rates would attract individuals into saving more and spending less and this too would dampen the boom.

The Federal Reserve doesn't want to risk aborting the upturn by stepping heavily on the credit brakes and the administration certainly doesn't relish this. But the central bank will act promptly if price and wage increases move out of the reasonable range.

As Reserve Board Chairman William McC. Martin has often put it. "We are always in the position of a chaperone who takes away the punch when the party is getting going." Today the chaperone is intently watching the U.S. economy's "party"-and if we don't behave with restraint, our punch (easy credit) will be taken away from us.

Zanzibar II-An African Cuba

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OF

HON. BOB WILSON

OF CALIFORNIA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Tuesday, April 7, 1964

Mr. BOB WILSON. Mr. Speaker, under leave to extend my remarks in the RECORD, I include the following:

ZANZIBAR II-AN AFRICAN CUBA
(By C. L. Sulzberger)

DAR ES SALAAM, TANGANYIKA.—Zanzibar is to Africa as Cuba is to Latin America-a magnificent staging point for revolution. And, as in Cuba, the United States muffed more than one chance to nip a malevolent growth in the bud. Our island policies are rarely brilliant.

Like Cuba, Zanzibar now turns steadily eastward for inspiration. Washington prays that President Karume, a stubborn if not impressively intelligent man, will emulate such nonalined leaders as Tanganyika's Nyerere. But Karume is almost surely Zanzibar's Kerensky.

The real fight will probably come between his pro-Russian and pro-Chinese counselors, and the latter, headed by the acute AfroArab halfcaste, Babu, are likely to triumph. Babu, who is in China's pay, could conceivably be handicapped by Arab blood in a fiercely Negro-conscious atmosphere. But he controls the secret police and is playing the Chinese line with all its racist innuendoes. Zanzibar's revolution commendably seeks to hoist living standards. Nevertheless, Babu says: "After a revolution the public expects one to take extreme measures. It is conditioned to expect the worst. This gives one very great latitude."

That latitude showed promptly in mass murder of Zanzibari Arabs which, strangely, elicited no protests from Cairo. Nasser simply shifted his line and started to back the new regime. Meanwhile, East Africa's leaders are certainly worried.

They hope to create tolerant nonracial societies based on political nonalinement in the cold war and they fear development of a dynamic, racist, Communist center off the coast. Having just seen one Zanzibar coup mirrored by mutinies as far inland as Uganda's Congo border, they have reason for anxiety. The chances of African moderation grow slimmer as Zanzibar slips left.

No grandiose mainland plot from Zanzibar seems imminent yet. Sinophile and Russophile Communists still eye each other suspiciously there; further appetities will come later.

THE BRITISH CHICKEN OUT

January 12, when unrest erupted, Britain had 700 British and trusted Kenya troops ready to fly in, but London chickened out. After subsequent mutinies on the mainland,

a British carrier was sent here, the uprisings were quelled and Zanzibar intervention reconsidered. Nobody wanted the archaic Sultan back, but Karume, who admires Nyerere, would surely have accepted such support.

Britain, however, decided on inaction. The United States after feverish consultations, followed suit. The carrier sailed away. All nebulous plans urging intervention have failed so far. We now counsel patient resignation to our East African supporters, wistfully hoping the Negro Karume will euchre the halfcaste Communists out.

Washington seems resigned to follow British Fabian leadership. Since Suez, Britain has developed understandable distaste for intervening except to support existing order; and Zanzibari order now exists. Our own African policy seems obsessed by the notion there are no bad people if their skin is black. This is lunacy and an insult to Africans; surely a Nyerere is preferable to a Nkrumah.

The tide that will someday flow from Zanzibar may ultimately prove more dangerous to U.S. interests than that we imagine threatens us from Cuba. Zanzibar is an admirable base for subversion. Communism already has paid agents in key mainland positions, particularly in Kenya. It has easy access to Tanganyika, a center of African nationalist movements, and can aim at fertile soil from Mozambique to Southern Rhodesia and the Congo.

From Zanzibar, China preaches the antiwhite gospel that multiracism is nonsense. This also hits the Russians-which Peiping doesn't mind. Those who do mind are the decent, generous leaders of East Africa who seek to build neutral, nonracial societies, entirely isolated from the cold war. They have been promised our sympathy, aid and support; they have received sympathy and a little aid.

China is on to a good thing in Zanzibar. Racism smolders among Africa's masses and the Chinese know how to fan it. Now that Washington has seemingly dropped all thought of intervening for its friends, Peiping's sole problem is controlling its Zanzibari agents; the old Tammany formula-keep a man honest; an honest man stays bought.

Panama Canal: New Record in February 1964

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OF

HON. DANIEL J. FLOOD

OF PENNSYLVANIA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Tuesday, April 7, 1964

Mr. FLOOD. Mr. Speaker, in an address to the House on March 9, 1964, under the title, "Panama Canal: Focus of Power Politics," and in a statement on March 11, on "Panama Canal: Formula for Future Canal Policy," I dealt at length with basic canal questions and proposed a plan of action for our Government for meeting the problems involved.

That the time is now approaching when adequate means must be provided for making the necessary evaluations of various canal proposals now being urged is emphasized by the new records in transits of the Panama Canal. In this connection, an informative article on the traffic for February 1964 by Ralph K. Skinner, experienced special correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor now resident on the isthmus follows:

PANAMA CANAL PROSPERS

(By Ralph K. Skinner)

BALBOA, C.Z.-The Panama Canal set a new record in February for total transits in 1 day or 1 week. If March continues at the present rate, another monthly record will result.

This proves that the impasse in United States-Panama relations existing since January 10 has not affected the operations of the Panama Canal.

One day in February, 47 oceangoing ships transited from ocean to ocean, a new record for any single day since the waterway opened on August 15, 1914.

During 1 week, 284 oceangoing ships transited.

Not included in these figures are many coastwise banana boats, fishing craft, and small pleasure boats using the Panama Canal.

IMPROVEMENT SEEN

Capt. M. J. Prince, marine director of the Panama Canal, is very pleased by another statistic. The average time per ship spent in Canal Zone waters for the first 8 months of this fiscal year was 13.7 hours. During fiscal 1962 and 1963 the time was more than 15 hours.

This proves that operating efficiency is improving during a period of growing traffic. Aiding the speedup is an improved system of handling superships in the lock chambers.

More and more superships are using the canal. In the week the record was set, 49 ships were given "clear-cut" handling, which means only single-lane traffic was allowed while they were passing through the 8 miles of Gaillard Cut. Handling of clear-cuts requires expert scheduling to prevent holding up other ships.

The San Juan Prospector, the biggest commercial cargo ship ever to transit, sped through the Panama Canal in 101⁄2 hours on January 22. This correspondent was aboard for part of the transit.

The 835-foot supership, usable interchangeably as an ore carrier or a tanker, had a beam of 106 feet, which required perfect handling through the 110-foot-wide lock chambers. Panama Canal personnel take these giant ships in stride but it is a shoehorn operation, viewed from any angle.

REQUIREMENTS SKETCHED

Capable of carrying 69,000 tons of iron ore or oil, the fully loaded San Juan Prospector requires a draft of nearly 45 feet. At the maximum draft permitted by the Panama Canal, the ship could carry only 31,000 tons through the waterway-half its normal capacity. Thus the "big ditch" is not up to the San Juan Prospector's needs when it is fully loaded.

This was no problem in January, since the ship was in ballast and took the cheaper 72cent ballast rate per Panama Canal measurement ton instead of the 90 cents per ton laden rate. Even in ballast, this giant special-purpose ship paid tolls over $27,000 for the 101⁄2-hour transit.

In fairness to the Panama Canal, it should be mentioned that many ships such as the San Juan Prospector are built to operate between predetermined ports which can accommodate them and are not intended to enter all harbors or use all canals.

Mr. Wilson Strikes Again

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OF

HON. H. R. GROSS

OF IOWA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Tuesday, April 7, 1964

Mr. GROSS. Mr. Speaker, we are accustomed to dealing with money in

moving van quantities here in the Congress. When a Member of Congress goes to the length of proving the waste of items as small as a rubber eraser, then it can be easily understood by every citizen of this Nation.

This is what was accomplished recently by my colleague, the gentleman from Indiana, Representative EARL WILSON, when he started a personal investigation into the buying policies of the Navy Purchasing Office.

What the gentleman from Indiana, Representative WILSON uncovered at the Navy Purchasing Office is a shocking indictment of the buying policies of some elements of our Defense Establishment. The grains of sand he has documented are but a small part of a mountain of waste.

The Richmond-News Leader editorially complimented the gentleman from Indiana, Representative WILSON, for his fight against waste in an editorial entitled "Mr. WILSON Strikes Again."

I include the editorial at this point and commend it to my colleagues:

MR. WILSON STRIKES AGAIN After zeroing in on some improper procedures in awarding contracts for Air Force equipment (editorial, Dec. 16), Congressman WILSON of Indiana sets his sights on the Navy. His general target was the Navy Purchasing Office, his specific target Miss Estelle Wolfe, former office services branch head, in charge of providing the NPO with office supplies. These supplies are ordered on a 3-months' basis to serve the needs of the 100 employees of the Office.

Last year the NPO said it needed four new electric staplers. These staplers, if purchased from the Federal Supply Schedule would cost between $22 and $24. Miss Wolfe bought not 4, but 24, staplers from a private jobber, without competitive bids, for $44.75 each. Later it was found that 15 electric staplers were stored unused in the NPO office.

In 1962, Miss Wolfe also bought four new copying machines, at $895 each. The total purchase came to about $5,000, including copypaper and materials. At that time, the NPO had an extreme overstock of copypaper on hand that could be used only in the old machines. An NPO employee happened to catch this blunder, and saved the taxpayers thousands of dollars by taking action to make the company take back the new copying machines.

Mr. WILSON also cited the following items as examples of overstocked supplies: 2,952 erasers; 5,000 boxes of carbon paper, totaling 500,000 sheets; 3,000 staple removers; 3,888 ballpoint pens; 4,668 ballpoint pen refills; $5,000 overstock of copying machine paper; 2,710 boxes of paperclips; a 3 years' supply of stationery; 395 stamp pads; 540 rolls of pressure-sensitive tape; 88 rolls of masking tape; 40 plastic brief cases; 2,358 rolls of cellophane tape-240,000 feet; 70 food-handling aprons; 32 cartons of rubber bands; 23 gross of chalk; 16,000 index cards; 100 dozen pencils; 91 pencil sharpeners; 140 boxes of gummed labels; 131 boxes of index tabs; and 30 pairs of gloves.

Mr. WILSON found it incredible that all these supplies were to be used by 100 people in a period of 3 months. He did a little digging into the reason for this overstocking, with the help of an NPO employee. He found that the items had been purchased from a company named Visual Systems, Inc., headed by Edgerton Smith. Mr. WILSON found further that Miss Wolfe and Mr. Smith are old friends, with business relations dating back to 1957. When Mr. Smith formed his own

company in 1960, Miss Wolfe placed a blanket purchase order with him.

Congressman WILSON has placed all his evidence with the Comptroller General, requesting a complete investigation by the General Accounting Office. We hope that the GAO report will contain not only the facts of the case, but an explanation of how such a gross mishandling of taxpayers' funds was allowed in the first place. Such a report could have the desirable effect of training additional guns on wasteful purchasing procedures within the Defense Establishment.

Rev. Joseph B. Collins

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OF

HON. RAY J. MADDEN

OF INDIANA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Tuesday, April 7, 1964

Mr. MADDEN. Mr. Speaker on last Thursday evening, April 2, 1964, I attended the banquet at the Madison Hotel in Washington, honoring Father Joseph B. Collins, national director of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine.

A great number of church dignitaries and leaders from Washington and other sections of the country were present honoring Father Collins for his long years of outstanding devotion in the cause of religious education in our country.

Father Collins has been an instructor at Catholic University for over 30 years. He has also served as national director of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine for a long period of time.

On Thursday evening he was awarded the Cross for Church and Pontiff by Pope Paul VI "For Notable and Distinguished Service" for his outstanding leadership and great accomplishments in the expansion of religious education.

The following is the response made by Father Collins after receiving his award:

RESPONSE BY REV. JOSEPH B. COLLINS Your excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, after listening to all that has been said, one cannot but feel that some kindly Boswell has been busy gathering glowing details on the life and work of the director of the National Center. I think it was Xenophon who said there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praise. It is all the more true when the words of praise are sprinkled with a great amount of charity or at least with more than a modicum of exaggeration.

I am of course deeply grateful for the award that is presented to us this evening and for the generous and kind citation. But in a true sense they are marks of benevolent and courteous recognition of the work of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine in the United States, on the part of the holy father and of the sacred congregation of the council, in whose special charge is the CCD throughout the world.

To all of you who have come here this evening to do us honor, my deep and sincere thanks.

We appreciate the presence here of the heads of the various departments of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, who after a hard day's work in your offices have left your homes and firesides to be with us. Thanks to the priest members of the staff of the NCWC-our confreres and brother priests-need more be said?

Our thanks too to the administrative offcers of the Catholic University for being

with us: Father Arand, president of Divinity College, Father McCormick, rector of Theological College, Msgr. Ryan, dean of the school of philosophy, Father Sloyan, head of the department of religious education, Monsignor Skeen and Father Hartman, professor of Scripture, two of the scholars working on the confraternity translation of the Bible. A very grateful welcome to Father James Gillen, able director of the CCD in the archdiocese of Washington. Also, many thanks to our many friends from the city and from outside Washington for coming to help us celebrate this happy occasion.

I am especially happy and grateful for the presence of so many members of the bishops' committee of the CCD. They have been attending meetings all day; they have paid their respects to the apostolic delegate this very evening, and now they grace this occasion as another testimony of their unfailing interest in the confraternity and its national center, which is so close to their hearts.

I am very grateful to Bishop Fitzgerald, my own ordinary of the diocese of Winona, for coming here to honor a priest of his diocese, and to show his interest in the confraternity which has been fruitfully organized in the diocese of Winona for many years.

I have also a letter from Father McDonald, provincial of the Sulpician Fathers, in which he regrets that he could not be present this evening. He is leaving for Paris for a meeting with the superior general. "You have our sincerest congratulations upon the honor," he writes. "It is not only an honor to you but to the Sulpicians. We are very You will not mind a tiny word of explanagrateful to Bishop Greco for his kindness." tion to some of you who may not know that all Sulpicians are diocesan priests; that they are admitted to the society only after ordination. They are engaged solely in the work of training priests for the diocesan ministry in minor and major seminaries.

I am, however, anxious that the kind words of Monsignor Tanner and Bishop Greco directed to Miss Quinn and myself be shared by the staff of the National Center. All that has been said applies equally to them. We work as a team. But it is in the nature of things that those who really do most of the work receive least of the credit. The daily routine of our office and the numberless tasks that are carried out with promptness and efficiency is due solely to the industry and spirit of charity and dedication of each one of the members of our staff.

This goes for Father Neighbor, our energetic and genial associate director; to Miss Quinn, who happily shares with me the courteous gesture of benevolence signified by the award; to Father Greenspun, of the Paulist Fathers, our well-traveled director of the Apostolate of Good Will and himself an apostle of Christian unity; to Father Alan Smith, Dominican Father, our Scripture scholar and editor of publications; to the two Sisters, Sister Mary Janaan, O.S.F. and Sister Margaret Eugene, O.P., who joined our staff 2 years ago (the first in the history of the CCD), and to each and every one of the devoted and efficient lay workers, whose work, if not their names, is known in every part of the country where the CCD is operating today. They are: Miss Irene Hunt, Miss Suzanne Lamoureux, Miss Marie Knisley, Mrs. Doris Andresen, and Miss Helen T. Quinn, nor must I forget our faithful typist and Howard University student, Mr. Paul Young.

My deep thanks to Monsignor Tanner for acting as master of ceremony for this happy event, and for his overly kind words. He is our benign superior at the NCWC, and his presence with us despite so many calls on his time during these busy days is another evidence of his love for the CCD which goes back to the years when he was closely associated with the confraternity in Milwaukee.

I purposely reserve my final word of thanks to our beloved Bishop Greco. He has made this award possible. Through his thoughtful kindness, and at his request this public testimony to the national center and its staff has been arranged. Bishop Greco has been a member of the bishops' committee since 1950, and its chairman since 1959.

This is an optimum opportunity to state for the record that Bishop Greco has been during these years our counselor, guide, and friend. Besides the many tasks that are his as chief pastor of a busy diocese "with the cares of all the churches" close to his heart, he is a member of a key commission of the Second Vatican Council which necessitates many trips to Rome, he is supreme chaplain of the Knights of Columbus, nevertheless, he takes time to make frequent visits to the national center, he is in practical continuous communication with us, as problems and questions of national import for the CCD arise. On top of this, he has traveled literally thousands of miles, all at his own expense, to attend and speak at diocesan and national meetings of the confraternity in every part of the country. Next week he will be in Seattle for the annual meeting of the diocesan directors, and the following month will see him in Salt Lake City for the annual meeting of the National Lay Committee of the CCD. Hence from even this partial accounting of all that Bishop Greco means to us, how right and just is this expression of our affectionate appreciation and gratitude.

Were I to stop here abruptly in expressing our thanks to all who contribute so faithfully to the work of the national center, I would be guilty of grave injustice. The commendatory citation that Bishop Greco has read declares that "in this great work of the confraternity full honor and praise must be given to their excellencies, the ordinaries of the country, and particularly to the Bishops' Committee of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine."

November 7 of this year will mark the 30th anniversary of the appointment of a committee of bishops for the confraternity by the American bishops assembled for their annual meeting in Washington. This was a historic event not only for the CCD but also for the church in America, for from the Episcopal Committee of the CCD the confraternity as we know it today came into being in this country. Under the direct supervision and guidance of this committee, the CCD has grown to the extent that today it is looked upon as a model for the confraternities that have been and are now being organized in all parts of the world.

In the

The original bishops' committee of the CCD in 1934 comprised only three members: Archbishop Murray of St. Paul, Archbishop McNicholas of Cincinnati, and Bishop O'Hara then of Great Falls, as chairman. following May 1935, the national center of the CCD was formally established at the headquarters of the NCWC in Washington. Its first director was Father Augustine Walsh, Order of St. Benedict, of the faculty of Catholic University, with Miss Miriam Marks as executive secretary, who was to begin her work of self-sacrificing devotion and zeal that ended only with her untimely illness and death in 1961.

Today the bishops' committee numbers 13 members, of whom Bishop Russell of Richmond and Bishop O'Connor of Springfield, Ill., are the latest members, having been appointed by the American hierarchy at their meeting in Rome last year. The bishops of the CCD committee are thus entrusted by the American bishops with the guidance and development of the CCD. In the words of the original petition to the American bishops to establish the committee, its purpose is "to direct and coordinate the work of the national center of the confraternity and to give national scope and au

thority to the confraternity in the United States." Today the entire country is divided into 12 regions, each with a member of the committee at the head of his particular region to assist the local bishops and diocesan directors in promoting and developing the CCD in that territory. A number of the bishops act as moderators of certain areas of activity, such as the major seminary committee under Bishop O'Connor, the Latin American relations with the CCD is under Archbishop Lucey, and the catechism is in the special interest of Archbishop McGucken. Normally, when the Vatican Council is not in session, the members of the bishops' committee take part in regional and diocesan congresses, and priests' institutes that occur in their particular regions. They are moreover the intimate advisers and collaborators of Bishop Greco, the chairman; they meet with him each year to review the report of the national center and to make suggestions and plans for the farflung operations of the CCD in the years

ahead.

This is the first time that we have had the opportunity to express publicly to the bishops of the CCD committee our appreciation for their unfailing interest and their courteous attention to even our least needs for our work, and all done with a wise direction that can come only from their experience and grace of state.

The aim of the bishops' committee and of its national center is to bring the CCD to its full potential. They have no coercive power; their authority is the authority of experience and good will. The CCD is as effective in practical operation as the local ordinaries and pastors make it. Hence, one cannot make a universal statement about the CCD: that it should do this or it is failing in that. One must first know the CCD: its potential-all that it is capable of doingand then what is the actual situation in every place.

Today the confraternity goes hand in hand with the Catholic schools to provide a full Christian formation to all our Catholic children and youth. The ideal, expressed in the CCD manual for the past 30 years is "every Catholic child in a Catholic school." So also during the present supreme crisis for the Catholic school system, the CCD strives to offer those attending public schools (who have always numbered more than half of our elementary pupils and some 80 percent of our high school students) that religious training which is their just due. The confraternity schools cannot succeed in their allotted task of preparing our future parents and citizens unless they are adequately financed and staffed with dedicated teachers who are fully trained.

In the new era that is opening up for the lay apostolate, the CCD will come into its own not only in this country but all over the world. All signs point to it. Into the waiting, eager hands of the laity, the CCD is a further and final fulfillment of the divine commission given to the Apostles: "Go, teach."

Rockefeller Warns of Inflationary Risks

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HON. THOMAS B. CURTIS

OF MISSOURI

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Tuesday, April 7, 1964

Mr. CURTIS. Mr. Speaker, in a recent speech, Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, of New York, has called attention to the serious inflationary risks inherent in the administration's overall economic strate

gy. He points to the danger of overheating the economy in 1964 followed by a postelection cooloff in 1965. As a member of the minority of the Joint Economic Committee, which has come to essentially the same conclusions with regard to the economic outlook, I was particularly gratified to note the position taken by the Governor.

The speech also is noteworthy for the 10 points offered by the Governor as a means of accelerating growth and contributing to the Nation's economic strength.

EXCERPTS OF REMARKS BY Gov. NELSON A. ROCKEFELLER PREPARED FOR DELIVERY AT THE ANNUAL INSTALLATION DINNER, CONCORD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, CONCORD, CALIF., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1964

Creative free enterprise is the vital key to the American economy. We must rely upon it for economic growth and for the 20 million new jobs we need in the next 5 years:

1. To meet the problems of 42 million unemployed.

2. To meet the needs of 2 million men and women who are replaced each year because of automation and advancing technology.

3. To fulfill the hopes and aspirations of young men and women entering the labor market from our schools and colleges in record numbers. For example, 2.6 million young Americans reached their 18th birthday in 1960, but 3.8 million will reach their 18th birthday next year-a 50-percent increase in 5 years.

An estimated 2.1 million new jobs will be needed right here in California.

This means one-third more new jobs must be provided in the next 5 years than in the past 5 years when 1.6 million new jobs were added.

California has led the Nation in the rate of increase in new jobs. Employment here in the past 5 years averaged an increase of 22 percent yearly, while the Nation averaged 1 percent. However, California will need to increase employment at a rate of more than 3 percent annually to solve its employment problem of the next half decade.

But California's growth is dependent vitally on national growth and this means the National economy must grow at an accelerated rate if California is going to be able to reach its potential.

Frankly, we're not achieving our economic goals despite the promises of the Democratic administration dating from the campaign of 1960; despite massive Federal spending which has reached an alltime high-higher than World War II; and despite 3 years of Federal deficits totaling over $20 billion with another $5 billion in prospect.

We should not be misled by the election year economics of the Johnson administration with its bookkeeping gimmicks and fiscal fantasies.

Here's the kind of gimmick used:

Large amounts of 1965 expenditures are pushed back into the 1964 budget year, painting an inaccurate picture of spending cuts claimed for 1965.

Sales of assets-$2.3 billion of them-are treated as "savings."

After more than 2 years, the administration has finally produced a tax cut-long overdue-to stimulate the economy, but many taxpayers' withholding has been cut below the amount of their tax liability for this election year. Next April 15, they will have the privilege of paying back $1.5 billion of the $8 billion cut which they thought they got this year.

policies of the Johnson administration are Taken together, the fiscal and monetary

set for maximum impact around the election this year without regard to potential developments next year.

There is danger that these policies will produce an overheated economy in 1964 followed by a postelection cooloff in 1965.

This November focused program is being undertaken at the very serious risk that inflation will be the outcome, rather than sound growth. Coming at a time when our international balance-of-payments position remains precarious, inflation could have grave consequences not only for our own economy but also for the financial structure of the whole free world. It could, in fact, lead to a downturn in our economy in 1965which is exactly what we seek to avoid by a tax reduction in 1964.

This Nation must have balanced program to achieve faster growth without inflation. Such a program must be based upon our creative free enterprise system. It must take into account all of the elements which contribute to and produce economic growth, for example:

1. Added encouragement to research and development through more rapid tax writeoffs for this purpose. A good example is New York State's provision of a 1-year writeoff for research and development investment.

2. Scientific information developed from Government-sponsored programs should be communicated to the private sector of the economy to spur growth.

3. Strengthening the capacity of our education system at all levels.

4. Elimination of barriers to equal opportunity.

5. Special incentives for small business.
6. Reoriented farm programs.

7. A coordinated national transportation policy.

8. Maximizing the flow of private enterprise capital into rebuilding urban centers.

9. Better means of bringing jobs and people together through better exchange of information and steps to increase labor mobility.

10. Holding the line on Federal spending, balancing the Federal budget by the fiscal year beginning 1967, and restoring fiscal integrity to the Federal Government.

To meet the Nation's needs at home and abroad, it is essential to have leadership in Washington that understands the free enterprise system, has faith in the free enterprise system, and knows how to encourage the free enterprise system.

The so-called war on poverty will not be won by making America the arsenal of bureaucracy as proposed by President Johnson. It will not be won by fiscal fantasies or budget gimmicks.

Political manipulation of the economy is no substitute for a dynamic free enterprise economy functioning at its true potential under Government policies that look beyond the next election to the interests of the next generation.

displayed by this public-spirited couple in improving the life of their fellow men in other parts of the world, at great sacrifice to themselves, is only a small indication of how the citizens of the newest State in the Union are meeting their obligations and responsibilities, not only as Amercan citizens but as citizens of the world.

Those who feel that the image of America has been somewhat tarnished in recent years may take heart in the following article which appeared in the March 1964 issue of the Peace Corps Volunteer:

HAWAII COUPLE WINS THANKS FOR "REVOLUTION IN SCHOOL"

A volunteer couple from Hawaii have been credited by a British Honduras government official with causing "the beginning of a revolution in our primary schools."

Erwin and Taeko Wong, from Honolulu, who have been in the small British colony in Central America since August 1962, were commended for their work in Corozal, in the far north of the country. There they worked for 5 weeks in many village schools of the district, helping both teachers and children with native crafts.

At an arts-and-crafts exhibit held in a Corozal school, Jesus Ken, Corozal south division representative, said, "Native crafts have been dying with the older generation, because the schools have been emphasizing academic subjects. Although there nothing wrong with this, practical subjects such as handicrafts, woodwork, and home economics have a rightful place in the primary schools' curriculum."

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OF

HON. SPARK M. MATSUNAGA

OF HAWAII

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Tuesday, April 7, 1964

Mr. MATSUNAGA. Mr. Speaker, I should like to call the attention of the Members of the House to outstanding contributions being made to the Peace Corps program in its aid to underdeveloped areas by two well-known constituents of mine, Mr. and Mrs. Erwin Wong, of Honolulu. The unselfish devotion

Victory Needed in Cold War

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OF

HON. BOB WILSON

OF CALIFORNIA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Tuesday, April 7, 1964

Mr. BOB WILSON. Mr. Speaker, under leave to extend my remarks in the RECORD, I include the following article from the San Diego Union entitled "Victory Needed in Cold War":

VICTORY NEEDED IN COLD WAR: PATIENCE BEGETS PROBLEMS

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President Johnson says a nuclear war is impossible and we must seek reasoned agreement instead of ready aggression. He counsels patience.

His remarks followed those of Secretary of State Rusk who almost angrily called critics of our foreign policy quitters who "would quit the struggle by letting down our defenses, by gutting our foreign-aid programs, by leaving the United Nations."

Now comes Senator J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT, Democratic chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee but a maverick as concerns the administration's foreign policy.

In a major speech he has recommended a line of retreat. He asks revision of the Canal Zone Treaty with Panama and recognition of the Communist regime in Cuba.

Will Mr. Rusk also describe Senator FULBRIGHT as a "quitter?" If so, he will hasten the plunge of his own party into the fatal split for which it is headed.

Secretary Rusk contended the "world struggle is going well from our viewpoint." However, Walter Lippmann, columnist, one of the principal defenders of the administration's foreign policy, and a spokesman for the liberals, wrote in a recent article:

"The fact is that on all the continents all sorts of things are happening to which this country is very much opposed. The 'Grand Design in Europe,' the Alliance for Progress in this hemisphere, the containment of Red China, the war in Southeast Asia, Cyprus, Zanzibar, Gabon and whatnot-in none of these places are we prevailing."

He agrees with Mr. Johnson that we no longer are living in the kind of a world in which we can order things our way or resort to some military action.

We agree with that. But, if military threats or actions no longer can be the determining factors of leadership, what is to take the place of force?

But does

No one expects a nuclear war. that mean we must now ride the tide, and wait and hope? The Communist world is busy pushing waves of revolution and subversion, and despite the claims of Mr. Johnson and Mr. Rusk, our great designs are going awry all around the world.

There are those among us who want a change of direction and effort and not a further retreat as urged by Senator FULBRIGHT, and it is no answer to gather up all of the alternatives that might have been suggested from various quarters, and make a generalization that everybody opposing the administration's foreign policy is a quitter.

As far as we can see, the situation is the other way around. Republicans opposing the administration's policy want action, not patience, to reverse the tide running against the free world.

Our course must be in the vigor of leadership and in the resolute manner in which we counter the moves of communism.

We don't believe that most people want to abandon foreign aid, or even abruptly

leave the United Nations, but they do believe that such weapons as are at our disposal ought to be used more effectively against our enemies.

It isn't enough just to ask members of our various alliances how to work ourselves out of our difficulties. Somewhere along the line we must act.

These critics of the administration's policy don't want to quit the cold war. They want to win it.

Gitmo Grows More Vital Every Day

EXTENSION OF REMARKS

OF

HON. L. MENDEL RIVERS

OF SOUTH CAROLINA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Tuesday, April 7, 1964

Mr. RIVERS of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, under unanimous consent, I insert in the Appendix of the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD the article which appeared in the Miami News, on Wednesday, February 12, 1964, concerning the vital importance of our naval base at Guantanamo Bay. This article was written by a distinguished retired Marine Corps general, Brig. Gen. J. D. Hittle, who is known by many of us. He is an authority in his field and I believe the article he has written should be read by every American citizen.

The article follows:

GITMO GROWS MORE VITAL EVERY DAY (NOTE. The author, director of national security and foreign affairs for the Veterans of Foreign Wars, has served in Guantanamo with the Marines, has been assistant to the Secretary of Defense for legislative affairs under Secretary Thomas S. Gates, Jr., and is the author of "History of the Military Staff," a standard text in staff colleges around the world.)

(By Brig. Gen. J. D. Hittle, U.S. Marine Corps, retired)

WASHINGTON.-It was inevitable that Guantanamo would become the focal point of the Communist-generated trouble in the Caribbean. Ever since the Russian takeover of Cuba, the keener U.S. strategists have warned that Guantanamo Bay was a major Red target.

Why? Because our base there is one of the most strategically located in the world.

There has been far too much careless talk to the effeet that our base at Guantanamo is outdated and not as important as it once

was.

The fact is that it is just as important as ever before. And there are two reasons for its increasing importance: First, the Soviet Union's conquest of Cuba; second, the Russian submarine fleet, by far the world's largest.

From the U.S. standpoint, a Red Cuba makes our hold on Guantanamo imperative. Here are some examples: Guantanamo dominates the Caribbean. Since Castro took over Cuba for the Soviet Union, the Caribbean is no longer "an American lake." Our continued control of Guantanamo is necessary to keep it from becoming a "Russian lake."

Naval strategists point out that when the Communists went after Cuba, they knew what they were doing strategically. Cuba is, in many ways, the strategic heart of the Americas.

It stands directly astride the Atlantic sealanes between North and South America. It is in a position, if unchecked, to control

the Atlantic traffic to and from the Panama Canal. And, what is often forgotten, Cuba geographically dominates the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico.

Control of Guantanamo is necessary for U.S. policing and protection of the Windward Passage. This is the 50-mile-wide strip of water between the eastern end of Cuba and Haiti. It is the "watergate" through which funnels much of the shipping between the Atlantic into the Caribbean and to the Panama Canal.

Communist control of the Windward Passage would go far toward sealing, in war, the northern entrances to the Caribbean area against U.S. and free-world shipping.

Red strategists have carefully studied German U-boat tactics in World War II, and know that the Nazi "wolfpacks" sunk a huge allied tonnage in the Windward Passage Narrows.

Red control of the passage would dovetail neatly into employment of Russian submarine forces in war or "high temperature" crisis.

U.S. antisubmarine units, air and surface, based at Guantanamo Bay, virtually on the southern coast of the passage, would break up any monopoly of the passage.

BLOCK TO TAKEOVERS

Also Guantanamo's location helps block Castro's efforts to move into Haiti and the Dominican Republic. A Castro takeover there would outflank our bases in Puerto Rico. Were this to happen, the strategic position of the United States in the Carib

bean would be irreparably fragmented.

Continuing Communist subversion in the Caribbean and Latin America increases rath

er

than diminishes the value of Guantanamo Bay by emphasizing its central position. Navy-Marine "ready forces," if based in Guantanamo, would be but a short voyage from Communist-created hotspots.

For instance, the value of Guantanamo Bay as a base in the Caribbean area was well demonstrated when President Eisenhower ordered a naval patrol between Castro's Cuba and the mainland during the Honduran crisis.

Guantanamo was even more conveniently positioned when President Kennedy put 2d Fleet units between Cuba and the Dominican Republic to prevent Castro from moving in during the upheaval following the assassination of Trujillo.

It would be impossible to duplicate Guantanamo as a base for stationing "on-call" Navy-Marine forces for quick movement to the political "brush fires" Castro's agents are lighting throughout the area.

If the United States were forced out of Guantanamo Bay, the loss in terms of our strategic requirements would be tremendous. But, what is often overlooked, the damage to our national security would not be limited to losing what we must have. Rather, the damage would be vastly compounded by Guantanamo's value as a Communist base.

One of the difficulties facing Khrushchev's naval strategists is the lack of submarine bases beyond the territorial waters of the Soviet Union. Without such bases the Russian subs have to spend a large portion of operating time cruising to and from Soviet ports and their assigned patrol areas.

INTO AMERICAN WATERS

Availability of Guantanamo Bay as a Russian submarine base would have the effect, by cutting down traveltime to the Caribbean, of increasing the efficiency of Russian submarine deployment. Mathematically it would mean that the Kremlin could keep far more submarines in American waters.

From the standpoint of U.S. defense, it would make little difference whether the Russian submarines officially flew the hammer and sickle or operated under the fiction of Cuban control. The threat to the America's would be just as great.

Naval strategists say that if the United

States were to abandon Guantanamo, when the last U.S. ship sailed out, the first Russian sub would sail in. It would, they add, be but a short time before Russian on Cuban subs (both Russian made with Russian crews) would be routinely patrolling the eastern and gulf coasts of the United States. In addition to its key location and strategic role, Guantanamo has a day-to-day value in terms of naval efficiency. It is the principal training base for the U.S. Atlantic Fleet. Each year about half the ships in the Atlantic Fleet conduct their training out of Guantanamo Bay. This means that in a 2year period the entire fleet uses the base for training.

Navy officials are quick to point out that even as a training base Guantanamo Bay would be hard to replace. Off its entrance is deep water, with various temperature levels, providing proper training for antisubmarine forces.

As the Communist propaganda guns are brought to bear against our position in Guantanamo Bay, demands for renegotiation of our treaty rights will become more insistent. It will be the same old claim of imperialism and archaic treaties.

But it will be difficult to make the charge of an outdated treaty stick. True, our original rights stemmed from treaties of 1903-4. But with keen foresight those treaties were renegotiated and reaffirmed with Cuba by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1934. Thus we are in Guantanamo Bay through a treaty of the good neighbor era. This should pose a problem for Red propaganda.

But it probably won't bother the Kremlin or Castro. They know how vital Guantanamo Bay is to U.S. security. They also know how much it is needed as a Russian submarine base. They hope to force us out.

Retirement of Distinguished Educator

EXTENSION OF REMARKS

OF

HON. BARRATT O'HARA

OF ILLINOIS

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Monday, April 6, 1964

Mr. O'HARA of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, James W. Crowe, one of the Nation's foremost authorities in the field of vocational education, will retire in May as principal of Chicago Vocational High School, which under his administration has won national prestige and acclaim. He was recently named "man of the year" by the South Chicago Chamber of Commerce, as related in the news stories in the Chicago Tribune, Southeast Economist and Daily Calumet that I am extending my remarks to include.

The material follows:

[From the Chicago (Ill.) Tribune, Jan. 30, 1964]

VOCATIONAL'S PRINCIPAL IS MAN OF YEAR The South Chicago Chamber of Commerce has named James W. Crowe, principal of Chicago Vocational High School, its "Man of the Year."

Crowe, of 2217 East 69th Street, was selected by a committee of chamber members for his civic activities. The announcement was made by Samuel C. Maragos of 9207 Yates Boulevard, group president.