astrous effect upon the legalized gambling industry in Nevada. I appeared at several committee hearings, testifying on a bill introduced by Representative KEATING, of New York, which presented the most direct threat to Nevada's gambling industry. I am glad to report that we were able to work out an amendment which would have protected Nevada's industry from the effects of this measure. While the adjournment of Congress prevented passage this session, it can be expected that similar legislation will be introduced in a future Congress.

HIGHWAYS AND AIR TRANSPORTATION The Federal Highway Act passed by the 83d Congress provides for an expenditure of $966 million during each of the next 2 years for highway construction. This is the greatest sum of money ever authorized for this purpose. It will mean that the State of Nevada will receive approximately $8,719,541 for each of the next 2 years.

Air transportation also received assistance this year when Congress voted to continue the Federal aid-to-airport program. This should be of assistance to communities like Reno and Elko, where municipal airport development is planned.

I was successful in obtaining passage of my amendment in the House for the appropriation of $69,449 to cover damages caused by Federal Government plants to the Elko Municipal Airport in 1952.

INDIANS

I am proud to report that the 83d Congress made a better record toward improving conditions of our Indian citizens than any Congress since the establishment of the Bureau of Indian Affairs over 100 years ago. Legislation was enacted to provide for termination of Federal control over some 10,000 Indians during the next few years.

The bill which I introduced and which

affected certain Nevada colonies and reservations, was not perfected prior to adjournment. However, valuable groundwork was done. Still to be worked out are provisions for Federal contributions for welfare services to Indians during the transition period, and improvements to be made prior to termination of Federal control. The typhoid case at the Elko colony and the lack of authority of local health officials to institute proper health measures, indicates need for prompt action in this field.

ONE HUNDRED PERCENT VOTING RECORD

Mr. Speaker, I am sorry that time does not permit greater detail on many of these measures; and there are other items of importance which I have not been able to discuss. However, I am planning a tour of my State following adjournment, when I will be able to present personally further information to my constituents.

It is my belief and hope that most Nevadans will approve in general the measures I have supported. There perhaps will be some bills or parts of legislation enacted by the Congress which will not receive the unqualified approval of all of my constituents. Mr. Speaker,

this is to be expected in a legislative body made up of 435 Representatives from 48 States and all walks of life. The compromise of conflicting and differing viewpoints is an indispensable part of democratic process. However, I should like the citizens of my State to know that in my efforts to represent them faithfully I have been present for every roll call vote during my term in office.

I trust that the record of accomplishment outlined in this report will be of interest to them; I sincerely hope it will assist in understanding the sometimes confusing picture of their National Legislature.

Engraved on the wall over the Speaker's rostrum is a quotation from Daniel Webster, which reads:

Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also in our day and generation may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

Mr. Speaker, I think that the 83d Congress has performed well in its efforts to follow the advice of this great American.

Drought Conditions in Oklahoma

EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF

HON. ROBERT S. KERR

OF OKLAHOMA

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES Friday, August 20, 1954

Mr. KERR. Mr. President, in the closing hours of the session of the 83d Congress, I pointed out to the Senate the need for additional assistance to the drought disaster areas of Oklahoma.

I ask unanimous consent to have

printed in the RECORD the following reso

missioners of Le Flore County, Board of lution from the Board of County ComCounty Commissioners of Cherokee County, Board of County Commissioners of Adair County, and the Board of County Commissioners of Sequoyah County, Okla., which further emphasizes the need to which I referred.

There being no objection, the resolution was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows:

The Board of County Commissioners of Sequoyah County, Le Flore County, Adair County, and Cherokee County, in the State of Oklahoma, meeting in a special emergency meeting in the district courtroom of the county courthouse in Sallisaw, Sequoyah County, Okla., on this the 18th day of August 1954, for the purpose of organizing said counties and eastern Oklahoma for the purpose of combating an economic depression to provide the physical needs of the people of the said counties and of eastern Oklahoma brought on as a result of the drought and general unemployment, do hereby adopt the following resolution:

Whereas there now exists in Sequoyah, Adair, Cherokee, and Le Flore Counties, and in eastern Oklahoma, a condition of unemployment and lack of finances of the people of said area to provide the necessities of life. Said condition having been brought on by lack of available working opportuni

ties and the extreme drought which has existed in said area for several months; and

Whereas because of the drought there is a shortage of water both in the settled communities, in the towns, and in many instances at the rural schoolhouse; and

Whereas it is necessary that the State and Federal Government take steps to alleviate said situation; and

Whereas be it therefore resolved that the said boards of county commissioners of said counties do hereby petition the Honorable ROBERT S. KERR and MIKE MONRONEY, United States Senators from Oklahoma, and ED EDMONDSON and CARL ALBERT, Congressmen from the eastern section of Oklahoma, and all other members of the Oklahoma congressional delegation that they use their efforts to bring about a made-work program in at least the eastern section of the State of Oklahoma for the purpose of caring for the problem of unemployment and at the same time provide adequate supplies of water to the schools of said sections, to the towns in said section and the farms for the purpose of providing funds for the labor for the construction of water lines, water dams, irrigation canals and for the construction of school buildings and for culverts and bridges on county roads in all cases where the materials are furnished by the local agents. Done in open called session this 18th day of August 1954.

BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF
LE FLORE COUNTY, OKLA.,

J. PAUL MATHER, Chairman.
AMOS CARTER, Member.
OWEN LOCKHART, Member.

BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF
CHEROKEE COUNTY, OKLA.,
BUCK THORNE, Chairman.
JACK BALLEW, Member.

J. B. LITTLEFIELD, Member.

BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF
ADAIR COUNTY, OKLA.,

OWEN BUFFINGTON, Chairman.
BUSTER BIGBY, Member.
TOM KEETES, Member.

BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF
SEQUOYAH COUNTY, OKLA.,

M. G. FINK, Chairman.
R. C. WILLIAMS, Member.
W. H. MORGAN, Member.

Does Rainmaking Pay?

EXTENSION OF REMARKS

OF

HON. FRANCIS CASE

OF SOUTH DAKOTA

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES Friday, August 20, 1954

Mr. CASE. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Appendix of the RECORD an article from the South Dakota Stockgrower of July 15, 1954.

There being no objection, the article was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows:

DOES RAINMAKING PAY?-NATIONAL BODY SET UP TO CHECK ON CLOUD MODIFICATION (By FRANCIS CASE, United States Senator from South Dakota)

On July 1, 1954, there swung into action a National Advisory Committee on Weather Control. The primary duty of the committee is to see what is being done in the field of cloud modification and to report back to Congress within 2 years.

Under the law, all agencies, private and public, who engage in cloud-seeding operations, are to register with the committee and

then later to report the methods they use, the conditions of the atmosphere, and the results that follow.

In short, the intent is to find out who is doing what, under what conditions, and with what results.

DOES RAINMAKING PAY?

If favorable results are demonstrated, that, of course, will be tremendously important to ranching, farming, industry, and to national defense.

If unfavorable, or if certain methods are proven to be less useful than others, that, too, will be important to those who put up the cash for the projects that seek to increase rain or to those who seek to prevent it. Cherry growers, for instance, want sunshine, not rain, at certain times.

For it's a fact that in some areas cloud seeding is attempted as a means of breaking up clouds or fluffing them so they will float away.

(I have seen a series of pictures where naval aviators have literally carved holes in a solid undercast of clouds so that a clear view of a landing field could be created for landing planes.)

I have said that this committee "swung into action" July 1 because that is the date on which funds first became available for their operations. Actually the committee organized last fall after the members received an "interim” appointment from President Eisenhower. He had signed the bill after Congress adjourned. The appointments were confirmed by the Senate in January.

Up to the start of the new fiscal year, however, the members have been paying their own expenses to attend meetings and Charles Gardner, Jr., of my office, has been serving as their secretary and directing an office staff of borrowed personnel.

FIVE FROM SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY

The President named an outstanding committee:

Capt. Howard T. Orville, of the Bendix Corp., Baltimore, chairman. Captain Orville was in charge of a Navy cloud-modification project a few years ago and is an outstanding meteorologist.

Dean A. M. Eberle, of South Dakota State College, vice chairman. Dean Eberle combined representation for educational institutions and agriculture on the committee. As we know in South Dakota, Dean Eberle has been greatly interested in the volunteer projects in this field and has kept records in an attempt to determine whether cloudseeding resulted in increasing rainfall in target areas above that which fell without seeding in nearby areas.

Lewis T. Douglas, of Arizona. Douglas is a rancher in Arizona today but is also the director of some large corporations with offices in New York City. At one time he was Director of the Bureau of the Budget and at another time United States Ambassador to Great Britain. He became interested in cloud-seeding some years ago and has been responsible for the starting of an Institute of Cloud Physics at the University of Ari

zona.

Douglas broke with the Roosevelt administration on budget questions and is a great admirer of President Eisenhower. Last fall he called me at Custer by long-distance telephone from New York to ask if I thought he should accept the President's request that he take a post on the committee. Said he had been asked to take other positions in the new administration but this was the

only one that interested him. Naturally, I told him I hoped he would accept because he is known to be a man who combines exceptional ability with vision.

Kenneth Spengler, of Boston, secretary of the American Meteorological Society. Spangler is one of the best informed men on the subject and is scientifically trained in the field of wind, weather, and water.

Gen. Joseph J. George, of Atlanta, Ga., meteorologist for Eastern Airlines. Eastern, the line headed by Eddie Rickenbacker, has a remarkable record in stability of operations and many people credit it to General George's understanding of atmospheric problems. He directed cloud research projects for the Air Force during the war.

SIX FROM UNITED STATES DEPARTMENTS

To serve with this group of 5 men from the fields of science, agriculture and industry, the law provides for 6 men from Government. These are:

Robert B. Murray, Jr., Under Secretary for the Department of Commerce, which embraces the Weather Bureau.

Ralph Tudor, Under Secretary for Interior,

which embraces the Bureau of Reclamation, highly interested in mountain snows as well as prairie rains.

Dr. Donald A. Quarles, an Assistant Secretary of the Department of Defense in charge of scientific research. Weather controls many military movements.

Surg. Gen. Leonard A. Scheele, of the Public Health Service, interested in municipal water supplies and its relation to public sanitation.'

Dr. Alan T. Waterman, Director of the National Science Foundation which seeks to coordinate public and private scientific research.

J. Earle Coke, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture.

The best guarantee of value in the committee's work is the high caliber of these men who were selected by the President and who have consented to contribute their experience and knowledge to guide the committee and to evaluate project results.

EXPERIMENTS are worldwIDE Cloud modification today, or rainmaking if you choose, is being attempted all over the world.

Spain's drought, last year, led Franco's government to contract for cloudseeding projects. France, belatedly, tried cloudseeding when the Reds in Indochina pressed down just ahead of the monsoons.

Australia has voted the largest part of her entire research funds to the field of cloud physics. The head of their bureau recently came to Washington for a conference. He told Gardner and me that they hope to convert at least one-third of the great Australian

desert into liveable range country. What that might mean to the future of sheep raising, you can conjecture as well as I, but the significant thing is that they even think of cloud modification in such terms.

If they can convert a desert into a range country, we may well wonder what we can do in "the short grass" country.

I realize that there is the risk of misunderstanding in this field. I get letters from some people who think it is "wrong to interfere with nature."

In reply, I point out that clouds carry a great reservoir of water. Only a fraction of it falls as rain at best. We tap the underground stores of water with wells. We store the surface waters in dams-and thereby interfere with the march of waters to the seas where the clouds gather their moisture. We do many things to change the course of nature, as we learn the ways of nature.

When Mr. Douglas was in Washington recently to confer with Captain Orville and President Eisenhower on the committee's program, he told me that some of his rancher neighbors at first questioned him on this point. At one of the stock growers meetings, an old neighbor asked him if he really thought it right to "interfere with nature." Douglas replied, "Well, Jim, I'd like to know if you castrate any of your calves."

WE HAVE MUCH TO LEARN

Rainmaking is really not "rainmaking" it merely is an attempt to increase the condensation of the moisture in the atmosphere

and make it thick enough or heavy enough to The fall as drops of rain or flakes of snow. moisture has to be in the atmosphere-you cannot make it.

We can simply try to learn the ways of nature and to use them for the benefit of mankind.

Clouds are high fogs, let us say for simplicity's sake. When and where do you find ground fogs? In cool pockets. Ever drive through them and find a mist on your windshield? Ever start your windshield wiper and see the mist pushed together until drops trickle down the glass?

Or, ever watch the mist form on the outside of a glass of ice water on a hot sticky day? And finally drip? Did the glass leak? No, the air moisture condensed.

Putting dry ice into clouds creates cold spots. Putting a silver iodide into clouds reduces the cold requirement for the formation of ice crystals that can fall into warmer layers of atmosphere as raindrops. At least these are some of the theories I have advanced.

I do not pretend to understand all the scientists talk about these subjects but they do seem more understandable than radio or television. If we knew the whole story, we would not need a national committee to record these experimental projects and to try to find the principles and natural laws which govern the results.

MY INTEREST IN WATER PROJECTS

I think most South Dakotans know that I have been interested in water projects of one sort or another ever since I have been in Congress.

Stock water dams, small irrigation projects such as the Deerfield and Angostura, started under the old Wheeler-Case Act, dams on the Grand River (Shadehill), Rapid Creek (Pactola), the Missouri, etc. Also, the "desalination" program-taking the alkali out of water under a law which I sponsored in the Senate a couple years ago. My interest in that, incidentally, grew out of the stoppage of the dam authorized at Bixby on the Moreau River, because of salty complications.

My interest in water, as such, however, really began back in 1910 and 1911 when Dad homesteaded on the bench above Spring Creek, north of Bear Butte. I was about 13 then. I remember how we dug three different wells one summer trying to keep household water within carrying distance-and would up hauling water in a barrel on a stone boat for the kitchen and driving the stock down to the neighbors' waterhole on Spring Creek.

Yes, we tried building dams-with a team and a scraper. You know how deep they ever got good only for a few days after a flash rain.

So, in Congress, anything connected with water development has interested me. And in 1950, when I read of cloud-seeding experiments elsewhere, I got Harry Marshall and Paddy Ingvalson to go up in a plane one day with a box of dry ice.

They had no guide or rules to go by. They worked on one cloud that looked like a dozen others. They tossed out the dry ice with a tea cup. The cloud began to fluff and they had to keep climbing to stay on top of itthey went from 12,000 feet up to 18,000 finally. The cloud got whiter in the top, darker in the lower part. In about 21 or 22 minutes rain began to fall.

The next day, over Hill City, with lower humidity and a lighter cloud, they thought they failed. But snowflakes were reported in Hill City-that was in July. Months later Dr. Vincent Schafer, of General Electric, told me the snowflakes were the result to have expected under the existing conditions of altitude and humidity.

My first bill on the subject was introduced shortly before I left the House of Representatives. Nothing happened.

In 1951, I reintroduced the bill in the Senate. So did Anderson of New Mexico

and O'Mahoney of Wyoming. Three committees held joint hearings.

In 1952 the Senate passed a revised bill which I introduced as an outgrowth of the hearings.

In 1953, in a new Congress, both Senate and House passed the revised bill and the President signed it.

Late that fall the newly appointed committee organized, and now, in 1954, it gets its funds to start formal operation.

Do not expect quick miracles. This is not a program for the Government spend a lot of money, but to find out what is happening where others are spending it, in this attempt get more rain from the clouds.

Congressman Ed Hart

SPEECH

OF

HON. JOHN F. SHELLEY

OF CALIFORNIA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Friday, August 20, 1954

Mr. SHELLEY. Mr. Speaker, when I was elected to the House 5 years ago and became a member of the Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee ED HART was chairman of that committee. As a freshman member of the House and of the committee I was a little green about procedures and perhaps a little inclined to be impetuous in some of my actions on legislative matters. Fortunately for me ED HART was on hand to lend me the benefit of his kindly wisdom and to steer me on the right course the course which he has followed through his 20 years of service in this House. By following that course ED HART has accomplished much for his district, for the country, and particularly for our maritime industry; and he has done so without sacrificing the personal friendship of those with whom he has worked and with whom he may have been forced to disagree at times. That, it seems to me, proves the measure of the man.

I know that I shall sorely miss ED HART personally and that the loss of his wonderful moderating influence will make the work of our committee and of the House just that much more difficult. But certainly his tireless efforts during the past 20 years have entitled him to some measure of rest from the strain of his congressional labors. His home State of New Jersey could have made no wiser choice in picking a man to fill the important post which he is about to assume there. I am sure that he will give to that service to his own people the same unstinting devotion that has characterized the broader duties he has performed here in Congress, and that the people of New Jersey will be the richer for his efforts, just as the national scene will be the poorer for his retirement.

Mr. Speaker, I do not intend to say goodby to ED HART either publicly in these remarks or privately later. This could not be a permanent farewell to a man who has ahead of him many years of fruitful life, and during those years I sincerely hope and expect to see ED many times and to continue to glean from him the sage advice and good counsel which

he has so generously given during the too short years I have served with him here. So, to ED, I will now say only "so long until next time, and may that next time be soon."

In the meantime, I will carry in my mind and in my heart the fond remembrance of ED HART as a great and kind gentleman; a distinguished leader of his party; a statesman whose service to his country was unmarked by any consideration other than the good of the people as a whole; and an outstanding friend. To say that ED HART is all of those things is no exaggeration. To say that the Congress and the Nation suffer an irreparable loss with his self-chosen retirement is also no exaggeration. But the ill wind which blows him away from Washington will, I trust, in bringing him home to New Jersey and his new career carry with it every possible source of personal satisfaction and contentment. Certainly he has richly earned those blessings. If the people of New Jersey appreciate him as we do here he cannot fail to find them. May God bless you and care for you, ED, for many years to come.

resent.

My congressional office here in Washington and my office in the Federal Building in Brooklyn have been open to them at all times. It has been my aim to assist them in their problems with the Federal Government. I have not waited for my constituents to seek me. Sometime ago I attached a trailer to my car and I have traveled throughout the district giving to each and every person an opportunity to present to me his or her problem and to inform me of their

views and advise me how they thought

I might be of the greatest service to them and the community in which we live.

Shortly after the President delivered his state of the Union message this year, I mailed a questionnaire to the registered voters of the district, requesting that they express their opinions concerning the legislative program the President had recommended. I deeply appreciate the assistance which I received from the thousands of voters who replied to the questionnaire. Knowing the will of the people, as their representative, I was enabled to vote so as to re

flect their views. It is also my pleasure to report that the answers were overwhelmingly in support of the President's

program.

Now that the 83d Congress is completing its work, I believe it only fair to let the people of my district know of my efforts to serve them, and in support of the President's program. I have prepared a report which I submit to the House, and which I shall give as wide circulation as possible in the 12th New York Congressional District.

The duties and responsibilities of a member of the majority are heavy. Constant attendance at committee meetings and a great deal of study is necessitated. My committee, Merchant Marine and Fisheries, has met most regularly and has fostered important measures looking toward the improvement of the condition of our depleted merchant marine. The committee initiated action to make the Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, N. Y., a permanent service institution.

In addition, I wish to report that bills which I personally sponsored have been enacted into law. One of the bills was a measure to increase the penalties for smuggling, from $5,000 to $10,000, and the term of imprisonment therefor from 2 years to 5 years. The bill was strongly urged by the Treasury Department. Also enacted was my proposal for Congress to authorize the President to present a gold medal to Irving Berlin in recognition of his services in composing many patriotic songs, including God Bless America. Legislation to assist some of our future citizens, as well as other persons whose difficulties could only be resolved by the Congress, has also been part of my program.

In addition to the legislation which I personally sponsored, I am proud of my membership in the Republican 83d Congress, which has become known as the "can do" Congress, for it has established an outstanding record of legislative achievement. The Fair Deal spending spree has been halted; inflation has been

checked; long-suffering taxpayers will

revision in this century; national defense benefit from the first comprehensive tax has been tightened; social-security benefits have been expanded; homeownership has been made easier; the St. Lawrence seaway is on the way to reality; Communists and security risks have been expelled from Government; and the people have at long last seen honesty, integrity, and forthrightness restored in Washing-ton. Above all, the Nation is at peace.

The record of accomplishments by the

Republican Congress is a long one, but here is a summary of major achievements:

Taxes: Taxes are being reduced by nearly $7,500,000,000 this year-the largest savings to taxpayers in any year in our history. These tax savings have been achieved in this way: A 10-percent cut in individual income taxes, effective January 1, 1954, and the ending of the corporation excess-profits tax on December 31, 1953, both of which were made possible as the result of slashes made in the previous administration's spending program; the excise-tax reduction, effective April 1, 1954, which lowered rates on most items to 10 percent and on household appliances to 5 percent; and the general tax revision, giving $827 million

relief to individuals and $536 million relief to corporations.

Social security: A greatly expanded and improved social security program will bring under coverage approximately 9 million more of our citizens, who will also receive the increased benefits provided by the new law.

Housing: The Republican 83d Congress approved a housing program which will greatly accelerate private building, principally through lowered downpayments on both old and new FHA-approved homes, with 10 additional years to repay mortgages. Congress also provided for a 1-year extension of the public housing features of the program. Further, the widespread graft and corruption which existed in the housing program of the previous administration was disclosed and remedial provisions placed in the present housing law.

Atomic energy: The Atomic Energy Act of 1946 has been brought up to date and strengthened. It will permit development and use of atomic energy by private industry under AEC licenses.

Defense: The Defense Department and the Congress cut the fiscal 1954 appropriation by approximately $6,500,000,000 below the last Truman budget request for fiscal 1954. For fiscal 1955, the Congress approved a budget for the Defense Department of $28,800,000,000, which represented a reduction of approximately $9 billion below the last Truman budget request. Despite this reduction in appropriations, our national defense has been strengthened. The Army has maintained its 20 divisions and 18 regimental combat teams with 65,000 fewer men. It has added five antiaircraft battalions with radar units. Since January 1953, Army effectiveness and capability have been increased by introduction of the 280 millimeter atomic cannon and the Nike guided missile. The Navy added 19,600 men to the allowance for the active fleets. The Air Force is growing stronger and more effective and will have 121 wings by June 30, 1955, and 137 wings by June 30, 1957. The effectiveness of all branches has been increased by modernized methods and equipment. This Congress also approved legislation creating an Air Force Academy.

Mutual security: Authorized and appropriated funds to continue our Mutual Security Program of technical and financial assistance to friendly nations. One provision of the measure requires that the Foreign Operations Administration discontinue its operations by June 30, 1955, at which time its technical assistance programs will be turned over to the State Department.

Internal security: Approved legislation which will remove the legal rights and privileges of the Communist Party, and will impose stiff penalties on members of "Communist action" groups who did not register under the Subversive Activities Control Act. It will abolish the Government-guaranteed bargaining rights of business or labor organizations found by the Subversive Activities Control Board to be "Communist infiltrated." Also approved was legislation to cancel the citizenship of anyone found

Veterans: Passed legislation to give a 5 percent increase in compensation to 2 million veterans with service-connected disabilities. Under the new law there will also be increased compensation payments for childless widows of veterans and to a dependent mother or father of a disabled veteran.

Farm prices: The Congress approved legislation to provide for flexible farm supports. This will result in lessened cost of commodities, and the consumer will see it in the cheaper cost of foods at the markets.

St. Lawrence seaway: The St. Lawrence seaway project was approved by Congress this year after 30 years as an also-ran. Work has already started on the big ditchdigging and hydroelectric undertaking.

Government in business: With enabling legislation enacted by the Republican 83d Congress, the President has been able to take the Federal Government out of some 100 different private business enterprises, into which the previous Democratic administrations had become involved. These include such odd ventures as baking, furniture repair, sawmills, ropemaking, laundries and dry cleaning, tire retreading, the manufacture of paint and ice cream, making motion pictures, writing life insurance, and operating railroads and ships.

All of the foregoing, together with other cuts in Federal appropriations, has enabled the budget to come within $3 billion of being balanced, whereas, the last Truman budget put the Nation $9.5 billion in the red.

Of course, in the short space of 2 years, it would be completely impossible to correct the errors of the previous Democratic administrations. But, a fine start has been made and, with another Republican Congress, there will be more strides forward.

The record of legislation enacted by this Congress is by no means a complete measure of the activities of your Representative in the Congress and in his office. My work entails many calls upon members of the Cabinet and to the various commissions and executive agencies. Yet, during this session of Congress, I have missed only one vote, and that was because I was in the office of the Secretary of the Navy attempting to assure that the construction of the Navy's new CVA-62 would be assigned to the New York Naval Shipyard in Brooklyn. I might say, at this point, that my colleague, Representative JOHN RAY, and I, with the assistance of our good Senator IVES, were successful in this endeavor and the keel is due to be laid early next year.

Along this same line, I have made every effort to keep the Federal agencies in Brooklyn so there would be as little displacement of employees as possible. While I have been only moderately successful in this, I have been able to have other agencies moved in to replace those which were taken away.

Among my other accomplishments, of which I am justly proud, is the pin

Veterans' Hospital, so that the hospital could be operated at its full capacity, and in cooperation with other local Congressmen obtaining funds for the deepening of Gowanus Canal.

My Washington office is lined with cabinets filled with the files of those of my constitutents who have come to me with their problems with the Federal Government. I have done my utmost to be helpful to those who have asked, for I sincerely believe I am here at their request to act in their stead.

The Washington office of your Representative in Congress is a busy place. The mail is heavy and I, with my staff, often answer as many as 100 letters a day. Many of the good people of Brooklyn have called at my office, where they are most welcome. My office in Washington will remain open, in competent hands, for those having problems in the Capital. Also I can be reached at my Brooklyn office by those wishing to see me on any matter. I want all of the residents of the 12th New York Congressional District to know that I am at their service whenever they need me→ and that I am "on the job."

Glenwood Tribune Pays Tribute to Hubert Humphrey

EXTENSION OF REMARKS

OF

HON. WARREN G. MAGNUSON

OF WASHINGTON

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES Friday, August 20, 1954

Mr. MAGNUSON. Mr. President, HUBERT HUMPHREY is one of the most effective Members of the United States Senate. He is well informed on all major issues of our day and expert in many.

Furthermore, the junior Senator from Minnesota possesses that rare talent of expression which has characterized so many outstanding Members of this body throughout its history.

Mr. President, we, his colleagues in the Senate, know these facts. It is gratifying to learn that in his own State these facts are likewise recognized and proclaimed.

I was born in Minnesota. I read its newspapers whenever I have opportunity.

I have encountered an editorial published in the Glenwood Tribune of June 24, 1954, which pays deserved tribute to our colleague. I ask unanimouns consent that it be printed in the Appendix of the RECORD.

We are confident the people of Minnesota will send HUBERT HUMPHREY back to the United States Senate for further service to his State and country.

There being no objection, the editorial was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows:

THE SENATORIAL CAMPAIGN IS ON The campaign for United States Senator has now officially opened, Senator HUBERT

HUMPHREY, the incumbent, has been speaking in Minnesota as much as time has allowed him between his duties at Washington, and Val Bjornson, our State treasurer, officially opened his campaign at Minneota on Wednesday evening of last week. A rain

storm prevented the large open-air meeting that had been planned in the baseball park, and the 800 who attended had to be squeezed into the Legion building. The large radio audience heard Bjornson in spite of the electrical interference.

At

Val Bjornson is blessed with a wonderful radio voice and has an excellent delivery. He lacks that rapid-fire pace that Senator HUMPHREY can master and also the interest that HUMPHREY can create in his talks. that Val Bjornson is the outstanding spokesman for the Republican Party today. Stafford King, present State auditor, who used to be the outstanding orator in past years has somewhat slackened his pace. Bjornson is ably taking over as the spokesman for his party.

It was an able address that Bjornson gave at Minneota. However, even Bjornson will have a hard time proving to the voters of Minnesota that HUMPHREY is not the man to keep in Washington. The argument that President Eisenhower needs more Republicans to put his platform through does not hold water when the facts are analyzed. The records in Washington show that during the first year and a half of Eisenhower's administration that he had more support from the Democrats on his program than he had from his own party men. In fact, unbiased commentators were saying that Eisenhower needed a Democratic House and Senate if he were to get his program through. It is only on the tideland oil deal and the farm program that the Democrats have refused to go along with President Eisenhower. On his foreign policy and the tariff legislation, it was the Democrats who stood by the President while his own party men failed him.

On the farm program Bjornson stated that he could not go along 100 percent with Secretary Benson, but he failed to give a clear cut picture of where he stood on parity. The strongest defender that the farmers could wish for has been Senator HUMPHREY who has always been in the forefront fighting for a just price for farm products. The farmers, knowing that they have had a true friend in Senator HUMPHREY, are not apt to desert him in the fall election.

As could be anticipated, Val Bjornson took a shot at HUMPHREY because of what he had said about the men in high places in Washington a year ago at the labor convention. At no time has Senator HUMPHREY ever attacked President Eisenhower although he has severely criticized some of his appointees. On this matter Senator HUMPHREY does not stand alone. Senator YOUNG, of North Dakota, Senator THYE, of Minnesota, as well as Congressman H. CARL ANDERSEN, have also differed sharply with the President's appointee, Secretary Benson, on his farm policy. Senator HUMPHREY has been very liberal in his praise for President Eisenhower when he has felt that the President was in the right.

While Val Bjornson's speech on the radio necessarily had to be brief, his listeners would like to have heard what his outlook was on world affairs. This is really the key subject in the campaign. For a year the national situation has been deteriorating rapidly and our relations with our allies is at present on dangerous ground. Russia and the other communistic nations have outmaneuvered us very much in the past year. A united European army with the American help seems to be going down the drain, and the Communists seem to be gaining ground the world over. One hint that Bjornson gave on this matter was an endorsement of what Senator HUMPHREY had done, and that was taking our surplus grain to the under

fed of foreign nations. Senator HUMPHREY, more than any other Senator in Washington, pioneered this idea with advocating the shipment of grain to India a long time ago. Senator HUMPHREY believes that while we have to remain strong militarily to ward off any sudden attack, we must on the other hand, use every means and methods to do away with conditions that make a fertile field for the Communists. While the people in Minnesota may not realize the fact, in the East Senator HUMPHREY is considered to be the outstanding authority in the National Capital on foreign affairs. He is much sought after by prominent organizations for the knowledge he possesses and the efforts he is making for world peace. At a critical time in world history the Nation and the world could ill afford to dispense with the services of so capable a public servant as Senator HUMPHREY.

Hiring the Handicapped in the Federal Civil Service

EXTENSION OF REMARKS

OF

HON. JAMES C. DAVIS

OF GEORGIA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Monday, August 9, 1954

Mr. DAVIS of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, under leave to extend my remarks in the RECORD, I insert herewith a guest editorial written by Chairman Philip Young of the United States Civil Service Commission, appearing in Performance, the Story of the Handicapped, August 1954.

The objectives of the President's Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped should appeal to the hearts of all Americans interested in enabling our handicapped to better serve themselves and our country. These objectives are:

First. Better inform employers of the abilities of qualified handicapped workers.

Second. Increase community understanding of the value of rehabilitation and employment of the handicapped.

Third. Perfect community organizations so that the handicapped are better served through early rehabilitation and job placement.

Fourth. Plan and carry through imaginative and interesting promotional campaigns at State and local committee levels.

Fifth. Study community needs of the handicapped and facilities and opportunities for meeting these needs for the future.

Sixth. Interpret to employers and to the handicapped the services available through public and private rehabilitation and employment services.

Seventh. Gear community and State plans and programs so as to increase liaison between governors' committees and local committees in order to better carry out the above objectives.

The editorial follows:

HIRING THE HANDICAPPED IN THE FEDERAL CIVIL SERVICE

(By Philip Young, Chairman, U. S. Civil Service Commission)

Within the last 10 years, more than 126,400 physically handicapped workers have been

hired by the Federal Government. The positions they fill cover the whole range of the Federal civil service, from the lowest grades to the highest professional levels. They have all qualified under regular competitive civilservice standards. Their placement has come about through cooperation by Government agencies with the Civil Service Commission's program for employment of the physically handicapped.

Whatever success the Commission has had in this program has been achieved because we have always taken the positive rather than the negative approach. Our objective has not been to discover conditions that will disqualify a handicapped applicant. It has been, and is, to discover the conditions under which he can best utilize his abilities, and give him an opportunity to contribute them to the betterment of himself, his government, and his country. Therefore we ask just two questions about him: Is he qualified for the job?-and, Can he do the work efficiently without hazard to himself or others?

We are proud of our program for employment of the physically handicapped, not only because it has opened the door of independence and self-support to thousands of capable, industrious, and loyal Americans who might otherwise have been shut out, but because almost without exception our handicapped employees have proved to be highly dependable and efficient workers-a real asset to the Government service.

We in the Civil Service Commission feel that our country has no more valuable asset than its precious human resources, and that it is our duty to make full use of the great reservoir of untapped manpower offered by the physically handicapped.

It is our hope that our success in the future will exceed that of the past, and that it will serve as an example to all employers..

Island of Cyprus

EXTENSION OF REMARKS

OF

HON. LEVERETT SALTONSTALL

OF MASSACHUSETTS

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES Friday, August 20, 1954

Mr. SALTONSTALL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Appendix of the RECORD a resolution by the board of aldermen of the city of Somerville, Mass.

There being no objection, the resolution was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows:

RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN, CITY OF SOMERVILLE, MASS., AUGUST 17, 1954 Resolved, That the British Empire return to the Greek people an island in the Mediterranean known as Cyprus, as the inhabitants of this island are Greek, their language is Greek, and all their leanings are toward the Greek culture. The island in ancient times was a bulwark that had to be surmounted by the hordes of Persians. They, with the colonies of Asia Minor, were the last of the outposts of the western civilization that have come down to us from the Greeks; and be it further

Resolved, That this board of aldermen go on record as favoring the union of the island of Cyprus with the kingdom of Greece, and it is requested that copies of this resolution be forwarded to the State Department at Washington, to our Representatives in the Congress from our Somerville district, and to our United States Senators from Massachusetts.