, and to

insure fairness in allocation of Federal

funds: Now therefore, be it

Resolved by the house (the senate concurring), That we request the Congress of the United States to give serious consideration to enactment of a statute to insure that persons are counted at their voting residence in the forthcoming U.S. Census; be it further

Resolved, That the chief clerk of the house of representatives be instructed to forward a copy of this resolution to the Iowa Members of the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States and to the Secretary of Commerce of the United States. WILLIAM R. KENDRICK,

Chief Clerk of the House. ROBERT W. NADEN,

Speaker of the House.

Dr. Nils P. Larsen

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HON. THOMAS P. GILL

OF HAWAII

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Monday, March 23, 1964

Mr. GILL. Mr. Speaker, our island State has just recently lost a citizen who,, for many a year, gave his full measure to our citizens. Dr. Nils P. Larsen dedicated an active and complete life to the many facets of health care in Hawaii. He was interested not only in the medical aspects of health but the social as well. There are many citizens who would not have been with us today but for Dr. Larsen's major accomplishments in preventing infant mortality. All of us in Hawaii are richer for Dr. Larsen's presence and wide-ranging interest in the welfare of our people.

It is with pleasure, as well as sadness for our loss, that I ask the inclusion in the RECORD of the March 21, 1964, Honolulu Advertiser editorial on Dr. Nils P. Larsen:

DR. NILS P. LARSEN

The citation said he deserved the Silver Star for gallantry in action for "directing the evacuation of wounded from the frontline trenches under a heavy concentration of machinegun and artillery fire, constantly exposing himself to such fire with utter disregard for his own safety."

"Five of his seven litter bearers being killed or wounded," it said, "he crawled well forward of the front elements of the 106th Infantry and, finding a wounded soldier who had lain in an exposed position for 36 hours, he carried him upon his back to safety; afterward searching the shell holes in front of the lines until all the wounded or killed of his regiment had been found."

"His undaunted bravery and devotion to his comrades inspired other men of the regiment to volunteer to aid him in this work."

All that was long ago, September 29, 1918, near Ronsey, France. Four years later Dr. Nils P. Larsen arrived in Hawaii to begin a career of unparalleled public service which continued virtually uninterrupted until his death Thursday at age 73.

He died in Queen's Hospital where for 20 of his 40 years here he had labored as medical director and pathologist and from which command post he waged a constant battle for better health and better medicine in Hawaii.

The words of the citation setting forth his heroism in France could as well apply to his years in the islands. He was ever forward

of the front elements, ever bold and daunt

less, and ever devoted to his comrades, the people of Hawaii.

One of his major achievements, of course, was the elevation of medicine and health on the sugar plantations. On this, the Advertiser commented in 1942 when he retired from Queen's:

"His crusade for improved sanitation, adequate nutrition, proper housing, and better living conditions on our great sugar plantations has helped place these in the forefront, with the lowest incidence of disease and mortality among American industries." But there was more, much more. He started a school for nurses at Queen's. He established an occupational therapy service. He opened a weekly clinic which attracted national notice. He launched a clean milk campaign which reduced the infant mortality rate.

For a dollar a year he lectured on social hygiene at McKinley High School. He became an expert a scholar in the true senseon the medicine of the ancient Hawaiians. He was an advocate of honest surgery, a stern foe of what he deemed too ready a tendency of some medical men to resort to surgery. He was early, one of the loud voices warning that too much fat in the diet could produce heart disease.

But medicine was only part of the world of this man with the questing, eager mind.

He was a traveler and a writer and a lecturer and a color photographer of stature. National magazines published his articles. His color photos hung in major exhibits on the mainland. He was himself an etcher.

He was a delegate to the Hawaii ConstituAnd there was a political side to his life. tional Convention of 1950. And he firmly believed that the world's salvation lay in some form of world federation.

"The only feasible way to stop worldwide chaos is through the federalist movement,"

he said in 1948. It will mean giving up some sovereignty, giving up the right to murder

our next-door neighbor.

He had a flair for the dramatic. Once he helped compose a pageant celebrating the history of old Hawaiian medicine. And another time, with doctors from many lands present for a Pan Pacific Surgical Conference, he dressed up as an ancient kahuna to rededicate a restored healing heiau.

His life was rich in honors. Cornell gave him her fourth annual Alumni Achievement Award in 1952 for his many contributions to health in Hawaii. The Kings of Cambodia and his native Sweden decorated him. California's medical school gave him its coveted Gold-Beaded Cane Award for community service. The Industrial Medical Association gave him its William S. Knudsen Award. The University of Massachusetts gave him an honorary doctor of science degree.

Hawaii gave him love and respect, which he earned as much as any man who ever trod these shores.

He is gone and he is irreplaceable. But Hawaii is an immeasurably better place for his having been here.

Keep the Fed Independent

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HON. CLARENCE E. KILBURN

OF NEW YORK

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Monday, March 23, 1964

Mr. KILBURN. Mr. Speaker, I include an editorial from the Washington

Daily News of Friday, March 20, 1964, commenting on the Federal Reserve bills introduced by the gentleman from Texas [Mr. PATMAN]. I thought the Members would be interested in reading it:

KEEP THE FED INDEPENDENT

Congress should reject efforts-now centered in a House Banking Subcommittee drastically to alter the Federal Reserve System and end its present independence and freedom from politics. In the 50 years of its existence, the Fed has proved a valuable and indispensable agency through which the Nation's monetary policies are determined and

administered.

The Fed's freedom to operate apart from "day-to-day pressures," as Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon put it, is particularly important today.

In the coming months, the Nation will be testing a novel economic theory put into law by the Kennedy-Johnson administrations. The theory calls for tax cuts in the midst of prosperity and budget deficits, and it puts the country up aaginst inflationary pressures once more. The Federal Reserve must remain free to act, if necessary, to thwart those pressures through stricter monetary policies.

Similar Fed actions in the past have not always been politically popular. They would be even less politically palatable in the months ahead. But by and large the Fed has acted for the national good; its decisions have checked inflation or encouraged expansion at home and stemmed, to some degree at least, loss of dollars and gold abroad.

Fifty years of experience shows without a doubt that the United States needs, and must demand, independence, and courage in monetary affairs. Congress must insure the Nation that such policy will be continued.

Mellowing Atheism

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HON. FRANK J. BECKER

OF NEW YORK

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Monday, March 23, 1964

Mr. BECKER. Mr. Speaker, being somewhat concerned with the Supreme Court decisions barring prayer and reading of the Scriptures in our public schools, I thought an article entitled "Mellowing Atheism" by Robert Morris which appeared in "The Wanderer" on March 12, 1964, was worthy of the attention of readers all over our land.

I am, therefore, inserting "Mellowing Atheism" in the RECORD, as follows: MELLOWING ATHEISM

(By Robert Morris)

An official Moscow announcement tells us of the new Communist campaign to eradicate religion from Soviet life. Pravda announces that atheist action groups are to be set up in all cities and towns to press for the elimination of all vestiges of religion.

This is another manifestation of the "mellowing" image of the Soviet Union which our policy planners are foisting upon us. While the Soviet Union establishes an Institute of Scientific Atheism under the Academy of Social Sciences, to implement this drive, the effective policymolding influences in the United States continue to assume that Khrushchev's forces are undergoing an "evolutionary" change in direction.

By way of meeting this wholly fanciful evolution, our Supreme Court, which re

flects the "world community" goal of our planners, is secularizing our own society as vigorously as our mores will permit.

Our Declaration of Independence correctly sets forth that we derive our authority as a nation from the "laws of nature and nature's God" and that all men are "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights." Yet the judges of our highest tribunal hold that government must be neutral between atheism and religion. With

this newly discovered premise, they then proceed to hold for the atheist in every one of the school prayer and related cases.

As a result, the wholesome influence on our society of the recitation of a simple nondenominational prayer or Bible reading by schoolchildren is now being denied us. The obvious result of what these judges have wrought will be the establishment of atheism as the state religión.

Our Chief Justice, who generally runs ahead of the other policymoulders, has dramatized this trend by telling Congressmen who were framing legislation to inscribe "in God we trust" over the Supreme Court Building facade, that such an inscription would mar the symmetry of his Court.

Thus, the new world being shaped for us falls into perspective. The trend is everywhere apparent and particularly in Soviet target areas. This week we saw the domination of U Thant and his top assistant, U.N. Under Secretary General Vladimir Suslov, the tough Soviet czar of the Division of Security Council and Political Affairs, extended into the Mediterranean. The news, as I write this, is that the U.N. Security Council has introduced a resolution empowering U Thant, and not the Security Council, to establish a peacekeeping force in Cyprus.

This, of course, is the domain of atheist Suslov, former assistant to atheist Andrei Gromyko, the Soviet Foreign Minister who performed the eyeball-to-eyeball lie at the time of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.

A fatuous footnote appears on the news story reporting this U.N. action: It says that the Soviet Union might veto the resolution. I await only a statement from Adlai Stevenson saying that the Cyprus solution is a victory for patience and firmness.

Results of Legislative Questionnaire

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HON. W. E. (BILL) BROCK

OF TENNESSEE

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Monday, March 23, 1964

Mr. BROCK. Mr. Speaker, I feel it is most important to our democratic Government that the American people have ample opportunity to fully express their views on important issues before the Congress. This is a complex and fast changing era in which we live, and it is sometimes difficult for individuals to feel a part of their Government.

By use of a legislative questionnaire I recently sought the opinion of citizens in my district on major issues. I believe effective representation in Congress depends on carefully studying pending legislation and knowing the effect such measures will have on the Nation, State, district, and individual citizen. By making their voices heard through the opinion survey, each citizen can become a participant in our governmental process.

Questionnaires were mailed to ap

Ray Livingstone Elected President of Welfare Federation of Cleveland

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HON. MICHAEL A. FEIGHAN

OF OHIO

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, March 19, 1964

Mr. FEIGHAN. Mr. Speaker, the Welfare Federation of Cleveland has been serving the needs and interests of the people of Greater Cleveland for the past 50 years. It serves to bring together in common cause more than 200 service organizations for community planning in the fields of health, welfare, and recreation. The federation has pioneered in efforts to bring about a voluntary coordination of organized community resources to meet the human needs of the great community it serves. This work has been widely recognized and acclaimed. Many other cities and communities of our Nation have benefited from the trailblazing efforts of the Welfare Federation of Cleveland.

The federation has elected Raymond S. Livingstone, a leader in Cleveland business and civic life, as its new president. I have known Mr. Livingstone for many years and have long admired his work as a dedicated and highly respected worker for the common good of the community he serves.

I include in my remarks a very interesting article about Mr. Livingstone and the other officers elected to lead the work of the federation:

RAY LIVINGSTONE ELECTED PRESIDENT OF FEDERATION Raymond S. Livingstone, vice president of Thompson-Ramo-Wooldridge, Inc., is the

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new president of the Welfare Federation of Cleveland, 20th in a line of illustrious Clevelanders who have held this top community welfare post in the last 50 years.

Mr. Livingstone, 57, who had been federation vice president the last 2 years, was elected president at the monthly meeting of the board of trustees at Halle Bros. Co. lounge, February 7, succeeding Fred M. Hauserman, president of the E. F. Hauserman Co., who had served two terms.

Elected new vice presidents are Mrs. Gilbert W. Humphrey and William D. Ginn. Mrs. Humphrey, who had been serving on the federation executive committee, has been active in health and welfare agencies since 1942, following the tradition of her late mother, Mrs. R. Livingston Ireland, who served as vice president of the federation from 1949 to 1951.

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Mrs. Humphrey is president of the Visiting Nurse Association, president of the Northern Ohio Opera Association and past chairman of the welfare federation's children's council.

Mr. Ginn, a partner in the law firm of Thompson, Hine & Flory, also had been on the federation executive committee and in addition is the new chairman of the federation's committee on older persons.

L. T. Pendleton, Ohio Bell Telephone Co. vice president, was reelected treasurer of the federation, and W. T. McCullough was named to his sixth term as executive director.

Others elected to the executive committee, in addition to the officers, are Mrs. Clark E. Bruner, Dr. Middleton H. Lambright, Jr., who is president-elect of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine; Msgr. F. B. Mohan, director of Catholic Charities Bureau; Kenneth J. Sims, mayor of Euclid, and Bruce Whidden, vice president of Central National Bank. Mr. Hauserman and Edward H. deConingh, partner in Mueller Electric Co., who also is a former federation president, continue as exofficio members of the executive committee by reason of their continuing membership on the board of trustees.

LEADER IN CIVIC AFFAIRS

The new president, Ray Livingstone, has been a leader in business and civic affairs, both in Cleveland and nationally, for more than 20 years. Born in Pittsburgh, he was brought to Cleveland by his parents at the age of 2 and has lived here ever since. He is a graduate of Cleveland Heights High School and an alumnus of Case Institute of Technology, class of 1928.

He has been associated with ThompsonRamo-Wooldridge and its predecessor company, Thompson Products, for 35 years. In 1943 he was named the company's first personnel manager and has directed its personnel and human relations activities in the 30year span since then. He was made a company vice president in 1942.

Mr. Livingstone has held top posts in industrial relations councils of the National Association of Manufacturers, the American Management Association, and the National Industrial Conference Board, and has just retired as chairman of the Aerospace Industries Industrial Relations Committee. He is currently a vice president of Associated Industries of Cleveland and is a trustee of the American Enterprise Institute.

HEADED COMMUNITY CHEST

He has been a leader in community health and welfare activities since 1941, having served as president of the Community Chest in 1958 and 1959 and as chairman of the chest's division A and as campaign chairman. He also has been chairman of the industrial division of the joint hospital fund campaign, vice president of Euclid-Glenville Hospital board and chairman of the hospital's fundraising campaign, chairman of the YMCA's personnel committee, a member of the boards of the Boy Scouts, the AntiTuberculosis League and the Citizens League and vice chairman of the Cuyahoga County Mental Hospital Commission. He was a founder of the Welfare Federation's Occupational Planning Committee, is chairman of the Development Committee of the Natural Science Museum, and serves on the

boards of the Cleveland Zoological Society,

and of Bluecoats, Inc.

Always active in behalf of his alma mater, Case Tech, he served two terms as president of the Case Alumni Association and has played a leading role in the Case development program. He holds an honorary doctor's degree in engineering and two citations from Case, and also was given the Community Chest's Distinguished Service Award.

Mr. Livingstone is a Scottish Rite Mason, member of the Shrine, and has been nominated for the 33d degree.

With his wife, Sylvia, he lives at 14 Lyman Circle, Shaker Heights. The two Livingstone children are Raymond S., Junior, a certified public accountant now attending Harvard Graduate School of Business, and Barbara Anne, a language teacher in a New York City high school.

Clark County has done an exceedingly fine job in its recreation program. In fact, probably the outstanding job for a rural county in my State.

I am sure that other Members will be as interested as I was to learn of the Clark County details as presented by Mr. Teter in this extremely thoughtful and able address:

COUNTY RECREATION FOR FAMILY USE

The counties of Washington State take great pride in the traditional services provided their residents: property appraisal, tax assessment, document recording, courts, law enforcement, and other basic governmetnal services. The development and operation of recreation facilities is a relatively new responsibility of county government. While a 1937 statute first authorized counties in the State of Washington to acquire camping, scenic view, and recreation park sites; it was not until 1949 (ch. 36.68 RCW) that counties were authorized to acquire, improve and maintain park and plagyround systems for public recreation purposes and to establish county public recreation programs. The policy decisions that county administrators are making, or not making, at this time will largely determine how we meet our responsibility toward recreation.

The county which I represent, Clark County, named after a famous American explorer, proudly boasts as being the cradle of northwest civilization, the first city in the Northwest, the first school, the first sermon ever preached and probably the first public park.

In this same pioneering spirit we have accepted the challenge of our new responsibility to promote county recreation for family use. Our county administration concurs with the National Park Service philosophy that, "Recreation is the pleasurable

and constructive use of leisure time. It is a physical and mental need, a necessary relaxation and release from strain. Recreation may be physical, intellectual, emotional, or esthetic; it may be active or passive; it may be engaged in virtually anywhere and at any time; it is individual, personal, spontaneous, and involves freedom of choice. Since that which benefits the individual benefits society, recreation becomes a concern of society."

In accepting the challenge of this new responsibility with more than lipservice, we've embarked on an aggressive program for the acquisition of land. The generally accepted standard for recreation facilities, promoted for example by the National Recreation Association for many years, has been 1 acre for every 100 people, but a number of the park and recreation people are now saying this is too low. In Clark County, we are striving for a ratio of 1 acre for every 75 people. This parklands inventory standard must consider projected population growth. In the past year alone, we've increased our park acreage to more than 300 percent of our 1962 ownership.

In more than a century of government from 1844 to 1963 Clark County provided fewer than 270 acres for parks. These were provided since 1935, and the 1937 authority for parks. They consist of 244 acres of natural scenic beauty, situated on both sides of the clear and shaded east fork of the Lewis River. This park is located in the approximate center of the county and about 3 miles from a historically significant community known as Battle Ground.

About 10 years ago we developed a neighborhood park for one of our rapidly growing urban communities known as Hazel Dell. This park contains 20 acres of rolling, wooded land with picnic grounds and a ballfield. More recently, the county received a gift of 5 acres on the shore of the mighty Columbia River. This beautiful waterfront property will be developed as a beach park for family use, with picnic and swimming facilities.

During 1963 Clark County acquired an additional 460 acres of recreation land for its rapidly expanding park system. There hundred acres of this acquisition are in one extensive natural area that was a gift from the Crown Zellerbach Corp. It has a mile of shoreline on a serene mountain lake where we have prohibited the operation of motorboats. There are rugged hill and canyon trails that challenge the mountaineer, and gentle meandering paths for those who wish to enjoy the peaceful natural beauty of stream and meadow. This park also has ample ground for individual picnic areas, ballfields, and other family recreational uses.

We are also developing a motorboat launching ramp on the Columbia River. A county

road that meets the river at a historic steamboat landing will provide the property that we need. The other major addition is 160 acres of waterfront park that we purchased from the U.S. Government. The park is on Yale Lake, a very popular boating and fishing lake that has more than 7 square miles of water surface. This park is completely oriented to recreation associated with boating: it has no public access from the land side. It will be developed specifically for our boaters. We plan to construct a moorage, rest rooms, and picnic tables. We will also provide a drinking water system.

Of special significance in the promotion of facilities for family use, our board of county commissioners recently enacted subdivision regulations which emphasize by policy statement that in each new subdivision there should be provision for playground areas or a cash gift for park and playground purposes.

This aggressive program for acquiring park property and planned recreation development, as well as an effort to preserve open space, has been dictated by our rapid growth and the prospect of an ever greater population.

Our population has doubled since 1940 and will double again by 1980. The population growth projection for Clark County is not guessswork or fortunetelling. It is the result of applying the latest scientific tools and techniques of planning. This new process of planning is as different as the scientist in crystalography being unlike the soothsayer in crystal gazing.

As responsible public officials we recognize the need for acquiring land for public purposes now, in advance of need. We have seen our sleepy urban area suddenly awake to the startling fact that the land was covered with housing and the people had few parks, playgrounds, or open spaces for "pleasurable and constructive use of leisure time." The population growth of Clark County's principal city, Vancouver, in common with population centers throughout the Nation, has caused the urban use of land to spill beyond the corporate limits of the city. Much of this growth is destined to eventually be annexed to the city, but some of this suburbia is, by design, intended to remain aloof from the city. This aloof group consists of ronial" estates of a "junior acre" to escape city people who have moved on the "Bavarious features of city living. They continue to want and use city services, but refuse to be a part of the corporate body. This segment of suburbia could be identified as "snoburbia."

The social, cultural, and economic ties of these residents of snoburbia generally lie in the city from whence they have fled. They are not true rural residents in the historic They are "suburban delinquents" (those failing to assume their obligations and responsibilities), living in self-imposed exile from city life.

sense.

However, the snoburbanite and suburbanite each use the city's recreation program. This has resulted in the city government asking our county government for an annual cash contribution to pay for recreation

services furnished to the noncity resident. The organized and supervised game and craft programs promoted for the city resident are frequently not suitable recreation for a rural family. Residents of both urban and rural county enjoy our parks and open space, whereas the city recreation programs often conflict with the harvestng of crops and other activities that engage the truly rural family. If we should finance a supervised recreation program, our county would not have the necessary money to acquire and develop land for family recreation use now, nor could we set aside the land that will be desperately needed in the foreseeable future. For these reasons our county administration has refused to make an allocation of funds to the city recreation program.

Clark County's recreation policy is to use its money to correct one of the worst consequences of uncontrolled urban sprawlthe disappearance of open space. We are

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pursuing an aggressive program of acquiring and preserving future recreation lands. Our operating park system is designed for family use by the people who typically neither need nor want the organized recreation program as offered in city parks. Our primary emphasis is on the creative aspect of recreation. By providing the land with essential facilities, the inherent ingenuity of American families will create the recreation, physical, intellectual, emotional, or esthetic, as the individual family demands. This approach to the problem of meeting the need for parks, playgrounds, and open space is doing the job. Our recreation dollar is serving today's wants and providing for tomorrow's needs.

A program of county recreation for family use enhances our environment and provides a foundation for future development of all aspects of recreation, both rural and urban, and at a price we can pay.

the essence of international trade. And this is a fundamental reason why more than half the U.S. output of wheat, two-fifths of its soybeans and tallow (an important beef byproduct) and significant portions of its feed grains, poultry, and other commodities go to foreign customers.

U.S. industry, too, has reached the point that it can outproduce the needs of this country alone. Workers manufacturing products for foreign sale are good customers for Nebraska beef and other foodstuffs.

Significantly, Australia, the chief target of the cattlemen's anti-import campaign, spends $100 million more each year to buy U.S. goods than we pay for its products.

It is true that as foreign countries develop their productive capacities, and are able for a time to use cheap labor, they will be tough competitors in certain fields. But it also is true that as this takes place, the demand for a better diet and more consumer goods will rise in those countries, too.

As long as the United States can keep its wage rates and its corporate profit levels from rising faster than its increase in productivity, this country has nothing to fear from foreign competiton.

To assume that Amercan farmers and manufacturers cannot hold their own with competitors around the world is disturbingly fainthearted. To suggest that American agriculture can profit by shutting off foreign trade is dismally shortsighted.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Monday, March 23, 1964

Mr. ROSENTHAL. Mr. Speaker, the welfare of both consumers and the producers of food is closely tied to an equitable foreign trade policy. In many instances the recent opposition to imports of beef has been marked with more emotion than reason, and some of the remedial actions proposed offer more problems than solutions. Consequently, it is refreshing to find a newspaper in the heart of the American cattle country that gives its readers a complete picture of imports and exports of farm products. I believe the editorial from the March 13, 1964, edition of the Lincoln (Nebr.) Evening Journal and Nebraska State Journal will be of general interest.

The editorial follows:

AGRICULTURE AND FREE TRADE

It is one thing, and quite understandable, for hard-pressed stockmen to rise up in wrath against the specific problem of greatly increased beef imports.

But it is another thing, and totally unJustifiable, for certain interests to attempt to translate this indignation into all-out attack on international commerce and the current move toward freer trade.

Such a distortion of the present beef crisis has begun. The Omaha daily press now sees the cattle problem as a part of a broader crisis brought about by the policy of undiscriminating free trade. The solution offered is to man the parapets against foreign trade, cower behind our oceanic moat

and live in economic isolation.

This medieval idea is the surest possible route to destruction of the bountiful standard of living this country has achieved. And agriculture would take the full brunt of such a disaster.

For about 20 percent of all U.S. farm production today is exported-the output from 1 of every 5 acres harvested in this country. The U.S. Department of Agriculture figures that exports provide 1 million farm jobs

over the Nation.

True, the United States imports farm products $4 billion worth last year, most of it coffee, tea, rubber, and products not grown in this country. But the United States exported $5.6 billion worth of farm goods in 1963.

This was a mighty plus in this country's balance-of-payments battle. Without agriculture's trade with other nations the U.S. than it is. Farm products today account for outflow of gold would be far more critical $1 of every $4 of U.S. exports.

The reason for all this is obvious to anyone willing to look about him. The productive ability of U.S. farmers has far outstripped the demands of this Nation. This ability also enables most food and fiber to be produced in this country at lower costs than in many parts of the world.

of it hungry, can use these products. But in A rapidly growing world population, much order to buy them, they must be able, in turn, to sell something. This, of course, is

Unfortunate Vote on Aid-A Plea for the Passage of the IDA Bill

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HON. HENRY S. REUSS

OF WISCONSIN

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wednesday, February 26, 1964

Mr. REUSS. Mr. Speaker, the Milwaukee Journal has recently published an editorial deploring the House's action in recommitting the International Development Association bill. I hope Members will take note of the cogency of the Journal's plea that the House reconsider its action and pass the bill. The editorial follows:

UNFORTUNATE VOTE ON AID

The House of Representatives has taken an action that could all but wreck one of the most hopeful developments in foreign aid. It has refused by 208 to 188 to approve the U.S. contribution to the Interna

tional Development Association (IDA).

The Senate previously approved the bill but the House has now sent it back to com

mittee, where, unless presidential pressure strong enough to revive it is exerted, it will die.

There have long been complaints that foreign aid involved too many gifts instead of loans, that we carried too much of the load without help from our allies, that projects were too often approved without full study, that aid for sometimes politically oriented and that there was not adequate check on how projects were carried out.

Under the IDA program, started in 1960 European allies were brought into the joint aid program. The IDA is known as the "soft loan" arm of the World Bank, and from the start was very popular.

The bill the House shelved would have given U.S. support to a $750 million program of loans to needy nations. This country would have put up $312 million and 16 other nations the rest.

Apparently the timing in the House was unfortunate. The measure was greeted as another aid bill coming too quickly on the heels of the regular foreign aid measure. However, timing could not be helped because the nations supporting IDA had set a March 1 deadline-and if the United States had not agreed to provide its agreed share by that time the program could die. Representative REUSS, Democrat, of Wisconsin, floor manager of the bill, saw the proposal go down before Republican and Southern Democratic votes.

IDA has been a workable and sound phase of the aid program. President Johnson should intervene to reason and get the House to reconsider its abrupt and unfortunate action.

The Genocide Convention

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when the Auschwitz killers are on trial, the United States permitted the Genocide Convention to fade into oblivion.

Accent on Absurdity

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HON. LESLIE C. ARENDS

OF ILLINOIS

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Monday, March 23, 1964

Mr. ARENDS. Mr. Speaker, an editorial entitled "Accent on Absurdity," which appeared in the Wall Street Journal on Friday, March 6, relative to the Federal farm program, merits thoughtful reading.

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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Monday, March 23, 1964

Mr. ROSENTHAL. Mr. Speaker, under leave to extend my remarks in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, I would like to include at this point an editorial which appeared in the New York Times of March 21, entitled "The Genocide Convention."

Ratification of the Genocide Convention should be given the prompt and serious consideration of the U.S. Senate, and I urge my colleagues to give the matter the attention it warrants:

THE GENOCIDE CONVENTION

At a moment in history when the horrors of Nazi exterminations are again before the bar of West German and world opinion, the United Nations convention outlawing genocide should be in the forefront of national and international policy in many lands. Yet a number of countries, including ours, have failed to ratify it.

The convention was drafted in 1948, largely with U.S. encouragement. It recognized that "at all periods of history genocide has inflicted great losses on humanity." It declared that genocide-murder with intent to destroy a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; forcibly transferring children of the group to another group is a crime in international law.

Early this year Senator SCOTT, of Pennsylvania, and nine other Senators urged the President to support their effort to have the United States ratify the Genocide Convention. The legislators received an equivocal reply from an Assistant Secretary of State, who declared, in general terms, that "it is the intention of the administration to ratify" upon receiving "the advice and consent of the Senate." That put matters back where they were without a strong White House endorsement.

Since the Convention was drafted, no real drive has been put behind it. Senator FULBRIGHT has said that the situation in the Senate has not yet developed to the point where a two-thirds vote is likely.

The Genocide Convention deserves approval. It does not take away any sovereignty; it does advance the principles of the United Nations and the United States. Most of all, it is a moral commitment to international decency on a matter that has immediacy for many peoples around the world. It would be a bitter irony if in 1964,

bill through Congress, we should, to say the least, "stop, look, and listen" that we may be aware of the danger ahead. The editorial follows:

ACCENT ON ABSURDITY

With the Federal farm program sinking to new depths of foolishness, farmers may be nearing the day when they'll need protection against their would-be political friends.

The program's increasing accent on absurdity is especially evident in the wheatcotton bill now wending its way through Congress. Seldom has any legislation seemed so well contrived to create costly confusion.

Take the wheat provisions of the bill. A year ago the wheat farmers rejected an administration plan for the tightest Federal regimentation ever, accompanied by a vast increase in the red tape of regulation. Farmers then began holding down their planting, preparing for the first time in decades for something vaguely like a free market.

But the farmers' friends in Washington were unwilling to let that come about. Their solution? Just push though the same program but label it voluntary instead of compulsory.

In addition to a basic support price, each farmer who cut his acreage by 10 percent or so would get "certificates" to cover an export quota and also a domestic sales quota. If he sold his wheat to a domestic processor, the processor would have to buy the certificates from the farmer. If he instead sold the grain to an exporter, the exporter would have to buy his certificates.

Any farmer could participate or not, as he chose. If he decided to stay out, he would have several choices. He could let his wheat stand in the field or rot in storage, or he could treat it as low-price animal feed. For the usual sales channels would be closed to him.

The reason is that the program would compel processors and exporters to participate; they would have to buy certificates to cover the wheat they purchased. By now most farmers, processors, and exporters must question the claim that the program would be "voluntary."

That claim is no more convincing than the argument that the wheat program would save the taxpayers a lot of money. The theory is that processors and exporters, through their purchases of certificates, would assume part of the cost of supporting wheat prices. In reality, the processors would pass along the cost of the certificates to consumers in the prices of their products. And in case the politicians have forgotten, consumers and taxpayers are pretty much the same people.

In cotton, the situation is no less silly. First, Federal supports priced cotton out of

world markets, so the U.S. Government began subsidizing exporters. But this made it possible for foreign textile mills to buy U.S. cotton and still undersell American textile mills right in their own backyard. So the Government now proposes yet another subsidy to aid the U.S. mills. If two wrongs did not make a right, it's hard to see how a third will help matters much.

For the cottongrower, too, things would become more confusing. If he agreed to cut his acreage he would get one support price. If he planted his present acres, he would get a lower support. And if he wanted to grow cotton for sales at the lower world market

price, he could increase his acreage by around 10 percent.

One of the more ridiculous aspects of all this is that, like the rest of the farm program, it chiefly helps those the politicians are least interested in helping. It ought

to be clear that the larger, more efficient farmers, with their lower costs, are the ones who benefit most from the high product prices the programs are intended to bring. The less efficient but politically popular "family farmer" still has a hard time of it— but the politicians' promises encourage him to hang on.

Some in Congress, nonetheless, presumably view the cotton-wheat bill as a powerful magnet for votes in an election year. But there is a growing number of urban voters, too. One man aware of this is Senator HARRISON WILLIAMS, who urged the other day that Congress "end once and for all the fantastic and costly surpluses bulging in Government warehouses." Mr. WILLIAMS is a liberal's liberal, but he's also a representative of largely urban New Jersey.

If such pressures grow great enough and the farm program continues to plumb new depths of nonsense, the farmers one day may face not an orderly transition to a free market but a wrathful explosion.

A Letter From a Beef Producer

EXTENSION OF REMARKS

OF

HON. RALPH F. BEERMANN

OF NEBRASKA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Monday, March 23, 1964

Mr. BEERMANN. Mr. Speaker, by way of continuing interest in the present cattle crisis, and to provide a dramatic example of the disastrous effect foreign beef is having upon farmers, I want to introduce a letter written by a farmer who has been through the wringer.

The letter explains the farmer-feeder's position in the meat-producing chain, what it cost to produce beef, and the extent of one loss in this crisis.

It is my belief that once some of my colleagues who represent metropolitan centers, realize the actual amount of dollars and cents wrapped up in cattle feeding and also the speed in which a farmerfeeder can lose a lifetime of earnings, they might be more favorably inclined to act with dispatch on pending beef import limiting legislation.

Therefore, by unanimous consent to extend my remarks and include extraneous matter in the Appendix of the RECORD today I offer the following letter:

DEAR CONGRESSMAN BEERMANN: I see where Congressmen have asked a 50-percent reduction in imports. We sure need something done. I will show you the facts of