PROJECT HOPE ACCEPTS SOUTH BEND NURSE FOR VOYAGE TO INDONESIA AND VIETNAM

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45654 CONG9SSIONAL RECORD ? APPENDIX June 29
numbers, but we believe that sufficiently
broad representation would still exist in such
a situation that there could be no serious
objection to the continued functioning of
the House under its existing interpretation
of the constitutional requirement for a
quorum pending elections to fill the
vacancies.
Respectfully submitted.
Richard W. Hogue, Jr., Chairman; M.
Bernard Aidinoff, Stuart K. Barnes, Al-
fred Berman, William G. F. Botzow,
Victor Brudney, Edward Q. Carr, Mar-
vin E. Frankel, Edwin L. Gasperini,
Cecelia H. Goetz, Daniel H. Greenberg,
Claude E. Hamilton, Jr., Peter L.
Keane, Robert A. Kirtland, Herbert
Prashker, William J. Rennert, William
L Riegelmsn, Leonard B. Sand, William
J. Schrenk, Jr., Hayden N. Smith, L.
Harrison Thayer II, Herbert A. Wolff,
Jr.
Government Needs Understanding
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. EUGENE J. KEOGH
OF NEW YORK
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Wednesday, June 29, 1960
Mr. KEOGH. Mr, Speaker, under the
leave to extend my remarks in the REC-
ORD, I include the following editorial
from the Reporter Dispatch, of White
Plains, N.Y., June 4, 1960:
GOVERNMENT NEEDS UNDERSTANDING
Management in politics? There was a time
when the leaders of the Democratic Party
would have condemned such a practice as
something bordering on subversion. But
times have changed?and theahnew outlook
has been described quite aptly 15y William F.
Luddy, the Democratic county chairman.
In an address before a graduating class of
the Action Course on Practical Politics,
Luddy rapped what he called a drifting away
from political life of a large segment of
Americans. And, principally, he pointed
out the drift of a so-called management
class.
"For a great many years," he said, "there
has been building up a management class
which has taken itself out of politics. They
are greatly missed, and I hope that they
can be brought back. They must realize
that if they want good government they have
to take part in practical politics."
At that point, Mr. Luddy said, business-
men can't participate civicly merely by
joining luncheon clubs. He suggested that
they become active in politics?"politicians
must work out problems in the best interest
of all the people."
It is a stand, that should be endorsed by
management personnel of industry and
commerce. We have watched the Nation's
artists, writers, actors and actresses, the'
unions?almost every segment of American
life?become actively engaged in politics.
Yet at the same time, business and industry,
vital to the economy and well-being of the
Nation, have gone unrepresented.
Thus the initiative, intelligence, and
imagination of industrial and commercial
leadership is lost to the country. It consti-
tutes an abstention from citizenship respon-
sibility in a field that can advance the cause
of our democratic society, the field of prac-
tical politics.
Hmm. Could it be that a lot of the bosses
of Westchester industry are not enrolled for
Tuesday's primary?
Project Hope Accepts South Bend Nurse
for Voyage to Indonesia and Vietnam
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. JOHN BRADEMAS
OF INDIANA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Tuesday, June 28, 1960
Mr. BRADEMAS. Mr. Speaker, Proj-
ect Hope, a Navy hospital ship soon to
head for Asian ports on a mission of
medical care and the teaching of health,
has impressed many Americans as a
symbol of a positive and imaginative
approach to building world peace.
I am pleased indeed that on the initial
voyage of the SS Hope, one of the nurses -
aboard will be Miss Ann Roden, of South
Bend, Ind.
I should like to include in the RECORD
a column by Edward P. Morgan from
the June 4, 1960, issue of the AFL?CIO
news describing Project Hope and an
article from the South Bend Tribune
of June 12, 1960, concerning Miss Re-
den's participation in this fine project:
[From the AFL-CIO News, June 4, 1960]
MORGAN SAYS: PROJECT HOPE TAKES HEARTS,
Too, OUT THE MOTHBALL FLEET
On a day of homage to the war dead it
seems not untimely to pay respects to those
occasional humanitarian ideas to keep peo-
ple living?ideas which, if brought to full
flower, could conceivably obviate the need
of New Memorial Days in the future.
About Christmastime a year and a half
ago in Washington, a doctor, a lawyer, and
a businessman formally incorporated an
idea. They called it the People-to-People
Health Foundation, Inc., or, for short, Proj-
ect Hope?health opportunity for people
everywhere. The idea was simple: Take a
Navy hospital ship out of mothballs, load it
with medical supplies, a trained civilian staff
of doctors, nurses and technicians and sail
it off to Asian ports as a floating storehouse
and schoolroom for health with a mission of
mercy as an added assignment in case of
disaster, like the recent quakes in C.hile, the
tidal waves in the far Pacific.
Attorney Eugent Zuckert, a former Atomic
Energy Commissioner; industrialist Joseph
T. Geuting, Jr., and Dr. William B. Walsh,
medical officer on a destroyer during the war,
were all three driven by this philosophy:
Poor health and illiteracy are the two heavy
horsemen riding down the hopes of the
underdeveloped countries. The unwell can-
not learn properly. Poor health leads to
poverty, poverty to hunger and hunger to
despair. This chain reaction, unchecked,
makes the illusory paternalism of commu-
nism attractive. As an antidote, Walsh took
the idea to President Eisenhower who was
struck by its potential in real people-to-
people diplomacy. He promised to put a
hospital ship in operating condition if
Project Hope could raise enough money to
run it as a citizens' venture, not a Govern-
ment project.
Redtape being what it is, even in good
will, the U.S.S. Consolation?rechristened
Hope?is still being readied in the Bremer-
ton, Wash., Navy Yard, but by mid-Septem-
ber it will be off to Indonesia with a staff of
60 doctors, nurses and assistants aboard, all
volunteers. Already Walsh is oozing opti-
mism: School children's dimes, pledge's from
industry and labor have subscribed a third
of the $3.5 million budget.
So impressed was AFL-CIO President
George Meany with the idea that he sent a
special letter to all unions urging contribu-
tions equivalent to 10 cents a member?this
alone could net more than a million dollars.
A Detroit milk container company will spend
$250,000 to film a documentary of the proj-
ect. The petroleum industry has pledged
$300,000 worth of fuel, enough to run the
hospital ship for a year and the American
President Lines, in cooperation with mari-
time unions, will operate the vessel.
Indonesia was the first of half a dozen
Asian countries to invite Hope in. And no
wonder. The country has 1,500 trained doc-
tors for a population of more than 85 mil-
lion.
Admittedly this is a tiny drop in the great
bucket of need. There are bigger plans.
Minnesota's Senator HUBERT H. HUMPHREY
has been working for some 2 -years with
other Members of Congress of both parties
on a grandiose project to demothball a num-
ber of excess naval ships and embark them
as a permanent Great White Fleet of peace-
ful missions for_public health training, other
technical assistance programs and to supply
food and first aid in catastrophes. A resolu-
tion calling on the President to establish
such a disarmed and disarming armada is
grounded somewhere in committee and with
the last fortnight's headlines of disaster as
added impetus. HUMPHREY is trying to re-
float it.
Walsh is sympathetic toward such moves
but with pardonable pride in his own proj-
ect he hopes to get Hope afloat first. He
has an old-fashioned idea that people will
respond if they have a sense of participa-
tion?something that can easily get crushed
in the wheels of bureaucracy.
The job, though, is plainly so vast that to
have more than a feature-story meaning,
however inspiring, it will need all the com-
bined support of Government and public
and all the imagination that the bureau-
crats and the private citizens can give it.
At any rate the idea strikes me as more
fitting to the occasion of Memorial Day than
the prospect of nuclear carnage or the
carnage of combat on the highways with
which we currently celebrate it.
[From the South Bend Tribune, June 12,
1960]
SOUTH BEND NURSE ACCEPTED ABOARD U.S.
MEDICAL SHIP
When the SS Hope leaves San Francisco
to give medical aid to Indonesia and Viet-
nam, a 25-year-old nurse from South Bend
will be aboard.
Ann Roden is one of the 22 nurses, 15
doctors, and 2 dentists selected out of
thousands of applicants to make this first
voyage for Project Hope?health opportuni-
ties for people everywhere?which promotes
world peace by providing medical aid and
training for needy countries.
Miss Roden, who was head nurse in pedi-
atrics at Memorial Hospital from 1956-59,
became interested in the privately sponsored
Hope project through a magazine article.
Now working in a children's hospital in San
Francisco, she flew to Chicago for an inter-
view with the project's chief nurse. She
was accepted, and came to South Bend to tell
her parents before returning to her job in
San Prancisco.
, A 1956 graduate of the School of Nursing
at the University of Michigan, Miss Roden
has "lived and breathed" nursing since she
was 7. She says she has always wanted to
do foreign service in nursing, and has closely
followed the deeds of Dr. Thomas Dooley,
University of Notre Dame graduate and med-
ical missionary in Laos.
The first 6 months of the year tour will be
spent in Indonesia, and the last 6 months in
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1960 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD ? APPENDIX A5655
Tiptnam, she says. These countries were
ked out of a great number that asked to
Ii ye the SS Hope and its crew visit their
country. Project Hope is the prime function
of the People-to-People Health Foundation,
a corporate entity of the committee on medi-
cine and the health professions.
Initiated at the suggestion of President
Eisenhower, the people-to-people program
strives to promote world peace through in-
creased understanding between the Ameri-
can people and the people of other nations.
Its basis is the recognition that health is
essential to the attainment of national
dignity.
Project Hope is essentially a teaching op-
eration, rather than an attempt at wide-
spread treatment. The SS Hope was for-
merly the naval hospital ship Consolation.
The 1,500-ton vessel, donated to the project
by the U.S. Government, is equipped with
800 hospital beds and a surgical section.
The ship will serve as a training and treat-
ment clinic; a base for wide-ranging med-
ical, nursing, and sanitation teams; a
medical schoor, and the logistic center for
medical aid and health and exchange
program.
SHIP CARRIES HELICOPTER
Miss Roden says that the ship will carry
a helicopter, which will be used to transport
the medical team inland. The team will
live in the ship except when they take trips
further inland. To better understand the
people, during the crossing the team will be
oriented toward the religious and historical
backgrounds of these countries.
Miss Roden left South Bend Friday to re-
turn to her job in San Francisco. The SS
Hope plans to set sail from San Francisco
about September 15. Her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Roden, 51585 Myrtle Avenue, will
be there to see her off.
Dr. Arthur M. Gates, Popular Keystone
State Dentist and Civic Leader, Is
Observing His 53d Year in the Practice
of His Profession in Coalport, Pa.
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. JAMES E. VAN ZANDT
OF PENNSYLVANIA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Wednesday, June 29, 1960
Mr. VAN ZANDT. Mr. Speaker, there
are few men in public or professional
life who, at the age of 78 years, can
boast of more varied interests than the
popular and genial Dr. Arthur M. Gates,
who for the past 53 years has practiced
his profession as a dentist in Coalport,
Clearfield County, Pa., in my congres-
sional district.
Dr. Gates throughout his entire life
has maintained a deep interest in pub-
lic education, having taught school for
2 years after his graduation from Mil-
lersville Normal School. For a period of
46 years Dr. Gates served as a member
and treasurer of the Coalport School
District and for the past 11 years he has
been treasurer of the Beccaria-Coalport-
Irvona Joint School's board of educa-
tion. In addition, during the period
1908-12 Dr. Gates served a 4-year
term as borough councilman.
It has been my great pleasure to value
Dr. Gates as a personal friend for many
years, and I join with the community of
Coalport and his many friends through-
out the Keystone State in congratulating
him on the twin anniversary of his birth
and completion of the 53d year of dental
practice in Coalport.
The following tribute to Dr. Gates ap-
peared in the June 23, 1960 issue of the
Clearfield (Pa.) Progress. It reveals his
fine achievements and the pardonable
pride Dr. and Mrs. Gates have in the
success of their four children together
with the upspeakable joy provided by
the love and devotion of their grand-
children:
COALPORT DENTIST, 78 TODAY, STILL IS BUSY
AT HIS WORK
CoALpoirr.?Marking his 78th birthday to-
day, Dr. Arthur M. Gates of Coalport can
lock back at a combined career of dentistry
and public service that few men can boast.
In his 53d year as a practicing dentist here,
Dr. Gates has served for 46 of the last 48
years as a member and treasurer of the Coal-
port School District Board of Education. He
also served a 4-year term as a borough coun-
cilman in 1908-12 and for the past 11 years
has been treasurer of the Beccaria-Coalport-
Irvona Joint Schools Board of Education.
Dr. Gates' interest in education, however,
can be dated even before he became a school
board member in 1912, for after his gradua-
tion from Millersville Normal School he
taught school for 2 years. One year was at
Beaver Valley, -Cambria County, where he
was an instructor in the upper four grades
and the second was at Blain City, where he
taught seventh and eighth grades and served
as school principal.
In 1904, Dr. Gates began the study of den-
tistry at the University of Pennsylvania
Dental College and on graduation in 1907
opened his office here. While studying den-
tistry, he longed to become a surgeon, but
because of financial circumstances had to
forego that career.
Because of his interest in education, this
year has special significance for Dr. Gates.
Three of his granddaughters were graduated
from high school this year and he was able
to attend the graduation exercises of all
three.
The granddaughters are Nancy Lynn
Fisher, who was graduated from B-C-I High
School May 31; Mary Elizabeth Conners, of
Wynnewood, near Philadelphia, who re-
ceived her diploma June 4; and Karen Marie
Gates, of Shamokin, who was graduated June
7. All three.girls received special awards at
their graduation and Mary Elizabeth was
valedictorian of her class at Sacred Heart
Convent.
All three girls are registered for - college
in the fall?Nancy Lynn Fisher, at Carnegie
Institute of Technology where she will Major
In art; Mary Elizabeth Conners at Trinity
College for Girls at Washington, D.C., where
she will major in languages; and Karen
Marie Gates at Misericordia College, Dallas,
Pa.
Dr. Gates was born June 23, 1882, the son
of the late P. C. and Sematha Jane Hoy
Gates, longtime residents of Coalport. His
father was one of the incorporators of Coal-
port Borough and secretary of the board
of education .and borough council for many
years.
Mrs. Gates is the former Frances DeSales
Buck, daughter of the late Frank J. and
Lucinda Rose Weakland Buck. Mr. Buck
operated a grocery and general-merchandise
store in Coalport for many years.
Dr. and Mrs. Gates are the parents of four
children: Frances Gates Fisher, a teacher
in the Coalport elementary school; Mary
Gates Conners, a teacher in the Lower
Merion Township Schools near Philadelphia;
Dr. Lionel Perry Gates, chief surgeon of the
Shamokin State Hospital; and Dr. Robert
Paul Gates, a heart specialist on the staff
of the East Pittsburgh plant of Westing-
house Electrical Manufacturing Co.
Dr. Gates still observes regular daily office
hours from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., although he
and Mrs. Gates in recent years have taken
a month to 6 weeks' vacation, generally in
Florida.
Federal Bureau of Investigation?HI
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. SAMUEL L. DEVINE
OF OHIO
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Wednesday, June 29, 1960
Mr. DEVINE. Mr. Speaker, the fol-
lowing article is the third of a series
appearing in the Columbus (Ohio) Dis-
patch relative to the wonderful record
of the world's greatest law enforcement
agency:
ARTICLE 3
WASHINGTON.?The FBI freely makes
Available to local agencies information in-
volving violations of criminal laws within
their jurisdiction.
Hence, the FBI expects, in accordance with
Presidential directives, that local agencies
will immediately refer to the FBI any in-
formation relating to subservise activities or
possible overthrow of the U.S. Government.
And they do.
Attempts at espionage or sabotage have
been brought to the FBI's attention by local
agencies since a Presidential directive in
1939.
Unified law enforcement in the United
States during World War II, coordinated by
the FBI, made it possible to avoid a single
successful act of foreign-directed sabotage.
Enemy espionage was nullified at the outset.
During World War II, countries at war
with the United States were driven to des-
perate lengths in an effort to reestablish
espionage and sabotage networks * * * to
no avail.
Soviet espionage operations in the United
States continue to suffer tremendous set-
backs at the hands of the FBI.
During 1951, for example, Julius and Ethel
Rosenberg were convicted as atomic spies
for the Soviet Union. In 1953, Otto Verber
and Kurt Ponger, naturalized American
citizens who performed Russian espionage in
Austria, were sentenced to prison.
Another Soviet espionage apparatus was
smashed early in 1957 with the arrest of
Jack Soble, Myra Soble and Jacob Albam by
FBI agents.
In the summer of 1957, Col. Rudolph
Ivanovich Abel was arrested and the equip-
ment he used to transmit information to
Russia was seized.
Abel was a carefully concealed espionage
agent living an innocuous life in the United
States, but he was a dynamic and active arm
of Soviet espionage here.
He made use of virtually all of the tech-
niques of professional espionage agents, in-
cluding secret drops, special codes, radio
transmissions and the use of hollowed-out
coins for the transmitting of espionage data.
These are only some of the highlights of
FBI accomplishments in combating Soviet
espionage operations.
In addition, a number of persons have
been indicted as a result of Soviet intelli-
gence activities directed against the United
States.
Some of these persons have been convicted
while other fled the country to avoid prose-
cution. Information gathered and dissemi-
nated by the FBI has resulted in a number
of Soviet and satellite diplomats being de-
clared persona non grata.
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